America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...

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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.

Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, November 07, 2008 at 01:20 PM in THE NEW CONSERVATIVE: TAKING BACK THE GOP | Permalink | Comments (21)

"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.

Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, November 06, 2008 at 07:23 PM in President Hussein | Permalink | Comments (5)

FREEDOM! Mandatory "community service."

President Obama To Bring Back Slavery

November 6th, 2008

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

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)

Click here for the video ^

 

Five things that are creepy about (Obama's new) change.gov website

I don't hear the Libs calling for the abolishment of the electoral college anymore

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

Rahm Emanuel- Obama's chief of staff-The Plan, Yes We Can Draft Your [snip]

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:

The Plan: Big Ideas for America By Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Reed

 

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.

 

Understanding Obama: The Making of a Führer

 

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)

 Regarding Barack Obama and the Question of the Anti-Christ

 

"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.

World waits to see Barack's true colours

 

Mike Gallagher: Mourning In America

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

 

Lead bullets under fire

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...

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.

 

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/11/a-new-and-kinde.html

 

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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Blueprint for nuclear warhead found on smugglers’ computers

 

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

Forty-Fourth President, Twelfth Imam

by Baron Bodissey

The 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…
- - - - - - - - -
Mahmoud 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.' "

http://www.yeahrightblog.com/yeah_right/2008/11/the-onion-on-obama-supporters-funny.html

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

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 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:

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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:

 

DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...

 

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.

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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...

9,520 posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008

”Zimbabwe On The Potomac...”

[backhoe]

 Obamacare > Dems not worried about post-vote backlash at home

 Decent screed over at anti-idiotarian rotteweiler on this:

http://nicedoggie.net/index.php/archives/3776
When You Eliminate The Impossible; Whatever Remains, However Improbable, Must Be Taken Seriously.
Posted by:  LC Subotai Bahadur, Lord Pao An

Why Conservative Talking boobleheads are WRONG about voter backlash in 2010 - Shameless vanity

 

 

 

 

States Seek Federal Bailout to Replenish Empty Jobless Funds  See above graphic^

U.S. local government pension costs exceeds $530 billion: govern

For 2010, little improvement seen in job market

In sixty years of living I have never before seen an "administration" ( not to mention a media, both press and entertainment ) of such hostility toward business, profits, the rights of individuals and families, getting ahead, or American exceptionalism.

Put another way, we now have an administration and a society by, for, and about the looters and pillagers and plunderers among us.

It is only going to get worse.

"Hope" everybody likes that "change" they voted in to office, because they are about to get it...

"Good and Hard..."

Poll: 2010 could be 'year of the angry white male' redux

Next decade will be the decade from hell! Peter Schiff

Dems Ensure America Will No Longer Be the Last Best Hope of Earth

Time to Suffer for Pro-Life Principles (Letter to Editor)

‘Media drumbeat’ for gun control turns to outrageous blame game (WA)

I don't think these 'treat guns like cars' people have thought it all the way through.

That would mean any State gun license would be good in all 50 states, you could take it anywhere, buy as many as you like, and buy guns as powerful as you like, all without any Federal paperwork at all.

This doesn't mean I endorse 'licensing' gun owners because I don't. One shouldn't need a license to exercise a Constitutionally guaranteed Right.

Feats of Clay, Exposed

"Though the American left and right don't agree on much, they are both now coalescing around the suspicion that Barack Obama's brilliant presidential campaign was as hollow as Tiger's public image -- a marketing scam designed to camouflage either his covert anti-American radicalism (as the right sees it), or spineless timidity (as the left sees it)."

(Philippines) Mayon shoots ash column, major eruption nears (Attention Algore!)

 

ClimateGate: 30 years in the making

Here's a Christmas present for all you anti-AGW warriors - a massive (94" X 34") timeline chart showing all the CRU e-mails, what they concern, who's involved, etc., etc., etc.  Still being updated, and available as PDF files in a variety of formats for those who with to print it out to get a close look.  Also available as a .gif file.

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

[backhoe]

*VIDEO* "I Never Should Have Supported Barack Obama" (a must watch!)

68% Favor Offshore Oil Drilling

Voters Frown on Health Plan Details - Abortion, Proof of Citizenship, Public Option

What Recession? A Look Inside Obama's $8.9 Million Dollar Hawaii Getaway (Video)

Poll: Just 29% Say U.S. Heading on Right Course

Passenger Ignites Explosive on Delta Flight, Al Qaeda Connection Reported

al Qaeda Man from Nigeria (on No Fly List) Tries to Blow Up Northwest Airlines Flight

 

http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=8869.new#new

 

I just don't know how to call which way things will go, or what- if anything-- we can do, no matter what.

The arrogant behavior tells you a lot about politicians- normally even the worst listen to blocks of voters-- there has to be a reason they are confident they can ignore them.

Maybe it's vote fraud, maybe it's naturalizing 20-36 million illegal aliens ( who will bring along at least one more adult and a few children ), maybe it's realizing that once HealthScare has the power of life & death, people will be beholden and cowed. Maybe it's banking on the pure oppressive nature of the government, which in my opinion is becoming downright fascist.

DamnifIknow, anymore. Miss Emily & I are at sea, trying to figure out how to support ourselves, and survive personally.

I sure hope something turns up, to turn us around, because the direction we are going scares me to near to death....

 

It just beats the snot out of me, What To Do Next?  The Republicans really are The Stupid ( and cowardly, and corrupt ) Party-- the Dems, Evil, and too clever by half with our American Idol/Survivor! worshipping voters.

Far too many people are content if they get fed, laid, and entertained regularly-- they can't see the train wreck coming when all the bills come due, or "we run out of other people's money..."

In my own family, my wife was a near-fanatical Sarah supporter from the first time she heard her speak ( I had been rooting for her for some time, but never mentioned it )-- her brother?

An O-bot from the start. Businessman, father, not a bad guy, but a middle-aged hippy at heart, he'll never admit his sole reason was "making me feel good about myself by voting for the cool new black dude."

Even he seems to sense something amiss-- at Christmas dinner, he was rambling on about the lack of transparency and "we don't know who the Secretary of State even is...."
( Yeah, I know- can't he read? )
I take this as "realizing I may have been fooled, but I really won't admit it."

Still, two siblings, same family, same educational background-- poles apart.

Much like the damn country.

I wish we could break it up into

1)- Nanny-staters who want the government to take care of them, and
2)- the rest of us, who just want to be left alone-- Hell, I'd embrace the gays & dopers if they were on board with that...

But unfortunately, the former group has to have the latter's money, so it is not likely. Damn it.

[backhoe]

Terrorist Attempt Update: Bomb Was Incendiary, Comprised of Mixed Liquids; Obama Only Notified Three Hours After Incident

—Ace

AHFF Geoff noticed the WaPo editing its story to help Obama a touch.

First the article read:

A White House official said the incident was an attempted act of terrorism. The FBI is investigating and President Obama, celebrating Christmas in Hawaii, was told of the incident about three hours after the plane landed, officials said.

Well, we can't have Captain Wonderful being mocked like Bush was. So the new sentence:

The FBI is investigating the incident. President Obama, celebrating Christmas in Hawaii, was informed about it, a spokesman said, and he asked his aides to ensure that all measures are in place to provide security for air travel.

Elsewhere in the story they do say...

Obama was alerted to Friday's incident between 9 and 9:30 a.m. in Hawaii, which is five hours behind the East Coast.

...which still works out to a two to two and a half hour delay in informing the Savior of Man, but now they make you work out the math on your own.

I think Obama's people called and demanded the edit, don't you?

More:

A Nigerian man, claiming to be linked to al-Qaeda, allegedly tried to set off an incendiary device aboard a transatlantic airplane Friday as it descended toward Detroit's airport in what the White House called an attempted act of terrorism.

The man was quickly subdued after another passenger leapt on top of him, others on the plane said, and Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam landed safely around 1 p.m. Friday. The suspect was being treated at a hospital for burns he suffered while igniting the device...

The suspect[,] Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab[,] 23, attends University College London, where he studies engineering.

Although not on the TSA's "no-fly" list, Abdulmutallab's name appears to be included in the government's records of terrorism suspects, according to a preliminary review, authorities said.

Abdulmutallab has told federal investigators that he had ties to al-Qaeda and traveled to Yemen to collect the incendiary device and instructions on how to use it, according to a federal counterterrorism official briefed on the case. Authorities have yet to verify the claim, and they expect to conduct several more interviews before they determine whether he is credible, the official said.

Federal authorities have been told that Abdulmutallab allegedly had taped some material to his leg, then used a syringe to mix chemicals with the powder while on the airplane, one official said.

But doing so "caused him to catch on fire," Richelle Keepman, who sat a few rows in front of Abdulmutallab, told WDIV-TV.

...

Officials described the device as incendiary rather than explosive, pending tests by forensics experts at the FBI. Incendiary devices generally deliver less of an impact than explosive devices.

