Saturday, July 07, 2012

Hillary and Obama Declare Afghanistan and its anti-American Karzai regime a "major non-NATO ally"



Obama Admin Declares Afghanistan’s Anti-American Karzai Regime A “Major Non-Nato Ally”…

IN OTHER NEWS FROM AFGHANISTAN - A MAJOR NON-NATO ALLY:

A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital.
HAVE YOU NO SHAME, HILLARY?

OBAMA HAS DONE MORE HARM THAN GOOD

OBAMA HAS NOT BEEN MEDIOCRE.

OBAMA HAS BEEN A DISASTER.

ROMNEY WAS RIGHT NOT TO GIVE OBAMA A C - OR EVEN A D; MITT GAVE OBAMA AND FF - AND HE DESERVED AN F.
  • OBAMA ENABLED THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S TAKEOVER OF EGYPT AND LIBYA.
  • OBAMA DAWDLED AS IRANIANS REBELLED, AND IRAN IS CLOSER THAN EVER TO A NUKE.
  • OBAMA'S STIMULUS FAILED TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS HE SET.
  • OBAMA'S STIMULUS LAVISHED MONEY ON SO-CALLED "GREEN" COMPANIES CONTROLLED BY HIS CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS AND THEY MOSTLY SQUANDERED THE MONEY AND WENT BROKE.
  • OBAMA HAS ADDED $5 TRILLION IN DEBT IN HALF THE TIME BUSH ADDED $4 TRILLION IN DEBT - AND CANDIDATE OBAMA CALLED BUSH AN UNPATRIOTIC SPENDTHRIFT FOR IT. (SO, WHAT DOES THAT MAKE OBAMA?)
IF WE HADN'T HAD A PRESIDENT AT ALL THE LAST 4 YEARS, AND IF CONGRESS HAD DONE NOTHING AT ALL THE LAST 4 YEARS, THEN WE'D PROBABLY HAVE BEEN A LOT BETTER OFF.



THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS DO NOT ADD UP

DURING THE BUSH YEARS, THEY USED TO SAY THAT WE NEEDED 250,000 NEW JOBS PER MONTH TO KEEP UP WITH POPULATION GROWTH.

NOW, THEY SAY WE NEED AT LEAST 125,000/MONTH.

OKAY; NO SURPRISE: THE LEFT ALWAYS MOVES THE GOALPOSTS WHEN IT SUITS THEIR NEEDS.

STILL: LAST MONTH WE ONLY GOT 80,000 - AND YET THE OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBER HELD.

IOW: THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBER IS FREAKIN BS. SMOKE AND MIRRORS.

IF YOU COUNT THE FOLKS WHO HAVE TAKEN CRAPPY PART-TIME JOBS - OR A HUGE PAY CUT TO GET A CRAPPY FULL-TIME JOB, AND COUNT THE DISCOURAGED WORKERS WHO HAVE GIVEN UP, THEN THE UNDER-EMPLOYMENT NUMBER IS CLOSE TO 20%.

Update: While the unemployment rate stood still at 8.2 percent, the underemployment rate in June inched up to 14.9 percent from 14.8 percent in May — the second straight month it increased. 


BLS NUMBERS HERE.


[THAT DOESN'T INCLUDES THE FOLKS WHO DROPPED OUT OF THE WORK FORCE. THE BLS EMPLOYMENT POPULATION RATIO IS 58.5% - 5% LOWER THAN UNDER BUSH. DATA ON DISCOURAGED WORKERS HERE]

IOW: THE OBAMA ECONOMY IS FREAKIN AWFUL.

AND THERE IS NOT A SINGLE STATISTIC THAT ANYONE CAN POINT TO THAT SAYS IT'S GETTING BETTER OR EVEN GOING TO GET BETTER.

AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF POTENTIALLY HORRIBLE EVENTS LOOMING ON THE HORIZON THAT COULD MAKE THINGS EVEN WORSE - IN HEARTBEAT:

  • A WAR WITH SYRIA, 
  • A WAR WITH IRAN, 
  • THE COLLAPSE OF THE EURO, 
  • THE CRASH OF CHINA, T
  • HE COLLAPSE OF THE STUDENT LOAN BUBBLE IN THE USA, 
  • A MEGA-TERROR ATTACK AT THE OLYMPICS - 

TO NAME JUST A FEW.

THERE IS ONLY ONE PREDICTABLE EVENT ON THE HORIZON THAT'S WITHIN OUR POTENTIAL CONTROL THAT CAN POTENTIALLY CHANGE THE EQUATION AND CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER:


ELECTING ROMNEY.


VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

HARVEY PEKAR'S VIEW OF ISRAEL WAS DISGUSTING

This page comes from the late graphic novelist Harvey Pekar's last junkpile, Not the Israel my Parents Promised me, which has been released 2 years after his death, and is something he did in co-op with J.T. Waldman. There's more pages here. It's basically an attack on [right-wing/Zionist] Israelis of today as "ignorant", and even attacks Ariel Sharon for all the wrong reasons. That page at Imprint interviews Waldman, who says:
Do you anticipate any controversy?

I actually think the book won't be too controversial for today's readers. After [Peter] Beinart and so many other eloquent and bombastic arguments for a political change of course, I don't think Harvey's message is as drastic and controversial as it once was.

I think the general American Jewish public aligns with most of the opinions found in this book. Whether they can admit that publicly is another thing. I just hope that the book generates conversation and gets people talking again. If controversy stokes that dialogue, then bring it on!
I think what's offensive about people like Waldman is how they enjoy getting on the nerves of those they disagree with and actually want to get them angry instead of happy. Why want people to discuss your book for the wrong reasons? What if it actually got you considered persona non grata when you didn't ask for it, and just 15 minutes of infamy? Which I hope will be the case with Waldman, though whether the American Jewish public will see this as fully legitimate does still remain in question.

