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America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
various links ^ | 11-8-08 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 11/08/2008 3:06:12 AM PST by backhoe

America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...

With a hattip to Rush ( His idea during the Clinton plague upon America ) I am starting a file on “The One,” mostly starting from the election date.

Older stuff- links, quotes, quips, and sometimes pointed graphics can be found by scrolling back from these two posts:

-Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research--

-Sarah Palin- links, from the beginning--

There is some good material in those posts that raises a lot of uncomfortable questions that everyone ought to be asking, and probably will once the “new” wears off, and we are stuck with four ( more likely eight, since 95% of the news & entertainment media are in his pocket ) years of a typical corrupt Chicago Political Machine Politician trying to jerk the whole country in one direction and then the next.

You've all heard the saying,

”People get the kind of government they want...
...and deserve?”

Well, America, you are about to “get it, good & hard...”

Don't say you weren't warned- we tried to tell you...

We did everything we could, and our state went for the Old Guy & the Naughty Librarian, but too many other voters were made stupid by the TV and public schools for it to matter.

We're in a Hell of a mess, and the worst thing is, "we"- the collective we, not you & I-- got us here.

Is Obama really the Abyss...

staring back at us?

I like to make points with humorous graphics- this one sums it up as well as any:

 

Then, in a nutshell, "everything I see going bad with all this hopi- changi- stuff The One is peddling-- forced labor, censorship, spin, and pure mean-spirited rudness:

Email of the day

Atlas readers rock! I am blown away by the overwhelming response to this post  (and this one) to get involved to take back our country from the Soros, socialists, and the self proclaimed messiah - oy. More than one email brought a tear to my eye but I wanted to share this one with you.

If this best represents who we are, what we want and where we are going, there is no way we can lose. Greatness is in the house. I am proud to count you as my friends. Prouder still to stand with you and fight this great fight.

I want to lead a county.

I was born in Cuba, and know the language of Communism, Obama speaks it well.  My grandfather's family had to flee Lebanon because of the Muslims to Cuba. We fled Cuba because of Castro.

This is the best country in the whole wide world.  I was a child when I left Cuba with the clothe on my back, we left my parent's sister and I, left behind everything. 

America is Worth fighting for and Freedom is worth defending.  I do not want my children to grow up in oppression, nor do I wish exile upon them.

Please allow me to help, again, Id like to lead a county.

My name is Ingrid and Im in Miami, in Miami Dade County

May the Light always shine upon America,

Ingrid

UPDATE: In case there was any doubt as to what the victorious zombies have in mind. Check out this comment (left in the comment section) . Can you say rude awakening?

You people are pathetic!

Your racist fear mongering will not go unchallenged!  Soon we will shut down your hate spewing web sites.  We will confiscate your firearms.  In prison, you will get an education on the error of your ways.  We will take your children and raise them as our own and instill in them the values of social justice.  We will have a new American Republic of justice and order for all!

You time is almost up!  Prepare for the dung heap of history!

It sounds insane (which it is) but I believe the writer is quite serious.

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"We will confiscate your firearms. In prison, you will get an education on the error of your ways. We will take your children and raise them as our own and instill in them the values of social justice".....


Heh heh heh....I am sure you are serious, but that is funny!

Values of social justice....like Mao? Stalin? Lenin? Ho-chi Min? Pol Pot? Which of these butchers of social justice did you have in mind?"

170,000,000
That's the number of civilians that have been murdered by their own governments in the 20th century alone.

Innocents Betrayed is a must see video produced by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms (scroll down to see links to view the Introduction to Innocents Betrayed)

Now consider Obama's 'civilian defense force' which he intends to fund and equip as well as our standing military coupled with his promise to revisit the second amendment (repeal concealed carry privilege) and then compound this injury with Ayers' inspired youth corps.

Learn from the Slicksters

CHANGE.GOV OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT ELECT (hat tip rut)

Obamessiah has a new site up as President-elect soliciting ideas form the proletariat.
Let's hope it doesn't become the hub for the hate whitey and Jew boy Obamavomit that his last site was.

Surf the site. Take note. Keep your eye on the The Obama National Service Plan- the page is empty (how apropos) but that piques my interest.

President Obama To Bring Back Slavery

Just in case anyone think Mr. Obama is not serious about this, bear in mind that his new Chief of Staff wrote a book demanding this very thing:

Amazon.com: The Plan: Big Ideas for America: Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Reed: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Plan-Big.....038;sr=1-1

Don’t forget they want a Gestapo/KKK civilian force the size of the pentagon to keep everybody inline and things running smoothly.

“Suddenly, all mention of “required” has been disappeared. ”

SOME THOUGHTS ON OBAMA'S mandatory volunteerism plan. Plus, reader Nancy Anne Potts writes:

Looks like the change.gov site is true to it's title - it changes!

During the time when I was looking at the blog you linked to concerned mandatory community service the change.gov page saying "require community service" changed to goal for community service. The new wording is:

"..... Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by setting a goal that all middle school and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year and by developing a plan so that all college students who conduct 100 hours of community service receive a universal and fully refundable tax credit ensuring that the first $4,000 of their college education is completely free."

I found the the cached page on Google it has the original "required" wording.

Looks like they caught their "mistake". Now will the real plan please step forward -- goal or required. (Although the way government sets goals, they often wind up looking like requirements so maybe the two aren't all that different.)

Ugh! I see card check made the economy page too. He may be the president elect but I don't have to like his plans!

Not until the second term. Then that will be made mandatory, too . . . .

Meanwhile, Robert Bidinotto comments: "Anyone recall what the Soviets used to do to history books?" The Obama folks have a history of airbrushing.

IF YOU VOTED FOR MCCAIN, you're a racist. Just in case nobody had bothered to tell you.

President-Elect D’oh-bama’s Gaffe #1: Sorry, Nancy

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 7, 2008 07:30 PM

And so it begins.

Or rather, continues.

President-elect D’oh-bama apologizes (vid here in case you missed it):

More of the incessant symbolism bullshit from teh Obama Campaign

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I believe the idea is to give the impression he’s already on the job. It strikes me as bad advice and an ego that knows no limits

President-Elect Douchebag Mocks Nancy Reagan

OBAMA'S 'CHANGE': BACK TO THE DEMOCRATIC WASHINGTON INSIDERS

Now here is the first thing to really *hammer* Obama on, something that he’s doing *right now* — as opposed to all the other things in the past. This is “right now” and it indicates that he’s totally lying about “transparency”...Now here is the first thing to really *hammer* Obama on, something that he’s doing *right now* — as opposed to all the other things in the past. This is “right now” and it indicates that he’s totally lying about “transparency”...
 
Gag alert:

President-elect Barack Obama's First Press Conference - Complete Video 11/7/08

Obama Mocks Nancy Reagan in 1st Press Conference

It's  classless to mock a frail, elderly woman. (Note he was not kind in his revelation about his own "typical white person" grandmother, either.)

It's even worse to mock the widow of a great former president. Whatever you think of her, she deserves respect.

Especially classless was mocking Nancy Reagan on stage, before hundreds of reporters and television cameras, knowing the "joke" would be heard by millions. This wasn't some private remark that got picked up by a live mike.

What the hell is the “Office of the President-Elect?”

In Fort Worth, Obama's election prompts run on guns and ammunition

Get 'em while you can-- from my files:

Sitting in committee, just waiting for The One:

H.R. 1022: Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007

On Concerns Over Gun Control, Gun Sales Are Up

From "Change.gov", the official transition website. Agenda tab and then select "urban policy" and go down to "Crime Control".

Address Gun Violence in Cities:
As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

There will be no one left to protect you
Barack Obama wants to institute a Civilian National Security Force, a vast militia not unlike Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a personal army. He knows he would need such a force to protect him and to enforce his will on Americans. Americans will have not seen such arbitrary power used against them since the days of the Civil War when Lincoln put the Constitution in the bottom drawer of his desk and set about arresting anyone who opposed his policies...

VIDEO of Obama calling for a Secret Police Force: CIVILIAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE??

QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT civilian national security force.

“Just as powerful, just as strong, and just as well funded.” So the astute observer and deep thinker might reflect for a minute and be compelled to pose several questions (although the MSM won’t)...

OBAMA AND HIS SCARY NATIONAL SECURITY VISION - QUICK IMPRESSIONS

Kindly note the quote, from our new First Lady, err, female black Bigot...



Obama's plan to disarm America (video, in his own words)

 

Michelle Malkin: New national anthem: "My president is black"

 

Is Obama "Your President"?

Friday, November 07, 2008 3:01:30 PM · 57 of 180
backhoe to brownsfan
Hmmmm... this one is very difficult. I was in the military, and we were taught we salute the uniform, not the man. So I respect the office, not the man. However, I am adopting a wait and see. If Obama governs as if he cares about America, even if we disagree, I can accept that. If Obama governs as I expect, like a Manchurian candidate who is bent on America’s deconstruction, that is when he will disqualify himself as being my president.

Liberal activists have long legislative wish list

National Organization for Women. "Since 1994, we've been losing over and over on legislation related to equality and fair treatment for women."
 
The gay-rights movement also campaigned vigorously for Obama.
 
NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America want Obama and Congress to move aggressively...
 
An array of other advocacy groups are stepping forward with their priorities for the new Congress.
 
 

Guess Who's Getting the Nuclear Football in January?

BO is doing away with our nukes, the officer assigned to carry the nuclear football will instead be carrying the teleprompter.
 

Angelou: Now I Won't Have To Apologize For My Country When Abroad

Democratic RevolutionWith all that being said, we are looking at potentially 9.2 million fraudulent votes...
This wasn't an election. It was peaceful Socialist revolution. Perhaps we should refer to President Obama as "His Fraudulency". But not too loudly...
- Hugh Farnham

Rahm Emanuel's Big Plan for America

Yes we can--draft your @ss

You know, I warn, and I warn, and I warn, and I warn, but nobody listens.

OMG you won't believe what is written on Obama's new website: "America Serves"

Democrats talk of a ‘permanent progressive majority’

Libs Suddenly Find Themselves Defending the Flag It wasn't that long ago that the American Left was burning and crapping on the flag.
Suddenly, all of that has changed.

Rahm Emanuel's Big Plan for America

 From my files- note the date:

Bend over, America:

 
Paid for with 'everybody else's' money...

1,152 posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008
 

Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal

And folks should be sure to check out this thread....

Obama’s Chief of Staff Pick Took Campaign Contributions from Wall Street

And check out the info at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2127740/posts?page=13#13

I hope someone sends these Emanuel links off to Limbaugh.

 
 

The Coup: a position paper

Cut Obama some slack, wait and listen

President Bush could not even claim his victory for weeks in the 2000 elections because of democRAT attempts to steal the election.

He has been insulted and degraded like no other president in memory.

I, for one, will not cut this poser or his comrades ANY slack...

Obama-Supporting Teacher Bullies Student (video)

 
"White guilt gave us black Jesus"

 

Required re-education: Reagan's 1964 speech to the Republican Convention

I’ve already ordered my ‘Don’t Blame Me I Voted For Ron Paul’ bumper sticker. I’ll probably get a ‘Sarah-cuda’ one as well.

After the appropriate time has passed ( after Duh1 takes office and starts clowning around... ) I'm going to make this:

"Don't blame Me
I voted for Sarah"

Possibilities I'm entertaining in the interim?

"Where's mah Free Gas?"

"I want my mortgage paid!"

The new battle line?

choice versus control.

Photobucket 

Mike Gallagher: Mourning In America

Change... Obama Announces Creation Of His Marxist Youth Corps (Heil Comrade Obama!)

 

Stores say gun-control fears spur firearms sales Well, duh!

I tried for months to wake people up- now, they will get "the kind of government they want, and deserve..."

Of course, we don't deserve it, but when just enough voters have been made stupid by the TV and public "education," what can you expect?