I blew this story off because Hot Air was reporting that officials were walking it back and calling the device mere "firecrackers."

This seems pretty far from the truth, and it doesn't seem like an error someone would make.

So I'd really like to know who the hell started putting out the word to the media that this was just a matter of some "firecrackers."

AHFF Geoff also notes the three hour gap that went missing in the WaPo piece also shows up in a Politico article:

White House spokesman Bill Burton said President Obama, on vacation in Hawaii, was informed of the incident about three hours after the plane landed.

He (Geoff) points out the possibility of multiple attacks, possibly requiring fast reaction. So why was the President allowed to snooze in Hawaii undisturbed?

I'm trying to not get too partisan about this, but it sure seems to me that this evidences a casualness about terrorist incidents that seems pretty dangerous.

TERRORIST THREAT LEVEL RAISED! All the way from "Don't Worry, Be Happy" to "Hakuna Matada."

Posted by Ace at 01:32 AM New Comments Thingy

 

5 Thanks for the update, ace. The right should consider playing the lefts' game of "investigations" into terrorism preparedness, when Obama knew and who else knew what, how/when he reacted...

 

 Passenger Lights Explosive on Delta Flight

 

RedDog wrote:

Damned Lutherans run amuck again.

Naw, it's got to be those rowdy Amish, again...

Officials: Possible terror attack on Northwest jet

"This is no small incident. The perp has 3rd degree burns and purposely waited until until over American soil to try to bring down the plane on Christmas day."

 

Does that mean they're going to increase screening for Muslims, or that they will continue to treat all air travelers as potential terrorists?

/rhetorical question

This is One of The Great Briefs I hold against the Bush administration. ( And yes, I voted for the guy twice )

Instead of creating the vast and worthless Homeland Security bureaucracy, they should have gone to Israel and said "send us you best El Al guys, and show us how it's done."

Idjits...

 

Muslim Tried To Blow Up Plane To Detroit

December 25th, 2009

From ABC News:

[AP caption: This picture provided by J.P. Karas shows Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on the runway after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Amsterdam on Friday, Dec. 25, 2009. A passenger aboard the plane set off firecrackers Friday, causing a commotion and some minor injuries, a Delta official said. Delta and Northwest have merged.]

Man Attempts to Set Off Explosives on Plane

Two Injured in Northwest Airlines Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit

By RICHARD ESPOSITO and SCOTT MAYEROWITZ
Dec. 25, 2009

Federal officials and police are interviewing a Nigerian man, who allegedly tried to "explode" a powdery substance aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, injuring himself and two other passengers, law enforcement officials said.

The man said he was directed by al Qaeda to explode a small device in flight, over U.S. soil, ABC News has learned. Authorities have no corroboration of that information and the credibility of the suspect’s statements are being questioned, officials said.

"The subject is claiming to have extremist affiliation and that the device was acquired in Yemen along with instructions as to when it should be used," a federal situational awareness bulletin added.

Northwest Airlines flight 253 landed safely in Detroit at 11:53 a.m. The man, whose flight started in Nigeria before stopping in Amsterdam, was taken into custody at the Detroit airport and was interviewed by authorities there. He was then taken to an area hospital to be treated for burns.

Delta spokeswoman Susan Chana Elliott said that "as the plane was getting ready to land" in Detroit "a passenger caused a disturbance" by trying to ignite what was reported to be firecrackers.

The man was "subdued immediately," Elliott said. Northwest is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta.

An in-flight emergency was declared when a fire indicator light when on in the cockpit, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The pilot asked for airport rescue and firefighting services and for law enforcement to meet the flight at gate, the TSA said.

It is unclear how powerful the explosive could have been and what the man’s intentions were. Initial reports were that fireworks or firecrackers had gone off on the plane.

The man suffered second-degree burns, which is consistent with a small fireworks device, police sources said.

Weirdly, the print version of the same ABC News story reads:

Man Attempts to Set Off Explosives on Plane

By RICHARD ESPOSITO, PIERRE THOMAS and SCOTT MAYEROWITZ

Dec. 25, 2009—Federal officials and police are interviewing a man, believed to be Nigerian, who allegedly was trying to ignite a powdery substance today aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

Northwest Airlines flight 253 landed safely in Detroit at 11:42 a.m. Only two passengers suffered minor injuries, according to law enforcement officials. The man is in custody at the airport and being interviewed by authorities.

It is unclear how powerful the explosive could have been and what the man’s intentions were. Initial reports were that fireworks or firecrackers had gone off on the plane.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Sandra R. Berchtold from the Detroit office confirmed that the FBI was at the airport but would not comment further.

The Transportation Security Administration, which handles aircraft and airplane safety, said it would be issuing a statement on the incident shortly.

The aircraft was an Airbus A330-200, twin jet carrying 178 passengers.

So why would ABC News rewrite it so?

  Update!

From an disappointed Associated Press:

AP sources: Al-Qaida link in failed plane attack

By Larry Margasak And Lara Jakes, Associated Press Writer

December 25, 2009

WASHINGTON – A Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria, who said he was acting on al-Qaida’s instructions, tried to blow up the plane Friday as it was landing in Detroit, law enforcement and national security officials said.

Passengers subdued the man and may have prevented him from detonating the explosives, the officials said.

"We believe this was an attempted act of terrorism," a White House official said.

Federal officials imposed stricter screening measures after the incident.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., ranking GOP member of the House Homeland Security Committee, identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad, a Nigerian. King said the flight began in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit. There were 278 passengers aboard the Airbus 330…

One of the U.S. intelligence officials said the explosive device was a mix of powder and liquid. It failed when the passenger tried to detonate it…

All the sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing.

One law enforcement source said the man claimed to have been instructed by al-Qaida to detonate the plane over U.S. soil.

The official said an official determination of a terrorist act would have to come from the attorney general.

The official added that additional security measures are being taken without raising the airline threat level.

The official declined to describe what additional measures law enforcement was taking.

The White House was coordinating briefings for the president through the Homeland Security Department, the Transportation Security Administration and the FBI.

A law enforcement source said the explosives may have been strapped to the man’s body but investigators weren’t immediately certain, partly because of the struggle with other passengers…

President Barack Obama was notified of the incident and discussed it with security officials, the White House said. It said he is monitoring the situation and receiving regular updates from his vacation spot in Hawaii…

"We encourage those with future travel plans to stay in touch with their airline and to visit http://www.tsa.gov for updates," Homeland Security Department said in a statement.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been briefed on the incident and is closely monitoring the situation.

The department encouraged travelers to be observant and aware of their surroundings and report any suspicious behavior to law enforcement officials.

Why didn’t the White House official tell us that the perpetrator is a Muslim?

(Just kidding.)

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"...can’t wait for our health care to be managed with this kind of oversight."

 

It’s getting better; various news sources are saying that the man was listed on the no-fly list.

So much for TSA security. (Remember that even though the plane boarded overseas, TSA is ultimately responsible for the security of all aircraft entering the United States.)

The Wall Street Journal has a great article up now, and doesn’t mince words in its headline:

Midair Bomb Attempt Fails

By Peter Speigel, Cam Simpson and Neal E. Boudette

DETROIT– A passenger on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight tried to detonate an explosive device that was strapped to his leg and later told investigators that he was trying to blow up the plane and had affiliations with al Qaeda, according to a senior U.S. official.

The passenger was identified by authorities as Abdul Mudallad, a 23-year-old Nigerian national, according to Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican who is the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee.

The device was technologically advanced and potentially devastating, Mr. King said. “This was not a firecracker,” he said.

Stephanie van Herk, a passenger from the Netherlands who was in seat 18B, said the Northwest plane had lowered its landing gear when she heard a loud bang. At first she thought the plane might have gotten a flat tire, but then she said saw a flame leap from the lap of a man sitting in the row behind her in the window seat, 19A.

“It was higher than the seat,” said Ms. van Herk, who was traveling to Detroit on route to a vacation in New York.

“Then everyone started screaming. It was panic,” Ms. van Herk, 22 years old, said. She said the flight attendants shouted, “What are you doing? What are you doing?”

Mr. King said the suspect’s name did not appear on any of the terrorist watch lists maintained by U.S. authorities, but that the Nigerian national did turn up “hot” in other terrorism-related databases maintained by intelligence officials.

Mr. Mudallad suffered 3rd-degree burns when the device detonated on approach to Detroit, according to Mr. King. He said none of the other passengers was seriously injured.

The man told investigators that he was given the device by al Qaeda operatives in Yemen, where he was also given instructions on how to detonate it, the U.S. official said.

“This guy claims he is tied to al Qaeda, specifically in Yemen,” the official said. “He claims he was on orders from al Qaeda in Yemen.” …

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....05369.html

The article continues:

“There’s definitely a terrorist nexus — that’s the term being used by the people I’m talking to in Washington,” Mr. King said following his briefings Friday. He would not say, however, whether there was a direct link to al Qaeda.

