Why does Obama say Tolly-bahn and Pocky-Stahn, and not Talleban and Packi -stan?
For a real American brought up in America speaking American English the way Obama says these words would be an affectation.
Obama doesn't say Pahree for Paris or MAHSkou for MahsCOW - so it can't be that he likes to sound like a native when saying foreign words in English.
He is either deliberately showing the Taliban and Pakistan SPECIAL deference by going out of his way to say these words like them (when he makes no such attempt with other foreign words), or he is revealing something about himself: that he learned these words a long time ago from people who spoke them in their native language and not English and these pronunciations are ingrained in him.
It could go back to his childhood growing up in Indonesia. Or his college years at Columbia when he roomed with and hung out with Pakistanis. (He even "vacationed" in Pakistan during this era.)
In any case, it's patently un-American. Sounding. At least.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
HOW'S THAT OBAMA WORKING OUT FOR YOU?
If you're Chavez, or Zelaya, or Putin, or Abbas, or the Taliban then it's working out pretty good for you.
If you like spending $787 BILLION you don't have on pork, and socialized and rationed medicine designed by politicians, run by bureaucrats and enforced by the IRS then it's working out just great!
For the rest of us, not so much.
Though we rightwingnuts knew this was gonna happen.
Can't say we didn't warn you!
If you like spending $787 BILLION you don't have on pork, and socialized and rationed medicine designed by politicians, run by bureaucrats and enforced by the IRS then it's working out just great!
For the rest of us, not so much.
Though we rightwingnuts knew this was gonna happen.
Can't say we didn't warn you!
BREAKING NEWS: IRAN SAYS IT WILL ALLOW IAEA INSPECTIONS
IRAN WILL ALLOW IAEA INSPECTORS INSIDE PLANT:
WE MUSTN'T LET IRAN DELAY US. IT ONLY MAKES THEM STRONGER.
Now it's really time to quarantine Iran.
The USA should say: "Effective Monday, no goods or services or money or gasoline comes or goes into Iran until Iran dismantles their nuclear assets.
If Iran doesn't start dismantling them within 3 weeks, then we will bomb and destroy their nuclear assets, and all their military assets.
Unless there is a successful popular pro-West uprising.
[ASIDE: Yes: I am the 1st in the right-wing blogosphere to link to this news - before Memeorandum and Drudge, even.]
IRAN said on Saturday it will put its newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog, in a move welcomed by the United States.AND HERE:
'Blow to Western arrogance'
'THIS issue was turned around in a way that (now) we believe they regret bringing it up,' Mr Ahmadinejad told reporters on his return home from the UN General Assembly in New York.
'They may pursue this issue through the media but it has become a firm blow to the arrogance,' in reference to the United States and other Western powers, the hardline Iranian president said.
... more
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, said the disclosure was a 'firm blow' to Western powers opposed to Teheran's atomic work.
'This site will be under the supervision of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and will have a maximum of five percent (uranium) enrichment capacity,' Iran's atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on state television.
The plant, which is 'not an industrial scale' unit, will be operational in two years' time, he said.
Dismissing allegations that the plant has a military purpose, Mr Salehi said the facility is being constructed as a 'precautionary measure in case of an unwanted incident against our nuclear programme.' US Secretary of State Hillary Mrs Clinton welcomed the decision to grant access to the IAEA.
As world pressure mounted Saturday, Iran said it would allow United Nations inspectors to examine its newly revealed, second uranium-enrichment facility, according to media reports.BBC here:
The move came after U.S. President Barack Obama used his Saturday radio address to call on Iran to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and media reports later in the day suggested that Obama would demand Iran submit to an inspection within three weeks.
Iran has claimed the facilities are for peaceful purposes, but Western nations have said they feared Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran's capitulation on the inspection demand first was reported by The Associated Press.
23:11 GMT, Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:11 UK
US welcomes Iran inspection offer
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has given a cautious welcome to Iran's announcement that it will open a newly revealed nuclear plant to inspection.
Speaking in New York, Mrs Clinton said it was always welcome when Iran decided to comply with international rules.
- THIS IS A DELAYING TACTIC - ONE THEY LEARNED FROM KIM JUNG IL.
- THEY WANT NUKES.
- IF WE LET THEM GET THEM THE ULTIMATE CONFRONTATION WILL BE WORSE THEN IF WE PREVENT THEM FROM GETTING THEM.
WE MUSTN'T LET IRAN DELAY US. IT ONLY MAKES THEM STRONGER.
Now it's really time to quarantine Iran.
The USA should say: "Effective Monday, no goods or services or money or gasoline comes or goes into Iran until Iran dismantles their nuclear assets.
If Iran doesn't start dismantling them within 3 weeks, then we will bomb and destroy their nuclear assets, and all their military assets.
Unless there is a successful popular pro-West uprising.
[ASIDE: Yes: I am the 1st in the right-wing blogosphere to link to this news - before Memeorandum and Drudge, even.]
UPDATED WITH BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA'S ULTIMATUM TO IRAN: SLOW AND WEAK
Obama is giving them 3 months to come into compliance OR ELSE!
Or else he'll try to get some tough sanctions they will be able to get around.
All this does is get Israel to wait a few 4,5,6 months. MAYBE.
The time for this was YEARS AGO, but Bush was too much of a MULTILATERALIST AND A WIMP.
Now it's really time to quarantine Iran: Effective Monday, NO goods or services or money or gasoline comes or goes into Iran until they dismantle their nuclear assets.
If they don't start dismantling them within 3 weeks we bomb their nuclear assets, and all their military assets.
Unless there is a successful popular pro-West uprising.
The problem is that compared to Obama, Bush is a hawk.
Obama is such a wimp and a dove and an appeaser that he makes McGovern and Carter look like FDR & Churchill.
UPDATED: IRAN WILL ALLOW IAEA INSPECTORS INSIDE PLANT.
AND HERE.
Much more here.
Or else he'll try to get some tough sanctions they will be able to get around.
All this does is get Israel to wait a few 4,5,6 months. MAYBE.
The time for this was YEARS AGO, but Bush was too much of a MULTILATERALIST AND A WIMP.
Now it's really time to quarantine Iran: Effective Monday, NO goods or services or money or gasoline comes or goes into Iran until they dismantle their nuclear assets.
If they don't start dismantling them within 3 weeks we bomb their nuclear assets, and all their military assets.
Unless there is a successful popular pro-West uprising.
The problem is that compared to Obama, Bush is a hawk.
Obama is such a wimp and a dove and an appeaser that he makes McGovern and Carter look like FDR & Churchill.
UPDATED: IRAN WILL ALLOW IAEA INSPECTORS INSIDE PLANT.
AND HERE.
Much more here.
- THIS IS A DELAYING TACTIC - ONE THEY LEARNED FROM KIM JUNG IL.
- THEY WANT NUKES. IF WE LET THEM GET THEM THE ULTIMATE CONFRONTATION WILL BE WORSE THEN IF WE PREVENT THEM FROM GETTING THEM.
Europe's War on Free Speech
Featuring Geert Wilders and Lars Hedegaard, from the most underrated news agency in the world, CBN. Funny how leftists always accuse Christians, Evangelicals in particular (because they regard them as a threat), of trying to take away our rights, yet, time and time again, it's Christians who are Western civilization's fiercest defenders. They're also the only ones who are looking out for Jews.
SALINIZATION AND NOT CO2 IS MELTING ARCTIC ICE
CO2 is not melting the Arctic.
AGW = BS.
CO2 SCHEMES = STEALTH SOCIALISM.
DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.
It is modern myth that CO2 is melting the Arctic sea ice. No doubt many people will take immediate offence at the mere title of this post but they would do well to listen to the data before they jump. CO2 is supposed to heat the earth's atmosphere and then would melt the ice from above. The atmosphere can't get past the ice to warm the water below so the only logical conclusion is that a warm atmosphere should melt the ice from above.
But what is happening is the Arctic ice is melting from below due to warm waters that normally are about 100-200 m below the surface. I am going to show that due to a change in the winds, the Arctic ocean became more salty (salinization). The increase in salinity caused the underlying deeper waters to come into contact with the ice above, which melts the Arctic ice from below. Unless one can demonstrate that the wind change is due to global warming, one can't claim that CO2 is melting the Arctic ice.
AGW = BS.
CO2 SCHEMES = STEALTH SOCIALISM.
DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.
CHURCHILL VERSUS OBAMA, CHAMBERLAIN AND HITLER
Everyone would be glad to see the burden of armaments reduced in every country, but history shows on many a page that armaments are not necessarily a cause of war and that the want of them has been no guarantee of peace.
If, for instance, all the explosives all over the world could, by a wave of a magic wand be robbed of their power and made harmless, so that not a cannon nor a rifle could fire and not a shell or a bomb detonate, that would be a measure of world disarmament far beyond the brightest dreams of Geneva, but would it insure peace? That is the question.
On the contrary, in my belief, war would begin almost the next day when enormous masses of fierce men armed with picks, spades, or with clubs and spears, would pour over the frontiers into the lands they covet.
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized.
Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.
... When we look out upon the state of Europe and of the world and of the position of our own country as they are tonight, it seems to me that the next year or two years may contain a faithful turning point in our history.
