CANADIAN JIHADIST TOLD RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES ABOUT TSARNAEV, WHO THEN TOLD FBI, WHO FAILED TO ACT

The Boston Herald (via Jihad Watch) tells that:

A slain Canadian jihadi gave Russian counter-terrorism agents the tip that put alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev on their radar two years ago, Bay State U.S. Rep. William R. Keating confirmed yesterday — raising questions about whether Tsarnaev’s direct link to the known militant was ever passed on to the FBI or local authorities.

Keating told the Herald yesterday his staff in Russia has learned William Plotnikov, while under interrogation in the militant hotbed of Dagestan, named Tsarnaev as a fellow extremist.

“That’s when the Russian government started looking at Tamerlan and he showed up on a jihadist website,” Keating (D-Bourne) said. “That’s when they contacted the U.S.”

The interrogation prompted Russian authorities to ask the FBI to investigate Tsarnaev in 2011. It is unclear whether the Russians told the FBI that Tsarnaev was associated with Plotnikov or another suspected extremist, Mansur Mukhamed Nidal.

[...] The detail of the information from the Russians to the FBI — and whether the feds passed it on sufficiently to local authorities — is sure to come up next week on Capitol Hill, where the House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on the bombings.

And they should by all means get to the bottom of this very troubling discovery, because the failure of authorities to follow up on the info the Russians provided is exactly why the horror took place.

LIBS'N LEFTIES WOULD RATHER ABORT THEIR OWN BABIES AND IMPORT LABOR

LIBS'N LEFTIES ARE THE ONES HAVING MOST OF THE ABORTIONS.

LIBS'N LEFTIES ARE ALSO THE ONES WHO WANT AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

SEEMS THESE LIBS'N LEFTIES WOULD RATHER PAY HIGHER TAXES TO SUPPORT THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO COME HERE - (AND PUT A BIGGER STRAIN ON SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS), THAN HAVE AND SUPPORT THEIR OWN KIDS.

AND SINCE THESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS LOWER CURRENT AND FUTURE WAGES FOR ALL AMERICANS, THE LIBS'N LEFTIES WHO SUPPORT AMNESTY ARE GUARANTEEING THAT THE CHILDREN THEY HAVEN'T ABORTED WILL EARN LESS AND HAVE A LOWER LIVING STANDARD.

HOW SICK IS THAT!?

THERE'S GONNA BE $4 TRILLION IN FUNNY FED MONEY FLOATING AROUND THE US ECONOMY BY THE END OF THE YEAR

THAT'S THE PROJECTED TOTAL OF TH FED'S "QUANTITATIVE EASING" PROGRAM - $4 TRILLION.

YOU CANNOT PUT $4 TRILLION OF FUNNY MONEY - 25% OF OUR ANNUAL GDP - INTO OUR ECONOMY WITHOUT CAUSING MASSIVE PROBLEMS.

AND THEY CAN'T KEEP DOING IT, EITHER.

THE ESS IS GONNA HIT THE EFF REAL SOON....

REVEALING: PRO-TSARNAEV POSTERS IN CHECHNYA

BBC: Pro-Tsarnaev posters in ChechnyaLeaflets expressing support for the suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appear on walls in the Chechen capital Grozny.

SINCE CHECHENS ARE GENETICALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MOST HUMANS, WE MUST ASK:

WHAT MAKES THEM BEHAVE LIKE BEASTS WHO APPLAUD TERROR?

SIMPLE: IT'S THE CULTURE, STUPID! 

AND THE BEDROCK OF THAT CULTURE IS... ISLAMISM.

TERROR DOESN'T GROW IN THE SWAMP OF DESPAIR AND POVERTY - (AS THE LIBS'N LEFTIE ARGUE).

IT IS BUILT UPON THE BEDROCK OF ISLAMISM.

ISHAD MANJI - A LIBERAL MUSLIM - HAS OFTEN ARGUED THAT ISLAMISM'S DEFECT IS THAT IT TAKES THE KORAN AND THE HADITHS AND SURA LITERALLY.

SHE ARGUES THAT THEY MUST BE TAKEN FIGURATIVELY.

THIS ARGUMENT TACITLY ADMITS THAT THE PROBLEM IS LITERALLY ISLAM.

THIS ARGUMENTS ADMITS THAT THE ISLAMIST AREN'T TWISTING THE WORDS OF THEIR FAITH, BUT EXACTLY FOLLOWING THEM.

THE SOONER WE ALL ACCEPT THIS THE SOONER OUR COUNTER-JIHAD WILL BE EFFECTIVE.

IF WE FAIL TO ACCEPT IT, THEN WE WILL FAIL TO DEFEAT JIHAD.

WE HAVE TO FIGHT THE ENEMY AS HE IS, NOT THE ENEMY AS WE WOULD WISH HIM TO BE.

