COALITION CAPTURES ANOTHER BIG TALIBAN COMMANDER IN AFGHANISTAN

HERALD SUN (OZ): A key Taliban insurgent commander has been captured by coalition forces in Afghanistan, the Defence department says.

The commander was captured recently in a planned operation led by the Afghan National Security Forces and Australia's Special Operations Task Group.

During the operation, leader and improvised explosive device coordinator Mullah Janan Andewahl was captured in the Mirabad Valley, located in the Oruzgan Province.

He had been responsible for directing attacks and roadside bombings against Afghan civilians, military and ISAF assistance forces.

Defence said Andewahl had been a "person of interest" for some time.

It's believed he was also behind a number of organised attacks on and executions of civilians in the Mirabad district.

He is now in the custody of Afghan local authorities.

I'M GLAD WE GOT THIS TALIBAN JIHADO-TERRORIST.

I'M WONDERING: HOW MANY MORE CAN WE KILL AND CAPTURE BEFORE OBAMA SIGNS A TREATY WITH THESE GENOCIDAL BASTARDS?!

WITH THE ECONOMY STILL FALTERING, OBAMA IS GONNA FOCUS ON ... SWEEPING EDUCATION REFORM NEXT!?!?

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NYTIMES: Obama Calls for Sweeping Overhaul in Education Law

The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad overhaul of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, proposing to reshape divisive provisions that encouraged instructors to teach to tests, narrowed the curriculum, and labeled one in three American schools as failing.

By announcing that he would send his education blueprint to Congress on Monday, President Obama returned to a campaign promise to repair the sprawling federal law, which affects each of the nation’s nearly 100,000 public schools.

THANK G-D THAT THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE IS RUN BY RADICAL LEFT IDEOLOGUES WHO ARE POLITICAL MORONS, 'CAUSE DECISIONS LIKE THIS ARE GONNA KEEP THEIR POLL NUMBERS CRASHING:

• THE WORKING PEOPLE OF THIS NATION ARE CRYING OUT FOR WASHINGTON TO DO THINGS TO HELP SECURE AND STRENGTHEN THE RECOVERY, BUT OBAMA CAN'T SEEM TO LET GO OF THE RADICAL LEFT'S AGENDA.

• FIRST, HE HAD TO PASS A TRILLION DOLLAR PORK-LADEN BOONDOGGLE THAT'S HELPED NOBODY, THEN HE TOOK OVER GM, AND WHILE TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE HEALTH INDUSTRY.

• SO NOW...NOW HE TURNS HIS EYES ON... ON REFORMING BUSH'S NCLB ACT - (WHILE BASHING ISRAEL AND APPEASING IRAN AND FATAH)!?

• WHAT IDIOTS. INSANE IDIOTS.

• DANGEROUS RADICAL LEFT-WING IDIOTS WHO WANT TO TRANSFORM AMERICA INTO A 2ND RATE EURO-SOCIALIST HAS BEEN NATION.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

UPDATE: WE SCOOPED THE GREAT GATEWAY BY A DAY ON THIS.

MULTICULTURAL ROBOT THEATER: HUGO LOVES SEAN

SEAN PENN ES MIERDA DE PUTA:



VIA NEWSBUSTERS.

DEFEAT OBAMACARE: the life you save may be your own

Crocodile tears from the parents of Jihad Jamie?

Ms. Paulin-Ramirez's interest in Islam "came out of left field," said her mother, Christine Holcomb-Mott, in an interview at her home Friday, wearing a blue sweatsuit with a silver cross around her neck.

How out of left field?

Mr. Mott, a convert to Islam himself, says he went to Denver to find his stepdaughter but couldn't track her down.

This woman is married to a Muslim, but neither she nor her husband can grok where in the world their murder-plotting daughter/step-daughter ever got exposed to this worrisome religion that subducts so many of its followers into terrorism.

Their disgust at daughter Jamie sounds sincere, but their blatant dishonesty about how she could have gotten interested in Islam suggests otherwise.

The Wall Street Journal's paraphrase may not be precise, however. Holcomb-Mott would presumably clarify that she has no idea how her daughter ever got interested in murder-cult Islam, and maybe she really doesn't. It is conceivable that Mr. Mott, when he converted to Islam, did not know about the long Islamic pedigree of violent aggressive jihad. Maybe he is some kind of multiculturalist do-gooder who converted to Islam in sympathy with the idea that "Islam was hijacked too" on 9/11.

Don't scoff. That same sentiment is right now allowing a giant Mecca oriented crescent to be built on the Flight 93 crash site. After all, it would just be too horrible to reject the Crescent of Embrace memorial simply because it is in the shape of a giant Islamic crescent, not when Islam itself was amongst the victims on that terrible day. No, we must do the opposite and embrace Islam.

If this is Mott's thinking, he has hardly gone any further than the Memorial Project. But then it seems that his step daughter took one step further still and actually read the Koran, with its endless commands to slaughter the unbelievers. Thus did the unhappy misfit finally find a home for the vicious vindictiveness that the religion of her birth had kept in check.

SURVEY OF 1,000,000+ BRITS: 13% SAY THEIR HEALTH CARE SUCKS

THEY'RE NOT SAYING THEIR "PLAN" SUCKS; THEY'RE SAYING THE ACRE SUCKS:

BBC: Out-of-hours GP care 'inadequate'

Too many people in England receive poor quality out-of-hours doctors' services, the Patients Association has warned.

In some areas, a fifth of patients described the service as "poor" or "very poor".

Some 1.1m patients responded to the government survey.

... Across England as a whole, 65% of those who had used the service in the past six months said their out-of-hours care was good or very good, while 13% regarded it as poor or very poor.

But of those who had been prescribed or recommended medicines by out of hours GPs, 15% said they found it not easy or not at all easy to get hold of the drugs.

And some 35% of all those who took part in the survey said they did not know how to contact their GP out of hours.

... Ministers have given trusts until the end of the year to follow strict new guidelines on out-of-hours care.

And campaigners have described the current system of providing after-hours GP cover as "an accident waiting to happen".

"OUT OF HOURS" DEFINITION FROM NHS:

Since 2004, GPs have been able to choose whether or not to provide 24-hour care for their patients.

The out-of-hours (OOH) period is from 6.30pm to 8.00am on weekdays and all day at weekends and bank holidays.

I GUESS IN BRITAIN YOU HAD BETTER ONLY EVER NEED A DOCTOR DURING OFFICE HOURS.

OOH HEALTHCARE IN BRITAIN HAS ACTUALLY KILLED PEOPLE.

SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE SUCKS.

IF THE BRITS - WHO INVENTED IT - CAN'T MAKE IT WORK, THEN OBAMA AND THE DEMS WON'T MAKE IT WORK EITHER.

