TRUMAN WAS A HERO AND HIROSHIMA WAS A GOOD DEED: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS BILL WHITTLE BY TWO YEARS

BILL WHITTLE DID A GREAT JOB TAKING DOWN THAT LEFT-WING PIECE OF CRAP CLOWN JON STEWART FOR CALLING HARRY TRUMAN A WAR CRIMINAL FOR DROPPING NUKES ON JAPAN.


YOU MUST SEE THE VIDEO, HERE.


WHITTLE GOT LOTS OF ATTENTION FOR IT. JUSTIFIABLY SO.


OUR READERS KNEW WHAT WHITTLE WAS TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE WE POSTED THE SAME STUFF TWO YEARS AGO - ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIROSHIMA ON AUGUST 6TH 2007,

AND AGAIN ON NOVEMBER 7TH OF THAT YEAR - WHEN THE HROIC PILOT OF THE ENOLA GAY DIED.

• JON STEWART WAS MERELY REGURGITATING LEFT-WING KNEE-JERK BS.

• NEARLY EVERY SINGLE POSITION OF THE LEFT IS AS ILL-INFORMED AS THEIR POSITION ON HIROSHIMA.

• IT'S LONG PASSED TIME EVERY LEFT-WING IDIOT WAS HELD UP TO THE SAME CRITICISM ON ALL THEIR IDIOTIC KNEE-JERK POSITIONS:

• ON IRAQ; ON AGW; ON GUN CONTROL; ON APPEASEMENT; ON JIHAD; ON GITMO; ON NATIONALIZING HEALTHCARE; ON GWBUSH - AND SO ON.

CARRIE PREJEAN IS BEING TARGETED BECAUSE OF HER FAITH, NOT HER POSITION ON GAY MARRIAGE

CARRIE PREJEAN HAS THE SAME POSITION AS BARRY OBAMA AND BJ CLINTON WITH REGARDS TO "GAY MARRIAGE";

IN FACT, IT'S THE SAME AS ALL MAJOR DEMOCRATS.

• BUT SHE ADMITS IT IS BASED ON HER FAITH -

• THEY DON'T.

• THIS PROVES THAT THE LEFT HATES CARRIE PREJEAN BECAUSE OF HER FAITH,

• NOT HER POSITION ON "GAY MARRIAGE".

• THE LEFT HATES THOSE OF US WHO BELIEVE IN GOD;

• THEY THINK WE'RE IDIOTS.

THE LEFTISTS ARE THE IDIOTS - FOR CONTINUING TO BELIEVE IN AN IDEOLOGY WHICH HAS FAILED EVERYHWERE AND EVERYTIMEIT'S EVER BEEN EMPLOYED.

Letter Reveals How to Politely Decline Being Used

Andrew C. McCarthy sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday that’s receiving a lot of attention. A polite “Thanks, but no thanks” means of declining an invitation to participate in a roundtable meeting of the President’s Task Force on Detention Policy, the letter speaks volumes about what’s wrong with the way President Barack Obama and members of his administration “do” government. Read the full text of the letter here.

OBAMA POLL NUMBERS ARE AVERAGE - but the pro-Obama propaganda is above average!

FOX:

Obama's 63 percent average, according to a study released by Gallup last month, is the highest for a new president since Jimmy Carter (he clocked in at 69 percent during his first 100 days).

But John F. Kennedy bested Obama by more than 10 points, with 74 percent. Dwight Eisenhower enjoyed a 71 percent rating early on.

Even Richard Nixon averaged a 62 percent approval rating, just 1 point shy of Obama's.

Overall, Obama's average for the first three months matched the historical average of 63 percent for presidents since Eisenhower.

When you include presidents who took the oath mid-term -- after the death or resignation of a president -- Obama's 63 percent looks paltry.

Harry Truman enjoyed 87 percent approval, while Lyndon Johnson enjoyed 76 percent.

THE GOOGAHGAH OBAMA HOOPLA IS REALLY JUST MSM PROPAGANDA. THE MSM FAVORED OBAMA WITH OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE COVERAGE DURING THE CAMPAIGN:

("Comments made by sources, voters, reporters and anchors that aired on ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts over the past two months reflected positively on Obama in 65 percent of cases, compared to 31 percent of cases with regards to McCain, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs."),

AND SINCE HE HAS BEEN POTUS:

President Obama is getting more coverage, and more positive coverage, from the media than his two predecessors.

A new study of his first 50 days in office reveals the network evening newscasts devoted 27 hours, 44 minutes of coverage to his presidency. George W. Bush received just under eight hours in his first 50 days. Bill Clinton: 15 hours.

CBS had almost 11 hours. NBC was next with nine and a half. ABC had seven and a third. The study looked at the first half-hour of "Special Report" on FOX and we had 10 hours, 24 minutes.

The coverage on the broadcast nets was judged 58 percent positive for President Obama. That compares to 33 percent for Mr. Bush and 44 percent for Mr. Clinton.

THE PRO-OBAMA COVERAGE IS THE FLIP-SIDE OF THEIR NON-STOP DOOM'N GLOOM/"A DEPRESSION-IS-COMING" CRAP FROM THE TIME MCCAIN TOOK THE LEAD UNTIL OBAMA'S PORKASAURUS "STIMULUS" BILL WAS PASSED.

THE FOURTH ESTATE HAS DEVOLVED INTO OBAMA GOEBBELS-LIKE PROPAGANDA MINISTRY.

DON'T BE DUPED.

UPDATE: WELCOME GATEWAY READERS; HOFT HAS MORE - ALWAYS DOES....

NYTIMES PUBLISHES AP'S LIST OF THE 10 HIGHEST PAID CEO'S

List of Highest-Paid CEOs for 2008

The 10 highest-paid CEOs for 2008 at Standard & Poor's 500 companies based on calculations by The Associated Press. The analysis includes companies that filed proxy statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission between Jan. 1 and April 20. The total pay figures are rounded and are based on the AP's compensation formula, which adds up salary, perks, bonuses, preferential interest rates on pay set aside for later, and company estimates for the value of stock options and stock awards on the day they were granted last year.