I dug in to the grocery money ( neither of us have a job... ) and renewed my membership in the NRA, GOA, and the Second Amendment Foundation. If we'd had more to spare, I'd have rejoined JPFO and the Second Amendment Sisters, too.

Keep these handy...

Gun Facts v4.2!

Click the pic to go to the Gun Facts v4.2 download page!

-The FIVE-MINUTE HANDBOOK (RKBA)--

Barack Obama: The Kingfish Reborn

Do Unto Obama As Liberals Did Unto Bush

Coal stocks plummet. Average 15%, many over 30% since Tuesday Gee, wonder why?

Kate, this is important and you should listen to it. It's about Obama's cult of personality and it is short.
 
 

From the blogs- and, always, read the Anchoress:

Bush, Obama, & Ghosts of Hate - UPDATED

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862.

I would love nothing better than to be able to stop writing about “left” and “right.” I wish we had a better vocabulary to describe our distinctions, because these words are limiting and off-putting. I am determined, with the merciful conclusion of this abusively long election season, to work diligently at spending less time entertaining these distinctions. But for today, I think it is only fair to note a very important and glaring difference between “left and right” - and in so doing - consider how we may, finally, stop needing to indulge in what is tedious.

Victor Davis Hanson
says Let’s not imitate the left in our opposition. I agree.

It has been wonderful - really beyond wonderful - to consider how differently most of the right has reacted to their defeat than the left did in 2000 and 2004. In the two previous elections, the left responded by calling the other half of the country “stupid,” “morons,” and “Nazis” - Jane Smiley called them “unteachably ignorant” - they indulged in high drama, sniffling “apologies” to the globe, and denunciations of their fellow countrymen as “lying between repugnant and reptile in the dictionary.”

And oh, yeah (eyeroll) George W. Bush was not “their” president.

While you’ll see a few disgruntled extremists on the right say foolish, even ignorant things - and many throwing daggers at the sickening double-standards of the press - they’re not indulging in that sort of dehumanizing (and very adolescent) hate of their fellow countrymen or the president-elect. The reports they’re filing read very differently than those following the Bush wins. They read as grown-up, tolerant, open-minded discourses, not tantrums. There is a willingness to be hopeful, even in defeat.

And there is a determined respectfulness being offered to the winners - people who could not manage maturity and respectfulness in their defeat and who, sadly, are not always managing it in their victory, either.

I’m hopeful that the left - if it takes the time to actually condescend to notice how well it is being treated by the vanquished - might consider that self-indulgent defamation is the lesser way; that such a consideration may inspire introspection, and perhaps the smallest bit of regret for some of their appalling excesses toward the right and toward the American President who did not return hate in-kind.

I’m hopeful. I’m an optimist. I KNOW that the folks on the right - for all of their faults, and both sides certainly have faults - want America to be successful and strong and exceptional and free. I’m hopeful that hugely empowered left will discover that - beyond the feel-goodism of “free social programs” which are never free -they actually, really do want all of those things, too. That they’ll look back on the last 8 years and realize, finally, that their enemy was never George W. Bush. Bush, the guy who never dehumanized them, was only trying serve those corny ideals.

And then, miraculously, we may actually have unity.

Some similar thinking from my girl crush, Donna Brazile:

“The one mistake that we continue to make is that we label people. We say you’re conservatives, liberal, progressive, right wing, left wing. I think people just want to spend one day being Americans. They want to come together around a common purpose, common values.”

I wondered the other day if the catharsis of this election might open up “a vein of generosity” (or at least decency) from the left as concerns President Bush. I have not seen it yet, but I’m going to be optimistic and keep looking.

But maybe it’s enough just to see a little appreciation from the right, to start. Like this, for instance:

I link, therefore, I Err has a little mini-round-up of appreciation for George W. Bush. You’ll want to read it all.

From Alppuccino at Protein Wisdom:

At 10:40, President Bush will keep his streak alive by telling everyone how much he loves America. Just as he always has. And he’ll show everyone how much he loves America by preparing Obama as best he can for the next 4 years.

Read it all; it’s doubtful that Obama’s team will come into the White House finding O’s missing from their keyboards, any rude messages greeting them. And that is how it should be in America, a respectful transition.

Michael Gerson:

Many liberals refuse to concede Bush’s humanity, much less his achievements.

But that humanity is precisely what I will remember. I have seen President Bush show more loyalty than he has been given, more generosity than he has received. I have seen his buoyancy under the weight of malice and his forgiveness of faithless friends. Again and again, I have seen the natural tug of his pride swiftly overcome by a deeper decency — a decency that is privately engaging and publicly consequential.

[In 2005]…the White House senior staff overwhelmingly opposed a new initiative to fight malaria in Africa for reasons of cost and ideology…In the crucial policy meeting, one person supported it: the president of the United States, shutting off debate with a moral certitude that others have criticized. I saw how this moral framework led him to an immediate identification with the dying African child, the Chinese dissident, the Sudanese former slave, the Burmese women’s advocate. It is one reason I will never be cynical about government — or about President Bush.

Jeffery Scott Shapiro:

[The treatment of President Bush] from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have…Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty — a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House.

Until we fix, within ourselves, our enthrallment with hate for others, simply because they hold differing views, we’ll never pull it together. In 2006 we watched a right-wing blogger be called less than human by a left-wing reader. We’ve seen President Bush being referred to as “the chimp” and “the monkey” by the wits who insisted that ideology trumped having a decent respect for another’s humanity. I wrote about that a little here:

Thus, George W. Bush is “Chimpy McHitler.” Hillary Clinton is “a pig in a pantsuit.” Barack Obama is “O-Bambi.” Cindy McCain, who has exhibited some courage and laudable compassion in her life, is reduced to a “pill-popping beer-frau,” and so forth. From there it is smooth sailing down an ever-descending river of hatred, until we are incapable of seeing anything good in the “other,” both because we have willfully hardened our hearts, and because our hate — especially when it is supported by a group of like minds — feels safe and inviolable.

With that in mind, you’ll want to read this excellent piece over at Conversion Diary, wherein Jenifer ponders pictures from a Nazi-era photo album and wonders, how such common-variety people managed to support and enable such profound evil.

One thing that stands out in all these examples is that the victims of the widespread evil were categorized as something less than human…not only that innocent people were killed or enslaved, but that their humanity was taken away by the societies around them…So here is the advice I would offer to my children, and to my children’s children:

Every decade or so, take a look around the society in which you live, and ask yourself if there is any group of human beings who are seen as something less than human. A big tipoff is if dehumanizing words — terms other than “man,” “woman,” “child,” “baby,” or “person” — are used to describe any category of people.

And if you ever see that going on, you might be in the midst of something gravely evil.

Dehumanizing people begins with baby-steps like name-calling, or the sort of intellectual dishonesty that delights in deliberately twisting the meaning of others in negative and misrepresentative ways. Those are the little gateways to the great evils that come once you’ve managed to thoroughly de-humanize others.

We’ve had 8 years - I’d say 12, really - of people demonizing and dehumanizing others, from both sides, and it is not getting us anyplace good. I believe that the response of most of the right to Obama’s victory is a step toward changing that. But the left has to do their part, too.

Pope Benedict XVI said, “those who hope live differently.” The election of Barack Obama was borne on this word, “Hope.”

If the people who voted for “hope” were sincere, then let them begin, today, to embrace it - and to live differently - without the kneejerk move to hate “the other side.” The right, responding levelly to their defeat, has offered the opening. Will the left take it?

UPDATE: Seems some will. Here is mostly accurate, and apprecited praise from a surprising quarter:

Would America have elected Barack Obama if white Americans had not gotten accustomed to seeing (in succession) two African-American Secretaries of State? I don’t think so. Before Bush, African-Americans were appointed to some good posts but not to our #1 foreign policy job. Two African Americans (one with a pretty odd first name) served as America’s face to the world. That eased Obama’s way. It is not Tiger Woods in whose footsteps Obama is walking — it’s Rice and Powell….Fact is, “W” never gave any evidence of holding racist attitudes…even just the slur the occasionally slips out of the mouth of even our most liberal leaders.

Same with Arabs and Muslims…Bush, after 9/11, never resorted to anti-Arab or Muslim stereotypes. He drew distinctions between terrorists and Arabs…Had he not done these things, Arabs and Muslims might have experienced not just hate crimes but pogroms.

Meanwhile, from Grand Rants:

Here is a man who is regularly compared to Hitler in casual conversation in Leftist circles high and low. His honor has been regularly impugned, his intelligence (or, as the press loves to put it, his “intellectual curiousity”) constantly demeaned, his verbal stumblings consistently mocked, and his accomplishments in office discounted or ignored. He is a man who kept his head down and did his job, despite the slings and arrows hurled at him by fortune made all the more outrageous by nearly the entire Democratic party.

I for one, would like to say thank you to Pres. Bush. For keeping us safe. For watching out for us. For persevering in spite of all the spite. I believe history will ultimately judge you as one of America’s best presidents, and I believe you deserve that judgement.

H/T to Opinionated Catholic, who writes:

The throwing under the bus of the President by even his friends and indeed the base has been shocking to me. Many groups will find out soon enough how they took Bush’s support and advocacy for them for granted, Catholics, especially.

Meanwhile, Jules Crittenden is beginning to enjoy Omerica, Quin Hillyer is saying America is over, kaput, finished, Evan Thomas suddenly finds Obama “slightly creepy” and when you refuse to release medical records, and the press doesn’t care…conjecture begins about your mental health.


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Forty-Fourth President, Twelfth Imam

by Baron Bodissey

O-Man’s Fibonacci spiral haloThe election results were long expected, but now that the day has arrived it’s quite a letdown, anyway. Reading about the joy expressed by Hamas and Syria and Italy and Indonesia… contemplating Obama’s Secretary of State, or (God help us) Defense… Thinking about the USA becoming just like Sweden, only with a real army, and aircraft carriers, and nukes… First Lady Michelle…

It’s all too depressing.

So, as is my habit in such circumstances, instead of writing a post this evening or doing something else useful, I created yet another iconic image of The One. After looking around at some of his existing halos, I decided to make one myself. A man can’t have too many halos, right?

And then I pondered the phenomenon of halos appearing behind the heads of great national leaders, men who are born into modest Muslim circumstances, but in time become presidents of large countries that have nuclear weapons. It made me think of…
- - - - - - - - -
Mad Jad’s HaloMahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ol’ Mad Jad got his halo when he went to visit the UN a couple of years ago. It appeared behind his head while he was speaking. Not only that, his audience was held in such rapt attention by his words that they were unable to blink for thirty minutes. We know all this is true because he told us so.

I wonder how many other resemblances there are between him and Barack Hussein Obama.

Ahmadinejad sees himself as preparing the way for the Twelfth Imam, as a sort of satanic John the Baptist for the man who is prophesied to return and usher in the apocalypse preceding the establishment of the permanent reign of Islam over the entire world.

And Obama’s got a bigger halo.

Does that mean…? Nah — it couldn’t be… But still… It makes me wonder…

What if the One were also the Twelfth?


Note to the literal-minded: this post is for fun, not to be taken seriously. Given the circumstances, it’s the only fun I’m likely to have for quite a while.

Read further...
 

Saul Alinsky Takes the White House My wife just got an e-mail from the head of HR saying that the post-election Obama jokes have to stop, especially if there is any hint that it might be related to racism. No notice before the election. And it was OK to get anti-Bush e-mails for 8 years. Oh yeah, she works for a bank that is hoping for a piece of the bailout action...

FReepers: we need you now more than ever. Don't go!

I’m not leaving as long as the Good Lord’s willing and the Creeks don’t rise.

Have no fear- The One will halt the rising creeks, heal the planet, and make the French love us again ( Oh, gag me! )...

Well, I’m not going anywhere as long as I have a voice.

