BIBI 2009 AND OBAMA 2007 AGREE: ISRAEL MUST REMAIN A JEWISH STATE

BIBI IS GETTING CRAP FOR SAYING THAT THE ARABS MUST ACCEPT ISRAEL AS A JEWISH STATE - AS IF IT WAS A NEW DEMAND MEANT TO PUT A STOP TO THE "SMOOTH-MOVING PEACE-PROCESS".

THE SO-CALLED PALESTINIANS ARE CRYING FOUL.

BUT OBAMA SAID AS MUCH IN 2007:

"I think everyone knows what the basic outlines of an agreement would look like. It would mean that the Palestinians would have to reinterpret the notion of right of return in a way that would preserve Israel as a Jewish state...."

OBAMA TOOK THAT POSITION WHILE HE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.

IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES A MORE PRO-ARAB/PRO-MUSLIM STAND NOW THAT HE'S GOT THE OVAL OFFICE.

(I BETCHYA OBAMA TAKES A POSITION CLOSER TO THAT OF HIS LONGTIME BABYSITTER - RASHID KHALIDI, WHO NOW SITS IN THE EDWARD "LIAR" SAID CHAIR OF ARABIC STUDIES AT COLUMBIA.)

WEEKEND "GUARANTEED NOT HALAL"

DEEPIKA AND SHILPA.
























NO BURQA NECESSARY.

OBAMA'S ENERGY SECRETARY REPEATS AGW-HURRICANE CANARD

NYT/AP:

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is warning that if countries don't do something about climate change, ''some island states will simply disappear.'' The energy secretary is traveling with President Barack Obama to the two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago for a summit of the Western Hemisphere's democracies. ...

Chu said that rising temperatures lead to more damaging hurricanes and rising oceans. He said those results are scary.

THIS GUY IS MERELY REPEATING LEFT-WING BS. (LIKE "WE LOST IRAQ." AND "MEXICAN GANGS ARMED BY US GUN-SHOPS." AND "DEREGULATION CAUSED FINANCIAL MELTDOWN.")

• FACT: THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN GLOBAL-WRMING AND HURRICANE FREQUENCY OR STRENGTH.

• IN FACT, RIGHT NOW HURRICANE FREQUENCY IS HISTORICALLY LOW.

• EVEN NOAA HAS NOTED SAME.

UPDATE: MORE PROOF AGW IS BS: ANTARCTIC ICE GROWING NOT SHRINKING; VIA HOT AIR. FULL REPORT HERE. EXCERPT:

ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.

The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.

FOUR FORMER CIA CHIEFS TOLD OBAMA NOT TO RELEASE MEMOS!

UNBEFREAKINLIEVABLE:

Four CIA chiefs said 'don't reveal torture memos'

Agency's ex-directors objected to interrogation techniques being revealed. But Barack Obama went ahead anyway

By Pamela Hess

Four former CIA directors opposed the release of classified Bush-era interrogation memos, officials say, describing objections that went all the way to the White House and slowed disclosure of the records.

Former CIA chiefs Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet and John Deutch all called the White House in March warning that release of the so-called "torture memos" would compromise intelligence operations, current and former officials say.

FOR DELIBERATELY COMPROMISING INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS, OBAMA SHOULD BE IMPEACHED - AND CHARGED WITH TREASON!

TIME TO GIVE DEMOCRATS THE PINK SLIP

SUSAN BOYLE VIDEO INTERVIEW BY HER HOMETOWN PAPER

PERSPECTIVE ALERT: MUSLIMS HAVE KILLED MORE MUSLIMS SINCE 9/11 THAN WHITE RACISTS LYNCHED BLACKS FROM 1882-1968

FACT: MUSLIMS HAVE KILLED MORE MUSLIMS SINCE 9/11 THAN WHITE RACISTS LYNCHED BLACKS FROM 1882-1968.


TOTAL BLACKS LYNCHED FROM 1882-1968 - (IN WHAT SOME CALL "THE BLACK HOLOCAUST"): 3,445.

3,445.

A HORRIFYING NUMBER. SHAMEFUL. AWFUL. SICKENING. A SAD CHAPTER IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

BUT... A MERE FRACTION OF THE NUMBER OF MUSLIMS KILLED BY OTHER MUSLIMS SINCE 9/11/01.

AND IT'S A MERE FRACTION OF THE NON-MUSLIMS KILLED BY MUSLIMS SINCE 9/11/01.

SO, WHEN LIBERALS AND LEFTIES CALL US CONSERVATIVES WHO ARE HAWKS "RACISTS" AND WARMONGERS (AS MANY DID TO ME LAST NIGHT AT A FAMILY REUNION!), AS IF WE WERE SOMEHOW RACISTS WHO ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN JIHADISTS - THEY ARE MISSING THE TRUTH ON THREE LEVELS:

1 - IT WAS THE GOP WHICH ENDED SLAVERY AND VOTED MORE DECISIVELY FOR CIVIL RIGHTS FROM WW2 THROUGH THE 1960'S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT; HISTORICALLY, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS THE PARTY OF THE KKK AND RACISM. THE GOP HAS TRADITIONALLY AND CONSISTENTLY STOOD FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND AGAINST STATISM.