Here's more from the Jewish Journal:
Waldman capped off his lecture with video of himself kibitzing with the characteristically grumpy “American Splendor” creator, pestering Pekar about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“What you do is you stay out of there,” Pekar grumbled. “You don’t go populate it with thousands of people,” opining that occupation was not good for the Jews. “Even [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon realized it.”
What this tell is that he supported the "disengagement" full force, regardless of its leading to rocket attacks by the Hamas more easily, and believes that there was actually an Arab/Islamic country called "palestine", and doesn't believe that the Romans coined the name. And most galling about people of Pekar's standing is how they're never concerned with the Islamic mindset, and probably doesn't care about Muhammed's marrying a 9-year-old girl either. Sure, he does mention that the Arab countries in 1948 rejected the partition plan of the UN, but if this is how he's going to go for the most part, then if he's allegedly making a point about that, he deep-sixes it.

And Pekar even goes so far to make the following statement in the book:
Blech. That's absolute gall to call our history "mythology". By contrast, in light of the recent discussion on whether Muhammed actually existed, it figures if he didn't wonder why Muslims believe theirs.

Here's an extra Jewish Journal review that says:
Pekar may not believe in God and Torah, but he definitely shares the Jewish habit of mind that allows many of us to see both sides of every question. “The Arabs have a legitimate beef,” he insists. “Ben-Gurion admitted it. Dayan admitted it. Sure, the Jews tell everyone that God provided them the land because they are his people. But every ethnic group thinks they are his chosen people.”
I guess that means he also supports imposition of Sharia law. I don't think Ben-Gurion ever said such a thing, though Dayan certainly did something to show that he believes Muslims have every right to the Temple Mount. What Pekar didn't consider is that Islam may believe in God, but not in what the Lord really wants, which is leading a non-violent, non-criminal, and responsible life. That's where the Religion of Rape is backwards compared to Judeo-Christianity. I also find it shameful how this kind of propaganda is put in the same league as other Jewish comics contributors from earlier times, especially considering that Will Eisner's last graphic novel, The Plot, has some mention of the Muslim world's anti-semitism.

Predictably, this last work of Pekar's is just what some sites about comics consider worth citing, including the British-based Bleeding Cool, and even Comic Book Resources. They very rarely ever suggest taking a look at something involving a pro-Israel book, if at all. All it's done in the end is tell that Pekar was a very disgraceful man, the kind whom I'm wondering has a tunnelvisioned view of Hasidics per the 1948 Oliver Twist movie, and doesn't make any distinctions between say, Lubavich and Neturei Karta sects. In other words, I wouldn't be surprised if he were the kind of man who thinks Hasidics are a problem but never Muslims. For now, I do know that his co-author Waldman is a disgrace for assisting him in cobbling together this galling screed against Israel.

DHIMMITUDE IN CERGY, FRANCE

A mosque has been built in Cergy, France, where the interior minister has said (via Atlas Shrugs):
'It is our responsibility to progressively build a French Islam, one that will find put down roots in our country,'' said Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who attended the opening of the mosque. ''This was made possible by two things: Muslim unity, and political will,'' Socialist Mayor Dominique Lefebvre said.
At this point I'm tempted to say that Nicholas Sarkozy ought to be proud of himself for prompting this kind of response, since he was the one who said they should build an Islam for France, which is only the same as all others. More precisely though, he should be ashamed of himself for leading to all the embarrassments - and danger for the public - that's going to happen.

SHARIA COMPLIANCE AT THE YMCA SWIMMING CLUB IN SAN DIEGO

KPBS in San Diego (via Diana West) writes a predictably sugar-coated report on the YMCA providing women-only hours for Muslim women from east Africa. And that's not all:
There are also cultural barriers that keep them from using the parks. The women can’t risk coming into contact with off-leash dogs. They follow strict hygiene guidelines in their faith, which considers dogs to be unclean, or not halal.
So they'd like to make the parks dog-free. Will Americans stand up for their puppies as much as they should for their pools?

HETERO "RIGHT-WINGERS" VERSUS THE LGBT "MODERATES"

BRILLIANT HILARITY FROM IOTW:





What's next, conservative awareness month? Redneck awareness month? Patriot awareness month?


Nah, they would never happen: the left is tolerant of many things: bufu; jihad; polyamory; voter fraud; illegal aliens; one-party media; one-party faculties, but they are NOT tolerant of anything or anyone they consider "right-of-center".


And make no mistake about it: they consider Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Madison, Jackson, and Reagan - who were all at the very CORE and HEART & SOUL of American values - to be "right of center".


That's really the biggest of the "big lies" the left believes in:


That people with political views like us - and and politicians as diverse as Romney and Bush and Reagan - are "right-wing".


NONSENSE.


We may be to THEIR right, but we are not on the right. 

We are the TRUE CENTER.


That's why gay marriage always loses at the ballot. 


It's not because a majority of Americans are "right-wing"; it's because positions of the vast majority of Americans are traditional, pro-West, pro-Judeo-Christian Civilization.


And the folks who dominate the legacy media and the Democrat Party and faculties and teacher's unions and other PEU's - who CLAIM to be centrists - they're really postmodern leftists who hate, not only the USA, but Western Civilization itself - which they blame for sexual repression, Third World poverty, most of history's genocide, and global pollution which threatens an imminent global climate catastrophe. 


Each of these leftist positions is demonstrably false, but are now accepted as basic presuppositions by today's left.


