SESSIONS: IMPARTIALITY AND THE RULE OF LAW IS UNDER ATTACK

NYTIMES:

Sessions asked ''if a judge is allowed to let his or her feelings for one party in the case sway his decision, hasn't that judge then demonstrated a bias against the other party?'

''Although we sometimes take our heritage of neutral and independent judiciary for granted, the truth is, this great tradition is under attack,'' he said.

Sessions said Americans should follow the confirmation process closely and ask what kind of judge they would want in court.

''Do I want a judge that allows his or her social, political or religious views to impact the outcome, or do I want a judge that objectively applies the law to the facts?'' he said. ''That is the central question around which this entire nomination process will revolve.''

A SOTOMAYOR DEFEAT WOULD BE VICTORY FOR THE RULE OF LAW AND FOR AN IMPARTIAL JUDICIARY.

BRITAIN'S HOUSE OF LORDS DEBATES SHARIA LAW

HERE.

EXCERPT:

Peers in the House of Lords have warned that the Government is “disturbingly complacent” about the operation of Islamic Sharia law in the UK.

They were not convinced by the Government’s assurance that application of Sharia law by the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal remains subject to English law.

Five Islamic courts are thought to be operating in Britain under the 1996 Arbitration Act. They are permitted to rule on business, financial and family disputes.

Their decisions are rubber stamped by British courts.

Orthodox Jewish Beth Din courts also operate this way, but lawyers and civil rights campaigners have always been sceptical of the status of women in Sharia disputes.

Last year Dr David Green, the Director of the Civitas think tank, said: “I think there are a number of problems with regards to Sharia law.

“These Sharia councils are supposed to operate under the Arbitration Act which allows citizens in a free society to settle their disputes on a voluntary basis if they so wish.

“But that legislation assumes that both parts are regarded as being equal. I think the problem is with tribunals like these you can’t always be sure that women would be treated equally.”

SHARIA IS COMING TO BRITAIN UNLESS THE BRITISH TAKE A MUCH TOUGHER STANCE ON IMIGRATION, ASSIMILATION AND UNLESS BRITS START HAVING BABIES AND GOING TO CHURCH.

FDR's D-Day Prayer: TAB Scoops Hot air

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Health Care Alert: Canadian Socialist Leader Meets with Dems

One of the most overlooked stories of the week is the leader of Canada’s socialist New Democratic Party Jack Layton linked the future of his country’s universal health care system to President Obama’s public health care program in a Washington speech Wednesday. The Washington Times story is here.

Many conservative groups have pointed to Canada’s universal health care system as a reason to keep the American health care system in the private sector.
Americans for Prosperity Foundation's campaign, for example, launched an ad campaign last week featuring a Canadian woman named Shona Holmes who was
diagnosed with brain tumor and says in the ad the only way she survived was by seeking treatment in America.

Mr. Layton’s trip comes at the beginning of an aggressive effort to ramp up grassroots support for President Obama’s health care plan by Organizing for America. While in Washington, Mr. Layton met with Democrats on Capitol Hill as well as White House Communications Director Anita Dunn.

In the run-up to Mr. Layton’s visit, his party sought fundraising solicitations using an image of an economy-class plane ticket from Ottawa to Washington for the Canadian leader. In the bottom left corner it said: “SUPPORT OBAMA’S FIGHT FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. PROTECT MEDICARE BACK IN CANADA.”

Michelle Malkin writes about CanadaCare and accurately questions
whether CanadaCare killed "The Parent Trap" actress Natasha Richardson here.

The reality is Obama and the liberals have no good intentions here. It is about power and control of Americans--and keeping it. If they truly cared about YOUR healthcare, then they would have passed the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009 (ORIGINALLY INTRODUCED IN 1997) a long, long time ago. I repeat: this bill was first introduced in Congress in 1997 and has been delayed and never voted on for 11 years.

DO YOU THINK CONGRESS REALLY GIVES RAT'S BEHIND ABOUT YOU?!

THEY COULD CARE LESS, OTHERWISE THIS BILL WOULD HAVE BEEN PASSED.

HEALTHCARE FOR ALL AMERICANS OR "OBAMACARE" IS ABOUT THE PERMANENT POWER GRAB OF LEFT-WING POLITICIANS OVER THE SECOND MOST PRECIOUS PART OF YOUR LIFE.

THEY ALREADY TOOK YOUR FREEDOM AND SOME OF YOU STILL DON'T EVEN KNOW IT.

AGW: Misdirection to conceal . . . ."the inevitable"

Misdirection is a technique used by stage magicians to divert the attention of the spectator from where the trick is really being worked.

Even NASA now admits that the changes int he world's climate observed over the years are due to changes in solar activity, and not to anthropogenic sources of carbon dioxide:

A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth's climate. The report concludes that evidence for climate changes based on solar radiation can be traced back as far as the Industrial Revolution.

All of the hysteria about "global warming" (which was re-named "climate change" when the climate cooled off) is just misdirection from political prestidigitators who want to divert the public's attention from a real crisis. (When it isn't just a scam Al-G'ore uses to make money, or another excuse to impose a socialist planned economy on the free world.)

And what is that crisis that is being hidden: the inevitable Islamization of Europe.

Philippe de Villiers was interviewed by the weekly Famille Chrétienne. The Catholic blog Le Salon Beige relates part of the interview:

- Why are you so focused on the theme of Turkey and Islamization?

- Quite simply because we will see the first transformations of churches into mosques in the coming three years. At any rate, that is what Nicolas Sarkozy told me.

- When?

- I had an in depth discussion with him at Elysée at the end of last year. He said to me: "You have intuition, I have the figures. And your intuition is confirmed by my figures. The Islamization of Europe is inevitable." Careful: it's a process that will not occur overnight, but will take decades.

- Why does this issue appear to be of central importance to you?

- Most politicians have a comforting ignorance of what Islam is and propose transforming Europe into a supermarket of competing religions. Unaware that Islam is not only a religion since, by melding the temporal and the spiritual, it imposes a law. But behind this comforting ignorance of politicians, there are those who know. (...) The reality is that we are headed for a criss-cross [chassé-croisé] with, on one side, Europe and its en masse abortions, its promotion of gay marriage, and on the other, immigration en masse (...)

"Chassé-croisé" is virtually impossible to translate. Originally a choreographic term, it usually refers to a crowded movement in one direction that passes but never encounters a crowded movement in another direction. Sometimes it is just kept as is in English.

