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Thursday, 9 January 2014

Bedtime Totty...................

The Battle for Israel's Soul Has Been Joined.......................from Dan Friedman

[Assuming Israel survives both Obama and Netanyahu, the Left's assault on normative Judaism will only pick up its pace. By now everyone who's been listening knows the "progressive" Jewish enterprise in America has been a runaway hit  - creating a zero sum game where only Orthodox Jews will survive (qua Jews). Then, by default, the fleet’s flag will default to Israel, which will become the final arbiter and the Supreme Court when deciding what's kosher or not. Alarmed by that situation (and still smarting from their "success") Progressive Judaism - an oxymoron and an American invention - will act as the vanguard for their coming attempt to undermine normative Judaism in the Jewish state. Desperate people do desperate things. Expect those who caused the Jewish death-spiral in the USA to pull out all the stops in Israel. df]

Cross Currents, January 7th, 2014
By Yitzchok Adlerstein
Believe whatever you want about the Israeli Rabbinate’s rejection of Rabbi Avi Weiss’ testimonial letters, the principle behind the invalidation is sound and important. It applies – and is in fact used – against people on the right in the very same manner. What may be the most important function of the Rabbanut – the protection of yuchsin – is stronger because of it.

Late News................

Spitfire Search Resumes In Burma

President Obama Targets 'Promise Zones'

The White Ghetto

Democrat Senator Udall Asked State to Cook Books on Obamacare Numbers

16 House Republicans to Obama: Amnesty 'Final Economic Blow' for American Workers

2 more DC firefighters arrested

Lights Out For America’s Favorite Light Bulb

The Meaning of Fallujah

REMEMBER THE FORMER MARINE WHO OPENED FIRE AFTER AN ARIZONA COUPLE PULLED A GUN ON A SEARS EMPLOYEE? POLICE HAVE SUBMITTED CHARGES…AGAINST HIM

In pictures: Niagara Falls freeze over on US side

Obama Celebrates the Lost War on Poverty

UK Charity Commission Fails to Regulate Extremist Charities

India-US relations sink to new low over diplomat arrest and strip search

Robert Gates: Pakistan 'Really No Ally At All'

Anzacs 'scrubbed from First World War tributes' in 'whitewash'

South Sudan government moves to retake key towns as US warns of 'all-out civil war'

The Very Green Keystone Pipeline Delay



By Alan Caruba

Stopping the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from carrying Canadian oil, a major trading partner and ally of the United States, is just part of a much larger environmental agenda aimed at preventing access to this energy source, but it is larger in scope; stopping or slowing the development of America’s huge reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas.

Just before 2013 came to an end, the Sierra Club sent out an email claiming that “2014 is shaping up to be a defining year for the environment” warning that “Superstorms, wildfires, and mass destruction from climate change threaten us all. Future generations and endangered species like wolves and bear are counting on us.” This is pure fear-mongering. In 2013, all the factors mentioned were in decline.

On the first Earth Day in 1970, here are just some of the predictions that were made:

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
--  Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
-- George Wald, Harvard Biologist

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
-- Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
-- New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

On December 29, 2013, the Sierra Club was celebrating the shutdown of the 150th coal-fired plant that provided electricity. They want more solar and wind power, the least reliable source of the smallest production of electricity. They applauded the Obama administration’s plans to restrict any drilling for oil in the Arctic and “proposed new EPA rules on carbon pollution.” There is no carbon pollution.

According to Wikipedia, “Carbon is the 15th most abundant element in the Earth's crust, and the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium and oxygen. It is present in all known life forms, and in the human body carbon is the second most abundant element by mass (about 18.5%) after oxygen. This abundance, together with the unique diversity of organic compounds and their unusual polymer-forming ability at the temperatures commonly encountered on Earth make this element the chemical basis of all known life. (emphasis added).

Calling carbon a threat to human life is so absurd that it defies known science, but that was exactly the basis for all the “global warming” lies, claiming that carbon dioxide would warm the Earth when it plays no such role in the atmosphere. Suggesting that humans have any role in “climate change” is the basis for the legislative and regulatory objectives of the Obama administration that declared a “war on coal” when it is in reality a war on electricity production, the most essential element of life in America.