1. Aubrey McClendon, Chesapeake Energy Corp., $112.5 million
2. Sanjay Jha, Motorola Inc., $104.4 million
3. Robert Iger, Walt Disney Co., $51.1 million
4. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., $42.9 million
5. Kenneth Chenault, American Express Co., $42.9 million
6. Vikram Pandit, Citigroup Inc., $38.2 million
7. Steven Farris, Apache Corp., $37.2 million
8. Louis Camilleri, Philip Morris International Inc., $36.9 million
9. Kevin Johnson, Juniper Networks Inc., $36.1 million
10. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co., $35.7 million

THEY ALL HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON: NOT ONE GOT A DIME FROM ME.

• THEY WERE ALL PAID BY THEIR SHAREHOLDERS - NOT THE GENERAL PUBLIC. (AND FEDERAL ASSISTANCE THEY GOT WILL BE REPAID.)
• IOW: IT'S NONE OF OUR G-DANGED BUSINESS WHAT THEY GOT PAID.
• IT'S JUST GOSSIP.
• COVETOUS LEFT-WING GOSSIP.

PUBLISHING THIS GOSSIP IS PART OF THE LEFT'S ANTI-CAPITALISM/ANTI-FREE ENTERPRISE PROPAGANDA EFFORT.

DON'T BE DUPED.

MAY 2ND 1989: THE IRON CURTAIN OVER HUNGARY COMES DOWN

JUST TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY: BBC:

Border cut that sparked an exodus

By Nick Thorpe BBC News, Budapest

Thousands of people flooded out of the Soviet bloc via Hungary

Exactly 20 years ago Hungarian border guards began dismantling the physical barrier along the Hungarian-Austrian border known as the Iron Curtain.

It was an act with huge consequences for other Eastern European countries and eventually the whole of Europe.

Only a tiny section of the Iron Curtain was removed on 2 May 1989 - about 8 km in total, either side of four border crossings between Hungary and Austria.

But it was an act of massive moral and political importance.

Hungary defied its supposed allies in the Eastern Bloc, especially East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania, while the then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev looked on impassively.

The main reformer in the Communist Party in Hungary at that time, Imre Pozsgay, claims the main credit for bringing down the curtain.

"I didn't do anything heroic, but I knew how much we could get away with," he said.

As word spread of the breach in the Iron Curtain, thousands of East Germans and Romanians headed for it, and the border guards were overwhelmed.

By September 1989 Hungary gave up all pretence of acting as the loyal guard of the socialist camp and opened its western border completely.

Within three months, the communist system collapsed throughout the region.

THE COMMIE INVASION SPARKED AN EXODUS! THIS CUT SPARKED THE BEGINNING OF RELIEF FROM TYRANNY, OF THE BEGINNINGS OF LIBERTY.

A GREAT DAY - THANKS TO REAGAN!

WE NEED ANOTHER REAGAN!

INSTEAD WE HAVE BARACK HUSSEIN MUSSOLINI!

SOUTER AND SPECTER: GOOD RIDDANCE TO PHONY CONSERVATIVES

DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT!

GEERT WILDERS REMINDS US WHAT WE FOUGHT FOR IN WW2 - AND IT WASN'T A DHIMMIFIED OR ISMALMICIZED EUROPE!

AT THE END OF THE LAST VIDEO BY PAMELA GELLER THAT CARLOS POSTED BELOW, GEERT WILDERS REMINDS US THAT WE DIDN'T DEFEAT NAZI GERMANY IN WW2 IN ORDER FOR EUROPE TO SLIP INTO ISLAMICIZATION.

IT REMINDED ME OF REGAN'S GREAT SPEECH IN NORMANDY. I FIRST READ THIS SPEECH SEVERAL YEARS AGO - AND IT'S ONE OF THE MANY REASONS I BECOME A GREAT GREAT FAN OF REAGAN.

READ IT. AND THEN BE SURE TO WATCH THESE VIDEOS.

President Reagan's Speech at Pointe de Hoc, Normandy

Ronald Reagan -- Pointe de Hoc, Normandy, June 6, 1984 (The 40th anniversary of D-Day)

We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.

The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers -- at the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine-guns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe.

Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After two days of fighting only ninety could still bear arms.

Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's poem. You are men who in your 'lives fought for life...and left the vivid air signed with your honor'...

Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith, and belief; it was loyalty and love.

The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next.

It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.

You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.

THE POSTMODERN LEFT IS MORALLY RELATIVISTIC AND HAVE LOST THE DEEP MORE KNOWLEDGE... that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.

THAT'S WHY THE LEFT IS WORSE THAN USELESS.

TODAY, THE LEFT IS NOT WILLING TO DEFEND THE WEST AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF LIBERTY ABROAD.

WE MUST FIGHT THE LEFT AS WE FIGHT THE JIHADIST ABROAD - AND IN EUROPE WHERE THE LEFT AND THE JIHAD ARE OPENLY ALLIED.

THEIRS IS THE TRUE AXIS OF EVIL: THE LEFT AND JIHAD.

OBAMA APPOINTS WHINING DOVE APPEASER VET TO KEY PENTAGON POST

PHIL CARTER.

A WIMP.

A DUPE.

EVIDENCE:

''Diplomacy is more important than force,'' he said. "Force creates more enemies than it removes. For every one insurgent you kill you create maybe 10 or 20 Iraqis with blood debts against the U.S.''

Carter left the Army after nine years in both active duty and as a reservist with military police and civil affairs units.

In October 2004, when the Pentagon said intelligence indicated that some former Guantánamo detainees had ''returned to the battlefield,'' Carter blamed policy ''blowback'' from a White House decision to ``shred the Geneva Conventions.''

