"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, July 24, 2010

AS EAST COAST FRIES, SOCAL BRRRRRRS!

MORE PROOF CLIMATE CHANGE AIN'T GLOBAL: NYTIMES:
Among the pleasures of living in Southern California, none may be as wonderful as the climate, and the ability of residents to use it as a meteorological bat against the collective heads of their fellow Americans.

When there are snowstorms elsewhere, people here go tide pooling; when humidity soaks the East, Angelenos repose at 75 degrees.

Never had this chasm been more acute than during this unusually cool summer in Southern California, where people wrapped themselves in light sweaters as the rest of the nation tried to fry things on the sidewalks.

Ha, ha, ha, ha!

But then, it rained. That was not funny. Angelenos may like to be cruel with their cool, but it should not interrupt a barbecue.

Now, as the summer lurches toward August with barely a warm weekend to its name — to say nothing of the almost-unheard-of precipitation — people here are actually grumpy about their climes.

“I actually wish I were on the East Coast,” said Caitlin Pence, 24, who lives in Manhattan Beach, in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County. “It is so miserable here, I don’t really want to do anything. It’s like seriously, actually, genuinely depressing. I am a teacher, and so I have my whole summer off — and I’ve seen the sun probably two times the whole summer.”

The average temperature at Los Angeles International Airport in July so far has been 66.4 degrees, or 2.4 degrees below normal; on July 12, the airport hit a record with its lowest recorded maximum temperature of 68 degrees. (The previous low for the day was 70 degrees, in 1949.)

This followed an unusually cool June — generally the dreariest month in Los Angeles. Further, there have been traces of rain four days this month, which for Los Angeles is something akin to a frost in Miami in September.

“Two degrees below normal over a month may not sound like much,” said Claudia Cox, head of operations for the National Weather Service’s Western region. “But when you average up all 30 days, it is pretty unusually cold.”

IOW: AGW = BS. TFBS.

BRITS DECENTRALIZING THE NHS - AS OBAMACARE HEADS THE OTHER WAY

NYTIMES:

Even as the new coalition government said it would make enormous cuts in the public sector, it initially promised to leave health care alone. But in one of its most surprising moves so far, it has done the opposite, proposing what would be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.

Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.

The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.

MEANWHILE. OBAMACARE'S 2000 PAGES OF BUREAUCRATIC BULLSH*T ADDS LAYER UPON LAYER OF BUREAUCRACY.

SO... WHO IS GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!?

THE BRITS.

NEED PROOF?

SIMPLE: AFTER 60 YEARS OF TRYING, THEY'RE FINALLY ACCEPTING THAT FUNDAMENTALLY AND ORGANIZATIONALLY NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE SUCKS.

IF IT WAS WORKING, THEN IT WOULDN'T BE IN NEED OF A TOTAL EFFIN' OVERHAUL.

MEANWHILE: OBAMA HAS RECESS-APPOINTED BERWICK TO RUN OUR NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, AND HE LOVES LOVES LOVES THE NHS.

THAT MAKES HIM A FUHREEEEEEKIN' MORON.

ONE WHO'S GONNA RUIN OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.

UNLESS WE STOP HIM AND OBAMA THIS NOVEMBER BY VOTING GOP.

MORE ON THE NHS HERE.

update: of course: we scooped weasel zippers.

update #2: of course... we scooped hot air, too...

OBAMACARE HAS MORE BAD UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR BY A DAY

HOT AIR THIS MORNING:

ObamaCare success: insurers stop writing policies for kids

Jul 24, 2010 8:36 AM by Ed Morrissey


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Law of unintended consequences.


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7/09: When Americans started to wake up

Dinocrat:
... something definitive and durable happened between mid-June and late July of last year.

A large group of Americans decided, all of a sudden, that the country was headed in the wrong direction, and that opinion has only gotten stronger over time.

It is significant that
almost precisely the same trend can be seen in President Obama’s polling numbers during that period in 2009.

What changed so suddenly?
RTWT.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND 14,000 YEAR OLD PET DOG BONES


Archaeologists found in a Swiss cave, a jaw fragment belonging to an ancient dog. After radiocarbon-dating it they concluded that it is over 14,000 years old and that it might be the earliest dog ever known.
Establishing when the first fully-domesticated wolf became a dog is a rather sensitive subject among researchers, and some already say that fossils much older than the Swiss have already been discovered.

Scientists have different theories about how and when dogs originated, as one analysis of modern dogs and wolves concluded that the first domesticated wolf (the first dog) lived in Asia, another in Eastern Europe and a third in the Middle East.