Mr. King said authorities were scrambling to find out where a security breach might have occurred. The plane departed from Lagos, Nigeria, and had a stopover in Amsterdam before flying to Detroit, according to Mr. King. He also said there was no intelligence indicating it was part of a wider plot involving other attempted attacks, but that authorities weren’t taking any chances.

So he was able to get it on the plane in Nigeria, and then pass through security in Amsterdam with the device as well.

So much for... airport "security..."

Read the discussion here:

Earlier the BBC had described the event as involving “firecrackers”.

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"Merry Christmas from the Religion of Pieces…er Peace."

"I guess we are really lucky that since January 20, 2009 that there is no such thing as Terrorism, or war on its practicioners. Further that Al Quada is no longer a threat. Otherwise, that might have been yet another “unprecedented” event."

31. Palinista:

HOW MANY TERRORIST ACTS HAVE WE HAD SINCE BIG O GOT TO POWER?
2 plots in New York
4 dead policemen in Washington State
servicemen killed in Arkansas recruiting office
14 dead Servicemen and women in Ft. Hood(1 unborn baby)
and today’s attempt to blow a plane

Bravo to the Commies and Muslim lovers in power.

helloooo….at least President Bush kept us safe after 9/11

[A quick review]

“Reid was arrested on the ground while the rest of the passengers were bussed to the main terminal. Authorities later found over 100 grams of plastic TATP and PETN hidden in the hollowed soles of his black basketball shoes…”

Richard Ried
http://tinyurl.com/ybz8pkn

Liquid explosives
http://tinyurl.com/y9xobja

Bojinka plot and Ramzi Mohammed Yousef

‘…He talked about the bombs. “Nobody can think that it’s… explosive”, he said, referring to the watches Ramzi Yousef planned to put on the airliners. He said that the nitroglycerin “which even you’ll put in the X-ray, you will never, nobody can” detect it.’

http://tinyurl.com/yb6uuo4

"...eventually they will pull it off as the London bombers proved. "

 

LESSONS FROM JOHN GALT.

Recent headlines seem lifted directly out of an Ayn Rand novel. President Obama decries the “fat cat bankers on Wall Street”. Harry Reid attacks insurance companies for making too much profit. House Democrat leaders call Tea Partiers “Racist, Nazi, Gun Nuts”.  How about this nauseating statement made by Army General George Casey after the Muslim terrorist attack on Ft. Hood?

As great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well

Each of these headlines might well have been uttered by an Ayn Rand character. Rand, whose father’s pharmacy was confiscated by the Soviets during the communist revolution of 1917, and who came to America in 1926, seems uniquely able to speak to us about the inverted morality of our times. Virtue is to be apologized for. Depravity commands respect. Success is cast as evil and punished while failure is blamed on others and rewarded. Rand’s insights into the psychological state of collectivists—those who demand that we sacrifice our individual freedom and happiness for the sake of the state—explain what often seems incomprehensible to thinking people.

Feeling Your Pain… Obamas Rent $8.9 Million Hawaii Home for Holidays

Friday, December 25, 2009, 7:10 PM

Jim Hoft

The president feels your pain.
The country is experiencing the worst recession since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate is at a 26 year record high at 10.0%. But, that didn’t stop the Obama family from renting an $8.9 million Hawaiian mansion for the holidays.

HotAirpundit has photos from inside the holiday mansion.

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"All paid for at taxpayers expense. Typical limo liberal. Punish working , middle class people, tax them to death, redistribute the money to illegal aliens, drug addicts, minorities of ALL economic status and lazy b*stards of all ilks that just don’t wanna get up and go to work on cold mornings."

 

George W. Bush went to Camp David where he spent
most of the time working... or to his HOME in Texas...
where he also spent most of his time working...

 

137. Langley:

This might be off topic.

I woke up this Christmas morning to find that my neighbourhood was an armed camp. Obama has come to Kailua. He has rented out three mansions down the road from me.

I can NOT go to the beach in front of my home. There are four navy gun boats in the canal. No one can paddle or sail in the canal. The sub-division in which he has decided to stay is now closed with concrete blocks.

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/assets/gif/M11490771225.GIF

If you do not happen to live in Kailua you get to see the rock star/lifestyles of the rich and egocentric version of the invasion:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/politics-15749652/inside-the-obamas-winter-white-house-17278811

Dec 25, 2009 - 2:45 pm 138. Doug:

 

Christmas Snow & Ice Blankets Midwest

Friday, December 25, 2009, 4:38 PM

Jim Hoft

Nearly two-thirds of the US was blanketed with snow today.
Ice and snow covered the roads in and around St. Louis this Christmas.

I took this photo on Highway 40 going west near Forest Park. A multi-car pile-up stopped traffic going east-bound around noon today.
KSDK reported:

MoDOT wants to urge drivers to use caution on area roadways this Christmas. Temperatures have dropped Friday causing freezing temperatures and icy road conditions.

Several accidents have caused temporary road closures. Interstate 70 eastbound is closed at Lucas and Hunt for a multi-vehicle crash.

There are several accidents on the Poplar Street Bridge due to ice. MoDOT urges drivers to reduce speed and use caution, especially on bridges and overpasses.

East and Westbound I-64 is closed at McCausland due to a multi-vehicle crash.

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Jim Hanson’s self-parody

by snork ( 111 Comments › )
Filed under Global Warming Hoax, Humor, Media, Open thread, Science at December 25th, 2009 - 8:15 pm

The one notorious famous climate scientist who has been generally clear of all of the Climategate sludge is James Hanson, Gavin Schmidt’s boss, and a rather odd duck, who’s done everything from writing rambling letters to the Queen of England, to advocating Greenpeace-organized trespass and obstruction of coal plants to writing obscene allusions comparing coal to the Holocaust.

He has a new book out, and the title sounds a lot like another book that’s received a lot of media attention in the past few years. The title is: Storms of My Grandchildren. Really. I’m not making this up. But what’s even funnier is the screen cap showing the top right menu item. I think this is a Freudian slip. It says “Beyond the Boo”:

I guess that must mean that he’s given up on trying to scare us all, and has to try another approach.

Back to the title. A shrink could have a field day here. What does it mean when this left-wing icon models a book title after one of the most iconic (and utterly phony) left-wing books of the generation? Is it just clever marketing? Possibly. Hansen’s known to be connected to a left-wing PR firm (Fenton Communications) that has been trying (without much success) to make a charismatic product out of him.

Maybe, but I suspect that there’s some deeper psycho stuff going on. Just as the author of the other book is heralded as a messiah, he too fancies himself a messianic figure. Not a general messiah like the other guy, but more like Jor-El. More of a prophet than a messiah.

The website is thick with hubris. What more can a narcissist want? There’s a testimonial from Al Gore!

When the history of the climate crisis is written, Hansen will be seen as the scientist with the most powerful and consistent voice calling for intelligent action to preserve our planet’s environment.

Um Al… the planet’s environment is space. We need to preserve space? Is that it Al?

And there’s more! The world renowned moonbat and self-made man Robert Kennedy, Jr.:

Dr. James Hansen is Paul Revere to the foreboding tyranny of climate chaos—a modern-day hero who has braved criticism and censure and put his career and fortune at stake to issue the call to arms against the apocalyptic forces of ignorance and greed.

Umm, yeah. Hansen’s riding on his horse in the night yelling “the BTUs are coming! The BTUs are coming!”. Well, I guess BTUs are British Thermal Units, so Paul Revere would warn us of their arrival. And they are tyrannical because of their chaos.

Oh, and the genius of  “the apocalyptic forces of ignorance and greed”. I thought this was supposed to be beyond the boo, and he’s talking hellfire and damnation.  Damn, those BTUs are nasty buggers, chaotic, ignorant, greedy, and apocalyptic. You wouldn’t want you daughter marrying one of them would you? And keep your sons away, because they’re HOT!

And then we have this Bill guy, whoever he is:

Jim Hansen is the planet’s great hero. He offered us the warning we needed twenty years ago, and has worked with enormous courage ever since to try and make sure we heeded it. We’ll know before long if that effort bears fruit—if it does, literally no one deserves more credit than Dr. Hansen.

I think Al already said that. You’re right, Jimmy issued that warning 20 years ago. In the US senate. You know the Jimmy Hansen who RFK jr said can’t get his message out because of all the censors? So, yeah. We’ve had lots of warning. That’s not what we’re waiting for.

And then we have Dr. Chuck (no relation to Chuckles):

If you want to know the scientific consensus on global warming, read the reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But if you want to know what the consensus will be ten years from now, read Jim Hansen’s work.

He must be the witch doctor dude with the ouija board, because he can predict the future.

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Is the mandate to buy health insurance constitutional?

Nope- it is tyranny- what happened to "choice?"

