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

Saturday, April 28, 2012

CLICHES OF THE LEFT

LIBS DON'T THINK AND THEY DON'T ARGUE; THEY JUST REVERT TO THE PARTY-LINE AND SET CLICHES. MY FAVORITES:


1 - Trickle down economics by Big Biz doesn't work, but (somehow) when Big Government trickles down via "stimulus" it does.

2 - Conservatives want fetuses to be born but then don't want them to be taken care of because they oppose government handouts.

3 - Blacks who voice conservative or independent political views contrary to the overwhelming majority of other blacks are cowards and servile, but blacks who succumb to peer pressure and follow the Democrat Party line - no matter what - are being authentic.

4 - Global jihad which has claimed tens of thousands of lives on every continent is a bogeyman, but global warming and catastrophic climate change are real threats to humanity and polar bears.

5 - If we counter-attack the enemies of civilization with the same or greater vehemence that they attack us with, then we lose because then they've made us like them.

6 - Big Biz - which doesn't force anyone to buy or do anything, and has to compete for you attention and dollar - is evil, but Big Government - which always uses force or the threat of force - is  lovely.

UH-OH: 1ST QUARTER ACTUALLY HAD 0% GROWTH, NOT ANEMIC 2.2% GROWTH


FACTS, LINKS, CHARTS AT DOUG' PLACE; GIST: 
Just as it understates unemployment by "disappearing" millions from the labor force, it would appear that the Obama administration has transformed the GDP number into propaganda.
RTWT.

OLDEST MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS EVER FOUND: 35,000 YEAR OLD FLUTES

An ancient flute thought to be the world’s oldest musical instrument has been found in a cave in Germany. Made of vulture bone, the instrument dates from around the time that humans began colonising Europe, around 33,000BC.

The discovery by a group of scientists has led them to believe humans played music much earlier than previously thought. Fragments of three flutes were found in the Hohle Fels cavern in southwest Germany by a team from Tubingen University. The near-complete vulture bone flute is 20cm long, has five finger holes and v-shaped notches that would have acted as a mouthpiece.

Scientists think the instrument would have been held like a recorder, but the player would have blown across it like a flute. The other two flutes dug up by the archaeologists are made from ivory, thought to be from mammoth tusks.
HERE'S A SAMPLE OF WHAT THEY MIGHT HAVE PLAYED ON THESE FLUTE-LIKE RECORDERS:


OUCH!: DENTIST GETS REVENGE ON HER EX


Dentist Anna Mackowiak had been recently dumped by Marek Olszewski, who made an appointment with her to get a toothache investigated. ... Mackowiak allegedly gave Olszewski an anaesthetic, then surgically removed all of his teeth. ... "I tried to be professional and detach myself from my emotions," Mackowiak told reporters. "But when I saw him lying there I just thought, 'What a b**tard'." 
Olszewski said that he could tell something was wrong when he awoke, but Mackowiak assured him that he couldn't feel his teeth because of the anaesthetic. He said: "I didn't have any reason to doubt her. I mean, I thought she was a professional. But when I got home I looked in the mirror and I couldn't f**king believe it. The bitch had emptied my mouth." 
Mackowiak ... could face three years in jail.
HE ALMOST DESERVED THIS: HE SHOULDN'T HAVE USED HIS EX AS HIS DENTIST.

DID FRANCOIS HOLLANDE ATTEND ANY OF THOSE SEX PARTIES WITH HIS LONGTIME SOCIALIST ASSOCIATE DOMINQUE STRAUSS-KAHN?

JUST ASKING.

HOLLANDE IS A MAN WHO IS ALLERGIC TO MARRIAGE, BUT SARKOZY HAS BEEN MARRIED 3 TIMES AND HAS KIDS WITH ALL HIS WIVES.

SEEMS TO ME THIS SUMS UP THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO MEN.

ONE WON'T MAKE A REAL COMMITMENT AND THE OTHER OVER-COMMITS.

WHICH TYPE OF MAN IS A BETTER LEADER?

OBVIOUSLY THE ONE WHO OVER-COMMITS.

YOU CAN DEPEND ON HIM FOR SOMETHING.

HOLLANDE IS UTTERLY UNDEPENDABLE.

DSK BLAMES SARKO FOR HIS DOWNFALL - AND NOT HIS OWN PECKER.

BUT MAYBE WE SHOULD ASK "CUI BONO?"... AND ANSWER HOLLANDE?


Friday, April 27, 2012

THERE'S THAT WORD AGAIN...


NYTIMES: Economic Growth Slows Unexpectedly 1 minute ago


THEY USE THIS WORD FOR 2 REASONS:

1 - AS LEFTISTS THEY ARE GENUINELY SURPRISED THAT THEIR POLICIES DON'T INSTANTLY AND AUTOMATICALLY AND PERMANENTLY CREATE A VERITABLE UTOPIA.

2 - THEY WANT THE PUBLIC TO FEEL THAT "EVERYTHING IS FINE, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, JUST A MOMENTARY GLITCH, EVERYTHING WILL BE BACK TO UTOPIAN NORMALCY IN A MINUTE".

DON'T BE DUPED.

TO PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND HAYEK AND MILTON FRIEDMAN, SLOW GROWTH IS ENTIRELY EXPECTED.

IT'S THE OBAMANOMICS, STUPID!

