LITVINENKO'S MURDERER TO RUN FOR MAYOR OF CITY HOSTING 2014 RUSSIAN OLYMPICS

BBC:

Lugovoi poised to run for mayor

If Mr Lugovoi wins he would be mayor right up to the 2014 Winter Olympics

Andrei Lugovoi, the prime suspect in the murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, is set to run for mayor of the southern Russian city of Sochi.

The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is backing Mr Lugovoi as its candidate, although it has not yet registered him.

British police want to question Mr Lugovoi, who is already an MP, about Mr Litvinenko's death by radioactive poisoning in London in November 2006.

Moscow has said Russia's constitution bars any extradition.

It has asserted that Mr Lugovoi was framed by the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as MI6. [SO DOES AJ STRATA, THE JERK]

But senior British officials told the BBC in July that they believed the murder was carried out with the backing of the Russian state.

Mr Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, fell ill shortly after a meeting at a central London hotel with Mr Lugovoi. He was later found to have been poisoned with the radioactive substance, polonium-210.

... The election will be held next month and if Mr Lugovoi wins he would be mayor right up to the opening of the Winter Olympics in 2014.

Mr Lugovoi said he viewed the initiative with curiosity and interest. When asked if he would visit London if he became mayor of Sochi to learn about preparing for the Olympics, he said if necessary he would.

Mr Litvinenko's widow, Marina, said the election of Mr Lugovoi would be "an affront to all people of good will".

"In that case I would call for a boycott of the games. I would personally go from country to country urging people not to go to an event hosted by a murderer," she said in a statement.

Putin and Lugovoi should be arrested for murder, tried, convicted and executed.

"ILLUSTRIOUS" APPEASERS AND ISRAEL-BASHERS CLEARING THE WAY FOR OBAMA TO TALK TO HAMAS

HAARETZ: Report: U.S. officials urge Obama to engage Hamas

A group of former senior American officials and one current adviser are calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to talk with Hamas in an effort to disarm the group and persuade it to join a peaceful Palestinian government, according to a report published Saturday on the Boston Globe.

According to the Boston Globe, the bipartisan group includes economic recovery adviser Paul A. Volcker and former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who are said to have made their recommendation in a letter handed to Obama before he took office.

"I see no reason not to talk to Hamas," Scowcroft, who was national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, told the Boston Globe.

Talking to Hamas would signal a shift in U.S. policy, which has up until now designated Hamas as a terrorist organization and insisted that the group renounce violence, recognize Israel and agree to all previous peace agreements signed by Palestinian negotiators.

The contents of the letter have not been made public, but Scowcroft and Henry Siegman, who brought the officials together, told the Boston Globe that it urged Obama to formulate a clear stance on how peace talks should proceed and state specific gaols to be attained.

"The main gist is that you need to push hard on the Palestinian peace process," Scowcroft told the Boston Globe. "Don't move it to end of your agenda and say you have too much to do. And the U.S. needs to have a position, not just hold their coats while they sit down."

Along with Scowcroft, Volcker, and Brzezinski, signatories included former House International Relations Committee chairman Lee Hamilton; former United Nations ambassador Thomas Pickering; former World Bank president James Wolfensohn; former U.S. trade representative Carla Hills; Theodore Sorensen, former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy; and former Republican senators Chuck Hagel and Nancy Kassebaum Baker.

I THINK OBAMA WILL DO THIS - AND LEAKING THIS LETTER WITH THE NAMES ON IT IS A WAY TO INOCULATE OBAMA FROM THE FALLOUT.

THE MAN WHO BABYSAT FOR HIS TWO GIRLS WAS A MEMBER OF PLO.

IF YOU CAN TRUST AN ANTISEMITIC TERRORIST WITH YOUR LITTLE GIRLS, THEN YO8U CAN CHAT WITH HAMAS - AFTER ALL: YOU HAVE A LOT IN COMMON WITH THEM.

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged climbs up charts during recession

Counter-intuitive? No, I don't think so. People see what their governments are doing, and they want no part of it.

This is the beginning of the Great Rearmament of the Western Human.

It's time to depose our bloated, spoiled, childish governments, and start over.

From the Telegraph:

Atlas Shrugged, the literary classic which promotes individual enterprise above all else during tough economic times, has catapulted up the charts since the recession.

By Mark Coleman in Los Angeles
Last Updated: 8:18AM GMT 10 Mar 2009

Russian-born American author and philosopher Ayn Rand Photo: HULTON

Sales of the 1957 philosophy novel, written by the late Ayn Rand, enjoyed a major resurgence over an 18-month period that coincided with pivotal economic moments.

Such is the modern-day fascination, according to The Economist, that the book's sales rank on Amazon climbed more than 500 places in the book charts over a two-year period, eclipsing such rival tomes as Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope.

The report said : "The first jump, in September 2007, followed dramatic interest-rate cuts by central banks, and the Bank of England's bail-out of Northern Rock.

"The October 2007 rise happened two days after the Bush Administration announced an initiative to coax banks to assist subprime borrowers.

"A year later, sales of the book rose after America's Treasury said that it would use a big chunk of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Programme to buy stakes in nine large banks."

The publication said that Mr Obama's stimulus plan gave the book another sales boost in January.

Ayn Rand, who died in 1982, is credited by many of her supporters with pioneering individual enterprise.

Known for her loathing of big government, she championed selfishness as a positive means of doing business, earning as many critics as she did advocates.

However her book, which sold six million copies, forecast what has been termed "economic Armageddon" - where industrialists and artists would abandon the workplace and go on strike.

HIZBALLAH REAFFIRMS ITS DESIRE TO DESTROY ISRAEL

NASRALLAH MAKES IT VERY CLEAR:

The leader of Lebanon's Islamist Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, has said his group will never recognise Israel's right to exist.

He was responding to a US suggestion that both Hezbollah and the Palestinian faction Hamas should recognise Israel before expecting any US engagement.

"We reject the American conditions," he said. "As long as Hezbollah exists, it will never recognise Israel."

