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Terrorism? What terrorism, asks media?

Napolitano: No indication of wider plot in botched airline attack (Al Qaeda no longer exists alert)

Don't get around much, do she?

NW Bomb Planned by al-Qaeda in Yemen

Pete Hoekstra:Detroit terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab may be connected to Ft Hood shooter

Terror Test-Runs on Airlines? (Describe Test Runs Over the Years)

Guilt by association? 1 in 3 fear punishment (Americans say they see 'chilling' loss of rights)

I keep telling you all what it is...

 

ObamaCare Passed by Drunks: Senator Max Baucus In A Drunken Tirade On Senate Floor

Gang Violence On The Rise Across The Country

Atlantic Editor Lauds Lack of Obama Public Response to Terrorist

What Do Americans Want?

Nullification of HCR sought in several States

The devil in a red tie

The look on the once strong-man’s face as a massive crowd began to boo during a speech on December 21^st, was one of the defining moments of the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. 

LANDMARK DECISION PROMISES MASSIVE RELIEF FOR HOMEOWNERS AND TROUBLE FOR BANKS

The Climate Change Scam: A Concise Summary (aka A Requiem for Algore)

In the wake of Climategate, common sense deniers like to say that there is lots of other evidence for global warming, in addition to that which has been debunked by the East Anglia whistleblower. Actually, however, the scientific evidence for AGW is remarkably weak. At (Icecap) Lee Gerhard, geologist and reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sums up the key scientific evidence with admirable brevity:

It is crucial that scientists are factually accurate when they do speak out, that they ignore media hype and maintain a clinical detachment from social or other agendas. There are facts and data that are ignored in the maelstrom of social and economic agendas swirling about Copenhagen. Greenhouse gases and their effects are well-known. Here are some of things we know:

• The most effective greenhouse gas is water vapor, comprising approximately 95 percent of the total greenhouse effect.

• Carbon dioxide concentration has been continually rising for nearly 100 years. It continues to rise, but carbon dioxide concentrations at present are near the lowest in geologic history.

• Temperature change correlation with carbon dioxide levels is not statistically significant.

• There are no data that definitively relate carbon dioxide levels to temperature changes.

• The greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide logarithmically declines with increasing concentration. At present levels, any additional carbon dioxide can have very little effect.

We also know a lot about Earth temperature changes:

• Global temperature changes naturally all of the time, in both directions and at many scales of intensity.

• The warmest year in the U.S. in the last century was 1934, not 1998. The U.S. has the best and most extensive temperature records in the world.

• Global temperature peaked in 1998 on the current 60-80 year cycle, and has been episodically declining ever since. This cooling absolutely falsifies claims that human carbon dioxide emissions are a controlling factor in Earth temperature.

• Voluminous historic records demonstrate the Medieval Climate Optimum (MCO) was real and that the "hockey stick" graphic that attempted to deny that fact was at best bad science. The MCO was considerably warmer than the end of the 20th century.

• During the last 100 years, temperature has both risen and fallen, including the present cooling. All the changes in temperature of the last 100 years are in normal historic ranges, both in absolute value and, most importantly, rate of change.

Contrary to many public statements:

• Effects of temperature change are absolutely independent of the cause of the temperature change.

• Global hurricane, cyclonic and major storm activity is near 30-year lows. Any increase in cost of damages by storms is a product of increasing population density in vulnerable areas such as along the shores and property value inflation, not due to any increase in frequency or severity of storms.

• Polar bears have survived and thrived over periods of extreme cold and extreme warmth over hundreds of thousands of years extremes far in excess of modern temperature changes.

• The 2009 minimum Arctic ice extent was significantly larger than the previous two years. The 2009 Antarctic maximum ice extent was significantly above the 30-year average. There are only 30 years of records.

• Rate and magnitude of sea level changes observed during the last 100 years are within normal historical ranges. Current sea level rise is tiny and, at most, justifies a prediction of perhaps ten centimeters rise in this century.

The present climate debate is a classic conflict between data and computer programs. The computer programs are the source of concern over climate change and global warming, not the data. Data are measurements. Computer programs are artificial constructs.

Public announcements use a great deal of hyperbole and inflammatory language. For instance, the word "ever" is misused by media and in public pronouncements alike. It does not mean "in the last 20 years," or "the last 70 years." "Ever" means the last 4.5 billion years.

For example, some argue that the Arctic is melting, with the warmest-ever temperatures. One should ask, "How long is ever?" The answer is since 1979. And then ask, "Is it still warming?" The answer is unequivocally "No." Earth temperatures are cooling. Similarly, the word "unprecedented" cannot be legitimately used to describe any climate change in the last 8,000 years.

SCOTT adds: The direct link to Gerhard's piece is (here).

 

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Revolutionary operation could 'cure' high blood pressure

First Case of Highly Resistant TB Seen in U.S.

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Another Nigerian Man Arrested In New Disturbance On Detroit Flight

White House Warns Foes on Terror Politics (Tough Talk for GOP, Candy Kisses for Terrorists)

Officials: Only A Failed Detonator Saved Northwest Flight

...Man accused of attempt to blow up plane was sent on mission by terror leaders.

Video clip warned of terror attack

In the December 21 video posted on extremist websites affiliated with al Qaida, a bearded man in head-dress, identified as Mohammed al-Kalwi, says: "We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God...

Fire Napolitano

"The System Worked" - Film of Napolitano Shucking and Jiving

MUSLIM MEN STILL MISSING FROM ISLAMBERG

Obama’s Real Report Card: F for Failure

 

Teaching America as 'hellhole' called 'brainstorming' (University screening of "wrong beliefs")

Obama’s Shame: Revolution Continues in Iran, Sound of Silence from White House

PATRIOTS ISSUE THE FINAL WARNING: LISTEN WASHINGTON!

November 2010: Too little, too late

10 posted on Sunday, December 27, 2009 2:40:23 PM by BP2

Shock bracelet for airlines? (Homeland Security proposal for all passengers)

Left-Wing Frustration Shocking Internal Anger At Obama

Biggest Losers: Where Americans Aren't Moving

Thinking the Unthinkable, A California Bankruptcy

Apparently, Being Dem Means Not Having to Pay Rent

The EPA: They Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Climate Treaty

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OUTCRY: “Napolitano should quit.” “I watched her on three shows and each time she was more annoying, maddening and absurd than the pevious appearance. It is her basic position that the ’system worked’ because the bureaucrats responded properly after the attack. That the attack was ‘foiled’ by a bad detonator and some civilian passengers is proof, she claims, that her agency is doing everything right. That is just about the dumbest thing she could say, on the merits and politically. I would wager that not one percent of Americans think the system is ‘working’ when terrorists successfully get bombs onto planes (and succeed in activating them).”

UPDATE: More from an Obama voter: “Now, I know they are mopping up after a failure, and there is reason to want to portray the attack as coming out of the blue and unconnected to anything that should have been the subject of close monitoring, but — damn — I hope they are doing a better job than they look like they are doing. And if they don’t look like they’ve been doing a good job, then they aren’t even doing a good job of mopping up after their failure.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Obama Voter: “Yes, I’m sorry.”

MORE: Andy McCarthy:

The people now in charge of our government believe Clinton-era counterterrorism was a successful model. They start from the premise that terrorism is a crime problem to be managed, not a war to be won. Overdone “war on drugs” rhetoric aside, we don’t try to “win” against (as in “defeat”) law-enforcement challenges. We expect them to happen from time to time and to contain, but never completely prevent, the damage.

Here, no thanks to the government, the plane was not destoyed, and we won’t get to the bottom of the larger conspiracy (enabling the likes of Napolitano to say there’s no indication of a larger plot — much less one launched by an international jihadist enterprise) because the guy got to lawyer up rather than be treated like a combatant and subjected to lengthy interrogation. But the terrorist will be convicted at trial (this “case” tees up like a slam-dunk), so the administration will put it in the books as a success … just like the Clinton folks did after the ‘93 WTC bombers and the embassy bombers were convicted. In their minds, litigation success equals national security success.

It is a dangerously absurd viewpoint, but it was clear during the campaign that it was Obama’s viewpoint. The American people — only seven years after 9/11 — elected him anyway. As we learn more painfully everyday, elections matter.

Indeed they do.

Plus, “Janet, you’re doin’ a heck of a job.”

 

 

11 Yesterday I posted a thought about how the next step would be for all passengers to be placed under general anaesthetic.
Doesn't seem so unlikely now.
This whole fiasco is all the proof anyone needs to understand that about 52% of our voters have literal sh*t for brains. Reap what you sow, 52 Percenters. You wanted a government with a pretty face, correct skin color, and no experience or "cynical" attitudes about the world?
Enjoy the suck.

12 Maybe Obama should stop golfing at this point. Just for the symbolism, ya know.

 

Clown alert: Janet Napolitano says the “system worked”

December 27, 2009 01:31 PM by Michelle Malkin50 Comments | 5 Trackbacks

Obama’s biggest joker.

Breaking: Second Nigerian on Detroit-bound flight arrested; Update: “Stomach problems”

December 27, 2009 02:40 PM by Michelle Malkin43 Comments

 

Storm petrels

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Rep Pete Hoekstra blinks out a message to the public by raising a series of loaded questions in a Fox News interview.

• Has the al-Qaeda franchise in Yemen made a strategic decision to attack the United States?
• The Ft Hood shooter was also connected to Yemen, “is there a pattern”?
• Is US intelligence failing to connect the dots?
• Is the White House stonewalling on inquiries by the House?
• Is al-Qaeda evolving techniques to “get [weapons] into other environments where they can do significant damage”?

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44. AWM:

I listened to some “Liberal” radio the other day on Sirius.

Yep, military cuts, they are coming. All to balance the budget, so higher taxes too, see the deficit will be the next big crisis (and they did a pretty good job manufacturing that crisis too).

These guys went on and on about how “worthless” a bomb is, how it’s resources wasted, and if it even is used it destroys resources.
EVIL EVIL EVIL, that’s the military industrial complex. It needs to be eliminated, like all those strategic weapon platforms we waste all that money on. Maybe that’s why Obama has cut off funding the maintenance and upgrades.
And of course they scrapped the F22, and next the F35, just think of all the social programs you could feed with that money. All the hunger, all the homelessness, all the illness, why you could fix it ALL if you just scrapped the whole military.
It’s a one world revolution, we don’t need any of these “security” items now.
We could ensure permanent poverty and government dependency with all that money!

They used Eisenhour’s 1953 “Chance for Peace” speech for some of their arguments.
” Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.

It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”

YEP, it’s criminal to continue any production of war making weapons.
We must outlaw all guns, ammo, and even remove such evil evices from our security forces, police, and the like.
I guess it’ll end up being Obama’s “Civilian Security Force” (AKA ACORN with our confiscated weapons)that will be the only ones armed.

When Obama does pass legislation for us to turn our guns and ammo in, it’ll be ACORN and SEIU that will be “collecting” them.

47. Batman:

RE: AWM @44 — You have identified the invisible subtext for why it is “advantageous” to encumber the economy with cap and trade and health care “reform” and stimulus packages, all of which will reduce GDP and divert resources to more and more entitlements. If we impoverish the economy it will be easier to argue that we can’t afford our expensive military.

RE: LOTM and others — The bad guys are probing and probing and probing for weaknesses. If one puts one’s mind to it, one can surely think of many low tech ways of causing enormous chaos. The Mumbai style is merely one. Destroying freeway interchanges, major hospitals, shopping malls — these are but a few of the key low tech vulnerabilities.

 

Oh!

And just BTW?

While idiots endanger our country, and drive it into ruin, Iran catches fire...

LIVE-BLOGGING the Ashura protests in Iran.

More here.

UPDATE: Still more from Gateway Pundit. And lots of pictures being posted at TwitPic. (Bumped).

ANOTHER UPDATE: Meanwhile, a clandestine operation is underway.

IRAN REVOLUTION: MASSIVE PROTESTS, DEATHS REPORTED, CHAOS UPDATE: Bloodiest Day in Iran since June

Videos posted on Sunday, December 27, 2009 15:07:53  (hat tip sonrise57)

security forces being stormed

the people rise up

more

and more

my life is only for iran they chant

Shots Heard Around National TV & Radio Building « Persian2English's Blog

Nation-wide strike starting tomorrow.Tweet it.

VIdeo: Regime car on Fire

Constantly updating this post. This will be on the top of the blog. Scroll for newer posts:

 

Read my June editorials on Obama and Iran in the American Thinker:

• Honduras and Iran: Obama Betrays Freedom Again

• The Case for Iran: Fighting for Freedom

“Good news. We have captured Tehran. We are going to bring Ahmadinejad down and once again our nations can unite in their battle against fundamentalists. We are about to free Iran. Pray for us.” (Reza in Tehran)

Pandemonium as clashes continue in Tehran for 2nd day as protesters defy Islamic Government (more) Eyewitness reports and opposition websites say Security forces fired on the crowds in several places, wounding many, killing at least four eleven that we know of.

The worst president at the worst of times. We are in Middle East. Let's help these people. We should arm them, We should go in and de-nuke the mullahs. No, instead we are trying Islamic jihad in Gaza and givign them billions.

These people will win. They have right on their side. They wull never forgive us, leaders of the free world, for abandoning them as they were slaughtered. This is a terrible stain on the glory that was once a proud and glorious America.But then again, so is this president.

Most photos thanks to madayar

Deaths reported amid chaos and violence in Iran

>Reporting from Tehran and Beirut - The Iranian capital erupted in massive and fiery morning-to-dusk protests today as tens of thousands of demonstrators clashed with security forces on the occasion of an important Shiite Muslim holiday.

Several witnesses told The Times that Iranian security forces opened fire with live ammunition against unarmed protesters near College Bridge in in the capital. And opposition news websites reported that several protesters had been killed, including Ali Mousavi, the adult nephew of opposition figurehead Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

Reformist websites said he was shot and taken to a Tehran hospital, where his uncle and other relatives soon arrived.

The information could not be independently confirmed, and a police source denied that protesters had been killed in a comment to the pro-government Fars News Agency.

But a witness in front of City Theater in downtown Tehran said she saw a fallen man, apparently stabbed in the back, and spotted another man falling to the ground after a volley of shots was fired near Enghelab Street, which emerged as the epicenter of the day's clashes.

The reports of deaths came during a harrowing day of multiple, rolling clashes between police and Iranian protesters coinciding with an important Ashura religious commemoration as well as the significant seventh day of mourning following the death of the country's leading dissident cleric, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.

Reformist websites and witnesses also reported clashes in the cities of Qom, Esfahan, Najafabad, Kashan, Shiraz, Babol and Mashhad.

Demonstrators vowed to continue the protests into the night, with reformist news websites identifying key Tehran squares for gatherings.

"There is no let-up," said Farzad, a 30-year-old who attended today's protests with his girlfriend. "We will go ahead until we topple the government."

 

 

Across the capital, witnesses described scenes of pandemonium, which were confirmed by video footage posted online. One described Tehran as a war zone, and another likened the situation to open "civil war" as increasingly bold demonstrators took on security forces, in one case stripping a member of the security forces naked before letting him go, a witness said.

Despite a heavy crackdown, the protest movement that emerged from Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election has grown increasingly daring, with those who want abolition of the Islamic Republic increasingly vocal.

Protesters had vowed for weeks to turn today's annual Ashura commemoration marking the 7th century martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the prophet Muhammad, into an anti-government demonstration.

The green-themed protest movement sought to meld its cry of injustice with the emotionally powerful narrative of Imam Hussein, whom Shiites believe was unjustly robbed of his throne as the leader of the faithful when he was cut down in battle by the Yazid on the fields outside Karbala, in what is now southern Iraq.

"This is a month of blood," they chanted. "Yazid will be defeated!" "We will fight, we will die, we will get our country back!" the protesters yelled out, holding ribbons of green.

Black plumes of smoke could be seen rising from downtown Tehran. Video posted online showed protesters beating pro-government militiamen as their motorcycles burned in the background. Helicopters hovered in the skies.

Protesters built fires in trash cans to ward off the effects of tear gas. Witnesses described running street battles between plainclothes and uniformed security officers and demonstrators, some throwing stones, in more than a dozen Tehran localities.

At Enghelab Square, a police car was set ablaze, and protesters set fire to motorcycles belonging to riot police in various locales.

 

Meeting bullets with sheer will

The wail of ambulance sirens could be heard all over the city. Car horns honked on expressways as motorists created traffic jams in an effort to prevent security forces from moving freely. Drivers on nearby streets leaned on their horns and flashed "V" hand signs despite the heavy presence of police deployed around main squares. Passengers on buses could be heard chanting slogans.

 

An Iranian protester holds stones as he stands opposite security forces in Tehran. (AFP / Getty Images / December 27, 2009)

Video: Mousavi Nephew Dies in Streets of Tehran

UPDATE: Security forces beating women.

 

Iran 12/21/09

Posted by Pamela Geller on Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM in Iran: The Revolution | Permalink | Comments (14)

And!

Euro-Med: No, it's not a drug, but it might kill you

Geert Wilders in a speech he made in the US last year:

The Europe as you know it from visiting, from your parents or friends is on the verge of collapsing. We are now witnessing profound changes that will forever alter Europe's destiny and might send the continent in what Ronald Reagan called "a thousand years of darkness".

Been to Europe lately? Thought it was bad? You ain't seen nothing yet. The passage of the Lisbon Treaty, hailed by President Moebama, nailed the coffin shut on national sovereignty. The people of Europe fought it but were overwhelmed by their political elites and the loss of American leadership in a marxist, collectivist US President. Lisbon Treaty II. The Face of Dictatorship: EU Preparing for Armed Gendarmerie Against Treaty-disobedient Populations

The reason why Americans have to care is because this global gobbledygook is coming to America.

READ IT ALL AT THE LINK^

 

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TIPPING POINT? Kindle Milestone: Amazon Sold More Kindle Books Than Physical Books On Xmas. “Yes, this is obviously the result of everyone who got a Kindle for Christmas (lots of folks) firing it up and ordering a bunch of eBooks on a day in which most physical-book readers weren’t shopping. But it’s still important and impressive.”

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UH OH: “Like any good progressive, I’ve gone from admiration to hope to disappointment to anger when it comes to this president. Now I’m fast getting to rage.”

"Hey did you hear about the iconic African-American guy who plays golf, and whose relationship with the public is in a free-fall lately?
No, as a matter of fact I'm not talking about Tiger Woods.
You know, I've really been trying not to write an article every other week about all the things I don't like about Barack Obama.  But the little prick is making it very hard..."

 

 Anti-Americanism: They Still Don’t Love Us.

 

DETROIT TERROR ATTACK “a major intelligence failure.”

 

“Complete and total beclownment.”

What happened to “man-caused disasters”? I thought that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told us that we weren’t going to call it terrorism anymore?

"Napolitano is a complete and utter failure. Which makes her perfect for this administration."

"Clown Janet is at best a worthless parasite, and at worst a clear and present danger to the Republic..."

"Next time you think elections don't matter, remember Detroit..."

Model City

Video of Detroit at link...

h/t Dr. Roy

Posted by Kate at 10:24 PM| Comments (7)

Check this one out as well:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1882089,00.html

www.forgottendetroit.com

OUCH: “The first year of Barack Obama’s presidency. It’s not good when you find yourself repeating the phrase, ‘Yeah I voted for him, what’s it to you?’”

Bush's Fault ^TM!

 

Pathetic. Obama White House Finds Way to Blame Bush for Detroit Terror Attempt

Sunday, December 27, 2009, 6:31 PM

Jim Hoft

This is truly just pathetic.
The Obama White House found a way to blame Bush for the Detroit Christmas Day terror attempt.
Verum Serum reported:

Robert Gibbs and Secretary Napolitano made clear that we are pressing ahead with securing our nation against threats and our aggressive posture in the war with al Qaeda. We are winding down a war in Iraq that took our eye off of the terrorists that attacked us, and have dramatically increased our resources in Afghanistan and Pakistan where those terrorists are. We are putting the pressure on al Qaeda worldwide with all elements of American power, and key al Qaeda leaders have been taken out in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Gibbs also made clear the President refuses to play politics with these issues. As he said in West Point, we must put aside petty politics and recapture the unity that we had after 9/11.

Lastly, Gibbs and Secretary Napolitano announced that the president has asked that the policies and procedures that have been in place the last several years related to watch-listing and all information available on the suspect be reviewed.

Blaming Bush for this flub was a stretch even for Obama.
But, it surprises no one.

Flashback: Charlie Foxtrot predicted this would happen.

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"So, when does the Punch and Judy show start? These rubes don’t know how to tie their own shoelaces."

 

http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=8948.msg71926#msg71926

"Bush pissed people off the right way, by acting in the interests of the US. Obama gets us despised for being a bowing scraping hat in hand pussy. He is a puke.

We have been killing terrorists prolifically for years. Since Obama took over that number of kia a-holes has diminished and our casualties have gone up. I blame OBAMA the twinkle toed c*cksucker. He wouldn't know a troop movement if he stepped in it. He needs to pack his little sh*t and move back to Chicago and take up honest armed robbery for the effing thief and liar he is.

That makes me wonder, if he did follow his calling and started being an honest thief, stealing from folks like other thieves, would the Secret Service still have to protect him from harm?"

 

Mutallab without passport?

by snork ( 85 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Islamic Invasion, Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Political Correctness, Religion at December 27th, 2009 - 8:18 pm

This will be a major embarrassment for “the system worked” Napolitano if true. According to this report in the Detroit Metro, a couple of American attorneys on the flight overheard the following:

Haskell said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with an unidentified man.

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While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, ‘He’s from Sudan and we do this all the time.’”

Mutallab is Nigerian. Haskell believes the man may have been trying to garner sympathy for Mutallab’s lack of documents by portraying him as a Sudanese refugee.

The ticket agent referred Mutallab and his companion to her manager down the hall, and Haskell didn’t see Mutallab again until after he allegedly tried to detonate an explosive on the plane.

Like all of you, I’m awaiting official confirmation or denial, but these sound like credible sources, and this sounds like an incredible FUBAR. The only thing that saved that airplane and the people aboard it is the fact that Allah was out back with a goat when this guy needed his help. No thanks to Homeland Security.

Tags: Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Mutallab
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"So basically, we are stimulating the government bureaucracy."

Posted by Rick
Published: December 27, 2009 - 8:44 PM

If this doesn't tell the tale and piss you off then quite frankly, you're part of the damned problem:

The Dallas Morning News has the story that best exemplifies the $787,000,000,000 economic stimulus.

"AUSTIN - The state received millions of federal dollars from the economic-stimulus package to help poor Texans cut their energy bills, but by the end of last month, just seven homes had been weather-treated under the program. The state has spent $1.8 million of $163 million available over the past four months, with most of it going to administrative costs, such as the salaries of state workers," the Dallas Morning News reported.

So basically, we are stimulating the government bureaucracy.

The government is spending $271,000 per home to winterize it. Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy each shack and give the homeowner some repo'd three bedroom ranch?

The people who voted for this monstrosity need to pay a price... a steep one.

Crossposted(*).

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"...not too surprising. This seems consistent with what Obama believes the US should be. Big, big government, with as many people as possible either working for or relying on the government for their well being."

For the First Time– Plurality in US Now Believe the Obama Stimulus Bill Hurt the Economy

Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:25 PM

Jim Hoft

Obama and Democrats tripled the national deficit in less than one year with their $787 billion failed stimulus.

Obama increased the national debt to $12 Trillion.
And he nearly doubled the unemployment rate from the Bush years since his failed Stimulus Plan was passed.

For the first time a plurality of Americans believe the Pelosi-Obama trillion dollar Stimulus boondoggle hurt the economy rather than helped it.
Rasmussen reported:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 30% of voters nationwide believe the $787-billion economic stimulus plan has helped the economy. However, 38% believe that the stimulus plan has hurt the economy. This is the first time since the legislation passed that a plurality has held a negative view of its impact.

The number who believe that the stimulus plan has hurt the economy rose from 28% in September, to 31% in October, and 34% in November before jumping to 38% this month. The week after the president signed the bill, 34% said it would help the economy, while 32% said it would hurt.

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New Democrat Voter Base:

Union Thugs Force Out Whole Foods CEO

December 27th, 2009

We almost missed this little piece of Christmas cheer from the hardcore radical left, via the Associated Press:

Whole Foods CEO to Give Up Title of Chairman

December 25, 2009

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The chief executive of organic supermarket chain Whole Foods Market Inc. is giving up his title of chairman, following years of petitioning by an activist shareholder to separate the two roles.

Co-founder and CEO John Mackey is voluntarily giving up his chairmanship, a position he’s held since the Austin, Texas, company’s inception in 1978, according to a Thursday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mackey will remain on the board.

Whole Foods said lead director John Elstrott will become chairman. His current position will be discontinued.

At Whole Foods’ annual shareholders meeting in March, CtW Investment Group, a shareholder activist group that works with union pension funds, unsuccessfully proposed that the CEO and chairman roles be separated. The grocer said it has been receiving these proposals for three years.

But in August, CtW raised the stakes by calling for the CEO’s removal. The activist group said an editorial by Mackey opposing President Obama’s health care plan damaged the company’s reputation, especially among its left-leaning customers.

The group said Mackey ”attempted to capitalize on the brand reputation of Whole Foods to champion his personal political views but has instead deeply offended a key segment of Whole Foods consumer base.”

CtW said Mackey has become a ”liability” because of his ”indiscretion.”

The shareholder activist has wanted Mackey to relinquish his chairman title because it believes an independent chairman could improve the company’s stock price performance. CtW noted the stock had fallen 30 percent over the past five years ending Sept. 30, 2008 compared with a 14 percent gain in the S&P 500 Index.

This is how the left rewards people who were foolish enough to believe that Mr. Obama and the Democrats ever wanted an open discussion about healthcare reform.

Lest we forget, Mr. Mackey had the temerity to scribe an editorial in the Wall Street Journal wherein he offered the healthcare insurance system that has worked so well for Whole Foods as an alternative to nationalizing healthcare.

