Atlas Shrugs

JUST WHO IS CONTRIBUTING TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?

Jamal M. Barzinji Gave Obama $1,000.

Dr. Jamal al Barzinji is a noted American businessman and political operative, most recently associated with the International Institute of Islamic Thought, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth and the SAAR Foundation.

Barzinji is a long-term business associate of Muslim Brotherhood activist and al Taqwa Bank chairman Youssef Nada.^[1] Barzinji also serves as a trustee and officer of the Amana Mutual Funds Trust, a growth and income mutual fund headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, along with SAAR co-executive Yaqub Mirza and Talat M. Othman. (more at Wikipedia)

World Assembly of Muslim Youth

In 1980 Barzinji was a representative of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), alongside Abdallah Osama bin Laden, a younger-half brother of Osama bin Laden.

On March 20, 2002, a U.S. Customs Service investigative unit called Operation Green Quest conducted a raid on an allegedly interrelated group of Wahhabiist interests in northern Virginia. Among these were the Herndon, Virginia, VA, offices of Dr. Barzinji, and the SAAR Foundation, created by wealthy Saudi Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi.

Obama and those all those Saudi connections. Much thanks to Slim Guy for all of his help.

MUSLIMS IN TERROR PROBE MAKING DONATIONS TO OBAMA

It's an international Muslim supremacist organization, along the lines of the Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan. Jamal M. Barzinji earlier this year gave Obama $1,000, a gift that records show has not been returned. . ^[1]

Jamal M. Barzinji earlier this year gave Obama $1,000,.Barzinji remains at the center of an active federal investigation.  ^[2] Jamal M. Barzinji earlier this year gave Obama $1,000, a gift that records show has not been returned. Other Democratic candidates, including Rep. Jim Moran, have refunded donations from Barzinji since federal agents raided his Virginia home and offices in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Obama's top Muslim adviser resigned earlier this month over controversy surrounding his ties to an alleged Muslim Brotherhood front connected to Barzinji, who heads a network of Islamic charities and businesses. ^[3] In the sea of faces and waving flags stood a woman by the name of Marilyn Katz. Like several of the other radicals who populate Obama's sphere, she once advocated guerilla tactics against police officers and participated in violent riots. Unlike some of her more infamous counterparts like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn - who are in self-imposed exile until November 5 - Katz is deeply, and officially, involved in Obama's presidential campaign. ^[4]

Barack, you've spent what, a couple of years being a committee chair for some group in Chicago - oh yeah, and your buddy Ayers was also a committee chair on that group. That comprises the totality of your executive work and that really doesn't count when the rubber has to hit the road. Sarah Palin was a mayor and a now a governor - both positions meaning you make a decision and live with the consequences. ^[5] True to the marxist ideology that both Obama and Catro hold, Obama's threats toward people who are critical of what he's said in the past, about his relationship with Ayers as an example, or what has been happening to the man who accused him of having homosexual sex and doing cocaine in the back of a limo in 1999, Larry Sinclair - are both very similar to what happens in Castro's Cuba. ^[3]

It is impossible to begin to "understand" the kind of insanity that fills Osama Obama's head. They were Bill Ayers writ large. It is a measure of America's greatness that demented, foolish children like Obama can mouth their stupid and traitorous beliefs and survive. It is a measure of America's decline that millions of Americans appear to take him seriously. ^[6]

UPDATE: Trivia: Barack was horse's name of the prophet Mohammad

Palin. Tomorrow's Dirt Today

UPDATE: Evidence Gibson Was Prejudiced Against Palin: Comparison of Palin and Obama Interviews

Sunday New York Times, Front Page Sunday (notice how the campaign is still all about her )

Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foe sNY Slime (hat tip top cop)

 

"Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials."

UPDATE: Carolyn opined, "This is - this is - ohmigod, this is like so shocking it totally eclipses that story the Times also wrote - you know, the one about Obama not firing corrupt slumlord Rezko but even moving into the mansion next door to him.  Yeah, the same story where the Times also reported on how Obama received $110 million from unrepentent terrorist Ayers in 1995 to raise student's test scores in Chicago - only for all that money to disappear in just 5 years with not a damned bit of improvement on those scores?  Ahuh, and it also asked why Michelle's salary doubled after her husband earmarked millions of dollars to the hospital she worked for? 

Oh, what - what - excuse me?  You say the Times didn't investigate all this about Obama?  But - but - that can't be!  I mean, if the Times can take less than a week to dig up personal emails of an obscure governor of a distant state up north, then why - a quarter century later - can it still NOT dig up Obama's mysterious grades at Columbia?  For God's sake, Columbia is in the same city as the Times?   

Where is the Times on this story?

UPDATED CORRECTION: Director Blue is the author of that illustrated "comic book" on Obama and Rezko. That was Issue 1. There is also an Issue 2.

Reformedville has it all

For more than five weeks during the brutally cold winter of 1997, tenants suffered without any heat in a government-subsidized apartment building. The 31-unit building in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood had been “rehabbed” just four years prior at taxpayer expense, no less.

How cold was it? Temperatures routinely dipped around ten below zero. With wind-chills factored in, the effective temperatures approached 30 below.

And the residents of the building had no heat for more than a month.

The building’s owner — Rezmar Corporation — didn’t bother to turn on the heat for weeks. In fact, it didn’t do so until it was sued.

