tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2295965832004353554..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: "The Macedonians Are Coming to Take Me Away, Oh No!"Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53343209129591759402017-10-22T05:18:35.446-04:002017-10-22T05:18:35.446-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.harada57https://www.blogger.com/profile/06015023155124017905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56163584174916134042017-06-02T19:07:09.655-04:002017-06-02T19:07:09.655-04:00Paris Accords and Kyoto Protocol Share Striking Si...<b>Paris Accords and Kyoto Protocol Share Striking Similarities</b><br /><br />Following the left’s meltdown over President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, the discussion surrounding the saga echoes the same talking points surrounding the debate over the Kyoto Protocol in the early 2000s.<br /><br />At the beginning of the Bush administration, President Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol for reasons similar to President Trump’s. Predictably, the world and the American left protested over the president’s decision to pursue U.S. economic growth.<br /><br />Here are the top 3 similarities between the two deals:<br /><br />China and India Got Great Deals<br /><br />The Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in the 1990s, exempted China and India from their requirements. This was one of the main reasons the Bush administration cited for its withdrawal, according to The New York Times: “Mr. Bush said, with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell at his side. ‘’Yet China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto protocol. India and Germany are among the top emitters. Yet India was also exempt from Kyoto.’”<br /><br />A congressional report found that participation from the Chinese and Indians in the Paris Accords was largely symbolic, calling it “political theater.” The Paris Accords would have imposed uneven and unfair economic restrictions on the west, compared with China. “China stands to gain from participation in the Paris Agreement by pushing the U.S. and EU to make economically costly emissions reductions,” Further, the report found that the Accords would make no meaningful impact on the carbon emissions of China and India, the world’s two most populous countries.<br /><br />The International Community Criticized the U.S. for Leaving Both Treaties<br /><br />When President Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol, the international community reacted swiftly and harshly. Italy’s Environment Minister Willer Bordon called the withdrawal “extremely grave.” The European Union’s Environment Commissioner at the time, Margot Wallstroem, discussed economic measures the global community could take to punish the United States for the withdrawal.<br /><br />Similarly, world leaders attacked Trump after his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Accords. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he was “disappointed” in the president’s decision. “The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, had harsher words to share on Wednesday, informing members at a student conference that ‘Europe’s duty is to say … The Americans can’t just leave the climate protection agreement. Mr. Trump believes that because he doesn’t know the details,'” according to The Atlantic.<br /><br />But the International Community Didn’t Live Up to Its Kyoto Standards<br /><br />“Under the Kyoto protocol most developed nations – including Canada, Australia, Austria, Spain, Japan and others – never got close to reaching their individual target for cutting or slowing their emissions,” The Guardian reported in 2012.<br /><br />The congressional report on the Paris Accords wrote: “Kyoto was legally binding and countries still failed to comply. Non-binding targets in the Paris Agreement will not produce any greater confidence that countries will comply.”<br /><br />Despite the international community’s moral posturing on the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Accords, they failed to live up to emissions standards in an agreement that had included enforcement standards. How could the Paris Accords, a non-binding agreement, guarantee greater conformity?<br /><br /><br />http://ntknetwork.com/paris-accords-and-kyoto-protocol-share-striking-similarities/<br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71708555662492411862017-06-02T06:14:21.133-04:002017-06-02T06:14:21.133-04:00Shouldn't Harvey have done prison time ?
