BRRRRRRR!: COLDEST WINTER IN BEIJING IN 40 YEARS - AND PLENTY OF SNOW, TOO!

HINDUSTAN TIMES/AFP:

A freezing cold front swept over much of northern China on Sunday with snowstorms snarling traffic and air travel, while some of the coldest temperatures in decades were forecast for coming days.

Snow storms were expected to continue through Monday as the mercury was set to plunge in the coming 48 hours, the Beijing meteorological station said.

Gale force winds sweeping down from Siberia could result in temperatures as low as minus 16 degrees Celsius (minus three degrees Fahrenheit) in the capital on Monday and Tuesday, it added.

According to the Beijing Youth Daily, such temperatures would be the coldest in the capital in 40 years.

On Sunday, major highways in Beijing and Tianjin, as well as in the surrounding provinces and regions of Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia were closed due to the heavy snowfall, China Central Television said.

REUTERS:

Heavy snow hit Beijing on Sunday, stranding thousands of passengers at the Chinese capital's main airport and casting an unusual quiet over normally busy streets as people stayed out of the freezing weather.

A Reuters journalist at Beijing's Capital International Airport, the country's busiest, said dozens of flights were cancelled or delayed, though a few were still able to take off.

State television said most the highways out of Beijing were closed too, with several centimetres (inches) of snow blanketing roads and temperatures expected to touch lows of -14 Celcius (6.80F).

AGW = BS.

VIDEO: RECORD-BREAKING CAR JUMP: 250 FEET

THIS WOULD BE A USEFUL WAY TO AVOID TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN NYC.

AND IF THE ELEVATORS ARE BROKEN...



WHEN JIHADISTS CAN DO THIS, THEN I'LL START TO WORRY ABOUT WHO'S GONNA WIN WW4...

NEWSWEEK: OBAMA'S BROTHER GEORGE STILL LIVES IN A SLUM

WHAT KIND OF MAN IS BARACK OBAMA? HIS BROTHER STILL LIVES IN A SLUM.

NEWSWEEK:

With the sponsorship I've attracted because of my last name, we can now afford to take buses all across Kenya for matches.

NO THANKS TO BARRY. WITH WHOM HE HAS SPOKEN WITH TWICE. BUT BECASUE THEY SHARE A LAST NAME - AND A FATHER.



BARRY OBAMA IS A SOCIOPATH.

ONE BIG HAPPY ANTISEMITIC FAMILY: OBAMA, AYERS, DOHRN, CODE PINK, ABUNIMAH, KHALIDI AND HAMAS.

LEFTISTS AND JIHADISTS UNITE IN SUPPORT OF HAMAS AND AGAINST ISRAEL.

VIA JAWA.

BRRRRRRR!: FLORIDA'S LONGEST COLD SNAP IN 9 YEARS

WFTV: Longest Cold Snap In Nine Years Hits Central Florida

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A major cold front will cause freezing conditions every night through this Thursday across almost the entire region. Some areas could even see a hard freeze.

The cold front first hit the area on Friday.

It’s the longest stretch of cold weather Central Florida has seen since 2001.

AGW = BS.

2 MORE ISLAMO-PIRATE ATTACKS: SEIZE BRITISH SHIP AND SINGAPOREAN TANKER

BRITS HERE.

SINGAPOREANS HERE.

IT'S TIME TO CARPET BOMB THE ISLAMO-HIDEOUTS IN SOMALIA - WITH BIG ONES.

IT'S THE ONLY THING THESE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND.

BESIDES: ETHIOPIA COULD USE A 500 MILE LONG BEACH!

SICK ISLAMO-MISOGYNISTIC HONOR KILLING/SUICIDE IN FRANCE

MUSLIM FATHER MURDERS HIS 3 DAUGHTERS, THEN SETS FIRE TO HIS HOME AND COMMITS SUICIDE.

DETAILS HERE.

Update:

The preliminary results of the investigation, the couple lived a difficult divorce.

In August, the father, aged 49 years and locksmith training, had been sentenced to fifteen months in prison, which closed three months, for "violence" on his wife.

Under "Latest News from Alsace, the husband had taken his wife by force in the forest of Haguenau and have practiced violence to force her to abandon the separation.

His wife, a hospital employee, had left home August 31 with their three daughters.

After his release November 5, the father had obtained a right of access to his daughters, but he was prohibited from approaching his wife, who lives in the same city.

The girls had spent New Year's Day, the anniversary of their father, with their paternal grandparents, who live 500 yards away.

According to them, father and children left their home around 2 o'clock Saturday.

The drama took place between two and eight hours, said Eric Vuilleminot, interregional director of the Judicial Police (PJ).

Horrible. Horrifying. Islam.

OBAMA'S ADVISORS RE-GRADE THE 2007 NIE AND GIVE IT A SOLID B+

HOT AIR: Top Obama advisors: We no longer believe the 2007 NIE on Iran’s weapons program

An “oh, by the way” detail buried in a long Times piece about recent setbacks to Iran’s nuclear program. This isn’t really a secret — officials as high up as Panetta were mumbling about weaponization as far back as February and the U.S. intel community generally has been inching away from the document for months — but after all the leftist screeching about warmongering and politicized intelligence when the NIE came out and declared Iran’s weapons program dead since ‘03, it deserves a little extra attention.

Mr. Obama’s top advisers say they no longer believe the key finding of a much disputed National Intelligence Estimate about Iran, published a year before President George W. Bush left office, which said that Iranian scientists ended all work on designing a nuclear warhead in late 2003.

After reviewing new documents that have leaked out of Iran and debriefing defectors lured to the West, Mr. Obama’s advisers say they believe the work on weapons design is continuing on a smaller scale — the same assessment reached by Britain, France, Germany and Israel…

HOW CONVENIENT.

REMEMBER: THE 2007 NIE WAS LEAKED AT THE PERFECT TIME TO HELP OBAMA.

AND NOW IT TURNS OUT TO BE CRAPOLA.

PROVING THAT THERE ARE ELEMENTS OF THE SO-CALLED INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WHO PUT PARTISAN POLITICS AND THEIR OWN AGENDA AHEAD OF OUR OWN DEMOCRACY.

FOLKS LIKE PLAME AND ARMITAGE AND POWELL AND COUNTLESS OTHER ARABIST ANTI-SEMITES AND SOCIALIST-SYMPS AT STATE AND IN THE CIA.

PETRAEUS IN YEMEN

THE NEXT FRONT, AS JOE SAID.

OBAMACARE IS THE MOBY DICK OF THE LEFT

IT DOESN'T END WELL FOR THE DEMOCRATS,
BUT IT HAS A HAPPY ENDING FOR THE NATION.

WHAT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REALLY MEANS

• THE LEFT USES THE TERM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS CODE FOR SOCIALISM.

