'Trump Does The Unthinkable' by Liz Crokin

Liz Crokin is an award-winning author, a seasoned journalist and an advocate for sex crime victims.  Liz began her journey at the University of Iowa where she received a bachelor's in journalism and political science.

'Trump Does The Unthinkable'  by Liz Crokin

Donald Trump is a racist, bigot, sexist, xenophobe, anti-Semitic and Islamophobe -- did I miss anything?.....Oh Right he is also deplorable.  The left and the media launch these hideous kinds of attacks at Trump every day; yet, nothing could be further from the truth about the real estate mogul.

As an entertainment journalist, I've had the opportunity to cover Trump for over a decade, and in all my years covering him I've never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president. Keep in mind, I got paid a lot of money to dig up dirt on celebrities like Trump for a living so a scandalous story on the famous billionaire could've potentially sold a lot of magazines and would've been a Huge feather in my cap.

Instead, I found that he doesn't drink alcohol or do drugs, he's a hardworking businessman. On top of that, he's one of the most generous celebrities in the world with a heart filled with more gold than his $100 million New York penthouse.

Since the media has failed so miserably at reporting the truth about Trump, I decided to put together some of the acts of kindness he's committed over three decades which has gone virtually unnoticed or fallen on deaf ears.

• In 1986, Trump prevented the foreclosure of Annabell Hill's family farm after her husband committed suicide.  Trump personally phoned down to the auction to stop the sale of her home and offered the widow money.  Trump decided to take action after he saw Hill's pleas for help in news reports.

• In 1988, a commercial airline refused to fly Andrew Ten, a sick Orthodox Jewish child with a rare illness, across the country to get medical care because he had to travel with an elaborate life-support system.  His grief stricken parents contacted Trump for help and he didn't hesitate to send his own plane to take the child from Los Angeles to New York so he could get his treatment.

• In 1991, 200 Marines who served in Operation Desert Storm spent time at Camp Lejune in North Carolina before they were scheduled to return home to their families.  However, the Marines were told that a mistake had been made and an aircraft would not be able to take them home on their scheduled departure date. When Trump got wind of this, he sent his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami to safely return the Gulf War Marines to their loved ones.

• In 1995, a motorist stopped to help Trump after the limo he was traveling in got a flat tire.  Trump asked the Good Samaritan how he could repay him for his help.  All the man asked for was a bouquet of flowers for his wife.  A few weeks later Trump sent the flowers with a note that read:  We've paid off your mortgage.

• In 1996, Trump filed a lawsuit against the city of Palm Beach, Florida, accusing the town of discriminating against his Mar-a-Lago resort club because it allowed Jews and blacks.  Abraham Foxman, who was the Anti-Defamation League Director at the time, said Trump put the light on Palm Beach not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination.  Foxman also noted that Trump's charge had a trickle-down effect because other clubs followed his lead and began admitting Jews and blacks.

• In 2000, Maury Povich featured a little girl named Megan who struggled with Brittle Bone Disease on his show and Trump happened to be watching.  Trump said the little girl's story and positive attitude touched his heart.  So he contacted Maury and gifted the little girl and her family with a very generous check.

• In 2008, after Jennifer Hudson's family members were tragically murdered in Chicago, Trump put the Oscar-winning actress and her family up at his Windy City hotel for free. In addition to that, Trump's security took extra measures to ensure Hudson and her family members were safe during such a difficult time.

• In 2013, New York bus driver Darnell Barton spotted a woman close to the edge of a bridge staring at traffic below as he drove by.  He stopped the bus, got out and put his arm around the woman and saved her life by convincing her to not jump.  When Trump heard about this story, he sent the hero bus driver a check simply because he believed his good deed deserved to be rewarded.

• In 2014, Trump gave $25,000 to Sgt. Andrew Tamoressi after he spent seven months in a Mexican jail for accidentally crossing the US-Mexico border.  President Barack Obama couldn't even be bothered to make one phone call to assist with the United States Marine's release;  however, Trump opened his pocketbook to help this serviceman get back on his feet.

• In 2016, Melissa Consin Young attended a Trump rally and tearfully thanked Trump for changing her life.  She said she proudly stood on stage with Trump as Miss Wisconsin USA in 2005.  However, years later she found herself struggling with an incurable illness and during her darkest days she explained that she received a handwritten letter from Trump telling her she's the bravest woman, I know.  She said the opportunities that she got from Trump and his organizations ultimately provided her Mexican-American son with a full-ride to college.