My friend, David Rothbard, the president of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) a free market think tank, led a team to visit to Fort McMurray, Canada in 2012 to see first-hand the tar sands from which oil is being extracted. “I have to tell you,” he said, “not just by the technology being used to bring much-needed oil up to the surface in situ with hardly a trace of environmental impact…but much more so, by the infectious spirit of opportunity in this bustling frontier town. To me, Ft. McMurray is a symbol of the kind of progress and prosperity that can come when people are able to discover and access abundant natural resources in a way that serves society and protects the environment.”

What the Greens see in Northern Alberta and in Nebraska that is enjoying an economic boom thanks to the fracking technology that produces more natural gas are people having more wealth and freedom, more jobs, more energy for the rest of us

Pipelines in the U.S.
 

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration: “The nation's more than 2.6 million miles of pipelines safely deliver trillions of cubic feet of natural gas and hundreds of billions of ton/miles of liquid petroleum products each year. They are essential: the volumes of energy products they move are well beyond the capacity of other forms of transportation. It would take a constant line of tanker trucks, about 750 per day, loading up and moving out every two minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to move the volume of even a modest pipeline. The railroad-equivalent of this single pipeline would be a train of 75 2,000-barrel tank rail cars every day.”

Pipeline systems are the safest means to move these products. The federal government rededicated itself to pipeline safety in 2006 when the PIPES Act was signed. It mandates new methods and makes commitments for new technologies to manage the integrity of the nation's pipelines and raise the bar on pipeline safety.”

So why has President Obama, for five years now, blocked the extension of the Keystone XL pipeline to America’s Gulf Coast where many of the nation’s refineries are located? Because it represents jobs and further economic development.

The AFL-CIO wants to see Keystone XL built. “The American construction industry has suffered greatly. The national unemployment rate for construction workers remains about 13% and far too many of our members have lost homes and are struggling to put food on the table. For many members of our unions, Keystone XL is not just a pipeline; it is, in the most literal sense, a life line.”

Typical of Obama’s lies was his view of the Keystone XL pipeline when he said “They keep on talking about this—an oil pipeline coming down from Canada that’s estimated to create about 50 permanent jobs—that’s not a jobs plan.” His own State Department estimated that 42,000 jobs would result from the construction of the pipeline.

Obama does not want more jobs. He wants more Americans on the unemployment dole and on food stamps. He doesn’t want more electricity, more gas and diesel for our vehicles. He wants to destroy the nation’s healthcare system. He wants to undermine the economic growth of America in every way he can.

And thanks to the Democratic Party and the millions who still believe in “global warming” and “climate change” he was elected to a second term in 2012.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders GoPro Hula Cam......................



H/T Doverthere

Waiting for Friday..................from Rico

Friday is, once again, the NFP (non farm payroll) report day. Of course, like virtually ALL government-generated numbers, it is useless due to having been finegled, rigged and cooked by statisticians employed by the regime whose mission is solely to make everything 'appear' all right. The result is something that looks like it was created by someone who was huffing unicorn farts.

Meanwhile, with the 'regulators' having been effectively put on ice, the 'wise guys' have free rein (and marching orders) to continue to force Silver and Gold lower in the paper markets while the FED continues to magically levitate the Dow/S&P and provide a life jacket to a sinking USD.

The US Treasury and the FED benefit from this. You don't.
- It is in their interest to destroy the currency while trying to maintain control of a broken system a bit longer...or at least the 'appearance' of control. A Potemkin facade of a wrecked economy.

The average consumer is in real trouble, there is absolutely NOTHING happening in the economy to stop its nosedive, ad there has been NO 'recovery' or improvement in the unemplyment situation. Again we ref 'unicorn farts' infra.
- Official claims to the contrary are just that. Imaginary.

Andrew Jackson had it right when he said "You are a den of vipers and thieves..."


Chris Christie's Highway to Hell.....................from Dan Friedman

[A RINO hits a bump. df]
 
 
WSJ, Review & Outlook, Jan. 8, 2014
Emails among the governor's appointees tell a disturbing tale.
Now that he's been re-elected by a landslide, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is gearing up to run for President, and right behind him comes the scrutiny. That's why his handling of a blooming scandal about political payback by his staff against Fort Lee, New Jersey's Democratic mayor has national resonance.

Bonus Totty..................

