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While We Are Enjoying The Tender Ministrations of Jimmy Carter 2 (OBAMA) It is worthwhile to remember the legacy of Jimmy Carter 1 and one of his endearing legacies the Iranian Revolution.

Pretty soon we are going to get a sucker punch from Iran and it won’t be pretty. Yea I know these folks are always talking big and delivering little but sooner or later they will get it right and when they do we are NUMBER ONE SATAN!

Iran anniversary ‘punch’ will stun West: Khamenei

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seen here in January 2010, said on M…

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week’s 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

"The Iranian nation, with its unity and God’s grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran’s commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel.

The country’s top cleric was marking the occasion when Iran’s air force gave its support to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a key event which led to the toppling of the US-backed shah on February 11, 1979.

His comments came as Iran said it would begin to produce higher enriched uranium from Tuesday, in defiance of Western powers trying to ensure the country’s nuclear drive is peaceful. Iran anniversary ‘punch’ will stun West: Khamenei

WHO DAT SAY THEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS! WHO DAT!

Watched the first kickoff of the first game and finally the promised land. I admit that I was a fair weather fan but wow it still felt real good to see the Saints win the old fashioned way. Showing heart and courage by never giving up and finding a way to win! THANK YOU SAINTS! Course I am pretty sure that my friends were pretty shocked by how vocal I am…cause I was YELLING at the TV all night long! THANK YOU!

Super Bowl 2010 | News, Pictures, Stats, Saints in Super Bowl – NOLA.com

This is a screenshot of the NOLA.COM! WHO DAT!

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr….Err ooops

Here is a snippet of an article written in 2008 by Robert F Kennedy Jr. published in the Los Angeles Times.

In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today’s anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

That changing weather…darnnit why doesn’t it ever just make up its mind.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Mid-Atlantic U.S. on Sunday began carving a path through the piles of wet, heavy snow in below-freezing temperatures while power crews tried to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and clear streets for work on Monday.

The National Weather Service called the storm "historic" and reported a foot of snow in parts of Ohio and 2 feet or more in Washington, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Parts of Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia got closer to 3 feet.

Many roads reopened but officials continued to warn residents that highways could be icy and treacherous. The snow snapped tree limbs onto power lines and several roofs collapsed under the weight. In Washington, city officials said it was unclear if the roads would be clear enough for workers to get in on Monday.

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Sadly for the country the snow fell somewhat short of covering up the nonsense going on inside.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Please call your office!

VANDERBILT CHAPL…err IMAM AGREES THAT HOMOSEXUALS SHOULD BE KILLED! TOLERANCE ISLAMIC STYLE!

Exactly how do we keep playing like Islam has something in common with Western Culture? Hey I love how folks try to mislead folks by saying Chaplin…it is no Chaplin but an Imam who is uttering this sort of trash. Shame on him, shame on Vanderbilt, shame on our country for letting this festering bullshit into our schools.

And we wonder how terrorists like the Christmas bomber and the Ft. Hood shooter get traction? We give it to them by inviting their teachers, the Imams, into our schools, homes, cities and towns.

Vanderbilt chaplain agrees that homosexuals should be killed

As a graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School, I know that the university generally and its religion departments specifically fully embrace conceptually and practically gay rights. The teachings of the Jewish and Christian scriptures that say that homosexual practice is sinful are either simply ignored or reinterpreted by the professoriate. This is a very strong institutional value of the university.
So what are we alums to make of Awadh Binhazim, a Vanderbilt Muslim chaplain, who

publicly acknowledged what those of us who study shariah Islamic law know…, when pressed on whether or not shariah Islamic law requires the death penalty for homosexuals, asserted that yes, it does. Furthermore, he stated: "I don’t have a choice as a Muslim to accept or reject teachings." Sense of Events: Vanderbilt chaplain agrees that homosexuals should be killed

This is where this sort of “thought” brings them. A series of photos of the hanging in Iran of 2 homosexual boys.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad skirted a question about the treatment of homosexuals in Iran on Monday, saying in a speech at a top US university that there were no gays in Iran.

"In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country," Ahmadinejad said to howls and boos among the Columbia University audience.

"In Iran we do not have this phenomenon, I don’t know who has told you that we have it," he said.

Bet ya dollar that this Imam still has a job at Vanderbilt come next week, next year and I bet that in 5 years he is running his own portion of the indoctrination of Vanderbilt Freshmen. After all we are embarrassed to defend our culture and the main religion that brought us to the pinnacle of achievement. Nature abhors a vacuum and Islam is more than willing to fill the gap left by the pitiful secularists we have left defending us.

Why shouldn’t they keep him after all President Bush our stalwart defender after 9/11 broke bread with terrorists shortly after 9/11.

Here is snippet from an old article of mine referencing a PJ Media blog about Islamic penetration into the DOD.

9/14/2001 President Bush plays patsy cake with Islamic “Leaders” at a Washington “Prayer” service for the victims of 9/11. The rubble is still smoking and President Bush has at his side, Abdurahaman Alamoudi who US Intelligence suspected of having ties to the people who knocked the buildings down in the first goddamn place. Our Islamic friend Abdurahaman goes on to be prosecuted for terrorist ties and is now serving time. But it gets even better! Also at our President’s side is Muzzammil Siddiqi the spiritual leader of the Islamic Society of Orange county and who had claimed an year earlier that the US deserved to be attacked for our ties.

Muzzammil had served as a translator for Blind Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman whilst he lectured about violent jihad. And since it can only get worse in attendance at these lectures were such terrorist luminaries as Adam Gadahn and Khalil Deek who were part of a Al Qaeda Sleeper cell operating in the States. 

And Bush is praying with these folks. Praying for what? Brains? Can you imagine how hard those “peaceful muslims” were laughing at our “Commander in Chief”?

So it is not a surprise at all that we should find DOD infiltrated with Islamic terrorists. Actually it is probably a lot worse than just a couple of Departments.

And because I am feeling especially generous let me include this bit of a blog from a long time ago in reference to those “youths” that are continuing to burn Paris down.

Was Muhammed an Islamist? Or was he a moderate?

As we watch one of the most beautiful countries in the world get torn apart by the sort of thuggery that has always seemed to be part of Islam I wonder would Muhammed have defined himself as an Islamist? How would President Bush describe Muhammed? Would he describe him as a moderate, peaceful man or would he describe him as an Islamist?

Surely Muhammed would describe himself as an extremist and isn’t that the definition of an Islamist ultimately? Or is the definition of an Islamist one who is strict in his interpretation of the Koran? What makes one an Islamist?

The Devil is in the details and exactly how is it possible to get the details correct if your definitions differ from the definitions offered by those you attempt to define? Meaning exactly how does one deal with Islam if one denies its definition of itself?

There is plenty of terrific reporting going on right now by people who understand the importance of the details. Brussels Journal is near the top along with ¡No Pasaràn! Some of my favorites are here, here which included a terrific offer of help for Chirac from Kadhafi, here “Wake up and Smell the Molotov Cocktails and here “Not that I’m on a crusade or anything — After all, the word might hurt someone’s feelings”.

The Fall of France | The Brussels Journal
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Unemployment, Fun Facts The Government And Their Propaganda Arm The Mainstream Media Wish You Wouldn’t Know!

Amidst all the bullshit claims by the Government about unemployment remember this one fact. The total number of folks in the work force is going down…now explain that away.

Either these folks moved to another country, died, or their jobs just evaporated. Then explain to me exactly how we have a recover or even the beginnings of one when all these folks are not paying taxes, buying cars, buying houses or better yet making payments on all those upside down mortgages running around these days.

NFP -20,000, Consensus +15,000, Non-Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate (U3 And U6) Surges To Record 10.6% And 18% | zero hedge

Your Cheery News For the Day…Now Off You Go!

Don’t agree with some of the descriptions of the events but this is a good start on why you should be preparing for GDII.

20 reasons Global Debt Time Bomb explodes soon Commentary: Which trigger will ignite the Great Depression II?

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By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Retire? You can fuggetaboutit if the new Global Debt Time Bomb is detonated by any one of 20 made-in-America trigger mechanisms.

Yes, 20. And yes, any one can destroy your retirement because all 20 are inexorably linked, a house-of-cards, a circular firing squad destined to self-destruct, triggering the third great Wall Street meltdown of the 21st century, igniting the Great Depression II that George W. Bush, Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson and now President Obama have simply delayed with their endless knee-jerk, debt-laden wars, stimulus bonanzas and bailouts. Our debt time bomb is ready to go ka-boom Paul B. Farrell – MarketWatch

The Backdoor Man Scrambles Around Taking This And That Down…Hey Backdoor Man, Ya Missed One! How The Obama Administration Operates and Why The Tea Party Is So Pissed Off!

