PROOF HERE NOW.
THIS TYPE OF CENSORSHIP IS TOTALLY WITHIN TRADITIONAL LEFT-WING POLICIES.
MORE HERE.
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
US MILITARY DEPLOYS MISSILE DETECTION RADAR SITE IN NEGEV
HAARETZ:
The U.S. Army's European Command deployed an early-warning radar system in Israel last week along with a 120-member support team, the weekly Defense News reported.
The move marks the first permanent presence in Israel of American military personnel. The high-powered radar system is meant to augment Israel's defenses against Iranian ground-to-ground missiles.
According to Defense News, more than a dozen transport aircraft delivered the radar, its ancillary systems, equipment and technicians, as well as maintenance and security specialists to the Nevatim Air Force Base in the Negev. It has not yet been made operational.
The same system has been deployed for the past two years in Japan against possible missile launches from North Korea.
... The new radar will give Israel added minutes to respond to a missile launch, compared with the systems it currently uses. Assisted by data sent from American satellites, the system can detect Iranian missiles shortly after they are launched.
A link with the Arrow missile system makes it possible to launch a defensive missile, and increases the chance of intercepting the incoming missile while giving the home front more time to respond.
The deployment of the radar system may be understood in two contradictory ways. One is that it prevents Israel from taking independent action against Iran, which the United States has made clear in recent months it opposes. The radar system, and Americans stationed here, will restrain Israel, which would be wary about launching an attack that would endanger U.S. personnel.
On the other hand, the deployment of the radar system strengthens Israel's defense against missiles if Israel and/or the United States attacks Iran's nuclear facilities. The defense system could reduce casualties and damage to the home front from a response by Iran and its allies.
- THIS MOVE IS A NECESSARY DEFENSIVE MEASURE -
- BUT ALSO A STEP WE MUST TAKE BEFORE ANY PREEMPTIVE ACTION.
- BUT I DOUBT IT'S EVEN THE PENULTIMATE UNSCR ON THE MATTER BEFORE SOMEBODY MAKES A PREEMPTIVE MOVE.
ANOTHER GINORMOUS GAFFE FROM OBAMA: FDR'S HOME BAILOUT
NRO/CORNER:
Obama: "...we’ holding assets long enough that eventually taxpayers get it back and that happened during the Great Depression when Roosevelt purchased a whole bunch of homes,"Obama is talking about the present bailout that will return a profit - only problem is that FDR never did such a thing.
THIS IS RIGHT UP THERE WITH OBAMA'S 57 STATES GAFFE, AND BIDEN MAKING FDR POTUS IN 1929 AND PUTTING HIM ON TV.
*******UPDATE:
TIME - 1946 - (VIA JG):
BOTTOM-LINE: OBAMA WAS WRONG; FDR DID NOT "PURCHASE A WHOLE BUNCH OF HOMES."
- IF MCCAIN HAD SAID THIS THE LEFT/MSM WOULD BE SAYING HE'S SENILE.
- IF PALIN HAD SAID IT THEY'D LAUGH AND SAY SHE' INCOMPETENT.
- BUT OBAMA SAYS IT AND GETS A PASS.
- IT'S SICKENING.
*******UPDATE:
TIME - 1946 - (VIA JG):
Starting in 1933, when mortgages were being foreclosed at the rate of 1,000 a day, HOLC made more than 1,000,000 loans, totaling some $3,500,000,000. In the next three years (its lending period) it refinanced one-fifth of the nonfarm, owner-occupied, mortgaged homes in the nation. ... HOLC had foreclosed on less than 200,000 loans, most of them from 1937 to 1940. It has already sold all but 120 of the houses.IOW: THEY BOUGHT ZERO HOMES. THEY LENT MONEY, AND FORECLOSED ON 1/5TH OF THOSE THEY LENT MONEY TO. THEY SOLD ALL THE PROPERTY THEY FORECLOSED ON - AT A LOSS WHICH WAS COVERED BY THE PROFITS THEY MADE ON THE LOANS WHICH WERE RE-PAID.
BOTTOM-LINE: OBAMA WAS WRONG; FDR DID NOT "PURCHASE A WHOLE BUNCH OF HOMES."
OBAMA LIES ABOUT SUPPORTING THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THE NYTIMES/AP SWEARS TO IT
NYTIMES/AP: Obama slams McCain for not mentioning middle class
THIS IS WHAT THE CHURCH HE BELONGED TO FOR TWENTY YEARS SAYS ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama sought to score a quick post-debate advantage Saturday by traveling to two Republican-leaning states and accusing GOP rival John McCain of being out of touch with middle-class Americans.HOW DOES OBAMA REALLY FEEL ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS?
''We talked about the economy for 40 minutes and not once did Sen. McCain talk about the struggles middle-class families are having,'' Obama told more than 26,000 people who stood out in the rain with him on the campus of the University of Mary Washington.
... The Illinois senator repeatedly took McCain to task for not talking about any plans for helping the middle class in the midst of the country's financial and fiscal crisis.''Through 90 minutes of debate, John McCain had a lot to say about me, but he didn't have anything to say about you,'' Obama told the cheering 20,000-plus crowd at the J. Douglas Galyon Depot in downtown Greensboro. ''He didn't even say the words 'middle class.'
... Obama adviser David Plouffe told reporters the Democrat ''spoke really to people in their homes about needing a president who is going to fight for the middle class, who is going to work on things like education and health care.''
THIS IS WHAT THE CHURCH HE BELONGED TO FOR TWENTY YEARS SAYS ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS:
1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the Black Community
3. Commitment to the Black Family 4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic 7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.”
- THE CHURCH OBAMA BELONGED TO FOR TWENTY YEARS SPECIFICALLY DERIDED THE MIDDLE CLASS. (AND WAS RACIST AGAINST WHITES!)
- THIS IS WHAT OBAMA TRULY BELIEVES WHEN HE'S NOT RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
- HE IS PRETENDING TO BE A SPOKESMAN FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS NOW ONLY TO GET VOTES.
- DON'T BE A DUPE.
THE FANNIE MAE FIASCO: WE'RE BEING TAKEN ANOTHER FEW MILES DOWN THE ROAD TO SERDOM...
- THE LEFT GOT US INTO THIS MESS WITH LEFTIST POLICIES,
- AND NOW THEY WANT TO USE MORE LEFTISM TO SAVE US.
- THAT'S LIKE THROWING AN ANCHOR TO SOMEONE WHO IS DROWNING...
- WE ACTUALLY NEED MORE FREEMARKET REFORMS AND LOWER TAXES AND LOWER INTEREST RATES,
- NOT MORE STATISM.
WELL SAID, GOVERNOR BLUNT
From this statement by the governor of Missouri:
Barack Hussein Obama is not fit to be President of the United States. He doesn't believe in the Bill of Rights. No way can he honestly take the oath of office.
“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.Actually, it's not about growing up. Obama knows exactly what he's trying to do - silence any opposition. And THAT is un-American!
“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.
“Barack Obama needs to grow up....”
Barack Hussein Obama is not fit to be President of the United States. He doesn't believe in the Bill of Rights. No way can he honestly take the oath of office.
PALIN vs OBAMA: THE CULTURE OF LIFE VERSUS THE CULTURE OF DEATH
This woman is probably not going to vote for a ticket featuring Sarah Palin:When I found out about the triplets, I felt like: It's not the back of a pickup at 16, but now I'm going to have to move to Staten Island. I'll never leave my house because I'll have to care for these children. I'll have to start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise.Maybe that's what the Obamessiah meant about his daughters being punished with a baby:
... I found out I was having triplets when I went to my obstetrician. The doctor had just finished telling me I was going to have a low-risk pregnancy. She turned on the sonogram machine. There was a long pause, then she said, ''Are you sure you didn't take fertility drugs?'' I said, ''I'm positive.'' Peter and I were very shocked when she said there were three. ''You know, this changes everything,'' she said. ''You'll have to see a specialist.''My immediate response was, I cannot have triplets. I was not married; I lived in a five-story walk-up in the East Village; I worked freelance; and I would have to go on bed rest in March. I lecture at colleges, and my biggest months are March and April. I would have to give up my main income for the rest of the year. There was a part of me that was sure I could work around that. But it was a matter of, Do I want to?
