"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, January 09, 2010

BRRRRRRR!: WINTER GETTING WORSE IN EUROPE

BBC HAS A CONTINENTAL ROUND UP; HIGHLIGHTS:
  • German households have been advised to keep three or four days' worth of provisions, including alternative cooking fuel in case of power cuts. Among the essential items listed by the BBK is a battery-powered radio, for checking weather reports.
  • France is also braced for more snow. Meteo France warned: "The amount of snow expected is significant, exceptional even."
  • Nearly 140 people have frozen to death in the past few weeks in Poland, and in Switzerland, heavy snow has cut the flow of lorries through Alpine tunnels.
  • In the UK, which is suffering its worst winter for decades, Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged that gas supplies would not run out, and that road salt will get to "where it is most needed".
  • Temperatures have dropped as low as -22C (-8F) in some parts.
  • In the Netherlands, icebreakers have been deployed to clear shipping routes such as the Twente canal, the harbours of Almelo and Enschede and the Ijsselmeer inland sea.
  • Northern Spain is expecting more heavy snowfalls while the country's south has been hit by severe floods.
AGW = BS.

REMEMBER:

THE LEFT IS AS CORRECT ABOUT HEALTHCARE, THE ECONOMY AND NATIONAL SECURITY AS THEY WERE ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING.

KHOST PROVES THAT THE CIA IS BROKEN

VIA HOT AIR: KHOST PROVES THAT THE CIA IS BROKEN:
In the Cold War, no more than a pair of officers would meet a source. It seems that in the clamour to use al-Balawi to get to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian physician who is al-Qaeda's number two, basic procedures were abandoned.
RTWT.

OR MAYBE IT PROVES THAT THERE IS A MOLE MUCH HIGHER UP THE CHAIN WHO TOLD THE BOMBER WHAT TO DO, WHEN TO DO IT AND WHERE?

HOW DID THE BOMBER KNOW HOW CRITICAL THIS LOCATION AND THESE AGENTS WERE?

DID THEY TELL HIM, IDIOTICALLY?!
DID THEY TELL JORDANIAN HIGHER UPS?!
DID THEY TELL PAKISTANI HIGHER UPS?
DID THEY TELL CONGRESS!?

THERE SHOULD BE AN INVESTIGATION BY CONGRESS - A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS IN 2011.

DEMINT IS RIGHT: UNIONS AND NATIONAL SECURITY DON'T MIX - AND THE NEWARK AIRPORT FIASCO PROVES IT

DEMINT:
Demint says airport security personnel should not be tied up with unions. “There is a reason collective bargaining was prohibited from airport security,” he says. “It is very different from a local police department. They’re having to deal with international threats as we saw on Christmas Day. They have to constantly be changing. There is no good security reason that we should submit this to collective bargaining. All it is is politics. The President promised the unions that he would bring these 50,000 people into unions.”
BBC - VIA NRO:
The stunning breach was missed by TSA guard Ruben Hernandez, who left his post, but was called a "model employee" by a union official.
THIS A TSA UNION OFFICIAL DEFENDING AN INCOMPETENT WITH NO BUSINESS DEFENDING US.

DEMINT IS RIGHT. HE ALMOST ALWAYS IS.

IT'S TIME OBAMA FIRED BRENNAN

GURWITIZ/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS:
John Brennan, deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security, went on “Fox News Sunday” last week to defend intelligence agencies that failed to identify the threat from attempted bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

“There was no smoking gun,” Brennan contended. “There was no piece of intelligence that said, ‘This guy's a terrorist. He's going to get on a plane.' No, not whatsoever.”

No, not at all. Not his father denouncing him to the CIA, not the extended vacation in blissful Yemen, not the one-way ticket paid with cash or the lack of checked luggage. As Inspector Clouseau might have said, “Neuw one told us he had behm.”

Brennan was using the language of the CYA, the governmental bureaucracy that exists solely to protect its members' posteriors. It was the same language used a week prior when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano — who was thoroughly chastised — and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs — who curiously was not — suggested that the Undiebomber's failure represented some sort of success.

Americans don't like to hear CYA, especially when national security is involved. Which is why four days after the attempted bombing and two days after the bumbling of Napolitano and Gibbs, President Obama belatedly recognized the need to talk about “systemic failure.” And it's why three days after Brennan's gaffe about insufficient intelligence, Obama used some of his toughest words yet in the war on terr ... er, man-caused disasters.

“The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack,” the president said. “But our intelligence community failed to connect those dots.”

I AGREE. CALLED BRENNAN A CYA TURD A FEW DAYS AGO HERE.

YES: THE "COMMUNITY" FAILED.

BUT THE PERSON WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE SURE THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN WAS BRENNAN.

HE MUST GO. KEEPING HIM SENDS THE WRONG MESSAGE.

BRRRRRRR!: The USA has cooled at a rate of 11F/century since 1998

C3:
As of December 31, 2009: 12-Year U.S. Cooling Trend Is Now -11.03°F Per Century

Source here.

... If the trend for the U.S. were to continue, temperatures would drop some 11 degrees over a 100 year span - that's global cooling on steroids, which (we hope) is not likely to happen.
THE SOURCE IS NOAA!

IOW: AGW = BS.

NO.

AGW = TFBS.

ARREST RUSH LIMBAUGH FOR RACISM! TAKE HIM OFF THE RADIO! DON'T LET HIM INTO THE NFL!

RUSH IS A RACIST FOR SAYING:

  • OBAMA IS A LIGHT-SKINNED NEGRO
  • WHO TALKS NICE
  • WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST NEGRO DIALECT
  • AND WHO ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO WOULD'VE BEEN BRINGING HIM COFFEE!

Oh... never mind, sorry. It wasn't Rush Limbaugh - (who was tarred and feathered as a racist though he never said a racist thing ever).

That was Joe Biden, Harry Reid and Bill Clinton.

Never mind. After all these guys atre Democrats and LIBERALS, and only conservatives and well don'tchya know ALL conservatives are racists.

So never mind.

GUMBY CREATOR DEAD AT AGE 89


NICE OBIT HERE.

RIP.

NEWARK AIRPORT TRESPASSER ARRESTED, BUT THE REAL CULPRIT IS THE TSA: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT AND JAMMIE WEARING FOOL BY A DAY

INSTAPUNDIT TONIGHT:

MORE ON THE NEWARK DEBACLE: “This guy just comes off as a knucklehead. The one who needs to be accountable is the idiot ’security’ person who let him slip by.” Yeah, it’s not like he’s Halle Berry or something.

Posted at 6:41 pm by Glenn Reynolds
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS YESTERDAY:
The man, Haisong Jiang, 28, was taken into custody at 7:30 p.m. at his home in Piscataway, N.J., according a statement from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The agency said he would be charged with defiant trespass.
THE REAL CRIME IS THAT THERE WAS NO SECURITY GUARD THERE AND NO BACKUP VIDEO.

THEY SHOULD CHARGE OBAMA AND NAPOLITANO, NOT JIANG.
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SYRIA'S LAST ARAMAIC SPEAKERS


WHAT IS NOW SYRIA WAS ONCE CHRISTIAN - UNTIL MUSLIM INVADERS TERRORIZED IT INTO SUMBISSION AND CONVERSION.

JUST LIKE THEY'RE TRYING TO DO NOW ALL OVER THE GLOBE.

JEWS GO WAY BACK THERE, TOO:
According to "the patriarchs Abraham and Isaac spent part of their lives in what is now Syria. During and after the late Biblical period, and until the late 19 th Century, Syria and Eretz Israel were often territories of the same superpower and were sometimes considered a single entity. The Talmudic Sages ruled that some of the religious laws that pertain only to the land of Israel (chiefly in the realm of agriculture) apply to Syria as well."