'HAPHAZARD' POLICIES

''It hardly takes an expert to say that the way to win the war on terrorism is not to create more of it,'' he wrote in a commentary published on Slate.com. "But the haphazard, extralegal, credulous policies at Guantánamo have done just that.''

LET'S FISK THIS LIBERAL CRAP:

1 - ''Diplomacy is more important than force,'' he said. ...

• WINSTON CHURCHILL FAMOUSLY SAID DIPLOMACY IS WHAT YOU SAY TO A MAD DOG AS YOU REACH DOWN FOR A ROCK.

• WITHOUT THE THREAT OF CREDIBLE FORCE, DIPLOMACY IS ALMOST ALWAYS WORTHLESS. HITLER KNEW THIS IN THE 10930'S. KIM JONG IL AND IRAN KNOW IT NOW. WRITING HARSHLY WORDED LETTERS AND SANCTIONS ARE WORTHLESS. IN FACT, SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ CREATED MORE ENEMIES THAN THE WAR.

BOTTOM-LINE: CARTER IS TOTALLY EFFIN' WRONG.

2 - "Force creates more enemies than it removes. For every one insurgent you kill you create maybe 10 or 20 Iraqis with blood debts against the U.S.''

• IF THIS LITTLE ITTY BIT OF CRAP FROM CARTER WAS TRUE, THEN THE SURGE WOULD HAVE FAILED. IN FACT, THIS IDIOTIC STATEMENT SEEMS TO ARGUE THAT RETALIATING IS ALWAYS MAKES YOUR ENEMY STRINGER. IF THIS WAS TRUE THEN WE WOULD HAVE LOST EVERY WAR WE ACTUALLY WON.

• BOTTOM-LINE: THIS IS MORE IDIOTIC CRAP FROM CARTER.

3 - In October 2004, when the Pentagon said intelligence indicated that some former Guantánamo detainees had ''returned to the battlefield,'' Carter blamed policy ''blowback'' from a White House decision to ``shred the Geneva Conventions.''

• THIS IS INSANE: CARTER BLAMES IT ON BLOWBACK WHEN IN FACT THE PROBLEM IS THESE JIHADIST SCUMBAGS SHOULD HAVE NEVER EVER BEEN RELEASED.

• WHAT IS MORE, IT IS CUSTOMARY TO HOLD ENEMY UNTIL THE END OF HOSTILITIES. RELEASING THIS SCUM FROM GITMO WAS A MISTAKE.

• ADDITIONALLY, AL QAEDA IS NOT A SIGNATORY TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS - WHICH ARE A TREATY WHICH GOVERNS ITS SIGNATORIES, AND NOT INTERNATIONAL LAWS WHICH APPLY TO ALL.

• AL QAEDA DOESN'T GIVE OUR CAPTURED ANY RIGHTS, IT IS IMMORAL TO GIVE AL QAEDA WE CAPTURE ANY RIGHTS;

• IT ACTUALLY WEAKENS GENEVA BY SENDING A MESSAGE TO NON-SIGNATORIES THAT THEY GET THE BENEFITSOF THE TREATY WITHOUT ANY OF THE HARDSHIPS WITHOUT HAVING TO AFFORD US ANY OF ITS BENEFITS.

4 - ''It hardly takes an expert to say that the way to win the war on terrorism is not to create more of it,'' he wrote in a commentary published on Slate.com. "But the haphazard, extralegal, credulous policies at Guantánamo have done just that.''

• THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE FOR THIS.

• WHAT CARTER IS SAYING IS JUST IGNORANT CRAP. CARTER MISTAKENLY THINKS THAT THE ENEMY IS REACTING TO OUR POLICIES AND PROCEDURE AND DOESN'T HAVE A THOUSAND YEAR OLD PROACTIVE PLAN .. ER UM A PLAN CALLED FOR IN THE KORAN AND NAMED JIHAD. GLOBAL JIHAD.

• THE ENEMY IS KILLING BUDDHISTS IN THAILAND AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GITMO.

• THE ENEMY IS KILLING ZOROASTRIANS AND BAHAI IN IRAN AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GITMO.

• THE ENEMY IS BLOWING UP BUDDHAS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GITMO.

• THE ENEMY IS KILLING SUNNIS IN IRAQ AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GITMO.

• THE ENEMY IS KILLING CHRISTIANS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GITMO.

• THE ENEMY IS KILLING RUSSIANS IN CHECHNYA AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GITMO.

• THE ENEMY IS KILLING CHINESE ATHEISTS IN WESTERN CHINA AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GITMO.

• THE ENEMY IS KILLING SUNNIS IN PAKISTAN AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GITMO.

AND SO ON.

WHAT'S ALMOST AS BAD AS CARTER'S IDIOTIC LEFTIST CRAP, IS THAT TYPICALLY SENSIBLE HAWK GLENN REYNOLDS SUPPORT HIM.

SHEESH.

OBAMA PROMISES TO APPOINT A JUSTICE WHO IGNORES THE CONSTITUTION

OBAMA - VIA HOT AIR:

The One’s fans will know exactly what he means he says this:

“I will seek somebody with a sharp and independent mind, and a record of excellence and integrity,” he said. “I will seek someone who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book, it is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives, whether they can make a living, and care for their families, whether they feel safe in their homes, and welcome in their own nation. I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with peoples hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.”

OBAMA SAID THIS THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN.

• IT'S WHAT LIBERALS BELIEVE:

• LIBS BELIEVE THAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS WHATEVER THEIR LEFT-WING INDEOLOGY WANTS IT TO MEAN IN TERMS OF THE OUTCOME OF ANY GIVEN CASE - AND NOT "MERELY" IN TERMS OF THE CONSTITUTION. NO NO NO THAT WOULD BE

"some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book"...