I am afraid that if you look intently at what is moving towards Great Britain, you will see that the only choice open is the old grim choice our forebears had to face, namely, whether we shall submit or whether we shall prepare, whether we shall submit to the will of the stronger nation or whether we shall prepare to defend our rights, our liberties, and indeed, our lives.
If we submit, our submission should be timely. If we prepare, our preparation should not be too late.
... You have heard the old doctrine of the balance of power.
I don't accept it.
Anything like a balance of power in Europe will lead to war.
Great wars usually come only when both sides think they have good hopes of victory.
Peace must -be founded upon preponderance. There is safety in numbers. If there were five or six on each side, there might well be, a frightful trial of strength, but if there were eight or ten on one side and only one or two upon the other, and if the collective armed forces of one side were three or four times as large as those of the other, then there would be no war.
CHURCHILL WAS RIGHT THEN - AND HE IS RIGHT NOW.
OBAMA'S SOPHOMORIC POLICIES OF APPEASEMENT AND DISARMAMENT ONLY MAKE US LESS SAFE.
WHEN OBAMA MOVED INTO THE OVAL OFFICE HE RUDELY RETURNED A BUST OF CHURCHILL WHICH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT GAVE US AFTER 9/11.
WORSE THAN THAT: OBAMA HAS TURNED HIS BACK ON CHURCHILL'S WISDOM. OBAMA IS MORE LIKE ATTLEE AND CHAMBERLAIN.
AND WE SHALL ALL SUFFER AS A RESULT.
UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES - SOON.
Another lot of Warmist nonsense debunked
The medieval warm period is vastly inconvenient to Warmists and they try on occasions to erase it from their data summaries. But it is not going away so their next line of defence is to say it was a Northern hemisphere event only. That was always pretty absurd (and raised more questions than it answered) but the study reported below gives it another kick in the pants by showing that the Northern and Southern hemisphere climates move in tandem. See also here and here.
Two of the most important questions in paleoclimatology are, how are the climates of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres linked, and what are the roles of the high latitudes and the tropics in driving and transmitting climate changes? Past investigations have concentrated on the study of large, rapid climate changes like deglaciations or the Younger Dryas because they are the easiest ones to see and to date. Licciardi et al. (p. 1677) expand the scope of these investigations by determining precise cosmogenic isotope ages for glacial moraines formed in the Peruvian Andes during the Holocene (the last 11,000 years). The precision of these data reveals a broad correlation between Peruvian glacial advances and climate in the North Atlantic region, revealing important climate linkages between the tropics and higher latitudes.
SOURCE
Journal abstract follows:
Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in the Peruvian Andes Indicate Northern Climate Linkages
By Joseph M. Licciardi et al.
The role of the tropics in triggering, transmitting, and amplifying interhemispheric climate signals remains a key debate in paleoclimatology. Tropical glacier fluctuations provide important insight on regional paleoclimatic trends and forcings, but robust chronologies are scarce. Here, we report precise moraine ages from the Cordillera Vilcabamba (13°20'S) of southern Peru that indicate prominent glacial events and associated climatic shifts in the outer tropics during the early Holocene and late in the "Little Ice Age" period. Our glacier chronologies differ from the New Zealand record but are broadly correlative with well-dated glacial records in Europe, suggesting climate linkages between the tropics and the North Atlantic region.
Science 25 September 2009: Vol. 325. no. 5948, pp. 1677 - 1679
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Two of the most important questions in paleoclimatology are, how are the climates of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres linked, and what are the roles of the high latitudes and the tropics in driving and transmitting climate changes? Past investigations have concentrated on the study of large, rapid climate changes like deglaciations or the Younger Dryas because they are the easiest ones to see and to date. Licciardi et al. (p. 1677) expand the scope of these investigations by determining precise cosmogenic isotope ages for glacial moraines formed in the Peruvian Andes during the Holocene (the last 11,000 years). The precision of these data reveals a broad correlation between Peruvian glacial advances and climate in the North Atlantic region, revealing important climate linkages between the tropics and higher latitudes.
SOURCE
Journal abstract follows:
Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in the Peruvian Andes Indicate Northern Climate Linkages
By Joseph M. Licciardi et al.
The role of the tropics in triggering, transmitting, and amplifying interhemispheric climate signals remains a key debate in paleoclimatology. Tropical glacier fluctuations provide important insight on regional paleoclimatic trends and forcings, but robust chronologies are scarce. Here, we report precise moraine ages from the Cordillera Vilcabamba (13°20'S) of southern Peru that indicate prominent glacial events and associated climatic shifts in the outer tropics during the early Holocene and late in the "Little Ice Age" period. Our glacier chronologies differ from the New Zealand record but are broadly correlative with well-dated glacial records in Europe, suggesting climate linkages between the tropics and the North Atlantic region.
Science 25 September 2009: Vol. 325. no. 5948, pp. 1677 - 1679
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Friday, September 25, 2009
OBAMACARE: DEATH PANEL BY PROXY (CPA ADMISNITERED)
POWER LINE:
DON'T BELIEVE THE BIG "HEALTHCARE CRISIS" LIE THE LEFT KEEPS REPEATING OVER AND OVER AGAIN - (AND REFUTE IT EVERY TIME SOME LIB REPEATS IT TO YOU):
THAT'S FALSE; THE TRUTH IS: WE AMERICANS LIVE LONGER THAN PEOPLE IN THE EU. AND IT'S BEEN STEADILY IMPROVING.
AND OUR RELATIVELY HIGH PERCENTAGE OF BLACKS AND FAT PEOPLE IS WHAT KEEPS IT CLOSE.
... Dems don't want people to see language like that which appears at pages 80-81 of the bill. There it says: " "Beginning in 2015, payment [under Medicare] would be reduced by five percent if an aggregation of the physician's resource use is at or above the 90th percentile of national utilization." Thus, in any year in which a particular doctor's average per-patient Medicare costs are in the top 10 percent in the nation, the feds will cut the doctor's payments by 5 percent."HOW IS THIS AN IMPROVEMENT?This Washington Times editorial explains the consequences:
... if a doctor authorizes expensive care, no matter how successfully, the government will punish him by scrimping on what already is a low reimbursement rate for treating Medicare patients.This is certainly a form of rationing.
The incentive, therefore, is for the doctor always to provide less care for his patients for fear of having his payments docked.
And because no doctor will know who falls in the top 10 percent until year's end, or what total average costs will break the 10 percent threshold, the pressure will be intense to withhold care, and withhold care again, and then withhold it some more.
Or at least to prescribe cheaper care, no matter how much less effective, in order to avoid the penalties.
And the editors of the Times don't exaggerate when they say that, while there are no formal death panels, the Democrats' bill will give us the functional equivalent, except that the accountants who serve as the "proxy" panel won't know whose deaths they are causing.
- IT'S NOT.
- IT CAN ONLY BE SEEN AS A WA Y TO SAVE MONEY BY ALLOCATING LESS SERVICES TO SICK PEOPLE, MOST OF WHOM ARE OLD PEOPLE FROM WHO GOVERNMENT GETS LESS THAN IT DOLES OUT.
- MY FRIENDS, WE MUST DEFEAT THIS MONSTROSITY.
DON'T BELIEVE THE BIG "HEALTHCARE CRISIS" LIE THE LEFT KEEPS REPEATING OVER AND OVER AGAIN - (AND REFUTE IT EVERY TIME SOME LIB REPEATS IT TO YOU):
"WE SPEND MORE THAN THE EU AND THEY LIVE LONGER."
THAT'S FALSE; THE TRUTH IS: WE AMERICANS LIVE LONGER THAN PEOPLE IN THE EU. AND IT'S BEEN STEADILY IMPROVING.
AND OUR RELATIVELY HIGH PERCENTAGE OF BLACKS AND FAT PEOPLE IS WHAT KEEPS IT CLOSE.
NAJIBULLAH ZAZI'S ARREST MEANS WE NEW YORKERS SHOULD BOYCOTT MUSLIM STREET-VENDORS AND CABBIES
NYTIMES:
MAYBE GOOD MUSLIMS WILL STOP HARBORING AND EXCUSING THE BAD MUSLIMS, AND THAT WILL MAKE IT HARDER FOR THEM TO BLEND IN.
IS THIS RACIST? NO; ISLAM IS NOT A RACE; IT'S A VIOLENT IDEOLOGY.
BESIDES, THE LEFT IS DOING IT TO ISRAEL. TURNABOUT IS FAIRPLAY.
BOTTOM-LINE: IT MIGHT MAKE US SAFER.
For years, he was a fixture in Lower Manhattan, as regular as the sunrise. Every morning, Najibullah Zazi would be there on Stone Street with his pastries and his coffee, his vending cart anchored to the sidewalk.
For many on Wall Street — young, old, all in a hurry, the charging bulls of Bowling Green — his was the first hello of the day. Affable and rooted, he lived for 10 years in the same apartment with his family in Flushing, Queens. His father drove a cab for more than 15 years.
He was, in other words, no brooding outcast, no sheltered, suggestible loner raised in a closed community.
He was the smiling man who remembered a customer liked his coffee large, light and sweet. He had a “God Bless America” sign on his cart. He was the doughnut man.
But prosecutors say Mr. Zazi, 24, who worked blocks from ground zero, was just as furtive an operative as the Sept. 11 hijackers when he traveled to Pakistan last year for terrorism training and returned to the United States with a plan to build bombs using beauty supplies and backpacks.
