Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Obama & The Sum of His Mistakes..............by Dan Friedman
Obama’s political future, and his place in history, now rest on his ability to hold the consequences of his dreadful first term at bay until November 7th. It will not be an easy task. One look at the morning news leaves little doubt events are threatening to overwhelm him at home and abroad. But if Obama can pull it off and keep the lids on the cauldrons for just a few more months, the odds of hoodwinking the US electorate again and winning reelection take a quantum leap in his favor.
Hold on tight, gang, we have ourselves a political cliffhanger.
Multiple choice: Do you know what this is a picture of?...from Mike Haltman at TPC
See if you can get it right at The Political Commentator here.
Video humor twofer: Political (NewsBusted) and a pre-Olympic Torch Fail!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Political humor courtesy of a video from NewsBusted and a pre-London Olympics fail with a face plant on a curb by a woman trying to keep up with the torch.
Watch both at The Political Commentator here.
Afternoon News............
Syria Is Iraq
Mars One plans suicide mission to Red Planet for 2023
Turkey closing Syrian border to commerce, not refugees
Obamateurism of the Day
Iran warns 'hated Arabs' against Syria intervention
11 thousand Syrian refugees turn to Iraq
Obama Campaign Spokeswoman Smears Romney's Virginia Supporters as Racist
Latest Poll Shows McCaskill Behind All GOP Primary Contenders in Missouri
Romney Destroys Obama Foreign Policy Record at Veterans of Foreign Wars
NBC Uses D+11 Poll to Find Obama Up by 6
Top Dem Backtracks on Security Leaks Comments
Europe is sleepwalking towards imminent disaster, warn top economists
Bollywood star becomes first Indian to pose nude for Playboy
Iran offers a bachelor's degree in how to be a prison warden
Obama's character: The great American snow job!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
The President and the media love to castigate Mitt Romney for having been a successful businessman. But because it's a two-way street, let's not forget about Barack Obama's past either.
When the American public is shielded as it has been by the mainstream media from who the real Barack Obama is you get Gallup poll results like the ones in this article. Does anyone remember Reverend Jeremiah Wright?
Read the article at The Political Commentator here.
My wife left a note on the fridge.........
"It's not working!! I can't take it anymore, I've gone to stay at my Moms!"
I opened the fridge, the light came on and the beer was cold.........
God only knows what she was talking about!!
H/T Shelly
News................
Reflections on public killings continued .... by the way of an idle thought ....
Is the Groton Sub Base Closing?
Bloomberg: Police Should Strike Until I Get What I Want
Dianne Feinstein: On second thought, forget what I said about intel leaks coming from the White House
Interior Department opening up more federal land. for solar panels
Obama’s Ratings Dive
The Queen gives cider a rosy future at Sandringham estate
Security probe launched as boy, 11, sneaks onto Rome jet without ticket or passport
Top level British secrets 'compromised by Canadian spy'
Iran increases uranium enrichment activities
Syria army moves forces to Aleppo as battle intensifies
Cristina Kirchner won’t be missed at the Olympics following her foolish Falklands stunt
Fighting breaks out in south-east Tajikistan
Ghana president John Atta Mills dies suddenly aged 68
Syria: West 'could deploy 300,000 troops following regime collapse'
The Endgame in Syria Assad's Bloody Battle to Cling to Power
Insuring Ahmadinejad - Insurance industry, White House, Harry Reid attempt to weaken Iran sanctions, sources say
Iran’s Strategy in the Strait of Hormuz
China’s Coercive Economic Diplomacy
Christian Bale Visits Colorado
A full report: "'Batman' Star Christian Bale Visits Aurora, Colorado."
And other updates:
* "Holmes Family Statement on Colorado Theater Massacre."
* "Carol Chambers, Arapahoe County District Attorney: Decision on James Holmes Death Penalty 'Months Away'."
* "The Diseased Mind of the Rampage Killer."
The Disease of Progressivism: Bill Moyers' Over-the-Top Gun Control Rant After Aurora
I'm not embedding the video. It's disgusting.
But my response is worth sharing, so check it out: "In Bizarre, Bitter Diatribe, Washed-Up Leftist Bill Moyers Attacks United States as 'Arsenal of Death'."