WHEN OBAMA SAYS:

“I will seek someone who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book, it is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives,

• HE IS NOT CORRECT WHEN TALKING ABOUT JUDGES, BUT HE WOULD BE CORRECT WHEN IT COMES TO LEGISLATORS.

• JUDGES HAVE NO SUCH AUTHORITY UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION. THE POWER TO MAKE LAWS BASED ON THEIR PROBABLE OUTCOMES IS THE JOB OF A LEGISLATORTS. A JUDGE SHOULD RULE BASED ON THE LAW AND ONLY THE LAW.

• PERIOD.

• OBAMA WILL NO DOUBT FIND A NOMINEE WHO WILL RULE IN THE WAY OBAMA WANTS - AND FURTHER PERVERT OUR CONSTITUTION AND NATION.

IT'S SICKENING.

WILDERS FLORIDA SPEECH-VIDEO

Source: Atlas Shrugs

Letter Reveals Much About 1918 Flu Pandemic

Rather than look at today’s version of a flu pandemic, which involves hundreds of cases at most, I wanted to find out what it was like to live during the influenza outbreak of 1918 when 50 million people around the world died. A visit to the National Archives produced a letter written by a volunteer nurse to her friend at the Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas, Oct. 17, 1918.

Along with several photos from the era, I’ve reprinted the text of that letter here. [Note: The content of this letter will surprise you -- guaranteed!]

FLU PANIC: SCHOOL CLOSED BECAUSE OF ONE PROBABLE CASE

ONE PROBABLE CASE?

Perhaps my memory is faulty, but I don't recall anything quite like this level of panic before except in the days of polio outbreaks:

Rockville High School [one of the largest high schools in the D.C. area] is closed "until further notice," officials said last night, because authorities have reported a probable case of swine flu involving a student.

[...]

"A decision was made to close the school Thursday on the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and the Maryland state health department," Tillman said. "We are taking immediate steps to close the school."...

As most know, I am a teacher. I have to say that over the past few days I have noted that my students are stressed out over the "pandemic." In fact, some of my students are downright scared. One is even stuttering nervously every time he tries to participate in class discussions.

I haven't seen this level of fear since the days of the D.C. Snipers.

Is this flu outbreak a case of the perfect storm, a "crisis" to promote BHO's upcoming "health care reform" and the globalization of health care?

COMING SOON TO A PRISON NEAR YOU: GITMO DETAINEES!

NYTIMES: Hints That Detainees May Be Held on U.S. Soil

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested on Thursday that as many as 100 detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba would end up held without trial on American soil, a scenario he acknowledged would create widespread if not unanimous opposition in Congress.

The estimate from Mr. Gates was the most specific yet from the Obama administration about how many of the 241 prisoners now at Guantanamo could not be safely released, sent to other countries or appropriately tried in American courts.

In January President Obama ordered the prison closed by the end of year, but his administration is still working on what to do with the detainees.

THEY DECIDED TO CLOSE IT BEFORE DECIDING WHAT TO DO WITH THE DETAINEES. HOW SMART!

CAN ANYONE REALLY ARGUE THAT WE'LL BE SAFER WITH THEM HERE?

THIS MOVE GOES RIGHT ALONG WITH ENDING HARSH INTERROGATION AND WATER-BOARDING: IT MAKES US LESS SAFE.

OBAMA IS MAKING US LESS SAFE.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

WW4 IS A WAR FOR OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN FUTURE, AND AT THE CURRENT RATE, THE FUTURE IS MUSLIM

MUST SEE TV:

(VIA HOT AIR.)

EITHER WE FIGHT AND WIN, OR WE CONSIGN OUR DESCENDENTS TO A TALIBAN-LIKE FUTURE...

BENITO JUAREZ OBAMA - a fascist with a happy face

The Facts on Fascism

By Quin Hillyer

Yes, it is indeed similar to fascism.


Since my April 2 column that compared Barack Obama's economic policies (and others) to those of Italy's Benito Mussolini, I have been denounced on the pages of the Economist, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Toronto Star, and the New York Times (less strongly denounced there than in the others, oddly enough), and by Chris Matthews (and guests Tony Blankley and Larry Sabato) on Hardball, and also had the idea made fun of by CNN morning hosts while they played a rather tame and sober interview they had done with me on the subject.



Never mind that in the New York Times on April 7 , David Leonhardt went farther, comparing the policies to the economics of Hitler in the course of saying that was a good thing because Hitler's economics worked.

Somehow, the rather fact-based piece I wrote was seen by the media elite as out of bounds, but Leonhardt's was acceptable analysis because it was meant to praise Obama rather than bury him.





Yet Leonhardt's column is proof enough that it is not some right-wing conspiracy theory that sees fascistic leanings in the big government, corporatist approaches taken by The One in the Oval Office.

Since then, the evidence has grown only stronger. As the Examiner noted yesterday, the Obama takeover of General "The U.S. Treasury will be able to elect all of our directors and to control the vote on substantially all matters brought for a stockholder vote." Motors is astonishing in its scope and reach. The money quote from GM itself:

This is scary stuff.

It is not just a diminution of freedom, but a frontal assault.

And it's only part of the story, the whole of which is even worse.

• We now have the government refusing to accept repayment of loans it made to various banks -- preferring to keep control of the banks to regaining the taxpayers' money quickly.

• Moving from economics to coercion and the use of the state to target political enemies, we have a Homeland Security Department targeting veterans and anti-abortionists as potential terrorists, and a White House leaving open the option of prosecuting its predecessors over honest policy choices made in a time of war and without identifying any specific domestic law supposedly broken.

• We see selective release of previously classified information for political purposes.

• We have the advancement of "hate crimes" legislation that makes it a prosecutable offense to think unapproved thoughts. (House Republican Leader John Boehner was right to say the bill makes him "want to throw up.")

