Words vs Actions: If Trump is Putins pet...

...Then he's sure a bad one.   Pissing on the rugs and chewing furniture and shoes a lot.
Consider what he's done on the Iran treaty, Russia's client state. And His warning about NATO and dependence on Russian energy.  And blowing away Russky Mercenaries in Syria.

Ukraine and Eastern Europe?

" the Democrats are in no position to criticize Trump, and of course Trump’s actions on Russia stand head and shoulders above Barack Obama’s efforts. He’s arming the Ukrainians, which Obama refused to do. The Poles and the Czechs are getting their defense equipment and Patriot missiles, which Obama pulled. Crimea wasn’t annexed when Trump was president. It was annexed when Obama was president."
- Mark Levin

And don't forget the Magnitsky Act, there's been sanctions added, not eased since he took office.
Remember that is what the Trump Jr meeting was all about.
What kind of 'butt-buddy' is that?

So  whatever Putin is gaining from being being Trumps puppetmaster, the strings are sure well hidden.

Wonder how Hillary would have fared?  Reset Button and all.

Not Really.. 'Trump Met with Russian NRA infiltrating Spy in Oval Office!'

Updates: And they should come up top. 
Daily Caller has a good story on this case.  She seems legit, as a Russian Op, that is.  Though I wonder if you get the impression I do.. that they aren't exactly bright? 
Is the NRA really the special interest group they were going to infiltrate?
Where did they get the idea they could 'influence' any Russian Interest there...
From Democrat anti-gun idiots?
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Crack Investigative journalist, Emily Singer, was doing deep trace on Maria Butina, recently revealed as Russian Spy / Operative.  So naturally she started with the NYT.  
BINGO!

There's she was in background of a photo of Russian Delegation visiting Trump on an official greet.

What a SCOOP!  
Isn't that how everyone brings their spies in country? (Note:  Allahpundit is definitely not a Trump supporter)

Seriously, Butina certainly set up her cover well, years ago, as the founder of a Russian Gun Rights group.  If it is a cover, and it may well be.  And legit or not, OF COURSE she's gonna meet with someone in the NRA.
However if any of you ever watched a spy movie - Likely written by a Progressive - you know that any Russian National roaming the globe freely is probably going to have a connection to a highly placed official in the Kremlin.
If DOJ wants to look, they can drag in most anyone.  Why not start at Brighton Beach.. LOTS of low-hanging fruit there.

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Outrage overload

No, wait.. this time I'm REALLY back.

After a REAL long hiatus, where I thought Facebook, and an occasional rant on a Soccer site would do, my interest in political commentary has been renewed by the fact that the 'Deplorable Yokel Racist, Sexist, homophobic flyovers' finally got fed up with the precious Snowflake touchy feely craptastic Social Justice Warriors of the Left and voted to  'Drain the Swamp'.
Well, that aint gonna happen.  You know it, I know it... and most everyone complaining about Trump knows it. But it's just so much fun watching these intellectually inbred babies cry when someone borrows their rattle.

Just to refresh you on my political views. Trumps a narcissistic jerk and he mouths off for effect.  But the people who voted for him deserve their day .. they attended Tea Party rallies. Elected people who mostly turned their back on them, once they got in the Georgetown Cocktail Party crowd.
They got even!

Active Duty Marine calls out Trump on his Twitter style.

“A statement by the president, on Twitter or otherwise, must carry with it the authority and legitimacy of the Office of the President.”

-- Sorry, Captain; you being a Naval Academy grad and all, while I'm just a pore dum farmboy, but I'm gonna have to go ahead and call 'Bullsh*t'.

- If Trump posted AS POTUS, you MIGHT have a point. He doesn't.

- If this was true, it would open up a whopping Pandora's Box which would have global diplomacy / officialdom in a constant turmoil of litigation and review.

- Probably a good thing Marines have 'ordered you to attend Law School' Maybe you'll learn something about the lasting authority of international arbitive courts.

