ISLAMO-MISOGYNY MURDER IN MANHATTAN KARAOKE CLUB?

MAYBE.

WE REPORT; YOU DECIDE.

THE COSMOPOLITAN DEMS: RUNNING FOR "MISS CONGENIALITY" OF THE UN

WHO IS THE LEADERSHIP OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY REALLY FOR?

• OBAMA CAMPAIGNED IN BERLIN CALLING HIMSELF A "CITIZEN OF THE WORLD",

• AND OBAMA HAS CONSISTENTLY TOUTED THE FACT THAT HE SPENT HIS FORMATIVE YEARS IN A MUSLIM NATION AS A PLUS.

• AND ECO-NUTSIE PELOSI WOULD RATHER "SAVE THE PLANET" THAN THE USA.

• REID SAID WE LOST IRAQ LAST YEAR.

THIS RAMIREZ COMIC SAYS IT ALL:

THIS IS WHO THE DEMOCRATS REALLY ARE.

THEIR LEADERSHIP PUTS AMERICA SECOND.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

PAKISTANI APPEASERS MOVE TO IMPEACH MUSHARRAF - WHICH WOULD AID THE ENEMY

THEY WILL IMPEACH HIM, TOO - CUZ THEY GOT THE VOTES.

• THIS COMES JUST A WEEK OR SO AFTER WE GOT SOME AL QAEDA AND TALIBAN BIGGIES ON THEIR BORDER.
• AND THE FIGHT IS SHIFTING THEIR WAY - INTO PAKISTAN...
  

• I FEEL THAT THE BHUTTO-SHARIF COALITION IS DOING THE BIDDING OF THE ENEMY - AT THE ENEMY'S BEHEST.

I'D RATHER SEE A COUP THAN AN IMPEACHMENT.

NOW.

AUDIO: SHARANSKY ON OBAMA

HERE.

• HE WANTS MCCAIN TO WIN - HE'S KNOWN HIM FOR 22 YEARS AND KNOWS HE HAS A GREAT RECORD OF SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL.

• OBAMA: HE'S AN UNTRUSTWORTHY ZIPPO ZILCH NADA BUPKUS..

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

THE SIMPLE AND STARK DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MCCAIN AND OBAMA:

• MCAIN HAS PRINCIPLES AND THE TENACITY TO DEFEND THEM;

• OBAMA HAS NEITHER.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

BLOGTALKRADIO INTERVIEW: FREDDOSO: THE CASE AGAINST OBAMA

MUST HEAR RADIO:

"The Case Against Barack Obama" book by David Freddoso

The record of Barack Obama, throughout his political career, demonstrates conclusively that Obama is hardly a reformer. His image of "Hope and Change" is actually a huge lie. There is not a single instant in Obama's political career where he did something for the sake of reforms and change.

Obama also has a shady history. The skeletons in his closet are of far-left positions, and political corruption. His campaign, like those of most left-wing Democrats, is about using the taxpayer's money to stay in power, and benefit his political cronies.

The Barack Obama Campaign is very much about the old politics, not some new swing of hope and change. He is the epitomy of the corrupt politician, and he is surrounded by the corrupt as well.

David Freddoso is a reporter that was watching his fellow columnists and journalists fawn over Barack Obama, and it seemed a little overboard to him. So he began to investigate Obama, looking closely at Barack's record. The resulting conclusion, and many detailed revelations about Barack Obama, has been put into the book, "The Case Against Barack Obama." David is my guest tonight on Political Pistachio Radio to discuss the book, and Barack Obama.

Join us live at 10:00 pm Eastern Time for the interview, or you can check out the archive later. Go HERE for the program.

THE REAL REASON FOR OBAMA'S HAWAIIAN VACATION: KEEPING HIM UNDER WRAPS UNTIL THE CONVENTION SO HE DOESN'T BLOW IT!

• OBAMA HEADS FOR HAWAII FOR MUCH NEEDED REST.

• ONE WHOLE WEEK.

• HE AND HIS CAMPAIGN MANAGERS THINK THAT ONCE RESTED, HE WILL RETURN TO FORM - SPARKLE AGAIN - AND NOT STUTTER, FUMPHER, BLURT OUT GAFFE AFTER GAFFE AND GENERALLY LOOK AND SOUND LIKE A LOSER.

• MAYBE HIS BARITONE WILL RETURN, TOO; (HAVE YOU NOTICED HE SOUNDS LIKE A WHINING TENOR LATELY? IT'S THE PRESSURE ON HIS NUTS!).

• THEY ARE WRONG. OBAMA IS A LOSER. AN ANTI-AMERICAN LOSER. A FLASH ON THE PAN. HE'S GOING NOWHERE BUT DOWN.

• *******UPDATE: ANOTHER REASON THE CAMPAIGN WANTS OBAMA IN HAWAII AND OUT OF THE LIME-LIGHT IS THAT THEY'RE RUNNING SCARED:
  

• IF HE KEEPS SPEWING GAFFES AND CONTINUES PLUMMETING IN THE POLLS, THEN THE SUPER-DELEGATES WILL BAIL-OUT AND HILLARY WILL GET THE NOMINATION!
  

HILLARY ---- OBAMA --- WHO CARES: THEY'RE BOTH WRONG FOR AMERICA.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

COHEN VERSUS TINKER AND ANTI-SEMITISM: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS EVERYONE AGAIN

THE MSM AND THE BLOGOSPHERE IS ALL OVER THIS RACE NOW.

WE COVERED IT OVER A WEEK AGO - BEFORE THE HEADLINES.

• AND WE CALLED IT WHAT IT WAS WITHOUT PULLING PUNCHES,
• REGULAR READERS KNOW WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME.
• SPREAD THE WORD.
• BLOGROLL US.

THE VIDEO YOU MUST SHOW TO EVERY DEMOCRAT: BIGTIME DEMOCRATS PRAISING MCCAIN

DHIMMITUDE IN TENNESSEE

Video - Tyson Replaces Labor Day With Muslim Holiday (hat-tip to The Tedland Daily):



YouTube Link

The MSNBC story is here.

And what is Eid al-Fitr?

Read the rest at Always On Watch.

Moronic ACLU says that more blacks arrested proves bias

I imagine that the ACLU are trying to silence people from saying the obvious but I will say it anyway: Blacks are MUCH MORE LIKELY TO COMMIT VIOLENT CRIMES THAN WHITES ARE. If it makes me a racist to state that plain truth then so be it. If it takes a racist to tell the truth then racists must be fine people. Maybe the ACLU are trying to give racism a good name

"Legislators should toughen a law passed in 2001 to prohibit racial profiling by Louisiana law enforcement agencies, the American Civil Liberties Union said....

Grote said the study, entitled "Unequal Under the Law" and released Wednesday, was conducted in the first three months of 2007, using arrest data from sheriff's and police departments from St. Tammany, Avoyelles, and DeSoto parishes. Legislators have not yet seen the report.

Using demographics of communities and parishes taken from the U.S. Census, the ACLU determined the rate at which people of color were arrested compared to whites. "In every town, city and parish examined, people of color were arrested at a higher rate than their representation in the population," the report said."

