UH-OH: EGYPT VIOLATES CAMP DAVID PEACE TREATY WITH ISRAEL

IF THIS STANDS, THE THE USA SHOULD CUT OFF ALL AID TO EGYPT IMMEDIATELY.

VIDEO: POSTMODERN LEFTOIDS FORGET THE USA WAS FOUNDED FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, NOT SEXUAL LIBERTINAGE

VIDEO OF LEFTISTS HARASSING A PRIEST PRAYING.

WHAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS - AND WHAT WILL GET US OUT OF IT?

THE PRIMARY "BIG LIE" OF THE LEFT THIS ELECTION CYCLE IS THIS, "GOP POLICIES GOT US  INTO THIS MESS SO THAT ELECTING ROMNEY AND RYAN IS GOING BACKWARDS".

THIS IS WHY OBAMA AND AXELROD CHOSE THE WORD "FORWARD" AS THEIR CAMPAIGN THEME.

HERE'S SOME EVIDENCE THAT THIS LIE IS CENTRAL TO THEIR CAMPAIGN: IT'S EVERYWHERE:

MAHER [NIGHT OF 8/16/12]:

I think [Obama] probably shouldn't have offered so much [to Republicans], for example, in the stimulus package right away. He offered what they wanted - the tax cuts, which really are not stimulus. And he should have said from the beginning, look, I won the election, OK? We're going do it my way now. We tried that idea - that tax cuts solve every problem. We had that. And that's what got us into this mess.

GIBBS ON 8/19/12:

Gibbs also said Vice President Joe Biden’s now-famous “chains” remark last week was not a “racial comment” or “race-baiting.” 

Biden told a roughly half-black audience in Virginia on Tuesday that Romney would “let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re going to put y’all back in chains.”

“No more race-baiting than when [Republican House Speaker] John Boehner says let’s unshackle Wall Street, let’s unshackle big business,” Gibbs said. “I think the vice president was correct in exactly what happens when we unshackle Wall Street and let Wall Street go back to writing its own rules…that’s what got us into this mess.”

OBAMA 8/4/12 (WITH AUDIO):

President Obama says that more time and persistence is all the economy needs to make a full recovery. He adds that the very thing that will bring the U.S back into a recession is “going back to the policies that got us into this mess in the first place.”

OBAMA AUGUST 13TH:

"My opponent and Congressman Ryan and their allies in Congress, they all believe that if we just get rid of more regulations on big corporations and we give more tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans, it will lead to jobs and prosperity for everybody else," said Obama of the Republican ticket, which campaigned Sunday two hours north in the Milwaukee suburbs. "They have tried to sell us this trickle-down fairy dust before, and guess what? It didn't work," Obama said, 

OBAMA AUGUST 5TH - FROM HOT AIR:

On the campaign trail, President Obama continues to frame the election as a choice between competing visions. Every time there is a glimmer of good news on the economic front, he recycles a paragraph written for him in 2009 and that he has repeated countless times since. “The recovery is accelerating,” he tells audiences at rallies and fundraisers. “America is coming back—which means the last thing we can do is go back to the same failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place. And that’s what’s at stake in this election.”

HOT AIR'S HOWARD PORTNOY DESCRIBES WHY THIS IS A LIE (SAME LINK AS ABOVE):

... the real unemployment rate, which is currently at 15%, began its climb into the danger zone (shown in red) in the closing months of the Bush 43 administration. The change reflects one of two messes that Bush inherited from his immediate predecessor, Bill Clinton. Clinton bequeathed to Bush the dot.com bubble, which burst on March 10, 2000, and the housing bubble, which Clinton himself inherited—from Jimmy Carter—but exacerbated. During his presidency, Clinton pressured lenders to make risky loans that would “make home ownership more affordable for lower-income Americans and those with a poor credit history.”

