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THIS IS ESSENTIALLY WHAT LEFTARDS ARE SAYING TO THE AMERICAN YOUTH:

"SURE... ALL YOU YOUNG KIDS THINK YOU HAVE IT SO GREAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE AMAZING TECHNOLOGY AND WILL PROBABLY LIVE TO BE 150 BECAUSE OF MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS.

BUT WE BOOMERS GET THE LAST LAUGH: WE'RE LEAVING YOU WITH $8 TRILLION IN DEBT! BWAHAHAHAHA!"

HERE'S WHAT THE SO-CALLED RIGHT-WINGNUTS ARE SAYING:

WAKE UP KIDS, SOCIALISM IS GENERATIONAL THEFT!

IF YOU WERE BORN AFTER 1980, YOU SHOULD... VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

The United Kaliphate pays these scum to live there, some of whom are wanted by the US. Time to end that 'special relationship' we have with the Brits until they do some major housecleaning.



PASTORIUS ADDS: CBN Reports On The Jihad, Mainstream TV News Does Not:

Why is it that Pat Robertson's network does a better job on the Jihad than MSMTV?

If the lamestream media covered in a week what Erick Stakelbeck covers in ten minutes I would probably respect them.

VDH TODAY:

It is time for Brennan to gracefully bow out and let federal counterterrorism be conducted by people who don't alternately and mercurially damn and praise presidents for careerist and partisan purposes or suggest that legitimate worries about Mirandizing the Christmas Day bomber and trying in civilian court the architect of 9/11 a few thousand yards from the scene of his mass-murdering somehow "serve the goals of al-Qaeda."

SENATOR BOND TODAY:

Sen. Kit Bond (R., Mo.), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, tells National Review Online that Brennan’s op-ed is “baffling” and part of a “political mess at the White House” that “puts our country at risk.”

Bond says that Brennan “needs to go,” and is no longer “credible.” Brennan’s recent “troubling decisions,” he adds, “have destroyed my confidence in him.” Firing Brennan, he says, “would be part” of fixing Obama’s national-security woes, though not enough. “A drastic change in policy is needed,” he says. “Our problem now is that we have to wonder whether we can trust [Brennan] after he has been a mouthpiece for the political arm that I thought only came out of the White House press office.”

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS JANUARY 8: NO WONDER OBAMA PICKED HIM: OBAMA'S CHIEF ANTI-TERROR ADVISOR LET BIN LADEN GET AWAY

I WATCHED THIS TURD BRENNAN ON THE TV TALKS SHOWS AND HE'S NOTHING BUT A C.Y.A. OBAMA APOLOGIST AND A DOUBLE-TALKING APPEASER.

HE SHOULD BE FIRED.

JANUARY 9:I T'S TIME OBAMA FIRED BRENNAN

FEBRUARY 7: Brennan lied on Meet the Press and must be fired

WE WERE RIGHT - AND WEEKS BEFORE ANYONE ELSE.

REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME: SHARP ANALYSIS AND BLUNT COMMENTARY - AHEAD OF THE CURVE!

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The interior minister has confirmed he'll be working to legalize a Jewish-owned building in Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood, which is mainly Arabic:

The Jewish-owned Beit Yehonatan building in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan moved a step closer to becoming legal on Monday, as Interior Minister Eli Yishai authorized the Jerusalem District Building and Planning Committee to hold a vote on the building’s status next week.

Yishai said he had been assured that a majority of council members would vote in favor of declaring the seven-story structure, which was built without the proper permits, to be legal, but that an agreement had been reached with the building’s inhabitants to vacate the top two stories.

[...]

Beit Yehonatan, which is named for imprisoned Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, has been at the center of an ongoing struggle between Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and Chief Prosecutor Moshe Lador. In late January, Lador had demanded that Barkat uphold an existing court order to evacuate and seal the building off, which Barkat refused to do.

City Attorney Yossi Havilio also joined Lador’s efforts to force Barkat to act, prompting the mayor to declare last week that he would evacuate and seal Beit Yehonatan, and then begin carrying out demolition orders for more than 200 illegally-built Arab-owned homes in the neighborhood.

While that move was widely seen as a bluff tactic to halt Lador and Havilio’s demands, Havilio responded to Barkat’s assertions with a letter he sent to Lador last Friday, calling into question a number of the details contained in Barkat’s declaration.

[...]

Monday’s apparent error on behalf of the municipality, however, sent right-wing supporters of the eight families who live in Beit Yehonatan into Silwan’s narrow streets, singing and dancing out of sheer joy that the evacuation orders did not find their way to the building’s front door.

City councilman Elisha Peleg along with Jerusalem Deputy Mayor David Hadari were among the supporters, and told reporters that they were pleased with the mix-up and hoped that the issue of illegal building in Silwan – for Jews and Arabs alike – would be settled once and for all.

“We’re opposed to the eviction of Jews from their homes,” Peleg told The Jerusalem Post later on Monday. “And we would like to see this situation resolved without anyone having to be evicted.”

If you'd like a little history on Silwan itself:

(IsraelNN.com) Interior Minister Eli Yishai confirmed Monday night that an agreement has been reached that may prevent the expulsion of Jews from the Jewish-owned Beit Yehonatan building in eastern Jerusalem. The multi-story residence is located in an Arab area formerly populated by Jews who owned the properties but were forced out under the British Mandate.

Just a reminder of the repugnant anti-Jewish bias the British had when they occupied this country.

Yishai is right to deal with this. And as for the Arab residents, well, they're going to have to learn one way or another that not only is this Jewish land we're talking about here, and that Jews have a right to decide where they'll live within it.

Add a brain-damaged, mutilated, six-year-old niece with a whore contract, a dead aunt, an adopted son, a daughter to 2:223, and you've got a prophet, according to Mohammedan standards.

From the BBC:

Newcomers to France will be made to sign a declaration of values as part of a new campaign to define national identity, France's Prime Minister says.

Francois Fillon announced the initiative after three months of public debates around the country.

Other measures include the flying of the French flag and the singing of the national anthem - La Marseilleise - at schools, to promote patriotism.

Critics say the debate simply provoked anti-Muslim sentiment and racism.

Mr Fillon said a new commission of experts - including MPs and historians - would be established to introduce rules aimed at cultivating pride in being French and promoting the values of the Republic.