Drudge puts up a link to a Reuters story talking about how Obama will be instituting backdoor taxes on the American public. Then the link goes dead…to be replaced by this. Screenshot since this is incriminating evidence that will likely be pulled down shortly.

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Reuters must have gotten a call from Rahm asking them just exactly what the hell was going on? Is Reuters trying to destroy the Obama administration by telling the truth? Apparently the rest of the media is playing along so Reuters jumped on board the cover Obama’s ass crazy train.

Only problem is someone forgot to tell Yahoo News Canada! They still have the story reproduced entirely just so they cannot pull this shit twice. Hey I am saving Reuters from themselves! Nice guy eh?

After looking at this story it is easy to see why the Obama administration or the Democrats or both might just want to bury this. After all this sort of shit has usually been unveiled inside a bill that all of us have 2 hours to read on a Friday night at 2am before it is voted on, passed then signed into law by 5am.

I highlighted the really fun parts.

Change you can believe in…in the spirit of the times may I suggest we passed the line some time ago where our founding fathers would have revolted.

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Yahoo! Canada News

Backdoor taxes to hit middle class

Mon Feb 1, 4:09 PM

By Terri Cullen

NEW YORK (Reuters.com) –The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.

In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year — effectively a tax hike by stealth.

While the administration is focusing its proposal on eliminating tax breaks for individuals who earn $250,000 a year or more, middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases.

The targeted tax provisions were enacted under the Bush administration’s Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Among other things, the law lowered individual tax rates, slashed taxes on capital gains and dividends, and steadily scaled back the estate tax to zero in 2010.

If the provisions are allowed to expire on December 31, the top-tier personal income tax rate will rise to 39.6 percent from 35 percent. But lower-income families will pay more as well: the 25 percent tax bracket will revert back to 28 percent; the 28 percent bracket will increase to 31 percent; and the 33 percent bracket will increase to 36 percent. The special 10 percent bracket is eliminated.

Investors will pay more on their earnings next year as well, with the tax on dividends jumping to 39.6 percent from 15 percent and the capital-gains tax increasing to 20 percent from 15 percent. The estate tax is eliminated this year, but it will return in 2011 — though there has been talk about reinstating the death tax sooner.

Millions of middle-class households already may be facing higher taxes in 2010 because Congress has failed to extend tax breaks that expired on January 1, most notably a "patch" that limited the impact of the alternative minimum tax. The AMT, initially designed to prevent the very rich from avoiding income taxes, was never indexed for inflation. Now the tax is affecting millions of middle-income households, but lawmakers have been reluctant to repeal it because it has become a key source of revenue.

Without annual legislation to renew the patch this year, the AMT could affect an estimated 25 million taxpayers with incomes as low as $33,750 (or $45,000 for joint filers). Even if the patch is extended to last year’s levels, the tax will hit American families that can hardly be considered wealthy — the AMT exemption for 2009 was $46,700 for singles and $70,950 for married couples filing jointly.

Middle-class families also will find fewer tax breaks available to them in 2010 if other popular tax provisions are allowed to expire. Among them:

* Taxpayers who itemize will lose the option to deduct state sales-tax payments instead of state and local income taxes;

* The $250 teacher tax credit for classroom supplies;

* The tax deduction for up to $4,000 of college tuition and expenses;

* Individuals who don’t itemize will no longer be able to increase their standard deduction by up to $1,000 for property taxes paid;

* The first $2,400 of unemployment benefits are taxable, in 2009 that amount was tax-free. Print Story: Backdoor taxes to hit middle class on Yahoo! Canada News

Thank You Sir May I Have Another Green Shoot! The Decline And Fall Of The Pay You Tomorrow For A Hamburger Today Nation!

A list of the latest green shoots sprouting up all over America! First the Airlines…

Jets taxi at Los Angeles International Airport, 2009. The International Air…

International airlines suffered their biggest decline in traffic since 1945 last year as passenger demand fell 3.5 percent, the International Air Transport Association said Wednesday.

Freight also fell, by 10.1 percent, as "full-year 2009 demand statistics for international scheduled air traffic that showed the industry ending 2009 with the largest ever post-war decline," IATA said in a statement.

"In terms of demand, 2009 goes into the history books as the worst year the industry has ever seen," said Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the world’s biggest airlines’ association.

"We have permanently lost 2.5 years of growth in passenger markets and 3.5 years of growth in the freight business," he added Airlines suffered record drop in traffic in 2009: IATA

How is rail traffic doing?

Total Industry Charts (US, Canada and Mexico)

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Norfolk Southern Posts Profit Decline

Norfolk Southern posted a decline in quarterly profit as the No. 4 U.S. railroad coped with weak freight volumes, resulting from the sluggish economy.

Hey what about homebuilding?


U.S. Economy: New-Home Sales Fall, Capping Worst Year (Update1)

By Bob Willis

Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) — Sales of new homes in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in December, capping the worst year on record and signaling the government’s tax-credit extension has yet to shore up demand.

Purchases declined 7.6 percent to an annual pace of 342,000, marking the fourth decrease in the past five months, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. For all of 2009, sales declined 23 percent to 374,000, the lowest level since records began in 1963.

Spectacular! We are selling the same number of houses we did back in 63…cool baby! Well that should help move all that hidden inventory the banks are holding that are upside down. Good thing that we are letting the banks decide how much all that shit they have on their books is worth. Heaven knows what would happen if they were forced to value their assets like all the rest of us are forced to. Maybe I can just go to the bank and tell them I think my rusted out old bicycle is worth enough to use as collateral on a $1,000,000 dollar home?

Unlocking the Foreclosure Box – The Most Comprehensive Shadow Inventory Housing Analysis for Los Angeles County. Examining 269 Zip Codes and Finding 100,000 Shadow Properties while Public Views 19,000.

One resolution I had coming into 2010 was getting a better number for the shadow inventory in Southern California.  It is rather clear that shadow inventory is a real factor in the current market but how big is this inventory?  Can we really get an accurate figure for a large area like Los Angeles County?  Well this is something I set out to do.  The trouble with the current numbers is they are derived from a variety of sources.  First, you need to pull MLS data for each of the 269 zip codes in Los Angeles County.  This is the largest county in California with approximately 9,700,000 people living here.  It provides an excellent cross section of all the ills California housing is currently experiencing.  If we can get a handle on the actual shadow inventory for this area we can put together a better picture of the housing market for 2010.

Wow hey maybe those undeclared shadow homes might be a problem in a bit eh? Nah we can just borrow some more money to paper over all these trillions of dollars of loss….yea trillions because as sure as day follows night some bunch of Wall Street Crooks have hedged their losses in the CDS markets. Gosh this is fun! Hey Bernie don’t stop printing just yet we need a few more trillion dollar notes…nothing to see here folks. After all soverign debt is bullshit as far as we are concerned because WE ARE TOO BIG TO FAIL. SUCK IT UP PRODUCTIVE COUNTRIES WE NEED YOUR MONEY!

Dubai Crisis May End in ‘Major’ Default, BofA Says (Update3)

By Tal Barak Harif

Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) — Dubai’s debt woes may worsen to become a “major sovereign default” that roils developing nations and cuts off capital flows to emerging markets, Bank of America Corp. said.

“One cannot rule out — as a tail risk — a case where this would escalate into a major sovereign default problem, which would then resonate across global emerging markets in the same way that Argentina did in the early 2000s or Russia in the late 1990s,” Bank of America strategists Benoit Anne and Daniel Tenengauzer wrote in a report.

A default would lead to a “sudden stop of capital flows into emerging markets” and be a “major step back” in the recovery from the global financial crisis, they wrote.

Emerging-market stocks around the world have slumped for two days on concern a debt restructuring by Dubai World, with $59 billion of liabilities, will add to the $1.72 trillion of losses and writedowns from the global credit freeze. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell 1.9 percent to 940.30 as of 1:55 p.m. in New York, extending this week’s decline to 2.6 percent.

Well the question is exactly when do the adults take over in Washington DC and force the country to take some very painful medicine so we can get back to growing again? We need to cut spending, cut entitlements, cut corporate taxes, end this fantasy that the banks are engaged in regarding their dreams that housing prices are set to recover any time soon. No one is too big to fail. Every large nation in history has been brought down sooner or later. How about we delay our downfall by acting like adults and paying our bills.