- Aren't you exaggerating the dimensions of the phenomenon?

- No. The crux of the issue is simple: Europe is refusing its own demographic future. And it is working with a fearsome weapon towards this end, written into the Charter of fundamental rights appended to the treaty of Lisbon: the promotion of gay marriage. This in turn is accomplished through the principle of non-discrimination and the disassociation of marriage from the sex of the spouses (which appears in article 7 of the Charter of fundamental rights). In reality, there are two weapons being used by European leaders to kill Europe demographically: the promotion of gay marriage and en masse abortions. And a third: the recourse to immigration that is 80% Islamic in order to replace the people who are no longer there (...)

As usual there are LSB readers who question Villiers' sincerity and motives. But this time, there are also many who applaud his courage. He is certainly putting more muscle into his words on the eve of the election.

A spokesman for Elysée protested saying: "Philippe de Villiers is not the spokesman for Elysée. He makes multiple declarations on this topic, declarations that obviously need to be regarded with caution."

And while the children are worrying about "global warming," Barack Obama's dream of America as "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world" comes closer and closer to realization.

BARRY: "I also know that Islam has always been a part of America's story."

Yes it has, almost from the beginning . . . and it's always been the same sorry story, too.


(Picture: ""Decatur's Conflict with the Algerine at Tripoli. Reuben James Interposing His Head to Save the Life of His Commander" Copy of engraving by Alonzo Chappel, August, 1804.")

Remember Woody Guthrie's song about the sinking of the USS Reuben James? The ship was named in honor of the courageous boatswain. During "hand-to-hand combat, Reuben James, with both of his hands already wounded, positioned himself between Lieutenant Decatur and a sword-wielding pirate. Willing to give his life for his captain, James took a blow from the sword and survived."

CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT BANKRUPT BUT POLITICIANS STILL HAVE TEMERITY TO PASS CARBON LABELING LAW

YES: CARBON FOOTPRINT LABELING.

IT'S INSANE.

(MORE ON THE ECO-NUTSIES WHO BROUGHT THEM THIS HERE. TRUTH HERE.)

• QUESTION: IF MAN-MADE CO2 IS NOT ONLY NON-TOXIC, BUT BENIGN AS FAR AS THE CLIMATE, THEN WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE FOCUS ON IT?

• ANSWER: IT'S A WAY FOR THE POSTMODERN LEFT TO STAGE A SNEAK-ATTACK AGAINST THE USA AND THE WEST AND FREE ENTERPRISE AND INDUSTRIALIZATION AND FREE TRADE/GLOBALIZATION.

• PROOF: NOT ONLY HAS CO2 GONE UP STEADILY - WHILE TEMPS HAVE NOT, BUT THE SUPPOSED SOLUTION TO THE SUPPOSED PROBLEM JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE SAME POLICIES THE POSTMODERN LEFT HAS ALWAYS ADVOCATED.

• IOW: AGW = A TROJAN HORSE FOR SOCIALISM.

SOTOMAYOR: OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM AND UNFIT FOR THE HIGHEST COURT

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JUDEA AND SAMARIA: GOLDBERG'S MISDIRECTED MYOPIA

GOLDBERG:

It seems to me that Obama is trying to force the collapse of Netanyahu's government. I base this mostly on intuition. Of course, the Obama Administration would never claim to be interfering in the internal politics of another country, but it seems obvious that Netanyahu's narrow coalition won't survive sustained American pressure on the settlements question. Netanyahu is in a terrible spot: He must preserve, at all costs, Israel's strategic relationship with Washington; on the other hand, he has right-wing coalition partners who are myopically obsessed with the status of the Neve Manyak outposts.

ER UM... myopically obsessed !?!?!?!?

GOLDBERG HAS IT EXACTLY BASS ACKWARDS:

ISRAELIS WHO WANT TO KEEP JUDEA AND SAMARIA AS PART OF ISRAEL - AND WHO SEE AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO ADDING YET ANOTHER HOSTILE ARAB/MUSLIM NATION ON IT'S BORDER - ARE NOT MYOPIC, NOT NEAR-SIGHTED; THEY ARE FAR-SIGHTED: BOTH LOOKING BACK INTO HISTORY AND FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE.

THOSE WHO THINK SETTLEMENTS OR "THE RIGHT OF RETURN" ARE THE REAL STUMBLING BLOCKS HAVEN'T BEEN LISTENING TO THE ENEMY -AN ENEMY WHICH REALLY WANTS TO ANNIHILATE ISRAEL.

• BESIDES, EVERY OTHER NATION IN THE WORLD HAS CREATED ITS BORDER VIA VICTORY.

• ONLY ISRAEL HAS BEEN PREVENTED FROMM DOING THIS, AND THIS - HOLDING JEWS TO A DIFFERENT STANDARD THAN EVERYONE ELSE - IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM.

• ISRAEL GOT ZERO FOR CEDING GAZA.

• THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT IT WILL GAIN ANYTHING BY CEDING SAMARIA AND JUDEA.

ISRAEL SHOULD NO MORE CEDE JUDEA AND SAMARIA, THAN THE USA CEDE TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA.

Pole Dancing Classes Mandatory in Singapore

Below is a weekend reading list of posts published yesterday and today at Bob McCarty Writes. Enjoy:

• Pole Dancing Classes Mandatory in Singapore -- THIS IS NOT A JOKE! Frustrated officials in the Singaporean government, hoping to raise young adults’ interest in making babies instead of just money, have lost their collective mind and ordered pole dancing to be taught in its elite schools, according to a recent post at the Former American Professor in China blog...

• Breitbart Confirms Why ‘I Don’t Listen to Hollywood’ -- In the “Uncommon Knowledge” video above, The Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson interviews Andrew Breitbart about a wide range of topics related to the intertwining of the entertainment industry and politics. If you have 30 minutes to spare, I strongly recommend you watch the entire program and then share it with folks you know...

• ‘Pack Up Your Troubles in Your New S__t Bag’ -- The kind of bag Americans might soon need is different than the song-inspiring bag into which they packed all their troubles nearly a century ago — and it’s not a “kit” bag...

• Investigation Launched Into Abortion Doc’s Murder -- Below is the the first paragraph of a just-released news release about the Justice Department’s decision to launch an investigation into the murder of controversial late-term abortion provider, Dr. George Tiller...