And the Englewood building wasn’t the only one of Rezmar’s properties that had scores of code violations. At least a dozen times, Rezmar had to be sued in order to simply turn on the heat in its properties.

17 buildings ended up in foreclosure, 6 are boarded up, hundreds of apartments are vacant and require repair… and taxpayers were stuck with millions in unpaid loans.

All of these buildings were in — or just blocks away — from a single state senator’s district. A district belonging to a young, up-and-coming politician named Barack Obama.

In fact, during the brutal winter of 1997, even while Rezmar refused to heat its Englewood apartments, it was donating $1,000 to state senator Obama’s campaign fund.

During the winter or the scores of subsequent code violations, did state senator Obama ever lift a finger to protect his constituents from “predatory slumlords” like Rezmar?

The answer appears to be a resounding “No“. In 2007, Obama’s own campaign staff stated, “Senator Obama does not remember having conversations… about properties that [Rezmar] owned..”

The shivering tenants in in and around the district were left defenseless. Assailed on one side by predatory slumlords like Rezko, they were — for all intents and purposes — left out in the cold by their state senator, Barack Obama.

There’s a simple reason Obama didn’t lift a finger to protest these horrific violations. His political patron, Tony Rezko, was a driving force behind the Rezmar schemes. And Rezko helped raise a quarter of a million dollars for Obama’s various campaigns.

And after stating he’d “never done any favors for” Rezko, the Chicago Sun-Times discovered letters Obama wrote to city and state officials supporting Rezko’s bid for $14 million in taxpayers’ money for an elder-care facility.

While Obama didn’t expend an ounce of energy to protest Rezko’s outrageous violations, he did take time to write letters on behalf of Rezko in his efforts to secure an additional $14 million in taxpayer funds.

More here

Saturday Night Cinema New York Skyline

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Yes, this newsreel after 9/11. "I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline," Ayn Rand  wrote in The Fountainhead, "The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?" she asked. "I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body." (From Ayn Rand's New York)

It was dark when her boat docked in New York Harbor. Catching a glimpse of the Woolworth Building, then the tallest building in the world, it has been quoted tha [Ayn] Rand said it looked like "the Finger of God,"  "It was dark then," Rand's words say as read in the film Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, "it was kind of early evening, I think about seven o'clock or so. And seeing the first lighted skyscrapers--it was snowing very faintly, and I think I began to cry because I remember feeling the snowflakes and the tears sort of together." To Rand, New York was what life was about: a purposeful pursuit. It was a place where achievement abounded. "New York is activity and activity is life--that's what Ayn Rand would say" says Dr. Harry Binswanger, a long-time associate and editor of The Ayn Rand Lexicon. New York was not only a place different in appearance, but it represented a different way of thinking and another philosophy. To Ayn Rand the skyscrapers of New York weren't built out of steel, stone, bricks and mortar, they were built out of adherence to the only moral philosophy she believed the earth had ever known: individualism.

"America is the land of the uncommon man, " Rand wrote, "the land where man is free to develop his genius--and to get its just rewards." New York is the capital of a place where such thought prevails, where uncommon people prosper--and as a result, the financial capital of the world. New York symbolized what Ayn Rand idealized in her novels--man as a creator. The city fostered invention and ingenuity.

The New York skyline stood against the Atlantic looking towards a corrupt world as a proud achievement boasting of what could happen when men played their proper role. New York showcased the magnificence of the Empire State Building, George Washington Bridge and the RCA Building, structures which surpassed anything ever built. "I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline," she wrote in The Fountainhead, "The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?" she asked. "I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body."

Rand would live in New York for most of her life.

"Chicago was always a second-city," Dr. Binswanger noted. "In New York the whole area from Wall Street to the Cloisters is one solid man-made environment." And in Los Angeles, the people were less the doers, creators and achievers than the schemers and others who just wanted to be famous. "In New York, people seemed happy with their work and weren't waiting for the weekend."

Many New York sites have either direct or philosophical connections to Ayn Rand. While she set both of her major works in New York for the most part, most of the specific locations and characters were imaginary. But New York was where she imagined them, and they are likely her interpretations of real-life places and people. A statue that stands across from Saint Patrick's Cathedral depicts Atlas holding the weight of the world on his shoulders. Atlas Shrugged, of course is named after the same mythological god. "If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders--what would you tell him to do?" Rand wrote, answering, "To shrug."

Walking up Park Avenue from 28th to 36th Street, Rand finalized a way to prove her ethics, the root of the concept "value" in the concept "life". "It is only the concept of 'Life' that makes the concept of 'Value' possible.

HERE IS THE UNEDITED PALIN INTERVIEW BEFORE GIBSON'S CHOP CHOP

The Great Mark Levin has the EXCERPTS: Charlie Gibson Interviews Sarah Palin (September 11, 2008) THE BOLDED & UNDERLINED PARTS WERE EDITED OUT OF THE INTERVIEW

PALIN: There in the state of Alaska, our international trade activities bring in many leaders of other countries.

GIBSON: And all governors deal with trade delegations.

PALIN: Right.

GIBSON: Who act at the behest of their governments.

PALIN: Right, right.

GIBSON: I’m talking about somebody who’s a head of state, who can negotiate for that country. Ever met one?

