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Peggy Noonan in the WSJ:

The Obama White House sees every event as a political event. Really, every event, even an attack on a consulate and the killing of an ambassador.

Because of that, it could not tolerate the idea that the armed assault on the Benghazi consulate was a premeditated act of Islamist terrorism. That would carry a whole world of unhappy political implications, and demand certain actions. And the American presidential election was only eight weeks away. They wanted this problem to go away, or at least to bleed the meaning from it.

Noonan's article is behind a paywall, but there are a few more excerpts, along with Michael Kennedy's thoughts, at Chicago Boyz.

[May 3, 2013 -- Reader Tips]   I think I should get a partial credit?   ;-)

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Lomborg: Californians are paying ridiculous subsidies for electric cars

"Tesla gets $45,000 for each car it sells in state and federal subsidies. The Tesla S starts at $69,000, so about 40% of its total cost is subsidies (Tesla isn’t making any big profits)."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/12/lomborg-californians-are-paying-ridiculous-subsidies-for-electric-cars/

Thanks for renewing my faith in humanity...

Israeli Army gals.

h/t Instapundit

"Dubai is being promoted as a luxury high-class paradise in the desert, but the reality is brutally different, as Australian Alicia Gali discovered. Gali took a job in the UAE with one of the world’s biggest hotel chains, Starwood. What happened next makes this story a must-watch for every Australian planning on travelling through the region.

"Gali was using her laptop in the hotel’s staff bar when her drink was spiked. She awoke to a nightmare beyond belief: she had been savagely raped by three of her colleagues. Alone and frightened, she took herself to hospital. What Alicia didn’t know is that under the UAE’s strict sharia laws, if the perpetrator does not confess, a rape cannot be convicted without four adult Muslim male witnesses. She was charged with having illicit sex outside marriage, and thrown in a filthy jail cell for eight months..."

Check out the Mother's Day pic of JT's mother and wife from his Facebook page....Allāhu Akbar on election night?

https://www.facebook.com/JustinPJTrudeau

A grown man just cried.

The Nenana River in Alaska is still frozen over. This year's breakup will be among the 8 latest in the 98 years on record.

Will the AGW church say this is proof that global warming is not happening? Will the magazine "Science" apologize for its previous claims to AGW based on Nenana ice breakup?

http://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/

Here's an old article refuting claims that Nenana breakup dates support AGW, even without recent data points.
http://www.john-daly.com/nenana.htm

Let's "go back to nearly the beginning of time"... http://dgrnewsservice.org/2013/05/12/first-nations-plan-day-of-action-to-reclaim-original-name-of-mount-douglas-pkols/

New Zealand's got talent.
http://www.baba-mail.com/Content.aspx?emailid=3981&memberid=760000#.UZB-S0rxmkw
91 year old discovered. Beautiful!

Baghdad Bob just got a new job.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTtrjwYg6_RNcb7-WW8tn26l9Av6QcdgZiUH63-Zis73ppaKjsbug

The CBC has a pointless article up that we paid for(written be 'Samara');

"Stacking up who's talking (or not) on Parliament Hill"

In it ,this nugget, "current Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said the least of all Liberal MPs counted with 5,408 words." Of course,they don't mention the drama teacher's attendance record.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/05/10/pol-mps-talking-words-in-house.html

Wife of Carlos the Jackal, representing Islamic Republic of Iran in suing Ben Affleck for Argo.

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10043738/Isabelle-Coutant-Peyre-the-controversial-lawyer-suing-Ben-Affleck-for-Argo.html

A giant has passed in the death of Peter Worthington on Sunday night. My condolences to his family. My wife had helped Peter recently when he had fallen at our local Loblaws where I saw him many times. Just a brilliant star in real journalism who had lived life to the fullest and helped us conservatives with the founding of the Toronto Sun.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/13/toronto-sun-founding-editor-peter-worthington-dead-at-86

Socialist Yerp's love of Red-Green is winding down.

"“We were always going to have a peak [renewable energy] installation rate,” said Ian Temperton, advisory head at London’s Climate Change Capital, an investment manager that buys into clean-energy projects. “That peak has happened.”"

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"Clean energy rise slows in Europe as incentives yield to austerity"

"The phaseout of renewable energy incentives, government austerity programs and plunging prices for wind and solar equipment are putting the brakes on a two-decade-long growth story in one of the few industrial sectors that was adding jobs."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/clean-energy-rise-slows-in-europe-as-incentives-yield-to-austerity/article11880892/?cmpid=rss1

Neo-AGW PR: socialist Red-Green fixer convicted/jailed/released.

