Atlas Vlogs Sarah!
Here is what I said the day she resigned the Governorship to join the fight.
UPDATE 11:15 am: Palin Talks to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
UPDATE: July 11 3:59 pm: Master List of Governor Palin's 2009 Accomplishments
UPDATE: Governor Palin on the Michael Dukes Show pt 5 July 10,
2009 (Listen to it)
Hey, check this out! The lovely Mark Campbell, who filmed the Free Speech Summit in Florida, edited these impromptu interviews with yours truly with Alan Kornman and also LTC Allen West (R), US Congressional candidate 2010, at the Geert Wilders event in South Florida.
UPDATE: The Libertarian Republican liked my candidate for 2012 :)
And this was stuck in the queue - last week, eve of Coronation day
UPDATE: Hey someone threw this up on youtube:
Pamela Geller iinterview
Atlas Shrugs pt#1_ The Conscience of Kansas radio program
Pamela Geller interview
Atlas Shrugs pt#2- The Conscience of Kansas radio program
Because you asked for the rest of this (and if you missed Part I go here)
Click link below (under the fold) to save bandwidth!SAY IT TO OBAMA'S FACE, JOHN To the Point News
CNN Exposes How ACORN Steals Votes For Democrats
Farrakhan on Obama: 'The Messiah is absolutely speaking'
HOW ACORN GOT ME INTO VOTE SCAM NY Poast
ACORN's nutty regimes for Cities. The main business of ACORN: voter fraud is just a sideline. (hat tip Judith)
UPDATE: American Thinker thinks this video is a game changer WATCH IT AND SEND IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. Especially uniformed fence sitters
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I think this poll says it all. The world is going to hell in a handbasket. Is there any country we would want to emulate. Failed states, failed socialist policies, statism,
The Poll Results
Regarding the question of which candidate they would vote for if they could, respondents voted overwhelmingly for Obama in every country polled, with the exception of the United States, where Republican John McCain was preferred over Democrat Obama by a narrow margin.
"It's Obama by a landslide -- except in the country in which he's actually running for president," said John Fredricks, Director of Polling for Reader's Digest. "What is most striking is the margin of his support."
In the Netherlands [the Dutch City of Gouda is being terrorized by Muslim Jihadis] , Obama-mania surpassed 90 percent. In Germany [where Jews beaten at an anti-Islamification rally] , it was at 85 percent--numbers not usually seen in political polling. Similar results held true on all six continents that the magazine polled.
Results include:
-- Americans ranked the global economy as most important; terrorism,
second; and the war in Iraq, third. Only the Russians were more
concerned with terrorism than Americans.
-- In seven nations (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Great
Britain and Taiwan), the environment came out on top as a major
concern.
-- Global poverty, which tallied only 4 percent among Americans, was the
No. 1 concern of respondents in six nations (France, Mexico,
Netherlands, Poland, South Africa and Spain) -- and second in five
others.
On the question "When you think of the U.S. government, do you consider yourself pro-American, neutral or anti-American?" respondents in other countries were split:
-- Nine of the 16 other countries were more "anti-American" than
"pro-American,"India and Poland were most enthusiastic about the U.S. government.
-- Anti-American sentiment was highest among Indonesia, Netherlands and
Spain, although U.S. neighbors Mexico and Canada expressed it as well.
In response to a question about whether respondents would like to move to the United States, the French expressed strong interest, as did 73% of respondents in India. In Canada, only about 25% expressed an interest in relocating, while in Mexico, the nation that sends the most immigrants to the United States, one-third said they'd want to move there. French novelist Philippe Laibro hypothesized in the article that "the legend remains. America is still that land of the second chance, of multiple opportunities, where anyone can succeed."
About the Global Presidential Poll:
Survey data were collected in 17 nations, 15 by the international polling firm Synovate.
Larwyn's link roundup: Obama and the Clock [Jay Nordlinger]
Did ACORN Take Obama's 'Get In Their Face' Rallying Cry Literally? NRO
ACORN FRAUD. STEALING AMERICA: ACORN fraud and other Democratic voting shenanigans across the country
Is ACORN Stealing The Election? IBD
Why the blackout on Obama's years at Columbia ? World according to Chester Blogspot
A quick light moment with Scrappleface, Fausta and Rick Moran (he'c covering the RNC ofr PJM)
Check out this video on Thompson speaking of Palin at HumanEvents.com
Excerpts: Remarks by Former Senator Fred
Thompson
Former Senator Focuses on Themes of "Country First" and
"Service"
SAINT PAUL, Minn.
- This evening former Senator Fred Thompson will address the 2008 Republican
National Convention. Senator Thompson will expand on the convention's overall
theme, "Country First," and the theme for today's program, which is "service,"
as he illustrates why John McCain is best qualified to be the next President of
the United States
Excerpts are below:
On John
McCain's qualifications to be president:
"This is the kind of
character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their
leaders. Strength. Courage. Humility. Wisdom. Duty. Honor. It's pretty clear
there are two questions we will never have to ask ourselves, 'Who is this man?'
and 'Can we trust this man with the presidency?'"
On John
McCain's dedication to doing what is right – not what is
popular:
"He has been to Iraq eight times since 2003. He went
seeking truth, not publicity. When he travels abroad, he prefers quietly
speaking to the troops amidst the heat and hardship of their daily lives. And
the same character that marked John McCain's military career has also marked his
political career. This man, John McCain, is not intimidated by what the polls
say or by what is politically safe or popular."
On John
McCain's commitment to taking real action to reform
Washington:
"But while others were talking reform, John McCain
led the effort to make reform happen – always pressing, always moving for what
he believed was right and necessary to restore the people's faith in their
government. Confronting when necessary, reaching across the aisle when possible,
John personified why we came to Washington in the first place."
On John McCain's ability to restore integrity to our
government:
"My role is to help remind you of the man behind
the vision. Because tonight our country is calling to all of us to step up,
stand up, and put 'Country First' with John McCain. Tonight we are being called
upon to do what is right for our country."
You read Atlas because you get the real news, the real story - first.
January 18, 2007 Barack Hussein Obama's "Apostasy" from Islam
March 5, 2007 Pro Palestinian Obama and Edward Said
March 6, 2007: Obama and Reverend Wright
October 4, 2007 Obama dumps American flag pin
January 4, 2008 Obama and violent inciter and Islamist supporter Kenyan Odinga and here (Obama and Odinga humdinger) and some media noticed -Obama Odinga Atlas sighting
January 9,2008 Obama, the Muslim Thing, And Why It Matters by Pamela Geller (Israel National News)
Januray 18, 2008 Obama's Brother is a Radical Muslim and his sister
January 31, 2008 Obama to convene a summit of Islamic nations to address their grievances should he ascend to the Presidency
February 16, 2008 Obama: Arab American
February 28, 1008: Obama and Islam: The Third Rail in American Politics
February 2008 Mosques Preaching Obama: Muslims Vote Inshalla
Obama's Contributions: Foreign and Domestic
Gaza Contributions from "Palestinian" Rafah refugee camp (story broke at Atlas)
Obama's Birth certificate forgery (story broke at Atlas)
Mosques Preaching Obama: Muslims Vote Inshalla Feb 2008
More, more, more:
Watch in higher quality here
The parade - gorgeous weather, gorgeous, faces, gorgeous nashuma. Not a keffiyeh in sight (see previous posts on the Dunkin Donuts keffiiyah brouhaha here, here, here and here 
And then the annihilationists and Jew haters show up --- cloaked in the keffiyeh
She's ashamed, she covered her face.
This fat bastard kept calling me "hey Pamela! Cover up!" Yeah, said I was "sagging" (so not) and called me a prostitute> I thought I caught it on tape but I wasn't in movie mode. Just a pig thats all. He was with Yousef al-Khattab, the depraved all hang together.
Look who is pointing at me (Islamist on right )- Fox poster boy Joseph "Yousef al-Khattab" Cohen - yeah he was yelling my name too. Remember our little have-at-it video at the Islamists day parade here?
UPDATE: Protest warriors caught some ugly video:
Here Tom was in the "Belly of the Beast" (brief clip of entry)
These are very juicy (in a vile and disgusting way)
Islamic Thinkers Society (notice the sign in the back)
They were so extreme, even the marshals tried to get them ejected
Litigious and whacked Rabbi Feinberg with the Neturei Karta (0.19) (yes that Rabbi)
Quick Vlog to give a snap Atlas recap over the rushing world events. Hold your nose and dive!
And listen to my podcast of my show with the Great Aunt Gail of Amina and Sarah Said - the tragic victims of a bloody honor killing. We failed those girls! In life. We will not fail them in death. Listen here.
We Don’t Need White People Jennifer Rubin
""God picks the most beautiful flowers for his garden," said the mother of 16-year-old Avraham David Mozes.
Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav is the spiritual center of Religious Zionism.
A reader ...............
Dear Pamela,
I am shocked, and so angry.
Merkaz was the Yeshiva where I came to study many years ago, as a foreign student, an eager youngster on a spiritual quest, thirsty for knowledge of my people and heritage. I came to know the yeshivah's character and commitment, its cholent and charm, as well as its study halls and hallways now drenched in blood.
I had the privilege of my studies there taking place in 1967, during the lead-up to the Six Day war. The campus became a ghost town as virtually all the Israelis, comprising 95% of the student body, went to their army units, leaving only the dozen or so foreign lads (including yours truly) who all volunteered as a team and worked as the 'orderlies' at the nearby old Shaare Zedek hospital, where many of the wounded were later brought as the fighting developed. I'll never forget the experience of those weeks, nor the inspiring ambience of that particular yeshivah environment.
I'm telling you, the lads of Merkaz, even today 40 years later, are among the crème-de-la-crème of today's Israeli youth and the backbone of its Jewish future. That they were chosen as the target of this attack is perhaps the surest proof of this.
Today I cry and mourn, and seek to refortify my soul, along with the families and friends of those slaughtered and maimed in yesterday’s massacre. As the saying goes, this day will live in infamy for decades to come, but the sleeping giant it has aroused must be harnessed and directed appropriately.
At root, it is the leadership – primarily Israeli, but also American and European -- that is to blame for what has happened. Olmert and his team -- including the self-serving Shas party who have been, and still are, in a position to force a change in governance – have become a cabinet and government of enablers, not the disablers they should be, when it comes to terror. Together, they have allowed things in Israel to worsen day by day, bullet by bullet, rocket by rocket, when every justification, obligation and opportunity for taking decisive action has repeatedly presented itself but been rejected by them. Even a cursory analysis will show that Israeli’s pusillanimity has contributed not only to the increase in terror within Israel but to the palpable increase in anti-semitism elsewhere.