FACTS: 
  1. In the 20th C alone, socialism killed more people than did Judeo-Christianity in the preceding 19 centuries. 
  2. Since its inception - and globally - Islam killed more people than socialism - or any other ideology... EVER. 
  3. Industrialization has extended life-spans and living standards; it doesn't hurt them. 
  4. The Third World is NOT poor as a result of colonialization - the Third World is poor because they haven't industrialized and have too much socialism.
  5. For thousands of years, the West's traditional sexual mores and institutions have helped stabilize families - (the basic building block of society) -  and helped families raise pro-social children and grow them into responsible adults. Societies with non-Western sexual mores and institutions have a poorer record of this. And statistics prove that fatherless homes of any/all races raise criminals and populate our prisons.
People on the left ignore history; they ignore socialism's consistent record of failure - both in economic growth AND in delivering goods and services to the masses; they ignore islam's record of tyranny and genocide and intolerance and ignorance; and they have always excused the totalitarianism of their fellow leftists. 


The left also ignores the fact that traditional, bourgeois, capitalist, and industrial societies are responsible for everything good about modern life: our longer and healthier life spans, our greater material prosperity, and our ability to enjoy our innate rights and liberties.


All we ever need to have a "right-wing" revolution in the country is wake up and motivate the SILENT MAJORITY, the MORAL MAJORITY and get them to the polls.


Anything and everything that demotivates this effort serves Obama and his comrades.


I am a live-and let-live kinda guy. Muslims do not bother me unless they support inflicting sharia and jihad on others - (and most do not as most do not try to emulate Mohammed). Homosexuals don't bother me in less they engage in a radical leftist political and social agenda. When leftists and homosexuals and islamists agitate for totalitarianism, then THEY have crossed the line  - they have vacated the center - and must be counter-attacked.


And defeated.


If you are white or a believer or a capitalist or a successful businessman it's time to step forward and counter-attack the leftists who argue you are the problem.


We are not the problem and they are not the solution.


If we want to wipe-out global poverty and ignorance - (AND WE CAN!), then we need to defeat the failed ideologies which have for centuries - and across cultural and national lines - failed to improve living standards, and life-spans and limited human rights and liberty:


We need to defeat leftism and islamism - (and climate alarmism and its anti-industrialism).


Vote accordingly.


And don't whine: Just always vote for the more "conservative" of the candidates. 


We won't defeat the left in any one election; it will take a dozen elections in a row. So, don't get disheartened. Keep fighting, baby!



Friday, July 06, 2012

UH-OH: THIS MAY BE AN OMEN FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY


BBC: Diner owner dies after serving Obama 
Ohio restaurant owner Josephine Harris dies hours after serving breakfast to US President Barack Obama.

A LOOK INSIDE THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBER'S


Since April, full-time jobs have increased by less than 100K, whereas part-time workers have increased by over 450K. These ratios I do not like. They indicate trouble, especially since the involuntary part-time employment measure accounts for most of it. 
Not surprisingly, since April the unemployment rate for full-time workers has risen from 8.5% to 8.7%. See Table 10 
The unemployment rate for women who maintain families has surged. I have some questions about this number, but this is worrisome. 
In April their unemployment rate was 10.2%, and in June 11.8%. 
This tally is small, and so the month-to-month variability can be high, but there is a consistency in the reported number I don't like (May had risen to 10.9%) and it is confirmed somewhat by retail numbers in the Establishment report. 
I don't believe I have ever mentioned this particular measure on this blog specifically. It is one that I watch for a first indication/confirmation that a downturn has begun. I believe it is a very sensitive indicator for several reasons. 
The first is that female head of households generally have the least flexibility to move for employment, so marginal degradation in job conditions show up immediately in this worker pool. In other words, when the hiring stops or slows signficantly, they tend to show it immediately. 
This pool of women usually hunt for jobs with determination and vigor, so this measure is somewhat isolated from other effects.
THINGS ARE WORSE THAN THE OBAMA FOLKS WANT YOU TO KNOW AND THEY'RE GETTING WORSE ALL THE TIME.



Obama's new slogan, revised...

Axelrod's version:


A more accurate  slogan:


MORE AUTOCRATIC BS FROM OBAMA: WON'T ENFORCE NCLB


‘No Child’ Law Whittled Down by White House 
In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half the nation from central provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law, raising the question of whether the decade-old federal program has been essentially nullified.
YES; IT HAS BEEN - BY FIAT.

THE CONGRESS AND A PRESIDENT SIGNED THE NCLB INTO LAW, AND OBAMA IS UNILATERALLY DECIDING HE WON'T ENFORCE IT.

ABROGATING DEMOCRACY. AS HE HAS DONE WITH OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS.

AND IN THE FACE OF THIS CHAVEZ-LIKE FASCISM, THE LEFT IS SILENT.



IF PRESIDENT ROMNEY HAS TO RESORT TO THE SAME TACTIC TO STOP OBAMACARE YOU CAN DAMN SURE BETCHYA THAT THE LEFT AND THE MEDIA THEY CONTROL WILL BE HOWLING.

SIGH, AS THE PROFESSOR WROTE:
All you people who were playing the have-you-no-decency card under Bush, but who aren’t screaming just as loud now — which is pretty much all of you people who were playing the have-you-no-decency card under Bush — were and are miserable lying hacks.
YES: THE EFT IS RUN BY A BUNCH OF MISERABLE LYING HACKS. UNPRICIPLED LYING SCUM, I MIGHT ADD.


Polonium on homo Arafat's clothing was planted recently


Responding to an Al Jazeera report published Wednesday – which said that researchers at the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, discovered abnormally high levels of polonium on Arafat’s belongings – Karmon said that the half-life of the substance would make it impossible for polonium to have been discovered at such high levels if it had been used to kill Arafat eight years ago. 
According to the Al Jazeera report, polonium has a half-life of 138 days, “meaning that half of the substance decays roughly every four-and-a-half months.” 
And yet, eight years after Arafat’s death, the Swiss scientists reported finding polonium levels of 54 millibecquerels (mBq) and 180 millibecquerels on his belonging, considered to be high levels.
“If it had been used for poisoning, minimal levels should be seen now. Yet much higher levels were found. Someone planted the polonium much later,” Karmon said.
PLANTED BY THE KBG NO DOUBT.

