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Only 1 in 10 Europeans see US as an ally — study
3 hours ago
Monday, 6 September 2010
Caring until the next election.......from Rico
Record low mortgage rates, record low FED fund rates, and obscene Federal spending/porkuless have failed to stimulate our economy or fix record unemployment.
- Maybe the record tax increases coming our way will "git 'er done?"
Creative accounting (a.k.a. "pimp my balance sheet") thanks to fakey FASB accounting rules allowing zombie banks to declare unrealized losses as gains to help preserve the fantasy marketing group propaganda of "recovery" has NOT helped us travel any further along the recovery road either.
The Chicago Way of Government is sure helping a lot...a lot like cement overshoes help you swim!
Me? I'm endlessly amused as we approach midterm election time and listen to all these Congressional "porkers", featherbedders, crooks, and thieves trying to convince me to re-elect them again for more of the same...because Congress CARES!!!
- They sure DO care, at least until the votes are counted.
I have a CLEAR message for ALL incumbents this coming election day: BITE ME! You're outta here snookums!
Great Video: Dancing at the Movies
A collection of dance clips from almost 40 movies set to 'Footloose'. It is brilliantly edited. A great way to brighten up your Monday Morning.
News.........
Day 59 – 6th September 1940
The RCMP Diversity Liason Office: Building bridges with Muslim Terrorists
FEDS CONVICT TEXAN FOR SELLING A GUN TO ILLEGAL ALIEN WITH TEXAS DRIVER’S LICENSE
Please Omit Music (or Else) Iran's top ayatollah doesn't like it—and he's not alone
Lost Mexicans Invading Southern California Start Signal Fire: Over 800 Acres Burned
These Talks Are Doomed. Before peace can come, Palestine’s culture must be changed.
Senior Iranian cleric dismisses Nazi Holocaust as 'superstition'
Presidential Oval Office Carpets and Rugs Through the Ages
'Islamization' of Paris a Warning to the West
Betrayal of the heroes: Army to force out injured so it can recruit new soldiers
Fears over 'break up' of Belgium
Bahrain implicates Iran in plot to overthrow government
Gen Sir Richard Dannatt autobiography: 'the man on the ground has been short-changed'
NATO 2020: Downsizing Instead of Reshaping
Put Your IRA into Social Security.........from Rico
"All your money belongs to us!" - US Gov't
Yes, it's true what the nice IRS man once said: "Try not to think of it as YOUR money."
Uncle Sammy is 'broke' thanks to the Clowns-in-Congress, and is looking for new ways [change] to pay for it's parabolic shopping without a price-tag. Confiscating retirement savings [read: your cash] in a fake-swap for Treasury Bonds [read: real debt, worthless paper] "for your own good" is very possible.
Read the link below.
Put Your IRA into Social Security
New York Times Buries Hallowed Memory of 'Ground Zero'
The New York Times decided to use its major story on the World Trade Center Sunday to hammer critics of the proposed Victory Mosque at Ground Zero. Indeed, the Times basically claims it's time to bury the hallowed terminology of "Ground Zero" altogether. I guess that's just so much Bush-era jingoism in the new age of fealty to Islamist jihad.
See the full report here: "New York Times Slams Mosque Opponents in Report on 'Tangible Progress at World Trade Center'."
Plus, check American Power for additional commentary and analysis.
See the full report here: "New York Times Slams Mosque Opponents in Report on 'Tangible Progress at World Trade Center'."
Plus, check American Power for additional commentary and analysis.
Eliminationist Anti-Semitism, Right Here at Home: Al Quds Rally, DuPont Circle, Washington, D.C., September 3, 2010
Via Bare Naked Islam, "While Netanyahu and Abbas meet in Washington to humor the clueless American foreign policy decider-in-chief ... Muslim radicals and their diehard leftie supporters (i.e., Code Pinko) gather in Washington to call for the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel":
Here's the event announcement, "Annual Al-Quds Day Rally for Justice in Palestine and the Oppressed Everywhere." And the roster of speakers:
And at the Investigative Project on Terrorism, "Another Islamist Rally for Hate in D.C." Here's this from the YouTube description:
As Palestinian and Israeli leaders meet in peace negotiations just a few miles away, the speakers called for a rejectionist line on Israel.And listen carefully to Siddiqi at about 1:20 minutes: "Each one of us is their target and we must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Israel if possible by peaceful means." Yeah "peaceful," if possible. Professor Siddiqi is on the faculty at Lincoln University, Baltimore Pike, Pennsylvania. Just the thought of taking a course with this man, and people just like him, makes me sick to my stomach.
"The time has come that we must stir up our 'religious leaders' in this country to speak the truth about Israel," said Kaukab Siddiqi. "They must put their hands on the Quran and say that they do not recognize Israel as a legitimate entity. If they cannot do that, they must be branded as kaffirs [infidels]. It's as simple as that. Because the Quran says -- drive them out from where they drove you out."