- WHY TAKE A CHANCE ON SUPPORTING A JIHADIST, OR A MUSLIM WHO SENDS MONEY TO JIHADISTS.
- NY'ERS SHOULD STOP BUYING ANYTHING FROM MUSLIM VENDORS AND SHOULDN'T RIDE IN THEIR CABS.
- BOYCOTT EVERYTHING MUSLIM.
MAYBE GOOD MUSLIMS WILL STOP HARBORING AND EXCUSING THE BAD MUSLIMS, AND THAT WILL MAKE IT HARDER FOR THEM TO BLEND IN.
IS THIS RACIST? NO; ISLAM IS NOT A RACE; IT'S A VIOLENT IDEOLOGY.
BESIDES, THE LEFT IS DOING IT TO ISRAEL. TURNABOUT IS FAIRPLAY.
BOTTOM-LINE: IT MIGHT MAKE US SAFER.
A YOM KIPPUR SHORT STORY... and a few other things...
Yussie's Yom Kippur Prayer:
Tashlich originated during the Middle Ages and was inspired by a verse uttered by the prophet Micah:
Yussie Yablonsky, aged fifty-six, sat on the bench by the parking lot of his synagogue, Bais Chaim. He studied the congregation as they headed toward the front doors. The men looked prosperous and proud in their dark suits, the women were radiant in their new dresses, and the children looked like dress-up dolls even when they were misbehaving.It's short story about one Yom Kippur. RTWT.
Yussie looked down at what he was wearing. His green jacket was worn through at the right elbow, his red striped shirt was missing two buttons, and his blue pants had a cuff that had come undone. He could feel the damp grass through the holes in the soles of his shoes.
On Shabbat Shuvah we enter into high gear preparing for Yom Kippur, which is just a few days away. As we have learned from Rav Tzaddok Hakohen, the Shabbat before any holiday contains that holiday's essence, and in this case that is most certainly true. On Shabbat Shuvah, we can already feel the awe and joy of Yom Kippur, its holiness and beauty. Now is the time to plunge into all of the mikvaot: those of water, Am Yisrael, and ultimately that of Hashem Himself. Wash carefully; remove all particles that stand in the way. Nullify yourself to the purifying powers that surround you. Then you will be ready for a Yom Kippur that provides you not only with atonement, but with purity as well.
BS"D
Tashlich originated during the Middle Ages and was inspired by a verse uttered by the prophet Micah:
God will take us back in love;
God will cover up our iniquites,
You [God] will hurl all our sins
Into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19)
As the custom evolved it became tradition to go to a river and symbolically cast your sins into the water on the first day of Rosh HaShanah.
How to Observe Tashlich
Tashlich is traditionally performed on the first day of Rosh HaShanah, but if this day falls on Shabbat then tashlich isn't observed until the second day of Rosh HaShanah. If it is not performed on the first day of Rosh HaShanah it can be done anytime up until the last day of Sukkot, which is thought to be the last day of the New Year's "judgment" period.
In order to perform tashlich take pieces of bread or another food and go to a flowing body of water such as a river, stream, sea or ocean. Lakes or ponds that have fish are also a good place, both because the animals will eat the food and because fish are immune to the evil eye. Some traditions say that fish are also significant because they can be trapped in nets just as we can be trapped in sin.
Recite the following blessing from Micah 7:18-20 and then toss the bits of bread into the water:
Who is like You, God, who removes iniquity and overlooks transgression of the remainder of His inheritance. He does not remain angry forever because He desires kindness. He will return and He will be merciful to us, and He will conquer our iniquities, and He will cast off our sins into the depths of the seas. Give truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, like that you swore to our ancestors from long ago.
MORE PROOF THAT THE GREEN ECONOMY IS A HOAX DESIGNED TO BENEFIT THE AGW HUCKSTERS - LIKE GORE
MORE PROOF THAT THE GREEN ECONOMY IS A HOAX DESIGNED TO ACHIEVE LONG HELD LEFTIST GOALS OF SHACKLING INDUSTRY AND THE FREE MARKET AND TO BENEFIT LEFTISTS:
VIA: Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan
Updated: scooped Weasel Zippers by a day!
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Updated: scooped Weasel Zippers by a day!
MYSTERY OF HALITOSIS UNRAVELED!!!
Scientists at Hillerød Hospital have discovered compelling evidence that constipation is a statistically significant cause of bad breath. Gee - now we know why some people's breath smells like sh*t.
'Joseph-era' coins found in Egypt
From the Jerusalem Post:
Archeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph, Cairo's Al Ahram newspaper recently reported.
Excerpts provided by MEMRI show that the coins were discovered among a multitude of unsorted artifacts stored at the Museum of Egypt.
According to the report, the significance of the find is that archeologists have found scientific evidence countering the claim held by some historians that coins were not used for trade in ancient Egypt, and that this was done through barter instead.
The period in which Joseph was regarded to have lived in Egypt matches the minting of the coins in the cache, researchers said.
"A thorough examination revealed that the coins bore the year in which they were minted and their value, or effigies of the pharaohs [who ruled] at the time of their minting. Some of the coins are from the time when Joseph lived in Egypt, and bear his name and portrait," said the report.
The discovery of the cache prompted research team head Dr. Sa'id Muhammad Thabet to seek Koranic verses that speak of coins used in ancient Egypt.
"Studies by Dr. Thabet's team have revealed that what most archeologists took for a kind of charm, and others took for an ornament or adornment, is actually a coin. Several [facts led them to this conclusion]: first, [the fact that] many such coins have been found at various [archeological sites], and also [the fact that] they are round or oval in shape, and have two faces: one with an inscription, called the inscribed face, and one with an image, called the engraved face - just like the coins we use today," the report added.
What nickel-plated nonsense: Spanking can lower children's IQ!
There is no mention of this research being published in a peer-reviewed journal, which is both a bad omen and an obstacle to examining it in detail, but I would initially question the statistical significance of the small difference observed and then ask what controls for social class were used. Lower class people both smack more and have lower IQ so any significant difference is most likely to be a class effect, not an effect of spanking
SMACKING, long used by parents to discipline naughty children, could cause more than tears. Research revealed it can also lower a child's IQ, with those smacked up to three times a week having a lower IQ due to psychological stress.
US-based sociologist Professor Murray Straus, who studied the impact of smacking for 40 years, likened the effects of corporal punishment to post-traumatic stress, affecting a child's mental development. He called on governments to outlaw corporal punishment.
After studying 800 toddlers aged between two and four over a four-year period, he found those who were subjected to smacking had an IQ five points lower than that of a child who wasn't physically disciplined. "The results of this research have major implications for the well-being of children across the globe," he said. "All parents want smart children. This research shows that avoiding smacking and correcting misbehaviour in other ways can help that."
Children aged five to nine years who were smacked regularly had an IQ 2.8 points lower. Dr Straus said children who constantly faced physical punishment lived in fear and suffered stress, which was associated with poorer academic performance.
While not an advocate of smacking, Sydney psychologist Dr Judith Kennedy said parents who gave an occasional tap on the bottom should not fear damaging their child. "But a child who is suppressed through physical punishment regularly is going to behave differently," Dr Kennedy said.
SOURCE
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SMACKING, long used by parents to discipline naughty children, could cause more than tears. Research revealed it can also lower a child's IQ, with those smacked up to three times a week having a lower IQ due to psychological stress.
US-based sociologist Professor Murray Straus, who studied the impact of smacking for 40 years, likened the effects of corporal punishment to post-traumatic stress, affecting a child's mental development. He called on governments to outlaw corporal punishment.
After studying 800 toddlers aged between two and four over a four-year period, he found those who were subjected to smacking had an IQ five points lower than that of a child who wasn't physically disciplined. "The results of this research have major implications for the well-being of children across the globe," he said. "All parents want smart children. This research shows that avoiding smacking and correcting misbehaviour in other ways can help that."
Children aged five to nine years who were smacked regularly had an IQ 2.8 points lower. Dr Straus said children who constantly faced physical punishment lived in fear and suffered stress, which was associated with poorer academic performance.
While not an advocate of smacking, Sydney psychologist Dr Judith Kennedy said parents who gave an occasional tap on the bottom should not fear damaging their child. "But a child who is suppressed through physical punishment regularly is going to behave differently," Dr Kennedy said.
SOURCE
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OLMERT'S TRIAL BEGINS
Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel who's disgraced himself with corruption, appeared at his first official trial today, acting like a victim:
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, appeared in a Jerusalem courtroom on Friday for a hearing that marks the first time any current or past Israeli head of government has stood trial.He's not helping himself by pleading victimhood. But that's the whine-whine attitude he's been putting on display for at least 2 years now.
The opening of court proceedings is the latest chapter in a legal saga that weakened Olmert's leadership, undermined public confidence in government and eventually drove him from office.
The 63-year-old Olmert left politics when his rival, Benjamin Netanyahu, became prime minister last March, and has largely been out of the public eye since then.
Entering the court, Olmert told reporters that he had been subjected to an "ordeal of slanders and investigations."
"I come here as a man innocent of any crime, and I believe I will leave here as a man innocent of any crime," Olmert told reporters at the court.