• Lynne Patton, a black female executive for the Trump Organization, released a statement in 2016 defending her boss against accusations that he's a racist and a bigot.  She tearfully revealed how she's struggled with substance abuse and addiction for years.  Instead of kicking her to the curb, she said the Trump Organization and his entire family loyally stood by her through immensely difficult times.

Donald Trump's kindness knows no bounds and his generosity has and continues to touch the lives of people from every sex, race and religion.  When Trump sees someone in need, he wants to help.  Two decades ago, Oprah asked Trump in a TV interview if he'd run for president.  He said: If it got so bad, I would never want to rule it out totally, because I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country.

Trump sees that America is in need and he wants to help.  How unthinkable!
On the other hand, have you ever heard of Hillary or Obama ever doing such things with their own resources?
Now that's really unthinkable!   Might be worth passing on!!!  Oh, by the way, Trump’s annual salary as President is donated to charity…

Sarah Sanders has a hilarious reply to CNN skipping the White House Christmas party

by Aaron Colen

CNN announced that its employees will not be attending the annual White House Christmas party, and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is pleased.

Sanders retweeted an article with the announcement with the caption, “Christmas comes early! Finally, good news from @CNN.”

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Trump has consistently attacked CNN as a “fake news” network, so they won’t be celebrating the holidays with the president.

“CNN will not be attending this year’s White House Christmas party,” a CNN statement read. “In light of the President’s continued attacks on freedom of the press and CNN, we do not feel it is appropriate to celebrate with him as his invited guests. We will send a White House reporting team to the event and report on it if news warrants.”

Usually members of the media attend the Christmas party to socialize with those they cover after a year of public, high-stress interactions. Apparently, Trump has gone too far for CNN to put business aside for even one evening.

Over the weekend, Trump took another direct shot at CNN on Twitter, while complimenting Fox News.

“@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outsidee of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!”

see more at:  http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/11/28/sarah-sanders-has-a-hilarious-reply-to-cnn-skipping-the-white-house-christmas-party

U.S. Open champ is asked if she’s hungry to win more titles — then demonstrates why capitalism works

by Dave Urbanski - September 13, 2017

After Sloane Stephens won the women’s U.S. Open tennis title over the weekend, a reporter’s silly question opened the door for the newly crowned champ to give a ringing endorsement for capitalism.

A reporter actually asked the 24-year-old Stephens — whose victory Saturday earned her $3.7 million — if winning her first Grand Slam title gave her a “hunger” to do it again.

Well, duh.  That was pretty much Stephens’ reaction to the painfully leading news-conference question — but her answer told the bold truth.

“Of course, girl! Did you see that check that that lady handed me?” she replied in near disbelief at the query as the room burst out in laughter. “Like, yes! Man, if that doesn’t make you want to play tennis, I don’t know what will. Man. So, yes, definitely.”

And then Stephens got an even sillier question: A reporter asked Stephens if she felt “bad” for her opponent Madison Keys, whom Stephens bested in lopsided fashion (6-0, 6-3).

But the champ replied to the question — seemingly couched in socialistic, everybody-gets-a-trophy values — with a refreshing dose of good ol’ American touchstones of fair play, hard work and competition.

“Feel bad for her?” she answered with incredulity. “She was in the finals, too. What do you mean? Did you see the check she’s about to get?”

More laughter from the press corps. “I’m sure she’ll be just fine,” Stephens concluded.

A further take

The disparity between the reporters’ questions and Stephens’ reactions couldn’t be more strikingly evident.

The first reporter’s question assumed that winning somehow doesn’t inspire a desire to keep doing well, as if people are do-nothing lumps with no determination or will to succeed (i.e., socialism). Stephens knocked back that assumption — and added that monetary rewards are a tremendous incentive for success.

The second reporter’s question was worse, reflecting the growing socialistic sentiment out there that successful people who’ve been financially rewarded for their efforts should feel “bad” about that. Hogwash, Stephens said. Her opponent “was in the finals, too” and had the same opportunity to win.

Check out the Q&A clip. (And notice that ESPN also seems unable — or unwilling — to entertain the notion that a professional athlete isn’t motivated by earnings, titling the video “Sloane Stephens jokes that $3.7 million check inspires her to keep playing.” Jokes? Really?)     

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/09/13/u-s-open-champ-is-asked-if-shes-hungry-to-win-more-titles-then-demonstrates-why-capitalism-works/

Jimmy Carter lets loose: Knocks Obama and Hillary, says Russia didn’t alter election, praises Trump

by Chris Enloe

At 93, Jimmy Carter’s presidential days are long behind him, but the 39th president is still very in tune with national politics. He made his views about some of the latest pressing national issues very clear in a recent interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

On Russia meddling in the election:

Dowd asked Carter: “Did the Russians purloin the election from Hillary [Clinton]?”