"Some believe he will work in the “green energy” industry, whose growth he encouraged as Energy Secretary. While awaiting his trial, he advised Nationwide Energy Services, which helps householders use the Government’s Green Deal to insulate their homes."

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"'Humbling and sobering': Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce speak about prison life as they are released after 62 days"

"Huhne and Pryce were jailed in March for perverting the course of justice a decade ago when Pryce took speeding points for her then husband"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/humbling-and-sobering-chris-huhne-and-vicky-pryce-speak-about-prison-life-as-they-are-released-after-62-days-8612974.html

RIP Peter Worthington

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/13/peter-worthington-the-last-of-the-newspaper-mohicans

Of Jack McMahon.

"Defense attorney Jack McMahon delivers his closing argument in the capital murder trial of former abortion doctor Jack McMahon.(sic)"

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Gosnell-Murder-Deliberations-Stretch-into-10th-Day-207178491.html?NewsWatchCanada.ca

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"Eugenics: the skeleton that rattles loudest in the left's closet"

"Socialism's one-time interest in eugenics is dismissed as an accident of history. But the truth is far more unpalatable"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/17/eugenics-skeleton-rattles-loudest-closet-left

PET Cemetery's suggestion?

Hint 1. "*On his first day as Prime Minister he cancelled the sponsorship program."

Hint 2. He* is a pupil/puppet of Mao Stlong.

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"CNews | Who will fill shoes of slain mobster?

TORONTO – Violent mobster Joe Bravo — found shot to death and burned beside an Italian road last week — never lost his terrorizing command over a multi-million dollar underworld business on the streets of Toronto, despite being booted out of Canada for the third time in 2012."

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"*Gomery Inquiry - Canadian Commission of Inquiry Into the ...
canadaonline.about.com/od/governmentspending/p/​gomeryinquiry.htm

Background, mandate, schedule and status of the Gomery Inquiry set up to investigate the sponsorship program in Canada."

Neo-AGW PR.

Eco-pedophiles stalk children?

*?

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"Shadows from the Past: Pedophile Links Haunt Green Party"

"In the 1980s, some members of Germany's Green Party advocated the legalization of sex with minors. Now the party wants to come to terms with this dark chapter via an independent review of internal documents -- some of which show that the influence of pedophiles on the young party was much stronger than previously thought."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/past-pedophile-links-haunt-german-green-party-a-899544.html

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"Guess who was at the party?

It’s not every day that students get to celebrate a birthday — virtually — with someone voted one of the 10 greatest Canadians in history. Thousands of students from nearly 200 elementary schools from B.C. to Newfoundland celebrated the 75th birthday of David Suzuki — environmental icon, activist, educator and award-winning scientist — by participating in the David Suzuki Foundation’s first Q&A webinar on March 30. Students also marked the occasion with a “walkabout” in their schoolyards to observe nature and raise environmental awareness.

Suzuki, famous for his CBC science show The Nature of Things, which recently celebrated its 50th birthday, shares his message with Our Kids Media readers on the urgency of protecting the planet — now."

http://www.ourkids.net/blog/david-suzuki-21st-century-skills-environment-9186/

"Greenhouse Gases Hit Threshold Unseen in 3 Million Years"

"The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surpassed a threshold not seen for 3 million years, exceeding 400 parts per million for the first time since researchers began tracking the data."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-10/hawaii-carbon-dioxide-measurement-for-may-9-passed-400-ppm.html

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"Premature 400 PPM fail-a-bration"

"It seems we didn’t reach 400PPM last week after all. The data has been revised. Ooops."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/13/premature-400-ppm-fail-a-bration/#more-86162

Neo-AGW PR Update.

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"Weather: a wet May makes hay, but what will snow do?"

"Summer may be just around the corner, but parts of southern Britain are forecast to be hit by snow tomorrow."

"Britain is expected to shiver through one of the coldest May days in years, with daytime temperatures 10C colder than usual."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10055033/Weather-a-wet-May-makes-hay-but-what-will-snow-do.html

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"Frost warning for
Metro Montréal - Laval continued

Temperatures dropping to near freezing overnight tonight.

Protect tender plants that could be damaged or die as a result of frost.

A low pressure system over Northern Quebec is responsible for the cool, windy weather affecting much of the province of Quebec. Winds will become light this evening with the arrival of a ridge of high pressure.

The combination of the cold air, clear skies and light winds will be favourable for the development of ground frost overnight tonight and early Tuesday morning."

http://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?qc67

Neo-AGW PR.

AGW's Snow Spring UK.

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"Spring on hold as snow forecast for parts of Wales and Scotland

Rare May snowfall expected on higher ground as cold temperatures and wet weather sweep Britain"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/14/spring-weather-snow-forecast-britain