THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE: WISCONSIN: LEFTIST THUGS BURGLARIZE TEA PARTY HQ AND STEAL COMPLETED RECALL PETITIONS

THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.

WORLD BANK CHIEF: ENORMOUS FOOD PRICE INFLATIION MAY BRING ON ENORMOUS GLOBAL CRISIS

BBC:

The president of the World Bank has warned that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis".

Robert Zoellick cited rising food prices as the main threat to poor nations who risk "losing a generation".

He was speaking in Washington at the end of the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

HERE'S WHY:

Food price changes Q1 2010 to Q1 2011
Source: World Bank Development Prospects Group
Maize	74%
Wheat	69%
Palm oil	55%
Soybeans	36%
Beef	30%
Rice	-2%

IF THE LEFT WOULD STFU ABOUT AGW AND ALLOW MORE COAL AND OIL TO BE EXPLOITED - AND LESS SO-CALLED "GREEN FUELS", THEN PRICES WOULD COME DOWN.

I DOUBT THE LEFT WILL STFU BEFORE THE NEXT CRISIS TRIGGERS ANOTHER GLOBAL COLLAPSE AND EVEN GREATER POLITICAL INSTABILITY.

WHY I AM I PESSIMISTIC?

SIMPLE:

THE GOP WON'T TAKE OVER THE SENATE UNTIL 2012AND THERE'S LIKELY GONNA BE SOME SHINOLA HITTING THE FAN BEFORE THEN.

2 JIHADISTS ARRESTED IN MURDER OF FOGEL FAMILY

The Jerusalem Post reports that the IDF has captured 2 culprits in the bloodbath of the Fogel family in Itamar (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):

Two Palestinian youths from the village of Awarta were arrested in recent days for the brutal slaying of five members of the Fogel family in their Itamar home last month, the IDF and Shin Bet said on Sunday following the lifting of a media ban on the investigation.

The suspects have been named as Hakim Maazan Niad Awad, an 18-year-old high school student, and Amjad Mahmud Fauzi Awad, 19, both from the West Bank village of Awarta, located 2 kilometers south of the settlement of Itamar.

The suspects have confessed to the stabbings and re-enacted the murders, security forces said on Sunday. According to Army Radio, they did not express remorse for their crimes.

Both men are affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) terror group and received significant assistance from family members and friends after the attack, security forces added.

The suspects planned the stabbings days ahead of time. On the night of March 11, after unsuccessful attempts to obtain firearms from a local PFLP representative in their village, the two set out toward Itamar on foot, armed with knives, a wirecutter and masks to cover their faces.

The two culprits must receive the death sentence for their horrifying obscenity against humanity. It's high time the authorities made serious use of it to send a message what will happen if they commit hate crimes this abominable and obscene.

Update: according to this report, the 2 evil filths were allowed into the town for olive harvesting, and knew the area.

HE LISTENED TO EVERY NUMBER ONE HIT SONG EVER...

AND HIS ANALYSIS IS HERE.

WHICH ONE WOULD JIHADISTS KILL AND WHICH WOULD THEY RAPE?

TRICK QUESTION:



THEY'D RAPE BOTH - BUT THEN ONLY KILL THE GIRL FOR NOT WEARING A VEIL AND BEING A SLUT!

BADDA BUM BUMP!

SERIOUSLY, THIS IS JUST ANOTHER CASE WHICH BILL MAHER GETS A LITTLE BIT WRONG:

4/16/11: BILL MAHER: If Muslim Men Had More Sex There Wouldn't Be Suicide Bombers

France recently passed a law banning the wearing of burkas in public, which has been deriding by some as impeding religious freedom.

On Real Time last night, Bill Maher said that, after weighing the issue, decided to come down on the side of being against the ban.

"As much as I hate what is behind making women wear that, whether it's overt, like 'I'm gonna kill you bitch if you wear that,' or its just brainwashing them, its still a thought crime. And you still cannot make people... people in this country wear crazy shit in public. I don't think you can tell people in a free country what they can wear. I just don't. And this is somebody who is not soft on the Muslims."

His guest, Irshad Manji, director of the Moral Courage Project, did not agree with Maher's take.

"Listen, Bill, for any civil libertarian, and I'm one of them as well, this is, this is a dilemma. On the one hand, as a proponent of individual liberty, I want to be able to defend Muslim women who say that they freely, and voluntarily, choose to wear the veil. I'm pro-choice. I get that. Here's the problem for me, at least. That the veil represents a wider culture. A tribal, a parochial, a patriarchal culture that winds up actually taking more choices away from women, and men, than it gives. And so I have to ask myself, what is the greater good for the greater number, okay? And, in this case, I have to say, I think it is banning the veil in public spaces."