DOW 15,000 A SYMPTOM OF CENTRAL BANKS' POLICIES AND NOT EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS

THE STOCK MARKETS IN THE USA JUMPED UP TODAY AS THE LABOR NUMBERS WERE RELEASED.

THE NUMBERS WERE BETTER THAN EXPECTED - BUT THEY STILL SUCK. (I WONDER IF THE DRAMATIC INCREASE IN USA SUICIDE RATES ARE HAVING AN EFFECT ON THE JOB NUMBERS?)

THEY STILL SUCK BECAUSE THE USA IS NOT CREATING JOBS FASTER THAN POPULATION GROWTH AND BECAUSE THE NUMBER OF DISCOURAGED WORKERS NO LONGER SEEKING WORK CONTINUES TO CLIMBS AND BECAUSE THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WORKING IS SUCK ON A 40 YEAR LOW.

ECONOMIC GROWTH IS WAY TOO SLOW AND HAS BEEN SINCE 2008.

CORPORATE PROFITS SUCK, BUT THEY BEAT THE PISSPOOR RATES CENTRAL BANKS ARE PAYING. AND THE EU'S CENTRAL BANK JUST CUT THEIRS BECAUSE EUROPE IS GOING INTO A RECESSION.

WITH EUROPE GOING INTO RECESSION, THE ONLY SUREFIRE WAY TO INCREASE GROWTH IS TO LOWER ENERGY COSTS - AND THIS CAN BE DONE IN THE USA AND EUROPE WITH THE STROKE OF A PEN:

POLITICIANS OUGHT TO DECLARE A MORATORIUM ON ALL ENERGY, GASOLINE/PETROL, AND CARBON TAXES.

THIS WILL IMMEDIATELY PUT MORE MONEY IN THE POCKETS OF CITIZENS AND COMPANIES AND HELP THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST.

ALL PRICES ON ALL PRODUCTS WHICH USE ENERGY FOR THEIR MANUFACTURE AND DELIVERY WILL COME DOWN IN PRICE.

SHORT OF THIS, THERE IS NO WAY THAT THE WORLD WILL AVOID ANOTHER MAJOR CRASH, AND IT'S COMING SOONER THAN ANYONE THINKS, PERHAPS TRIGGERED BY A WAR IN IRAN OR THE KOREAN PENINSULA OR IN NORTHERN AFRICA.

OR TRIGGERED BY THE INEVITABLE COLLAPSE OF THE EURO AND THE EUROZONE.

STAY TUNED...

UH-OH: FRANCE IN RECESSION..

The eurozone economy will shrink more than expected this year with France sliding into recession, according to a gloomy European Commission report. The Commission forecast says euro-area growth will shrink by 0.4% this year, down from 0.3% forecast in February. 

France will go into recession this year with negative growth of 0.1% and unemployment rising to 10.9% in 2014 from 10.6% this year. On Thursday, the European Central Bank cut interest rates on growth worries. 

"Grappling with the aftermath of a profound financial and economic crisis, the EU economy is set to pick up speed only very slowly in the course of this year," the report said. It predicted that France's deficit would rise sharply from 3.9% of GDP this year to 4.2% in 2014. That prompted the EU's commissioner for economic affairs, Olli Rehn, on Friday to say it would be "reasonable" to give France two extra years to meet the EU deficit target of 3%. However, Reuters reported a French finance ministry official as saying that, despite Mr Rehn's comments, the country would stick to its aim of meeting the 3% target in 2014.

THE PINKOS LED BY HOLLANDE WILL ATTEMPT TO GET TO THE 3% TARGET BY RAISING TAXES. A BIG MISTAKE. THEY NEED TO CUT SPENDING AND TAXES AND REDUCE REGULATIONS TO ATTRACT INVESTMENT AND GROW THE REAL ECONOMY.

THE FIRST BUNCH OF TAXES FRANCE AND THE REST OF THE EU OUGHT TO CUT ARE THE ENERGY TAXES AND THE ANTI-CARBON TAXES.

THEN, THEY NEED TO RELAX ALL THE EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR COMPANIES TO HIRE AND FIRE.

THEN THE EU NEED TO LET CYPRUS AND SPAIN AND ITALY AND IRELAND AND PORTUGAL LEAVE THE EURO.

AND THEN LET THE EURO COLLAPSE.

FAILING THESE ACTIONS, EUROPE IS GOING INTO A DEPRESSION.

AND DRAGGING THE WORLD DOWN WITH IT...

AWESOME GOOD NEWS FROM BRITAIN: UKIP NOW #2 PARTY!

BBC:

Labour has won the South Shields parliamentary by-election, retaining a seat it has held since 1935. It saw its majority reduced in Thursday's poll as the UK Independence Party finished a clear second, with a 24% share of the total vote. The Conservatives were pushed into third while their Liberal Democrat coalition partners finished seventh. ... UKIP candidate Richard Elvin came second with 5,988 votes. 