Jet fliers tackle bomber: Al Qaeda plot foiled in skies over Mich.

Terror Suspect Abdulmutallab is engineering student at elite London university

Obama monitoring Delta flight firecracker situation (but still catching those waves)

But, but...

they told us it was just a bumper sticker...

CAIR to Target 1 Million on New Years Eve, With Islamic JumboTron ad

Nuclear and Chemical War In The Middle East Because of "Climate Change"

The True Intent of Health "Reform"

Taxes start going up now, Medicare cuts begin after next fall's election, and spending for subsidies commences in five years. The price tag is not the first decade's announced $871 billion cost: It is $2.4 trillion. That's the cost of the tax credits in insurance exchanges, and the additional Medicaid costs the reform generates, over the first 10 years it's fully up and running, according to Congressional Budget Office numbers compiled by Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee.

(Excerpt) Read more at market-ticker.denninger.net ...

"A Sarah Palin Primer"

Four Short Classics of Ludwig von Mises

http://files.libertyfund.org/files/2200/Mises_1459_EBk_v4.pdf
Planning for Freedom

http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Planned_Chaos.pdf
Planned Chaos

http://mises.org/etexts/anticap.pdf
The Anticapitalistic Menality

http://mises.org/Books/bureaucracy.pdf
Bureaucracy

http://mises.org/Books/og.pdf
Omnipotent Government (The Rise of the Total State and Total War)

Proof That The CSPAN Caller Who Pranked Republican Senator John Barrasso Was A Hoax (Video)

Second Financial Crash Coming ...

Reasons to be fearful: Democrats face triple whammy for elections

Los Zetas and Mexico's Transnational Drug War

Four Short Classics of Ludwig von Mises

http://files.libertyfund.org/files/2200/Mises_1459_EBk_v4.pdf
Planning for Freedom

http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Planned_Chaos.pdf
Planned Chaos

http://mises.org/etexts/anticap.pdf
The Anticapitalistic Menality

http://mises.org/Books/bureaucracy.pdf
Bureaucracy

http://mises.org/Books/og.pdf
Omnipotent Government (The Rise of the Total State and Total War)

Proof That The CSPAN Caller Who Pranked Republican Senator John Barrasso Was A Hoax (Video)

Second Financial Crash Coming ...

Reasons to be fearful: Democrats face triple whammy for elections

Los Zetas and Mexico's Transnational Drug War

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Routine Turned to Mayhem on Terror Flight

Christmas Day Terror: Man Ignites Explosives on NW Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit

Posted by Kim Priestap
Published: December 25, 2009 - 8:54 PM

This is just coming down tonight. A Nigerian man who says he was working for Al Qaeda tried to blow up Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. Here's the story from the AP:

A Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria, who said he was acting on al-Qaida's instructions, set off an explosive device Friday in a failed terrorist attack on the plane as it was landing in Detroit, federal officials said.

Flight 253 with 278 passengers aboard was 20 minutes from the airport when it sounded like a firecracker had exploded, witnesses said. One passenger jumped over others and tried to subdue the man. Shortly afterward, the suspect was taken to a front row seat with his pants cut off and his legs burned.

The White House said it believed it was an attempted act of terrorism and stricter security measures were quickly imposed on airline travel, but were not specified.

Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. Others had slightly different spellings.

One law enforcement source said the man claimed to have been instructed by al-Qaida to detonate the plane over U.S. soil.

What is particularly freaky is that my dad was on this same flight only eight days ago on a return business trip to Moscow that connected in Amsterdam.

I'm collecting more information right now.

Update: In a report in the Detroit Free Press, Syed Jafry, who was seating three seats in front of the suspect, said that he heard a pop before the device ignited. Also, passengers were the ones who subdued and detained the suspect:

Syed Jafry of Holland, Ohio, who had flown from the United Arab Emirates, said after emerging from the airport that people ran out of their seats to tackle the man.

Jafry was sitting in the 16th row -- three rows behind the passenger -- when he heard "a pop and saw some smoke and fire." Then, he said, "a young man behind me jumped on him."

Jafry said there was a little bit of commotion for about 10 to 15 minutes. The incident occurred during the plane's descent, he said.

He said the way passengers responded made him proud to be an American.

Update II: Belmont Club has a lot of information, too.

Update III: This newest attempted terrorist attack has lit a fire in the belly of an Islamic leader in Detroit, who called for Muslims to cooperate with law enforcement so they can "'stop these maniacs -- who in the name of religion -- pursue these political goals'":

A local Islamic leader said he was disturbed by today's attempted terrorist attack in Detroit and called for Muslims to work with law enforcement to fight terrorism.

"We want to do everything we can to make sure this doesn't happen," said Victor Begg, of Bloomfield Hills, head of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan. "We want to be on the front lines to help law enforcement."

...Begg and the council helped organize an event today where Muslims and Jews worked together to help the needy in metro Detroit on Christmas Day.

"It's really depressing," Begg said of the incident today on the plane. "It sets back all the work we do."

Update IV: The Hill, via Ed Morrissey, reports that his sources tell him that the suspect "was on a list 'indicating significant terrorist connections.'"

As an aside, if you are at all familiar with the Detroit airport, you will know that one of the main traffic routes airplanes take on final go right over a number of neighborhoods and then over I-94. I've driven by the airport a number of times and what makes it so cool is that the planes look so close when they come in for landing that it seems as if you could open your window and reach out and touch them. It's enthralling to see. If this guy had succeeded in blowing up the plane, many people on the ground could have been killed.

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"The president is actively monitoring the situation and receiving regular updates. There is currently no change to his schedule,"

Can we say "My Pet Goat," yet?

 

-Fearless Reader has his own "My Pet Goat" moment--

 

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Homeland Security Advisory System

UNGAWA
Mooteekee Bawanga
Simba Simba
Hakuna Matada
Don't Worry, Be Happy

 

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/200160.php

links to video  which demonstrates the 'firecracker' characterization of this alarmingly concealable incendiary device. 

 

Watch this Video:

http://www.livevideo.com/video/B9BF2E8594CD4C89AA35D3DF3F53302F/how-to-make-a-binary-explosive-or-ied.aspx

How to make a binary explosive or IED

Umaru Mutallab's Son Identified as Delta Airline Bomber

Passenger Describes Heroic Effort to Stop Terrorist Attack on Northwest Flight 253 - Video 12/25/09

How al-Qaeda airline fiend used leg bomb and syringe

Scotland Yard Conducting "Raids in Central London" Connected to Attempted Terror Attack - Video

It Can Happen Here: America's "homegrown" terrorism was made in South Asia.

Kerry of Tehran

From the election period:

John Kerry- some selected, informative links...Click the picture:

Jacksonville City Council's 'no' voter not backing down

Safer Streets 2010: Turning crime around in a single night.

On environment, Obama and scientists take hit in poll

Taxpayer Robbery Gate

NASA Still Hiding Correlation Between Solar Activity & Temperature [Reader Post - June 2009]

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

Yet Another Attempted Massacre of Innocents by Muslims

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

For Islam, a Religion of Peace®? The Most Damning links-- click the picture:

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

Cross The River Burn The Bridge (Mark Steyn On Where We're Headed With Obamacare Alert)

Taxpayer-Funded Abortions: Massachusetts Leads the Way for ObamaCare

Poll: Do you feel better about your prospects for 2010?

Just for the record for anyone on why 2010 will be a tough year.

1) The expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts will raise taxes on all tax payers.

2) The new health plan will be the second tax raise (due to the above). We will pay for 4 years before we even see it.

3) The commercial market bust will happen. Already happening in Vegas. As Vegas goes so does the rest of the country

4) Cap and Trade will pass. Basically another tax increase on energy

5) Legalization of the Illegals. In order to neutralize the conservative vote in 2010. It's already in the works.

6) Carbon tax will happen.

7) The depreciation of the US Dollar due to all the spending in Washington DC. The democrats use to be known as tax and spend. Now they are print (money out of thin air) and spend.

That is what we are looking at right now. Expect to see a continual erosion...

The Mexicanization of American Law Enforcement

Rep. Hoekstra: Attempted airline bombing should 'connect the dots' for Obama

Official: Explosive PETN Used in Attack (Carried in Condom by Suspect?)

PETN was also used to bring down TWA 800...

As was reported here...

84 posted on Saturday, December 26, 2009

Terrorist Attack - Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab - NorthWest Airlines

NW Bomb Planned by al-Qaeda in Yemen

Suspicious Bags Found on Lufthansa Flight from Iceland

Benefits For Gays? Us Too, Say The Unwed [When Is Enough, Enough?]

How We Make Racists In America

Rasmussen: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (The Big Wee Wee is -16 today)

Liberal Media Bias: MRC's Notable Quotables of 2009 Are Here!

PETN was also used to bring down TWA 800...

As was reported here...

