MORE ON THE HONOR MURDERS IN DALLAS

The Dallas Observer (via Michelle Malkin) has a feature article about the murders of Amina and Sarah Said by their filthy father Yaser, who's still on the loose. The mother and the son named Islam are decidedly also to be held accountable for their own treachery, and should both be prosecuted for their own crimes.

Poll: Most Britons Disbelieve Man-Made Global Warming

Even our more sophisticated betters over on the other side of the pond disbelieve the man-made Global Warming scam.

From the Guardian:

The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans - and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer. In a sign of the enormous task ahead for those pushing for drastic cuts to carbon emissions, many people said they did not want to restrict their lifestyles and only a small minority believe they need to make 'significant and radical' changes such as driving and flying less.

Some environmentalists blame the public's doubts on last year's Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, and on recent books, including one by Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor, that question the consensus on climate change.

THE TABLE IS SET FOR A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE ON IRAN, AND THE CLOCK IS TICKING

Pakistan has a power sharing government.
Afghanistan's taliban are getting whacked.
Our drones strike on their borders at will.
Iraq is stable.
Syria has been chastised.
Gaddafy has been contained.
Hamastan is now hudnaed.
Lebanon presidented.

Israel practiced.

Nominees selected.

Baradei promising to resign.

The table is set.

The clock is ticking...

NOTE: Most likely dates: August 1st; August 30th; Sept 29th; Oct 28th - ALL NEW MOONS...

TURKEY HEADING FOR A SHOWDOWN BETWEEN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY AND ISLAM

MICHAEL RUBIN/MEF:

Sometime this summer, Turkey's Constitutional Court will decide whether Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) violated the "principles of a democratic and secular republic" that undergird the Turkish constitution and should be barred from politics.

Across the Turkish political spectrum, most officials expect the Court to rule against the AKP, thus dissolving the party and banning Erdoğan and his closest aides for at least five years.

Although the prime minister, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, and influential AKP advisers have tried to depict this as the unjust outgrowth of a dispute over headscarves in public universities—and perhaps even a "judicial coup"—the case is legitimate.

... Contrary to AKP claims, this summer's Court decision will not mark the end of Turkish democracy, but rather its rebirth.

RTWT.

OBAMA HAS THROWN HIS POTENTIAL REPUBLICAN SUPPORTERS UNDER THE BUS

DINOCRAT: OBAMA IS A DIVIDER NOT A UNITER.

MORE HERE.

MORE PROOF OBAMA IS A SLIMEY CORRUPT POLITICIAN DOING IT THE CHICAGO WAY: HIRES SLIMEY PAT GASPARD TO HELP RUN CAMPAIGN

FACTS ON GASPARD HERE AT GATEWAY.

• OBAMA IS A PRODUCT OF THE CHICAGO MACHINE.

• NEED WE SAY MORE?

• YES:

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

DOES BARACK OBAMA BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS A POOR BLACK MAN - AS HIS CHURCH PROCLAIMS?

• REVEREND WRIGHT PREACHED TO OBAMA FOR 20 YEARS.

• CONVERTED HIM.

• MARRIED HIM.

• BAPTIZED HIS CHILDREN.

• AND WRIGHT PREACHED THAT:

"JESUS WAS A POOR BLACK MAN LIVING IN A NATION RULED BY RICH WHITE MEN".

• DOES BARACK OBAMA BELIEVE THIS?

• IF NOT, THEN WHY DID HE BELONG TO THIS CHURCH FOR TWENTY YEARS, AND GET MARRIED THERE, AND HAVE HIS CHILDREN BAPTIZED THERE?

JUST ASKING.

GLAD SHALIT'S FAMILY PROTESTS HUDNA WITH HAMASTAN

NYTIMES:

The parents of an Israeli soldier being held captive in the Gaza Strip asked Israel's high court on Saturday to delay opening border crossings with the territory until their son's release is guaranteed.

An Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and the Hamas Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip went into effect on Thursday. The agreement is meant to halt cross-border fighting as well as gradually and partially ease Israel's economic blockade of the enclave.

Sergeant Gilad Shalit, was captured on June 25, 2006 aged 19 by Palestinian gunmen who tunneled into Israel from Gaza.

The family petitioned the court to prevent the implementation of any agreement to open Gaza's border crossings or to ease the economic blockade until Shalit "is freed from his captors or a guarantee for his release is given."

Included in the petition was a handwritten letter from Shalit that the family received about two weeks ago.

The court is expected to discuss the case on Sunday.

OLMERT IS A TRAITOR AND A CROOK.

OLMERT AND HIS CRONIES SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE.

HAMAS ARE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL AND NEED TO BE WIPED OUT.

ISRAEL NEEDS REAL LEADERSHIP WILLING TO TREAT ENEMIES AS ENEMIES.

IF OBAMA'S WORDS MEAN NOTHING TO HIM, THEN WHY SHOULD THEY MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYONE ELSE?

WHEN YOUR WORD MEANS NOTHING; YOU ARE UNTRUSTWORTHY.

OBAMA'S WORDS MEAN NOTHING BECAUSE HE HAS ROUTINELY BROKEN HIS WORD TIME AFTER TIME:

• HE BROKE HIS BOOK CONTRACT WITH HIS FIRST LITERARY AGENT, JANE DYSTEL.

