INDIA: 17TH CENTURY SYNAGOGUE - BUILT ON ONE FROM THE 12TH CENTURY - TO BE RESTORED

JPOST:

COCHIN, India - Local authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala have decided to renovate one of the oldest synagogues in the region as part of a larger heritage conservation and tourism development project, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The Parur synagogue, located in the village of North Paravur, approximately 18 km. north of Cochin, dates to the early 17th century. It was believed to have been built on the ruins of a previous synagogue from the 12th century.

... Hebrew University anthropologist Dr. Shalva Weil, a world-renowned specialist on Indian Jewry, called the Parur synagogue "an architectural gem and well worth preservation."

In an interview with the Post, she praised the Kerala authorities, saying they "have embarked upon an ambitious conservation project of various historical and archaeological sites. The plan is excellent and they have not forgotten the Jews, who played such an important role in Kerala."

THIS IS GREAT NEWS FOR INDIA.

AMERICANS ARE TAXED TOO MUCH - MORE THAN THE EU AND CHINA!

KUDLOW:

China has no capital-gains tax.

It only has a 15-to-20 percent corporate tax.

The U.S., on the other hand, is raising its cap-gains tax rate to 20 percent. It’s also increasing its top personal tax rates.

In fact, the scheduled income-tax hike, plus the much-discussed health-care surtax, will balloon the top U.S. tax rate all the way to 51 percent.

Compare that to the OECD average of only 42 percent.

When those tax-hikes kick in, the top U.S. tax rate will rank above that of France, Germany, and Italy.

That can’t be good.

Incidentally, our 40 percent corporate tax rate is already almost 15 percentage points higher than the corporate rates in most of Europe.

[OBAMA'S] enormous expansion of the government’s spending share of GDP to over 40 percent — including Bailout Nation, TARP, and government takeovers in numerous industries — is eerily reminiscent of Old Europe’s old policies.

In a twist of irony, Europe seems to be moving toward a lower-tax-and-spend-and-regulate, Ronald Reagan–type approach, while we in the U.S. are regressing to the failed socialist model of Old Europe.

This makes no sense.

Here’s the clincher: Year-to-date, Dow Jones stocks are off 7 percent, while China stocks are up 71 percent. The world index is up 4 percent. Emerging markets are up 25 percent.

They’re all beating us.

None of this is good.

We’re going the wrong way.

That’s why stock markets are not voting for the United States anymore.

WE MUST STOP OBAMA OR OUR ECONOMY IS GOING TO COLLAPSE.

RELAX: THE "CHENEY LINKED TO SUPER-DUPER TOP SECRET ILLEGAL ROGUE CIA PROGRAM" STORY IS GOING NOWHERE

READ ABOUT IT HERE AND HERE.

THE NYTIMES HAS THIS KEY KEY KEY BIT:

One intelligence official, who would speak about the classified program only on condition of anonymity, said there was no resistance inside the C.I.A. to Mr. Panetta’s decision to end the program last month.

“Because this program never went fully operational and hadn’t been briefed as Panetta thought it should have been, his decision to kill it was neither difficult nor controversial,” the official said. “That’s worth remembering amid all the drama.”

NON-OPERATIONAL.

WHOOPEE.

FOR THOSE HOPING FOR A SCANDAL, IT GETS WORSE:

The law requires the president to make sure the intelligence committees “are kept fully and currently informed of the intelligence activities of the United States, including any significant anticipated intelligence activity.”

But the language of the statute, the amended National Security Act of 1947, leaves some leeway for judgment, saying such briefings should be done “to the extent consistent with due regard for the protection from unauthorized disclosure of classified information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and methods or other exceptionally sensitive matters.”

In addition, for covert action programs, a particularly secret category in which the role of the United States is hidden, the law says that briefings can be limited to the so-called Gang of Eight, consisting of the Republican and Democratic leaders of both houses of Congress and of their intelligence committees.

REPEAT:

... the amended National Security Act of 1947, leaves some leeway for judgment, saying such briefings should be done “to the extent consistent with due regard for the protection from unauthorized disclosure of classified information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and methods or other exceptionally sensitive matters.”

THIS ATTACK ON BUSH-CHENEY IS AN ATTEMPT BY THE LEFT TO DISTRACT THE PUBLIC - ESPECIALLY THE INDEPENDENTS - AND KEEP THEM FROM MOVING RIGHT AND TOWARD THE GOP ON FISCAL, SPENDING, REGULATORY AND TAX ISSUES.

THE LEFT DOESN'T WANT THE PUBLIC TO HONE IN ON THE ULTRA-LEFT CAP & TRADE AND OBAMACARE PROPOSALS.

TO FURTHER DISTRACT US, OBAMA AND HOLDER MAY EVEN APPOINT A TORTURE INVESTIGATOR/PROSECUTOR. (MORE HERE.)

DON'T BE DUPED.

OBAMA AND THE AMERICAN LEFT: REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH. CAMERON AND THE BRITISH RIGHT: REDISRIBUTE POLITICAL POWER.

CHRIS CALDWELL/NYTIMES MAGAZINE:

Unlike in the United States, where the economic crisis has led people to re-examine their assumptions that government is more often the problem than the solution, in Britain the politics discredited are those of the center-left.

So the alternative policies to which the public is willing to lend an ear are very different: parsimonious, libertarian, suspicious of government.

At the height of the expense scandals in May, Cameron gave a speech at the Open University in the city of Milton Keynes.

Standing among library stacks before cameras and a small audience, he said,

“We need a massive, sweeping, radical redistribution of power, from the state to citizens, from the government to Parliament, from Whitehall to communities, from Brussels to Britain, from judges to people, from bureaucracy to democracy. . . . We must take power away from the political elite and give it to the man and woman on the street.”

WE NEED THAT HERE, TOO. DESPERATELY!

WATCH HIM FIGHT THE PM:



WE NED A FIGHTER LIKE THAT HERE, SOMEONE TO ATTACK AND ATTACK AND ATTACK OBAMA.

BREAKING NEWS: SCOTISH CANCER PATIENTS ACTUALLY WAITING 100 DAYS TO A YEAR FOR TREATMENT

THE SCOTSMAN:

CANCER patients are still waiting as long as a year to get life-saving hospital treatment, despite ministers' claims waiting time targets are being met.

Scotland on Sunday has obtained official hospital by hospital data, unpublished by the Scottish Government, which shows that for certain types of cancer, patients in some units are waiting an average of 100 days before getting treated.