• BUT SOCIALISM IS A PONZI SCHEME, AND IS THEREFORE TRULY UNSUSTAINABLE.

• THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY IS PRIVATE, MARKET DRIVEN, INDUSTRIAL AND CAPITALISTIC.

• ALL THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES THE OBAMA GANG ARE TRYING TO INSTITUTE ARE SOCIALISTIC AND THEREFORE UNSUSTAINABLE.

• THE STIMULUS PELOSI AND REID AND RAHM WROTE AND OBAMA SIGNED IS BY DEFINITION UNSUSTAINABLE, WHEREAS AN ACROSS THE BOARD TAX CUT FOR INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES WOULD HAVE BEEN SUSTAINABLE - AND A REAL STIMULUS.

• THE GOOD THING IS... OBAMA'S POPULARITY HAS ALREADY PROVEN TO BE UNSUSTAINABLE, TOO.

• BY GOVERNING TO THE LEFT, OBAMA HAS PISSED OFF THE INDEPENDENTS AND GUARANTEED THE GOP WILL WIN BACK BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS IN 2010.

WE ONLY HAVE TO SUFFER 11 MONTHS MORE!

BETRAYED BY A MEMBER OF THEIR OWN CHURCH

Atlas Shrugs writes about pastor Blake Lorenz's side of the Rifqa Bary story. He himself has been smeared, and it seems that Brian Smith, one of the members of Global Revolution Church, violated his own privacy rights by giving his mail at the time he worked at the church (as far as I know, the Lorenz's may no longer be affiliated with the church) to CAIR's lawyer for the Barys:

1. I was never told that when Rifqa Bary fled for her life that I was in violation of the law. I contacted eleven attorneys, two police officers, one judge, and the Department of Children and Families (‘DCF’) within a two-week period of Rifqa Bary’s arrival in Florida and not once was I told that I had broken any law. The affidavit of Brian Smith to the contrary is false.

2. On or about July 28, 2009, I asked Brian Smith to call DCF about Rifqa Bary. Then on July 29, 2009, I personally called DCF more than once. On or about August 5, 2009, I again called DCF in Orlando and then called the equivalent of DCF in Ohio. On or about August 5 and 6, 2009, I personally called the hotline about Rifqa Bary. This call finally resulted in Rifqa Bary being picked up by the Orlando Police Department on August 7. On that same day, August 7, I called the equivalent of DCF in Ohio and the police department in Ohio, warning them that Rifqa Bary’s life was in danger according to what she reported to me. The police officer I spoke with said he knew her life was in danger and stated that the department officials had talked to several of her friends.

3. I do know that Brian Smith called his attorney, but the only thing Brian ever told us following that conversation is that he suggested I call DCF, which I did.

4. Contrary to Brian Smith’s affidavit, he never implored me or my wife Beverly not to help Rifqa Bary, nor did he ever say that I or anyone else did anything illegal. Never in any of our staff meetings or out of staff meetings did Brian Smith say anything that had been done was illegal, nor did he voice his opinion against helping her. This can be confirmed by John Law, Wendy Law, Beverly Lorenz, Suzanna Lorenz and Laura Johnson, who all sat in our staff meetings with Brian Smith.

5. Brian Smith’s affidavit contains many other false statements. No one to my knowledge ever told Rifqa Bary to lie to the authorities. Such an allegation is outrageous. In fact, Rifqa was told specifically to tell the truth to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. At no time did I or anyone else to my knowledge bring in an expert on Islam and honor killings to talk to Rifqa Bary about those subjects. Rifqa Bary informed Beverly and me about Islam and honor killings, as we had no background in this area and had never been confronted with such matters before this time. Brian Smith calls Rifqa Bary a new convert in his affidavit, but he knew that Rifqa had been a Christian for four years, which information came from Rifqa herself. Brian Smith never sat down with Beverly and Rifqa to hear her story for an hour. Instead, Brian Smith’s account of Rifqa Bary’s story sounds almost verbatim from the account given by Rifqa’s father, not Rifqa. Beverly Lorenz never called Rifqa her “darling daughter.”

6. To my knowledge, Brian Smith is the only one who continues to have access to the post office box of Global Revolution Church. He has opened mail addressed to me personally. Instead of forwarding the mail to me without opening it, or even after opening it, he has apparently sent my mail to the attorneys for the father of Rifqa Bary in Ohio. Again, Brian Smith has done so without my consent. He has acted in a manner that is both untruthful, in filing many false statements in his affidavit, and in a manner to intentionally harm me, the reasons for which I can only speculate stem from concern that I had over his job while he worked at Global Revolution Church.

This is most astounding. A man in the service of the Lord committed a serious felony by passing on someone else's mail to forces of corruption on the outside. I hope a lawsuit is in the works for this blatant violation of the law. And I think the Barys and their lawyer are going to have to be questioned about this too. This is very serious.

BRIT MET OFFICE ADMITS THIS WILL BE COLDEST WINTER IN 100 YEARS - er um despite man-made CO2 and "AGW"

WUWT.

ME: "It's the sun, stupid!"

(And changes in ocean currents/oscillations, too. Everything BUT man-made CO2!)

UPDATE: SCOOPED MEMEORANDUM BY A DAY.

THE AUDACITY OF IRAN: GIVES WEST ONE MONTH ULTIMATUM

JPOST:

Iran warned on Saturday the West has until the end of the month to accept Teheran's counterproposal to a UN-drafted plan on a nuclear exchange, or the country will start producing nuclear fuel on its own.

The warning was a show of defiance and a hardening in Iran's stance over its controversial nuclear program, which the West fears masks an effort to make nuclear weapons. Teheran insists the program is only for peaceful, electricity production purposes and says it has no intention of making a bomb.

"We have given them an ultimatum. There is one month left and that is by the end of January," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said, speaking on state television.

WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS PUT A FULL COURT PRESS ON THE ISLAMO-THUGS: TOUGH SANCTIONS - AND EMBARGO ON GASLOINE; FULL-THROATED SUPPORT FOR THE REBELLION; AND PIN-POINT MISSILE ATTACKS ON THEIR NUCLEAR AND MILITARY ASSETS.

ALL AT ONCE.

THE SOONER THE BETTER.

TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE.

WHY WAIT WHEN DELAY ONLY HELPS THE ENEMY!?

IT'S LIKE STOPPING THE CLOCK WHEN YOUR TEAM HAS A SMALL LEAD AND YOUR OPPONENT HAS THE BALL.

OTHER NEWS COVERAGE: HERE AND HERE AND HERE. AND ALSO HERE.

JIHAD WATCH HAD THIS BEFORE ME.

DRUDGE DOESN'T HAVE THIS YET. NEITHER DOES MEMEORANDUM.