Carter said: “Rosie and I have a difference of opinion on that.” Rosie is Carter’s wife.

“I don’t think there’s any evidence that what the Russians did changed enough votes, or any votes,” Carter followed up.

On President Donald Trump:

Carter said: “I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about. I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation.”

Who was their 2016 preference?

Given that Carter is a Democrat and served in the White House as a Democrat, it would be easy to assume Carter wanted Clinton to be president in 2016. But he explained he and his wife voted for a different candidate.

“We voted for Sanders,” he said.

On Obama:

In the interview, Carter also knocked former President Barack Obama.

“He made some very wonderful statements, in my opinion, when he first got in office, and then he reneged on that,” Carter said of Obama’s Middle East policies.

Carter also lamented “the fact that Obama joined in the bombing of Yemen,” according to Dowd. However, Carter confirmed all 22 members of his family voted for Obama. He also said he doesn’t have Obama’s email address, meaning he likely doesn’t directly talk to the 44th president.

On the Clinton Foundation:

When Dowd tried to draw comparisons between the Carter Center and the Clinton Foundation, Carter struck it down.

“Rosie and I put money in the Carter Center. We never take any out,” he said, implying the Clinton Foundation does.

On NFL kneeling protests:

Carter said: “I think they ought to find a different way to object, to demonstrate. I would rather see all the players stand during the American anthem.”

Columbus Day

10/9/2017

Watch the entire video here.

 

Forget what you hear in the news and the classroom.

Forget the presumptive appeals by people who think they know better.

With the rush to rename Columbus Day, Indigenous People’s Day, it’s time for a reminder.

We are a nation that has always rewarded the bold the brave, the daring, the innovators, and the explorers.

What’s next? Do we rename the Lombardi Trophy after Hank Stram? Look him up.

America’s spirit is to celebrate the men and women who took on great risks, discovered great things, did what no one else thought possible. Columbus sailed for the end of the Earth, and he discovered the Americas.

With that discovery, he sowed the seeds of the world’s greatest country, a beacon of hope for the suffering and downtrodden across our entire planet.

When we celebrate Columbus, we celebrate not just the man but the spirit that made that possible.

The spirit that brought us one step closer to the United States.

see more at   https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=2qQ8ryhqykU&utm_medium=email

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Ben Shapiro blasts California senators’ bias on hate speech

by Carlos Garcia

In scathing testimony offered Tuesday, conservative activist Ben Shapiro blasted a California committee on hate speech for their bias against conservatives and on the dangers of the state defining “hate speech.”

What did he say?

“Your job job obviously here at the legislature is to ensure that our freedom of expression is maintained that our first amendment rights are maintained,” Shapiro began, “and what that means first and foremost in my experience on college campuses, is that the heckler’s veto must be stopped.”

The “heckler’s veto” is a phrase describing the unfair shutting out of speech by opponents through threats of violence or shouting down.

“I was at Cal State Los Angeles in February, 2016,” he explained, “and there was almost a riot there and the police were not allowed to do their jobs and students were physically assaulted in the crowd. It is the job of this legislature to ensure the police can do their jobs and when they do do their jobs and they’re allowed to do that at places like UC Berkeley, everything goes fine.

“And I’d like to make a point here about UC Berkeley,” Shapiro said. “The reason it cost $600,000 to bring me to UC Berkeley was not because of me. Everybody keeps suggesting that because I was coming, I’m so controversial and so terrible. I came exactly one year before and it cost this many dollars, it cost zero dollars for security at UC Berkeley.”

“The reason it cost $600,000 at UC Berkeley is because Antifa and violent groups had decided that Berkeley was their domain and they were going to run roughshod over law enforcement there,” he continued.

On the state defining “hate speech”

“And this does bring up one final point in the long period of time to discuss,” he added, “and that is, the problem with a legislative body such as yours trying to draw lines specifically about what hate speech constitutes because the fact is that one of the reasons groups like Antifa show up is not because they know who I am, it’s because they’ve been told by people that I am promulgating hate speech which is utterly false, and utterly untrue.”

“There are people who say vile things and with whom I disagree,” he explained. “Among them, people like Milo Yiannopoulos who sent me a picture of a black baby on the day of my child’s birth because I wasn’t sufficiently standing up for the white population supposedly.”

“But that does not mean that the legislature gets to decide what hate speech is,” he argued. “I’ve been labeled a promulgator of hate speech when I was the number one target of hate speech according to the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), according to the journalistic community in 2016.”