In the most extreme case, an Edinburgh patient with urological cancer – likely kidney, testicular or prostate – had to wait 375 days after first seeing the GP before getting treatment.

THEIR GOAL WAS 62 DAYS, AND THEY'RE NOT MEETING THAT GOAL.

IMAGINE: YOU'VE GOT CANCER AND YOU HAVE TO WAIT 375 DAYS TREATMENT.

OBAMACARE WILL DO THAT HERE.

YES IT WILL.

THE NHS IS ONE OF THE THE OLDEST STATE RUN HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS IN THE WORLD.

IF THE POLITICIANS CAN'T MANAGE IT THERE, THEN WHAT MAKES YOU THINK OUR BUREAUCRATIC NEOPHYTES - AND THE CROOKS IN THE SEIU AND ACORN - WILL MANAGE IT BETTER HERE!?!?

THEY WON'T.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

AND GET AMMO.

AND VOTE GOP.

RUSSIAN TV CENSORED SOUTH PARK WHICH MOCKED PUTIN

Russian channel cuts Vladimir Putin scene on 'South Park'

A segment of the US cartoon "South Park" that appeared to mock Vladimir Putin was cut by a Russian TV channel, a spokesman said Friday.

The channel "2X2" censored material from the show that aired on Tuesday portraying the Russian prime minister as a greedy and desperate leader, the network's spokesman said. The decision prompted criticism and furious discussion on Russia blogs.

It was unclear whether the decision, involving an episode that originally aired in the United States in 2005, was made by channel executives or regulators.

Asked about the Putin scene being cut, Andrei Andreyev, a spokesman for the channel, told The Associated Press by e-mail that: "the given scene in this version was absent". He declined to comment on the reason for the censorship.

MORE HERE:

Putin, who is now prime minister, has been instrumental in returning economic stability to Russia but critics say that his methods, which leave little room for public dissent, border on authoritarian.

Internet publications and blogs are among the last outlets for unfettered commentary and satire in Russian, and commentators on Russia's most popular blogging service, Live Journal, vented their anger after news of the South Park censorship leaked out.

I HAVE A FEELING OBAMA AND THE OBAMAMANIACS WILL TRY TO BRING THIS KIND OF CENSORSHIP HERE; THEY'LL DRESS IT UP AS STOPPING HATE SPEECH.

THE OBAMA WAY: COLORADO'S DEMOCRAT GUV USES STIMULUS MONEY TO PAYOFF POLITICAL ALLIES

THIS IS WHAT THE STIMULUS WAS REALLY ALL ABOUT.

• AND IT'S WHY OBAMA HAS ILLEGALLY FIRED THREE IG'S: HE WANTS A FREE HAND "SPENDING" THE STIMULUS MONEY.

• AND THIS IS WHY THEY HAVEN'T SPENT VERY MUCH - YET.

• THE OBAMA MACHINE WANTS TO SPEND IT CLOSER TO THE 2010 ELECTION, AND IN WAYS THAT BENEFITS THE MACHINE AND ITS ALLIES.

ROUND UP HERE.

REPRISE: UKIP EU REP NIGEL FARAGE SLAMS BRIT PM BROWN

WELL DONE!

HEAR! HEAR!

• REMEMBER: THE EU IS BEING RAMMED DOWN THE THROATS OF ALL EUROPEANS - EVEN THOSE WHO DON'T WANT IT - LIKE THE IRISH AND THE BRITS!

• THE EU IS A LEFTIST WET-DREAM, AND THEY'LL STOP AT NOTHING TO ACHIEVE CLIMAX.

AND OBAMA IS OPERATING THE SAME WAY:

HE WILL RAM OBAMACARE AND CARBON-TAXES DOWN OUR THROATS - IF WE DON'T START HAMMERING HIM HARDER AND AND REALLY START BRINGING HIS NUMBERS DOWN IN A HURRY.

WE CAN DO THIS BY REMINDING INDEPENDENTS OF TWO THINGS:

• FIRST, REMINDING THEM WHAT OBAMA PROMISED AS A CANDIDATE - OBAMA RAN AS A MODERATE WHO WOULD CUT SPENDING -

• AND SECOND CONTRASTING THAT WITH WHAT HE'S BE DOING AS POTUS: RAISING SPENDING AND GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN THE ECONOMY MORE THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY - EVEN FDR.

Great Moments In The History of Rational, Scientific Thought

From Rational Mind:

Christians and other mystics sometimes argue that religion makes people moral. I disagree: morality is a practical science which can only be understood by rational consideration, not emotionalism (the epistemological method of faith).

Since rational moral claims need no mystical basis, it is only the irrational and immoral actions which require religious justification. To the extent that religious beliefs as such influence people’s actions, they can only influence them to do wrong – sometimes unspeakable and sometimes trivial, but still evil.

The prime candidate for the moral monopoly of religion in America is the domain of life and death. This is where the real evil of religious influence becomes evident. One particularly despicable influence of religion was out on display when John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential candidate. One of Governor’s Palin’s qualifications for the presidential ticket is that she gave birth to a baby with Down syndrome in April.

The fact that Palin’s baby has Down syndrome is certainly tragic. Down not only severely impacts the health and life-expectancy of the child, is also a tremendous burden on their caretakers...

... since January 2007, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has recommended Down screening for all pregnant women, and so Governor Palin knew that her fetus had Down’s, and decided to continue her pregnancy anyway.

Furthermore, she has turned her decision into political leverage in the upcoming election as proof of her moral virtuousness...

Whereas previously, a Down’s child could be born without the prior knowledge of the mother, going forward, a parent with a Down’s child will likely (at least in the developed world) have made a conscious choice to have that child.

The child represents a sacrifice made by their parents for their faith. As the recommendations of ACOG are implemented nationwide, Down children (and eventually those with other genetic disorders) will increasingly become symbols of faith – a freak show meant to communicate the “family values” of their parents.

And, here's a post from another Rational Mind in the comments thread:

I don’t get the reaction of people to your comments. I don’t even see how people consider Down’s syndrome “children” to be human. I encountered one in the store today, and it was a drooling, loud, disgusting creature. My friend’s dog is better behaved than that creature was.

Just because something looks like a human doesn’t mean it is. What sets humans apart from other animals is our intelligence. Looking somewhat human but being massively retarded makes Downs syndrome creatures closer to cattle than people.