• HE DEROGATED HIS GRANDMOTHER TO PROTECT HIS RACIST PREACHER, THEN - ONLY A FEW WEEKS AFTER HE PROMISED TO STAND BY HIS RACIST PREACHER - HE DUMPED HIM,

• AND THEN A FEW WEEKS LATER HE EVEN DUMPED HIS CHURCH.

• HE BROKE HIS PROMISE TO USE PUBLIC CAMPAIGN FINANCING.

• HE BROKE HIS WORD ON FLAG-PINS.

• HE BROKE HIS WORD ON FREE TRADE.

• HE BROKE HIS WORD ON JERUSALEM.

• HE BROKE HIS WORD ON UNCONDITIONAL TALKS WITH WORLD LEADERS.

IF OBAMA'S WORDS MEAN NOTHING TO HIM, THEN WHY SHOULD THEY MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYONE ELSE?

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

OBAMA'S THEME SONG: HAT TIP: TARPON - IN COMMENTS:

Jive talkin’

It’s just your jive talkin’
You’re telling me lies, yeah
Jive talkin’
You wear a disguise
Jive talkin’
So misunderstood, yeah
Jive talkin’
You really no good

Oh, my child
You’ll never know
Just what you mean to me
Oh, my child
You got so much
You’re gonna take away my energy

With all your jive talkin’
You’re telling me lies, yeah
Good lovin’
Still gets in my eyes
Nobody believes what you say
It’s just your jive talkin’
That gets in the way

Oh my love
You’re so good
Treating me so cruel
There you go
With your fancy lies
Leavin’ me lookin’
Like a dumbstruck fool
With all your

Jive talkin’
You’re telling me lies, yeah
Jive talkin’
You wear a disguise
Jive talkin’
So misunderstood, yeah
Jive talkin’
You just ain’t no good

Love talkin’
Is all very fine, yeah
Jive talkin’
Just isn’t a crime
And if there’s somebody
You’ll love till you die
Then all that jive talkin’
Just gets in your eye

Jive talkin’
You’re telling me lies,yeah
Good lovin’
Still gets in my eyes
Nobody believes what you say
It’s just your jive talkin’
That gets in the way

Love talkin’
Is all very fine, yeah
Jive talkin’, just isn’t a crime
And if there’s somebody
You’ll love till you die
Then all that jive talkin’
Just gets in your eye

Jive talkin’

AMERICANS GET IT: WE NEED TO INCREASE DOMESTIC ENERGY SUPPLIES... ASAP!

FOX NEWS:

.. just over three-quarters (76 percent) support immediately increasing oil drilling in the United States — a position recently espoused by presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. More than seven in 10 Democrats (71 percent) also hold this view.

A slim majority (53 percent) supports drilling in a small area of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge — up 5 percentage points since March 2006. Support also has risen over that same period for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico — 77 percent today, up from 68 percent.

And nuclear power — another McCain energy plank — seems to be enjoying a resurgence of popularity as well. By a 51 percent to 41 percent margin, Americans favor building more nuclear power plants than the 100 or so that already exist — a 4-point increase in support over the last two-plus years.

THIS POLL IS GOOD NEWS FOR MCCAIN AND AMERICA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY.

• WHAT DO WE WANT?
• TO DRILL HERE!
• AND WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
• NOW!
• WHAT'S STOPPING US?
• THE DEMOCRATS!

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

MARK SHIELDS: OBAMA IS A LIAR, A HYPOCRITE AND/OR A PHONY

PBS - VIA HOT AIR:

Mark Shields didn’t mince words on PBS about Barack Obama’s decision to opt out of public financing. Appearing as the progressive balance with David Brooks on Judy Woodruff’s show, Shields ripped into Obama, calling him unprincipled and suggesting that his latest video message painted him as a “hostage” who couldn’t pass a polygraph:

It was a flip-flop of epic proportions. It was one that he could not rationalize or justify. His video was unconvincing. He looked like someone who was being kept as a hostage somewhere he was so absolutely unconvincing in it. It could not have passed a polygraph test.

I mean, coming up with this bogus argument the Republicans have so much more money — the Republicans don’t have so much more money. He’s raised three times as much as John McCain has.

TO GAIN AND HOLD TRACTION - AND TO FEED HIS ENORMOUS AMBITION, OBAMA HAS CONTINUOUSLY ABANDONED HIS LONGTIME FRIENDS, ALLIES, AND PRINCIPLES.

HE IS NOT TRUSTWORTHY.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

More proof: Saddam Hussein had operational ties to Al Qaeda

In 2002 Saddam Hussein's intelligence organization wrote a letter to Al Qaeda chieftain Ayman al-Zawahiri requesting a meeting regarding the launch of terrorist operations. The invaluable MEMRI translation service reports

The Kurdish daily Kurdistani Nwe has published a 2002 letter from the Iraqi presidency that it says proves that there was cooperation between the regime of Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.

The letter, which appeared on the paper's front page, was published by the intelligence apparatus of the Iraqi presidency and discussed an intention to meet with Ayman Al-Zawahiri in order to examine a plan drawn up by the Iraqi presidency to carry out a "revenge operation" in Saudi Arabia.

The lies about Iraq promoted by the hard left bank of American politics continue to unravel.

Put bluntly, there were proven ties between Hussein's Iraq and Al-Qaeda.

And even the left-leaning mainstream media is reporting that the longstanding 'Bush lied' theme was as phony as the bogus Obama presidential seal.

