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

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Caption contest: Haniyeh , Meshal, and Abbas in Mecca


WHO IS MORE OF A RINO, MITT OR NEWT?

LET'S LOOK AT THE RECORD:
  • MITT NEVER DID A TV COMMERCIAL WITH ANY DEM, BUT NEWT DID ONE WITH PELOSI SUPPORTING GLOBAL WARMING.
  • MITT RAN AGAINST TEDDY JO KENNEDY.
  • MITT NEVER PLAYED FOOTSY WITH AL SHARPTON, BUT NEWT DID - STILL DOES.
  • MITT DIDN'T ENDORSE SCOZZAFAVA, NEWT DID.
  • MITT WAS AMONG THE VERY FIRST TO ENDORSE RUBIO; NEWT WASN'T.
  • MITT WAS AMONG THE FIRST TO ENDORSE AYOTTE, BUT NEWT WASN'T.
  • MITT MADE MANY CAMPAIGN APPEARANCES WITH PALIN IN 2008, BUT NEWT DIDN'T.
  • MITT NEVER WORKED FOR FREDDIE MAC, BUT NEWT DID.
  • MITT NEVER WAS A LOBBYIST, BUT NEWT WAS.
  • MITT NEVER ATTACKED THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM , CAPITALISM, OR PEOPLE WHO WORKED HARD AND BECAME SELF-MADE MILLIONAIRES, BUT NEWT HAS.
  • NEWT IS MORE OF A RINO THAN MITT.
THERE ARE MORE REASONS MITT WOULD MAKE A FINE CONSERVATIVE STANDARD-BEARER AND A BETTER CANDIDATE TO DEFEAT OBAMA:
  • MITT IS PRO-LIFE, PRO-TAX CUTS, PRO-SPENDING CUTS, ANTI-DEFENSE CUTS, AN UNAMBIGUOUS SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL AND HAS PROMISED TO REPEAL OBAMACARE AND DODD-FRANK.
  • THE FACT THAT MITT PASSED A STATE HEALTHCARE REFORM MEANS THE LEFT CAN'T USE MEDISCARE AND HE CANNOT BE TARRED AS AN UN-CARING RETHUGLICAN WHO WANTS TO KEEP POOR PEOPLE FROM GETTING HEALTHCARE.
  • ON TOP OF THAT, THE ETHICALLY CHALLENGED SERIAL ADULTERER'S NEGATIVES ARE HORRENDOUSLY HIGH AND HE CANNOT BEAT OBAMA.
MITT IS NO ADULTERER, NO APPEASER AND NO RINO.

YOU CAN'T SAY THAT NEWT. HE IS A SERIAL ADULTERER WHO APPEASED PELOSI AND SHARPTON AND ARAFAT AND WORKED FOR FREDDIE MAC AND LOBBIED FOR OTHERS.

NEWT IS MORE OF A RINO THAN MITT. HE'S A WELL KNOWN QUANTITY BY THE ELECTORATE AND THEY DON'T LIKE HIM.

NEWT WOULD LOSE AGAINST OBAMA.

WILL 68 YEAR OLD, OVERWEIGHT NEWT RELEASE HIS MEDICAL RECORDS?

JUST ASKING.

ON ACCOUNT OF THE FACT THAT HE DOESN'T LOOK FIT OR HEALTHY.

Who made the most campaign visits in SC? Santorum!

Since June: Santorum made 58 campaign visits; Newt 51; Mitt 24.
In the last 30 days: Santorum 31; Newt 28; Mitt 14.


LOOKS LIKE TO ME THAT MITT GOT THE MOST BANG FOR HIS BUCK. AND SANTORUM THE WORST RETURN N HIS INVESTMENT.


I PRAY MITT WINS FLORIDA.


I THINK IT COMES DOWN TO WHETHER RUBIO ENDORSES HIM.

ISLAMISTS CONTROL 70% OF EGYPT'S PARLIAMENT: THANK YOU, BARRY!

Barry Soetoro's Middle East strategy is working:
CAIRO (AP) — Final results on Saturday showed that Islamist parties won nearly three-quarters of the seats in parliament in Egypt's first elections since the ouster of authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak, according to election officials and political groups.The Islamist domination of Egypt's parliament has worried liberals and even some conservatives about the religious tone of the new legislature, which will be tasked with forming a committee to write a new constitution. Overseeing the process will be the country's Mubarak-era military generals, who are still in charge. 
In the vote for the lower house of parliament, a coalition led by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood won 47 percent, or 235 seats in the 498-seat parliament. The ultraconservative Al-Nour Party was second with 25 percent, or 125 seats.
Referring to the Brotherhood and the Al-Nour Party as "conservative" or "ultra-conservative" is of course nonsense. They are not "conservative" parties, they are radical, revolutionary Islamists who want to up-end the 21st century and return Egypt to the 7th.

CBS EXIT POLL DATE TO BE RELEASED AT 7PM


The exit poll data showed that South Carolina voters overwhelmingly cited the economy as the most important issue, with 61 percent citing it. (The economy was the top issue in Iowa and New Hampshire as well.) It was followed by the federal budget deficit (23 percent), abortion (8 percent) and health care (4 percent). Seventy-eight percent of voters in South Carolina, where the unemployment rate is 9.9 percent, said they are "very" worried about the nation's economy. 
As in Iowa and New Hampshire, South Carolina Republican voters cited electability as the most important quality in a candidate. Forty-five percent say it's most important that they have a candidate who can defeat Barack Obama in a general election, while 21 percent are most concerned someone with the right experience, 17 percent they have strong character, and 14 percent they are a true conservative. 
Asked which candidate ran the most unfair campaign, 30 percent pointed to Romney, 26 percent to Gingrich and 14 percent to Paul. 
CBS News will release full exit poll data when the polls close at 7:00 p.m. Eastern
MITT IS THE BEST ON THE ECONOMY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE BUDGET AND EXPERIENCE AND CHARACTER.

SO HE SHOULD HAVE WON.

BUT PEOPLE LIKED NEWT'S PUGNACITY - IN PART BECAUSE IT MIRRORS AND REINFORCES THEIR OWN ANGER.

AND NEWT'S A SOUTHERNER - LIKE THEM.

FLORIDA WILL TELL US MORE.

IF NEWT WINS SC, IT AIN'T NEWS; IT'S MERELY AS EXPECTED - FOR MONTHS!

IF NEWT WINS SC, IT'S NOT AN UPSET - NEWT LED IN SC FOR MONTHS.

MITT MERELY TEMPORARILY TOOK THE LEAD AFTER IOWA AND NH, BUT NEWT LED BEFORE THAT - AND AFTER.

WHAT WE HAVE IN THE RACE NOW IS TOTALLY AS EXPECTED:
  • THE RELIGIOUSLY RIGHT GUY WON IOWA (SANTORUM THIS TIME AS IT WAS HUCKABEE LAST TIME); 
  • THE LOCAL FAV WON NH, 
  • AND THE LOCAL FAV IS WINNING SC.
FLORIDA WILL; TELL US WHO WILL GET THE NOMINATION.