Thursday, July 05, 2012

MICHAEL FREUND ON THE ANTI-SEMITISM AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT

Michael Freund at the Jerusalem Post has written about the disturbing silence on the Israeli police's appeasement of the Muslim Wakf at the Temple Mount:
In recent weeks, there have been a string of incidents that should have sparked outrage across the Jewish world but instead were met with stony silence.

On a number of occasions, Jews seeking to exercise their basic human rights such as freedom of worship and assembly, and freedom of speech, have seen their liberties callously disregarded, and even trampled upon.

Those wishing to pray have been hushed and even threatened with arrest, while others have been asked to remove their yarmulkes while in public.

Needless to say, these detestable acts of anti-Semitism elicited neither a single press release nor even a peep of public protest from world Jewish leaders or organizations.

Had they occurred in Paris, London or New York, the guardian lions of civil rights would surely have made their roars heard. But since these affronts against Jews have all taken place on the Temple Mount, in the heart of Jerusalem, the raucous lions have instead turned into silent lambs, refusing even to bleat in disapproval.

Consider the following. According to a report in Ma’ariv (May 22), the Israeli police have issued new instructions which forbid Jews on the Temple Mount from rocking back and forth, moving their lips or even closing their eyes, as these all might be construed as acts of prayer.

Under pressure from the Muslim Wakf which administers the site, Israel’s finest also warned Jewish visitors against removing a note of paper from one’s pocket and reading it, ostensibly out of fear that the offending page might contain Biblical verses or words of entreaty to Heaven.

Don’t let the absurdity of these regulations detract from their seriousness: this is a shocking and extreme violation of every person’s fundamental freedoms. [...]

The root of the problem lies in the humiliating arrangements that exist on the Mount, where the extremist Muslim Wakf is allowed a large measure of control. In addition to doing their utmost to erase any trace of Israel’s historical heritage at the site, the Wakf has also regularly harassed Jewish pilgrims who, despite all the restrictions, continue to visit the Mount.

Ten days ago, a young British Jewish student was reportedly accosted by Wakf officials, who demanded that he remove his yarmulke, which they said they found to be “offensive.” Rather than get into an altercation, the student chose to leave, later telling reporters that, “I have experienced anti-Semitism in England, but I never thought that in Judaism’s holiest site I would be subjugated to such discrimination.”

He is right – and no one else should be subjected to it either.
Nor should anybody remain silent on the matter anymore. If anti-semitism is not acceptable abroad, then it's not acceptable at home either, and any person who considers themselves pro-Israel, whether a reporter or a blogger or a diplomat, no matter what their race or nationality, who fails to speak out about this is putting their credentials in jeopardy. Just because they presumably don't want to appear critical of the Netanyahu led government, that's why they can't say anything? I find that offensive that anybody would think it's wrong to be critical of a right-wing Israeli leader for any reason whatsoever, and it's going to have to change sooner or later.

EGOBAMA: “The law I passed is here to stay.”


NO YOU MORON:
CONGRESS PASSES THE LAWS; 
THE PRESIDENT SIGNS THEM.

LOOKS LIKE OBAMA HAD SPARSE CROWDS IN OHIO....

HE SURE AIN'T DRAWING CROWDS LIKE HE DID IN 2008!



NO WONDER HE LOOKED SO ANGRY TODAY!


SCARY ANGRY.

HIS FUNDRAISING IS GOING JUST AS BAD.

THANK G-D!


WHAT ABOUT BILL FRIST?

HE'D MAKE A GOOD VEEP, WOULDN'T HE?

ALLEN WEST IS A GENIUS: WE SHOULD TAX PEOPLE FOR NOT BUYING GUNS

VIDEO.

IT WORKS AS POLITICAL THEATER WHICH MAKES ITS POINT AND IT WOULD WORK IN PRACTICE, TOO.


YEAH BABY: INSTAPUNDIT LET'S IT ALL HANG OUT AND BREITBART WOULD BE PROUD!

THE BLOGFATHER OFTEN PULLS HIS PUNCHES - (ND I HAVE CRITICIZED HIM FOR IT), BUT NOT TODAY:
IT’S AS IF ALL THAT HUMAN-RIGHTS CONCERN WAS JUST PARTISAN HACKERY...  
All you people who were playing the have-you-no-decency card under Bush, but who aren’t screaming just as loud now [... WHILE OBAMA DOES PRETTY MUCH WHAT BUSH DID AND HASN'T CLOSED GITMO ...] — which is pretty much all of you people who were playing the have-you-no-decency card under Bush — were and are miserable lying hacks.
EXACTLY! BREITBART WOULD BE PROUD!

BRRRRRRR!: DOWN UNDER IT'S WINTER AND IT'S ONE OF THE COLDEST WINTERS IN DECADES


WHILE PARTS OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ARE VERY HOT - I SAY PARTS BECAUSE THOUGH THE UA IS HOOTER THAN AVERAGE DENMARK AND LARGE SWATHS OF NORTHERN EUROPE ARE COLDER THAN AVERAGE, DOWN UNDER IT IS VERY COLD:

  • Brisbane awoke to its coldest morning since last winter today, while some parts of the state shivered through their coldest night in eight years.
  • MELBOURNE is beginning to thaw after some of the coldest temperatures in almost two decades snap froze the city today. The mercury hit just 8.5 degrees Celsius in the city at 3.11pm - the lowest maximum temperature since 1995.
MORE HERE.

IOW: GLOBALLY IT'S PROBABLY ... ER, UM... AVERAGE.