PALIN: I have not and I think if you go back in history and if you ask that question of many vice presidents, they may have the same answer that I just gave you. But, Charlie, again, we’ve got to remember what the desire is in this nation at this time. It is for no more politics as usual and somebody’s big, fat resume maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment, where, yes, they’ve had opportunities to meet heads of state … these last couple of weeks … it has been overwhelming to me that confirmation of the message that Americans are getting sick and tired of that self-dealing and kind of that closed door, good old boy network that has been the Washington elite.

GIBSON: Let me ask you about some specific national security situations.

PALIN: Sure.

GIBSON: Let’s start, because we are near Russia, let’s start with Russia and Georgia.

The administration has said we’ve got to maintain the territorial integrity of Georgia. Do you believe the United States should try to restore Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia?

PALIN: First off, we’re going to continue good relations with Saakashvili there. I was able to speak with him the other day and giving him my commitment, as John McCain’s running mate, that we will be committed to Georgia. And we’ve got to keep an eye on Russia. For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable and we have to keep…

GIBSON: You believe unprovoked.

PALIN: I do believe unprovoked and we have got to keep our eyes on Russia, under the leadership there. I think it was unfortunate. That manifestation that we saw with that invasion of Georgia shows us some steps backwards that Russia has recently taken away from the race toward a more democratic nation with democratic ideals. That’s why we have to keep an eye on Russia.

And, Charlie, you’re in Alaska. We have that very narrow maritime border between the United States, and the 49th state, Alaska, and Russia. They are our next door neighbors.We need to have a good relationship with them. They’re very, very important to us and they are our next door neighbor.

GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?

PALIN: They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

GIBSON: What insight does that give you into what they’re doing in Georgia?

PALIN: Well, I’m giving you that perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relation with all of these countries, especially Russia. We will not repeat a Cold War. We must have good relationship with our allies, pressuring, also, helping us to remind Russia that it’s in their benefit, also, a mutually beneficial relationship for us all to be getting along.

Sarah Palin on Russia: 

We cannot repeat the Cold War. We are thankful that, under Reagan, we won the Cold War, without a shot fired, also. We’ve learned lessons from that in our relationship with Russia, previously the Soviet Union.

We will not repeat a Cold War. We must have good relationship with our allies, pressuring, also, helping us to remind Russia that it’s in their benefit, also, a mutually beneficial relationship for us all to be getting along.

GIBSON: Would you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine in NATO?

PALIN: Ukraine, definitely, yes. Yes, and Georgia.

GIBSON: Because Putin has said he would not tolerate NATO incursion into the Caucasus.

PALIN: Well, you know, the Rose Revolution, the Orange Revolution, those actions have showed us that those democratic nations, I believe, deserve to be in NATO.

Putin thinks otherwise. Obviously, he thinks otherwise, but…

GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn’t we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?

PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help.

But NATO, I think, should include Ukraine, definitely, at this point and I think that we need to — especially with new leadership coming in on January 20, being sworn on, on either ticket, we have got to make sure that we strengthen our allies, our ties with each one of those NATO members.

We have got to make sure that that is the group that can be counted upon to defend one another in a very dangerous world today.

GIBSON: And you think it would be worth it to the United States, Georgia is worth it to the United States to go to war if Russia were to invade.

PALIN: What I think is that smaller democratic countries that are invaded by a larger power is something for us to be vigilant against. We have got to be cognizant of what the consequences are if a larger power is able to take over smaller democratic countries.

And we have got to be vigilant. We have got to show the support, in this case, for Georgia. The support that we can show is economic sanctions perhaps against Russia, if this is what it leads to.

It doesn’t have to lead to war and it doesn’t have to lead, as I said, to a Cold War, but economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, again, counting on our allies to help us do that in this mission of keeping our eye on Russia and Putin and some of his desire to control and to control much more than smaller democratic countries.

His mission, if it is to control energy supplies, also, coming from and through Russia, that’s a dangerous position for our world to be in, if we were to allow that to happen.

Sarah Palin on Iran and Israel: 

GIBSON: Let me turn to Iran. Do you consider a nuclear Iran to be an existential threat to Israel?

PALIN: I believe that under the leadership of Ahmadinejad, nuclear weapons in the hands of his government are extremely dangerous to everyone on this globe, yes.

GIBSON: So what should we do about a nuclear Iran? John McCain said the only thing worse than a war with Iran would be a nuclear Iran. John Abizaid said we may have to live with a nuclear Iran. Who’s right?

PALIN: No, no. I agree with John McCain that nuclear weapons in the hands of those who would seek to destroy our allies, in this case, we’re talking about Israel, we’re talking about Ahmadinejad’s comment about Israel being the “stinking corpse, should be wiped off the face of the earth,” that’s atrocious. That’s unacceptable.

GIBSON: So what do you do about a nuclear Iran?

PALIN: We have got to make sure that these weapons of mass destruction, that nuclear weapons are not given to those hands of Ahmadinejad, not that he would use them, but that he would allow terrorists to be able to use them. So we have got to put the pressure on Iran and we have got to count on our allies to help us, diplomatic pressure.

GIBSON: But, Governor, we’ve threatened greater sanctions against Iran for a long time. It hasn’t done any good. It hasn’t stemmed their nuclear program.

PALIN: We need to pursue those and we need to implement those. We cannot back off. We cannot just concede that, oh, gee, maybe they’re going to have nuclear weapons, what can we do about it. No way, not Americans. We do not have to stand for that.