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Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

Another miracle: Obama Promises to 'End the Age of Oil in Our Time'

Talk about a hot-air merchant!

A day after saying the U.S. could produce enough renewable energy within 10 years to replace all U.S. imports of Middle East oil -- a goal even he admitted sounded "pie in the sky" -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said "for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, we must end the age of oil in our time."

At the beginning of his town hall meeting focused on energy policy at the Austintown Fitch High School this morning, in this blue-collar burg in a pivotal swing state, Obama told the estimated crowd of 2,400 Ohioans, "I can tell this is a feisty group."

But the senator's feistiness was on display as well, as he mocked his Republican opponent's campaign tactics and energy plan, and pushed an aggressive "use it or lose it" strategy for offshore oil leases. Seeking to shift focus away from the debate over whether oil companies should be permitted to conduct more offshore drilling exploration, Obama said, "Right now, oil companies have access to 68 million acres where they aren't drilling. So we should start by giving them a choice: use it or lose it. Use the land you have, or give up your leases to someone who will."

After Obama noted local gas prices -- $3.70 a gallon, "two and a half times what it cost when President Bush took office" - a member of the audience yelled out: "They had a plan!" "They had a plan," agreed Obama. "Problem was it was the oil company plan. It was the gas company plan. We need a people plan! And that's why I'm running for president."

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Hertzberg refutes the jug man on Global Warming

"Krug" is German/Yiddish for "jug". Krugman Excerpt: "The only way we're going to get action, I'd suggest, is if those who stand in the way of action come to be perceived as not just wrong but immoral. [.] Martin Weitzman, a Harvard economist who has been driving much of the recent high-level debate, offers some sobering numbers. Surveying a wide range of climate models, he argues that, over all, they suggest about a 5 percent chance that world temperatures will eventually rise by more than 10 degrees Celsius (that is, world temperatures will rise by 18 degrees Fahrenheit). As Mr. Weitzman points out, that's enough to "effectively destroy planet Earth as we know it." It's sheer irresponsibility not to do whatever we can to eliminate that threat".

Dr. Martin Hertzberg is a retired Navy meteorologist with a PhD in physical chemistry. His letter to the jug man follows:

Dear Prof Krugman:

I have generally found myself in strong agreement with most of the opinions expressed in your columns dealing with politics and the economy. I am a lifelong liberal Democrat, but I am also a scientist. In your interview with Keith Obermann last night, there was an implication that somehow those of us who are human-caused global warming skeptics were all supported by big-oil money. In the 20 years that I have been studying this issue and expressing my skepticism, I have never received a cent from either big-oil or the government to study the problem. You failed to mention the 50 billion being spent by governments to finance research that supports the human-caused global warming theory. In this morning's article "Can This Planet Be Saved", you simply regurgitated the typical fear-mongering hysteria that the Gore-IPCC-Hansen clique promulgate without any serious consideration of the fact that that hysteria is based on half-baked computer models that have never been verified and that are totally our of touch with reality. I am sure that as an Economist you have seen similar econometric models that are similarly out of touch with reality coming from the likes of "the Chicago boys" or the Heritage Foundation.

I have taken the liberty of attaching copies of Alexander Cockburn's articles that appeared in the Nation Magazine last year. They are based, in part, on my studies of the issue. Also attached is a recent talk I gave on the subject. It has been published in the Australian web-site: http://www.carbon-sense.com. Also attached is a list of web-sites of global warming skeptics.

I can only hope that you will read the attachments with an open mind and consider the possibility that you might need an informed and objective science adviser before making any further pronouncements on the subject. I will also forward under separate cover, a letter I sent to the President of the American Physical Society about their treatment of a well known global warming sceptic, Lord Monckton. If you might recall, he had routinely advertized in the N. Y. Times, challenging Gore to a debate on the issue, which Gore ignored. You can always tell the difference between a propagandist and a scientist. If a scientist has a theory, he looks diligently for facts that might contradict his theory so that he can test its validity or refine it. The propagandist on the other hand selects only those facts that agree with his theory and dutifully ignores those facts that contradict it.

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Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation and serves on the American Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee, also criticizes the jug man. Excerpt:

Krugman advocates: painting those who do not agree with him as not just wrong but immoral. That is to say, not just wrong, but evil. Krugman, limited in imagination as he is, cannot conceive that anybody could possibly disagree with him, nor look at the same data and come to a different conclusion. People that fail to accord with him are not just making a mistake, they are being mischievous. Krugman is not the first to suffer from this kind of delusion. La Shawn Barber has written an article called Is Climate Change. Racist? He looks at liberal Congressman James Clyburn, who has written a report echoing the old joke: "World Ends Due to Global Warming: Poor Blacks Hardest Hit." The gist is that those who disagree with the end-time visions risk being called a racist, a frightening term in today's USA. University of Amsterdam "philosopher" Marc Davidson has even written a peer-reviewed paper in a prominent journal alluding that those who disagree with Weitzman-like claims are no better than slave holders (no, I'm not kidding).



Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

TONIGHT ON KFNX TALK-RADIO

[Image courtesy of Stogie]

Tonight, August 7, at 8:00 P.M. Phoenix time, Pastorius, webmaster of Infidel Bloggers Alliance, will host "Voices of Freedom," a one-hour weekly show on KFNX 1100. See this time-zone chart (Refresh the page!) if you are in a different time zone than Phoenix, Arizona; click directly on the word "PHOENIX" to get a world map of time zones.

Tonight's guests are Ayisha, Mohammed's child bride; Mohammed the Dog; and Robert Spencer.

Tune in if you can! In addition to AM air time at the scheduled hour, KFNX offers live streaming at the station's web site.

VOICES OF FREEDOM: THE SHOW THAT MAKES JIHADISTS CRY.

Web site for VOICES OF FREEDOM

INSTEAD OF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, LET'S HAVE A REALITY TV SHOW...

Let's put McCain, Obama and Paris Hilton o a "Big Brother" type house and vote one out each week.

Sort of DECISION 2008 meets Big Brother/Survivor.

Admittedly, this would be more fun if you start with ALL the candidates at the beginning of the season, er um I mean campaign...

That way we'd've had the chance to vote off Kucinich and Hillary and Biden and Gravel and - well you get it.

WOULD THE RESULT BE ANY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE'RE GONNA GET?

Nope.

Essentially, we pick presidents the way reality TV shows pick winners.

Mexican Soldiers hold US Border Patrol Agent at Gunpoint...in the United States

Via Gateway Pundit, the logical end of an official policy of "looking the other way" and appeasement as our laws are blatantly violated:

Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said on its Web page. "They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of 'Oh well, they didn't know they were in the United States.'

The Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint by the Mexican military on Sunday night south of Ajo. (2544)

Members of the Mexican military crossed into Arizona on Sunday night and held a US Border Guard at gunpoint.
The Washington Times reported:

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist.

Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated area about 100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who was not identified.

