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DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...
various links and websites | 01-31-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe

At the request of members, I am restarting those "Tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast"-- the stories and issues that the press and media either ignore, won't even talk about, or will mention once and forevermore claim "it's old news..."

Naturally, some will be stories which interest me, or things I think we all need to be aware of.

I am experimenting with a minor change in presentation- when I can, I will cut to

-GoogleNewsBeta--

with a keyword or two and see what kind of links to "mainstream" stories I can find in contrast to what we see here and on other sites.

May I remind you of a couple of points to bear in mind?
Each link usually has many other links within- follow them all to get "the rest of the story."
Don't forget the "open multiple browsers" trick with control-n -- this allows you to hold your place with one, and use the others to follow links, run searches, etc.

Rather than go back and rehash old links, I'll give you links to the original posts here:

-DUBOB 10- the *best of* the Dark Underbelly Series--

-DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast..... --

DUBOB 8-- still *more* tales from the Underbelly***

DUBOB 7-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....

DUBOB 6-- yet *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....

DUBOB 5-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....

DUBOB IV- yet more Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast-

DUBOB III -- "Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast"

DUBOB 2-- more tales from The Dark Underbelly of the Beast-- thread II

-The Dark Underbelly of the Beast- Stories the Media won't Discuss...--


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HOW HARD IS THE PRESS LEANING TOWARD OBAMA? The WaPo Ombud explains. "The disparity is so wide that it doesn't look good."

Obama's Jihad: Jakarta to the Whitehouse (disturbing book title change)

How many Americans know that when Obama had his bloviating screed "The Audacity of Hope" was translated into Indonesian - the title went from "The Audacity of Hope" to "Jihad: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse". The man is dishonest about his Islamic leanings. Check this our from An American expat Living in Indonesia:

Obama_jihad_indonesia_2

Jihad: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse

Read it all .......most disturbing.

Obama Now Running Away from His Illinois Votes that Supported Live Birth Abortion - Videos

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Floats Idea McCain Cheated

America Must Hear Truth About Oil (Yes, $1,400 per second in profit!!!)

Putting Earnings into Perspective

The Genetic Map of Europe

 
 

Antivirus XP 2008

 
 
 
Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
 
 
 
 
 

 

Buffalo Police batter their way into wrong house

Record COLD in Denver


8,941 posted on 08/17/2008 3:37:10 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Can you spot the "Hate"?
 
 

Models agree- Florida is toast. Fay is coming!

http://www.gulfcoastpundit.com/index.php?&ACT=36&fid=27&aid=6667_U0tvcWGCml7mI1DGCVL6&board_id=1

 

8,942 posted on 08/17/2008 4:14:15 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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One- man cell, the new face of Al Qaeda terror --the most shocking revelation are the lessons on kidnapping, with orders to slaughter hostages in a way that will terrify the public.
 

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You can see the full list here of sites or areas under UN control now.....Cut and paste the address if necessary......Most people don't know this... http://whc.unesco.org/en/list
It gets MUCH worse...
www.rangemagazine.com/specialreports/05-fall-taking-liberty.pdf
www.newswithviews.com/Coffman/mike3.htm
www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=2836
www.4x4wire.com/access/education/nm_twp/nm_twp_pt13.htm
www.klamathbasincrisis.org/un/globalizedgrizzles112106.htm
 
 
You can see the same thing at this site for Canada.... http://www.biosphere-canada.ca/images/landcover.jpg

http://www.discerningtoday.org/wildlands_map_of_us.htm
http://propertyrights.org/headline1_frame.asp
www.sustainablecommunities.fcm.ca/GMF/
 
Not Yours to Give! Speech before the House of Representatives by Davy Crockett
 
Keep these handy:

http://www.gunfacts.info/
Gun Facts is a free e-book that debunks common myths about gun control. It is intended as a reference guide for journalist, activists, politicians, and other people interested in restoring honesty to the debate about guns, crime, and the 2nd Amendment.
Gun Facts has 84 pages of information. Divided into chapters based on gun control topics (assault weapons, ballistic finger printing, firearm availability, etc.), finding information is quick and easy.

The FIVE-MINUTE HANDBOOK (RKBA)
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Over the last few years I have written of my fears that we Americans, as a people, have lost our will to fight for our freedom.

We have come to expect that wars can be fought without casualties, even the relatively modest casualties we have suffered in Iraq. During World War Two, more Americans were killed or wounded on Iwo Jima in one month than have fallen in Iraq in almost four years. Of course, every military death and severe injury is a tragedy. Nevertheless, former Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that our army in Iraq is "about broken," which appalled and frightened me. Added to those two disturbing dangers to our national security is a new and third factor: denial of a military threat to our armed forces. Such a denial allows us to avoid addressing the threat with an appropriate military response.

We are not at war with Iran, but Iran seems to be at war with us. In the last year we have suffered at least 170 American military deaths in Iraq and 640 American soldiers have been injured as a result of Iranian manufactured and supplied explosives supplied to Iraqi insurgents and terrorists. These explosives are planted at the side of the road and are activated when U.S. military vehicles pass by. They are especially dangerous because their high technology design allows them to penetrate armored vehicles and kill and maim the occupants....

Democrats and some Republicans in Congress are seeking to humble, embarrass and, if they can, destroy the President and the prestige of his position as the Commander-in-Chief who is responsible for the safety of our military forces and the nation's defenses. By doing so, they are adding to the dangers that face our nation. And so I ask again them again: do you think that leaving a power vacuum in Iraq will make us safer? If, as a result of the power vacuum, the terrorists are emboldened and God forbid we sustain here in the U.S. civilian casualties comparable to those caused in Iraq by car bombs, will you publicly accept responsibility?
As we finish the last two years of Bush's Presidency, we are witnessing "end stage" Bush Derangement Syndrome, which manifests itself by the histrionic and blind hatred of anything the President does or does not do.

This "end stage" BDS--like terminal syphilis--has culminated in blindness combined with an insanity so profound, the consequences to those who suffer it--as well as to our country--will likely be quite profound, if not lethal, since they hinder and undermine this country's ability to deal with real threats. (read it all for the full context of this type of denial)

A Gay Old Time

ACORN Workers Talk About Its Voter Fraud

August 17th, 2008

Speaking of the Obama surrogate Claire McCaskill, here is a flashback from October 2006, from Pubdef.net, a non-partisan political website based in St. Louis, MO:

ACORN workers allege that they were instructed to tell people to vote for U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill while registering voters in support of the proposed minimum wage increase.

