TEA AND HYPOCRISY

The Left claims that PC is all about saying what's politically correct and polite.

It's about not wanting to OFFEND a group with words.

SO:

Why does the Left insist on calling Tea Partyers - (the term they use to describe themselves, a term chosen because they wish to associate themselves with the patriots who staged this nations first tax revolt, Boston Tea Party) - as "Tea Baggers?

Tea Bagger is a deliberately provocative term.

EVIDENTLY: The Left is perfectly willing to use derogatory language against some people.

This hypocrisy makes it inescapably apparent that their whole entire PC effort is NOT idealistic, but merely a partisan tactic meant only to help them achieve their long-held goals.

No surprise here: those who have excused genocide for the sake of socialism (whether Mao's, Stalin's, Hitler's. Pol Pot's, or any other socialist tyrant) will of course excuse hypocrisy.

UPDATED - OBAMACARE: SO SCARY THEY'LL PROBABLY PASS IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

UPDATED BELOW -

THEY WON'T POST IT ON-LINE.

THEY WON'T DEBATE IT FOR MORE THAN A DAY.

WHY?

LIKE A VAMPIRE, OBAMACARE IS AN ABOMINATION AND THEY MUSTN'T LET SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.



THEY SHOULD RENAME THE HOUSE BILL: PELOSI-SCARE

UPDATE:

• THEY PASSED IT BETWEEN 11PM AND MIDNIGHT: HOW FITTING!

• FINAL VOTE: 220-215.

• THERE WAS BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION TO THE BILL: A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF DEMOCRATS VOTED "NO" THAN REPUBLICANS VOTED "YES".

BRRRR!: HEAVY SNOWS CLOSE CASCADE'S HIGHWAYS EARLY

S-PI/AP:

The Washington state Department of Transportation has temporarily shut down two highways in the Cascade Mountains due to heavy snow from a fall storm and plans to close a third.

Transportation officials closed State Route 410 over Chinook Pass and State Route 123 over Cayuse Pass Saturday morning. The North Cascades Highway on State Route 20 closed around 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

All three roads typically close during the winter due to heavy snow.

YAKIMA HERALD:

DOT officials will be assessing whether Chinook Pass can reopen.

The 5,430-foot-elevation pass usually closes for the winter season "right around the 20th of November," according to McFadden. The pass typically reopens in time for Memorial Day.

DOT officials closed SR 410 five miles east of the summit near Morse Creek about 8:30 a.m. Saturday.

"We got about 25 inches of snow, and they're expecting another 10 to 17 in the next 12 hours," McFadden said. "We made the decision to close it based on the avalanche danger.

"Right now, it's just temporarily closed. We hope to get it back open, but we may end up closing it for the season."

DESPITE HIGH GLOBAL LEVELS OF MAN-MADE CO2, NEW ZEALAND JUST HAD ITS COLDEST OCTOBER IN 64 YEARS AND THE USA'S CASCADES ARE COLD AND SNOWY AND THEIR HIGHWAYS MAY CLOSE DOWN THREE WEEKS EARLY.

OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE PACIFIC AND IN OPPOSING HEMISPHERES.

HMMM...

• AGW = BS.

• CO2 = BENIGN.

• CARBON SCHEMES = STEALTH SOCIALISM.

SPREAD THE TRUTH.

OBAMA DITHERS AS UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT IS THE WORST SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION

NYTIMES:

With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked by the Labor Department has reached its highest level in decades.

If statistics went back so far, the measure would almost certainly be at its highest level since the Great Depression.

OBAMA'S STIMULUS DID BUPKUS.

CORRECTION: IT DID NO GOOD AND PERHAPS DID SOME HARM.

OBAMA IS A FIASCO.


FIASCOBAMA.

DITHERS TOWARD AFGHANISTAN: OBAMA TO SEND HALF OF MCCHRYSTAL'S REQUEST

RAW STORY:

President Barack Obama has begun to favor a plan that would send an additional 34,000 U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan, military officials told McClatchy Newspapers according to a Saturday report.

The president's current plan would require 23,000 soldiers from Fort Campbell and Fort Drum to deploy. An additional 7,000 would support a division headquarters in Kandahar, with 4,000 more trainers coming with them, McClatchy reporter Jonathan S. Landay wrote.

AFTER DITHERING FOR WEEKS, OBAMA IS SPLITTING THE BABY.

WHATTA JERK: HE WILL PISS OFF THE LEFT AND THE BRASS, AND LEAVE HIMSELF OPEN FOR CRITICISM. WHATTA JERK.

THIS IS NOT THE STUFF LEADERSHIP IS MADE OF.

OBAMA IS A FAISCO.

FIASCOBAMA.

DESPITE THE CLAIMS OF CO2 INDUCED AGW, NEW ZEALAND HAS JUST HAD ITS COLDEST OCTOBER SINCE 1945

WUWT:

It will come as little surprise to most New Zealanders that the country shivered through the coldest October in 64 years.

In its climate summary for the month, the Niwa said the average temperature nationwide was 10.6degC _ 1.4degC below average.

Such a cold October has occurred only four times in the past 100 years, the last time in 1945.

CO2 = BENIGN.

AGW = BS.

CARBON SCHEMES = STEALTH SOCIALISM.

DON'T BE A DUPE; HELP US DEFEAT THE ECO-ALARMISTS BY SPREADING THE TRUTH.

OUR PROSPERITY DEPENDS ON IT.

POTENTIAL SWISS MINARET BAN WOULD BE A GOOD SECOND STEP FOR EUROPE

THE LARGEST CONSERVATIVE PARTY HAS BEEN TRYING TO BAN MINARETS FOR A FEW YEARS; IT'S FINALLY COMING TO A VOTE - IN A REFERENDUM - ON NOVEMBER 29TH.

BBC 2007:

A row is brewing over religious symbolism in Switzerland.

Members of the right-wing Swiss People's Party, currently the largest party in the Swiss parliament, have launched a campaign to have the building of minarets banned.

They claim the minaret is not necessary for worship, but is rather a symbol of Islamic law, and as such incompatible with Switzerland's legal system.

Signatures are now being collected to force a nationwide referendum on the issue which, under Switzerland's system of direct democracy, would be binding.

The move has shocked Switzerland's 350,000 Muslims, many of whom have been campaigning for decades for more recognition for their faith.

BBC 2008:

Swiss minaret ban gains momentum

There are currently only two minarets in Switzerland

In Switzerland some 115,000 people have signed a proposal to ban the building of minarets.

The campaign is being organised by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), the largest party in parliament.

Under Swiss law, a group can request a national referendum if it manages to collect 100,000 signatures.

The SVP claims the minaret is not needed for worship, but is a symbol of Islamic law, therefore incompatible with the Swiss constitution.

Buildings with minarets, they argue, symbolise a "political-religious claim to power, which challenges fundamental rights".

TIME LAST WEEK:

Strolling through downtown Geneva on a cool October evening, Nadia, a 23-year-old Kosovo native, shakes her head at a provocative poster depicting a burqa-clad woman in front of a thicket of missile-shaped minarets rising out of a Swiss flag. Below the flag, the word stop is written in big, bold letters. "As a Muslim woman, I am offended by this image," says Nadia, who requested that her last name not be used. "It presents Islam as a danger to Swiss society."