Which is to say almost none! ESPECIALLY the court you used as precedent.

The True Power of Trump's Tweets

Brennan goes ape about Trump.. look in the mirror putz!

As to Trump's gladhanding Putin... No idea. The words sure don't match the actions he has taken against Russia. But those were 'yesterday'.
BUT..
Why is it that John Brennan, a guy who voted Communist in 1976, joined CIA in 1980 (Carter), became head of intelligence services under Obama, spied on domestic press in 2012. Advised Obama to do nothing about Russia in 2016, now wants someone to try Trump for Treason because Putin?

Hell Brennan wants to be Putin!

Read the whole thing. It's NOT 'tin foil hat' stuff, it's a matter of record.

Trump Putin Presser Reactions Go Full Hair on Fire

Questions Progressives Cant or Wont Answer.

* If Central Planning or Government control of all commerce is so good, why do countries using it exclusively always fail their own people?

* How does unfettered immigration help the Black Community?

* Why is it okay to make preferential law / statute to protect a minority and at the same time persecute the majority?

* 1 Provide evidence that a world run by women would be a peaceful world.
2 May I counter that with historical evidence or will you just say "Shut Up!"

* 1 Provide evidence that a world run by Socialists would be a peaceful world.
2 May I counter that with historical evidence or will you just say "Shut Up!"

*  What is your grand plan to convert Islamic belief in the Caliphate to a Progressive point of view?
- or should I say.. 'Final Solution' to do that. Which, I suspect, is the more accurate question.
- Related:  If the US becomes totally Socialistic, what is your plan for those supported by the government.
- related. Will Labor/worker Unions survive a Progressive long term government?
I suspect there's a Final Solution for those questions, too.

* Why do feminists always focus on genitalia?  And also why dont they campaign against cultures that oppress and mutilate women?  Instead of Christians who dont?
- Second, why do so many Progressive males seem to express themselves against outspoken conservative women by including some sort of fantasy rape?

* How does Global Warming mitigation by outlawing fossil fuels help the poor in the third world?

* Reconcile the terms 'Cultural Diversity' and 'Cultural (mis)Appropriation.'

Trump drags out the Hillary/Obama 'RESET BUTTON', says he's gonna wire it up and Libs' Heads Explode!

Recruiting his SoS from the biggest of big oil, who has lots of experience negotiating with despot Putin, is genius

God bless my Mom and Dad! Once they realized I had a thirst to read everything about the 'Real Grownup World' I could get my hands on, we got at least one paper, a weekly newsmagazine, Time and sometimes Newsweek, USNews if the price was right. Access to historical books for young adults.. the whole nine yards.
And I read them cover to cover as soon as they came. That was in the 3rd and 4th grade.
I learned how and why things happen on the International Front. Not by reading just one opinion, but ALL of them in a broad range of pubs.
I knew a LOT about the Korean war as it was going on.. why we were there. and why Truman fired MacArthur.. which amazed me cuz dad agreed 100% with Truman.. one of very few times that happened. And I established reading and learning for a lifetime.

So when I see some people who think Trumps appointment of a big international oil CEO is blatant kowtowing to Russia, I just shake my head ... there's no way you can convince people that it's a brilliant move when everything to them is ideology based..
Trump promised he would do things different that he KNEW how to negotiate.. and this proves it. If Tillerson advanced the fortunes of his old employer via negotiations, he will advance OUR fortunes by dealing with Russia in an appropriate manner.
If I have to tell you how this is gonna happen, I dont have time... just suffice it to say ..
This is REAL 'Smart Diplomacy', not just words.

And: Yes I AM smarter than most these political hacks. And I did it on my own.