Disgraced Senator Harry "The War is Lost" Reid could not be reached for comment.

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

Must not criticize Sharia law

Not at the United Nations Human Rights Council anyway:

"David Littman, reading a joint declaration by two NGOs, the Association for World Education and the International Humanist and Ethical Union, had highlighted the plight of women in countries which apply Sharia law, including the death penalty by stoning for alleged adultery.

His words sparked a furious response from Arab and Islamic members of the council, with Egyptian ambassador Amr Roshdy declaring: "Islam won't be crucified before this Council".

The chair intervened to say that "this Council is not prepared to discuss religious matters in depth," and warned Littman he would be interrupted should he try to raise the issue again.

Source

Mention of human rights for women is just too threatening, it would seem.

Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

Lakoff reinvents the wheel

Poor old George Lakoff. There is a review of his latest book here. He is a linguist by trade but nobody takes him seriously there so he has for some years now been trying his hand at political psychology -- which happens to be my particular area of academic expertise.

It is no surprise to find that he has nothing original to say but it is sort-of sad that he gets some basic stuff ass-backwards. He buys into the compulsive Leftist myth that conservatives are "authoritarian", blithely ignoring that, from the French revolution onward, it has been Leftists (in the person of Communists like Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot and Socialists like Hitler and Mussolini) who have been by far the biggest authoritarians. For a quick summary of how and why Leftists sustain the myth that it is conservatives who are authoritarian, see here.

It always amuses me that even outright Marxists often identify authoritarianism with conservatism even though one of their founders, Friedrich Engels (co-author of Das Kapital) was perfectly commonsense about the matter:

"Revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon". -- from his controversy with the anarchists.

With such a wilfully blind start, Lakoff cannot possibly have much to offer. I was, however, amused by this Lakoff prescription that I found in the review above:

What should progressives say? That conservatism is "fundamentally antidemocratic."

Once again poor old George is reinventing the wheel. Precisely that assertion was an integral part of the old 1950 Adorno work that started the "authoritarian conservative" myth. I guess Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were democrats! There have been many Communist movements worldwide over the years but not one could reasonably be called democratic. So Communism is conservative? Black might as well be white. And in the Western democracies today, Leftists never stop their attempts to censor and suppress conservative speech. See my TONGUE-TIED blog for almost daily examples of that. Is that democratic? It is an attempt to hobble democracy as far as I can see.

To cap it off, the original Adorno questionnaire that was used to characterize conservatives as anti-democrratic (the F scale) was in fact a compilation of beliefs that were common in the "Progressive"-dominated America in the first half of the 20th century. See here on the nature of the F scale questions and see here for the rather surprising details of America's "Progressive" era. So if there were any ideas that were shown by Adorno to be anti-democratic, they were in fact "Progressive" ideas at the time!

Another amusing Lakoff prescription: "progressives should rely less on facts and more on images and drama". Talk about preaching to the converted! Since when did Leftists EVER rely on facts? Appeals to emotions have been their stock in trade since the year dot. If they relied on known facts they would certainly have given up very rapidly and very long ago any notion that socialism was a cure for poverty.

The reviewer (Saletan) goes on to point out more of the huge holes in Lakoff's thinking so I will not go on. I have however had a close look at Lakoff's threadbare old ideas previously. See here.


Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

GORDEN BROWN INVITES IN SAUDI ARABIA TO INVEST IN THE UK'S NUCLEAR INDUSTRY

Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning notified me of this June 21, 2008 article in the Telegraph. Excerpt:

Gordon Brown has invited oil-rich states like Saudi Arabia to invest in the next generation of British nuclear power stations.

The Prime Minister extended the invitation to OPEC members as part of a deal he will propose at a summit in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.... 



And check out the photo of Queen Elizabeth II on the arm of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

The UK is selling itself out, even to developing alternative sources of energy!

BRITISH PARLIAMENT RUSHES TO APPROVE LISBON TREATY DEPSITE IRELAND'S "NO" VOTE

From Gallia Watch:

Yahoo:

On Wednesday, the House of Lords adopted a bill approving the Treaty of Lisbon. On the eve of a European crisis summit, Prime Minister Gordon Brown hopes to arrive with a British ratification in his pocket, the first since the Irish "no" on June 12.

The upper chamber of the British Parliament adopted the bill at 07:30 p.m. GMT, by a voice vote - without a precise count of votes - after a long afternoon of debates disrupted by four persons from the public (...) who were removed by security guards.

The document approved by the parliamentarians now requires only the Royal Assent, a simple formality. This final step is scheduled for Thursday at 10:00 a.m. GMT.

The Telegraph has an English-language version of the story. Here is an excerpt:

Spreadbetting millionaire Stuart Wheeler, who is awaiting a High Court decision on his application for a judicial review of the Government's refusal to hold a referendum on the Treaty, accused Mr Brown of "stifling democracy". "The people of Ireland have spoken but our Prime Minister has chosen not to listen," said Mr Wheeler." "Instead of taking on board the wishes of the only four million people in the EU allowed to have their say on the Lisbon Treaty, it seems he will ask the Queen to give Royal Assent to this Bill."

"Surely the Prime Minister could delay the ratification of this Treaty. If nothing else he could wait until the High Court has ruled whether his refusal to hand the British people a referendum was unlawful." "The Government has one last chance to do the right thing - say they will not actually ratify the treaty without a referendum."