That is exactly the message the poster's creators intend to convey. The image that has unsettled many of Switzerland's 310,000 Muslims is part of a campaign by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) to urge voters to approve a Nov. 29 referendum on whether to ban the construction of new minarets on mosques in the country. The party contends that more minarets — only four mosques currently have them — could inflame extremism and lead to a "rampant Islamization" of the country.

Read more

BBC TODAY:

Muslims in many parts of Switzerland have invited the public into mosques - three weeks before a vote on whether to ban the construction of minarets.

Muslim organisations say they hope their open day will counter what they say are fears and prejudices.

The conservative group that initiated the vote - the largest party in the Swiss parliament - says minarets are a symbol of Muslim political power.

Opinion polls suggest the proposed ban will be rejected by voters.

A Muslim community leader in Zurich, Tamir Hadjipolu, said the proposal - launched by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) - was "open discrimination".

Preaching to the converted?

Switzerland is home to 400,000 Muslims, who have about 200 places of worship. Only four have a minaret, local media say.

FRANCE BANNED THE HIJAB IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FIVE YEARS AGO.

THE FRENCH ARE NOW CONSIDERING BANNING THE BURQA ALTOGETHER.

I THINK THE WEST OUGHT TO MAKE A LOT OF MOVES IN THIS WAY AND MAKE MUSLIMS WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO LIVE HERE IN THE WEST TO CHOOSE TO BE WESTERN OR TO LEAVE.

REPEAT: BE WESTERN OR TO LEAVE.

WE MUST STOP THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE WEST.

FIASCOBAMA

IT COULDN'T GET MUCH WORSE: OBAMA PUSHES OBAMACARE, THE PORKULUS, AND CAP & TRADE WHILE DITHERING ON IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, AND HONDURAS.

OBAMA IS A FIASCO.

AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO SUFFER AS A RESULT...

OBAMA WANTS THE USA TO BE MORE LIKE FRANCE, BUT FRANCE WANTS TO BE MORE LIIKE THE USA

FRANCE HAD A CHOICE A FEW YEARS AGO: ELECT SEGOLENE ROYAL AND GET MORE SOCIALISM OR ELECT NICOLAS SARKOZY AND GET LESS.


THE FRENCH CHOSE SARKO AND LESS SOCIALISM.


WHY? SIMPLE: MOST DISLIKE IT BECAUSE IT SUCKS.


DITTO GERMANY - WHICH JUST ELECTED THE CONSERVATIVE MERKEL AND THE PARTY TO HER RIGHT.


AND NEXT YEAR, GREAT BRITAIN WILL THROW OUT THE LEFTISTS OF LABOUR AND ELECT CONSERVATIVES.


THEY ALL KNOW SOCIALISM SUCKS.


SO WHY DOES OBAMA WANT TO DRAG US DOWN TO A PLACE THEY'RE TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM?


BECAUSE HE'S A COMMITTED SOCIALIST - WITH LOADS MORE CHARM THAN GORDON BROWN OR SEGOLENE ROYAL.


A COMMITTED SOCIALIST WHO KNOWS HE NOW HAS ONLY UNTIL NOVEMBER 2010 TO ENACT AS MUCH SOCIALISM AS HE CAN.


WE WILL ALL SUFFER AS A RESULT.

THE CORE FAILURE OF OBAMACARE

THE SUPPORTERS OF OBAMACARE THINK THAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN AND THAT OBAMACARE WILL "GUARANTEE AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL AMERICANS".

THEY'VE SAID THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THE DEBATE IN THE HOUSE RIGHT NOW.

THIS IS NONSENSE. IT'S THE CORE FAILURE OF THEIR PLAN.

THE GOVERNMENT CAN ONLY RATION HEALTHCARE THEY CANNOT MAKE THE PRICE "AFFORDABLE".

RATIONING IS WHAT HAS ALWAYS HAPPENED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER THE TRADE OF ANYTHING. GAS. TIRES. ANYTHING.

THE PRICE MECHANISM CANNOT OPERATE EXCEPT IN A FREEMARKET.

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLS HEALTHCARE, THEN THEIR INTEREST IS IN CONTROLLING PUBLIC EXPENSE AND ENSURING PUBLIC HEALTH; THIS IS SIMPLY NOT THE SAME THING AS YOU HEALTH.

FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU'RE VERY OLD AND SICK IT'S IN YOUR INTEREST TO GET CARE IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.

BUT IF THE CARE IS PAID FOR BY THE GOVERNMENT, THEN THE EXPENSE IS NOT IN THEIR INTEREST.

THAT'S WHY WHATEVER THEY PASS WILL BE A FIASCO.

LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY. LIKE MEDICARE. LIKE THE USPS. LIKE CASH FOR CLUNKERS.

A FIASCO.

THE CORE PRESUPPOSITION OF THE OBAMACARISTAS IS BULLSHIT TOO:

THE WAY THEY TALK ABOUT THE "HEALTHCARE CRISIS IN AMERICA" YOU'D THINK WE WERE A FREAKIN' THIRD WORLD NATION WITH PEOPLE DYING FROM RUN-OF-THE-MILL DISEASES LEFT AND RIGHT.

IT'S BULLSH*T.

WE HAVE THE BEST HEALTHCARE IN THE WORLD.

WE LIVE THE LONGER - ON AVERAGE - THAN EUROPEANS, AND WE HAVE BETTER RECOVERY RATES ON ALL MAJOR DISEASES.

BUT THE LEFTISTS WANT TO TURN US INTO THE EU - THAT'S LIKE A HUGE STEP BACKWARDS IN TIME.

WE WILL ALL SUFFER IF THEY SUCCEED.

OBAMACARE IS A LOSE-LOSE PROPOSITION: NO MATTER WHAT PASSES - OR IF NOTHING DOES - OBAMA AND THE LEFT LOSES

Obamacare - or Pelosicare, if you prefer - is a LOSE-LOSE Proposition for Obama and the democrats.

If they pass nothing, then they fail.

If they pass ANYTHING then they will damage the already weak recovery and damage the health insurance industry and the healthcare industry and create unsettling havoc in millions and millions of families lives.

The power grab also will continue to turn independents off and ensure that 2010 will give us huge GOP and conservative victories.

That's a good thing.

These victories are coming no matter what.

The only difference is that by passing Obamacare the left ensures that there is gong to be a WAVE OF COUNTER-MEASURES AND SIDE-EFFECTS AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN THE MARKETPLACE CREATING MORE INSECURITY and ensuring millions of people will therefore unnecessarily suffer between now and 2010.

Obama cares not for the people, just achieving his deeply held socialist dreams of having the state "create a utopia" by taking over.

It's about POWER: the Left wants the state to have it.

Once they get power, the state will ruin whatever they takeover. It's inevitable.

It's the postofficification.

They will turn the best healthcare system in the world into a clunker.

WE WILL ALL SUFFER AS A RESULT.

Sigh.

Until we retake power in 2012 and undo the damage they're doing now.

SAVAGE AND SPENCER

NORWAY DISMISSES WAR CRIME SUIT AGAINST ISRAEL

Norway has decided to dismiss the prejudiced lawsuit that was intended to delegitimize Israel:

Prosecutors have dismissed a complaint filed by a group of Norwegian lawyers accusing Israeli leaders of war crimes over its incursion into Gaza last winter.

Chief prosecutor Siri Frigaard said Friday she was dismissing the complaint, which was lodged on April 22, because "there is no good reason" for Norwegian authorities to investigate further.

The lawyers filed the motion under Norway's universal jurisdiction law.

