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Friday, 7 November 2014

Watching Your Money!...from TPC

Assuming that the majority of Americans would like to keep an eye on their money, the US Economic Calendar for the week of November 10, 2014 is a great guide for anyone to have at their disposal!

Read at LI here.

Please pass this sign along to Obama's speechwriters!...from TPC

The sign in this article needs to be passed along to whoever it is that writes Obama's speeches because it has been missing from the President's agenda for the six years that he has been in office!

At The Political Commentator here.

Red Friday Teatime Totty................

NewsBusted 11/07/14..................

Cartoon Round Up....

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

The Biggest Loser: It was Hillary Clinton

Sarah Palin: Bring on the investigations

Heisse Kartoffel -2014

Voices: Time for news outlets to kick polling habit

After Republican sweep, uncertainty over ACA

President Barack Obama threatens vetoes and executive orders after GOP sweep

WH Press LOLs at Earnest’s Refusal to Admit Dems ‘Lost' - Or That Losing Is 'Bad'

The Military Wants New Technologies To Fight Drones

President Obama’s Press Conference, Translated

Video Double Feature: Andrew Klavan on how to speak to a leftist!...from TPC

Andrew Klavan's two videos, 'How to speak leftist, Parts i and 2', will hopefully make intelligible communication with this group easier to accomplish.

That's if anyone who’s not a leftist actually wants to bother to try!

Watch at The Political Commentator here.

Is This The End of the Demographic Party?

As Barack Obama once noted, elections have consequences and the consequences of this year’s election are going to be huge. Aside from the huge shift in power, not only in Washington but in the states as well, there will necessarily be some critical changes made to political strategies for 2016. Perhaps one change that has been long overdue will be the end of the Demographic Party.

That’s right, the Demographic Party; you know, the party that relies on demographic politics to win every election, often mistakenly referred to as the Democrat Party. (continue reading)

Andrew Klavan: How To Speak Leftist, Part II................

In which our scholarly host takes another look into the Orwellian world that is the Leftese Dictionary

J Street, Phony Polls From a Bogus Organization................from Dan Friedman

[From the get-go J-Street was a vanity production funded by Jewish mutant George Soros. And it’s still the same today. In my view J-Street is a Potemkin “organization” that, if only we ignored it, would go away. But Jews being the truth-lovers we are, some of our patriots will always be tempted to tilt against it and try to set the record straight. df]

frontpagemag.com, November 6, 2014

Why J Street’s Exit Poll of Jewish Voters is Phony

Posted By Daniel Greenfield

Free markets don't act this way......................from Rico

Free markets with actual price discovery don't act this way, but "rigged" markets sure do.

Central bankers desperate to get out of crushing debt via inflation [for example, Japan's debt-to-GDP is +200%; Europe and the US aren't all that much better off] DO act this way.

The bullion banks (JP Morgan, HSBC, Scotia Moccatta, Barclay's, UBS, and Deutsche Bank) working in concert with, and acting as agents for the Federal Reserve have been stepping on bullion prices (both Gold and Silver) to protect the US Dollar from exploding dollar-denominated debt.

For the last five years, when Asian physical delivery markets are open bullion has been positive, and when the London-US paper delivery markets are open bullion has been negative. This is the hallmark of bullion suppression and financial repression.

- For "progressives" read: there are no "free markets" any longer. But be very careful what you wish for, when this scam craters there will be maximum pain.

- For the rest of us read: there is no financial freedom any longer. The beatings will continue until morale improves, or until there is no more physical available in the West.

HIDDEN CAM: Cat-Calling REAL Women! - Steven Crowder

Hard of Hearing

H/T Paul B

Friday Totty.................

Overnight News...............