"The emphasis will be put on the respect for the values of the republic… notably the principle of equality between men and women… and the level of knowledge of the French language," said Mr Fillon.

Shunned by president

Under the scheme, newly arrived immigrants will have to undertake classes in French and gender equality, while new citizens will pledge to adhere to a list of French values at a solemn ceremony.

Other proposals include keeping a copy of France's 1789 declaration of rights in every classroom and introducing a young citizens' book in which students can record progress in their instruction in civic duties.

Opposition lawmakers said the whole debate merely acted as a distraction from France's fundamental problems, such as high unemployment, and was being used as a campaign ploy ahead of March's regional elections.

Polls showed many French people found the discussions were not constructive and President Nicolas Sarkozy, originally a keen supporter of the initiative, quickly began to distance himself from the debate, says the BBC's Emma Jane Kirby in Paris.

The promised grand presentation of the findings was downgraded to a low-key event, she says.

Many of the proposals were put forward by French Immigration Minister Eric Besson.

Monday's announcement came a week after Mr Besson refused to grant citizenship to a foreign national on the grounds that he forced his wife to wear the full Islamic veil.

Late last month a French parliamentary committee recommended a ban on women wearing Islamic face veils in hospitals, schools, government offices and on public transport.

It also recommended that anyone showing visible signs of "radical religious practice" should be refused residence cards and citizenship.

Often, challenges to our Western identity and sovereignty only serve to make us readdress our values. This process, ultimately, makes us stronger.

France is going through such a readdressing of values.

The United States is also readdressing it's values, because of the national dialogue created by the egregious aspects of the ObamaAdministration.

Britain will do so also readdress their values in the near future.

When this process is completed, the Jihadists will stand no chance against the West, because we are so far superior to them technologically and ideologically.

From I Hate The Media!:

Noted global warming expert RFK, Jr. predicted that Washington, DC might never see snow again

The pathetically unprophetic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a column last year in which he bemoaned global warming and suggested that children of the future might never see snow again.

Another 10-20 inches of snow on top of the two feet we've already got (photo essays) is expected here in the D.C. area today. Heh.

Labels: Always On Watch, Global Warming, idiocy

THE CENTER RIGHT SWING VOTERS CONTROLS NATIONAL POLITICS.

• IN 1968 IT WAS THE SILENT MAJORITY.
• IN 1980 IT WAS THE REAGAN DEMOCRATS AND THE MORAL MAJORITY;
• IN 2010 IT'S THE TEA PARTY - WHICH INCLUDES A FAIR NUMBER OF FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE INDEPENDENTS WHO WERE DUPED INTO VOTING FORE OBAMA.

THE INDEPENDENT-MINDED FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE CENTER-RIGHT IS A LARGE AND GROWING SEGMENT OF THE ELECTORATE AND THEY ARE ENERGIZED.

THEY ELECTED BROWN AND THE GOVERNORS OF NJ AND VA.

IF THEY STAY ENERGIZED, THEN BOTH BODIES OF CONGRESS WILL BECOME MAJORITY GOP.

THAT'S OUR GOAL.

WE WILL DO IT WITH ANGER, HOPE, HEART, HUMOR, AND SHOCK'N AWE.

Well wouldn't you know it, Dubai's colossal skyscraper, said to be the tallest in the world (undeservingly), has closed within a month from opening:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The world's tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome its first permanent occupants in the coming weeks.

Electrical problems are at least partly to blame for the closure of the Burj Khalifa's viewing platform — the only part of the half-mile high tower open yet. But a lack of information from the spire's owner left it unclear whether the rest of the largely empty building — including dozens of elevators meant to whisk visitors to the tower's more than 160 floors — was affected by the shutdown.

The indefinite closure, which began Sunday, comes as Dubai struggles to revive its international image as a cutting-edge Arab metropolis amid nagging questions about its financial health.

And surely that isn't one of the reasons why they closed, because of their economic falldown? I've got a feeling few foreign businesses would be willing to open an office there now for many good reasons, and not just because Dubai could be funding terrorism, but also because there's really little to invest in there. It's such a shady country behind the scenes, it'd be foolish for anyone to do business with them.

REUTERS:

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

"The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel.

The country's top cleric was marking the occasion when Iran's air force gave its support to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a key event which led to the toppling of the US-backed shah on February 11, 1979.

His comments came as Iran said it would begin to produce higher enriched uranium from Tuesday, in defiance of Western powers trying to ensure the country's nuclear drive is peaceful.

This year's anniversary is expected to become a flashpoint between security forces and supporters of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who charge that the June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was rigged.

I THINK THEY WILL TEST A NUCLEAR BOMB - LIKE NORTH KOREA DID.

THEY PROBABLY BELIEVE THIS WILL PREEMPT AND POSSIBILITY OF ANY PREEMPTIVE STRIKE BY THE WEST AND NEUTER ANY POSSIBILITY OF REIGNING IN THEIR NUKE PROGRAM.

PREVIOUS POSTS HERE.

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Again, Islam disrespects law and order in this country:

(IsraelNN.com) Arabs challenged Israeli authority in eastern Jerusalem on Monday, hurling rocks in violent riots that wounded five policemen, one of whom was hospitalized. Arab journalists also suffered injuries.

The riots followed a large-scale police operation that was aimed at “putting some order” in place in the Arab locality of Shuafat. Police staged house-to-house midnight searches for weapons and for non-resident Arabs from Judea and Samaria staying in eastern Jerusalem without work permits.

Arabs responded by hurling rocks and broken bottles at the police and at soldiers at a checkpoint bordering the area. The clashes escalated Monday afternoon when Muslim school children joined the violence, also taking aim at nearby Jewish residents.

[...]

The mood on the Arab street has grown angrier the past several months, as Arab leaders have discarded the original American proposal that the status of Jerusalem be negotiated between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently called for a resumption of talks with a pre-ordained agreement that the entire area, including the Jewish Quarter in the Old City, will fall under PA sovereignty.

So let's see, we have returns to common themes among Islamofascists like violence, children with corrupted minds playing hooky, and more political taqqiya in motion. Really, with "friends" like these...

PJ:

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports will be a full 25 percent higher during the first half of 2010 compared with the same period a year ago, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report.

An uptick in cargo volume is one sign the economy is improving, because it shows that retailers are expecting to move more merchandise this year.

