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

Saturday, January 17, 2009

HAMAS ACCUSES ABBAS OF COLLABORATING WITH THE IDF

JPOST: Hamas: Abbas's spies led Israel to Siam
Hamas over the weekend accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of being responsible for the assassination of its interior minister, Said Siam.

Siam, who was in charge of Hamas's security forces and militias in the Gaza Strip, was the most senior leader of the movement to be killed during Operation Cast Lead.

He was killed Thursday during an air-strike on his brother's residence in Gaza City. The brother, Iyad, was also killed in the attack, as was Siam's son.

Salah Bardaweel, a Hamas legislator and spokesman, accused Abbas of playing a "major role" in the assassination of Siam and the military offensive against Hamas.
  • IT'S GOOD NEWS IF THIS IS TRUE. (IT PROBABLY IS!)
  • AND IT'S BETTER NEWS IF IT LEADS TO AN INTERNECINE WAR.
  • [NOTE: SIAM LED THE COUP AGAINST FATAH IN GAZA.]

THE STIMULUS PACKAGE IS PORK

  • WE DON'T NEED TO INCREASE THE DEFICIT TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY.
  • THE CURRENT PROJECTED DEFICIT - SANS STIMULUS PORK AT ABOUT 8.5% - IS STIMULATING ENOUGH.
  • BUT IF KEYNESIAN LIBS INSIST WE NEED A MO'BIGGER DEFICIT, THEN THE MOST IMMEDIATELY STIMULATING THING WE CAN DO WOULD BE TO GIVE ALL TAXPAYERS - PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES - A TAX HOLIDAY OF LET'S SAY.... 3 MONTHS.
  • LET "WE THE PEOPLE" KEEP OUR MONEY AND SPEND IT ON WHATEVER WE WANT - WHATEVER WE THINK WE NEED.
  • POLITICIANS WILL NEVER SPEND OUR MONEY AS WISELY AS WE CAN.

90 MINUTES OF VIDEO EVERY PERSON MUST SEE: THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM

CLICK HERE AND WATCH ALL TEN 8-MINUTE SEGMENTS.

THEN, START TO USE THIS HANDY REFERENCE SOURCE HERE - USE IT DAILY.

Thousands of Deadly Islamic Terror Attacks Since 9/11

VIA THE INFIDEL BLOGGERS ALLIANCE.

ECO-NUTSIES WRONG AGAIN: LOCAL FOOD NOT MORE "GREEN" THAN TRUCKED IN FOOD

THE GLOBAL-WARMING ALARMISTS - (THE ECO-NUSTIES IS WHAT I LIKES TO CALL'EM) - HAVE BEEN TELLING US WE SHOULD ONLY EAT LOCAL FOOD IN SEASON, (BECAUSE IT'S MORE SUSTAINABLE AND DOESN'T PUT AS MUCH C02 INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AS FOOD AIRED AND SHIPPED AND TRUCKED TO POUR LOCAL SUPERMARKETS).

AS AN EXAMPLE, HERE'S WHAT MRS. JOHN EDWARDS SAID DURING THE RECENT PRIMARY CAMPAIGN:

... Elizabeth Edwards raised in passing the importance of relying on locally-grown fruit.

"We've been moving back to 'buy local,'" Mrs. Edwards said, outlining a trade policy that "acknowledges the carbon footprint" of transporting fruit.

"I live in North Carolina. I'll probably never eat a tangerine again," she said, speaking of a time when the fruit is reaches the price that it "needs" to be.

WELL, THE ECO-NUTSIES ARE WRONG AGAIN:
Long haul food can produce lower carbon emissions than local produce Buying locally produced food can produce more greenhouse gases than buying products transported long distances to customers' doors, a new study has revealed.

The findings contradict the belief that buying local food is the best option for the environment and cast doubt on the attention being paid to the "food miles" accumulated by food.

Researchers at Exeter University compared the carbon dioxide emissions of organic vegetables from local farm shops with mass produced organic vegetables delivered to customers' doors as part of a large scale vegetable box scheme.

They found that if consumers had to make a round trip by car of more than four miles to visit their local farm shop, the carbon emissions produced were greater than the mass produced vegetables that had been kept in cold storage and transported by heavy goods vehicle.

The researchers compared all carbon emissions from the fuel and energy used in each supply chain. As both methods used organic farming the farming practices were deemed to be the same.

... Recent research, however, has revealed that even products shipped from the other side of the world can emit fewer greenhouse gases than British equivalents. Lamb produced in New Zealand, for example, produces four times less carbon dioxide even after travelling 11,000 miles to British supermarkets, compared with British produced lamb.

Figures from a study at Lincoln University also revealed that both dairy products and apples imported from New Zealand had less of an effect on the environment than those produced in the UK.

AN EARLIER ANALYSIS BY THE CHICAGO BOYZ ALSO DISPROVED THE ECO-NUTSIE THEORY.

BOTTOM-LINE: AGW = BS. AND, AGW & ALL THE CRAP IDEAS, TAXES, SWAPS AND "INNOVATIONS" ASSOCIATED WITH = TOTAL BS.

ANOTHER CONFIRMED CASE IN CHINA OF HUMAN WITH BIRD FLU

CHINA: H5N1 Confirmed Case in Hunan China
F, 2-year-old and currently residing in Xiaoyi City, Luliang Prefecture, Shanxi Province.

January 7, 2009 the incidence in Hunan, January 11 with the grandparents back to Shanxi, condition worsened after the January 14 Fenyang treatment in hospitals in Shanxi Province, with no significant symptomatic improvement after treatment, was on the 14th later transferred to Children's Hospital of Shanxi Province.

The above translation describes a confirmed H5N1 patient who is in critical condition. She is currently in Shanxi, although the initial incident is said to have been in Hunan (see updated map). This case follows the fatal case (19F) in Beijing, which may have been part of a cluster involving a health care worker at the hospital.
THIS MIGHT BECOME THE BIGGEST PROBLEM ON OBAMA'S PLATE.

NOT TO WORRY: DASCHLE AND NAPOLITANO WILL BE ON THE CASE.

OY.

The Three-Dimensional Comes Out of the Two-Dimensional


In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Genesis 1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.Through him all things were made ...
John 1

Tao produced the One. The One produced the two. The two produced the three. And thethree produced The Ten Thousand Things.

Tao Te Ching

A new theory proposed by Physicists says that the Universe may be a hologram, projected into three-dimensional space, from a flat two-dimensional surface.


DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.

For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century.

For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.

If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointeddirector of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."

The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.

The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard 't Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.

The "holographic principle" challenges our sensibilities. It seems hard to believe that you woke up, brushed your teeth and are reading this article because of something happening on the boundary of the universe. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true.

Susskind and 't Hooft's remarkable idea was motivated by ground-breaking work on black holes by Jacob Bekenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge. In the mid-1970s, Hawking showed that black holes are in fact not entirely "black" but instead slowly emit radiation, which causes them to evaporate and eventually disappear. This poses a puzzle, because Hawking radiation does not convey any information about the interior of a black hole. When the black hole has gone, all the information about the star that collapsed to form the black hole has vanished, which contradicts the widely affirmed principle that information cannot be destroyed. This is known as the black hole information paradox.

Bekenstein's work provided an important clue in resolving the paradox. He discovered that a black hole's entropy - which is synonymous with its information content - is proportional to the surface area of its event horizon. This is the theoretical surface that cloaks the black hole and marks the point of no return for infalling matter or light. Theorists have since shown that microscopic quantum ripples at the event horizon can encode the information inside the black hole, so there is no mysterious information loss as the black hole evaporates.

Crucially, this provides a deep physical insight: the 3D information about a precursor star can be completely encoded in the 2D horizon of the subsequent black hole - not unlike the 3D image of an object being encoded in a 2D hologram.

Read the whole thing.


THE OBAMA TEAM: CHANGE WE SHOULD BEREAVE IN!

SHEESH! WHAT A CREW!













































































A VERITABLE ROGUES GALLERY...

BILL MOYERS IS AN ANTISEMITE: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS NRO AND MERE-RHETORIC BY 3 DAYS

WHAT JONAH GLDBERG POSTED AT /NRO-THE CORNER TODAY:

It's Their Genes! [Jonah Goldberg]

Bill Moyers has figured the Jews out:

What we are seeing in Gaza is the latest battle in the oldest family quarrel on record. Open your Bible: the sons of the patriarch Abraham become Arab and Jew. Go to the Book of Deuteronomy. When the ancient Israelites entered Canaan their leaders urged violence against its inhabitants. The very Moses who had brought down the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” now proclaimed, “You must destroy completely all the places where the nations have served their gods. You must tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles, set fire to the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their name from that place.”

So God-soaked violence became genetically coded. A radical stream of Islam now seeks to eliminate Israel from the face of the earth. Israel misses no opportunity to humiliate the Palestinians with checkpoints, concrete walls, routine insults, and the onslaught in Gaza. (Emphasis added.)

More at Camera and Mere Rhetoric.

It's long past time they put Moyers out to pasture.

WE POSTED AT TAB - 3 DAYS AGO:
PBS' Bill Moyers Slandsers Jews: Says "God-Soaked Violence Became Genetically Encoded"
UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST

Stunning.

The Mask Slips- Racism on PBS

The liberal establishment is under such stress over the possibility that Israel might succeed in protecting her own people that they are letting the mask slip a little. The latest is Bill Moyers giving us a raw peek into the consciousness of The Saint of PBS.

Talking about Gaza and going back to the book of Deuteronomy, he referenced the biblical commands to take the promised land and jumped (I am not kidding!) to this outrageous bit of racism:

“So God-soaked violence became genetically coded.”

WE HAVE MUCH MUCH MORE. RTWT.

REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

SPREAD THE WORD. BOOKMARK US. BLOGROLL US. PLEASE.

BRRRR! 1/16-17/09: GLOBALLY, ONE OF THE COLDEST NIGHTS IN DECADES!

TAMPA:
With clear skies and lighter winds, temperatures fell quickly overnight. This morning, temperatures ranged from the low to mid 30s along the Nature Coast to the mid-upper 30s farther south. Officially, at Tampa International it was 37 degrees this morning! Brrr!
YORK, PA:
Depending on where the temperature was measured, we might have set a record for cold early this morning.

The National Weather Service recorded an overnight temperature of 1 degree below zero. (That's 18.3 degrees Celsius, for the metric minded.)

Here is where it gets complicated.
The previous record for this date, reported at the York Airport in Thomasville, was 4 degrees above zero, set in 2003. But Aaron Tyburski, a meteorologist for the weather service in State College, said those records only go back about 15 years.
CHARLOTTE:
Uptown Streets Bare On Coldest Night In Years

With temperatures dropping into single digits Friday night, the streets of Uptown Charlotte were nearly empty.

Several businesses said without a doubt, business suffers when it gets this cold.

“The street is empty right now, and usually when you come down on Friday night it’s packed,” said Kelly Stranburg.

Greg Ruffino, manager of Ri Ra’s Irish Pub, said people are just more attuned to stay inside when it’s this cold. “I don’t want to leave the house. I don’t want to come into work; just like anyone doesn’t want to go out and see a movie or what-not,” he said.
TORONTO:
Toronto’s coldest night of the year, sans power

Now I know why they picked a balmy summer night to have Earth Hour. Losing your power on the coldest night of winter -- a kind of Enforced Earth Hour -- is no picnic.

Last night at 10 p.m. I was merrily making lunches for the kids, the kids were asleep, my wife was upstairs in the office on the computer, when suddenly the house made a small "whoooh!" like a sigh, and went dark. The furnace, which had been roaring to compensate for the icy -15C outside, abruptly shut off.

Out the window, our street, which is near Dovercourt and Dufferin streets, was dark: the houses and streetlights were off.

I called a friend nearby. Her lights were out, too.

My wife came downstairs and we took a candle to the basement, where we found a box of candles. The temperature in the house began to drop.

I called the National Post office in Don Mills. "We have power," an editor told me.

We flicked on the radio. "The power is out, from Bloor to St. Clair." Ummm, sorry, 680 News, we're freezing here too, quite a bit south of Bloor Street.

As the thermometre continued to plummet, both inside the house and out, I started to worry. Instead, we just put an extra blanket on each of the children, put on long underwear under our pyjamas, put an extra blanket on over our duvet, blew out the candles, and went to sleep.

"This is how people used to do it," said my wife.
PHILIPPINES:
Metro Manila residents yesterday felt the extra chill as the temperature dropped to 18.1 degrees Celsius, the lowest to be recorded in the metropolis so far this year.

Based on records by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the lowest temperature in Metro Manila yesterday registered 18.1 degrees Celsius at 5:45 a.m.

Yesterday’s temperature is the lowest to be recorded so far as it surpassed the earlier lowest temperature record at 18.2 degrees Celsius on Jan. 4. However, the lowest temperature for this northeast monsoon season remains at 18 degrees, which was recorded last Dec. 20.

...Yesterday’s minimum temperature in Baguio City was at 8.4 degrees, a little higher than the other day’s 7.5 degrees, the lowest so far this year in Baguio City.

Based on PAGASA records, minimum air temperatures at the Port Area in Manila were at 15.7 degrees on December 3, 1992; 14.5 degrees Celsius on Jan. 11, 1914; and 15.6 degrees on Feb. 18, 1920.

As for Davao, the unsurpassed lowest air temperature was at 16.2 degrees Celsius, recorded on Dec. 24, 1918; 17.2 degrees Celsius on Jan. 10, 1912; and at 16.1 degrees Celsius on Feb. 3, 1962.

For Cebu, the lowest air temperature was at 19.8 degrees Celsius on Jan. 21, 1997 and at 20 degrees Celsius, both on Feb. 16, 1904 and Dec. 28, 1996.

As for Baguio City, meanwhile, the unsurpassed minimum temperature was at 7.6 degrees on Dec. 13, 1991; 6.3 degrees on Jan. 18, 1961; and at 6.7 degrees on Feb. 1, 1963.
THAILAND:
Thais are donning scarves, farmers are scrambling to save their rice crops and snakes are freezing to death.

That is all because temperatures in this normally balmy country have dipped to their coldest in a decade.
MAN-MADE CO2 HAS INCREASED EVERY YEAR SINCE 1850, BUT TEMPERATURES HAVE NOT; THEREFORE, AGW = BS.

HALF-ASSED GAZA CEASE-FIRE DEAL TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

Haaretz:
Israel is very close to securing the objectives of its 22-day-old offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Saturday, according to French News Agency AFP.

"After three weeks of Operation Cast Lead, we are very close to reaching the goals and securing them through diplomatic agreements," Barak said during a visit to the south of the country, according to a statement from his office.

The cabinet will hold a vote on Saturday evening to decide whether to enact a unilateral cease-fire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The decision would mean Israel has put an end to the three-week-long Operation Cast Lead without an agreement with Hamas, relying instead on the support of the United States and Egypt in battling arms smuggling into Gaza.

Haaretz:

A government source said Thursday that defense official Amos Gilad had returned from Egypt with a very reassuring report about its willingness to crack down on arms smuggling to Gaza - one of Israel's key demands - and about Hamas' willingness to accept the Egyptian proposal.

The Egyptian proposal, of which Haaretz obtained a copy Thursday, contains three clauses. First, Israel and the Palestinians will agree to an immediate, time-limited cease-fire, during which the border crossings will be opened for humanitarian aid and Egypt will lead negotiations on a long-term truce. Second, the long-term truce must include provisions on both border security and an end to the blockade of Gaza. Third, Fatah and Hamas should resume reconciliation talks.

IT'S GREAT THAT THE IDF KICKED HAMAS'S ASS, BUT THIS DEAL WOULD BE HIGHLY UNSATISFACTORY.
  • THERE SHOULD BE NO AID TO GAZA - AS IN ZERO, ZILCH, NADA - UNLESS AND UNTIL HAMAS IS OUT OF OFFICE OR IT AGREES TO PUBLICLY AND PERMANENTLY RECOGNIZE ISRAEL.
  • ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS IS BULLSHIT APPEASEMENT AND WILL YIELD NOTHING MORE THAN NA FEW YEARS OF RELATIVE CALM.
  • A CALM THE ISLAMOTHUGS WILL USE TO REBUILD THEIR OFFENSIVE CAPABILITY.
  • AS PM, BIBI WOULD NEVER AGREE TO THIS. WHICH IS WHY I PRAY ISRAEL ELECTS HIM THEIR NEXT PM.

THERE'S NOTHING PROGRESSIVE ABOUT "PROGRESSIVISM"

Lefties like to call themselves "progressives" as if they stood on the side of progress and everyone else was a caveman.

This is hogwash.

Most of the policies which "progressives" advocate are policies which failed abysmally in the last century.

China was a "progressive" socialist state from 1949 until 1979 - and all that accomplished - besides PC talk and "free" healthcare was MASS STARVATION. Deng Xiao Ping introduced freemarket policies and no - just thirty years later China is the third largest economy on earth.

South Korea was poorer than North Korea after the armistice ended the war; now it is richer and North Korea is STARVING - like China was before capitalism and "US hegemony".

Nationalization - a form of progressivism - destroyed Britain; Thatcher - a conservative - dismantled it and saved Britain.

And so on.

Now, Obama and Pelosi and Reid would have us go down those same well-trodden paths, using those same awful policies based on the same awful principles and it will inevitable have the same awful consequences: FAILURE.

BUT WE CAN STOP THEM.

YES, WE CAN!

Despite the "progressives" controlling Congress and the White House - we can stop them.

We have before:

We stopped Hillarycare.

We stopped Immigration Amnesty.

We stopped Dubai Ports.

We stopped Miers.

We can stop the "stimulus package" and we can stop the "green economy" and all other "progressive" policies.

We can and we must.

Never give up and never give in.

Never, never, never, never, never.

OBAMA DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY OF THE OFFICE

Obama is obsessed with his mobile device, the BlackBerry. From this source:
Those who follow Obama on a regular basis know the president-elect is constantly on the addictive e-mail device. The Secret Service, as well as Obama lawyers, are concerned it could easily be hacked and are demanding the new president hand over the BlackBerry before he moves into the White House. In an interview with CNBC Wednesday, Obama made clear he's not giving it up without a fight. "They're going to pry it out of my hands," the president-elect said. "You know, this town's full of lawyers. I don't know if you've noticed and they have a lot opinions. So I'm still in a scuffle around that, but it look, it's the hardest thing about being president....
He refuses to give up his that Blackberry:
Despite legal and security hurdles, president-elect Barack Obama says he has a plan to retain his beloved Blackberry once he moves into the White House next week....
Off all the matters our chief executive and commander-in-chief will have do deal with as President of the United States during wartime and an economic crisis, Obama is concerned about his BlackBerry? How absurd!

The man is not in touch with reality.

As stated in the first link above:
Mr. Obama isn't acting as a grown up if he makes a fuss over keeping his blackberry.

INAUGURATION MADNESS

Having lived here in the greater D.C. area all my life, I’ve seen twelve inaugurations come and go (1960 – 2004). Some local disruption is, of course, unavoidable for those of us living so close to the seat of federal power. But the upcoming inauguration of Barack Husssein Obama, “The One,” takes the prize for madness morphing into worship. Even the Big East basketball coaches are considering how much to accommodate Inauguration 2009:
..."Whenever you have a change of presidents, it's a special time," [Gerogetown Coach] Thompson said during a conference call with Big East coaches yesterday. "But this, as we start to welcome our 44th president, is a very special time here -- for me personally and for a lot of people."

And while Georgetown is the sole Big East school in the nation's capital, Thompson isn't the only coach who's weighing how to incorporate Tuesday's inauguration into the highly structured lives of his student-athletes....
Did Coach Thompson and his cohorts hold previous inaugurations in such high esteem? If so, I don't recall hearing so....

Read the rest at Always On Watch.

Friday, January 16, 2009

FREEDOM VERSUS SERFDOM

Does history matter? Does truth? Lliberals want us to ignore history and facts so that they can advance their agenda and have government more control over of the individual. Obama would have us go further down the road to serfdom - making us serfs of the state.

MARK LEVIN. TRUTH. LISTEN.

BRRRRR: HOLLAND'S CANALS FREEZE FOR FIRST TIME IN 12 YEARS!

IHT/VIA DRUDGE: Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity
For the first time in 12 years, the Netherlands' canals froze this month, bringing the Dutch, who like their tulips in neat rows, a heady mix of pandemonium and euphoria.

Hundreds of thousands of skaters, their cheeks as red as apples in the freezing temperatures, took to the ice, and hospital wards were filled with dozens of people with fractured arms, sprained ankles and broken legs.

Train engineers were ordered to go slowly to avoid hitting skaters who clambered across railway tracks to get from one frozen canal to another. Even the minister of defense, an avid skater, fell and broke his wrist. His ministry announced that the national defense remained in safe hands, even if one of them was in a cast.

In the 19th century, when Hans Brinker, the hero of the novel in which he tries to win a pair of silver skates, coasted along Holland's ice, the canals froze almost every year. But water pollution and climate change have made this so rare that today a boy of 15, Brinker's age, may never have seen a frozen canal, or at least remember one. Until, that is, this year.
I GUESS THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING AGAIN - AND IT'S GETTING COLDER.

BUT IF MAN-MADE "GREENOUSE GASES" ARE STILL INCREASING, THEN HOW COULD THIS BE HAPPENING!?

SIMPLE: AGW = BS.

ARAB COLUMNIST PREDICTS OBAMA WILL GET TOUGH ON ISRAEL

FAWAZ TURKI/GULF NEWS:
President-elect Barack Obama may have evinced ardent support for Israel on the campaign trail, but he is no innocent abroad.

He knows that ardent support of Israel's existence is anchored in his country's political ethos, well and good, but unstinted support of its military excesses, and territorial expansion, is not, and will only harm the national interests of the United States by earning it the enmity of the peoples of the entire world, including those of the European world.

Is he not after all the new broom that will sweep clean and bring about "change that matters"?

I think it won't be long before Obama's administration, Hillary Clinton, his secretary of state, not withstanding, will have to tell Israeli leaders that enough is enough: Go back to your internationally recognised borders and give up your fantasy about "Greater Israel".

Imagine the response in the Arab world - and elsewhere - if the new president instead ended up emulating his predecessors in the White House who traditionally had turned a blind eye to Israeli excesses and a deaf ear to Palestinian suffering. Arabs will give up then on America ever being even-handed, or trust it ever again. Arabs will brand Obama as yet "another American president", another political hack, who will back Israel right or wrong. Because of Obama's moral promise, his skin colour and his middle name, Arabs will expect more from him, not so much favouritism as fairness. If that is not forthcoming, it will trigger twice the rage at the US than if he had been another run of the mill, new occupant of the White House.

My instinct (and that's what we all have to go by as of now) tells me that Israel will be told a few blunt truths in the months to come.
HE KNOWS OBAMA BETTER THE AMERICAN JEWS WHO VOTED FOR HIM.

UNDER THE GUISE OF "EVENHANDEDNESS" OBAMA WILL SIDE MORE AND MORE WITH THE ISLAMOTHUGS.

A MALTESE HAWK SUPPORTS ISRAEL'S WAR AGAINST ISLAMO-EXTREMISTS

A GOOD COLUMN FROM MALTA.

FAMILY SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDERING THEIR RAPED DAUGHTER

LIFE IN PRISON IS A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR HAVING THE FAMILY'S MUSLIM HONOR IS RESTORED...

NP: Family guilty in 'honour killing' - Turkish clan gets life for killing rape victim, 16

A Turkish court sentenced five members of the same family to life imprisonment for the "honour killing" of Naile Erdas, 16, who got pregnant as a result of rape, activists said yesterday.

In its verdict, a court in the eastern city of Van sentenced the murder victim's brother to life in jail for the October, 2006, murder to cleanse the family honour, the Van Women's Association (VWA) said.

The girl's father, mother and two uncles were also given life sentences for instigating the murder, while a third uncle was jailed for 16 years and eight months for failing to report the murder in one of the heaviest sentences handed down in Turkey for such a killing.

"We can say this verdict is a first in terms of the harshness of the sentences and the fact that the entire family was convicted," said Mazlum Bagli, a researcher into honour killings at the Dicle University here.

The VWA's Zelal Ozgokce also welcomed the sentence as an appropriate deterrent.

"It is very good that the entire family was punished for the crime," she said.

"It will serve as a deterrent. People will become aware that they will face the consequences of an honour killing."

The young woman became pregnant as a result of a rape but concealed her condition until she was hospitalized for a severe headache, when doctors determined she was pregnant.

After the family made threats and offered bribes to get the girl back, doctors decided to keep her in the hospital, and informed police and the prosecutor's office.

One week after she gave birth, the prosecutor agreed to send her home after her father promised she would not be harmed. But Ms. Erdas was shot dead by her brother a few hours after returning home.

In "honour killings," generally prevalent among Turkey's Kurdish community, a "family council" names one of its members to murder a female relative considered to have sullied the family honour. In most cases this is because of an extramarital affair.

But there have been cases where those killed have been the victims of rape or women who simply talked to strange men or requested a song on the radio.

WE ARE DEALING WITH AN EXTREMELY POISONOUS IDEOLOGY HERE FOLKS - ONE THAT GETS BROTHERS TO MURDER THEIR SISTERS AND TURNS CHILDREN INTO GENOCIDAL SUICIDE BOMBERS.

IMHO: ISLAM IS PRETTY MUCH A DEEPLY MISOGYNISTIC MARTIAL CREED WHICH KEEPS ADHERENTS BY KEEPING THEM IN WHAT AMOUNTS TO A STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.

I THINK WE CAN LIBERATE MUSLIMS FROM THIS HIDEOUS IDEOLOGY WITHOUT WAR.

INAUGURAL FORECAST: BITTER COLD AND SNOWSTORM PREDICTED FOR OBAMA'S SWEARING-IN CEREMONY

THEY'RE PREDICTING SNOW SNOW SNOW - AND FREEEEEEZING COLD WEATHER FOR THE INAUGURAL:
The US National Weather Service warned that a steep temperature drop, a blizzard or a downpour could present a challenge to the millions expected to attend Mr Obama's presidential inauguration on Jan 20.

... weather services said there is a 30 per cent chance of snow before the ceremony. Local authorities have prepared a fleet of 200 snowploughs and salt trucks ready to hit the main arteries in case of a snowfall.

"Watch for signs of frostbite ... watch for signs of hypothermia - shivering and numbness, confusion ... slurred speech," the local government warned on its website.

Ronald Reagan's 1981 inauguration was the sunniest in recenty decades ...

Cold weather on Inauguration Day has also had dramatic consequences. William Harrison took the oath of office without wearing a coat and in freezing temperatures on March 4, 1841 while delivering the longest inaugural address in American history, lasting an hour and forty minutes. He then rode through the streets on his horse in the inaugural parade. A few days later, he fell with pneumonia and died the next month.
DC EXAMINER:
Accuweather.com on Thursday released a forecast that had D.C.’s high temperature at 20 degrees today — the lowest in more than a decade. The weather is expected to be about 10 degrees colder than average through the inauguration with biting winds making it feel even colder.
HARDLY THE STUFF AGW IS MADE OF.
  • SO WILL OBAMA MENTION CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE "GREEN ECONOMY" IN HIS INAUGURAL?
  • IF HE DOES, IT MAY GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE BIGGEST BLUNDER IN ANY INAUGURAL SPEECH - EVER.
OBAMA MAY NOT MENTION THE WORDS "CLIMATE CHANGE" AND INSTEAD CLOAK HIS APPEAL FOR FEDERAL SPENDING ON "NEW/ALTERNATIVE/RENEWABLE" ENERGY ON OTHER GROUNDS.

(IF OBAMA DOES MENTION "CLIMATE CHANGE", THEN I'D SAY HE REALLY IS THE COMMITTED LEFTIST WE ALL FEAR.)

Feminists Prefer to Abort All Male Geniuses

From Al Fin:
At the same time that prenatal screening of genes and chromosomes is becoming more common, some parents are choosing abortion for a wider range of conditions.
Just as with Down's syndrome, cystic fibrosis or spina bifida, a mother-to-be could decide whether she can cope with the strain of bringing up a disabled child. With an autistic child, it may mean a lifetime of rejection - living with someone unlikely ever to fit into the family, who responds with blank incomprehension to affection, whose behaviour may be erratic and disturbing, whose condition is permanent. Autism, and its associated condition, Asperger's syndrome, can range from virtual incapacity at one end of the spectrum to the merely strange at the other. To bring up one autistic child is a challenge to the sanity of an entire family. To bring up two might destroy it. _Times
But there is a possibility that male genius and autism follow much the same -- if not identical -- pathway in early development. Famousgeniuses from Einstein to Mozart have been posthumously diagnosed as autistic.
Some people with autism have amazed experts with their outstanding memories, mathematical skills or musical talent. Now scientists have found that the genes thought to cause autism may also confer mathematical, musical and other skills on people without the condition.

The finding has emerged from a study of autism among 378 Cambridge University students, which found the condition was up to seven times more common among mathematicians than students in other disciplines. It was also five times more common in the siblings of mathematicians.

...“It seems clear that genes play a significant role in the causes of autism and that those genes are also linked to certain intellectual skills.” _TimesOnline
For feminists, this conundrum presents an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. The more widely abortion can be applied to everyday life in the name of medical necessity, the less likely that socially conservative politicians can ever make abortion illegal or difficult to obtain. In addition, the widespread abortion of males with Asperger's or borderline Asperger's, would conceivably reduce the number of male geniuses and high math functioning males. A drastic reduction of male geniuses would narrow the gender gap, long a top goal of feminist ideologues, politicians, and academics.

Under a nationalised single-payer system of healthcare financing, abortion for specific genetic, chromosomal, or other congenital conditions might even become mandatory -- as a means of controlling costs.

The origin of genius in humans, as well as the preponderance of males within the ranks of geniuses, have never been well explained scientifically. Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin, Michael Fitzgerald, believes that "the genes for autism/Asperger’s, and creativity are essentially the same." That remains to be proven, but as a hypothesis it needs to be clarified and tested.

Large areas of higher education in North America have been rendered dysfunctional by militant feminist dogma in the academy. Performing overpriced academic lobotomies on the adolescents and young adults of North America is one thing. Let's make sure it doesn't go further than that.

Moderate Turkish PM Erdogan: Bar Israel from UN over Gaza offensive

What a moderate Erdogan has turned out to be. One has to wonder if there is any such thing as moderate Islam


Turkey's prime minister on Friday said Israel should be barred from the United Nations while it ignores the body's calls to stop fighting in Gaza.

"How is such a country, which does not implement resolutions of the UN Security Council, allowed to enter through the gates of the UN (headquarters)?" Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.


Erdogan accused Israel of attacking civilians under the pretext of targeting the Islamic militant group of Hamas.

Erdogan has previously defended his outspoken criticism of Israel's Gaza offensive, saying it did not mean he was anti-Semitic. However, the Turkish prime minister also remarked that the "Jewish-backed media" was falsely suggesting that Hamas uses civilians as human shields in the Gaza Strip.

TAB SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT BY A DAY

WHAT GLENN POSTED TODAY:
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT: “The so-called ‘Iranian Unit’ of Hamas has been destroyed, according to Gaza sources cited Thursday by the Haaretz daily. The sources said most of the unit’s 100 members were killed in fighting in the Zeytun neighborhood of Gaza City.”

Plus, this from a captured terrorist: “Hamas took a gamble. We thought, at worst Israel will come and do something from the air - something superficial. They’ll come in and go out. We never thought that we would reach the point where fear will swallow the heart and the feet will want to flee. You [Israel] are fighting like you fought in ‘48. What got into you all of a sudden?”

Posted at 12:09 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WAS AT TAB YESTERDAY.


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The Orwellian "Stimuli"... and the BofA Bailout


Cartoon by Glenn McCoy (click to enlarge)

George Orwell originally coined the word "doublethink" as describing someone who has "...simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them..."; this in turn led to the term "doublespeak".

If ever there were a time in our history where the purposeful misleading of huge masses of people by its elected representatives--using doublespeak language to mask the truth--was virulent, now is that time.

Anyone with an understanding of Basic Economics knows that tax cuts "stimulate", whereas spending money on inefficient Government programs puts an enormous negative burden on the economy. Today, with the House's passage of the proposed "stimulus" package by Nancy Pelosi (with NO input from one Republican) a stunned House Minority Leader could only muster: "Oh my God!"

That was more printable than was my reaction...

Thus, the latest column from Victor Davis Hanson carries a particularly bitter irony (emphasis mine):
Printing trillions more dollars and growing government to cover new debts isn’t so bad if we call it “stimulus.” That is far smarter than saying something honest like, “I propose a new $1 trillion debt program.”

The old-fashioned spendthrift policies we used to ridicule as congressional pork and “earmarks” are now justified under that ubiquitous, nice word “stimulus.” If funding another questionable museum in your district was once congressional pork barreling, it will now be a patriotic act to get the national economy moving again.

Yet much of what is driving this national hysteria in our reaction to the current economic downturn is psychological. After all, no plagues, wars, or earthquakes have killed our workforce, destroyed our infrastructure, or wiped out our computer banks.

Instead, for years now we have overspent and over-borrowed—and must naturally pay up. And like any chastised debtor, panicked Americans logically have temporarily clammed up and are holding on to what money they have left.

In response, the government apparently doesn’t only want to free up credit to get us back to our profligate habits of borrowing what we don’t have so we can buy what we don’t need. It also would like to create new programs to build infrastructure; guarantee new loans; and offer additional credits, bailouts and entitlements.

Or in the words of incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

Traditional conservative custodians of the budget can’t say much. They are largely discredited on matters of finance. During the last eight years of Republican prominence in Congress and the White House, the government borrowed as never before.

Liberals in turn have suddenly rewritten their own economic history. They used to claim the great surge in government under Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got us out of the Great Depression with deficit spending and federal jobs programs.

But many historians have argued instead that unemployment and slow growth remained high throughout Roosevelt’s first two terms—until the Second World War scared us all into a fit of national mobilization that alone ended the ongoing 13-year depression between 1929 and 1941.

Now here’s the irony: Liberals suddenly agree that only the Second World War stopped the Depression, after all! So they now argue that we need a new New Deal far greater than the old New Deal. In other words, they want to re-create the urgency of World War II to get government to grow and spend big-time.
And you know what... I think that is exactly what will happen. My MD recently opined that it is going to take another World War to pull America out of this funk--and it just might...

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: A laundry list of some of the goodies in the latest "Stimulus" abomination, via Ace:

Read it and weep. Or drink. Or drink, then weep.

-$6 billion to weatherize "modest income homes."

-$6 billion to provide internet in "underserved" areas

-$6 billion for "higher education modernization."

-$20 billion in health information technology to "prevent medical mistakes."

-$20 billion to increase food stamp funding

-$87 billion to provide a "temporary" increase in Medicaid funding

-$300 million to provide rebates for people who purchase Energy Star products

-$600 million for the federal government to buy brand new energy efficient cars

-$400 million for state and local governments to buy brand new energy efficient cars

-$2.4 billion for carbon capture demonstration programs

-$350 million to research using energy efficient technology on military bases

-$300 million for grants and loans to state and local governments for projects that reduce diesel emissions, "benefiting public health and reducing global warming"

-$500 million for energy efficient manufacturing demonstration projects.

-$400 million to build major research facilities "that perform cutting edge science"

-$1.5 billion for expanding "good jobs in biomedical research"

Etc., etc., etc.

UPDATE: Gerald over at The Internet Anthropologist sums up the situation--specifically the Bank of America Bailout II--(and my own anger about all of the above) quite nicely:
The regulators, Yes men.
First Madoff gets to run a 50 BILLION SCAM.

And now the Federal Reserve turns into YES MEN.

The tax payers thru their Representatives
authorize $800 Billion USD to buy up
bad sub prime paper.

Bad paper knowingly loaned by the Banks.
And the Federal Reserve DOES NOT
buy up the the bad paper, but just
give $400 Billion to the criminal Banks.

Bank of America did their "due diligence "
And the pigs are back for MORE.
$20 Billion more.
If they made a mistake
they can eat it.

Merrill Lynch never gave me money
when I made an Investment error.

Why am I giving money to BANK
of America when they make an Investment error.

What is the head of the Federal Reserve Thinking,
What did the lobbyists tell him?

Why is he listening to the to the Lobbyists?

LETS REVIEW:
The Bank Corps write billions of bad/default
sub-prime paper and sell it to the market
and Fannie and Freddie.

Then they get $800 Billion gift and
a kicker $2 trillion from the Feds without
authorization.

And one is back for $20 Billion more.

The same criminal Banks charging usury
rates in 47 states.

And allow the terrorist to steal American ID.

The same Banks that give credit cards
to those they know will default.
And turn $800 charges into $2,300
with late charges and fees.

Which they then sell to collection agencies.
Because of the changes in Bankruptcy laws
which the Banks drafted,

Allow the collection agencies to charge interest
until the victim dies then collect $15,000
from the victims estate from 15 yrs of interest.

All from loaning $800 to someone they knew
would default.

The Feds are willing to give these guys $20 Billion
more because they had the balls to ask for it,

Gerald
Series 7 & 13

The Fed was given a charter to buy up this toxic sub prime paper.
The loans that poisoned the money markets.
And they bought NONE.
They gave the money to the Banks.
This bad sub-prime paper is an cancer
infecting the markets, it has been covered up
with the gifts to the Banks.
The sub-prime paper is still festering.
Spreading infection, waiting to break out.

Mark this toxic mess to market,
the market will fix it.
And its going to HURT.
The longer they wait the more its going HURT.
Obama is being handed a time bomb.
TICK TICK TICK
UPDATE: More from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

Bank of America’s stock lost 40 percent of its value during the past 10 days — shares closed on Thursday in single digits for the first time in 18 years — and the taxpayer money will be used to ameliorate the losses from its acquisition of Merrill Lynch. Chief Executive Ken Lewis called it “deal of a lifetime” when it was announced.

People familiar with the unfolding events, requesting anonymity to speak freely, said Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, with the knowledge of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, pressured the bank to stick to its purchase of Merrill Lynch.

Uh-huh. In other words, had Paulson not forced the bank to buy up a failing business with a horrible balance sheet, BofA would have been stable and we wouldn’t be spending $20 billion to stabilize it. “Deal of a lifetime,” indeed. Everyone involved in that transaction should be fired, starting with Paulson and Bernanke, except of course that Paulson’s out of a job on Tuesday, anyway. BofA already received $25 billion in bailout money when they bought ML last year, and now they’ll get another $20 billion while they shed 35,000 jobs. What a deal for taxpayers, right?

But wait — there’s more! Since BofA apparently called Operator #5 before midnight, they get the extra bonus of what amounts to a $118 billion line of credit to help backstop their assets, primarily real-estate loans, so that investors can feel secure despite their drop in value. Where did they get those loans? They bought them when they bought Merrill Lynch. I wonder if they get a set of Sham-Wows with that …

Of course, had Paulson actually followed the plan that he begged Congress to pass last October, the TARP funds would have gone to purchasing those toxic mortgage-backed securities and would have stabilized the real-estate loan market. It might have made the entire series of bailouts unnecessary. Now it looks like Paulson will wind up doing both TARP and the bailouts but backwards, and while almost destroying other financial institutions along the way.

This is government doing what it does naturally to markets — they screw them up. One would have thought they’d have learned this lesson from the housing bubble. Instead, we’re going to get a steady dose of the hair of the dog for the next four years, and we can expect more nonexistent money to chase after bad results.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

IRANIAN TRAINED HAMAS UNIT DESTROYED

THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A IMPORTANT PART OF THE IDF'S MISSION ONCE INSIDE GAZA:

HAARETZ: Palestinian sources: 'Iranian unit' of Hamas has been destroyed
Palestinian sources reported Thursday that the "Iranian Unit" of Hamas, members of the group's military wing trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, had been destroyed.

According to the sources, most of the unit's members were killed in fighting in the Zeytun neighborhood, where they had been deployed by the military leadership of Hamas.

The unit numbered approximately 100 men who had traveled to Iran and Hezbollah camps, mostly in the Beka'a Valley, where they were trained in infantry fighting tactics. The militants were also trained in the use of anti-tank missiles, the detonation of explosives, among other skills.
IF WE WANT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THEN WE WILL HAVE TO NEUTER IRAN.

BRRRR! RARE THRICE-IN-A-CENTURY EVENT: DANUBE FREEZES OVER IN PRAGUE AND BELGRADE

CCC: Snow and Cold all over Northern Hemisphere - DANUBE FREEZES OVER!
Across Europe and North America, extreme cold and snow are setting records thanks to a pair of unusual weather patterns in each continent

The craziest images of the cold came from Madrid, Spain last week, which saw a rare snowstorm shut down Barajas Airport last Friday and Saturday and also forced local football matches to be postponed. Cold weather in France and in the United Kingdom also cancelled football matches, a rare occurrence in both countries.

The Danube River, which only freezes a few times a century, has frozen in Belgrade and Prague as a result of the bitter cold.

Across the Atlantic, the US is also experiecing a nation-wide cold snap not seen for several years. Boston, New York and other cities in the northeastern US saw snow last weekend and are expecting more this week. Temperatures are expected to be well below average in the northeast, with high temperatures as low as -10 in Boston in the forecast for later this week.
BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!

THIS PROVES - ONCE AGAIN - THAT THERE AIN'T NO SUCH EFFIN THING AS AGW.

HOW!? SIMPLE:

MAN-MADE CO2 HAVE GONE UP EVERY YEAR SINCE 1840, BUT TEMPS HAVEN'T; IN FACT, GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMP FOR 2008 WAS THE COLDEST IN THE LEAST EIGHT YEARS.

IF CO2>2008 THAN 2007, BUT TEMPS WERE LOWER, THEN AGW = BS.

A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE: MORE RWANDANS KILLED EACH OTHER RIGHT UNDER THE UN'S NOSE DURING CLINTON'S TERM THAN ISRAELIS HAVE KILLED ARABS SINCE 1948

Just saying.

Because the way the Left - and the MSM they control - make it seem you'd think that Gaza was the bloodiest place on Earth for the last 50 years and Israelis (read JOOOOOZE!) the worst killers on the planet. "GAZA = HOLOCAUST" they procalim. Hardly.

Here's some truth:

Since winning their independence in 1948 - THAT'S SIXTY YEARS - Israelis have killed 50,000 Arabs - in SEVERAL ALL OUT (OR NEARLY ALL OUT) EXISTENTIAL WARS. That's by a nation of 5 million Jews versus a hostile Arab ummah of 180 million.

Hafez al Assad and King Hussein and Saddam Hussein and the Algerian Civil War have killed 20 TIMES as many Arabs.

The biggest threat to Arab life over the last 60 years HAS BEEN OTHER ARABS, NOT JEWS, NOT ISRAELIS.

And GLOBALLY, Hindus have killed more Muslims than Jews have, and Muslims have killed more Muslims than Hindus and Jews have killed Muslims.

If they want to see the cause of their woes, then Muslims and Arabs should look in the mirror.

And leave Israelis and Jews alone. And Hindus, too...

SIX BBC HEADLINES FROM THIS MORNING PROVE - ONCE AGAIN - THAT GAZA IS MERELY ONE FRONT IN GLOBAL JIHAD

BBC: Pakistan 'holds 124' over Mumbai

BBC:
Spate of bomb attacks in Baghdad

BBC:
Sudanese Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi has been arrested after calling on President Omar al-Bashir to hand himself in to face war crimes charges.

BBC:
One of Afghanistan's top army officers and 12 other soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash in the west of the country, the defence ministry says. ... According to some reports, Taleban fighters claimed they had shot the helicopter down - but the ministry denied this, saying it was an accident.
BBC: Islamists take bases in Mogadishu

BBC: Aid workers taken in Philippines
Gunmen have abducted three aid workers from Italy, Switzerland and the Philippines on southern Jolo island, the Philippine National Red Cross says.

The Red Cross chairman, Senator Richard Gordon, said the three were in a car on their way to Jolo airport.

They had been visiting a local jail when they were intercepted by armed men on motorbikes, he said.

The island is a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group, which is notorious for kidnappings and terror attacks.
THESE WERE JUST FROM TODAY'S BBC HEADLINES. ALL JUST TODAY. FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE: PHILIPPINES, AFRICA; SOUTH ASIA...

WHAT DO THEY TELL US?

THAT ISRAEL AND THE JEWS HAVE VERY LITTLE TO DO WITH GLOBAL JIHAD.

FOCUSING ALL OUR ATTENTION ON THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT IS ENEMY PROPAGANDA MEANT TO DIVIDE THE WEST.

US AIR JET CRASH "LANDS" IN HUDSON - EVERYONE SURVIVES!

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MICHELLE OBAMA'S HIGH-PAYING/IMPORTANT JOB AT HOSPITAL ELIMINATED

JP VIA DOUG ROSS - WHO HAS MORE:
After Barack Obama became an Illinois state legislator, his wife moved up as well, scoring a job as 'vice president of community relations' at the University Of Chicago Hospital for a very generous salary of $121,910. When Obama became a senator in 2005, her 'salary' leapfrogged to $$316,962 for the same job...and one of Senator Obama's first acts in office was to see to it that the hospital received over a million dollars of your tax dollars as an earmark.

Well, Michelle has moved on,and guess what...that vital job of hers,worth a salary of over $300 K has been quietly eliminated.

It's the Chicago Way

OBAMA IS VERY CORRUPT AND HIS UNNECESSARY "STIMULUS PACKAGE" IS GOING TO BE THE BIOGGEST BOONDOGGLE IN US HISTORY - ONE HIS CHICAGO GANG AND SEIU & AFSCME COMRADES ARE GOING TO PROFIT ON.

HAMAS "INTERIOR MINISTER" DIES IN HOUSE INTERIORS

Scratch one Said Siam:
Hamas's interior minister, Said Siam, was killed along with his brother Iad and his son, as well as another senior Hamas man in an IAF strike on a house in the Jabaliya neighborhood in Gaza City, Israeli defense officials told The Jerusalem Post.

Siam was the Hamas political echelon's liaison with the group's military wing, and was responsible for the various security apparatuses in the Strip, including the police and the naval force.

Siam was considered a radical and was in contact with Hamas's political leadership in Damascus. He was also considered close to Iranian officials.

Siam was one of the masterminds of Hamas's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007.

Salah Abu Shrakh, the head of the Hamas general security service, was also killed in the air strike.

Siam was the most senior Hamas man to be killed in almost three weeks of fighting. Hamas confirmed that Siam was killed with his brother and son. According to Palestinian reports, Mahmoud Watfa, one of the commanders of the Hamas military wing, was also killed in the strike.

[...]

Two weeks ago, the IAF dropped a one-ton bomb on the home of one of the group's top five leaders, Sheikh Nizar Rayyan, killing him and a reported 18 others.

Rayyan was both the director and the financier of the 2004 terror attack at the Ashdod port, which killed 10 Israelis, and in October 2001 he sent his son to perpetrate a suicide attack in the Gush Katif settlement Elei Sinai, where two Israelis were killed.

Rayyan also reportedly replaced Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as the organization's top clerical authority after Yassin's assassination in 2004.
Siam's death is quite a prize in the war on terror, and he's one more terrorist who fully deserved what he got.

RED CROSS CLEARS IDF ON PHOSPHOROUS USE; TAB scooped LGF by three days

LGF TODAY.

TAB THREE DAYS AGO.

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PBS' Bill Moyers Slandsers Jews: Says "God-Soaked Violence Became Genetically Encoded"

UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST

Stunning.


The Mask Slips- Racism on PBS

The liberal establishment is under such stress over the possibility that Israel might succeed in protecting her own people that they are letting the mask slip a little. The latest is Bill Moyers giving us a raw peek into the consciousness of The Saint of PBS.


Talking about Gaza and going back to the book of Deuteronomy, he referenced the biblical commands to take the promised land and jumped (I am not kidding!) to this outrageous bit of racism:


“So God-soaked violence became genetically coded.”

Funny, isn’t it, that he would say that about the Jews not the other side of the Gaza conflict who routinely kill Journalists, film makers and other superior beings.


It is amazing that Jews still donate to PBS (Palestinian Broadcasting System).

Richard Landes has a wonderful piece on it here.



Let's look at some other quotes, shall we?

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)

the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)



UPDATE:



"The irony of it all is the Jews who believe they are ‘chosen'...better than anyone else, and entitled by God to kill and steal homes and land...are shooting themselves in the foot. Madoff, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, all Jewish American companies and investors, lied to the American people about their true financial status, and have sunk us all..."
-
Comment posted on PBS website in support of Bill Moyers' Gaza commentary
While some viewers of "Bill Moyers Journal" recently went on the show's web page to congratulate Moyers on his January 9 commentary alleging that Israel targets civilians, others, including longtime fans, were surprised and saddened.

If they were surprised, they haven't been paying close attention in recent years.

They might have missed Moyers' friendly softball interview last year with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, one of the black community's most notorious racists and anti-Semites; as well as Moyers' recommendation to viewers of his earlier program "Now" that they go to the PBS website to read a worshipful interview with "esteemed intellectual" Noam Chomsky, who, weeks earlier, had visited and encouraged Hezbollah terrorists shortly before they launched their killing spree in Israel. (Similarly, Chomsky has praised notorious Holocaust denier Robert Faurison-who claims the Jews caused World War II, and mocks Holocaust survivors as liars-for the quality of his "extensive historical research.")

This is US tax money at work-yours, mine, and that of the loved ones of the courageous Navy diver Robert Stethem, who was tortured and murdered by Chomsky's Hezbollah buddies in 1985.

When did Moyers forget that real progressives are supposed to oppose fascists, totalitarians, and terrorists, not promote and empower them and their supporters?

The following remarks are from commentaries on the Israel-Hamas war by Moyers and by the world's best-known Nazi/Klansman, David Duke. Can you tell which is which? (The answers appear at the end.)

1) All you have to do is the look at the resolution recently passed by the House of Representatives (HRES 34 EH) with only 5 dissenting votes.... It condemns Hamas and the people of Gaza as terrorists but has no mention of the decades long Israeli occupation and strangulation of the West Bank and Gaza.

2) America has officially chosen sides. We supply Israel with money, F-16s, winks and tacit signals.

3) [People killed in Gaza] are the casualties and victims of Israel's decision to silence the rockets from Hamas terrorists by waging war on an entire population.

4) For over 40 years Israel has occupied the West Bank and Gaza, imprisoned and walled off its people.

5) Israel misses no opportunity to humiliate the Palestinians with checkpoints, concrete walls, routine insults, and the onslaught in Gaza.

6) By the blockades of food and medicine, by the checkpoints and by the mass bombing and resulting slaughter, Israel is endeavoring to make life so horrible for the Palestinians, that they simply leave Palestine ...

7) By killing indiscriminately -- the elderly, kids, entire families by destroying schools and hospitals -- Israel did exactly what terrorists do...

8) ...Israel has bombed and terrorized the people of the region for years, and ...will not recognize the government the people of Gaza voted for in free elections.

9) ...one man's terrorism becomes another's resistance to oppression.

10) It is time for the United States and all EU nations to completely cease all economic and military aid to Israel.

11) As if boasting of their might, Israel defense forces even put up video of the explosions on YouTube for all the world to see. A Norwegian doctor there tells CBS, "It's like Dante's Inferno. They are bombing one and a half million people in a cage."

12) Our political elites show neither independence nor courage by challenging the consensus that Israel can do no wrong. Although one recent poll found Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose the Israeli offensive by a 24-point margin, Democratic Party leaders in Congress nonetheless march in lockstep to the hardliners in Israel and the White House. Rarely does our mainstream media depart from the monotonous monologue of the party line.

13) A tremendous array of media personal attacks and political sabotage both in influence and monetary will descend on the hapless [politician who opposes Israel] The same thing is true in media...

14) But those who raise questions are accused by a prominent reform rabbi of being "morally deficient."

15) Go to the Book of Deuteronomy. When the ancient Israelites entered Canaan their leaders urged violence against its inhabitants. The very Moses who had brought down the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" now proclaimed, "You must destroy completely all the places where the nations have served their gods. You must tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles, set fire to the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their name from that place"....So God-soaked violence became genetically coded.

(Answers: Bill Moyers: 2,3,5,7,9,11,12,14,15; David Duke: 1,4,6,8,10,13)

How did you do? If it was difficult to tell the difference, we might have found PBS a replacement for Moyers when he retires.

A viewer who began her message to Moyers by saying, "Bill, you are someone who I had admired and respected for a long time..." asked, "Did you really say that violence is inherent in Jews?" It appears that he did, in the final quote cited. He reinforced this storyline by neglecting to mention that Hamas bases its terrorist operations among civilians, in violation of the Geneva Conventions, and that Israel warns civilians to leave battle zones. He further bolsters the stereotype by telling his audience that "Israel misses no opportunity to humiliate the Palestinians with checkpoints, concrete walls, routine insults, and the onslaught in Gaza," as if defensive measures were acts of gratuitous meanness, failing to mention that there were no checkpoints, walls, or military responses until years of Palestinian terrorism necessitated them.

Moyers has every right to imply that a uniquely murderous proclivity is genetically hard-wired into Jewish DNA, and to back up his claim by inaccurately stating that Israel is "killing indiscriminately -- the elderly, kids, entire families by destroying schools and hospitals --...exactly what terrorists do," after remaining silent for the past 7 years through 11,000 rocket and mortars attacks on Israeli civilians. The question is whether our tax dollars should continue sponsoring his inflammatory distortions and falsehoods.