Talked then turned to what happens when you "put off-limits normal sex." Said Maher:

“I’ve said it many times that if Muslim men could get laid more, we wouldn’t have this problem. That probably no suicide bomber, after he died, people said, ‘You know, that guy, he blew everybody up, but boy – he got laid a lot.’”

IT'S NOT THAT JIHADISTS DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SEX; IT'S THAT THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SEX WITH WOMEN!

THEY HAVE PLENTY WITH LITTLE BOYS AND BEASTS!

I DISAGREE WITH MAHER ON MOST THINGS, BUT HE DOES SEE ISLAM FOR WHAT IT IS:




I DON'T KNOW HOW MUSLIMS CAN HONESTLY EXPLAIN AWAY THEIR MISOGYNY, AFTER ALL, THE KORAN IS ONE OF THE MAJOR REASONS WHY ISLAM IS SO MISOGYNISTIC.

MORE HERE.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO OBAMA'S PORTUGUESE WATERDOG, BO?

I GUESS THAT DOG NAMED BO - A GIFT FROM THE LATE TEDDY JO - WAS JUST ANOTHER PHONY PR PLOY.

I BETCHYA TRICKY DICK LIKED CHECKERS MORE THAN OBAMA LIKES BO.

THE PUPPY DEBUTED TWO YEARS AGO. ANYBODY SEE HIM LATELY?

34 1/2 YEARS FOR HONOR MURDERER

Phyllis Chesler writes about the sentence Faleh Almaleki has received - 34 and a half years - for murdering his daughter Noor with a Jeep Grand Cherokee 2 years ago. A sentence most justly deserved, though it would have been far better if he'd been sent to the chair or gotten a lethal injection.

And those who were accomplices in the murders must be tried as well.

UPDATED: WHY AND WHEN DID OBAMA REALLY GAIN HIS CONNECTION TO CHICAGO AND THE CHICAGO MACHINE?

OBAMA IS A CREATURE OF THE CHICAGO MACHINE.

HOW AND WHEN DID THIS CONNECTION BEGIN?

• THE EARLIEST KNOWN CONNECTION BETWEEN BARACK OBAMA AND CHICAGO IS THROUGH HIS MOTHER:

ACCORDING TO OBAMA HIMSELF, OBAMA'S MOTHER WENT TO CHICAGO TO WORK AS AN AU PAIR IN THE SUMMER OF 1960.

• HOW DID THIS COME ABOUT!?!?

• WASN'T HER FAMILY WAS FROM WASHINGTON AND KANSAS AND HADN'T THEY JUST MOVED TO HAWAII!?!?

• SO WHY DID SHE SPEND WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN HER FIRST SUMMER IN HAWAII IN CHICAGO TO WORK AS AN AU PAIR!?!?

WEIRD.

• WHO DID SHE WORK FOR?!?

• HOW DID SHE FIND THEM - OR HOW DID THEY FIND HER?!?

THEY MUST'VE BEEN RICH:

POOR PEOPLE DON'T HAVE AU PAIRS AND MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE DON'T REACH OUT 5000 MILES TO FIND ONE.

• DID SHE WORK FOR TOM AYERS? DID SHE BABYSIT FOR LITTLE BILLY AYERS?

• OR FOR THE JARRETT'S AND LITTLE VALERIE JARRETT?

• HOW MIGHT SHE HAVE BECOME CONNECTED TO CHICAGO?

FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS IS THE ONLY PERSON IN OBAMA'S MEMOIR WHO IS BOTH CONNECTED TO HIM AND CHICAGO BEFORE HE PHYSICALLY GOES TO CHICAGO.

• DID OBAMA'S MOTHER GET CONNECTED TO CHICAGO VIA FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS?

THIS SEEMS VERY LIKELY, TO ME.

WHY?

FOR A FEW REASONS:

• IT'S THE SIMPLEST EXPLANATION AND REQUIRES THE INTRODUCTION OF NO ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS.

• IN DAVIS'S MEMOIR/ROMAN A CLEF, HE RELATES HAVING HAD A THREESOME WITH HIS WHITE WIFE AND A YOUNG WHITE GIRL - AROUND OBAMA'S MOTHER AGE AT THE TIME - AND HE NAMED HER "ANN" - OBAMA'S MOTHER'S MIDDLE NAME.

I THINK IT IS FAIR TO SURMISE THAT THIS "ANN" WAS STANLEY ANN DUNHAM, AND THAT FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS AND STANLEY ANN DUNHAM HAD SEX - AND SHE GOT PREGNANT AND THAT THEY LOOKED FOR AND FOUND A SUITABLE HUSBAND FOR HER GIVEN HER CONDITION:

AN AFRICAN WHO WANTED THE MARRIAGE IN ORDER TO STAY IN THE USA - AND THAT THIS CHILD WAS.... BARACK.

