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Friday, August 07, 2009
USEFUL IDIOT BARENBOIM AIDING ARABS WHO WOULD DESTROY ISRAEL
NYTIMES:
A CONCERT DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF EDDIE SAYEED - A LYING ARAB PROPAGANDIST (AND OBAMA MENTOR)!
AND HELD IN JERUSALEM AS IF IT WAS AN ARAB CAPITAL.
DISGUSTING.
Maestro Daniel Barenboim brought his troupe of young Arab and Israeli classical musicians to Geneva on Friday for a concert dedicated to the late Palestinian-American academic Edward Said and the contentious choice of Jerusalem as this year's ''Arab Cultural Capital.''UNREAL:
In a news conference that featured the iconoclastic Israeli conductor's usual combination of humor and gravitas, art and politics, Barenboim said his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra offered another way of examining ideals of justice, humaneness and understanding that are often lacking in the Middle East conflict.
The 10-year-old orchestra founded by Barenboim and Said includes Israeli and Palestinian musicians, as well as performers from Arab countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, and non-Arab states Turkey and Iran.
Barenboim said it was fitting that such a diverse group celebrate the Arab League's naming of Jerusalem as a cultural capital, even if the choice has angered Israeli authorities who say the entire city is the Jewish state's undivided and eternal capital.
... In 2006, the Arab League quietly designated Jerusalem its 2009 ''Arab Cultural Capital,'' an honor that rotates among Arab countries. Winners typically use the occasion to showcase their attachment to Arab culture, sponsoring poetry, music, dance performances, lectures, school activities and sporting events.
A CONCERT DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF EDDIE SAYEED - A LYING ARAB PROPAGANDIST (AND OBAMA MENTOR)!
AND HELD IN JERUSALEM AS IF IT WAS AN ARAB CAPITAL.
DISGUSTING.
And We're the Racists?
I called it yesterday. One does not become a 'community organizer' without being a parasitic thug through and through. It's October all over again. Also, note how the attackers are all morbidly obese. And they want me to pay for their health care? Ordinarily, under non-racist rationed care, the obese would be denied care outright, but under Obama's racist plan there's an Office of Minority Health to ensure that we keep parasites who kill themselves all day long alive just they can degrade our communities (which is both the intent and the effect of community organizations, obviously, since they expand socialism and give mortgages to people who can't afford them). Obama's plan also gives special preference to thugs via Community Health and Care Centers. Check the chart. Over my dead body will they euthanize my parents, both of whom were extorted for decades out of countless thousands for the failing socialist Ponzi schemes we already have in place and one of whom is a war hero several times over, for these monsters.
This is the one thing that differs between the Nazis' medical system and Obama's, and the Nazis had that much right. Those who lacked individual initiative and a work ethic, or who simply did not care enough about themselves to not kill themselves all day with food received no quarter. It had more in common with the free market in that respect.
Darwinism, the free market, and the law all dictate that if people like this are to exist at all they should be in prison. Under Obamacare, the lowest of the low are placed upon a pedestal while the best and brightest are treated like the victim in the videos below.
Note how clueless this poor, shaken-up guy is about community organizations, which serves to demonstrate which side is grassroots and which is is astroturf. Of course, individual initiative and principles were always what separated capitalists from socialists, weren't they?
Way to shape the agenda, Obama.
This is the one thing that differs between the Nazis' medical system and Obama's, and the Nazis had that much right. Those who lacked individual initiative and a work ethic, or who simply did not care enough about themselves to not kill themselves all day with food received no quarter. It had more in common with the free market in that respect.
Darwinism, the free market, and the law all dictate that if people like this are to exist at all they should be in prison. Under Obamacare, the lowest of the low are placed upon a pedestal while the best and brightest are treated like the victim in the videos below.
Note how clueless this poor, shaken-up guy is about community organizations, which serves to demonstrate which side is grassroots and which is is astroturf. Of course, individual initiative and principles were always what separated capitalists from socialists, weren't they?
Way to shape the agenda, Obama.
SUBMIT TO OBAMA - OR ELSE!
MORE HERE AT GATEWAY.
REMINDERS:
- SEIU SPENT $65 MILLION TO HELP ELECT OBAMA.
- AND SIBELIUS HAD A CONFERENCE CALLL WITH THEM TODAY.
- OBAMA'S ASST AG DROPPED CHARGES AGAINST THE BPP WHO WERE VIDEOTAPED HARRASING VOTERS IN PHILLY.
- ACORN - YOU KNOW THEM!!!
KRAUTHAMMERCARE: IMPROVING HEATHCARE IN TWO EASY STEPS - AND JUST NINE PARAGRAPHS (NOT 1000 PAGES!)
KRAUTHAMMER:
NINE PARAGRAPHS - NOT 1000 PAGES OF CRONY-CODDLING SOCIALISM AND BUREAUCRATIC BOONDOGGLESE.(1) Tort reform: As I wrote recently, our crazy system of casino malpractice suits results in massive and random settlements that raise everyone's insurance premiums and creates an epidemic of defensive medicine that does no medical good, yet costs a fortune.
An authoritative Massachusetts Medical Society study found that five out of six doctors admitted they order tests, procedures and referrals -- amounting to about 25 percent of the total -- solely as protection from lawsuits.
Defensive medicine, estimates the libertarian/conservative Pacific Research Institute, wastes more than $200 billion a year. Just half that sum could provide a $5,000 health insurance grant -- $20,000 for a family of four -- to the uninsured poor (U.S. citizens ineligible for other government health assistance).
... Abolish the entire medical-malpractice system. Create a new social pool from which people injured in medical errors or accidents can draw. The adjudication would be done by medical experts, not lay juries giving away lottery prizes at the behest of the liquid-tongued John Edwardses who pocket a third of the proceeds.The pool would be funded by a relatively small tax on all health-insurance premiums. Socialize the risk; cut out the trial lawyers. Would that immunize doctors from carelessness or negligence? No. The penalty would be losing your medical license. There is no more serious deterrent than forfeiting a decade of intensive medical training and the livelihood that comes with it.
... (2) Real health-insurance reform: Tax employer-provided health-care benefits and return the money to the employee with a government check to buy his own medical insurance, just as he buys his own car or home insurance.
There is no logical reason to get health insurance through your employer. This entire system is an accident of World War II wage and price controls. It's economically senseless. It makes people stay in jobs they hate, decreasing labor mobility and therefore overall productivity. And it needlessly increases the anxiety of losing your job by raising the additional specter of going bankrupt through illness.
The health-care benefit exemption is the largest tax break in the entire U.S. budget, costing the government a quarter-trillion dollars annually. It hinders health-insurance security and portability as well as personal independence. If we additionally eliminated the prohibition on buying personal health insurance across state lines, that would inject new and powerful competition that would lower costs for everyone.
BLUE-STATE URINE-DRINKING SODOMITES
OBAMA WOULD LIKE US ALL TO LIVE LIKE BLUE-STATE URINE-DRINKING SODOMITES.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: ABBAS AND AHMADINEJAD
IT'S JUST THAT ABBAS IS BETTER AT PR.
AND THEN THERE'S OBAMA...
AND THEN THERE'S OBAMA...
HMM..... I WONDER: WHO DOES HE ADORE???
Mayhem Breaks Out at St Louis Town Hall Meeting
It started out peacefully,...
Then some back door shenanigans took place, and...
After the town hall meeting took place, the beat downs began...
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it has now become hazardous to one’s health to attend a town hall meeting hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.). Of course, much of the credit goes to the involvement of members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
To see all of the gory videos, click here.
AND SEE GATEWAY.
Then some back door shenanigans took place, and...
