'JOE THE PLUMBER' WINS GOP PRIMARY
Dear Fellow American,
Remember how the leftwing media crucified Sarah Palin in the 2008 election? Well, now they've made "Joe the Plumber" their new target.
Since winning my primary, the media has made it their number one mission to discredit my candidacy and annihilate my character. I've been painted as a bigot, told I'm not qualified to serve in Congress, and lectured on live TV as if I'm a schoolboy in the principal's office.
Monday, March 26, 2012
IT IS NOT ISLAMOPHOBIA AS IT IS A SURVIVAL INSTINCT!
FIGHTING ISLAMOPHOBIA – WHILE JEWS DIE
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder
03/26/2012
Fighting Islamophobia has become a cause célèbre among both the Jewish establishment and the Jewish farther-left. In the meantime, Jews are being murdered, tortured, attacked, plotted against and vilified in the name of Islam.
In the course of his killing spree in the French city of Toulouse last week, Mohammed Merah caught an 8-year-old Jewish girl by the hair, looked into her eyes, and put a bullet in her brain. Merah videotaped the atrocity for the amusement of other jihadists. He also murdered a rabbi and his two young sons.
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder
03/26/2012
Fighting Islamophobia has become a cause célèbre among both the Jewish establishment and the Jewish farther-left. In the meantime, Jews are being murdered, tortured, attacked, plotted against and vilified in the name of Islam.
In the course of his killing spree in the French city of Toulouse last week, Mohammed Merah caught an 8-year-old Jewish girl by the hair, looked into her eyes, and put a bullet in her brain. Merah videotaped the atrocity for the amusement of other jihadists. He also murdered a rabbi and his two young sons.
SHERIFF ARPIAO DOING WHAT CONGRESS SHOULD HAVE DONE!
Video: Sheriff Joe Arpaio: I’m Not Going To Back Down From Obama’s Identity Document Fraud Investigation
Mar 26, 2012 02:24 pmSheriff Joe is my hero. He is a man of courage and conviction, and he won’t let the liberal media and the political establishment cower him. Go Joe Go. Related posts: Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Obama Birth Certificate Fraud Is 10 Times Worse Than Watergate Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in an interview with Mark Gillar of... Sheriff [...]
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SICK...COMING TO AMERICA THANKS TO OBAMA
Scottish Face Choice Between Eating Or Heating Because Of Global Warming Scam
Mar 26, 2012 02:17 pmScotland, one of Barack Obama’s models for his bogus wind power scam has literally seen the wind go out of her socialist politically correct sails. Scotland is the poster boy for the failure of wind power as a genuine source of energy. All of the high and mighty talk about wind as a viable alternative [...]
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CONGRESS FULL OF COWARDS
Cowardly Congress Won’t Investigate Manchurian Candidate Obama
Mar 26, 2012 02:23 pmNo hearings into Barack Hussein Obama’s eligibility to hold the office of President of the United States will be held nor or any even scheduled, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said on Wednesday, March 21, at 1:04 p.m. “NO,” she answered in curt reply to the question, “Do You Have Any Hearings [...]
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KAGAN EMULATES OBAMA IN BREAKING FEDERAL LAWS
Elena Kagan Breaks Federal Law By Hearing ObamaCare Case, Republicans Silent
Mar 26, 2012 02:25 pmSupreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will be in clear violation of federal law by virtue of her decision to hear the Affordable Care Act case coming before the Supreme Court today. Upon joining the other justices to hear oral arguments she will fracture the federal statute which demands that judges recuse themselves from participation in [...]
