OBAMA'S SO-CALLED STIMULUS COST MORE THAN IRAQ WAR: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS GATEWAY BY 2 MONTHS

GATEWAY TODAY:

Obama’s Failed Stimulus Cost More than 9 Year Iraq War
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, October 22, 2011, 7:50 PM

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Obama and his comrades on the Left are fond of blaming Bush.

They blame him for driving the economy into a ditch.

The two chief reasons they clam our economy ended up in a ditch are (1) "Bush's un-funded wars" in Afghanistan and Iraq, and (2) the Bush Tax Cuts.

These explanations are false. Blame-shifting PROPAGANDA. (More on their guilt later.)

(1) The wars did not cost as much as TARP and bailing out Fannie Mae and GM and Chrysler and Obamacare and the co-called "Stimulus".

(2) The highest amount of revenue EVER received by the feds was in 2007 - with the same tax rates we have now. We are getting less revenue now with the same rates because the economy sucks. We don't need higher rates; we need the economy to grow.

Another level of proof that "Bush's un-funded wars" are not to blame is available by examining the European Debt Crisis. None of the European nations in cries spent anywhere what we did on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. (HECK: I betchya they barely spend a penny for every dollar we spend on defense in general!)

Yet despite not spending money in these 2 wars, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Italy and Belgium are all in deep doo-doo. (And the stench is making the Germans and the French sick!)

How is it that these nations are in economic trouble and have a sovereign debt crisis?

COULD IT BE THE SOCIAL SPENDING!?

Yes. That's EXACTLY what caused it: the governments spent too much dang money!

Which is what is causing the problem here.

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TAB SCOOPS WZ ON ITS LAST THREE POSTS

HERE ARE THE THREE MOST RECENT POSTS FROM WEASEL ZIPPERS:

1. Monster Prediction From Bank Of America: Another U.S. Debt Downgrade Coming In Just A Few Weeks…
2. Christine “I’m not a witch” O’Donnell: Tea Party not giving Romney a “fair shake”
3. Egypt Sentences Man To Three Years In Jail With Hard Labor For “Insulting Islam” On Facebook…

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OBAMA NOT AFRICAN-AMERICAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS THOMAS SOWELL BY 3 1/2 YEARS

THE BRILLIANT THOMAS SOWELL TODAY.

TAB 3.5 YEARS AGO.

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NEWT OUTSHONE THE REST AT THE IOWA FAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION

NEWT WAS THE BEST BY FAR. NOT EVEN CLOSE.

PERRY SHOWED HE CAN GIVE A GOOD TALK. I THINK HE'D MAKE A GREAT GOVERNOR.

CAIN WAS INSPIRATIONAL. DITTO SANTORUM. NEITHER PRESIDENTIAL. MICHELE WAS SHRILL.

OWS AS EFFECTIVE AS THE GREEN ECONOMY

THE LEFT IS WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING: WHAT THE PROBLEMS ARE AND HOW TO SOLVE THEM.

HISTORY PROVES THAT ATTACKING CAPITALISM AND FAVORING REDISTRIBUTION BY THE STATE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY IS ABOUT AS EFFECTIVE AT REDUCING POVERTY AS BILLION DOLLAR LOANS TO GREEN COMPANIES ARE AT REDUCING MAN-MADE CO2 EMISSIONS.

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY THEN YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE LEFT HISTORY.

STONE-AGE BOY OR... PRINCE HARRY!?!?!

FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGISTS DID A RECONSTRUCTION OF A STONE AGE BOY'S FACE.

HE LOOKS LIKE PRINCE HARRY.

OBAMA HANDS OVER IRAQ TO IRAN

AFTER HANDING EGYPT TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND LIBYA TO AL QAEDA, OBAMA HAS HANDED IRAQ TO IRAN.

THIS IS EITHER BECAUSE OBAMA BUNGLED IT. OR HE WANTS IRAN TO WIN.

NICE GOING BARRY!

IF OBAMA REALLY WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM SECRETLY WORKING FOR GLOBAL JIHAD, THEN WOULD HE BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?

NOPE.

OKAY: HE DID KILL OSAMA AND AWLAKI AND A FEW OTHER BIGSHOTS.

BUT THE BOTTOM-LINE IS THAT THE CALIPHATE IS CONSOLIDATING UNDER OBAMA, NOT WEAKENING.

AND ANOTHER THING:

WHY IS IT OKAY THAT OBAMA CAN KILL ENEMY COMBATANTS LIKE OSAMA AND AWLAKI, BUT BUSH WAS SATANIC FOR WATERBOARDING 3 OF THEM?

IT'S THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY.

THE LEFT EXCUSES IT AS THEY DO ALL HYPOCRISY BY LEFTISTS.

PREDICTION: OBAMA'S PREMATURE WITHDRAWAL WILL EMBOLDEN IRAN.

STAY TUNED...

UH-OH: ANOTHER OBAMA DOWNGRADE COMING!

UH-OH.

THE BOTTOM-LINE ON 9-9-9: IT SUCKS, BIGTIME

47% of Americans pay no income tax and only pay 7.65% social security/medicaid tax.

Cain's plan raises this to 9%.

That's a tax increase of 1.35%. To 47% of Americans. Those on the bottom.

On top of this, these taxpayers would have to pay another 9% on everything they buy.

Most of these taxpayers are already living paycheck-to-paycheck; therefore Cain's 9-9-9 plan would put them in the hole - if not bankrupt them,

Now... weeks after introducing his plan, Cain admits he knows it sucks and is tweaking it with empowerment zones and all sorts of exemptions for this an exemptions for that.

IOW: To make his idiotic 9-9-9 plan more palatable, Cain is picking winners and loses - just like those he claims he opposes.

THE BOTTOM-LINE ON 9-9-9: it was a lousy plan that was poorly thought out and in the end only proved Cain ain't ready for prime-time.

Conservatives who deny this are humoring Cain and pandering.

UPDATE: THIS POST FROM FOX IS DEVASTATING:

Cain has sometimes appeared to be in over his head. Consider what's happened over the past week:

--He suggested electrifying a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico to kill illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States. Cain later called it a joke and apologized if anyone was offended by the remarks.

--He said he would negotiate for the release of U.S. prisoners held by terrorists, then reversed himself and said he had misunderstood the question.

--He muddied the water on abortion. He told CNN that while he strongly opposes abortion, "the government shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make." He later issued a statement reiterating his opposition to abortion.

--Amid criticism that his 9-9-9 tax overhaul would force the majority of Americans to pay more to the government, he reworked the plan to exclude the poorest people and to allow some deductions. Backers of Cain's original plan had praised its simplicity, and carving out exceptions could erode that support.

CONSERVATIVES WHO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THIS MAN BECLOWN THEMSELVES..

IT'S A 3-MAN RACE: ROMNEY VERSUS CAIN VERSUS GINGRICH

IT'S A 3 WAY RACE.

AND SINCE HIS 9-9-9 PLAN AND HIS WEIRDLY CONFUSED ABORTION COMMENTS AND HIS IGNROANT RIGHT-OF-RETURN COMMENTS PROVE THAT THE LOVABLE CAIN IS REALLY A JOKE...

...IT MEANS IT'S REALLY A 2 MAN RACE: GINGRICH VERSUS ROMNEY.

DOES ANY SANE PERSON TRULY DOUBT WHO WOULD DO BETTER VERSUS OBAMA?

YERGIN: PEAK OIL IS BS; THERE IS MORE OIL THAN EVER

[YERGIN] ...debunks the peak oil theory, which says world gas and oil production may soon top out and then rapidly decline. (This idea helped lead to the price spike of 2008.) Yergin notes that such fears have cropped up before.

“This is not the first time the world has run out of oil,” he writes. “It is the fifth.”

Yergin is confident that the industry will be able to keep up with growing demand. He says an IHS CERA study of some 70,000 oil fields reveals that “the world is clearly not running out of oil. Far from it.”

Supply is growing, not shrinking, Yergin says. This is due not only to new discoveries but to an even more important source: additional oil found in existing fields.

PEAK OIL IS A LEFTIST HOAX - LIKE THE AGW/CO2 HOAX - DESIGNED TO SHEPHERD IN SOCIALIST CONTROL.

NEW LUNAR MAP SHOWS THE MOON IS LOADED WITH TITANIUM...

... IN CONCENTRATIONS TEN TIMES GREATER THAN FOUND ON EARTH.

WE'D BETTER GET BACK THERE WITH MINING ROBOTS BEFORE CHINA DOES!

FREE SPEECH IN EGYPT - UNLESS YOU CRITICIZE ISLAM, THEN YOU GO TO JAIL

NYTIMES:

Egypt's state media says a Cairo court has sentenced a man to three years in prison for postings on Facebook deemed to be inciting sectarianism and in contempt of Islam.