And this, also from October 2006 and Pubdef.net:

More ACORN workers go on the record in exclusive interviews with PUB DEF.

If you think ACORN and their compadres have cheated in the past, wait until you see what they do for their former colleague and vote hustler, Mr. Obama.

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8,943 posted on 08/18/2008 3:03:26 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Still Blocking Vote on the American Energy Act, Speaker Pelosi Crafts “No Energy” Bill Loaded...

Wind Jammers

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Lights Out: EMP Warfare

This author hasn't really thought his little doomsday scenario through...

This guy has, however.

Bracing for Inflation

Health care solutions can come with own ailments

Lolita at 50

College Daze: Instead of helping high school grads grow up, colleges prolong childhood

'Guns in the hands of good people'

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10 YEARS AGO - Clinton Admits to Lewinsky Relationship, Challenges Starr to End Personal 'Prying'

Edwards' "other woman" revives memories of a gruesome scandal

 
Becomes...
 
By Ursula Vernon

My Little Leper Pony!

Turns Out Obama Had More Prior Knowledge of Warren Questions Than Did McCain - Byron York

This is just too good! The Obama Campaign, in their desperation to explain away John McCain's masterful performance at the Rick Warren "Civil Forum on the Presidency" Saturday night, have allowed their minions in the press to put forth the vile assertion that John McCain cheated by listening in on Obama's time with Rick Warren.

Byron York is now reporting that actually it was Barack Obama who had more information going into the questioning than did John McCain! It turns out...

Obama Campaign Site: “…a Jewish lynching of Senator Obama”

Obama Calls Pro-Lifers Liars

Denver Secret Prison for Democratic Convention

 
 

Gergen: “Realization is Setting in That McCain Might Just Win”

Gergen thinks McCain The Crusty destroyed Cool-Cat Obama at the Saddleback Forum.
 

8,944 posted on 08/18/2008 12:31:20 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Key West radar-
 
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Infamous Nation of Islam's Lois Farrakhan 'warning' for America if Obama loses...

WHERE are the Saddleback Polls???


8,945 posted on 08/18/2008 1:17:52 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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“Israel stands alone”

The True Human Meanings Of A Nuclear Iran

If There Is No God (Dennis Prager On The Consequences Of Secularism Alert)

Mexican Border City Drug Dead Hits 800

Georgia Senate: Chambliss Leads Martin by Six

--There are indications that Chambliss is coming around. The guy didn't call-in to Rush's show for feces and giggles. He heard loud and clear from the base, that they are unhappy with this ridiculous Gang of 10 crap.
 

WHEN BIG WIND TAKES OVER A TOWN, can goons and corruption be far behind? "Lured by state subsidies and buoyed by high oil prices, the wind industry has arrived in force in upstate New York, promising to bring jobs, tax revenue and cutting-edge energy to the long-struggling region. But in town after town, some residents say, the companies have delivered something else: an epidemic of corruption and intimidation, as they rush to acquire enough land to make the wind farms a reality."

Plus, Pelosi and Pickens -- Investment Partners? I'm disappointed. I really thought that this blend of government subsidies and private money would be different!

IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES: Let go of the past and allow offshore oil drilling. "So there's a gusher of hypocrisy here: The state that is the biggest consumer of gasoline in the nation -- but produces less than 40% of what it uses -- is opposed to drilling for more oil off its shores. We're slackers not pulling our weight."

 
AMITY SHLAES: "Perverse monetary policy was the greatest cause of the Great Depression. But five non-monetary missteps were important in making the Depression great, and the same missteps damaged the global economy as well. While many are thinking about the Depression, few seem concerned about replicating these Foolish Five today."

· Giving in to protectionism. In Herbert Hoover's time, Sen. Reed Smoot and Rep. W.C. Hawley proposed a tariff that was to raise effective duties by as much as half. More than a thousand economists signed an open letter warning that the duties would "raise the cost of living and injure the great majority of our citizens."

But Hoover's Republican Party didn't much care. In its 1928 platform, the GOP had pledged to "reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff." Ambivalent, Hoover signed the bill. An irate Canada and many other nations retaliated. At a time when the United States was begging for foreign markets, it lost them. The selfish signal discouraged an already unstable Europe.

Today, international trade claims a sizable share of our economy. Bilateral free-trade agreements with Colombia or Panama are good insurance -- cheap steps that might prevent an expensive loss, that of the Western Hemisphere to Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.

Yet again, one party -- the Democrats, this time -- is cavalier. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is blocking passage of these bilateral agreements. And another ambivalent politician -- Sen. Barack Obama -- has sent mixed messages to Canada about just how much he wants to roll back the North American Free Trade Agreement.

· Blaming the messenger. Punishing the stock market for the 1929 crash was popular in Washington in the early 1930s. Lawmakers attacked the practice of short selling; Senate Banking Committee counsel Ferdinand Pecora hauled J.P. Morgan and other Wall Streeters in for hearings. By 1934, Congress was creating the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Roosevelt administration also prosecuted business leaders, including former Treasury secretary Andrew Mellon and utilities magnate Samuel Insull. The new regulatory culture cut crime and protected investors. But the arbitrary nature of the assault petrified Wall Streeters.

Today, too, a "Blame the Street" mood prevails. SEC Chairman Chris Cox has criticized "naked shorts," an attack with a legitimate anti-fraud component. But targeting short-selling also generates uncertainty. The investigations of Bear Stearns and Freddie Mac are just the beginning; more prosecutions are likely. Like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which followed Enron's accounting meltdown, this cleanup will send companies and jobs abroad.

· Increasing taxes in a downturn. Hoover more than doubled income tax rates, taking the top marginal rate to 63 percent from 25 percent. FDR hiked the top rate to 90 percent. Perhaps worse, Roosevelt's Treasury crafted taxes to punish business, including an undistributed profits tax and an excess profits tax, that ultimately sucked cash from a capital-starved economy.

Today, Democrats are planning tax increases that make Bill Clinton's hike look mild. The proposals start with lifting the cap on Social Security payroll taxes -- an effective increase in the top marginal tax rate of 6.2 percent, or for some 12.4 percent, all by itself. Add in the promised repeal of the Bush tax cuts and you have an additional 4.6 percent increase. Effective top rates approach 50 percent. There are also proposed increases for dividends and capital gains. Taken together, these will make the U.S. economy sluggish and more like that of Europe.