2 - WHEN THE GOP AND CONSERVATIVES SUPPORTED US MILITARY ACTION TO LIBERATE IRAQIS FROM SADDAM IT WAS NOT RACIST. WHEN THE LEFT AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY WANTED THE USA TO WITHDRAW EVEN IF IT LED TO AN IRAQI GENOCIDE IT WAS RACIST.

3 - WHEN OBAMA AND THE LEFT SAY THAT RACISM AND "ECONOMIC JUSTICE" ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN DEFEATING GLOBAL JIHAD THEY INFLATE AMERICAN RACISM AND UNDERESTIMATE THE THREAT OF GLOBAL JIHAD.

• SINCE 9/11/01, GLOBAL JIHAD HAS KILLED TENS OF THOUSANDS AND MAIMED TENS OF THOUSANDS AND FORCED MILLIONS OF WOMEN TO LIVE IN FEAR WITHOUT THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.

• RACISM IN THE USA HAS DONE BUPKUS - BY COMPARISON.

• SHIT: GLOBAL WARMING HAS KILLED NOBODY BY COMPARISON, YET THE LEFT THINKS CO2 AND AGW ARE HUMANITY'S BIGGEST THREATS.

• THIS IS WHY CALLING TODAY'S DEMOCRATS WHAT ANTI-WAR DEMOCRAT WERE CALLED IN 1862 IS SO APT.

• THEY ARE COPPERHEADS.

• THEY ARE - FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES - A FIFTH COLUMN FOR GLOBAL JIHAD.

WHICH IS WHY I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT WE NEED TO DEFEAT THE LEFTISTS IN ORDER TO DEFEAT THE JIHADISTS.

ASIDE: HERE ARE A FEW OTHER THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN ARGUING WITH A LEFTIST:

• THE LEFT KILLED MORE PEOPLE IN THE 20TH CENTURY THAN THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN THE PRECEDING 19 CENTURIES COMBINED. STALIN, MAO, HITLER, POL POT, KIM ARE ALL GENOCIDAL LEFTIST UTOPIANISTS WHO SLAUGHTERED MORE THAN 150 MILLION.

• SO WHEN ATHEISTIC LIBS DECRY RELIGION IN GENERAL -AND BLAME BELIEVERS FOR ALL THE WORLD'S ILL, THEY ARE ONLY EXPOSING THEIR IGNORANCE AND ANTI-WEST BIAS.
  

• FACT: SINCE ITS INCEPTION, ISLAM HAS KILLED EVEN MORE PEOPLE THAN LEFTISM; IN FACT, MORE THAN ANY OTHER IDEOLOGY EVER. 80 MILLION HINDUS ALONE! (SOME ARGUE IT'S 600 MILLION HINDUS!)

• ARAB-ISRAELI FATALITIES ARE MINUSCULE BY COMPARISON - .3%
  

DISSENT FROM LEFTISM ACCORDINGLY.

ATTACK ISLAM ACCORDINGLY.

BUSHITLER VERSUS VLADIMIR ILICH OBAMESSIAH

GREAT POST COMPARING LEFTIST WACKOS AND TEA PARTIES.

LUXURY CAR TERRORISTS

Another attempt has been made at attacking Israeli authorities with an expensive German-made car:

A Palestinian driver ran over two police officers Saturday, while they were on a patrol near the Hizmeh checkpoint, north of Jerusalem.

According to the initial police report, the officers were on routine Highway Police activity at the time of the incident, inspecting a Palestinian taxi at the checkpoint, when the man, driving a Mercedes, came out of one of the lanes and rammed into them.

Both officers were thrown a short distance from the impact of the car. They were rushed to the Hadassah Mount Scopus and Hadassah Ein Kerem hospitals in Jerusalem, suffering from moderate and light injuries to their lower extremities.

The driver, a 37-year-old Palestinian resident of the East Jerusalem village of al-Azariya, was detained immediately. The man initially admitted malice, but later confessed to having mental problems.

First, I'm afraid that terrorist attacks are on the increase again. Oh, and don't buy into his sob story about mental illness, which is certainly farfetched.

Now, about the car. Notice how the vehicle used was a luxury car made by a German outfit? A couple months ago, a similar incident happened in Jerusalem when another car jihadist used a BMW. Again, this shows how these are no paupers.

TODAY'S "AGW = BS ALERT": SPRING BLIZZARD IN COLORADO

NYT/AP: Snowstorm Weakens After Closing Stretch of I-70

A spring storm was weakening after dumping up to 3 feet of snow on the foothills west of Denver -- stranding hundreds of people in shelters and forcing the closure of an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 70.

Transportation officials shut down I-70 between Vail and Golden in the late afternoon Friday because of wet, heavy snow and multiple accidents.

... It was unclear when the interstate would reopen. The spring storm had dumped up to 3 feet of snow on the foothills by Friday night but was starting to weaken, forecasters said.

The area was expected to see only another 2 to 5 inches through noon Saturday, said meteorologist Frank Cooper of the National Weather Service's Boulder office.

... Winter storm warnings across the state were expected to last until midday Saturday...

...Nearly 3 feet of snow had fallen by Friday afternoon in Rocky Mountain National Park about 60 miles northwest of Denver, forcing officials to close its Beaver Meadows and Fall River entrances because snowplows couldn't keep up.

A SPRING SNOWSTORM - IN THE AGE OF AGW!?!?!?

HOWZDAT POSSIBLE!?!?