I looked at Peter and asked the doctor: ''Is it possible to get rid of one of them? Or two of them?'' The obstetrician wasn't an expert in selective reduction, but she knew that with a shot of potassium chloride you could eliminate one or more.
... When we saw the specialist, we found out that I was carrying identical twins and a stand alone. My doctors thought the stand alone was three days older. There was something psychologically comforting about that, since I wanted to have just one. Before the procedure, I was focused on relaxing.
... Editors' Note: July 28, 2004, WednesdayThe Lives column in The Times Magazine on July 18 gave a firstperson account of the experience of Amy Richards, who had been pregnant with triplets and decided to abort two of the fetuses. Ms. Richards, who told her story to a freelance Times Magazine contributor, Amy Barrett, discussed her anxiety about having triplets, the procedure to terminate two of the pregnancies and the healthy baby she eventually delivered; she expressed no regret about her decision.
The column identified Ms. Richards as a freelancer at the time of her pregnancy but should have also disclosed that she is an abortion rights advocate who has worked with Planned Parenthood, as well as a co-founder of a feminist organization, the Third Wave Foundation, which has financed abortions.
You can see how the values that guide Governor Palin's life -- the values she espouses and the values she lives every day -- are an affront to the post-modern multi-cultural neo-marxist elite that have flocked to Obama's banner. They see her as a direct threat to their self-chosen lifestyle of perpetual adolescence, which is why the venom and vitriol of the media have been turned against her.
I would bet you a chocolate milkshake that there are more American voters who would cheerfully buy big jars of mayonnaise at Costco, than voters who would abort two fetuses in order to avoid that "fate."
THE FIRST MCCAIN-OBAMA DEBATE: SEVEN MAJOR OBAMA LIES IN JUST ONE DEBATE!
7 BALD-FACED LIES FROM OBAMA.
- DISGUSTING.
- AND THE OLD MEDIA SAYS NOTHING.
- WHY!? BECAUSE - AS LOU DOBBS SAID - THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA.
- HOW COME THE LEFT IS SO HAPPY WITH OBAMA DESPITE HIS MANY FLIP-SLOPS ON BASIC ISSUES THEY HOLD DEAR?
- BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHO HE REALLY IS: AN AYERS ACOLYTE, A WRIGHT DISCIPLE, AN ALINSKY ALLY.
NEWMAN RIP, BUT COOL HAND LUKE LIVES!
- A GREAT ACTOR.
- A GREAT HUMANITARIAN.
- AND A DECENT LEFTIE.
- NEWMAN SUPPORTED - AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS - A WHOLE SLEW OF LEFT-WING CAUSES.
- BUT NEVER WITH THE ASININE RANCOR OF SEAN PENN AND TIM ROBBINS AND THE LIKE.
DECADES AGO I TENDED BAR - AS A VOLUNTEER - AT A FUNDRAISER FOR RAMSEY CLARK (YES, REALLY - I TOLD YOU WAS A LEFTIE ONCE!.- NEWMAN WAS A GUEST OF HONOR.
- AND A TRUE GENTLEMAN. UNASSUMING, GLAD TO HELP. WARM.
- I WAS STRUCK BY HOW HE WAS SMALL IN PHYSICAL STATURE.
- IT'S AMAZING HOW LARGE A PERSONA HE WAS ABLE TO PROJECT ON THE SCREEN.
- THAT'S TALENT.
- A TALENT WHICH IS VERY SHORT SUPPLY IN HOLLYWOOD.
PAUL NEWMAN: RIP, BABY!
OBAMA'S SUPPORTERS HATE GOD BUT ADORE PLOUFFE
"GUN-CLINGERS", "CHIRSTIANISTS" AND "RELIGIONISTS" TAKE NOTE:
HERE'S A REAL BUTTON MADE BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN - (I ACTUALLY SAW IT ON OBAMA SUPPORTER WEARING IT THE OTHER DAY):
HERE'S A REAL BUTTON MADE BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN - (I ACTUALLY SAW IT ON OBAMA SUPPORTER WEARING IT THE OTHER DAY):
- WHO IS PLOUFFE? OBAMA'S SLIMY CAMPAIGN MANAGER, AND BUSINESS PARTNER WITH SLIMY AXELROD.
- THIS SNIDE BUTTON TACITLY ENDORSES AN ANTI-GOD, ANTI-RELIGION, ACTIVIST ATHEIST AGENDA.
- IT MOCKS TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND OUR NATION'S MOTTO.
REMINDER: TWO VIDEOS PROVE THAT OBAMA IS NOT FIT FOR THE OFFICE
OBAMA SINGLING OUT AND PRAISING HIS PASTOR AND MENTOR JEREMIAH WRIGHT:
HERE'S OMABA'S PASTOR OF 20 YEARS:
HERE'S OMABA'S PASTOR OF 20 YEARS:
CONTEMPORANEOUS VIDEO PROOF THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE TOTALLY TO BLAME FOR THE FANNIE MAE FIASCO
VIA GATEWAY.
- THE GOP WANTED PROPER OVERSIGHT OF FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC.
- THE DEMOCRATS PREVENTED PROPER OVERSIGHT OF FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC.
- THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SHOULD PUNISH THE DEMOCRATS IN THE NEXT ELECTION.
- THE GOP WANTED PROPER OVERSIGHT OF FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC.
- THE DEMOCRATS PREVENTED PROPER OVERSIGHT OF FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC.
- THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SHOULD PUNISH THE DEMOCRATS IN THE NEXT ELECTION.
- THE GOP WANTED PROPER OVERSIGHT OF FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC.
- THE DEMOCRATS PREVENTED PROPER OVERSIGHT OF FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC.
- THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SHOULD PUNISH THE DEMOCRATS IN THE NEXT ELECTION.
PLEASE.
Barack Obama Is Lying - Lying - About "Equal Pay" For Women
Senator Obama Sinks to New Low in Desperate Attempt to Deceive Swing Voting Block
Through the years, the Center for Individual Freedom's policy disagreements with Senator John McCain have been legion. From McCain/Feingold, to foreign drug importation, to the decisively successful 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, to amnesty for illegal aliens, we have forcefully challenged Senator McCain on many fronts.
Despite these disagreements, however, it is also important that Americans remain fair and objective during this Presidential campaign. More specifically, we cannot stand idle when Senator McCain or any other public figure is subjected to tasteless and meritless attack. And this is one such occasion. On the flashpoint issue of equal pay for women, Senator Obama is simply lying about Senator McCain's record. Not fudging, not slanting, not merely misinterpreting. Lying.
In a recent television advertisement expressly approved by Obama, he contends that John McCain "opposed a law to guarantee women equal pay for equal work." And at a recent campaign appearance in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Senator Obama said, "I'll continue to stand up for equal pay as President. Senator McCain won't, and that's a real difference in this election."
There's only one problem. Equal pay is already well-established law. Indeed, discrimination in pay or any other term or condition of employment on the basis of sex has been illegal under federal law since Senator Obama was a toddler. And as a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former professor of Constitutional law, Senator Obama is well aware of this fact.
