Barack's "Special Interests" (and Fitz) may Swallow him whole

You might remember the name Patrick Fitzgerald as the man who prosecuted Scooter Libby, and also successfully prosecuted the "Blind Sheik" in the first World Trade Center bombing, but I'll bet many of you aren't aware that Fitz is also the prosecutor in the case against one Tony Rezko, whose wife appears to have been a big player in purchasing the $625,000 lot for His Holiness Barack Obama's mansion.

You also might not know that the Court in the Rezko case has ruled that Fitzgerald may make public records in the case which may implicate Barack Obama in the scheme:

Experiences (he's had a few): The Chicago Tribune reports that "Obama's name likely to come up at Rezko trial" (prosecuted by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald):

The name of Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama is likely to brush up against the impending federal corruption trial of Antoin "Tony" Rezko as the result of a judge's ruling Monday.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy St. Eve, who is presiding over Rezko's trial, told prosecutors they could introduce evidence to support allegations that Rezko used straw men to make political contributions on his behalf.

Prosecutors have alleged that the money came from fees Rezko illegally siphoned from a state pension board. [Someone I know is researching the "coincidence" that during the three-plus months that Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama was appointed to the senate's pension committee -- just three months -- the senate prevented the consolidation of state pensions, which would have adversely affected Rezko's pensions schemes, that bilked millions from the state pensions. The bald facts are there, but my friend is still digging for details. - SusanUnPC]

There are new developments regarding the Obamas' home purchase ...

It was a sweetheart of a deal, that directly involved Tony Rezko, who was already under intense federal investigation, and Rezko's wife. As you'll see below, several newspapers are reporting Tony Rezko tried to get a state appointment for the real estate agent who did the home sale/purchase, and that an Iraqi/British billionaire involved with Rezko "lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender." (By the way, City Nell's original article on February 4 here at NoQuarter -- "How to Buy a Mansion You Can't Afford" -- broke new ground on the story, and has been quoted widely across the 'net.)

"Obama as a State Senator: Does He 'Deserve a Promotion?'," the companion article to last night's ABC Nightline provides some background.

Big Media is staying as far away from this as it possibly can--although as mentioned above, Nightline did touch on it last night. But it may not be possible for even the elites to steer clear for much longer: the Democrats are about to nominate a Presidential nominee that is may be every bit as corrupt and sleazy as the Clintons--only this time there may be real proof. Don't be surprised to see the presumptive nominee in the Grand Jury box soon. And one need only look at the zeal with which Fitzgerald went after Scooter Libby--with the goal of getting at Cheney or Rove--to understand that Fitz is unlikely to merely look the other way for the new "Messiah". Here is more from the Times of London:

A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses.

The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago.

A company related to Mr Auchi, who has a conviction for corruption in France, registered the loan to Mr Obama's bagman Antoin "Tony" Rezko on May 23 2005. Mr Auchi says the loan, through the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA, was for $3.5 million.

Three weeks later, Mr Obama bought a house on the city's South Side while Mr Rezko's wife bought the garden plot next door from the same seller on the same day, June 15.

Mr Obama says he never used Mrs Rezko's still-empty lot, which could only be accessed through his property. But he admits he paid his gardener to mow the lawn.

Mrs Rezko, whose husband was widely known to be under investigation at the time, went on to sell a 10-foot strip of her property to Mr Obama seven months later so he could enjoy a bigger garden.

Mr Obama now admits his involvement in this land deal was a “boneheaded mistake”.

Mrs Rezko’s purchase and sale of the land to Mr Obama raises many unanswered questions.

It is unclear how Mrs Rezko could have afforded the downpayment of $125,000 and a $500,000 mortgage for the original $625,000 purchase of the garden plot at 5050 South Greenwood Ave.

In a sworn statement a year later, Mrs Rezko said she got by on a salary of $37,000 and had $35,000 assets. Mr Rezko told a court he had "no income, negative cash flow, no liquid assets, no unencumbered assets [and] is significantly in arrears on many of his obligations."

Mrs Rezko, whose husband goes on trial on unrelated corruption charges in Chicago on March 3, refused to answer questions about the case when she spoke by telephone to The Times.

Asked if she used money from her husband to buy the land next to Mr Obama's house, she said: "I can't answer these questions, I'm sorry."

Asked how long she and her husband had known Mr Auchi, she replied: "I will not be able to answer this question."