The foundation for the Great Synagogue in Aleppo is believed to have been constructed by King David's General, Joab ben Seruya (circa 950 BCE), after his conquest of the city (2 Sam 8:3-8); it is still sometimes referred to as Joab's Synagogue. The architecture of the synagogue was heavily influenced by the designs of Muslim mosques. For example, the ark of the synagogue is an exact copy of a mosque’s mihrab.

Walter Zenner dates the building of the Great Synagogue to the fifth Century of the Common Era. The synagogue was destroyed during the rule of Tamerlane in 1400 and was rebuilt in 1418. In 1947 anti-Zionist groups burned the synagogue, which was in an abandoned state by 1995.

JEWS AN CHRISTIANS WERE NEVER THE IMPERIALIST INVADERS THE LEFT AND THE JIHADISTS WANT YOU TO BELIEVE THEY WERE.

THE MUSLIMS ARE THE INVADERS AND THE OCCUPIERS.

Updated: JORDANIAN MD/CIA BOMBER MADE JIHADIST VIDEO BEFORE SUICIDE ATTACK

UPDATED BELOW...

NYTIMES:
The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan said in video clips broadcast posthumously Saturday that all jihadists must attack U.S. targets to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.

Footage showed Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi -- whom the CIA had cultivated as an asset against al-Qaida -- sitting with Mehsud's successor in an undisclosed location. It essentially confirmed the Pakistani Taliban's claim of responsibility for one of the worst attacks in CIA history, though a senior militant told The Associated Press that al-Qaida and Afghan insurgents played roles, too.
This is why Bush should have nuked Tora Bora in 2001.

  • Bush could have erased the Taliban and al Qaeda in one fell swoop and sent the best most awesome powerful message to anyone who would attack us: "Don't tread on us; we will respond without limit!"

  • Saddam would've disarmed, registered as a libertarian and converted to Buddhism.

  • Recognizing the existential threat, Muslim states would've seriously cracked down on the "radicals" in their midst - as Egypt mostly does.

But Bush was moderate who was unwilling to do what FDR and Truman did: fight total war, no holds barred.

As a result of Bush's half-assery, we are bogged down in a war of attrition in the lawless tribal regions of Afghanistan for the 9th year. As a result of Bush's half-assery, we have CIA agents on the border directing drone attacks in an attempt to counter-attack with pin-point pin-pricks against the Taliban leadership and al Qaeda leadership.

BUT: A nuke in November of 2001 would've ended the GWOT with a victory for the good guys then and there. We'd have ZERO troops and ZERO CIA agents in Afghanistan - or anywhere else.

YES: NUKES!

Truman nuked Japan - and not only won the war, but saved about 20 million lives --- most of them Japanese.

FDR started the Manhattan Project and built our nukes ASAP in order to get them before the enemy - and to use them on the enemy before the enemy could use them on us.

FDR was right to do so.

FDR - and Truman - wanted to win at all costs.

That's the right way to fight a war.

Or, look at it this way:

Thinking you can win a war using half-measures violates a law of physics: we must be at least as violent as the enemy.

Newton:

Newton's third law: law of reciprocal actions

Newton's Third Law.

Lex iii: actioni contrariam semper et æqualem esse reactionem: sive corporum duorum actiones in se mutuo semper esse æquales et in partes contrarias dirigi.

''To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction: or the forces of two bodies on each other are always equal and are directed in opposite directions''.

If we don't use superior force to the enemy, then we either remain in a constant state of war or begin we begin to lose.

And in a war in which we have a lot to lose and very high costs for defending ourselves - and the enemy has nothing to lose and no assets to protect - the strategy to fight a half-assed war makes zero sense.

The jihadist enemy can use and has used a few hundred dollars of PETN and forces us to spend billions. Billions.

This is a losing game for us, not them.

If we want to win, then we need to fight a total war.

Now, this Jordanian MD - an intelligent and educated man who deliberately chose jihad - brings to mind a question:

  • Who knows more about Islam, Bin Laden & Zawahiri or George Bush & Hillary Clinton? (just picking 4 examples; there are countless others.)
  • Which is to really ask, is there any true, real factual and meaningful basis for calling Islam a religion of peace?

Obviously not. The entire history of Islam - and how it's currently practiced by its most devout members - proves it is a violent, misogynistic and genocidal martial creed.

It should be erased from the face of the earth and eradicated from the annals of humanity.

Islam should be no more tolerated than Nazism.

In fact: Islam is worse than Nazism.

Islam is the most genocidal creed of all time and has killed more people than any other ideology in all of human history.

It's long passed time it was demolished.

By whatever means necessary.

Or do what "reasonable moderates" ask: put your head up your ass and cross your fingers, and put your faith in a surge of air marshals and connecting the dots.

You want some dots to connect?

I'll give you some dots to connect:
  • islam
  • mecca
  • the koran
  • genocide

It's them or us.

I say we should erase them from the face of the earth.

Start with dropping a few small nukes on the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Then - if they don't get the message - a few small nukes on Yemen. Then Somalia. Then Iran and its stooges. Then Algeria and so on. I think the Muslim world will get the message after the first nuke goes off on top of the Taliban.

FDR would've done it. Truman did.

It will save lives and lead to victory.

Or we can slowly allow the West to be bankrupted and islamified.

The choice is ours: lose a war of attrition or win a total war.

If we dither until Iran has a nukes, then we've lost both.

(ADDENDUM: More on the morality of using nukes HERE and HERE and HERE.]

UPDATED:

OBAMA CONSIDERS HIMSELF FREE TO IGNORE NEW LAWS HE CONSIDERS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

NYTIMES:
The Obama administration is lowering the volume in a long-running argument between Congress and the executive branch over when, if ever, a president has the power to bypass federal statutes he has signed into law.

Legal scholars said the administration’s new approach, which avoids repeating claims of executive power that the White House has previously voiced, could avoid setting off fights with lawmakers. But the approach will make it harder to keep track of which statutes the White House believes it can disregard, or to compare the number of laws challenged by President Obama with former President George W. Bush’s record.

In Mr. Obama’s first months in office last year, he followed recent precedent and frequently issued statements, when signing bills into law, that the executive branch could disregard provisions that he considered unconstitutional restraints on executive power.

But Mr. Obama has not issued a signing statement since last summer, when one claim set off a bipartisan uproar in Congress. And the administration has decided that Mr. Obama will sometimes sign bills containing provisions it deems problematic without issuing a signing statement that challenges those sections.

Still, the administration will consider itself free to disregard new laws it considers unconstitutional, especially in cases where it has previously voiced objections elsewhere, officials said.
PRESIDENTS SHOULD VETO LAWS WITH PROVISIONS THEY THINK ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL OR TAKE THEM TO THE SCOTUS RIGHT AWAY.

THE POTUS CAN'T MAKE THESE CALLS UNILATERALLY.

IT'S A DANGEROUS PLACE TO BE.

UPDATED: MORE ANTI-CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE IN MALAYSIA

REUTERS:
Arsonists in Malaysia struck another church on Saturday, bringing the attacks on churches to four in two days as a row escalates over the use of the word Allah to refer to the Christian God.

World

The attacks risk dividing the mainly Mulsim nation of 28 million people with significant religious minorities and complicating Prime Minister Najib Razak's plan to win back support from the non-Muslims before the next elections by 2013.

"I have just been informed by the bishop of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church that his church was firebombed in the early hours of the morning," Reverend Herman Shastri, secretary-general to the Council of Churches Malaysia, told Reuters.

"We ask the government to make a strong statement to these wrongdoers so we can worship in peace on Sunday."

