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Saturday, September 10, 2011
AS LEHMAN WAS TO THE USA FINANICAL CRISIS, GREECE IS TO THE COMING GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
ANOTHER SCENARIO: NIGHT CHOPPERS
Even if they were shot down, they'd cause unbelievable damage and panic.
Just saying...
"FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION" - THE SPEECH OBAMA SHOULD DELIVER, AND THE SOONER THE BETTER!
Democrats are expressing growing alarm about ’s re-election prospects and, in interviews, are openly acknowledging anxiety about the White House’s ability to strengthen the president’s standing over the next 14 months.
Elected officials and party leaders at all levels said their worries have intensified as the economy has displayed new signs of weakness. They said the likelihood of a highly competitive 2012 race is increasing as the Republican field, once dismissed by many Democrats as too inexperienced and conservative to pose a serious threat, has started narrowing to two leading candidates, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, who have executive experience and messages built around job creation.
And in a campaign cycle in which Democrats had entertained hopes of reversing losses from last year’s midterm elections, some in the party fear that Mr. Obama’s troubles could reverberate down the ballot into Congressional, state and local races.
(MORE ON THE DEMOCRAT REALIZATION OF THEIR COMING MELTDOWN HERE.)
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
OBAMA COULD STAND DOWN.
HERE'S THE SPEECH HE SHOULD DELIVER - (IT HAS ALL THE NARCISSISTIC TOUCHES THAT WOULD APPEAL TO HIM):
My fellow Americans:
The problems we face now here at home and across the globe are in a critical stage. Partisan politics have no place in times like this. And neither do personal agendas.
As it has in the past, the entire world is looking to the United States of America to lead humanity back from the brink of global war and darkness and into the fields of light, peace, and prosperity.
American presidents have always borne this responsibility with humility and courage. And by drawing inspiration from those who have served before me, I have tried to meet these challenges with the same determination and optimism.
But these are different times.
Heightened partisanship and a non-stop 24 hour news cycle dominated by "gotcha" yellow journalism has made statesmanship more difficult than ever - despite the world needing it more than ever.
Partisan posturing has become especially pernicious recently, as we have entered an election cycle. Now, the bipartisan compromises and non-partisan strategies we most need are all but impossible.
I see only one way to erase the partisan divide which is preventing the effective actions our nation - and the world - are crying out for.
And that is why tonight I am announcing that I will not seek a second term.
By removing myself from the partisan political equation I hope to elevate the debate, remove the biggest stumbling block to national unity, and bring the full force of this great and united nation back together again so that together we can meet the challenges we now face.
I could do no less. Personal ambition is meaningless compared to advancing the cause of liberty and prosperity and to protecting the American Dream.
It has been my honor to lead the Democrat party the last three years. I pass that responsibility to others. From this day forward, I have only one job. It is not personal or political. It transcends politics. It is purely humanitarian.
I am sure with this new non-political and non-personal approach members of Congress and I will rise to the occasion - in unified action, as the Congress and past presidents have always done since our nation's founding.
Now, we have one job to do - together: Bind the nation's wounds and roll up our sleeves.
I look forward to it with all my heart, with what wisdom God has given me, and with the courage I get from your support and prayers.
Thank You.
And God Bless America.
WELL A GUY CAN DREAM, CAN'T HE!?
I KNOW:
IT'S NOT THE SPEECH BILL AYERS OR AXELROD OR TRUMKA OR RAHM OR HOFFA WOULD WRITE FOR HIM, BUT... A GUY CAN DREAM, CAN'T HE!
BASED ON THE GENERAL TENOR OF EVENTS THE LAST FEW WEEKS, I THINK AN ATTACK IS LIKELY TO OCCUR
- TIDAL WAVES,
- NUCLEAR MELTDOWNS
- EARTHQUAKES,
- STOCK MARKET CRASHES,
- SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISES,
- CURRENCY CRASHES,
- THE SO-CALLED ARAB SPRING,
- THE IMPENDING UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF STATEHOOD BY THE SO-CALLED PALESTINIANS,
- THE DURBAN CONFERENCE,
- THE IMPENDING CLASH BETWEEN TURKEY AND ISRAEL,
- IRAN GETTING NUKES...
IT'S NOT AT ALL LIKE TEN YEARS AGO, WHEN THE WORLD SEEMED TO BE PEACEFUL AND THE BIGGEST ISSUE ON THE PRESIDENT'S PLATE WAS EDUCATION REFORM.
I KNOW THE BRAVE MEN ANS WOMEN CHARGED WITH PROTECTING US AND PREVENTING AN ATTACK ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN.
BUT IT'S SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BE EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME AND BE 100% PERFECT.
IN FACT, WE'VE BEEN LUCKY UNTIL NOW - AND ESCAPED THE LAST FEW ATTEMPTS UNSCATHED FROM SIMPLE LUCK.
I PRAY WE ARE LUCKY AGAIN.
I AM SITTING HERE A MILE OR SO FROM GROUND ZERO AND TIMES SQUARE AND PENN STATION AND GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL AND THE MIDTOWN TUNNEL AND THE LINCOLN TUNNEL AND I AM PRAYING WE WILL BE OKAY.
WE'RE HEADED FOR ANOTHER RENDEZVIOUS WITH DESTINY
The so-called Arab Spring seems to be revealing itself to everyone as a reactionary wave of uncontrollable jihadist violence.
These forces - as Northern Seer suggested in another comment thread - seem like an out of control speeding locomotive about to go off the rails - just as it approaches a dilapidated trestle - spanning a chasm of infinite depth, and there are suicide bombers on board who have also booby-trapped the brakes!
What - if anything - can possibly stop what seems like the inevitable impending economic crash and clash of civilizations? Is there a person anywhere who can stand athwart these twin crises and wrestle the conflicting and destructive forces and impulses and bring us sanity, dignity, peace, prosperity and justice? Or is the impending horror something must we travel through in order to... learn our lesson... once and for all?
More and more it seems like the latter.
And for the second time today, I must cite this:
... The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
I think all we need to do - each of us - is to find once again the courage to defend and employ our first principles.
Like the Maccabees.
Like the Minutemen.
Like the heroes in our current war - from the folks on Flight 93 to the elite members of our Special Forces.
They didn't retreat from their principles despite the odds. All won despite the costs - and in so doing bequeathed us a better world.
Sigh.
If this commitment and courage fails to stop the impending catastrophes, then at the very least they will be what empowers us to rebuild a better world.
Still, I long for a global Judah Maccabee-George Washington-Todd Beamer all rolled up into one to rally us to be our best.
Reagan seemed to have what what it takes:
Obama doesn't.
On the world stage, I think Bibi Netanyahu does. And Geert Wilders. Two enormously brave leaders from two tiny countries barely in control of their own destinies.
No leader in any major nation today has what it takes. There's no Churchill. Not even a Thatcher. No Reagan.
Or is there?
Maybe we will only find out who has what it takes AFTER the shit hits the fan...
Sigh.
BIGTIME LIBERAL ADMITS THAT SOCIAL SECURITY IS A PYRAMID SCHEME
"Social Security also works because it has been a rolling compact across generations. For decades, the basis of the program was entirely pay-as-you-go -- the taxes paid by workers went to pay for current retirees. When those workers retired, they depended on the next generation to support Social Security. Then, in 1983, Congress raised payroll taxes above the level needed for immediate beneļ¬ts in order to accumulate savings for the baby-boom generation’s retirement."GET THAT!?
