Two Quick Metaphors For The Death of Europe

Here it is, the history of Germany made manifest in a 1:19 second long video:




And then there is France:

Skeleton of French man found in bed after 15 years

Bye bye, Auntie Europe. It was good while it lasted.

PEPSI IS SPONSORING HAMAS SOCCER GAMES IN GAZA

Well this is disgusting. Elder of Zion's found some info showing that soda-maker Pepsi has been sponsoring the soccer games held in Gaza under the Hamas (Hat tip: Jihad Watch). Not that I've ever had much of their products, but if this is how Pepsi's going to behave, then clearly, anyone with common sense should avoid their output.

FRENCH INTEL DOWNGRADED SURVEILLANCE OF MERAH MONTHS BEFORE RAMPAGE

It's been revealed now that the jihad savage who murdered 4 Jews and 2 French soldiers was not being tracked properly by authorities at all:

French intelligence services downgraded an investigation of Mohamed Merah just five months before he opened fire at a crowd of parents and children outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, killing four, AFP reported Friday citing leaked intelligence documents.

According to the French DCRI domestic intelligence service reports, seen by AFP, Merah had been under surveillance since 2006, and was identified as a "privileged target" at the beginning of 2011 upon his return to France in from a trip to Afghanistan.

DCRI agents intercepted Merah in 2011 after the Frenchman returned from a trip to Pakistan. Despite evidence that Merah had been in regular contact with "the radical Islamist movement in Toulouse," was displaying "paranoid behavior," and that he was receiving funds from extremists, the French agency concluded that Merah's surveillance could be curtailed.

Merah killed Rabbi Yonatan Sandler, his two children and the daughter of the school’s principal in the attack outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school. The French gunman died after police stormed his apartment two days after the attack.

First arrested at 17, Merah had a number of run-ins with police as a teenager for stone-throwing and shoplifting, before being sentenced to 18 months in jail in 2007 for a robbery. Merah had since ratcheted up at least 15 criminal convictions, and according to DCRI reports was "an individual with a heavy criminal past who is in the process of radicalizing."

I don't know if Nicholas Sarkozy has any responsibility to bear here, but the intel service most definitely does, and has a lot of explaining to do. Their irresponsibility is what's led to tragedy. It's just like the California authorities who turned their backs on Phillip Garrido, the monster who kidnapped Jaycee Dugard in 1991. This failure to enforce the law is just what leads to these kind of horrors.

AMONG VOTERS WHO HAVE DECIDED, ROMNEY LEADS BY 4%

YUP, THEMS THE NUMBERS.

SO, IF THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE CLAIMING THAT THEY ARE UNDECIDED DON'T BOTHER TO DECIDE OR VOTE, THAT MEANS ROMNEY SHOULD WIN BY 53% TO 47%.

THE REMAINING UNDECIDEDS HAVE HAD 4 YEARS TO MAKE UP THEIR MINDS ABOUT OBAMA, AND IF THEY'RE NOT SURE AT THIS  POINT, THEN THEY WILL NEVER BE SURE.

THEREFORE - IMHO - THEY ARE REALLY DECIDING ON WHETHER TO VOTE ROMNEY OR STAY HOME.

SO ROMNEY IS GUARANTEED AT LEAST 53% OF THE VOTE - OR MORE.

I THINK IT WILL BE MORE AS A BANDWAGON EFFECT BEGINS TO SET IN AFTER THE THIRD DEBATE.

THERE'S NOTHING OBAMA CAN DO AT THIS POINT TO STOP ROMNEY - NOT EVEN BOMBING LIBYA OR SYRIA OR IRAN WILL HELP. NOT EVEN KILLING ZAWAHIRI.

IT'S OVER.

TOUCH WOOD.

PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF WHAT'S WRONG WITH ARYEH DERI

This article tells that all is not well behind the scenes at the Shas party with a 3-way leadership. But at the end, it also says something else that's reason to be optimistic:

A number of Shas MKs have also been told by constituents that Deri's return will harm the party.

"We've received more than a few letters from voters who said they supported Shas because it was a right-wing party, and now, with Deri, who supported the Oslo Accords, they won't vote for us," the MKs said. "Also, the talk about Deri having served in prison is not good for us. We hope that [the compromise deal] will pay off in reality."

Let's hope not. Just because Deri may be number two on the list this time doesn't mean he couldn't have influence of a bad sort. This is exactly why I hope those voters already disturbed about Deri's presence will consider voting for Rabbi Amsalem's new party.

Update: The Jerusalem Post wrote an editorial about why it's very doubtful that Deri has repented for his past offenses.

A ROMNEY-RYAN VICTORY WILL BE OPTIMAL FOR AMERICA...

... AND THE FREE WORLD.

AN OBAMA-BIDEN VICTORY WOULD NOT BE OPTIMAL.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

The first thing Romney shoud do as President, is order the Army to award Purple Hearts to the heroes killed & wounded by Nidal Hassan

JUST SAYING.

MY "ROMNEY CABINET" WISH LIST:

SEC DEF - JACK KEANE
SEC STATE - DAVID PETRAEUS
SEC TREAS -  BOB ZOELLICK
ATTORNEY GENERAL - BOB MCDONNELL
SEC DHS - RUDY GIUIANI
OMB DIR - ERSKINE BOWLES
NSC DIR - RICHARD WILLIAMSON
UN AMBASSADOR - KT MCFARLAND
SEC COMMERCE - CARLY FIORINA
SEC INTERIOR - SUSANA MARTINEZ
SEC HHS - MIKE LEAVITT
SEC EDUC - MICHELLE RHEE
SEC LABOR - NIKI HALEY
SEC VA - ALLEN WEST
SEC HUD - MICHAEL STEELE
AMB TO THE VATICAN - RICK SANTORUM

NJ WEIGHS IN HERE.

JR COUNTERS HERE.

THE BLAZE HERE.

VIDEO: HOW OBAMA COMPARES TO FDR, REAGAN, CLINTON AND BUSH

AS NICE DEB SAYS, THIS AD IS BRUTAL:

OBAMA HAS BEEN A PITIFULLY MISERABLE, HORRIBLY AWFUL PRESIDENT.

HE DESERVES TO LOSE VERY BADLY.

HE SHALL.

Obama’s net approval rating is lower today than it was in 2010

Via Weasel Zippers:

Via Weekly Standard:

The latest polling from Rasmussen Reports shows that President Obama’s net approval rating is lower today than it was two years ago. Today, Obama’s net approval rating among likely voters is minus-3 percentage points (48 percent approval to 51 percent disapproval), while his net approval rating among those who feel “strongly” (either way) is minus-14 points (29 percent approval to 43 percent disapproval).  On October 19, 2010, Obama’s net approval rating was minus-1 point (49 percent approval to 50 percent disapproval), while his net approval rating among those who felt “strongly” was minus-10 points (30 approval to 40 percent disapproval).

IF OBAMA IS LESS POPULAR NOW THAN HE WAS IN 2010, THEN HIS TURNOUT WON'T BE ANY HIGHER - AND THE GOP'S TURNOUT WON'T BE ANY WORSE -  THAN 2010.