So naturally the radical union thugs at Change to Win (CtW) went after him.

CtW Investment Group – Who We Are

Founded in February 2006, the CtW Investment Group works with pension funds sponsored by unions affiliated with Change to Win, a federation of unions representing nearly 6 million members, to enhance long-term shareholder returns through active ownership.  Members of CtW affiliates participate in Taft-Hartley plans with an estimated $217 billion in assets.

The long-term health of these pension plans, and the retirement security of the workers and families who rely upon them, are threatened by conflicts of interest on Wall Street and in the boardroom, a corporate backlash that seeks to weaken the accountability of executives to shareholders, and outright corporate fraud.

The CtW Investment Group responds to these challenges by organizing workers’ capital into an effective voice for corporate accountability and retirement security.

Shareholder activism around corporate governance can enhance the assets of long-term investors – particularly those of worker funds that are broadly diversified across the whole market.  In addition, activities intended to monitor or influence the management of portfolio companies are consistent with a fiduciary’s obligations under ERISA.

The CtW Investment Group, therefore, develops strategies and initiatives to support efforts by trustees and their pension funds to be responsible active owners. For the 2008 proxy season, for example, we will be opposing the re-election of corporate directors who bear central responsibility for the mortgage market meltdown…

This is what the radical left means by tolerance.

But it is what most people used to call totalitarianism.

(Thanks to Debjeet for the heads up.)

Democrats' Narrative Isn't Selling

 

December 27, 2009 Posted by John at 1:49 PM

Scott Rasmussen finds that for the first time, a plurality of voters say the Democrats' stimulus bill has hurt the economy:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 30% of voters nationwide believe the $787-billion economic stimulus plan has helped the economy. However, 38% believe that the stimulus plan has hurt the economy. This is the first time since the legislation passed that a plurality has held a negative view of its impact.

The number who believe that the stimulus plan has hurt the economy rose from 28% in September, to 31% in October, and 34% in November before jumping to 38% this month.

What explains the increasing number who consider the stimulus plan harmful? My guess is that voters are concluding, based on their own observation, that the stimulus bill has had little positive impact. That being the case, the nearly trillion-dollar debt it incurred is logically seen as a negative factor that outweighs any minor benefit.

In any event, voters plainly are rejecting the Democrats' narrative, which holds that the Obama administration has heroically rescued our economy from the brink of depression. I personally don't think that any actions the government has taken over the last year-plus have helped the economy much (as opposed to the many actions by government over the preceding fifteen years that gave rise to the financial crisis). But if there was any federal action that staved off a worse economic crisis, it could only have been the TARP program--which was, as President Obama always fails to remind us, a Bush administration initiative.

No, Global Warming Cultists, All the Many Data Points Disproving Your Faith-Based Apocalyptic Gospels Can Not Be Dismissed as "Noise in the System"

—Ace

Great post at Innocent Bystanders.

Posted by Ace at 06:46 PM New Comments Thingy

 

10 "noise in the system"?  Didn't you get the memo?  The system worked!   B+!! Eleventy11!!

[backhoe]

Food bank visits go up in affluent American suburb

Ahh, Ø-BaNomics!

Is there anything it can't do?

A decade of high unemployment is looming

You wanted “change” America.

You got it.

California: Running Dry

Mark Landsbaum: California now hobbled; global warming alarmism an all-purpose tyranny

Biased reporting on Climategate (Wash Times Ed.)

Obama's Buddy Chavez Threatens to Nationalize Car Industry: Chávez vs. Toyota

After the Bailouts, Washington's the Boss

I keep telling you all what it really is...

 

Iran Roiled, Crowds Burn Banks, Police Station; Chanting against Theocrat Khamenei;(Cropped)

"Iranian protesters for freedom, we don’t have time for you, our Dear  Ø is out playing golf.

Try rebelling in another 3 years or so. Very busy."

Iranian Protesters Are Dying For Freedom – Where Is Barack Obama?

It’s muslim vs muslim. The sorry assed bastard doesn’t know which side to support.

Percy Sutton dies; His Obama revelation omitted from obituaries

Cancer kids stuck in filthy, rundown rooms Comin' soon via DeathScare...

Winning Quotes in the MRC's Best of NQ Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting

The winning quotes in the MRC's “Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The Twenty-Second Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting.” As announced in a CyberAlert Special last Monday, the awards issue was posted, with videos, on Monday, December 21, but following tradition, today, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday -- the last weekdays of the year -- MRC.org's BiasAlert and corresponding CyberAlert e-mail newsletter will run the winning quotes followed on succeeding days by the runners-up.

The page linked above also has links to download a PDF version or the text of the entire issue in MS Word, OpenOffice Writer or WordPerfect formats.

The Media Research Center's annual awards issue provides a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2009 (December 2008 through November 2009).

To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 48 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers, and media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of five to eight quotes in each category. First place selections were awarded three points, second place choices two points, with one point for the third place selections. Point totals are listed in the brackets at the end of the attribution for each quote. Each judge was also asked to choose a “Quote of the Year” denoting the most outrageous quote of 2009.

The MRC’s Michelle Humphrey, Karen Topper and Kristine Lawrence distributed and counted the ballots, then produced the numerous audio and video clips that accompany the Web-posted version. Rich Noyes and Brent Baker assembled this issue and Brad Ash posted the entire package on the MRC’s Web site. In addition to Rich and Brent, back in November Tim Graham and Geoffrey Dickens helped select the quotes for the ballot and think up category titles.

The list of the judges, who were generous with their time, is posted online and listed below after the winning quotes.

Now, the winning quotes in the 17 award categories (see the “Best Notable Quotables of 2009” pages for video clips of each quote):

The Coronation of the Messiah Award for Fawning Inaugural Coverage

“We know that wind can make a cold day feel colder, but can national pride make a freezing day feel warmer? It seems to be the case because regardless of the final crowd number estimates, never have so many people shivered so long with such joy. From above, even the seagulls must have been awed by the blanket of humanity.”
— ABC's Bill Weir on World News, January 20. [66 points]


Master of His Domain Award for Obama Puffery

“The legislative achievements have been stupendous — the $789 billion stimulus bill, the budget plan that is still being hammered out (and may, ultimately, include the next landmark safety-net program, universal health insurance). There has also been a cascade of new policies to address the financial crisis — massive interventions in the housing and credit markets, a market-based plan to buy the toxic assets that many banks have on their books, a plan to bail out the auto industry and a strict new regulatory regime proposed for Wall Street. Obama has also completely overhauled foreign policy, from Cuba to Afghanistan. ‘In a way, Obama's 100 days is even more dramatic than Roosevelt's,' says Elaine Kamarck of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. ‘Roosevelt only had to deal with a domestic crisis. Obama has had to overhaul foreign policy as well, including two wars. And that’s really the secret of why this has seemed so spectacular.’”
— Time's Joe Klein in the magazine's May 4 cover story on Barack Obama's first 100 days as President. [100 points]


The Crush Rush Award for Loathing Limbaugh

“The type of female that does like Rush is the same type of woman that falls in love with prisoners. You know what I mean? They like Richard Ramirez or — Squeaky Fromme is a good example. I think Charles Manson’s — Eva Braun, Hitler’s girlfriend. That is exactly the type of woman that responds really well to Rush. And there will be some Eva Brauns, Squeaky Frommes out there that will respond really well to this cattle call right now.”
— Actress/activist Janeane Garofalo on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, February 26. [59 points]


Damn Those Conservatives Award

“The Republicans lie! They want to see you dead! They’d rather make money off your dead corpse! They kind of like it when that woman has cancer and they don’t have anything for her.”
— Ed Schultz, host of MSNBC's The Ed Show, September 23. [57 points]


The Poison Tea Pot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabble

CNN analyst David Gergen: “Republicans are pretty much in disarray....They have not yet come up with a compelling alternative, one that has gained popular recognition. So-”
Anderson Cooper: “Teabagging. They’ve got teabagging.”
Gergen: “Well, they’ve got the teabagging....[But] Republicans have got a way — they still haven’t found their voice, Anderson. They’re still — this happens to a minority party after it’s lost a couple of bad elections, but they’re searching for their voice.”
Cooper: “It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging.”
— CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, April 14. “Teabagging” is a vulgar slang term for a certain variety of oral sex; Cooper later apologized. [65 points]


Spread the Wealth Award for Socialist Sermonizing

“Why not just nationalize the banks?...People are angry. There’s so much taxpayer money going into the banks. Why shouldn’t the government — why shouldn’t you just fire the executives who wrecked these banks in the first place and tanked the world’s financial system in the process?”
— ABC's Terry Moran interviewing President Obama for Nightline, February 10. [53 points]


Long Live Camelot Award for Lionizing Ted Kennedy

“Mary Jo wasn’t a right-wing talking point or a negative campaign slogan....We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history....[One wonders what] Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded. Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”
— Discover magazine deputy web editor Melissa Lafsky, who formerly worked on the New York Times’s Freakonomics blog, writing at the Huffington Post, August 27. [107 points]


The Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin

CNN's Jack Cafferty: “Here’s the question: ‘Would you rather listen to a speech by Sarah Palin or a speech by Newt Gingrich?’ Go to CNN — or would you rather just stick needles in your eyes? [Over loud laughter off-camera from a man other than Cafferty, presumably Blitzer] Go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile and you can post a comment on my blog. I forgot about the third option.”
Anchor Wolf Blitzer: “What do you think, Jack? You want to listen to Palin or Gingrich deliver a speech?”
Cafferty: “I’m not interested in listening to either one of them.”
— Exchange on CNN’s The Situation Room, June 9, talking about Palin and Gingrich’s appearance at a Republican fundraiser the previous evening. [53 points]


The Un-Fairness Doctrine Award for Slamming Media Conservatives

“Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat out untrue. But I don’t understand why the White House would give such poisonous helium balloons as Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity the opportunity for still greater spasms of self-inflation by declaring war on Fox....The best antidote to their garbage is elegant, intelligent governance.”
— Time’s Joe Klein on the magazine’s “Swampland” blog, October 23. [62 points]


Let Us Fluff Your Pillow Award for Obsequious Obama Interviews

“You’re so confident, Mr. President, and so focused. Is your confidence ever shaken? Do you ever wake up and say, ‘Damn, this is hard. Damn, I’m not going to get the things done I want to get done, and it’s just too politicized to really get accomplished the big things I want to accomplish’?”
— CBS’s Katie Couric in an exchange with Obama shown on The Early Show, July 22. [92 points]


Barry’s Big Brain Award for Journalists Bedazzled by Obama’s Brilliance

“I like to say that, in some ways, Barack Obama is the first President since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office. I mean, from visionary leader of a giant movement, now he’s got an executive position that he has to perform in, in a way.”
— ABC Nightline co-anchor Terry Moran to Media Bistro’s Steve Krakauer in a February 20 “Morning Media Menu” podcast. [82 points]


The Audacity of Dopes Award for Wackiest Analysis of the Year

“Reagan [at the 1984 D-Day commemoration] was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, ‘We are above that now. We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something.’ I mean, in a way, Obama’s standing above the country, above — above the world. He’s sort of God. He’s going to bring all different sides together.”
— Newsweek’s Evan Thomas to host Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball, June 5. [79 points]


The Obamagasm Award for Seeing Coolness In Everything Obama Does

Correspondent John Harwood: “He had this fly that was persistently buzzing around him....He swatted his hand and he said, ‘I got the sucker.’ He threw it onto the ground. It was a, you know, Dirty Harry ‘make my day’ moment.”...
MSNBC anchor David Shuster: “Amazing...An amazing interview....It never fails — great weather, rainbows, incredible speeches, and three-point basket. A fly and he nails it. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.”
— Exchange on MSNBC after Harwood’s CNBC interview with President Obama concluded, June 16. [76 points]


Michelle, the Media Belle Award

Correspondent Dawna Friesen: “Her husband is, of course, the big star of the show, but this is Michelle Obama’s first foray on to the global stage as First Lady. And you can bet that her every move, her every fashion decision will be dissected and analyzed, especially when the couple go to meet the Queen. But she’s got a lot of good will on her side.”
Video of Michelle Obama as Andy Williams sings: “You’re just too good to be true/Can’t take my eyes off of you.”
Friesen, as song continues playing in background: “Ask the British about Michelle Obama, and you’ll hear a lot of what you hear in the States.”
Woman on the street: “Oh, I think she’s really cool. She’s got a lot of really good styles. It makes a change from politicians’ wives to look good.”
Man on the street: “She looks supportive and that’s what a man needs in life.”
Second man: “I have been totally stunned at the awesome nature of Michelle Obama.”...
Friesen: “Then there’s those arms, the envy of a lot of British women....”
— NBC’s Today, March 31. [66 points]


Media Hero Award

“I’m honored to be joined today by the Godfather of Green, the King of Conservation: Former Vice President Al Gore.”
— Katie Couric opening her November 2 “@KatieCouric” CBSNews.com webcast. [69 points]


The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity

Actor Denis Leary: “I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how’s that for prejudice on the Democratic side?”...
Fill-in host Joy Behar: “What do you think of Obama’s pick of Sotomayor?”
Leary: “Fantastic!”
Behar: “You love her?”
Leary: “Everything you ask me about President Obama I’m just going to say it’s the greatest thing ever. I love the guy!”
— Exchange on CNN’s Larry King Live, May 29. [53 points]


Quote of the Year

“Mary Jo wasn’t a right-wing talking point or a negative campaign slogan....We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history....[One wonders what] Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded. Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”
— Discover magazine deputy web editor Melissa Lafsky, who formerly worked on the New York Times’s Freakonomics blog, writing at the Huffington Post, August 27.

Baucus: Was He Drunk, Or Is He Stupid?

Andrea Mitchell is Stuck on Stupid (Compares Gov. Sarah Palin to Gov. George Wallace)

Residents fleeing liberal states

Flight 253 and Counterterror’s Epic Fail

Detroit explosive common, easily detectible

Unfortunately, easy to make
plans readily available on the Internet...

http://www.powerlabs.org/chemlabs/petn.htm

Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane

A Look At The Security Around Obama's $8.9 Million Hawaiian Getaway (Photos + Video)

Unconnected dots, yet again, on a terror attempt

The First 12 Months of Obama Captivity: Preparing for Eradication(America will pay dearly)

OBAMA'S "CZARS"-- Read who they are and realize what they want to do. OBAMA'S CZARS CZAR

Czar Position

Summary >

ps2's 'A List of Obama's Czar's And What They Want To Do'

Richard Holbrooke, AfghanistanCzar

Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Dissolve the 2nd Amendment

Ed Montgomery, Auto recovery Czar

Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.

Jeffrey Crowley, AIDS Czar

Radical Homosexual. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and especially, a Special Status for homosexuals only, includingcomplete free health care for gays.

Alan Bersin, Border Czar

The former failed superintendent of San Diego . Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno – to keep borders open to illegal’s without interference from US

David J. Hayes, California Water Czar

Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, “Progress Policy”. No training or experience in water management whatsoever.

Ron Bloom, Car Czar

Auto Union worker. Anti business & anti nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen? He has publically said."the free market is a joke".

Dennis Ross, Central Region Czar

Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti gun and completely pro abortion.

Lynn Rosenthal, Domestic Violence Czar

Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist. Supported male castration. Imagine?

Gil Kerlikowske, Drug Czar

devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, Former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs

Paul Volcker, Economic Czar

Head of Fed Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy.. Member of anti business “Progressive Policy” organization

Carol Brower, Energy and Environment Czar

Political Radical Former head of EPA - known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.

Joshua DuBois, Faith Based Czar

Political Black activist. zegree in Black Nationalism. Anti gun ownership lobbyist.

Cameron Davis, Great Lakes Czar

Chicago radical anti business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for “Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink.” No experience or training in water management. Former ACORN Board member (what does that tell us?)

____________________ (Replacement for Van Jones), Green Jobs Czar

(since resigned).. Black activist Member of American communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party who said Geo Bush caused the 911 attack and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes. Black activist with strong anti-white views.

____________________(Replacement for Daniel Fried), Guantanamo Closure Czar

Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the war on terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, Health Czar

Former head of Medicare / Medicaid.. Strong Health Care Rationing proponent. She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.

Vivek Kundra, Information Czar

Born in New Delhi, India. Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (hello?)

Todd Stern, International Climate Czar

Anti business former White House chief of Staff- Strong supportrer of the Kyoto Accord. Pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- US business prosperity.

Dennis Blair, Intelligence Czar

Ret Navy. Stopped US guided missile program as “provocative”. Chair of ultra liberal “Council on Foreign Relations” which blames American organizations for regional wars.

George Mitchell, Mideast Peace Czar

Fmr. Sen from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into “2 or 3 “ smaller more manageable plots”. (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual "special rights" advocate

Kenneth Feinberg, Pay Czar

Chief of Staff to TED KENNEDY. Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs. (horribly true)

Cass Sunstein, Regulatory Czar

Liberal activist judge believes free speech needs to be limited for the “common good”. Essentially against 1st amendment. Rules against personal freedoms many times –like private gun ownership and right to free speech.

John Holdren, Science Czar

Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, Anti business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training.

Earl Devaney, Stimulus Accountability Czar

Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico . Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico .

J. Scott Gration, Sudan Czar

Native of Democratic Republic of Congo. Believes US does little to help Third World countries.. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations

Herb Allison, TARP Czar

Fannie May CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.

John Brennan, Terrorism Czar

Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military

Aneesh Chopra, Technology Czar

No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti doctor activist. Supports Obama Health care Rationing and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Gov. health care plan

Adolfo Carrion, Jr., Urban Affairs Czar

Puerto Rican born Anti American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire “slum lord” of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from “sweetheart” deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and health care

Ashton Carter, Weapons Czar

Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America .. No Other “policy”

Gary Samore, WMD Policy Czar

Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other “policy”.

Kevin Jennings, ‘Safe Schools’ Czar

The one who demonstrated how to fist her partner to a 14-year old. Wants to promote pedophilia in public school libraries and text books.

15 posted on Monday, December 28, 2009 1:36:39 AM by combat_boots

 

Kevin Jennings GLSEN Fistgate: More Student X-Rated Questions Revealed

 

U.S. Quietly Takes Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Stronghold-(not "part of anything larger")

25 Brits in jet bomb plots (returning Yemen to UK early 2010-await instructions)

Crisis on Vacation...how the media Treats Obama Vs Bush From Wash. Times

America has been begging for Royalty and now they have it.

First Case of Drug-Resistant TB Discovered in U.S.

Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke

ARSON RAMPAGE LEAVES 2 DEAD 18 blazes within 2 hours...

I’ve Had Enough!

Penetration Even At The Pentagon: Muslim Spies Setting Muslim Policy

Investor's Business Daily ^

 

The First 12 Months of Obama Captivity: Preparing for Eradication(America will pay dearly)

OBAMA'S "CZARS"-- Read who they are and realize what they want to do. OBAMA'S CZARS CZAR

Czar Position

Summary >

ps2's 'A List of Obama's Czar's And What They Want To Do'

Richard Holbrooke, AfghanistanCzar

Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Dissolve the 2nd Amendment

Ed Montgomery, Auto recovery Czar

Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.

Jeffrey Crowley, AIDS Czar

Radical Homosexual. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and especially, a Special Status for homosexuals only, includingcomplete free health care for gays.

Alan Bersin, Border Czar

The former failed superintendent of San Diego . Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno – to keep borders open to illegal’s without interference from US

David J. Hayes, California Water Czar

Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, “Progress Policy”. No training or experience in water management whatsoever.

Ron Bloom, Car Czar

Auto Union worker. Anti business & anti nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen? He has publically said."the free market is a joke".

Dennis Ross, Central Region Czar

Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti gun and completely pro abortion.

Lynn Rosenthal, Domestic Violence Czar

Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist. Supported male castration. Imagine?

Gil Kerlikowske, Drug Czar

devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, Former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs

Paul Volcker, Economic Czar

Head of Fed Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy.. Member of anti business “Progressive Policy” organization

Carol Brower, Energy and Environment Czar

Political Radical Former head of EPA - known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.

Joshua DuBois, Faith Based Czar

Political Black activist. zegree in Black Nationalism. Anti gun ownership lobbyist.

Cameron Davis, Great Lakes Czar

Chicago radical anti business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for “Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink.” No experience or training in water management. Former ACORN Board member (what does that tell us?)

____________________ (Replacement for Van Jones), Green Jobs Czar

(since resigned).. Black activist Member of American communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party who said Geo Bush caused the 911 attack and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes. Black activist with strong anti-white views.

____________________(Replacement for Daniel Fried), Guantanamo Closure Czar

Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the war on terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, Health Czar

Former head of Medicare / Medicaid.. Strong Health Care Rationing proponent. She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.

Vivek Kundra, Information Czar

Born in New Delhi, India. Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (hello?)

Todd Stern, International Climate Czar

Anti business former White House chief of Staff- Strong supportrer of the Kyoto Accord. Pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- US business prosperity.

Dennis Blair, Intelligence Czar

Ret Navy. Stopped US guided missile program as “provocative”. Chair of ultra liberal “Council on Foreign Relations” which blames American organizations for regional wars.

George Mitchell, Mideast Peace Czar

Fmr. Sen from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into “2 or 3 “ smaller more manageable plots”. (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual "special rights" advocate

Kenneth Feinberg, Pay Czar

Chief of Staff to TED KENNEDY. Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs. (horribly true)

Cass Sunstein, Regulatory Czar

Liberal activist judge believes free speech needs to be limited for the “common good”. Essentially against 1st amendment. Rules against personal freedoms many times –like private gun ownership and right to free speech.

John Holdren, Science Czar

Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, Anti business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training.

Earl Devaney, Stimulus Accountability Czar

Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico . Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico .

J. Scott Gration, Sudan Czar

Native of Democratic Republic of Congo. Believes US does little to help Third World countries.. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations

Herb Allison, TARP Czar

Fannie May CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.

John Brennan, Terrorism Czar

Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military

Aneesh Chopra, Technology Czar

No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti doctor activist. Supports Obama Health care Rationing and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Gov. health care plan

Adolfo Carrion, Jr., Urban Affairs Czar

Puerto Rican born Anti American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire “slum lord” of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from “sweetheart” deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and health care

Ashton Carter, Weapons Czar

Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America .. No Other “policy”

Gary Samore, WMD Policy Czar

Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other “policy”.

Kevin Jennings, ‘Safe Schools’ Czar

The one who demonstrated how to fist her partner to a 14-year old. Wants to promote pedophilia in public school libraries and text books.

[backhoe]

FR Exclusive: AL Qaeda Takes Responsibility For The Terrorist Attempt On The Plane In Detroit

Why Do They Persist?

Subliminal Road to Tyranny

Obama Quietly Changes U.S. Immigration Policy

Rasmussen: 79% Say Another Attack Likely Within A Year, An Increase of 30%  ( see above^ )

'There are many more like me': Jet bomber's chilling warning as MI5 hunt terror cell behind attack

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: there are many more like me (Buckle up, it's going to be a rough 3 years)

They would pass it off on some bogus defect in the aircraft, like they did with TWA 800.

Interestingly enough, the same area where Abdulmutallab was seated on Flight 253 (seat 19A) was covered with residue from the same explosive (PETN) on TWA 800 (see below).

The New York Times even reported it...

... until they got their marching orders from the Clinton administration. Then it was dismissed as residue from a bomb-sniffing dog exercise in St. Louis.

This is why TWA 800 still matters.

FLIGHT 253; NAPOLITANO SAYS "SYSTEM WORKED" NO, WAIT "SYSTEM DIDN'T WORK"

Not so Liberating: The Twilight of Liberation Theology

Tea Parties: The Biggest Mistake We'll Make in 2010

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, PART 1: (UNDER 8 MINUTES)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk1bGBY3BcE

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, PART 2: (UNDER 8 MINUTES)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ylFTOObbF0

Man Who Told of Obama's Islamic Benefactor Passes Away

Reaction Coverage.....Obama vs. Bush

What if Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Had Succeeded?

'Global War On Terror' Is Given New Name; Bush's Phrase Is Out, Pentagon Says (24 March 2009)

Obama's Image: What a Difference a Year Makes(There are thorns all over the Rose image)

Raw, Stunning Footage Of Iran Protesters Saving Prisoners From Getting Hanged

Media cover-up of Democrat responsibility for the mortgage meltdown changed the course of the nation

Revenge of the ‘Shoe Bomber’

Now, Michelle Obama too is sliding in the polls (Down 36 points from all time high alert)

Long Beach's Black Gold: Oil Reserves Could Help Financial Woes

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TMZ Falls For JFK Photo Hoax ( don't trust trash TMZ)

John F. Kennedy appeared to be on boat full of naked women

Those who doubt the photos authenticity should read the TMZ article. They do a good job of verifying it.

 

RIGHT CLICK HERE to view the photo in HIGH RESOLUTION, then select "OPEN IN NEW WINDOW."

(If it won't open ... RIGHT CLICK HERE, choose "SAVE LINK AS" and then save it to your desktop. Then DOUBLE CLICK the saved file on your desktop.)

Bush vs. JFK War Record

President	War	Dead	Result
Bush	Afghanistan	620 U.S.	Taliban gone (hiding & shivering in caves), terrorist training camps mostly gone.
	Iraq	4200 US	Hussein gone, 500 tons of yellowcake removed, Iraq safer than Chicago for American young men.
JFK	Bay of Pigs	4000 dead	Disaster, embarassment and military/international/diplomatic humiliation.
	Vietnam	60,000 US dead, 1 million Asians dead	Unmitigated disaster. After 10 years and thousands of US lives, Communists take over. US reputation and prestige destroyed.
	Cuban Missile Crisis	Could have been millions	Very nearly starts World War III over Cuba. Missiles quietly moved back later.

 

Police: Twitter used to avoid DUI checkpoints

Mt. Redoubt breathing again?

Top Ten Space Pictures: Best of 2009

Drug-resistant urinary tract infections spreading worldwide

877 New Snowfall Records Set Or Tied In Last Week

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It's Not the Economy, Stupid! It's National Survival!