Olmert faces charges of illegally accepting funds from an American supporter and double-billing Jewish groups for trips abroad, among others.Good. Let's hope he gets time in the pen then. He was one of the worst politicians Israel's ever had, and for his grevious sins, including his poor interactions with Fatah, he deserves to be convicted.
The incidents in question date from his time as Jerusalem mayor and later as a Cabinet minister, but emerged after he was elected prime minister in 2006. Olmert eventually stepped down because of the allegations, triggering elections that led to the formation of the Netanyahu government currently in power.
The formal charges include fraud and breach of trust. Israel's Justice Ministry has not said what penalties Olmert could face, but the fraud charge alone could carry a prison term of up to five years.
WHAT SHOULD YOU REALLY FEAR, GLOBAL JIHAD AND TERROR OR GLOBAL WARMING AND CO2?
DRUDGE:
AND CO2? GLOBAL WARMING? DO THEY REALLY THREATEN ANYONE?
NOPE. AGW IS A BUNCH OF LEFT-WING BS.
BUT GLOBAL JIHAD IS REAL.
AS THEY FOCUS ON CO2 AND "THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS" THAT ISN'T, OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE MAKING US LESS SAFE FROM THE REAL GLOBAL THREAT. A THREAT WHICH BECOMES INFINITELY WORSE IF IRAN GETS THE BOMB.
FBI arrests Jordanian for downtown Dallas bomb plot...
Illinois man charged in plot to bomb federal offices...
Terror suspects accused of targeting Marine base in Quantico...
Men vanish after taking photos of Philly subway system...
VIOLENCE 'WORSE THAN EXPECTED' IN AFGHANISTAN...
Zazi Indicted For Conspiring To Detonate WMD...
AND CO2? GLOBAL WARMING? DO THEY REALLY THREATEN ANYONE?
NOPE. AGW IS A BUNCH OF LEFT-WING BS.
BUT GLOBAL JIHAD IS REAL.
AS THEY FOCUS ON CO2 AND "THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS" THAT ISN'T, OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE MAKING US LESS SAFE FROM THE REAL GLOBAL THREAT. A THREAT WHICH BECOMES INFINITELY WORSE IF IRAN GETS THE BOMB.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
OBAMA APPOINTS PEDOPHILE AS DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS WEASEL ZIPPERS AND GATEWAY BY 3 MONTHS
WEASEL ZIPPERS TODAY:
REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.'
SPREAD THE WORD.
President Obama's "safe schools czar" is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for religion and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men.AND GATEWAY TODAY:Conservatives are up in arms about the appointment of Kevin Jennings, Obama's director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, saying he is too radical for the job.
Obama's Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings Hid PedophiliaTHE ASTUTE BLOGGERS THREE MONTHS AGO:
Since when is this safe?
Barack Obama's "safe school's czar" Kevin Jennings hid pedophilia from authorities.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
BEND OVER: HERE COMES OBAMA'S EDUCATION TEAM...
SCIPIO:Obama just appointed Kevin Jennings to the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. Who is this Jennings? He is
is a homosexual activist with a history of using foul and abusive language against those who have opposed his homosexualist agenda.
He is also a founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) whose specialty is going around to K-12 schools and giving graphic demonstrations of homosexual sex. One might say of Jennings that he believes that it takes more than a village to raise a child, it takes sodomy.
OUCH!
BUSH: NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.
OBAMA: NO CHILD'S BEHIND LEFT ALONE.
- SERIOUSLY: FORCING THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA ON OUR CHILDREN IS A KEY PART OF THE LEFT'S GRAMSCIAN AGENDA.
- THE GRASMICAN EFFORT AIMS TO DEMOLISH THE TRADITIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE SOCIALIST STATE.
- OBAMA IS USING GRAMSCI'S AGENDA AS WELL AS ALINSKY'S.
IF YOU VALUE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION THEN YOU MUST ... DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.
REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.'
SPREAD THE WORD.
BIBI PUT THE WORLD ON NOTICE AT THE UN
THE WORLD MUST DECIDE: DO YOU STAND WITH ISRAEL OR THE TERRORISTS?
WATCH THE WHOLE THING.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE PROUD TO BE A JEW AND A ZIONIST.
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
WATCH THE WHOLE THING.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE PROUD TO BE A JEW AND A ZIONIST.
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
OBAMA SUPPORTS GADAFY CHARITIES
OBAMA GIVING $400,000 TO CHARITIES CONTROLLED BY COLONEL GADAFY.
Er, um . . . if Obama really was a crypto-Muslim and a left-wing radical who wanted to hurt the USA and aid our enemies would he be doing anything differently?
Nope.
Er, um . . . if Obama really was a crypto-Muslim and a left-wing radical who wanted to hurt the USA and aid our enemies would he be doing anything differently?
Nope.
A WAGER: DESPITE THE ECONOMY, THE WEAK DOLLAR, THE OBAMACARE CRISIS, I BETCHYA BARRY HUSSEIN OBAMA JUNIOR GOES TO COPENHAGEN
I bet you Obama goes because the Chicago Machine stands to make a billion off the Olympics:
Obama serves the Machine first and leftist ideology second. America doesn't come in the top ten.
Obama May Head to Copenhagen, After All
The White House, after initially saying that President Obama was too busy with overhauling the health insurance system to commit to going to Copenhagen to push for Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid, now says that he “absolutely” might go.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Mr. Obama’s flight to Pittsburgh from New York on Thursday that an advance team has departed the United States for Copenhagen “to preserve the option for the President to visit Copenhagen and lend his voice to America’s bid for the 2016 Olympics.” But, he added, no final decisions have been made.
Administration officials said privately that Mr. Obama could go if he thought that his presence would tip the favor for Chicago.
Mr. Gibbs said that First Lady Michelle Obama will be in Copenhagen to push for Chicago, whether Mr. Obama goes or not.
The trip, if it happens, would be next Friday, and would likely be a quick in-and-out trip, administration officials said
Obama serves the Machine first and leftist ideology second. America doesn't come in the top ten.
Denver: Muslim Indicted For Conspiracy To Detonate WMD
Jesus Christ!
IF CONVICTED, THIS GUY FACES LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
NEW YORK (CBS) ―Najibullah Zazi, the Denver man believed to be the central figure in a terror plot against the New York City transit system, has officially been indicted on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against persons or property in the United States, CBS 2 has learned.
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Zazi was scheduled to appear in court on Thursday in Denver on a count of lying to terrorism investigators. The new charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction was filed in New York City, and authorities plan to transfer him to the federal court in Brooklyn to face the new charges.
Zazi has publicly denied making any terrorist plots. Counterterrorist agents fear he and others may have been planning to detonate homemade bombs on New York City commuter trains. Zazi's father, 53-year-old Mohammed Zazi, and the Queens Imam Ahmad Afzali were also charged with lying to investigators in the case.
Afzali was ordered freed on $1.5 million bail, and elder Zazi was set free under court supervision until an Oct. 9 hearing.
US Attorney General Eric Holder said they are investigating a wide range of leads related to the alleged conspiracy, but that any imminent threat from the case has been disrupted.
"I think we've disrupted that which they've planned and it's not totally clear to us at this point what they had in mind, although I think it is clear something very serious and something organized was underway," Holder said.
In court documents released Thursday morning, the Justice Department said Zazi and unnamed others purchased large quantities of hydrogen peroxide and acetone products from beauty supply stores in the Denver metropolitan area. The government said evidence, including surveillance videos, will prove Zazi and the other made repeat purchases of the chemicals over the last three months. The newly revealed evidence coupled with the discovery of backpacks and cell phones in the recent Queens raid add to the suspicion that Zazi and his partner were intending on developing portable bombs for use at multiple targets.
According to the Department of Justice, "a federal grand jury in Brooklyn returned a one-count indictment alleging that between Aug. 1, 2008 and Sept. 21, 2009, Zazi knowingly and intentionally conspired with others to use one or more weapons of mass destruction, specifically explosive bombs and other similar explosive devices, against persons or property within the United States. The indictment also alleges that Zazi and others traveled in interstate and foreign commerce, used email and the Internet, and that this offense and the results of the offense would have affected interstate and foreign commerce."
"Each communication," the papers say, was "more urgent than the last."
On those days, Zazi rented a suite at a hotel in his hometown of Aurora, Colo., authorities charge. The room had a kitchen, and subsequent FBI testing for explosives and residue in the suite found the presence of residue in the vent above the stove.
If convicted, Zazi faces up to life in prison.Click here to see Zazi's complete indictment (pdf)
According to a detention motion filed, "Zazi received detailed bomb-making instructions in Pakistan, purchased components of improvised explosive devices, and traveled to New York City on September 10, 2009 in furtherance of his criminal plans."
Authorities have said they found bomb-making instructions on a hard drive on Zazi's laptop computer, but still were unsure of the specific target or scope of a possible terrorist attack.
On Wednesday, the NYPD was showing a new training video in precincts citywide detailing the intelligence from the agencies. Bomb Squad Commander Lt. Marc Torre narrates the video, giving regular cops some tips on how to spot evidence of homemade bombs.
"Of particular concern to us is a family of explosives called peroxide-based explosives," he says in the video.
It's part of the now-nationwide alert as police try to locate whoever might have been working with terror suspect Zazi. Police are being told to watch for any large quantities of hydrogen peroxide, drain cleaner, acetone, or nail polish remover – various types of acids – and large quantities of ammonia nitrate or urea fertilizer.