MUST BE THAT AGW = BS.

AND THE ANTI-CO2 CROWD A BUNCH OF SOCIALIST DUPES.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

AN ATLAS OF OBAMA OUTRAGEOUSNESS

SOMEONE ELSE AGREES WITH ME: Obama will dump Isrsael the first chance he gets.

OBAMA BOWED TO A SAUDI KING - AND NOW HI-5'S CHAVEZ.

And he blocked the USN from attacking the muslim pirates.

OBAMA = ANTI-AMEEICAN ANTIZIONIST SCUM.

(MORE ON THE IMPENDING USA-ISRAEL SPLIT HERE.)

IF TREASON IS IMPEACHABLE, THEN OBAMA SHOULD BE IMPEACHED

I SAY THE FOLLOWING, WRITTEN BY MUKSASEY AND HAYDEN - IF TRUE - MEANS OBAMA HAS COMMITTED TREASON:

The release of these opinions was unnecessary as a legal matter, and is unsound as a matter of policy.

Its effect will be to invite the kind of institutional timidity and fear of recrimination that weakened intelligence gathering in the past, and that we came sorely to regret on Sept. 11, 2001.

Although evidence shows that the Army Field Manual, which is available online, is already used by al Qaeda for training purposes, it was certainly the president's right to suspend use of any technique.

However, public disclosure of the OLC opinions, and thus of the techniques themselves, assures that terrorists are now aware of the absolute limit of what the U.S. government could do to extract information from them, and can supplement their training accordingly and thus diminish the effectiveness of these techniques as they have the ones in the Army Field Manual.

THIS AIDS AND ABETS THE ENEMY. THIS STRENGTHENS THE ENEMY AND WEAKENS US. HENCE IT IS TREASON. THEREFORE IT IS IMPEACHABLE.

OBAMA SHOULD BE IMPEACHED.

HE IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE REPUBLIC.

Krauthammer:

On the release of Bush administration memos on interrogation methods:

I think it does harm the United States. It gives away a lot of our techniques.

And I disagree. I don't see it as a dark chapter in our history at all.'

You look at some of these techniques — holding the head, a face slap, or deprivation of sleep. If that is torture, the word has no meaning.

I would concede that one technique, simulated drowning, you could call torture, even though the memos imply that legally it didn't meet that definition. I'm agnostic on the legalism….

But let's concede that it's a form of torture. I think it's perfectly reasonable to use it in two cases, that the ticking time bomb, if an innocent is at risk and you've got a terrorist that has information that would save that innocent and isn't speaking. That's an open and shut easy case.

A second case is a high-level Al Qaeda operative, a terrorist, who knows names and places and numbers and plans and safe houses and all that, and by using techniques to get information, you're saving lives.

If I have to weigh on the one hand the numberless and nameless lives saved in America by the use of these techniques, and we had a CIA director who told us that these techniques on these high-level terrorists was extremely effective in giving us information.

If you have to weigh on one hand that the numberless and nameless lives saved, against the 30 seconds or so of terror in the eyes of a terrorist who is suffering this technique, I think the moral choice is easy.

It's not a dark chapter in our history. It is a successful one. We have not had a second attack, and largely because of this.

IF WE ARE ATTACKED, THEN ALL THE BLOOD IS ON OBAMA'S HANDS.

NHS BIRTHING NIGHTMARE: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT BY A DAY

GLENN TODAY:

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE AT WORK: Mother who died giving birth in hospital toilet never saw twins. “A woman died in labour in a hospital lavatory after her induction was delayed because of a lack of specialist staff, an inquest was told yesterday.”

Posted at 10:15 pm by Glenn Reynolds

US YESTERDAY.

THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

IT'S ONE REASON THE BIGGIES STOPPED LINKING TO US: WE KICK THEIR FU*KING ASSES ALL THE TIME.

SPREAD THE WORD; BLOGROLL US; BOOKMARK US!

Proposed EPA Endangerment Finding Will Destroy Jobs, Raise Energy Prices and More

The EPA's proposed endangerment finding made public today is attracted a lot of negative attention from, among others, members of Congress and leaders of the oil and natural gas industry.

For instance, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said today that the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed endangerment finding will unleash a torrent of regulations that will destroy jobs, harm consumers, and extend the agency’s reach into every corner of American life. Despite enormous expense and hardship for the American economy, these regulations will have virtually no effect on climate change.

On behalf of the more than 400 companies in the oil and natural gas sector represented by the American Petroleum Institute, API President Jack Gerard issued a statement today in which he slammed the EPA's proposed endangerment finding.

To get started reading both statements, click here.

NOBODY WAS HARMED WRITING THIS POST ...

... AND THIS BLOG WASN'T TESTED ON ANY ANIMALS.


NEVERTHELESS, DON'T TRY IT AT HOME.

ARE TEA PARTIES REAL GRASSROOTS OR ASTROTURFING?

VIA SWEETNESS & LIGHT:

SHOCKER: TALIBAN BREAK PROMISE IN SWAT: WON'T DISARM

REUTERS:

Pakistani Taliban will not lay down their arms in a northwestern valley as part of a deal that included the introduction of sharia law but will take their "struggle" to new areas, a militant spokesman said on Wednesday.