For instance, the 1963 Equal Pay Act (EPA) unambiguously prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of sex. This prohibition applies not only to equal pay for the same job, it bars discrimination in pay even for "substantially equal work." Similarly, Title VII of the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as race, color, religion or national origin. As stated on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC's) official website, this protection extends beyond pay, and includes discrimination: "against any employee or applicant in hiring, termination, promotion, compensation, job training, or any other term, condition, or privilege of employment. Title VII also prohibits employment decisions based on stereotypes and assumptions about abilities, traits, or the performance of individuals on the basis of sex. Title VII prohibits both intentional discrimination and neutral job policies that disproportionately exclude individuals on the basis of sex and that are not job-related."
As noted by the EEOC official statement, Title VII's prohibitions against sex discrimination also extend to sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination. This broad swath of protection puts to rest any assertion that unequal pay is remotely permitted under existing law. As yet another example of already-existing federal law prohibiting sex discrimination, Executive Order 11246 prohibits all federal contractors and subcontractors, as well as federally-assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, from discriminating on the basis of sex. Thus, discrimination in pay on the basis of sex is flatly illegal under a myriad of overlapping federal and state laws. And Obama knows it. But he's apparently unwilling to let that stand in the way of a naked attempt to deceive female voters.
Notably, this comes at a particularly embarrassing time for Senator Obama on this very subject. It has been revealed by LegiStorm.com that his own female staffers earn less than his male staffers. Specifically, according to LegiSorm, Senator Obama's female staffers earn only 83 cents for every dollar that his male staffers earn.
Talk about walking the walk. In contrast, according to LegiStorm, Senator McCain's female staffers earn $1.04 for every dollar that his male staffers make. But Senator Obama has the audacity to accuse the McCain campaign of shameless tactics?
This election is shaping up as a tight, emotionally-charged and bitter one, and female voters constitute a critical electoral block. But that doesn't justify outright dishonesty by any candidate. Hopefully, this campaign will not descend to these depths again.
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 (2). Email me (John Ray) here
Through the years, the Center for Individual Freedom's policy disagreements with Senator John McCain have been legion. From McCain/Feingold, to foreign drug importation, to the decisively successful 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, to amnesty for illegal aliens, we have forcefully challenged Senator McCain on many fronts.
Despite these disagreements, however, it is also important that Americans remain fair and objective during this Presidential campaign. More specifically, we cannot stand idle when Senator McCain or any other public figure is subjected to tasteless and meritless attack. And this is one such occasion. On the flashpoint issue of equal pay for women, Senator Obama is simply lying about Senator McCain's record. Not fudging, not slanting, not merely misinterpreting. Lying.
In a recent television advertisement expressly approved by Obama, he contends that John McCain "opposed a law to guarantee women equal pay for equal work." And at a recent campaign appearance in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Senator Obama said, "I'll continue to stand up for equal pay as President. Senator McCain won't, and that's a real difference in this election."
There's only one problem. Equal pay is already well-established law. Indeed, discrimination in pay or any other term or condition of employment on the basis of sex has been illegal under federal law since Senator Obama was a toddler. And as a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former professor of Constitutional law, Senator Obama is well aware of this fact.
For instance, the 1963 Equal Pay Act (EPA) unambiguously prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of sex. This prohibition applies not only to equal pay for the same job, it bars discrimination in pay even for "substantially equal work." Similarly, Title VII of the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as race, color, religion or national origin. As stated on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC's) official website, this protection extends beyond pay, and includes discrimination: "against any employee or applicant in hiring, termination, promotion, compensation, job training, or any other term, condition, or privilege of employment. Title VII also prohibits employment decisions based on stereotypes and assumptions about abilities, traits, or the performance of individuals on the basis of sex. Title VII prohibits both intentional discrimination and neutral job policies that disproportionately exclude individuals on the basis of sex and that are not job-related."
As noted by the EEOC official statement, Title VII's prohibitions against sex discrimination also extend to sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination. This broad swath of protection puts to rest any assertion that unequal pay is remotely permitted under existing law. As yet another example of already-existing federal law prohibiting sex discrimination, Executive Order 11246 prohibits all federal contractors and subcontractors, as well as federally-assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, from discriminating on the basis of sex. Thus, discrimination in pay on the basis of sex is flatly illegal under a myriad of overlapping federal and state laws. And Obama knows it. But he's apparently unwilling to let that stand in the way of a naked attempt to deceive female voters.
Notably, this comes at a particularly embarrassing time for Senator Obama on this very subject. It has been revealed by LegiStorm.com that his own female staffers earn less than his male staffers. Specifically, according to LegiSorm, Senator Obama's female staffers earn only 83 cents for every dollar that his male staffers earn.
Talk about walking the walk. In contrast, according to LegiStorm, Senator McCain's female staffers earn $1.04 for every dollar that his male staffers make. But Senator Obama has the audacity to accuse the McCain campaign of shameless tactics?
This election is shaping up as a tight, emotionally-charged and bitter one, and female voters constitute a critical electoral block. But that doesn't justify outright dishonesty by any candidate. Hopefully, this campaign will not descend to these depths again.
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 (2). Email me (John Ray) here
Palin and wolf hunting
A wildlife group's ad attacks Palin for supporting the shooting of wolves from airplanes. She does, but there's more to it than that. Killing a few wolves stops lots a caribou calves from being killed. What have the animal lovers got against caribou calves? No mercy for calves? Are some animals more equal than others? Maybe the animal lovers concerned think caribou are a type of vegetable. They seem dumb enough. Real animal lovers would SUPPORT Palin
A new ad from Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund shows the pursuit and shooting of a wolf from a small plane and tells viewers that Sarah Palin "actively promotes" such killings. It's true that she does, and in 2007 she offered $150 payments for anyone who brought the left forepaw of a wolf to state officials. The ad calls the practice "brutal and unethical" but doesn't tell the whole story.
* Alaskan officials call it "predator control," not aerial hunting, and use it to keep the populations of moose and caribou high for subsistence hunters.
* The program is limited to just 9 percent of the state's land mass, or five of 26 Department of Fish and Game districts.
* Far from being endangered, as they are in the Lower 48 states, gray wolves number between 7,000 and 11,000 in Alaska.
This TV spot isn't for the squeamish, especially not squeamish animal-lovers. Its visuals include sinister-looking photos of Gov. Sarah Palin juxtaposed with footage of a wolf trying to outrun an airplane, then being shot and writhing in pain. Finally we see a small plane taking off, a wolf carcass tied to one of its wing struts.
There's a lot of emotional huffing and puffing in the ad. It says "Sarah Palin actively promotes the brutal and unethical aerial hunting of wolves and other wildlife" and says she encourages "cruelty" and "champions ... savagery." But strip away the emotional characterization and we're left with a description of Palin's position that is essentially factually correct, though incomplete....
If you think the explanation above implies a more complicated landscape than the ad shows us, you're correct. In the first place, while gray wolves are listed as an endangered species in the Lower 48, and great efforts have been made to reintroduce them in some Western states, they are abundant in Alaska. Ron Clarke, assistant director of the Division of Wildlife Conservation at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says the state is home to between 7,000 and 11,000 of them. Wolf populations in Alaska have bounced back since the 1950s, when federal agents conducted an extensive poisoning and aerial shooting campaign; moose and caribou proliferated as a result, in some cases leading to severe degradation of their own habitats.
Second, it's not for nothing that wolves have acquired their big, bad reputations. Studies indicate that predators (wolves and bears) often take 70 percent to 80 percent of the moose and caribou that die each year in Alaska. Research by the state Department of Fish and Game shows that "a single wolf eats 12-13 moose in a typical year and/or 30-40 caribou, mostly calves."
More 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 (2). Email me (John Ray) here
A new ad from Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund shows the pursuit and shooting of a wolf from a small plane and tells viewers that Sarah Palin "actively promotes" such killings. It's true that she does, and in 2007 she offered $150 payments for anyone who brought the left forepaw of a wolf to state officials. The ad calls the practice "brutal and unethical" but doesn't tell the whole story.
* Alaskan officials call it "predator control," not aerial hunting, and use it to keep the populations of moose and caribou high for subsistence hunters.