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ALLIANCE ALERTS 03/26/2012
Featured - Monday, March 26, 2012
- Transcript and audio of today’s Obamacare arguments at SCOTUS March 26, 2012
- ADF tweeting live Tuesday from ObamaCare arguments at Supreme Court March 26, 2012
- Philadelphia Ordered To Repay $877,000 in Legal Fees to Boy Scouts in “Gay Ban Dispute” March 26, 2012
- Graphical Summary: Three Days of Obamacare Arguments at SCOTUS March 26, 2012
- SCOTUS today’s argument recap: Is it a tax and subject to Anti-Injunction Act? Tomorrow on to the mandate March 26, 2012
- Ben Bull: Chicken sandwiches for family bad, ice cream for same-sex marriage good? March 26, 2012
KEEP AN EYE OUT! NARCISSTICS ALWAYS BREAK!
When will Obama crack in public?
By Mychal Massie
By Mychal Massie
At a time when many Americans can barely afford Burger King and a movie, Obama boasts of spending a billion dollars on his re-election campaign. Questioned at a recent appearance about the spiraling fuel costs, Obama said, "Get used to it" – and with an insouciant grin and chortle, he told another person at the event, who complained about the effect high fuel prices were having on his family, to "get a more fuel-efficient car." [O'D NOTE: As if that person could AFFORD a hybrid car...!]
The Obamas behave as if they were sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball, but instead of getting new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck, they moved to Washington . And instead of making possum pie, with goats and chickens in the front yard, they're spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations, gala balls, resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House, grand date nights, golf, basketball, more golf, exclusive resorts and still more golf. In the 1950's they called it acting '(N) word' RICH.
Expensive, ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States . The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it's so offensive when we hear Obama say, in order "to restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice – but we don't have to sacrifice the America we believe in."
The American people have been sacrificing; it is he and his family who are behaving as if they've never had two nickels to rub together – and now, having hit the mother lode, they're going to spend away their feelings of inadequacy at the taxpayers' expense.
Obama continues to exhibit behavior that, at best, can be described as mobocratic and, at worst, reveals a deeply damaged individual. In a February 2010 column, I asked, "Is Obama unraveling? "I wrote that it was beginning to appear the growing mistrust of him and contempt for his policies was beginning to have a destabilizing effect on him.
At that time, I wrote that not having things go one's way can be a bitter pill, but reasonable people don't behave as he was behaving. He had insulted Republicans at their luncheon, where he had been an invited guest. I had speculated that was, in part, what had led him to falsely accuse Supreme Court justices before Congress, the nation and the world, during the 2010 State of the Union address.
It appeared, at that time, as if he were "fraying around the emotional edges." That behavior has not abated – it has become more pronounced. While addressing the nation, after being forced to explain the validity of his unilateral aggression with Libya , America witnessed a petulant individual scowling and scolding the public for daring to insist he explain his actions.
But during an afternoon speech to address the budget/debt, he took his scornful, unstable despotic behavior to depths that should give the nation cause for concern. Displaying a dark psychopathy more representative of an episode of "The Tudors" television series, he invited Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to sit in the front row during his speech and then proceeded to berate both Ryan and Ryan's budget-cutting plan. Even liberal Democrats were put off by the act. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough questioned the sanity of Obama's actions.
Today, criticism is coming from all sides. A senior Democrat lawmaker said, "I have been very disappointed in [Obama], to the point where I'm embarrassed that I endorsed him. It's so bad that some of us are thinking, is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?" ("Democrats' Disgust with Obama," The Daily Beast, April 15, 2011)
Steve McCann wrote: Obama's speech "was chock full of lies, deceit and crass fear-mongering. It must be said that [he] is the most dishonest, deceitful and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed" ("The Mendacity of Barack Obama,"AmericanThinker.com, April 15, 2011).
McCann continued: "[His] performance was the culmination of four years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media, including some in the conservative press and political class who are loath to call [him] what he is in the bluntest of terms: a liar and a fraud. That he relies on his skin color to intimidate, either outright or by insinuation [against] those who oppose his radical agenda only add to his audacity. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character flaws his entire life, aided and abetted by sycophants around him. ..."
With these being among the kinder rebukes being directed at Obama, and with people becoming less intimidated by his willingness to use race as a bludgeon, with falling poll numbers in every meaningful category and an increasingly aggressive tea-party opposition – how much longer before he cracks completely?