· Assuming bigger government will bring back growth. There's a sense today that Washington has retreated too much from daily lives. Wall Streeters mutter that "the system" (the financial markets) doesn't work anymore. In the 1930s, people didn't just mutter that -- they believed it. Public-sector expansion seemed the only way to sustain America's promise. New Deal programs did much to alleviate the pain month to month -- many found dignity in six months of work at the Works Progress Administration, the Public Works Administration or the Civilian Conservation Corps. But economics is a competition for scarce capital. Such state solutions tended to suppress the creation of long-term private-sector jobs, as did the aggressive Wagner Act for organized labor. The National Recovery Administration, the New Deal's centerpiece, favored large businesses at the expense of small fry. The new Tennessee Valley Authority and Roosevelt's repressive Public Utility Holding Company Act combined to crowd out private utilities that hoped to light up the South. As for Wall Street, those New Yorker magazine cartoons were accurate: Wall Streeters retreated into their martinis and country houses rather than rebuild. This yielded the "Depression within the Depression" of 1937.

· Ignoring the cost of inconsistency. FDR spoke of "bold persistent experimentation." Obama speaks of "change." Both can do damage. What's more, the list of experiments is always finite. Our bailouts look reassuring, but even Washington cannot rescue the entire economy. And foreign investors wonder where Washington will stop. Already concerned about the inconsistent dollar policy, China is now troubled by the inconsistent rescues. The proximate danger today is a repeat of the 1970s, not the 1930s. But if lawmakers don't remember the old missteps, they might find that their new recovery legislation imperils our recovery.

YOU DON'T TUG ON SUPERMAN'S CAPE: But, really, even that's safer than trying to silence Amy Alkon.  "The worst thing about this for me is learning how naive I've been in pooh-poohing right-wingers when they tell me how the real fascists are on the left. Again, I take people as individuals, but I've learned that there are a whole lot of people who call themselves "progressives" and "liberals" who see speech they disagree with not as a reason to speak out themselves, but as a reason to work very hard to intimidate the person who's spoken from speaking their mind again. Furthermore, let me say most emphatically, I didn't "run my mouth first and think second." I meant every word I said. And I've come to that thinking over years of reading about the value of fathers and problems in the black community."

UPDATE: Some additional thoughts. (Bumped). See the comment from Francis W. Porretto. Somebody should write a book about this phenomenon!

 
Creeping Sharia in Halifax , Nova Scotia
 

The end of England’s children

August 18, 2008 10:22 PM by see-dubya

Theodore Dalrymple notes the tragic end of childhood in England, and the end of judgment that has enabled it: I watch her decline the way one would watch a parent with Alzheimer’s: here is a great country (where I once lived) that gave us John Locke, Edmund Burke, George Washington, that gave us our hymns, our literature, our ideas of freedom, our very language, and she is slipping into a useless dotage, unable to stir herself though enemies threaten.33 Comments  " It will not be long before UK streets will be filled with drunken idiots and Muslim murderers."

 
 Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds?
 

Photos of the Russian Front in Georgia

Defense Official: Russia Has Short Range Missiles in South Ossetia FOX News

Scenes from  Georgia (go here for more pics) - the aggression continues

Война в Южной Осетии: 89 фотографий Аркадия Бабченко
 
Война в Южной Осетии: 89 фотографий Аркадия Бабченко
 
Putin's Sole
 
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August 18, 2008 by binky

Human Guinea-Pigs, 2008: Ontario Doctors

Is Ontario the experimental California of the Great White North? It appears so.

The particular form of fascism in Germany– statist, socialist, eugenicist, racist– meant that the resources of the state were all bent to the national purpose. That included the ‘culling’ of useless eaters, as well as the handicapped, the disabled, the mentally ill, and various classes of people deemed sub-human (homosexuals, gypsies, and others). Agents of the state (including doctors, nurses, and hospitals) were required to ‘do their part’.

Eugenics was the rising thing in the West, as well. Blacks, the poor, the genetically unfit– experts had plans galore for ‘improving the race’ all to the higher goal of eradicating disease, poverty, ignorance, and suffering. In this, Medicine marched in lock-step in Germany, the United states, and Canada. Much of this history has been whitewashed and forcibly forgotten since the 1940s, but the truth remains.

Cast aside in Germany was the universal Western medical Hippocratic Oath; the conscience, religious faith, or morality of the medical personnel was irrelevant. To be a doctor, you either signed on, or were dismissed. A few healers did what they could to save lives, but the collaboration of modern medicine in modern fascism is not a proud chapter of human history.

Aside from the trappings of Nazism, when anyone bends medicine to ulterior motives and purposes, they are taking the power of life and death into their hands, and power over other humans for whatever purpose. Of course, parts of Canadian and American medicine (and their ruling bodies) are already compromised in the introduction of euthanasia, abortion, infanticide, and other death-dealing practices ‘for the good’ of whomever. Babies are killed in Canada; unborn children are killed in Canada. The sick and elderly and ‘vegetative’ are killed in Canada. The dying are sped up (hospital beds cost, you know); embryos are frozen, harvested, experimented on.

Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth (Harvard University Medical School): “It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception.” Murder means the killing of innocent human life. All Doctors in Ontario are going to be coerced to murder, or aid and abet in it.

The problem is, there is no such thing as actions in isolation from everything else: evil spreads to a wider circle of people, dragging everything in, like a black hole eats all in its gravitic reach. To compromise or surrender your conscience, faith, or principles is to damage a soul: to force medicine to evil ends, to institutionalize evil is to bend all of society toward destruction, to make everyone a part of the evil, to rule out legitimate opposition and disagreement is profoundly fascist and anti-democratic and unconstitutional and unCanadian.

We’ve been warned by the USSR about dehumanizing political opposition; by Nazi Germany about dehumanizing the supposedly ’subhuman’; by 25 years of Roe Vs. Wade in the U.S. about eugenics and widespread abortion; by China of doctors enforcing the one-child policy via abortion, infanticide, and sex-selective policies that are making China a demographic and human disaster.

We’ve Been Warned– been there, done that, counted the bodies.

The conscience of a trained professional steeped in the methods and wisdom of past generations, with the cautions and restraint– that’s not a bug, it’s a feature. I want my doctor to choose life; to do their best for me and my loved ones; and not to worry that at some point the executioner switch goes on and granny gets bumped off to save health care resources; the baby gets offed.

