DEDICATED TO EXPOSING DISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA AND TO PROMOTING UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS - WITH SHARP ANALYSIS AND BLUNT COMMENTARY. NO ADS. NO TIP-JAR. JUST THE TRUTH.
The doctor, who cannot be named for his safety, said two hospitals were closed and one had been stormed by troops, injuring many of the medical staff.
WHAT ASSAD IS DOING TO SYRIANS IS MUCH WORSE THAN ANYTHING ISRAEL EVER DID TO SYRIANS OR GAZANS OR LEBANESE OR JORDANIANS OR ANY OTHER ARAB GROUP.
AND ASSAD IS DOING IT DURING RAMADAN! MON DIEU!
OF COURSE, WHAT ASSAD IS DOING IS PAR FOR THE COURSE FOR ARAB TYRANTS.
ASSAD COMES FROM A LONG LINE OF MURDEROUS IF NOT GENOCIDAL ARAB/MUSLIM TYRANTS - INCLUDING HIS FATHER, AND GADDAFY, AND SADDAM AND ARAFAT.
AND OBAMA AND HILLARY ARE DOING AS MUCH TO HELP THE SYRIANS AS THEY DID TO HELP THE IRANIANS DURING THEIR REBELLION - WHICH IS TO SAY OBAMA AND HILLARY ARE DOING BUPKUS.
SIGH.
AMERICA CAN LEAD THE FREE WORLD AGAIN - IN 2102, IF WE MAKE GOVERNOR RICK PERRY PRESIDENT RICK PERRY.
Egypt's most influential Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has warned the country's ruling military council not to interfere in the process of writing the country's future constitution.
The statement Saturday from the Brotherhood marks the first time the group has directly challenged Egypt's military rulers since the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak in February.
How a new constitution will be drawn up is an intensely disputed subject in Egypt.
Parliamentary elections are slated for later this year, and the Islamists are expected to win big at the polls.
I once spoke about how Bernard Lewis was unfortunately not the most reliable expert on Islam. Now, Andrew Bostom's got a whole essay where he puts this concern more into focus.
And let us be perfectly clear: to say that anti-semitism in the Muslim world derives from the European form is about as effective as saying that the ancient Egyptians derived theirs from the same places.
Like so many faiths, Islam has been part of our American family, and Muslim Americans have long contributed to the strength and character of our country, in all walks of life. This has been especially true over the past 10 years.
SHEESH. NOT ONE SENTENCE IS TRUE,
Here are some other interesting observations of this event via elvisnixon.com:
Obama is the FIRST President to actively denigrate Christians and Christianity while simultaneously bowing down to Muslims and Sharia law.
Were there any “gay” couples invited to the official Obama White House Ramadan meal?
Why not?
Obama made a great show of having many homosexuals at his “Easter egg roll” rubbing Christians’ noses in what he called a “teachable moment” against “the forces of homophobia and hate.”
Easter is Christianity’s major holy day. Why did he not mock and insult Muslims in the same way?
Why did Obama not shove a “teachable moment” into the faces of Muslims?
Earlier this year, Obama forced Christians to watch in dismay as he hijacked the Christian holiday of Easter to endorse homosexual child rearing, and he used Ramadan to endorse the construction of a massive mosque on the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He clearly hates Christianity and embraces Islam, as well as homosexuality. It’s only unclear which one he prefers, or fears, more. It seems to be Islam since he didn’t include any gays, lesbians, transgenders, transexuals, cross-dressers, or pre-ops at his Ramadan celebration.
This is a deadly double standard by a man who refused to attend the National Day of Prayer breakfast, refused to attend the Boy Scouts of America (because of their policy of protecting boys from potential “gay” predators) and wants to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. He and his wife Michele attended Jeremiah Wright’s hate-filled “church” that promoted overt racism and black liberation theology for years. This is Obama’s sole connection with what the media think is legitimate Christianity.
Why is the media as silent about Obama’s purposeful neglect of the gay, lesbians and transgender community” when it comes to his Muslim holiday celebration as they are about that fact that the California city of Bell’s entire corruption scandal was 100% Democrat?
The Left is foaming at the mouth: they MUST raise income taxes on the wealthy. To some that means "millionaire's and billionaires" - to others it means folks earning more than $200,000.year. To Obama is means both, somehow; (I think this ism because Obama is stupid).
I think not only think it's bad because it would slow the economy and therefore LOWER revenues; I think it's IMMORAL.
It's immoral that people who are more successful and EARN each year more than #$200,000 - and even people earn a BILLION per year - should be penalized because they are among the elite ACHIEVERS.
Remember folks, the Left ain't talking about tax rich people's NET WORTH by some sort of excise tax. The Left is talking about raising the INCOME TAX - a tax on what people EARN.
Why should a person who can EARN a million bucks be forced to send more money to Washington so career politicians and lobbyists can decide how to spend it!?!?
The person who EARNED it has a moral right to spend as much of it as he wants on whatever he wants.
We have a MORAL right to the fruits of our labors - TO WHAT WE EARN!
Lincoln made this MORAL IMPERATIVE the bedrock of his opposition to slavery.
Raising the income tax is fiscally wrong and morally wrong.
There is not a single good reason to raise the income tax on ANYONE.
The only reason the Left - and the Democrat party the control - wants to do it is VISCERAL: they have a visceral need to TAKE STUFF AWAY FROM THEIR OPPONENTS AND GIVE IT TO THEIR FACTIONS.
OBAMA admitted as much during the 2008 Democrat presidential debates when he admitted that raising the capital gains tax would lower receipts, but that he would do it anyhow "in the name of 'fairness'": HOT AIR (2008):
SENATOR OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.
We saw an article today which showed that the top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year — $29 billion for 50 individuals. And part of what has happened is that those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. That’s not fair.
And what I want is not oppressive taxation.
I want businesses to thrive and I want people to be rewarded for their success.
But what I also want to make sure is that our tax system is fair and that we are able to finance health care for Americans who currently don’t have it and that we’re able to invest in our infrastructure and invest in our schools.