President Asif Ali Zardari, under pressure from conservatives, signed a regulation on Monday imposing Islamic sharia law in the Swat valley to end Taliban violence.

The strategy of appeasement has alarmed U.S. officials, while critics say the government has demonstrated a lack of capacity and will to fight the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Details of the deal have not been made public but government officials backing the pact have said part of it was that militants would give up their arms.

But a Pakistani Taliban spokesman in the scenic valley, a one-time tourist destination 125 km (80 miles) northwest of Islamabad, said they would be keeping their guns.

THERE IS NO REAL SHOCK HERE: PEOPLE WHO BEHEAD HOSTAGES AND COMMIT "HONOR"-KILLINGS CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO KEEP THEIR PROMISES.

THEY SHOULD BE ANNIHILATED.

ANOTHER NHS NIGHTMARE: BIRTHING MOM DIES IN TOILET

TOL: Mother who died giving birth in hospital toilet never saw twins

A woman died in labour in a hospital lavatory after her induction was delayed because of a lack of specialist staff, an inquest was told yesterday.

Sarah Underhill, a policewoman aged 37, was in her 36th week of pregnancy when she was admitted to hospital suffering from pre-eclampsia.

The birth was to have been induced because of her condition, which causes high blood pressure. She was admitted to the John Radcliffe Hospital, in Oxford, on October 2 last year but the procedure was planned for October 6. However, the day before she was due to be induced she collapsed in the toilet and was forced to call for help by banging on the door.

Doctors fought to save her twins, conceived by IVF, but she died without having seen them.

THIS IS WHAT OBAMA WANTS YOUR HEALTHCARE TO BE LIKE.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

The Pee Wee Administration

Click to view.



Hat tip: Jawa Report.

Natural Gas Industry Deserves Second Look

On numerous occasions during the past three years, I've used this space to advocate on behalf of the nation's energy producers. Today, I advocate on behalf of one producer, Williams, and contend that individuals in the anti-fossil fuels community should take a second look at how this trailblazing company in the natural gas industry does business.

My contention stems from the findings of a two-day trip I took to Western Colorado this week at the invitation and expense of the American Petroleum Institute. While visiting places like Parachute Field and Rulison Field, I was able to take an up-close look at Williams' natural gas facilities in the Piceance (pronounced “pee-ahnce,” not “Pic-ee-ahnce”) Basin.

Click here to learn more in my first post in a series about the nation's natural gas industry.

THE NYTIMES WOULD RATHER SHRINK THAN BE UN-BIASED AND BALANCED

NYTIMES:

Times Will Cut Sections to Lower Costs

In a bid to save millions of dollars in annual costs, The New York Times plans to eliminate several weekly sections, with other parts of the newspaper absorbing some of the content, Bill Keller, the executive editor, said on Thursday.

WHAT DOPES: Instead of cutting they could just ADD balanced coverage and get more readers.

THIS ALSO GOES FOR MSNBC AND CNN WHO EVEN IF YOU ADDED THEM TOGETHER WOULD STILL TRAIL FOX.

THE TUK-TUK COMES STATESIDE: MORE PROOF OF THE IMPENDING THIRDWORLDIZATION OF AMERICA

FROM INSTY:

COMING SOON TO THE U.S.? Tuk Tuk USA gets DOT and EPA approval. Will it really become the favored car of hot blondes with bare midriffs? Only time will tell . . . .

Posted at 12:37 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WE USED TO DRIVE BIG CARS...


AND WE USED TO HAVE PRESIDENTS WHO NEVER THOUGHT WE WERE GUILTY OF BEING AN ARROGANT NATION OR THAT WE WAGED UNNECESSARY WARS. OR THAT WE NEED TO APOLOGIZE FOR OUR ROLE IN THE WORLD.

• NOW, WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO WANTS US TO EMULATE EUROPE - THEIR HIGH TAXES, THEIR CO2-CURBING LAWS, THEIR ... SOCIALISM.

• EUROPE: WHERE THE AVERAGE UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE LAST DECADE HAS BEEN 8.5%.

• I MEAN..... ER UM, THE LIBS ARE FREEEEEEEAKIN' OUT THAT WE HAVE 8.5% UNEMPLOYMENT AND THEY WANT US TO EMULATE THE ECONOMIC POLICIES OF EUROPE WHERE THAT'S BEEN THE AVERAGE FOR A DECADE!

• IDIOTS. UNPATRIOTIC IDIOTS - WHOSE POLICIES WILL TURN AMERICA INTO A THIRD WORLD NATION - IF WE LET THEM.

• POLICIES LIKE IMMIGRATION RELAXATION, CO2 REGULATION, HIGH TAXES, BIG USELESS AND UNNECESSARY GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS... THEY WILL MAKE US MORE LIKE VENZUELA THAN CANADA.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

LIEBERMAN SAYS NEW APPROACH IS NEEDED

I guess we'll have to hand it to Avigdor Lieberman: he's again said it like it is, that past concessions by Israeli governments led to war while the terrible George Mitchell was visiting and calling for cliched concessions. From YnetNews:

According to sources in the Foreign Ministry, Lieberman explained that the traditional approach to the peace process, taken by previous governments, has proven futile; leaving the process deadlocked despite the fact that they introduced dramatic concessions.