The coming months of political life are not going to be pleasant for Obama. Possessed by a self-perceived palatine mindset, that in his mind places him above criticism, how long before he cracks in public? Can America risk a man with a documented track record of lying and misrepresenting truth as a basic way of life, who is becoming increasingly more contumelious?
The Obamas behave as if they were sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball, but instead of getting new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck, they moved to Washington . And instead of making possum pie, with goats and chickens in the front yard, they're spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations, gala balls, resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House, grand date nights, golf, basketball, more golf, exclusive resorts and still more golf. In the 1950's they called it acting '(N) word' RICH.
Expensive, ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States . The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it's so offensive when we hear Obama say, in order "to restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice – but we don't have to sacrifice the America we believe in."
The American people have been sacrificing; it is he and his family who are behaving as if they've never had two nickels to rub together – and now, having hit the mother lode, they're going to spend away their feelings of inadequacy at the taxpayers' expense.
Obama continues to exhibit behavior that, at best, can be described as mobocratic and, at worst, reveals a deeply damaged individual. In a February 2010 column, I asked, "Is Obama unraveling? "I wrote that it was beginning to appear the growing mistrust of him and contempt for his policies was beginning to have a destabilizing effect on him.
At that time, I wrote that not having things go one's way can be a bitter pill, but reasonable people don't behave as he was behaving. He had insulted Republicans at their luncheon, where he had been an invited guest. I had speculated that was, in part, what had led him to falsely accuse Supreme Court justices before Congress, the nation and the world, during the 2010 State of the Union address.
It appeared, at that time, as if he were "fraying around the emotional edges." That behavior has not abated – it has become more pronounced. While addressing the nation, after being forced to explain the validity of his unilateral aggression with Libya , America witnessed a petulant individual scowling and scolding the public for daring to insist he explain his actions.
But during an afternoon speech to address the budget/debt, he took his scornful, unstable despotic behavior to depths that should give the nation cause for concern. Displaying a dark psychopathy more representative of an episode of "The Tudors" television series, he invited Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to sit in the front row during his speech and then proceeded to berate both Ryan and Ryan's budget-cutting plan. Even liberal Democrats were put off by the act. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough questioned the sanity of Obama's actions.
Today, criticism is coming from all sides. A senior Democrat lawmaker said, "I have been very disappointed in [Obama], to the point where I'm embarrassed that I endorsed him. It's so bad that some of us are thinking, is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?" ("Democrats' Disgust with Obama," The Daily Beast, April 15, 2011)
Steve McCann wrote: Obama's speech "was chock full of lies, deceit and crass fear-mongering. It must be said that [he] is the most dishonest, deceitful and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed" ("The Mendacity of Barack Obama,"AmericanThinker.com, April 15, 2011).
McCann continued: "[His] performance was the culmination of four years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media, including some in the conservative press and political class who are loath to call [him] what he is in the bluntest of terms: a liar and a fraud. That he relies on his skin color to intimidate, either outright or by insinuation [against] those who oppose his radical agenda only add to his audacity. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character flaws his entire life, aided and abetted by sycophants around him. ..."
With these being among the kinder rebukes being directed at Obama, and with people becoming less intimidated by his willingness to use race as a bludgeon, with falling poll numbers in every meaningful category and an increasingly aggressive tea-party opposition – how much longer before he cracks completely?
The coming months of political life are not going to be pleasant for Obama. Possessed by a self-perceived palatine mindset, that in his mind places him above criticism, how long before he cracks in public? Can America risk a man with a documented track record of lying and misrepresenting truth as a basic way of life, who is becoming increasingly more contumelious?