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Help wanted finding AWOL couple who may be trapped in the Sierra snows

Reposting and linking because Bookie is a friend and this kind of thing gets solved when the “Army of Davids” is employed…HELP!

Help wanted finding AWOL couple who may be trapped in the Sierra snows

Bookworm on Jan 22 2010 at 9:18 am | Filed under: Uncategorized

This has been a wild weather week in California, with rain, snow, sleet, hail, thunder and lightening, etc.  Usually, I enjoy this weather.  Right now, I find it very worrisome, because close friends of mine are deeply, deeply worried that their nephew and his girlfriend may be trapped somewhere because of this extreme weather.  Ryan and Viola left Saturday for a two night camping trip, and haven’t been heard from since.  They are very responsible people, and their prolonged silence is ominous.

The family thinks they’re most likely in the Sierras but, really, they could be anywhere in California.  Since my friends know I blog, they’ve asked me to put the word out in the blogosphere, just in case any of you in California (or Western Nevada) might have seen Ryan and Viola.  Here’s the press release that’s going out today:

Ryan Barrett and his girlfriend, Viola Liu left on Saturday, January 16, at 2:00 p.m. to go camping with their three dogs (2 huskies & a lab) in his red 2005 Toyota Tacoma pick up truck (with shell.)  They were scheduled to return home on Monday evening, January 18, 2010. We have not heard from them.  We need your help.  We filed the attached missing persons report on Wednesday, January, 20, 2010 in the early morning with the Fremont police. The problem is Ryan did not tell us where they were going.  Ryan told his father, “We think we’ll go to the Sierra Nevada to play in the snow.”  We fear they were caught in the storm.

The police need leads. Our families need leads.  We need you to broadcast this to your audience as soon as possible in the hope that someone saw them and we can focus our search efforts. KCBS has already run the story, but I need to reach more people and so many people get their news on line.

Ryan is a white 31 year old male, 5′9″, blue eyes, brown hair, and his smile lights up the room.

Viola is a Chinese-American woman,  slim, 31 years  old female, 5′7″, brown eyes, brown hair with highlights and a quiet beauty. (The photo makes it look like her hair is blondish, it isn’t)

Ryan is familiar with the mountains, very strong and brought a tent, sleeping bags, camping gear, dog food, freeze dried food and water.

We have been looking for them since Monday.

Thank you for your help.

God speed.

If you have any information about Ryan or Viola, please contact the Fremont Police Department, at 510.790.6800.  This is the police report, with a picture of Ryan, Viola, and their three dogs:

Bookworm Room » Help wanted finding AWOL couple who may be trapped in the Sierra snows

Upside Down, Delinquent Alt-A Mortgages Coming Soon To A Bankrupt Bank Near You!

Green Shoots Anyone? From Market Ticker’s Karl Denninger.

Well, as Kirk said, "here it comes"

Moody’s Investors Service put $572.7 billion in Alternative-A residential mortgage-backed securities issued from 2005 through 2007 on watch for possible downgrade after it revised its loss provisions.

The rating agency said Alt-A loans that are 60 or more days delinquent "have increased markedly" since it last revised its loss projections. Alt-A mortgages, which sit between prime and subprime, typically were granted without the borrower showing proof of income or assets.

That’s a cool half-a-trillion worth.

And guess what this means for loss rates?

Moody’s said it now projects, on average, cumulative losses of 14% of the original balance for 2005 securitizations, 29% for 2006 securitizations and 35% for 2007 securitizations. The updated loss projections will have the greatest impact on senior securities issued in 2005, the firm said. ALT-A: "Here It Comes" – The Market Ticker

Funny Cartoon

 

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How The Banking Crisis Got Traction…A Conflict of Interest

Absolutely brilliant satire of government. Was the favorite TV program of Margret Thatcher. I present to you one entire show, Conflict of Interest, courtesy of You Tube. Hat tip to Market Skeptics.

This particular show deals with a financial crisis. Apparently those chaps made a bit of a gamble with the Bank Of England’s 400 million pounds and its gone a bit bust…

It is important to remember that there is nothing new under the sun and that “civil servants” always act the same no matter where they live. Was reading about the bureaucracy of Saddam and it continued issuing stupid declarations even after the United States had destroyed the government.

 

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Obama…Adhering To Lenin’s Rules Of Engagement?

In a discussion regarding Soviet Defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, Christopher Story, editor of Soviet Analyst, an intelligence commentary, and editor of The Perestroika Deception by Anatoliy Golitsyn makes this very interesting point. The incredible patience of those trying to destroy our system.

… Another speech of Lenin’s … in July 1921 is again highly relevant to understanding "perestroika." "Our only strategy at present," wrote Lenin, "is to become stronger and, therefore, wiser, more reasonable, more opportunistic. The more opportunistic, the sooner will you again assemble the masses round you. When we have won over the masses by our reasonable approach, we shall then apply offensive tactics in the strictest sense of the word." |Emphasis in original.]

If you examine the backgrounds of prominent Russian figures, you will find that they have long Communist Party/ KGB or Komsomol pedigrees. Yet for some inexplicable reason, the Western media have accepted their sudden, orchestrated, mass "conversion" to Western-style norms of behavior, their endless talk of "democracy," and their acceptance of "capitalism," as genuine. "Scratch these new, instant Soviet "democrats," "anti-Communists," and "nationalists" who have sprouted out of nowhere, and underneath will be found secret Party members or KGB agents," Golitsyn writes on page 123 of his new book. In accepting at face value the "transformation" of these Leninist revolutionary Communists into "instant democrats," the West automatically accepts as genuine the false "Break with the Past" — the single lie upon which the entire deception is based.

In short, the "former" Soviet Union and the East European countries as well — are all run by people who are steeped in the dialectical modus operandi of Lenin. Without exception, they are all active Leninist revolutionaries, working collectively towards the establishment of a world Communist government, which, by definition, will be a world dictatorship.

It is difficult for the West to understand the Leninist Hegelian dialectical method — the creation of competing or successive opposites in order to achieve an intended outcome. Equally difficult for us to comprehend is the fact that these Leninist revolutionaries plan their strategies over decades and generations. This extraordinary behavior is naturally alien to Western politicians, who can see no further than the next election. Western politicians usually react to events. Leninist revolutionaries create events, in order to control reactions to them and manipulate their outcomes.

Is The Government Misrepresenting Unemployment By 32%?

Does a bear shit in the woods? I mean hell guys the thugs running our government take us for easy marks because some of us think that stealing from the productive is legitimate, others think that our government couldn’t possibly be corrupt and others think that it is only corrupt when this or that party is in power. No one apparently understands that what we have in Washington DC are a bunch of thugs who imagine that I OWE them everything I produce and that these thugs apparently work in both parties.

Well we are waking up and part of that process of waking up is finding out just how much the government is lying to us. For INSTANCE!

Hey what if the Government simply decided to lie to us about how they spent our money? What then? Here is a terrific find by Zero Hedge.

There is an old saying, "when in doubt follow the money." These days investors have lots of doubt about pretty much everything (if not so much money). And with data from the government increasingly bearing the Quality Control stamp of approval of the Beijing Communist Party, there is much doubt in store courtesy of an administration which will stop at nothing in its competition with China as to who can blow the biggest asset bubble the fastest, data integrity be damned. Undoubtedly, of all government released data, the most important is, and continues to be, anything relating to unemployment. This is precisely where the government’s propaganda armada is focused. Yet in matters of (un)employment, the ultimate authority is, luckily, the Treasury, and not the Fed. "Luckily," because when it comes to making money "difficult to follow" Tim Geithner’s office still has much to learn. Which is why when we looked at the Daily Treasury Statement data we were very surprised: because it indicates that the government could be under-representing employment data by up to 32%!

Is The Government Misrepresenting Unemployment By 32%? | zero hedge

I would bet dollars to donuts that this money has simply disappeared. Gone down into the rat-holes of the politically favored pockets. Into corrupt politicians pockets, gone down into corrupt organizations pockets, organizations like ACORN, went to pay off intelligence officials who surely know what is going on in our government but are being paid off.

But hey maybe I am wrong. Maybe all of this money is really going to unemployed folks and the government is simply not being honest about how many of our fellow citizen’s lives the government has ruined with their policies.

I certainly hope there is a better explanation than what I imagine I would hate to see the reaction of my fellow citizens if this were simple highway robbery. Tar and feathers would be too kind.