Israel wants to explore new avenues in the negotiations, the sources said. The minister, they added, gave Mitchell the examples of the Second Lebanon War, the Israeli offensive in Gaza, the severed diplomatic ties with Qatar and Mauritania and the fact that IDF soldier Gilad Shalit is still held in Hamas captivity, as examples for theses failures.

And they are! But most importantly, it's because of the Religion of Peace that concessions are a recipe for fiasco. With Islam around, there can be no peace.

MORE PROOF OBAMA ISN'T CHRISTIAN?

Obama's Messianic jargon hits rock bottom ...

... and Georgetown removes the Name of Jesus to accommodate The One

At Georgetown University today, while sitting in the press section at Gaston Hall awaiting the arrival of President Obama for a "major address" on economics, I overheard a reporter discussing the advance text of the speech.

The reporter said that senior presidential adviser David Axelrod had compared Obama during his European trip to one planting seeds for a harvest. Along the same lines, he noted, in today's speech, Obama was set to use another Gospel analogy: that of the "house built upon a rock."

And so it came to pass, beneath Gaston Hall's beautiful painting of Morality, Faith, and Patriotism, with gold letters on the wall behind him spelling the Jesuit motto "Ad majorem Dei gloriam"—"To the greater glory of God"—Obama shared his prosperity gospel at the nation's oldest Catholic university.

But there was one thing missing: Jesus' name.

I'm not just talking about Obama's failing to mention Jesus—though he did pointedly fail to mention the name of the One—that is, for him, the other "One"—who first told the "parable" he shared.

No, Jesus' very name, in the form of the ancient monogram IHS, which had been in gold lettering on the wooden archway above Gaston Hall's dais, was painted over (or otherwise expertly camouflaged) prior to Obama's arrival. Apparently, the Name that is above every other name is not permitted to be above Obama.

The photo above shows the archway "before." You can see the "after" clearly in C-SPAN's video, as Georgetown President John DeGioia emerges to give his fawning introduct

From the Dawn Patrol.

Seriously, why would Obama need to have the name of Jesus removed from this traditional Georgetown display?

And, which two other groups of people can you think of who would insist upon having the name Jesus removed from a traditional public display?

One of them are called atheists. But, Obama is not an atheist. This much we know.

What is the name of that other group? The name eludes me for now. Can anyone help me out?

UPDATE: CNS News says that it was at the request of the White House that the name of Jesus was removed (via Astute Bloggers):

CNSNews.com

Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
By Edwin Mora

Photo of Gaston Hall stage that shows symbol "IHS" that was covered up during President Obama's speech to accommodate a White House request. (Wikimedia photo)

(CNSNews.com) - Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”--symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the “IHS” monogram that had previously adorned the stage at Georgetown’s Gaston Hall was still covered up--when the pediment where it had appeared was photographed by CNSNews.com.

President Obama is greeted by Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia as he arrives to deliver remarks on the economy, April 14, 2009, atGeorgetown University. Georgetown had covered the symbol "IHS" on the pediment above and behind the two men. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

“In coordinating the logistical arrangements for yesterday’s event, Georgetown honored the White House staff’s request to cover all of the Georgetown University signage and symbols behind Gaston Hall stage,” Julie Green Bataille, associate vice president for communications at Georgetown, told CNSNews.com.

“The White House wanted a simple backdrop of flags and pipe and drape for the speech, consistent with what they’ve done for other policy speeches,” she added. “Frankly, the pipe and drape wasn’t high enough by itself to fully cover the IHS and cross above the GU seal and it seemed most respectful to have them covered so as not to be seen out of context.”

Pediment in Gaston Hall with "IHS" covered as photographed by CNSNews.com, April 15, 2009. (Photo by Penny Starr,CNSNews.com)

On Wednesday, CNSNews.com inspected the pediment embedded in the wall at the back of the stage in Gaston Hall, where Obama delivered his speech. The letters “IHS” were not to be found. They appeared to be shrouded with a triangle of black-painted plywood.

UPDATE (Reliapundit):

re: Georgetown [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

A former White House official points out that a previous administration respected that Jesus Christ came with the Georgetown territory.

04/16 01:04 PM

OBAMA IS GOING OUT OF HIS WAY TO DIS' CHRISTIANITY.

UPDATE - (Reliapundit):

IN HIS SPEECH, OBAMA GIVES A HAT-TIP TO ISLAM HERE:

From President Obama’s speech at Georgetown:

. . . five pillars that will grow our economy and make this new century another American century:

"FIVE PILLARS" IS A DIRECT QUOTE FROM ISLAM WHICH FAMOUSLY HAS FIVE PILLARS.

THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE.

OBAMA IS EITHER A CRYPTO-MUSLIM OR A DHIMMI OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.

MSM INCREASES "TEA PARTY" COVERAGE, BUT STILL LAGS BEHIND BLOGS

News results

Results 1 – 10 of about 10,643 for tea party.

Blog results

Results 1 - 10 of about 4,113,314 for "tea party".

BLOGGERS HAVE 500 TIMES MORE POSTS ON THE TEA PARTIES THAN THE MSM.

(THIS IS TEN TIMES BETTER THAN EARLIER IN THE DAY!)

• THIS LACK OF COVERAGE IS WHY THE MSM IS GOING BROKE:
• THEY DON'T COVER WHAT JUST ABOUT HALF THE PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN!
• AND THEY REFUSE TO BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN POLITICAL BIAS.
• AND WE KNOW IT. AND THEY DO TOO.
• EFF EM. WE DON'T NEED EM.
• MORE ON THIS BIAS HERE.
  