IF OBAMA IS LESS POPULAR NOW THAN HE WAS IN 2008 - WITH BLACKS AND JEWS AND CATHOLICS AND THE YOUTH, THEN HIS TURNOUT WILL BE LOWER THAN 2008, AND THE GOP'S TURNOUT WILL BE HIGHER THAN 2008.

THIS HAS ALL THE MAKINGS FOR AN HISTORIC LANDSLIDE.

I THINK OBAMA MIGHT ONLY WIN A DOZEN OR SO STATES: CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON, OREGON, MINNESOTA, ILLINOIS, CONNECTICUT, VERMONT, MASSACHUSETTS, MARYLAND, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, AND DC.

THE POPULAR VOTE WILL BE CLOSER - BECAUSE THE CROOKED DEMOCRAT MACHINES WILL RUN UP THE VOTE IN PLACES LIKE NYC AND LA AND CHICAGO AND PHILADELPHIA.

ANOTHER GREAT SHORT RANT FROM THE MAN WHO STARTED THE TEA PARTY: RICK SANTELLI, THIS TIME ON THE REAL JOB NUMBERS!

VIDEO HERE.

MANY DEMOCRATS ARE SUPPORTING ROMNEY

ACE:

3 newspapers -- the Orlando Sentinel, the NY Observer, and the Tennessean -- flip from supporting Obama to supporting Romney.

THE POST BY ACE REVIEWS SEVERAL DEMOCRATS WHO ARE SWITCHING TO THE RIGHT SIDE - LIKE LEE IACOCCA.

I THINK PARTY-SWITCHING VOTERS MIGHT ALREADY BE HAVING A BIG - UNSEEN -IMPACT:

DEMS ARE TOUTING THEIR EARLY VOTING TURNOUT.

WELL, ER.. UM, HOW DO THEY KNOW THEY ARE ALL OBAMA VOTERS?

MAYBE MANY ARE EAGER TO VOTE FOR ROMNEY?

Fidel Castro Suffers Stroke, near a Neurovegetative State" - Will Lefties Call for Euthanasia?

You know they won't. 

Lefties won't let go of Dear Leader Fidel until God takes him from this planet.

Truth is, Lefties only really want to kill unimportant people, "Useless Eaters", like Terri Schiavo.

Fidel Castro suffers stroke, near 'a neurovegetative state'

MSNBC'S LAWRENCE O'DONNELL - A MILLIONAIRE - EPITOMIZES AND EPIPHANIZES THE ABSOFREAKINLUTELY DERANGED LEFT

VIDEO HERE.

AS MICHELLE MALKIN SAYS, THEY'RE UNHINGED.

UPDATE: LAWRENCE O'DONNELL HAS A PART ON THE ANTI-MORMON SERIES ON CABLE TV - A SERIES I BELIEVE WAS CONCEIVED OF AND PRODUCED FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF SMEARING ROMNEY.

LAWRENCE O'DONNELL HAS ALSO MADE ANTI-MORMON SLURS - AS RECENTLY AS APRIL OF THIS YEAR.

O'DONNELL IS AN ASSHOLE.

I CHALLENGE HIM TO A DUEL. HE CAN PICK THE WEAPON.

WILL VOTER FRAUD IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLICS OF MADISON, DETROIT, AND PHILADELPHIA RE-ELECT OBAMA?

THE OBAMA IS TANKING AND HIS FIREWALL IS CRUMBLING:

Do the Obama strategists think that Romney has North Carolina, Florida, Virginia and Colorado in the bag? I doubt it. But the implications are pretty staggering. Give Romney those states and he’s at 257 electoral votes. And with a number of places to get them, maybe including (as Major suggests) Pennsylvania or Michigan.

SO, IT MIGHT COME DOWN TO ONE OR TWO STATES.

STATES WITH LARGE CITIES THAT ARE RUN BY DEMOCRAT MACHINES WITH VOTER ROLLS TEEMING WITH PHANTOM/FRAUDULENT VOTERS.

CITIES LIKE MADISON, DETROIT, AND PHILADELPHIA.

OR VEGAS.

THE MORE DESPERATE THE POLL NUMBERS BECOME, THE MORE LIKELY THE MACHINE IS READYING THEIR EFFORT.

AND THEN, YOU GOTTA ALSO INCLUDE ALL THE DEMOCRATS IN THE NYC TRI-STATE AREA WHO HAVE HOMES IN FLORIDA AND VOTE TWICE: THEY COULD SAVE FLORIDA FOR OBAMA.

I AM SERIOUS:

AN ADMINISTRATION THAT

• LIES ABOUT ROMNEY AND BAIN...
• AND LIES ABOUT ROMNEY'S FISCAL PLAN...
• AND THAT DOLES OUT BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER FUNDS TO ITS CRONIES UNDER THE GUISE OF "GREEN ECONOMY"... 
• AND LIES ABOUT THE FORT HOOD ATTACK (CALLING IT "WORKPLACE VIOLENCE") -
• AND MORE IMPORTANTLY LIES ABOUT FAST & FURIOUS... 
• AND THE RECENT AL QAEDA TERRORIST ATTACK ON OUR AMBASSADOR, 

WILL LIE AND CHEAT ABOUT ANYTHING.

THESE CITIES ARE ALL KNOWN FOR THEIR CORRUPT DEMOCRAT MACHINES, AND THEY ALL PROBABLY HAVE THEIR VOTER FRAUD OPERATIONS - (RUN IN CAHOOTS WITH THE SEIU AND THEIR JOINT OPERATION "THE WORKING FAMILIES PARTY"  --- AN OFF-SHOOT OF ACORN AND THE SEIU AND THE "NEW PARTY") WELL-OILED, FINE TUNED, READY AND RARING TO GO.

ONLY A MASSIVE TEA PARTY TURNOUT LIKE 2010 CAN STOP THEM.

JOHN FUND HAS DOCUMENTED THE GRAVE PERIL DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD REPRESENTS.

WE CANNOT DEPEND ON LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DEFEND THE SANCTITY OF THE ELECTION.

OUR ONLY MEANS OF GUARANTEEING AN ELECTION IN WHICH FRAUD IS IRRELEVANT IS TO GET OUT THE VOTE:

EVERYONE HAS TO FIND AT LEAST ONE UNDECIDED VOTER AND GET THEM TO VOTE FOR ROMNEY, AND ONE OBAMA VOTER ON THE EDGE AND CONVINCE THEM TO EITHER VOTE FOR ROMNEY, OR STAY HOME.

AFTER 4 YEARS OF OBAMA SPENDING MONEY LIKE A DRUNKEN SAILOR, IT'S TIME TO ELECT A DESIGNATED DRIVER PRESIDENT

UNLIKE "CHOOM GANG" OBAMA, MITT ROMNEY IS A TEETOTALER AND HAS BEEN HIS WHOLE LIFE - WHICH MAKES HIM, LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY, A PERFECT DESIGNATED DRIVER IN CHIEF.

IN HIS BOTH TEMPERAMENT AND EXPERIENCE, ROMNEY IS PERFECTLY SUITED TO BRING THIS NATION BACK FROM THE BRINK.

THIS IS WHY WOMEN ARE ABANDONING OBAMA IN DROVES AND NOW SUPPORTING ROMNEY: HE'S RELIABLE.

