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What if...

What if - in a few years, after we conservatives have won majorities in both bodies of Congress, the Congress passes a law eliminating the IRS and instituting a flat tax.

But then - surprise surprise - Obama VETOES it.

THEN... The Senate passes it again with 3/4 of the US Senate, OVERRIDING the veto...

AND THEN - stay with me...

THEN... the House leadership finds it CANNOT get enough votes override the veto by a STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN VOTE, BUT... they find that they can get enough votes to DEEM IT PASSED and override the veto.

QUESTION: HAS THE VETO BEEN CONSTITUTIONALLY OVERRIDDEN?

If not, then THE "DEEM AS PASSED" gimmick by Pelosi and Reid and Obama cannot stand.

Maybe the title of this post should be HUGOBAMA.

After all, it seems to me that Obama is becoming our Chavez - using unconstitutional tricks and blatant lies to impose his statist polices on us.

It will not stand.

AP:

Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.

Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, who was also TV's Daniel Boone and later a major California winemaker and developer, died at his Santa Ynez Valley home. His death came on the 84th birthday of his wife of 50 years, Marcella.

"She's a wreck," Anash said, adding Parker was coherent and speaking with family just minutes before his death. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

The first installment of "Davy Crockett," with Buddy Ebsen as Crockett's sidekick, debuted in December 1954 as part of the "Disneyland" TV show.

The 6-foot, 6-inch Parker was quickly embraced by youngsters as the man in a coonskin cap who stood for the spirit of the American frontier. Boomers gripped by the Crockett craze scooped up Davy lunch boxes, toy Old Betsy rifles, buckskin shirts and trademark fur caps. "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" ("Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee...") was a No. 1 hit for singer Bill Hayes while Parker's own version reached No. 5.

The first three television episodes were turned into a theatrical film, "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier," in 1955.

True to history, Disney killed off its hero in the third episode, "Davy Crockett at the Alamo," where the real-life Crockett died in 1836 at age 49. But spurred by popular demand, Disney brought back the Crockett character for some episodes in the 1955-56 season, including "Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race."

"Like many kids growing up in the 50's, Davy Crockett was my first hero, and I had the coonskin cap to prove it," said Disney CEO Bob Iger. "Fess Parker's unforgettable, exciting and admirable performance as this American icon has remained with me all these years, as it has for his millions of fans around the world. Fess is truly a Disney Legend, as is the heroic character he portrayed, and while he will certainly be missed, he will never be forgotten."

Parker's career leveled off when the Crockett craze died down, but he made a TV comeback from 1964-1970 in the title role of the TV adventure series "Daniel Boone" — also based on a real-life American frontiersman. Actor-singer Ed Ames, formerly of the Ames Brothers, played Boone's Indian friend, Mingo.

RIP..

Yesterday we posed news items which reported that the USA made a large shipment of bunker-busting weapons to Diego Garcia - and that this might indicate that Obama was readying a military attack on Iran.

And that while a preemptive attack is needed - we wondered if it might be cynically used by Obama to gain popularity, i.e. "WAG THE DOG".

NOW COMNES THIS EXPLANATION - WHICH JIBES MORE CLOSELY WITH OBAMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL AND PRO-IRAN STANCES:

JAWA: IT WAS A DIVERSION OF ASSETS WHICH HAD BEEN HEADED FOR ISRAEL:

Obama Moves To Support His New Allies Iran And Hezballah

Via World Tribune:

The United States has diverted a shipment of bunker-busters designated for Israel.

"This was a political decision," an official said.

"All signs indicate that this will continue in 2010," a congressional source familiar with the Israeli military
requests said. "This is really an embargo, but nobody talks about it publicly."

OBAMA GETS TO PUNISH ISRAEL AND PROTECT IRAN IN ONE FELL SWOOP!

QUESTION: IF OBAMA WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM AND RADICAL LEFTIST WHO WANTED TO RUIN AMERICA AND DESTROY ISRAEL, THEN ... WOULD HE BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?