The party, which did not even stand in the constituency in the last general election, won 24% of the vote, marginally lower than its record 28% vote share in March's by-election in Eastleigh, Hampshire, when it also came second. UKIP's deputy leader Paul Nuttall said the performance, which came on the heels of strong showings in other by-elections in the north of England last year, proved it was on "an upward trajectory" and the party's appeal spread across the country."UKIP is here and it is here to stay," he told the BBC. And he claimed it would not be long before his party had its first MP elected. "We have been knocking on the door of Westminster for the past two years. I predict very soon that we will kick that door in," he said.

THERE IS NOW REAL HOPE FOR BRITAIN!

GI JOE #1 FROM 1982: SOMETHING YOU MAY NOT SEE TODAY

Here's two page scans I found from the premiere issue of GI Joe back at the time Marvel Comics first published it in 1982, from a backup story in the book:

Scarlett and Snake Eyes are under siege by a gang of jihadists led by a Colonel Sharif (a battle cry the enemy soldiers let out with in the second panel before the heroes gun them away) who may or may not be allies of Cobra, and as heard on a radio in the first panel, the heroes are called "infidels". Very bold and gutsy when Larry Hama did it back then. And unfortunately, thanks to all the political correctness that's overtaken pop culture, it's not something you're bound to see in a mainstream company's comics today.

SHAS APPOINTS ARYEH DERI AS ITS SOLE CHAIRMAN

The one and only Aryeh Deri, the man with a track record of dhimmitude and corruption, has been approved at rabbi Ovadia Yosef's decision to resume his job as official chairman for Shas:

Shas Council of Torah Sages approved Thursday Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's decision, by which MK Aryeh Deri is to serve as the party's chairman. [...]

Following Deri's nomination, one of his supporters told Ynet: "Deri will topple this government, which is a government of religious persecutors. His power is in his wisdom. That's his top priority – to topple the government."

'Deri running the party'

According to a source affiliated with Rabbi Yosef, the decision to nominate Deri the sole chairman is attributed to recent failures Shas has been facing in the political arena, as well as to the approaching Chief Rabbinate election and the issue of haredi draft.

Failures Deri himself contributed to, but as history shows, there are examples of terrible people like him being promoted inexplicably despite all the obvious mistakes they're making. The man is an awful disaster and must be watched carefully, because it's pretty apparent he intends no good. He could even cause trouble for people living in Judea/Samaria, and even east Jerusalem. It's clear he has not turned over a new leaf all these years, and that's why he doesn't deserve any prominent job, let alone being a Knesset member.

HERE'S MY GUESS AS TO WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE WAS UP TO DURING THE SIEGE AT BENGHAZI

REMEMBER: THE ATTACK TOOK MANY HOURS.

REMEMBER: OBAMA AND HILLARY AND PANETTA WERE OFFERED MILITARY COUNTER-MEASURES AND DECLINED THEM.

SO HERE'S WHAT I THINK THE WHITE HOUSE WAS REALLY UP TO DURING THOSE SEVERAL HOURS:

OBAMA AND HILLARY AND PANETTA WERE EFFORTING TO HAVE "THEIR FRIENDS" IN LIBYA AND EGYPT AND TURKEY INTERVENE DIPLOMATICALLY AND SEE IF THEY COULD APPEASE THE ATTACKERS AND GET THEM TO RETREAT.

IOW:  THE SCANDAL ISN'T JUST WHAT OBAMA FAILED TO DO - AND COVERING UP WHAT THE AMBASSADOR WAS REALLY DOING THERE; IT'S WHAT OBAMA CHOSE TO DO INSTEAD OF CPUNTER-ATTACKING.

I THINK THE HOUSE WILL FIND OUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AND WHY.

SO STAY TUNED...

AWESOMEST GRAPHIC DESCRIBES HOW MSM DECIDES TO COVER DEMONSTRATIONS

STOLEN FROM ACE:

Found at Twitchy, a chap naming himself KevinInABQ put together a flow-chart explaining the media's decision-making in how to report on a demonstration:

Posted by Ace 

REMINDER: THE BILL OF RIGHTS DOESN'T GIVE ANYONE ANY RIGHTS...

... THE BILL OF RIGHTS PROTECTS ONE'S INNATE RIGHTS AND LIMITS THE GOVERNMENT'S POWER TO ABRIDGE OR INFRINGE THEM.

THE CONSTITUTION DOESN'T GIVE ONE THE RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE WITH ARMS; IT PROTECTS ONE'S RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE WITH ARMS AND IT LIMITS THE GOVERNMENT'S POWER TO ABRIDGE OR INFRINGE THAT RIGHT.

PEOPLE WHO  WANT OUR 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS INFRINGED ARE NOT ONLY ENEMIES OF THE US CONSTITUTION; THEY ARE ENEMIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

TREAT THEM ACCORDINGLY.