HERE ARE THE POLLS FROM THE LAST FEW MONTHS VIA RCP:
RCP Average 1/18 - 1/20 -- -- 33.5 28.5 13.8 11.8 2.5 Gingrich +5.0
PPP (D) 1/18 - 1/20 1450 LV 2.5 37 28 14 16 -- Gingrich +9
Clemson Palmetto Poll 1/18 - 1/19 429 LV 4.7 32 26 11 9 -- Gingrich +6
PPP (D) 1/18 - 1/19 836 LV 3.4 35 29 15 15 -- Gingrich +6
Insider Advantage 1/18 - 1/18 718 LV 3.6 32 29 15 11 3 Gingrich +3
Rasmussen Reports 1/18 - 1/18 750 LV 4.0 33 31 15 11 2 Gingrich +2
PPP (D) 1/18 - 1/18 379 LV 5.0 34 28 15 14 5 Gingrich +6

Politico/Tarrance (R) 1/17 - 1/18 600 LV 4.1 30 37 11 10 4 Romney +7
NBC News/Marist 1/16 - 1/17 684 LV 3.8 24 34 16 14 4 Romney +10
Rasmussen Reports 1/16 - 1/16 750 LV 4.0 21 35 16 16 5 Romney +14
CNN/Time 1/13 - 1/17 505 LV 4.5 23 33 13 16 6 Romney +10
Insider Advantage 1/15 - 1/15 720 LV 3.6 21 32 14 13 5 Romney +11
Monmouth University 1/12 - 1/15 963 LV 3.2 22 33 12 14 6 Romney +11
PPP (D) 1/11 - 1/13 803 LV 3.5 24 29 15 14 6 Romney +5
Rasmussen Reports 1/12 - 1/12 750 LV 4.0 21 28 16 16 6 Romney +7
Insider Advantage 1/11 - 1/11 726 LV 3.6 21 23 13 14 5 Romney +2
PPP (D) 1/5 - 1/7 1112 LV 2.9 23 30 9 19 5 Romney +7
Rasmussen Reports 1/5 - 1/5 750 LV 4.0 18 27 11 24 5 Romney +3
CNN/Time 1/4 - 1/5 485 LV 4.5 18 37 12 19 5 Romney +18
Insider Advantage 12/18 - 12/18 736 LV 3.0 31 19 7 4 5 Gingrich +12
Clemson Palmetto Poll 12/6 - 12/19 600 LV 4.5 38 21 10 2 5 Gingrich +17
NBC News/Marist 12/4 - 12/6 635 LV 3.9 42 23 9 2 7 Gingrich +19
CNN/Time 11/29 - 12/6 510 LV 4.5 43 20 6 4 8 Gingrich +23
Winthrop 11/27 - 12/4 LV 5.4 38 22 4 3 9 Gingrich +16


FACTS:


  1. GINGRICH IS A SOUTHERNER WINNING IN THE SOUTH.
  2. HE DID WORSE THAN SANTORUM IN THE MIDWEST AND THE NORTHEAST.
  3. MITT DOES WELL EVERYWHERE.

KUDLOW: "NEWT DOESN'T PASS THE SMELL TEST FOR CAPITALISM"

On his Saturday radio show on WABC in New York City, host of CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report” Larry Kudlow voiced his displeasure with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich attacking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s association with Bain Capital.  
At the tail-end of his show in a panel format with Wall Street Journal senior economics writer Steve Moore, Real Clear Politics editor and founder John McIntyre, and American Enterprise Institute economic columnist James Pethokoukis, Kudlow charged Gingrich did not pass the free-market capitalism test. 
 “Jimmy [Pethokoukis], I don’t care whether Newt wins in South Carolina or not,” Kudlow said. “He’s not going to get the nomination and I don’t even think he’s a capitalist. He’s still pecking away as he did in the last debate with this left-wing stuff. He’s saying that, ‘You know Bain Capital — it wasn’t a venture capitalist fund. It was a bad private equity fund.’ I’m sorry. He doesn’t pass the smell test for capitalism.”
DON'T VOTE NEWT!

A VOTE FOR NEWT IS A VOTE FOR OBAMA AND THE OWS SCUM.

FOUR BY VILLA LOBOS

NEWT'S STRATEGERY: MISDIRECTION

INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH THE FACTS - THAT HE IS A SERIAL ADULTERER - WHO WAS REVILED BY HIS FELLOW GOP CONGRESSMEN AND FINED $300,000 BY THEM FOR ETHICAL VIOLATIONS - NEWT ATTACKS THE MEDIA AND OBAMA.



DON'T BE DUPED.

HERE ARE SOME POSSIBLE RUNNING MATES FOR NEWT

GINGRICH-SCOZZAFAVA



GINGRICH-SHARPTON



GINGRICH-PELOSI



GINGRICH-ARAFAT


UPDATE: OVER AT PJM, THEY ASKED READERS WHO MIGHT BE THE BEST VEEP FOR NEWT: HERE IS ONE OF THE COMMENTS:


I’d pay good money to watch Newt Gingrich debate Newt Gingrich. I’d even pay to watch the next day after the Gingrich v. Gingrich debate when Newt Gingrich complain about Newt Gingrich and how he really won the debate and how “frankly he’s disappointed” that we could see it any other way.
Sidebar: You know what cracks me up about South Carolina? It’s how the guy who has always dogged by a slander of polygamy was just beat by a guy who actually had three wives. Not all at once of course, but what was once an automatic disqualification has now become a career advancement and a way to get your message out by having your ex-wife campaign against you. End Sidebar
Now to your question,”Who would be Newt Gingrich’s VP?”
I believe we can apply the following filter to that problem:
1. Cant be anyone he’s ever worked with or knows him personally(no one in this category will return his calls today.)
2. Cant be anyone who actually wants to accomplish anything in politics.
3. Cant be anyone with a sense of personal shame.
4. Cant be anyone with anything else to do or desire to do anything ever again.
There is one man who fits this filter, but Vice President Biden has already pledged himself to the Obama campaign.

THE PHOTO NEWT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE

ESPECIALLY JEWS IN FLORIDA:



A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS.

THERE'S NOT A SINGLE PHOTO LIKE THIS OF DUBYA OR SANTORUM OR RUDY OR MITT ROMNEY.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS: IN 1994 NEWT URGED CLINTON TO VETO A BILL RECOGNIZING JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.


UPDATE: THIS PHOTO IS ANOTHER ONE NEWT WOULD LIKE YOU TO SKIP:


NEWT'S AN UNTRUSTWORTHY SLEAZY SLIME-BALL.

COULD DEMINT REALLY WANT THE PARTY TO NOMINATE A SERIAL ADULTERER WHO WAS A REVILED LEADER IN THE HOUSE WHO WAS FINED $300,000 BY THE ETHICS COMMITTEE AND WORKED FOR FREDDIE MAC?

I FIND IT MIND-BOGGLING THAT CONSERVATIVES LIKE PALIN AND DEMINT COULD REALLY SUPPORT NEWT.

IT'S AS IF MORALITY AND LEADERSHIP QUALITIES WERE NO LONGER IMPORTANT,  ONLY THE ABILITY TO TOSS RAW MEAT AT THE BASE.

IT'S SICKENING.