Frigaard said Norway "must show great care" when deciding whether to investigate alleged war crimes committed by individuals with no connection to Norway. A 2008 law allows foreigners to face charges in Norway for war crimes committed anywhere in the world.

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and opposition leader Tzipi Livni were among the 10 Israelis named in the complaint.

The case was dropped although Norway chose not to vote against, but rather to abstain from the vote on the Goldstone Report in the UN General Assembly.

The report alleges that Israel may have committed war crimes during Operation Cast Lead, the official name of the Gaza campaign.

The report was commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council and Israel refused to cooperate with jurist Richard Goldstone and his team throughout their investigation, claiming the mandate of the Goldstone Commission was biased against Israel prima facie and therefore any report it would publish would necessarily be morally tainted.

The Palestinians have been trying to exploit the report as leverage against Israel in several international spheres.

Barak escaped war crimes allegations several weeks ago, when a British court decided to drop an arrest warrant petition against him, citing his official position in the Israeli government as the reason.

I hope this means that the UN will back away from this as well. But maybe not.

THERE IS A SHELTER FOR WOMEN WHO NEED PROTECTION FROM ISLAM

The Dove World Outreach Center in Florida offers a women's shelter for those who need protection from Islamofascism. Now, if Muslim women in Florida, if anywhere, need a place to go for protection, here it is. Let's hope they can expand their services to more locations where they can come in helpful.

IF THIS HAD HAPPENED TO A GOP CONGRESSMAN THEN WE WOULD'VE HEARD MORE ABOUT IT

BARNEY FRANK'S BOY-TOY BUSTED FOR POT WHILE THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WAS PRESENT...

VIA HOT AIR.

"Christian Bitch Must Die"

Breaking: The Religion of Peace© is making death threats against Rifqa Bary and the Florida Security Council ... from Sri Lanka, which is where Rifqa will likely be deported if not given asylum. Just to give some idea as to the kinds of folks with whom Rifqa Bary's parents associate.

This is what these people intend to do to her.



Come to the Rally for Rifqa on November 16th to try to save this young girl. I'll be there.

YOU CAN'T EXECUTE THE MENENDEZ BROS: THEY'RE ORPHANS!

LIBS WORRY: THE FORT HOOD JIHADIST MIGHT GENERATE MISPLACED ISLAMOPHOBIA.

THE FRUITS OF APPEASEMENT: CHAVEZ MOVES TROOPS TO BORDER WITH COLOMBIA

CHAVEZ MOVES TROOPS TO BORDER WITH COLOMBIA.

Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth

In America, Christians protest against promiscuity, and the inevitable abortions which result, with WORDS.

In the Muslim world, they protest by killing the promiscuous:

Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.

An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby.

So, two people had sex, and a baby resulted. So, the Islamists are going to kill the two people, but spare the babe.

Two out of three ain't bad, right?

Hey, at least they're against abortion.

And, of course, we have to keep our eyes out, here in the Western World, for the rise of the Christian Taliban.

WHAT'S MISSING FROM THIS MSM ARTICLE ON THE FORT HOOD JIHADIST?

THE WORDS ISLAM AND MUSLIM DO NOT APPEAR IN THIS NYTIMES ARTICLE ON THE MURDERER.

THE MADNESS IS IN WASHINGTON, NOT FORT HOOD

Imagine for a moment that there was a political movement that advocated:

That it must dominate the entire world with its unifying ideology -

That the entire world must come under the rulership of its single dictator -

That the United States Constitution and all American laws must be replaced by the laws promulgated by this particular political movement and its leader -

That it was proper for members of this political party to kill all who did not submit to their rule, and take from them everything they own -

That women must be eternally subjugated, and deprived of education, the right to work, the right to vote, and the freedom to choose their husbands -

That representational art, music, dancing, and theatrical performances (including films) must be abolished -

That banking, mortgages, a free market in securities, and commercial credit all be eliminated -

That sovereign states which refused to submit to this political movement be destroyed -

And so on.

Do you think for a New York minute that adherents of that political philosophy or members of such a political party would be enrolled in the United States Armed Forces? That the United States would encourage political organizers for such a party to have official establishments on American military bases, in American prisons, or on the campuses of government-supported American universities? That the American president would go out of his way to coddle, praise, stroke, and conciliate such a political party?

But if you call such a political movement a "religion" and say that its tenets were given it by its God, then you'll be free to infilitrate, subvert, and attack our American way of life, again and again and again.

There was no madness at Fort Hood. That was just the worldwide jihad in action.

The madness is in Washington.

It is past time to recognize that whether or not you want to be at war with the jihad, the jihad is at war with you.

REMEMBER BERLIN 11 NOVEMBER 1989

It is almost 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Let us not forget how important and suprising this event was. As a peaceful revolution it was no less than a miracle. Let us not forget that it while it marked a great victory in the COLD WAR - it also prooved that the thirst for FREEDOM among millions of people living under a suppressive regime could not be quenched by anything but real freedom - and once it was tasted there was no going back.

I think of the Berlin Wall not because it is almost exactly 20 years since that momentous event. I think of the Berlin Wall because I know there are still millions of people throughout the world who are living under repressive regimes and thirst for freedom. I pray that they too might realise their dreams peacefully. Nowhere is this more true than in the Islamic Republic of Iran. If the people of Iran could be free then their regime would no longer be interested in supporting terrorism and threatening Israel and the United States.

The leaders of Iran have called upon death and destruction to the United States for decades. This is done regularly at prayer and in political arenas. WHY DOESN'T BARACK OBAMA CALL FOR THE LIBERATION OF IRAN???

If readers of this blog would read a little about the Iranian involvement with the Afghan war against Russia, and the history of Waziristan they might agree with the following:

Waziristan and northeast Afghanistan are historically, ethnically, topographically, and STRATEGICALLY one region.

This area has been a nexus for Iranian aspirations since the birth of the Islamic Republic.

A vigorous effort to defeat the terrorists in Waziristan and their supporters in Iran is the ONLY way to begin to defeat ISLAMOTERRORISM.

PS: Don't expect the CIC, President Barack Obama to announce an escalation in Afghanistan until after he picks up is Nobel Piece Prise. (if at all...)

CLEARER DETAILS ON FORT HOOD JIHADIST

Some more exact details have emerged on Malik Nidal Hasan, who murdered 12 people at Fort Hood. Contrary to earlier reports, he's still alive and now in custody after being wounded, and the female officer who shot him is also still alive. And a relative of his told FOX that he was always a Muslim, and, in a predictable form of apologia, the relative also said he was a "good American".

According to the Wash. Post (via The Jawa Report):

He had been a "very devout" worshiper at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, attending prayers at least once a day, often in his Army fatigues, said Faizul Khan, a former imam there.

But even more astounding is to learn that this sheep's clothing monster was a psychiatrist. There may have been absurd depictions of psychiatrists in fiction years before that depicted them as evil. But now, as this case suggests, it may not be so farfetched. That said, the SanFrancisco Chronicle tells that his performance in this career was said to be very poor.

FOX News now reports:

A former neighbor of Hasan's in Silver Spring, Md., told Fox News he lived there for two years with his brother and had the word "Allah" on the door.

NPR reports that he was prosyltyzing:

A source tells NPR’s Joseph Shapiro that Hasan was put on probation early in his postgraduate work at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He was disciplined for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues, according to the source, who worked with him at the time.