Well, archeology graduate student Hannes Napierala and archaeologist-zoologist Hans-Peter Uerpmann, study coauthors at the University of Tübingen in Germany say that the upper-jaw discovered in 1873 in Kesslerloch Cave, near Switzerland’s northern border with Germany, proves that domestic dogs lived there between 14,100 and 14,600 years ago.

Napierala states: “The Kesslerloch find clearly supports the idea that the dog was an established domestic animal at that time in central Europe.”
MORE HERE:
... In a recent article in the magazine Discovering Archaeology, biologist Wolfgang Schleidt notes the apparent temporal coincidence between the emergence of humankind and of dogkind, and suggests that, "This intertwining process of hominization and caninisation suggests co-evolution." (6) Schleidt proposes a specific scenario, involving humans emulating wolves and eventually co-opting wolves in hunting the migratory reindeer of Ice Age Eurasia. Yet a much broader view of the interactions between humans and wolves, and the results of these interactions, might be envisaged.

... In the course of these generations wolves were transformed into dogs, but did their dogs also transform ancient people into humans? Would archaic humans have developed into such a successful and dominant species if we had not had the opportunity to learn from, imitate and absorb into our cultures the traits and abilities of the wolves with whom we lived?

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE: GERMAN SCIENTIFIC STUDY: PIOUS MUSLIM FAMILIES BREED VIOLENT MEN

NIEUWSLOG.NL --- (VIA ATLAS, WHO HAS MORE):

A new German study shows that boys growing up in pious Muslim families are more likely to be violent. The study, which involved intensive questioning of 45,000 teenagers from 61 towns and regions across the country, was conducted by Christian Pfeiffer of the criminal research institute of Lower Saxony. ... Besides feeling more religious Muslim boys are least integrated in German society. Only 14.5 percent of the very religious Turkish boys (the largest group of Muslims in the study) said that they felt German, even though 88.5 percent were born there.

NO SURPRISE HERE: ISLAM IS MORE A MARTIAL CREED AND A SYSTEMATIC METHODS FOR TRAINING JIHADISTS AND BREEDING MILITARISTIC MISOGYNISTS THAN ADORATION OF GOD.

WE WILL NOT WIN WW4 UNTIL ISLAM IS VANQUISHED - JUST AS WE VANQUISHED NAZISM.

BRRRRRRR!: PERU DECLARES EMERGENCY DUE TO RECORD COLD!

BBC: Peru declares emergency over cold weather
The Peruvian government has declared a state of emergency in more than half the country due to cold weather.

Most of the areas affected are in the south, where temperatures regularly drop below zero centigrade at this time of year.

However, this time temperatures have dropped to as low as -24C.

The state of emergency means regional authorities can dip into emergency funds to provide medicine, blankets and shelter to those most affected.

The state of emergency was declared in 16 of Peru's 24 regions.

This week Peru's capital, Lima, recorded its lowest temperatures in 46 years at 8C, and the emergency measures apply to several of its outlying districts.

... In Peru's hot and humid Amazon region, temperatures dropped as low as 9C. The jungle region has recorded five cold spells this year. Hundreds of people - nearly half of them very young children - have died of cold-related diseases, such as pneumonia, in Peru's mountainous south where temperatures can plummet at night to -20C.
IOW: AGW = BS, TFBS.

OBAMA'S PROFESSED EMPATHY

Does anyone really believe this nonsense?
Obama said...that he and his wife Michelle were not far removed from financial pressures facing Americans.
"Not far removed from financial pressures?" Talk about a laughable statement worthy of ridicule!

Reality check:
The Obamas reported an adjusted gross income of 5.5 million dollars in 2009...
The Obama administration - out of touch and striking a hollow note with pretended empathy.

Desperation in the face of the coming elections this November?

Friday, July 23, 2010

TURKEY'S ISLAMISTS MOVING FORWARD WITH DESTROYING THAT LAST REMAINING FORCE FOR SECULARISM: THE MILITARY

BBC: Turkey orders arrest of 102 over 'coup plot'
A Turkish court has ordered 102 people charged with plotting to overthrow the government to be arrested and held in jail until their trial, the state news agency says.

The suspects were among 196 people indicted this week. Some were detained in February and then released.

They include three retired military commanders. They are to be jailed pending their 16 December trial.

The remaining 94 will remain free until their trial.

All are accused of involvement in an alleged conspiracy to create chaos and pave the way for a military takeover.