OH, AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

NHS IT in crisis as doctors demand halt to electronic records

£13bn programme hits major criticisms

The British Medical Association has called for an immediate halt to the multibillion pound rollout of electronic records for NHS patients.

The doctors' association lambasted the state of the £13 billion (US$19.4 billion) NHS IT rollout and warned that the "break-neck speed" deployment of the records risked "further" eroding doctors' and patients' belief in electronic records. The entire programme was facing "failure", it said, unless the rollout was properly evaluated.

It also said it no longer wanted to be associated with the scheme on a promotional publicity video used by the NHS to demonstrate staff support.

ELECTRONIC RECORDS FOR EVERYONE IS ANOTHER THING OBAMA WANTS US TO DO.

AND IT WOULD BE ANOTHER HUGE DISASTER.

OBAMACARE MUST BE DEFEATED.

IS OBAMA A CRYPTO-MUSLIM, OR JUST A MUSLIM SYMPATHIZER?

NO DIFFERENCE.

THE SESTAK BRIBE: OBAMA HAS COMMITTED AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE

ACE:

Three weeks ago, Representative Joe Sestak said that the President had offered him a political appointment if he wouldn't run against Senator Arlen Specter. This should have been a bombshell, but it has gone largely unremarked because the White House is successfully avoiding the issue.

Sestak is sticking by his earlier statement, though he's chosen not to expand on it. The White House's silence on the issue—the Administration is not even denying the charge—is beginning to look like guilt. So what could the President be guilty of?

18 U.S.C. § 600. Promise of employment or other benefit for political activity

Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit, provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress, or any special consideration in obtaining any such benefit, to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office, or in connection with any primary election or political convention or caucus held to select candidates for any political office, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

That sounds just like what happened here, if Sestak's claim is true. Obama promised an appointment as a consideration for political activity, including support for Arlen Specter, in a primary election.

WHEN THE GOP RETAKES THE HOUSE, IMPEACHING OBAMA SHOULD BE THEIR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS.

JAVA +

OBAMA : EAST JERUSALEM : : CHAMBERLAIN : SUDETENLAND

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CHAMBERLAIN AND THE ALLIES THOUGHT THAT BY FORCING CZECHOSLOVAKIA TO GIVE HITLER THE SUDETENLAND THEY COULD AVOID WAR.

THEY DID IT, AND CALLED IT THE MUNICH AGREEMENT.

THEY CALLED IT PEACE. IT WASN'T; IT WAS APPEASEMENT.

THEY WERE WRONG - IT DIDN'T LEAD TO PEACE; IT STRENGTHENED HITLER AND LED TO WAR.

CHURCHILL STRENUOUSLY OBJECTED TO APPEASEMENT - AND HE WAS CONDEMNED AND BERATED AS A WARMONGER. BUT CHURCHILL WAS RIGHT.

APPEASEMENT FAILED THEN IN EUROPE, AND IT WILL FAIL NOW IN ISRAEL.

OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES THINK THEY CAN FORCE ISRAEL TO GIVE THE ARABS WHATEVER THE ARABS WANT AND THAT PEACE WILL RESULT.

THEY ARE AS WRONG NOW AS THE APPEASERS WERE IN 1938.

UPDATE: REMINDER:

House Resolution Expressing Support for Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital

(April 24, 1990)

Whereas the State of Israel has declared Jerusalem to be its capital;

Whereas from 1948 to 1967 Jerusalem was a divided city and Israeli citizens of all faiths were not permitted access to holy sites in the area controlled by Jordan;

Whereas since 1967 Jerusalem has been a united city administered by Israel and persons of all religious faiths have been guaranteed full access to holy sites within the city;

Whereas the President and the Secretary of State have demonstrated their strong desire to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and have worked diligently toward that end;

Whereas ambiguous statements by the Government of the United States concerning the right of Jews to live in all parts of Jerusalem raise concerns in Israel that Jerusalem might one day be redivided and access to religious sites in Jerusalem denied to Israeli citizens; and the search for a lasting peace in the region: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress

(1) acknowledges that Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of the State of Israel;
(2) strongly believes that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected; and
(3) calls upon all parties involved in the search for peace to maintain their strong efforts to bring about negotiations between Israel and Palestinian representatives.

THE ARABS CAN MAKE EAST JERUSALEM THEIR CAPITOL WHEN THE MEXICANS MAKE EL PASO THEIR CAPITOL.

SUNDAY UPDATE: A DAY LATER AND POWER LINE AGREES.

ABBAS BLAMES IRAN FOR HAMAS-FATAH SCHISM

HAARETZ: Abbas blames Iran for thwarting Palestinian reconciliation

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, winding up a visit to Tunisia, on Saturday blamed Iran for blocking reconciliation between his Fatah organization and rival Islamist faction Hamas.

Tehran's leadership did not want Hamas to sign the Egyptian-brokered reconciliation plan, Abbas charged. After Hamas had initially agreed to the plan, it was now citing a number of objections for not signing it.

Abbas said the Palestinians should be freed from Iranian tutelage.

IRAN IS MERELY THE WORST OF A VERY BAD BUNCH.

THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM IS ISLAM - AND ISLAM'S FALLACIOUS CLAIM ON THE HOLY LAND AND JERUSALEM:

OBAMA, HOLDER AND THE AL QAEDA 7: AIDING AND ABETTING THE ENEMY

MCCARTHY/WSJ/OP-ED:

[ACCORDING TO THEIR DEFENDERS] The Gitmo lawyers now working at the DOJ had acted in the "American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients," the letter intoned.

[AS IF] the terrorists' cause was comparable to John Adams's defense of British soldiers prosecuted for the Boston Massacre.

The left-leaning press chimed in, directing its wrath at a favorite target, the word "Cheney"—in this case, Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and co-director of Keep America Safe.

The ad was portrayed as a right-wing smear of attorneys who had performed an honorable service, an assertion said to be proved by the fact that Gitmo lawyers had prevailed in some important Supreme Court cases.

The fictional premise of these wayward complaints is that the Justice Department's al Qaeda lawyers stand in the same shoes as criminal-defense lawyers. The latter must represent even unsavory characters because the Constitution guarantees counsel to those charged with crimes.

To the contrary, the Justice Department's al Qaeda lawyers were volunteers, just as Mr. Holder volunteered in the Heller case.


Unlike the British soldiers represented by John Adams, the Gitmo detainees are not entitled to counsel.

They are not criminal defendants.

They are plaintiffs in offensive lawsuits, filed under the rubric of habeas corpus, challenging their detention as war prisoners.

The nation is at war, and the detainees are unprivileged alien enemy combatants.

By contrast, the United States was not at war with England at the time of the Boston Massacre, and the British soldiers were lawful police, not nonuniformed terrorists.