The report was released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

"This is a dramatic turnaround over what we’ve seen during the past two years," said National Retail Federation Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold, in a press release.

U.S. ports handled 1.09 million 20-foot equivalent unit cargo containers in December, the latest month for which actual numbers are available. That was unchanged from November but up 2.6 percent from December 2008 to break a 28-month streak during which monthly totals were lower than the same month the year before.

January was estimated at 1.19 million units, a 17 percent increase over January 2009.

Monthly numbers would put the first half of 2010 at 7.4 million units, up 25 percent from last year’s 5.9 million.

OBAMA IS COUNTING ON AN IMPROVING ECONOMY TO PASS OBAMACARE AND JUSTIFY THE PORKULUS AND HELP HIM HOLD ON TO THE CONGRESS.

AND THE ECONOMY WILL IMPROVE - NO TAHNKS TO HIS POLICIES. THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO ATTACK OBAMA ON OTHER FRONTS BESIDES THE ECONOMY: ON THE GWOT AND ETHICS AND HIS LEFTIST APPOINTMENTS AND SO ON.

KRUGMAN BLAMES THE US SENATE:

Paul Krugman / New York Times: America Is Not Yet Lost — We've always known that America's reign as the world's greatest nation would eventually end.

SHOULD READ:

• We've always WANTED America's reign as the world's greatest nation to end.

IT'S BEEN THE LEFT'S LONGTIME AIM.

IT'S OBAMA'S SECRET GOAL A LA CLOWARD-PIVEN.

CARTER NEARLY DID IT, BUT REAGAN STOPPED THE DECLINE.

NOW, THE LEFT IS WAGING WAR ON THE US SENATE; KRUGMAN ATTACKS IT IN HIS COLUMN. THE LEFT HATES THE ENTIRE INSTITUTION ALMOST AS MUCH AS THEY FILIBUSTER.

THEY HATE DEMOCRACY AS SOON AS IT GETS IN THE WAY OF THEIR SOCIALIST AGENDA.

WE WILL STOP THEM AND THEIR AGENDA AGAIN.

MICHAEL BARONE - TODAY: Public-sector unions bleed taxpayers

...Public-sector unionism is a very different animal from private-sector unionism. It is not adversarial but collusive. Public-sector unions strive to elect their management, which in turn can extract money from taxpayers to increase wages and benefits -- and can promise pensions that future taxpayers will have to fund.The results are plain to see. States such as New York, New Jersey and California, where public-sector unions are strong, now face enormous budget deficits and pension liabilities. In such states, the public sector has become a parasite sucking the life out of the private-sector economy. Not surprisingly, Americans have been steadily migrating out of such states and into states like Texas, where public-sector unions are weak and taxes are much lower.

Barack Obama is probably the most union-friendly president since Lyndon Johnson. He has obviously been unable to stop the decline of private-sector unionism. But he is doing his best to increase the power -- and dues income -- of public-sector unions.

One-third of last year's $787 billion stimulus package was aid to state and local governments -- an obvious attempt to bolster public-sector unions.

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UNBELIEVABLE:

HERE'S YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW THE NOBEL-PRIZE-WINNING 2007 IPCC REPORT IS RIDDLED WITH EXAGGERATED CLAIMS BASED ON NON-PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS FROM ADVOCACY GROUPS:

WUWT:

IPCC Gate Du Jour: Aussie Droughtgate

Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun digs up another issue with non peer reviewed World Wildlife Fund reports in the IPCC AR4. It turns out a new paper in GRL handily disputes the cause of the drought.

THE SCIENCE WHICH REALLY ISN'T SETTLED ISN'T EVEN REALLY SCIENCE!

AGW = TOTAL EFFIN BS.

RTWT@WUWT.

From Vlad Tepes:

A Muslim bus driver stunned passengers when he pulled over and started praying in the aisle – with the engine still running.

The driver parked without warning then rolled out a fluorescent jacket as an improvised prayer mat.

He took off his shoes, knelt down facing Mecca, and began to chant.

The prayer session held up the bus for more than five minutes with no-one able to get on or off.

Passenger Gayle Griffiths complained to Transport for London about the bizarre incident on the No.24 bus in Gospel Oak, north London, this week.

Mother-of-one Miss Griffiths, 33, of Camden, north-west London, had boarded the bus a few minutes earlier on her way home from work.

She says that she even feared at the time that the driver might be a fanatic planning to blow up the bus.

She said: ‘I have done the journey a million times before but I was in a hurry to get home to pick my little girl up from school.

‘We had just picked up and let off people at a bus stop and moved off again when the driver stopped the bus very suddenly.

‘He got out of his cab, leaving the engine running, and walked towards the middle exit door.

‘He laid out a fluorescent jacket on the floor and I thought that somebody must have been sick and he was covering it up.

‘I didn’t really think much of it.

‘But then he took off his shoes and began praying. I was gobsmacked and quite bewildered.’

Miss Griffiths said the bus driver didn’t give the passengers any explanation as to what he was doing.

‘He hadn’t addressed the passengers at all,’ she said. ‘I didn’t say anything and nor did anyone else. I thought it would all be over in 30 seconds but it went on for over five minutes.

‘It even went through my mind that this might be some sort of terrorist attack with the bus blown up because I had heard that suicide bombers prayed before attacks.

‘As the engine was running anyone could also have got in the cab and driven off with a bus full of passengers.

‘He was also blocking the exit, so if something had happened we would not have been able to get off.

‘Everyone was looking round in a mix of shock and amazement. It was truly bizarre, ludicrous and aggravating.

‘We are delayed often enough as it is in London.

‘We live in a multi-cultural society but there is a time and a place for prayer and the middle of a journey with a busload of passengers is not it.’

Transport for London said it had apologised to all the passengers for the delay to their journey and said all Muslim drivers are being reminded that they should pray during statutory rest periods rather than hold up services.

A TfL spokesman said: ‘A route 24 bus was delayed following a decision by the driver to stop the bus to pray.

‘The bus company, London General, has had a word with the driver as this is not something that should be happening.

‘TfL apologises to passengers for any inconvenience this may have caused them.
‘We understand that there is some flexibility in the Muslim faith as to the times of day that drivers can pray.

‘TfL and the individual bus operating companies acknowledge and value the diversity of their staff.

‘As diverse employers, TfL and the bus operators provide suitable prayer or quiet rooms at garages and other key locations for staff who wish to practise their faith.

