"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, November 26, 2011

EXPOSING THE LEFT'S LATEST BIG LIE ABOUT WALL STREET BANKS

THE LEFT WOULD LIKE FOLKS TO BELIEVE THAT THE WALL STREET BIGGIES GOT BAILED OUT BY TARP AND HAVE LEFT THE TAXPAYER HOLDING THE BAG.


ACCORDING TO THE US TREASURY AND THE SIGTARP, THE BIG WALL STREET BANKS HAVE ALL REPAID THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - WITH INTEREST, AND THE ONLY OUTSTANDING TARP FUNDS OWED THE TAXPAYER ARE OWED BY SMALLER BANKS AND BY GM AND GMAC AND FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC.

THE OCCUPY WALL STREET SCUM OUGHT TO BE HASSLING THEM, AND NOT ER, UM... WALL STREET.

TODAY'S GUARANTEED NOT PHOTOSHOPPED: MR. AND MRS. OBAMA

GQ DISSES OBAMA

From NewsBusters:
President Barack Obama and MSNBC's Ed Schultz have been named to GQ magazine's annual list of "The 25 Least Influential People Alive."

[...]

...Obama came in 25th....
The December issue of GQ will hit the newsstands soon, so let's see if the rating makes it to the final hard copy.

In any case, this dissing is a huge contrast from this November 2008 and even November 2010.

On to 2012! May enough voters diss Obama at the ballot box to put an end to this sorry administration!

Friday, November 25, 2011

EFFORT TO GET A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE FOR POTUS GAINS MOMENTUM

The restless political middle — emboldened by the recent inability of a special congressional committee to agree on a debt-reduction deal — is staking out a controversial plan to insert itself into the 2012 election.

A bipartisan group of political strategists and donors known as Americans Elect has raised $22 million and is likely to place a third presidential candidate on the ballot in every state next year.
The goal is to provide an alternative to President Obama and the GOP nominee and break the tradition of a Democrat-vs.-Republican lineup.
The effort could represent a promising new chapter for political moderates, who see a wide-open middle in the political landscape as congressional gridlock and bitter partisan fights have driven down favorability ratings for both parties.

“Voters are saddened by the inability of people in Washington to deal with the issues that are important to them,” said the group’s chief executive, Kahlil Byrd, a Republican strategist who once worked for Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick (D).

Americans Elect has ballot slots in Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio and five other states, with certification pending in several others.

The group is relying on an ambitious plan to hold a political convention on the Internet that would treat registered voters like fans of “American Idol,” giving everyone a shot at picking a favorite candidate.
THIS IS A STEALTH EFFORT TO RE-ELECT OBAMA BY TAKING VOTES AWAY FROM THE GOP IN KEY STATES.

WHY ELSE START THE EFFORT BEFORE THE GOP NOMINEE IS EVEN SELECTED?!

NO DOUBT IT IS REALLY FINANCED BY SOROS AND THE CHICAGO MACHINE SCUM.

I HAVE POSTED NUMEROUS TIMES THAT EVER SINCE THE NY CD 26 ELECTION - WHICH WAS WON BY A DEM IN A 3-WAY RACE - THAT THE LEFT HAD REALIZED THAT THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY TO RE-ELECT OBAMA.

STAY TUNED...

41% OF MEXICAN STUDENTS IN NYC FAIL TO GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL

In the past two decades, the Mexican population in New York City has grown more than fivefold, with immigrants settling across the five boroughs. Many adults have demonstrated remarkable success at finding work, filling restaurant kitchens and construction sites, and opening hundreds of businesses.

But their children, in one crucial respect, have fared far differently.

About 41 percent of all Mexicans between ages 16 and 19 in the city have dropped out of school, according to census data.
THIS IS IMMIGRATION WITHOUT ASSIMILATION AND IT IS DESTROYING THE FABRIC OF OUR SOCIETY AND DUMBING DOWN OUR CULTURE.

WE HAVE TO END SANCTUARY CITIES AND END ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND WE HAVE TO DEMAND IMMIGRANTS ASSIMILATE.

The Death of the Individual


A very important essay from David Solway at PJM:
The displacement of the “individual” as a primary category of social and political thought — a distinctly observable trend in the contemporary West — is an infallible sign of civilizational despair.

The nexus of causes and factors accounting for this undeniable phenomenon has been analyzed in many different ways and from many different perspectives: the draining of confidence in the “Western enterprise” after two world wars and the devastation of the generations; the natural tendency of a successful civilization to grow tired and lazy in the course of aeonian time, as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee argued in their major works; the loss of religious conviction and its attendant moral armature, leading to rootless insecurity and lack of transcendent purpose; the attenuation of historical memory — what I have elsewhere called the chronosectomy — owing to a dumbed-down education paradigm and the consequent onset of a present-oriented hedonism.

Perhaps all of these factors are coterminous and work together against the sense of individual responsibility for self, family, and nation. But whatever may explain our predicament, there can be little doubt that, despite all our technical advances, we are experiencing something like the advent of a new Dark Age.