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Keyword database:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/flight253/index

Shoebomber index:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/shoebomber/index?tab=articles

IF THE SHOE BOMB FITS: Jules Crittenden on last night’s failed terror attempt.

Plus, the real homeland security kicked in: “Next thing you know everybody was on him.” Nice to see that travelers haven’t forgotten the lessons of 9/11, even if our leaders mostly have.

UPDATE: More here. And further thoughts from Dan Riehl.

 

http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=8892.msg71568#msg71568

Ht HA, Breitbart-Making binary explosives(scary shit):

http://www.breitbart.tv/online-video-shows-how-to-make-modern-binary-explosive-similar-to-flight-293-device/

Evidently he was wearing hot pants.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/26/investigators-terrorist-wore-suicide-underwear-made-by-top-aq-bombmaker-in-yemen/

BINARY EXPLOSIVES: FROM DISCUSSION TO IMPLEMENTATION

 

AL QAEDA FAILED. WHAT ABOUT US? Stewart Baker has ten questions on last night’s attempt.

 

CATCHING ON A LITTLE BIT LATE: “This Is a Frightening New Side of Barack Obama.”

"Yes, and while some of that rhetoric is over the top, more and more people realize Obama is not what they voted for. Yet thanks to a slobbering media we're stuck with him, for better or worse. And I fear it will mostly be the latter."

"I saw him for who he was and is. This man is a dangerous and bitter individual who is at war with America and now it would seem, America is at war with Obama."

Taking Work Home (Even When Home Means Hawaii)- [FR mentioned]

Obama plays golf in Hawaii with friends

Barack and Islam - simply gut wrenching

Detroit Muslim Calls for Islamic State Within America~Video

Our Culture, What’s Left Of It

Classical Liberalism (It's a good thing)

No statistically significant warming since 1995: a quick mathematical proof

26 12 2009

Physicist Luboš Motl of The Reference Frame demonstrates how easy it is to show that there is: No statistically significant warming since 1995

First, since it wasn’t in his original post, here is the UAH data plotted:

By: Luboš Motl

Because there has been some confusion – and maybe deliberate confusion – among some (alarmist) commenters about the non-existence of a statistically significant warming trend since 1995, i.e. in the last fifteen years, let me dedicate a full article to this issue.

I will use the UAH temperatures whose final 2009 figures are de facto known by now (with a sufficient accuracy) because UAH publishes the daily temperatures, too: Read the rest of this entry »

Steam train rescues stranded passengers in Britain where electric trains failed

25 12 2009

Both my father and grandfather, both of whom had connections to steam locomotives in their life are undoubtedly cheering this story(wherever they are) from the BBC. So am I. Inconveniently, it runs on coal.

In arctic like conditions, Tornado hauls the only train running on time through Britains big freeze - Image: Craig Stretton A1 Steam

Steam train’s snow rescue ‘glory’

Excerpts:

Passengers were rescued by a steam locomotive after modern rail services were brought to a halt by the snowy conditions in south-east England.

Trains between Ashford and Dover were suspended on Monday when cold weather disabled the electric rail.

Some commuters at London Victoria faced lengthy delays until Tornado – Britain’s first mainline steam engine in 50 years – offered them a lift.

They were taken home “in style”, said the Darlington-built engine’s owners.

Train services in Kent were hit hard by the freezing conditions at the start of the week. Read the rest of this entry »

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"Didn’t know electricity could freeze. ;-)"

"You know, if what you need for a hard-working steam-driven locomotive is a reliable source of heat, but people are worried about the CO2 emissions, you could equip them with a small and simple nuke plant. ;)"

Nearly two thirds of the continental USA gets a white Christmas

25 12 2009

I don’t know if this is a record or not for Christmas coverage, but it is certainly reminiscent of the winter of 1977-78 where we had similar bouts of cold and snow. About 99% of Canada has snow cover also, with some parts of the Pacific Coast excepted, and it appears that all of Canada’s Lakes are frozen as indicated by the “yellow ice” in the photo. Here is the latest (Updated for 12/25/09) from NOAA:

From the  National Operational Hyrdologic Remote Sensing Center here is the satellite snow depth map and the hard data on coverage: Read the rest of this entry »

Comments : 113 Comments »

Yeah, I know weather is not climate, but it's still ironically funny^

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MARK STEYN:

On September 11th 2001, the government’s (1970s) security procedures all failed, and the only good news of the day came from self-reliant citizens (on Flight 93) using their own wits and a willingness to act.

On December 25th 2009, the government’s (post-9/11) security procedures all failed, and the only good news came once again from alert individuals.

Somebody should write something on this phenomenon. Maybe even, you know, a book!

NEWS: Jasper Schuringa ID’d as Flight 253 Hero.

UPDATE: Related thoughts from Randy Barnett.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Byron York: Obama handles Northwest Airlines terror incident differently than Ft. Hood. “The White House wants the public to know that President Obama, on vacation at a luxurious oceanfront home in Hawaii, has received conference call updates and is keeping close tabs on the situation.”

After Passenger Saves Plane From Terrorist Bombing– New Rules Require Heroic Passengers to Stay Seated During Last Hour of Flight

Saturday, December 26, 2009, 4:24 PM

Jim Hoft

It’s an Obama World… Up is down, big is small, losing jobs is creating or saving jobs, and heroes are asked to be seated.

Yesterday, Jasper Schuringa, a video director and producer from Amsterdam, told CNN how he helped the cabin crew to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old who reportedly ignited a small explosive device on board the plane Friday as it prepared to land in Detroit.
The New York Daily News reported:

Schuringa said he heard a sound that reminded him of a firecracker and someone yelling, “Fire! Fire!”

He saw Abdulmutallab’s pants open and he was holding a burning object between his legs.

“I pulled the object from him and tried to extinguish the fire with my hands and threw it away,” Schuringa said.

He said he then screamed for water and pulled Abdulmutallab out of his seat and dragged him to the front of the plane.

In response to this courageous act of heroism, the Obama Administration enacted new policies today. The new rules will force heroic passengers to stay in their seats for the final hour of their flight before landing.

Related… Founding Bloggers has a downloaded copy of the charges against Abdulmutallab.

UPDATE: Reportedy the terrorist boarded the plane without a passport.
Hat Tip Prisca

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White powder

CBS News quotes officials who say the Nigerian attempted to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane over Detroit using PETN, whose method of “preparation involves the nitration of pentaerythritol with a mixture of concentrated nitric and sulfuric acid. The preferred method of nitration is the ICI method, which utilizes concentrated nitric acid (98%+) alone, as mixed acid can create unstable sulfonated by-products.”  Pentaerythritol is a crystalline organic compound that can be described as “white powder”, seen in this advertisement. CBS says:

The suspect in the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 used a highly explosive substance called PETN, a law enforcement official told CBS News Saturday. The explosives were carried in a soft plastic container – possibly a condom – though much of the packaging was destroyed in the fire, the official said. …

A high-ranking law enforcement official told CBS News that the suspect apparently used a syringe to inject a chemical into the powder, which was located near his groin. It is a technique not seen in previous attempted attacks and it’s possible that this incident was a test of whether the materials could pass screening and how effective they might be at causing damage, the source said.

This video shows the effects of one third of an ounce of PETN on a small tree.
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3. Alaska Paul:

PETN is an ingredient used in detcord, or Primacord™. It has an extremely high explosive velocity of over 20,000 ft/second. I have used thousands of feet of the stuff connecting various loads in drillholes for blasting. Powerful stuff, and does not belong on planes.

Screening is one thing, but rational profiling will go a long way to lowering the chance of a threat like this.

But, if you really want to minimize the threat of terrorism, then you go after those individuals and organizations promoting our destruction and you take them out with the method appropriate for the situation. You do not need billions to do this. If you want your civilization to survive, you must go on the offensive, and make it clear that those promoting or perpetrating terrorism will be personally hurt. That is the only way you can communicate successfully with psychopaths, who are incapable of empathy.

"Don't Say We're Violent, Or We'll Kill You"  

Religion of Peace keeps a running tally of Islamic terrorist attacks. There are far more of them than you probably realize. Quite remarkably, it required ten pages of screen shots to reproduce Religion of Peace's tally for just the last two months. Here they are; click to enlarge.

 

JANE HAMSHER: Why I Reached Out to Grover Norquist on Fannie/Freddie.

 

GIVE ME LIBERTY, or give me social justice. “This week our government chose social justice over liberty. We will get neither.”

 

IRS AUDITING fewer big businesses, more individuals and small businesses.

And, of course, the occasional disrespectful college administrator!

Catholic Hospitals Give Democrats Green Light on Taxpayer Funding for Abortions

Saturday, December 26, 2009, 4:44 PM

Jim Hoft

Dear G-d. It’s a done deal and those who value life lost.

