SYNAGOGUE IN VENEZUELA ATTACKED

BBC:

An armed gang has ransacked a Jewish synagogue in the Venezuelan capital Caracas after occupying the building for several hours.

About 15 unidentified men broke into the building before daubing graffiti on the walls and desecrating scriptures.

They also called for Jewish people to be expelled from the country.

Jewish leaders say tensions have risen since Venezuela broke diplomatic relations with Israel this month over its recent military offensive in Gaza.

Elias Farache, president of Venezuela's Jewish Association, said the gang had tied and gagged security guards before destroying offices and the place where holy books were kept.

Anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli slogans were painted on the walls.

"Never in the history of Venezuela's Jewish community have we been the target of such an aggression," said Mr Farache.

"The climate is very tense. We feel threatened, intimidated, attacked."

I WOULD BETCHYA THE ATTACKERS WERE WORKING FOR CHAVEZ.

REGARDLESS, THIS ACT OF ANTISEMITISM HAS GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS:

• THIS ATTACK WASN'T A RESULT OF THE GAZA WAR; IT'S A RESULT YEARS OF CHAVEZ USING ANTISEMITISM AND SUCKING UP TO JIHADISM AND HIZBALLAH AND IRAN.
• AND IT'S TIED INTO THE FACT THAT HE SUCKING UP TO PUTIN.
• THERE SHOULD BE NO DOUBT ANYMORE: CHAVEZ IS AN ENEMY OF THE WEST - ALLIED WITH IRAN AND RUSSIA.
• JEWS ARE JUST THE CANARY IN THE COALMINE.

• THE SAD THING IS THAT OBAMA'S DEMOCRAT PARTY IS CLOSER TO CHAVEZ AND FARC THAN TO AND COLOMBIA.

• THE RESULT IS THAT THINGS ARE GOING TO GET MUCH WORSE FOR ISRAEL - AND JEWS EVERYWHERE.

• AND SOONER THAN ANYONE THINKS.

STAY TUNED...

MORE ON THE "UN-HOLY" ALLIANCE OF CHAVEZ AND JIHADISM HERE.

MORE HERE TOO.

IT'S OVER: NOW, LIBS TELLING OBAMA TO THROW DASCHLE UNDER THE BUS

THE REACTION/LIBERALISM UNBOUND:

Supporters of Barack Obama had to go ahead and buy the excuses to let Timothy Geithner slide by as treasury secretary. ...

Then there was additional nervousness brought about by the speed in which the administration issued its first waiver to its first-day proclamation that no one would be placed in a post when they had lobbied that department in the past two years since William Lynn was supposedly so essential to the post they want him in at the Pentagon. On top of that comes reports of more lobbyists filling administration positions.

... Now, a funny thing has happened to Tom Daschle on his way to being approved as secretary of health and human services. He also failed to pay back taxes

Tom Daschle, may have been a loyal and faithful adviser to you during the campaign, Mr. President, but if he doesn't fall on his own sword as Bill Richardson did, you are going to have to throw him under the bus for your own sake.

• OBAMA'S BASE IS ALREADY BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT,
• AND SEE THAT OBAMA IS A CORRUPT, LYING PHONY,
• AND THAT "HOPE AND CHANGE" IS A EUPHEMISM FOR "LIES AND MORE OF THE SAME" -
• AND OBAMA HAS ONLY BEEN IN OFFICE TWO WEEKS!

AWESOME!








VIA MEMEORANDUM.

VIDEO: NATIONALIZATION OF HEALTHCARE: REAGAN CALLED IT WHAT IT WAS - IN 1961: SOCIALISM

REAGAN ON SOCIALIZED MEDICINE - IN 1961.

• REAGAN BATTLED THE COMMIES IN HOLLYWOOD IN THE 1950'S - IT OPENED HIS EYES.

• WE NEED ANOTHER REAGAN - OR THATCHER - TO BATTLE OBAMA OR OBAMA WILL DO TO US WHAT MUGABE DID TO RHODESIA, CASTRO TO CUBA, KIM TO NORTH KOREA, ATTLEE TO GREAT BRITAIN, MAO TO CHINA, POL POT TO CAMBODIA, AND SO ON.

• IOW: WE'RE HEADED DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM - UNLESS WE STOP OBAMA.

CAN WE DO IT?

YES, WE CAN!

VIA MARK LEVIN - LISTEN HERE.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND THE DEMOCRATS OF CONGRESS: THE MOST CORRUPT OF ALL TIME - AND IT'S ONLY A FEW WEEKS OLD!

• DOUG HAS THE NUMBER$$$ ON THE CORRUPT DEMOCRATS - AND THEY ADD UP TO OVER $10 BILLION IN CHEATING ON TAXES, STEALING, AND STEERING TAX-PAYER DOLLARS TO FAMILY, PARTNERS AND FRIENDS.

• THE DEPTH OF CORRUPTION IS BREATH-TAKING.

• IT'S AN ABSOLUTELY SICKENING MUST READ!

LET'S PLAY OBAMA-BALL: SOMEONE DIG UP DASCHLE'S DIVORCE PAPERS!

Tax-cheat and health-industry lobbyist and former Senator Daschle is Obama's choice to lead HHS where he'd oversee spending of about 25% of the federal budget and oversee the nationalization of the health-care industry - an industry which makes up about 11% of the economy.

If the fact that he's a tax-cheat and a health-care lobbyist (who made nearly $6 million from the industry the last three years) wasn't enough to disqualify him, then maybe something in his divorce is.

SOUND SLIMY!?

YES: IT IS, BUT IT'S HOW OBAMA PLAYS THE GAME. He beat Blair Hull and got the Democrat nomination for the Senate by getting the Chicago Trib to out Hull's divorce records. And then he did they same thing to Ryan - who would have been Obama's very VERY formidable GOP foe had not Obama outed his divorce papers.

(More on Obama's dirty political style HERE.)

IF OBAMA CAN DO IT, THEN WE CAN TO, AFTER ALL: TURNABOUT IS FAIR-PLAY.