Bill Moyers is so over the top he's about blast off to Mars. What a freak! He's contemptuous of the Constitution and he completely ignores the real facts of gun violence in this country, which I've discussed here in recent days. He rants about how the U.S. used to be the "arsenal of democracy" but is now the "arsenal of death." And he attacks the NRA as death's "enabler ... paranoid, delusional, and as venomous as a scorpion."
A complete asshole.
Beautiful Katie Holmes Gets Sultry Makeover in Fashion Shoot Just Days Before Divorce
Man, that lady is a sexy hot babe!
See: "Sensuous Katie Holmes Photo Shoot Just Days Before Divorce from Tom Cruise."
PREVIOUSLY: "Inside Tom Cruise's World of Hurt."
Yeah, well, I'd be in a world of hurt too, if that smokin' hottie dumped me. Sheesh.
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Watching the Greens Kill Australia
By Alan Caruba
Fortunately for America, President Obama’s effort to impose a cap-and-trade law on carbon dioxide emission failed in a Democrat controlled Congress that saw how disastrous its impact would have been in a time of economic distress.
It would have imposed higher costs on everything involving the use of energy and would have done so on the basis of the all the lies about global warming, greenhouse gases, and Obama’s anti-energy policies. Using the Environmental Protection Agency, he has been bludgeoning the coal industry and, via the Department of the Interior, thwarting the exploration and extraction of oil on all of the vast land holdings of the federal government.
As I have often noted, there hasn’t been any planetary warming since 1998 when Earth began a normal cycle of cooling and carbon dioxide plays no role whatever in either warming or cooling. It is a mere 0.038 percent of the atmosphere.
For several years now I have been watching the destruction of the Australian economy by its elected leaders. David Archibold, a climate scientists and energy analyst based in Perth is a visiting fellow of the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. where he teaches a course in strategic energy policy. On July 1, he gave a speech at an anti-carbon tax rally in Sydney.
“There is no doubt that we are ruled by evil men and evil women who are fully aware of the damage they are doing to our economy, and to the warp and weft of our society, and who seem to be in a manic rush to do as much damage as possible in the time left to them,” Archibold told those attending the rally. Sadly, they already knew the truth of this.
An Australia friend of mine recently wrote to say “the Australian carbon dioxide tax—or as our lying government calls it ‘price on carbon’—came into effect on July 1, 2012. Already our electricity prices have risen by up to 20%, refrigerant gas gone up 300%. Landfill and tip fees have increased by 30%, food is up. The tax has been imposed on EVERY item we buy in some form or other”, adding that “I wouldn’t be surprised if you get a similar tax if Obama wins in November. We are slowly destroying our economy.”
A word about refrigerant gases; these are required for your home and car air conditioning, your refrigerator, and for a stand alone freezer. Most food items, liquid or solid—particularly meats, poultry and fish—require refrigerated transport. The Australian carbon tax adds thousands of dollars to these costs of operation and affects everyone.
The Greens, whether as part of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or as groups in various nations, have done everything they can to thwart energy use, to replace oil, coal and natural gas with the useless, costly “renewable energies” of wind, solar, and biofuels. Humans, they insist, are destroying the Earth, but it is the Greens who are destroy Australia these days.
Australia is a case history of what happens when Greens and those in power join hands to use the instrument of government to destroy a successful nation. As Sam Fielding recently reported in an article on AmericanThinker.com, Australia went from a thriving economy under former Prime Minister John Howard who served from 1996 to 2007, only to elect Kevin Rudd’s left-wing Labor Party in 2007. By 2009 “a six year run of budget surpluses gave way to the largest deficits in modern (Australian) politics. His deputy was Julia Gillard who challenged him and won election, promised that “there will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.”
If this reminds you of all the promises President Obama made prior to taking office and plunging the U.S. into $17 trillion of debt, it is exactly the kind of duplicity that has ruined Australia when Gillard engineered the controversial tax.
Obama visited Australia in November 2011 and expressed support for the carbon tax saying, “I think that’s good for the world…I actually think, over the long term, it’s good for our economics as well, because it is my strong belief that industries, utilities, individual consumers—we’re all going to have to adapt how we use energy and how we think about carbon.”