Catholic Hospitals have signaled that they back the Senate’s compromise on abortion which will, of course, result in taxpayer funded abortions in this country. This gives the democrats in Congress the excuse they need to vote for Obamacare.
The New York Times reported:

In an apparent split with Roman Catholic bishops over the abortion-financing provisions of the proposed health care overhaul, the nation’s Catholic hospitals have signaled that they back the Senate’s compromise on the issue, raising hopes of breaking an impasse in Congress and stirring controversy within the church.

The Senate bill, approved Thursday morning, allows any state to bar the use of federal subsidies for insurance plans that cover abortion and requires insurers in other states to divide subsidy money into separate accounts so that only dollars from private premiums would be used to pay for abortions.

Just days before the bill passed, the Catholic Health Association, which represents hundreds of Catholic hospitals across the country, said in a statement that it was “encouraged” and “increasingly confident” that such a compromise “can achieve the objective of no federal funding for abortion.” An umbrella group for nuns followed its lead.

The same day, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called the proposed compromise “morally unacceptable.”

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A Year of Obama Love

by Speranza ( 33 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Media at December 26th, 2009 - 10:00 pm

A rather humorous (but rather sad too) recount of the “slobbering love affair the so-called “watch dogs” had with the political hack from Chicago. As his numbers tumble – it will only get worse.

by  L. Brent Bozell

The year 2009 might be classified as the year Barack Obama came down to Earth. The latest NBC-Wall Street Journal poll found that 47 percent approve of the job Obama is doing, and 46 percent disapprove. Those are not exactly Messiah numbers.

And that’s the big difference between the public and the press. The media do believe he’s God.

Evan Thomas of Newsweek has a way of summing it all up. On “Hardball” in June, Thomas explained that while Ronald Reagan was just a “parochial” and “provincial” president of the United States, Obama can lead the whole world. “In a way, Obama is standing above the country, above the world. He’s sort of God. He’s going to bring all different sides together.” After the inevitable furor, Thomas said he “wasn’t being literal.”

Read the rest.

In the same vein of Obama – Michelle Goodman wins the prize for for sycophancy in trying to make bad news for Obama seem like good news by claiming that many workers actually want to be laid off.

Or as Newsbusters puts it “The premise for this bizarre headline was that many Americans began to realize they were working for “slave wages” in jobs that were far too stressful, so perhaps the recession offered a chance to start over.”

hat tip -Newsbusters

‘All I Want for Christmas Is a Layoff’

Why Some Workers Are Hoping Their Companies Will Let Them Go

by Michelle Goodman

I was at a holiday gathering earlier this month when I heard something completely surprising, especially considering how many people are out of work (not to mention holiday cheer).

“Getting laid off before the new year would be a holiday gift,” Matthew, a software project manager from Boston, told me over eggnog.

“Morale in my department is nonexistent,” said the exasperated employee, who’s survived two rounds of layoffs this year. “Meanwhile, the workload grows and grows. I’ve been putting in 15 extra hours a week since the summer with no relief in sight. It’s not like I can afford to leave though, not in this job market.”

Instead, Matthew, whose employer offers long-term employees a generous severance package (we’re talking months and months), said praying for a layoff is his best option.

But he’s not the only one who views collecting unemployment checks and severance pay as the key to sanity and solvency. My inbox is sprinkled with e-mails from embittered employees who say they’re hoping Santa gives them the old heave ho this Christmas.

Read the rest here

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Too Funny. Far Left Finally Discovers Obama Is a Weak Leader

Saturday, December 26, 2009, 11:28 PM

Jim Hoft

After a year of disastrous policies, skyrocketing unemployment numbers, and tripling of the national deficit, the Far Left has finally realized that President Pantywaist sucks as a leader.

The kooks at Fire Dog Lake were looking for some sort of Churchillian “progressive” but wound up with a 21st century Chamberlain instead.

The times call for a leader of Churchillian or Rooseveltian magnitude; what we have instead is a cautious risk-averse manager. Bold progressives must fill the leadership vacuum in order to restore and support a vibrant US middle class…

BHO’s decision to embrace modest stimulus enraged libertarians and conservatives who wanted to let the Free Market reign and disappointed progressive liberals who identified the need for a momentous government employment initiative that would restart and sustain the nation’s economic engine while preparing our infrastructure for the next generation in a changing energy environment.

BHO’s demonstrated personal need to achieve consensus during crisis and his failure to assert bold leadership on economic recovery and employment set the stage for the health care debate. In order to avoid alienating big campaign donors he allowed the playing field to shift to a focus on major health insurers and pharmaceutical companies (with their incestuous big bank brothers and sisters cheering from the sidelines). They were able, with the complicity of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, to exploit BHO’s self-imposed Christmas 2009 deadline and his apparently congenital aversion to conflict (expressed as the goal of a “bipartisan” bill, which he did not achieve anyway!).

It took a while but the far left has finally figured out that we’re stuck with a ditherer and waffler for president. Instead of a Roosevelt we get Jimmy Carter the sequel.
It’s going to be a long 3 years.

At least Obama still has the state-run media to fluff his pillows.

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SNUBBED. I predict it will get much worse.  "Mr. Obama did make history at Copenhagen, but not in the way he expected. It says a great deal about American power and prestige when international leaders go to so much trouble to avoid meeting with the president of the United States. The American Century is over."

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Seniors are America's new Jews

Every Democrat Taxpayer Protection Pledge Signer Has Broken His Pledge Now

George Soros and Obama: enemies of liberty

President Tops Off Day of Golf With Stop at Beach

Michele Bachmann Is Welcome At Tea Parties [She's In A Position Of "Rising Influence"]

Masked members of Britain's newest and fastest growing protest group intimidate [Muslims]

Anti-Semitism czar's first target is Israel (so absurd it almost reads like a parody, but it's not)

Arrow Trucking: Drivers band together to help those dumped by Arrow

On Totalitarian Sentimentality: What It Is, And Why We Should Fight It (STEYN story)

A WARNING FROM THE GUBMINT!

Young voters disillusioned as Obama's passion falters

Panel on Obama's Year in Office: Americans Realize they have Elected a "Left-wing President" - Video

High-tech vehicles pose trouble for some mechanics

Nation following state's lead with mandates (Romneycare goes national)

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How much of a failure is Barack Hussein Obama?

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 122 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Leftists, Politics, Polls, Progressives at December 26th, 2009 - 3:00 pm

History shows he’s in a league if his own.

After listening the hubris and ever-so-obvious narcissism of our man-child President, and his outrageous (and hilarious) claim that the first year of his Presidency deserves a grade of B+, I found yet another great article, from the London Daily Telegraph, that spells out exactly why he’s such a dismal, utter, and complete failure so far.

Why is it I can’t ever find this kind of reporting in our state-controlled media? Of course, this is a rhetorical question that we all know the answer to.

The following is not news to most of us. The mainstream media is no longer interested reporting and investigating the news when it comes to the failed economic policy of the Obama administration.

Of course, when only 7% of his administration have experience in the private sector (that’s not a typo, fyi), such as actually running businesses and creating jobs, this incompetency is easy to understand.

This, of course, means 93% of the morons serving in his administration have only known government or academia as a way to get a paycheck. Here’s a newsflash for them: These failed and tired economic theories and policies never have created a job or solved a problem, and never will.

So is it any wonder that their only answers for creating jobs- Spending money we cannot afford to spend, and raising taxes, have and will continue to fail dismally while putting us further into debt?

Also, the media refuses to show how the lives of real Americans are being affected by the bumbling liberal buffoons in Obama’s administration, and the bumbling duo of liberal buffoons, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, who run the liberal-controlled Congress.

The media are more interested in reporting and setting the agenda of what the Obama administration wants us to think, hear, see, and believe.

That’s not news or the reporting of news, folks. That’s propaganda, pure and simple, worthy of the old state-controlled newspaper Pravda, which laughingly meant “truth”, from the failed and long-gone Soviet Union.

Obama and his dim-witted minions, including the mainstream media, are all Marxists who detest capitalism, which has done more good to lift millions upon millions of people out of poverty, and detest the United States of America, and what has made and makes us the great nation we are, and, God willing, will continue to be.

Obama and his stooges have been such inept and pathetic failures that they have actually managed to make that imbecilic anti-Semite peanut farmer Jimmy Carter and the bungling clowns of incompetence in his administration look competent.

Who would have thought that would be possible, after seeing that train-wreck of an administration have their asses booted back to Georgia as the obvious failures of the highest magnitude that they were, by the American electorate and Ronald Reagan, after four years of mismanaging our economy and country?

Congrats, Obama. You’ve made the the useless look useful. The unprofessional look professional. the inadequate look adequate. The incompetent look competent. Hope you’re proud!

And to think that Obama and the stooges in his administration and in his media have the gall to call Fox News an outlet for GOP propaganda.

They obviously think all Americans are stupid and/or blind to what’s happening. We are not, which is why his approval rating continues its freefall toward oblivion, and a one-term Presidency, thankfully.