NOPE.

DISCOVERY:

European researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter's invisibility cloak after they made an object disappear, a study published Thursday in the journal Science showed.

Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and Imperial College London used their cloak, made using photonic crystals with a structure resembling piles of wood, to conceal a small bump on a gold surface, they wrote in Science.

"It's kind of like hiding a small object underneath a carpet -- except this time the carpet also disappears," they said.

... The researchers are working now to recreate the disappearing bump but on a larger scale, but Stenger said Harry Potter's invisibility cloak would not be hanging in would-be wizards' wardrobes in the near future.

"Theoretically, it would be possible to do this on a large scale but technically, it's totally impossible with the knowledge we have now," he said.

• The invisibility cloak was minute, measuring 100 microns by 30 microns.
• Recreating the invisibility cloak on a larger scale could prove challenging technically.

RTWT.

BBC:

A US citizen has pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai.

David Headley, at his trial in Chicago, also admitted plotting to attack a Danish newspaper that published a cartoon many Muslims deemed offensive.

Headley, 49, had denied the charges but changed his plea to avoid the death penalty or extradition to India, Pakistan or Denmark.

The attacks on Mumbai in November 2008 left more than 170 people dead.

HIS TARGETS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH BUSHITLERCHENEY OR THE GOP OR ISRAEL OR ZIONISM.

HE IS MERELY PART OF GLOBAL JIHAD.

BLAMING BUSH OR ISRAEL OR THE IRAQ WAR OR THE AFGHAN WAR FOR ANY ACT OF JIHADO-TERROR IS IDIOTIC - AND IT MAKES US LESS SAFE BY OBSCURING THE REAL ENEMY AND BY PREVENTING US FROM COUNTER-ATTACKING WITH ENOUGH FORCE AGAINST THE REAL POWER CENTER OF THE ENEMY.

Turkish police today detained about 20 people, including serving military officers, as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to topple the government, The Guardian disclosed:

The operation was part of an investigation into the "Ergenekon" network, an alleged rightwing militant group that prosecutors say had planned to overthrow prime minister Tayyip Erdogan's AK party government, according to broadcaster NTV.

The suspects were detained in eight cities, the television report said. No details of names were given.

More than 200 civilians and retired and working officers in the military are on trial accused of membership of Ergenekon.

THEY MAY END UP ARRESTING HALF THE NATION - THE HALF THAT DOESN'T WANT SHARIA!

IT'S TIME TURKEY WAS BOOTED OUT OF NATO.

Just one more indication that despite what some would like you to believe, the MWP was not a regional “non event”:

A 3,000-year record from 52 of the world’s oldest trees shows that California’s western Sierra Nevada was droughty and often fiery from 800 to 1300, according to a new study led by University of Arizona researchers.

This is not a coincidence - THAT IT WAS VERY WARM IN THE USA AT THE SAME TIME IT WEAS VERY WARM IN EUROPE, but proof that climate change and warming is natural and that the warming we had last decade was not unusual.

AGW = BS.

RTWT.

Robert Kagan in yesterday's Washington Post, in a commentary that has garnered some ten pages of comments:

...Who has attracted attention in the Obama administration? The answer, so far, seems to be not America's allies but its competitors, and in some cases its adversaries. If there were a way to measure administration exertion in foreign policy, the meter would show the greatest concentration of energy, beyond the war in Afghanistan, has been devoted to four endeavors: the failed first-year attempt to improve relations with Iran; the ongoing attempt to improve relations with Russia; the stalled effort to improve cooperation with China; and the effort -- fruitless so far -- to prove to the Arab states that the United States is willing to pressure Israel to further the peace process. Add to these the efforts to improve relations with Syria, engage Burma and everything with Af-Pak, and not much has been left for the concerns of our allies.

[...]