POLITICAL DIGEST 03/27/2012 CONSERVATIVE
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Gas prices
We were in Wisconsin for the weekend, flaunting our “Recall Santa: I didn’t get what I wanted” bumper sticker. We made sure to fill up there before coming home. At $3.86, it only cost us $52.50 to fill up with 13.6 gallons. A lot better than the $4.69 here in Blagobamaville. We gotta get Bush and his oil cronies out of there to bring prices down. What?
PROOF OF OBAMA THREATENING MEDIA OVER HIS (IN)ELIGIBILITY
As evidence mounts that the "birth certificate" released by Team Obama is a "computer-generated forgery," EVEN MORE shocking revelations are coming out that Barack Obama's surrogates and far-left power-brokers are engaged in a massive and tyrannical effort to SILENCE the conservative media from reporting on Mr. Obama's eligibility.
However, there's some good news to report as well. A few brave souls in the conservative media are finally daring to break the silence. Diana West, who writes for The Washington Times, recently blew the whistle: "Clearly, something has us all on lockdown. That’s much, much scarier than even the amazing possibility that some con artist might be pulling off the biggest scam in history."
And, as we previous reported, Mike Zullo, the lead investigator of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Cold Case Posse stated; "During our investigation, we actually were told [that media] had been threatened with FTC investigations. Commentators [had been] threatened with their jobs.” And according to WND.com, the "threats were so intimidating that some individuals quit their positions over safety concerns for their families."
Of course, there's more (keep reading)... and even more will follow; but for now, one thing is certain.
The Obama Regime is not just illegitimate... now that the illegitimacy and tyrannical abuses of the Obama White House are finally starting to see the light of day, the Obama Regime is coming unglued. Like a cornered animal, IT IS OUT OF CONTROL, and if we do not take action, right here and right now, we may very well lose our country.
OBAMA'S HATRED OF OUR MILITARY SHOWING BRIGHTLY
Veterans about to get shafted by the illegitimate presidentThe man who isn't our legitimate president once again is targeting those who served in uniform either at home or for the lucrative and insane non-declared wars over the past 50 years. For the sake of full disclosure, my husband is a retired U.S. Army Colonel who served honorably for 27 years. He served in Viet Nam as well as assignments in Germany and the Pentagon. While John was active duty, he had medical coverage. When he detached, we paid for our medical coverage and still do with TriCare......
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OBAMA CREATING RACIAL DIVISION AND KNOWS IT!
Submitted by: Sandra
Insider Warned Us – Obama’s Racial Division Plan Now Underway…
By inserting himself directly into the ongoing conversation regarding the shooting death of a 17 -year old Black youth in Florida by a Hispanic man, and with Obama supporters in the Liberal Media repeating charges of national racism, Barack Obama appears quite willing to push the United States into a potential race war. The following excerpts were from an interview conducted during the summer of 2011:
HARRY REID WANTS HIGHER GASOLINE PRICES!!!
With the national average price for a gallon of gas approaching $3.90, you'd think that Washington would be doing everything it could to ease the price and the impact on your wallet. Well, you'd be wrong.
Believe it or not, Harry Reid's tax-and-spend gaggle in the Senate are responding to soaring gas prices by, you guessed it, trying to raise taxes on oil and gas companies. Of course, higher taxes mean higher prices; it's just common sense. But that's something in short supply in the Senate these days.
The bill is S. 2204, offered by Senator Menendez from New Jersey. Not only does it seek to jack up taxes on oil and gas when we can least afford it, but it also handpicks a range of so-called green technologies for special tax breaks. This bill tries to prop them all up: electric cars, cellulosic biofuels, wind, ethanol blender pumps, and on and on.
The Senate will be voting on the bill this week. So, take action today and send your senators a simple message: stop trying to use the tax code to prop up your friends and attack your political enemies!