“When parents knowingly give birth to a child with severe disability or defect it is basically Münchhausen’s by proxy."

FROM BRITAIN: ANOTHER SIGN THE GLOBAL RECESSION IS ENDING

BBC:

The number of profit warnings by UK-listed firms fell in April-June to their lowest second quarter level since 2003, a report has said.

There were 63 warnings issued by firms listed on the London Stock Exchange in the quarter, down 36% from a year ago, said accountants Ernst & Young (E&Y).

The decline may add to the growing feeling that the UK is nearing the bottom of the recession, E&Y said.

But it added that the economy still had a "difficult road ahead".

"Many companies have withdrawn profit guidance due to a difficult forecasting environment, while three successive quarters of negative growth have diminished market expectations," said Keith McGregor, restructuring partner at E&Y.

"Add in hamstrung banks and a lingering credit crunch, and it's apparent that although the economy appears more stable and the outlook brighter than at anytime in the past year, UK plc still has a difficult road ahead."

REMEMBER: THE BUBBLE IS THE ILLNESS AND THE RECESSION IS THE CURE.

HERE'S WHAT I SEE IS THE GREAT RISK: WE COULD HAVE ANOTHER RECESSION IF OBAMA GETS HIS WAY ON OBAMACARE AND CARBON TAXES.

IDF: "HIZBALLAH REARMING HEAVILY"

KUNA:

Commander of Israel's northern front General Alon Friedman said Saturday the Lebanese Hezbollah party was carrying out a wide-scale armament operation, in a way that would make its arsenal larger than it was before the Israeli war three years ago.

Friedman said in remarks to the Israeli radio that Hezbollah "suffered huge losses" during the 33-day war in the summer of 2006.

This war, he claimed, hit hard the theory of Hezbollah that it could engage in a battle with Israel and win.

Friedman said the 2006 war saw important success to the Israeli army which regained its deterrence.

IRAN NEEDS A BIG DIVERSION, AND THEIR HIZBALLAH JIHADO-STOOGES WILL TRY TO DELIVER.

HIZBALLAH CAN;T REARM WITHOUT IRAN AND SYRINA - AND RUSSIA.

WE SHOULD BE DOING MORE TO OPPSE THEM ALL.

OBAMA IS DOING THE OPPOSITE.

OBAMA MIGHT AS WELL BE ON THE OTHER SIDE.

MALIA OBAMA'S APPEARANCE WHILE ON PRESIDENT'S TRIP ABROAD REVEALS A LOT ABOUT THE FIRST FAMILY'S FAMILY VALUES

HERE'S HOW THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY THOUGHT THE WORLD SHOULD SEE THEIR OLDEST DAUGHTER:



AND WHO IS THE THUG WITH HER?!?! (THE GUY ON HER LEFT! IS THAT PUFF DADDY OBAMA THE THIRD, SOME HERETOFORE UNKNOWN CUZ FROM KENYALAND!? OR JUST A FELLOW ANTI-AMERICAN LEFT-WING ENEMY-APPEASING CHE LOVING HOMEY FROM THE HOOD!?)

SHEESH.

THIS DISGUSTS ME.

IF BARACK AND MICHELLE CAN'T CONTROL THEIR DAUGHTER'S APPEARANCE WHILE SHE'S ON AN OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL TRIP, THEN THEY SHOULDN'T TAKE HER ON THESE TRIPS AND SUBJECT HER TO ALL THE ATTENTION.

HOW SHE DRESSES IN PRIVATE IS NOT ANYBODY'S CONCERN BUT HER PARENTS.

BUT WHEN SHE IS ON AN OFFICIAL TRIP (NOT A FIRST FAMILY VACATION BUT AN OFFICIAL TRIP), IT IS OUR BUSINESS.

AND WHEN SHE DRESSES AS SHE DOES IN THE ABOVE PHOTO IT MAKES THE USA LOOK LIKE SHIT.

OOOOOH: MAYBE THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT!

MUSICAL INTERLUDE FOR A SUMMER'S EVENING

Spotted at Social Sense, below is George Gershwin's "Summertime" to accompany masterful photographs:



A much needed break from politics to soothe the soul.

'Conveyer belt to terrorism' to host conference in Chicago

Delightful news out of Chicago. The Investigative Project on Terrorism reports that the pro-Jihadist group Hizb-Ut-Tahrir America (or HT) plans on raising its profile in the U.S. by hosting a conference in one of the metro area's suburbs. What is HT?

HT has been banned in Turkey and Germany for distributing literature that includes incitement to hatred and violence against Jews...

...In a paper for the Manhattan Institute, Gruen pointed to one leaflet distributed by the group titled: "And Kill Them Whenever You Find Them, and Turn Them Out From Where They Have Turned You Out." It stated that:

"Jews are a people of slander. They are treacherous people who violate oaths and covenants. They lie and change words from the right places. They take the rights of the people unjustly, and kill the Prophets and the innocent."

According to IPT, some of HT's literature also encourages "martyrdom operations" (e.g., suicide attacks) against Jews in locations unspecified. Presumably that includes here in the U.S., like at the mall or the corner pub.


Further, HT preaches the establishment of Sharia (Islamic) law and the eradication of both the U.S. Constitution and our legal system.

The duty of the State is to implement Islam as a whole and to deem its implementation upon the non-Muslim as an invitation to Islam for them, because Shari’ah is ordained upon mankind; thus the State implements it upon every country that comes under its authority with the aim of conveying the Da’awah to it, because the secret behind the Islamic conquests is to carry the Da’awah to Islam.

      -- The Concept of Hizb ut Tahrir, page 30

As for the useful idiots who believe the cavalier exhortation that Jihad is a spiritual battle within oneself, HT helpfully clears that matter up quite succinctly.

...supplication is an action that achieves a spiritual value and Jihad is a physical action that achieves a spiritual value. However, although supplication is a physical action, it achieves an impalpable result, which is the reward, though the intention of the performer is to achieve a spiritual value. This is in contrast with Jihad, which is fighting the enemies and is a physical action that achieves tangible results, such as the conquest of a fortress or a city, or the killing of the enemy...

      -- The Concept of Hizb ut Tahrir, page 31

Just in case the message wasn't clear, another of HT's reading spells it out in blood:

...Jihad is the quality that should become second nature to the Islamic Ummah because it is the method of carrying the Da'awah to the world. The question that may be asked here is: will the struggle be with all these states at once, which is not a wise policy, or will the struggle be with some of them while the others will be covenanted, lest all the forces gather against us?