We may have to go back to Xerox machines and small presses distributing handbills, but I’ll be damned if I let my country slip in to “That Good Night” without a fight.

I’m the one who dubbed Clinton “Little Big Fraud,” so I’ll have to work on something for The One.

We may have to set up a “Free Republic in Exile” like Degaulle did when the Nazis overran France, but we’ll manage.

It does distress me that so many people were suckered by a typical Chicago Machine empty suit, but he had 95% of both the press and entertainment arms of The Media Hive trying to get him elected, and covering up for him, so it’s not surprising.

Carry on.

Some realistic things to expect early in the Obama Administration

I work in Chicago. I deal with a great many attorneys in my job, many of whom are staunch Dims and breathless Obambi supporters; some were even active in his campaign. More than one told me that at or near the top of Obambi’s agenda is a new Hate Crimes bill, with a wide expansion of what will be considered a hate crime

Didn't you notice that Obama is a conservative?  "Obama is, in his own words, something of a Rorschach test. In his latest book, The Audacity of Hope, he writes, 'I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.' "

Being an American is much more than being "cool"

Obama Bought The Presidency

Another Painful Lesson For The GOP

That’s what happens when you run a true left wing liberal against a liberal lite. The real one wins.

Remember, that's my theory why we went down to defeat in 2006...

I said something along the lines of,

"I've read all the theories why we lost so badly, and I still say this: Once elected, the Republicans taxed & spent & regulated like a bunch of Democrats- no wonder the voters decided to try The Real Thing!"

1994 - REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

Yup...
 

Here it comes, you bitter clingers:

Obama Victory Means ‘Stronger Support for Sensible Gun Laws’ ...why there is a new army command for domestic unrest...

Obama Pushes Abortion on Day One With Emanuel Pick Pro-Abortion, ANTI-gun zealot. He helped write the first AWB, and is going to help push the 2nd PERMANENT AWB.

Five Years to destabilize a nation. Yuri Bezmenov Explains Soviet Strategy for Subversion

Beware of the "manufactured crisis"

 The parasites are now in full control. The host taxpayer will be expected to work even harder just to stay even. This is a way of breaking the country. The Muslims are dancing in the streets as middle east money just bought the US presidency for a clown without a clue.

Much Of Arab World Rejoices Over Obama Election









Barack Obama, Mr. Hope-n-Change

But just remember- any critique, opposition, or naysaying?



This, is where we are going:



No, I'm not kidding.

I wish I were- the lights are going out, all across America.
 

Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?

The healing begins!

Your sickening unAmerican traitorous, racist, money-grubbing, torturing, hateful ideology got struck a death blow and you and your fellow jackal-blowhards are left writhing on the floor, gasping for breath as the final death tremors subside and your bodies stiffen into rigour mortis.

We heart4848.gif you too!


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Posted by Kate at 12:30 PM | Comments (56) "It will be painful, but this election is good news. The only true cure for socialism is to actually get it; the US is about to get a big fat dose of cure for what ails them."
 

Final Thoughts Final Post

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:23:30 PM · 7 of 8
backhoe to Pagan Power
Well, after the 2006 debacle, I wrote this:


Call it a Twilight of the Gods moment
( "In the twilight of the gods, the twilight men will appear..."
Otto Basil, circa 1968 )
 
...but until further notice, I am suspending updates specific to this post.
 
I will continue to update this:
 
 
with "everything you need to be aware of."
But I'm just burned, and bummed out. The elections. The sellout of Israel. The Moonbats. The Stupid Party. The Evil Party.


Then again, after yesterday there's this:

”Zimbabwe On The Potomac...”

You know there were warning signs...

I kept telling people when Bill Clinton slithered in to office, and clung to it, despite all the scandals, and Impeachment itself-- “He's just a symptom. Like a fever is of a disease- there's something wrong with America.”

Like Popular Culture- look at the magazines-- I call it “thugs & jugs,” or “which Pop Tart is popping out whose baby this week?”

Or Katrina- ever seen so many people milling around with their hands out, when they should have been helping themselves?

We did it to ourselves, and The New, Improved Black Jesus is merely a symptom.

All civilizations have a shelf life- once enough citizens figure out that by electing the “right” representatives, they can use the power of the government to pick the pockets of others,

...it's all over, except for the details.

Well, we're in the “details,” now.

Meanwhile, I have to figure out what Miss Emily and I do with what's left of our lives, and bush hog her Mom's old place in the country, because City Life isn't going to be worth living from here on out.

I'll catch you all later...

...maybe...

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Obama Chance Plane

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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.

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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...


Obama Jive-Talk Express

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

 
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

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?

Serbie_Serbia_Srbija_Dusan_by_Boban_Markovic

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.

More Guns, Less Crime in '09

IMPEACH OBAMA

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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?


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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."


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.

 
 
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”?

The Proggies are restless

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.

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


2,243 posted on 12/30/2009 4:51:52 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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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.

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

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

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


2,244 posted on 12/30/2009 12:44:53 PM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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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:
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Baron Bodissey | 12/30/2009 11:10:00 AM
 
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.

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

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.



2,245 posted on 12/30/2009 3:50:32 PM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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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.

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So, do any of you morons and moronettes (H/T; Ace ) remember this?

Able Danger, 9-11 Report, Gorelick, and so much more...

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"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.

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.

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.

2,246 posted on 12/31/2009 2:33:16 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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Thanks for looking...
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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.

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

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"?)


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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



Krushchev, bury you
 

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?]

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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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.

Read the rest.

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.


 
Climate change alliance crumbling

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Hell Freezes:

Left & Right Agree: Health Care Mandates Are the Road to Neofeudalism

Terror probes - what you’re not being told (Terror dry runs over America)

Intelligence Report to Obama Shows Failures Persist (The only failure was the election of an idiot)

The American people have exactly the President and Congress they deserve.

They elected all of these people.

Americans can now suffer mercilessly from their own actions.

They welcomed these thieves and pirates into their lives with open arms.

10 posted on Friday, January 01, 2010 8:30:47 AM by NoControllingLegalAuthority
 
Got Change For A Million Silver Dollars?
 

"... a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension."

Hardball: Joan Walsh Calls Republican Critics of Obama 'Un-American' and 'Traitorous'

Remember when dissent was supposed to be patriotic? Well, it seems that only applies when a Republican is president. Now that Barack Obama is in the White House, criticism of him is "un-American" and "traitorous." This new "tolerant" view of dissent comes from Joan Walsh of Salon.Com as you can see in this Hardball video from Wednesday. Below is the Walsh money quote but please be sure to also watch the video since it is important to watch as she drops any facade of liberal tolerance and lets her true dogmatic soul reveal itself in both her face and voice which seems to border on dementia:

The climate right now is that Republicans use everything they can to undermine and delegitimize this president. And it‘s actually un-American. It‘s traitorous, in my opinion. Do you want to give aid and comfort to our enemies? Continue to treat this president like he wasn‘t elected and he doesn‘t know what he‘s doing! He knows what he did. He knows what he‘s doing. I‘m proud of him. I believe that he has the stalwart, resolute nature to get this done...


(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...

 

The Obama Disconnect: What Happens When Myth Meets Reality

As 2009 comes to a close, and with it, the first year of the Obama administration, one big question seems to be hanging over the man who said he had "The Audacity to Hope," and promised his supporters "Change We Can Believe In." That question can be summed up with two simple pictures.

How did this...

produce this?

Danish Paper Declares "Obama is Greater than Jesus"; "Red Eye" Mocks Fawning Obama Media - Video

Here is video from "Red Eye" last night where they discussed a Danish Newspaper - Politiken - that has declared President Obama to be "greater than Jesus."

Politiken's editorial said:

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. . . .

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. . . . MORE

In keeping with this editorial's opinion about Obama - which is a total joke - "Red Eye" also played a cartoonish spoof of Chris Matthews and others fawning about Obama! . . . (VIDEO)

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

Why Jews Hate Palin

What Can Israel Teach the U.S. About Airport Security?

The U.S. doesn't have the ying-yangs to do what needs to be done.

You are correct, sadly. I once shared a flight with an IDF counterpart, who scoffed at our airport "security" procedures. The Israeli officer observed that "You look for things; we look for people. We know who to look for, and so do you -- but you lack the courage to confront them. You treat your own people like the enemy, and the enemy like your own people." He was correct on all counts.

What Israel Can Teach Us About Security

New Laws, Nothing to trivial to ban, require or tax.... (CA, of course) - 724 new laws.....

The passage of any law should require the repeal of one in its place.
 

Detroit’s Socialist Nightmare Is America’s Future

Mayor's Against Illegal Guns Gun Control Blueprint

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, [UPDATE: If you want to get the exclusive on this kind of stuff, I would suggest heading over to calgunlaws.com and registering. Their law firm does a lot of cutting edge Second Amendment legal work. It's a great resource.] 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. While some of the 40 recommendations are not objectionable, quite a number of them are. Let me go down the list and pick out some of the worst offenders, and this is by no means a comprehensive list. Look at the document yourself to find others:

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

Global Financial Crisis, Globalization And The Economy In 2010

Article is “right on the money”.
This country is in BIG trouble, it will s l o w l y dawn on people in a few years that the jobs are not coming back.

New Scientific Study: CO2 Absorption Into Atmosphere Hasn't Changed in 160 YEARS

2009 climate change story of the year - Climategate


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IT’S NOT JUST THE TSA GOING AFTER BLOGGERS: “The Army CID showed more interest in tracking down the electronic route of an unclassified document than tracking down Hasan’s connections with terrorism.”
 
TERRORISM AND HEALTH CARE: You’ve been warned.

I made the point the other day that the creation of a new bureaucracy - the Department of Homeland Security - seemingly hasn't improved the way intelligence is processed. (The Glittering Eye and Andy McCarthy make similar points.)

In fact, Instapundit, writing seven and a half years ago predicted: ( Use the link, dammit! )

Digest that for a moment. Now read this assessment of what healthcare reform will involve (h/t my father)

Read that last paragraph again - "100 new agencies and boards."

This is something that Charles Krauthammer noted a few weeks ago:

 
MICAH SIFRY: The Obama Disconnect: What Happens When Myth Meets Reality. “The truth is that Obama was never nearly as free of dependence on big money donors as the reporting suggested, nor was his movement as bottom-up or people-centric as his marketing implied. And this is the big story of 2009, if you ask me, the meta-story of what did, and didn’t happen, in the first year of Obama’s administration. . . . As Zephyr Teachout wrote here a while back, the campaign shared tasks with its supporters but didn’t share power.”
 
"That cretin Øbozo"
 
WHEN EVERY DAY IS A SNOW DAY: Reflections of an unemployed journalist.
 

Lead Story

Underreported stories of 2009

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 1, 2010 12:11 PM

My column takes a look at a trio of under-reported stories of 2009. It was hard to pick just three, of course. FoxNews.com has its own list here. What’s on your list?

Related end-of-year notes: A few of my Cone of Shame 2009 awards.

***
Under-reported stories of 2009
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010

Most news outlets end the year with extensive reviews of their top headlines and scoops. But the stories they didn’t cover deserve much greater attention. Journalistic sins of omission are often far more damning and more telling than sins of commission.

Let’s start with President Obama’s ongoing radical czar problem. Until Bay Area Marxist agitator-turned-green jobs czar Van Jones resigned in September, most Americans hadn’t heard of him. Mainstream newspaper readers and network news viewers were left in the dark about his cop-killer-supporting activism, his endorsement of nutball 9/11 conspiracies, and his advocacy of using capitalism-sabotaging environmental policies as “the engine for transforming the whole society.”

Fox News, talk radio, and conservative blogs pounded Jones’s embarrassing public record for months until the White House and its press corps enablers were forced to acknowledge the firestorm. Only after Obama threw Jones under the bus did New York Times editor Jill Abramson confess that the Fishwrap of Record suffered from “insufficient in-tuned-ness” She promised better coverage of Obama scandals.