LET'S DO IT TO TAX-CHEAT AND HEALTH-CARE INDUSTRY LOBBYIST DASCHLE:

Wiki:

Daschle has been married to Linda Hall since 1984, one year after his marriage to his first wife, Laurie, ended in divorce.^[9] Hall was acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in the Clinton administration; she is now a Washington lobbyist.

Where's the dirt on this first marriage!?

Was tax-cheat and health-are industry lobbyist Daschle caught cheating on his wife?

I suggest someone sue to open the divorce papers and find out!

MORE ON THIS CROOK HERE.

IS OBAMA HIS POTHEAD-BROTHER'S KEEPER?

OBAMA - LECTURING US ABOUT SOCIALISM IN THE KERRY CONVENTION SPEECH WHICH LAUNCHED HIS METEORIC RISE:

... it's not enough for just some of us to prosper. For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga.

A belief that we are connected as one people. If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother.

If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.

It's that fundamental belief — I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper — that makes this country work.

It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. "E pluribus unum." Out of many, one.

BBC:

The Kenyan half-brother of President Barack Obama has been arrested for alleged marijuana possession.

George Obama was arrested in Nairobi with one joint of marijuana, police chief Joshua Omokulongolo said.

"He is not a drug peddler. But it is illegal, it is a banned substance," he said. Mr Obama has denied the allegations.

The US president and George Obama share the same father, but are thought to have only met each other briefly.

BWAHAHAHA!

It's that fundamental belief — I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper — that makes this country work. "

AND HE CAN'T EVEN TAKE CARE OF HIS OWN HALF-BROTHER!

OBAMA PROVES MORE AND MORE EACH DAY - TO MORE AND MORE PEOPLE - THAT HE IS ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY FULL OF SHIT.

LIKE ALL SHOOTING STARS, HE'S HAD A METEORIC RISE - AND SOON HE WILL HAVE A METEORIC FALL!

MORE HERE.

ABE LINCOLN KNEW WHY BARRY OBAMA IS DOOMED TO FAIL

I guarantee that Obama's poll numbers are gonna take a nose-dive - and sooner than you think - and Lincoln knew why:

"YOU CAN FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME,
AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME,
BUT YOU CANNOT FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME."

Everyday, more and more people will see Obama for what truly he is. The days where Obama fooled most of the people are fast coming to an end.

He promised a tax-cut for 95% of Americans.

WHERE IS IT!?

He's promising a stimulus package - but the one winding its way through the Democrat Congress is mostly pork and mostly for 2010 and 2011, not NOW WHEN WE NEED IT!

He said he would bring a new "post-partisan" tone to DC, but them went after Rush.

He said he would have a squeaky clean White House, but then hired Rahm Emanuel, and tax-cheats Geithner and Daschle, (not to mention Richardson!), and signed a conflict of interest waiver for William Lynn at DoD.

He berates Wall Street for bonuses while Congress got a big raise and a huge spending allowance increase.

And so on.

He's breaking promise after promise and putting cronyism for the Chicago Machine and the SEIU and ACORN ahead of the national interest.

And people will see that.

Furthermore, if the economy improves this year - as it probably will - then he won't be able to take credit for it and will be stuck with HUMONGOUS spending increase and HUMONGOUS deficits.

People will be really pissed off about that!

YUP: If Steele can keep the GOP together - and come up with a credible counter-plan, then the GOP will retake the Congress in 2010. (Here's a link to my plan. And HERE.)

Don't think so!?

YES, WE CAN!

MICHAEL STEELE'S NEW FIGHT SONG

Based on what's coming out of the Pelosi-Reid-Obama administration these days, here's the theme song that will guarantee the GOP stays on the right side of every issue, and on the side of the taxpayers:

OBAMA: ON TRACK TO BECOME THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION EVER

HOPE & CHANGE!?!?!?

ER, UM... YEAH - IF YOU MEAN "HOPE WE DON'T GET CAUGHT" AND "IF WE DO GET CAUGHT THEN CHANGE THE SUBJECT"!

NOW IT'S DASCHLE.


WHO'S NEXT????

BWAHAHAHA!

CEO Says Turnaround to Profitability "Will Take Years, Not Months"

THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE FROM A CEO:

"Americans know that our economic recovery will take years -- not months,"

The CEO is Barack Obama, of course.

Can you imagine, if Ford hired a CEO, and he stood up in front of the Boardroom, RIGHT AFTER HE WAS FRIGGIN' HIRED, and told the stockholders that his plan for a return to profitability would take years, not months?

We don't have years, Barack. Those years you are talking about here are the years that make up our lives.

Get to work, or step aside and let someone else do the job.

One wonders if Barack Obama is asking to be removed from leadership. Perhaps he realizes he does not have what it takes.

As if to heap insult on top of Obama's admission of failed vision on the economy - AND AS RELIAPUNDIT ALREADY BLOGGED HERE, Iran bitchslapped Barack Obama today, saying:

US President Barack Obama's offer to talk to Iran shows that America's policy of domination" has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.

"This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed," Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.

Will Barack Obama be our first President to remove himself from office because of incompetency?

MORE ON OBAMA'S PESSIMISM AND NEGATIVITY HERE.

THE ENEMY HAS TOLD US ONCE AGAIN, THEY DO NOT WANT TO TALK. SO, ARE YOU LISTENING APPEASING DOVES!!?!?!?!

YESTERDAY, BLAIR SUGGESTED HAMAS BE INCLUDED IN "THE PEACE PROCESS" - ER UM AFTER THEY RECOGNIZE ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST:

Hamas should be part of the Middle East peace process, said Tony Blair, former British prime minister and envoy to the region of the international quartet of powers, in comments published on Friday.

"I do think it is important that we find a way of bringing Hamas into this process, but it can only be done if Hamas are prepared to do it on the right terms," Blair said in an interview with the Times of London newspaper, published on its Web site.

Blair is the Middle East envoy for the quartet of Middle East peace negotiators - the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union.

... Blair repeated the Quartet position that there can be no talks, official or unofficial, with Hamas until they renounce violence and recognize Israel. However, he said that his "basic predisposition is that in a situation like this you talk to everybody."

RECENTLY, THEY WERE REPORTS OBAMA HAS REACHED OUT TO THEM.