• No Rain, But Many Umbrellas at Tiananmen Square -- On the 20th anniversary of the bloodshed known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, there appeared to have been little or no rain clouds at the site in Beijing where university students waged an anti-government protest. There were, however, enough umbrella-toting government officials present to prevent members of the Western news media from reporting much news from the heart of mainland China...

• Prediction: Crude Oil Price to Jump 31 Percent! -- When Rush Limbaugh mentioned Goldman Sachs' prediction about the price of oil on his radio show Friday, I decided to share the statement American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard issued Thursday about the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee 2009 energy bill...

• Must-Read: The Speech Obama Should Have Made -- As I read the transcript of the speech President Barack Obama delivered to the Muslim world from Cairo University, I was struck by what the president said and didn’t say in the speech. Sol Sanders was struck as well. The big difference, however, is that he made his observations prior to the speech in his piece published Wednesday in the World Tribune...

FDR'S D-DAY PRAYER - YES: PRAYER

IN THE USA - BEFORE POSTMODERNISM AND LEFTISM BECAME THE DOMINANT IDEOLOGIES - CONNECTING "GOD AND COUNTRY" WASN'T A NO-NO, AND PRESIDENTS COULD APPEAL TO THE LORD ALMIGHTY WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING RIDICULED AS A RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST OR MORONIC NEANDERTHAL.

HERE'S FDR LEADING A PRAYER FOR OUR ARMY WHILE AT WAR - ON THE MOST FATEFUL DAY OF WW2 - D-DAY, 65 YEARS AGO:




THANK GOD AND GOD BLESS THE USA!

AND GOD BLESS THE TROOPS AND THEIR FAMILIES!

HERE'S THE TEXT:

Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer

June 6, 1944

My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas -- whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them--help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy.

Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies.

Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men.

And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.

Amen.

CHAVEZ ARRESTS ANOTHER CRITIC OF BOLIVARIAN SOCIALISM

YAHOO/AP:

Venezuelan prosecutors charged the head of an anti-government television station with usury on Thursday, ending a weeks-long investigation into his business activities that he called politically motivated.

Dozens of National Guard troops accompanied prosecutors to the upscale residence of Globovision president Guillermo Zuloaga on Thursday evening to gather evidence, according to state television footage. It was not clear if they entered the home.

Zuloaga was charged with usury after a police raid uncovered 24 Toyota vehicles outside his Caracas office last month, prompting an investigation into two car dealerships he owns, prosecutors said in a statement.

Trade Minister Eduardo Saman accused Zuloaga of keeping the cars off the market while waiting for their price to rise — a move possibly involving a violation of foreign exchange rules that give importers access to dollars only if they aren't used to gain a "disproportionate advantage" over rivals.

... President Hugo Chavez denies the inquiry into Zuloaga is linked to Globovision. But he last week urged the nation's attorney general, Supreme Court and telecommunications chief to take action against "poisonous" private media or resign.

He gave no specific details and named no specific news organizations, but he has often criticized Globovision and certain newspapers in the past.

Broadcast regulators last month accused Globovision of inciting "panic and anxiety" by criticizing the government for its slow response to a moderate earthquake, and prosecutors this week opened a second inquiry into Zuloaga for a suspected "environmental crime" related to wild animals he'd hunted and had mounted in his Caracas residence. They said they were acting at the request of pro-Chavez lawmakers.

Free press groups including the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the investigation of Globovision, while Human Rights Watch said it showed the government is out "to harass its critics."

Since Chavez refused to renew the broadcast license of Radio Caracas Television in 2007, Globovision has been the only anti-government network on public airwaves in Venezuela.

• USURY!?!?!?
• VIOLATING FOREIGN EXCHANGE RULES!?!?!
• NAH!
• IT'S JUST CHAVEZ GOING AFTER HIS CRITICS, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

I HOPE RUSH AND HANNITY AND LEVIN AND AILES AND MURDOCH AND CLEAR CHANNEL TAKE NOTE OF THIS; IT'S WHAT OBAMA HAS IN STORE FOR THEM -- ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

PROOF THAT SOTOMOYER IS OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM

SOTOMAYOR IS...

• A liberal judge thinks that it’s proper to indulge her own identity in deciding cases.
  
• A liberal judge celebrates “the importance of indefiniteness in the law” and the “unpredictability” that results when a judge “develop[s] a novel approach” that “pushes the law in a new direction.”
• A liberal judge resorts to shenanigans to bury the claims of white firefighters that they’ve been discriminated against on the basis of their race.
• A liberal judge favors campaign-finance restrictions over the First Amendment.
• A liberal judge embraces novel equal-protection theories that would compromise public safety.
  
• A liberal judge publicly cheerleads liberal politicians.
  
• A liberal judge excuses her own acts of discrimination.
• A liberal judge thinks that Supreme Court justices are entitled to make policy.
• A liberal judge hides her support for racial quotas behind gauzy euphemisms.
• A liberal judge commends lawsuits that promote abortion and illegal immigration and that undermine welfare reform.

SOTOMAYOR IS A VERY VERY VERY LIBERAL JUDGE WHO IS OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM; THEREFORE - DESPITE HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS - SHE DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE ELEVATED TO THE SCOTUS.

RESCIND THE "STIMULUS": THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS KUDLOW BY THREE DAYS

KUDLOW TODAY: Rollback Time: Recall the stimulus, let the de-TARPing begin, and set the Fed free.

With clear signs of economic recovery on the horizon, some are now calling for an end to the unnecessary stimulus package and a de-TARPing across-the-board. Along with a big rise in the money supply, there’s been a rebound in commodities, a stabilization in housing, falling unemployment claims, a booming stock market, narrowing credit spreads, and rising ISM manufacturing reports. All this is telling us that additional stimulus is unnecessary.

Economic blogger Scott Grannis says “recall the stimulus.” Prof. Russell Roberts of George Mason notes that only $36 billion of the stimulus has been spent through May, out of a total $787 billion. And USA Today reports that $209 billion in countercyclical automatic safety-net stabilizers — which is apart from the stimulus package — has already been spent on unemployment insurance, food stamps, Medicaid, and early Social Security retirements.

On the eve of recovery, with all this prior spending, why on Earth do we need more?

TAB SAID THE SAME THING EARLER TODAY AND THREE DAYS AGO.

REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

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KENNEDY BILL WOULD FORCE EMPLOYERS TO OFFER HEALTH INSURANCE

AND IT WOULD IMPOSE A HELLUVA LOT MORE, TOO:

Employers would be required to offer health care to employees or pay a penalty, and all Americans would be guaranteed health insurance, under a draft bill being circulated Friday by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's health committee.

The bill would provide subsidies to help poor people afford care, and give patients the right to select any doctor they want.

Insurers would be required to provide a basic level of care and [BE REQUIRED TO] cover all comers, without turning people away because of pre-existing conditions or other reasons.

It's already been known that Kennedy's health committee was planning to pursue most of the concepts outlined in the draft of the bill, called the ''American Health Choices Act.'' But it's the first actual bill language to circulate since Congress began working on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

"HEALTH CHOICE ACT"!?!? IS HE FREAKIN' KIDDING!?!? THIS IS ALL ABOUT TAKING AWAY OUR CHOICES, AND MAKING THE STATE MORE POWERFUL.

• WHY SHOULD ANYONE'S HEALTHCARE BE TIED TO ANYONE'S JOB!?

• IT MAKES NO SENSE; IN FACT, IT'S AN ANACHRONISM OF A BAD DEAL FDR MADE DURING WW2! NRO:

  Most Americans receive their health insurance from their employer. Few pause, however, to contemplate why. As part of the war effort, the FDR administration imposed wage and price controls. Employers, seeking a way to provide workers with competitive salaries without violating the law, began offering health benefits. On October 26, 1943, the IRS legitimized the practice, ruling that health benefits would remain tax free.

• THE GOP PLAN WOULD GIVE INDIVIDUALS THE TAX CREDIT FOR BUYING WHATEVER PLAN THEY WANT, A CREDIT CURRENTLY GIVEN TO EMPLOYERS FOR OFFERING HEALTH INSURANCE.

• KENNEDY AND OBAMA ARE TRYING TO DO TO THE USA WHAT ATTLEE DID TO POST-WAR GREAT BRIT IAN, MOVES WHICH RUINED BRITAIN.

WE NEED ANOTHER THATCHER AND A REAGAN, BUT WE GOT ANOTHER ATTLEE.

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, THESE ATTLEESQUE POLICIES WILL RUIN US, IF THEY PASS.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

OBAMA "BLASTS" HOLOCAUST DENIERS - ER UM.... EXCEPT MAHMOUD ABBAS!

Obama seemed to draw a linbe in the sand in his speech at Bushenwald, but did he - or was it all SLIGHT OF HAND?

It was slight of hand.

NEED PROOF?

HERE:

SONDRAK:

“The Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed.”

KISP HAS A PHOTO OF OBAMA, HILLARY AND ABBAS WORTH 1,000,000 WORDS.

BOTTOM-LINE:

When Obama "blasts" holocaust deniers, but sucks up to Holocaust denier Abbas - who along with other leading Muslims in the region are holocaust deniers -
all Obama REALLY proves is that he is full of shit.

IT'S WORSE: Obama actually proves he is an ally of the Holocaust denying enemy because Obama actually is doing Abba's's & FATAH's bidding by ORDERING Israel to stop ALL settlement activity, all Obama proves is that he is a MENDACIOUS, UNTRUSTWORTHY PHONY ANTI-ZIONIST PUNK.

And a PUNK who doesn't know real history, only the left-wing anti-West PROPAGANDA version of it:

• OBAMA WAS WRONG ABOUT CORDOBA AND ANDALUSIA AND WRONG ABOUT THE IRANIAN COUP.

• AND THE MSM IGNORES THESE RIDICULOUS AND STUPID AND ANTI-WEST/ANTI-AMERICAN ERRORS.
  

• IF BUSH HAS MADE ONE OF THESE THREE GLARING FACTUAL ERRORS THE MSM WOULD HAVE RUN WITH IT 24/7 AD NAUSEUM.

• THE MSM DOESNLT BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THE LEFTIST LIES, THE ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA, JUST LIKE THEIR LEADER, OBAMA.
  

OBAMA HAS BEEN PRESIDENT FOR 5 MONTHS AND EVERY SINGLE DAY I FEEL HE IS A A BIGGER AND BIGGER THREAT TO AMERICA AND THE FREE WORLD.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

THE PAY CZAR: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPED HOT AIR BY A DAY

HOT AIR TODAY.

TAB YESTERDAY.

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WILL OBAMA RENOMINATE BERNANKE - OR TRY TO APPOINT A PC-LEFTIE - (READ: BLACK/WOMAN/HISPANIC/GAY)?

DINOCRAT:

Ben Bernanke’s term expires in January. Given all we’ve seen thus far from this administration, we expect Obama to attempt to curtail the critically important independence of the Fed if it interferes (which an independent Fed would have to) with the administration’s policy objectives.

I THINK OBAMA WILL NOT RENOMINATE BERNANKE AND WILL INSTEAD NAME A MORE SOCIALISTIC CRONY LIKE... GEITHNER - AND THEN REPLACE GEITHNER WITH A GAY HISPANIC; IOW: TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE.

DID PHIL MUDD REALLY WITHDRAW OVER OBAMA'S RELEASE OF THE EIT MEMOS?

GLENN REYNOLDS/INSTAPUNDIT:

ANOTHER BUSTED APPOINTMENT: Mudd Withdraws as DHS Intelligence Chief. “Phil Mudd, a career CIA employee who is President Obama’s nominee to be the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence chief, has asked that his name be withdrawn from consideration, according to an authoritative source.” No word as to why. Taxes? Based on past experience, that’s the way to bet, but it could easily be something else. Posted at 3:20 pm

GLENN REFLEXIVELY/SARCASTICALLY LOOKS TO THE TAX ISSUE AS THE REASON WHY MUDD MIGHT HAVE WITHDRAWN. AS GLENN WOULD REFLECXIVLEY/SARCASTICALLY SAY: HEH.

THE WITHDRAWAL STATEMENT SAYS THAT MUDD FELT HIS CONFRIMATION PROCEEDINGS WOULD BE A DISTRACTION.

IMHO: THAT'S A LOAD OF BS.

I SUSPECT IT WAS SOMETHING FAR MORE SERIOUS: I SUSPECT IT WAS NOT TAXES, BUT OBAMA'S INEPT AND ANTI-DEFENSE/ANTI-CIA HANDLING OF THE RELEASE OF THE EIT MEMOS.