WHERE IS THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE?

Nadav Shragai brings up something very overlooked and practically ignored today: the Temple Mount, which in contrast to the Western Wall, does not rate very high in the public facination, if at all:

...the truth is that we really have lost ourselves. We have forgotten that the Western Wall, for all its parts, is merely a vestibule, an atrium to the Temple Mount. We have forgotten that the status enjoyed by the Western Wall is simply derivative of what stood above it, the real thing: The Temple. We have also forgotten that had there not been a Halachic ban for many years on climbing to the Mount, which is still claimed by many, the Western Wall would not be the main attraction, but rather the Mount itself.

The fact that today the vast majority of Jews pray at the Western Wall and not on the Temple Mount is a result of circumstances and not a choice. There are good, and not so good, Halachic reasons for this, and there are also diplomatic reasons, and common interests that tie the two types of reasons together. But the main culprits behind the absence of Jews from the Temple Mount are the Jews themselves. As sad as it is, the majority of the public is detached and disconnected from the Mount, feels no need to visit it, and as they say: out of sight, out of mind. The people of Israel have grown accustomed to the substitute, the Western Wall.

It is true that it isn't always easy to visit the Temple Mount. The Muslim Waqf generally does everything in its power to perpetuate its sole ownership over the territory -- starting with disrespecting Jewish artifacts and through misrepresenting and rewriting Jewish history. Recently, it has even come to physically assaulting Jews who visit the Mount. It is also true that the police are also making the lives of the handful of Jews who are still faithful to the Mount miserable, and severely limiting the visitation possibilities. It is truly no great pleasure to walk around the Temple Mount with a Jewish police officer to your right and a Waqf official to your left, while every word you say, even while talking on your mobile phone, is monitored to make sure you don't mumble a forbidden prayer.

But still, we are the main offenders behind the Western Wall having become the center of our attention and the Temple Mount having all but disappeared from our collective awareness. The ban on Jewish prayer on Temple Mount will not be overturned any time soon, apparently. The police and the Israel Security Agency are currently dictating the government's position on the matter. There is no point in banging our heads against the wall and clashing over this issue again and again.

Or maybe there is, by ways of a public relations campaign, and he does bring up something like that:

The key to changing this phenomenon lies in motivating large portions of the public to visit, tour and study the Temple Mount. That way, the Temple Mount could become a popular site like the nearby City of David. The police won't like it -- after all, the police prefer as few Jews there as possible. That way things are quiet and calm. But the status quo that then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan installed in 1967 -- leaving the Temple Mount under the sole jurisdiction of the Waqf -- which the police adheres to with such zeal, still permits Jews to visit the Mount. If people begin to show interest in visiting the Temple Mount, and instead of dozens of Jews per day and hundreds per month, perhaps hundreds will begin visiting each day and thousands each month, I dare say that the High Court of Justice will step in, despite the police's resistance, and help the Jewish public take advantage of that right.

He very well may be right. In any case, a PR campaign and even an educational program is needed to inform more people about the Temple Mount's importance and significance, and why that too is a very important part of Judaism from a historical perspective.

HUMAN SLAVEMONGERING AT SAUDI-OWNED COMPOUND IN VIRGINIA

NBC Washington (via Town Hall and Hot Air) reports that an investigation has been opened into human trafficking at a compound in Virginia owned by none other than the king of Saudi Arabia:

A case of “possible human trafficking” at a Saudi diplomatic compound in Virginia is under investigation, Homeland Security confirmed to News4.

Agents from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement/Homeland Security Investigations and Fairfax County police were called to a home in the 6000 block of Orris Street in McLean overnight and, in the words of a source familiar with the investigation, “rescued” two women. One woman reportedly tried to flee by squeezing through a gap in the front gate as it was closing.

It’s not clear if the women, who sources say are from the Philippines, called investigators to the home themselves or if someone else did.

The most maddening problem in dealing with this case is that the residents may have diplomatic immunity, making it near impossible to charge them with a crime, although they can be deported. However, who knows if under the Obama administration, the people in charge of investigating will be able to run it properly?

STUDY: HEALTH OUTCOMES DO NOT IMPROVE AS HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE EXPANDS

In 2008, Oregon expanded its Medicaid program, but because the state could not cover everybody, lawmakers opened up a lottery that randomly drew 30,000 names from a waiting list of almost 90,000 and allowed them to apply for the program. This created a unique opportunity for health researchers, ultimately allowing them to compare the health outcomes of 6,387 low-income adults who were able to enroll in the program with 5,842 who were not selected. 

Contrary to liberal assumptions, researchers found that those who enrolled in Medicaid spent a lot more on medical care than those who weren’t able to enroll, but didn’t significantly improve their health outcomes. 