BECAUSE ISLAM IS IN PERPETUAL WAR WITH ALL "INFIDELS", THE BEST THE CHRISTIANS'LL GET IS A HUDNA FROM THE ISLAMOTHUGS.

(PREVIOUS POST HERE.)

UPDATE: SCOOPED ATLAS AND SPENCER AND MEMEORANDUM BY A DAY:
Niluksi Koswanage / Reuters:
Fourth church attacked in Malaysia as Allah row deepens
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs

Friday, January 08, 2010

BREAKING: NEWARK AIRPORT TRESSPASSER FOUND AND CHARGED

NYTIMES/AP:
The man who is believed to have slipped into a secured area of Newark Liberty International Airport and to have caused a six-hour shutdown of a major terminal on Sunday has been arrested, Port Authority officials said on Friday night.Passengers fill the terminal after a security breach shut down Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark on Jan. 3.

The man, Haisong Jiang, 28, was taken into custody at 7:30 p.m. at his home in Piscataway, N.J., according a statement from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The agency said he would be charged with defiant trespass.

THE REAL CRIME IS THAT THERE WAS NO SECURITY GUARD THERE AND NO BACKUP VIDEO.

THEY SHOULD CHARGE OBAMA AND NAPOLITANO, NOT JIANG.

Lord Carey - the former Archbishop of Canterbury - has called for a sharp limitation of immigration to stop the islamization of Britain


BRAVO! FROM DAMIAN THOMPSON:

We have had to wait decades for this moment, but it has finally happened. A leading British clergyman has said something sensible about immigration.

Lord Carey of Clifton, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, this week signed a declaration by the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration calling for an urgent tightening of borders to stop the British population reaching 70 million by 2029.

He also gave an interview yesterday in which he called for a tougher Church. "We Christians are very often so soft that we allow other people to walk over us, and we are not as tough in what we want, in expressing our beliefs, because we do not want to upset other people," he said.

Tougher church … people walking all over us … controls on immigration: it really is not all that difficult to join the dots.

Later in the interview, Lord Carey almost joined them for us, suggesting that there might be a "points system" based on respect for Britain's Christian heritage.

Some of Lord Carey's critics will accuse him of blowing a dog whistle to racists. That is nonsense. Lord Carey is a veteran anti-racist: he enjoys the sort of following among African evangelicals that Bill Clinton did among black Americans.

But if Lord Carey were accused of whistling to Christians worried by the prospect of millions of dogmatic Muslims in Britain, then he would find it difficult to rebut the charge.

Politicised Islam is at the forefront of his mind: he knows that Britain's evangelical Christians are fed up with being told to develop ever closer ties with their Muslim neighbours.

... In the long term, the future of Western civilisation can be secured only by an alliance between Christians and secularists against the totalitarian ideology of Islamism.

That is a strange prospect; and even more uncomfortable is the realisation that Christianity's survival as a mass movement may depend on something as prosaic as immigration control.

But that is surely what Lord Carey is hinting at, and it is brave of him to do so

BRAVO! RTWT.

In related news:

DANES ORGANIZE TO STOP CONSTRUCTION OF HUGE IRANIAN FINANCED MOSQUE.

IT'S NOW OR NEVER FOR EUROPE: STOP ISLAMIZATION OR ENTER 1000 YEARS OF DARKNESS UNDER ISLAM.

SAN REMO 1995

SAN REMO, ITALY: A MUSIC FESTIVAL/CONTEST WHERE ROCK AND OPERA MEET POP BALLADS AND DANCE MUSIC.

ONE OF THE BEST YEARS EVER: 1995

(MORE HERE AND HERE.)

3 OF MY FAVORITES:

GEORGIA:



GIANNI MORANDI AND BARBARA COLA:



FRANCESCA SCHIAVO:



I AM AMAZED THIS STUFF HAS NEVER BEEN COVERED IN ENGLISH.

CHARLES HURT/NYPOST: HILLARY WAS RIGHT: OBAMA NOT READY FOR THAT 3AM PHONE CALL

VIA HOT AIR: Turns out Hillary Rodham Clinton was right all along.

During the nastiest battle of the entire 2008 presidential race, she aired an alarming television commercial warning voters that they would come to regret nominating Barack Obama to occupy the White House.

If -- in a national security crisis -- the "red phone" rang at 3 a.m., the ad intoned, Obama would not hear it.

Or he would fail to answer it.

Or he would be on vacation.

In any case, an Obama White House would so diminish the threat of terrorism that the government's focus would shift away from the harsh and determined tactics used to protect the homeland.

Instead, Obama would turn his attention to becoming more popular in the world and stress negotiations over hardball tactics.

This attitude from the commander in chief would trickle down to every corner of the federal government responsile for national security.

Obama lashed out at Clinton, dismissing her and accusing her of desperation and playing upon people's fears.

"Sen. Obama says that if we talk about national security in this campaign, we're trying to scare people," replied Clinton, appropriately mystified.

Well, yesterday those chickens came home to roost.

BUT IT'S ACTUALLY WORSE THAN THAT:

OBAMA ISN'T READY FOR THE 9AM PHONE CALL EITHER!

NO WONDER OBAMA PICKED HIM: OBAMA'S CHIEF ANTI-TERROR ADVISOR LET BIN LADEN GET AWAY

JAWA:
... the most important piece of info comes from former head man in charge of hunting bin Laden, Michael Scheuer. The guy is no Bush partisan. In fact you may recall him from his outspoken criticism of how The war in Iraq diverted resources away from Tora Bora -- yet another time (maybe) that bin Laden got away. He's also been fairly critical of US foreign policy in general.

But here's the big takeaway:

... one of the officers who got killed had arranged an operation in 1998 that would have killed or captured Osama bin Laden. And Mr. Brennan was instrumental in preventing that operation from occurring. Instead he said the Americans should trust the Saudis to take care of bin Laden.

So it's a painful-- it's a painful death, but more importantly it's a death that didn't need to occur had Mr. Clinton -- Mr. Brennan, George Tenet, and Mr. Berger had the courage to try to defend Americans.

And now the guy is Obama's chief advisor on terrorism.
I WATCHED THIS TURD BRENNAN ON THE TV TALKS SHOWS AND HE'S NOTHING BUT A C.Y.A. OBAMA APOLOGIST AND A DOUBLE-TALKING APPEASER.

HE SHOULD BE FIRED.

UNLESS OBAMA WANTS MORE ATTACKS.

OBAMA'S ANTISEMITISM IS BEGINNING TO SHOW: THREATENS ISRAEL WITH SANCTIONS

WZ:

Commit suicide or we'll stop giving loaning you money (roughly 1% of Israel's GDP)...not much of a choice if you ask me...

WASHINGTONOn eve of visit to region, American special envoy threatens Israel with sanctions if it fails to advance peace talks, two-state solution. Secretary of State Clinton says working to restart negotiations 'without preconditions'

Mitchell clarified in an interview to the PBS network that the United States would use incentives or sanctions against both sides. According to American law, Mitchell said, the US can freeze its support for aid to Israel. He added that all options must remain open and that the sides must be convinced about what their important interests are.
THIS IS STANDARD LEFTIST ANTI-ISRAEL POSITION - TO BE FOLLOWED BY IMPOSING A "SETTLEMENTS" AND INSERTING US/NATO TROOPS TO ENFORCE IT.

BTW: GEORGE MITCHELL - IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW - IS HALF LEBANESE; HIS MOTHER WAS FROM LEBANON.

BRITAIN AS COLD AS THE SOUTH POLE

IN BRITAIN, IT'S COLD AND GETTING COLDER:
Britain remained in the grip of the coldest winter for more than 30 years today, with conditions set to feel even more icy in the coming days.