“So let me suggest that as a legislature,” he concluded, “your chief job is to ensure that my taxpayer dollars in this state go towards making sure that people like me and people with whom I disagree get to speak in place like college campuses and not toward regulating what speech you find good and what speech you find bad, because it’s a really dangerous business. And there’s speech I don’t like, there’s speech you don’t like, but if we can’t agree that there’s a difference between speech and violence, we’re not going to be able to have a free state, let alone a free country. Thanks.”

What happened at Shapiro’s speech at UC Berkeley?

As he notes in his speech to the commission, his appearance at Berkeley was met with left-wing histrionics from Antifa and other extremist left-wing groups. This is just the latest example of free speech being eroded on American campuses.

see video at http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/10/03/watch-ben-shapiro-blasts-california-senators-bias-on-hate-speech/

Sex-change surgery regret is on the rise, leading surgeon says. Here’s why.

by Aaron Colen

A concerning number of transgender people who have undergone sex change surgeries go on to express regrets and experience crippling depression and suicidal thoughts, according to an experienced genital reconstruction surgeon.

According to a report in The Telegraph, world-leading genital reconstruction surgeon Professor Miroslav Djordjevic has seen a rise in his patients coming back to him after sex change surgery seeking reversals of the procedure, which are complex and expensive, and can take more than a year to complete.

“It can be a real disaster to hear these stories,” Djordjevic said.

Lack of counseling and research

Djordjevic cites two issues causing the increase in patients getting a sex change surgery and subsequently regretting it: a lack of robust research on the topic, and a lack of psychiatric evaluation and counseling before the surgeries.

While Djordjevic requires his patients to undergo a year or more of psychiatric evaluation followed by hormone evaluation and therapy, some patients seeking reversals have told him that they were only asked if they had the money for the surgery beforehand.

“I have heard stories of people visiting surgeries who only checked if they had the money to pay,” Djordjevic said. “We have to stop this. As a community, we have to make very strong rules: nobody who wants to make this type of surgery or just make money can be allowed to do so.”

A psychotherapist at Bath Spa University tried to do research on “detransitioning,” but his research proposal was rejected after he turned in preliminary findings showing growing numbers of young people were regretting gender reassignment surgery, according to The Guardian.

The professor was told the proposal was rejected based on concerns that it was “potentially politically incorrect.”

Younger patients, more risks

Djordjevic said the average age of his patients has dropped from 45 when he first started more than 20 years ago to 21, with some in the medical community advocating for allowing minors to get sex change surgeries.

Djordjevic believes that to be dangerous ground, and said there is a line he personally will not cross.

“I’m afraid what will happen five to 10 years later with this person,” Djordjevic said of patients younger than 18 who may eventually have the surgery. “It is more than about surgery; it’s an issue of human rights. I could not accept them as a patient because I’d be afraid what would happen to their brain and mind.”

see more at http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/10/03/sex-change-surgery-regret-is-on-the-rise-leading-surgeon-says-heres-why/

Exasperated woman fed up with BLM and the media: ‘Spare me your white guilt and your black pride!’

by Sarah Taylor

Blogger, vlogger and former liberal Candice Owens trashed the Black Lives Matter movement, the KKK, the media, and left- and right-wing extremists in one four-minute video.

In a video titled, “I Don’t Care About Charlottesville, the KKK, or White Supremacy,” Owens addressed what she feels is the media’s role in creating a fake “race war.”

Why she’s angry

Owens said that she is furious that people began to pay attention to the KKK only after President Donald Trump became elected and asserted that the media are responsible for creating the narrative that the KKK re-emerged only after his election.

She noted that when former President Barack Obama was president, the KKK still existed, and they still met and rallied.

Though Owens said that racism doesn’t affect her daily life, she did say she’s angry about those who create divisions that aren’t actually there.

“I went to the gym this morning, a white girl signed me in and handed me a towel — no beef. I was trying to figure out this weight machine and a black trainer came over and helped me — no drama. I even went to the coffee shop thereafter and a Spanish girl made my latte with an extra shot,” Owens said. “All good in the hood, and it was a great day, so you’ll have to forgive me for not realizing that the figurative racial sky was burning and it was up to me to choose a side.”

Who she attacked

Owens’ disgust covered everything from the media to Black Lives Matter to the KKK to even the Charlottesville attack.

According to Owens, the media caused the racial division.

“It’s obviously the media’s fault – I mean the media is creating this entire narrative and it is crazy to me that people have not figured this out yet,” she said.

As for the KKK, Owens claimed she’s unafraid: “I mean there are what, 6,000 Klansmen left in our nation, and you want me to actually process that as a legitimate fear every day when I wake up?” she asked.