The Unbearable Lightness of Feminism

Man buys Fla. house, finds corpse on bedroom floor

Dead man elected: How to fill his seat in the Legislature

Losers by VDH

The Democrats’ Waterloo

Pity Barack Obama. A pariah in his own time

Nancy Pelosi Still Wants to Be Top House Democrat After Massive Loss

Issa: Document dump shows Holder 'at the heart' of Fast and Furious debate

Man says he'll be eaten alive by anaconda

Kansas woman awakens to find intruder eating frozen cookie dough; man accused of burglary

It's Great Pregnant Women Walked In Lingerie Fashion Show

Scott on 'F' Grade from NAACP: 'It's Because I Believe That Progress Has to be Made'

Obama wrote secret letter to Iran on Islamic State

'Dangerous' Sunspot Puzzles NASA Scientists

A tale of two oceans: Pacific out-hurricanes Atlantic

Latest Ebola fear: Safety of lab equipment

Democrats cancel ad buys for Mary Landrieu in Louisiana

Ted Kennedy Jr. ready to serve his district

Gay marriage bans in four states upheld on appeal

Not-So-Large Colliders Could Revolutionize Physics

Bombmaker killed as U.S. targets Khorasan

Low-profile NYC prosecutor emerges as contender to be first black woman US attorney general

Muttering to Himself: BHO's Siege Mentality.................from Dan Friedman

[Self-delusion, denial, the last refuges of a washed-up leftist and wannabe tyrant. Pathetic. df]

George Will: Obama Thinks Electorate Had ‘Inexplicable Tantrum’

GIVE BACK THE SENATE! - Bill Whittle

Well, the Republicans have retaken the Senate from the Democrats, and now that they have, it's time to give it back to its rightful owners...

Join Bill Whittle in his latest Firewall, where he shows how destructive the Progressive Amendments have been -- especially the Seventeenth Amendment. Find out why it matters!

Very Funny Video: Key and Peele Obama Mid-term Reenactment...from TPC

Video of comedy team Key and Peele with a reenactment of Barack Obama's response to the devastating Democrat mid-term election loss!

Watch at The Political Commentator here.

Thursday, 6 November 2014

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

Israel Has Found New Allies

Israeli security fence on Egyptian border

By Alan Caruba

Let’s just say it up front and avoid tip-toeing around with politically correct language. President Obama and his administration are the most anti-Israel to have held office and likely the most anti-Semitic. Forget about his public declarations of friendship and support for Israel. For six years Obama has demonstrated his antipathy toward the only democratic nation in the Middle East, the Jewish state.

That’s why an anonymous administration official felt free to call Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a “chickenshit” and “a coward” while being interviewed by Jeffrey Goldberg for an article in The Atlantic.

He or she had to know the comment would go public. Netanyahu was accused of only being interested in his political survival and afraid to launch an attack on Iran to slow or end its nuclear armament program. In an effort to comply with U.S. demands, Netanyahu actually had put himself at political risk at home. None of Obama’s demands were rewarded or acknowledged and, for now, those days are over.

It is, of course, the Obama administration that has led the most servile negotiations to date with Iran, granting all manner of concessions in order to get an agreement that would put that terror-sponsoring nation within three or four months of having a nuclear warhead for its missiles or bomb for its aircraft.

Speaking to the Israeli Knesset, Netanyahu responded to the insulting name-calling saying, “I am under attack simply because I am defending the State of Israel. If I didn’t stand firm on our national interests, I would not be under attack.” And then, typical of the diplomatic dance, he said, “I respect and cherish the deep connection with the United States.”

If he was speaking in an historic context, he is right, but the six years of Obama’s terms in office have been a succession of insults and demands that would make Israel vulnerable to the constant presence of its enemies, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, two terror organizations that are proxies for their sponsor, Iran. During the recent military operations to end months of continued rocketing from Gaza, the U.S. repeatedly called on Israel to stop. When it was over, countless tunnels whose sole purpose was for Palestinian terrorists to attack Israelis were found.

Tunnels have also been a problem for Egypt and they are the ones that run from the Sinai area into Gaza. Following the Camp David Accords in 1979, Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty. Until then no Middle East Arab nation had any intention of acknowledging Israel’s sovereignty. The treaty has held firm since then, but the new Egyptian leadership came to power after the people demanded that the Muslim Brotherhood be removed from office. It was; first by military coup and then by an election. It is the same Muslim Brotherhood some of whose members have been part of the Obama administration.