Tale of two communists? - Bill de Blasio vs Barack Obama (Video)...from TPC


Video that shows the communist roots of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and President Barack Obama. It also shows how uninformed voters actually are and how little of its job the mainstream media does.

Ad: Beans.................



H/T Shelly

Queen Elizabeth prepares to welcome home The English Cricket Team after they lost ‘The Ashes’ series to Australia 5-0!



H/T Old Dude

This picture is worth $678 million!...from TPC


The picture in this article should convince you about the corruption and gross incompetence on the part of the Obama administration when it came to the Obamacare website and which is unfortunately only the tip of the corruption iceberg emanating from the White House (polar vortex reference)!

News..................

Big Climate USA: a voracious monster scaring the children, and threatening the land and its people

Refitted Former Russian Aircraft Carrier Arrives in India

Army to reduce soldier count in Alaska by slim 373

Why China Wants to ‘Strike the Mountain’ and ‘Kill the Chicken’

For Police, Murder is a Time-Saving Device

Ex-Guantanamo detainee remains suspect in Benghazi attack

Tenant Charged After Landlord, Father Found Nearly Beheaded in Brooklyn Building

Knockout Game: Black Teen Hits Older White Woman For Fun Then Posts Video On Facebook (Video)

Genocide and Justice in Bangladesh

'Lone Survivor' a brutal tribute to Navy SEALs

DOD Speeds Delivery of Surveillance Assets to Iraq

The War on Poverty a Half Century Later

Belgistan? Sharia Showdown Looms In Brussels

Issa Suggests Sebelius May Have Committed Perjury

Six men found dead in cars, some rigged with explosives, in southern Russia

Report: Number of 'Martyred' Christians Nearly Doubled in 2013

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Iran blatantly defies five key Geneva Pact commitments - heads for nuclear arsenal

Analysts: $1 Trillion U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Plan Too Costly To Implement

The Return of China’s Small-Stick Diplomacy in South China Sea

Ignore the scaremongering: America would be better off if Britain left the EU

Cheez-its!......................from Rico

I've been practicing my Mexican.
- No, it's not Spanish, it's something else entirely...it's Mex'can.

The word for he last few days has been "cheez-its."

Thursday Totty..................

Police Officers' Association Posts Video of Swearing 'Thug Cycle' Toddler

It's the Omaha police union.

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The toddler cusses and flips the bird.

A black toddler, and the adults are just cussing right at the baby. Who raises a child like that?

It's out of control.

See, "Omaha Police Officers Post Video of Black 'Thug Cycle' Toddler Flippin' the Finger and Spewing Profanities."

It's so nasty.

Click trough for the bleeped out version at the link.

And it wasn't long before you heard cries of RAAAAACISM!

Two of the most annoying television commercials of all time! (Video)...from TPC


For anyone who has been watching college and professional football games on television you will probably recognize these two commercials as being in the running for most annoying commercials of all time!

Watch and decide at The Political Commentator here.

Smokin' Surfer Babe Rule 5

She's lovely.

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Here, "Afternoon Alana Blanchard Rule 5."

Beautiful young lady.

Healthy and hot --- and carefree!

Oh, to be young again.

More photos at the links.

Wednesday, 8 January 2014

"No Confidence" - Wild Bill

What do we do when our system of checks and balances is compromised? General Vallely has an idea!



Ramirez "nails it" again....................from Rico

The cartoonist Ramirez has nailed it once again, capturing the essence of the recent election of a flaming Communist in NYC, de Blasio,

I hope he doesn't get "Breitbarted" for telling it like it is, instead of telling us what we're 'supposed' to be hearing from the Ministry of Truth...


4 Scots: Soldiers Film Dance Video for Pharrell Williams' Hit Song Happy

The difference between Chris Christie and Barack Obama!...from TPC



If you had to choose between believing something that Chris Christie says or something that Barack Obama says, which one would have your trust?

Bedtime Totty....................

Pic Dump......................

Late News.................

Former SecDef Robert Gates Unloads on Obama

Thomas Sowell Exposes Yet Another Persistent Economics Lie from the Left

The GOP Needs a Conservative in 2016

Michelle Obama’s nutritious lunch program FAILED

Top Saudi lets the cat out of the bag

A Soldier of Fortune Speaks

Former Gitmo detainee wanted for participation in Benghazi attack

Are the parties over?