‘We have asked London General to remind drivers who have a requirement to pray to use these facilities during their rest periods.’

And, of course, while he is doing this, the passengers are locked into the bus.

They can do nothing about their captivity unless they physically confront the man, or jump over him and open the door themselves.

Actually that would make a fun game; Jump Over the Praying Muslim.

But seriously, this is just another Islamic probing attack on Western Civilization.

How much Sharia will we allow?

Will we allow sidewalks to be blocked off to accommodate prayer as they do in Paris?

Will we allow Sharia courts to go unchecked so that women have their Western rights stolen from them under our noses?

This man should have been fired, and frankly, kidnapping charges ought to be considered.

The man held a bus full of people hostage to his Islamic ritual.

Enough is enough.

France agrees warship sale to Russia

France has agreed to sell a Mistral class warship to Russia, a French official said on Monday, despite concerns expressed by Georgia and other countries.

Russia wanted to buy the 21,300-tonne helicopter carrier from France to modernise hardware that was exposed as outdated in its five-day war against Georgia in 2008.
"France has agreed to sell one Mistral warship to Russia," a Defence Ministry official told reporters.

France belongs to NATO and its willingness to sell Russia advanced technology that could be used in a confrontation with its forces or against its allies has caused concern among other NATO members.

Several of Russia's neighbours have also expressed worries. Lithuania wrote to France in November asking for clarification of the situation and details of the ship's ammunition.

This is nuts. Obama better do something...

PASTORIUS ADDS:

Could it be this is France's way at getting back at Obama for his weakness and lack of support of his traditional allies?

Sarkozy and Merkel brush off Obama snub of next EU-US summit‎

Sarkozy Blasts Obama on Iran

Sarkozy blasts Obama on his stance on Nuclear Disarmament

Sarkozy Blasts Obama Over Turkey

When the Eagle is away, the rats come out to play.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: IS THIS PART OF A DEAL WITH NATO? SEE THIS:

Hamas leader Mashaal visits Moscow

The leader of the Palestinian terror group Hamas is visiting Moscow as Russia seeks to expand its role in Middle East peacemaking.

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued no information about Monday's meeting between Khaled Mashaal and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Moscow hopes to host a Middle East peace conference but has not yet set a date.

In Russian eyes, Hamas is an integral part of the peace process despite strong opposition from Israel and the US, which list the organization as a terrorist group. Russia has repeatedly called for an end to the blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Russia is part of the so-called Quartet of Mideast peace-brokers that also includes the US, the European Union and the United Nations.

Mashaal visit to Russia comes less than a week before Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will travel to Moscow, on Sunday next week.

Netanyahu is expected to stay in Russia for three days of talks focusing on getting Russia to back stepped-up sanctions against Iran.

MAYBE RUSSIA DEMANDED THE SALE IN RETURN FOR HELP WITH IRAN AND HAMAS!?!?

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UPDATE: NYTIMES: Gates Opposes Arms Sale to Russia

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told French officials Monday that he was concerned about their plans to sell Mistral-class amphibious assault ships to Russia, although there is little if anything the United States could do to block the deal, officials said.

Russia has been engaged in months-long negotiations over what would be the first significant purchase of advanced NATO weaponry since the collapse of communism. Each of the Mistral warships costs up to $750 million, and the vessels, which can launch helicopters carrying troops and armored vehicles, would be viewed as a notable addition to the Kremlin’s rusting fleet.

Mr. Gates chose the well-known diplomatic code for disagreement in describing his discussion of the arms sale with his French counterpart, Defense Minister Herve Morin.

“I think I would just say that we had a good and thorough exchange of views,” Mr. Gates said.

Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, said later that Mr. Gates’ meetings here were “very amicable and positive” on a range of issues, including the NATO effort in Afghanistan, but that Mr. Gates “made our concerns very clear” on the arms sale.

The weapons deal has raised alarm in capitals across formerly Soviet territory — in particular in the republic of Georgia, which fought a war with Russia and sees the vessels as a threat that could be based in the Black Sea off its shores.

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EXPRESS:

Sir Norman Bettison, Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, is to call for greater help from Islamic communities to identify suspects at home.

He says: “I’m looking for the community to work much more closely with the police in identifying young people they have concerns about in terms of people they’re mixing with, the sort of websites they’re going on and the material they’re reading.

“That information can only come from the community itself.”

When asked if Muslims could do more to help pinpoint potential terrorists, he says: “We have to be alert and conscious of the risk that’s ever present and prepared to interdict and share information.

“The community as a whole could do more and the Muslim community as a part of that, yes.”

THIS COP IS IN DENIAL.

THIS IS AS STUPID AS ASKING THE TALIBAN TO LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS FOR MONEY.

THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTS JIHAD. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE THERE.

IF I AM WRONG, THEN WE'LL SOON READ STORIES ABOUT HOW THIS COP'S APPEAL BROUGHT IN MANY GOOD LEADS.

I WOULDN'T HOLD MY BREATH IF I WERE YOU...

HOT AIR: HAS THE CLIP AND THIS COMMENT FROM ED:

The two Republicans briefed on the matter immediately objected to Brennan’s characterization of the amount of information delivered by the White House on the EunuchBomber’s situation:

But Brennan’s comment provoked a sharp rebuke from two of the Republicans who received the briefings.

“This was like a three or four minute phone call,” Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) told POLITICO on Sunday. Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said, “At no point did he ever talk to me about legal strategies.”

“For this guy to get out there and start saying things like this is irresponsible,” Hoekstra said.

Byron York heard from Senator Kit Bond, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee:

Sen. Bond responds, saying Brennan “never told” him of the plan to Mirandize Abdulmutallab. Bond’s entire statement:

["]Brennan never told me any of plans to Mirandize the Christmas Day bomber — if he had I would have told him the administration was making a mistake. The truth is that the administration did not even consult our intelligence chiefs, as DNI Blair testified, so it’s absurd to try to blame Congressional leaders for this dangerous decision that gave terrorists a five week head start to cover their tracks.["]

It seems ridiculous to claim that Bond and Hoekstra got fully briefed on the strategy for handling Abdulmutallab when DNI Dennis Blair, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and others in the counterterrorist chain of command have already testified that they didn’t get briefed on that decision until it was made.