This administration pays lip-service to "multilateralism," but it is a multilateralism of accommodating autocratic rivals, not of solidifying relations with longtime democratic allies. Rather than strengthening the democratic foundation of the new "international architecture" -- the G-20 world -- the administration's posture is increasingly one of neutrality, at best, between allies and adversaries, and between democrats and autocrats. Israel is not the only unhappy ally, therefore; it's just the most vulnerable.

In less than two years in office, BHO is alienating the world much more than GWB did in eight years.

RELIAPUNDIT HAD SOMETHING ON THIS YESTERDAY.

Labels: Always On Watch, the Obama administration, Washington Post

What they have today...

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:

Britain Bans Ads Exaggerating Danger of Global Warming

Link Search: IceRocket, Google, and Ask

+Discussion: BBC and NewsReal Blog

... I posted over the weekend. YEAH: 4 DAYS AGO!

The Astute Bloggers is the best!

Please spread the word.

WHAT AN IDIOT! (HAT TIP TO HOFT WHOSE ALSO GOT A TRANSCRIPT!); HERE'S THE VIDEO:


HAWAII HASN'T HAD AN EARTHQUAKE IN DECADES!

I THINK OBAMA WAS THINKING SORT OF LIKE THIS:

OF ... OF... OF A PLACE... WHERE IS IT... IT HAS A BIG EARTHQUAKE, WE SENT AID... IT BEGINS WITH AN "H" AND ENDS WITH AN "I"... EARTHQUAKE... WHICH WAS IT... A STATE WITH AN "H".... HAWAII!!!!

ONLY THE PLACE THAT HAD A REALLY BIG EARTHQUAKE WITH AN "H" WAS HAITI.

APPARENTLY, OBAMA CONFUSED THE STATE HE SPENT HIS TEEN YEARS IN WITH HAITI.

APPARENTLY, MR BARACK HUSSEIN SOETORO OBAMA DOESN'T KNOW THAT HAITI IS NOT ONE OF THE 50 STATES.

PERHAPS BARRY THINKS IT'S ONE OF THE 57:

INTL NEWS/PAKISTAN:

... in an interview with the BBC Turkish service that was broadcast late on Tuesday, Erdogan said: “There are currently 170,000 Armenians living in our country. Only 70,000 of them are Turkish citizens, but we are tolerating the remaining 100,000. If necessary, I may have to tell these 100,000 to go back to their country because they are not my citizens. I don’t have to keep them in my country.”

Thousands of illegal Armenian immigrants, mostly women from the impoverished countryside, work as cleaning ladies and in other low-skilled jobs in Istanbul, where they settled after an earthquake in their homeland in 1988.

The exact number of Armenian immigrants in Turkey is unknown. But Turkish-Armenian groups say Turkish politicians inflate numbers of illegal workers and threaten expulsions whenever tensions escalate between Ankara and Yerevan.

Erdogan said Armenian immigrants had been allowed to work in Turkey as a “display of our peaceful approach, but we have to get something in return”.

THIS ERDOGAN AND HIS ISLAMIST AKP HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING IN NATO.

KICK THEM OUT NOW.

AND DON'T ADMIT THEM INTO THE EUSSR, EITHER.

FOSTER/NRO:

It has been clear for months that the only path to passage for Obamacare is a Rube Goldberg machine of special interest bribes, back-room deals, procedural opacity, presidential pep rallies and the like.

The problem with building a voting coalition that way is that it doesn't take much to break the circuit.

I AGREE THAT OBAMACARE IS FALLING APART BECAUSE THE CONVOLUTED AND CORRUPT DEALS NECESSARY TO BUY VOTES FALL APART UNDER MODESTLY MORAL SCRUTINY.

BUT I DISAGREE WITH THE ANALOGY.

OBAMACARE: IT'S NOT LIKE RUBE GOLDBERG; IT'S LIKE MC ESCHER.


WHY?

SIMPLE:

RUBE GOLDBERG CONTRAPTIONS ACTUALLY WORK.