100 Arrests Expected in Massive NYC Cop/Firefighter Social Security Scam

Obama Meeting with Biden Five Times in Aftermath of Gates Accusations

An incomparable strategic weapon for the United States

PD: Banana-burglar crashed car into store

Happy New Year!

THE PALESTINIANS AND TERRORISM IN EUROPE, REDUX

Missing Child Alert.............

Caleb Jacoby of Brookline, MA has been missing since yesterday afternoon. He is 16 years old, and many of you have read, met or heard of Caleb's father, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby.




Via Dan Friedman

Was this a clever plan?....................from Rico

For those familiar with "The Black Adder" ObamaCare might be seen as one of Baldrick's "clever plans".....I see it as a typical statist "trap" if not a bait-and-switch that was a bad idea even more badly executed.
- And there are a lot of LoFo's (Low Information Voters) thinking this was a big broken promise for 'free' stuff.

They are the very people who have been inundated with the Big Government propaganda that "Walmart is BAD" because it is so big, but that making Big Government bigger will solve all problems. Take healthcare.
- Walmart offers its employees better coverage at a lower cost than the donkeys who foisted that steaming pile of crap legislation upon the public known as ObamaCare.

So go ahead LoFo's take a big bite of that Government cheese that is not cheese, but something else.
- America, you have been 'had' in the vilest sense.....


Hardliner Lieberman, Israel's FM, Drinks the Kool-Aid........................from Dan Friedman

[Can you say hardliner in Hebrew? One by one, Israeli hawks are miraculously transforming themselves into doves. Shades of Sharon’s disastrous “disengagement” from Gaza and Netanyahu who left the government after it was a fait accompli. No doubt some of Israel’s best friends will lay this off on “American pressure.” A strange alibi for a country with the region’s most robust economy, a world-class army, and - so I’ve been told – a gaggle of fully operational nuclear weapons. Makes me wonder what these Israeli “patriots” found under their Christmas tree.
 
Watch, it won’t be long before shtarker Moshe "Boogie" Ya'alon starts to sprout fluffy white feathers too – opening the gates for the rest of the nominal right to capitulate soon thereafter.  df]

 
WSJ, Middle East News, January 8, 2014
Mr. Lieberman seems to have made an about-face by giving repeated public endorsements of Mr. Kerry's diplomacy
By Joshua Mitnick
TEL AVIV—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appears to have won over an unlikely Israeli ally in his quest for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal: Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Dream Ticket for 2016........................from Rico

Ted & Phil? Sounds like a dream ticket for 2016 to me.


Hyper-Active Sun Delivering Dazzling Auroras In The North

Bonus Totty...................

They are what they are. It's a beach..................from Rico

Of course you 'knew' that today was the scheduled release of the just past FOMC minutes, right?
- The "wise guys" certainly know, and have served up the 'usual' antics [see: COMEX charts] while the paper precious metals song-and-dance routine gets further and further away from the physical market. The fractional bullion scheme at the COMEX remains near 80:1, with eighty claims on the same one ounce of physical in the warehouse.

And of course everyone also 'knows' that the monthly fiction called the NFP is being released on Friday, right?

Both are 'trigger' events for the Banksters to manipulate, massage, and maage the paper bullion markets.
- After all, like Spencer the dog, they are what they are...and this is what they do. Oh yeah, and the Muppets who are not 'connected' crony insiders?....they are the beach that gets crapped on.


News.................

The Iranian Enemy of Our Enemy Is Also Our Enemy

What Catastrophe? MIT’s Richard Lindzen, the unalarmed climate scientist

European Commission to Britain: Yeah, we're going to need you to get rid of those wind-farm subsidies

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Blocking Bipartisan Iran Sanctions

N Korea: Was Uncle Jang's execution a hoax?

Response to the Anti-Israel Event at London's St. James Church

Organizing for Any Action Obama Wants

General: Strategic Military Satellites Vulnerable to Attack in Future Space War

Global warming devastates America




Prop Goes The Weasel

Wednesday Wenches................

What $17,000,000,000,000 looks like! (Infographic)...from TPC


The size of the number $17 trillion is hard for simple folk like me to fathom. 

This infographic from The Heritage Foundation helps to put it into some perspective!