NOMINATING NEWT MEANS OBAMA WIN IN NOVEMBER.

REMEMBER THIS FACT: RINOS DID NOT HAND OBAMA THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2008.

CONSERVATIVES WHO STAYED HOME DID.

NEWT MIGHT GET THEIR VOTES, BUT HE WILL GET ZERO MODERATES AND INDEPENDENTS - AND THEY ARE THE SEGMENT THAT WILL DECIDE THE ELECTION.

MESHAL OUT AT HAMAS - WHICH MEANS THEY ARE ABOUT BECOME EVEN MORE VIOLENT

Hamas officially announces Khaled Meshal to step down 
Political leader to leave post after 16 years; tensions have been rising between Hamas leaders in Gaza and those abroad. 
Meshal was trying to change Hamas' struggle strategy and lead it to an historic reconciliation with Fatah, while concentrating its energies on an Arab Spring-type struggle. Haniyeh, meanwhile, is sticking to his former stance, demanding to close ranks with Islamic Jihad.
THIS HERALDS A NEW WAVE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST ISRAEL - PROBABLY IN COORDINATION WITH THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN EGYPT AND VIA SINAI.

AND PROBABLY A VIOLENT ANTI-FATAH STRUGGLE IN THE SO-CALLED WEST BANK.

STAY TUNED...

ISLAMIST BOMBS KILL HUNDREDS IN NIGERIA

AWFUL.

SINCE BARACK HUSSEIN HAS BECOME POTUS, VIOLENT ISLAMISM HAS SPREAD MORE THAN EVER.

IT'S BEEN GROWING SO CONSISTENTLY IT'S HARD TO SEE IT AS A RESULT OF INCOMPETENCE.

NEWT WOULD BE A DISASTER IN NOVEMBER


I find it most informative that Rick Santorum and Susan Molinari - ONE A VERY CONSERVATIVE MAN AND THE THE A MODERATE WOMAN - have nearly identical views on Newt: that he is an unreliable, erratic, unstable man who was a disastrous leader. 

The fact that Newt has extremely few endorsements from any former colleagues in the House buttresses this point.

On top of that he's an egomaniac: today he said he might win a shockingly big win in SC. REALLY!?!?!

The fact is he has led in SC for most of the last several months. Mitt surged after Iowa and NH, but it was short-lasted. --- which is typical.

You never heard Mitt call his win in NH "shockingly huge" because Mitt has a healthy ego, not a gargantuan GRANDIOSE one.

And another thing I find INSANE - maybe a sign of mass hysteria in SC: Newt the serial adulterer was given an STANDING OVATION, and Mitt - the self-made millionaire was BOOED for paying all his taxes.

Insane. The GOP in SC has become pro-adultery and anti low taxes!?!?!?

BOTTOM-LINE:

RINO's did not lose us the White House in 2008; conservatives who stayed home did. It seems to me that conservatives are not only shooting themselves in the foot by endorsing serial adulterers and erratic egomaniacs like Newt, they are hurting the whole party:

Prolonging the contest is only driving up the negatives of all the GOP contenders, as Obama's decline.

OH: All polls consistently show that Newt has negatives that are gargantuan - like his ego. Worse than Hillary's.

Newt would be a disaster in November.

(ADDENDUM: IF HE GETS THE NOMINATION, THEN I BLAME PALIN - WHO I HAD ADMIRED GREATLY. HOW COULD SHE ENDORSE THIS IMMORAL SLIMEBALL!?!?!?)

IRANIAN ASSASSINATED IN TEXAS? THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT BY 4 DAYS

Friday, January 20, 2012

GINGRICH, LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS

NEWT KEEPS SAYING HE WILL CHALLENGE OBAMA TO A SERIES OF LINCOLN-DOUGLAS STYLE DEBATES AND DEMOLISH HIM, AND WIN THE ELECTION.

IF LAST NIGHT WAS ANY INDICATION, THEN MAYBE THIS COULD WORK.

NEWT DEBATED WELL LAST NIGHT AND THREW A LOT OF RED MEAT AT THE CROWD  - WHO ATE IT UP, AND NOW HE LEADS IN THE SC POLLS.

WHICH SORT OF MEANS THAT NEWT IS DOING WELL BECAUSE HE'S A MASTER DEBATER.

IS THAT WHAT WE REALLY NEED IN THE OVAL OFFICE?

OY: LOOKS LIKE NEWT'S GONNA WIN AND EXTEND GOP IN-FIGHTING AND MUD-SLINGING ANOTHER TWO MONTHS!

ALL THIS WILL ACCOMPLISH IS DRIVING THE GOP'S NUMBERS DOWN AND OBAMA 'S UP.

  • THANKS TO SARAH PALIN AND CONSERVATIVES LIKE HER WHO NO LONGER SEEM TO HAVE ANY PROBLEMS ENDORSING A SERIAL ADULTERER - ONE WHO GAVE THE FINGER TO THE TEA PARTY WHEN HE ENDORSED SCOZZAFAVA.
  • AND THANKS TO A CONSERVATIVE BASE THAT SOUNDS MORE LIKE THE ANTI-CAPITALIST BOLSHEVIKS OF THE OWS THAN FREE-MARKETEERS.

IT'S INSANE.

AND IT HELPS OBAMA.

SIGH.

HERE'S THE PERFECT VEEP FOR NEWT: GINGRICH-SCOZZAFAVA!

YEAH, THAT'S THE TICKET! HEH.



A REMINDER NEWT IS UNRELIABLE. AND NOT AN OUTSIDER.

AND ANOTHER THING:

ROMNEY WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO BACK RUBIO. AND AYOTTE. AND HALEY. HE HAS BEEN RELIABLE FOR THE RIGHT THAN NEWT.

GALLERY: OBAMA COMBINES THE WORST ELEMENTS OF ALL THE ICONS OF THE AMERICAN LEFT:

THIS IS AS TRUE NOW AS WHEN I FIRST POSTED THIS IN 2008 - BEFORE THE ELECTION:



What kind of politician would you get if you patched together ... 


... the energy policies of Carter... 


... with the tax policies of Mondale... 


... with the foreign policies of Kucinich... 


... with the constancy of principles on issues of Kerry... 


... with the veracity of Clinton... 


... with the national defense policy of Henry Wallace... 


and the demagogic populism of Huey Long?

You'd get... 


BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. 
AND THE RESULTS OF AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY WOULD BE MONTROUS!
I WAS EXACTLY RIGHT. SIGH.

FAST AND FURIOUS: ONE DOWN, AND TWO TO GO!

DESPITE THE DENIALS...



THE FAST AND FURIOUS SCANDAL IS HEATING UP...





AND TWO TO GO:



YEAH, BABY!

QUESTION: HOW DOES RAISING TAXES ON PEOPLE RICHER THAN ME HELP ME!?!

I just don't get the basic premise of the left that the rich have to pay more taxes because they don't pay enough.

They already pay the most.

And if they paid a little more, what would that change? Not much. If the government took all the money away from all the rich people it would even balance the budget next year.

And how would it help me? I would take home more of what I earn. It wouldn't improve my life one bit.

So why do leftists make this appeal?

Because many people are envious and covet the property of people richer than they are. And many more are susceptible to envy and covetousness.

