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I was reading about the 32 Black men who were arrested in Denver for verbally harassing, robbing, and then physically assaulting Whites and Latinos.  Gangs of Black men attacking Whites.  The police new this but failed to alert the public, probably political correctness.  I didn't see anything about this in the MSM, which reminded me of the January 6, 2007   deaths of Hugh Christopher Newsom, age 23 and Channon Gail Christian, age 21, in  Knoxville Tennessee -  both students at the University of Tennessee.   The media didn't want to report that either.  

As Rob at Flopping Aces pointed out at the time, the media had Anna Nicole Smith, Don Imus, and Rev. Al Sharpton to fill air time.

 Chris and Channon were kidnapped and driven to 2316 Chipman Street where they were forced into the home at gunpoint. While Channon was forced to watch, her boyfriend was raped prison style and then his penis was cut off. He was later driven to nearby railroad tracks where he was shot and set afire. But Channon’s hell was just beginning. She was beaten; gang raped repeatedly in many ways, had one of her breasts cut off and bleach poured down her throat to destroy DNA evidence—all while she was still alive. To add to Channon’s degradation the suspects took turns urinating on her. They too set her body afire, apparently inside the residence, but for some reason left her body there—in five separate trash bags.  (Flopping Aces)

Another incident, story by Lawrence Auster: 

Christopher Kernich, the Kent State student whom a group of blacks beat and stomped in the head after he or one of his friends yelled, "Watch what you doing" when the blacks' car had almost hit them (as discussed here), died Saturday night, six days after the beating.

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The media likes to report that Blacks are the worst hit by the bad economy but miss stories like these.  Apparently Black violence is increasing.  The Left and some Blacks blame "miseducation (whatever that is), unemployment, poverty"... 

"The young people who perpetrate the violence or are victims of it--they are only responding to a greater symptom that never gets addressed, which is their sense of abandonment by an adult population in authority that refuses to acknowledge the role that miseducation, unemployment and poverty have played in creating their condition."

Of course they have been abandoned by the adult population. But not by white supremacists, but by white and black liberals who have legitimized illegitimacy via the culture of sexual liberation.

In the article, there is not a single instance of any form of the words marriage, fathers, fatherlessness, illegitimacy. (more)

So much for a post-racial world.

The First Family

Obama clutches a copy of GQ magazine with himself on the cover, wearing a jacket, pants, and sandals.  Hat tip Drudge.

 

 

Can you imagine Jackie Kennedy ever being seen in public like that?  Or Hillary Clinton, or Laura Bush, or any other first lady? (I know the picture of MEchelle is old.)  Now for some good reading:

Watcher’s Council Nominations – Pre-Thanksgiving Edition

As you celebrate, try something…no matter your circumstances, take a long moment to reflect on your blessings. Be thankful for that bountiful harvest, for your loved ones, for your friends, for the fact that we live as free men and women in a free country. And remember that this is only a reality because other men and women are willing to endure hardship and be away from their own loved ones to keep it so.

President Bush, whatever his other failings seems to have understood that on a visceral level. Just for contrast with present times, I unearthed this old picture of him circa 2003 on a surprise visit to Iraq to help serve Thanksgiving dinner to our troops there and spend the day with them. And unlike someone else I know, President Bush wouldn’t have ever referred to it as a ‘pretty good photo op.’

Whatever else you do, take a minute to spend some time and enjoy the feeling of being close to the people that have always been there for you, the ones you can’t leave behind, as the song says. It’s important.

Best Wishes for an absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving.  (continue reading)

Council Submissions

• Mere Rhetoric - Obama: We’re Giving Iran More Time Because Of Their “Unsettled Political Situation”
• Joshuapundit - Navy SEALS Face Court martial – For Capturing Wanted Terrorist
• Right Truth- Bible verse attributed to Barack Obama
• Bookworm Room - Being a contrarian and NOT buying (or being) green
• The Provocateur - The Put Back Amendment
• The Colossus of Rhodey - Hard to argue? Not really
• The Razor - The Weak Horse Named Obama
• Rhymes With Right - A question I’ve been raising
• The Glittering Eye - The Green and the Black
• Soccer Dad - Clinton’s faulty memory, part ii

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: The Watcher – Ken Blackwell/American Spectator Blog- Welcome Back Carter
• Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Daled Amos - State Department: Obama Administration has accomplished more than 8 years of Bush
• Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Robin of Berkeley/American Thinker - The Wilding of Sarah Palin
• Submitted By: Right Truth – the Chessler Chronicles - Why is America still allied with Saudi Arabia?
• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – The Strata-Sphere - Alarmist hide truth about (lack of ) global warming
• Submitted By: The Provocateur – HSA Scoop - The only real solution to health care reform
• Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – Edge - 36 Arguments for the existence of God
• Submitted By: The Razor – Sultan Knish - Obama goes Mao
• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Quin Hilyer/ the American Spectator Blog - Justice Depart ment Recusal List
• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – New Atlanticist - Obama and Afghanistan: No good choices
• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Freaknomics - Shovel ready or ready to shovel?

Between Hell and Holy Slaughter: How the Obama administration is setting us up to be crucified

Between Hell and Holy Slaughter:  How the Obama administration is setting us up to be crucified

by R.J. Godlewski

“War is a psychological drama as well as a physical contest. The goal of battle is to shock, to shatter the cohesion of groups, to bring individual soldiers up short, to instill fear, sow confusion, undermine morale, sap will. Violence is one means of doing so. Intimidation – through a display of power or a loud noise – is another” (Kelly, 2004, 30).

Prepare to be intimidated…

Too many people simply wet their pants when they think about President Barack Obama. Not me. While some apparently view the president as another youthful “Black Prince” coming of age to shatter the concepts of wealth and allegiance, I find the former senator from Illinois to be just as impotent as his fourteenth century counterpart – of little intimidation without his display of loud noise and spectacle.

Now, if you want true intimidation, may I suggest a quick study of Chinggis Khan, who once stood in front of a mosque full of conquered Muslims and proclaimed, “I am the punishment of God” because they had “committed great sins” (May, 2007, 1)? Perhaps Charlemagne who built the Holy Roman Empire through sheer “indomitable will” (Wilson, 2006, 37)? And what of the ancient ninja, who could not be deceived by harmful intentions – otherwise known as sakki – the “force of the killer” (Hayes, 1981, 145)?

Sadly, our current president is about as intimidating as a barfly surrounded by fleas. Confronted with an enemy that beheads women as a matter of religious principle, President Obama has decided to intimidate the only ones that he can – those under direct oath to obey his commands. First, we had his equally impotent attorney general, Eric Holder, concentrate on charging those charged with defending us than those who wish to behead Lady Liberty. Next, we had the same limp resolve of AG Holder elect to sacrifice the sanity of 9/11 survivors by bringing Khalid Sheik Muhammad and other Gitmo detainees to New York for a trial that would be the envy of P.T. Barnum. Now, today, we learn that my own beloved U.S. Navy will try some of its SEALS for slapping around the guy that tortured and mutilated several Blackwater security guards.

Note to Islamic extremists. If you ever lay a hand on any of my people I’ll fuck with you so bad that not even Allah will find your ass on a good day. I will hunt you down long after the present U.S. administration ceases to be an embarrassment for the nation and when you least expect it – I’ll be there with vengeance. You don’t have to worry about me flushing the Quran down the toilet because you will be shitting it out of your own ass. Don’t even try to tell me that your religion is worth a mere five prayers per day because I have met my Lord and hell hath no furry like a man on a mission from  God. The one true God – not some pagan deification promising seventy-seven virgins for any pervert who blows up a wedding. I cannot be intimidated, but I sure as hell can intimidate.

“If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you” (May, 2007, 1).

The ninja have a way of “blending with the night” (Hayes, 1981, 108). That leaves half a day in which to battle our enemies. I prefer to blend within plain sight. I do not train armies; I train individuals. I do not recruit; God recruits. He knows which of the five and a half billion non-Muslim souls out there will rise to the occasion when confronted with evil. He knows how many He needs to defeat “false prophets” – I merely use my particular talents and knowledge in the manner that He sees fit.

Those who possess Christ within their lives – and souls – will apply their own talents and knowledge to this “Great Crusade” of modernity. They will remain steadfast against progressive liberalism, secularism, and radical Islam. They will challenge it at every turn and will refuse to cater towards modern expectations of affirmative reeducation.

They will join me in spirit – figuratively and literally through the Holy Spirit, the Great Paraclete – for a novena to consecrate the Middle East and the rest of the Muslim world to God the Father, through the intercession of His Most Blessed Virgin Mother (take that, all of you who defile women!).

I do not dither, I do not abandon my principles. I find no compromise between the American values of old and those that I empower through my writing. We’re a nation that forced German citizens to bury the butchered Jews in order to teach them a lesson about believing in prophets of doom. We nuked Japan – twice – to teach them a lesson about blindly following any mere mortal when God demanded compassion and obedience to His Son. We conquered the moon because when we went there, we went in peace for all mankind.

I am an American. I do not care what you do in your own country. Unfortunately, you picked a war with us and because we are all at war, I shall not relax until Islam is but an embarrassing footnote in the annuals of history. When you attacked Americans, you attacked the friends of one person too many. Chinggis Khan ain’t got nothing on me when I’m riled. And you sure as hell and holy slaughter have riled me.  

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PDF version of this article here.

References

Hayes, S. K. (1981). The Ninja and their secret fighting art. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company.

Kelly, J. (2004). Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, & Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World. New York: Basic Books.

May, T. (2007). THE MONGOL ART OF WAR: Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Military System (Book Club ed.). Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing.

Wilson, D. (2006). Charlemagne. New York: Doubleday.

Photo credits: Left: (© 1000words –); Right: (© andré ) - Fotolia.com

R.J. Godlewski is an independent counterterrorism consultant, the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team [INERT], and the author of several novels, commentaries, and professional articles. He is also the author and architect of the Independent Counterterrorist training program. His analytical specialties are Middle East terrorism and improvised explosive devices. He is a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, the Golden Key International Honour Society, and the National Rifle Association as well as a veteran of both the United States Navy and Navy Reserve.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about...

The Republican National Committee could be on the verge of imposing a strict purity test on GOP candidates and officeholders, if a proposed resolution passes at their upcoming meeting in January: If you disagree with the party line on three or more out of a list of ten key issues, no money or official party support for you.

The resolution, officially called "Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates" draws its standard through a literal interpretation of an old saying of the Gipper's -- that someone who agreed with him 80% of the time is his friend, not his 20% enemy. Thus, this resolution sets 80% as a floor for support of GOP issues.  (Talking Points Memo)

For a long time now the Grouch (sweet hubby) and I have refused to give any money to the RNC, only donating to individual candidates that believe the way we do.  I think this resolution is a great idea, but not everyone agrees.

There is also talk of a third party.  Sarah Palin was asked about a third party and she thinks it is a bad idea.  She believes that the Republican party can and should be reformed, that a third party would only result in more losses for Conservatives.  

Sunday Glenn Beck gave a speech calling for an end to the two-party system...

Glenn Beck says that his goal is to reform government by changing the hearts and minds of the people who vote it into existence. If he can accomplish even a fraction of that goal, he won’t have to worry about creating an alternative to the Republican Party.

Meanwhile, middle-class voters are tired of being dismissed as mindlessly angry white people by sneering journalists. They want someone who understands their concerns to express them with eloquence and passion, giving them a voice that would never be willingly provided by a partisan media culture. That’s why they like Sarah Palin so much. Her remarkable journey took her completely outside a party apparatus that was already polishing its alibis and planning how to dispose of her remains, even as it demanded the impossible from her last year. More of the GOP establishment should try “going rogue,” and finding the party’s future in the vast crowds waiting to get Palin and Beck to sign their books. The Republican Party is America’s home team, in the contest to re-define its essence. By the time we could replace them with another team, we’d be playing an entirely different game.  (Hot Air and The Green Room)

There is a debate going on in America as to whether Sarah Palin could win the presidency, if she decided to run.  Well, Yes She Can:

... Gallup polls over the past 60 years show that no president with an approval rating under 47 percent has won reelection, and no president with an approval rating above 51 percent has lost reelection. ...

Who the Republican candidate is, and his or her qualifications and abilities, will matter only if Obama's approval rating is between 47 and 51 percent going into the fall of 2012.  ...

...  to win the Republican nomination, Palin needs only to get enough support from the base to win early key states. Already, in nearly every poll today, she has a level of support that makes her a viable primary candidate  (Matthew Dowd, Washington Post)

Don't count your Palins just yet, because former CNN employee Lou Dobbs made it clear to Fred Thompson that he is considering a run for the presidency in 2012.

Some good news:  Obama is losing unaffiliated voters:

Rasmussen has some bad news for Barack Obama.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for President Obama (see trends).