NYC Tea Party was GRRRRREAT!

I went down to City Hall to check out the Tea Party. Got there about 8. It was mobbed! What impressed me most was the great diversity of the crowd: all ages, races - and many political types: hippies, libertarians, paulians, conservatives, suburban types and so on. The energy was great and the event seemed to energize people. In other words: I have the feeling it's GROWING.

ATLAS HAS PHOTOS AND VIDEO.

After that I went to the main Post Office and mailed my taxes.

It makes me sick. The more we send the politicians, the more they dole out to their buddies on programs that mostly do more harm than good.

It's time for a really really low flat tax on income (lets say around 10%) and also a flat national sales tax (let's say 10%) which is refundable to income tax filers up to their first $50 grand. IOW: no one earning $50 grand pays NATIONAL sales tax because they all get a $5000 refund.

PIGS FLY: NYTIMES COVERS TEA PARTIES ON FRONT PAGE

NYTIMES: Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties

Some people wore tea bags hanging from their umbrellas or eyeglasses. Others simply tossed them on the White House Lawn. And there were those who carried cardboard signs to express their frustration over the sagging economy and burgeoning bailouts.

The government deadline for filing income tax returns on Wednesday offered some Americans a timely excuse to vent their frustrations and twist a metaphor more than two centuries in the making. Turning tea into an acronym for Taxed Enough Already, demonstrators were expected to attend more than 750 rallies in cities from Boston to Washington, East Hampton, N.Y., to Yakima, Wash., to protest government spending — namely the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus package and $3.5 trillion budget.

• LET'S MAKE THIS THE MOST EMAILED STORY OF THE DAY:
• CLICK OVER TO THE ARTICLE,
• AND SEND THE ARTICLE TO SEVERAL FRIENDS VIA THE NYTIMES' EMAIL LINK.

TEA PARTY GOOGLE RESULTS: 24 MILLION BLOG HITS VS. 5000 NEWS HITS

I smell a little MSM bias:

News results Results 1 – 10 of about 4,685 for tea-party.

Blog results

Results 1 - 10 of about 24,339,185 for "tea party".

DHS Report Shorthand

From Peter Kirsanow at THE CORNER:

That DHS report warning about all manner of "right-wing extremists" could be considerably shortened if it simply alerted law-enforcement officials to be on the lookout for people from "small towns (who are) bitter (and) cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment."

04/15 10:40 AM

TO APPEASE OUR ENEMIES, OBAMA WILL SOON REVEAL CIA INTERROGATION SECRETS

WSJ:

... A decision to keep secret key parts of the three 2005 memos outlining legal guidance on CIA interrogations would anger some Obama supporters who have pushed him to unveil now-abandoned Bush-era tactics. It would also go against the views of Attorney General Eric Holder and White House Counsel Greg Craig, people familiar with the matter said.

... In the middle is deputy national-security adviser John Brennan, a former CIA official, has generally sided with the CIA, the senior administration official said.

Intelligence officials also believe that making the techniques public would give al Qaeda a propaganda tool just as the administration is stepping up its fight against the terrorist group in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

... Top CIA officials have spoken out strongly against a full release, saying it would undermine the agency's credibility with foreign intelligence services and hurt the agency's work force, people involved in the discussions said. However, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair favors releasing the information, a senior administration official said.

... The Obama administration is leaning toward keeping secret some graphic details of tactics allowed in Central Intelligence Agency interrogations, despite a push by some top officials to make the information public, according to people familiar with the discussions.

These people cautioned that President Barack Obama is still reviewing internal arguments over the release of Justice Department memorandums related to CIA interrogations, and how much information will be made public is in flux.

... Regardless of what Mr. Obama decides, said the senior administration official, "the administration will release a lot more than has ever been released before" because at a minimum, previously undisclosed legal justifications for the CIA interrogation program will be made public.

BY RELEASING ANY INFO', OBAMA AIDS AND ABETS THE ENEMY.

WORST PRESIDENT EVER.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

TODAY'S ONLY IN ISLAM: MUSLIM MAN MURDERS AND MUTILATES PREGNANT SISTER TO RESTORE FAMILY HONOR

Brother confesses to killing pregnant sister to protect his family's honour

A Jordanian man confessed to stabbing to death his pregnant sister and mutilating her body to protect the family honour.

... The 28-yearold married woman was five months pregnant and had moved back in with her family after an argument with her husband. Her brother believed she was seeing other men.

Attempts to introduce harsher sentences for honour killings have been blocked in Jordan's parliament. Some members of government have also urged judges to consider honour killings equal to other homicides and punishable by up to 15 years in prison. But many in the judiciary still hand down lenient punishments of half of that or less.

ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION; IT'S A CODE FOR KILLING.

THE FACT THAT THE BROTHER'S HORRIFYING ACT HASN'T HURT THE FAMILY HONOR PROVES THIS.

AND MODERATE MUSLIM ALLY JORDAN!?!?!??!?! PUNISHES THIS CRIME WITH SENTENCES OF LESS THAN 7 YEARS!?!?!?

SCUM.

COUNTER-ATTACK ACCORDINGLY.

