DAVID WARREN: ERDOGAN MIGHT JUST START ARMAGEDDON

VIA HOT AIR:

WARREN:

Turkey's powerful, western-equipped military is now entirely Erdogan's baby, and the country's secularist constitution is a dead letter. Erdogan, the Islamist, now has absolute power.

It was he who sent the "peace flotilla" to challenge Israel's right to blockade Gaza (recognized under international law and explicitly by the U.N.). He made the inevitable violent result of that adventure into an anti-Israeli cause célèbre. He has now announced that the next peace flotilla will be accompanied by the Turkish navy.

This will put Israel in the position of either surrendering its right to defend itself, or firing on Turkish naval vessels. There is no way to overstate the gravity of this: Erdogan is manoeuvring to create a casus belli.

WE'VE BEEN SAYING THAT TURKEY SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF NATO FOR OVER A YEAR - 9SCROLL DOWN).

AND NOW I WILL ADD THIS:

ISRAEL SHOULD REPLACE TURKEY AND BECOME A PART OF NATO.

REPEAT:

THROW TURKEY OUT AND ADMIT ISRAEL.

IT JUST MIGHT STOP ARMAGEDDON:

ERDOGAN WOULDN'T ATTACK ISRAEL IF HE KNEW IT WOULD BRING NATO DOWN ON TURKEY.

OOOOOOOPS!: NASA SCIENTIST INADVERTANTLY ANNOUCED THAT THE SUN CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING!

YUP: THE SUN HEATS UP AND EXPANDS THE ENTIRE ATMOSPHERE.

IOW: AGW = TFBS.

OBAMA'S KEYNESIAN TWILIGHT ZONE

UPDATED - DO YOU THINK YOUR LIFE WOULD RUN BETTER WITHOUT INTELLECTUALS OR WITHOUT BLUE COLLAR REDNECKS?

UPDATED - SCROLL DOWN -

INTELLECTUALS ARE FINE - WE DO NEED 'EM, I GUESS...


BUT THEY AIN'T GONNA GROW OUR FOOD, BUILD OUR HOMES OR KEEP US SAFE FROM CROOKS, OR FIRES OR OUR NATIONS ENEMIES.


EAST-COAST ELITISTS MAY MAKE FINE PROFESSORS, AND THE CHIC DEGENERATI MIGHT MAKE FABULOUS STYLISTS...


BUT THEY AIN'T GONNA DRIVE THE TRUCKS THAT MOVE THE GOODS WE NEED, OR BUILD THE ROADS THAT CARRY THEM, OR EXTRACT THE ENERGY THAT MAKES THEM GO - AND THAT MAKES OUR LIGHTS COME ON AND OUR SHOWERS HOT.



URBANE CULTURALISTAS SURE DO CURATE SOME FINE GALLERY SHOWS, AND ERUDITE EXPERTS SURE CAN EXTRAPOLATE INTRICATE FORMULAS AND CONSTRUCT DAZZLING PRONOUNCEMENTS WHICH WILL BE - UNDOUBTEDLY - NECESSARY TO REVISE...

AND THEM AND THEIR COMMITTEES USUALLY DO A BANG-UP JOB OF REVISING THE REVISIONS AND FOOT-NOTING THE FOOTNOTES, TOO.


BUT THEY AIN'T GONNA MAINTAIN OUR NATION'S PHYSICAL PLANT OR EVEN DO ALL THE OTHER MENIAL WORK - INSIDE AND OUTSIDE - THAT SIMPLY MUST GET DONE.


IT'S THE REGULAR JOE'S AND JANE'S WHO DO MOST OF THE WORKING AND PAYING AND LIVING AND DYING IN THIS CRAZY WORLD, AND NOT THE SNOBS.

THE ANCIENT SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD WERE LARGELY ORDERED UP BY DESPOTS, DESIGNED BY WILY WIZARDS, AND HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED WORLD-CLASS BY DILETTANTES OF DISTINCTION...

BUT THEY WERE BUILT WITH THE SWEAT, BLOOD AND TEARS OF COMMON MEN AND WOMEN.


AND WITHOUT THESE COMMON FOLKS DOING THE MANUAL UPKEEP, THEY ALL FELL APART....

AND THESE COMMON MEN AND WOMEN, WELL... ER, UM...

THEY MIGHT NOT BE AS EDUCATED AS THE INTELLECTUALS, OR AS BRILLIANTLY ENDOWED...

BUT MOST OF THEM HERE IN THE USA AT LEAST HAVE ENOUGH COMMON SENSE TO REVERE THE CONSTITUTION - (WHOSE SIGNING WE COMMEMORATE TODAY)...

AND THEY'VE NEVER BELIEVED IN THOSE IDIOTIC "BIG IDEAS" THAT INTELLECTUALS HAVE REPEATEDLY FALLEN FOR -

THE HARMFUL IDEOLOGIES LIKE SOCIALISM, CULTURAL AND MORAL RELATIVISM, MULTICULTURALISM, TRANS-NATIONALISM, AND ATHEISM FOR THAT MATTER, WHICH HAVE COMMITTED THE MOST OF THE WEST'S GENOCIDE IN WORLD HISTORY, AND CREATED THE MOST POVERTY.

THINK ABOUT THIS THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE TELLS YOU SO-AND-SO AIN'T SMART ENOUGH TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY.

DON'T GET ME WRONG:

SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE INTELLECTUALS.

A HIGHLY EDUCATED PERSON WITH COMMON SENSE IS IDEAL.

IT'S JUST NOT VERY COMMON - ON ACCOUNT OF THE FACT THAT THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED FACULTIES AT MOST OF OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES HAVE BEEN FOR DECADES ACTIVELY BRAINWASHING STUDENTS INTO BELIEVING POSTMODERNIST NONSENSE.

I THINK MITT ROMNEY IS A VERY BRIGHT MAN AND HIGHLY EDUCATED - PERHAPS THE BRIGHTEST AND BEST EDUCATED IN THIS OR ANY OTHER FIELD OF CANDIDATES, (AFTER ALL, HE EARNED A JD AND AN MBA FROM HARVARD, SIMULTANEOUSLY).

BUT I'M NOT SURE ABOUT HIS CORE PRINCIPLES.

DON'T GET ME WRONG: IF HE'S NOMINATED, THEN I WILL SUPPORT HIM.

IT'S JUST THAT I THINK A ROCK SOLID MORAL CORE DEEPLY CONNECTED TO THE ETHOS OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION, AND PERSONAL VALUES ROOTED IN OUR NATION'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES - AND THE COURAGE TO DEFEND THEM - ARE MORE IMPORTANT QUALITIES FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE USA.

THINK ABOUT IT.

I KNOW THAT 'D RATHER HAVE A SELF-TAUGHT PRESIDENT WITH A FIRST CLASS HEART, A WHOLESOME SOUL, A STEEL-HARDENED GUT - WHO HAS BOUNDLESS FAITH IN AMERICAN IDEALS...


THAN SOMEONE WITH TOP GRADES FROM THE BEST SCHOOLS, A POST-MODERN/POST-AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW, THE ACCOLADES OF THE TRANSATLANTIC ARISTOCRACY AND A MALLEABLE MORAL CODE.