Where 'Duck Dynasty' came from.. and where it's going. + Short history of TV Family Reality Shows

First, a prediction:

• Chances of Robertsons continuing on A&E:  over 90%.
• Chances of Phil missing more than one episode taping: 10% or less
• Chances of Phil backing down and saying he was wrong in his GQ statement: ZERO

UPDATE:  Well, day late, dollar short.  A&E already came to terms and Phil's gonna miss none.  Let's see how my other predictions hold up.
 - But that's nothing.  For some reason Jesse Jackson took too long to organize his typical extortion scheme against A&E and 'Cracker Barrel' {heh.. the irony of that}.
Guess he's out'a practice and I dont know why, since he knew Sonny Boy was in the slammer for plain old Chi-Town style flim flamming and wasnt running the family race biz.

I love figuring out solutions.  I made a living doing that, not just technical solutions but applying those to the human interface. Which involves understanding human nature applied to reality in a given environment or situation. Usually involving payback on investment or activity.

The 'REALITY', here, is that the Robertsons hold ALL the cards and A&E hold NONE.

Oh, there's lots of 'analysts' pointing out that in this 'battle of wills' there are two sides, both standing to lose millions if there's no meeting of the minds.  The implication is that the family will 'negotiate' a settlement in order to keep the show on air.

Snicker! Stupid Yuppies!  They assume that the Robertson family is (still) in it for the money.  Oh, there will be a negotiation, alright, and here's the result:

Megyn Kelly EXPOSED! How the Koch Brothers engineered the rise of the Queen of Hateful

Beside the fact she works for FoxNews, her background shows that she's nothing but a shill for THE MAN.
All you need to know the truth is a look at wikipedia and a minimum skill at Google searching

* Former HS Cheerleader, and Captain of ALL WHITE squad, no less. We know all about THEM, dont we!  Early training in 'Mean Girl' syndrome.

* At Bethlehem HS. 
- Bethlehem is a small city in Israeli hands.  The Kochs are jewish
- Also a steel city in PA. Kochs have holdings in steel 
Coincidence?

* Played Field Hockey. Ever watch a game? Bloodthirsty B**ches! Wonder what their record was against black schools?

* Undergrad degree in Poli Sci  at Syracuse
- Obviously it didn't take. Did she actually study or just chew gum? Did AEI or Heritage fund Syracuse U or was it the Koch Brothers? The Kochs were beta theta pi at MIT, Syracuse has a beta chapter.  Kelly probably dated or at least knew a beta. ergo.... 
- no record of her ever dating a Syracuse basketball player. Racist? You decide.

* No record of her taking even one Journo Class.  Lindsay Graham and Chuck Schumer should investigate.

* Albany Law School. Albany!  Not Harvard or Yale.. Or even NYU. How the hell did she pass the NY bar? Did she represent herself as a minority - or - Koch's put in the fix, again?

* 9 years at Jones, Day. Nine! Assigned as outside counsel to Credit bureau Experian.. no doubt against the little guy. Nine years and never made partner at Jones Day. Obviously second rate mind.
- Jones Day now known for taking Detroit into bankruptcy.  For no good reason of course except Racism!  I smell Koch! 

* Had no kids from first marriage.  Cold B***ch.

* Then married a corporate CEO. (Trophy wife) Three kids (soccer mom) with him and no record of abortion or even one visit to planned parenthood.
- So that guy quits and becomes writer. Letting Kelly support the family. Guess we know who wears the pants in that house. Dominatrix and ball buster!
 - Wonder if Kochs get him published?

* She's blonde and attractive.  Obviously not a feminist or Progressive. Thus must be an idiot or worse.

Seems pretty clear to me. But hey, I just point out, you decide. Aint like I'm a reporter or anything.
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White'n'Nerdy - When Amy Farrah Fowler channels Pauline Kael

I used to be pretty good at playing 'Trivial Pursuit'.  Not that I really enjoyed winning the game, I've just been blessed -or cursed- with the ability to retain lots of useless information.

Which is why I enjoy Big Bang Theory and why I  really LOVE it when folks who usually write on much more serious stuff raise the curtain on the throwaway lines that probably go over the head of half of BBT's audience. Well, those who identify with Penny, anyway. Though I DO quarrel with the the perception that Penny is shallow and dumb.