Erich Fromm has furnished the definitive study of the process of self-abdication in his Escape from Freedom, which convincingly accounts for the dynamic of moral and individual surrender to the collective mind. According to Fromm, the identification with authoritarianism is a “mechanism of escape” from a feeling of personal insecurity and weakness. The “severed” personality attempts to overcome so crippling a condition by choosing to “give up his freedom” as a way of “eliminating the gap” between his individual self and the world he cannot come to terms with or enter as a productive participant.

The lamentable result is “the more or less complete surrender of individuality and the integrity of the self.” And the choice is paid for “by a kind of life that often consists only of automatic or compulsive activities,” another way of describing the totalitarian nightmare.

Fromm focuses on the psychology of Nazism to better clarify the structure of the totalitarian personality. It is typified by a deep intuition of lack, of insignificance and deficiency. Two of the factors that tend to predominate are a slavish admiration of power and the accusation of the Jews as a “race” that desires mastery over others. The contradiction is rarely noticed: power is to be sought as a good on the one hand, condemned as an evil on the other.
 RTWT.


AMERICAN-EGYPTIAN WRITER SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY EGYPTIAN POLICE

As the situation in Egypt continues to deteriorate, women continue to find it an extremely dangerous place to go. Here's the latest victim:
CAIRO (AP) — A prominent Egyptian-born U.S. columnist says she was sexually assaulted, beaten and blindfolded during a 12-hour detention by police.

Mona Eltahawy posted on Twitter Thursday that she was arrested near Egypt's Interior Ministry around Tahrir Square, where clashes between protesters and police have raged since Saturday. After her release, she posted pictures of both her arms in casts.

She says she was sexually assaulted by regular police, surrounded by half a dozen who "groped, prodded my breasts, grabbed my genital area," while others tried to get their hands in her pants.

She says she was later handed over to military police, who kept her blindfolded for two hours. She was released with an apology and a promise of an investigation.
Which is virtually guaranteed never to take place. Even under Mubarak, it's unlikely any justice would ever have been found in a horrific case like this.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

THE PILGRIMS: OCCUPY AMERICA 1620


They escaped persecution.
Crossing a dangerous ocean in tiny vessels - risking their lives.
They landed in an unknown land and had to fend for themselves.
They had to organize themselves and raise their own food and build their own shelters.
And what they began became the greatest nation and greatest economy in the history of the world.

If the OWS scum had landed here in 1620, then they'd have ended up dead by the first Spring.

FORMER MOSSAD CHIEF: A NUCLEAR IRAN IS WORSE THAN A WAR WITH A NON-NUCLEAR IRAN

The outcome of a strike on Iran's nuclear sites, no matter how destructive, can never be as bad for Israel as an Iran armed with nuclear weapons, former Mossad chief Danny Yatom said on Wednesday at a security conference at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

Yatom took up a position that is diametrically opposed to that of former Mossad head Meir Dagan, who sparked significant controversy by stating earlier this year that an attack on Iran would be a foolish move that would lead to a war with an unknown outcome.
THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE FACT THAT ADVICE DOESN'T COME IN BOXES MARKED "GOOD ADVICE" AND "BAD ADVICE".

THIS IS WHY NATIONS NEED PRINCIPLED LEADERS WITH DEEP VALUES AND COURAGE TO MAKE THE BEST POSSIBLE DECISIONS.

DECISIONS LIKE THIS ONE - WHETHER OR NOT TO ATTACK IRAN PREEMPTIVELY, AND WHEN TO DO IT - ARE NOT IQ TESTS.

THEY ARE MORAL TESTS.

AND THIS IS WHY I PREFER A PRESIDENT TO HAVE DEEP MORAL CONVICTIONS BASED ON SOLID TRADITIONAL AMERICAN AND JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES THAN AN IVY LEAGUE DEGREE.

BIBI HAS THESE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES.

OBAMA DOESN'T.

AND THIS IS WHY ISRAEL CANNOT TRUST THE USA ON THIS ISSUE AND SHOULD ATTACK AS SOON AS IT DEEMS NECESSARY.

SHOULD THE USA LEAD OR JOIN THE ATTACK, THEN I WILL COMMEND OBAMA FOR IT - THOUGH I SUSPECT THAT IF HE DOES ATTACK IRAN IT WOULD BE TO SAVE HIS REELECTION CAMPAIGN.

SIGH.

RON PAUL WOULDN'T AID ISRAEL IN RAID ON IRAN

Why thank you, Herr Doktor, we'd be much better off without your so-called help. Here's what the demagogue had to say in the latest GOP debate, and it's this particular line that's telling:
Paul stated that if Israel wanted to attack Iran “that’s their business, but they should suffer the consequences.” He added that Israel has hundreds of nuclear missiles and thus, “can take care of themselves.”
So does that mean that he'd impose sanctions and other horrid stuff like that upon Israel that he wouldn't use on Iran? And what nuclear missiles does Israel actually have? Not sure I follow him there.