Executive Order 12425 What The Hell Is This? What Did Obama Just Do?

UPDATING THE UPDATES:

UPDATES: All of these folks are carrying the story.

MORE UPDATES: Apparently what is going on is the Thug In Chief and his bastard allies are attempting to remove our ability to question our accusers. After all how can one go about discovery when it is likely that both evidence and witnesses will be scooted behind a impenetrable wall? And who is likely to be the victims of these new International Law Enforcement Thugs in America? Well for sure our military but even worse all the Patriots here in the states. That is specifically against the 6th Amendment to the Constitution but hey what is a bit of paper to a bunch of thugs whose friends once had wet dreams about locking up large swaths of the public for having the wrong thoughts…don’t believe me? Check out this interview with Larry Grathwohl.

Boy is that a fun video or what? Yea Ayers did not get prosecuted, but it was because the left had gotten to the courts prior to these cases and weakened our laws so much that he was released on technicalities.

Obama and his allies are right this very moment attacking swiftly on all fronts…not with half measures designed to win your approval but with full on outright lawlessness that depends on your not believing it is happening. Based on the reaction of Republicans in Congress the left has their opponents pegged. I would like to say that the left has their enemies pegged but the mainstream Republicans are no one’s enemies. They want to be loved. Obama is at war and the Republicans want to be loved. Be scared.

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What the hell is going on?

Executive Order 12425

EO: AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.

Here’s the text of 2(c), which this EO now has applying to INTERPOL:

(c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.

An INTERPOL branch in the US now cannot be searched, it’s files are not subject to legal subpoena nor discovery.  If any branch of government wants to keep documents out of the hands of the court system, just hand them over to INTERPOL until the smoke clears.
INTERPOL will now be able to maintain files on US citizens.

By this EO, Obama has conferred diplomatic immunity upon INTERPOL, exemption from being subject to search and seizure by law enforcement, exemption from US taxes, and immunity from FOIA requests, etc.
Obama just declared INTERPOL records immune from search and seizure — "The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable."
Does INTERPOL have a file on Obama — on his associations? EO 12425

So Help Me, God, If This Health Care Bill Passes It Becomes Personal And I Promise A Fight!

These bastard socialists/communists and their “moderate” enablers need me…I do not need them. If they were to vanish from the earth I would hardly notice. But they would rue the passing of those like me since no one would be around to pay for their fantasy worlds.

Well this bill is a bridge too far for me. The outrage of our government taking over 1/6th of our economy without a single Republican vote is beyond excuse or explanation. To ruin the finest healthcare on the planet so they can claim some sort of pyrrhic victory to honor the bowing simpleton college radical, some call a President, is an outrage too far.

The contempt these bastard Democrats hold us deserves nothing but for us to raise our voices much louder than we have so far until we silence them.

I pledge my self to the defeat of Mary Landrieu and any other rotten two faced so-called moderate Democrats. We have had enough of your lies…you want war then war it is…and no Mary we won’t forget.

We can’t stop them from passing their radical, unpopular, rationed health care legislation but we can promise them this:

We promise to actively and openly campaign against every democrat who votes for this bill no matter if you are a red state democrat or a blue state democrat.

We promise to forever kill the myth that there is such a creature as a bluedog democrat.

We promise to donate to campaigns to defeat the democrats who vote for this radical expansion of the federal government.

We promise to make it known how you bought your votes with our taxpayer money to pass this bill.

We promise that we will never forget how your party leaders and your state-run media called Americans who opposed this lousy nationalized health care bill – mobsters, radicals, Nazis and teabaggers.

We promise to  never forget that you voted to force taxpayers to fund abortion by voting for this bill and that your bill requires a monthly abortion fee.

We promise to never forget that your plan allows for government coverage of illegal aliens.

We promise to attend your town hall meetings and confront you about your vote to takeover one-sixth of the nation’s economy. Not even your SEIU and ACORN thugs will keep us away.

We promise to let Americans and seniors know that democrats just cut $470 billion from their Medicare.

We promise to let Americans know that you voted to ration their health care.

We promise to NEVER FORGET that you voted against the wishes of the people you represent.

We promise…
(Feel free to add your own.)

UPDATE: These four democrats have not announced how they will vote.
I’m not holding my breath.

Obama’s Jokers are voting to nationalize health care tonight

Hmm…Now The Definition Of Whether A Child Is Aborted Or Murdered Is Tied To An Umbilical Cord! Yikes!

Wow this is terrific! Abortion, there are no words in the English dictionary that describe the twisting of morality one has to engage in to justify it. But this story illustrates just how ridiculous and tragic this whole thing is. What is next? Umbilical cords deliver sustenance so why can’t mothers who also deliver sustenance via breast feeding claim that they can stop because the baby is not yet able to live on his own?

In the state of Virginia as long as the umbilical cord is attached and the placenta is still in the mother, if the baby comes out alive the mother can do whatever she wants to with that baby to kill it.“, says Investigator Tracy Emerson. “She could shoot the baby, stab the baby. As long as it’s still attached to her in some form by umbilical cord or something it’s no crime in the state of Virginia.“ Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Mother kills newborn, can’t be charged with crime

“Amusing Ourselves to Death” A Cartoon by Stuart McMillen

Don’t see much here to argue with and that is a bit scary, from the Recombinant site. Click below to see the entire cartoon of which this is just a snippet.

  • You can download a four page, printable version of the cartoon here (7.5 MB).
  • You can read the foreword from this thought-provoking book here.
  • You can watch a 60 minute lecture by Neil Postman on technology and society here.
  • I also found this article about George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four writing process to be fascinating

 

 Amusing Ourselves to Death

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen – cartoon Recombinant Records

Ruh Oh Pravda.Ru More Truthful Than US Mainstream Media…

When the former mouth piece of Soviet Russia speaks the truth in ways that the US media cannot, then those of us in the US must need to perhaps ask a few questions. Why has the US Media completely dropped the ball in reporting these developments? When stated in the clear cold terms of Pravda how can one make any excuse for supporting the hate crime legislation that is currently sweeping the nation?

Throughout the totalitarian West, the Marxist internationalist elites, while busily flooding their countries with tens of millions of third worlders, have introduced specific measures to keep the native populations down and in check.

These measures have come in the form of Hate Crimes Laws. The laws state that a crime is not just a crime if we can find a deeper motive, such as hate of a specific race, sex, religion or sexual orientation. Thus the Lords of Humanity have given themselves the power of God to know what is inside the hearts of men.

In practical terms, what this means is 1. A murder is not just a murder if hate is involved. Say again? This means certain lives are worth more than others, a protected class, another insult to Christ and justice. 2. If the local jury trial is considered to lenient, then those globalist elites of the West can try the person again for "hate" or rather in actuality for the same crime, twice. Again, an insult to justice that Western serfs bow, grin and bare.

But this gets worse, since in practice, the elites decide who is a racist and who is not, they use these laws sparingly to keep the native population down, shackled and paranoid of the knock on the door. Western Race Hatred Laws: Keep the Caucasians Down – Pravda.Ru

Flt 227 United Airlines passengers removed from flight at Denver airport

So when do we start hearing about flying while Muslim? Getting more frequent these “dry runs”…wonder why?

"I have never seen flight attendants so scared in my life. Everything turned out OK, but it was not a very good feeling. It would have been nice to have been updated though this process," he told 9NEWS by phone.

Sloan says seven men were escorted off of the plane. Two of them were sitting in coach. The other five were sitting in first-class, he says. All were re-booked onto another flight according to United.

Sloan says the men were attempting to change seats with other passengers. Another passenger, who doesn’t want his name used, says the men were also trying to move luggage while the plane was getting ready to push back.

Passengers tell 9NEWS all of the men looked to be "Middle Eastern," but United will not confirm the identity of the seven men. 9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado’s Online News Leader | United Airlines passengers removed from flight at Denver airport

YouTube – Raw Video: 911 Records Homeowner Shooting, Killing Intruder

Why you should train your family to know how to shoot. And then listen to the end when the poor woman is finally forced to kill this fool graveyard dead…

Sarah Palin’s Entire Gridiron Speech…Where She Declares “I’m Going To Iowa”!

heh…She will crush Obama if he makes it to the 2012 election.

Good evening. It’s great to be in Washington and I am loving the weather.

I braved the elements and went out for a jog! Or, as Newsweek calls it, a cover-shoot.