We’ve been warned. Freedom and lives stand in the balance. Canada is taking on features of the death-cult of Nazism, except behind hospital walls and with a smile. Strong-arming doctors and nurses and hospitals does not make it right: it makes it worse. Shame on Ontario’s College of Physicians for this anti-Christian inhuman fascism.

All shall be tools in the hands of Our Betters! Utopia nears!

Binks

P.S. To learn from the past, let’s read Hippocrates again, and imagine all these oaths broken, and what kind of ‘doctors’ would result. Mhmm– Mordor. Auschwitz. The Gulag. Welcome to the future.

I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepios and Hygeia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgement this oath and this covenant:

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.

I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.

I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.

I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.

Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the
opposite of all this be my lot.

IBM: The mainframe is back

Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games [Meet Emily, from Image Metrics]

Now anyone can be seen on video, anywhere, any time, doing/saying anything, and they need not have been anywhere near to the place, doing what was being done, or saying what was said on the video.

The perfect tool for the totalitarian state to abuse.

Taking A Ride on the Liberty Belle

 

Tropical Storm Fay

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/marti/2008_06L/webManagerIR/displayGifsBy12hr_04.html
 
 down at Schooner Wharf
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Fellow POW: I Remember McCain Telling the "Cross in the Dirt" Story [In 1971]

Obama voted to kill live babies

Obama's Tax Plan Is Really a Welfare Plan

Obama Cover-up on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Continues to Unravel...

MICKEY KAUS: "The story of the Edwards Coverup, which has only begun to trickle out, is certainly providing a useful civic education in how powerful pols actually go about attempting to influence the MSM." When it comes to rounding up John Edwards news and links, I can't hope to compete with Deceiver. ... See esp. Lee Stranahan's informed speculations about future developments in the story, which now looks like it will run right into the Democratic convention...

STILL KICKING AROUND JOHN EDWARDS. I think the big "kick me" sign he taped to his butt has something to do with it . . . .

More here. And, of course, Mickey Kaus is still on the story. But the real story, remember, is how the press covered for him. And the real question is, what other stories are they sitting on to protect the Democrats?

ANN ALTHOUSE: 6 things I noticed when I rewatched the Saddleback Civil Forum. And much more on that subject here.

Sore loser: Obama and Obamedia accuse McCain of “cheating”

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 18, 2008 12:52 AM

No, really. The Obama camp and its media water-carriers are seriously accusing John McCain of “cheating” in his appearance over the weekend at Rick Warren’s Saddleback church forum because he was in his motorcade when the program started– and then escorted to an empty room without media hook-ups. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell spread the unsubstantiated rumor that somehow McCain heard Obama’s questions while on his drive. The nutroots went, well, nuts. The NYTimes piled on (“Despite Assurances, McCain Wasn’t In a ‘Cone of Silence’“). The McCain camp has protested.

And now we have the spectacle of the Democrat presidential nominee and his press entourage bleating about the “cone of silence” because he didn’t fare as well as his opponent.

Yes, the Obama has just confirmed that it is operating in a cone of abject stupidity. Maybe a little less fun in the sun next time, eh, Barry O?

The event wasn’t even head-to-head. How is the Obama team going to behave should The One wipe out in an official debate this fall? The wah-mbulance will be working overtime.

Oh, and I think we know where the Left is headed again. Remember “Is Bush Wired?”

Predicting a massive run on tin foil from now until November…

***

More:

Warren told CNN Sunday evening, “we flat out asked him” if he heard any of the questions. The McCain campaign “confirmed that McCain did not hear or see any of the broadcast” in the motorcade or after he arrived, Ross said.

When asked if McCain overheard anything, Charlie Black, a McCain adviser who was with him at the time, told CNN: “We were in motorcade until 5:30 p.m. ET; then a holding room in another building with no TV.”

Warren said, “I trust the integrity of both” candidates, and said he “knew they would abide by the rules.” He joked McCain may not have been in the cone of silence, but “he was in the cone of a Secret Service motorcade”.

Scott Ott: Har. How McCain breached the cone.

***

Update: Here’s the full transcript of the forum.


8,946 posted on 08/19/2008 3:07:32 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Defy us and we will crush you... Russia's warning

dammit—DRILL HERE DRILL NOW!
 

British anti-Americanism 'based on misconceptions'

Tropical Storm Fay

 

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Barack Obama lied about babies ‘Born Alive’ vote then smeared Corsi

The Stars Seem To Be Aligning Against Barack Obama


8,947 posted on 08/19/2008 4:08:33 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Batman and Rush: Why McCain Will Win

Confronting the Threat--John Bolton counsels America on the dire crises it faces.

Pelosi Spins and Smears on Drilling

Childhood’s End ("Britain worst country in Western world to be a child") [Smash-mouth op-ed]

 

8,948 posted on 08/19/2008 6:04:33 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Drill Here, Drill Now- (Live Thread, Day XIII)

Wind Farms Impacting Weather (Cause global warming and/or desert land?)

Kandahar tourniquet developed to save lives

How Big Brother watches your every move[UK]

In our ever-growing surveillance society, the average Briton is being recorded 3,000 times a week. Richard Gray reports.

 

Revealed: The CCTV cameras spying on hundreds of classrooms[UK]

We’ve been using the expression “Cold Civil War” here on FR for at least four years, but it’s still nice for Steyn to notice.

Hree’s a link I found in about two seconds to Cold Civil War, from 2003 on FR.

Reply #19: "I agree 100% with Prager, and I call the phase we are in "THE COLD CIVIL WAR.""

When politics at the national level is as tribal as some on the Left appear today we have the very real possibility of turning this "Cold" civil war into a "Hot" one. What we have here is a blatant abandonment of principle in favor of faction, politics in its most primitive, unthinking, tribal form. One of the things that makes it primitive is its proclivity for violence. We see this today in the identity of who gets shouted down on campus - left or right?

This is the Amazon link to the novel that Steyn refers to that uses "Cold Civil War."

 

The separation between the conservative red states and the liberal blue cities is a profound chasm; the two sides increasingly operate off different perceptions of reality and different reasoning processes. The difference is as stark as night and day: capitalism versus socialism, Judeo-Christian morals versus atheistic moral relativism, American exceptionalism versus United Nations membership, victory as annihilation of terrorists versus victory as denial of terrorists.
 

(Google wants to) Bring wireless Internet to everyone, everywhere.