REPEAT:
For decades, the basis of the program was entirely pay-as-you-go -- the taxes paid by workers went to pay for current retirees. When those workers retired, they depended on the next generation to support Social SecurityWHO IS PAUL STAR? HERE:
Paul Starr (May 12, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also the co-editor (with Robert Kuttner) and co-founder (with Robert Kuttner and Robert Reich) of The American Prospect, a notable liberal magazine which was created in 1990. In 1994 he founded the Electronic Policy Network, or Moving Ideas, which is an online public policy resource.
Paul Starr lectures at the Rappaport Center for Law and Service, Suffolk University Law School, October 1, 2009.At Princeton University, Starr holds the Stuart Chair in Communications and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. The Social Transformation of American Medicine won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction[1] as well as the Bancroft Prize. His recent book The Creation of the Media received the 2005 Goldsmith Book Prize.
In 1993, Starr was the senior advisor for President Bill Clinton's proposed health care reform plan. He is also the president of the Sandra Starr Foundation.
Starr holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey and is married to Ann Baynes Coiro. He has four children and three stepchildren.
SO... THIS EXCERPT IS FROM A LIBERAL OF IMPECCABLE CREDENTIALS DEFENDING SOCIAL SECURITY, BUT ESSENTIALLY ADMITTING IT WAS DESIGNED AS A PYRAMID SCHEME - ONE WHICH WOULD HAVE FAILED IN 1983 IF CONGRESS HADN'T INCREASED THE AMOUNT PEOPLE PAY IN.
YUP: TH]E SOCIAL SECURITY PYRAMID WOULD HAVE COLLAPSED.
AND WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PYRAMID SCHEME AND A PONZI SCHEME?
NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.
BASED ON DEMOGRAPHICS AN DECLINING GDP. THE CURRENT SYSTEM WILL NEED TO BE "SAVED" AGAIN.
THE SOONER WE DO IT THE LESS PAINFUL IT WILL BE.
WE SHOULD REFORM THE NATIONAL PENSION SYSTEM SO THAT YOUNGER WORKERS CAN PERSONALIZE THEIR ACCOUNTS AND MAKE THEM INHERITABLE WITHOUT DIMINISHING THE INCOME FOR THOSE WHO CURRENTLY DEPEND ON IT - OR SOON WILL.
MOST AMERICANS REALIZE THIS, AND ACCEPT THAT RETIREMENT AGE SHOULD BE RAISED AND COLA REDUCED.
BUT POLITICIANS REFUSE TO DO ANYTHING BECAUSE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS ADDICTED TO THE TRUST FUNDS INCOME.
WITHOUT IT, THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY WOULD BE FORCED TO SHRINK ENORMOUSLY.
AND POLITICIANS WOULD HAVE LESS OPPORTUNITY FOR GRAFT AND FOR REWARDING THEIR CRONIES.
UH-OH: FITCH RATINGS ANNOUNCES POTENTIAL IMPENDING DOWNGRADE OF JAPAN AND CHINA
Fitch Ratings warned yesterday that it might downgrade China's credit rating within two years as the country's banks struggle with debt loads following a lending surge to help lift the economy during the 2008 financial crisis.It also said that Japan, weighed down by a public debt load twice the size of the US$5 trillion economy, faced a greater-than-even chance of a downgrade in part due to a political impasse that is stalling plans to clean up its finances.
Asia's two biggest economies are in the ratings firing line alongside Europe and the United States as they deal with massive debts built up during the global financial crisis.
This is inevitable; it's just a matter of when - and whether it will be preceded by or follow the bursting of the Chinese real estate bubble and the Chinese POTEMKIN economy.
NOTE:
In every single gloabl case, the unsustainable sovereign debt burden is the result of socialist spending.
Runaway socialism - and not unbridled free-markets and deregulation - is the cause of the current global economic crisis.
- TO SOLVE THE GLOBAL DEBT CRISIS WE NEED TO UNWIND THE SOCIALIST PRGORAMS AND RESTORE THE SUPREMACY OF LIBERTY, THE FREE-MARKETS AND THE NATION-STATE.
- AND WE NEED TO DEFEAT JIHADISM - WHICH UNDELRIES THE ENORMOUS ENERGY INFLATION THE GLOBAL ECONOMY HAS SUFFERED UNDER SINCE 9/11/01.
THE EURO-ZONE CRISIS IN A NUTSHELL - AND THE SIMPLE SOLUTION
- THE ECB IS HAVING TROUBLE
- BAILING OUT THE BIG BANKS
- FROM SEVERAL EUROPEAN NATIONS
- WHICH BORROWED MORE THAN THEY COULD REPAY
- IN ORDER TO FINANCE SOCIALIST PROGRAMS
- THEY CAN'T AFFORD - AND WHICH RETARD ECONOMIC GROWTH,
- AND AS A RESULT, PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES NO LONGER CONSIDER THE EURO A SAFE CURRENCY OR EUROE A SAFE INVESTMENT.
DEVOLUTION OF CURRENCY AND DEBT BACK TO THE NATION STATES OF EUROPE, AND A ROLLBACK OF SOCIALIST PROGRAMS THAT SLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH.
WHAT'S PREVENTING THIS? SIMPLE:
THE NON-DEMOCRATIC UN-REPRESENTATIVE EU BUREAUCRATS ARE MORE PROTECTIVE OF THEIR OWN POWER,THE EURO, THE BANKS - AND THEIR IDEOLOGY - TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALISM, THAN THEY ARE OF THE PEOPLE.
EUROPEANS NEEDS FREE TRADE, NOT UNION.
EUROPEANS MUST ABOLISH THE EU. AND THE SOONER THE BETTER.
QUESTION: HAS OBAMA DONE ANYTHING WHICH HASN'T ADVANCED THE CAUSE OF EVIL?
NOPE.
- He stood by and did nothing as Iranians rebelled against their tyrannical theocratic thugocracy.
- He was tough on Israel and appeased Israel's enemies.
- He invited the Muslim brotherhood to his Cairo Speech.
- He appeased Putin and screwed our eastern European allies on missile defense.
- He sold guns to narco-terrorists in Mexico - and elsewhere.
- He gave taxpayer money to his political pals who ran dubious "green economy" enterprises.
- He's supported the union thugs - who are an integral part of the Machine, but not the average worker.
- He's done nothing to contain North Korea or Iran.
- He's stood by as clergy and 1st responders were banned from Tenth Anniversary Memorial Ceremony at Ground Zero, but he spoke out in favor of the Ground Zero Mosque.
- He skipped National Prayer Breakfasts, but never missed saluting any Islamic holiday.
- He's been increasing the regulatory regime in every key industry from energy exploration, to energy production, banking, finance, and health-care and thereby shackling entrepreneurship and hobbling our economy and slowing growth and preventing an expansion of employment.
- He's repeatedly lied, argued against straw men, and been hypocritical on every issue including civility, collective bargaining, tax rates and virtually everything else - proving it's been one of the most intellectually dishonest regimes of all time.
Either he and his comrades are the most naive and incompetent politicians of all time... or .... or they are doing exactly what they desire and getting the results they truly want.
Which would make them... evil.
I don't think Obama or Hillary or Reid or Schumer or Emanuel or Daley have suddenly become stupid incompetents.