And you can’t do that for free, and you can’t take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children and our grandchildren and then say that you’re cutting taxes, which is essentially what John McCain has been talking about. And that is irresponsible.
You know, I believe in the principle that you pay as you go, and you don’t propose tax cuts unless you are closing other tax breaks for individuals. And you don’t increase spending unless you’re eliminating some spending or you’re finding some new revenue. That’s how we got an additional $4 trillion worth of debt under George Bush.
That is helping to undermine our economy, and it’s going to change when I’m president of the United States.
MR. GIBSON: But history shows that when you drop the capital gains tax, the revenues go up.
SENATOR OBAMA: Well, that might happen or it might not. It depends on what’s happening on Wall Street and how business is going. I think the biggest problem that we’ve got on Wall Street right now is the fact that we’ve got a housing crisis that this president has not been attentive to and that it took John McCain three tries before he got it right.
And if we can stabilize that market and we can get credit flowing again, then I think we’ll see stocks do well, and once again I think we can generate the revenue that we need to run this government and hopefully to pay down some of this debt.
Read and listen very carefully to this. The higher priority for Obama isn’t to raise revenue; it’s to ensure fairness.
In order to do that, he will have the government take a bigger share of the gains and redistribute them through social programs to others. The pretense of having more money acts as a veneer for good, old-fashioned redistributionism.
VIDEO:
"FOR PURPOSES OF FAIRNESS" IS A LEFT-0WING EUPHEMISM FOR TAKING IT AWAY FROM THOSE WHO EARNED IT AND GIVING IT TO THEIR CRONIES.
AND ANOTHER THING:
EVERY DAMN THING OBAMA SAID IN THAT DEBATE - AND IN THE CAMPAIGN - WAS A LIE.
(1) Instead of to the SCOTUS - (and actually deciding them on a case by case basis based on the merits the facts and the CONSTITUTION), we should just send them to ORIN KERR.
(2) Has anybody asked Anthony (wiener) Kennedy what he thinks? After all whatever this one confused and unprincipled man thinks becomes the law of the land; (HOW DEMOCRATIC!).
and (3) If Kerr is right, then there will rioting in the USA that makes the Greek and British riots seem like child's play.
Americans will not sit by and idly watch as their republic becomes a tyranny in which the federal government - run my career politicians and lobbyists - can tell us what we have to buy.
Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on demonstrators in Syria, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq has struck a far friendlier tone, urging the protesters not to “sabotage” the state and hosting an official Syrian delegation.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad confirmed the abduction and identified the American as Warren Weinstein.
“I can confirm that an American citizen, working for a private company, is missing. We are working with the Pakistani authorities,” said Alberto Rodriguez, the embassy official.
The LinkedIn networking Web site identified a Warren Weinstein as serving Pakistan country director for J.E. Austin Associates Inc., an Arlington, Virginia-based consulting firm. The Web site said Mr. Weinstein had been based in Lahore for seven years, and a police official said Saturday that he had been living alone in Model Town, an old, affluent neighborhood of Lahore, since 2006.
The J.E. Austin Web site called Mr. Weinstein an expert in international development, and said he had been working on the firm’s Pakistan Initiative for Strategic Development and Competitiveness.
A JEW!? CIA!?
STAY TUNED.
(I fear another Pearl beheading is going to happen.)
Scores of Egyptian Islamists protested Friday outside the US embassy in Cairo against the continuing imprisonment of militant Muslim cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman.
They vowed not to stop their 'open-ended' protest until they got an official promise from US authorities to release Abdel-Rahman.
'We will not end our sit-in until my father is freed or we get an official letter from the US that he will be released,' Ibrahim, the son of the 74-year-old cleric, was quoted as saying by the website of official Egyptian radio and television.
He demanded the ruling military council in Egypt request the US to release him.
Abdel-Rahman is currently serving a life sentence in the United States after having been convicted of 'seditious conspiracy' in connection with the World Trade Center 1993 bombings.
MUSLIMS WHO WOULD WANT THIS SHEIK RELEASED ARE NOT CAPABLE OF ACCEPTING A PLURALISTIC DEMOCRATIC NATION - AND WON'T PERMIT ONE TO EMERGE IN EGYPT.
“It was the German indecision that intensified the Greece crisis and led to the contagion that has transformed it into an existential crisis for Europe,” Soros wrote in a guest commentary for the business daily Handelsblatt on Friday.
Soros, who has long criticised Europe’s handling of the crisis, called for the introduction of jointly backed eurobonds – a call that has been made by many economists but resisted by Germany.
He wrote that it had been a mistake to try to back up individual countries such as Greece via bailouts rather than strengthen the European Union as a whole. Germany now had to take the lead, he added.
“Otherwise the euro will collapse.”
SOROS ISN'T HAPPY JUST BEING ABLE TO BOSS AROUND OBAMA; NOW, HE WANTS TO TELL THE GERMANS WHAT TO DO, TOO!
THE REAL PROBLEM IS EXCESSIVE SOCIAL SPENDING ON WORTHLESS SOCIALIST PROGRAM AND PONZI SCHEMES.
THE REAL SOLUTION IS TO CUT THE PROGRAMS AND PRIVATIZE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
"It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession."
President Barack Obama is ignoring heated concerns from within his own administration that new Environmental Protection Agency coal industry regulations will be economically devastating.
The EPA is plowing forward with new Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) mandates. The regulations would force coal energy plants to install giant scrubber-like materials inside smokestacks to capture and cleanse carbon particles before their atmospheric release.
The upgrade cost would fall on company employees and coal miners in the form of layoffs, as well as on businesses, which could expect to pay more for energy.
In a lengthy letter to EPA Director Lisa Jackson, Obama’s Small Business Administration advocacy office wrote the EPA “may have significantly understated” the economic “burden this rulemaking would impose on small entities.”
One Southern Indiana Chamber of Commerce vice president, Tonya Fischer, told The Daily Caller the entire state of Indiana would be “devastated” by these regulations. “We are definitely in opposition to [the MACT regulations] because it would be devastating for the state of Indiana.” She adds that local businesses, which are struggling with the tough economy already, would be forced to pick up the extra energy production costs Obama’s EPA is pushing. “We get 95 percent of our electricity from coal.”