Among the 102 people are retired Gen Dogan Cetin, former commander of Turkey's first army, former navy chief Adm Ozden Ornek and former air force commander Gen Halil Ibrahim Flirtina.

The indictment says the alleged conspiracy was drawn up in 2003 at the Istanbul base of the Turkish First Army shortly after the governing AKP party came to power.
TURKEY SHOULD EB THROWN OUT OF NATO.

TURKEY IS ALIGNED WITH IRAN AND SYRIA NOT THE WEST.

TURKEY IS MORE ISLAMIC THAN WESTERN.

THE ATTATURK REFORMATION IS OVER.

IT'S TIME WE ACCEPTED REALITY AND THREW THEM OUT OF NATO - KEEPING THEM IN ONLY GIVES THEM THE ABILITY TO SHARE NATO INFO WITH OUR ENEMIES.

IT'S TIME TO THROW THEM OUT OF NATO.

NOW.

IT'S TIME TO RENAME 8TH AVENUE "GIULIANI BOULEVARD"

RUDY SAVED NYC.

IT'S TIME WE HONORED HIM.

GIULIANI BOULEVARD SOUNDS BETTER THAN GIULIANI AVENUE.

AND EITHER IS BETTER THAN 8TH AVENUE.

100TH BANK FAILURE OF THE YEAR - AND THE FDIC SAYS IT HASN'T PEAKED YET!

OY!:
The FDIC expects the wave of bank failures that started in 2008 to peak sometime this year.
I THINK THINGS WILL START TO GET BETTER ONLY IF AND WHEN WE GET A GOP CONGRESS.

BEFORE THE WEST WENT ALL WOBBLY


WE WILL WIN WW4 WHEN WE FIGHT AS RUTHLESSLY AS THE ENEMY, BUT ONLY IF WE DO SO BEFORE THE ENEMY GETS WMD.

TICK... TICK.... TICK.....

BEFORE BEER WENT BOUTIQUE











DON'T LIKE "BIG OIL"?! THEN DON'T USE OIL PRODUCTS!

VIA GERARD:



HEY, YO, LEFTIES:

DO YOU THINK LITTLE MOMMA AND POPPA OUTFITS COULD SUPPLY THE WORLD'S ENERGY NEEDS EFFICIENTLY!?

OR OUR NEED FOR PETROLEUM-BASED PRODUCTS!?

NO WAY IN HELL.

WE NEED BIG OIL.

MORE BAD UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES FROM OBAMACARE

NYTIMES/AP:
Some major health insurance companies will no longer issue certain types of policies for children, an unintended consequence of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, state officials said Friday.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said several big insurers in his state will stop issuing new policies that cover children individually. Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said a couple of local insurers in her state are doing likewise.

In Florida, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Aetna, and Golden Rule -- a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare -- notified the insurance commissioner that they will stop issuing individual policies for children, said Jack McDermott, a spokesman for McCarty.

The major types of coverage for children -- employer plans and government programs -- are not be affected by the disruption. But a subset of policies -- those that cover children as individuals -- may run into problems. Even so, insurers are not canceling children's coverage already issued, but refusing to write new policies.

The administration reacted sharply to the pullback. ''We're disappointed that a small number of insurance companies are taking this unwarranted and unnecessary step,'' said Jessica Santillo, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services department.

Starting later this year, the health care overhaul law requires insurers to accept children regardless of medical problems -- a major early benefit of the complex legislation. Insurers are worried that parents will wait until kids get sick to sign them up, saddling the companies with unpredictable costs.

THIS IS JUST ONE OF A LONG LIST OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES WHICH ARE DESTINED TO BE DISCOVERED AS THE 2000 PAGE "REFORM" UNFOLDS.

SIMILAR BAD CONSEQUENCES WILL NO DOUBT BE PRODUCED BY THE RECENT FINREG "REFORM" - A 2300 PAGE FIASCO-IN-WAITING.

AS LONG AS WE ARE A FREE NATION, THE FEDS CAN'T ORDER THE INSURERS TO OFFER SEPARATE INSURANCE FOR KIDS ANYMORE THAN THEY CAN ORDER US WHAT WE WANT TO READ OR SAY.

THE ONLY WAY TO GUARANTEE WE REMAIN A FREE NATION IS TO VOTER GOP THIS NOVEMBER.

UPDATE: "Insurers also warn that the regulations could backfire. In a letter to state regulators detailing its concerns this month, WellPoint said the new rules could 'paradoxically result in reduced health care quality in the system and higher costs.'”