Temperatures were already on a par with the South Pole after the country suffered its coldest night of the winter so far.

There will be little respite, with more snow in eastern England today and temperatures likely to be pegged at or below freezing in all areas.

AGW = BS.

JUST AS PREDICTED: FEDERAL JUDGES BEGIN TOSSING OUT CHARGES AGAINST GITMO DETAINEES

JWF:
Here we go folks. It has started. Our wonderful judicial system in action. A federal judge has begun tossing evidence in the trial of a terrorism suspect because the confessions or evidence were coerced.
A federal judge has tossed out most of the government's evidence against a tarrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.

In a ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan also said the government failed to establish that 23 statements the detainee made to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were untainted by the earlier coerced statements made while he was held under harsh conditions in Afghanistan.
FIRST THEY TOSS OUT THE EVIDENCE; THEN THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO TOSS OUT THE CHARGES...

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY BUSH AND CONGRESS WROTE THE MILITARY TRIBUNAL ACT.

EITHER OBAMA AND HOLDER KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN - AND THEY ARE TRAITORS, OR THEY DIDN'T AND THEY ARE TOTAL EFFIN' MORONS.

OR BOTH.

OUR MILITARY CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO GATHER EVIDENCE LIKE CSI OR TREAT DETAINEES AND PRISONERS LIKE PEOPLE ARRESTED IN THE USA.

IT'S IDIOTIC.

AND IT MAKES US LESS SAFE.

OBAMA HAS MADE US LESS SAFE.

HE NEEDS TO GO.

THE SOONER THE BETTER.

US PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE IRAN CONFLICT, SAYS TOP UNIFORMED OFFICER

From the Jerusalem Post:

The US does not want to see confrontation with Iran but is still preparing its military for that possibility, America's top uniformed officer said Thursday.

"We've looked to do all we can to ensure that conflict doesn't break out there, while at the same time preparing forces, as we do for many contingencies that we understand might occur," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during an appearance at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Mullen was even more definitive when asked to assess whether Teheran was seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.

"I believe that they're on a path that has a strategic intent to develop nuclear weapons and have been for some time," he said.

Mullen's words were echoed by a report in The New York Times this week that US President Barack Obama's top advisers say "they no longer believe the much disputed National Intelligence Estimate from 2007, which assessed that Iranian scientists ended all work on designing a nuclear warhead in 2003.

If the top-ranking General is saying it, I think we can safely assume that that, coupled with the fact that the Obama admin. has denied it's belief in the NIE, points to the conclusion that the Obama Administration wants it to appear the United States is going to do something about Iran.

I happen to believe there is no way in hell Barack Obama would try to stop Iran from attaining nuclear weapons.

I think this is a head fake, by Obama, to ensure that Israel does not feel the need to attack Iran.

UPDATE: HOT AIR POSTED A LINK TO THE SAME ARTICLE AN HOUR AFTER US - WHICH IS GETTING TO BE A PATTERN AND HAPPENS SO OFTEN THAT WE'RE BEGINNING TO THINK ALLAHPUNDIT STEALS THE HOT-LINKS IN OUR HOT POSTS WITHOUT GIVING US A HAT-TIP. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

UPDATE #2:


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"Iranian state TV: The video of Neda’s murder was faked": THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS THE NEW YORK TIMES AND HOT AIR

NYT

According to the Press TV report (embedded below), the documentary argues that “forensic evidence and statements by security officials show Neda was not killed in the way shown by Western media. Neda was in fact killed after playing the role in a plot whose fake pictures were shown over and over again.”

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS HAD THIS STORY YESTERDAY.

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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE IN LIBERAL CITIES AT DEPRESSION LEVELS

NYTIMES:
Richard Persichetti, director of New York research for Grubb & Ellis, said that when the economy started to slide, office rents fell faster than in any period recorded in at least 50 years. The city has become stuck with more available office space than any other central business district in the nation except Chicago, Washington and Boston. Mr. Persichetti predicts it will take until 2014 to make a major turnaround.

“Rents probably won’t start to recover until job growth is created and some of that available space is absorbed,” he said.

HMMM THE BIG THREE OBAMA CITIES: DC, CHICAGO AND BOSTON (VIA TEDDY).

D'YA THINK LIBERAL POLICIES HAVE A LITTTLE EFFECT?

YES.

HIGH TAX CITIES IN HIGH TAX STATES ARE NOT AS GOOD AT GROWING AS LOW TAX CITIES IN LOW TAX STATES.

GEORGE GALLOWAY NOT WELCOME IN EGYPT

I never thought a country he'd likely be in support of would turn against him, but they have:
Egypt has declared renegade British politician George Galloway persona non grata, accusing him of incitement after his harsh criticism of Cairo over delays in an aid convoy's entry into Gaza.

A Foreign Ministry statement on Friday said Galloway will not be allowed to enter Egypt again. The activist left Egypt that morning from Cairo airport.

Galloway led more than 500 activists as part of an international aid convoy to Gaza. They entered late Wednesday from Egypt after a month on the road.

On Tuesday clashes erupted between members of the convoy and Egyptian riot police in the Mediterranean port city of El-Arish, and dozens of protesters and police were injured.

The convoy was organized by the Britain-based group Viva Palestina, which planned to deliver hundreds of tons of aid.
How ironic that a politician who'd doubtless approve of Egypt's Islamic-run regime, which is slowly getting worse in its treatment of Christians, would be shunned by the very same Islamists whom you'd think would actually like him.

Thursday, January 07, 2010

MUSLIMS ATTACKING CHURCHES IN MALAYSIA

IT AIN'T OVER THE USA OR ISRAEL OR IRAQ OR GITMO. OR BUSH OR LIKUDNIKS OR NEOCONS:

NYTIMES:
Assailants attacked three Malaysian churches with firebombs Friday, extensively damaging one amid a growing conflict over the use of the word ''Allah'' by non-Muslims, officials said.

The attacks sharply escalated tensions in the Muslim-majority country ahead of planned protests by Muslims later Friday against a Kuala Lumpur High Court verdict which struck down a 3-year-old ban on non-Muslims using ''Allah'' in their literature.

The Dec. 31 court decision incensed many Muslims, who see it as a threat to their religion. Hateful comments and threats against Christians have been posted widely on the Internet, but this is the first time the controversy has turned destructive.

The ruling was on a petition by Malaysia's Roman Catholic Church, whose main publication, the Herald, uses the word Allah in its Malay-language edition.

ISLAM IS NOT ONLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH MODERNITY - IT'S INCOMPATIBLE WITH ALL OTHER RELIGIONS.

THERE IS NO PLACE FOR IT UNDER THE SUN.

THERE WILL BE NO PEACE UNTIL HUMANITY BANISHES IT FOREVER.

Rollingstone Writes Rambling, 10,000+ Word Article About Genocide In Darfur And Only Mentions Jihad Once

... and fails to use the word Islam a single time.

Look at the Google Cache page.

In one passsage they describe the breakdown of the peace talks which could have gotten the "refugees" (read Infidels) out of the camps and back into their homeland. See if you can decipher what the fuck is going on here (by the way, it is important to note that Minnawi and Abdul Wahid are negotiating for the "refugees, while the other names are the names of either U.N. players, or Arab Sudanese government leaders) :

The mediators gathered in a conference room, and called in Minnawi and Abdul Wahid, one after the other, Zoellick and Obasanjo working them over. Frazer, who had accompanied Zoellick to the talks, had visited Abdul Wahid in his hotel room earlier that day. The rebel leader had been putting on his tie, getting ready to sign the peace agreement. "He was so happy," Frazer recalls. The deal, she felt, had been in many ways written for Abdul Wahid — it even guaranteed him a powerful job, as head of the government's proposed Darfur Authority, with broad powers to rebuild the region. When the details had been announced, Abdul Wahid had practically floated out of the room.