There is no right to counsel in habeas corpus cases. Thousands of American inmates must represent themselves in such suits—there is no parade of white-shoe law firms at their beck and call. Until 2004, moreover, enemy prisoners were not permitted to challenge their detention at all. The Supreme Court rejected such claims in the 1950 Eisentrager case, precisely because they damage the national war effort. Yes, left-leaning lawyers have convinced the Supreme Court's liberal bloc to ignore precedent and permit Gitmo habeas petitions. That neither makes these suits less damaging, nor endows the enemy with a right to counsel.

RTWT!

BY HIRING HOLDER AND THE AL QAEDA SEVEN OBAMA HAS EFFECTIVELY HANDED OVER TO OUR ENEMIES THE DOJ - DURING WAR-TIME - AND ESSENTIALLY COMMITTED TREASON.

AT THE VERY LEAST, OBAMA, HOLDER AND THE AL QAEDA SEVEN SHOULD BE IMPEACHED.

AT THE VERY LEAST.

I WOULD ACTUALLY PREFER TO SEE THEM ALL CHARGED WITH TREASON, TRIED, CONVICTED AND EXECUTED.

OBAMA IS TRYING TO IMPOSE A TOTAL FREEZE ON ISRAEL - AND, IN EFFECT, DEMANDING ISRAEL RETURN EAST JERUSALEM TO THE ARABS

JPOST: George Mitchell guaranteed east Jerusalem freeze

US Middle East envoy George Mitchell has promised the Palestinians that Israel will not construct new homes in east Jerusalem during peace negotiations, the London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Saturday. According to the paper, Mitchell told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas over the phone that Washington would provide the PA with guarantees that Israel would halt construction in the east of the city.

... Also Friday, the State Department announced it was increasing assistance to Palestinians via the United Nations Relief and Works Agency by $55 million, bringing the total US expenditure for 2010 to $95 million.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID IT WAS: AN ATTEMPT BY THE ANTI-ZIONIST OBAMA TO IMPOSE HIS WILL - AND THAT OF HIS ALLY FATAH - ON ISRAEL.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THE AID ANNOUNCEMENT AND WHO IT'S GONG TO:` UNRWA IS A PRO-FATAH/PRO-TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.

OBAMA HAS PUT HIS CARDS ON THE TABLE: HE IS AN ENEMY OF ISRAEL.

OBAMA IS TRYING TO FORCE ISRAEL TO ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THE ARABS - EVEN BEFORE NEGOTIATIONS HAVE BEGUN!

THIS VIOLATES UNSCR 242.

AND IT RUNS COUNTER TO AMERICA'S LONG HISTORY OF SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL.

IF YOU SUPPORT OBAMA, THEN YOU SUPPORT SCREWING ISRAEL AND AIDING ISRAEL'S ENEMIES.

Trade numbers climb sharply at Southland ports

From the LA Times:

Trade numbers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's busiest seaport complex, rose sharply in February compared with the same month last year, lending strength to the arguments of some experts who believe that a stronger-than-anticipated recovery may be underway.

It was the port complex's third straight month of growth compared with year-earlier figures. At the Port of Long Beach, which is second only to Los Angeles among ports that move mostly cargo containers, imports and exports increased 39.3% and 32.8%, respectively, compared with February 2009, although officials cautioned that last year's numbers were the worst since 2003.

At the Port of Los Angeles, the growth was almost as strong, and officials there managed a rare victory in trade between Asia and the West Coast. They won some new business after a year in which port-to-port transpacific shipping routes, known as strings, had dropped to 56 from 80 as ocean carriers scaled back to stem huge losses. Imports through Los Angeles rose 29.8% and exports grew 32.6% compared with February of last year.

"Our feeling is that consumers are coming back. They are spending a bit more of their money. They are less concerned about losing their jobs than they have been in the last three months," said Ben Hackett, founder of Hackett Associates, which tracks international trade at the nation's busiest seaports for the National Retail Federation.

Hackett said his firm had scaled back its expectations for trade growth in 2010, "but we think we'll be seeing a relatively strong year at a 10% to 14% increase. We should see steady improvement, minus the usual seasonal adjustments."

The credit goes to the American political system, to our Constitution, and to our traditions. It does not go to Obama, who had done everything he can to fundamentally change our system, and plunder, or squander, it's resources.

The American spirit is fundamentally creative. As long as we have free speech, we will be so. As long as we are creative, we will innovate, and our economy will be strong.

HOLDER'S OBFUSCATION: WHAT DID OBAMA KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

HOLDER HAS NOW ADMITTED HE FAILED TO PROVIDE CONGRESS WITH SEVEN SCOTUS BRIEFS - OF WHICH TWO WERE ON BEHALF OF PADILLA.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE.

NOW WE MUST ASK, WHAT DID OBAMA KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

IOW: DID HOLDER ALSO WITHHOLD THIS INFORMATION FROM OBAMA? IF SO, SHOULDN'T OBAMA ASK HOLDER TO RESIGN?

OR, DID OBAMA KNOW ABOUT IT AND ABET HOLDER'S MISLEADING TESTIMONY?

ONE OR BOTH SHOULD BE IMPEACHED OR RESIGN.

SEIU Warns Dems: Back Obamacare or else!

THE RELIGION OF GENOCIDE STIKES AGAIN

GREAT SHORT RANT HERE: I Guess She Doesn't Watch Charles Krauthammer [Andy McCarthy]

ME: WHEN IT COMES TO GENOCIDE, MISOGYNY, TERROR AND TYRANNY, ISLAM IS THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR. AND I DO MEAN LOW.

OBAMA AGREES WITH MILIBAND: LET'S MAKE A TREATY WITH THE TALIBAN - (WHILE PUTTING THE SCREWS ON ISRAEL!)

WE POSTED THIS A FEW WEEKS AGO:

BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER WANTS A "PEACE TREATY" WITH THE TALIBAN

REUTERS/DAILY TIMES (PAKISTAN): Miliband urges push for Afghan peace settlement

LONDON: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan’s neighbours must support such an agreement.

Miliband’s conciliatory comments, in a speech to be given in the US later on Wednesday, reflect growing acceptance in the West that Taliban fighters who break ties with al Qaeda have a role to play in the country’s future.

THIS STRIKES ME AS INSANE APPEASEMENT FROM THE LEFT.

APPARENTLY, OBAMA WAS LISTENING: NOW HOT AIR HAS THIS:

President Obama met with his war cabinet on Friday, and the issue of reconciling with the Taliban is gaining traction, even as administration officials debate whether the time is right…

“It is now more a question of ‘when’ than a question of ‘if,’ ” the administration official said, when asked about the idea of reconciliation talks with senior Taliban officials…

MEANWHILE, HE AND BIDEN AND HILLARY ARE BERATING AND CONDEMNING ISRAEL.