The Condappeasing Bush administration, and the Europeans, must also be called to account for providing funds and for putting their “arms” around the fake Palestinian enterprise, when that encouragement and those funds, arms and training have knowingly been used to launch and support aggression against Israel instead of peace. It is the height of hypocrisy for them now to be tut-tutting their 'regrets,' sending their “condi-olences,” and mouthing their 'condi-emnations'. The only meaningful "condemnation" is a strong “Jewish nation.” Women in Green has it right in saying that the response to eight deaths should be eight new settlements.
The massacre itself is painful enough. But to see Gazans and their brainwashed children actually jumping for joy at this tragedy takes one to a place beyond pain. Just imagine - they are actually celebrating a calamity, inflicted by their cohort, on the cream of Israeli youth and everything it stands for.
It is high time that those who commit such evil be taught an unequivocal lesson, be made to understand and remember for the next 40 years that it does not and will not pay to pursue this path. Regrettably, it is unlikely that the present governments – of Israel, the US or Europe – will have the integrity or the clarity of vision and purpose needed to conceive and convey such a lesson. Instead, they will most likely take quarter-measures, or less. Witness, even before the blood of the fallen had had time to congeal, Israeli and American “spokespersons” were already intoning the mantra that “this must not be allowed to derail the peace process!”
The very opposite should be the approach.
By failing to respond appropriately, by failing to take heed, by failing to reach and implement the obvious conclusions, they will thus communicate -- yet again -- the message that killing Jews is OK. The fallout of that failure will affect not only Israel and Jews everywhere, but will just as surely come home to roost on their own doorsteps too. By then, however, it may be too late to turn their tide.
Photo credit: Avi Ohayon, Government Press Office.
UPDATE: I hear a new hezbo group is taking credit for the mass murder and I am not buying it. It's all the same thing, all the same people, all the same religious dogma. Not buying it some new kid in town. It's the same old sick, depraved pox on humanity.
Gazan Arabs celebrate the murder of children
UPDATE: More on the Israeli Arab murderer: (hat tip Mara)
But here's something I didn't know:
"Nearly half of them are Palestinians who have received a permit to stay in Israel and an Israeli identity card on the backdrop of their marriage to an Israeli Arab, and terror groups seek to recruit them due to their access to Israeli targets."
Great stuff. Ibn and Atlas.
If you haven't read Warraq ......start with "Why I am not a Muslim" (buy it here) as a primer.
His latest on the perversion of Western culture by Said's teaching's : Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
Watch the whole video.... delicious.
Media Cover-Up Obama’s Socialist-Oriented Global Tax Bill
Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid disclosed today that a hugely expensive bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic Senator Barack Obama, was quickly passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States.
UPDATE: Forever Young Must read by Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic hat tip A Grobman
The question of whether Barack Obama will make a fine commander-in chief finally depends on your view of the direction of history in the coming years. I cannot escape the foreboding that we are heading into an era of conflict, not an era of conciliation. I do not mean that there will be many wars, though I cannot imagine that the threat to American security from Al Qaeda and its many associates can be met without a massive and sustained military operation in western Pakistan, and I cannot imagine any Pakistani government ordering such an operation. It is not "the politics of fear" to remind Obama's legions of the blissful that, while they are watching Scarlett Johansson sway to the beat, somewhere deep inside a quasi independent territory we might call Islamistan people are making plans to blow them to bits. (Yes, they can.)
One of the striking features of Obama's victory speeches is the absence from these exultations of any lasting allusion to the darker dimensions of our strategic predicament. He makes no applause line out of American defense. And jihadist terrorism is only one of the disorders in an increasingly disordered world. The most repercussive fact of our time is surely the transformation of China. The "metrics" are all staggering. Quantities, quantities, quantities. China already has the power to wreck the American economy. However many tanks and fighters it has, its hoarding of American dollars is itself a kind of arsenal. And the bounty of wealth that it promises American business, the fantasy of greed-fulfillment that it represents, makes it almost impossible to conduct a serious discussion of the implications of this emerging world power for American principles and American interests--certainly not in Washington, where, when it comes to the art of dodging debate, Beijing is better than Bandar. What China wants, China gets. Not even the gold medal in tyranny that Beijing will win in its Olympics will make a difference. Meanwhile the authoritarian Putin has punkishly succeeded in restoring Russia to its inglorious heritage, reminding the world of the old formula that capitalism plus state power equals fascism. In Iran, none of Ahmadinejad's domestic troubles seem to have modified the state's sense of ascendancy, or its will to nuclearize itself, or its appetite for instability in its region. In Iraq, the streets are safer but the sects are not sweeter. In the Korean peninsula, diplomacy has gone ominously cold. In Palestine there are two Palestines, and one of them belongs to Hamas. In Darfur--well, you know, because everybody knows. In Latin America, the failures of liberal economics have sullied the reputation of liberal politics. And so on.
All this even before we attend to the elimination of poverty. And into this unirenic environment strides Obama, pledging to extract us promptly from Iraq and to negotiate with our enemies. What is the role of a conciliator in an unconciliating world? You might think that in such conditions he is even more of an historical necessity-but why would you think that all that stands between the world and peace is one man? George W. Bush was not single-handedly responsible for getting us into our strategic mess and Barack Obama will not be single-handedly responsible for getting us out of it. There are autonomous countries and cultures out there. The turbulence that I have described is not caused by misunderstandings. It is caused by the interests of powers and the beliefs of peoples. Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang, Islamabad, Gaza City, Khartoum, Caracas-does Obama really believe that he has something to propose to these ruthless regimes that they have not already considered? Does he plan to move them, to organize them, to show them change they can believe in? With what trick of empathy, what euphoria, does he hope to join the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds in Iraq? Yes, he made a "muscular" speech in Chicago last spring; but I have been pondering his remarks about foreign policy in the ensuing campaign and I do not detect the hardness I seek, the disabused tone that the present world warrants. My problem is not with "day one": nobody is perfectly prepared for the White House, though the memory of Bill Clinton's "learning curve" is still vivid, which in Bosnia and Rwanda cost more than a million lives. My problem is that Obama's declarations in matters of foreign policy and national security have a certain homeopathic quality. He seems averse to the hurtful, expensive, traditional, unedifying stuff.
"False hopes?" Obama told a crowd in New Hampshire. "There's no such thing." How dare he?
Read it all
If I didn't impress upon you how honored I was to have been invited to introduce Mark Steyn, forgive me. He is illuminating and unabashedly clear. Of all that I heard and saw, Mark Steyn was the most brilliant. He so gets it and articulates it with such force and passion.
I kicked off my intro with a little limerick:
There once was a kafir named Steyn
Muslims said wrote an offending line
Twas an imam he quoted
Now he's being swiftboated
But his battle is yours and its mine.
Steyn's speech ought to be reproduced and be mandatory reading for every . American that cares about what's happening to this country. He excoriates the Republicans for moving to the left and abandoning the very tenets of our political philosophy.
Speaking with him prior to the event he expressed my concerns and distress over Romney's withdrawal. He, too, thought Romney was a great candidate.
Random points he made but watch the video:
He wouldn't use the word "small government" because it buys into the liberal narrative - that big government is the norm.
He took out the Republicans for refusing to enforce the border. Here we cop out to the impossibility of securing our own borders. We claim to be unable to keep people from sneaking over our sovereign borders but we will attempt (at least McCain will) to "change the heavens". We will expend untold treausure to address "global warming" to cool things down a degree but we can't control . He also pointed out that the greatest increase in illegal immigration has come post 9/11.
The default mode of the culture is liberal; the key levers of society are liberal. The defects of that approach seem increasingly apparent.
I can't write all my thoughts, I really hope Steyn runs his speech in full on his site.
Great American Rich Davis, Skye from Midnight Blue, Sharon Hyland whose husband is a Maine in Afghanistan and gave up a six figure job to start "A Hero's Welcome" and STEYN.
UPDATE: Here's a really clean copy (why townhall cut me out I'll never know)
What lengths we won't go through for our Presidential candidates! Romney is truly the outsider, the maverick. The well oiled machine is at work to destroy is candidacy my friends.
The great and inestimable Thomas Sowell, my favorite columnist btw, weighs in here:
We have been hearing for years that Senator John McCain gives “straight talk” and his bus has been endlessly referred to as the “Straight Talk Express.” But endless repetition does not make something true.
The fact that McCain makes short, blunt statements does not make him a straight-talker.
There are short, blunt lies — and he told a big one on the eve of the Florida primary, when he claimed that Mitt Romney had advocated a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.Even the Washington Post, which supports McCain, said that the senator “has distorted the meaning” of what Governor Romney said, that Romney “has never proposed setting ‘a date for withdrawal.’ ”
During Mitt Romney’s ABC News interview that Senator McCain twisted, Governor Romney was asked by the interviewer whether he agreed with President Bush’s veto of congressional legislation setting a timetable for withdrawal, and whether Romney as President would veto similar legislation.
“Of course,” was Romney’s reply. There was no ambiguity.
Confronted with his lie on Wednesday night’s debate, McCain blustered and filibustered in a manner reminiscent of Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny, when he was caught in a lie during a navy inquiry.
When confronted with any of his misdeeds, Senator McCain tends to fall back on his record as a war hero in Vietnam.
Let’s talk sense. Benedict Arnold was a war hero but that did not exempt him from condemnation for his later betrayal.
Being a war hero is not a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card. And becoming president of the United States is not a matter of rewarding an individual for past services.
The presidency is a heavy responsibility for the future of the nation, including generations yet unborn. Character and integrity are major qualifications.
The passing years and a friendly media have allowed Senator McCain’s shortcomings in the character and integrity department to fade into the background.
McCain was one of “the Keating Five” — senators who used their influence to try to protect a failing savings & loan company, which also became the subject of a corruption investigation.
During the 2000 primaries, the Associated Press reported Senator McCain’s joking about people with Alzheimer’s.
This went beyond bad taste because (1) it was known at the time that Ronald Reagan was suffering from Alzheimer’s and (2) the media to whom McCain was pandering hated Ronald Reagan.
It is especially ironic now to see McCain wrapping himself in the mantle of President Reagan.
With the momentum of his Florida primary win behind him, going into the “Super Tuesday” primaries, John McCain has now been restored to the position of front runner that the media gave him at the outset.
Other Republicans are jumping on his bandwagon. This may have less to do with McCain’s own qualities than with the prospect of getting Cabinet posts or Supreme Court appointments as rewards for their political support.
It may all look like a done deal. But the McCain-Kennedy bill giving amnesty to illegal aliens looked like a done deal two years ago — until the public realized the truth behind the spin and brought that sell-out to a screeching halt.
Super Tuesday may be the voters’ last chance to bring the so-called “straight talk express” to a screeching halt.
It should be called the “sell-out express” because McCain has sold out not only with amnesty for illegal aliens but also sold out the First Amendment with the McCain-Feingold “campaign finance reform” bill that was supposed to take big money out of political campaigns, but blatantly has not.