Then they also wonder why there’s such a disconnect between what the D.C. crowd and media sees while wearing their rose-colored glasses, undoubtedly supplied by The Zero™ and the equally clueless dimwits in his administration, and what real Americans see in their everyday lives.

Anyway, I’ll climb down off my soapbox, but before I do I hope everyone had a Happy Hannukah and Merry Christmas, and has a happy, prosperous, and safe New Year…Here’s the article. It’s well worth reading-

US voters give Barack Obama an F

By Nile Gardener

Barack Obama gave himself a B+ on Oprah Winfrey’s White House Christmas Special on ABC, but the American public is far less generous. The latest influential Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll of likely US voters gives Obama a thumping 56 percent disapproval rating – an F grade by any measure. 46 percent strongly disapprove of the president’s job performance, while just 25 percent strongly approve. That’s a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 percentage points, a staggering figure for a president just 11 months into his term of office.

These are historically low approval ratings for a US president, that concur with those released by several other pollsters, including NBC News/Wall Street Journal, who recently reported a 47 percent approval for Obama, and Quinnipiac and Marist, both at 46 percent.

The latest Gallup Survey gives Obama just 50 percent approval, lower than any president in the first December of his first term in the post-war period, with the exception of Ronald Reagan in 1981, at 49 percent, who inherited a country literally brought to its knees by the Carter presidency before later restoring it to greatness. Reagan eventually left office with a 68 percent approval.

At the same stage of their presidencies, George W. Bush polled at 81 percent approval, John F. Kennedy at 77 percent, George H.W. Bush at 71 percent, Dwight Eisenhower at 69 percent, Richard Nixon at 59 percent, Jimmy Carter at 57 percent, and Bill Clinton at 53 percent. Significantly, it wasn’t until his second term that President George W. Bush’s approval ratings began to sink to the levels currently experienced by Obama.

Barack Obama’s health care reform legislation is playing a major part in driving the high negativity ratings. 54 percent of voters surveyed by Rasmussen “believe they will be worse off” if the health care Titanic is approved by Congress, with just 25 percent believing they will be better off. 57 percent of voters now say that “it would be better to pass no health care reform bill this year instead of passing the plan currently being considered by Congress.” As the RealClearPolitics summary of polls demonstrates, the Obama health care plan is hugely unpopular.

The latest Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll reflects widespread disenchantment in the United States with the leftward direction Barack Obama is trying to take the country. As recent Gallup surveys have shown, America remains a predominantly conservative nation, with less than a quarter of Americans identifying themselves as liberal. In fact, the United States is shifting even more to the right under Obama, with a significant revival in the strength of the conservative movement. This poll should be a wake-up call for the White House, if it still mistakenly believes that a radical left-wing agenda can be sold to the American people.

Here’s the rest of the story.

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"He's the dog, who finally caught the car..."

 OT – if you’d like to listen to an interview with Martin Moyer of the Christian Action Network concerning those jihadi training compounds in NY state, please click here.

 

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1443479#1443479

 

Be that as it may, if that plane had disintegrated along its flight path, a lot more people would have died than just the passengers... the "Great Balls of Fire" ( HT: Atlas Shrugs ) terror wannabe should be sucked dry of information ( see "paralyze intercostal muscles" for the technique... ), hung in public, and buried with pigs...

I am dead serious, my gentler Canadian friends...

 

877 new snowfall records set or tied in the USA in the last week

27 12 2009

And that’s not all, for the week ending Dec 13th, there were 815 new snowfall records set. December 2009 is shaping up to be quite the snowmaker. Here’s a map showing continental USA records:

Continental USA Snowfall Records 12/20/09-12/27/09

Here is the daily count data from NCDC, with links to tabular reports  and source for the snowfall records: Read the rest of this entry »

 

 

more news on climategate
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1238638/Chinese-hackers-linked-Warmergate-climate-change-leaked-emails-controversy.html

 

First Legal Action Filed Today With EPA CO2 Endangerment Finding Challenged
http://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=153980&Itemid=65

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Terrorism? What terrorism, asks media?

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

Don't get around much, do she?

NW Bomb Planned by al-Qaeda in Yemen

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

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

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

I keep telling you all what it is...

 

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

Gang Violence On The Rise Across The Country

Atlantic Editor Lauds Lack of Obama Public Response to Terrorist

What Do Americans Want?

Nullification of HCR sought in several States

The devil in a red tie

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

LANDMARK DECISION PROMISES MASSIVE RELIEF FOR HOMEOWNERS AND TROUBLE FOR BANKS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We also know a lot about Earth temperature changes:

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

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

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

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

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

Contrary to many public statements:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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Another Nigerian Man Arrested In New Disturbance On Detroit Flight

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

Officials: Only A Failed Detonator Saved Northwest Flight

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

Video clip warned of terror attack

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

Fire Napolitano

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

MUSLIM MEN STILL MISSING FROM ISLAMBERG

Obama’s Real Report Card: F for Failure

 

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

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

PATRIOTS ISSUE THE FINAL WARNING: LISTEN WASHINGTON!

November 2010: Too little, too late

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

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

Left-Wing Frustration Shocking Internal Anger At Obama

Biggest Losers: Where Americans Aren't Moving

Thinking the Unthinkable, A California Bankruptcy

Apparently, Being Dem Means Not Having to Pay Rent

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

[backhoe]

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

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

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

MORE: Andy McCarthy:

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

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

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

Indeed they do.

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

 

 

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

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

 

Clown alert: Janet Napolitano says the “system worked”

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

Obama’s biggest joker.

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

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

 

Storm petrels

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YouTube Direkt

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

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

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44. AWM:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

47. Batman:

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

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

 

Oh!

And just BTW?

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

LIVE-BLOGGING the Ashura protests in Iran.

More here.

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

ANOTHER UPDATE: Meanwhile, a clandestine operation is underway.

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

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

security forces being stormed

the people rise up

more

and more

my life is only for iran they chant

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

Nation-wide strike starting tomorrow.Tweet it.

VIdeo: Regime car on Fire

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

 

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

• Honduras and Iran: Obama Betrays Freedom Again

• The Case for Iran: Fighting for Freedom

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

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

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

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

Most photos thanks to madayar

Deaths reported amid chaos and violence in Iran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Meeting bullets with sheer will

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

 

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

Video: Mousavi Nephew Dies in Streets of Tehran

UPDATE: Security forces beating women.

 

Iran 12/21/09

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

And!

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

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

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

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

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

READ IT ALL AT THE LINK^

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

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

 

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

 

DETROIT TERROR ATTACK “a major intelligence failure.”

 

“Complete and total beclownment.”

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

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

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

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

Model City

Video of Detroit at link...

h/t Dr. Roy

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

Check this one out as well:

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

www.forgottendetroit.com

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

Bush's Fault ^TM!

 

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

Sunday, December 27, 2009, 6:31 PM

Jim Hoft

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

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

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

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

Flashback: Charlie Foxtrot predicted this would happen.

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

 

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

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

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

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

 

Mutallab without passport?

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

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

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

[...]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So basically, we are stimulating the government bureaucracy.

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

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

Crossposted(*).

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

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

Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:25 PM

Jim Hoft

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

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

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

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

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

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New Democrat Voter Base:

Union Thugs Force Out Whole Foods CEO

December 27th, 2009

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

Whole Foods CEO to Give Up Title of Chairman

December 25, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CtW Investment Group – Who We Are

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

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

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

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

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

This is what the radical left means by tolerance.

But it is what most people used to call totalitarianism.

(Thanks to Debjeet for the heads up.)

Democrats' Narrative Isn't Selling

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

—Ace

Great post at Innocent Bystanders.

Posted by Ace at 06:46 PM New Comments Thingy

 

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

[backhoe]

Food bank visits go up in affluent American suburb

Ahh, Ø-BaNomics!

Is there anything it can't do?

A decade of high unemployment is looming

You wanted “change” America.

You got it.

California: Running Dry

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

Biased reporting on Climategate (Wash Times Ed.)

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

After the Bailouts, Washington's the Boss

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

Percy Sutton dies; His Obama revelation omitted from obituaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Coronation of the Messiah Award for Fawning Inaugural Coverage

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


Master of His Domain Award for Obama Puffery

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


The Crush Rush Award for Loathing Limbaugh

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


Damn Those Conservatives Award

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


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

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


Spread the Wealth Award for Socialist Sermonizing

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


Long Live Camelot Award for Lionizing Ted Kennedy

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


The Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin

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


The Un-Fairness Doctrine Award for Slamming Media Conservatives

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


Let Us Fluff Your Pillow Award for Obsequious Obama Interviews

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


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

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


The Audacity of Dopes Award for Wackiest Analysis of the Year

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


The Obamagasm Award for Seeing Coolness In Everything Obama Does

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


Michelle, the Media Belle Award

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


Media Hero Award

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


The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity

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


Quote of the Year

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

Baucus: Was He Drunk, Or Is He Stupid?