"Surely the people of Britain deserve this at the very least."

Several pro-referendum protesters were thrown out of the Lords public gallery after voicing their demands for a poll during this afternoon's debate.

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RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: HERE'S AN EXCERPT THAT NORTHERN SEER POSTED EARLIER - ON A RELATED MATTER:

if democracy doesn't give the socialists what they want then they won't hesitate to abort the democratic process.

They've tried that before...

THE LEFT IS FUNDAMENTALLY ELITIST AND ANTI-DEMOCRATIC - ALL STATISTS ARE.

THEY MUST BE OPPOLSED EVERYWHERE AND FOR ALL TIME.

LIVE FREE OR DIE, BABY!

OBAMA'S ELECTION WOULD UNDO ALL OUR IRAQI GAINS

NYTIMES: Big Gains for Iraq Security, but Questions Linger

What’s going right? And can it last?

Violence in all of Iraq is the lowest since March 2004.

The two largest cities, Baghdad and Basra, are calmer than they have been for years.

The third largest, Mosul, is in the midst of a major security operation.

On Thursday, Iraqi forces swept unopposed through the southern city of Amara, which has been controlled by Shiite militias.

There is a sense that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s government has more political traction than any of its predecessors.

... Despite their newfound confidence, some senior Iraqi officials close to Mr. Maliki said that without an American military safety net they are vulnerable to threats from outside and inside their borders.

One important but less-noticed element of the security negotiations has been Iraq’s effort to extract an American pledge to defend the government against foreign or domestic aggression.

Mr. Adeeb, the top Maliki adviser, said officials wanted the Americans to protect the Iraqi government against anything the government viewed as a threat — not just what the Americans saw as a threat. “Our political system is weak, the terrorists and former regime members are sparing no effort to overthrow the system, and neighboring countries have their own ambitions,” Mr. Adeeb said. “Our army is not qualified to defend Iraq yet.”

THEY WANT AND NEED US TO STAY. OUR IRAQI ALLIES. THE 25 MILLION IRAQIS WE LIBERATED.

• WE NEED TO STAY IN IRAQ TO HELP IRAQ STRENGTHEN THEIR DEMOCRACY AND THEIR CIVIL DEFENSES.
• OBAMA WOULD HAVE US ABANDON THEM AS THE DEMOCRAT DOVES DID SOUTH VIETNAM IN 1975 - TWO YEARS AFTER THE LAST US COMBAT TROOP LEFT VIETNAM.
• THAT LED TO A MILLION IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, MILLION OF BOAT PEOPLE FLEEING, AND POL POT'S GENOCIDE AGAINST 3.5 MILLION CAMBODIANS.
• IRAQ WOULD BE WORSE.
• THIS ALONE IS REASON TO DEFEAT OBAMA.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

OBAMA BROKE FEDERAL LAW... AGAIN

HAT TIP PASTORIUS:

RED STATE PROVES THE "OBAMALAND SEAL" IS A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW.












THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME OBAMA HAS FLAGRANTLY BROKEN FEDERAL LAW.

HERE'S A PHOTO OF OBAMA MEETING WITH HIS CAMPAIGN ADVISOR IN OBAMA'S SENATE OFFICE - ALSO A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW.


















The photo above shows a federal crime in progress.

• OBAMA IS A SLEAZY, CORRUPT, LAW-BREAKING, TERROR-APPEASING LEFTIE WHO HAS NO BUSINESS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, LET ALONE SERVING.

• I VIEW HIS CANDIDACY AS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE USA.

• WILL NO ONE ARREST THIS MAN!?

NEXT BEST THING: DEFEATING HIM LIKE NO ONE HAS BEEN DEFEATED BEFORE!

WHAT DEMOCRATS REALLY MEAN WHEN THEY SAY PROGRESSIVE ENGAGEMENT POLICIES WHICH WILL END THE WAR

VIA HYSCIENCE:

CAN MONEY MAKE OBAMA THE NEXT PRESIDENT? NO. BUT ELECTION FRAUD MIGHT!

Much is being made of Obama's ability to raise money. (MORE HERE.)

He's raising so much money that lefties no longer consider money a bad influence!


Which really just proves once again how unprincipled the left really is - and always has been, too.

Unprincipled or not, Obama has a lot of money, and money can buy a lot of things.

But can it buy a victory?

The Democrat super-delegates might feel that it can. Most who supported Obama were most impressed with his fund-raising ability - and then his youth support.

Are they right?

NO. Evidence seems to indicate that money cannot make Obama a winner.

Look at the Hillary versus Obama primary in PA.

Obama got his ass kicked while outspending here 5 to one. (See here and here and here.)

And Hillary is no McCain.

Obama outspent Hillary in Ohio - by 2-to-one, and still got his ass kicked.

Obama outspent Hillary in Texas - and lost the popular vote there too.

OBVIOUSLY: McCain and the GOP can win even if outspent by Obama. Especially if they make Obama's flip-flop on campaign financing an issue - one which exposes Obama is basically an unprincipled politician. And that Obama's lack of principles on top of his lack of experience make him even less trustworthy.

THE REAL THREAT IS ORGANIZED DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD BY OBAMA'S OLD LEFT-WING ALLIES AT ACORN, SEIU, A.C.T. AND THE LIKE.