Although Bush 43 was not without fault (he compounded Clinton’s irresponsible financial policies with his own profligate spending and expanded government with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security), he did attempt to shrink the housing bubble. In 2003, his administration proposed a new agency to oversee the government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which had mismanaged their $1.5 trillion in debt holdings against interest rate increases. In response to this proposal,Democratic Rep. Congressman Barney Frank assured Americans and fellow House members:

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis…. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

The fact that it was later revealed that Frank personally benefited financially from both agencies is irrelevant. The situation reached a head during the final days of Bush presidency. On December 30, 2008 the housing bubble burst.

Enter Obama, who did inherit a mess as he has reminded the American tediously often. U-6 was at 15.1% at the end of Obama’s first full month in office. In May, the real rate entered the stratosphere (shown in purple) and remained there for the next 20 months. It is hard to say how much blame for the high unemployment rate rests with Bush’s and how much with Obama, but it remains a fact that Obama has been ineffectual at bringing it back down into the merely high orange range. In fact, from June through October of 2011, U-6 was back up in the purple, reaching a high of 16.4% in September. It is notable that during this period, he gave his “You should pass this jobs plan right away” speech in which he asked Congress to pass a second $447-billion stimulus package.

Which is what he hopes to do again if given a second term—that and raising taxes on job creators. His first stimulus did nothing to revive the economy or put Americans back to work, and raising taxes during an economic downturn is sheer folly by his own lights. Yet, that remains his prescription for the future. What he is essentially asking voters to do is give him a blank check to reprise his own failed policies, which have made any mess he inherited—and our lives—immeasurably worse.

PORTNOY HAS THE FACTS EXACTLY RIGHT.

WHAT GOT US INTO THE MESS WAS NOT UNSHACKLED BANKS OR UNREGULATED WALL STREET GREED.

 IT WAS SOCIALIST REGULATIONS WHICH FORCED BANKS TO MAKE BAD LOANS AND THEN GAVE THE DERIVATIVES BASED ON BUNDLES OF THOSE LOANS THE IMPRIMATUR OF A GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE.

NYTIMES ECONOMICS EDITOR GRETCHEN MORGENSEN WROTE A BOOK ABOUT IT.

AND EVERY TIME YOU HEAR OBAMA OR ONE OF HIS COMRADES SAY THAT ROMNEY OR RYAN OR THE GOP OR THE TEA PARTY STAND FOR THE POLICIES THAT "GOT US INTO THIS MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE" YOU SHOULD TELL THEM THEY ARE LYING.

THEY ARE LYING AND PROJECTING.

WHAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS WERE LIBERAL POLICIES FROM THE LEFT.

AND MORE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONISM WILL NOT GET US OUT.

IF YOU WANT AMERICA TO GET OUT OF RECESSION AND MOVE FORWARD, THEN  YOU HAVE TO VOTE AGAINST THE LIBERAL POLICIES THA TGOT US INTO THIS MESS.

AND VOTE FOR THE POLICIES THAT ALWAYS CREATES MORE PROSPERITY FOR ALL.

LESS REGULATIONS, LESS TAXES, LESS GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONISM.

LOOK AT IT THIS WAY:

UNSHACKLING THE FREE-MARKET IS NOT "TRICKLE DOWN".

THE FREE-MARKET IS THE ONLY THING THAT PROMOTES  BOTTOM-UP AND MIDDLE-OUT GROWTH.

GOVERNMENT EDICTS ARE TOP-DOWN. GOVERNMENT EDICTS ARE TRICKLE DOWN.

AND GOVERNMENT EDICTS DO NOT CREATE GROWTH.

IF AN ECONOMY RUN BY GOVERNMENT DECREE WORKED, THEN THE USSR WOULD BE THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH, INSTEAD OF A HEAP OF FOUL FLOTSAM AND JETSAM WASHING OUT ON THE SEA OF HISTORY.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

BRITAIN'S JIHADIST CAGE-CLASHERS

Boy, the UK sure knows how to take the situation from bad to worse by training Muslims in cage-fighting (H/T: Raymond Ibrahim):