If the White House didn’t consult Mueller or Blair, why would they have picked up the phone and called Bond and Hoekstra? Brennan’s claim that a call giving the two the outline of the attack somehow amounts to acquiescence of the point of Mirandizing a terrorist before fully interrogating him is ludicrous, and obviously self-serving.

THE TIMELINE IS ALSO QUESTIONBLE.

OBAMA MUST FIRE BRENNAN AND HOLDER AND NAPOLITANO.

Something about their cars being government standard (i.e., craptastic) and them not being able to pay their employees federal salaries while still turning a profit or something. Now not even the government is willing to keep supporting them and federal subsidies were the only thing keeping them afloat.

Basically, the government took over a company, slowly, through unionization - because half of Italy and the Vatican really did manage to learn absolutely nothing from their fascist era - until the company's product became all Soviet and embarrassing from everyone's perspective. This is the fate of literally everything the government does with our money: it ultimately becomes what would be a hilarious running joke if it weren't going to be the death of us. Fiat, GM, the Post Office, Social Security, Medikare, Medikaid, public education, the FDA, the TSA, higher education, etc. are cancers: they feed on us, destroy us, and take us over from within; they have no redeeming value and yet, because they are gubbmint cancer, you can't kill them. You have to feed them your time and your labor and your children's futures until they are the death of your nation.

A harbinger of things to come.

Fiat’s Sergio Marchionne looked like a pretty shrewd operator when he was able to snag a bailed-out Chrysler from the US government without paying a penny. Between that and the booming European sales on the back of government-funded scrappage schemes, Fiat pretty much spent 2009 proving that automakers should cater to governments almost as much as consumers. But as 2009 wound down, Fiat’s government affairs winning streak came to a halt as the Italian government started asking for a little quid for its quo, and it’s been going downhill from there. Now that Fiat wants to shut down its Sicilian Termini Imerese plant, and right-size Italian production, the love affair is officially over. “We are examining the possibility of renewing [consumer incentives],” Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told reporters from Automotive News [sub]. “But Fiat does not seem interested in them.”

Of course Fiat is interested in the incentives that it has admitted its addiction to. Berlusconi’s paternal pronunciation merely indicates that Fiat isn’t ready to guarantee jobs at the money-losing Imerese plant, which is the Italian government’s political price. “We have to have the courage to say that there have been enough government handouts if they do not safeguard jobs and industrial sites,” explains Italian Senate Speaker Renato Schifani.

Read the whole thing. It's our not-too-distant future if we don't decimate the federal government with pitchforks and torches if necessary. We have to be more united than unions and the ever-growing public sector so that we don't have to be as thuggish, brutal, or unaccountable. It can't be that hard. Any idiot who isn't even trying can do just about anything better than the government and that's the truth.

In fact, I wonder if there was ever a small business which employed the mentally handicapped but was later taken over by government. I would bet my bottom dollar that the mentally handicapped kicked the government's asses at everything that hypothetical small business did.

Fiat, like GM, makes cheap, crappy cars. The key difference between cheap and crappy standards, which companies can survive through upholding for decades, centuries even, and government standards is this: a plausible reason for existence.

Oh, and Fiat owns Chrysler, in case anyone forgot.

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• I POSTED ON IT 3 DAYS AGO.

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IF THEY READ THIS BLOG THEY'D BE BETTER INFORMED - AND MORE QUICKLY.

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NZH:

Researchers have discovered that the health benefits of aerobic exercise are determined by our genes - and can vary substantially between individuals.

... 20 per cent of the population do not get any significant aerobic fitness benefit from regular exercise, according to an international study led by scientists at the University of London.

For these people, regular jogging and gym work will do little to ward off conditions like heart disease and diabetes which aerobic exercise is generally thought to resist.

Researchers say they would be better off abandoning their exercise regime and focusing on other ways of staying healthy - such as improving their diet or taking medication.

NOTHING IN LIFE IS ONE SIZE FITS ALL.

HOW CAN YOU FIND OUT IF YOU'RE ONE OF THE 1-IN-5 WHO NEEDN'T BOTHER!?

UK TELEGRAPH: Church of England is 'living in the past', says BBC's head of religion

The BBC's head of religion has accused the Church of England of "living in the past" and said that the corporation should not give Christianity preferential treatment.

... Aaqil Ahmed, a controversial executive whose appointment last year prompted more than 100 complaints, said: "I think all the faiths should be treated in the same way. I don't believe in treating any faith differently."

He dismissed claims that the BBC was marginalising religion as overly simplistic and argued that Christianity, in particular, was already covered well on television.

OH, BTW: THE HEAD OF RELIGION FOR THE BBC IS A FREAKIN MUZZIE.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE.

THE BRITISH EDUCATED ELITES HAVE BENT OVER AND SPREAD THEIR CHEEKS AND INVITED THE MUSLIMS TO INVADE.

THE BRITISH PEOPLE WON'T TAKE THIS MUCH LONGER:

• THE BNP AND UKIP WILL RISE IN THE POLLS -
• AND IF THEY FALL SHORT ON THE NEXT ELECTION, THEN BRITISH PEOPLE WILL BEGIN TO TAKE DIRECT ACTION IN THE STREETS - AND VIOLENTLY REBEL AGAINST THE MUSLIM INVASION AND THE EDUCATED ELITE'S.

GOOD RIDDANCE TO BOTH!

I'D RATHER IT HAPPENED THE EASY WAY, BUT IF THE ELITES WON'T DO WHAT MUST BE DONE THEN THE HARD WAY WITH VIGILANTE VIOLENCE - VIA THE EDL AND OTHER GROUPS - IS THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE.

WHAT I'M ADVOCATING IS NOT OVER-THE-TOP OR NUTTY: THE BRITS USED VIOLENCE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM THE NAZIS. ISLAM IS WORSE THAN NAZISM AND THEY MAY NEED TO USE VIOLENCE AGAIN.

EXTREMISM IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY AND THE WEST IS NO VICE.

BTW: I EXPECT IT TO GET VIOLENT IN BRITAIN THIS YEAR: IN THE 1770'S THE BRITISH EDUCATED ELITES FAILED TO LISTEN TO AMERICANS; THEY SEEM AS DEAF NOW.

MORE HERE.

A MUST READ:

Let me preface this by saying that BART San Francisco employees are generally considered a tad less customer-friendly than the staff of a Zimbabwean DMV.