It was voter fraud which gave Kerry a very tight win in Wisconsin. And made other states tight, too.

I expect it to be a rampant as ever in Detroit, Philly, St Louis and in other Dem machine strongholds like CHICAGO, where they hold the patent on it!

I hope the GOP has a plan to defeat it. If not, then this is how Obama might pull out a win.

UPDATE: Ed at HOT AIR posts news that Obama did NOT raise a lot of money in May, and this might be a sigh of things to come - that perhaps the Obama money machine has peaked too soon.

If this is the case, then ALL the SDems have left in their bag of tricks is voter fraud.

STAY TUNED...

OBAMA: THE BARACKENSTEIN MONSTER

What kind of politician would you get if you patched together ...

... the energy policies of Carter...

... with the tax policies of Mondale...

... with the foreign policies of Kucinich...

... with the constancy of principles on issues of Kerry...

... with the veracity of Clinton...

... with the national defense policy of Henry Wallace...


and the demagogic populism of Huey Long?

You'd get...


BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

AND THE RESULTS OF AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY WOULD BE MONTROUS!


VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

NOTE: The slogan on the podium: "CHANGE TO WIN".

This seems much more apt now: Obama seems to change with no regard for anything except his desire to win.

AND IS WILLING TO THROW ANYIONE AND ANYTHING UNDER THE BUS.

This seems to me to be a notch below "change for change sake" - and much more dangerous. MONSTROUSLY SO.

H2H BIRD FLU ACTUALLY MORE COMMON AND DEADLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED

RECOMBINOMICS: H5N1 Misdiagnosis In Indonesia Hides H2H Transmission

Sardikin Giriputro, director of the Sulianti Saroso Infectious Disease Hospital in Indonesia, told an infectious disease conference in Kuala Lumpur that misdiagnoses and the late administration of drugs were partially responsible for the high mortality rates.

'It (H5N1) is misdiagnosed initially as dengue, bacterial pneumonia, typhoid and upper respiratory tract infection because of similar clinical features (symptoms),' Mr Giriputro said.

In a bid to reduce the death rate, the Indonesian government has begun distributing Tamiflu to health centres in areas where H5N1 cases have occurred.

'When doctors see influenza-like illnesses and where there is evidence of contact with sick poultry, then they give Tamiflu (without waiting for laboratory results),' Mr Giriputro said.

The above comments further support the interpretation that the reduction in confirmed H5N1 cases in Indonesia this season is largely dependent on misdiagnosis and false negatives. The misdiagnosis describe above was also noted in a New England Journal report earlier this year, which was displayed in a table of initial diagnosis for H5N1 confirmed cases in Indonesia. Only 12% of the cases were initially diagnosed as avian influenza. The most common initial diagnosis was pneumonia (46%) followed by upper respiratory illness (27%), dengue (12%), and typhus (4%). Since this update on avian infleunza in humans was written by WHO consultants, it is clear that WHO is well aware of this problem.

However, the WHO updates on confirmed H5N1 cases in Indonesia fail to mention that relatives of three of the last five confirmed cases died with a diagnosis of “lung inflammation”, dengue fever, and typhus. These relatives died within days of the H5N1 confirmed cases and represent clear H5N1 clusters that almost certainly involved human-to-human transmission (H2H).

A GLOBAL PANDEMIC WHICH WILL KILL A LEAST TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IS COMING.

AND IT IS COMING SOONER THAN YOU HAVE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE.

NYTIMES: CARBON TRADING MARKETS DO NOT WORK

EVEN THE NYTIMES AS TO ADMIT THAT CARBON TRADING SCHEMES HAVE ALL FAILED.

AND THAT'S IF YOU BELIEVE THAT CO2 IS CAUSING AGW - WHICH IS NOT TRUE.

BECAUSE MAN-MADE CO2 IS NOT CAUSING AGW, THESE SCHEMES ARE WORSE THAN FAILURES.

THEY ARE HARMFUL SCAMS WHICH RETARD ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THEREFORE PROLONG GLOBAL POVERTY.

IT'S TIME TO END THE INSANITY.

QUESTION: IS OBAMA A PHONY OR A HYPOCRITE?

OBAMA HAS FLIP-FLOPPED ON THE FLAG PIN.





OBAMA HAS FLIP-FLOPPED ON JERUSALEM.




OBAMA HAS FLIP-FLOPPED ON REVEREND WRIGHT.



OBAMA HAS FLIP-FLOPPED ON TRINITY CHURCH.




OBAMA HAS FLIP-FLOPPED ON NAFTA




OBAMA HAS FLIP-FLOPPED ON CAMPAIGN FINANCING.



OBAMA HAS FLIP-FLOPPED ON UNCONDITIONAL CHATS WITH ENEMIES.



OBAMA HAS FLIP-FLOPPED ON HIS MIDDLE NAME.



WHAT DO ALL THESE FLIP-FLOPS THIS SAY ABOUT OBAMA?
IS HE A PHONY OR A HYPOCRITE?

BOTH!

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

UN: Only Religious Scholars Allowed To Discuss Matters of Faith

PROOF
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
AND HONOR KILLINGS
ARE PART OF ISLAM
AND ARE NOT
CULTURALLY-BASED PHENOMENA

The United Nations Human Rights Council has a new rule. If a Human Rights matter is impacted, in any way, by religious considerations, the UN must bring in a member of the clergy to take over the debate.