WHILE AT THE CIA, MUDD WAS REPORTEDLY IN AN IMPORTANT POSITION RELATED TO INTERROGATIONS:

AP report: Source claims Obama intel pick tied to CIA torture program

In 2006, FBI agents feared Mudd wanted them to engage in ‘ethnic targeting’ and mocked him as ‘Rasputin’; Once allegedly ordered FBI agents to search falafel sales records to find Iranian terrorists

A former Bush administration official nominated by President Barack Obama to serve at DHS was linked to the CIA’s torture program, a source tells the Associated Press.

MUDD PROBABLY WANTS NOTHING TO DO WITH A POTUS WHO WOULD SLIME AND DAMAGE THE CIA AND MAKE US LESS SAFE.

FRENCH FM KOUCHNER: AIR FRANCE 447 COULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT DOWN BY AN ATTACK

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, speaking Thursday in Rio de Janeiro where he attended a Mass honoring the crash victims, said experts had not found signs that would back up a "terrorism theory."

"But we cannot discard that for now," he told reporters. "Nothing leads us to believe that there was an explosion, but that doesn't mean there wasn't one."

Obama Reads the Phone Book At Buchenwald

From Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

He might as well be reading the phone, anyway. The lack of engagement with his own words is astounding to watch. At first, it seems as if he is adopting a pose of quiet respect for the horror in his midst. But, as the speech wears on, it becomes evident, his brain has disengaged, and he is just mouthing words.

Listen, for instance, to how Obama pronounces the words (at 3:43 into the video), "Now these sites have not lost their horror with the passage of time ..."

As I said, he is clearly disengaged. You draw your own conclusion as to the reason.

Pamela has more, including video of Elie Wiesel's moving speech with Obama standing next to him.

To his credit, Obama did have some words for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

Obama calls out Iran leader

"To this day, there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened," Obama said. "This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts, a reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies about our history."

It was a pointed message to Iran's Ahmadinejad, who has expressed doubts that 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis.

"He should make his own visit" to Buchenwald, Obama told NBC earlier Friday. He added: "I have no patience for people who would deny history."

NY AG Cuomo Tries to ‘FOIL’ Blogger’s Efforts

When New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sent an accusatory letter (pdf) to Chevron CEO David J. O’Reilly May 4, he had to know the effort would position him squarely alongside Philadelphia trial lawyers and radical environmentalists associated with an Ecuadoran environmental group. At least, that’s what I surmised in a post June 2. Today, I have more reason to believe I’m right, thanks to a reply I received in response to my recent Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request. It's all right here!

ECONOMY RECOVERING, NO THANKS TO PORKULUS

From the New York Times:

The rate of job losses in the United States slowed significantly in May,the government reported Friday, lifting hopes that the country’s plummeting labor market was on its way to stabilizing.

For 4 months in a row, job losses have been slowing without ANY help from Obama's socialistic porkulus and huge deficits.

Congress should rescind the "stimulus" spending and cut taxes.

THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REACHES OUT TO MOSLEMS

BHO took the lead with his June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo. The following statement was released the same day:

Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on Department of Justice’s Outreach and Enforcement Efforts to Protect American Muslims

Thursday, June 4, 2009

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement relating to President Obama’s historic speech today in Cairo, Egypt:

"The President's pledge for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim community takes root here in the Justice Department where we are committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans. A top priority of this Justice Department is a return to robust civil rights enforcement and outreach in defending religious freedoms and other fundamental rights of all of our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the housing market, in our schools and in the voting booth.

"There are those who will continue to want to divide by fear - to pit our national security against our civil liberties - but that is a false choice. We have a solemn responsibility to protect our people while we also protect our principles."

The words "a return to" imply that the United States has repeatedly violated the civil rights of Moslems. Have there indeed been such violations, to the extent that a statement is warranted from the attorney general's office?

Reality check: The List of Things that Offend Muslims from The Amboy Times. So very many things offend Moslems (even the Nike logo on athletic shoes) and make them feel unwelcome in the West! Are these perceived offenses violations of the civil rights of Moslems?

Islamic supremacists will so maintain, and BHO has opened the door to more outrage from Moslems. As if many of them are not outraged over the West's ideals of freedom and democracy in the first place.

2010 cannot come soon enough! We must overturn that Congress! Until we do, BHO will continue unchecked.

THE REDS AIN'T COMING; THEY'RE HERE: OBAMA TO APPOINT "PAY CZAR"

WSJ/AP - VIA DRUDGE:

The Obama administration plans to appoint a "Special Master for Compensation" to ensure that companies receiving federal bailout funds are abiding by executive-pay guidelines, according to people familiar with the matter.

The administration is expected to name Kenneth Feinberg, who oversaw the federal government's compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to act as a pay czar for the Treasury Department, these people said.

Kenneth Feinberg, who oversaw payouts to 9/11 victims, will keep tabs on executive pay at companies in bailout.

Mr. Feinberg's appointment could be announced as early as next week, when the administration is expected to release executive-compensation guidelines for firms receiving aid from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. Those companies, which include banks, insurers and auto makers, are subject to a host of compensation restrictions imposed by the Bush and Obama administrations and by Congress.

• THIS IS A DIRECT ASSAULT ON CAPITALISM - ONE CHAVEZ AND MUGABE OULD BE PROUD OF -- AND ATTACKED FOR!

• AND DON'T TELL ME THAT IT'S JUST ONE OF THE "STRINGS ATTACHED" FOR HAVING TAKEN THE TARP MONEY.

• THE FREAKIN BANKS WERE THREATENED AND FORCED TO TAKE MONEY, AND OBAMA WON'T LET THEM PAY IT BACK! MORE ON THIS HERE.
  

THIS MUST NOT STAND. WE MUST...

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

OBAMACARS WILL BE A LOT LIKE OBAMACARE

OBAMACARS WILL BE A LOT LIKE OBAMACARE - MEANING IT WILL SUCK BIGTIME, LIKE MOST OF THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED BY BIG BROTHER.

I HAVE A FEELING THAT GM WILL SOON BE OFFERING THIS 2011 MODEL:



OTHERS - INCLUDING CARS FROM CHRYSLER - HERE.