LET UNIVERSITIES AND THINK TANKS BE RUN BY THE EGGHEADS.

SOCIETY NEEDS THE COMMON FOLK AND COMMON SENSE MORE THAN WE NEED THE INTELLIGENTSIA.

AND WE CERTAINLY DON'T NEED AN EGGHEAD OR A PSEUDO-EGGHEAD IN THE WHITE HOUSE, EITHER.

WE NEED A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED MENSCH IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

(MORE ON CONSTITUTION DAY HERE AT MSLSD AND HERE AT AMERICAN THINKER.)

UPDATE: HMMMMMMM... A DAY LATER AND MAUREEN DOWD MAKES THIS DICHOTOMY THE SUBJECT OF HER COLUMN.

KARZAI ARMING DRUG CARTELS!

Oh, sorry. Not Karzai: OBAMA.

Can you imagine the outcry if Cameron or Sarkozy or Berlusconi or Harper had done this?!

What if the Mexican el presidente was doing it!?

Can somebody pleeeeeeeze impeach dis bastid!

MIGHT TRUMP BECOME A STALKING HORSE THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE TO HELP ELECT OBAMA?

MAYBE.

Either a Trump run or a Ron Paul run might elect Obama.

BREAKING: ABBAS IGNORES OBAMA - WILL FILE FOR STATEHOOD AT UNSC

ABBAS IGNORES OBAMA:

Palestinians Will Seek Full U.N. Status, Abbas Says

The Palestinian president announced Friday that he will seek statehood through the Security Council at the United Nations next week, a move strongly opposed by Israel and the United States.

OBAMA IS EITHER A GROSS FAILURE OR WANTS TO HELP THE ARABS EFF ISRAEL.

THEY'D NEVER BOYCOTT A MUSLIM FOREIGN NATION-STATE LEADER

ONLY THE ANTI-WEST LEFTISTS WOULD DO THIS:

The Vatican is brushing aside threats of a boycott by a number of German lawmakers when Pope Benedict XVI addresses the German parliament next week.

About 100 members of the Left Party and other opposition parties in parliament say they'll boycott the German-born pope's appearance at the Reichstag in Berlin on Thursday, at the start of the four-day trip.

Many of the lawmakers feel the appearance violates the principle of separation of church and state.

NONSENSE: THE LEFT SIMPLY HATES JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY.

Rick Perry: palestinian statehood bid is bad and dishonest

A plus from Rick Perry in the Jerusalem Post (via The Weekly Standard):

Surrounded by unfriendly neighbors and terror organizations that aim to destroy it, life has never been easy for Israel. Today, the challenges are mounting. The Jewish state faces growing hostility from Turkey. Its three decade-old peace with Egypt hangs by a thread. Iran pursues nuclear weapons its leaders vow to use to annihilate Israel. Terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians from Hezbollah and Hamas continue.

And now, the Palestinian leadership is intent on trashing the possibility of a negotiated settlement of the conflict with Israel in favor of unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations.

The Palestinian plan to win that one-sided endorsement from the UN this month in New York threatens Israel and insults the United States. The US and UN have long supported the idea that Israel and its neighbors should make peace through direct negotiations.

He also points to some of Obama's mistakes:

It was a mistake to inject an Israeli construction freeze, including in Jerusalem, as an unprecedented precondition for talks. Indeed, the Palestinian leadership had been negotiating with Israel for years, notwithstanding settlement activity.

When the Obama administration demanded a settlement freeze, it led to a freeze in Palestinian negotiations.

It was a mistake to agree to the Palestinians’ demand for indirect negotiations conducted through the United States. And it was an even greater mistake for President Obama to distance himself from Israel and seek engagement with the hostile regimes in Syria and Iran.

Read the whole article.

IF CLINTON WAS OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, THEN OBAMA IS OUR FIRST MUSLIM PRESIDENT

PUT ANOTHER WAY:

IF CLINTON WAS OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, THEN OBAMA IS OUR FIRST SOCIALIST PRESIDENT.

THINK ABOUT IT.

RICK PERRY AND PAUL KRUGMAN AGREE: SOCIAL SECURITY IS A PONZI SCHEME

VIA FREEDOM'S LIGHTHOUSE:

Krugman 1997: Social Security is a Ponzi scheme

Social Security is structured from the point of view of the recipients as if it were an ordinary retirement plan: what you get out depends on what you put in. So it does not look like a redistributionist scheme. In practice it has turned out to be strongly redistributionist, but only because of its Ponzi game aspect, in which each generation takes more out than it put in. Well, the Ponzi game will soon be over, thanks to changing demographics, so that the typical recipient henceforth will get only about as much as he or she put in (and today's young may well get less

END OF STORY. THOSE CRITICIZING PERRY FOR HIS CHARACTERIZATION OF SS MUST STFU.

EU & US ABOUT TO SELL OUT TO PALI STATEHOOD RUSE/DEAL/BLACKMAIL AND THEIR DEMAND FOR A RETURN TO 1967 "BORDERS"

EU & US ABOUT TO GIVE INTO PALI STATEHOOD RUSE/DEAL/BLACKMAIL:

4 of 20 paragraphs in proposal already agreed; first paragraph calls for 6 months of negotiations leading to end to Palestinian-Israeli conflict, establishment of state along 1967 borders.

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London based Arabic daily Al Hayat on Friday published part of the text of a proposal that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was discussing with officials from the European Union and United States in efforts to come to an agreement which would prevent him from bringing the question of Palestinian statehood before the United Nations and instead return to the negotiation table with Israel.

Of the 20 paragraphs reported in the proposal, four of them had been agreed upon at the time of publication, according to the report.

The first paragraph calls for a renewal of negotiations for a minimum of six months, followed by an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, the report said.

The second paragraph, upon which there is agreement, calls for Israel to stop implementing unilateral actions regarding settlements, in exchange for Palestinians fulfilling their security obligations.

THE PALESTINIAN ARABS DESERVE ANOTHER STATE AS MUCH AS OBAMA DESERVES ANOTHER TERM.

Bravo: Paris bans street prayers

BBC:

A ban on saying prayers in the street, a practice by French Muslims unable to find space in mosques, has come into effect in the capital, Paris.

Interior Minister Claude Gueant has offered believers the use of a disused fire brigade barracks instead.

The phenomenon of street prayers, which see Muslims spreading mats on footpaths, became a political issue after far right protests.

France is home to the biggest Muslim minority in Western Europe.

By some estimates, as many as six million French people, or just under 10% of the population, are Muslims, with origins in France's former North African colonies.

Their integration has been a source of political debate in recent years, and earlier this year France became the first EU state to ban the wearing of the Islamic veil in public.

'Mosques co-operating'

The new ban came into force at midnight (22:00 GMT) on Thursday, in time for traditional Muslim Friday prayers.

IT'S A START!

MOTHERS CONCERNED ABOUT ISLAMOFASCISM

Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote on Big Peace about a recent survey by the Tarrance Group showing how Americans are still rightfully concerned about terrorism, and that includes many mothers. For example, the issues they're worried about include:

National Security: Asked to name specific national security threats, 74% of young voters and 82% of mothers said terrorists will “very likely” target U.S. air travel, roads or public transportation. Some 71% of young voters and 76% of mothers expect terrorists to target national security and banking electronic systems. Meanwhile, 61% of young voters and 68% of mothers anticipate terrorist bombings of U.S. financial and banking hubs. Respondents also worried about attacks on agriculture, food and water supplies, and externally launched missile attacks on one or more U.S. cities.