So, what’s she waiting for, pray tell?

Obama has appointed unaccountable czars by the mile whose statements and policies have yet to hit national media front pages. The “Safe Schools Czar,” Kevin Jennings, is a far Left activist whose organization GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) is infamous among parents’ groups for promoting explicit, outrageously age-inappropriate sexual lessons in the classroom. GLSEN’s recommended reading for teens includes pamphlets promoting leather bars and public sex in parks and lurid books describing incest, rape, adult-child fantasies, and essay collections in which one author recounted playing “sex therapist” at the age of six “sex therapist” with a five-year-old friend, and exploring “our sexuality to its fullest.”

GLSEN’s corporate sponsors include Eastman Kodak, Ernst & Young, PepsiCo, and Time Warner. Eastman Kodak defended its sponsorship as an expression of its commitment to “diversity.” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan also said he stood by Jennings earlier this year, before this material was exposed in-depth on Fox News, talk radio, and conservative blogs. Where are the vaunted watchdogs of the Fourth Estate to follow up now?

Liberal journalists were also AWOL on the Obama White House’s U.S. Attorney nomination debacle in Denver. What, you hadn’t heard of it? You’re not alone. Nominee Stephanie Villafurte withdrew earlier this month after Colorado Republicans, immigration enforcement activists, Denver Post investigative reporter Karen Crummy, and Denver talk show Peter Boyles raised bright red flags about the culture of corruption in her office.

Villafuerte is entangled in the railroading of Denver Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Cory Voorhis — whom federal prosecutors tried to punish after he blew the whistle on sweetheart deals for criminal illegal aliens during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. A jury acquitted Voorhis of all federal charges. He’s trying to get his job back. At least one of his supervisors has admitted lying. Villafuerte served on the-Democrat gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter’s campaign team while on leave from the Denver D.A.’s office and from all Denver Post news accounts was deeply involved in the witchhunt against agent Voorhis.

Villafuerte and the Justice Department evaded critics as long as they could, but when U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano for answers on Villafuerte’s meddling, the stonewall crumbled. There’s still a raft of unanswered questions about the cover-up and the feds’ dangerously lax policies toward criminal illegal aliens.

Speaking of the corrupted DOJ, where’s the heat on crime-coddling Attorney General Eric Holder for his continued obstructionism in the New Black Panther Party Election Day voter intimidation case? In a highly unprecedented move, Holder and his political appointees dropped default judgments against the NBPP’s billy-club wielding thugs who threatened white poll workers and voters in Philadelphia last November. The non-partisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has demanded answers and issued subpoenas to find out why the cases were abandoned after the Bush administration had won them. The DOJ has ordered its employees not to comply or cooperate. And over the holidays, the DOJ veteran voting rights section chief who originally handed the case was unceremoniously evicted from the D.C. office and moved to South Carolina.

One of the NBPP bullies was a local Democratic official. Another of the defendants, NBPP head Malik Shabazz, has decried the probe as a racist “political witch hunt” against Holder.

Grievance hustlers are counting on liberal journalists to give them cover. A nation of cowards, indeed.

 

2,254 posted on 01/01/2010 3:41:12 PM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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Boosh! Knew!

He Knew!

...oh, wait!

That was the last guy in office, not Duh!1...

Halliburton! Boosh Lied! 1111ty!

These clowns are pathetic:

He Knew. Obama Warned About Terror Threat to Homeland Before His Golf & Snorkling Getaway

Friday, January 1, 2010, 11:44 PM
Jim Hoft

If he was a Republican this would be the headline for the next 10 weeks…
Obama was warned about the threats to the homeland in a Christmas briefing before he flew off to his golfing and snorkling Hawaii holiday vacation.

Newsweek reported:

President Barack Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the US, Newsweek has learned. The briefing was centered on a written report, produced by US intelligence agencies, entitled “Key Homeland Threats”, a senior US official said.

The senior Administration official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said that nowhere in this document was there any mention of Yemen, whose Al-Qaeda affiliate is now believed to have been behind the unsuccessful Christmas Day attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down a transatlantic airliner with a bomb hidden in his underpants. However, the official declined to disclose any other information about the substance of the briefing, including what kind of specific warnings, if any, the President was given about possibly holiday attacks and whether Yemen came up during oral discussions.

According to the senior official, the holiday threat briefing, one in a series of regularly-scheduled sessions with top counter-terrorism officials, was held in the White House Situation Room on December 22. Present were representatives of agencies involved in counter-terrorism policy and operations, including Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FBI Director Robert Mueller. The CIA and National Intelligence Directors Office were represented by deputy agency heads: CIA deputy director Steven Kappes, and David Gompert, the principal deputy to National Intelligence Czar Dennis Blair. Also present was Michael Leiter, director of the National Counter-terrorism Center, a unit of the Intelligence Czar’s office which was created after 9/11 to ensure that intelligence reporting about possible terrorist plots was shared quickly among all US agencies who might have some capability to do something about it.

It looks like he was too busy getting ready for his vacation to warn the American public.
Nice of him to keep it to himself, huh?

 
Obama Briefed On Terrorist Attacks Before Christmas
 
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Heckuva Job. “The reason the country is uneasy about the Obama administration’s response to this attack is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension. . . . Any government can through laxity let someone slip through the cracks. But a government that refuses to admit that we are at war, indeed, refuses even to name the enemy — jihadist is a word banished from the Obama lexicon — turns laxity into a governing philosophy.”
 
Friday, January 1, 2010, 6:22 PM
Jim Hoft

Barack Obama promised America he will not rest until he finds out all of those involved in the attempted bombing on Delta flight 253.
Meanwhile, you’ll find him on the links.


Try the bushes.
( Stay outta Da Booshes! )
 


(Daily Mail)

 
TERRORISTS COMING TO A BEAUTY SUPPLY STORE NEAR YOU.

Tom Hayden: "It's time to strip the Obama sticker off my car."

—Purple Avenger

I'd have to say Hayden is a walking embodiment of the 1960's "red diaper doper babys". Redder than Chairman Mao, thicker than a neutron star, and totally sworn to "the cause".

It's time to strip the Obama sticker off my car. Obama's escalation in Afghanistan is the last in a string of disappointments. His flip-flopping acceptance of the military coup in Honduras has squandered the trust of Latin America. His Wall Street bailout leaves the poor, the unemployed, minorities and college students on their own. And now comes the Afghanistan-Pakistan decision to escalate the stalemate, which risks his domestic agenda, his Democratic base, and possibly even his presidency...
See, I'll wade into these fetid festering fever swamps of the hard left so you gentle readers don't have to. I'm that kinda guy. I'm willing to take one for the team. Now will someone get a fire hose stat and start rinsing off my HazMat suit...pretty please with sugar on top. Its getting stuffy in here.

If you're looking for a nice one-stop shopping list of who all the major hard left players are, its hard to beat the list on the right side of this site. Of course they think the only way democrats can avoid losing in 2010 is to continue lurching to the left.

Yea guys. Go with that.

[UPDATE] I forgot to add that it is painfully obvious now that Hayden must be some sort of racist hater and closeted member of StormFront or Aryan Nation.

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10 CTR: How exactly does one "escalate a stalemate"?

There!  You see?  That's why you're not a Leftist.  You just don't have their innate SuperSmartsTM

Lowly prole.  You were born to be led.
 
30 O/T, but has anyone noticed how old-looking Obama has gotten?  The presidency ages people, but so soon?   He's going to be looking like Redd Foxx by the end of this term.
 

Shock: Puddle-Headed Liberal Joan Walsh of Salon Finds Criticism of Obama "Traitorous"

—Ace

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, except between January 20, 2009, and January 18, 2013.

Remember when dissent was supposed to be patriotic? Well, it seems that only applies when a Republican is president. Now that Barack Obama is in the White House, criticism of him is "un-American" and "traitorous." This new "tolerant" view of dissent comes from Joan Walsh of Salon.Com as you can see in this Hardball video from Wednesday. Below is the Walsh money quote but please be sure to also watch the video since it is important to watch as she drops any facade of liberal tolerance and lets her true dogmatic soul reveal itself in both her face and voice which seems to border on dementia:
The climate right now is that Republicans use everything they can to undermine and delegitimize this president. And it‘s actually un-American. It‘s traitorous, in my opinion. Do you want to give aid and comfort to our enemies? Continue to treat this president like he wasn‘t elected and he doesn‘t know what he‘s doing! He knows what he did. He knows what he‘s doing. I‘m proud of him. I believe that he has the stalwart, resolute nature to get this done...

Video at the link.

Traitorous? Really? To quote this for the hundredth time, here is Gary Kamiya, writing in Joan Walsh's Salon webzine, soon after the fall of Baghdad:

I have a confession: I have at times, as the war has unfolded, secretly wished for things to go wrong. Wished for the Iraqis to be more nationalistic, to resist longer. Wished for the Arab world to rise up in rage. Wished for all the things we feared would happen. I'm not alone: A number of serious, intelligent, morally sensitive people who oppose the war have told me they have had identical feelings.

Some of this is merely the result of pettiness--ignoble resentment, partisan hackdom, the desire to be proved right and to prove the likes of Rumsfeld wrong, irritation with the sanitizing, myth-making American media. That part of it I feel guilty about, and disavow. But some of it is something trickier: It's a kind of moral bet-hedging, based on a pessimism not easy to discount, in which one's head and one's heart are at odds.

Many antiwar commentators have argued that once the war started, even those who oppose it must now wish for the quickest, least-bloody victory followed by the maximum possible liberation of the Iraqi people. But there is one argument against this: What if you are convinced that an easy victory will ultimately result in a larger moral negative--four more years of Bush, for example, with attendant disastrous policies, or the betrayal of the Palestinians to eternal occupation, or more imperialist meddling in the Middle East or elsewhere?

Wishing for things to go wrong is the logical corollary of the postulate that the better things go for Bush, the worse they will go for America and the rest of the world.

So, if I have this right, wishing for greater numbers of US war dead is "patriotic," and criticizing Obama for screwing up everything he does -- something that already has a bodycount associated with it -- is "traitorous."

Ohhhkay.

Via this guy right here.

BTW I am so hung over.

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I get it.

When Cindy Sheehan wished she could travel back in time and kill Bush in his crib that was extreme patriotism.

When those liberal film makers made that faux documentary about Bush being assasinated that was extreme patriotism.

When the Bill maher and a lot on the left cheered the guy who set off the truck bomb at  Bagram airbase trying to take out Cheney  that was extreme patriotism.

Opposing a guy who wants to fundamentally transform our country into an outright Marxist regime: Treason
 
101 i guess the psychological term is "projection". per wikipedia,
projection is a defense mechanism, a primitive form of paranoia,
where one attributes one's own unacknowledged thoughts onto another, including by "injustice collecting". it is "shifting one's unacceptable thoughts, emotions, etc. in oneself to someone else, such that those same thoughts, emotions, etc. are perceived as being possessed by the other."

we saw this early in the vendetta against bush when a major rallying cry was "bush lied", as if compensating for the allegations & actual perjury of clinton. there are loads of other examples. it's weird & disturbing.
 
131 They keep using that word, "treason"... it doesn't mean what they think it means.

I suppose what they actually mean is disloyal - to their Rockstar Marxist Dear Leader.

How anyone could claim allegiance to this shamefully anti-American president... ignoring the shockingly anti-American, anti-Capitalist and criminal people he has surrounded himself with throughout his education and political career. Not to mention the "Christian" church he attended for 20 years - yet never heard the pastor's bitter tirades against whites, Jews, or America.

Almost diabolical. Almost.
 