After the town hall meeting took place, the beat downs began...
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it has now become hazardous to one’s health to attend a town hall meeting hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.). Of course, much of the credit goes to the involvement of members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
To see all of the gory videos, click here.
AND SEE GATEWAY.
Are climate skeptics psychologically maladjusted?
Psychologists are overwhelmingly Leftist. I know. I have a doctorate in psychology and used to teach it and have had many articles published in the academic journals of psychology. And psychologists have been trying to prove that conservatives are mentally inadequate in some way since at least 1950 -- with a singular lack of success if you insist on normal scientific standards of proof. See here, for instance. So it was only a matter of time before they attempted to tar climate skeptics with the same brush. The article below seems to be an attempt in that direction
Psychological barriers like uncertainty, mistrust and denial keep most Americans from acting to fight climate change, a task force of the American Psychological Association said on Wednesday.
Policymakers, scientists and marketers should look at these factors to figure out what might prod people take action, the task force reported at the association's annual convention in Toronto.
While most Americans -- 75 percent to 80 percent in a Pew Research Center poll -- said climate change is an important issue, it still ranked last in a list of 20 compelling issues such as the economy or terrorism, the task force said.
Despite warnings from scientists that humans need to make changes now if they want to avoid the worst effects of climate change, "people don't feel a sense of urgency," the association said in a statement.
Numerous psychological barriers are to blame, the task force found, including: uncertainty over climate change, mistrust of the messages about risk from scientists or government officials, denial that climate change is occurring or that it is related to human activity.
Other factors include undervaluing the risk. Even though an international study showed many people believe environmental conditions will worsen in 25 years, that could lead some to conclude that they don't have to make changes now.
Some people believe anything they do would make little difference and they therefore choose to do nothing.
Habit is the most important obstacle to pro-environment behavior, the task force found.
But habits can be changed, especially if changing saves money and people are quickly made aware of it. People are more likely to use energy-efficient appliances if they get immediate energy-use feedback, the task force said.
It identified other areas where psychology can help limit the effects of climate change, such as developing environmental regulations, economic incentives, better energy-efficient technology and communication methods.
SOURCE
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. To keep up with attacks on free speech see TONGUE-TIED. Also, don't forget your daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
Psychological barriers like uncertainty, mistrust and denial keep most Americans from acting to fight climate change, a task force of the American Psychological Association said on Wednesday.
Policymakers, scientists and marketers should look at these factors to figure out what might prod people take action, the task force reported at the association's annual convention in Toronto.
While most Americans -- 75 percent to 80 percent in a Pew Research Center poll -- said climate change is an important issue, it still ranked last in a list of 20 compelling issues such as the economy or terrorism, the task force said.
Despite warnings from scientists that humans need to make changes now if they want to avoid the worst effects of climate change, "people don't feel a sense of urgency," the association said in a statement.
Numerous psychological barriers are to blame, the task force found, including: uncertainty over climate change, mistrust of the messages about risk from scientists or government officials, denial that climate change is occurring or that it is related to human activity.
Other factors include undervaluing the risk. Even though an international study showed many people believe environmental conditions will worsen in 25 years, that could lead some to conclude that they don't have to make changes now.
Some people believe anything they do would make little difference and they therefore choose to do nothing.
Habit is the most important obstacle to pro-environment behavior, the task force found.
But habits can be changed, especially if changing saves money and people are quickly made aware of it. People are more likely to use energy-efficient appliances if they get immediate energy-use feedback, the task force said.
It identified other areas where psychology can help limit the effects of climate change, such as developing environmental regulations, economic incentives, better energy-efficient technology and communication methods.
SOURCE
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. To keep up with attacks on free speech see TONGUE-TIED. Also, don't forget your daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
The Obama date
A report from an Air Force officer
First, let me say that I've moved three presidents up to now and I've seen incredible waste. But, the "new" guy really takes the cake. I don't have an issue with the President promising his wife dinner and a show or that he even takes his wife out. But, when I saw the news say that the date cost $24,000, here's what you DON'T know.
Three days before "dinner" a C-17 flew Marines and the helicopter maintenance equipment to JFK Airport . The day before "dinner" I flew the USSS and the motorcade to JFK Airport. Our crew of 5 spent two days and nights at the Hilton in Times Square. My hotel bill: $621.66 plus $64 a day in per diem. The USSS guys were at a different Hilton in NYC, so figure that cost another $14,000 (or so) plus per diem. The Marines had to have cost as much and were there four days, so figure another $55,000 plus per diem (for 44 Marines).
We were supposed to fly the motorcade back and go home, but the Air Force was so short C-17's that we were re-tasked to take the motorcade back, return to JFK and take the helicopter back to Quantico. When we got back to JFK, while the pilot was turning the plane around to park, he noticed a rotor blade sticking out of the hangar where the helicopter was parked and informed me that either it wasn't ready to transport or it was flying home.
After shutting down I walked over to the hangar and to my surprise I find FIVE helicopters, not ONE. We're obviously not transporting five big helicopters. I went and talked to the Marines guarding the "fleet" and found that they were flying all five helicopters home and we were only transporting the Marines and the maintenance equipment.
After talking to the Marine(s) in charge, I was told that the White House requested FIVE helicopters. The Marines told me that they spent all morning trying to figure out how much it cost them to come and said they figured it cost them $140,000 to stay there (I don't know where they came up with that)and the trip's total had to be about $1,000,000.
We heard that the President didn't use Air Force One (the 747) so I asked if he came in on one of the 757's. I was told that he came in on THREE Air Force Lear jets.
So, date night consisted of: 2 C-17's flying three missions, 3 Lear jets, 5 Helicopters, Presidential Motorcade, 44 Marines, more than 20 USSS personnel on our plane. Who knows what it cost the NYPD and NY Port Authority (at the airport) in overtime.
These are the same people that chastised the automobile CEO's for using their aircraft. It further proves that the media only use the facts that make the President look good and hide any facts that will detract from his persona. Is this the 'change' we expected?
Received via email
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. To keep up with attacks on free speech see TONGUE-TIED. Also, don't forget your daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
First, let me say that I've moved three presidents up to now and I've seen incredible waste. But, the "new" guy really takes the cake. I don't have an issue with the President promising his wife dinner and a show or that he even takes his wife out. But, when I saw the news say that the date cost $24,000, here's what you DON'T know.
Three days before "dinner" a C-17 flew Marines and the helicopter maintenance equipment to JFK Airport . The day before "dinner" I flew the USSS and the motorcade to JFK Airport. Our crew of 5 spent two days and nights at the Hilton in Times Square. My hotel bill: $621.66 plus $64 a day in per diem. The USSS guys were at a different Hilton in NYC, so figure that cost another $14,000 (or so) plus per diem. The Marines had to have cost as much and were there four days, so figure another $55,000 plus per diem (for 44 Marines).
We were supposed to fly the motorcade back and go home, but the Air Force was so short C-17's that we were re-tasked to take the motorcade back, return to JFK and take the helicopter back to Quantico. When we got back to JFK, while the pilot was turning the plane around to park, he noticed a rotor blade sticking out of the hangar where the helicopter was parked and informed me that either it wasn't ready to transport or it was flying home.
After shutting down I walked over to the hangar and to my surprise I find FIVE helicopters, not ONE. We're obviously not transporting five big helicopters. I went and talked to the Marines guarding the "fleet" and found that they were flying all five helicopters home and we were only transporting the Marines and the maintenance equipment.
After talking to the Marine(s) in charge, I was told that the White House requested FIVE helicopters. The Marines told me that they spent all morning trying to figure out how much it cost them to come and said they figured it cost them $140,000 to stay there (I don't know where they came up with that)and the trip's total had to be about $1,000,000.