HERE'S A NEWS ROU8ND UP FROM GOOGLE.

Obama Warned of Imminent Attack 3 Days Prior: "This Was Handled Properly"

MORE ON WHAT RELIAPUNDIT POSTED/LINKED TO EARLIER:

OBAMA:" A MISERABLE FAILURE."

• SERIOUSLY: WHAT DID OBAMA KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

• ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.

Nothing to see here, folks...

Systemic failures

Newsweek, of all sources, reports the US had intelligence indicating that al-Qaeda was planning an attack around the holidays:

The senior official said that beginning in early December, based on reports coming in from intelligence agencies, policy-makers had begun tracking a stream of information which alluded to a possible holiday-period plot against the US orchestrated from somewhere in Pakistan.

[...]

In a background briefing for reporters on December 29, also attributed in an official White House transcript to a "senior administration official", that official asserted that in the wake of the attempted underpants attack, it had become clear to the President and top advisors that before Christmas, the US government was in posession of "bits and pieces" of information, which, if they had been properly knitted together, "could have...allowed us to disrupt the attack or certainly to know much more about the alleged attacker in such a way as to ensure that he was on, as the President suggested in his statement, a no-fly list."

So they knew an attack was likely, did nothing, and got the country from it was to originate wrong. But, according to an unnamed US intelligence official, "this was handled properly."

Hat tip: Sammy Benoit.

Islam Respects Women

More clips from the same film, Children of Islam, about young Mohammedans in Sweden, here.

BREAKING: OSAMA BIN LADEN GIVES UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB A SOLID B+

BREAKING: OSAMA BIN LADEN GIVES UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB A SOLID B+

ZAWAHIRI: "HECKUVA JOB UMAR!"

OBAMA:" A MISERABLE FAILURE."

• SERIOUSLY: WHAT DID OBAMA KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

• ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.

NYTIMES: OBAMA MORTGAGE PROGRAM A MISERABLE FAILURE

NYTIMES: "U.S. Loan Effort Is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes"

Since President Obama announced the program in February, it has lowered mortgage payments on a trial basis for hundreds of thousands of people but has largely failed to provide permanent relief. Critics increasingly argue that the program, Making Home Affordable, has raised false hopes among people who simply cannot afford their homes.

As a result, desperate homeowners have sent payments to banks in often-futile efforts to keep their homes, which some see as wasting dollars they could have saved in preparation for moving to cheaper rental residences. Some borrowers have seen their credit tarnished while falsely assuming that loan modifications involved no negative reports to credit agencies.

Some experts argue the program has impeded economic recovery by delaying a wrenching yet cleansing process through which borrowers give up unaffordable homes and banks fully reckon with their disastrous bets on real estate, enabling money to flow more freely through the financial system.

... The Treasury Department publicly maintains that its program is on track. “The program is meeting its intended goal of providing immediate relief to homeowners across the country,” a department spokeswoman, Meg Reilly, wrote in an e-mail message.

But behind the scenes, Treasury officials appear to have concluded that growing numbers of delinquent borrowers simply lack enough income to afford their homes and must be eased out.

THAT'S CORRECT: THE RIGHT THING TO DO IS LET THE MARKET CORRECT ITSELF.

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN BETTER IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS STAYED COMPLETELY OUT OF THE HOUSING MARKET IN THE FIRST PLACE; (THE HOUSING BUBBLE WAS MOSTLY THE RESULT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ORDERING BANKS TO MAKE BAD LOANS VIA THE C.R.A. AND FANNIE MAE).

GOVERNMENT THAT GOVERNS LEAST GOVERNS BEST.

I BETCHYA OBAMA WOULD GIVE THE PROGRAM A SOLID B+.

Update: Scooped Instapundit by a day.

UPDATE #2: SCOOPED HOT AIR BY A DAY, TOO.

IS THE BBC WAKING UP?

THE THREE BIG LEAD STORIES ON THE BBC-TV TONIGHT - ALL ABOUT GLOBAL JIHAD.

(IF THE BEEB CAN WAKE UP, THEN MAYBE THE REST OF THE LEFT CAN, AND WE CAN DEFEAT THE JIHADIST ENEMY ONCE AND FOR ALL.)

FRANCE WELCOMES 2010 WITH 1137 CARS TORCHED

ABC:

Youths burned 1,137 cars across France overnight as New Year's Eve celebrations once again turned violent, the French Interior Ministry said on Friday.

Car burnings are regular occurrences in poor suburbs that ring France's big cities, but the arson is especially prevalent during New Year's Eve revelry.

OH, ER UM... THOSE SUBURBS: THEY'RE MOSTLY MUSLIM. BUT NEVER MIND. MOVE ALONG. NOTHING TO SEE HERE. BESIDES: THIS YEAR'S TOTAL IS 10 LESS THAN LAST YEAR, SO THEY'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

SHEESH.

UPDATE: SCOOPED MEMEORANDUM BY A DAY - AND: Gateway Pundit, Don Surber and Associated Press

BREAKING NEWS: DANISH MOHAMMED CARTOON CRISIS UPDATE: GUNFIRE OUTSIDE KURT WESTERGAARD'S HOME

Gunfire reported at the home of Kurt Westergaard, artist known for his Bomb-in-Turban Muhammad Cartoon.

According to the report three men tried to enter the premises but were stopped by police who guard the house 24/7.

One of the 3 perps was shot in the leg.

Police confirm that they now have massive presence at the address.

• UPDATE: THANKS FOR THE INSTALANCHE PROFESSOR. AND YES: WE SCOOPED HOT AIR AGAIN.

• WE SCOOPED DAN RIEHL, TOO - WHO HAS MORE.

• MEMEORANDUM HAS A ROUND UP.

• STAY TUNED. (A FEW PREVIOUS ASTUTE POSTS ON THE DANISH CARTOON CRISES HERE.)

• WE SCOOPED THE BBC AND SCOOPED THE TELEGRAPH, TOO. (BOTH LINKS VIA POWER LINE - WHO WE ALSO SCOOPED.)

• UPDATE #2: MORE HERE.

• REMINDER:

  Last year US authorities arrested two men in Chicago who were suspected of planning attacks on Mr Westergaard and his newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published the caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.

• OUR CONTEMPORANEOUS COVERAGE OF THE CHICAGO/DENMARK JIHAD CONNECTION HERE AND HERE.

NO COMMENT NECESSARY: In 75 per cent of gun crime in London the victim and suspect are both from black communities.

In 75 per cent of gun crime in London the victim and suspect are both from black communities.

IS IT DIFFERENT HERE? NOPE.

WIKI:

Patterns are found within the victimology of crime in the United States.

Overall, the financially disadvantaged, males, those younger than 25 and non European-Americans were more likely to fall victim to crime. Income, sex and age had the most dramatic effect on the chances of a person being victimized by crime, while the characteristic of race depended upon the crime being committed.