But now, talking with Zoellick and Obasanjo in the palace, the rebel leader refused to sign. He had spent hours scouring the details of the land settlements, he announced, and it wasn't enough.

"Now come, my boy," Obasanjo said. "You haven't fought a war like I have, and won a war as I have done." If Abdul Wahid wanted to be a great leader of his people, Obasanjo said, he needed to sign.

Abdul Wahid refused to budge. It was a betrayal of his people, he said. He would be killed if he signed.

Frazer later came to believe that someone — maybe the Eritreans or the Libyans, both of whom had been backing the rebels — had gotten to Abdul Wahid. "He felt like his life was being threatened," she says. "He was begging for understanding, and we were twisting his arm."

Minnawi had begun the day conflicted about the deal

(Pastorius note: he was conflicted about a deal he was signing which had been brokered by the UN and negotiated with Abdul Wahid),

but throughout the session he seemed to be wearing down. He looked uncomfortable in his suit, and to the assembled diplomats he seemed much smaller than the occasion, intimidated by the power in the room. "If you don't sign," Zoellick (UN guy) told Minnawi, "we'll drop you. We'll drop you like a rock."

All night, the diplomats pressed Minnawi, pushing him to name any concessions he wanted. Eventually, near dawn, the rebel leader asked Obasanjo for time to consult his commanders in the field.

"When are you going to be back?" Obasanjo demanded.

"Soon," Minnawi said.

"What do you mean by 'soon'?" the Nigerian asked. "Christ said he would be back soon, and that was 2,000 years ago."

"Soon," Minnawi promised.

As the diplomats recessed, word began to spread that Minnawi's brother had been killed in a janjaweed raid.

10 thousand-plus words. No mention of Islam. Only one mention of Jihad, and here it is (it is very telling):

Back in Washington, with the possibility of intervention in Darfur slipping away, Jendayi Frazer renewed her push for military options. The effort seemed quixotic at best: Few believed the Americans, immersed in two theaters of war, would deploy to a third. But Frazer believed that President Bush, who took home a memo on Sudan each Friday, was seriously considering military action. "It was his inclination, absolutely," she says. Then, in November 2006, the administration's new envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, made the mistake of mentioning to reporters that the White House was considering a "Plan B" in case diplomacy failed. The blowback was fierce. European allies were furious, and Bashir warned that sending U.S. troops to Sudan would only serve to attract terrorists and broaden the global jihad. Bush quietly shelved the idea of military action.

Yes, sending U.S. troops to Sudan would have broadened the global Jihad, because that's what Sudan is all about; JIHAD!

And, this Abdul Wahid character. Who the fuck is he? Gee, do you think he might possibly be a Muslim negotiating on behalf of the Infidel, and, if so, why?

He could simply be a representative of one of the oppressed Sufi Muslim tribes. They are considered Infidels too. But, Abdul Wahid said he couldn't sign the agreement because it would be a betrayal to his "people". The Ummah.

But, of course, Rolling Stone wouldn't recognize this.

The Sudanese and Darfur Genocides are all about Islam. They are all about Muslims waging Jihad against the Infidels. That's all it is about. There is nothing else to it.

And yet, no one will tell the truth.

AIR MARSHALS AREN'T THE FRONT-LINE; THEY'RE THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE, OR: THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S VACATION FROM REALITY

THESE GUYS JUST DON'T GET IT:
  • COMMANDER IN CHIEF OBAMA WAS ON VACATION WHEN THE BOMBER KILLED THE CIA AGENTS IN KHOST.
  • COMMANDER OBAMA WAS ON VACATION WHEN THE UNDIEBOMBER TRIED TO BLOW UP FLIGHT 253.
  • CIA DIRECTOR PANETTA WAS ON VACATION WHEN THE BOMBER KILLED THE CIA AGENTS IN KHOST.
  • CIA DIRECTOR PANETTA WAS ON VACATION WHEN THE UNDIEBOMBER TRIED TO BLOW UP FLIGHT 253.
  • ANTI-TERROR COMMAND CENTER DIRECTOR LEITER WAS ON VACATION WHEN THE BOMBER KILLED THE CIA AGENTS IN KHOST.
  • ANTI-TERROR COMMAND CENTER DIRECTOR LEITER WAS ON VACATION WHEN THE UNDIEBOMBER TRIED TO BLOW UP FLIGHT 253.
  • DEPUTY CIA DIRECTOR STEPHEN KAPPES WAS ON VACATION WHEN THE UNDIEBOMBER TRIED TO BLOW UP FLIGHT 253.
  • DEPUTY CIA DIRECTOR STEPHEN KAPPES WAS ON VACATION WHEN THE BOMBER KILLED THE CIA AGENTS IN KHOST.
(VIA CBS NEWS.)

THESE IDIOTS SHOULD ALL BE FIRED FOR MALFEASANCE.

AND THE IDEA THAT SURGING THE NUMBER OF ARMED AIR MARSHALS IS A GOOD MOVE AND A SOLID OR TOUGH RESPONSE IS MORE PROOF THAT THEY DON'T GET IT.

I SAID SO ON TUESDAY.


LIZ CHENEY AGREES TODAY. LIZ GETS IT:

“At the end of the day, we cannot win this war without daily, unwavering, resolute presidential stewardship,” says Cheney. “By tasking his counterterrorism officials to spend their time focused on trying to close Guantanamo and investigating their predecessors, by treating terrorists as criminals, by treating terrorist attacks on the U.S. as the acts of ‘isolated extremists,’ President Obama has failed to make fighting terror and keeping the nation safe his top priority.”

“The president says he’s using every tool at his disposal but he’s not,” says Cheney. “We can't prevail against terrorists without intelligence. When President Obama treats terrorists like criminals, reads them their Miranda rights and allows them to lawyer up, he ensures we won't get the intelligence we need.” In addition, Cheney says, “When the president stopped the enhanced-interrogation programs and revealed our tactics to our enemies, he significantly reduced our ability to successfully interrogate any senior al-Qaeda leaders. Intelligence is key. Let’s be clear: We’re not going to win this war through more intense airport screenings.”

LIZ CHENEY IS GREAT, THE BEST - I LIKE HER MORE THAN I LIKE PALIN; RTWT.

I THINK THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE USA GET IT TOO, AND THEY'RE AS UNHAPPY ABOUT OBAMA'S HANDLING OF THE WAR ON TERROR AS THEY ARE WITH HIS HANDLING OF OBAMACARE.

IRAN REGIME DOCUMENTARY: "NEDA'S DEATH WAS FAKED"


COURIER & MAIL (OZ):

Neda Soltan's death was faked, says documentary on Iran state TV

THE young woman killed during the June election protests in Tehran was an agent for the United States and Britain who faked her own death, says a documentary made by Iran state television.

Neda Agha Soltan, 27, became a symbol of Iranian democratic resistance when her death was filmed on a mobile phone and then posted on YouTube, where it was watched by millions of people.

It was then broadcast around the world by news organisations.

Yet a documentary shown on Iranian state TV claims she wasn’t dying, but had simply poured blood on her face from a hidden bottle, reports Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a group of journalists who cover 20 countries where a free press is banned or not established.

The documentary later claims the “deceived and deceitful” Neda was shot dead on the way to hospital and that she was the victim of a plot by foreigners and Opposition supporters, including the doctor, Arash Hejazi, who treated her in the street.

"While Neda is (pretending) she is injured and is lying on the back seat of the car on their lap, they bring out a handgun from their pockets," the documentary's narrator says.