Anyone that criticizes Barry “a good man” Obama is an unAmerican traitor!!1!!.   Posted by Darleen @ 9:47 pm
Comments (11)  "What Joan really means to say is that now Barack Obama is our god, and worshipping him is our national religion.  Therefore, anyone who disrespects  him or doubts him is a heretic, and needs to be burned at the stake. "
 
 

Read the following and let me know how you think it will end for Obama and the Dems. This is some scary stuff.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/2010_will_be_worse.html



Chart of U.S. Unemployment 
 
 

It never ends: Jihadi attack on Danish cartoonist

January 1, 2010 11:52 PM by Michelle Malkin

How about kicking off the New Year with a stark reminder that jihadists don’t just hate us because of Iraq and Afghanistan? The Religion of Perpetual Outrage hates all infidels. The targeting of the Danish Mohammed cartoonists is a lingering pretext to demonstrate that centuries-old, Koran-inspired hatred. If it isn’t cartoons, it’s always something else. From fresco rage to book rage to film rage to beauty pageant rage to Koran-dropping rage to cartoon rage to Pope rage, to ceramic Mohammed bobbleheads, it never ends.

Keep all that in mind as you read the latest on the attack against Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard:

Remember what they told us:

Flashback October 2009: 2 Chicago Men Charged in Terror Plot Over Muhammad Cartoons

Flashback February 2008: Five Muslims Arrested in Mohammed Cartoon Murder Plot

Flashback October 2007: Terror Plot Targetted Dutch Mohammed Cartoon Publisher8 Comments |

 
BlogWarZ!
 
 
Obama Shines Palin Shoes
 
"To immediately find racism in the picture says more about Johnson and his sympathizers than it does anyone else."
 
"I feel bad about Charles. He got a short period of well deserved fame for demonstrating the fake Bush TANG memo, although he was not the one who figured out the ploy. That was an anonymous attorney in Georgia who posted on Free Republic. Since then, Charles has had a reputation as conservative but that was not deserved."
 
 
( The following is a variant of a boilerplate reply I use occasionally-- it is sarcasm, Son, sarcasm- with a touch of irony thrown in... )

I denounce his'sef!



And, just to be "inclusive," my own 'sef'!



Then, I trun oursef's over to the block watchers and re-education camps to have our attitudes adjusted at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085709/posts




Latest Obama Gaffe is a Real Doozy

President Obama's woeful inexperience reared its ugly head again Thursday as he addressed the suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan's Khost Province that killed seven CIA officers and at least one other person. In a public letter to the CIA, the President made several comments:

I write to mark a sad occasion in the history of the CIA and our country. Yesterday, seven Americans in Afghanistan gave their lives in service to their country. Michelle and I have their families, friends and colleagues in our thoughts and prayers.

You have helped us understand the world as it is, and taken great risks to protect our country. You have served in the shadows, and your sacrifices have sometimes been unknown to your fellow citizens, your friends, and even your families.

The men and women who gave their lives in Afghanistan did their duty with courage, honor and excellence, and we must draw strength from the example of their sacrifice.

While the President's comments are seemingly heartfelt and sincere, he is painfully unaware that public acknowledgement of this successful attack against the CIA is perceived by Al Quaeda as an enormous victory. The President's validation that the attack on the CIA caused great sorrow to America serves as a powerful recruitment tool for Al Quaeda. Furthermore, the attack was a very difficult defeat for our CIA and overall intelligence community and Obama's comments focus an unwanted spotlight where it is not appreciated.

No President has ever issued public proclamations of public mourning over loss of life at the CIA specifically because they generally prefer not having any attention directed their way. Obama's incongizance of these facts reflects his inexperience and, more importantly, reveals a stunning disconnect with our intelligence community.

Comin' Soon-

To Mo's Merica:

Starting the New Year with a Bang

Nearly a hundred civilians have died as a suicide bomber blew up a volleyball game in Pakistan. Al Jazeera reports:

A suicide bomber has killed at least 88 people and injured dozens more in northwest Pakistan.

The attack on Friday at a volleyball tournament in the city of Lakki Marwat was one of the deadliest Pakistan has seen in recent months.

There has been no claim of responsibility, but officials say the attack could be in retaliation to local tribal efforts to combat the Taliban.

Poor people. Just remember the 8:1 rule. Radical Islamic terrorism will kill from 8 to 10 Muslims for every non-Muslim in order to maintain control over the population. In Iraq the pattern was the same. Thousands of Iraqis, nearly all of them Muslim, were killed by al-Qaeda or other militant groups. So when you hear the argument that terrorism exists because “they hate us”, remember that it is all about POWER. The WSJ has more details. It was a truck bomb which blew the victims, some of them just kids, dozens of feet from their original positions.

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I

Say

Again:

"A Creepy Cargo Cult of Personality" ( versus "anything else of substance"-- get it? )

Obama Street Art Continued: The Beer Summit Edition

by Urban Infidel ( 54 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Barack Obama, Politics at January 1st, 2010 - 6:30 pm

urban1

I spotted this sticker [where else?] in my neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Obama-bot central, USA.

urban2

These Obama street art fetishes are so ridiculous, it’s almost hard to know if the people who made them are kidding. The only positive development is that I don’t see quite as many as I used to.

urban3

The Bower-in-Chief can sit down with Al Qaeda in Yemen and talk it over.

(cross posted at Urban Infidel)

 
What happened to ClimateGate denialists.
 

Meltdown Mann loses strawberries

by snork ( 42 Comments › )
Filed under Free Speech, Global Warming Hoax, Science at January 1st, 2010 - 8:30 pm

Dementia seems to be contagious. It’s no secret that the blogmaster at a formerly interesting blog has undergone a descent into dementia suggestive of Capt. Queeg of The Caine Mutiny. Seems like he has competition.

In my previous post Meltdown Mann, I wrote about a WaPo column that he penned that sounded like a paranoid rant. At about the same time, WSJ had a not-very-friendly piece about Climategate, where Mann refused an opportunity to respond. After several weeks, he finally responded.

So on New Year’s eve, Mann belatedly replies, and the WSJ publishes it. It’s short, it’s non-sequitur, and a little bizarre:

In his Dec. 18 op-ed “How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus,” Patrick J. Michaels of the Cato Institute falsely claims that work by him (and other fossil-fuel-funded climate change contrarians) has been unfairly blocked by me and others from appearing in mainstream science journals because the peer review process is supposedly biased against climate science deniers.

Right off the bat, he uses the politically-loaded term “denier” (interesting, because the term is never used in the CRUtape letters™). Secondly, the entire paragraph is a strawman, since the conspiracy to keep certain papers out of certain journals and the IPCC reports was incontrovertibly documented, and which ones were being kept out had not so much to do with whether or not they were generally “contrarian” (the term that they actually do use, to which I don’t object), as much as papers by whomever, making specific arguments that the “team” doesn’t want proffered.

But so far, he’s just being political and disingenuous. And there’s more of that here, but each paragraph gets increasingly wilder and more paranoid:

In truth, the only bias that exists at such publications is for well-reasoned writing that is buttressed by facts.

That is why climate skeptics such as Richard Lindzen of MIT or John Christy of the University of Alabama—who are widely regarded as credible and whose work contributes meaningfully to the scientific discourse—have no problem publishing their work in mainstream scientific journals.

And what about those who are not being published? Every scientist dealing with a major public issue must decide if he or she is going to be a scientist or a de facto politician.

Mr. Michaels and many climate science deniers have opted for the latter course of action. For example, presidential science adviser John Holdren notes that Mr. Michaels “has published little if anything of distinction . . . being noted rather for his shrill op-ed pieces and indiscriminate denunciations of virtually every finding of mainstream climate science.” This makes Mr. Michaels a perfect candidate for a Wall Street Journal op-ed and a decidedly poor submitter to a serious scientific journal.

Now comes the strawberries:

Society relies upon the integrity of the scientific literature to inform sound policy. It is thus a serious offense to compromise the peer-review system in such a way as to allow anyone—including proponents of climate change science—to promote unsubstantiated claims and distortions.

Excuuuuuuuuse me??? If this were just chutzpah, this guy would win the international chutzpah competition. This is like Al Capone petitioning the church for Beatification.  Of course, the argument is absurd. He’s essentially saying that the peer-review process may fail, therefore we have to keep unapproved papers from being peer-reviewed.

But who, it is documented, has been caught red-handed, compromising the peer-review system?

The only remaining question, among the long-time followers of this story, is who is Lt. Keefer?

Bonus: We have this comment @ ClimateAudit from Ross McKitrick, the “silent partner” in the McIntyre and McKitrick team:

Ross McKitrick

Posted Dec 31, 2009 at 12:07 PM | Permalink | Reply

Regarding Mann’s WSJ letter, how does one become a “climate science denier”? Does that mean you deny the existence of climate science? Talk about setting up an absurd dichotomy.

Of course what he really means is someone who denies the validity of his particular interpretation of what constitutes climate “science”, which is, “the stuff I publish.”

As for appealing to John Holdren’s assessment of the contribution of Pat Michaels to the field of applied climatology over the years, I doubt Holdren has even read any of it, let alone published anything himself of comparable value. And it’s rather rich for Mann to invoke the opinion of a politically-appointed advisor to a politician as part of his argument about the importance of keeping politics out of the discussion. The fact that Mann evidently didn’t see that invoking Holdren is a form of political rhetoric reveals Mann’s own political presuppositions.