IOW: AGW IS TOTAL EFFIN BS.


VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY.


UNLESS YOU WANT TO SEE MORE TAXPAYER MONEY BE WASTED ON FAILING "GREEN ECONOMY" COMPANIES THAT WOULDN'T LOWER GLOBAL CO2 ONE PPM, AND WOULDN'T LOWER IT  DEGREE EVEN IF P'SPM OF CO2 CAUSED WARMING - WHICH IT DOESN'T.




AN ACTUAL ROAD-SIGN ON THE ROAD TO SERFDOM

SERIOUSLY: THE ONLY WAY OBAMA CAN WIN IS IF HE ATTACKS IRAN AND IF THE DEMOCRATS GETS THEIR USUAL NUMBER OF VOTER FRAUD VOTERS TO VOTE IN KEY STATES.
THAT'S THE ONLY  REASON WHY THE DEMOCRAT MACHINE OPPOSES VOTER ID LAWS. 

COPTS FORMING CHRISTIAN DEFENSE LEAGUE

GOOD.

WE SUGGESTED AS MUCH ON 6/27/12 - ONLY WE SAID IT SHOULD BE INTERDENOMINATIONAL  AND INTERNATIONAL.

IN MATTERS OF LAW AND WHEN LIFE ITSELF IS AT STAKE, WE SHOULD FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE AND IT IS JUST TO SEEK AN EYE FOR AN EYE  AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.

Leftist Blog Admits Leftism Is Doomed To Fail



I read this blog called Dangerous Minds because it has a lot of interesting posts on Avant Garde music, art, and pop culture.

They are also very Leftist, as so many artists tend to be. 


A guest post from our esteemed, super-smart friend, Charles Hugh Smith, publisher of the Of Twos Minds blog and author of the new book, Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change :
All centralized systems, open and shadow alike, act as heavy taxes on the society and economy. This is why they cannot compete with the forces of networked decentralization. 
The primary “news” narrative may be the failure of the euro, but the master narrative is much, much bigger: centralization has failed. The failure of Europe’s “ultimate centralization project” is but a symptom of a global failure of centralization. 
Though many look at China’s command-economy as proof that the model of Elite-controlled centralization is a roaring success, let’s check in on China’s stability and distribution of prosperity in 2021 before declaring centralization an enduring success. The pressure cooker is already hissing and the flame is being turned up every day. 
What’s the key driver of this master narrative? Technology, specifically, the Internet. Gatekeepers and centralized authority are no match for decentralized knowledge and decision-making. Once a people don’t need to rely on a centralized authority to tell them what to do, the centralized authority becomes a costly impediment, a tax on the entire society and economy. 
In a cost-benefit analysis, centralization once paid significant dividends. Now it is a drag that only inhibits growth and progress. The Eurozone is the ultimate attempt to impose an intrinsically inefficient and unproductive centralized authority on disparate economies, and we are witnessing its spectacular implosion.

The Internet is decentralization made manifest. Such a communications medium is inherently Democratic in form, and thus it will mean the end of promoters of top-down Totalitarian governmental enforcement such as the EU, China, and the "Democratic" Party. 


THIS WEEK ON "THE GATHERING STORM"

Our scheduled guest this week is Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch!

The Gathering Storm, co-hosted by WC and yours truly, broadcasts for 30 minutes every Friday beginning at noon Pacific Time. The call-in number is 646-915-9870. Callers welcome!

We will be discussing Did Muhammad Exist?, Mr. Spencer's latest book.

Listen to the July 6, 2012 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.

BWAHAHA!: Marine Corps band plays a Mitt Romney campaign song while President Obama was greeting visitors at the White House

WZ:
Love it! 
Via The Hill: 
A subset of the Marine Corps band struck up one of Mitt Romney’s walkout songs while President Obama was greeting visitors at the White House Independence Day celebration. A White House pool report said the band struck up Rodney Atkins’s “It’s America,” and described it as an “awkward moment.”

CHINA IS A PONZI SCHEME AND IT'S ABOUT TO COLLAPSE, AS ALL PYRAMIDS DO


...[IN CHINA] we have companies guaranteeing each other's debt (loans), and on the other hand, we have companies buying excessive numbers of equipment, which they pay for with loans provided by the suppliers on condition excessive numbers are bought. 
That equipment is then used as collateral to secure more loans. Large parts of these loans are then used to speculate in real estate markets. In both instances, and don't let's forget the overlapping ones where both schemes are combined, we are talking about absolutely virtual money. Are these incidents perhaps? I find that hard to believe in view of how Chinese society is organized: major profits will attract major attention, a pyramid of perfect dimensions. 
Charles Ponzi, eat your heart out.
RTWT; THE ARTICLE HAS DETAILS AND SEVERAL LINKS.

EUROPE AND CHINA WILL FALL, AND SOONER THAN YOU THINK.


JAPANESE POST-TSUNAMI NUCLEAR DISASTER WAS PREVENTABLE


Fukushima a 'profoundly man-made disaster' says official report:
"The ... Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident was the result of collusion between the government, the regulators and Tepco, and the lack of governance by said parties," the panel said in an English summary of a 641-page report. 
Regulators, it said, had been were reluctant to adopt global safety standards that could have helped prevent the disaster in which reactors melted down, spewing radiation and forcing about 150,000 people from their homes, many of whom will never return. 
"Across the board, the Commission found ignorance and arrogance unforgivable for anyone or any organisation that deals with nuclear power. We found a disregard for global trends and a disregard for public safety," the panel said.
WE NEED NUCLEAR POWER. WE MUSTN'T LET LEFTIST LUDDITES SLOWDOWN THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW PLANTS.