In the shadow of London's Olympic stadium, home of the Summer Games, is a hotbed of radical fundamentalism dubbed Londonistan, from where al Qaeda has already recruited for some of its most ambitious plots. In past months, dozens of convicted terrorists have been released in the UK, including onto the same London streets…. At the same time a no-holds barred fight for security is under way. It is unorthodox, but British officials say it is working, producing results which have never been seen before—and at its epicenter is a veteran Muslim cagefighter. … "Unfortunately, we know that some of those prisoners are still committed extremists who are likely to return to their terrorist activities," Jonathan Evans, the director of British domestic intelligence service MI5, warned two years ago. The task of managing the re-integration into society of these young men has proved beyond the capabilities of most Muslim community groups. But one east Londoner, proud to be both British and Muslim, has felt religiously compelled to take on the fight. Usman Raja, the 34-year-old grandson of a Pakistani immigrant is not tall but he is built like an ox, with a close shaven head, short beard, and otherwise pure muscle….Raja is one of the UK's most renowned cage-fighting coaches… He is also a man of deep ideas, including harnessing Islamic teaching to defeat the ideology of the terrorists. Three years ago, Raja began taking under his wing some of the most dangerous offenders being released from the highest security wings of the British prison system; men convicted of carrying out terrorism on behalf of al Qaeda in murder, assassinations, bombing, and arson plots. His aim was to rehabilitate them into mainstream society.…. Raja tried a novel approach with some of the most challenging freed convicted terrorists; he coached them cage-fighting skills. Raja says it proved a remarkably effective way of breaking them out of their pro al Qaeda mentality and opening up their minds to his counter-extremist message.

What if they take these skills and use them next for real evil, like assaulting defenseless people in the streets and worse? The pseudo-coach is merely a taqqiya specialist, and a closer look at the article in its entirety tells that this is pretty wishful thinking on their part that the men will reform, and there's no genuine guarantee they'll remain afar from terrorism or even gang-related activities.

9-11 FAMILIES OPPOSE DISPLAYING HUMAN REMAINS OF VICTIMS AS EXHIBITS

Via Atlas Shrugs, the groups of 9-11 Families are against displaying the remains of their murdered relatives at the Memorial Museum that's already rife with political correctness. And they're right, it's offensive to exploit dead people's remains as a sideshow at a museum where one of the board directors is Daisy Khan, wife of one of the planners of the mosque at Ground Zero. The 9-11 Families have appealed a court ruling that allowed this, and we have to hope justice can prevail this time.

GROVER NORQUIST OPPOSES DEFENSE SPENDING

Frank Gaffney's reported that the awful Grover Norquist, the Islam apologist in the GOP, has attacked Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan over defense spending. The GOP campaign would be much better off by showing him the door and not letting him influence the party anymore. Alas, they probably won't.

OBAMA ATTACKS; MITT RESPONDS; THE LEGACY MEDIA DECIDES

THIS BRILLIANT POST/CARTOON IS AN EXACT DESCRIPTION OF THE CAMPAIGN SO FAR.

POLL: RYAN BEATS BIDEN IN PRESIDENTIALNESS

POLL RESULTS HERE.

LOMBORG AND WILL: 3 DECADES OF INANE LEFTIST ALARMISM

LOMBORG HERE AND GEORGE WILL  ON LOMBORG HERE.

VIA HOT AIR.

I SAY:  IF WE WANT TO  MAKE GLOBAL POVERTY HISTORY, THEN WE HAVE TO MAKE LEFTIST AND ISLAMISM HISTORY.

EXCLUSIVE PHOTO: BART BIDEN'S PUNISHMENT

BIDEN IS A JOKE. QUAYLE WAS A BETTER VEEP.

How Good Liberals Can Pay More Taxes Without Having To Sit Around And Wait For Obama To Raise Taxes

There are wealthy Liberals who try to be down with the homies (and by "homies", I mean people who only make average money) by declaring they believe wealthy people like them ought to pay more in taxes.

Sonic Charmer, from Rhymes With Cars and Girls, has suggestions for them:

Memo to super-rich people who ‘think your taxes need to be higher’ but (for some reason) are waiting for Congress to raise tax rates before sending in more money to Fedgov: You don’t have to wait! There are plenty of things you could do to raise your current tax owed under the current rates. 