THIS SAYS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES: THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE IN THE OTHER SIDE.

BRRRRRRR!: EARTH'S GLACIERS ARE GROWING, NOT SHRINKING!

CFP: Contrary to Gore's assertions, almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are growing, not melting --and the seas are not rising

“Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising,” said Al Gore -in an op-ed piece in the New York Times on February 27.

Both parts of Gore’s statement are false.

Never mind that Mr. Gore makes only passing reference to the IPCC’s fraudulent claims that the Himalayan glaciers will all melt by 2035. (“A flawed overestimate,” he explains.)

Never mind that Mr. Gore dismisses the IPCC’s fraudulent claims that the oceans are rising precipitously. (“Partly inaccurate,” he huffs.)

Never mind that Mr. Gore completely ignores the admission by the CRU’s disgraced former director Phil Jones that global temperatures have essentially remained unchanged for the past 15 years.

I’ll let someone else dissect Gore’s lawyering comments, and concentrate on just the one sentence about melting ice, because neither part of that sentence is true.

Contrary to Gore’s assertions, almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are growing, not melting—and the seas are not rising.

Let’s look at the facts.

If you click on the words “are melting” in Gore’s article, you’re taken to a paper by Michael Zemp at the University of Zurich. Mr. Zemp begins his paper by warning that “glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates.”

However, if you bother to actually read the paper, you learn that Zemp’s conclusion is based on measurements of “more than 80 glaciers.”

Considering that the Himalayas boast more than 15,000 glaciers, a study of “more than 80 glaciers” hardly seems sufficient to warrant such a catastrophic pronouncement.

Especially when you learn that of those 80 glaciers, several are growing.

Growing. Not melting.

“In Norway, many maritime glaciers were able to gain mass,” Zemp concedes. (“Able to gain mass” means growing.)

In North America, Zemp also concedes, “some positive values were reported from the North Cascade Mountains and the Juneau Ice Field.” (“Displaying positive values” means growing.)

Remember, we’re still coming out of the last ice age. Ice is supposed to melt as we come out of an ice age. The ice has been melting for 11,000 years. Why should today be any different? I’m guessing that most Canadians and Northern Europeans are very happy that the ice has been melting.

Unfortunately, that millenniums-long melting trend now appears to be changing. No matter how assiduously Mr. Gore tries to ignore it, almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are now gaining mass. (Or, displaying positive values, if you will.)

For starters, let’s look at those Himalayan glaciers. In a great article, entitled “World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown,” Jonathan Leake and Chris Hastings show that the IPCC’s fraudulent claims were based on “speculation” and “not supported by any formal research.”

As a matter of fact, many Himalayan glaciers are growing. In a defiant act of political incorrectness, some 230 glaciers in the western Himalayas - including Mount Everest, K2 and Nanga Parbat - are actually growing.

“These are the biggest mid-latitude glaciers in the world,” says John Shroder of the University of Nebraska-Omaha. “And all of them are either holding still, or advancing.”

And get this. Eighty seven of the glaciers have surged forward since the 1960s.

RTWT!

BTW: ANTARCTICA IS COOLING AND SEA ICE IS GROWING.

BTW: GA AND AL HAD THEIR SIXTH COLDEST FEBRUARY'S OF ALL TIME.

AND THE LONGEST COLDEST WINTER IN SCUNTHORPE FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS. WHEREVER THAT IS!?!??!

AGW = BS.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL.

SPRING IS COMING...

MCVEIGH'S LAWYER DEFENDS OBAMA AND HOLDER AND ATTACKS CHENEY

STEVE JONES/WSJ/OP-ED:

The criticism and shrill demagoguery of Keep America Safe would denigrate not only these principles but fundamentally undermine due process of law. These partisan attacks are misplaced, gratuitous and weaken our democratic ideals. The identities of the lawyers are sought to embarrass and demonize them personally and professionally, to try to dishonor them. It is an effort to intimidate other lawyers from honoring their professional responsibility.

The day when scare mongers can intimidate lawyers into not doing their jobs is a day in which liberty is threatened. The justice of a society is measured not by how it treats its best, but how it treats its worst.

THIS IS A STRAW MAN AND A SLEIGHT OF HAND MISDIRECTION.

THE ISSUE IS NOT WHETHER LAWYERS SHOULD TAKE ON EVIL CLIENTS. OR WHETHER THEY BECOME "DEMONIZED".

THE ISSUE IS, SHOULD THE US GOVERNMENT AND THE DOJ HIRE LAWYERS WHO DEFENDED OUR ENEMIES AT A TIME OF WAR.

NO ONE WANTS THESE LAWYERS DISBARRED.

ALL WE CONSERVATIVES WANT IS FULL DISCLOSURE SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN SEE WHO OBAMA WANTS RUNNING HIS DOJ.

THEN, FULLY INFORMED, THE PUBLIC CAN DECIDE IF THEY THINKS IT'S A GOOD IDEA FOR OUR DOJ TO BE RUN BY FOLKS WHO DEFENDED OUR ENEMIES.

OBAMA AND HOLDER WANTED THIS INFORMATION TO BE WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC.

THAT'S VERY INCRIMINATING, AND IT ALSO PROVES THAT THEY AGREE THAT THE PUBLIC IS OPPOSED TO HAVING OUR DOJ RUN BY OUR ENEMIES' LAWYERS.

IN A DEMOCRACY, THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS NOT A TRIVIAL MATTER; IT IS THE WHOLE BALL OF WAX.

AND NOW IT APPEARS THAT HOLDER DELIBERATELY MISLED THE CONGRESS DURING HIS SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS, AND "NEGLECTED" TO TELL THEM HE HAD FILED A SCOTUS BRIEF ON BEHALF OF OUR ENEMIES AT GITMO.

FOR HIS DELIBERATE OBFUSCATION OF THIS MATTER, HOLDER SHOULD RESIGN OR BE IMPEACHED.

VIA INFILTRATION, BRITAIN'S LABOUR PARTY BECOMING BAATHIST AND KINGDOM BECOMING AN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC

SURREPTITIOUSLY AND SEDITIOUSLY BUILDING AN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC WITHIN THE BRITISH KINGDOM:

HILLARY JOINS THE CHORUS OF ISRAEL BASHING OBAMANISTAS

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JPOST:

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over the government's announcement this week of new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, calling it "a deeply negative signal."

The US State Department said Clinton spoke to Netanyahu by phone for 43 minutes to vent US frustration with Tuesday's announcement that cast a pall over a visit to Israel by US Vice President Joe Biden and endangered the indirect peace talks with the Palestinians that the Obama administration had announced just a day earlier.

Clinton called "to make clear that the United States considered the announcement to be a deeply negative signal about Israel's approach to the bilateral relationship and counter to the spirit of the vice president's trip," department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters.