We heard that the President didn't use Air Force One (the 747) so I asked if he came in on one of the 757's. I was told that he came in on THREE Air Force Lear jets.
So, date night consisted of: 2 C-17's flying three missions, 3 Lear jets, 5 Helicopters, Presidential Motorcade, 44 Marines, more than 20 USSS personnel on our plane. Who knows what it cost the NYPD and NY Port Authority (at the airport) in overtime.
These are the same people that chastised the automobile CEO's for using their aircraft. It further proves that the media only use the facts that make the President look good and hide any facts that will detract from his persona. Is this the 'change' we expected?
Received via email
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. To keep up with attacks on free speech see TONGUE-TIED. Also, don't forget your daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
Thursday, August 06, 2009
OBAMACARE IS A WIN-WIN FOR THE RIGHT-WING
OBAMACARE is classic OVER-REACH.
And despite Obama's personal charisma and despite the fact that Democrats control Congress and despite the cooperation of ACORN and the SEIU and other organized groups of THUGS (not unlike the Black Panthers who committed BLATANT voter intimidation but were let off the hook by an Obama appointee), the people will not ultimately be silenced.
Obama and his THUGS can shunt us aside now (as they did Hillary supporters in the caucuses!), but not in 2010.
IT'S A WIN-WIN FOR THE RIGHT-WING.
Ahhhhhhhh.......
IOW: HUBRIS STRIKES AGAIN!
[NOTE: YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: THESE ARE THE SAME TACTICS OBAMA AND AXELROD AND RAHM USED IN THE CAUCUSES AGAINST HILLARY SUPPORTERS, AND THAT THE BPP USED IN PHILLY!]
And despite Obama's personal charisma and despite the fact that Democrats control Congress and despite the cooperation of ACORN and the SEIU and other organized groups of THUGS (not unlike the Black Panthers who committed BLATANT voter intimidation but were let off the hook by an Obama appointee), the people will not ultimately be silenced.
Obama and his THUGS can shunt us aside now (as they did Hillary supporters in the caucuses!), but not in 2010.
- Either Obama wins Obamacare now (because of thuggery and intimidation and arm-twisting), AND HE AND THE DEMOCRATS SUFFER A HUGE BACKLASH AND LOSE BIG IN 2010)...
- OR OBAMCARE GOES DOWN TO DEFEAT NOW, AND OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY IS MORTALLY WOUNDED.
IT'S A WIN-WIN FOR THE RIGHT-WING.
Ahhhhhhhh.......
IOW: HUBRIS STRIKES AGAIN!
[NOTE: YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: THESE ARE THE SAME TACTICS OBAMA AND AXELROD AND RAHM USED IN THE CAUCUSES AGAINST HILLARY SUPPORTERS, AND THAT THE BPP USED IN PHILLY!]
Obamacare Will Require You to Turn Your Bank Account Over to Big Brother
I linked to this earlier and should have done it as a separate post, but the horrors of what his administration are up to are just coming at me so fast that I can't keep up.
Think about that: Obama in your bank account. If Obama shuts down GM dealers who don't donate to the DNC and Rahmbo Dead Fishy threatens Jon Kyl because he dared to do some simple arithmetic (literally straight out of 1984), think what they'll do if you're so audacious as donate to the RNC or buy guns or send your kids to private school.
And if they make an honest mistake and clean you out? It's the federal government. You'll have no recourse. Will they put a government employee under your bed or just a camera above it? What else do they want from us? Oh yeah, just to lord the power of life and death over us and to control everything they can in-between.
Think about that: Obama in your bank account. If Obama shuts down GM dealers who don't donate to the DNC and Rahmbo Dead Fishy threatens Jon Kyl because he dared to do some simple arithmetic (literally straight out of 1984), think what they'll do if you're so audacious as donate to the RNC or buy guns or send your kids to private school.
And if they make an honest mistake and clean you out? It's the federal government. You'll have no recourse. Will they put a government employee under your bed or just a camera above it? What else do they want from us? Oh yeah, just to lord the power of life and death over us and to control everything they can in-between.
OBAMA: MONSTROUSLY BAD, IN RECORD TIME
OBAMA IS AWFUL.
MOSTROUSLY BAD:
THE GOOD THING IS HE'LL DESTROY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
THE BAD THING IS HE MAY TAKE THE WHOLE DANG COUNTRY WITH'EM!
MOSTROUSLY BAD:
THE GOOD THING IS HE'LL DESTROY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
THE BAD THING IS HE MAY TAKE THE WHOLE DANG COUNTRY WITH'EM!
(FOR A ROUNDUP OF OBAMA = JOKER POSTS CLICK PIC.)
Who the Real Nazis Are: The AARP Pisses on Their Members
Look, here's the deal: when it comes to health care, particularly government-run health care, the elderly own it. They own it because they worked for 40+ years for Medicare to extort them for obscene amounts of money. Look how the AARP treats their members. They insult them, shut them up, then flat-out walk out. If this is how special interest groups treat paying members just imagine how Obamacare will treat the elderly, who rightfully own this country.
Also note the lady around 4:45 who brings up the issue of illegal immigration. Her complaints are valid. Immigration reform, tort reform, DeMint's Health Care Freedom Plan, and cutting off all existing socialized medicine will solve every problem with American health care. Think how much cheaper it would be if everyone actually paid for what they purchased. It's about choice, respect for the law, and discouraging parasitism, not putting all your money into a federal government that will murder those who are most rightfully entitled to the best health care.
H/T: Fire Andrea Mitchell for the video.
We have seen who the real Nazis are and they work for the DNC.
Pics from Sweetness & Light, who note:
Also note the lady around 4:45 who brings up the issue of illegal immigration. Her complaints are valid. Immigration reform, tort reform, DeMint's Health Care Freedom Plan, and cutting off all existing socialized medicine will solve every problem with American health care. Think how much cheaper it would be if everyone actually paid for what they purchased. It's about choice, respect for the law, and discouraging parasitism, not putting all your money into a federal government that will murder those who are most rightfully entitled to the best health care.
H/T: Fire Andrea Mitchell for the video.
We have seen who the real Nazis are and they work for the DNC.
Pics from Sweetness & Light, who note:
Of course given that [Pelosi] was talking about Democrat town halls, her confusion is even more understandable given the overlap between Nazi programs and Democrats’ pet issues anyway, as we all know.
The Nazis being: against big banks and capitalism in general, against big department stores, against pollution, for two years mandatory voluntary service to the country, for make-work projects (such as the autobahn), against vivisection and cruelty and to animals, against smoking and all tobacco products, for abortion and euthanasia of the infirm and undesirable – and, of course, for cradle-to-grave nationalized healthcare.
In fact, if you look really hard, you can sometimes even find a hint of anti-Semitism in the Democrat Party.
I Think We Might Be Breaking the Gestapo
I would feel bad about how fast we knocked them off their pedestal if not for the rapid pace at which they've tried to pass every piece of legislation and do everything else they could get away with under the table to destroy my country.
I don't know whether the Barbara Senator Boxer part or the Ariana Huffington is funnier. You decide.
H/T: ZIP
I don't know whether the Barbara Senator Boxer part or the Ariana Huffington is funnier. You decide.
H/T: ZIP
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 for the full hour will be Pastorius of Infidel Bloggers Alliance. He will give us a sampling of his new radio show, The After Party. A live fatwa will be declared then and there!
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Listen to the August 7, 2009 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.