AND HIS SUPPORTER AND IDOL, DHIMMI CARTER, WAS DEFENDING THEM DURING THE WEEK - ON THE MSM AND MORNING TV; HERE'S A LINK TO AL JAZEERA'S REPORT.

THERE'S ONE LITTLE PROBLEM: THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED.

JPOST: "Hamas: Blair's suggestion 'testifies to his stupidity'"

After Middle East Quartet envoy to the region Tony Blair said in in an interview to The Times that Hamas must be involved in the peace process, the movement and its leaders issues statements both denouncing Blair and drawing strength from his comments.

Mushir al-Masri, chairman of the Hamas faction in the Palestinian Authority parliament said "Tony Blair's words prove that Europe and the world understand that all attempts to uproot Hamas and erase it from the Palestinian scene have failed, and that today we are the first and foremost power" representing Palestinians.

Echoing Blair, Masri said "the only gate into the Palestinian issue and its transformation into any agreement cannot occur unless through Hamas - a movement that cannot be ignored."

However, in a published statement, Masri said Blair's comments were "utterly foolish and useless." He said the sentiment the Quartet's envoy expressed to the Times was "a return to the same obstacles erected by the West, as an excuse to postpone Palestinian democracy, continuing the siege of the Palestinian people and granting the Zionist enemies the cover to commit their crimes - the last of which was the Gaza war and the refusal to recognize the legitimate parliament and government of the Palestinians."

IRAN ISN'T INTERESTED IN ANY TALKS EITHER - THEY SEE IT FOR WHAT IT IS: A SIGN OF WEAKNESS:

US President Barack Obama's offer to talk to Iran shows that America's policy of "domination" has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.

"This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed," Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.

"Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change," he added.

After nearly three decades of severed ties, Obama said shortly after taking office this month that he is willing to extend a diplomatic hand to Tehran if the Islamic republic is ready to "unclench its fist".

In response, Iranian President Ahmadinejad launched a fresh tirade against the United States, demanding an apology for its "crimes" against Iran and saying he expected "deep and fundamental" change from Obama.

SO THE SNOWCROFTIAN "REALIST" OBAMA IS WRONG, ALL WRONG.

• IN FACT, "REALIST" IS A MISNOMER WHEN APPLIED TO PEOPLE - LIKE SNOWCROFT AND BRZEZINSKI - WHO THINK TALKING TO THE JIHADO-MANIACAL ENEMY WILL ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING POSITIVE FOR OUR SIDE.

• IN FACT, IT JUST GIVES THE ENEMY ENCOURAGEMENT AND TIME TO STRENGTHEN.

THAT OBAMA FAVORS TALKING DESPITE THE ENEMY'S DISINTEREST PROVES HE IS EITHER A NAIVE DUPE OR A WILLING ALLY OF THE ENEMY.

OBAMA'S "STIMULUS" PACKAGE IS TANTAMOUNT TO A GANG-RAPE OF THE TAXPAYER

BEN STEIN ON WHY OBAMA'S "STIMULUS" PACKAGE IS NOT JUST AN ECONOMIC SHAM, BUT A POLITICAL SCAM:

Only ten per cent of the "stimulus" to be spent on 2009.

Close to half goes to entities that sponsor or employ or both members of the Service Employees International Union, federal, state, and municipal employee unions, or other Democrat-controlled unions.

WITH ONLY 10% TARGETED FOR 2009, THE SO-CALLED "STIMULUS" PACKAGE CANNOT POSSIBLY HELP THE ECONOMY.

• SO WHY IS OBAMA PUSHING IT?

• SIMPLE: IT BENEIFITS OBAMA'S LEFTIST POLITICAL ALLIES - HIS MACHINE.

• FOLKS LIKE ACORN:
  

  House Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement over the weekend noting that the stimulus bill wending its way through Congress provides $4.19 billion for "neighborhood stabilization activities."

  He said the money was previously limited to state and local governments, but that Democrats now want part of it to be available to non-profit entities. That means groups like ACORN would be eligible for a portion of the funds.

OBAMA AND THESE LEFTIES ARE JOINED AT THE HIP:


OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES IN THE MACHINE ARE ALREADY GOING ON THE OFFENSE TO PROTECT THE "STIMULUS" PACKAGE - WHICH IS NOTHING MORE THAT A HUMONGOUS PAYOFF TO HIS MACHINE.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS ALREADY SHAPING UP AS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT EVER - IT'S FILLED WITH:

• BLATANT TAX CHEATS LIKE GEITHNER, DASCHLE,
• CLEVER LIARS LIKE HOLDER,
• INSIDIOUS OBSTRUCTORS OF JUSTUCE LIKE PANETTA,
• REZKO'S LAWYER - JARRETT,
• SCU*BAGS LIKE RAHM EMANUEL - WHO WAS ON THE FREDDIE MAC BOARD WHEN IT WAS TOTALLY MISMANAGED,
• AND INEPT LEFTIES LIKE ARNE DUNCAN - A CHICAGO CRONY WHO GOT ZERO RESULTS AS THAT CITY'S EDUCATION CZAR.
• AND REMEMBER: RICHARDSON - WHO IS SO EFFIN CORRUPT HE HAD TO WITHDRAW!

OBAMA IS TRYING TO TURN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND THE FEDERAL BUDGET INTO A CORRUPT LEFTIST RACKET.

IT'S A GANG RAPE OF THE TAXPAYER!

• WE STOPPED HILLAYCARE.
• WE STOPPED AMNESTY.
• WE CAN STOP OBAMA.

YES, WE CAN!

OBAMA'S PESSIMISTIC SOCIALISM IS HURTING THE ECONOMY

OBAMA'S RELENTLESS NEGATIVITY CONTINUES UNABATED; THE NYTIMES:

Others argue that the best bang for the buck would come from a stimulus package devoted mainly to tax cuts rather than public investment.

The breakdown in the $819 billion bill that the House approved on Wednesday and the Senate will take up next week is two-thirds spending, one-third tax cuts.

The president took a different approach in a press conference on Friday. Seizing on the damaging fourth-quarter figures and the prospect of an even weaker first quarter, he called the contraction “a continuing disaster” for working families and pushed Congress to act quickly to provide relief.