In 2005, 27 out of 1,000 African Americans became the victim of a violent crime, compared to 20 out of every 1,000 White Americans. African Americans were overall 35% more likely to sustain a violent crime. The likelihood of being murdered was drastically higher for African Americans.^[26] In 2004 African Americans constituted roughly 13.4% of the general population,^[27] yet, nearly half, 49%, of all murder victims in 2005 were African American.

OBAMA SHOULD ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM WITHIN CONTEMPORARY BLACK CULTURE/SUB-CULTURE.

BILL COSBY DID.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: WINNER OF THE NINE-HOUR NOSTRADAMUS AWARD!

It's nice to be noticed - along with 49 other blogs - by one of the absolute best in the blogosphere.

(MAYBE WE SHOULD RENAME THE AWARD TO "THE NOT-SO-DUMB-ASS AWARD"!)

REGARDING THAT HORRIBLE PHOTOSHOP OF OBAMA SHINING PALIN'S SHOES...

YES: IT'S HORRIBLE...



HE'S NOT WORTHY OF THE TASK.

MORE ON THE CONTROVERSIAL PHOTOSHOP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.

UPDATE: Scooped JWF by 3 hours on this - yes: he posted the same angle on it AFTER we did.

ROUNDUP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.

UPDATE: PLEASE SEE COMMENTS.

WASH POST: OBAMA'S TSA NOMINEE VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW AND LIED TO CONGRESS

UNBELIEVABLE:

The White House nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration gave Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws, documents obtained by The Washington Post show.

OBAMA MUST IMMEDIATELY WITHDRAW THE NOMINATION.

VIA MEMEORANDUM WHO HAS MORE.

Update: Scooped Instapundit by a few hours.

UPDATE #2: SCOOPED HOT AIR BY A DAY.

UPDATE #3: SCOOPED GATEWAY BY A DAY, TOO.

WHATTAYA CALL OBAMA'S ORATING STYLE? OBAMANURE

ONLY ONE YEAR IN AND OBAMA IS REALLY STINKING UP THE JOINT.

IN NOVEMBER 2010, WE'RE GONNA CLEAN HOUSE - AND THE SENATE!

A CONDOM, A CELLPHONE OR A GUN: WHICH PROTECTS YOU BEST FROM A RAPIST?

THIS IS WHY SELF DEFENSE - AND THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS - IS AN UNALIENABLE RIGHT.

PREDICTION 2010: BEN NELSON VOTES "NO" AND DEFEATS OBAMACARE

PREDICTION #1:

SENATOR BEN NELSON (D - NEBRASKA) WILL SAY HE'S VOTING "NO" BECAUSE THE JOINT-VERSION IS UNACCEPTABLE - GIVING HIM AN OUT, BUT THE REAL REASON WILL BE THAT IT'S SO HIGHLY UNPOPULAR THAT IT'S DRIVEN HIS POLL NUMBERS WAY WAY DOWN.

PREDICTION #2:

THE STOCK MARKET AND DOLLAR WILL BOTH GO UP AS A RESULT - THE FIRST TIME THEY BOTH RISE ON THE SAME DAY IN 2010.

THE HATRED CONTINUES: FATAH VERSUS HAMAS

INN: Fatah: Hamas is Harming Sick Gazans for Propaganda

Fatah sources in the Palestinian Authority accuse the Hamas government in Gaza of inventing a supposed “medicine shortage” and preventing sick patients from receiving treatment abroad.

The PA’s health ministry in Ramallah denies the Hamas reports about a shortage of hundreds of medicines and medical equipment in Gaza. Spokesman Dr. Omar Al-Nasser said that a Hamas announcement to this effect “has no truth, and is designed to create confusion and harm the morale of patients and citizens in the Gaza Strip.”

XINHUANET:

Hamas movement on Friday slammed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and described his speech on Thursday to mark the 45 year anniversary for establishing his Fatah party as "comic".

... Abbas slammed Hamas movement for keeping control of the Gaza Strip and refusing to sign on an Egyptian-drafted pact of reconciliation. He called on the Islamic movement to end the current split and sign on the pact.

FATAH AND HAMAS ARE BOTH EVIL TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS WHICH HAVE NO BUSINESS RUNNING A STATE.

PUTTING THEM IN CHARGE OF GAZA AND THE SO-CALLED WEST BANK IS A BLEND OF PUTTING THE TALIBAN IN CONTROL OF PAKISTAN, CAPONE IN CHARGE OF CHICAGO OR MUGABE OF RHODESIA.

ISRAEL CAN NO MORE MAKE PEACE WITH THIS SCUM THEN FDR COULD WITH HITLER OR LINCOLN WITH THE CONFEDERACY.

IOW: THEY MUST BE UTTERLY DEFEATED AND TERMS OF SURRENDER MUST BE DICTATED TO THEM, NOT NEGOTIATED.

BRRRRRRR!: COLDEST DECEMBER IN BRITAIN SINCE 1996

BRRRRRRR:

Heavy snowfall and seemingly permanent freezing temperatures have made this December the coldest for 13 years, UK forecasters said yesterday.

The chilliest December tem-peratures since 1996 were re-corded with most areas of the UK witnessing prolonged snowfall.

There was even snow on the ground in many parts of the UK on Christmas Day as the freezing temperatures prevented a thaw from taking hold.

AND MORE IS ON THE WAY.

AGW = BS.

PS: ALL MY LIBERAL FRIENDS WHO CALLED ME A NEANDERTHAL FOR DISBELIEVING THE LEFTIST PSEUDO-SCIENCE AGW CRAP FROM THE GET-GO OWE ME A HUGE FREAKIN APOLOGY.

ANOTHER JIHADO-TERRORIST PROBING ABOARD A JET IN CANADA?

NEWS ITEM HERE.

I THINK THE ENEMY IS PROBING US, TESTING US, LOOKING FOR OPENINGS.

THANK GOD WHAT THEY ARE FINDING IS THAT DESPITE GOVERNMENT/BUEAUCRATIC SHORTFALLS, THE PASSENGERS HAVE NOT BECOME COMPLACENT AND ARE READY TO ROLL.

DURING THE CAMPAIGN, OBAMA LIED ABOUT MIRANDIZING TERRORISTS

KISP HAS THE QUOTES AND LINKS.

BOTTOM-LINE: OBAMA IS A LYING, TERROR-ABETTING TRAITOR BENDING OVER BACKWARDS TO HELP THE ENEMY WHERE AND WHEN HE CAN.

OBAMA, AXELROD. RAHM: MACHINE UBER ALLES

NICE DEB:

Oh. My. Gosh.