UPCOMING SHOWS:
August 14: IQ al Rassooli and Z
August 21: Epaminondas and Ilana Freedman
August 28: IQ al Rassooli and Cassandra
September 4: Cinnamon Stillwell
September 11: Bill Warner
FATAH: INSANE TERRORISTS, NOT "PARTNERS FOR PEACE"
MORE PROOF EVEN FATAH PALESTINIANS ARE PSYCHOPATHS AND NOT "PARTNERS FOR PEACE":
The fact that they worship scum like Arafat - a thieving corrupt murdering fascistic tyrant who stole billions from them - is further proof that they are in total denial and they've become utterly dehumanized. Their cultural ID is one of death and terror and lies. And as long as this is true there CAN BE NO PEACE.
Fatah adopts resolution blaming Israel for Arafat's death
The sixth General Assembly of Fatah unanimously adopted on Thursday a proposal calling for the establishment of a committee which would investigate the death of former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat while abiding by the following guidelines: that Israel bears full responsibility for his death, that the issue continues to remain open, and that the investigation enlists international support.
The fact that they worship scum like Arafat - a thieving corrupt murdering fascistic tyrant who stole billions from them - is further proof that they are in total denial and they've become utterly dehumanized. Their cultural ID is one of death and terror and lies. And as long as this is true there CAN BE NO PEACE.
More Liberal Lies. McCaskill: I Didn't Do What You Saw Me Do
So shameless. Who do these people think they're kidding? Right on the heels of Obama claiming that his unedited words were edited and spliced together Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-emopath) claims to have sat and listened to her constituents.
ORLY? Roll the tape.
If 'listen[ing]' and not 'turn[ing] anyone away' involves shutting the blinds, locking the doors, and calling the cops on a bunch of senior citizens I would hate to see what dismissing people would involve.
Facts are indeed stubborn things.
H/T: Barenaked Islam for the video.
ORLY? Roll the tape.
If 'listen[ing]' and not 'turn[ing] anyone away' involves shutting the blinds, locking the doors, and calling the cops on a bunch of senior citizens I would hate to see what dismissing people would involve.
Facts are indeed stubborn things.
H/T: Barenaked Islam for the video.
AN ODE ABOUT OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS OF CONGRESS, DEDICATED TO TAX-PAYERS EVERYWHERE: WHERE HAVE ALL OUR TAXES GONE ?
WHERE HAVE ALL OUR TAXES GONE
Where have all OUR TAXES gone?
Long time passing
Where have all OUR TAXES gone?
Long time ago
Where have all OUR TAXES gone?
To pork and earmarks, every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
Where'd the pork and earmarks go?
Long time passing
Where'd the pork and earmarks go?
Long time ago
Where'd the pork and earmarks go?
To crooks and cronies every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
Where has all our freedom gone?
Long time passing
Where has all our freedom gone?
Long time ago
Where has all our freedom gone?
Taken by politicians every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
Where should all the politicians go?
It's long passed due
Where should all the politicians go?
Long overdue
Where should all the politicians go?
Get tossed out by voters EVERY ONE!
If we just ever learn
If we'd just ever learn.
(WITH NO APOLOGIES TO PETE SEEGER!)
Health Reform and Obama's Tax Pledge
Excerpt from Karl Rove
Public support for his plans shrank when Americans saw the trillion-dollar-plus price tag, recoiled from the intrusive expansion of government into patient-doctor decisions, and came to understand the plan was financed in part by huge cuts in Medicare and large tax increases.
So, after running into heavy opposition among Congressional Democrats and growing public hostility to his plan, Mr. Obama has now recast the debate as an attack on insurance companies, with the president serving as savager-in-chief. This would be more credible if he hadn’t surrounded himself with insurance CEOs and lobbyists when he kicked off his effort in March.
The corrosive effect of basing policy decisions on polls also could be seen in White House handling of the refusals on Sunday of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers to rule out middle-class tax increases. They got disciplined Monday by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who said they’d “allowed themselves to get into a little bit of hypothetical back and forth.”
This dispute pits the economic team against the campaign team. The economic team awakens each day worried about reconciling two irreconcilable realities: The administration’s budget calls for huge, sustained new government spending, which threatens giant budget deficits. Being liberals, the economic team is inclined to raise taxes, not cut spending.
The campaign team is intent upon protecting a pledge driven by its 2008 campaign polls: Mr. Obama promised never to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year to avoid being labeled a tax-and-spend liberal.
Even so, Mr. Obama has already broken his no-new-taxes pledge. On Feb. 4, Mr. Obama signed a $33 billion cigarette tax increase, which fell disproportionately on lower- and middle-income individuals. And the “cap and trade” energy bill, approved by the House on June 26, is a tax on anyone who owns a light switch, uses a car key, or has bought anything manufactured, shipped or sold in the U.S.
The House version of Mr. Obama’s health-care—excuse me, “health-insurance”—reform already has four taxes that will largely be paid by people making less than $250,000 a year. There’s $8.2 billion in taxes for using health savings accounts and other tax-free medical savings vehicles to purchase over-the-counter drugs. There’s an 8% tax on employers who don’t offer insurance: The Congressional Budget Office says workers in those businesses would pay the $163 billion cost via lost wages.
There’s a 2.5% “Tax on Individuals Without Acceptable Health Care Coverage” in the House bill that applies to people who either don’t have insurance or whose policies the government deems inadequate. Finally, there’s a $2 billion “Comparative Effectiveness Research Tax” on all private and “public option” insurance policies.
If some version of ObamaCare is passed, the president will break his tax pledge several more times while adding trillions to the deficit, dismantling the best elements of our health-care system and slashing Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars.
There are no polling data or focus groups on earth that can help Mr. Obama out of this jam. He has set in motion events he appears unable to control and commitments he cannot keep. Great communicators succeed when the ideas they are communicating are sound. Tax-and-spend liberalism doesn’t work, no matter how pretty its package.
More here
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Public support for his plans shrank when Americans saw the trillion-dollar-plus price tag, recoiled from the intrusive expansion of government into patient-doctor decisions, and came to understand the plan was financed in part by huge cuts in Medicare and large tax increases.
So, after running into heavy opposition among Congressional Democrats and growing public hostility to his plan, Mr. Obama has now recast the debate as an attack on insurance companies, with the president serving as savager-in-chief. This would be more credible if he hadn’t surrounded himself with insurance CEOs and lobbyists when he kicked off his effort in March.
The corrosive effect of basing policy decisions on polls also could be seen in White House handling of the refusals on Sunday of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers to rule out middle-class tax increases. They got disciplined Monday by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who said they’d “allowed themselves to get into a little bit of hypothetical back and forth.”
This dispute pits the economic team against the campaign team. The economic team awakens each day worried about reconciling two irreconcilable realities: The administration’s budget calls for huge, sustained new government spending, which threatens giant budget deficits. Being liberals, the economic team is inclined to raise taxes, not cut spending.
The campaign team is intent upon protecting a pledge driven by its 2008 campaign polls: Mr. Obama promised never to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year to avoid being labeled a tax-and-spend liberal.
Even so, Mr. Obama has already broken his no-new-taxes pledge. On Feb. 4, Mr. Obama signed a $33 billion cigarette tax increase, which fell disproportionately on lower- and middle-income individuals. And the “cap and trade” energy bill, approved by the House on June 26, is a tax on anyone who owns a light switch, uses a car key, or has bought anything manufactured, shipped or sold in the U.S.
The House version of Mr. Obama’s health-care—excuse me, “health-insurance”—reform already has four taxes that will largely be paid by people making less than $250,000 a year. There’s $8.2 billion in taxes for using health savings accounts and other tax-free medical savings vehicles to purchase over-the-counter drugs. There’s an 8% tax on employers who don’t offer insurance: The Congressional Budget Office says workers in those businesses would pay the $163 billion cost via lost wages.