FURTHER DOWN IN THE SAME ARTICLE:

Business investment, commercial construction, home building and exports all fell steeply, most of them doing so for the first time since the recession began 13 months ago.

Data released this week suggested that the decline had continued.

As for consumer spending, in only one other quarter since records were first kept in 1947 have final sales of goods and services produced in America fallen so much.

“Consumer spending is often held up as the engine of growth, and we are now experiencing the second-largest contraction on record,” said Ben Herzon, an economist at Macroeconomic Advisers in St. Louis, referring to the 7.6 percent drop in spending in the midst of the 1974-75 recession, and 5.1 percent now.

*******UPDATE: REUTERS HAS ANOTHER GEM OF A NEGATIVE QUOTE FROM "AMERICA IS IN DECLINE" OBAMA:

"Americans know that our economic recovery will take years -- not months," he said.

THE PROBLEM HERE IS OBVIOUS - AND THE NYTIMES TACITLY ADMITS IT:

• OBAMA IS BEING OVERLY AND RELENTLESSLY NEGATIVE IN ORDER TO PUSH HIS MASSIVE SPENDING-ORIENTED "STIMULUS" PACKAGE - WHICH IS NOTHING MORE THAN A HUMONGOUS PORKAPALOOZA FOR DEMOCRAT FACTIONS.

• SKEPTICS WHO DOUBT THAT OBAMA WOULD DELIBERATELY TRASH-TALK THE ECONOMY IN ORDER TO ADVANCE A LEFTIST GOAL SHOULD REMEMBER THAT THIS HAS LONG BEEN A BASIC STRATEGY OF THE LEFT; IT'S CALLED THE CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY. (MORE ON THE STRATEGY OF THE MANUFACTURED CRISIS HERE.)

NO DOUBT: OBAMA'S PESSIMISM IS PREMEDITATED, A POLITICAL PLOY AND HE CARES NOT ONE WHIT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING HURT BY IT.





















CONTRAST HIM WITH FDR AND REAGAN - WHO SUCCESSFULLY LED THE NATION DURING MUCH MUCH WORSE ECONOMIC TIMES:

• FDR'S MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON IN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE DEPRESSION WASN'T THE "NEW DEAL" IT WAS HIS INFECTIOUS OPTIMISM; FDR FAMOUSLY SAID, "WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF".

• REAGAN TOO WAS AN OPTIMISTIC LEADER WHO TOLD US IT WAS MORNING IN AMERICA, AND OUR BEST DAYS WERE STILL AHEAD OF US - IF WE GOT GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY! HE GOT IT OUT OF THE WAY AND WE DID FABULOUSLY WELL AS A RESULT!
  

• OBAMA TELLS US THINGS ARE GOING TO GET WORSE - UNLESS WE PASS HIS PORKAPLOOZA.

THIS ISN'T LEADERSHIP; IT'S DEMAGOGUERY.

AND IT SUCKS, BIGTIME.

OBAMA MAKING GOOD ON PROMISE TO WEAKEN OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE

HERE'S THE CAMPAIGN VIDEO (WHICH THE MSM "IGNORED") IN WHICH OBAMA TELLS HIS LEFTIE COMRADES WHAT HIS REAL NATIONAL SECURITY PLANS ARE:



WE TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD; HERE'S WHAT WE POSTED ON 11/4/O8:

WHAT OBAMA WILL DO FIRST IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS

1. RAISE TAXES ON CAPITAL GAINS.
2. ALLOW GAYS OPENLY THE MILITARY.
3. RAISE TAXES ON EVERYONE MAKING MORE THAN $100K.
4. CLOSE GITMO.
5. RAISE TAXES ON CO2/CARBON.
6. RETREAT FROM IRAQ.
7. RAISE TAXES ON OIL COMPANIES.
8. CLOSE THE OCS TO OIL EXPLORATION.
9. RAISE TAXES ON PHARMACEUTICALS.
10. SIGN KYOTO.
11. RAISE TAXES BUSINESSES.
12. SIDE WITH THE ARABS IN THE UNSC.
13. RAISE TAXES.
14. REDUCE DEFENSE SPENDING.
15. RAISE TAXES.
16. CANCEL MISSILE DEFENSE.
17. RAISE TAXES.
18. BAN "ASSAULT" GUNS.
19. RAISE TAXES.
20. BAN SECRET BALLOTS FOR UNIONS.
21. RAISE TAXES.
22. BRING BACK PROTECTIONISM.
23. RAISE TAXES.
24. BRING BACK THE "FAIRNESS DOCTRINE".
25. RAISE TAXES.
26. INVITE CHAVEZ AND AHMADINEJAD AND ASSAD TO CAMP DAVID FOR A RETREAT WITH WRIGHT AND FARRAKHAN...
    

OKAY: THE LAST ONE IS A JOKE, BUT YOU GET THE IDEA...

THESE LEFTIST POLICIES WILL MAKE US WEAKER AND POORER AND LESS SECURE - AND OBAMA WILL BLAME BUSH AND DIG US IN EVEN DEEPER.

WE'D BETTER BRACE OURSELVES...

AND FIGHT ACCORDINGLY.

HERE'S WHAT OBAMA IS DOING: CUTTING DEFENSE SPENDING 11%!

• CUTTING DEFENSE SPENDING IS NOT ONLY BAD FOR OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE, AND BAD FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE FREE WORLD - IT'S BAD FOR THE ECONOMY.

• THIS SHOWS WHAT OBAMA'S REAL PRIORITY REALLY IS: WEAKENING AMERICA.

• IF HE WAS REALLY CHANGING HIS BUDGET POLICIES TO REFLECT OUR TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES, THEN HE WOULD DELAY THE DEFENSE CUTS.

LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: EVERYTHING IN THE BUDGET IS GETTING A 35% RAISE - EXCEPT DEFENSE, WHICH IS BEING CUT --- WHILE WE'RE AT WAR!

OBAMA ISN'T INSANE; HE'S A DOVE AND AN APPEASER - AND HE ISN'T FIT TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

PAPER OR PLASTIC?