"The secretary said she could not understand how this happened, particularly in light of the United States' strong commitment to Israel's security and she made clear that the Israeli government needed to demonstrate not just through words but through specific actions that they are committed to this relationship and to the peace process," he said.

THIS PROVES THAT THE ENTIRE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS PRO-ARAB AND ANTI-ISRAEL.

WHY!? HOW!?

SIMPLE: JERUSALEM WAS EXPLICITLY NEVER EVER UNDER ANY CONSTRUCTION BAN OF ANY KIND.

NEVER.

BY SIDING WITH THE ARABS AGAINST ISRAEL ON CONSTRUCTION WITHIN JERUSALEM, OBAMA - AND HIS COMRADES BIDEN AND HILLARY - ARE TRYING TO IMPOSE ON ISRAEL THE ARAB DEMAND FOR HALF OF JERUSALEM.

ISRAELIS HAVE AS MUCH RIGHT TO BUILD IN JERUSALEM AS AMERICANS DO IN DALLAS OR CHICAGO OR DC OR NYC.

ISRAEL AIN'T EVER GONNA GIVE THE P.A. OR THE PLO OR FATAH OR HAMAS OR HIZBALLAH OR ANY ARAB NATION HALF OF JERUSALEM.

AND IF OBAMA AND THE ARABS SAY THAT THE SO-CALLED "PEACE PROCESS" HINGES ON IT IT, THEN WE SHALL HAVE NOT HAVE A SO-CALLED "PEACE PROCESS" AND MIGHT AS WELL HAVE WAR.

• UNSC RES 242 DOESN'T REQUIRE THAT ISRAEL GIVE BACK HALF OF JERUSALEM.

• UNSC RES 242 SAYS THE PARTIES SHALL; NEGOTIATE A RESOLUTION - NOT THAT IT WILL BE IMPOSED BY THE USA OR THE UN OR THE EU.

JEWS WHO VOTE FOR OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS LIKE OBAMA AND BIDEN AND HILLARY MIGHT AS WELL BE PART OF FATAH OR HAMAS OR HIZBALLAH.

• NO SURPRISE HERE: OBAMA AND BIDEN AND SAMANTHA POWER AND ROBERT MALLEY AND SUSAN RICE ARE LONG-TIME ALLIES OF ARABS AGAINST ISRAEL.

• MORE ON THE ANTIZIONIST OBAMANISTAS HERE.

MORE PROOF OF THE ANTI-ISRAELNESS OF OBAMA'S POSITION: NYTIMES:

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has demanded Israel halt all settlement building and dismissed a partial, 10-month freeze declared by Netanyahu in November as inadequate.

But Abbas agreed this month to end a boycott of negotiations with Israel by taking part in "proximity talks" through U.S. mediators.

He was deeply disappointed last year that Obama and Clinton failed to pressure Netanyahu into a full settlement freeze.

YOU SEE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

ISRAEL NEVER PROMISED A FULL SETTLEMENT FREEZE.

NEVER.

ISRAEL NEVER PROMISED TO HALT
ANY CONSTRUCTION IN JERUSALEM.

AND WITHOUT THAT, ABBAS HAD AGREED TO TALKS.

NOW THAT ISRAEL HAS FORMALLY ANNOUNCED SOME CONSTRUCTION, BOTH ABBAS AND OBAMA AND BIDEN AND CLINTON ACT AS IF ISRAEL IS IN VIOLATION OF SOME AGREEMENT.

WHICH IS FALSE.

IN FACT, IT'S A TOTAL BALD-FACED LIE, A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO FORCE ISRAEL TO COMPLY WITH ARAB DEMANDS BEFORE NEGOTIATING.

IT'S DISGUSTING.

UPDATE: NYTIMES: Clinton Rebukes Israel

Mr. Biden, in Israel this week to declare American support for its security, had already condemned the move as undermining the peace process.

But Mrs. Clinton went a good deal further in her conversation with Mr. Netanyahu, saying it had harmed “the bilateral relationship,” according to the State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley.

Such blunt language toward Israel is very rare from an American administration, and several officials said Mrs. Clinton was relaying the anger of President Obama at the announcement, which was made by Israel’s Interior Ministry and which Mr. Netanyahu said caught him off guard.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT:

THIS HATRED OF ISRAEL'S SOVEREIGNTY COMES FROM THE TOP: OBAMA -

AND IT PERMEATES HIS ADMINISTRATION AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

JEWS WHO VOTE DEMOCRAT ARE AIDING AND ABETTING THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL.

FULL ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.

Out-of-Control Prius Driver Has Out-of-Control Finances

As I have said from the very beginning, Mr. Sikes, very likely, staged the whole "accelerator" incident in order to set up a lawsuit.

The LA Times bought it not because the LA Times is gullible, but because the LA Times is anti-business, and in particular, anti-Toyota, and pro-Government Motors.

But, the whole thing is unraveling, just like the Anthropogenic Global Warming Myth.

From the USA Today:

DETROIT — Jim Sikes is finding out the downside of instant celebrity in the Internet age after his highly publicized trip in a runaway Toyota Prius: You have no secrets.

As National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Toyota inspectors continue to take apart his vehicle — which he says took him on a 23-minute, out-of-control race down a freeway — Jalopnik, an auto blog, posted details of his financial situation and set off speculation about his tale.

Sikes filed for bankruptcy in 2008, and the Prius is his sole remaining car.

He tells USA TODAY that, while he hopes to get a replacement car out of this ordeal, he isn't planning to sue Toyota or otherwise profit. "You had to be there. People can second-guess all they want, but you can't live a life until you've lived it."

Bankruptcy court records show that in 2008, Toyota was listed as a $19,000 creditor, the value of the leased Prius, which has to be returned.

His total debt was $700,000, and he has had a Mercedes, a boat and a motor home repossessed. The bank also took back a 2007 Dodge Ram, leaving him and his wife with just the Prius.

While Sikes is current on his lease payments, he has to give the car back in a few months, which would leave him carless.

Toyota has questioned details of Sikes' story, noting the Prius hybrid has a brake override that is supposed to slow the engine when the brake is applied. The car's brake system also helps recharge the battery, and the override system prevents overloading the car's electronics.

As to why he didn't put the car in neutral and coast to a stop, Sikes says he panicked, and was afraid that would "flip the car."

"I've since found out that's not possible, but I had no idea," Sikes says. "Hopefully, I helped save five to 10 lives because people are now finding out" how to put a moving Prius into neutral.

Sikes' bankruptcy court filing showed he also owed $115,000 on 16 credit cards. He filed for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which meant all of his debt would be eliminated, but also resulted in liquidation of almost everything he owned.