And KXXV-TV reports:

Hasan, was giving all of his furniture along with copies of the Qu'ran to neighbors Thursday morning.

And in this clip from CNN, he's seen wearing an Islamic robe:

I think there's going to have be some serious consideration about letting Muslims serve in the army if they could pose the stealth threat Hasan became.

Boxer Uses Nuclear Option to Push Crap-'n-Tax Through Committee

All Republicans abstained and Baucus even voted against it.

Inhofe was quoted as saying, “In the history of this committee, we have not been able to find a time when the bill has been marked up without minority.”

The Dems knew it was garbage, even by their standards, which was why Baucus abstained. They could not work on it because of the Republican boycott. Environment and Public Works Committee rules require that one third of the minority party be present.

Boxer is also the final judge on any dispute over committee rules, a fact that would allow her to override any GOP objection to her process.

Isn't that convenient!

And she's refusing to wait for cost analysis, just to underline how little regard she has for either our hard-earned tax dollars and the legislative process.

How about a truth analysis? How about they have to prove definitively that AGW is real?

How about a legal analysis? How about the have to prove that taxing us for carbon is somehow Constitutional?

Obama Sure Does Love Terrorists and Hate US Soldiers, No?

October 18th: Obama immediately condemns attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guard terrorists, which cannot arguably be considered an act of terrorism, since Iran's regime is illegitimate according to international law, its power not deriving from the consent of the governed.

November 5th: Obama gives a three-minute shout-out before not even euphemistically addressing the Islamic terrorist attack committed against our own soldiers on US soil.

157 days later, Obama still has yet to condemn the Islamic terrorist attack on US soil in which Pvt. Andrew William Long was murdered in cold blood by another jihadist.

Islam is inherently seditious and therefore cannot be legally practiced in the United States. A single bow toward Mecca constitutes nothing short of treason. Stop tolerating it. Start enforcing the law, which means 20 years in the federal pen for practicing Islam.

ELECTION 2009: WHAT THEY'D HAVE YOU BELIEVE IS PURE BS

VIRGINIA GOES GOP BIGTIME, FROM A BIG OBAMA STATE TO A BIG GOP STATE - BUT THE LEFT SPINS IT LIKE,

"IT'S NOT A BIG STORY; NO REFLECTION ON OBAMA; OBAMA'S DOING FINE..."

NEW JERSEY GOES GOP BIGTIME, FROM A BIG OBAMA STATE TO A BIG GOP STATE DESPITE CORZINE'S HUGE WAR-CHEST AND FIVE APPEARANCES BY OBAMA - BUT THE LEFT SPINS IT LIKE,

"IT'S NOT A BIG STORY; NO REFLECTION ON OBABA;OBAMA'S DOING FINE..."

BUT UP IN THE 23RD CD IN RURAL NEW YORK, A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE COMES OUT OF NOWHERE TO COME WITHIN A FEW POINTS OF DEFEATING THE CANDIDATE WITH THE DEMOCRAT ENDORSEMENT AND THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE LOCAL GOP CANDIDATE AND THE LEFT WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE THAT

"IT'S THE DEATH KNELL FOR ANGRY TEABAGGERS AND THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT."

THAT'S BULLSH*T.

• PURE BULLSH*T. LIKE AGW. LIKE "THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS" THAT ISN'T. LIKE "WE LOST IRAQ." LIKE SO MUCH ELSE - NO: EVERYTHING ELSE ON THE LEFT'S AGENDA: BULLSH*T.
• WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN.
• 2010: HERE WE COME.
• HEY LIBS: YOU'D BETTER GET THE F*CK OUTTA THE WAY.

MUST SEE TV: MIT'S DR. RICHARD LINDZEN DEBUNKS AGW

A thoroughly entertaining dissection of the socialist bullshit called anthropogenic global warming by the world's foremost climate expert:

GOLD VS. GOLDSTONE

Dore Gold is debating the horrible Richard Goldstone, and the speech can be viewed here in streaming video. As far as I can tell, Goldstone remains as disgusting as ever. He ignored a victim of terrorist attacks, Dr. Mirela Siderer, and I'm glad to know that Congress condemned Goldstone's stupid report by a wide margin (Hat tip: Solomonia).

BELTWAY SNIPER IS SOON TO APPEAR BEFORE HIGHEST COURT

John Allen Muhammed, the black Muslim convert who murdered several people with a rifle in Maryland and Virginia in 2002 following 9-11, will soon be put to death, and the relatives of his victims will have a front row seat to watch:

RICHMOND, Va. – Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance.

For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as widely as those who found themselves in the cross hairs.

John Allen Muhammad, 48, is set to die by injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation's capital for three weeks.

Some family members can't wait to see Muhammad take his final breath. Others plan to make the trip to Virginia but never step foot on prison grounds.

And there are those who plan to spend the night at home with their families, satisfied that Muhammad is paying for what he's done but indifferent as to how it will happen.

___

For Nelson M. Rivera and Marion Lewis, watching Muhammad's execution will be the closest they will ever come to revenge.

"I feel like it's going to be the last chapter of this book and I want to see what his expression on his face is. And I want to see if he says anything," the 38-year-old Rivera said. "I want to see his face and see how he likes that — confronting his death."

Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, who was Rivera's wife and Lewis' daughter, was killed as she vacuumed her van at a Kensington, Md., gas station.

Rivera, a Honduran immigrant who recently became a U.S. citizen, has remarried and had two more children since Lori was killed, leaving behind a 2-year-old daughter, Jocelin. He now works as a public-schools groundskeeper in the suburbs of Sacramento, Calif.

Still, "there is not one day I don't remember what happened and I don't remember my wife. This is going to be with me the rest of my life," Rivera said.

Lewis, 57, a laid-off construction worker, said he would like to tell Muhammad how losing his 25-year-old daughter devastated their family.

"For the hurt, the pain that he's caused my family, I'd like to be his executioner, period," Lewis said.

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Robert Meyers takes some solace in knowing that Muhammad's execution is out of his hands.

He and his wife, Lori, plan to be in the witness booth, but not out of any bloodthirsty lust to watch his brother's killer meet his maker. Rather, he considers it justice being served, a sentence being carried out.

"The reason why this life is going to be taken has everything to do with choices that he made and the process that those choices took him through," said Meyers, 56, of Perkiomenville, Pa.

Executions in Virginia, home of the nation's second-busiest death chamber, usually are intimate affairs observed by a handful of lawyers, prison officials, the mandated six citizen witnesses, a few reporters and family members.

But the sheer number of victims — 10 killed and three injured in and around the nation's capital alone — has the state scrambling to accommodate all the people entitled to watch. Corrections officials are tightlipped about the arrangements, though relatives say each victim's family was offered two spots in the roughly 10-by-10 witness booth.

Meyers said he owed it to his brother, Dean Harold Meyers, to be there and that he also wanted to be there for other victims' families.

Dean Meyers, 53, a Vietnam vet and civil engineer, was the youngest of four brothers. He was shot in the head while filling up at a Manassas, Va., gas station. Muhammad's teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, later bragged to police, laughing that Dean Meyers "was hit good. Dead immediately."

It was Meyers' murder that sent Muhammad to death row.

"We're expecting justice being done, but not from a vengeful standpoint," Robert Meyers said. "It is more about the payment of his debt to society, because that was decided by others."

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Charles Moore believes Muhammad deserves to die, and he's frustrated that Malvo will not be on a gurney beside him.