Ever since plastic bags became available as the means to tote our groceries home, I've heard that we need to switch back to paper bags. Indeed, in 2007 San Francisco banned the use of plastic bags by chain stores for the carrying home of retail purchases (albeit with this controversy, as explained in a January 7, 2009 article debunking that particular bit of feel-good legislation in the San Francisco Weekly), and Whole Foods recently converted to using paper bags or reusable bags only.

But do such changes really save the environment?

Marc Fisher of the Washington Post recently made the following excellent points about the paper-or-plastic wars....

Read the rest at Always On Watch.

AS THE DNC GOES WITH PORK, THE RNC GOES WITH STEELE!

BRAVO!

SUPPORT THE IDF

THATCHER: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

Stolen from Sondra who stole it from Joshua.

BRITISH BOOKIES SLASHING ODDS THAT THIS WILL BE THE COLDEST WINTER EVER!

THE BOOKIES THINK MORE AND MORE THAT THIS WINTER MIGHT BE THE COLDEST EVER:

Coldest Year On Record? White Valentine's Day?

With another extended cold snap forecast in the next few days, bookies William Hill have slashed the price of 2009 being the coldest on record in the UK from 12/1 to 8/1.

THE BOOKIES MAY BE THE BEST INDICATOR YET: HAVE THEIR MONEY RIDING ON THE ANSWER!

WHY MIGHT THEY BE LOWERING THE ODDS? HERE:

Brrr-itain braced for weekend chill:

Snow will hit the UK over the weekend during the coldest winter for 13 years, forecasters are predicting.

IT'S ALREADY THE COLDEST IN A DECADE IN SCOTLAND:

More snow to come in the coldest winter for a decade

THIS winter has been the coldest for more than a decade and forecasters warn more snow is on the way.

The east coast will see the return of wintry showers and ice-cold winds coming in from Russia. They are predicted to hit tomorrow night and Monday morning, with the cold weather set to last well into next week. So far, the UK winter has been the coldest since 1996-97.

AND IT'S THE COLDEST WINTER IN A DOZEN YEARS IN HOLLAND: Coldest January in 12 years continues trend

With an average temperature of 0.7 degrees Celsius, January has been the coldest month in the Netherlands for 12 years. The national weather centre (KNMI) says the usual average is at least two degrees higher. The icy January continues this winter's trend: December was also the coldest since 1997.

The south of the country has largely been experiencing the coldest weather and this has brought down the average for the country overall. On 6 January, a weather station near the town of Weert, close to the Belgian border in the southeast, recorded a temperature of minus 20.8 degrees Celsius.

• ALL THIS RECORD COLD, DESPITE THE FACT THAT CO2 AND MAN-MADE "GREENHOUSE" GASES KEEP GOING UP!?!?
• AND WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING WINTRY WEATHER,
• BUT COLDEST WINTRY WEATHER IN A LONG LONG TIME.
• YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?
• IT MEANS THAT AGW = BS.
• AND IT MEANS THAT ALL THE EFFORTS BEING MADE TO CREATE A "GREEN" ECONOMY
• ARE A TOTAL F**KING WASTE.

GERMAN JEWS FEEL SLIGHTED BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT

David Bedein finds that in Germany, Jews aren't happy with how a current government-sponsored Holocaust memorial is being handled:

Jerusalem — Staging an unprecedented protest, the German Jewish Community Council decided to boycott the official German government state ceremony marking international Holocaust Memorial Day. The event, held on Tuesday at the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, in Berlin.

German President Horst Koehler, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and all of the members of the German cabinet and parliament attended.

The boycott was called because the Speaker of the Bundestag, the host of the memorial service, has refrained from acknowledging the presence of the leaders of the Jewish community in Germany in the chamber, even though they are all Holocaust survivors, including the current chairwoman of the German Jewish Council, Charlotte Knobloch.

“It is inconceivable that Holocaust survivors should be seated in the honorary balcony and be treated there like the audience at the theater, as if the ceremony had nothing to do with them,” said Stephan Kramer, the secretary general of the German Jewish Community Council, to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot.

That treatment attests to the nature of the accepted culture of remembering the Holocaust in Germany. It is not done out of deep intention and understanding but, rather, automatically,” said Mr. Kramer.

“The community leaders find themselves standing like extras at the event, marginal figures,” said Dieter Grauman, the vice president. “We want more respect.”

The Jewish community’s protest follows a growing sense that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany, especially with regard to commemorating the Holocaust.

The Israeli incursion into Gaza was accompanied by a number of anti-Semitic incidents, which failed to elicit any response from German authorities.

Furthermore, German public television, ARD, broadcast last week a debate about the situation in the Middle East rife with explicit anti-Semitism.

A year ago, I read that some Israelis have been trying to get citizenship in Germany so in order to enjoy benefits there, and I don't think I need to tell just how stupid that sounds to me. What's the use? And as for the failure of German authorities to deal properly with a lot of the anti-semitic protests that were conducted there, I think that's one more reason why not to have anything to do with a country that's sadly moving back to its old ways.

Can I suggest that a good way to answer to Germany's hypocrisy is to boycott their products and exports? Like, say, their car and truck manufacturers (Mercedes, Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche, Audi, Opel, and M.A.N), most of which, IMO, are junk.

JEWISH-AMERICANS CONSIDER COMING HERE

David Bedein reports that many North American Jews are considering immigrating to Israel now. It stems from the economic crisis and difficulty of finding a job because of that.

I don't know if they heard about the news of the natural gas reserves discovered by the Haifa coast, but that I'd think is good reason to come here, where they could find decent living thanks to that.

WITH HIS TRILLION DOLLAR PORKAPALOOZA, OBAMA HAS SCREWED HIMSELF - BIGTIME

Obama has screwed himself BIGTIME.

Here's how:

The "stimulus" package is loaded with useless crap which won't help the economy - and people know it.

Much of it won't even be spent until 2010!

But even worse stuff is gonna come out about this porkapalooza; Ben Stein:

I love this. The new kind of politics of hope. Eight hours of debate in the HR to pass a bill spending $820 billion, or roughly $102 billion per hour of debate.

Only ten per cent of the "stimulus" to be spent on 2009.