The legislative battle over the health care overhaul ended months ago, but it is hard to tell from the intense effort now under way by insurance companies to retool a critical provision.

The law requires health insurers to spend at least 80 cents out of every dollar they collect in premiums on the welfare of patients, a critical issue for the companies’ bottom lines.

But state regulators are only now deciding what precisely that means, as they draft the rules to enact the law. WellPoint, which operates Blue Cross plans in more than a dozen states, wants to include the cost of verifying the credentials of doctors in its networks. Insurance companies like Aetna argue that ferreting out fraud by identifying doctors performing unnecessary operations should count the same way as programs that keep people who have diabetes out of emergency rooms.

Some insurers even insist that typical business expenses — like sales commissions for insurance agents and taxes paid on investments — should not be considered part of insurance premiums, which would make it easier for them to meet the 80-cent minimum.

The calculation of what is called the medical-loss ratio is crucial to insurance companies, because the law requires them to refund money to consumers if they spend too much on administrative costs.

OBAMACARE MAY GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THW WORST LEGISLATION OF ALL TIME.

Forbes on the "Toyota's Runaway Acceleration" Scare: "The Jig Is Up"

From Forbes:
The jig seems to be up on the runaway-Toyota scare. Mounting evidence indicates that those Toyotas truly accelerating suddenly can probably be explained by sliding floor mats (since fixed) and drivers hitting the gas instead of the brake. That is, the media have been chasing a will-o'-the-wisp for the better part of a year, whipping car buyers and Congress into a frenzy.

Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you need them? Shouldn't the accounts of alleged unintended acceleration deaths have been subjected to a little checking?

Remember the tale of the runaway Prius on a freeway near San Diego? In Forbes.com in March I observed that much of what the driver told reporters was absurd. He insisted he was "afraid" to try to shift into neutral because he needed both hands on the steering wheel; nobody asked about that cellphone he'd been holding while driving.

Likewise, the media pack is so focused on the number of those deaths supposedly from sudden unintended acceleration, now put at 93 from 75 crashes, that it can't be bothered to properly investigate them--or indeed even look at them. Otherwise reporters could have told you what I found: that most of the claims are spurious, even to the point that some of the accidents never even occurred.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration uses the term "allegedly" in listing the number of deaths possibly related to unintended acceleration. Yet too many reporters ignore that caveat. Thus, a U.S. News & World Report blog-post headline proclaimed: "NHTSA: 89 Deaths Caused by Unintended Acceleration in Toyota Vehicles." The Los Angeles Times stated in a headline that sudden acceleration "led to" the deaths. A New York Post headline early on declared that faulty Toyotas ( TM - news - people ) "have killed" 52 people. A CBS News Web headline (over an Associated Press story) similarly said the acceleration car fault "has killed" 89. (USA Today has been more careful in emphasizing the tenuous connections.)

The NHTSA "complaint database," available on its website, amounts to a motley collection of anecdotes, many of them absurd. Anybody can enter anything. An entry filed by someone named Damnable Liar claimed his car accelerated to the moon because of a child seat problem. That was mine.
We were the first to condemn these stories. We did so first, and often since.  Thank God Forbes is now laying the story to rest. The Los Angeles Times, which began the slanderous meme against Toyota, was playing fast and loose with the facts, to the point of endangering one of LA's biggest employers of real human beings.

If the Los Angeles Times had been successful in causing it's readers to believe that Toyota had such a blatant disregard for human life, then an awful lot of Angelenos would have lost their jobs.

It should have been obvious to anyone reading the Media's stories that they were b.s.

If the Media really had facts that showed that Toyota's cars were dangerously accelerating, in the manner portrayed, then the first thing the Media would have cared about would have been informing the public of how to deal with sudden accleration;

PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL AND APPLY THE BRAKE.

The fact that the media did not bother to inform the public proved the media was not truly concerned about the problem it was reporting. In other words, they did not believe the things they were writing.

Let us suppose we were living back in the days that fire was invented (hell, the media still seems to be living in those days, so why cant we?). If you were a reporter and you suddenly got a story that fire is hot and it burns skin and can kill you, wouldn't you also report to people,

IF YOU PUT YOUR HAND IN FIRE, TAKE IT OUT?

I mean, seriously, any decent human being would do that, right?

But, the media didn't do it, because they had not, actually, discovered a truly dangerous problem.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPED NORM COLEMAN

MEMEORANDUM:
Jonathan Martin / Reuters:
Norm Coleman eyes challenge to Michael Steele — Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman is considering a run for chairmanship of the RNC, POLITICO has learned, and has begun talking to associates about taking on Michael Steele, should the embattled current chairman seek another term in January.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Flight 93 father: Ground zero mosque is the SECOND mosque being built on a 9/11 site

Pamela Geller, who is leading the fight against the ground zero mosque in New York, has posted the following letter from Tom Burnett Senior.