THIS WOULD EXPLAIN:

WHY FRANK DAVIS WAS REALLY SELECTED TO BECOME BARACK'S SUBSTITUTE FATHER AND BLACK ROLE MODEL WHEN STANLEY ANN DUMPED LITTLE BARRY AND WENT BACK TO ASIA TO DO ANTHROPOLOGY.

(THE "OFFICIAL STORY" IS THAT FRANK WAS GRAMPA'S POKER/DRINKING BUDDY. HMMMM: IS THAT REALLY A SUITABLE AND BELIEVABLE EXPLANATION!? DOES IT PASS THE SMELL TEST!? NOPE. NO DECENT GRANDMA WOULD HAVE BEEN PLEASED TO HAVE A WHICKY-DRINKING POKER PLAYER BE A ROLE MODEL FOR HER ONLY GRANDSON!)

MOST IMPORTANTLY:

• DAVIS CONNECTS OBAMA TO CHICAGO
• AND TO AYERS
• AND TO THE JARRETTS
• AND TO THE MACHINE.

[NOTE:

TOM AYERS WAS A BIG $ PART OF THE ERIKSON INSTITUTE WHICH WAS RUN BY VALERIE JARRETT'S MOTHER.

VALERIE MARRIED VERNON JARRETT'S SON.

VERNON WORKED WITH FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS AT THE CHICAGO DEFENDER - A BLACK NEWSPAPER.

MORE ON THIS HERE.

ADDENDUM:

PAUL ROBESON IS CITED AS THE PERSON WHO TOLD FRANK DAVIS TO MOVE TO HAWAII -

AND ROBESON WAS A COMMUNIST WHOSE LAWYERS WERE THE SAME FOLKS WHO LATER DEFENDED BILL AYERS AND THE WEATHERMEN.

SMALL WORLD!]

• THE AYERS AND THE JARRETTS WERE BIGTIME LEFTIES IN CHICAGO AND WERE CONNECTED TO THE MACHINE - AND TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS WAS ALSO CONNECTED TO,

• AND THAT ALINSKY AND ALINSKY'S ACOLYTE KELLMAN - WHO GAVE OBAMA HIS FIRST JOB AS A "COMMUNITY ORGANIZER" - WERE CONNECTED TO, TOO.

OBAMA REALLY GOT HIS FIRST JOB A CHICAGO CONNECTION - AND NOT FOR ANY OF THE FOUR EXPLANATIONS HE AND KELLMAN HAVE OFFERED.

(WHEN YOU'RE TELLING THE TRUTH, YOU AND YOUR COHORTS TELL ONE VERSION!).

IT WOULD ALSO EXPLAIN:

HOW HE GOT HIS FIRST INTERNSHIP DURING LAW SCHOOL AND HIS FIRST JOB AS A LAWYER.

IT WOULD ALSO EXPLAIN:

HOW AND WHY HE CHOSE MICHELLE - OR WHY THE MARRIAGE WAS ARRANGED: HER FATHER WAS A CHICAGO ALDERMAN AND PART OF THE MACHINE.

IT WOULD ALSO EXPLAIN:

HOW HE GOT THE GIG WITH ANNENBERG - WHICH HE CO-CHAIRED WITH BILL AYERS.

IT WOULD ALSO EXPLAIN:

HOW HE GOT HIS STATE SENATOR'S GIG, AND HIS US SENATE GIG.

IT WOULD ALSO EXPLAIN:

WHY HE CHOSE RAHM TO BE HIS COS AND WHY HE CHOSE BILL DALEY TO BE HIS SECOND COS WHEN RAHM WAS CALLED BACK TO TAKEOVER THE MACHINE FOR BILL'S BROTHER RICHARD.

IT WOULD ALSO EXPLAIN:

HOW HE GOT TEDDY'S EARLY ENDORSEMENT:

THE KENNEDY'S GO WAY BACK WITH THE MACHINE -ALL THE WAY BACK TO PROHIBITION - (AND ALL THOSE DECADES OWNING THE MART).

BIDEN OWES HIS CAREER TO THE MACHINE, TOO.

JUST LIKE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SOETORO.

I ASK AGAIN:

• HOW DID LITTLE BARRY OBAMA ---

• A HALF-WHITE/HALF-BLACK KID FROM HAWAII WHO WAS RAISED IN INDONESIA AND WENT TO COLLEGE IN LA AND NYC AND LAW SCHOOL IN BOSTON ---

• END UP BEING WELCOMED AND GROOMED BY THE CHICAGO MACHINE!?!?

THE BEST EXPLANATION IS THROUGH HIS MOTHER.

• AND HOW DID HIS MOTHER END UP THERE?

PROBABLY THROUGH THE MAN WHO REACHED OUT ON HER BEHALF BECAUSE HE HAD IMPREGNATED HER:
FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS.