Suicide Bomb Blast In Pakistan Caught on Tape - Video

This is our future...

Wonderful : Two Flight 253 plotters were released from Gitmo in 2007

Yemen terror camps attract 'stream of Britons'

CBS News Goes Beyond Bias in Obama Article

Obama’s role for the Left: Mood Ring [Darleen Click] UPDATED

Some of Jeff Goldstein’s more disingenious and dishonest critics of his work in intentionalism would have you believe the subject too esoteric to be of any use in “real” life — “normal” people just wouldn’t “get it.”

However, “normal” people do get it when anything they say or do — as long as it is in disagreement with Leftist dogma — is summarily dismissed as racism

For years now, those on the left have conflated resistance to any item of their agenda–high taxes, extravagant spending, laxity on crime, what have you–with motives of a dark nature: racism, nativism, fear of “the other,” and various species of “hate.” Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, a reaction to overregulation, stagflation, and the foreign policy failures and weakness of one James Earl Carter, was described as the bigots’ revenge for the civil rights era. The midterm elections of 1994, a reaction against Hillarycare and the Clintons’ malfeasance, were seen as a Confederate renaissance. After Bill Clinton was impeached for lies under oath (and terminal tackiness), his allies floated the theory that some of the votes against him came from Southern conservatives, because he was friendly to blacks. (As the “first black president”–vide Toni Morrison–Clinton was fond of this sort of rhetorical legerdemain until 2008, when his wife ran against a real black for president, and these tactics were turned against him.)

But it was the appearance in 2009 of the real first black president that lifted this theme to a whole new level: The left, which invented first “hate speech” (opinions they didn’t like) and then “hate crimes” (crimes judged less on the criminal’s actions than on what he was presumed to be thinking), has now gone on to its epiphany, which is “hate” defined not by your words or deeds but by what other people have decided you really think. “Hate” is no longer what you do or say, but what a liberal says that you think and projects on to you. You are punished for what someone else claims you were thinking. It hardly makes sense, but it does serve a political purpose. You could call it Secondhand Hate.

We know why the Left engages in such dishonest tactics; our real fight is with our own self-identified “allies”, the Frums or Parkers or Brooks, who tut-tut and decry the opposition to the Obama Administration as unseemly, raising a pinky finger or a well-groomed eyebrow over rhetoric they deem too harsh against a “good man.” What drives them to lecture on bi-partisan collegiality appears less than the oft declared pragmatism and more the base, human emotion of wanting to belong to the “winning” team. American Left dominated media, entertainment, government and higher education doesn’t leave a lot of room for dissenters to actually dissent and be taken seriously. Example one: witness how the sexual slang term “teabagger” is now considered acceptable amongst Left dominated media. Example two: the media’s non-coverage of Dem Senator Max Baucus’ drunken behavior on the Senate floor or his L’Affaire Hanes.

In the midst of volley after volley of “you oppose Obama only because he’s black!” it really isn’t surprising to see many of the higher profile cocktail circuit “conservatives” try to preserve their parlor poodle status. What is surprising is that too many in the so-called conservative blogsphere would want to emulate them. How risible does the Left push of their race card have to be:

At Salon, Joan Walsh said, “Wilson’s shriek [it was more like a mutter] served as an exclamation point on an undeniable trend: Obama steadily lost support among white voters during this long, hot summer of hate.”

Could Obama’s support have dwindled because middle America had become estranged, then appalled, by the spiraling deficits and Obama’s health care proposal? Certainly not. It was because the right wing somehow “blackened Obama,” informing people who might not have noticed that the president was not all that white. “I started thinking opponents were blackening Obama back in July, after the racial drama of the Sotomayor hearings,” Walsh said. In fact, that “racial drama,” such as it was, was the work of Democrats who stressed Sotomayor’s ethnic background to appeal to Hispanic voters. But to Walsh it evoked the ethnic background of Barack Obama, which must have ticked off–again–all those evil conservatives. “There’s no denying, he got blacker to a segment of the white population,” Walsh asserted.

Really? By Walsh’s logic, Obama must have been light beige through much of the summer of 2008 (when he held a slight point lead over McCain), then become a bit browner after the Republican convention (when McCain led by a bit), then lightened again at the financial meltdown in mid-September, and become moon-like in his paleness by Election Day, when he carved out a seven-point win. From then, he must have turned pearl-white by his Inauguration, at which point he was approved of even by people who voted against him and basked in favorable ratings of nearly 70 percent. Then, in late spring, he once more grew darker, a trend that continues. Or perhaps his approval ratings simply fell because he was a man trying to govern from the left in what is and remains a center-right country? Perish the thought.

… before people finally reject this self-serving supplantation of intentionalism with judgment by perception?

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UPDATE: Twatwaffle Andrea Mitchell plays the latest race card

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell insisted the “Obama Doctrine” has “borne fruit,” but “it is not perceived yet” — though the President has already “united the world behind the United States.”

Citing all those who “camped out” for the Sarah Palin book signings, Mitchell denigrated her appeal as evidence of how “they are so hungry for a symbol for anyone who can give them answers” it shows “there’s an anger out there” she hasn’t seen since George Wallace in 1968. And that, she maintained, “is the angry populism which is not fact-based, it’s just furious at everybody; angry at Democrats, at Republicans.” (Apparently, favoring conservative policies and rejecting liberal big government spending is “not fact-based.”)

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"Yes, Andrea, the Grad-Student-in-Chief has indeed “united the world behind the United States”. Primarily they’re standing back there pointing and snickering at the clueless n00b who seems to think that his Unprecedented Charm And Charisma can make rogue states play nice, while working tirelessly to ensure that one of the world’s great economic powers will soon be a long-term distant second to themselves."

 

#86-“W’s victory in 2004. The look on the deranged moonbat faces was priceless.” Sadly, however, that was the time when too many Republicans forgot who they worked for, and began to entertain the bizarre idea that importing an underclass predisposed to vote against them would somehow magically work out if they all just put on sombreros and smiled a lot. Add one bridge to nowhere too many and one bathroom wide stance too many and it all came crashing down like a house of cards in 2006.

 

#79-Comment by happyfeet on 12/28 @ 1:17 pm #

ONE of the greatest living US writers has praised terrorists as “very brave people” and used drug culture slang to describe the “amazing high” suicide bombers must feel before blowing themselves up.

Kurt Vonnegut, author of the 1969 anti-war classic Slaughterhouse Five, made the provocative remarks during an interview in New York for his new book, Man Without a Country, a collection of writings critical of US President George W. Bush. Vonnegut, 83, has been a strong opponent of Mr Bush and the US-led war in Iraq, but until now has stopped short of defending terrorism.

But in discussing his views with The Weekend Australian, Vonnegut said it was “sweet and honourable” to die for what you believe in, and rejected the idea that terrorists were motivated by twisted religious beliefs.

“They are dying for their own self-respect,” he said. “It’s a terrible thing to deprive someone of their self-respect. It’s like your culture is nothing, your race is nothing, you’re nothing.”

Asked if he thought of terrorists as soldiers, Vonnegut, a decorated World War II veteran, said: “I regard them as very brave people, yes.”

He equated the actions of suicide bombers with US president Harry Truman’s 1945 decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On the Iraq war, he said: “What George Bush and his gang did not realise was that people fight back.”

Vonnegut suggested suicide bombers must feel an “amazing high”. He said: “You would know death is going to be painless, so the anticipation - it must be an amazing high.”

that’s mostly been scrubbed from the internet… found that excerpt at LGF…

"Pride comes from effort and achievement, not from largesse handed out by guilty white liberals."

Posted by Rick
Published: December 28, 2009 - 12:10 PM

Inspired by Disney's The Princess and The Frog, Bookworm has written a provocative piece that I believe ought to be read widely:

The result of post-Civil Rights liberal meddling is 40+ years of learned helplessness in the black community, and the profound sense of inferiority that goes along with that kind of helplessness. Blacks can talk about "Black pride," and celebrate Black History month, but the savvy ones know it's a sham. Their wings have been clipped. Pride comes from effort and achievement, not from largesse handed out by guilty white liberals. (Incidentally, if anyone is getting the wrong idea at about this point, I am not arguing that blacks are inferior. I believe that blacks are in every respect equal to whites, or any other race. I am arguing that the legacy of the American Civil Rights movement is a black community that has been trained to be helpless and that therefore views itself as inferior.)

And that's where The Princess and the Frog comes in. Early Disney fairy tales assured young girls that if they were very meek and worked hard to serve others, they would succeed. (Snow White and Cinderella, for example.) At least one movie emphasized sleep as a useful virtue (that would be Sleeping Beauty). In recent years, girls have been encouraged to be feisty and to rebel against whatever it is their life happens to be. (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and Mulan spring to mind.)

While the more recent movies have a much less passive message than the old ones (and I'm not knocking the old ones; I love them), they still don't offer much in the way of life advice. Rebellion, pretty much for the sake of rebellion, is not a useful tool. This is especially true for the black community, which has locked itself in a victim mentality that routinely sees its members cutting off their noses to spite their faces, just to make the point that the white establishment can boss them around. The relentless push for ebonics education, a sure way to keep blacks mired in the ghetto and out of the money jobs, is a perfect illustration of this reactive, rather than proactive, tendency.

The Princess and the Frog, however, offers an entirely new message: Find your talent, pick a goal, and work really, really hard. Oh, and find support in your family values and your community. And also . . . don't rely on other people. You are responsible for your own success. If obstacles stand in your way, don't give up. Keep going . . . and going . . . and going.

It's rather embarrassing that this obvious life lesson -- find a goal, work hard, and stay focused -- had to come from a paternalistic white corporation. Regardless of the source, however, the lesson is an important one for all people. And, sadly, it's an especially important one for youngsters in the black community, all of whom have been told for more than forty years that they way to get ahead is to be first in line at the government hand-out center.

Pass it on.

And say a prayer for Bookie... you know she'll be branded a bigot by the race-pimps and their psycophants.

Crossposted(*).

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AMERICANS FOR LIMITED GOVERNMENT RELEASE 'BLUE DOG' DEMOCRATS' VOTING RECORDS

Jihad 101 (we have a complete unmitigated Jackass protecting us Americans. od Help us)

I haven't seen such deer-in-the-headlights look since Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco after Katrina.

EXCLUSIVE: Photos of the Northwest Airlines Bomb

Am I blind or do those look more like women’s panties?

He’s now known as the “panty bomber”

Debka: Iran reels toward popular-religious uprising amid spiraling bloodshed

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4820530.Tornado_to_the_rescue/

Tornado to the rescue

 

MORE than 100 commuters left freezing when their modern electric trains broke down in a snowstorm had to be rescued by a steam locomotive.

The Tornado, which was made in the North-East from blueprints almost 50 years old, was the only train capable of rescuing London city workers when their trains ground to a halt because of the bad weather.

The Darlington-built steam engine, the first main line locomotive to be built in Britain for more than 40 years, was one of only a handful of engines left operating in Kent when the winter weather struck on Monday.

The £2m Peppercorn class locomotive, which was built from scratch by volunteers, was pulling The Cathedrals’ Express from London to Dover.

Tornado pulled two trains along the route that day, and on the second journey it became apparent that scores of commuters were faced with the possibility of a night stuck in the capital.

So organisers of the privately- operated tour, Steam Dreams, invited the marooned passengers to hop on board.

Mark Allatt, the chairman of the A1 Steam Locomotive trust, which owns and operates Tornado, said: “We were more or less the only train working that day.

“I think I only saw two trains the whole day.

“There were a lot of people stranded there on the platform and we were going to the same places so we invited them on board.

“A lot of them didn’t even realise they were on a steam train until we came round selling souvenirs.

“They were all extremely grateful and one or two even bought souvenirs.”

Tornado was able to operate effectively because many of the southern rail networks use electric trains, which use a “third rail” to provide power to the engine.

But the snow and ice meant they were unable to access this power source. Because Tornado is coal-powered, it had no such trouble.

Mr Allatt said: “I have made an offer to some of the railway operating companies that if they are interested in buying any steam locomotives I would be happy to give them a quote.

“Monday’s Cathedrals’ Expresses were Tornado’s last main-line trains of her first year of operations.

“Not only are we delighted that she was able to brave the Arctic weather to haul two of the few trains to run in Kent on Monday, but we were pleased to be able to help some of London’s stranded commuters to get home in style.”

Tornado has returned to the region and is undergoing winter maintenance at the National Railway Museum, in York.

It will remain there until early February, and will be on public display in the workshop between January 1 and 20.

■ The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has DVD copies of the BBC documentary Absolutely Chuffed: The Men Who Built a Steam Engine.

The disc contains extra footage not shown on the TV programme.

It costs £14.99 and can be ordered from the trust’s website – a1steam.com – where more information about future Tornado journeys can be found.

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Climategate – the semi-prequel

by snork ( 43 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Free Speech, Global Warming Hoax, Politics, Science, Technology at December 28th, 2009 - 11:00 am

This is a long one, but it’s because it’s filled with gems that are so valuable, they can’t be cut.

As the Climategate story was breaking, I wrote a couple of pieces entitled “Climate – the prequel“, and “Climaegate the pre-prequel“. The first was about Melanie Phillips sounding the alarm bell in 2007 about chicanery at the CRU. The second was about the 1961 speech by Dwight Eisenhower, in which he warned us about the dangers of a government-science complex. This fits between those, dating from 1974.

On Dec 24, I wrote up a piece on an abysmally poor science experiment that the BBC showed, and related it to what Richard Feynman referred to as “Cargo Cult Science”. Having re-read the 1974 speech that I had linked in that article, I was struck by how many things that he said in that speech that were directly relevant and directly in contradiction to the conduct of the CRU scientists, and their apologists. Here, again, is the speech (sorry; it’s in PDF format). I will excerpt the relevant paragraph in which he defines Cargo Cult Science:

In the South Seas there is a Cargo Cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas – he’s the controller – and they wait for the airplanes to land. They’re doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn’t work. No airplanes land. So I call these things Cargo Cult Science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they’re missing something essential, because the planes don’t land.

That’s the description of “Cargo Cult Science”. He goes on to say:

Now it behooves me, of course, to tell you what they’re missing. But it would be just about as difficult to explain to the South Sea Islanders how they have to arrange things so that they get some wealth in their system. It is not something simple like telling them how to improve the shapes of the earphones. But there is one feature I notice that is generally missing in Cargo Cult Science. That is the idea that we all hope you have learned in studying science in school – we never explicitly say what this is, but just hope that you catch on by all the examples of scientific investigation . It is interesting, therefore, to bring it out now and speak of it explicitly. It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty – a kind of leaning over backwards.

Keep that in mind as you read the CRUtape letters™.

For example, if you’re doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid – not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you’ve eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked—to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.

Well, well. It’s almost as if Dr. Feynman read the CRUtape letters in 1974. Here’s CRUtape letter 942777075.txt:

From: Phil Jones <p.jones@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: ray bradley <rbradley@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>,mann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, mhughes@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@xxxxxxxxx.xxx,t.osborn@xxxxxxxxx.xxx

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm, Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow. I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd  from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got  April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for  1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C  wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

Apologists (we all know who they are) are claiming that the “trick”, and “hiding the decline” are no big deal in the big picture, since they don’t impact the ultimate IPCC findings. That’s largely true, but misses the key point that Feynman was making – that it’s the scientist’s responsibility to be scrupulous in making sure that his personal biases don’t affect the work. In this case, it’s even worse than that – there’s an open conspiracy – yes that’s a correct usage of the word – to mislead. What this exposes about the mindset and the group dynamic flies completely in the face of the scrupulous, as Feynman puts it “leaning over backward”, openness and honesty.

Feynman continues:

Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can – if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong – to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the Finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.

This brings up a broader issue not really related to the work that CRU does, but the work that the modelers do – can they predict anything, including the behavior of the earth in the 20th century, with their models? To make a long story short, not without embedding prior knowledge into them. In other words, they fail this test.

Feynman continues:

In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

The Climategate affair was entirely about people wanting to repeat the science, and having to use FOIA requests to demand the data (which wouldn’t have been necessary if they had been behaving like good scientists as Feynman describes), and Jones et al still refusing. It’s again as if Feynman was talking about Jones, et all in 1974.

Feynman goes on:

We’ve leaned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and Find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature’s phenomena will agree or they’ll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven’t tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it’s this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.

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once you see this you will be astounded!

http://joannenova.com.au/global-warming/climategate-30-year-timeline/

30 years of Climategate in the making!

Mike C. gets the hattip for this one…

Why Global Warming Science was Doomed from the Start

The canary in the coal mine right from the start was the fact that political considerations and profit were a driving force behind global warming science ... and in that, the science was destined to become corrupt and to lose it's aversion to secracy and outright lies. As a result, those scientists who "believe" in AGW have become more politician than scientist, more activist that dispassionate researcher, more money counter than data counter, more fraudster than honest advocate ... and all because they took their marching orders from corrupt politicians and billionaires who were willing to shovel massive quantities of money into a scientific discipline ... as long as the results helped "push the process in the right direction".

Hans Von Storch on Good Science:

We—society and climate researchers—need to discuss now what constitutes "good science." Some think good science is a societal institution that produces results that serve an ideology. Take, for instance, the counsel that then-Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen gave to scientists at a climate change conference in March, as transcribed by Environmental Research Letters: "I would give you the piece of advice, not to provide us with too many moving targets, because it is already a very, very complicated process. And I need your assistance to push this process in the right direction, and in that respect, I need fixed targets and certain figures, and not too many considerations on uncertainty and risk and things like that."

In the UK, bloggers and a few journalists are waking up to another sickening fact about "the science" ... AGW has been driven by one motive in the end, and one motive alone ... profit.

The following are some fascinating reads from EU Referendum, where the blood hounds of that blog are onto the scent ... and it ain't pretty:

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Posted by Paul at 10:18 AM

 

Beware the Cold

We've been crowing on this blog that global warming is child's play compared to global cooling. A cooling planet is guaranteed to spell death on a massive scale. Global Warming, on the other hand, has always spelled good times for all species ... in fact, in order for Global Warming to cause the calamity predicted by warmists, it'd have to behave differently than in the past.

Furthermore, how tragic that the loons ... and that includes the ordinary citizens that give Global Warming leadership its moral authority, have the entire creative power of humanity focussed on the global warming canard, when our planet may be giving us very clear early warnings of global cooling. What a pathetic farce it will be, if we should have been expending our efforts in preparing for shorter growing seasons and crushing winters, instead of suffering the arrogant preachings of the warming gods.

As I sit here and write this from the comfort of my home, protected by a modern structure, heated with carbon spewing natural gas, the minus 30C outside seems a mere inconvenience ... we'll get by in Canada, come cold or hot ... but any hiccup in our ability to produce surplus cereal crops will spell trouble for the world's poor ... any hiccup in Europe’s, China's, and America's ability to produce massive surpluses will spell suffering on a scale hard to fathom. The day may come when all of humanity will be wishing that the global warming fanatics had been right.

For now, northern hemispheric cold snaps can be brushed off as weather, but if and when northern growing seasons begin to shorten, all bets will be off. All it'll take is one northern hemispheric summer "cold snap" to plunge the world into chaos. Cold, is that dangerous.

Posted by Paul at 9:30 AM

 

Climategate - An in-depth Analysis

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Two al Qaeda Leaders Behind Northwest Flight 253 Terror Plot Were Released by U.

Yeah, I know-- Boosh's Fault! But Fearless Reader is Duh!1 you fools hired to deal with it- so deal with it now!

 

Today Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attempted bombing of a Delta Airlines plane as it approached Detroit on a flight from Amsterdam with almost 300 people on board. The terror group released its message on several Al-Qaeda-linked websites.

Previously On Released Gitmo Detainees:
** Gitmo Detainees Re-Arrested in Russia
** Former Gitmo Prisoner Arrested for Terrorism in Moscow
** Three Former Gitmo Detainees Held in Morocco
** Former Gitmo Inmate Involved in Russian Terror Attack on Nalchik
** Former Gitmo Detainee Re-Arrested in Pakistan
** Seven Percent of Gitmo Detainees Return to Battlefield.
** Former Club Gitmo Detainee Carries Out Suicide Mission in Iraq
** Pentagon: 61 Gitmo Grads Returned to Terror
** Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Detainee Becomes Al-Qaeda Chief
** 2 Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Grads Appear in Al-Qaeda Movie
** 11 Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Grads Back On Saudi Most Wanted List
** American Teenager Murdered By Former Gitmo Detainee
** Breaking: Taliban’s Top Officer in Southern Afghanistan Is Former Gitmo Detainee
** Former Gitmo Detainee Leads Fight Against US Troops
** Another Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Detainee Killed in Shootout
** Former Gitmo Detainee Now Al Qaeda “Spiritual Leader”

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A “horrible desiccated complacency.”  This would be a big enough gamble in the best of circumstances. Up against the broader background  Derb discusses, it makes disaster inevitable.

 

Obama at 10:10 am: I Shall Not Rest Until These Terrorists Are Captured
Obama at 10:40 am: Okay, Now Watch This Drive!

—Ace

Fore!

Or, maybe:

Obama Condemns Terrorists: "Dudes, You're Totally in My Sight-Line While I'm Reading This Green... A Little Courtesy, eh?"

Is this fair? It's just as fair as the Michael Moore attack on Bush the media propagated sixty six bazillion times.

Posted by Ace at 06:54 PM New Comments Thingy

 

1 Ya mean 'shit on him' like they 'shit on Bush' everyday?  Works for me.  Even while they cry and whine about 'lack of civility'.

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Very few Americans realize there exists a large network of far left philanthropists and foundations in America dedicated to destroying the American way of life, our Christian-based culture and our free enterprise system.  They seek to remove America from its constitutional foundations and move it toward a European-style socialism.  Much of this effort is coordinated by a little known group called the Tides Foundation and its related group, the Tides Center.

 

Meanwhile… Barack Obama was off to the beach in Hawaii.

He’s on vacation. Spending all of America’s money is exhausting work. (Big Government)

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Open thread: Obama’s statement on the Christmas Day jihadi attack; Perfunctory, hasty, and bloodless

December 28, 2009 02:50 PM by Michelle Malkin102 Comments

 

The one thing that I have been thinking since all the info about the terrorist and all the warnings is that it all leads back to Eric Holder. In case you all have forgotten Eric Holder made this statement ...

"I could not help but chuckle when I drove past Air Force 1 about a half-hour ago.

Nero is surfing while Rome burns."

First Family to America: Everyone Must Sacrifice, Everyone Must Have Some Skin in the Game… We’ll Be In Hawaii

Monday, December 28, 2009, 10:51 PM

Jim Hoft

Back in January, before he signed his failed $787 billion stimulus bill into law, Barack Obama told America that everyone must sacrifice for the greater good. Everyone must have “some skin in the game.”

What he meant, of course, was that everyone would have to sacrifice to lift American out of the worst recession since the Great Depression except for Barack and Michelle Obama.

This week the Obamas are staying at an $8.9 million estate for an estimated $4000 per night.
Kristinn at Free Republic reported that First Lady Michelle was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela.

The shoe style is called “Leather open toe flat pumps.” It features a “thin nude leather strap across the top of the toe.”

Remember: Everyone must sacrifice.
The First Family feels your pain.

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...“skin in the game” is ghetto talk for we are going to take all your money. Those of you who think he’s kidding, He’s not...

 

MEGAN MCARDLE: “I don’t know what annoys me more: Janet Napolitano saying ‘the system worked’ when what she means is ‘the system failed, but smart passengers proved that the system is unnecessary’, or the moronic new rules the TSA is apparently putting into place in order to ‘prevent’ future such occurences. The TSA’s obsession with fighting the last war is so strong that I expect any day to see them building wooden forts at our nation’s airports in order to keep the redcoats at bay.”

 

ROGER SIMON: Fire Janet Napolitano Now.

Plus, from Christopher Hitchens: Why are we so bad at detecting the guilty and so good at collective punishment of the innocent? “The answer to the first question is: Because we can’t—or won’t. The answer to the second question is: Because we can.” Tar. Feathers.

 

THE CHICAGO WAY: Black Panther case: Has a head rolled? Via Ace, via Dan Riehl. Ace comments: “I guess you can afford not to care when the media’s biggest FAQ is ‘how might I better pleasure you, Master?’”

 

MARK STEYN: “Islam is bilingualism on steroids.”

 

SO, MAX BAUCUS WASN’T DRUNK, because Joe Biden had an aneurysm?

And — though this is an aside, and not really relevant — if Biden is a teetotaler, as Weigel says, what’s he being served in this White House video? Or was the beer just for show, to bolster his “ordinary guy” credentials?

 

MAYOR BLOOMBERG’S WAR ON GUN RIGHTS: A summary.

I have obtained a copy of Bloomberg’s secret “Blueprint for Federal Action on Guns” which is really a blueprint for how the Obama Administration can screw gun owners without needing anything from Congress. Chuck Michel is responsible for filing to FOIA request to get this one out and public where it belongs. This was the infamous 40 recommendations that the Washington Post reported on a few months ago. It this document doesn’t convince you that MAIG is a significantly more serious threat than any other gun control organization out there, nothing will. Whoever wrote this knows ATF very well, and understands federal gun laws well enough to know how to effectively make changes using only administrative and regulatory changes, which do not require action from the US Congress...There can be no doubt now that MAIG is a gun control group, and a particularly dangerous one.

• More on Bloomberg’s 95 40 Theses
• Bloomberg Continues to Lie About Tiahrt
• Lautenberg Introduces PROTECT Act

  "Have you ever asked yourself about the extent of Bloomberg’s NYPD police protection; on his person, at his office, and at home? He will not allow his citiizens the means of protecting themselves yet is surrounded by armed officers? What the hell is that about? The man is a obvious coward"

  ED DRISCOLL: Big Journalism’s Bronx Cheer For The Common Man. You know what really speaks truth to power? The market. Tim Blair makes quick work of Egan’s arrogance–but it’s merely the latest reminder that newspapers in general really don’t want any competition for their territory.