Of course Israel shouldn't be asking for American financial aid, if anything, since we shouldn't be reliant just on foreign aid. But that aside, Paul has once again left a bad aftertaste in his wake and set a most terrible example for his cult-like followers.

Breitbart has a roundup of videos highlighting some of the horrific moonbat's most disturbing declarations at the debate, which include attacking the Patriot Act, claiming that "US meddling" led to al Qaeda's attacks, and even calling for stopping the war on drugs! The latter is all you need to know that his domestic policy outlook is just as unreliable as for foreign.

JIHADISTS INDICTED FOR MURDER OF PALMER FATHER AND SON

Some jihadists were arrested for their leading to the death of a father and son, and are now being indicted:
An indictment for murder was filed Sunday against members of a terrorist gang who threw a large stone into the windshield of 25 year old Asher Palmer's car as they drove past him on the road in the opposite direction.

The stone smashed through the windshield and struck Palmer in the face, causing him to lose control of his vehicle and roll off the road. Both Palmer and his infant son, Yonatan, were killed.

According to the indictment, those facing charges are members of a band of terrorists who have carried out a long list of such attacks in the region. The remand for the accused was extended until the end of their trial.

More charges are pending for the terrorist cell for similar attacks on other Israeli vehicles, whose results were - blessedly - less severe. At least 18 Israeli drivers reported similar attacks in the month following Palmer's death alone.

Also indicted was a member of the terror gang who looted Palmer's body and stole his weapon following the attack.

The indictment is seen as something of a victory by residents in Judea and Samaria, as immediately after the attack that killed Palmer and his son, police told local residents and reporters that the deaths were the result of 'driver error'. They said they were treating the incident as a 'traffic accident.'
The police owe an apology for attempting to cover up a heinous crime. As for the terrorists themselves, they should be locked away in solitary and not allowed to see the outside world ever again for their savagery.

OBAMACARE DEATH PANELS ARE REAL

AUDIO.

UH-OH: GERMAN BOND AUCTION FAILS TO SELLOUT

THIS IS HORRIBLE NEWS: German bond auction ‘nothing short of a disaster’

LEFT-WING DOMINATED LOWER HOUSE OF OZ PARLIAMENT CONTINUES ECONOMIC SUICIDE

THE OZ LEFT WANTS TO SLAP A 30% TAX ON THEIR COAL MINING COMPANIES.

THIS IS BASED ON THE LEFT'S 2 FAVORITE CAUSES: GOVERNMENT DIRECTED REDISTRIBUTIONISM AND CO2PHOBIA.

THEY'RE IDIOTS - ON BOTH COUNTS. IF THE LAW PASSES THEY WILL CAUSE AN ECONOMIC DISASTER.

UH-OH: CHINA'S MANUFACTURING SEGMENT IS CRASHING TOO!

WITH MANUFACTURING HEADED FOR THE DUMPS, THE CHINESE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING 2 IMPORTANT LESSONS:
  1. A CAPITALIST FREE-MARKET IS A NOT A PROFIT SYSTEM; IT'S A PROFIT AND LOSS SYSTEM.
  2. AND SOCIALISM SUCKS.
EXCERPT:
The HSBC flash manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI), the earliest indicator of China's industrial activity, slumped in November to 48, a low not seen since March 2009.
MARCH 2009 WAS THE DEPTH OF THE CRASH ...

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

OBAMA: "I CANNOT TELL A LIE: IT'S STILL BUSHES FAULT!"


SOLDIER ON THE FRONTLINES PROVES 60 IS THE NEW 30

AWESOME.

UH-OH: MAJORITY OF LONDON'S FINANCE PRO'S PREDICT HIGH IMPACT EVENT, AKA "CRASH"

THE RISK of another financial crisis is the highest it has been since the summer of 2008, according to a Bank of England survey released yesterday.

The survey of 68 City market participants found that over half (54 per cent) rate the chance of a “high-impact event” as either high or very high.

Only three per cent said the chance was low or very low.

Sovereign debt crises were the most cited risk along with worries over an impending economic downturn, with 76 per cent of respondents citing these factors.

STAY TUNED...

MUST SEE TV: THATCHER DEMOLISHING THE INCOME GAP ARGUMENT

AT THE END 11 YEARS OF THATCHER RULE - AND AT HER LAST Q&A, A LIBERAL ASKED THE PM ABOUT THE "INCREASED INCOME GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR".


(SHE DEMOLISHES THE ECB TOO!)

DEBATE UPDATE: IT SUCKS!

THE DEBATE FORMAT SUCKS.

THE QUESTIONS SUCK.

WOLF BLITZER SUCKS.

ALL THIS DEBATE IS ACCOMPLISHING -

BECAUSE OF THE STUPID FORMAT,

AND THE PRESENCE OF THE UTTERLY UN-PRESIDENTIAL HUNTSMAN AND PAUL AND BACHMANN AND CAIN AND SANTORUM -

IS THE TARNISHING THE GOP BRAND.