"A handgun that they obtained from their Western and Iranian friends to water the tree of reforms and kill people and create divisions within society.

THESE ISLAMOTHUGS FIRST MADE THIS OUTRAGEOUS DEFENSE IN JULY.

THAT THEY HAVE NO MADE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT IT PROVES ONCE AGAIN THAT THE HAVE NO SHAME AND THEIR EVIL HAS NO BOUNDS.

AS TONY BLAIR SAID RIGHT AFTER 9/11: THESE PEOPLE ARE LIMITED ONLY BY THEIR MEANS, NOT BY ANYTHING ELSE.

IT'S A SIN THAT THEY GO UNPUNISHED BY THE WEST.

ITS' A SIN THAT WE ARE DOING SO LITTLE TO HELP THE BRAVE PERSIAN PEOPLE.

BRITAIN: SUB-ZERO TEMPS COULD LAST UNTIL MARCH!

EXPRESS (UK):
Forecasters said there would be no let up in the extreme cold weather which has brought the heaviest snowfalls in 30 years.

Jonathan Powell, of Positive Weather Solutions, warned that sub-zero temperatures would continue for some time, making this winter one of the coldest in 100 years.

He said: “Freezing temperatures could well stay with us until late February or even early March.”

The Met Office said it would get colder with more snow forecast.
AGW = BS.

Most ancient Hebrew biblical inscription deciphered

AWESOME:
Most ancient Hebrew biblical inscription deciphered

'It indicates that the kingdom of Israel already existed in the 10th century BCE, and that at least some of the biblical texts were written hundreds of years before the dates presented in current research.'

Prof. Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa who deciphered the inscription: "It indicates that the Kingdom of Israel already existed in the 10th century BCE and that at least some of the biblical texts were written hundreds of years before the dates presented in current research."

A breakthrough in the research of the Hebrew scriptures has shed new light on the period in which the Bible was written. Prof. Gershon Galil of the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa has deciphered an inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign), and has shown that this is a Hebrew inscription. The discovery makes this the earliest known Hebrew writing. The significance of this breakthrough relates to the fact that at least some of the biblical scriptures were composed hundreds of years before the dates presented today in research and that the Kingdom of Israel already existed at that time.

The inscription itself, which was written in ink on a 15 cm X 16.5 cm trapezoid pottery shard, was discovered a year and a half ago at excavations that were carried out by Prof. Yosef Garfinkel at Khirbet Qeiyafa near the Elah valley.

... Prof. Galil also notes that the inscription was discovered in a provincial town in Judea. He explains that if there were scribes in the periphery, it can be assumed that those inhabiting the central region and Jerusalem were even more proficient writers.

"It can now be maintained that it was highly reasonable that during the 10th century BCE, during the reign of King David, there were scribes in Israel who were able to write literary texts and complex historiographies such as the books of Judges and Samuel."

He adds that the complexity of the text discovered in Khirbet Qeiyafa, along with the impressive fortifications revealed at the site, refute the claims denying the existence of the Kingdom of Israel at that time.
Every time they stick a shovel in the Holy Land it proves the bible is true - despite the naysayers and postmodernists who argue it's a fairytale.

PREDICTION: OBAMA WILL FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DORGAN AND DODD...

UNLESS HE IS IMPEACHED FIRST!

MAN THREATENING JEWS TAKEN OFF FLIGHT


Guess his religion.

From the Jerusalem Post:

An airline passenger in Miami proclaimed "I want to kill all the Jews" before police forced him off a Detroit-bound plane, authorities said Thursday.

Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, of Ohio, was arrested Wednesday night, according to a police department statement. Asad was charged with threats against a public servant, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence.

FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said there were no indications the disturbance was related to terrorism. The bureau was initially brought in to look into the incident but is no longer involved in the investigation. She said the FBI is treating the disruption as a matter for local authorities.

The disturbance forced a taxiing Northwest Airlines flight to turn around at Miami International Airport, according to a news release.

Witnesses told investigators who boarded the plane that Asad was loud, disruptive and claimed to be Palestinian.

Officers didn't find any weapons or explosives on Asad, who was reportedly agitated and aggressive at times, according to an arrest affidavit. Authorities used a stun gun to subdue Asad on the jet bridge after he charged at an officer with fists clenched. He also chanted in a foreign language and threatened officers during a search.

"I'm not afraid of you cops, I've gotten in fights with cops in Ohio and broke their arms in three places," he said, according to the affidavit. "I've broken skulls too!"

The affidavit noted that alcohol didn't appear to be a factor during the incident.

The Transportation Security Administration says three of Asad's companions were also taken off the plane and questioned. The plane departed after a search.

Asad was transported to jail after his arrest.

Note the incidents of late seem to have all taken place on Detroit-bound flights.

This man should not only be tried, and then imprisoned, he should also be forced to pay for the jet fuel wasted, and all the time of all the police and FBI who had to spend resources investigating this incident.

Possibly, his friends ought to be charged as well. Something tells me they were in on this. I don't think this man simply went nuts. This was some sort of probing incident, in my opinion.

CAIR ATTORNEY IN RIFQA BARY CASE COMMITS PERJURY ABOUT HIS CONNECTIONS

The Jawa Report has some eyebrow-raising information about the lawyer Omar Tarazi, who has ties to CAIR and the Noor mosque in Ohio. The case of the Noor mosque has been raised again in Ohio, and Tarazi has been trying to conceal his connections. There's a screenshot provided of a message by Hany Saqr on Facebook announcing that Tarazi will be speaking at their latest Eid gathering.

I hope this will be addressed in the next court hearing, which appears to be scheduled for January 28th, and I hope there'll be a rally again if needed. Tarazi must be taken off the case, as he is clearly not fit for his job.

On a related note, I initially got some info confused in this earlier item about the Global Revolution Church worker named Brian Smith. I don't think he's a leader there, but he was an employee there. But whatever his position there, I do hope a motion will be filed to learn whether he gave the Bary parents the Lorenz's mail illegally, and the Barys and their lawyers should be made to testify.

Update: Atlas Shrugs has some extra information.

Huge Clashes in Egypt After Coptic Church Attack

WE COVERED THE ATTACK YESTERDAY.

NOW THIS:
Thousands clashed with police during a funeral procession Thursday for the seven people killed in an attack on churchgoers leaving a midnight Mass for Coptic Christians, security officials said.

The protesters pelted cars with stones. Earlier, they smashed ambulances at the hospital in frustration over delays in turning over the bodies for burial. A security official says police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.

The official and witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The riots follow an attack the previous night, in which three gunmen in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd leaving a church in the town of Nag Hamadi, about 40 miles from the ancient ruins of Luxor. The lead attacker was identified as a Muslim.
A MUSLIM? HOW SHOCKING.

COPTS WERE ONCE THE MAJORITY OF EGYPT, WHICH WAS CHRISTIAN BEFORE THE MUSLIMS TERRORIZED THEM INTO "JOINING" ISLAM.

TO END THE VIOLENCE ONCE AND FOR ALL, EGYPT SHOULD CONVERT BACK TO THEIR PREVIOUS FAITH AND GO BACK TO BEING CHRISTIAN.

AMAZING SATELLITE PHOTO OF BRITAIN COVERED IN SNOW

AMAZING SATELLITE PHOTO OF BRITAIN COVERED IN SNOW:

OBVIOUSLY: AGW = BS.

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

WINTER IS ONLY 2 WEEKS OLD AND EUROPE IS A TOTAL MESS: HUNDREDS DEAD

BBC HAS THE ROUND UP.
DESPITE EVER-INCREASING AMOUNTS OF MAN-MADE CO2 SPEWED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.