HiJacked by AdServer. Anyone else? (Vanity - Tech, sorry)

 
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As U.S. Economic Problems Loom, House, Senate Sweat the Small Stuff

I Smell a Clinton Coup Brewing


8,949 posted on 08/19/2008 12:35:20 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Democrats Propose Sweeping Pro-LGBT Platform (BARF ALERT)

http://www.stonewalldemocrats.org/node/89
And that's not all. It seems Govs Kathleen Sebelius (KS) and Deval Patrick (MA) will be kicking-off convention week at the Stonewall (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) democrats gathering.

They really have a death wish, don’t they?

Admittedly, I’m talking about the deep South, but where I live, this would be the Kiss Of Death for the Democrats I know. Down here, you keep this sort of stuff private...


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This is so damn-fool gawdawful it deserves a repeat with more comments & graphics:

Democrats Propose Sweeping Pro-LGBT Platform (BARF ALERT)

 
 
The National Stonewall Democrats, Pride Democrats, Pride in The Party, Stonewall Vets, Stonewall, Stonewall Warriors, all affiliated.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794584/posts
Brief history of the modern childlove movement

Tell all of those soccer moms that the Democrats want "women" with male genitalia to be allowed to use the ladies room with their daughters (that's what the whole "gender identity" thing is about -- people who want to change their sex without changing their anatomy) and they'll have all sorts of fun explaining it.


8,951 posted on 08/19/2008 1:27:01 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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"Planning to E-Vote? Read This First"

NYT Calls Opponent of Radical Islam a 'Radical Islamophobe'

Plane with McCain Secret Service agents crashes in Glendale (AZ)

TS Fay Slams Kite Surfer

http://www.wjno.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=244038&article=4117332
 

15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped


8,952 posted on 08/19/2008 3:40:33 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Sidewinder Resurfaces

Adscam was small potatoes in the Libranos legacy;

A seasoned, 30-year career Canadian diplomat, Mr. McAdam's assignments included London, Copenhagen, Barbados, Amman, Bangkok, Bogota, Dublin, Helsinki, Glasgow, Tokyo and, twice, Hong Kong.

His second Hong Kong posting, 1989 to 1993, as immigration control officer, included responsibility for southern China. He was tasked with protecting Canada from international people-smuggling rings, murderers and drug-smuggling, organized criminals from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong.

It was his last posting.


Read the whole thing. Finally, Donna Jacobs is doing what the rest of the mainstream media "investigative journalists" should hang in their heads in shame over.

Flashback - to his credit, Peter Worthington wasn't afraid to mention the Sidewinder report in an op-ed in 2005. A search of SDA will turn up other old items, though some of the links are now dead. If anyone has the link to the once available surviving copy of the original Sidewinder report (officially ordered destroyed by the Chretien government), let me know, and I'll rehost them myself.

Update - here it is. Sidewinder: Chinese Intelligence Services and Triads Financial Links in Canada.

Posted by Kate at 6:09 AM | Comments (35)
 
I read the entire Sidewinder document. I think one needs to look no further than the recommendations found in part 2 of the document to discern why the investigation was closed. If, as the document suggests, Canadian security was compromised at high political and governmental levels, it offers an explanation for one of the main sources of the increase in corruption that has occurred over the last twenty years within Canada.

http://tinyurl.com/5wtg6u

" June 12, 2005
Odd tale of Sidewinder

 
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LEE STRANAHAN: Where the John Edwards scandal is headed.

I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not a candidate. He confessed. Who cares? Let's just recap the what The Deceiver calls 'the non-story' so far.

A former Senator and vice-presidential candidate misused campaign contributions and money pledged to fight poverty so he could bring his mistress on the campaign trail with him during the presidential campaign where he was constantly making appearances with his widely admired cancer stricken wife then fathered the mistress's child sometime around the time he was getting a Father Of The Year Award and then asked his loyal aid who already has a wife and kids to falsely claim paternity while the fake dad and the mistress were funneled money so they could move to be near the mistress's psychic healer friend while the former candidate continued to meet the mistress and baby until he was caught by tabloid reporters and hid in the bathroom and then confessed on national TV a couple of weeks later but both he and his wife continued to lie during that interview and in subsequent statements.

And the press is supposed to yawn that story off?

As we head into the the Democratic convention, the Edwards scandal isn't over. It's really just beginning. Don't blame the media, blame John Edwards.

The story isn't over because the revelations and twists in the story aren't over. If John Edwards was more interested in helping the Democratic party then continuing the futility of his deception he could come out tomorrow, do a number of no holds barred interviews, tell the whole truth, allow Andrew Young and Rielle Hunter to come out of hiding and repay contributors from his considerable personal fortune. Everyone would appear on Larry King and Oprah and we might be really done with this some time in September.

Then John Edwards could go to work chopping wood and carrying water for a couple of years to reflect on his mistakes. Building houses full time with Habitat For Humanity would be a great start for his redemption. No speeches, no suits. Just let your hair get messy and hammer nails all day, John and then go home tired and be a good father at night.

That's a dream, of course. The reality is that we're heading into fresh territory and allegations in the next few weeks and John Edwards is unlikely to tell the truth until there's simply no other option. So instead of a responsible and swift end to this mess we'll get the Edwards Water Torture that reduces all politicians (especially idealistic ones) to same lying bastards that cynics always believed they are.

Cynicism is exactly what Republicans want when their opponent's message is 'hope'.

Here's my Edwards Scandal Future Lowlights Roadmap : My Predictions Of Tomorrow's News, Today!


It's His Baby:
It's the question everyone seems to want to know, so I'll skip right to it. Don't we all really know Quinn Hunter is his baby? If it's not his baby then why meet with Rielle Hunter three times in 2008 and lie about it? Edwards obviously has maintained a secret relationship with Hunter in 2008 where he's had contact with Hunter and the baby without Elizabeth's knowledge. Hunter's statement about not wanting a DNA test was sure convenient, too. Edwards has no credibility and this is the last thing he wants to admit but that sure seems like the endgame here.

The Other Meetings At The Beverly Hilton : Last week, I guessed that Edwards and Hunter met on March 20th, 2008. Turned out to be Rielle Hunter's birthday, too. Since then, there's video posted of Cenk from the Young Turks from back then discussing running into John Edwards. I checked the FEC filing from that period and the Beverly Hilton isn't anywhere on it.

Some Democrats Will Want Their Money Back : It's already becoming something people are talking about informally but it's just a matter of time before lawsuits start because it's becoming clear that Edwards used campaign money to take his girlfriend on the road with him. Times are hard and this could become a new and innovative economic stimulus plan for Democrats.