I think their ideology is inherently evil.
And as a result of the fact that they've been in power for 3 years, and have been actualizing their awful ideology and appeasing the hideous ideology of the Islamists, we are seeing the inevitable awful effects.
"BY THEIR FRUITS SHALL YOU KNOW THEM."
Whether they know it or not, they have served and are serving evil.
9/11/11: HOW THE ENEMY MIGHT EASILY ATTACK US WITH DIRTY BOMBS
1 - A GARBAGE-TRUCK FULLY LOADED WITH FOUL-SMELLING FOOD WASTE AND SEVERAL POUNDS OF MEDICAL WASTE NUCLEAR MATERIAL IN LEAD CONTAINERS AND SURROUNDED WITH EXPLOSIVES.STOPPING EVERY POSSIBLE TERRORIST AND EVERY POSSIBLE TYPE OF ATTACK IS IMPOSSIBLE.
2 - SEVERAL REMOTE-CONTROLLED RELATIVELY SMALL UAV'S - (SMALLER THAN MILITARY-GRADE, BUT BIGGER THAN THOSE USED BY HOBBYISTS) - LOADED WITH NUCLEAR MATERIAL AND LAUNCHED FROM RIVER-SIDE ROOFTOPS IN BROOKLYN AND NEW JERSEY AND EXPLODED OVER SEVERAL IMPORTANT INTERSECTIONS IN MANHATTAN.
(IF SHOT DOWN THEY WOULD EXPLODE ANYWAY, JUST NOT DIRECTLY OVER THE INTENDED TARGET AND NOT AT THE PRESCRIBED MOMENT).
3 - NUCLEAR MATERIAL LOADED ON HALAL FOOD-CARTS - WHICH ALL HAVE PROPANE TANKS.
4 - SEVERAL SUICIDE BOMBERS IN KEY SUBWAY STATIONS AND ON BUSES IN KEY INTERSECTIONS DURING RUSH HOUR ON MONDAY, EACH LOADED WITH EXPLOSIVES AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL.
THE BEST STRATEGY IS TO DESTROY RADICAL ISLAM - AND AFTER ONLY 3 YEARS OF OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY, THAT HAS NEVER BEEN FURTHER AWAY:
RADICAL ISLAMISTS ARE TAKING OVER LIBYA AND EGYPT AND SYRIA AND JORDAN AND TURKEY AND AFGHANISTAN, AND WILL DO SO WHEN WE LEAVE IRAQ.
UH-OH: ISRAEL NO LONGER HAS AMBASSADORS IN EITHER TURKEY OR EGYPT
WHAT CHANGED?
OBAMA WAS ELECTED AND HAS REPEATEDLY SENT SIGNALS WHICH ENCOURAGED THE ANTI-WEST RADICALS.
IT MATTERS NOT WHETHER THIS WAS BY DESIGN OR BY NAIVETE AND INEPTNESS.
THE WORLD IS A MORE DANGEROUS PLACE AS A RESULT OF OBAMA POLICIES AND ACTIONS:
- GETTING TOUGHER ON ISRAEL THAN ISRAEL'S ENEMIES
- INVITING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO HIS CAIRO SPEECH
- ANNOUNCING WITHDRAWAL DEADLINES
- STANDING BY AND DOING NOTHING BUT WATCHING AS IRANIANS REBELLED AGAINST THEIR THEOCRATIC TYRANTS AFTER THEY STOLE THE ELECTION
- ABANDONING MUBARAK THE WAY CARTER ABANDONED THE SHAH
- BACKING LIBYAN REBELS - WHICH INCLUDES AL QAEDA
AND THEY HAD THE EXPLICIT APPROVAL OF THE ENTIRE DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADERSHIP WHO STOOD BY AND HELPED ENACT THEM.
YUP: REID AND SCHUMER AND PELOSI AND HILLARY AND BILL CLINTON ALL EITHER LET IT HAPPEN OR HELPED MAKE IT HAPPEN.
THESE CHOICES MADE US LESS SAFE. THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THESE CHOICES MADE US LESS SAFE.
EACH DAY OBAMA REMAINS IN OFFICE IS ANOTHER DAY THE ENTIRE WORLD BECOMES MORE DANGEROUS AND THE FREE WORLD LESS SAFE.
SIGH.
NYTIMES: OBAMA SPEECH AND PLAN HAVE FAILED
The dismal state of the economy is the main reason many companies are reluctant to hire workers, and few executives are saying that ’s jobs plan — while welcome — will change their minds any time soon.
Among the business leaders attending President Obam'a jobs speech Thursday in Washington were, from left, Jeffrey R. Immelt of General Electric, Kenneth I. Chenault of American Express, Steve Case of AOL and Darlene Miller of Permac Industries.
That sentiment was echoed across numerous industries by executives in companies big and small on Friday, underscoring the challenge for the Obama administration as it tries to encourage hiring and perk up the moribund economy.
The plan failed to generate any optimism on Wall Street as the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average each fell about 2.7 percent.
OBAMA: SCOAMF.
WORDS WON'T HELP THE ECONOMY. NEIOTHER WILL GOVERNMENT BOONDOGGLES THAT BENEFIT THE UNIONS THAT ARE PART OF THE OBAMA MACHINE.
ONLY TAX CUTS & REGULATION REFORM CAN.
Friday, September 09, 2011
IF YOU WANT ANYTHING GOOD TO HAPPEN - EVER AGAIN, THEN PASS THIS BILL!
IF YOU WANT RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS TO BRING PEACE AND PROSPERITY AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND STOP THE RISING OF THE SEAS, THEN PASS THIS BILL.
Oh brother.
What a lousy lying desperate sack of bullshit.
Please.
Sigh.
Don't blame me: I told you so before he even was nominated.
WB YEATS AND THE "ARAB SPRING"
THE SECOND COMINGTurning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
IT SEEMS CERTAIN THAT TURKEY WILL SOON ATTEMPT TO PROVOKE A WAR WITH ISRAEL - EITHER OVER GAZA OR MEDITERRANEAN GAS.
HAMAS AND HIZBALLAH WOULD CERTAINLY JOIN IN, SO WOULD ASSAD AND IRAN AND LIBYA.
WHICH WOULD MAKE EZEKIEL EVEN MORE ACCURATE THAN YEATS.
SIGH.
MICHELLE OBAMA SPEAKS OUT IN FAVOR OF HUSBAND'S LATEST SPENDING BILL
SERIOUSLY:WHERE DID BARACK HUSSSEIN OBAMA GO AFTER HIS SPEECH?
DID HE HUDDLE WITH BOEHNER AND CANTOR AND SIMPSON AND BOWLES AND REID AND MCCONNELL?
NO.
HE WENT CAMPAIGNING ON THE STUMP.
IF HE WAS SERIOUS ABOUT MAKING A DEAL, THEN HE WOULD HAVE STAYED IN DC AND MET WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS.
BUT OBAMA IS NOT SERIOUS AT ALL.
OBAMA IS A SCOAMF.
GERMAN ECB OFFICIAL SUDDENLY RESIGNS AND MARKETS PLUNGE
Decision to quit fuels speculation that central bank policymakers are split amid fears that Greece could defaultIT'S GONNA GET A HECK OF A LOT WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER.