Earlier in the video, she said, “If you are a black person and you expressed some irrational fears this week over the rise of the Klansmen and neo-Nazis, let me invite you over for a cup of hot, steaming facts. Fact No. 1: approximately 93 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other black people.”

“Black Lives Matter protesters may want to consider extending their slogan to ‘Don’t shoot — because we’ve already got it covered.'”

About the Charlottesville tragedy, Owens said that she supported Trump’s commentsthat there were bad people on both sides of the fence and added that she “doesn’t care” about Charlottesville.

“I am not too disturbed by the events in Charlottesville, because that is what happens when two groups of losers that hate one another get together,” she said. “Nobody showed up looking to give hugs.”

Owens concluded, “Everybody involved in this fake racial war is a loser. So please, spare me the statuses, and your white guilt and your black pride because I really don’t care to see it.”

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CNN’s Take On Antifa: Peace Through Violence (Update: CNN Scrubs Headline)

by JOHN SEXTON

CNN published an article based on interviews with members of Antifa. The headline notes, “Activists seek peace through violence.” 

That seems to suggest there’s a real problem with what Antifa is doing but the rest of the article comes across as sympathetic to the group, even to their violence:

Antifa activists often don’t hesitate to destroy property, which many see as the incarnation of unfair wealth distribution.

“Violence against windows — there’s no such thing as violence against windows,” a masked Antifa member in Union Square told CNN. “Windows don’t have — they’re not persons. And even when they are persons, the people we fight back against, they are evil. They are the living embodiment, they are the second coming of Hitler.”

[Scott] Crow explained the ideology this way: “Don’t confuse legality and morality. Laws are made of governments, not of men,” echoing the words of John Adams.

“Each of us breaks the law every day. It’s just that we make the conscious choice to do that,” he said.

CNN notes their Antifa source is “echoing” John Adams. Adams included the phrase “a government of laws and not of men” in the Massachusetts Constitution. His point was that no king or autocrat would determine what was legal or illegal. Instead, the government would operate based on laws which applied to everyone equally.

This is the opposite of what Antifa stands for. Scott Crow is literally saying his group breaks the law (assault, vandalism, etc.) when it determines people are “evil” and delivers extra-legal justice. That’s not at all how a government of laws operates. CNN’s source may be echoing John Adams but he clearly doesn’t understand what Adams was saying.

Antifa members also sometimes launch attacks against people who aren’t physically attacking them. The movement, Crow said, sees alt-right hate speech as violent, and for that, its activists have opted to meet violence with violence.

Right or wrong, “that’s for history to decide,” he said.

Now we’re arguing that violence is a reasonable response to “hate speech.” At least no one is trying to claim James Madison for support. As for the idea that history will decide, that’s another way Antifa is saying they don’t believe the actual law as it exists now applies to them. That’s why they wear masks and dress the same, so they can get away with it.

“People put on the masks so that we can all become anonymous, right? And then, therefore, we are able to move more freely and do what we need to do, whether it is illegal or not,” he said.

And that means avoiding police, whom many Antifa members see as an enemy, as well as skirting the scrutiny Antifa activists often get from alt-right trolls on the Internet. Black bloc, one member told us, also unites the movement.

“Even though it only takes one person to break a window, it doesn’t matter because the bloc moves together,” said a 26-year-old named Maura, who wouldn’t give her last name.

The left’s secret society of masked vandals is growing and they are seeking to normalize political violence. People who feel they can act above the law (so long as it’s for the right reason) are a danger to all of us. Responsible Americans should condemn Antifa rather than tolerate them.

Update: As I noted in my opening paragraph above, CNN’s headline seemed like the only part of the story that was really critical of Antifa. So perhaps you won’t be shocked to learn they’ve scrubbed that one bit of criticism:

I’m not 100% sure the headline was scrubbed because Antifa didn’t like it. The update about Antifa denying violence in Charlottesville was there yesterday before they scrubbed the headline. In any case, the group admits to employing violence in the body of the article, so why remove “violence” from the headline? CNN should explain.

Study: Earth cooler now than when Al Gore won Nobel Peace Prize for global warming work

by Chris Enloe

A new study shows that global temperatures are cooler today than they were when climate change alarmist Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 — and one top meteorologist is hammering Gore over the very inconvenient truth.

Respected meteorologist Joe Bastardi recently penned on op-ed hammering Gore for his awful climate predications made in his hit 2006 documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” while noting that today’s global temperatures are cooler than they were when Gore’s won the Nobel Peace Prize for his global warming work.

Bastardi’s study shows that while global temperatures were anomalously warm when Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, they are less warm now and they were even less warm in the years between today and when Gore won the peace prize.