That's coupled with visits to public storage areas to enlist the assistance of employees there, and stepped-up security on mass transit, hotels, stadiums, and entertainment complexes.
The first arrests came after the raids of several apartments in the Queens neighborhood, where Zazi had driven from Denver to visit earlier this month, and were followed by a flurry of nationwide warnings of possible strikes on transit, sports and entertainment complexes.
On Wednesday, hundreds of federal agents and NYPD investigators again fanned out in the neighborhood where apartments were searched -- and backpacks and cell phones removed -- over a week ago, to re-interview "people previously encountered" during previous raids there, and to locate others who know them, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the probe.
The effort also includes a review of phone and other records that could link potential suspects to one another or identify new ones.
"Many of the people we've spoken to have been cooperative," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because the investigation is ongoing.
The official said business owners also are on the list of possible witnesses in a potential homemade-bomb plot. The official declined to identify those businesses, but authorities regularly monitor sales by suppliers of chemicals that could be used in improvised explosives.
But questions lingered about whether early missteps hindered the investigation. A criminal complaint suggests police acting without the FBI's knowledge might have inadvertently blown the surveillance and forced investigators' hand by questioning Afzali -- considered a trusted police source in the community -- about Zazi and other possible plotters.
The imam, it says, turned around and tipped off Zazi by calling him the next day and saying in a recorded conversation, "They asked me about you guys."
The detectives referred to in the recently unsealed criminal complaint work for a division that operates independently from an FBI-run terrorism task force.
Police officials say that their investigators reached out to Afzali -- showing him pictures of four possible suspects to identify, including Zazi -- only after receiving fresh information from the terrorism task force that a terrorism plot was possibly in progress.
In a joint statement, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Joe Demarest, head of the FBI office in New York, denied reports that the questioning of Afzali and his alleged betrayal had caused a rift between the agencies.
The New York Times, quoting unnamed current and former police officials, reported in Thursday editions that the New York Police Department transferred two commanders this week, including one from its counterterrorism bureau. NYPD top spokesman Paul Browne would not confirm the transfers or comment late Wednesday.
IF CONVICTED, THIS GUY FACES LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
HE WAS, ALLEGEDLY, INVOLVED IN A CONSPIRACY TO DETONATE WMD'S.
ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER ADMITS HE AND HIS DEPT. DON'T KNOW "WHAT THEY HAD IN MIND".
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY ARE NOT CLEAR ON THE EXTENT OF THE PLOT, OR WHETHER THERE MAY BE OTHER CELLS OUT THERE CURRENTLY WITH MORE WMD TO DETONATE.
Despite months of appeasement, Abbas to Ignore Barack Obama, President of the World, and Ghadafi's "Son"
Once again, he is rebuffed by the Muslims when he tries to help unclench the fists of the world.
From the Jerusalem Post:
How sad. He must really be let down. It seems the more he appeases the more they spit in his face.
Who woulda thunk?
THE PALIS REBUFF HIM JUST AS THE IRANIANS HAVE AND PUTIN HAS:From the Jerusalem Post:
AP: Abbas: We can't return to negotiations
The Palestinians cannot return to peace talks at this time because of "fundamental disagreements" with Israel on what should be on the agenda, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview published Thursday, rebuffing an appeal by US President Barack Obama that both sides get back to the table promptly.
A conservatism hater
David Greenberg, a professor of history at Rutgers, has a very self-satisfied and sneering essay in Slate which admits his failure to understand conservatism at great length. Apparently inspired by the latest "Time" magazine, he dredges up the old Marxist nonsense of Hofstader, Adorno & Co. and seems to think that there is something in it, but ends up admitting that none of them give a useful explanation of modern-day American conservative politics. Rather amusing really.
It is difficult to fisk something as lightweight as Greenberg's essay but maybe I should make two points:
In typical Leftist style, he projects onto conservatives the very thing that most moves Leftists: Hate. The title of his essay is "The Obama haters". That people might violently disagree with Obama's policies without hating him seems to be a combination outside Greenberg's limited emotional range. Again in good Leftist style he offers no evidence that ANYBODY hates Obama. He just asserts it. He KNOWS! Obama is personally a very agreeable personality so I find it hard to imagine that anyone hates him. Obama's extremely limited understanding of economics (e.g. his claim that he can give healthcare to more people with less money) does reduce one to despair at times, but despair is a long way from hate.
But I suppose the main defence mechanism that keeps Greenberg's sense of superiority alive is not so much projection as denial. He just cannot see that people like Glenn Beck have reasonable points to make: Points reasonable enough to cause at least one Obama appointee to resign. So if the words of Beck & Co. are not reasonable, there must be something other than reason behind them. Frustratingly for Greenberg, he just cannot figure out what that might be. Again, quite amusing.
If Greenberg reads this, he will probably accuse me of "psychologizing" or some such. That would be amusing too as that was precisely what Greenberg tried to do, but could not convince even himself. But I do after all have over 100 papers in the academic literature on the psychology of politics so I probably have a more useful background for "psychologizing" about politics than he does.
Some excerpts that might interest Prof. Greenberg:
Secret protocols of Beck’s legions
Grassroots conservative enthusiasm notwithstanding, the talk-radio host and Fox News personality is under attack this week, with the liberal establishment's favorite weapon, a Time magazine cover: "Mad Man: Glenn Beck and the angry style of American politics." This continues a long tradition of weekly newsmagazine covers demonizing conservative figures like Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich... After a few more paragraphs, Von Drehle plays his trump card: "The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called 'the paranoid style' -- the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country -- is aflame again…" Von Drehle's invocation of "the paranoid style," a trope that Hofstadter derived from Theodor Adorno's "authoritarian personality," is intended to clearly signal the reader that Beck is a kook, a conspiracy theorist, a demagogue pandering to the dangerous emotions of the ignorant mob.
Having never met Beck, I am not qualified to speak of whether he is representative of the "paranoid style." However, my friend and fellow American Spectator contributor Matthew Vadum has been a studio guest on Beck's Fox News program and did not mention any "roiling mix of fear, resentment, and anger." If Beck rants off-camera about black helicopters and Masons, it eluded Vadum's notice.
While my acquaintance with Beck is limited to occasionally catching a few moments of his TV or radio shows, I did have the opportunity to speak to many of the people at the Sept. 12 Capitol rally. My Arizona blogger friend Barbara Espinosa was there, and I spent many hours before, during and after the event talking to the organizers, attendees and speakers, including Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and author Mason Weaver. None of these people seemed to think that Glenn Beck represented a menace to public safety or the conservative movement.
They're all in on it together -- the grandmother and teenagers, Pence and Vadum and Weaver! It's all a clandestine conspiracy to conceal the hidden agenda for global domination by the Secret Legion of Beck! And if you don't believe it, then you're obviously a paranoid kook.
More here.
Why the left hates Glenn Beck : "For the last few years the left and the press would take shots at Beck, but never in a concerted fashion. He simply could be ignored, and they had bigger fish to fry, like the long-reigning king of conservative talk radio, Rush Limbaugh. Things changed when Beck shifted from CNN to Fox News, just in time to comment on the policies of a new Democratic administration. Beck caught fire, both with his commentaries and with his growing fan base. He even took to the road for another comedy tour, blending mainstream humor with his political jabs. A few Beck bestsellers later, and he officially became a media empire. But the talker’s ability to take down his targets changed the dynamics — and the ferocity of the attacks against him.”
Posted by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.). 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
It is difficult to fisk something as lightweight as Greenberg's essay but maybe I should make two points:
In typical Leftist style, he projects onto conservatives the very thing that most moves Leftists: Hate. The title of his essay is "The Obama haters". That people might violently disagree with Obama's policies without hating him seems to be a combination outside Greenberg's limited emotional range. Again in good Leftist style he offers no evidence that ANYBODY hates Obama. He just asserts it. He KNOWS! Obama is personally a very agreeable personality so I find it hard to imagine that anyone hates him. Obama's extremely limited understanding of economics (e.g. his claim that he can give healthcare to more people with less money) does reduce one to despair at times, but despair is a long way from hate.
But I suppose the main defence mechanism that keeps Greenberg's sense of superiority alive is not so much projection as denial. He just cannot see that people like Glenn Beck have reasonable points to make: Points reasonable enough to cause at least one Obama appointee to resign. So if the words of Beck & Co. are not reasonable, there must be something other than reason behind them. Frustratingly for Greenberg, he just cannot figure out what that might be. Again, quite amusing.
If Greenberg reads this, he will probably accuse me of "psychologizing" or some such. That would be amusing too as that was precisely what Greenberg tried to do, but could not convince even himself. But I do after all have over 100 papers in the academic literature on the psychology of politics so I probably have a more useful background for "psychologizing" about politics than he does.
Some excerpts that might interest Prof. Greenberg:
Secret protocols of Beck’s legions
Grassroots conservative enthusiasm notwithstanding, the talk-radio host and Fox News personality is under attack this week, with the liberal establishment's favorite weapon, a Time magazine cover: "Mad Man: Glenn Beck and the angry style of American politics." This continues a long tradition of weekly newsmagazine covers demonizing conservative figures like Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich... After a few more paragraphs, Von Drehle plays his trump card: "The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called 'the paranoid style' -- the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country -- is aflame again…" Von Drehle's invocation of "the paranoid style," a trope that Hofstadter derived from Theodor Adorno's "authoritarian personality," is intended to clearly signal the reader that Beck is a kook, a conspiracy theorist, a demagogue pandering to the dangerous emotions of the ignorant mob.