There’s a 2.5% “Tax on Individuals Without Acceptable Health Care Coverage” in the House bill that applies to people who either don’t have insurance or whose policies the government deems inadequate. Finally, there’s a $2 billion “Comparative Effectiveness Research Tax” on all private and “public option” insurance policies.
If some version of ObamaCare is passed, the president will break his tax pledge several more times while adding trillions to the deficit, dismantling the best elements of our health-care system and slashing Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars.
There are no polling data or focus groups on earth that can help Mr. Obama out of this jam. He has set in motion events he appears unable to control and commitments he cannot keep. Great communicators succeed when the ideas they are communicating are sound. Tax-and-spend liberalism doesn’t work, no matter how pretty its package.
More here
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HRW CONDEMNS HAMAS ROCKET ATTACKS
This left-wing organization has actually come out against the Hamas. Considering that they earlier apologized for another terrorist in Nigeria, this is surprising. However, even in this case, it's important to pay careful attention:
The international watchdog organization Human Rights Watch came out with an unusually scathing attack against Hamas on Thursday, accusing the Islamic group of violating international law and committing war crimes for its indiscriminate rocket fire into Israeli territory.Okay, what's reliability or accuracy got to do with this? And a challenging question: does it only count as a war crime when civilians are the target? I think there are some serious questions to be raised here if HRW is still trying to shroud the fact that Hamas is and has always been a terrorist organization. And indeed, further in the article:
"None of these rockets can be reliably aimed," the report stated. "Such weapons are inherently indiscriminate when directed towards densely populated areas.
"The absence of Israeli military forces in the areas struck by the rockets, as well as statements from the leaders of Hamas and other armed groups, indicate that many of these attacks are deliberately intended to strike Israeli civilians and civilian structures," the report continued. "Individuals who willfully authorize or carry out deliberate or indiscriminate attacks against civilians are committing war crimes."
"To justify the attacks as appropriate reprisals for Israeli military operations and the ongoing blockade against Gaza, and as a lawful response to the Israeli occupation of Gaza…the "laws of war" do not support these asserted justifications," the report stated.Now granted, they're right that these rocket attacks against civilians are not justified. However, that is exactly why these blockades were erected, and military operations were conducted. And they seem to have succeeded in obscuring and confusing all that. The JPost article also notes how they've resorted to the blood libel cliches, and that's something for which they should be condemned, not just for spreading lies against Israel, but also for obscuring violent crimes committed by Muslims.
While previous reports published by the organization have condemned Israeli abuses and "war crimes" against the Palestinians, the group emphasized in the most recent publication that such behavior cannot warrant reciprocal Palestinian action.
BHO VOTER: "I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN PUNKED"
Graphic credit
Excerpt from an article which appeared above the fold in the front page of the Washington Post on August 5, 2009:
Creigh Deeds, the Democratic Party's candidate for November, is walking a fine line and, overall, trying to distance himself from BHO's policies. And that strategy might work - except that BHO insists upon injecting himself into the race:
Excerpt from an article which appeared above the fold in the front page of the Washington Post on August 5, 2009:The coffee was still brewing when Chris Ann Cleland got her first reminder of the day that voting for Barack Obama might have been a mistake.Ms. Cleland isn't the only voter with remorse covered in the WaPo article:
The Prince William County real estate agent was sitting at a long wooden table covered with paperwork. Her clients, a young couple who had brought their 2-week-old baby, were finalizing a short sale on a townhouse that they were anxious to unload, even if it meant ruining their credit, because they had maxed out their credit cards trying to make the payments.
For Cleland, it was another example -- one of many this day -- of the broken promises of a president who she thought would be different. Obama pledged to change a Washington culture that favored corporations and the connected and instead lift families such as the one sitting next to Cleland out of their economic funk. Rather, she said, Obama has backed billions of dollars to banks that continue to "act like they're broke" and started the country down a path that Cleland said she thinks will lead to more grief for the middle class.
"He's just not as advertised," she said. "Nothing's changed for the common guy. I feel like I've been punked."...
Stephanie Slater, 44, a neighbor of Cleland's who leans Republican, voted for Obama on the strength of his character and because of his positions on education, energy and health care. She recalled brimming with confidence after Obama's historic inaugural address.In November, we Virginians will head to the polls to elect a new governor. The present governor, Tim Kaine, is a Democrat Obamabot and, according to the our state constitution, cannot succeed himself. Furthermore, this gubernatorial election is regarded by most as a barometer for the 2010 midterm elections.
"When he gave that speech that day, I was in awe. I was really inspired and thought, 'Wow, this is a guy who can do it,' " said Slater, a medical transcriptionist and mother of three.
But she has been disturbed by the large Wall Street bonuses that Obama doesn't seem to be able to halt and his inability to rein in credit card companies that raise rates even on those with good credit. Although she is trying to be patient, she said she is losing faith in the Democrats running Washington.
"Honestly, at this point, I have to say I'm worried. I haven't come across one person that seems to have been helped," she said. "If I don't see a spark, a light at the end of the tunnel, I may be voting Republican [for governor]."
Creigh Deeds, the Democratic Party's candidate for November, is walking a fine line and, overall, trying to distance himself from BHO's policies. And that strategy might work - except that BHO insists upon injecting himself into the race:
The president will make his first appearance in the campaign Thursday, when he headlines a fundraiser for R. Creigh Deeds (D) in McLean..."The mood is becoming just as lousy for the Democrats as it has been for us the last couple of years," said J. Kenneth Klinge, a longtime Virginia GOP strategist. "It's evening the playing field."No matter where you live, keep an eye on this November's race for governor of Virginia.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
MESSAGE TO DEMS: IF YOU CAN'T STAND, THE HEAT, THEN DON'T SUPPORT OBAMACARE
OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES IN THE CONGRESS WANT TO RAM THIS CRAPPY SOCIALISTIC HEALTHCARE BILL DOWN OUR THROATS, BUT WE AIN'T SWALLOWING IT!
SPREAD THE WORD! POST THIS VIDEO!
BUDD SCHULBERG CROSSES OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE...
Budd Schulberg, Screenwriter, Dies at 95
Budd Schulberg, who wrote the award-winning screenplay for “On the Waterfront” and created a classic American archetype of naked ambition, Sammy Glick, in his novel “What Makes Sammy Run?,” died on Wednesday.
He was 95 and lived in the Brookside section of Westhampton Beach, N.Y.
... Mr. Schulberg also wrote journalism, short stories, novels and biographies. He collaborated with F. Scott Fitzgerald, arrested the Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and named names before a Communist-hunting Congressional committee. But he was best known for writing some of the most famous lines in the history of the movies.Some were delivered by Marlon Brando playing the longshoreman Terry Malloy in the 1954 film “On the Waterfront.” Malloy had lost a shot at a prizefighting title by taking a fall for easy money.
“I coulda been a contender,” Malloy tells his brother, Charley (Rod Steiger). “I coulda been somebody. Instead of a bum, which is what I am.”The script, which won one of eight Oscars awarded to the film, bears echoes of Mr. Schulberg’s own political struggle: the film’s director, Elia Kazan, had also chosen to name names.
At one point Father Barry encourages the dockworkers to testify against the mob. In America, he says, there are “ways of fighting back.”
“Getting the facts to the public,” the priest continues. “Testifying for what is right against what is wrong. What’s ratting to them is telling the truth for you. Can’t you see that?”
Mr. Schulberg ... joined the Communist Party of the United States after he returned to Hollywood. “It didn’t take a genius to tell you that something was vitally wrong with the country,” he said in the 2006 interview, recalling his decision to join the party.