Israel and Hezbollah's armed wing fought a bloody conflict in 2006.

Mr Nasrallah made the statement rejecting the US conditions for talks said in a speech marking the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.

'Positive developments'

Hezbollah leads a bloc in Lebanon's parliament that has veto power over major decisions in the unity government.

The coalition was formed last year after a political crisis that brought the country to the brink of civil war.

Last week, the UK said it would establish low-level contacts with the group, citing "positive political developments".

THE FACT THAT THE SOCIALISTS IN POWER IN GREAT BRITAIN ("NEW" LABOUR) ARE SOFTENING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIZBALLAH - AS THEY HARDEN IT AGAINST GEERT WILDERS AND THOSE FIGHTING ISLAMIZATION - TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LEFT.

IN THE MINDS OF LEFTISTS LIKE BROWN AND MILIBAND, GEERT WILDERS - WHO MERELY QUOTES JIHADISTS SPEWING THEIR HATE-FILLED IDEOLOGY - IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN JIHADISTS LIKE THOSE FROM HIZBALLAH WHO ADVOCATE THE ANNIHILATION OF ISRAELIS AND JEWS.

AS LONG AS LEFTISTS ARE IN POWER, GLOBAL JIHAD HAS AN ALLY WITHIN THE GATES OF CIVILIZATION.

WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DEFEAT THE JIHADISTS UNTIL WE DEFEAT THE LEFTISTS.

A BIT OF SATIRE (VIDEO)

The original four managed to curb themselves better than I would have.

THE DUNDEE DEFENSE

THIS IS A VIDEO WHICH DEPICTS THE SOUNDEST DEFENSE POSTURE:

NOT JUST TALK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK - BUT CARRY THE BIGGEST KNIFE!



OBAMA WILL TRY TO MAKE OUR STICKS AND KNIVES SMALLER:



MORE HERE; EXCERPT:

While the administration is certainly funding short-term military needs, it appears willing to sacrifice long-term U.S. military superiority.

THE RESULTS WILL BE DISASTROUS OF HE SUCCEEDS.

THEY ALWAYS ARE.

*******UPDATE:

WHEN CONFRONTED WITH CONSERVATIVES AND REPUBLICANS, OBAMA IS FOND OF SAYING, "IF THEY BRING A KNIFE, THEN WE BRING A GUN."

OBAMA LIKES TO FIGHT TOUGH AGAINST US.

BUT OBAMA DOESN'T LIKE TO FIGHT WITH JIHADISTS LIKE AHMADINEJAD OR WITH TYRANTS LIKE PUTIN; HE THINKS THEY DESERVE APPEASEMENT AND ACCOMMODATION.

YOU REALLY GET TO KNOW A MAN BY FINDING OUT WHO HE THINKS HIS REAL ENEMIES ARE.

MUSIC FROM DAVID'S LYRE

210 TIMES MORE BRAINLESS ADULTS IN AMERICA THAN HOMELESS CHILDREN

THE LEFT SAID THERE WERE 1.5 MILLION HOMELESS CHILDREN IN AMERICA.

BUT THERE ARE REALLY ONLY 330,000.

• THE LEFT LIED. AS THEY ALWAYS DO.
• THERE ARE 210 TIMES MORE BRAINLESS PEOPLE IN AMERICA: THAT'S 69,000,000.
• THE FOLKS WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA.
• THESE PEOPLE ARE A HUGE PROBLEM.
• THE SOLUTION: EDUCATION. THEY MUST BE DEPROGRAMMED.

APPARATCHIK JOHN STEWART AIMING FOR THOSE CRITICAL OF THE POTUS NOW

WHEN THE GOP HAD THE WHITE HOUSE,
STEWART WENT AFTER THE POTUS.

NOW THAT A LIB IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE,
STEWART IS GOING AFTER THE CRITICS OF THE POTUS.

THIS IS NOT WHAT AN OBJECTIVE MEDIA DOES.

AND ANYONE WHO CLAIMS TO "SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER" MUST SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER NO MATTER WHICH PARTY IS IN POWER - OR THEY SHOULD ADMIT THAT THEY'RE JUST APPARATCHIKS OF THE LEFT.

AS THE SCUMBAG STEWART IS.

IN HIS CASE AN APPARAT-SCHTICK.

WHOSE AUDIENCE HASN'T CHANGED A POLITICAL VIEWPOINT SINCE 1973.

AN AUDIENCE WHICH THINKS THAT CLINTON WAS TOO FAR RIGHT.

AND WHICH STILL BELIEVES IN ALL THE OTHER HAND-ME-DOWN LEFTIST BULLSHIT:

• AGW,
• AND GUN CONTROL,
• AND THAT IDEA THAT EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS WILL SAVE MANKIND FROM DISEASE.

IDIOTS.

WHO LOVE JOHN STEWART.

JOHN STEWART, WHO FLOPPED AT THE OSCARS - BIGTIME.

HIS BIGGEST MOMENT - AND ONE WHICH MADE HIM A BIG LOSER.

LIKE I CARE.


YAWN.




HE'S JUST ONE MORE BORING EXAMPLE OF THE LEFT-WING BIAS OF THE MEDIA.


AND OF LEFT-WING BORES WHO AREN'T REALLY FUNNY.


WHO JUST TAKE CHEAP SHOTS AT THE RIGHT, AND THEN MUG FOR THE CAMERA.




YAWN.

WAR PORN

Hat Tip: Jawa Report

THE TEFLON MAN, BHO, IS LOSING HIS COATING

From today's lead editorial in the Washington Post:

LIKE A DIETER who allows himself just one more slice of cake before starting to count calories, President Obama signed the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, then pledged to get tough on congressional earmark spending -- next time. "This piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business," Mr. Obama announced. As with the dieter, skepticism is appropriate. The old way was supposed to have ended already.

[...]

...[E]armarks are symbols of broader indiscipline, and they also are conducive to corruption. So it was disappointing that Mr. Obama shied away from a tougher stance even as he congratulated himself for doing more.