A HUNDRED OR SO LINKS FOR THIS NARRATIVE MAY BE FOUND HERE IN NUMEROUS EARLIER POSTS.

UPDATE:

ARE WE TO BELIEVE THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA JUST HAPPENED TO

• (1) MEET HIS CLOSEST ADVISOR - VALERIE JARRETT - AND
• (2) JUST HAPPENED TO MEET THE MAN WHO HOSTED HIS FIRST FUNDRAISER, AND WITH WHOM HE SERVED ON THE WOODS FUND WITH FOR YEARS - BILL AYERS - AND
• (3) JUST HAPPENED TO MEET THE MAN WHO GAVE HIM HIS FIRST JOB IN CHICAGO - KELLMAN, WHO FINANCED OBAMA'S JOB VIA "THE WOODS FUND" WHICH WAS FINANCED BY TOM AYERS - AND
• (4) THAT IT WAS A COINCIDENCE THAT VALERIE JARRETT'S FATHER-IN-LAW AND FRANK DAVIS WERE PALS - AND
• (5) THAT IT WAS A COINCIDENCE THAT LEONARD BOUDIN WAS BOTH FRANK DAVIS PAL PAUL ROBESON'S LAWYER AND BILL AYERS LAWYER - AND ALGER HISS'S LAWYER AND FIDEL'S ALWYER AND KGB AGENT/JOURNALIST IF STONE'S BROTHER-IN-LAW?

THESE ARE NOT COINCIDENCES.

THIS IS A NETWORK OF EXTREME LEFT-WING ACTIVISTS BENT ON TURNING THE USA INTO A SOCIALIST NATION.

AND OBAMA OWES EVERYTHING TO THIS NETWORK.

EVERYTHING:

• HIS ENTRY INTO COLUMBIA,
• HIS ADMISSION INTO HARVARD,
• HIS JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS,
• HIS MARRIAGE - AND HER JOB AT UC,
• HIS CHARITABLE JOB,
• HIS LAW-FIRM,
• HIS STATE SENATE SEAT,
• HIS US SENATE SEAT,
• HIS HOME,
• HIS APPEARANCE IN PRIME TIME AT THE KERRY CONVENTION
• HIS TEDDY ENDORSEMENT,
• HIS NOMINATION AND HIS ELECTION.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: HIS TRUE IDENTITY AND HIS TRUE MISSION.

AND WE MUST STOP HIM AND THEM.

More here and here.

UPDATE: MUCH SIMPLER STORYLINE HERE.

"Three of the five coldest tropical Marches in the 33-year satellite temperature record have happened in the past dozen years"

MARCH WAS COLD.

COLDEST MARCH IN TAIWAN IN 40 YEARS.

COLDEST MARCH IN AUSTRALIA IN 24 YEARS.

BUT IF CO2 KEEPS GOING UP, THEN HOW CAN THIS BE HAPPENING?!?!?

SOME BLAME LA NINA:

Global Temperature Report: March 2011

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade

March temperatures (preliminary)

Global composite temp.: -0.10 C (about 0.18 degrees Fahrenheit) below 30-year average for March.

Northern Hemisphere: -0.07 C (about 0.13 degrees Fahrenheit) below 30 year average for March.

Southern Hemisphere: -0.13 C (about 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit) above/below 30-year average for March.

Tropics: -0.35 C (about 0.63 degrees Fahrenheit) below 30-year average for March.

February temperatures (revised):

Global Composite: -0.02 C below 30-year average

Northern Hemisphere: -0.04 C below 30-year average

Southern Hemisphere: ±0.00 C above/below 30-year average

Tropics: -0.35 C below 30-year average

(All temperature anomalies are based on a 30-year average (1981-2010) for the month reported.)

Notes on data released April 5, 2011:

Driven by the La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event, global average temperatures in March 2011 were the coolest March since 1999, according to Dr. John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

It was the fifth coolest March in the tropics, where the average temperature fell 0.35 C (about 0.63 degrees Fahrenheit) below seasonal norms.

Three of the five coldest tropical Marches in the 33-year satellite temperature record have happened in the past dozen years: 5th, 2011, -0.35 C: 3rd, 2000, -0.42; and 2nd, 2008, -0.58 C.

As part of an ongoing joint project between UAHuntsville, NOAA and NASA, Christy and Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in the ESSC, use data gathered by advanced microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth. This includes remote desert, ocean and rain forest areas where reliable climate data are not otherwise available.

The satellite-based instruments measure the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level. Once the monthly temperature data is collected and processed, it is placed in a "public" computer file for immediate access by atmospheric scientists in the U.S. and abroad.

Neither Christy nor Spencer receives any research support or funding from oil, coal or industrial companies or organizations, or from any private or special interest groups. All of their climate research funding comes from federal and state grants or contracts.