Having never met Beck, I am not qualified to speak of whether he is representative of the "paranoid style." However, my friend and fellow American Spectator contributor Matthew Vadum has been a studio guest on Beck's Fox News program and did not mention any "roiling mix of fear, resentment, and anger." If Beck rants off-camera about black helicopters and Masons, it eluded Vadum's notice.
While my acquaintance with Beck is limited to occasionally catching a few moments of his TV or radio shows, I did have the opportunity to speak to many of the people at the Sept. 12 Capitol rally. My Arizona blogger friend Barbara Espinosa was there, and I spent many hours before, during and after the event talking to the organizers, attendees and speakers, including Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and author Mason Weaver. None of these people seemed to think that Glenn Beck represented a menace to public safety or the conservative movement.
They're all in on it together -- the grandmother and teenagers, Pence and Vadum and Weaver! It's all a clandestine conspiracy to conceal the hidden agenda for global domination by the Secret Legion of Beck! And if you don't believe it, then you're obviously a paranoid kook.
More here.
Why the left hates Glenn Beck : "For the last few years the left and the press would take shots at Beck, but never in a concerted fashion. He simply could be ignored, and they had bigger fish to fry, like the long-reigning king of conservative talk radio, Rush Limbaugh. Things changed when Beck shifted from CNN to Fox News, just in time to comment on the policies of a new Democratic administration. Beck caught fire, both with his commentaries and with his growing fan base. He even took to the road for another comedy tour, blending mainstream humor with his political jabs. A few Beck bestsellers later, and he officially became a media empire. But the talker’s ability to take down his targets changed the dynamics — and the ferocity of the attacks against him.”
Posted by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.). 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
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
ACORN & GATES VERSUS O'KEEFE, GILES, BREITBART AND CROWLEY
OBAMA SHOULD JUST INVITE BERTHA DAVIS AND O'KEEFE AND BREITBART AND GILES OVER TO THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A BEER!
Seriously...
In Obama's world, ACORN and Gates were in the right and O'Keefe, Giles and Crowley in the wrong.
Think about it.
It's upside down; right is wrong and wrong is right.
It's a moral inversion.
I think this encapsulates the entire Obama program.
Chavez/Zelaya are good; Micheletti/Honduran Constitution are wrong.
Iran needs undertanding; Israel needs ultimatums.
Putin needs accomodating; Poland and the Czech Republic need bupkus.
Denies a visa to Micheletti, but gives one to the Burnese Junta.
Refuses to support the Iranian uprising, but gives support to Zelaya's thugs.
And so on.
IS THERE A DESPOT HE HASN'T APPEASED YET?
Be patient; he will...
The only thing more amazing than Obama's amoral policies is the fact that so many people have remained silent about them.
Seriously...
In Obama's world, ACORN and Gates were in the right and O'Keefe, Giles and Crowley in the wrong.
Think about it.
It's upside down; right is wrong and wrong is right.
It's a moral inversion.
I think this encapsulates the entire Obama program.
Chavez/Zelaya are good; Micheletti/Honduran Constitution are wrong.
Iran needs undertanding; Israel needs ultimatums.
Putin needs accomodating; Poland and the Czech Republic need bupkus.
Denies a visa to Micheletti, but gives one to the Burnese Junta.
Refuses to support the Iranian uprising, but gives support to Zelaya's thugs.
And so on.
IS THERE A DESPOT HE HASN'T APPEASED YET?
Be patient; he will...
The only thing more amazing than Obama's amoral policies is the fact that so many people have remained silent about them.
"Tea Party Express: Countdown to Judgment Day" tour October 25 - November 11
A message from Sal Russo, Chief Strategist for the Tea Party Express:
I am very excited about our upcoming "Tea Party Express: Countdown to Judgment Day" tour that takes place October 25 - November 11. As one of the leaders of the first Tea Party Express I can't tell you enough how inspirational it was to see the hundreds of thousands of Americans who turned out at our rallies from coast-to-coast.
A sleeping giant has been awakened and we are taking our country back! And friends, we must BUILD on the momentum we've now generated. We can't take a step back, we've got to make this movement more successful and larger than ever!
Now we have the important work of raising the money necessary for this bigger, and better, "Tea Party Express" effort. We've got to raise over $250,000 in just 32 days. But I know with your support we can do this - and we'll do it with time to spare!
We ask for your support by making a contribution to the new Tea Party Express effort. You can contribute online - HERE.
You can contribute any amount from as little as $5 all the way to the maximum allowed contribution of $5,000. We need all the help we can get (to reach $250,000) and we're hoping to start by getting 250 or more supporters to give $100 or more. Again, to support this effort just - CLICK HERE.
EVAN THOMAS AND THE "PARTY OF DEATH"
Newsweek's cover story is headlined: "THE CASE FOR KILLING GRANNY."
Not: The Case for Allowing Patients to Decline Medical Interventions.
Not: The Case for Giving Up on Drastic Treatments in Hopeless Situations.
Not even: The Case for Letting Granny Die.
No, Evan Thomas wants to make "THE CASE FOR KILLING GRANNY."
The hard-left ideologues are letting it all hang out now. After denying that there was anything in the Obamacare bill to establish "death panels," Evan Thomas wants you to know he favors KILLING GRANNY.
It will start with killing the terminally ill . . . the aged sick . . . the demented . . . the helpless . . . but it will go on to killing the disabled . . . the disenfranchised . . . the marginal . . . all those who in Ezekiel Emanuel's estimation, don't have the ability to become fully productive citizens . . .
This has all been done before . . . first they killed the demented, the disabled, the deaf, the hopeless . . . and then they went on to plunge the world into war and set up death camps for the elimination of millions of innocents . . . it was not that long ago . . . but Evan Thomas thinks we don't remember . . . .
More here.
And here.
REMINDER: Evan Thomas is the grandson of Norman Thomas, 6 time Socialist Party presidential candidate, and anti-Zionist.
DID MICHAEL MOORE WRITE AHMADINEJAD'S UN SPEECH?
SOUNDS LIKE A BUNCH OF "MOORE-ONIC" LEFTIST BS:
THE LEFT LOVES FIDEL AND CHAVEZ AND MUGABE AND AHMADINEJAD.
EVIL MEN ALL. LIKE CHE AND LENIN AND MAO AND POL POT AND KIM IL SUNG.
NYTIMES/AP: Iran’s President Rails Against Capitalism
Under attack over Iran’s nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the U.N. General Assembly that Tehran would meet conciliation with conciliation.
... Under increasing attack over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that Tehran was ready to meet conciliation with conciliation.
Ahmadinejad spoke to a half-empty chamber as he sought to cast himself as a beleaguered champion of the developing world, that he portrayed as under attack from rapacious capitalism.
THE LEFT LOVES FIDEL AND CHAVEZ AND MUGABE AND AHMADINEJAD.
EVIL MEN ALL. LIKE CHE AND LENIN AND MAO AND POL POT AND KIM IL SUNG.
- SOCIALISM HAS KILLED AND IMPOVERISHED MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER IDEOLOGY EXCEPT FOR ISLAM.
- CAPITALISM AND INDUSTRIALIZATION AND FREE MARKETS AND FREE TRADE HAVE LIFTED MORE PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN HUMAN HISTORY.
- THOSE WHO OPPOSE CAPITALISM AND FREE MARKETS ARE THE ENEMIES OF PROGRESS, AND NOT "PROGRESSIVES."
OBAMA TO ISRAEL AND JEWS: "F*CK YOU!"
In his debut UNGA speech today, Obama seemed to be saying that Israel must return to 1967 borders. QUOTE:
This statement goes further than even UNSCR 242 - which says Israel and her neighbors should bilaterally negotiate defensible borders.
UNSCR doesn't give Obama or Abdullah the power to write and enforce a settlement by fiat.
Besides, because the 1967 borders were NOT internationally recognized at the time they have no special status or priority.
But Obama ignored this and staked out a position just like that of the King of Saudi Arabia - to whom Obama bowed.
Obama - a decades long friend of PLO terrorist spokesman Rashid Khalidi and acolyte of Columbia professor Edward Said - is a willing tool of the Arabs and Muslims.
He is a traitor to the USA and our allies.
ANNE BAYEFSY WEIGHS IN HERE.
The goal is clear: two states living side by side in peace and security - a Jewish State of Israel, with true security for all Israelis; and a viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967, and realizes the potential of the Palestinian people.And, how can Gaza and the West Bank ever be contiguous!?
This statement goes further than even UNSCR 242 - which says Israel and her neighbors should bilaterally negotiate defensible borders.
UNSCR doesn't give Obama or Abdullah the power to write and enforce a settlement by fiat.
Besides, because the 1967 borders were NOT internationally recognized at the time they have no special status or priority.
But Obama ignored this and staked out a position just like that of the King of Saudi Arabia - to whom Obama bowed.
Obama - a decades long friend of PLO terrorist spokesman Rashid Khalidi and acolyte of Columbia professor Edward Said - is a willing tool of the Arabs and Muslims.
He is a traitor to the USA and our allies.