Fifty-two percent (52%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 68% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, just 16% Strongly Approve and 51% Strongly Disapprove (see other recent demographic highlights from the tracking poll).

Looking at 2012, PoliPundit says "Let The Retirements Begin"

Rep. Dennis Moore (D-KS) becomes the first Democrat Congressman to retire, rather than face the voters in 2010:  ...

Republicans pointed to several other potential retirements that could recast races in key districts, including those of longtime Reps. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa), John Spratt (D-S.C.), John Tanner (D-Tenn.), Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.).

Here's the "Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates"  resolution list is as follows:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's "stimulus" bill;
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) We support workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership;

And the resolution concludes that any candidates who disagrees with three out of ten of these, "as identified by the voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate," shall be ineligible for the national party's endorsement or financial support.

There is hope for Conservatives!

Now that's what I'm talkin' about.

Flight 93 Fathers Oppose Terror Trials in US

Todd Beamer and  Thomas Edward Burnett, Jr. were two of the Flight 93 heroes who died on September 11, 2001.  David Beamer, Todd Beamer's father, spoke out on Fox news yesterday.  What moving and eloquent words directly from the heart.  Compare these fathers to the defense attorney who is advising them. Rusty Shackleford has the video (posted below) of the O'Reilly interview and Rusty describes him as an areshole, no other way to put it.

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Alex Rawls from Error Theory provides the following.  Tom Burnett, Jr.'s father

Tom Burnett Sr:

A military trial will do the same thing--give them justice, give them a chance to talk--but not out, you know, in the public.

Nicely framed and edited by KSTP Minneapolis:



Second Burnett interview here. If only our government, with all its resources, could make 1/100th the sense of this honest patriot, but honesty and patriotism seem to be completely absent from the Obama/Holder makeup. Mr. Burnett says he will fight.


Mr. Burnett is also trying to stop the Park Service from planting a giant Mecca-oriented crescent atop his son's grave

Video expose of what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace design, contains footage of Mr. Burnett and Alec Rawls (author of this blogburst post) at last year's Memorial Project meeting:

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Terrorist defense attorney, a/k/a America-hating b-----d and useful idiot.

From Michelle Malkin:

Remember what I said when Obama/Holder announced the 9/11 show trials:

If this White House thought Tea Party activists were an “angry mob,” wait until they see the backlash from 9/11 family members and their supporters nationwide.

Here you go, via Keep America Safe, TheBravest.com & 9/11 Families for a Safe & Secure America:

November 21, 2009

Dear Supporter,

Last Wednesday, a group of 9/11 family members and New York first responders attended the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which Attorney General Eric Holder testified about his decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the 9/11 co-conspirators in a New York City federal court. Mr. Holder stumbled through several tough and pointed questions about the dangers of giving war criminals the same rights as American citizens and blurring the mission of our war fighters. He was visibly unnerved by the presence of the families and the first responders. We want to keep the pressure on him, as well as President Obama, who we were shocked to learn was AWOL on this reckless decision.

Nearly two weeks ago we sent a letter signed by 300 family members to President Obama, AG Holder and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. After Mr. Holder’s announcement last Friday, another 120,000 people (as of today) have signed the letter in support of our position. Many of these individuals are family members from all three attack sites, active & retired FDNY, PAPD & NYPD, first responders from throughout the country and active, reserve and retired members of the military.

We are holding a press conference on Tuesday, November 24, at noon in Battery Park, Clinton Castle for the 9/11 families and first responders/survivors. We chose to hold it on Thanksgiving Week in the hope that our fellow Americans will join us in sending our prayers and messages of thanks to our troops and first responders, who bear the brunt of the decisions made in Washington. At that time we will announce the details for a large rally in New York City on Saturday, December 5, at noon at a location to be announced at the press conference.

Going forward, we think it is important that the rally be tightly focused on the issues of keeping 9/11 war crimes trials out of civilian courts, keeping foreign terrorists off U.S. soil, and reversing the policy of returning to pre-9/11 days when the U.S. Government responded to deadly terrorist attacks with arrest warrants.

Please stay tuned as we release more information in the next few days.

Tim Brown
theBravest.com
neverforget@theBravest.com

Debra Burlingame* and Tim Sumner
9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America
info@911familiesforamerica.org

*Debra Burlingame is also a board member of Keep America Safe.

Join them here. Find out more on how to take action here. Get involved. Raise your voices. Eternal vigilance requires it.

Afghanistan: Surrender, Dither, or ... UPDATED

Barack Obama's back on US soil, at least for the week, promising a decision of some kind on Afghanistan after Thanksgiving.  I'm hearing mixed messages from those who are supposed to know what's going to happen.  There is a serious rumor of surrender by giving the Taliban 5 (or is it 6) provinces on the one hand, and then there's this on the other hand  Latest word is the Taliban turned down the offer:

1. More troops are to go into Afghanistan. For the US between 20-35k. At the low end of GEN McChrystal's original request. Which is all but forgotten now.

2. Yes, there is much talk about an exit strategy, but that is years in the coming. Even the five year window is very ambitious. One should look more realistically at 2018/2020 which is also the window for Iraq.

3. Bearing in mind that most troops are going in with an eye on Pakistan.

I'm not sure Barack Obama can convince his base to send those troops or to stay in either Iraq or Afghanistan until 2020.  The numbers being discussed in the press are 32,000 to 35,000 more US troops.  We will see.  

Whispers of Surrender in Afghanistan? by Steve Schippert at Threats Watch.

It comes to our attention that the MEMRI Blog highlights an article from the Saudi al-Watan in Arabic that - according to an Afghan source - the United States is talking to the Taliban seeking to trade control of 5 provinces in exchange for the cessation of attacks on US bases. MEMRI summarizes:

An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement's foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has offered the Taliban control of the Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan, Kunar and Nuristan provinces in return for a halt to the Taliban missile attacks on U.S. bases.

Kunar province borders the Khyber Pass region where the majority of US and NATO supplies pass enroute from Pakistan. And the remaining four provinces constitute fully the southern 25% of Afghanistan's territory.

This, if true, is a disturbing development.

I have tried to come up with scenarios of why someone would lie about it in a leak. What would be to gain? Who would gain, and what would they gain? Without sleeping on it, the options for such appear narrow at best.

What does seem logical is that an Afghan privy to the negotiations could have become (rightly) spooked that they might just pull it off, and leaked word in hopes that it might so anger American public opinion that the entire endeavor might be scrapped. That's the most logical explanation for motivation I see at the moment.  (continue)

BlackFive:

Since we are hearing that surrender is on the table, we better take a look at what it would take to win. The Foreign Policy Initiative has a document exploding many of the myths about Gen. McChrystal's request for a fully-resourced Counterinsurgency strategy. [snip]

it quite easily punctures many of the arguments bandied about as to why we cannot win. And they finished this paper before the reports of a possible awakening against the Taliban came out.

In the Middle East neighborhood, Iran has taken a step closer to its goal of moving its capital away from Tehran to a new, as yet unbuilt location near the town of Qom.

In Yemen, Saudi Arabia has gone to war:

A crucially important conflict, woefully under-reported in the west, has now come to a head in the Middle East. In response to an ongoing fight that could spill out beyond the Arabian peninsula, Saudi Arabia has entered into direct war with the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen.

Saudi military intervention marks the first time in the kingdom's history that its army has crossed its borders without an ally. Previously, the kingdom engaged only in proxy wars. The Saudis used royalist Yemenis to fight Nasser's Egypt in the 1960s, Iraq's Saddam Hussein to fight Iran in the 1980s, and the US to fight Iraq in the 1990s.

Indeed, Saudi Arabia has fought every "ism" that has sought to dominate the Middle East, including Nasser's pan-Arabism, communism, and today's Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, the terrorism of al-Qaida and the Shi'ism of Iran. The tools it relied upon were oil money and Wahhabi Islam. During the 1980s, Saudi Arabia spent more than $75bn on the propagation of Wahhabi doctrine, funding schools, mosques, and charities across the Islamic world in an effort to bolster its influence.  (Guardian UK)

I've never trusted Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and I don't trust Obama.  Frank Gaffney wonders whose side Obama and his administration are on -- America or the enemy.  Good question.  Perhaps Obama can bow to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.  Then we can all just sit back and watch the rainbows and unicorns appear.  No?

update:

President Barack Obama held a "rigorous final meeting" with his Afghanistan war council and will announce his revised strategy for the eight-year-old conflict during a prime-time address Dec. 1, CBS News confirms.

Mr. Obama will meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill following the national address in order to shore up congressional support amid opposition by some Democrats who are worried about the strain on the U.S. Treasury and whether Afghanistan has become a quagmire, unnamed officials told Politico. (CBS)

Patient Evil e-book Chapter Sixty

Patient Evil

An R.J. Godlewski and Right Truth Blog Exclusive eBook

 

PART II

Chapter Sixty

November, 20xx
Pentagon Annex
Washington, D.C.

    For six months, Jonas Prinkler had been kept in solitary. Well, as solitary as he could withstand. Meredith visited more than a few times, just as a formality seeing how she was his immediate supervisor. Then there were the FBI types who played their infamous game of “bad cop, horrible cop” trying to get the overweight, underpaid analyst to fess up to his shenanigans.

   That the shenanigans in question were the product of his partner, the now-on-the-run Seth Carmassi, merely fueled his resolve. If there was one thing that Jonas learned from his association with the younger, more agile Carmassi, it was that their own government was often more dangerous – and criminal – than their more honest adversaries. At least the terrorists understood the concept of hypocrisy.

    Not the Bureau. The straight suiters reminded him of a trip to the local clinic. Once the clean-cut, articulated soul outlined the reasons for the visit, their function was quickly subjugated to the Marx Brothers. The comparison was too uncanny for Jonas and he simply resorted to the silent option affectionately known as “The Fifth”.

    This did not sit well with J. Edgar’s bastard children. They wanted to know how Jonas managed to arrive via commercial airline into D.C. without two terrorists in tow. Next, they wanted to know why Seth Carmassi was not with him. Finally, they wanted to know why Jonas thought little of the two previous questions.

    Jonas did not answer and proceeded to play dumb which wasn’t too hard as he had long since given up criticizing his partner’s modus operandi. The FBI agents – two men, one black; and one female, Hispanic – seemed a bit too much of a politically correct caricature for Jonas to apply serious thought to.

    They leveled charges of conspiracy, misappropriation of government resources, failure to Mirandize their charges, and stopped just short of announcing treason. When Jonas grumbled that he didn’t work for Justice, that he was a Department of Defense employee, their fit really hit the fan.

    Departing only to return a brief moment later with Meredith in stride, they announced rather pompously that one Jonas Prinkler would now be restricted to Room 297AA and, as if to authenticate his exile, an armed guard was positioned outside the door. It was the guard’s M4 carbine in place of the standard issue Beretta that apparently signaled the seriousness of the matter.

    Jonas began to relish the ever-decreasing visitations. The room was hardly big enough for his own bulk. Guests merely made the uncomfortable unbearable. He wasn’t talking anyway and what little he could tell them seemed rather ridiculous even to him.

     He and Seth Carmassi were sent to Ukraine to interview a terrorist few knew was in custody. Then they captured, lost, and captured again two unknown terrorists and now the FBI was infuriated because a DoD employee decided to go rogue in the matters of interrogating these two heretofore unknown criminals. The “Good Guy” was now the “Bad Guy” because he did to “real” bad guys what the “real” good guys were incapable of doing.

    As the months wore on, Jonas’s memories of the past evaporated into a semblance of a bad dream. Perhaps it was to be expected. Isolation deprived him of information and lack of information slowly caused him to be tossed outside of the data loop. He acquiesced that it was all part of their grand scheme – as long as he wasn’t talking, keep him from ever talking to anyone who might learn just how asinine the federal government really was.

    At least Steve McQueen had a baseball and mitt, he thought to himself as he remembered one of his favorite movies, The Great Escape. There would be no escape for Jonas, however, for he knew that he had never been more than a pawn.

    Seth had more opportunity, for the younger and more capable Carmassi simply did not give a rat’s ass about the government or protocol. If he found a terrorist, he simply beat them senseless until he found out what he needed to know and then proceeded to capture the next guy. He didn’t need to read anyone their Miranda Rights – he simply said “You lie, you die!”

    Jonas marveled over the contradictions between his partner and their employer. The government spent billions trying to underscore their civility. Television commercials and news interviews that suggested a better understanding with the larger world. Even hiring fairs were established with all the grandeur of an old-fashioned Irish folk carnival. It did not matter.

    The terrorists and their rogue supporters weren’t fooled. Reasoning with them was akin to rationalizing with a hungry hyena when it sensed prime rib upon your lips. The time spent trying to persuade the animal in sight merely allowed his pack to sneak up behind your back for the kill. The American government had simply abandoned the pack in favor of appeasing the closest predator.