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

GUARANTEED NOT HALAL: Armenian Johana Riva Garabetian


Like the Jewish people, the Armenians were another community that has suffered genocide in horrendous proportions. While The Jews suffered at the hands of the Nazis, the Armenians suffered at the hands of the Ottomans - Muslims.

Armenia is once again an independent nation.

They  are a great and true ad beautiful people whose heritage and future must be protected.

Never again should they be targeted by Jihad for genocide.

How many more millions of brilliant and beautiful women would be alive today had the Turkish butchery never occurred?

Women like Johana Riva Garabetian, an Armenian in diaspora - who is definitely NOT halal!:








Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has condemned the fatal shootings of three Armenian soldiers near the border with Azerbaijan, hinting that the gunfire came from Azerbaijan.
AZERBAIJAN WOULD BE... MUSLIM.


ARMENIA LIKE ISRAEL AND GEORGIA LIVES IN A VERY TOUGH NEIGHBORHOOD.

THEY DESERVE OUR SUPPORT.

MORE PROOF A WELL ARMED CITIZENRY IS A GOOD THING

A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith's store. 
Police say the suspect purchased a knife inside the store and then turned it into a weapon. Smith's employee Dorothy Espinoza says, "He pulled it out and stood outside the Smiths in the foyer. And just started stabbing people and yelling you killed my people. You killed my people." 
Espinoza says, the knife wielding man seriously injured two people. "There is blood all over. One got stabbed in the stomach and got stabbed in the head and held his hands and got stabbed all over the arms." 
Then, before the suspect could find another victim - a citizen with a gun stopped the madness. "A guy pulled gun on him and told him to drop his weapon or he would shoot him. So, he dropped his weapon and the people from Smith's grabbed him."
GUN CONTROL IS AN IMMORAL THING, (BECAUSE SELF-DEFENSE IS AN INALIENABLE HUMAN RIGHT), AND IT DOESN'T REDUCE VIOLENT CRIME.

CRIMINALS GET GUNS ANYHOW, SO GUN LAWS ONLY DISARM LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS - AND IF THEY'RE ARMED THEN THEY CAN HELP PREVENT VIOLENT CRIME.

Scientific study: Muslim culture makes Muslims more likely to become anti-social criminals

... there are strong psychological differences between Muslims and non-Muslims. It is also clear that Muslim culture influences Muslims in a way that makes them more likely to become criminal and display anti-social behaviour - especially towards non-Muslims and non-Islamic authorities. ... The crime rate among Muslims in the West is catastrophically high. Seven out of 10 inmates in Danish youth prisons have immigrant backgrounds, and almost all of them are raised in Muslim families. 

MORE PROOF THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT BETTER OFF NOW THAN THEY WERE 4 YEARS AGO

MORE PROOF THE OBAMA ECONOMY IS IN VERY BAD SHAPE.

THE ONLY FOLKS BETTER OF NOW THAN THEY WERE 4 YEARS AGO ARE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND THE CROOKS IN THE "GREEN ECONOMY" WHO WERE GIVEN BILLIONS BY OBAMA.

VIDEO: WHO'S BEHIND THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT?

HOW WILL THE UNEMPLOYED VOTE, OBAMA OR ROMNEY?

THE UNEMPLOYED WHO WANT THEIR BENEFITS WILL VOTE OBAMA.

THE UNEMPLOYED WHO WANT A JOB WILL VOTE ROMNEY.

The ADL Must Be Stopped

The Jewish community's largest "defense" organization, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), has adopted a policy, consistent with the progressive agenda, not to speak up much about the global tsunami of Muslim anti-Semitism, but instead to campaign against "Islamophobia."  
This while FBI statistics show that hate crimes against Jews in America are five times the number of hate crimes against Muslims. 
The rationale for this policy, as the ADL's chief, Abe Foxman, told the Boston Jewish Advocate, is that "[y]ou can't fight the fight against anti-Semitism without fighting against bigotry. ... You cannot ask people to stand with you unless you are ready to stand with them."
But in cities across America, Foxman's policy has led the ADL to stand with people and organizations whose mission it is to defame and harm Jews.  To defend its policy of "outreach," the Anti-Defamation League vigorously defames as "bigots" citizens who question radical Islamists' true aims.  
This pattern of allying with Muslim anti-Semites to fight "Islamophobia" and then defaming legitimately concerned citizens can be clearly seen in three cases: 

3 "DANES" ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH PLANNING TERRORISM

The Danish authorities said on Friday they had arrested three men in the capital, Copenhagen, accused of planning a terrorist operation and of illicit possession of fire-arms. The Danish intelligence agency, PET, said the men, seized at two separate locations, were a 22-year-old Jordanian citizen, a 23-year-old Turkish national, both living in Denmark, and a 21-year-old Dane normally resident in Egypt. The agency gave no further details and did not specify the target or nature of the alleged operation.
"The men -- identified as Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla Aboelazm and Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri -- are charged with terrorism offenses."

Which one is the "
Dane normally resident in Egypt" ???

LOL.



MORE:

Officials at the intelligence agency, contacted by telephone, also declined to say whether the arrests were linked to a trial of four other men on charges of plotting a shooting spree in late 2010 at a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The trial opened in Copenhagen two weeks ago.
The publication of the cartoons by the paper, Jyllands-Posten, in 2005 set off a wave of violent protests by Muslims and ignited a debate over freedom of the press and respect for religion around the world. 
The senior prosecutor at the trial, Henrik Plaehn, said the defendants had been planning an attack to coincide with an event in the central Copenhagen building where the newspaper has its editorial offices. Crown Prince Frederik had planned to attend but was not the target of the attack, according to Danish news reports.
MUSLIMS IN THE WEST WHO ADVOCATE SHARIA SHOULD BE JAILED FOR TREASON AN SEDITION FOR LIFE OR DEPORTED/EXPELLED.