A.J. McCarron's Mom Apologizes After Slamming Jameis Winston's Speech on Twitter

See, "A.J. McCarron's Mom Disses Jameis Winston's Speech on Twitter: 'Am I Listening to English?'"

Smokin' hottie Katherine Webb favorited her boyfriend's mom's tweets as well, which pissed off even more people, who attacked her as "racist."

3 Reasons 2014 Might be the Most Libertarian Year Ever!

Dennis Rodman CNN rant from North Korea! (Video)...from TPC



Can anyone explain what Dennis Rodman, in North Korea for an exhibition basketball game to celebrate Kim Jong Un's birthday, is talking about in this video of his CNN interview?

Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Spend it like the Gov't does?...............from Rico

This is a perfect example of how NOT to budget, and how NOT to spend your money like the US Gov't does.

It's worth remembering the next time (a) some politico or bureaurat functionary whines about needing a bigger budget, or how 'hard' life would be to live within a budget, or (b) says "we're just going to have to raise taxes" instead of "let's cut taxes."

Definitley NOT cool...............from Rico

One of Matt Drudge's headlines today was (again) priceless.
"...Al Sharpton dons white lab coat, explains global warming..."

You just couldn't make stuff like this up!

Famous race-pimp, professional agitator, Al "Tawana" Sharpton turns faux-scientist demonstrating what a clueless charlatan he is on MSNBC. There must have been a sack of cash in it for him somewhere.
- Scarier than this idiocy is the thought that there are people out there who 'believe' it because the saw it on TV. They are known as, in a word, morons.

Al Sharpton standing in for Al Gore on convenient global warming lies

Mellisa Harris Perry's Panel Shows Bigotry, Not the Robertsons

Zo weighs in on Mellisa Harris Perry's bigoted panel, which took a shot at Romney's adoption of a child who is American black, and MHP's subsequent effort to say she was sorry (with tears to boot). Does Zo buy it? And really, how is it that Phil Robertson is a bigot and MHP and her panel aren't? Find out in this ZoNation




Ta-Tas Tuesday Roundup!

Okay, let's get it started.

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FLASHBACK: "Smokin' Hot Sunday Babe Blogging!"

Also, "More Maria Menounos!" Remember, I was just thinking how lovely this lady is the other day, and now here she is again! Smokin'!

Plus, "Supreme Court Stays Utah Homosexual Marriage Ruling."

And, "A 'Mixed Bag'? Fifty Years Later and That's All to Be Said for 'War on Poverty'?"

More, "Megyn Kelly Interviews Debra Burlingame on Terror-Lawyer Lynne Stewart's Early Release."

And, "NFL Fans Forgo Playoff Tickets, Prefer the Couch."

Finally, "Republicans Poised for Big Gains in 2014 Midterms."

And check back later at the blog for some more boosting ta-tas.

Bedtime Totty..................

Crab Net Camera Offers Stunning View Of Underwater World

Late News.....................

Re-Writing History To Create A Legend - Nelson Mandela's Terrorist Past Airbrushed Out

Delivering the west on a platter by Melanie Phillips

Cavalry Unit Deploys to Republic of Korea

For Obama, Congress, a Last Grasp at Immigration

White House Planning Class Warfare Attack to Spin Away from ObamaCare

Families of Benghazi victims press for House select committee to investigate attack

Boehner Busted: Blocking Benghazi Select Committee; Obama Armed Al Qaeda

Intelligent Populism vs. Mindless Progressivism by VDH

Senate Moves Unemployment Bill, but Obama Won’t Compromise

How cold is it in the U.S.? Ask this escaped prisoner

Britain is a casualty of US disengagement from the world

Pentagon puts Hellfire missile deliveries to Iraq on fast track

Netanyahu plans a national referendum on US peace framework to extend negotiations for another year

Obama's Attack on Workers

First batch of chemical weapons leaves Syria - OPCW

Maine Welfare Cash Spent in All 50 States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Island

Kerry's Looney Diplomatic Agenda

 
By Alan Caruba

As far as Secretary of State John Kerry is concerned, the greatest threat to the Earth is “climate change.” That is his view as well of the Obama administration that, according to a CNS News article, wasted $7.45 billion taxpayer dollars over the last three years “to help developing countries cope with climate change in fiscal years 2010 through 2012, according to a federal government report submitted to the United Nations.” In Kerry’s words, climate change is “a truly life-and-death challenge.”