WHICH IS WHAT CNN AND THE MSM WANT.

MY QUESTION IS:

WHY IS THE GOP PLAYING ALONG?


UNREAL: OBAMA LIES ABOUT HOOVER

OBAMA IS A LIAR OR A MORON AND DUPE OF THE LEFT'S BS.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: PELOSI AND THE DEBAUCHED LEFTIST OWSSCUM

ALABAMA HAS LOWERED UNEMPLOYMENT BY CRACKING DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

AMERICANS WILL TAKE BACK THE JOBS ILLEGALS TOOK AWAY.

THE MEDIA IS PAVING THE WAY FOR THE THIRD PARTY RUN THAT IS OBAMA'S ONLY CHANCE AT RE-ELECTION

The legacy media are preparing the soil for the inevitable third party run that is Obama's only hope:

LATEST PROOF HERE AND HERE.


OBAMA'S ORIGINAL FINANCIAL BACKER - REZKO - IS FINALLY JAILED

BBC:

Disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's top fundraiser has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in jail for corruption.

Antoin Rezko, a former Chicago real estate developer, used his influence to secure government deals and kickbacks.

The 56-year-old also was a political fundraiser for Barack Obama during his campaigns to be senator for Illinois.

OBAMA GOT HIS START IN CHICAGO THROUGH HIS ALLIANCE WITH CROOKS, AND COMMIES AND THE MACHINE - AND THAT FACT HAS BEEN THE CHIEF DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC FOR HIS PRESIDENCY.

THE VOTERS WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE GETTING A MORAL, HONEST, INTELLIGENT POST-PARTISAN CHANGE-AGENT WERE DUPED.


Breaking: 5000 emails new released showing climate change invented.

These emails must be from around the same time as the first set, two years ago, because they feature the same cast of Scientists  such as Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Ben Santer, Tom Wigley, Kevin Trenberth, Keith Briffa admitting the same sort of thing, that the evidence behind man made global warming is paper thin, and it is being pushed for political rather than environment reasons.

The whistleblower who posted the emails calls himself 'FOIA 2011' introduced the emails with:

“Over 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day.”
“Every day nearly 16.000 children die from hunger and related causes.”
“One dollar can save a life” — the opposite must also be true.
“Poverty is a death sentence.”
“Nations must invest $37 trillion in energy technologies by 2030 to stabilize
greenhouse gas emissions at sustainable levels.”
Today’s decisions should be based on all the information we can get, not on
hiding the decline.
And FOIA 2011 is right on, if we are going to screw up the world economy with oppressive climate rules that will create energy shortages that lead to food shortages, it should be based on real scientific evidence. Not selective reports which in aggregate sell a theory based on half-truths..

Below are some of the most incriminating tidbits found so far:

<1577> Jones:
[FOI, temperature data]
Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get – and has to be well hidden. I’ve discussed this with the main funder (US Dept of Energy) in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data.

<1939> Thorne/MetO:
Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical
troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a
wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the
uncertainty and be honest.
Phil, hopefully we can find time to discuss these
further if necessary [...]

<3066> Thorne:
I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it
which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run.

I too don’t see why the schemes should be symmetrical. The temperature ones
certainly will not as we’re choosing the periods to show warming.


<2495> Humphrey/DEFRA:
I can’t overstate the HUGE amount of political interest in the project as a
message that the Government can give on climate change to help them tell their
story. They want the story to be a very strong one and don’t want to be made
to look foolish.

<0813> Fox/Environment Agency:
if we loose the chance to make climate change a reality to people in the
regions we will have missed a major trick in REGIS.

Read more here.

BRICS Strikes Again as Obama Chooses Brazilian company over American

Pjmedia:  Late Thursday the Obama administration abruptly knocked Kansas aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft out of contention for a $1 billion project to make a fleet of lightweight counterinsurgency aircraft for the Air Force. Hawker Beechcraft is, understandably, disturbed and asking questions.
The Air Force has notified Hawker Beechcraft Corp. that its Beechcraft AT-6 has been excluded from competition to build a light attack aircraft, a contract worth nearly $1 billion, the company said.
The company had hoped to its AT-6, an armed version of its T-6 trainer, would be chosen for the Light Air Support Counter Insurgency aircraft for the Afghanistan National Army Corps. The chosen aircraft also would be used as a light attack armed reconnaissance aircraft for the U.S. Air Force.
The piston planes are designed for counterinsurgency, close air support, armed overwatch and homeland security, The Wichita Eagle reported (http://bit.ly/ud7FDM).
Hawker Beechcraft officials said in a news release that they were “confounded and troubled” by the Air Force’s decision. The company said it is asking the Air Force for an explanation and will explore all options.
Hawker Beechcraft said it had been working with the Air Force for two years and had invested more than $100 million to meet the Air Force’s requirements for the plane. It noted that the Beechcraft AT-6 had been found capable of meeting the requirements in a demonstration program led by the Air National Guard.
“We have followed the Air Force’s guidance close, and based on what we have seen, we continue to believe that we submitted the most capable, affordable and sustainable light attack aircraft,” the company said.
The company has said that winning the contract would have kept its T-6 production line running after 2015. About 1,400 employees in 20 states – including 800 at Hawker Beechcraft in Wichita – work on the AT-6 and T-6 programs for Beechcraft and its U.S. suppliers and partners.
So that’s another 1,400 American jobs lost. And it gets worse. By knocking Hawker Beechcraft out, the Pentagon has limited the “competition” to one company, a company that is not only not an American manufacturer, it’s a government-owned entity with ties to our enemies. The company is Embraer, which is controlled by the government of Brazil and has close ties to the government of Iran.
More here.