When cult followers start getting disappointed in their leader, look out. The pendulum will swing to the opposite side.

I can't wait for the left to start screeching. Heh.

ANOTHER CORRUPT DEMOCRAT LIBERAL CONGRESSPERSON EXPOSED: MAXINE WATERS

NYTIMES:

Top federal regulators say they were taken aback when they learned that a California congresswoman who helped set up a meeting with bankers last year had family financial ties to a bank whose chief executive asked them for up to $50 million in special bailout funds.

Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, requested the September meeting on behalf of executives at One- United, one of the nation’s largest black-owned banks.

Ms. Waters’s husband, Sidney Williams, had served on the bank’s board until early last year and has owned at least $250,000 of its stock.

Treasury officials said the session with nearly a dozen senior banking regulators was intended to allow minority-owned banks and their trade association to discuss the losses they had incurred from the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

But Kevin Cohee, OneUnited’s chief executive, instead seized the opportunity to plead for special assistance for his bank, federal officials said.

“Here you had a tiny community bank that comes in and they are not proposing a broader policy — they were asking for help for themselves,” said Stephen Lineberry, a former Treasury aide who attended the meeting. “I don’t remember that ever happening before.”

Ms. Waters declined on Tuesday to comment on the meeting, or to say whether her husband still owned shares of OneUnited.

THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME SHE'S BEEN IMPLICATED IN A SCANDAL:

LOS ANGELES - Rep. Maxine Waters family members earned more than $1 million in the last eight years doing business with candidates, companies and causes she helped, a newspaper reported Sunday. Waters' daughter and son pocketed fees from campaigns endorsed by the congresswoman while her husband worked for a bond underwriting firm that received government business from her political allies, the Los Angeles Times reported. Waters, an influential Democratic lawmaker since 1990, whose district includes parts of Los Angeles, would not answer detailed questions on the business dealings, insisting her family's fortunes were kept apart from her political activities.

. . . The Waters' close financial ties are not expressly prohibited by state laws or congressional ethics rules. The Times reported that Waters and her children are linked through a political organization called L.A. Vote that publishes an election mailer listing campaigns she endorsed. Some candidates are included free of charge, while others pay tens of thousands of dollars, it said.

. . . Of the $1.7 million that L.A. Vote collected in the last eight years, nearly $450,000 went to Waters' daughter, Karen Waters, and her consulting firm, public disclosure reports show. About $115,000 was paid to the congresswoman's son. Waters' husband, Sidney Williams, was paid nearly $500,000 for consulting work with Siebert, Brandford & Shank, a municipal bond company, and with politicians his wife supports, public records show. The Times reported that Williams helped the company win a $40 million school bond sale approved by school board members that paid Waters' mailer operation to advertise her endorsement.

AT THE VERY LEAST, SHE AND RANGEL AND MURTHA AND DODD AND REID AND PELOSI AND EMANUEL SHOULD BE CENSURED FOR THEIR CORRUPTION.

BREAKING/PREDICTION: THE RECESSION IS OVER

Citibank reported a profit.

Other backs will follow suit.

GM says it won't need March money, after all.

Retail last month wasn't great, but not as bad as was predicted.

THINGS HAVE BOTTOMED OUT. (Employment is a lagging indicator)

We are coming back.

NO THANKS TO POLITICIANS!

Remember: entrepreneurs made America great DESPITE politicians not because of them!

RUSH LIMBAUGH, FREE SPEECH, AND WHAT MADE AMERICA GREAT

The left is attacking Rush - and thereby not the GOP but free speech.

Rush is a self-made man. he's been in broadcasting for 30 years. Worked in many small markets before building a following in major markets and going national.

He as the largest audience of anyone on radio.

None of his listeners are forced to tune in. None are forced to agree.

He has made millions of dollars for himself, and helped create an industry where there was none. Saving AM radio - and creating thousands of jobs.

Not to mention entertain, and educate.

He's only about as controversial as MANY overly political college professors are, only the professors are usually spewing forth left-wing propaganda and so (because leftists dominate campuses and the media) go un-commented on.

For the last few decades, the left has systematically attacked the right's leading personalities: Reagan, Newt, Delay, Cheney, Rove, W - and so on. And the strategy has worked, mostly; except for Reagan, these people we marginalized if not demolished by relentless and coordinated attacks from the Democrats and the MSM. These personal attacks have done a lot to weaken the Right.

And now they're attacking Rush.

It's disgusting. And it's disgusting that they're being aided and abetted by assholes like Frum.

Rush stands for EVERYTHING that made America great: freedom.

THAT'S RIGHT: FREEDOM.

Not government: FREEDOM.

My great-grandparents didn't come here for guaranteed national healthcare.

My great-grandparents didn't come here to join a union.

My great-grandparents didn't come here for government sponsored low income housing.

My great-grandparents didn't come here for government instigated/no-money-down subprime loans.

THEY CAME FOR FREEDOM.

The Left would reduce that freedom, and make America less great. Less rich. Less secure.

To achieve their goals they need to eliminate the competition because they know they can't win a fair fight.

YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT: THEY CAN'T WIN A FAIR FIGHT.

OBAMA DIDN'T.

Obama beat McCain ONLY because he outspent McCain 8-to-1 - and he only outspent McCain by 8-to-1 because HE RENEGED ON HIS PROMISE TO ABIDE BY AND ACCEPT FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUNDS.

Obama did this because he knew that he couldn't win a fair fight in which both candidates had the same amount of campaign funds.

EVERY TIME YOU HEAR ANYBODY SAY OBAMA WON A MANDATE YOU SHOULD LAUGH IN THEIR FACE.

Obama won shit. Obama BOUGHT the election.

And he's quickly enacting a big-brother government with higher taxes and more regulations which are destroying the nation's economy.

He needs to squelch the opposition to completely accomplish his left-wing mission.

And demolishing Rush is part of that goal.

We mustn't let the Left accomplish this goal.