Envy and covetousness are sins.

And each person is entitled to keep the fruits of his own labor and not have it taken away. That's a basic human right - given to us by the Creator, not by government.

SO... What kind of people seek to make gains by seducing other people into sinfulness?

Evil people.

And what kind of people seek to use this collective power expand the coercive power of the state in order to take away even more of  the private property earned by other people?

Socialists.

Obama and his comrades are EVIL SOCIALISTS who exploit people's susceptibility to envy in order to take more property away from those who sweat for it so they can give it to their cronies.

This actually hurts me because it slows economic growth, and economic growth is probably the thing that can most help me earn more for myself.

OBAMA: BAD AND WRONG.

JUST LIKE I PREDICTED: OBAMA PLANNING TO USE BIRTH CONTROL AS A WEDGE ISSUE

AT THE JANUARY 7TH DEBATE HOSTED BY ABC, STEPHANOPOULAS ASKED MITT ROMNEY ABOUT CONTRACEPTIVES.

ROMNEY WAS FLABBERGASTED.

BUT I IMMEDIATELY UNDERSTOOD WHY THEY ASKED THEY QUESTION, AND I MADE THIS JPEG TO ILLUSTRATE IT:


Obama Reaffirms Insurers Must Cover Contraception

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that health insurance plans must cover contraceptives for women without charge, and it rejected a broad exemption sought by the Roman Catholic Church for insurance provided to employees of Catholic hospitals, colleges and charities. 
But the administration said it would give some employers affiliated with churches an extra year to comply, meaning that coverage would not begin for their employees until well after the 2012 elections. 
Church leaders had personally appealed to President Obama to grant the exemption, and he made the final decision on the issue after hearing all points of view, administration officials said.
POPE OBAMA HAS DECREED IT SO!

AND IF YOU DISAGREE, THEN YOU ARE GONNA BE LABELED A NEOCON WHO GOING TO TAKE PEOPLE'S CONTRACEPTIVES AWAY!

THE FACT THAT STEPHANOPOULAS ASKED THE QUESTION PROVES THAT THE LEGACY MEDIA IS IN CAHOOTS WITH THE OBAMA MACHINE.

HECK: THEY'RE A PART OF THE VERY CORE OF IT.

NOW, I GOTTA QUESTION FOR OBAMA AND THE LEFT:

WHEN OBAMA DECREES BY FIAT WHAT CHURCHES MUST DO, ISN'T HE VIOLATING THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?

YES: HE IS.

THIS SCOTUS DECISION INDICATES TO ME THAT THIS COURT WILL REAFFIRM THIS SEPARATION.

NEWT'S NEGATIVES ARE STUNNING

CHUDI: 

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/america-hates-newt-gingrich/326161  
Not every poll releases their full results, so here are the most recent favorability results I could find for Obama, Romney, and Newt. 
Fox News, 1/12-1/14:
Obama, fav/unfav, 51%/46%, +5
Romney, fav/unfav, 45%/38%, +7
Gingrich, fav/unfav, 27%/56%, -29  
CBS/NYT, 1/12-1/17:
Obama, fav/unfav, 38%/45%, -7
Romney, fav/unfav, 21%/35%, -14
Gingrich, fav/unfav, 17%/49%, -32 
PPP, 1/13-1/17:
Obama, app/dis, 47%/50%, -3
Romney, fav/unfav, 35%/53%, -18
Gingrich, fav/unfav, 26%/60%, -34 
GINGRICH HAS WORSE NEGATIVES THAN HILLARY AND PALIN.

HE IS UNELECTABLE.

SUNUNU: NEWT SHOULD RELEASE THE CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS INVESTIGATION REPORT WHICH LED TO HIM BEING FINED $300,000

SUNUNU IS AWESOME:

NEROBAMA SINGS AS AMERICA'S ECONOMY BURNS

VIDEO HERE.

DOJ CHIEF TAKING THE FIFTH!?!?


The chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona is refusing to testify before Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious, the federal gun-running scandal that sent U.S. weapons to Mexico.Patrick J. Cunningham informed the House Oversight Committee late Thursday through his attorney that he will use the Fifth Amendment protection. 
Cunningham was ordered Wednesday to appear before Chairman Darrell Issa and the House Oversight Committee regarding his role in the operation that sent more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa Cartel. Guns from the failed operation were found at the murder scene of Border Agent Brian Terry. 
January 25, 2011: A cache of seized weapons used in the ATF gun-running operation 'Fast and Furious' is displayed at a news conference in Phoenix. 
The letter from Cunningham’s Washington DC attorney stunned congressional staff. Last week, Cunningham, the second highest ranking U.S. Attorney in Arizona, was scheduled to appear before Issa‘s committee voluntarily. Then, he declined and Issa issued a subpoena. 
Cunningham is represented by Tobin Romero of Williams and Connolly who is a specialist in white collar crime.
HOLDER AND OBAMA SHOULD HIRE THE SAME LAWYER.

PREDICTION: IF OBAMA IS RE-ELECTED HE WILL BE IMPEACHED AND CONVICTED AND REMOVED FROM OFFICE.

OBAMA IGNORING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF HIS OWN COMMISSIONS

HE IS IGNORING THE JOBS COMMISSION JUST LIKE HE IGNORED THE SIMPSON-BOWLES COMMISSION.

OBAMA DOESN'T WANT TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.

AND OBAMA DOESN'T WANT BI-PARTISAN SOLUTIONS.

WHY!?!?!?!?!?

BECAUSE WHAT HE REALLY WANTS IS TO "TRANSFORM" AMERICA.

SANTORUM: NEWT UNFIT TO BE POTUS

I THINK THE TRULY MOST IMPORTANT DAMAGING MOMENT OF THE NIGHT CAME WHEN RICK SANTORUM EXPLAINED HOW NEWT WAS A LOUSY LEADER WHEN HE WAS SPEAKER.


THIS COMPLETELY CORROBORATED SUSAN MOLINARI'S DESCRIPTION OF NEWT  - ONE WHICH MANY ON THE EXTREME RIGHT POOH-POOHED ON THE BASIS OF THE FACT THAT MOLINARI IS A MODERATE  REPUBLICAN.


SANTORUM IS NOT A MODERATE AND HE AGREES: 


NEWT IS A LOUSY LEADER WHO  IS UNRELIABLE, ERRATIC AND SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED WITH THE OVAL OFFICE.






 HERE'S RICK CORROBORATING MOLINARI: SANTORUM: 
I will give Newt Gingrich his due on grandiose ideas and grandiose projects. I will not give him his -- his -- his due on executing those projects, which is exactly what the president of the United States is supposed to do. Four years into his speakership, he was thrown out by the conservatives. It was a coup against him in three. I served with him. I was there. I knew what the problems were going on in the House of Representatives when Newt Gingrich was leading this -- leading there. It was an idea a minute, no discipline, no ability to be able to pull things together.
HERE'S ROMNEY'S RESPONSE - WHICH IS THINK WAS GREAT: 

 KING: Governor Romney, you're raising your hand to come in the conversation. I want to let you in on the conversation, but also, as I do, you put an ad on the air paid by your campaign, not one of the super PAC ads, calling the Speaker an unreliable leader. Why?