...The answer to this is that the struggle with the Kuffar takes two aspects, the first is the intellectual struggle, which is known as the political conflict, and the second is the bloody struggle, which is the actual war, which is Jihad. As for the intellectual struggle, i.e. the political conflict, this must be with all these states at once and no truce will be concluded with any state with regard to this conflict, because the nature of the contradiction between the ideology of Islam and the Capitalist ideology necessitates this confrontation...

      -- The Duty of Islamic Ummah, page 7

Further, HT's agenda is codified quite nicely:

...Hizb-ut-Tahrir is a political party with Islam as its ideology. Its objective is to resume the Islamic way of life by establishing an Islamic State that implements Islam and carries its Da’awah to the world...

      -- The Concept of Hizb ut Tahrir, page 44

Put simply, the mission of HT is to overthrow the United States government and replace it with Sharia (Islamic religious) law.

On July 19th, the group Responsible for Equality And Liberty (REAL) will be protesting the conference in Oak Lawn, IL. The conference is scheduled to run from 11AM to 5PM (CT) at the Hilton Hotel Grand Ballroom, 9333 South Cicero Ave., Oak Lawn, IL 60543.

If you can join or support REAL, please email realpublic@earthlink.net before July 18th.

TODAY'S MUST READ: MURPHY ON THE REAL OBAMA

CANADIAN REX MURPHY VIA GLENN REYNOLDS:

We've seen him [OBAMA] in action for a bit more than six months.

What we can say with confidence, now that we have the evidence of his actions, is that had he run on

(a) transforming the U.S. economy by massive federal government intervention,

(b) taking an owner's stake in the automobile industry,

(c) transforming the rules of America's energy economy,

(d) instituting a national health-care system -

all of these simultaneously and in the centre of a financial meltdown -

Barack Obama wouldn't merely have lost the election, he wouldn't have got as many votes as gnarly old Ross Perot did in an election long past.

He wouldn't, in other words, have beaten a bad-tempered, egotistical spoiler.

... Mr. Obama has taken the real crisis of the U.S. (and world) economy and used it as the screen and lever for a massive agenda of transformation, a transformation that calls for expenditures on a scale never before seen in the history of government on this planet.

... These initiatives, however, were almost instantly overlaid with the Obama agenda of massive government expansion, or attempted expansion, into everything from the auto industry to health care - all of them sold with cries of urgency and executed with reckless haste.

Massive bills were passed before there were even copies of them to read.

The U.S. government's debt is being swollen beyond all previous records.

It is inconceivable that these ideas occurred to Mr. Obama postelection.

His agenda is of such scale and particularity that it is evidence of design and previous contemplation.

He knew what he wished to do when he was campaigning, but he was not going to whisper the scale and range of his designs while the campaign was on. It would have scared off people.

OBAMA IS THE MOST DECEPTIVE AND THE MOST EXTREME LEFT-WINGER EVER TO SET FOOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

WORSE THAN EVEN ALGER HISS.

OBAMA IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE USA, AND HIS PRESIDENCY DIRECTLY THREATENS THE STABILITY OF THE ENTIRE FREE WORLD.

7/11/1864: ON THIS DATE IN US CIVIL WAR HISTORY: AN IMPORTANT CONFEDERATE DEFEAT

ON THIS DATE IN THE US CIVIL WAR: THE BATTLE FOR FORT STEVENS:

Location: District of Columbia

Campaign: Early’s Raid and Operations against the B&O Railroad (1864)

Date(s): July 11-12, 1864

Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright and Maj. Gen. Alexander McD. McCook [US]; Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early [CS]

Forces Engaged: Divisions

Estimated Casualties: 874 total

Description: On July 11, Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early’s exhausted Confederates reached the outskirts of Washington near Silver Spring. Skirmishers advanced to feel the fortifications which at the time were manned only by Home Guards, clerks, and convalescent troops. During the night, veteran units from the Union VI Corps disembarked from troop transports and marched north through the streets of Washington to bolster the defenses. On July 12, Early was finally in position to make a strong demonstration, which was repulsed by the veteran Union troops. In the afternoon, VI Corps units sortied against the Confederate skirmishers, driving them back from their advanced positions in front of Forts Stevens and DeRussy.

President Lincoln watched the action from Fort Stevens and came under fire from Confederate sharpshooters.

Recognizing that the Union Capitol was now defended by veterans, Early abandoned any thought of taking the city. Early withdrew during the night, marching toward White’s Ford on the Potomac, ending his invasion of Maryland.

“We didn’t take Washington,” Early told his staff officers, “but we scared Abe Lincoln like Hell.”

LIKE HELL THEY DID. EARLY IS THE ONE WHO SNEAKED OUT AT NIGHT!



LINCOLN SCHOLAR GUELZO:

What we do here today, in dedicating Tony Frudakis’s statue of Abraham Lincoln, flies so finely in the face of this age of post-heroism that somewhere, we can be sure some voice will fix on this event to tell us that this is all farce—that Lincoln cannot be a hero because he was a racist, or that he cannot be the savior of the Union because the Union was rotten to its exploitative, capitalist, war-mongering, imperialist, Christ-loving, minority-massacring, little-Eichmann core and couldn’t deserve a savior. For six decades after his death, this was not so. Lincoln was the quintessential, the indispensable, American hero.

Of the 600 or so statues dedicated to American presidents, fully one third are of Abraham Lincoln; one of them, Daniel Chester French’s seated Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, may be the most famous American statue ever created.

But the post-World War One cultural malaise, which inaugurated an era of literary debunking and political minimalism, curved the arc of other Lincoln statuary downwards, away from the wise, heroic statesman and in the direction of a more folksy, proletarian Lincoln.

Even in Lincoln’s Illinois, statuary of Lincoln continues to bring him off pedestals, closer to the earth, sitting on park benches, in the fashion of Jeff Garland’s 2001 Just Don’t Sit There, Do Something, a park-bench Lincoln whose head was decapitated in 2007 as a wedding prank…Rick Harney’s 2006 Lincoln at Leisure, which captures a shirt-sleeved Lincoln leaning on a fence…and, in Springfield, John W. McClarey’s A Greater Task, which is supposed to depict Lincoln grasping his coat around him as he delivers his farewell speech in 1861, but which ends up making him look like a derelict panhandling for spare quarters. The statues, however, only reflect a larger decline in our estimate of Lincoln.

