THEN AND NOW: NERO FIDDLED AS ROME BURNED. OBAMA IS BODY-SURFING AS DC IS ENGULFED IN A TSUNAMI OF DEBT

OBAMA HAS NOT MADE ONE SINGLE SOLITARY COMPROMISE SINCE 2009.

AND HE HAS NOT SACRIFICED ONE SINGLE THING. HE'S RAMMED THROUGH ABOMINABLE LEGISLATION BY PLYING THE POLITICIANS WHO CONTROL CONGRESS WITH PORK.

BILL CLINTON AND GEORGE DUBYA BUSH WERE BOTH MORE COMPROMISING AND ACCOMMODATING TO THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.

AND MORE FRUGAL, TOO.

AND MORE GOOD THINGS GOT DONE

MEANWHILE - IN FOREIGN POLICY, THE ARENA IN WHICH THE POTUS HAS A FREER HAND - OBAMA'S SINGULAR ACHIEVEMENT IS THE EMPOWERMENT OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ACROSS NORTH AFRICA.

IT'S AS IF A TSUNAMI OF ISLAMISM HAS SWEPT ACROSS THE MUSLIM WORLD.

YET HALF THE USA AND MOST OF EUROPE SEES IT NOT - AS THEY ARE SWIMMING IN A SEA OF DENIAL.

IF WE DON'T COUNTER THESE DEVELOPMENTS WE SHALL SURELY ALL DROWN IN DEBT AND DECAY.

I PRAY THAT NEXT YEAR MORE PEOPLE ON THE LEFT SEE THE LIGHT - BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE....

AND THAT IT DOESN'T TAKE A CATACLYSM TO OPEN THEIR EYES.

Feisal Abdul-Rauf's got 2 allies, both alleged conservatives

It turns out that, among the rotten apples on the GOP side in the Ground Zero mosque debate, there are 2 most awful people whom imam Feisal Abdul-Rauf can rely upon for support. One is none other than Grover Norquist (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):

"The support for criticizing a mosque is half a mile wide and an inch deep," conservative activist Grover Norquist warned. "And at the end of the process, the only people who will remember it are the people who feel threatened by this -- not just Muslims, but Sikhs, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Mormons."

So let's see, Norquist is drawing a moral equation between Islam and everyone else. May we point out that many Jews have a problem with the mosque as well, and are among the 70 percent of the public who oppose it?

Good to see that J. Michael Waller at Big Peace has also mentioned Norquist's latest attempt to meddle.

The second one is none other than Ron Paul (Hat tip: Power Line), who coughed out the following:

It has been said, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” Are we not overly preoccupied with this controversy, now being used in various ways by grandstanding politicians? It looks to me like the politicians are “fiddling while the economy burns.”

The debate should have provided the conservative defenders of property rights with a perfect example of how the right to own property also protects the 1st Amendment rights of assembly and religion by supporting the building of the mosque.

Instead, we hear lip service given to the property rights position while demanding that the need to be “sensitive” requires an all-out assault on the building of a mosque, several blocks from “ground zero.”

Just think of what might (not) have happened if the whole issue had been ignored and the national debate stuck with war, peace, and prosperity. There certainly would have been a lot less emotionalism on both sides. The fact that so much attention has been given the mosque debate, raises the question of just why and driven by whom?

In my opinion it has come from the neo-conservatives who demand continual war in the Middle East and Central Asia and are compelled to constantly justify it.

They never miss a chance to use hatred toward Muslims to rally support for the ill conceived preventative wars.

So he's inciting hatred towards neo-cons, all the while supporting dhimmitude, and he even seems to condone Abdul-Rauf's own claims that US policy in the mideast is what brought the 9-11 attacks:

If it became known that 9/11 resulted in part from a desire to retaliate against what many Muslims saw as American aggression and occupation, the need to demonize Islam would be difficult if not impossible.

There is no doubt that a small portion of radical, angry Islamists do want to kill us but the question remains, what exactly motivates this hatred?

If Islam is further discredited by making the building of the mosque the issue, then the false justification for our wars in the Middle East will continue to be acceptable.

Ugh, does this man sicken me to no end! The GOP would do well to distance him from the party already, because he brings nothing to the table but pure aggravation.

NERO FIDDLED; OBAMA GOLFS

THERE'S A CRISIS IN THE GULF COAST - AND IN TENNESSEE.

WHAT DOES OBAMA DO?

• PLAYS GOLF.

• YES: GOLF!

HE'S JUST PLAIN AWFUL - AT GOLF AND AT BEING POTUS.

ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNVEIL NERO'S REVOLVING BANQUET HALL

AP:

Not only was Nero a Roman emperor, it turns out he may also have been the father of the revolving restaurant.

Archaeologists unveiled Tuesday what they think are the remains of Nero's extravagant banquet hall, a circular space that rotated day and night to imitate the Earth's movement and impress his guests.

The room, part of Nero's Golden Palace, a sprawling residence built in the first century A.D., is thought to have been built to entertain government officials and VIPs, said lead archaeologist Francoise Villedieu.

The emperor, known for his lavish and depraved lifestyle, was born in 37 A.D. and ruled from 54 A.D. to 68 A.D.

The dig so far has turned up the foundations of the room, the rotating mechanism underneath and part of an attached space believed to be the kitchens, she said.

"This cannot be compared to anything that we know of in ancient Roman architecture," Villedieu told reporters during a tour of the cordoned-off dig.

She said the location of the discovery atop the Palatine Hill, the rotating structure and references to it in ancient biographies of Nero make the attribution to the emperor most likely.

The partially excavated site is part of the sumptuous residence, also known by its Latin name Domus Aurea, which rose over the ruins of a fire that destroyed much of Rome in A.D. 64.

The purported main dining room, with a diameter of over 50 feet (16 meters), rested upon a 13-foot (4-meter) wide pillar and four spherical mechanisms that, likely powered by a constant flow of water, rotated the structure.

Debauchery; demi-goddery; disregard for the masses - and elites for whom the law doesn't apply.

Sounds like Hollywood to me - THOUGH MORE OF A POLANSKI PRODUCTION THAN CECIL B. DEMILLE.

YES: LIKE POLANSKI, NERO HAD JACUZZIS, TOO - CALLED ROMAN BATHS:

MAYBE MICHAEL MOORE AND WOODY ALLEN CAN DO A DOCUMENTARY ON IT.

OBAMA AS NERO FIDDLING AS ROME BURNS: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT AND JADED APPRENTICE BY THREE WEEKS

OBAMA AS NERO IS A GOOD MEME: BUT IT AIN'T NEW:

GLENN LINKED TO THIS TODAY.

WE POSTED THIS MEME 3 WEEKS AGO.

OBAMA MORE LIKE NERO THAN JESUS: BARACK EATS $100 STEAKS IN 78 DEGREE WHITE HOUSE WHILE ONE 1,000,000 KENTUCKIANS FREEZE

POWER LINE:

Is Barack Obama an insensitive lout who serves $100 per pound steaks to his elite guests and turns up the heat in the White House high enough to grow orchids while a million of his countrymen are without power and dozens are freezing to death? If not, why not?

Solely because that is not the story the media want to tell.

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The Anchoress has an excellent roundup. Glenn Reynolds has been on the story too. One of Glenn's readers writes:

What Katrina taught the media was that they could hurt Bush by lying. What 2008 taught them was that they could help Obama by not reporting at all. What will 2009 teach them? I shudder to think.

OBAMA SUCKS. THE MSM SUCKS, TOO

IT'S BEEN 5 COUNT'EM FIVE DAYS SINCE THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN KENTUCKY AND FEMA IS NOWHERE IN SIGHT.

I BLAME OBAMA.

GLOBAL LEADERS REACH CLIMATE DEAL: MCCAIN PLAYS GLOBAL WARMING FIDDLE

It cracks me up when I hear polls and pundit talk about how John McCain is a front-runner for the GOP nomination for President in '08. Unless the Republican Party has completely sold its soul (always a possibility), McCain doesn't have a chance in hell. But wait, some love to say, he may have pissed off the GOP base with his aversion to the Bush tax cuts, campaign finance reform and his love affair with media, but he's really strong on the war on terror.

Oh, really?

While Muslim terrorists plot our demise, the world's socialists are working day and night "fighting" global warming, and McCain is no different as this quote from the BBC proves:

US senator Joe Lieberman forecast that the US Congress would enact a law on cutting emissions by the end of next year, possibly this year. And presidential candidate John McCain, who is co-sponsoring climate legislation with Mr Lieberman, was emphatic on the need for new initiatives. "I am convinced that we have reached the tipping point and that the Congress of the United States will act, with the agreement of the administration," he told the forum.

And you thought Nero spent too much time with his precise violin (a story that may be a myth, but that's for another post).

I'm constantly amazed at the time, money and effort that is being spent to fight a natural phenomenon, while a group of evil zealots plot the destruction of not only America, but the very socialists that attend these ridiculous forums.