 ROMNEY:
Well, let me go back and address first what you just heard. What you've listened to, in my view, and the Speaker's rendition of history going back to 1978 and his involvement in Washington, is, in my view, a perfect example of why we need to send to Washington someone who has not lived in Washington, but someone who's lived in the real streets of America, working in the private sector, who's led a business, who started a business, who helped lead the Olympics, who helped lead a state. We need to have someone outside Washington go to Washington. If we want people who spent their life and their career, most of their career, in Washington, we have three people on the stage -- well, I take that back. We've got a doctor down here who spent most of his time in the surgical suite -- well not surgery, in the birthing suite. (APPLAUSE) ROMNEY: But I think America has to make a choice as to whether we're going to send people who spent their life in Washington go represent our country or, instead, whether we're going to lead -- have someone who goes who's been a leader in the private sector and knows how the economy works at the grassroots level

GEE, I WONDER WHY?: RUSHDIE FORCED TO CANCEL APPEARANCE IN INDIA

ROPMA:
Novelist Salmon Rushdie pulled out of India’s largest literature festival after receiving warnings that assassins were planning to kill him at the five-day event for writing a book that some Muslims condemn as blasphemous.

SC DEBATE RECAP: NEWT FORCEFULLY DEFENDED THE INDEFENSIBLE; MITT WEAKLY DEFENDED THE DEFENSIBLE

  • NEWT WENT ON THE OFFENSIVE AND MIGHT HAVE NEUTRALIZED THE EFFECTS OF HIS EX-WIFE'S REVELATIONS.
  • MITT DID NOT HANDLE THE TAX FORM NON0ISSUE WELL.
  • RON PAUL IS A NUT-JOB.
  • RICK SANTORUM IS A SANCTIMONIOUSNESS PRIG - WHO IS RIGHT ON MANY MANY ISSUES.
IF I HATED MITT THEN I WOULD VOTE RICK.

BUT I STILL LIKE MITT.

I THINK THE TRULY MOST IMPORTANT DAMAGING MOMENT OF THE NIGHT CAME WHEN RICK SANTORUM EXPLAINED HOW NEWT WAS A LOUSY LEADER WHEN HE WAS SPEAKER.


THIS COMPLETELY CORROBORATED SUSAN MOLINARI'S DESCRIPTION OF NEWT  - ONE WHICH MANY ON THE EXTREME RIGHT POOH-POOHED ON THE BASIS OF THE FACT THAT MOLINARI IS A MODERATE  REPUBLICAN.


SANTORUM IS NOT A MODERATE AND HE AGREES: NEWT IS A LOUSY LEADER WHO  IS UNRELIABLE, ERRATIC AND SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED WITH THE OVAL OFFICE.






 HERE'S RICK CORROBORATING MOLINARI: SANTORUM: 
I will give Newt Gingrich his due on grandiose ideas and grandiose projects. I will not give him his -- his -- his due on executing those projects, which is exactly what the president of the United States is supposed to do. Four years into his speakership, he was thrown out by the conservatives. It was a coup against him in three. I served with him. I was there. I knew what the problems were going on in the House of Representatives when Newt Gingrich was leading this -- leading there. It was an idea a minute, no discipline, no ability to be able to pull things together.
HERE'S ROMNEY'S RESPONSE - WHICH IS THINK WAS GREAT: 

 KING: Governor Romney, you're raising your hand to come in the conversation. I want to let you in on the conversation, but also, as I do, you put an ad on the air paid by your campaign, not one of the super PAC ads, calling the Speaker an unreliable leader. Why?

 ROMNEY:
Well, let me go back and address first what you just heard. What you've listened to, in my view, and the Speaker's rendition of history going back to 1978 and his involvement in Washington, is, in my view, a perfect example of why we need to send to Washington someone who has not lived in Washington, but someone who's lived in the real streets of America, working in the private sector, who's led a business, who started a business, who helped lead the Olympics, who helped lead a state. We need to have someone outside Washington go to Washington. If we want people who spent their life and their career, most of their career, in Washington, we have three people on the stage -- well, I take that back. We've got a doctor down here who spent most of his time in the surgical suite -- well not surgery, in the birthing suite. (APPLAUSE) ROMNEY: But I think America has to make a choice as to whether we're going to send people who spent their life in Washington go represent our country or, instead, whether we're going to lead -- have someone who goes who's been a leader in the private sector and knows how the economy works at the grassroots level

Thursday, January 19, 2012

GUARANTEED NOT HALAL: JESSICA GOMES

She's an Australian model of Singaporean-Chinese and Portuguese heritage:







SHE WOULDN'T LAST A DAY UNDER SHARIA.

VIDEO OF JESSICA HERE.

WASH POST WRONG; OBAMA IS NOT INSANE FOR BLOCKING KEYSTONE

President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is an act of national insanity. It isn’t often that a president makes a decision that has no redeeming virtues and — beyond the symbolism — won’t even advance the goals of the groups that demanded it. All it tells us is that Obama is so obsessed with his reelection that, through some sort of political calculus, he believes that placating his environmental supporters will improve his chances.
OBAMA IS NOT INSANE.


OBAMA'S DECISION IS CONSISTENT WITH MANY OTHER DECISIONS HE'S MADE WHICH ALSO HURT AMERICA.


FROM APOLOGIZING TO THE WORLD AND APPEASING OUR ENEMIES AND INSULTING OUR ALLIES.


FROM CUTTING OUR DEFENSE  BUDGET AND REDUCING THE SIZE OF OUR UNIFORMED ARMED FORCES, TO RAPIDLY INCREASING OUR DEBT.


FROM TWISTING ISRAEL'S ARM TO LICKING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S BOOTS.


EVERYTHING HE'S DONE HAS DIMINISHED AMERICA'S MILITARY POWER, OUR PROSPERITY, OUR ECONOMIC STRENGTH AND OUR CORE VALUES.


WHILE INCREASING PARTISAN AND CLASS WARFARE.


THESE POLICIES AND ACTIONS ARE ACCIDENTAL OR THE SIDE-EFFECTS OF INCOMPETENT POLICIES.


THEY ARE THE DELIBERATE ACTIONS OF A MAN WHO HAS OPENLY SAID HE WANTS TO TRANSFORM AMERICA.


THEY ARE THE DELIBERATE ACTIONS OF A POSTMODERN LEFTIST WHO HATES AMERICA AND THE WEST AND KNOWS IF HE CAN WEAKEN THE USA, THAT THE WEST WILL COLLAPSE, TOO.


POSTMODERN LEFTISTS INCORRECTLY BLAME THE WEST FOR ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD - CURRENT AND PAST:


THIRD WORLD POVERTY, POLLUTION AND GLOBAL WARMING, SEXUAL REPRESSION, GENOCIDE, AND RACISM.


OBAMA INADVERTENTLY ADMITTED THIS WHEN HE WAS ASKED IF HE FELT AMERICA WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL NATION:
 Asked whether he believed in American exceptionalism during a European trip last spring, Obama said, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exception­alism.” (Is it just a coincidence that he reached for examples of former hegemons?) 
OBAMA ACTUALLY EXPRESSED HIS BELIEF THAT AMERICA IS NO MORE EXCEPTIONAL THAN ANY OTHER NATION.