Close to half goes to entities that sponsor or employ or both members of the Service Employees International Union, federal, state, and municipal employee unions, or other Democrat-controlled unions.

This bill is sent to Congress after Obama has been in office for seven days.

It is 680 pages long.

According to my calculations, not one member of Congress read the entire bill before this vote.

Obviously, it would have been impossible, given his schedule, for President Obama to have read the entire bill.

For the amount spent we could have given every unemployed person in the United States roughly $75,000.

We could give every person who had lost a job and is now passing through long-term unemployment of six months or longer roughly $300,000.

If the economy starts to recover before 2010 - which in all likelihood will happen - then Obama CANNOT take or get credit for the recovery.

And as the crony payoffs embodied in the bill become more widely known - as they inevitably will be, it will expose Obama for what he truly is: A CORRUPT CREATURE OF THE MACHINE.

The GOP will reap HUGE rewards for having NOT voted for the porkapalooza, and will in all likelihood retake the House and Senate on 2010.

All because of Obama.

The only thing which can save Obama is if he VETOES the stimulus package and says he's doing so because there's too much pork in it.

The odds of that are less than the odds Obama will covert to Judaism.

UPDATE: Lowry agrees:

There's usually a reaction to every action in American politics, and while the Democrats and Obama have basically a free hand to expand government in the current environment, you can already feel the backlash building.

UPDATE #2: MORE CRITICISM OF THE BILL HERE.

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN IS JUST LIKE A LEFTIST

Some very appalling revelations have come up about Avigdor Lieberman, the head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party:

(IsraelNN.com) In a new book, former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk has dropped a potential political bombshell, revealing that Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beitenu party, once held secret talks on territorial concessions to the Palestinian Authority (PA) with one of Yasser Arafat's key advisers.

In addition, Indyk asserts that Lieberman told his PA interlocutor, Muhammad Rachid, that he was prepared to accept the wide-ranging concessions which then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak had offered to Arafat at the 2000 Camp David Summit.

[...]

Indyk's revelations could prove damaging to Lieberman, whose party is soaring in the polls in advance of Israel's February 10 elections, thanks in large part to his nationalist image among the public.

Irene Etinger, Avigdor Lieberman's spokeswoman, commented on Indyk's claim, "The facts quoted in the book are not true."

Political observers suggest that Lieberman and his party are now likely to come under increased scrutiny in the wake of Indyk's book, particularly in light of Lieberman's past statements on the issue of Jerusalem.

As Israel National News reported previously, in October 2007 Lieberman came under fire for suggesting at a cabinet meeting that Israel should divide Jerusalem and transfer various neighborhoods within the city to PA control.

It doesn't do much good to deny what Indyk is telling in his new book if Lieberman really did say those things back at the time. The Jerusalem Post also spoke about Lieberman's peculiar standings at the time. If transferring sovereignty to the PLO were in any ways to lead to terrorists gaining footholds for carrying out their operations, to say nothing of safe haven from Israeli authorities, that's exactly why it's dangerous to do what Lieberman's supporting.

Now I see why I would rather vote for the Likud today, and would strongly advise others to do the same.

Speaking of which, over at the Biur Chametz blog, the blogmaster is appalled at Lieberman for simultaneously fanning the flames of hate against the Arabs. Hmm. I think I can expand a little further on that: aside from the strange double-standard Lieberman's maintaining, where he's blowing it is if he doesn't make any clear distinctions between Arabs and Muslims, and if he's not willing to offer a helping hand to Christians who could be persecuted by the Islamofascists.

If that's the case, then Lieberman is guilty not only of bizarre double-standards, he's also guilty of lacking any sense of selflessness. And I think the lesson to be learned from how Sderot and Ashkelon have fallen victim to rocket attacks can and does apply strongly to Jerusalem as well.

So Lieberman is simply not a recommended candidate, for the very fact that he does weird moral equations and double-standards and fails to show he can be selfless and help innocents in need.

Update: Benjamin Netanyahu also spoke about Lieberman's double-standard at his speech the other day.

EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: GAZA WAR WAS FAULT OF IRAN

REUTERS: Egypt blames Iran and its allies for Gaza conflict

CAIRO: Egypt aired its grievances against Iran, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, saying they worked together in the fighting over Gaza to provoke conflict in the Middle East.

“(They tried) to turn the region to confrontation in the interest of Iran, which is trying to use its cards to escape Western pressure ... on the nuclear file,” Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in an interview with Orbit satellite channel broadcast yesterday.

• THE ARAB LEADERSHIP KNOWS THAT THE BAD GUY IS NOT ISRAEL, BUT IRAN.
• IT USED TO BE THAT HATRED OF ISRAEL UNTIED THEM, BUT MORE AND MORE IT'S FEAR OF IRAN.
• SECRETLY, I BETCHYA, THEY ALL WANT ISRAEL TO TAKE CARE OF IRAN.

RIGHT NOW, THERE;S ONLY ONE THING STOPPING THEM: OBAMA.

OBAMA'S PORKAPALOOZA MAKES HIM A TRILLION DOLLAR MAN

Now we know what those circles really stood for - (you know, the ones which were always photographed around Obama's head?); they weren't HALOS; THEY WERE ZEROS!

THE BIGGEST POLITICAL PORKBARREL BILL
OF UNNECESSARY BOONDOGGLES
WHICH HAS EVER PASSED THE HOUSE!

AND THAT'S SAYING A LOT!

PROFILE IN COURAGE: HOUSE GOP GAVE OBAMA'S PORKAPALOOZA ZERO VOTES! THANK YOU HOUSE GOP!

BRAVO!

LIKE MINDS THINK ALIKE

Reliapundit beat me to the punch when he drew attention to the inherent contradiction among jew-hating holocaust deniers who also accuse the IDF of behaving like Nazi's during the recent military actions in Gaza. This faulty thinking is also pervasive in the leftwing press and not limited to the extreme achmedijadic-fringe. Politiken, which published the horrendous cartoon above, would certainly claim they are not Holocaust deniers. The fact that they could make the analogy inherent in this cartoon is proof that they are ignorant of the scope of the Holocaust.