As was the case at last year's demonstration, speakers spewed hate speech to a crowd dotted with Hizballah flags. Among the speakers was retired ambassador Edward Peck, and Mauri Saalakhan,
Salaakhan peddled copies of his book, The Palestinians' Holocaust, at the 2009 ISNA convention. It's a collection of essays including his claim that Israel was responsible for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and includes a defense of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Here's the event announcement, "Annual Al-Quds Day Rally for Justice in Palestine and the Oppressed Everywhere." And the roster of speakers:
Medea Benjamin (co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange)Cross-posted from American Power.
Edward Peck (Retired U.S. Diplomat/ survivor from the Gaza flotilla)
Rabbi Yisoroel Dovid Weiss (Neturei Karta International)
Chuck Carlson (founder of We Hold These Truths)
Hajj Mauri Saalakhan (Director of the Peace and Justice Foundation)
Imam Abdul Alim Musa (Masjid al-Islam, DC)
Imam Abolfazl Nahidian (Manassas Mosque, Manassas, VA)
Safiyyah Abdullah (spoken word artist)
Ebrahim Mohseni (spoken word artist)
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Worldly Shorties
Oh!
Gotta getcha shorty on!
Faster than a Speeding Bullet Dept.
Like a hot! player with full game on - Pierre Cardin? (check) haute couture? (check) wad of - uh - cash - big enough to choke a horse? (check) killer ride? (check) Wicked promises of an entire evening of neverending tingly tingling on the tang tang? (check) - xforms into more like 6 uncomfortable minutes of gymnastics that delivers nothing! What, wait - that's it?!!
News that violent violence has totally smitten the never ending forever quest for something something 'Palestine" - HAMAS rejectionists (Izzy Deen al K'Ssam) fire off some state sponsored free lance rocketry and get bleeding smushed up by Little Satan's deadly response.
Look for the double nom d'guerr'd Abbas/Mazen guy to jettison jankish jawflapping for peace over a Little Satan Apartment Complex (with coed swimming pool!)
One of the key tenets of wicked Realism and the ammoral, corrupt cult of stability's 'Realpolitik' in l' era moderne is a Palestine/Little Satan 2 State Illusion will magically blossum into peace, love and happiness the world over.
Oh Snap!! An amazing refudiation by Realpolitik's 2nd Best Apologist of one of realpolitik's crucial caches and the ammoral, corrupt cult of stability's ancient avatars of realism that may have Baker, Brzezinski, Scowcroft and certain elements of the Iraq Study Guys whirling in their dotage.
No surprise! Like divine daemoneoconic avatars psychically predicted eons past, seriously thinking people are 80% neocons - even if they don't know it!
A bevy of beauties, a host of hotness and sexyful diplopolititay commentary enlightened via Uncle Smitty with detailed deets and shout outs to Uncle Theo, AmPow and yours truly - and that's only the first half!
Pic "Worldly Shorties" with GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
American Underslung Traveler, Type 56A 7 Passenger Touring, 1913
More details and photos here: "My Buddy's 1913 American Underslung Traveler Type 56A 7 Passenger Touring."
My youngest son and I visited my good friend and colleague Saturday afternoon. He showed us his car, estimated at about $1.3 million, out in his garage in temporary storage:
And more blogging at American Power.
My youngest son and I visited my good friend and colleague Saturday afternoon. He showed us his car, estimated at about $1.3 million, out in his garage in temporary storage:
And more blogging at American Power.
The Sunday Best.........
Day 58 – 5th September 1940
Save Pachauri, end the IPCC
Natalie Portman, Naturally Lovely
THE STIMULUS KICKS IN: HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT
The Ground Zero Mosque — What Americans Could Learn from Israel
What has been seen...
Indonesian Muslims Protest Plans to Burn Quran
Oval Office rug gets history wrong
Video: Jack Webb Schools Eric Holder On Arizona
Ahmadinejad: Genghis Khan with a nuclear bomb
Army chief: How Blair and Brown betrayed our troops
Mafia cash in on lucrative EU wind farm handouts - especially in Sicily
Quango opposes crackdown on "Mickey Mouse" degrees
Hamid Karzai sets up 'peace council' to pursue talks with the Taliban
and finally........
And the Stig is...
Tony Blair — Radical Islam is World's Greatest Threat
Astute Bloggers breaks the story, once again. But see BBC (via Memeorandum). This is a feature interview with the former prime minister, on the eve of the publication of his memoirs, where he indicates that:
"There is the most enormous threat from the combination of this radical extreme movement and the fact that, if they could, they would use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons."Blair is consistent, and kudos to him for not kowtowing to the radical left's "war criminal" lies. In fact, Blair wrote one of the most important policy articles while he was still in office, at Foreign Affairs, "A Battle for Global Values." It's even more vital today:
This is not a clash between civilizations; it is a clash about civilization. It is the age-old battle between progress and reaction, between those who embrace the modern world and those who reject its existence -- between optimism and hope, on the one hand, and pessimism and fear, on the other.And what does that kind of moral clarity get you in today's upside-down world? Well, an egg attack, for one thing. See Gateway Pundit, "Radical Leftists Chuck Eggs & Shoes at Tony Blair in Dublin (Video)."