It was unclear what the soldiers were doing in the United States, but U.S. law enforcement authorities have long said that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers.

"Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years," union Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said on its Web page. "They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of 'Oh well, they didn't know they were in the United States.'

"Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years," union Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said on its Web page. "They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of 'Oh well, they didn't know they were in the United States.'

Newsmax has more on the incident.

This is a disgrace; did we not fight (and win) a bloody WAR with Mexico for sovereignity over the border states?

No matter how you may feel about immigrants, it is never right to have laws on the books if you aren't going to enforce them. And to allow incursions into the United States by a foreign military force??

I say send in the Marines; this is Pancho Villa revisited.

SUPREME COURT RULES INDIVIDUALS CAN SUE PA

Israel's Supreme Court just made a positive decision:

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a 2006 decision by the Jerusalem District Court according to which the Palestinian Authority is immune from lawsuits filed by private individuals because it has the elements of a sovereign or quasi-sovereign entity.

In doing so, the court accepted an appeal by the Society of the Eilon Moreh Seminary, whose lawsuit against the PA was rejected two years ago by the Jerusalem court.

The 2006 ruling came in the wake of a lawsuit lodged earlier that year by the Society, an organization established to purchase land in the West Bank. The seminary sued the sheikh of a village in Area A, which is under complete PA control, for falsely declaring that people agreeing to sell village land to the society indeed owned the land. After the society paid for the land, it emerged that the sheikh's affidavit was false.

The society sued the sheikh in Tel Aviv's District Court and won. But the estate of the sheikh, who had meanwhile died, ignored the ruling and did not pay. The society then sued the PA and the Israeli government in the Jerusalem District Court for the damages they could not collect from the sheikh's estate.

But Judge Boaz Okun ruled then that Israel cannot compel the PA to exercise a prerogative that belongs to it and which, together with other prerogatives that Israel has recognized, give the authority elements of sovereignty.

The judge wrote that after the Six Day War, the IDF commander of the West Bank was the source of authority in the area, based on the rules of international law. But the situation changed after the signing of the Interim Agreement, which dealt with the 'status of the occupied territories' and recognized the Palestinian Authority in these territories.

The Society of the Eilon Moreh Seminar was represented in court by attorneys Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Roi Kochavi of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center. According to a press release issued by the advocacy, one of the results of the ruling is that, should the PA lose lawsuits and refuse to pay as per court order, the plaintiffs will be able to draw the payment from PA tax money, which is held by Israel and amounts to approximately NIS 7 million a month.

Darshan-Leitner said the verdict was not only a victory for the Society but for all terror victims. "This is a decisive blow to the PA's attempts to shirk its responsibility to the damages and suffering it has caused, and still causes, to many of the nation's citizens," she said.

I'm glad that the court was responsible here, as the demonic PA cannot be allowed to get away with their heinous crimes.

You Still Can't Write About Muhammad

We read:

"Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Ms. Jones learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha's life, and came to admire her protagonist as a woman of courage. When Random House bought her novel last year in a $100,000, two-book deal, she was ecstatic. This past spring, she began plans for an eight-city book tour after the Aug. 12 publication date of "The Jewel of Medina" -- a tale of lust, love and intrigue in the prophet's harem.

It's not going to happen: In May, Random House abruptly called off publication of the book. The series of events that torpedoed this novel are a window into how quickly fear stunts intelligent discourse about the Muslim world.

Random House feared the book would become a new "Satanic Verses," the Salman Rushdie novel of 1988 that led to death threats, riots and the murder of the book's Japanese translator, among other horrors. In an interview about Ms. Jones's novel, Thomas Perry, deputy publisher at Random House Publishing Group, said that it "disturbs us that we feel we cannot publish it right now." He said that after sending out advance copies of the novel, the company received "from credible and unrelated sources, cautionary advice not only that the publication of this book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community, but also that it could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment."

After consulting security experts and Islam scholars, Mr. Perry said the company decided "to postpone publication for the safety of the author, employees of Random House, booksellers and anyone else who would be involved in distribution and sale of the novel."

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Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

The Green Hornet

Al Gore said the other day that "the future of human civilization" depends on giving up fossil fuels within a decade -- and was acclaimed as a prophet by the political class. Obviously boring reality doesn't count for much these days. Even so, when Barack Obama wheels out an energy agenda nearly as grandiose as Mr. Gore's, shouldn't it receive at least some media scrutiny?

On Monday, Mr. Obama said that the U.S. must "end the age of oil in our time," with "real results by the end of my first term in office." This, he said, will "take nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy." Mark that one down as the understatement of the year. Maybe Mr. Obama really is the Green Hornet, or some other superhero of his current political myth.

The Senator calls for $150 billion over 10 years to achieve "energy independence," with elevated subsidies for renewable alternatives and efficiency programs. He also says he'll "leverage billions more in private capital to build a new energy economy," euphemistically referring to his climate plan to tax and regulate greenhouse gases. Every President since Nixon has declared "energy independence," as Mr. Obama noted. But this time, he says, things will change.

They won't. And not because of "the old politics," or whatever. Currently, alternative sources -- wind, solar, biomass, hydroelectric and geothermal -- provide less than 7% of yearly domestic consumption. Throw out hydro and geothermal, and it's only 4%. For the foreseeable future, renewables simply cannot provide the scale and volume of energy needed to meet growing U.S. demand, which is expected to increase by 20% over the next two decades. Even with colossal taxpayer subsidies, renewables probably can't even slow the rate of growth of carbon-based fuel consumption, much less replace it.

Take wind power, which has grown rapidly though still only provides about two-thirds of 1% of all U.S. electricity. The Energy Department optimistically calculates that ramping up merely to 20% by 2030 would require more than $2 trillion and turbines across the Midwest "wind corridor," plus multiple offshore installations. And we'll need a new "transmission superhighway system" of more than 12,000 miles of electric lines to connect the wind system to population centers. A mere $150 billion won't cut it. Mr. Obama also didn't mention that this wind power will be more expensive than traditional sources like coal.

Wind, too, is intermittent: It isn't always blowing and can't be accessed on demand when people need electricity. Since there's no cost-effective way to store large amounts of electricity, wind requires "spinning reserve," or nonalternative baseload power to avoid blackouts. That baseload power is now provided largely by coal, nuclear and natural gas, and wind can't displace much. The same problem afflicts solar energy -- now one-hundredth of 1% of net U.S. electric generation. One of the top uses of solar panels is to heat residential swimming pools.

Mr. Obama also says he wants to mandate that all new cars and trucks are "flexible fuel" vehicles, meaning that they can run on higher concentrations of corn ethanol mixed with gasoline, or second-generation biofuels if those ever come onto the market. Like wind and solar, this would present major land use problems: According to credible estimates, land areas larger than the size of Texas would need to be planted with fuel feedstocks to displace just half the oil America imports every day. Meanwhile, the economic distortions caused by corn ethanol -- such as higher food prices -- have been bad enough.