“The unemployment was all around us,” he said. “The bread lines and the apple sellers. I couldn’t help comparing that with my own family’s status, with my father; at one point he was making $11,000 a week. And I felt a shameful contrast between the haves and the have-nots very early.”
His romance with Communism ended six years later, when he quit the party after feeling pressure to bend his writing to fit its doctrines.
Mr. Schulberg had been identified as a party member in testimony before the House committee. Called to testify, he publicly named eight other Hollywood figures as members, including the screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. and the director Herbert Biberman.
They were two among the Hollywood 10 — witnesses who said the First Amendment gave them the right to think as they pleased and keep their silence before the committee. All were blacklisted and convicted of contempt of Congress. Losing their livelihoods, Lardner served a year in prison and Biberman six months.
In the turmoil of the Red Scare, Mr. Schulberg’s testimony was seen as a betrayal by many, an act of principle by others. The liberal consensus in Hollywood was that Lardner had acquitted himself more gracefully before the committee when asked if he had been a Communist: “I could answer it, but if I did, I would hate myself in the morning.”
In the 2006 interview... he said he had named names because the party represented a real threat to freedom of speech.
“They say that you testified against your friends, but once they supported the party against me, even though I did have some personal attachments, they were really no longer my friends,” he said. “And I felt that if they cared about real freedom of speech, they should have stood up for me when I was fighting the party.”... After their joint success with “On the Waterfront,” Mr. Schulberg wrote and Mr. Kazan directed “A Face in the Crowd” (1957), one of the first films to weigh the political clout of television. Based on a Schulberg short story, the film depicts the transformation of a country singer, played by Andy Griffith, from power-drunk star into populist demagogue.
... “I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society” while being “as entertaining as possible,” he said in the 2006 interview.
“Because if you don’t” entertain, he said, “nobody’s listening.”
A GREAT WRITER. ENTERTAINING. PRO-SOCIAL. TRUTHFUL.
AND WHEN HE AND KAZAN "RATTED" ON THE COMMIES THEY WERE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
RIP, BABY!
CONDOLENCES TO THE WHOLE SCHULBERG CLAN.
"Cash for Clunkers, Cuts for Missile Defense"
CLIFF MAY:
missile defense, a program that would benefit all Americans and our troops and allies overseas, has the support of 78% of Americans and in some polls near 90%; but funding is now being cut by $1.4 billion, with additional cuts down the road a real possibility — unless there is substantial pushback.
... With the threat from rogue regimes such as North Korea and Iran increasing, with Pakistan swaying on a high wire, and with Russian subs cruising off our coasts, wouldn't it be nice to know we're putting in place a comprehensive, layered system (i.e. including space-based interceptors) that could stop missiles from reaching their intended victims — including those intended victims driving shiny new cars with better gas mileage and lower carbon footprints?
OBAMA: SOCIALISM AT HOME AND APPEASEMENT OVERSEAS: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER
YOU CAN EXHALE NOW: IT'S THE SUN, STUPID! (NOT CO2!)
YOU CAN EXHALE NOW:
MORE PROOF IT'S THE SUN - AND COSMIC RAYS AND NOT MAN-MADE C02.
VIA DESMOG ME.
AND A STUPID PERSON WAKES UP: MCCAIN SEES THE LIGHT; COMES OUT AGAINST WAXMAN-MARKEY.
MORE PROOF IT'S THE SUN - AND COSMIC RAYS AND NOT MAN-MADE C02.
VIA DESMOG ME.
AND A STUPID PERSON WAKES UP: MCCAIN SEES THE LIGHT; COMES OUT AGAINST WAXMAN-MARKEY.
LAFFER: OBAMACARE WORSE THAN DOING NOTHING
VIA HOT AIR: ACCORDING TO LAFFER, OBAMA CARE IS...
... a $1 trillion increase in federal government health subsidies will accelerate health-care inflation, lead to continued growth in health-care expenditures, and diminish our economic growth even further. Despite these costs, some 30 million people will remain uninsured.Implementing Mr. Obama’s reforms would literally be worse than doing nothing.
EXACTLY.
WHICH IS WHY WE NEED AM ADDITIONAL OATH OF OFFICE FOR ALL SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN:
A POLITICAL HIPPOCRATIC OATH, AND THE FIRSTEST MOSTEST IMPORTANT CLAUSE WOLD BE THIS:
THIS WOULD CUT DOWN ON A LOT OF THEIR "LEGISLATIN'" AND VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE ALL THE OVERLY LONG - 1000+ PAGE - BILLS THEY DON'T BOTHER TO READ.
"FIRST DO NO HARM."
THIS WOULD CUT DOWN ON A LOT OF THEIR "LEGISLATIN'" AND VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE ALL THE OVERLY LONG - 1000+ PAGE - BILLS THEY DON'T BOTHER TO READ.
Google censorship again
This time they have blocked the popular humor blog Wicked Thoughts. All is not lost, however, as the Mirror site is still updating regularly. I have no idea what the blocking is all about or if it will be permanent so do publicize the link to the mirror site.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Today: Thugs, Texts, Tasers & Pie-Eating Contests
Today's posts at Bob McCarty Writes cover a variety of topics, ranging from a California congressman telling a Chicago thug to "Back Off!" to a personal account of participation in a county fair pie-eating contest. In between those, you can read about a texting-while-driving summit and enjoy video of a new three-shot taser for use by law enforcement.Enjoy them all here!
THE FRUITS OF OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT: FATAH... IRAN... RUSSIA
- OBAMA DITHERS AS IRAN WRITHES, AND THE BASIJI KILL HUNDREDS OF PROTESTORS; OBAMA RECOGNIZES THE ELECTION OF AHMADINEJAD AND THEY STAGE MASS SHOW TRIALS...
- OBAMA APPEASES THE ARABS - BOWING DOWN TO THE SAUDI KING, AND FATAH BIGSHOTS ANNOUNCE THEY WON'T EVER RECOGNIZE ISRAEL...
- OBAMA SENDS BJ CLINTON TO NORTH KOREA TO APOLOGIZE TO ONE OF THE WORST TYRANNIES IN HUMAN HISTORY JUST TO GET TWO AMERICANS OUT, AND KIM JONG IL GETS A PHOTO-OP OF A LIFETIME AND HIS REGIME GETS HUGE PROPAGANDA...
- OBAMA APPEASES THE RUSSIANS AND POOH-POOHS MISSILE DEFENSE, AND NOW RUSSIA PATROLS OUR EAST COAST WITH THEIR ATTACK SUBS!
THE FREE WORLD IS ALREADY DRAMATICALLY LESS SAFE BECAUSE OF OBAMA.
OBAMA IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE FREE WORLD.
DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.
VOTE GOP.
BUY AMMO.
IT AIN'T OVER: Iran’s opposition calls for inauguration protests
IT AIN'T OVER: DESPITE OBAMA DOING WHATEVER HE CAN GET AWAY WITH TO HELP AHMADINEJAD, IT AIN'T OVER:
MSNBC/AP: Iran’s opposition calls for inauguration protests
MSNBC/AP: Iran’s opposition calls for inauguration protests
Backers of opposition candidate allege fraud in Ahmadinejad's re-electionDESPITE GIBBS AND OBAMA RECOGNISING AHMADINEJAD AS THE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF IRAN, TIME IS ON OUR SIDE:
Opposition groups called for protesters to prepare for a new round of street demonstrations Wednesday to coincide with the inauguration ceremony for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
- AHMADINEJAD WILL BE GONE IN TWO MONTHS - AND IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL.
- WE'LL NEUTER OBAMA IN 2010.