BRRRRRR!

AGW = TFBS!

EINSTEIN, GOD AND THE LEFT

The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the "old one." I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. - ALBERT EINSTEIN

I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind. - ALBERT EINSTEIN

I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one ? - ALBERT EINSTEIN

THESE QUOTES STRIKE ME AS EVIDENCE THAT EINSTEIN WAS NEITHER AN ATHEIST OR A HUMANIST, BUT A BELIEVER; EINSTEIN BELIEVED IN GOD.

I WOULD ARGUE THAT EINSTEIN WAS WRONG IN SECOND PART OF THE MIDDLE QUOTE:

GOD CARES ABOUT MANKIND AND ALL CREATION; GOD WOULD NO MORE BE UNCARING THAN HE WOULD ROLL DICE.

GOD CARES ABOUT US ALL AND EACH OF US.

SO, I THINK THE POSTMODERNISTIC AND ATHEISTIC LEFTIES AT THINK PROGRESS SHOULD STFU.

AND I HAVE A WARNING FOR THE LEFT: GOD EXISTS WHETHER THEY BELIEVE IN HIM OR NOT.

LUCKILY, HE WANTS US TO BEHAVE RIGHT MORE THAN HE WANTS US TO BELIEVE IN HIM.

RICK SANTORUM SHARES GLENN BECK'S CONCERNS ABOUT CALIPHATE

Politico reports that Rick Santorum concurs with Glenn Beck about the dangers of a caliphate rising in the middle east (via The Blaze):

Rick Santorum told Glenn Beck Thursday that he doesn't disagree with Beck's ominous assertions that Islamic extremists in the Middle East are working with leftists to establish a caliphate across the region.

"I have talked about a caliphate and how these extremists are working with communists and socialists — they are all working together. Whether you believe it or not, this is happening. And people want Sharia law all over the globe," Beck said during an interview with Santorum.

"I don't disagree with anything you've said," Santorum responded.

I'm glad someone on the right has acted responsibly, unlike the awful Bill Kristol, whom Ben Barrack reported nearly 2 weeks ago betrayed his positions from 2006, when he actually spoke against any jihadist who would rampage over the Muhammed cartoons. Kristol owes an apology for mimicking leftist scoffers who don't recognize why it pays to be concerned.

SEVERAL CONGRESSMEN WANT GOLDSTONE REPORT CANCELED

There's no guarantee it'll happen, but in good news, Anthony Weiner and several other Congressman have stated to the US ambassador to the UN that they want her to call on the awful world political organization to withdraw the Goldstone libel on Israel.

China's inflation jumped to a 32-month high

MSNBC:

China's inflation jumped to a 32-month high in March despite government efforts to cool an overheated economy, adding to pressure for more interest rate hikes and other controls.

Prices rose 5.4 percent over a year ago in the world's second-largest economy, driven by 11.7 percent surge in politically sensitive food costs, data showed Friday. That was up from February's 4.9 percent and a setback for communist leaders who have declared taming inflation their priority and raised interest rates four times since October.

"They will have to step up their fight against inflation," said Credit Agricole CIB senior economist Dariusz Kowalczyk.

Analysts say prices are being driven by the dual pressures of consumer demand that is outstripping food supplies and a bank lending boom that was allowed to run too long after it helped China ward off the 2008 global crisis.

 Wait a minute. Think about that last paragraph. Two issues;

1) A lending boom is causing inflation. What did the Chinese people do with the money which flooded the market in the "Lending Boom"? They built cities that no one lives in:



And

2) Consumer demand is outstripping food supplies?

Cities where no one lives.

Not enough food.

Does that sound like the makings of a strong economy?

ITALIAN "PEACE ACTIVIST" WAS MURDERED IN GAZA

In an example of how some moonbats never consider how the enemies they're helping are not grateful, an Italian pro-palestinian activist who was living in Gaza for several years was murdered, seemingly by a rival faction to Hamas:

Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, who had been living in the Gaza Strip for much of the past three years, was seized on Thursday by a radical group that has been in conflict with Hamas. [...]

In a video posted on YouTube, the kidnappers said Arrigoni had been taken hostage in order to secure the release of an unspecified number of their members detained by Hamas security forces, including a jihadi leader called Sheikh Hisham al-Suedani.

The kidnappers, who identified themselves as belonging to The Brigade of the Gallant Companion of the Prophet Mohammed bin Muslima, said they would execute Arrigoni if their demands were not met by 5:00 pm (1400 GMT) on Friday.

But who does Hamas accuse of responsibility? Israel, of course:

Accordingly, Hamas accused Israel of being behind the attack, noting that Arrigoni had often spoken out against Israeli policies in Gaza, going so far as to compare what he called "Israeli crimes against Palestinians" to Nazi crimes. Additionally, he was twice arrested by Israeli authorities.