5 MUSLIM MEN AND 1 MUSLIM WOMAN ARRESTED IN LONDON FOR PLOTTINNG TERROR ATTACKS


Five men and a woman suspected of terrorism offences have been arrested in London as part of an intelligence-led investigation involving MI5. One of the six, who are aged between 18 and 30, was Tasered by police. Eight homes in west, east and north London and one business are being searched. It is understood the arrests relate to a possible plot involving Islamist extremists, with potential UK targets.
THE THREATS ARE GROWING, NOT RECEDING. THE OLYMPICS ARE AN OBVIOUS TARGET. SIGH.


Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Which party best represents America?


Liberals and leftists and Democrats look back at American history and see problems and they see answers in foreign ideologies.

Conservatives and Republicans look back with pride and look forward to restoring American values.

Vote accordingly.

UH-OH: FRENCH REAL ESTATE MARKET ABOUT TO COLLAPSE!

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN FIGHTING FOR A YEAR TO PROP UP GREECE BECAUSE FRENCH BANKS OWN A SHITLOAD OF GREEK DEBT.

NOW, THE NEW SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE IS ABOUT TO DESTROY THE FRENCH REAL ESTATE MARKET AND THE BANKS ALONG WITH THEM - BY RAISING REAL ESTATE TAXES:
Approximately 200,000 Britons own second homes in areas such as the Dordogne and other parts of France, particularly those serviced by budget airlines. 
Now, however, holiday home owners find themselves in the sights of President François Hollande as he seeks to tax the better-off to reduce France's large budget deficit. 
On Wednesday (July 4th), the French government announced it was to increase taxes on foreign-owned second homes. Tax on rental income would rise from 20 per cent to 35.5 per cent, and capital gains tax on property sales would rise from 19 per cent to 34.5 per cent. The extra in each case is being labelled a "social charge".
BRITS LOVE THEIR 2ND HOMES IN FRANCE - FAMOUSLY DESCRIBED IN THE GREAT MEMOIR, A YEAR IN PROVENCE.

NO MORE.

THERE WILL BE A STAMPEDE FOR THE EXITS  - FIRST IN 2ND HOMES AND THEN PRIMARY RESIDENCES AS THE HOUSE OF CARDS COLLAPSES.

IDIOTS.

(Buy the Mayle book here.)

WHAT WOULD BREITBART DO ABOUT OBAMATAX?

KEEP FIGHTING!

AS CHURCHILL SAID: 
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

THIS IS WHAT'S WRONG WITH AMERICA: Lifeguard fired for helping drowning man


A lifeguard who left his section of a Florida beach to help save a man from drowning has been given the sack. Tomas Lopez, 21, was patrolling part of Hallandale Beach north of Miami when he was told that a swimmer was in trouble in an unguarded area of the beach.
"I wasn't going to say no," the lifeguard said. 
But his bosses said he had broken company rules and could have put other swimmers at risk. At least two colleagues have resigned in protest.
TRAIL LAWYERS HAVE RUINED AMERICA.

AND THEIR CHIEF TOOL HAS BEEN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY - WHICH THEY OWN AND OPERATE ALONG WITH THE PEU'S.

THEIR INTERESTS - (AND THE INTERESTS OF THE FACTIONS THEY'VE COBBLED TO TOGETHER WHICH INCLUDES GAYS, BLACKS, ILLEGAL ALIENS, CLIMATE ALARMISTS, AND SOCIALISTS) - ARE NOT THE NATION'S INTERESTS.

UNDER OBAMA, AMERICA IS A BEACH WITH LIFEGUARDS WHO OBEY LAWYERS AND BUREAUCRATS WHILE AMERICANS DROWN.


(MORE HERE.)

MEMO TO AMERICAN DREAMERS:



MEMO TO AMERICAN DREAMERS:
MAKING THE GOVERNMENT BIGGER  
AND CAREER POLITICIANS MORE POWERFUL  
WITH AN EVEN BIGGER SAY IN THE ECONOMY  
AND IN YOUR HEALTHCARE  
AND IN YOUR RETIREMENT  
WILL NOT MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE  
ANY FASTER OR ANY BETTER;
IN FACT, IT WILL MAKE YOUR DREAMS  
TOUGHER TO ACHIEVE. 

VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY.

JULY 4TH 1986: Statue of Liberty Centennial: Johnny Cash


 "That Ragged Old Flag" 
I walked through a county courthouse square 
On a park bench, an old man was sittin there. 
I said, "Your court house is kinda run down, He said, "No, it will do for our little town". 
I said "your old flag pole kinda leaned a little bit, And that’s a ragged old flag you got hanging on it". 
He said "have a seat", so I sat down, He said, "is this your first visit to our little town" I said, "I think it is" 
He said "I don’t like to brag, but we’re kinda proud of "That Ragged Old Flag" 
"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there, When Washington took it across the Delaware. It got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it, writing "Oh Say Can You See" It got a rip in New Orleans, with Packingham & Jackson tugging at its seams. It almost fell at the Alamo beside the Texas flag, But she waved on tho. It got cut with a sword in Chancellorsville, Got cut again at Shiloh Hill. There was Robert E. Lee and Beauregard and Bragg, And the south wind blew hard on "That Ragged Old Flag" On Flanders Field in World War I, She took a bad hit from a Bertha Gun, She turned blood red in World War II She hung limp and low by the time that one was through, She was in Korea, Vietnam, She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam. The Native Americans, The Black, Yellow and White All shed red blood for the Stars and Stripes. 
And here in her own good land, She’s been abused, burned, dishonored, denied and refused, And the very government for which she stands Has been scandalized throughout out the land. 
And she’s getting thread bare, and she’s wearing kinda thin, But she’s in pretty good shape, for the shape she’s in. 
Cause she’s been through the fire before and she can take a whole lot more. 
So we raise her up every morning And we bring her down slow every night, We don’t let her touch the ground, And we fold her up right. 
On second thought I do like to brag Cause I’m mighty proud of "That Ragged Old Flag" 
Written by Johnny Cash



REAGAN'S MUST SEE SPEECH HERE.