Thank you, Ross.

~~~~~

Sorta related bonus feature:

It looks like the media has done a great job of analyzing and reporting on the Climategate scandal. No, not MSNBC, not CNN, not any of the American alphabet soup networks. Not BBC or CBC, either. For some reason, the English language media wasn’t interested. Or French. Or German. Or Spanish, or Italian, or any of the other media in any of the major languages. Until you get to Finland.

I showed earlier an expose on Finnish TV of the climate issue pre-Climategate. Again, they did what the big guys wouldn’t. You have to read English subtitles, but this is about the most correct and to-the-point expose on this subject that I’ve seen. It’s here in three easy pieces, totaling about a half hour. If you watch this, you’ll know what the “nontroversy” is all about, and what decline was being hidden, and from whom it was being hidden.

Watch it and curse. ( Use The Links, Dammit! )

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Quiz after the break.


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The prospects for revolt in 2010

Natural Law and National Socialized Healthcare. The Big Picture.

Could this actually be the greatest and potentially the deadliest of Obama’s screw ups so far?

Kommander ZerØ is the living embodiment of The Peter Principle, squared...

Elevated once to his level of incompetence, he was raised once again higher by a confluence of foreign money, a corrupt & sycophantic Media Hive, and delusional voters who used him as a Rorschach Blot to project and displace upon.

Elections... have consequences...

EXCLUSIVE: Obama Got Pre-Christmas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to "Homeland"

Islamic Radicalism in Mexico: The Threat from South of the Border

Now Watch This Drive: Crowd Gathers To Watch Obama Play Golf in Hawaii (Video)

Again, not resting until he finds those involved...Today he was looking for them on the golf course...A crowd soon gathered and those agreeing to a security check got to watch up close,...later, some touched the hem of his garment...(Video + Photos)

(Excerpt) Read more at hotairpundit.blogspot.com ...

Call him the snorkler...

Our Call: Iran on Brink

Who The Hell Is Winning This War?

Ø-Merica:

(vanity) Has anyone run into a family like this?

For Some in Japan, Home Is a Tiny Plastic Bunk ["Barely Bigger Than A Coffin"]

Welcome to the obamaville hotel chain.

I Told You So: My Two Cents on My Own Two Cents

Last November, disappointed by the election of an inexperienced liberal as President, I wrote that I would “reserve the right” to judge the merit of Obama’s performance. As I wrote then, “we generally expect that the job of President is, in itself, transformational…” but has the job actually transformed the man? As the last year of what Charles Krauthammer has called “The Year of Living Fecklessly” has shown, the answers to the questions I raised a year ago are not promising.

“Is Obama the post-partisan leader that he claims to be?” Clearly not. The last twelve months have been an orgy of partisan games, with the White House throwing gasoline on the bonfire through aspersions, and petty vendettas against opponents. No significant legislation has been passed this year with anything even laughably approaching bi-partisan support. This is not just the failure of the parties to play nice, but the failure of a President who assured us he could make them play nice to deliver on his promises. That requires experience and savvy in something other than campaigning, and this President does not appear equal to the task, and the unending fumbles by his staff and Cabinet inspire little expectation of improvement.

“Will the centrist rhetoric of the campaign give way to the more leftist political record …?” Without a doubt it has. Forget Rev. Wright and bomber Ayers – the President’s advisors are a catalog of pedophiles (Kevin Jennings), truthers (Van Jones), and Mao-admirers (Anita Dunn). The White House has granted Constitutional rights to foreign terrorists while exempting foreign police from Constitutional restraints, and embraced a leftist canon on energy, climate change, economics, and foreign policy. The President behaves like a reluctant Commander in Chief, insults allies and flinches for adversaries. To what end? Iran thumbs their nose at the US while building nukes, Korea does the same. Russia and China see the U. S. as toothless and our European allies are distancing themselves even farther. “American will” has become synonymous with “cognitive dissonance.” Even the French are telling us to “man up.”

“…will this President have the courage to oppose his own Party when the inevitable rash of retaliatory legislation begins?” He hasn’t even tried. In fact, he has stepped back to allow Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi histrionically execute a leftist agenda with all the zeal of the Inquisition. The national debt has been tripled in only a year, while the Democrats have rammed through bill after porked-up bill to deepen the debt, even voting in legislation that was never published when it was approved. The health-care “Cash for Cloture” deals, while rancid, are merely the tip of the landfill of an Administration and Congress for whom legislative transparency is an oxymoron and name-calling a bad habit.

“…will some of the more troubling issues – such as voter fraud, questions about campaign finances, and the loss of objectivity in the press – be honestly addressed…?” Move along citizens, nothing to see here. The White House and its proxies call critics Nazis, racists, and worse. In the meantime, Democrats like Rangel, Murtha, and Dodd go unchallenged on their glaring ethical lapses. The Attorney General hand-waved voter intimidation by the Black Panthers, and voter fraud by ACORN. The President tells dissenters that “we are keeping score,” and attempts to manipulate the press and even the arts communities. The only thing now transparent about this Administration is its contempt for the American taxpayer.

The President’s approval numbers have fallen in the polls to a historic low, and Congress’s numbers continue to fall. Almost sixty percent of Americans oppose the health-care bills that sixty percent of the Congress voted to approve. But this President remains cool and aloof, above the fray – or does he? In a year’s time, the American economy has hit extremis, and American reputation in the world has become a punchline. Can this President really be that inept, or does he think he’s actually accomplishing something of value? From where I stand, “dubious” would be a generous description of those accomplishments.

“My hope is that, a year from now, I do not have to publish a column entitled ‘I Told You So’…” So much for hope and change.

So here it is: I told you so. A year from now, I hope I don’t have to do it again. The way things are going, I may not get the chance.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

David J. Aland is a retired Naval Officer with a graduate degree in National Security Affairs from the U. S. Naval War College.

 
This is a nice encapsulation of “the first year of 0bummer.” Lots more could be said and many more specifics could be cited but they’re not necessary. This covers most of it with a quick but accurate sketch. We are clearly in the middle of the most bizarre presidency the Republic has seen.
 
"A Creepy Cargo-Cult of Personality...."
 

Obama, daughters take trip for New Year's Day treat of shave ice named in his honor: Snowbama

President Barack Hussein Obama has taken his daughters for a Hawaiian treat of shave ice and ordered a flavor combination that is named for himself.

Obama and a posse of about 20 people...

"They should have named the snow cone The Uslurper."

Involvement in Amirault case makes Martha Coakley unfit to replace Ted Kennedy as Senator

Martha Coakley, the current Massachusetts Attorney General, is not fit to be a United States Senator. Anyone who thinks so only needs to study the Fells Acres Day Care case. The Fells Acres Day Care was started by Violet Amirault and run with the help of her son, Gerald, and his sister, Cheryl Amirault LeFave. In the midst of the daycare sex abuse hysteria of the 1980s, all three were charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse.

The charges were some of the most heinous ever made. However, they were also ludicrous. Supposedly Gerald dressed up as a clown and assaulted the children in a secret or magic room. Some children claimed to be sodomized with two foot knives and lobsters. Some of the acts allegedly took place on the front lawn in full view of the highway.

The alleged acts would have caused bodily fluids to be left on carpets, the children's clothing and elsewhere, but none were ever found. The alleged acts would have been very painful to children, but no child ever complained about pain after day care, nor did parents ever notice any injuries..

[more]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/amirault/index

Once in a generation cold snap forecast for NC

Global Warming hoax response reveals Obama’s shaky mental acumen

In the midst of perhaps the most spectacular science scam of the last century exposing falsified data used to “prove” Global Warming, President Obama’s official response gave unsettling insights into his modest rigors of mind.

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Are We Finger Pointing Or Correcting Mistakes? (great aalysis)

INTERPOL Immunity--the Story that Won't Go Away

Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror – and he knows it

Obama: Yeah, looks like AQ to me

Obama Got Pre-Christmas Briefing Warning a Terror Attack May Be Coming

From Audacity of Hope page 261:

"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

The Joke’s on Us ... Mark Steyn

Steyn really spoke the cold, hard, inescapable truth about the weakling POS vacationer, didn’t he?

Very frightening. The world watched him and the world sees what we see, particularly our enemies.

'Snowbama' time in Hawaii (Obama shows terrorist how to eat shaved ice)

Senator Obama Floor Speech 9-27-06 HILARIOUS !!!

California's scary sneak preview

I just chuckle, mutter “slash the freaking government in half”, and move on to something interesting.
 

Democrats’ Plan To Cut Off Health Care

Health bill would leave millions uninsured (but criminalize them for not having insurance)

"Losing" Our Way to Victory (Diana West's Plan Against Jihad)

Barack Obama mispronounces "Orion" (Asks if he said it right, and no one challenges him- video)

The Government's Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about 'The People'

Happy Your [butt] Will Be Taxed Year

Finding Help in a Growing Recession

Saturday, January 2, 2010, 11:41 AM
Jim Hoft


10,000 patriots took part in the Tax Day Tea Party in St. Louis at April 15th.

Joe Hard wrote this for 2010- We’re Tired and We’re Not Going to Take This Any More:

They Have Awoken a Sleeping Giant –

1. We’re tired of politician’s stealing our money in the name of social justice and we’re tired of their programs that promote socialism which we don’t agree with.
2. We’re tired of being criticized and called selfish when we say that we would like to spend our money in the way that we wish and not give to government programs that support ‘victims’ who don’t support their local communities, churches, schools and organizations like we do.
3. We’re tired of being told that God should not be in politics in a world where selfishness and deceit are rampant and abortion is legal.
4. We’re tired of the innocent killing of babies being promoted as a form of birth control and abortion being promoted as a right.
5. We’re tired of being taken for granted and told that the politicians know what is best for us better than we do.
6. We’re tired of being lied to by a media that only tells half a story – A media that produces untrue pictures in favor of those they love and in opposition to those they hate.
7. We’re tired of a media who tells us that to be Christian or God loving is immature or silly.
8. We’re tired of a media that tells us that our military are murderers and that we are causing terrorists to murder.
9. We’re tired of being told that we are the evil ones when we don’t accept the lies of the media or government.
10. We’re tired of being told constantly why we should hate our great country, the most giving country ever in world history.
11. We’re tired of being told that we are the ones who started wars and killed people without reason.
12. We’re tired of being told that we should turn our heads and ignore the evil in the world and not protect ourselves from those whose goal is to kill us.
13. We’re tired of a government that spends more than it makes (takes) without caring who ultimately is going to pay for it.
14. Were tired of politicians who lack the courage to do what is right and who only care about what is in it for them or what greater political position they can steal.
15. We’re tired of federal system that encourages lobbyists to bribe politicians in order to get things done their way in Washington.
16. We’re tired of attorneys who bring frivolous cases to our courts with money as their only motive.
17. We’re tired of politicians passing medical legislation for us that they won’t accept for their own families.
18. We’re tired of being told that women are silly when they love their husbands and provide them safe and happy homes and families.
19. We’re tired of being told that love is a sexual and selfish act and nothing more.
20. We’re tired of being called callous and not compassionate when we don’t agree with the creation socialist society.

BlogWarZ!
Good God, it's gone so Cloud-Cuckoo that I don't want to waste space-- here are links, and graphics to sum it up.
Read the comments at the links, dagnabbit!
 
 
 
THORIUM REACTORS: The New Green Nukes! “The real action, though, is in India and China, both of which need to satisfy an immense and growing demand for electricity. The world’s largest source of thorium, India, doesn’t have any commercial thorium reactors yet. But it has announced plans to increase its nuclear power capacity: Nuclear energy now accounts for 9 percent of India’s total energy; the government expects that by 2050 it will be 25 percent, with thorium generating a large part of that. China plans to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the coming decade, and it hosted a major thorium conference last October. The People’s Republic recently ordered mineral refiners to reserve the thorium they produce so it can be used to generate nuclear power.”
 

Cognitive Dissonance and the “oh sh*t!” circuit

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Filed under Global Warming Hoax, Science at January 2nd, 2010 - 10:30 am
Note: this didn’t start out this way, but as things developed, this turned out to be the first in a trilogy of posts on science, climate, energy, economics, technology, and the future. They all will be a bit meatier than the typical Blogmocracy posts, in the mold of Coldwarrior’s three-part series on the Balkans.

Wired magazine has a lot of junky stuff in it, and every once in a while, something brilliant. This is one such piece. The title is misleading, and somewhat banal, it’s about a lot more than just neuroscience. It’s about philosophy of science, and and even political philosophy. Let me describe how this all applies to the Climategate fiasco. The article starts out talking about a case study in a failure that lead to a later success. Science, technology, and more broadly the history of mankind is full of such stories. But this was a lead-in to an actual study of science labs, and which ones are productive, and which ones aren’t, and why. Here we get to the crux:

Dunbar came away from his in vivo studies with an unsettling insight: Science is a deeply frustrating pursuit. Although the researchers were mostly using established techniques, more than 50 percent of their data was unexpected. (In some labs, the figure exceeded 75 percent.) “The scientists had these elaborate theories about what was supposed to happen,” Dunbar says. “But the results kept contradicting their theories. It wasn’t uncommon for someone to spend a month on a project and then just discard all their data because the data didn’t make sense.” Perhaps they hoped to see a specific protein but it wasn’t there. Or maybe their DNA sample showed the presence of an aberrant gene. The details always changed, but the story remained the same: The scientists were looking for X, but they found Y.

Well, gosh. That’s weren’t not s’posed to happen.

Dunbar was fascinated by these statistics. The scientific process, after all, is supposed to be an orderly pursuit of the truth, full of elegant hypotheses and control variables. (Twentieth-century science philosopher Thomas Kuhn, for instance, defined normal science as the kind of research in which “everything but the most esoteric detail of the result is known in advance.”) However, when experiments were observed up close — and Dunbar interviewed the scientists about even the most trifling details — this idealized version of the lab fell apart, replaced by an endless supply of disappointing surprises. There were models that didn’t work and data that couldn’t be replicated and simple studies riddled with anomalies. “These weren’t sloppy people,” Dunbar says. “They were working in some of the finest labs in the world. But experiments rarely tell us what we think they’re going to tell us. That’s the dirty secret of science.”

How did the researchers cope with all this unexpected data? How did they deal with so much failure? Dunbar realized that the vast majority of people in the lab followed the same basic strategy. First, they would blame the method. The surprising finding was classified as a mere mistake; perhaps a machine malfunctioned or an enzyme had gone stale. “The scientists were trying to explain away what they didn’t understand,” Dunbar says. “It’s as if they didn’t want to believe it.”

When you think about this, “hide the decline” seems to fit right in with that not wanting to believe what the data are telling them. What was interesting about the most famous of CRUtape letters™ is that they took this denial  (yes, that’s a correct use of that word) of the data to the next level, and started working together to sweep the facts under the carpet.

So what is the take-away message so far? 1) life is full of surprises, and 2) if you go into your experiments looking for some particular result, there’s a very good chance that you’re going to end up fighting your own experiment. As Feynman said the easiest person to fool is yourself. But why do people react this way?

The experiment would then be carefully repeated. Sometimes, the weird blip would disappear, in which case the problem was solved. But the weirdness usually remained, an anomaly that wouldn’t go away.

This is when things get interesting. According to Dunbar, even after scientists had generated their “error” multiple times — it was a consistent inconsistency — they might fail to follow it up. “Given the amount of unexpected data in science, it’s just not feasible to pursue everything,” Dunbar says. “People have to pick and choose what’s interesting and what’s not, but they often choose badly.” And so the result was tossed aside, filed in a quickly forgotten notebook. The scientists had discovered a new fact, but they called it a failure.

The reason we’re so resistant to anomalous information — the real reason researchers automatically assume that every unexpected result is a stupid mistake — is rooted in the way the human brain works.

Hmmm. So scientists aren’t androids. Who knew?

Over the past few decades, psychologists have dismantled the myth of objectivity. The fact is, we carefully edit our reality, searching for evidence that confirms what we already believe. Although we pretend we’re empiricists — our views dictated by nothing but the facts — we’re actually blinkered, especially when it comes to information that contradicts our theories. The problem with science, then, isn’t that most experiments fail — it’s that most failures are ignored.

So much for the myth of the scientist just looking for the facts, and letting the chips fall where they may.

Furthermore, when Dunbar monitored the subjects in an fMRI machine, he found that showing non-physics majors the correct video triggered a particular pattern of brain activation: There was a squirt of blood to the anterior cingulate cortex, a collar of tissue located in the center of the brain. The ACC is typically associated with the perception of errors and contradictions — neuroscientists often refer to it as part of the “Oh sh*t!” circuit — so it makes sense that it would be turned on when we watch a video of something that seems wrong.

This explains a lot, and not just about science and scientists. What he’s just shown is that we all develop models of reality in our heads, and then resist evidence that contradicts those models.

The lesson is that not all data is created equal in our mind’s eye: When it comes to interpreting our experiments, we see what we want to see and disregard the rest. The physics students, for instance, didn’t watch the video and wonder whether Galileo might be wrong. Instead, they put their trust in theory, tuning out whatever it couldn’t explain. Belief, in other words, is a kind of blindness.

The lesson here seems clear, but it isn’t. The physics students, in this case, were right. But being right doesn’t mean that you’re not engaging in selective cognition. While their understanding of Galilean gravity got them past the wrong intuition that the untrained people had, this same understanding caused a lot of people to reject Einsteinian gravity. So knowledge is a double-edged sword. It can reinforce your correctness, but it can also reinforce your wrongness. Remember this famous Reagan quote:

It isn’t that Liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Seems like Ron understood something intuitively about this problem.

Now the author goes off on an interesting side trip:

In 1918, sociologist Thorstein Veblen was commissioned by a popular magazine devoted to American Jewry to write an essay on how Jewish “intellectual productivity” would be changed if Jews were given a homeland. At the time, Zionism was becoming a potent political movement, and the magazine editor assumed that Veblen would make the obvious argument: A Jewish state would lead to an intellectual boom, as Jews would no longer be held back by institutional anti-Semitism. But Veblen, always the provocateur, turned the premise on its head. He argued instead that the scientific achievements of Jews — at the time, Albert Einstein was about to win the Nobel Prize and Sigmund Freud was a best-selling author — were due largely to their marginal status. In other words, persecution wasn’t holding the Jewish community back — it was pushing it forward.

The reason, according to Veblen, was that Jews were perpetual outsiders, which filled them with a “skeptical animus.” Because they had no vested interest in “the alien lines of gentile inquiry,” they were able to question everything, even the most cherished of assumptions. Just look at Einstein, who did much of his most radical work as a lowly patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland. According to Veblen’s logic, if Einstein had gotten tenure at an elite German university, he would have become just another physics professor with a vested interest in the space-time status quo. He would never have noticed the anomalies that led him to develop the theory of relativity.

Predictably, Veblen’s essay was potentially controversial, and not just because he was a Lutheran from Wisconsin. The magazine editor evidently was not pleased; Veblen could be seen as an apologist for anti-Semitism. But his larger point is crucial: There are advantages to thinking on the margin. When we look at a problem from the outside, we’re more likely to notice what doesn’t work. Instead of suppressing the unexpected, shunting it aside with our “Oh sh*t!” circuit and Delete key, we can take the mistake seriously. A new theory emerges from the ashes of our surprise.

Based on the resounding success of Israeli science and technology, this seems to be disproven. But wait. There WE go jumping to a specious conclusion. Since there are approximately the same number of Jews in the US and in Israel, a fair comparison would be the scientific achievements of American v.s. Israeli Jews. I don’t have that information at my fingertips, but I think that there are considerably more American than Israeli Jews who have received various Nobel Prizes over the past 60 years, confirming the hypothesis. Anyway, this is a whole interesting discussion unto itself, but for now, we’ll have to say the jury is out. But on to the money quote vis-a-vis climate science:

Modern science is populated by expert insiders, schooled in narrow disciplines. Researchers have all studied the same thick textbooks, which make the world of fact seem settled. This led Kuhn, the philosopher of science, to argue that the only scientists capable of acknowledging the anomalies — and thus shifting paradigms and starting revolutions — are “either very young or very new to the field.” In other words, they are classic outsiders, naive and untenured. They aren’t inhibited from noticing the failures that point toward new possibilities.

Is that what is “settled” Mr. Gore? The naive and untenured should be prevented from publishing, right Mr. Mann?

But not every lab meeting was equally effective. Dunbar tells the story of two labs that both ran into the same experimental problem: The proteins they were trying to measure were sticking to a filter, making it impossible to analyze the data. “One of the labs was full of people from different backgrounds,” Dunbar says. “They had biochemists and molecular biologists and geneticists and students in medical school.” The other lab, in contrast, was made up of E. coli experts. “They knew more about E. coli than anyone else, but that was what they knew,” he says. Dunbar watched how each of these labs dealt with their protein problem. The E. coli group took a brute-force approach, spending several weeks methodically testing various fixes. “It was extremely inefficient,” Dunbar says. “They eventually solved it, but they wasted a lot of valuable time.”

The diverse lab, in contrast, mulled the problem at a group meeting. None of the scientists were protein experts, so they began a wide-ranging discussion of possible solutions. At first, the conversation seemed rather useless. But then, as the chemists traded ideas with the biologists and the biologists bounced ideas off the med students, potential answers began to emerge. “After another 10 minutes of talking, the protein problem was solved,” Dunbar says. “They made it look easy.”

Which brings up another major climate issue: multidiciplinarianism. When McIntyre and McKitrick trashed Mann’s hockey stick, it was a case of a couple of statisticians elbowing their way into the climatological lair. Mann et all basically told them that he knew everything that he needs to know about statistics, and won’t be needing their assistance. But which approach discovers the truth faster? Hands-down, the multidisciplinary team.

I think you can see how the climate train wreck is a perfect illustration of all of this, but in a more general sense, it explains cognitive dissonance, and why there’s so much “la la la, I can’t hear you” when Teh Won is criticized. It’s because a similar setup is operating: they all live in their hermetic cloisters, and hear nothing but echos of how wonderful  Dear Leader is, and when counterevidence surfaces, the “oh-sh*t” circuit wipes it out just like antivirus software.

I think it’s obvious how this sets up self-reinforcing social networks.

 

Y2Kyoto: What Would We Do Without Forecasters?

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

Independent, March 20, 2000 - Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

Telegraph, Jan2. 2010 - Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned.

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It Didn't Start With Climategate (IPPC peer reviewed docs changed after peer review)

"What a bunch of crap this AGW BS has been, and really all too many have known it for so long including those pushing it.Obama and his mob buddies in Chicago with their Carbon Exchange, the Fellow that wormed his way into a position with Wickipedia to “adjust” the data over years of time, the person indicated in this article, and of course Climate-Gate."

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Possible “Dry Run” on US Flight in November

Profile This (Mark Steyn: If You Can't Even Discuss The Problem, How Can You Fix It Alert)

Saturday, January 2, 2010, 5:21 PM
Jim Hoft

CNN reported on September 30, 2009 that a Yemeni bomber and Al-Qaeda member tried to kill Saudi Prince Mohammad Bin Nayef with an underwear bomb on August 28, 2009.

Suicide bomber Abdullah Hassan Tali al-Asiri attempted to kill a Saudi prince by detonating explosives hidden in his underwear. His target, Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, escaped with minor injuries. (The Telegraph)

Now Newsweek is reporting that the Saudis briefed a top Obama official about the Yemeni underwear bomber back in October, via HotAir:

The briefing to Brennan was delivered at the White House by Muhammad bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia’s chief counterterrorism official. In late August, Nayef had survived an assassination attempt by an operative dispatched by the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda who was pretending to turn himself in. The operative had tried to kill the Saudi prince by detonating a bomb on his body, but stumbled on his way into the prince’s palace and blew himself up.

Saudi officials initially thought the bomb had been secreted in the operative’s anal cavity. But after investigating the matter more thoroughly, they concluded it had likely been sewn into his underwear, thereby allowing the operative to bypass security checks before his meeting with the prince. A main purpose of Nayef’s briefing for Brennan was to alert U.S. officials to the use of the underwear technique.

U.S. officials now suspect that Nayef’s attempted assassin and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian suspect aboard the Northwest flight, had the same bomb maker in Yemen, intelligence experts tell NEWSWEEK. At the briefing for Brennan, Nayef was concerned because “he didn’t think [U.S. officials] were paying enough attention” to the growing threat from Al Qaeda in Yemen, said a former U.S. intelligence official familiar with the briefing.

And, what did the Obama Administration do with this new information?
Nothing.

It looks like Cheney was right. Barack Obama’s policies have made us less safe.

 
No hiding this decline (Rasmussen)