* The program is limited to just 9 percent of the state's land mass, or five of 26 Department of Fish and Game districts.
* Far from being endangered, as they are in the Lower 48 states, gray wolves number between 7,000 and 11,000 in Alaska.
This TV spot isn't for the squeamish, especially not squeamish animal-lovers. Its visuals include sinister-looking photos of Gov. Sarah Palin juxtaposed with footage of a wolf trying to outrun an airplane, then being shot and writhing in pain. Finally we see a small plane taking off, a wolf carcass tied to one of its wing struts.
There's a lot of emotional huffing and puffing in the ad. It says "Sarah Palin actively promotes the brutal and unethical aerial hunting of wolves and other wildlife" and says she encourages "cruelty" and "champions ... savagery." But strip away the emotional characterization and we're left with a description of Palin's position that is essentially factually correct, though incomplete....
If you think the explanation above implies a more complicated landscape than the ad shows us, you're correct. In the first place, while gray wolves are listed as an endangered species in the Lower 48, and great efforts have been made to reintroduce them in some Western states, they are abundant in Alaska. Ron Clarke, assistant director of the Division of Wildlife Conservation at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says the state is home to between 7,000 and 11,000 of them. Wolf populations in Alaska have bounced back since the 1950s, when federal agents conducted an extensive poisoning and aerial shooting campaign; moose and caribou proliferated as a result, in some cases leading to severe degradation of their own habitats.
Second, it's not for nothing that wolves have acquired their big, bad reputations. Studies indicate that predators (wolves and bears) often take 70 percent to 80 percent of the moose and caribou that die each year in Alaska. Research by the state Department of Fish and Game shows that "a single wolf eats 12-13 moose in a typical year and/or 30-40 caribou, mostly calves."
More 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 (2). Email me (John Ray) here
WARNING: AL QAEDA QUICKLY TURNING ZARDARI'S PAKISTAN INTO IRAQ-CIRCA 2006...
NYTIMES:
As the financial situation has deteriorated, diplomats here have become increasingly uneasy about the government’s capacity to prevent further attacks on the scale of the hotel bombing, which killed at least 53 people and wounded more than 250 others.
“The cabinet in Islamabad is confronted with a general breakdown of the state,” said an editorial in the Friday issue of The Daily Times, a newspaper that generally supports the government of President Zardari.
... Lawyers and businessmen have talked about moving away, particularly to Dubai or Malaysia. Foreign investment had almost dried up before the attack, they said, and now some worried it would disappear altogether. Some of Pakistan’s biggest businessmen had already shipped capital abroad, crimping new business ventures.
Moody’s, the international credit rating agency, cut Pakistan’s credit outlook from “stable” to “negative” on Tuesday, citing dwindling foreign exchange reserves, risks from extremists and high inflation.
Foreign exchange reserves have shrunk to $5.7 billion, with only about $3 billion available to cover payments for oil and food, according to the International Monetary Fund.
... “The international community cannot allow Pakistan to become a failed state,” said a senior economist from one of the international financial institutions trying to salvage the economy.
Diplomats and others are weighing what steps to take for themselves.
British Airways announced this week that it was suspending all flights from London to Islamabad, the only direct connection between Europe and Pakistan.
At a meeting on Friday, senior officials of the United Nations agencies in Pakistan postponed a decision on whether to send family members of their foreign employees home, participants said.
Such a move would have sent an unmistakable signal that the security situation was grave.
THIS IS WHAT WE WARNED WHEN THE DEMOCRATS OBAMA, BIDEN, AND KERRY AND OTHERS PUT PRESSURE ON MUSHARRAF TO HOLD ELECTIONS AND THEN RESIGN.
- AND PAKISTAN WILL BE WORSE: IT HAS NUKES - WHICH MIGHT FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS...
- I THINK THE FREE WORLD NEEDS A STABLE PAKSITAN MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, ONE WHICH ALLOWS NATO TO CONDUCT MISSIONS IN THE FATA.
- THIS MEANS WE PROBABLY COUP IN PAKISTAN - LED BY THE ARMY...
- IT WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST TIME...
THE FIRST MCCAIN-OBAMA DEBATE: OBAMA LIED ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL DIPLOMACY AND KISSINGER
HERE'S PROOF OBAMA IS NOW LYING ABOUT WHAT HIS POSITION IS - HERE IS VIDEO OF OBAMA CLEARLY STATING -- AT THE CNN DEMOCRAT DEBATE -- THAT HE WOULD HAVE PRESIDENTIAL MEETINGS WITH SCUM LIKE AHMADINEJAD WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS:
HERE'S PROOF THAT OBAMA LIED ABOUT THIS ISSUE LAST NIGHT - VIA GATEWAY:
LIED.
HERE'S PROOF THAT OBAMA LIED ABOUT THIS ISSUE LAST NIGHT - VIA GATEWAY:
From the Obama website:OBAMA LIED ABOUT HIS OWN POSITION AND HE LIED ABOUT KISSINGER'S POSITION.Diplomacy: Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions.... From tonight's presidential debate:Obama: I'm glad the Senator McCain brought up the bipartisan history of us engaging in direct diplomacy. Senator McCain mentioned Henry Kissinger who is one of his advisors who along with 5 Secretaries of State just said that we should meet with Iran; Guess what? He said without preconditions. This is one of your own advisers...... From the Weekly Standard Blog:
McCain: Look. Dr. Kissinger did not say that he would approve a face to face meeting between the President of the United States and Ahmadinejad. he did not say that. He said there could be lower level meetings. I've always encouraged them.Henry Kissinger believes Barack Obama misstated his views on diplomacy with US adversaries and is not happy about being mischaracterized. He says: "Senator McCain is right. I would not recommend the next President of the United States engage in talks with Iran at the Presidential level. My views on this issue are entirely compatible with the views of my friend Senator John McCain. We do not agree on everything, but we do agree that any negotiations with Iran must be geared to reality."
LIED.
- OBAMA IS A LIAR.
- THE FACT THAT HE LIES MAKES HIM UNFIT FOR OFFICE.
- AND SO DOES HIS POSITION ON PRESIDENTIAL DIPLOMACY.
- MCCAIN AND KISSINGER ARE CORRECT:
- FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS WITH SCUM LIKE AHMADINEJAD AND CHAVEZ AND KIM WOULD SEND A SIGNAL TO OTHER WOULD-BE SCUM THAT THUGGERY IS EFFECTIVE: USE IT AND YOU'LL GET "FACE TIME" WITH THE POTUS.
- THIS GIVES SCUM LIKE AHMADINEJAD MORE INCENTIVE TO BEHAVE MORE BADLY.
- THIS IS ONE REASON WHY THE PROSPECT OF AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE SECURITY OF THE FREE WORLD.
THE MCCAIN-OBAMA DEBATE: MICHELLE OBAMA'S UGLY BEDSPREAD DRESS
THIS IS WORSE THAN GORE'S BROWN SUIT.
WHAT WAS SHE THINKING!?!?!
CINDY AND JOHN LOOKED GREAT!
BTW: IT WAS A THAKOON DRESS.
THE "INSIDE-OUT" FLORAL.
WITH AN ADDED BOW - FOR ER, UM... DRAMA!?!?
WHAT WAS SHE THINKING!?!?!
CINDY AND JOHN LOOKED GREAT!
BTW: IT WAS A THAKOON DRESS.
THE "INSIDE-OUT" FLORAL.
WITH AN ADDED BOW - FOR ER, UM... DRAMA!?!?
THE FIRST OBAMA-MCCAIN DEBATE: MCCAIN BLEW AN OPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME: HE FAILED TO BLAME THE DEMOCRATS FOR THE FAILURE OF FANNIE MAE
- MCCAIN DID WELL TONIGHT, BUT HE BLEW ONE HUGE OPPORTUNITY.