Believe it or not, Harry Reid's tax-and-spend gaggle in the Senate are responding to soaring gas prices by, you guessed it, trying to raise taxes on oil and gas companies. Of course, higher taxes mean higher prices; it's just common sense. But that's something in short supply in the Senate these days. The bill is S. 2204, offered by Senator Menendez from New Jersey. Not only does it seek to jack up taxes on oil and gas when we can least afford it, but it also handpicks a range of so-called green technologies for special tax breaks. This bill tries to prop them all up: electric cars, cellulosic biofuels, wind, ethanol blender pumps, and on and on.
The Senate will be voting on the bill this week. So, take action today and send your senators a simple message: stop trying to use the tax code to prop up your friends and attack your political enemies!
Obama appeasing Russia on missile defense
Today, ABC News has released a SHOCKING exchange (see below, highlights added) that reveals how far President Obama is willing to go to compromise our future missile defense system—and thus our national security—in order to appease Russia.
Ladies and gentlemen, this goes far beyond disturbing. This is downright scary. There is already a “behind the scenes” fight in Washington over an Obama administration proposal to provide secret information about our missile defense system to Russia.
Now, President Obama’s intentions have been made perfectly clear. He knows he can’t capitulate to Russia and compromise our missile defenses before the election—but he is ready and willing to do so if he gets re-elected.
Ladies and gentlemen, this goes far beyond disturbing. This is downright scary. There is already a “behind the scenes” fight in Washington over an Obama administration proposal to provide secret information about our missile defense system to Russia.
Now, President Obama’s intentions have been made perfectly clear. He knows he can’t capitulate to Russia and compromise our missile defenses before the election—but he is ready and willing to do so if he gets re-elected.
OBAMA TO SELL OUT AMERICA IF REELECTED
President Obama Asks Medvedev for ‘Space’ on Missile Defense — ‘After My Election I Have More Flexibility’
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SEOUL, South Korea — At the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, President Obama said that he would have “more flexibility” to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense, but incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to give him “space.”
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SEOUL, South Korea — At the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, President Obama said that he would have “more flexibility” to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense, but incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to give him “space.”
LAS VEGAS - NEW CITY COUNCILMAN - BOB BEERS! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Congratulations to New Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers!
Bob Beers became the second Republican on the Las Vegas City Council last Tuesday as he won the special election to fill the Ward 2 seat. The businessman and former state lawmaker joins Stavros Anthony as the Republicans on the Council.Beers won the special election by a huge margin, beating his nearest challenger by 15 percentage points. He garnered 37% of the vote in the nine-person race.
As a member of the state Assembly and later the state Senate, Beers developed a reputation for fiscal restraint. His election to the Las Vegas City Council will bring another much-needed voice for controlling spending in the cash-strapped City.
The Ward 2 seat became open when Steve Wolfson resigned after he was appointed to be Clark County District Attorney upon the retirement of David Roger. The Las Vegas City Council chose to hold a special election to fill the seat rather than appoint the new Council member.
Congratulations to Republican Bob Beers, the newest member of the Las Vegas City Council!
TOGETHER TO VICTORY IN 2012!
OBAMA'S RULE ALLOWS CRIMINALS TO GO FREE - ILLEGAL ALIENS ABSOLVED OF RESPONSIBILITY
ICE RELEASES CHILD RAPIST UNDER OBAMA GUIDELINES
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released Amado Espinoza-Ramirez – an illegal immigrant, who is a child rapist accused of incest – because he has a child who is a U.S. citizen and no prior criminal convictions or immigration violations.When Amado Espinoza-Ramirez, who was charged with 42 counts of predatory sexual acts, was turned over to ICE on Sept. 2, he was released ON THE SAME DAY. He then escaped his ankle monitor and is now a fugitive roaming free in the United States.
This case is a prime example of how the June 2011 memo from ICE Director John Morton, which put into effect Obama’s “prosecutorial discretion” or backdoor amnesty guidelines, has led to numerous dangerous criminals being released.
THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER OPPOSES OBAMACARE
This past Friday, March 23, 2012, Richard Thompson, President of the Thomas More Law Center addressed an estimated 1000 who gathered for the 'Stand Up For Religious Freedom' rally held in Detroit. The Rally took place in front McNamara Federal Building in downtown Detroit to protest the Obama administration's HHS mandate. Mr. Thompson was one of nine speakers who addressed the crowd. He drew a roar of applause as he told the crowd, "Christians are born for combat”. Christ said 'I did not come to bring peace, but a sword'". Thompson continued,
“When Christ saw the money changers in the Temple, he did not keep quiet in the presence of this wrong to keep the peace. He broke the peace by driving them out. He armed himself with a scourge of cords and drove them out. Peace is not our goal. Righteousness is. It is our duty to resist."
The Detroit rally was emceed by Dr. Monica Miller, who co-founded Citizens for a Pro-life Society. Religious leaders and other public figures spoke out strongly against the HHS Mandate. Holding signs reading “Stand Up for Religious Freedom” and “Stop the HHS Mandate,” participants offered hymns and prayers for our nation.Peaceful rallies, organized by the Pro-Life Action League and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society drew more than 50,000 participants from a broad cross-section of America. The rallies were staged to oppose the new mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that requires all employers provide free contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs through their health plans, even in violation of their consciences.
Today, the United Supreme Court takes up the Obamacare case in a rare three days of hearings. Two years ago, on March 23, 2010 the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) filed the first lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare. TMLC was also the first to petition the Supreme Court to hear the case.NORTH DAKOTA - DUANE SAND FOR U.S. SENATE - A CONSERVATIVES DEMS FEAR!
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POLITICAL DIGEST 03/26/2012 CONSERVATIVE
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Black Friend Defends Shooter of Florida Teen
Excerpt: George Zimmerman is not a racist and cried for days after shooting dead a black Florida teenager, a black, longtime friend of Zimmerman said on Sunday in a sympathetic portrayal of a man maligned by critics as a trigger-happy bigot.
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MF’s Corzine Ordered Funds Moved to JP Morgan, Memo Says
Corzine was Obama's go-to Wall Street fundraiser. ~Bob. Excerpt: Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd. (MFGLQ)’s chief executive officer, gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from a customer fund account to meet an overdraft in a brokerage account with JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), according to a memo written by congressional investigators. Edith O’Brien, a treasurer for the firm, said in an e-mail quoted in the memo that the transfer was “Per JC’s direct instructions,” according to a copy of the memo obtained by Bloomberg News. The e-mail, dated Oct. 28, was sent three days before the company collapsed, the memo says. (Jon Corzine, former governor of NJ, was CEO of MF Global before it folded. Under his supervision, money this company was HOLDING for its clients in the company bank account (not yet invested, see?) disappeared. Now, if you have ever had an account at a company that assists its customers in making trades (something like Ameritrade, Scottrade, Waterhouse, etc, except that MF Global traded in commodities, not stocks), you know that these companies don’t have the right to touch your cash as long as it is in their bank and has not yet been invested. Right? Taking that would be exactly like your bank manager helping himself to money from your savings account. It would be, well, like stealing. No, scratch that. It WOULD be stealing. Now, Corzine has been acting as though the untouchable client money in the company bank disappeared somewhere far away where he could not have possibly known. He's as eager to find out where it went as you are, by golly! Gee, where did it go, Jon? He can't remember. He has amnesia. He is Jon Corzine so he is above reproach. See his lawyer, etc. Here is your dilemma: If you call Jon Corzine a crook, then some people will say "innocent until proven guilty." So be careful. If you say he is NOT a crook, then you aren't paying attention. Then if you feel like calling Jon Corzine a crook, go ahead. But don't say I called him that. Far be it from me... My theory? Amnesia. You know how absent minded those former governors are. --Don Hank)
Egypt working to prevent Iran attacks on Israeli targets, sources say
Excerpt: Egyptian security forces thwarted an attempt by Iran to blow up an Israeli ship in the Suez Canal, the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram reported on Saturday. The attack was being planned by two Egyptians who were recently arrested and interrogated, the prosecution in Egypt's state security court reportedly claimed. An investigation allegedly revealed that the men, Suleiman Razek Abdul-Razek and Salameh Ahmed Salameh, had received their instructions from Iranian agents. (Assessing the credibility to attach to this report is difficult. Not only are the media in the region usually mouthpieces for their governments, their standards for confirmation seem loose. Further, in this case, at least, the action of the prosecutor seem at odds with the media reports of wide-spread sympathy for Islamist causes. On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of action we should expect from the Iranians. Ron P.)