Since the first humans stood upright and began to walk, they have never played any role in climate change, a natural aspect of the Earth that is cyclical, moving between periods of warmth and cooling. We are currently in a 17-year-long cooling cycle which forced the army of environmental liars who claimed that “global warming” was the greatest threat to change its name to “climate change.”

Another name change caused a lot of problems as well.

Since Israel declared its independence and sovereignty in 1948, it has fought a succession of wars against its Arab “neighbors” and been subjected to the claim that former occupants were “Palestinians” despite the fact that there never was and still is not a nation called Palestine. Arabs that chose to remain became citizens of Israel.

It was the Roman Emperor Hadrian who tried to change the name of Israel to Palestine. The name reappeared following World War One when the Treaty of Versailles used it to designate a swath of land south of Syria as a British mandate. In 1948, when the British left, Israel was born again after 2,000 years.

Israel joined the United Nations on May 11, 1949. Resisting the existence of Israel became an Arab cause. These days Israel maintains diplomatic relations with more than 150 nations.

Successive American administrations sought to provide an agreement between those claiming to represent Palestinians and the nation of Israel. All such efforts have all failed. At present the Palestinian Authority, based in Ramallah on the West Bank, is the focus of such efforts. Hamas, a proxy of Iran, controls Gaza, a territory abandoned by Israel in the hope that “land for peace” would succeed. It did not and Gaza is little more than a staging ground for ceaseless rocket attacks.

When Secretary Kerry arrived in Israel on January 3 to meet with PA president Mahmoud Abbas, the streets of Ramallah filled with several hundred protesters chanting “Kerry, you coward, there is no place for you in Palestine!” Abbas has never expressed any opinion other than a hope for the destruction of Israel. He replaced Yasser Arafat who waged an “intifada” against Israel as the self-appointed head of the Palestinians.

Kerry is so obsessed with getting a peace accord that he has spent five months trying to negotiate it with no progress. He has made ten trips to Israel and its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has had to pretend, like all the former prime ministers, that an agreement is possible. After the 1967 war, Egypt decided to sign a peace treaty that secured the return of the Sinai Peninsula. These days the Egyptian military it is fighting jihadists located there.

The Palestinians are losing ground. Abbas’ refusal to come to any agreement with Israel has resulted in the announcement by the European Union to discontinue its $1 billion annual contribution to the Palestinian Authority if a peace accord is not signed within a year. The US-EU aid packages total $1.5 billion and account for nearly all of the PA’s regular revenue. Jordan has already made it clear it does not want Palestinians providing “security” on its West Bank border with Israel.

Yoram Ettinger, a columnist for Israel Hayom, recently wrote that “Kerry is preoccupied with pressuring Israel, notwithstanding the transformation of the Arab Spring delusion into a reality of an Arab Tsunami, highlighting the 1,400-year-old intra-Muslim and intra-Arab uncertainty, unpredictability, instability, fragmentation, violent intolerance and absence of Arab democracy and civil liberties.”

Kerry wants Israel to return to its 1967 borders, reflecting Obama’s goal. That is an idiotic demand that ignores Israel’s need for security or the provision of housing for its growing population. Obama has criticized the building of such housing in Jerusalem and the West Bank, but few give much thought to the absurdity and arrogance of this. Imagine if Obama expressed a similar criticism of new housing in Canada or Mexico?

The only overt ally the United States has in the Middle East is Israel, but you would not know that from Kerry’s efforts and Obama’s barely hidden enmity. Like the effort to strike a deal with Iran to stop enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons, both are oblivious to the reality of events in the Middle East, all of which reflect a region in turmoil. Having withdrawn our troops from Iraq and preparing to leave Afghanistan, Obama’s foreign policy only portends further turmoil.

The Obama administration would rather fight “climate change” than deal with the harsh realities of the real world.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

So God Made A Liberal...

A Tribute to Paul Harvey, a parody of the Superbowl "God Made A Farmer" commercial.




H/T Shelly

Kerry, Coconspirator?......................from Dan Friedman

1/7/14
Govt. sources reveal that Kerry is responsible for EU boycott threats, keeps them in check during talks, ready to escalate if talks fail.
By Ari Yashar
Governmental sources report that US Secretary of State John Kerry is behind the European boycott threats on Israeli products and companies operating in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.