To our fellow 9/11 families and to all who are concerned about the Ground Zero mega-mosque in New York:

We want everyone to know that the Park Service is right now building an even larger Islamic victory mosque atop the Flight 93 crash site. Many of you were outraged in 2005 when the Crescent of Embrace design was unveiled to be a half-mile wide Islamic shaped crescent:

Crescent publicity shot and Islamic crescent and star
Left: 2005 publicity shot of the Crescent of Embrace design. Right: typical Islamic crescent and star, viewed from a similar angle.

Few people know that this giant crescent actually points to Mecca, or understand the religious significance of this orientation. A crescent that points the direction to Mecca is a very familiar construct in the Islamic world. Because Muslims face Mecca for prayer, every mosque is built around a Mecca direction indicator called a mihrab. The classic mihrab is crescent shaped. Here are the two most famous mihrabs in the world:

Crescent publicity shot and Islamic crescent and star
Left: the Mihrab of the Prophet, at the Prophet's mosque in Medina. Right: the mihrab of the Great Mosque in Cordoba Spain.

Face into the crescent to face Mecca

As with the Medina and Cordoba mihrabs, a person facing into the Crescent of Embrace will be facing Mecca. In the image below, superimposed red lines show the orientation of the Flight 93 crescent. The green qibla circle is from an online Mecca-direction calculator:

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A person standing between the tips of the crescent and facing into the center of the crescent (red arrow) will be facing almost exactly in "qibla" direction (the Muslim prayer direction). You can verify the qibla direction from Somerset PA using any number of on-line Mecca-direction calculators.

To be precise, the Crescent of Embrace points 1.8° north of Mecca, ± a tenth of a degree. The final construction drawings alter this orientation slightly, so that instead of pointing a little less than two degrees north of Mecca, the actual crescent will point less than three degrees south of Mecca. Such small deviations from Mecca are insignificant by Islamic standards, which developed over a period of more than a thousand years during which far flung Muslims had no accurate way to determine the direction to Mecca.

The Park Service does not call the Crescent of Embrace a crescent anymore. Now they call it Circle of Embrace, but the only actual change was to add an extra arc of trees (planted to the rear of a person facing into the giant crescent) that explicitly represents a broken off part of the circle. The unbroken part of the circle, what symbolically remains standing in the wake of 9/11, is just the original Crescent of Embrace. It is still a giant Islamic shaped crescent, still pointing at Mecca.

This is the Park Service's official explanation for the design: the terrorist attacks are depicted as smashing our peaceful circle and turning it into a giant crescent. A clearer depiction of Islamic victory is hard to imagine, so no one should be too surprised that the damned thing points to Mecca, and actually turns out to be a mosque.

Other mosque features

Mosque design is based on a dozen typical mosque features, every one of which is realized in the Crescent/Circle design, all on the same epic scale as the half mile wide crescent-mihrab. Note, for instance, that the 93 foot tall minaret-like Tower of Voices is topped with another Islamic-shaped crescent, akin to the crescent-topped minarets seen in many Islamic countries:

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An Islamic shaped crescent, soaring in the sky above the symbolic lives of the 40 heroes, which literally dangle down below. In Islam, there is only heaven and hell. Symbolic damnation?

The Flight 93 mosque needs to be stopped, along with the Islamic victory mosque at ground zero in Manhattan. May the fight against these two desecrations strengthen each other.

Sincerely,

Tom Burnett Senior
Loving father of Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett Junior


Pamela's Atlas Shrugs post includes a second letter from Mr. Burnett, thanking her for her help and passing on some information about the design selection process. (The vote for was 9 to 6 from a judging panel where family members were outnumbered 8-7 by left wing design professionals.)

Contact information for the Flight 93 Memorial Project here.

There is also an online petition that people can sign.

"RIVERS OF BABYLON" UNWELCOME IN RAMALLAH

A rock group from the 1970s, Boney M, went to perform a concert in Ramallah, and the festival organizers objected to their singing a notable song of theirs, River of Babylon:
RAMALLAH, West Bank – When the iconic 1970s disco group Boney M rocked Ramallah this week, the local music festival prevented the band from performing one of its biggest hits.