    Jonas knew that it would never work and the weeks in solitary, hidden from even his fellow associates, caused within him a transformation that seemed quite impossible to consider even a few months into the past. His eyes were beginning to see more clearly than they ever had before. He was slowly understanding that America wasn’t just at war against radical Islam. It was at war with irrational Washington. Confined, isolated, and vilified, Jonas Prinkler no longer wanted to remain a mere pawn in the struggle.

    What he could do about it, was irrelevant at the moment. His salvation came from realizing that apathy had created his confinement, not his actions nor those from his government.  It was the eternal battle to convince the rank and file that their lives were in the grip of others that begged discussion.

    Jonas would extricate himself from his predicament. When he did, there would be hell to pay. Even if it meant his job. Whether he was prepared to sacrifice his life for this mission, he subconsciously chose not to consider. Fate would dictate when he was to perish, but his confinement rested solely upon his lack of effort to challenge those in positions of power. Not anymore.

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You can find chapters one through fifty-nine here.

Bible Verse Attributed to Barack Obama

According to a survey 16% of Americans credit Barack Obama as the source of what is actually a Bible verse.  Now that should really make him feel like the messiah.  I would like you to look at the verse, what it says, what it means, and how it is wrongly translated.  

The survey was conducted by Harris Interactive for the American Bible Society, in conjunction with the release of the group's new Poverty and Justice Bible. 

The Poverty and Justice Bible is described this way "Using the clear Contemporary English Version (CEV) text, it highlights more than 2,000 verses that spell out God's attitude to poverty and justice."

The Contemporary English Version is a simplified version of the Bible designed for children and uneducated adults (at a fourth grade reading level). It is similar to the Good News Bible previously published by the American Bible Society, though at a lower reading level. It was produced by employees of the American Bible Society (ABS) working under the direction of one of the Society's officers, Dr. Barclay M. Newman. Newman explained in an interview that he and his assistants "did a lot of research with children. We did a lot of research with persons who were not familiar with traditional biblical jargon, persons who are almost street people as a matter of fact, and then we tried to simply listen to the way that people speak ...  (Bible Researcher)

I have no problem with modern, accurate translations of the bible.  This is NOT one of them.  The Contemporary English version and the Poverty and Justice version, in my opinion, does not accurately translate the Bible from it's original -- it actually changes the scriptures.

Please note that the Bible verse used in the survey was taken from the Poverty and Justice Bible this way:

"You must defend those who are helpless and have no hope.

 Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless."

Compare the PJB to the NIV and KJV:

Proverbs 31:8-9 (New International Version)

 ⁸ "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. 

9 Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy."

Proverbs 31:8-9 (King James Version)

 ⁸Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 

⁹Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Do you see the differences in the meaning of the NIV and KJV compared to the Poverty and Justice version?  It is one thing to "speak up for" someone, it is quite another to "give justice to" someone.

The Poverty and Justice Bible seems to put all emphasis on that and takes away from the main message of the Bible -- man's separation from God, sin, God's love and sacrifice to bring man to salvation.  There has always been a tendency for people to concentrate on either the love of God, or the wrath of God, to the detriment of the other.  My belief has always been that we cannot pick and choose because God is all these things.  

Allen Higgins points out that we do recognize the weak, the hungry, the homeless and we do reach out and help them.  We do this because God loves us and because God's Word tells us it's the right thing.  He also points out that there are many people who do not believe in God, who have no faith, and they too help the needy. 

As a Conservative I believe that the best way is not to give justice, but to help the individuals to help themselves. I'm reminded of the story about either giving a fish which will feed for a day, or teaching them how to fish so they can provide for themselves for a lifetime. 

This is the difference in Conservatives and Liberals (Socialists, Progressives, whatever).  Conservatives want to make people independent, our present administration wants to make them dependent on government.  Of course government has no money except what they take from us.  

Besides,in John 12:8  Jesus says, "You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me." The government can spend money until they turn blue and their war against hunger, homelessness, poor, ... will never be won.

Putting all that aside, it is easy to see how 16% of Americans would credit Barack Obama with that Bible verse. 

Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

September 11, 2001 terrorists to lecture Americans on why we were attacked... What could go wrong with that?

I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in

I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in

I got up so tight I couldn't unwind

I saw so much I broke my mind

I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

     --Kenny Rogers

That's how many Americans feel this morning as they read the news.  I smell rebellion in the air, rebellion from sane Americans, rebellion from Catholics and Christian denominations, rebellion from Conservatives ...  US President Barack Obama's 'new tone of respect and diplomacy' (cough) on foreign policy has crashed and burned.  So what will he do now?  The economy continues to crash and burn as Obama begs Americans to write a personal check to the government to help bring down the debt.  I wonder if Lynn Stewart will be available to represent the terrorists?

Lawyer: 9/11 Defendants Will Tell Jury 'Why They Did It' FOX

NEW YORK  —  The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."

Atlas Shrugs says, "Let the circus begin. And the clown in the White House will enjoy every disgusting minute of this obamanation. Jihad attacked America, jihad is winning. "

"I doubt that the American people, excepting those on the Hard Left, will enjoy or appreciate what the terrorists will have to say, and there will be some nastiness heading Obama and Holder’s way."  (Stop the ACLU)

As A.C. says:

Meanwhile, the lone nut who used Islam to justify killing 13 soldiers will likely plead not guilty". [snip]

Meanwhile the Cole bombers must still be huddling to discuss their media strategy since it hasn't been released yet. Will they also decide to make it about 'foreign policy'? Could be problematic--their crime occurred in 2000 so the judge could limit their rantings to pre-2000 foreign policy.  (continue)

Todd Beamer's father, David Beamer, was on Fox News this morning.  He attended the hearing in Congress with Eric Holder and he is furious.  His talk was eloquent, well thought out and well presented.  He calls on Americans to stand up and put America's house back in order with a regime change in 2010 and 2012.

Just a reminder of what Obama wrote about the 9/11 jihadists eight days after the attack left 3,000 innocent men, women, and children dead on American soil: (Michelle Malkin)

“We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.

”Should we accept that the existing order of the West cannot survive? (Lawrence Auster)

Fjordman has a piece at Gates of Vienna in which introduces ideas he says he will write about at more length in an upcoming article. Here's the key passage:

I think we need to be realistic and realize that the current political-ideological order is completely broken and beyond repair. Instead of wasting time and energy on attempting to fix what cannot be fixed we need to prepare as best as we can for the coming crash and hopefully regroup to create something new and stronger afterward. There will be a pan-Western and perhaps international economic and social collapse in the not-too-distant future. I fear that this is too late to avoid by now. The people who support the ruling paradigm are too powerful and the paradigm contains so many flaws that it cannot be fixed. It needs to crash. We should focus on surviving this crash and on developing a new paradigm to replace the failed one.

Religious leaders are calling for civil disobedience if laws don't respect faith -- and I'm not talking about Islamic religious leaders, I'm talking Catholic, Christian leaders.

A formidable coalition of 150 Catholic, Orthodox and evangelical leaders are calling on Christians in a new manifesto to reject secular authority – and even engage in civil disobedience – if laws force them to accept abortion, same-sex marriage and other ideas that betray their religious beliefs.

On Friday, these leaders released a 4,700-word document – called the "The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience."  (continue)

With all this going on, what is the main stream media worried about?  They are obsessed with Sarah Palin's audiences and worried about who will replace Oprah.

Sudden Jihad Syndrome continues here in the United States and bringing enemy combatants to the homeland will only make things worse.  See the full and complete list of Sudden Jihad attacks here.

Don't just sit back and watch the circus in New York City.  Get up and follow David Beamer's suggestion.  We need regime change in America and we need it now. 

Good gracious people -- the Catholic church and other Christians are calling for civil disobedience.  Think about that.  Fjordman may be right - "The people who support the ruling paradigm are too powerful and the paradigm contains so many flaws that it cannot be fixed. It needs to crash. We should focus on surviving this crash and on developing a new paradigm to replace the failed one."  Heaven help us all!  Fjordman goes on to say:

We need to learn from our enemies, both internal and external. The one thing I reluctantly admire about Marxists and Leftists of all stripes is above all their ability to organize and focus on long-term goals. Unfortunately, their goals are usually destructive, but we can and must learn from their organizational skills so that we can beat them at their own game. They must be squashed, otherwise we cannot deal rationally and adequately with our external enemies.

We must get rid of Feminism, which is destructive and merely an extension of Marxism, anyway. We must prepare as best as we can for a collapse of the US dollar and perhaps the Euro. We must document what is being done to us by treasonous elites for future references, for instance by making a video dedicated to anti-white verbal and physical violence around the world. We must take steps to ensure our physical safety and regain pride in our heritage.

We need to get rid of the EU, ridicule the UN and starve it for funds. I’m not sure whether we need NATO, either, although I’m willing to debate that part. The American defense umbrella may no longer be sustainable when the US economy fails.  [snip]

 ... The United States will not survive this century. It will be split into several countries according to ethnic, racial and perhaps even ideological lines. There is no such thing as a universal nation. People want to live with their own kind. The only ones who are not allowed to do so are whites, and they are starting to get tired of this double standard.  (read it all)

See: Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience.

Check out Bombs and Dollars list of top blogs (yes Right Truth is there).

Sunday Afternoon Pot Luck

An Awakening in Afghanistan?

Obama’s General Says: Syria Allied with Al-Qaida, Attacking U.S.;   White House Says: Is that a Problem?

Burqua Barbie in the West?

 

...  the Burqa Barbie is being auctioned off for the Save the Children charity. Save the Children? Surely, you must be jesting. I would like to save the children from this... [snip]

 A woman, a girl, in a chador, chadari, burqa, cannot see that well. You cannot hear what she is saying. She cannot hear you. A woman in a burqa can’t run, or even walk that well. She stumbles. Inside, she has to balance a baby, a shopping bag, maybe a pair of glasses perched on her nose, slipping. If it’s hot, she is sweltering. If it’s sunny, she is still deprived of sunlight and Vitamin D. The burqa violates a woman’s human rights. It poses a danger to a woman’s health, both mental and medical. [snip]

Mattel: take Burqa Barbie off the market.

Parents: Boycott it.

Calling all Charities: Save the children from it.  --Dr. Phyllis Chesler

Obama's Terrorism Against Jews: He Uses His Website to Incite Violence Against the Jews.

Andy McCarthy: "If you kill thousands of civilians, we will give you better rights than if you attack military assets. That is dangerously irresponsible"

 

The Tactical Citizen's Guide to Faith and Religion

The Tactical Citizen's Guide to Faith and Religion

By R. J. Godlewski

“Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.” Dennis Miller

Conversion can be a good thing. It means, literally, changing from one condition into another. A person can, say, convert from being an atheist into a Roman Catholic or, perhaps, changing from a progressive liberal Democrat into a conservative Republican.

It can also represent a bad thing, particularly when the conversion at hand is lukewarm or indecisive such as when a non-practicing Muslim converts to radicalism or whenever a Christian utters those infamous words, “I‟m born again!” In both cases, the adherent simply abandons orthodoxy (which they feel is wrong) for a more radicalized version of their faith (which in nearly all cases is founded upon this very orthodoxy). Neither of these people converted; they simply individualized.

We, particularly within the United States, empower this second form of conversion because we have misinterpreted both the terms „Faith‟ and „Religion‟. We have come to accept faith as belief and religion as any form of practice where the individual acknowledges an existence greater than they are.

We permit nearly anyone with a sufficient filling fee to establish a church (religion) and allow anyone who says that they believe in Jesus Christ (e.g., Mormons) to call themselves Christian.  This leads to several disturbing situations. First, you have the high-power televangelists who are admired by others for giving upwards of ninety percent of their income to their church. Trust me, if you set your own interpretations of the Bible, preach within your own multi-million dollar church, and contribute to those causes that reflect your own preferences, you are most emphatically not Christian – you are simply a businessperson in shepherd‟s clothing. Come to think of it, most televangelists are not even that humble – they dress in stereotypical corporate attire befitting their enterprise.

The second situation that arises is that politicians and academics, among others, often profess to a particular belief but proceed to conduct their lives as if they believe otherwise. Either you believe in something or you do not (remember what I said about bad conversions). Those who profess one thing and believe in another are more dangerous to society than all the Islamic terrorists out there trying to kill us are. Most terrorists have always wanted to kill us; they just now have the opportunity to do so.

Religion – like politics – is supposed to be one of those things that you do not talk about in public. It is “private” and not to be discussed within  mixed company. Is there any reason, then, that we cannot understand the concept of faith?