... Ultimately, the authors concluded that, “This randomized, controlled study showed that Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured health outcomes in the first two years, but it did increase use of health services, raise rates of diabetes detection and management, lower rates of depression, and reduce financial strain.” 

So, the study suggests that expanding Medicaid is one way of reducing financial pressure on low-income groups, but it’s costly and does not improve their health. 

Another interesting finding was that though medical spending increased among Medicaid enrollees due to more prescription drug usage and doctors’ visits, the study “did not find significant changes in visits to the emergency department or hospital admissions.” This undercuts another favorite talking point of liberals, which is that expanding insurance actually saves money by reducing costly emergency room visits.

OBAMA NOMINATES SUB-PRIME SLIME FINANCIER AND CHICAGO MACHINE BACKER TO BE SEC OF COMMERCE

PENNY PRITZKER IS ABOUT AS QUALIFIED TO LEAD THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AS TONY REZKO.

WE WROTE ABOUT PRITZKER HERE - IN 2008, BEFORE OBAMA WAS FIRST ELECTED!

POTD: ZIMMERMAN VERSUS TSARNAEV:

AWESOME GRAPHICS.

3 MORE SUSPECTS IN BOSTON JIHAD NOW IN CUSTODY

The Boston police have made more arrests in the jihad attack on the Boston Marathon. From Yahoo News (via Jihad Watch):

Boston police have three additional suspects in custody in connection to the Boston Marathon bombings, the department confirmed to Yahoo News Tuesday.

A spokeswoman at the Boston police department directed all questions on the suspects to the FBI, which has yet to disclose their identities.

From Fox News:

Charges against the new suspects involve providing some sort of assistance to the two main suspects, sources told Fox News. Police did not confirm the gender of the suspects and did not say when or where they were taken into custody. More information was expected to be provided by the US Attorney's office later Wednesday.

And from Fox Boston:

The development comes as investigators have continued to scrutinize two of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's classmates at UMass-Dartmouth.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's alleged associates are natives of Kazakhstan and have already been detained by U.S. immigration officials for alleged immigration violations.

Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev were in federal immigration court earlier Wednesday morning on those matters, a government source said; however, the court hearing was delayed.

Authorities were not immediately saying who the three detained were or if Tsarnaev's two classmates were part of the new group of suspects.

An attorney for Kadyrbayev has told media outlets that the two young men have been interviewed by FBI agents and that they were cooperating.

The Boston Police Dept. broke the news in a tweet, writing, "Three additional suspects taken into custody in Marathon bombing case. Details to follow."

Kazakhstan is another region around Russia where Islam has a presence. And this info tells more about the kind of creatures we're dealing with here.

MAN STABBED TO DEATH BY JIHADIST NEAR TAPUACH

I'm not sure how long it's been since the last murder of this sort, but there's been another murder stemming from jihadism in the past two days:

Evyatar Borovsky, 31, a Jewish settler in Israel, was laid to rest on Tuesday evening, April 30. Earlier in the day he was murdered by a Palestinian Authority resident terrorist, who stabbed him to death while he waited for a ride at the Tapuach Junction in the Samaria region of Israel. Several hundred people attended the funeral.

His widow, Tzofia, was at the funeral with the couple’s five children. She called to the media, “Look, five orphans.”

Here's more on this case. The worst part is that once again, the PLO praised the jihadist murderer.

EVIDENTLY, OBAMA'S FDA APPROVES OF STATUTORY RAPE

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would make the most widely known morning-after pill available without a prescription to girls and women ages 15 and older, and also make the pill available on drugstore shelves, instead of keeping it locked up behind pharmacy counters.  

Until this decision the pill, Plan B One-Step, which is used after sexual intercourse to help prevent pregnancy, was available without a prescription only for ages 17 and older.

HMMM, SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT:

A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL CAN GET AN ABORTIFACIENT PILL WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION AND WITHOUT PARENTAL APPROVAL!?

BUT IF 15 YEAR OLD GIRL NEEDS IT, THEN SHE'S BEEN A VICTIM OF STATUTORY RAPE.

IN A WAY, THIS FDA RULING MAKES STATUTORY RAPE MORE ACCEPTABLE AND LET'S THE RAPIST OFF SCOTT FREE.

TO GET THE PILL IT OUGHT TO BE REQUIRED SHE FILL OUT A NOTARIZED AFFIDAVIT STATING WHO THE RAPIST IS SO HE CAN BE CHARGED.

PALIN SHOULD WEAR THESE SHOES

OR THIS IF THE SILVER IS TOO GLITZY:

I THINK THESE BLACK ONES ARE CHANEL.