MOSQUES THAT  PREACH SHARIA SHOULD  BE SHUT AND DEMOLISHED.


MORE HERE:
 there was evidence the plot had links to Pakistan, but said he would provide more details later in the trial, which is set to last until June. ... At least one of the men is known to have international ties: Mr Awad has been arrested twice before abroad suspected of terrorist links, Sweden's foreign ministry said last year. He was arrested in Somalia by Ethiopian troops in 2007 and again in Pakistan two years later, when he was travelling with his wife, their two-year-old son and Mehdi Ghezali, a Swede who had spent two years at Guantanamo Bay. 
Mr Zalouti had also previously been arrested in Pakistan for entering the country illegally. Yesterday, the four accused all pleaded not guilty to the terrorism charge, but Mr Dhahri did plead guilty to arms possession.

DANISH COURTS MAKE RESPONSIBLE DECISION NOT TO CONVICT LARS HEDEGAARD

Melanie Phillips reports that not all is rotten in Denmark, as:
...the Danish Supreme Court ruled last Friday that he was not guilty after all of hate speech and racism – the second time he has been acquitted of this charge in a roller-coaster of a case which has stained Denmark’s reputation for justice, free speech and common-sense.
Hedegaard's problems began when he cited the frightening number of cases of violent abuse against women in Muslim communities in Denmark, and it's still very possible that this kind of lawfare persecution will continue. As Hedegaard himself stated following his acquittal:
‘Article 266b, under which I was charged, remains unchanged. It remains a disgrace to any civilised society and is an open invitation to frivolous trials. Thus, we still have no right to refer to truth if we are indicted under this article.

‘There have been several attempts to make 266b conform to normal standards of justice but successive governments and parliamentary majorities have steadfastly refused.’
And so long as it remains, there's every reason to be concerned that it'll continue to be used. I don't know what the article numbering is for similar laws countries like France, but so long as their own libel laws - like the one used against Phillipe Karsenty - remain in place, that's why there too, it's a serious problem. Those alleged laws have no place in any sane society, and every effort should be made to form the opposition movements needed to abolish them. It's alarming just how long they've been around (in France, they were there well before the Dreyfus trial), and the time for abrogating them is long overdue.

ASU GRAD STUDENT DISCOVERS AMAZING SPIRAL LAVA FLOWS ON MARS (PHOTO)



Andrew Ryan, a first year graduate student from Arizona State University studied the high-resolution images captured by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and noticed more than 200 spiral patterns near the southern margin of Cerberus Palus. He found that the spiral patterns resembled snail's or nautilus shells and were left behind by lava flows on the Athabasca Valles near the Mars' equator.
Lava flows have been discovered on earth such as the flow on the Big Island of Hawaii and also in submarine lava flows near the Galapagos Rift on the Pacific Ocean floor. But this is the first time that lava flows have been found on Mars, reported Space. "This is the first time lava coils have been identified on an extraterrestrial setting. The most surprising thing about these features when I first saw them was how well-preserved they are,"Andrew Ryan told Space.

PM'S OFFICE TO ASK FOR DELAY OF DEMOLISHING ULPANA HOMES

The prime minister's office is doing something right:
In the next few days, the state plans to ask the High Court of Justice to postpone the scheduled demolition of 30 homes in the Ulpana outpost.

The government promised the court that it would bulldoze the homes by May because they were built on land classified as private Palestinian property.
Is it? If the land was ever bought, then it's Jewish-owned land, and it speaks about this below:
In the past year, right-wing politicians and residents of Ulpana – located on the outskirts of the Beit El settlement – have lobbied the government to legalize the homes. Last Friday, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz visited the outpost.

This Friday, Vice Premier Silvan Shalom is slated to speak with residents there and pledge his support. The Likud party also held a rally there on Sunday.

Under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the government initiated a policy to demolish unauthorized Jewish homes on private Palestinians property.

Ulpana residents have argued that the Beit El Yeshiva and Amana – the construction arm of the settlement movement – bought the land from Palestinian landowners. They received state-guaranteed mortgages and grants to buy it.

The government and the High Court do not recognize the legality of the sale.

In 2008, the Palestinian claimants petitioned the court against the outpost through the help of Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights. In response, the state said it would raze the five stone apartment buildings in which 30 families live.

Still, earlier this month, Netanyahu said that he would work to find a solution to avoid the demolition.

In an interview with Army Radio on Tuesday morning, he said that the state planned to tell the court that it wanted to delay the demolition so that it could pursue alternatives.

Since the demolition was scheduled by the state and not demanded by the court, the government has some flexibility in this matter. But the court must accept its request.

“The matter needs to be dealt with,” Netanyahu said. He said that although the situation was legally complex, there were alternative solutions to the property dispute.

The prime minister added that it was important to work within the legal system.
It's also important to remodel it into something more democratic and respectable.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

BARACK "THE BIG STICK" OBAMA





EXIT QUESTION: DOES EATING DOG HELP OBAMA'S BIG STICK?