  Obama’s Image: What a Difference a Year Makes

  by Speranza ( 143 Comments › )
  Filed under Barack Obama at December 28th, 2009 - 5:00 pm
  

  Yes the waters failed to part, the sun still sets in the West, the lion does not lay down with the lamb, teenagers still get blemishes right before prom night – and most shocking of all – our enemies still hate us, and yes as demonstrated by this past weekend they really do hate us (although now due too ur politically correct clumsiness – they also can laugh at us)! What a difference a year makes indeed! Well at least we here can say that the charlatan did not fool us. The question for me is not why the hard core ideologues voted for him – after all he was their ideal candidate, i.e. a true believing Socialist who made George McGovern seem moderate by comparison, but why did so many ordinary Americans choose to willfully ignore all the signs that were out there (despite a compliant media)?

  by Ed Lasky

  The American Thinker

  Almost a year has passed since January 20, 2009 — when the waters of the ocean no longer rose and America began to heal from the depredations of Republicans. Barack Obama has been our president for that long, and the people have started to wise up.

  The light that shines on Barack Obama as president has reflected back an image that bears very little similarity to the iconic visage that floated above us all in 2008. Why has Barack Obama betrayed so many allies, broken so many promises, thrown so many pledges and people under the bus?

  One simple aphorism (paraphrasing Winston Churchill) can explain it all. Barack Obama is no longer a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Much about his past remains murky, but faced with the need to govern, he has given the American people plenty of evidence of his nature…if only they will look.

  Obama is a cynic wrapped in a hypocrite inside a bully.

  This comes as a shock to many, who are dismayed to find that he is “just a politician,” as Reverend Wright, Jr. (who knows him so well) called him back in 2008. But Wright was being all too kind and generous to his future former parishioner (Wright followed a long and ever-growing line of people trampled by Barack Obama’s rise.)

  But Barack Obama is far more than just a politician. We all swallow a lot from politicians; we know that many pander and narrowcast, changing their message to suit their audience. But Obama expressly campaigned as a man who would not do this. He was the candidate of hope and change — he would bring a big broom to sweep clean the Augean Stables known as Washington, D.C. He called forth the better angels of our nature (hat tip: Honest Abe Lincoln, one of the truly honest politicians from Illinois) and tapped into a deep yearning for the rarest of the real things: an honest leader.

  Read the rest.

  Tags: American Thinker, Ed Lasky
  143 Comments »

  'As far as Obama’s sinking popularity , it seems like every other day I hear “But I didn’t know”'

  ( But we did- and we tried to tell you- a whole year ago... )

  "It’s historic ( And Unprecedented! ) that a (half) black dude was elected POSUS. Does anything else matter?"

  "Had the media just did its job, there is no way this fraud would be the commander-in-chief."

  34 | December 28, 2009 5:52 pm

  citizen_q wrote:

  I am amazed that anyone was taken in by Zero.

  Me too, cq. My sister and BIL, both highly intelligent people, think Obama’s just great. They worked hard to get him elected and were absolutely thrilled when he took our state (VA.)

  But they knew little about him and dismissed anything unsavory as exaggerated or a right-wing ’smear.’ You know the routine. I remember one instance when I asked my sister what she thought about a passage in Dreams From My Father and she gave me a blank stare. She hadn’t read it.

  There is none so blind as he who will not see.

  Karl Rove just said “This is a guy who won the Nobel Peace Prize but could not be interrupted for three hours because he was on vacation.”

  
   

  There is more to this story.
  http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/12/nwa-253-who-was-mystery-videotaper-and.html

Climategate: "Kevin, Gavin, Mike, It's Seth again"

The Associated Press hides its decline.

Posted by Kate at 2:45 PM| Comments (20)

"The popular institutions are all left-lib. They have glossed over climate-gate because they are all invested in the narratives which empower the state, AGW being just one of many crises with which to justify unlimited intervention. MSM "reporters" with few exceptions, only reach as far as their "friends" list in their rolodexes to insert the favourable quote from "experts".  The sooner the wood fibre that now goes to newsprint goes to something useful like toilet paper the better."

 

The state of ClimateGate today, Dec 28 2009. [krakatoa]

—Open Blog

(A series of daily-ish roundups of the day's Climate news and commentary.)

This is by no means a comprehensive recap. The stories come from a variety of sources, and I highly recommend exploring the linked sites for more breaking news.

(after the break...)

Continue reading

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The biggest story on a fairly quiet Climate day is from the hurt butts in D.C.

Senate Democrats apparently feel they have sacrificed enough for Obama, and are telling him to give up on Cap & Tax for 2010.

Providing health insurance for a tiny percentage of Americans apparently was more important to them than saving Gaia, so they shot their political wad on pissing off the 80% of the public that was pretty ok with their current health insurance.

As my best friend Uncle Rug always says: "Never underestimate the stupidity of the average politician. And never, ever, trust a fart." Which I think is redundant.

As so many have pointed out so often: Maybe we'll start believing AGW is a crisis if the elders of the church of Gaia actually started acting as though it were.

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From the AoS headlines, Arthur K unveils his Scottish brogue to soften the harshness of his denial-fascism, linking an article about German physicists who have a bone to pick with AGW Sciencytists over the liberties they have taken with the laws of Thermodynamics.

Among the observations include one that has bothered me the first day I heard the term "Greenhouse Effect": The Earth is not a closed system, so "Greenhouse" is a terribly inappropriate term.

Also (and to dumb it way down): the inconvinient fact lost on AGW Warmists that an ice-cube's warmth relative to zero doesn't increase the heat of the drink it is put into.

The title of the paper pulls no punches. Falsification of The Atomspheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics.

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WUWT stories:

Weather records on the endangered list:

877 snowfall records broken last week.

And NOAA announces October the third coldest on record in the US, with December looking to continue the frigid trend, prompting Anthony to note:

It has often been said that “Weather is not climate”, but ultimately it provides the only meaningful way to verify climate models.

Obviously he hasn't learned the hardest of hard rules in Climate science: Proxies trump all data.

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JoNova offers a nice poster produced by Mohib Ebrahim that covers 3 decades of Climate shenanigans.

Close it up

Posted by Open Blog at 08:46 PM New Comments Thingy

 

6 There is far too much money and power for them to just give up . Look for a couple of weeks of relative quiet while they figure out spin .

 

10 krak, I enjoy these round-ups. You missed a good story though -- the trail of the leaked emails from Russia to Malaysia, and potentially the Chinese being behind it. The government angle is interesting, but our own people would have the greater incentive to bring down this pathetic MMGW mess. Good hacking though, to bounce it through Siberia. They have a sense of humor!!!! (hackers story at HA)

 

12 Everything you need to know about climate change ...

http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2003/23/c023p089.pdf

In terms even a liberal could understand, It's the sun, stupid.

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QUITTING PORN: “I didn’t leave the porn industry because I object to porn. I left because I love it.”

"Maybe you know me. I’m the one who stays quiet, simply listening, as other women discuss the evils of pornography. At risk of outing myself, I choose not to share my opinions. But I have quite a few. After all, I spent three years working behind the scenes for a company publishing porn websites and DVDs."

"I didn’t leave the porn industry because I object to porn. I left because I love it. The models I worked with were smart, funny and gorgeous. They were daring and sensual. They chose to do porn not out of desperation or coercion, but because they saw an opportunity to make good money in a way that didn’t compromise their morals. They came on set, performed, and left the work behind them. But I took it home with me."

WIRED: 20 FAVORITE IPHONE APPS OF 2009.

North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due to Core Flux

Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year

[backhoe]

The Tyranny of the Majority Party

Media Provides Obama With Coverage And Excuses

Welcome To Obamaworld: No Passport? No Problem!

It's the incompetence, stupid

Ex-gitmo goons did it! Freed Qaeda creeps hatched undie-cover plan to blow up Christmas jet

Note the date:

Cashill: FBI suppressed video of TWA (800) explosion / Are feds hiding crash imagery?

CNN Graphic of the PETN explosive residue found in the wreckage:

 

7,608 posted on Friday, September 21, 2007

President Obama pledges to scour world for terror cells

Yeah, the terrorists are dying, laughing at these clowns...

Obama denies crotch bomber conspiracy

 

Jack Cashill: The Left's Blind Eye to the Obvious

The approach of the new year might be an appropriate time to summarize what I have learned in researching the several books and articles that I have written this decade. That I came to own -- or even break -- many of the stories involved, although satisfying to me, should appall any ordinary citizen.

These stories were too big for a responsible media to miss.  They became mine as a result of what I call the "ABETTO Syndrome."  For at least the last generation, the left in general, and the media in particular, have been turning A Blind Eye To The Obvious -- ABETTO. Here are some nuggets the media chose not to notice. These are all thoroughly and inarguably documented.

• More than half of those incinerated during Janet Reno's tank attack at Waco on April 19, 1993 were ethnic minorities -- 39 out of 74, to be precise. Six of them were Hispanic, six of Asian descent, and a full 27 of them black, ages six to sixty-one. They did not commit suicide.
• About a third of the Jonestown dead did not commit suicide either. Three-year-olds typically don't know how. Authorities dumped the bodies of more than 250 of these children, most of them black, into a mass grave in Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery. There they lie to this day, unsung and unmourned because they serve no useful political purpose.
• They serve no purpose because their killer, James Jones, was a self-professed "communist" in deep with a slew of leading Democrats -- George Moscone, Harvey Milk, Willie Brown, Jerry Brown, and even Rosalynn Carter and Walter Mondale. Moscone appointed Jones to the Human Rights Commission and then to the chairmanship of the city's Housing Authority.
• All witnesses who saw Timothy McVeigh on the morning the Murrah Building blew up saw him with a short, swarthy fellow. According to the Washington Post, a judge detained McVeigh without bail "after listening to four hours of testimony from FBI special agent John Hersley in which he described eyewitness accounts of a yellow Mercury with McVeigh and another man inside speeding away from a parking lot near the federal building."
• Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, the so-called "field commander" of the Oklahoma City task force, played an even more aggressive role managing the TWA Flight 800 investigation a year later. The Clintons appear to have rewarded her for her steely performance with the vice-chairmanship of Fannie Mae, a job for which she had no known credentials.
• Six years and about $25.6 million in salary and bonuses later, Gorelick responded to the call of duty once more and took one of five Democratic seats on the 9-11 commission.
• By the FBI's own count, no fewer than 270 eyewitnesses gave formal reports to the FBI describing a red-tipped object with a smoky contrail striking TWA Flight 800. About a hundred witnesses tracked the object from the surface. Astonishingly, the New York Times would interview none of them.
• Four weeks after the disaster, the Times' Don Van Natta would report, "Now that investigators say they think the center fuel tank did not explode, they say the only good explanations remaining are that a bomb or a missile brought down the plane."
• Likely under White House pressure, and without any new evidence, the FBI immediately shifted its storyline away from a missile to a bomb, and a month later, from a bomb to a mechanical failure. The Times reporter who got the call to document both shifts was Andy Revkin, the same reporter at the center of the Climategate scandal.
• Bizarrely, Richard Clarke, Clinton's anti-terror czar who knew next to nothing about aircraft technology, claimed to have discovered the official cause of the TWA 800 crash months, if not years, before the NTSB did.
• Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was dispatched on his fatal plane flight that same election year, 1996, for no more noble a purpose than to broker a sweetheart deal between the neo-fascist president of Croatia and the Enron Corporation.
• The Air Force concluded that the controlled descent of Brown's USAF plane into a Croatian mountainside was "inexplicable." The maintenance chief responsible for the airport's navigation system showed up with a bullet hole in his chest the day before his Air Force interview.
• Brown's fatal head injury struck the forensic photographer and attending pathologist as having the size and shape of a gunshot wound. He was nonetheless buried (over the protest of the pathologists) without an autopsy. The photographer and three Armed Service pathologists would sacrifice their careers going public with their discontent. The major media reported close to none of this.
• As the Nation of Islam plotted to kill "heretic" Malcolm X, Malcolm's wife Betty Shabazz approached the one person with the clout to dissuade Malcolm's fellow Muslims. "You see what you're doing to my husband, don't you?" she pleaded. Muhammad Ali blew her off, saying, "I'm not doing anything to him." Malcolm was gunned down shortly thereafter.
• If a young Ali jeopardized his liberal chic by betraying Malcolm X, a reformed Ali risked it again when he publicly supported Ronald Reagan and even attended the Republican National Convention. Who would have guessed?
• Alex Haley plagiarized his Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction bestseller, Roots, from a book written by white novelist Harold Courlander, who sued Haley for damages. Midway through the trial, the judge threatened to charge a dissembling Haley with perjury unless he settled, which he did for big bucks.
• Sorry, Virginia, but there was no Kunta Kinte. Writing in the Village Voice, literary detective Philip Nobile would call Roots "one of the great literary hoaxes of modern times."
• Speaking of the literary hoaxes, not a single one of the scores of mainstream book editors who reviewed Christopher Andersen's Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage chose to notice Andersen's most newsworthy revelation: "In the end, [Bill] Ayers's contribution to Barack's Dreams From My Father would be significant -- so much so that the book's language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers's own writing."

For the more explosive of these stories -- the death of Ron Brown, the destruction of TWA Flight 800, the Ayers' involvement in Obama's Dreams -- I made every effort to alert the mainstream media. I talked in person to many reporters and producers, including a few household names, and offered to share what I had gathered. To a person, they did not want to know. 

 

And!

Live!

From the Lunatic Fringe!

Islamophobia and the American Presidency (Hurlicious!!)

Question of the Day: Do Republicans really want to take back the Senate in 2010?

Trying To Revive An Economic Corpse

That Horrible Q3 GDP Report Was Even Worse Than You Thought

What Recession? Michelle Obama Wears $635 Shoes on $4000 Per Night Hawaii Vacation

Krauthammer on Obama's Iran Statement: "This Is a Moment In History and He's Missing It" (Video)

Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law?

The Wilding of Sarah Palin

Obama Extends Hand, But America's Critics Keep Fists Clenched [Tyrants Mock and Ridicule the US!]

Senate Candidate Martha Coakley OK with F*sting for Teens

Martha Coakley, Democrat U.S. Senate candidate for Kennedy's seat, flanked by SEIU thug-ettes.

LETTER: The Second Amendment and Martha Coakley

 

The Tornado that rescued the Chunnel stranded- note date:

Absolutely chuffed! What happened when 30 grown men gave up 18 years to build a steam train

--In 1938, driving an engine like the world record-breaking Mallard (a streamlined LNER design) was roughly akin to being an astronaut.

 

8,568 posted on Saturday, May 31, 2008

GPS strands couple in snow for days

 

 

 

 

 

HUGHES COLLECTION [Great collection of old photographs of Baltimore, Maryland]

 

Y2K and the Collapse of Modern Civilization

The Tyranny of the Majority Party

Media Provides Obama With Coverage And Excuses

Welcome To Obamaworld: No Passport? No Problem!

It's the incompetence, stupid

Ex-gitmo goons did it! Freed Qaeda creeps hatched undie-cover plan to blow up Christmas jet

Note the date:

Cashill: FBI suppressed video of TWA (800) explosion / Are feds hiding crash imagery?

CNN Graphic of the PETN explosive residue found in the wreckage:

 

7,608 posted on Friday, September 21, 2007

Martha Coakley, Democrat U.S. Senate candidate for Kennedy's seat, flanked by SEIU thug-ettes.

LETTER: The Second Amendment and Martha Coakley

[backhoe]

Taking down Obama's ‘do not disturb' sign

Detroit terror attack: British university 'complicit' in radicalisation

Handling problems the Obama way

The Detroit bomber: the US intelligence failure is worthy of Jimmy Carter

50 Grams of PETN - VIDEO

America Attacked on Christmas-Obama Votes Absent

Hmmm...Obama: Forests, Not Food

Another attack on our food supply! Plant trees, not food!

Plan to turn farms into forest worries Obama official

http://standeyo.com/NEWS/09_Food_Water/091229.Obama.forests.not.food.html

Criteria for an 'educated' person

By jove, I believe I’ve found the perfect description of Obama, those who voted for him and those with whom he has surrounded himself (not to mention Algore and HIS Kool-Aid drinkers).

“(…) the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.” — P.B. Medawar

Imagine if George W. Bush was Bodysurfing... (Laura Ingraham unleashed)

Sheesh, the left raised hell over the 7 minutes that Bush kept reading "My Pet Goat", but they are vigorously defending Obama. Here is just a sample for comparison:

Minutes of Silence That Should Live in Infamy: As Americans Leapt to Their Deaths from the Twin Towers, George W. Bush Sat Cluelessly in a Florida Classroom, Endangering the Lives of the Children Around Him, Until His Handlers Could Figure Out What to Do With Him

He [Bush] sat for well over 5 minutes, doing nothing while 3,000 people were dying and the attacks were still in progress. ...it took him 3.5 hours to get on TV after attacks...I've been watching CNN's web stream of 9/11/01 coverage in real time all day. He was MIA for hours, no statement issued.

Verus these statements on Obama:

The main factor is no-one was hurt and as he's mentioned before he likes to be in charge of all the facts before commenting. He's always very sage in a crisis, it made me more relaxed knowing the fear campaign was not about to go into motion at least from the WH anyways.

If he had come straight back and issued a statement within the hour he would have been grandstanding...They're just jealous of his cozy Hawaiian getaway It's his home...Imagine if people found out that Air Force One is the White House with wings...Relax and enjoy your holidays, Big Man. You've earned it!

37 posted on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 3:21:18 PM by ravingnutter

Obama had close ties to top Saudi adviser at early age

Political Correctness is the Number One Weapon of Islamist Terrorists

Putin: Russia Must Develop 'Offensive' Weapons

Obama's Believes Reaching Out To The Muslim World Would Make Us Safer

Obama gives foreign cops new police powers in U.S.

The *New World Order* has now arrived.... (More from SDE)

BlogWarZ!

What's That Deafening Sucking Sound? It's LGF's Charles Johnson Arse Kissing Obama!

(Videos) Obama: Communist Stooge For SEIU and ACORN

Liberal Dem blogger calls for release of bomber, wishes plane would have been destroyed

Ben Nelson Trailing Republican In Nebraska By 31 Points In New Rasmussen Poll (Chart)

This needs to happen in every state where a D incumbent is on the ballot. We need to all work together to get rid of all of these b - - - - rds.

Selected Tweets from Iran this morning

Old Boxing Matches

Senator Max Baucus denies being DRUNK during Senate speech

Obama Becoming Pathetic?

Obama Describes Nigerian As ‘Isolated Extremist’

Ten New Years Resolutions From The Brady Campaign

Survivalism Lite

Maybe it's time to post these oldies again:

Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare- Survival Skills, Pt. II

-Hurricane Preparedness ( and general "bad times" links )--

On Planet Janet (Obama, Holder appalled undie bomber not read Miranda Rights)

What War? What Recession? Michelle Obama's Imelda Marcos Shoe Fetish Runs to Thousands of Dollars

Is Obama’s Weak Approach to War on Terror Inviting More Attacks?

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Pictures of the year 2009: weather

($25 Mil To Move 25 Tortoises) 'Million Dollar Tortoises' Shed Light On State's Environmental Laws

Fantastic photos of baby animals in the womb

Cougar kills 150-pound dog at Gypsum home

OK, for the pure Hell of it:

 

U.S. military is liaising with extraterrestrial life according to independent sources...

How to remove PC Live Guard sprware

After 21 Years, GSM Encryption is Cracked Putting 3.5B Users at Risk (Cell Phones)

Distracted drivers a growing trend

Imagine if George W. Bush was Bodysurfing... (Laura Ingraham unleashed)

Sheesh, the left raised hell over the 7 minutes that Bush kept reading "My Pet Goat", but they are vigorously defending Obama. Here is just a sample for comparison:

Minutes of Silence That Should Live in Infamy: As Americans Leapt to Their Deaths from the Twin Towers, George W. Bush Sat Cluelessly in a Florida Classroom, Endangering the Lives of the Children Around Him, Until His Handlers Could Figure Out What to Do With Him

He [Bush] sat for well over 5 minutes, doing nothing while 3,000 people were dying and the attacks were still in progress. ...it took him 3.5 hours to get on TV after attacks...I've been watching CNN's web stream of 9/11/01 coverage in real time all day. He was MIA for hours, no statement issued.

Verus these statements on Obama:

The main factor is no-one was hurt and as he's mentioned before he likes to be in charge of all the facts before commenting. He's always very sage in a crisis, it made me more relaxed knowing the fear campaign was not about to go into motion at least from the WH anyways.

If he had come straight back and issued a statement within the hour he would have been grandstanding...They're just jealous of his cozy Hawaiian getaway It's his home...Imagine if people found out that Air Force One is the White House with wings...Relax and enjoy your holidays, Big Man. You've earned it!

[backhoe]

Lead Story

Poor Obama: Being president is exhausting

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 29, 2009 01:41 PM

Jetting off for Broadway dates, undeserved Peace Prizes, botched Crony-lympics bids, and world apology tours is hard work, don’t you know?

Cue the world’s smallest violin:

After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.

Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency — the early decisions to bail out the nation’s banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan.

Throw in an unemployment rate in the double-digits, a health care bill still stuck on Capitol Hill, and last-minute negotiations on a global climate change agreement, and aides say it’s no secret that the president is tired, and looking forward to recharging during his year-end family vacation in Hawaii.

Not that the commander in chief really thinks he can escape his duties, even on an island. Amid golf, tennis, gym workouts and dinner, Obama has been called on to monitor the airliner attack in Detroit last Friday and what appeared to be another attack on Sunday — that incident turned out to be a false alarm. On Monday, Obama worked out in the morning and played tennis before making his first public remarks on airline security, then hit the golf course.

So much for putting aside the stress of work. Obama himself has been candid about the pressures of being president during what he has called an “extraordinary year.”

“You have a convergence of factors that have made this a difficult year not so much for me but for the American people,” he said in an interview with CBS News last month. “Absolutely that weighs on me.”

Via AP.

All together now: Boo-freaking-hoo.

The piece certainly helps explain President McCrankyPants’ hasty, bloodless, perfunctory statement yesterday on the Christmas Day jihad attack and the Iranian crackdown.

But what else did you expect from a man who has been phoning it in from the beginning of his brief political career as the Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times?

Americans can help alleviate the exhausted commander-in-chief’s discomfort by ensuring his retirement in 2012.

***

You know what else saps Obama’s energy? Passing the buck.

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DAN RIEHL: Napolitano Must Go — Now.  This is a woman with a mindset that suggests Islamic terrorism doesn’t actually exist:  For further proof that she’s more politician than security expert, recall the first major report issued under her tenure. It amounted to a hit job on conservatives, taking a decidedly domestic political view as regards potential terror threats...

It’s time for serious persons — and for commentators who want to be taken seriously — to cease assuming that Obama and his lieutenants are simply inept and that their policies are merely mistaken. Things appear to be going exactly according to a coherent, ideology-driven plan.

UPDATE: The Plum Line: Skittish Democrats Refuse To Defend Obama On National Security.

ABC NEWS: Muslim Cleric Anwar Awlaki linked to Ft. Hood, Northwest Terror Attacks: A U.S.-Born Preacher Affiliated with Al Qaeda Has Been Linked to Several Terror Plots Against Americans.

JOHN FUND: Invasion Of The Election Snatchers: Urban Democrats are flooding rural districts to steal elections.

 

BOB HERBERT, JANE HAMSHER, AND TEA PARTY PROTESTERS ALL AGREE: “ObamaCare Stinks.”

 

MORE ATTENTION FOR BLOOMBERG’S MAYORS AGAINST GUNS PLAN: “Some folks sent a FOIA request and received a copy of the document. And it’s pretty telling. The focus doesn’t seem to target illegal guns but all guns and gun owners, including banning the importation of ammo and ‘non-sporting’ firearms. The plan consists of items that are administrative and regulatory in nature and, therefore, don’t require legislative action.” Well, you want to bypass the people as much as possible when you’re trying to take away their freedoms . . .

 

Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa

They won't rest until Americans begin starving to death;

According to the economic model used by the department and the Environmental Protection Agency, the legislation would give landowners incentives to convert up to 59 million acres of farmland into forests over the next 40 years. The reason: Trees clean the air of heat-trapping gases better than farming does.

[...]

The legislation would give free emissions credits, known as offsets, to farmers and landowners who plant forests and adopt low-carbon farm and ranching practices. Farmers and ranchers could sell the credits to help major emitters of greenhouse gases comply with the legislation. That revenue would help the farmers deal with an expected rise in fuel and fertilizer costs.

But the economic forecast predicts that nearly 80 percent of the offsets would be earned through the planting of trees, mostly in the Midwest, the South and the Plains states.

The American Farm Bureau Federation and some farm-state Republican lawmakers have complained that the offsets program would push landowners to plant trees and terminate their leases with farmers.

You think I exaggerate?

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The Interpol question

December 29, 2009 05:33 PM by Michelle Malkin6 Comments | 0 Trackbacks

Obama’s December Gitmo surprise — and the Covington & Burling connection revisit

 

Obama and Doing vs Being

Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 6:17 PM

The_Anchoress

Neo-neocon is wondering what has happened to Obama’s vaunted fluency?

Obama was always a fluid if vapid speechmaker, although his off-the-cuff statements featured a lot of hemming and hawing. But I’ve noticed something that seems new: hesitancy even when he speaks from a prepared text.

Obama now seems to go off-teleprompter more often—perhaps because he’s been critiqued so much for its use—and when reading from notes on a lectern he stops and starts, as well as using a tennis-match-like repetitive back and forth movement of his head.

What’s more, Obama’s disfluencies have an odd cadence, coming at times that seem unnatural, as though he’s distracted and not even thinking about what he’s saying but rather merely reading it from a text he’s never seen before. Is he nervous? Lying? Nervous about lying? Nervous about being caught in lying? Aware that the gift he’s relied on his entire life is going or perhaps even gone, now that he needs it most?