OBAMA'S PHONY CENTRISM IS A RHETORICAL TRICK BASED ON A LOGICAL FALLACY

OBAMA NEVER GIVES A SPEECH WITHOUT RESORTING TO AN OBVIOUSLY MENDACIOUS TACTIC: THE STRAW MAN.

HE ALWAYS PAINTS HIS RIGHT-OF-CENTER OPPONENTS AS EXTREME AND OUR POSITIONS AS RIDICULOUSLY EXTREME, AND THEN OFFERS UP A LAMELEFT-WING EXTREME VIEW SO HE CAN PLANT HIMSELF IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE MIDDLE.

BUT IT IS A FALSE MIDDLE.

READ ABOUT IT HERE.

WATCH IT ANALYZED HERE:


(VIA KISP.)


A GOOD MAN WITH HIGH MORAL PRINCIPLES AND LOFTY GOALS WOULDN'T NEED TO CONSTANTLY RESORT TO THIS TYPE OF RHETORICAL DISTORTION - AND TWISTING OF THE FACTS.

THEREFORE, OBAMA MUST BE A BAD AND IMMORAL MAN WITH DASTARDLY GOALS.

SIGNS OF LIFE IN EUROPE: WILDERS' FREEDOM PARTY MAKES BIG GAINS THE EU ELECTION!

BBC:

Geert Wilders' Freedom party will win four of the 25 Dutch seats in the parliament, just one behind the country's Christian Democrats.... Exit polls showed late on Thursday that Mr Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) was on course of winning just over 15% of votes in the Netherlands.

... If confirmed, the result is second only to Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's Christian Democrats (CDA), which dropped alsmost 5% to just under 20% of the vote.

The polls showed that the party's governing coalition partner, the PvdA, was the biggest loser - down nearly 10% to about 14% of the Dutch vote.

"We dare to talk about sensitive subjects like Islamisation and we use plain and simple words that the voter can understand," Mr Wilders has said.

Mr Wilders was refused entry to Britain in February on the grounds that he had sought to incite hatred with a film he made last year that equated Islam with violence and likened the Koran to Mein Kampf.

The controversial politician is also facing prosecution in the Netherlands for making anti-Islamic statements, following a court ruling the previous month.

Despite the charges many Dutch voters seem to like what Mr Wilders is saying, the BBC's Geraldine Coughlan in The Hague reports.

His party was campaigning under the motto "For the Netherlands" and was extremely anti-EU, our correspondent says. Mr Wilders has said he will not take up his seat if elected as an MEP.

Polls show that Euroscepticism among Dutch voters has increased since the last European elections, with EU enlargement and integration the most unpopular issues, our correspondent adds.

WILDERS: KEEPING HOPE ALIVE!

DODD'S FRIEND AND SUPPORTER - COUNTRYWIDE'S ANGELO MOZILO - CHARGED WITH FRAUD

BBC:

Angelo Mozilo, former boss of Countrywide Financial, has been charged with civil fraud and insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He is the highest profile executive to face charges relating to the US sub-prime mortgage crisis in 2007.

Bank of America eventually rescued the biggest US mortgage lender, buying it for $2.5bn (£1.5bn) in July 2008.

Mr Mozilo has denied doing anything wrong. Two other former executives have also been charged with civil fraud.

DODD SHOULD BE VERY WORRIED.

HE SHOULD RETIRE AND MOVE TO THAT IRISH COTTAGE.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON CHANNELS THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS ON POSTMODERNISM

ALONG WITH DR SANITY, WE'VE BEEN SAYING POSTMODERNISM WAS KEY TO CONTEMPORARY ANTI-WEST POLITICS FOR YEARS.

VDH AGREES.

THIS WEEK ON THE GATHERING STORM

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 this week is Yoni Tidi. According to his bio, Yoni has been involved in the fight and the study of Islamic terrorism for over 20 years. Read the rest of Yoni's bio HERE.

Please join us for the June 5, 2009 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS:
June 12: Alec Rawls
June 19: I.Q. Al Rassooli
June 26: Guest(s) to be announced
July 3: Patriots' Show with Beak, Colonel Gordon Cucullo, and Mustang
July 10: Guest(s) to be announced
July 17: Guest(s) to be announced
July 24: Robert Spencer

THERE WAS AN AL QAEDA ARREST ANNOUNCED IN BRAZIL DAYS JUST BEFORE THE CRASH OF AIR FRANCE 447

Astute Bloggers - May 26th, 2009:

• Al Qaeda member arrested in Brazil
  

Astute Bloggers - June 3, 2009:

• ADAM AIR KI-574 AND AIR FRANCE 447 : TWO OF A KIND, "BOJINKA 2"!?
  

PERHAPS THE AIR FRANCE AND ADAM AIR EVENTS WERE REALLY AL QAEDA PRACTICE-RUNS FOR "BOJINKA 2" - (IN WHICH A DOZEN JETS ARE ATTACKED SIMULTANEOUSLY WHILE OVER THE OCEAN)

More here and here.

UPDATE #2: AS OF 6/4 - AND CONTRARY TO EARLIER REPORTS, NONE OF THE DEBRIS FOUND SO FAR IS FROM THE JET.

UPDATE: AN AIR FRANCE PILOT THINKS IT COULD HAVE BEEN A BOMB

UPDATE #3:

A Spanish newspaper said a transatlantic airline pilot reported seeing a bright flash of white light at the same time the Air France flight disappeared. "Suddenly we saw in the distance a strong, intense flash of white light that took a downward, vertical trajectory and disappeared in six seconds,"

,,,The plane sent no mayday signals before crashing, only automatic messages showing electrical faults and a loss of pressure shortly after it entered a zone of stormy weather.

....Portguese newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo, citing a source close to Air France, published what it said was the final sequence of messages, showing how the plane rapidly lost its key flight functions. It said they began at 0210 GMT showing the automatic pilot had been removed. The same minute there were multiple electricity failures. At 0214 GMT a final message was sent showing the planing was plunging towards the sea. There was no confirmation of this from Air France.

I THINK THIS WAS AN ATTACK...

Obama Embraces Muslim Principle of Al-Takeyya

After hearing President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world from Cairo yesterday, I concluded that it matters little whether or not President Barack Obama calls himself a Christian or a Muslim. What matters most is the fact that the nation’s 44th president appears to have embraced the Muslim principle of Al-Takeyya. What is Al-Takeyya? Find out here.