- IN 2005, MCCAIN CO-SPONSORED LEGISLATION TO REIN IN FANNIE MAE.
- THE DEMOCRATS BLOCKED IT.
- MCCAIN SHOULD BE POUNDING AWAY ON THIS - AS HE HAS THE SURGE.
- BUT HE DIDN'T.
- IN FACT: THE WORD "FANNIE" WAS UTTERED ONCE IN THE WHOLE DEBATE, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THIS IS WHAT LIES AT THE VERY HEART OF OUR CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS.
- THE OBAMA PEOPLE MUST BE SIGHING A HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF.
- I SUSPECT MCCAIN RESTRAINED HIMSELF BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT TO EXACERBATE THE DEMOCRATS NEGOTIATING A BAILOUT PACKAGE.
- THIS IS NOBLE OF MCCAIN - WHICH IS TYPICAL.
- I HOPE HE'S MORE PARTISAN IN THE NEXT DEBATE.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Obama Thuggery UNHINGED!
Glenn Reynolds is ALL OVER the Obama "Brownshirts" and "Truth Squads" we discussed earlier, including updates on the campaign's blatant, overt and thuggish attempts to use its surrogates to shut down any and all criticism and dissent (even truthful reporting of facts) prior to the election.
This is straight out of the GRU/KGB/STASI manual!
This is Frightening, people. Being a student of World War II and the events in Europe leading up to it, the parallels with Il Duce, Benito Mussolini are eerie scary.
Obama's handlers (because, after all Barry often has problems deciding for himself what to do...) are taking a page right out of the Blackshirts/Brownshirts playbook. Perhaps the beautiful--if historically jingoistic--film Pan's Labyrinth is more appropriately digested if seen in a light of of a warning about what can happen today, not some revisionist history about Franco (Orwell is pretty open about his view of the Communists after his prior affiliation with the Marxists in that war...). Other recommendations: The Lives of Others and The Inner Circle...
Welcome to the 1930's. Better stock up on arms and ammo while you still have the chance... unless we DEFEAT these Nazis, they may be coming for you soon.
RELATED: Key Obama fundraiser meets with Ahmadinejad. Now there's a role model for Democratic leadership...
Meanwhile Übermensch Val Prieto--the immigrant from Castro's Cuba who does know the difference advises:
This is straight out of the GRU/KGB/STASI manual!
Just think what a President Obama would do after he was in power.MORE THUGGISHNESS: Obama threatening the licenses of TV stations that run NRA ads.
Haven't we had about enough of this? Related item here. They told me that if George W. Bush were re-elected there would be brazen efforts to suppress free speech on political grounds -- and they were right!
UPDATE: Still more on the ad-silencing effort here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: "I fear that under the Obama administration, the lawyers sending these letters will be government employees."
Plus, from Jacob Sullum at Reason, Why Obama is Vulnerable On the Second Amendment.
MORE: Prosecutors and sheriffs threatening to prosecute Obama critics?
Check out this TV news report from St. Louis, too, which makes clear that the Obama campaign is behind this.
Thugs on parade. Will the U.S. Department of Justice investigate? Or are they compromised?
STILL MORE: This is the ad that's got the Obama campaign so upset. You can make up your own mind, but it doesn't seem especially unusual for a political ad, though it's certainly likely to hurt Obama in the bitter-clinger demographic. Of course, more people will see it now because of this controversly. And here, at Politico, is the NRA response. (Bumped).
MORE STILL: Reader Carolyn Gockel writes: "Why Obama is Vulnerable On the First Amendment: The whole NRA flap is going beyond gun rights advocates...I'm not as pro-gun as you and I am furious." Yeah, and the bit with state law enforcement officials threatening critics is even worse. I wonder if the ACLU will weigh in on this one? Seems like a good opportunity for them to show their nonpartisan nature.
This is Frightening, people. Being a student of World War II and the events in Europe leading up to it, the parallels with Il Duce, Benito Mussolini are eerie scary.
Obama's handlers (because, after all Barry often has problems deciding for himself what to do...) are taking a page right out of the Blackshirts/Brownshirts playbook. Perhaps the beautiful--if historically jingoistic--film Pan's Labyrinth is more appropriately digested if seen in a light of of a warning about what can happen today, not some revisionist history about Franco (Orwell is pretty open about his view of the Communists after his prior affiliation with the Marxists in that war...). Other recommendations: The Lives of Others and The Inner Circle...
Welcome to the 1930's. Better stock up on arms and ammo while you still have the chance... unless we DEFEAT these Nazis, they may be coming for you soon.
RELATED: Key Obama fundraiser meets with Ahmadinejad. Now there's a role model for Democratic leadership...
Meanwhile Übermensch Val Prieto--the immigrant from Castro's Cuba who does know the difference advises:
Be afraid, folks. Be very afraid.That seems like good advice to me. Time to go stock up on guns and ammo...
Missouri Sheriffs & Top Prosecutors Form Obama "Truth Squads" & Threaten Libel Charges Against Obama Critics
More Hope and Change for Missouri... Note that this is in response to an explicit request from the Obama campaign
St. Louis and Missouri Democrat sheriffs and top prosecutors are planning to go after anyone who makes false statements against Obama during his campaign. This is so one sided I can't even begin to describe how wrong this agenda is. It's one thing if they want to keep the campaign fair for both sides, but they clearly only want to enforce the issue for the Obama Camp. KMOV has a video report on the Obama "Truth Squads".
St. Louis C of CC Blog has more on the Obama Truth Squads.
More here
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St. Louis and Missouri Democrat sheriffs and top prosecutors are planning to go after anyone who makes false statements against Obama during his campaign. This is so one sided I can't even begin to describe how wrong this agenda is. It's one thing if they want to keep the campaign fair for both sides, but they clearly only want to enforce the issue for the Obama Camp. KMOV has a video report on the Obama "Truth Squads".
KMOV aired a story last night, that stated that St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, both Obama supporters, are threatening to bring criminal libel charges against anyone who levels what turns out to be false criticisms of their chosen candidate for President.
St. Louis C of CC Blog has more on the Obama Truth Squads.
More here
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Bill Clinton Defends John McCain's Debate Decision-- Blames Dems For Meltdown!
ABC News' Nitya Venkataraman Reports: Former President Bill Clinton defended Sen. John McCain's request to delay the first presidential debate, saying McCain did it in "good faith" and pushed organizers to reserve time for economy talk during the debate if the Friday plans move forward.
Appearing on Good Morning America Thursday, Clinton told ABC News' Chris Cuomo that McCain's push to postpone the debate would only be a good political move if both candidates agreed. McCain announced on Wednesday that he would "suspend" his presidential campaign to come to Washington to help negotiate a financial bailout bill.
"We know he didn't do it because he's afraid because Sen. McCain wanted more debates," Clinton said, adding that he was "encouraged" by the joint statement from McCain and Sen. Barack Obama. "You can put it off a few days the problem is it's hard to reschedule those things," Clinton said, "I presume he did that in good faith since I know he wanted -- I remember he asked for more debates to go all around the country and so I don't think we ought to overly parse that."
Also... During the interview Bill Clinton blamed the Democrats for blocking reform of the mortgage giants, via Patriot Room:
Going very much against the media meme that the current financial crisis is all George W. Bush and the Republicans' fault, Bill Clinton on Thursday told ABC's Chris Cuomo that Democrats for years have been "resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac"
True. President Bush warned about reforming Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae 17 times this year alone. John McCain's reform bill was blocked by dems in 2005. Thank you, Bill Clinton!
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THE END OF EMPIRE?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared - this time at the UN - that the US Empire was on the verge of collapse.