It’s a privilege to be here tonight at the Washington DC Barnes & Noble. Tonight, I’ll be reading excerpts from my new book. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? “Going Rogue”

Yukon wasn’t sure if I’d go with that title and somebody suggested I follow the East Coast selfhelp trend and go with, “How To Look Like A Million Bucks…For Only 150 Grand.”

Todd liked, “The Audacity of North Slope.” Hey, I considered not having a title at all.

I’ve said it before, but you Beltway types just don’t seem to get it. You don’t need a title to make an impact. But anyway, let’s get started. I’ll begin my first reading on Page 209.

It was pitch black when we touched down in Arizona late on August 27, 2008. The next morning we drove to John McCain’s ranch in Sedona. John was waiting on the porch. Before he can say a word, I tell him, I’m quoting now:
I know why I’m here, and I’m ready. But, I’m worried. The cost of credit protection for the largest U.S. banks is rising precipitously. Have you given any thought to the run on the entities in the parallel banking system? Do you realize the vulnerability created when these institutions borrow short term in liquid markets to invest long term in illiquid assets?

John said, “You betcha!” I thought, “You betcha?” Who talks that way?

Well, sometimes you just have to trust your instincts. When you don’t, you end up in places like this.

Who would have guessed that I’d be palling around with this group? At least now I can put a face to all the newspapers I read.

It is good to be here and in front of this audience of leading journalists and intellectuals. Or, as I call it, a death panel.

To be honest, I had some serious reservations about coming to visit your cozy little club. The Gridiron still hasn’t offered membership to anyone from my hometown paper in Wasilla, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley Frontiersman.

And my dad thought it was just a plain bad idea to leave the book tour for some football game. He might have a point!

I’ve been touring this great, great land of ours over the last few weeks. I have to say, the view is much better from inside the bus, than under it!
But really, I am thrilled to be with you. And I’d like to thank the Gridiron for the invitation and Dick Cooper for his introduction.

To paraphrase John F. Kennedy, this has to be the most extraordinary collection of people who have gathered to viciously attack me since the last corporate gathering at CBS.

Despite what you have read, or more likely, despite what you have written, I do feel a real bond with all of you. I studied journalism, earned a communications degree and for a time only wanted to be a journalist. I was even a television sportscaster back home.

I’m guessing some of you probably got your start the exact same way… once there was television.Let me get back to the book. I know that many of you are still upset because I wouldn’t play that silly Washington game. You know, the one where all of you read a book in its entirety, from the first page of the index to the last.But think about it, because you actually had to read the whole book in the vein hope of finding your name, you now know all about Denali, mom, dad, ungulate eyeballs, slaying salmon on the Nushagak and Ugashik near Alegnigak, where we make AGOOTAK and moose chili! You’re welcome.

Still, I want to do something very special for this audience of Washington elite. So, I’ll read from the index–which I chose not to include in the hardback. Would you believe me if I said I didn’t include it because we wanted to save trees?

Under A we have…
Alaska, media not understanding. Pages 1-432.
Under B…
Biased media. Pages 1-432
And under C…
Conservative media. See acknowledgments.
I’ll stop there.

I know this can be a long night, and as I understand it, we’re going to break with a Gridiron tradition. Normally, the Democrat speaker would deliver a speech after me. But instead, John McCain’s campaign staff asked if they could use that time for a rebuttal. A lot has been made of a few campaign relationships. The closeness. The warm fuzzy feelings. John and I both agree all those staffers should just move past it. It’s history.

Let’s just say, if I ever need a bald campaign manager, it appears all I’m left with is James Carville.

I don’t want to say that I’ve burned a bridge, but I know all about cancelling a bridge to nowhere. That Democrat speaker I referred to is, of course, the one-and-only Barney Frank.And I’m the controversial one?

Barney, the nation owes you and the government a debt. A huge, historic, unbelievable debt. But, it’s good to be here with you, Mr. Chairman.
Because by Chairman, I don’t just mean the House Financial Services Committee. As far as I can tell, Barney’s also the Chair of AIG, CITI, and the Bank of America.

I don’t want to say that the U.S. Government is taking over the role of the private sector, but I have to admit, on the flight here, thumbing through a magazine and looking at a photo of President Obama with the President of China, the person next to me pointed at it and said, “Hu’s a communist.”

I thought they were asking a question.

Still, when I see this administration in action, I can’t help think of what might have been. I could be the Vice President overseeing the signing of bailout checks. And Joe Biden would be on the road, selling his new book, "Going Rogaine."
Speaking of books…. Did I mention mine? “Going Rogue”
Makes a great stocking stuffer. Available now at a bookstore near you.

Hey, I have to pay for my campaign vetting bill somehow. Really, the response has been great. So I’ll close by reading a final passage. Page 403:
I’ve been asked a lot lately, “Where are you going next?’ Good question!

Wherever I go I know that, as with anyone in the public eye, I’ll continue to have my share of disagreements with those in the media. Maybe even more than my share. It will come as no surprise that I don’t think I was always treated fairly, or equally. But despite that, I respect the media very much. It’s important. A free press allows for vigorous debate! And that debate is absolutely vital for our democracy. So as hard as it can sometimes be, we must all look past personal grievances. We must move beyond petty politics. And we must allow these incredibly talented and hard-working women and men to ask the hard questions and hold us, and our government, accountable.Because their mission is as true as the sun rising over the Talkeetna and Susitna Mountains.

OK – so none of that is actually in the book. Not a word. But I do believe it!
And I believe we live in a beautiful country blessed with so many different people who want the best for their children, families and for our great nation. I’m so proud to be an American.

And that is what I’ll be talking about when I travel to, really where I’m headed. No better place than here to announce where I’m going.

I’m going to Iowa!

I’ll be there tomorrow from noon to 3:00 pm at the Barnes & Noble on Sergeant Road in Sioux City. Come early. Long lines are expected.
Thank you everyone. God Bless the U.S.A!   Sarah Palin speech: The view’s better from inside the bus than under it (Updated with text) | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

Ahmadinejad Reportedly Claims U.S. is Blocking Return of Mankind’s Savior

So I am guessing that these sorts of statements means he is rational actor and we can count on him playing nicely with his new nuclear weapons.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims the United States is attempting to thwart the return of mankind’s savior, according to reports from Al Arabiya, a television news station based in Dubai.

Ahmadinejad reportedly claims he has documented evidence that the U.S. is blocking the return of Mahdi, the Imam believed by Muslims to be the savior.

“We have documented proof that they believe that a descendant of the prophet of Islam will raise in these parts and he will dry the roots of all injustice in the world,” Ahmadinejad said during a speech on Monday, according to Al Arabiya.

"They have devised all these plans to prevent the coming of the Hidden Imam because they know that the Iranian nation is the one that will prepare the grounds for his coming and will be the supporters of his rule," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. Ahmadinejad Reportedly Claims U.S. is Blocking Return of Mankind’s Savior – International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News – FOXNews.com

Testing… testing… Islamic Dry Runs? Say It Ain’t So…Isn’t Everything Forgiven Since We Have Obama?

More fun testing of the system or a real try? Anne Jacobson wrote about this same sort of thing years ago and it was all put down to a nervous woman.

This is the account of a ex-Navy diver whose very existence has depended on not becoming nervous. I wonder what the apologists for this sort of event will claim now? Sounds like it is a good time to keep your guard up as these cowardly shits seem to pick on women…if you see that happening remember stand up and help.

Testing… testing…

This has been a subject of discussion amongst a few of us for a couple of weeks. The person’s account below is known to three of our group, and he is NOT a whiner or complainer…

He’s an ex-Navy diver, working for a government organization; he has travelled extensively world-wide. This is his account of what happened on Flight 297 on the taxiway and at the gate in Atlanta…

One week ago, I went to Ohio on business and to see my father. On Tuesday, November the 17th, I returned home. If you read the papers the 18th you may have seen a blurb where a AirTran flight was cancelled from Atlanta to Houston due to a man who refused to get off of his cell phone before takeoff. It was on Fox.

This was NOT what happened.

I was in 1st class coming home. 11 Muslim men got on the plane in full attire. 2 sat in 1st class and the rest peppered themselves throughout the plane all the way to the back. As the plane taxied to the runway the stewardesses gave the safety spiel we are all so familiar with. At that time, one of the men got on his cell and called one of his companions in the back and proceeded to talk on the phone in Arabic very loudly and very aggressively. This took the 1st stewardess out of the picture for she repeatedly told the man that cell phones were not permitted at the time. He ignored her as if she was not there.