Along with the evidence that, yes, geeks and nerds DO get laid.. (how the heck do you think they reproduce?) but that the show is written with many layers of Easter Eggs; references that only nerds of various stripes would know.

And THEN, even political commentators get involved in discussing the nerdy connections to other media, look at Jonah Goldberg at NRO..
Did Indy Matter?

In a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon introduces his girlfriend, Amy, to the Raiders of the Lost Ark, which she’d never seen before. She liked the movie, she explains, despite the big “story problem.” Sheldon is aghast at the suggestion there could be any story problems with the “love child” of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. “What story problem?” he demands to know. She explains that Indiana Jones is absolutely irrelevant to the story. If he’d never gotten involved, the Nazis would have still found the ark of the covenant, they would have still brought it to that island, and they would have still had their faces melted.

And, in the comments on THAT opinion piece, is a link by an obviously nerd commenter to
Pauline Kael at the New Yorker in 1981 deconstructing the Indy epics.  Making in an obtuse manner the same point as Amy does on BBT.

Wherein.. Kael provides her opinion that old cinema serials were clearer and better than Spielberg and Lucas homages to them. 
Ummm.. having seen many of them on TV as a kid.... No!  Most were lots dumber than the Star Wars and Raiders  product.

But back on topic, the whole argument on whether, without Indy, the Ark might have gotten back to Berlin and Adolf might have  gotten back to Berlin and Hitler might have had his face melted off begs the question common to overheated existentialist theory.

The facts being, as it's an instrument of God's will, the innocent somehow manage to evade the terrible effects, and the attempt to harness evil turns against those of evil intent.
Just as we've seen time and time again. And are seeing today in many issues.

But it's not Goldberg or Kael that make the point, it's some commenter in Goldberg's page.   Bringing to mind, Sheldon's Mom..  at once, portrayed as both a 'bible thumper' and the wisest head on practical living in the Big Bang series.  Despite only appearing in a few episodes.

AGW - The New Religion: WASPS in Search of Victimhood

Note: from 1990 First Assessment Report IPCC

First Assessment Report of 1990, page 202

First Assessment Report of 1990, page 2021990

First Assessment Report of 1990, page 202

First Assessment Report of 1990, page 202

Note: WASPS is an old term from since late sixties meaning (Middle Class) White Anglo Saxon Protestants.

Why the science doesn't matter.. it's for the Planet and the Children.

As the near term predictions of sea level rise, and warming to the point of death, of the Warming advocates comes crashing down around them, they become ever more strident in their gloom and doom.
We heard less than a decade ago that temperate climes no longer would see snow or winter weather and the result of the last five years in Europe are the coldest winters in decades with another severe winter forecast for this year.  Yes.  That's WEATHER, not climate.  But climate is the product of years of weather. And it doesn't normally snow in the Mediterranean.

The reason for this is that it's the common cause of the new left who have taken over the environmental crusades.

We were told that very soon arctic ice would disappear in summer. Indeed, 2007 and 2012 had the lowest sea ice cover ever recorded by satellite.  That's 30 years, barely enough to even be part of a 'climate cycle'. The fact is that the ocean currents have changed, not for the first time.. early and mid 20th century are well documented as being 'open water'.
We were told that we would see, starting immediately, more and more severe weather events because of current state of warming.  In, fact the US has had a record low number of both hurricanes and tornados in the last year.
Never mind it was shown that Superstorm Sandy level events had occurred at least twice previously in the same area since the thirties.  Hardly unprecedented.

The IPCC AR5 report, just issued, backs way off the earlier gloom and doom, providing you read INTO the report, ignoring the Summary issued to the press.

But it doesn't matter... 

Who's this unblinking loony?