WW4 EUPHEMISM ALERT: "SOMALI PIRATE"

Undeterred Somali pirates take 60 more hostages

MOMBASA, Kenya

Undeterred Somali pirates went on a hijacking spree, brazenly capturing four more ships and taking over 60 crew members hostage in the Gulf of Aden, the waterway at the center of the world’s fight against piracy.

REPEAT: "the world’s fight against piracy."

THIS IS AS STUPID A EUPHEMISM AS "THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR".

THIS IS AS STUPID AS SAYING AFGHANISTAN IS THE GOOD WAR AND IRAQ THE BAD/UNNECESSARY WAR.

PIRACY - LIKE TERROR - IS A TACTIC NOT AN ENEMY.

SO-CALLED "SOMALI PIRATES" ARE MARAUDING MUSLIMS - JUST LIKE THE BARBARY PIRATES, AND JUST LIKE MOHAMED AND HIS BAND OF THIEVES.

THE WAR - WW4 - IS THE WAR BETWEEN THE WEST AND ISLAM. BETWEEN MODERN, ENLIGHTENED CIVILIZATION AND AN EVIL MARTIAL IDEOLOGY - MORE EVIL THAN COMMUNISM AND NAZISM . . . ISLAM.

WE'RE JUST GONNA HAVE TO KEEP PUTTING OUT THESE LITTLE JIHADO-BRUSH-FIRES - OFF THE COAST OF AFRICA, IN THAILAND, IN THE PHILIPPINES, IN AFGHANISTAN, IN THE BANLIEUES OF PARIS, IN HOLLAND, IN EGYPT, IN GAZA, IN LEBANON, AND SO ON - UNTIL WE NEUTRALIZE ISLAM.

IF IRAN GETS THE BOMB - OR IF PAKISTAN COLLAPSES (WHICH SEEMS INCREASINGLY LIKELY) - THEM THE FINAL CONFRONTATION IS GONNA BE QUITE MESSY.

TODAY'S GUARANTEED NOT HALAL: NILANTI NARAIN

100% INDIAN AND GUARANTEED NOT HALAL.

IS THIS A NUDE PICTURE OF BARBARA BUSH?

HERE:

NOT AS INTERESTING AS THESE NUDE PICTURES OF OBAMA'S MOTHER.

PROOF THOSE WHO ATTACK THE SO-CALLED "ISRAEL LOBBY" ARE NUTS: THE USA GIVES MORE AID TO MUSLIMS THAN ISRAEL, AND ALSO INTERVENES ON BEHALF OF MUSLIMS

THIS ITEM REMINDED ME HOW MUCH AID THE USA GIVES TO MUSLIMS; (AP):

US will provide the Lebanese military with unmanned aircraft

The United States said Tuesday it is providing Lebanon with 12 unmanned military aircraft in the coming months, the latest effort to bolster the fragile Middle East nation.

Washington hopes a strengthened Lebanese military would extend state authority across the country, where Hizbullah is gaining power with its arsenal of rockets that threaten another US ally, Israel.

A strong national army could be a counter to Hizbullah's weapons and could deprive the terrorists of the excuse to keep their arms.

US officials said their support is intended to help Lebanon maintain internal security, fight terrorism and secure its borders.

Since 2006, the US has provided Lebanon with more than a billion dollars in assistance, including $410 million to support security.

• THE USA GIVES BILLIONS TO EGYPT, PAKISTAN, JORDAN, LEBANON, AND IRAQ.

• BILLIONS.

• THE USA HAS ALSO INTERVENED ON BEHALF OF MUSLIMS - BUT NEVER EVER ON BEHIALF OF ISRAEL.

• NEVER.

• THE USA DEFENDED KUWAIT. AND KOSOVO. AND LIBERATED AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ.

• AT HUGE COST IN GOLD AND BLOOD.

• BUT THE USA HAS NEVER EVER SHED A DROP ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL.

• NOT A DROP.

REMEMBER THAT NEXT TIME YOU HEAR SOME ASSHOLE LIKE CHAS FREEMAN OR WALT OR MEARSHEIMER OR BRZEZINSKI OR CARTER WHINE ABOUT HOW THE USA ISN'T EVENHANDED.

THEY CAN CAN GO EFF THEMSELVES.

‘Card Check’ Editorial Cartoon Dubbed ‘Brilliant’

There I was, in a Grand Junction, Colo., hotel room killing time while waiting for the my trip-related activities (see BMW Visiting Western Colorado’s Piceance Basin for details) to begin this afternoon, when I came across the latest editorial effort by Michael at My Personal Litmus. While he calls it “People’s Propaganda #4,” I call it brilliant!

The cartoon features President Barack Obama in a soldier’s uniform with a rifle slung over his shoulder, the red star of communism on his cap and a union membership card held high above the words, CARD CHECK IS GOOD FOR AMERICA. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth.

If you’re not familiar with “Card Check (a.k.a., “Employee Free Choice Act”), I strongly suggest you get familiar with it quickly by reading the posts below:

• Card Check Measure Threatens Jobs, Democracy (April 3, 2009)

• Coalition Says ‘Card-Check’ Faces Roadblocks (March 10, 2009)

• Poll: 74 Percent of Union Members Oppose Card Check Provisions in Employee Free Choice Act (March 3, 2009)

HE'S LIVING IN DREAMLAND: A RABBI WHO SIDES WITH THE ISLAMISTS

A dhimmi rabbi to watch out for: one Marc Schneier, who clearly never studied the Quran:

WASHINGTON – Rabbi Marc Schneier, who was included on Newsweek's list of America's 50 most influential rabbis, is the founder and president of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU). As part of this endeavor Schneier is leading an initiative to develop dialogue between Jews and Muslims in the US and across the world.

