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Sunday, January 08, 2012

RON PAUL IS AN IGNORANT MISINFORMED MORON

IN BETWEEN NFL GAMES I'M WATCHING RON PAUL LIVE ON C-SPAN.

HE JUST SAID THAT BUSH USED THE 9/11 RELATED 2001 AUMF TO INVADE IRAQ BY LYING AND SAYING THAT IRAQ WAS INVOLVED IN 9/11.

THIS IS TOTALLY EFFIN WRONG. MISINFORMED IF NOT DELUSIONAL.

BUSH WENT TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCILAND GOT A SEPARATE AUTHORIZATION AND THEN GOT ONE FROM THE CONGRESS.

A SEPARATE AUMF.

IF BUSHHITLERCHIMPYHALLIBURTONBIGOIL AND THE NEOCONS/LIKUDNIKS/ZIONISTS - (WHO THE RON PAULSCUM THINK RUN USA FOREIGN POLICY) - THOUGHT THAT IRAQ WAS INVOLVED IN 9/11, THEN THESE NEOCON WARMONGERS WOULDN'T HAVE NEEDED OR SOUGHT OR WIN A SEPARATE AUMF.

RON PAUL AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE EITHER EFFIN UNINFORMED MORONS OR MISINFORMED DUPES.

AS REAGAN USED TO SAY,

IT'S NOT THAT THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING; IT'S THAT EVERYTHING THEY KNOW IS WRONG.

EU FOREIGN MINISTER ASHTON SEEKING EVEN MORE MONEY FROM THE BROKE EUROPEANS - AFTER HAVING PROMISED TO HOLD THE LINE

Lady Ashton, the best paid female politician in the Western world, angered national governments with a poor performance as Europe's foreign minister.

Her demands for an extra £22 million in funding for this year fuels criticism as it breaches her promise to set up a "budget neutral" European diplomatic service.

In a new move that has infuriated Britain, which has made deep cuts to the foreign office, a report published yesterday, by Lady Ashton, has now completely ditched the pledge of funding her European External Action Service (EEAS) from existing EU budgets without making new spending demands.

THE EU IS A CESSPOOL OF CORRUPT ANTISEMITIC LEFTIST POLITICAL HACKS.

THEY SHOULDN'T GET MORE MONEY; THEY SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN.

FLASHBACK - THIS IS WHO SHE REALLY IS AND WHAT THE EU REALLY IS:

There's no 2-state solution

Barbara Lerner makes a good case in National Review (via One Jerusalem) against the disastrous brew of a two-state solution, and also brings up a bit of history about where the name "palestine" originated:

The “two-state solution” wasn’t always sacrosanct. In the 1940s and ’50s, it didn’t even exist. There were no Palestinians then, although the territory had been called the British Mandate for Palestine (after the old Roman name for Israel, Palestina). Arabs had never called themselves Palestinians; the few Jews who had called themselves that in the 1930s no longer did. There were only Arabs and Jews, and the openly avowed goal of all the Arab states surrounding Israel was to drive the Jews into the sea, and divide up the land amongst themselves. Arabs inside Israel were no less committed to that same pan-Arab goal. It was only in the 1960s, after the abject failure of repeated multi-state military assaults by massed Arab armies, that Arab rulers finally accepted the fact that Israel was not yet weak enough for them to destroy in open warfare.

Make sure to read further about why the biblical Israel is a good answer.

THE OBAMAS HELD A SECRET SATANIC RITUAL IN THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2009

THE OBAMA'S ARE IMMORAL, LYING, CORRUPT, MONEY-GRUBBING, COVETOUS, GLUTTONOUS ANTI-CHRISTIAN PHONIES:

They held a super-lavish super-secret HALLOWEEN Party.

THEY'RE COMING FOR OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH...

First they come for your freedom of speech...

"The European Union has offered to host the next meeting of the so-called Istanbul Process, an aggressive effort by Muslim countries to make it an international crime to criticize Islam.

The announcement comes less than one month after the United States hosted its own Istanbul Process conference in Washington, DC.

The Istanbul Process – its explicit aim is to enshrine in international law a global ban on all critical scrutiny of Islam and/or Islamic Sharia law – is being spearheaded by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a bloc of 57 Muslim countries."

... then they come for your freedom of religion, then freedom of thought, then for your soul...

Shall we let them?

Never, never, never, never, never.

SUPERB SUMMARY OF MTP GOP DEBATE BY BARONE

MUST READ HERE.

MITT DID WELL. RICK WAS AT HIS BEST.