ANNE BAYEFSY WEIGHS IN HERE.
NEW OIL FINDS AND NEW TECHNOLOGY MEAN THAT THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF OIL
NYTIMES HAS THE STORY: 10 BILLION BARRELS OF NEW OIL.
- THERE IS NO SHOTAGE NOW.
- AND IF OIL IS ALSO ABIOTIC - AS RECENT STUDIES HAVE SHOWN - THERE MAY NEVER BE A SHORTAGE.
- IF WE CAN GET EVERYONE TO STOP BELIEVING THAT CO2/AGW BULLSHIT, THEN WE CAN HAVE PLENTIFUL AND CHEAP OIL ENERGY FOR CENTURIES TO COME.
NO WONDER FIDEL, GADAFY AND PUTIN LOVE HIM: OBAMA WILL SPEND MORE ON WELFARE NEXT YEAR THAN BUSH DID ON TWO WARS IN BOTH TERMS
FACTS HERE FROM THE BLOGPROF.
- I GUESS BARACK'S MOTTO IS "MAKE LOVE TO GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCY, NOT WAR ON AMERICA'S ENEMIES."
- YOU'D HAVE TO STILL BELIEVE THAT THE WELFARE STATE WAS A VIABLE THING TO DO THIS.
- OR YOU'D HAVE TO BELIVE IN CLOWARD PIVEN.
OBAMA AT THE UN: HE REVEALS HIS BASIC ANIMOSITY TO ISRAEL
MORE HERE.WE KNOW WHO OBAMA REALLY SERVES.
HIS LONG TIME ADMIRATION FOR EDWARD SAID AND HIS DECADES LONG FRIENDSHIP WITH SAID'S DISCIPLE RASHID KHALIDI SHOULD HAVE BEEN WARNING ENOUGH.
ANOTHER HUGE LEFTIST LIE: OBAMA'S "CLIMATE REFUGEES"
"CLIMATE REFUGEES": IT'S HILARIUS LIE - EXCEPT THAT SO MANY BELIEVE IT!
- Barrack Obama is just a digestible form of Van Jones/Mark Lloyd.
- IOW: Obama a radical left-wing extremest who p with the help of the MSM - has been able to pass himself off as reasonable and moderate.
- But the more he says and the more he tries to do, the more people WAKE UP TO THE TRUTH!
New Jersey Nets to become the Brooklyn Nyets?
A Russian nickel/gold tycoon has bought the Nets.
Analysis here.
I guess they'll serve great blinis and borscht at the new arena. And change the team's name to Nyets, and the team color to... RED.
Analysis here.
I guess they'll serve great blinis and borscht at the new arena. And change the team's name to Nyets, and the team color to... RED.
SEVEN BIG LIES AND WHY THEY TELL THEM
LIE #1: AGW: global warming and climate change are man-made.
Thirty years ago the Left said were headed into an ice age; now they tell us we're headed into a catastrophic warming. In both cases the fault according to the Left was with industrial First World and the solution was taxes and redistribution.
Redistribution of First World wealth has been a long held goal of the Left. That's why they tell this lie.
LIE #2: The al Aksa Mosque is on the Temple Mount.
Islam in general and Arabs in particular - specifically so-called "Palestinians" - argue that they have a real claim on Jerusalem because of the al Aksa mosque.
ONE PROBLEM: the al Aksa mosque can't have been the one on the Mount as the one on the Mount wasn't built until after Mohamed died. Therefore, the claim is BOGUS. A lie.
Why did they make it up?
To help them achieve their long held goal of eradicating Israel. Anti-Semites think Jews and Israel are more trouble than we're worth.
Those who see Israel-Arab conflict as the key to global jihad must willfully ignore the jihad in Thailand, Philippines, Pakistan. Afghanistan, the Buddhas if Bamiyan, Chechnya, Morocco, Algeria, Kenya, Sudan, Yemen, India and so on. Global Jihad is a primary if not central proactive doctrine of Islam and always has been; it's how Mohamed expanded Islam's reach, and how it grew over the ages: though war and terror.
Sacrificing Israel now - or Afghanistan or Iraq at some point down the road- will no more bring an end to global jihad then giving Hitler Sudetenland ended WW2. In fact. it made Hitler bolder.
If you want MORE global jihad, then pressure Israel to cede to their enemies.
LIE #3: Trade deficits are bad.
The Left essentially argues that every nation has to sell exactly what they buy from overseas.
This is a nutty proposition.
In fact, there is no such thing as a trade deficit. It's a heuristic device invented by anti-trade forces to create a sense of danger from trade where there is NONE. In fact, trade is one of the things which improves living standards.
LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: When a company buys something from... China, let's say, they trade money for goods. It's an even-steven trade, there's no imbalance at all. It matters not how many times it's done; it's always a fair trade without a penny of imbalance. They get money; we get goods.
SO WHY DO THEY LIE? SIMPLE:
If trade is seen as good, then Leftists and unions can't agitate for laws to end trade or stifle it, so they carp about trade deficits and imbalances.
LIE #4: Healthcare costs are skyrocketing and we aren't getting any increased health benefits.
If you want to pay the same price for 1970 healthcare, then you can: just accept 1970 healthcare.
Not interested? You shouldn't be. Health care has improved every DAY for the last 40 years. And our health has too: we live longer now than ever before - AND CONTRARY TO WHAT THE LEFT TELLS YOU, ACCORDING TO THE LATEST CDC STATISTICS, WE LIVE LONGER THAN EUROPEANS. And we have better survival rates for most major diseases. And we don't wait as long for care.
If it ain't broke, then don't fix it. SURE: we could improve our system: cap medical malpractice awards; allow interstate competition for heath insurance; give families the same tax break as businesses. These simple reforms would bring down costs.
The people who want to make healthcare a right really want the government to have the power to control healthcare. But because your health is a PERSONAL matter - and not a public health matter - this is a bad thing for you.
A politician designed, bureaucrat run, taxpayer financed system will not put your well-being ahead of the government's. That's tyranny.
LIE #5: War never solved anything.
Nothing except slavery, nazism, fascism, communism. and jihadism. If you embrace pacifism, then you must be willing to live as a slave under a tyranny.
If you love having your God given rights - and want all your brothers and sisters everywhere to have them too - them you must expect war to be a part of the solution: tyrants don't give up without a fight.
If you want peace at any cost, then you will have peace at the cost of your freedom.
LIE #6 America in not an exceptional country and doesn't deserve any extra respect, power or responsibility in international affairs.
America is the freest, richest, most diverse nation of Earth. We saved the world from tyranny three times, and are leading the battle a fourth time. There is no other nation capable of making this fight.
That's exceptional.
Those who say the USA shouldn't be allowed to treated as exceptional really just don't want us to win. They are not for egalitarianism between nations for abstract reasons; they are on the other side.
LIE #7: Disarmament makes the world safer.
This is tantamount to arguing that gun control - taking guns away from innocent law-abiding people - reduces crime. NO WHERE HAS THIS WORKED. And it's ludicrous to believe that it could. First of all, criminal are gong to get guns anyway. Second of all, law-abiding people with guns are actually a deterrent to crime. Which house will a criminal burglarize, the one marked "UNARMED", or the one marked "PROUD MEMBER OF THE NRA"?
Time after time - throughout history - rogue regimes and rogue nations have proven over and over again that they are not to be trusted with treaties limiting arms. Hitler broke his treaties, North Korea broke her treaties, Iran is breaking hers, now. These rogues are like criminals and shouldn't be trusted to follow the law.
It is folly to willingly disarm as our foes strengthen, - DEADLY FOLLY, AS IT GUARANTEES MORE ADVENTURISM BY YOUR FOES AND MORE CASUALTIES AS A RESULT.
The stronger one appears then the less likely one is to be attacked. The more powerful militarily the West is, the safer we all are.
Those who desire to reduce our strength make us less safe.
BOTTOM-LINE:
THESE HARMFUL LIES ARE AT THE VERY CORE OF THE LEFTIST POLITICAL PLATFORM, AND THAT'S WHY WE MUST DEFEAT THEM AT EVERY TURN.
Thirty years ago the Left said were headed into an ice age; now they tell us we're headed into a catastrophic warming. In both cases the fault according to the Left was with industrial First World and the solution was taxes and redistribution.
Redistribution of First World wealth has been a long held goal of the Left. That's why they tell this lie.
LIE #2: The al Aksa Mosque is on the Temple Mount.
Islam in general and Arabs in particular - specifically so-called "Palestinians" - argue that they have a real claim on Jerusalem because of the al Aksa mosque.
ONE PROBLEM: the al Aksa mosque can't have been the one on the Mount as the one on the Mount wasn't built until after Mohamed died. Therefore, the claim is BOGUS. A lie.
Why did they make it up?
To help them achieve their long held goal of eradicating Israel. Anti-Semites think Jews and Israel are more trouble than we're worth.
Those who see Israel-Arab conflict as the key to global jihad must willfully ignore the jihad in Thailand, Philippines, Pakistan. Afghanistan, the Buddhas if Bamiyan, Chechnya, Morocco, Algeria, Kenya, Sudan, Yemen, India and so on. Global Jihad is a primary if not central proactive doctrine of Islam and always has been; it's how Mohamed expanded Islam's reach, and how it grew over the ages: though war and terror.