Ship...Shouldn't Harvey have done prison time ?<br /><br />Ship should be called the S.S. Pedophile.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31521870603711989222017-06-02T03:06:27.772-04:002017-06-02T03:06:27.772-04:00Google is featuring the guy who designed and made ...Google is featuring the guy who designed and made the Gay Flag.<br />Big Friend of Harvey Milk.<br />Looked up Milk in Wikipedia.<br />All the good things he did for kids, etc.<br /><br />Not a word about the fact that he was a child molester.<br /><br /><b>AFA Goes After U.S. Navy Over Harvey Milk Ship</b><br /><br />http://www.towleroad.com/2016/08/afa-harvey-milk/Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2461231945349570532017-06-02T02:21:47.871-04:002017-06-02T02:21:47.871-04:00EUROPE’S NEXT BIG WAR
Thousands of terrorists and ...<b>EUROPE’S NEXT BIG WAR</b><br /><i>Thousands of terrorists and thousands of soldiers.</i><br />June 2, 2017 Daniel Greenfield<br /><br /><b>....But unlike Iraq or Syria, the Islamic insurgency is not an indigenous problem. The Islamic terrorist is not indigenous to America or Europe. He is a recent guest. He has been here for decades, not centuries. We can’t fix the tribal conflicts in Syria or Iraq, but we can interdict them through immigration reform.<br /><br />Every effort to oppose President Trump’s travel pause is a vote for soldiers in the streets and car bombs every morning. It can only end with the wars that the left hated in Iraq and Afghanistan being fought in the cities where its activists, protesters and supporters live behind barbed wire and checkpoints.<br /><br />Islamic terrorism is a war. The only way to stop that war is to stop migration from terror states today.</b><br /><br />https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266852/europes-next-big-war-daniel-greenfield<br /><br /><b>STOP MOSLEM IMMIGRATION TO USA NOW </b>Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37420774778733181772017-06-02T01:58:50.910-04:002017-06-02T01:58:50.910-04:00"We're so quick to label North Korea as &...<i>"We're so quick to label North Korea as 'forbidden', 'closed', 'crazy', 'suffering' - but I want to take away that barrier we've created, just for a minute, and shed light on North Korea at a human level," says 24-year-old Benjamin Griffin.<br /><br />...<br /><br />"This is a great example of how we understand North Korea. It's us and them, dark and light, good and evil. It's dark, it's unknown. We're given all these reductive cliches - a lens through which to look at the DPRK.<br /><br />It's too simplistic - if the country is only 'evil', can it ever do anything good?</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40063510" rel="nofollow">North Korea</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84788824811183679552017-06-02T01:28:14.082-04:002017-06-02T01:28:14.082-04:00Good article.Good article.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57760388179025859312017-06-02T01:04:12.232-04:002017-06-02T01:04:12.232-04:00Professor Graham Allison at Harvard University moo...<i>Professor Graham Allison at Harvard University mooted a solution to the North Korea conflict in the New York Times on May 30. Allison starts by scaring us with a high likelihood of war, about 75%, in similar conflicts between a major power and a smaller rising power in history.<br /><br />...<br /><br />The motto of Harvard is Veritas, Latin for “Truth.” The Chinese government methodically suppresses truth through disinformation and draconian restrictions on freedom of speech.<br /><br />Harvard, per its motto, should take a far more principled stand against the authoritarianism that China, and especially Xi Jinping, is increasingly attempting to foist upon not only Asia, but the world. There can be no place for elision or appeasement.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/anderscorr/2017/06/01/chinese-influence-at-harvard-and-the-proposed-pro-china-unified-korea/#fa0226d55751" rel="nofollow">Unified Korea</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66319761326258038082017-06-02T00:34:52.698-04:002017-06-02T00:34:52.698-04:00An obvious criminal....if Quirk had been caught do...An obvious criminal....if Quirk had been caught doing the same we would be saying......an obvious criminal.<br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20072640704775040622017-06-01T22:45:38.053-04:002017-06-01T22:45:38.053-04:00Few Americans knew Nigel Farage’s name. But the fl...<i>Few Americans knew Nigel Farage’s name. But the flamboyant far-right British politician and radio host, a key architect of Britain’s vote to exit the European Union, took on an oddly Zelig-like ubiquity as Donald Trump captured first the Republican nomination and then the presidency.