MC ESCHER PICTURES APPEAR TO WORK, BUT DON'T, AT LEAST NOT IN THE REAL WORLD.

(WE POSTED ON THIS BEFORE - 12/26/09.)

KAGAN/WASHPOST:

The contretemps between President Obama and Israel needs to be seen in a broader global context. The president who ran against "unilateralism" in the 2008 campaign has worse relations overall with American allies than George W. Bush did in his second term.

Israelis shouldn't feel that they have been singled out.

...This administration pays lip-service to "multilateralism," but it is a multilateralism of accommodating autocratic rivals, not of solidifying relations with longtime democratic allies. Rather than strengthening the democratic foundation of the new "international architecture" -- the G-20 world -- the administration's posture is increasingly one of neutrality, at best, between allies and adversaries, and between democrats and autocrats. Israel is not the only unhappy ally, therefore; it's just the most vulnerable.

RTWT.

OBAMA MEDDLES IN ISRAEL, BUT WON'T IN IRAN.

OBAMA SQUEEZES ISRAEL'S NUTS, BUT SUCKS IRAN'S...

OBAMA APPEASES ENEMIES AND IGNORES OR IS DISMISSIVE OR ANTAGONISTIC TO ALLIES.

OBAMA MUST GO!

WILL WE PASS THE TEST THIS TIME?

IT SEEMS TO ME OBAMA IS FAILING.

THE SURFING ALAPACA MADE THE BIG BLOGS TODAY - AND WE SCOOPED THEM BOTH:

RETRACTO’S VACATION appears to be going well. Come back rested, Retracto — your work isn’t finished!

Posted at 6:18 pm by Glenn Reynolds

AND WE SCOOPED HOT AIR - ON A DUDE POST NO LESS!:

YUP: WE POSTED ON THIS YESTERDAY.

NOW THESE TWO FINE BLOGS ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR HOT LINKS AND THEIR COOL LINKS.

BUT WE SCOOP THEM BOTH REGULARLY.

REGULAR READERS OF THIS BLOG KNOW IT.

SPREAD THE WORD.

UPDATED: SCROLL DOWN!

TIMES OF INDIA:

Stepping up its preparations for a possible strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, the United States is transporting hundreds of 387 'bunker-buster' bombs to its air base on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, a media report claimed on Wednesday.

The US government signed a contract in January with Superior Maritime Services to transport 10 ammunition containers to Diego Garcia from Concord, California, the Sunday Herald reported.

The shipment includes 195 smart, guided Blu-110 bombs and 192 Blu-117 900kg bombs. The key Iranian nuclear facilities are underground and both these type of bombs are effective against reinforced or underground facilities.

The US and Israel have repeatedly asserted that they do not rule out a military action to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions and that they are keeping all the options on the table.

Contract details for the shipment were posted on an international tenders' website by the US navy.

"They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran," Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London, said.

UPDATE: MORE HERE:

The preparations were being made by the US military, but it would be up to President Obama to make the final decision. He may decide that it would be better for the US to act instead of Israel, Plesch argued.

“The US is not publicising the scale of these preparations to deter Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely,” he added. “The US ... is using its forces as part of an overall strategy of shaping Iran’s actions.”

According to Ian Davis, director of the new independent thinktank, Nato Watch, the shipment to Diego Garcia is a major concern. “We would urge the US to clarify its intentions for these weapons, and the Foreign Office to clarify its attitude to the use of Diego Garcia for an attack on Iran,” he said.

For Alan Mackinnon, chair of Scottish CND, the revelation was “extremely worrying”. He stated: “It is clear that the US government continues to beat the drums of war over Iran, most recently in the statements of Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

“It is depressingly similar to the rhetoric we heard prior to the war in Iraq in 2003.”

WAG THE DOG?: AS AMERICANS RALLY AROUND THE US PREEMPTIVE ACTION, OBAMA WILL TRY TO PASS OBAMACARE.