And yet there's more miracle work to do. Mr. Obama promises to put at least one million plug-in electric vehicles on the road by 2015. That's fine if consumers want to buy them. But even if technical battery problems are overcome, this would only lead to "fuel switching" -- if cars don't use gasoline, the energy still has to come from somewhere. And the cap-and-trade program also favored by Mr. Obama would effectively bar new coal plants, while new nuclear plants are only now being planned after a 30-year hiatus thanks to punishing regulations and lawsuits.

Problems like these are the reality of "alternative" energy, and they explain why every "energy independence" plan has faltered since the 1970s. But just because Mr. Obama's plan is wildly unrealistic doesn't mean that a program of vast new taxes, subsidies and mandates wouldn't be destructive. The U.S. has a great deal invested in fossil fuels not because of a political conspiracy or because anyone worships carbon but because other sources of energy are, right now, inferior.

Consumption isn't rising because of wastefulness. The U.S. produces more than twice as much GDP today per unit of energy as it did in the 1950s, yet energy use has risen threefold. That's because energy use is tethered to growth, and the economy continues to innovate and expand. Mr. Obama seems to have other ideas.

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Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

Krauthammer unleashes rhetorical bunker-busters on Obama's energy-less policy

During yesterday's Special Report, Charles Krauthammer unleashed a major-league beat-down on Barack Obama's unhinged "energy" policy. Batten down the hatches...

KRAUTHAMMER: The gas tax holiday was hokey and cheap, and this is hokier and cheaper, because to take from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is to jeopardize our national security. It really is for supply interruption, which would be a catastrophe for our country.

To take stuff out is going to have negligible effect on price, it will have an effect for a day or two. The amount he wants to take out is about a week's worth of imports. It's absurd.

And if you wanted to remove from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, at least you should be in favor of drilling so that, domestically, in a few years, we will have essentially new strategic reserves in the Arctic or offshore, which would substitute for draining the reserves we currently have.

So his position is contradictory, cheap, and political.

And the stuff he said only a week ago in Missouri on Wednesday of last week, if we only inflated our tires it would substitute for all the oil that the Republicans want to drill for is a towering absurdity.

The amount we would save in our tires generously calculated is about 1/200 of what you get from offshore oil alone, and the amount of oil shale is in the West would give us 10,000 years worth of the gasoline saved by inflating our tires.

The problem with the Democratic position is they always say 'let's do x' instead of drilling. What the American people understand is you do x, y, and z, and everything.

But the reason not to drill is untenable. You drill as well, and that will help us as well...

...BAIER: So inflate your tires.

KRAUTHAMMER: It is not even a tenth of a hundredth of the solution.

If that much.

PREDICTION: $95/BARREL OIL BEFORE LABOR DAY

CRASH!

THE BUBBLE HAS BURST - FOR OBAMA AND OIL.

THIS TRANSLATES INTO $3/GALLON GAS AND 300+ ELECTORAL VOTES FOR MCCAIN.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A RACIST WHEN...

.... YOU'VE DONE ANY ONE OF THESE 25 THINGS...

Obama, When Will These Documents Be Available?

Barack Obama is everywhere like a celebrity doing the rounds promoting his latest movie. But, at the same time, he is a stealth candidate. We don't really know that much about him other than what we can see.

What about his history?

From City Data:

1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — “not available”
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — “not available”
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate — Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None

UPDATE: Stanley Kurtz: "Barack Obama's Lost Years"

What they ("the lost years") portray is a Barack Obama sharply at variance with the image of the post-racial, post-ideological, bipartisan, culture-war-shunning politician familiar from current media coverage and purveyed by the Obama campaign.

As details of Obama’s early political career emerge into the light, his associations with such radical figures as Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, Reverend James Meeks, Bill Ayers, and Bernardine Dohrn look less like peculiar instances of personal misjudgment and more like intentional political partnerships.

At his core, in other words, the politician chronicled here is profoundly race-conscious, exceedingly liberal, free-spending even in the face of looming state budget deficits, and partisan.

Elected president, this man would presumably shift the country sharply to the left on all the key issues of the day-culture-war issues included. It’s no wonder Obama has passed over his Springfield years in relative silence.

Coastal oil drilling

Krauthammer, the psychiatrist, is better at economics than the economist, Krugman. Dr. Charles Krauthammer remains the clearest thinker in the punditocracy. Former Enron advisor Paul Krugman, not so much. The two squared off today on Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco's statement that by shutting down new oil production in the USA, she is saving the world. Krugman in the New York Times:

"In themselves, limits on offshore drilling are only a modest-sized issue. But the skirmish over drilling is the opening stage of a much bigger fight over environmental policy. What's at stake in that fight, above all, is the question of whether we'll take action against climate change before it's utterly too late.

"It's true that scientists don't know exactly how much world temperatures will rise if we persist with business as usual. But that uncertainty is actually what makes action so urgent. While there's a chance that we'll act against global warming only to find that the danger was overstated, there's also a chance that we'll fail to act only to find that the results of inaction were catastrophic. Which risk would you rather run?"

OK, so the economist gives the political and pseudo-climatologist response. We won't drill here and therefore we will be on the road to saving the planet from this generation's apocalyptic fear. The last one was global cooling. Before that it was a nuclear holocaust.

Krauthammer in the Washington Post pointed out the obvious; by not drilling here, we buy oil from Third World venues, where it is drilled under less pristine conditions. That is the economist's response. Wrote Krauthammer:

"There are a dizzying number of economic and national security arguments for drilling at home: a $700 billion oil balance-of-payments deficit, a gas tax (equivalent) levied on the paychecks of American workers and poured into the treasuries of enemy and terror-supporting regimes, growing dependence on unstable states of the Persian Gulf and Caspian basin. Pelosi and the Democrats stand athwart, shouting: We don't care. We come to save the planet! "They seem blissfully unaware that the argument for their drill-there-not-here policy collapses on its own environmental terms."

In summation, not drilling offshore does not "save the planet." It spends it.

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Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

Strange Times

An anti-Israel antisemite writes some rather unpleasant stuff about rich Jews in a French periodical and gets fired over it. A columnist in the NYT with the distinctively Muslim surname of Cohen defends the free speech rights of the foul Frog and says he should not have been fired. And I agree with the NYT columnist!

I rarely agree with anything in the NY Pravda and I am about as pro-Israel as you can get so it does feel pretty odd.

But read the whole thing, as they say in the classics.

Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

GENIUS: "HELLO MARTYR, HELLO FATAH..."

IF IT WASN'T SO SO SO SO SO SO TRUE IT WOULD BE REALLY FUNNY:



BOTTOM-LINE: WE WILL HAVE PEACE ONLY AFTER THE ENEMY STOPS TEACHING THEIR CHILDREN GENOCIDAL HATE.

GOP VEEP DARK HORSE: WILLIAM COHEN

He's got great creds: Mayor; Congressman; Senator; Sec Def during warime.

He's got a black wife, his father was Jewish.

He was McCain's Best Man when he married Cindy.

He has drawbacks - they all do, but he brings things others don't.

And he could be a good POTUS should something happen to McCain.

I put him right behind Ridge and Romney as Veeps with gravitas who bring something to the table.