McCain also sold out on judicial nominations by making his own side deal with the Democrats, undercutting Republican attempts to stop Democrats from filibustering judicial nominees instead of voting them up or down.
This is quite a record for someone running as a straight talker.
The brilliant and in the know Dr Jack Wheeler has a devastating piece. Scathing.
HOW THE CLINTONS WILL DESTROY MCCAIN Dr Wheeler, To the Point News (SUBSCRIBE ALREADY! Wheeler will beat me senseless when he sees I've run this :)
The number of fellow Senators who think John McCain is psychologically unstable is large. Some will admit it publicly, like Thad Cochran who says, "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine."
Others relate times when McCain screamed four-letter obscenities right in their faces in the Senate cloak room, like Dick Shelby, Rick Santorum, or Jim Inhofe. "The man is unhinged," one Senator told me. "He is frighteningly unfit to be Commander-in-Chief."
That John McCain is clinically nuts is scary enough. What worries a small group of GOP Senators and Congressmen even more is a deep and dark skeletal secret in McCain's glorified past to which they are privy, and which the Clintons will use to blackmail him.
[...]In other words, the CIA has in its possession the notes and reports of John McCain's interrogators at the Hanoi Hilton, in both the original Vietnamese and translated Russian, showing collaboration with his Communist captors.
Allegations of this nature have been made over the years, many by Vietnam veterans. There is an even an organization, Vietnam Veterans Against McCain. But they are based on suspicions and circumstantial claims. There has never been any hard direct evidence.What T says the CIA has is such evidence. Its release would destroy McCain. The threat of its release could force McCain to take a fall, blow the election and lose on purpose. And just who do you suppose would know what the CIA has and work with them to release it?
Someone who has been a CIA asset since he was recruited by London station chief Cord Meyer while a student at Oxford in 1968?
(Back in the 90s years after he retired, if Cord drank a little too much Scotch, he would laugh derisively at those conspiratorialists who accused Bill Clinton of being connected with the KGB.
"They all darkly point to Bill's participation in anti-war peace conferences in Stockholm and Oslo, and his trip to Leningrad, Moscow, and Prague while he was at Oxford. ‘Who could have paid for this?', they ask. ‘It had to be the KGB!' they claim." Cord would shake his head. "What rot - we paid for it. We recruited Bill the first week he was at Oxford. Bill's been an asset of The Three Bad Words ever since." Cord passed on in 2001.)
The small group of Senators and Congressmen who have been briefed by T have been unable to confirm with the CIA any details of its document swap with the GRU beyond an admission that such a swap "may have happened." They are very nervous about pursuing the matter any further.
The Clintons are not nervous. They are utterly ruthless, and have buddies at Langley all too happy to help them.
It has been noted many times here in To The Point that while most folks think the CIA is a right-wing outfit, it is not. The CIA has been dominated by left-wing hyper-liberals for years.
The CIA is a left-wing, liberal outfit, and its main job for some time now is not attacking America's enemies but conservatives in general and George W. Bush in particular. The story is best told by friend, Ken Timmerman in his new book Shadow Warriors.When the time is right, the Clintons will see to the leaking of the GRU archives on McCain to the media. Bet on it, just as you can bet they'll follow it up with media disclosures of the lady lobbyists in Washington having adulterous affairs with McCain. (There are at least three of them; I know the name of one but I'm not going to put it in writing.)
Maybe McCain will try to fight back by confirming Hillary's well-known bisexuality and her lesbian affair with her beautiful assistant, Huma Abedin. Google "Hillary" and "Huma Abedin" and you'll get almost 6,000 hits. Turns out Huma is a Moslem who grew up in Saudi Arabia and is strongly suspected of working for Saudi intelligence.
Or maybe he'll capitulate to Clinton blackmail. You never can tell what a psychologically unstable guy will do.
And that last point is why - be prepared for this, folks - I would not in any circumstances vote for John McCain, not if either Hillary or Obama were the alternative. Evil is safer than crazy. Leftie amateur inexperience is safer than crazy. So I agree with Ann Coulter who says:
"I'd rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, we'll get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility."
How in the world can the Republican Party get saddled with a nutcase whack-job who knows nothing about economics, is so anti-capitalist he uses "profit" as a term of derision, has never run a business or had any job outside of government, will raise taxes, is so stupid that he believes "stopping global warming" is worth destroying the American economy, won't drill ANWR, won't appoint strict constructionist justices, won't protect marriage, will give amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens, is beloved by the New York Times, and lives in a delusionary world of vanity and rage?Rush is right. A McCain presidency will be the destruction of the Republican Party. It needs to be rebuilt, not wiped out with the field clear for the fascists of the left to consolidate power and eliminate freedom.
Go to To The Point, there is so much more.
"The (Non)Conservatives Against McCain"
and my man Hal points out,
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but The Arnold has endorsed John McCain for president at a time when California is suing the US government because California wants stricter environmental laws on the books than what the Federal government has. McCain is very "green" friendly (as long as it gets him elected, and ain't it peculiar that being "green" puts a lot of green in these putz's pockets???). They managed to take their lips off each other's respective asses long enough to make a few statements to the press. No doubt McCain will reward Schwarzenegger with a post on his cabinet if he wins, possibly head of the EPA?? Nice reward for someone who fucked up California's economy and created a $14 BILLION deficit. Way to go Arnold! If McCain wins, Arnold might get a chance to screw the nation's economy like he has California's. Maybe he should hire a script writer and have him save California's economy while giving the states entitlements away to illegal aliens (oh wait, the writers are on strike, scratch that). 3 links w/stories below, feel free to pick and choose.
Will Media Expose Global Warming Con Job?
UPDATE: Romney Picks Up Maine booya! (hat tip Larwyn!)
UPDATE 2/5: Refuting the McCain prisoner of war allegations here (hat tip Joe)
Both sides should be heard:
Recently, I have seen several allegations that condemn Senator John McCain for his behavior as a prisoner of war. I believe that these allegations are false. I am in a better position than the Senator’s accusers to know the truth since I was a prisoner with him, having been captured a little over a month before him. I have contacted hundreds of my comrades on our e-mail list and not one of them can confirm anything that has been alleged against McCain.
UPDATED; Henry Holzer wants answers. Me too. Holzers important piece raises more questions then Warner over t Front Page answered;
Soon after being shot down on October 26, 1967 in the middle of Hanoi, McCain asked for medical attention and promptly received it at a North Vietnamese military hospital. Was it because he quickly told his captors who his father was, as his detractors claim? Was it because he was so badly injured, as his supporters contend? Or for some other reason(s)?
Even though no returning POW reported that he had been interrogated by non-Vietnamese communist intelligence or security agents who identified themselves as such, there is considerable circumstantial evidence, and at least three pieces of direct evidence, that some had been. Indeed, McCain himself has admitted that he was interviewed by at least one “French” reporter, that he had a discussion with “ a famous North Vietnamese writer” about Ernest Hemingway, that unspecified “others came to find out about life in the United States” that one of them “was Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the hero [!] of Dienbienphu,” and that indeed, “[m]any [unspecified] visitors came to talk to me”
During those interviews, literary discussions, cultural conversations, and military dialogues, did McCain disclose information that he should not have, as his detractors claim? Or did he not, as his supporters contend? (For the record, neither McCain nor any other POW should be criticized for whatever information, however sensitive, they may have given up under torture.)
As a United States Senator, McCain joined with colleague John Kerry to choke off an official inquiry into the fate of American MIAs. Was it because McCain had something personal to hide and/or like Kerry was trying to facilitate restoration of normal relations with the communists, as his detractors claim? Or because he honestly believed the Vietnamese had not withheld any American servicemen, as his supporters contend? Or for some other reason(s)?
McCain was instrumental in having Congress seal the debriefings of all returned prisoners of war. Was it because of legitimate privacy concerns? Or did his and others’ debriefings inculpate him because of his conduct in captivity.
One can speculate about how many people know the answer to such questions.
But one thing is certain.
John McCain knows the answers.
According to the New York Times puff piece on clitterror:
According to Lukman Hakim, the foundation's chairman of social services, there are three "benefits" to circumcising girls.
- "One, it will stabilize her libido," he said through an interpreter.
- "Two, it will make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband.
- And three, it will balance her psychology."
Phyllis Chesler nails it here
the article is essentially a National Geographic-style photo essay subtitled: “Inside a female circumcision ceremony for young Muslim girls.” The photos are by Stephanie Sinclair, the brief text is by Sara Corbett.
What is a human rights atrocity with life-long and life-threatening consequences is here being presented as a “tradition,” often a harmless one, sometimes not, but always a well-intentioned one.
According to the article, there is “little blood involved”—well, how bad can that be? And, “antiseptic is used”— well, this is not dangerous at all, is it? Finally, afterwards, the child is given a “celebratory gift”—what, am I the kind of westerner who, Grinch-style, would deny the child her gift in order to make my twisted, “racist” argument? As the article states , the child clutching (or drinking) her gift “has now joined a quiet majority in Indonesia.”
These photographs were taken in 2006 on a day where 200 girls were genitally mutilated . In honor of the “prophet Mohammed’s birthday,” the Assalaam Foundation subsidized both the mutilation—and the “gift.” According to the Foundation’s chairman of social services, the cutting/mutilation will “stabilize her libido;” “make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband’; and “will balance her psychology.”...
I will let Dr. Bostom, who is a physician and the author of the forthcoming book, “The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism” (a daunting, compelling, and indispensable book), have the last words. He has written a passionate article titled “Clitoral Relativism-Female Genital Mutilation in ‘Tolerant” Islamic Indonesia. ” Quoting from the British Medical Journal on the subject, he reminds us that:
“Female genital mutilation, also misleadingly known as female circumcision, is usually performed on girls ranging in age from 1 week to puberty. Immediate physical complications include severe pain, shock, infection, bleeding, acute urinary infection, tetanus, and death. Long-term problems include chronic pain, difficulties with micturition [urination] and menstruation, pelvic infection leading to infertility, and prolonged and obstructed labor during childbirth. ”
He notes that FGM is illegal in the United States. He views the above article as “misleading.”
Speaking of misleading articles, the author of "A Cutting Tradition", Sara Corbett, also wrote a cover story for the New York Times called "The Women’s War", about female Iraq veterans.
Amorita Randall, one of the women who appeared in The Women's War never served in Iraq and made up much of what she told Sara Corbett in her interview.
hat tip Michael
A big wet Christmas kiss to the troops.