On the domestic level, again I say, all of this is straight out of the Mussolini playbook.


But again, to make this clear for those too dim to understand it the first time, let it be said that to compare policies to those of Mussolini is not to engage in radical name-calling or comparison to Hitler.

Mussolini was bad, indeed awful -- an authoritarian thug an bully, along the same lines as dozens of other authoritarian thugs and bullies through the years. The comparison definitely ought to scare those who love freedom -- but no more than a comparison to, say, Fulgencio Batista in Cuba.

Authoritarianism is not totalitarianism, though. There is a big difference -- a difference educated people once understood.

We are not talking about pure evil, not talking about genocide, not talking about brutal attempts at foreign conquest, not talking about Mengele-like experiments and deliberate killing of "defectives."

What we are talking about is the beginning of a tendency toward authoritarianism (so far minus the thuggishness), especially in the economic realm. And we darn well ought to be able to make sober, factual, valid historical analogies, by way of warning -- much as Leonhardt did, in his rather twisted attempt at praise of Obama -- without being accused of foaming at the mouth.

It is especially appropriate to make such comparisons if one has already shown that it is not merely a partisan accusation. Some of us noted even when Bush started us on this path that it had similarities to fascist economics.

And I take a back seat to nobody in having fought against real neo-Nazism on the right, as a founding board member of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism (which carried the fight against David Duke).

Again, this is a question of freedom.

It's a question of free enterprise, free markets, and free minds. When an administration takes over banks and car companies, and makes moves to force through a takeover of the entire health care industry without the ordinary procedural safeguards, and (even under Bush) forces banks to buy other banks against their will, then this isn't the America we know and love.

This is instead a country ruled by a top-down, command-and-control, invasive, barely accountable, self-selected elite.

And that is dangerous. And, minus the antipathy to labor unions, that is the very definition of Italian economic fascism.

And if Chris Matthews would put me on his show to have a civil discussion about it, his viewers would find it a reasonable and edifying conversation -- with not a single bit of what Matthews described as "red hot language."

Meanwhile, I hope Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder don't charge me with a "hate crime" for using the word fascist with regard to their policies.

OBAMA IS A FASCIST WITH A HAPPY FACE.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

Pakistan Reveals It's Own Military Secrets Indicating They Are Afraid Of Taliban

No nation on Earth would reveal the secrets of their most powerful weapons-systems, unless they were deeply afraid of something. It could be they are deeply afraid that the United States will not trust the Pakistani government sovereignty over it's own terra firma.

But, considering the fact that it is very unlikely the United States has the stomach for a war with a nuclear nation at this point, I believe it is even worse than that.

I believe the Pakistani government fears for it's own sustained sovereignty. After all, this is a country which just 10 years ago, came to be ruled by a military coup. And, evidence has shown that many in the military and the ISI (Pakistani intelligence organization) do side with the Taliban over the duly-elected government.

While it is comforting that Pakistan has granted us this important information (which, I believe, we can assume to be the location and codes to it's nuclear arsenal, for any other kind of "assurance" would be no assurance at all), it is a frightening prospect that the government of what is arguably the third-most radicalized Islamic nation on Earth (behind only Saudi Arabia and Iran) are feeling so weak that they are willing to become even weaker in the eyes of the world, in order to hold onto power just a little bit longer.

Pakistan shares nuclear secrets Pakistan’s senior civil and military officials are sharing tightly held information about the country’s nuclear weapons programme to western countries in a bid to allay fears about the security of warheads in the face of a Taliban advance.  The unusual move highlights global concerns over the safety of up to 100 atomic bombs in Pakistan’s possession, as the country tries to repel Taliban militants that last week advanced to within 100km of Islamabad, the country’s capital. Pakistan is secretive about its nuclear programme, developed outside the nuclear non-proliferation treaty  in an arms race with India.  A senior western envoy in Islamabad said diplomats had been given assurances about the security in place for the weapons systems and also their distance from Taliban-held territory. Pakistani officials presented this as a move to satisfy the west that its weapons would not fall into Taliban hands. “We have renewed our pledge to keep our nuclear weapons safe,” said a senior Pakistani official. The briefings were aimed, he said, at “reassuring” the international community that there were adequate safety measures “to keep a complete lid on our weapons”. Last night, the Pakistani army claimed it had halted the latest Taliban incursion in the Buner district, 100km north-west of Islamabad, after two days of fighting. At dawn on Wednesday, the army, which has been accused in the west of failing to challenge the militants, airlifted troops behind Taliban lines and, it claimed, forced them to retreat. Although the whereabouts of Pakistan’s weapons are secret, analysts say that some are placed far from the Indian border to allow Islamabad adequate response time in the event of an attack from its old enemy, and fellow nuclear power, India.

Flu Fears Demand We Cancel Cinco de Mayo

With the number of Swine Flu cases growing fast and fears of a pandemic dominating the news, many Americans are calling for the nation’s southern border to be sealed to stem the flow of individuals — legal and illegal immigrants — from Mexico and beyond who might be infected with the new flu “cocktail.” I suggest we take matters one step further and cancel all Cinco de Mayo activities next week.

Click here to learn more about this bold suggestion.

TERRORIST ATTACK IN HOLLAND

The Jawa Report points to the following video (in Dutch) about a car that ran people over at a procession for the queen before crashing into a pedastal:

It's told on the news that four people are dead from being run over. The culprit is in custody, but no name has been given.

Update: Here's a report from the AP:

APELDOORN, Netherlands (AP) - A speeding car raced toward an open bus carrying Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family during a holiday parade Thursday and plowed into spectators, killing four people and injuring 13 others, authorities said.

Prosecutors said they believe the incident was deliberate, but not an act of terrorism. They did not indicate a motive or say why the popular queen might have been a target. The driver was a 38-year-old white Dutch male with no police record or history of mental illness, police said. They would not give his name.