Not to save Rush, but to save our freedom and our nation.

SENATOR DODD IS AN IMMORAL CORRUPT LYING SACK OF CRAP WHO SHOULD AT THE VERY LEAST BE CENSURED - LIKE HIS OLD MAN WAS!

THE CORNER:

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Keeping the Heat on Dodd [Mark Hemingway]

The WSJ has a good editorial today on the shady dealings behind Sen. Chris Dodd's Irish 'cottage.' And while we're on the subject, I was perusing an old column by Kevin Rennie, the former Connecticut state legislator that broke the cottage story, and noticed this interesting tidbit:

During the fourth quarter of 2008, Dodd's Senate re-election campaign — Friends of Chris Dodd, indeed — paid $65,000 in legal fees to the firm Perkins Coie. So far, Dodd has spent more than $120,000 of campaign funds on his defense. The law firm is the single largest expense of his re-election campaign and it is for a personal matter. From October through December of last year, Dodd's re-election campaign spent nearly a quarter of what it raised in that period on legal fees.

Rennie notes that a large chunk of those campaign funds came from banking interests. So I don't know about you, but I find it awfully reassuring that in the middle of a major economic crisis and the accompanying government bank bailouts, the head of the Senate Banking Committee is indebted to bank lobbies to pay the legal tab for his personal corruption.

03/12 11:20 AM

THIS GUY MUST GO!

SOMETHING THE RIGHT AND LEFT CAN AGREE ON - AND OBAMA DO IN A SNAP: IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE CORPORATE TAX RATE PROGRESSIVE

MANY ON THE LEFT ENDORSED THE IDEA IN 2004; COMMON DREAMS:

More than 117 million people, representing 56 percent of the American labor force, work for businesses that employ less than 500 people.

Small business owners face many challenges when competing with global giants.

Most small businesses are sole proprietorships and, as such, the owners pay taxes at their personal tax rate. A married small business owner whose store made between $56,800 and $114,650 in profits in 2003 would have been taxed at a 25 percent rate. A more successful small businessperson, one whose business generated more than $312,000 in profits, would pay tax at a 35 percent rate.

In contrast, the federal corporate tax rate is 35 percent, but few large corporations pay anywhere near that amount. Armies of corporate lobbyists, tax attorneys, and accountants have won new laws and mined the existing tax code for clever deductions and tax credits that have dramatically reduced the tax rate of America’s largest businesses.

The nation’s corporations were estimated to pay less than15 percent of their net income in federal taxes last year, according to Citizens for Tax Justice, a widely respected non-partisan research organization.

The American personal income tax is a progressive system that taxes those with the highest incomes at the highest rates. The American corporate tax system has evolved in an opposite direction, whereby smaller neighborhood businesses pay higher tax rates than giant continent-hopping multinationals. When big businesses don’t pay their fair share of taxes, small businesses that remain the economic backbone of our society suffer, putting tens of millions of jobs at risk.

... Corporate tax reform, properly done, can reinvigorate America’s small businesses, restore public confidence in the fairness of the tax system...

COMMON DREAMS WANTED THE "BIG CORPORATIONS" TO PAY LOTS MORE.

I SAY, LET'S GIVE ALL CORPORATIONS A BREAK - AND THE BIGGEST BREAK TO THE SMALLEST BUSINESSES.

• WE SHOULD MAKE THE RATE ON THE FIRST 5 MILLION 5%, AND THE TAX ON THE AMOUNT ABOVE $5 MILLION TO $10 MILLION 10%, AND THE AMOUNT FROM ABOVE $10 MILLION TO $20 MILLION 20% AND THE AMOUNT ABOVE THAT 27%.

• EVERYONE GETS A BREAK AND THE SMALL BUSINESSES - THE HEART AND SOUL OF AMERICAN MARKETPLACE - GETS THE BIGGEST BREAK.

• I'D PREFER IT IF CORPORATIONS PAID NO TAXES AND WE MADE THE INCOME TAX RATE FLAT AND CUT THE CAPITAL GAINS RATE LOWER, BUT MAKING THE CORPORATE TAX RATES PROGRESSIVE IN THIS WAY WOULD STIMULATE THE ECONOMY AND BE EMBRACEABLE BY OBAMA AND THE LEFT.

HOW CAN OBAMA AND THE LEFT SAY "NO"!?

BRITAIN WILL HOST HEZBOLLAH SPOKESMAN

Absurd Britannia continues its spectacle of the same, as they legitimize the Hezbollah:

(IsraelNN.com) British officials granted senior Hizbullah member Ibrahim Moussawi a visa to visit the country on Thursday. The visa will allow Moussawi to lecture at a conference on political Islam. Moussawi plans to speak at the University of London on March 25.

The British government granted Moussawi a permit to visit Britain in 2008 as well. During that visit he appeared at events sponsored by the British group Stop the War.

Moussawi, who has been quoted as calling Jews “a lesion of the forehead of history” and justifying attacks on Israeli civilians, insists that he is not an anti-Semite. “I'm a bridge-builder and I've always been an advocate of dialog and discussion,” he claimed in response to criticism of an earlier visit.

If you're planning on taking a trip to England for tourism, cancel it immediately! The less money given to them, the better, as they'll likely exploit even that for funding these disgusting people who even have the gall to deny where they really stand.

******* UPDATED: OBAMA HAS COMMITTED AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENCE: FAILING TO ENFORCE Article IV, Section 4

OBAMA IS NOT FULFILLING THE OATH OF OFFICE TO UPHOLD AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, SPECIFICALLY...

Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

TEXAS GOVERNOR PERRY REQUESTED FEDERAL TROOPS TO PATROL THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER BETWEEN THE USA AND MEXICO IN TEXAS AND OBAMA REFUSED - A VIOLATION; (IN THIS CLAUSE, THE WORD "SHALL" MEANS MUST).

UPDATE: WE GET RESULTS: OBAMA IS CONSIDERING SENDING TROOPS.