OBAMA HAS JUST ABOUT LOST IRAQ, AND HANDED IT TO AL QAEDA AND IRAN

AMBASSADOR CROCKER/WASH POST:

The situation in Iraq has taken a very dangerous turn. Events there in recent days are reminiscent of those that led to virtual civil war in 2006 and resulted in the need for a surge in U.S. troop levels, a new strategy and very heavy fighting. Indeed, the places where the violence has erupted are eerily familiar, as many were strongholds of al-Qaeda in Iraq at the outset of the surge, before the spread of the Awakening movement that fostered reconciliation between disaffected Sunni Arabs and the Shiite-led government in Baghdad. The recent events come on top of increasing incidents of horrific attacks by al-Qaeda in Iraq, with last month seeing the largest losses in years ...

OBAMA INABILITY AND/OR UNWILLINGNESS TO NEGOOTIATE A TROOP DEPLOYMENT AND ROE WITH IRAQ IS WHY AL W=QAEDA AND IRAN HAVE MOVED IN.

EITHER THIS WAS GROSS INCOMPETENCE BY OBAMA OR HE WANTS THE ISLAMISTS TO WIN.

HERE'S PROOF THAT LIBS'N LEFTIES ARE WRONG TO BLAME AUSTERITY FOR EUROPE'S FALTERING ECONOMY

LIB'S N LEFTIES ARE WRONG BECAUSE THE PROBLEM STARTED WHILE EUROPE WAS IN THE MIDST OF PROFLIGATE SPENDING.

IF PROFLIGATE DEFICIT SPENDING WAS STIMULATORY THEN EUROPE'S ECONOMY WOULD BE BOOMING AND THEY'D BE LED BY GREECE!

AND SOVEREIGN DEBT EXPLODED WITHOUT "TWO UNFUNDED WARS" AND WITHOUT "BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH" AND WITHOUT "MASSIVE PRO-CORPORATION DEREGULATION" = THE FAVORITE TARGETS FOR THE LIBS'N LEFTIES.

AS GLENN REYNOLDS HAS REPEATEDLY POSTED, "WHAT CAN'T GO ON FOREVER WON'T".

GREECE AND SPAIN AND IRELAND AND PORTUGAL AND ITALY JUST COULD NOT GO ON DIGGING THEMSELVES DEEPER ONTO DEBT VIA WASTEFUL SOCIALIST SPENDING SCHEMES - AND REVIVING THOSE SCHEMES CAN'T IMPROVE THINGS ONE-TENTH OF PERCENTAGE POINT.

THEY NEED MORE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INCREASING TAXES AND REGULATIONS WON'T ACCOMPLISH THAT.

THEY NEED TO CUT TAXES AND REGULATION - ESPECIALLY ANTI CARBIN TAXES AND ENERGY TAXES - AND REGULATIONS THAT HAVE PETRIFIED THE LABOR MARKETS.

IF THEY DO THESE THINGS THEN THINGS WILL PICK UP IMMEDIATELY.

THEN, THEY SHOULD GRADUALLY RAISE THE RETIREMENT AGE AND GRADUALLY REDUCE ENTITLEMENTS OVER THE LONG-TERM TO GET THEM IN BALANCE WITH ACTUARIAL DEMOGRAPHICS.

WHY DON'T THEY DO IT?

SIMPLE:

IT MEANS SMALLER GOVERNMENT.

AND THAT MEANS LESS POWER FOR POLITICIANS.

WHICH IS FASTER, THE SPEED AT WHICH THE LEFT BLAMES THE TEA PARTY FOR TERROR; THE SPEED AT WHICH THEY MIRANADIZED TSARNAEV; OR THE SPEED OF LIGHT?

WE KNEW FROM THE GET GO THAT THE OBAMUNISTS WERE GONNA BLAME THE RIGHT FOR THE MARATHON ATTACK.

WE KNEW FROM THE GET GO THAT THE OBAMUNISTS WOULD CHARGE TSARNAEV IN CIVILIAN COURT.

BUT WHY DID THEY DO IT DO FAST?

WERE THEY AFRAID OF WHAT THE YOUNGER TSARNAEV MIGHT KNOW - AND MIGHT SHARE?

WHO THE FUCK ARE THE OBAMUNISTS MORE INTERESTED IN PROTECTING, THE AMERICAN PUBLIC OR THE ISLAMOTERRORISTS?

MAN YELLING "JIHAD" ARRESTED AT LOVE FIELD, TEXAS

Love Field is an airport, and the man was trespassing:

A Garland man whom Dallas police found inside a secure area of Love Field on Sunday night struggled with responding officers and said “jihad” repeatedly, according to police documents.

It was the second time in three years that someone had made his way into the city airport’s secure area.

Ruben Martinez Jimenez, 36, was arrested Sunday on a misdemeanor trespassing charge. He is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail, according to jail records. That amount is unusually high for a misdemeanor charge.

In a written statement, Dallas police said Jimenez got on the premises by driving through an open vehicle gate. An employee had opened the gate for him “in an attempt to determine what was needed,” the statement said.

“This area is readily accessible to planes and fuel,” police documents said.