This kind of "thinking" is pervasive and in no way limited to the Mideast. Take for example the thousands who blame 1 person, President George Walker Bush, for almost all the ills we now face. Is it any suprise these very same people also believe 1 person, President Barack Hussein Obama will be their saviour???

MOVIE IDEA: "CON AIR 2 - GITMO"

WHILE BEING TRANSPORTED FROM GITMO TO ALCATRAZ,
A GROUP OF HARDENED JIHADOTERRORISTS ATTEMPT A DARING ESCAPE..

BY OFFFERING OPTIMISTIC CONSERVATISM AND CUTTING TAXES, REAGAN SAVED US DURING MUCH WORSE TIMES

THOUGH THE MISERY INDEX WAS THREE TIMES GREATER THEN THAN NOW, REAGAN NEVER TRASH-TALKED THE US ECONOMY.

REAGAN NEVER LOST FAITH IN AMERICA OR THE FREE MARKET.

BY REMAINING TRUE TO OUR FIRST PRINCIPLES,
BY STRENGTHENING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY,
AND BY CUTTING TAXES,
REAGAN HELPED AMERICA RENEW ITSELF.


TO GET OUT OF OUR CURRENT RECESSION,
WE NEED MORE REAGANOMICS AND LESS OBAMANOMICS.

"Emergency" and "Crisis" Losing their Meaning

If the Democrats have their way, expect every single bill to appear on the Hill for next four years to be either an "emergency" or else a solution to a "crisis":

Is the new Obama administration taking cues from the Bush administration to get Congress to act? It certainly seemed that way to, South Carolina’s junior Republican senator, Jim DeMint.

DeMint, speaking Jan. 27 at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., explained the Obama administration will “create crisis and widespread panic” just like its predecessor in order to get Congress to act expeditiously.

“I’ve been around long enough to know whenever someone tells me I have to make a decision right now, my response is no,” DeMint said. “That clears it up right away and I think more and more the Bush administration and now this administration knows that they’re not going to get a quick reaction out of Congress unless they create crisis and widespread panic. And that’s going to be their M.O. to get Congress to act.”

He has a point; we've already had over two years of "emergency stimulus" packages with very little apparent effect, and there seems to be no end in sight. It's pretty clear that the only thing that current "stimulus" package being debated is likely to stimulate is the sense that we are in a "crisis". Of course, eventually--if someone doesn't stop the madness--it will become a self-fulfulling prophecy; we will be in a genuine existential crisis...

A perfect example of this genre is the haste which the Left is telling us we must act in order to solve the so-called "threat to our Planet" from man-made Global Warning (Hoax of the century? Yes.)--which of course will require hundreds of billions of YOUR dollars to address the problem "before it's too late" and we all melt... (personally I could use an extra coat right now...).

And the beat goes on.

After enough doom and gloom; after much more of this we-are-in-a-crisis-and-the-sky-will-fall-if-we-don't-act-now meme--as any child who has read The Boy Who Cried Wolf understands--then if and when our country encounters a genuine National crisis (i.e. a REAL emergency), the public will be largely apathetic to the appeal for action now "or else". The result could be a too-slow reaction with Katrina-like consequences. But it won't be the people's fault; it will be the fault of our so-called "leaders". We will have been numbed into complacency by non-stop "emergency" responses that have had little effect other than to deepen our economic woes, our sense of helplessness and our strenghtening conviction that our Government is not only inefficient and inept; it has been lying to us for a long, long time.

That seems like a long and difficult road to the truth.

PIGS FLY: SOME TRUTH ABOUT THE NEW DEAL'S MEDIOCRITY, FDR AND OBAMA - FROM THE NYTIMES!

NYTIMES:

... throughout the 1930s, economic recovery remained frustratingly elusive and arrived only with the buildup for World War II in the 1940s.

... “Roosevelt had some successes, but we hope that Obama is going to do better,” said Kenneth S. Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard. “Otherwise, we’re in trouble.”

Roosevelt’s New Deal is often portrayed as an embrace of Keynesian economics, which advocates increased government spending to combat economic downturns and generate jobs.

Yet despite New Deal programs and some aid to the states, total government spending — federal, state and local — as a share of the economy throughout the 1930s remained at just under 20 percent. (Today, total government spending is more than 35 percent, a larger buffer against weakness in the private sector.)

During the 1930s, the unemployment rate fell somewhat under Roosevelt, but remained stubbornly high, averaging more than 17 percent for the decade.

IOW: THE NEW DEAL WAS NO PANACEA.

MORE TRUTH FROM THE SAME ARTICLE:

“Roosevelt was a genius at using those fireside chats to calm the national mood and restore confidence,” said John Steele Gordon, an author and business historian. “Never underestimate the power of psychology in the economy. We’re seeing that now.”

SO WHY IS OBAMA TRASH-TALKING THE ECONOMY INSTEAD OF TELLING US TO CHILL!?

BECAUSE HE NEEDS THE PUBLIC TO REMAIN IN A STATE OF PANIC IN ORDER TO PASS HIS TRILLION DOLLAR STIMULUS PACKAGE - A PSEUDO-STIMULUS PACKAGE WHICH WILL REALLY ONLY STIMULATE DEMOCRAT PARTY CONTRIBUTORS AND FACTIONS.

• WE MUST STOP THE STIMULUS.

• CAN WE?

• YES, WE CAN!

HOLY POLAR BEAR BATMAN: ONE OF THE COLDEST JANUARY'S IN WESTERN NY IN 139 YEARS! ONE OF THE COLDEST EVER IN WAUSAU, WI!

BUFFALO NEWS: This January is 18th coldest in 139 years in Western New York

Are you starting to feel that this is an historically cold January?

Well, you're right, and now the National Weather Service has the numbers to prove it. So far, with five days to go, this has been the 18th coldest January in the last 139 years.

For the record, the average daily January temperature, through Sunday, was 18.7 degrees.

And there’s nothing in this week’s forecast to change that finger-numbing pattern in the next few days. The National Weather Service is calling for overnight lows in the teens and daytime highs in the 20s through the rest of the week.

And here’s more good news: Forecasters are now predicting that the region could see an additional 6 inches of snow overnight tonight. It’s all making for a memorably miserable month.