Toyota and NHTSA dispatched engineers this week to examine the car. There is a chance, though, that they'll find nothing to confirm or refute details Sikes provided. The circumstances of many instances of sudden acceleration have been such that they do not register error codes in Toyota's computer systems.

"We are eagerly awaiting the results," says Mike Michels, Toyota's head of public relations.

OBAMA'S BIGGEST FAILURE: TRANSLATING HIS CAMPAIGN CHARISMA INTO GOVERNING CONFIDENCE

One of the reasons Obama did so very well throughout the entire 2 year campaign was that he projected warmth, intelligence, and humor and compassion and had great CHARISMA.

NONE OF THAT HAS BEEN ON DISPLAY SINCE HE TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE.

I didn't fall for his charm, but a majority of Americans did.

Since then, his charms have completely worn off.

In fact, Obama has a charm deficit!

This glaring deficit couldn't be more damaging to the nation than in the economic sphere.

As "national cheerleader" Obama has been a total complete miserable failure.

Obama's global apology tour, his attacks on Rush and the GOP, and his monotonous OBAMACARE campaign have squandered the good will people had for this tall handsome man with the warm smile and calming baritone.

And what the economy REALLY REALLY REALLY needs right now is not a tax increase or semi-demi-universal healthcare-insurance.

What we need is a president who inspires CONFIDENCE in our nation's future, in our nation's economy.

ECONOMIC CONFIDENCE IS VERY LOW, AND THIS IS HURTING THE RECOVERY:

A separate report on Friday highlighted the timidity of the American consumer. The University of Michigan’s barometer of sentiment fell to 72.5 in the first part of the month, far below the historical average of 86.5 and pre-recession levels of 78.4.

AS LONG AS THIS NUMBER IS LOW, THE RECOVERY WILL BE MEAGER.

THIS NUMBER - AND NOT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE - IS THE KEY NUMBER FOR OUR NATION RIGHT NOW.

OUR PRESIDENT OUGHT TO FOCUSING ON THIS, AND NOT OBAMACARE.

Bill Clinton took office during a recession. And - unlike Obama 0 he was able to inspire confidence: he jogged; he ate at McDonald's; he knew NAFTA was good for the US; he felt our pain and gave his supporters the feeling he was doing whatever could be done to get the economy going again.

Obama has done nothing to build our confidence in our nation - or in him.

And actually, this is where I'd have predicted - based on his ability to inspire confidence during the two year campaign - he'd have been doing the best right now.

I think it's too late for him to change the public's feelings about him. The independents feel burnt, and they will not let themselves be fooled by him again.

Only if the economy rebounds soon and we get Osama or Zawahiri does Obama have a chance.

Though capturing or killing them is possible - and even though this is more likely now than a year ago, it is still not likely to happen before Labor day.

So Obama and the Democrats had better pray for a strong rebound of the economy.

The ironic thing is the very policies they are promoting make it less likely.

PITY. Heh.

OBAMACARE: "the bastard son of a hundred maniacs"

OBAMACARE: "the bastard son of a hundred maniacs" - and it's a work in progress because the other 200 "progressive" maniacs in Congress want a piece of the action, too!

We posted on why it was doomed early last year: it's WAY too big, and - as a result- the public recognizes it as a revolution and not reform. No amount of tweaking and rewriting at this point can change that.

EVEN BETTER: Politically, it's a lose-lose for the left. And the longer they work on it the worse they appear.

BRAVOBAMA! BWAHAHAHA!

The Astute Bloggers Scoops The Washington Examiner by Five Months: "I am not afraid of my Toyota Prius"

But, thank God someone from the MSM is telling the truth.

From the Washington Examiner:

I’ve been driving Toyota Priuses since 2001. As a junior defense lawyer in the mid-90s, I litigated a number of bogus sudden acceleration cases that were brought against General Motors.

So the recent kerfuffle over alleged mysterious electronic problems with the Prius and other Toyotas has certainly caught my attention beyond just throwing my floor mat in the trunk.

I knew the public hysteria had reached unprecedented proportions when my father, a Ph.D. geologist skeptical of everything from George W. Bush to global warming (and that’s just the G’s), credulously emailed me repeatedly to demand I read a press release from a plaintiff’s lawyer on how to prevent runaway vehicles.

The short answer: hit the brake and stay on it. Every vehicle on the road today has a braking system more powerful than its engine. Shift into neutral. Then turn off the power.

So James Sikes, who made a dramatic 911 call from his Prius on Interstate 8 in San Diego earlier this week, is effectively claiming he had an electrical problem that affected his throttle, his brake, and his power system, because it took him over 20 minutes to stop his car.

Somehow no one in the press has asked Sikes how it is he could stop the car once it had slowed to 50 mph, but not when it was going 90 mph.

Have Balloon Boy and the finger-in-the-chili taught us nothing?

Even if one believes all the hype, the reaction so far has been a giant overreaction. Fifty-odd deaths over 10 years and millions of Toyotas is a drop in the bucket compared to the general risk of being on the road at all.

It’s entirely possible that more people will be killed driving to the dealer for the recall than lives will be saved from going through the safety theater demanded by the Department of Transportation.

A coupla of our previous posts here, (October 2009!!!) and here - February 2010.

UH-OH: AMERICAN BORN AL QAEDA TERRORIST SHARIF MOBLEY WORKED IN A FEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN THE USA

A spokesman for a group of nuclear power plants in New Jersey says a U.S. man charged in Yemen with being a member of al-Qaida had previously worked at the plants.

The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an allegedal-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen.

PSEG Nuclear spokesman Joe Delmar says Sharif Mobley worked as a laborer for several contractors at its three plants on Artificial Island in Lower Alloways Creek from 2002 to 2008 carrying supplies and doing maintenance work.

Delmar says he satisfied federal background checks as recently as 2008.

He says that the 26-year-old Mobley also worked at other plants in the region. Delmar says the plant is cooperating with authorities.

Nuclear reactors remain a tempting target for terrorists, requiring ever vigilant security measures.

Yemeni officials confirmed on Thursday that Mobley is in custody.

UNBEFRIKIN'LIEVABLE.

Update: scooped Hot Air by two hours.

WELCOME GATEWAY PUNDIT READERS! (IF YOU HAVEN'T READ JIM'S POST GO THERE; HE HAS MORE).

AS LONG AS WE'RE AT WAR WITH ISLAM, NO MUSLIM SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO WORK IN ANY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.

AND WE'RE NOT AT WAR WITH ISLAM BECAUSE I SAY WE ARE, WE ARE BECAUSE THEY SAY THEY ARE!

OBAMACARE MADNESS: NANCY THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

HEH: “Democratic leaders should be asking themselves just how they have gotten to the point that their strategy is to amend a law that doesn’t exist yet by passing a bill without voting on it.”

Posted at 4:03 pm by Glenn Reynolds

CLICK MADHATTER OBAMA FOR THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY ARGUMENT.