In a multicultural perspective, no triumphal, Union-saving Lincoln is allowed to emerge; multiculturalism is the celebration of ordinariness, information, and egalitarianism.

Which is why most people today are interested in knowing whether Lincoln was gay rather than knowing whether he was right. . . .

BOTTOM-LINE: TODAY'S MULTICULTURALISTS WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED SLAVERY AS PART OF SOUTHERN CULTURE - AND EVEN SUPPORTED THE SOUTH, (UNLESS THE SOUTH WOULD HAVE OPPOSED GAY MARRIAGE AND CARBON TAXES)!

OBAMA'S NO-NUKE DREAM IS A NIGHTMARE FOR THE FREE WORLD

NUKES HAVE KEPT US FREE AND AT PEACE.

A NUKE FREE WORLD WOULD BE LESS FAFE AND LESS FREE.

CONGRESS: SOCIALISM FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME

CONGRESSMEN WILL BE EXEMPT FROM OBAMACARE AND GET TO KEEP THEIR LUXURIOUS CHOICES FORM COVERAGE.

• THIS IS DISGUSTING.

• NOT ONLY MUST WE PASS A LAW THAT REQUIRES CONGRESSMEN TO READ BILLS BEFORE THEY VOTE ON THEM,

• WE NEED TO PASS A LAW THAT REQUIRES CONGRESSMEN TO BE FORCED TO TAKE ON ANY HEALTHCARE PLAN THEY PASS.

MORE NEWS FROM THE RELIGION OF MURDERING FEMALE FAMILY MEMBERS, ER UM I MEAN THE RELIGION OF PEACE

Brothers arrested in suspected honour killing

Two Pakistani brothers were being held in custody in Belgium on murder charges, a magistrate said in Brussels yesterday, on suspicion that they carried out an honour killing.

Hammad Raza Syed and his brother Hassan were charged with “deprivation of liberty and murder” over the death of Hammad’s wife Claudi Lalembaidje, a 32-year-old Belgian woman of Chadian origin.

The woman’s beaten body was found on June 29 in a suitcase in a canal in northern France. A funeral service was held for her in Brussels yesterday.

The magistrate said the two men had denied the killing, and that a third brother was believed to have fled Belgium, possibly to Pakistan, and was the subject of an international arrest warrant.

The dead woman was in the process of divorcing Syed. Her family claimed he had beaten her and wanted to control what she wore and how she conducted her life. She went to police twice insisting he had tried to strangle her.

I GUESS YOU CAN TAKE THE MUSLIM MAN OUT OF THE MUSLIM NATION, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE MURDEROUS EVIL IDEOLOGY OUT OF THE MUSLIM MAN.

MORE - FROM AMMAN, JORDAN - A SO-CALLED "MODERATE MUSLIM" NATION:

Jordanian man stabs sister to death in 'honour killing' A Jordanian man stabbed his sister to death with a dagger in an "honour killing" because of rumours she was dating a man, a police official said yesterday. The 24-year-old farmer, who turned himself in and confessed to the killing, was charged with murder, the official said. An autopsy showed the victim, who was 27 years old, was four weeks pregnant, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to journalists. The man said in his confession that he killed his sister because he heard rumours she was dating a man, the official said.

IF ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE, THEN BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JUNIOR IS THE POPE.

UPDATE: MORE FROM THE RELIGION OF BEATING YOUR WIFE.

CO2 AND AGW: IMAGINE 10,000 TIFFANY BOXES FILLED WITH LIBERAL BS

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WIND POWER WAS A LOT OF HOT AIR, AFTER ALL...

WASH POST: Wind Projects at a Standstill: Despite Washington's Enthusiasm, Recession and New Regulations Slow Firms

The Obama administration has made offshore wind energy a priority and an important part of its plans to create jobs and combat climate change, but even such favorable political breezes have not been strong enough to propel the nation's first projects.

The economy has intervened, and an unfamiliar federal approval process could hold up leading projects.

Just last month, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar distributed leases to explore five possible wind farm sites off Delaware and New Jersey on the outer continental shelf. The leases were the first ever, and Salazar proclaimed "a new day for energy production in the United States."

But that day may be years in the dawning.

Developer Bluewater Wind won two of the leases for sites 14 miles off Delaware and 15 to 18 miles off New Jersey. The company seemed to be barreling toward being first in the emerging industry, with plans to plant a wind farm into the seabed at Rehoboth Beach, Del. A year ago, it had even struck an agreement to sell power from the giant windmills to Delmarva Power.

But now, its parent company, Australian investment firm Babcock & Brown, has buckled under the weight of the global economic downturn and is selling off its assets to reduce debt. Bluewater is looking for investors to keep its projects moving.

"They're just reapproaching all of the other players out there, hat in hand,"

THE FREE MARKET HAS INTERVENED - IT ALWAYS DOES; A COMMAND ECONOMY ALWAYS FAILS.

IF GLOBAL WARMING OR CLIMATE CHANGE --- OR WHATEVER ELSE THE ECO-NUTSIES CALL IT THIS WEEK ---WAS REAL, THEN WIND POWER --- (AND EVERY OTHER "ALTERNATIVE" ENERGY SOURCE, THAT IS: ALTERNATIVE TO HARMLESS CARBON BASED ENERGY SOURCES!) --- WOULDN'T BE FAILING BEFORE IT EVEN GOT STARTED.

THE SO-CALLED "GREEN ECONOMY" IS JUST A BULLSHIT NAME FOR SOCIALISM.

DON'T BE DUPED!

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY. BUY AMMO. VOTE GOP!

Obama's Science Czar Wrote Book Advocating "Planetary Regime" Which Would Require Mass Sterilizations, Forced Abortions

This is the scariest book report you will ever read. Zombie has once again truly done his homework.

These are the ideas of John Holdren, Obama's newly appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, i.e., Science Czar.

In a book he co-authored in 1977, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, he wrote that:

• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;

• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;

• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise [which would seriously jack with Cloward-Piven];

• People who "contribute to social deterioration" (i.e. undesirables) "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" -- in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.

• A transnational "Planetary Regime" should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives -- using an armed international police force.

There's so much more. It's hard to take in all the evil. Especially in light of this:



UPDATE: 12 HOURS LATER AND THE GREAT JIM TREACHER - POSTING AT HOT AIR - NOTICES.