 

Obama's Environmental Team

Click below for a video of the their last meeting

Olmert better be Careful .......... next they will come after him

Brauch Hashem! Perhaps the Jews will defend themselves even if the government won't.  ISRAEL is DYING FOR LEADERSHIP 

Yitzhar Residents Retaliate Against Terrorist

(IsraelNN.com) Residents of the Jewish community of Yitzhar retaliated against the nearby Palestinian Authority Arab village of Asira al-Kabaliya in Samaria after an Arab entered the Jewish town and stabbed a nine-year-old boy on the Sabbath.

Dozens of Jews poured into the Arab village, where it was believed the suspected terrorist resides. According to the villagers, the Jews damaged houses, overturned vehicles and shot rubber bullets as well as live ammunition at Arab residents. Villagers hurled rocks at the Jews until IDF soldiers arrived to break up the riot.

At least two Arabs sustained gunshot wounds.

Israel is not defending herself so as not to insult her executioneers.  Remember what Ben pointed out a couple of weeks ago?

The Phalanx C-RAM defense system guarding the Green Zone in Baghdad has destroyed its 100th incoming mortar round.

C-RAM stands for Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar, and it is development of the Phalanx system originally designed for air defense for the US armed forces. It has been re-engineered to destroy incoming rockets, artillery shells, and mortar rounds.  That is not easy.  These kinds of weapons are typically launched from very short range, and there are only seconds to react.  But the Phalanx C-RAM, thanks to its computer system, can do it.  Not perfectly, but well, and that is all you can ask of a weapon.

Go here: Defense Update

The C-RAM has been doing this for years, now, and a growing number of people have been asking, couldn't such a weapon intercept Qassam rockets coming out of Gaza? Yes, of course it could.  But Israeli politics seems to be allied with Palestinian rocket launchers in this case, and only now have the Israelis decided to "evaluate" a C-RAM. 

Every time the warning sirens sound in Sderot, remember that a simple phone call and a signature, and a few million dollars, would have had a capable, battle proven defense system spewing 6000 rounds of deadly accurate radar aimed 20 millimeter proximity fused ammunition at those incoming rockets. But the Israeli government has been dragging its feet.  The sordid and pitiful tale, the "flip side" of the stories of fear and horror stories coming out of Sderot, has been covered in the last few months by the defense weaponry geeks: GO HERE

Please read the whole thing.

FEEDING THE CROCODILE

CHARLES JOHNSON, LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS: TRAITOR! The Neo-Old Right fighting the Last War .....still

I covered the Counter Jihad summit back in October 2007 and it was a core group of courageous freedom fighters. Bat Yeor, Sam Solomon, Patrick Soohkdeo, friends of Oriana Fallaci, Dr. Aryeh Eldad, Steen, Robert Spencer, Dr. Andrew Bostom, Paul Belien of The Brussels Journal, Bart Debie, Filip De Winter, Philip Claeys, Dirk Crols and their colleagues and the blogosphere ambassadors, Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna, - warriors in the fight for the west.

On October 18 and 19, over 70 organizations and individuals joined together in the European and Flemish Parliaments to create a European network of activists from 14 nations to resist the increasing Islamisation of their countries. Keynote speakers included Bat Ye’or, author of Eurabia and Dhimmitude and Robert Spencer, author of Religion of Peace, Why Christianity is and Islam Isn’t. Additional speakers included David Littman, Dr. Arieh Eldad, member of the Israeli Knesset, Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, Director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, Sam Solomon, Director of Fellowship of Faith for Muslims and author of the Charter of Muslim Understanding,  Dr. Marc Cogen, Ghent University, Dr. Andrew Bostom, author of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, and Laurent Artur du Plessis, author of a forthcoming book on shariah finance. Many participants worldwide also attended the first day of presentations online through webex

The most fascinating portion of the morning program was a series of country reports on the status of the Islamization and the creeping sharia in their respective countries.Paul Belien of Belgium, Stefan Herre of Germany, Nidra Poller of France, reports from the UK (the worst), Ted Ekeroth and Reinhard Fomi from Sweden, Lars Hedegaard from Denmark (extraordinary presentation), Jens Anfindsen from Norway, KGS from Finland, Johannes Janasen from Holland, Adriana Bolchini Gaigher of Italy (what passion!), Arnaud Dotezac from Switzerland, Traian Ungureanu of Romania (gave excellent advice how to bite back at the jihad), Austria.

But the hysterical opposition would have none of it. Europe be damned!
These silly allegations "THE FASCISTS ARE COMING! THE FASCISTS ARE COMING!" are the last gasping remnants of the last war. It is irrelevant and dangerous.

Photo: Belgian police arresting Filip Dewinter at a 2007 Brussels rally marking the 9/11 attacks on the US and protesting the Islamization of Europe.

YES OR NO TO ISLAMIZATION Diana West (hat tip Andrew Bostom)

On September 20, a European group called Cities Against Islamisation

  is sponsoring a demonstration called "No to Islamisation" in Cologne/Koln, Germany.  Although the demonstration has been planned for some time, just last month the city council there approved controversial plans to construct a mega-mosque and surrounding Islamic complex in this ancient city famed for its skyline dominated for centuries by the largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe. The speakers at next Saturday's demonstration, according to the Cities Against Islamisation website, will be:

Henry Nitzsche, member of the German Parliament (Deutsche Bundestag)

Filip Dewinter, group leader of Vlaams Belang in the Flemish Parliament

Markus Beisicht, president of the German Movement “Pro NRW”

Jean-Marie Le Pen, president of Front National (France)

Mario Borghezio, member of European Parliament for the Italian Lega Nord

Heinz-Christian Strache, president of FPÖ (Austria)

According to a headline posted on the website Little Green Footballs (LGF), this means: "Fascists Hijacking Anti-Jihadism in Cologne." It went on to say:

That list contains virtually every racist, fascist leader in Europe, and you can bet that the usual suspects will be defending it. The concept of fighting against the global jihad has lost much of its credibility, because some of the most visible spokespeople refuse to unequivocally renounce their associations with this crew of vile Neanderthals.