He's Bill McKibben, described in his own words, part of Stanley Kurtz' The Wannabe Oppressed

McKibben describes his arrival at college in 1978 as a liberal-leaning student with a suburban Protestant background. “My leftism grew more righteous in college,” he says, “but still there was something pro forma about it.” The problem? “Being white, male, straight, and of impeccably middle-class background, I could not realistically claim to be a victim of anything.” At one point, in what he calls a “loony” attempt to claim the mantle of victimhood, McKibben nearly convinced himself that he was part Irish so he could don a black armband as Bobby Sands and fellow members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army died in a hunger strike. Yet even as he failed to persuade himself he was Irish, McKibben continued to enthusiastically support every leftist-approved victim group he could find. Nonetheless, something was missing. None of these causes seemed truly his own. When McKibben almost singlehandedly turned global warming into a public issue in 1989, his problem was solved. Now everyone could be a victim.

Let's look at others who are the activists in this crusade from Grit, one of their own media organs:

The children: Why a generation is putting itself on the line for the climate 

Notice something?  These kids aren't doing 'Climate Science' .. they are doing 'Activism'.

Science is boring and hard. Activism is fun and sorta like Flash Mobbing and sometimes you get to break things.  At the least you piss  someone off.

 Among skeptics, these folks are described as 'Watermelons'.  Green on the outside, Red inside.  A little research will show that most environmental organizations have been taken over by socialists and they dont give a damn about the real science.

Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore: ‘Thank goodness we came along and reversed 150 million-year trend of reduced CO2 levels in global atmosphere. Long live the humans’

 Think the Warming stormtroopers aren't really serious?  Here's the product of some of that British Activism:

Isn't that special!

 

Bait and Switch.. Money Rules in Sport

In 2010, following lots of palms greased in FIFA, the international governing body, Qatar was awarded the 2022 World Cup. Everyone NOT in FIFA, complained that holding it in Qatar in usual summer break would be a disaster. 

Everyone suspected that it would be switched to winter.. requiring a special schedule change that year. This never happened before even when the Cup was being played in southern hemisphere as it will be in Brazil 2014.
Well... guess what!

BBC: Uefa members back winter tournament in Qatar

Better Blatter 'Comes Clean'   Admits 'Politics played a part'.

Yeah... 'politics' meaning money!

It's inevitable. Politics has always played into these decisions. 
But the real travesty is that this was denied for years and Blatter lied through his nose even as several confederations including ours (CONCACAF) dumped officials for bribe taking.
"We looked like we were corrupt.  But we won't do it again.. Promise!!!!"

Yeah.... right!

Yet more inconvenient truths trap Arctic Yachters

Some people with more money than sense tried to make a global warming statement by sailing the NW passage in August... with results that cause me, and many others who actually pay attention to the facts, to chuckle.
Sailworld: North West Passage blocked with ice - yachts caught

Seems they been iced in.  They might have made it in the early twentieth century or even in the Fifties.. but they couldn't even have done it last year with the lowest sea ice in modern era.. and there's much lower temps and more ice in 2013.
If these folks had just looked at the live record, they might have thought better

Eliot Spitzer and Ayn Rand - Progs won't read either one.

They really don't have much in common.  Pretty sure Spitzer isn't interested in promoting the ideas from "Atlas Shrugged" because they defeat the narrative.
In 'Shale Gas is Rearden Metal', Delingpole points to weird/chilling similarities between the European 'controversy' on Shale Gas and the fictional company in Rand's book.
Ayn Rand foresaw all this. Swelling the ranks of the anti-Rearden-Metal protesters are all sorts of unlikely pressure groups – especially after Rearden Metal is used to make the sleepers on the new, fast, efficient Rio Norte railway line.

"I don't like the resolution passed by the convention of grade school teachers of New Mexico" said Taggart.
"What resolution?"
"They resolved that it was their opinion that children should not be permitted to ride on the new Rio Norte Line of Taggart Transcontinental when it's completed because it is unsafe."