Saying that he's white is not enough to give a description.

THIS WEEK ON BLOG TALK RADIO

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which WC and I cohost. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Our guest today for the full hour is I.Q. Al Rassooli.

You don't want to miss this show!

I.Q. Al Rassoli is the author of Lifting the Veil: The True Faces of Muhammad and Islam. He also has two web sites: In The Name Of Allah and the YouTube site Idiot's Guide To Islam. Sample from the latter:



Listen to the May 1, 2009 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.

THE CULT OF PERSONALITY CONTINUES

• THE SOVIETS LOVED STALIN, A MAN OF THE PEOPLE RULING LIKE A CSAR.
• THE CHICOMS LOVED MAO, A MAN OF THE PEOPLE RULING LIKE AN EMPEROR.
• THE GERMANS LOVED HITLER, A CORPORAL RUILNG LIKE THE KAISER.
• THE FRENCH LOVED NAPOLEON, A LITTLE CORPORAL RULING LIKE AN EMPEROR.

AND SO ON.

OBAMA'S ACOLYTES FEEL THE SAME WAY.

THEY SHOULD NOT WANT TO BE RULED BY ANYONE. NO ONE SHOULD.

BUT PEOPLE WHO WANT A NANNYSTATE TO TAKE CARE OF THEM (COLLECTIVISTS) NEED A POWERFUL PERSON TO TAKE POWER IN ORDER TO MAKE THE GOVERNMENT TAKE CARE OF THEM.

COLLECTIVISM REQUIRES CSARS - TYRANNY.

BENEATH THE VELVET AFGHAN SKY A PATRIOT SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT

VIA DR SANITY - RTWT:

We are not your sons and daughters, whom you must protect and defend. We are your sword and your shield. We are men and women who volunteer to place our lives on the line so you do not have to. We do not decide when or where we will be sent. We go. You are our advocates, not our parents.

... Our "high moral cause" is one of service to a nation whose principles we believe in.

... I know my life is in the hands of others because I choose for it to be that way. I am not your daughter, a child who must be guided. I have made my choice and pledge my honor to it. I will thank you to remember that because we serve our nation, none of us dies in vain, regardless of the cause; end of debate.

Every day a new Marine enlists or an airman puts on her uniform is a reminder that our defenders come from people who still believe in our nation and the values it aspires to, as flawed as we sometimes are. War does not make our sacrifice honorable, death does not make our service honorable; service itself is our honor.

... So on a dark night in Afghanistan we stood under a velvet sky of a million stars to honor one man who lay under 50. We never doubted what he died for. Pfc. Patrick A. Devoe II died for you, the United States of America.

Sarah Albrycht is a Bennington native serving in the Army in Afghanistan.

[DR. SANTY:] There are those in this country who insist on treating our service men and women as children; or as helpless victims who must be constantly shielded from the consequences of war and military action. Sadly, these are the same people who on the other side of their mouths are quick to describe the same warriors as sadistic killers who thrive on torture and cruelty.

The inability to understand that these are adult men and women who have made a conscious choice to do what they do; and that they are content and proud of that choice; is something those who alternately infantalize and demonize them are unable to appreciate because of their ideologically addled thought processes.

THE LEFT IS PROJECTING THEIR OWN INFANTILENESS AND THEIR OWN DEMONS. AND THEIR UTTER LACK OF PATRIOTISM.

TALIBAN AND THEIR ALLIES USING VIOLENCE IN KARACHI

Deadly clashes rock Pakistan city

At least 20 people have died in ethnic clashes in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say.

Eyewitnesses said vehicles had been torched in different parts of the city, which is Pakistan's commercial capital and has a history of ethnic violence.

Karachi is dominated by Urdu-speakers, but there is also a growing population of ethnic Pashtuns.

Officials said the fighting was between members of the two groups, and started after an unidentified man opened fire.

"These are the targeted killings by the criminals, drug and land mafias who want to fan ethnic violence in the city," said Faisal Subzwari, a provincial minister.

Mr Subzwari, a member of the Urdu-speaking Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), said three of those killed were from his party.
The MQM is an ally of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party.

Bodies riddled

A spokesman for Mr Zardari said the Pakistani leader condemned the violence and called for unity.

"The president said that the nation could not afford violence in Karachi at a time when it was already dealing with the militants in northern parts of the country," said the spokesman, Farhatullah Barbar.
Doctors in Karachi hospitals said they had received bodies riddled with gunshot wounds.

A spokesman for the Pakistan Rangers paramilitary force said it had arrested 25 suspects and recovered weapons and ammunition from them, AFP news agency reported.

Karachi, a city of over 15 million, is the capital of Sindh province.

It contains many Urdu-speaking Muslims descended from people who migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947.

The Pashtun population has grown further since last year when tens of thousands were displaced by the military operation in the country's north-western tribal areas.

Some politicians have voiced fears of Taleban infiltration of the Pashtun community.

THE SOONER WE ANNIHILATE THE TALIBAN AND PULVERIZE THE FATA THE BETTER.

THE LONGER WE WAIT THE WORSE IT GETS FOR PAKISTAN AND MODERATE MUSLIMS THERE.

MORE PROOF THE UN IS A SHAM: HARIRI ASSASSINATION CONSPIRATORS RELEASED

NYTIMES:

A judge on Wednesday ordered the release of four high-ranking Lebanese security officers, all being held here in connection with the 2005 killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The decision was seen here as a blow to the political movement led by Mr. Hariri’s son, and it underscored the legal pitfalls of a divisive international trial.

The judge, Daniel Fransen of a special international tribunal, said there was not enough evidence to indict the four men, who have been detained without charge since September 2005 and are widely believed to have had some knowledge of the killing or involvement in it. They were the only suspects in the custody of the tribunal, which is based in The Hague and was formed under United Nations auspices after Mr. Hariri’s death in a powerful car bombing on Feb. 14, 2005.