On December 26, two days after Nigerian Omar Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use underwear packed with plastic explosives to blow up the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight he was on, and as it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its most embarrassing failure in the area of national security, senior Obama White House aides, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and new White House counsel Robert Bauer, ordered staff to begin researching similar breakdowns — if any — from the Bush Administration.

Let that sink in…instead of treating the issue as a national security problem, their first instinct was to treat it as a political one.

REPEAT:

Instead of treating the issue as a national security problem, their first instinct was to treat it as a political one.

REPEAT:

Instead of treating the issue as a national security problem, their first instinct was to treat it as a political one.

DID FDR DO THAT ON DECEMBER 8TH? DID DUBYA ON 9/12? SHEESH.

BY THEIR ACTIONS (PROSECUTING CIA AGENTS AND NAVY SEALS) AND INACTIONS (PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH AHMADINEJAD), THE ALINSKYITE APPARATCHIKS RUNNING THE WHITE HOUSE ARE MAKING US LESS SAFE.

WANT TO BE SAFER?

VOTE GOP IN 2010.

(VIA LARWYN.)

JIHADISTS ATTACK VOLLEYBALL GAME IN PAKISTAN - 25 MURDERED

NYTIMES/AP:

Bomber Attacks Volleyball Game in

Filed at 9:11 a.m. ET

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A suicide bomber set off an explosives-laden vehicle on a field during a volleyball tournament Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 25 people, police said.

WILD BEASTS HAVE MORE MORALS THAN THE JIHADIST SCUM.

PAKISTAN HAS TO DEMOLISH EVERY MADRASSA WHICH TEACHES JIHADISM.

AS LONG AS JIHADISTS ARE MADE, THE WORLD ISN'T SAFE FROM THEIR TERROR.

BRRRRRRR!: DENMARK FRRREEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZING!

It was 1.4 F last night in Copenhagen.

They are starting to talk about an icewinter in Denmark---where the brackish waterways freeze over:
The recent ice winters

Denmark has 15 times within the last 100 years had ice winters:

• 1995-96 1995-96
• 1986-87 1986-87
• 1985-86 1985-86
• 1984-85 1984-85
• 1981-82* 1981-82 *
• 1978-79 1978-79
• 1969-70 1969-70
• 1962-63** 1962-63 **
• 1955-56 1955-56
• 1946-47 1946-47
• 1941-42*** 1941-42 ***
• 1940-41 1940-41
• 1939-40** 1939-40 **
• 1928-29 1928-29
• 1923-24 1923-24

* Absolute cold record in Denmark was measured at -31.2 ° C in January in Hørsted in Thy.

** Coldest winters in Denmark, -3.5 ° C on average for December-February.

***Coldest isvinterperiode, -5.5 ° C from January to March.

The next 2 or 3 nights will also be as cold or cold.

AGW = BS.

ARIZONA MAYO CLINIC TO STOP TAKING MEDICARE PATIENTS

BLOOMBERG:

The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.

...Obama in June cited the nonprofit Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio for offering “the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.”

Mayo’s move to drop Medicare patients may be copied by family doctors, some of whom have stopped accepting new patients from the program, said Lori Heim, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, in a telephone interview yesterday.

SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK AS WELL AS THE PRIVATE MARKET.

INCREASING THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN HEALTHCARE IS EXACTLY THE WRONG DIRECTION.

DOCTORS HAVE A RIGHT TO CHARGE A FAIR FEE FOR THEIR HIGHLY SKILLED SERVICES.

THE SERVICE IS THEIRS TO SELL; IT BELONGS TO THEM; IT'S THEIR "PROPERTY".

THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO STEAL THEM.

A FAIR FEE IS AS MUCH AS THE TRAFFIC WILL BEAR.

THE CURRENT MEDICARE/MEDICAID SYSTEM IS BROKE, AND OBAMACARE IS WORSE.

INCREASING THE GOVERNMENT'S CONTROL OF HEALTHCARE IS BAD AND WRONG FOR YOUR HEALTH AND OUR NATION'S HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY.

WE MUSTN'T LET POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS AND THE UNIONS REDESIGN AND RUN OUR HEATLCARE SYSTEM.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

VIA MEMEORANDUM WHO HAS MORE.

Update: Scooped Instapundit by a few hours.

FSTOTD

FIRST SCARY THOUGHT OF THE DECADE:

ONE DAY WE'LL LOOK BACK AND SAY THESE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS!

DON'T LAUGH:

IF OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES GET THEIR WAY, THESE WILL HAVE BEEN THE LAST OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS!

FPOTD

FIRST POST OF THE DECADE.

IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT ONE!

ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND EVIDENCE THAT PARTS OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST WERE CLEAR CUT NEARLY ONE THOUSAND YEARS AGO

ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE PROOF THAT 700 YEARS AGO THE AMAZON RAINFOREST WAS CIVILIZED/POPULATED AND NOT A VAST "PRISTINE" TROPICAL JUNGLE:

With the aid of satellite imagery from Google Earth, soon archeologists in Brazil will be finding more and more large geometric designs carved into the ground in the Amazon rainforest.

The geoglyphs are believed to have been sculpted by ancient people from the Amazon region around 700 years ago, though their purpose is still unknown. So far, nearly 300 geoglyphs have been identified, but with advances in satellite imaging--and increased clearing of the jungle coverage--scientists are hoping to discover many more of these strange, geometric designs.

One of the factors that contributed to so many geoglyphs being undetected prior to the aid of satallites is their enormous size. According to leading geoglyph scientist Alceu Ranzi, his latest discoveries--five sets of geometric shapes, with circles, squares and lines--can measure more than a mile from one extreme to another.

You do not see them in field. There is a difference in the color of grass but is very thin. If there were no satellite images, there would be no possibility [of making these new discoveries].

Because they've been so hard to find, the first geoglyphs weren't discovered until the 1970s. Since then, scientists have been trying to piece together what significance they may have had to ancient Amazonians.

ANOTHER ECO-NUTSIE MYTH BITES THE DUST.

THE IDEA THAT ANCIENT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WERE GOOD STEWARDS OF THE EARTH, AND THE EVIL WHITE MAN COLONIZER/IMPERIALIST WAS BAD IS BS.

THE IDEA THAT THE RAINFOREST IS PRISTINE AND WAS ALWAYS UNTOUCHED IS BS, TOO.

UH-OH: UN MOVING FOREIGN STAFF OUT OF PAKISTAN

THEY MUST KNOW THINGS ARE ABOUT TO TAKE A TURN FOR THE WORSE:

The United Nations is moving as many as 60 foreign employees, or about one-quarter of its international staff, out of Pakistan for at least six months over safety concerns, a United Nations official said Thursday.

... The move is the latest sign of foreigners’ fears raised by intensified terrorist attacks in recent months throughout the country, including in better-guarded interior areas like the garrison city of Rawalpindi and the capital, Islamabad.