AS FAR AS LEFTIST MEDIA NARRATIVES GO, ALL MEN ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL...

VIA IOTW:

UPDATE:

ZIMMERMAN  - IT TURNS OUT - IS NOT A "WHITE HISPANIC", BUT A BLACK-WHITE-HISPANIC, WHO GREW UP WITH BLACKS IN HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND WHOSE CURRENT BUSINESS PARTNER IS A BLACK.

IN FACT, HE IS CULTURALLY MORE AFRICAN-AMERICAN THAN OBAMA!

THE WHOLE ENTIRE BROUHAHA OVER THIS CASE IS BASED  ON A GREAT BIG FAT RACE-BAITING LIE - A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO ENRAGE AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN ORDER TO EXPLOIT THEIR FEAR AND TURN IT INTO A BIG PRO-OBAMA TURNOUT IN NOVEMBER.

IN OBAMA'S "TINGLY" SPEECH IN PHILADELPHIA HE DESCRIBED THIS DEMAGOGUERY:
"At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician's own failings." 
NOW HE IS SUING IT  HIMELF!

IT'S LONG PASSED TIME AFRICAN-AMERICANS WOKE UP AND GOT OUT OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY PLANTATION!

IOW: REJECT THE RACE-BAITING LIES OF THE LEFT, AND VOTE  ACCORDINGLY!

You Know, I'm Starting To Get The Feeling There's No Such Thing As Air Pollution In America Anymore

I live in the Los Angeles area, about 25 miles from downtown 17 miles or so from the city. A few weeks ago I asked my wife, "When is the last time you remember it being smoggy?"

She could not remember a smoggy day.

I will repeat that, WE LIVE IN LOS ANGELES AND WE CAN NOT REMEMBER THE LAST SMOGGY DAY.

So, today Yahoo has a list of the ten most polluted cities in the United States, and, what do you know, Los Angeles is #3.

What cities are MORE POLLUTED THAN LOS ANGELES?

Bakersfield and Hanford, CA are the two most polluted cities in America.


I think the truth is Air Pollution is no longer caused by automobile and factory emissions. We seem to have taken care of that problem.

If you look at the list of the top ten most polluted cities, seven of them (Louisville, Phoenix, Fresno, Visalia, Los Angeles, Hanford, and Bakersfield) are nestled in valleys, right up against mountain ranges.

THE TOP FIVE MOST POLLUTED CITIES IN AMERICA ARE ALL IN CALIFORNIA AND ARE ALL CLASSIFIED AS VALLEYS.

Here's something we here at Astute Bloggers called your attention to back in April of 2010:

Does The Combination of Sun, Geogrpahy, And Farming Cause Air Pollution?

The metro areas with the nation's poorest air quality

President Obama's recent proposal to open some areas along the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic coastline and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling elicited praise from drilling advocates and oil companies as well as sharp criticism from environmental groups and citizens near the areas that might be affected.
The environmental impacts from doing so won't be felt for some time. What's affecting Americans today? Poor air quality. This matter often gets buried under more high-profile concerns like climate change, but it is particularly important as summer approaches because sunlight is a key ingredient in making harmful ozone, a ground level gas that contributes to urban smog and inflames the lungs, causing shortness of breath, wheezing and throat irritation.
New York Sunny areas like Los Angeles face the harmful effects of ozone year-round. In fact, the Los Angeles metro is named the country's worst for ozone by the American Lung Association's State of the Air 2010 report, released Wednesday. The ranking is worrisome for the city's residents because inhaling ozone is akin to "getting a sunburn on your airways," says Dr. Norman H. Edelman, the ALA's chief medical officer.
Philly Other California metros didn't fare much better: Bakersfield, Visalia, Fresno and Sacramento round out the five worst regions for ozone. The problem is statewide because of both California's exposure to sunlight and a natural geography that allows pollution to hover rather than diffuse to other areas, says Janice Nolen, the ALA's assistant vice president for policy and advocacy.
Chico The State of the Air report also ranks cities based on short-term and year-round particle pollution, which are caused by emissions of sulfur dioxide, carbon and nitrogen oxides. The short-term measure ranks metros by periodic spikes in airborne particles, and Bakersfield, Calif.; Fresno, Calif.; Pittsburgh; Los Angeles; and Birmingham, Ala., were, by this measure, found to have the country's five worst.
Chico Some of these cities also show up in the rankings for year-round particle pollution, which measures the daily average level of airborne particles. The five worst areas are: Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Ariz.; Bakersfield, Calif.; Los Angeles; Visalia, Calif.; and Pittsburgh.

Behind The Numbers

DC State of the Air 2010 ranks metropolitan statistical areas and combined statistical areas based on data collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) between 2006 and 2008. Both the ozone and short-term particle pollution rankings are based on spikes in their daily measurements and were calculated using weighted averages; each level of the Air Quality index was given a numerical weight, and these values were then multiplied by the number of days each metro reached them. Contrarily, the year-round particle pollution rankings are based on the average daily airborne particle levels during the three years studied.
Birmingham The ALA found that over 175 million Americans, or 58% of the population, live in counties with unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution. Worse, almost 24 million people live in counties with unhealthy levels of ozone and both short-term and year-round particle pollution.
Las Vegas Poorer populations are especially vulnerable. "People in poverty often live near major highways, near sources of pollution," Nolen says.



