MSNBC has the article Kerry teaches Rubio the basics about the Middle East by Steve Benen

At the recent CPAC gathering, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a likely Republican presidential candidate, seemed to stumble on one of the basic facts of the Middle East. “The reason Obama hasn’t put in place a military strategy to defeat ISIS is because he doesn’t want to upset Iran,” the Florida Republican said.

The senator seemed confused. In reality, President Obama has put an anti-ISIS military strategy in place, and that’s fine with Iran, since Iran and ISIS are enemies.

Now you may or may not want to hear an opinion from Steve Benen, but the video with Kerry is eye opening for anyone who still has eyelid muscles that can open their eyes.

One wonders if any Republican in Congress is capable of seeing and listening. I certainly have my doubts about anything getting beyond Rubio’s preconceived notions.

Beyond racism, what people really don’t like about Obama is that he knows more about what is going on than they do. He was even smart enough to finally rid himself of the war mongering Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and get someone like John Kerry. (Not that Kerry doesn’t have to play up a little to the war mongers in our country.)

By, the way, this YouTube video ought to work because I am not using the usual cookie suppressing mode that YouTube has recently broken and has promised that they are feverishly trying to fix.

Naked Capitalism has the story Fracking Industry Conspiring To Cover Up Oklahoma Earthquake Evidence?.

Yves here. It’s one thing to suspect that evidence that fracking causes earthquakes is being suppressed. It’s quite another to be able to name the parties behind the cover up.

To which I replied:

My blog post “EPA to natural gas companies: Give details on ‘fracking’ chemicals” of December 30, 2010 has an excerpt from a USGS.gov page that says:

“In 1961, a 12,000-foot well was drilled at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, northeast of Denver, for disposing of waste fluids from Arsenal operations. Injection was commenced March 1962, and an unusual series of earthquakes erupted in the area shortly after.
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“During 1968, ten slight shocks were felt in Colorado. Only one, on July 15, caused minor damage at Commerce City. In September of that year, the Army began removing fluid from the Arsenal well at a very slow rate, in hope that earthquake activity would lessen. The program consisted of four tests between September 3 and October 26. Many slight shocks occurred near the well during this period. ”

So the connection between earthquakes and injection of waste has been known for at least 47 years.

If You Only News has the story 47 Traitors! Biden, Others Rip GOP Senators Over Iran Letter.

Here is what Democratic leader Harry Reid, and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, had to say about the letter, on the floor of the Senate, via C-SPAN:

Yeah, what they said!!!

I guess they couldn’t bring up the October Surprise conspiracy theory about Ronald Reagan because at least even he was smart enough to cover his tracks sufficiently so that there was at least some doubt in some peoples’ minds that he actually did it. Besides, you can’t tie what Reagan did to an entire party.