THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

YES: ANOTHER MAUNDER MINIMUM!

THAT MEANS THE ENTIRE EARTH MAY VERY WELL BE HEADED FOR AN EXTENDED EPOCH OF VERY VERY COLD WEATHER - LIKE FOR 50-60 YEARS!

DETAILED FACTS, FIGURES, GRAPHS, CHARTS, HISTORY, CYCLES EXPLAINED HERE.

CONSENSUS CONCLUSION:

AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CO2 OR INDUSTRY OR OIL...

AL GORE: PSTFU.

AGW = BS.

CO2 = BENIGN.

CARBON SCHEMES = STEALTH SOCIALISM.

BY PASSING A SOCIALISTSIC AND ANTI-FREEMARKET BILL WHICH HAS NO HOPE OF EVER BECOMING LAW, THE RADICAL LEFTISTS RUNNING THE HOUSE HAVE ONLY SATISFIED THEIR BASE:

BRILLIANT ANALYSIS HERE:

The House bill has passed — barely and belatedly — and it is now dead. Nothing like it will ever pass the Senate. The question now is whether anything will, now that the voters have spoken in New Jersey and Virginia — and now that the exceedingly narrow margin in the House will likely invite even greater scrutiny of that which is being proposed.

Greater scrutiny will not help the Democrats' efforts. In truth, their hopes for passage largely hinge on successfully hiding two plain facts from the voters: One, the House Republicans and the Congressional Budget Office have now shown that a bill costing $61 billion can lower Americans' insurance premiums, while bills costing $1.7 trillion cannot (and instead would raise them substantially). Two, the Democrats' plans would be paid for only if they follow through on plans to siphon hundreds of billions of dollars out of already-barely-solvent Medicare, and to do so just in time for the baby boomers' retirement.

Given the magnitude of the challenge of continuing to hide these plain facts from an increasingly attentive citizenry, the Democratic health-care train has a very bumpy ride ahead — as it rolls into the chamber that the American Founders thought from the beginning would ultimately decide our fate: the Senate.

RTWT.

REAL REFORM IS SIMPLE AND CHEAP AND BIPARTISAN.

IT'S CALLE3D THE GOP PLAN.

AND IT WILL HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER YEAR...

WHEN WE RETAKE THE CONGRESS.

TERRADAILY/AFP:

Saudi health authorities said earlier this month that the kingdom has received the first tranche of 11 million vaccine doses it has ordered.

... Saudi Arabia began vaccinating its population against swine flu on Saturday, with priority going to government employees working on the annual hajj pilgrimage that takes place later this month.

Health ministry officials were the first to receive the inoculation against A(H1N1), the official SPA news agency said.

It said the vaccine has also been distributed to all government bodies involved in the hajj, which sees some three million pilgrims descending on the Muslim holy city of Mecca, including around a million from within Saudi Arabia.

AND ER UM... THEY'RE GETTING ALL THESE MILLIONS OF DOSES FROM THE LARGE SAUDI AND ARAB PHARMA INDUSTRY, RIGHT!?!?

WTF!?!?

HOW COME THEY GET IT WHEN WE CAN'T!?

DOES THIS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT:



PS: DON'T YOU JUST HATE THAT "HOLY CITY OF..." SHIT! AFP SHOULD JUST CALL THE DAMN PLACE "MECCA", PERIOD.

DHIMMI SCUM.

GLENN LINKED TO THIS THIS EVENING: THE ROAD FROM SERFDOM:

• 20 YEARS AGO THE BERLIN CAME DOWN - THE USSR COLLAPSED AND 500 MILLION PEOPLE BEGAN THE JOURNEY UP OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF TOTALITARIANISM AND TYRANNY AND BACK UP THE ROAD TO SERFDOM TOWARD THE ROAD TO LIBERTY!

• MOST AMERICANS DON'T WANT TO BE DRAGGED BACK 20 YEARS TOWARD A MORE SOCIALISTIC STATE AND DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM BY THE OBAMANISTAS AND THE RADICAL LEFT.

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME.

SPREAD THE WORD. BLOGROLL US. BOOKMARK US.

IT'S SILLY FOR THE GOP TO BE RED.

IF ANYTHING, THE DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE RED SINCE THEIR THE PARTY OF COLLECTIVISM.

I THINK WE SHOULD USE DIFFERENT COLORS TO DESCRIBE A STATE'S POLITICAL LEANINGS.

INSTEAD OF RED - FOR GOP, AND BLUE FOR DEMOCRATS WE SHOULD USE COLORS WHICH RELATE MORE TO WHAT THE TWO PARTIES STAND FOR.

THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME THE SOCIALIST PARTY; THEREFORE THEIR COLOR SHOULD BE PINK. THEY'RE PINKOS.

AND THE GOP STANDS FOR INDIVIDUALISM AND ALL THAT GOES WITH THAT: LIBERTY; INGENUITY, ACCOUNTABILITY - AND THE PROSPERITY WHICH IS THE BY-PRODUCT OF LIBERTY; THEREFORE THE GOP'S COLOR SHOULD BE GREEN - FOR MONEY, THE MONEY WE EARN FOR OURSELVES AND OUR FAMILIES.

THE TRADITIONALLY GREEN STATES HAVE LOWER TAXES, LOWER CRIME, LOWER ABORTION RATES, LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT AND A HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING.