50% OF ALL FORECLOSURES ARE IN 35 COUNTIES - AND THE USA HAS 3143 COUNTIES

35/3143 - THAT'S NOT ONE-TENTH; IT'S ONE PERCENT! (CORRECTED!)

AND MOST OF THEM ARE SUBPRIME AND ALT-A LOANS TO PEOPLE WITH BAD CREDIT.

HMMMM..... THE BANKS WHO MADE THE LOANS AND THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT THEM AND THE AGENTS WHO SOLD THEM AND THE PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT THEM OUGHT TO BE THE ONES PICKING UP THE PIECES.

NOT YOU AND ME.

OBAMA CAMPAIGNED AGAINST EARMARKS BUT SIGNS BILL WITH 8000 OF THEM...

... AND THEN HE HAS THE AUDACITY TO ARGUE HE'S FIGHTING AGAINST EARMARKS.

OBAMA IS PELOSI'S LAPDOG.



AND A LIAR AND A HYPOCRITE.

GLENN:

UPDATE: Real leadership in short supply: “Quite of few of President Obama’s supporters are completely bewildered, wondering where the ‘no earmarks’ promise went, feeling the sting of an administration wandering quickly to the left.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Jake Tapper reminds us how Obama has changed his tune:

Candidate Obama said then “we can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project. We can no longer accept an earmarks process that has become so complicated to navigate that a municipality or non-profit group has to hire high-priced D.C. lobbyists to do it. And we can no longer accept an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country.”

Today, of course, President Obama will sign into law more than 8,000 earmarks for FY 2009, part of the $410 billion omnibus spending bill.

But he pledged to work with Congress to reform the earmark process.

In other words, “I’ll start my diet tomorrow.”

Posted at 2:58 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WITH THIS MOVE, MANY ONCE PROUD OBAMANIACS HAVE REALISED THAT OBAMA HAS THROWN HIS OWN INTEGRITY UNDER THE TRAIN.

UPDATE: CHAFEE HAS REGRETS - LIKE CRAMER AND BUFFETT...

MORE PROOF JOE BIDEN IS PRE-ALZHEIMER'S: "ONLY 5% OF TALIBAN ARE 'INCORRIGIBLE'"

HE'S WORSE THAN A LOOSE CANNON; HE'S GOT DEMENTIA.

NO SANE PERSON WOULD SAY WHAT HE SAYS IN THE VIDEO AT THE LINK.

IT'S PURE FANTASY. HE'S BECOME UNLINKED FROM REALITY.

REALITY: TALIBAN SAY THERE ARE NO MODERATE TALIBAN.

PAT CONDELL ON FIRE

Hat Tip: Bare Naked Islam

IN 2001, JUST LIKE RUSH, CARVILLE WANTED THE PRESIDENT TO FAIL

CLICK PIC' FOR POST.

RUSH MADE ONE MISTAKE: HE WANTED A DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT TO FAIL.

IT'S ONLY OKAY TO SAY YOU WANT GOP OR CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENTS TO FAIL.

MUSLIMS IN MALMO CELEBRATE JEWISH MASSACRE

Hat Tip: Tundra Tabloids

[Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, Muhammad's army will return]

It refers to an attack by Mohammad on a Jewish society in particular in the year 629, at the oasis of Khaybar, currently Saudi Arabia. The battle ended with the Mohammed's Army killing 93 Jews and sent a large number into exile. (Read entire article here)

CHAS FREEMAN IS OUT

The man who would be spokesperson for Saudi Arabia and communist China has declined the position offered to him on the National Intelligence Council (Hat tip: Yid With Lid and The Jawa Report). That's very good, because Freeman was a real blame-the-victim type, and he even said:

What 9/11 showed is that if we bomb people, they bomb back.

Which completely obscures whatever evil the "people" he speaks of committed. He would be a complete disaster if he were appointed, and that's why it's good that he's stepped down. The controversy raised over his appointment, which I'm sure he wanted, fortunately had an impact.

CAUGHT ILLEGALLY ARMING HAMAS: UNSC GIVES IRAN AND SYRIA A 10 DAY DEADLINE

JPOST: UN demands explanation from Iran and Syria on arms ship

Iran and Syria have until next week to explain to a United Nations sanctions committee how they were involved with a ship detained off Cyprus in January found to be loaded with explosives believed to be bound for Gaza.

The ambassadors of France and Britain described the episode at a Security Council meeting held Tuesday in New York as a "gross violation" of existing resolutions banning Iranian arms exports.

"The United Kingdom looks forward to the committee receiving explanations from Iran and Syria as to why the shipment was permitted by Iran as the reported state of origin and as to the involvement of Syria as the reported state of destination," said British envoy John Sawers.

Both countries are required to respond within ten working days, according to a statement from Japanese ambassador Yukio Takasu, who chairs the Security Council committee set up in 2006 to oversee Iran sanctions. The committee determined February 6 that Iran was in violation of existing sanctions but has not taken any punitive action.

Ten days....
and then...
the UN will send a very harshly worded letter.

There is no non-violent way to end the threat presented by Iran. UNLESS YOU WANT TO TRUST THEM.

To delay is to give them time to strengthen.

OBAMA'S BUDGET IS DOA - AS THE CENTER REALIZES HE'S A LEFTIST

• THE HILL QUOTES SENATE BUDGET CHIEF WHO SAYS - DESPITE DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE- OBAMA'S BUDGET DOESN'T HAVE THE VOTES.

• NEWSWEEK SAY THE ESTABLISHMENT HAS TURNED AGAINST OBAMA. TOO.

• THIS ON THE HEELS OF WARREN BUFFETT EXPRESSING DISMAY AT OBAMA'S POLICIES TO DATE.

• THANK GOD PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP.

• I WISH THEY HAD LISTENED TO NEANDERTHAL RIGHT-WING MORONS LIKE ME AND RUSH BEFORE THE ELECTION. THEN WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS!

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!

OBAMA'S EMBRYONIC STEM CELL PROPAGANDA: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT BY A DAY

GLENN REYNOLDS TODAY.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS YESTERDAY.

REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

WE REGULARLY LINK TO IMPORTANT STUFF BEFORE THE PREEMINENT LINKER OF OUR TIME.

AND WE GIVE YOU MORE PICTURES AND MORE "IN YOUR FACE"/"NO HOLDS BARRED" COMMENTARY.

SPREAD THE WORD, BLOGROLL US, BOOKMARK US.

AUDIO: TARANTO/WSJ ON THE AP'S HOMELESS CHILDREN PROPAGANDA

TARANTO:

[THE AP WROTE:] "One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness, according to a new report that says most states have inadequate plans to address the worsening and often-overlooked problem," the Associated Press reports from New York...

THE PROBLEM IS, A MAJORITY OF THESE "HOMELESS LIVE IN ER UM... HOMES.

AUDIO HERE.

TEXT HERE.

TARANTO CALL IT AN EXAGGERATION; I CALL IT DELIBERATE MISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA.

OF THE LEFT.

Copenhagen Intifada Update 17

In the context of the Cartoon Crisis, Ungdomshuset etc. we bring you the following notice from the Government of the United States:

To American Citizens:

There have been increasing confrontations between immigrant gangs and Hells Angels motorcycle gangs in Denmark, especially in Copenhagen´s Norrebro district. The Embassy would like to caution all American citizens living in or passing through that area. In the shooting events last weekend, all victims were mistaken as rival gang members. As a result, libraries, cultural centers, and sports halls in Nørrebro will be closed on nights and weekends until further notice. We recommend that American citizens avoid traveling through Nørrebro, particularly at night.While there has been no evidence of these gangs targeting Americans, it is possible that passersby could be hurt. Everyone is reminded to remain vigilant and be aware of his/her surroundings. If you find yourself in a place where such gang confrontation occurs, the following actions are recommended:

If possible to safely do so, leave the area immediately.

If you cannot leave, take cover behind a solid object.

If no cover exists, get as low to the ground as possible.

Call the police at 112 as soon as safely possible.

The Embassy continues to follow this situation and will issue further cautions if needed.

Note: As a last minute addition to this message and for anyone traveling to Malmo, Sweden, this weekend, please be aware that Swedish police are expecting 15,000 demonstrators to protest a Davis Cup Tennis match featuring an Israeli player. Some Neo-Nazi groups have stated they will come down from Stockholm. Please use caution if traveling to Malmo.

Marilynn W. Rowdybush

Chief, Consular Section

American Embassy

Copenhagen, Denmark

FDIC'S PLAN FOR "DETOXING TROUBLED ASSETS" IS UNCERTAIN AND UNPREDICTABLE

And the chairperson of the FDIC so admits:

The government's plan to strip banks of troubled assets could force some firms to record large losses, but the painful purge would help restore confidence in the banking system, according to Sheila C. Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Bair said yesterday that the effort might require more money than the $700 billion Congress has approved to aid the financial industry, but she added that taxpayers would probably reap an eventual profit on the asset purchases.

Note all the uses of conditional verbs: "could," "would," and "might." "Probably" has been thrown in for even more contingency.

This administration doesn't know what it's doing, but is nevertheless forging ahead on the path of socialism.

This we do know, with no conditional verbs required: socialism is a form of enslavement, via high taxation and nationalization of industries and businesses.

The Drunkard's Path quilt, visual metaphor for this leftist administration:

BUFFETT NO LONGER THRILLED WITH OBAMA - TO SAY THE LEAST!

IF YOU'VE LOST BUFFETT YOU'VE LOST THE CENTER OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

OBAMA HAS LOST BUFFET.

MORE HYPOCRISY FROM OBAMA: SOMETIMES SCIENCE IS GOOD; SOMETIMES IT'S NOT - BUT PANDERING AND LYING IS ALWAYS GOOD!

JOM HAS THE GOODS. HINT: STEM CELLS VERSUS YUCCA MOUNTAIN.

SICKENING INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY AND PROPAGANDA FROM THE NYTIMES ON EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS

THE FALSE AND DELIBERATELY MISLEADING HEADLINE FROM NYTIMES:

Obama Lifts Bush’s Strict Limits on Stem Cell Research

WRONG!

FACT: THERE WAS NEVER A BAN ON ANY STEM CELL RESEARCH - ADULT OR EMBRYONIC: THE LIMIT WAS ONLY A FEDERAL FUNDING LIMIT AND IT WAS ONLY ON NEW EMBRYONIC CELLS - SEVERAL EXISTING LINES WERE CONTINUOUSLY FUNDED.

THEN THE LYING LEFT-WING SCUM OF THE NYTIMES OPENED THE ARTICLE LIKE THIS:

— Pledging that his administration will “make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,” President Obama on Monday lifted the Bush administration’s strict limits on human embryonic stem cell research.

WRONG!

THERE WERE NO LIMITS ON THE RESEARCH; ONLY FEDERAL FUNDING OF NEW LINES WAS BANNED. PRIVATE FUNDING WAS NEVER LIMITED, NOR WAS RESEARCH LIMITED.

ACCORDING TO THE NYTIMES, OBAMA SAID THIS:

The president acknowledged that studying stem cells extracted from human embryos, which are destroyed in the process, is deeply divisive.

“Many thoughtful and decent people are conflicted about, or strongly oppose, this research,” the president said. “I understand their concerns, and we must respect their point of view.”

But Mr. Obama went on to say that the majority of Americans “have come to a consensus that we should pursue this research; that the potential it offers is great, and with proper guidelines and strict oversight the perils can be avoided.”

OBAMA IS LYING OR A DUPE BECAUSE THE RESEARCH HAD ALWAYS BEEN PURSUED, JUST NOT WITH FEDERAL FUNDING.

IT IS HYPOCRITICAL FOR LEFTISTS LIKE OBAMA - WHO NORMALLY DERIDE ANY AND ALL; AID TO PRIVATE COMPANIES AS "CORPORATE WELFARE" TO THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL WHEN IT COMES TO EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS.