Iran's Proxy War In Yemen

Iran's Proxy War In Yemen

Realite EU

Iran is sparking violence in northern Yemen through its political and military support of the al-Houthi militants, a Shia offshoot sect within the Zaidi movement [1]   Since 2004, the Iran-backed Shia al-Houthi militants have been fighting against the Yemeni government, but the conflict has now reached a boiling point.[2] On Nov. 15, Yemen's counter-terrorism Chief General Yahya Salih told Al-Jazeera in an interview that “there is no doubt” that Iran is supporting and financing the Houthi proxy war against the government of Yemen.[3]

The militant group is named after Hussein Al-Houthi, an Al-Haq party representative in the Yemeni parliament from 1993 to 1997, who sought to overtake the government due to its alliance with the United States.[4]  The Yemeni government alleges that the militant group seeks to establish an independent Shiite state in northern Yemen.[5].

This conflict consists of sectarian strife between Yemen’s Sunni Muslim majority and its Shia minority.[6] Shia Muslims comprise the majority of Iran’s total population (90-95 percent) and nearly 40 percent of Yemen’s population is Shia.[7].

Yemen has evolved as a hub for al-Qaeda activity in the Gulf and is the birthplace of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s father.[8].  In October 2000, al-Qaeda Islamists in Yemen attacked the USS Cole, a U.S. navy ship, killing 17 U.S. servicemen.[9]

While this conflict has not been heavily reported in the Western media, the Arab press have been increasingly publicly criticizing Iran’s interference pointing to further disquiet about Iran’s hegemonic ambitions in the region.[10]

Iran Threatening Yemen’s Sovereignty

•The Yemeni Navy seized an Iranian ship on Oct. 26 off of Yemen’s northwestern coast in the Red Sea, carrying anti-tank missiles intended for the Houthi militants.[11]   Government sources also revealed that the five Iranian crewmen aboard the ship were weapons experts.[12].

•Iranian Fourth Fleet’s presence in the Gulf of Aden facilitates the Islamic Republic to increase its weapon smuggling operations to terrorist groups and Shia Islamists in Yemen in Somalia, according to experts in an interview with the Egyptian government weekly Akhbar Al-Yaum.[13] . Experts also said that Iran was smuggling weapons to Yemen via Eretria.[14]

•On Oct. 19, the President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Salih accused certain Iranian dignitaries of funding the proxy war fought by the Houthi militants and of trying to create a “Shiite zone” along the Yemen-Saudi border; adding that the militants “have been trained in the same manner followed by Hezbollah in south Lebanon."[15]

•Sheikh Abdul Majid al-Zandani, the head of Yemen's Imam University, said "The way events are moving in this country latest indicates to us that Iran wants to export the Shia ideology by force, which we utterly reject."[16]

Gulf Countries Deride Iran’s Proxy War

Iran’s role is arming the northern Yemenite minority is now threatening neighboring Saudi Arabia, forcing the Kingdom’s involvement in the conflict.[17]

Saudi Arabia imposed a naval blockade in the Red Sea on Nov. 10 to prevent Iran from attempting to ship additional weapons to militants in northern Yemen.[18]

Referencing Saudi Arabia’s involvement, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki warned "Those who pour oil on the fire must know that they will not be spared from the smoke that billows."[19]

Iran’s proxy war against the government of Yemen, along the border of Saudi Arabia is forcing Arab leaders to speak out. Egypt’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Oct. 4 "We reject... any kind of rebellion and we reject any foreign interference [in Yemen]. Egypt is wholly supporting - with all its power and capabilities - its sister Yemen."[20]

Hezbollah Aiding Militants: Striking Similarities between Militia Groups in South Lebanon and Yemen

In a March 28 interview with the London daily al-Hayat, Salih said “Lebanese Hezbollah activists are giving wide-scale aid to the Al-Khawthi group in Yemen. They are providing military and logistics training: The Al-Khawthis received training from a number of specialists and entities associated with Hezbollah, in assembling bombs, mines and explosives."[21]

Head of the Sanaa-based Future Studies Centre Fares al-Sakkaf says that similarities exist between the Huthi militants and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah. Both are military wings with a political branch.[22]

On Nov. 16, the Shiite militants in Yemen claimed they launched a Katyusha rocket in their attack at on a Saudi military base.[23]

The Katyusha rocket is the primary weapon Iran provides to Hezbollah. The Lebanese-based Iran proxy group is in possession of more than 40,000 Katyusha rockets.[24]

Hezbollah receives substantial amounts of financial, training, weapons, explosives, political, diplomatic, and organizational aid from Iran and Syria. Iran probably provides financial and military assistance worth about $25-50 million. Hezbollah is closely allied with, and often directed by, Iran, but has the capability and willingness to act independently.[25]

Footnotes below the fold 

All you Huckabee supporters ...

I saw Mike Huckabee on Fox and Friends this morning defending Barack Obama and blasting some in the GOP, calling their opposition to what Obama is doing to this country "shameful" and "deplorable".  It is very likely Huckabee is planning to run for president again in 2012 but I did not vote for him in 2008 and I won't vote for him in 2012.  He's too much like John McCain who refused to point out Obama's shady connections in 2008 and even praised Obama. 

McCain stifled Sarah Palin and would not let her speak the truth during the campaign.  McCain is a RINO, always trying to please the Democrats more than his own party.  I do not want Republicans to find themselves in the same position they were in 2008, with a candidate the Democrats loved and the MSM promoted. 

Huckabee first made similar statements at Hudson Union Society a few weeks ago.  The Los Angeles Times says, "He could go down as the first Republican to spar with conservative icon Rush Limbaugh and live to talk about it."

Finally, recalling that liberals regularly reviled George W. Bush no matter what he did, Huckabee, a former pastor, pleaded for comity.

I hated it when people did that to George Bush. They couldn't even laugh at the man's jokes. They found something wrong with everything and if we do that to Barack Obama, then shame on us, shame on us. No wonder our country is so divided when that happens.

Huckabee made the comments while on book tour for "A Simple Christmas." Republican insiders, mindful of all the attention focused on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue," are calling Huckabee's "the other book tour."

There you have it, Huckabee and his book is getting very little attention while Sarah Palin is everywhere -- the media and Americans can't get enough of her.  Her book was top of the charts long before it was on book shelves.  Huckabee is jealous.

Huckabee sent out an e-mail that solicits funds for his political action committee, Huck PAC, and helps to remind his supporters "I'm on book tour, too."  Waaaaah haaaaa!!!  A Simple Christmas is ranked #42.

Earlier this month a Gallup poll had Huckabee as the top GOP candidate for president in 2012 with 40%,  Mitt Romney in second place with 39%, Sarah Palin in third with 33%, and Newt Gingrich in fourth place with 29%.  Newt Gingrich?  Please, he jumped the fence long ago and is more RINO than McCain these days.

Mitt Romney is scheduled to bring out No Apology: The Case for American Greatness next March.   Newt Gingrich is hawking To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom, a book he co-authored that was published last month. (USA Today)

I'm willing to bet that the media will not send out eleven researchers to fact check any of those books, including Huckabee's, as they did with Sarah Palin.  Why do they feel the urgent need to trash her?  Because they fear her.  They fear her popularity with the American people -- not the elites, or the liberals, but Americans who still believe America is great, who still believe in the constitution, personal freedoms.

Do you think for one minute the media would promote Palin as they did McCain?  Well of course not. 

I say Mike Huckabee is shameful and deplorable for stooping so low just to get the media's attention and sell a few books.  Shameful!  To Huckabee I say, "When and if Obama does anything worth praising, I'll be the first one to speak out."

The Truth About Pakistan and Afghanistan

Osama bin Laden is the goose that lays platinum eggs.

If we killed or captured Osama and Zawahiri, the Pakistanis might not be able to milk us for more tribute money. We could draw down our troop presence next door. And the Pakistanis would lose the mighty profits squeezed from our supply route into Afghanistan.

The Pakistanis don't want us to remain in Afghanistan forever, but they're not ready to hit the brakes on the gravy train, either. They're of two minds -- and the greedy side tends to win in the short term.

And as long as we "need" Pakistan, Islamabad will be able to sponsor more terror attacks on India, counting on us to intervene before New Delhi retaliates.

Why on earth would they hand over Osama?

My mistake became clear with the passage of time: Eight years after 9/11, Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency must know where Osama hangs his turban. The ISI has connections even among the state's most virulent enemies. It's impossible to believe that, after this much time has elapsed, it has no idea where Osama's hiding. He could even be under the ISI's active protection. --Ralph Peters, New York Post (hat tip R.J. Godlewski)

At CBS Tom Engelhardt has what he calls the speech that Obama should give concerning Afghanistan.  You can go read his article and the proposed speech, but here's the key paragraph:

... let me say as bluntly as I can that I have decided to send no more troops to Afghanistan. Beyond that, I believe it is in the national interest of the American people that this war, like the Iraq War, be drawn down. Over time, our troops and resources will be brought home in an orderly fashion, while we ensure that we provide adequate security for the men and women of our Armed Forces. Ours will be an administration that will stand or fall, as of today, on this essential position: that we ended, rather than extended, two wars. (read it all)

I'll let you decide whether you think this is the right thing for Obama to do.  But we all know this is what his base wants.  We all know the history in Afghanistan.  As I've said before, if we can't fight a war with everything we've got to WIN it, then bring the troops home.

Proof scientists were colluding to push man made global warming mantra

Here’s the story, briefly:  Hadley CRU is one of the major climate change advocacy organizations.  Hackers broke into its database and discovered more than a thousand emails and documents indicating that scientists were colluding with the organization to push the “man made global warming” mantra — irrespective of the actual data.  Indeed, in many cases, it appears that the organization, sometimes working with the scientists, was falsifying the data to push the agenda.  This stuff pre-dates Al Gore’s “frog in the blender” (or do I mean “frog in the boiling water”?) campaign, but it surely informs the campaign, which started shortly after and continued during this information creation period.  (Bookworm Room)

Andrew Bolt at the Herald Sun blog has the story, he has the emails that were hacked and you can go here to read them and Bolt's commentary.  We all knew that man made global warming was nothing but a hoax but this is beyond words.  In one of Bolt's updates he provides the following:

The Hadley University of East Anglia CRU director admits the emails seem to be genuine:

The director of Britain’s leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition tonight ..."It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails."…

TGIF asked Jones about the controversial email discussing “hiding the decline”, and Jones explained what he was trying to say….

So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory - a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science. I’ve been adding some of the most astonishing in updates below - emails suggesting conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more. If it is as it now seems, never again will “peer review” be used to shout down sceptics.

This is clearly not the work of some hacker, but of an insider who’s now blown the whistle.

Not surprising, then, that Steve McIntyre reports:

Earlier today, CRU cancelled all existing passwords. Actions speaking loudly.

The hacker is now believed to be an  insider who’s now blown the whistle.(Sustainability Ninja)

Clarice Feldman at The American Thinker says  there is " ... evidence of substantial fraud in reporting the "evidence" on global warming; the unlawful destruction of records to cover up this fraud ,conspiracy,and deceit in the entire operation."

You can bet there will be more on this in the next few day.

Thanks to all who brought this to my attention, including Marcus Wilder - The Naive Abroad and R.J.Godlewski.

Also see an excellent piece at The Reference Frame.

Gore Lied!

National Institute of Prevarication.

Orthodox Net.com Blog:

The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”.

The Telegraph:  Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?

From The Examiner:

The University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre appears to have suffered a security breach earlier today, when an unknown hacker apparently downloaded 1079 e-mails and 72 documents of various types and published them to an anonymous FTP server. These files appear to contain highly sensitive information that, if genuine, could prove extremely embarrassing to the authors of the e-mails involved. Those authors include some of the most celebrated names among proponents of the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

The FTP link first appeared on a blog called The Air Vent. The blog's owner, identified as "Jeff Id", downloaded the file, examined it, and posted a brief summary on his blog. Another commenter, identified as "Steven Mosher," passed the information on to Steven McIntyre's Climate Audit blog and to another blog, The Blackboard, run by a blogger identified as "Lucia." Most recently, blogger Anthony Watts, who runs a blog titled "Watts Up With That?" mentioned the FTP archive in his own blog.

Commentary on all the blogs involved has been brisk, except, oddly enough, at The Air Vent, where only seven comments have been received.

The FTP server is in a Russian domain and uses the anonymous FTP protocol, which does not require a pre-registered user account or password for downloading. The file is named FOI2009.zip, an apparent reference to US Public Law 89-554, 80 Stat. 383, the Freedom of Information Act.  (continue at The Examiner)

Army bans press at Sarah Palin event

The US government is on the cusp of a takeover if the Senate can buy enough votes tomorrow to consider-to-consider the latest 2074 page health care bill.  Read it here if you have the time.  Take the time now to contact your politicians.  Go here for contact information.  Now to what the media would rather talk about, Sarah Palin.  Never mind the mess the Obama administration is getting America into, his media would rather trash Sara.