G-d bless everyone of you. Cheesecake, beefcake, yellowcake (!) ...now there's blogcake. Mmmmmmmm good!
hat tip Strategy page
Call to Arms Against Slander of the Troops Bruce, Demoracy Project
Toy drop: A pallet containing toys, holiday decorations and other donated items floats toward an island of the Western Pacific and Micronesia area, bringing holiday cheer Dec. 14 during Operation Christmas Drop. While Santa Claus must find a rooftop to land his reindeer on, America's Airmen and their four-propeller C-130 Hercules deliver the holiday items from the air and move on to their next target. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brian Kimball) All photos cStrategy Page )
Click here to view the videos of Santa we've captured on our Santa Cam so far!
Test vlog for mac. Enormously easy - the whole process. On the mac/windows fence. Meanwhile, while you're watching, VOTE for your girl.
UPDATE: Athos likes it. Same page baby.
UPDATE: Thanks Paul!
UPDATE: We've got mail!
Pamela,
I've been a reader of yours now for a little over a year, and I love the fact that I can get information from you that I won't find anywhere else. That's the beauty of blogs...literally 'of the people, for the people.'
I work as a contractor for the Air Force in Montgomery, AL. You would think, of all places in this country, that the Heart of Dixie would be the most likely to resist calling a Christmas party a "Holiday" party, but that thinking would be wrong. For years now I've been getting the same email from the base command announcing their Holiday Party. I replied once that I refused to go to it unless they called it a Christmas Party. This year the base rep came by desk-to-desk selling tickets. I again raised my complaint. The rep agreed with me that it is ridiculous, but unfortunately it is a matter of Air Force policy.
[emphasis mine - Atlas]
Let me get this right. This is one branch of the United States military, whose purpose is to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that very Constitution that claims all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that same Constitution that grants the power to mint money and print "In God We Trust" on it. This Air Force, by matter of policy, is not allowed to refer to a party given at Christmas time as a Christmas party.
Uh, that's going away too big fella.
Whatever happened to celebrating diversity? Why is my religion wrong, but every other crackpot's religion okay? Why is it wrong to celebrate the birth of Son of Man, the savior of mankind, but it's okay blow up children with IEDs?
I don't understand.P.S., Have a great Christmas!
UPDATE: A Jewish Merry Christmas
The Barney's window Unfreakinbelievable
Dubai Poised To Acquire Large Stakes in N.Y. Banks
Barney's, now the banks.
AUDIO OF SEN. CRAIG'S POLICE INTERVIEW
UPDATE: On the lighter side, this is funny. Cheezy but funny. Larry Craig Parody by Doug Clark Listen here.
Complete text here. hat tip Rocket man
Heh.
We don't care that you're gay, we care that you're stupid.
Second in my culture vulture vlog series
Demoncrats say no to school vouchers for the poor (needs a dumb, uneducated elecorate)
U.S. Drops Out Of International Math & Science Study
UPDATE: Brian sent more on the dismal SAT results:
Rather than admit that the education in this country is getting progressively worse, the response to this news will no doubt be to:
(1) "Recenter" the scores once again [that is, add 50 points to make the scores look better][the last time this was done school districts around the country issued press releases to tout their results of scores 40-45 points higher than the prior year, which were of course lower because of the added points];
(2) Blame the results on some claimed inequity;
(3) Make sure to note that the test-takers feel better about the results despite the dropping scores; and/or
(4) Claim that more money is needed to prepare students for the test.
Clitorectomies - check!
Honor killings - check!
Forced conversions - check!
Child marriage - check!
Christian killing - check!
Jew killing - check!
Apostate killing - check!
Poor terrorists at Gitmo should be freed - check!
Dog abuse - kill the bastard!
Not in the mood but you insisted. Vlog vlog vlog. Not!
Israel gives $600 million in funds to Abbas; Hamas calls it bribery
Olmert considering transfer of military equipment to Fatah
Palestinian intelligence fingers Iran in Gaza seizure
Iran played a "big role" in Hamas's seizure of
Gaza from Palestinian security forces earlier this month, Palestinian
intelligence chief Tawfiq al-Tirawi charged on Sunday.
Valedictorian banned for mentioning G-d in Speech Jersey Journal
Bayonne High School valedictorian Jeremy Jerschina had wanted to give a heartfelt speech at his graduation ceremony on Wednesday....
[...]18-year-old Jerschina said that to speak from the heart as he addressed his graduating class, he had to speak to God as well.
But Principal Richard Baccarella and the Bayonne Board of Education would not let him speak if he included a prayer - so he didn't speak at all.
Islamist-Left Alliance A Growing Force
THE WEST IS LOSING THIS WAR BECAUSE IT THINKS ITSELF THE ENEMY Barry Rubin
Why is the West losing the battle against radical Islamist and other forces in the Middle East?
Simple--because it has people like Alvaro de Soto running things. De Soto, if you hadn't noticed, was a veteran UN official whose last job was as the organization's top Middle East envoy. Full article here.
UPDATE: Hewitt on THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE
Be there, tonight when Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter joins me on Atlas on the Air on BTR 9PM Eastern Listen LIVE here.
UPDATE: SHE SHOOTS, SHE SCORES
Jackie scores her second goal
UPDATE: In a squeaker the hometeam goes down. 3-2. Jackie's two goals do little to console her.
MotionBox is offline ......uploaded to dhimmitube *SPIT*
Stream of consciousness to an unconscious America.
"Look, these guys have lied to us so much, I've even lost confidence in the military," said Murtha.
Here is the entire paragraph:
Murtha said he and House Appropriations
Chairman Obey are discussing options for passing a
new
bill. Murtha is recommending a two-month stopgap bill but acknowledged that
plan has problems. "If we're not careful, you bump against the [August] recess,"
he said. But he prefers that approach to
hold the White House more accountable
for its handling of the war. "Look, these guys have lied to us so much, I've
even lost confidence in the military," said Murtha, a retired Marine colonel
with ties to the Pentagon. He said there is no agreement among House Democrats,
however.
Congressman Murtha has made some troubling comments in the past
few months, (here,
here,
and here)
but this seems to be at another level.
Hat Tip: RedState
Townhall.com is organizing a petition telling Senator Reid, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Jack Murtha and the entire rogue’s gallery that we will not stand for their defeatism. While they may lack courage our troops do not and they deserve the resources needed to win this war.
Howard Dean:The "New Democrat Speak," Part II
UPDATE; THIS VIDEO WAS BANNED BY YOUTUBE. I UPLOADED TO MOTIONBOX! I AM DONE WITH DHIMMITUBE
All politics are personal, you can't get away from it.
Great show with Beryl, The World at War. Dear Josef sent us the podcast. Josef rocks. Download 2007-04-12WorldatWarPodcast.mp3
More on why that damn vaccine is irking me. If you missed my video rant yesterday on the proposed mandatory vaccine (the cervical cancer vaccine)f or young girls who will obviously (insert sarc tag) take multitude lovers go here for that video and watch it first. This vlog's a quickie (uh ... no pun intended.)
Musing of yours truly ...thanks to Irwin the cinematographer;
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Second Half! Atlas Shrugs: G-d Bless Bert Brady
Click on the above link to see the piece ABC News did on Bert Brady's "Greet the Troops" efforts (and kudos to ABC for broadcasting it.) Watch the video. Mr. Brady is a great American and I am deeply honored to have him on my show.
Mr Brady received this missive from one of the soldiers via the USO;
Ladies and Gentlemen, Yesterday a friend of mine sent me a video clip from CBS news coverage of your welcome home program. As I watched it I couldn’t help but sob as all of the memories flooded back of my trip through Dallas about a year and a half ago on the way home for R & R from Afghanistan. At the time, I was so shocked, surprised and overwhelmed as I had never heard of this and it came totally unexpectedly. There is simply no way that I can describe your impact on my adjustment.
I have many memories from my year over there. Some fond, some horrible, a few maybe even repressed a little. But, the day I walked off that plane and into your arms will always be one of my most treasured.
I would like to say thank you, but there are no words that suffice. I just hope that you receive a blessing like the one you give.
These folks all belong to a charity, DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM, I would appreciate it if you would make a gebnerous donation because they do so much for our troops. Many people want to send packages to the troops but do not know how.
To listen to the show live click on this embedded media player:
The listen live button (above) will take you to the page with all my shows (click on the green disc on the show you want to listen to) Check out my interviews with Mark Steyn, Robert Spencer, Caroline Glick, Dore Gold.
UPDATE: David hits it here . He knows it serves to embolden our enemies.
UPDATE: Here's the fatwa running on the leftwing site, The LiberalOC.com
An Open Letter from Conservative Bloggers to GPAC Organizers on Ann Coulter
Posted on March 6th, 2007 by Dan ChmielewskiOne newspaper has pulled her column and she’s lost some ads from her website, but here’s an open letter from right wing bloggers about Ann Coulter’s comments about John Edwards last weekend.
I’d really like to see Matt Cunningham add his name to this list.
We engage our friends on the right in a debate of ideas. While neither side can sway completely to another point of view, there has to be a place of compromise in the middle where points of view are respected an agreeable compromise can be achieved and we can all move forward. This letter from conservative bloggers is a step in the right direction.
An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter
Conservatism treats humans as they are, as moral creatures possessing rational minds and capable of discerning right from wrong. There comes a time when we must speak out in the defense of the conservative movement, and make a stand for political civility. This is one of those times.
Ann Coulter used to serve the movement well. She was telegenic, intelligent, and witty. She was also fearless: saying provocative things to inspire deeper thought and cutting through the haze of competing information has its uses. But Coulter’s fearlessness has become an addiction to shock value. She draws attention to herself, rather than placing the spotlight on conservative ideas.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2006, Coulter referred to Iranians as “ragheads.” She is one of the most prominent women in the conservative movement; for her to employ such reckless language reinforces the stereotype that conservatives are racists.
At CPAC 2007 Coulter decided to turn up the volume by referring to John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator and current Presidential candidate, as a “faggot.” Such offensive language–and the cavalier attitude that lies behind it–is intolerable to us. It may be tolerated on liberal websites but not at the nation’s premier conservative gathering.
The legendary conservative thinker Richard Weaver wrote a book entitled Ideas Have Consequences. Rush Limbaugh has said again and again that “words mean things.” Both phrases apply to Coulter’s awful remarks.
Coulter’s vicious word choice tells the world she care little about the feelings of a large group that often feels marginalized and despised. Her word choice forces conservatives to waste time defending themselves against charges of homophobia rather than advancing conservative ideas.
Within a day of Coulter’s remark John Edwards sent out a fundraising email that used Coulter’s words to raise money for his faltering campaign. She is helping those she claims to oppose. How does that advance any of the causes we hold dear?
Denouncing Coulter is not enough. After her “raghead” remark in 2006 she took some heat. Yet she did not grow and learn. We should have been more forceful. This year she used a gay slur. What is next? If Senator Barack Obama is the de facto Democratic Presidential nominee next year will Coulter feel free to use a racial slur? How does that help conservatism?