SO.... THIS IS WHAT AN ACCURATELY COLORIZED MAP OF THE 2008 ELECTION WOULD LOOK LIKE:



LET'S MAKE AMERICA GREEN AGAIN!

LET'S START BY MAKING FLORIDA AND VIRGINA AND NEW JERSEY AND CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK AND MICHIGAN AND PENNSYLVANIA ALL GREEN IN 2010!

For eco-nuttery, of course.

Did I mention the new biofuel tax? That's in there, too.

In a health care bill.

I thought this was about "insurance reform."

Via BreitbartTV.


Scum.

Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center writes about Obama's failed mideast policies, including the following points:

On foreign policy, more and more things are becoming harder to deny:

--The Obama Administration has failed to charm any Arab states or Iran into changing their policy, even to a tiny extent.

--Iran doesn’t want to make a deal over its rush to get nuclear weapons.

--Engagement with Syria is going nowhere while Damascus continues to help murder American soldiers in Iraq without any Administration criticism or protest.

--Despite its over-ambitious goals and arrogant boasts, the administration has failed completely to advance any Israel-Palestinian peace process.

--Israel is proving flexible while the Palestinian Authority refuses even to talk no matter how much the Administration panders to and coddles it.

--The administration has no strategy in Afghanistan and can't make up its mind.

As the Obama Administration’s first year in office comes toward an end, it has failed, failed, failed, in the Middle East.

And it looks like its failing in American soon too.

In this article, it's told how more efforts are being made to build the memorial site in Pennsylvania for the people who died on Flight 93:

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - With the words "Let's roll" - the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 39 victims' relatives and dignitaries turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for a permanent national memorial.

"We made it. Not to our goal, not to the finish line. Certainly not any semblance of closure, but nevertheless, we made it to the next milestone of our journey," said Gordon Felt, whose brother, Edward Felt, was one of the 40 passengers and crew who died when the plane crashed into a field near rural Shanksville, about 65 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.

The government intends to have the first phase completed by Sept. 11, 2011 - the terrorist attacks' 10th anniversary.

Felt called it a "Herculean effort" to reach the groundbreaking - acquiring land from some private owners had been contentious and some critics said the design itself honored the terrorists.

Gov. Ed Rendell said the memorial will tell of "ordinary citizens bound by a sense of urgency and action that changed the history of the world."

Flight 93 was traveling from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when it was hijacked with the likely goal of crashing it into the White House or Capitol, the 9/11 Commission found.

With Beamer's words, passengers rushed down the airliner's narrow aisle to try to overwhelm the hijackers after learning of the coordinated attacks. The commission concluded that the hijackers downed the plane as the hostages revolted. It was the only one of four hijacked planes that day that did not take a life on the ground.

Salazar said the victims did something profoundly democratic which the terrorists could never understand: They took a vote on whether to fight for control of the plane.

"These heroes did not cow down to fear," he said.

Felt said his brother and the other 39 victims "knew they were fighting evil personified that day."

Sarah Wainio, 22, of Catonsville, Md., was one of those 40 who turned a shovel. She was 14 when her sister, Honor Elizabeth Wainio, died aboard the plane.

She called the event "huge" not just for the victims' relatives, but for the entire country and even the world so they can know the heroic story.

"To turn earth makes this real," said Patrick White, vice president of the families group. His cousin, Louis "Joey" Nacke II, died on the plane. "It's what we spent all this time to get to."

Paul Murdoch Architects of Los Angeles was chosen four years ago after a one-year competition. Five finalists were selected from 1,011 designs. Arrow Kinsley Joint Venture, of York, Pa., will construct the first phase.

The initial phase represents the vast majority of the park and will cost $58 million, of which $30 million will be paid through private contributions.

The park will be 2,200 acres, or nearly 3 1/2 square miles. A chapel featuring 40 chimes symbolizing each of the victims will stand at the entrance.

While visitors will be able to approach the edge of the crash site, only families of the victims will be able to enter the area, which will be planted with wildflowers. Nearby, victims' names will be carved on a white stone wall.

The design had drawn criticism, with some claiming the original crescent shape of the sacred ground honored the Muslim extremists who carried out the attacks. The design has since been changed to a more circular, bowl-shaped piece of land.

I sincerely hope that the design isn't being disguised, as it was earlier, and that the families of the victims have checked carefully to ensure that no moonbat deception is being pulled here.

IT'S SIMPLE; IT'S RIGHT IN THE LEGISLATION: RULES THAT WILL MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR PRIVATE INSURERS TO RUN A PRIVATE INSURERS TO RUN A HEALTH INSURANCE DIVISION.

• ONE REASON THE LOONY LEFT ARGUES THAT MEDICARE/MEDICAID IS MORE EFFICIENT IS BECAUSE THEY SAY IT HAS A LOWER OVERHEAD.

• BUT THEY DISREGARD THE FACT THAT THE LOW OVERHEAD MEANS THAT THERE IS $60BILLION OF FRAUD EACH YEAR.

• PRIVATE FIRMS ACTUALLY DO SOME DUE DILIGENCE TO MAKE SURE THE PROCEDURES WERE NECESSARY AND ACTUALLY PERFORMED. AND THAT DRUGS WERE NECESSARY AND ACTUALLY USED.

• NOT ONLY IS PELOSICARE AND OBAMACARE A ONE WAY TICKET FOR PRIVATE INSURERS ONE WHICH GUARANTEES THEY WILL SIMPLY CLOSE UP SHOP...