Militants based in northwestern Pakistan have escalated their attacks in retaliation for a Pakistani military offensive in the South Waziristan tribal area that began this fall. Two months ago, the United Nations said it was withdrawing international workers from northwestern Pakistan.

The presence of Western organizations in Islamabad has already declined significantly, and most diplomats and aid workers no longer venture out freely even in the tightly controlled capital.

I THINK BUSH SHOULD HAVE DROPPED A FEW SMALLISH NUKES ON TORA BORA IN 2001.

NOW, I THINK THE PAKISTANIS SHOULD DROP A FEW IN THE FATA.

UPDATE: SCOOPED MEMEORANDUM BY A DAY.

SEND OBAMA, REID AND PELOSI A MESSAGE: SCOTT BROWN FOR SENATE

GUARANTEED NOT PHOTOSHOPPED: OBAMA 2010: OUT WITH THE YOUNG AND IN WITH THE OLD

The duties of the office have a way of aging you...


One day, Obama will look back and regret his election as much as most of those who voted for him.

I WISH YOU ALL THE HAPPIEST AND HEALTHIEST AND MOST PROSPEROUS OF NEW YEARS!

MAY YOUR JOYS BE MULTIPLIED AND YOUR SORROWS CONSOLED!

MAY YOUR WISHES COME TRUE!

UNBELIEVABLE: "...the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decade!"

BOMBSHELL: THIS ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY AND UTTERLY DEMOLISHES THE ENTIRE AGW/CO2 THEORY.

THE CARBON TRADING BUBBLE WILL BURST AND CARBON MARKETS WILL COLLAPSE ON MONDAY.

(VIA PROFESSOR REYNOLDS.)

OBAMA AND HOLDER ISSUE AN ARREST WARRANT FOR CIA BOMBER'S BOSSES

The attacker killed 7 CIA agents including the station chief- a mother of three.

Obama and Holder probably want the bomber's bosses arrested, charged with murder and brought to trial in Chicago. TPM DOES.

The GOP would be happy if he and all his comrades were killed asap using all appropriate force.

What do you want?

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

PS: BETWEEN THIS AND THE KNICKER-BOMBER, ONE MUST SAY THAT PANETTA IS DOING A HECKUVA JOB!

I GIVE HIM A SOLID B+!

WHY FOX IS #1 IN THE RATINGS - BY FAR: THE NINE NEWS STORIES THE MSM IGNORED, BUT FOX COVERED

VIA GLENN: THE 9 BIG STORIES THE MSM IGNORED.

BUT FOX COVERED THEM ALL.

AND - AS A RESULT - FOX GOT MORE VIEWERS THAN THE REST OF CABLE NEWS COMBINED.

AND THEY HAVE ALL 10 OF THE TOP TEN RATED SHOWS.

YOU'D THINK THE SHAREHOLDERS OF GE AND DISNEY AND CBS WOULD BE ANGRY AT THE MSM EXECUTIVES WHO ARE OBVIOUSLY PUTTING POLITICS AHEAD OF NEWSWORTHINESS.

Europe not out of the woods: Spain and Greece teetering

NYT:

Day by day, fears are growing that Greece or another weak country may default on its sovereign debt obligations, forcing the richer countries in Europe to ride to the rescue or risk having one or more of its most vulnerable members leave the 16-nation euro zone.

Many European economists discount such a fracture as a remote possibility. But that doesn’t mean Europe has safely emerged from crisis.

... France and Germany have already emerged from the recession. Business confidence in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has hit a 17-month high.

Yet on the periphery, the hangover from more than five years of a credit-infused boom shows little sign of diminishing.

Ireland, the first economy to stumble, has taken the most severe fiscal action, cutting public wages sharply. A new Greek government, punished by the rough treatment of bond investors no longer willing to countenance soft promises of reform, is just now promising steep spending cuts. But it is not clear whether the political system in Greece will accept them.

Meanwhile, Spain, to the frustration of many major lenders, seems to be putting off difficult fiscal questions in the hope that its economy will soon recover.

Critics of the euro zone contend that weak governments in the peripheral economies, facing high unemployment and restive voters, will not have the stomach to hold down wages, pensions and public expenditures.

I THINK MUCH OF EUROPE WILL DO BADLY IN 2010 - THE PINKEST PARTS WILL DO THE WORST. TOO MUCH SOCIALISM YIELDS STAGNATION AND A TOP HEAVY GOVERNMENT - WHICH BECOMES A BALL AND JACK.

WHICH IS WHAT OBAMA DREAMS OF, REALLY. DREAMS FROM MY FUHRER AND THE AUDACITY OF MUSSOLINI, MARX AND GRAMSCI.

IT'S THE PROGRESSIVE WAY, DONTCHYA KNOW... TURN LEFT, AND KEEPING WALKING UNTIL YOU FALL OFF A CLIFF.

I THINK OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES WILL ATTEMPT TO ENLARGE THE GOVERNMENT RIGHT UP UNTIL THE NOVEMBER ELECTION.

THEN, THE VOTERS WILL GIVE THEM ALL A RUDE AWAKENING.

INDIAN ASTROLOIGICAL PREDICTIONS FOR 2010 - hey: it's more accurate than the models used to predict AGW!

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I wish you all a great, happy, healthy, prosperous and safe New Year!

BRRRRRRR!: EVEN BBC PRESENTER ADMITS 2010 IS GONNA BE FREEEEEEEZING!

PIGS FLY:

It's going to be a cold 2010

Andrew Neil | 11:27 UK time, Wednesday, 30 December 2009

As much of the country braces itself for further snow falls and freezing temperatures word reaches me from several US forecasters that the whole of the Northern Hemisphere is in for a very cold start to 2010. Apparently there's been a strong downspike in something called the Arctic Oscillation Index and the North Atlantic Oscillation Index is also strongly negative.

This alignment in both atmospheric circulation patterns in a downward direction has led some forecasters in North America to predict a bitterly cold snap for the first half of January for North America and Northern Europe. One AccuWeather senior meteorologist called Joe Bastardi is even forecasting

"cold of a variety not seen in over 25 years in a large scale is about to engulf the major energy consuming areas of the northern Hemisphere. The first 15 days of the opening of the New Year will be the coldest, population weighted, north of 30 [degrees] north world wide in over 25 years."

THE FACTORS CAUSING THE COOLING OF GLOBAL CLIMATE IN 2010 ARE REAL; THOSE WHICH WERE SUPPOSEDLY CAUSING AGW ARE NOT.

END OF STORY.

UPDATED - IBRAHIM SHKUPOLLI, DRUG DEALING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MURDERS 5

Ibrahim Shkupolli, an illegal immigrant from Albania, ended his life today after a shooting spree in a shopping center in Finland which followed the murder of his ex-wife. Ibrahim was known to the police in Finland:

The 44-year-old man who today went berserk with a gun in a shopping center at Espoo in Finland, also killed his ex-wife before [THE] shooting, says Finnish police to TV 2 News.