“The cost to convert those facilities would be passed on to the small business owners, or basically shut them [the coal energy producing facilities] down altogether,” Fischer said. “It would become cost-prohibitive for them [local businesses] to continue paying their electricity bills.”
If the EPA regulations aren’t halted, Fischer expects unemployment numbers in Indiana to skyrocket.
THIS IS A CASE WHERE OBAMA IS FULFILLING A CAMPAIGN PROMISE:
OBAMA THE DESTROYER.
PERHAPS TO FULFIL THE DREAMS OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SENIOR, PRESIDENT OBAMA IS DESTROYING THE USA.
LISTEN CAREFULLY TO HIS INSANE ARGUMENT:
ON THE ONE HAND HE ADMITS HIS POLICIES WILL DRIVE COAL PLANTS OUT OF BUSINESS - (SOMETHING HE THINKS IS GOOD!) -
AND ION THE OTHER HAND HE ARGUES THAT HIS POLICIES WILL GENERATE BILLIONS IN REVENUE.
THIS IS LIKE TRYING TO HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT, TOO.
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
YOU DON'T COLLECT BILLIONS IN TAXES FROM BANKRUPT BUSINESSES.
IF HE BELIEVES YOU CAN THAN OBAMA IS NOT ONLY THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA, BUT ABSOFREAKINGLUTELY DUMBEST.
I MEAN DUMBER THAN A BAG OF HAMMERS.
I MEAN, DO YOU REMEMBER THAT VILLAGE THAT HILLARY WROTE ABOUT IN "IT TAKES A VILLAGE" (WHICH IS SUPPOSEDLY AN OLD AFRICAN SAYING)!?
WELL, IT'S MISSING ITS IDIOT.
HE'S IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
THE ONLY PEOPLE DUMBER THAN OBAMA ARE THE PEOPLE WHO THINK HE;S DOING A GOOD JOB.
If there were an award for the world's most mismanaged national health project, England's National Programme for IT in the NHS would be a strong contender, if not outright winner. Started in 2002, Tony Blair's brainchild has, like the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, gone badly wrong.
The main aim of the project was to create a fully integrated centralised electronic care records system to improve services and patient care by 2007.
The budget for the undertaking was a substantial £11·4 billion. 9 years on, the Department of Health has spent £6·4 billion on the project so far, failed to meet its initial deadline, and has had to abandon the central goal of the project because it is unable to deliver a universal system.
OBAMACARE WILL WORK ABOUT AS WELL.
ASIDE: If they cancel it entirely, do you think IT managers all over Britain will riot amnd loot?
That was the central finding in a study released this week by Outbrain, a content recommendation engine whose clients include the New York Times, the Atlantic and the New York Post, among others.
AWESOME.
I THINK DRUDGE SHOULD ACCEPT COMMENTS FROM MEMBERS, AND GO PUBLIC!
IF YOU TAXED THE RICH AT THE CLINTON TAX RATE IT WOULDN'T REDUCE THE DEBT BY AS MUCH AS REDUCING THE BUDGET TO 2007 LEVELS.
OR BETTER YET: LOWERING SPENDING TO 2000 LEVELS - BILL CLINTON'S LEVELS!
AND RAISING RATES THAT HIGH WILL HAVE A BAD EFFECT ON THE ECONOMY AND THEREFORE ULTIMATELY LOWER REVENUES.
SPENDING HAS GROWN MUCH MUCH MORE THAN THE TAX RATES HAVE DECLINED.
AND WE ARE NOT ADDING ENOUGH NEW TAXPAYERS TO THE ECONOMY.
LIBERALS ACCEPT THIS FACT WHEN IT COMES TO TAXING CIGARETTES AND FATTY FOODS. THEY KNOW IT WILL EFFECT BEHAVIOR AND REDUCE SMOKING AND EATING OF FATTY FOODS.
BUT FOR SOME REASON, LIBERALS DON'T ACCEPT THAT RAISING TAXES ON THE WEALTHY INVESTOR CLASS - WILL HAVE ANY BAD EFFECTS.
THIS IS A RESULT OF WILLFUL BLINDNESS.
BECAUSE LIBERAL "SEE" THE ECONOMY AS A STATIC PIE, THEY THINK THEY CAN MERELY SLICE IT UP AND REDISTRIBUTE THE SLICES.
BUT THE PE ISN'T STATIC. IT'S DYNAMIC.
AND IT TAKES HARD WORK JUST TO STAY IN PLACE, LET ALONE PROSPER.
AND TAXES AND REGULATIONS MAKE IT HARDER TO PROSPER.
WE NEED TO CUT TAXES AND SPENDING.
AND THE DEBT DEAL TARGET IS PUNY. $1.5 TRILLION OVER TEN YEARS IS 1/3RD OF WHAT THEY SHOULD BE CUTTING -AT A MINIMUM.
in the most recent weekly Gallup average, Obama had fallen to 42 percent. That decline is reflected in some more recent state polls showing Obama in a more vulnerable position than the Gallup findings, for instance Quinnipiac University surveys in Florida and Pennsylvania.
If Obama’s national approval rating next fall remains around its current 42 percent, it’s almost inconceivable that he could win enough states to assemble an Electoral College majority.
... the sharpest declines have come in states that Obama won last time, including New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Mexico, and Nevada.
... Obama retains an approval rating of 50 percent or greater in 15 of the 18 “blue-wall” states that have voted Democratic in at least the past five consecutive presidential elections, plus the District of Columbia which has also backed Democrats that reliably. Those bricks in the blue wall are the only states in which Obama’s approval rating reaches the 50 percent level...
... North Carolina, which Obama carried by only about 14,000 votes, again divides almost exactly in half, with Obama’s approval rating at 46.2 and his disapproval at 46.1.