Mr Auchi's lawyer, asked whether the Fintrade Services loan was used to buy the land which became Mr Obama's garden, stated: "No, not as far as my client is aware."

McCain would be smart to use this for every drop of mileage he can get from this. (I'll believe that when I see it...) But I also wouldn't put it past the Clintons to sabotage Obama this year so she can take another shot at it in 4 years at a middle of the road McCain. Call me cynical, but I see that as at least as likely--if not more so--than Hillary's cooing sweet nothings into Obama's year for the entirety of the fall campaign.

If Hillary does not win the nomination this year--and unless she abandons her life's dream after getting so close to realizing it (unlikely...)--it is Hillary who would benefit the most from an Obama loss. I don't see him naming her VP--not with Michelle around. So her best chance is for Obama to lose. And I don't even want to hear it that she cares more about her party and country than her own ambitons. That dog is just not going to hunt around here.

The halo may disappear from "His Holiness" very soon now, and it could be a really target rich environment (figuratively speaking) this fall.

Works for me.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS:

HERE'S CNN'S OBAMA-REZKO STORY, (ORIGINALLY AIRED JANUARY). I FOUND IT AT A HILLARY SUPPORTER'S YOUTUBE PAGE. THE FIRST HALF IS THE CNN REPORT. THE SECOND AN INFOMERCIAL FOR HILLARY'S SOCIALISTIC POLICIES.

WATCH IT. IT'S A GOOD REFRESHER. AND DEFINITELY STAY TUNED: REZKO'S TRIAL STARTS NEXT WEEK...

• REZKO IS A SLUMLORD CROOK IN DEEP WITH THE CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS DEMOCRAT PARTY MACHINE.

• WHICH MADE OBAMA, AND OWNS HIS ASS.

MORE HERE.

NORTHERN USA SNOW RECORDS BROKEN

AP:

In Boston, for example, 49.6 inches of snow has fallen this winter, or 19.3 inches more than normal.

In Madison, Wis., where it never had snowed more than 76.6 inches, the city already had seen 77 inches by Feb. 12.

Last week, Grand Rapids, Mich., shattered its December-February snowfall record of 85.1 inches set in 1951-52. As of Tuesday afternoon, 90.4 inches had fallen.

And though the month doesn't end until Friday, the city has a new February record of 37.1 inches, surpassing 1990's 35.5 inches. ...

In Chicago, more than 50 inches has fallen since the beginning of December, which is about 15 inches above normal and makes this the first winter since 1978-79 the area has seen more than 50 inches of snow, said Amy Seeley, a weather service meteorologist.

• THIS IS HARDLY THE STUFF OF ANY MAN-MADE, CO2 GLOBAL WARMING CATASTROPHE.
• AL GORE: STFU.

MORE ON THE RECORD-BREAKING WINTER HERE. AND HERE.

I GET THE FEELING THAT HILLARY WOULD LIKE THIS CONTEST TO BE "THATCHER VERSUS BLAIR"...

... BUT THE TROUBLE IS SHE'S RUNNING IN THE SOCIALIST PRIMARY!

WHEN HILLARY IS TOO CENTRIST FOR THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT - FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES - IT HAS BECOME THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF THE USA.

OR LOOK AT IT THIS WAY:

IT'S AS IF SHE'S NEIL KINNOCK RUNNING AGAINST TONY BENN - ONLY THIS TIME IT LOOKS LIKE TONY BENN IS GONNA WIN.

THE ULTIMATE LEFT-WING DOVE: OBAMA PROMISES TO CUT OUR DEFENSES AND MAKE OUR MILITARY WEAKER AND THE FREE WORLD LESS SECURE

Via USS NEVERDOCK:

• NMD WORKS - BUT HE WOULD CUT IT.

• HE WILL SLOW DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEMS.

• HE WOULD SEEK TO DISARM OUR NUKES AND MAKE THE WORLD A "NUKE FREE ZONE" - WHICH IS INSANE BECAUSE THE ROGUE STATES WON'T DISARM.

• THIS IS LIKE GUN CONTROL AND "GUN FREE ZONES" - WHICH ONLY TAKE GUNS AWAY FROM LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS AND MAKES SURE WE'RE SITTING DUCKS.
  

EVERYONE OF THESE POLICIES WOULD MAKE US LESS SAFE, NOT MORE!