Romney could also either be Sec Treas or WH Chief of Staff.
Cohen could be UN AMB.
Ridge could be Sec Def.

In any event, I'd like them to be in the next administration.

COULD MCCAIN WIN MASSACHUSETTS? YES!

HE'S WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE.

• AND REMEMBER:
• OBAMA HAD ENDORSEMENTS FROM KENNEDY AND KERRY...
• YET HILLARY WON MASSACHUSETTS, HANDILY.
• MCCAIN COULD WIN.
• HE'S POPULAR IN THE REGION: IN NH; AND IN JOE'S CT...
• BOTH RIDGE AND ROMNEY WOULD HELP HERE...

THE GOP STRIKES BACK!

MADAME SPEAKER:

WE'RE MAD AS HELL
AND WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!

"WHAT DO WE WANT?"

"OUR OIL!"

"WHEN DO WE WANT IT?"

"NOW!

LET ME POSE IT SO EVEN A LIBERAL CAN GET IT: OPEN ANWR AND THE OCS FOR THE CHILDREN

• OPENING ANWR AND THE OCS TO OIL DRILLING IS AT LEAST AS IMPORTANT TO OUR FUTURE AND OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S FUTURE AS KEEPING OUR CURRENT ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS - SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE - SOLVENT.

• IF WE DONT START NOW, THEN THE ADDITIONAL ENERGY WON'T BE THERE WHEN THEY NEED IT.

IN OTHER WORDS:

OPEN ANWR AND THE OCS FOR THE CHILDREN.

ROBERT D. NOVAK RETIRES

At first Novak was going to take a hiatus, due to a diagnosis of brain tumor. Now he is retiring:

Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, a prognosis the Sun-Times' political columnist describes as "dire."

"The details are being worked out with the doctors this week, but the tentative plan is for radiation and chemotherapy," Novak said....

Likely, he has brain cancer. And with his stating the grim prognosis, he could well have glioblastoma multiforme, the worst possible diagnosis.

HYPOCRITE AL GORE

A little inconvenient truth about Al Gore, from this source, in an article entitled "Al Gore, Oilman":

It was two weeks ago, that Al Gore challenged Americans to “move quickly and boldly to shake off complacency, throw aside old habits and rise, clear-eyed and alert, to the necessity of big changes” by jumping on his alternative energy bandwagon. In a much-hyped speech July 17, the former vice president urged the nation “to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.”

Gore acknowledged that achieving his ambitious goal would be difficult: “To be sure, reaching the goal of 100 percent renewable and truly clean electricity within 10 years will require us to overcome many obstacles.”

[...]

Ironically, one of the many obstacles to “reaching the goal of 100 percent renewable and truly clean electricity within 10 years” is none other than the wily Al Gore himself.

That’s because even though he claims Americans must work to end their dependence on oil and must stop generating electricity using fossil fuels within a decade or face certain catastrophe, Gore continues to have a financial interest in fossil fuels....

Read more details HERE.

NEWSWEEK ONCE AGAIN PROVES ITSELF AN ENEMY

According to this news clip, Newsweek is blaming Israel one-sidedly for the tractor attacks in Jerusalem.

I think this is just more proof why nobody need waste their hard-earned money on their awful magazine.

Islam in Europe Weekly Review

Late this week.. but here's the roundup. 

Two studies in the news this week.  A study in Stockholm reveals that there's a demand for virginity operations in the city.  Among those who want to do the operation are women who've been raped and wish to conceal the fact.  The full report will be published in 2009.  In Denmark a PHD student wrote a thesis about Danish imams, discovering that there are all sorts.


Radicalism and Terrorism

A British think tank published a disputed study about Islamic extremism on British campuses.  The study shows a significant number of Muslims would want Sharia law in Muslims and would justify killing to protect their religion.

A jury in London reached a deadlock in the trial of three Muslims accused of helping the July 7 bombers.  The case is probably going to a retrial.  Meanwhile, a top military officer says that British Muslims are fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan.

In France 11 young Kurds, suspected of being PKK sympathizers, are to be tried for attacks on Turks.


Health

Finland is considering legalizing male circumcision, based on the child's consent.  The practice is carried out by both Jews and Muslims, though Jewish children undergo the operation when they're eight days old, making consent difficult.

In Denmark there's a shortage of immigrant sperm donors, making life difficult for infertile immigrants.

In the Netherlands, just less than half the population think doctors should take religious concerns into account when treating patients.


Marriage

In the Netherlands a man was sent to prison for polygamy.  Denmark is changing its procedure for family reunification of cousin spouses since the courts disagree that cousin-marriages are by default forced marriages.


Sharia Finance

Another Sharia compliant insurance company opens up in the UK.  A British Islamic bank is thinking of opening a branch in Sweden.


Discrimination

An attack on gays in Stockholm turned out to be anti-Swedish as well.  A Swedish politician got embroiled in a racism complaint, though it's unclear exactly why.

In its annual conference, a British teacher's union rejected a motion saying opening faith schools would be divisive.

A discrimination suit by Muslim baggage handlers in France was dismissed.

Amr Khaled, a leading Egyptian Muslim preacher accuses enemies of Islam of wanting to drive out Muslims from Europe, or to provoke them enough that they'll be banished.  Apparently not something to worry about for long, as he says they'll be a majority in 20 years.  Khaled also said that Europeans don't know anything about Islam.  Channel 4 is trying to change that.  In the UK Shia Muslims are upset at their depiction in a documentary about the Koran.


Miscellaneous

* Muslims in Bosnia demand the aboliton of the Serb Republika Srpska.

* In Brussels asylum seekers are climbing cranes, trying to force the goverment to give them residence permits.

* Beef sausages in France contain more than just beef.

* A woman claiming to be one of the last Moors is living in France.

* Hijab styles are garnering attention.

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This article was cross-posted to Islam in Europe and to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS.

Document Expert Discovers Another Person's birth certificate Used To Forge Obama's

The evidence that the certificate of live birth (COLB) produced to prove the date and place of Sen. Barack Obama's birth is a forged document just keeps getting more damning. A board-certified computer forensics examiner with more than 20 years experience, including clearance by the U.S. Department of Justice for sensitive work, has determined that the Obama COLB is a digitally modified forgery based on a COLB belonging to another person. The expert, using the pseudo name "Techdude", intends to disclose the identity of the person to whom the COLB belongs if the responsible person does not come forward and accept responsibility for the forgery. Techdude writes at the Texas Darlin blog, a pro Clinton blog, as follows:

For a quick preview - the original COLB used to create the KOS COLB image belongs to a female and does not belong to Obama. Another follow up report will reveal exactly who the original underlying COLB did belong to. Trust me when I tell you it is going to be one hell of a major twist that no one would have seen coming. I had to quadruple check my results because I did not even believe it and I currently have a few other people double and triple checking my results as well just to be 100% sure.

That said, and in the interest of fairness, if the people responsible for forging the COLB come forward and admit their liability the name of the original COLB owner will not be released publicly. It is only fair to give the guilty parties a chance to take responsibility for their actions before it embarrasses a lot of people and ruins some people's reputations.