Just do a Google news search or a web search and you will see a small sample of what's out there.   Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin is what everybody is talking about.  The article that really caught my attention is "Army fears anti-Obama politics at Palin Event".  Tell me what you think about the statements contained in the article:

RALEIGH, N.C. – The U.S. Army plans to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg, fearing the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama, officials said Thursday.

Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum told The Associated Press that the military post's garrison commander and other Army officials had decided to keep media away from Palin's book signing, which will not include a speech.

The AP and The Fayetteville Observer were protesting the decision to ban media.

"The law couldn't be clearer about this," said AP Associate General Counsel Dave Tomlin. "The government can't admit the general public but keep journalists out."

McCollum said the Army did not want the Monday event to become a platform to express political opinions "directed against the commander in chief."

"The main reason is to stop this from turning into a political platform," he said. "There are Army regulations that basically prohibit military reservations from becoming political platforms by politicians."

He said only one politician can use that platform, "and that person does it as our commander in chief."

"Excuse me" was my first reaction, but as I read on I think I understand the Army's position.  They can't decide whether Palin is a politician or not.  Technically she is not, she is just a citizen. 

Fort Bragg does not hold many promotional events, especially not with political figures, McCollum said. He added that politicians do come onto Fort Bragg in their official capacity to meet with troops or do private events, but not to hold forums or give speeches. He said the Army was fine allowing Palin to do her event, so long as it didn't become a stage for a public political discussion via the media.

Other Palin articles:

Palinophobes Hate First, Ask Questions Later, Jonah Goldberg.

Sally Quinn on Sarah Palin -- Versus Reality, David Limbaugh

Palin-Hating 101, S. E. Cupp

GQ Magazine: Barack Obama - Leader of the Year, Sarah Palin - Dangerous, Poisonous, By Terry Trippany at NewsBusters

Andrew Sullivan's Palin-Induced Psychosis, says American Power Blog.

Michelle Malkin hammered Andrew Sullivan today with her piece, "It's Official: Atlantic Magazine Blogger Suffers Palin-Induced Psychosis."

The Council Has Spoken- The Affirmative Action President And a Detainee Circus

 

Another week has passed, and the Council has spoken!

In the Council category, the winner this week was Bookworm Room with The Perils Of An Affirmative Action President:

My argument is that Barack Obama is one of the number of useless, mediocre people who, thanks to affirmative action, have been elevated to a position far above their natural abilities. The absence of grades is not the only indication of Obama’s intellectual weakness. (And believe me, if his grades were good, they’d be published in every paper in America, including the want ads.)

Everything Obama’s turned his hand to — except for using people to advance his career — has failed. The Annenberg Challenge was a $100 million disaster. His legal career was, to say that least, undistinguished. (I should add here that junior associates always have undistinguished careers. There’s just not that much scope there.) His tenure as an Illinois State Senator was marked by dithering indecision, coupled with the intelligent strategy, for a stupid person, of simply vanishing when the votes came around. The same holds true for his career in the United States Senator. If you examine those two tenures in political office without the gloss of the media love affair, all you’ve got is plenty of nothing.

Obama’s professorship at the U. of Chicago law school was equally undistinguished. He published nothing. His disquisitions on the Constitution show he knows nothing. That is, he doesn’t even have the true intellectual’s excuse of fully understanding, but nevertheless arguing against, the language of the Constitution itself or the standard interpretations of that language. I pity the students who had his class.

In the non-Council category the winner was The Rosistance for The Lawyer in the White House, the Spy in Federal Prison: Giving Away National Security :

The President is now going to give away our national intelligence gathering and analysis capabilities, as now “discovery” is in play, and you can bet the rest of the world will be clamoring for official transcripts of the trial, and full sets of all evidence, so they can discern how we finally caught them after we first let them do their harm to the nation and our society. The men who have cost this nation close to over 7,000 lives (9/11 and the military casualties), not to mention the tens of thousands who were wounded, and on top of all of that, the massive amount of spending to demolish, then reconstruct ships, and structures they destroyed. And don’t forget to add to that the spending, both governmentally and personally, in excess of just flying from one place to another, pretty much anywhere in the world, and the cost of the delivery of goods by shipping. Yes, airport/airline and port security are major costs we have had to bear because a few men think the entire world deserves to return the the salad days of living in the desert with tents and slaves from all other parts of the world they could easily reach, or take by force of arms.

Just as the disclosures by the New York Times regarding the tracking of terrorists by their cell phone signals put out our eyes, followed by the disclosure that the US was tracking money moving to the terrorists in the international electronic banking network put us in the dark again, the discovery process will be a very similar exposure of how we actually keep ourselves protected from mass murdering individuals and groups and other nations.

Other articles you may be interested in reading:

Bin-Laden's Son Wants To Work For the United Nations

NEFA Foundation: Interview with Spokesman for Pakistani Al-Qaida, By Evan Kohlmann

Debate Shifts to Afghan Exit Plan, Wall Street Journal

In announcing new Afghan strategy, Obama faces a crowded calendar, Washington Post

Islam Is Different, Snake Hunters.

Taqwacore - The Birth of Punk Islam, The Sudanese Thinker

Burning Down the Straw Man

Burning Down the Straw Man

By Paul A. Ibbetson

As has been the case for many years, and especially most recently, the charge is that conservatives are falsely railing against a straw man in their observations and accusations leveled against the activities of liberals, and the Obama administration. Before I address this situation directly, let’s take a moment to look at what is meant by the term “straw man.”

The concept of the “straw man” is the observation of the deceptive capability of humankind. When an individual wants to divert attention from a true issue, a false or irrelevant topic is created and attacked, and by doing so, advantage (if not victory) is achieved through such an argument. This is a mixture of misdirection and deception, and in layman’s terms, a battle waged against things that just aren’t there. Defending against the straw man charge is problematic. For conservatives that have the fortitude to stand up to the Obama administration’s attacks on this country, it is not just the repercussions brought forth by angry liberals that are a problem. Going beyond those attacks is the challenge for conservatives to constantly disprove the straw man; that is, that the threats facing this nation being brought forth by the most aggressive socialistic pushers of modern day are more than the fictitious creations of a minority party wishing to grab back the reins of political power.

When it comes to battling the accusations from the left that conservatives are simply attacking a straw man, the strategy liberals have in play is for those who wish to stand up for this country to spend endless time trying to prove the obvious - that this administration is about to destroy the country. This is the epitome of hypocrisy, even from the left which has hit some really highs lately, hitting below the belt pertaining to the best interest of this country. This does not mean that illusionary constructions are not taking place to deceive the public. What it does mean is that the biggest scams on reality today are not coming from the demonized gun toting, Bible-clinging conservatives. Here are the real culprits and the straw man illusionary constructions they are spinning, and why they must be stopped sooner - not later.

The biggest false reality and misdirection that is being framed across the United States is that we, the American people, are living in a state of normalcy and the greatest nation on Earth is being guided by a President, with a supporting cast of politicians, who aspire to promote the continual prosperity of a capitalistic Christian nation. The most deadly of illusions being forwarded daily to the public, and with extreme efficiency, I believe, is the notion that this nation can survive any and all actions of abuse heaped upon it. It’s time to remove the veil of deceit before the face of this country and let all the straw men burn until nothing but the truth stands before us. The truth, unfortunately, is that we are all in big trouble. As the nation goes, we go. 

In a country where the waters of the “well of the benefit of the doubt” run deep, President Barack Obama has drawn every drop in his short tenure as commander and chief of the United States. From his lips alone, he has rejected America as a Christian nation and washed his hands of the Biblical (if not humanity’s) responsibility for the unborn. This same president has indebted the nation to our economic opponents to amounts the human mind can no longer fathom, and the numbers keep increasing by the second. Through his minions found in the radical, left-leaning Democrat Party, this president is attempting to socialize the very existence of every man, woman, and child within our borders and bring them to their knees as modern-day slaves.

The question of the acceptance of a fabricated illusion of normality versus the cold reality of impending doom and chaos is nothing new as it has been the unfortunate choice for people throughout history, such as the Romans in the time of Caligula, the Soviets in the time Stalin, the Germans in the time of Hitler, the Iraqis in the time of Hussein, and now the Americans in the time of Obama. The tyrants, methods of destruction, and illusions spun to quell revolt may change but the inevitable outcomes remain the same. Slavery, pain, suffering, economic and physical death have consistently been the end product.

The American people stand in a historical place where others have been before. A place where once a myriad of choices stood, having been squandered, now only the most basic remain. As those before us have had to decide, we can choose to languish in an illusion that all is well, that all will be well, until the bloody end, or we can collectively take up the mantle of responsibility and meet the forces of destruction and unseat them from power and stop the deadly tide that will inevitably destroy us. Let all the straw men burn with their adjoining deceptions despite who may be their creators as this country can no longer afford illusionary constructions when our current situation is so near, real, and dangerous.

Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 f.m. www.ibbetsonusa.com. For interviews or questions, please contact ibbetson91.9@gmail.com

A bottle of wine a day keeps the doctor away

It used to be that an apple a day kept the doctor away, but now it's a bottle of wine, any wine.  Sounds like more fun than an apple.  According to the Telegraph, "Drinking up to a bottle of wine a day cuts the risk of developing heart disease in men by half, controversial new research has found." Do you know what's wrong with that statement and with the study?

As with most "studies", one must look at what the study actually says and also at who conducted the study and how it was conducted.  The study concluded that:

Drinking anything between a quarter of a glass of wine up to a bottle a day reduces the risk of heart disease. 

There's a big difference in a quarter of a glass and a bottle.  Does drinking a full bottle increase your benefits?  Nope.

Experts warned that the protective effect against heart disease did not get bigger the more people drank but the risk of cancer, accidents, mental health problems and liver cirrhosis do increase with high consumption.  

The protective effect did not increase significantly the more people drank and those with the highest consumption,11 units or more – the equivalent to over one bottle of red wine a day – still had a 50 per cent lower chance of heart disease.

Where was the study, which included 41,000 people between the ages of 29 and 69, conducted?

The study, published in the journal Heart, was conducted in Spain, one of the world's largest producers of wine but with one of the lowest death rates from heart disease.

That must have been one fun study, where do we sign up? 

It's not just wine, it's any kind of alcohol:

The effects were seen for all forms of alcohol and were not limited to red wine, which previous research has suggested was especially protective for the heart because of substances in the skins of red grapes.  

Now that I have informed you of this most worthy information, I'm going to get me a margarita and keep my heart healthy.  Cheers!

The Tactical Citizen’s Guide to Understanding Improvised Explosive Devices

The Tactical Citizen’s Guide to Understanding Improvised Explosive Devices

by R.J. Godlewski

May 18th, 1927. Bath, Michigan. Andrew P. Kehoe, frustrated by a pending foreclosure on his ranch and infuriated over high taxes levied upon him to pay for the tiny village‟s school, tied his wife to a small milk cart, bludgeoned her to death, and then set his farm ablaze with her body still tied near the rickety hen coup. He loaded his truck with dynamite and old, rusty machinery and drove to the crowded school just eight miles northeast of Lansing and detonated the vehicle. Thirty-eight children and six adults were killed in all, including the Kehoes. It was the worst ever intentional mass killing of schoolchildren in the United States. A few days later, Charles Lindbergh successfully crossed the Atlantic and the devastation in Michigan quickly retreated from the frontlines of newsworthy stories. The devastation had simply disappeared into history as fast as it had erupted.

The devastating effectiveness of improvised explosive devices (IED) – whether of the vehicular- (VBIED) or pedestrian-borne (PBIED) variety – is definitely not a new phenomenon by any stretch of the imagination. The “Philosophy of the Bomb”, indeed, has been around almost from the moment that man first fused raw hatred with gunpowder.1 Today, the destructive power of the IED is nearly limitless – such as the 2,000-pound tamper-proof device that destroyed Harvey‟s Casino in 1980.2 In the eternal battle between Chechnyan separatists and Russian soldiers, IEDs took on several designs that would appear years later in Iraq. These included books that detonated when opened, beer cans that blew up when the tab was pulled, and flashlights that killed their users when turned on.3

The word “improvised” bears scrutiny. Any object that you come into contact with may conceal explosives. A soda can, a leather satchel, a delivery van, or, more disturbingly, the body of any one of the shoppers passing you by while you shop. How will you know? How will you know that the iPod® being enjoyed by the fellow sitting next to you on the bus isn‟t really packed with explosives? What about the new air conditioning unit being installed within your office? What of the fire extinguisher sitting a few feet away from your desk at this very moment? The truth is, you simply can‟t. Not unless you remain one step ahead of the terrorists out to kill you and therein remains a significant challenge. How do you know from where a terrorist is likely to attack? By understanding what is “normal” within your environment, and what is not.  (continue reading, pdf)

Note from Debbie:

I can't think of a better time for this article-- with terrorists being brought from Guantanamo Bay Cuba to New York City for trial, with Muslims in the military turning to jihad, to make readers aware of the threat from IED's here in the US.  You may say, "oh it can never happen here, to me..." but you would be wrong. 