You’ll want to read it all. I am so happy to see Neo refer to Obama as a “fluid but vapid” speechmaker; hosannas from the sycophantic “this-speech-will-be-carved-in-marble” press aside, I have never found Obama’s speeches to be in any way memorable or meaningful. While campaigning, Obama is able to deliver his speeches well, but can anyone recall a single inspiring line or bit of prose beyond “yes we can,” and “let me be clear”?

Because George W. Bush could be such a trial to listen to, sometimes, I got into the habit of reading his speeches, and I always came away from them impressed by how substantive they were. When I read Obama’s speeches, I find myself thinking, “just words; lots and lots of words.” And lately, they’re not even particularly polished words.

Neo may be on to something as she wonders if Obama is simply unfamiliar with the material, or disinterested, or worried. And certainly this president, for a young, athletic man, is exhibiting a worrisome lack of stamina for his job. But I suspect that Obama’s listless speechifying is betraying a restless impatience. I suspect Obama is bored with being president, and it’s not because he is too smart for the office, but because the office is too much like real work.

I suspect all he ever wanted was the campaign glory (though not the inconvenience of interrupted waffles), the adoring headlines, and the ability to pick up a phone and ask for anything he wants without hearing a “no” on the other end.

I suspect that what Obama wanted was to be the King, not the President. The King’s role is largely ceremonial. In time of national tragedy the King goes before the camera and says, “this is very sad.” If he can assign blame on a perceived enemy he does so, and then he steps aside and retires to his amusements while those actually in charge clean up the mess and determine how to prevent future messes. Everyone loves the King, defers to the King, rushes to do for the King, but the King -who tends to get bored and distracted by the dry business of actually governing- is responsible for very little, and most are just as glad of it.

If a King is on vacation and his country encounters an critical issue, he knows there is no need to come jetting back to the palace, because the Prime Minister is taking care of reality. All the King needs to do is -in a day or three- show up at a microphone in casual dress and do the PR work of expressing concern over the issue and confidence in the government. The King can command instant coverage, even if there is only time for audio.

A King does not worry, so much, about representative governance, since it is irrelevent to his standing.

Sadly, though, America is not in need of his Kingship.

America needs a good old-fashioned President:

I miss old-fashioned American presidents; flawed men who had no allusions that they were perfect. Men who (in Clinton’s case) needed to be loved too much and (in Bush’s case) didn’t need it enough, but who still, for all the personal and political mistakes, were simply trying to lead America, not to rule it, or “remake” it or “save” it from its stiff-necked, fussy, independent, generous, vulgar, valiant, dreaming, energetic, creative, preening, heroic, world-leading, free and glorious self.

Bring back the flawed human president who we were free to love or hate without reserve, fear or condemnation, because the target was strong enough to take it. The president who could sometimes be petty but sometimes be pretty damned gracious, too. The president who could make a mistake at a doorway and laugh about it, and whom the press did not have to protect from the passing mockery such a mistake would bring.

I miss having an American President who could describe himself – as Clinton once did – as “a punching clown; you punch me and I’m bounce right back up and into your face;” or a president who could, with ironic self awareness describe himself as “misunderestimated.” America needs a guy who can laugh at himself and take the nation’s chaffing with a shrug, instead of a godling of the press’ needy creation, one “too perfect to be mocked”.

So, we have a King. But we haven’t a Prime Minister. Mrs. Pelosi won’t do, nor will Mr. Reid. We need a president.

UPDATE:
DO listen to Obama’s audio statement. It is rushed -in some places he is reading so quickly he is almost slurring his words- and perfunctory-sounding. He is saying what needs to be said, but in a very pissed off, I-am-saying-these-things-because-it-is-getting-hot-and-I-must-say-them-now-let-me-get-back-to-my-waffle-damnyouall tone. Very reassuring.

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Good God. It’s just like the 60’s. Mirror image.

Plane Bomber Was Anti-War Activist in London (Freeper Research Thread)

Keying off an article in the UK Times Online about Northwest Airlines flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab organizing an antiwar seminar called "War on Terror Week", I did some quick research before the links get scrubbed.

From the Times:

According to isocnews.com, an online magazine for Muslim students, War on Terror Week at University College London was one of the events of the year in 2007. There was a slick video advertisement for the event, an eye-catching poster and packed lecture theatres for five days of discussions about Guantánamo Bay, allegations of torture and the subject of “Jihad v Terrorism”.

The website reported the week of talks as “informative, relevant and always entertaining — the audience got involved with a good mixture of Muslim and non-Muslim attendees asking tough questions of the speakers”. In a corner of the poster, the event is declared to have been “approved by Umar Farook, president of UCLU Islamic Society”. The speakers advertised included George Galloway, the Respect MP; Geoffrey Bindman, the human rights lawyer; and former Guantánamo Bay detainees.

The Nigerian student who organised “War on Terror Week” in January 2007 is now better known as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be suicide bomber who tried to blow up a transatlantic airliner last week.

Mr Galloway said last night that he did not attend any of the events in War on Terror Week and had no record in his parliamentary diary of any contact with UCL Islamic Society. Mr Bindman, a visiting professor at UCL, said that he could not recall the event or meeting Mr Abdulmutallab.

Little Green Footballs ran a thread about it back then and saved the promo poster:

In the lower left hand corner one can see "approved by Umar Farouk..."

Here's a larger version hosted at imageshack.us from the Ummah.com thread about War on Terror Week:

Umar and his pals at UCL Islamic Society were savvy enough to put a video up on YouTube at the UCLU channel promoting the event.

Click here to view video.

The Islamic Society's partner in War on Terror Week, UCL Union Stop the War Society, posted six pictures at their Web site from the event. Here are two:

The UCL Islamic Society was pretty excited about the event. They posted at their Web site about a big pre-WOTW night out on the town:

Night out 2 Pandoos!

Well before the intensity of the War on Terror hits us, we felt the need to organise a night out and what better way to relax and enjoy yourselves than to, chill, sit back and enjoy some good halal food! Add to that the fact that it will be discounted heavily and your in for a right treat! For £5, you'll get half a chicken, chips and a drink, and this isn't just any old chicken, it's a Pandoos chicken!

To join us as we chill ISoc style, be sure to meet us at 5pm outside Bloomsbury Theatre (Gordon Street) and we'll make our way to the infamous Brick Lane.

Date: Friday 26th January (i.e. Tonight)
Time: 5:00pm
Meeting Place: Bloomsbury Theatre
Restaurant: Pandoos (Brick Lane)
Wassalam,
UCLU Islamic Society

That a terrorist would emerge from the antiwar movement is no surprise to those who are paying attention. Obama's pal Bill Ayers went from anti-war activist to terrorist in a short time.

The modern antiwar movement in America works hand in hand with Islamic terrorists and, like the Stop the War Society, works with radical 'Islamic Societies.'

The antiwar movement has one other tie to Umar the bomber. He claims he went to Yemen to study Arabic. Funny, so did this character with Iraq Veterans Against the War:

From the Yemen Times, 2008

A former U.S. Navy lieutenant has been living in Sana’a for seven months, having resigned in protest from serving in Iraq. Harvey Tharp was a full lieutenant in the U.S. Navy when he was called to serve in Iraq due to his knowledge of the Arabic language. Upon his departure from Yemen, he spoke to The Yemen Times about the moral challenges he faced, which led to the ending of his military career, and what he learned from his time spent with Yemeni people.

What will you do when you return to the U.S.?

I’m a member of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. As the only officer who has joined, I’m the highest ranked. When I was in military school, I was taught that if you find yourself completely alone in your stance, you’re probably wrong. This time, though, I don’t think I’m wrong.

I’m going to Washington, D.C. for the winter soldier hearings from March 13-16. Fifty members from the Iraq Veterans Against the War will testify to war crimes they witnessed or even participated in and I’ll be there in support.

SNIP

Why did you come to Yemen?

Due to my time in Iraq, I developed post-traumatic stress disorder, so I’m unable to work and I have some spare time. I wanted to improve my Arabic to see if I could get back into translating and I heard that the Yemeni dialect is very close to standard Arabic, as well as that it seemed like a very interesting place to visit.

SNIP

Who are you going to vote for in the upcoming U.S. presidential election?

I’m disappointed that Barack Obama – who campaigned against the war from the start – hasn’t committed to pulling troops out of Iraq immediately. However, he’s the best anti-war candidate, so I’ll vote for him.

Let me be clear, I'm not accusing Harvey Tharp of being a terrorist. I'm just pointing out that he went to Yemen, of all places, to study Arabic just like Umar the bomber. Just a coincidence that two antiwar activists go to Yemen, that's all.

P.S., here is the You Tube video by the UCL Islamic Society for Justice Week 2008. Nice of them to do it in English for us.

Excellent work. The left-wing has continually forged a war campaign against America on three flanks:

1.) Wage a continual campaign against the moral argument for any action taken by the United States to defend itself for it’s enemies. (The anti-war movement, and anti-Bush movement.)

2.) Wage a continual campaign in support of the rights of the enemy. ( Close Gimto, give terrorist’s Consitutional rights, protect enemy communications across our borders, and too many more to list )

3.) Actively support the enemy. (The human shields, Code Pink, democrat members of Congress standing side by side with Saddam, liberal lawyers defending terrorists and even getting arrested for suppoting them, and this list is now growing as well)

Years and years ago I thought of writing a book called “The Sleeper Cell Party” about the democrats. Every year the book could be growing the more we learn. In every way the left-wing never ceases to show their hatred of America.

26 posted on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 9:35:37 PM by TheBigIf

 

Are We Under an Islamist ‘Tet Offensive’?

 

I tried for years to warn people about the dangers militant Islam poses for America, Israel, and the entire West:

- Islam, a Religion of Peace®? The Most Damning links...--

Watch the videos, read the links, ponder the quotes.
Wake up, and smell the Jihad...

 

Flight 253 Attack Bombshell Eyewitness Revelations Videos

...did anyone see the SHARP DRESSED MAN....?

Watch the video.....the guy from Sudan is on the Left....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_EFdod4YDo

 

Revenge of the 'Shoe Bomber'

...our first mistake was in not making the death penalty automatic for jihad terrorists

Detroit terror attack: bomber linked to Muslim extremist (by MI5 in 2005 in London)

Under Obama National Security Takes a Backseat to … Well, Everything

Bloomberg anti-gun blueprint revealed

The Balkan Problem, Part 1

by coldwarrior ( 112 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Islamists, Racism, Religion, Serbia at December 29th, 2009 - 12:00 pm

Several times on Blogmocracy, the actions of the Serbs in the FYRs (former Yugoslav Republics) have come up for discussion. What is lacking in these discussions is the background, history, and ethnic tension that underlies the actions. This post will attempt to clarify how a culture of Serbian Orthodox Christians can end up as war criminals. What drives civilized men to massacre? This is part one in a series. Next, Did the US and NATO pick the wrong side in the Yugoslavian Wars?

The above map is for the 1st Serbian Empire in the late 1300’s. Do note the proximity of Serbia from Constantinople and Rome, between the Muslim Ummah and Western Christian Europe. Keep the geography in mind when considering the animosity between Roman Catholics, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians. The geography is at the crossroads of three religions and is in the path of later Muslim Expansion from what is now Turkey.

The Serbs, as a civilization, have occupied the area of what is now Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Bulgaria. By 825 A.D. Serbs are fully converted to Christianity. Over the next generations, Serbia becomes folded into the Eastern Empire of Byzantium. In 1054 the problems begin, the East West Schism between the Roman/Western Catholic Church and Byzantine/Eastern Orthodox Church. The Serbs choose the Orthodox version due to Byzantine pressure while the coastal areas choose the Roman version because of pressure from Venice.

By 1463, the Ottoman Turks (Muslims) take Serbia. For the Next 400 years, the areas of Serbia is a violent area full of intrigue, assassinations, and war between East and West. The land changes hands many times and the population migrates back and forth following any safety that can be found. It is in this period that the Slavs in Bosnia Herzegovina convert to Sunni Islam instead of fighting the Ottoman occupation. In 1766, the Ottomans abolish the Serbian Orthodox Church and subjugate it to Constantinople, and Southern Serbia is colonized by Albanian and Turkish Muslims, uprooting the traditional Serb Orthodox populace.

The stage is set for continued conflict in the 20th Century. The Croatian Catholics are backed by Rome, the Bosnian Muslims are backed by Turkey and then heavily by Iran, the Serbian Orthodox are backed by Russia.

Events of WWII then set the stage for the Serbian actions in the 1990’s. The ethnic/religious splits listed above were exploited by Hitler when his armies invaded Yugoslavia. Hitler found willing allies in the Albanian, Kosovar, and Bosnian Muslims which were openly supported by the Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini and Croatian Catholics led by the Pope in Rome and the Nazi Puppet leader of Croatia Ante Pavelic. The Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini was a famous anti-Semite. He preached that the Muslims in Yugoslavia should join the 13th Handschar Waffen SS division and the Muslim Albanians should join the 21st Skanderbeg Waffen SS Division, these same divisions would be implicated and found guilty of war crimes such as murder, ethnic cleansing, rape, forced migration against the Orthodox Serbs.

The Catholic Church, through blessings and cooperation from Rome and the active participation of the clergy, especially the Franciscan order in Croatia, were directly responsible for total support of the creation of Ante Pavelic’s fanatical Catholic Ustashe. The end result is ethnic cleansing of Orthodox Serbs and the creation of the Jasenovac Concentration Camp in Croatia, staffed by Ustashe of both Catholic and Muslim religions were responsible for 750,000 Serbs, 60,000 Jews, and 25,000 Gypsies murdered. Yes murdered, not killed in war, murdered in a concentration camp so that the expanded Greater Croatian State could be for Catholics and Muslims only. More people were murdered in the Jasenovac Concentration Camp than died in actual war in Yugoslavia. Pope John-Paul II apologized for this atrocity in 1997.

During the later half of the 20th Century, Yugoslavia, which contained Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Vojvodina, and Kosovo, with all of its ethnic and religious differences is brought under one state by Josip Broz Tito, former leader of the Socialist ‘Partisans’ who fought the Nazi occupiers in WWII. He was able to keep the peace by squashing, violently at times, any hint of nationalism that would occasionally pop up. His leadership by force and personality could not survive his death.

After Tito dies in 1980, Yugoslavia starts to fall apart. The old ethinic hatred is brought right back up to the surface, by the 1990’s war occurs again. Alija Izetbegovic becomes president of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is the connection to WWII. He was a recruiter for the SS Handschar division and collaborated with the ABWER and GESPTAPO to send Serbs to Jasenovac Concentration Camp. In 1970 he published the Islamic Declaration, where he argues for Sharia law and the creation of an Iranian style Muslim Republic in Bosnia. He also received massive funding from Iran to become president of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Bosnian and Kosovar Serbs become the victims of ethnic hatred and clashed with Muslims and Croatian Catholics. The poor economic condition of the erea at the time helped fuel the fire. Meanwhile, in Croatia, Fanjo Tudjman publicly denies the extent of the Massacre of the Serbs in WWII. This causes fear in the 13% Serbian population in Croatia. War in Croatia breaks out in 1990. The Orthodox Serbs in Croatia fear for their lives and property. Given the history, who can blame them? By 1992, Bosnia-Herzegovina, led by Izedbegovic and backed by Croatia and Iran and other Muslim countries is at war against the Serbs in both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia proper.

By 1995, the Serbs have the upper hand and allow the anger of the atrocities against them from WWII all the way back to 1054 to get the best of them and the Srebrenica Massacre occurs in July of 1995, 8,000 mostly men are murdered. The Army of the Republic of Serbia and the paramilitary group Scorpions are responsible, I cant say if it was out of revenge for Jasenovac, or out of fear, or both.

For some reason, the caterwauling Christian Amanpour and the rest of the CNN/BBC crew never really bothered to explain to the American people why this massacre occurred. It is as if the Serbs acted in a vacuum, the approximately 800,000 total murders never happened. According to the press and the Clinton State Dept history in the Balkans started with Milosevic in 1988, the history from the above was never discussed; Izedbegovic was an innocent peacemaker, Croatia had never done anything wrong.  Yes the Serb Army and Scorpions should not have done what they did in Srebrenica, but they did not act in a vacuum without any history.

End of part 1.

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The Haunted Observation Point

More Guns, Less Crime in '09

IMPEACH OBAMA

Christmas day's recycled terrorists: Releases from Gitmo are coming back to haunt us

Liberals are being forced to deal with the cognitive dissonance conjured by the inconvenient truth that Mr. Bush freed al-Shiri from detention and Mr. Obama hunted him down and killed him. We support the targeted killing program because it is the only aspect of Mr. Obama's national security strategy that is reaping concrete benefits. The "blame Bush" mantra, however, is simply a way for Mr. Obama's left-wing supporters to avoid asking hard questions about the future of terrorist detainees.

Meanwhile, potential reinforcements continue to flow to the region under the president's detainee-release program. On Dec. 20, six Yemenis arrived in the country, shortly to rejoin the general population and perhaps later to capture global headlines. This is no way to run a war or, rather, as the Obama administration would have it, an "overseas contingency operation."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...

WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION DOES GOVERNMENT HAVE POWER TO MANDATE PURCHASE OF HEALTH CARE INSURANCE?

More illegal aliens will come to America as we give them more benefits

Bleeding Hearts and Jihadi Revolving Doors

Video: LT.Gen. Jerry Boykin(RET-USA) explains why the Army did not remove Hasan (MUST SEE!)

DOJ Issues Gag Order In Black Panther Probe

Obama admits failures, goes snorkeling (No kidding...)

 

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Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet

Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So

Excellent work. The left-wing has continually forged a war campaign against America on three flanks:

1.) Wage a continual campaign against the moral argument for any action taken by the United States to defend itself for it’s enemies. (The anti-war movement, and anti-Bush movement.)

2.) Wage a continual campaign in support of the rights of the enemy. ( Close Gimto, give terrorist’s Consitutional rights, protect enemy communications across our borders, and too many more to list )

3.) Actively support the enemy. (The human shields, Code Pink, democrat members of Congress standing side by side with Saddam, liberal lawyers defending terrorists and even getting arrested for suppoting them, and this list is now growing as well)

Years and years ago I thought of writing a book called “The Sleeper Cell Party” about the democrats. Every year the book could be growing the more we learn. In every way the left-wing never ceases to show their hatred of America.

Bloomberg anti-gun blueprint revealed

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Uh-Oh… US Knew of Al-Qaeda Terror Plot Involving Nigerian Before Christmas

Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 1:27 AM

Jim Hoft

US officials knew about a Nigerian being prepared for a terrorist attack before Christmas!
FOX News reported:

The U.S. government had intelligence from Yemen before Christmas that leaders of a branch of Al Qaeda there were talking about “a Nigerian” being prepared for a terrorist attack, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

A senior official told the Times that President Obama was told in a private meeting Tuesday while vacationing in Hawaii that the government had a variety of information in its possession before the failed bombing on a Detroit-bound flight last week that would have been a clear warning sign had it been shared among intelligence agencies.

The newspaper said the information did not include the name of the Nigerian.

Obama went snorkeling today.

"He’s swimming and not walking on the water.
Not a good sign."

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"...like i said before..

they’re rebuilding the Gorelick’s Wall..

Obama is not treating the war against terrorism as a global conflict.. he is treating the extremely serious threat as a local law enforcement problem..

deja vu the Clinton administration, who’s policy (or lack thereof) greatly attributed to the 9/11 attackers slipping through the cracks (more like a grand canyon) so to speak..

the Dems insist on taking US back to
9/10/2001, damn the consequences.. "

Lead Story

Yemen, Gitmo, and jihadi revolving doors

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 30, 2009 03:15 AM

My column today spotlights Yemen’s dangerous catch-and-release program for terrorists — and ours. But before you read it, please inform yourselves of this sad passing: American sailor/U.S.S. Cole bombing survivor Johan Gokool died in Florida yesterday. He lost a leg in the attack and suffered severe PTSD. Gokool was 31. R.I.P. and never forget.

In the latest Undy-Bomber-related news, we now learn that the CIA knew of “The Nigerian” in August and had the name of a Nigerian Muslim fanatic meeting with terrorists in Yemen in November, but somehow Abdulmutallab was allowed to fly and retain his active, U.S.-issued visa because the CIA didn’t share its vital file on Abdulmutallab outside its agency. Barry-come-lately acknowledged systemic failures yesterday afternoon — and the White House is finally running away from Janet The Clown-itano’s flirtation with the lone-nut theory.

Now, if they’ll only stop releasing terrorists.

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Bleeding hearts and jihadi revolving doors
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

Sen. Joe Lieberman was right to sound the alarm about Yemen in the wake of the Undy-Bomber’s Christmas Day terror attack over American skies. But he was wrong to call it “tomorrow’s war.” The Yemen-based jihadist network has been at war with us for years – since before the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, since before 9/11, and well before our current commander-in-chief had begun his vaunted work as a community organizer.

The bleeding-heart ostriches of the Left are blaming (who else?) cowboy George W. Bush for radicalizing poor, oppressed Yemenis. But the killer fruits of botched bomber Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab’s loom have nothing to do with poverty, social injustice, Western imperialism, or Bush Derangement Syndrome. The fundamentalist Muslim is the privileged son of a Nigerian public official. He lived a “gilded life,” as the Independent of London described it, studying engineering at one of Britain’s most prestigious universities before training for terror in Yemen.

Media sympathizers have spotlighted Abdulmutallab’s web postings bemoaning his “loneliness.” But more compassion and empathy – the remedy Barack Obama prescribed in an infamously clueless Chicago community newspaper op-ed after the 9/11 attacks – are useless salves to the terrorist’s damned soul. Like so many of his wealthy, educated jihad brothers and sisters before him from Osama bin Laden to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Fort Hood mass killer Nidal Hasan, M.D., Abdulmutallab targeted us for who we are – dirty, unbelieving infidels – not anything we’ve denied him.

And for his failed act of self-eunuch-ery and mass murder, the all-too-enlightened leaders of al Qaeda in Yemen and beyond hailed Abdulmutallab as a “hero.”

Another of these “heroes” in Yemen is Jamal Mohammad Ahmad Al Badawi, the convicted mastermind of the U.S.S. Cole bombing that took the lives of 17 American sailors in October 2000. Despite being sentenced to the death penalty, escaping twice from jail, and being indicted in the U.S. on terrorism charges, the Yemeni government freed him in 2007 in exchange for a promise that he renounce his old infidel-murdering ways. More than two dozen of Badawi’s jailbreak buddies, including bin Laden’s former secretary, Nasir Wahayshi, reunited to form the jihadi training team that now claims it supplied Abdulmutallab with his incendiary device.

Yemen human rights activist and blogger Jane Novak has reported for years on how Yemeni intelligence and military officials have facilitated al Qaeda training camps – often providing “safe houses, training and passports to the jihadists that travel to Iraq to attempt to kill US troops.” The Yemeni government, Novak also points out, has also used al Qaeda mercenaries to fight northern rebels and to train tribal militias. Jihad spiritual advisor Anwar Awlaki, linked to the 9/11 hijackers and Fort Hood mass killer Nidal Hasan, also calls Yemen home – and reportedly blessed the Crotch Bomber attack, according to the Washington Times. (See also Bill Roggio: “Yemen permits wanted al Qaeda leaders to operate in the open.”)

Now, the Yemen government has the gall to blame the West for not providing enough assistance to stop the breeding of hundreds of future, flying Crotch Bombers.

America, unfortunately, is hardly in a position to criticize Yemen’s jihadi revolving door. ABC News reported this week that two of the four jihadi leaders behind the Christmas Day terror plot were released from Gitmo during the Bush administration in November 2007. (What a quandary for Bush-bashers who have stubbornly denied that Gitmo recidivism threatens our national security.) The freed detainees were shipped off to terror-friendly Saudi Arabia, where they underwent “art therapy rehabilitation” – the ultimate bloody brainchild of the jihadi-as-victim mindset.

In January 2009, the two “rehabilitated” recidivists released a video vowing to wage jihad to “aid the religion,” “establish the rightly-guided caliphate,” and “to fight against our enemies.” One of the duo, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sana, in September 2008.

Another Yemeni at Gitmo, Ali Hamza al Bahlul, was convicted by a U.S. military tribunal in the last days of the Bush administration for conspiring with al Qaeda, soliciting murder and providing material support for terrorism. He had scripted the videotaped wills of two September 11 hijackers and boasted of making a two-hour al Qaeda commercial designed to recruit suicide bombers, according to FBI testimony. The recruitment ad celebrated the U.S.S. Cole bombers in Yemen.

Hundreds of Yemeni detainees at Gitmo abandoned the benefit of the doubt years ago. Yet, Attorney General Eric Holder’s law firm, Covington and Burling, has provided dozens of them pro bono legal representation and sob-story media relations campaigns. True to form, former Covington and Burling lawyer Mark Falkoff dedicated a book of Gitmo detainee poetry to his Yemeni suspected terrorist “friends inside the wire.” And the White House is rolling out the red carpet to bring them to U.S. soil for civilian trials.

At a time when we should be disabling the jihadi revolving door, its rotating shaft is spinning out of control.

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"Enough is enough. For the Fort Hood terrorist and the NWA terrorist, get them before a military tribunal, try them, convict them, and execute them.

In the meantime, hire consultants from El Al, and let’s get airport and airline security up to snuff with Israeli standards. It’s time to realize that the War on Terror is back in our homeland."

Think the Crotch Bomber story couldn’t get any worse? [Darleen Click]

Think again

CBS News has learned that as early as August of 2009 the Central Intelligence Agency was picking up information on a person of interest dubbed “The Nigerian,” suspected of meeting with “terrorist elements” in Yemen.

Sources tell CBS News “The Nigerian” has now turned out to be Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. But that connection was not made when Abudulmutallab’s father went to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria three months later, on November 19, 2009. It was then he expressed deep concerns to a CIA officer about his son’s ties to extremists in Yemen, a hotbed of al Qaeda activity.

In fact, CBS News has learned this information was not connected until after the attempted Christmas Day bombing.