Some Democrats Will Remain In Denial : New information breaks on the front page of the New York Times last Friday and a DailyKos diarist writes about it. The response is largely pictures of kittens and recipes and people telling the writer to STFU; same basic response that I got when writing about Edwards before I was banned...The Other Other Woman : There are persistent rumors that Rielle Hunter wasn't Edward's first or only mistress. I know -- I'm rumor mongering but this is coming from multiple, independent sources. And do you really think this is first time John Edwards strayed?


8,953 posted on 08/19/2008 4:03:39 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Explosive Updates from Warman vs Ouwendyk hearing today!
 
'Boomerang' Fay Gains Strength Over Florida

Slideshow of flooding and storm damage
from the Palm Beach Post.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/storm/slideshows/2008_storms/fay/

Radar:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=mlb&overlays=11101111&product=N0R&loop=yes
 
The Karachi Kids
 

Politics, not principles, behind Pelosi's turnabout on oil drilling (WORTHLESS NAN FEELS THE PINCH!)

 
Good...

Bush rushes to gut Endangered Species Act

To wit:

Environmentalists file for protection of alpine critter

Greens, Liberals, LOVE High Gasoline Prices

“Green Energy” Corruption, the Elephant in the Room.

Pelosi and Pickens, investment partners

More people get news from web than TV or print

How a BBC charity funded the 7/7 bombers

August 20, 2008 12:22 AM by Michelle Malkin

Really, there’s only one thing to type in reaction to this jaw-dropping report on how a BBC charity called “Children in Need” helped fund the 7/7 bombers’ jihad– and how the ninnies dispensing the philanthropic funds didn’t want to ask the (non-needy children) terrorist recipients what they were doing with the money for fear of offending Muslims...I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism.10 Comments   "After all, it’s for the children."

Meet Yoda. The Cat With Four Ears

New U.S. passport cards offer travelers a choice (— a radio frequency identity chip —)

So I Got Booted Off Little Green Footballs...

Calif. court: Homosexual rights trump religious freedom

Their Coke Bottles Never Broke (Old Age Always Overcomes Youth & Skill)

Some other list highlights:

• Harry Potter could be a classmate, playing on their Quidditch team. The character was created in 1990.

• GPS satellite navigation systems have always been available.

• Gas stations have never fixed flats, but most serve cappuccino.

• Martha Stewart Living has always been setting the style.

• We have always known that "All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten."

• There have always been gay rabbis.

• Wayne Newton has never had a mustache.

• "The Tonight Show" has always been hosted by Jay Leno.

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2012.php

Australians Freeze Carrying Global Warming Relay Torch

 
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Liars are exposed by blinking

Help unlock the Obama/Ayers papers; Update: Response from UIC; AP’s lousy coverage

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 19, 2008 09:02 PM

Scroll for updates…reader sends response from UIC…and the MSM catches up, almost…

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Stanley Kurtz has done yeoman’s work trying to uncover the true nature of the relationship between Barack Obama and Weather Underground terrorist-turned-academic William Ayers. (See Barack and Michelle and Bill and Bernardine for background.) And see the must-read post by Steve Diamond: “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.”

During his in-depth investigation and travels to Chicago to dig deeper, Kurtz has run into unexpected (or perhaps, quite expected) roadblocks:

Although the press has been notably lax about pursuing the matter, the full story of the Obama-Ayers relationship calls the truth of Obama’s account seriously into question. When Obama made his first run for political office, articles in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald featured among his qualifications his position as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation where Ayers was a founder and guiding force. Obama assumed the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before his first run for office, and almost certainly received the job at the behest of Bill Ayers. During Obama’s time as Annenberg board chairman, Ayers’s own education projects received substantial funding. Indeed, during its first year, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge struggled with significant concerns about possible conflicts of interest. With a writ to aid Chicago’s public schools, the Annenberg challenge played a deeply political role in Chicago’s education wars, and as Annenberg board chairman, Obama clearly aligned himself with Ayers’s radical views on education issues. With Obama heading up the board and Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working relationship for years (therefore “exchanging ideas on a regular basis”). So when Ayers and Dorhn hosted that kickoff for the first Obama campaign, it was not a random happenstance, but merely further evidence of a close and ongoing political partnership. Of course, all of this clearly contradicts Obama’s dismissal of the significance of his relationship with Ayers.

This much we know from the public record, but a large cache of documents housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), is likely to flesh out the story. That document cache contains the internal files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The records in question are extensive, consisting of 132 boxes, containing 947 file folders, a total of about 70 linear feet of material. Not only would these files illuminate the working relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers, they would also provide significant insight into a web of ties linking Obama to various radical organizations, including Obama-approved foundation gifts to political allies. Obama’s leadership style and abilities are also sure to be illuminated by the documents in question.

COVER-UP?

Unfortunately, I don’t yet have access to the documents. The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded my flight to Chicago, the top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Circumstances strongly suggest the likelihood that Bill Ayers himself may have played a pivotal role in this denial.

Read the entire piece for the full details of the runaround. Kurtz is asking for help appealing to the president of the University of Illinois system, B. Joseph White:

“The Chicago Annenberg Challenge records almost surely contain important information on Senator Obama’s political associations, policy views, ideological leanings, and leadership ability. His role as board chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge is the most important executive experience Obama has held to date. Given this, the public has an urgent right to know what is in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records.

…Ask [White] to take immediate public steps to insure the safety of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, to release the identity of the Collection’s donor, and above all to swiftly make the Collection available to me, and to the public at large.

Email here.

Phone/Fax here.

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If you send a note, also post it here or cc me and I’ll keep a collection of the complaints and any responses.

Kurtz reports the documents are in danger. Related transcript here.

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Previous Bill Ayers blog posts.

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Update: Reader Mark sends a response from UIC…

—– Forwarded Message —-
From: Bill Burton
To: MARK MCNABB
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:38:05 PM
Subject: Re: request

Dear Mr. McNabb:

Thank you for your inquiry. Responses are below.

Please note that I have no connection to the Obama spokesman by the same name.

Sincerely,
Bill Burton

MARK MCNABB wrote:
> Mr Burton, just got off the phone with you. I would be happy if you
> could provide me with the statement you mentioned re: the Chicago
> Annenberg Challenge documents that were suddenly pulled from public
> access, as well as access by Mr Stanley Kurtz.

The University of Illinois at Chicago released the following statement
Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008.