 
First, all five of these areas are valleys. The cities all nestle up against mountains. Los Angeles' valley opens up onto the sea, but the Hollywood hills make it a real valley. In other words, there is nowhere for air to escape to but upward.

Here is a map of California:


So, you can see, topographically, how these areas are climate traps.

Add to this the fact that three of the four chemicals being discussed here as "pollutants" are, indeed, known to be abundant elements in a healthy ecology; Ozone, Nitrogen Oxides, and Carbon.

Sulfur Dioxice, it is true, has no role in mammalian biology. And, I guess, what does not make us better will kill us. So, let's call Sulfur Dioxide a true pollutant.

But, carbon is the basic building block of human beings. Additionally, Carbon Dioxide is what we exhale, and it is what trees inhale.

Nitrogen is an important element of healthy soil, so it no surprise that, where there is healthy soil, there is also an abundance of nitrogen atoms which combine with oxygen atoms to create nitrogen oxides. During the day, there is more nitrous oxide and ozone, and during the night time there is more nitrogen dioxide.

And finally, on the subject of Ozone; it is said, by scientists to be good up high in the stratosphere, but not so good for humans. Too bad it is a naturally occurring element in sunny areas:

Strong sunlight and hot weather cause ground-level ozone to form in harmful concentrations in the air.
So, we see that, if four of the five most polluted cities in the United States are mostly rural farm communities, and all five are valleys in the sun, then sunlight, and the warmth it provides must be the main culprit in "air pollution".

Maybe Obama can begin taxing the sun. After all, it is putting out more than it's share of light.

WHO IS BETTER OFF NOW THAN 4 YEARS AGO?


THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD 
HAS BENEFITED SO CONSISTENTLY 
FROM ALL OBAMA POLICIES 
THAT IT IS DIFFICULT 
TO EXPLAIN IT AWAY 
AS MERELY THE RESULT OF INCOMPETENCE.


THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE ACTING IN CONCERT.

IN OTHER WORDS:

IF OBAMA REALLY WAS TRYING TO HELP THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AS MUCH AS HE COULD - WITHOUT EXPOSING HIMSELF AS THEIR AGENT, THEN WOULD HE BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?

NOPE.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

ADDENDUM:

THE CRONIES AND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS WHO GOT LOANS AND AID FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNDER THE GUISE OF THE STIMULUS AND THE "GREEN ECONOMY" COME IN A CLOSE SECOND TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

PUPPY-ON-A-STICK

ICY AND REFRESHING - AND IT'S NOT TOUGH!

Have no fear, Breitbart is here!

WHEN LIBERTY IS THREATENED 
NO NEED TO FEEL FEAR, 
A BRAVE MAN WILL HELP YOU, 
ONE OF GOOD CHEER. 
WHENEVER THE BASTARDS 
AND MOONBATS ARE NEAR, 
REMEMBER OL' ANDREW 
AND BREITBART IS HERE!

MUST SEE AND MUST SHARE TV: Zionism is feminism

BTW: PERHAPS THIS IS ANOTHER REASON MADONNA IS OPENINNG HER 2012 TOUR IN TEL AVIV.

DISGRACE: JOE SACCO'S GAZA PROPAGANDA WINS AWARD IN OREGON

The Oregonian says:
Joe Sacco's "Footnotes in Gaza," the presumptive favorite, won the first Graphic Literature Award Monday night at the 25th annual Oregon Book Awards at the Gerding Theater.

Better late than never.
Ugh, and they even make their own bias clear too. Better if it hadn't won anything at all, but this is a leftist paper in a leftist state like Oregon saying this. To make matters worse, that book review they link back to has the additional gall to say:
When Abed El-Aziz El-Rantisi sat quietly and listened to the memories of the massacre at Khan Younis, he could still hear the screaming and wailing over the body of his uncle.

"I couldn't sleep for many months after that," El-Rantisi told Joe Sacco three years before the Hamas official was assassinated by an Israeli missile. "It left a wound in my heart that can never heal.

"They planted hatred in our hearts."

After spending three months examining the roots of that hatred, and more than six years getting his graphic thoughts in order, Sacco doubts that peace will break through the scorched earth of the Gaza Strip.

"I hold out less hope now than ever," the Portland cartoonist said.

Yet as you quietly make your way through "Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel," and the murderous echoes of the Israeli purges at Khan Younis and Rafah, what hope and optimism remains for journalism and comics.
So they consider Israel the criminals here, not Hamas, and don't recognize the rocket attacks Hamas launched as a crime either? Absolutely atrocious, and for that, the Oregonian should be avoided like the plague.

NORTH KOREA IS A POTEMKIN FOE

Analysts who have studied photos of a half-dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased recently at a lavish military parade say they were fakes, and not very convincing ones, casting further doubt on the country’s claims of military prowess.
THE REAL THREAT  THAT THE NORKS POSES IS THIS: IF THEY FAIL THEN SOUTH KOREA IS GOING TO HAVE TO SUPPORT THE NORTH'S 25 MILLION STARVING PEOPLE.

ITS COME TO THIS

Pizza Hut's Middle Eastern chain has started offering chicken nuggets and cheeseburgers as crust stuffings.