OBAMA WAS THE SEXY BAD BOY YOU GOT HIGH WITH FOR A WHILE.

ROMNEY - THE GUY YOU MARRY AND RAISE A FAMILY WITH.

JOHN STEWART: THE JOSEPH GOEBBELS OF COMEDY CENTRAL

John Stewart had fun with the 2nd Presidential debate - and he posed as a balanced observer by offering positive  highlights for both candidates.  But of course he saved his last zinger to repeat the lie that president Obama referred to the Benghazi murder of Ambassador Stevens and his entourage as a terror attack.

I read that the President has appeared on John Stewart 6 times!!!  How does he manage that and still keep his Handicap so low!  And he can have his cake (i.e. walk on eggs with his freinds of the Muslim Brotherhood) and eat it too!  (Claim that he called the attack terrorism...)

Marie Antoinette eat your heart out!

ASTRONOMY HEADLINE OF THE WEEK: YOUR ANUS HAS BIZARRE WEATHER

I MEAN URANUS.

SCIENTIFIC STUDY MAY HAVE DISCOVERED WHY DRINKING BLOOD MAKES VAMPIRES IMMORTAL?

 Changes in the composition of our blood as we age may cause the deterioration of memory and other brain functions by damaging connections in the brain. 

Filtering younger blood into an older body could combat the problem by rejuvenating old tissue and keeping nerve cells in good working order, according to a new study... 

... Researchers from Stanford University found that old mice given transfusions of younger blood performed better in a memory task than those left to age naturally. 

They also began to re-grow connections in their brains which had previously begun to disappear as part of the aging process and which affect memory... 

... Researchers will also examine the possibility of using blood transfusions for protection against disease in the elderly. 

Dr Villeda said: "Do I think that having young blood could have an effect on a human? I am thinking more and more that it might. 

"We have blood transfusions all the time after chemotherapy and for surgery. I think now we know something happens, you can start treating it more as a therapy."

THIS ALSO MIGHT GOOD NEWS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE USA:

IT MIGHT CREATE AN INCOME STREAM FOR ALL THE RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATES UNABLE TO FIND A REAL JOB IN THE OBAMA ECONOMY!

JPEG FROM TAB/2009: 

JUST AS I PREDICTED: BECAUSE OF OBAMA'S POLICIES, THE USA IS HAVING ITS FIRST MAJOR SURGE IN VIOLENT CRIME IN 20 YEARS

FOX:

Violent crimes unexpectedly jumped 18 percent last year, the first rise in nearly 20 years, and property crimes rose for first time in a decade.  

The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Wednesday that the increase in the number of violent crimes was the result of an upward swing in simple assaults, which rose 22 percent, from 4 million in 2010 to 5 million last year. The incidence of rape, sexual assault and robbery remained largely unchanged, as did serious violent crime involving weapons or injury. 

Property crimes were up 11 percent in 2011, from 15.4 million in 2010 to 17 million, according to the bureau's annual national crime victimization survey. Household burglaries rose 14 percent, from 3.2 million to 3.6 million. The number of thefts jumped by 10 percent, from 11.6 million to 12.8 million. 

... Historically, less than half of all crimes, including violent crimes, are reported to police.

I PREDICTED THIS:

MAY 14, 2009: CRIME WAVE COMING: FORMER DRUG DEALER OBAMA TO LOOSEN UP ENFORCEMENT OF DRUG LAWS: (EXCERPT)

MARK MY WORDS: OBAMA WILL GIVE US A CRIME WAVE.

JULY 13, 2009: 

SINCE OBAMA ELECTED, COPS KILLED ON DUTY UP BY 20%! 

USA TODAY: Officer deaths up in first half of '09
WE PREDICTED AN OBAMA CRIME WAVE, AND WE ARGUE THIS IS THE FIRST INDICATOR.‏ 

And this doesn't even take into account the crimes perped by the Democrats in Congress!

JULY 27, 2009:  MORE SIGNS THE OBAMA CRIME WAVE HAS BEGUN: 16 SHOT IN BALTIMORE IN ONE DAY: (EXCERPT)

HOW DID WE KNOW THIS WOULD HAPPEN? 

SIMPLE: 

WHETHER IN FOREIGN POLICY OR DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, APPEASEMENT ONLY INVITES MORE BAD BEHAVIOR. 

AND OBAMA AND THE LEFT ARE APPEASERS. 

THEY AVE FOR DECADES LOVED TO MAKE EXCUSES FOR CRIMINAL - BY BLAMING SOCIETY AND NOT THE PERPS. 

MORE ON THAT HERE. EXCERPTS:

THAT'S RIGHT: LIBERAL POLICIES AND LIBERAL LEADERS MAKE CRIME GO UP... 

And there you have the problem in a nutshell. The black family survived slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, World Wars I & II, and the Depression. But the black family could not survive the liberal wrecking ball of the Great Society programs that facilitated illegitimacy and idleness. 

A once proud community of men and women whose seemingly infinite capacity for backbreaking work made them sought-after by industrial employers in the Northern cities, has been reduced to dependency by liberal politicians who created a socialistic plantation where docile, reliable Democratic voters were used to perpetuate their own helplessness. And reduced to a condition of tolerating the crime and mayhem that is tearing it apart.

Such is the America that socialistic liberals wish for us all. 

And there you have the problem in a nutshell. The black family survived slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, World Wars I & II, and the Depression. But the black family could not survive the liberal wrecking ball of the Great Society programs that facilitated illegitimacy and idleness. 

A once proud community of men and women whose seemingly infinite capacity for backbreaking work made them sought-after by industrial employers in the Northern cities, has been reduced to dependency by liberal politicians who created a socialistic plantation where docile, reliable Democratic voters were used to perpetuate their own helplessness. And reduced to a condition of tolerating the crime and mayhem that is tearing it apart. 

Such is the America that socialistic liberals wish for us all. 

Such is the America that socialistic liberals wish for us all. 

OBAMA WANTS TO CHICAGO-IZE THE USA - AND CHICAGO, LIKE BALTIMORE, HAS A HORRIBLE MURDER RATE AND RAMPANT CRIME. AND CHICAGO AND BALTIMORE ARE DEMOCRAT RUN CITIES. THAT'S NO MERE COINCIDENCE.

... The liberals have handcuffed the police. Race-mongers [LIKE GATES AND SHARPTON AND JACKSON AND WRIGHT] intimidate the law-abiding with the bluster and buffoonery of an Al Sharpton, and the smooth sophistry of a Professor Loury.

... inner city black communities have come to tolerate a level of lawlessness which the hard-working, church-going, family-raising black men and women who migrated from the deep South would never have allowed.

 JULY 29. 2009:  WHEN YOU SEND A MESSAGE THAT CRIMINALS WILL BE APPEASED - AND THAT IT'S OKAY TO BREAK THE LAW, THEN YOU ENCOURAGE MORE CRIME

AND AS RECENTLY AS JUNE 25, 2012:

THE BROKEN WINDOW THEORY AND OBAMA'S REFUSAL TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS: 

HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO OBAMA'S REFUSAL TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS?

OBAMA HAS MADE TWO DECISIONS THAT IN EFFECT "BREAK THE WINDOWS".