For example, you could, like, take a bunch of money out of your 401(k) (or similar) early for no reason. That will incur a penalty, which you’ll have to pay.Other tax-sheltered vehicles: Roth IRA, college funds for your kids – hell, empty ‘em out, into your savings account. ‘Penalties’ galore. Then start up new ones (for next year)! 

Those penalties add up and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, just like taxes. Voila, you will have raised your effective tax rate! 

If you buy bonds, stay away from munis. Interest on municipal bonds is deductible. You don’t want that! You want to pay more taxes! (right?)

Sell investments for gains but never crystallize any losses. Nothing to offset your capital gains! Or if you had losses that were unavoidable, sell anything that shows a gain from its cash basis on December 31 until your capital-gains go positive. Either way, maximal tax! The capital gains tax rate is too low anyway (right?). 

Go read the whole thing. 

Now that they have these suggestions they don't have to sit around and wait for Obama to "force the rich to pay their fair share."

They can start paying "their fair share" right away.

THE PATH TO PROSPERITY VERSUS THE ROAD TO SERFDOM

BOTH OF OBAMA'S CO-CHAIRS OF HIS BUDGET AND DEBT COMMISSION ADMIRE RYAN BECAUSE OF HIS INTELLECT, HIS VALUES, AND HIS ABILITY - AND BOTH SAY HIS PLAN, THE PATH TO PROSPERITY, IS SOUND, (THOUGH BOWLES PREFERS HIS OWN PLAN).

WHAT MORE COULD ANYONE WANT?

NOTHING.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

RENO, NEVADA - AND THE DETROITIZATION OF URBAN AMERICA

UH-OH: RENO IS DYING THE SAME DEATH THAT DETROIT SUFFERED - AND MANY OTHER CITIES IN AMERICA ARE INFECTED WITH THE SAME DISEASE:

• UNAFFORDABLE AND UNSUSTAINABLE DEBT INCURRED VIA LONG-TERM SOCIALISTIC POLICIES...

• AND A COLLAPSING LABOR MARKET CAUSED BY PESSIMISM AND UNCERTAINTY CAUSED BY OBAMANOMICS AND OBAMACARE...

• AND COLLAPSING HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE MARKETS CAUSED BY LONG-TERM SOCIALISTIC POLICIES WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE CRA AND FANNIE MAE.

IT AIN'T JUST RENO OR URBAN AMERICA; WE ARE ALSO WITNESSING THE DETROITIZATION OF CALIFORNIA.

THERE IS ONE REMEDY:

VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

RAMADAN DEATH TOLL PROVES ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF PEACE

404 KILLED - ONLY ONE DAY WAS ATTACK-FREE - DURING THEIR "HOLIEST" MONTH.

WHY ALL THE VIOLENCE?

SIMPLE: THE TERRORISTS ARE ONLY EMULATING THEIR "PROPHET".

IF MOHAMED WAS A BAD MUSLIM THEN ISLAM IS BS.

IF MOHAMED WAS A GOOD MUSLIM, THEN ISLAM IS IS INHERENTLY VIOLENT AND THOSE WHO EMULATE HIM ARE GOOD MUSLIMS AND EVIL HUMAN BEINGS.

UPDATE: MORE PROOF HERE - WITH VIDEO.

HERE ARE A FEW OTHER CATCHY PHRASES FOCUS-GROUPED BY BIDEN AND AXELROD AND OBAMA

WHEN MIGHTY JOE BIDEN UTTERED "HE'LL PUT Y'ALL BACK IN CHAINS!" WASN'T AD-LIBBING AND IT WASN'T THE ONLY WARNING BIDEN AND OBAMA AND AXELROD TESTED.

HERE ARE FEW OTHERS:

"If y'all vote fer Romney... 

• "... he'll put you Nips in camps again, ching-chong chop-chop!"

• "... he won't let you, my mishpucha friends, make matzoh with gentile blood!"