U.S. Economic Growth Is Revised Down to 2 Percent

So much for a recovery.

From the New York Times:
The United States economy grew at a slightly slower pace than previously estimated in the third quarter, but weak inventory accumulation amid sturdy consumer spending strengthened analysts’ views that output would pick up in the current quarter.

Gross domestic product grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said in its second estimate on Tuesday, down from the previously estimated 2.5 percent.

The revision was below economists’ expectations for a 2.5 percent growth pace. But the details of the G.D.P. report, especially data showing still-firm consumer spending and the first drop in businesses inventories since the fourth quarter of 2009, appeared to set the stage for a stronger economic performance this quarter.

Data so far suggest the fourth-quarter growth pace could exceed 3 percent, which would be the fastest in 18 months.

Despite the downward revision, last quarter’s growth is still a step up from the April-June period’s 1.3 percent pace. Part of the pick-up in output during the last quarter reflected a reversal of factors that held back growth earlier in the year.
You notice how the entire article is just bad news, lovingly described as good news.
Corporations have "weak inventory accumulation" which means "output would pick up in the current quarter."
Oh really? Couldn't it also mean that businesses have wisely assessed the situation and realized there is no reason to increase inventory, as they don't see sizable economic growth on the horizon?

But, this one is my favorite:
Despite the downward revision, last quarter’s growth is still a step up from the April-June period’s 1.3 percent pace. 
In other words, 2% might be bad, but you should be happy, because it's not as bad as 1.3%.

Got it? Yes, just make sure you've got it. Or else, Obama will be forced to bypass Congress and make damn sure you've got it.

UH-OH: SPAIN'S COST OF BORROWING NEARLY DOUBLES

THE EURO-CRISIS CONTINUES....

UH-OH: THE CHINESE REAL ESTATE CRASH IS HERE

WE'VE BEEN WARNING ABOUT THIS FOR AT LEAST A YEAR.

NOW THAT GLENN HAS A DOUBLE POST ON IT, IT'S OFFICIAL:

CHANGE: China Property Dip Sparks Bank Fears. “The number of property transactions in China’s largest cities has fallen to dangerously low levels, according to regulatory documents obtained by the Financial Times.”

UPDATE: Property Prices Collapse in China. Is This a Crash? “Residential property prices are in freefall in China as developers race to meet revenue targets for the year in a quickly deteriorating market. The country’s largest builders began discounting homes in Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen in recent weeks, and the trend has now spread to second- and third-tier cities such as Hangzhou, Hefei, and Chongqing.”

Muslim convert arrested for pipebomb plotting in NYC

It appears we have another case not unlike that of Jose Padilla. He was also under surveillance for 2 years (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):
(CNN) -- New York Police Department counterterrorism officials say they were first alerted to the activities of Jose Pimentel, accused of plotting to detonate pipe bombs in the city, about two-and-a-half years ago.

One official told CNN they were notified about Pimentel's activities by law enforcement sources in upstate New York in May 2009. By then, the official says, he was already "radicalized."

The NYPD used an informant to make contact with Pimentel, to befriend him and monitor his activities.

They wanted to get a sense of his intentions, to "wash him out," as the official put it.

Pimentel - a native of the Dominican Republic and a convert to Islam - was arraigned in New York Sunday. He faces five charges, including criminal possession of a weapon in the first degree as a crime of terrorism, and soliciting or providing support for an act of terrorism.

According to a senior counterterrorism source, Pimentel had expressed a desire to go to Yemen at some point in 2010, and sent an email to the al Qaeda cleric and propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a drone strike in September of this year. He did not receive a reply, the source said.

The official told CNN that Pimentel was prolific online - maintaining a website called True Islam.

A website called trueislam1.com which is mentioned in the criminal complaint against Pimintel includes tributes to well-known al Qaeda figures and other jihadist leaders.

Its introduction ends: "May Allah bless all the Muslims, may he give us victory over the disbelieving people, and may he guide all those non Muslims, who visit this site to Islam."

A YouTube channel (mujahidfisabillilah1's channel) that links to the website describes its owner as "a Sunni Muslim BROTHER [sic] from the Dominican Republic currently living in Harlem, New York. Allah has guided me out of darkness and into the light."