FIRST, VIA EXECUTIVE FIAT OBAMA EXCLUDED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO CAME HERE AS MINORS FROM THE LAW. 

SECOND, VIA THE DHS ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THEY WILL ONLY ACCEPT CUSTODY OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED IN ARIZONA IF THEY HAVE COMMITTED A FELONY.

DETAILS:

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that they are discontinuing agreements made with Arizona police to enforce federal immigration laws.  In other words, they pouted, stomped their feet, took their ball and went home. 

Via Fronteras (h/t Gateway Pundit): 

Further, DHS has issued a directive telling federal authorities to decline many of the calls reporting illegal immigrants that the Homeland Security Department may get from Arizona police.
Read that again. 

HOMELAND SECURITY will be IGNORING PHONE CALLS regarding individuals who are IN OUR COUNTRY ILLEGALLY.  Doesn't that defy the very definition of 'homeland security'?  

THIS WILL LEAD TO A SURGE IN CRIME FOR TWO REASONS: 

FIRST, IT LET'S LAWBREAKERS WALK AROUND WITH IMPUNITY - AND MANY OF THEM WILL GO ON TO COMMIT OTHER CRIMES, LIKE GETTING A JOB USING FALSE ID'S, VOTING WITH FALSE ID'S, ASSISTING OTHER ILLEGALS GET FALSE ID'S, AND SO ON. 

MANY WILL ALSO COMMIT FELONIES, AND OBAMA WILL ONLY DEAL WITH THEM AFTER THEY HAVE COMMITTED THE MORE SERIOUS OFFENSE.

SECOND; OBAMA'S OPEN DEEP DISRESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW SENDS A SIGNAL AND WILL BE CONTAGIOUS. AND THAT'S DANGEROUS.

The Department of Homeland Security is suspending the program it uses to deputize local, county and state law enforcement officers in Arizona so they can double up as immigration agents.

The move affects only Arizona and it was made in direct reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday regarding Arizona’s controversial immigration laws.

IF YOU WANT CRIME TO GO DOWN, THEN VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN!

HMM: ANOTHER OBAMA FOE WHACKED BY A SUDDEN SEX SCANDAL: DINESH D'SOUZA RESIGNS

FUNNY HOW OBAMA'S FOES KEEP GETTING TAKEN DOWN BY SUDDEN EXPOSURE OF SOME PRIVATE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR. 

OBAMA WAS TRAILING HIS INITIAL GOP FOE  - JACK RYAN - IN HIS US SENATE RACE - UNTIL RYAN DROPPED OUT WHEN HIS SEALED DIVORCE RECORDS MYSTERIOUSLY BECAME PUBLIC... SOMEHOW.

NOW - ON THE HEELS OF HIS INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL ANTI-OBAMA MOVIE. D'SOUZA'S [PRIVATE AFFAIR HAS BECOME PUBLIC.

GOOD THING ROMNEY IS A MORMON WHO IS AS STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW.

A CORRUPT POLITICIAN RETURNS TO SHAS

Aryeh Deri, who was convicted on bribery acceptance charges, got approval to be in the Shas party again by the very rabbinical "mentor" who was quite fine with surrendering Israeli land to the PLO:

After weeks of tension over the future leadership of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, a compromise deal was reached on Wednesday that will see the party running for the Knesset not under one leader, but under the shared triple leadership of current Chairman Eli Yishai, returning founder Aryeh Deri and senior minister Ariel Atias.

It was not clear who would head the party until the last minute, as bitter rivals Yishai and Deri fought to tip party spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who was to make the final decision, in their favor. Deri, the former chairman of the party, who served a 22-month prison term following his corruption conviction, recently completed the required waiting period for returning to politics.

The compromise deal was formulated throughout the day, and toward the evening the party's Council of Torah Sages convened to approve the deal and to welcome Deri back into its ranks. [...]

Following the announcement, politicians across the political spectrum criticized Deri's return to the Shas' leadership. Rabbi Haim Amsallem, who left Shas to establish his own independent party, said, "Shame has clung to the Shas party. I propose bringing back Yair Levy [sentenced to four years in prison for financial irregularities], Shlomo Benizri [sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting bribes and corruption], Rafael Pinhasi [given a 12-month suspended sentence for illegal transfer of funds], Ofer Hugi [sentenced to two years in prison on several counts of corruption] and all the rest of the Shas convicts."

"Shas has shamed, and continues to shame, the Sephardi public. In Moroccan, it's called ‘Hashouma’ (‘Shame’), which means desecrating God's commandments. The first party to post a convicted criminal at its helm is an ultra-Orthodox party," he said.

Well said. Deri has done only so much to damage Israel more than he's actually helped it, and getting the state to pay taxpayers' money for their yeshivas rather than to earn money themselves is just one of the many ways they've gone about their business the wrong way.

Rabbi Amsalem is right to take issue with their conduct. He's already formed his own party as seen above, and I hope he can make an impact and convince people that his platform is better than that of Shas.

Update: David Lev spoke with Amsalem for Israel National News explains why the leftist media in Israel has been keeping all but quiet about Deri's prior convictions for taking bribes:

“While the media never fails to point out any and every minor infraction of a Hareidi politician, they are being quite charitable to Deri,” said Amsalem. “Deri was the one who signed off on the Oslo Accords and pushed Rabbi Yosef to accept them, so the left has high hopes for him in this election. Deri, they hope, will neutralize Shas, immobilizing it enough to prevent the party from agreeing to quickly – or agreeing at all – to join a government headed by Binyamin Netanyahu.”

Even if Deri doesn't do this, his bid to reenter the Knesset is still unwelcome, and he's never offered a genuine apology for all the damage he's indirectly responsible for. He does not deserve to be a politician.

White House: Obama Will Veto "Fiscal Cliff" Compromise, if It Does Not Hike Taxes On The Rich

If Obama doesn't RETRACT this, he won't even carry five states.

 From Hot Air:

Obama has never explicitly said whether he is prepared to let the new year arrive without taking action to avoid the cliff. Some Republicans, noting that the president has backed off demands for higher taxes twice in the past, are skeptical that he will stand firm now. But his veto threat challenges Republicans to a dangerous game of chicken over a fiscal event that would raise taxes for nearly 90 percent of households, slice deeply into military and domestic budgets, and probably spark a brief recession.

Read the Article

THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORD IN THE FINAL DEBATE BETWEEN ROMNEY AND OBAMA WILL BE ... "FLEXIBILITY"

THE FINAL DEBATE IS A FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE.

AND HERE'S WHY THE WORD "FLEXIBILITY" IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORD WE SHALL HEAR IN THE DEBATE:

IF MEDVEDEV AND PUTIN STAND WITH OBAMA, THEN YOU SHOULD STAND WITH ROMNEY.

• WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO TELLS AMERICANS IN PUBLIC WHAT HE TELLS FOREIGN LEADERS WHEN HE THINKS HE'S IN PRIVATE.  

•  WE NEED A PRESIDENT WE CAN TRUST CAN TELL US THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS FOREIGN POLICY - WHETHER IT HAS TO DO WITH ISRAEL, OR BENGHAZI, OR RUSSIA.  

•  OBAMA FAILS THE TRUTH TEST. 