• IT'S ALSO A ONE-WAY TICKET FOR MORE FRAUD AND WASTE BECAUSE THE GOVT CANNOT RUN MEDICARE WELL AND WON'T RUN PELOSICARE ANY BETTER.

IF ENACTED, OBAMACARE WILL LEAD TO A MORE EXPENSIVE AND LESS EFFICIENT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM WITH WORSE CARE FOR MORE PEOPLE.

IOW: IT'S A FIASCO.

FIASCOBAMACARE.

THE NYTIMES HAS THE LIST WITH DISTRICT VOTING RECORD AND ANALYSIS. HERE THEY ARE - "THE FEARLESS FORTY":

1. Adler
2. Altmire
3. Baird
4. Barrow
5. Boccieri
6. Boren
7. Boucher
8. Boyd
9. Bright
10. Chandler
11. Childers
12. Artur Davis
13. Lincoln Davis
14. Chet Edwards
15. Gordon
16. Griffith
17. Herseth-sandlin
18. Holden
19. Kissell
20. Kosmas
21. Kratovil
22. Kucinich
23. Betsy Markey
24. Marshall
25. Massa
26. Matheson
27. McIntyre
28. McMahon
29. Melancon
30. Minnick
31. Scott Murphy
32. Nye
33. Peterson
34. Ross
35. Shuler
36. Skelton
37. Tanner
38. Taylor
39. Teague

AND SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN DESERVES A MEDAL OF FREEDOM FOR TELLING CHRIS WALLACE HE WILL FILIBUSTER ANY FINAL BILL WITH A PUBLIC OPTION:

LIEBERMAN: A public option plan is unnecessary. It has been put forward, I’m convinced, by people who really want the government to take over all of health insurance. They’ve got a right to do that; I think that would be wrong.

But worse than that, we have a problem even greater than the health insurance problems, and that is a debt — $12 trillion today, projected to be $21 trillion in 10 years.

WALLACE: So at this point, I take it, you’re a “no” vote in the Senate?

LIEBERMAN: If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote because I believe debt can break America and send us into a recession that’s worse than the one we’re fighting our way out of today. I don’t want to do that to our children and grandchildren.

MORE ON JOE HERE.

VIDEO OF JOE HERE.

GOD BLESS THESE 40 HEROES - A REMNANT, YES, BUT STILL FIGHTING!

THE FEARLESS FORTY DEMOCRATS! CLASSICAL LIBERALS ALL!

• THE FIGHT ISN'T OVER!

• LIBERTY WILL PREVAIL IN THE END!

• 20 YEARS AGO THE BERLIN CAME DOWN - THE USSR COLLAPSED AND 500 MILLION PEOPLE BEGAN THE JOURNEY UP OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF TOTALITARIANISM AND TYRANNY AND BACK UP THE ROAD TO SERFDOM TOWARD THE ROAD TO LIBERTY!

• MOST AMERICANS DON'T WANT TO BE DRAGGED BACK 20 YEARS TOWARD A MORE SOCIALISTIC STATE AND DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM BY THE OBAMANISTAS AND THE RADICAL LEFT.

THESE 39 HOUSE MEMBERS ARE 15% OF THE HOUSE DEMOCRATS!

WITH THEM AND THEIR SUPPORTERS AND THE MAJORITY OF INDEPENDENTS WE CAN WIN IN 2010!

WE WILL PREVAIL!

HERE'S AN IMAGE OF A CATHEDRAL BLOWING UP.

YAWN.


NOW GET THIS:
UNREAL:

SCIFIWIRE - VIA VT:

In Roland Emmerich’s upcoming global demolition derby movie 2012, the director gets to indulge his passion for destroying landmarks on a world scale.

In previous movies, he’s destroyed the Empire State Building and the White House (Independence Day), sent a giant monster into the middle of Manhattan (Godzilla), blown away the famous Hollywood sign and the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles (The Day After Tomorrow) and savaged New York again by flooding and then freezing it
(also The Day After Tomorrow).

In 2012, he takes on landmarks in Rome, Rio de Janeiro and, yes, Washington, but there is one place even he couldn’t bring himself to obliterate. We caught up with Emmerich in Jackson Hole, Wyo., where he told us why he chose various landmarks to lay waste in 2012, and about the one that got away.

“I always like I think when it feels very new and original,” Emmerich said, adding: “Landmarks are always symbols, just symbols. … They stand for something.”

... But Emmerich was thinking of something even more explosive: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped building at the heart of Mecca, the focus of prayers and the Islamic pilgrimage called the Hajj; it is one of Islam’s holiest sites.

Really?

“Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit,” Emmerich says. “But my co-writer Harald said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right. … We have to all … in the Western world … think about this. You can actually … let … Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have … a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. So it’s just something which I kind of didn’t [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out.”

HERE'S WHAT THEY MIGHT'VE SHOWN:



IF SHOWING IMAGES OF CATHEDRALS BLOWING UP AND THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING BLOWING UP IS OKAY, THEN IMAGES OF MECCA BLOWING UP SHOULD BE OKAY, TOO.

WHEN THEY'VE SCARED YOU INTO "RESPECTING THEM" YOU ARE A DHIMMI AND THEY'VE WON.

LET'S TELL HOLLYWOOD TO GET SOME BALLS OR EFF OFF: LET'S BOYCOTT "2012".

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.