THE DEMOGRAPHICALLY DOOMED WEST? MAYBE...

THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT MAY BE SOON COMING TO AN END:


AL FIN:




AL FIN: 
Since the most rapid population growth is occurring in the most impoverished tribal areas of Earth, in populations with some of the lowest average IQs and highest homicide rates measured, the Earth is in store for what could easily be a wild and violent ride downward into rapid impoverishment....  
This coming anarchy is developing at the same time that populations in more advanced nations of the world are beginning to shrink, while the governments of the most advanced nations of the world are themselves sinking into a quagmire of debt -- due to social policies of promoting dependency upon the state, and due to government strangulation of private sector economies. 
Wiser persons will make preparations for this coming anarchy. 
STOPPING THE DECLINE AND FALL OF A JUDEO-CHRISTIAN EUROPE AND THE SLIDE OF AFRICA INTO SHARIA WILL TAKE A GREAT EFFORT - A COUNTER-ATTACK THAT INCLUDES A MUCH MORE VIGOROUS CONDEMNATION OF SHARIA AND MUCH MORE ROBUST KINETIC RESPONSE TO JIHAD.

THAT WILL CERTAINLY NOT HAPPEN WITH OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND ISLAM-APPEASING SCUM LIKE HOLLANDE AND CAMERON AND VON ROMPUY CALLING THE SHOTS IN EUROPE.

BRITAIN NEEDS TO BE RUN BY A UKIP/BFP/EDL COALITION AND SOCIALISTS NEED TO BE KICKED OUT OF THE EXECUTIVE SUITES OF THE CONTINENT'S GOVERNMENTS.

WHAT MIGHT MAKE THIS HAPPEN? I SHUDDER TO THINK... 

CHRIS ROCK: LOVES OBAMA; HATES WHITE AMERICA, ESPECIALLY ON INDEPENDENCE DAY

Obama-Worshipping Celebrity Chris Rock: Fourth Of July A Holiday For White People…
CHRIS ROCK LOVES THE USA AS MUCH AS MICHELLE AND BARACK OBAMA DO - WHICH IS TO SAY... NOT VERY MUCH.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY.

HEY, IF I'M WRONG, THEN OBAMA CAN PROVE IT BY CONDEMNING CHRIS ROCK.

VIDEO: OBAMA: "I expect to be held responsible..... I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking"



OBAMA IS A LIBERAL FASCIST.

AND AS HE SAID, HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE AWFUL SHAPE OUR NATION IS IN RIGHT NOW.

SO, HE DOESN'T DESERVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY.

IT'S A DARK DAY WHEN THE CULPRIT WHO VANDALIZED YAD VASHEM IS ONE OF US

The police have arrested 3 culprits in the anti-semitic graffiti case at Yad Vashem, and the worst part is, the main one responsible is an ultra-Orthodox of a potentially Satmar/Neturai karta-type upbringing:
The state prosecutor on Tuesday filed an indictment against an ultra-Orthodox man for defacing the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and two IDF war memorials. At Yad Vashem, the graffiti he allegedly sprayed included: “If Hitler hadn’t existed, the Zionists would have invented him.”

Elhanan Ostrowitz, a 31-year-old Jerusalem resident, was charged at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court for spraying anti-Zionist hate slogans at the sites and, apparently, has shown no remorse for his actions. [...]

During questioning, Ostrowitz said that if he had the chance he would bomb the Knesset, the High Court, and IDF army bases, the prosecutor wrote. The accused also claimed he received funding to assist him in his campaign.

Ostrowitz, who describes himself as an anti-Zionist, reconnoitered Yad Vashem to examine its security systems before spraying anti-Zionist hate slogans on walls and defacing memorials at the site last month. In another attack, he sprayed graffiti on an IDF war memorial at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem and tried to burn an Israeli flag flying at the site. Ostrowitz also defaced three IDF memorials in the Jordan Valley.
Haaretz has more:
Ostrowitz's father, Ehud Or, told Haaretz he was angry at his son over his "extremely unethical" actions, for which he should be punished. [...]

The police said the vandalism took place over a period of three months. The first incident was in April, when Ostrowitz allegedly sprayed anti-Zionist slogans and an image of the Palestinian flag on two military memorials in the Jordan Valley. According to the charge sheet he and four other people drove a rented car to one site, where he painted the flag. The group then defaced a second memorial, bearing the names of Israeli war dead, with slogans such as "Zionists out."

Three days later, the indictment states, Ostrowitz sprayed the Ammunition Hill war memorial in Jerusalem, with slogans including "Shimon Peres is Amalek," equating Israel's president with the quintessential Bible-era enemy of the Jewish people. Another slogan read "Gunter Grass is strong and brave," in a reference to the German writer who has been publicly critical of Israel.
Sometimes I just wish there was an official law permitting exile of traitors like this one. He belongs in more backwards countries like Britain, or Venezuela, Germany/Austria, or even Egypt. The weirdest part though, is that he would insult Shimon Peres, after all he'd done in past years, such as his chumminess with Yasir Arafat, and harming the country with appeasement.

But I'm glad to see the creep's father came out against him for his abominations, and summed up just what should be done with him for now: penalize severely.

Update: The Yeshiva World says that the criminal is reportedly part of Neturei Karta, though one of their US heads denies it.

Update 2: The Jerusalem Post verifies the Neturei Karta connections more clearly, and says:
The suspects – members of Natorei Karta – were found in possession of large amounts of texts condemning Zionism and Israel, PLO flags and paint. Texts suspected to be incitement to hatred were also found on computers.