European Central Bank (ECB) governing board member JĆ¼rgen Stark, who has resigned, lobbied for the ECB to impose stricter measures on Greece and Portugal. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
The dramatic resignation of a senior European central banker sent stock markets plunging, amid fears that Greece is on the brink of default and the fragile consensus in Berlin over support for the ailing Italian and Spanish economies was close to disintegration.
Bank stocks, down more than 5% in some cases, were the worst affected as the Dow Jones dropped almost 3% to below 11,000. European exchanges joined the panic with the FTSE falling more than 100 points to 5230. Speculation that several French and German banks would soon embark on massive capital raising schemes to offset write-offs on holdings of Greek debt, added to the febrile atmosphere.
DELAY AND DENIAL ARE MAKING IT HARDER TO DO THE INEVITABLE: UNWIND THE EU AND THE EURO.
SIGH.
Another great video of UKIP's Nigel Farage - who predicted the current euro-crisis
Nigel Farage - I want you all fired by AllonsEnfantsInfo
UKIP IS HAVING THEIR ANNUAL CONFERENCE NOW.
BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT EU CRISIS - AND BECAUSE CAMERON BROKE HIS SOLEMN PROMISE TO HOLD A REFERENDUM, THE UKIP SHOULD SURGE IN POLITICAL POWER IN BRITAIN.
LET'S HOPE SO...
TRUMKA ATTACKS PEOPLE WHO WANT A LIMITED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
WHO DOES TRUMKA SEEM TO BLAME FOR PARTISANSHIP THAT'S CHARACTERIZED OUR NATIONS POLITICS?
[AN] "..extremist small government posse.."HE MEANS THE TEA PARTY CONSERVATIVES.
HE MIGHT AS WELL BE SAYING IT ABOUT THESE GUYS - WHO ALSO FAVORED A LIMITED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF SPECIFIC ENUMERATED POWERS:
TRUMKA IS FAT LITTLE A CORRUPT GREASY LYING THUG WHO WANTS THE GOVERNMENT TO TRANSFER TAXPAYER MONEY INTO HIS UNIONS' COFFERS.
EFF HIM.
I PROUDLY STAND WITH THE TEA PARTY AND THE FOUNDERS, AND AGAINST THE BREZHNEV LEFTISTS AND THEIR CRONIES.
BTW: THE END OF THE NATIONAL UNITY WE HAD AFTER 9/11 WAS STARTED BY THE LEFT AND THEIR VICIOUS MENDACIOUS ATTACKS ON BUSH AND CHENEY AND THEIR RELENTLESS ATTACKS ON THEIR EFFORTS TO MAKE US SAFE AND KEEP US SAFE.
WHY IS OBAMA NOW MORE COMMITTED TO LEFTIST POLICIES THAN IMPROVING THE ECONOMY - OR EVEN HIS OWN CHANCES FOR RE-ELECTION?
After the election, he seemed like he was ready to accept the will of the people and he began to compromise.
The markets went up at a very improved rate and so did Obama's own popularity levels in the polls - from the compromise with the House GOP until June when he started battling the House GOP again and walking away from any new compromises.
WHY WOULD OBAMA STOP COMPROMISING WITH THE GOP AND RETURN TO LESS POPULAR POLICIES WHICH NOT ONLY HURT THE MARKETS, AND HURT EMPLOYMENT BUT ALSO HURT HIS OWN POPULARITY???????There can be only one reasonable answer:
Since June, Obama and his comrades have believed that the economy would NOT be good enough by election time 2012 for him to be re-elected; therefore they are trying to TRANSFORM as much of the USA into a euro-socialist state and economy - and to reward as many of their crooked cronies in the unions and the Machine as they can - while they can.
NOTE:
Lincoln did a similar thing at the end of if first term - when it looked like he would lose to the Democrat Party's "peace candidate" George McClellan (who was wiling to let the rebel south keep slavery!). In the middle of summer of 1864 - when the war was going badly, Lincoln called his war cabinet together and ordered them to pull out all the stops and do whatever they could to defeat the rebel south by March - when McClellan, he felt, would be inaugurated. A victory wpould make McClellan's pro-slavery stand moot. The assault was begun and the Union started winning the war and Lincoln's popularity rebounded and he won re-election.
Lincoln's desperation served a noble cause. Obama's desperation serves a discredited evil elitist ideology that's responsible for more death and serfdom in the 20th century than anything else.
We have to fight Obama and his corrupt leftist cronies at every turn in order to make sure we survive to the next president is inaugurated in 2013, and he saves the USA.
IN MY EMAILBOX: "LOOKING FOR WORK" (JOKE)
A doctor from Israel says: “In Israel the medicine is so advanced that we cut off a man's testicles, we put them into another man, and in 6 weeks he is looking for work."
The German doctor comments: "That's nothing, in Germany we take part of the brain out of a person; we put it into another person's head, and in 4 weeks he is looking for work."
A Russian doctor says: "That's nothing either. In Russia we take out half of the heart from a person; we put it into another person's chest, and in 2 weeks he is looking for work."
The U.S. doctor answers immediately: "That's nothing my colleagues, you are way behind us....in the USA, about 2 years ago, we grabbed a person from Kenya with no brains, no heart, and no balls...we made him President of the United States, and now....the whole country is looking for work.
ONE WORD MISSING FROM OBAMA'S SPEECH - "ENERGY": THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR'S ED MORRISSEY
Which word was missing from Obama’s speech last night?ME YESTERDAY:Barack Obama’s supporters praised him for having it in his joint-session speech last night on job creation. A national economy needs plenty of it in order to expand. Consumers consider it one of the most pressing economic issues they face. Yet Obama’s speech was curiously absent of any mention of one word … energy.
That’s right; you could look it up. There wasn’t one single mention in a speech about jobs and economic stimulation that addressed the need for the energy necessary to support it. Never mind that part of the problem in the economy comes from a blunted demand that can be directly associated in part with the erosion in buying power created by rapidly-rising fuel costs, or that a significant share of the reluctance to invest in American economic expansion comes from the considerable uncertainty of regulatory assaults on energy production and the impact on future energy costs.
Obama simply acted as if the problem doesn’t exist at all.
YUP, YOU'RE RIGHT: IT SEEMS THAT THE GREAT BIG FAT FAMOUS ED MORRISSEY SWIPED MY IDEA FOR HIS POST!OBAMA'S GLARING OMISSION: NO MENTION OF GREATER EXPLOITATION OF AMERICA'S VAST ENERGY RESOURCES
HERE'S SOME NEWS FROM TODAY'S NYTIMES:
Natural gas drilling using a controversial technique known as hydraulic fracturing could create up to 37,000 jobs and generate from $31 million to $185 million a year in added state income taxes for New York at the peak level of well development, according to analyses in a report commissioned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that was released on Wednesday.
But communities in south-central and southwestern New York, on or near the Marcellus Shale, where most new drilling is expected, would pay a price for the local economic bonanza.
Included among the negative impacts the report outlines are large-scale industrial activity, heavy truck traffic, more spending on police and fire protection and higher housing prices due to the expected influx of workers.
Hmm... let's see:
The upside is it creates 37,000 jobs in NY and generates nearly $200MILLION in new TAX revenues. And the downside: ER, UM... it increases the value of EVERYONE'S real estate!
IOW: there's not much of a downside WHEN YOU UNLEASH AMERICANS TO EXPLOIT OUR NATIONAL RESOURCES.
SO...
Did Obama propose a similar action in the USA with regard to our oil and coal and gas?