UPDATE: VIA A COMMENTER: This is in bad taste - but it's funny and has a lot of truth in it; ENJOY:



UPDATE #2: TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY: HERE'S A LINK TO A STORY ABOUT A NEW PLAY IN ENGLAND PORTRAYING JESUS AS A TRANSSEXUAL WOMAN!

IT'S IN BAD TASTE, BUT NOBODY IS SUGGESTING THE PLAYWRIGHT OR PRODUCERS BE KILLED FOR THEIR BLASPHEMY.

TO BECOME COMPATIBLE WITH MODERNITY, ISLAM HAS TO GROW UP - OR PEOPLE WHO LOVE MODERNITY WILL MAKE IT DISAPPEAR.

BECAUSE HE KEPT HIS HEAD WHEN OTHERS PANICKED, BECAUSE HE BOUGHT WHEN OTHERS WERE SELLING ... BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HAS REBOUNDED: PROFIT'S TRIPLED LAST QUARTER.

We are becoming more European. The American Constitution is six pages long. The EU Consitution is 97,000 pages.

Now, of course, PelosiCare/ObamaCare is legislation, not a statement of principles, but considering the bill is going to allow the government to take over 18% of the GDP, which may be the single largest expansion of government in the history of the world, one would think some sort of basic statement of principles would be needed/agreed upon first.

The only statement of principles I remember hearing coming out of the Democrats is that "Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others."

From Doug Ross at Director Blue:

Tom Blumer provides this devastating view of PelosiCare's new bureaucracies: 111 agencies, regulators, committees, boards and offices:



The area in the yellow box in the top center was the chart as it existed several months and hundreds of pages ago.

The USA took another step toward instituting politician designed, government bureaucrat run, taxpayer financed healthcare.

Instead of attempting a few small and widely agreed to reforms - and addressing tort reform at all - Obama and the radical left running the show in DC rammed through a humongous overhaul of 1/6th of our economy. They did it in the middle of the night on a weekend.

Even if they think their intentions were nice - and most do think they are doing something good - only one thing is certain: 85% of Americans who have insurance are going to be in for some big surprises should the Senate pass a bill and Obama sign something like what the House passed into law.

The unintended consequences will wreak havoc with people's lives and pocketbooks. And the interned consequences will ultimately give more control to the government over our private lives and health and medical decisions.



YES: WHEN THE GOVERNMENT PAYS THE BILLS, THEY HAVE THE RIGHT AND THE POWER TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS.

AND THEY WILL.

DON'T BELIEVE ME!?!?

HAH!

• LOOK WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO THE BANKS THEY BAILED OUT!

• THEY ARE NOW GOING TO CONTROL AND LIMIT THE PAY OF EXECUTIVES AT THESE COMPANIES.

• THE GOVERNMENT HAS EVERY RIGHT TO DO THIS - THEY PURCHASED THE RIGHT WHEN THEY BAILED THEM OUT.

• IT'LL BE THE SAME WITH YOUR HEALTHCARE:

• THE GOVERNMENT WILL MAKE DECIDE WHAT CARE YOU WILL BE ENTITLED TO - NOT YOU AND YOUR DOCTOR.

• AND THE GOVERNMENT'S INTERESTS AND YOURS WILL NOT ALWAYS COINCIDE.

If we want more and better and cheaper healthcare, all we really needed to do was to empower individuals: (1) give individuals the same tax break we give businesses to buy healthcare; (2) foster MORE competition between insurance companies by allowing national/cross-state border commerce. That and TORT REFORM - which has been rpvoe to lower healthcare costs everywhere it's been enacted.

Instead it seems more likely than ever that we will get Obamacare.

They are going to ram it down our throats.

In the dead of the night - if they have to.

They are doing this now because they know that come 2010 they will lose at least one body of Congress and lose their ability to pass anything.

Obama and Axelrod and Rahm and Reid and Pelosi are now in a mad dash to pass as much socialist crap as they can.

Between now and then they can do a lot of damage.

Please God, Help us.

Turkey has sudden change of heart when it comes to war crimes (via Dagelijkse Standaard)

Turkey should arrest Sudan's president if he visits Istanbul because of an international warrant against him for atrocities in Darfur, human rights groups said Friday.

Turkey, however, has indicated that it would welcome President Omar al-Bashir, who will reportedly arrive in Istanbul on Monday for a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference, a bloc of Muslim countries.

Anne Frank's diary offends Lebanon's Hezbollah

Anne Frank's diary has been censored out of a school textbook in Lebanon following a campaign by the militant group Hezbollah which claimed the classic work promotes Zionism.

The controversy erupted after Hezbollah learned that excerpts of "The Diary of Anne Frank" were included in a textbook used by a private English-language school in western Beirut.

Europeans too selfish to have children, says Chief Rabbi

The leader of Britain’s Jewish community claimed the continent’s population is in decline because people care more about shopping than the sacrifice involved in parenthood.

He blamed atheist “neo-Darwinians” for Europe’s low birth rate and said religious people of all denominations are more likely to have large families.

The Chief Rabbi, who entered the House of Lords last week, made his comments in a lecture on religion in the 21st century hosted by Theos, the public theology think-tank, on Wednesday night.

Lord Sacks said that faith had survived so far because it could provide answers to mankind’s eternal search for meaning in life - unlike the market, the state, science or philosophy, which underpin modern liberal democracies.

Obama to sign nuke deal before Noble

From Norwegian: According to Russian newspaper Kommersant, Obama wants to sign a new Russian-American agreement on nuclear weapons before Dec. 10th (Noble Ceremony). The Russians answered that they're not the ones holding up the deal.