The MENA state news agency said Saturday a the misdemeanor court found Ayman Mansour had intentionally mocked Islam and used "outrageous and scurrilous" language in describing the religion's holy book, the Quran, and its prophet and believers.

The court said freedom of belief doesn't excuse contempt that may offend believers and "subject the regime and the country's security to serious dangers."

ISLAM IS BASICALLY INTOLERANT AND INIMICAL TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION.

ISLAMIC NATIONS THAT CAN'T ADAPT TO THE WEST AND THAT DON'T RECOGNIZE THEIR CITIZEN'S INALIENABLE AND UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS, SHOULD BE QUARANTINED FROM THE WEST: NO AID, NO TRADE.

MUSLIMS WHO CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH ABOUT MOHAMED AND THE KORAN HAVE NO RIGHT TO SILENCE THOSE OF US WHO CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH AND SEEK TO SHARE IT.

GILAD VERSUS GITMO

Tim Blair

Supporters of David Hicks frequently claimed that the Adelaide-born author had lost weight during his time in captivity. When he was released, however, Hicks looked like he’d been locked up in a pie factory.

Compare and contrast Hicks’s post-release condition to that of Gilad Shalit, finally freed this month after five years of Hamas healthcare.

ONE COMMENTER:

Funny, they released hundreds and hundreds of prisoners and I didn’t see a single wheelchair. In fact, they all looked in peak physical condition to me. Certainly when compared to the gaunt, pale, emaciated Shalit.

ANOTHER COMMENTER:

Yes, he looked like one of the survivors of the Nazi death-camps, but with a nice shirt on instead of the stripey suit.

The Pali prisoners, by contrast, looked plump and healthy.

ARABS IN ISRAEL - EVEN PRISONERS IN ISRAEL GUILTY OF COMMITING MURDER AND TERROR - ARE TREATED BETTER AND LIVE BETTER THAN CITIZENS OF GAZASTAN AND FATAHSTAN.

AND THIS DESPITE THE FACT THAT GAZASTAN AND FATAHSTAN ARE THE NUMBER ONE PER CAPITA RECIPIENTS OF FOREIGN AID IN THE WORLD.

AND THEY FETED THEIR RETURNING TERRORISTS AS IF THEY WERE HEROES.

SICK SCUM. JUST ABOUT ALL OF THEM.

CALIFORNIA PUTS ANOTHER NAIL IN ITS COFFIN

Fifteen months after a similar effort died in Congress, California regulators adopted a system on Thursday for combating climate change that sets limits on greenhouse gas emissions and creates market incentives to encourage oil refineries, electricity generators and other polluters to clean up their plants.

The eight members of the Air Resources Board who were present gave a unanimous vote of approval. “We are charting new ground here,” said Lydia H. Kennard, a board member, just before the vote.

NEW GROUND IS RIGHT:

6 FEET UNDER.

STATE GUVS: THE ECONOMY STILL SUCKS

... states are collecting more in taxes than last year, but not as much as they did before the recession began, and not as much as they expected when they drew up their budgets last spring.

ONE THING WILL MAKE THE ECONOMY GROW: GETTING RID OF OBAMA.

DUBYA AND MITT VERSUS KERRY AND OBAMA

DUBYA WAS A GOOD PRESIDENT WHO DID SOME GREAT THINGS AND SOME NOT SO GREAT. AND SOME BAD THINGS.

DUBYA DID THE SURGE -WHICH WAS AWESOME.

BUT HE HAS US FIGHT WW4 WITH ONE HAND BEHIND OUR BACK AND KEPT CALLING ISLAM AN ROP AND WAS FOR AMNESTY AND THE GIANT PHARMA GIVEAWAY AND FOR SPENDING MORE FED TAX DOLLARS ON EDUCATION.

ALL BAD.

BUT THERE IS NO QUESTION HE WAS BETTER THAN GORE OR KERRY.

DITTO ROMNEY VERSUS OBAMA.

CONSERVATIVES WHO THINK THEY WILL STAY HOME IF ROMNEY HEADS THE TICKET NEED TO HAVE THEIR HEADS EXAMINED!

MCCAIN WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER THAN OBAMA.

AND MCCAIN GAVE US PALIN.

IF ROMNEY WINS THE NOMINATION, HE WILL ALSO PICK A SOLID CONSERVATIVE.

AND HE WILL FULFIL THE DUTIES OF POTUS BETTER THAN THE ALTERNATIVE.

DESPITE HIS SHORT-COMINGS AND FAULTS WE MISS DUBYA.

MATURE ADULTS ACCEPT THAT NO PERSON AND NO CANDIDATE FOR POTUS IS PERFECT.

REALISTIC CONSERVATIVES WILL HAVE FAILED FUTURE AMERICANS IF WE FAIL TO SUPPORT THE GOP NOMINEE.

WM F BUCKLEY SAID YOU SHOULD SUPPORT THE MOST CONSERVATIVE ELECTABLE CANDIDATE.

REAGAN SAID THAT FOR REPUBLICANS THERE WAS AN 11TH COMMANDMENT.

IT'S TIME CONSERVATIVE PUNDITS REMEMBERED THESE TWO SAYINGS AND STOPPED BASHING MITT. IT ONLY HELPS OBAMA.

NUFF SAID.

LEFTIST/JIHADIST BIRDS OF A FEATHER - PART 1,354,223

THE LEFT AND JIHAD: STATIST BIRDS OF A FEATHER UNITED TI BRING DOWN THE USA AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION.

IF BIDEN REALLY WANTED TO LOWER VIOLENT CRIME AND RAPE HE'D DEMAND EVERY LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN LEARNED TO USE AND CARRIED A GUN!

THAT MORON BIDEN WAS WAY OFF BASE WHEN HE ARGUED THAT RAPE IS UP AND BLAMED REPUBLICANS.

YOU KNOW WHAT LOWERS CRIME?

IT AIN'T MORE COPS OR MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING.

IT'S ENDING RESTRICTIVE GUN LAWS.

CHICAGO'S CRIME RATE AND DC'S CRIME RATE WENT DOWN - BY THE MOST EVER - AFTER THEY WERE FORCED TO END RESTRICTIVE GUN LAWS.

THE REASON IS SIMPLE:

WHEN CRIMINALS HAVE A REASONABLE EXPECTATION THAT THEY MIGHT BE MET BY AN ARMED LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN, THEN THEY THINK TWICE BEFORE COMMITTING A CRIME OF OPPORTUNITY.

UPDATE: a gun-owning mandate would be Constitutional.

IT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME HOW THE LEFT IS SIMPLY JUST WRONG ON JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING: GUN LAWS, SPENDING, TAXES, CO2, WHEN LIFE BEGINS, APPEASEMENT.

EVERYTHING. AMAZING.

KRAUTHAMMER AGREES: CAIN NOT READY FOR PRIME-TIME OR TO BE POTUS

ANOTHER REASON WHY I THINK THAT KRAUTHAMMER IS THE SMARTEST MAN ON TV.

OBAMA WILL ONLY GET 37% OF THE VOTE AND LOSE IN A LANDSLIDE

THIS IS THE 37% WHO WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA AND HIS CLASS WARFARE POLITICS.

ISLAMISTS IN DENMARK WANT TO SET UP SHARIA ZONES IN COPENHAGEN

A fundamentalist Islamic group wants to set up zones in Copenhagen where Islamic Sharia Law should be upheld.

CREEPING SHARIA.

ANY NATION THAT ALLOWS THIS DESERVES WHAT IT LEADS TO.

LEFT-WING DOMINATED LEGACY MEDIA FINDS SCANDAL WHERE THERE IS NONE (ON THE RIGHT, OF COURSE), WHILE IGNORING REAL SCANDAL ON THE LEFT!

POWER LINE DETAILS HOW THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED LEGACY MEDIA SMEARS THE RIGHT WITH LIES, WHILE IGNORING THE REAL SCANDALS OF POLITICIANS ON THE LEFT - LIKE EDWARDS AND OBAMA.

THIS IS JUST LIKE HOW THEY ATTACK THE TEA PARTY WITH FALSEHOODS WHILE THEY IGNORE THE ANARCHISTIC DEFECATING ANTISEMITISM OF THE OWS DUPES.

THIS IS WHY THE LEGACY MEDIA HAS ABOUT AS MUCH CREDIBILITY AS BAGHDAD BOB.

A MOST ELEGANT HI-TECH CRAPPER: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS IOTW BY 6 MONTHS

THE GREAT IOTW TODAY.

TAB 6 MONTHS AGO.