I don't expect them to conduct any serious investigation into this murder, nor any serious arrests made. But maybe this'll send a message to some would-be peace activists that to live in such a violent, racist, misogynist society can be very fatal.

THE MISERY INDEX IS THE HIGHEST EVER AND GETTING EVEN HIGHER, AND THERE'S NO SLOWDOWN IN SIGHT!

INFLATION IS REALLY 10%, AND GETTING HIGHER EVERY MONTH.

AND UNEMPLOYMENT IS GETTING HIGHER TOO.

WHICH SENDS GOLD UYP AND THE DOLLAR DOWN AND THIS FEEDBACK INCREASES INFLATION EVEN MORE.

I BLAME OBAMA AND THE LEFT AND THEIR IDIOTIC POLICIES.

THE MISERY INDEX IS CLIMBING.

I HOPE MORE AMERICANS WAKE UP AND THAT IT COSTS OBAMA THE ELECTION - DESPITE THE BILLION BUCKS HE'S GONNA RAISE AND SPEND.

MORE PROOF THAT JIHADISTS ARE BARBARIC BEASTS

THEIR INSANE BLOOD-LUST IS SO VORACIOUS THAT THEY EAT THEIR OWN.

NOTHING HAS KILLED MORE MUSLIMS THAN ISLAM ITSELF.

THERE WILL BE NO PEACE UNTIL ISLAM IS ERADICATED.

Update #1: MORE DEPRAVED MURDEROUS BARBARITY HERE - WITH VIDEO.

Update #2.

VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF AMERICA'S FINANCIAL WOES

Grim facts that should be sending both parties scrambling to curb the coming financial disaster for America:


Obama self-righteously declares:

"We have to live within our means..."

Yet his policies have increased our national debt to astronomical levels.

The hypocrisy is astounding. Until one remembers that Obama is in campaign mode. Is he ever in any other mode?

MUSLIM WOMAN IN GEORGIA SENT THE PIG'S FOOT TO KING, AND ANOTHER THREAT LETTER TO GREG BALL

First, let's note this report from The Patch (via Weasel Zippers), which reveals something most disturbing discovered a day or so ago:

A suspicious package containing a letter and a stuffed animal bearing the Star of David was opened at state Sen. Greg Ball’s Albany office Tuesday afternoon.

The letter begins with “Asa Lamu Laikum Dead Man Walking,” (the first part of which some sources translate as “peace be upon you” in Arabic) refers to Ball (R, C – Patterson) as a “crazy, Christian cracker” who lacks political correctness, citing Friday’s hearing on homeland security, veterans and military affairs. The letter, whose signer identifies him or herself as a messenger of Allah and a defender of Islam, calls the hearing a “declaration of war against Muslims.”

According to this report on MSNBC.com, the hearing, which was aimed at assessing New York’s readiness for terrorist attacks, featured speakers who “argued that Islam is a threat to the U.S.” and spoke of terrorist training camps.

A statement released by Ball’s office Tuesday afternoon did not mention any other items in the package, but other news outlets reported the arrival of hazardous materials teams at the office.

Ball is looking forward to the next hearing, which is slated for May 17 in Albany.

Now, guess who sent both that and the threat letter with a pig's foot to Rep. King (via Newsbusters):

A Muslim woman has admitted to mailing a bloody pig’s foot and a threatening letter to Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), as well as another bizarre package to a New York state senator.

The woman, Jameela Barnette, of Marietta, Ga., says she sent the package to King earlier this month to voice her dismay with the hearing he held last month on what he calls the “radicalization” of American Muslims.

“I thought the letters explain themselves,” she told the New York Post, speaking not only of the anti-Semitic note to King, but the one she says she sent to state Sen. Greg Ball, a Republican who has held his own hearings on Muslims and hosted King at the most recent hearing last week.

Just after the package to King was intercepted at a Maryland mail facility earlier this month, a congressional source told POLITICO the accompanying letter was “a rambling type” of message that referred to the congressman as a “Jew,” though he is Catholic.

King told POLITICO on Thursday that Barnette “obviously has problems” and “appears to be a disturbed person who seems to be getting carried away with herself.”

He wouldn’t speculate about what might come next, saying only: “I’ll let the police know how serious this is.” Capitol Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. They said earlier this month that the investigation was ongoing.

The package sent to Ball included a Curious George stuffed animal with two Stars of David taped to it and a note that said, “FINAL DESTINATION: AUSCHWITZ.” Barnette told The Journal News that she sent the monkey because “I knew the Jews were behind the hearings. A monkey is a representation of who the Jews are.” The “Curious George” series of children’s books were written by Holocaust survivors.