From the Daily Times, via A New Dark Age Is Dawning:

GENEVA: Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the UN Human Rights Council. Religions deserve special protection because any debate about faith is bound to be “very complex, very sensitive and very intense”, council President Doru-Romulus Costea said Wednesday.

Scholars: Only religious scholars should be allowed to discuss matters of faith, he told journalists in Geneva. While Costea’s ban applies to all religions, it was prompted by Muslim countries complaining about references to Islam.

On Monday Egypt, Pakistan and Iran angrily protested attempts by a humanist
group to link Islam to human rights abuses such as female genital mutilation and
so-called honour killing of women.

Aren't we commonly told that Female Genital Mutilation and Honor Killing have nothing to do with Islam, but are instead culturally-based phenomena?

I guess not, if Muslims feel they must bring in Imams to explain the intricacies of these Sacraments.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

The often-quoted Latin question above translates as: "Who is guarding the guardians"? It is often asked of rogue police forces etc. It seems that Canadians should be asking that too. In response to all the recent criticism aimed at them, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has set up an enquiry into their functions. They are reviewing themselves, in other words! The editor of the Canadian National Post -- excerpt below -- does not seem very impressed

"We don't hold out much hope that a review of the Canadian Human Rights Commission's powers to investigate allegations of hate speech will come to much. For one thing, the commission handpicked its own investigator. But mostly we are skeptical because even when calling for the review, chief commissioner Jennifer Lynch demonstrated no clear understanding of free speech or the value of protecting it....

The only splinter of hope we hold out for the review is that the chief reviewer, University of Windsor law professor Richard Moon, appears to be a fairly impartial expert on the constitutionality of free expression. He has upbraided judges in obscenity trials for trying to impose their personal value judgments simply by "dressing them up in the objective garb of community standards." Yet at other times, he has appeared favourable to more collectivist notions, writing that speech has a "social character," with great "potential for harm." And that expression, if left unchecked, "can cause fear, it can harass and it can undermine self-esteem." We hope the "free speecher" Prof. Moon conducts the review and recommends that CHRC rein in its overzealous regulation of speech.

Yet even if that happens, the main problems with the federal commission - and its provincial counterparts - will not have been addressed. It is increasingly obvious these commissions were set up deliberately to lower the standard of proof and get around rules of natural justice, thereby ensuring people who would never be convicted in court are punished to the satisfaction of the activists and special interest groups that hover around the tribunals.

Source

Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

A little bit of fun

Read the following and see what you think



New research compiled by Australian scientist Dr Tom Chalko shows that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago. The research proves that destructive ability of earthquakes on Earth increases alarmingly fast and that this trend is set to continue, unless the problem of "global warming" is comprehensively and urgently addressed.

The analysis of more than 386,000 earthquakes between 1973 and 2007 recorded on the US Geological Survey database proved that the global annual energy of earthquakes on Earth began increasing very fast since 1990. Dr Chalko said that global seismic activity was increasing faster than any other global warming indicator on Earth and that this increase is extremely alarming. "The most serious environmental danger we face on Earth may not be climate change, but rapidly and systematically increasing seismic, tectonic and volcanic activity," said Dr Chalko.

"Increase in the annual energy of earthquakes is the strongest symptom yet of planetary overheating. "NASA measurements from space confirm that Earth as a whole absorbs at least 0.85 Megawatt per square kilometer more energy from the Sun than it is able to radiate back to space. This 'thermal imbalance' means that heat generated in the planetary interior cannot escape and that the planetary interior must overheat. Increase in seismic, tectonic and volcanic activities is an unavoidable consequence of the observed thermal imbalance of the planet," said Dr Chalko.

Dr Chalko has urged other scientists to maximize international awareness of the rapid increase in seismic activity, pointing out that this increase is not theoretical but that it is an Observable Fact. "Unless the problem of global warming (the problem of persistent thermal imbalance of Earth) is addressed urgently and comprehensively -- the rapid increase in global seismic, volcanic and tectonic activity is certain. Consequences of inaction can only be catastrophic. There is no time for half-measures."

For further information please read Dr Chalko's scientific article published at NU Journal of Discovery. http://nujournal.net/EarthquakeEnergyRise.pdf. Dr Tom Chalko, MSc, PhD, former Melbourne University academic (between 1982-2001) is Head of Geophysics Division at Scientific Engineering Research, Mt Best, Australia.

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It sounds sort of plausible, doesn't it? Until you think about it. How can minor changes in the atmosphere affect events deep down beneath the earth? I downloaded the story from a press-release service that Tom Chalko used to circulate it. So did quite a few other people. No need to think much more about it, however. It is pseudo-science -- as even a Leftist blogger pointed out.

The amusing thing, though, is that Associated Press -- the great grand fact-checking news service that newspapers worldwide rely on -- was also taken in and included it in their feed. And even the proudly-fact-checking CBS (remember Dan Rather?) was taken in. They have however now taken it down. If you have forgotten the CBS Dan Rather fun and games, see here. Once again pajamas beat the (largely mythical) media fact-checkers.

For yet another AP booboo see here (fifth picture caption).


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HEZBOLLAH ACTIVATING CANADIAN CELLS?

Reports in the National Post and a ABC News suggest that Hezbollah has activated 4 sleeper cells in Canada to attack Jewish targets, as a reprisal for the elimination of Imad Mughniyeh. The Canadian border is pretty porous.