Image via Joe Bastardi/The Patriot Post

“Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize based on warnings of future events — the same future events that have not happened. The fact is that global temperatures from 2006-2007 while Gore was basking in the glory of his apocalypse-driven fame were warmer than they are now,” Bastardi wrote.

Bastardi, who used to work for AccuWeather and now works at a weather consulting firm, lamented over the fact that Gore won the peace prize for his awful predictions over a woman, Irena Sendler, who helped save thousands of Jewish Poles during World War II.

“Al Gore’s new movie reminded me of what a travesty it was for him to even accept the Nobel Prize over what” Sendler did, Bastardi said.

The op-ed comes as Gore’s follow up, “An Inconvenient Sequel” is currently in theaters.

Many of Gore’s most famous climate predictions have failed to come true, such as rising sea levels and the complete melting of ice in the Arctic.

Gore’s latest movie explores the predictions that he made a decade ago. It also dives into the Paris Agreement on climate change and what it means for the future of the globe in the eyes of climate change alarmists, while exploring the significance of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the agreement.

Al Gore's predictions 10 years later

An Inconvenient Review: After 10 Years Al Gore’s Film Is Still Alarmingly Inaccurate

Posted By Michael Bastasch On 9:36 PM 05/03/2016

It’s been nearly one decade since former Vice President Al Gore released his film “An Inconvenient Truth.” It sent shockwaves through American politics and emboldened environmental activists to push for more regulations on American businesses.

Gore warned increasing carbon dioxide emissions would spur catastrophic global warming that would cause more extreme weather, wipe out cities and cause ecological collapse. To stop global warming, humans needed to ditch fossil fuels and basically change every aspect of their lives.

Watching “An Inconvenient Truth” is sort of like going back in time. Back to a world where flip phones were cool and “Futurama” was still putting out new episodes. A world where a bitter presidential candidate was trying to rebrand himself as an environmental crusader.

But have Gore’s warnings, which were alarming to many in 2006, come true?

In honor of the upcoming 10th anniversary, The Daily Caller News Foundation re-watched “An Inconvenient Truth” just to see how well Gore’s warnings of future climate disaster lined up with reality.

Gore’s been harping on global warming since at least the late 1980s, but it wasn’t until 2006 he discovered a way to become massively wealthy off making movies about it and investing in government-subsidized green energy.

Gore opens the film talking about nature, then jumping to a presentation he’s giving where he shows the first image ever taken of the Earth from space. From that image, he jumps right into making alarmist claims about global warming.

Kilimanjaro Still Has Snow

One of the first glaring claims Gore makes is about Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. He claims Africa’s tallest peak will be snow-free “within the decade.” Gore shows slides of Kilimanjaro’s peak in the 1970s versus today to conclude the snow is disappearing.

Well, it’s been a decade and, yes, there’s still snow on Kilimanjaro year-round. It doesn’t take a scientist to figure this out. One can just look at recent photos posted on the travel website TripAdvisor.com.

In 2014, ecologists actually monitoring Kilimanjaro’s snowpack found it was not even close to being gone. It may have shrunk a little, but ecologists were confident it would be around for the foreseeable future.

“There are ongoing several studies, but preliminary findings show that the ice is nowhere near melting,” Imani Kikoti, an ecologist at Mount Kilimanjaro National Park, told eturbonews.com.

“Much as we agree that the snow has declined over centuries, but we are comfortable that its total melt will not happen in the near future,” he said.

Gore Left Out The 15-Year “Hiatus” In Warming

Gore also claims temperature rise from increases in man-made carbon dioxide emissions were “uninterrupted and intensifying.” He goes on to claim heatwaves will become more common, like the one that killed 35,000 people across Europe in 2003.

Sounds terrifying — until you actually look at what happened to global temperature after Gore’s film was released. Global temperatures showed little to no warming trend after Gore released his film. In fact, surface temperature data showed no significant global warming for a period of about 15 years, starting in the early 2000s.

Satellite-derived temperature data showed, until the recent El Niño, no statistically significant warming trend for more than 21 years.

Gore’s movie was released right in the middle of the so-called global warming “hiatus.”

The Weather Hasn’t Gotten Worse

Gore also famously predicted storms would become more frequent and intense as man-made emissions warmed the oceans.

“And of course when the oceans get warmer, that causes stronger storms,” Gore said in his film. “That same year that we had that string of big hurricanes, we also set an all-time record for tornadoes.”

Gore’s film came out just after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. Indeed, footage of the destruction from that storm featured prominently in Gore’s film. He mentions how the U.S. was hit with a rash of severe storms in the early 2000s and how Japan saw a record number of typhoons.