Taliban fights girls

From Norwegian: In the two years the Taliban has been controlling the Swat area, 200 schools, mostly girls' schools, have been destroyed.

VIA: Islam In Europe
News and Opinions about the Muslim
and Islamic Community in Europe and the West

HAARETZ:

Concerns are growing in Israel's government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move which could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently asked the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to veto any such proposal, after reports reached Jerusalem of support for such a declaration from major European Union countries, and apparently also certain U.S. officials.

The reports indicated that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has reached a secret understanding with the Obama administration over U.S. recognition of an independent Palestinian state. Such recognition would likely transform any Israeli presence across the Green Line, even in Jerusalem, into an illegal incursion to which the Palestinians would be entitled to engage in measures of self-defense.

... Several Israeli officials told Haaretz that Fayyad had spoken to them of positive responses he had received over the plan from prominent EU member states, including the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Sweden. Fayyad added that he presented the proposal to the U.S. administration and did not receive any signal of opposition in response.

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, I EXPECT OBAMA TO DOUBLE-CROSS ISRAEL - AND TRY TO PUT THE USA SQUARELY ON THE ARAB'S SIDE AGAINST ISRAEL:

EITHER BY CONDEMNING ISRAEL AFTER ISRAEL DOES THE WORLD A FAVOR AND PREEMPTIVELY ATTACKS IRAN,

OR BY SUPPORTING OR FAILING TO VETO THE UNSC EFFORT DESCRIBED ABOVE.

BIBI SAID AT THE UN:

Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists? We must know the answer to that question now. Now and not later.

WE WILL SOON KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION... EITHER THE WORLD WILL STAND WITH ISRAEL - OR FATAH, HAMAS, HIZBALLAH AND IRAN.

JUST ASKING...

The Left claims that PC is all about saying what's politically correct and polite.

It's about not wanting to OFFEND a group with words.

SO:

Why does the Left insist on calling Tea Partyers - (the term they use to describe themselves, a term chosen because they wish to associate themselves with the patriots who staged this nations first tax revolt, Boston Tea Party) - as "Tea Baggers?

Tea Bagger is a deliberately provocative term.

EVIDENTLY: The Left is perfectly willing to use derogatory language against some people.

This hypocrisy makes it inescapably apparent that their whole entire PC effort is NOT idealistic, but merely a partisan tactic meant only to help them achieve their long-held goals.

No surprise here: those who have excused genocide for the sake of socialism (whether Mao's, Stalin's, Hitler's. Pol Pot's, or any other socialist tyrant) will of course excuse hypocrisy.

UPDATED BELOW -

THEY WON'T POST IT ON-LINE.

THEY WON'T DEBATE IT FOR MORE THAN A DAY.

WHY?

LIKE A VAMPIRE, OBAMACARE IS AN ABOMINATION AND THEY MUSTN'T LET SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.



THEY SHOULD RENAME THE HOUSE BILL: PELOSI-SCARE

UPDATE:

• THEY PASSED IT BETWEEN 11PM AND MIDNIGHT: HOW FITTING!

• FINAL VOTE: 220-215.

• THERE WAS BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION TO THE BILL: A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF DEMOCRATS VOTED "NO" THAN REPUBLICANS VOTED "YES".

S-PI/AP:

The Washington state Department of Transportation has temporarily shut down two highways in the Cascade Mountains due to heavy snow from a fall storm and plans to close a third.

Transportation officials closed State Route 410 over Chinook Pass and State Route 123 over Cayuse Pass Saturday morning. The North Cascades Highway on State Route 20 closed around 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

All three roads typically close during the winter due to heavy snow.

YAKIMA HERALD:

DOT officials will be assessing whether Chinook Pass can reopen.

The 5,430-foot-elevation pass usually closes for the winter season "right around the 20th of November," according to McFadden. The pass typically reopens in time for Memorial Day.

DOT officials closed SR 410 five miles east of the summit near Morse Creek about 8:30 a.m. Saturday.

"We got about 25 inches of snow, and they're expecting another 10 to 17 in the next 12 hours," McFadden said. "We made the decision to close it based on the avalanche danger.

"Right now, it's just temporarily closed. We hope to get it back open, but we may end up closing it for the season."

DESPITE HIGH GLOBAL LEVELS OF MAN-MADE CO2, NEW ZEALAND JUST HAD ITS COLDEST OCTOBER IN 64 YEARS AND THE USA'S CASCADES ARE COLD AND SNOWY AND THEIR HIGHWAYS MAY CLOSE DOWN THREE WEEKS EARLY.

OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE PACIFIC AND IN OPPOSING HEMISPHERES.

HMMM...

• AGW = BS.

• CO2 = BENIGN.

• CARBON SCHEMES = STEALTH SOCIALISM.

SPREAD THE TRUTH.

NYTIMES:

With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked by the Labor Department has reached its highest level in decades.

If statistics went back so far, the measure would almost certainly be at its highest level since the Great Depression.

OBAMA'S STIMULUS DID BUPKUS.

CORRECTION: IT DID NO GOOD AND PERHAPS DID SOME HARM.

OBAMA IS A FIASCO.


FIASCOBAMA.

RAW STORY:

President Barack Obama has begun to favor a plan that would send an additional 34,000 U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan, military officials told McClatchy Newspapers according to a Saturday report.