As is the case of the IPCC, many of Australia’s scientists were corrupted. Archibold said, “As a scientist, what saddens me is that most of our scientific institutions have failed in their duty to serve and protect the Australian people” referring to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, government bureaus, and the universities—“these have all failed us and sold their souls for a handful of silver.”
“The notion of global warming,” said Archibold, “was concocted to provide a cloak of scientific respectability for a massive socialist redistribution of wealth.” If that sounds like what is happening in America today, you’re right.
My Australian friend also took note of a mining tax that has been imposed, not unlike Obama’s attacks on the U.S. mining industry. America sits atop enough coal to provide electricity for hundreds of years to come, but it is being systematically destroyed. “Australia is in a world of hurt and all so unnecessary. See what socialist, radical, green, lefty governments bring us?”
Yes, look at Australia and see what lies ahead if Obama is given four more years to complete his destruction of America.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Fortunately for America, President Obama’s effort to impose a cap-and-trade law on carbon dioxide emission failed in a Democrat controlled Congress that saw how disastrous its impact would have been in a time of economic distress.
It would have imposed higher costs on everything involving the use of energy and would have done so on the basis of the all the lies about global warming, greenhouse gases, and Obama’s anti-energy policies. Using the Environmental Protection Agency, he has been bludgeoning the coal industry and, via the Department of the Interior, thwarting the exploration and extraction of oil on all of the vast land holdings of the federal government.
As I have often noted, there hasn’t been any planetary warming since 1998 when Earth began a normal cycle of cooling and carbon dioxide plays no role whatever in either warming or cooling. It is a mere 0.038 percent of the atmosphere.
For several years now I have been watching the destruction of the Australian economy by its elected leaders. David Archibold, a climate scientists and energy analyst based in Perth is a visiting fellow of the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. where he teaches a course in strategic energy policy. On July 1, he gave a speech at an anti-carbon tax rally in Sydney.
“There is no doubt that we are ruled by evil men and evil women who are fully aware of the damage they are doing to our economy, and to the warp and weft of our society, and who seem to be in a manic rush to do as much damage as possible in the time left to them,” Archibold told those attending the rally. Sadly, they already knew the truth of this.
An Australia friend of mine recently wrote to say “the Australian carbon dioxide tax—or as our lying government calls it ‘price on carbon’—came into effect on July 1, 2012. Already our electricity prices have risen by up to 20%, refrigerant gas gone up 300%. Landfill and tip fees have increased by 30%, food is up. The tax has been imposed on EVERY item we buy in some form or other”, adding that “I wouldn’t be surprised if you get a similar tax if Obama wins in November. We are slowly destroying our economy.”
A word about refrigerant gases; these are required for your home and car air conditioning, your refrigerator, and for a stand alone freezer. Most food items, liquid or solid—particularly meats, poultry and fish—require refrigerated transport. The Australian carbon tax adds thousands of dollars to these costs of operation and affects everyone.
The Greens, whether as part of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or as groups in various nations, have done everything they can to thwart energy use, to replace oil, coal and natural gas with the useless, costly “renewable energies” of wind, solar, and biofuels. Humans, they insist, are destroying the Earth, but it is the Greens who are destroy Australia these days.
Australia is a case history of what happens when Greens and those in power join hands to use the instrument of government to destroy a successful nation. As Sam Fielding recently reported in an article on AmericanThinker.com, Australia went from a thriving economy under former Prime Minister John Howard who served from 1996 to 2007, only to elect Kevin Rudd’s left-wing Labor Party in 2007. By 2009 “a six year run of budget surpluses gave way to the largest deficits in modern (Australian) politics. His deputy was Julia Gillard who challenged him and won election, promised that “there will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.”
If this reminds you of all the promises President Obama made prior to taking office and plunging the U.S. into $17 trillion of debt, it is exactly the kind of duplicity that has ruined Australia when Gillard engineered the controversial tax.
Obama visited Australia in November 2011 and expressed support for the carbon tax saying, “I think that’s good for the world…I actually think, over the long term, it’s good for our economics as well, because it is my strong belief that industries, utilities, individual consumers—we’re all going to have to adapt how we use energy and how we think about carbon.”