CARTOON CRISIS UPDATE 18 plus more...

As the recent bombing of the Danish Embassy in Pakistan demonstrates, the enemy in the GWOT does not have a short memory span.

Some recent developments in Denmark: Danish Police Inteligence Service has heightened the threat level for terror actions against danish interests in and outside of Denmark.

The 2 Tunisians accused of conspiring to murder Muhammad Cartoonist Westergaard had planned to choke him to death! They are appearing in court today.

Earlier in the week Jyllands Posten, which originally commissioned and published the Muhammed Cartoons, was found not guilty of æreskrænkelser (defamation) in the Western National Court.

State proscecutors have decided that the extremist Hizb-ut-Tahrir party cannot be banned. Hizb-ut-Tahrir claims this is proof that everyone has lied about them! Isn't Denmark great? They allow the Nazi party and Hizb-ut-Tahrir to exist. But hey - they also allow you to have sex with animals in Denmark!!!

And some more great ideas from our buddies on the Left:

• Ritt Bjergaard, Socialist Mayor and Chief Kommissar of Copenhagen offers these: She will have a law passed to force Danes to save. Why? So the public sector can increase spending without overheating the economy. And who's effin money is she spending anyway?!?

• And Domina Ritt refuses to give up her dream of building thousands of "inexpensive" apartments in Copenhagen - at taxpayers expense!!!- all this while we are in the midst of a huge oversupply of new private projects wallowing in a collapsing market!!! (More proof that the Socialists believe they have the devine right and the acute expertise to spend your money!!)

• Meanwhile the Helle Thorning-Schmidt - leader of the Danish Social Democratic Party - has called for a end for all referendums in the EU. That's right - if democracy doesn't give the socialists what they want then they won't hesitate to abort the democratic process.

They've tried that before...

NO LONGER ANY THRILL UP FEINGOLD'S LEG: "OBAMA MADE A BAD DECISION"

OBAMA IS THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF EITHER PARTY TO OPT OUT OF THE PUBLIC FINANCING SYSTEM.

FEINGOLD, WHO CO-WROTE THE LATEST VERSION OF IT WITH MCCAIN, AIN'T TOO THRILLED. POLITICO:

Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold — who supports Obama — criticized his candidate's move.

"This is not a good decision," Feingold said Thursday in a statement. "While the current public financing system for the presidential primaries is broken, the system for the general election is not."

• FEINGOLD IS SAYING THAT OBAMA IS NOT A GOOD DECISION-MAKER.
• EITHER FEINGOLD MUST BELIEVE THAT OBAMA IS DUMB, OR AMORAL.
• WHICH IS IT RUSS BABY!?

I THINK IT'S BOTH.

UPDATE: HERE'S VIDEO:

WHAT EXPLAINS OBAMA'S MYSTERIOUS HOLD ON THE LEFT?

• OBAMA HAS ALREADY CHANGED POSITIONS ON JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING - AND THE CAMPAIGN HAS JUST BARELY BEGUN.
• AND... HE HAS NO PUBLIC RECORD TO RUN ON.
• HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING IN HIS LIFE EXCEPT GETTING ELECTED TO THE SENATE AND WINNING THE NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT.
• SO...
• HOW CAN THE LEFTIES BE SO SUPPORTIVE?
• ONLY TWO THINGS CAN EXPLAIN IT.
• FIRST, HE IS THEIR SVENGALI AND THEY ARE SPELLBOUND BY HIS ORATORY. THEY GET TINGLY LEGS.
• AND SECOND, THEY KNOW WHEN HE'S WINKING AT THEM AND CONNING THE MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD CENTRISTS.
• LEFTISTS FEEL SECURE FEELING THAT OBAMA IS CONNING THE CENTRISTS AND NOT THEM BECAUSE THEY KNOW HIS LONG RECORD OF CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE OF THE HARD LEFT: WRIGHT, PFLEGER, FARRAKHAN, AYERS, SAID, KHALIDI, ALINSKY, ET AL.

IF YOU'RE NOT GULLIBLE AND NOT A LEFTIST, THEN YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS VOTING FOR OBAMA.

OBAMA REALLY STANDS FOR CHANGE ONLY GULLIBLE LEFTIES CAN BELIEVE IN

Obama has flip-flopped on every core issue and relationship in his life, let alone in the campaign.

• FLIP-FLOPPED ON WRIGHT.
• FLIP-FLOPPED ON HIS CHURCH.
• FLIP-FLOPPED ON HIS TYPICAL WHITE GRANDMA
• FLIP-FLOPPED ON IRAN
• FLIP-FLOPPED ON JERUSALEM
• FLIP-FLOPPED ON CAMPAIGN FINANCING
• FLIP-FLOPPED ON NAFTA
  

AND SO ON.

• HE KEEPS CHANGING HIS POSITIONS, AND THE MORONS ON TH LEFT ACT AS IF HE WAS MR. TRUSTWORTHY AND CAPTAIN CONSISTENCY.
• ALL OBAMA HAS PROVEN IS THAT HE IS UNTRUSTWORTHY AND AMORAL.
• AND ...
• THAT HIS SUPPORTERS ARE GULLIBLE MORONS!

BOTTOM-LINE: BELIEVING THAT OBAMA IS QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT REQUIRES A WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF.