TO MAKE THAT A REALITY HE HAS TO RUIN US AND BRING US DOWN TO THE LEVEL OF OTHER NATIONS.


BLOCKING KEYSTONE HELPS HIM ACHIEVE THAT GOAL.


THAT'S NOT INSANE.


IT'S SANE.


AND EVIL.

OBAMA IS A JOKE...


A BAD JOKE...

THEY ARE COMMIES

COMMIES.

NEWT WAS A FULLY-FORMED GROWN MAN WHEN HE ASKED HIS WIFE TO ACCEPT HIS MISTRESS AND HAVE AN "OPEN MARRIAGE"

NEWT WASN'T A KID WHEN HE CROSSED THE LINE. HE WAS A MAN. A CONGRESSMAN PUBLICLY POSING AS A CONSERVATIVE WHO DEFENDED FAMILY VALUES.

I THINK THIS PROVES HE'S NOT TRUSTWORTHY.

AND OF COURSE NOT WORTHY OF THE OFFICE HE NOW SEEKS.

MAYBE HE AND CALLISTA AND HERMAN CAIN AND BJ CLINTON AND MONICA COULD DO A BOOK TOUR?)

PROBLEM SOLVED:THE HOUSE GOP SHOULD SUBPOENA THE URINATING MARINES TO TESTIFY - IN CHAMBERS - AND OF COURSE... GRANT THEM IMMUNITY


U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., warned Defense Secretary Leon Panetta not to treat the Marines accused of urinating on Taliban corpses too harshly.
The Marines should be disciplined but should not be punished "for the purpose of making a statement to our partners in the region," Hunter wrote in a letter to Panetta Wednesday, The Hill reported.

I GOT A BETTER IDEA:  
THE HOUSE GOP OUGHT TO SUBPOENA THE URINATING MARINES TO TESTIFY - IN PRIVATE SESSION -  IN ORDER TO ASK THEM ABOUT THE INCIDENT, AND OF COURSE THEY MUST GRANT THEM IMMUNITY SO THEY CAN TESTIFY THOROUGHLY.
PROBLEM SOLVED.

PROOF ISLAMISTS FAIL TO SEE THE IRONY: MUSLIM THREATENS PEOPLE ATTENDING A UNIVERSITY DEBATE ON THE NEED FOR SECULARISM


Students attending a debate about sharia law were told they would be "hunted down and killed" by a man who burst into their lecture theatre and filmed them on his phone.
A man in a dark hooded top said he knew the identities of the 40 guests present and knew where they lived, before claiming that they would be tracked down if anything negative was uttered about the Prophet Muhammad.
MORE:

Anne Marie Waters had been invited to give a speech by the university’s Atheism, Secularism and Humanism Society when the drama unfolded on Monday evening. 
Organisers called the police and the event was cancelled.

BECAUSE THEIR BELIEFS ARE ANTITHETICAL TO WESTERN VALUES AND THEIR DESIRE FOR SHARIA IS AN ACT OF INSURRECTION, ISLAMISTS LIKE THIS MAN NEED TO BE EXPELLED, EXILED, OR DEPORTED FROM THE WEST.

PC RUN AMOK: HIGH SCHOOL REJECTS "COUGAR" MASCOT

A new high school in Draper, Utah has rejected the students’ choice of “Cougars” as the school’s new mascot, based on complaints that older women may find it offensive. 

COSMIC EYE: NEW PHOTO OF THE HELIX NEBULA

AWESOME:


2 ANTI-CAPITALISTS UNITE: RICK PERRY ENDORSES NEWT

THE MEMORY-CHALLENGED BRAIN-FREEZE GUY WHO THINKS THERE'S SUCH A THING AS "VULTURE CAPITALISM" HAS ENDORSED THE ANTI-CAPITALISM, ETHICALLY CHALLENGED, OPEN-MARRIAGE ADVOCATE.

GREAT.

WEEKLY STANDARD LUMPS UIGHURS IN SAME BOAT AS CHRISTIANS

The Weekly Standard's Ellen Bork wrote about Ron Paul's terrible record on China, and how he opposed resolutions in Congress protesting China's use of forced labor camps, for example. But while the article does have much to consider about just how little respect Paul has for the decent crowd in China, and much respect he seems to have for the country's commie-run government, there's a little something at the end that damages the full impact of the op-ed:
Members of Congress should consider asking President Obama to make the ongoing crackdown as well as the despairing self-immolations by Tibetans, the persecution of Uyghurs, Christians, and land rights and other activists, a central feature of First Secretary Xi’s visit. But they don’t need to bother asking Congressman Paul to join them.
Now they're right that Christians have been persecuted there to some extent, and humans rights activists even more. But the Uighurs? Doesn't Bork know that they're an Islamist group that's conducted its own jihad against China? The al Qaeda even encouraged them to commit jihad against China a few years ago. And Bork not only has to stupidly put them alongside Christians as a persecuted group in China, she even gives them first billing?

There's a very valid argument to be made about Paul's loathsome record in focusing on China's communism, but putting the Uighurs in the same boat as the Christians is making almost the same mistakes as Paul himself, and undermines the full impact of the article.

IS THIS PHOTO OF OBAMA AT DISNEYLAND PHOTOSHOPPED?


JUST ASKING...

I WONDER HOW SARAH PALIN FEELS ABOUT THE FACT THAT NEWT WANTED AN OPEN MARRIAGE WITH HIS EX-#2 AND HIS CURRENT WIFE #3?

JUST ASKING....

I BETCHYA SHE WISHES SHE KNEW ABOUT THIS BEFORE SHE GAVE NEWT THE NOD.

BWAHAHAHAHA! THAT'LL TEACH HER!

NEWT IS A SLIME-BALL, SO IF YOU'RE AN "ANYONE BUT MITT" VOTER, THEN YOU SHOULD VOTE SANTORUM OR PAUL

I WONDER HOW SARAH PALIN FEELS ABOUT THE FACT THAT NEWT WANTED AN OPEN MARRIAGE WITH HIS EX-#2 AND HIS CURRENT WIFE #3?

2012 GOP CONTEST LOOKING INCREASINGLY LIKE 2008

In 2008, the GOP contest came down to Mitt Romney versus a self-righteous evangelical big government conservative - Mike Huckabee, and a cranky old erratic semi-Republican - John McCain.

In 2012, the GOP contest has come down to Mitt Romney versus a self-righteous evangelical big government conservative - Rick Santorum, and a cranky old erratic semi-Republican - Newt Gingrich (who barely believes in the free market). (And who wanted an open marriage with his ex-wife #2 and his current wife #3.)

I hope the GOP doesn't make the same mistake this time that the GOP made last time!

Mitt would have defeated Obama in 2008 - and he will in 2012, if we give him the chance.

IF MITT WIN'S FLORIDA THIS TIME THEN I THINK HE WILL WIN THE NOMINATION. SO THE WHOLE RACE MAY COME DOWN TO MARCO RUBIO ENDORSING MITT - OR NOT.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

BY NIXING KEYSTONE, OBAMA HAS BROKEN ANOTHER CAMPAIGN PROMISE



    "And that's why if I am president, I will put the full resources of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector behind a single, overarching goal -- in ten years, we will eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela." 