An officer who confronted Jimenez in an airport hangar said he appeared to be in “emotional distress.” They repeatedly ordered him to stand up and place his hands behind his back before he began to comply, police said.

As the officer attempted to arrest him, Jimenez pushed away and “began to resist by throwing his arms in air,” the documents said.

He turned and faced the officer in an “aggressive fighting stance” and the officer pulled out his collapsible baton, police said.

While waiting for backup, the officer said he overheard Jimenez “yell in an unknown language” and stated “‘jihad’ approximately three times,” the documents said. Officers were eventually able to subdue Jimenez.

I assume he was a convert, and a most definitely disturbed man.

Update: the Dallas Morning News is now claiming that the man yelled "Jesus". Is that so, or are they trying to cover anything up?

We May Never Run Out Of Oil: A "Nightmare" to The Atlantic Monthly ... and to all Leftists

Just as we, at the Astute Bloggers, have been telling you for years. Oil is perhaps, maybe even likely, a renewable resources, a naturally occurring substance, part of The Circle of Life here on Earth.

But, even if it isn't, we're friggin' drowning in it.

And, the only reason we don't seem to have enough, is because Leftist Policy is aimed at weakening the West by making us dependent on the Oil of maniacal Dictators and tyrants the world over.

From The Atlantic:

What If We Never Run Out of Oil?New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle—and a nightmare.

In the 1970s, geologists discovered crystalline natural gas—methane hydrate, in the jargon—beneath the seafloor. Stored mostly in broad, shallow layers on continental margins, methane hydrate exists in immense quantities; by some estimates, it is twice as abundant as all other fossil fuels combined. Despite its plenitude, gas hydrate was long subject to petroleum-industry skepticism. These deposits—water molecules laced into frigid cages that trap “guest molecules” of natural gas—are strikingly unlike conventional energy reserves. Ice you can set on fire! Who could take it seriously? But as petroleum prices soared, undersea-drilling technology improved, and geological surveys accumulated, interest rose around the world. The U.S. Department of Energy has been funding a methane-hydrate research program since 1982.
Japan’s methane-hydrate program began in 1995. Its scientists quickly focused on the Nankai Trough, about 200 miles southwest of Tokyo, an undersea earthquake zone where two pieces of the Earth’s crust jostle each other. 
In January, 18 years after the Japanese program began, the Chikyu left the Port of Shimizu, midway up the main island’s eastern coastline, to begin a “production” test—an attempt to harvest usefully large volumes of gas, rather than laboratory samples.
“It will not be ready for 10 years,” Yamamoto said. “But I believe it will be ready.” What would happen then, he allowed, would be “interesting.”

Already the petroleum industry has been convulsed by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”—a technique for shooting water mixed with sand and chemicals into rock, splitting it open, and releasing previously inaccessible oil, referred to as “tight oil.” Still more important, fracking releases natural gas, which, when yielded from shale, is known as shale gas. (Petroleum is a grab-bag term for all nonsolid hydrocarbon resources—oil of various types, natural gas, propane, oil precursors, and so on—that companies draw from beneath the Earth’s surface. The stuff that catches fire around stove burners is known by a more precise term, natural gas, referring to methane, a colorless, odorless gas that has the same chemical makeup no matter what the source—ordinary petroleum wells, shale beds, or methane hydrate.) Fracking has been attacked as an environmental menace to underground water supplies, and may eventually be greatly restricted. But it has also unleashed so much petroleum in North America that the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based consortium of energy-consuming nations, predicted in November that by 2035, the United States will become “all but self-sufficient in net terms.”

Heh.

What a Nightmare, huh?

HOW AND WHY SO-CALLED SCIENTISTS, LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMISTS, TWIST THEIR STUDIES

NYTIMES EXCERPTED BY WUWT:

Story submitted by Bruce Webster

An article in the New York Times chronicles the descent of a sociologist into wholesale fraud. 

It is worth reading the whole article, because I believe it offers insight into some of the pressures, temptations, and self-rationalizations that many scientists struggle with.

Here is one key passage that will likely not surprise anyone here at WUWT (all emphasis in quoted text is mine):

Each case of research fraud that’s uncovered triggers a similar response from scientists. First disbelief, then anger, then a tendency to dismiss the perpetrator as one rotten egg in an otherwise-honest enterprise. But the scientific misconduct that has come to light in recent years suggests at the very least that the number of bad actors in science isn’t as insignificant as many would like to believe. And considered from a more cynical point of view, figures like Hwang and Hauser are not outliers so much as one end on a continuum of dishonest behaviors that extend from the cherry-picking of data to fit a chosen hypothesis — which many researchers admit is commonplace — to outright fabrication.