Echoes of the peanut man: déjà vu all over again

A blast from the past, courtesy of the Department of Energy's official website (emphasis mine):

* Price controls on oil
* A windfall profits tax
* Taxpayer-funded boondoggles on solar energy
* Taxpayer-funded boondoggles on synthetic fuels

Yes, ripped from today's headlines are the very strategies set in motion by the worst president in history: James Earl Carter. Let's pause a moment here and reminisce about 8% unemployment, 16% inflation, and 17% auto loan rates.

So when today's Democrats call for these very same measures, let's remember that Barack O'Carter is running for office (I hear that's the name he prefers.)

OUR OFFENSIVE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

(With a hat-tip to Brooke of PaleoCon Command Center)

Back when I was in school and, later, when I taught in the traditional classroom, the day began with our Pledge of Allegiance. Those few students who were not American citizens often recited the Pledge, although a few of them merely stood, thereby showing respect for our flag and our nation. A few students even omitted saying "under God," but not many. Never did I hear anyone bring up that students should not participate in the Pledge of Allegiance.

But according to this source, the principal of a school in Portland, Oregon, took it upon himself to prevent students from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance:

Pledge of Allegiance

Posted: 8:36 AM Jun 11, 2008
Last Updated: 8:36 AM Jun 11, 2008

(CBS) Most children growing up in the US memorize the Pledge of Allegiance. But, in one Oregon elementary school, the kids won't be allowed to recite it at an end of the year assembly.

The principal banned it that day so as not to offend Muslims.

One resident of Portland, Oregon was a little surprised when she received an e-mail from her stepson's school principal.

The e-mail said that the children would not be reciting the pledge because of its reference to God.

Instead, the students would memorize and sing the Preamble to the United States Constitution.

But it's not just non-Muslims who were offended.

At least one Muslim community leader says he feels the same way. Muhammad Najieb says that 'God' is central to the Muslim faith, and there are several references to him in every prayer.

Portland school officials say the principal was trying to be sensitive, but some Muslims say the ban caused hurt feelings, and may foster bitterness and division within the community.

Therewith, I offer these two videos recently posted at The Amboy Times as reminders to the principal in Portland, Oregon:





Be sure to watch all the way to the end of the second video!

I wonder what John Wayne and Red Skelton would have to say about the state of America today, were they still with us. Whatever their comments, they'd be elegant and to the point — and expressive of their contempt for individuals such as that principal in Portland, Oregon.

SENATOR DODD SHOULD BE CENSURED

HE'S A CORRUPT SLIMEBALL.

WHICH MEANS HE'D BE A PERFECT VEEP FOR OBAMA.

More on this sleazeball Dodd and the other corrupt piece of crap Dem Senator Conrad at GATEWAY.

PROOF OF MSM BIAS AND PARTISANSHIP IN ECONOMIC REPORTING

NRO/CORNER:

Yale University economist Ray Fair has shown that a weak economy hurts the incumbent party. If a Democratic-leaning press can convince everyone that the economy is in recession, then it can influence the election.

Our analysis indicates that the treatment of the economy would be much different if there were a Democrat in the White House today. If so, then the headline of each bad piece of news would be, more accurately, "Economy Hovering Above Recession."

But instead of that, we get doom and gloom.

The politically motivated pessimism, like the computer virus, can have real consequences. While the economic data has been mediocre, consumer sentiment, as measured by the Conference Board, has been driven by the negative drumbeat to its lowest in 16 years. Negative sentiment might well slow spending enough to give us a textbook recession in the second half of the year.

WE POSTED THIS EXPLANATION YESTERDAY.

• THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED MSM WANT TO ELECT A LEFTIE SO BADLY THAT THEY DO WHATEVER THEY COULD EVEN IF IT LED US INTO A RECESSION - AND EVEN IF IT LED TO DEFEAT IN IRAQ.
• THAT'S WHY THE LEFT ARE TRAITORS: THEY PUT THEIR OWN LEFT-WING AGENDA AHEAD OF ALL ELSE.
• THAT'S WHY I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT TO DEFEAT THE JIHADIST ENEMY ABROAD WE MUST FIRST DEFEAT THE LEFTISTS AT HOME.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

WRITTEN PROOF OBAMA LIED ABOUT REZKO

SUN-TIMES:

As a state senator, he went to bat for now-indicted developer's deal

As a state senator, Barack Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko's successful bid to get more than $14 million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens. The deal included $855,000 in development fees for Rezko and his partner, Allison S. Davis, Obama's former boss, according to records from the project, which was four blocks outside Obama's state Senate district.

Obama's letters, written nearly nine years ago, for the first time show the Democratic presidential hopeful did a political favor for Rezko -- a longtime friend, campaign fund-raiser and client of the law firm where Obama worked -- who was indicted last fall on federal charges that accuse him of demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state business under Gov. Blagojevich.

The letters appear to contradict a statement last December from Obama, who told the Chicago Tribune that, in all the years he's known Rezko, "I've never done any favors for him.''

"APPEAR TO CONTRADICT"!!?!?

SHIT. THEY PROVE HE EFFIN LIED.

• THIS CORRUPT PIECE OF CRAP REZKO WAS OBAMA'S MOST IMPORTANT, BIGGEST AND OLDEST POLITICAL SUPPORTER.
• OBAMA'S INTERVENTION DIRECTLY HELPED REZKO.
• END OF STORY.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.