The president's current plan would require 23,000 soldiers from Fort Campbell and Fort Drum to deploy. An additional 7,000 would support a division headquarters in Kandahar, with 4,000 more trainers coming with them, McClatchy reporter Jonathan S. Landay wrote.

AFTER DITHERING FOR WEEKS, OBAMA IS SPLITTING THE BABY.

WHATTA JERK: HE WILL PISS OFF THE LEFT AND THE BRASS, AND LEAVE HIMSELF OPEN FOR CRITICISM. WHATTA JERK.

THIS IS NOT THE STUFF LEADERSHIP IS MADE OF.

OBAMA IS A FAISCO.

FIASCOBAMA.

WUWT:

It will come as little surprise to most New Zealanders that the country shivered through the coldest October in 64 years.

In its climate summary for the month, the Niwa said the average temperature nationwide was 10.6degC _ 1.4degC below average.

Such a cold October has occurred only four times in the past 100 years, the last time in 1945.

CO2 = BENIGN.

AGW = BS.

CARBON SCHEMES = STEALTH SOCIALISM.

DON'T BE A DUPE; HELP US DEFEAT THE ECO-ALARMISTS BY SPREADING THE TRUTH.

OUR PROSPERITY DEPENDS ON IT.

THE LARGEST CONSERVATIVE PARTY HAS BEEN TRYING TO BAN MINARETS FOR A FEW YEARS; IT'S FINALLY COMING TO A VOTE - IN A REFERENDUM - ON NOVEMBER 29TH.

BBC 2007:

A row is brewing over religious symbolism in Switzerland.

Members of the right-wing Swiss People's Party, currently the largest party in the Swiss parliament, have launched a campaign to have the building of minarets banned.

They claim the minaret is not necessary for worship, but is rather a symbol of Islamic law, and as such incompatible with Switzerland's legal system.

Signatures are now being collected to force a nationwide referendum on the issue which, under Switzerland's system of direct democracy, would be binding.

The move has shocked Switzerland's 350,000 Muslims, many of whom have been campaigning for decades for more recognition for their faith.

BBC 2008:

Swiss minaret ban gains momentum

There are currently only two minarets in Switzerland

In Switzerland some 115,000 people have signed a proposal to ban the building of minarets.

The campaign is being organised by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), the largest party in parliament.

Under Swiss law, a group can request a national referendum if it manages to collect 100,000 signatures.

The SVP claims the minaret is not needed for worship, but is a symbol of Islamic law, therefore incompatible with the Swiss constitution.

Buildings with minarets, they argue, symbolise a "political-religious claim to power, which challenges fundamental rights".

TIME LAST WEEK:

Strolling through downtown Geneva on a cool October evening, Nadia, a 23-year-old Kosovo native, shakes her head at a provocative poster depicting a burqa-clad woman in front of a thicket of missile-shaped minarets rising out of a Swiss flag. Below the flag, the word stop is written in big, bold letters. "As a Muslim woman, I am offended by this image," says Nadia, who requested that her last name not be used. "It presents Islam as a danger to Swiss society."

That is exactly the message the poster's creators intend to convey. The image that has unsettled many of Switzerland's 310,000 Muslims is part of a campaign by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) to urge voters to approve a Nov. 29 referendum on whether to ban the construction of new minarets on mosques in the country. The party contends that more minarets — only four mosques currently have them — could inflame extremism and lead to a "rampant Islamization" of the country.

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BBC TODAY:

Muslims in many parts of Switzerland have invited the public into mosques - three weeks before a vote on whether to ban the construction of minarets.

Muslim organisations say they hope their open day will counter what they say are fears and prejudices.

The conservative group that initiated the vote - the largest party in the Swiss parliament - says minarets are a symbol of Muslim political power.

Opinion polls suggest the proposed ban will be rejected by voters.

A Muslim community leader in Zurich, Tamir Hadjipolu, said the proposal - launched by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) - was "open discrimination".

Preaching to the converted?

Switzerland is home to 400,000 Muslims, who have about 200 places of worship. Only four have a minaret, local media say.

FRANCE BANNED THE HIJAB IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FIVE YEARS AGO.

THE FRENCH ARE NOW CONSIDERING BANNING THE BURQA ALTOGETHER.

I THINK THE WEST OUGHT TO MAKE A LOT OF MOVES IN THIS WAY AND MAKE MUSLIMS WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO LIVE HERE IN THE WEST TO CHOOSE TO BE WESTERN OR TO LEAVE.

REPEAT: BE WESTERN OR TO LEAVE.

WE MUST STOP THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE WEST.

IT COULDN'T GET MUCH WORSE: OBAMA PUSHES OBAMACARE, THE PORKULUS, AND CAP & TRADE WHILE DITHERING ON IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, AND HONDURAS.

OBAMA IS A FIASCO.

AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO SUFFER AS A RESULT...

FRANCE HAD A CHOICE A FEW YEARS AGO: ELECT SEGOLENE ROYAL AND GET MORE SOCIALISM OR ELECT NICOLAS SARKOZY AND GET LESS.


THE FRENCH CHOSE SARKO AND LESS SOCIALISM.


WHY? SIMPLE: MOST DISLIKE IT BECAUSE IT SUCKS.


DITTO GERMANY - WHICH JUST ELECTED THE CONSERVATIVE MERKEL AND THE PARTY TO HER RIGHT.


AND NEXT YEAR, GREAT BRITAIN WILL THROW OUT THE LEFTISTS OF LABOUR AND ELECT CONSERVATIVES.


THEY ALL KNOW SOCIALISM SUCKS.


SO WHY DOES OBAMA WANT TO DRAG US DOWN TO A PLACE THEY'RE TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM?


BECAUSE HE'S A COMMITTED SOCIALIST - WITH LOADS MORE CHARM THAN GORDON BROWN OR SEGOLENE ROYAL.


A COMMITTED SOCIALIST WHO KNOWS HE NOW HAS ONLY UNTIL NOVEMBER 2010 TO ENACT AS MUCH SOCIALISM AS HE CAN.


WE WILL ALL SUFFER AS A RESULT.

THE SUPPORTERS OF OBAMACARE THINK THAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN AND THAT OBAMACARE WILL "GUARANTEE AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL AMERICANS".

THEY'VE SAID THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THE DEBATE IN THE HOUSE RIGHT NOW.

THIS IS NONSENSE. IT'S THE CORE FAILURE OF THEIR PLAN.

THE GOVERNMENT CAN ONLY RATION HEALTHCARE THEY CANNOT MAKE THE PRICE "AFFORDABLE".

RATIONING IS WHAT HAS ALWAYS HAPPENED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER THE TRADE OF ANYTHING. GAS. TIRES. ANYTHING.

THE PRICE MECHANISM CANNOT OPERATE EXCEPT IN A FREEMARKET.

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLS HEALTHCARE, THEN THEIR INTEREST IS IN CONTROLLING PUBLIC EXPENSE AND ENSURING PUBLIC HEALTH; THIS IS SIMPLY NOT THE SAME THING AS YOU HEALTH.

FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU'RE VERY OLD AND SICK IT'S IN YOUR INTEREST TO GET CARE IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.

BUT IF THE CARE IS PAID FOR BY THE GOVERNMENT, THEN THE EXPENSE IS NOT IN THEIR INTEREST.

THAT'S WHY WHATEVER THEY PASS WILL BE A FIASCO.

LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY. LIKE MEDICARE. LIKE THE USPS. LIKE CASH FOR CLUNKERS.

A FIASCO.

THE CORE PRESUPPOSITION OF THE OBAMACARISTAS IS BULLSHIT TOO:

THE WAY THEY TALK ABOUT THE "HEALTHCARE CRISIS IN AMERICA" YOU'D THINK WE WERE A FREAKIN' THIRD WORLD NATION WITH PEOPLE DYING FROM RUN-OF-THE-MILL DISEASES LEFT AND RIGHT.

IT'S BULLSH*T.

WE HAVE THE BEST HEALTHCARE IN THE WORLD.

WE LIVE THE LONGER - ON AVERAGE - THAN EUROPEANS, AND WE HAVE BETTER RECOVERY RATES ON ALL MAJOR DISEASES.

BUT THE LEFTISTS WANT TO TURN US INTO THE EU - THAT'S LIKE A HUGE STEP BACKWARDS IN TIME.

WE WILL ALL SUFFER IF THEY SUCCEED.

Obamacare - or Pelosicare, if you prefer - is a LOSE-LOSE Proposition for Obama and the democrats.

If they pass nothing, then they fail.

If they pass ANYTHING then they will damage the already weak recovery and damage the health insurance industry and the healthcare industry and create unsettling havoc in millions and millions of families lives.

The power grab also will continue to turn independents off and ensure that 2010 will give us huge GOP and conservative victories.

That's a good thing.

These victories are coming no matter what.

The only difference is that by passing Obamacare the left ensures that there is gong to be a WAVE OF COUNTER-MEASURES AND SIDE-EFFECTS AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN THE MARKETPLACE CREATING MORE INSECURITY and ensuring millions of people will therefore unnecessarily suffer between now and 2010.

Obama cares not for the people, just achieving his deeply held socialist dreams of having the state "create a utopia" by taking over.

It's about POWER: the Left wants the state to have it.

Once they get power, the state will ruin whatever they takeover. It's inevitable.

It's the postofficification.

They will turn the best healthcare system in the world into a clunker.

WE WILL ALL SUFFER AS A RESULT.

Sigh.

Until we retake power in 2012 and undo the damage they're doing now.

Norway has decided to dismiss the prejudiced lawsuit that was intended to delegitimize Israel:

Prosecutors have dismissed a complaint filed by a group of Norwegian lawyers accusing Israeli leaders of war crimes over its incursion into Gaza last winter.

Chief prosecutor Siri Frigaard said Friday she was dismissing the complaint, which was lodged on April 22, because "there is no good reason" for Norwegian authorities to investigate further.

The lawyers filed the motion under Norway's universal jurisdiction law.

Frigaard said Norway "must show great care" when deciding whether to investigate alleged war crimes committed by individuals with no connection to Norway. A 2008 law allows foreigners to face charges in Norway for war crimes committed anywhere in the world.

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and opposition leader Tzipi Livni were among the 10 Israelis named in the complaint.

The case was dropped although Norway chose not to vote against, but rather to abstain from the vote on the Goldstone Report in the UN General Assembly.

The report alleges that Israel may have committed war crimes during Operation Cast Lead, the official name of the Gaza campaign.

The report was commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council and Israel refused to cooperate with jurist Richard Goldstone and his team throughout their investigation, claiming the mandate of the Goldstone Commission was biased against Israel prima facie and therefore any report it would publish would necessarily be morally tainted.

The Palestinians have been trying to exploit the report as leverage against Israel in several international spheres.

Barak escaped war crimes allegations several weeks ago, when a British court decided to drop an arrest warrant petition against him, citing his official position in the Israeli government as the reason.

I hope this means that the UN will back away from this as well. But maybe not.

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The Dove World Outreach Center in Florida offers a women's shelter for those who need protection from Islamofascism. Now, if Muslim women in Florida, if anywhere, need a place to go for protection, here it is. Let's hope they can expand their services to more locations where they can come in helpful.

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BARNEY FRANK'S BOY-TOY BUSTED FOR POT WHILE THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WAS PRESENT...

VIA HOT AIR.

Breaking: The Religion of Peace© is making death threats against Rifqa Bary and the Florida Security Council ... from Sri Lanka, which is where Rifqa will likely be deported if not given asylum. Just to give some idea as to the kinds of folks with whom Rifqa Bary's parents associate.

This is what these people intend to do to her.



Come to the Rally for Rifqa on November 16th to try to save this young girl. I'll be there.

LIBS WORRY: THE FORT HOOD JIHADIST MIGHT GENERATE MISPLACED ISLAMOPHOBIA.

CHAVEZ MOVES TROOPS TO BORDER WITH COLOMBIA.

In America, Christians protest against promiscuity, and the inevitable abortions which result, with WORDS.

In the Muslim world, they protest by killing the promiscuous:

Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.

An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby.

So, two people had sex, and a baby resulted. So, the Islamists are going to kill the two people, but spare the babe.

Two out of three ain't bad, right?

Hey, at least they're against abortion.

And, of course, we have to keep our eyes out, here in the Western World, for the rise of the Christian Taliban.

THE WORDS ISLAM AND MUSLIM DO NOT APPEAR IN THIS NYTIMES ARTICLE ON THE MURDERER.

Imagine for a moment that there was a political movement that advocated:

That it must dominate the entire world with its unifying ideology -

That the entire world must come under the rulership of its single dictator -

That the United States Constitution and all American laws must be replaced by the laws promulgated by this particular political movement and its leader -

That it was proper for members of this political party to kill all who did not submit to their rule, and take from them everything they own -

That women must be eternally subjugated, and deprived of education, the right to work, the right to vote, and the freedom to choose their husbands -

That representational art, music, dancing, and theatrical performances (including films) must be abolished -

That banking, mortgages, a free market in securities, and commercial credit all be eliminated -

That sovereign states which refused to submit to this political movement be destroyed -

And so on.

Do you think for a New York minute that adherents of that political philosophy or members of such a political party would be enrolled in the United States Armed Forces? That the United States would encourage political organizers for such a party to have official establishments on American military bases, in American prisons, or on the campuses of government-supported American universities? That the American president would go out of his way to coddle, praise, stroke, and conciliate such a political party?

But if you call such a political movement a "religion" and say that its tenets were given it by its God, then you'll be free to infilitrate, subvert, and attack our American way of life, again and again and again.

There was no madness at Fort Hood. That was just the worldwide jihad in action.

The madness is in Washington.

It is past time to recognize that whether or not you want to be at war with the jihad, the jihad is at war with you.

Some more exact details have emerged on Malik Nidal Hasan, who murdered 12 people at Fort Hood. Contrary to earlier reports, he's still alive and now in custody after being wounded, and the female officer who shot him is also still alive. And a relative of his told FOX that he was always a Muslim, and, in a predictable form of apologia, the relative also said he was a "good American".

According to the Wash. Post (via The Jawa Report):

He had been a "very devout" worshiper at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, attending prayers at least once a day, often in his Army fatigues, said Faizul Khan, a former imam there.

But even more astounding is to learn that this sheep's clothing monster was a psychiatrist. There may have been absurd depictions of psychiatrists in fiction years before that depicted them as evil. But now, as this case suggests, it may not be so farfetched. That said, the SanFrancisco Chronicle tells that his performance in this career was said to be very poor.

FOX News now reports:

A former neighbor of Hasan's in Silver Spring, Md., told Fox News he lived there for two years with his brother and had the word "Allah" on the door.

NPR reports that he was prosyltyzing:

A source tells NPR’s Joseph Shapiro that Hasan was put on probation early in his postgraduate work at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He was disciplined for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues, according to the source, who worked with him at the time.

And KXXV-TV reports:

Hasan, was giving all of his furniture along with copies of the Qu'ran to neighbors Thursday morning.

And in this clip from CNN, he's seen wearing an Islamic robe:

I think there's going to have be some serious consideration about letting Muslims serve in the army if they could pose the stealth threat Hasan became.

All Republicans abstained and Baucus even voted against it.

Inhofe was quoted as saying, “In the history of this committee, we have not been able to find a time when the bill has been marked up without minority.”

The Dems knew it was garbage, even by their standards, which was why Baucus abstained. They could not work on it because of the Republican boycott. Environment and Public Works Committee rules require that one third of the minority party be present.

Boxer is also the final judge on any dispute over committee rules, a fact that would allow her to override any GOP objection to her process.

Isn't that convenient!

And she's refusing to wait for cost analysis, just to underline how little regard she has for either our hard-earned tax dollars and the legislative process.

How about a truth analysis? How about they have to prove definitively that AGW is real?

How about a legal analysis? How about the have to prove that taxing us for carbon is somehow Constitutional?