Named the Crown Crust pizza because of the shape the crust takes on when stuffed with burgers or nuggets, the concept is closely related to the 'hot dog stuffed crust' which recently launched in the UK

IN UNRELATED NEWS:
A Las Vegas woman is in hospital recovering after collapsing at the Heart Attack Grill while eating a double bypass burger. But wait, there's more. She was also smoking cigarettes and downing a magarita. The woman, in her 40s, was rushed to hospital after being found in the restaurant unconscious.   ...   The Heart Attack Grill has signs that read, 'This Establishment is Bad for Your Health', at the front door. Dr Jon [OWNER OF THE RESTAURANT], who is not a medical doctor, told the Los Angeles Times his warnings about his food means he has no liability for what happens to his customers.

BLOG COMMENT OF THE DAY: "Your job is to protect America, not make the enemy “feel” comfortable. Treason."

STORY: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Orders Entire Military To Review All Training Material For “Anti-Islamic Content”…

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

IF THE EYES ARE THE WINDOW TO A MAN'S SOUL, THEN, LET'S SEE CLOSE-UPS OF OBAMA'S EYES

THEY SAY THE EYES ARE THE WINDOW OF THE SOUL:

Matthew 6:22-23
The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
OKAY, LET'S TAKE  A LOOK:


 HMMM...


WELL, THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING.

SERIOUSLY, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT OBAMA'S EYES:







WHAT DO THEY TELL US ABOUT HIS SOUL?

SCARY.

ROMNEY IN HIS OWN WORDS

Four years ago Barack Obama dazzled us in front of Greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. But after we came down to earth, after the celebration and parades, what do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama? 
Is it easier to make ends meet? Is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one? Have you saved what you needed for retirement? Are you making more in your job? Do you have a better chance to get a better job? Do you pay less at the pump? 
If the answer were “yes” to those questions, then President Obama would be running for re-election based on his achievements…and rightly so. But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions, distractions, and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and in a different time. But not here and not now. It’s still about the economy …and we’re not stupid. 
People are hurting in America. And we know that something is wrong, terribly wrong with the direction of the country. 
We know that this election is about the kind of America we will live in and the kind of America we will leave to future generations. When it comes to the character of America, President Obama and I have very different visions. 
Government is at the center of his vision. It dispenses the benefits, borrows what it cannot take, and consumes a greater and greater share of the economy. With Obamacare fully installed, government will come to control half the economy, and we will have effectively ceased to be a free enterprise society. 
This President is putting us on a path where our lives will be ruled by bureaucrats and boards, commissions and czars. He’s asking us to accept that Washington knows best – and can provide all. 
We’ve already seen where this path leads. It erodes freedom. It deadens the entrepreneurial spirit. And it hurts the very people it’s supposed to help. Those who promise to spread the wealth around only ever succeed in spreading poverty. Other nations have chosen that path. It leads to chronic high unemployment, crushing debt, and stagnant wages. 
I have a very different vision for America, and of our future. It is an America driven by freedom, where free people, pursuing happiness in their own unique ways, create free enterprises that employ more and more Americans. Because there are so many enterprises that are succeeding, the competition for hard-working, educated and skilled employees is intense, and so wages and salaries rise. 
I see an America with a growing middle class, with rising standards of living. I see children even more successful than their parents – some successful even beyond their wildest dreams – and others congratulating them for their achievement, not attacking them for it.
MITT IS EXACTLY RIGHT!

VOTE ACCORDINGLY!

NEW STUDY: NO DARK MATTER NEEDED OR FOUND IN OUR GALAXY

 
Is dark matter in danger? A few days after scientists said there’s no dark matter near our sun, a team of researchers in Germany now says there’s no dark matter in our galactic neighborhood. The team found a vast structure of globular clusters and satellite galaxies surrounding the Milky Way in a smooth, evenly distributed pattern. Most models of galactic distribution and evolution require the gravitational effects of dark matter, but in this model, it doesn’t seem to exist.
RTWT.

Video: China's Dangerous Potemkin sidewalks?

PERHAPS THIS TYPIFIES THE QUALITY OF EVERYTHING MADE IN SOCIALIST CHINA:

OBAMA HAS UTTERLY FAILED TO MEET THE STANDARD HE SET IN HIS PHILADELPHIA SPEECH, "A MORE PERFECT UNION"

OBAMA'S PHILADELPHIA SPEECH:
For the men and women of Reverend Wright's generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But it does find voice in the barbershop or the beauty shop or around the kitchen table. At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician's own failings. 
... For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division and conflict and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle — as we did in the O.J. trial — or in the wake of tragedy — as we did in the aftermath of Katrina — or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies. 
We can do that. But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change. That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, "Not this time." 
IN 2012, OBAMA IS EMPLOYING THE VERY SAME POLITICS OF DIVISION HE CONDEMNED IN 2008:
  • OBAMA IS BREEDING CONFLICT AND DIVISION AND CYNICISM.
  • IN 2012, OBAMA IS THE RACE-BAITER - JUST LIKE HIS 'FORMER" REVEREND.
  • OBAMA IS ATTEMPTING TO GIN UP VOTES ALONG RACIAL LINES TO  MAKE UP FOR HIS OWN FAILINGS OF THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.
  • SO, ON TOP OF BEING A RANK RACE-BAITER, THIS MAKES OBAMA A DISGUSTING HYPOCRITE.
SICKENING.



ONLY AN IMMORAL EGOMANIAC WOULD DO WHAT HE'S DOING.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

[ASIDE: THAT'S THE SPEECH THAT EARNED CHRISSIE MATTHEWS THE NICKNAME "TINGLES".]