Pimentel was in touch and interacting with other Islamist radicals online and was aware of Revolution Muslim, a New York-based group sympathetic to the aims of al Qaeda, but was "not directly connected" to them, the official said.

Many apparantly like-minded individuals posted messages on his YouTube site in the last several months. A message posted on the site one day ago stated: "May Allah Reward you for all your efforts and hard work. Ameen."

Counterterrorism officials became alarmed about Pimentel's activities in September, when they "received indications that the suspect was going operational."

That was before al-Awlaki was killed.

In October, officials say, Pimentel's activities began to accelerate, when he began to acquire simple bomb-making materials. They say he began building his bomb in the apartment of the informant, rather than at his home, where he lived with his mother and grandmother.
More info about that horrific man here and here. But most disturbing is the news that the FBI refused to help investigate Pimentel (also via Jihad Watch):
The FBI did not pursue a case against an alleged al-Qaida sympathiser accused of plotting to blow up police and military personnel because it believed he was mentally unstable and incapable of pulling it off, officials said on Monday.

Investigators from the New York Police Department, which announced the arrest of Dominican-born US citizen Jose Pimentel, 27, at a press conference late on Sunday night, sought to involve the FBI at least twice.

But both times the FBI concluded he wasn't a serious threat, according to officials who spoke to the Associated Press.

Pimentel "didn't have the predisposition or the ability to do anything on his own," said one of the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity....

On a YouTube channel linked to him, Pimentel – who also goes by the name Muhammad Yusaf – he describes himself as a "Sunni Muslim brother" from the Dominican Republic living in Harlem, whose interests include "watching videos of YouTube, working out, reading and learning all aspects of the only true religion of all the prophets: Islam."
This is most extremely troubling, because what if Pimentel had succeeded in his plot? The FBI has a lot of explaining to do about why they neglected their duty to keep an eye on such a vicious character.

Monday, November 21, 2011

VIDEO: FARAGE TELLING LIKE IT IS, AGAIN: "THE EU IS DESTROYING EUROPE'S DEMOCRACIES": THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS NRO AND HOT AIR BY 3 DAYS

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD/BLOGROLL US/BOOKMARK US/FOLLOW US.

THE EUROPEANS ARE STILL TRAVELING DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM:

THE POLITBURO OF EUSSR HAS NOW INSTALLED NON-ELECTED ECB APPARATCHIKS TO LEAD PUPPET GOVERNMENTS IN 2 EU NATIONS, AND TOPPLED A THE GOVERNMENT OF A THIRD.

THIS IS NOT A SURPRISE TO THOSE OF US WHO WERE IRATE WHEN THE EUSSR UN-DEMOCRATICALLY SNUCK THE EU CONSTITUTION THROUGH THE BACK DOOR AFTER IT HAD BEEN REJECTED IN REFERENDA.

BECAUSE PROSPERITY IS A BY-PRODUCT OF LIBERTY, IF EUROPE WANTS TO PROSPER, THEN IT NEEDS TO UNWIND THE EUSSR.

Proof unions are part of the problem

RIGHT TO WORK STATES LAG IN GROWTH FOR THE LAST DECADE.

THE MORAL INVERSION OF THE OWSSCUM


THE OWSSCUM THINK THAT THE RICH AND THE CORPORATIONS -

(WHO ACTUALLY DON'T COERCE ANYONE TO BUY THEIR GOODS OR SERVICES, BUT WHO EARN THEIR INCOME BY PROVIDING PEOPLE THE GOODS AND SERVICES THEY WANT AT PRIES THEY LIKE) -

ARE NOT ENTITLED TO THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABORS OR FRUITS OF THEIR INVESTMENTS...

BUT...

THAT THE OWSSCUM IS ENTITLED TO USE COERCION TO INTIMIDATE THE GOVERNMENT INTO TAKING IT WAY FROM THE PEOPLE WHO EARNED IT SO THAT THE OWSSCUM CAN ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THE LABORS OF OTHERS.

THE REAL IMMORAL THUGS ARE THE OWSSCUM - AND THOSE ON THE LEFT WHO SUPPORT THEM.

WHICH MAKES THEM THE 35%, NOT THE 99%.

THANK GOD.

CONGRESS IS PATHETIC: 12 CITIZENS CHOSEN AT RANDOM WOULD'VE MADE A BUDGET DEAL

  • THE SUPER-COMMITTEE FAILED TO COME TO A DEAL TO CUT$120 BILLION OR 3% FROM THE ANNUAL BUDGET.
  • THE ANNUAL BUDGET HAS GROWN BY $800 BILLION OR 28% SINCE 2007, AND THESE TURDS ON THE SUPER-COMMITTEE COULDN'T FIND A WAY TO REDUCE THAT BY 15%.
  • WE REALLY NEED TO CUT THE BUDGET BY AT LEAST $500 BILLION ANNUALLY AND THESE COWARDS COULD EVEN CUT THE BUDGET BY 3%.
  • IF YOU HAD PICKED 12 PEOPLE AT RANDOM - 6 REGISTERED DEMOCRATS AND 6 REGISTERED REPUBLICANS AT RANDOM FROM VOTER ID ROLLS - AND TOLD EACH GROUP THAT THEY HAD A WEEK TO FIND 1.5% CUTS, THEN THEY WOULD'VE SUCCEEDED.
WHY DID THESE COWARDLY TURDS FAIL?

BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS INSISTED ON RAISING TAXES DURING A RECESSION - EVEN THOUGH IT WAS UNNECESSARY TO REACH THE $120 BILLION/YEAR TARGET.

AND THEY DEMANDED HIGHER TAXES DESPITE THE FACT - THAT'S RIGHT, THE FACT THAT THE CURRENT TAX RATES RAISED THE HIGHEST AMOUNT OF REVENUES EVER RAISED IN USA HISTORY DURING 2007.

WE HAVE A DEFICIT BECAUSE THE ECONOMY IS TOO SMALL, NOT BECAUSE TAX RATES ARE TOO LOW.

IF THE ECONOMY WAS LARGER AND THE BUDGET SMALLER THEN THERE'D BE NO DEFICIT.

RAISING TAXES WILL NOT MAKE THE ECONOMY LARGER.

AND SENDING MORE MONEY TO WASHINGTON SO CORRUPT CAREER POLITICIANS CAN SPEND IT WILL NOT MAKE THE ECONOMY LARGER, EITHER.

THE ABSOLUTE BEST WAY TO GROW THE ECONOMY AND REDUCE THE DEFICIT IS TO THROW THE DEMOCRATS OUT OF OFFICE.

TOO BAD WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 2012.

I HOPE WE MAKE IT TO 2012...

IS OBAMA STONED MOST OF THE TIME?

JUST ASKING...

BECAUSE HE ALWAYS SEEMS LIKE HE IS REALLY OUT OF IT!


AND HE'S SEEMS LIKE HE'S ALWAYS BLAMING THE GOP
FOR BRINGING HIM DOWN...


MAYBE IF OBAMA WASN'T PLAYING GOLF HALF THE TIME
AND STONED THE OTHER HALF,
THEN HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO BECOME A REAL LEADER...

BUT HE IS NOT A LEADER AT ALL:

OBAMA'S ENTIRE PERSONAL POLITICAL STYLE IS "LEADING FROM BEHIND" -

WHICH IS A EUPHEMISM FOR (1) NOT LEADING - (BUT INSTEAD VOTING PRESENT AND DITHERING),

AND THEN (2) THINKING THAT HE CAN TAKE CREDIT IF THE FOLKS DOING THE HARD WORK SUCCEED OR BLAME OTHERS IT THEY FAIL.

THIS IS CLASSIC NARCISSISTIC PATHOLOGY.

THE TROUBLE IS: WHILE HE DITHERS, WE SUFFER!

RON PAUL STILL HOLDING TO BLAME-AMERICA POSITION


In this MRC video on Breitbart, demagogue Ron Paul continues to go the blame-America route. He tries to be clever by saying it was "flawed US policies" that led to 9-11, but only succeeds in keeping upon the same blame-the-victim path. While on the page featuring this video, I also came across this older post from Ace of Spades HQ, which discussed how Paul came up with trivial questions about why didn't we ask Pakistan to arrest bin Laden. And, Ace has an opinion that I share too:
Ron Paul draws particular venom from people like me because what he says is exactly what the leftists say. They do the same thing. The exact same thing. When there's a controversial use of force -- and the use of force is almost always controversial, as it should be -- they begin the discussion from the point of view that any and all uses of American might are illegitimate, and that there are -- always, no exceptions -- peaceful options that could have achieved the same results.
Well said. Ron Paul is no different from many leftists on foreign policy, and as noted earlier, any support or bland tolerance of the destruction OWS has caused is another reason to be concerned about him. And if he decides to run as a third-partier, he'll really be doing all he can to damage the right he was never truly a part of.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

OBAMA SHOULD ANNOUNCE HE WON'T SEEK A 2ND TERM: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS CADDELL AND SCHOEN BY 3 MONTHS

I EVEN USED THE TRUMAN ANALOGY BEFORE THEM:

POLLSTERS TONIGHT:
President Obama should abandon his run for a second term and turn over the reins of the Democratic Party to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two one-time Democratic pollsters wrote in Monday's Wall Street Journal, which appeared online Sunday.

Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen argued that just as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson decided not to pursue additional runs though they could have, Obama should do the same.
FOR HIS PARTY AND NATION, TRUMAN DECIDED NOT TO RUN FOR A SECOND FULL TERM.

I PRAY OBAMA DOES THE SAME - AND ANNOUNCES IT SOON - AT LATEST BEFORE THANKSGIVING.

IT MIGHT BE THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE THE CHRISTMAS RETAIL SEASON, AND THE US ECONOMY...
I HOPE THIS NATION SURVIVES UNTIL 2012 SO WE CAN GET RID OF THIS BUM!