Natorei Karta – a small but vocal, extreme anti-Zionist sect – believes that the founding of the State of Israel, without specific divine intervention, was a sin.
These Karta Kreeps are really pure dhimmis! So badly in fact that it looks like they're well on their way to becoming a jihadist's best companion.

NYTIMES OP-ED CONFLATES INDIVIDUALISM WITH SELFISHNESS

ANDERSEN COMMITS A FALLACY HERE: "The Downside of Liberty"

HE WRITES: "... sometimes we have gone overboard indulging our propensities to self-gratification..." AS IF THERE CAN BE TOO MUCH LIBERTY.

HE IS WRONG.

THE PROBLEM IS NOT INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, BUT LIBERTY WITHOUT NATURAL LAW.

LIBERTY WITHOUT NATURAL LAW DEVOLVES INTO LIBERTINAGE.

WITHOUT NATURAL LAW, LIBERTY IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE THAT KNOWS NO END BUT THE ABYSS.

HE WRITES:

But then came the late 1960s, and over the next two decades American individualism was fully unleashed. A kind of tacit grand bargain was forged between the counterculture and the establishment, between the forever-young and the moneyed. 
Going forward, the youthful masses of every age would be permitted as never before to indulge their self-expressive and hedonistic impulses. But capitalists in return would be unshackled as well, free to indulge their own animal spirits with fewer and fewer fetters in the forms of regulation, taxes or social opprobrium.... “Do your own thing” is not so different than “every man for himself.” If it feels good, do it... Thanks to the ’60s, we are all shamelessly selfish.

BESIDES BEING WRONG, THIS GIVES RISE TO SEVERAL QUESTIONS:

  • WHAT DID THEY BECOME UNSHACKLED FROM? 
  • MERE "SELF-RESTRAINT"? 
  • WHERE DOES SELF-RESTRAINT COME FROM? 
  • WHAT MIGHT DEFINE ITS BOUNDS? 
  • ARE THE LIMITS TO LIBERTY PERSONAL AND SUBJECTIVE? 
  • IF SO, THEN IS THERE ANY BASIS FOR CRITIQUING THEM?
  • ARE THE BOUNDS MERELY MECHANICAL, AS IN THE OLD SAYING, "ONE MAN'S RIGHT TO SWING HIS ARM ENDS WHERE THE NET MAN'S NOSE BEGINS"?

20TH CENTURY LEFTISTS SEEKING TO DESTROY WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND TO REPLACE IT WITH A TOTALITARIAN SOCIALISTIC STATE USED MORAL RELATIVISM TO TRY TO STRIP NATURAL LAW - AND G-D - OUT OF OUR CIVILIZATION IN ORDER TO CREATE A VACUUM THEY MIGHT FILL WITH MARXISM - AND THEY'VE SUCCEEDED WITH A LARGE PART OF OUR POPULATION.

ANDERSEN'S ANALYSIS IS ESSENTIALLY RELATIVISTIC: HE EQUATES THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT AND CALLS BOTH EQUALLY SELFISH.

HE IS WRONG. LEFTISTS ARE LIBERTINES, AND RIGHT-WINGERS ARE NOT.

LEFTISTS WANTED TO DESTROY MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY (BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS OF CIVILIZATION) IN THE 1960'S AND REPLACE THEM WITH FREE LOVE AND COMMUNES.

HAVING FAILED, THEY HAVE RECENTLY TURNED TO GAY MARRIAGE AND NOW MULTIPLE PARENTING.

LEFTISTS ARE ESSENTIALLY MORALLY RELATIVIST PEOPLE WHO DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN THEIR OWN EYES AND HAVE TURNED AWAY FROM TRADITIONAL, 3000 YEAR OLD, RELIGIOUS VALUES THAT ARE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WEST.

THEY ARE EITHER ATHEISTS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN AN ETERNAL TRANSCENDENT G-D, OR PSEUDO-RELIGIOUS FOLKS WHO THINK THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO FASHION A G-D AND A RELIGION OUT OF WHATEVER VALUES THEY HOLD AT THE MOMENT - OR WHICH APPEAR IN EDITORIALS AT THE NYTIMES.

NOT ONLY DOES THIS LEAD TO WANTONLY BAD BEHAVIOR, BUT TO INTERNATIONAL STALEMATE:

WITHOUT A TRANSCENDENTALLY BASED MORAL CODE, THE ONLY BASIS FOR INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION IS CONSENSUS.

THIS IS WHY THEY OVERVALUE THE UN, AND WHY THE UN IS A USELESS ORGANIZATION THAT HAS PERMITTED SEVERAL GENOCIDAL WARS GO UN CONTESTED - IN RWANDA AND SYRIA FOR EXAMPLE - AND ALSO PERMITS HORRIBLE ISLAMO-MISOGYNY TO GO ON AND ON AND ON AND ON.

MORALLY RELATIVISTIC MORALITY IS NOT MORALITY AT ALL.

AND MORAL RELATIVISM IS WHY SOME PEOPLE TURN THEIR INNATE LIBERTY TO BAD ENDS.

THE PROBLEM ISN'T UNBRIDLED LIBERTY OR EVEN SELFISHNESS, BUT LIBERTY AND SELF-HOOD UN-TETHERED FROM G-D AND G-D'S LAW, NATURAL LAW.

WITHOUT THE GOD OF NATURE AND NATURAL LAW PEOPLE HAVE NO TRANSCENDENT AND ETERNAL COMPASS WITH WHICH TO HARNESS THEIR OWN DESIRES AND DREAMS AND INCLINATIONS.

AND PEOPLE DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN THEIR OWN EYES, AND THIS IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF EVIL.


ANOTHER TAKE ON MORAL RELATIVISM HERE.