Friday, 30 December 2011
Has Israel Outgrown The Left?.............by Dan Friedman
On some mornings, NY Times readers can be excused for thinking they mistakenly bought the left-wing Israeli rag, Ha’aretz. Those who still persist in reading the NYT (count me out) have grown accustomed to its macro coverage of Israel, but in the past few weeks we’ve seen the New York Times reach down to the microscopic level, regaling its readers with stories of women’s seating on two Israeli bus routes, a small-scale contretemps between orthodox and “ultra-orthodox” Jews, graffiti sprayed on a few West Bank walls, and now, wait for it ...the coming bankruptcy of Israel’s left-leaning TV Channel 10. This is not “reporting,” it’s hysteria born of the knowledge that all signs in Israel point to a populace growing more religious and politically more conservative day after day. In other words, Israel is finally coming into its own, and on the left (here and there) that triggers an involuntary response closely resembling a cave of bats moments after someone throws a flaming torch inside.
NY Times to the rescue of a Netanyahu foe
Dan Friedman
NYC
Best government...............from Rico
Happy days!
Truly we have the best government money can buy!
- From 2004-2010 the net worth of Congress increased 15%, while the net worth of the average guy decreased 8%.
The fact that Congress presided over Wall Street's mugging and robbery of the Middle Class demonstrates that government no longer looks after the interests of the average guy, but only for itself and it's financial patrons (where do you think that 15% increase came from anyway?).
Repeat after me: "Muchas Gracias Padron" and now go get yer shinebox...
News...........
Snowbound over a cold winter with obama and madonna on beans, flour and lard .... the g.o.p. presidential primaries ....
Information Dissemination: Ekaterinburg
A Tough and Smart Marine Officer
Consensus « Neptunus Lex
Importance of Iowa Caucus Poll and Fast and Furious Poll Results
Pelosi’s daughter: My mom wants out
Requirement to consider gay couples for adoption forces Illinois Catholic Charities affiliates to close
Public employee union defends Denver cop who was fired for driving drunk at 143 mph
'Bumcrack bandit' on shooting spree
Consumers use do-not-track software
Recession 'to return' to Europe, say economists
Prehistoric brainless, faceless fish found near Britain
‘Nixon had gay affair with mafia fixer’
Bonds set for biggest losses since 2009 on supply glut
Hourglass figure not always healthy
New polls confirm Santorum's rise
Christmas waste can fuel 20 trips to moon
Security check: Car to recognize owner by ‘bottom-print’
Judge blocks Calif. low-carbon fuels rule
Why 2012 Is Even More Important Than You Think 3
Verizon: $2 fee to pay by credit card
DHS takes counterterrorism to the NHL
Syria: opposition prepares mass protests
Strait of Hormuz standoff: Iran films US aircraft carrier
China declares plans for mission to the moon
Russian nuclear submarine catches fire
Is 2012 the year Israel will bomb Iran?
Should Britain and the United States merge?
Mullah Ron Paul
Bombs away..........from Rico
You'd have to be dead not to have noticed the blatant 'bombing' of the precious metals market with large numbers of paper 'sell' contracts in a thinly-traded holiday market. Nothing has 'changed' to otherwise explain the past few weeks.
- Is there a new guy at the Fed determined to 'save' the Dollar?
- Has Congress decided to stop spending more than it takes in?
- Did O'bummer retract his budget increase request for another 1.2 trillion Dollars?
- Are EUropean Banks and Governments suddenly 'liquid' overnight?
Not that I've noticed.
You'd have to be clueless to not know that the two largest perpetual 'shorts' in the precious metals market are JP Morgan and HSBC. Both firms have substantial positions in PM's that are hugely-leveraged naked shorts. Both firms observe their end-of-fiscal-years with the end of the calendar year.
You'd have to be serenely naive (or a market regulator) to think the 'timing' of the bombing raids and fiscal year-ends for JPM and HSBC were merely coincidence. Both entities have a lot of money at stake here and a big 'interest' in window-dressing their financials for annual closeout.
If the PM markets 'unexpectedly' rebound after 01 January, you'll know this paper metals game is 'rigged' eight ways to Sunday......
The Grand Panjandrum of Pundits
It’s a little known event, perhaps because its participants want it that way, but as the new year is poised to begin, the Grand Panjandrum of Pundits gathered at an undisclosed location for their annual review of all the predictions they made regarding things that did not occur, all the events that did occur—taking them by complete surprise, and to exchange notes on their thoughts regarding 2012.