... Obama’s situation looks more precarious in several states that he won last time. In addition to Oregon, his approval rating now trails his disapproval rating in New Hampshire (where just 40 percent approve), Indiana (42 percent), Colorado and Nevada (44 percent), Ohio (45 percent), New Mexico, and Virginia (each 46 percent).
OBAMA IS LOSING BLUE COLLAR WHITE MEN BY THE DROVES.
THIS MEANS HE WILL HAVE A HARD TIME WINNING IN MICHIGAN, OHIO, AND PENNSYLVANIA.
HE COULD ALSO LOSE VIRGINIA.
SINCE THE ECONOMY IS NOW UNLIKELY TO REBOUND SUFFICIENTLY TO LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT, IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT OBAMA CAN WIN.
THANK GOD.
I JUST HOPE WE SURVIVE UNTIL THE ELECTION!
AND WE NOMINATE A DECENT AND CONSERVATIVE PERSON TO RUN AGAINST HIM.
The State Department sent a message to Hamas rulers in Gaza on Thursday that it would withdraw some $100 million it is spending in Gaza on health care, agriculture and water infrastructure if they did not back off a demand to audit the books of American-financed charities operating there. The threat, delivered via an intermediary, came after Hamas officials on Sunday suspended the operation of the International Medical Corps for its refusal to submit to a Hamas audit at the site.
Suspend it?
We should never be sending any there to begin with!
Caroline Glick writes about left's exploitation of the Breivik massacre to attack conservatives and opponents of jihadism, and the governmental/public mindset that much of Norway is plagued with:
...when on Friday, Norway's Deputy Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide published an unjustified attack on me on these pages, he forced me to take the time to study the intellectual and political climate of hatred towards Israel and Jews that pervades Norwegian society.
That climate is not a contemporary development. Rather it has been a mainstay of Norwegian society.
In a 2006 report on Jew hatred in contemporary Norwegian caricatures published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Erez Uriely noted among other things that Norway banned kosher ritual slaughter in 1929 - three years before a similar ban was instituted in Nazi Germany.
And whereas the ban on kosher ritual slaughter was lifted in post-war Germany, it was never abrogated in Norway.
As Uriely noted, Norway's prohibition on Jewish ritual slaughter makes Judaism the only religion that cannot be freely practiced in Norway.
Fascism was deeply popular in Norway in the 1930s. In the wake of the Nazi invasion, Norwegian governmental leaders founded and joined the Norwegian Nazi Party. Apparently, sympathy for Nazi collaborators is strong today in Norway.
As the JCPA's Manfred Gerstenfeld noted in a report on the rise in Norwegian anti-Semitic attacks during 2009, two years ago the Norwegian government allocated more than $20 million in public funds to commemorate Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun on the occasion of the Nobel laureate for literature's 150th birthday. As The New York Times reported, in February 2009, Norway's Queen Sonja opened the, "year-long, publicly financed commemoration of Hamsun's 150th birthday called 'Hamsun 2009.'"
But while Hamsun may have been a good writer, he is better remembered for being an enthusiastic Nazi. Hamsun gave his Nobel prize to Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels. During a wartime visit to Germany, Hamsun flew to meet Adolf Hitler at Hitler's mountain home in Bavaria.
And in 2009, Norway built a $20 million museum to honor his achievements.
As Uriely explained in his report, "Norwegian anti- Semitism does not come from the grassroots but from the leadership - politicians, organization leaders, church leaders, and senior journalists. It does not come from Muslims but from the European-Christian society." [...]
One of the Jewish Americans who attacked the Norwegian ambassador's willingness to distinguish between Palestinian terrorist murderers of Israelis and Breivik's terrorist murder of Norwegians was Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz said, "I know of no reasonable person who has tried to justify the terrorist attacks against Norway. Yet there are many Norwegians who not only justify terrorist attacks against Israel, but praise them, support them, help finance them and legitimate them."
In March Dershowitz experienced Norway's elite anti- Semitism-qua-anti-Zionism firsthand. Dershowitz was brought to Norway by a pro-Israel group to conduct lectures at three Norwegian universities. All three university administrations refused to invite him to speak. Student groups acting independently of their university administrations in the end invited Dershowitz to give his lectures.
As Dershowitz explained in a Wall Street Journal article, he was the victim of an unofficial Norwegian university boycott of Israeli universities. The unofficial boycott is so extensive that it bans not only Israeli academics, but non-Israeli, Jewish academics that are pro-Israel.
And lest someone believe Norway's anti-Jewish boycott is due to the so-called "occupation," as Dershowitz pointed out, the petition calling for an academic boycott of Israel begins, "Since 1948 the state of Israel has occupied Palestinian land."
The Norwegian elite's rejection of Israel's right to exist, and ban on pro-Israel Jewish speakers from university campuses goes a long way in explaining Norway's support for Hamas. If Norway's opposition to Israel was merely due to its size, rather than its very existence, it would be difficult to understand why Norway maintains friendly contact with Hamas. Hamas is after all a genocidal, terrorist group, which like the Nazis seeks the annihilation of the Jewish people as a whole. Yet Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store wrote an article justifying his relations with Hamas as in line with Norway's embrace of "dialogue."
What this can tell is that Norway never evolved much past the mentality that the Vikings fed upon. If you've ever heard of the British-Norweigan author Roald Dahl, he was a very disturbing anti-semite/racist/sexist, and some of the original drafts for his books' manuscripts were chilling too. Pretty much the only thing that could be great about the Vikings were the pagan deity mythologies they came up with. But beyond that, they really suck. Some may wonder if the UK could convert to Islam, but what about Norway? Could they beat them to that dreaded destiny?
Greedy and Stupid!! Go to bed with a cannibal, wake up chewed!! Still, I can't imagine for a moment at the age of 80 - if he ever was capable of such a conception - that he was EVER passionate in bed!
But maybe a promise to give her a BIG apartment WAS the turn-on!!
Billionaire financier George Soros is being sued for $50 million by his former lover - a 28-year-old Brazilian soap star who claims he physically abused her and broke a promise to give her a Manhattan apartment.