Foreign oil dependency: The majority (59%) of young voters, and an even larger number (70%) of their mothers expressed deep concern over U.S. dependency on foreign oil and strongly support oil and gas drilling in the U.S.

Terrorism: Some 41% of Gen-Y voters were also “very concerned” over “homegrown jihadist terrorists” in the U.S., while 57% of mothers echoed the same worried sentiments, Tarrance Group reported. This concern was based on roughly 30 attacks since 9/11 on U.S. soil by local jihadists, resulting in the killing of at least 49, as well as a myriad of thwarted homegrown jihadist attacks.

As reminder, among the many intercepted attacks, there was also a plan to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge in 2003; a Herald Square bomb plot in 2004; a plan to explode the Holland Tunnel and Chicago’s Sears Tower in 2006; a plot targeting Fort Dix in 2007; attacks aimed at New York synagogues, a Dallas skyscraper, and an Ohio plot to train Iraqi terrorists to kill U.S. troops.

The Iranian Threat: 44% of young voters noted great concern over Iran’s nuclear weapons development, and 53% of mothers expressed their anxiety too. Not surprisingly, 35% of young voters and 45% of mothers also stated their worry over Iran’s increasingly close ties to Venezuela.

Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack: Some 39% of young voters and 23% of mothers were familiar with and feared the threat of an EMP attack. Indeed, launching nuclear bombs from 100 miles offshore to explode 120 miles over the heartland would destroy the U.S. electrical grid and most computer chips in the lower 48 states. The ensuing nationwide electrical and electronic shutdown would disable water systems, transportation, medical devices, communications, security systems, banking, and sewage systems, among other things.[...]

Shari’a (Islamic Law): The Tarrance Group found 39% of Gen-Y voters and 54% of mothers “extremely concerned” about the potential application of shari’a in U.S. courts. “We should have nothing to do with Islam[ic] shari’a,” said one young man, adding, “It is not part of our country and culture.” A young Democrat echoed his sentiments: “Muslim law should not be recognized in the courts in the U.S.” There was a general consensus that recognizing shari’a could conceivably change or erode U.S. law.

Of 220 young adult voters, 37% were “extremely concerned” about U.S. court recognition of shari’a over U.S. law, 68 thought it “un-American” (31%); 51 said the Constitution superseded shari’a law (23%); and 40 disagreed with or didn’t understand shari’a (18%). Others were opposed, saying it would violate U.S. separation of church and state, promote terrorism and violence in the U.S., make way for discriminatory laws, violate Christian/Western values, and establish multiple legal systems.

Those surveyed knew less about the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Only 31% of Gen-Y voters and just 27% of moms were “familiar” with the MB. However, after hearing a factual description of Muslim Brotherhood history and their organizational heirs, 31% of young voters and 44% of mothers disagreed or strongly disagreed with U.S. plans to talk to the MB, even in countries where they hold political strength.

The MSM has largely ignored the findings of this poll, yet despite such efforts, Americans are aware of the dangers faced by jihad and shari'a.

ONCE AGAIN, OBAMA IS LEADING FROM BEHIND - THIS TIME AT THE UN

Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said on Thursday America is not involved in trying to tone down a draft UN resolution on Palestinian statehood:

“We’re not negotiating any text, we’re not engaged in efforts to water down a text,” Rice said in a briefing with Jewish journalists. “We’re making the case that this is not a productive course.” ...

... The Obama administration has vowed to veto any Palestinian statehood resolution that reaches the UN Security Council. But a resolution favoring Palestinian membership in the United Nations likely would win passage in the UN General Assembly, where the majority of member nations already have recognized a Palestinian state bilaterally, albeit in varying forms.

Rice warned that such a measure “would not be without consequences in the real world.”

THE ARABS AND IRAN AND TURKEY - ALONG WITH THE INTERNATIONAL LEFT - ARE STAGING A SOPHISTICATED, MULTI-PRONGED ATTACK ON ISRAEL'S SOVEREIGNTY.

AND OBAMA - WHEN HE'S NOT CARRYING WATER FOR THE ARABS - LEADS FROM BEHIND.

I GUESS THAT'S THE PERFECT POSITION FOR A TOTAL ASS.

HOT VERSUS NOT: PALIN-BACHMANN VERSUS WASSERMAN-SHULTZ & MICHELLE OBAMA

MICHELLE AND DEBBIE AREN'T JUST WRONG; THEY ARE UGLY.


PALIN AND BACHMANN ARE HOT.


JUST SAYING.

THE BANDWAGON BEGINS: MANY BIGTIMERS NOW IMAGINE OBAMA MIGHT NOT SEEK A SECOND TERM

I SUGGESTED IT A LONG TIME AGO.

NOW - VIA BIGTIME BLOGGER ALLAHPUNDIT - BIGTIME JOURNALISTS ARE SUGGESTING IT'S A POSSIBILITY, TOO.

I THINK THERE'S A STRONG LIKELIHOOD OBAMA WILL ANNOUNSE HE WONT SEEK A SECOND TERM - BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE WOULD LOSE AND NARCISSISTS WOULD RATHER WITHDRAW THAN LOSE.

I EVEN WROTE HIM A BEAUTIFUL WITHDRAWAL SPEECH LAST WEEK.

RIGHT ON CUE, THE MSM STARTS TO PREPARE THE GROUND FOR A THIRD PARTY RUN - (THE ONLY WAY THEIR CANDIDATE OBAMA CAN WIN)

I PREDICTED IT. AND I WAS THE ONLY ONE.

NOW THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA IS STARTING TO REV UP IT PARTISAN BULLHORN AND TRUMPET THE INEVITABILITY OF A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE (THUS TRYING TO MAKE IT MORE LIKELY):

HOT AIR:

Matt Lewis -

Chuck Todd: There’ll be a third-party challenge if Perry’s the nominee

“If Perry’s the nominee,” Todd told Kornheiser, “I think there’s going to be be a serious effort of some sort of moderate Republican linking up with a conservative Democrat of trying to run in some sort of like, ‘let’s throw all the bums out — let’s crash the party,’ you know, a la [Ross] Perot …”

“I just continue to believe that’s what’s coming,” he said.

Read the Article

I PREDICTED THIS HERE - BASED ON COMPARING THE DEMS NY-20 WIN TO THEIR NY-09 LOSS.

I WAS THE ONLY BLOGGER TO DO IT.

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME: AHEAD OF THE PACK WITH SHARP ANAYSIS AND BLUNT COMMENTARY. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, FOLLOW US, BOOKMARK US, BLOGROLL US.

JORDAN: LEFTIST-JIHADIST PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL AND FOR THE UMMAH

IOL/REUTERS:

Several hundred Jordanian protesters on Thursday called on their government to close the Israeli embassy in Amman and scrap an unpopular peace treaty with the Jewish state.

Dozens of demonstrators chanting: “No Zionist embassy on Arab land” gathered near a mosque in the Rabia district of the Jordanian capital close to the Israeli embassy.

Scores of police blocked roads to the embassy complex to prevent protesters from marching to the heavily protected mission.