Well that was good news for the enemies of the United States - from Islamic extremists, to Russian and Chinese Nationalists, to a vast majority of left wingers in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
To complete the scenario of the demise of the United States they need to do just one more thing - elect Obama!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
REPORT: OBAMA USED ALINKSY TACTICS DURING WHITE HOUSE MEETING
FACT: OBAMA IS A DISCIPLE OF SAUL ALINKSY'S #1 DISCIPLE. (MORE HERE.)
REPORT:
REPORT:
At today's cabinet meeting, John McCain did not attack any proposal or endorse any plan. John McCain simply urged that for any proposal to enjoy the confidence of the American people, stressing that all sides would have to cooperate and build a bipartisan consensus for a solution that protects taxpayers.THIS IS A CLASSIC ALINSKY TACTIC.
However, the Democrats allowed Senator Obama to run their side of the meeting.
That did not work as the meeting quickly devolved into a contentious shouting match that did not seek to craft a bipartisan solution.
- THIS MIGHT BE DELIBERATE SABOTAGE ON THE PART OF OBAMA:
- (1) FAILURE TO MAKE A DEAL MIGHT MAKE HIM MORE POPULAR,
- AND (2) HE NEEDS TO MAKE SURE MCCAIN DOESN'T COME OUT AHEAD BY FORGING A TRADEMARK BI-PARTISAN DEAL.
AN EARMARK WHICH PART-TIME STATE SENATOR OBAMA GAVE TO A BUDDY WAS STOLEN - AND THE STATE AG IS INVESTIGATING...
THE CORNER:
The Chicago Sun-Times reports the Illinois attorney general is investigating a $100K government grant tied to Obama:
I'm sure the Washington Post and New York Times will devote as much time to this story as they did to Gov. Palin's per diems and her involvement with the Wasilla public library.A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent.
The garden was never built. And now state records obtained by the Sun-Times show $65,000 of the grant money went to the wife of Kenny B. Smith, the Obama 2000 congressional campaign volunteer who heads the Chicago Better Housing Association, which was in charge of the project for the blighted South Side neighborhood.
- THIS IS HOW OBAMA RAN THE CHICAGO ANNENBERG CHALLENGE, TOO.
- AND THE MSM CARES NOT ONE WHIT.
- 'CAUSE THEY'RE IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA.
OBAMA AND DODD: "COUNTRYWIDE WAS ON THEIR SIDE - AND SO WAS FANNIE MAE!"
OF ALL THE SCHMUCKS IN THE SENATE, THESE TWO GOT THE MOST MONEY FROM FANNIE MAE.
ON TOP OF THAT, DODD GOT A SWEETHEART MORTGAGE FROM COUNTRYWIDE - THE COMPANY THAT HELPED PUT FANNIE MAE UNDER.
THESE TWO SCHMUCKS SHOULD BE TARRED AND FEATHERED.
TWO OF THE DEMOCRAT GENIUSES OF THE SENATE SPEAK
THESE TWO SCHMUCKS SHOULD BE RUN OUT OF TOWN ON A POLE!MSM SPIN ON BAILOUT STALL BEGINS: BLAMING THE HOUSE GOP
- THERE'S ONE IDDY-BIDDY PROBLEM WITH THAT: PELOSI IS THE QUEEN OF THE HOUSE: CAN PASS ANY BILL IN THE HOUSE WITH JUST HER SIDE OF THE AISLE.
- BUT THE HOUSE GOP IS INSISTING THEY BE ALLOWED TO VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCE - THEIR PRINCIPLES, OR CHANGE THE DEAL.
- THIS IS GONNA BE SOME GAME OF CHICKEN...
*******UPDATE: NYT/AP:
A Republican revolt stalled urgent efforts to lash together a national economic rescue plan Thursday, a chaotic turnaround on a day that had seemed headed for a success that President Bush, both political parties and their presidential candidates could celebrate at an extraordinary White House meeting.THIS IS PURE BS: PELOSI HAS ENOUGH VOTES TO PASS THE BILL.
Weary congressional negotiators worked into the night, joined by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in an effort to revive or rework the $700 billion proposal that President Bush said must be quickly approved by Congress to stave off potentially ''a long and deep recession.''
They gave up after 10 p.m. EDT, more than an hour after the lone House Republican involved, Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, left the room. Democrats blamed the House Republicans for the apparent stalemate. Those conservatives have complained that the plan would be too costly for taxpayers and would be an unacceptable federal intrusion into private business.
Talks were to resume Friday morning on the effort to bail out failing financial institutions and restart the flow of credit that has begun to starve the national economy.
UPDATE: MORE ON THE PARTISAN POLITICS BEING PLAYED HERE.
MCCAIN AND THE GOP WILL GAIN AS A RESULT OF SOLVING THE FANNIE MAE FIASCO
The electorate will realize that this mess was the fault of the Democrats of Congress.
The GOP base will respect the fact that the GOP Representatives in the House held out for PRINCIPLES - not gimmes or earmarks - BUT PRINCIPLES.
And - I predict - the electorate will appreciate that JOHN MCCAIN will have in large measure brokered any final BI-PARTISAN deal. A deal that Obama could NOT have brokered. And that NO ONE ELSE COULD HAVE BROKERED.
This will cement McCain status as the man who is ready to lead.
And he will pick up substantial support as a result.
As will the GOP in Congress.
UPDATE: MORE ON THE POLITICS OF THE BAILOUT HERE.
The GOP base will respect the fact that the GOP Representatives in the House held out for PRINCIPLES - not gimmes or earmarks - BUT PRINCIPLES.
And - I predict - the electorate will appreciate that JOHN MCCAIN will have in large measure brokered any final BI-PARTISAN deal. A deal that Obama could NOT have brokered. And that NO ONE ELSE COULD HAVE BROKERED.
This will cement McCain status as the man who is ready to lead.
And he will pick up substantial support as a result.
As will the GOP in Congress.
UPDATE: MORE ON THE POLITICS OF THE BAILOUT HERE.
WHY DOES THE MSM GO THROUGH MAYOR PALIN'S MAIL, BUT NOT OBAMA'S OR BIDEN'S...
NBC NEWS:
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
HAT TIP HOT AIR.
The 'lost' Palin filesYUP: THE MEDIA ELITES ARE SIFTNG THROUGH PALIN'S 6 YEAR OLD MAIL. (BTW: THEY FOUND NOTHING BAD!)
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:03 PM ET
Filed Under: Politics
By Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer
When federal judges in San Francisco ruled in 2002 that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional because it included the phrase "under God," Sarah Palin was not amused.
Palin, who at the time was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, quickly drafted a terse letter to the editor of a San Francisco newspaper.
“Dear Editor,” Palin wrote in 2002. “San Francisco judges forbidding our Pledge of Allegiance? They will take the phrase ‘under God’ away from me when my cold, dead lips can no longer utter those words,” Palin wrote.
“God Bless America,” she concluded.
Hundreds of notes and letters
Palin’s letter to the editor is one of hundreds of personal notes and letters written by the former Mayor, and obtained this week to NBC News and others.
The documents shed light on the management style--and personality--of the small town mayor turned vice presidential candidate.
- MEANWHILE, IN A LIBRARY IN CHICAGO - WHERE RESIDE THOUSANDS OF DOCUMENTS LINKING OBAMA TO UNREPENTANT TERRORIST BILL AYERS - STANLEY KURTZ TOILS ALONE.
- MEANWHILE, IN DELAWARE, NOT A SINGLE MAJOR MSM OUTLET HAS FOLLOWED UP OB A STRING OF SUSPICIOUS REAL ESTATE DEALS BIDEN MADE WITH "CAMPAIGN SUPPORTERS" - WHICH CULMINATED IN HIS OWNERSHIP OF A PALATIAL COMPOUND ON THE WATER.
- MEANWHILE; NOT A SINGLE MSM REPORTER IS INVESTIGATING OBAMA'S LINKS TO FANNIE MAE.
- THE DOUBLE STANDARD HAS NEVER EVER BEEN MORE PRONOUNCED.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
HAT TIP HOT AIR.