One of the points of CPAC is the opportunity it gives college students to meet other young conservatives and learn from our leaders. Unlike on their campuses—where they often feel alone—at CPAC they know they are part of a vibrant political movement. What example is set when one highlight of the conference is finding out what shocking phrase will emerge from Ann Coulter’s mouth? How can we teach young conservatives to fight for their principles with civility and respect when Ann Coulter is allowed to address the conference? Coulter’s invective is a sign of weak thinking and unprincipled politicking.
CPAC sponsors, the Age of Ann has passed. We, the undersigned, request that CPAC speaking invitations no longer be extended to Ann Coulter. Her words and attitude simply do too much damage.
Credentialed CPAC 2007 Bloggers
Sean Hackbarth, The American Mind
James Joyner, Outside the Beltway
BoiFromTroy, Boi From Troy
Joy McCann, Little Miss Attila
Kevin McCullough, Musclehead Revolution
Fausta Werz, Fausta’s Blog
Patrick Hynes, Ankle Biting Pundits
Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters
Jane Stewart, See Jane Mom
Alexander Brunk, Save the GOP
Ace, Ace of Spades HQ
Other Right-of-Center Bloggers
Owen Robinson, Boots and Sabres
N.Z. Bear, The Truth Laid Bear
Michael Demmons, Gay Orbit
Mark Coffey, Decision ‘08
Russell Newquist, The Philosopher’s Stone
Marshall Manson, On Tap
Rob Port, Say Anything
Matthew Johnston, Going to the Mat
Timmer, The Daily Brief
Rick Moran, Right Wing Nuthouse
Dustin Gawrylow, Free Republicans
Dan, North Dallas Thirty
Brennan Monaco, The American Pundit
Nate Nelson, Reality Mugged Me
Christopher Fotos, PostWatch
Joe Carter, Evangelical Outpost
Amy Ridenour, National Center Blog
Soren Dayton, EyeOn08
Greg, Rhymes with Right Jimmie, The Sundries Shack
John Tabin, JohnTabin.com
Peter DiGaudio, Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger
Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit
A quick recap on the Democrats ............. cribbed a little from Doug here
Iran, Venezuela to launch direct flights Gulf Times ht Daryl
Iran's national airline will begin direct flights to Venezuela next month in another sign of the two nations' increasingly close ties. Iran Air will operate a weekly, commercial flight linking Tehran and Caracas in March, the Venezuelan government said in a statement. Flights leaving Tehran will stop in Syria's capital of Damascus on their way to Caracas, it said.
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UPDATE: A Valentine for Atlas readers - MWAH
MARK STEYN ON ATLAS ON THE AIR- FEBRUARY 13TH 9pm
Make sure you read AMERICA ALONE before my interview with him. It is the most prescient, sagacious work on the state of the global jihad I read this year. Seriously.
Jules on Boxer here
ATLAS TAKES ON THE LIBERALS: Listen to the MP3 audio here of my appearance last night on the Canadian Radio show, Remains of the Day and I have at it against enlightened leftists. You'll enjoy it. On the panel -Host Jim Duff, Ray Heard former Editor of The Montreal Star and "opinion leader", Beryl Wajsman, and Atlas.
Front page at Pajamas Media- eeeha!
UPDATE: Because we are at war, stupid. WaPo has become the mecca of moonbattery.
White House Calls Boxer's Attack on Rice's Personal Life 'Outrageous'
Beryl Wajsman's column at the Conservative Voice is excellent here
WTF? Who talks like that? What kind of people are these? Imagine a Republican throwing that one out there. She has hosted and given more parties, lunches and teas than the allies on V day. Oh and she is naming a street after herself. I'm serious. Wake the witch up -- she's a public servant for keyryst's sake.
After calling herself "the most powerful woman in America," Mrs. Pelosi flexed her right muscle like a weight lifter to much applause at an event yesterday titled a "women's tea."
"All right, let's hear it for the power," she screamed as the jubilant applause continued.
When Mrs. Pelosi tried leaving the podium, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut Democrat, asked her to stay.
"There is so much love and warmth that's in this room today and that's because of the new speaker," Mrs. DeLauro said. "And that tells you about what the future is all about in the House of Representatives." More here.
UPDATE: All the tripe that's fit to run, the libmedia can't get enough of that funky stuff. Here a re some excerpts of Pelosi's full remarks here in WaPo;
But I am so happy that my brother Tommy D'Alesandro, who was also a mayor of Baltimore, is here leading the D'Alesandro family from Baltimore today.
(APPLAUSE)
He's sitting right up there with Tony Bennett.
(LAUGHTER)
Bwhahahahahahahaha
[...]
(APPLAUSE)
For our daughters and our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling.
Jane Harman!
(APPLAUSE)
The election of 2006 was a call to change, not merely to change the control of Congress, but for a new direction for our country. Nowhere were the American people more clear about the need for a new direction than in the war in Iraq.
(APPLAUSE)
A new direction? What direction would be better than winning the war the Islamists began? American wants to win San Fran Nan make no mistake about that.
The American people rejected an open-ended obligation to a war without end.
Wrong. Until we won. America must beat back the jihad.
Shortly, President Bush will address the nation on the subject of Iraq. It is the responsibility of the president to articulate a new plan for Iraq that makes it clear to the Iraqis that they must defend their own streets and their own security, a plan that promotes stability in the region and a plan that allows us to responsibly redeploy our troops.
Withdraw and weaken America's standing in the world . The paper tiger indeed. Cutting and running from the war on the jihad. Preesdient Bush does not answer to you.
(APPLAUSE)
Let us be the Congress that never forgets our commitment to our veterans and our first responders, always honoring them as the heroes that they are.
Pork oink oink.
(APPLAUSE)
The American people also spoke clearly for a new direction here at home. They desire a new vision, a new America built on the values that have made our country great.
Not a leftarded one, I assure you.
Now it is our responsibility to carry forth that vision of a new America into the 21st century.
A new America that seizes the future and forges 21st century solutions through discovery, creativity and innovation, sustaining our economic leadership and ensuring our national security.
Try not to kill those very things SFN.
A new America with a vibrant and strengthened middle class for whom college is affordable, health care is accessible, and retirement reliable.
European socialism!
(APPLAUSE)
PELOSI: A new America that declares our energy independence, promotes domestic sources of renewable energy, and combats climate change...
Oh does that mean we can drill for our own oil offshore and ANWAR? Hoorah!
(APPLAUSE)
... a new America that is strong, secure, and a respected leader among the community of nations...
(APPLAUSE)
... and the American people told us they expected us to work together for fiscal responsibility, with the highest ethical standard and with civility and bipartisanship.
Yeah together, got a bridge I might buy?
(APPLAUSE)
After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go; no new deficit spending.
Translation: NO MORE TAX CUTS
(APPLAUSE)
Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.
Really? Welfare, medicare, medicaid, social security for illegals, entitlement, entitlement entitlements. Teach children SELF RELIANCE San Fran Nan!
(APPLAUSE)
In order to achieve our new America for the 21st century, we must return this House to the American people. So our first order of business is passing the toughest congressional ethics reform in history.
It was in our hands sweetie.
(APPLAUSE)
PELOSI: This new Congress doesn't have two years or 200 days. Let us join together in the first 100 hours to make this the Congress, the most honest and open Congress in history.
One hundred hours.
(APPLAUSE)
This openness requires respect for every voice in the Congress. As Thomas Jefferson said, every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
Trust me, between Pelosi and Ellison, Jefferson is spinning out in his grave.
My colleagues elected me to be speaker of the House. The entire House. Respectful of division of our founders, the expectations of our people and the great challenges that we face, we have an obligation to reach beyond partisanship to work for all America.
Where is Jane Harman?
[...]
(APPLAUSE)
PELOSI: May God bless our work, and may God bless America.
(APPLAUSE)
Before we move forward -- because there are so many children here and so many of them asked me if they could touch the gavel, I wanted to invite as many of them who wanted to come forward to come join me up here. I know my own grandchildren will.
Exploiting the children.
Let's hear it for the children. We're here for the children.
The children.
(APPLAUSE)
Children -- again.
The children. Saddam loved to play the children card too.
(APPLAUSE)
For all -- for these children, our children and for all of America's children, the House will come to order.
All the children my ass. With all those back breaking entitlement programs. You want to save the children? Cut taxes, enforce immigration laws, cut entitlement programs, teach self reliance, kill multicultural curriculum, support school vouchers, encourage chrter schools, free markets, and fight the damn jihad. That will save the children.
Oh yeah, check out your collegue lefty Levin:
Sen. Levin
Supports Temporary Surge of U.S. Troops in Iraq
(I guess the left wants to take credit for winning the war. Let them. As long as we do the right thing, who cares?)
UPDATE: I am PAJAMA GIRL! The Vlog is front page at Pajama Media. Me and the dead Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran (a PJM Exclusive)....talk about juxta positioning.
UPDATE: Nancy Fest gone wild;
The cannoli at the reception after the morning Mass were from the bakery on the street in Baltimore's Little Italy where she grew up. The white lilies on the altar were her favorite flower. The chapel belonged to Trinity University, the Roman Catholic women's college she graduated from in 1962.
"We've waited over 200 years for this time," Pelosi said at an afternoon tea turned power rally. "America's working women, women working at home, whatever they choose to do, they have a friend in the Capitol of the United States."
Oh puhleeze. Shut up with the woman thing. Who cares. It's so retro and belittling to women. Speaking as woman, I want the best person for the job. I mean who thinks like that anymore?
Five hundred women wore Rosie the Riveter buttons with Pelosi's face superimposed, with pearl earrings, above the slogan: "A woman's place is in the House ... as Speaker." More here
A Christmas quickie ............ a quick token of my appreciation
Want more dancing? Deep affection for our soldiers, great video here (great video, hysterical)
Major Christmas Woot: Senior Taliban leader killed in U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan, military says
Merry Christmas 1776 hat tip Hous Been
UPDATE: Excellent oped piece here:
LEAVING THE DANCE WITH THE WOMAN YOU BROUGHT Bill Barnstead hat tip Michael
I was raised back in the days when a man always left the dance with the woman he brought. Things are different today. On Nov. 2, 2000 Texas governor and president-elect George W. Bush was invited to the dance by Mr. and Mrs. America (although the people didn't know for 36 days that he was the dance partner they picked). The dance, as far as the president is concerned, was over on Nov. 7, 2006. And, tastelessly, the president—who left his date at the door—departed from the dance with another woman: California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
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From my reader Flying Submarine;
My daughter was killed in Safwan, Iraq. I understand what it means to sacrifice for this country, as I am a former submarine sailor (circa 1984) and I am also an "orthodox" Jew.