Adriana Ferreyr claims her 80-year-old former boyfriend slapped her across the face and placed his hands around her neck in a bid to choke her while they argued about the $1.9million flat. It states that the actress was dating Mr Soros, estimated to be worth about £14.5billion, for around five years. During that time he promised to give her an apartment at 30 East 85th Street, worth $1.9 million and a city block from Central Park.
But before she got the chance to take possession of the generous gift Mr Soros abruptly called off the relationship.
Her lawsuit claims that, despite his 'heartless' rejection, the couple briefly reignited their relationship, and that it was during a passionate night in bed that the billionaire let slip with a whisper in her ear that he had promised the apartment to another woman.
Miss Ferreyr reacted badly to this news and an ensuing argument allegedly turned violent.
White House spokesman Jay Carney claims that paying people not to work is one of the best ways to create jobs:
It is one of the most direct ways to infuse money directly into the economy.
How about not taking it out in the first place? Carney apparently thinks the money appears by magic, but it is actually extracted in the most perverse way possible. Here is the beginning of Michigan's Unemployment Insurance information sheet for employers:
When a worker becomes separated from his or her job and files for unemployment benefits, the worker’s past employer or employers will probably be charged for any benefits that may be paid.
With slight differences, that statement applies to every state. Some are a little more rigorous, like Georgia:
In Georgia, employers pay the entire cost of unemployment insurance benefits [paid to former employees].
It's not a cost sharing system. It is not society that picks up the tab for this social insurance. In general, employers are on the hook for all payments made to their own former employees. Just like when you get in a car accident, it is your own insurance rates that go up. Psuedo-insurance you might call it. But in the case of unemployment insurance this is taken to the extreme. The unemployment benefits come straight out of former employers' bank accounts.
As a consequence, when the duration of unemployment insurance was doubled, as Obama pushed through in his inaugural "stimulus" package, the unemployment insurance liability faced by employers was doubled, and the only way they could avoid that liability was not to hire, so that's what happened: no hiring since January 2009.
If you were going to be on the hook for half an employee's salary for a full year for anyone you had to let go, would you hire? It is an insanely high penalty. $20,000 of liability for any $40,000/yr employee you take on. Absolute murder for the economy (without even accounting the number of people who prefer not to work when they can get paid for staying home).
The White House is blissfully ignorant of the destructiveness of the funding source for this job killer, ignorant enough for Spokesman Jay Carney to even shower contempt on the reporter who questioned how paying people to stay home creates jobs:
I would expect a reporter from the Wall Street Journal would know this as part of the entrance exam.
Carney passes his exit exam: time for this Baghdad Bob to leave.
The riots across Britain are the result of an austerity program that has cut everything from libraries to the local police.
Like the left blaming Pam Geller and Robert Spencer and Fjordman for Breivik.
OR OBAMA BLAMING BUSH FOR THE DOWNGRADE!
JUST HOW BULKLSH*TTY IS THEIR ARGUMENT?
HERE:
All are victims of what people in Britain call “the cuts” — the government’s defunding of civil-society institutions in order to balance the nation’s books. Before the riots, the government had planned to cut 16,200 police officers across the country. In London, austerity means that there will be about 19 percent less to spend next year on government programs, and the burden will fall particularly on the poor.
SO THESE TWO LEFT-WING ACADEMICS WANT US TO BELIEVE THAT THE RIOTS WERE THE RESULT OF CUTS THAT HAVEN;T EVEN TAKEN PLACE YET.
WHAT ASSH*LES.
STUPID LYING LEFT-WING PROPAGANDIZING ASSH*LES.
THE TRUTH IS THAT DECADES OF MULTICULTURALISM - FAILING TO DEMAND ASSIMILATION AND ADHERENCE TO THE RULE OF BRITISH LAW - AND APPEASING THUGS IS WHAT CAUSED THESE RIOTS.
EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands — As Sander Van Dedem recalled watching the charges tick up every 10 seconds on the dashboard meter on the way to the airport, he resolved to try public transportation next time. “Looking at the money makes you realize that a car isn’t always a good idea,” said Mr. Van Dedem, a commercial sales manager for I.B.M. here.
But his pricey ride was not in a taxi. He was driving his own Volvo XC60.
The car had been outfitted with the meter so that Mr. Van Dedem could take part in a trial of a controversial government tax proposal to charge drivers a fee for the miles they drive. The meter also factors in the cost to society in the form of pollution, traffic congestion, greenhouse gas emissions and wear and tear on roads.
Hooked up to the Internet wirelessly and to GPS, the system tabulates a charge for each car trip by using a mileage-based formula that also takes account of a car’s fuel efficiency, the time of day and the route.
THE GAS TAX ALREADY DOES THIS. ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS RAISE THE GAS TAX.
SO WHY GO THIS ROUTE?
WELL, IT LET'S SOME FRIENDS OF SOME POLITICIANS MAKE A KILLING ON THE SALE OF THE METERS.
AND IT LET'S POLITICIANS PICK MORE WINNERS AND LOSER BY ALLOWING THEM TO EFF AROUND WITH THE RATES AND GIVE CERTAIN CARS AND CERTAIN DRIVERS A BREAK.
THAT'S WHAT "COST TO SOCIETY" REALLY MEANS!
IT'S SICKENING.
THE REAL ANSWER IS DISMANTLING GOVERNMENT AND MAKING IT AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE BY PRIVATIZING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE SO ASSH*LE POLITICIANS AND LEFTISTS HAVE NOTHING TO EFF AROUND WITH.
Black Conservatives Commend Philadelphia's Mayor Nutter for Giving Youth a Reality Check
Washington, D.C. - Activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are commending Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter (D) for giving young people a blunt wake-up call regarding self-destructive behavior.
"Mayor Nutter deserves credit for stepping up and being a leader," said Project 21 FellowDeneen Borelli. "Nutter is doing what Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, President Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus have thus far failed to do by speaking out against the epidemic of violent 'flash mobs' and rampant, random crime and violence."