The protesters, a mix of leftist, liberal and Islamist opposition activists, chanted slogans urging the authorities to sever diplomatic ties with neighbouring Israel.

(1) THEY SAID "ARAB LAND" NOT "JORDANIAN LAND" - A TACIT ADMISSION THAT ALL THIS IS ABOUT THE UMMAH AND THE CALIPHATE AND NOT NATIONALISM.

(2) THE REPORTER QUITE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED WHO PROTESTED:

leftist, liberal and Islamist opposition activists

THAT'S THE THE IDEOLOGICAL AXIS OF EVIL: THE LEFT AND GLOBAL JIHAD.

TO DEFEND AND PROTECT THE WEST WE NEED TO DEFEAT BOTH.

DENMARK: EVEN THOUGH THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY GAINED A SEAT, AND THE SOCIALISTS LOST A SEAT, A NEW "RED BLOC" COALITION TAKES OVER THE GOVERNMENT

DETAILS HERE.

THE OLD RULING CONSERVATIVE PARTY ACTUALLY PICKED UP A SEAT, AND THE NEW RULING PARTY SOCIALIST PARTY ACTUALLY LOST A SEAT.

THE TERTIARY LEFT-WING PARTIES DID A LITTLE BETTER THAN THE TERTIARY RIGHT-WING PARTIES SO THAT THE LEFTIST "RED BLOC" IS A LITTLE BIGGER THAN THE RIGHT-WING "BLUE BLOC".

WHAT WILL THE REDS DO?

RAISE TAXES. BECAUSE THE LEFT BELIEVES THAT DANES ARE NOT TAXED ENOUGH AND THAT THE WELFARE STATE IS NOT OVER-SPENDING A SINGLE KRONER.

YEAH, SURE.

THESE PARLIAMENTARY /PRIME MINISTERIAL ELECTIONS SUCK.

THEY NEED A PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM LIKE THE USA OR AT LEAST FRANCE.

AND ANOTHER THING:

IT PROVES ONCE AGAIN THAT THE LEFT CAN ONLY WIN WITH THIRD AND FOURTH PARTIES ON THE BALLOT.

JIHADISTS MAKING ANOTHER RUN AT TAKING OVER ALGERIA...

... AND THE MUSLIMS RUNNING THE PLACE OF COURSE BLAME THE JEWS.

SIGH.

MORE PROOF THAT LEFTIST CHAVEZ IS FIRMLY PART OF GLOBAL JIHAD - (LIKE MOST LEFTISTS)

CHAVEZ HAS BEEN SUPPORTING CARLOS THE JACKAL IN PRISON AND WANTS HIM REPATRIATED.

ENTREPRENEUERS LIKE ZANE TANKEL MAKE AMERICA GREAT

HIS 34 APPLEBE'S IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

DEMS RUNNING AWAY FROM OBAMA AND HIS "JOBS BILL"

NYTIMES:

President Obama anticipated Republican resistance to his jobs program, but he is now meeting increasing pushback from his own party.

Many Congressional Democrats, smarting from the fallout over the 2009 stimulus bill, say there is little chance they will be able to support the bill as a single entity, citing an array of elements they cannot abide.

Democrats like Senator Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, who does not want the oil industry singled out for tax changes, object to parts of the bill. The White House has opposed breaking it up.

“I think the American people are very skeptical of big pieces of legislation,” Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, said in an interview Wednesday, joining a growing chorus of Democrats who prefer an à la carte version of the bill despite White House resistance to that approach. “For that reason alone I think we should break it up.”

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, has said he will put the bill on the legislative calendar but has declined to say when.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

THIS BLOG STARTED TELLING EVERYONE THIS FELLA OBAMA WAS A BAD MAN IN 2005.

YUP: WE TOLD YOU SO!

WE HAVEN'T STOPPED TELLING YOU SO, EITHER!

DEMS: YOU GOT WHAT YOU DESERVED - BUT SADLY THE WHOLE NATION IS SUFFERING AS A RESULT.

YOU CAN RUN FROM OBAMA'S JOB BILL - BUT IF HE'S ON THE TICKET IN 2012, THEN IT WILL DESTROY YOU, TOO - AND THE PARTY.

SO, YOU'D BETTER DO MORE THAN RUN AWAY FROM HIM NOW; YOU'D BETTER RECRUIT SOMEONE TO CHALLENGE HIM FOR THE NOMINATION. AND IT'D BETTER HAPPEN SOON!

BWAHAHAHAHA!

OBAMA: NARCISSIST IN CHIEF!

OBAMA TODAY (VIDEO):

"IF YOU LOVE ME THEN YOU'LL ASK CONGRESS TO PASS MY JOBS BILL!"

IF OBAMA WAS A PATRIOT WHO SAW HIMSELF AS A HUMBLE SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE AND TEMPORARY OCCUPANT OF THE OVAL OFFICE, THEN HE'D SAY MAYBE

"IF YOU LOVE OUR NATION, THEN YOU'LL AS CONGRESS TO PASS A GOOD JOBS BILL."

IN 2012, WE CAN ELECT A HUMBLE PERSON TO SERVE OUR NATION AND GET IT BACK ON COURSE!

BOB TURNER'S HUGE WIN GUARANTEES THAT THE DEMOCRATS WILL SECRETLY SUPPORT A THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

THE DEMS LOST IN NY-9 YESTERDAY EVEN THOUGH THEY USED MEDISCARE.

BUT THEY WON IN UPSTATE NY'S NY-20 --- AND SURE THEY USED MEDISCARE, BUT THE REAL REASON THEY OWN WAS THAT THERE WAS A FAKE-TEA PARTY CANDIDATE ON THE BALLOT - THOUGH THAT'S NOT HOW THE NYTIMES REPORTED IT:

Democrats scored an upset in one of New York’s most conservative Congressional districts on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the national Republican Party in a race that largely turned on the party’s plan to overhaul Medicare.

IF HE HADN'T BEEN ON THE BALLOT THEN THE GOP WOULD HAVE WON: HERE'S PROOF (SAME LINK):

On Tuesday, she captured 47 percent of the vote to Ms. Corwin’s 43 percent, according to unofficial results.

A Tea Party candidate, Jack Davis, had 9 percent.

CLINTON NEVER GOT OVER 50% BUT WON 2 ELECTIONS BECAUSE PEROT WAS ON THE BALLOT BOTH TIMES.

FOR OBAMA TO WIN RE-ELECTION, THE DEMOCRAT HAVE TO GET A CREDIBLE THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE TO RUN --- ONE WHO WILL DRAINS OFF MORE GOP VOTES IN CRUCIAL STATES.

I GUARANTEE YOU THAT THE BIG-TIME DEM PLAYERS ARE SEARCHING FOR THIS GUY RIGHT NOW.

WHO MIGHT IT BE? WHO MIGHT THEY BE FUNNELLING MONEY TOO?

RON PAUL.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS ONLY TWO OPTIONS NOW:

EITHER THEY GET RON PAUL TO RUN, OR THEY GET OBAMA NOT TO RUN.

CHUCK SCHUMER HAS SOLD OUT AND IS NOW A SELF-HATING JEW WHO WOULD RATHER SUPPPORT OBAMA THAN ISRAEL, IOW: A JUDENRAT!