NOPE. He's keeping his party's restrictive energy polices as is.
Obama failed to even mention the word ENERGY in his speech.
Not once. He mentioned "oil" once - but only to say he wanted to raise taxes on oil companies. He never mentioned natural gas or coal.
LIKE ED REGULAR READERS KNOW WE REGULARLY SCOOP BIG FAT FAMOUS BLOGGERSMORRISSEY ALL THE TIME.
SPREAD THE WORD. BLOGROLL US. BOOKMARK US. FOLLOW US.
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WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?: OBAMA AND GATES AGREE WITH ISLAMISTS
GĆ¼l: Israel should consider "honorable peace" with its Arab neighbors instead of acting like the world owes it something.ITEM #2A: THIS ECHOES GATES.
AND REMEMBER, (#2B): THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION FATAH IS NOW USING OBAMA IN ITS RADIO ADS.
WHEN THE US PRESIDENT AND THE ISLAMIST PRESIDENT OF TURKEY AND THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION FATAH ALL AGREE ON SOMETHING, THEN YOU KNOW WE HAVE THE WRONG MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
(BTW: UNLIKE THE USA UNDER OBAMA, ISRAEL UNDER BIBI JUST GOT A RATING UPGRADE ON IT'S DEBT - NOW A+.)
RECEDING OCEANS VERSUS RECEDING DEBT: OBAMA VERSUS PERRY
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless;A RICK PERRY/TEA PARTY VERSION:
this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal;
this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.
This was the moment—this was the time when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, our children's children will be able to look back and tell our great-grandchildren that this was the moment when we began to honestly pay for the care of the sick, and helped businessess create good jobs for the jobless;WHICH DO YOU THINK IS BETTER?
this was the moment when the rise of the debt began to slow
and our fear of damaging this great and bountiful planet began to fade;
this was the moment when we won the war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.
This was the moment—this was the time—when we came together to restore this great nation so that it once again reflects our very best selves and our fundamental founding ideals.
KILLING INFIDELS IS THE ESSENCE OF ISLAM ...
MORE PROOF HERE: AUGUST'S TALLY OF ISLAM'S ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS WOLRDWIDE.
ER, UM.... I GUESS IT REALLY AIN'T ABOUT THE GOP, NEOCONS OR ZIONISM.
IT READ'S EERILY LIKE THE HISTORY OF ISLAM SINCE THE 7TH CENTURY.
WIRED MAG DISAPPOINTED WITH RICK VEITCH
It’s enough to make you void your Comixology pullbox. Rick Veitch, a legend in the comic book industry, published The Big Lie on Wednesday, a sleazy 9/11 Truther screed in sequential-art form. Spoiler alert: pseudo-scientific hysteria married to paranoia about How Bush Knew isn’t any cuter when told by cartoon figures.While I'm glad to see they recognize that it's NOT the Bush administration that did it, it's a shame they think that signs of WMDs in Iraq are "absent". As this FOX News report tells, there were samples of chemical weaponry found since 2003, as Rep. Rick Santorum reported in 2006.
[...] Veitch doesn’t stop at one conspiracy. They build in their scope and scale. First it’s about Norad unexpectedly preoccupying U.S. air defenses with frivolous training exercises. Then it’s about how the neocons in the Bush administration are looking for an excuse to invade Iraq. (“I’ve heard more than one of these nut-jobs say what the U.S. needs is a ‘New Pearl Harbor,’” says a character who informs us he voted for Reagan.) Finally, the skeptical husband, an engineer who did his thesis on the World Trade Center, dismisses his future-wife by assuring her that “the only way to bring down these structures down is with explosives.” You see where this is going.
Sigh. Yes, planes loaded with jet fuel and used as missiles can — and did — destroy the World Trade Center. Read the authoritative Popular Mechanics story about the physics of 9/11 if your mind is open to persuasion. Bush and company indeed wanted to take down Saddam Hussein from the start of his administration and they cynically tied Saddam to 9/11 absent evidence. But sorry: there is no evidence they planned an invasion before 9/11; no evidence that they knew about 9/11 and let it happen; and no evidence at all they brought the Towers down.
Yet all that is wiped away in the scene’s final panel, where three thermite grenades are visible on a supporting beam inside the Towers — to the horror of a former skeptic — and Uncle Sam himself vouches for the truth of the story. “Folks fall so hard for the shuck-and-jive they never hear the wake up call when it finally arrives,” Sam says. This makes Frank Miller’s forthcoming Holy Terror seem calm and reasonable.Well let's just note that, as anyone who was familiar with Image's early output knows, Spawn and Youngblood both stunk, the former was Todd McFarlane's trip downhill (a shame too, because when he began his career in the early 80s, his artwork, while not perfect, wasn't that bad either), and Youngblood was just the beginning of the real Liefeld abominations in artwork (and why do I get the feeling Brat Pack, which I never really knew about until now, is actually a rather awful book?). It's a pity that they're taking such a weak approach to some of the other stuff from Image, and even slip up by saying evidence of WMD traces was "absent". But the rest is pretty good and I'm glad to see they understand why the kind of conspiracy theories Veitch sunk into are distasteful.
Veitch implicitly gives up the game — as Truthers tend to — when he has his Cassandra say, “Look at what was left out of the [9/11] Commission’s report,” the last recourse of those who believe the government covered up its role in the “conspiracy.” The horrible truth is that al-Qaida attacked the U.S. on 9/11.
For comic fans tethered to a sense of reality, Veitch’s descent into Trutherism is a huge disappointment. A star of alternative comics in the 80s, Veitch wrote some classic Swamp Thing stories for D.C. and illustrated a hugely important scene in Alan Moore’s seminal Miracleman. His comic Brat Pack is the best — and most disturbing — treatise on the exploitation of children implicit in the superhero-sidekick genre. It also sucks that the venerable publishing house Image Comics — which gave us Spawn, The Walking Dead, Youngblood and more — saw fit to release Veitch’s hysteria, selling it as a “riveting tale of 9/11.”
They also say in response to the interview he'd given I focused on earlier, where he attacked the Patriot Act as a pre-planned Neo-Con conception:
That’s not true, either, by the way. It would appear the true controlled demolition concerns what Rick Veitch has done to his brain.Yup. And if any Democrats also supported the Patriot Act, then Veitch is only beclowning himself further by singling out and demonizing the Republicans for drafting a law for the purpose of ensuring the public's safety.
THE ESSENCE OF OBAMA'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS ON 09/08/2011
Obama said "Pass the bill" seventeen times!
LOOMING THREAT OF TERROR
THIS IS THE REAL REASON WHY TURKEY'S MILITARY BRASS ALL RESIGNED A FEW WEEKS AGO...
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Mr Erdogan also said Turkey had taken steps to prevent Israel unilaterally exploiting natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean.
He spoke amid a growing row over Israel's refusal to apologise for a deadly raid on an aid ship last year.
Turkey has already cut military ties and expelled Israel's ambassador.
It has also said it will challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
ERDOGAN WANTS TO PROVOKE ISRAEL INTO ATTACKING THEM SO THEY CAN INVOKE NATO ARTICLE 5 AND EITHER GET NATO TO COUNTER-ATTACK OR DESTROY NATO.
THE OLD BRASS RUNNING THE SECULARIST TURKISH MILITARY WAS AGAINST IT AN RESIGNED RATHER THAN GO THROUGH WITH ERDOGAN'S ISLAMIST PLAN.