•  VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

UPDATE: VIA IOTW:

AT THE "TOWNHALL-STYLE"  DEBATE, OBAMA ONCE AGAIN SAID ONE THING IN PUBLIC AND ANOTHER IN PRIVATE, ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON POST:

 According to Ladka [THE MAN WHO ASKED THE QUESTION ABOUT BENGHAZI], [FATER THE DEBATE] Obama gave him ”more information about why he delayed calling the attack a terorrist attack.”

IOW: IN PRIVATE, OBAMA ADMITTED HE DELAYED CALLING THE BENGHAZI ATTACK A TERRORIST ATTACK.

WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO WILL BE HONEST WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

IS THERE ANY DOUBT WHO CHAVEZ AND NASRALLAH AND PUTIN SUPPORT IN THE USA ELECTION?

IS THERE ANY DOUBT WHO CHAVEZ AND NASRALLAH AND PUTIN SUPPORT IN THE USA ELECTION?

IF THEY WANT OBAMA, THEN YOU SHOULD WANT ROMNEY.

HMMM: AMAZING CHANGES ON JUPITER THE LAST DECADE

DETAILS HERE.

THIS HAPPENED THERE ON 9/11/12:

SALAFIST SAVAGES DESTROY 8000 YEAR OLD CARVINGS IN MOROCCO

Stone carvings in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains dating back more than 8,000 years and depicting the sun as a pagan divinity have been destroyed by Salafists, a local rights group said on Wednesday.

“These stone carvings of the sun are more than 8,000 years old. They were destroyed several days ago,” Aboubakr Anghir, a member of the Amazigh (Berber) League for Human Rights, told AFP.

“One of the carvings, called ‘the plaque of the sun,’ predates the arrival of the Phoenicians in Morocco,” Anghir said.

EVEN THE NAZIS DIDN'T DO THIS SORT OF THING.

THESE ISLAMOTHUGS ARE TRULY SAVAGES.

MUST SEE TV: BERNIE MARCUS IS SCARED

VIA NYM.

LEGACY MEDIA'S MASKS SLIP AGAIN

The room set aside for reporters to watch Tuesday night's debate erupted into applause after President Obama ridiculed the size of Mitt Romney's personal wealth.

IF THE LEGACY MEDIA WAS  BALANCED, THEN ROMNEY WOULD BE UP BY 25%.

THE TWO VIDEOS THAT COULD WIN ROMNEY THE WOMAN'S VOTE AND ALL THE BATTLEGROUND STATES:

Obama is doing BEST among WOMAN voters. If Romney could get a majority of them, then he'd win in a landslide. All Romney has to do is dispel the lies Obama has told about him.

This one is running:

This one would be even better - but someone needs to edit it down to 1 minute:

REPEAT: IF OBAMA LOSES THE WOMAN'S VOTE, THEN HE LOSES THE ELECTION IN A LANDSLIDE.

THESE VIDEOS ARE GOOD BECAUSE THEY SPEAK TO THE SUBURBAN MOMS AND SINGLE CITY WOMEN WHO NEED REASSURANCE THAT ROMNEY WILL BE SYMPATHETIC TO THEIR NEEDS AND SEEK TO TAKE CARE OF THEM - ALTHOUGH NOT WITH MORE OF THE SAME OLD LIBERAL POLICIES THAT HAVE FAILED.

MICHAEL JONES POSED THE BEST QUESTION OF THE NIGHT, AND ROMNEY'S ANSWER WON ROMNEY THE DEBATE AND THE ELECTION

CROWLEY: I want to move you both along to the next question because it's in the same wheelhouse. So you will be able to respond. But the president does get this question. I want to call on Michael Jones.

MICHAEL JONES:

Q: President, I voted for you in 2008. What have you done or accomplished to earn my vote in 2012? I'm not that optimistic as I was in 2012. Most things I need for everyday living are very expensive.

OBAMA BULLSHITTED THE MAN.

THEN, ROMNEY ANSWERED HIM:

ROMNEY: 

I think you [THE QUESTIONER] know better. 

I think you know that these last four years haven't been so good as the president just described and that you don't feel like you're confident that the next four years are going to be much better either. 

I can tell you that if you were to elect President Obama, you know what you're going to get. You're going to get a repeat of the last four years. We just can't afford four more years like the last four years.

THAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT.

AND THIS ANECDOTE WILL FURTHER EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS THE CRUX OF THE ELECTION:

I WAS RIDING UP THE FREIGHT ELEVATOR, TONIGHT, WITH A LATINO MAN. 

HE DOES ALL THE DELIVERIES FOR A COMPANY A FEW FLIGHTS UP FROM THE PLACE I WORK AT IN MIDTOWN NYC. 

I ASKED HIM HOW BUSINESS WAS. 

HE SAID, "SPOTTY. NOT GREAT. "

I SAID WE WERE VERY BUSY AND WISHED WE ALL WERE BUSY, BUT THAT THINGS IN THE ECONOMY ARE OBVIOUSLY STILL NOT GREAT FOR EVERYONE. 

HE SAID - WITH NO PROMPTING, AND WITHOUT HIM KNOWING I'M A ROMNEY SUPPORTER - (AND MIND YOU, THIS IS IN THE HEART OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF MANHATTAN!), "IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE. OBAMA IS NO GOOD. HE HAD HIS CHANCE AND FAILED."

HIS WAS NOT A PARTISAN DECISION OR CONCLUSION.

AND IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SOCIAL ISSUES OR FOREIGN POLICY.

IT HAD TO DO WITH EXACTLY WHAT THE QUESTIONER, MICHAEL JONES, ASKED ABOUT.

AND THIS WORKING-CLASS, MIDDLE-AGED, LATINO MAN - WHO HAS PROBABLY VOTED DEMOCRAT IN EVERY ELECTION OF HIS LIFETIME - WILL VOTE ROMNEY THIS NOVEMBER.

WHY? BECAUSE OBAMA BULLSHITTED HIS ANSWER AND EFFED UP THE LAST FOUR YEARS, AND ROMNEY'S ANSWER ECHOED THE FEELINGS OF THE QUESTIONER - AND THE MILLIONS LIKE HIM.

ROMNEY'S DEBATE PERFORMANCES HAVE REASSURED THE PEOPLE WHO NEED REASSURANCE THAT THEIR DISAPPOINTMENT WITH OBAMA IS REAL AND CORRECT AND THAT THEIR DESIRE FOR CHANGE IS CORRECT, TOO.

REPEAT:

• ROMNEY REASSURED THEM.

• HE FEELS THEIR PAIN.

• HE GETS IT.

• HE CAN FIX IT.

AND AS A RESULT: HE WILL WIN.

Update:

• Ann Coulter agrees.

• David Leeper agrees.

• Debra J. Saunders agrees.

WOMEN GAINING GROUND IN ISRAELI LEGAL SYSTEM

The Jewish Press reports that a significant portion of women have made it big in the Israeli legal system as lawyers and judges.

I HOPE THE MARGOLIS' DON'T LEAVE BEIT SHEMESH, BUT CANNOT TELL FOR NOW WHAT THEY PLAN

The Jewish Press reported last month that the family of Naama Margolis, the young girl who was terrorized by Haredi extremists in Beit Shemesh, may be planning to leave the city:

In the headline-making interview, back in December, 2011, Hadassa and Na’ama shared horrifying tales of Haredi men attacking them every morning, as mother was accompanying her daughter to school. They were yelled at and spat on by Haredi men, they related, to the point where little Na’ama was staying home, refusing to go to school for fear of being attacked again.