• WHY DO THEY DO IT!?

• TO EXPLOIT THE ISSUE.

• AND THEY DO IT THE SAME WAY THEY HANDLE AGW AND THE RECESSION: BY LYING AND CRANKING UP THE FEAR.

• WITH THE AID OF THE MSM, THE LEFT MADE A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS FEEL AS IF BUSH WAS NOT LETTING SCIENTISTS DO SCIENCE WHEN IN FACT HE WAS JUST LIMITING WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD FUND.

• NOWHERE IN THE NYTIMES ARTICLE DO THEY POINT OUT THAT ADULT STEM CELLS ARE BETTER THAN EMBRYONIC.

• TYPICAL LYING LEFTIST SCUM.

LYING: IT'S WHAT THE LEFT DOES BEST: THEY SAID WE LOST IRAQ - AND THEN AS WE STARTED WINNING - WHEN WE WON - THEY STOPPED REPORTING ON IT.

THEY SAID GLOBAL WARMING WAS MAN-MADE, BUT GLOBAL TEMPS HAVE BEEN FLAT SINCE 2001, AND MANY CONTINENTS OR MAJOR PARTS OF CONTINENTS HAVE BEEN COOLER - LIKE THE USA! THEY TRAIPSED UP TO THE ARCTIC IN SUMMER, BUT NOW THAT IT'S WINTER AND THE ICE IS BACK THEY HAVE BETTER PLACES TO GO TO.

TYPICAL LEFTIST LYING SCUM.

*******UPDATE: THE NYTIMES JUIST POSTED AN HONEST NEWS ANALYSIS OF THE OBAMA STEM CELL FEST: Rethink Stem Cells? Science Already Has

With soaring oratory, President Obama on Monday removed a substantial practical nuisance that has long made life difficult for stem cell researchers.

He freed biomedical researchers using federal money (a vast majority) to work on more than the small number of human embryonic stem cell lines that were established before Aug. 9, 2001.

In practical terms, federally financed researchers will now find it easier to do a particular category of stem cell experiments that, though still important, has been somewhat eclipsed by new advances.

Until now, to study unapproved stem cell lines, researchers had to set up separate, privately financed labs and follow laborious accounting procedures to make sure not a cent of federal grant money was used on that research. No longer.

... However, the president’s support of embryonic stem cell research comes at a time when many advances have been made with other sorts of stem cells. The Japanese biologist Shinya Yamanaka found in 2007 that adult cells could be reprogrammed to an embryonic state with surprising ease. This technology “may eventually eclipse the embryonic stem cell lines for therapeutic as well as diagnostics applications,” Dr. Kriegstein said. For researchers, reprogramming an adult cell can be much more convenient, and there have never been any restrictions on working with adult stem cells.

... Members of Congress and advocates for fighting diseases have long spoken of human embryonic stem cell research as if it were a sure avenue to quick cures for intractable afflictions. Scientists have not publicly objected to such high-flown hopes, which have helped fuel new sources of grant money like the $3 billion initiative in California for stem cell research.In private, however, many researchers have projected much more modest goals for embryonic stem cells.

OBAMA IS EITHER A DOPE WHO DOESN'T GET IT, OR HE'S TRYING TO DUPE THE PUBLIC.

YOUR CALL.

NYTIMES: COMSUMERS CUTTING SPENDING IS BAD

NYTIMES: Conspicuous Consumption, a Casualty of Recession

... In just the seven months since the stock market crash, the recession has aimed its death ray not just at the credit market, the Dow and Detroit, but at the very ethos of conspicuous consumption. Even those who still have a regular income are reassessing their spending habits, perhaps for the long term. They are shopping their closets, downscaling their vacations and holding off on trading in their cars. If the race to have the latest fashions and gadgets was like an endless, ever-faster video game, then someone has pushed the reset button.

... To many, the adjustment feels less like a temporary, emergency response than a permanent recalibration, one they view in terms of ethics rather than expediency.

... Still, economists point out that the Great Depression created a generation of cautious savers. The longer the downturn this time, they say, the more likely it is to permanently change financial habits.

As many economists have noted, cutting spending is the worst thing people with means can do for the economy right now. But that argument seems to have little traction, especially because even those with steady paychecks and no fear of losing their job have seen their net worth decline and their retirement savings evaporate.

REPEAT:

As many economists have noted, cutting spending is the worst thing people with means can do for the economy right now.

REPEAT:

... cutting spending is the worst thing people with means can do for the economy right now.

SO-CALLED "CONSPICUOUS SPENDING" - LONG ATTACKED BY LEFTISTS - IS EXACTLY WHAT MAKES THE WORLD, GO 'ROUND:

• WITHOUT AMERICA'S "CONSPICUOUS" CONSUMPTION, THE WORLD GOES INTO A RECESSION.

• IF OBAMA HADN'T GONE NEGATIVE - TO PASS HIS PORKURIFFIC AND SOCIALISTIC DEMOCRAT-FACTION "STIMULUS PLAN", THEN WE MIGHT BE RECOVERING ALREADY.

• INSTEAD, CATASTROPHE WAS EVERY THIRD WORD HE READ FROM HIS TELEPROMPTER.

• AND PEOPLE RETRENCHED AND THINGS GOT WORSE.

• AND NOW - INSTEAD OF CUTTING TAXES, HE'S RAISING THEM AND TRYING TO REORGANIZE HEALTHCARE AND THE ENERGY SECTORS --- TWO SECTORS NOT IN NEED OF ANY REFORM BECAUSE THEY'RE OUT-PERFORMING THE REST OF THE ECONOMY!

OBAMA: A MISERABLE FAILURE.

RANGEL RULES

Hat Tip: Black and Right

HAPPY SUNNI B-DAY MUHAMMAD

Today the Sunni adherents of Islam celebrate the birth of their "prophet" Muhammad, Blessed be the name of Satan's Twin Brother!