“We don’t see a big January thaw coming,” meteorologist Tom Niziol said. “Based on the forecast for the rest of the week, this almost guarantees that we’ll be in the top 20 for the coldest January.”

Niziol, working with National Weather Service statistical guru Dave Sage, used each day’s average daily temperature — the average of the day’s high and low temperatures — and then took the monthly average of those daily numbers.

The coldest January on record? The blizzard year, 1977, when the average daily January temperature was a frigid 13.8 degrees. The warmest was 1932, when the average January temperature was 37.2 degrees.

SAME THING IS TRUE IN THE MID-WEST: Wausau Daily Herald:

Average temperature this month in Wausau is 6.2 degrees

It doesn’t take a weather expert to tell Wausau residents that it has been cold lately, but January’s average temperature will make it one of the coldest on record.

The average temperature in Wausau this month is 6.2 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Green Bay. Based on the current forecast, January 2009 will be one of the top 15 coldest Januarys in the record books and the coldest January since 1994.

The normal average temperature for January in Wausau is 12.7 degrees.

The coldest January on record was in 1912 with an average temperature of 3.4 degrees below zero.

SINCE CO2 LEVELS ARE GOING UP-UP-UP BUT TEMPERATURE ARE NOT THEY CANNOT CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING.

• IOW: AGW = BS.
• PLEASE - EVERYONE - TELL AL GORE TO STFU.
• AND TELL OBAMAPELOSIREID NOT TO PASS ANY "GREEN TAXES" OR TO SHACKLE TO TROUBLED CAR INDISTRY WITH ANY MORE "GREEN" REGS.
  

AGW = THE BIGGEST HOAX SINCE MARXISM.

I NOMINATE VDH OR SOWELL TO REPLACE KRISTOL

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON SHOULD REPLACE KRISTOL.

OR THOMAS SOWELL.

• BUT PINCH AND KELLER AND CARLOS SLIM HAVE NO BALLS SO IT PROBABLY WON'T HAPPEN.

• THEY'D BE MORE LIKELY TO PICK A PSEUDO-GOP PALEO-CREEP AND ISOLOATIONIST/ANTIZIONIST LIKE PAT BUCHANAN! OR A WOBBLY ONE THEY CAN TURN INTO ANOTHER BROOKS - LIKE GERSON OR FRUM.
  

Listen to this: Levin dismantles the stimulus package

Listen now.

At least to the first 15 minutes.

NOW!

IRANIAN SCHIZOPHRENIA: SIMULTANEOULSY DENY HOLOCAUST AND CALL ISRAELIS AND JEWS THE NAZIS

FIRST THERE THIS: BREITBART:

Iran's government spokesman on Tuesday branded the Holocaust a "big lie" created to place the Islamic republic's arch-foe Israel in the Middle East, the state IRNA news agency reported.

"The Holocaust is a concept coming from a big lie in order to settle a rootless regime in the heart of the Islamic world," Gholam Hossein Elham told a conference on Gaza in central Iran's religious city of Qom.

It was not the first time an Iranian official has questioned the massacre of Jews by Nazis in World War II.

SO... ACCORDING TO THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT, THE HOLOCAUST NEVER HAPPENED.

BUT THEN THERE'S THIS KIND OF STUFF ALL OVER THE PLACE; LOOK AT THE JPEGS ABOVE AND TO THE RIGHT - THEY ALL ATTEMPT TO PORTRAY JEWS AND ISRAELIS AS EVIL NAZIS.

• WELL, ER UM... EITHER THE JEWS WERE REALLY VICTIMS OF NAZIS, OR THE NAZIS WERE REALLY NOT SO VERY EVIL. SO, IF YOU BELIEVE THE NAZIS SOMEHOW SIGNIFY ARCH-EVIL, THEN YOU'D BETTER NOT DENY THE HOLOCAUST.
  

• ONLY IRRATIONAL, NAY SCHIZOPHRENIC ISLAMO-THUGS, (AND THEIR DUPES), COULD BELIEVE THAT "THE REAL NAZIS WERE BENIGN" AND THAT "THE JEWS ARE BEHAVING AS EVIL AS THE NAZIS" SIMULTANEOUSLY.
  

PERHAPS AFTER AN "UNCONDITIONAL CHAT" WITH OBAMA THE IRANIANS WILL SEE THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS.

YEAH. SURE.

AND ER UM... YEAH: THOSE WHO ADVOCATE TALKING WITH IRANIANS ARE "REALISTS".

YEAH. SURE.

THEY'RE IDIOTS.

COLOR OF THE YEAR: MELLOW YELLOW

The designers don't call the color "mellow yellow," of course. Rather, it is termed "mimosa."

From this January 22, 2009 article in the Washington Post:

In Times So Mellow, A Burst Of Yellow: Institute Serves Up 'Mimosa' as Its Color of the Year

The people vote for change, and color company Pantone delivers.

By choosing Mimosa, a champagne-and-orange-juice shade of yellow as the 2009 color of the year, Pantone promises hope, joy, optimism -- sentiments to match the new U.S. president's oft-spoken words.

"Yellow is the color of change, of hopefulness, of warmth and of good cheer," says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. Pantone provides color standards widely used in most design industries, and the Color Institute is its research group.

Each year the institute selects a color based on a general sense of the world's mood....

Read the rest at Always On Watch.

YOU TUBE SAYS, "THIS VIDEO MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR MINORS." OH, REALLY?

Self defense and killing terrorists are objectionable? Well, as far as the left and the dhimmis are concerned, yes.

Blue Dog Democrats: It's either your constituents or Pelosi. You make the call.

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So you Blue Dog Democrats got elected to the House of Representatives by claiming to be conservatives. Fine. Now it's time to prove it.

Will you serve your constituents -- or Nancy Pelosi?

Pelosi wants to spend $355 billion that is nothing but useless pork, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

Pelosi wants a bailout for her horrifically mismanaged state -- California -- and other primarily Democratic-governed states.

Readers, I encourage you to email this post or use the blog widget, below, to spread the word. Call them, email them, fax them. Be polite, but firm. It's time for the Blue Dogs to pick sides.

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