"The only thing that would give me closure would be if I knew that Lee Boyd Malvo was being punished properly," said Moore, 80, of Gainesville, Fla.

Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for killing Linda Franklin, a 47-year-old FBI analyst who was shot as she and her husband loaded supplies at a Home Depot in Falls Church, Va.

"I don't see how someone can plan and plot and commit murder, one right after the other, and get off with just life in prison, I don't care what their age is," Moore said.

Moore, a retired bioengineer at the University of Florida, said his daughter used to call him every morning "to tell me to get out of bed and start chasing my wife around the house or something."

He struggles with Parkinson's disease now, and says he can't afford the trip to Virginia to watch the execution. He's not really sure he would make the trip if he could, though.

"When my daughter was first killed, if I would have had a gun I would have been willing to kill him but right now I don't know how I feel," Moore said. "I don't want him turned loose on society, that's for sure."

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Caroline Seawell has refused to live the last seven years as a victim.

Sure, her ribs are deformed and there's a piece of mesh covering a hole in her diaphragm. But Seawell has been blessed with no major medical problems since a sniper's bullet raced into her back and through a handful of organs as she loaded a scarecrow and other Halloween decorations into her minivan.

She and her family moved to South Carolina not long after the shooting outside a Fredericksburg, Va., Michael's craft store. Her youngest son, now 11, doesn't even know about the shooting.

"I've been really good about being able to kind of just put it behind me," Seawell said. "I've been able to just continue on with my life."

In that defiant spirit, Seawell said she will not travel to Virginia to watch Muhammad take his last breath. He deserves to die for what he's done, she said, but after watching both parents die from cancer, she has no desire to witness another death.

"There was enough killing already with all of us," she said.

If anything, Seawell says the shooting has made her a much stronger person. If given the chance, she'd like to tell Muhammad and Malvo just that.

"They didn't do what they set out to do because they haven't devastated my life," she said. "I've been able to move on and continue and raise my children, which is exactly what I wanted to do.

"I don't want them to have any satisfaction out of the fact that they shot me."

I know some people who won't be happy to see this happen: Islamofascists who condone the very jihad Muhammed and his partner committed, something that this article doesn't even deal with, which shouldn't be surprising, coming as it does from the AP Wire. The sooner Muhammed is sent to hell, the better.

12 PEOPLE DEAD IN SHOOTING AT FORT HOOD BASE IN TEXAS

Horrible news from the army base in Texas, where at least 2 gunmen went on a rampage (Hat tip: Wizbang):

A mass shooting at Ft. Hood military base in Texas has left at least 7 dead and 12 wounded, officials told Fox News.

There were two shooters in the Army base massacre in Killeen, the New York Post reported. One suspect was in custody and the other was on the loose, Fox News confirmed.

The attack apparently happened at the base's Soldier Readiness Center. Army officials didn't know whether the victims were civilians or military personnel.

The men were reportedly dressed in Army fatigues, but military officials couldn't confirm that they were Army personnel.

According to Hot Air, CNN reports that now 9 people are dead from this repulsive onslaught. Just who the gunmen are is not clear yet. I'll try to post an update when I get the chance.

Update: one of the suspects is a military officer. 12 are now reported dead and at least 27 people injured. There were 3 culprits who attacked.

Update 2: this report appears to have been deliberately edited, but Allahpundit copied the text giving clues to who the culprits could be and what their motives are:

“A senior administration official told NBC News analyst Roger Cressey that the suspect who was in custody was an Army major with an Arabic-sounding name. The official said the shootings could have been a criminal matter rather than a terrorism-related attack and that there was no intelligence to suggest a plot against Fort Hood.”

Again, they're trying to avoid the hard answers.

Update 3: now, one of the suspects names has been confirmed by ABC: one Malik Nadal Hasan:

The suspected gunman was identified as Major Malik Nadal Hasan. He was killed and two other suspects have been apprehended, Lt. Robert W. Cone said.

The gunman used two handguns, Cone said. He wasn’t sure if the shooter reloaded the weapons during the attack.

The general called the attack “a terrible tragedy, stunning.” He said the community was “absolutely devastated.”

Brian Ross of ABC says that Hasan was a convert to Islam.

RELIAPUNDIT WONDERS:

• SOME REPORTS SAY TWO ACCOMPLICES ARE IN CUSTODY. DO YOU THINK THE ODDS ARE GOOD THAT THEY ARE MUSLIM, TOO?

• AND IF THEY ARE, WILL OUR ELECTED LEADERS STILL TELL US ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE?

• WILL THEY TELL US THAT WE SHOULD TRUST MUSLIMS IN THE ARMY OR FBI OR CIA OR AS PILOTS OR TRUCKERS OR AS WORKERS IN THE FOOD SERVICES INDUSTRY?

Saudi jets 'attack Yemen rebels'

From the BBC:

The Saudi air force has attacked rebels in northern Yemen following Wednesday's killing of a Saudi security officer in a border area, reports have said.

Saudi aircraft had targeted strongholds of the Houthi rebels on the Yemeni side of border, spokesmen for the group and Arab media said.

A Saudi official told Reuters they had hit rebels occupying its territory.

The attacks came after a Saudi officer was killed and 11 were wounded in a raid by the rebels on the Jizan region.

The Houthis said on Wednesday that they had taken "full control" of a mountainous section of the border region of Jabal al-Dukhan.

'Successive air strikes'

In a statement on its website on Wednesday, the group said Saudi warplanes and helicopters had dropped phosphorus bombs on its fighters in the areas of al-Malahaid, Jabal al-Mamdud, al-Husama and al-Mujdaa.

Some interesting stuff to note here.

Saudi Arabia dropped "phosphorous bombs". Will they be censured by Human Rights Watch and by the UN? Will they be accused of war crimes?

Don't bet on it.

Also, this is just more proof that there are a million divisions in the Muslim world, and we would do better to exploit them, to keep the Muslims busy fighting with each other, so we don't have to bother.

DAILY IOE ROUND UP

Goldstone sells in Gaza

An embroidery scarf bearing the name of South African judge Richard Goldstone is displayed at a Palestinian souvenir shop in Gaza City on November 4, 2009. The UN General Assembly is scheduled to discuss the controversial UN Goldstone report on Israel?s 22-day war against Palestinian militants in Gaza.

165 million people want to move to US

Washington -- Some 700 million people worldwide, or more than all the adults of North and South America combined, think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and want to permanently move to another country, a poll showed Tuesday.

Residents of sub-Saharan African countries were the most likely to want to move abroad permanently, the polls conducted in 135 countries between 2007 and this year by Gallup showed.

On average, 38 percent of the adult population in sub-Saharan Africa, or around 165 million people, said they would up stakes and head for another country if they had the chance.

The most popular destination was the United States, where nearly a quarter of the 700 million -- around 165 million people -- said they would like to settle.

In joint second were Britain, Canada and France, each being named as the preferred destination of around 45 million people.

Thirty-five million said they would go to Spain, 30 million to Saudi Arabia, and 25 million each to Australia or Germany.

Taliban infiltration impossible to stop

From Danish: Kai Vittrup, the Danish head of the EU police mission in Afghanistan says that you can't prevent the Taliban from infiltrating the Afghan police, which is working with NATO forces.

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VIA: Islam In Europe
News and Opinions about the Muslim
and Islamic Community in Europe and the West

ARE DEMOCRAT LAWMAKERS PAID BY THE WORD?