The 44-year-old Kosovo Albanians killed a total of five persons. Four o[IN] the mall and his ex-wife.

The 44-year-old man is already known to police.

He is among the second known to have come illegally into the country and for drug-related crime, said Parlee Lehmus Helsinki police to TV 2 News.

UPDATE:

Denmark's TV2 reported that the gunman had killed his ex-wife in a nearby apartment building before continuing on to the mall.

Mika Pettersson, editor in chief of Finnish news agency STT, said the gunman opened fire at Prisma supermarket in the shopping center.

"People saw a gunman, calm, walking out of the grocery store after shooting," he told CNN. "People first thought it was fireworks that had been exploding, but after they realized what had happened, there was a panic."

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: MSM IS ALREADY BLAMING THE GUN AND HIGH GUN OWNERSHIP RATE IN FINLAND: FROM THE BBC'S COVERAGE:

There is a long tradition of hunting in Finland, which has vast areas of forest and wilderness, but until recently gun crime has been rare.

But two deadly shootings in recent years focused attention on gun laws in a country where young people were permitted to own and use a firearm at 15 years of age if they had parental consent.

AP/DAILY NEWS, AGAIN:

Finland has a population of 5.3 million and is one of the top five nations in civilian gun ownership, with 1.6 million firearms privately owned, The AP reported.

The country has a history of shootings in schools. In both 2007 and 2008, student gunmen opened fire on their schools, killing several and then shooting themselves. Oddly enough, the students bought their .22-caliber handguns from the same store.

NOT A SINGLE MSM OUTLET IN THE USA IS MENTIONING HIS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT STATUS, HIS ETHNICITY, NATIONALITY OR RELIGION.

THEIR DENIAL, THEIR PC - LIKE OBAMA'S, LIKE ALMOST ALL ON THE LEFT - IS LITERALLY GETTING US KILLED AS IT KILLED THOSE AT FORT HOOD.

EXAMPLE OF POC IN THIS CASE, (NYT/AP):

Speaking at a news conference, [POLICE SUPERINTENDENT] Kaski also refused to discuss Shkupolli's nationality, but Finnish media reported he was an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo.

THIS IS INSANE.

WE NEED PROFILING AND WE NEED IT NOW.

AND THE PROFILE TO WATCH OUT FOR: RADICAL MUSLIM. (THAT IS, A MUSLIM WHO STRICTLY ADHERES TO THE KORAN, THE SURA, AND THE HADITHS.)

SCOOPED GATEWAY BY AN HOUR - HE NOW HAS ADDITIONAL LINKS.

Scooped The American Thinker, too.

1/1/10 - UPDATE:

Officials say the 43-year-old Albanian came to Finland in the 1990s, but could not obtain Finnish citizenship because of his criminal record, which includes illegal possession of a gun.

WE REPEAT: A MUSLIM WHO COULDN'T GET CITIZENSHIP BECAUSE OF HIS CRMINAL RECORD.

NYTIMES AGREES: AVATAR IS RACIST

THEY DON'T EXPLICITLY SAY IT, BUT ONE CAN INFER THAT THEY ACCEPT THAT THE NAVI ARE AFRICANS/BLACKS:

Designing to an Afro Beat

From left: Tina Tyrell; Béatrice de Géa for NYT; 20th Century Fox

From left: Suno, Rodarte, and the Na’vi in “Avatar.” More Photos >

THIS PROVES WHAT MANY CRITICS HAVE SAID ABOUT THE MOVIE: ALL THE BAD GUYS ARE WHITE MALES AND ALL THE GOODIES BLACKS.

THAT'S RACIST.

POLL: AMERICAN'S ECONOMIC CONFIDENCE RISING

WSJ:

U.S. consumers in December turned more optimistic as expectations rose to a two-year high, according to a report released Tuesday.

The Conference Board, a private research group, said its index of consumer confidence increased to 52.9 this month, from a revised 50.6 in November, which was originally reported as 49.5. The current month's reading was close to economists' projection of 53.0, according to a survey conducted by Dow Jones Newswires.

The present situation index, a gauge of consumers' assessment of current economic conditions, fell to 18.8 from a revised 21.2 in November, originally reported as 21.1. The December reading was the lowest since February 1983, the board said.

Consumer expectations for economic activity over the next six months increased to 75.6 from a revised 70.3, first reported as 68.5. The expectations index is at its highest since December 2007, the start of the U.S. recession.

"A more optimistic outlook for business and labor market conditions was the driving force behind the increase in the expectations index," said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board Consumer Research Center.

Sentiment about the current labor markets was little changed from November's showing. The percentage who think jobs are "hard to get" fell to 48.6% in December from 49.2% in November. And those who think jobs are "plentiful" slipped to 2.9% from 3.1%.

The employment outlook showed a bit more improvement. The percentage of consumers expecting more jobs in the months ahead rose to 16.2% in December from 15.8%, while those expecting fewer jobs fell to 20.7% from 23.1%.

Repeat:

The present situation index, a gauge of consumers' assessment of current economic conditions, fell to 18.8 from a revised 21.2 in November, originally reported as 21.1. The December reading was the lowest since February 1983, the board said.

People think that things really really suck right now. But that things should get better next year.

WHY?

The hate Obama's policies, but think they will be tempered next year.

AS EXPECTATIONS INCREASE THAT THE GOP WILL RETAKE CONGRESS IN 2010 AND PUT A BREAK ON OBAMA'S SOCIALIST "TRANSFORMATION" OF AMERICA, CONFIDENCE IN OUR ECONOMY WILL SOAR.

OBAMA SO FAR: NOT EVEN ONE YEAR IN, AND ALREADY TWO SUCCESSFUL ENEMY ATTACKS IN THE HOMELAND

OBAMA'S WATCH ISN'T YET A FULL YEAR OLD, AND THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN TWO SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS BY THE ENEMY ON OUR SOIL:

• FIRST, FORT HOOD,
• AND SECOND THE KNICKER-BOMBER, (ONLY A FAULTY DETONATOR STOPPED THE ATTACK).

BECAUSE OF THEIR ROLES IN THE "SYSTEMIC FAILURE" BLAIR AND PANETTA AND NAPOLITANO SHOULD ALL BE FIRED.

BUT LIBERAL OBAMA AND LIBERAL PC ARE ALSO TO BLAME.

LIBERALS BETTER CHANGE FAST.

OBAMA HAD BETTER CHANGE FAST.

OR THERE WILL BE ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL ATTACK.

PC MOVES - LIKE DECREASING OUR SECRECY RULES - ARE EXACTLY THE WRONG THING AT THE WRONG TIME.