MASK SLIPS: DEMOCRAT ACTIVIST REVEALS GOAL IS SOCIALISM

ROBERT CREAMER - (HUBBY OF REP SCHAKOWSKY, WHOSE MASK SLIPPED A FEW MONTHS AGOI WHEN SHE ADMITTED THAT OBAMACARE WAS A TROJAN HORSE FOR SINGLE-PAYER) - AT HUFFPO:

To succeed, we need to remember seven key rules:

1). The critical battles being fought in 2009 are not about "policies" -- they are about the distribution of wealth and power.

When we talk about putting an end to exploding health care costs for families, the money we save will come out of someone's pockets. In the case of health care, those pockets belong mainly to the insurance and pharmaceutical companies. In the case of energy, it's the oil companies. When it comes to re-regulating Wall Street the oxen being gored belong to the big Wall Street banks.

SO.... IF YOUR PENSION FUND OR IRA OR 401K IS IN THE STOCK MARKET THEN YOUR ARE THE ENEMY!

AND THEY WANNA TAKE YOUR MONEY AND GIVE IT SOMEONE ELSE.

THAT'S REDISTRIBUTION AND THAT'S SOCIALISM AND THAT'S UNAMERICAN.

AND THAT'S WHAT OBAMA WANTS.

AND THAT'S WHAT KRUGMAN WANTS - THOUGH HE'LL ONLY ADMIT IT TO OTHER LEFTISTS.

AND EZRA KLEIN.

AND THE GUY WHO FIGGERED OUT THIS STEALTH STRATEGY JACOB HACKER.

ISN'T IT FASCINATING AND REVEALING THAT THEY ALL LIE ABOUT OBAMACARE WHEN THEY TALK TO US, BUT TELL THE TRUTH WHEN THEY THEY THINK THEY'RE AMONG COMRADES?

LIKE OBAMA, SAYING ONE THING TO RICH LEFTISTS IN SF AND ANOTHER TO REGULAR FOLKS IN SCRANTON.

BITTER FOLKS WHO CLING TO GOD AND GUNS.

FOLKS: YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FREAKIN' EXCUSES FOR BEING DUPED ANYMORE.

WAKE UP AND DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

REALLY FOLKS:

• THE FACT THAT OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES HAVE BEEN DISHONEST AND TWO-FACED ABOUT THIS -

• SAYING ONE THING TO THEIR FELLOW LEFTISTS AND ANOTHER WHEN THEY THINK THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IS WATCHING -

• SAYS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THEIR MORALS, THEIR SCRUPLES AND THEIR GOALS:
  

THEY ARE LEFTIST LYING SCUM.

THEY WANT TO USE THE COERCIVE POWER OF THE STATE TO TAKE AWAY WHAT YOU'VE EARNED AND GIVE IT AWAY.

DON'T LET THEM.

GET AMMO AND VOTE GOP.

DEMOCRATS RETAKE NY STATE SENATE AND WHAT DO THEY DO - IMMEDIATELY? PASS A TAX INCREASE!

THE DEMOCRATS RETOOK THE SENATE, ENDING THE STALEMATE.

AND THE FIRST THING THEY DID WAS RAISE TAXES.

• WE'D BE BETTER OFF WITH NO GOVERNMENT THAN GOVERNMENT RUN THIS WAY BY THESE SCUMSUCKING TAX-RAISING CRONY-SPENDING PIECES OF POLITICAL CRAP.

• THEW WHOLE DAMN LOT OF THEM SHOULD BE FIRED.

• REALLY: IF NY'ERS WANT REAL CHANGE THEN THEY SHOULD ALL VOTE AGAINST THE INCUMBENTS.

• EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM.

NYC RALLY AGAINST THE IRANIAN REGIME: sponsored by The Iranian Society for Freedom, Peace and Justice

The Iranian Community of New York Metropolitan Area, in a show of unity with all Iranian compatriots across the Globe, will hold a political rally and demonstration in support of the young freedom fighters across Iranian cities in the struggle against the evil forces of the Islamic Regime.

Please join us to show our unity and support to the United Nation and the World.

Time :

Sunday July 12, 2009 – from 2:oo to 5:oo pm.

Place :

Dag Hammerskjold Plaza, corner of First Avenue and 47th Street, New York, NY

Looking forward to see you .

The Iranian Society for Freedom, Peace and Justice

JAILED JIHADIST DENIED REQUEST TO READ OBAMA'S MEMOIR'S DUE TO NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS

MSNBC:

The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colo., for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."

But prison officials, citing guidance from the FBI, determined that passages in both books contain information that could damage national security.

THEY SHOULD LEND HIM A FEW BOOKS ON REAL AMERICANS LIKE WASHINGTON, LINCOLN AND REAGAN INSTEAD.

DINOBAMA: ECOSAURUS REX

CLICK TO ENLARGE CLEARLY.

VIA KISP.

IT AIN'T OVER IN IRAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT BY 12 DAYS

FOLKS HAVE BEEN WRITING THE OBIT FOR THE IRANIAN REBELLION FOR TWO WEEKS, BUT NOT US.

• GLENN ANNOUNCED TONIGHT THAT BASED ON TODAY'S PROTESTS, "IT ISN'T OVER YET."

• WELL... WE HAVE REPORTED THIS SINCE 6/28 - AND IN 3 MORE POSTS SINCE.

• WE WERE AHEAD OF THE PACK AND CORRECT AGAIN.

• REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. SPREAD THE WORD. BOOKMARK US. BLOGROLL US.

OBAMA, PELOSI AND REID: THREE BLIND MICE

AND BY BLIND I MEAN
STUPID LEFTISTS WHO ARE DESTROYING THE USA
AND THE FREE WORLD.

Americorps Stonewalls, Covers For the White House With a New Excuse For Firing Walpin

Frank Trinity, general counsel of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the government agency that oversees AmeriCorps, refused to answer questions from congressional investigators about Walpin's firing and the White House's role in it, citing "White House 'prerogative,'" even though no such thing exists.

The White House and their DNC proxies are changing their story again, saying that they fired him because of gender and racial insensitivity in a parody newsletter produced by his office 13 months prior to the firing by someone other than Walpin.

Walpin's investigation led to clashes with the board over reducing Kevin Johnson's punishment for misusing Americorps money, which Trinity and other top Corporation managers supported.

Ex post facto firings are illegal, as Judge Nap stated.

This goes up to the highest levels. The Corporation for National and Community Service and their spawn, Americorps, are merely Obama's pawns.