    - 8/6/08, Elkhart, Ind.



BUT, BY NIXING THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE, OBAMA HAS ENSURED WE WON'T BE ABLE TO BUY MORE CANADIAN OIL INSTEAD OF MID-EAST OR VENEZUELAN OIL.

AND THAT WE WILL PAY MORE.

MORE HERE.

Update: "After all, who needs a secure energy source 
from a best friend 
when you can pay a fortune 
to buy it from unfriendly people 
in faraway unstable places?”"

OBAMA WILL MEET WITH ANY OL' ANTI-AMERICAN TYRANT, BUT NOT ISRAEL'S FOREIGN MINISTER

MORE PROOF THAT OBAMA IS A PIECE ANTISEMITIC AND ANTIZIONIST OF CRAP.

link fixed.

DID AHMADINEJAD'S AGENTS ASSASSINATE AN IRANIAN-AMERICAN ANTI-REGIME PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST IN TEXAS?

HMMM... (VIDEO AT LINK)

Amazing photo of the Costa Concordia from 300 miles up

More info here:

MUST SEE TV: DEMINT ENDORSING MITT IN 2008




 HE UNDERSTANDS THE PRIVATE SECTOR. HE'S AN EXECUTIVE AND DECISION-MAKER - NOT A LEGISLATOR LIKE NEWT AND SANTORUM. HE'S PRO-LIFE.

 MORE:


 


 AS TRUE NOW AS IT WAS THEN. MAYBE MORE SO.

CAN COULTER, THUNE, ISSA, BOLTON, AYOTTE, HALEY, SEKULOW AND CHRISTINE O'DONNELL ALL BE WRONG ABOUT MITT?

NOT LIKELY.

AND THAT'S A PARTIAL LISTING.

BIGTIME CONSERVATIVE BLOGGERS WHO ENDORSE MITT INCLUDE POWER LINE AND POLIPUNDIT.

SO DON'T BELIEVE ALL THE "ANYONE BUT MITT" CUZ HE'S A "MASSACHUSETTS LIBERAL" CRAP.

BECAUSE IT'S CRAP.

IN 2008 - YEARS AFTER ROMNEYCARE WAS PASSED, MITT ALSO WAS ENDORSED BY RUSH AND LEVIN AND HANNITY.

THEY ALL SAW HE WAS BETTER THAN MCCAIN.

IF OBAMA IS WORSE THAN MCCAIN, THEN MITT IS BETTER THAN OBAMA.

THOSE WHO ARGUE OTHERWISE ARE IDIOTS.

DON'T BE DUPED.

EVEN IF MITT WERE A "GOP ESTABLISHMENT" CANDIDATE - (WHICH I THINK HE IS NOT), DO YOU REALLY FEEL A GOP ESTABLISHMENT NOMINEE WOULD BE THE SAME AS A LEFT-WIN DEMOCRAT!?

THAT'S INSANE.

RICK SANTORUM AND CHRIS MATTHEWS AGREE: GOP VOTERS ARE LEMMINGS



I UNDERSTAND WHY THE LEFT-WING HACK AND DEMOCRAT PARTY OPERATIVE MATTHEWS TRASHES THE GOP.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SANTORUM TRASHES THE GOP.

I MEAN REALLY: OF YOU'RE RUNNING FOR THE GOP NOMINATION, IS IT WISE TO TRASH IT!?

NOPE. IT PROVES THAT RICK SANTORUM AIN'T WISE.

THIS ATTACK IS AS AWFUL AS NEWT'S ATTACKS ON CAPITALISM.

NEWT AND SANTORUM HAVE EXPOSED THEMSELVES AS COMPLETELY UNSCRUPULOUS HACKS WILLING TO SAY ANYTHING TO GET THE NOMINATION.

BTW: NOMINATING EITHER OF THESE MEN WOULD BE AS EFFECTIVE AS NOMINATING CHRISTINE O'DONNELL WAS.

PEW POLL PROVES HOW A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE CAN GUARANTEE OBAMA'S RE-ELECTION

Poll: Obama 44, Romney 32, Paul 18.

WE'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 7 MONTHS; WE ARGUED THAT THE DEM VICTORY IN NY26 CD WAS OBAMA'S 2012 ROADMAP.

MEMO TO ROMNEY TEAM: CALCULATE HOW MUCH LIFETIME TAXES ROMNEY HAS PAID

MEMO TO ROMNEY TEAM: CALCULATE HOW MUCH LIFETIME TAXES ROMNEY HAS PAID.

I BETCHYA IT'S A WHOPPER!

DANES DISCOVER NEW CREATURE THAT IS NEITHER PLANT OR ANIMAL - BUT IS BOTH!?

Danish researchers have discovered that a bay at Sealand put water into a mysterious creature that is neither animal or plant 
Mesodinium Chamaeleon are either plant or animal. Using its hundreds of tiny hairs, dashing through the water and find a plant that it eats. Then it transforms itself into a plant.


WOW.

GINGRICH: "I TRIPPED AND FELL INTO THE OWS MOVEMENT BY ACCIDENT."

THE CAPTAIN OF THAT ITALIAN OCEAN LINER SAID HE DIDN'T ABANDON SHIP; HE MERELY TRIPPED AND FELL INTO A LIFEBOAT.

SO.... NEWT SHOULD USE THE SAME EXCUSE THE CAPTAIN USED:
  • AND BECAUSE HE WORKED FOR FREDDIE MAC BEFORE HE WAS AGAINST IT....
  • AND BECAUSE HE WAS FOR CAPITALISM BEFORE HE OPPOSED IT...
NEWT SHOULD JUST SAY:

"I TRIPPED AND FELL INTO THE OWS MOVEMENT BY ACCIDENT."

FORMERLY HIDDEN MASS GRAVES DISCOVERED IN TREBLINKA

Some vital WW2 evidence has just been discovered:
New evidence has been uncovered helping prove that the World War II Nazi Treblinka was in fact a death camp, and not just a transit camp. Mass graves at the site of the camp were uncovered by British forensic archeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls, who used ground-penetrating radar to search for human remains, The Daily Mail reported on Wednesday.

The search for graves at the camp has been complicated in the past by Jewish law, which forbids disturbing graves. By using the radar, however, Colls managed to locate a large number of human remains buried in mass graves.

A lack of wealth physical evidence of mass extermination at Treblinka has in the past been used by Holocaust deniers, something researchers hope the new findings will make more difficult.

Colls's research and findings will be presented in the near future as part of a documentary, 'The Hidden Graves of the Holocaust,' broadcast by the UK's Radio 4.

The Nazis killed well over 800,000 Jews at the death camp in Poland.
I wonder if in cases where history research is of serious importance, Jewish law shouldn't be a concern? In this case, I think it's good that they didn't let it get in the way of unearthing evidence for a very important subject.

UH-OH: EUROPE GETTING WORSE: IMF NEEDS ANOTHER $500 BILLION...