Of course, Barry is right there to blame others

President Barack Obama said a “catastrophic breach” allowed the alleged Christmas Day bomber to set his attack into motion, as it emerged that multiple U.S. agencies met in mid-November to discuss a warning from the accused bomber’s father.

The father of terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab met on Nov. 19 with the Central Intelligence Agency at the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, and told of his son’s likely radicalization, according to U.S. officials. That led to a broader meeting the next day in which the information was shared with representatives of the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the State Department, a U.S. official said. [...]

The president’s scramble to contain a potential political liability came as U.S. and Yemeni authorities said they were investigating whether the plot was hatched by former Guantanamo Bay prisoners now believed to be leaders of al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, the claimed source of the attack. [...]

The president said he made his comments because new information pointed to a serious breach of national security. He said a warning made by the suspect’s father to U.S. officials in Nigeria “could have and should have” led to the suspect to be banned from flying. “A systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable,” he said.

But let me ask you all … are the “Intelligence Agencies” really to blame here? I’m speaking more of the rank and file workers rather than the Obama political appointees running them. More to the point, could Obama’s earlier hostility towards the CIA, siccing Eric Holder on them have turned them into a timid organization, unwilling to risk their necks for a boss willing sacrifice them for political ends?

THESE ARE THE GUYS POISED TO RUN OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM?

Posted by Darleen @ 6:43 pm
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"At this rate it won’t be long until the ‘I miss Bush’ bumper stickers start turning up on the backs of Volvos and Subarus, right next to the faded ‘Impeach Bush’ stickers…"

SEIU Watch: More workers revolt against power-grabbing Purple Shirts

December 30, 2009 05:00 AM by Michelle Malkin

Good news: The “persuasion of power” is losing its potency.

Most Frequent White House Visitor Andy Stern, head of the radical SEIU, has waved around his brass knuckles for years with impunity. No more.

In October, I reported on the parental revolt among home-based health care workers against the SEIU’s invasive, membership roll-boosting strategy in Illinois (a strategy that had gone unopposed in many other states). The remarkable grass-roots opposition to SEIU in the land of Daley, Blago, Rahm, and Obama prevailed; SEIU’s bid to unionize home-based health care workers went down in flames.

Now, workers in Kitsap County WA are standing up to SEIU’s thuggery:

The National Labor Relations Board may ultimately decide whether workers at Kitsap Mental Health Services still are represented by the Service Employees International Union.

While one employee said there is some division among staff over the current status of the SEIU, many said Tuesday they want no part of it. The union has represented KMHS employees since about 1991 under two locals, including the present one, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW.

SEIU leaders recently sent a letter to high-ranking legislators accusing KMHS of union-busting and misuse of state-appropriated funds. A day after that news was published in the Kitsap Sun, KMHS employees gave their perspectives on the story.

Some employees aren’t ruling out other union representation in the future.

“I felt like the union wanted me to believe that the management was bad and that I needed the protection of the union,” said therapist David Secrest. “I want a union that communicates and works with management without an adversarial relationship.”

Said clerk Jackie Fitzgerald, “I think we can do this ourselves.”

Agreed Tina D’Astoli, an office coordinator, “We’re going with no union … We can always bring in another union; we could even be our own guild.

“It was anything but SEIU.”

There’s your bumper sticker of the month, straight from workers’ lips: “It was anything but SEIU.”

The Purple Shirt’s corrupt and corrupted reputation is finally getting around. Keep spreading the word:

Photoshop credit: American Power

Posted in: SEIU

 

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BlogWarZ!

 

Now!

 

With Even M-O-R-E!

 

Deja vu...

 

Now Entering….The Lizardoid Zone

by ChenZhen ( 168 Comments › )
Filed under Blogwars, LGF, Progressives at December 29th, 2009 - 9:10 pm

OK,  I know that these LGF flashbacks are getting a little played out, but it’s been a little while for me.  And, hey, I still follow you guys (even if it is just via twitter sometimes), and every so often something pops up that I think you might find amusing.  So…follow me…

TWEET!!!:

Lizardoid: Report: Bush Administration Released Two Al Qaeda Leaders Behind NW 253 Terror Plot http://bit.ly/4E1cOl

Crib notes:  Bad guys got released from gitmo. It’s Bush’s fault, and/or the Saudis…and he called it two years ago.

{{{ZOINKS}}}

And with that, you are transported to the alternate “called it two years ago” Lizardoid Universe.  This is a cute story, 2-something years in the making, folks:

Anyone remember that thread?   This is classic stuff.

For the record, I entered this one with a sort of disbelief, since there was nothing presented to back up the assertion.    It was just kinda blurted out there.  So, I basically went in the thread in progressive flame warrior mode, shrugged my shoulders, put my hands up, and laid a grenade on the lizard table (ya know, where they have their “gamy buttocks“).   The usual lizard swarm appeared.  (It’s kinda entertaining if you want to follow the timestamp and go back.  Of course, I conceded that “left” elements may have pushed for extending certain rights for the prisoners, but I kept coming back to the question of who actually released them.)

And as is written (for now) in the annals of “tough room”, there was a period of noble and deft swarm management on my part.  But, eventually…well,  I just couldn’t believe we were arguing about blaming the “left” for something that was obviously Bush territory.  So, I posted 351:

Crib notes:  For the last time.  If they’re released, the administration released them.  As in, the Bush administration.

The response was…disappointing:

Crib notes: You’re dumb.

If you continue follow the thread, you’ll see that I ducked out for a bit, and came back with some fact checking, and proved that it really was a matter that Bush’s DOD took on a case-by-case basis and often involved a lot of back-channel diplomacy (not with the “left”, of course, but with other nations).  And… pounced on again, I was.

After all, the Clairvoyant One had spoken.

Exit question: What do you suppose is the statute of limitations for “hat tips”?

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"It’s good to know he’s not getting the support from his new Prog-pals, that he used to get from his conservative members. Funny how that works, eh? "

The Proggies are restless

by snork ( 64 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Humor, Leftists, Open thread, Politics, Progressives at December 29th, 2009 - 7:20 pm

This is a hilarious if not semi-righteous rant from a libprog blogger. He’s seriously tinkled off at our blunder-in-chief:

But the little prick is making it very hard.

Like any good progressive, I’ve gone from admiration to hope to disappointment to anger when it comes to this president. Now I’m fast getting to rage.

How much rage? I find myself thinking that the thing I want most from the 2010 elections is for his party to get absolutely clobbered, even if that means a repeat of 1994. And that what I most want from 2012 is for him to be utterly humiliated, even if that means President Palin at the helm. That much rage.

Verrrrry angry, indeed...

It goes on and on and on. Read the whole thing.

Tags: Progressives
64 Comments »

"You and your kind creamed your pants over the Nonthreatening Handsome Negro when he first oozed out of the Chicago machine into national politics. You didn’t show even the slightest interest in his background or his record, or wonder why the guy escaped any sort of real scrutiny, much less serious criticism, by the Evil Corporate Capitalist Media. You projected all your deepest hopes, and invested all your strongest emotions, onto a jumped-up South Side wardheeler, setting him up for a secular-Messiah role that I don’t think even he wanted. And now you’re angry that he turned out to be just another sleazeball politico who’s spent the last eleven months selling out his imagined constituency, and the country itself? "

"It’s a cult."

Overnight Open Thread (Mætenloch)

—Open Blog

Good evening morons. And welcome to the boringest night of the week.

Leaked: Dept of Homeland Security's Post Underwear Bomb Airplane Rules
Here's a leaked copy of the actual TSA new security procedures after the underwear bomber's failed attempt on Christmas. Basically flying is going to suck a lot more for a while: no internet, phones, live programming, GPSs, and no items at all in your lap or getting out of your seats during the last hour of flight. Of course these were all supposed to be kept secret so the terrorists couldn't adjust, but I guess that bird has flown.

Of course this will do nothing to keep another underwear bomb off the plane. Only air sniffers or body scanners have a chance of detecting these kind of bombs. So get used to virtual stripping to board planes in the future.

Update: According to this article all Canada to US flights now ban carry-on bags. On the plus side flight crews now have discretion on the 'last-hour' rules.Continue reading

Posted by Open Blog at 10:20 PM New Comments Thingy

Lost against the background noise.

France Cans Carbon Tax – Viva la Revolucion!

Islamberg New York

They're not bothering to hide their real intentions anymore.

http://frontpagemag.com/2009/12/30/muslim-guerilla-training-in-new-york-by-frontpagemag-com/

I think this belongs here-Miracle birth

Two fascinating years in the battle for freedom

[backhoe]

White House Prepares for Immigration Overhaul Battle

US Population Hits 308M (New immigrant every 37 seconds)

Voter Attitudes Towards Health Care Plan Harden--58% Opposed

Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., slashed aviation security funding for pet constituency

Now that our attention is focused on airline security measures thanks to the failed airline attack on Christmas Day, it's worth mentioning that one senator took money away from aviation security to line the pockets of a constituency that supported his presidential campaign in a big way. Back in July, Senator Chris Dodd, D-Conn., proposed an amendment reducing aviation security appropriations by $4.5 million in favor of firefighter grants -- a notoriously inneffective program. In fact, the money was specifically "for screening operations and the amount for explosives detection systems." The amendment was also sponsored by Sen. Lieberman, D-Conn., and Sen. Carper, D-Del., but Dodd deserves to be singled out here because the firefighters union is a pet constituency of his. In 2007 he campaigned all through Iowa with the firefighters union. It was one of the few distinguishable features of Dodd's ill-fated presidential bid.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...

EDITORIAL: The pooh-pooh presidency--Don't worry, this terror thing is no biggie

Terrorists aloft over America skies, AWOL Obama aloof in Hawaii

Hard Questions, All-Too-Easy Answers: The law-enforcement mentality reigns supreme once again.

U.S. Knew of Airline Terror Plot Before Christmas

Somali Man Arrested at Mogadishu Airport With Chemicals, Syringe Last Month

Obama Describes Nigerian As ‘Isolated Extremist,’ Despite Ties to Yemen

The CIA knew

The President's (LAST) News Conference January 12, 2009 (His Warning about AQ)

Cheney: Obama Is Trying To Pretend We Are Not At War

'Hundreds of al-Qaeda Militants Planning Attacks from Yemen'

Link Between Ft. Hood Terror Attack and Attempt on Northwest 253 Troubling for Obama

Byron York: Is There a 'Double Standard' for Obama in Terrorism Case?

 

How The Left Blasted A Vacationing George W. Bush (Examples)

Small Business Conditions Horrible Again In December, And That's A Bleak Sign For Employment

State, Local Tax Revenues Decline 7%

America's Ugly Jobs Picture

 

Iran Suspected of $500 Million Deal for Rogue Uranium

 No-nonsense, whisky-loving Thatcher exposed in British files...

 

The REAL History of Free Republic, 2009 Edition (c)

Appointment with The Apocalypse- the Waco Files

-- I expect Kommander ZerØ will mull over something like this to keep the peasants in line...

A Cold and Snowy January (2010 ) in Store

Major Northern Hemisphere Cold Snap Coming

Movement to Fire Every current Congress Member

What can be done to stop Democrats from selecting the candidate they want to run against Obama?

This is a matter of grave concern to us, because we believe the current president’s unprecedented decision to maintain his political campaign organization, in perpetual campaign mode, during his presidency means that in 2011, if not sooner, Democrats will work aggressively to select a doomed Republican presidential candidate for 2012. We believe, as we repeatedly say here, the MSM is already at work on this, pushing “The Five Horsemen of the GOP 2012 Apocalypse”. Currently, the men being pushed for 2012 by the media are Mitt Romney, John Thune, Tim Pawlenty, Charlie Crist, and John Huntsman. Some weeks, Bobby Jindal replaces Hunstman. On rare occasions, Haley Barbour or Newt Gingrich are up there instead of Crist. None of these men can do what needs to be done in 2012:

(1) Provide an obvious, clearcut, immediate remedy to Dr. Utopia, since a winning GOP candidate must be a narrative answer to all of Dr. Utopia’s failures

(2) Excite supporters to hit the ground, phone bank, donate, and work their tails off to take back the White House

(3) Control the campaign’s message despite the media’s every effort to sabotage and destroy it

Republicans need to understand they are not just up against the DNC and the White House. They are also going to have to run against the MSM itself in 2012. The MSM is 100% committed to re-electing Dr. Utopia. Many, such as Chris Matthews at MSNBC, have said on air their job is to see that he succeeds. The only positive thing we can say about the MSM, thus, is that they are so open about what they are doing. They are no longer journalists, but de facto political staff volunteering for Dr. Utopia while being paid as “journalists”.

Here is what we think is going to happen as 2012 approaches:

(A) The MSM will continue, every day, to throw everything they can at Sarah Palin in efforts to destroy her personally, and to break her spirit so that she decides it’s not worth running. The MSM is engaged in what we can only liken to the Blitz on London: they will saturate bomb the Palins for the next two years so that someone in the family breaks and convinces Palin herself that they can’t take any more of this and want her to get out of the spotlight. Of course, the flaw in this is that such a thing will never happen. The Palins need to realize they are now one of “America’s families”. Too many people love them, too many hate them, and too many are fascinated by them for the MSM to ever let them go. Even if Sarah Palin retired completely, as the MSM would like, and lived the rest of her life as a hermit on an obscure island in Alaska, the MSM would continue to report on everything this family did. They all are, honestly, just too damn interesting for the MSM to let go of. So, they’re in a very weird position. Damned if she runs, damned if she doesn’t, and guaranteed to be pummeled and harrassed no matter what, really.

(B) The DNC will coordinate with ACORN, the SEIU, and other criminal organizations to rig the Iowa Caucus just as they did in 2008. This is so very easy to do. The caucuses in Iowa can only charitably be described as “wonton chaos-fests”. The people running them are very, very old and in many cases senile. Dr. Utopia’s operatives gained control of the doors and voter registration tables for the 2008 caucuses. If you didn’t look like you were going to vote the way they wanted you to, you were not allowed to caucus. WE SAW THEM DO THIS. They will do it again in 2012, only this time they’re going to push Pawlenty or Romney to a win in Iowa to stop Sarah Palin. Democrats will bus down from Chicago to vote Romney or Pawlenty. It will be unreal and wholly transparent, but the MSM will refuse to cover the story and will instead pretend, all of a sudden, everyone in the world is excited about Tim Pawlenty — a man who looks like he’s made of mayonnaise, Wonderbread, and bathroom caulk.

(C) After Romney or Pawlenty wins Iowa, the MSM will next work to make sure whoever that is comes in second in New Hampshire, so the race looks like it’s a “Romney or Pawlenty” choice, forcing Palin out – the way they repeatedly tried to force Hillary Clinton out of the race and that vile, deceased pig Tim Russert used to bellow loudly “Get out! Get out! Get out!”.

(D) Starting in South Carolina, with Palin out, the MSM will then start to push whoever is the absolute worst of the men left in the race. That would be either Jindal or Crist. Jindal is the single ugliest politician the Republicans have put forward for any elected office in our nation’s history. He is awkward, goofy, ugly, and once participated in an exorcism. There will never be any national movement to have this man’s face put on portraits in every government building in the country, let alone our money. Crist is, of course, a former patron of the Green Iguana bar in Tampa, Florida, whose recent marriage to novelty products and fake beards heiress Carole Rome fools no one. Both would be electoral college disasters.

(E) The MSM does not want Dr. Utopia to squeak by with a win, they want him to have a blowout. So, the MSM will push whatever man they think could flame out most spectacularly in 2012. Ain’t no bigger flamer than Charlie Crist. At least that’s what they say down at the Green Iguana. The racial cudgel could be used to push Jindal, with the MSM insisting Republicans would be RAAACIST not to push the first Indian-American as its nominee. We doubt that would work, but The Marginot Line teaches us entrenched organizations tend to fight future battles with successful tactics of the past. Since race-baiting worked so well in the 2008 campaign, and the MSM so thoroughly enjoyed engaging in it, with personal glee, expect it to be used again in 2012.

(F) The wildest thought we have had about 2012 involves Levi Johnston, and we didn’t really know where to fit this into the mix, so we’ll leave it here at (F). It sure feels to us, living in a big city and being familiar with the bar and party scene, that the MSM is pushing Johnston on a road to self-destruction. He keeps getting these invites to Hollywood parties, where drugs are available, and to weird adult-industry gatherings, where drugs are available. It feels like there’s a deliberate and coordinated push to get this kid hooked on drugs so that he hurts himself in the future — and possibly even ends up dead from an overdose or car accident or something. THEN, the MSM will start accusing the Palins of murdering him. It’s the only thing they have not accused this family of, yet. It feels like people are saying, “Hey, get that kid over to an open bar and let’s see what happens. Could be fun. He could really f*** himself up and that would be great TV”. Here in Boystown, if you don’t like someone at work or wherever, you start giving them chocolates. Then, after a while, you start bringing in pastries, working up to doughnuts, giving them candy all the time, until you make them fat. Then, you sit back and enjoy the mess you’ve made of them, as they’re depressed they’ve gotten fat, so then you can start bringing in pizza for lunch to make them fatter. We swear, people here play manipulative games like this. Beware Greeks bearing gifts, and gays holding chocolate.

Democrats are already plotting and scheming to hold onto the White House in 2012.

Republicans, meanwhile, are staring up at the ceiling or sitting on their couches refusing to think about 2012 until sometime mid-2012. Like they always do.

The only way to stop the MSM and the DNC is to start thinking about what can be done NOW to prevent them from running one of The Five Horsemen against Dr. Utopia.

How can we stop the DNC from gaming the Iowa caucus itself, which needs to be gamed to set their whole plan in motion.

What think you?

Don't Cry For Me, America

Understanding Taqiyya: Islamic Principle of Lying for the Sake of Allah

'We're On The Path For Fireworks In 2010'

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Home Under the Range (Underground Town In the Outback)

Anthrax Case Linked to Drumming Circle, New Hampshire Officials Say

Virtual Book Sales Surpass Physical Books

Planning a Vacation? Don’t Forget the Porn Stars! (An example fo the fall of a once great country)

[backhoe]

Why I Miss George W. Bush

Understand, we have the first administration in history that is an administration of thugs...  if you disagree with the Obama gang, you are a racist or a Nazi.

 

Sharp dressed man and flight 253: what was left out of the story? (MSM sheltering Obama?)

REPORTING ANOTHER FLIGHT 253 ARREST, confirming a passenger report that had earlier been unconfirmed. But now they’re saying the second person was detained for “reasons unrelated to the attack.” Lots more coverage here.

Top Ten reasons it took Obama 3 days to respond to terror attempt

10. My teleprompter was on vacation last week.

 

9. Polishing a Nobel Prize takes longer than you think.

 

8. It was Bush's fault. (Hey, it worked last year.)

 

7. The waves here in Hawaii are bitchen, dude.

 

6. Janet Napolitano said the system worked great, even if I couldn't get email on my Blackberry for a while there.

 

5. This sort of thing just ain't supposed to happen on my watch.

 

4. It was Bush's fault.

 

3. Axelrod never told me I'd have to work holidays.

 

2. I was busy celebrating Festivus.

 

And the Number One excuse Obama can give for taking so long to respond to the attempted attack on Northwest Flight 253:

 

I was busy looking for my birth certificate.

US Military Forces Refusing Orders from Barack Obama and Taking it to Court (Video)

Obama’s refusal to release his original vital records screams out that he also believes it matters and is hiding something.

If what Obama is hiding is a report by grandma of a home birth, I believe that financial and investigative resources would be made available to intensify efforts to validate the Kenya BCs by folks who would be emboldened by the opening such a report would allow for a foreign birth.

All it would take is blood in the water ( for the swarming to begin )...

Eight reasons why Dems will lose the House in 2010

MAUREEN DOWD: As the Nation’s Pulse Races, Obama Can’t Seem to Find His. Is it just me, or does he seem like he’s not enjoying the Presidency as much as he expected? Plus, comparing Janet Napolitano to Janet Reno? Harsh. (Via Ed Morrissey, who notes that Dowd’s sounding like Cheney these days. “If Obama has lost Maureen Dowd, then perhaps the outrageous outrage that erupted this morning over Cheney’s remarks should be reconsidered. Be sure to read Dowd’s entire column, a sentence I thought I’d never write.”)

 

TEA PARTY GROUPS growing in North Georgia. And everywhere else, which is a mixed bag for the sclerotic, out-of-touch Republican leadership . . .

 

Interpol: The International Enforcement Arm of the Islamic Republic of Iran

by Baron Bodissey

Andy McCarthy asks an important question about President Obama’s notorious order to grant immunity to agents of Interpol: “Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law?”

Being constrained by the Fourth Amendment, FOIA, and other limitations of the Constitution and federal law that protect the liberty and privacy of Americans is what prevents law-enforcement and its controlling government authority from becoming tyrannical.

On Wednesday, however, for no apparent reason, President Obama issued an executive order removing the Reagan limitations. That is, Interpol’s property and assets are no longer subject to search and confiscation, and its archives are now considered inviolable. This international police force (whose U.S. headquarters is in the Justice Department in Washington) will be unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law while it operates in the United States and affects both Americans and American interests outside the United States.

Interpol works closely with international tribunals (such as the International Criminal Court — which the United States has refused to join because of its sovereignty-surrendering provisions, though top Obama officials want us in it). It also works closely with foreign courts and law-enforcement authorities (such as those in Europe that are investigating former Bush administration officials for purported war crimes — i.e., for actions taken in America’s defense).

Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies?

Why, indeed?

Here’s one possible explanation: Interpol is acting as the international enforcement arm of the terrorist regime known as the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Agents for the mullahs would not enjoy the esteem and confidence of the average American citizen (or law enforcement officer), so granting them immunity is a necessary step that will allow them to operate efficiently and effectively on American territory. The Obama administration has been doing its best to suck up to Tehran, and the immunization of Interpol looks to be part and parcel of the program.

According to The Local:

Read further...

Baron Bodissey | 12/30/2009 11:10:00 AM

 

Democrats: Obama More Aggressive Fighting Al-Qaeda Than Bush

Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 4:02 PM

Jim Hoft

Here’s your big joke of the day.

Democrats claim that the snorkler in chief is more aggressive fighting ‘man caused disasters’ than Bush.
The Hill reported:

Democratic strategists Wednesday asserted President Barack Obama “has been far more aggressive in fighting al Qaeda” than the previous administration .

In an e-mail this afternoon to supporters — which incidentally excoriated Republicans for politicizing the attempted bombing of Flight 253 — the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) stressed it was President George W. Bush, not his successor, who relegated the fight against the terrorist network to the back burner by turning “its focus from al Qaeda to Iraq.”

Ultimately, the DCCC’s charge on Wednesday is but a direct response to a new fundraising pitch by Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) — a petition Democrats say exploits the terrorism plot in an attempt to raise campaign dollars.

Hoekstra, who is running for governor in Michigan, asked voters in a letter on Tuesday “who will stand up the Obama/Pelosi efforts to weaken our security” to donate to his gubernatorial war chest.

“It is insulting that The Obama administration would make such a claim, but then again, these are the same weak-kneed liberals who have recently tried to bring Guantanamo Bay terrorists right here to Michigan!” Hoekstra wrote earlier this week.

For the record: In Operation Iraqi Freedom more than 19,429 Al-Qaeda and Islamic militants have been killed. Over 18,900 insurgents have been captured.

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Fistgate XIII: Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Pushed Book Detailing Sex Between 1st Graders in 1994

Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 12:47 PM

Jim Hoft

-Warning on Content-
Earlier we reported that Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s organization GLSEN was promoting porn books to children. One of the books recommended for 7 to 12 graders described group sex between first graders. The book made it sound completely normal. Since that report it was discovered that Kevin Jennings, Barack Obama’s Safe School’s Czar, promoted this same book himself back in 1994.
–Don’t expect the state-run media to report on this.

Here again is some background on Kevin Jennings and his GLSEN organization’s shocking reading list for children:

Scott Baker from Breitbart-TV.com and Co-Host of ‘The B-Cast‘ submitted a shocking report to Gateway Pundit blog back on December 4, 2009. The report detailed the reading list promoted to 7-12 grade students by Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN organization. This material has not been reported in detail at Big Government website. Remember as you read this that Kevin Jennings is today the nation’s Safe Schools Czar.

I was recently approached by a team of independent researchers that I have known for some time and have come to trust. They prepared this report involving ‘Safe Schools Czar’ Kevin Jennings and the organization he founded, GLSEN, and asked that I find a way to help draw attention to what they uncovered. Knowing that Gateway Pundit has followed Kevin Jennings since his appointment, as we have on The B-Cast (here, here, and here), and on Breitbart.tv (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here), I felt this would be an appropriate place for this report.

Warning: The following material is very explicit.

Scott Baker

Co-Founder, Breitbart.tv

Co-Host, The B-Cast

Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was the founder, and for many years, Executive Director of an organization called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN started essentially as Jennings’ personal project and grew to become the culmination of his life’s work. And he was chosen by President Obama to be the nation’s Safe Schools Czar primarily because he had founded and led GLSEN (scroll for bio).

GLSEN’s stated mission is to empower gay youth in the schools and to stop harassment by other students. It encourages the formation of Gay Student Alliances and condemns the use of hateful words. GLSEN also strives to influence the educational curriculum to include materials which the group believes will increase tolerance of gay students and decrease bullying. To that end, GLSEN maintains a recommended reading list of books that it claims “furthers our mission to ensure safe schools for all students.” In other words, these are the books that GLSEN’s directors think all kids should be reading: gay kids should read them to raise their self-esteem, and straight kids should read them in order to become more aware and tolerant and stop bullying gay kids. Through GLSEN’s online ordering system, called “GLSEN BookLink,” featured prominently on their Web site, teachers can buy the books to use as required classroom assignments, or students can buy them to read on their own.

According to GLSEN’s own press releases from the period during which its recommended reading list was developed, the organization’s three areas of focus were creating “educational resources, public policy agenda, [and] student organizing programs”; in other words, the reading list (chief among its “educational resources”) was of prime importance in GLSEN’s efforts to influence the American educational system.