Get ready for more czars who dictate and whose actions don't have to be legally justifiable.

H/T: Yid with Lid

MONICA LEWINSKY VERSUS VERA BAKER: WHO IS HOTTER?

UPDATED: SCROLL DOWN!!!!!!

WHO IS HOTTER, BJ CLINTON'S MISTRESS OR OBAMA'S MISTRESS?





























IT APPEARS THAT VERA'S LONG SOJOURN IN MARTINIQUE HAS MADE BARRY HORNY...



UPDATE: MAY 1, 2010: OBAMA CAUGHT ON VIODEO TAPE MEETING BAKER FOR TRYST AT DC HOTEL.

*******UPDATE#2: BREAKING NEWS: NATIONAL ENQUIRER SAYS OBAMA HAD AFFAIR WITH BAKER! (THEY WERE RIGHT ABOUT JOHN EDWARDS!)

UPDATE: MORE HERE!!!!!!!

OUTHOUSE GAS VERSUS "GREENHOUSE GAS"

WHEN THE AGW ALARMISTS CALL MAN-MADE CO2 A "GREENHOUSE GAS" AND CALL FOR ITS REGULATION, THEY ARE MERELY PRODUCING AN OUTHOUSE GAS - AS IN TALKING SHIT.

JUST SAYING.

CUZ... LIKE YA KNOW, THE FACT IS THAT CO2 IS A POOR CONDUCTOR AND EVEN THO' MAN-MADE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 HAS GONE UP STEADILY FOR 160 YEARS GLOBAL TEMPS HAVE NOT.

IN FACT NO YEAR SINCE 1999 HAS BEEN AS WARM AS 1999 AND THIS YEARS IS AS COOL AS 1979.

END OF STORY.

MORE PROOF FROM IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND DOVER THAT THE MSM IS BIASED IN FAVOR OF THE UNPRINCIPLED LEFT

Iraq is having an upswing in serious terror attacks - in large measure because of the announced withdrawal of US troops.

But the attacks are not the center of graphic negative headlines or grisly lead stories on the evening or morning "news" shows.

WHY NOT? Well, an ultra- liberal is in the White House now and the MSM doesn't want to rain on his parade.

And US troops are serving courageously in combat in Afghanistan and many are being killed.

But we don't see their photos of their coffins returning to Dover - and we don't hear a clamor for these photos from the Left.

And we don't hear the Left demand that Obama attend their funnels, either.

WHAT DOES ALL THIS PROVE?

It proves that the Left - and the MSM they dominate - were totally full of crap when it comes to this stuff. That their attacks on Bush on these matters were totally unprincipled and purely partisan.

And that they care not one whit about Iraqis or even US troops dying on the front lines of WW4.

All the leftists want is "free" healthcare and a nannystate that'll provide them with an education and a pension - and which lets them behave like libertines.

And a government which shackles industry, the free market and people who are willing to take risks with their own capital.

Though not as violent - yet - these leftists are as big a threat to the Free World as the islamo-jihadists.

Via Cap & Trade and income tax surcharges to pay for national healthcare, and huge and thoroughly corrupt federal boondoggles - (whether they're called stimulus or earmarks or whatever) - they will bring the USA down as surely as a massive coordinated WMD attack.

And it will bring down our allies, too - if there are any left! (And there might not be: Obama has snubbed PM Brown and the QOE, and is screwing Israel and Honduras - and even the Iranian people who are fighting and dying to be free!)

And that makes Obama - as leader of the Left and POTUS - in effect the highest placed ENEMY AGENT since Al Hiss.

And the gravest threat to the West of all time.

MUST SEE TV: SOWELL ON THE HOUSING BUST

HERE.

MORE DOCUMENTED OBAMA LIES - WITH LINKS!

OBAMA'S ULTRA-LIBERAL POLICIES ARE FAILING AND THE PEOPLE ARE NOTICING

Merkel cut taxes and spending in Germany and got a big economic boost.

Obama raised taxes and spending - hasn't spent most it (and what he has spent has mostly gone to his political allies!) - and we're still declining.

There's a message in there.

I wish the lib's would learn it.

It appears as if the independents are learning it.

Justice Ginsburg Admits She Thought Roe Vs. Wade Was About Eugenics

Sometimes you just gotta love your enemies, like, when they tell you the absolute truth. Thanks, Ruth Bader.

From WND:

In an astonishing admission, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it "populations that we don't want to have too many of."

Her remarks, set to be published in the New York Times Magazine this Sunday but viewable online now, came in an in-depth interview with Emily Bazelon titled, "The Place of Women on the Court."

The 16-year veteran of the high court was asked if she were a lawyer again, what would she "want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda."

Ginsburg responded:

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don't know why this hasn't been said more often.

Question: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?

Ginsburg: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae – in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

Think about that statement. Go ahead and try to figure out what she could have meant by it.

Anyway you slice it it is still among the most ugly, anti-human statements ever uttered by a major figure on the American political scene.

Porkulus: The 872 Counties that Supported Obama Received About $69/Person... Those That supported McCain ...About $34

The Porkulus giveth and the Porkulus taketh away. Who are you to say to the Porkulus, why have you made me thus?

EXCERPT: 

The reports show the 872 counties that supported Obama received about $69 per person, on average. The 2,234 that supportedMcCain received about $34.

The Astute Bloggers WROTE THAT THIS WAS WHAT THE STIMULUS WAS ALL ABOUT TWICE LAST WEEK,

HERE 

AND 

HERE

ALSO: THE IG FIRINGS WERE A RESULT OF OBAMA NEEDING TO KEEP HIS DISTRIBUTION OF THE PORK OUT OF THE SUNLIGHT.

Walpin Had the Goods on the Board That Fired him

Fox got the notes from the meeting.

Judge Nap's rundown of the illegality involved in the firing is pithy and spot-on.

This clip also contains the original Glenn Beck clip in which Walpin proved his mental competence.

This is big.

THE MASK SLIPS ON VIDEO: KRUGMAN ALSO ADMITS OBAMACARE IS A TROJAN HORSE FOR NATIONALIZATION

VIDEO AND TEXT HERE.

EVERYTHING THAT OBAMA DOES IS BY TRICKERY AND STEALTH AND LIES:

• HIS CAUCUS VICTORIES;
• HIS CAMPAIGN FINANCING;
• THE SO-CALLED STIMULUS - THAT HASN'T BEEN THE SLIGHTEST BIT STIMULATING;
• THE IMPENDING CAP & TRADE - WHICH WON'T HAVE ANY EFFECT ON GLOBAL CLIMATE.