AGW = BS.

SONY MAKES A CAMCORDER FOR BLOGGERS

NEWS & PIC'S HERE:
Sony has followed up the launch of it's pocket camcorder range first launched at CES 2009 with new models for CES 2010.

Called the Sony Bloggie, the new camcorders are, as the name suggests aimed at those that like to blog their life.

...
feature in-built USB adapters to connect directly to a PC or MAC Both also feature on-board SteadyShot image stabilisation when shooting in 720p mode and you'll get Face Detection as well.
OBAMA SHOULD BUY SEVERAL THOUSAND AND SEND THEM TO IRAN AND CHINA.

COPTS KILLED IN EGYPT EXITING CHURCH ON COPTIC CHRISTMAS EVE

BBC:

At least five Coptic Christians have been killed in a drive-by shooting outside a church in southern Egypt, officials say.

The shooting came as worshippers left the church in Naj Hammadi after a midnight mass on Coptic Christmas Eve.

Unidentified gunmen sprayed gunfire indiscriminately into the crowd, officials said.

Two Muslims passing the church were among 10 people reportedly injured in the attack.

Naj Hammadi is 40 miles (64km) from Luxor, southern Egypt's biggest city.

Coptic Christians account for about 10% of the Egypt's population of 80 million.

THESE KILLINGS - LIKE ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF JIHAD - HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE USA OR ISRAEL.

CHANGING OUR FOREIGN POLICY WILL NOT CURB JIHAD AT ALL.

THE ONLY WAY TO CURB IS TO KILL IT.

Bass Ackwards: Obama strengthening our LAST line of defense

Hot Air:
“Race against time”: Fearing more attacks in pipeline, Obama orders immediate surge in air marshals

posted at 7:39 pm on January 6, 2010 by Allahpundit

No specific imminent threat, they claim. Really? Sure does sound like a five-alarm fire:
President Barack Obama has ordered a “surge” of federal air marshals to be in place by Feb.1 in what officials said was a “race against time,” with other suicide bombers believed to be in the terrorist pipeline, although there is no specific imminent threat, federal officials told ABC News.
ALLAPUNDIT MISSES THE POINT.

THE POINT IS NOT THAT THERE'S A NEW IMMINENT THREAT.

THE POINT IS THAT - UNTIL WE ERADICATE JIHADISM - THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN IMMINENT THREAT.

THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TO DO WAT DUBYA BUSH ALWAYS SAID WE HAD TO DO.

AS DUBYA BUSH OFTEN SAID:
We're fighting them there so they won't attack us here
THE LEFT LAMPOONED HIM FOR SAYING IT - AND ATTACKED HIM FOR DOING IT, BUT DUBYA WAS RIGHT; AS A RESULT, DUBYA KEPT US SAFE.

OBAMA WANTS MORE ARMED SECURITY ON THE PLANE, BUT ARMED SECURITY ON BOARD THE PLANE IS THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE --- AND THE PASSENGERS ON FLIGHT 253 PROVED THEY WERE UP TO THAT CHALLENGE.

WHAT WE NEED IS TO IMPROVE OUR SECURITY BEFORE THE PLANE LIFTS OFF:
  • WE NEED PROFILING;
  • WE NEED MORE AGGRESSIVE AND FORWARD-LEANING MILITARY ATTACKS ALL OVER THE WORLD - WHEREVER THERE IS JIHAD - BECAUSE WE NEED TO KILL AS MANY OF THE ENEMY AS MANY OF THE POTENTIAL TERRORISTS AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THEY GET ANYWHERE NEAR THE USA.
OBAMA IS JUST NOT UP TO THE TASK, OR UNWILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MAKE AND KEEP USA SAFE.

OBAMA MUST GO - AND THE SOONER THE BETTER.

ROUND UP ON THE AIR MARSHAL SURGE HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.

WHY PETER ORSZAG - OBAMA'S OMB DIRECTOR - FITS RIGHT IN: HE'S A LIAR AND A CAD


NYP:
President Obama’s budget guru has a secret love child — with the woman he jilted before hooking up with his hot new fiance, The Post has learned.

White House budget director Peter Orszag’s ex, shipping heiress Claire Milonas, gave birth to little Tatiana Zoe in New York Nov. 17. That was just six weeks before Orzsag and ABC news babe Bianna Golodryga gleefully announced their engagement on national TV and in the press.

... Orszag and Milonas released this statement:

"We were in a committed relationship until the spring of 2009. In November, Claire gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Although we are no longer together, we are both thrilled she is happy and healthy, and we would hope that everyone will respect her privacy."
NOT ONLY IS ORSZAG A LAIR AND A CAD; HE HAS AN AWFUL HAIRPIECE. SO HE'S A PHONY.

AND THEREFORE SOMEONE WHO BELONGS ION OBAMA'S WHITE HOUSE.

RTWT.

AFGHAN LOCAL UNION OF GLOBAL JIHADIST UNION HAVE FATAL WORK ACCIDENT

14 TERRORISTS DIED ON THEIR WAY TO WORK IN A BUS.

TOO BAD THERE WERE MANY EMPTY SEATS ON THE BUS.

EGYPTIAN ARMY AND GAZASTANIANS IN VIOLENT CLASH

NYTIMES:
An anti-Egypt rally in southern Gaza turned deadly on Wednesday when demonstrators rushed the border fence and stoned Egyptian troops on the other side, leading to an exchange of gunfire and the death of an Egyptian soldier. Nine Egyptian soldiers and a dozen Palestinians were wounded from stones and gunfire, witnesses and medics said.

It was the most serious Palestinian-Egyptian violence along the closed Gaza border since Israel’s short-lived invasion more than a year ago, and reflected rising tensions between Gaza’s Hamas rulers and the Egyptian government, which, like Israel, appears determined to keep Gaza isolated. The demonstration, organized by Hamas, protested Egypt’s refusal to allow international aid and solidarity missions into Gaza as well as Egypt’s construction of an underground barrier to obstruct smuggler tunnels. Those tunnels supply both goods and arms to Hamas and Gaza.

As Hamas leaders gave speeches, young men climbed the border fence and threw rocks at the Egyptians, witnesses and police reported, and Palestinian police officers shot in the air to control the crowd, though to little avail. Egyptian troops then shot from their side. “Two Palestinians were instantly wounded from five bullets,” a witness said.

The Egyptian forces also tear-gassed demonstrators who waved Hamas and Turkish flags, witnesses said.

JIHAD HAS TURNED THESE ARABS INTO BEASTS.

NO. APOLOGIES TO BEASTS.

IF THE GAZASTANIAN "PEOPLE" CAN'T GET ALONG WITH EGYPTIANS, THEN THEY CAN'T GET ALONG WITH ISRAELIS AND JEWS.

ISRAEL SHOULD NOT BE EXPECTED TO MAKE PEACE WITH THE GAZASTANIANS - LET ALONE BE COERCED INTO MAKING PEACE WITH THEM.

ANY SO-CALLED "PEACE PROCESS" WITH THESE GAZASTANIAN "PEOPLE" IS A SHAM.

(MORE HERE.)

ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM - WHO WE SCOOPED:
Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
Gunfire at Gaza Protest Near Egypt Discussion: Babylon & Beyond

BRILLIANT: TAXPAYER'S BILL: $200 MILLION/YEAR FOR KSM'S NYC SHOW TRIAL

THE US TAXPAYER IS GONNA HAVE TO SHELL OUT $200 MILLION PER YEAR SO THAT KSM AND AL QAEDA CAN HAVE A NYC SHOW TRIAL.

BRILLIANT, OBAMA, EFFIN' BRILLIANT!