Project 21 spokesman Jerome Hudson supports Nutter's get-tough attitude, adding that parents who aren't on the mayor's bandwagon already should join it: "I applaud Mayor Nutter for his effort to quell the violent flash mobs. However, disciplinary action such as curfews should be made and enforced by parents and not the police. If one likely underlying cause -- a soaring number of single-mother households -- is not addressed, these misguided teenagers will continue to be a scourge to society. Ultimately, the transmission of self-control and self-respect can only come from inside the home and not city hall."
Osama bin Laden was protected by elements of Pakistan's security apparatus in return for millions of dollars of Saudi cash, according to a controversial new account of the operation to kill the world's most wanted man.
THE SAUDIS HAVE ALWAYS PLAYED A DOUBLE GAME WITH US - JUST LIKE THE PAKISTANIS - AND NOW THE TURKS, AND SOON THE JORDANIANS AND THE EGYPTIANS.
HOW CAN WE EVER HOPE TO WIN WW4 IF WE CONSTANTLY ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE DOUBLE-CROSSED AND REFUSE TO TREAT OUR ENEMIES THE WAY THEY DESERVE TO BE TREATED!?!?
Obama’s response on Monday to Friday’s Standard & Poor’s downgrade and to the 22 Navy Seal commandos and 8 other soldiers killed by a Taliban rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan was once more too little, too late.
It was just like his belated, ineffectual response on the BP oil spill and his reaction to the would-be Christmas Day bomber; it took him three days on vacation in Hawaii to speak about the terrorist incident when the country was scared about national security, and then he spent the next week callously shuttling from the podium to the golf course.
EVEN DOWD MUST ADMIT THAT THESE SHORTCOMINGS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TEA PARTY OR THE GOP OR BLUSH.
THEY ARE ALL OBAMA'S.
He's a loser.
THE QUESTION IS NO LONGER WILL HE BE A ONE-TERMER BY LOSING IN A LANDSLIDE...
IF HE RUNS, THEN HE WILL LOSE IN A LANDSLIDE.
IT'S NOT EVEN WILL HE DECIDE NOT TO RUN. THE REAL QUESTION IS: WILL HE RESIGN BEFORE HIS TERM IS UP!
WHAT DO YOU THINK? WILL THIS INSIPID AND NARCISSISTIC POSTMODERN LEFTIST QUIT?
The manifesto posted on a website is attributed to a group called "Individuals Tending to Savagery" mentions five other researchers whose work it opposes. The attacks have injured two professors and a maintenance worker.
UTOPIANISTS ARE DANGEROUS PEOPLE: THEY'RE WILLING TO DO UNBELIEVABLY BAD THINGS IN ORDER TO BRING ABOUT THEIR VISION OF A PERFECT WORLD.
CONSERVATIVES ACCEPT THAT WE HUMANS ARE UN-PERFECTIBLE AND ARE BEST OFF WHEN THE STATE HAS A LITTLE POWER AS NECESSARY.
“Pregnancy reduction” for women carrying twins opens up an uncharted territory of personal choice.
As Jenny lay on the obstetrician’s examination table, she was grateful that the ultrasound tech had turned off the overhead screen. She didn’t want to see the two shadows floating inside her.
Since making her decision, she had tried hard not to think about them, though she could often think of little else.
She was 45 and pregnant after six years of fertility bills, ovulation injections, donor eggs and disappointment — and yet here she was, 14 weeks into her pregnancy, choosing to extinguish one of two healthy fetuses, almost as if having half an abortion.
As the doctor inserted the needle into Jenny’s abdomen, aiming at one of the fetuses, Jenny tried not to flinch, caught between intense relief and intense guilt.
THIS IS FUCKING EVIL.
ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FEEL SORRY FOR HER - A MOTHER CHOOSING TO KILL ONE OF HER HEALTHY BABIES!?!?!
IT'S INSANE AND IMMORAL.
I LOVE THE NEW EUPHEMISM: "EXTINGUISH":
... choosing to extinguish one of two healthy fetuses, almost as if having half an abortion.
THESE FUC*ING LEFTIES ARE SELFISH, LIFE-HATING GENOCIDAL MANIACS.
Janet Levy on the American Thinker writes about the history of the persecution and slaughter of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christians by the Ottoman Muslim empire during WW1, which Turks in Germany are suppressing from discussion as well:
In Germany, where Holocaust denial is punishable by up to five years in prison, Stuttgart University recently capitulated to pressure from resident Turkish Muslims and canceled an event entitled, "Persecution, Expulsion and Annihilation of Christians in the Ottoman Empire 1912-1922." Ironically, this occurred in a country that was forced to confront its own genocidal past, educate its population and pay restitution to victims. University officials explained that they wanted to "remain neutral" on the subject of the nearly 100-year-old, well-documented Turkish massacre of more than two million Christians. Citing neutrality in the face of crimes against humanity is deeply troubling, particularly in light of Germany's Holocaust past and the missed opportunity the event represented to educate students about genocide and potentially prevent its recurrence.
Equally troubling is Turkey's continued denial and banning of information about these crimes, not only within its own borders, but, as exemplified in Germany, within other countries as well. In contrast to Germany where laws since the end of World War II seek to prevent a Holocaust from ever happening again, the Turkish government under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, passed in 2005, makes it a crime punishable by up to two years imprisonment to insult the Turkish state. This provision prevents any public commemoration or consideration of the Turkish Muslim atrocities committed against Ottoman Christians.
There's more on the history of the persecution the Ottomans conducted against at least 3 ethnic groups at the link.
After it became known that Sony's planned movie project to be based on the raid on bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan would actually be more like a reelection prop for Obama, Big Hollywood ran a poll, and the results show that a solid number so far - 98 percent - are discouraged from seeing Katheryn Bigelow's movie because of how it could be less a straightforward focus and more of a political election maneuver.