VIDEOS: THE FANNIE MAE FIASCO: THE DEMOCRATS OF CONGRESS ARE TO BLAME
BUSH, MCCAIN, AND GREENSPAN (WHO PUSHED FOR MORE REGULATION OF FANNIE MAE) VERSUS THE DEMOCRATS CHRIS DODD AND BARNEY FRANK WHO PREVENTED IT:
VIA SONDRAK.
VIA SONDRAK.
The superior people of Berkeley
All ego
(For any non-American readers, Berkeley is probably the most Leftist place in America)
As most veteran customers know, it takes a pretty thick skin to successfully navigate the Berkeley Bowl, this strident city's most popular grocery store. Outside, petitioners seeking signatures for ballot measures have come to blows with opinionated residents. In the tiny parking lot, nicknamed the Berkeley Brawl, frustrated motorists have been known to ram one another's cars. At the checkout, people have thrown punches and unripened avocados at suspected line-cutters.
When one shopper was told she couldn't return a bag of granola, she showily dumped its contents on the floor. Culyon Garrison, who works at the customer-service desk, recently had a loaf of bread thrown at him.
The produce emporium -- one of the nation's most renowned retailers of exotic fruits and vegetables -- creates its own bad behavior. Kamikaze shoppers crash down crowded aisles without eye contact or apology for fender-benders. So many customers weren't waiting to pay before digging in that management imposed the ultimate deterrent: Those caught sampling without buying will be banned for life -- no reprieves, no excuses. (Not even "I forgot to take my medication.")
Raphael Breines, who was ejected last year for eating on the premises, said he couldn't decide between two types of apricots, so he sampled both. Security stopped him in the parking lot. "They treated me like a thief," said the 37-year-old park planner, who was photographed and required to sign a no-trespass agreement. "Technically I was stealing, but I wasn't trying to hide anything. I was just deciding which type of apricot to buy." Breines, a longtime customer, sent an apology letter, asking to be reinstated. His request was denied.
Store manager Larry Evans says the policy is a fair response to doctors, lawyers and college professors who help themselves to bags of cookies, nuts and vitamins, stick their fingers in pies and guzzle from bottles of sake, assuming the rules don't apply to them. "There's a sense of entitlement to this town," Evans said. "People think, 'If I want to do it, I'll do it, just try and stop me.' "
Seven years on the job, he said, has given him insight into the city's sometimes sharp social elbows. "Berkeley residents are angry -- they're mad at the president, the economy, all kinds of stuff. And this is the place where it seems to get released, the local supermarket."
Longtime Berkeley residents also think they have a grip on the good life, so being banned from the Bowl is no small matter. On a typical summer day, a shopper at the Bowl is likely to find 20 kinds of apples, eight types of mangoes, half a dozen varieties of papaya, six kinds of garlic, five types of ginger and 40 different tomatoes.
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(For any non-American readers, Berkeley is probably the most Leftist place in America)
As most veteran customers know, it takes a pretty thick skin to successfully navigate the Berkeley Bowl, this strident city's most popular grocery store. Outside, petitioners seeking signatures for ballot measures have come to blows with opinionated residents. In the tiny parking lot, nicknamed the Berkeley Brawl, frustrated motorists have been known to ram one another's cars. At the checkout, people have thrown punches and unripened avocados at suspected line-cutters.
When one shopper was told she couldn't return a bag of granola, she showily dumped its contents on the floor. Culyon Garrison, who works at the customer-service desk, recently had a loaf of bread thrown at him.
The produce emporium -- one of the nation's most renowned retailers of exotic fruits and vegetables -- creates its own bad behavior. Kamikaze shoppers crash down crowded aisles without eye contact or apology for fender-benders. So many customers weren't waiting to pay before digging in that management imposed the ultimate deterrent: Those caught sampling without buying will be banned for life -- no reprieves, no excuses. (Not even "I forgot to take my medication.")
Raphael Breines, who was ejected last year for eating on the premises, said he couldn't decide between two types of apricots, so he sampled both. Security stopped him in the parking lot. "They treated me like a thief," said the 37-year-old park planner, who was photographed and required to sign a no-trespass agreement. "Technically I was stealing, but I wasn't trying to hide anything. I was just deciding which type of apricot to buy." Breines, a longtime customer, sent an apology letter, asking to be reinstated. His request was denied.
Store manager Larry Evans says the policy is a fair response to doctors, lawyers and college professors who help themselves to bags of cookies, nuts and vitamins, stick their fingers in pies and guzzle from bottles of sake, assuming the rules don't apply to them. "There's a sense of entitlement to this town," Evans said. "People think, 'If I want to do it, I'll do it, just try and stop me.' "
Seven years on the job, he said, has given him insight into the city's sometimes sharp social elbows. "Berkeley residents are angry -- they're mad at the president, the economy, all kinds of stuff. And this is the place where it seems to get released, the local supermarket."
Longtime Berkeley residents also think they have a grip on the good life, so being banned from the Bowl is no small matter. On a typical summer day, a shopper at the Bowl is likely to find 20 kinds of apples, eight types of mangoes, half a dozen varieties of papaya, six kinds of garlic, five types of ginger and 40 different tomatoes.
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Typical Democrat elitist behavior: Someone else will pay
Barack Obama's Wisconsin Campaign for Change left no change in Waupun last week. The presidential candidate's campaign staff arrived at the Chit Chat Cafe at 324 E. Main St., last Tuesday to hold a round table discussion about Obama and his positions. More than 40 people crowded the family restaurant.
But when it came time to leave, the campaign staff got up and left, refusing to pay the tab for coffee. "When they came the place was full and they started talking," said the waitress Amanda, who didn't want to use her last name. "Then some people said they couldn't hear, and so they stood up and started giving a speech, talking loud enough for everyone to hear. "We didn't even know they were having a meeting here."
Amanda said it started last week when two men came in to eat. "After they ate they asked if we could reserve a table for 10 people for next week. We said sure. We didn't know it was for a meeting. "We didn't know what was going on Tuesday. I didn't know anything about this. They never told us, but they had press releases, and were on the radio, and called people to come."
As the campaign staff started walking out, a startled Amanda stopped them at the door and asked who was going to pay for the coffee. "One man said he only had $10, and another said they had to hurry on to the next meeting in Watertown," Amanda said. About 20 cups of coffee weren't paid for but that small amount didn't concern Chit Chat owner Debbie Vanden Boom.
"It's the principle of the matter. Had they said they were having a meeting and many people would be coming and could the coffee be complimentary, it wouldn't have been a problem," she said. "On top of that, Amanda never even got a tip."
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But when it came time to leave, the campaign staff got up and left, refusing to pay the tab for coffee. "When they came the place was full and they started talking," said the waitress Amanda, who didn't want to use her last name. "Then some people said they couldn't hear, and so they stood up and started giving a speech, talking loud enough for everyone to hear. "We didn't even know they were having a meeting here."
Amanda said it started last week when two men came in to eat. "After they ate they asked if we could reserve a table for 10 people for next week. We said sure. We didn't know it was for a meeting. "We didn't know what was going on Tuesday. I didn't know anything about this. They never told us, but they had press releases, and were on the radio, and called people to come."
As the campaign staff started walking out, a startled Amanda stopped them at the door and asked who was going to pay for the coffee. "One man said he only had $10, and another said they had to hurry on to the next meeting in Watertown," Amanda said. About 20 cups of coffee weren't paid for but that small amount didn't concern Chit Chat owner Debbie Vanden Boom.
"It's the principle of the matter. Had they said they were having a meeting and many people would be coming and could the coffee be complimentary, it wouldn't have been a problem," she said. "On top of that, Amanda never even got a tip."