“The insurance industry has actually noticed this,” Gore said. “Their recovered losses are going up.”

But Gore’s claim is more hype than actual science, since storms aren’t more extreme since 2006. In fact, not even findings from the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) support Gore’s claim.

The IPCC found in 2013 there “is limited evidence of changes in extremes associated with other climate variables since the mid-20th century.” The IPCC also found “no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century” and “[n]o robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin.”

Gore should probably take these findings seriously since he shared the Nobel Prize in 2007 with the IPCC for its work on global warming.

The North Pole Still Has Ice

Gore also claimed the Arctic could be ice-free in the coming decades. He said “within the next 50 to 70 years, it could be completely gone.”

With no Arctic sea ice, polar bears and all sorts of Arctic animals would be threatened, Gore warned, showing an animated scene of a polar bear drowning.

This is actually one of Gore’s more cautious predictions — he did incorrectly predict in 2008 there would be no Arctic by 2013. But even in this case, Gore is likely wrong because of the Arctic’s geographical setting.

The Arctic is almost completely surrounded by land, so the ice that forms there tends to stay there. Arctic ice coverage has shrunk in recent decades, but it’s not likely we will see even a summer where the North Pole is completely ice-free.

“I doubt the Arctic will be free of all ice in any summer, although the total area may well be greatly reduced in the future if it continues to warm there,” said Chip Knappenberger, a climate scientist at the libertarian Cato Institute.

“Such a situation should not be overly worrisome, as there is ample evidence that it has occurred in the past and clearly, polar bears, and everything else up there managed to survive,” Knappenberger said.

And before I forget, the latest data shows polar bears are actually thriving, despite shrinking ice coverage.

A “Day After Tomorrow”-Style Ice Age Is Still A Day Away

Remember the 2004 blockbuster film “The Day After Tomorrow”? In the movie, the Gulf Stream, which scientists say is essential for regulating the climate, shuts down and ends up causing another ice age.

Well, Gore hints this could happen if Greenland’s ice sheet melts and brings more cold water into the North Atlantic.

“At the end of the last ice age, as the last glacier was receding from North America, the ice melted and a giant pool of fresh water formed,” Gore said. “An ice dam on the eastern border formed and one day it broke.”

[dcquiz] Gore said fresh, cold water bled out into the North Atlantic and caused the Gulf Stream to stall, which sent Europe into another ice age. Gore then suggests Greenland’s ice melt could pose a similar threat.

Australian scientists, however, totally debunked claims the Gulf Stream, or AMOC, was weakening.

“Claims of strengthening or reducing of the AMOC are therefore pure speculation,” Aussie scientists wrote in their paper published in March.

for more see http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/03/an-inconvenient-review-after-10-years-al-gores-film-is-still-alarmingly-inaccurate/

quote of the day

"I don't think it's a bad thing to wish Obama a Happy Birthday. I mean, he helped Republicans win 1000+ seats" From twitter ThePersistance

What the election map looked like in 2016!

It is comforting to know that there are more republicans out there then I thought,  I guess the Democrats are just more vocal.

quote of the day

Ruth Graham, wife of Billy Graham
“If God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

An Inconvenient Review: After 10 Years Al Gore’s Film Is Still Alarmingly Inaccurate

by MICHAEL BASTASCH

It’s been nearly one decade since former Vice President Al Gore released his film “An Inconvenient Truth.” It sent shockwaves through American politics and emboldened environmental activists to push for more regulations on American businesses.

Gore warned increasing carbon dioxide emissions would spur catastrophic global warming that would cause more extreme weather, wipe out cities and cause ecological collapse. To stop global warming, humans needed to ditch fossil fuels and basically change every aspect of their lives.

Watching “An Inconvenient Truth” is sort of like going back in time. Back to a world where flip phones were cool and “Futurama” was still putting out new episodes. A world where a bitter presidential candidate was trying to rebrand himself as an environmental crusader.

But have Gore’s warnings, which were alarming to many in 2006, come true?

In honor of the upcoming 10th anniversary, The Daily Caller News Foundation re-watched “An Inconvenient Truth” just to see how well Gore’s warnings of future climate disaster lined up with reality.

Gore’s been harping on global warming since at least the late 1980s, but it wasn’t until 2006 he discovered a way to become massively wealthy off making movies about it and investing in government-subsidized green energy.

Gore opens the film talking about nature, then jumping to a presentation he’s giving where he shows the first image ever taken of the Earth from space. From that image, he jumps right into making alarmist claims about global warming.

Kilimanjaro Still Has Snow

One of the first glaring claims Gore makes is about Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. He claims Africa’s tallest peak will be snow-free “within the decade.” Gore shows slides of Kilimanjaro’s peak in the 1970s versus today to conclude the snow is disappearing.