I think it's worth arguing that these kind of dispiriting turn of events aren't too surprising. It brings to mind how, as a comics reader who's been alienated from much of the output of both Marvel and DC comics because of some of the most horrific editorial mandates and politicizations of their own material they've been making in the past decade, that's why I was discouraged from reading anything more positive they might have done, and still am. In fact, it's worth noting that some of the not too many conservatives allowed to work in the wider field aren't much better than their liberal counterparts: Bill Willingham, for example, may have made Fables into a pro-Israel metaphor, but the problem is: if you're someone who finds misogyny in showbiz a concern, you wouldn't be happy to know that Willingham, willfully or not, lent himselfto a couplesuchstepsDC did during 2004-05, and then, when people voiced their offense at one of his steps, he took to insulting them, rather rudely too, I might add. It was as though he was mocking the audience, and I think it goes without saying that's hardly at all a way to maintain one's audience.
Later on, he wrote a piece about "superhero decadence" on Big Hollywood at the time it was just starting out, where he verified his conservative stance, but not only does it not excuse his prior behavior, I personally just couldn't bring myself to congratulate him. His actions from several years ago struck me as so jaw-droppingly vulgar, how was I supposed to just congratulate him now? It makes no difference if he wrote those stories at the behest of the editors; after he insulted his own audience - something I don't think he's ever actually apologized for - it's hardly helping to tell everyone he's written a story where Robin helps on a mission to Afghanistan when he's done something else that runs contrary to common sense. And it sure didn't bring him much audience afterwards either.
There's a lesson to be learned both ways here - on the one hand, when you turn what could be a powerhouse film project about the raid on bin Laden's hideout into a politcized project, or on the other, if, as a conservative, you do something that's offensive and contradictory to what most conservatives would stand for, there's every chance that even conservatives will be alienated. If my offended reaction to Willingham's terrible behavior from 2004-05, and the Big Hollywood audience's reaction to the news on how the Pakistan raid movie project's being handled, is any indication, then yes, there are conservatives out there who aren't just going to overlook past mistakes when it's more likely there's a case at hand of scoundrels using patriotism as their last refuge. Sometimes, these kind of people really know how to sabotage potentially good ideas and make it impossible to appreciate them, even when there's good intentions at hand.
New York Republican Rep. Peter King sent a letter Tuesday to Defense Department Inspector General Gordon Heddell and CIA Inspector General David Buckley, expressing his concern about declassifying sensitive information for pure entertainment.
“The administration’s first duty in declassifying material is to provide full reporting to Congress and the American people, in an effort to build public trust through transparency of government,” he wrote. “In contrast, this alleged collaboration belies a desire of transparency in favor of a cinematographic view of history.”
In his letter, Rep. King noted that the mission was successful because it was extremely covert, and that providing “high-level access” to a Hollywood filmmaker runs contrary to that effort.
There probably is a valid argument here that it isn't proper to just give away classified info for the sake of making a movie.
A week ago, I took part in a bloggers conference about the case of the Zivotovsky family's legal battle to gain passports for their son that clearly state Israel as the country of residence. The State Dept. has long refused to comply with Congress' call supporting the Zivotovsky's position. Now, as this case gains steam in the Supreme Court, the New York Sun reports that the White House website has been scrubbed of all references to Jerusalem being in Israel:
The White House, in an escalation of a closely-watched case the Supreme Court is preparing to hear on whether Congress or the President gets to decide American policy in respect of passports of American citizens born in Jerusalem, has quietly altered its website to remove the references to Jerusalem being in “Israel.”
The references to Jerusalem had appeared in the cutlines of photographs on the White House Web site illustrating an account of the vice president’s trip to Jerusalem last year. The references to ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ were first disclosed in The New York Sun’s dispatch last week on Zivotofsky v. Clinton. The case asks the high court to rule on the constitutionality of the 2002 law that gives American citizens born in Jerusalem the right to have “Israel” entered on their passports as their place of birth.
The Sun’s report was titled “Jerusalem Case at Supreme Court May Pit White House Web Site Against the President,” and noted that the pictures might be pivotal evidence contradicting the administration’s claim that the 2002 law impermissibly infringes the President’s power to “recognize foreign sovereigns.” Since the White House had effectively acknowledged on its own website that Jerusalem is in Israel, as have other executive branch agencies, the report suggested there might not really be a constitutional issue in giving Zivotofsky a statutory right to have that fact noted on his passport.
Yesterday afternoon Daniel Halper of The Weekly Standard posted one of the pictures, noting the reference to “Jerusalem, Israel” and contrasting it with the State Department press release issued earlier in the day stating the current administration policy to prohibit U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem from having “Israel” designated in their passports. The Halper posting went up at at 3:22 p.m. Less than three hours later, at 5:36 p.m. Halper noted that, at some time after he posted the picture, the White House had “apparently gone through its website, cleansing any reference to Jerusalem as being in Israel, including the pictures of Biden there last year.”
Throughout the past year-and-a-half that the pictures have been on the website, no one thought the captions affected the president’s constitutional powers, but rather simply noted the fact that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. It may be the subject of future final status negotiations, if final status negotiations ever resume. But currently it is within Israel, and in particular no one expects control of West Jerusalem, where Master Zivotofsky was born, ever to change.
So now, Obama's administration is trying to avoid any responsibility by tossing out the pictures of Biden on his trip to Israel as a way of showing more disrespect for US citizens from Jerusalem who want Israel listed on their passports. I think this is something Congress should address as well, because the current policy the White House is running - politicizing the whole matter of Jerusalem - is simply ludicrous.
The New York Sun has written about the Altalena, an American-built ship bought by supporters of the Irgun, which David Ben-Gurion ordered attacked and sunk out of hostility towards his political rivals:
Just when one wonders what sort of teaching moment is available for Israel and, for that matter, for those betting on the so-called Arab awakening comes news that Israel plans to raise the Altalena. That is the hulk of a World War II-era transport ship that has lain at the bottom of the Mediterranean just off the coast of Tel Aviv ever since it was sunk in June 1948 in a conflict between two Jewish armies.
The combat lasted only hours, but the event looms large in the tale of how Israel, even though its factions were bitterly divided, turned away from civil war and toward long-lasting democracy. Though parallels are dangerously inexact, it holds lessons for those participants in the Arab spring who also have their eye on democracy. Its most important lessons obtain for the Israelis themselves, which is no doubt why the plan is underway to raise the vessel.