The 2nd man who answered the phone did the same and this took out the 2nd stewardess. In the back of the plane at this time, 2 younger Muslims, one in the back, isle, and one in front of him, window, began to show footage of a porno they had taped the night before, and were very loud about it. Now….they are only permitted to do this prior to Jihad. If a Muslim man goes into a strip club, he has to view the woman via mirror with his back to her. (don’t ask me….I don’t make the rules, but I’ve studied). The 3rd stewardess informed them that they were not to have electronic devices on at this time. To which one of the men said “shut up infidel dog!” She went to take the camcorder and he began to scream in her face in Arabic. At that exact moment…
Nobody Asked Me…: Testing… testing…

Great our economy is imploding, we have a Marxist who hates this country as President and now these Islamist assclowns are probing us. It might be a good time to review some advice on how to deal with these Islamic assclowns.

Apparently it is becoming something of a sport to disrupt Western Airlines with Islamic Stand up humor…or maybe something more sinister is going on? Who knows but I do know something, pay attention on flights. Be a sheepdog, not one of the sheep.

“Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference.” When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there. You want to be able to make a difference.

Don’t be prominent just be ready. Don’t be belligerent or obnoxious but don’t sit there on your ass if you see one of these assclowns stand up. Be polite, friendly and absolutely unafraid of smiling in their faces and asking if you can help them. Don’t let fear rule your day. Overcome it, stand up and be Mister helpful. If it is sinister you are going to die anyways so go down fighting, if it is not sinister your Mister Friendly smile is spreading good cheer to our fellow Middle Eastern citizens. Whatever you do, don’t let some poor 5′ 5″ Flight Attendant fight your fight.

Yea sorry about the title I am still upset that my 74 soon to be 75 year old Mother can absolutely count on getting the full monty search every goddamned time she flies. As if some 74 year old Grandmother is going to remove a mirror and tunnel into the cockpit to do what…overwhelm the pilots? I am pretty damn skeptical of that nonsense.

The Devil’s Kitchen: CRUdGate – Why this can’t be swept under the carpet

This is a brilliant take down of the AGW crowd. Click on through!

(NB, It’s me, the P-G)
As others have commented, ad nauseam, the response from the proponents of AGW essentially boils down to the following main components:

  • The mail (often there is only one, not several thousand threads of multiple mails and it’s usually only mail, rather mail, code, data and commentary) was hacked and that’s frightfully naughty. Aren’t hackers nasty? Particularly when they are Russian.

This does not merit any response beyond laughter.

  • The science is peer reviewed and it withstood that process.

Still an appeal to authority and, more importantly, dealt with damningly here.

  • This is but one part of the literature, it’s only a handful of bad apples and the structure is utterly unchanged even without it.

This is the main charge that our great friend George Monbiot lays out here and that must be tackled. That is what, with your permission, I shall make a hesitant attempt to start the process to do.
Firstly, we must understand how the whole thing hangs together, because the edifice of AGW is very definitely not just pure science, boffins in white coats in labs and so forth. It spans the whole gamut from real pure science, through the applied sciences and Engineering, passing through economics and finally ending up in the dark arts of Politics and Diplomacy. That’s a lot to take in, so I have created a handy diagram that explains. Never let it be said that your polymathematic Pedant-General makes you do the hard work.
Let’s start at the top, and bear with me.

  • If the climate and recent changes are not unprecedented, then there’s nothing to do. Let’s go to the pub.
  • If it is unprecedented, then we need to know why. If we don’t know if it is unprecedented or if we don’t know why, we need to stop here until we can find out.
  • If it is unprecedented but it’s not us, then we need to question seriously if there is anything that we can do about it and the answer to that is very very likely to be "no".
  • If it is us, we then to move into economics. Will the damage outweigh the benefit?
  • And even if the damage does outweigh the benefit, we still need to consider if the cost of stopping the climate change at source is less than the cost of adapting to the problem to minimise the damage.
  • And even if the mitigation does cost less than adaptation, we need to ask if our only option for mitigation is to subborn all our freedom to a putative benevolent world government.

The Devil’s Kitchen: CRUdGate – Why this can’t be swept under the carpet

Sarah Para Bellum Cleaning Up Messes Corrupt O Crats Leave Behind!

Great Cartoon!

Sarah Para Bellum  

Move over, Rosie the Riveter. Here comes Sarah, and it’s not just rivets she’s packing. –All Right Magazine

No matter how you feel about Alaska’s former governor, everyone has an opinion. Today, America is arguably in peril from forces potentially as destructive as Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. During WWII Rosie the Riveter kept ‘em flying, and today when most of our "conservative" leaders are majoring in hand-wringing, the girls are stepping up. –Dale

Out of Order the Blog: Sarah Para Bellum

Mindless Twit Mayor Starves Homeless To Save Them From Trans-Fat…Thanks a lot!

What happens when idiots get into office.

MAYOR BLOOMBERG ENSURES THAT HOMELESS PEOPLE DON’T GET FAT:

When a small church comes to the Bowery Mission bearing fried chicken with trans fat, unwittingly breaking the law, they’re told “thank you.” Then workers quietly chuck the food, mission director Tom Bastile said.

“It’s always hard for us to do,” Basile said. “We know we have to do it.” . . .

Lines at soup kitchens are up by 21 percent this year, according to a NYC Coalition Against Hunger report released yesterday. The city’s law banishing trans fat took effect in July 2008 and touched everyone with Health Department food licenses — including emergency food providers.Instapundit » Blog Archive » MAYOR BLOOMBERG ENSURES THAT HOMELESS PEOPLE DON’T GET FAT: When a small church comes to the Bowe…

Happy Thanksgiving To Everyone…Especially To The Brave Who Gave Us This Country!

Patriots Crossing To Attack "We Will Kill You In Your Sleep At Christmas"

Sometimes folks tend to underestimate how rough the common man can be in the United States!

Agent of Chaos…

 

Introduce a little anarchy, you upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I AM AN AGENT OF CHAOS. And you know the thing about chaos, Harvey. It’s fair.”

Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar

Because He Hates America Part 1,234,499, Obama Cannot Be Bothered To Raise Hand To His Heart At Veterans Day Services At Tomb of Unknown Soldier! Draws a bye from corrupt press…

Same sort of shit different day. Gosh darn, people who voted for him, can we pray that next time you might tear yourselves away from Jerry Springer for a couple of minutes to do at least the slightest bit of vetting? All of this sort of behavior was PREDICTED…it was OBVIOUS…and yet you folks were blind to it. Here are some old posts proving the point.

Michael Barone Sounds The Alarm About the Coming Thugocracy of Obama…"First They Came for the Communists" MSM and Some Conservative Elite Tone Deaf to Their Mortal Danger.

“Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” What if the Left put up a Candidate so far left that no one would believe how dangerous he was…

Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered…WBEZ.FM Interview where he discusses the best way to redistribute your work.

Here is Obama AGAIN dishonoring our troops…the same troops that have freed untold millions of people around the world.

  • 2009-11-12Today’s Picture: The picture on our front page today.
    Taken at Veterans Day ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Lucianne.com News Forum – HomePage
  • Let’s not forget what his dear wife was wearing at the same event because we shouldn’t question their patriotism.

    Then we can remember Obama in this position…

    He would have kissed his ass but the King couldn’t understand Obama’s request that he turn around.

    Ruh Oh…Obama Is So Bad That Liberal Sites Are Loving Dubya! Pigs Flying??? Or Are Obama’s Simply Stinking Up The Place With Their Narcissist Bullshit?

    Take a gander at the picture of the sainted Michelle Obama and ask yourself just exactly HOW FUCKING SELF CENTERED do you have to be to wear that outfit to the wreath laying service at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? How come spontaneous combustion never happens when you want it to?

    Which brings us to this bit over at Hill Buzz…amazing really. If this doesn’t worry Democrats then they are not paying attention. If Obama goes down the entire party and many of their most cherished beliefs will go down as well. Neato! Americans are waking up to the idiocy of leftist policies and more importantly their beliefs and actions.  This is an example of HillBuzz moving right…

    Oh, how we RAILED against Bush in 2000…and how we RAILED against the surge in support Bush received post-9/11 when he went to Ground Zero and stood there with his bullhorn in the ruins on that hideous day.

    2009-01-15-bush-on-911-rubble

    We were convinced that ANYONE who was president would have done what Bush did, and would have set that right tone of leadership in the wake of that disaster.  President Gore, President Perot, President Nader, you name it.  ANYONE, we assumed, would have filled that role perfectly.