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Tonight On KFNX Talk-Radio
[Image courtesy of Stogie]
Thursday, September 25, at 8:00 P.M. Phoenix time, WC and I will host "Voices of Freedom," a one-hour weekly show on KFNX 1100. See this time-zone chart (Refresh the page!) if you are in a different time zone than Phoenix, Arizona; click directly on the word "PHOENIX" to get a world map of time zones.
Our scheduled guest is Dr. Paul L. Williams.
Tune in if you can! In addition to AM air time at the scheduled hour, KFNX offers live streaming at the station's web site.
VOICES OF FREEDOM: THE SHOW THAT MAKES JIHADISTS CRY.
Web site for VOICES OF FREEDOM
Thursday, September 25, at 8:00 P.M. Phoenix time, WC and I will host "Voices of Freedom," a one-hour weekly show on KFNX 1100. See this time-zone chart (Refresh the page!) if you are in a different time zone than Phoenix, Arizona; click directly on the word "PHOENIX" to get a world map of time zones.Our scheduled guest is Dr. Paul L. Williams.
Tune in if you can! In addition to AM air time at the scheduled hour, KFNX offers live streaming at the station's web site.
VOICES OF FREEDOM: THE SHOW THAT MAKES JIHADISTS CRY.
Web site for VOICES OF FREEDOM
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
NEITHER MCCAIN OR PALIN HAVE EVER HAD ANYBODY LIKE REZKO OR WRIGHT OR AYERS OR KHALIDI IN THEIR INNER CIRCLE
NEITHER MCCAIN OR PALIN HAVE EVER HAD ANYBODY LIKE REZKO OR WRIGHT OR AYERS OR KHALIDI IN THEIR INNER CIRCLE, BUT OBAMA HAS.
THINK ABOUT IT.
THINK ABOUT IT.
JEREMIAH GODDAMN AMERIKKA WRIGHT.
BILL I BOMBED THE CAPITAL AYERS.
AND RASHID ARAFAT'S BUDDY KHALIDI.
TONY CONVICTED FELON REZKO.
BILL I BOMBED THE CAPITAL AYERS.
AND RASHID ARAFAT'S BUDDY KHALIDI.
TONY CONVICTED FELON REZKO.
- THESE ARE MEN OBAMA HAD CLOSE PERSONAL DEALINGS WITH - FOR DECADES.
- AND, THESE WERE DECADES DURING WHICH HE WASN'T IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
- NOW, THESE RELATIONSHIPS SEEM TO HAVE CONVENIENTLY FADED FROM VIEW.
- THE MEDIA ISN'T ASKING QUESTIONS.
- BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THE ANSWERS.
- BUT THESE ARE THE RELATIONSHIPS WHICH TELL US WHO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JUNIOR REALLY IS.
- IT'S AN UGLY PICTURE.
- A PICTURE OF A MAN UNFIT TO LEAD THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
IT'S TIME FOR OBAMA TO CALL FOR RANGEL TO STEP ASIDE
Rangel is one of the most senior Democrats in the House; he chairs the Ways & Means committee.
And he's a slimy crook.
Pelosi won't ask him to step aside - even though she and Harry Reid PROMISED us the most ethical Congress ever.
Therefore, Obama MUST.
Obama is the chief of the party, now.
If he fails to ask Rangel to step aside, then he's admitting he's a slimy crook, too.
And he's a slimy crook.
Pelosi won't ask him to step aside - even though she and Harry Reid PROMISED us the most ethical Congress ever.
Therefore, Obama MUST.
Obama is the chief of the party, now.
If he fails to ask Rangel to step aside, then he's admitting he's a slimy crook, too.
VIDEO PROOF THAT COURIC IS IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA-BIDEN
IN THIS VIDEO IN RESPONSE TO A SOFT-BALL QUESTION, BIDEN LAYS DOWN A HUMONGOUS GAFFE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS; (FDR/1929/TV).
NO FOLLOW UP FROM COURIC. (PREVIOUS TAB POST HERE.)
IN THIS VIDEO, PALIN ANSWERS COURIC'S QUESTION - BUT THEN GETS FOUR FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS.
NO FOLLOW UP FROM COURIC. (PREVIOUS TAB POST HERE.)
IN THIS VIDEO, PALIN ANSWERS COURIC'S QUESTION - BUT THEN GETS FOUR FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS.
- THE DISPARITY IN TREATMENT OF THE TWO CAMPAIGNS COULDN'T BE STARKER.
- THE DISPARITY IN TREATMENT OF THE TWO CAMPAIGNS COULDN'T BE STARKER.
- THE DISPARITY IN TREATMENT OF THE TWO CAMPAIGNS COULDN'T BE STARKER.
- IT MAKES ME WANNA PUKE.
- ON COURIC.
WILL ACORN STEAL THE ELECTION FOR OBAMA?
ACORN and Obama go way back.
(Backgrounder on ACORN here. Excerpt:
And ACORN is a PRO at voter fraud. (2006 CBS NEWS article here.)
I feel it is NO COINCIDENCE that they have big registration efforts in BIG cities in key battleground states in this year's election - BIG cities which are run by the corrupt Democrat Machines, and have a history of ACORN-sponsored voter fraud: Philly, Albuquerque, Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City, Miami, and Milwaukee.
To name a FEW!
These are the big cities in the KEY states and ACORN-sponsored voter fraud might just provide Obama with the margin of victory.
Please G-d Forbid!
(Backgrounder on ACORN here. Excerpt:
- Largest radical group in America, with 175,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 850 chapters in 70 US cities
- Implicated in numerous reports of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams during the 2004 election
- Maintains close ties to organized labor)
And ACORN is a PRO at voter fraud. (2006 CBS NEWS article here.)
I feel it is NO COINCIDENCE that they have big registration efforts in BIG cities in key battleground states in this year's election - BIG cities which are run by the corrupt Democrat Machines, and have a history of ACORN-sponsored voter fraud: Philly, Albuquerque, Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City, Miami, and Milwaukee.
To name a FEW!
These are the big cities in the KEY states and ACORN-sponsored voter fraud might just provide Obama with the margin of victory.
Please G-d Forbid!
Obama the egomaniac
Democrat Barack Obama said he does not look like all his fellow presidents on the currency. His new coin proves it. The One has his own one. Obama contracted with a British firm in Birmingham, England, to mint the new coin of the realm: The One. To go along with the Seal of the Perfect Presidency.
The Coin of the Realm will be 300 pieces of silver under a 100,000 pound ($200,000) contact with a British company. The Birmingham Post reported:
And if the Democratic candidate is elected to become the most powerful man in the world on November 4, it could open the floodgates for millions of pounds worth of business for the firm. Windsor, Elizabeth & Windsor has already sold more than 300 limited edition commemorative silver coins to the Democratic Party to hand out to key members of the campaign to elect Obama.
If? If? Infidels. He is inevitable. All hail Barack the Magnificent! He won't be president; he'll be emperor. Why, he'll have his own money to prove it.
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Must not diss Obama in a Colorado school
We read:
"An 11-year-old in Aurora says his first amendment rights are being trampled after he was suspended for wearing a homemade shirt that reads "Obama is a terrorist's best friend." The fifth grader at Aurora Frontier K-8 School wore it on a day when students were asked to wear red, white and blue to show their patriotism.
The boy's father Dann Dalton describes himself as a "proud conservative" who has taken part in some controversial anti-abortion protests. Dalton says the school made a major mistake by suspending his son for wearing the shirt. "It's the public school system," Dalton says. "Let's be honest, it's full of liberal loons."
According the the boy's father, the school district told the student, Daxx Dalton, that he had the choice of changing his shirt, turning his shirt inside out or being suspended. Daxx chose suspension.
"They're taking away my right of freedom of speech," he says. "If I have the right to wear this shirt I'm going to use it. And if the only way to use it is get suspended, then I'm going to get suspended." .... The boy's father says he intends to pursue a lawsuit against the district.
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