IF OBAMA WAS A RETIRED FIVE STAR GENERAL, THEN THESE POLICY IDEAS WOULD STILL MAKE HIM UNFIT TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE US ARMED FORCES AND LEADER AND DEFENDER OF THE FREE WORLD.

*******UPDATE: DOUG HAS MORE! (AND YEAH: HE BEAT ME POSTING THE VIDEO BY FOUR MINUTES! HE'S THE BEST!)

THANKS TO GATEWAY FOR THE LINK!

TOWN SUES ENERGY COMPANIES FOR $400 MILLION OVER "GLOBAL WARMING"

BW/AP: Alaska town sues companies over warming

A tiny Alaska village eroding into the Arctic Ocean is suing oil, power and coal companies, claiming their contributions to global warming threaten the community's existence.

The city of Kivalina and a federally recognized tribe, the Alaska Native village of Kivalina, is suing Exxon Mobil Corp. and nine other oil companies. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco also names 14 power companies and one coal company.

Kivalina is an Inupiat Eskimo community of about 390 people about 625 miles northwest of Anchorage. Melting sea ice has left the community unprotected from fall and winter coastal storms.

The lawsuit says it would cost $400 million or more to relocate the village.

An Exxon Mobil spokesman says the company is reviewing the lawsuit and has no immediate comment.

NOW WE KNOW WHY SO MANY LAWYERS BELIEVE IN AGW: THEY SEE IT AS A CASH COW.

ANOTHER BURIED PHOTO OF OBAMA IN A MUSLIM HAT EMERGES...

AND IT'S OBVIOUS HE DIDN'T PUT IT ON UNDER DURESS WHILE ON AN OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL VISIT.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JUNIOR HAS SOME SPLAININ' TO DO...

AND SO TOO DOES THE MSM - FOR TRYING TO BURY THIS STUFF.

OBAMA AND JIM JONES: "YES WE CAN - DRINK THE KOOL-AID!"

MANY HAVE ASKED IF OBAMA IS THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS, OF THE MAHDI, OF RFK, OR OF HITLER.


I'D LIKE TO THROW ANOTHER NAME INTO THE MIX: THE REVEREND JIM JONES.




MAYBE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JUNIOR IS A NATIONWIDE-SIZED VERSION OF JIM JONES?






WIKI: JIM JONES

[Jim Jones] ... claimed to be an incarnation of Jesus, Akhenaten, the Buddha, Lenin, and Father Divine and performed supposed miracle healings to attract new converts.

Members of Jones' church called him "Father" and believed their movement was the solution to the problems of society; many did not distinguish Jones from the movement.

... In the summer of 1977, Jones and most of the 900 members of the People's Temple moved to Guyana from San Francisco after an investigation into the church for tax evasion had begun. Jones named the closed settlement Jonestown after himself.

His intention was to create an agricultural utopia in the jungle, free from racism and based on socialist principles.

... which became synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978 mass murder-suicide by poison in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, located in Guyana.

Over 900 people died from cyanide poisoning or gunshot wounds in the aftermath of Jones ordering his men to kill visiting Congressman Leo Ryan and numerous members of his entourage.

JONES WAS AND OBAMA IS A CHARISMATIC LEADER INTENT ON BUILDING A UTOPIA UPON SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES - WHOSE FOLLOWERS DRINK KOOL-AID.

• YES "WE" CAN WHAT!?!?!?
• TALK SENSE TO ASSAD AND AHMADINEJAD?!?
• RETREAT FROM AND ABANDON IRAQ?!?
• TAX OUR WAY TO PROSPERITY?!?
• AFFORD GIVE EVERYONE "FREE" HEALTHCARE AND RETIREMENT?!?

FOLKS WHO THINK OBAMA CAN DO ALL THAT HAVE ALREADY DRUNK THE KOOL-AID.

The verdict is in: Earth in midst of widescale global cooling

DailyTech describes the last twelve months have seen a long drop in world temperatures that literally wipes out a century of warming.

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

Meteorologist Anthony Watts compiled the results of all the sources. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down...

Sounds like I need to sell my hybrid and buy a traditional gas-guzzler. My shpringies are getting frostbitten.

And I wonder how long Al Gore's carbon-offset bunko scam is going to last when penguins start freezing to death.