The list is divided into three main categories: books recommended for grades K-6; books recommended for grades 7-12; and books for teachers. (The books on the list span all genres: fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, even poetry.)

Out of curiosity to see exactly what kind of books Kevin Jennings and his organization think American students should be reading in school, our team chose a handful at random from the over 100 titles on GLSEN’s grades 7-12 list, and began reading through.

What we discovered shocked us. We were flabbergasted. Rendered speechless.

We were unprepared for what we encountered. Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.

We knew that unless we carefully documented what we were reading, the public would have a hard time accepting it. Mere descriptions on our part could not convey the emotional gut reaction one gets when seeing what Kevin Jennings wants kids to read as school assignments. So we began scanning pages from each of the books, and then made exact transcriptions of the relevant passages on each page.

Here is one of GLSEN’s recommended books for 7 to 12 graders–
Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story About Growing up Gay
This book is promoted at the GLSEN website and can be purchased there.

This book covers group sex between first graders and makes it sound completely normal.
Reflections of a Rock Lobster – Page 13

(At the age of six, the author frequently performed fellatio on his fellow first-graders in the school restroom, part of a “busy homosexual childhood.”)

My sexual exploits with my neighborhood playmates continued. I lived a busy homosexual childhood, somehow managing to avoid venereal disease through all my toddler years. By first grade I was sexually active with many friends. In fact, a small group of us regularly met in the grammar school lavatory to perform fellatio on one another. A typical week’s schedule would be Aaron and Michael on Monday during lunch; Michael and Johnny on Tuesday after school; Fred and Timmy at noon Wednesday; Aaron and Timmy after school on Thursday. None of us ever got caught, but we never worried about it anyway. We all understood that what we were doing was not to be discussed freely with adults but we viewed it as a fun sort of confidential activity. None of us had any guilty feelings about it; we figured everyone did it. Why shouldn’t they?

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This is just one of the books promoted by the Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN organization.

This week Mass Resistance reported that Kevin Jennings was promoting this porn books to kids for years:

Here’s proof that Kevin Jennings was certainly aware that his organization, GLSEN, recommended porn books for teens.  He had recommended them himself in his 1994 high school reader Becoming Visible (published by porn publisher Alyson Books). On p. 278 in his Questions/Activities section for Chapter 17, he wrote:

15. Other resources for reading are Bennett Singer’s Growing Up Gay, Ann Heron’s One Teenager in Ten: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth, Aaron Frick’s Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story of Growing Up Gay, and Paul Monette’s Becoming a Man. Films include Robert King’s The Disco Years and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, based on Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical novel.

These questionable books (haven’t looked at the films yet…) have been described by Linda Harvey in 2002 (also here), NARTH (late 1990s), and more recently at Gateway Pundit/BigGovernment.com (Dec. 2009).

Today Kevin Jennings is Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar.

There’s much more to come.

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Bad News For Corruptocrats– A Record 58% Now Oppose Obamacare (46% Strongly Oppose)

Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 11:28 AM

Jim Hoft

Here’s more bad news for the bribe-takers, vote-buyers and jokers…

Opposition to the nationalized health care legislation making its way through Congress is is now at its highest point at 58%. 19% of voters strongly support the bill while 46% strongly oppose it.
Rasmussen reported:

Many have questioned whether those who favor or oppose the health care plan in Congress really know what’s in it. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey suggests that they have a decent understanding of the bill and that voter attitudes towards the legislation have hardened.

While several individual components of the plan are popular, reminding voters of what’s included in the plan has virtually no impact on support for the overall legislation. This suggests that there are not major surprises in the legislation that will cause people to change their opinion of it.

Thirty-nine percent (39%) of voters nationwide support the plan, and 58% are opposed. That’s consistent with our weekly tracking of the issue which has found support between 38% and 41% every week from just before Thanksgiving to the end of 2009.

The new figures include 19% who Strongly Favor the plan and 46% who Strongly Oppose it.

Yid with Lid has charted the discontent.

Good luck with that ad Senator Nelson.

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The 30 year papers: How Maggie handbagged the world in just eight months

LORAN?

An interesting bit on fuel station infrastructure

...now now, no need to go all apocalyptic / mountain [of supplies] out of a molehill. It's enough to know which tank you need to break into, if and when you ever need to. And get yourself a nice SuperSiphon example http://www.baproducts.com/siphon.htm

McDonnell: Drill, Baby, Drill Off Virginia Coast

Major Philippine volcanic eruption seems imminent

Climategate on Finnish TV

The You Tube videos are above at McIntyre's site but to see them at You Tube, click here

French Revolution! Carbon tax ruled unconstitutional just two days before taking effect

Posted by Kate at 8:11 AM| Comments (28)

 

Lorne Gunter has written a good article in the National Post that relates to this subject:

http://tinyurl.com/ylyzexj

 

Willis Eschenbach on complexity

by snork ( 8 Comments › )
Filed under Global Warming Hoax, Science at December 30th, 2009 - 3:00 pm

Excuse me for writing a post that simply refers to someone else’s blog post, but there’s a fellow who describes himself as a “cowboy scientist” around the climate blogosphere, who has a gift for clear writing, and has attacked what I think it a very core but very difficult issue pivotal to understanding what the whole climate food fight as all about. His name is Willis Eschenbach. Remember that name.

At the highly recommended climate-weather-science blog WattsUpWithThat, Willis has a somewhat long, but very clear and insightful piece on why the “basic physics” argument used by the alarmists – the claim that  the greenhouse effect is 150 years old, and dates back to Joseph Fourier in the mid-19th century, and thus is well established and well understood (which is more-or-less true) – is a specious argument.

Please read the whole piece; it will give insight into why this is as silly as saying that rivers should be straight lines. But (spoiler alert!) here’s the final paragraph:

Final conclusion? Because climate is a flow system far from equilibrium, it is ruled by the Constructal Law. As a result, there is no physics-based reason to assume that increasing CO2 will make any difference to the global temperature, and the Constructal Law gives us reason to think that it may make no difference at all. In any case, regardless of Arrhenius, the “simple physics” relationship between CO2 and global temperature is something that we cannot simply assume to be true.

Or put another way, the “simple physics” is a small, and likely not dominant part of a chaotic system. What he’s describing is related to the butterfly effect, which is part of chaos theory, and the reason why, for practical intents and purposes, certain things in nature aren’t deterministic, or at least in the way that we would at first blush think.

That, in addition to the fact that anyone who claims that we really understand all the factors involved is either ignorant or lying. There is much that isn’t well understood at all. Knowing how a quarter of something works isn’t likely to allow you to predict how it’s going to behave.

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Tags: Chaos theory, Complexity, WatsUpWithThat, Willis Eschenbach
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Here we go: White House gearing up to push amnesty in 2010

Why not? What do they have to lose? They’ve already pissed away independents and re-energized conservatives thanks to ObamaCare. Might as well use next year to check as many boxes left on their agenda as they can before they take their beating. Amnesty, cap-and-trade, transferring Gitmo detainees to the U.S.: Pour it on and hope that progressives and Latinos will react by turning out in numbers just high enough to keep the House in Democratic hands. Even if it backfires, how bad can the damage be? They lose 35 seats instead of 30?

In fact, this may help them pass ObamaCare next month. What other way is there to read this except as a signal to Blue Dogs — and Harry Reid, whom Pelosi expects to take the lead on this — that The One’s fully prepared to sacrifice them on the altar of his liberal policy wishlist? Now they can grit their teeth, vote yes on whatever he wants them to, and fall on their swords nobly next November. We’ll miss you, Dingy.

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CLIVE CROOK: A Double Standard On Obama And Terrorism? “Well of course Republicans are playing politics–which is deplorable, and something that Democrats would never do. But in my circle–I mix with all kinds–it isn’t just Republicans who were incredulous at the still-growing catalogue of errors, and awe-struck by Janet Napolitano’s initial view that the system had worked.”

 

 Quote Of The Day. “Just to clarify, this is the same former vice president who we were told was Darth Vader, ruthless and cruel, obsessed with terrorism, draconian and lacking in perspective, stopping at nothing to find anyone who could be even remotely connected to al-Qaeda and using excruciatingly painful forms of interrogation that leave decent souls traumatized and Jack Bauer wincing. “And now we’re supposed to believe he’s insufficiently interested in condemning the attackers?”

UPDATE: Ron Radosh: Will Obama Now Protect Us?

In last night’s remarks, President Barack Obama made another one of his late-in-the-game, 180 degree turnarounds. Not only did the system not work, as asserted by Robert Gibbs and Janet Napolitano after the Christmas Day incident aboard Flight 253, but now the President is calling it a “systemic failure” in our intelligence agency apparatus. No longer is it, as Obama said earlier, an “isolated incident” committed by the “alleged” terrorist.

The government, it is clear, knows that al-Qaeda was behind the attack, had information beforehand that someone from Nigeria would be involved, and had “warning signs” that were ignored. And just as before 9/11, intelligence agencies either did not share material some of them had with the other parts of the security apparatus. It also is now known that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had engaged in much activity that gave even his father cause to worry, as President Obama acknowledged.

Read the whole thing.

So, do any of you morons and moronettes (H/T; Ace ) remember this?

Able Danger, 9-11 Report, Gorelick, and so much more...

Click the picture...

"The Same Old Washington Blame Game".

Posted by Kate at 8:24 PM| Comments (27)

"B.O. is a smooth speaker, who is actually scared to death of the position he is in ."Frozen in the headlights" comes to mind."

"Obama is like Chamberlain. He knows he has a problem, but he doesn't have what it takes to deal with it, so he's stalling for time."

 

Why is Obama still in Hawaii?

December 30, 2009 02:09 AM by Michelle Malkin155 Comments | 1 Trackback

...take a good look back on the double standards favoring Obama over Bush on just about EVERYTHING...

 

 

Full body scanners are being put into immediate use — by the Dutch

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Netherlands announced Wednesday will immediately begin using full body scanners for flights heading to the United States, issuing a report that called the failed Christmas Day airline bombing a “professional” terror attack.

Officials say Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, managed to board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport carrying undetected explosives but failed to detonate them. The plane was carrying over 300 people.

“It is not exaggerating to say the world has escaped a disaster,” Interior Minister Guusje Ter Horst told a news conference.

In its preliminary report, the Dutch government called the plan to blow up the Detroit-bound aircraft “professional” but said its execution was “amateurish.” [...]

The Dutch minister said U.S. had not wanted these scanners to be used previously because of privacy concerns but said there was now agreement with Washington authorities that “all possible measures will be used on flights to the U.S.”

Meanwhile, officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday that a man tried to board a commercial airliner in the Somali capital of Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe in a case bearing chilling similarities to the Detroit airliner plot.

The Somali man — whose name has not yet been released — was arrested by African Union peacekeeping troops before the Nov. 13 Daallo Airlines flight took off. It had been scheduled to travel from Mogadishu to the northern Somali city of Hargeisa, then to Djibouti and Dubai. A Somali police spokesman, Abdulahi Hassan Barise, said the suspect is in Somali custody.

“We don’t know whether he’s linked with al-Qaida or other foreign organizations, but his actions were the acts of a terrorist. We caught him red-handed,” said Barise.

NOT a “B+”, Barry.

Why does Janet Incompetano still have a job? Why should we be asked to trust anything she blathers?

via Little Miss Attila, The Anchoress nails it on why Obama has been so detached and tired lately.

But I suspect that Obama’s listless speechifying is betraying a restless impatience. I suspect Obama is bored with being president, and it’s not because he is too smart for the office, but because the office is too much like real work.

I suspect all he ever wanted was the campaign glory (though not the inconvenience of interrupted waffles), the adoring headlines, and the ability to pick up a phone and ask for anything he wants without hearing a “no” on the other end.

I suspect that what Obama wanted was to be the King, not the President. The King’s role is largely ceremonial. In time of national tragedy the King goes before the camera and says, “this is very sad.” If he can assign blame on a perceived enemy he does so, and then he steps aside and retires to his amusements while those actually in charge clean up the mess and determine how to prevent future messes. Everyone loves the King, defers to the King, rushes to do for the King, but the King -who tends to get bored and distracted by the dry business of actually governing- is responsible for very little, and most are just as glad of it.

To expand, I suspect that Barack Obama, child of privilege and born “black” into a left-dominated culture that fetishized him, grew up feeling entitled to his good fortune, regardless of real effort. His whole life he has had people scrambling to do for him, to see him as “the first black [fill in]” so as to be able to say to themselves “see what I did? I helped achieve this so I’m proving I’m not racist.”

Obama wanted healthcare “reform” but handed it off to Pelosi and Reid. Indeed, he bristled at any dissent, so much so, he cut off communication with Republicans on the issue last March. “I Won” Obama feels entitled to unquestioned deference — along with media facetime on his terms and whims. Just let him eat his waffle or make his tee time.

Posted by Darleen @ 7:46 am
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Some stiff named Cheney thinks that Obama is playing make-believe.

 

"...too much work, dude. The Once™ just wants his waffles, m’kay?

 

"Failing to move left fast enough for his hard shell supporters and disillusioning the moderates who were naive and desperate enough to believe his pseudocentrism have made Oboomaloompa a self-made caricature, potentially paralyzed by inexperience and ideology. Indeed, Psycho, shit could get crazy may be putting it mildly."

 

"A previous poster called Obama ‘America’s first prom queen president’. He is correct in the cliche Hollywood prom queen sense. You know, the grasping bitch that would step over the body of her dying grandmother to win an election."

 

"Obama reminds me of Princess Diana..."

 

Somali Nabbed With Chemicals, Syringe

December 30th, 2009

From an unfazed Associated Press:

 

Somali arrested at airport with chemicals, syringe

December 30, 2009

MOGADISHU, Somalia – A man tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that could have caused an explosion in a case bearing chilling similarities to the terrorist plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The Somali man — whose name has not yet been released — was arrested by African Union peacekeeping troops before the Nov. 13 Daallo Airlines flight took off. It had been scheduled to travel from Mogadishu to the northern Somali city of Hargeisa, then to Djibouti and Dubai. A Somali police spokesman, Abdulahi Hassan Barise, said the suspect is in Somali custody.

"We don’t know whether he’s linked with al-Qaida or other foreign organizations, but his actions were the acts of a terrorist. We caught him red-handed," said Barise.

A Nairobi-based diplomat said the incident in Somalia is similar to the attempted attack on the Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day in that the Somali man had a syringe, a bag of powdered chemicals and liquid — tools similar to those used in the Detroit attack. The diplomat spoke on condition he not be identified because he isn’t authorized to release the information.

Barigye Bahoku, the spokesman for the African Union military force in Mogadishu, said the chemicals from the Somali suspect could have caused an explosion that would have caused air decompression inside the plane. However, Bahoku said he doesn’t believe an explosion would have brought the plane down.

A second international official familiar with the incident, also speaking on condition of anonymity because he isn’t authorized to discuss the case, confirmed that the substances carried by the Somali passenger could have been used as an explosive device.

So much for the Christmas attack being an “isolated incident.”

And isn’t it funny how there is no mention of the perpetrator’s religious persuasion?

Of course this is just another matter for local law enforcement.

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This is TREASON.

OUR NEW “POST-MODERN RACE PROBLEM.”  “Steele writes an excellent essay — providing a great starting point for the self-examination that will be required of us in the years to come as we ask ourselves how this charming young man became President of the United States.”

Anarchists Of The World, Unite!

"Anarchism never was the sort of closed totalitarian system that Marxism aspired to be."

Update - EBD claims to have found the Youtube version.

I'm starting to get a little ticked off with the left's habit of ruining perfectly good words - starting with "left".

After the communists began racking up failed states and mass graves, the left appropriated "liberal". Not content with that, they screwed over "progressive". (And don't get me started on "gay".)

And "green" - for God's sake, it's a colour. Have they no shame?

Now, like water claiming ownership of "dry", the crazier among them have declared themselves "anarchists". Anarchists!

After all, these aren't difficult concepts.

This is an anarchist.

You are not anarchists.

You know, for as troublesome as anarchy might be in practical application, it's still preferable to Marxism. In a time of galloping nanny-statism, the prospect of a society purged of bureaucracy seems less threat than romance.

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'I find it entertaining that she seems to see no inherent contradiction between "maximizing personal liberty" and "authority devolved to the local level and exercised through direct democracy". But then these kind of pie-in-the sky armchair politicos always seem to think themselves terribly smart when they "discover" something Enlightenment philosophers figured out three hundred years ago. We had a local "barter network" congratulate themselves endlessly on solving the problem of "I want to trade with Bob, but I don't have anything Bob wants" with the introduction of "barter dollars". Good job, geniuses, you've successfully invented money. ::facepalm::'

 

LGF 1.0: Obama greater than Jesus

by snork ( 61 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Humor, LGF, Leftists, Media, Open thread, Progressives at December 30th, 2009 - 9:00 pm

Ok, it wasn’t from the blog, it was from the link viewer, but this is pretty bizarre:

EDITORIAL: Obama greater than Jesus

This isn’t a spoof. This is completely straight-faced serious. From Denmark, this is an actual op-ed:

He is provocative in insisting on an outstretched hand, where others only see animosity.

His tangible results in the short time that he has been active – are few and far between. His greatest results have been created with words and speeches – words that remain in the consciousness of their audience and have long-term effects.

He comes from humble beginnings and defends the weak and vulnerable, because he can identify himself with their conditions.

And no we are not thinking of Jesus Christ, whose birthday has just been celebrated – - but rather the President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama.

Is pot legal there?

On the other hand, we have Jesus’ miracles that everyone still remembers, but which only benefitted a few. At the same time, we have the wonderful parables about his life and deeds that we know from the New Testament, but which have been interpreted so differently over the past 2000 years that it is impossible to give an unequivocal result of his work.

Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus – if we have to play that absurd Christmas game. But it is probably more meaningful to insist that with today’s domestic triumph, that he has already assured himself a place in the history books – a space he has good chances of expanding considerably in coming years.

Aye aye aye aye aye…

And with that, It’s open thread time.

Tags: Crazy, Denmark, Funny Farm, Insane, loony, Psychotic
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Obama turns water into Whine

You can read about it in the Holy Book of Alinski. Parables for radicals

Sigh. The Danes and Scandinavians- once the terror of Europe. Their legacy now is the Volvo and crappy furniture you need an Allen wrench to assemble.

Rasmussen: Opposition to ObamaCare Reaches New High

—Gabriel Malor

58% are opposed, with only 39% supporting the President's attempt to cripple America's healthcare system.

While several individual components of the plan are popular, reminding voters of what’s included in the plan has virtually no impact on support for the overall legislation. This suggests that there are not major surprises in the legislation that will cause people to change their opinion of it.

[...]

The new figures include 19% who Strongly Favor the plan and 46% who Strongly Oppose it.

This poll is particularly useful as a snapshot of who these crazy folks are who want a healthcare bill no matter what's in it:

It is interesting to note that attitudes towards the plan vary sharply based upon what people see as the primary problem with health care today. Fifty-three percent (53%) say cost is the biggest problem while 23% cite the lack of universal coverage and 13% name the quality of care.

Among those who see the lack of universal coverage as the biggest problem, 86% favor the legislation.

However, among the majority who see cost as the biggest issue, 68% are opposed.

As for those who see the quality of care as the top issue, 87% are opposed to the plan before Congress.

The universal coverage folks are kidding themselves if they think an individual mandate will result in healthcare for every American. Many will continue to go without and there's little difference between foregoing treatment because you have no insurance and foregoing treatment because a government deathpanel won't let your insurer cover it.

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 12:46 PM New Comments Thingy

 

20 Every American has healthcare already.  Private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP, illegal alien visits to Emergency Departments, prison infirmaries.  Everyone is taken care of.  HCR is redistribution of wealth and government control of personal health and finances.  In other words... a fancy word for theft and slavery.

Terror Crackdown ... On Bloggers

[backhoe]

No Jobs for Ten Years?

Hopi

Changi...

State Sales Tax Numbers: The Truth Appears

O's day of reckoning: Iran deadline just plain dead

Victor Davis Hanson: 2009 Chickens and Their 2010 Roost

In the coming year, plenty of our chickens will be coming home to roost.

Take foreign relations. In 2009, the new administration assumed that George W. Bush was largely responsible for global tensions. As a remedy, we loudly reached out to our foes and those with whom we had uneasy relationships.

But so far these leaders -- like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Russia's Vladimir Putin -- have only interpreted Barack Obama's serial goodwill gestures as weaknesses to be exploited. They play the part of the pushy class bully, we the whiny nerd.

In the waning days of 2009, Iran has announced it has no intention of dismantling its nuclear facilities and ignored the latest Obama deadline to cease. There's no reason not to expect the theocracy to make significant strides in its nuclear program in 2010, while continuing without rebuke to beat and murder democratic dissidents in its streets...

--snip--

By year's end, oil was creeping back up to $80. If the economic upswing continues, in 2010 it may near its old high of nearly $150 a barrel. Soon we will wish we had done something concrete in 2009 rather than offering more stale rhetoric about wind and solar power.

In other words, 2009 may seem to have ended relatively quietly. But in our foreign relations, in the war against terror, in our massive borrowing, and in our energy policies, we created chickens that soon will come home to roost in 2010.

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Rasmussen: Obamacare Disapproval at New High (More than 2:1 among independent likely voters)

Gee, I wonder why?

 

 

Mark Steyn probably said it best in one of his columns and his recent subbing for El Rushbo: that the dems know from the Euroweenie example that once government has life-and-death power over us they will hold all the cards and there will be no going back. If government is all powerful then the Party of Government will be in the driver’s seat at least 95% of the time from then on.

The dems know they will suffer short-term electoral pain for this but they expect the pubbies to blow their comeback as usual and soon accept their permanent minority status in perpetuity.

That’s what Steyn says and I agree. I add that all the dem congresscritters were almost certainly given elaborate promises from Obama, the dem powerplayers and the liberal moneybags donors that they will be set up for life as soon as they are booted by the voters next year. Cushy jobs in the 110 new healthcare bureaucracies and the Soros organizations as well as board positions in all the newly government-acquired businesses.

They’ll all be well taken care of.

6 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:06:53 AM by sinanju

Once-presidential phrase casualty of word war(Obama killed "shovel ready"?)

We're Screwed! (hyperinflation & death of US economy)

What About My Right to Be Alive?

The UN and Interpol How the UN Will Gain Power

The Obama Admin.Gives INTERPOL More Favorable Immunities Than American Law Enforcement Agencies

[Governor] Palin brings common sense to politics

White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence

President Obama puts the Postal Service in charge of dispensing bio-terror drugs

Ouch! Putin Answer About Terrorism Stuns Press Conference to Silence

BIOS-level viruses and rootkits

Liberal Glee on Display Over Limbaugh Hospitalization

Rasmussen: Health Care Vote Puts Nelson 30 Points Down in Reelection Bid

OOPS: Associated Press publishes fair and balanced article on increase in gun-related officer deaths

TSA Subpoenas Bloggers, Demands Names of Sources (ACLU, where are you now?)

Mass Firings? Withholding Taxes? There is a Revolution Percolating

Tax revenues are way down and hyperinflation is on the way. A President McCain or even a President Palin would not defund the massive government we are oppressed by. Only a President Obama (Peace be upon him) will be able to manage this. He will do this by not bankrupting our children or grandchildren, but by bankrupting us.

Eric Holder’s Firm May Have Represented Undie Bomber Mastermind Before His Release

As the Nation’s Pulse Races, Obama Can’t Seem to Find His (Maureen Dowd Disses Obama Big Time!)

It's the people, stupid

Powder-bomb airplane plot wasn't the 1st

Mark Steyn probably said it best in one of his columns and his recent subbing for El Rushbo: that the dems know from the Euroweenie example that once government has life-and-death power over us they will hold all the cards and there will be no going back. If government is all powerful then the Party of Government will be in the driver’s seat at least 95% of the time from then on.

The dems know they will suffer short-term electoral pain for this but they expect the pubbies to blow their comeback as usual and soon accept their permanent minority status in perpetuity.

That’s what Steyn says and I agree. I add that all the dem congresscritters were almost certainly given elaborate promises from Obama, the dem powerplayers and the liberal moneybags donors that they will be set up for life as soon as they are booted by the voters next year. Cushy jobs in the 110 new healthcare bureaucracies and the Soros organizations as well as board positions in all the newly government-acquired businesses.

They’ll all be well taken care of.

We're Screwed! (hyperinflation & death of US economy)

What About My Right to Be Alive?

The UN and Interpol How the UN Will Gain Power

The Obama Admin.Gives INTERPOL More Favorable Immunities Than American Law Enforcement Agencies

[Governor] Palin brings common sense to politics

White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence

President Obama puts the Postal Service in charge of dispensing bio-terror drugs

Ouch! Putin Answer About Terrorism Stuns Press Conference to Silence

BIOS-level viruses and rootkits

Liberal Glee on Display Over Limbaugh Hospitalization

Rasmussen: Health Care Vote Puts Nelson 30 Points Down in Reelection Bid

OOPS: Associated Press publishes fair and balanced article on increase in gun-related officer deaths

TSA Subpoenas Bloggers, Demands Names of Sources (ACLU, where are you now?)

Mass Firings? Withholding Taxes? There is a Revolution Percolating

Tax revenues are way down and hyperinflation is on the way. A President McCain or even a President Palin would not defund the massive government we are oppressed by. Only a President Obama (Peace be upon him) will be able to manage this. He will do this by not bankrupting our children or grandchildren, but by bankrupting us.

Eric Holder’s Firm May Have Represented Undie Bomber Mastermind Before His Release

As the Nation’s Pulse Races, Obama Can’t Seem to Find His (Maureen Dowd Disses Obama Big Time!)

It's the people, stupid

Powder-bomb airplane plot wasn't the 1st

[backhoe]

Rasmussen: 29% Say America is on the Right Track, 67% Wrong Track

58% Favor Waterboarding of Plane Terrorist To Get Information

How Will Obama Administration Officials Respond to Discovery of Rocket Launcher in Houston?