Ah yes. The convention of grade school teachers of New Mexico: of course they'd know. Just like Prince Charles knows. And Natalie Bennet and Caroline Lucas of the Green party knows. And those bright, clued-up sparks in the Diocese of Blackburn know.

But, in Spitzer's case, those who are motivated by the author will be turned off by the title: 'Saving Capitalism'.

Not Very Many People Bought Eliot Spitzer's New Book

Of course capitalism does need to be saved ... from the influence allowed to be peddled by and to OTHER government entities.  It's a neat mobius loop. Build in little loopholes in the regulatory structure, and ignore other regs. Then put on show trials and prosecute the judas goats.
Alinsky likes it.

At the moment the Watermelons' strangest objection is that Shale Gas going into the mix would only result in savings of 4% in the rates for the consumer.  Interesting considering the tremendous rate rises of the last ten years.

Low information people DO wake up at some point, don't they? 

Latest Signs the GOP Wants to Lose in 2014, 2016

GOP CHIEF: Mitt Romney's 'Self-Deportation' Quote Was 'Racist' And 'Horrific'

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/reince-priebus-immigration-reform-rnc-steve-king-self-deportation-2013-8#ixzz2c99FgeCH

Everyone in the higher ranks of GOP elected has already said that there's no vote benefit for them in 'Hispanic outreach'.

And anyone with a brain understood what  Romeny meant about self-deportation.  If there are no jobs available, those who crossed the borders illegally would go back. Is that concept 'racist'?  Really?!!!

Again, the GOP is letting Democrats define the issues. First Dems said we should run a moderate.. McCain, then Romney were THEIR choices .. BEFORE they actually ran. Then they were savaged as radicals.


Answer this question: 'Who is it gains from Amnesty for Illegals'?  Is it the 'Middle Class' unemployed?
Will it create jobs?  Or will it solidify big government?

Progressive Memory Loss..

Referring to an 8 year gap of selective forgetfulness..Remember 'Chimpy McBushitler'? No? Figgered you didnt ...

When I say progressive, I of course refer to whiny little brats. Who didnt mind seeing it dished out against the other guy.. now theyre like all 'offended' by some 'disrespect'.

 Save the President from the Clowns: Bring Back Lese-Majeste!

Bring it back?  From when? From before, at least, Andrew Jackson.

After the 2008 vote came in some comedians said "Wow.. now we can't make fun of the President, anymore..." 

Why?

Want example of Bush 'disrespect'?  Take your pick!

 

 

 

AgriBiz Reporter Lies his ass off

Big Oil Files Waiver to Cap Ethanol, Block Free Market Competition

 Says guy paid by government subsidized and product mandated business.
Free Market my ass! When Farmers start burning ethanol in all their equipment, then let's talk about 'Big Oil's stranglehold.

Note: I grew up on a farm, and still have family in the BIZ. I simply cannot stand bald-faced liars! Ethanol is a racket.. pure and simple. If you don't like me saying it, my cousins.. tough!
Not to mention that 'Big Oil' doesnt really give a crap.. until it comes to product quality. Which SUCKS once you get over 10%.

 

What the MSM won't tell you about the Current 'Warming Crisis' v weather.

North part of US Corn Belt in peril.  In my area, the farmers are smiling.. looks to be a near-record yield based on the relatively wet summer.

Not so above Fort Wayne's latitude

Bloomberg: Corn in U.S. Seen by Cordonnier at Risk of Damage From Frost

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Not only is the Antarctic Sea Ice at near-record level for the period, the temps in the Arctic threaten to set a new recorded low for days above freezing.
Early Chill in Arctic Continues - Link to Danish Met Data

And the AP idiocy on 'Lake at North Pole' has been quietly retracted.