• "... he'll poison the ground water with arsenic."

• "... he'll make sodomy and blow jobs illegal!"

• "... he'll steal the reservations from you Injuns!"

• "... he'll raise taxes on the poorest and ship every job overseas!"

• "... the seas will start rising again and Mother Earth won't heal!"

VIA IBA:

LOU COSTELLO-BIDEN AND BUD ABBOT-OBAMA, OR: OBAMA AND BIDEN IN 2013

GREAT OBAMA/BIDEN = ABBOT AND COSTELLO POST HERE - WITH VIDEO!

COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU: MIGHTY JOE BIDEN

NEVER BEFORE HAS A DUMB APE GONE SO FAR ON SO LITTLE!

ROMNEY SHOULD RELEASE ALL HIS TAX RETURNS WHEN OBAMA RELEASES....

... US ALL FROM OBAMACARE!

IOW: ROMNEY TO OBAMA: "LET MY PEOPLE GO!"

US ARMY APPEALS COURT PLAYS DHIMMI TO MALIK NIDAL HASAN

AWR Hawkins at Big Peace reports that the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has halted proceedings for the murderer at Ft. Hood to be forcibly shaven to appear properly at the trial.

Now, the trial is starting to look like that of Khalid Sheik Mohammed at Gitmo, when the judges there decided to allow him to celebrate Ramadan, holding up the trial for something the defendant does not deserve. Absolutely shameful.

SOME MORE GALLING DETAILS FROM HARVEY PEKAR'S LAST SCRAP HEAP

On Comic Book Resources' Robot 6 blog, one of their contributors, J. Caleb Mozzocco, a man whom I decided a while ago was not worth the bytes his writings were published on, has written another review of Harvey Pekar's Not the Israel my Parents Promised Me, and provided more info explaining perfectly why I have no respect for Pekar. For example, something about this panel bugs me:

Why do I get the feeling that Pekar and J.T Waldman are implying that the ancient Israelites "usurped" the land from other tribes, when many of those tribes basically assimilated with us?

Mozzocco's list of graphic novels he's obtained is nothing to write home about either:

Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, written by Pekar with Philadelphia-based artist JT Waldman (Megillat Esther), is seemingly on a subject far less associated with Pekar than Cleveland, one that can be incredibly controversial, as Israel’s history embodies a sort of perfect blend of serious life-and-death issues that almost everyone is extremely passionate about. It’s also, incidentally, not a a subject Pekar owns the way he owns, say, Cleveland; I don’t necessarily seek out graphic novels about Israel and its relations with its neighbors, but in the past few years the following have come across my desk: Sarah Glidden’s How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, Marv Wolfman and company’s Homeland, Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds and Jamilti and Other Stories and Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City.

I don't know about Wolfman's book, but the rest is pretty much by anti-Israel advocates, most of whom I've already spoken about.

Then, Mozzocco goes on to say 2 things that give anybody with common sense reason enough to be dismayed at both him and Pekar:

Pekar never went to Israel, despite an attempt as a young man to emigrate there (they wouldn’t have him). His feelings and opinions about the nation actually predate its founding, however, as his Jewish parents, who lived in a Jewish neighborhood (in the 1930s and ’40s, Cleveland had a population of about 85,000 Jews, and Yiddish was spoken on the streets of their neighborhoods rather than English), followed closely the events of the diaspora in Europe and the Middle East.

As a gentile American in the 21st century, it’s not all that difficult to find things to be disappointed in when it comes to the conduct of the state of Israel, but Pekar’s disappointments predate, say, the Second Intifada of 2000-2005, but go all the way back to the aftermath of the 1967 war and the beginnings of the controversial settlements programs … which still continue.

So let me see, Pekar never actually traveled to Israel, making his arguments far less credible. I don't know if he really had trouble with immigration officials for Israel (I wouldn't be surprised if he weren't being very truthful there either), but that wouldn't prevent him so easily from coming here (unless maybe authorities suspected he was planning on participating with anti-Israel activists and balked at providing him with immediate citizenship?), and he could've come here on a tour vacation if he'd wanted to. But I guess he wouldn't fork out the air fare needed, showing just how cheap he must've been.