I POSTED IN THIS POSSIBILITY MONTHS AGO:

Sunday, January 31, 2010

WAG THE DOGBAMA?

Would Obama initiate a preemptive attack on Iran to help his ratings and advance his domestic agenda?

Maybe...

Would he delay a preemptive attack on Iran to help his ratings and advance his domestic agenda?

Maybe...

I have zero confidence in him as our CiC.

• IF OBAMA ORDERS AN EFFECTIVE STRIKE ON IRAN, THEN I WILL SUPPORT OBAMA.

• IF ISRAEL DOES, THEN I EXPECT THE USA TO DEFEND ISRAEL - AND IF WE DON'T I WILL ATTACK OBAMA.

The clock is ticking...

I REPEAT: I SUPPORT PREEMPTIVE ACTION AGAINST IRAN.

I URGE ALL AMERICANS TO SUPPORT IT.

BUT I STILL OPPOSE OBAMACARE - AND HOPE OBAMA'S BOUNCE WON'T HELP HIM DESTROY OUR ECONOMY BY MAKING US LIKE POST-WAR BRITAIN.

UPDATE: THEN THERE'S THIS: Tehran aiding al Qaeda links, Petraeus says

Iran is assisting al Qaeda by facilitating links between senior terrorist leaders and affiliate groups, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East told Congress on Tuesday.

Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, also said Iran's nuclear program is facing problems, and as a result, Tehran is not expected to emerge with a nuclear weapon this year.

The exact details of when U.S. intelligence agencies estimate Iran will have a nuclear bomb are classified, but the timeline for developing a nuclear device has "thankfully slid to the right a bit," he said.

On Tehran's ties to al Qaeda, Gen. Petraeus said the group "continues to use Iran as a key facilitation hub, where facilitators connect al Qaedas senior leadership to regional affiliates."

THIS IS BOTH ANOTHER REASON TO ATTACK IRAN, AND A HEAD-FAKE TO KEEP THEM OFF-GUARD...

STAY TUNED...

“Rules!? RULES!?!?!? We don’t need no stinking RULES!”

NYTIMES/AP:

When American Rabbi Joshua Spinner moved to Berlin's trendy Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood a decade ago, there were no other Jews to be seen. Now when the sun sets on a Friday night, dozens of Jewish men clad in traditional Shabbat garb with big black hats and dark long coats walk down the streets past hip coffee shops, chic boutiques and tiny art galleries to attend services at Rykestrasse synagogue.

''When my wife and I arrived here in 2000, we were the only Jews around. There was nobody to invite for Shabbat dinner,'' the rabbi recalled over a cappuccino at kosher Cafe Rado, just down the street from the Jewish kindergarten.

He's in the middle of a thriving orthodox Lauder Yeshurun community of young immigrants mostly from the former Soviet Union. Members say its believers are more actively celebrating their faith than their oppressed parents and grandparents and moving forward from the traumatic past of Judaism in the country.

There about 200 believers now and it's growing fast: There are several weddings a year and the nursery school has become so overcrowded that parents have to register their children soon after birth if they want to get one of the coveted spots.

DO ORTHODOX JEWS BELONG MORE IN BERLIN - THE HISTORIC CAPITOL OF NAZISM, THAN IN JERUSALEM THE HISTORIC CAPITOL OF JUDAISM?

IF JEWS CAN MOVE INTO BERLIN, THEN THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO MOVE TO AND LIVE IN JERUSALEM - ESPECIALLY ALREADY EXCLUSIVELY JEWISH NEIGHBORHOODS IN JERUSALEM.

OBAMA'S AND FATAH'S AND HAMAS'S DEMAND THAT JEWS NOT BUILD NEW APARTMENTS IN JERUSALEM IS WRONG, EVIL AND BAD.