Eco-rout down under: ‘A mini-van will have more seats than the Labour party in the new parliament.’
Excerpt: Now for all of you nice people from the USA who may not think state elections are that big a deal if you do not live in that state, please remember that we only have 6 states and 2 territories, not 50 like you guys. We just had an election in Queensland, one of our most economically important states, especially for mineral wealth representing about a quarter of the population. Before the election the Labour (think Democrat) held a small majority in the 89 seat Lower House (House of Representatives). (When a political party takes this kind of a licking, not even their true believers can deny that their policies have been resoundingly rejected. I wish we could get that complete a change here in lots of states. Ron P.)
North Korea Moves Rocket To Test Site, Says South Korea
Excerpt: North Korea has moved a rocket to a northwestern site in preparation for a launch next month, South Korean officials said Sunday, as Pyongyang pushes ahead with a plan that Washington calls a cover for testing long-range missiles. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak urged North Korea to immediately stop its launch plans, warning in Seoul that they would deal sternly with any provocation. Obama said the move would jeopardize a deal in which the U.S. would ship food aid to the North in exchange for a nuclear freeze.
Dick Cheney Heart Transplant: Former Vice President Recovering
Excerpt: Cheney was recovering Saturday night at the intensive care unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., after surgery earlier in the day. More than 3,100 Americans currently are on the national waiting list for a heart transplant. Just over 2,300 heart transplants were performed last year, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. And 330 people died while waiting. (2300 heart transplants yearly? Really? It’s hard to believe the procedure has become that common; many of TOJ’s readers were grown adults when the first successful transplant was done—in South Africa, of all places—in December of 1967 (I was just shy of 21 and in Vietnam). That “successful” recipient lived all of 18 days before dying of pneumonia; this article says 70% of recipients now live to the five-year mark. Ron P.)
California Takes Another Stab at Destroying Small Business
Excerpt: California keeps up its insane attack on businesses of all kinds, this time with a proposal to force small businesses away from money-saving self-insurance plans into the arms of more costly Obama-care plans.
Witness counters Trayvon Martin media narrative: Says 17-year-old was beating Zimmerman before shooting
Excerpt: Maybe George Zimmerman did act in self-defense when he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, whose death Feb. 26 in Sanford, Florida, has been the focus of a media and political circus that even included Barack Obama weighing in this week. An eyewitness to the incident told police Martin was beating Zimmerman before he shot him. (It will be interesting to see if this pans out and there is a witness, or it's just counter-spin. If there is, he can expect a full throated media attempt to discredit--too much invested in the story now. ~Bob.)
Provo artist depicts Obama torching U.S. Constitution: McNaughton says he’s “offended I even had to paint” polarizing work.
Excerpt: A recently released painting of President Barack Obama holding a burning copy of the U.S. Constitution has seemingly set the political world on fire as well. Jon McNaughton’s picture, titled "One Nation Under Socialism" shows the president with a furrowed brow and hardened face and appearing decidedly unfazed by the flames licking closely to him as the Constitution is torched.