THE BEST WAY TO ENSURE WE DO MAKE IT TO THE NEXT ELECTION IS FOR OBAMA TO RESIGN OR ANNOUNCE HE WON'T SEEK A SECOND TERM.

My fellow Americans:

The problems we face now here at home and across the globe are in a critical stage. Partisan politics have no place in times like this. And neither do personal agendas.

As it has in the past, the entire world is looking to the United States of America to lead humanity back from the brink of global war and darkness and into the fields of light, peace, and prosperity.

American presidents have always borne this responsibility with humility and courage. And by drawing inspiration from those who have served before me, I have tried to meet these challenges with the same determination and optimism.

But these are different times.

Heightened partisanship and a non-stop 24 hour news cycle dominated by "gotcha" yellow journalism has made statesmanship more difficult than ever - despite the world needing it more than ever.

Partisan posturing has become especially pernicious recently, as we have entered an election cycle. Now, the bipartisan compromises and non-partisan strategies we most need are all but impossible.

I see only one way to erase the partisan divide which is preventing the effective actions our nation - and the world - are crying out for.

And that is why tonight I am announcing that I will not seek a second term.

By removing myself from the partisan political equation I hope to elevate the debate, remove the biggest stumbling block to national unity, and bring the full force of this great and united nation back together again so that together we can meet the challenges we now face.

I could do no less. Personal ambition is meaningless compared to advancing the cause of liberty and prosperity and to protecting the American Dream.

It has been my honor to lead the Democrat party the last three years. I pass that responsibility to others. From this day forward, I have only one job. It is not personal or political. It transcends politics. It is purely humanitarian.

I am sure with this new non-political and non-personal approach members of Congress and I will rise to the occasion - in unified action, as the Congress and past presidents have always done since our nation's founding.

Now, we have one job to do - together: Bind the nation's wounds and roll up our sleeves.

I look forward to it with all my heart, with what wisdom God has given me, and with the courage I get from your support and prayers.

Thank You.

And God Bless America.

THE FAILURE OF THE SUPER-COMMITTEE GIVES HIM THE PERFECT EXCUSE TO GIVE THIS SPEECH.

CHE WASN'T A FREEDOM-FIGHTER, AND NEITHER ARE THE OWS SCUM

MOST OIL IS ABIOTIC...

AND THE TERM EUPHEMISM "FOSSIL FUEL" IS BS.

DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT 5 MILES BENEATH THE OCEAN - DEEP BENEATH 4 MILES OF OIL-FREE ROCK, THROUGH MILES OF GAS FREE ROCK - A POCKET OF OIL IS THE RESULT OF SEDIMENTED PLANKTON (WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN OCEAN-WIDE) OR MASSES OF DEAD DINOSAURS?

IT'S RUBBISH, A VESTIGE OF THE FACT THAT PRE-INDUSTRIAL OIL WAS FROM WHALES - SO WHEN THEY FOUND OIL UNDER GROUND THEY ASSUMED IT HAD TO BE FROM ANCIENT "WHALES", OR FOSSILS.

SURE: SOME OIL AND GAS IS BIOTIC. BUT MOST IS ABIOTIC: A BY=PRODUCT OF THE DYNAMIC GEOLOGY IN THE CORE OF THE EARTH.

WHY DOES THE BS ABOUT FOSSIL FUELS PERSIST?

BECAUSE THE MYTH IS NECESSARY FOR THE LEFT:

THEY CAN'T CLAIM THAT WE'RE GONNA RUN OUT OF OIL UNLESS IT COMES FROM A FINITE SOURCE.



SPAIN'S CONSERVATIVES DOMINATE IN BIGGEST WIN IN 36 YEARS!

SPANIARDS REALIZE THAT THE SOCIALISTIC POLICIES OF THE LAST 7 YEARS HAVE WRECKED THE ECONOMY, AND THEY ARE TURNING RIGHT.

IN 2012, SO SHOULD WE!

MORE HERE.

RUSSIAN WARSHIPS HEADING TO EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN TO PROTECT ASSAD

Russian warships are due to arrive at Syrian territorial waters, a Syrian news agency said on Thursday, indicating that the move represented a clear message to the West that Moscow would resist any foreign intervention in the country's civil unrest.
RUSSIA IS AN ENEMY: THEY PROTECT IRAN AND SYRIA. AND NORTH KOREA,

IF WE WANT TO FORGE A SAFER FUTURE, THEN WE NEED TO ISOLATE RUSSIA AND MINIMIZE RUSSIA. THAT INCLUDES WEANING EUROPE OFF OF RUSSIAN ENERGY.

WE CAN DO THIS BY BECOMING AN EXPORTER OF LNG.

THAT MEANS AGGRESSIVELY EXPLOITING OUR NATURAL GAS RESERVES.

TO DO THAT WE NEED TO GET RID OF OBAMA AND THE DEMS - WHOSE CO2PHOBIC POLICIES AID RUSSIA AND OPEC.