IT WOULD SEEM SO.

WEAPONS INTENDED FOR HEZBOLLAH FROM IRAN CAPTURED

The IDF has raided a ship from Antigua bound for Lebanon and Syria carrying weapons for the Hezbollah provided by Iran:

Hundreds of tons of weaponry, ten times the size of the Karine A shipment of 2002, were seized in an overnight raid Tuesday by the Israeli navy, some 100 nautical miles west of Israel, officials said.

The weapons seized on the ship, which was sailing under an Antiguan flag, included 3,000 rockets of various types.

The transfer of such large amounts of weapons, "is done in order to create a balance of terror with Israel," said Brigadier General Rani Ben-Yehuda, deputy commander of the Israeli navy, at a press conference.

Defense officials said the 140-meter long Francop, captured near Cyprus, was carrying arms sent by Iran and destined for Syria and Hizbullah.

After several days of the Israeli military monitoring the ship, IDF Navy Seals boarded it in the middle of the night. Suspicions were raised after the Seals uncovered certificates within containers that documented Iran as the point of origin for some containers, with Syria as the intended destination.

Upon receiving permission from relevant authorities, including the political establishment, the seals commandeered the ship and brought it to Israel. Once on its way to Israeli shores, Israel apprised the government of Antigua and the company that owns the ship of the situation, said the officials.

After leaving the Bandar-Abbas Port in Iran, the cargo was shipped through the Suez Canal, unloaded at the Mediterranean Port of Damietta in Egypt and then loaded onto the ship that was captured by the navy. The intended destination was the port Latakia in Syria, with the contents of the shipment to be sent to Hizbullah, they said.

The ships' crew was unaware of the weapons on board, as the armaments were disguised as humanitarian aid.

Oh really? I should only hope so, but if they really didn't know, that's why it'd do to inspect the contents of what they bring elsewhere, or better yet, not do any business with Islamic countries like those that deal in this kind of atrocious behavior. Thank goodness that weapons smuggling was intercepted before it could've resulted in disaster.

MORE ANTI-RIFQA BARY JIHAD ON FACEBOOK

Atlas Shrugs points to more sickos on Facebook who are inciting against Rifqa Bary for daring to convert to Christianity. This is most absolutely disgusting. One more reason why those who care about Rifqa would do well to attend the rally in her support on November 16.

DAILY IOE ROUND UP

Obama schedule in Oslo

From Norwegian: According to a preliminary announcement from the White House, Barack and Michelle Obama will come to Norway Dec 10th, and leave the next day (missing the Noble concert). Planned for Obama: Noble prize ceremony + reception, lunch by the Norwegian king and queen, visit of the Noble institute and meeting the Noble committee. The Obama's will also inaugurate an exhibition about the peace prize winner (Obama) by British photographer Marcus Bleasdale. According to one report Obama will meet with PM Stoltenberg and talk about climate, energy and Afghanistan.

Noble Prize to Vaclav Klaus

From Danish: Danish People's Party suggests Czech president Vaclav Klaus should receive the next Noble Prize for his fight against the Lisbon Treaty.

Finnish immigrant forces Italian schools to remove crosses

(ANSA) - Strasbourg, November 3 - In a legal landmark that sparked a storm in Italy, the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that crucifixes in Italian classrooms were a violation of parents' rights to educate their kids according to their principles.

Upholding a plea from a Finnish immigrant to Italy, the Strasbourg-based court also said the crosses ran counter to a child's own rights to freedom of religious choice.

The Finnish woman, Soile Lautsi, had vainly sued in various Italian courts to have crosses removed from her children's classroom near Padua before she turned to the European court.

The Italian government was ordered to pay Lautsi, an Italian citizen, 5,000 euros in ''moral damages''.

Islamic Business Wins Academic Following

At semiannual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Istanbul last month, talk was largely dominated, inevitably, by the economic crisis and its aftermath. But suitably enough, given the location, another topic also came to the fore: the role of Islamic finance, a fast-developing sector of the global banking industry that has remained remarkably resilient through the slowdown.

With the value of assets in Islamic banks now close to $1 trillion and the industry growing at an estimated annual rate of 15 to 20 percent, business students are increasingly eager to cash in. Universities are increasingly offering new postgraduate programs in Islamic finance to help them do it.

Norwegian army kills innocent fishermen

From Norwegian: Somalis accuse Norwegian soldiers of killing two fishermen off the coast of Somalia. The Norwegians claim they were fired upon first. One fisherman was Somali, the other from Yemen. Three others were wounded in the incident.

Somalis can only use Koran ringtones

From Dutch: A 19 year old was whipped for having an illegal ringtone in Kismayo.

“Half of US intelligence info came from detainees”

Recently declassified documents reveal that half of all human intelligence the US government had on Al-Qaeda was discovered through detainee interrogations, Christopher Farrell from Judicial Watch told RT.

“It hadn’t been previously produced in any other record,” he said.

At the end of October, the US Justice Department released documents that revealed the FBI was investigating CIA prisons. On a 2002 visit to a CIA jail, officials found prisoners “manacled to the ceiling and subjected to blaring music around the clock”.

'Consensus' around Belgian PM for top EU job: diplomats

Brussels -- "There is a consensus around his name, which is rare among the 27" EU nations, said one European diplomat. "No-one is opposed to him and many (leaders) are asking him to accept."

A second source echoed that stance, saying "no-one else can get unanimity" following informal discussions between EU heads of government and state at a two-day summit in Brussels last week.

Centre-right van Rompuy's spokesman Dirk De Backer issued a straight "no comment" when contacted by AFP on Monday.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said at the summit's end on Friday that France and Germany will join forces to choose Europe's first full-time president, after sweeping Tony Blair towards the Brussels exit.

Sarkozy said he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had agreed to back "the same candidate," adding that the pair shared the same "vision" for two new top jobs to be created under the Lisbon Treaty, and their favoured runners.

Van Rompuy, 62, is "not a candidate, but he is the favourite," wrote Belgian daily De Standaard on Monday, adding that he could be "the most acceptable (name) under a Franco-German 'deal'."

Fatwa against Indian national song

NEW DELHI: Darul Uloom Deoband has asked Muslims in India to stop reciting Vande Mataram.

Concluding a three-day conference on Tuesday held in Deoband, the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind declared the act unislamic. Home Minister P Chidambaram was also present. The conference adopted 25 resolutions demanding the government stop interfering in affairs of minorities.

“The fatwa by the Darul Uloom opposing recitation of Vande Mataram is correct,” said one of the resolutions.

McCain's mother suffers fall in Portugal

A Lisbon hospital says it has discharged the 97-year-old mother of U.S. Senator John McCain after a weeklong stay following a fall.

The Sao Jose hospital said Wednesday that Roberta McCain left the neurology ward where she had been under observation.

Senator McCain's office in Washington said his mother had fainted and injured her head last Thursday while on vacation in the Portuguese capital.

Obama's brother has different dreams from his father

UANGZHOU, Nov 4 — US President Barack Obama’s half-brother made a rare appearance today in southern China, his home for seven years, to launch a novel he says draws on his painful childhood under an abusive father.

Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo — who had the same, late, father as the US President — has kept a low public profile since reports surfaced last year that he was living and working in the southern Chinese capitalist and manufacturing haven of Shenzhen, around an hour’s train ride from Hong Kong.