HERE'S HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF OBAMA:

• SOCIALISM IS GOAL #1 -

• ALL OTHER THINGS HE DESIRES FLOW FROM THAT;

• EVERYTHING ELSE IS SUBORDINATE TO THAT,

• BECAUSE ONCE THE USA IS SOCIALIST - VIA "ATTLEEFICATION", IT WILL PETER OUT LIKE THE ONCE GREAT BRITISH EMPIRE.

• THE USA WILL BECOME WEAK...

• AND MULTICULTURAL...

• AND GO OUT WITH A WHIMPER.

• AND THE JIHADISTS AND THE TRANS-NATIONAL SOCIALISTS WILL HAVE WON.

THINK OF OBAMA AS REAGAN IN REVERSE.

BBC:

Nigeria village in machete attack
At least 10 people are killed in an attack on a mainly Christian Nigerian village in the violence-hit Jos area, officials say.

WILL OBAMA DECRY THIS OUTRAGE - OR IS IT SOMEHOW NOT AS HORRIBLE OR CONDEMNABLE AS JOOOOOZE BUILDING APARTMENTS IN JERUSALEM!?

The Israeli police now stands seriously guilty in a case of discrimination and for resorting to perjury:

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Monday partially accepted a lawsuit filed by four settlers from Yitzhar and ordered the state to pay NIS 10,000 to each of them and to their lawyer.

Judge Irit Cohen found the police guilty of libeling the plaintiffs after accusing them of armed robbery, assault, stealing goats from a Palestinian, and preventing the police from doing their job.

The case grew out an incident on June 9, 2004, when a Palestinian goatherd complained that a resident of the Yitzhar, near Nablus, had stolen his goats. The police escorted him to the settlement and returned the goats to him.

As the goatherd was returning to his village, he was attacked by settlers who took back the goats back by force. In the meantime, the members of Yitzhar’s readiness unit went down in the direction of the assault, apparently to protect the settlers, though they say they were alerted for another reason.

The members of the readiness unit, Boaz Albert, Akiva Hacohen, Eran Schwartz and Moshe Skali, maintained that they were not involved in the assault and were far away from the confrontation between the settlers and the goatherd.

Meanwhile, a police unit, that had remained near Yitzhar after returning the goats to the goatherd, rushed down to arrest the settlers. The police claim that the members of the readiness group blocked their way and interfered with their actions. They arrested the four and detained them in jail.

However, Cohen ruled that the police had presented false and misleading testimony regarding the incident. She said that Yaakov Golan, one of policeman who took part in the incident, wrote a report saying that the plaintiffs had stolen the sheep. In a sworn affidavit that he signed later, he omitted the charge. Later, he also admitted that he had not seen the attack against the goatherd.

Cohen also found that another policeman presented “information that may have been misleading” to the court in the hearings to extend the remand of the suspects. He told the court the plaintiffs had charged the goatherd and attacked him, even though “it had been proven that the plaintiffs had not charged the Palestinian or attacked him” and that the police had not witnessed any such incident.

Meanwhile, in a radio interview, Dep.-Cmdr. Eliezer Elharar said that 10 people from Yitzhar, armed with weapons, “attacked the Palestinian goatherd with severe violence.”

Cohen found Elharar guilty of libel for this and other charges, which were made on the basis of police reports that he received.

The organization Human Rights in Judea, Samaria and Gaza wrote that its lawyer, Elad Rosenblatt, had “succeeded in revealing one of the gravest incidents in the continuous attacks against the residents of Yitzhar and demonstrating how police hostility toward the settlers drives them into resorting to lies and defamations, which are utterly unacceptable from those who are supposed to be law-abiding.”

The organization said it would complain to the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department against the officers.

This is very grave, and discredits the police from being trusted in their job. How are we supposed to trust them if they allow their political positions to get the better of themselves? As this report says:

Others in Yitzhar noted that Policeman Desheh often appears in court to testify against Jews, and that the police will now have to explain how his word can be trusted after it has been shown that he lied on three separate occasions.