Mozzocco's claim that as a non-Jew he's disappointed in Israel's conduct also reeks of offensiveness and is actually insulting to much of the gentile population, making it sound like he's painting non-Jewish citizens of the US with the same brush. Guess he's someone who doesn't take pride in being American! It doesn't take much to figure out that he's clearly opposed to Jews living in Judea/Samaria, and probably doesn't want to visit Israel either. He says towards the end:

It would have been nice if Israel and its neighbors could have solved some of their most pressing problems before the end of Pekar’s life, if he could have seen at least a glimmer of the Israel his parents dreamed of when he was a kid. But then, there are a lot of things one wishes might have happened before Pekar passed away.

I'm not sure it's clear what kind of Israel Pekar himself thought his parents wanted; after all, he basically rejected their visions circa the late 70s. And the problems Mozzocco clearly has no comprehension of center around the Koran's vision of the Jews: that they're "sons of monkeys and pigs" and that it's acceptable to commit murder of a Jew in the name of the Koran/Hadith. These beliefs also apply to other infidels/kuffars.

Mozzocco's also shown his true colors at other times too, like when he wrote a disgraceful pan of Frank Miller's Holy Terror where he trivialized the seriousness of subjects like Islam, and like quite a few other leftists of his sort, never mentioned that the book features a dedication to the memory of Theo VanGogh, and probably didn't like that the story features an Israeli official as the hero's trainer either. Hey, it's not like I'm a rabid fan of Miller; of course there were some dumb things he'd done in past years. But speaking out against a belief system you feel is dangerous and abhorrent is not a crime, and by attacking Miller just for that, Mozzocco has only beclowned himself. He's also a disgrace for attacking Miller because Miller had the clever sense to condemn the Occupy movement. Does this mean that Mozzocco is opposed to Stan Lee and Julius Schwartz making money from all the comics they'd published? What's also galling about Mozzocco is that he's allegedly lamented how DC published their misogynist screed called Identity Crisis, yet he seems quite unconcerned when similar crimes took place at the Occupy movement's messes, nor does he seem particularly troubled by their connections with anti-semitism either. He also oblivious to how Will Eisner more or less slammed the Islamic world's embrace of anti-semitism, and Eisner and Miller were good friends in their time, so I don't see what Mozzocco's problem is.

And this is why I don't consider Mozzocco worth reading anymore. But it explains why some of the most leftist sites on the web want to hire him.

VIDEO AND SHORT ESSAY: IF MORE MUSLIMS FELT THIS WAY, THEN THEY'D HAVE A TRUE "SPRING"...

HERE.

IT AIN'T APOSTASY; IT'S A REAL AWAKENING!

REMINDER TO DRONES: "Satellite data show no net warming for as long as such data have been collected, i.e., back to 1979. "

Satellite data show no net warming for as long as such data have been collected, i.e., back to 1979. 

Ocean measurements show no net warming over that period, either; the evidence for warming is based on land measurements. But the accuracy of land measurements depends on proper siting and maintenance of weather stations. One obvious factor is the urban heat island effect: many weather stations are located in cities, which grow warmer as more people and buildings accumulate. Thus, increasing temperatures at such stations may be measuring urban development rather than the climate. We all know that the urban heat island effect is real–”chance of frost in outlying areas”–yet the data that alarmists rely upon do not take it into account.

Apart from that broad issue, the siting and maintenance of weather stations is crucial to the accuracy of the data they generate. This was nicely illustrated in a recent post on Watts Up With That:

USE THE LINKS!

THERE'S AN OLD SAYING ABOUT DATA AND STATISTICS: SHIT IN, SHIT OUT.

USE THE LINKS TO SEE HOW ALARMISTS HAVE MISUSED DATA TO MAKE THEIR SOCIALIST CASE FOR CARBON TAXES AND SO-CALLED RENEWABLE/SUSTAINABLE/"GREEN" ENERGY.