As is the case of the IPCC, many of Australia’s scientists were corrupted. Archibold said, “As a scientist, what saddens me is that most of our scientific institutions have failed in their duty to serve and protect the Australian people” referring to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, government bureaus, and the universities—“these have all failed us and sold their souls for a handful of silver.”
“The notion of global warming,” said Archibold, “was concocted to provide a cloak of scientific respectability for a massive socialist redistribution of wealth.” If that sounds like what is happening in America today, you’re right.
My Australian friend also took note of a mining tax that has been imposed, not unlike Obama’s attacks on the U.S. mining industry. America sits atop enough coal to provide electricity for hundreds of years to come, but it is being systematically destroyed. “Australia is in a world of hurt and all so unnecessary. See what socialist, radical, green, lefty governments bring us?”
Yes, look at Australia and see what lies ahead if Obama is given four more years to complete his destruction of America.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
(Dan) Friedman’s Laws of History #1
Wherever and whenever Muslims reach a certain critical mass, they attempt to subjugate the adjacent non-Muslim community, using violence when necessary. It is an article of faith. A random walk through today’s world conflicts proves that beyond a reasonable doubt.
Ethnic riots sweep India's Assam, at least 30 killed
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Police shot dead four rioters in India's northeastern state of Assam on Tuesday as security forces struggled to contain ethnic fighting that has killed at least 30 people and left riverside hamlets ablaze, forcing tens of thousands from their homes.
Rioting between Bodo tribes people and Muslim settlers has raged for days in a region near Bangladesh. Some victims died of machete wounds, said aid workers who has seen the bodies.
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NB: No wonder this is one of the things the media, academia, the Arabs and especially Obama don’t want us to think about. Imagine what would happen to their Palestinians-are-being-oppressed-by-Israel sob story if we should all make the connection between the “Palestinian” Muslims’ terrorism directed at Israel and the rest of the Muslim violence against infidels going on simultaneously all over the world? Imagine.
Two words, or...one. You choose......................from Rico
Two words: Cloward-Piven.
- Learn it, love it. Might as well, since you're living it thanks to Barry and crewe!
Or, if you prefer....one word.
- Four more years of this radical Marxist and you can just say: toast.
You choose.
Who Foots the Bill For Israel's "Price Tag" Attacks?..................from Dan Friedman
[I mentioned briefly awhile back that elements in Israel’s internal security apparatus (Shin Bet) are charged with manufacturing “provocations” by “settlers” in Judea and Samaria. There’s no better proof of this than the outcome of these cases once the media lose interest and the accused are brought before an Israeli court. There’s almost never any evidence to support the charges and the suspects go free. Here’s a recent example. And as long as Israel’s internal security agency maintains its notorious Jewish section, it won’t be the last. df]
Israel National News, 7/24/12
Mosque Arson Suspects Released
Court orders release of 2 Jewish youths arrested Wednesday for allegedly torching mosque.
Read the whole story right here
Late Late News.....
Bloomberg tells cops to go on strike for expanded gun-control laws
Haqqani Network doctors LWJ page in propaganda on FOB Salerno attack
What the Media Won't Say about Frank Marshall Davis
Syrian Kurdish moves ring alarm bells in Turkey
Hickenlooper: Tougher gun laws wouldn't have stopped Aurora shooter
And so it begins: One in ten employers already saying they'll drop health coverage
Who Really Invented the Internet? (Clue: It wasn't the US Government or Al Gore)
Sanitizing Obama's Radical Past
A Tale of Two Shootings
Did Barack Obama Underreport His Income to IRS?
Obama's Socialist Job Plans For His Second Term Exposed
News Versus Propaganda by Thomas Sowell
Oh-oh! Obama Promises to 'Do Something'
Did Syria just threaten to use its chemical weapons?
Slain Syrian official supported al Qaeda in Iraq
End the Ethanol Madness
Report: Iranian Nuclear Facilities Under Attack By AC/DC Virus – Turns on Computers & Blasts Hard Rock
Bedtime Totty...........
Bedtime Totty will now be published at 22:00 GMT, I forget why it has been at 18:34 for the last few years
The 2012 Top 150 Conservative Websites: TPC is number 130!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
The Political Commentator ranks 130 on The Top 150 Conservative Websites list compiled by Doug Ross@ Journal!
Peruse the entire list at The Political Commentator here.
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