Leftists just don't get it

Susan Estrich is a fairly moderate Leftist. She is even defending John McCain and criticizing the NYT in the excerpt below! But she still thinks that free speech should be used "responsibly" -- i.e. that it should not really be free. Muslims say the same thing.

That what seems "responsible" to me may seem "hate speech" to others is just not addressed. If we avoided saying things that others might not regard as "responsible", we would soon be struck dumb.

"Maybe there should be an asterisk in the First Amendment's protection of the freedom of the press making the point that most of us who are parents of teenagers do on a regular basis: that freedom is not simply a privilege but also a responsibility, that just because you have it doesn't mean you need to push its limits, much less abuse it.

I'm certainly not a McCain partisan. And I don't think I've ever met his old friend, the lobbyist Vicki Iseman, as she is described beneath her smiling picture in Thursday's New York Times. I do know that the definition of all the news that's fit to print has changed if it includes a collage of anonymous anecdotes proving nothing more than that some of the senator's aides might have been troubled by the appearance that he was too close to a woman lobbyist at a time when he was running against the influence of big money in politics."

Source

Posted by John Ray. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and for a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM

The Cult of Obama

Excerpt:

America as been fortunate in avoiding political cults of personality. The closest that we have come to it may have been the 4 terms that Franklin Roosevelt was elected to. We should note also that FDR was a special case. He was first elected during the Great Depression and continued into World War II. This form of crisis situation has been unusual, and while one might disagree with the way that President Roosevelt handled some aspects of them, he certainly understood the gravity of the situation and the need for America to take action to preserve itself. This is exactly the opposite of what we see with current Democrat presidential front-runner, Barack Obama.

Simply stated, and as a significant number of critics, both liberal and conservative have pointed out, Senator Obama is an empty suit; a candidate who talks in endless platitudes, but says nothing of substance, except that he wants to enact a myriad of tax and spend programs at home, while ignoring the true nature of its enemies abroad and emasculating the military. Perhaps he believes that the foreign dictators are foolish enough to fall for his charm. If elected, he will quickly learn that they will be more than willing to say anything, and then do exactly the opposite if it suits their interest at the time. As Neville Chamberlain sold out Europe to Nazi Germany, Senator Obama is willing to sell out the United States anyone and everyone who has an axe to grind and is willing to say the right things in public, regardless of their true intentions.

Sean Hannity has talked a lot about two focus groups that were asked if they could identify any of Obama's accomplishments. Both came up with essentially nothing, which speaks volumes; the man really has done nothing, except promote his own political career as rapidly as can. Now, the fact that he can speak charismatically is really all that he is running on. People like what he says, regardless of whether it has any substance. I remember having a similar reaction to Jimmy Carter many years ago. I was a teenager when I told my, now departed, Mother that he said a lot of things that sounded nice, but there was nothing that I could identify specifically as practical or realistic. Obama is now doing the same thing. He talks about "hope" but it is a blind hope; faith that he has all the answers and that electing him to office will somehow solve all of America's problems. To make matters worse, his campaign is taking on a messianic attitude. This may well speak of an even greater underlying danger.

Michael Medved recently asked of his audience why people are supporting this candidate. He received all of the usual empty answers about hope, unity and the like. In the end, there really was nothing of substance that anyone could identify. I have an answer; it is not one I like, but I believe that it is the truth; that Senator Obama is the candidate of the intellectually bankrupt. It is no wonder to me that so many young people are swooning over this charlatan. He is all show and no substance, like so much of modern entertainment. He is the MTV candidate. He is the candidate of people who love special effects and don't care about the plot. Politically they are oblivious to the consequences of electing someone who is as gullible as they are. He is their drug that will make all problems go away, but like with a drug, the problems don't really go away and after effects are terrible.

Enacting the Obama domestic policies would result in a quick trip to national bankruptcy. His foreign policies would create a weak, vacillating nation that will not defend itself because talking to an implacable enemy is always better than eliminating him. He has no realistic method for dealing with our national energy needs. In short, he is running on hot air, and despite his contentions to the contrary, empty words. He does not have the depth to create words of real substance.

More here

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ELSEWHERE

I confess! I confess! I have become an Obamablogger. And not only on this blog. There are now lots of blogs devoted to dissecting the words and deeds of the vacuous one but I now have a new blog which is simply a gathering-together of what I have posted about him here and elsewhere. I intend it more as a handy archive than anything else. See Obamology.