    Well, we told you before how much the current president, Dr. Utopia, made us realize just how wrong we were about Bush.  We shudder to think what Dr. Utopia would have done post-9/11.  He would have not gone there with a bullhorn and struck that right tone.  More likely than not, he would have been his usual fey, apologetic self and waxed professorially about how evil America is and how justified Muslims are for attacking us, with a sidebar on how good the attacks were because they would humble us.

    Honestly, we don’t think President Gore would have been much better that day.  The world needed George W. Bush, his bullhorn, and his indominable spirit that day…and we will forever be grateful to this man for that.

    As we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention, when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.

    FOR HOURS.

    The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them.Thank you former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush « HillBuzz

    Here is a picture of President Bush hugging someone else. You have probably forgotten this picture…but not me. This is what a man does. Obama never will.

    During his visit to the Golden Lamb Inn in Lebanon, President Bush stops to hug Ashley Faulkner, who lost her mom in the Sept. 11 attacks.

    “Obama’s Atomic Bomb: The Ideological Clarity of the Democratic Agenda”

    With sales of Ayn Rand’s books skyrocketing it is obvious that the premise of this article is spot on. Obama has done those of us who value freedom a service. Whether we can take advantage of it or not is left in the hands of the party that has done such a terrible job of defending it in the past. Heaven help us because the Republicans will do all they can to subvert the tea-party. Neither party loves the idea of individual freedom. But the Republicans used to at least give lip service to the idea…perhaps out of self preservation they can finally rise up and back their words up with actions?

    The Democrats—shocked in their own way by the public response to their transparency—spent the late summer trying to obfuscate these issues. They have portrayed the protesters as “un-American,” the Republicans as obstructionist, and themselves as reasonable. Such attempts are further isolating the Democrats from millions of Americans, many of whom are beginning to see that the Democrats rather than the protesters are opposed to America’s founding principles. Unlike the atomic bombs dropped on Japan—which turned Japan away from dictatorship and toward freedom and individual rights—Obama’s bomb is intended to move America more quickly into authoritarian rule, and ultimately into dictatorship. Rather than acquiesce to the ultimatum, however, many Americans are standing against it.

    The protests and the polls are clear: Americans have, by and large, rejected the radical leftist agenda. But the issue is not yet closed. The Democrats have one last resource—one secret weapon—with which they can save their plans while avoiding political suicide in the next election. That weapon is the Republicans.

    If the Republicans compromise—if they accept federally-mandated health insurance in the guise of a “co-op” or the like, or a cap-and-trade bill that is marginally less draconian than the Democratic version—they will have once again capitulated to their opponents, abandoned liberty, and ruined the opportunity to redirect this nation toward its founding moral principle: individual rights, protected under a constitution in a free republic.“Obama’s Atomic Bomb: The Ideological Clarity of the Democratic Agenda” by John David Lewis

    NBC Chicago Is Obviously Racist! How Dare They Accuse THE ONE Of Insensitivity!

    And what is even funnier/sadder/more pitiful/stupider/ is that the Dumb Ass In Chief gets the shout out to Dr. Medicine Crow wrong! Dr. Medicine Crow did NOT win the Congressional Medal of Honor. He has been nominated by Max Baucus, yea the Max Baucus who is sponsoring the Health Care Take Over, well Max nominated Dr. Medicine Crow to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal the highest award given to civilians who perform an outstanding deed or act of service to the security, prosperity, and national interest of the United States.

    Which is NOT the Congressional Medal of Honor. But why would the Buffoon in Chief know about the highest award given to the military. He hates the military…that much is obvious in his callous treatment of the tragedy at Ft. Hood.

    Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting

    A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama.

    By ROBERT A. GEORGE

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    President Obama didn’t wait long after Tuesday’s devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.

    After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.

    But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow — that Congressional Medal of Honor winner."  Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him? Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting | NBC Chicago

    Buffoon In Chief!

    Biden Tries His Hand At One On One Coverage…Sarahcuda Buries His Old Fat Ass

    Sarahcuda had this to say about Joe Biden.

    There’s one way to tell Vice President Biden that we’re tired of folks in Washington distorting our message and hampering our nation’s progress: Hoffman, Baby, Hoffman! Sarah Palin Notes | Facebook

    Great Comments At Althouse Discussing That Little Punk Sullivan!

    This is the best description of what we mean when we say “white culture” that I have read. It is an idea not a color…the reason it might be attached to a color is that white folks came up with the idea, thank you very much. But we never said others couldn’t adopt the same idea…matter of fact we encourage them to, then they become our fellow citizens, but not until then. But lately we have discovered that many of the folks in this country and those coming into this country do not accept this idea. They accept the idea that we “OWE” them their existence. Apparently they believe that we are their slaves. They are about to discover just how unused to shackles we are…bitter clingers indeed!

    John Clifford said…

    TraditionalGuy said it right…

    I am about as ethnic American as it gets. My ancestry is Scots-Irish, English, and French. My parents’ families (on both sides) have been in America before the Revolutionary War… well before. My distant relatives fought under Washington, and on both sides of the Civil War.

    This country was founded on an idea: as long as you bought in to the principle of America you could be an American. That principle is simple: enlightened self-interest. We protect each others’ rights in order to protect our own. If you’re willing to defend and respect others’ rights to life, liberty, and property, then you can be one of us. The neat thing about our fundamental rights is that they are negative; they do not impose a cost on others. (This explains “white culture” exactly!)

    What Buchanon, the Tea Partiers, and others (including me) are upset about is that there is growing number of individuals who DON’T believe in these rights, who want to substitute other "rights" for them, who believe that if they need something then they are ENTITLED to it regardless of the obligation this puts on others. Things like health care, welfare, and other peoples’ money. Just because they can get a majority of our elected officials to ignore the Constitution and vote for these programs as a way to buy votes.

    I’ve worked my butt off ever since I was a teenager. I’ve been lucky (but luck is preparedness meeting opportunity), too. I have a well-paying job and savings. Yet, I’m getting fed up with working almost half the year just to pay my taxes. When a person has to work for 40% or more of his time just to pay the government then is he really free? We all know what happens if you don’t pay the Man… he comes and asks politely, and if you say no he doesn’t ask, he takes by force. Ask Randy Weaver what happens when the government thinks you didn’t pay a $200 tax.

    Back when the country was founded, the only taxes were sales taxes. You didn’t pay taxes on property or income. When you pay taxes on property, you don’t own property, you rent it… and if you don’t pay the rent the landlord kicks you off. Today, we have a tax system where the majority doesn’t pay taxes, and robs the minority that does. If that isn’t tyranny then what is? (emphasis mine)

    This country has been broken for a long time, but things are coming to a head. Obama doesn’t help things when he bashes the rich between bites of arigula and wagyu beef, throws parties at the White House for his political cronies on the taxpayer’s dime, or takes Michelle on Air Force One to New York for a date costing us taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Instead of being a healing figure, he’s become the Great Divider… and he’s too arrogant to acknowledge this and modify his behavior. Obama is a one-term president, and the only remaining question about his term is how much worse he’ll be regarded than Jimmy Carter.

    Whether it’s because people go all John Galt, or our bankers the Chinese cancel our credit cards, Atlas is going to shrug and the whole world is going to come crashing down. Our economic and business policies have created a playing field where America can no longer compete, and until this changes our economy is going to be in the toilet. You’d think we’d learn from history, but as the saying goes, "Experience is a hard school but fools will learn at no other."

    It isn’t going to be pretty, and the chances of getting a free country at the end of it are slim… but the feisty types that make up the ethnic heritage that founded this country, the "bitter clingers" who were busy stockpiling guns and ammo after the election last year, are not going to end up on the bottom. Not if they can help it. Althouse: "[W]hite Americans do not realize how black they are."

    One of the most wonderful aspects of the internet is being exposed to all these different voices…it is immense!

    Now pardon me while I peruse the latest ammo deals and schedule my next Appleseed Visit! Till then I will be clinging to my bible and reading the Box of Truth!

    22 Reasons Why This Recession Is Different And Why It Will Endure by the Author of “How to Survive the End of the World As We Know It" and "Patriots: A Novel of Survival in The Coming Collapse" James Wesley, Rawles

    Read both the books and respect his opinion. The reasons he outlines are clearly described and sourced…if you aren’t buying food, ammo and finding a bug out retreat after you read this then you are not paying attention.