IN 2013, OBAMA CAN START SELLING THIS:


OBAMA KEEPS ACTING AMBIGUOUS ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

The time for memorial of another important subject - the precursor to the Jewish holocaust during WW2 - has come around again, and Obama still won't use the word "genocide" to describe what Turkey did to 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. From ABC News (via Hot Air):
On the fourth Armenian Remembrance Day of his presidency, President Obama has for the fourth time in a row broken his promise to the Armenian community to use the word “genocide” in describing what happened at the hands of the Turks roughly a century ago.

As a senator, and then as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama often talked about how bold he was to call the slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire just what it was: a genocide.

“America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides,” he said. “I intend to be that president.” In a January 2008 letter to the Armenian Reporter, Mr. Obama said he shared “with Armenian Americans — so many of whom are descended from genocide survivors — a principled commitment to commemorating and ending genocide. That starts with acknowledging the tragic instances of genocide in world history.”

In a statement, Ken Hachikian, the chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America said, “President Obama today completed his surrender to Turkey, shamefully outsourcing U.S. human rights policy to a foreign state, and tightening Ankara’s gag on American recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The President’s capitulation to Turkey – on this, the last April 24th of his term – represents the very opposite of the principled and honest change he promised to Armenian Americans and to all the citizens of our nation. President Obama’s pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide stands today as a stark lie, a painful promise etched on the hearts of all who had hoped and worked for change, but who, today, have been betrayed by a politician who failed to live up to his own words.”
It was bad enough when Dubya went out of his way to ask Congress not to take up a resolution several years ago recognizing the genocide, all because Turkey was just so important in dealing with Iraq. Obama isn't making things any better with his own terrible approach to the case.

British Police release CGI of missing girl, Madeline McCann - who would now be nine if alive


Missing girl Madeleine McCann, who vanished while on a family vacation in Portugal five years ago, may be alive, U.K. police said Wednesday as they announced new efforts to solve the case. London’s Metropolitan Police said they are still investigating the disappearance of the girl, who vanished shortly before her fourth birthday in May 2007.
Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood said he is leading a team of more than 30 police officers focusing on the case. He said police also have to consider that she may be dead. 
“Our drive on both scenarios is of equal measure,” he said. Police have released a new image of the girl, who would now be nine if she were alive.
UPDATE: Some folks have long thought she was kidnapped for islamo-sex slavery - and there's a photo that suggests this might be true.

UH-OH: S&P LOWERS OUTLOOK ON INDIA


Standard & Poor’s lowered its outlook for India on Wednesday, citing the country’s struggle to rein in its relatively high debt and fiscal deficit amid a political impasse that is unlikely to ease before the next national elections in 2014. 
Although S.&P. did not downgrade India’s debt rating on Wednesday, the revision in the outlook — from stable to negative — signaled that there was now at least a one-in-three chance of a downgrade sometime in the next 24 months, S.&P. said.
WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF ANOTHER GLOBAL CRASH...

STAY TUNED...

SARKOZY COMMITS POLITICAL SUICIDE

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ruled out doing any election deal with the far-right National Front but said its voters should not be demonised. 
"There will be no agreement with the National Front, and no [National Front] ministers," he told France Info radio. 
.... "We need to speak to the 18% who voted for Marine Le Pen," Mr Sarkozy said. "I don't regard this 18% as people with extreme-right ideas... but I don't want ministers from the National Front. I've never wanted that."
SARKO JUST LOST,  AND EUROPE JUST TOOK ANOTHER STEP TOWARD DAR  AL ISLAM.

SARKOZY WON BECAUSE IN 2005 HE PROMISED TO GET TOUGH:
WIKI: However, the civil unrest in autumn 2005 put law enforcement in the spotlight again. Sarkozy was accused of having provoked the unrest by calling young delinquents from housing projects "rabble" ("racaille") in Argenteuil near Paris, and controversially suggested cleansing the minority suburbs with a Kärcher. After the accidental death of two youths, which sparked the riots, Sarkozy first blamed it on "hoodlums" and gangsters. These remarks were sharply criticised by many on the left wing and by a member of his own government, Delegate Minister for Equal Opportunities Azouz Begag.[43] 
After the rioting, he made a number of announcements on future policy: selection of immigrants, greater tracking of immigrants, and a reform on the 1945 ordinance government justice measures for young delinquents.
BUT AFTER THE PARIS INTIFADA, HE DIDN'T DO SQUAT.

MARINE LE PEN'S VOTE WAS A REFLECTION OF A VERY BROAD  FEELING IN FRANCE THAT THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH DHIMMITUDE AND THAT FRENCH CULTURE IS UNDER THREAT.

WITHOUT DIRECTLY AND CONVINCINGLY APPEALING TO THESE VOTERS SARKO CAN'T WIN.

PITY. WITH HOLLANDE, FRANCE'S DECLINE WILL ONLY ACCELERATE.

ADIEU.

EUROPEAN ECONOMY WOBBLES ON

Forget Spain and Portugal - while Britain fell back into recession, a impending collapse of the real estate bubble in France is a real threat to the economic future of Europe. 

UPDATE: MORE HERE.