This is just what they used to say about Hitler: "When you watch an Obama speech, you lean forward and listen and think, That's good. He's compelling, I like the way he speaks. And afterward all the commentators call him "impossibly eloquent" and say "he gave me thrills and chills." But, in fact, when you go on the Internet and get a transcript of the speech and print it out and read it--that is, when you remove Mr. Obama from the words and take them on their own--you see the speech wasn't all that interesting, and was in fact high-class boilerplate"

Obama no compromiser: "After his victory last week in Wisconsin and again at the Austin debate, Obama revealed himself to be the most liberal candidate since George McGovern. He is not thrilled with building a border fence. He wants to meet with Raul Castro. He will raise taxes and spend a boatload of money on new programs. He will exit Iraq pronto and spend that money on domestic programs. He opposes any restriction on partial birth abortion and thinks the District of Columbia's total handgun ban is a 'common sense' regulation. This is no 'third way' and, other than a few rhetorical flourishes, there is no sign of 'reaching across the aisle.'

Obama corruption: "A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses. The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain's wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago. A company related to Mr Auchi, who has a conviction for corruption in France, registered the loan to Mr Obama's bagman Antoin "Tony" Rezko on May 23 2005. Mr Auchi says the loan, through the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA, was for $3.5 million. Three weeks later, Mr Obama bought a house on the city's South Side while Mr Rezko's wife bought the garden plot next door from the same seller on the same day, June 15."

I guess it WAS a Jewish guy who said "Love thine enemy": "It is no secret that Obama's candidacy has been supported financially and politically by many prominent members of the American Jewish community. Even previously outspoken Clinton-supporting spokespersons for Democrats Abroad here in Israel have been hedging their bets recently in articles and interviews, suggesting that an Obama Administration would augur well for Israel. Incredibly, citing unenthusiastic, canned pro-Israel campaign statements, these dyed-in-the-wool Democratic sycophants would urge Jewish voters to cast their fate and Israel's with Obama rather than with the Republican candidate, McCain. With all due deference to the Obama celebrity supporters like Steven Spielberg and George Soros, can Jews herein Israel and in America and other friends of Israel risk a vote for Obama in November? A quick look at the facts should switch on a big red light in most peoples' minds."

Foreign press warnings on Obama: "Der Spiegel editor: "The rise of democratic frontrunner Barack Obama signifies an alarming victory of style over substance." And that was just the first sentence. On Friday, it was Gerard Baker of the Times of London asking: "are Americans really ready to leap all the way across in one go to embrace a European-style Left?" Now there is a warning about Obama from Gabor Steingart of Der Spiegel's Washington bureau. "The senator's successes in the primaries also have a narcotizing effect. Obama defines himself as a new type of politician, as someone who refuses to be judged by the old standards," Steingart wrote. Judging by old standards = accountability. I realize my readers are not Obama fans. But they should not buy the baloney about the rest of the world having a feel-good crush on Obama. Europeans want a strong America - that they can complain about being too strong. Steingart pointed out: "If democracy functions only half as well as the market economy, the Obama bubble will burst. The burning question is: When?"

Posted by John Ray. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and for a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM

THE CLINTONS IN FULL MELT DOWN MODE!

One thing you have to say about this election season (aside from the tremendous heartburn) is that it has been anything but boring. If someone had told me 6 months ago that McCain would be the Republican nominee and that Obama would be the Democrat nominee I would've told them they were on drugs. Yet, here we are!!

So as the Clintons watch the nomination that was supposed to be Hillary's slip away they are both losing it. As a Clinton aide even points out, she is throwing the kitchen sink at Obama hoping some of it will stick. I thought the picture of Obama dressed up in the Somali Muslim garb was just one of her latest stunts that show how desperate she has become.


Her outrage at Obama over the mailings is just irrational and is another illustration of her desperation. The way she says, "Shame on you, Obama!", gives you the impression that she is outraged over something really substantial. She has been involved in the political game longer than anyone and to get upset about mailings is hilarious. Then this convoluted accusation that he is running a campaign straight out of Karl Rove's play book. Okay!!

I'm sorry but the woman who invented the "politics of personal destruction" and ruined people's lives just to protect her husband's political career is the last person to be outraged over mailings.

As Novak points out, who will tell Hillary that it is over after the fall out on March 4th?