According to a retired Navy SEAL friend of mine, the AT-4 is a one-time-use weapon capable of hitting a target from 300 yards, can bring down aircraft and can be remotely fired. Best of all for the one using it, my combat-veteran friend says, it's the weapon of choice -- short of a Stinger missile, that is -- for someone who wants to take out a hardened vehicle like those used for executive protection.

Developing...

Hat tip: Jihad Watch

Obama's vision of nuclear-free world drawing fire - Obama finds resistence on removing nukes

 

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (December 31, 2009: Dear Reader Closes Year at -18)

 

Plentiful Petroleum

 

Most Christians and Jews at Odds with Their Leaders over Illegal Immigration (Surprise, Surprise!)

(Transcript) Rush: Sarah Palin Told Us Obama Would Give Miranda Rights to Terrorists

 

 

Barbara Boxer Subsidizing Relatives with Campaign Contributions

What is Barack Obama doing? UPDATED: Why Interpol, Mr. President?

News From The Gun Grabbers Utopia Across The Pond

FBI Reports Huge Decrease in Murders as Gun Sales Soar

Number of U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan Doubles In 2009 [Code Pink Protests?]

Afghan attacks kill 8 CIA employees, 5 Canadians

“No Despot Fears The President And No Demonstrator In Tehran Expects Him To Ride To The Rescue”

What Israel Can Teach Us About Security (Why The Israeli Security Model Works Alert)

Surprises Abound in Sarah Palin’s "Going Rogue"

I picked up Going Rogue at Target a couple of weeks ago. It has a number of surprises, some pleasant, some just startling. It tends to confirm my belief that Sarah Palin, while perhaps not qualified to be president or vice president last year, was certainly more qualified than McCain, Obama, or Biden.

My biggest surprise was that Going Rogue was apparently not “ghostwritten.” In a few places, I noticed sentences with “I” instead of “me” for the direct object — a mistake that a professional writer wouldn’t make. There is also a bit more use of “I” (at least, properly used as the subject) than a professional writer might use, even in an autobiography. There are also quite a few places where her tangents in telling her story mark this as a first book; they don’t show the organization that I would expect from a professional. (Before you ask what I know about ghostwriting, I have ghostwritten part of a book by someone not as well known as Governor Palin. No, I can’t tell you for whom; that’s part of the contract.)

Another aspect of the book that surprised me is her portrayal of what went wrong with the McCain campaign. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...

Nine Big Stories the Mainstream Media Missed in 2009

Good list. Fox didn't rank them, but climategate will later be known as the event which broke the biggest hoax in human history.

This story is bigger....(for some it is old news) and it answers a lot of questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJzU056ccV4&NR=1

The intro is a little long at two and a half minutes then it gets to the meat of the matter...

No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds

Snowstorm squelches climate change protest

 

 

 

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http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1444343#1444343

Well, be very worried if he starts emulating this ( which I read decades ago ):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Dream

 

Tide under Earth's surface key to quake predictions

AT&T wants out of landline business

27-Megapixel Saturn Panoramic Image Makes Perfect Widescreen Desktop Background

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Dec30 - Fresh Iran streetfghting video, taken from within bleeding edge

 

In The Face of Terrorism, Obama Releases.....Terrorists! 100 of them!

 

Captain Underpants And The Illusion Of Security. “Here is what any moron can see as plain as day: our $40 billion dollar post-9/11 airline security net is a total joke – a White Elephant of epic (and potentially tragic) proportions. The truth is the only aspect of our post 9/11 defense that has turned out to be 100% effective are the passengers themselves. Without really thinking about it we have become an airborne militia – all watching and ready to kick al Qaeda butt at the drop of… a pair of trousers. It began in Shanksville – it effectively thwarted the shoe-bomber – and now Captain Underpants.”

58% Favor Waterboarding of Plane Terrorist To Get Information.

UPDATE: “My conclusion: the debate is over, and Dick Cheney won it.”

MORE ON TSA VS. BLOGGERS, from Wired. Plus, a contrarian take at Aviation Week.

UPDATE: Reader Wayne Duncan emails:

This is the money quote from the story:

A former federal prosecutor who asked not to be identified told Threat Level that the TSA is being heavy-handed in how it’s handling the matter.

“It strikes me that someone at TSA is apoplectic that somehow there’s a sense that they’re not doing their job right,” he told Threat level. “To go into this one reporter’s house and copy his computer files and threaten him, it strikes me that they’re more aggressive with this reporter than with the guy who got on this flight.”

Threatening public safety — wrong. Making bureaucrats look bad — unforgivable!

OBAMACARE unites left and right.

OUCH: “The people calling for Rush Limbaugh to die are the same people who ask to control your healthcare.”

Best (er, worst) of 2009: Obama cult education video of the year

December 31, 2009 01:44 PM by Michelle Malkin14 Comments | 0 Trackbacks

Mmm, mmmm, mmmm.

Best (er, worst) of 2009: Hate mail edition

December 31, 2009 12:24 PM by Michelle Malkin102 Comments | 0 Trackbacks

Season’s &$*%!! greetings.

The Deadly Price of Pursuing Peace

by Speranza ( 9 Comments › )
Filed under Israel, Palestinians at December 31st, 2009 - 12:00 pm

I doubt there is anyone outside of the Haaretz or New York Times editorial staffs who thinks that Oslo was a good idea. I actually had a liberal friend tell me “It (Oslo) would have worked out if Arafat were not such a murderer” (I kid you not he actually said that). Yet we still hear the mantra of the so called “peace process”. That is bogus – peace is not a process. Peace between enemies comes about

1. When one party can no longer stand the physical and economic cost of war

2. One party is being bludgeoned to death.

In 1992 – 93 Israel’s standard in the world was pretty high because their Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (a tough little inflexible bastard) was not interested in being liked. During those years, enemies or previously unfriendly nations such as China, India, Vietnam, the USSR,  Spain, (even the Vatican), all established full diplomatic relations with her. When a nation acts in its own interests and does not worry Hamlet-like over whether it will be popular in the salons of the Washington Post – good things usually happen for them. Compare and contrast the Israel of 1991 – 93 with the Israel of the Olmert years – confused and stunned like a duck hit on the head. The second intifada at one point (Spring of 2002) seemed to be on the verge of bringing Israel to its knees. However the naysayers who said that the security fence would never work and that there is no military solution to Palestinian terrorism, only diplomacy and negotiations, (i.e. surrender and appeasement)  were again proven wrong.

by Evelyn Gordon

When the Oslo process began in 1993, one benefit its adherents promised was a significant improvement in Israel’s international standing. And initially, it seemed as if that promise would be kept: 37 countries soon established or renewed diplomatic relations with Israel; a peace treaty was signed with Jordan; five other Arab states opened lower-level relations.

But 16 years later, it is clear that this initial boost was illusory. Not only is Israel’s standing no better than it was prior to the famous handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat on the White House Lawn in September 1993, it has fallen to an unprecedented low. Efforts to boycott and divest from Israel are gaining strength throughout the West, among groups as diverse as British academics, Canadian labor unions, the Norwegian government’s investment fund, and American churches. Israeli military operations routinely spark huge protests worldwide, often featuring anti-Semitic slogans. References to Israel as an apartheid state have become so commonplace that even a former president of Israel’s closest ally, the United States, had no qualms about using the term in the title of his 2007 book on Israel. European polls repeatedly deem Israel the greatest threat to world peace, greater even than such beacons of tranquility and democracy as Iran and North Korea. Courts in several European countries, including Belgium, Britain, and Spain, have seriously considered indicting Israeli officials for war crimes (though none has actually yet done so). And in October, when the United Nations Human Rights Council overwhelmingly endorsed a report that advocated hauling Israel before the International Criminal Court on war-crimes charges, even many of Jerusalem’s supposed allies refused to vote against the measure. In academic and media circles, it has even become acceptable to question Israel’s very right to exist—something never asked about any other state in the world. None of these developments was imaginable back in the days when Israel refused to talk to the Palestine Liberation Organization, had yet to withdraw from an inch of “Palestinian” land, and had not evacuated a single settlement.

Yet even today, conventional wisdom, including in Israel, continues to assert that Israel’s international standing depends on its willingness to advance the “peace process.” That invites an obvious question: if so, why has Israel’s reputation fallen so low despite its numerous concessions for peace since 1993?

The answer is unpleasant to contemplate, but the mounting evidence makes it inescapable: Israel’s standing has declined so precipitously not despite Oslo but because of Oslo. It was Israel’s very willingness to make concessions for the sake of peace that has produced its current near-pariah status.

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The Left's Permanent War on the War on Terrorism

—Ace

Via Instapundit, this exquisite distillation of the left's Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella defense against terrorism:

Some idiot set firecrackers off on a jet and [we're supposed] to be afraid of that? Al-Q is a joke

And that's from Spence Ackerman, a light of the left (at least of the dimmer variety), not some random Twit-wit.

And it's not just him; another dim light of the left, Matthew Yglesias, is similarly unilaterally lowering his personal Terrorist Threat Condition Chart from "Orange" to "Hakuna Matada:"

Obviously, people shouldn’t be lighting anything on fire inside airplanes. That said, all the big Christmas airline incident really shows to me is how little punch our dread terrorist adversaries really pack. Once again, this seems like a pretty unserious plot. And even if you did manage to blow up an airplane in mid-air, that would be both a very serious crime and a great tragedy, but hardly a first-order national security threat....

Ultimately, it does no favors to anyone to blow this sort of thing out of proportion. The United States could not, of course, be “devastated” by anything resembling this scheme. We ought to be clear on that fact. We want to send the message around the world that this sort of vile attempt to slaughter innocent people is not, at the end of the day, anything resembling a serious challenge to American power. It’s attempted murder, it’s wrong, we should try to stop it, but it’s really not much more than that.

Emphases added. Although they're barely added. Those sentences pretty much just bold themselves, don't they?

On one hand, he says we should merely treat terrorism as an act of attempted murder. Well -- let's be clear. It's an attempt at mass-murder.

Soo... okay, let's say I treat terrorism as "merely" organized, sophisticated, unending institutionally-sponsored attempts at mass-murder.

I'm sorry-- I'm not clear, what level of alarm am I supposed to have over that? Because you seem to be suggesting I should take a wait-and-see attitude on it. Apparently, by your lights, I'm currently taking this much too seriously.

Though it's nice to see it acknowledged that mass murder is "wrong" and "we should try to stop it." Thanks for that.

This is obvious, but obvious is what I do, so here goes:

The left has four political goals:

1) To reverse the public perception that they are a bunch of sissy-pants (not Sassypants, which is altogether different).

2) To de-emphasize terrorism as a media issue, because terror concerns play well for conservatives. (See Goal 1 and the sissy-pants problem.)

3) To sell the public, politically, on a hateful policy of treating terrorists nicely, because, like, Dostoyevsky said something like "you can judge a nation by the way it treats psychotic murder-cultists intent on killing as many innocent civilians as possible for no other reason except to masturbate in human blood."

4) To actually reduce terrorism, because doing so achieves Goal 1 and Goal 2, and also would be a great selling point for Goal 3. (See?! It makes no sense but it works!)

Before getting any further, let us note the incandescently obvious that Goals 1-3 are Major Goals and Goal 4 is a sort of "Nice but Not Necessary" sort of thing. If they can accomplish Goals 1-3, in terms of politics, they're all set. If they can sell the public on the idea that a little bit of mass-murder never killed anyone (except for the people it actually killed, of course), they can pretty ignore Goal 4.

Goal 4 is an entirely secondary proposition which merely assists in Goals 1-3. If you nail Goals 1-3, you really don't need Goal 4. And you can pretty much tell they know that by their emphasis on the first three, and blowing off altogether the fourth. ("The system worked," you've no doubt heard.)

Now, on to the slightly less obvious stuff. Slightly.

To achieve Goals 1-3, they have settled on a basic, stupid, unserious, unpersuasive, jackass political message: Only little pussy-fairies are afraid of terrorists and terrorism; real tough strong he-men types, like us on the left, laugh at it as a big joke. Don't you want to join the super-tough guys who laugh in the face of mass-murder? (As long as it's mass-murder killing other people, of course.) So join us, and laugh at terror, be one of the Real Tough Guys with the Cocks of Burnished Blued Steel, and just put your silly-ass concerns about terrorism away. Let's focus on what really matters -- universal health care and the fundamental restructuring of the economy into something more socialistic -- and let us not be distracted by the childish antics of some Muslim head-cases who are, after all, just "acting up" in a particularly aggressive fashion.

Oh, and of course: Let us also be so bad-ass and Rambo-licious as to shower terrorists with kindness and good treatment, because, you know, if you're really a super nail-spitting fire-breathing Hard Case like us, you never let a bit of righteous fury interfere with your civility and dedication to social justice.

Endlessly repeated, endlessly repeated. It's all so stupid. But apparently some blogger -- or someone -- struck up on this idea in around 2006 (around then -- that's when I seem to remember it popping up) and the idea caught on like wildfire.

They really think that with a little "re-branding" they can solve their perennial Terrorist Gap problem.

By the way, Douchebags, not every problem in our lives can be fixed by "re-branding;" get this, some problems are actually real-world physical-reality problems and require real-world physical-reality solutions. A cute and counterintuitive marketing campaign is not, in fact, enough to stop terrorism, the same as it's not enough to cure AIDS, and it's not enough to cure cancer, and it's not enough to re-start the economy.

Their fundamental unseriousness on this topic is revealed right out of the gate as all their emphasis is on slogans and memes rather than actually doing something to stop or at least diminish the threat of terrorism.

Sure, guys, if I define a problem as not a problem at all, the problem does, in fact, effectively go away; or, at least, it goes away in the sense I'm no longer acknowledging it as a problem at all. But the fact that I no longer acknowledge it as such does not actually make it not such.

I can take a very blase attitude towards 250 people dying in an Al-Qaeda plane detonation. And yes, that will make those 250 deaths "not a problem" for me, but you know what it won't do? It won't bring those 250 human beings back to life.

This whole idea permeates the Obama Administration, which not only embraced it as a marketing campaign, but as actual, concrete US policy. The first -- engaging in a marketing campaign to soft-pedal terrorism -- is hateful enough (we are talking about human lives here, or does Hope and Change not concern itself with such petty, less-than-grandiose considerations?), but to actually reify such a vile idea into concrete, tangible US policy is unforgivable and anti-life and palpably evil.

Laugh at terrorism? Treat it less-than-seriously? This demonstrates what, exactly? Seems to demonstrate exactly what it's intended to demonstrate: A callousness to the number of preventable murders of United States citizens.

How to analogize? Well, you know, Friends of the Left, a cynical, jaded homicide cop who doesn't take murder all that seriously might be a "cool guy" and might make for an interesting character in a movie -- so jaded and sophisticated is he that he understands that Murder is an essential and unavoidable phenomenon of the human condition -- but you know what? When someone I know is killed I'd rather have the guy with the less-sophisticated attitude towards Murder, the guy who thinks Murder is a rather large trespass, working the case.

He might be a little less cosmpolitan, and a little less familiar with the New York City underground jazz scene, and maybe his apartment will be a big of disaster and not tastefully minimalist-moderne like the other guy's, but you know, I'd rather have someone who takes murder seriously working them murder cases.

Forgive me for my naive, uncouth Red State attitude toward this. I am, as you know, just a stupid, unenlightened tea-bagger. I'm not smart enough to treat Murder as a blow-off. I am not, as you so plainly are, super-smart totally-awesome bad-ass Ultra-Commandos of Cock Force Five.

The pathetic thing is they really think this crap is working. Wade into any comment section favored by the left and you'll see them all repeating this idea. Dislocating their shoulders to pat themselves on the back for their principled, elevated, hard-ass decision to take the mass-murder of their fellow citizens in an light, European que sera sera sort of fashion.

All I can advise them is: Keep it up. Keep pushing this attitude out there, keep trying to sell the American People on the idea that it's the sissy-pants and pants-wetters and nancyboys who actually take this stuff deadly seriously, and meanwhile those who mock concerns about mass murder potentially killing thousands at a clip are really the true zealots of the Cult of the Brave.

Let's both run on the same thing -- that is, after all, how true political decisions are made by the public. When both parties agree exactly that this is what we each represent, where the discussion isn't muddled by one party disguising its beliefs or trying to "hug" the other party's positions or triangulate or so forth.

When both parties run on the exact same message, the public gets the rare opportunity to make an unambiguous choice, untainted by the deliberate muddying of positions both parties so often engage in.

So let's do this. Let us both of us agree that I and my fellows take terrorism seriously, and you think we're scaredy-cats for doing so, and that you do not take terrorism all that seriously, and it is your belief -- your honest, true, serious belief -- that it makes you Courageous for treating mass murder with a puckish insouciance.

And let's go out there, and let's beat this unified message to death, and let's see what happens. Let's go to market selling our wares with the same basic message and see who tallies up the most sales.

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Here's to hoping Ackerman's kid is on the flight where some "Al-Q joker" succeeds in setting the plane on fire.  Makes the whole terrorism thing a little less abstract when you've got some skin in the game.

130 Another reason why liberals are friends of the militant muslims, is that they are no threat, so far as the liberals small brains know, to take over our country. So what if they knock off a couple hundred people at a time.  Now the Teaparty people, they are a direct threat to their power. They can vote them out of office and undue all their mischief. These people must be brought down to their knees as brutal and quick as possible.

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20 million-plus collect unemployment checks in '09

When Government Slippery Slope Goes Vertical

More Radicalizing of Higher Education Ahead

And the gay Democrats at HillBuzz are seriously pissed:

...every Muslim is indeed complicit in all of this since Muslims worldwide do not stand up and fight the terrorists in their midst.  Instead, they take to the airwaves demanding “understanding of Islam” and repeatedly say, “This is not Islam!” whenever Muslims murder people, or attempt to blow them into millions of pieces. Well, for several decades now we’ve heard “This is not Islam!” and we’re still waiting to see WHAT Islam is then.

Sure looks like a bunch of murdering lunatics hellbent on destroying the West to us.

We maintain this should not even be considered a religion, but should be treated like the National Socialist Party in Germany.  In the 40s, if Germans had tried to blow up airplanes, no one would be crying about needing to understand Germany or Nazism.  “This is not Nazi Germany!” would not be a valid defense for murderous sabotage.

# Kathy Shaidle : 2009-12-30 19:51:16 EST

 

Please visit these sites to learn more. Read from the Quran and the other four “holy” books of Islam, translated to English, something forbidden in Islam (the texts are to remain in old Arabic, something few Muslims today can read). Once you’ve read them, you’ll know more about Islam and Mo than almost any Muslim does.

http://prophetofdoom.net/

http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam-101.html

December 31, 2009 at 12:57 pm

[...] 31, 2009 by Neal If the gay Democratic Hillary supporters over at Hillbuz understand that Isalm is at war with the west, how can our current administration be so obtuse?  This part is sort of the funniest/saddest, [...]

"America's Chamberlain. "

A New Years Eve Prisoner Swap

Is there nothing that Obama can't do?

Today, New Year's Eve, while everyone's attention is understandably on family and friends, we learn (thanks to the ever alert Bill Roggio, reporting on the Standard's blog) that the administration has now released Qais Qazali, Laith's brother, who is the head of the Iran-backed terror network, in addition to a hundred other terrorists. In violation of the long-standing, commonsense policy against capitulating to kidnappers and terrorists because it just encourages more hostage-taking and murder, the terrorists were released in exchange for a British hostage and the remains of his three contract guards (whom the terrorists had murdered).

Posted by Kate at 1:43 PM| Comments (37)

 

Nothing surprising here at all ... Obama is a Muslim and he cannot work against them. He is bound by the teachings of Islam that Islam comes first. We have already seen plenty of evidence ... Here is more

 

Rocket Launcher & Jihadist Writings Found in Houston Apartment …Update: Explosives & Koran Found in North Texas

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 9:57 PM

Jim Hoft

A rocket launcher and jihadist writings were found in a Houston apartment today.

The launcher reportedly belongs to Nabilaye I. Yansane seen here at court earlier this week.
Click2Houston reported:

Police went to a southwest Houston apartment to break up a disturbance but ended up finding something else, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.

A woman called police on Monday and said a man was forcing his way into her apartment in the 5300 block of Elm Street.

When officers went inside, they found something that made them concerned enough to call the bomb squad.

They found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher. It can shoot a missile nearly 1,000 feet through buildings and tanks.

“It gives infantrymen the advantage with an ultra-light weapon that can stop vehicles, armored vehicles as well as main battle tanks and fortifications,” said Oscar Saldivar of Top Brass Military and Tactical on the North Freeway.

That type of rocket launcher has been used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The renter of the apartment didn’t want to talk to KPRC Local 2.

“This is my house,” the woman said. ” Get away from here. I don’t want to talk to nobody.”

The woman did tell police that the rocket launcher belonged to Nabilaye I. Yansane, someone whom she allowed to store items at her apartment.

Police records show that she didn’t want Yansane at her apartment, so she called them.

According to court documents, officers also found Jihadist writings that allegedly belonged to Yansane. The woman didn’t want to talk to KPRC Local 2 about that, either.

UPDATE: WFAA reported tonight that officials found a container with explosives in North Texas. A copy of the Koran was found nearby:

 Authorities tell News 8 a suspicious device found in a North Texas neighborhood did contain explosives.

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January 1st, 2010 | 2:27 am | #25

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Simon @ 11:43 pm #13

OMG that’s terrible!!

i’m so glad they caught them..

reminded me of this, didn’t see a write
up about it in the NYT though.. *sigh*

School Threat

[* According to two trainers at an anti-terrorism conference on the East Coast, preparations for attacks on American schools that will bring rivers of blood and staggering body counts are well underway in Islamic terrorist camps.

* The intended attackers have bluntly warned us they’re going to do it.

* They’re already begun testing school-related targets here.

* They’ve given us a catastrophic model to train against, which we’ve largely ignored and they’ve learned more deadly tactics from.

[..]

Al-Qaeda has publicly asserted the “right” to kill 2,000,000 American children, Rassa explained, and has warned that “operations are in stages of preparation” now. He played vivid videotapes confiscated in Afghanistan, showing al-Qaeda terrorists practicing the takeover of a school. The trainees issue commands in English, rehearse separating youngsters into manageable groups and meeting any resistance with violence. Some “hostages” are taken to the rooftop, dangled over the edge, then “shot.”]

Computer disc found in Iraq contained U.S. school plans 10/8/2004

[Federal law enforcement authorities notified school districts in six states last month that a computer disc found in Iraq contained photos, floor plans and other information about their schools, two U.S. officials said Thursday.

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The disc contained an Education Department report called “Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities,” published in May 2003, as well as photos and floor plans.]

The Ends Islamist Terrorists Seek

[The entire goal of Al Qaeda-type monsters is to provoke a reaction from mainstream America by pursuing evil against those who stand in the way of imposing theocracy. These fascists have no value for life other than that it's simply a means to their end of a totalitarian theocratic state. It is their ideology. In their warped view of religion they are God.

These are not the actions of psychopaths. Instead, they are the calculated actions of those seeking power and those afraid of freedom. They know that liberty's greatest weakness is its wide exposure to attacks against noncombatants (i.e., you and me) and the way in which protections against those attacks alter the very liberties we all seek to protect.

[snip]

If American Muslims declare open war against Al Qaeda, Americans will rush to defend our mosques rather than allow them to be burned. Otherwise, with rage and vengeance, the freedoms so protected by our Constitution will quickly dissipate into a nation gripped by fear and hate of the “other.” And that is the ultimate goal of such horrific acts: to create a reaction which ultimately destroys the very fabric of our nation-the trust of one another, under God, under our Constitution. The children they would kill in schools on this “Perfect Day” would be a utilitarian mechanism (ends justifying the means) to achieve the destruction of the “American” way of life.]

& at the rate changing the rules & releasing
GITMO detainess & dismissing charges against AQ..

i’m afraid his aiding & abetting Islmaists is hastening attacks on US soil, i’m just hoping & praying that our kids aren’t the ones to pay the price..

btw, that was just a sample..

Former Homeland Security Official: "We Don't Have Much Time" to Stop More Terror Attacks - Video

"Meanwhile, Janet “The Bull Dyke” Incompetano is hard at work investigating veterans."

 

Climate change alliance crumbling

 

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Video of New York's Times Square "Ball Drop" Bringing in 2010

Don't be a gun dork in traffic stops

The 30 Most Disturbing Ads of 2009. [dri]

—Open Blog

Yes another top ten list...Whatever. This one really shows the creepy side of the advertising world.Enjoy it ...if you can. (click on the pictures for pop up videos).

Posted by Open Blog at 05:37 PM New Comments Thingy

Canadian Family Forced to close family gas well after 78 years

 

"Heaven and Earth are full of Thy glory...

 

Hubble’s snowglobe

30 12 2009

Since we’ve been talking about snow quite a bit recently, this seems fitting. WUWT reader Tom in Texas tips us to this image:

A composite of archival Hubble data taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys. Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble caught this glimpse of stars in the globular cluster M13. The cluster is home to over 100,000 stars, packed closely together in a ball approximately 150 light-years across, and is located at a distance of 25,000 light-years. Picture: AFP / NASA / ESA

Click here to see a high-res version of the Hubble snow globe Read the rest of this entry »

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Mohib (23:28:03) :

Final post :-)

Here are some excellent deep sky images by amateur astronomers:

http://www.yankee.us.com/images2.html

http://www.feraphotography.com/Gallery.html
http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/
http://www.galaxyphoto.com/

Can you tell I’m an amateur! Enjoy what “amateurs” accomplish!!

Mal (01:27:59) :

For an extraordinary photo of the Tarantula Nebula

http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0650a/

And wide-field images

http://canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~axm/images.html#wide-field

Have a Happy New Year

For an interesting comparison of the size of planets and stars: click

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Former Homeland Security Official: "We Don't Have Much Time" to Stop More Terror Attacks - Video

"Meanwhile, Janet “The Bull Dyke” Incompetano is hard at work investigating veterans."