Obama's Pipeline to Nowhere
Excerpt: “The president stages a photo-op in Oklahoma to take credit for the portion of the Keystone XL pipeline that doesn't need his approval,” writes Investors Business Daily “and for oil production on private and state lands beyond his jurisdiction.” (…) “This is like a governor personally issuing a fishing license,” Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said according to BusinessWeek. “This portion of the pipeline is being built in spite of the president, not because of him.” (…) As long as the pipeline, like Solyndra and the Chevy Volt, doesn’t actually produce anything useful, Obama will be just fine with it. (There’s an old joke about how to define “chutzpah:” a man who murders his parents and then asks for mercy on the ground that he’s an orphan. I think our President makes an even better example with this. Ron P.)
Quote forwarded by e-mail
" To its committed members, The Democratic Party was and is still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looks like Captain Hook's crew - ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife beaters, recovering child-buggerers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque lineup of ill-mannered, self-pitying, caterwalding freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts." --Nicholas Von Hoffman, The Washington Post
Worth Reading: What if Trayvon Had Been White, and the Shooter Black? By Michael Filozofhttp://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/what_if_trayvon_had_been_white_and_the_shooter_black.html#ixzz1qBLNnX9L
Excerpt: We know what would happen in such a case. There would be no white mobs in the street chanting "No justice, no peace!" There would be no whites holding a "million hoodie march" in New York City. ... We know this because in fact, such an event occurred in 2009 in Greece, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester. Roderick Scott, a black man, shot and killed an unarmed white teen, Christopher Cervini, whom he believed was burglarizing a neighbor's car, with a licensed .40 cal. handgun.
Global Warming As Cargo Cult Science
Excerpt: Unfortunately, there are few examples in science where causation can be easily established, since the physical world involves myriad variables interacting in different ways. I would argue that this is why there is a “scientific method” at all. Because it is so easy to fool ourselves regarding what causes what to happen in the physical world. Laboratory experiments are powerful because, if you can control the factors you think are operating, you can isolate a specific effect and more reliably trace it to its cause. But many problems are not amenable to laboratory investigation. Global warming is one of them.
Woman died after Muslim nurse refused to help as he was praying: An elderly woman was left on the floor at a care home for up to ten minutes because a nurse was praying, an inquest heard.
Excerpt: Carer Zoe Shaw told the Sheffield hearing: "It took between five and ten minutes because he was praying upstairs in the office on his prayer mat. A staff member told me we had to wait for him to finish."
Dangerous and Bizarre Obama Nominee for World Bank Prez
Excerpt: However, President Obama out of the blue nominates Kim. It should be noted that Kim has zero financial background, which in itself may not be bad, since it means he is not a regime bankster. But, his credentials suggest that Obama sees some kind of global social health program along the lines of Obamacare, with the World Bank as a key player.
More fakery from “Forecast The Facts”
Excerpt: Now, normally I’d be happy to have a discussion about what I think we know and what I think we don’t know about all this, as well as challenge some of his assumptions (last year set records for severe events, etx…), but as had already been brought up in his fine forum and others, “Forecast the Facts” is designed only to pressure the heretics in the broadcast meteorology community for their a apostatic refusal to toe the party line on CAGW. So they try to phish answers from broadcast mets to find out what side of the fence they lean, and then they go after the cretins…pitchforks raised in holy banner…all the way to their nearest newspaper and TV station general manager. (First off, “facts” AREN’T “facts” until AFTER they happen, so they can’t be forecasted; all forecasts are speculation, not "facts.". It seems there is a mail and email campaign to find and pinpoint broadcast meteorologists who don’t toe the CAGW line. Especially see the after-article comments by “wws” at 9:49AM and 10:16AM and “John V. Wright” at 10:00AM; they’ll give a very clear idea of what is happening and why. Ron P.)
French Killings Show the Path from Crime to Prison to Jihad
Excerpt: Mohammed Merah, the 23-year-old self-proclaimed member of al-Qaida who was killed after a 30 hour standoff with an elite police tactical unit in Toulouse France was a prime example of a homegrown terrorist. Prior to his violent ending, Merah had admitted to killing at least seven individuals including three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school, as well as three members of the French armed forces. His motive he said was vengeance in the name of Allah.
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Robert A. Hall
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