<br /><br />Here was Farage, popping up at the 2016 GOP convention in Cleveland to deliver a speech. There again, at a Trump campaign rally in Mississippi in the dog-days of August.<br /><br />Days after the election, he and the president-elect grinned together in front of a gilded elevator at Trump Tower. Soon after Trump took office and was set to dine with family members and associates at his namesake Washington hotel, Farage materialized again and wound up with a seat at the table.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38048594129677221322017-06-01T22:06:46.889-04:002017-06-01T22:06:46.889-04:00http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/07/article-...http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/07/article-0-146A8F01000005DC-243_233x314.jpgDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73602968901353629672017-06-01T21:53:57.347-04:002017-06-01T21:53:57.347-04:00How could Bill de Blasio be wrong???How could Bill de Blasio be wrong???Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86753341402471753252017-06-01T21:51:30.804-04:002017-06-01T21:51:30.804-04:00"He will have no one to blame except himself....<br /><br />"<i>He will have no one to blame except himself.</i>"<br /><br />Deuce and Quirk hold the MSM/Democrat Cabal harmless.<br /><br />In Spite of Reality.<br /><br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51693056734479666142017-06-01T21:46:03.366-04:002017-06-01T21:46:03.366-04:00Obama should be made POTUS again for a day and Dro...Obama should be made POTUS again for a day and Drone Farage from the face of this Earth.<br /><br />Justice knows no borders.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26542964961823352332017-06-01T21:27:10.736-04:002017-06-01T21:27:10.736-04:00Britain's Nigel Farage is a "person of in...<i>Britain's Nigel Farage is a "person of interest" in the US investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the Guardian reports.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Farage, who campaigned for decades for Britain to leave the European Union, was a vocal backer of Trump, appearing on the campaign trail and meeting him in New York just days after the election victory.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44573046912465664352017-06-01T21:15:13.199-04:002017-06-01T21:15:13.199-04:00You're just ticked The Donald didn't read ...You're just ticked The Donald didn't read the Encyclical The Pope gave him on the matter.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40006897761335831652017-06-01T21:09:21.763-04:002017-06-01T21:09:21.763-04:00Macedonian Content Farm for sale.
No down.Macedonian Content Farm for sale.<br /><br />No down.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40151433992570234482017-06-01T21:07:14.591-04:002017-06-01T21:07:14.591-04:00190 countries say it's a treaty, but Quirk bel...190 countries say it's a treaty, but Quirk believes Obama when he calls it an "Accord"Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64509616555872022692017-06-01T20:31:22.923-04:002017-06-01T20:31:22.923-04:00Quirk's Shrink Hat,
aka, Dickhead.
https://i...Quirk's Shrink Hat,<br /><br />aka, Dickhead.<br /><br />https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5615997/il_fullxfull.127964578.jpgDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9976561633618777382017-06-01T20:11:21.765-04:002017-06-01T20:11:21.765-04:00.
Listening to Trump, he did say he was very open....<br /><br /><i>Listening to Trump, he did say he was very open to renegotiating the Paris Accord.<br /><br />So, I retract my criticism.</i><br /><br /><br /><br />:o)<br /><br />(Shakes head and smiles wryly)Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19217792786125570442017-06-01T20:03:44.273-04:002017-06-01T20:03:44.273-04:00What a Dick.What a Dick.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55383932217724839882017-06-01T20:02:53.462-04:002017-06-01T20:02:53.462-04:00"I don't think Trump has the intellectual..."<i>I don't think Trump has the intellectual range</i>"<br /><br />Does anyone here know someone personally as deluded as Quirk regarding his intellectual grasp?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58888927052136679822017-06-01T19:21:02.346-04:002017-06-01T19:21:02.346-04:00I'm open to Honda turbocharging the Accord.
T...I'm open to Honda turbocharging the Accord.<br /><br />They did win the Indy 500, ya know.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72455500765597076092017-06-01T19:18:58.758-04:002017-06-01T19:18:58.758-04:00Frankly my dear, I don't give a Phuc.Frankly my dear, I don't give a Phuc.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17190522705801930802017-06-01T19:16:50.610-04:002017-06-01T19:16:50.610-04:00Nguyen Xuan Phuc is Huuuuuge
In VietnamNguyen Xuan Phuc is Huuuuuge<br /><br />In VietnamDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.com