AS ARE PROSECUTING NAVY SEALS AND CIA AGENTS.

THEY DE-MOTIVATE THOSE ON OUR FRONT LINES.

IF OBAMA IS SERIOUS ABOUT DEFENDING US THEN HE WILL RESCIND THESE THREE MOVES.

THEN AGAIN, IF OBAMA REALLY WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM AND/OR A RADICAL LEFTIST WHO WANTED THE USA TO LOSE, WOULD HE BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?

NOPE.

CHENEY AGREES:

"As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war.

“He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gets rid of the words, ‘war on terror,’ we won’t be at war. But we are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe. Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency – social transformation—the restructuring of American society. President Obama’s first object and his highest responsibility must be to defend us against an enemy that knows we are at war."

OUR ALLEGEDLY AMERICAN ALLEGEDLY CHRISTIAN ALLEGEDLY INTELLIGENT ALLEGEDY LOQUACIOUS PRESIDENT ALLEGEDLY MADE THESE REMARKS

Text of Obama’s prepared remarks:

Good morning, everybody.

I wanted to take just a few minutes to update the American people on the attempted ALLEGED terrorist attack that ALLEGEDLY occurred on Christmas Day and the steps we're ALLEGEDLY taking to ensure the safety and security of the country.

The investigation's ALLEGEDLY ongoing.

And I ALLEGEDLY spoke again this morning with ALLEGED Attorney General Eric Holder, the ALLEGED secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, and my ALLEGED counterterrorism and homeland security adviser, John Brennan. I ALLEGEDLY asked them to keep -- continue monitoring the situation to keep the ALLEGED American people and ALLEGED members of Congress informed.

Here's what we ALLEGEDLY know so far: On Christmas Day- ALLEGEDLY, Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was ALLEGEDLY en route from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit. As the plane ALLEGEDLY made its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a passenger allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device on his body, ALLEGEDLY setting off a fire.

Thanks to the ALLEGEDLY quick and heroic actions of passengers and crew, the ALLEGED suspect was ALLEGEDLY immediately subdued, the fire was ALLEGEDLY put out, and the plane ALLEGEDLY landed safely. The ALLEGED suspect is now ALLEGEDLY in custody and has been ALLEGEDLY charged with attempting to destroy an aircraft.

A full investigation has ALLEGEDLY been launched into this ALLEGEDLY attempted act of ALLEGED terrorism, and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.

Now, this was a serious reminder of the ALLEGED dangers that we ALLEGEDLY face and the ALLEGED nature of those who ALLEGEDLY threaten our ALLEGED homeland.

Had the ALLEGED suspect succeeded in bringing down that ALLEGED plane, it could have ALLEGEDLY killed nearly 300 ALLEGED passengers and crew, ALLEGEDLY innocent civilians ALLEGEDLY preparing to celebrate the holidays with their ALLEGED families and friends.

The American people should be assured that we are doing everything in our power to keep you and your family safe and secure during this ALLEGEDLY busy holiday season.

Since I was ALLEGEDLY first notified of this ALLEGED incident, I've ALLEGEDLY ordered the following actions to be taken to ALLEGEDLY protect the ALLEGED American people and to secure air travel.

ALLEGEDLY THIS IDIOT IS GONNA BE POTUS OFR THREE MORE YEARS.

I HOPE WE SURVIVE UNTIL NOIVEMBER 2010!

NIGERIAN KNICKERBOMBER A WAKE UP CALL FOR OBAMA AND HIS ACOLYTES

OBAMA AND HIS ACOLYTES ACTUALLY BELIEVED MERELY ELECTING OBAMA PRESIDENT WOULD MAKE US SAFER.

• OBAMA SAID AS MUCH DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN A RADIO INTERVIEW;

(LINKS TO VIDEO BY NAKED EMPEROR NEWS VIA HOT AIR WHO HAS COMMENTARY AND THREAD).

IDIOTS.

• AS IF WW4 WAS OUR FAULT - A REACTION TO OUR POLICIES OR ISRAELS.

IDIOTS.

• AS IF THE FACT THAT OBAMA WAS HALF-BLACK OR HALF-AFRICAN OR HAL;F MUSLIM WOULD MAKE EVERYONE LIKE US MORE AND REDUCE THE JIHADO-TERROR THREAT.

IDIOTS.

• IF THEY HAVEN'T WOKEN UP NOW, I SHUDDER TO THINK WHAT IT WILL TAKE.

FREUDIAN SLIP ALERT:

IN THIS CLIP OBAMA SAYS "MUSLIMS KNOW I MAY BE A CHRISTIAN" NOT "MUSLIMS KNOW I AM A CHRISTIAN."

UPDATE: WE CALLED IT A WAKE UP CALL ON TUESDAY, JEFF JACOBY AGREED ON WEDNESDAY.

Tuesday night lullaby

TIGER IN REHAB FOR SEX ADDICTION

WOODS IS GETTING HELP.

HE NEEDS IT. AFTER ALL, WHAT KIND OF MAN HAS SEX WITH AS MANY WOMEN AS HE HAS!?

ANSWER: ONLY THOSE WHO CAN. ER UM... ARE SICK AND NEED HELP.

WE'LL KNOW HE'S CURED IF, WHEN HE COMES OUT, HE SAYS HIS NAME IS ELDRICK.

THE VERY DEFINITION OF OPTIMIST: AFTER 11TH DIVORCE, MAN LOOKING FOR 12TH WIFE

OR MASOCHIST. OR IDIOT.

UH-OH: MAGNETIC POLAR SHIFT ACCELERATING

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC:

Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet's core, new research says.

The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field's movements by tracking how Earth's magnetic field has been changing at the surface and in space.

Now, newly analyzed data suggest that there's a region of rapidly changing magnetism on the core's surface, possibly being created by a mysterious "plume" of magnetism arising from deeper in the core.

And it's this region that could be pulling the magnetic pole away from its long-time location in northern Canada, said Arnaud Chulliat, a geophysicist at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France.

The magnetic north pole had moved little from the time scientists first located it in 1831. Then in 1904, the pole began shifting northeastward at a steady pace of about 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year.

In 1989 it sped up again, and in 2007 scientists confirmed that the pole is now galloping toward Siberia at 34 to 37 miles (55 to 60 kilometers) a year.

... Scientists had long suspected that, since the molten core is constantly moving, changes in its magnetism might be affecting the surface location of magnetic north.

Although the new research seems to back up this idea, Chulliat is not ready to say whether magnetic north will eventually cross into Russia.

"It's too difficult to forecast," Chulliat said.

Also, nobody knows when another change in the core might pop up elsewhere, sending magnetic north wandering in a new direction.

NO WONDER OUR PRESIDENT HAS HIS HEAD UP HIS ASS!