The philosopher Aristotle had it right when he said “Stuff happens.”
This particularly applied to the third year of Barack Hussein Obama’s extended vacation as President of the United States of America. He ended the year comparing himself to previous presidents whose shoes he is not fit to shine and whose bathwater he is ill equipped to draw.
On January 2, 2010, I wrote that I thought Obama’s life, at least in the chronology and facts that were presented to the public, was a pure fiction, make believe. By then Americans had experienced a year’s worth of ineptitude that left anyone paying any attention astonished. It was just one blunder after another.
Even more astonishing is that no court, no one in Congress, and no one in the Republican Party has dared to say that the man was and remains ineligible to be President. Plenty of other people have said it. My friend, Dr. Jerome Corsi, wrote a whole book about it; two in fact.
The glaring truth that no one wants to address is the fact that his father was a citizen of Kenya and, as such, the terms of the U.S. Constitution which require that only “natural born” citizens—those whose both parents are U.S. citizens—can hold the office of President.
When you add in the serious doubts over the authenticity of his birth certificate—declared a fake by document experts and the dubious authenticity of his Social Security number, issued in Connecticut where he never worked a day in his life, and you have enough evidence to send him packing in less than 24-hours.
Even so, the Democratic Party will put him on the ballot again to run for office in 2012. The legality of this is no more likely to be challenged than it was in 2008, though some are trying. The Grand Panjandrum of Pundits was left to scratch their heads and mumble about the strangeness of this.
There was one thing they agreed upon. Barack Hussein Obama is the worst President the nation has ever had to endure.
No other president even comes close. He is the first to preside over the first U.S. sovereign debt downgrade in American history.
He has been responsible for the highest level of federal spending (25% of GDP) since World War Two and, in a comparable fashion, the highest level of federal debt (67% of GDP) since then as well.
Employment is the lowest since 1983 and long-term unemployment (45.9%) is the highest since the 1930s, the years of the Great Depression.
The rate of home ownership (59.7%) is the lowest since 1965 and the percentage of taxpayers paying income tax is the lowest in the modern era. At the same time, the level of government dependency (47%), those persons receiving one ore more federal benefit payments, is the highest in American history.
Obama and his economic advisors have achieved this in just three years while others in his administration were authorizing millions in loan guarantees to “Green” companies going bankrupt with alarming predictability or producing heavily subsidized products that no one wanted to purchase. Others we’re told were unaware of a Department of Justice program to run guns to drug cartels in Mexico. Plans to shut down Gitmo were quietly shelved. The Bush-Cheney policies were quietly extended.
Within twenty-four hours of the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, Baghdad was besieged by bombings while the prime minister was busy trying to arrest and indict the vice president. You cannot make up stuff like this.
We are now mere months away from the Supreme Court hearing a case regarding the constitutionality of Obamacare. It is normal for judges who have had any previous involvement in a case or those close to it to recuse themselves from participating, but the Obama administration is so marked by a lack of ethics that his former Solicitor General Elena Kagan, now an Associate Justice, has still not announced her decision.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Obamacare, the federal government can require you to spend your money on things you do not want and may not need.
This is why the Grand Panjandrum of Pundits ended in a state of mass confusion and despair. Just like it did in 2010.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
Thursday, 29 December 2011
CAIR Shuts Down Bare Naked Islam
Well, you just can't criticize Islam!
See the full report: "Hamas-Tied Unindicted Co-Conspirator CAIR Launches TOS Attack on Wordpress-Hosted Bare Naked Islam (VIDEO)."
Late News............
Hippie of the Year
Maliki says ready to execute Iraq Anbar provincial council demands
A Perfect Wreck « Neptunus Lex
EagleSpeak: Hormuz Strait Word Games Ratcheting Up
CNN makes questionable claim that drone strike wounded Pakistani child
Star Creep « Neptunus Lex
Merry Christmas From Saudi Arabia
Law of the Sea Treaty enters the 2012 election; Santorum first in declaring opposition to LOST
New Perry ad in Iowa calls Congressional opponents “foxes guarding the henhouse”
Pentagon trimming ranks of generals, admirals
The Most Top-Heavy Force in U.S. History
Venezuela's Chavez: Did U.S. give Latin American leaders cancer?