Santa's Workshop NOT flooded

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1938 Slide rule Model outperforms supercomputer results in predicting warming sensitivity.
'Sensitivity' is simply a measure in Degrees 'Celsius' of how the global temp responds to a doubling of atmospheric CO2.  It's logarithmic, not linear.  The more it grows the less change in temp.
Current global temps are outside and lower than the 'Experts' standard error deviation. Driving warmies nuts.  Reality refuses to conform to chicken littles. 

The reason is that water vapor does NOT respond as modeled in the feedback loop.
As we used to say.. GiGo: Garbage in, Garbage out. Warmies have been claiming up to almost 4 deg. with water vapor feedbacks. When in reality it looks like 1.7 deg, maximum. 
This was postulated  in 1938 by Guy Callendar.  Who is a story in himself:

Global Warming Science And The Wars: Guy Callendar

When Roger Revelle, ALGore's climate mentor changed his tune later in life to the more reasonable sensitivity, and pointed out some positive effects of  more carbon and warming, Gore and his lackeys, drooling for more taxes and funding, called him senile and demented.

Summary:  All the MSM  is likely to report is that there's a heat wave somewhere. 

Well.. Climate is made up of weather.  It's colder some places, warmer a few others.

The global temp has been at a sustained high level since 1998 but it aint going up anymore and looks like it might be going down.  And for quite a few years to come.

But you wouldn't know any of this because the MSM is both stupid and invested in the narrative that allows energy to be taxed and controlled, because 'Progress - Save the Earth'  with your money.

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{Hey.. pettyfog! You think you're smarter than Algoreacle? }
- depends.
If he really believes the BS he spouts, Hell yes!
If you're talking about ability to make money selling snake oil, I'm a freakin' moron.

Sheldon is a Doofus and Hawking is his Daddy

Stephen Hawking: Big Bang Didn't Need God

Ya gotta read it..  but here's the money quotes:

Hawking discussed the idea of a repeating Big Bang. He noted that in the 1980s, he and physicist Roger Penrose proved the universe could not “bounce” when it contracted, as had been theorized.

Therefore, time began at the moment of singularity, and this has likely occurred only once, Hawking said. The age of the universe — now believed to be about 13.8 billion years — fits that model, as the number and maturity of observed galaxies seem to fit in the general scheme.

 ....

He closed by outlining "M-theory," which is based partly on ideas put forward years ago by another famed physicist, Caltech’s Richard Feynman. Hawking sees that theory as the only big idea that really explains what he has observed.
M-theory posits that multiple universes are created out of nothing, Hawking explained, with many possible histories and many possible states of existence.

In only a few of these states would life be possible, and in fewer still could something like humanity exist. Hawking mentioned that he felt fortunate to be living in this state of existence.

'Na-o-w, Ah'm jest a poor dumb hick but somethin' don't smell 'xackly right.' 

Assuming this is all provable by math, even if Sheldon Cooper has to turn every wall in his apartment building into a white-board, that math must have a starting point.. or KNOWN QUANTITY to begin with. OR an 'energy' as in something causing an event.

If the universe, however many dimensions, starts from nothing then that would be ZERO.  What sort of math operates starting with zero and ends up with a provable quantum?

Well, here's Hawking's explanation. Note the allegories and explanation of nothing.

Positive and Negatives perfectly balanced out.  Like +3 added to - 3. That, too, adds to zero but does not equate to nothing. both quantities are SOMETHING.

Or does the math proving M theory only exist in other dimensions?  How do you prove that?

Even assuming that classical physics only works in our dimensional universe, I still dont see how you get something from nothing.  The only way to do that would be for gravity and anti-gravity, and matter and anti-matter, to cancel out. But they are still something.   That leaves time. And time starts from an event, as Hawking says.  Suppose there was no time.  How do we know there was no other dimension equating to time?  Which influenced the start of time in our tangible dimensions? Creating the event starting time. Event suggest an energy applied. Energy is not nothing. E=MC2 and all that.

You cant make something from nothing without adding. And if you add, then you are adding something.  So you aren't starting with 'zero' after all. 

Unless this whole huge cosmos is only in God's mind.