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JUNIOR AND ADAM GADAHN: TWO AMERICANS IN WHITE MUSLIM TURBANS

SOMALI GARB!? OR MUSLIM?!

WE REPORT.

YOU DECIDE.

MORE HERE AND HERE.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER - PART 77: CINDY SHEEHAN AND THE JIHADISTS WHO ASSASSINATED SADAT

GATEWAY:

Cindy Sheehan: "My Family Was Treated Like the Muslim Brotherhood"

"It's the same case."

Cindy Sheehan says Casey Sheehan's death in Iraq and the imprisonment of Muslim Brotherhood members is the same thing.

Cindy Sheehan stands in front of a poster showing her son Casey and members of the Muslim brotherhood in Cairo(?). The sign reads, "It's the same case." (Aljazeera)

Cindy Sheehan took her Congressional Campaign to unseat Speaker Pelosi to Cairo, Egypt this month. She is there to protest for the release of the moderate Muslim Brotherhood members detained by the Mubarak regime.

• THIS IS PART-AND-PARCEL WITH HER EMBRACE OF CHAVEZ, AND HER BUSHITLER HATRED.

• THIS IS THE SAME RATIONALE OF THE 1970'S WEATHERMEN - WHO COMMITTED ACTS OF TERROR AGAINST THE POLICE (WHOM THEY CALLED PIGS).

• THE SCARY THING IS, NUTS LIKE SHEEHAN ARE THE BASE OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

• AND WHY THEY'RE UNFIT TO LEAD CONGRESS, AND GET THE WHITE HOUSE.

I'D LIKE TO HEAR OBAMA AND HILLARY REPUDIATE SHEEHAN AND OTHERS - LIKE CODE PINK - WHO HATE AMERICA AND LOVE OUR ENEMIES.

MORE LINKS AT GATEWAY.

The ancients predicted the savior would come!

This rare collection of artwork from antiquity proves that his coming was foretold by the ancients!



I'm so excited!

WHY OBAMA'S MUSLIM GARB - AND THE MSM COVER UP - MATTER

A MUST READ POST WITH MANY LINKS.

ANOTHER BIRD FLU DEATH IN EGYPT

REUTERS:

A 4-year-old Egyptian girl tested positive for bird flu on Monday, the 44th confirmed human case in the Arab world's most populous country, state news agency MENA said.

Ministry of Health spokesman Abdel Rahman Shaheen said the girl had been treated with the antiviral drug tamiflu and had been transferred from Minya province to a hospital in Cairo, the agency said.

The girl is suffering from a high fever and is having trouble breathing because she has inflammation of one of her lungs.

Four Egyptian women died from bird flu in December. Their deaths broke a 5-month pause in human cases in Egypt and brought to 19 the number of Egyptians who have died of the H5N1 bird flu virus since it emerged in Egypt in early 2006.

It is the third winter the virus has struck after lying low during Egypt's hot summers, when it is much less likely to spread from one carrier to another.

Around 5 million households in Egypt depend on poultry as a main source of food and income, and the government has said this makes it unlikely the disease can be eradicated despite a large-scale poultry vaccination programme.

WHO officials have said the bird flu virus was now considered endemic in Egypt.

• IT'S GETTING WORSE - EVERY WEEK.
• IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME...

US HOLDING 14 IRANIANS IN IRAQ

DJ/AFP:

The U.S. military in Iraq has 14 Iranians in its custody, U.S. military officials told AFP Monday, an increase in the previously released number.

The Iranians are "being held as imperative threats to security," the U.S. Central Command said in a separate statement from its headquarters in Tampa, Florida. "We currently have 14 Iranian detainees in coalition custody," said Major Brad Leighton, spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq. He added: "The dates and times of their individual capture are not immediately available."

They include three men detained in the northern city of Erbil in January last year on suspicion of supporting insurgents.

U.S. officials accuse Iran of meddling in Iraq by training Shiite militias and shipping in armor-piercing explosives for attacks on U.S. troops. Iran denies the charges.

HMMMMM.... THIS ANNOUNCEMENT COMES ON THE HEELS OF THE FRENCH/QATAR JOINT EXERCISES AND THAT EXPLOSION IN TABRIZ... SUBTLE MESSAGES, WARNINGS PERHAPS.