ANOTHER PROFILE IN DENIAL FROM THE ANNALS OF DELUSION: LEFTISTS STILL DEFENDING INCREASING DEFICIT-SPENDING AS AN ECONOMIC PANACEA

VIA HOT AIR:

Jeff Madrick

Austerity is killing Europe

Proponents of austerity claim that as nations take control of their finances businesses become more convinced that interest rates will not rise and that growth will resume. Their reasoning has been abetted by the financial markets, which drove up rates on Greek debt and soon enough on the debt of nations like Portugal, Spain and Italy. Should these nations not be able to pay their debts, bond buyers wanted a high enough interest rate to compensate for the risk.

But this is pre-Great Depression economics. How could the EU so misread history and treat with contempt the teachings of John Maynard Keynes, who argued that during recessions governments must expand economies through spending and tax cuts, not the opposite?

What Madrick says is laughable.

Sovereign debt is killing Europe.

Increasing the sovereign debt won’t reduce it. Nor will printing more euros - because they will just continue to spiral down in value and therefore it really gets you nowhere.

Sheesh.

And another thing: Jeff is wrong on the facts: Austerity is working in Germany and Ireland and Iceland and Greece and Spain and Italy are all already doing better with interest rates than before they enacted mild spending cuts.

Madrick and the Left think raising retirement age from 50 to 60-65 is draconian and immoral. They are wrong. What is wrong is asking hard-working and productive and independent people to continue to pay for these unsustainable welfare programs - and pay even more so others can work less.

Socialist programs are what's been driving the debt - not "unfunded wars" or "bloated defense budgets" or "tax breaks for the rich" or insufficient taxes.

Madrick and the Left could not be more wrong: their diagnosis is wrong and their prescription is wrong.

RICK SANTORUM: LET'S GIVE TAX BREAKS TO MANUFACTURERS, BUT NOT TO THE MIDDLE CLASS

RICK THINKS HIS 0% TAX RATE ON MANUFACTURING AND "PROCESSING" COMPANIES MAKES SENSE, BUT THAT MITT'S 0%TAX RATE ON CAPITAL GAINS FOR PEOPLE MAKING LESS THAN $200,000 IS BAD AND A FORM OF CLASS WARFARE.

I THINK ONE FLAT TAX RATE ON EVERYTHING IS BEST: GOVERNMENT SHOULDN'T PICK WINNERS AND LOSERS.

BUT MITT'S IS CERTAINLY BETTER POLITICS.

AND RICK'S SEMANTIC ATTACK ON MITT'S USE OF THE TERM MIDDLE CLASS WAS IDIOTIC.

Saturday, January 07, 2012

THIS IS HOW THE LEGACY MEDIA WANT YOU TO VIEW THE ELECTION

UPDATE: MOONBATTERY AGREES.

MORE PROOF THIS LINE OF ATTACK WILL ACTUALLY BE USED HERE:

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Romney Trips On Contraception Question: 'It's Working Just Fine, Just Leave It Alone' — At tonight's ABC News/WMUR Republican presidential debate at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney stumbled badly on a Constitutional question …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Los Angeles Times and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Byron York / Campaign 2012:

Team Romney: Steph ‘obsessed’ with contraception — MANCHESTER, NH — Aides to Gov. Mitt Romney were left shaking their heads late Saturday night after a question directed to Romney by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on the issue of contraception. After the debate, one top Romney aide …

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, NewsBusters.org and Instapundit

Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Romney's A ‘Job Cremator’

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Reality-Based Community, The Raw Story andThe Political Carnival

BRRRRRRR: HUGE SNOWSTORM HITS AUSTRIA

Heavier than usual snowfall and high winds have caused chaos on roads and railways in many areas of Austria.

Part of a major railway route has been shut down in the west of the country, and some villages and tourist resorts have been cut off.

Up to 1.2 metres (4ft) of fresh snow has been recorded in some areas since Thursday.

AGW = TFBS

COULD IRAN BE PREPARING TO COUNTERATTACK AMERICA VIA VENEZUELA?

ONE THEORY:

AFTER ISRAEL, THE USA AND BRITAIN WHACK IRAN:

IRAN'S STOOGES, HAMAS AND HIZBALLAH WILL HIT ISRAEL

AND VENEZUELA WILL HIT THE USA.

THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY AHMADINEJAD HAS GOTTEN SO CLOSE TO CHAVEZ.

SUNDAY UPDATE: IN UNRELATED NEWS, THE USA EXPELS ONE OF CHAVEZ'S DIPLOMATS.

AND THEN THERE WAS THIS ITEM:

MONDAY, MAY 16, 2011

UH-OH: OBAMA'S CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: IRAN BUILDING MISSILE LAUNCHING PADS IN VENEZUELA

UH-OH: OBAMA'S CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: IRAN BUILDING MISSILE BASES IN HUGO CHAVEZ'S VENEZUELA:'Die Welt': Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela

German paper says Iranians paid cash to build mid-range missile launch pads on Paraguana Peninsula; Iranian engineers visited site in Feb.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is Teheran’s most important South American ally.

Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm – Khatam al-Anbia – owned by the Revolutionary Guards visited Paraguaná in February.

Amir al-Hadschisadeh, the head of the Guard’s Air Force, participated in the visit, according to the report. Die Welt cited information from “Western security insiders.” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is Teheran’s most important South American ally.

Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm – Khatam al-Anbia – owned by the Revolutionary Guards visited Paraguaná in February.

Amir al-Hadschisadeh, the head of the Guard’s Air Force, participated in the visit, according to the report. Die Welt cited information from “Western security insiders.”

Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm – Khatam al-Anbia – owned by the Revolutionary Guards visited Paraguaná in February. Amir al-Hadschisadeh, the head of the Guard’s Air Force, participated in the visit, according to the report. Die Welt cited information from “Western security insiders.”

Amir al-Hadschisadeh, the head of the Guard’s Air Force, participated in the visit, according to the report. Die Welt cited information from “Western security insiders.”

HOW DO YOU SPELL BITCH IN DEMOCRATESE?

M-I-C-H-E-L-L-E.

RON PAUL IS THE SECOND MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN AMERICA

RON PAUL IS THE 2ND MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA BECAUSE RON PAUL MAY PLACE IN SECOND IN NEW HAMPSHIRE... PROBABLY DUE TO INDEPENDENTS VOTING IN THE GOP PRIMARY.

[UPDATE: MORE THAN HALF OF RON PAUL'S SUPPORT IS FROM INDEPENDENTS,]

RON PAUL KNOWS THIS - AND RELISHES IT.

I THINK THE WHOLE RON PAUL RUN THIS TIME AROUND IS ENTIRELY DEVISED TO HELP HIM BUILD SUPPORT AND RUN ON A THIRD PARTY LINE.

IF HE DOES, THEN HE WILL HAND THE WHITE HOUSE TO OBAMA - AS PEROT HANDED IT TO CLINTON.

DO PAULNUTS REALIZE THIS? MAYBE. I DIN'T THINK THEY CARE. THEY PROBABLY THINK IF OBAMA WINS AND RUINS THE COUNTRY THAT THIS WILL HELP THEM WIN IN 2016.

THEY'RE FREAKING IDIOTS. OR SABOTEURS.

OBAMA IS THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA. BECAUSE HE HELPS OBAMA, RON PAUL IS PUBLIC ENEMY #2.

JOB NUMBERS ACTUALLY SUCK

THE NUMBERS BEHIND THE NUMBERS SHOW THAT JOB CREATION IS NOT SURGING, AND THE ECONOMY IS STILL NOT GROWING AT THE BARE MINIMUM IT NEEDS TO KEEP PACE WITH NEW WORKERS ENTERING THE MARKETPLACE.

DONALD AGREES.

LET'S MAKE A LIST OF ALL THE THINGS YOU NEED PHOTO ID FOR

THE CORRUPT OBAMACHINE (THAT COMBINES THE CHICAGO MACHINE WITH THE SEIU, THE AFL-CIO, THE NEA, THE NAACP, ACORN, THE NLG, THE ACLU, AND OWS) OPPOSES VOTER ID LAWS.

THEY CLAIM THESE LAWAS ARE RACIST.

THAT TOTAL FUC**NG BUL**HIT.

I'M GONNA LIST A BUNCH.

PLEASE SEND ME OTHERS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION!

TO BUY BEER.
TO BUY DRAINO.
TO BUY SUDAFED.
TO BUY CIGARETTES.
TO GET ON A PLANE.
TO GET INTO MOST LARGE OFFICE BUILDINGS IN NYC.
To use a Visa card for large purchases.
To get into Warner Bros., Sony Entertainment, and Universal Pictures.
To acquire a Visa to travel outside the country, and to re-enter the country at the border.
Open a bank account.
Cash a check at a bank.
Drive a car.
Tour a house for sale.
buy a gun
or ammunition,
walk into Costco
or Bjs,
return a item to a retail store,
oh yea I need to show it to register to vote

OBAMACHINE GOONIONS GOT THE MOST OBAMACARE WAIVERS

Labor unions continued to receive the overwhelming majority of waivers from the president’s health care reform law since the Obama administration tightened application rules last summer.

Documents released in a classic Friday afternoon news dump show that labor unions representing 543,812 workers received waivers from President Barack Obama‘s signature legislation since June 17, 2011.

By contrast, private employers with a total of 69,813 employees, many of whom work for small businesses, were granted waivers.

Obamachine's goonions got 10x as many waivers as private employers.

GEE, I WONDER WHY?