As a heads up to the guilty parties - the names and dates have already been restored - as has the fact the owner is a female born in the 70's. That is all that will be revealed publicly for now. Besides if I turn up in a ditch someplace the information is already in a few 3rd party hands and they will just release it in my place. If anyone still believes the KOS COLB is legitimate after reading this article they should seriously think about seeking professional help.

Techdude, since surfacing on the Texas Darlin blog in recent weeks to question the authenticity of the Obama COLB, has been criticized by pro-Obama supporters for refusing to identify himself. "My full name and contact information will be released shortly once the entire set of facts has been released to the public," Techdude writes. "This way if I end up at the bottom of a construction site someplace in NJ the world will still have all the information I was going to provide." Earlier, Techdude reported that pro Obama supporters had tracked down his home address, vandalized his car and hung a dead rabbit over his doorway.

Source


Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

John McCain considers Jewish running mate

Those racist Republicans again!

"A young Jewish congressman from the battleground state of Virginia has joined the shortlist to be John McCain's vice-presidential running mate. Eric Cantor, 45, would be a dramatic choice for Mr McCain, who is running almost level with Barack Obama in national polls but whose aides believe he needs to shake-up the White House race if he is to prevail in November's general election.

Aides to Mr McCain revealed that Mr Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives, had been asked to submit documents as part of a rigorous vetting process to hunt out any closet skeletons.

Mr Cantor would be by far the most exciting - though potentially risky - choice. A prodigious fundraiser with a young, photogenic family, support from evangelical Christians and strong backing from hard-line conservatives, he would shore up many of Mr McCain's weaknesses.

Mr Cantor would be the first Jewish vice-president, an historic milestone that Senator Joe Lieberman just missed in 2000 when Al Gore lost to George W Bush by 567 votes.

Source

This would be an amusing choice in a few ways. It would of course drive the Jewish conspiracy theorists out of their tiny brains but the real fun would be seeing how the Left would make this into a "racist" choice. Calling black white (Whoops! Am I allowed to say that?) has never been a problem for the Left.


Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

THERE'S BEEN NO "WINDFALL PROFIT" FOR OIL COMPANIES

FACTS HERE.

IF FACTS AND TRUTH AND WHAT WORKS MATTER TO YOU, THEN READ THIS.

AND THEN...


VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

INSTAPUNDIT STILL WRONG ON SCHIAVO

Instapundit:

August 03, 2008

ANOTHER TERRI SCHIAVO AFFAIR IN THE MAKING? I don't know how this will develop, but my observation at the time that the Terri Schiavo affair marked the high-water point for GOP power, and the beginning of its decline, seems to have been borne out by subsequent events.

posted at 05:09 PM

With all due respect, Glenn's read on this is STILL all wrong.

Both houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly to stop/slow down the Florida courts'/Schiavo's ex-husband and give Terri's family an opportunity for more judicial review, (203 to 58 in the House and by UNANIMOUS CONSENT on the Senate).

This is not surprising, after all... WHAT WAS THE RUSH!?!? An overwhelming number of both Democrats and Republicans felt the Schindler's deserved another chance to save Terri from CERTAIN DEATH.

So it was not a partisan effort. It was BIPARTISAN.

It is wrong for Glenn to uncharacteristically regurgitate Democrat spin on this.

BTW: you can be arrested for animal cruelty for doing to a squirrel what the state of Florida did to Terri.

The new case Glenn links to is interesting.

I am especially disturbed by the fact that expense has again become an issue.

HERE'S WHY:

If Obama is elected (GOD FORBID!) and if he and Pelosi and Reid socialize/nationalize healthcare in the USA, then the state will be on the hook for all medical expenses and they may well pull everyone's plug ASAP!

After all, when they pull the plug they reap a DOUBLE SAVINGS: they save the medical expense and the social security payout.

This alone is reason NOT to nationalize healthcare and to privatize pensions.

IMHO: The GOP popularity tracks more exactly to - and is causally more tied to - the reporting on the Iraq War.

Solzhenitsyn dead

A GIANT:

Russian news agencies say author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning chronicler of the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure. He was 89.

RIP.

The gulag's were set up for the common good, of course... by a slightly overactive nannystate, that's all...

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

A Solzhenitsyn Quote:

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life.

Update/Excerpt:

From The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

The Case of the "Tactical Center" -- August 16-20, 1920

In this case there were twenty-eight defendants present, plus additional defendants who were being tried in absentia because they weren't around.

At the very beginning of his impassioned speech, in a voice not yet grown hoarse and in phrases illumined by class analysis, the supreme accuser informs us that in addition to the landowners and the capitalists "there existed and there continues to exist one additional social stratum, the social characteristics of which have long since been under consideration by the representatives of revolutionary socialism.

Hmmmmmm sounds like something Obama and Pelosi might say:

... illumined by class analysis [at the knee of Frank Marshall], the supreme accuser [Obama] informs us that in addition to the landowners and the capitalists [typical white people like McCain] "there existed and there continues to exist one additional social stratum, the social characteristics of which have long since been under consideration by the representatives of revolutionary socialism [the GOP].

FULL ROUND UP HERE.

UPDATE #2: EXCERPT FROM ... THE SPEECH:

Socialism

It is almost universally recognized that the West shows all the world a way to successful economic development, even though in the past years it has been strongly disturbed by chaotic inflation. However, many people living in the West are dissatisfied with their own society. They despise it or accuse it of not being up to the level of maturity attained by mankind. A number of such critics turn to socialism, which is a false and dangerous current.

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it.

The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

Shafarevich's book was published in France almost two years ago and so far no one has been found to refute it. It will shortly be published in English in the United States.

SOMEBODY TELL OBAMA - AND GET HIM THAT BOOK!

PELOSI AND THE DEMS: THE OIL COMPANIES ARE THE ENEMY

I WISH THEY ATTACKED AL QAEDA AS HARD AS THEY HIT THE OIL INDUSTRY - IT'S AS IF THE ONLY "AXIS OF EVIL" THE LEFT BELIEVES IN IS BETWEEN BUSH-CHENEY AND THE OIL COMPANIES!

HERE:

PELOSI (whole transcript and link to complete video at link):

What you saw in the Congress this week was the war dance of the hand maidens of the oil companies. That's what you saw on the Republican side of the aisle.

SHEESH! PELOSI: the war dance of the hand maidens of the oil companies

THIS JARGON IS PURE UNADULTERATED MARXISM.

Pelosi and her comrades on the left think the oil companies are the enemy.

Who do you think will do a better job of creating new energy supplies, energy companies or Democrat appointed government bureaucrats!?

Obama and the Democrats want to RAISE TAXES on the heavily taxed oil industry and then have the government spend it on rebates and energy investment.

THIS MAKES NO SENSE.

And it won't work. It never has.

REMEMBER: Russia had just as much oil and gas under it during Soviet times, but only exploited it AFTER throwing the communists out. (PITY: they're slipping backward, again...)