Experts in terrorism have been predicting in recent years that it is just a matter of time before suicide bombers, IED's, and similar terror acts taking place in the Middle East and other places, will be active here in the United States.  Being aware of what they look like, how to identify and get the right people to disarm them quickly, or being able to get people around you to safety, is your personal responsibility.  Please go read the entire article (pdf), then you can come back here and leave R.J. Godlewski your comments.  

And don't you just love that image he created!  -- Debbie

While you‟re at it, support the Wounded EOD Warrior project at http://www.woundedeodwarrior.org/  

Cultural Revolution in America

Cultural Revolution in America

by Gwendolyn Kik at American Daughter  

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian marxist who made a plan for the insidious erosion of freedom without overt hostility.

Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society. ~~ Antonio Gramsci, 1915

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian marxist, who sought to explain exactly why the revolution predicted by Marx had not yet materialized. His conclusion was that the church and the values held by the people were the deterrent. While in prison Gramsci wrote extensively, laying out plans for the overthrow of a capitalistic society. Rather than overtaking the political and economic system by force, his strategy was more subtle and sinister.

The first step, in Gramsci’s view, is to transform the ideology of the people. His means include using education, the media, and setting up separate organizations whose goal is to manipulate the masses into mindsets that are receptive to marxist ideals. Once traditional/Christian mores have been corrupted and the nuclear family destroyed, the citizens of society will be willing to accept the “new ideas” of the progressive leadership without question.

The second prong of Gramsci’s approach is then, using the democratic process itself, to overtake the government by the will of the people. Where Marx called for defiant “revolution” from the bottom up, the revolution of Gramsci is a top-down model whereby leaders with marxist ideology infiltrate the political parties and enforce their will upon the people.

While many conservatives have been discussing Saul Alinsky and the influence he has had on the current administration, I believe Alinsky only lays out some general guidelines for achieving “social justice.” Gramsci’s model is very specific, global, and extremely relevant to our current political climate in the United States.

Some of the policies and tactics of the Obama Administration have seemed indefensible and unexplainable, even by members of the Democratic party. Our answer to the recession is to spend more money? Asking the news networks to disregard Fox News as a “legitimate” news source? Ramming through health care legislation that is opposed by the majority of American citizens?

None of this seems to make sense … until you are introduced to Antonio Gramsci. I’m anxiously devouring the book Shadow World by Robert Chandler. Chandler is a retired veteran who has been a strategist for the Air Force, the White House, the Departments of State, Defense, Energy, and Justice, and the CIA. Chandler’s book is NOT about President Obama, but actually about the subtle takeover by communist thought in America since the 1920s and the progressive plan for our future.

Chandler lays out the history and migration of communists from Russia coming to America early in the 20th century with plans for transforming our society. These very players clung to the pattern laid out by Gramsci, and began to set up well-funded, non-profit entities to further their goals. These are organizations for affecting public policy, infiltrating and overcoming the university classrooms, changing the economy and creating government dependents, for affecting law through lobbying and legal action and a host of other “fronts” for communist activity.

Many of these organizations exist today, long shedding the labels of “marxist” or “communist” thought. Instead, their agenda is cloaked in the idea of “social justice” or “liberation.” The titles of these organizations sound so wonderful: Center for Constitutional Rights, National Lawyers Guild, Fellowship of Reconciliation, or the Center for National Security Studies. But their very existence is due, in part, to the foundation of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which was formed in 1963, and continues to found such leftist organizations.

The Institute for Policy Studies was founded by Samuel Rubin, a dedicated communist, and Phillip Stern (with family members indicted of spying for the Soviets) and is located in Washington, D.C. This think-tank has long beed dedicated to the establishment of a socialist society in America. To further this effort, Rubin and Stern later created the Transnational Institute (TNI) to carry the vision to the world at large. While it is difficult to find a stand-alone Mission Statement for these organizations, such terms as “effective action,” “just security,” “social equity,” and “environmental solutions” to protect the “commons,” are a thinly veiled disguise for promoting their one-world marxist utopia through arms reduction, green justice, worldwide wealth re-distribution and a host of other “effective solutions.”

Shadow World lays out the framework that has been pursued by IPS and TNI, a.k.a. the strategy of Antonio Gramsci:

Ten steps toward an American progressive-socialist-marxist civil society:

1. change the popular consensus by destroying christianity, the traditional family, and existing social mores
2. transform the culture by installing a radical Left mind control
3. attain political power by imposing strict control of the military and law enforcement
4. restrict freedom by socializing the economy
5. erase American sovreignty by embracing a world without borders
6. attain political power by winning democratic elections
7. dominate both Houses of Congress
8. restrict freedom of the press and expression
9. enforce a massive redistribution of wealth from the private and public sector
10. limit freedom of speech, religion, right to bear arms, and state’s rights

From p.309, Shadow World, by Robert Chandler

Mind you, this book was published in 2008, so there is no way that Chandler could have foreseen the extent to which President Obama’s agenda would so closely follow the Gramsci pattern. When you look at this list, do you not see a representation of the ideology driving the Obama Administration? To what end are we reaching?

Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals is indeed part of Barack Obama’s philosophy. But Rules for Radicals merely gives the day to day solutions for facing conflict on the road to revolution. Antonio Gramsci provides us with the larger picture of transformation — from capitalism to progressive-socialism-marxism. Alinsky shows us how to drive the car, but Gramsci shows us the map of where we have been, where we are and where we are going. God help us, for where we are going.

Please share and recommend this book and information to anyone who will listen. These are historical facts that explain current events in no uncertain terms. We must be aware, we must be vigilant, we must be prayerful for the protection of our freedoms and for the future of the United States of America.

Unilateralism Is Our Only Option

Unilateralism Is Our Only Option

By Ted Belman,  Israpundit

Last August, PM Salam Fayyad released a Plan to “establish Palestine as an independent, democratic, progressive, and modern Arab state, with full sovereignty over its territory in the West Bank and Gaza, on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.” within two years. Israel took little notice of it.

In early November Haaretz reported it included a secret provision which stipulated a “unilateral declaration of independence”. Then Israel took notice and said ‘If PA Declares State, Israel Will Annex Settlements’.

“If the Palestinians take such a unilateral line, Israel should also consider … passing a law to annex some of the settlements,” Environment Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) said.

MK Danon says that Israel must not settle for annexing settlement blocs, but must rather annex Judea and Samaria in their entirety, except for Arab cities.

Minister Erdan also said Israel has the option of tightening up travel restrictions for Arabs and stopping the transmission of tax money that the Israeli government currently transfers to the Palestinian Authority - money that is collected by Israel for the PA.

Meanwhile, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) and Minister Landau have taken action to introduce bills for annexing Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

The PA also threatening to seek the formal endorsement of the UN but the Eu and the US have turned thumbs down on the issue.

So far Israel has been adamantly against abrogating the Oslo Accords no matter what the provocation. After 15 years of trying to negotiate a deal, perhaps its time for Israel to do so and the PA unilateral declaration, should it happen, could be just the pretext, if pretext is needed.

Everyone knows that there is no diplomatic solutions. Neither party is willing to make the necessary compromises. That’s why the PA talks about a unilateral declaration and the EU and some in the US talk about an imposed solution. Israel also is contemplating a unilateral solution. What might that be?

According to the remarks above, it would involve annexing parts, if not all Judea and Samaria. No land would have to be conquered. Israel has already annexed Jerusalem and the Golan and could do the same for other settlements such as Ariel and Maaleh Adumin and perhaps the Jordan Valley. At a minimum it would signal that these settlements, like Jerusalem, are non-negotiable.   (continue reading at Israpundit)

Also see:

The Jewish Taliban in Jerusalem -- Jewish Woman Arrested for Praying in a Prayer Shawl, Dr. Phyllis Chesler

Afghanistan, Iraq Rated Among Most Corrupt Nations, AINA

The Month Before Christmas

*Twas the month before Christmas*

*When all through our land,*

*Not a Christian was praying*

*Nor taking a stand.*

*See the PC Police had taken away,*

*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*

*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*

*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*

*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*

* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.*

*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*

*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*

*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*

*Something was changing, something quite odd! *

*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*

*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*

*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*

* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*

*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*

*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*

*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*

*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*

*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*

*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !*

*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*

*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*

*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*

* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*

*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*

*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*

*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*

*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*

*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*

*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,

not Happy Holiday !*

Please, all Christians join together and

wish everyone you meet

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christ is The Reason' for the Christ-mas Season!     

The above is old but the message is still true this year. Pass it along to your friends.  Now below you will find some great posts and an opportunity to have your articles on the Watcher of Weasels site:

COUNCIL NEWS: Only Another Black Conservative won the privilege this week of wining honorable mention on the Watcher’s Council page this week by taking advantage of our link whorage opportunity.

Here’s how you do it:

• Make a post on your site linking to this week’s Council winners

• Send me an e-mail with the subject line ‘link whorage’ at rmill2k@msn.com with a link to that post and a link to a new piece you’ve written that you want to appear here.

• The increased traffic and the resulting fame and glory are all yours!

So, without further ado let’s see what we have this week….

 

Council Submissions

• Soccer Dad - I am not a schnook
• Joshuapundit - The Afghan Shuffle
• Right Truth- When Muslims Attack
• Bookworm Room - The perils of an affirmative action president
• The Provocateur - The definitive dossier of Dr. Chacko
• The Colossus of Rhodey - The Messiah still in “blame the US” mode in Japan
• The Razor - The Ignorance of the Obama Administration
• Rhymes With Right - On Judicial Confirmations
• The Glittering Eye - Setting Priorities on Carbon Reduction
• Mere Rhetoric - Carter II: Obama’s Losing Turkey To Political Islam

Honorable Mentions

• Another Black Conservative - Doug Hoffman Unconcedes NY 23 Race

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: The Watcher – Powerline- Blind Pig finds Acorn
• Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Middle East Strategy at Harvard - How the Saudis radicalized U.S. troops
• Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Melanie Phillips - Everything’s Clear To Me Now
• Submitted By: Right Truth – GrEaT sAtAnS GiRlFrIeNd - 2nd Hand Buzz
• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Flopping Aces - America’s War of Aggression Against Muslims Confirmed by Abuse Photos
• Submitted By: The Provocateur – The Rosisitance - The lawyer in the White House and the spy in federal prison giving away national security secrets
• Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – The American - Economic Prosperity: A Step of Faith
• Submitted By: The Razor – Common Cents - A Tale Of Two Bows
• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Big Government - Obama Ally Code Pink targets children of military families for abuse
• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Thomas Lifson/American Thinker - Obama’s Botched Bow
• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – HotAir Pundit - President Obama vs. The Rest of the World Greeting The Emperor of Japan

It's a Nuclear, Nuclear, World...

You probably remember the nuclear site in Syria that the Israelis took out.  That seems to be the tip of the nuclear iceberg. (more below)  You may also remember Iranian General Ali Reza Asgari who suddenly disappeared from Iran, is reported to have defected to the West and is now being held in prison in Israel.  Asgari was very knowledgeable about Iran's nuclear program and could be very helpful to the Israelis.

According to the report, an investigation by Iranian security officials showed that "Asgari was kidnapped by the Mossad in cooperation with the British and German intelligence services, and was ultimately transferred to Israel." 

The report was published on the "Alef" news website, which is affiliated with conservative parliament member Ahmad Tavakkoli, one of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's main critics.  (via email, hat tip Michael)

 The Last Crusade points out recent reports on nukes, click the links to read the articles:

IAEA inspects nuclear research reactor in Syria

IAEA wants to inspect three secret Syrian nuclear sites

Three more secret Syrian nuclear sites?  And just who is behind these sites?  North Korea? Iran?  Both?  Hezbollah? 

India’s nuclear plants on alert for possible terror attack 

Iran digs hundreds of missile silos – some for misdirection

REPORT: Pakistan has more nukes than India

Saudi Arabia and France Discuss Nuclear Development As Iran Moves Forward  (Realite EU)

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has started a one-day-trip to Saudi Arabia, in order to meet with King Abdallah in Riyadh. [1] Among other issues such as the Middle East peace process, the two leaders are also expected to discuss the Iranian nuclear weapons development program. [2]

Also on Sarkozy’s agenda during his visit is the signing of an agreement on peaceful nuclear cooperation between Saudi Arabia and France that could lead to the sale of French atomic energy technology to the Gulf kingdom. [3]

However, it seems that the kingdom intents to build up its own nuclear capacities as well. In August 2009 Saudi minister Abdullah Al Hosain disclosed to the Saudi daily Al Watan, that a research center in Riyadh is currently working on plans for Saudi Arabia's first nuclear plant. [4]

Alirza Nurizadeh, an expert from the Arab-Iranian Center for Strategic Studies in London states that such an initiative by Saudi Arabia counters Iranian nuclear ambitions. Mustafa Ozjan, a Turkish Middle East analyst concurs: "the construction of nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia is a response to Iran's attempts to become a nuclear power in the region." [5]

On March 3rd 2009 Saudi Foreign Minister at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo called for a joint Arab strategy, a common vision to deal with the "Iranian challenge" including its nuclear drive. [6]

On December 16, 2008, Saudi Arabia and other GCC states met with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany to express their concerns about Iran’s nuclear program and to support for the efforts of the six world powers to pressure Iran to halt potential nuclear-weapon development activities. [7] The Saudi Prince Saud al-Faisal urged Iran to comply with its nuclear obligations to spare the Middle East "devastating conflicts, futile arms races and serious environmental hazards."