They have a lot to answer for, and I think their personal politics are going to have to be part of any questions asked of them.

The Quebec government on Tuesday called on Ottawa to come to an agreement that would allow oil and gas exploration in Quebec's sector of a multi-billion dollar prospect in the Gulf of St. Lawrence:

The Old Harry formation is one of the largest undrilled prospects in Eastern Canada. Corridor Resources, the company which holds licences from the Quebec government covering about 60 per cent of Old Harry, estimates the field has the potential to hold up to two billion barrels of recoverable oil or up to five trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas.

That would be almost twice the size of the Hibernia oil project off Newfoundland and Labrador. Old Harry has remained undrilled because Quebec and Ottawa have not struck a deal yet on oil and gas management and revenue sharing.

IF THEY CAN DO IT JUST NORTH OF US. WHY CAN'T WE?

IF THE BRITS AND THE NORWEGIANS CAN DRILL IN THE NORTH SEA, THEN WHY CAN'T WE OFF OUR COASTS?!

BECAUSE OF THE LEFTISTS, THAT'S WHY.

THEY HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM DOWN SOUTH - IN MEXICO; NYTIMES:

To the Mexican people, one of the great achievements in their history was the day their president kicked out foreign oil companies in 1938. Thus, they celebrate March 18 as a civic holiday.

The effort to develop the geologically challenging Chicontepec field is deteriorating into an embarrassing setback for Pemex.

Yet today, that 72-year-old act has put Mexico in a straitjacket, one that threatens both the welfare of the country and the oil supply of the United States.

The national oil company created after the 1938 seizure, Pemex, is entering a period of turmoil. Oil production in its aging fields is sagging so rapidly that Mexico, long one of the world’s top oil-exporting countries, could begin importing oil within the decade.

Mexico is among the three leading foreign suppliers of oil to the United States, along with Canada and Saudi Arabia. Mexican barrels can be replaced, but at a cost. It means greater American dependence on unfriendly countries like Venezuela, unstable countries like Nigeria and Iraq, and on the oil sands of Canada, an environmentally destructive form of oil production.

“As you lose Mexican oil, you lose a critical supply,” said Jeremy M. Martin, director of the energy program at the Institute of the Americas at the University of California, San Diego. “It’s not just about energy security but national security, because our neighbor’s economic and political well-being is largely linked to its capacity to produce and export oil.”

Mexico probably still has plenty of oil, especially beneath the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, but Pemex lacks the technology and know-how to get it out. Inviting foreign companies into the country to help is one of the touchiest propositions in Mexican politics.

As the Mexican government struggles to find a way forward, production keeps falling.

SO, IN MEXICO, THE LEFT IS PREVENTING THEM FROM MAINTAINING THEIR OIL INDUSTRY.

JUST LIKE HERE.

IF WE WANT TO BECOME ENERGY INDEPENDENT, WE NEED TO THROW THE LEFTISTS OUT OF OFFICE.

IT'S THAT SIMPLE.

PHYS ORG:

1.6 million acres of California land designated as habitat for endangered frog

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday designated 1.6 million acres in California as critical habitat for the endangered red-legged frog, made famous by Mark Twain in his story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

...The Fish and Wildlife Service estimated the 20-year economic impact of the habitat designation to be $159 million to $500 million, with about 90 percent of the impacts on new development. Another $48.4 million of the cost is projected crop loss.

I'M GLAD OBAMA HAS HIS PRIORITIES STRAIGHT: HELP FROGS, SCREW THE ECONOMY. ESPECIALLY NOW WHILE CALIFORNIA IS REELING!

IN OBAMA'S LEFTIST MIND, PROSPERITY MUST BE THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES.

THE TRUTH IS, LEFTISM IS THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES - AND THE RULING CLASS!

ITEM #1:

• LAST SUMMER, OBAMA DITHERED AS IRANIANS TOOK TO THE STREETS TO PROTEST THE TYRANNY THEY LIVE UNDER - A TYRANNY WHICH THREATENS THE ENTIRE FREE WORLD.