Well, it’s been a decade and, yes, there’s still snow on Kilimanjaro year-round. It doesn’t take a scientist to figure this out. One can just look at recent photos posted on the travel website TripAdvisor.com.

In 2014, ecologists actually monitoring Kilimanjaro’s snowpack found it was not even close to being gone. It may have shrunk a little, but ecologists were confident it would be around for the foreseeable future.

“There are ongoing several studies, but preliminary findings show that the ice is nowhere near melting,” Imani Kikoti, an ecologist at Mount Kilimanjaro National Park, told eturbonews.com.

“Much as we agree that the snow has declined over centuries, but we are comfortable that its total melt will not happen in the near future,” he said.

Gore Left Out The 15-Year “Hiatus” In Warming

Gore also claims temperature rise from increases in man-made carbon dioxide emissions were “uninterrupted and intensifying.” He goes on to claim heatwaves will become more common, like the one that killed 35,000 people across Europe in 2003.

Sounds terrifying — until you actually look at what happened to global temperature after Gore’s film was released. Global temperatures showed little to no warming trend after Gore released his film. In fact, surface temperature data showed no significant global warming for a period of about 15 years, starting in the early 2000s.

Satellite-derived temperature data showed, until the recent El Niño, no statistically significant warming trend for more than 21 years.

Gore’s movie was released right in the middle of the so-called global warming “hiatus.”

The Weather Hasn’t Gotten Worse

Gore also famously predicted storms would become more frequent and intense as man-made emissions warmed the oceans.

“And of course when the oceans get warmer, that causes stronger storms,” Gore said in his film. “That same year that we had that string of big hurricanes, we also set an all-time record for tornadoes.”

Gore’s film came out just after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. Indeed, footage of the destruction from that storm featured prominently in Gore’s film. He mentions how the U.S. was hit with a rash of severe storms in the early 2000s and how Japan saw a record number of typhoons.

“The insurance industry has actually noticed this,” Gore said. “Their recovered losses are going up.”

But Gore’s claim is more hype than actual science, since storms aren’t more extreme since 2006. In fact, not even findings from the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) support Gore’s claim.

The IPCC found in 2013 there “is limited evidence of changes in extremes associated with other climate variables since the mid-20th century.” The IPCC also found “no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century” and “[n]o robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin.”

Gore should probably take these findings seriously since he shared the Nobel Prize in 2007 with the IPCC for its work on global warming.

The North Pole Still Has Ice

Gore also claimed the Arctic could be ice-free in the coming decades. He said “within the next 50 to 70 years, it could be completely gone.”

With no Arctic sea ice, polar bears and all sorts of Arctic animals would be threatened, Gore warned, showing an animated scene of a polar bear drowning.

This is actually one of Gore’s more cautious predictions — he did incorrectly predict in 2008 there would be no Arctic by 2013. But even in this case, Gore is likely wrong because of the Arctic’s geographical setting.

The Arctic is almost completely surrounded by land, so the ice that forms there tends to stay there. Arctic ice coverage has shrunk in recent decades, but it’s not likely we will see even a summer where the North Pole is completely ice-free.

“I doubt the Arctic will be free of all ice in any summer, although the total area may well be greatly reduced in the future if it continues to warm there,” said Chip Knappenberger, a climate scientist at the libertarian Cato Institute.

“Such a situation should not be overly worrisome, as there is ample evidence that it has occurred in the past and clearly, polar bears, and everything else up there managed to survive,” Knappenberger said.

And before I forget, the latest data shows polar bears are actually thriving, despite shrinking ice coverage.

A “Day After Tomorrow”-Style Ice Age Is Still A Day Away

Remember the 2004 blockbuster film “The Day After Tomorrow”? In the movie, the Gulf Stream, which scientists say is essential for regulating the climate, shuts down and ends up causing another ice age.

Well, Gore hints this could happen if Greenland’s ice sheet melts and brings more cold water into the North Atlantic.

“At the end of the last ice age, as the last glacier was receding from North America, the ice melted and a giant pool of fresh water formed,” Gore said. “An ice dam on the eastern border formed and one day it broke.”

Gore said fresh, cold water bled out into the North Atlantic and caused the Gulf Stream to stall, which sent Europe into another ice age. Gore then suggests Greenland’s ice melt could pose a similar threat.

Australian scientists, however, totally debunked claims the Gulf Stream, or AMOC, was weakening.

“Claims of strengthening or reducing of the AMOC are therefore pure speculation,” Aussie scientists wrote in their paper published in March.