BOTTOM-LINE: PASSING OBAMACARE IS THE STRANGEST CASE OF COLLECTIVE MADNESS SINCE... SINCE... AGW!

THE THING WHICH WORRIES ME THE MOST

WHAT WORRIES ME MOST:

I am worried that Obama will make a comeback before the November election.

I expect the economy to rebound faster than anyone else now predicts. There is tremendous pent up demand for goods and for additional workers. When Americans start to feel optimistic, then the dams will burst. This could happen before the elections, and Obama and the socialists will benefit.

I also expect the strategy Petraeus designed and is implementing in Afghanistan will work and that we may soon get Bin Laden and/or Zawahiri.

Obama will reap the rewards for this, too.

I do not expect Obama or Israel to pre-emptively attack before the election, or for Iran to build or test a nuke before the election either. So - unless there's a huge al Qaeda attack, I don't expect something out of left field to disrupt the course we're on.

That means - in order to defeat Obama and the Democrats this November - we need to hammer away at them on other issues, primarily: (1) Obamacare and BIG GOVERNMENT; (2) Congressional malfeasance.

That's what I intend to do.

IRAN: Protestant clergyman tortured for converting Muslims

Isfahan: Protestant clergyman tortured for “converting Muslims”

A protestant clergyman, Wilson Issavi, has been jailed for “converting Muslims”. He has been tortured and threatened with execution. According to the Farsi Christian Network, Issavi’s wife, Medline Nazanin, recently visited her husband in prison. She said that he was in poor health and that he bore visible signs of torture.

Rev Issavi (pictured), 65, was arrested on 2 February in Isfahan shortly after he finished a house meeting. He heads the Evangelical Church of Kermanshah in Isfahan, a 50-year-old church body affiliated with The Assemblies of God that caters to the local Assyrian population.

Iranian intelligence officials told his wife that he might be executed for his alleged activities.

During the raid, State Security police detained everyone in the house, later releasing all but Issavi and the owner of the home.

According to Compass Direct News, a sweep against Protestant Christians is taking place across Isfahan. On 28 February, Isfahan residents Hamid Shafiee and his wife Reyhaneh Aghajary, both converts from Islam and house church leaders, were arrested at their home. Their fate and whereabouts are still unknown.

WE NEED TO LIBERATE THE PERSIAN PEOPLE FROM THEIR ISLAMIC TYRANTS.

CONVERSION IS ONE WAY.

THAT'S WHY THE MULLAH TYRANTS KILLED THESE PRIESTS: THEY KNOW THAT ON EQUAL FOOTING IN A WORLD WITH RELIGIOUS FREEDOM THAT ISLAM DOESN'T STAND A CHANCE.

ISLAM DID NOT PROSELYTIZE IT'S WAY TO 1 BILLION BELIEVERS; IT GOT THERE VIA TERROR AND VIOLENT CONQUEST.

WITHOUT TERROR, TYRANNY AND COERCION, THERE CAN BE NO ISLAM.

THAT'S WHY THEY EXECUTE APOSTATES.

THE FREE WORLD OUGHT TO BE DEMANDING THIS PRIEST'S IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

IT'S A SCANDALOUS SHAME THAT THE FREE WORLD IS SILENT.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION IS A FUNDAMENTAL AND UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHT.

IF THE PRESENT REGIME IN IRAN CAN'T ALLOW RELIGIONS FREEDOM, THEN THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO RULE.

HAMAS RELEASES BRITISH JOURNALIST THEY HELD FOR A MONTH

Paul Martin, the freelance reporter from Britain who was taken prisoner by Hamas, has been released after a month:

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Thursday released a British journalist they had held for a month amid allegations that he endangered the Palestinian territory’s security.

Paul Martin said he was arrested because of his work as a journalist and called his release, with the help of the British and South African governments, a "great victory for the freedom of the media."

[...]

Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader, said Martin was suspected of serious security offenses and would not be able to return to Gaza. No charges were filed against him.

Zahar suggested Thursday that Martin’s activities as a journalist brought about his arrest.

The Hamas leader alleged Thursday that Martin "was working on defaming the image of the Palestinian people by saying that they smuggle weapons through tunnels," Zahar said, referring to hundreds of border tunnels that bypass the blockade of Gaza imposed by Israel and Egypt.

The tunnels bring in commercial goods, but are widely believed to be a conduit for cash and weapons as well.

Zahar complained that Martin was also working on a story about the alleged use of civilians as human shields by Hamas.

The Hamas leader also alleged Martin was in touch with Gazans suspected of collaborating with Israel.

Now we can guess why Martin was taken hostage! And those tunnels are a conduit for weaponry. Not that the AP Wire would want to admit that. It remains to be seen, however, if Martin is willing or will be allowed to write about all these cases.

THIS WEEK ON THE GATHERING STORM RADIO SHOW

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The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

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UPCOMING SHOWS:
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Berezovsky wins Litvinenko/polonium libel case

BBC:Berezovsky wins poison libel case

Businessman Boris Berezovsky has won a libel case over allegations he was behind the murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko in London.

He was awarded £150,000 ($224,000) at the High Court over a claim made by Russian TV channel RTR Planeta.

Mr Berezovsky, 63, said he had been a friend and supporter of Mr Litvinenko and the comments were "outrageous".

Mr Litvinenko, a fierce critic of ex-Russian President Vladimir Putin, was poisoned with polonium in 2006.

LIKE RTR, AJ STRATA WAS LAUGHABLY WRONG.

PREVIOUS POSTS HERE.

I WAS RIGHT: IT WAS PROBABLY PUTIN.

ISRAEL WILL ACTUALLY BUILD 50,000 NEW HOUSING UNITS IN JERUSALEM

HAARETZ:

Some 50,000 new housing units in Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the Green Line are in various stages of planning and approval, planning officials told Haaretz. They said Jerusalem's construction plans for the next few years, even decades, are expected to focus on East Jerusalem.

Most of the housing units will be built in predominantly Jewish neighborhoods beyond the Green Line, while a smaller number of them will be built in Arab neighborhoods. The plans for some 20,000 of the apartments are already in advanced stages of approval and implementation, while plans for the remainder have yet to be submitted to the planning committees.

The planned construction includes the 1,600 homes in the ultra-Orthodox East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo that were approved Tuesday.

GOOD. JERUSALEM WILL NEVER EVER AGAIN BE DIVIDED OR TAKEN AWAY FROM ISRAEL.

BESIDES: THE ARAB CLAIM ON JERUSALEM VIS A VIS THE AL AKSA-CONNECTION IS A FRAUD AND A LIE:

BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER WANTS A "PEACE TREATY" WITH THE TALIBAN

REUTERS/DAILY TIMES (PAKISTAN):Miliband urges push for Afghan peace settlement

LONDON: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan’s neighbours must support such an agreement.