REPORT: OBAMA TO BRING KSM TO ALEXANDRIA, VA FOR TRIAL
BREAKING NEWS: 9/11 Conspirators To Alexandria, Virginia
WHOSE FUHREEEEEEEKIN' SIDE IS HE ON:
Cui bono? The enemy.
Dissent accordingly.
Vote GOP.
And buy ammo.
Military Families United has just learned that the President is planning to bring Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and his co-conspirators to Alexandria, Virginia for trial. This decision is not only dangerous but risks the lives of the more than 12,000 people who live and work within a mile of the courthouse and jail, and it makes our nation’s capital ground zero for the next terrorist attack.Click here for petition.
These terrorists have already implemented an attack that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington DC. It defies logic to relocate these terrorists a mere five miles from the Pentagon, a location where they have already hit.
We cannot allow this happen!
It's not too late to change the President's mind.
We need you to call the White House and tell the President to keep terrorists off of our soil.
We need you to send this email to all of your friends and family and ask them to take action by calling the White House or signing our online petition: www.DontFreeTerrorists.org.
WHOSE FUHREEEEEEEKIN' SIDE IS HE ON:
- Obama is screwing Israel
- and Honduras...
- and aiding the Palis and al Qaeda.
- AND HE JUST FUHREEEEEEKIN' RECOGNIZE AHMADINEJAD AS THE ELECTED LEADER OF IRAN!?!?!?
Cui bono? The enemy.
Dissent accordingly.
Vote GOP.
And buy ammo.
Mideast Peace Now!
Excerpt:
By Gene Schwimmer
Is it time for those who clamor for a Middle East peace to "declare victory and go home"? Two recent events in the region signal the answer. And that answer, resoundingly, unequivocally, is "yes."
In 2006, Hezb'allah crossed Israel's northern border and kidnapped two soldiers, triggering a massive Israeli retaliation that caused hundreds of deaths, billions of dollars of damage and came close to destroying Hezb'allah, who were literally saved by the bell when the "international community" combined with a hapless left-wing administration on the Israeli home front pressured the Israelis into halting their advance short of complete victory.
And yet, in the aftermath of that war -- a war that reduced parts of Lebanon to rubble; a war in which Hezb'allah failed to invade, let alone conquer, an inch of Israeli territory; a war in which, a Hezb'allah officer confessed to The Jerusalem Post that, had it continued only ten more days, "we all would have surrendered -- Hezb'allah, astonishingly, declared victory. Apparently, in the topsy-turvy milieu of whatever passes for logic in the Arab Middle East, one can do that (and among the Israel-hating Left, get away with it).
So the Israelis pulled out, a UN "peacekeeping force" came in and, as we who opposed ending the war without a clear victory predicted, Hezb'allah returned and not only replenished their rocket arsenal, but increased it fourfold.
But then, something important happened. Hezb'allah won 57 seats (out of 128) in Lebanon's recent parliamentary elections. And on July 5, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning to Lebanon (emphasis mine) "that Israel will hold the Lebanese government responsible for any attack launched from within the country's territory, including Hizbullah operations."
Israel-bashers who waited for the usual Hezb'allah bluster and threats were disappointed for none has been forthcoming. One might even go so far as to say that, after Netanyahu's warning, Nasrallah has become all hat and no camel, to the point that:
"[a] week after a group of 15 people carrying Lebanese and Hizbullah flags crossed into the Shaba Farms, the terror organization called on its followers... not to demonstrate in the area under Israeli control."
Also,
"top Hizbullah and Amal officials made a commitment to the UN envoy in Lebanon not to organize rallies along the border with Israel and to block any attempt to demonstrate there".
And at the same time, in the West Bank, according to Ethan Bronner of the New York Times: "Seven months after Israel started a fierce three-week military campaign here to stop rockets from being fired on its southern communities, Hamas has suspended its use of rockets and shifted focus to winning support at home and abroad through cultural initiatives and public relations."
Of course, if Israel attacks Iran, all bets are off regarding Hezb'allah. But for now, all is quiet on the northern front. And the eastern front. And the southern front.
What does this sudden quietude along every inch of Israel's border with every one of her neighbors mean?
It means that now, today, amid all the "international community's" caterwauling about a supposed need for Israel to make substantial unilateral, self-endangering concessions "in the interest of Middle East peace, the chances of Israel being attacked by any of her neighbors right now is virtually nil. Which, in most people's definition, but especially in that of those who dwell in the Middle East and are familiar with the region's long and bloody history, means, there is peace.
Unnoticed, unheralded, not even reported, under their very upturned noses, the international community's professed goal of a peaceful Middle East, at least relative to Israel, has been achieved.
Peace, finally, has come to the Middle East, and it came not through Barack Obama's and the international community's (and Neville Chamberlain's) prescription of "negotiation" and appeasement, but through Ronald Reagan's -- and Franklin Roosevelt's; and Harry Truman's and, yes, Tony Blair's -- prescription of peace through strength and the resolve to stand forthright against one's enemies. (Even the only arguable exceptions, Israel's negotiated peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt, came only after Israel's victory in the 1973 war.)
More HERE
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By Gene Schwimmer
Is it time for those who clamor for a Middle East peace to "declare victory and go home"? Two recent events in the region signal the answer. And that answer, resoundingly, unequivocally, is "yes."
In 2006, Hezb'allah crossed Israel's northern border and kidnapped two soldiers, triggering a massive Israeli retaliation that caused hundreds of deaths, billions of dollars of damage and came close to destroying Hezb'allah, who were literally saved by the bell when the "international community" combined with a hapless left-wing administration on the Israeli home front pressured the Israelis into halting their advance short of complete victory.
And yet, in the aftermath of that war -- a war that reduced parts of Lebanon to rubble; a war in which Hezb'allah failed to invade, let alone conquer, an inch of Israeli territory; a war in which, a Hezb'allah officer confessed to The Jerusalem Post that, had it continued only ten more days, "we all would have surrendered -- Hezb'allah, astonishingly, declared victory. Apparently, in the topsy-turvy milieu of whatever passes for logic in the Arab Middle East, one can do that (and among the Israel-hating Left, get away with it).
So the Israelis pulled out, a UN "peacekeeping force" came in and, as we who opposed ending the war without a clear victory predicted, Hezb'allah returned and not only replenished their rocket arsenal, but increased it fourfold.
But then, something important happened. Hezb'allah won 57 seats (out of 128) in Lebanon's recent parliamentary elections. And on July 5, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning to Lebanon (emphasis mine) "that Israel will hold the Lebanese government responsible for any attack launched from within the country's territory, including Hizbullah operations."
Israel-bashers who waited for the usual Hezb'allah bluster and threats were disappointed for none has been forthcoming. One might even go so far as to say that, after Netanyahu's warning, Nasrallah has become all hat and no camel, to the point that:
"[a] week after a group of 15 people carrying Lebanese and Hizbullah flags crossed into the Shaba Farms, the terror organization called on its followers... not to demonstrate in the area under Israeli control."
Also,
"top Hizbullah and Amal officials made a commitment to the UN envoy in Lebanon not to organize rallies along the border with Israel and to block any attempt to demonstrate there".
And at the same time, in the West Bank, according to Ethan Bronner of the New York Times: "Seven months after Israel started a fierce three-week military campaign here to stop rockets from being fired on its southern communities, Hamas has suspended its use of rockets and shifted focus to winning support at home and abroad through cultural initiatives and public relations."
Of course, if Israel attacks Iran, all bets are off regarding Hezb'allah. But for now, all is quiet on the northern front. And the eastern front. And the southern front.
What does this sudden quietude along every inch of Israel's border with every one of her neighbors mean?