If this woman did indeed send packages, not only will CAIR have to eat their own words victimology, but this shows how some Muslims are not faithful to their restrictions against pork, if that's what it takes to assault infidels.

GOLDSTONE'S CO-WRITERS WON'T JOIN HIM IN RETRACTION

But then, he never really did retract himself anyway. From FOX News:

The co-authors of a scathing report on Israel's conduct during its 2008-2009 invasion of Gaza said Thursday they stood by their work, hitting back at critics who've pushed to have its findings withdrawn after the report's lead author, Richard Goldstone, aired doubts about one of its central conclusions.

In a statement published on the website of Britain's Guardian newspaper, Goldstone's three colleagues said there was "no justification" for any move to review or rescind the 575-page report — which among other things accuses Israel of deliberately targeting civilians in its campaign against Hamas militants. The report also condemned Hamas for targeted Israeli civilians by firing rockets at Israeli cities.

Or does it? Moral equivalence does not solve anything. They can only choose one side or the other, and sadly, no matter what they say in the sham report, they're on the Hamas side.

Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said the Israeli position about the Goldstone document remains the same.

"The whole process was deeply tainted by political bias and an extremist dominance over the U.N. Human Rights Commission by nondemocratic countries," he said, adding that the Israelis are still studying the "implications" of Goldstone's newspaper article.

"We will try to take whatever steps are possible in order to minimize the unjust damage caused by the original report," he said.

Thursday's statement from Goldstone's colleagues — Pakistani human rights lawyer Hina Jilani, former Irish peacekeeper Desmond Travers, and international law professor Christine Chinkin — was even more categorical, suggesting that Goldstone had split with his co-authors by writing in the Post.

Jilani confirmed to The Associated Press that she and her colleagues disagreed with Goldstone's latest assessment, saying in a telephone interview that she could not see "anything of substance now in the public domain that merits a rethinking on the findings of the report."

Translation: she and her cronies don't even want to listen to the public. Another example of the damage-is-done situation. Goldstone knew quite well that Hamas is a terrorist group, and could've avoided doing anything to side with them. That he hasn't even sought an actual retraction at the UN on his part shows how phony his whole personal retraction is.

DOJ AND OBAMA SCUTTLED TERROR FINANCE PROSECUTIONS

Patrick Poole at Pajamas Media reports that Obama and Eric Holder appear to have scuttled prosections of terror financing for political gain. This is very disturbing, and Congress needs to address it.

Update: Frank Gaffney has commented on this case too.

SARAH GLIDDEN'S "WAITING ROOM" MAY NOT BE WORTH SITTING INSIDE

Sarah Glidden, the would-be graphic novelist who put together "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less" that otherwise takes a negative stance on Zionism, has come up with some new potential propaganda called "The Waiting Room" documenting Iraqi refugees in Syria. The article about this says:

Called The Waiting Room, the 20-page story continues the calm and considered documentarian style she employed in How to Understand Israel... and presents an incredibly depressing but touching portrait of what life has been like for Iraqis who've been living in Syria since the American invasion of 2003.

But there's problems abound. First up, this panel:
Really, was it that solid in education? Saddam lived and died a Muslim, holding a Koran at his trial, and his government run universities would most likely have incorporated the Religion of Peace and anti-Israelist education into their curriculum (one of the other panels at the political cartoon site says the colleges were free, which sounds vaguely similar to the notions some communists/marxists/socialists have of how to do things). I'm not sure you can call that solid stuff. Nor can a religion/education/political system that calls for jihad, oppression of women, and considers Jews "sons of apes and pigs" be something to learn from. And why do I get the vibe these refugees wouldn't give a crap about how Saddam fired scud missiles at Israel back in 1991, causing plenty of people, myself included, to have to hide in airtight rooms?

Then, more tellingly about Glidden's newest propaganda effort, there's this panel:
So the woman drawn in the panel blames America for her misfortunes, not Saddam for the oppression, nor the terrorists who went on a rampage after the US raid. Perhaps she might want to consider that nearly a decade ago, when the raid took place, there were terrorists going through Syria to get to Iraq, and Syria helped and encouraged many to do so. But she probably won't. The 7th panel at the political cartoon site has the interviewee saying, "America set fire to my country and we lost everything". Not exactly. There is a legitimate case that could be made that the US military didn't do a good enough job at defeating the invading terrorists properly at the beginning, and this is what led to their misfortunes. But it appears she's only blaming America for invading in the first place, and not the jihadists who crossed through Syria into Iraq. What, they don't have any responsibility?

To make matters worse, Comics Beat says:

Glidden is definitely following in the footsteps of the incomparable Joe Sacco in becoming a graphic reporter on the trouble spots of the world. While there’s only one Sacco, Glidden is finding her own place in the field with her work.

When they start comparisons with a foul fiend like Sacco, something is wrong.