The Margolis story was supported at the time by interviews with Haredi men who spoke openly to the cameras about the need to shame publicly women who do not adhere to the strictest Haredi manner of dress.

The Margolis family is religious but not Haredi.

Now, Hadassa Margolis is considering moving out of Beit Shemesh. This is despite the fact that their story had an enormous impact on the city, as Na’ama herself told IDF radio this week: “The extremists are no longer coming out when I walk to school,” she reported, commenting that “the news report changed reality.”

The same IDF radio report this week said that three kolels (yeshivas for married scholars) where the Haredi attackers used to belong have been closed down and the students left town. But that is not enough, apparently, for Hadassa and Na’ama Margolis, who say they’re still feeling traumatized by last year’s events.

“I’ve had enough of feeling like we’re anybody’s scapegoats (fra’yerim), I’ve had enough of feeling uncomfortable, changing clothes in certain places. I’m a little exhausted emotionally.”

I can understand why they feel this way. And those monsters who did this should be ashamed of themselves for causing them all this trouble. I'm glad if the pseudo-yeshivas they were hanging out in are no longer operating. There is still some violence there though, as back in June, some other extremists threw rocks at the car of a woman whose baby was with her. And as heard in this video, (if you understand Hebrew) there was even racism yelled out against Ethiopians (blacks) at one of those Haredi protests. The worst may be over, but we can't expect the problem to vanish entirely yet.

But I hope the Margolis' don't leave Beit Shemesh. I don't know if it's because it would be capitulation, but the city does need people like them around, and to bring it back to sanity again, they need to cut funding to many of the worst bastions of insular Haredi mindsets.

UN SCHOOLS IN JORDAN WON'T TEACH ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST

The Times of Israel (via Tablet) reports that anti-semitism is sanctioned in United Nations schools in Jordan:

Rumors of a UN decision to re-introduce Holocaust studies in schools run by UNRWA — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees — have raised the ire of Jordanian teachers, who say they will refuse to teach history that “harms the Palestinian cause.” [...]

Since 2009, Hamas in Gaza has actively opposed UNRWA’s attempts to introduce the Holocaust into school curriculum in Gaza, claiming that it contradicted Palestinian culture.

There's another reason why they wouldn't want to: it could require that they acknowledge the Mufti's role in the Holocaust, and they don't want to do that. But it does offer a clue to just how repellant even Jordan's Islamic-based societal mindset really is.

AFTER THE DEBATE: Crowley admits that Romney’s was “right” in that the Obama administration spent weeks refusing to say that the attack was terrorism

NOW SHE SAYS IT!?!?!

GREAT ROUND UP HERE.

WOW: LUNTZ INDIE GROUP SWINGS TO ROMNEY AFTER DEBATE #2

WOW.

HUGE BREAKING NEWS: OMFG: OBAMA LIED AND CROWLEY SWORE TO IT: OBAMA DID NOT UTTER THE WORD TERROR AT THE ROSE GARDEN SPEECH! UPDATED - SCROLL DOWN!

HERE'S HIS OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE:

I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Right now, the American people have the families of those we lost in our thoughts and prayers. They exemplified America's commitment to freedom, justice, and partnership with nations and people around the globe, and stand in stark contrast to those who callously took their lives. 

I have directed my Administration to provide all necessary resources to support the security of our personnel in Libya, and to increase security at our diplomatic posts around the globe. While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants. 

On a personal note, Chris was a courageous and exemplary representative of the United States. Throughout the Libyan revolution, he selflessly served our country and the Libyan people at our mission in Benghazi. As Ambassador in Tripoli, he has supported Libya's transition to democracy. 

His legacy will endure wherever human beings reach for liberty and justice. I am profoundly grateful for his service to my Administration, and deeply saddened by this loss.The brave Americans we lost represent the extraordinary service and sacrifices that our civilians make every day around the globe. As we stand united with their families, let us now redouble our own efforts to carry their work forward.

OBAMA SAID AT THE DEBATE, THAT HE "CALLED THE ATTACK ON BENGHAZI AN ACT OF TERROR THE DAY AFTER THE ATTACK DURING HIS STATEMENT IN THE ROSE GARDEN" AND THE TRUTH IS HE MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT.

SO OBAMA LIED IN THE DEBATE - AND CROWLEY SWORE TO IT!

IF OBAMA DIDN'T LIE THEN HE'D HAVE NOT A FREAKIN. THING TO SAY.

REPEAT: ROMNEY WAS RIGHT ON THE FACTS AND OBAMA WRONG. OBAMA LIED TONIGHT.

ROMNEY WAS RIGHT.

AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, OBAMA MISHANDLED THE ENTIRE BENGHAZI AFFAIR - AND MIDDLE EAST POLICIES.

UPDATE:

Obama said during the speech that “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation” — but at no point was it clear that he was using that term to describe the attack in Benghazi.

HE COULD HAVE, BUT CHOSE NOT TO.

UPDATE #6: GERAGHTY PROVES OBAMA TIED THE ATTACK TO THE MOHAMED MOVIE IN HIS REMARKS IN THE ROSE GARDEN:

Take a look at Obama’s Rose Garden comments here. Obama refers to the murder of Stevens and the other Americans as an “attack” – duh – but then he says: 

"Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths.  We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.  But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence.  None." 

Those lines clearly imply that the events were a reaction to the YouTube tape. The word “terror” appears once, in the entirety of Obama’s remarks, in this context: 

"No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.  Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America." 

That’s not specifically referring to the Benghazi raid, although one could argue it’s implied. 

However, by telling the audience – to applause! – that Obama did refer to the murders as a terror attack, Candy Crowley is responsible for one of the most egregious misjudgments of any moderator in the history of presidential debates.

UPDATE #2:

IN THE VIDEO, OBAMA SPECIFICALLY REFERS TO THE PERPS AS "KILLERS" AND NOT AS TERRORISTS. 

WATCH THE SPEECH HERE.  HE SAYS No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation” AT 5:54 INTO THE VIDEO.

UPDATE #3: HOFT HAS VIDEO OF KRAUTHAMMER.

UPDATE #4: WASH POST FACT TRACKER AGREES.

UPDATE #5: MEDIAITE: CROWLEY LATER ADMITS THAT ROMNEY WAS RIGHT:

CNN anchor and debate moderator Candy Crowley joined CNN’s panel after the debate to discuss a moment where she corrected Mitt Romney after he claimed that President Barack Obama had refused to characterize the attack in Libya an act of terror for 14 days. Crowley said that Romney’s was “right” in that the Obama administration spent weeks refusing to say that the attack was terrorism, but she thought at the time that “he picked the wrong word.” 

“I heard the president speak at the time. I, sort of, reread a lot of stuff about Libya because I knew we’d probably get a Libya question so I kind of wanted to be up on it,” said Crowley. “I knew that the president had said, you know, these acts of terror won’t stand. Or, whatever the whole quote was.” 