On March 29, 2008, Saudi Arabia's leading newspaper Okra Reports wrote that the Saudi Shura Council is preparing "national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts' warnings of possible attacks on Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactors." [8]

Iran triggering arms race in the region

Iran’s developing missile program and test firing, in defiance of UN Security Council Resolutions, causes grave regional security concerns and has cascading effects on leading GCC states particularly Saudi Arabia, to bulk up their militaries. [9]

Saudi Arabia, like other GCC states, has massively improved its deterrence capacity with conventional weapons. Since 2003, Arab military spending has increased to unprecedented levels. The weapons purchased by the GCC states seem well-suited to counter Iranian threats. [10] Saudi Arabia is procuring long-range strike fleets, refueling capabilities, and standoff weapons. It signed agreements to buy at least seventy-two state-of-the-art fighter aircraft. [11] In a deal worth $1.5 billion, the Royal Saudi Air Forces asked the Pentagon to upgrade its AWACS and aerial tanker aircraft with advanced communications and surveillance/ air traffic management systems. [12]

Saudi Arabia along other GCC states strengthen security alliances with Western countries. In 2006, the U.S. launched a Gulf Security Dialogue in which bilateral military committees increase U.S.-GCC security cooperation. [13]

Diplomatic relations

Since the establishment of the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iran have had an increasingly difficult relationship. [14] Saudi Arabia fears a nuclear Iran with growing influence of Shiite populations in surrounding neighbor states and inside the kingdom itself. Officials in Riyadh feel that Tehran is threatening the physical security of the Saudi kingdom and even banding together with the Shiite population, which lives in the oil rich regions of Eastern Saudi Arabia. [15] Saudi Arabia is also involved in an extensive number of proxy-wars with Iran: In Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, Yemen and other places. Experts say that the confrontation between the two strong powers in the region can increase if one of the sides transfers to the military use of nuclear energy. [16]

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Footnotes below the fold:  

Bill To Stop KSM US Trial

Congressman Louie Gohmert (R. Tex) is proposing a bill that would prevent terrorists and enemy combatants from being brought to the United States to be tried or imprisoned.  This is in response to US President Barack Obama's decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others from Guantanamo Bay Cuba to New York City for trial and the efforts to create a terrorist prison in Illinois or other US states. 

Gohmert believes Congress has the right to prevent these terrorists from being tried in US courts.  I hope he is right, I hope the bill passes.  I will post video when it is available.

64% of Americans do NOT want the terrorists tried on American soil:

This weekend, Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) called people who oppose criminal trials in federal court for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the 9/11 plotters“un-American.” It turns out that there is an epidemic of this lack of patriotism, according to CNN.  Their latest poll asked the question of how to handle KSM, and 64% took the “un-American” position of backing military tribunals... (Hot Air)

Count me in that 64%

Controlling Information...

US President Barack Obama has ordered a clamp down on information from various intelligence agencies on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, instructing the National Security Council to be the only agency issuing news updates, according to Fox News.  Is this another attempt by Obama to pick and choose what information gets out, to keep Americans from knowing everything.

The Defense Department is launching a broad investigation -- Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said the probe will reach all corners of the Pentagon, ... that the issues raised by the case of accused shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan are larger than the Army. (CBS)  Will the media get any real information about the results of this investigation or simply what Obama wants them to hear?  The Army will be conducting it's own investigation.

As to those killed by Hasan, a new bill would award those in the military the purple heart, be granted the same legal status as combatant casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq and non-military victims could receive the Secretary of Defense Medal of Freedom -- the civilian equivalent of the Purple Heart.  (CNN)

The bill was introduced by Texas GOP Rep. John Carter, who represents Fort Hood in the House of Representatives.

"As far as I'm concerned, this was an attack by an enemy upon American troops on American soil," Carter said Tuesday at a Capitol Hill news conference.

The bill "is about giving soldiers the benefits that other soldiers get when they are unfortunate enough to be killed or wounded in a combat zone."

Granting combatant status would also guarantee beneficiaries of military service members killed in the attack can receive the maximum life insurance benefit, according to Carter's office.

The Europeans are disappointed with Barack Obama.  Many voters are disappointed with Obama.  September 11, 2001 families are angry with Obama.  Now the media should be angry with Obama.

When Muslims Attack

"When Muslims become a majority even in one part of a country where Christians are the majority, they become very vocal, extremist and radicalized,"  Jonathan Racho of International Christian Concern said.  Christians and mission groups are concerned about the growing violence from Muslims in Uganda (and all around the globe) after the latest attack on Christian worshipers near the capital city of Kampala, that injured several and destroyed property. 

The Joshua Project, a Christian missions think-tank and research group, puts the number of Christians among Uganda’s 32 million residents at 88.6 percent. Muslims make up about 6 percent of the total population, with pockets where they are the majority.

But even with those small numbers, Uganda has a history of supporting Islam.

"Uganda is a member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which means that Uganda serves to uphold Muslim values and even supports Islam in the United Nations,...

"Christian minorities in the Muslim-dominated areas of Uganda frequently suffer persecution at the hands of the Muslim majority,"...  (WND, hat tip David)

The above is true.  However, as we have seen over and over, where Muslims are the minority these attacks still take place.  So we must be able to identify the enemy from the friend.  How do you identify a moderate Muslim from and extremist?

Melanie Phillips says,   "I do indeed think that the issue that defines true Muslim moderation is the absence of hostility towards Israel and, by extension, the Jewish people."... "... even among Muslims who would never have any truck with Sharia law or Islamist violence, theologically-based prejudice against Israel and the Jews runs very deep indeed."

But what about those Muslims who are obviously radical and yet no one does anything to stop them, as with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who wrote "about suicide bombing (which he preferred to call martyrdom) and compared the bravery of the Japanese Kamakazis to Islamic martyrdom"? 

The U.S. is attempting to protect Islamic populations, while training Muslim police and soldiers to fight the jihadists.  Hasan moved from merely advocating the enemy’s position, which the Army was hesitant to curtail because it might be deemed a violation of his liberal rights to free thought and expression, to joining the fight when he felt forced to make a choice in the face of his impending deployment to a combat zone as part of the American war effort.

There are some 15,000 other Muslims in the U.S. armed forces, but as long as they fight for America, their religion ought not to be an issue. But those who would work to turn their allegiance elsewhere, based on a religious or ideological appeal, must be dealt with as enemy agents and traitors. They must not be allowed to spread their anti-American hatred lest it trigger new acts of violence and terror.  (William R. Hawkins)

Political correctness aided the death of 13 people and one unborn baby, and yet President Barack Obama is trying to control the message, control the agenda.  There are reasons he does not want investigations into Hasan and at the same time is bringing 9/11 terrorist KSM and four others to New York City.

1) Stop people from focusing in how his administration permitted the worst domestic terror attack in eight years.

 

2) Avoid a national airing of how liberal policies – restraints on the intelligence community, political correctness in the armed forces -- might have inhibited the military from reining in Hasan.

 

3) Re-ignite a firestorm on the left and abroad against the aggressive anti-terror policies of the Bush administration.  (Dick Morris)

 

America has some soul searching to do when it comes to our future.  We can open our eyes and see the enemy, name the enemy, identify those who might be the enemy, and bring them into the light so whatever their evil plans are they can be stopped before anyone is harmed or killed.  Americans have a great capacity for love, understanding, forgiveness.  One example is shared by Chuck Norris who, with his wife and children, went to Brooke Army Medical Center to visit and encourage the wounded troops, only to find that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was also there.  

 ... How can one put into words the pride one feels around these brave men and women? Despite the loss of limbs or suffering from some other sacrifice in battle, their resolve and class were off the charts. They were enthusiastic and grateful about our visit, but it was my wife and I who were truly blessed and inspired by them.

Then came a moment that would have been completely surreal if it had not been a staggering reality. As we were visiting the burn unit, we discovered that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the shooter at Fort Hood who murdered 13 and wounded another 30, was being treated in the same facility. To be honest, it made me sick to my stomach and sent shivers of disgust down my spine.

If ever I have experienced a polar opposite, it was in the moment when I was thinking about how Hasan is the sheer antithesis to the character, commitment and service of all the other men and women we met at West Point and Fort Sam Houston. I was equally moved by the civic servants and military medical staff, many of whom knew victims of this assassin yet turned immediately around and became his caregivers.  (Townhall)

Amen to that.

Related:

Moderate Arab Islamists struggle to steer a democratic course
Splits within the Arab world’s foremost Islamist opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, with its ties to Muslim communities in Germany and elsewhere, could be signs that the group is not interested in democracy. For much of its 80-year history, the Muslim Brotherhood's very name symbolized promotion of a violent, anti-western movement bent on strict imposition of Islamic law. Much of the first generation of the current violent Islamist movements trace their roots to the Brotherhood and were inspired by the organization's radical ideologues.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi invites 500 Italian women to villa and lectures them on Islam
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi invited hundreds of attractive Italian "hostesses" to a villa in Rome last night for an evening at which he urged them to convert to Islam and told them Christianity was based on a fraud, Italian reports said today. The Libyan leader is in Italy to attend a United Nations summit on world food security. Reports said that Colonel Gaddafi's aides phoned an agency which provides elegantly dressed young women to act as hospitality staff at events.

No TV, no music, beards a must: new rules in a Gujarat riot relief camp

A London-based charity that set up a rehabilitation colony for Muslim victims who lost their homes in Gujarat’s 2002 riots is laying down a hard “Sharia law” for those living there — forcing many to pack up and leave. The Muslim Relief Organisation, run by NRI businessmen in London, built 46 houses in Detral, a village in Bharuch, for families of riot victims. Now it has imposed a blanket ban on what it calls “shaitani” (devilish) things such as TV, music systems and all forms of electronic entertainment.

In contrast:

President Sarkozy says 'no place' for burqa in secular France
President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday again insisted that the head-to-toe veil worn by some Muslim women had no place in secular France. "France is a country where there is no place for the burka, where there is no place for the subservience of women," he said in a major speech on French national identity.

"Don't miss:  Terror in Mumbai, a documentary about the terrorist activities in Mumbai last year will premiere on HBO Thursday night. Terror in Mumbai features exclusive intercepted audio tapes of the cell phone calls between the terrorists and their controllers in Pakistan, as well as interrogation footage of the sole surviving gunman. (more)

(Image via Don Surber, click to enlarge)

Warning: Health Care Reform Is Dangerous To Your Health. Avoid All Contact.

by Debbie Hamilton

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.--John Adams

We do have to wonder about our elected officials.  Sometimes it seems as if they suffer from invasion of the body snatchers or a brain transplant when they get to Washington D.C.  They spend money they don't have, they take over private businesses, they continue to expand the nanny state.  Our politicians could take at least one lesson from Sweeden's Enterprise and Energy Minister Maud Olofsson who said,  "Voters picked me because they wanted nursery schools, police and nurses, and not to buy loss-making car factories."  

The Swedish government said on Wednesday it would not intervene to take over Saab. Enterprise Minister Maud Olofsson slammed Saab's US owner General Motors for "abandoning" the struggling Swedish car maker.  (The Local Sweeden's News in English, hat tip Marcus Wilder)

Voters have only themselves to blame.  We live in a society that is ignorant of the issues,  they don't really know who it is they are electing, what they stand for and what their policies will do to the country and her citizens.  We live in a society that needs warning labels on everything, including baseball bats, to keep people from doing stupid things.  Why does a lawn mower have a warning on it not to put your feet or fingers near the blades when the mower is running?  Because someone has already done that, hurt themselves and sued the mower manufacturer for tons of money.  Plastic laundry bags carry a warning not to let children play with them.  Shouldn't parents already know this or are they too stupid to consider the consequences -- the child could suffocate? 

This type thinking leads to the terribly misguided notion that behind every tragedy lies a lawsuit.  And that brings us to the main problem with health care costs today.  With all the thousands and thousands of pages of proposed health reform, the main problem of tort reform isn't being addressed.

We're told that health care for everybody is a moral imperative...