WHAT WORKS?

Simple: Let PRIVATE investors risk THEIR OWN capital with the with the ENERGY EXPERTS: the OIL COMPANIES.

Obama and Pelosi and the Democrats want higher energy costs and higher energy taxes.

McCain wants Congress to allow private enterprise to increase domestic supplies and lower energy prices.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

Update: THE WAR DANCE WILL RESUME! YEEEEEHAAAAH!

BARACK H. OBAMA - THE "H" ALSO STANDS FOR "HUBRIS"

AN EMPTY GESTURE EXCEPT THAT IT FURTHER REVEALS OBAMA'S HUBRIS:

Now that Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, he wants convention delegates from Florida and Michigan to have full voting rights at the party's national convention.

Obama sent a letter Sunday to the party's credentials committee, asking members to reinstate the delegates' voting rights when the committee meets at the start of the convention in Denver.

The delegates were originally stripped because the two states violated party rules by holding primaries before Feb. 5. The delegates from each state were given half-votes at a contentious party meeting in May, as part of a compromise designed to give two important states some role at the convention.

• REMEMBER: OBAMA DID NOT WIN THE NOMINATION IN THE PRIMARIES;

• HE MAY WITH IT WITH THE SUPER-DELEGATES.

• HILLARY ACTUALLY WON MORE BIG STATES, BUT THE DEMOCRAST DO NOT HAVE WINNER-TAKE-ALL, SO IT WAS NOT DECISIVE.

• OBAMA WON A PLURALITY OF DELEGATES H WINNING CAUCUSES AND SMALL STATES - ALMOST ALL ALREADY BLUE STATES.

• AND ALL BY PLAYING EXCLUSIVELY TO THE "ANTI-WAR" BASE -WHICH IS TIRED OF CLINTONISM AND DISTRUSTED HILLARY NBECAUSE SHE VOTED FOR THE IRAQ WAR.

• BECAUSE OF THEIR ARCANE RULES, THE DEMOCRATS PICKED THE ONLY CANDIDATE CAPABLE OF LOSING.

THANK GOD.

MORE ON BARACK HUBRIS OBAMA HERE.

Kerry's praise for McCain is an unintentional swipe at Obama

KERRY ON MTP:

I have awe for John McCain’s experience as a prisoner of war, and he, and he does understand duty and service.

THIS CANNOT BE SAID OF OBAMA'S LIFE.

REPEAT: THERE IS NOTHING IN OBAMA'S WHOLE ENTIRE SHORT LIFE WHICH PROVES HE UNDERSTANDS DUTY AND SERVICE TO THE USA.

HIS PARENTS SURE DIDN'T.

IN FACT, HIS 20 YEAR MEMBERSHIP IN WRIGHT'S TRINITY "CHURCH" PROVES HIS PATRIOTISM IS HIGHLY DUBIOUS.

YES: PROVES.

HOW?

NOT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT WRIGHT PREACHED, AND WHAT BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY PREACHES, BUT BECAUSE WHEN WRIGHT PREACHED IT, THE ENTIRE CONGREGATION LOVED IT AND APPLAUDED.

THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE OBAMA PRAYED WITH FOR 20 YEARS.

THEY DIDN'T SUDDENLY BECOME ANTI-AMERICAN WHEN WRIGHT SAID "GODDAMN AMERIKKKA!"

• A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE AGAINST THE USA.
• HATE THE USA? THINK IT'S A FORCE FOR REPRESSION IN THE WORLD?
• THEN VOTE OBAMA.
• DO YOU LOVE AMERICA AND FEEL AMERICA HAS DEFENDED LIBERTY AROUND THE WORLD?
• THEN VOTE MCCAIN.
• IT'S THAT SIMPLE.

OH OH OH OH DON'T FORGET THIS ---- IF YOU THINK THAT HISTORICALLY THE USA HAS BEEN A FORCE FOR REPRESSION IN THE WORLD, THEN YOU ARE NOT PATRIOTIC.

THE LATE GREAT PETER RODMAN WROTE THIS:

"The key to multilateralism is not what one thinks of the United Nations but what one thinks of the United States. Those who believe the United States guilty of too many sins in the past—and these include some Americans—will be eager to see restraints on American unilateral action. Those who believe that global freedom and peace and the cause of human rights have more often than not been advanced if not sustained by the United States, acting out of some combination of its own self-interest and a general interest, will find multilateralism a potential source of paralysis."

OBAMA IS PART OF THE CROWD THAT WANTS THE USA TO MEET A GLOBAL TEST. (UPDATE: ON THIS GEORGE WILL AGREES!)

MCCAIN ISN'T.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

OBAMA: CHANGIENESS LEFT-WING DUPES CAN BELIEVE IN!

LATEST OBAMA CHANGIENESS HERE.

THIS MAN HAS NO PRINCIPLES, NO GUTS, AND NO CHANCE AT BEING ELECTED - THANK GOD!

OBAMA AND MURTHA: "PEACE DEMOCRATS" LIKE THE COPPERHEADS OF OLD

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN VALLANDIGHAM...

AND DEMOCRAT NYC MAYOR FERNANDO WOOD


WERE COPPERHEADS WHO OPPOSED LINCOLN
AND THE US CIVIL WAR


THEY CALLED IT A USELESS WAR,
A MISTAKE
AND WANTED A COMPROMISE WITH THE SOUTH
WHICH WOULD HAVE ALLOWED SLAVERY TO CONTINUE.
THEY WERE THE PEACE-NIKS OF THEIR DAY.


THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE FOR POTUS ON 1864
WAS A COPPERHEAD, TOO: GEORGE MCCLELLAN.

• THEY WERE ALL SCUM.
• MURTHA AND PELOSI AND REID AND OBAMA ARE NO BETTER.
• THEIR VIEWS ON THE IRAQ WAR PROVE IT.
• MURTHA ESPECIALLY.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

MORE ON THE ABOVE COPPERHEADS HERE AND HERE AND HERE.

UPDATE/ASIDE:

AMORAL APPEASING COPPEHEAD DEMOCRATS LOVED DEPICTING ABE AS A MONKEY - (SEE ABOVE AND THIS):


AND TODAY'S AMORAL APPEASING DEMOCRATS LOVE DEPICTING BUSH AS A MONKEY, TOO.


SOME ACTS NEVER CHANGE.

HARRY REID PROVES MITT'S MORMONISM SHOULD BE A NON-ISSUE

If Harry Reid can be a scumbag lib AND a good Mormon, then Mitt can be a good conservative and a good Mormon.

Their mere membership or the membership of any person seeking public office in the Church of Latterday Saints shouldn't effect anybody's vote.

As a Jew, I feel that Mormons are God-fearing people who believe in the Ten Commandments.

That's good enough for me.

Reid's left-wing partisan political policies are what make him unacceptable, not his sectarian faith.

Mitt has many great qualities which would serve the nation well - in many capacities: as president one day, as Veep, as White House Chief of Staff, as Sec Treas, GOP Chair, etc.

I hope evangelicals who are deeply skeptical of Mormonism can find a why to realize this.