Lead singer Maizie Williams said Palestinian concert organizers told her not to sing "Rivers of Babylon." The song's chorus quotes from the Book of Psalms, referring to the exiled Jewish people's yearning to return to the biblical land of Israel.

Palestinians often question the Jewish historical connection to the Holy Land. Organizers said they asked for the song to be skipped, deeming it "inappropriate."

"I don't know if it is a political thing or what, but they asked us not to do it and we were a bit disappointed that we could not do it because we know that everybody loves this song no matter what," she said.

The band performed its other big hits, like "Ma Baker," "Daddy Cool," and "Rasputin" in front of hundreds of screaming fans.

The Palestinian International Festival started Monday and runs through Saturday, bringing international performances to the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jenin, Hebron and Bethlehem.

The concert comes amid a Palestinian campaign to get international artists to boycott Israel. The Pixies and Elvis Costello, among others, have canceled concerts in Israel following pressure from pro-Palestinian groups.

"I believe you should entertain wherever you are asked to entertain, whether it is Israel, whether it is Palestine, whether it is Lebanon, where ever it is, we go," Williams said in Ramallah.

"At the end of the day, politics is one thing and entertainment is another thing and when I got into the entertainment business I didn't get into it for politics. I got into it to make people happy," she said.
Well she's right that politics should be left at the door and not have to be mixed up in the music biz. But that's the MO of the anti-Jewish Islamists.

Here's a tape of the song from 1978:

And the lyrics that are clearly the Islamists' problem:
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down,
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.
It alludes to Psalm 1:37. So that's what they don't like, right?

Side note: I won't be wasting my time with Elvis Costello for having anything to do with these pro-palestinian groups, nor the Pixies.

TUTU DISSES OBAMA AND PRAISES BUSH: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS WEASEL ZIPPERS BY A DAY

WEASEL ZIPPERS TODAY: TUTU DISSES OBAMA AND PRAISES BUSH.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS YESTERDAY.


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SHERROD AGREES WITH THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: OBAMA IS NOT AN AFRICAN AMERICAN

SHERROD:
Obama 'Is Not Someone Who Has Experienced What I Have Experienced Through Life'

Shirley Sherrod, the woman at the center of the racism storm that has consumed Washington the past few days, told me she doesn’t know if President Obama supports her, but she welcomes the opportunity to talk to him about it, and to offer a few lessons of her own.

“I can’t say that the president is fully behind me, I would hope that he is…I would love to talk to him,” Sherrod said on "GMA."

“He is not someone who has experienced what I have experienced through life, being a person of color. He might need to hear some of what I could say to him,” she told me. “I don’t know if that would guide him in a way that he deals with others like me, but I at least would like to have the opportunity to talk to him about it.”

No word yet from the White House on whether the President will call Sherrod.

OBAMA HASN'T EXPERIENCED IT BECAUSE HE DID NOT GROW UP ION A GHETTO OR WITHIN A BLACK EXPERIENCE; HE GREW UP IN INDONESIA AND IN A PRIVILEGED INTEGRATED COMMUNITY IN HAWAII.

IN FACT, NOT A SINGLE PERSON IN OBAMA'S FAMILY HAD ANY DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF ANY AFRICAN-AMERICAN SORT EVER.

THEY WERE NOT HERE DURING SLAVERY, NOR JIM CROW, NOR DID THEY HAVE ANY ROLE IN THE US CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.

THE BIGGEST LIE OBAMA TOLD TO THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE WA S THAT HE WAS AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN.

WHEN OBAMA WAS "CONVERTED"/"BAPTIZED" AT REV WRIGHT'S "CHURCH" HE CONVERTED TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN, NOT CHRISTIANITY!

PREVIOUS POSTS HERE AND HERE AND HERE.

BOMBSHELL!!!!: IG BAROFSKY: OBAMA'S CAR DEALERSHIP CLOSURES BASED ON RACE & GENDER!

INSPECTOR GENERAL:

RACE/GENDER MOTIVATED CAR DEALER CLOSURES.

“The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most unlikely source: one of the administration’s own inspectors general. Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto industry bailout — closures the Obama administration forced on General Motors and Chrysler — were based in part on race and gender, according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.”

Posted at 8:15 am by Glenn Reynolds

PREVIOUS POST HERE.

A FEW GOOD SIGNS FOR THE ECONOMY

UPS AND UNION PACIFIC ARE DOING VERY WELL.

THIS MEANS THINGS ARE IMPROVING.

WHICH IS THE WORLD'S MOST ISOLATED COUNTRY?