Every "racist, fascist leader" in Europe? How ridiculous, but how poisonous. The post concludes by calling these men "fascist bastards." Such crude invective is far better suited for spray-painting on a wall than writing even in an Internet blog, but, of course, in an Internet blog it is far more damaging to political reputations and vital causes.

My question is, Why? Why this acid campaign to destroy with slanderous and empty buzzwords some of the only politicians in the world with the guts to stand up in the public square (literally, and, as only partly indicated in the picture above, at great physical risk) and try to turn back the Islamic colonization of Europe--a trend which, as Bernard Lewis has famously predicted, barring change, will likely be complete by the end of this century. I speak here specifically about Filip DeWinter, Mario Borghezio and Heinz-Christian Strache, each of whom I interviewed this past summer in Antwerp, Brussels and Vienna respectively. I am not familiar with the two Germans and I will address Le Pen below.

Dewinter, Borghezio and Strache are not "racist-fascist" leaders. They are, in their very different styles, leaders--very popular (but not in the press!) elected leaders--who are bravely combating the smugly dictatorial, entrenched, leftist establishments of Europe which, as Bat Ye'or has explained in Eurabia and elsewhere, have made common cause with the Islamic world, exchanging their Western heritage for power and oil. Dewinter, Borghezio and Strache  are all Euro-skeptics, meaning they oppose the sovereignty-gobbling European Union. Dewinter and Borghezio are doubly revolutionary in that they also represent the secessionist movements of Flanders and Nothern Italy that want independence from Belgium and Italy respectively. (Here

  is an astute appraisal of Lega Nord, Vlaams Belang and the trend of "localism" in Europe by my good friend Paul Belien.) "Racist"? "Fascist"? Did I say the LGF post was ridiculous and poisonous? It's equally absurd and outrageous.

I find a fascinating revelation contained within. LGF writes: "The concept of fighting against the global jihad has lost much of its credibility because some of the most visible spokespeople refuse to unequivocally renounce their associations with this crew...."

Question: How can "the very concept" of fighting jihad be tarnished by anything? That is, if the cause is just (and the threat is dire), nothing can take away from it--and certainly not  the "associations" of some "spokespeople," whatever that means. But I can just see LGF, circa 1942, dumping verbal sludge on FDR and Churchill for not "renouncing unequivocally" their associations--or, in this historical example, their alliance--with mass butcher Stalin. "The very concept of fighting Nazism has lost much of its credibility because some of its most visible spokespeople refuse to unequivocally renounce their alliance with this crew of Soviet murderers...."

The very concept of fighting Nazism, no less than the very concept of fighting jihad, never loses credibility. But this overarching concern for "credibility"--in the eyes of whom? I wonder--appears to be of greater concern to those of the LGF ilk than fighting jihad.

That said, I don't like Le Pen, who is also appearing at the September 20 event. I can't even tell you what he stands for. (Last I heard, he was effectively pro-Islamization  so long as Muslims speak French, so I can't imagine what his contribution to an anti-Islamization rally might be.) Last summer in Brussels, I also interviewed Carl Lang, a member of European Parliament for Le Pen's Front National, and concluded that this political party is in total disarray, and that the 80-year-old Le Pen himself will probably have to retire before any coherent anti-Islamization movement has a chance of evolving out of the political group Le Pen will eventually leave behind. (Coincidentally, Le Pen announced this week he will effectively retire in 2010.) Last summer, when I asked Filip Dewinter about the upcoming event in Cologne/Koln, Le Pen wasn't even on the list of invitees. I don't pretend to follow the internal machinations of the group Cities Against Islamisation, so I can't explain how or why Le Pen came to be added to the list, but again, in the face of "racist-fascist" hysteria, I keep thinking of the analogy of FDR, Winnie and hideous "Uncle Joe." Who's on which side here?

Speaking of sides, I find it quite telling that in addition tothe hysterical opposition

of LGF, there are a couple of other groups also voicing opposition to the protest in Cologne/Koln--albeit in a more measured (!) tone. The  Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has come out against the protest, and Iran, an OIC member, has separately lodged some kind of official complaint with EU President Sarkozy actually asking him to prevent this free assembly of Europeans from taking place.

LGF, OIC and Iran vs. Filip Dewinter, Mario Borghezio, Heinz-Christian Strache (and I couldn't care less about Le Pen who at least hasn't murdered 20 million people a la Stalin). I know which side I'm on.

And I stand with you Diana. For more on the vicersal, ad hominem attacks post conference go here.

Palin Great On Israel

.... and it is killing that giant pussy, Chris Matthews. How did these guys get those jobs?
Of couse her answer on Israel bothered the recently fired, incompetent Matthews. Why? Because it showed spine - spine to Matthews is like the silver cross to Dracula.

Matthews, you are going down! Bwhahahahahaha

Speaking of in the-tank-for-Obama news anchors -- Gibson is such a tool.