The announcement was met with wild volleys of celebratory gunfire from the officers’ supporters in Beirut and in the southern suburb that is the stronghold of Hezbollah, Mr. Hariri’s political adversary.

ANYONE OR ANY ORGANIZATION WHO DOES ANYTHING WHICH HIZBALLAH CHEERS IS EVIL OR A USELESS DUPE.

PELOSI: WHAT SHE SAID AND WHAT SHE MEANT

SHE SAID:

Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to switch parties will make it easier for Democrats to move forward with their agenda, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday.

Specter's switch will give Democrats 60 caucus members in the Senate (assuming Al Franken wins his legal battle in Minnesota). That is enough votes to end debate on a bill and overcome Republican filibusters.

"Very exciting, very exciting for the American people, because now we can get things done without explaining process," Pelosi told CNN's Candy Crowley

WHAT SHE MEANT:

"ONE PARTY RULE BABY, LIKE STALIN, HITLER AND MAO!"

Video Captures ‘First 100 Daze’ Protest in St. Louis

I attended the “First 100 Daze” protest outside Fox High School in Arnold, Mo., this morning. This video shows many of the nearly 500 protesters, most of whom were members of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition, who came out to vent their anger as President Obama was holding a town hall meeting inside the St. Louis-area school. Incredibly, Tea Party protesters outnumbered Obama supporters 10 to 1!

More details available here.

MURDERERS OF ILAN HALIMI GO ON TRIAL

The savage Islamic gang that murdered French Jew Ilan Halimi is now standing trial in France today. However, there are problems here: the trial is being held behind closed doors, which has rightfully angered the mother of the man who was murdered:

It is scheduled to be held behind closed doors at a juvenile court, because two of the 27 gang members allegedly behind Halimi's murder were minors at the time of the act.

French law allows for a public trial to be held in certain cases where juveniles are involved.

A public trial should help better understand the criminal machine, to make parents and teenagers reflect. It’s the law of silence that killed her son, it would be unbearable for the trial to remain silent,” Francis Szpyner, lawyer of Ruth Halimi, said.

They're right, this is something that the wider public needs to be aware of too, because it can extend to and endanger them as well. Clearly, the law is afraid to deal with this out in the open. Until this can be resolved, I hope that the defendants will all shrivel up and die in prison for the rest of their phony lives.

FIRST 100 DAYS-WORSE POTUS EVER

Hat Tip: Infidels Are Cool

WATER-BOARDING/TORTURE CONTROVERSY IN A NUTSHELL:

.... the American media was focusing on prosecuting the Bush regime for splashing water on terrorists ...

- JIM HOFT, GATEWAY.

NUFF SAID.

OBAMA'S BOOK CLUB BUDDY - TYRANT HUGO CHAVEZ - OPENS EMBASSY IN WEST BANK

REUTERS: Venezuela sets up Palestinian ties

CARACAS: Venezuela on Monday opened diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority just months after leftist President Hugo Chavez broke ties with Israel to protest January attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro and Palestinian Authority Minister of Information and Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Maliki signed agreements creating diplomatic ties and were scheduled to inaugurate a new embassy in Caracas in the afternoon.

• CHAVEZ IS UNABASHEDLY ALLIED TO IRAN AND HAMAS AND HIZBALLAH.

• BY HUGGIN'N HI-FIVIN' W/HUGO, OBAMA HELPED CHAVEZ - AND HURT CHAVEZ'S OPPONENTS IN VENEZUELA.

• AND OBAMA HURT OUR ALLIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHO FEAR IRAN.

OBAMA COULDN'T BE BETTER FOR THE ENEMIES OF THE USA ANDS ISRAEL IF HE TRIED!

THE STUPID IDIOTS WHO ELECTED OBAMA

JEWS AND PRO-ISRAEL VOTERS WERE DUPED:

• OBAMA TAKES ADVICE FROM WALT AND POWERS AND ZBIG AND SCOWCROFT AND THEY WANT THE PRESSURE ON ISRAEL TURNED WAY UP. OBAMA STILL WANTS TO REACH OUT TO IRAN AND THE TALIBAN AND GET TOUGH ON ISRAEL AND THE CIA.
  

CATHOLICS AND PRO-LIFE VOTERS WERE DUPED:

• OBAMA HAS ALREADY DONE THINGS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ABORTIONS WORLDWIDE.

FOLKS WHO EXPECTED TAX BREAKS, AND SPENDING CUTS WERE DUPED:

• OBAMA HAS RAISED TAXES AND INCREASED SPENDING - AND HE NOW PROMISES MUSH MORE OF BOTH; THE CARBON TAXES AND ANTI-COAL POLICIES WILL DOUBLE OUR ELECTRICITY BILLS.

IF WE KEEP POUNDING THEM WITH THE TRUTH, THEN A FAIR PERCENTAGE OF THESE DUPED VOTERS WILL WAKE UP AND EITHER NOT VOTE DEMOCRAT IN 2010 OR NOT VOTE AT ALL:

• AND THIS WILL BE THE MARGIN OF VICTORY FOR THE GOP IFF THE GOP REMAINS TRUE TO ITS CONSERVATIVE CORE VALUES.
  

THE ODD MAN OUT: NOW THAT THE UAW AND THE FEDS OWN GM AND CHRYSLER, FORD MUST NOW NEGOTIATE WITH THEIR COMPETITOR WHO'S BACKED BY UNCLE SAM

THIS IS UN-AMERICAN.

YES.

THERE : I SAID IT: UN-FREAKIN'-AMERICAN.

FROM ACE:

On the upside, it will be fun to watch the UAW negotiate with itself.

More: "Joshin" in the comments asks a great question...

So does this mean that Ford is going to have to negotiate with their competitors?

The one company that is financing itself is now competing with its workforce and their business partner, which just happens to be the US government. It's a brave new world boys and girls.