You guessed it: Israel (H/T: UN Watch):
NEW YORK – Outgoing Ambassador to the UN Gabriella Shalev told American journalists on Monday that Israel is “the most isolated, lonely country in the world,” and that the biggest threat to its existence is not Iranian nuclear proliferation, but international attempts to delegitimize it.

Shalev told an Israel Project luncheon in Washington that threats to Israel’s right to defend itself constitute the “first challenge” of the Jewish state, according to The Washington Times.

Shalev cited Iran and tensions with the Palestinians as other significant problems, but particularly highlighted the international community’s actions toward Israel as being potentially detrimental to the country’s future.

She specifically cited European court prosecutions of Israeli officials for alleged human rights offenses and UN efforts to single out Israeli conduct for reprimand.

Shalev said that as sanctions resolutions at the UN put international pressure on Iran, Israel’s biggest threat is now those who question the Jewish state’s right to exist and defend itself, the Washington Times reported.

Israel Project president Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi told The Jerusalem Post she felt Shalev’s remarks had been on point.

“Iran has been the No. 1 issue in the pro-Israel community for many years, but right now there is something of a sigh of relief that the world has come to a deeper understanding that Iran is not just Israel’s threat, it is the world’s threat,” Mizrahi said, citing sanction developments in the US, UN and Europe.

“What [Shalev] was saying was that everyone at the UN in theory supports Israel’s right to defend itself, but when it’s actualized, they stop supporting it in many cases,” Mizrahi said, citing the May 31 Gaza flotilla incident as an example.

“I think [Shalev] is right.

I think that this is a major problem, and we’re deeply, deeply concerned about it.”

In terms of the United Nations, UN Watch director Hillel Neuer told the Post from Geneva that “Ambassador Shalev is exactly right. While the UN was founded on the highest ideals, many of its influential assemblies have turned into Ground Zero for ‘lawfare’ – the Arab-led assault on Israel using international law to weaken its legitimacy and international standing.”

Efforts to utilize international law as a blunt instrument against Israel, Neuer said, are particularly evident in the context of the Human Rights Council, a UN body based in Geneva.

“Out of some 40 resolutions adopted since 2006, more than 70 percent target Israel, while granting impunity to Hamas terror,” Neuer said of the Human Rights Council. “Victims of abuses worldwide are ignored. The [HRC] currently has multiple inquiries under way against democratic Israel, yet none on massacres committed by gross violators like China, Iran, Sudan, or Kyrgyzstan.

Eleanor Roosevelt and René Cassin, the proud Zionists who created the UN’s human rights system in response to the atrocities of World War II, are surely turning in their graves.”

Responding to these remarks, a spokesperson for the UN Secretary General’s office said on Tuesday that “Israel is a member in good standing of the United Nations, which has repeatedly stressed the rights of the Israeli people, as has Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Israel’s rights as a member state have been established repeatedly, including through General Assembly and Security Council resolutions.”

At a departing reception held for Shalev last week in New York by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN, praised her efforts at the world body. Rice told attendees that she would “continue US efforts to combat all international attempts to challenge the legitimacy of Israel – including and especially at the United Nations.”

Mizrahi pointed out that at Monday’s luncheon, Shalev’s remarks were not made in a despairing tone.

“She was very hopeful,” Mizrahi said. “She wasn’t demoralized. She’s fighting it.”
Shalev deserves a lot of praise for bringing this up. I've often doubted in the past decade if the UN was ever founded by sincere people to begin with, if they proposed a partition plan back in the late 1940s, instead of recognizing Israel as a whole. Nor have they ever done much of anything to oppose modern day slavery in Islamic countries.

And I find their attempts to deny their hypocrisy and utter dishonesty truly disgusting. Ban-Ki Moon himself is just one of the problems.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

BRRRRRRR!: SOUTH AMERICA GRIPPED BY CONTINENTAL COLD SNAP

IT HUGE AND VICIOUS!

Temperatures have risen slower than Hansen forecast for a carbon free 21st century

Temperatures have risen slower than Hansen forecasted for a carbon free 21st century.
  • IOW: WITHOUT TAKING ANY SIGNIFICANT GLOBAL ANTI-CO2 MEASURES - AND DESPITE THE FACT THAT MAN-MADE CO2 HAS GONE UP EVERY YEAR, THINGS ARE ACTUALLY BETTER THAN THE BEST CASE SCENARIO PRAYED FOR BY THE ALARMISTS HAD CO2 BEEN BANNED.
  • IOW: AGW - TFBS.
WE CAN MAKE ALL THE AGW ALARMISTS STFU THIS NOVEMBER: VOTE GOP!