Gibson and Barbara Walters have lost any journalistic integrity they had left

Please .... Save Jerusalem

U. S. Consul-General Jacob Walles has told an Arab newspaper that the Olmert-led Kadima government has agreed to commence negotiations based on the 1967 lines and a divided Jerusalem.
Olmert should be strung up by his non-existent testicles.

 

Contact the Israeli Consulate Office immediately and tell them not to divide Jerusalem. Use the following information-info@washington.mfa.gov.il, or bring a group & picket at: 3514 International Dr. N. W., Washington DC 20007.

OBAMA: CHANGE HE CAN'T BELIEVE IN!

What a duplicitous clown.

Clyde writes me that Obama's rabbi in the Illinois legislature, Emil Jones, is up against it as an "ethics reform" bill is being proposed. Since Jones is totally unethical, Obama isn't backing the bill since it might get Jones in trouble. Or the Machine in trouble. So he ducked backing it. Jones is the guy who said "I'm gonna make me a senator" and set up Obama to run for office, allowing him to claim credit for over two dozen bills Obama actually did no work on other than sign his name. Typical.

Click on here for the story in the Chicago Sun-Times:

Obama ducks call to push reform in Illinois 

SPRINGFIELD -- While Barack Obama left an imprint on two major ethics packages as a state senator, he ducked a plea Thursday to use his influence to safeguard landmark state legislation barring big government contractors from making campaign contributions.

In the middle of a simmering Statehouse ethics battle is Obama's "political godfather," Senate President Emil Jones (D-Chicago), who triggered questions Thursday about whether he may allow the legislation to die after the Nov. 4 election.

Designed as a response to the "pay-to-play politics" that have flourished under Gov. Blagojevich, the plan would bar firms with more than $50,000 in state contracts from donating to the officeholder in charge of the deals.

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"A 30-second phone call to the Illinois Senate president could yield huge dividends to this state," she said.

Though Jones voted in favor of the original donation restrictions in May, spokeswoman Cindy Davidsmeyer said Thursday her boss has not determined whether he would allow a vote against Blagojevich's rewrite of the bill.

Obama's campaign refused to tell the Sun-Times whether the senator supports either version. And a spokesman ducked questions on whether Obama would speak with Jones, as Canary suggested.

VENEZUELA AND BOLIVA EXPEL US AMBASSADORS

Venezuela expels US ambassador, threatens to cut oil

BOLIVIA EXPELS US AMBASSADOR

Olavo de Carvalho is a Brazilian journalist and philosopher who has been sounding the alarm about the leftist takeover of Latin America for some time especially concentrating on the machinations of the Sao Paulo Forum, the new Latin American Commintern of Communist parties of which current President of Brazil Lula da Silva was the one time President. Below is an article by Carvalho analysing the Obama phenomenon.

The American Lula  Olavo de Carvalho hat tip Paul

With the same self-confident insolence, Obama’s government plans run flagrantly counter to the will of the majority, without the candidate having to fear the loss of even a single vote. The nation wants gas prices down; Obama promises to send them up, by maintaining the ban on new oil drilling. America wants to see illegal immigrants depart; Obama promises not only to grant them amnesty but also to give them taxpayer-funded health care. The nation wants fewer taxes; Obama promises to create a few more. If millions of American citizens who think and want the opposite of what Obama does have sworn to vote for Obama for president, it is not on account of what he promises, but in spite of his promising them even hell itself. The attraction of the hypnotic image is stronger than the cost-benefit analysis.

Obama’s campaign is a work of precision psychological engineering, planned not to win over voters through rational persuasion, but to weaken, shock, and stupefy them to the point of making them accept every loss, every humiliation, every defeat, just in order not to contradict the assumed moral obligation to elect him, it being of little importance whether he actually is an enemy in disguise. Here is what Obama is demanding—and obtaining—from voters: that they sacrifice everything to a fetish, that they do so to some extent consciously, sharing therefore the blame for the operation and becoming in advance unable to fight against it once it has been accomplished. We have already seen this operation be carried out in Brazil, on the basis of the stereotypical image of the “worker president,” against whose crimes and perfidies no one can raise an audible voice anymore, for everyone, dragged by the psychological blackmail, became an accomplice somehow in the rite of sacrifice before the altar of the idol.

UPDATE: Honduras in diplomatic snub to U.S. over Bolivia

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras, a former U.S. ally in Central America now run by a leftist government, told a U.S. envoy not to present his credentials as ambassador on Friday in a diplomatic snub in support of Bolivia.

SCENES FROM DEMOCRAT PARTY WAR ROOM

lol lol (It's been done but this one is great)

This says it all

Right here. Get it?

Obama steps on his own.......

Man, this guy keeps digging himself a deeper hole. It's almost  painful to watch (if it weren't so much frickin fun). Over at Reliapundit:

OBAMA'S LATEST TV AD ATTACKS MCCAIN FOR NOT USING A COMPUTER OR EMAIL ...ONLY MCCAIN'S WAR INJURIES PREVENT THIS

UPDATED LINK:  Here's a link to Obama's ad making fun of McCain. Genius! Sheer genius!

THIS IS WHY JONAH MAKES THE BIG BUCKS:

The day after 9/11, as part of its "get tough" makeover, the Obama campaign is mocking John McCain for not using a computer, without caring why he doesn't use a computer. From the AP story about the computer illiterate ad:

"It's extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn't know how to send an e-mail."

Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by "extraordinary."

The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):

McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care.

The outrage comes from inside: McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard,

WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT OBAMA'S LEADERSHIP AND HIS MORALITY THAT HE WOULD MAKE THIS ILL-THOUGHT OUT AND MEAN-SPIRITED ATTACK AGAINST MCCAIN?

• IT SAYS HE IS STRATEGICALLY, TACTICALLY, POLITICALLY AND MORALLY UNFIT TO LEAD.

• AND HE HAS HORRIBLE JUDGMENT.

• OBAMA SHOULD APOLOGIZE.

• AND OBAMA'S SUPPORTERS SHOULD JUMP SHIP.

AND VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

REPEAT:

McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard,

Speaking of Imperial Russia ...an Open Thread

Rimsky-Korsakov -  Scheherazade. Like this blog ....a book of One Thousand and One Nights.

While still Associate Publisher at the Observer and pregnant with Red, I listened to this CD on a endless loop in the office - every day for nine months. I actually went out to lunch one day and gave birth a couple of hours later (assisted by the much despised pitocin). That's why when the libtards dis Palin and talk about her  being unable to "do it all", I am personally insulted. They haven't a clue, living off the fat of the land for as long as they have, they are incompetent.

Scheherazade on an endless loop -- it explains a lot about Red's personality 

Click below for video.

Obama to throw Biden Under the Bus for Hillary?

My newly acquired PUMA friends (post COLB) say it's a done deal. Obama will replace Biden with Hillary. I cannot verify but I am passing on this white hot story and I would be remiss if I didn't share this meme with you.

Palin sunk the plant. It is a life saving measure although I cannot imagine it will sit well with the American people. The plant will do anything, say anything, be anything to seize the most powerful position in the world. He has no loyalties, ethics, morals, or principles. Manchurian.

Biden clearly tipped us off when he said "I have a lifetime of experience. Sen. McCain has a lifetime of experience. Senator Obama has a speech he delivered in 2002.

Biden's unwillingness to defend America and his 9,000 votes will be of little loss.

I expect Biden would withdraw and Obama will plead with him to stay -- Biden will complain of health related problems.Although I don't know why Hillary would take it at this point - she is better positioned for 2012 by staying off the loser ticket. It's not particularly attractive to be sloppy seconds - I wouldn't take it.

Obama Naming Hillary VP (Campaign Victory 2008)

We have received information from sources high in the Democratic Party that, in a cynical, desperation move, Hillary Rodham Clinton will replace the hapless Joe Biden as V-P candidate on the Obama ticket. I will send out more information on this within the next hour. Hillary Clinton has said that Barack H. Obama is not qualified to be Commander-in-Chief. He hasn't grown any more qualified presumably in the past few weeks. As the saying now goes, "It took a Republican woman [Sarah Palin] to have the Obama Dems name a woman to the ticket."

"Stand up! Stand up! And fight for what's right" (John McCain)

UPDATE: Just for knowing, IT IS BEING ROUNDLY DENIED. So is he unhappily stuck?

JEWISH DEMOCRATS MAKE ME SICK: THE KAPOS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

I can only equate the Jews clinging  to the antisemtic, anti-Zionist Democrat party with Blacks clinging to the notoriously racist Democrat party. It defies all logic.

Check this Jewicidal rant from that horrible little man, Ira Forman. Can't this little dick be excommunicated?

While the religious right is happy with the selection of Governor Sarah Palin, the Jewish community is not.

LIE! WE LOVE HER KAPO FORMAN!~

As The Palm Beach Post noted this week with Palin’s “socially conservative views and absence of any record on Israel, Palin remains a question mark for many Jewish voters.”

CITING LEFTARD MEDIA -

NJDC continues to expose Palin’s extremist positions:

- Palin supports teaching creationism in our public schools. 1

- Palin has an extreme position against reproductive rights including being against abortion even in cases of rape and incest. 2

- As mayor of Wasilla, AK, Palin asked the librarian about having books banned in the public library and subsequently fired the librarian who reacted negatively to the idea because she was not "loyal." 3

- Palin believes that climate change is not man made. 4

ALL LIES! REFUTED HERE  - DEBUNKED AND WIDELY CIRCULATED.

With these views, Palin is clearly out of step with the vast majority of the American Jewish community.

No Forman, YOU are clearly out of step with Jewish values and the existential threat to Israel, you leftist tool.

We need to get out the facts to Jewish voters.

To outreach to Jewish voters in this critical election year, NJDC must expand our work throughout the country where the Jewish vote can make a difference! 

With the election now less than 55 days away, we still need your help to raise significant funds tonight by midnight to expand our outreach plans.

You might as well send a check to the Nazi party. Same difference.

[In]Sincerely,

Ira N. Forman

Executive Director National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC)

Melanie Phillips may be across the pond but she sees it all up close and personal. Bottom line, Left wing Jews worhship at the church of  secular humanism.

The Double Standards of American Jews Melanie Phillips

To judge from the screams of horror from certain Jewish quarters, anyone would think that Torquemada was about to open a branch of the Inquisition in Washington DC.

No matter that the office of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin has been shown to have an Israeli flag stuck in the corner (ok, it could be a bigger flag — but hey, this is Alaska).