Such is the case with liberal Democrats and their insistence that the moral laws of the universe – laws that have been with us since God breathed life into man (or as some would have it when we rose from the primordial soup) – command Government to supply every citizen (and many that aren’t) with health insurance. [snip]

There is nothing quite like morality imposed at the point of a gun, or which benefits some at the expense of others. (Joseph C. Phillips, Townhall)

The health care bills should come with warning labels "passage will be dangerous to your health - avoid it at every opportunity":

As reported in the Wall Street Journal, John Cassidy of the New Yorker lets the cat out of the bag when he writes on The New Yorker website that we must be clear about what the reform amounts to. "The U.S. government is making a costly and open-ended commitment," Cassidy writes. “The Obama Administration . . . is creating a new entitlement program, which, once established, will be virtually impossible to rescind." And why are they doing it? Again the WSJ quotes Cassidy: Because “ObamaCare serves the twin goals of making the United States a more equitable country" and furthering the Democrats' "political calculus." In other words, the purpose is to further redistribute income by putting health care further under government control, and in the process making the middle class more dependent on government. As the party of government, Democrats will benefit over the long run.”

That might explain why this massive 2000 page bill uses the command “shall”- business “shall” do this, you “shall” do that -- 3,345 times; creates 111 new government boards, commissions and bureaucracies all overseen by a healthcare czar and subjects every aspect of healthcare to government regulation; all this at a whopping cost to taxpayers of $1.5 trillion over 10 years, which will be paid for through a host of new taxes, penalties and fees. In spite of rumors to the contrary; there is no free lunch. (Townhall)

The current economic situation is proving hard on everyone, especially single women.  Bob Herbert's recent column in the New York Times, highlights the unemployment situation facing unmarried women and cites a new report by the Center for American Progress,  showing the nation's economic turmoil has affected all Americans, the impact on unmarried women has been truly devastating. 

The health care bill that will come out of the Senate will indeed be lethal to unborn babies.  

Contrary to a popular fallacy that science and religion are at odds with each other, it's quite the opposite.

Science and religion are the best of friends. And like good friends, they complement each other and produce beautiful music together. [snip]

Gallup polling showed recently that for the first time the majority of Americans (51 percent) are pro-life.  [snip]

Rather than recognizing that every human being is unique and free, created in God's image, socialism tries to turn us into laboratory rodents, pretending to manage our lives according to predictable formulas.  (Star Parker, Townhall)

The Obama administration made a bet -- they bet that it would be to their advantage to make government run health care their priority, over everything else, including the economy and jobs.  Their chickens are coming home to roost.  The economy is still in trouble and more people are out of work each month. Reports on jobs saved or created are actually being faked. 

They "decided to make expensive health care legislation a No. 1 priority at a time when the nation was facing enervating unemployment, now at 10.2 percent and rising far higher than White House projections."  Michael Barone, Townhall:

The numbers tell a discouraging story. The three-month moving average of jobs lost fell from 829,000 in January 2009 to 230,000 in June. That's the good news. But in the very months that the stimulus package was supposed to be taking effect, and at a time when the economy appears to have started growing again, movement has been in the other direction, with the three-month average of jobs lost rising to 589,000 in October.

That's bad news indeed, for the nation and for Democratic politicians. So here is a suggestion for the jobs summit. The president should put on again the bipartisan hat he wore during much of the campaign and embrace the proposal by some Republicans for a payroll tax holiday. Cutting our most regressive tax should appeal to Democrats. And it would immediately reduce the cost of job creation. Voting for health care legislation may or may not help incumbents. Voting for a payroll tax cut would.

The question is -- are the majority of citizens smart enough to see what is happening or are they too busy standing with their hands out "please, can I have some more???", waiting for the nanny government to provide for all their needs?

Get out of line and speak out, Congress works for you, not the other way around.

 

 

(Images via email, hat tip Michael  click images to enlarge)

Social Engineering Disasters IV: The Great Chicago Liar.

Social Engineering Disasters IV: The Great Chicago Liar.

By R.J. Godlewski

© November 15, 2009, All Rights Reserved.

 

    For all those out there that complain bitterly about their city’s history, Chicago ranks amongst the worst of offenders in whatever category you can commission. You have one of the most notorious prisons of the Civil War, Camp Douglas. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The infamous Chicago “Black Sox” scandal of 1919 (forget about steroids, these guys threw a World Series Championship), the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre of 1929, the deadliest aircraft accident in U.S. history (American Flight 191 on May 25th, 1979), the Chicago Cubs… Well, you get the idea. Chicago just seems to have a black cloud of doom hanging over its head. Speaking of black clouds…

            It is sad that Chicago’s history is so steeped in disasters because, frankly, I have always liked the city. Having been raised in and around Detroit, I know disasters when I see them. In 1974 Coleman Young, Detroit’s first black mayor, began his administration by telling all criminals not to strike south of 8 mile road effectively dooming the city to become the most racially divided urban center in the country. The Detroit Lions have not won a championship since the Mayflower draft. And now, two of the Big Three are about to go out of business under the weight of government ownership. Trust me, if it weren’t for Canada next door, Detroit would have the reigning Guinness Record for disasters.

    Fortunately for Chicago’s ranking, however, the leadership of Detroit is simply too stupid to elevate themselves onto the national scene. Its last mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, as criminal as any in Chicago, was foolish enough to be caught. The aforementioned Coleman Young invested heavily – in Krugerrands, which at the time were illegal because his brethren in South Africa were suffering under Apartheid.  The “Detroit Way” has never been about lying to uphold your innocence. It’s always been about screwing up and enjoying the fame that came with idiocy.

    In Chicago, things are very much different. Their attitude has always been the antithesis of Christianity – “do unto others before they can do unto you.” The Chicago Way is a threefold manifestation of organized crime: pay your friends handsomely, attack your enemies relentlessly, and keep your damn mouth shut about it all. Al Capone was nabbed for income tax evasion because the feds could never grab him for bootlegging, gambling, and murder because nobody admitted to what everyone else already knew. Like I said, I know disasters when I see them.

    My dad used to regale us kids with stories of him working for Jimmy Hoffa (you know, the guy whose body still hasn’t been found). My dad also cherished his fondest memories of belonging to the Woodward and Six Mile Gang. Once, Jimmy Hoffa himself bailed my father out of jail after my dad was arrested for partaking of an illegal strike. If I recall, my dad had thrown a Coke® bottle through the windshield of a police cruiser or something. Well, at least he freely admitted to his wrongdoing. Remember what I said about Detroit’s way…

    Anyway, they do things differently in Chicago. It’s how a young, inexperienced college graduate can move into a multi-million dollar mansion and become a community-organizing lawyer with commander-in-chief aspirations. It’s how a man can sit in a church for two decades and still honestly admit “I ain’t heard a damn thing!” It’s how one can sit in the very living room of a self-avowed terrorist and never learn the definition of the term. The Chicago Way is now in Washington and heading to a community near you.

   If you begin to notice how the latest Chicagoan politician of note, our “humble” President, Barack Obama, operates, the Chicago Way will leap out at you. He has bankrupted the nation to feed his friends and employs dozens of czars to keep the rest of us in line. When others call him on his campaign promises, he simply denies that he had ever made such statements of “hope” and “civility”. The Chicago Way is either accepted or you die. For two hundred and thirty years, America steadfastly avoided socialism and now, according to ‘The Way’, it must therefore die.

    Like some devilish script kiddie, the Chicago Way has hacked into our national treasure and these amateurish villains are siphoning our resources without regard to the dangers. Emulating our pre-9/11 existence, we simply could not believe that a sitting president of the United States could be so dangerous, so malicious, so treasonously socialistic in agenda in our pre-Obama mentality. Yes, we had George W. and what a feat of accomplishment he was. Yet, for all of the failings of President Bush, his way wasn’t  one of the Chicago variety. In fact, he emulated the Detroit Way of proudly accepting his responsibilities. When he launched the Iraq War, he made no pretense about his belief that Iraq held weapons of mass destruction. Many of President Obama’s now-supporters also shared that belief, but when the facts finally came out – they cast blame elsewhere as required by the Chicago Way, never once admitting to their own errors in judgment.

    It isn’t very hard to decipher the implications of progressive liberal politics. Just take a look at any major metropolitan center governed by the “elite”. Most of California is bankrupt. As is New Jersey. Detroit is not claimed by anyone but thieves and terrorists. And it gets worse. Just the other day, the government itself issued a report that hinted that tens of billions of dollars in Medicare payments were fraudulent in nature. Now these same socialists want to manhandle the whole of our healthcare industry. In nine months, they have taken over the auto industry, the banking industry, the student loan industry, and want to move into the mass transit industry besides their crown jewel of controlling our very existence through the aforementioned healthcare takeover.

    Yet not a peep out of the mainstream media. Not a whimper out of those whose party is supposed to represent the “common worker”. The Chicago Way is simply to destroy the country wholesale instead of each individual community by itself – and not to accept any responsibility for it. That’s some other guy’s fault…

The Ugly Side of Politics

The old saying, "birds of a feather flock together" has never been more accurate than when you look at politics in the United States today.  We now have Khomeini's right hand man advising President Barack Obama.

John Limbert will be the senior Iran official at the State Department, replacing Dennis Ross, who has moved to the National Security Council (and who has not been heard from publicly since). Should America be concerned? Yes. Limbert is not a neutral arbiter; he serves on the advisory board of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC).

What is the National Iranian American Council?

The Council is widely considered the de facto lobby for the Iranian regime in America. It opposes sanctions on Iran, soft-pedals any controversial events in Iran, and counsels "patience" regarding Iran's stance towards its nuclear program. The NIAC has been at the forefront of  lobbying against continued congressional funding of the Voice of America Persia service, Radio Farad, and grants for Iranian civil society. To top it off, the NIAC has reportedly received funding from anti-Israel advocate George Soros, who at the very least was an honored guest and speaker at one of its symposiums. (He called for a more equitable Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and advocated for America to renounce regime-change as a goal).  (American Thinker)

On a completely different note: 

His wife must be feeling pretty low these days.  First former New Jersey "gay American" Gov. Jim McGreevey cheated on her with a man now he's training to be an Episcopal priest.  Wow, just wow.

Photos: J.C. Rice

HOLY SHIFT! Former New Jersey "gay American" Gov. Jim McGreevey bears a cross and works as an assistant to the Rev. Geoffrey Curtiss at a Mass in Hoboken as part of his training to become an Episcopal priest.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ex_nj_gov_mcgreevey_training_to_1ysw6rCLvBGMPBJFGGyGRI#ixzz0WwTbQI5I

Obama caught in another lie, and it's a WHOPPER!

Bombshell: Uncovered Obama Statement — KSM Will Get ‘Full Military Trial’.  Video below.

Sedition!  Obama said on the senate floor: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to get "full military trial with all the bells and whistles" "justice will be carried out in his case"

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Trip down memory lane from Naked Emperor News.  Via Allahpundit at Hot Air:

The One’s weekly address this morning, JWF makes a good point: Did this guy actually have the brass balls to warn people about turning the Fort Hood trial into “political theater” the morning after he granted Khaled Sheikh Mohammed a jihadist megaphone in New York City?

Don’t think he won’t use that megaphone, either. Megaphones are kind of his thing:

By all accounts, the spotlight during what would be the biggest terrorism trial in U.S. history would provide Mohammed, a man of no small ego, with the kind of attention he craves. A showman, he has reveled in a number of appearances at Guantanamo Bay, tossing self-aggrandizing broadsides from his perch at the front of a courtroom and then retreating into self-satisfied smiles.

“I know him well, and if he gets his way in federal court, it will be a circus,” said Charles D. “Cully” Stimson, who was deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs in the Bush administration. “The court will have to rein in his speechifying and keep the focus on his criminal behavior.”…

Under Mohammed’s original plan for Sept. 11, 10 aircraft were to be hijacked. He was to have been aboard the only one not to crash, and after killing the male passengers he was to deliver a speech condemning U.S. support for Israel, as well as the Philippines and governments in the Arab world.

The 9/11 Commission Report notes: “This vision gives a better glimpse of his true ambitions. This is theater, a spectacle of destruction with KSM as the self-cast star — the superterrorist.”

After thinking more about it, I’m assuming that Obama’s Plan B in case he’s acquitted is to put him on trial in a military court for the attack on the Pentagon. Presumably the charges in Manhattan will be limited to the attack on the Trade Center in order to avoid double jeopardy, although whether that’ll work — i.e. whether the defense can somehow force them to dispose of all potential charges related to 9/11 in the NYC trial — is a question for criminal lawyers.

Others responding to the liar:

• The Snooper Report
• Cold Fury » The Multi-Cult of the Deja Vu-Doo: Death Takes a Federally-Mandated Holiday
• “I feel like Brandon deWilde…” » The Anchoress | A First Things Blog

Also read, from Planck's Constant:  

Difference Between Jewish And Muslim Terrorists.