Read the whole article, and learn of who was behind the assault on the vessel at the time, and how Ben-Gurion basically performed it as an attempt to discredit and demonize his political opponents. This is definitely a very interesting project, to dredge up the sunken ship, and it's possible that it'll go on display near the Etzel Museum at the shore.
OBAMA HAS BEEN AS EFFECTIVE IN DEALING WITH THE KOREAN PENINSULA AS HE HAS BEEN WITH THE ECONOMY, AND IRAN'S NUKE PROGRAM AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT AND... WELL, ER, UM... EVERYTHING ELSE.
WHICH IS TO SAY OBAMA HAS BEEN TOTALLY INCOMPETENT.
TAKE YOUR PICK: OBAMA IS EITHER A TOTAL INCOMPETENT, OR OBAMA WANTS THE USA TO FALTER.
It was a year and a half ago when President Obama told Diane Sawyer of ABC News in an interview that he would rather be a good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.
Now, coming off one of his worst weeks since taking office, Mr. Obama is nearing a decision on whether he really meant that. Is he willing to try to administer the disagreeable medicine that could help the economy mend over the long term, even if that means damaging his chances for re-election?
The Federal Reserve’s finding on Tuesday that there is little prospect for rapid economic growth over the next two years was the latest in a summer of bad economic news. One administration official called the atmosphere around the president’s economic team “angry and morose.”
There was no word on the mood of the president’s political team, but it was unlikely to be buoyed by the Fed’s assertion that the economy would still be faltering well past Mr. Obama’s second inauguration, should he win another term.
“The problem for Obama is that right now, the United States is either at a precipice or has fallen off it,” said David Rothkopf, a Commerce Department official in the Clinton administration. “If he is true to his commitment to rather be a good one-term president, then this is the character test. In some respects, this is the 3 a.m. phone call.”
THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE, (A) IT'S NOT OBAMA'S FAULT, AND (B) IT WILL BE OBAMA'S USE OF NECESSARY "GOOD MEDICINE" THAT WILL MAKE HIM MORE UNPOPULAR.
BULLSH*T.
OBAMA WILL NOT BE A GOOD ONE-TERMER; HE IS A DISASTROUS ONE ALREADY!
OBAMA DUG HIS OWN HOLE WHEN HE DUG THIS NATION'S ECONOMY INOT A HOLE WITH THE PORKULUS AND OBAMACARE AND AN OVER-AGRESSIVE EPA.
FOR 3 LONG YEARS, OBAMA HAS BLOCKED THE GOOD MEDICINE THIS NATION NEEDED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
AND ANOTHER REASON OBAMA IS SO UNPOPULAR IS THAT HE FAILED MISERABLY TO DELIVER THE IDIOTIC PACIFISTIC PROMISES HE MADE DURING THE CAMPAIGN - TO CLOSE GITMO AND BRING THE TROOPS HOME FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
OBAMA IS NO TRUMAN; OBAMA HAS NOT MADE THE TOUGH BUT NECESSARY GOOD DECISIONS - AND WEATHERED THE STORM - TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY A BETTER PLACE.
HE IS NOT TRUMAN; OBAMA IS CARTER - ONLY WORSE.
EVEN HILLARY WOULD HAVE BEEN A FAR FAR FAR BETTER POTUS.
So far the strains have been more pronounced in Europe rather than the dollar market, with EURIBOR interbank lending spreads over overnight index swaps having widened to post-financial crisis levels and more banks stashing funds with the European Central Bank (ECB).
... “Compared to what happened back in 2008, we are not at those very extreme levels but we have to watch the direction. The general advice to clients is to keep things tight and keep risk to the minimum for the time being,” Turner said.
Cash is not circulating in a regular fashion in the Eurozone as jitters about the debt crisis grow.
Banks deposited €145bn at the ECB overnight on Monday, a one-year high, figures showed yesterday.
Evidence of money market tensions has been widespread. Banks took a larger-than-expected €157bn in the ECB’s handout of seven-day funding yesterday.
Most years, the trails on the mountains are clear of snow by mid-July, said Tim Jones, spokesman for North Shore Rescue, but on a trip up Seymour earlier this week he watched hikers in shorts and running shoes tackling trails covered in hard, icy snow.
“We’ve had fatalities in this kind of weather before,” said Jones. “They’ll ascend a steep snow slope and then they’ll descend it and that’s when they’ll slip and fall and go several hundred feet.”
“Knock on wood, we’ve been very lucky (this year). But I was astounded yesterday by the number of people who were hiking, totally unprepared, totally oblivious.”
He described the conditions as “full winter,” adding that any rescue crews would use crampons, poles and ropes.
Another factor to look out for is the rising water level of local streams, especially later in the day after the sun melts the snow. While a stream may be easy to cross in the morning, by late afternoon it could be a raging torrent. Last weekend, two hikers got stuck outdoors overnight after failing to cross a creek near Lynn Headwaters Park.
Metro Vancouver measures the snowpack at Orchid Lake in the Seymour River watershed, which is usually snow-free by sometime in July. The latest measurements showed 30 centimetres of snow on the ground, said Bill Morrell, spokesman for Metro Vancouver.
While he said the snowpack numbers fluctuate every year, he put this year as in the top three years for the size of the snowpack.
That’s a much more positive story for the metro, which runs the water system and is recording reservoir levels at 90 per cent, well above the two previous years.
“It’s a very nice cushion that gives us great comfort when we get into the August, September of the year, where there’s very low rainfall time of year and very high water demand.”
Environment Canada meteorologist Doug Lundquist said the unseasonably snowy conditions are a result of the cool spring the Lower Mainland experienced this year, followed by a late start to summer.
The weather is likely a lingering effect of the La Nina cycle, which tends to bring colder weather to B.C., according to Lundquist.
“It was certainly a delayed snowmelt at the higher elevations and I think that’s one of the main factors,” he said.
“We saw a very cool spring, then the earlier part of summer was cool, so that delayed the snowmelt in the higher elevations of the North Shore Mountains.”