For Egypt, the Sinai has been the scene of dozens of attacks against its military and security forces since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 during the so-called “Arab spring.” As Oren Kessler, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Deputy Director for Research, recently noted, “Egypt has waged a sustained military campaign against Sinai extremists since August 2012, including air strikes and ground operations, as well as the destruction of at least 1,600 smuggling tunnels to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.”

“Despite the fact that at least 20 attacks have targeted Israel since Mubarak’s ouster, the Jewish state has not engaged in military operations in Egyptian territory” but “the recent Sinai security challenges have prompted the Israelis and Egyptians to cooperate in others ways…”

A response to its own security needs led the Israelis to build a fortified fence along its Egyptian border, its longest frontier, “in a bid to control the flow of asylum seekers and economic migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa.” You read that correctly, migrants want to live in Israel, perhaps knowing that, only there, are those who are Christian will not be killed for their faith and those who are Muslim will not be harassed. The fence, of course, has the added benefit of addressing the threat of Sinai terrorism.

So, Egypt ranks high among Israel’s allies in very real ways. The same can be said of Saudi Arabia, the Muslim holy land where Mecca and Medina are located. As Bret Stephens, a Wall Street Journal columnist, noted in late October, “The real problem for the administration is that the Israelis—along with all the other disappointed allies—are learning how little it pays to be on Barack Obama’s good side.”

“Since coming to office in 2009,” noted Stephens, “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed, against his own inclination and over the objections of his political bases, to (1) recognize the Palestinian state, (2) enforce an unprecedented 10-month settlement freeze, (3) release scores of Palestinian prisoners held on murder charges, (4) embark on an ill-starred effort to reach a final peace deal with the Palestinians, (5) refrain from taking overt military steps against Iran, and (6) agree to every possible cease-fire during the summer’s war with Hamas.”

That, however, has not been enough for the Obama administration. Not only did it hold up “the delivery of munitions at the height of the Gaza war”, but Secretary of State John Kerry blamed Israel for the failure to achieve peace with the Palestinians when history confirms their long resistance and refusal to any peace deal. Kerry even managed to attribute the rise of the Islamic State to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That is delusional and deeply offensive.

Largely unreported because the two nations want it that way, Saudi Arabia and Israel have long been in discussions of what to do if the U.S. sells out both of them by concluding a deal with Iran regarding its nuclear arms program. Such a deal would leave both nations and all others in the Middle East and beyond vulnerable to Iran.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and other Sunni nations also have concerns about the rise of the Sunni Islamic State. If Obama is indifferent to Israel’s security, he gives plenty of evidence he feels the same about the Sunni nations.

If anyone, some years ago, had predicted that two leading Muslim nations would find ample reason to ally with Israel, they would likely have been laughed out of the room, but it is today’s reality. It may make Obama angry, but the Israelis don’t care. Despite the usual diplomatic charades, until Obama is out of office they and their Arab allies will act to protect themselves as he continues to betray them.

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

Teatime Totty.................

A funny look at student loans...from TPC

Not that there's anything funny about the subject of $1.2 trillion in student loans outstanding coupled with an 8%+ unemployment rate for recent college grads.

Or the fact that those with jobs may be part-time and earning far less than the amount they need to both live and pay back their debt.

But still, this cartoon is pretty funny.

See it at LI here.

Rusty Humphries: Sneakin’ In To The USA...............

H/T Lenmar

Cartoon Round Up....

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

Russia Moving Missiles, Rockets Toward Eastern Ukraine

Iran Quietly Fearful of Republican Takeover of Congress

As End Looms, US Warns Afghan Troops Taking ‘Unsustainable’ Casualties

The Ebola Presidency

Promoting "British Values" by Curbing Free Speech

Don't Tell Erdogan Jihadists Kill People

The Morning after Midterms, Obama Home Alone

Suddenly, inexplicably, a very cordial Harry Reid wants to 'work together'

Understand Your Man - date

My apologies to Johnny Cash, but for some reason the song title and even the message seem to be quite appropriate for this topic. Every political pundit in the country is or will be offering their take on this week’s big election blowout along with their advice on how to proceed. With a little help from Johnny Cash I will offer mine. (continue reading)