What -- you expected something different from yet another Rathke-SEIU™ enterprise?

As suggested, I did a quick perusal of BART Salaries.

IT GETS WORSE! RTWT!

(FOR MORE GENERAL INFO - AND MORE ON HOW THIS RELATES TO OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, SEARCH "TAX-GETTERS" OR "AXIS OF TAXES" AT THIS BLOG.)

WATCH IT. SHE'S GREAT.

REGISTER AND WATCH IT!

BTW: PALIN WORE A PIN WITH TO FLAGS ON HER LAPEL: AN AMERICAN FLAG AND THE (FLAG OF ISRAEL.)

From this column by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post:

[T]he paramount civil liberty is a sense of security and this, sad to say, has eroded under Barack Obama. Repeatedly, the administration has shown poor judgment.

Cohen even praises George W. Bush, albeit in a backhanded fashion:

No doubt George Bush soiled America's image abroad with what looked liked vigilante justice and Dick Cheney's hearty endorsement of ugly interrogation measures. But more is at stake here than America's image abroad -- namely the security and peace of mind of Americans in America. Bush stands condemned by the facts for Sept. 11 -- his watch, his responsibility -- and in all likelihood he bent over backward to ensure that nothing like those attacks would happen again.

The entire essay by Cohen is an indictment of the BHO administration and reads much like Krauthammer's work. An interesting turn because Cohen and Krauthammer typically express antithetical ideas.

Labels: Always On Watch, the Obama administration, Washington Post

SURPRISINGLY FAIR - AS IN "GOOD REPORTING" WITHOUT MUCH IF ANY BIAS.

WUWT:

A LEADING British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility.

Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.

The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

This weekend Professor Chris Field, the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate impacts team, told The Sunday Times that he could find nothing in the report to support the claim. The revelation follows the IPCC’s retraction of a claim that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035.

The African claims could be even more embarrassing for the IPCC because they appear not only in its report on climate change impacts but, unlike the glaciers claim, are also repeated in its Synthesis Report. This report is the IPCC’s most politically sensitive publication, distilling its most important science into a form accessible to politicians and policy makers. Its lead authors include Pachauri himself.

In it he wrote: “By 2020, in some countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%. Agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries is projected to be severely compromised.” The same claims have since been cited in speeches to world leaders by Pachauri and Ban.

Speaking at the 2008 global climate talks in Poznan, Poland, Pachauri said: “In some countries of Africa, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by 50% by 2020.” In a speech last July, Ban said: “Yields from rain-fed agriculture could fall by half in some African countries over the next 10 years.”

Speaking this weekend, Field said: “I was not an author on the Synthesis Report but on reading it I cannot find support for the statement about African crop yield declines.”

Watson said such claims should be based on hard evidence. “Any such projection should be based on peer-reviewed literature from computer modelling of how agricultural yields would respond to climate change. I can see no such data supporting the IPCC report,” he said.

Read the entire article at The Times here

UNBEFRICKLIEVABLE.

AND TO THINK THE RED-GREEN ALLIANCE NEARLY RAISED TAXES ON ALL INDUSTRY IN THE FIRST WORLD AND NEARLY ARRANGED TO SEND IT TO A GLOBAL GOVERNMENT TO GIVE TO THE THIRD WORLD.

EVERY JACKASS POLITICIAN WHO BOUGHT INTO THIS HOAX SHOULD BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE.

CBS:

The storm is officially the biggest February snowfall on record for Philadelphia, and the second biggest snowstorm for the city --- 28.5" and counting.

DESPITE CO2, AND THE NOBEL-SHARING AL GORE & THE IPCC - WHO SHOULD GO HOME AND STFU.

AGW = BS. PERIOD.

TODAY'S WSJ/OP-ED/LAWRENCE HARRISON:

Haiti has received billions of dollars in foreign aid over the last 50 years, and yet it remains the least developed country in the Western Hemisphere. Its indicators of progress are closer to Africa's than to those of Latin America. It has defied all development prescriptions.

Why? Because Haiti's culture is powerfully influenced by its religion, voodoo. Voodoo is one of numerous spirit-based religions common to Africa. It is without ethical content.

WHO IS LAWRENCE HARRISON? HERE:

Lawrence Harrison

Director, Cultural Change Institute and Lecturer; TUFTS UNIVERISTY - FLETCHER SCHOOL

Education

AB, Dartmouth College
MPA, Harvard University

Professional Activities

Currently, Associate, Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University; has served as a Visiting scholar at Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (1981-83, 1988-1990,1994-96,1998-2000), Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (1997-1998), and Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1996-1997); Vice President for International Development, National Cooperative Business Association (1984-1988); Consultant to USAID for several projects/programs in Latin America and Asia; Director, USAID Missions to Costa Rica, Guatemala (for Central American region), Nicaragua, and Haiti, Deputy Director, Dominican Republic (1969-81).

NOBODY KNBOWS MORE ABOUT THIS THAN HARRISON. HE IS THE EXPERT.

(HE GOT THE BIG FREEPER LINK.)

NEVERTHELESS, WE POSTED THIS SAME THINGS LONG BEFORE HE DID; WE POSTED IT LAST MONTH:

• ON 1/13: HAITI'S BAD CULTURAL AND SOCIAL VALUES MAKE THE HORROR WORSE

• ON 1/14: HAITI IS HELL - WHAT ABOUT IT'S NEIGHBOR, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC?

• AND ON 1/18: HAITIANS STILL SCREWING UP RELIEF EFFORTS WITH BAD BEHAVIOR

WE TOOK SOME FLAK AND GOT NO LINKAGE FROM ANY OF THE BIGGIES.

BUT WE WERE 10000000% CORRECT - AS USUAL, AND WAY WAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE.

REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. WE SCOOP THE BIGGIES WITH FAST, ON TARGET, SHARP ANALYSIS AND BLUNT ON TARGET COMMENTARY.

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN ME. NO BRAG; JUST FACT.

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BRRRRRR!:

A ferocious blizzard, dubbed the "snowpocalypse" and "snowmageddon," descended on Washington yesterday, shutting federal offices early, closing schools, and sending residents scurrying to stock up on supplies to carry them through the weekend.

Forecasters predicted 30 inches or more of snow, which would easily break the area's snowfall record of 28 inches set in 1922.

The area has seen more than a foot of snow only 13 times since 1870, according to the National Weather Service.