In any struggle, the first challenge is to accurately perceive the nature of what is being fought over, and here we have a long way to go. It is almost incredible to me that so much Western opinion appears to buy the idea that the emergence of this global terrorism is somehow our fault.
For a start, the terror is truly global. It is directed not just at the United States and its allies but also at nations who could not conceivably be said to be partners of the West.
Moreover, the struggles in Iraq and Afghanistan are plainly not about those countries' liberation from U.S. occupation. The extremists' goal is to prevent those countries from becoming democracies -- not "Western-style" democracies but any sort of democracy. It is the extremists, not us, who are slaughtering the innocent and doing it deliberately. They are the only reason for the continuing presence of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is also rubbish to suggest that Islamist terrorism is the product of poverty. Of course, it uses the cause of poverty as a justification for its acts. But its fanatics are hardly champions of economic development.
Furthermore, the terrorists' aim is not to encourage the creation of a Palestine living side by side with Israel but rather to prevent it. They fight not for the coming into being of a Palestinian state but for the going out of being of an Israeli state.
The terrorists base their ideology on religious extremism -- and not just any religious extremism, but a specifically Muslim version. The terrorists do not want Muslim countries to modernize. They hope that the arc of extremism that now stretches across the region will sweep away the fledgling but faltering steps modern Islam wants to take into the future. They want the Muslim world to retreat into governance by a semifeudal religious oligarchy.
Yet despite all of this, which I consider fairly obvious, many in Western countries listen to the propaganda of the extremists and accept it. (And to give credit where it is due, the extremists play our own media with a shrewdness that would be the envy of many a political party.) They look at the bloodshed in Iraq and say it is a reason for leaving. Every act of carnage somehow serves to indicate our responsibility for the disorder rather than the wickedness of those who caused it. Many believe that what was done in Iraq in 2003 was so wrong that they are reluctant to accept what is plainly right now.
Some people believe that terrorist attacks are caused entirely by the West's suppression of Muslims. Some people seriously believe that if we only got out of Iraq and Afghanistan, the attacks would stop. And, in some ways most perniciously, many look at Israel and think we pay too great a price for supporting it and sympathize with those who condemn it.
If we recognized this struggle for what it truly is, we would at least be on the first steps of the path to winning it. But a vast part of Western opinion is not remotely near this point yet.
This ideology has to be taken on -- and taken on everywhere. Islamist terrorism will not be defeated until we confront not just the methods of the extremists but also their ideas. I do not mean just telling them that terrorist activity is wrong. I mean telling them that their attitude toward the United States is absurd, that their concept of governance is prefeudal, that their positions on women and other faiths are reactionary. We must reject not just their barbaric acts but also their false sense of grievance against the West, their attempt to persuade us that it is others and not they themselves who are responsible for their violence.
Cross-posted from American Power.
Saturday, 4 September 2010
The Absolution of Barack Obama
Newsweek's Jonathan Alter just doesn't get it. See, "‘The Illustrated Man’." Obama's certainly socialist --- or neo-socialist, as Jonah Goldberg has explained --- and that's to say nothing of "terror-coddling."
Our maddening times demand that the truth be forthrightly stated at the outset, and not just that the president has nothing in common with the führer beyond the possession of a dog. The outlandish stories about Barack Hussein Obama are simply false: he wasn’t born outside the United States (the tabloid “proof” has been debunked as a crude forgery); he has never been a Muslim (he was raised by an atheist and became a practicing Christian in his 20s); his policies are not “socialist” (he explicitly rejected advice to nationalize the banks and wants the government out of General Motors and Chrysler as quickly as possible); he is not a “warmonger” (he promised in 2008 to withdraw from Iraq and escalate in Afghanistan and has done so); he is neither a coddler of terrorists (he has already ordered the killing of more “high value” Qaeda targets in 18 months than his predecessor did in eight years), nor a coddler of Wall Street (his financial-reform package, while watered down, was the most vigorous since the New Deal), nor an enemy of American business (he and the Chamber of Commerce favor tax credits for small business that were stymied by the GOP to deprive him of a victory). And that’s just the short list of lies.And of course it's not Obama's fault that these perceptions --- right or wrong --- stick like melted marshmallows. It's that like many things, there's another side to it. Language, for one thing. Obama just doesn't have the knack for appearing American, much less resoloute. I mean, he spent the first year touring the globe apologizing for America's allegedly racist, imperialist history. And on foreign policy, every big decision in the war on terror has been worse than removing impacted molars. Minimizing our threats and prolonging tough decisions on troop requests is just the start of it. Forget sympathy for sharia, Obama sympathizes with Iran's frantic efforts to get the bomb. And the bills are coming due. Worse than Jimmy Carter is a pretty accurate dismissal at this point, but we'll know more on November 2. Most voters are probably thinking along more pragmatic lines, like job-creation, and because this administration focused on such non-socialist agenda items like non-socialist nationalized health care over restoring the economy, the Democrats are looking to a defeat of bloodbath proportions. "Obama's Waterloo" is sounding pretty accurate these days, although folks dismissed the idea back in the day.
Cross-posted from American Power.
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