NO SURPRISE HERE: LEFTISTS HAVE LONG HAVE BELIEVED THAT YOU CAN'T MAKE AN OMELET WITHOUT BREAKING EGGS - AND LYING APPARENTLY.

• YOU SEE, WHEN THEY FEEL THEY'RE AMONG COMRADES, THE MASK SLIPS AND THE TRUTH IS CONFIRMED.

• LEFTISTS KNOW IF THEY TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR AIMS THAT AMERICANS WOULD NEVER EVER SUPPRT THEM.

• SO THEY LIE.

• ALL THE TIME.

DON'T BE DUPED.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

AND BUY AMMO.

EPA ADMITS CAP & TRADE IS ALL TAX PAIN WITH NO CLIMATE GAIN

VIA HOT AIR: USE THE LINK AND WATCH THE VIDEO; EXCERPT:

During a hearing today in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, EPA Administrator Jackson confirmed an EPA analysis showing that unilateral U.S. action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would have no effect on climate. Moreover, when presented with an EPA chart depicting that outcome, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said he disagreed with EPA's analysis.

"I believe the central parts of the [EPA] chart are that U.S. action alone will not impact world CO2 levels," Administrator Jackson said.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) presented the chart to both Jackson and Secretary Chu, which shows that meaningful emissions reductions cannot occur without aggressive action by China, India, and other developing countries.

"I am encouraged that Administrator Jackson agrees that unilateral action by the U.S. will be all cost for no climate gain," Sen. Inhofe said.

"With China and India recently issuing statements of defiant opposition to mandatory emissions controls, acting alone through the job-killing Waxman-Markey bill would impose severe economic burdens on American consumers, businesses, and families, all without any impact on climate."

OBAMA TRANSFORMING AMERICA INTO DETROIT AND CALIFORNIA: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT AND CHICAGO BOYZ BY A WEEK

WE POSTED IT LAST WEEK:

Washington is rushing headlong to adopt California’s economic and regulatory model for the entire country.

RTWT.

• IMAGINE ALL OF AMERICA LIKE CALIFORNIA - EXCEPT THE PARTS THAT ARE MORE LIKE DETROIT AND CHICAGO.

• IT WOULD SUCK BIGTIME - AND A COLLAPSE WOULD BRING THE ENTIRE FREE WORLD DOWN WITH IT.

• WHICH IS WHAT THE POSTMODERNISTS WANT.

• THEM AND OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

GLENN AND CHICAGO BOYZ POST THE SAME THING TODAY. CB:

First the once-great city of Detroit, then California, and soon the entire country if we don’t come to our senses, and fast.

Saul Alinsky’s new leftism combined with old-style Tammany Hall democratic party corruption is the political version of the Star Trek Doomsday Machine, devouring and destroying everything in its path. [links added]

Heh. Here’s a video if you don’t remember the episode.

Can’t say he’s wrong. Leftists have progressively destroyed the economic vitality of every region they dominated for more than a few decades.

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP THE BLOGGER-BIGGIES ALL THE TIME.

SPREAD THE WORD; BOOKMARK US; BLOGROLL US.

38,000 BRITS WAIT MORE THAN A YEAR FOR HIP REPLACEMENT SURGERY - AND THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS!

THAT'S A FACT.

AND SADLY, IT'S ALSO THE GOOD NEWS.

• THAT'S RIGHT: IT USED TO BE MUCH WORSE, BUT AFTER YEARS OF DILIGENCE AND SPENDING MORE MONEY FOR THE NHS, THINGS HAVE IMPROVED GREATLY. (OVER 100,000 BRITS USED TO WAIT FOR MORE THAN A YEAR!)
  

• AND THIS IS IN THE COUNTRY WITH THE MOST EXPERIENCE RUNNING A NATIONAL HEALTHCARE RACKET THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!

• AND EVERYONE IN BRITAIN SAYS THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO RUN IT ANYMORE AT THE CURRENT LEVELS WITHOUT CUTTING SERVICES OR RAISING TAXES AND FEES.

• THEREFORE: IT'S INSANE FOR OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS TO TRY TO NATIONALIZE HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA - AND SINGLE-PAYER IS JUST THAT.

DON'T BE DUPED.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

AND BUY GUNS AND AMMO.

THE NEW RUBIK 360 - SOLVED! - AND RUBIK

A REVIEW HERE.



INTERVIEW:



SOLUTION:

Iranian filmaker, Mohsen Makhmalbaf: "Ahmadinejad is a Terrorist - And He Does Not Represent the Iranian People, Who Hate Him"

MEMRI:

The following is an interview with Iranian filmmaker , which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on July 2, 2009:

To view the clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2173.htm.

"Ahmadinejad is a Terrorist - And He Does Not Represent the Iranian People, Who Hate Him"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf: "We call upon the world not to recognize Ahmadinejad's presidency and not to sign any agreements with him, because the Iranian people will subsequently reject these agreements.

"Along with Marjane Satrapi, who is also a filmmaker, I went to the European parliament and asked them to do the same. I have been invited to go to the European parliament next week, in order to explain the current situation in Iran.

"We demand to be allowed to demonstrate in Iran, and we demand that the elections be held again, under the auspices of the U.N.

"I reiterate: Ahmadinejad is a terrorist, and he does not represent the Iranian people, who hate him. The whole world hates him, along with the nuclear bomb issue, through which he seeks popularity among the Iranian public.

"I declare today that if the world does not help the popular revolution against Ahmadinejad in Iran, you will be forced to accept his conditions tomorrow. Unfortunately, it will be too late."

"How Can the World Expect Us to Abandon This Freedom-Seeking People to Ahmadinejad and His Leader - Who Are Just Like Bin Laden and Mullah Omar?

The interview aired on Arab tv. The Arabs are more supportive of the rebellion in Iran than Obama.

OBAMA'S SUPPORT FOR THE IRANIAN REGIME AND ZELAYA SICKEN ME.

BECAUSE OF HIS POSITION ON THESE TWO MATTERS - AND HIS DEEPLY HELD ANIMOSITY TO THE WEST'S MOST IMPORTANT VALUES - OBAMA IS THE SINGLE MOST SERIOUS THREAT TO THE FREE WORLD.