DESPITE 90 YEARS OF ANTRHOPOGENIC CO2 SPEWING INTO THE ATMOSPHERE!?!?!? HMMM....

AGW = BS.

OR, ...UM... AGW = AL GORE'S WRONG.

America's Democrat Party has become an old-time European Labour Party and is verging on becoming a Latin American socialist party.

The polls prove that they LIKE socialism.

And the MSM - for all intents and purposes an organ of the DNC - calls these pinko Democrats "mainstream" while deriding the Tea Partiers as teabagging right-wing racist extremists despite the fact that we are just Americans who revere the US Constitution and the free-market.

How are these Democrats becoming Chavezistas? Simple:

The left-wing dominated Democrat Party truly has no use for democracy IF IT DOESN'T ADVANCE THEIR UTOPIANIST SOCIAL AGENDA.

For example, when Senator Torricelli got in trouble they had no problem taking him off the ballot and inserting Lautenberg despite the fact that this broke the law. (They just got a Democrat Party-machine appointed "Judge" to rule in their favor.)

And in Massachusetts, the Democrat Party controlled legislature TWICE changed US Senate succession rules just to make it tougher for a Republican to get the job.

And now - just days after the PEOPLE selected Scott Cohen to be THEIR nominee for Lt Gov of the state of Illinois, the Party Big shots are trying to get him to resign.

(More on it here at Memeorandum.)

Need another example? HERE:

USAG Holder dismissed charges against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation despite the fact that they had virtually pleaded guilty.

WANT ANOTHER!? Here:

A leading Democrat utopianistic leftie on MSDNC - Ed Schultz - actually advocated voter fraud on the Massachusetts special election.

MORE? Here are a few more examples:

They would pass Obamacare via reconciliation if they could.

They would end the filibuster in the US Senate.

And they would abolish the US Senate.

SO, WHY HAVE THE DEMOCRATS BECOME SO ANTI-DEMOCRATIC?

It's because they have become more and more leftist and UTOPIANISTIC.

You see, utopianists think that they can make human society PERFECT: eliminate poverty, ignorance, disease, war, greed, selfishness and so on.

All we'd have to do is follow their BRILLIANT logic and FLAWLESS policies carried out by the most intelligent and moral and well-educated men and women and transgender people of every race, nationality, ethnicity and sexual identification - (according to a soft quota).

They really REALLY do believe that they can make the world A PERFECT PLACE; they believe in the perfectibility of people and government and bureaucracies.

And believing this is possible, then ANYTHING which gets in the way of a UTOPIA - a perfect world without anything bad - is certainly worth GETTING RID OF!!!!!!!

Whether it's democracy or a race of people.

It's this UTOPIANISTIC IMPERATIVE which animates the leftist seeming need to ride roughshod over our innate rights - and even commit genocide.

And make no mistake about it: leftist utopianists have killed more people than any other ideology in human history - (except for Islam - which has done it over more centuries). PolPot was a utopianst. So was Mao, and Stalin and Hitler and Kim il Sung and Mugabe and Castro and so on.

Conservatives don't believe in the perfectibility of man or government or society. That's why the Founding Fathers wanted LIMITED government with checks and balances and divided power.

The Founding Fathers knew that because humanity wasn't perfect, a too powerful government run by humans would inevitably decline into tyranny. And they knew that each of us has OUR OWN IDEA OF WHAT'S PERFECT FOR US. And that this is different for all people. And that therefore government mustn't decide for us what is best for everyone.

For a conservative, an ideal world is one in which each of us is free to live our lives according to what makes us happy - and where we each take individual responsibility for our own IMPERFECT lives, its up and its downs.

It's understandable that utopianists should be the most murderous people in history: if you believed that all that stood between the current screwed-up world and Utopia for 6 billion people - and a world without hunger or climate change or war or disease or greed and so on - was a few million or a few hundred million people or their "rights", then you would do what they have always done and continue to try to do: kill millions to get there.

And this is what animates the Democrats' efforts right here in the USA - today.

And this is why they must be stopped.

Utopianists have never failed to create DYSTOPIA. Mugabe did it. Castro too. And Stalin and Mao and Hitler and so on.

And if the utopianistic Democrat Party succeeds here then we will be poorer, and less free.

We can stop them this November!

YnetNews reports on how anti-semitism in the UK has reached frightening levels. Gordon Brown condemns it, but honestly, I can't be moved to take his word at face value.

And while it's not too hard to guess what kind of fiends are behind these attacks, I still think it'd be a good idea to clearly identify them, which this article fails to do (nor in fact does this short item by the AP on the Wash. Post). Are there any vile Pakistanis doing this? Or even native Brits? Or both? It's not too hard to guess what kind of people are doing this, but, only if you clearly identify the problem will it be possible to figure it out.

I fear the number of recorded incidents (924 to date) will cross 1000 very soon, as Britain continues its slow path to self-destruction.

Between now and the impending Tea Party and GOP victories in November, who do you think Obama will throw under the bus?

Glenn links to a post at COMMENTARY arguing that Holder is the next to go.

This is probable.

But who will Obama and Axelrod and Soros and the SEIU replace him with?

Here's who I think is gonna get thrown under the bus between now and the end of the year - and who I think will replace them --- and who I think SHOULD replace them if Obama wasn't a radical leftist but a shrewd liberal politician like the Clinton's:

OUT - - - - - - - - OBAMA/AXELROD/SEIU/SOROS PICK - - - - - - MY PICK SUGGESTION

HOLDER - - - - - ELENA KAGAN (HOW 'BOUT SPITZER! HEH!) - - -MARY JO WHITE
NAPOLITANO - GRANHOLM OR BILL RICHARDSON - - - - - - - - - - COLIN POWELL
EMANUEL - - - -JOHN PODESTA & BILL DALEY - - - - - - SAM NUNN & ED RENDELL

NOW IT'S YOUR TURN:

WHO DO YOU THINK WILL GET THROWN UNDER THE BUS, AND WHO DO YOU THINK OBAMA WILL PICK - AND WHO WOULD YOU PREFER A DEMOCRAT LIBERAL PRESIDENT TO PICK?

TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS...

REUTERS /NYTIMES:

"I don't have the sense that we're close to an agreement," Gates told reporters in Ankara where he met Turkish leaders.