BRAVE NEW WOLRD AS IN FASCIST.

ARLEN SPECTER MEETS HIS AL DAMATO AND WILL FINALLY BE DETHRONED LIKE JACOB JAVITS

LIKE JACOB JAVITS BEFORE HIM - (ANOTHER OL' TIME REPUBLICAN LIB') - SPECTER IS A RELIC.

AND OLD LIBERAL RELIC.

HE KNEW HE WAS GONNA LOSE THE GOP PRIMNARY SO HE JUMPED SHIP.

GOOD RIDDANCE.

MORE PROOF THAT THE RECESSION IS OVER - NO THANKS TO OBAMA!

HTT:

Comps make small gain in April’s third week:

New York – Retail same-store sales were up 0.7% during the third week of April following a 0.1% the prior week, the Johnson Redbook reported today.

Month-to-date for the period ended April 25, comps in the Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index were up 0.6% over April last year, relative to a full-month target of 0.3%. Month-over-month, there was a 1.6% gain.

THEN THERE'S THIS (ALSO HTT):

Confidence Index rises, especially short-term outlook:

New York – Consumers are feeling better than they have for several weeks. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index jumped 12 points in April after a slight improvement in March, posting its highest reading so far in 2009, the board announced today.

The Index stands at 39.2, up from 26.9 last month. In this survey, 1985 equals a rate of 100.

The Present Situation Index, a short-term measure, increased to 23.7 from 21.9 last month. The Expectations Index climbed to 49.5 from 30.2 in March.

“The sharp increase in the Expectations Index suggests that consumer believe the economy is nearing a bottom,

NOTHING OBAMA HAS DONE TO DATE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.

WE ARE RESPONSIBLE:THE PEOPLE - THE HARD-WORKING PEOPLE OF THE USA.

THE ONLY THING WHICH CAN UPSET OUR CLIMB BACK IS OBAMA'S SOCIALISTIC POLICIES.

Debt Skyrockets During Obama’s First 100 Days

“I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay, and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.” — President Barack Obama, Feb. 23, 2009.

The words of President Obama, spoken only three days into his first — and, hopefully, only — term, ring hollow today as the nation approaches the end of the president’s first 100 days in office.

Click here to find out why.

OBAMA IS PUTINIZING THE US ECONOMY

JUST LIKE PUTIN DID IN RUSSIA, THE STATE IS TAKING OVER. AND HELPING THEIR POLITICAL ALLIES.

THE GOVERNMENT'RE GONNA RUN IT LIKE THEY RAN FANNIE MAE... WHICH IS TO SAY THEY'RE GONNA RUN IT INCOMPETENTLY, EXCEPT FOR PROFITING FROM IT PERSONALLY.

THANKS TO ISRAELI SECURITY EXPERTS...

An Italian cruise liner was able to ward off more Somali pirates:

ROME – An Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people on board fended off a pirate attack far off the coast of Somalia when its Israeli private security forces exchanged fire with the bandits.

Six men in a small, white Zodiac-type boat approached the Msc Melody at about 1730 GMT Saturday and opened fire with automatic weapons, Msc Cruises director Domenico Pellegrino said. They retreated after the security officers returned fire and sprayed them with water hoses. The ship continued its journey with its windows darkened.

"It felt like we were in war," the ships commander, Ciro Pinto, told Italian state radio.

None of the roughly 1,000 passengers and 500 crew members was hurt, Pellegrino said. The passengers were asked to return to their cabins and the external lights on board turned off.

Pellegrino said all Msc cruise ships around the world are staffed with Israeli security agents because they are the best trained.

The attack occurred about 200 miles (325 kilometers) north of the Seychelles, and about 500 miles (800 kilometers) east of Somalia, according to the anti-piracy flotilla headquarters of the Maritime Security Center Horn of Africa.

They don't know how lucky they are to have security staff from here, and I'm glad they were on board.

And it is a war now with these vile venom from Somalia. The world is going to have to prepare more than ever to deal with them.

AFTER ONLY 100 DAYS, OBAMA IS ALREADY PLANNING HIS SECOND INAUGURAL...

HERE'S VIDEO OF THE REHEARSAL:



ACCORDING TO LEAKED MEMOS, OBAMA'S THIRD INAUGURAL WILL BE LIKE THIS:



WITH TELEPROMPTERS, OF COURSE...

BAN KI-MOON SLAMS HIZBALLAH

JPOST: UN chief slams Hizbullah 'intimidation'

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that Hizbullah is making an effort to create "intimidation" in Lebanon ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for June, AFP reported late Monday. He was also quoted as voicing concern for Hizbullah activities in Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

In a report to the UN Security Council, Ban said, "The threat that armed groups and militias pose to the sovereignty and stability of the Lebanese state cannot be overstated."

"It creates an atmosphere of intimidation in the context of the upcoming parliamentary elections. It also undermines the stability of the region, and is incompatible with the objectives of Resolution 1559," he added, referring to a 2004 resolution which called for the "disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias."

The UN chief described the groups arsenal as "a direct challenge to the sovereignty of the Lebanese state and an obstacle for the conduct of the normal democratic process in the country."

GOOD WORDS.

BUT WORDS ALONE WILL CHANGE NOTHING.

IF A DIVERSE DEMOCRATIC LEBANON WHICH LIVES AT PEACE WITH ITS NEIGHBORS IS REALLY IMPORTANT IF NOT CRUCIAL, THEN WHAT WILL THE UN DO TO ACHIEVE IT!?

SEND A HARSHLY WORDED LETTER.

WE NEED TO NEUTRALIZE HIZBALLAH - THAT MEANS NEUTRALIZING SYRIAN AND THAT MEANS NEUTRALIZING IRAN.

IF WE NEUTRALIZE IRAN FIRST, THEN THE REST WILL FALL IN PLACE.