OBAMA'S BELATED AND WEAK STATEMENT ON THE JIHADI ATTACK IN ARKANSAS

The White House has finally issued a press statement on the case of the jihadi murder in Little Rock, Arkansas:

“I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe. I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son.”

I'm going to be quite honest here, but what Obama is saying is really underwhelming.

Caleb Howe (via Michelle Malkin) finds it underwhelming too:

“It’s in keeping with the Obama administration’s passive language, such as the euphemisms “overseas contingency operation” or “man-caused disaster” … Obama’s statement on the murder of Pvt. William A. Long is just as passive in voice and blame. He’s not outraged, he’s saddened. Not by someone who committed a “heinous act” but rather by a senseless violence. It might have been a bolt of lightning for all the pushback Obama has to share.

He waits three days and then the best he can muster is an abstract sadness at something that, judging by his statement, might well have been a mere accident of fate.

There's some more very disturbing news found as well: Stratfor Research (via Directorblue) tells that the FBI and other law enforcement divisions may have been intentionally prevented from investigating radicalized converts to Islam:

Several weeks ago, STRATFOR heard from sources that the FBI and other law enforcement organizations had been ordered to “back off” of counterterrorism investigations into the activities of Black Muslim converts. At this point, it is unclear to us if that guidance was given by the White House or the Department of Justice, or if it was promulgated by the agencies themselves, anticipating the wishes of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.

They imply that this was politically motivated, and may have been done out of cultural sensitivity:

...politics have proved obstructive to all facets of counterterrorism policy. And politics may have been at play in the Muhammad case as well as in other cases involving Black Muslim converts...

This is very disturbing, and Congress MUST demand an immediate investigation.

Update: and while we're on the subject, it turns out that Abdulhakim Muhammed wanted to target many more people and sites (H/T: Hot Air):

The Arkansas man accused of killing an Army recruiter and wounding another had used the popular Google Maps application to investigate recruiting centers in at least five states, as well as Jewish institutions, a day-care center, a post office and a Baptist Church, according to a report issued Tuesday evening by the Department of Homeland Security, ABC News has learned.

Recruiting centers in New York, Atlanta, Louisville and Philadelphia were on a list of possible targets, based on evidence found in the home of the suspect, Muslim-convert Abdulhakim Muhammed, according to the report.

The report was prepared based on the evidence seized in a search of Muhammed’s home that included information indicating that he had used Google maps to investigate various locations.

Secure Community Network, a not-for-profit group that addresses security concerns among some of the national Jewish leadership, and is widely considered to be a reliable source on potential threats to that community, expanded on the government report to conclude that, “Muhammad may have considered and conducted research on other targets in addition to the military recruiting center in Little Rock, including military sites, government facilities, as well as Jewish institutions in several cities throughout the United States.

“Law enforcement officials have reported that Muhammad may have researched Jewish entities in Little Rock, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New York, Louisville and Memphis. It is unknown at this time if other locations were considered,” according to SCN, which is a Jewish Federations of North America initiative.

It's clear that in Yemen, he practically studied to become a real assassin. It's fortunate that he was stopped before a lot more damage could be done.

MAHMOUD ABBAS GIVES DREADFUL PERFORMANCE AT WHITE HOUSE

Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center writes about how the PA is not moderate, and Mahmoud Abbas's visit to the White House was so incompetant, even the NY Times took notice.

ADAM AIR KI-574 AND AIR FRANCE 447 : TWO OF A KIND, "BOJINKA 2"!?

We posted several times on the mysterious ADAM AIR crash in 2007:

WAS THE INDONESIAN JETLINER BLOWN UP BY JIHADOTERRORISTS IN A TEST?

IC-WALES: Indonesian jetliner ‘no distress signals sent'

A plane missing over Indonesia with 102 people on board did not send out distress signals or report mechanical problems before disappearing, a top aviation official said today, as search teams intensified their hunt for the Boeing 737.

SO/SD:

An hour after Adam Air Flight KI-574 took off on New Year's Day with 102 passengers and crew for what should have been a short hop between islands, the pilot reported heavy winds. Then, the plane disappeared, seemingly into thin air.

HERALD (UK):

"We know nothing, whether it disintegrated in midair, flew into a storm or there were technical problems," said Nicholas Ionides, managing editor for Flight International Magazine in Asia.

A top aviation official said the Adam Air plane that left Java island on Monday for Manado on Sulawesi island did not issue distress signals or complain of mechanical problems. The statements contradicted earlier reports and capped days of confusion.

If this was not a equipment malfunction, or weather related, then it MAYBE it was an act of JIHADOTERROR?

AND HERE FOLLOWED UP HERE AND HERE AND HERE.

WIKI HAS THIS:

The final report, released on 25 March 2008, concluded that the pilots lost control of the aircraft after they became preoccupied with troubleshooting the inertial reference system and inadvertently disconnected the autopilot.^[1]

IOW: PILOT ERROR.

BUT MAYBE IT WASN'T. MAYBE IT WAS A BOMB: AL QAEDA HAS LONG WANTED TO BLOW UP JETS OVER THE OCEAN, MANY OF THEM ON ONE DAY - USA TODAY:

Document shows how al-Qaeda tested airports ahead of failed jet bombing plot

Two top al-Qaeda operatives smuggled explosive ingredients onto flights from Manila and Hong Kong in 1994 as part of a test run for a failed plot to blow up 12 U.S.-bound airliners, according to a confidential document obtained by The Associated Press.

Captured terror suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's key role in the al-Qaeda plot to simultaneously bomb the commercial planes flying out of Asia — in a 1995 plan called "Project Bojinka" — was one of several admissions that he made, the U.S. Defense Department said.

Defense Department officials released a transcript of Mohammed's confessions, detailing his claims of roles in 31 terror plots worldwide, during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay prison.

LATimes:

Brazilian authorities said military aircraft early today located several more pieces of debris floating in the Atlantic near where an ill-fated Air France flight is believed to have crashed with 228 people aboard.

The debris detected by aircraft radar included a 23-foot section that officials said may be part of Flight 447 that disappeared late Sunday after flying through turbulence and sending out an automatic alert of an electrical failure. ...

.. Matthieu Dumazeau, an Air France pilot who flies a Boeing 747 from Paris to Rio de Janeiro about once a month, also came to pay his respects. He said he has never had a problem flying over the region of the Atlantic where the Flight 447 is believed to have crashed, and was baffled at how such a secure plane could have gone down.