I currently live in California, a very blue state to say the least. The senators from Califoria are very liberal and it does not appear that anyone more conservative than them will soon be grasping the mantle. Why are we asking people like Boxer to listen to reason and vote against the adoption of the ISG report? Frankly, I want her to sign on to it. There needs to be no doubt as to which side these people have committed. Anyone who agrees to the resolution adopting the ISG report is clearly: a) a Jew hater and b) a protege of Chamberlain. I want Kerry and Boxer and all the rest to sign on to it.
I want them out in the open without a shred of political cover.
That's just my humble opinion. Personally, anyone who can't see the existential threat that America faces, doesn't deserve to stay in this country (learn to speak Arabic, before you people leave).
Read this soldier's opinion of the Baker boys and the ISG hat tip jon
HANIYEH: WE [Hamas] WILL NEVER ISRAEL
HANIYEH SET FOR TALKS WITH AHMADINEJAD
Rumsfeld Faces Lawsuit From ACLU and Former
Detainees STACLU
CNN Reporter Slimes Bush: ‘Kool-Aid’ Drinking President Won’t Admit ‘Failure’ via LGF
As Nancy Pelosi recently put it, "You can define victory
any way you want." And war, she said, was only "a situation to be
resolved." More here
mdd writes, "Scary Shit, innit?" Uh huh
UPDATE: BOLTON! and more BOLTON!
Talking up this VLOG on the front page on Pajama
UPDATE: Melanie Phillips on the ISG:
BUSH ALONE
The Iraq Study Group report did more than merely live down to its advance billing. Its authors are now revealed to be as intellectually deficient as they are morally malodorous. Calling these people ‘realists’ is clearly someone’s idea of a joke; on the contrary, their reasoning amounts to the most unrealistic, utopian and utterly fatuous wishful thinking possible. More here
It's a Friday night, make that Saturday, open thread .......... let's relax and chat it up
In case you missed my radio show Tuesday night, listen to the podcast ............ I verbally fisk the appearance of CAIR's chief liar AWAD on the appearance on O'Reilly the other night
UPDATE: Pajamas Media has the EXCLUSIVE police report of the 6 flying imams here
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"ISLAM IS A POLITICAL MOVEMENT"
Lots of interesting little details, for example more than a couple
of speakers were contacted
by government agencies and by media (in one
case CNN) to strongly recommend they not speak at this symposium. It's
not enough that the jihad loving media actively deceives the American
people of the gravity of Islamic fundamentalism by ignoring it and
distorting, twisting reality, here you find that are trying to shut truth tellers up.
Photo right: Bruce Tefft, Robert Spencer, Harvey Kushner
More than anything that was impressed upon me was Islam was not so much a religion as it is a political ideology and a violent, oppressive one. More dangerous than any previous threat in world history.
And while it was not a political conference, the ramifications of Tuesday night's election results worried the panelists.
Many of the speakers came at great personal risk to their safety. All live under constant threat of death. "I know they want to kill me"
SHOT OF THE DAY..........love that woman Much thanks to John of the Lodge for snapping it. He caught the moment.
Wafa and me ..will begin download of her remarks as well as the others
Posing questions to Robert Spencer and Jim Gilchrist
Wafa VLOG, modern day heroine
I can not load the audio right now --I don't have the Digital wave software (laptopless) - so check back on Monday for Walid Shoebat (photo below). Wafa Sultan, and Robert Spencer's complete remarks. I will continue to update this post ... but not tonight.
The objective of this forum was to inform the American people of the violent
, relentless enemy intent on world domination. Distressing that only a couple of hundred people showed ........ a couple heard of the symposium from Atlas and thanked me profusely. But the jihad enabling media black out is the jihad's best weapon. It's frightening. We've got to build this alternative news source. Got to.
UPDATE: Radicals Refuse to Negotiate November 12, 2006:
The violence in the south is increasing, with Islamic terrorists ambushing police patrols, and increasing their attacks on Buddhist clergy. The Islamic radical groups have shown no interest in negotiating with the government.
It's worldwide, coming to your hometown...........Killing Little Children for the Cause Strategy Page
November 12, 2006: A good example, of how self-destructive Islamic radicalism is, can be seen in the continuing campaign to stop polio vaccinations. Several years ago, Islamic conservatives in Nigeria began urging parents to refuse polio vaccinations for their children. Eventually, this thwarted the worldwide effort to wipe out polio, because dozens of new cases appeared in Nigeria. All this comes from paranoid rumors that the medicine was a Western attempt to sterilize Moslem children. The Nigerian government put pressure on conservative Islamic leaders to stop preaching against the vaccination program, with mixed results. Islamic radicals are preaching against other types of vaccinations as well, causing something of an "Islamic Plague" among the growing number of unvaccinated children.
One of the most speakers, Dr. Babu Suseefan discussed Islam's continued threat to world peace from a Hindu perspective. He recounted the history of mass slaughter of Hindus, Sikhs and implored the West to join together - Chritians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, all people to battle the enormous Islamic threat. How does he know? Go here
The following item was posted inside a major Mosque in London :
"If a kafir (non-Muslim) is going into a Muslim country and he is walking by, he is like a cow. Anyone can take him. That is the Islamic rule. If Muslims cannot take them, you know, and sell them in the market, then kill them. It is ok".
Wafa Sultan: :"Honor killing is a way of life in the Middle East."
Oh and btw, excellent Steve Emerson video: click here to view or go to this link.
A.P.: AL-QAIDA VOW TO REACH J'LEM, BLOW UP WHITE HOUSE
More Al Qaeda pearls of wisdom here at FOX News; hat tip Pam
Leader of al-Qaida in Iraq Mocks Bush
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A new recording Friday attributed to the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq mocked President Bush as a coward whose conduct of the war was rejected at the polls, challenging him to keep U.S. troops in the country to face more bloodshed. "We haven't had enough of your blood yet,"taunted terror chieftain Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, identified as the speaker on the tape.
And yeah this is going to be tough to take.
UPDATE: Robert Spencer has a wonderful post here on this conference.
The audio for his remarks will be up later if I can find my way back to NY. Don't ask ........
Spencer's JihadWatch is the most comprehensive, informative website on Islam. His latest work, The Truth about Muhammad, is the definitive book on the subject - a must read now. And yet for all of his profound thinking and meticulous research, I gotta tell you, I found him to be the most engaging, charming sharp, concise, funny man. He's a pistol , razor sharp but the message this scholar delivers is grave. The depth and breadth of Spencer's knowledge on Islam and the Quran is without peer. Check out what Andrew Bostom, Charles Johnson and Bruce Thornton's review here
UPDATE November 13: Here is ROBERT SPENCER'S unedited remarks
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WALID SHOEBAT Audio here: Download walid_shoebat1111.wav
Footnote: I have not given white space to the Islamic
apologist Hamid Mir (he is the only journalist to have met
with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri since the
September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.) He fought intermittently with Spencer and Sultan
and was disingenuous about the facts concerning Islam. Each time his
inaccuracies were starkly pointed out, he would cop out to, "I am not
an Islamic scholar."
At one point, Sultan called him out on "Islamic tolerance" when
she asked Mir, "if Islam is tolerant of other religions then why
can a Muslim man marry a Christian or a Jew, but a Muslim woman can
not? "She will be killed. Honor Killing.
He lost all credibility with me well before he said that Hezb'Allah
was disarmed after the Israel/Islamic conflict this past summer. He was on a mission and
when Janet over at Frontpage mag sent me this gem, it all made sense;
I just had a conversation with a Muslim reformist and author/publisher from Pakistan who is threatened by fatwas by the likes of Al Qaeda. He confirmed that non-Muslim journalists have been able to interview Osama when Osama wanted to convey a particular message to the West. However, he stated that no Muslim reporter can reach OBL unless he agrees with his jihadist mission to establish the worldwide Caliphate. According to my well-respected source, AQ has intelligence (often dating back to a person's youth) on all Muslims in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Indonesia who are active in any field. It is therefore impossible to survive, let alone live, in Osama's territory if you are an active Muslim and don't agree with the jihad. In other words, it is impossible to hide from AQ in that region.
Furthermore, according to this Pakistani publisher who lives on the West Coast, Hamid Mir was on an AQ-sanctioned mission to the West. He maintains that AQ provides tickets, photographers, bodyguards, etc. for its operatives to come to America and talk to the public. The PTF was used for their purposes and ultimately gave him a legitimate forum to further the deception of the West. Hamid will now be able to return home and report on his mission. His photographer will provide proof of a successful mission that included the Hamid's participation in a forum composed of many of the prominent anti-jihadists in America today.
There was a good deal of back and forth between Spencer and Mir and I would have VLOGGED it but video was not allowed. I scored the little I have clandestinely. Spencer wiped the floor with him because Spencer's arguments are based in fact not Islamic propaganda. Mir is a plant.
Photo: Hamid on the right of Harvey Kushner
UPDATE: More on the problem of tools like Hamid Mir. Janet adds;
What was so upsetting about the crowd's response to Hamid Mir on Saturday is that the desire to accept Muslims and some sort of peaceful message from them, however disingenuous, seemed to supersede the will to confront a frightening reality head-on. A careful vetting of Hamid and a through examination of his motives and allegiances requires the acceptance of an intolerable reality. It necessitates the unquestioned realization of the brutality that must be perpetrated by our peace-loving Christian nation if we are to survive.
This was an intervention by the Kumbaya school of thought in the face of an unreconcilable enemy. "If Muslims see how virtuous and wonderful we are, they'll change their minds about wanting to kill us." The wishful, reality-defying cheers of the crowd reinforced this perception. The fact that dissenters were admonished to "be polite" and even viewed with disdain by the majority for expressing the unpopular truth was further evidence of this suicidal mindset.
Certainly a great many of us saw through the bullshit. The problem is once America begins to wake up (it's inevitable) this will be the modus operandi of the Islamists and the left and the dhimmicrats will embrace the "engaging of dialogue," translation: a campaign of deceit and deception while all the while Islamists plot and plan to destroy us.
UPDATE: Robert Spencer lays out the contretemps with Hamid here - point by point. Read it all.........
Hamid Mir and Q
The America's Truth Forum symposium in Las Vegas ended with a bang on Saturday afternoon, when a Q-and-A featuring most of the participants (some, alas, including Walid Shoebat and Babu Suseelan, had earlier flights to catch) devolved into an exchange between Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir and me about Islam and the Qur'an.
This was because Hamid Mir asserted in his address that the Qur'an did not sanction lying, and that it held a non-Muslim's life to be equal in worth to that of a Muslim's, and that Islamic tolerance was exemplified by the fact that Jewish and Christian women could marry Muslim men without having to convert to Islam.
