[JPOST] Representatives are suggesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postpone his speech to a joint session of Congress until after the Israeli election on March 17.
Not a bad thought: Bibi has milked this for all he's worth at home, and now he can look generous. Of course when he does speak he still snubs Champ as hard as he can. Put in those terms and SanFranNan will want him to speak yesterday...
House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... (D-Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,) said it was "not appropriate" for Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... (R-Ohio) to invite Netanyahu without first notifying the White House ‐ a move that angered the B.O. regime.
Our petulant president doesn't yet understand that the world doesn't in fact revolve around him...
Netanyahu is expected to advocate for a different policy on Iran that the president has thus far pursued.
"Such a presentation could send the wrong message in terms of giving diplomacy a chance," Pelosi said. She spoke with Netanyahu by phone on Wednesday.
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On the urgings of the regime, Dems will likely boycott the visit.
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Representatives are suggesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postpone his speech to a joint session of Congress until after the Israeli election on March 17. This means that the Obama regime has only recently sent a hit team to Tel Aviv to influence the upcoming Israeli elections and that they have not been in place long enough to do it. Team Obama hit team in Israel.
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the Obama regime has only recently sent a hit team to Tel Aviv to influence the upcoming Israeli elections and that they have not been in place long enough to do it.
I strongly suspect that recent accusations that Mrs. Netanyahu is a lush who embezzled the bottle return money is the work of the Obama team. Bibi has been in politics a long time, yet this is suddenly a story, as far as I'm aware.
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Just 7 years ago we were working with Isreal to hunt and kill terrorist; today we spend resources to undermine an election of the only democracy in the Middle East.
An earlier version of this article misstated when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel accepted Speaker John A. Boehner’s invitation to address Congress. He accepted after the administration had been informed of the invitation, not before.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] President B.O. on Friday signed an executive director requiring all roads, buildings and other pieces of infrastructure paid for with federal money to be built in areas with less risk of flooding.
With the order, Mr. Obama established the "Federal Flood Risk Management Standard," which makes the case that climate change will make floods more common and much more destructive.
"These impacts are anticipated to increase over time due to the effects of climate change and other threats. Losses caused by flooding affect the environment, our economic prosperity, and public health and safety, each of which affects our national security," the president said in the order. "The federal government must take action, informed by the best-available and actionable science, to improve the nation's preparedness and resilience against flooding."
Moving forward, all federal agencies and departments must "use data and methods informed by best-available, actionable climate science," and build either two feet above the 100-year flood elevation or to the 500-year flood elevation, the White House said.
All critical buildings, such as hospitals and evacuation centers, must be built at least three feet above the 100-year flood elevation, the White House said.
As long as current buildings are grandfathered, it sounds like isn't bad as a general practice -- but how much more stringent is this really than current practice, and what will the up-charge be?
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Maybe they will quit installing emergency generators below sea level.
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Actually not a climate thingy, but a bit of common sense from the standpoint that the government is the biggest flood insurance company - so this reduces risk to the flood insurance the same as it would were it a private company. Tying it to climate change is pretty stupid and a political ploy, but the essential action itself is pretty good.
Personally, I do check to see property I'm looking at is above the 100 year flood line. If its not, then I need to factor in flood insurance as part of the cost. Its just common sense.
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At the current rate of sea level rise, 3 millimeters a year, the seas will be 10" higher by the end of the century.
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P. S. I think I'll start building my Ark.
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Put buildings on barges in flood prone areas.........
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After unfortunate experience, I now consider all basements to be instant swimming pools &/or septic tanks. Start with a basement, just add clean water, or sewage, and you will get what I got.
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