“The University Library supports the teaching, research, and service
missions of the University by acquiring, organizing, preserving, and
providing access to information. The Library is open to the public and
dedicated to free inquiry. The University has not received ownership
rights to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge collection. The university is
aggressively pursuing an agreement with the donor, and as soon as an
agreement is finalized, the collection will be made accessible to the
public.”
>
> For the record, I am also shocked and amazed that the
> University employs the radical U.S. terrorist William Ayers. I
> believe that is an apalling fact.

In the 1970s, Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground, a radical
group opposing the Vietnam War. Federal charges against him were later
dropped; he has never been convicted of a crime.

Professor Ayers was already a well-regarded scholar of education when he
joined UIC in 1987. Since joining UIC, he has published several
influential books, founded the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for
Youth and Society, served on several community and foundation boards,
and earned national recognition for his work in the education of
children. We have no evidence that he has ever used his position for
advocacy inappropriate to the education curriculum.

The university has always been transparent about Professor Ayersʼ
employment during his two decades on our faculty. We know from
correspondence we have received over the years that many people find his
past activities and statements objectionable. Thank you for informing us
of your opinion.

Sincerely,

Mark Rosati
Associate Chancellor for Public Affairs
>

Bill Burton
News Bureau Director
University of Illinois at Chicago
Ph 312-996-2269
Fx 312-996-3754
burton@uic.edu
www.news.uic.edu

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Update: Follow-up from Dan Riehl…

At least on the surface of it, it appears these records were somehow taken back, or removed from public access. That’s a very different thing than the appropriate permissions not having been granted in the first place. Would a responsible Library accept and list such documents before that step was done? I think someone has some explaining to do, especially considering a good deal, if not all of this involves public funding.

Update: Tom Maguire covers the MSM coverage of Obama/Ayers from the AP’s Pete Yost and helpfully points out what the AP failed to report…

Yost makes no mention of the fact that Obama was asked about Ayers at the Philadelphia debate in April and described him as “”a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago…”, rather than as “a guy I worked with on education reform for six years without accomplishing anything” (The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was ultimately judged a failure by the Annenberg Foundation.)

Yost makes no mention of the fact that the Obama website produced a “Fact Check” on the Obama/Ayers relationship which made no mention of this failed collaboration on education reform.

Yost makes no mention of the fact that previously the Obama campaign was telling reporters that (a) Obama and Ayers met through kids who went to the same school, or (b) Obama and Ayers first met in the second half of 1995 when Ayers hosted a campaign kick-off for Obama. Since Obama became chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in January 1995, that was false.

In fact, its almost as if the Obama campaign has tried to conceal this Obama/Ayers relationship. And now some mysterious unnamed donor is continuing the cover-up by sitting on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge archives.

And Yost almost reports on it.

So what does it mean? Well, none of us can judge the relationship at this point since a lot of possibly important information is being concealed. But the fact of an ongoing cover-up might spark some journalist’s curiosity.

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Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
 
 

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8,955 posted on 08/20/2008 4:59:03 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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SHOWDOWN: RUSSIA VOWS SHIELD RESPONSE BEYOND DIPLOMACY

The Idiocy of Energy Independence

--put more energy into promoting lifting restrictions on American producers, not some rose colored glass scenario that ignores islamofacism.

Drill Here, Drill Now- (Live Thread, Day XIV)

Little Ice Age Coming

Some education could immunize us from common economic myths

Science Now Explains The Uniqueness of Every Human Being From Conception

Tampa’s Terror for Kids--Islamist hatred, violence continues to be spread within W Florida

ICE Raid on Kosher Meat Plant Results in Illegal Hispanics Replaced with Somali MUSLIMS

An estimated 750 to 1,000 Somali refugees are living in Emporia, a magnet because of jobs at the Tyson Foods meatpacking plant. Many have latent tuberculosis.

(Liberal Fascist Alert): Canada's 'Human Rights' Revolution

Gun owners got letters

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Obama's Polls At 4 Month Low

Dick Morris: "Obama — the New Jimmy Carter"

ZOGBY: Obama Loses Ground among Dems, Women, Catholics & even YOUNGER Voters

McCain takes 5-point lead over Obama-Reuters poll

McCain grabs lead in latest US presidential poll (ANOTHER)

Mass Murder in Denver

Obama Caught Red-Handed in Abortion Lie
 
 
 But just a personal observation?

To True Believers in the Hopey Changey shibboleth, the lie will not matter.
The Clintons are living proof that many supporters love to be lied to, just as long as they are on the winning side...

It Appears that The Left Was Lying About McCain (Cross in the dirt episode)

The Democrat Party platform’s hidden Soros Slush Fund

Are We About To Witness The Greatest Political Ambush Of All Time in Denver?

 
 
Drip, drip, drip...

EDWARDS' CRUEL WIFE JAB: REPORT "We'll be together when Elizabeth is gone,"


8,956 posted on 08/20/2008 11:00:23 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Dangerously in Debt?

Immigration Enforcement? Yes, We Can!

 1. Take away anchor baby citizenship.

2. Jail employers of illegals.

3. Raids of businesses where there are concentrations of illegals--like chicken plants, slaughterhouses, construction projects. Put those caught in tent city holding areas until they are deported.

4. Find those whose SSN's don't match, and jail them for ID theft (use those tent cities). Then deport them.

5. Build the fence. Increase ICE officers.

6. Take away free school, free medical, free welfare. The right of illegals to such benefits stems from a very poorly written opinion by Sandra Day O'Connor in the 80's, and when they sue to keep their benefits, take it back to the Supreme Court

New York Aims To Be The Real Windy City(Windmills on skyscrapers)

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D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com Flushes Out Code Pink's Jodie Evans on Obama Funding

Behind the Annenberg Gate: Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Records (Obama and Ayers)

Photographic proof debunking the latest Democrat lie about the McCain - Rep John Lewis relationship!

PUMA Alert: “Massive” E-Mail Campaign to Derail Obama at Convention

Why Obama's Red Mentor is News


8,957 posted on 08/20/2008 11:51:09 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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CORRECTING OBAMA ON THE TOPIC OF AMERICAN SELFISHNESS: "Whatever the case is with his own selfishness, the evidence of an internationally superior American generosity is impressive, beginning with the numbers on our charitable giving. We give twice as much as the British per capita, and according to The American magazine, seven times as much as the Germans and 14 times as much as the Italians. Even in inflation-adjusted dollars, the amount given each year just keeps getting larger, and meanwhile, we do far more volunteer work than in other industrialized countries."