AND HERE.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

A DECORATED ARAB IDF SOLDIER


East Jerusalem man, whose community doesn't know he is in the army, to be honored on Independence Day. 
For most soldiers, there is a period on their first weekend home from basic training when they strut around the neighborhood showing off their spotless dress greens, bursting with pride at the newfound maturity conferred by their uniform. That’s something that one soldier, who can only be identified as S., will never get to experience. 
As an Arab living in east Jerusalem, S. does not even bring his uniform home with him. His neighbors do not know that he serves in the army, and S. needs to keep it that way.
RTWT. RTWT. RTWT. NOW.

SOMEONE SHOULD GRILL LIT AGENT JANE DYSTEL ON "DREAMS FROM MY FATHER": THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS NRO'S WALSH BY A WEEK - (AND BY SEVEN YEARS!)

WALSH/NRO - TODAY:
I’ve been pretty outspoken in my belief that Mitt Romney will lose to Obama this fall — unless he learns to turn the Left’s dreary litany of tawdry smears back against them. 
And, on current evidence, he has. 
Jim Treacher may have been the originator of the #ObamaEatsDogs meme — accomplished by the simple expedient of actually reading “the best-written memoir ever produced by a politician” (and almost certainly ghost-written by somebody else — why doesn’t some enterprising MSM reporter track down Obama’s former literary agent, Jane Dystel, and ask her who really wrote Dreams From My Father? It’s not like she’s in hiding) — but the campaign has been smart to let it take its viral course, instead of tut-tutting about it, the way McCain would have.
YUP:

DYSTEL IS THE KEY TO SO MUCH ABOUT OBAMA, AND WE'VE BEEN WRITING ABOUT HERE FOR A LONG TIME:

TAB LAST WEEK.

AND MANY TIMES BEFORE THAT...

STARTING IN 2006!

MAKE THAT 2005!!!

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP ALL THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME.

SPREAD THE WORD!

OBAMA'S "GREEN ECONOMY" WAS PREMEDITATED THEFT ON THE GRANDEST SCALE OF ALL TIME

NEVER BEFORE HAVE SO FEW STOLEN SO MUCH, SO QUICKLY, FROM SO MANY:
ANN BARNHARDT: 
The speed with which these companies collapse is, in and of itself, proof that these companies are set up PURELY as mechanisms to loot the United States Treasury.
They were never intended to actually produce anything. They are shells that are set up to fail. "Success" was never even an objective with any of these outfits. 
Take Solyndra. They received a loan from the government for over $500 million in September of 2010, and filed for total liquidation bankruptcy in September of 2011. 
Guys, if that company was real, it would take longer than a year JUST TO GET WARMED UP. It takes time, far in excess of a year, to get a company set up, get infrastructure in place, begin production, establish a customer base, etc. Even if they had some pieces in place before the government money came, remember, we are still talking about HALF A BILLION DOLLARS. For a company to burn through half a billion dollars and have a padlock on the front door in 12 months without massive embezzling going on is not possible. 
And Solyndra was one of the smaller "loans" issued by the Obama regime. 

VIDEO: MITT'S VICTORY SPEECH 4/24/12

PELOSI AND BARNEY FRANK ANNOUNCE NEW DRILLING POLICY

NANCY'S HERE.


IT'S CRUDE, BUT IT'S NOT OIL.

HOW EXACTLY DID OBAMA SPEND YOUR TAX-DOLLARS?


VIA BLUEGRASSPUNDIT.

UH-OH: EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CALDERA - THAT MIGHT HAVE HAD CATACLYSMIC ERUPTIONS IN THE PAST - GETTING INCREASINGLY MORE ACTIVE


The volcano that may have given rise to the legend of Atlantis has awakened, researchers say. 
The cataclysmic eruptions at the Greek isle of Santorini about 3,600 years ago that spewed forth about 9.5 to 14.3 cubic miles (40 to 60 cubic kilometers) of lava devastated the ancient seafaring Minoan civilization, potentially inspiring the legend of the lost city of Atlantis... 
... Over the next four millennia, the largely underwater caldera at Santorini has experienced a series of smaller eruptions, with five such outbursts in the past 600 years, ending most recently in 1950.

After a 60-year lull, Santorini awakened in January 2011 with a swarm of tremors, each magnitude 3.2 or less, new GPS research has revealed. 
Investigators had installed a GPS monitoring system in the area in 2006.  
... The scientists found that by June 2011, the 22 GPS stations had been pushed 0.2 to 1.3 inches (5 to 32 millimeters) farther from the caldera than they had been just six months earlier... and data from September 2011 to January 2012 showed the land near the volcano was swelling at an accelerating rate, reaching 7 inches (180 mm) of growth per year. 
Computer models of the deforming Earth suggested the swelling was due to an influx of nearly 500 million cubic feet (14.1 million cubic meters) of magma into a chamber 2.5 to 3.1 miles (4 to 5 kilometers) below the surface. 

The scientists note this ongoing influx of magma does not necessarily signal an impending explosion — this swelling is only a fraction of that behind the Minoan eruption.  
"We've witnessed similar deformation events at other large calderas — Yellowstone, Long Valley California, and Campi Flegrei— without eruption," said researcher Andrew Newman, a geophysicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "Globally, we've observed that on average, 90 percent of magmatic intrusion events do not reach the surface." 
"However, we cannot say for certain that this will not erupt either,"
THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF MAJOR QUAKES LATELY ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

WE MIGHT BE HEADING INTO A VERY ACTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE VOLCANIC AND EARTHQUAKE PROBE ERA..

 STAY TUNED...