IT'S TIME TO MOUNT A MASSIVE AIR ATTACK ON PAKISTAN'S LAWLESS REGIONS

Bush is finally getting tougher on the Pakis.

Bush couldn't do it before - with Musharraf in titular "total" control, because that would have destabilized him and our alliance. But Bush can do it now because it would destabilize Sharif and Bhutto - and they are part of the problem: their appeasement of the Taliban has made things worse.

All Bush has to do is call Musharraf on a secure line the moment the bombings begin.

We should pound them for three days with everything we've got in the region.

Then Musharraf can take to his airwaves and say it was a allied mission.

112 AND COUNTING: ANOTHER BIRD FLU DEATH IN INDONESIA

VNA:

An Indonesian factory worker died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the H5N1 virus to 112, a top health official was quoted as saying on August 3.

The 19-year-old worker, died last week in a hospital just west of Jakarta, Nyoman Kandun, the director general of communicable disease control at the Health Ministry, said.

Indonesia’s death toll of 112 accounts for nearly half the 240 recorded fatalities worldwide, according to news agencies

AP:

Bird flu remains hard for people to catch, but health experts worry that the virus could mutate into a form that passes easily between humans, possibly triggering a pandemic that could kill millions. So far most human cases have been linked to contact with infected birds.

Scientists have warned that Indonesia, which has millions of backyard chickens and poor medical facilities, is a potential hot spot for the start of a global pandemic.

"MOST" NOT ALL. FACT: 25% ARE ALREADY H2H.

HOW'D THIS VICTIM GET IT? MORE H2H? STAY TUNED. IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.

Menthol is racist

Betcha didn't know that! Apparently there is a bill before Congress to regulate what goes into cigarettes:

"Because the bill would ban the use of all other flavoring additives (like cloves and peppermint) but permit the use of menthol, and since menthol is overwhelming used by African American smokers -- including Black children -- it has already been damned for being racially insensitive if not outright racist by the Congressional Black Caucus, African American former HHH Secretary Louis W. Sullivan and most other former HHS Secretaries, the National African American Tobacco Prevention Network, and ASH, America's first antismoking organization.

Source

Did you follow that? I am not sure I did but the idea seems to be that menthol encourages black kids to smoke and smoking is bad for you so allowing menthol in cigarettes is racist. When your argument is flimsy, the race card is always a great help. The article also claims that cigarettes are dangerously radioactive.

The article is by by Banzhaf, a lawyer notorious for far-out lawsuits about "threats" to health emanating from everyday products. I gather that his activities have made him a rich man.

Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

Sitemeter problem over

Some readers who kept getting crashing pages yesterday may be interested to know that the culprit was Sitemeter. Here is the Sitemeter apology. It's only barely an apology.

Some people are excusing them by saying that it is Microsoft's fault for having a limitation in IE but it was a known limitation and putting up new code without testing it was thoroughly negligent.

And why did Sitemeter take about 24 hours to fix it? They could have reloaded the older version of their code within minutes! I doubt that I will use sitemeter again. It put people to a lot of trouble trying to fix the error. Some bloggers changed their templates (as I did) and some readers reinstalled their browser. A big waste of everybody's time.


Blogger.com apologizes too. Apparently the rash of blocked blogspot blogs was a data processing error too. First blogger.com and then sitemeter. Why can't these galoots check their code before they thrust it upon their unwitting users?

Posted by John Ray.

ASSAD IN IRAN: PRAISES HAMAS AND HIZBALLAH AND THE IRANIAN NUKE PROGRAM

JPOST:

Iranian State TV's website reported that Assad responded to Khamenei by saying that he was "happy that the meeting took place at a time when ... we are witnessing great achievements on part of the Islamic resistance group in Lebanon and the strengthening of Hamas in Palestine, while witnessing the weakening of our enemies more than ever before."

WE SHOULD HAVE ASSASSINATED THIS PIECE OF TURD TYRANT YEARS AGO.

BUT DUBYA STANDS FOR WIMP.

• SYRIA IS A KEY ENABLER OF IRAN'S AND WITHOUT SYRIA HAMAS AND HIZBALLAH ARE BOTH SERIOUSLY WEAKENED.
• LEAVING ASSAD ALONE - SINCE HE ASSASSINATED HARIRI - SENT THE WRONG MESSAGE: IT SAID WE ARE WEAK AND WILL APPEASE.
• I BLAME BUSH.
• FDR AND TRUMAN WOULD HAVE FIRE-BOMBED DAMASCUS.
• AT LEAST WE SHOULD HAVE WHACKED ASSAD.
• AND SENT A CABLE TO AHMADINEJAD AND KHAMENI: YOU'RE NEXT!

THE ENEMY HAS ONLY GOTTEN STRONGER AS A RESULT OF BUSH'S WIMPINESS.

GAZA: A QUAGMIRE

Now that things in Iraq have calmed down, the only violent and dangerous hell-holes/quagmires in the Middle East are Gaza and southern Lebanon.

GEE: I WONDER WHY?

COULD IT BE JIHADISM?

Yes.

Hamas is back doing what they love most after killing Jews: killing Fatah.

Hizballah is merely in hibernation.

The only way we end the quagmire is to drain the swamp.

And the way to drain the swamp is not with more aid.

It's by rubbing out jihadists.

MORE HERE.

UPDATE: The IDF has returned many criminals/FATAH-thugs who fled Hamas. (MORE HERE.)

WHAT WILL HAMAS DO WITH THEM? WILL THE RED CROSS PROTEST?

VEEP TRYOUTS ON THIS SUNDAY'S TALK SHOWS

LAT:

Ticket notice: Sunday talk shows -- Ridge, Pelosi, Lieberman

ABC "This Week": Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif./Obama supporter); former Gov. Tom Ridge (R-Pa./McCain supporter). Round table with David Gergen (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) and Donna Brazile, Jake Tapper and George Will of ABC News.

CBS "Face the Nation": Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin (Obama supporter), former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina (McCain supporter) and David Brooks of the New York Times.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a John McCain backer, prepares to talk

CNN "Late Edition": Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo./Obama supporter) and Rob Portman (former White House budget director/McCain supporter); Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; Army Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, commander, Multi-National Division-North; Nancy Pfotenhauer (McCain economic advisor) and Laura Tyson (Obama economic advisor); Jim Glassman, undersecretary of State for public diplomacy.

"Fox News Sunday": Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C./McCain supporter) and former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D./Obama supporter).

NBC "Meet the Press": Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass./Obama supporter/Democratic presidential candidate 2004) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn./McCain supporter/Democratic vice presidential candidate 2000). Round table with Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd of NBC News, Judy Woodruff of PBS' "NewsHour" and GOP strategist Mike Murphy.

I THINK RIDGE AND ROMNEY AND GRAHAM ARE THE FRONT-RUNNERS FOR MCCAIN.

AND I THINK OBAMA WILL PICK RICHARDSON OR REED OR NELSON. UNLESS HE DECIDES HE CAN HANDLE BOTH JOBS HIMSELF!