Obama's comments seem to echo the claims of U.N. official Jan Egeland that the U.S. response to the Indian Ocean tsunami was "stingy." That charge was bogus -- there was over a billion dollars in private tsunami relief from Americans -- and it turned out that the U.N. wasted a lot of its own relief money on overhead. But that's how it is with nanny-state approaches: They dampen private impulses toward unselfishness, even as officials line their pockets. Is this what Obama wants?

SCATTERED, SMOTHERED, COVERED IN LOVE: Obama and the Big Networks: "In isolating stories on the ABC, CBS and NBC broadcasts that were mainly focused on Obama, the center says, 42 percent were positive and 7 percent negative."

ALMOST LIKE REPORTING: Tom Maguire on what the AP left out of its report on the Obama / Bill Ayers / Annenberg stonewall story.

Plus, the intricacies of "Sullyboating."

Despite A 3-1 Disadvantage In MSM Coverage

John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Barack Obama .

He should probably send a thank you note* to Vladimir Putin.

You know, if McCain pulls this off, they're going to have to install concrete barricades around the CBC to protect the public from the cluster head explosions.

More - Buyer's remorse?

And..."This is getting embarrassing. 300 people on Daily Kos are now discussing how Obama will word the Text Message when he announces his vice president."

Posted by Kate at 10:42 AM | Comments (35) "I am sure the Democrats are in a fit over the fact that Obama, who was sent from heaven, is not doing better in the polls against an evil, big bad Republican who is part of the same party as the evil George W. Bush. I always felt the non-stop mean-spirited childish hammering of Bush was going to bite the Democrats eventually. Most  people are sick and tired of hearing it, and most people realize that the hammering has gone too far, and has descended into pure nastiness."

8,958 posted on 08/20/2008 12:14:16 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Incredulous UN Bans Criticism of Islam
 

The Murtha Rules: A simple system to win federal money (Murtha Watch)

Man Jailed After Taking Photo of Police Van Ignoring 'Wrong Way' Sign (UK)

Four More Newspapers Intend To Drop AP Over Rates (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Wind turbines across Oregon stir up health scare

 
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Textbook Lies About Islam

So How Many Wives Did Obama Sr Have?

August 20th, 2008

From the UK Telegraph:

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Barack Obama’s ‘lost’ brother found in Kenya

Senator Barack Obama’s long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed.

By Nick Pisa in Rome
20 Aug 2008

The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.

Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate’s half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.

“No-one knows who I am,” he told the magazine, before claiming: “I live here on less than a dollar a month.”

According to Italy’s Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants AC Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world.

Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother - born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael.

He told the magazine: “I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist.”

Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.

“If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed,” he said.

For ten years George Obama lived rough. However he now hopes to try to sort his life out by starting a course at a local technical college.

He has only met his famous older brother twice - once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when Senator Obama was on a tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi.

The Illinois senator mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as a “beautiful boy with a rounded head”.

Of their second meeting, George Obama said: “It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.”

George added he was no longer in contact with his mother and said:”I have had to learn to live and take what I need.

“Huruma is a tough place, last January during the elections there was rioting and six people were hacked to death. The police don’t even arrest you they just shoot you.

“I have seen two of my friends killed. I have scars from defending myself with my fists. I am good with my fists.”

What is Barack Hussein Obama’s favorite Biblical passage again, the words he says that guide his life?

Oh, yeah. From Mattews 25: “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

What has Mr. Obama done for this brother or any of his brethren? Ever?

Besides live like a multi-millionaire while they live on less than one dollar a month?

Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother - born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael.

Still, it should be noted that there is no mention of any Jael in either of the Anointed One’s autobiographies.

There is no mention of her even in Wikipedia’s entry on Barack Obama, Senior:

Barack Obama, Sr.

Obama grew up in Nyang’oma Kogelo. At 18, he married a young woman named Kezia in a tribal ceremony. They had four children, two of them after he returned to Kenya from the United States. He never divorced Kezia, who now lives in Bracknell, England…

On February 2, 1961, Obama married a fellow student, Ann Dunham in Maui, Hawaii. She did not know that he already had a wife in Kenya.[citation needed] Their son, Barack Obama II, was born on August 4, 1961. Two years later, Obama was accepted at Harvard for graduate study. He moved to Massachusetts, unable to afford to take his wife and son with him. He and Dunham divorced in 1963, divorce filed in Honolulu, Hawaii in January 1964, and he only saw his son again once, at age 10. He received the AM degree from Harvard in 1965.

At Harvard, he met an American-born teacher named Ruth Nidesand who would follow him to Kenya when he returned after completing his Masters degree. She eventually became his third wife and had two children with him before they divorced…

In fact, the only indication we have of any additional “wives” is from the UK Daily Mail article we posted back in January, 2007:

A drunk and a bigot - what the US Presidental hopeful HASN’T said about his father…

By SHARON CHURCHER
27 January 2007

Now prosperous with a flashy car and good salary, his third wife was an American-born teacher called Ruth, whom he had met at Harvard while still legally married to both Kezia and Ann, and who followed him to Africa.

A relative of Mr Obama says: “We told him[Barack] how his father would still go to Kezia and it was during these visits that she became pregnant with two more children. He also had two children with Ruth.”

It is alleged that Ruth finally left him after he repeatedly flew into whisky-fuelled rages, beating her brutally.

Friends say drinking blighted his life - he lost both his legs while driving under the influence and also lost his job.

However, this was no bar to his womanising: he sired a son, his eighth child, by yet another woman and continued to come home drunk.

He was about to marry her when he finally died in yet another drunken crash when Obama was 21

Of course we don’t know if this is Jael or not?

So how many “wives” did Barack Senior have? Is anybody keeping track?

The Obama clan is making Bill Clinton’s background look positively stable.

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Yes, Mr. Limbaugh was kind enough to mention this thread on his program. Which is always a great thrill.

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He should support a gun ban .... he keeps shooting himself in the foot...

8,959 posted on 08/20/2008 1:13:48 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Russia's Nuclear Threat Is More Than Words

 I'm going to repeat this question on every thread about this issue:

Barak Hussein Obama has vowed to scrap the  missile defense program, in order to use the saved money for social welfare.

If it is so unproven, Mr. Obama, Why has Russia threatened to attack Poland if they install it?

And if the disparity in actual nuclear weapons is a threat, what, besides wishful thinking and a grandiose offer to talk do you plan to do about that, Barry, Barak, Hussein, or whatever your real name is?

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8,960 posted on 08/21/2008 8:54:41 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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