Sacrificing Israel now - or Afghanistan or Iraq at some point down the road- will no more bring an end to global jihad then giving Hitler Sudetenland ended WW2. In fact. it made Hitler bolder.
If you want MORE global jihad, then pressure Israel to cede to their enemies.
LIE #3: Trade deficits are bad.
The Left essentially argues that every nation has to sell exactly what they buy from overseas.
This is a nutty proposition.
In fact, there is no such thing as a trade deficit. It's a heuristic device invented by anti-trade forces to create a sense of danger from trade where there is NONE. In fact, trade is one of the things which improves living standards.
LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: When a company buys something from... China, let's say, they trade money for goods. It's an even-steven trade, there's no imbalance at all. It matters not how many times it's done; it's always a fair trade without a penny of imbalance. They get money; we get goods.
SO WHY DO THEY LIE? SIMPLE:
If trade is seen as good, then Leftists and unions can't agitate for laws to end trade or stifle it, so they carp about trade deficits and imbalances.
LIE #4: Healthcare costs are skyrocketing and we aren't getting any increased health benefits.
If you want to pay the same price for 1970 healthcare, then you can: just accept 1970 healthcare.
Not interested? You shouldn't be. Health care has improved every DAY for the last 40 years. And our health has too: we live longer now than ever before - AND CONTRARY TO WHAT THE LEFT TELLS YOU, ACCORDING TO THE LATEST CDC STATISTICS, WE LIVE LONGER THAN EUROPEANS. And we have better survival rates for most major diseases. And we don't wait as long for care.
If it ain't broke, then don't fix it. SURE: we could improve our system: cap medical malpractice awards; allow interstate competition for heath insurance; give families the same tax break as businesses. These simple reforms would bring down costs.
The people who want to make healthcare a right really want the government to have the power to control healthcare. But because your health is a PERSONAL matter - and not a public health matter - this is a bad thing for you.
A politician designed, bureaucrat run, taxpayer financed system will not put your well-being ahead of the government's. That's tyranny.
LIE #5: War never solved anything.
Nothing except slavery, nazism, fascism, communism. and jihadism. If you embrace pacifism, then you must be willing to live as a slave under a tyranny.
If you love having your God given rights - and want all your brothers and sisters everywhere to have them too - them you must expect war to be a part of the solution: tyrants don't give up without a fight.
If you want peace at any cost, then you will have peace at the cost of your freedom.
LIE #6 America in not an exceptional country and doesn't deserve any extra respect, power or responsibility in international affairs.
America is the freest, richest, most diverse nation of Earth. We saved the world from tyranny three times, and are leading the battle a fourth time. There is no other nation capable of making this fight.
That's exceptional.
Those who say the USA shouldn't be allowed to treated as exceptional really just don't want us to win. They are not for egalitarianism between nations for abstract reasons; they are on the other side.
LIE #7: Disarmament makes the world safer.
This is tantamount to arguing that gun control - taking guns away from innocent law-abiding people - reduces crime. NO WHERE HAS THIS WORKED. And it's ludicrous to believe that it could. First of all, criminal are gong to get guns anyway. Second of all, law-abiding people with guns are actually a deterrent to crime. Which house will a criminal burglarize, the one marked "UNARMED", or the one marked "PROUD MEMBER OF THE NRA"?
Time after time - throughout history - rogue regimes and rogue nations have proven over and over again that they are not to be trusted with treaties limiting arms. Hitler broke his treaties, North Korea broke her treaties, Iran is breaking hers, now. These rogues are like criminals and shouldn't be trusted to follow the law.
It is folly to willingly disarm as our foes strengthen, - DEADLY FOLLY, AS IT GUARANTEES MORE ADVENTURISM BY YOUR FOES AND MORE CASUALTIES AS A RESULT.
The stronger one appears then the less likely one is to be attacked. The more powerful militarily the West is, the safer we all are.
Those who desire to reduce our strength make us less safe.
BOTTOM-LINE:
THESE HARMFUL LIES ARE AT THE VERY CORE OF THE LEFTIST POLITICAL PLATFORM, AND THAT'S WHY WE MUST DEFEAT THEM AT EVERY TURN.
DEMOCRATS BLOCK GOP EFFORT AT INCREASING TRANSPARENCY: WON'T POST OBAMACARE ONLINE BEFORE VOTE
NYT/AP:
OBAMA RPOSED GREATER TRANSPERNCY, BUT HAS BROKEN HIS WORD.
REID HAS PROMISED THAT - IF OBAMACARE CAN'T WIN AN CLOTURE VOTE, THAT HE WILL PUT THROUGH OBAMACARE ON A RECONCILIATION BILL.
THIS ISN'T DEMOCRACY; IT'S RULE BY FIAT.
IT MAY BELONG IN CHAVEZ'S VENEZUELA OR PUTIN'S RUSSIA OR AHMADINEJAD'S IRAN, BUT IT DOESN'T BELONG IN THE USA.
IF THEY GO THROUGH WITH THIS THEY WILL LOSE BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS IN 2010, AND THEN WE WILL IMPEACH OBAMA.
I HOPE THEY GO THROUGH WITH IT!
Update: scooped JWF buy an hour - but he got the Instalanche. Happens all the time.
Senate Finance Committee Democrats have rejected a GOP amendment that would have required a health overhaul bill to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes.
Republicans argued that transparency is an Obama administration goal. They also noted that their constituents are demanding that they read bills before voting.
Democrats said it was a delay tactic that could have postponed a vote for weeks.
OBAMA RPOSED GREATER TRANSPERNCY, BUT HAS BROKEN HIS WORD.
REID HAS PROMISED THAT - IF OBAMACARE CAN'T WIN AN CLOTURE VOTE, THAT HE WILL PUT THROUGH OBAMACARE ON A RECONCILIATION BILL.
THIS ISN'T DEMOCRACY; IT'S RULE BY FIAT.
IT MAY BELONG IN CHAVEZ'S VENEZUELA OR PUTIN'S RUSSIA OR AHMADINEJAD'S IRAN, BUT IT DOESN'T BELONG IN THE USA.
IF THEY GO THROUGH WITH THIS THEY WILL LOSE BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS IN 2010, AND THEN WE WILL IMPEACH OBAMA.
I HOPE THEY GO THROUGH WITH IT!
Update: scooped JWF buy an hour - but he got the Instalanche. Happens all the time.
OBAMACARE: BEND OVER AND INSERT GOVERNMENT PROGRAM
DESIGNED BY POLITICIANS, RUN BY BUREAUCRATS.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
A DISTURBING REVELATION ABOUT JUDGE MASON IN OHIO
Atlas Shrugs finds some disturbing info from Fathers 4 Justice about judge Jim Mason, the judge in Ohio who may take up the Rifqa Bary case if we don't pay enough attention:
Update: according to this topic on Atlas Shrugs, if I'm reading correctly, there was no actual complaint filed against the Lorenz's? In other words, it was just one of "lawyer" Elahi's ploys to have things just the way the people on his side of the spectrum want it? As Pamela tells here:
Columbus, Ohio – December 14, 2006 – Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Jim Mason (R) offers a father a unique, though illegal, option to end litigation matters concerning his two minor children – “…you could shoot her.”Yikes, and this kind of law official is even allowed to continue to work in his job after that kind of distasteful remark? A man who does something like that should disbarred from practicing law ever again. And here I thought just Youngstown was a bad place to be in Ohio! Clearly, there is a lot wrong with that state. Rifqa Bary cannot be allowed to return to Ohio if that's the kind of judge who'll oversee the case.
This, was among the options the good judge outlined for Scott Phelps, pro se litigant and F4J Ohio Coordinator (aka Superman), in how he might deal with his ex-wife. “I still do not know what to say – I am just stunned that he would say that….he is a judge,” Phelps said.
Fathers-4-Justice™ U.S. (F4J) reports that since the time Judge Mason stuck both feet firmly in his mouth he has recused himself from the Phelps case citing “…it has come to the attention of the Court that the step-mother [Judi Smith-Phelps] of the minor children has publicly defamed this judge in open court.”
“I defamed the court?” Judi Smith-Phelps, aka Superwoman, asked. “Is this guy for real?! Thousands of parents die each year in our country due to suicidal and homicidal acts stemming from cases just like this. Judge Mason’s actions are reprehensible and unethical so we are glad he is off of this case.”
Judge Mason is the third Franklin County domestic judge to recuse himself in the past six months from the Phelps case which has dragged through the courts for over five years. Judge Dana Preisse (R) is the newest judge to be assigned to the case.
Update: according to this topic on Atlas Shrugs, if I'm reading correctly, there was no actual complaint filed against the Lorenz's? In other words, it was just one of "lawyer" Elahi's ploys to have things just the way the people on his side of the spectrum want it? As Pamela tells here:
The third thing was that Elahi announced that he was filing a criminal complaint against the Lorenzes. A couple of astute newspaper reporters actually checked with the police department, and they said they had no investigation going on. So apparently Shaytan Elahi just wrote this letter, and now everybody is making a big deal about it. The stupid media didn't even cover it right, but a couple of reporters did get it right. And apparently it's just a letter Elahi wrote -- the police are not doing anything with it. Even the FDLE cleared the Lorenzes and said that there was no criminal wrongdoing with anyone they looked at -- and they interviewed the Lorenzes extensively.This shows just how dishonest Elahi really is.