High disapproval: Dems rip Rasmussen (Obama's thugs go after Rusmussen:)

BlogWarZ!

To Little Green Snotballs: Credible Evidence of Kevin Jennings' Malfeasance

 
LGF in death spiral:

“Just curious, anybody have a quick chronology of LGF’s spin down the toilet bowl? Been a while since I’d been over there and now its unrecognizable.”

Here you go:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/littlegreenfootballs.com/

One fourth the former traffic. Shouldn't have banned your best members, Chuckles...

This link will give you a ballpark idea of when the bottom collapsed for Chuckles. It was right around the last election. He’s recovered somewhat lately, probably with a new batch of followers, but not quite where he was previously.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/littlegreenfootballs.com

Saturday, January 2, 2010, 2:52 PM
Jim Hoft

Worst. President. Ever. President Obama is the “Unemployment President.”

The unemployment rate was at 10.0% in December.

As we look back over 2009 we can now report that Barack Obama lost more jobs in his first year in office than any president in modern history. Barack Obama lost over 4 million jobs alone since his failed stimulus was passed in February.
USA Today reported:

Even before Barack Obama took the oath of office, his economic advisers projected that without hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending, the U.S. economy could lose another 3 million to 4 million jobs on top of the 3.1 million lost in 2008.

It turns out they were optimistic. Even with the $787 billion stimulus package that Obama signed in February, more than 4 million jobs have been lost in 2009, the worst year for job losses since World War II. The jobless rate that advisers projected would peak at 8% has topped 10%.

And it took him until December to hold a jobs summit to address the problem.

And Doug Ross reports that things are likely to get much worse before they get better.


2,258 posted on 01/02/2010 4:01:55 PM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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Saturday, January 2, 2010, 8:35 PM
Jim Hoft

Democrats are shooting the messenger.

Democrats are attacking pollster Scott Rasmussen, the most accurate pollster in the 2008 elections, because he is reporting that Obama is now more loathed than Bush after the end of his second term and for his other polls that show America is rejecting their far left policies.
The Politico reported:

Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama’s popularity and a host of other issues are surfacing in the media with increasing frequency.

The pointed attacks reflect a hardening conventional wisdom among prominent liberal bloggers and many Democrats that Rasmussen Reports polls are, at best, the result of a flawed polling model and, at worst, designed to undermine Democratic politicians and the party’s national agenda.

On progressive-oriented websites, anti-Rasmussen sentiment is an article of faith. “Rasmussen Caught With Their Thumb on the Scale,” blared the Daily Kos this summer. “Rasmussen Reports, You Decide,” the blog Swing State Project recently headlined in a play on the Fox News motto.

“I don’t think there are Republican polling firms that get as good a result as Rasmussen does,” said Eric Boehlert, a senior fellow with Media Matters, a progressive research center. “His data looks like it all comes out of the RNC [Republican National Committee].”

“Whether intended or not, Rasmussen polls have been used by conservative voices as talking points, and when that happens on one side it inevitably produces a reaction from the other,” explained Mark Blumenthal, a polling analyst and the editor and publisher of Pollster.com. “Rasmussen produces a lot of data that appear to produce narratives conservatives are promoting, and that causes a reaction.”

 
Hundreds of cars torched in France at New Year
 

C’ar-B-Q’s Make Their Return To France

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 80 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Invasion, Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Multiculturalism at January 2nd, 2010 - 5:00 pm

cars

They’re back, and just in time for 2010!!! Those danged Christian “yutes”, some named Mohammed, Abdul, and Hamed are at it again…I guess all the churches were closed News Year’s Eve, and well, you know, boys will be boys…

PARIS (Reuters) – Youths burned 1,137 cars across France overnight as New Year’s Eve celebrations once again turned violent, the French Interior Ministry said on Friday.

Car burnings are regular occurrences in poor suburbs that ring France’s big cities, but the arson is especially prevalent during New Year’s Eve revelry.

The number of vehicles torched was only 10 short of the record 1,147 burned this time last year, even though the Interior Ministry mobilized 45,000 police during the night — 10,000 more than 12 months ago.

It said police detained 549 people overnight, compared with 288 in 2009 New Year celebrations. However, unlike in previous years, there were no direct clashes between police and youths. “The few disturbances that did take place were brought swiftly under control,” the ministry said in a statement.

Read the article here

 
BlogWarZ!
Now you got Patterico curious...
Got a story to tell about being banned AtS?
 
I joined the list of more than a thousand “Banned of Brothers” in September 2009.
Names are listed at the link.

Patterico has a place to tell it.
"You guys are so ahead of the curve! most of you got banned before anyone saw the writing on the wall about Charles."
"When Nancy started swinging the ban hammer amongst friends, it became immediately apparent that the wheels were coming off the bus as he was trying to stuff us under there to keep it rolling."
 
"'once upon a time' LGF had a reputation for being 'the place that fact checks your ass'.
And the place to go for daily anti-jihad news. And Anti-Idiotarian laffs. And seeing how most of the Idiots were on the Left, it had a primarily Center-Right membership.
But it was run by a mushheaded liberal poseur with a cv thinner than a sheet of guitar music.
That being so, he had a tendency to leave moonbats festering too long in his comments sections. That and some real genocidal PsOS, one of whom (whazzername, she of the border machineguns) dogged a long-time contributor there so much that they and several others hade quite enough of it. May12'06 Reaganite called it quits and Nancy (Charles) said 'good riddance'. The Fact Checkers were perturbed. This followed a winter (and spring) of discontent which overlapped the Israel-Hezb'allah war. The summer saw several communities of commenters splinter away, some at Nancy's invite, then at his assertion of their being 'stalker blogs'.
This culminated in the first 'mass purge', of the 'Banned of Brothers', the principals of GCP / Gulf Coast Pundits (and there's another example there of their setting up a community to pursue a Katrina aid theif, after Nancy getting peeved their hunt was happening on HIS blog).
Many of his Fact Checkers were in this purge, Aug31/Sep1'06.  Myself. Swampwoman. SarahD. A 'Dirty Dozen' in the initial batch. Several others quickly followed.
And frankly it's when his own reported visit stats began to plunge. The purges became more frequent after that first mass ban.
Now, we are Grouchy Conservative Pundits,
http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com
And if you enjoyed what LGF was in '03/'04 - you know, when Nancy posted infrequently and  his editorial content was next to nil (other than his topic selections - you'll find many of those folks there."
 
rickl  Although I wasn't banned (initially), I do have a pretty good story about what happened the day I quit LGF.  I just told it at Patterico's site.  I'm comment #154.
 
#158--

Well, now- if you really want to see the degeneration of the former “fact check your ass” site in its miserable glory, do this:

Punch
the dark underbelly

Punch “skip to comments,” punch “go to ‘last’” and then!

Using your browser’s “find” function, enter the search string

BlogWarZ!

and start scrolling backwards to around Novemember 2007, and you’ll find enough documentation to keep you busy for days.

My personal synopsis?

Been online since 1981.

Banned one place- guess which?

In the steal of the night ( no “knock it off,” no warning, no refund of contribution… ) for belonging to another site formed at the behest of Teh Crazy Guy…

And like I keep telling people- SelrahC banned all the best writers and researchers and commentators, so why wouldn’t his blog degenerate into an echoing cesspool of sycophants?

Comment by backhoe — 1/3/2010 @ 12:52 am

The Somali And The Dane. “So, let me get this straight: The ax-prone Islamist lunatic trying to destroy freedom of speech is in Denmark because he was being persecuted?”

By the way, here’s the cartoon that inspired an ax attack. Since most media that cover this story won’t reprint it, it’s worth noting just how unexceptional it is. Besides, why reward violence? And remember, Gary Hull and Voltaire Press were willing to publish the images that Yale was afraid to.

UPDATE: Reader Dave Tonnes writes: “The irony, of course, is that the attacker himself proved Mr. Westergaard’s 2005 cartoon was spot-on.”

In The Immortal Words Of Tasnim Aslam

"Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence".*

Danish police on Friday shot and wounded a man trying to enter the home of an artist who drew controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

The man, a 27-year-old Somalian who was armed with an axe, was caught trying to break into the home of Kurt Westergaard at 10pm local time, police said.

Posted by Kate at 7:30 PM| Comments (63)

LIQUID BATTERIES, GIANT LASERS, AND VAST NEW RESERVES OF NATURAL GAS: The Year In Energy.

Bad, bad planet. Not cooperating.

by snork ( 177 Comments › )
Filed under Global Warming Hoax, Humor, Media, Open thread, Science, UK, Weather at January 2nd, 2010 - 7:00 pm

Those Englishmen are funny, funny people. Via WUWT, in 2000, we have this article in the independent, with the headline Snowfalls are now Just a Thing of the Past.

Back to the future.

The daily Telegraph, again via WUWT, has this headline: Britain Facing on of the Coldest Winters in 100 years Experts Predict. Heh. Is that a consensus of experts?

Winter in Jolly old England

Winter in Jolly old England

Is that an iceweasel I see there? Well, Jimmah!

Oh, well, Pinky. We need to figure out another way to take over the world.

Maybe we can scare people with the attack of the Mutant Alien Space Monkeys.

This is a snowball fight and open thread!


2,259 posted on 01/03/2010 1:43:14 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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The New And Improved Iron Curtain

Back in 1946, Winston Churchill, in a speech delivered at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, referred to an Iron Curtain that had descended across the Continent, behind which all the capitols of the ancient states, from Berlin to Belgrade, from Budapest to Sofia, were under the boot of the Soviet Union.

Today, freedom-loving people are faced with a second such curtain. It doesn’t exist in Eastern Europe this time, but along the Potomac. On one side, there are despots like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Sunstein, Emanuel, Axelrod, Specter and Conyers. On the other side are those of us who are sick and tired of having ex-community organizers and their left-wing henchmen doing their best to enslave us.

They treat the Constitution like toilet paper; they bribe millions of us, including illegal aliens, with cash and free health benefits, while simultaneously bankrupting the rest of us, along with our kids and their kids.

They have saddled us with so much debt, unemployment and inevitable inflation, one can only assume it’s their plan that we’ll be too wretched to notice that they’re also taking away our rights and freedom. This is the doing of the same people who pretended that the Patriot Act, which did nothing more than try to prevent Islamic terrorists from plotting a sequel to 9/11, was the height of fascistic tyranny.

I guarantee that if our leading leftists were characters in a movie, a lot more people would be able to recognize their villainy. That’s because they would all look like albinos and talk with funny accents.

For instance, the secret ballot has been sacrosanct ever since our nation was founded. However, we find the current administration pushing for card check, which would deprive American workers of that basic safeguard when it comes to union elections. The purpose is obvious. The goons in the SEIU and the UAW want to know whom to intimidate, whose kneecaps to bust. And Obama, whose campaign coffers benefited to the tune of at least $100 million in union dues, is only too happy to return the favor.

The Jihad Decade Cometh

Pop Quiz Mr. President: Why Did You Fail?

 
Well, under Obama, we have a government that reads terrorists their rights

and prosecutes US military personnel for mistreating the little darlings from Al Qaeda.

History Is Knocking for Obama

Obama Approval Index Month-by-Month (Now at -18)

Dems Rip Rasmussen, Flashback: Obama Predicted His Own Poll Numbers Would Crash in 6 Months (Video)

 The Sultan of Squat

Barack Obama: Pretending to Be Presidential

 

Coming Soon: The Bill for the Massive U.S. Debt

Colorado taxpayers paid $200,000 for guv photos ( Governor Bill Ritter )

Americans Doing More, Buying Less, a Poll Finds

The government criminals must be crapping themselves as they watch tax revenue at all levels drop off a cliff.
Sales tax revenue dropping as people buy less stuff.
Property tax revenue dropping as property values fall and defaults mount.
Income tax revenue dropping as the unemployment rate increases.
Capital gains tax revenue dropping a investments fall in value.
 
“Funemployment”? I thought the libtards called it a ‘Jobless Recovery”?

They need to "tell it like it is!"
( Like the 'sixties retreads they are...)

Recovery-less recovery...

Democrats' health care reform a delusional fantasy [This is a great read!]

On April 30, 2009, Hernando Today published a piece "Is Anyone Paying Attention?" which posited that "the most compelling macro economic issue facing Americans today is whether Democrats will complete the entitlement trifecta with socialized health care."

It went on to remind readers that filibuster proof Democratic majorities allowed FDR and Lyndon Johnson to put the New Deal and Great Society into law and now we have Barack Obama's third leg of the trifecta being enacted by "an equally unstoppable Democratic Senate that will change the balance of power and our national debt in ways we haven't seen before."

I haven't changed my mind.

It is impossible to wrap your mind around this massive Congressional undertaking to reform 16 percent of our economic output. Nobody has digested the thousands of pages of legislative legerdemain (certainly nobody in Congress), which represent all sorts of political shenanigans to get all 60 Democratic Senators on board.

This monstrosity will be a bureaucratic and lawyers delight for decades to come and will promote an endless number administrative rulings and litigation — and the employment of even more government employees.

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

 

 

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