“Right after that I did turn around and say, but you’re totally correct that they spent two weeks telling us this was about a tape and that that there was this riot outside the Benghazi consulate which there wasn’t,” Crowley added. 

“He was right in the main, I just think he picked the wrong word,” Crowley concluded. She went on to say that her instinct forced her to correct Romney even though his “thrust” was correct.

SO WHY DID SHE INTERFERE AND COME TO OBAMA'S DEFENSE?

WAS SHE MERELY MOMENTARILY IN OBAMA'S THRALL?

OR DID HER DEEP SYMPATHIES TO OBAMA AND THE LEFT GAIN CONTROL OVER HER CAPACITY TO THINK?

DEBATE #2 WAS 2 1/2 AGAINST ONE - A TAG TEAM OF OBAMA AND CROWLEY VERSUS MITT

BECAUSE SHE'S OBESE, IT WAS 2 1/2 AGAINST ONE.

UPDATE: SHE NOT ONLY SWORE TO OBAMA'S LIES AND INTERRUPTED ROMNEY ALL THE TIME, BUT SHE GAVE OBAMA 10% MORE SPEAKING TIME.

ROMNEY WON - BECAUSE THE TRUTH WINS.

OBAMA LIED ABOUT BENGHAZI AND HIS ENERGY POLICIES AND IMMIGRATION AND MITT'S TAX PLAN AND SO ON.

IF OBAMA DIDN'T LIE, THEN HE'D HAVE NOTHING TO SAY.

OBAMA WAS BETTER THIS TIME THAN LAST TIME, BUT A DRAW GOES TO THE CHALLENGER.

THERE WERE NO KNOCKOUT PUNCHES.

ROMNEY'S CLIMB IN THE POLLS WILL CONTINUE.

UPDATE: STEPHEN GREEN AGREES:

Romney didn’t need to step up his game.  Obama did — and he did.  OK, he did it with a nice assist from Candy Crowley — The MODERATOR! — but mostly it was Obama getting back into form.
So did Obama blunt Romney’s surge?
My first thought is: No.

OBAMA FAILED TO ACHIEVE NEARLY EVERYONE OF HIS PROMISED GOALS

On the Budget:

"... I will cut the deficit in half...."

HE DID NOT. HE FAILED.

On Spending:

"I want to go through the budget line by line, eliminate programs that don't work, and make programs that do work cost less."

HE DID NOT. HE FAILED.

On Unemployment:

"I will keep unemployment below 8%."

HE DID NOT. HE FAILED.

On Entitlements:

"I want to reform Medicare and Social Security by the end of my first term as president."

HE DID NOT. HE FAILED.

On Green Economy:

"We can create 5 million new jobs."

HE DID NOT. HE FAILED.

On Gitmo:

"I will close Gitmo."

HE DID NOT. HE FAILED.

On Immigration Reform:

"I will pass comprehensive immigration reform in my first year."

HE DID NOT.

On Foreign Relations - HE FAILED:

"The day I’m inaugurated, not only the country looks at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently … If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country and I may be a Christian, but I also understand their point of view … My sister is half-Indonesian. I traveled there all the way through my college years. And so I’m intimately concerned with what happens in these countries and the cultures and perspective these folks have. And those are powerful tools for us to be able to reach out to the world … then I think the world will have confidence that I am listening to them and that our future and our security is tied up with our ability to work with other countries in the world that will ultimately makes us safer."

HE WAS WRONG. HE FAILED.

THERE IS NO SANE REASON FOR ANYONE TO VOTE FOR OBAMA AND RETURN HIM TO THE OVAL OFFICE.

HIS SUPPORTERS SHOULD BE HORRIBLY DISAPPOINTED IN HIM FOR FAILING TO ACHIEVE NEARLY ALL HIS PROMISED GOALS.

HE SIMPLY DOESN'T DESERVE ANOTHER TERM.

(THIS POST SUGGESTED BY THIS.)

AND NOW, TIME FOR THE QURANIC VERSES TO BE ADVERTISED BY AFDI FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT

Pamela Geller's launched another advertising initiative for the public to learn about some of the most telling verses found in the Koran. The one she's got for starters is 3:151, which says "soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers". If she needs more recommendations of which verses could serve for an advertising campaign, I would strongly recommend 2:223, which says "Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like" which could be used in advertising to warn about how the Koran condones - but is not limited to - marital rape. Women who support civil rights need to know about Koranic content like that too, and how it's been used for centuries to indoctrinate violence and supremacy against women.

More about the ad campaign over here.

PREDICTION: OBAMA BOMBS LIBYAN TARGETS TOMORROW - THE DAY AFTER THE DEBATE

REMEMBER, HE WHACKED OSAMA THE DAY AFTER THE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER.

Update - 10/19/12: NO ATTACK... YET. MAYBE HE'LL WAIT UNTIL JUST BEFORE OR AFTER THE THRID DEBATE, THE FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE.

WAIT AND SEE...

A REVEALING MEETING

On October 8, I met with R, a former student of many years ago.  She hunted me down on the Internet and asked if I would advise her. This young lady, who did not go into teaching directly from college but rather pursued another career for a few years, thought that teaching would be relatively easy.  She actually said to me, "When you were teaching me, I thought that teaching looked so easy!"

This first year as a classroom teacher, R is finding out the hard way that effective teaching is anything but easy, particularly during those first years.

R's lack of experience, however, is only the beginning of her woes as a first-year teacher....

Read the rest at Always On Watch to learn more about some of the serious flaws with our education system. 

To flourish, our republic needs an educated citizenry.

AS MAINE'S CD#2 GOES SO GOES THE NATION?

MAYBE. (6 MINUTE MARK)

MORE HERE.

WANT TO KNOW A PRESIDENT'S PRIORITIES? THEN CHECK HIS SCHEDULE!

OBAMA'S BASIC SCHEDULE - DURING A CRISIS!

HOW DO ROMNEY'S TAX RETURNS COMPARE TO THE TAX RETURNS OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN?

HE PAYS A HIGHER %, AND GIVES A HIGHER % TO CHARITY THAN THE AVERAGE AMERICAN.

BENGHAZI: INCONCEIVABLE

Tammy Swofford (bio) has written an excellent commentary about what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2011. Worth your time.

She prefaces her opinion piece in the Daily Times Pakistan with the following:

It is my belief there was both dereliction of duty and gross malpractice in play regarding the denial of needed services as requested by a United States ambassador.

Excerpt from the body of USNR Lieutenant Commander Swofford's essay:

...Ambassador Christopher Stevens needed a more robust security complement. Instead, more than 30 security members were relieved of the mission in Libya in the last six months. What should have been the response of the Commander-in-Chief? When reviewing daily intelligence reports and noting an increase in ThreatCon in Libya, he still allowed his Secretary of State and her chain of command to approve a force reduction. Why were repeated requests for increased security assets by Ambassador Christopher Stevens denied? And why did the State Department try to pass off what was an organised terror attack against the staff at the Benghazi consulate as a mere anti-west provocation by ‘the village people’? Very early on, the images posted on a jihad portal showed scenes that denoted an exceptional use of firepower as opposed to protesters with mere matches and gasoline at their disposal. Who was asleep at the switch? And which analysts did not connect the dots that there was a trigger-pulling event slated for Benghazi?....