UPDATE: SCOOPED MEMEORANDUM ON THIS:
Al Baker / City Room:
City Says 9/11 Trials Will Cost $200 Million a Year NEW!
Discussion: Main Justice and Gothamist

THE MALIA/SASHA/JENNINGS CHALLENGE: SOMEONE OUGHT TO SEND THIS PORN TO THE WHITE HOUSE!

Gateway has even more on the Kevin Jennings Scandal.

Unreal.

Not just criminal, but positively evil.

For President Oama to tolerate Jennings speaks volumes.

Here's an idea/challenge:

SOMEONE get copies of all these books & pamphlets, and Fedex them to Malia and Sasha Obama at the White House.

If the Obama's object, then they expose Barack as a hypocrite and a phony.

If they are not suitable for his daughters, then Jennings is not suitable for the job, and must resign or be fired.

If the Obama's think these books & pamphlets are suitable - well... that speaks volumes, too.

89 YEAR OLD SUPREMACIST NOW APPEARING BEFORE HIGHEST COURT

The neo-nazi called James von Brunn who murdered a guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington has died in the hospital:
WASHINGTON – The 89-year-old man accused of a deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum died Wednesday in a prison hospital. At Butner federal prison in North Carolina, spokeswoman Denise Simmons announced that James von Brunn died shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Von Brunn's lawyer, A.J. Kramer, called the death "a sad end to a tragic situation," but declined further comment.

The elderly suspect had been awaiting trial for the killing of security guard Stephen T. Johns at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10. Von Brunn had been wounded by return fire but survived.

Officials at the prison hospital had previously said chronic medical problems had complicated a psychiatric evaluation for the suspect, a white supremacist who prior to the shooting had written racist and anti-Semitic screeds on the Internet.
He should never have received medical treatment to begin with; he should've been sent directly to the prison without it and left to die there. Thank goodness he's gone to hell now.

IF THE UK ATTORNEY'S OFFICE GOT VETO POWER, WOULD THEY USE IT ALTRUISTICALLY?

The UK's attorney general would like to get the authority to veto arrest warrants against Israeli politicians:
(IsraelNN.com) United Kingdom Attorney General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, suggested that British law could be amended to give her office the power to veto arrest warrants for foreign political figures accused of war crimes.

Baroness Scotland's statement was made while delivering the annual Lionel Cohen Lecture of the Law Faculty of Hebrew University in Jerusalem Tuesday night in answer to a question concerning the recent British warrant for the arrest of Israeli Opposition leader Knesset Member Tzipi Livni. An Israeli military delegation also cancelled a trip planned for this week upon being told by the British army that it could not guarantee preventing their possible arrests.

The lecture, entitled “Lawfare: Time for Rules of Engagement," dealt with the dilemmas involved in the response of governments to the misuse of the courts for political ends. Baroness Scotland explained that the government must retain the principle of giving citizens access to the law, but must find a way to prevent abuse of this access as a politically motivated tactic. Britain also cannot give up the right to prosecute real war criminals from other countries so as not to provide them with safe haven.
As much as I'd like to think this great news, I've been too well aware of the mindset dominating the UK for a long time, and can only wonder if conservative politicians will be garunteed the same safety as liberal ones. And if the previous news is any suggestion, the Baroness' words cannot be taken at face value. Nor can we be sure the UK will use future laws passed to ensure that the Hamas, for example, will be prosecuted if they come onto UK soil. So this alone does not give me reason to be optimistic.

IT'S AIN'T JUST HERE: LEFTISTS ON THE RUN IN BRITAIN, TOO


WHY THE BIG SHIFT?

WELL, PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP - IN PART BECAUSE THE SURGE SUCCEEDED, IN PART BECAUSE GLOBAL WARMING HAS BEEN EXPOSED AS A SCAM (THIS HAD A BIG EFFECT IN AUSTRALIA), AND IN PART BECAUSE FOLKS ARE SEEING OBAMA FOR WHAT HE IS: AN INCOMPETENT AND HIGHLY PARTISAN LEFT-WING PHONY.

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO NOVEMBER 2010 - WHEN WE TAKE BACK AMERICA!

CHINA WILL BLOCK IRAN SANCTIONS; THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR BY A DAY

HOT AIR TODAY.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS YESTERDAY.


YAWN. WE BEAT THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME.

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

OUR HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM AND THE NANNY STATE


The essay below relates an aspect of my personal experience in dealing with our health-care system when Mr. AOW had a serious stroke last fall. He remained in medical-care facilities from September 15 to November 25.

No doubt about it, when Mr. AOW was released from the inpatient hospital stroke rehabilitation center on October 16, he was unable to be cared for at home. In addition to being completely paralyzed on the left side (limbs and trunk), his sense of balance was completely awry: he could fall forward, backward, or to either side at any given moment. His brain didn't know what direction up was! He also suffered from mental confusion. For example, he said, "I know I'm in the hospital here in Virginia, but I feel like I'm in California."

In fact, in spite of the ninety days of coverage supposedly provided by the health-insurance plan the hospital refused to keep Mr. AOW any longer than two weeks or to release him to home. Instead, the hospital and the nursing home teamed up to release him only to a skilled nursing facility, which costs a minimum of $350 per day.

At both the rehab hospital and the nursing home, both of which were in-network facilities of Mr. AOW's health-insurance plan, I was repeatedly advised to obtain Medicare and Medicaid. This mandate, in spite of the fact that Mr. AOW was not eligible for Medicare at the age of fifty-nine and has always had health insurance for, lo, three decades!

When I pointed out to the hospital and the nursing home that Mr. AOW and I had too many assets to qualify for either Medicare or Medicaid, I was advised to liquidate all those assets that Mr. AOW and I had spent a lifetime accumulating, go bankrupt once those assets were consumed by medical care, and become beneficiaries of the Nanny State. By the way, all assets were on the table, including retirement accounts (IRA's).

Looking back, I realize that both the hospital and the nursing home anticipated that Mr. AOW would always be a resident of the nursing home, never mind that he was admitted there for stroke therapy and not as a long-term resident.

After Mr. AOW made substantial progress after several weeks in the nursing home, the day arrived when I informed the health-insurance company and the nursing home that I would be bringing Mr. AOW home in a few weeks. The representative from the health-insurance company again advised me to seek out Medicaid coverage. Talk about having their needle stuck!

Once we established that Medicaid was not an option and that I was indeed determined to bring Mr. AOW home, I was threatened: "We'll have to report you to adult protective services."

So, how did I bring Mr. AOW home without getting arrested? I had in place the necessary paperwork: complete power of attorney and the advanced medical directive, both of which documents gave me conseiderable legal power. I also had on my side our family physician, who was willing to sign the release orders. This last is very important! Had I not placed Mr. AOW under the care of the family physician, the nursing-home physician could have refused to release Mr. AOW, thus forcing us into bankruptcy.

Also of help was a bit of name dropping, specifically, the name of my husband's personal attorney, famous as "the attorney of attorneys." Were he called in, he would own the nursing home by the time he was finished! At that point, the nursing home, recognizing the kind of legal proceedings they could be up against, agreed to starting the necessary paperwork for Mr. AOW's release from the nursing home. The one requirement: that Mr. AOW receive occasional visits from a registered nurse.

I have learned there is some truth in what some of my older relatives used to say: "Once I go into the hospital, I'll never come back home." Hospitals and nursing homes do have the power to hold patients and their families hostage.

Via the necessary legal documents and before illness strikes, arm yourself in advance so that you don't become a victim of the health-care system's trying to push you and your family under the care of the Nanny State. Believe me, the health-care system will try hard to push you in that direction!

And what would have happened under ObamaKare?