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE NOUNS... CHAVEZ ORDERS CRACKDOWN ON ENGLISH WORDS

*******UPDATE: WELCOME MICHELLE MALKIN READERS!
PLEASE CHECK OUT THE WHOLE GROUP BLOG WHEN YOU GET THE CHANCE!

*******UPDATE #2: SEE BELOW...

IHT/AP:

President Hugo Chavez's government is taking its battle against U.S. "imperialism" into Venezuelans' vocabulary, urging state phone company workers to eschew English-language business and tech terms that have crept into the local vernacular.

Through a campaign launched Monday, newly nationalized CANTV hopes to wean employees and others from words like "staff" ("equipo"), "marketing" ("mercadeo") and "password" ("contrasena").

Stickers and banners printed up by the company exhort Venezuelans to "Say it in Spanish. Say it with pride."

The Communications and Information Ministry said in a statement that Venezuelans must recover Spanish words that are "threatened by sectors that have started a battle for the cultural domination of our nations."

Other English words targeted include "mouse" ("raton"), "meeting" ("reunion") and "sponsor" ("patrocinador") — all of which have become acceptable in business circles in various Latin American countries.

A frequent critic of Washington, Chavez has sought to counter what he calls U.S. cultural imperialism on all fronts, taking measures such as financing Venezuelan cinema as an alternative to the "dictatorship of Hollywood" and forcing radio stations to play more Venezuelan music.

• FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE NOUNS... LEFTISTS AND THE PC POLICE...
  
• SERIOUSLY, THIS IN NOT UNLIKE WHAT PAKISTAN IS DOING TO YOUTUBE.
• AND DO YOU THINK A SINGLE HOLLYWOOD ACTOR WILL PROTEST THIS ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH!?

OF COURSE NOT.

THEY'RE LIKE THE REST OF THE IRRATIONAL AND HYPOCRITICAL LEFT: MORE AFRAID OF THE "PHANTOM-PHASCISTS" LIKE "BUSHITLER" THAN THE REAL ONES LIKE CHAVEZ AND AHMADINEJAD.

UPDATE #2: BBC:

Russian freedom of speech is "shrinking alarmingly" under President Vladimir Putin, says Amnesty International.

The murders of outspoken journalists go unsolved, independent media outlets have been shut and police have attacked opposition protesters, said the report.

It also said "arbitrary" laws were curbing the right to express opinion and silencing NGOs deemed to be a threat by the authorities.

THIS IS A REAL TYRANT. BUSHITLER IS A PHANTOM-PHASCIST OF THE LEPHT.

BUT CRITICIZING SOCIALISTS - LIKE PUTIN AND FIDEL AND HUGO - IS UN-PC. WHILE ON THE LEFT, ANTI-AMERICANISM IS VERY PC.

NHS WAITING TIMES SO BAD THEY WILL START SENDING PATIENTS TO... INDIA!

ICBIRMINGHAM: NHS to send patients to India

HEALTH chiefs will spend NHS money flying Midland patients to India for treatment under shock plans to cut waiting lists.

The scheme, which has already been discussed by the Indian Health Minister and senior Government officials, could be trialed in either Birmingham or Leicester.

One senior British doctor told the Sunday Mercury that it was "common sense" to send NHS patients to the sub-continent for surgery.

But Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley criticised the move, saying: "I despair at the Government's failure to deal with Britain's inability to deliver the best healthcare in the world."

• APPARENTLY, THE ROAD TO SERFDOM GOES FROM THE UK TO INDIA.

• IF IT DOESN'T WORK THERE - WHERE THEY'VE BEEN AT IT FOR 60 YEARS, (THE NHS IS THE LARGEST EMPLOYER IN THE UK) - THEN IS CANNOT WORK HERE.

OBAMA '04 ON OBAMA '08: OBAMA NOT QUALIFIED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008

VIA HOT AIR: OBAMA SAYING HE WON'T RUN IN 2008 BECAUSE HE ISN'T QUALIFIED:




HE WAS RIGHT.

ALLAHPUNDIT:

"In his defense, this was back before he realized he was Jesus."

HOT AIR COMMENTER:

In his defense, this was back before he realized he was Jesus.

Uh, don’tcha mean Mohammed?

Anyway, nice catch.

Tony737 on February 25, 2008 at 6:02 PM

FREE SPEECH AND ISLAM

The latest news in a long line of similar news

Islamic Leader: Free Speech OK If Respectful and Responsible

Post below borrowed from Interested Participant:

(Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) In an Arab Times report, the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, weighed in on the "insulting caricatures of prophet Muhammad" printed recently in Danish newspapers.