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OBAMA'S SECRET WEAPON: MARK LEVIN?

Obama is likely going to lose - and lose big.

The economy isn't likely to improve enough to lower unemployment enough to help him.

Obama's class warfare tactics won't help him. And the unions are too small to make a difference. He is losing about 20% of the Democrats and 60% of the independents.

If the GOP has a good GOTV, then Obama will lose in a landslide. And the GOP will almost certainly hold the House and win the Senate.

The only things that can help Obama WIN is if the economy makes an extraordinary comeback AND if the GOP GOTV flops.

WHAT MIGHT DEMORALIZE LIKELY REPUBLICAN VOTERS AND SUPPRESS GOP TURNOUT?

The only thing that can fatally demoralize and suppress and fatally damage the GOP GOTV is if conservatives like the great MARK LEVIN continue to harass and harangue ROMNEY so much that hordes of conservatives stay home if Romney gets the nomination, which is likely.

For a few weeks Levin's has been spending the first hour of his show lately ATTACKING ROMNEY - mostly over Romneycare. Levin casually adds that he would vote for Romney over Obama should Romney win the nomination, but the brutal bashing he's been doling out makes that proviso MEANINGLESS.

All this can accomplish is making many conservatives so dis-enamored of Romney that they stay home - and re-elect Obama.

What makes Levin's non-stop attacks even more unnecessary - and exasperating to me, an avid fan of The Great One - is the PLAIN TRUTH that Romney is to the RIGHT of the other candidates on many issues:

• Levin admits that Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan is unacceptable without a Constitutional Amendment and he admits that is not likely - BUT - Levin still thinks Cain is better than Romney. (Levin ignores that fact that it raises taxes on 47% of Americans, many of whom are living paycheck-to-paycheck and who would WIPED OUT by a 9% national sales tax.)
  

• Levin admits that Perry's stands on HPV and in-state tuition for illegals are unacceptable - and that Romney's stands on illegal immigration is better - BUT - Levin still finds Perry acceptably conservative, but not Romney.
  

Levin seems to believe - for some reason I cannot fathom - that Romneycare makes Romney unable to criticize and run against Obamacare.

I argue it's exactly wrong; in fact, Romneycare makes Romney the best possible GOP candidate to run on a platform that says it will be repealed.

Romney can't be labeled anti-healthcare reform or as someone who doesn't care about the uninsured.

Romney can best criticize Obamacare on the merits.

I am not arguing that Romney should not be criticized at all. ALL the candidates need careful aggressive vetting. I am just saying that conservative pundits like Levin should not damage Romney to the point of turning off large swaths of conservatives voters to him.

If they don't vote for Romney then they will re-elect Obama.

I think Ann Coulter's conservative creds are at least as good as Levin's and Rush's and Hannity's.

She supports Romney.

She is right.

Mark Levin and the others should DIAL BACK their attacks.

And give Romney credit for running to the right of McCain in 2008 and staying there for 5 years.

A Romney-Rubio or Romney-Cain or Romney-Demint or Romney-Jindal or Romney-Barbour ticket will be conservative enough.

Especially with a GOP Congress.

Nuff said.

UPDATE: THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT:

Most self-affiliated members of Tea Party Nation, one of the largest national organizations for the grassroots conservative movement, would vote for Mitt Romney as president if confronted with a choice between him or President Obama, according to a poll of members released to The Hill on Friday.

The group surveyed its members this week in an informal poll posted at the group’s website. The question asked was: If Romney is the GOP nominee, what will you do in the general election?

Fifty-two percent of about 1,150 respondents said they would “hold their nose” and vote for Romney if he becomes the GOP nominee, while 23 percent said they would vote for an unspecified third-party candidate. Twelve percent said they would not vote in the presidential election at all if the choice is between Romney and Obama.

IF ONLY 52% OF TEA PARTY VOTERS VOTE FOR ROMNEY THEN OBAMA COULD WIN.

IT WAS THE TEA PARTY THAT GOT US CONTROL OF THE HOUSE. WITHOUT THE TEA PARTY WE WILL NOT WIN THE WHITE HOUSE.

HERE'S SOME ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE THAT THE LEVIN ATTITUDE IS HELPING TO RE-ELECT OBAMA - FROM A COMMENT THREAD AT WEASEL ZIPPERS - FOR A POST IN WHICH ZIP SAYS HE WILL VOTE FOR ROMNEY IF HE IS THE NOMINEE:

Keith Garner says:

October 21, 2011 at 3:19 pm

If Romney is the best the Republicans have to offer, it’s time to boycott them. He does not deserve an honest man’s vote. Nothing will change in this country until all the government subsidized leftists have their taxpaYer funds cut off. This will not happen with Romney.

chuck in st paul says:

October 21, 2011 at 3:20 pm

Not only “no”, but “HELL NO!”

I am not pulling the lever for another Dhimmeroid Lite. Not again. I’d just stay home this time. If this country cannot cough up a decent conservative candidate then it’s time to retire my vote and let all y’all got to hell in your chosen way. I and my buddies did not serve this country so we could choose between bad and worse.

Jd says:

October 21, 2011 at 3:23 pm

sorry, but I voted for the establishment choice in 2008. I will vote for any other of the candidates, I will vote for everybody else on the ticket, but I will not vote for Romney.

vagabond a-z trader III says:

October 21, 2011 at 3:26 pm

Nope. My vote will not matter here in commie CT no matter who is on the ballot so save the vitriol. I will no longer be part of the problem. What chuck in st paul said, we get what we deserve if Mitt is the best we can do.

NewMexicoK says:

October 21, 2011 at 3:27 pm

I am an Indy, after being through with the Dim. party. I cannot vote for Romney. I will just not mark the Prez. part of the ballot.
Romney for me is a shapeshifter flip flopper. Worse, he is unlikeable. He is not a choice vs Obama. They both produce in me the same visceral reaction.
Both are arrogant poseurs.

I would vote for Cain and Perry

hoodaticus says:

October 21, 2011 at 3:32 pm

I am a conservative. I do not vote for liberals, no matter the circumstance or the party.

The ONLY reason to vote for the GOP is that they are different than the Democrats. If they are no different, then there is no reason to vote for the GOP, and if there is no reason to vote for the GOP, then we cannot elect anyone.

Our only electoral weapon, both short and long term, is our distinctiveness.

Would you give away your only weapon for the promise of victory?

hoodaticus says:

October 21, 2011 at 3:38 pm

@vagabond

If Romney is nominated, your choice is to stay home or hold your nose and vote for a liberal.

Romney will not win the general election under any circumstances, so you may as well take a principled stand.

THERE WERE MANY ABO COMMENTERS AT WZ.

THE ANYONE BUT OBAMA OR MITT CONTINGENT WAS ABOUT... HMMM 40% I'D GUESS. JUST LIKE THE TEA PARTY POLL.

THESE ANTI-MITT COMMENTS WERE MERELY CHERRY-PICKED TO SHOW THAT THE THREAT IS VERY VERY REAL.

THANKS TO CONSERVATIVE PUNDITS LIKE MARK LEVIN - SADLY!

PRIMARIES ARE THE CORRECT TIME TO VET CANDIDATES - ALL DESERVE CRITICISM FOR NONE REPEAT NONE A RE PERFECT.

BUT THEY SHOULD NOT BE SO HARSHLY ATTACKED AS TO TURN OFF LARGE SWATHS OF POTENTIAL GOP VOTERS.

THAT'S NOT JUST POLITICAL SUICIDE; IN 2012 IT WOULD BE NATIONAL SUICIDE.

UPDATE: CHRISTINE O'DONNELL AGREES WITH ME.

THE COURAGE OF A RABBI

Front Page Magazine presents the text of a speech delivered by Rabbi Shlomo Lewis of Atlanta on the first day of Rosh Hashana, where he speaks about the dangers we face from Islamofascism. Lewis is very brave to bring up these issues, and sets a good example for a Jewish community representative.

AMONG THE SHADY PEOPLE WHO VISITED QADDAFI...

Following the death of Libya's dictator, it's important to note some of the characters who'd associated themselves with him. And one of those, as The Blaze reported several months ago, was Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright:

[...] Wright’s relationship with the controversial Farrakhan extended far beyond an award. In 1984, Wright personally accompanied Farrakhan to Libya to meet with Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli. In 2008, Wright even predicted his association with Farrakhan and Gaddafi may cause political headaches for Obama’s presidential aspirations: “When [Obama's] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli to visit [Gadhafi] with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell,” he said.

We can only hope that since the info came out, the Jewish community will give pause to supporting Obama any further. Especially if he still has any support for Wright.

Some of the other politicians who associated with Qaddafi include Condoleeza Rice and even Tony Blair, the latter who did it for JP Morgan banking deals! (See also this Indian Express article that tells more.) There were even Israeli Arab Knesset members who went to see him.

UK Government Department Seeks to Recruit Terrorist Supporting Students

The article says it is a failing of the civil service: looks more like a deliberate drive to recruit the islamists of FOSIS , the mozlem students association.

Civil Service Fast Stream was due to hold a skills workship next Tuesday in association with FOSIS for people interested in applying.
Of the 26 people who said earlier this week that they were interested in attending, eight had Facebook avatars supporting Babar Ahmad, an alleged Al Qaeda operative who Ministers want to extradite to the United States.  The Cabinet Office have overall responsibility for the civil service and was thus responsible for the event.
I hear that Theresa May was furious when she found out about it, and that soon after she heard the news it was cancelled forthwith.  But it isn’t necessary to believe that Ahmad should be extradited - the case is controversial – to ask: what on earth was going on?  How can one part of government be seeking to recruit from a body about which another part has grave concerns?

Here’s the advert:

Hardly “joined up government”.
The Government is correct in its assessment of FOSIS. If anything, it is too generous to it. Over the last three years speakers at its events have included the following:
- Daud Abdullah, the Istanbul declaration signatory and head of hate publisher Middle East Monitor.
- Hamas enthusiast Haitham Al-Haddad. The Gaza war made him happy because “it clearly encouraged Muslims to prepare themselves for jihad, all over the world”.
- Canadian Islamist Muhammad Alshareef, who has said Jews should be hated and shunned. As for gays, Muslims should be “proud” to be called homophobic and need to harass gay rights demonstrators.
- Australian preacher Shady Alsuleiman, a fan of Al Qaeda preacher and recruiter Anwar Al-Awlaki. Alsuleiman calls jihad “the peak of Islam”.
- Moazzam Begg, the Taliban fan who heads the terrorist support group Cageprisoners.
- Abdur Raheem Green, the head of iERA. It is an organisation which specialises in staging extremist conferences, such as this one at the Ibis hotel in southwest London which led to a furore earlier this year. Three of iERA’s foreign advisors have been banned from the UK.
- Uthman Lateef, a gay hating and “don’t help the police” extremist. He appeared at events featuring Anwar Al-Awlaki into 2009, when it was very clear that Awlaki was a leading Al Qaeda operative.
- Creepy Stephen Sizer, the church friend of extremists, including the racists and Hamas supporters of Viva Palestina Malaysia.
- Azzam “Kaboom” Tamimi, the supporter of suicide bombings.

Read the rest here.

"... When government expands, liberty contracts..."

BAN KI-MOON'S MORAL EQUIVALENCE CONTINUES

Claudia Rosett's written about the horrid UN secretary general's continued stealth support for Hamas and other Islamofascists, this time during the prisoner exchange deal for Gilad Shalit. And she's right about this: the dangers of further terrorism against Israel are likely to continue.

QADDAFI IS KAPUT

The dictator of Libya is ding-dong-dead:

Qaddafi died of wounds suffered during his capture near his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, Reuters and Sky News reported. Libyan leaders have informed the United States that Qaddafi is dead, according to an unidentified U.S. official who said Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) is expected to officially announce his death soon. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the U.S. could independently confirm Qaddafi's death.

"Qaddafi is dead. He is absolutely dead ... he was shot in both legs and in the head. The body will be arriving in Misrata soon," media spokesman Abdullah Berrassali told Sky News.

So he's dead. No matter. A tyrant dead is justice delivered. Yet it's sad that his opponents are very likely supportive of imposing sharia, even more than he was, and that's why this death of a tyrant can only be celebrated short-term.

UK: Over-60 bedroom blockers 'should be taxed out of their homes' to encourage them to leave 'too large' family houses

The Stalinists in the "Labour" Party of UK: attack and destroy the lives of decent hard-working people!!

Older people should be taxed out of their family homes to free up space for younger generations, says a report backed by Labour.
It argues that 'empty nesters' in their 60s are taking up too much room and should be 'encouraged' by a new 'land tax' to downsize to smaller homes.
The call comes from the Intergenerational Foundation, a left-leaning think-tank that aims to 'promote fairness between generations'.

Unused space: Half of all properties owned by single pensioners have three spare bedrooms or more (picture posed by models)

Labour MP Tessa Jowell sponsored the report's launch in a Commons hospitality room yesterday, saying the current situation ran against Ed Miliband's vision for Britain.
But the 'bedroom blocker' plan drew condemnation from Tory ministers and pressure groups for older people. 

More than half of people aged over 65 live in homes with two or more spare bedrooms that could be used by young families, it adds.
The report, Hoarding of Housing, says: ‘While younger families are increasingly being squeezed into small flats and under-sized houses, older people are often rattling around in big houses with many bedrooms standing empty, often for years.’
Report co-author Matthew Griffiths said: ‘It is perfectly understandable that retired people cling to their home long after it has outlived its usefulness as a place to bring a family up in.
‘But there are profound social consequences of their actions which are now causing real problems in a country where new house building is almost non-existent.’

Backing: Tessa Jowell supports the 'Bedroom Blocker' plan

One of Tessa Jowell's houses: she has others in London and Italy

Tessa Jowell, who belongs to an aristocratic family and whose uncle was Lord Longford, who used to visit child murderers in prison, owns a number of houses in England and abroad. From Daily Mail:

"Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell and her scandal-hit estranged husband David Mills spent the night together at her new London home days before the first anniversary of her career-saving decision to leave him.
The couple left Ms Jowell's smart £675,000 flat within minutes of each other after Mr Mills arrived the previous night with a change of clothes under his arm."

Do you think she will be the first to offer up the many spare rooms in HER mansions to "homeless" young people?? Her husband, David Mills is a corrupt lawyer who took backhanders from Silvio Berlusconi.

From here.

REPRISE POST: OBAMA IS THE SECOND COMING OF HUEY LONG

Sunday, January 25, 2009

OBAMA IS THE SECOND COMING ALL RIGHT - OF HUEY LONG!

TAT:

Huey Long as a United States Senator had broken with Franklin Roosevelt because he felt that Roosevelt's confiscatory policies were not radical enough.

To broaden the reach of the policies that he and his machine implemented in Louisiana, in February of 1934 he created the "Share Our Wealth Society;" its slogan being "Every Man a King."

This "Society," which epitomized Long's view of the federal government as the great leveler, advocated the confiscation of an individual's wealth greater than $5,000,000. He advocated confiscation of an individual's income greater than $1,000,000.

From this revenue Long promised the following goodies: $5,000.00 cash to every family or "enough for a home, an automobile, a radio, and the ordinary conveniences; guaranteed minimal annual income; guaranteed pensions for the aged; guaranteed grants for everyone's education; and bonuses to veterans.

If the money were not available, Huey Long was not above governmental confiscation in kind. If Long felt that a favored citizen needed a car and the money wasn't there, then the government could simply take a car from someone else who had "too many." (What's a little thing like the Constitution's "taking" provision among friends?)

The unspoken and resoundingly foolish premise of the Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth" scheme was the belief that people will continue to work, invest, take risks, and produce tax revenues regardless of the tax rates and the confiscatory policies of the government. For Long, productivity just happened, and its very existence and its fruits were the servant of the right-thinking political class. Thus Long asserted that he would share our wealth, as if the state has a preemptory claim on everyone's earnings.

Certain follies are perennial and seemingly invincible, and Barack Obama's outlook on private enterprise shares with Huey Long many of the same assumptions. While living lavishly from the labor of others, both Huey Long and Barack Obama comfortably railed against the vice of greed. Yet both elevate as their overriding principle of government the vices of envy and sloth. In light of this mere reemphasis among vices, it is extraordinary that both Long and Obama and their supporters can exude such an air of moral superiority and self satisfaction. At least greed is capable of producing something useful.

Barack Obama's prosperity-killing policies echo those of Huey Long. As Obama told "Joe the Plumber," we need to "spread the wealth." (Not a word about creating wealth or rewarding those who do.)

FROM A POST DATED 11/7/08.

SADLY, IT'S TRUER NOW THAN THEN.

MARK LEVIN IS WRONG: ROMNEYCARE MAKES ROMNEY THE BEST ANTI-OBAMACARE CANDIDATE

THE GREAT MARK LEVIN IS ON THE RAMPAGE LATELY, ATTACKING MITT AS AN UNACCEPTABLE CANDIDATE BECAUSE OF ROMNEYCARE.

• LEVIN DOESN'T THINK PERRY'S RIDICULOUSLY SOFT STAND ON IMMIGRATION IS DISQUALIFYING - EVEN THOUGH LEVIN AGREES WITH ME THAT IN-STATE TUITION FOR ILLEGALS RESIDING IN TEXAS IS ABHORRENT.

• NEITHER DOES LEVIN THINK THAT CAIN'S AWFUL 9-9-9 PLAN IS DISQUALIFYING - EVEN THOUGH LEVIN AGREES WITH ME THAT THE NATIONAL SALES TAX IS A NON-STARTER AS LONG AS THERE IS A CONSTITUTIONALLY ALLOWABLE INCOME TAX.

AND LEVIN ADMITS THAT HE ENDORSED ROMNEY FOR POTUS IN 2008 - YEARS AFTER ROMNEYCARE WAS PASSED.

NOW LEVIN IS ARGUING THAT HE ONLY DID THAT TO STOP MCCAIN, "IT WAS A HOBSON'S CHOICE" - IT WAS ROMNEY OR NO ONE; ROMNEY WAS THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS.

NOW LEVIN SAYS THAT IN A POST-OBAMACARE WORLD, THE GOP MUST NOMINATE SOMEONE WHO CAN RUN AGAINST OBAMACARE.

ER, UM... I AGREE.

LEVIN THINKS THAT ROMNEYCARE MAKES ROMNEY IMPOTENT TO FIGHT OBAMA AND OBAMACARE.

AND THIS IS EXACTLY WRONG.

ROMNEYCARE MAKES ROMNEY THE BEST CANDIDATE TO DEFEAT OBAMA ON THE ISSUE OF OBAMACARE.

ROMNEY CAN MAKE THE CASE AGAINST OBAMACARE BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE ROMNEYCARE MAKES HIM IMMUNE FROM THE CHARGE THAT HE IS ANTI-HEALTH CARE REFORM OR ANTI-HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM.

WHEN CANDIDATE ROMNEY SAYS HE WILL REPEAL OBAMACARE NO ONE CAN CALL HIM A HEARTLESS TOOL OF THE RICH OR OF BIG PHARMA OR ... ANYTHING.

AS A GOVERNOR WHO REFORMED THE HEALTHCARE AND THE HEALTHCARE INSURANCE SECTORS IN HIS STATE, THOSE KINDS OF DEMAGOGIC CHARGES CAN'T STICK.

ROMNEYCARE MAKES OBAMA IMPOTENT, NOT THE GOP.

THINK ABOUT IT, MARK. PLEASE.

SANTORUM AND PERRY SHOWED THEIR NASTINESS AND PETTINESS

SANTORUM AT ONE POINT - WHILE INTERRUPTING ROMNEY - YELLED REPEATEDLY, "YOU'RE OUT OF TIME! YOU'RE OUT OF TIME! YOU'/RE OUT OF TIME!".

PERRY TWICE ATTACKED ROMNEY FOR HIRING A LAWN SERVICE COMPANY THAT HAD HIRED ILLEGALS - AS IF EVERY HOMEOWNER WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVEY EMPLOYEE HIRED BY THE CONTRACTORS THEY HIRE.

THESE WERE HIGHLY REVEALING MOMENTS.

THEY REVEALED THAT SANTORUM AND PERRY DON'T DESERVE ANY CONSIDERATION FOR HIGHER OFFICE.

ROMNEY AND CAIN AND GINGRICH SHOWED ONCE AGAIN THAT THEY HAVE GOOD TEMPERAMENTS.

PERRY AND SANTORUM CAME OFF AS NASTY, PETTY, MEAN-SPIRITED TWIRPS.

I AM EMBARRASSED I EVER SUPPORTED PERRY FOR PRESIDENT.

Cui Bono "Big Government"? Bureaucrats and Politicians

Federal employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 and the nation's greatest concentration of lawyers helped Washington edge out San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data show.

NEVER BEFORE HAVE SO FEW BENEFITTED SO WELL FROM DOING SO MUCH HARM TO SO MANY.

Man living as an ‘adult baby’ is cleared of Social Security fraud

This story perfectly embodies the essence of Welfare.

From the Washington Times:

The California man who lives part of his life as an “adult baby” and collects Social Security disability payments says the federal agency has cleared him of wrongdoing and will continue sending checks.

Stanley Thornton Jr. now wants an apology from Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who called for the benefit review because the investigation disrupted the final months of life for his roommate Sandra Dias, who playacted as his mother, spoon-feeding him and helping him into his baby clothes until her death in July.

“We recently reviewed the evidence in your Social Security disability claim and find that your disability is continuing,” the agency said in an August letter that Mr. Thornton posted on the website he maintains to document his adult baby lifestyle.

Mr. Thornton first gained prominence after he appeared on a reality television show and later after Mr. Coburn asked for the Social Security Administration to investigate him. The lawmaker questioned why he was receiving taxpayer-funded Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments, commonly called disability checks, given the woodworking skills he demonstrated in May on the National Geographic channel television show “Taboo.”

Dias died July 7, and Mr. Thornton moved out of the apartment they shared. He told The Washington Times they had made payments based on their combined disability checks, which came to about $860 a month for each of them, and he could no longer afford the home on his own.

“My best friend Sandra had to spend the last 3 months of her life being accused of something she didn’t do. Having her family and 3 kids seeing her accused on the nightly news of something she didn’t do,” he wrote in an extensive post explaining the situation on the website he runs at www.BedWettingABDL.com for others who play-act as babies, wear diapers or wet their beds.

John Hart, a spokesman for Mr. Coburn, said Tuesday that the senator, who is also a medical doctor, is still puzzled by how “a grown man who is able to design and build adult-sized baby furniture is eligible for disability benefits.”

“Yet, the problem is not with Mr. Thornton, per se, but with the politicians and bureaucrats who have coddled him,” Mr. Hart said. “Disability fraud effectively steals from those who are truly disabled, while weakening the economy for everyone.”

In emails to The Times, he said he was exonerated by all of the agencies.

“Just thought I would let people know, I have been triple cleared of being accused by Senator Coburn of Social Security fraud,” he wrote.

In the program, Mr. Thornton was shown playing in the adult-sized crib he built and seen working to build a wooden highchair. Mr. Coburn asked Social Security’s inspector general to take a closer look at the disability program and Mr. Thornton’s situation in particular to see whether beneficiaries were being paid by taxpayers even though they were able to work.

When The Times first contacted Mr. Thornton about the investigation, he acknowledged thoughts of suicide, saying he had “no problem killing myself” if his benefits were taken away.

“Take away the last thing keeping me here, and see what happens. Next time you see me on the news, it will be me in a body bag,” he said.

China Will Collapse - Chinese toddler ignored by 18 passers-by after she was the victim of a hit and run

For years, we have been predicting the inevitable collapse of China here at Astute Bloggers. Even when it was more fashionable to predict that China's GDP would soon top that of America, here at the Astute Bloggers we were predicting doom for China?

Why?

Because China has been built upon a foundation of ideas which are both immoral and, ultimately, unworkable.

China's Gendercide of women will create terrible problems as there will be a dire shortage of marriageable women.

China's one-child policy will all but shut down population growth, meaning China will not have the increasing population numbers needed to support their Socialist Ponzi scheme.

China's lack of fundamental freedom's is not conducive to the kind of free thinking needed for innovation. (China's pillaging of American ingenuity  -completely ignoring international patent law - proves China has a dearth of it's own idea.)

This story coming out of China today, and published in the London Telegraph, is yet more evidence of the rot of Chinese Civilization:

Chinese toddler who was ignored by 18 passers-by after she was the victim of a hit and run

Two-year-old Wang Yue suffered serious head and abdominal injuries last Thursday after she was run over by two cars in a wholesale market in China's southern Guangdong Province in an incident that was captured on closed-circuit cameras and triggered worldwide outrage and disbelief.

"She had an emergency operation this morning at 9am and the doctors haven't told us anything since then," her grandfather, who gave his name only as Mr Wang, told The Telegraph.

"I can say only two things: one is that the Little Yueyue's condition has started to deteriorate since last night, and we are doing everything in our power to save her," she said at the hospital gates.

"Second, we will use every means and all available resources [to save her], but as to the end result, we can only inform you of that tomorrow." The downbeat assessment comes after the hospital's head of neurosurgery said on Tuesday that Yueyue was likely to remain in a persistent vegetative state even if she survived her massive physical injuries.

Her mother and father, who owned a small stall in the wholesale market in the nearby town of Foshan, have refused to enter into the debate over how 18 people could ignore their daughter as she bled to death on the roadside.

"I won't judge them. Let them make their own judgment," Yueyue's mother told the China Daily newspaper. "If they are married and have children, they will know. But I bear no grudge and refuse to be disappointed by society. Many kind people have come to help."

She added that despite the bleak outlook, she was still hoping for a miracle for her daughter who slipped out of the house when her seven-year-old brother went out to play.

"I didn't care for my child very well, and it's my fault," Mrs Qu said, "But Yue Yue can't leave her mother and her mom won't leave her."

Quite frankly, the mother's acquiescence to fate, and her refusal to be "disappointed by society" is evidence of China's festering moral putrefaction.

In a decent society, such a turn of events would inspire a natural horror and disgust from all. In a decent society, one can depend, and expect to depend, on his fellows.

China is Gomorrah.

RON PAUL WANTS TO CUT AID TO ISRAEL AND SLAM REAGAN

Once again, this horrible politician has opened his big mouth and signaled hostility:

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul says he would cut all foreign aid, including to U.S. ally Israel.

The Texas congressman on Tuesday said U.S. aid to Israel "teaches them to be dependent" and reduces their sovereignty. He also says the Middle East nation should be free to conduct its foreign policy without worrying how the United States will react and perhaps punish it with fewer dollars.

Rival Michele Bachmann says Israel "is our greatest ally" and spending to the country shouldn't be cut. The Minnesota congresswoman says she would rather see "nations that we have liberated" such as Iraq and Libya pay back the United States for money it spent there.

I think I can see what that scoundrel is trying to pull here: he's implying that Israel is "greedy", and would rather rely on foreign aid than make it themselves! As it so happens, the saner leaders in Israel have been trying to make the country less dependent on foreign aid for years now. But if the US wants to donate foreign aid to Israel as an act of altruism, that's their business, and for Paul to make these suggestions is gravely offensive.

Not only that, Paul has also been asking GOP candidates to condemn Reagan, whom only recently he claimed to support! Now we have only more reason to be skeptical of his fandom for Reagan, even economically.

BLUEWATER AND SIMON & SHUSTER PUBLISHING ANOTHER COMIC BASED ON HUNT FOR BIN LADEN

The Ottawa Citizen reports that Bluewater and Simon & Shuster are teaming together to publish another graphic novel about the US military's trackdown of Osama bin Laden, this one titled "Killing Geronimo: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden", which will be the second non-fiction graphic novel focused on the subject following IDW's Codeword Geronimo a few months earlier.

MITT HAD A GREAT DEBATE - NEWT HAD ANOTHER GOOD ONE; ALL THE OTHERS SUCKED

MITT HANDLED ALL THE ATTACKS WELL. ON SUBSTANCE AND WITH APLOMB - AND A SMILE.

PERRY'S ATTACKS ON MITT BACKFIRED. HE'S GOT LESS SPEAKING SKILLS THAN DUBYA AND PALIN.

NEWT ALWAYS CONTRIBUTED SOMETHING WISE.

CAIN PROVES ONCE AGAIN THAT HE WOULD MAKE A GREAT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE.

SANTORUM AND PAUL AND BACHMANN DON'T BELONG ON THE STAGE ANYMORE THAN HUNTSMAN OR JOHNSON.

OBAMA IS BEING TROUNCED BY THE GOP IN THE MONEY PRIMARY, WHERE IT COUNTS

SMART POLITICIS VIA HOT AIR:

... these states will be considered battlegrounds next November: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Virginia.

Overall, Obama received $116 million from these 11 states he carried in the ’08 cycle compared to $100 million for the entire Republican field, and raised more money than the Republicans in eight of them: Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Ohio.

In the current cycle, the GOP field has nearly doubled up on the president in these 11 states, raising $14.7 million compared to just $7.4 million for Obama.

OBAMA SUCKS. WE ON THE RIGHT SAW IT ON 2006. MOST PEOPLE NOW SEE IT.

HE IS TOAST. DEMS KNOW THIS, TOO. THEY ARE TRYING TO USE CLASS WAR AND THE OWS TO MOTIVATE THEIR BASE, BUT THIS EFFORT WILL FAIL BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE SEE THE OWS PROTESTERS FOR WHAT THEY ARE: LEFTIST DUPES AND PARASITES WITHOUT A REALISTIC WAY FORWARD.

THAT'S WHY I THINK THAT, IF THE ECONOMY STAYS AS IT IS OR WORSENS, OBAMA ONLY CARRY DC.

HAMAS PROMISES MORE KIDNAPPINGS: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS GATEWAY AND IMRA BY A WEEK

IMRA VIA GATEWAY - TODAY:

Hamas Promises to Capture More Israeli Soldiers After Shalit’s Release

TAB LAST WEEK:

EXACTLY AS I PREDICTED: HAMAS PROMISES THAT THE SHALIT TRADE WILL LEAD TO MORE KIDNAPPINGS

I POSTED THIS COMMENT ON AVI GREEN'S POST HERE AT TAB ON THE SHALIT TRADE

The ratio of 1000-to-one is good and bad:

It reveals that Hamas thinks that one Israeli is 1000 times more valuable that one Arabs.

[THAT'S] accurate. good.

But it also proves to the Arabs that all they have to do is kidnap one Israelis to get 1000 Arabs out of jail.

This increases the likelihood that there will be more kidnapping.

7:13 AM

NOW HAMAS HAS PUBLICLY PROMISED THEY WILL KIDNAP MORE SOLDIERS AS A RESULT OF THE TRADE:

Hamas official: Schalit won't be last solider we kidnap

Group spokesman says releasing those left in Israeli prisons after exchange is "top priority"; Mashaal reportedly in Cairo to finalize deal. Hamas on Wednesday warned that Gilad Schalit will not be the last soldier that they will kidnap. Abu Obaida, spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, Izzadin Kassam said that Schalit, who is set to be released as part of a prisoner exchange deal, "will not be the last solider kidnapped by Hamas as long as Israel keeps Palestinian prisoners detained."

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP ALL THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME. SPREAD THE WORD, BOOKMARK US, BLOGROLL US, FOLLOW US.

ARAB KIDNAPPERS CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF TERRORISTS

THIS WAS NOT A "PRISONER" SWAP - WHICH IS HOW THE THE LEFT-WING LEGACY MEDIA REFERS TO IT:

Hamas Frees Israeli Soldier as Prisoner Swap Begins

PRISONERS WHO WERE ARRESTED AND RECEIVED DUE PROCESS, WERE SWAPPED FOR A HOSTAGE.


AND THE KIDNAPPING SCUM ARE CELEBRATING THE RELEASE OF TERRORIST SCUM.

THIS IS THE GENERAL CALIBER OF ARAB LEADERSHIP AND ARAB MORALITY.

IT'S EL NINO & LA NINA STUPID!

The developing La Nina in the Pacific has brought the global temperature in September down slightly, but it was still the 8th warmest on record.

NASA does a separate calculation and ranks Sep. 2011 as 9th warmest. When a La Nina develops the world’s largest ocean sees noticeably cooler surface waters. This chills the air enough to bring the global temperatures down, while El Nino does just the opposite.

The super El Nino in 1998 still ranks as one of the hottest years recorded on the planet since reliable temp. records began.

CO2 GOES UP EVERY YEAR, BUT TEMPERATURES DO NOT - AND THEY TRACK MORE CLOSELY WITH OCEAN CYCLES.

IOW: IT'S AIN'T THE MAN-MADE CO2, STUPID!

IOW: AGW = TFBS.

Asian markets way down as the eurozone crisis worsens

THE POLITICIANS KEEP PROMISING THAT THEY'VE GOT IT UNDER CONTROL, BUT THEY DON'T.

OWS: COLUMBUS WAS A ZIONIST

FROM THE #OCCUPYWALLSTREET EMAIL LIST:

“Christopher Columbus Was The First Zionist.”

John Hinderaker comments:

“This exchange strikes me as revealing on several levels, but I will close with just two observations:

1) It is a reminder of the sheer volume of ignorant BS that leftists can generate.

2) The only common denominator that binds together these miscellaneous cranks with their various obsessions is their visceral hatred of the United States.”

Posted at 10:07 pm by Glenn Reynolds

JOHN HINDERAKER IS WRONG.

It is not anti-Americanism that ties Columbus to Zionism.

Postmodern Leftism and its anti-colonialism is what ties Columbus to Zionism.

Anti-colonialism is central to postmodern Leftism.

The OWS effort is essentially postmodernist. (The Dems think they can exploit the postmodernists; Obama is actually one of them.)

The postmodern Left sees the Israelis as Jewish interlopers from Europe who stole the land from peace-loving Arabs just as Columbus stole the USA from peace-loving Indians. (And Arabs and Indians also had sustainable economies that were replaced with evil free-markets!)

The postmodern left's presuppositions are bad and their facts wrong. Lets set the record straight and unpack a few of them:

1 - So called indigenous peoples all over the world are better off under our system - as a result of colonialism - and in our culture then they ever were or ever could have been under their own. They all have longer healthier more prosperous lives.

2 - Jews are not interlopers; Jews have lived in the Holy Land continuously for thousands of years. Very few Arabs had ever settled there.

3 - The so-called al aksa Mosque cannot possibly be the one in the Koran; it was built years after Mohamed died; it was dubbed the al aksa mosque by a Turk who was forbidden entrance to Mecca and needed another place to make a pilgrimage to. The real one is in Saudi Arabia. (MOE HERE. And here.)

4 - Arabs are the interlopers in the Holy Land and North Africa.

5 - The Crusades were a counter-offensive and not an offensive; they were waged to expel the invader and not to invade.

The postmodern Left hates everything Western except for Marxism and Freud.

And the postmodern left is responsible for much of the world's prblems:

Because of their deeply anti-West bias, postmodern Leftists are the Fifth Column for global jihad.

Because they oppose the free market, they are major reason the West still has so many socialist programs which slow growth and create dependency - and which are bankrupting the West's governments.

Because they believe in AGW, they are preventing the industrialization of the Third World and are therefore the chief reason the Third World still suffers horrible poverty and short unhealthier lives than those is us lucky enough to live in the West.

THIS IS WHY I HAVE LONG SAID THAT WE NEED TO DEFEAT THE LEFT IF WE WANT TO DEFEAT GLOBAL JIHAD, AND IF WE WANT TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY.

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT ROMNEY:

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT ROMNEY:

• 1 – HE RAN TO THE RIGHT OF MCCAIN IN 2008 AND HAS STAYED THERE.

• 2 – HE WAS ENDORSED IN 2008 BY DEMINT, RUSH, LEVIN AND HANNITY. NOW BY COULTER.

• 3 – HE HAS A BETTER TAX AND ECONOMIC PLAN THAN CAIN AND A BETTER IMMIGRATION PLAN THAN PERRY AND THEY ALL HAVE GOOD ENERGY PLANS.

• 4 – HE IS BETTER ON WW4 THAN CAIN OR PERRY.

• 5 – HE WON’T BE OUTSPENT.

• 6 – HE WILL WIN THE DEBATES – CAIN AND PERRY WOULD LOSE.

• 7 – WE WILL ATTRACT THE MOST INDEPENDENTS AND DEMOCRATS OF ANY GOP CONTENDER – AS EVIDENCED BY HIS MASS GOV VICTORY.

• 8 – HE GOT US A GOP SENATOR FROM MASS – BETTER THAN ANY DEM.

• 9 – HE ENDORSED RUBIO VERY VERY EARLY.

• 10 – HE IS A PROVEN MANAGER OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC AND GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS – REMEMBER: HE SAVED THE OLYMPICS.

• BONUS: OBAMA GOT A HARVARD JD. ROMNEY GOT A HARVARD JD AND MBA — AT THE SAME TIME!

NOTE: ON THE MORMON QUESTION:

MORMONISM IS ONLY 100 YEARS YOUNGER THAN MANY OTHER VERY RESPECTED CHRISTIAN SECTS.

IT IS WEIRDER TO ME THAN OTHERS, BUT MORMON COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES WOULD SEEM TO PROVE BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT THAT THE VALUES MORMONISM IMPARTS ARE GOOD.

AND MORMONS IN BOTH PARTIES HAVE SERVED THE USGOV WELL FOR 100 YEARS.

I AM A JEW, AND CAN EASILY SEE THE DEEP CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE SO-CALLED NEW TESTAMENT AND THE BIBLE.

I KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE BOOK OF MORONI AND THE NEW AND OLD TESTAMENTS.

BUT I KNOW THAT THE COPTS HAVE DIFFERENT TEXTS THAN ROMAN CATHOLICS, AND NO ONE DOUBTS THAT THEY ARE CHRISTIANS.

AND I KNOW THAT THERE WERE MANY SECTS IN THE FIRST 500 YEARS OF CHRISTIANITY – WITH DIFFERENT TEXTS – THAT DISAPPEARED.

I THINK CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT MORMONISM AND MITT’S MORMONISM SHOULD FOLLOW THE ADVICE JESUS GAVE TO HIS FOLLOWERS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT:

¹⁵ “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

¹⁶ By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

¹⁷ Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

¹⁹ Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

²⁰ Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

BASED ON THIS MEASURE, MORMON COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES SEEM A-OK TO ME; THEREFORE MITT'S MORMONISM DOESN'T CONCERN ME AT ALL.

AND ANOTHER THING: REPUBLICANS SHOULD REMEMBER REAGAN'S 11TH COMMANDMENT AND STOP ATTACKING MITT.

CAIN'S 9-9-9 PLAN SUCKS: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS NRO BY A WEEK

• TODAY, NRO PUBLISHED AN EDITORIAL BASHING CAIN'S 9-9-9 PLAN.

• WE DID THIS A WEEK AGO - TWICE - BEFORE ANYONE ELSE ON THE RIGHT HAD THE GUTS TO CRITICIZE IT - PERHAPS OUT OF THE WELL-DESERVED RESPECT CAIN OTHERWISE HAS EARNED.

REGULAR READERS KNOW THAT THEY GET SHARP ANALYSIS AND BLUNT COMMENTARY HERE - BEFORE THE REST OF THE BLOGOSPHERE.

SPREAD THE WORD.

ISRAEL SHOULD HOST A COUNTER-DEMONSTRATION TO HONOR SCHALIT AND ALL JEWISH MARTYRS

THE ARAB SCUM OF GAZA AND THE SO-0CALLED WEST BANK ARE GOING TO FETE THE PRISONERS RELEASED BY ISRAEL TO GAIN THE RETURN IF SCHALIT - THE SOLDIER KIDNAPPED BY HAMAS.

THESE FETES WILL PROBABLY FEATURE THE USUAL ARAB CRAP:

• SHOTS FIRED IN THE AIR,
• YELPING WOMEN SCREECHING LIKE BANSHEES AS THEY HAND-OUT CANDY TO THE KIDDIES,
• MASKED GOOSE-STEPPING ISLAMO-TERRORISTS IN MARTIAL GARB,
• ALL TO HONOR MURDERERS AND TERRORISTS.

THIS IS HOW THEY GREETED SAMIR KUNTAR IN LEBANON AND THE PANAM BOMBER IN LIBYA.

TO COUNTER THAT IMMORAL SPECTACLE, ISRAEL SHOULD HOST A CANDLE-LIGHT MARCH FROM THE KNESSET - WHERE ALL OF ISRAEL'S ELECTED LEADERS FROM EVERY PARTY WOULD JOIN IN - TO MOUNT HERZL WHERE, AS A SINGLE NATION, THE MOURNER'S KADDISH WOULD BE RECITED ALONG WITH OTHER SOLEMN PRAYERS OF HOPE, ENDING WITH THE SINGING OF HATIKVA, AND THE LIGHTING OF A CEREMONIAL TORCH WHICH MIGHT BE KEPT LIT UNTIL THERE IS PEACE.

POINT. COUNTER-POINT.

JUST AN IDEA...

PREDICTION: 50 STATE SWEEP FOR GOP...

... OBAMA WILL ONLY CARRY DC.

AND HERE'S ANOTHER REASON: THE ENTHUSIASM GAP IS HUGE! AND THE GOP HASN'T EVEN FOUND A CANDIDATE YET! AS A MATTER OF FACT, ONLY 35% OF THE GOP HS MADE UP THEIR MIND ABOUT WHO THEY'D PREFER.

LESSON #1 FOR THE OWS MORONS: "AS MUCH AS THE TRAFFIC WILL BEAR" IS NOT GREED

REPEAT:

"AS MUCH AS THE TRAFFIC WILL BEAR" IS NOT GREED.

Getting the highest price you can if you are the seller, or getting the lowest price you can if you are the buyer is how the free-marketplace operates.

As long as no one is coerced into a deal, then it is fair and square.

When A-Rod became available to the highest bidder, nobody knew better what he was worth than the team owners. Do you want some bureaucrat determining what baseball players should make? What ticket prices should be? What the beer and the hot dogs should cost?

The market determines that more efficiently and FAIRLY than any third party can.

The idea that some third party better knows the value OF ANYTHING - and should intervene to set the market price independently of those who are selling and buying is absurd and ultimately statist. And it has always failed - and created shortages and black-markets along the way.

If centrally directed market pricing worked, then the USSR would be the best and most successful economy in the world.

What is sinful and evil is not the imagined greed of folks trying to get the best deal possible in the free-marketplace, but the covetous envy of the left.