Blood on their hands. Diplomatic blood.  [T]he death of Ambassador Stevens was not an accidental event. Read my lips. It could have been prevented....

Read it all HERE.

The Obama administration MUST be held to account for Benghazi!  Americans need to get angry enough to prevent any more diversions and smoke and mirrors on the part of the administration.

OBAMA: "THE BUCK STOPS WITH HILLARY!"

Hillary Clinton takes the fall for her boss - says Benghazi was her fault, (sort of).

No surprise here.

I made and posted this photoshop on 9/27/12:

Prescient, eh?

Made this and posted it on 8/17/11:

And this one - recently picked up by Twitchy - I made and posted on 12/27/09:

Blaming others for one's own shortfalls is classic narcissist behavior. It's Obama's most salient character trait. And it's a lousy thinng in a person who is suposed to be  a leader.

Vote Accordingly.

OBAMA IS A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

Jesus said:

“Watch out for false prophets. 

They come to you in sheep’s clothing,

 but inwardly they are ferocious wolves." 

ARE JEWS ABANDONING OBAMA?

IT SEEMS, PERHAPS. THAT JEWS HAVE INDEED WOKEN UP:

An Investor’s Business Daily/TIPP poll says Mitt Romney is leading Obama 44/40 among Jewish voters. While the survey message cautions  this was a small sample of a small group, no amount of “yeah buts” can talk away Obama’s fall from 78% among Jews in 2008 to anything near 40%. Moreover the 16 points of “undecided” are statistically and historically likely to deliver another 13 points to Romney for a mind blowing 57/43 victory among Jews. No Democrat has ever won the presidency while getting less than 68% of the Jewish vote.

THIS WOULD BE A GOOD THING.

APPARENTLY, HISPANICS ARE WAKING UP, TOO. (SAME LINK)

BLACKS SHOULD WAKE UP TOO: LEFTIST POLICIES ARE NO BETTER FOR THEM THAN THEY ARE FOR EVERYONE ELSE.

FACT: OBAMA HAS GIVEN 1000x MORE AID TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND ISLAMISTS IN LIBYA AND SYRIA, THAN TO IRANIANS WHO ROSE UP AGAINST AHMADINEJAD

ACCORDING TO THE NYTIMES, OBAMA IS ARMING ISLAMISTS IN SYRIA - AS HE DID IN LIBYA.

BUT IN 2009 - WHEN HE HAD THE CHANCE TO AID THE IRANIANS OVERTHROW THEIR TYRANTS DID HE GIVE THEM ANY AID?

NOPE.

THE BRAVE PEOPLE OF IRAN TOOK TO THE STREETS TO PROTEST THE ANNOUNCED ELECTION RESULTS, (WHICH GAVE THE ELECTION TO AHMADINEJAD).

THEY WERE SLAUGHTERED IN THE STREETS.

AND OBAMA DITHERED, AND THEN - IN THE END - HE DIDN'T HELP THEM AT ALL.

IN 2009, HE BALKED AT AIDING THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY AND FIGHTING ISLAMISTS OF IRAN.

AT THE VERY SAME TIME OBAMA WAS ACTIVELY AIDING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S ASCENDANCY TO POWER IN EGYPT. 

THIS YEAR, THESE ISLAMISTS TOOK OVER THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT AND ARMY OF EGYPT.

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD HAD BEEN TRYING FOR 80 YEARS TO DO THAT, AND HAD FAILED. OBAMA ENABLED IT IN THREE SHORT YEARS.

THESE ACTS - 

1. GIVING ARMS TO THE ISLAMISTS OF LIBYA AND 
2. GIVING ARMS TO THE ISLAMISTS OF SYRIA, AND 
3. AIDING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S TAKE OVER OF EGYPT, AND 
4. DITHERING WHEN THE IRANIANS TRIED TO OVERTHROW THEIR ISLAMIST GOVERNMENT - 

SHOULD PROVE BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT WHOSE SIDE OBAMA IS REALLY ON.

HIS ACTIONS TELL US WHO HE IS.

THE FRUITS OF HIS ACTIONS ARE NOT GOOD. MATTHEW 7:15 - 20:

15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn-bushes or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

AND... BY HIS FRUITS, WE KNOW OBAMA.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

MUST SEE TV: FARAGE WITH CAVUTO

NIGEL FARAGE IS ONE OF TWO POLITICIANS WHO CAN SAVE EUROPE.

THE OTHER IS GEERT WILDERS.

WATCH FARAGE HERE.

70% OF GM'S CARS ARE MADE OVERSEAS... SO, ER... UM, DID AMERICAN TAXPAYERS BENEFIT FROM THE BAILOUT?

NOPE.

OBAMA'S PALS IN THE UAW BENEFITED.

BUT SHAREHOLDERS, BONDHOLDERS, DELPHI WORKERS, AND DEALERSHIPS ALL GOT A MAJOR SCREWING.

AND ER, UM... SO DID THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER.

GM OWES US MORE THAN THEY ARE CURRENTLY WORTH.

THE BAILOUT OF GM IS A REASON TO OPPOSE OBAMA.

HE DIDN'T "SAVE THE AUTO INDUSTRY" AS HE CLAIMS.

HE DIDN'T "SAVE DETROIT" OR MICHIGAN OR OHIO.

HE BAILED OUT THE PENSIONS OF THE UAW.

THAT'S ALL IT WAS ABOUT.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

HAREDI ASSAULTER IN BEIT SHEMESH GETS TOO LIGHT A SENTENCE

A judge in this case has made the foolish choice of accepting a plea bargain:

Moshe Friedman, 28, a haredi man from Beit Shemesh, was sentenced Sunday to three months of community service over attacking a media crew last December.

Taking the plea bargain, he was convicted of assaulting Channel 10 photographer Yaniv Shmueli and Beit Shemesh City official Richard Peres at the scene.

Three months prior to the rally, Friedman assaulted IDF Radio reporter Tal Yehezkeli, as she was covering an ultra-Orthodox rally that took place at the same area. Friedman shouted "shiksa" and spat at her several times. As a result he was charged with assault.

Despite these reoccurring cases Magistrates' Court Judge Avital Chen, approved the plea bargain, sentencing Friedman to three months of community service only.

The judge explained the ruling saying that Friedman was a family man with no prior convictions, and that he has accepted responsibility for his actions, in addition to the period of time he already spent in jail.

I'm afraid it's still too minor a sentence. He should definitely be put on probation, and be shunned from civilized society. What he did was also a violation of the Torah he'd claim he was upholding. His crimes included the following to boot:

According to the indictment, photographer Shmueli and reporter Asaf Uzan arrived at Jordan Square in Beit-Shemesh and were soon surrounded by haredim demanding they leave the area. Shmueli and Uzan called Peres requesting assistance but his arrival at the scene did little to calm things down.

Friedman was convicted of shoving the photographer and blocking his way when he tried opening the back of his car. Calling the media crew "nazis", Friedman did not calm down even when the police showed up. He resisted the policeman trying to arrest him and was charged with assaulting a public officer.

Those are very serious offenses coupled with what was stated above, and family matters cannot serve as an excuse for letting him off with a slap on the wrist.