"He said it was unacceptable that Islam and Muslims were represented as enemies of free speech. Ihsanoglu reiterated that Muslims have no problem with the freedom of speech as a fundamental human right but expect a minimal level of respect and responsibility in the exercise of this right.

Therefore, as long as you watch what you say, Muslims don't have any problem with you speaking freely. Presumably, this means that it's totally unacceptable to state that terrorists are largely fundamental followers of Islam. That would be disrespectful and irresponsible.

However, it would be perfectly acceptable to freely state that Jews are the spawn of pigs and dogs and they drink the blood of dead Palestinian babies. Hopefully, this clarification will dispel any confusion regarding freedom of speech.




Pakistan blocks 'blasphemous' YouTube

We read:

"PAKISTAN has ordered all internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing "blasphemous" content and material considered offensive to Islam, officials said.

An inter-ministerial committee has decided to block YouTube because it contained "blasphemous content, videos and documents," a government official told AFP. "The site will remain blocked 'til further orders," he said.

Other officials said the site had been blocked because it contained controversial sketches of the Prophet Mohammed which were republished by Danish newspapers earlier this month.

Source

Christians regularly take all sorts of abuse hurled at them by Leftists and others -- and survive with faith undimmed. But Muslims apparently can't take anything negative at all. What does that say about the maturity of the two groups and their confidence in their faith?


Posted by John Ray. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and for a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM

Another Obama roundup

Obama can do no wrong. Things that the Left once condemned are now OK if Obama says so. See here

Ralph Nader says Obama censors his real political views: "Nader credited Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), who leads the Democratic nomination race, with being "the first liberal evangelist in a long time." But Nader said Obama's "better instincts and knowledge have been censored" by the demands of the campaign. "He's leaned, if anything, toward the pro-corporate side of policy-making," Nader said. The question is, he added, "Do you have the fortitude to stand up against the corporate powers ... and get things done for the American people?" Obama, he said, has also erred on foreign policy. "He was pro-Palestinian when he was in Illinois," Nader said. "Now he's supporting" the Israeli government's policies, he added."

An Obama baracklash: "In recent days, sites have popped up indicating that the ongoing online Obamamania has hit a wall. What kind of wall? A snarky, ironic, this-Obama-thing-has-gotten-over-the-top wall. Obama's smiling mug is mashed up on countless faces on SenatorObamas.com. He's Sumobama. He's Pharaohbama. He's Navajobama, complete with a blue-and-white feathered headdress. The blog Is Barack Obama the Messiah? features a photo of the Illinois senator standing on a flight of stairs, Christlike, above an adoring crowd while a ray of light beams from above."

Obama's myth of the "suffering" middle class: "The "war on the middle class" is provably an invention of the Democrats and the mainstream media. But I repeat myself. Barack Obama, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton have all highlighted the "suffering" of the middle class... the "two Americas"... and that the average Joe is getting squeezed by the wealthy. Reason TV has produced an exceptional series of videos that shatter conventional myth-making using (brace yourself, "progressives") facts. This quick summary of Living Large - the vanishing Middle Class should encourage you to watch the entire seven minute video."

Black Panther, Now Inspired by Barack Obama, Gets only 30 Days For 1969 Cop Shooting: "A former Black Panther Party member has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and two years' probation for the 1969 shooting of a Chicago police officer. Joseph Pannell spent years living in Canada, working as a researcher and raising a family under the name Gary Freeman. In 1969 as a 19-year-old member of the militant group, Pannell shot Terrence Knox three times in the right arm, wounding him. Pannell was arrested after the shooting but he ran after being released on bail in the early 1970s. He spent years fighting his extradition until voluntarily returning to Chicago this month and pleading guilty to an aggravated battery charge. The case began on March 7, 1969, when Mr. Knox, then 21, was patrolling near a Chicago high school in a squad car. Prosecutors said that when he pulled over and asked Mr. Pannell, then 19, why he was not in school, Mr. Pannell fired several shots at him. While on bail, Mr. Pannell fled to Canada. In 2004, he was arrested, but fought extradition. Last month he gave up that fight, saying he was inspired by the new political climate he saw in Chicago, symbolized, he said, by the support of Mayor Richard M. Daley and other political leaders for the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama."

Posted by John Ray. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and for a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM