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OBAMA: CAMPAIGN CHANGE! A lie you can beLieve in...

Obama lies much the way most folks breathe, often. I received my thrice daily Obama  email from Obamessiah HQ beseeching me to send him moe moe money to fund his obscenely fat coffers.

I had to laugh at the opening lie on this email:

Dear Pamela --

On Monday, everyone will be watching our fundraising totals to see if we can compete with the McCain campaign.

This month is the first test of our grassroots fundraising strategy since we declared our independence from the broken campaign finance system.

Independence my ass. But get the opening: "to see if we can compete with the McCain campaign." The " undershtupper" is way ahead of McCain

McCain  has raised more than $110 million since the start of his campaign last year — but that that is still less than half of the nearly $260 million Barack Obama raised through April 30. (FOX News)

And according to Business Week: John McCain Is Way Behind Online

Obama spent $27 million in May.

Meanwhile, McCain spent just $12 million.

Just sayin. Obama clearly thinks his constinuency is ill-informed and stoopid.

Wait it gets better - talkin' shady

Midnight tonight is the crucial financial reporting deadline for June.

Right now is the time to step up and own a piece of this campaign. I need your help to take on John McCain, the Republican National Committee, and the shady so-called 527 groups that are dedicated to attacking this campaign using millions of dollars in unregulated contributions.

 

 

SEYMOUR HERSH US COVERT OPS IN IRAN: CNNS "WINKS, NODS, AND HINTS"

How disgusting is CNN, the Crescent News Network? As vile and seditious as Seymour Hersh, tireless Iranian operative aka New Yorker correspondent. And Hersh is just soooooooo credible. Remember Hersh's last breaking Iran story back April 2006 where he proclaimed a US attack on Iran was imminent? Of course CNN failed to mention that in their groundbreaking report based on (and I quote) "winks, nods, and hints" from government sources. Hersh, author of Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (need I say more)?

I am sure it's the same government sources that leaked the bogus secret prison nonsense. The leftards busy at work at our agencies, infiltration at the highest levels, working feverishly to defeat America. Hersh sleeps with these dogs. Here's his report.

G-d willing, there is some truth to it. What this asshat hopes to achieve by exposing it and jeoparding great Americans is a mental illness to deep to go into here.

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The Stench of Obama's Fear

Obama is afraid. Very afraid. I love it. He "will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign." How very convenient. This America hater who wouldn't wear the flag pin until it become a political liability, wouldn't salute the flag, won't question a decorated war hero and  POW.

That's rich. He's got brass ones alright,  just not for the jihad and Islamic nations desperately pursuing nuclear weapons.

He also "pledged"  that he will "not stand idly by when others attack [my patriotism]."

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LIVNI THE LIAR

In Caroline Glick's latest column,  Glick askes: Livni the leader, or Livni the Lamb? - I say neither. She's a liar and she's spineless, the two requirements necessary to lead Israel nowadays.

Livni the leader, or Livni the Lamb ? Glick J Post

Livni voted for this deal along with 21 of her fellow ministers. Unlike her colleagues, who hide behind their surrogates and spokesmen, Livni is out in front - lying to the public about the nature of her action.

Obviously cognizant of just how humiliating and strategically disastrous this deal is for Israel, Livni is spinning her move in a naked attempt to shirk her responsibility for having voted as she did.

After the government's vote, Livni told reporters that she will not support implementing her own decision if the Palestinians Israel releases are "central terrorist operatives." She will only agree to release terrorists who are small-time operators. And if she is called upon to release senior terrorists, she will not support moving ahead.

LIVNI'S STATEMENT is disturbing on many levels. First, it raises the disconcerting prospect that the government never discussed the identity - or number - of Palestinian terrorists it just agreed to release. Are we to believe that Livni sat through a five-hour cabinet meeting and never once asked who she was voting to release? Is it possible that Israel's Foreign Minister never took it upon herself to be informed of the substance of her decisions? Beyond that, how could she have voted to approve a deal that she doesn't understand?

More than anything, Livni's statement is depressing for what it says about her character - or lack thereof. By making this statement, Livni was attempting to evade responsibility for her own actions. And these actions go beyond her vote in favor of this execrable, morally atrocious and strategically disastrous deal with Hizbullah. They consist of all her moves as foreign minister since Regev and Goldwasser were abducted from their position at the border with Lebanon on July 12, 2006.

From the earliest stages of Israel's war with Hizbullah two years ago, Livni preached defeatism. Livni began calling for a negotiated cease-fire that would leave Hizbullah in charge of South Lebanon just hours after Hizbullah attacked Goldwasser's and Regev's unit and began bombing northern Israel with rockets. She exhorted her colleagues that Israel had no prospects for military victory. Livni did this even as it was clear that the only good option Israel had was to fight for a military victory.

Had Israel defeated Iran's foreign legion in Lebanon on the battlefield, it would have secured northern Israel and enabled the March 14 democracy movement to fulfill its promise of transforming Lebanon into a multi-ethnic democracy. Already on July 12, 2006, it was clear that an Israeli defeat would pave the way for Hizbullah's takeover of the country.

Yet in the face of this known reality, Livni called for Israel to capitulate. The policy she advocated involved Israel throwing itself at the mercy of the UN and begging the Security Council to deploy forces to the border to protect Israel. And in the end, Livni's defeatism was embraced by Olmert and her fellow ministers and so Israel lost its first war.

There's more where that came from. Read it all.

IRAQ SUES UN: Obama's Iraqi Oil for Food connection

Iraq will be suing the UN for the biggest scandal in human history. BRAVO!!! This is interesting to me because Obama's backers, Rezko and Auchi were both involved and dirty in this travesty. Obama better hope the international wheels of justice (now there's an oxymoron) will turn slowly - if not in reverse: Auchi is  Obama's Iraqi oil for food connection

Teflon Obama took Millions from Billionaire Nadhni Auchi

Atlas Shrugs: Obama Partied with Crook Rezko & "taste for blood AUCHI

A great deal of Mr. Auchi's money was made doing business with the regime of Saddam Hussein, much of it under the table. In 1987, Mr. Auchi helped French and Italian firms win a huge oil pipeline contract in Iraq, chiefly by paying off Iraqi officials, according to testimony given by an Italian banker to prosecutors in Milan. In 2003, he was convicted for his role in what was then the largest scandal in French history, involving payoffs from executives of the oil company now known as Total to political figures in Spain, Germany and Africa.

And funds from Auchi's loan may have helped finance a complex series of transactions between Rezko and Democratic Presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama involving the 2005 purchase of Obama's Chicago mansion and Rezko's purchase of an adjoining landlocked parcel.

Claudia Rosset must be jumping for joy. I am.

Iraq sues UN over Oil-for-Food programme fraud-Justice Ministry hat tip Big dog

Iraqi judicial source said his country would lodge a lawsuit against the United Nations at a U.S court over corruption charges in the Oil-for-Food programme overseen by the International organisation for seven years.

“A Texas-based legal firm would lodge an Iraqi government lawsuit at state court in NewYork”, Iraqi Justice Ministry source, who requested anonmity, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI).

The source noted “Iraq file the case to catch up with its deadline  expiring by the end of June”.
The Oil-for-Food Programme, established by the United Nations in 1995, which started working on April16th 1996 and terminated in late 2003, was intended to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs for ordinary Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to rebuild its military.

The programme was introduced by U.S administration in 1995, as a response to arguments that ordinary Iraqi citizens were inordinately affected by the international economic sanctions aimed at the demilitarisation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, imposed in the wake of the first Gulf War. The sanctions were discontinued on November21, 2003 after the U.S. Invasion of Iraq, and the humanitarian functions turned over to the Coalition Provisional Authority.

As the programme ended, there were revelations of corruption involving the funds.

According to an interim report released by an idependent commission led by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker food aid supplied under the programme "was unfit for human consumption".

The report concluded that former regime of Saddam Hussein had gained nearly $1.8 million in bribes and paybacks skimmed over the course of the programme..

Larwyn adds, and Don't Forget the Global Governance Movement which Obama is trying to have passed in Congress.  Idea is to tax the U.S. to give billions to "poor" countries and guess who gets to distribute the $$$???  THE UN!!! How special is that!!

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BOLTON ON BUSH'S NORK NUCLEAR COLLAPSE

....or many erstwhile administration supporters, this is a moment of genuine political poignancy. Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse.

Tragic for us. The worst of all possible scenarios.

The Tragic End of Bush's North Korea Policy Ambassador John Bolton, Wall Street Journal hat tip Van

North Korea has consecutively broken every major agreement with the U.S. since the North's creation. The Bush administration provides no reason why this one will not be added to that long list except the audacity of hope. Where have we heard that recently? Barack Obama and John Kerry both announced support for the deal, and Mr. Obama said he intended to apply Bush's policy to other rogue states, thus confirming the early start of the Obama administration.

The Feb. 13, 2007, agreement states explicitly that North Korea was to provide "a complete declaration of all nuclear programs" within 60 days. This it manifestly did not do, either in timing or substance. The declaration, more than 14 months overdue, and which is not yet public, has long been forecast not to include information on weaponization, uranium enrichment, or proliferation activities such as cloning the Yongbyon reactor in Syria. Although the North provided less than it agreed 16 months ago, we compensated by giving up more than we agreed, which is typical of decades of U.S. negotiation with the North.

The extent to which Yongbyon's aggregate plutonium production has been weaponized and concealed is one critical unresolved issue. Moreover, analysis of the much-touted 18,000 pages of Yongbyon documentation previously turned over has uncovered significant gaps in information, especially concerning the reactor's early years of operation, that preclude making a truly accurate calculation. This is essentially the same problem that the International Atomic Energy Agency faced during its years of monitoring Yongbyon under the failed 1994 Agreed Framework, showing that the North is nothing if not consistent in its cover-up strategy.

Ironically, the documents themselves are contaminated with particles of highly enriched uranium, probably from that enrichment program North Korea still denies. This program's extent is crucial, because if it is production scope, the North will still have a route to fissile material no matter what Yongbyon's ultimate fate, proving yet again that leveling those aged facilities was a nonconcession.

Bush administration officials contend on this and other unresolved issues that they will insist on verification, but inside the government there is little or no planning on what that means precisely, let alone agreement on the details with North Korea. Given the North's record of maskirovka, the extent of open and intrusive verification we should demand would likely undermine the very foundations of the regime itself, which Kim Jong Il will obviously not accept.

The North's proliferation, such as the now-flattened Yongbyon twin in Syria, are important not only for what they prove about the North's ongoing duplicity, but for their potentially central place in the North's continuing nuclear weapons program. This is emphatically not, therefore, merely a matter of filling out the historical record, but rather an avenue of inquiry that focuses directly on the North's current capabilities and intentions. Pooh-poohing proliferation in this way, as the administration has done, is evidence of its desperation not to allow the deal to come unstuck.

The administration argues that these criticisms are unwarranted because it has always contemplated that the North's denuclearization would play out in phases. This is no answer at all. Instead, it graphically reveals one of the deal's central problems. There is no advantage to the U.S. in proceeding by phases. To the contrary, North Korea alone benefits by phasing, by stretching out a process that enables Kim Jong Il to stay in power and to maximize the political and economic benefits he can extract through each excruciatingly lengthy and painful phase.

Consider, moreover, the deal's corrosive impact on the very concept of the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. Removing North Korea from the list for political reasons unrelated to terrorism simply provides ammunition for those who argue that the existence of the list itself is purely political. Critically, since the North's nuclear and ballistic missile programs materially assisted Syria and Iran, two other states on the terrorism honor roll, it is hard to see what remains of President Bush's doctrine that those who support terrorists will be treated as terrorists.

Consider also the palpable damage our mishandling of the terrorism issues has caused to our alliance with Japan, whose citizens, along with many South Koreans, were abducted by Pyongyang's agents. One might quibble that this is not state sponsorship of terrorism, but rather direct state terrorism. (Perhaps we should create a new list for North Korea.) It is hardly a reason to remove Japan's most effective leverage to get a straight accounting from the North about its citizens. Of course, why should we expect North Korea to be any more honest on the abductee issue than on anything else?

The only good news is that there is little opportunity for the Bush administration to make any further concessions in its waning days in office. But for many erstwhile administration supporters, this is a moment of genuine political poignancy. Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse.

Bolton photoshop (maybe it's not) hat tip Bill

TREASONOUS DEMOCRAT CONNOLLY TOOK CAIR'S RADICAL ISLAM $$$

Gerry Connolly, Democrat rep for the Jihad is on the take for CAIR's. Remember the low life I told you about here, Gerry Connolly, who offered strong defense of the Islamic school that teaches jihad, Islamic Jew hatred and aids and abets child sexual molestation. Gerry Connolly, who is the Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia's 11th District -- offered a strong defense of the school and accused the school's critics of slander during the meeting in which the lease was approved. Connelly is runningfor Congress. In that post I wrote,

Who would vote for this jihad lover, whatever your party affiliation? Accusing great Americans of slander, it is he who is slanderous. I would love to read his list of donors, I betcha it is chuck full of Saudi blood money.

And lest we not forget, the: Saudis Gave 50 Million to CAIR. If there is an Atlas reader who has the time to comb his list of contributions, do it!

The Traditional Values Coaltion has discovered dirty contribution from the Radical Islamic lobby (only in America). YOUR PUBLIC SERVANTS AT WORK!

TVC TELLS CONNOLLY: RETURN CONTRIBUTION FROM RADICAL ISLAMIC LOBBY

Connolly Contributor Uses Aliases and Has Links to Hamas

Washington, DC – The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) has called on Fairfax County Supervisor Gerald Connolly to return a contribution his Congressional campaign received from a radical Islamic official and reopen the supervisors’ lease renewal of the Islamic Saudi Academy. 

A Federal Election Commission report lists “Nehad Hammad” as the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and reports that he donated $500 to the Congressional primary campaign of Gerald Connolly, chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.

Law enforcement officials note that Hammad is an alias used by Nihad Awad who is the founder of CAIR and is listed on the group’s website as its Executive Director. Before founding CAIR,   Awad served as spokesman for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) which the Federal Bureau of Investigation officials have identified as a front-group for the violent terrorist organization Hamas.

According to several sources, Awad uses the name Nehad Hammad on some official forms such as IRS documents instead of the name Nihad Awad he uses publicly as a top official at CAIR.  One former federal official refers to CAIR as “Terrorists R Us” and points to a long list of CAIR staff who have been convicted of financing terrorist activities.

“Mr. Connolly should return the check he received from Awad, Hammad or whatever his name is today,” said James Lafferty, a spokesman for the Traditional Values Coalition.

At a May hearing of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Chairman Connolly attempted to bully and shout down witnesses from TVC who quoted parts of ISA textbooks.   He repeatedly accused the TVC witnesses of bigotry and yelled “slander” several times.

“The cause of Mr. Connolly’s anger and vehemence in defending the Islamic Saudi Academy is now apparent.  Are there other leaders of radical Islam involved in or financing Mr. Connolly’s campaign?

“Mr. Connolly has set a new low for what value-neutral politicians will do to raise money or pander to the most radical voting blocs.   He needs to come clean and scrub his campaign of all terrorist influence and sympathizers.

“He also needs to right the wrongs he has done and bring the same passion to reversing the decision of the Board of Supervisors to lease a former county school to the Saudi government. He tried to pawn it off on the State Department which does not have jurisdiction in a desperate effort to save face.   It is an affront to every Fairfax County taxpayer to provide classrooms to those determined to indoctrinate young people to become the next generation of terrorists.”

US GOVT AIDS ABETS CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE COVER UP IN ISLAMIC JIHAD ACADEMY

MURDER TEACHING ISLAMIC SCHOOL DIRECTOR ARRESTED - CHILD MOLESTATION

US JIHAD SCHOOL OK AFTER PROMISE TO REVISE TEXTBOOKS

Small Victory IN SAUDI JIHAD HATE SCHOOL

ATLAS RADIO SHOW ON SAUDI ISLAMIC ACADEMY

 

In the Contest, there's no contest

The dirt, muck, and corruption scandals surrounding Obama are overwhelming. So much so that McCain's sterling character and list of accomplishments get little ink.  McCain was not my candidate and I have serious domestic policy differences with the man but in the run for President - the contrast between McCain and Obama could not be more stark.

There's a wonderful piece in The Jerusalem Post on McCain's background. It's no wonder Obama is terrified to engage in Townhall debates with McCain. Obama is not fit to share  the stage with McCain,  let alone lead in the polls.

A not-so-public man: the private character of John McCain Abraham Katsman , THE JERUSALEM POST

Yet, there is so much of his life that reveals an absolutely sterling character, but remains largely unknown to the public. And in spite of the tremendous political advantages that publicity could confer, McCain instinctively keeps that information private. Although as a presidential candidate he may be forced to overcome this reticence, he honorably shies away from using his personal heroics for political gain.

How aware is the public that McCain has raised seven children? Or that he adopted his two oldest sons as small boys (children from his wife's prior marriage)? Or that he has raised a Bangladeshi girl with severe health problems adopted from Mother Theresa's orphanage? Or that his own sons have served in the military, including in Iraq?

It's widely known that McCain, a Navy pilot, was shot down, captured and tortured by the North Vietnamese for 5 and a half years - an episode worth a forthcoming column all its own. But few are aware that he refused early release until all the POWs captured before him were freed, and that he refused special treatment offered once it was discovered that he was the "crown prince" (the son of the admiral in charge of the Pacific Fleet) because he wouldn't provide the enemy with any propaganda victories.

Even fewer seem to know that those years were a fraction of a 22-year Navy career. Although broken and battered, after his release from Vietnamese captivity he went right back to the Navy, where he continued to serve for an additional eight years.

[...]

Anyone can talk about "supporting our troops"; the McCains serve. McCain's father and grandfather were respected American admirals. Of McCain's four sons, three have gone the military route. One was a Navy pilot like his father, one enlisted in the Marines at age 17 and recently completed a tour in Iraq, and one is completing his education at the Naval Academy (raising the strong possibility that, for the first time in half a century, the United States will have a president with a son at war).

Yet, likely because of those same values, McCain maintains a strict code of silence about his sons' military service, no matter how legitimate his pride or politically useful their military status. Through 2007, McCain was the strongest Senate advocate of vastly increasing troop levels in Iraq, strongly influencing the administration's wildly successful "surge" strategy.

Yet McCain never brought up his own son's service in some of the roughest areas of Iraq. His principled refusal of political advantage from his son's Iraq service extends to refusal even to be interviewed on the subject, or to introduce his son to campaign audiences.

Also little-known is the story of McCain's youngest child. As a result of a 1991 Cindy McCain visit to Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, the McCains adopted an infant daughter dying from a host of health issues. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save the little girl's life, so the McCains, already the parents of six children, brought the child home to America, and paid for desperately needed surgeries and years of rehabilitation. That child is their teenage daughter Bridget. In fact, there was a second infant girl brought back from the orphanage that the McCains saved. She ended up being adopted by one of McCain's aides, Wes Gullett, and his wife. "We were called at midnight by Cindy," Gullett has stated, and "five days later we met our new daughter Nicki at the LA airport."

Read it all.

CORRUPTION ERUPTION: OBAMA'S BABY KILLING HOUSING POLICY

CORRUPTION ERUPTION! Obama makes Clinton's bimbo eruptions look positively scarce. He is the quintessential fixer -- right at home in Tammany. America wants change? Be careful what you wish for. It would take decades to recover from this statist.

The Blood Money of Barack Obama’s Money Men No Quarter hat tip deb

A little boy is dead because Barack’s key fundraisers cared more about profit than a safe environment for children. While his mother watched him to be sure he was safe, Curtis Cooper, a three-year-old boy riding his tricycle, was crushed to death by a heavy iron fence that suddenly fell over on top of him at a housing project run by Obama contributor Cullen Davis — whose family received huge government subsidies as well as a $1,000,000 grant for the properties from the Woods Fund’s board, whose members included Barack Obama and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers.

CBS2 Chicago also reports:

Curtis’ aunt Lisa Springfield said, “It just crushed him all up, his whole face.”

According to witnesses, five or six men rushed to the boy to try to pry the heavy fence off of him. An hour later he was pronounced dead at Children’s Memorial Hospital.

Cullen Davis, the son of Obama’s first boss and major benefactor Allison Davis, is a beneficiary of Obama’s prominent effort to privatize the management of public housing in Chicago. As Un coup de des wrote here yesterday in “Boston Globe Exposé, Part I: Introducing Cecil Butler, Obama’s West Side Slumlord Patron,” the privatization of this housing — while highly profitable for investors like Cullen Davis, Allison Davis, and the now-convicted Tony Rezko — has left residents with chronic plumbing failures that led to sewage throughout units and backing up into kitchen sinks, “collapsed roofs and fire damage,” rampant rodent infestation, vacant units, and the displacement of thousands of low-income residents because the buildings are either uninhabitable or have been destroyed in order to “gentrify” neighborhoods.

Furious neighbors reacted last night, reports the Chicago Tribune:

A 3-year-old boy was crushed to death Friday evening by a large, rusted steel gate at the Cabrini-Green housing complex, prompting a crowd to gather and hurl accusations of mismanagement at property managers.

“How many accidents happen over here because of failed inspections,” screamed Willie J.R. Fleming, a resident and a director with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing. “There’s no accountability, there’s no oversight of this.”

Barack Obama and Mayor Daley backed the privatization schemes and personally interceded to ensure that THEIR cronies made money off the privatization. Here’s how DEEPLY INVOLVED Barack Obama is in these schemes that contributed to little Curtis Cooper’s death, via the Boston Globe’s “Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy“:

• “As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers.”
• “As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies.”
• “And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.”

An outrageous example of the privatization profiteers is Tony Rezko. Reports the Boston Globe’s superb investigative report (a must-read in full):

UPDATE ON CORRUPTION POST: CORRUPTION ERUPTION: OBAMA's VENAL HOUSING POLICY 

NY TIMES HIGH TREASON: LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFO AGAIN

It is increasingly clear the left would throw their mother in front of an oncoming train if it meant our defeat in the war on the jihad. The left feverishly works for our defeat in Iraq, in Iran, in Afghanistan, at home ....

Bush may be angry at the latest NY Times act of treason but he has only himself to blame. Bush and his Justice department never pursued the  obvious leaker (s)at the Pentagon and/or CIA. They dropped the ball on Sandy Berger.On the FISA leak and the wiretapping leak.  This is but the latest outrageous leak in a long list of classified info dumped in the lap of the willing whore of our enemies, The Times. Bush never went after the lawbreakers Why? We are at war.  These leaks jeopardize American lives. They should have been persecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Drudge is reporting:

SOURCES: BUSH ANGER AT COMING NEW YORK TIMES STORY DETAILING HUNT FOR BIN LADEN... The newspaper is planning to expose a 'highly classified Pentagon order' authorizing Special Operations forces to hunt al-Qaida leader in mountains of Pakistan... DEVELOPING.

It's high time for another protest, me thinks.

UPDATE: 1:13 am Drudge updates: 'Operation Cannonball'... (IHT)

The new plan, outlined in a highly classified Pentagon order, was designed to eliminate some of those battles. And it was meant to pave an easier path into the tribal areas for American commandos, who for years have bristled at what they see as Washington's risk-averse attitude toward Special Operations missions inside Pakistan. They also argue that catching Bin Laden will come only by capturing some of his senior lieutenants alive.

But more than six months later, the Special Operations forces are still waiting for the green light. The plan has been held up in Washington by the very disagreements it was meant to eliminate. A senior Defense Department official said there was "mounting frustration" in the Pentagon at the continued delay.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush committed the nation to a "war on terrorism" and made the destruction of Bin Laden's network the top priority of his presidency. But it is increasingly clear that the Bush administration will leave office with Al Qaeda having successfully relocated its base from Afghanistan to Pakistan's tribal areas, where it has rebuilt much of its ability to attack from the region and broadcast its messages to militants across the world.

Read all six pages here. It's Bush bashing at its finest. Lord knows how the Democrats are going to handle these barbarians.

UPDATE:  New York Times again exposes "highly classified Pentagon order"

 Judi McLeod

WHY I LOVE GEERT WILDERS

I adore Wilders. Crazylove. Check out  how Wilders deals with this Antisemite Belgian politician. Paul Belien at The Brussels Journal has the whole thing. (hat tip Andrew Bostom)

Belgian Right-Wing Politician Calls Zionism as Bad as Islamism

Yesterday, the Belgian establishment newspaper De Standaard published a double interview with the Dutch politician Geert Wilders and the Flemish politician Jean-Marie Dedecker. Mr Dedecker, a popular former judo coach, is a populist right-wing politician who was ousted by the governing Flemish Liberal Party in 2006 and founded his own party, the Lijst Dedecker (LDD) or Gezond Verstand Partij (Common Sense Party). He won 5.5% of the Flemish vote in the June 10, 2007, elections. It is generally assumed that he did so mainly at the expense of the Flemish-secessionist and anti-Islamist Vlaams Belang (VB, Flemish Interest) party. According to the latest polls Dedecker is currently at 12.4%, again mostly at the expense of the VB. Last November, Dedecker called the VB “fascistic” and boasted that he is single-handedly succeeding in what the Belgian establishment failed to do for 20 years: “smoking out the VB.”

Geert Wilders, who was ousted by the governing Dutch Liberal Party in 2004 and also founded his own party, the Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV, Freedom Party) won 5.9% of the Dutch vote in the November 22, 2006, elections with an anti-Islamist platform. Polls predict that his party will double in size if elections are held today. Wilders’ spectacular growth has, however, been stopped by Rita Verdonk, another former member of the Dutch Liberal Party (and a former Dutch Immigration minister), who was ousted in 2007 and also founded her own party, Trots op Nederland (TON, Proud to be Dutch). Verdonk is opposed to immigration but does not criticize Islam. In the polls she is doing better than Wilders.

Excerpts from the interview:

De Standaard: There are also large differences between the two of you. Mr Dedecker is opposed to prohibiting things, whereas you [Geert Wilders] want to prohibit all kinds of things, starting with the Koran. […]

Wilders: That I want to prohibit all sort of things is complete nonsense. I only want to prohibit things to defend our rule of law. I am still enough of a liberal to prohibit things only in the most extreme cases. I do not like to prohibit books at all. You will never hear me advocate prohibiting other books.

De Standaard: Do you also feel that our rule of law is threatened in this way, Mr Dedecker?

Dedecker: I feel threatened by the fact that the separation between church and state is diminishing. But I have no existential angst. There are two major phobias at present in our society: Islamophobia and climatophobia. Both are being promoted.

(To Wilders) You think that Eurabia is a danger. I disagree. Our enlightenment values are strong enough to withstand this. However, we have to wake up. What the politically correct Left has done to our society explains our [electoral] success.

Wilders: If you say that we must wake up, this means that the leftist political elite is sleeping at this moment. That is exactly the reason why our enlightenment ideas do not prevail. Because those leftist politicians, who have become ever more dependent on [the votes of] immigrant groups, will sleep on.

Dedecker: I think prohibiting the Koran is a form of overacting. We shouldn’t prohibit any books: neither Mein Kampf nor the Koran. The Bible, the Thora and the Koran are but fairy tale books. That is what you have to dare tell the people. If religion manifests itself as collective madness, then we must dare to oppose it and start the debate.

Wilders: The Koran is a diabolic book rather than a fairy tale book. It is also, unlike the other books which you refer to – and which I would not call fairy tale books, but it is your right to do so – a book from which people draw inspiration today to commit terrorist acts and exclude women and homosexuals from my community and execrate the separation of church and state. Fairy tale books do not do such things. Fairy tale books concern the Efteling or Walibi [Dutch and Belgian theme parks; equivalents of Disneyland]

Dedecker: I am opposed to the wearing of headscarfs by civil servants, I am opposed to separate swimming hours [for men and women] in swimming pools, but is this a reason to prohibit the Koran? On the contrary, I am one hundred percent behind our own values. And I am as much criticised for this as you. […]

[To Wilders] Up to a certain extent you are also a Zionist. I find that very strange of you.

Wilders: A Zionist? What next?

Dedecker: The way you always defend Israel – as a matter of fact this happens much more in the Netherlands than in Belgium. We both have visited Israel and the Palestinian territories. I consider Zionism and Islamism as similar phenomena. You constantly defend Israel although you know what is being inflicted there on the Palestinians. Do you do that perhaps because Zionism is the counterpart of Islamism?

Wilders: It is interesting that you say this. Zionist goes perhaps a bit far, but I am, indeed, a convinced defender of Israel. Because Israel is an oasis of democracy and Western values in the Middle East. I have also been in other countries in the region, from Syria via Iran to Afghanistan: all these countries are dictatorships. Israel is the only country where a majority in parliament can dismiss a minister – as members of parliament you and I should be able to appreciate that.

I am biased in favour of Israel. Is that so bad? No, I am even proud of it. You have to make up your own mind, but you, too, should be proud of every democracy in the world.

Dedecker: You are partly right. But that does not justify Israel’s apartheid policies – and that is exactly what I reject. I call Israel a kippah democracy.

Wilders: I have a different opinion. Palestinians who are living in Gaza and on the West Bank at this moment, could very well move to the other side of the Jordan – to Jordan or other areas. There is space and place enough there and many Palestinians already live there.

De Standaard: So you also favour ethnic cleansing?

Wilders: That is not ethnic cleansing. Israel can justly claim those regions. Moreover we do not have to harm anyone, but I see what happens today: Hamastan, governs Gaza.

Dedecker: Why should the Palestinians have to go to Jordan? The Palestinians are the outcasts of the Middle East: they are not welcome anywhere. These are people who were driven from their territory on the basis of an international treaty and pseudo property rights granted by the Thora or the Bible. Property rights on the basis of fairy tale books.

Wilders: For me the security of Israel as a democracy prevails on the rights of a group who is to a large extent guilty of terror and corruption. There is no democratic Palestinian authority – that is the sad truth. I am convinced that the attacks which Israel suffers from radical Islam are attacks aimed at us.

Dedecker: Isn't it the opposite? Research shows that three fourth of the suicide terrorists are motivated by the fate of the Palestinians. If we solve that situation, would it not lead to a safer world for all of us? Meanwhile we spend billions and billions on our security.

GOOGLE SHUTS DOWN ANTI-OBAMA SITES

I have long been warning of the agenda Google pursues. Too long. Well they have really come out of the liberal fascist closet on this one. BTW, got a gmail account? I wouldn't. They are a dangerous company. Go here and scroll. This is proto-typical of the left. They cannot compete - they cannot debate.What is this but a club to the tenets of free speech?  What is the fairness doctrine but a club to the free market of ideas?

The following is an update on this post: OBAMA: TERROR BLOGS CHECK! COUNTER JIHAD BLOGS DELETE! ANTI-OBAMA SITES BLOCKED!

Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform hat tip JJ

-By Warner Todd Huston, Town Hall

It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Thus far, Google has terminated the access by blog owners to 7 such sites and the list may be growing. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!

It isn't just conservative sites that Google's Blogger platform is eliminating. For instance, www.comealongway.blogspot.com has been frozen and this one is a Hillary supporting site. The operator of Come a Long Way has a mirror site off the Blogspot platform and has today posted this notice:

I used to have a happy internet home on Blogger: www.comealongway.blogspot.com. Then on Wednesday night, June 25, I received the following e-mail:

Dear Blogger user,

This is a message from the Blogger team.

Your blog, at http://comealongway.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

It turns out that there is an interesting pattern where it concerns the blogs that Google's Blogspot team have summarily locked down on their service. They all belong to the Just Say No Deal coalition, a group of blogs that are standing against the Obama campaign. It seems the largest portion of these blogs are Hillary supporting blogs, too.

All I can say is, WOW! If Google is willing to abuse its power like this even against fellow leftists, what does it plan against conservatives, the folks Google hates even more!?

Here is a list of the Blogspot blogs that have been frozen by Google thus far:

· Blue Lyon @ http://bluelyon.blogspot.com

Come A Long Way @ http://comealongway.blogspot.com

Hillary or Bust @ http://hillaryorbust.blogspot.com

· McCain Democrats @ http://mccaindemocrats.blogspot.com

· NObama Blog @ http://nobamablog.blogspot.com

· politicallizard.blogspot.com @ http://thelizardannex.blogspot.com

· Reflections in Tyme @ http://reflections-in-tyme.blogspot.com

UPDATE: July 31: Mitchell Langbert who wrote a Freedom of Information Act request to release Obama's birth certificate and ran a petition for an investigation has been suspended.
www.mitchell-langbert.com.

FECKLESS OLMURDERER EXCHANGES BARBARIC BABY KILLER FOR DEAD BODIES

I have never been so at odds, so completely opposed to the actions and policies of the Israeli government and inevitably the people of Israel, as they sanction their leadership. This is, in fact,  indescribablee. The Israeli government released Samir Quntar.  This is a defeat of enormous import. It is a terrible day of mourning ... for Goldwasser, Barak and the spirit and will of the Jewish people. I hang my head in shame.

Despite defense officials' warning that prisoner exchange with Hizbullah will prompt further abductions, 22 ministers vote in favor of deal. (more here). Even Pavlov's dogs get it.

According to the Palestinian Authority leadership, Samir Quntar epitomizes the ideal Palestinian prisoner. Quntar, who crushed the head of four-year-old Eynat Haran with his rifle, was a serving four life sentences for murder in an Israeli prison,.
[..]
Besides bludgeoning Eynat Haran to death with rocks and his rifle, Quntar killed her father and was responsible for the death of her infant sister. He also killed two policemen in the 1979 attack in Naharia. The Israeli cabinet today approved a prisoner exchange that would free Quntar and several other prisoners in exchange for dead Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, who were kidnapped by Hizbullah in 2006. (More here at PMW).

And now in pursuant of yet another Faustian deal, Hamas is demanding 1,000 prisoners in return for Mr. Shalit, 450 of them serving life sentences in Israeli prisons. 1000 Arabs for one little Jew. Unreal.

Israel Swaps Prisoners for 2 Soldiers’ Bodies

JERUSALEM — Israel’s government voted on Sunday to trade one of the most notorious convicts in its prisons, a Lebanese murderer, for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers whose cross-border capture led to and partly motivated its month-long war with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah in the summer of 2006.

After a wrenching national debate which served to drive hesitant officials, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, into accepting the deal, the cabinet voted 22 to 3 to trade the prisoner, Samir Kuntar, along with four other Lebanese, for Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, the two Israeli soldiers.

“Despite all hesitations, after weighing the pros and the cons, I support the agreement,” Mr. Olmert was quoted by his spokesman as telling his cabinet at the start of the meeting. “Our initial theory was that the soldiers were alive ... Now we know with certainty there is no chance that that is the case.” He added, “There will be much sadness in Israel, much humiliation considering the celebrations that will be held on the other side.”

You, it is you Olmert, that has brought great humiliation to the people of Israel,

Indeed, within minutes of the decision, Al Manar, the Hezbollah television station, hailed it as evidence of the group’s power, “What happened in the prisoner issue is proof that the word of the resistance is the most faithful, strongest and supreme,” Hezbollah’s executive council chief, Hashem Safieddine, was quoted as saying.

The July 12, 2006 raid by Hezbollah into Israel that took the two soldiers captive was aimed at seizing bargaining chips in the group’s effort to free Mr. Kuntar and the several other Lebanese held by Israel.

Mr. Kuntar was part of a cell that in 1979 raided the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, shooting dead Danny Haran while his daughter Einat, 4, watched, then smashing the girl’s head, killing her as well. Mr. Haran’s wife, Smadar, hid with their 2-year-old daughter and accidentally suffocated her to death in an effort to stop her from crying out.

Mr. Kuntar has said he regrets nothing and will receive a hero’s welcome when he returns, which is part of what caused the hesitation among Israel’s security establishment, many of whom recommended rejecting the deal. But the Goldwasser and Regev families mounted a highly effective campaign supported by vast numbers of Israelis who want to know that if their children fall in battle, the state will spare nothing to secure their return.

It should never have been left to the victim's families. They cannot think clearly. They cannot throw future lives to the wolves. If you missed Glick's column on this last week. Go here

It is impossible to know precisely how many Israelis will be killed in the future if the deals now on the table are approved. But past experience shows that at a minimum, dozens of Israelis now innocently going about their business will be murdered by the terrorists Israel releases. And at a minimum, one or two Israelis will be abducted by Hamas or Hizbullah or one of their sister terror organizations. They will be abducted in Israel or while they are travelling abroad and they will be brought to Lebanon or Gaza and the cycle of blood extortion and psychological warfare will begin anew.

That Israel will pay a price in blood if the deals go through is a certainty. That more Israelis will meet the fates of Schalit, Regev and Goldwasser is a certainty. The only thing we do not know today is the names of the victims. They could be any one of us. Indeed, they are all of us. For all of us are equally targeted simply by virtue of the fact that we are Israelis.

TO DATE, the only clear public call to reject these deals was made by former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon. At a conference on military leadership Tuesday, Ya'alon argued against the deals explaining, "In some situations, the price to pay as part of the deal is much heavier than the price of losing the captive soldier."

Ya'alon's statement should have been a springboard for a reasoned debate. But the local media would have none of it. Rather than enable a responsible debate, the media called on Schalit's father, Noam Schalit, to rebut Ya'alon.

Noam Schalit brutally and unfairly denounced Ya'alon as a political operative. In his words, "No politician or political operative has the right to determine the fate of an IDF POW, except a commander during battle. Ya'alon was an army commander, but today he is mainly a politician and a political operative. He and anyone else can determine a POW's fate only if it concerns their own son."

Piling on, Goldwasser's father, Shlomo Goldwasser, said, "Such words can only be spoken by a man whose son is not held captive by the enemy. He would have spoken differently had the matter been a personal concern of his."

The brutal truth is that the hostages' fathers have things precisely backwards. With all due respect, it is they that should not be listened to.

Through no fault of their own, the Regev, Goldwasser and Schalit families have become the mouthpieces of Hizbullah and Hamas. This is as natural as it is tragic.

The moment their sons were abducted, the Schalit, Regev and Goldwasser families also became prisoners. In constant agony over the fate of their sons, these families are incapable of acknowledging the cruel and devastating fact that the safety of three soldiers cannot be placed above Israel's national security. In their unmitigated suffering, they cannot come to terms with this horrible fact because for them the country, and indeed the world, is made up of their loved ones. This is the natural human condition. Each person's world is defined by the presence and absence of his loved ones. For the Goldwassers, Regevs and Schalits, Israel is a meaningless, cold, dark place when it doesn't include their sons Ehud, Eldad and Gilad.

And it is precisely for this reason that they cannot be allowed to dictate policy. It is precisely for this reason that the only ones who can responsibly weigh Israel's options for releasing them are those who are not personally affected by their plight.

 

Iran Aims Shahab-3B ballistic missiles at Heart of Israel

The weakest leadership in Israeli history is left to confront (or not) its gravest threat. It is hardly Israel's threat to deal with but the West's.  This is the poisonous fruit of our (US, EU, Perm 3) feckless, spineless policy over the past 7 years. Why should Israel be forced to mop up our cowardly mess? Israel is in no position to halt Islamic Iran's nuclear march to war.

Earlier, Andy Bostom wrote me, "....wait till beleaguered Israel is compelled to attack at great risk--both in performing the mission, and in suffering potential retaliation from the global jihadist umma--including Iranian supplied missiles from Gaza Hamastan and Lebanon Hezbollahstan---, while our mass of forces--land, water, and air-- just sits by and does NOTHING from its bases in neighboring Iraq, again NOW, not after any "withdrawal"?

The world wants to see the  Islamic jihadi threat of Iran destroyed. It's not that they don't believe Iran's threats of "Death to America!", "Death or Israel!", "Death to the West!" over the past 30 years- it's just that they don't have the testicular fortitude to respond. It is not a question of war with Iran, it is a question of war with Iran with nuclear weapons or Iran without them. The world also knows that Israel will respond,  once the Islamic knife is at her throat. So the world thinks it's a small price to pay -6 million Jews. They have done it before, handily. I believe the EU political elites and Condi and co. believe  Israel will  take the nuclear hit and respond with disproportionate force and destroy the jihadi pox on the world. But it won't be that simple (it never is) and Europe, that dickless of all wonders, won't get off the schneid that easily. It is going to be ugly as only war can be and just like Hitler, could have been avoided. Easily. It breaks the heart.

Terrible - all of it. And in this confluence of malevolent nuclear events,  the US suffered a crippling foreign policy tragedy this week -- Condi and Bush removed the greatest proliferater of nuclear weapons, North Korea, off of the  list of nations that sponsor terrorism. Why?

I have heard Bush is a religious man. He'll have a lot to answer for.

Iran ready to strike at Israel's nuclear heart Times Online mhat tip Van

Iran has moved ballistic missiles into launch positions, with Israel’s Dimona nuclear plant among the possible targets, defence sources said last week.

The movement of Shahab-3B missiles, which have an estimated range of more than 1,250 miles, followed a large-scale exercise earlier this month in which the Israeli air force flew en masse over the Mediterranean in an apparent rehearsal for a threatened attack on Iran’s nuclear installations. Israel believes Iran’s nuclear programme is aimed at acquiring nuclear weapons.

The sources said Iran was preparing to retaliate for any onslaught by firing missiles at Dimona, where Israel’s own nuclear weapons are believed to be made.

Major-General Mohammad Jafari, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, told a Tehran daily: “This country [Israel] is completely within the range of the Islamic Republic’s missiles. Our missile power and capability are such that the Zionist regime – despite all its abilities – cannot confront it.”

An editorial in a government newspaper, Jomhouri Eslami, said: “Our response will hit right at their temple.”

More here also: Iran Aims Shahab-3B Missiles at Dimona

And as part of Islamic Iran's  psy-op, Iran is digging  thousands of graves for "enemy soldiers".

And Debka reports:

Iran sets up 31 martial districts, prepares 320,000 graves for war dead

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report (hat tip Michael)

Iran has divided the country up into 31 military sectors as part of its stepped up preparations for war, DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report. Sunday, June 29, Brig. Gen. Mir-Faisal Baqerzadeh, head of the Iranian Army's Foundation for the Remembrance of the Holy Defense and MIAs, said the 320,000 graves were to be dug for enemy forces in case of an attack on Iranian territory.

"We don't wish the families of enemy soldiers to experience what Americans had to go through in the aftermath of the Vietnam War," said Baqerzadeh.

Our sources report that it was obvious to the average Iranian that the graves, concentrated in the border regions, were intended for prospective domestic victims of US and Israeli bombardments.

Little do they know, they are preparing it for their dead.

Ah .... a clean open thread

Gustave Caillebotte, Laundry Drying on the Bank of the Seine, c. 1892.

Just one more step to Jews not being human (again)

Lori Lowenthal Marcus sent this dog vomit editorial to me - I am running the piece with Marcus's remarks (LLM). "His thesis appears to be: they didn't leave, so they chose to die. 

Now I suppose this German jerk will write a book on how the Israeli Olympic athletes were the precursors to the Arab Palestinian Homicide bombers.  And it will get published.  And reviewed favorably in the NYT, The New Yorker.  And Haaretz." Lori

German Prof.: Israeli athletes willfully sacrificed themselves in Munich massacre
By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent

Berlin - A German academic has claimed that there is a possibility that the 11 Israeli athletes who were massacred by Palestinian militants during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich knew of the attack in advance but willfully sacrificed themselves, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Saturday.

At an academic conference last week, Prof. Arnd Kruger of the Institute for Sport Studies at the University of Gottingen compared the 1929 massacre of Hebron Jews with the athletes' refusal to leave the Olympic Village despite alleged prior knowledge of the attack.

During the 1972 Summer Olympics an offshoot of the Palestinian Fatah movement called Black September took over the apartment of the Israeli team, taking them hostage. After nerve wrecking negotiations, the 11 athletes, as well as a German police officer and five of the eight perpetrators, were killed in a botched rescue attempt.

Der Spiegel's Web site quoted Kruger as saying that "the athletes sacrificed themselves in Israel's service."

Kruger told Haaretz he did not remember making such statement. He said he only sought to address unanswered questions about the massacre.

He said he was a journalist in Munich in 1972 and that he remembered Israelis telling him they think security at the Olympic Village was not tight enough.

The possibility that the Israeli team chose not to leave despite being well aware of the risk must be voiced, he said.

Kruger maintained that that the fact that some of them did not run away when the terrorists came in was because of the self-sacrifice ideal of the Israeli ethos.

[OKAY, MAYBE IT'S A BACK-HANDED COMPLIMENT? LLM]

 

He said he wonders how it is possible that Shaul Ladany, who was a racewalker, managed to escape and others didn't, bearing in mind he was neither a sprinter nor a long jumper, and was visually impaired.

[NO, THIS SOUNDS AS THOUGH ADMIRATION WASN'T DRIVING HIS THEORY. LLM]

 

Kruger said he had sought to bolster his claims with sociological explanations. He said Israelis have a "different perception of the body," and that the abortion rate in Israel is relatively high.

[READ THE NEXT PARAGRAPH TO SEE KRUGER'S SOC. SCI. CREDENTIALS. LLM]

Israeli officials in Germany were infuriated by Kruger's remarks. Ilan Mor of the Israeli embassy in Berlin told Der Spiegel that he sees it as a disturbing attempt to de-humanize Israel, and called on the university management to take disciplinary action against Kruger, who is a former dean of the social science department.

Mor said Kruger's remarks are a symptom of the "rampant anti-Semitism in Germany, often veiled under criticism of Israel."

The German Sports Sciences Association dubbed Kruger's remarks "unfortunate," [!!] and said the disciplinary board will convene next week to discuss the case.

USA: MUSLIM PRISON IMAM SUES OVER LOSS OF SECURITY CLEARANCE

Is it just me, or are you getting freakin' sick of this? This Muslim knows why he lost clearance. He knows the government can't release such classified information. So he sues to force discovery. Another Great American ............

Muslim sues over loss of security clearance Post Gazette hat tip wolf

Charging violation of his constitutional rights to free speech and religion, equal protection and due process, nuclear scientist and prison imam Moniem El-Ganayni filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against the Department of Energy and its acting deputy secretary, Jeffrey F. Kupfer.

The action stems from the loss of Dr. El-Ganayni's security clearance, and hence his job, at Bettis Laboratory in West Mifflin, based on unspecified grounds of "national security." It does not seek to overturn the revocation, but rather the right to see the alleged evidence against him -- he doubts any exists -- and the chance to contest the decision "before a nonpolitical, neutral arbiter, as mandated by DOE regulations."

"The government has offered no factual details in this case. All they've done is to parrot boilerplate language from the DOE," said Witold Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, which is representing Dr. El-Ganayni along with lawyers from the Downtown offices of Schnader Harrison Segal and Lewis.

"There are ways to handle classified information without compromising national security," he said. "The government has done it before."

The suit says Dr. El-Ganayni was damaged by the government's actions and, in addition to a hearing, seeks affirmation of his rights as a U.S. citizen, plus costs and attorneys' fees.

National security, the suit alleges, was invoked "solely to shield the agency from having to disclose the unconstitutional retaliatory and discriminatory reasons" for its action. In reality, it says, the decision was made "because he is a foreign-born Muslim who has spoken publicly and critically about U.S. foreign policy and the FBI's treatment of Muslims."

Altogether now. Hurl.

"Many [native-born] Americans say what I say about the war," Dr. El-Ganayni said yesterday. "But when I say it, I become a traitor. I want to show that the laws apply to me the same as to any other citizen."

The 29-page complaint sets out a scenario of post-9/11 suspicion and harassment against local Muslims, and Dr. El-Ganayni's opposition to it. It says he was visited by government agents at his home, asked to inform on other Muslims (he refused) and denied boarding passes on routine airline flights when his American-born wife went right through.

Dr. El-Ganayni came to the United States from Egypt in 1980, became a U.S. citizen in 1988 and started work at the Bettis nuclear propulsion research facility in 1990. He earned his advanced degrees at the University of Pittsburgh, co-founded the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, and ministered to prisoners in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

He contends that he never had a clearance problem at work until he began speaking out against the Iraq war and the FBI's efforts to recruit informants at local mosques.

The "Missing" Obama Birth Certificate Seal

ANOTHER ATLAS FIRST. YOU READ IT HERE FIRST.

UPDATE: Mitchell Langbert has written a Freedom of Information Act Request for Barack Obama's Birth Certificate

I know there is a lot of controversy and back and forth on absence of  an official seal on Obama's birth certificate.  Atlas reader Joe aka Jointhehunt5Yaser has been blowing up the birth certificate (lifted off Obama's Fight the Smear site) and there is a seal image there.

On the right the Patricia Decosta Hawaiian Birth certificate

Joe wrote me:

I flipped it over, cut it and put it next to the seal from Patrica Decosta birth certificate. I think it is a seal, if not, for sure it is an image of something. I used an older version on adobe and came up with the image. Do you know anyone who is  a pro in finding  hidden imaging's like this? Because if it is a real seal where is the signature stamp? I couldn't find any signature stamped on it like the decosta certificate has. This is an image of something and a pro can get it more visible.

 

Using adobe photo shop Joe used overlay 9% black then went over the area where the date is stamped on lower middle. and a  image started to appear above the date.

So I used - filter, stylize, find edges.

An image that could be  an official  seal  appeared.

And while the Israel Insider opined, "Nothing else explains why Obama's campaign refused to release the original paper document, to make this distracting controversy go way"

Because Hollyfield is right about one thing:

"If this document is forged, a U.S. senator and his presidential campaign have perpetrated a vast, long-term fraud."

U.S. citizens who have written to Israel Insider or have posted on the Internet are not satisfied. Ordinary people are compelled to produce certified paper birth certificates to get a passport or a driver's license. Why, people are asking, doesn't Obama needed to show one to run for President?

But I believe the Obama campaign would deliberately keep such a question alive to diminish the veracity of the real scandals Obama is guilty of (Rezko, Auchi, Wright, Nation of Islam, Malley, Powers, Odinga, corruption, lies etc.)

The Israel Insider has another article on the lack of veracity of Obama's birth certificate based on the absence of a seal, but it's there.

As Obama stonewalls on uncertified birth certificate, official doubts mount Israel Insider
Barack Obama has claimed in writing to have a valid printed document:  In the first chapter of his book Dreams From My Father, describing his origins, he wrote about finding a local Hawaiian newspaper article about his Kenyan father: "I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms, when I was in high school."

So where is that birth certificate? It got lost? The dog ate it? No matter. Barack Obama or an immediate family member can plunk down $10 ($11.50 if he orders online) and have Hawaii mail a certified document to him within a week or two. But more than two weeks have passed since the Obama campaign adopted the suspect, uncertified image of a purported birth document published by a left-wing blog Daily Kos, and nothing certified and nothing on paper has since has been forthcoming. Nor has there been any official comment about the issue from the campaign. They may cling to the hope -- however audacious -- that the one issue that could disqualify their man constitutionally from gaining the presidency will just go away.

Amy Hollyfield of the St. Petersburg Times, and a reporter for the paper's "Politifact" blog, said that she has been seeking the birth certificate "for months." She was frustrated: "Hawaii birth certificates aren't public record. Only family members can request copies, so when the campaign declined to give us one, we were stalled."

Finally, the campaign released the image (resembling the one at the top of this article). Hollyfield e-mailed it to the Hawaii Department of Health, which maintains such records, to ask if it was real.

"It's a valid Hawaii state birth certificate," spokesman Janice Okubo told us.
Then the firestorm started.

The seal appears to be there. Click on the "Continue" link below for a video demonstration.

Yo ho ho and a bottle of ..... blood

 

Why is America surprised?  The witless Brits released their second Al Qaeada terrormaster today. They have surrendered in installments - they have surrendered their will, their nationality, their culture ..........  it's like watching a the life leave a dying man.

America's fury as Hamza smuggles hate messages to Bin Laden's No 2... From UK jail cell 

Jail mail: Hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza sent emails from Belmarsh prison

American counter-terrorism chiefs are demanding a full explanation from Britain of how radical cleric Abu Hamza was able to smuggle murderous messages from his UK prison cell to Al Qaeda's deputy leader.

The major diplomatic row comes in the wake of a long-running battle by US prosecutors to extradite the former imam of London's Finsbury Park mosque to stand trial in America.

Hook-handed Hamza was jailed for seven years in Britain in 2006 for inciting murder and racial hatred and is held at Belmarsh prison, South-East London, supposedly one of Britain's most secure jails.

But according to senior American intelligence sources, Hamza evaded the extensive security measures surrounding him to send a series of questions to Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man.

Al-Zawahiri is believed to be hiding with Bin Laden in the lawless mountain region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Late last year, Al-Zawahiri - who has a £13million bounty on his head - posted a message on an extremist website run by Al Qaeda saying he would answer questions on any topic.

US intelligence tracked all the email replies and among them were messages from Abu Hamza. It is understood they were sent from an email address known to be linked to the cleric.

The sources say they have no doubt that al-Zawahiri was personally involved in answering the questions and that those posed by Hamza had genuinely originated from him.

US prosecutors have been fighting for four years to send Hamza for trial in the US. They accuse him of involvement in a global conspiracy to wage jihad against the US and other Western countries.

Among the most serious accusations is one that he was involved in the kidnap by Islamic radicals of 16 tourists in the Yemen in 1998. Four hostages, including three Britons, died in a rescue attempt.

Earlier this month the High Court turned down Hamza's latest appeal against efforts to send him to the US but his lawyers could still fight his extradition by applying to the House of Lords and the European Court.

For the Americans, frustrated by the length of time it has taken to bring Hamza for trial in the US, the revelation that he was also able to keep in touch with Al Qaeda's high command has caused widespread anger.

One source pointedly said that 'if he is transferred to US custody, he would be kept in the country's highest security prison in Colorado'.

Once there, the source added: 'It would be absolutely impossible for him to communicate with Al Qaeda.'

Uh.... you mean my 1 million is not in the mail?

Woman gets prison for 'Nigerian' scam

TACOMA, Wash., June 26 (UPI) -- An Olympia, Wash., woman who pleaded guilty in a $1 million "Nigerian check scam" has been sentenced to two years in prison....

OBAMA'S AMERICA: “I HOPE HE [MCCAIN] DIES BEFORE NOVEMBER!”

This is the voice of the left:

“I HOPE HE [MCCAIN] DIES BEFORE NOVEMBER!” said Obama Supporter
The Real Democrat

When an Obama supporter hears something she didn’t like she decided to call and complain.The problem is she called the wrong radio show. She intended to call The Quinn & Rose Show, but instead got somebody else who also broadcast from the same building. If you need another example of just how tolerant and caring liberals aren’t. Listen to this caller hope McCain dies before November.

Liberal tolerance on display, CLICK "CONTINUE" below for the video:

Did you ever have a lover like this?

Every get hugged like this?  If you haven't been jumped like this, you haven't lived. (hat tip ope)

Bill Clinton: Obama will have to "Kiss my Ass" for Support

With all the c[r]ud those of us covering the Obamessiah have to chew, every once in a while there's a bee-yoo-tee-ful moment. This is one of them. These two low lives thoroughly deserve each other.  The Republicans never generate these kinds of stories.

Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must 'kiss my ass' for his support Telegraph hat tip Rockman

Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Clinton for the first time since he won the nomination in the next few days, but campaign insiders say that the former president's future campaign role is a "sticking point" in peace talks with Mrs Clinton's aides.

The Telegraph has learned that the former president's rage is still so great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronising attitude to Mr Obama, and believe that he risks damaging his own reputation by his intransigence.

A senior Democrat who worked for Mr Clinton has revealed that he recently told friends Mr Obama could "kiss my ass" in return for his support.

Jihad that Mahmoud!

Andre Pachter over at China Confidential has an Atlas kind of a post. He right of course. I said it here and I'll say it again, I'd rather blow up the whole world then live as a slave and surrender to Islam.

A Grim Choice as Diplomacy Fails China Confidential (hat tip Van)

WARNING! The following short essay may not be appropriate reading for young children; liberals and left-wingers; Islamist-sympathizers, agents, dupes, and fellow travelers; and delusional diplomats, dopes and dumbbells who insist that it is possible to appease or accommodate totalitarian Islam, also known as radical Islam, or Islamism.

Nearly seven years after Islamists incinerated nearly 3,000 innocent people in the worst-ever attacks on American soil, the leaders of nuclear-arming, oil-rich, Islamist Iran have presented Americans and Israelis with a grim choice: mass death in their countries or mass death in Iran.

This reporter votes for mass death in Iran. Bursting with ballistic missiles, it has pursued extremely suspicious nuclear enrichment activities--with the help of two secular allies, nuclear North Korea and Syria--in defiance of the United Nations, while repeatedly threatening to destroy Israel, and speculating publicly about "a world without America." Iran has also threatened to attack American troops and bases in the Middle East, and also, using terrorist proxies, to attack American cities and Jewish communities across the world. The regime that denies the Holocaust and makes common cause with neo-Nazis and other deadly vermin has also vowed to disrupt world oil supplies after doing its best to drive up oil prices to dangerously high levels (for the US and other oil importing nations) that few economists or energy experts expected only a year ago.

Only a fool or a traitor would be blind to the threat of an atomic Iran; and the case for preemptive military action grows stronger by the day, if not the hour. But half-way measures will do more harm than good; the monstrous mullahocracy must be utterly defeated and destroyed--"obliterated," as Hillary Clinton recently put it. In other words, the US needs to urgently dust off its World War II rules of engagement--CNN and The New York Times be damned.

It gets better .... read it all.

 

Saturday Night Cinema Panic in the Streets

Panic in the Streets Directed by Elia Kazan. With Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes.
A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with bubonic plague. Spellbinding

Click below on "Continue" to view the movie -- I won't run it on the main page. It slows down Atlas ..... and nothing will slow me down baby.

OBAMA: TERROR BLOGS CHECK! COUNTER JIHAD BLOGS DELETE! ANTI-OBAMA SITES BLOCKED!

Click here: Obama’s Web Site Blows Disclaimer, Now Responsible for All Hate Speech « The Husaria

My friend Bill Levinson put a blog up at Obama's website, Winged Hussar, devoted to fighting the jihad, and it was summarily taken down with 24 hours. How vigilant.

And speaking of vigilance ....... Obama's flying monkeys (cultural reference Wizard of oz so don't spam with the your racist shiz) have taken to getting Anti-Obama blogs locked and suspended. Uppity Woman, a blog by a Democrat whoe "does not support Comrade Barack Hussein Obama" reported this today

Anti Obama Blogs Locked Due To False "SPAM" Reporting

***Continually Updated Below*** 
Updated June 27

My own blogger "unblock request" was completed for the third time again this morning. It was completed the first time on June 3 and the "verification" that it was listed mysteriously disappeared on June 17. I filled it out again on June 17. The "verification" for that request was gone this morning. So I have submitted the "request" again. I would say it's pretty safe to assume that Blogger isn't going to do this "review" and, if I dont' check to see if the "verification" is there every single day, it can disappear arbitrarily. I think it's pretty safe to say that Blogger is never going to "review" my blog and that in a few weeks this "verification" will also "disappear" and I will have to resubmit the request again. Since I can honestly say that the word verification I have to go through to write a post is horrendous and the worst I have ever seen. Sometimes I have to try a half dozen times. I no longer have "autosave," so everytime I want to save my work, I have to verify and then "save as draft". Then I have to reopen the post and go through the same process to save or publish. Blogger just isn't worth it. I am lucky next to the people below though, who have been COMPLETELY blocked from posting. Frankly I am tired of being toyed with by Obama people and Blogger. Therefore I will stay with blogger till the "four days" is up for the other bloggers who have been completely blocked and then I am permamently moving. Here is this morning's "verfication".

Your blog requires word verification Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?)
Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.We received your unlock request on June 27, 2008. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam. Find out more about
how Blogger is fighting spam blogs

OTOH, Palestinians for Obama, a blog devoted to fighting for the release of Sami Al Arian is up up up

We are all Palestinians

 By Ulf Erlingsson, PhD - Apr 30th, 2008 at 9:24 am EDT

When one people is oppressed, all of us are oppressed. What you do to any one of these you do to me, Jesus said. So we are all Palestinians. This is about a prisoner in America fighting for the Palestinians:

Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace
  April 29, 2008

  Dr. Al-Arian Suspends Hunger Strike After 8 Weeks

  VIRGINIA -- Yesterday, on the 57th day of his hunger strike, Dr. Sami
Al-Arian suspended his fast, at the urging of his family, friends and
supporters. Dr. Al-Arian, who has lost more than 40 pounds, began the
hunger strike on March 3 to protest continued harassment and abuse of
power by the Justice Department. Early last week, as his blood pressure
and blood sugar reached dangerously low levels, Dr. Al-Arian collapsed
and lost consciousness at his cell in Hampton Roads Regional Jail and
was then examined by a doctor. Dr. Al-Arian drank no water for the
first 18 days of his fast. During his hunger strike, he was moved to
five different facilities a half dozen times.

There's more bile here.

Jewish Toddlers Pelted with rocks in NYC

Jew hatred everywhere. Everywhere you go.... there it is. Of course the thing that galls me is if this was a  school bus of Muslim children or a school bus of black children and white teens were yelling racial epithets, the country would be in an uproar. The media would be sleeping on lawns in Brooklyn .......... the leftist mainstream is morally bankrupt. Depraved.

Four Teens Arrested For Hate Crime In Crown Heights — Threw Rocks At Bus Full Of Jewish Toddlers The Posthumous Luger hat tip Anne

“Police say four teenagers have been arrested on hate crime charges for throwing rocks at a school bus full of Jewish toddlers.

Police say the three girls and one boy yelled epithets last month as they broke windows on the bus in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. The children were not hurt.

The case is part of a string of incidents that have stirred tensions between black and Jewish residents in Crown Heights. The teens are all 14-years-old and are black.

Watching Britain Surrender

Pathetic. The Brits have lost it. I wonder how much this Islamist killer will get in welfare entitlements. Last week al qaeda's number 2  in the UK, Abu Qatada, was released and is set to receive 100, 000 in welfare bennies. But lest anyone say the Brits were too soft, Abu is forbidden from plotting with Bin Laden. Feel better?

And no, I don't believe this is part of some covert plan. Those of us who have been watching their descent into dhimmitude know, they ain't that smart.

Second al-Qaeda leader to be freed in Britain Times Online hat tip Denice

Secret negotiations have taken place to arrange the release from a British jail of one of al-Qaeda’s most important operatives in Europe, The Times has learnt.

The prisoner, who can be identified only as U, is expected to be released from the high-security wing at Long Lartin jail next week.

Appeal Court judges ruled in April that the man, a 45-year-old Algerian veteran of al-Qaeda’s Afghan training camps, should be freed on bail. But discussions between security agencies and U’s lawyers became deadlocked over the conditions restricting his movements and whom he can meet when he leaves prison.

Perfect timing! The Taliban is resurging! They need him now more than ever

[...]

When the agreement is finalised the details will be passed to a judge who can release U from the prison in Worcestershire without any further court hearing. The Home Office refused to comment on the situation beyond saying it was seeking “the strictest bail conditions” possible.

Bwahahahahhahahahha

While Abu Qatada is a preacher whose role in the al-Qaeda network is to justify and encourage jihad, U is alleged to be a terrorist leader who recruited, trained and facilitated operations. Members of his group, which was formed with the personal approval of Osama bin Laden, have been convicted in the US of a plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport in December 1999 and, in Germany, of a plan to bomb the Strasbourg Christmas market a year later.

Previous related at Atlas: 

BRITS RELEASE BIN LADENS RIGHT HAND " at "centre of al Qaeda's activities in the UK"  June 17, 1008

Bin Laden's Right Hand at Center of Al Qaeda in UK Receives $100K in Benefits

What will they do after Bush?

The question was posed by Stop the ACLU. My guess is they will continue to blame Bush. Stop the ACLU has the whole thing  on this "demonstration" here.

I just want to know where are the honor killing protests, the CLIT CUT/CITTERROR protests, the public hanging of Gays in Islamic countries protest......  what asshats.

ANWR, THE DEMOCRATS AND THE BIG LIE

I received this from George whose brother worked in D.C. for a firm that helped companies and other entities present their views on public policy issues with printed materials, speeches and congressional testimony. "The pictures below are some of the ones he used on behalf of his client (not these exactly as these were forwarded to me from a friend who did not identify the source). His client was the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Their headline was “If you care about Mother Earth, you should support opening ANWR.” They went on to explain in detail about the methods and care taken to protect the environment while drilling for the energy that is the lifeblood of our economy –and way of life.    I was surprised, too."

Bottom line. When you hear Demoncrats saying ANWR won't solve all of our oil problems. Let me say - no one answer will (until some genius scientist develops a synthetic oil). Until such time, we must take many proactive actions. ANWR, shale, coastal drilling etc. -- altogether these solutions will relieve us of the horrible dependence we have on jihad oil.

Who the hell are the Dems working for? We elected them - they are public servants. They work for us. /not.

ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now… A comparison

And some perspective…

NOTE WHERE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AREA IS…

(it's in the "ANWR Coastal Plain")

THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS AND "GREENS" SHOW YOU WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ANWR …and they are right… these ARE photographs of ANWR

ISN'T ANWR BEAUTIFUL? WHY SHOULD WE DRILL HERE (AND DESTROY) THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE?

WELL… THAT'S NOT EXACTLY THE TRUTH

Check the map .....the map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain  

Do those photographs look like a coastal plain to you?  

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE…

THAT IS NOT WHERE THEY ARE WANTING TO DRILL!

THIS IS WHAT THE PROPOSED EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE WINTER

AND THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE SUMMER

HERE ARE A COUPLE SCREEN SHOTS FROM GOOGLE EARTH

AS YOU CAN SEE, THE AREA WHERE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT DRILLING IS A BARREN WASTELAND.

OH… AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT ON THE LOCAL WILDLIFE…  

HERE IS A PHOTO (SHOT DURING THE SUMMER) OF THE "DEPLETED WILDLIFE" SITUATION CREATED BY DRILLING AROUND PRUDHOE BAY*… DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE CARIBOU REALLY HATE THAT DRILLING?

HERE'S THAT SAME SPOT DURING THE WINTER.

HEY, THIS BEAR SEEMS TO REALLY HATE THE PIPELINE NEAR PRUDHOE BAY*…

*The Prudhoe bay area accounts for 17% of U.S. domestic oil production

NOW, WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE LYING ABOUT ANWR?

REMEMBER WHEN AL GORE SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK TO ARTIFICIALLY RAISE GAS PRICES TO $5.00 A GALLON?

WELL… AL GORE AND HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS HAVE ALMOST REACHED THEIR GOAL!

You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas.  It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline.  All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth.  What an amazing fraud; what a scam. (more from John Coleman herer)

* The New Hampshire Union Leader: “It is conveniently forgotten today that former Vice President Al Gore, among other leftists, once advocated that the government artificially raise gas prices to discourage oil consumption." hat tip Tim Blair

NOW THAT YOU KNOW THE TRUTH, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

UPDATE: Stogie has this:

ANWR Exploration
House Republicans: 91% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Coal-to-Liquid
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 78% Opposed
Oil Shale Exploration
House Republicans: 90% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
House Republicans: 81% Supported
House Democrats: 83% Opposed
Refinery Increased Capacity
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 96% Opposed
SUMMARY
91% of House Republicans have historically
voted to increase the production of American-
made oil and gas.
86% of House Democrats have historically
voted against increasing the production of
American-made oil and gas.

CORRUPTION ERUPTION: OBAMA's VENAL HOUSING POLICY

ANOTHER CORRUPTION ERUPTION! Much the way Bill Clinton would have bimbo eruptions and bimbo alerts, Obomba has almost daily explosions of some new (or old) corruption bombshell, lie, nefarious tie, etc.  Much of them are not only sordid, but criminal.  Makes one sanguine for Clinton's in flagrante delictos. 

If you read nothing else, read this. Exploiting the poor, fixing deals for Rezko to build unlivable death houses for the poverty stricken while schmearing all his buds with taxpayer dollars - could it get any uglier or more criminal?  Read this piece from top to bottom.

I was listening to some asshat wax poetic about Obama yesterday -- extolling his background. "Who better than a black man who grew up on the sideside of Chicago blah blah blah" ......uh, he grew up in Jakarta (going to a madrassa) and then moved to Hawaii where he attended the most elite private school, thanks to racist whitey Grandma (one of the legions Obama has seen fit to throw under the bus).

Where the hell are the investigative journalists?  This latest explosive story would BLOW UP anybody else's campaign but not the Christ child (or is that the Moe child?).

CHANGE WE CAN BE SHOCKED AT Rick Moran American Thinker (hat tip the lovely Larwyn)

For a candidate who touts a mantra of "Change" until people turn a little green around the gills whenever they hear it, Obama better be careful. Even a cursory examination of his record in Chicago as a state senator bringing "change" to public housing would cause voters to ask some serious questions about his competence.

This devastating piece in the Boston Globe on just what Obama's leadership on developing government-private housing projects did to public housing in Chicago should open a few eyes:

The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else.

But it's not safe to live here.

About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.

Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing - an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing.

As a state senator (and as a member of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland - a law firm that handled much of the legal work for developers seeking to partner with the city and state in building or rehabbing public housing units), Obama pushed hard to finance these projects back in the 1990's. The results are seen above.

But is there more to Obama's support of these projects? Did they have a political reason for being touted by the candidate?

The campaign did not respond to questions about whether Obama was aware of the problems with buildings in his district during his time as a state senator, nor did it comment on the roles played by people connected to the senator.

Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:

Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama's presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.

Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama's US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama's former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.

Antoin "Tony" Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama's early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko's company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama's district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.

Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers - including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko - collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama's campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama's own accounting.

The partnerships were an entree for Obama into the high powered world of fat cat political donors. And as far as whether Obama knew of the problems with the units, the file cabinets at Obama's law firm are stuffed with pleas from ordinary citizens asking the firm - which handled many landlord-tenant disputes in the past - to intervene with the developers and get them to fix things like running water and problems with heaters.

Those pleas fell largely on deaf ears as the law firm took hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees from these developers to represent their interests and help them through the maze of paperwork required to receive the grants from the city and state to rehab or develop the housing projects.

The key player was, of course, Tony Rezko. The now convicted developer/political operator brought Obama along and introduced him to several of the city's major players in the development community - players who later would figure prominently in his fundraising activities for the senate and early presidential efforts.

Obama and his law firm were more than happy to oblige.

Read it all.

UPDATE: Obama's Name Comes Up in New Unsealed Rezko Court Documents Newsalert (hat tip Larwyn)

Obama Cover-Up Rhymes with Right

Another Funky Obama /Rezko Real Estate Deal Yid with Lid

LEFT: AMERICAN SOLDIER = "STORM TROOPER"

The left is getting loonier, no no I'm serious.

Gathering of Eagles - New Jersey
“Stand for Victory”
Summer ’08 Statewide Tour (hat tip vanz)

On June 1, the NJ GoE launched it's summer campaign to bring a message of, "Stand for Victory", to the NJ moonbats. As we all know, the moonbats insist that they, like us, support the troops, they just don't support the mission. We have decided to clarify and distinguish our position - we stand for Victory!! Our goal is to bring the Victory message to as many local monbat rallies as we can over the course of this summer. Our signs focus on Victory - 'Give Victory a Chance', 'Stand for Victory', 'Support Victory in Iraq' - that sort of thing. We have identified and confirmed a number of targets around the state, primarily in northeast NJ. To date we have completed three missions - Leonia, Bloomfield, and Somerville.

Last evening a group of Eagles gathered in Montclair to counter the local moonbat rally. We had our flags and our VICTORY signs, and we set up across the street from the moonbats. This was our fourth mission in our Summer '08, "Stand for Victory" tour.

This was a particularly rabid bunch of moonbats - when they saw our flags they began repeatedly yelling, "That is the flag of shame". One of their signs declared that the American soldier is a "storm-trooper", and underneath the picture of a soldier there was a flag that was half American, half Nazi swastika. Of course there were the usual signs about "Bush lied" etc. After their initial consternation at seeing our arrival, most of the moonbats fell into a state of lethargy and just sat on a wall under the trees. A couple of them did keep calling out to us about the evils of America etc etc.

The moonbats were particularly incensed that one of the Eagles is a person of color, and they called out a few times that he should be ahamed of himself for standing for America as he "of all people should know better" - this is something that our black and hispanic Eagles have encountered at previous rallies, and it is emblematic of the racist views of the left. Apparently the lefties believe that all people of color should think the same, and that they should all stay in their place on the 'liberal plantation'............ of course we educated them a bit on their racist views! A couple of the moonbats did run over to our side to qestion who we were and why we were there - they also noted that no one has ever been there to counter them. We just sent them packing back to their nest - obviuosly there was nothing to be gained from interacting with this rabid and racist bunch.

We had a very good reception from motorists and pedestrians. Quite a few people stopped to talk with us and to voice their disapproval of the peaceniks, and some of them stayed with us for extended periods of time. We also met people from the local American Legion, and Republican Club who expressed an interest in joining us when we return to Montclair.

We maintained our position until the moonbats left, and then David cleansed their area with his Febreeze spray bottle - something that he has been doing at all of the sites that we have been visiting in NJ. Thank you David for performing this vital public service.

We will continue to take our message to the New Jersey moonbats up until Labor Day. For our final 'Stand for Victory' rally we will be meeting up with the Chester County Victory Movement, sometime in September, at their weekly rally in West Chester, Pa.

Stand with our troops - Stand for Victory!!

Meanwhile, while the left works for our demise, the right side of the net raised over $1,000,000 this week for the troops.

WEST GOES EAST

Diana is traveling and asking the political elites what's to be done about the Islamization of Europe. They are scratching their heads (and their balls too I'm sure) feigning ignorance. Only in Eurabia folks. This is at her blog

This week's column mentions a conversation I had with a conservative British MEP (Member of European Parliament) who took issue with my concern about the Islamization of Europe for two basic reasons:

(One) For roughly the first 12 or 13 centuries of Islam until 1979, as he explained it, everything was effectively hunky dory with Islam; then that wascally wadical Ayatollah Khomeini showed up, ruining everything. In other words, Islam, which includes Islamic law (my concern), is fine; it's just those wascally wadicals who are a problem. And (two): My MEP told me he knows a perfectly lovely man who is Muslim--prays five times a day and everything--so, well then. At one point in the conversation, he rather abuptly said that if my reading of Islam's intrinsic incompatibility with Western-style liberty was correct, Europe had only two choices: Conversion to Islam or deportation of Muslims. Rather than face up to the hard-eyed task of shoring up the bulwarks against Islamic law, for instance, it was, for him,  presumbaly, far better--far easier--to believe my reading of jihad and dhimmitude was just plain wrong.

Perfectly in keeping with these beliefs, he expressed doubt about the  existence of de facto Islamic-ruled "no-go zones" in his own Britain--despite the writings on the subject by the Bishop of Rochester. He also told me, when asked, that he had never, in all of his years in Brussels, visited the neighborhood of Molenbeek, an Islamic enclave a very short drive from the EU environs in which we sat.

Well, I went to Molenbeek earlier this month and brought back this  slide show of snaps. What you will see may call to mind something more like Little Marrakesh or Istanbultown than the so-called capital of Europe. To some, it will be possible to see in Molenbeek a fairly bustling display of non-indigenous culture certainly not unfamiliar to Americans who have both lived through and been a part of historic immigration waves. (To return to this website after viewing, push the back button on your browser.)

Read it all.

RACIST MEDIA

Hard to believe this ran in WaPo. Lasky sent it and opined, "think some journalists support Barack Obama even if it means throwing journalistic principles udner the bus? How else are they covering him?".

The media is sooooooooooo racist, they cannot see beyond color. Me, I don't give a fig if he was Barney the dinosaur, his resume if frightening. But the media? They'd just as soon see Idi Amin (as long as he's not on the right) in the White House, he's black so he has to be good, right?  

Pretzel Logic Howard Kurtz

Barack Obama is under hostile fire for changing his position on the D.C. gun ban.

Oh, I'm sorry. He didn't change his position, apparently. He reworded a clumsy statement.

That, at least, is what his campaign is saying. The same campaign that tried to spin his flip-flop in rejecting public financing as embracing the spirit of reform, if not the actual position he had once promised to embrace.

Is this becoming a pattern? Wouldn't it be better for Obama to say he had thought more about such-and-such an issue and simply changed his mind? Is that verboten in American politics? Is it better to engage in linguistic pretzel-twisting in an effort to prove that you didn't change your mind?

Regardless of what you think of the merits of yesterday's Supreme Court ruling overturning the capital's handgun law, it seems to me we're entitled to a clear position by the presumed Democratic nominee. And I'm a bit confused about how the confusion came about.

Here's how the Illinois senator handled the issue with the Chicago Tribune just last November:

 

"The campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said that he ' . . . believes that we can recognize and respect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and the right of local communities to enact common sense laws to combat violence and save lives. Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional.' "

Kind of a flat statement.

And here's what ABC reported yesterday: " 'That statement was obviously an inartful attempt to explain the Senator's consistent position,' Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells ABC News."

Inartful indeed.

But even though the earlier Obama quote and the "inartful" comment have been bouncing around the Net for 24 hours, I'm not seeing any reference to them in the morning papers. Most do what the New York Times did: "Mr. Obama, who like Mr. McCain has been on record as supporting the individual-rights view, said the ruling would 'provide much-needed guidance to local jurisdictions across the country.' "

Supporting the individual-rights view? Not in November.

Even the Tribune--the very paper that the Obama camp told he supported the gun ban--makes no reference to the November interview. Instead: "Democrat Barack Obama offered a guarded response Thursday to the Supreme Court ruling striking down the District of Columbia's prohibition on handguns and sidestepped providing a view on the 32-year-old local gun ban. Republican rival John McCain's campaign accused him of an 'incredible flip-flop' on gun control."

So McCain accuses Obama of a flip-flop, and the Trib can't check the clips to tell readers whether there's some basis in fact for the charge?

USA Today takes the same tack:

"In a conference call put together by McCain's campaign, Republican Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas said . . . that Obama has been changing his position on the gun issue and said the Democratic senator has done some 'incredible flip-flopping' on key issue."

And? And? That's all we get? He said/he said journalism?

Even if you wanted to maintain that it wasn't really a flip-flop, what about giving the readers the facts?

The Washington Post did include this half-sentence deep in a story: "Obama, who has advocated strict gun-control laws and who spoke favorably about the District's handgun ban before yesterday's ruling . . ."

I can't run it all, so read it all.

 

A Summer Samba Open Thread

Astrud Gilberto - Dammi un'idea (Summer Samba) 1967.  Smooth, cool  as ice cream but still as sweet. Many a languid summer's night spent in youthful infatuation a la Getz and Gilberto Au Go Go.

CLICK "CONTINUE" BELOW FOR VIDEO! It's working now! No plug in necessary ....

Laying it out

Changing the layout, experimenting with templates to ease load time. Is it any better? Thanks for all of your emails ..... let me know if its improved. The slow load is killing traffic ... I know Atlas is worth waiting for but puhleeze.

Bear with me while I work out the bugs and like I said, let me know what you think.

UPDATE: Lots of feedback .............. I had no idea how many people couldn't view Atlas. Alright. I am removing the vlogs from the sidebars and most everything that waits for outside code. Also, I will refrain from running videos on the main page as that slows down load as well. I will start to tun more extended posts, which means you will have to click on a bottom link to read the whole post and get the link.

HOW'S IT NOW?????????????????

UPDATE: Stogie updated the size of the banner. Smokin' Stogie to the rescue -- does it work in your browsers? Who is still having site load issues? What kind?

UPDATE: THANK YOU, ATLAS (your welcome)  :)

What Bloggers Do ...

At least the fabi ones in NYC -- Abe Greenwald, erudite Commentary blogger made a party last night with Karol over at Alarming News. Excellent moment? Meeting Jennifer Rubin, whose work I admire enormously. Here's Abe over at Contentions:

Last night CONTENTIONS and Alarming News threw a little blogger get-together, and I’m happy to say the turnout was excellent, the conversation scintillating, and the disagreements civil. I want to thank everyone for showing up, and that includes CONTENTIONS’ own Jennifer Rubin and Ted Bromund, as well as Pamela of Atlas Shrugs, Todd Seavey, Neo-Neocon, Walter Olson from Overlawyered, Sean Macomber from the American Spectator, and of course, Karol Sheinin of Alarming News. Let’s do it again soon — and in a slightly quieter spot.

Nobody dresses up downtown, but I do.  Not at all glam. I blog in lounge wear - I like dresses :)

Want pics? I don't have 'em. But lots of folks were taking them so if anyone posts, I'll let you know.

How Convenient .. Sniffer Dogs Offend Muslims

Now this is rich,  .... bomb sniffing dogs offend Muslims (Islamic terrorists too, no doubt.) So dogs may no longer come in contact with Muslim passengers. Feel better? No worries.

SNIFFER DOGS OFFEND MUSLIMS Daily Express hat tip Kasper

POLICE sniffer dogs trained to spot terrorists at railway stations may no longer come into contact with Muslim passengers – after complaints that it is against the suspects’ religion.

A report for the Transport Department has raised the prospect that the animals should only touch passengers’ luggage because it is considered “more acceptable”.

In the Muslim faith, dogs are deemed to be spiritually “unclean”. But banning them from touching passengers would severely restrict their ability to do their job.

The report follows trials of station security measures in the wake of the 2005 London suicide bomb attacks. In one trial, some female Muslims said the use of a body scanner was also unacceptable because it was tantamount to being forced to strip.

Read it all and close your mouth, it's not polite.

A Petition?

There is a petition against homicide bombings? Clearly this  is an indication of just how out of hand things have gotten. But if you're Canadian, sign it unless of ocurse .....

The organization is known as Canadians Against Suicide Bombing

Thepetition can be found here. It has been organized by a number of politicians and high profile individuals on all sides of the political spectrum.

They are seeking support from individuals in an effort to convince Parliament to pass the Bill.

YIKES!

From their "unity" tour ............ I wonder what kind of deal she made.

HR COMMISH DROPS MUSLIM COMPLAINT AGAINST STEYN!

Wow. I guess they got tired of looking really stupid.

Rights panel rejects action against Maclean's JAMIE KOMARNICKI

The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed a complaint against Maclean's magazine over a controversial article on the future of Islam, magazine officials said yesterday.

Meanwhile, a decision from the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal over the same issue isn't expected for several months.

Steyn weighs in while on hiatus:

On Thursday, the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission (very quietly) dismissed the Canadian Islamic Congress complaint against Maclean's re America Alone - and without even giving the Socks the consolation of an Ontario-style drive-by verdict. The decision of the Jennifer Lynch mob includes the following:

The Steyn article discusses changing global demographics and other factors that the author describes as contributing to an eventual ascendancy of Muslims in the 'developed world', a prospect that the author fears for various reasons described in the article. The writing is polemical, colourful and emphatic, and was obviously calculated to excite discussion and even offend certain readers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

Overall, however, the views expressed in the Steyn article, when considered as a whole and in context, are not of an extreme nature as defined by the Supreme Court in the Taylor decision. Considering the purpose and scope of section 13 (1), and taking into account that an interpretation of s. 13 (1) must be consistent with the minimal impairment of free speech, there is no reasonable basis in the evidence to warrant the appointment of a Tribunal.

For these reasons, this complaint is dismissed.

Here's the official reaction from Maclean's.

We now await the decision from the pseudo-judges of the British Columbia tribunal.

UPDATE: Free Mark Steyn has a roundup

 

Another Democrat Abomination: Censure Congressman William Delahunt!

]Where the hell were the Republicans?  Keith Ellison (who took his oath on the Koran) and vile Conyers were interrogating  these fine men like they were Bin Laden.
If you do one thing today, Censure Congressman William Delahunt! Now.
Redstate has the whole thing here:

Damn us all and our party if we let this go
Congressman Delahunt can be reached at 202-225-3111 and by fax at 202-225-5658
By The Directors

It is no secret that public discourse in this country has become very shrill. Blogs on the left regularly feature vulgar diatribes against the right. Some on the right do the same. Keith Olbermann tells the President to "shut the hell up" on his television program. The New York Times publicly reveals the name of a CIA agent who did the dirty work of interrogating captured Al Qaeda operatives. The left says, "So, the right did it to Valerie Plame," treating as morally equivalent the disclosure of the spy no longer spying and the disclosure of one of the men Al Qaeda would love to behead.

Dismissive of the fact that it was Armitage all along.

While Congress has also descended into a more shrill style, until yesterday it had not crossed one line of civility that never should be crossed on either side.

David Addington is the Vice President's Chief of Staff. Yesterday, he testified before Congress.

During the course of the hearing, Congressman and Obama Superdelegate William Delahunt (MA-10) asked Mr. Addington about water boarding. Mr. Addington responded that he would not go into details because Al Qaeda is probably watching.

Congressman Delahunt's response was, "I'm glad they finally have a chance to see you."

Mr. Delahunt now denies he meant what he said. But what he clearly said was "I'm glad they finally have a chance to see you." Al Qaeda now knows the face of one of the men who relentlessly pursues its henchmen and deals with their interrogations. Mr. Addington volunteered for public service, not a death sentence with Congressional encouragement. Mr. Delahunt is both a vile liar and a cowardly lion willing to roar down at Mr. Addington while encouraging terrorists to do his dirty work in a war he has been ineffective at stopping.

The left, while attacking Charlie Black for stating the obvious -- that a terrorist incident helps the GOP politically because they are seen as more competent in the national security arena -- is defending this degradation of congressional discourse and vile swipe at Mr. Addington.

This discourse — a member of Congress glad Al Qaeda has a face it can pursue — is beneath the dignity of the Congress and beneath the dignity of civil discourse in this country.

If you do not call your Congressman today and demand the House of Representatives, at the very *least*, censure Congressman Delahunt, well damn us all. We have no right to carry on our fight.

The number is 202-224-3121 and Congressman Delahunt's email address is william.delahunt@mail.house.gov.

And some intrepid reporter should ask Mr. Obama what he thinks of this. After all, Mr. Delahunt was one of Mr. Obama's early supporters and is now an Obama superdelegate. Of course, you can ask Barack Obama yourself at (866) 675-2008.

UPDATE: From RightMarch.com:

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! We need to DEMAND that the U.S. House CENSURE this Congressman for inciting Al Qaeda to murder, NOW!

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Thanks to Rep. Delahunt's despicable comments on broadcast television, David Addington and his family will probably need protection from now until the War on Terror is over!

Patriotic Americans MUST demand ACTION from Congress on this outrage -- and we've got just the way to do it!

TAKE ACTION: Rep. Delahunt is now trying to "backpedal" on what he said, denying that he didn't mean what his statement plainly inferred. He's even trying to say that he said "I" and not "they" in his statement – when all we have to do is go to YouTube to watch EXACTLY what he said!

Delahunt, at the very LEAST, must be censored by Congress for his remarks. To make sure this happens, we've set up our website so that you can send "Blast Faxes" to EVERY SINGLE U.S. Representative AT ONCE, urging that they CENSURE Delahunt for his outrageous comments TODAY!

For about what it would cost you in time and telephone charges, you can send Blast Faxes to ALL 435 members of Congress – RIGHT NOW: Go Here.

ATLAS RADIO: FLT 93 ISLAMIC MEMORIAL & SAUDI HATE SCHOOL

"I am against this memorial. This is not your memorial. This doesn't belong to you. It belongs to the American people". Tom Burnett

Crescent of Betrayl - get involved! ATLAS ON THE AIR: Today's show at noon will be kicking the ass of the quiet jihad in America. For Atlas readers that want to make a difference and fight the creeping sharia in America tune in. The first half  of the show will discuss the Flight 93 Memorial that is an homage to Islam.  I will have Tom Burnett Sr. , father of  the great American hero Tom Burnett who led the charge to wrest control away from the Muslims that hijacked Flight 93 and attempted to fly it into the White House or Capital Building (check out  Tom Burnett Family Foundation) and the great public advocate Alec Rawls, of Error Theory.

Outrage over this clear Islamic symbolism forced the Memorial Project to agree to make changes, but all they did was slightly disguise the giant crescent. It is still described as a “broken circle,” and the unbroken part of the circle (the crescent) remains exactly as it was.

Call-in Number: (347) 996-3944

Today we will discuss this Islamic Crescent memorial.

Rawls's  training is as an economist. He was writing a book on republicanism (the system of liberty under law)  when he was discovered that the Flight 93 memorial was going to be a terrorist memorial mosque. World Ahead agreed to first publish my book about this rehijacking of  Flight 93 (Crescent of Betrayal, temporarily available for free download at CrescentOfBetrayal.com).

His  position is simple: The planned Flight 93 Memorial is a terrorist memorial mosque. Not only does the giant crescent point to Mecca, but architect Paul Murdoch proves that this orientation is intentional by repeating it in the crescents of trees that surround the Tower of Voices part of the memorial. (Repeated Mecca-orientations demonstrated in this animation). We hosted an open design competition in time of war and literally invited the whole world to enter. Of course we should have expected that the enemy would enter, and try to win a memorial to their heroes instead of ours. Much harder to understand is the willful blindness of those who are charged with the memorialization of Flight 93, which is supposed to be the symbol of our woken vigilance.

    Every place where the terrorists are memorialized in the crescent design, they are placed in the symbolic Islamic heavens (the crescent and star parts of the design). Every place where the 40 heroes are memorialized, they are depicted as symbolically damned, cast out of the symbolic Islamic heavens. One example is in the Tower of Voices, where an Islamic shaped crescent soars in the sky above forty symbolic souls that literally dangle below:               

    Forty symbolic souls, never to rest in peace, gonging for eternity in their symbolic damnation, strung like fish as they hang down from the symbolic Islamic heavens projected in the sky above. Is the Memorial Project trying to start a riot? (Click pic for larger image.)

Previous Atlas coverage on this Islamic Crescent Memorial here.

SAUDI ISLAMIC ACADEMY: The second half of the show I will host  John Cosgrove, Virginia Chapter Director United American Committee. who has led the charge against the jihad teaching Saudi Hate school and this week's stunning victory by concerned Americans.

The UAC regrets that it took the arrest of the ISA Director General, another government report, and a protest to convince the BoS to finally take action and heed the warnings of the USCIRF reports that BoS Chairman Gerry Connolly called TVC member Jim Lafferty slanderous for citing.

This is the Islamic academy in North Virgina that was teaching jihad, Jew hatred, and Islamic supremacy. Cited numerous times, the school promised to revise their textbooks - and they attempted to, with white out.

US GOVT AIDS ABETS CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE COVER UP IN ISLAMIC JIHAD ACADEMY

MURDER TEACHING ISLAMIC SCHOOL DIRECTOR ARRESTED - CHILD MOLESTATION

US JIHAD SCHOOL OK AFTER PROMISE TO REVISE TEXTBOOKS

Small Victory IN SAUDI JIHAD HATE SCHOOL

UPDATE:Robert spencer has this BREAKING NEWS:

Virginia Islamic Academy had its corporate charter revoked and never filled out IRS forms Surprise, surprise. But will their Saudi connection bail them out? I would guess that it probably will. "Virginia’s Islamic Academy on Shaky Legal Ground," by Patrick Poole for Pajamas Media, June 27:

An investigation by Pajamas Media has found that more trouble may be on the horizon for the Islamic Saudi Academy and the Saudi Embassy.
PJM first reported on the academy, a school sponsored by the Saudi Embassy, two weeks ago when law enforcement authorities raided it, looking for evidence that the school’s director, Abdullah Al-Shabnan, had covered up sex abuse allegations by a 5-year old student. The raid occurred just three days after the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors had renewed the school’s lease despite evidence that the school continued to use textbooks promoting violence and religious hatred.

Since then Abdullah Al-Shabnan has been charged with failing to report the child abuse allegations and obstruction of justice. A protest was held last week in front of the academy and it received considerable local media coverage, including from the Washington Post. That coverage no doubt played a role earlier this week when in a stunning about-face the Fairfax Board of Supervisors sent a letter to the State Department asking them to determine whether the lease should be renewed or not in light of the report earlier this month by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) that reviewed the academy’s textbooks and found that incendiary and hateful passages had not been removed.

The school has issued a press release claiming that the passages have been “mistranslated and misinterpreted,” and saying that the “textbooks are no longer at use at the Academy.” That contradicts statements made last week by school officials to the media that textbooks will be rewritten and reissued before the beginning of school. Why would the textbooks need to be rewritten if those under scrutiny are no longer in use?

The textbooks are not the only elements of the school that don’t hold up under scrutiny.

Virtually all of the establishment media press reports have wrongly claimed that the school operates independently of the embassy as a private entity. Even Tom Casey, the State Department’s deputy spokesman, made this error during his June 24 daily press briefing:

QUESTION: I understand that you’ve received a letter from the — from Fairfax County asking you whether you could give an opinion on the lease of the Saudi school in Alexandria and whether the county should extend that lease, which I am told it’s worth $2.2 million a year. But — just, I mean, do you expect to pronounce yourselves on that? Is that something that you –

MR. CASEY: Well, I think it’s something we’ve just gotten. We’ll certainly take a look at it and see what kind of response would be appropriate, but I — you know, it’s not something we’ve had a chance to really look through. As you know, this is a school that is incorporated and overseen through the county there. It’s not an institution that we have any sort of formal role in accrediting or managing. But certainly, we’ll take a look at the letter and if there’s some thoughts or advice that we can offer, we’ll certainly do it.

And State Department spokesman Nichole Thompson has also said:

This is a private school. It is not a part of the Saudi embassy. It is not part of a diplomatic mission.

These claims by State Department officials make clear their position that the Islamic Saudi Academy has maintained a separate corporate identity from the Saudi Embassy. But a review of the corporate records on file with the Virginia State Corporation Commission finds that the Islamic Saudi Academy’s corporate charter was terminated by the state on December 27, 2004. There is no indication from state records that the incorporation has been revived or renewed, and the last corporate report the school has filed with the state of Virginia that we could find was 2004 — the same year its corporate charter was terminated. A check of corporations in neighboring District of Columbia and Maryland found nothing for the academy.

Shocked? Don't be. Why should they have to obey kaffir laws?

 

 

ALLEN WEST! Change you can believe in!

Want change you can believe in? Then head to Florida- and join great Americans--Saturday, June 28--at 10 am for a grassroots organizational meeting for the  Colonel of Truth - Allen West.

I will be doing a live interview with Allen when he comes to New York in early August for the Black Republican Forum. And if you missed my interview with the great one, check it out here.

West reported live for Atlas readers when he was helping the war effort in Afghanistan. If you missed any of his kick ass columns, check out Colonel's Column from Kandahar.

If you can't be there, donate to his campaign! Allen West for Congress

Embassy Suites, 661 NW 53 Street, Boca Raton (just west of I-95 on the north side of Yamato Road)

West Answers Obama: Run as a Man and Leader Clarice Feldman, American Thinker

In response to Obama's claim that Republicans will use race to stoke fear, Lt. Col Allen West, candidate for Congress in Florida's 22 District issued this release:

My advice to Senator Obama is to run as a Man and Leader, and the American people will evaluate you as such, not as a victim. This is a presidential race, based solely on a capacity to lead the United States of America. It is not about skin tone; however, perhaps we should come to expect these immature statements.

It also seems rather humorous that the presidential candidate who was supposed to be such a "uniter" and transcend race is the one talking about it the most. If Senator Obama was confident in his abilities and character, he would not need to create a crutch for failure. Senator Obama has just tipped his hand; any criticism of him and his policies will be directly attributed to racism. I congratulate Senator Obama for taking race relations in America back some 30 years.

Bolton: "North Korea Can Out Negotiate the US without Raising a Sweat"

"This is a very sad day for supporters of the President"

John Bolton on Hannity and Colmes (CLICK BELOW FOR VIDEO)

I was mortified to learn early yesterday that the Bush administration inexplicably removed the nuke proliferater North Korea  from the State Department's list of nations that sponsor terrorism......

Ambassador John Bolton called it  "a clear victory for North Korea".

Colmes: IS SHE [CONDI] WRONG? ....

BOLTON: IT IS WORKING, FOR NORTH  KOREA

Europe: Racist Violence Against Whites

Fjordman asks, "Do the lives of whites simply not matter to the EU and its leaders?" .... that is the question.

DOES THE EU SUPPORT RACIST VIOLENCE AGAINST WHITES Fjordman, Brussels Journal (hat tip wolf)

The EU's official watchdog against "racism" complains that native Europeans do not censor themselves enough. Notice that there is not a single word about the massive wave of racist violence facing white natives in Western Europe. We're just supposed to shut up while the Multiculturalists dismantle our nations and use them as dumping grounds for the excess population growth of Islamic countries:

This is from Associated Press (24 June): EU Rights Agency Warns Racist Violence Persists in Bloc

Racist violence and discrimination persist across the European Union, and most members of the 27-nation bloc aren't taking advantage of tough legislation to crack down on the scourge, the EU's rights agency warned. Britain and France lead a list of nine countries credited with actively fighting racism and xenophobia, but most other EU members aren't making the most of a tough EU-wide "racial equality directive," the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights said in its annual report. "Racism, discrimination, entrenched disadvantage, racist violence and harassment have remained a fact of life for many individuals in Europe," the agency warned. "Effective and dissuasive sanctions are crucial to fight ethnic and racial discrimination," it said. "Without these, discriminatory attitudes and behavioral patterns are unlikely to change and victims remain defenseless."
From 2006-2007, Britain punished 95 offenders with sanctions – more than all of the other 26 member states combined -- said the Vienna-based agency, which polices the EU in an effort to stamp out discrimination in employment, housing, education, health care and other key areas. It also singled out Bulgaria, France, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Finland and Sweden for making good use of existing legal tools to fight discrimination. By contrast, a dozen EU member states -- the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia – issued no sanctions at all during the same period.

One of the organizations cooperating with the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency is the Swedish left-wing organization Expo, which most of my readers should be familiar with. One of the co-founders of Expo, Tobias Hübinette, wrote this in 1996:

To feel and even think that the white race is inferior in every conceivable way is natural with regards to its history and current actions. Let the Western countries of the white race perish in blood and suffering. Long live the multicultural, racially mixed and classless ecological society! Long live anarchy!

Read the rest at Brussels Journal

 

Obama/Gore/Soros/UN= Loss of sovereignty

The one worlders will have you by the throat and suck the life out of it. I hope McCain doesn't squander this opportunity I would bash Obama with this dreck.

Obama's Global Tax Bill Coming Soon Lee Cary, American Thinker

The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433) is coming up for a Senate vote sometime after the July 4 recess, according the office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Once Harry Reid and the Democrat leadership put it on the calendar, we could have as little as a week to prepare for the vote.

The bill is sponsored in the Senate by Barack Obama.  Read about it here.

If passed, it will cost taxpayers $845,000,000,000 over the next 13 years, in addition to our current foreign aid expenditures. 

And the best part is that it will be administered in conjunction with...brace yourselves...the United Nations. The same one of "Food-for-Oil" fame.

It passed (H.R. 1302) earlier by a unanimous voice vote in the House. 

It's about global income redistribution. Their distribution - our income.

Heard much debate about it?   Ah, it's only 8.5 tenths of a trillion.

Jihad Torches Ski Resort

Spencer over at Jihadwatch -- watching the worldwide jihad

Jihadists torch ski resort hotel

"The area is not under our control, it's under the militants' control and no one can go there."

And another peace accord bites the dust. Hudaibiyya, anyone?

"Militants torch Pakistani ski resort hotel: police," by Junaid Khan for Reuters, June 26:

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Islamist militants burned down a hotel at Pakistan's only ski resort on Thursday as security in a northwestern tourist valley deteriorated despite a month-old peace pact, police said.

The Swat valley, several hours drive on mountain roads from the capital, Islamabad, was until last year a prime tourist destination with ancient Buddhist ruins, a golf course, trout streams and the ski resort.

"Half of the hotel has been burned down," said Swat's police chief, Waqif Khan, referring to the only hotel at the Malam Jabba ski resort. The hotel is owned by the state tourism authority.

Khan said authorities had not been able to get to the resort to tackle the blaze or inspect the damage.

"The area is not under our control, it's under the militants' control and no one can go there," he said.

FRANCE: MUSLIMS WHO CRUSHED JEWISH BOY WERE SCREAMING"DIRTY JEW!"

We know the French would never say the brain bashing attack on 17 year old  Rudy Haddad was "anti-semetic" unless it was irrefutable. Look at how they denied that the torture and murder of Ilan Halimi was Islamic Jew hatred until the facts emerged and Chirac had to backpedal and trip over himself making excuses.

So why did the French the Islamic punk jihadis go? And why weren't we made aware of the other altercations that day aginst the Jews by Muslims?

Paris: Five Anti-Semitic Thugs Released After Beating Jewish Teen Into Coma YWN

Five youths detained after a Jewish teenager was beaten into a coma by a gang in Paris have been released without charge, AFP reported Wednesday quoting judicial officials.

The minors, aged 14 to 17, were held for questioning as witnesses following the attack this past Shabbos in the multi-ethnic 19th district of the capital - reported HERE on YWN.
 
The Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin said Tuesday the 17-year-old victim, Rudy Haddad, was beaten by a gang after street brawls between Jewish teenagers and youths of north African and sub-Saharan descent.
 
The boy was so badly beaten by a gang wielding metal bars that he went into a coma from which he only emerged on Monday.

According an informed source, he is slowly recovering but remains “very traumatized” and is encountering memory problems.

A probe for “murder attempt aggravated by its anti-Semitic character” has been launched against the perpetrators, a group of six or seven youths of black African origin, who remain at large.

The prosecutor has confirmed the anti-Semitic character of the aggression and said anti-Semitic insults – like “dirty Jew” - were shouted during the aggression.

Sources quoted in the press reported that several brawls broke out in the area Saturday afternoon between Jewish and North Africans and black youth groups and that Haddad was attacked later on the day when he was walking alone in Rue Petit, near a Lubavitch Shul.

UPDATE: Chesler on this savagery:

Why are the Anti-Racists and the Mainstream Media silent?

OBAMA TOSSES GUN CONTROL BAN UNDER BUS

Man, a girl can get whiplash just listening to Obambi. He changes positions faster than I change my underthings. 

Jake Tapper reports on Obama's comments about the DC handgun ban in his Political Punch Blog. Obama's comments were made exclusively to ABC News affiliate WJET:

Obama Eager to Distance Self from Campaign's Former Position on DC Handgun Ban

Craig Layne, a reporter from WJET-TV in Erie, Penn., today asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, a question on the DC gun ban.

Here's how the exchange went down.
 
"In November you mentioned that the DC handgun law was constitutional," Layne said. "Now you’re embracing the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision striking down that law—

"That’s not what I said," Obama interrupted, per ABC News' Jennifer Duck.

"Your aide said that," http://www.topix.com/content/trb/2007/11/court-to-hear-gun-case Layne clarified.

"I don’t know what my aide said but I’ve been very consistent, I teach constitutional law," Obama said. What I said was that I believe 2nd Amendment as being an individual right and have said that consistently.  I also think that individual right is constrained by the rights of the community to maintain issues with public safety.  I don’t think those two principles are contradictory and in fact what I’ve been saying consistently is what the Supreme Court essentially said today."

Obama continued: "The DC law may have been struck down but they also affirmed the right for local communities to engage in background checks and other common sense laws that most lawful gun owners would agree with.  So I think we can move beyond some of the conflicts on this issue, make sure law abiding gun owners have their rights respected and at the same time make sure we don’t see the kinds of murder and devastation we’ve seen on the streets of some of our cities."