The Left so desires what other people have earned that they want a powerful government to step in and take away the private property of those who have earned it and give to their pals and cronies and their favored "victim" groups.

YES: There are imbalances in the marketplace, but they are all caused by a government that is too big, too invasive, and too cozy with certain players in the market.

In other words, the problem is that government is too big and too involved in the economy.

The solution isn't more involvement o as those on the Left argue.

The solution is less government, smaller government - LIMITED GOVERNMENT.

Government that doesn't bailout its pals and steer loans to its cronies, but - in the free marketplace - lets the chips fall where they may.

If the OWS dupes really and deeply want fairness, then they should stop demanding things from the government and start working alongside the Tea Party (after they bathe!) and demand that the government shrink and return to the small limited size that the Founders envisioned and that the US Constitution allows.

Then crooks and cheaters everywhere - on Wall Street, in the so-called "green economy" - won't have anyone to bribe in order to get favors.

IF YOU WANT TO PUT AN END TO CRONY CAPITALISM, THEN A FREE-MARKET AND SMALL LIMITED GOVERNMENT IS THE ANSWER.

THE LEFT IS A FREAK SHOW

VISUAL PROOF.

AND OBAMA ENDORSES THEM.

ARE ARABS CAPABLE OF PEACE WITH ISRAEL?

NOPE.

FROM ALGERIA TO TUNISIA TO LIBYA AND EGYPT... FROM SYRIA TO IRAQ, AND YEMEN, ARABS ARE "EATING THEIR OWN" IN INTERNECINE WAR.

IN THE SAME REGIONS: HONOR KILLINGS AND FORCED MARRIAGES ARE COMMON; WOMEN ARE ESSENTIALLY SECOND CLASS CITIZENS; ARAB HUSBANDS ROUTINELY BRUTALIZE THEIR WIVES; ARAB FATHERS ROUTINELY BRUTALIZE THEIR DAUGHTERS; ARAB BROTHERS ROUTINELY BRUTALIZE THEIR SISTERS.

IN THIS REGION, SURROUNDED BY THESE PEOPLE WITH THIS ETHOS, IT IS UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT THAT IF ISRAEL GIVES THEM MORE LAND THAT ISRAEL WILL GET PEACE.

IT IS INSANE.

ARABS ARE INCAPABLE OF PEACE IN THEIR OWN HOUSE; THEY ARE NOT CAPABLE OF PEACE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.

THE TRUTH ABOUT FLEX LOANS:

Much has been written and said about Flex loans - ARMs - in the wake of the financial crisis. Often the popularity of these loans - featuring interest rates that trade much closer to the market rate - has been one of the scapegoats for the Housing Bubble. ( The real problem was reckless lending practices...) And lately a reform of this market has been high on the list of moves politicians have been floating to protect financial markets.

A recent study had revealed that homeowners who have had short term flex loans since 1997 have saved 29% (total payments + reduction of debt) as compared to a homeowner with a fixed mortgage over the same period. This saving multiplied by the significant market penetration of these loans translates into a huge net loss of income for banks, mortgage brokers, and bondholders. Millions of homeowners have had more efficient access to capital = more disposable income for homeowners and less easy profits for banks. Maybe that explains why politicians want to roll back these financial instruments: they want homeowners to finance the resotoration of the Banking Sector.

IF SEDEROT AND ASHKELON AREN'T SAFE AFTER GAZA WAS GIVEN TO THE ARABS, WHAT MAKES ANYONE THINK THAT GIVING HALF OF JERUSALEM TO THEM IS A GOOD IDEA?

ISRAELIS GAVE GAZA TO FATAH - AKA THE PLO/PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY.

ISRAEL DISMANTLED EVERY SETTLEMENT AND FORCIBLY EVICTED EVERY JEW.

FOR PEACE - AS IN "LAND FOR PEACE".

IN RETURN ISRAEL GOT HAMASTAN AND A NON-STOP BARRAGE OF MISSILES AND ROCKETS AND OTHER ATTACKS - INCLUDING KIDNAPPINGS.

SO, ER... UM, WHAT MAKES ANYONE THINK GIVING THEM HALF OF JERUSALEM WILL END UP ANY DIFFERENTLY?

IT IS UNREASONABLE TO BELIEVE GIVING HALF OF JERUSALEM WILL MAKE ISRAELIS ANY SAFER OR EVEN IMPROVE THE LIKELIHOOD OF THEIR BEING PEACE IN THE REGION.

AS LONG AS ARABS DEMAND THAT GAZA AND THE SO-CALLED WEST BANK BE JUDENREIN, THERE CAN BE NO PEACE.

NOTE: 1,000,000 ARABS LIVE IN ISRAEL - SAFELY AND WITH MORE RIGHTS THAN ARABS ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD.

BUT ARABS DON'T WANT JEWS LIVING IN THEIR MIDST. NOT EVEN IN EUROPE. NOT EVEN ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN THE USA.

AND THE LEFT - EVERYWHERE - ACCEPTS THIS DOUBLE STANDARD.

ISRAELIS DON'T. AND WON'T EVER GIVE THE ARABS HALF OF JERUSALEM.

ARABS WILL HAVE TO TRY TO TAKE IT BY FORCE.

COME AND GET IT.

IS THIS MRS. OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE BEDROOM?

Occupy Wall Street organizer has history of anti-semitic writing

Another topic I'm only getting around to belatedly, but better late than never. I know that the Occupy movement's already been proving themselves truly atrocious. But Alana Goodman at Commentary has found signs that they have some of the most truly despicable people organizing the movement, such as head honcho Kalle Lasn, who has a history of anti-semitic writing.

To make matters worse, the American Nazi Party is also supporting this ludicrous movement. And as this article tells, the Occupy movement appears to be making a push for global socialism. And if you can, take a look at this item about how the movement in Portland was using the f-bomb while chanting anti-Americanism. This is not something the country needs.

Update: Newsbusters indicates that we can't count on the MSM to report the anti-semitism/racism cropping up at these Occupy rallies either.

OWS: REACTIONARY TO ITS CORE

THIS WAS SAID IN FRANCE ABOUT THE NEW HARD LEFT THERE, BUT IT APPLIES TO THE OWS MOVEMENT:

Laurent Joffrin, the chief editor of the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, said with some despair that the results show that “the French left wants an alternative, not only to Sarkozyism, but also to the liberal course followed for the last 30 years by the great democracies.”

As for “de-globalization,” Mr. Joffrin said, it is “archaic, unrealistic, utopian, even reactionary.” But he said the themes of “criticizing the unbridled free market, fear of cruel globalization, rejection of an irresponsible financial system” have become popular in a time of economic uncertainty.

ARCHAIC, UNREALISTIC, UTOPIAN - EVEN REACTIONARY.

MAY I ADD: NIHILISTIC, ANTI-SEMITIC, AND STATIST.

THE ONLY REAL REVOLUTION WAS THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

THE FRENCH AND RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS MERELY REPLACED ONE ELITE WITH ANOTHER, BUT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION SAID THE PEOPLE WERE SOVEREIGN AND SAID THAT THE PEOPLE ESTABLISHED A REPUBLICAN DEMOCRACY WITH LIMITED GOVERNMENT THAT HAS ONLY ENUMERATED POWERS THAT ARE BASED ON INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.

THE EMOTIONS THAT FUEL THE OWS PROTESTS WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE AT FOMENTING POSITIVE CHANGE IF THEY WERE FOCUSED ON THE REAL CULPRITS AND NOT THE USUAL SUSPECTS AND BOGEYMEN OF THE LEFT.

WHAT CAUSED THE HOUSING BUBBLE AND THE FINANCIAL CRASH WAS GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN THE MARKETPLACE.

• THE CURE IS NOT MORE GOVERNMENT OR BIGGER GOVERNMENT.

• BIG GOVERNMENT IS NOT THE SOLUTION; IT'S THE PROBLEM.

• WE DON'T NEED MORE CAREER POLITICIANS AND THEIR LOBBYIST PALS TO WRITE MORE REGULATIONS.

• WE DON'T NEED TO GIVE CAREER POLITICIANS AND THEIR LOBBYIST PALS MORE MONEY TO SPEND ON THEIR CRONIES.

WE NEED A SMALLER GOVERNMENT THAT GIVES CAREER POLITICIANS AND THEIR LOBBYIST PALS LESS OPPORTUNITY FOR CRONYISM.

IT'S TIME THE PEOPLE AT ALL THE OWS PROTESTS REALIZED THAT THEIR LEFTIST TEACHERS AND POLITICIANS HAVE LIED TO THEM ABOUT WHO THE ENEMY IS AND WHAT THE SOLUTION IS.

THEY NEED TO WAKE UP AND JOIN THE TEA PARTY.