WHY EVERY SO-CALLED JOURNALIST WHO POSTED AT JOURNOLIST IS AS GUILTY AS THE WORST OFFENDERS

MEMEORANDUM HAS QUITE A BIG ROUND UP ON THE JOURNOLIST BROUHAHA:
Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would. — But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz …

RELATED:

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Meet the New Journolist, Smaller Than the Old Journolist — Blogosphere, please join me in celebrating the birth of Cabalist, the wittily-named successor to Ezra Klein's infamous Journolist, the listserv of liberal bloggers, pundits and academics that inadvertently brought down (very temporarily) …

Ezra Klein:
You shall know them by their work — A few weeks ago …
Liberal journalists suggest government shut down Fox News
LEMME TELL YOU WHAT IS INCONTROVERTIBLY THE MOST REVEALING AND REPULSIVE THING THAT THE JOURNOLIST LEAKS EXPOSE:

THE UTTER AMORALITY OF THE LEFT.

HOW!?

SIMPLE:

JUST AS THE STEADY APPLAUSE REV. WRIGHT RECEIVED DURING HIS "GODDAMN AMERICA" RANT EXPOSED OBAMA AND HIS CHURCH AS A BUNCH OF RACIST AMERICA-BASHING LEFTISTS....

THE UTTER LACK OF ANY CRITICISM OF ANY JOURNOLISTER WHO CALLED FOR VIOLENT ACTS AGAINST CONSERVATIVES...

OR WHO SUGGESTED SPREADING VICIOUS FALSE SMEARS ABOUT CONSERVATIVES...

OR WHO USED DEROGATORY LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE THE SILENT MAJORITY OF MIDDLE AMERICA ("FUCKING NASCAR RETARDS")...

REVEALS THAT THOSE WHO READ THE VILE FASCIST FILTH POSTED ON AT JOURNOLIST ARE JUST AS DISGUSTING AND AMORAL AS THOSE WHO WROTE THAT CRAP.

THEIR SILENCE REVEALS THEY AGREED.

THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR THOSE WHO WROTE THE AFWUL CRAP TO BE FIRED FROM THEIR MAINSTREAM MEDIA JOBS - FOR SUBVERTING THEIR JOBS TO THEIR ERSONAL POLITICAL AGENDA -

IF ONE IS GUILTY THEN ALL ARE AND ALL OF THEM SHOULD BE FIRED - AND REMOVED FROM TEACHING POSITIONS THEY HOLD AT ANY AND ALL JOURNALIST SCHOOLS.

REPEAT:
ALL OF THEM SHOULD BE FIRED - AND REMOVED FROM TEACHING POSITIONS THEY HOLD AT ANY AND ALL JOURNALIST SCHOOLS.

The following 65 names are confirmed members of the now-defunct JournoList listserv.
1. Ezra Klein
2. Dave Weigel
3. Matthew Yglesias
4. David Dayen
5. Spencer Ackerman
6. Jeffrey Toobin
7. Eric Alterman
8. Paul Krugman
9. John Judis
10. Eve Fairbanks
11. Mike Allen
12. Ben Smith
13. Lisa Lerer
14. Joe Klein
15. Brad DeLong
16. Chris Hayes
17. Matt Duss
18. Jonathan Chait
19. Jesse Singal
20. Michael Cohen
21. Isaac Chotiner
22. Katha Pollitt
23. Alyssa Rosenberg
24. Rick Perlstein
25. Alex Rossmiller
26. Ed Kilgore
27. Walter Shapiro
28. Noam Scheiber
29. Michael Tomasky
30. Rich Yesels
31. Tim Fernholz
32. Dana Goldstein
33. Jonathan Cohn
34. Scott Winship
35. David Roberts
36. Luke Mitchell
37. John Blevins
38. Moira Whelan
39. Henry Farrell
40. Josh Bearman
41. Alec McGillis
42. Greg Anrig
43. Adele Stan
44. Steven Teles
45. Harold Pollack
46. Adam Serwer
47. Ryan Donmoyer
48. Seth Michaels
49. Kate Steadman
50. Matt Duss
51. Laura Rozen
52. Jesse Taylor
53. Michael Hirsh
54. Daniel Davies
55. Jonathan Zasloff
56. Richard Kim
57. Thomas Schaller
58. Jared Bernstein
59. Holly Yeager
60. Joe Conason
61. David Greenberg
62. Todd Gitlin
63. Mark Schmitt
64. Kevin Drum
65. Sarah Spitz