RUSSIA AND CHINA ALSO BENEFIT. AS DOES IRAN.
AND OBAMA AND HILLARY DO NOTHING EFFECTIVE TO STOP IT.
OR STOP FATAH'S UNILATERAL MOVE AT THE UN.
EITHER THEY'RE INEPT, OR THEY ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE.
RICK VEITCH CONTINUES WITH HIS GALLING 9-11 TRUTHERISM
Countless people still question the government’s retelling of 9/11, even ten years later. Rick Veitch is one of them.And so too, offensively enough, is that putrid leftist website.
In this interview, Veitch discusses the motivation behind ‘The Big Lie,’ discusses terrorism as a communicator and explains how the 1980s changed the comic industry.As does Veitch's and the interviewing site's own insulting attempts to play expert, I'm afraid. The government? Since when was it just the government telling us this? It was practically the terrorists themselves who told us, in a most sadistic way, who they were and why they were attacking the US: because they hated America and despised our freedom, and also hated that Americans didn't adhere to their Islamofascist ideologies (and their religion calls for waging war upon infidels). And 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Has he not paid attention to that? Clearly, he doesn't care.
Andrew Belonsky: What was the impetus behind ‘The Big Lie?’
Rick Veitch: It started with phone conversations between myself and Thomas Yates. He and I go way back — we went to Kubert School together and then we shared a couple of art-crash pads in our mad youth. Now we live on opposite coasts, but we still get on the phone every once in a while and commiserate about the state of politics. One of the subjects that kept coming up was what the government had told us about 9/11 and how it seemed kind of shaky.
RV: We were angry at how the Bush administration had pushed the invasion of Iraq. Tom and I went around and around like leftists tend to do. But Tom is one of these guys who, when he gets a little bee in his bonnet, he decides to do something, so he began to conceive a comic book or a graphic novel that explores some of these issues. We talked about doing a 9/11 book for a couple of years; he wanted me to write and draw it based on the work I was doing on ‘Army@Love’ for Vertigo.I suppose he sees nothing wrong with the oppression and even torture of dissidents Saddam's regime committed? But here too we can learn how the bankrolling for Veitch's insult to American victims of terror came around.
As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approached, we both kind of realized, “Wow, this would be a terrific time to get it out there, because people are going to be discussing this very thing, and we want to be part of that conversation.” So Tom went into high gear and pulled it all together. He found a publisher in Image Comics. And he found Brian Romanoff, who organized the funding and provided editorial and research muscle. That’s how ‘The Big Lie’ happened.
AB: Yeah, I was going to ask you about the research process…Boy, he most certainly is making quite an effort to be offensive, by apparently drawing a kind of subtle comparison between conservatives and al Qaeda, and supporting some of the BBC's worst acts of leftism.
RV: For me, I surfed around on the internet, where there’s all kinds of stuff. It’s hard to separate from disinformation and crazy theories and people screaming at each other. I read the Congressional Commission report, which you don’t need to be a Truther to see is full of holes. And David Ray Griffin’s stuff was very inspirational, as was a BBC documentary on the parallel rise of the American Neo-Con movement and Al-Qaeda, called “The Power of Nightmares.”
But I knew that we needed someone like Brian, who was really grounded in the nuts and bolts of what had happened and what the current state of the debate was, and which of the questions were really the ones that warranted pursuing.
AB: There are so many out there.
RV: Right. Obviously we wanted to avoid some of the loonier theories that you see, like space aliens did it. So, Brian provided an invaluable service on that end, as well as providing a pipeline into the extensive network of Truther organizations, who were all very interested in this. Tom and I come from comics, so this helped us a lot.
Aside from that, one of the worst things about his vision is how he refers to "truthers" as though that were a good thing, when in their case, it's just totally bad.
AB: I went back and read some of your other work, including ‘The One.’ I saw some similarities between that book, published in 1985, and ‘The Big Lie.’ ‘The One’ of course deals with the Cold War and nuke fears. In the beginning you open the series with a — was it an actual article from the ‘New York Times’ from [communication theorist] Marshall McLuhan about the bomb as a communicator?It doesn't take much to guess that he's referring to Albert Einstein's own research and its launch upon Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of WW2, completely without noting the fact that it was meant to send a clear message to a country that at the time was an antogonist, and also responsible for the Rape of Nanking. Sadly, it seems little likely that he considers Iran's own nuclear development to be a problem by contrast. His statements not only signal quite a bit of ignorance, but also make clear he's gone deep downhill over the years, and sees terrorism as less a problem than that of the defenders of democracy and human rights who're forced to use military action to put a stop to these barbarians throughout history.
RV: Yes.
AB: Would you say the same is true about terrorism in general as a concept? That it’s a communicator? Certainly it has a message, but does it carry –
RV: I don’t think terrorism is as revolutionary as what the atomic bomb represented. Terror campaigns against civilian populations have been part of military conflict going back to the Stone Age. The atomic bomb acted as a symbol of something deeper than any single enemy. There was something so pure about it and the way it worked. It speaks to the deepest part of ourselves. It haunts us in a way that terrorism doesn’t. Terrorism scares us, but the bomb challenged our survival as a species in a way that terrorism doesn’t.
AB: True.
RV: Another similarity about ‘The One,’ that pertains to 9/11: there’s a shot in there of a skyscraper exploding in a fireball. I made that drawing in 1984 and it looks almost exactly like pictures I’ve seen of the Trade Center being hit.
AB: What I found amusing about ‘The Big Lie’ was that the characters weren’t as interested in Sandra’s warnings as they were in her iPad, and buying stock in Apple. That was a disturbing detail, but also probably true to life.I don't think even black humor is appropriate in a case like this, and the interviewer has gone beyond the pale too with that claim of amusement he makes. The book insults by depicting the people the woman speaks with as one-dimensionally ignorant, potentially even implies they're more interested in moneymaking and capitalism than in human life, painting a most offensive picture of America, and they think it's funny?!? Truly disgraceful.
RV: [Laughs] Well, I think that quality of black humor is why Tom wanted me on the book.
AB: Am I right that you guys are going to be addressing other topics in ‘The Big Lie?’So that's another stupid thing Veitch's atrocity is going to do, attack conservatives, who, unless they happen to be Saudis - whom the MSM sometimes refers to as "conservative" (eg- the AP/Globe & Mail article featured here) in a most hyopcritical way compared to how they talk about western conservatives - are apparently the sole problem in existence. Not jihadism, not socialism, just conservatives and capitalism. I wouldn't expect him to focus on Michael Bloomberg's own shady dealings either, because that kind of profiteering is apparently acceptable for what Veitch has become.
RV: Right now we are discussing a couple more 9/11 themed issues that focus on elements that were too complex to cover in our first issue. We’d like to do one that illustrates the money trail preceding and following the attacks. And we’d like to shine a much needed light on the Patriot Act, which had been on the Neo-Con drawing board for a decade until it was passed in response to 9/11.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
ROSH HASHONAH AND THE ISLAMIST /UN BID FOR UNILATERAL PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD: COINCIDENCE?
COINCIDENCE?
NO. THIS IS A RELIGIOUS ASSAULT AS MUCH AS A POLITICAL ONE.
WHICH IS ALWAYS THE CASE WHEN DEALING WITH ISLAMISTS.
ISLAMIST TURKEY IS RAMPING UP ITS PROVOCATIONS AGAINST ISRAEL NOW TOO.
COINCIDENCE?
NO.
THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND AL QAEDA ARE TAKING OVER IN EGYPT AND LIBYA.
COINCIDENCE?
NO.
HIZBALLAH IS STRONGER THAN EVER - DESPITE BEING INDICTED FOR MURDERING THE LEBANESE PM HARIRI.
AND IRAN IS CLOSE TO GETTING NUKES.
COINCIDENCES?
NO.
ALL ARE THE RESULT OF OBAMA'S INEPTNESS - OR HIS TACIT SUPPORT FOR ISLAMISTS.
IT MATTERS NOT WHICH; THE RESULTS ARE THE SAME.
I HOPE THE WEST HAS TIME TO REASSERT A CREDIBLE DETERRENCE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
2013 IS PROBABLY TOO LATE.
SIGH.
DEMOCRATS SEEM TO THINK THOSE OF US WHO BELIEVE IN GOD ARE MORONS
AND THAT CANDIDATES WHO BELIEVE IN GOD ARE UNFIT FOR OFFICE.
THEY SAY THIS OUT LOUD WHEN IT COMES TO MICHELE BACHMANN (AND LUTHERAN) AND RICK PERRY (A METHODIST), AND TO SOME EXTENT MITT ROMNEY - BECAUSE HE IS A MORMON.
THEY FEEL THIS WAY BECAUSE THEY THINK BELIEF IN GOD IS ARCHAIC AND PRE-RATIONAL. AND JUDEO-CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS BIRDS OF A FEATHER WITH THE ISLAMISTS.
THEY ARE WRONG.
HERE IS AN EXCERPT FROM A POST I DID IN MAY 2009 ON THIS SUBJECT;
BECAUSE OF THE GROWING ANTI-JUDEO-CHRISTIAN SENTIMENT OF THE DEMOCRATS, IT DESERVES TO BE RE-READ - AND PASSED ALONG TO ALL YOUR LIB FRIENDS:
To the militant atheists and postmodernists, the people who actually believe in God - (people like me) - are morons and they are dangerous morons if they dare seek high public office.BECAUSE THE WORST GENOCIDE IN HISTORY WAS COMMITTED BY ISLAMISTS AND ATHEISTS AND SOCIALISTS, NOT JUDEO-CHRISTIANS...
We are to be confronted on so-called news shows - like Hardball - as if we were a Torquemada or a Bin Laden.
But where would we be without Judeo-Christian believers? Where would Western civilization be, What would our nation be?
There would be no Declaration Of Independence without believers. We are endowed by our CREATOR with inalienable rights; (these rights are not the gift of aristocrats or the government or politicians!).
YES: Natural Law is the foundation of our founding - as the Judeo-Christian God is the very foundation of Western Civilization.
What would our civilization - our CULTURE - look like and sound like without God?No Sistine Chapel.
No Beethoven's Ninth.
No Bach.
No Psalms.
No Agnus Dei.
No Pieta.
No Gospel.
No Magdelene.
No David.
No Western Civilization.
YEAH YEAH YEAH: the knee-jerk left-wing postmodernists always retaliate to this by harking back to Europe's religious wars - as if they were the worst wars in history.
THEY WEREN'T. NOT BY A LONG-SHOT.
Socialism killed more in the last century - the 20th C - than Judeo-Christianity killed over religion in the previous 20 COMBINED! Western religion killed a few million in the religious wars. Socialism 150 million.
And Islam killed more than socialism - (granted, they had 14 centuries and killed about 270 million for their ideology, their martial creed; that's more than all the West's wars combined; YES: Islam is the world's most deadly ideology).
So when you hear the militant atheists and postmodernists rant and rave about the ills of Judeo-Christianity... tell them to shut up and consider what life would be without Judeo-Christian Civilization.
And remind them that without a belief in God, our future might easily become as devoid of higher value as our pre-Judeo-Christian past. That was a world without personal liberty and without democracy; it was a world instead filled with pagan despotism, human sacrifice, and utter debauchery.
SO WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN REALLY? WHAT DOES IT PROVE?
It may not prove the existence of God.
SO WHAT: FOR OUR SMALL MINDS - MINDS WHICH CAN ONLY SEE HINTS OF THE INFINITE AND ONLY FLEETING GLIMPSES OF THE ETERNAL - ACCEPTING GOD'S EXISTENCE REQUIRES A LEAP FAITH.
Does it prove anything, then?
Yes: It proves the value of the belief in God.
So... I say to my atheist friends: come, take that leap.
Be not afraid.
We're here on the other side of the divide, and we'll catch you. ALL OF YOU.
Yes... all of you.
You see... we've the strength of angels - the angels of our better nature.
AND BECAUSE SOME OF THE MOST RESPECTED (BY LIBERALS PRESIDENTS WERE DEVOUT CHRISTIANS AND OPENLY AND EXPLICIT APPEALED TO GOD ALL THE TIME IN THEIR SPEECHES AS PRESIDENT...
WE MUST SEE THIS CURRENT ATTACK-MODE BY THE LEFT AS NEW.
IT'S A POST-VIETNAM WAR POSTMODERNIST LEFT-WING VISION THAT HAS INFECTED THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
AND THIS ANTI-JUDEO-CHRISTIAN BELIEF MAKES THEM UNFIT FOR ANY ELECTED OFFICE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
WE MUSTN'T LET THE LEFT TURN US INTO AN ATHEISTIC SOCIALIST NATION.
WE MUSTN'T LET THE GRAMSCIANS WIN.
IF THEY DO WIN THEN WE WILL CONTINUE TO ROT FROM WITHIN. WHICH IS WHAT THEY WANT.
OBAMA'S GLARING OMISSION: NO MENTION OF GREATER EXPLOITATION OF AMERICA'S VAST ENERGY RESOURCES
Natural gas drilling using a controversial technique known as hydraulic fracturing could create up to 37,000 jobs and generate from $31 million to $185 million a year in added state income taxes for New York at the peak level of well development, according to analyses in a report commissioned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that was released on Wednesday.
But communities in south-central and southwestern New York, on or near the Marcellus Shale, where most new drilling is expected, would pay a price for the local economic bonanza.
Included among the negative impacts the report outlines are large-scale industrial activity, heavy truck traffic, more spending on police and fire protection and higher housing prices due to the expected influx of workers.
Hmm... let's see:
The upside is it creates 37,000 jobs in NY and generates nearly $200MILLION in new TAX revenues. And the downside: ER, UM... it increases the value of EVERYONE'S real estate!
IOW: there's not much of a downside WHEN YOU UNLEASH AMERICANS TO EXPLOIT OUR NATIONAL RESOURCES.
SO...
Did Obama propose a similar action in the USA with regard to our oil and coal and gas?
NOPE. He's keeping his party's restrictive energy polices as is.
Obama failed to even mention the word ENERGY in his speech. Not once. He mentioned "oil" once - but only to say he wanted to raise taxes on oil companies. He never mentioned natural gas or coal.
When Obama was elected gasoline was $1.79/gallon. For most of his term it's been TWICE that.
Expanding the exploitation of America's VAST energy resources would - as the NY State study PROVES - create jobs, shore up real estate and HOME prices, and lower costs for families and businesses and thereby reduce inflation.
But Obama would rather stick to his same old tired failing leftist policies than admit he's been a failure and that his leftist policies are a failure, and change direction.