Speaking of which, I found an AP article about Sacco and his Footnotes in Gaza propaganda on Haaretz, which tells a few details worthy of note:

The American-Maltese artist's latest book, "Footnotes in Gaza," chronicles two episodes in 1956 in which a U.N. report filed Dec. 15, 1956 says a total of 386 civilians were shot dead by Israeli soldiers - events Sacco said have been "virtually airbrushed from history because they have been ignored by the mainstream media."

Israeli historians dispute these figures.

"It's a big exaggeration," said Meir Pail, a leading Israeli military historian and leftist politician. "There was never a killing of such a degree. Nobody was murdered. I was there. I don't know of any massacre." Sacco's passion for the Palestinian cause has opened him up to accusations of bias.

Jose Alaniz, from the University of Washington's Department of Comparative Literature, said Sacco uses "all sorts of subtle ways" to manipulate the reader.

"Very often he will pick angles in his art work that favor the perspective of the victim: He'll draw Israeli soldiers or settlers from a low perspective to make them more menacing and towering." Alaniz also said Sacco draws children "in such a way to make them seem more victimized."

Sacco himself admits he takes sides.

"I don't believe in objectivity as it's practiced in American journalism. I'm not anti-Israeli ... It's just I very much believe in getting across the Palestinian point of view," he said.

I'm afraid he only takes one side, and his claim that the massacre took place, from what we can tell via Pail, is clearly a lie just like any claims that Israel drove Arabs out of their homes in Jerusalem, when it was the other way around, as can be read about in this History News Network article (via Richard Landes). There's a saying that "war is deceit", and many jihadists go by this too: this was likely a lie spun by anti-Israelists in the Islamic world, and Sacco followed up on it willingly.

But to say that American journalism is objective is about as convincing as to say that even FOX News is incapable of committing anti-Israel bias just because they're allegedly conservative (and Jeff Dunetz has already made clear they're no more reliable than CNN). Sacco's merely suggested he's a Chomskyite (he was born in Malta, of course). And he can use all the moral equivalence he likes, but it's clear he only cares about the "palestinian side" and doesn't care by contrast if there's no such thing as a "palestinian Arab/Islamic people", and that the name palestina was originally coined by the Romans circa the Bar Kochva revolution, later revived by the British to undermine Israel, by people like Christopher Mayhew and Michael Adams.

Sacco's whole attack on American journalism is laughable, since if there had been a massacre, you can be sure creeps like Walter Cronkite would've said something about it decades ago. It's a rather ironic attack by a leftist against other leftists, implying he doesn't think they're biased enough for his tastes. Which seems to be quite a trait for some leftists - their own aren't good enough for them.

And back to Glidden now, it's tragic that the artform of comics is being abused by such loathsome people to attack Israel and America. I wonder if her next destination will be to attack the Israeli army (which I served in when I was 19-21, even if it was only in supplies duties)? She is just as bad news as Sacco.

UH-OH: DELOITTE: ANOTHER RECESSION MIGHT BE COMING COURTESY OF RISING FOOD AND GASOLINE AND CLOTHING PRICES

REMEMBER: FOOD AND GASOLINE AND CLOTHING ARE STAPLES, NECESSITIES - THE BASICS.

WWD:

Red alert: Consumer fears over inflation are mounting, potentially wiping out the momentum retailers have seen so far this year.

The bad news for retailers came Wednesday, when Deloitte released its latest survey on consumer spending.

Seventy-four percent of Americans believe higher prices could curb their spending in the months ahead, and 53 percent see spring merchandise prices as inflated, according to a Deloitte survey released Wednesday. It’s currently up only a few percentage points, but inflation on most apparel is expected to be up 10 to 15 percent for fall due to higher raw material and labor costs. Higher energy costs, higher medical costs, unemployment levels and job concerns — and political unrest in Africa, the Middle East and Asia — are further driving down the will to spend.

While it will be mass and midtier retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp., Kohl’s Corp., J.C. Penney Co. Inc. and The TJX Cos. Inc. that will be hit the hardest, no company is expected to escape unscathed.

JUST LIKE WE SAID A WEEK AGO.

BETTER TIGHTEN YOUR SEAT-BELTS FOLKS; IT'S GONNA BE A BUMPY RIDE - AND ALL DOWNHILL.

THE ONLY THING THAT CAN STOP THIS AND SAVE US IS THE GOP FISCAL PLAN.

(REMEMBER: FOOD AND GASOLINE AND CLOTHING ARE STAPLES, NECESSITIES - THE BASICS. AND THEY ALL COST MORE NOW THAN WHEN OBAMA WAS INAUGURATED.

THE ONLY THINGS THAT'VE COME DOWN ARE HOUSE PRICES AND THE AMOUNT OF RESPECT THE USA HAS AROUND THE WORLD.)