To many over-secularized "UPPER WEST-SIDE" Jews, the Torah is not as important and the editorial page of the NYTIMES.

Jill Abramson - the new editor of the NYTIMES, provided clear proof of this when she was elevated to the position (PBS):

JIM LEHRER: First, just on -- on the personal level, what does it mean to you to become the executive editor of The New York Times?

JILL ABRAMSON: It means the world to me.

I grew up here in Manhattan. And The New York Times was worshipped in my family. And what The Times said was true was the truth. And so, I became an avid reader of the paper as a young schoolkid.

And it seems scarcely believable to me that I will hold the top editorial position in the newsroom.

Did she really mean it - could any liberal? YES:

And from a post timestamped 06:32 PM at Paxalles Blog:

Ms. Abramson, 57, said that as a born-and-raised New Yorker, she considered being named editor of The Times to be like "ascending to Valhalla."

"In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion,” she said. “If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth."

Chuck Schumer has officially left the ranks of G-d-fearing Jews and become a godless lib just like Jill Abramson:

FROM JAZZ SHAW:

Why did the Democrats lose this race in a part of town where they hold a 3-1 registration advantage? Well, at least in part, because the district has just become too darned Jewish.

After canceling his own conference call (on getting federal disaster aid for flood-ravaged NY farmers), Sen. Chuck Schumer teamed up with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to push back against the GOP spin that Congressman-elect Bob Turner’s upset win in NY-9 spells bad news at the national level for Democrats, and President Obama in particular.

Schumer, who represented NY-9 for 18 years, insisted the district is about 75 percent the same today, geographically speaking, as it was when he was in office, but drastically different when it comes to demographics.

There are more Orthodox Jews, he said, and also more immigrants, making the district skew even more conservative than it had been back in his day…

SCHUMER BLAMING ORTHODOX JEWS.

IMHO, THIS MEANS THAT CHUCK SCHUMER NOW VALUES HIS ROLE INSIDE THE DEMOCRAT MACHINE MORE THAN HIS IDENTITY AS A JEW.

DISGUSTING.

IF HE WANTED TO BE TRUE TO HIS PARTY AFFILIATION AND HIS FAITH, THEN THE HONEST THING WOULD HAVE BEEN TO ADMIT THAT OBAMA HAS DONE A TERRIBLE JOB HANDLING ISRAEL.

I AM NOT ORTHODOX, BUT I SEE THIS. SO DO MANY OF MY REFORMED JEWISH FRIENDS WHO ARE ZIONISTS.

MAYBE SCHUMER IS NO LONGER A ZIONIST, OR MAYBE HE VALUES HIS PARTY'S HOLD ON POWER MORE THAN HE VALUES HIS PEOPLE'S HOLD ON TO THEIR ANCIENT AND CURRENT HOMELAND?

YES: THAT'S IT.

SCHUMER SUPPORTS OBAMA MORE THAN HE SUPPORTS ISRAEL.

CHUCK SCHUMER:

WHAT A DISGUSTING PIECE OF JUDENRAT CRAP.

JORDAN IS THE NEXT TO FALL: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS YNET AND HOT AIR BY A WEEK

TODAY AT YNET VIA HOT AIR:

Ynet: The next domino: Israeli officials fear Jordan is “hanging by a thread”

Meanwhile, there is growing concern in Israel over the situation in Jordan. Senior Israeli officials define the Hashemite kingdom’s situation as “hanging by a thread”. The officials claim that “the situation in Jordan is precarious and it is possible that it is heading for a major jolt which should be taken with the utmost seriousness.

TAB LAST WEEK:

UNLIKE HIS FATHER AND GRANDFATHER - WHO FOUGHT THE ISLAMISTS - KING ABDULLAH 2 OF JORDAN HAS SPENT THE LAST YEAR APPEASING THE ISLAMISTS.

WHAT IS THE RESULT?

THE THUGS EFFECTIOVELY RULE JORDAN.

HERE'S PROOF:

Arabic media is reporting that Jordanian groups plan to copy what happened in Egypt and break into and close down the Israel embassy in Amman, Jordan this Thursday evening.

The Facebook invite page already has a thousand people who say they will attend.

It appears that this is being organized by the Islamic Action Front, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood

ISRAEL IS ONCE AGAIN COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY GENOCIDAL ISLAMO-FASCISTS COMMITTED TO HER DESTRUCTION.

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Rapper Wyclef Jean "A Huge Fan" of Sarah Palin"

Wyclef Jean with Donna Karan

From Women's Wear Daily:

“I have to tell you this: I am a huge fan of Sarah Palin,” the former Fugee said. “Cause she’s rad. She’s shrewd. She’s cool. Because at the end of the day, I’m for the people, because this is the United States of America...this is what America’s really about. Anyone should have the right to say, ‘Look I can do the job and this is what qualifies me to do the job.’….Now my wife probably will debate and disagree with me.”

Seeming to sense a little bit of disbelief, he qualified his statement.

“I’m not saying she could be the next president, you know, but there’s something about her. Heavy debates in my house. Whenever I say Sarah Palin, people think I’m crazy, but I like her, I do. I can like whoever. This is America, right?”

PLO REMAINS COMMITTED TO JUDENREIN

In USA Today (via The Weekly Standard), they report that the PLO's goons have regurgitated their true vision of apartheid:

The Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews.

"After the experience of the last 44 years of military occupation and all the conflict and friction, I think it would be in the best interest of the two people to be separated," Maen Areikat, the PLO ambassador, said during a meeting with reporters sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. He was responding to a question about the rights of minorities in a Palestine of the future.

Such a state would be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was judenrein, or cleansed of Jews, said Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. National Security Council official.

But we sadly can't expect the Obama administration or even Hilary Clinton to condemn that foul statement made by the PLO's scummy lackey.

JERUSALEM ARABS WOULD RATHER LIVE UNDER ISRAELI RULE

The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (via One Jerusalem), has published a survey showing that many Arabs in east Jerusalem would rather live under Israeli sovereignty than that of the PLO. Some beginning examples:

• According to face-to-face surveys conducted according to the highest international standards, more Palestinians in east Jerusalem would prefer to become citizens of Israel rather than citizens of a new Palestinian state. In addition, 40 percent said they would probably or definitely move in order to live under Israeli rather than Palestinian rule.
• 44 percent of the Palestinians in Jerusalem say they are very, or at least somewhat, satisfied with their standard of living. This is a very high percentage compared to other populations in the Arab world. Only about 30 percent sympathize with either Fatah or Hamas or with the Israeli Arab Islamic movement. Politics is not a major preoccupation.
• Three-quarters of east Jerusalem Arabs are at least a little concerned, and more than half are more than a little concerned, that they would lose their ability to write and speak freely if they became citizens of a Palestinian state rather than remaining under Israeli control.
• Significantly, 41 percent thought that the armed conflict probably or definitely would continue even after a peace agreement, and this is from the most moderate population of Palestinians. Only a third say that a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence backed by the UN would have a positive effect on their lives. Two-thirds say that such a unilateral step would have no positive effect.
• For people who tend to assume that a fair and practical solution for the Jerusalem issue is for the Arab neighborhoods to become part of Palestine and the Jewish neighborhoods to become part of Israel, these findings suggest that this could be somewhat problematic from the point of view of the people who actually live in east Jerusalem.

The numbers of those who'd prefer living under Israeli rule could be even higher than what they found, because many are likely afraid to voice opposition to the PLO lest they be threatened with death; it's tragically a crime in Fatah's view that an Arab sell property to a Jew.

ERDOGAN GETS CLOSER TO PLO AND EGYPT'S EMERGING TYRANTS

Turkish premier Tayyip Erdogan went to Cairo where he received quite a warm welcome from the locals, and now he's met with Mahmoud Abbas to make stronger ties:

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo Wednesday to discuss the Palestinian statehood bid at the UN next week, Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm reported.

The Palestinian Authority's envoy to Cairo, Barak al-Farra, told reporters following the meeting that the two discussed "efforts by [Turkey] to support that [UN] bid."

Abbas also thanked Turkey for its role in supporting the Palestinian national cause, Farra said.

Erdoğan - who was in Cairo on the first leg of his so-called Arab Spring tour to forge stronger ties with Arab countries in the region - said Tuesday that support of Palestinian national independence was "not an option but an obligation."

Speaking to the Arab League, the Turkish prime minister said “Let’s raise the Palestinian flag and let that flag be the symbol of peace and justice in the Middle East."

The Turkish prime minister was headed to Tunisia and Libya following his stay in Egypt.

Abbas was in Cairo to meet with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton - who was visiting Egypt her way to Israel - and to attend a Arab League meeting Monday night.

That Arab League meeting was devoted to the Palestinian-Israeli crisis, and occurred the week before Abbas goes to the UN to petition for Palestinian statehood.

Truly disgusting. His warming to other Islamic countries around the mideast will certainly have a bad influence.

RON PAUL GETS DESERVEDLY BOOED

Via Breitbart TV, we learn that "conservative" moonbat Ron Paul was loudly booed at the GOP debate after blaming US foreign policy for terrorist attacks. I'm glad to see they understand just how awful and offensive he is, and is most definitely not worth wasting time around.

Update: The Blaze reports that Rick Santorum has rightfully slammed Paul for his blame-America tactics:

Texas Congressman Ron Paul drew jeers during CNN‘s Tea Party debate Monday evening when the conversation turned to his views on America’s foreign policy — which he believes helped provoke the September 11 attacks.

Paul was promptly chastised by former Sen. Rick Santorum, who blasted, “On your website, on 9/11, you had a blog post that basically blamed the United States for 9/11– on your website yesterday.”

“You said that it was our actions that brought about the actions of 9/11.”

“Congressman Paul, that is irresponsible.”

Santorum also told Paul that he “should not be parroting what Osama bin Laden said on 9/11.”

Santorum is right, Paul should not be sounding like the terrorists themselves. That was truly atrocious and for that, Paul deserved to be booed.

WE ARE BETTER THAN THEY ARE; OUR CIVILIZATION IS BETTER THAN THEIR SAVAGERY

Muslims do hate dogs (see previous post) and as with their other hatreds, they put this hatred into action.

A stray dog started hanging around the gate of the allied military compound, but that was not enough to protect him:

Because its against the rules to allow stray dogs to live inside the base, the best his carers could do was allow him to live near the soldiers who worked at the front gate. Since there was nothing stopping his access to the street he was routinely targeted by locals and sustained numerous and horrific injuries. In the 4 months that Wylie lived at the gate (Feb-May 2011), he had his ears cut off loosing sections of skin on his head, had my muzzle sliced open, had half his tail cut off, was stabbed in the chest, he had his penis severed and then thrown in front of a car before having his back legs cut.

But that was not enough to keep him down, or to prevent civilized human beings from helping him.

"Once we stitched for 90 minutes without anaesthetic," she said. "I can't fathom how much pain he must have been in but he just lay there motionless, looking up at us. He didn't bite or growl once."

Wylie's refusal to submit became legendary around the Kandahar base.

But when he was grabbed again by local thugs and thrown under a passing car it seemed his luck had finally run out.

"It was the first time I felt defeated because Wylie had become a symbol of Kandahar," Jensz said. "So many soldiers identified with him but I just couldn't work out how to keep this dog alive. That was the day I decided I had to take him with me."

With the help of a British and a US soldiers' animal companion fund, Wylie was evacuated to London via Kabul six weeks ago to begin the long road of quarantine hurdles that Jensz hopes will eventually bring him to Australia and her wildlife rescue property just outside Canberra.

Ours is a civilized society.

He now has more than 100 friends who regularly post updates of his progress and donate money to his fundraising site. Wylie is visited in British quarantine almost daily by strangers who have heard his story from returned soldiers.

"The humanity just makes me speechless," said Jensz, who hopes to set up an Australian soldiers' animal companion fund on her return next month.

LESSONS FROM THE DOG

Sultan Knish describes the contempt with which Muslims consider "man's best friend," but he concludes:

Islam teaches its followers the violent cruelty of the animal, but suppresses the natural affection, the sense of joy that living things are meant to have.

"There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam," Khomeini said. Additionally there is no mercy, no tolerance, no trust, no faith, no honor, no decency and nothing but deceit and death. There is no room in it for the simple virtues of a dog or the higher virtues of a man.

From the dogs who walk the front lines in Afghanistan to the rescue dogs who took the lead at Ground Zero, to the animals who are tortured and murdered every day in the Muslim world-- we can learn courage, loyalty and friendship. While the media insists on telling us how much we can learn from Islam-- there is more of goodness, decency and honor to be learned from a dog, than there is from the entire Koran.

That's quite a sweeping statement. Perhpas it would be more judicious to qualify it by saying, echoing the witty title of Ibn Al-Marzuban's 10th century "Book of the Superiority of Dogs over Some of Those Who Wear Clothes," that there is more goodness, decency, and honor to be learned from certain dogs, than there is from the Koran.

OPENLY ADVOCATING ETHNIC CLEANSING

The False-a-stinians are openly advocating ethnic cleansing in the judenrein racist state they hope to establish in the historic territory of Judea and Samaria:

During a breakfast briefing hosted by the Christian Science Monitor on Tuesday,
Palestinian Ambassador to the United States Maen Rashid Areikat reiterated his
call to create a Jew-free Palestinian state.

“Well, I personally still believe that as a first step we need to be totally separated, and we can contemplate these issues in the future,” he said when asked by The Daily Caller if he could imagine a Jew being elected mayor of the Palestinian city of Ramallah in a future independent Palestinian state. “But after the experience of 44 years of military occupation and all the conflict and friction, I think it will be in the best interests of the two peoples to be separated first.”

Last year, Areikat made a similar statement during an interview with
Tablet magazine. Asked whether it would be neccessary to transfer and remove
“every Jew” from a future Palestinian state, Areikat responded “absolutely.”

“I’m not saying to transfer every Jew, I’m saying transfer Jews who,
after an agreement with Israel, fall under the jurisdiction of a Palestinian
state,” he said then. “I think this is a very necessary step, before we can
allow the two states to somehow develop their separate national identities, and
then maybe open up the doors for all kinds of cultural, social, political,
economic exchanges, that freedom of movement of both citizens of Israelis and
Palestinians from one area to another. You know you have to think of the day
after.”

No apology, no shame. And not a word of dissent or criticism from the E.U., the U.S.A., or the international leftist peace movement.

Genesis 12:2-4 will undoubtedly apply.

VIDEO: PROOF SO-CALLED "PALESTINIANS" HAVE NO INTEREST IN PEACE WITH ISRAEL

UH-OH: MOODY'S STATES THE OBVIOUS AND DOWNGRADES 2 OF FRANCE'S BIGGEST BANKS

THESE DOWNGRADES ARE A REMINDER THAT YOU MUSTN'T BE FOOLED BY THE UPS & DOWNS OF THE GLOBAL STOCK MARKETS; THE REAL DIRECTION IS DOWN DOWN DOWN.

WHY? SIMPLE:

TOO MANY BIG BANKS
IN TOO MANY COUNTRIES
ARE HOLDING TOO MUCH BAD SOVEREIGN DEBT
BECAUSE TOO MANY NATIONS
SPENT TOO MUCH DANG MONEY
ON TOO MANY SOCIALIST PROGRAMS
THAT DID NOT DELIVER ANYTHING
EXCEPT WEAK ECONOMIC GROWTH
AND BAD DEBT.

SIGH.

THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE:

UNWIND ALL THE SOCIALIST PROGRAMS WHICH GENERATED ALL THE BAD DEBT, AND GET GOVERNMENT AND POLITICIANS AND LEFTIST POLICIES - LIKE ANTI FOSSIL FUEL REGS AND TAXES - OUT OF THE WAY SO ENTREPRENEURS AND CHEAPER ENERGY PRICES CAN START STIMULATING ECONOMIC GROWTH.

SPAIN RE-OPENS RAPE CASE AGAINST SAUDI PRINCE

HMMMM... I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT HE DID IT.

BUT WHY RE-OPEN IT NOW?

COULD IT BE RELATED TO THE IMPENDING PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD VOTE, AND THE FACT THAT THE HOUSE OF SAUD HAS COME OUT FORCEFULLY AND VERY THREATENINGLY FOR IT? (IOW, COULD IT BE BLACKMAIL?) MAYBE.

I DEFINITELY THINK THE RECENT THREAT-LACED OP-ED IN THE NYTIMES BY A LEADING PRINCE WHO WAS THE AMBASSADOR TO THE USA AND FORMER HEAD OF SAUDI INTEL' IS ONE REASON:

EYES ARE OPENING UP ALL OVER THE WORLD:

MORE AND MORE PEOPLE SEE ISLAM FOR WHAT IT IS:

AN IDEOLOGY THAT BASICALLY ANTITHETICAL TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION; AND A COLLECTIONS OF NATIONS AND TRANSNATIONAL GROUPS THAT AGGRESSIVELY THREATEN US ON EVERY FRONT.

IT'S TIME WE QUARANTINED ISLAM.

Halleluyah!: GOP TAKES WIENER'S OLD SEAT IN NYC!

THE HANDWRITING IS ON THE WALL!

IF OBAMA DOESN'T STAND DOWN AND ANNOUNCE HE WON'T SEEK A SECOND TERM, THEN THE DEMS WILL BE COMPLETELY ROUTED IN 2012!

I THINK THIS CAN HAPPEN - BUT ONLY IF A FEW SEMI-CREDIBLE DEMS ANNOUNCE A RUN - AND THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.

ARE YOU LISTENING HOWARD DEAN!?!?!? RUSSELL FEINGOLD?!?! BILL RICHARDSON? HILLARY?

OBAMA HAS SPENT $4 TRILLION TO SAVE ONE JOB: HIS...

... AND IT WON'T WORK!

IT WOULD BE CHEAPER AND BETTER FOR AMERICANS IF HE JUST QUIT!

YES: OBAMA IS SO AWFUL EVEN BIDEN WOULD BE A HUGE IMPROVEMENT!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: DON'T PASS THAT BILL!

OBAMA LOVES POOR PEOPLE SO MUCH THAT HE'S MAKING MORE OF THEM!

THE USA HAS THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF POOR PEOPLE SINCE 1983.

THANKS OBAMA!

SERIOUSLY: IS THIS A MERELY SIDE EFFECT OF OBAMANOMICS?

I MEAN... MAYBE IT'S NOT A BUG; MAYBE IT'S A FEATURE?

MAYBE OBAMA AND AXELROD THINK THAT SINCE THEY GET MOST OF THE POOR MINORITY VOTE, THAT THEIR CHANCES OF REELECTION WILL IMPROVE IF THEY MAKE MORE OF THEM!

UH-OH: STUDENT LOAN DEFAULT RATE STILL INCREASING

Student Loan Defaults Rise Again

As Tamar Lewin reports in today’s Times, defaults on student loans rose again last year, and sharply. Of all borrowers, 8.8 percent – the highest rate since 1997 – were unable to pay their loans, while 15 percent of borrowers at for-profit institutions defaulted on their payments. As Ms. Lewin writes:

The new rates represent a snapshot in time, covering the 3.6 million borrowers whose first loan payments came due between Oct. 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, 2009, and who defaulted before Sept. 30, 2010. More than 320,000 of those borrowers defaulted during that period.

Today’s piece also draws on a new study out from the Institute for Higher Education Policy that illustrates that these figures do not fully communicate the financial hardship student borrowers are facing:

[The study] found that for every borrower who defaults, at least two more fall behind in payments. The study found that only 37 percent of borrowers who started repaying their student loans in 2005 were able to pay them back fully and on time.

BECAUSE OF OBAMA, THE TAXPAYERS ARE GONNA BE ON THE HOOK WHEN THESE DEFAULTS SNOWBALL INTO A COLOSSAL AVALANCHE THAT COULD BRING DOWN THE BANKS THAG HOLD THEM (WHO ARE OF COURSE, TOO BOG TO FAIL!).

STAY TUNED...

UH-OH: TURKEY ADAPTS AND REPROGRAMS F-16'S TO MAKE THEM ABLE TO TARGET ISRAEL

Turkey's Military Electronic Industry developed a new identification system for its F-16 fighter jets that will allow it to attack Israeli targets, according to a Tuesday report by the Turkish Star Gazete.

The previous US system automatically classified all Israeli targets as "friend" and disallowed any attacks on them.

The new system will allow Turkey to determine whether or not a target should be considered "friend."

After two years of development, the system is ready for use and will be installed on Turkish aircrafts, ships and submarines in the near future.

The report came a day after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Cairo, amid expectations he will blast Israel at a meeting of the Arab League foreign ministers on Tuesday as part of his efforts to be seen as the head of the Muslim world.

THIS IS ANOTHER OMINOUS DEVELOPMENT THAT INDICATES ISLAMIST TURKEY IS ACTIVELY AND DELIBERATELY TAKING ALL NECESSARY STEPS TO WAGE WAR AGAINST ISRAEL - (AS EZEKIEL PREDICTED).

THE IS ANOTHER REASON WHY TURKEY SHOULD BE KICKED OUT OF NATO AT ONCE!

IF THE US PRESIDENT WANTS TO DEFEND OUR BEST ALLY IN THE REGION, THEN THE US PRESIDENT SHOULD EXPLICITLY AND PUBLICLY ATTACK THIS MOVE.

ALAS, OBAMA IS NOT ON ISRAEL'S SIDE AND WILL DO NOTHING. SIGH.

Soetoro is Squandering Every Gain of the Last 10 Years

At the Claremont Review of Books (hat tip: Scott Johnson), Mark Helprin has a thoughtful essay on the failure of a policy based on a wrongheaded proposition. In the words of Claremont editor Kathleen Arnn:

Our central proposition for 10 years has been that it is possible to transform the Islamic world, and in this effort we have squandered a huge share of our time and resources, when we should have been thinking of our own defense.

True enough, but a big factor in making the past 10 years of effort appear squandered and futile is the result of the last 2 years. As Helprin writes:

In Egypt we have traded our second-most powerful and second-most reliable Arab ally (after Saudi Arabia and Jordan, respectively) for what is likely to be the Muslim Brotherhood linked to Iran and the terrorist infrastructure. Having tamed the lunatic Gaddhafi, we started and have fought—after binding, trussing, and blindfolding ourselves—a civil war to replace him with we know not what. Our diplomacy leans more and more heavily against Israel and less against Hamas, as National Security Council senior director Samantha Power suggests invading the former for building apartments, and we make overtures to the latter despite its conspicuous embrace of terrorism, the thing we are supposed to be fighting.

Those effects are all the result of the policies of the Barack Hussein Soetoro administration. We have as the leader of the Free World, and as Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces, a man who is sympathetic to the aims of the worldwide jihad and whose policies are undermining the freedom and security of the American people, and the Constitution he is sworn to uphold.

He should be impeached by the House and given a fair trial in the Senate.

TWO AMERICAN LEFTIST LEGAL GROUPS ASK ICC IN THE HAGUE TO INDICT THE VATICAN

THE LEFT'S WAR ON CHRISTIANITY CONTINUES:

Human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse said they would file a complaint on Tuesday urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute Pope Benedict XVI and three top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity for what they described as abetting and covering up the rape and sexual assault of children by priests.

The formal filing of nearly 80 pages by two American advocacy groups, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, marks the most substantive effort yet to hold the pope and the Vatican accountable in an international court for sexual abuse by priests.

WHY DO I SAY THAT THIS IS A LEFTIST ATTEMPT TO DESTROY CHRISTIANITY?

SIMPLE: THESE TWO GROUPS ARE FILLED WITH LAWYERS THAT WOULD DEFEND NAMBLA.

THEY DON'T HATE PEDOPHILIA; THEY HATE THE CHURCH - AND FAITH IN GOD.

UN: ASSAD HAS MURDERED 2600

The United Nations on Monday raised its estimate of the number of protesters killed in the Syrian uprising to 2,600, as it announced the appointment of three investigators to look into human rights abuses in the country, where President Bashar al-Assad has defied international condemnation of the crackdown, even among his dwindling allies.

THAT'S MORE MUSLIMS AND/OR ARABS THAN ISRAEL HAS KILLED IN THE LAST DECADE, BUT ARABS AREN'T CONDEMNING ASSAD THE WAY THEY CONSTANTLY ATTACK ISRAEL.

WHY?

THEY'R NOT AGAINST KILLING MUSLIMS OR ARABS; THEY JUST HATE JEWS.

Westergaard Flees Terror Threat In Norway

Muhhamad Cartoonist Kurt Westergaard - who was in Norway to promote a book - was asked to return to Denmark by Norwegian PST because of the imminent danger of a terror attack directed against him.

BREAKING NEWS: TALIBAN ATTACK NATO IN KABUL!

The proxy of Al Qaeda, Iran and Pakistans ISI has commenced a large attack in Kabul. Will President Obama react with strong action? with words? with a round of golf? Stay tuned...

BREAK THROUGH: T-cells genetically altered with a modfied version of HIV was successfully progammed to kill targeted cancer cells

CANCER MIGHT JUST HAVE BEEN CURED.

VOLATILITY IS THE NEW NORMAL - AND IT'S SCARY: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS THE NYTIMES BY 5 WEEKS!

NYTIMES TODAY:

Market Swings Are Becoming New Standard

Day after day, stocks swing sharply by hundreds of points. Last week they tumbled 3 percent in the first 90 minutes of trading on Tuesday morning, then on Wednesday closed nearly 3 percent higher and dropped almost 3 percent on Friday. All of this on the heels of unusual back-to-back 4 percent leaps and dives in one week in August.

Now traders head into the week with fresh worries about the chances that Greece will default on its debt and the havoc that would wreak on European banks.

All of this anxiety has caused experts to ask whether there are new forces at work in the stock market that make trading permanently more erratic.

In fact, big price moves are more common than they used to be.

It has become more likely for stock prices to make large swings — on the order of 3 percent or 4 percent — than it has been in any other time in recent stock market history, according to an analysis by The New York Times of price changes in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock market index since 1962.

Some experts see volatility as a problem because it can scare investors away from the markets, make companies reluctant to go public and undermine confidence in the economy, causing further drops in shares.

TAB 5 WEEKS AGO:

MOB MENTALITY MARKETS: THE VOLATILE MARKETS SWING IN UNISON

HERE ARE THREE GRAPHS OF TODAY'S TRADING AT 3 BIG MARKET INDICES IN THE USA.

THESE INDICES CONTAIN MANY MANY MANY DIFFERENT STOCKS, BUT TRADED AS IF ALL 3 INDICES WERE ONE STOCK ALL MOVING UP-AND-DOWN IN UNISON.



STOCK INVESTORS AREN'T MICRO-TRADING STOCK AND AREN'T BUYING SHARES IN COMPANIES.

STOCK INVESTORS ARE MACRO-TRADING MARKETS AND CURRENCIES AND ECONOMIES.

THIS IS ONE REASON WHY THE MARKETS FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE VOLATILE THEN IN PREVIOUS DECADES.

(75% OF THE BIGGEST ONE-DAY LOSSES AND ONE-DAY GAINS HAVE BEEN SINCE 2008, AND 90% OF THEM HAVE BEEN SINCE 9/11/01.)

YES: PROGRAM TRADING AND COMPUTER TRADING MAKES TRADING MORE STOCKS MORE RAPID, AND THIS ALSO HAS AN EFFECT ON VOLATILITY.

BUT THOSE PROGRAMS ARE WRITTEN BY HUMANS WITH TRADING BIASES (AKA STRATEGY), AND IN MY OPINION IT IS THIS STRATEGY WHICH UNDERLIES THE RECENT VOLATILITY.

I THINK MOST INVESTORS - ESPECIALLY THE PROFESSIONALS - TRADE STOCKS BASED ON MACRO-ECONOMIC MOVES AND NOT UNDERLYING VALUE OF THE SPECIFIC STOCK. (BUFFETT IS AN EXCEPTION.)

AND THESE PROFESSIONALS CONTROL THE MARKET DYNAMICS.

TODAY, INVESTORS BOUGHT AT HIGHER PRICES AT THE OPENING, THEN WHEN BERNANKE SPOKE THEY DUMPED STOCK, AND THEN THEY REGROUPED AND PAID HIGHER PRICES.

THE MARKET SWING WAS ABOUT DOWN 100, THEN 250 UP, THEN 300 DOWN (A SWING OF 550) AND THEN A SWING UP OF 600!

TO MOST PEOPLE THESE SWINGS ARE INSANE.

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