It means that now, today, amid all the "international community's" caterwauling about a supposed need for Israel to make substantial unilateral, self-endangering concessions "in the interest of Middle East peace, the chances of Israel being attacked by any of her neighbors right now is virtually nil. Which, in most people's definition, but especially in that of those who dwell in the Middle East and are familiar with the region's long and bloody history, means, there is peace.
Unnoticed, unheralded, not even reported, under their very upturned noses, the international community's professed goal of a peaceful Middle East, at least relative to Israel, has been achieved.
Peace, finally, has come to the Middle East, and it came not through Barack Obama's and the international community's (and Neville Chamberlain's) prescription of "negotiation" and appeasement, but through Ronald Reagan's -- and Franklin Roosevelt's; and Harry Truman's and, yes, Tony Blair's -- prescription of peace through strength and the resolve to stand forthright against one's enemies. (Even the only arguable exceptions, Israel's negotiated peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt, came only after Israel's victory in the 1973 war.)
More HERE
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Liberty vs.Tyranny: Healthcare Edition
Mark Steyn lays out the only argument against socialized medicine that matters, and it has nothing to do with numbers, cost, accessibility, government inefficiency, lack of doctors, inevitably declining quality, or unsustainability. While all these elements present incontrovertible arguments against socialized medicine, this is ultimately about liberty. Before America all of humankind had always lived with someone's boot on its neck. Socialism is the government's boot on your neck, and it's inherently un-American. Read on.
Health care is a game-changer. The permanent game-changer. The pendulum will swing, and one day, despite their best efforts, the Republicans will return to power, and, in the right circumstances, the bailouts and cap-&-trade and Government Motors and much of the rest can be reversed. But the government annexation of health care will prove impossible to roll back. It alters the relationship between the citizen and the state and, once that transformation is effected, you can click your ruby slippers all you want but you’ll never get back to Kansas.It's like Israel and the Arabs. They only have to win once, and if they do we're all pretty much toast.
Government-directed health care is a profound assault on the concept of citizenship. It deforms national politics very quickly, and ensures that henceforth elections are always fought on the left’s terms. I find it hard to believe President Obama and his chums haven’t looked at Canada and Europe and concluded that health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. He doesn’t say that, of course. He says his objective is to “control costs”. Which is the one thing that won’t happen. Even now, health care costs rise far faster under Medicare than in the private sector.It's evil, wrong, un-American, and absolutely fascist. It has no business in my country. Obamacare must be destroyed in any form.
By the way, to accept that argument is to concede a lot of the turf: Why is the cost of my health care Barack Obama’s business? When he mused recently as to whether his dying grandmother had really needed her hip replacement, he gave the game away: Right now, if Gran’ma decides she doesn’t need the hip, that’s her business. Under a government system, it’s the state’s business – and they have to “allocate” “resources”, and frankly at your age your body’s not worth allocating to. Why give you a new hip when you’re getting up there and you’re gonna be kicking the bucket in a year or two or five or twenty?
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And, if you disagree, so what? In a free society, Mr Smith should be free to be excessively prudent and over-pay to be over-insured, and Mr Jones should be free to conclude that he wants to pay cash down and get the best price for his broken leg. But a government system usurps both Smith and Jones’ right to calculate their own best interests.
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“Morality” is always the justification...What’s so moral about relieving the citizen of responsibility for his own health care? If free citizens of the wealthiest societies in human history are not prepared to make provision for their own health, what other core responsibilities of functioning adulthood are they likely to forego? Oh, Smith and Jones can still be entrusted to make their own choices about which movie to rent from Netflix, or which breakfast cereal to eat. For the moment. But you’d be surprised how quickly the “right” to health care elides into the government’s right to tell you how to live in order to access that health care. A government-directed medical system can be used to justify almost any restraint on freedom: After all, if the state undertakes to cure you, it surely has an interest in preventing you needing treatment in the first place – or declining to treat you if your persist in your deviancy: Smokers in Manchester, England have been refused treatment for heart disease, and the obese in Suffolk have been told they’re ineligible for hip and knee replacements...
Patricia Hewitt, the former Health Secretary, says there’s nothing wrong with the state forbidding treatment on the basis of “lifestyle choices”. And apparently the “pro-choice” types who jump up and down in the street demanding that you keep your rosaries off their ovaries are entirely relaxed about the government getting its bureaucratics all over your lymphatics.
Ultimately, it’s not the nationalization of health care but the nationalization of your body. Right now, if you want an MRI, it’s between you and your doctors. In a government-run system, if you want an MRI and you can’t get one, it’s the government’s fault. And the government should do something about it.
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So elections dwindle down to a sterile argument over how to “improve” the system: The left-of-center party usually pledges to throw money at it. The right-of-center party is less enthusiastic about that, which generally makes it suspect on the issue, so it settles on some formulation to the effect that it can “deliver” better “services” more “efficiently”. In other words, the only viable rationale for the right becomes its claim to be able to run the leftist state more smoothly than the left.
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The leaders of the two soi-disant “right-of-center” parties competing to see who can grovel most abjectly before the state monopoly. That’s the Republicans’ future if they collude in the governmentalization of health care – as Democrats well understand.
When health care is the government’s responsibility, it becomes its principal responsibility. Because the minute you make government the provider of health care, you ensure that, come election time, the electorate identifies “health” as its number one concern. Thus, in a democracy, the very fact of socialized medicine seduces the citizenry away from citizenship.
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But the acceptance of the principle that individual health is so complex its management can only be outsourced to the state is a concession no conservative should make. More than any other factor, it dramatically advances the statist logic for remorseless encroachments on self-determination. It’s incompatible with a republic of self-governing citizens. The state cannot guarantee against every adversity and, if it attempts to, it can only do so at an enormous cost to liberty. A society in which you’re free to choose your cable package, your iTunes downloads and who ululates the best on “American Idol” but in which the government takes care of peripheral stuff like your body is a society no longer truly free.
In a nanny state, big government becomes a kind of religion: the church as state. Tommy Douglas, the driving force between Canadian health care, tops polls of all-time greatest Canadians. In Britain, after the Tube bombings, Gordon Brown began mulling over the creation of what he called a “British equivalent of the US Fourth of July”, a new national holiday to bolster British identity. The Labour Party think-tank, the Fabian Society, and proposed that the new “British Day” should be July 5th, the day the National Health Service was created. Because the essence of contemporary British identity is waiting two years for a hip operation.
They can call it Dependence Day.
Monday, August 03, 2009
OBAMA HAS PAINTED HIMSELF AND THE DEMOCRATS INTO A CORNER WITH OBAMACARE
THIS IS HOW MOST AMERICANS FEEL ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS ON CONGRESS AND OBAMACARE:
- PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THE SO-CALLED HEATHCARE REFORM BILLS IN CONGRESS, AND THEY DON'T LIKE THEY WAY THE BILLS HAVE BEEN HANDLED. NOT AT ALL.
- IF THEY PASS A BILL ANYTHING LIKE WHAT THE HOUSE AND SENATE HAVE RELEASED SO FAR, THEN THERE'LL BE A HUMONGOUS BACKLASH AND DEMOCRAT INCUMBENTS WILL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED AT THE NEXT ELECTION. THEY KNOW THIS; SENATORS VIRTUALLY ADMIT IT.
- YET, IF OBAMA PASSES NOTHING, THEN IT'S ALSO A BIG DEFEAT...
- ... BUT ONLY A DEFEAT FOR HIM.
- I THINK THE COWARDLY SCUM IN CONGRESS WILL OPT TO SCREW OBAMA AND KILL OBAMACARE BEFORE THEY COMMIT SUICIDE.
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