I responded during the Q and A to point out that Qur'an 3:28 and 16:106 not only sanction deception of unbelievers, but are taken to do so by mainstream Qur'anic commentators such as Ibn Kathir and others, and that mainstream Islamic law does not hold a non-Muslim's life as equal in value to that of a Muslim, and that the fact that a Jewish or Christian man may not marry a Muslim woman without converting to Islam was a manifestation of the Islamic supremacism that was fueling today's jihad activity.
Mir replied by saying he really didn't know much about Islam, and asked, "Why are you pushing me to adopt a more radical form of Islam?" This is, of course, a charge that Dean Esmay and others have made: that by speaking of the way jihadists use the Qur'an and Islamic theology, I am only encouraging them. But whether coming from Mir or Esmay or anyone else, this charge is false, and hides an unwillingness by self-proclaimed moderate Muslims to do what they must do: confront and combat the jihad ideology. Mir, after all, made several assertions about the Qur'an and Islam. If he wasn't prepared to back them up, he shouldn't have made them -- although perhaps he wasn't expecting to be challenged on factual grounds.
And this is the problem. Islamic spokesmen in the West make statements like Mir's to non-Muslims every day, and those non-Muslims are eager to hear them and be reassured about Islam. But I continue to maintain that such reassurance is worthless if these moderates are not able or willing to do battle with the jihadists on theological grounds. If the moderate version of Islam is not convincing to Muslims, it is worthless. And if I can see the holes in it from an Islamic standpoint, so can Muslims. Thus I stand by my statements at the symposium on Saturday afternoon: the jihadists are making recruits among Muslims daily by appealing to the Qur'an and Sunnah. Peaceful Muslims should not ignore or deny this, but should acknowledge the aspects of Islam that are giving rise to violence, and repudiate and fight against them. Otherwise this recruitment will continue unabated.
There's more, go there now.
UPDATE: More Wafa Video here. Dr. Wafa Sultan Contends that Islam Preaches Violence
Link:
13 Reasons to Vote Republican on November 7th
AIM Report: George Soros Tries to Buy Congress
UPDATE 11/06/06: What ever happened to Patriotic reporters? Wall Street Journal
Broadsword's election rant here
*NYT Admits They Lied About Kerry's Speech (see update below)*
THE DEFINING MOMENT ELECTION '06
This says it all .........hat tip Norm
Hey America, where do you stand?
This man might have been president - thats how you know there is a Gd.
Calling Rush doughy? What up wit dat? Nothing from the PC media on that one eh?
All previous Atlas Election Vlogs here
The Weekly Standard's "Dear John Letter" here
Pajamas Media has a Lurch round up here. Go!
Arabs Rooting for Democrat Victory IRIS Blog
It seems that Arab governments are rooting for a Democrat win to weaken Bush's power to deal with a nuclear Iran, Syrian armament of Hezbollah, etc.:
UPDATE: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Dept: sKerry couldn't bring himself to verbally apologize (the elitest doesn't believe he has anything to be sorry for), so instead he ran this poor excuse for an apology on his little visited website.
I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform
"Misinterpreted"? That's not an apology. Coweird.
JIHAD AND TERROR LEADERS TO US: VOTE DEMOCRAT!
UPDATE November 3: In a soldier's own words here (hat tip Dave)
UPDATE: Third reprehensible New York crimes, slimes, Times story of the day. First story here, second story here, now this.
This from LGF here;
NYT Admits They Lied About Kerry's Speech
The New York Times has issued a correction for their article about John Kerry’s slam against the military, in which they did not even print his actual words: Corrections: For the Record - New York Times. (Hat tip: Ethel.)
A Political Memo article yesterday about the fallout for Senator John Kerry over what he called a “botched joke” referred incompletely to the differences between prepared remarks and what he actually said about the Iraq war to students at Pasadena City College in California on Monday. Mr. Kerry not only dropped the word “us,” but he also rephrased his opening sentence extensively and omitted a reference to President Bush. Mr. Kerry’s aides said that the prepared text read: “Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.” What he said: “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
This is the Times’ time-honored modus operandi—publish a shockingly biased story leaving out important information, then a day or two later, a belated correction to give them cover.
UPDATE: Hitchens on Kerry's latst flub in the Wall Street Journal here.
Here is Lurch, belittling our troops, again. This man might have been president - thats how you know there is a Gd.
Splash Kennedy: for all the lefties that said it would be the Right who would be the ones to mangle the Christ child's name to echo the terror mastermind's.
Another round for everyone!
UPDATE: sKerry responds here;
Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry's comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:
"If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.
I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.
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DISCLOSURE: I, Pamela Geller (aka Atlas), have never worked for the Republican party. I have never received any funds from the Republican party. I work for America. I defend my homeland, my home, my family. I fight the great fight.
Election VLOG I here and VLOG II here (with Ben Afflicted) and Election Vlog III here
Malkin Liveblogged the most excellent Bush press conference earlier today on Iraq here
Atlas Shrugs: Soros Stealing America
Atlas Shrugs: SOROS AND THE NAZIS UNDERMINING THE JEWISH PEOPLE
Atlas Shrugs: MoveOn.Org aka Soros' Wallet Targeting Honorable ...
Atlas Shrugs: Could Soros Be More Evil?
MoveOn.Org: Judenrats for Justice here, here and here.
Democratic Leader Splash Kennedy planning a coup with our enemies here (hat tip Pam)
Press Conference By The President
"I know many Americans are not satisfied with the situation in Iraq. I'm not satisfied either. And that is why we're taking new steps to help secure Baghdad and constantly adjusting our tactics across the country to meet the changing threat. But we cannot allow our dissatisfaction to turn into disillusionment about our purpose in this war. … We must not fall prey to the sophisticated propaganda by the enemy, who is trying to undermine our confidence and make us believe that our presence in Iraq is the cause of all its problems. … If I did not think our mission in Iraq was vital to America's security, I'd bring our troops home tomorrow. … I'm confident this generation will answer that call and defeat an ideology that is bent on destroying America and all that we stand for." – President George W. Bush, 10/25/06
"Our Commanders On The Ground Are Constantly Adjusting Our Tactics"
"Our Goals Are Unchanging – We Are Flexible In Our Methods To Achieving Those Goals." "
Americans have no intention of taking sides in a sectarian struggle or standing in the crossfire between rival factions. Our mission is to help the elected government in Iraq defeat common enemies, to bring peace and stability to Iraq, and make our Nation more secure."
"On The Military Side, Our Commanders On The Ground Are Constantly Adjusting Our Tactics To Stay Ahead Of Our Enemies":
"We are refining our training strategy for the Iraqi security forces, so we can help more of those forces take the lead in the fight and provide them better equipment and firepower to be successful. "We've increased the number of Coalition advisers in the Iraqi Ministries of Defense and Interior, so they can better plan and execute security operations against the enemy. "We have changed our force structure so we can better respond to the conditions on the ground. … "Most recently, we have moved additional Coalition and Iraqi forces into Baghdad, so they can help secure the city and reduce sectarian violence."
"A Military Solution Alone Will Not Stop Violence"
"Yesterday, Our Ambassador To Iraq, Zal Khalilzad, Laid Out A Three-Step Approach."
1. "First, We're Working With Political And Religious Leaders Across Iraq, Urging Them To Take Steps To Restrain Their Followers And Stop Sectarian Violence."
2."Second, We're Helping Iraqi Leaders To Complete Work On A National Compact To Resolve The Most Difficult Issues Dividing Their Country."
"The new Iraqi government has condemned violence from all quarters and agreed to a schedule for resolving issues such as disarming illegal militias and death squads, sharing oil revenues, amending the Iraqi constitution, and reforming the de-Baathification process."
3. "Third, We're Reaching Out To Arab States Such As Saudi Arabia, The UAE, And Jordan, And Asking Them To Support The Iraqi Government's Efforts To Persuade Sunni Insurgents To Lay Down Their Arms And Accept National Reconciliation."
"The International Community Is Also Supporting The International Compact That Outlines The Support That Will Be Provided To Iraq As It Moves Forward With Its Own Program Of Reform."
"Absolutely, We're Winning"
"If You Listened To General Casey Yesterday, 90 Percent Of The Action Takes Place In Five Of The 18 Provinces. And Around Baghdad, It's Limited To A 30-Mile Area." "And the reason I bring that up is that while it seems to our American citizens that nothing normal is taking place – and I can understand why, it's a brutal environment there, particularly that which is on our TV screens – that there is farmers farming, there are small businesses growing, there's a currency that's relatively stable, there's an entrepreneurial class, there's commerce."
"Al Qaeda Is On The Run." "
As a matter of fact, the mastermind, or the people who they think is the mastermind of the September the 11th attacks is in our custody. We've now got a procedure for this person to go on trial, to be held for his account. Most of al Qaeda that planned the attacks on September the 11th have been brought to justice."
"It's Tough For A Reason; Because People Understand The Stakes Of Success In Iraq." "And my point to the American people is, is that we're constantly adjusting our tactics to achieve victory."
"The Only Way We Lose In Iraq Is If We Leave Before The Job Is Done"
A "Fixed Timetable Of Withdrawal … Means Defeat."
"So what [Gen. Casey] was describing to you was the way forward, to make sure that the Iraqis are fully prepared to defend themselves. It's a conditions-based estimate."
"There Is A Significant Difference Between Benchmarks For A Government To Achieve And A Timetable For Withdrawal."
"You're talking about – when you're talking about the benchmarks, he's talking about the fact that we're working with the Iraqi government to have certain benchmarks to meet as a way to determine whether or not they're making the hard decisions necessary to achieve peace. ... And we're working with the Iraqi government to come up with benchmarks."
"Prime Minister Maliki Is The Right Man To Achieve The Goal In Iraq"
"We're With [Prime Minister Maliki], So Long As He Continues To Make Tough Decisions."
"I'm impressed, for example, by the way that he has got religious leaders, both Sunni and Shia, to start working together. I appreciate the fact that he has made a very clear statement on militias. And by the way, death squad members are being brought to justice in this plan – during these operations in Baghdad. And I speak to him quite frequently."
"We'll Push Him, But We're Not Going To Push Him To The Point Where He Can't Achieve The Objective."
"And we'll continue to work with him. He represents a government formed by the people of Iraq. It's a – and he's got a tough job. … Reconciliation is difficult in a society that had been divided and tortured by a tyrant. And Prime Minister Maliki has got the difficult job of reconciling these grievances and different political parties on top of that, plus dealing with violence."
"I Believe I'll Be Working With A Republican-Controlled Congress And A Republican-Controlled Senate"
"The American People Are Going To … Decide This Race Based Upon Who Best To Protect The American People And Who Best To Keep The Taxes Low."
"And We Must Do Everything We Can To Protect The American People, Including Questioning Detainees Or Listening To Their Phone Calls From Outside The Country To Inside The Country." "In other words, as you know, there was some recent votes on that issue. And the Democrats voted against giving our professionals the tools necessary to protect the American people."