After repeatedly shunning media attention, Ndesandjo’s first major public appearance to launch his debut novel comes less than two weeks before the US president travels to China for the first time.

While he said his work, “Nairobi to Shenzhen” is a fictional account, it started off nearly 10 years ago as an autobiography and “reflects many experiences in my own life as a child brought up in Kenya” including a troubled relationship with his father.

“My mother used to say of my father, he’s a brilliant man but a social failure,” Ndesandjo told reporters at a press conference in Guangzhou, near his adopted city of Shenzhen.

“I remember times in my house when I would hear screams and I would hear my mother’s pain.” His American mother Ruth was his father’s third wife.

Somali rebels close women's organizations

Somalia's hardline al Shabaab insurgents closed three grassroots women's organizations in the rebel-held town of Balad Hawa to stop women from going to work, a rebel leader said.

The group wants to impose its own version of Islamic law on areas it controls, and Washington says it is al Qaeda's proxy in the Horn of African nation.

“We have taken this step after we recognized that women need to stay in their homes and take care of their children ... Islam does not allow women to go to offices,” Maalim Daaud Mohmed, the chairman of Balad Hawa, told Reuters by telephone.

Chinese giant to buy US oil assets: company

Norwegian energy group Statoil said on Wednesday it was selling some of its oil assets in the United States to China's state-owned CNOOC, marking the first step by a Chinese energy major into the US market.

The sale, announced along with the company's quarterly results, involves a limited stake in four exploitation licences acquired by Statoil in 2007 and 2008 for deep-water blocks.

Russian World

A new term could be introduced which would denote a community of the countries united by the Russian culture, said Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

"The term 'a Russian world country' could be introduced into usage. It would mean that a country sees itself as part of the Russian world, if it uses Russian as the language of international communication, promotes the Russian culture, and preserves the general historical memory," Patriarch Kirill said at the opening of the 3rd Russian World Assembly in Moscow on Tuesday.

Today the nations inhabiting the area of the historical Rus should "realize their being part of the same civilization and see the Russian world as their common supranational project," the Patriarch said.

It is important to preserve the unique deep meaning of the term "Russian world" and to preserve original Russian cultural tradition, Patriarch Kirill said.

When Nazis marched through London

This newly-released footage is really quite terrifying.

It was unearthed by a Discovery Channel programme to be aired next week called Wartime London, presented by London cabby Harry Harris.

It shows the funeral, in 1936, of the German Ambassador to Britain, Leopold von Hoesch in 1936.

After a fatal stroke a state funeral was held for him, a salute of nineteen guns was fired in Hyde Park, and Grenadier Guards marched down the Mall. Shoulder to shoulder with Nazi soldiers.

They carried a coffin draped in a swastika, while crowds lined the road and balconies, a terrifyingly large number of them giving the Nazi salute.

by Islam In Europe

Not $1.2 Trillion...$1.5 Trillion

Yesterday the AP did their own math on Pelosi's bill, which she trumpeted as costing a mere $894 billion, and their intrepid reporters came up with the figure of $1.2 trillion. Pelosi didn't lie. She used leftard Keynesian math. (H/T: Ed Morrissey.)

The story is not that Pelosi lied. Pelosi always lies. That's not news.

What's arguably news is that the AP employs the same leftard Keynesian math as Pelosi, just more honestly, in order to cover for the Dems and shill for 3rd-world socialism like they have in uninhabitable places like England and Canada.

The real cost of the bill is $1.5 trillion, according to Heritage, where their Foundry bloggers didn't learn how to do math by studying communications, going to J-school, and sucking up to special interests. They, evidently, received actual educations at real schools, probably private ones.

This figure comes, of course, after Obama's promise that running over the Constitution and turning the United States into a hellish cesspoolstan wouldn't cost a dime, then Pelosi's backtracking claim that it would only (!) cost $900 billion.

All lies. All of them. Every time.

Notice a pattern?

It's a sad state of affairs when we have to turn to think tanks both for our news and to check the work of the CBO.

Update: Heh.

THE NATURAL GAS REVOLUTION: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS YERGIN AND THE WSJ BY 3 WEEKS

YERGIN IN THE WSJ TODAY:

The biggest energy innovation of the decade is natural gas—more specifically what is called "unconventional" natural gas. Some call it a revolution.

Yet the natural gas revolution has unfolded with no great fanfare, no grand opening ceremony, no ribbon cutting. It just crept up. In 1990, unconventional gas—from shales, coal-bed methane and so-called "tight" formations—was about 10% of total U.S. production. Today it is around 40%, and growing fast, with shale gas by far the biggest part.

The potential of this "shale gale" only really became clear around 2007. In Washington, D.C., the discovery has come later—only in the last few months. Yet it is already changing the national energy dialogue and overall energy outlook in the U.S.—and could change the global natural gas balance.

... The supply impact has been dramatic. In the lower 48, states thought to be in decline as a natural gas source, production surged an astonishing 15% from the beginning of 2007 to mid-2008. This increase is more than most other countries produce in total.

Equally dramatic is the effect on U.S. reserves. Proven reserves have risen to 245 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in 2008 from 177 Tcf in 2000, despite having produced nearly 165 Tcf during those years. The recent increase in estimated U.S. gas reserves by the Potential Gas Committee, representing both academic and industry experts, is in itself equivalent to more than half of the total proved reserves of Qatar, the new LNG powerhouse. With more drilling experience, U.S. estimates are likely to rise dramatically in the next few years. At current levels of demand, the U.S. has about 90 years of proven and potential supply—a number that is bound to go up as more and more shale gas is found.

HERE AT TAB, WE COVERED THIS THREE WEEKS AGO.

WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME. SPREAD THE WORLD. BLOGROLL US. BOOKMARK US.

10 BODIES FOUND IN CLEVELAND SEX OFFENDER'S HOME - SO FAR

UNREAL:

Remains of four more people were unearthed from the backyard of a rapist's home Tuesday, raising to 10 the number of bodies found in and near the house, as police also searched boarded-up homes in the neighborhood where residents complained for years of a stench that one even said ''smelled like a dead body.''

Anthony Sowell, 50, a registered sex offender who lives in the home, was charged Tuesday with five counts of aggravated murder.

''It appears that this man had an insatiable appetite that he had to fill,'' police Chief Michael McGrath said.

He said the four bodies were found buried in the backyard of the home and a skull was found in a bucket in the basement.

... Sowell is a registered sex offender and required to check in regularly at the sheriff's office. Officers didn't have the right to enter his house, but they would stop by to make sure he was there. Their most recent visit was Sept. 22, just hours before the woman reported being raped.

For the past few years, Sowell's neighbors thought the foul smell enveloping their street corner had been coming from a brick building where workers churned out sausage and head cheese.

It got so bad that the owners of Ray's Sausage replaced their sewer line and grease traps.

City Councilman Zack Reed, whose mother lives a block from the area, said he called the city health department on more than one occasion.

''What happened from there, we don't know,'' he said. ''It was no secret that there was a foul odor. We don't want to point fingers, but clearly something could have been done differently.''

Reed said he and other community leaders want an investigation into whether police and health inspectors missed signs that could have tipped them off to the bodies.

Reed said he can't imagine how police officers and sheriff's deputies could have missed the smell. His office records show that he called the health department in 2007 after a resident told him about an odor that ''smelled like a dead body,'' he said.

COULD THIS HAPPEN IN A RED COUNTY?