RICK SANTORUM: WRESTLER WHO CAN'T FIGHT ABOVE HIS WEIGHT

When the former senator, a Pennsylvania Republican, was seeking re-election in 2006, he appeared in a campaign advertisement standing in a ring surrounded by pugilists trading eye gouges and body slams. “It makes more sense to wrestle with America’s problems than with each other,” the candidate said.

That ad, though, concludes with Mr. Santorum decking one of the wrestlers with a brutal elbow smash — a move that illustrates his no-holds-barred political style. People in both parties over the years have accused him of hotheaded name-calling, reliance on immature antics and attempts to reduce politics to steel-cage matches between people cast as heroes or heels.

“He would attack people in a smug way that was harder-edged and more insulting than was necessary, said Mark Salter, the former chief of staff to Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, adding that lawmakers in both parties shared this view. “He was a bully who was not a potent enough force to be a bully.”

THIS JIBES WITH MY GUT FEELINGS ABOUT RICK.

I LIKE MOST OF HIS POSITIONS ON THINGS - BUT NOT ALL.

I DO NOT LIKE HIS STYLE - AT ALL.

AND I CANNOT FORGIVE HIM FOR SUPPORTING SPECTER OVER TOOMEY.

THAT PROVED HE WAS REALLY AN ESTABLISHMENT INSIDER.

HMMM: BRITAIN IS ALSO SENDING A WARSHIP TO THE PERSIAN GULF...

The Royal Navy is sending its most advanced warship to the Persian Gulf, in a deployment intended to send a message to Iran following its threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the Daily Telegraph reported.

According to the report, the HMS Daring, a Type 45 destroyer, will depart Portsmouth next Wednesday and has been equipped with new technology that will enable it to intercept any Iranian missile. It also reportedly possesses the world's most sophisticated naval radar.

IT WILL GET THERE JUST AS ISRAEL AND THE USA BEGIN THEIR LARGEST JOINT EXERCISE EVER - (SOMETHING WE RELATED TO OUR READERS ON WEDNESDAY - DAYS BEFORE OTHER BLOGGERS PICKED UP THE STORY).

HMMM... IS IT COVER FOR AN ATTACK?

ONE THEORY:

THE WIDELY BROADCAST SHOW OF FORCE IS NOT A MESSAGE TO THE IRANIANS TO GIVE IN; IT'S HOW THE WEST IS TRYING TO GET IRAN TO MOVE ITS NUKE ASSETS AS DEEP UNDERGROUND AS THE IRANIANS CAN NOW, SO THAT WHEN WE USE OUR AIR FORCE TO STRIKE THEM THIS SPRING AS LITTLE RADIATION ESCAPES AS POSSIBLE.

GAMBLING IN CHINA

I noticed an article that said that the gambling industry in Macau was a much larger than that of Las Vegas... and the growth of the gambling industry over the past few years - in Macau - has been phenomenal.

Part of the explanation for this is that Macau is the only area where gambling is legal in China.

But I noticed another comparison, according to Aaron Fisher, while Americans are generally richer than the Chinese wealthy Chinese gamble about 10x as much as their American counterparts.

What does this tell us of what may lie ahead as the financial tsunami reaches China? Frightening...

COPTS BEGIN ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN CAIRO...

Celebrations of Orthodox Christmas began with a late night Friday Mass at Cairo's main cathedral, which was attended by prominent figures from across Egypt's political spectrum. They included leaders of Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group whose associated political party has won nearly half the seats in parliament.

Members of the ruling military council that took power after Mubarak's Feb. 11 ouster also attended, including chief of staff Lt. Gen. Sami Anan, as well as the visiting top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, Jeffrey Feltman.

Coptic Pope Shenouda III commended their presence and appealed for national unity for "the sake of Egypt."

"For the first time in the history of the cathedral, it is packed with all types of Islamist leaders in Egypt," the 88-year old pope said. "They all agree ... on the stability of this country and in loving it, and working for it and to work with the Copts as one hand for the sake of Egypt."

... The Coptic Orthodox celebration follows an escalation in violence against the minority, an estimated 10 percent of Egypt's 85 million people, over the past year.

THE SHOW OF UNITY IS JUST THAT: A SHOW.

ISLAM DEMANDS SUBSERVIENCE FROM IT MONOTHEISTIC ELDERS, AND THAT SECOND CLASS "DHIMMI" STATUS ALWAYS LEADS TO VIOLENCE AND EMIGRATION.

THE MIDDLE EAST WON'T BE PEACEFUL UNTIL ISLAM ACCEPTS JEWS AND CHRISTIANS AS FULL HUMANS - AND THAT IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH ISLAM.

ERGO: ISLAM MUST BE UTTERLY DEFEATED FOR THEIR TO BE PEACE.