So I have prepared a special post for all the Islamo Fascist, Jihadi, Wahhabi readers of my blog in the most remote corners of their caliphate, specifically Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc.




As such, let me provide links to the follwing sites which best sum up the inherent nature of the conflict we face worldwide:

Weblog Geert Wilders

"Fitna" the movie

"Farewell Israel" the movie

"Obsession" the movie

"The Third Jihad" the movie

Danish Muhammad Cartoons support site

Citizen Warrior's Koran for Kafirs (non-believers)

Fighting Radical Islam website

Islam, Slavery and Rape analysis

Jihad Watch Islam 101

What the West needs to Know website

Anti-Jihad Resistance website

Truth Tube TV

Muhammad Image Archives

The Religion of Peace website

Religion of Peace subject index

Euronews Islam is Violent Faith commentary

Originally posted @ Let's Get It Right

Polar Bears are not endangered

Polar Bear Lies

No doubt you’ve seen the ads. The music is dramatic. The scene is tragic. The message emotional. Polar Bears, holding on for dear life to bits of ice, their artic habitat destroyed by Global Warming. And the narration tells you of the tragic fate of the bears, all because of man and his selfish destruction of the earth. And of course, the ad ends with a plea for funds to help the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) protect the bears and stop Global Warming. Cute, fuzzy animals always do the trick.

Trouble is, it’s all a lie. Not one word of the ad is true. Polar Bears are not endangered. There is no indication of any reduction of their populations. In fact, they are actually being hunted by locals who have to live with them, in an effort to keep their populations down. Of 13 Polar Bear populations, 11 are thriving and growing.

The real agenda behind WWF’s Polar Bear campaign is to stop drilling of American oil and to shackle the United States with the UN’s Kyoto Climate Change Treaty. Again, the policy is called Sustainable Development.

Using the Polar Bear, which WWF and the Sierra Club managed to get listed on the Endangered Species (ESA) list last year, the greens can grab control of the U S economy, controlling energy production.

Last year, in a Congressional hearing on the listing of the Polar Bears, Congressman Don Young of Alaska said testimony by Bush Administration officials “clearly indicated the overriding goal was to use the ESA as a tool to stop energy production in any and all states.” Under questioning, former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Dale Hall confirmed that if a coal-fired power plant in Arizona were seeking a federal permit, with the Polar Bear listed as protected by the ESA, the Fish and Wildlife Service would have to consult on the permit. In other words, a power plant located thousands of miles away from Polar Bear habitat would be considered a danger – because of global warming. How could any industry be possible? And that’s just the way WWF wants it.

The truth is now rapidly coming out. There is no man-made global warming – it’s a lie. There is no threat to Polar Bears - -it’s a lie. Drilling American oil is not a danger to the environment – it’s a lie. And yet, WWF continues to spread the lies and fan the fear.

It is time we fight back against these zealots who put anything else on earth ahead of man.

RTWT.

FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE ELECTION, AND OBAMA STILL HASN'T GOT A PLAN OR A CLUE

Dinocrat: Why is there still no banking plan?

There is zero excuse for not having a plan in place today. Zero.

ZEROBAMA. THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER. A MISERABLE FAILURE.

AS PREDICTED.

NOT BY THE GENIUSES LIKE DAVID BROOKS.

BUT BY NEANDERTHALS LIKE ME - AND RUSH AND LEVIN.

DOUG ROSS: INSTEAD OF NAMING THE NEW SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE BILL AFTER TED, IT WOULD BE MORE APT FOR OBAMA TO NAME IT AFTER MARY JO KEPECHNE

A MUST READ; THE BEST POST OF THE YEAR!

• IMPORTANT NOTE: FOR TREATMENT OF HIS MALIGNANT CANCER, TEDDY DIDN'T FLY TO THE UK FOR NHS CARE; HE DIDN'T EVEN USE MEDICARE.

• WHY NOT!?

• YOU KNOW WHY.

• Which brings me to my two cents:

• The best way to guarantee that Congress and Obama DON'T socialize healthcare is to demand that they be enrolled in any "healthcare reform" program they design.

SO FAR - BY ANY MEASURE, OBAMA'S PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN ABSYMAL

NO SURPRISE:
OBAMA IS THE LEAST EXPERIENCED,
MOST LEFT-WING
AND MOST CONNECTED MACHINE-PLAYER
TO EVER OCCUPY THE OVAL OFFICE.

VIDEO: EVERYONE AGAINST ABORTION PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND

IDF INTEL' CHIEF: "Iran has crossed nuclear technological threshold."

Yadlin: Iran has crossed nuclear technological threshold

Iran had "crossed the technological threshold" and its attainment of nuclear military capability is now a matter of "incorporating the goal of producing an atomic bomb into its strategy," OC Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin told the cabinet on Sunday.

"Iran is continuing to amass hundreds of kilograms of low-level enriched uranium, and it hopes to exploit the dialogue with the West and Washington to advance toward the production of an atomic bomb," he said.

THERE IS NO CHOICE: THE WEST SHALL EITHER PREEMPTIVELY ATTACK IRAN, OR THE WEST SHALL EFFECTIVELY SURRENDER TO THEM.

• BUT WHO IN THE WEST WILL ACT?
• OBAMA'S USA?
• NEVER.
• IT WILL BE ISRAEL.
• AND ISRAEL WILL BE CONDEMNED FOR IT.
• AND OBAMA WILL SIDE WITH THEM AGAINST ISRAEL.
  

THREE OF A KIND BEATS TWO PAIR - PART 3

THESE THREE MEN (ABOVE: REAGAN, BUSH AND LINCOLN) - WERE REAL MEN - AND REAL LEADERS...
































THESE TWO PAIRS OF LIBS ARE SCHMUCKS. (THAT'S OBAMA, CARTER, AND THE CLINTONS ON BIKES...)

YES: I NOW BUSH RIDES A BIKE, TOO - BUT IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT:




ASIDE:

I HAVE A FEELING FRUM RIDES A BIKE LIKE OBAMA.