    Twenty-Two Reasons Why this Recession is Different and Why it Will Endure

    I find it surprising that I’m now getting inquiries from readers, asking if "we’ve reached bottom" in the current economic recession, and asking if the time has come to start buying stocks or residential real estate. It seems that the talking heads of mainstream media are using some sort of voodoo. How can anyone think that we’ve hit bottom, and an economic recovery is in progress? To dispel the myths from the CNBC Cheering Section, please consider the following. (And note that I’ve provided references for each assertion, just so you know that I’m not talking out of my camouflage hat.):

    1. A broken global credit market that has not fully recovered. See: After Lehman, U.S. firms adjust to new face of credit
    2. Lack of transparency in Mortgage-Backed Securities and other re-packaged debt instruments. See: Geithner Blames Lack of Transparency for OTC Derivatives Hit on Market.
    3. The increasing Federal debt, which is growing at an unprecedented rate. See: The National Debt Clock.
    4. Mountains of consumer and corporate debt. See: Observations on the US Debt.
    5. Ever-expanding bailouts. (I call this The MOAB.) See: As More Companies Seek Aid, ‘Where Do You Stop?’
    6. Monetization of the National Debt. See: Fed Could Expand MBS Purchases. (Can you spell Oroborus?):
    7. The destruction of the American consumer economy. (It had been artificially credit-driven). See: A Year After The Crisis, The Consumer Economy Is Dead.
    8. Chronic unemployment, possibly much higher than officially reported. See: Alternate Data at ShadowStats.
    9. More than $500 Billion USD in hedge funds that have borrowed short and lent long. See: Assets invested in hedge funds increase by $100bn 

    Click on through to read the rest of the list and check out a fantastic site.

    SurvivalBlog.com

    A Marxist Kenyan Community Organizer Giving Orders…WTF?

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    The Dishonesty Of The Gay Rights Movement!

    This post was written by a friend who captures my sentiments exactly.

    Posted by guest blogger Reluctant Scribe.

    Disclaimer:  what I write here has not been "calibrated" for political correctness, but rather to speak truth as I know it.

    Recently, I have read a number of discussions of the Kevin Jennings scandal.  What I found interesting was that they all focused on the more narrow pedophilia angle, and largely brushed off the larger issue of the man’s active promotion of the so-called "gay" movement and the furthering of its agendas in our public schools, and the broader harm deriving there from.  It is sad commentary on our society that we have lost our collective spine in the face of a blatant attack on the fabric of our nation, by way of the "gay rights" gambit.

    Let me explain.

    The "gay rights" and "gay movement" agenda is dishonest.

    The fundamental purpose of pushing "gay rights" on society at large is to promote the disruption and destruction of the American family unit.

    Any permanent political takeover of this country requires that the stability of the family be undermined wherever possible, driving whatever wedges are available to push wives and husbands apart, splintering children away from parents, and making the concept of traditional "family" as irrelevant as possible.  As long as conventional/traditional morality and values can be transmitted from one generation to the next via the family unit, the social breakdown required to make tyranny plausible will take too long to satisfy the patience of any aspiring tyrant.

    The stability of any culture has always been reposed in the family.  The hijacking of a culture requires the hijacking of the youth.  Hijacking of the youth requires either accelerated cultural decay through dismantling the family or the direct application of force and intimidation to interpose indoctrination in place of the traditional transfer of cultural knowledge.

    The "gay rights" approach is only one avenue pursued toward this end.  The "free love" movement had this same vector.  Sex education in schools is the governmental effort to achieve the same thing.

    My insights into the gay movement and its strategies date back to the late eighties and early nineties, when I worked as one of a number of independent contractors for the NEA & NSEA (Nat’l Education Assn & Nevada State Education Assn) in Las Vegas.  After months of being a commonplace "fixture" on their premises, I became, in effect, invisible.  Conversations were held near me — in the adjoining office, in the hallway, even in the office where I was working — as though I were just another piece of furniture.  I overheard discussions of how to present the gay agenda to parents, educators, legislators, and children.  "In this setting, we promote the idea that being gay is a natural condition — you know, it’s not something that can be helped — and over here, we will promote the idea that joining our movement is a liberating thing, and here’s what we need to do to recruit more straights over to our side . . ."

    Yes, intentional misrepresentation.  I was treated to this data stream, in snippets and vignettes, over the course of some years.  I watched and listened as people were hired in preference to others because they were known to be gay, watched as strategy was formulated to protect a teacher accused of misbehavior "because he’s one of us," and so on.  With the passage of nearly two decades, some of those anecdotes blur together.  Others remain clear in form, if not in intricate detail.  Like the week when preparations for a Gay Pride event (in Washington D.C.) were being made, openly in the office, and with the approval of supervisors, and with the evident indulgence and funding of the organization’s executives (based only on what I overheard), resulting in a significant bloc of the office staff being "at large" (read:  back East) for about a week.  Remember, this is a group whose purported purpose was to represent the interests of its members, those members being educators.  To what degree, I wonder,  has this infiltration, by a group whose common theme is a sexual fetish, influenced the actions of these educators whose dues they collected and spent to advance the group’s causes as well as those of the educators themselves.  Like many, I suspect, I’m almost afraid to know.

    You probably won’t be surprised in the least to learn that neither entity, NEA or NSEA, as best I could tell, gave a rat’s ass about what school children actually learned or how well the kids were actually doing in school.  It was entirely about 1) politics, and 2) protecting their members.  And, of course, the proper indoctrination of students into tolerance of, and sensitivity to, gay issues.

    Until I worked with these people, I was pretty much "live and let live" about the whole gay scene.  Not so afterwards.  The organized promotion of "gay rights" and "gay community" as a "legitimate" cultural construct is a deliberate exercise in a disingenuous moral and cultural relativism ploy.  While protesting that "we just want to be left alone to live our lives the way we want," the people whose tool this is work relentlessly to impose and enforce this horribly misnamed "lifestyle" on the youth as broadly as possible.

    They demand tolerance, but they do not reciprocate.  They demand the freedom to slander those outside their "culture" while actively working to muzzle any criticism of their validity, methods, and practices.  Any disagreement is "hate" speech.

    This is stuff I can’t say in public.  This is stuff I can’t even say around many of my friends.  This is stuff which, nonetheless, needs to be voiced.

    Frankly, if it weren’t for the incessant effort to encroach on my family, my culture, my freedoms and liberties, I wouldn’t care tuppence whether two guys want to make out or whether two gals want to set up house together.  You want to pervert the normal order of things for yourselves?  Go ahead.  Knock yourselves out.  Just don’t tell me I have to accept it as normal and embrace it as a valid social order.  It isn’t either of those.  And don’t make it a mandatory part of my kids’ education.

    Don’t be taking your perverse jackhammer to the moral bedrock that is my family, or to the cultural bedrock that is this nation’s family.

    Lose the family, lose the nation.

    Save the family, save the nation.

    And, even though it be heresy, there you have it. Brutally Honest: An Assault On American Culture: Disrupting The Family

    Yes indeed! The list of communists, pedophile enablers, thieves, tax evaders, racists who are part of the Obama administration just gets longer and longer. Change You Can Believe In! Obama is not trying to fix anything…he is trying to break it all! He wants to destroy this country…wake UP America!

    Steve Wynn: "If This Is Good Government Then I Am Mary Poppins"

    Another vote of confidence for our band of idiots in Washington DC. Course I need to correct myself since it is not idiocy that is driving the policies of DC but maliciousness. The crew in Washington DC mean to do us harm.

    This administration without any experience is doing more damage than is easy to assess at the moment, but I can tell you I am sure that we are moving in the wrong direction and i say that as half a democrat and half a republican. What we are seeing now just doesn’t make sense. The priorities have all been inverted."

    The kind of money that is being spent, and the amount of taxes that are directly and indirectly being proposed, are huge. We are seeing socialism-lite here- it would be ok if it worked, it never works. We are now in a position of complete unpredictability with the Obama administration and Congress: i don’t know what will happen. I have a sense that if once the public gets the drift and understands what’s afoot here, and these bills pass, then there’s going to be a very painful midterm election for the democrats.

    "It’s a pleasure to do business in China: the government is much more even-handed, much more considered, much more gentle than it is here. I feel much more secure as a businessman in China than I do at the moment in the United States of America."

    Fox Business Network: Steve Wynn: "If This Is Good Government Then I Am Mary Poppins" | zero hedge

    A paragon of American Business declares that he prefers dealing with Communist China…what else needs to be said as an indictment of our political class? Our freedoms are flying out of the door and no one seems to give a shit.