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

Residents fleeing liberal states

Flight 253 and Counterterror’s Epic Fail

Detroit explosive common, easily detectible

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

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

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

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

Unconnected dots, yet again, on a terror attempt

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

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

Czar Position

Summary >

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

Richard Holbrooke, AfghanistanCzar

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

Ed Montgomery, Auto recovery Czar

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

Jeffrey Crowley, AIDS Czar

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

Alan Bersin, Border Czar

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

David J. Hayes, California Water Czar

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

Ron Bloom, Car Czar

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

Dennis Ross, Central Region Czar

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

Lynn Rosenthal, Domestic Violence Czar

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

Gil Kerlikowske, Drug Czar

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

Paul Volcker, Economic Czar

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

Carol Brower, Energy and Environment Czar

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

Joshua DuBois, Faith Based Czar

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

Cameron Davis, Great Lakes Czar

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

____________________ (Replacement for Van Jones), Green Jobs Czar

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

____________________(Replacement for Daniel Fried), Guantanamo Closure Czar

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

Nancy-Ann DeParle, Health Czar

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

Vivek Kundra, Information Czar

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

Todd Stern, International Climate Czar

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

Dennis Blair, Intelligence Czar

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

George Mitchell, Mideast Peace Czar

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

Kenneth Feinberg, Pay Czar

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

Cass Sunstein, Regulatory Czar

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

John Holdren, Science Czar

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

Earl Devaney, Stimulus Accountability Czar

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

J. Scott Gration, Sudan Czar

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

Herb Allison, TARP Czar

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

John Brennan, Terrorism Czar

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

Aneesh Chopra, Technology Czar

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

Adolfo Carrion, Jr., Urban Affairs Czar

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

Ashton Carter, Weapons Czar

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

Gary Samore, WMD Policy Czar

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

Kevin Jennings, ‘Safe Schools’ Czar

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

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’ve Had Enough!

Penetration Even At The Pentagon: Muslim Spies Setting Muslim Policy

Investor's Business Daily ^

 

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

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

Czar Position

Summary >

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

Richard Holbrooke, AfghanistanCzar

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

Ed Montgomery, Auto recovery Czar

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

Jeffrey Crowley, AIDS Czar

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

Alan Bersin, Border Czar

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

David J. Hayes, California Water Czar

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

Ron Bloom, Car Czar

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

Dennis Ross, Central Region Czar

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

Lynn Rosenthal, Domestic Violence Czar

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

Gil Kerlikowske, Drug Czar

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

Paul Volcker, Economic Czar

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

Carol Brower, Energy and Environment Czar

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

Joshua DuBois, Faith Based Czar

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

Cameron Davis, Great Lakes Czar

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

____________________ (Replacement for Van Jones), Green Jobs Czar

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

____________________(Replacement for Daniel Fried), Guantanamo Closure Czar

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

Nancy-Ann DeParle, Health Czar

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

Vivek Kundra, Information Czar

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

Todd Stern, International Climate Czar

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

Dennis Blair, Intelligence Czar

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

George Mitchell, Mideast Peace Czar

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

Kenneth Feinberg, Pay Czar

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

Cass Sunstein, Regulatory Czar

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

John Holdren, Science Czar

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

Earl Devaney, Stimulus Accountability Czar

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

J. Scott Gration, Sudan Czar

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

Herb Allison, TARP Czar

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

John Brennan, Terrorism Czar

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

Aneesh Chopra, Technology Czar

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

Adolfo Carrion, Jr., Urban Affairs Czar

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

Ashton Carter, Weapons Czar

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

Gary Samore, WMD Policy Czar

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

Kevin Jennings, ‘Safe Schools’ Czar

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

[backhoe]

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

Why Do They Persist?

Subliminal Road to Tyranny

Obama Quietly Changes U.S. Immigration Policy

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

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

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

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

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

The New York Times even reported it...

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

This is why TWA 800 still matters.

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

Not so Liberating: The Twilight of Liberation Theology

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

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

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

Man Who Told of Obama's Islamic Benefactor Passes Away

Reaction Coverage.....Obama vs. Bush

What if Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Had Succeeded?

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

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

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

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

Revenge of the ‘Shoe Bomber’

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

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

[backhoe]

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

Suicide Bomb Blast In Pakistan Caught on Tape - Video

This is our future...

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

Yemen terror camps attract 'stream of Britons'

CBS News Goes Beyond Bias in Obama Article

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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UPDATE: Twatwaffle Andrea Mitchell plays the latest race card

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

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

Posted by Darleen @ 2:47 pm
Comments (25)

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pass it on.

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

Crossposted(*).

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

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

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

EXCLUSIVE: Photos of the Northwest Airlines Bomb

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

He’s now known as the “panty bomber”

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

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

Tornado to the rescue

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Climategate – the semi-prequel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cheers
Phil

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

Feynman continues:

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

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

Feynman continues:

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

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

Feynman goes on:

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

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once you see this you will be astounded!

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

30 years of Climategate in the making!

Mike C. gets the hattip for this one…

Why Global Warming Science was Doomed from the Start

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

Hans Von Storch on Good Science:

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

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

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

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Posted by Paul at 10:18 AM

 

Beware the Cold

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

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

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

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

Posted by Paul at 9:30 AM

 

Climategate - An in-depth Analysis

[backhoe]

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

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

—Ace

Fore!

Or, maybe:

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

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

Posted by Ace at 06:54 PM New Comments Thingy

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

Nero is surfing while Rome burns."

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

Monday, December 28, 2009, 10:51 PM

Jim Hoft

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

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

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

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

( "I don't care what anyone says- I ain't hittin' on a chick that wears the drapes and furniture..." "That dress doesn't need accessories- it needs end tables..." )

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

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

 

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

 

ROGER SIMON: Fire Janet Napolitano Now.

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

 

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

 

MARK STEYN: “Islam is bilingualism on steroids.”

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

  Obama’s Image: What a Difference a Year Makes

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

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

  by Ed Lasky

  The American Thinker

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Read the rest.

  Tags: American Thinker, Ed Lasky
  143 Comments »

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

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

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

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

  34 | December 28, 2009 5:52 pm

  citizen_q wrote:

  I am amazed that anyone was taken in by Zero.

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

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

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

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

  
   

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

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

The Associated Press hides its decline.

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

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

 

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

—Open Blog

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

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

(after the break...)

Continue reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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WUWT stories:

Weather records on the endangered list:

877 snowfall records broken last week.

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

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

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

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

Close it up

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

[backhoe]

The Tyranny of the Majority Party

Media Provides Obama With Coverage And Excuses

Welcome To Obamaworld: No Passport? No Problem!

It's the incompetence, stupid

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

Note the date:

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

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

 

7,608 posted on Friday, September 21, 2007

President Obama pledges to scour world for terror cells

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

Obama denies crotch bomber conspiracy

 

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

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

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

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

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

 

And!

Live!

From the Lunatic Fringe!

Islamophobia and the American Presidency (Hurlicious!!)

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

Trying To Revive An Economic Corpse

That Horrible Q3 GDP Report Was Even Worse Than You Thought

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

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

Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law?

The Wilding of Sarah Palin

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

Senate Candidate Martha Coakley OK with F*sting for Teens

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

LETTER: The Second Amendment and Martha Coakley

 

The Tornado that rescued the Chunnel stranded- note date:

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

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

 

8,568 posted on Saturday, May 31, 2008

GPS strands couple in snow for days

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Y2K and the Collapse of Modern Civilization

The Tyranny of the Majority Party

Media Provides Obama With Coverage And Excuses

Welcome To Obamaworld: No Passport? No Problem!

It's the incompetence, stupid

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

Note the date:

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

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

 

7,608 posted on Friday, September 21, 2007

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

LETTER: The Second Amendment and Martha Coakley

[backhoe]

Taking down Obama's ‘do not disturb' sign

Detroit terror attack: British university 'complicit' in radicalisation

Handling problems the Obama way

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

50 Grams of PETN - VIDEO

America Attacked on Christmas-Obama Votes Absent

Hmmm...Obama: Forests, Not Food

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

Plan to turn farms into forest worries Obama official

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

Criteria for an 'educated' person

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verus these statements on Obama:

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

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

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

Obama had close ties to top Saudi adviser at early age

Political Correctness is the Number One Weapon of Islamist Terrorists

Putin: Russia Must Develop 'Offensive' Weapons

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

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

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

BlogWarZ!

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

(Videos) Obama: Communist Stooge For SEIU and ACORN

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

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

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

Selected Tweets from Iran this morning

Old Boxing Matches

Senator Max Baucus denies being DRUNK during Senate speech

Obama Becoming Pathetic?

Obama Describes Nigerian As ‘Isolated Extremist’

Ten New Years Resolutions From The Brady Campaign

Survivalism Lite

Maybe it's time to post these oldies again:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verus these statements on Obama:

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

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