"It is very strange, because there had to be a really long string of events to have caused this, and it went down so fast," Dumazeau said. "That scares me."

There are several reports the last two days about bomb threats received by Air France in brazil the days before this "event":

Air France received bomb threat days before 447 crash

Air France received a bomb threat for a previous flight from South America to Paris just days before Air France flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.

Air France flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic on Monday en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 people on board are presumed to have been killed.

This report comes from ABC News:

Also today, ABC News has confirmed that Air France received a bomb threat over the phone concerning a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Paris days before Air France flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean Sunday night.

I am very suspicious. I feel that jihadists may have figured out how to smuggle a "disabling device" on to jets in order to bring them down over the ocean.

UPDATE: A WITNESS SAW A FLASH OF LIGHT.

THE STIMULUS THAT WASN'T: OBAMA'S TRILLION DOLLAR BOONDOGGLE IS NOT HELPING ONE BIT

NRO:

If the Stimulus Can't Stop Construction Employment From Dropping, What Can It Do?

We will get the May unemployment rate on Friday, but in the meantime:

In May, construction employment dropped 108,000. This was its twenty-eighth consecutive monthly decline, and brings the total decline in construction jobs since the peak in January 2007 to 1,345,000.

Think about it — we've spent $28 billion in stimulus funds, obligated $126 billion so far, and the stimulus hasn't even kept the number of construction jobs level from month to month.

SO... WHO IS BENEFITING!?!?

THE MACHINE. AND PEOPLE WHO WANT THE STATE TO RUN EVERYTHING.

WE SHOULD DEMAND THAT CONGRESS RESCIND THE SPENDING AND GIVE US ALL A TAX CUT.

OR FIRE THEM ALL.

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER NHS NIGHTMARE

LONDON TIMES: South Wales NHS chiefs told to apologise in person for fatal blunder

The heads of an NHS trust were told to apologise in person to the parents of a cancer patient who bled to death after a breathing tube was inserted incorrectly in his neck. The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, Peter Tyndall, criticised the Cwm Taf NHS Trust severely, saying that the actions of its staff “directly resulted” in the premature death of Myron Hall, a 47-year-old electrician.

Mr Hall’s parents called for the police to investigate whether the trust, in South Wales, or any individuals should face criminal charges.

Mr Hall was referred to the former North Glamorgan NHS Trust in September 2006 by his GP because of a suspicious lump in his neck.

It took three months to diagnose a malignant tumour and doctors decided the best way to treat him was to remove half his tongue.

A tracheostomy tube was put in his windpipe to help him to breathe, but surgeons stopped the operation when they found that the tumour had spread too far.

Mr Hall later began bleeding from a replacement tube that was inserted in the wrong place while he waited to be transferred to a specialist cancer centre for chemotherapy.

The wound was stitched when it was noticed the tube was not in the right place, but four days after returning to the ward Mr Hall suffered a “catastrophic bleed” caused by the tube wearing through the wall of an artery.

He died despite the efforts of staff at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, in Llantrisant, to resuscitate him.

• THIS IS TYPICAL IN THE NHS AND NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE: DELAYS IN DIAGNOSIS, AND THEN CRAPPY CARE.
• THIS IS WHAT OBAMACARE WILL BE LIKE.
• DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

BEND OVER: HERE COMES OBAMA'S EDUCATION TEAM...

SCIPIO:

Obama just appointed Kevin Jennings to the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. Who is this Jennings? He is

is a homosexual activist with a history of using foul and abusive language against those who have opposed his homosexualist agenda.

He is also a founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) whose specialty is going around to K-12 schools and giving graphic demonstrations of homosexual sex. One might say of Jennings that he believes that it takes more than a village to raise a child, it takes sodomy.

OUCH!

BUSH: NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.

OBAMA: NO CHILD'S BEHIND LEFT ALONE.

• SERIOUSLY: FORCING THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA ON OUR CHILDREN IS A KEY PART OF THE LEFT'S GRAMSCIAN AGENDA.

• THE GRASMICAN EFFORT AIMS TO DEMOLISH THE TRADITIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE SOCIALIST STATE.

• OBAMA IS USING GRAMSCI'S AGENDA AS WELL AS ALINSKY'S.

IF YOU VALUE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION THEN YOU MUST ...

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

OBAMA IS SO AWFUL, THE WORDS "PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN" NO LONGER FRIGHTEN ME

• By undermining our economy (by raising our debt to horrific levels in order to spend it on boondoggles which benefit his cronies),
• and by damaging our free enterprise system and the free markets (by "bailing out" GM and Chrysler),
• and by weakening our national defense (by releasing the EIT memos and cutting defense and NMD),
• and by threatening our allies (like Israel),
• and by appeasing our enemies (the Taliban, Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Castro and so on),
• Obama has proven he is a menace to the USA and the entire free world.

It's time to: Impeach Obama.

OBAMA OPEN TO TAXING YOUR HEALTH BENEFITS: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOP HOT AIR BY A DAY.

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OBAMA APPEASING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN CAIRO

OBAMA HAS INVITED THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO HEAR HIS SPEECH.

THAT'S ZAWAHIRI'S OLD PALS.

• THE MB IS ANTI-DEMCORATIC, ANTI-ZIONIST AND THE BIGGGEST THREAT TO MUBARAK.
• THE INVITE EITHER AN INSANE DEGREE OF HUBIS AND DOVISHNESS, OR OBAMA WANTS TO STRGENGHTEN THE ENEMY.
• BOTH BAD.

ATLAS HAS MORE.

UPDATED: FOUR VIDEOS WHICH TELL US WHO OBAMA REALLY IS - NOW FIVE!

HIS MENTOR:



HIS OWN MOUTH:



ANOTHER FREUDIAN SLIP:



ONE OF HIS CHICAGO NEIGHBORS:



A PLEDGE HE WOULDN'T TAKE:

• WRIGHT AND FARRAKHAN HAVE KNOWN OBAMA FOR TWO DECADES.

• ONLY OBAMA KNOWS HIMSELF BETTER THAN THESE MEN DO.

• I THINK THESE REVEAL THAT OBAMA IS A GRAVE THREAT TO THE USA AND THE FREE WORLD.

• HIS ACTIONS SINCE TAKING OFFICE REINFORCE THAT VIEW.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.