Last November Rabbi Schneier twinned between 50 synagogues and 50 mosques across the US and Canada for a day of joint prayers, with rabbis and imams speaking out against hate.

In November 2009 he hopes to expand the initiative to Europe.

[...]

Last month Rabbi Schneier approached the UN ambassadors of 20 Muslim countries and invited them to engage in dialogue and join hands in the fight against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. "I have said that the ideal would be that in the upcoming Durban Review Conference, moderate Muslims should be those that will work on behalf of advocating Jewish issues and vice versa.

"We need to have friends in the Muslim world and we are beginning to identify them," he concluded.

Ho, I'll bet. When he brings up mention of Islamophobia, that's where the learned know that there's something wrong with him. But here's what's most challenging: does he know anything about the meaning of jihad? Does he approve of honor murders, female circumcision, or even Shari'a law? Does he even approve of Mohammed's marriage to the 9-year-old Ayesha? That's what I'd like to know.

A man who's more concerned with dialogue between Judaism and Islam than confronting the latter about their perverted culture is not someone to hang around with. No wonder Newsweek chose him for their list.

WHY OBAMA'S ECONOMIC POLICIES WILL FAIL: THEY'RE BASS ACKWARDS!

DINOCRAT:

Getting it backwards

Robert Samuelson dissects the logic of the Obama economic plan and finds that the administration has things exactly backwards:

What Obama proposes is a “post-material economy.” He would de-emphasize the production of ever-more private goods and services, harnessing the economy to achieve broad social goals. In the process, he sets aside the standard logic of economic progress.

Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, this has been simple: produce more with less. (”Productivity,” in economic jargon.) Mass markets developed for clothes, cars, computers and much more because declining costs expanded production. Living standards rose. By contrast, the logic of the “post-material economy” is just the opposite: spend more and get less.

Consider global warming. The centerpiece of Obama’s agenda is a “cap-and-trade” program. This would be, in effect, a tax on fossil fuels (oil, coal, natural gas). The idea is to raise their prices so that households and businesses use less or switch to costlier “alternative” energy sources such as solar. In general, we would spend more on energy and get less of it.

The story for health care is similar, though the cause is different. We spend more and more for it (now 21 percent of personal consumption, says Brookings economist Gary Burtless) and get, it seems, less and less gain in improved health. This is largely the result of costly new technologies and the unintended consequence of open-ended insurance reimbursement that encourages unneeded tests, procedures and visits to doctors. Expanding health insurance might aggravate the problem. Many of today’s uninsured get health care free or don’t need much because they’re young (40 percent are between 18 and 34).

Together, health care and energy constitute about a quarter of the U.S. economy. If their costs increase, they will crowd out other spending. The president’s policies might, as he says, create high-paying “green” or medical jobs. But if so, they will destroy old jobs elsewhere.

Think about it. If you spend more for gasoline or electricity — or for health insurance premiums — then you spend less on other things, from meals out to home repair. Jobs in those sectors suffer. The prospect is that energy and health costs may rise without creating much gain in material benefits. That’s not economic “progress.”

It’s not just the grotesque size of the budget and its deficits; it’s the magical thinking behind it that creates menace.

Samuelson:

“Obama and his allies…left the impression that somehow magical technological breakthroughs will produce clean energy that is also cheap…

We cannot build a productive economy on the foundations of health care and “green” energy.

These programs would create burdens for many, benefits for some. Indeed, their weaknesses may feed on each other.”

IT'S NOT JUST BAD POLICY; IT'S HARMFUL. IT WILL MAKE THINGS WORSE.

WE ARE IN RECOVERY ALREADY - WITHOUT OBAMA'S "HELP".

HIS "HELP" WILL KILL THE RECOVERY.

ONLY A GOP CONTROLLED CONGRESS CAN SAVE US.

TEA PARTY ANYONE?

MORE OBAMA APPEASEMENT YIELDS MORE AGGRESSION FROM OUR ENEMIES

NYTIMES:

U.S. May Drop Key Condition for Talks With Iran

The Obama administration and its European allies are preparing proposals that would shift strategy toward Iran by dropping a longstanding American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities during the early phases of negotiations over its atomic program, according to officials involved in the discussions.

N. Korea Says It Will Restart Its Nuclear Reactor

North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart its nuclear reactor and to boycott international disarmament talks for good in retaliation for the U.N. Security Council's condemnation of its rocket launch.

Somali Pirates Hijack 3 More Ships

Somali pirates brazenly hijacked three more ships in the Gulf of Aden, including a nigh-time attack on a Greek ship in the middle of the night on Tuesday.

OBAMA IS MAKING US LESS SAFE - APPEASEMENT ALWAYS HAS AND IT ALWAYS WILL.

WE SHOULD BE USING OVERWHELMING FORCE AGAINST THE PIRATES, NOT SNIPERS.

WE SHOULD BE USING OVERWHELMING FORCE ON IRAN AND NORTH KOREA, TOO.