"If You Raise Taxes, It Will Hurt The Economy."
"If you let the tax cuts expire, it will be a tax increase on the American people. Take the child tax credit; if it is not made permanent, in other words, if it expires, and you got a family of four sitting around the breakfast table, the taxpayers can be sure that their taxes will go up by $2,000 – $500 for that child, $500 for the one right there, $500 for this one, and $500 for that one. That is a tax increase. And taking $2,000 out of the pockets of the working people will make it harder to sustain economic growth."
"I Understand, Here In Washington, People Have Already Determined The Outcome Of The Election Like It's Over, Even Before The People Actually Start … Voting. But That's Not What I See When I'm On The Campaign Trail." "Yes, we've got some people dancing in the end zone here in Washington, D.C., measuring their drapes. They're going over to the Capitol and saying, 'My new office looks beautiful. I think I'm going to have this size drape there, or this color.'"
"I See A Lot Of Enthusiasm Amongst The Grassroots Activists." "
Our people are going out there to man the phones and to put up the yard signs. You know, they're showing up when it comes time for these absentee votes."
And bloggers Mr President, don't forget the bloggers.
SHOCKER! (/not)
House Intel Chief Fires Democrat Staffer Over Intel Leaks!
DEMOCRAT, PARTY OF THE JIHAD, LEAKED CLASSIFIED INTEL TO THE NEW YORK running of out TIMES, IN THE WAR ON ISLAMISM! Who you voting for?
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Election VLOG I here and VLOG II here (with Ben Afflicted)
Warchick's most excellent article: North Korea and Islam: Co-Conspirators WND
Gee, Do You Think the MSM Have a Favorite in the VA Senate Race?
US headed towards "moral scurvy," Zell Miller warns (hat tip Daryl)
At an event for Maryland Democratic Senatorial candidate Ben Cardin, Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) accused Michael Steele of being a slave: “slavishly supporting the Republican Party.” More over at MSNBC
This latest insult comes just a few weeks after a Cardin staffer joked on her blog about people throwing oreos at Michael Steele during an event. What racists! (Do I sound like a Democrap yet?)
UPDATE: VIDEO: Radical Left in bed with Terrorists
UPDATE: Election VLOG II - Exhibit A- "Terrorists, What Terrorists?"
UPDATE: Suppression of the Vote
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Nukes, NORKS, Reid, Masturgate, China, Gay bashers, Islamic Jihad....Atlas Rants
Iran blames U.S. for N. Korea nuke test
Mainstream Media and Democrats Blame Bush for North Korea
Kerry blasts Bush N.Korea policy
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., blasts the Bush's policies on North Korea, telling [al] Reuters
From John Fund, Political Journal (PAID only)
The Gay Republican-Kim Jong Il Connection
Politics is all about timing. Apparently, the liberals behind Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the group that received information about Mark Foley's sexual instant messages as far back as April, originally planned to unleash its blockbuster a bit later in the 2008 election cycle. The American Spectator reports that a political consultant with ties to the Democratic National Committee told the magazine: "I'm hearing the Foley story wasn't supposed to drop until about ten days out of the election. It was supposed to be the coup de grace, not the first shot."
But as another Democratic operative told the magazine, the political climate at the end of September was suddenly turning ominous. "Bush's national security speeches were getting traction beyond the base, gas prices were dropping, economic outlook surveys were positive. Republicans were back to [holding enough House] seats for a 15-seat majority. In the Senate, it looked like a wash." All that may have played a role in prompting Democratic partisans to speed up the use of opposition research on Mr. Foley that had been put aside for later in the campaign. "Republicans had to have known we'd be looking to change the national debate," says a House Democrat leadership aide.
Check out my North Korea post here (watch the video)
The David Zucker Albright ad (flagged by YouTube , of course)
UPDATE: Strasphere has more here on the party of Obstruction and Personal Destruction;
The WaPo seems to be trying to get ahead of some coming news by admitting they dealt with a democrat operative peddling the Foley story and used a Democrat Page source who was interested in affecting the coming elections
Between WaPo and Harpers we don't need much more evidence of Democrat dirty tricks - do we?
UPDATE: Thomas
Sowell: Frivolous politics: Part
II
Some people say that there is no point voting because there is no difference between the two major parties, and the other parties have no chance of winning. However, there is a difference: the Republicans are disappointing and the Democrats are dangerous.
John McCain blames Bill Clinton on North Korea - McCain does a guest post at the Captains Quarters here.
Fisk vlogging (FLOGGING) slick Willie's meltdown nationwide.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. Marcus Tullius Cicero hat tip Dennis
Chris did not ask him about exactly why Sandy Berger went into the national archives and stole those top secret documents. Everything that he stuffed down his pants were documents relating to these very topics, signed by slick Willie and Berger and the top flight intel guys.
JJ remarks to me;
And poof, the documents are gone, and he couldn’t remember shit (or didn’t have to, with no cross examination based on the documents possible), and the documents were never uncovered. now, presumably when you go home and take off your pants in the evening, for whatever reason, you would notice the blue bowling ball and the brown shoes and the secret documents from the national archive, and take them back the next day and return them, with a red face. but, when they get lost, that sort of suggests that you meant to steal them, to my poor meager intellect.
So, Bill Clinton has every reason in the world to be a paranoid delusion knot head, and suspect all kinds of underhanded skullduggery at every turn, because that is just the way he operated. and still does.
Vince Foster, Rob Brown, Sandy Burger, the Macdougals, …. , he has good reason to suspect people will behave just like him. at least chris wallace hasn’t turned up dead yet. who knows, maybe this will prove so embarrassing and troubling to his psyche that he will have to swallow some 9 mm pills.
UPDATE: Moe conversation from one of the more insightful voices in my salon. CUANAS tells me Chris Wallace was interviewed this morning and he said that there was no making up with Clinton after the interview. Clinton started yelling at his staff, and left the room without even attempting to make things better.
CUANAS also believes Clinton's behaivor was very strange indeed. He points out;
"Clinton has never freaked out like this before. He is a master at remaining calm when he is attacked. He has been attacked in ways which are almost as stupid as the things that have been said about Bush. The whole Clinton Chronicles thing was one of the low points of the Conservative movement IMO. The only time Clinton ever looked even remotely near this stressed out was during the Lewinsky scandal.Think about that, he looked ALMOST as stressed out when he was in position to LOSE HIS PRESIDENCY. But, he is more stressed out over this? Think about it,
I have to wonder if something is going to come out soon, maybe. Maybe he knows it. Maybe he thought he was going to be ambushed in that interview."
He's right.
UPDATE: Both Charles and Drudge note his slurred speech, which I referred to but never made the final cut of my FLOG - YouTube only takes 100MBs of video and my stuff was way over.
Other noticable physical abnormalities include dry mouth (his top lip getting caught in his upper teeth) and the white junk build up at both corners of his mouth.
Yeah it was tough to watch - hard to look away though, like rubber necking.
Here's more on the book Wallace was referring to "The Looming Tower"that set the mental patient off.
Other news on the Global war on the jihad;
Another Church Attacked in Gaza
Pakistani Islamist Leader: Crucify the Pope
Norway Muslim Synagogue Plotters Were Planning to Behead Israeli Ambassador
Nasrallah Boasts: Still Have 20,000 Rockets
Palestinians: The Pope is a Jew
Palestinian Pope Demonstrators: "Conquering Rome is the Answer"
IDF General Denies Nasrallah Assassination Planned at Hezbollah Victory March
Nasrallah's 'hiding' is about as authentic as a Jesse Jackson 'rolling' hunger strike, if Nasrallah is able to appear in public on the condition that he is surrounded by other terrorists. Israel's leaders have pushed the envelope on pusillanimity with the redefinition of 'civilians' to mean 'terrorists not currently engaged in attacks.'
Iraqi Terrorists Using Kidnap Victims as Unwitting Suicide Bombers
Muslim culture has contributed almost no constructive innovations, but the inventions of depravity are unceasing
Palestinian Rocket Hits Israeli College
Meanwhile Israeli leaders bring out the bizarre ritual of self-humiliation known as "declare that Palestinians must end terror attacks before negotiations, before dropping that demand and then negotiating."
Oslo Synagogue Detainees Planned to Blow Up U.S., Israel Embassies
They only wanted to get the Saturday people first; now they are coming for the Sunday people as well
UK Minister: Hezbollah's Hiding Weapons in Civilian Areas Had Gone to "New Depths"
Vandals Attack Synagogues in Russia
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UPDATE: Daryl sent me these photos from yesterday's rally for a Pope jihad in front of Westminster's Cathedral;
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In a Frank Luntz poll commissioned by the Hudson Institute, a majority of respondents expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the United Nations and embraced scenarios under which the organization would be "scrapped altogether." Luntz characterized the results as showing that Americans are "one scandal away from washing their hands" of the U.N. and that the issue could tip a future presidential election. More here
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Mr. Diplomacy
September 7, 2006; WSJ Page A20John Bolton became America's Ambassador to the United Nations last year on a recess appointment. Since then, the U.S. has won unanimous Security Council resolutions condemning North Korea's missile tests and ending the Israeli-Lebanese war, and a near-unanimous one (Qatar dissenting) setting a deadline for Iran to suspend its nuclear program. Not bad for a man once called "the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be."
Those were the words of George Voinovich, the Ohio Republican who as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee surprised even himself by opposing Mr. Bolton's nomination. Mr. Bolton was also called a "kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy" and "lacking in any real knowledge of the wider world" by two State Department officials. Joe Biden, the committee's ranking Democrat, all but accused Mr. Bolton of being a liar, while California's Barbara Boxer called his nomination "outrageous."
We recall the Bolton hysteria as the committee prepares to consider the ambassador's renomination to his post. As his critics would have it, Mr. Bolton's mission to the U.N. was supposed to be an act of diplomatic sabotage by the Administration. Instead, his tenure has been among the most constructive of any U.S. ambassador since Jeane Kirkpatrick and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
So, in addition to his work in the Security Council, Mr. Bolton used the lessons of the Oil for Food scandal to get the U.N. to adopt International Public Sector Accounting Standards to its budgeting, create an ethics office, and eliminate famous Turtle Bay excesses such as the $10,000 gift limit for U.N. bureaucrats. (Today the limit is $250.) Mr. Bolton also led the opposition to the creation of the new U.N. Human Rights Council, in which democratic nations are, as they were before, a minority voice. The effort failed at Turtle Bay, but at least it demonstrated that the U.S. was willing to demand standards on an issue -- and from an organization -- that could use some.
Mr. Bolton hasn't won over all of his critics, although at least Senator Voinovich had the grace to admit that he's changed his mind about the ambassador and will vote to confirm. We suspect that some of his Democratic colleagues will also be reluctant to filibuster the nomination of a diplomat who stands up daily for his country, and for common sense
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