REALLY: THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE PERVASIVE PERMISSIVENESS OF DEEP BLUE COUNTIES THAT MAKES ME FEEL THE WAY THE POLICE IGNORED THIS MONSTER WAS NOT HAPPENSTANCE.

• I THINK IT REVEALS A DISREGARD FOR GOOD OL' LAW AND ORDER AND AN OVER-VALUING OF PC.

• THIS MONSTER SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN LET OUT OF PRISON AND ONCE OUT HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON A VERY SHORT LEASH.

• "BUT THAT WOULD BE CRUEL."

• OH YEAH!?!?

• TEN BODIES AND COUNTING.

• AND EVERY ONE OF THEM WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY IF CLEVELANDERS CARED LESS ABOUT THE PERPS AND CONVICTED VIOLENT SEX-OFFENDERS

MONSTERS CONVICTED OF VIOLENT SEX CRIMES SHOULD BE CASTRATED OR PUT TO DEATH.

MY INJUN IS BETTER THAN YER INJUN

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE OFTEN USED BY THE LEFT TO BUTTRESS THEIR ARGUMENTS.

BUT ONLY WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT.

HAJJ IS NOT THE WORLD'S BIGGEST PILGRIMAGE

HAJJ IS COMING UP - IT STARTS ON NOVEMBER 25.

IT'S OFTEN BILLED AS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST PILGRIMAGE.

From the article on the Hajj:

"The Hajj (Arabic: حج‎ Ḥaǧǧ) is a pilgrimage to Mecca (Makkah). It is currently the largest annual pilgrimage in the world,[1] and is the fifth pillar of Islam, a moral obligation that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so."

Largest annual pilgrimage in the world?

Yeah, maybe so - because of that qualifier "annual."

From the article on the Kumbh Mela:

"Kumbh Mela (Devanagari: कुम्भ मेला) is a mass Hindu pilgrimage. It occurs four times every twelve years and rotates among four locations: Allahabad (Prayag) at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna and mythical Saraswati river, Haridwar along the Ganga river, Ujjain along the Kshipra river and Nashik along the Godavari river. The Ardh Kumbh Mela is celebrated every six years at Haridwar and Allahabad [1], while the Purna (complete) Kumbh always takes place at Allahabad every twelve years [2].

Over 45 days beginning in January 2007, more than 70 million Hindu pilgrims took part in the Ardh Kumbh Mela at Allahabad, and on January 15, the most auspicious day of the festival of Makar Sankranti, more than 5 million participated [3].

The Maha Kumbh Mela ('Great' Kumbh Mela) which comes after 12 'Purna Kumbh Melas' which is after every 144 years is also held at Allahabad [2][4][5]. The 2001, Maha Kumbh Mela was attended by around 60 million people, making it the largest gathering anywhere in the world [6][7][8][9]."

The Hindus pull a bigger crowd than the Muzzies. MUCH.

Oh, and by the way: the Saraswati River is not "mythical." Its dry streambed can be documented by satellite.

BTW: MUSLIM GENOCIDE OF HINDUS: AS MANY AS 80 MILLION - AND COUNTING...

OBAMA'S STIMULUS/GREEN ECONOMY IS MERELY CORRUPT CRONIE SOCIALISM

Obama "Bailing Out" Al Gore & Friends:

Obama Rewards Companies Supporting Cap-and-Trade with Over $600,000,000 Million in Grants, Says Free Enterprise Project

Washington D.C.: Today's page one New York Times story on Al Gore profiting from global warming advocacy illustrates how taxpayer money is being used to reward businesses that support Obama's energy agenda, says Tom Borelli Ph.D., director of the Free Enterprise Project.

Gore's venture capital company, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, will benefit from the Department of Energy grants to support the development of the so-called smart grid, according to the Times.

"The Department of Energy is doling out $3.4 billion in smart grid grants and some of these funds are being steered to "friends of Obama," said Borelli.

The Department of Energy (DOE) funds were part of the "American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" – President Obama's economic stimulus plan.

According to the Times, $560 million in grants were awarded to utilities that had contracts with Silver Spring Networks – a company that Gore's firm has invested in. Silver Spring Networks develops technologies to increase the efficiency of the electricity grid.

John Doerr, a partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board

RTWT.

H1N1 exploding in Eastern Europe...

There has been a flurry of posts on the H1N1 situation in the Ukraine.
And Belarus and Romania.

What's up with H1N1 in Eastern Europe?

WHO Targets Hemorrhagic H1N1 Cases in Lviv Ukraine (11/03/09 19:47)

Belarus H1N1 Deaths Raise Concerns (11/03/09 16:47)

Ukraine H1N1 Hospitalizations and Deaths Spike Higher (11/02/09 21:54)

Hospitalized Students at Romanian Convention Raise Concerns (11/02/09 7:22)

H1N1 Doctor Deaths in Ukraine Raise Concerns (11/01/09 22:22)

H1N1 Attack Rate Explodes in Ukraine (11/01/09 16:47)

WHO Team to Investigate Ukraine H1N1 Outbreaks (10/30/09 23:47)

Ukraine Orders Mobile Military Labs for H1N1 Caseload (10/30/09 18:50)

H1N1 Fatalities in Ukraine Generate Travel Restrictions (10/30/09 15:47)

Italy school crucifixes 'barred' - The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy

UPDATED BELOW...

Maybe if I just play dead, the Muslims will leave me alone ...

Is Italy going to take this?

From the BBC:

It said the practice violated the right of parents to educate their children as they saw fit, and ran counter to the child's right to freedom of religion.

The case was brought by an Italian mother, Soile Lautsi, who wants to give her children a secular education.

But the ruling has sparked anger in the largely Catholic country, with one politician calling the move "shameful".

The Strasbourg court found that: "The compulsory display of a symbol of a given confession in premises used by the public authorities... restricted the right of parents to educate their children in conformity with their convictions."

It also restricted the "right of children to believe or not to believe", the seven judges ruling on the case said in a statement quoted by AFP news agency.

Is the Pope going to stand up to this, or is the Catholic Church, and Italy, simply going to lie down and die?

UPDATE: SCOOPED HOT AIR BY THREE HOURS.

FROM ATTEMPTED TO ACTUAL

It's horrible, but Noor Almaleki, the woman whose Muslim father ran her over with a Jeep Grand Cherokee in Arizona, has died.

I hope the father, who was arrested, gets the death sentence for his crime.

BUFFETT GOES "ALL IN" ON AMERICA

NYT:

Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of Warren E. Buffett, said on Tuesday that it planned to buy the 77.4 percent of Burlington Northern Santa Fe it did not already own for $34 billion in cash and stock, in the largest deal in Berkshire history.

The deal, which will also include the assumption of $10 billion in Burlington Northern debt, represents what Mr. Buffett said was a big bet on the United States. He told CNBC in an interview that railroad operators cannot do well unless American businesses were producing goods and customers were buying them.

“It’s an all-in wager on the economic future of the United States,” he said in a written statement. “I love these bets.”

I AGREE: THE LEFT & OBAMA WILL NOT KILL THE USA. BUFFETT UNDERSTANDS THIS TODAY.

THE LEFT WILL GET IT TOMORROW.

THE ELECTION WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF THE END THE USA'S LURCH LEFT.

IT WILL END IN 2010, WHEN THE GOP RETAKES CONGRESS.

AND AMERICA WILL SURGE WHEN THE GOP RETAKES THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2012.