The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday it aims to raise up to $500 billion to give out new loans to help to mitigate a worsening financial crisis.
BETTER BRACE YOURSELVES FOR A BAD CRASH... SOONER THAN YOU THINK...

THANKS OBAMA: HARVARD POLL SAYS US ECONOMY LESS COMPETITIVE THAN EVER, AND FALLING BEHIND...


... the nation is falling behind emerging market rivals and just keeping pace with other advanced economies, according to a Harvard Business School survey of 9,750 of its alumni in the United States and 121 other countries. 
Seventy-one percent of respondents expected the U.S. to become less competitive...

TURNING THE U8SA INTO A THIRD WORLD NATION: THANKS OBAMA!

SOPA, The Internet Blackout, and the Future of the Parallel Internet


I find it interesting that Google, Craig's List and Wikipedia are bedfellows on this, and that Google is with Conservatives for once, though, of course, a lot of Conservatives would be on the side of the protection of property rights as well.

This bill has really split up alliances,

Is it possible to build alternative Internet gateways which would evade governmental laws?

If the government wants to play the censorship game, they will not win. The word "Internet" denotes a concept which essentially means nothing more than sending information through communications lines and airwaves.

Alternative Internets are possible.

Governments can no more stop groups of citizens from creating Alternative Internets, than they can stop people from making phone calls, or sending signals through the air.

From ARS Technica:

A group of Internet activists gathered last week in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel to begin planning an ambitious project—they hope to overcome electronic surveillance and censorship by creating a whole new Internet. The group, which coordinates its efforts through the Reddit social networking site, calls its endeavor The Darknet Project (TDP).

The goal behind the project is to create a global darknet, a decentralized web of interconnected wireless mesh networks that operate independently of each other and the conventional internet. In a wireless mesh network, individual nodes can relay data for other nodes, ensuring that the routing of data remains robust as nodes on the network are added and removed. The idea behind TDP is that such a network would be resistant to censorship and shutdown because there would be no central point of control over the infrastructure.

"Basically, the goal of the darknet plan project is to create an alternative, more free internet through a global mesh network," explained a TDP organizer who goes by the Internet handle 'Wolfeater.' "To accomplish this, we will establish local meshes and connect them via current infrastructure until our infrastructure begins to reach other meshes."
 Here's some information from a technical discussion on creating an land-based Alternative Internet:
When you type an internet name into your browser (facebook.com, for example) the name must be resolved first, converting it into a numeric address that the internet uses to communicate.  For example, facebook.com resolves to 69.63.189.11.

This name resolution is performed by name servers, special purpose computers that typically do nothing else.  Because they play such a significant role, you can imagine they're sort of important.

Well, the internet's root servers resolve the name servers, so they're one level up and as you might expect are even more important.  There are only 13 root servers in the whole wide intertubes, and they're all under the control of ICANN, an American organization that purports to work for the whole world but tends to favour American interests.
 The head of ICAAN is warning some may already be creating an Alternative Internet:
Rod Beckstrom, the CEO of ICANN -- the firm which oversees how the is organized -- said unnamed nations had tried to create parallel networks, but he expressed confidence they would eventually stick with the global-used original.

"It has been done," said Beckstrom. "We don't speculate about who is doing it, it is really their private business."

Beckstrom heads the , a California-based firm which controls a master list of and IP addresses known as "the root," which is crucial to all Internet use.

The blogosphere has been awash with accusations that China and Russia are developing alternative Internet roots, which would mean requests would bypass the system.

"People want to test their own capabilities to do these things and update their files," said Beckstrom. "Some are concerned maybe for security reasons and some want to have alternatives in case any regional problems might arise and others might have political objectives."

Stressing ICANN's goal was "to keep everyone talking at the same table," Beckstrom admitted problems would arise if countries duplicate top level domains -- like .com, .cn or .net -- with new Web addresses.
"Conflicts would start to develop if we had a top level domain, and someone starts using a top level domain with different addresses and assignments. If it starts creating a conflict globally, that could be a problem," he said.

"That has not occurred and I think that is unlikely," said Beckstrom, defending ICANN's independence in the face of accusations that it serves US interests.

"I think the network effect of the Internet tends to keep people wanting to use the root," he said.
Mr. Beckstrom must realize that attempts by the government to control the information that is distributed through the internet will make it imperative and inevitable that we will not all want to be "talking at the same table", or using "the same root".

In fact, the backwardness of the existing structure of the Internet is already making it incumbent upon Scientists to build a parallel internet in order to relay the information provided by the Large Hadron Collider:
If you're a fan of particle physics (and really, aren't we all?), by now you know scientists are on the verge of opening the Large Hadron Collider, which will use ultra-powerful magnets to race proton beams around a 17-mile circular underground tunnel and smash them into each other 40 million times a second.

Besides being awesome, these collisions will produce tiny particles not seen since just after the Big Bang and perhaps will enable scientists to find the elusive Higgs boson, which - if theories are correct - endows all objects with mass. The Large Hadron Collider may also help scientists figure out why all the matter in the universe wasn't destroyed by anti-matter, which would have been inconvenient for those of you who enjoy residing in a universe that isn't a great vacuum devoid of life.

Perhaps just as complicated as answering these questions of origin, however, is setting up a worldwide network capable of distributing the mountains of data produced by the seemingly infinite number of particle collisions. The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid was set up to perform this task. Data will be gathered from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which hosts the collider in France and Switzerland, and distributed to thousands of scientists throughout the world.

One writer described the grid as a "parallel Internet." Ruth Pordes, executive director of the Open Science Grid, which oversees the US infrastructure for the LHC network, describes it as an "evolution of the Internet." New fibre-optic cables with special protocols will be used to move data from CERN to 11 Tier-1 sites around the globe, which in turn use standard Internet technologies to transfer the data to more than 150 Tier-2 centres.

 "It's using some advanced features and new technologies within the Internet to distribute the data," Pordes says. "It's advancing the technologies, it's advancing the [data transfer] rates, and it's advancing the usability and reliability of the infrastructure." 
In the future, the Internet will be the mediator of reality for most human beings, just as the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch are the mediators of reality for human beings now.

From Al Fin:
Kyle Munkittrick came very close to getting some key ideas right, in his piece "The AI Singularity is Dead. Long Live the Cybernetic Singularity!
As neuro-interface technology improves (hat tip Greg Fish) the information on the internet and stored in our external brains will become more expansive and more intimately connected with our nervous systems. The steps toward the Singularity will not be progressive improvement of general AI but of the gradual blending of the biological wetware of the human brain with the artificial hardware of computer technology. The Singularity will be the perfection of the mind-computer interface, such that where the mental processes of the human right-brain ends and the high-powered computer left-brain ends will be indistinguishable both externally by objective observation and internally by the subjective experience of the individual. I call this event the Cybernetic Singularity. _KM 

The Creation of  Parallel or Alternative Internets will quite literally mean we will be living Parallel realities, or alternative dimensions. The old saying, "You can't get there from here" will take on new meaning.

The public debate over the SOPA legislation is only the first volley in a battle which will become the war of the future. The war over the processing and passing of information from one mind to another. The decisions and actions that will come out of this public debate will not only effect law, but will change the nature of reality and the human mind itself.

I watch, fascinated.