Miliband’s conciliatory comments, in a speech to be given in the US later on Wednesday, reflect growing acceptance in the West that Taliban fighters who break ties with al Qaeda have a role to play in the country’s future.

THIS STRIKES ME AS INSANE APPEASEMENT FROM THE LEFT.

THE REAL ANSWER WOULD BE TO KILL THE ENEMY AND/OR CONVERT THEM OUT OF ISLAM.

BRRRRRRR: THE 8TH WORST WINTER IN UK'S HISTORY COST INSURERS $1 BILLION

THE 8TH WORST WINTER IN UK'S HISTORY CAOST INSURERS $1 BILLION:

Winter weather insurance claims hit £650m

Insurers paid out £650m from 335,000 claims made as a result of damage caused by the wintry weather in the UK.

The biggest chunk of the payout was made to motorists who damaged vehicles on the slippery roads, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said.

January 2010 was the eighth coldest on record for the UK - the worst since 1987.

AGW = BS.

During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defence Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any army in history

Col. Richard Kemp MBE, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan and a veteran of action in the 1990- 91 Kuwait war and elsewhere. On October 16, 2009, he appeared before an emergency session of the Human Rights Council. The complete transcript of his address appears below.

Testimony at the U.N.

I am the former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan. I served with NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] and the United Nations; commanded troops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, and Macedonia; and participated in the Gulf war. I spent considerable time in Iraq since the 2003 invasion and worked on international terrorism for the U.K. Government's Joint Intelligence Committee.

Mr. President, based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defence Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.

SOMEBODY TELL THOSE PRICKS ERDOGAN AND GOLDSTONE.

RTWT.

NO DOUBT OBAMA/BIDEN WOULD WANT BIBI TOPPLED

Wesley Pruden writes on Jewish World Review about US vice-president Joe Biden's already blundering visit to Israel, and tells something I wouldn't be surprised the Obama administration would prefer:

"In light of the gaping disparity between the Obama administration's policies and those of the Israeli government," Caroline Glick, an Israeli analyst, writes in JWR, "the apparent goal of the Biden [visit] is to shore up the position of the Israeli left as an alternative to [Mr.] Netanyahu … the picture emerging from all of the senior U.S. officials' meetings with [Mr.] Netanyahu is that Israel's leader still feels comfortable defying them. Presumably they now believe that the only way to force him to toe their line is by making him believe that the price of defiance will be his premiership."

This worked before. A full decade ago, Bill Clinton, posing as the best friend the Jews ever had — feeling their pain, pointing with pride to his undying love for Israel and viewing with alarm the occasional venal sins of the Palestinians — imposed some of the most hostile policies the United State ever foisted on Israel. This so effectively undermined Mr. Netanyahu that he was booted from office.

But that was then, and the Israeli public, like the government, has scant appetite for saccharine this time. It's just as well. Mr. Obama reserves his sweet talk for Arab provocateurs; he made his apology tour of the Muslim world early in his presidency but still can't find time to visit America's only reliably democratic ally in the Middle East. Good old Joe is the best messenger the president can find to take the bitter medicine to Jerusalem. He's regarded, at least by himself, as the best friend Israel has at the White House. Some friend. As a senator, he voted against sanctions against Iran, said he didn't see anything necessarily wrong with Iranian nuclear ambitions and grumbled that George W. Bush should be impeached if he sent Americans to bomb the Iranian nuclear plants. He'll blow some kisses at Israel this week, but none of them will be wet. Good old Joe will only be going through the motions of a duty dance.

As the polls have shown, Israelis have a very low opinion of the Obama-led government this time, and we gotta hope they understand the same about Biden. But then, he's already made his positions clear about what he thinks of Israel's right to build within Jerusalem, so we have to hope Biden is no more good at wearing masks of good will than Obama is.

SPECIAL SALUTE TO WOMEN VETS OF WW2

Israel National News has an item about the women who served in WW2, something that may have often been overlooked, and the special nod given in the Knesset for this.

ONE DAY LATER: BIDEN AND ABBAS: WHY ARE THESE TWO MEN SMILING?

WHY ARE THESE TWO MEN SMILING?

Because they both condemn Israel.

Abbas is very happy because Obama and Biden have de facto made it very difficult for Israel to build in Jerusalem even though Israel has said over and over again it will never give away east Jerusalem to anyone and even though Israel has never promised to have a moratorium on construction anywhere in Israel.

Obama is trying to force Israel to give up east Jerusalem before the two sides have even returned to the bargaining table.

This is anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and antisemitic.

No surprise here: Obama is doing what Reverend Wright always said he wanted: supporting Arabs and screwing Israel.

Jews who support Obama and Biden are supporting the enemies of Israel.

UPDATE:

BREAKING: EVIDENCE SHOWS IT IS VERY LIKELY TOYOTA PRIUS DRIVER WAS SETTING HIMSELF UP TO SUE TOYOTA

From KXAN:

During the two 911 calls, Sikes ignored many of the dispatcher's questions, saying later that he had to put his phone on the seat to keep his hands on the wheel.

Leighann Parks, a 24-year-old dispatcher, repeatedly told him to throw the car into neutral but got no answers.

"He was very emotional, you could tell on the line he was panicked," Parks told reporters outside the CHP's El Cajon office. "I could only imagine being in his shoes and being that stressed."

Neibert told Sikes after the CHP caught up with him to shift to neutral but the driver shook his head no. Sikes told reporters he didn't go into neutral because he worried the car would flip.

Yesterday, I wrote the following email to Nathan Olivarez-Giles, the author of the original LA Times piece on the Toyota Prius incident:

You are being used by a guy who is setting up a lawsuit.

If you and your compadres at the LA Times were truly interested in the human element in this Toyota issue, you would be shouting the solution to the problem from the rooftops;

PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL AND APPLY THE BRAKES.

That's how you instantly put an end to the problem of sudden acceleration.

Automobiles used to have sudden acceleration problems in the days before computing took over various auto systems. Motor Mounts would break and this would lead to sudden acceleration. It happened to me when I was 17. I found my car out of control and heading towards a gas pump at a corner gas station.

I put the car in neutral and I applied the brakes.

This is only logical.

Why is it the LA Times is not spending time on giving people a solution to the problem should it arise?

It's almost as if the LA Times is more interested in destroying Toyota than they are in helping human beings.

And, meanwhile, the LA Times has ignored the Chevy Cobalt problem:

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2010/03/chevy-recalls-13-million-cars-because.html

Why don't you try writing about that?

Will your editors allow you to do so?

Of course, I have not heard back from Nathan Olivarez-Giles.

If it is legally possible, I hope to God that he and his fellow journalists at the LA Times will all be sued into destitution for the evil that they are perpetuating.