Washington to sell F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia; deal to boost U.S. economy
Iran navy chief says closing Gulf really easy
Republican Voters' Choices
10 Most Evil Women that you Wouldn’t want to Meet !!!
Loose Talk « Neptunus Lex
Why ‘Manscaping’ Isn't Just for Porn Stars Anymore - Print View
Gulf Coast rebound defies Obama's doomsaying
New Year’s Auld Lang Syne
The Price of Freedom
Tea Party-backed freshmen face scrutiny
Petraeus Nearly Quit Over Afghan Drawdown, Book Claims
Egypt forces storm offices of pro-democracy, human rights groups accused of fomenting protests
Blonde Bombshell! Kelly Brook Showcases Blond Locks in Italy
The curvaceous hottie goes strawberry blond.
See: "Kelly Brook Debuts Blonde Hairdo at Capri Film Festival in Italy."
She's my fave of the moment. What a smokin' babe.
Texas Teenager Dies on Christmas Day, Leaves Touching YouTube Videos
See: "Ben Breedlove Died on Christmas Day: Made Videos on Life Coping With Life-Threatening Heart Condition."
The videos might make you cry.
He was a nice kid. He had God in his life and God came to him in some of his visions.
There are two videos, at the link.
Is Bibi Keeping Obama Honest?..................by Dan Friedman
I’ve said for quite sometime, the best way for Israel to motivate Obama to attack Iran is to convince the President that Israel is ready, willing and able to go it alone.
U.S., Israel Discuss Triggers for Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Infrastructure
Dan Friedman
NYC
News...........
Why 2012 Is Even More Important Than You Think 2
CDR Salamander: Ahhh, the Commie useful idiots are still with us ...
UN lowers flag for Kim Jong-il; rights group urges equal sympathy for victims
Saudis to Iranian mullahs: We’ll keep pounding sand
Iraq receives mortars from Serbia
Survey shows fear of post-withdrawal period
Video: How sci-fi fans put Firefly into the FIRE
Thanks for your Service « Neptunus Lex
Ticker-tape parde planned for Iraq vets? Not anymore.
Second look at the Soviet Union?
Female Marine: BBC Woman of the Year?
Caught by PTS? Can you say G’day?
Pakistan Border incident report published
Tehran's moment of truth
The World's Worst Human Rights Observer
Public workers' time-buying costs states
Does U.S. need an Idea Guy president?
Pakistan death squads go after informants to U.S. drone program
Christmas Solar Eruption to Hit Earth and Mars
Clerics clash in Bethlehem brawl at Jesus' birthplace
Shopping While Intoxicated nets online gains
Honesty Is Not The Best Policy — If You’re A Liberal
Hamas Head: 'We Will Lead Intifada After Intifada Until We Liberate Palestine'
It’s High Time for Conception: Studies Show Peak Times, Weather for Sex
Economists give Obama mediocre marks
Corruption in India: I was approached for a bribe
Samoa drops Friday from calendar
U.K. town sprays manure to keep away rowdy youths
Proposed New Calendar Would Make Time Rational
Financial maggots..................from Rico
CME Group - COMEX - MF Global - CFTC - Congress - Corzine
The system has become infested with financial maggots.
- They have been aided and abetted by Washington crony-politics and so-called financial regulators like the CFTC.
In the wake of the MF Global collapse and the open theft of customer accounts, the COMEX (CME Group) has been exposed as a platform for fraudulent price manipulation and the confiscation of capital by the kleptocrats who "game" the system, and thumb their noses at any rules, because they know they can get away with it.
The COMEX is no longer a useful platform for buyers and producers to hedge their risks and set markets based on supply and demand.
Rule #1 of the "Chicago Way" says: "Try not to think of it as YOUR money. All your money are belong to us."
- I think of this as an early step towards economic martial law.....
Romney Could Win Iowa
Everybody's talking about Iowa, where Mitt Romney has enjoyed a bump in the polls. And some think even a Ron Paul win in the Hawkeye State would be a win for Romney.
A full report here: "Romney Makes Major Push in Iowa."
Islamic Honor Killing in Texas
The story the media's not reporting.
See: "Islamic Christmas Day Honor Killing in Texas: Media Whitewashing Muslim Brutality? (VIDEO)."
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Hot Michelle Fields Blogging!
I had a couple of posts yesterday featuring the lovely Michelle Fields of The Daily Caller.
See, "Whoo Hoo! Michelle Fields Calls Out Hypocrite Statists on Tax Hikes for 'Patriotic Millionaires'."
And don't miss it, "Michelle Fields C-SPAN Interview."
That interview's lengthy, but Michelle's gravelly voice is heavenly, kinda like the beautiful voice of Angie Harmon, of the fabulous Fourth of July legs.
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