“Cherry-picking of data” is, of course, not an unknown topic in these parts. But here’s an even more intriguing passage:

Stapel did not deny that his deceit was driven by ambition. But it was more complicated than that, he told me. He insisted that he loved social psychology but had been frustrated by the messiness of experimental data, which rarely led to clear conclusions. His lifelong obsession with elegance and order, he said, led him to concoct sexy results that journals found attractive. “It was a quest for aesthetics, for beauty — instead of the truth,” he said. He described his behavior as an addiction that drove him to carry out acts of increasingly daring fraud, like a junkie seeking a bigger and better high.

And again:

What the public didn’t realize, he said, was that academic science, too, was becoming a business. “There are scarce resources, you need grants, you need money, there is competition,” he said. “Normal people go to the edge to get that money. Science is of course about discovery, about digging to discover the truth. But it is also communication, persuasion, marketing. I am a salesman. I am on the road. People are on the road with their talk. With the same talk. It’s like a circus.”

RTWT.

MUMBAI GETS ITS FIRST SHARIA COURT FOISTED ON THE CITY

A bad day indeed for the Indian capital that used to be called Bombay:

MUMBAI: The city is set to get its first Darul Qaza or Shariah court to settle civil and marital disputes in the Muslim community. The court, set up by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, will be inaugurated on Monday at Anjuman-i-Islam, near CST, and will serve to fill a long-felt need of the community.

Shariah courts already function at many places in the country, such as Hyderabad, Patna and Malegaon. Here qazis appointed by the AIMPLB hear the community's various disputes, barring criminal cases, and deliver judgements. "This court will function to settle mainly family disputes pertaining to marriage, divorce and inheritance. Marriage disputes will be settled quickly and the couples will be told to either reconcile or separate if reconciliation is not possible. It will save the community much time and money as fighting cases in civil courts is expensive and time-consuming," said AIMPLB secretary Maulana Wali Rahmani.

For a dispute to be heard by a Shariah court, both the parties in the dispute will have to approach the court. If one of the parties has approached a civil court, then it will have to withdraw the case for the Shariah court to accept the matter.

Not good enough. The sharia court could always find some of the most horrific ways to ruin everything for the side that turns to a civil court, and its influence can be dangerous. Wherever there's a sharia court, it spells trouble and disaster for all.

Tonight, 60 minutes featured a story about a nurse who murdered hundreds...

STEVE KROFT/60 MINUTES: 

Tonight you're going to come face-to-face with a serial killer, one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. They don't usually talk to reporters. And in the 45 years of 60 Minutes, we have never interviewed one until now. 

Charles Cullen was a critical care nurse who admits to killing up to 40 people. Some suspect it was a lot more. The murders took place over 16 years in seven different hospitals. ...

Obviously, this guy Cullen is an evil, sick, murderous sociopath - and he made a bad career choice:

Had Cullen decided to become an abortion doctor instead of a nurse, then he could have killed thousands and become rich and an idol of Democrat partisans.

HOSTAGE OF TSARNAEV BROTHERS RECALLS HIS EXPERIENCE

The Boston Globe spoke with the man whose car the Boston jihadists hijacked. He's an immigrant from China, and is only identified by a single name. And he was lucky to emerge safely from the whole frightening experience.

UN'S FRIGHTFUL FALK ALLOWED TO KEEP HIS JOB DESPITE ANTI-SEMITISM AND ANTI-AMERICANISM

Despite some of the most obscene things this geriatric has spouted lately, he's still allowed to maintain his position at the UN because, according to a spokesperson:

Professor [Richard] Falk is appointed by member states of the Human Right Council in Geneva and not by the Secretary General. So it is within the domain of the Human Rights Council and member states to determine the appointment and work of special rapporteurs. It is up to them to decide.

Sorry, no sale. If they wanted to, I'm sure they could get rid of the old bag very quickly and stop wasting everybody's tax dollars. And this is just one more reason why the UN must be defunded by the US, and by Europe and Asia too.

Via Big Peace.

BOSTON BOMBER DISCUSSED JIHADISM WITH HIS MOTHER

CBC/AP reports that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had conversed about jihad with his mother, as found by Russian authorities:

Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials said.

The conversations are significant because, had they been revealed earlier, they might have been enough evidence for the FBI to initiate a more thorough investigation of the Tsarnaev family.

As it was, Russian authorities told the FBI only that they had concerns that Tamerlan and his mother were religious extremists. With no additional information, the FBI conducted a limited inquiry and closed the case in June 2011.

Two years later, authorities say Tamerlan and his brother, Dzhohkar, detonated two homemade bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 260. Tamerlan was killed in a police shootout and Dzhohkar is under arrest.

While the Russian authorities might have to shoulder some blame here for not giving enough warning about how dangerous they were, even the FBI may be to blame for not taking the warnings seriously enough. If the brothers and their mother were extremists, that is reason enough to be concerned.

Now tragedy has occurred, and a horror that could've been prevented took place, all because political correctness could not be prevented.