No matter that the Chabad organiser for Alaska, Rabbi Josef Greenberg, has praised Palin as a steadfast supporter of Israel and the Jews. No matter that her presidential running-mate John McCain is fervently pro-Israel.

No, this cuts no ice with Marc R Stanley, chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council, for whom Sarah Palin is a threat. Why? Well, he foamed in the Jerusalem Post, she has never even been to Israel! She has absolutely zero foreign policy experience!

So what? Barack Obama has been to Israel only twice, the first time two years ago as a rookie senator and the second two months ago — to counter claims that he had zero foreign policy experience, a fact that became painfully obvious from the gaffes he made on that trip.

The next Palin crime in the eyes of her Jewish critics is that she’s an evangelical Christian. Now this, it seems, is a real stinker of a crime. It turns her, apparently, into what one Guardian writer described as ‘the Jews’ worst nightmare’. Some people might think that others have a superior claim to that title. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for example. Maybe even the Guardian itself.

But no, the honour goes to the woman with the Israel flag in her office. That’s because — as so many American Jews believe –evangelical Christians only support Israel because they believe it will bring about the end of days and the return of Christ to earth, at which point the Jews will all convert to Christianity.

Well, I don’t know about you but I’ll take my own chances on that one.

Yeah, me too. They are Israel's best friend - keep dissing them while kissing the ass of the jihad.

It remains the case that (apart from the fact that only some of them believe this end of days stuff anyway) evangelical Christians are among the most fervent supporters of Israel — more so, indeed, than many Jews. If it wasn’t for this passionate endorsement by such a large chunk of the American public, it is doubtful whether successive American presidents would themselves support Israel as much as they do.

But look, scream Palin’s detractors: Palin actually sat in church while a preacher, David Brickner, claimed that terrorist attacks on Israelis constituted God’s ‘judgment of unbelief’ upon Jews who hadn’t embraced Christianity. This is held to be as damaging for her as Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright, who supports the Jew-hating Louis Farrakhan, his black supremacist Nation of Islam and Hamas, was for him.

But Brickner runs ‘Jews for Jesus’. Yes, that is a despicable organisation. Yes, it is troubling that he preached in Sarah Palin’s church. But he was a one-off visiting preacher. To equate that with Obama’s 20-year membership of a black power-supporting church and his close relationship during that entire period with a mentor who supports Louis Farrakhan is clearly preposterous.

Yet American Jews appear to have airbrushed all such questions about Obama out of the picture. Leaping instantly to denounce Sarah Palin, they are silent on Obama’s church, his pastor and assorted members of his staff who belonged to the Nation of Islam.

They are silent on his observation that ‘Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people’. They are silent on the fact that virtually every prominent member of his foreign policy team (with the exception of the recently arrived Dennis Ross) is hostile to Israel.

Stanley further claims that Palin ‘lavished praise’ on the American anti-Israel maverick Ron Paul and that there is ‘controversy’ over whether she supported the even more anti-Israel Pat Buchanan. But she had merely praised Paul’s ‘independence’ at the end of an interview on energy policy; and the McCain camp has denied she ever supported Buchanan.

Is it not perverse to hype up such thin evidence to condemn Sarah Palin for attitudes towards Israel while ignoring the vastly more serious questions about Obama on this score?

The real reason, I suspect, probably has more to do with issues rather closer to home. As Stanley complained, Palin was ‘against reproductive freedom’, didn’t believe that climate change was man-made and was said to think that ‘creationism’ — the belief that the world was literally created in six days — should be taught in state-run schools. As a result Palin was ‘totally out of step’ with American Jewish public opinion.

So the real issue isn’t Israel at all. It’s the self-image of American Jews as social liberals — which means they would vote for Caligula’s horse if it ran on the Democratic ticket.

Double standards, anyone?

Previously at Atlas: MOVEON Jews Move On Democrat Jews Defend Leftwing Jew hate 11/2006

ATLAS ON THE AIR:Democrats lie, Smear Santorum 9/2006

Sharpton: The Democrats' Tom Metzger 4/2007

Jewicidal Jews, Dhimmi, Leftard and Democrat

Whoopi to McCain: ‘Should I Be Worried About Being a Slave Again?’

whoopi slavery

Yes Whoopi, you should be worried about being a slave if Obama gets in and institutes "compulsory service", you asshat.

How could McCain let her get away with such garbage?

I love Yid's plea: WHOOPI GOLDBERG, PLEASE CHANGE YOUR NAME

Ben nailed McCain on it too. "Much as I thought, McCain is a nitwit, his primary appeal being the fact that his opponent is far worse. Case in point, thanks to Yid with Lid:"

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Do I have to be worried about becoming a slave again?

McCAIN (delivering the nitwit response): My interpretation of the Constitution of the United States is that the United States Supreme Court enforces the Constitution of the United States and does not legislate (yada yada yada)

The Non-Nitwit response: The Constitution of the United States, by way of Amendment 13, as enacted by Congress and not the courts, clearly probibits any such thing, so under a strict interpretation by the Supreme Court you would never have to fear. Now, with a court that plays fast and loose with words and creates its own laws, like you might get with the sort of judges that Obama might appoint, yes, it is possible.

Not once does McCain drive home the crucial point: All the changes and laws that Goldberg is so fond of originate, as they are supposed to, with Congress, and not the court, so her fears are based solely on ignorance of the American system.

She sets him up for a spike... he smiles and waves.

Nitwits to the left of us, Nitwits to the right of us, volley'd and thunder'd.