Sigh.
As a result, the US economy will go into a deeper recession and he will lose. And we have to wait until 2013 - when we swear in a Republican President and a GOP Senate Majority Leader - for things to improve.
FBI RAID ON SOLYNDRA: COLLECTING EVIDENCE - OR KEEPING IT AWAY FROM HOUSE INVESTIGATIONS? IOW: IT'S SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TIME!
F.B.I. agents on Thursday served search warrants on Solyndra, the large manufacturer of solar arrays that announced last week that it was filing for bankruptcy protection.I DON'T TRUST OBAMA'S DOJ TO INVESTIGATE OBAMA'S DOT OR DOE.
The search was part of an investigation into $527 million worth of loans the company received from the Treasury Department that were guaranteed by the Department of Energy under a highly touted federal stimulus program.
“The F.B.I. is here. We don’t know the specifics,” said David Miller, a Solyndra spokesman. “It is in connection with the loan guarantee, but other than that we don’t know.”
ESPECIALLY WITH THAT SLIMEBALL HOLDER RUNNING THE SHOW AT DOJ FOR OBAMA.
THE FBI SHOULD EITHER HAND THE EVIDENCE OVER TO THE HOUSE - WHICH HAS FOR WEEKS BEEN INVESTIGATING WHITE HOUSE CONNECTIONS TO SOLYNDRA, OR OBAMA MUST APPOINT A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR.
I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF KAISER ASKED OBAMA TO ORDER HOLDER TO ORDER AN FBI RAD INN ORDER TO KEEP INFORMATION AWAY FROM CONGRESS.
REPEAT: WE NEED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR AND WE NEED HIM NOW.
MORE HERE.
Rick Perry and Rick Santelli are right and Tom Friedman is wrong: Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme - or pyramid
SANTELLI IS THE GREATEST!:
WIKI DEFINITION:
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors, not from any actual profit earned by the organization, but from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors.THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT SOCIAL SECURITY DOES:
[...]
- Since the scheme requires a continual stream of investments to fund higher returns, once investment slows down, the scheme will begin to collapse under its own weight as the promoter starts having problems paying the promised returns (the higher the returns, the greater the risk of the Ponzi scheme collapsing). Such liquidity crises often trigger panics, as more people start asking for their money, similar to a bank run.
- External market forces, such as a sharp decline in the economy (e.g. Madoff and the market downturn of 2008), cause many investors to withdraw part or all of their funds; not necessarily due to loss of confidence in the investment, but simply due to underlying market fundamentals. In the case of Madoff, the fund could no longer appear normal after investors tried to withdraw $7 billion from the firm in late 2008 as part of the major worldwide market downturn affecting all investments.
IT PAYS OUT TO CURRENT RECIPIENTS ONLY WHAT CURRENT AND FUTURE PAYEES PUT IN: IT GIVES TO THE CURRENT GENREATION OF RETIRES BY TAKING AWAY FROM THE CURRENT AND FUTURE TAXED WORKERS.
THAT'S A PYRAMID. A PONZI SCHEME.
THE ONLY REASON IT HAS STAYED AFLOAT UP TO NOW WAS BY INCREASING THE AMOUNT INPUT AND/OR BY LOWERING THE AMOUNT OUTPUT.
THAT'S A PYRAMID. A PONZI SCHEME.
A PERSONALIZED PENSION SYSTEM THAT WOULD REQUIRE PEOPLE AND THEIR EMPLOYERS TO INPUT 7% INTO A PERSONAL ACCOUNT WHICH CAN ONLY BUY T-BILLS AND OTHER GOVERNMENT BONDS WOULD BE BETTER FOR THE PENSIONER AND HIS FAMILY.
IT WOULD BE INHERITABLE - UNLIKE SS TRUST FUNDS WHICH ARE "INHERITED" BY THE GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY.
THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS THE BIGGEST SCREWING THE WORKING CLASS EVER GOT:
BECAUSE A WORKING MAN IS NEVER GONNA COLLECT ALL HE PUT IN AND THE INTEREST - AND BECAUSE HE CAN'T PASS IT ON TO HIS KIDS, IT ESSENTIALLY TRANSFERS MONEY FROM THE WORKING MAN TO THE GOVERNMENT.
THE RICH DON'T NEED IT, AND SINCE IT STOPS COLLECTING AT $106,000 IT ONLY SCREWS THE WORKING CLASS, THE MIDDLE CLASS.
SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT A MIDDLE CLASS ENTITLEMENT; IT'S A GOVERNMENT ENTITLEMENT, AND IT'SS THE POLITICIANS WHO THINK THEY'RE ENTITLED TO KEEP IT!
EVEN THE NYTIMES NOW ADMITS WE ARE IN OR HEADED FOR A DOUBLE DIP RECESSION
OBAMA'S POLICIES HAVE FAILED AND HE HAS FAILED AS A PERSONALITY.Economies have a strong self-reinforcing nature. When people are optimistic, they spend, which begets hiring and then more spending. When people are anxious, they pull back, which leads to a cycle of hiring freezes and further anxiety that often lasts for months.
The United States appears to have entered some version of the vicious cycle. Most ominously, job growth has slowed to a pace that typically signals the start of a recession.
Over the last 50 years, every time that job growth has been as meager as it has been over the last four months, the economy has been headed toward recession, in a recession or in the immediate aftermath of one.
THAT'S WHY TONIGHT'S SPEECH IS MEANINGLESS. IT'S TOO LATE FOR HIM.
THE ONLY THING HE CAN SAY TONIGHT THAT WOUKLD HELP THE ECONOMY IS IF HE ANNOUCNED HE WAS RESIGNING OR AT LEAST NOT SEEKING ANOTHER TERM.
2 Muslims arrested in Germany for plotting bomb attack
Two men in the German capital were arrested Thursday on suspicion of planning a bombing attack after the police tracked their purchases of bomb-making materials, a Berlin police spokesman said.A GAZAN AND A LEBANESE. AS IF THAT EXPLAINS IT. HAH. THESE WERE MUSLIMS WHO ACTED ON BEHALF OF THEIR CREED.The men, a 24-year-old German of Lebanese descent and a 28-year-old from Gaza, had obtained chemicals that could be used to build explosives, according to the spokesman, Martin Otter.
The men came to the attention of police because of their efforts to purchase the chemicals, though Mr. Otter said the police would not give any specific information about what substances were used.
The impending anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 have heightened concerns about terrorism in recent days.
WE CAN'T STOP THEM ALL. IN INDIA YESTERDAY, AN ATTACK SUCCEEDED. WHAT'S THE ANSWER? LEARNING TO LIVE WITH TERROR? NOPE. HERE'S WHAT I WOULD DO:
1 - COUNTER-ATTACKING AT A RATION OF 10,000-1 UNTIL THE AUTHORITIES IN REGIONS AND COUNTRIES AND NATIONS AND CITIES WHERE THESE ISLAMO-SCUM GATHER CLAMP DOWN ENOUGH. AND THAT MEANS USING ALL THE BIG WEAPONS IN OUR ARSENAL AND NO LONGER FIGHTING BACK WITH ONE HAND TIED BEHIND OUR BACK.
2 - REGIME CHANGE IN TEHRAN
3- END ACCEPTANCE OF THE DOUBLE GAME IN RIYADH AND ISLAMABAD.