His comments stood in contrast to those by Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, who said on Friday he saw good prospects for clinching a deal with world powers on exchanging LEU for higher-grade fuel it can use in a reactor producing medical isotopes.

"If they are prepared to take up the original proposal of the P-5 plus one of delivering 1,200 kilograms of their low enriched uranium, all at once to an agreed party, I think there would be a response to that," he added, referring to the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany.

..."But the reality is they have done nothing to reassure the international community that they are prepared to comply with the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) or stop their progress toward a nuclear weapon, and therefore I think various nations need to think about whether the time has come for a different tack," Gates added, in an apparent reference to sanctions.

IT'S TIME TO LAUNCH SEVERAL HUNDRED MISSILES AIMED AT IRAN'S NUKE ASSETS AND ITS MILITARY.

BBC:

An Australian firm has signed a $60bn (AUS$69bn; £38bn) deal to supply coal to Chinese power stations.

...Under the deal, the firm will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development (CPI) 30m tonnes of coal a year for 20 years.

... The plan involves building a huge new mining complex in the Australian state of Queensland, and laying 500km (311 miles) of railway line to move the coal to the coast.

... But the lucrative Sino-Australian deal will almost certainly disappoint some environmental groups, says the BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney.

GOOD ON THEM! WHAT WILL LEFTIE/GREENIE OZ PM RUDD DO!?!? I HOPE HE KEEPS HIS MOUTH SHUT.

CO2 = OK.
AGW = BS.

ALONG WITH A LOT OF OTHER DRUGS:

Adolf Hitler took a primitive form of Viagra for his encounters with Eva Braun, claim the authors of a book about the dictator's fragile health.

The testosterone extract was one of 82 different medications that Hitler used during the course of his 12-year reign.

...One of their major sources are the papers of Dr Morrell, whom Hitler came to rely upon with increasing desperation, even though he was regarded as a quack by many of the Nazi elite and used unconventional and holistic treatments.

His records show that he began giving Hitler testosterone injections and a cocktail made from the semen and prostate glands of young bulls in 1944.

The Nazi leader, then 55, believed this would give him the necessary energy for his encounters with Miss Braun, 32.

The concoction was one of many injections he was given because he had a fear of pills.

... He gave Hitler small doses of Pervitin, a form ofspeed.

He gave him glucose, intravenous injections of methamphetamine, barbiturates and opiates.

ONE YEAR LATER AND BARACK OBAMA IS STILL STARTLINGLY UN-PRESIDENTIAL

Remember how - while on the campaign trail 0n 9/11, and visiting Ground Zero with McCain - Obama just tossed his rose on the memorial?

I do. It was un-presidential. WATCH:



Remember how Obama gave a shout out to before even mentioning the terror attack at Fort Hood?

I do. It was un-presidential. WATCH:



Remember how he bowed to the King of Saudi Arab and how he bowed to the Emperor if Japan and how he bowed to the Mayor of Tampa?

I do. It was un-presidential each time. SEE FOR YOURSELF:











Remember how he interjected himself into a police matter in Cambridge Massachusetts?

I do. It was un-presidential. THE ARREST OF SKIP GATES WAS A LOCAL POLICE MATTER.











And at the National Prayer Breakfast - while we are a nation in two wars and struggling out of a deep recession - he gave a partisan speech instead of a solemn unifying prayer.

It was un-presidential.

And every time he blames Bush instead of accepting responsibility he seems that much more un-presidential because there's nothing going on the the world now that he didn't know about before getting nominated; he shouldn't have sought the job if he wasn't ready to accept responsibility AND LEAD.

But perhaps he really thought he was ready.

So did his supporters.

Now, they ALL are disappointed - though many remain hopeful

We on the Right knew better.

We weren't duped. They were duped.

They didn't care about 3am phone calls. They were duped.

They didn't care about Wright or Ayers or Rezko or Blago or Geithner or Richardson or Daschle. They were duped.

Duped or not, though, eyes are opening up - and what do they see?

An un-presidential Obama.

You see, unlike being a college law professor or a state senator or a US Senator, being president is a job you can't hide in. You can't vote present. You can't be for IT before you were against IT.

Presidents have to make decisions - national decisions and decisions with grave international and global repercussions.

And how well you make these decisions and how strong you appear, how sure-footed and resolute, all have a bearing on how well you can continue to lead.

Obama has done poorly on all counts.

He failed at Obamacare. His Stimulus Plan was a failure. His budget is a failure. His Gitmo plans failed. His KSM plans failed.

And each failure - like each CORPSE-MAN gaffe and each inappropriate "shout out" - further diminishes his ability to appear presidential.

I frankly don't think Obama can recover.

I think his best shot would be to bring in Bill Daley, San Nunn, and Ed Rendell, but Obama and Axelrod and Soros won't do it. They're too committed to the Leftist agenda to tack to the center and take control of the nation and appear presidential.

Obama is still a "community organizer" in his heart and sol, still an Alinsky agitator more at home in the corrupt precincts of the Chicago Machine than the hallowed halls of Congress on the dangerous seas of global politics.

His out of his league - him and his advisors - and it shows.

It's why Obama is so irreparably un-presidential.

FAMILY LAW WEEK: Increasing numbers of UK Muslim marriages not legally recognised

Couples failing to register civil marriages

The BBC Asian Network reports that a growing number of young Muslims in the UK are entering marriages that are not legally recognised. This, the Network says, is because couples are having an Islamic wedding without the civil ceremony needed for the marriage to be recognised under British law.

The report quotes Aina Khan, a family lawyer with Blacklaws Davis LLP, who says:

"It's a rising trend for Muslim couples to have marriages that are not legally recognized….. My colleagues and I are having to deal with hundreds of cases where things have gone wrong because the wedding has not been registered. Because the couples only have co-habitant rights, it is extremely expensive and complicated to use the law to get the individuals any justice once the marriage ends.''

THEY DON'T SEEK CIVIL RECOGNITION FOR THEIR MARRIAGES BECAUSE THEY DON'T RECOGNIZE WESTERN CIVIL LAW!

SHARIA SHOULD BE BANNED AND SHARIA-FOLLOWERS EXILED OR JAILED FOR SEDITION.

THIS TIME TURKEY.

MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE NYTIMES TRAVEL SECTION RECOMMENDS TRAVELS TO ANTI-AMERICAN NATIONS.

GEE, I WONDER WHY!?