• OBAMA "APPARENTLY" WANTED TO CALM THINGS DOWN. ESSENTIALLY, THAT HELPED AHMADINEJAD AND KHAMEINI.

ITEM #2:

• THIS PAST WEEK, OBAMA - AND BIDEN AND HILLARY - ACTUALLY HELPED HAMAS INCITE RIOTS AGAINST OUR ALLY ISRAEL.

PALIN SEES IT:

Sarah Palin scolded the radical Obama Administration today for embracing the dangerous anti-American regimes while attacking another great American ally, Israel.

From her Facebook Page:

The Obama Administration reaches out to some of the world’s worst regimes in the name of their engagement policy. America and our allies watch as sanctions are eased on Cuba.

Letters are written to Iran’s mullahs only to see that regime start killing protestors in the streets of Tehran.

Envoys are sent to North Korea as they continue to defy the world’s demand to give up their nuclear weapons.

The Burmese military junta’s representative is allowed to travel to our nation’s capital.

The President’s envoy for Sudan talks about giving that genocidal regime “gold stars,” while the President shakes hands with Venezuela’s tyrannical leader.

In the midst of all this embracing of enemies, where does the Obama Administration choose to escalate a minor incident into a major diplomatic confrontation? With Iran, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea or Burma? No. With our treasured ally, Israel.

AND LET'S NOT FORGET HOW HE TRIED TO PROP UP ZELAYA!

AND IS WILLING TO SIGN A TREATY WITH THE TALIBAN!

THERE'S NO DENYING IT:

OBAMA IS THE WORST POTUS EVER: EVIL, TREACHEROUS, TRAITOROUS.

YES: TRAITOROUS: HE GIVES AID AND SUCCOR TO OUR ENEMIES AND HINDERS OUR ALLIES.

ENOUGH! OBAMA MUST GO!

UPDATE: COMMENTARY:

Mitt Romney’s spokesman e-mails me:

“Governor Romney believes that President Obama spends way too much time placating our enemies while undermining our friends. Israel is one of our greatest allies, and has made many concessions for peace over the years, yet the Obama administration exerts pressure on Israel to stop its settlements while putting almost no pressure on the Palestinians.”

It is, as the two Republicans point out, all of a piece. The Obami have, as Palin puts it, reached out “to some of the world’s worst regimes in the name of their engagement policy,” and averted their eyes to violations of UN agreements and to gross human-rights abuses.

It took days for Obama to speak out in the wake of the June 12 Iranian election, and even then only in tepid terms.

Yet, with the announcement of a housing complex in Jerusalem, all guns are blazing from the West Wing.

We can expect to hear more from those Republicans eyeing 2012 on this subject.

It is frankly both good policy and good politics to take on the Obama foreign-policy trainwreck.

A TITANIC TRAINWRECK - IF I MAY MIX METAPHORS!

MORE HERE.

TIGER CHOSE THE MASTERS FOR HIS COMING OUT PARTY.

WHY?


BWAHAHAHA!

REMEMBER: THE LIBS MADE A BIG STINK OVER IT IN 2002.

THE NYTIMES AND HOWELL RAINES MADES ASSES OUT OF THEMSELVES - RUNNING A HUNDRED STORIES ON IT AND EVEN PUBLISHING AN EDITORIAL DEMANDING TIGER BOYCOTT THE MASTERS (WHICH THEY HAVE "DISAPPEARED" FROM THEIR ARCHIVES!).

KNOWING WHAT WE NOW KNOW ABOUT TIGER, PERHAPS HE SHOULD HAVE AGREED WITH THE NYTIMES THEN AND DEMANDED THEY HAVE BABES THERE - ER UM I MEAN WOMEN THERE IN 2002.

AND HAVING BEEN MADE CO-EDUCATIONAL, DEMAND A BAN NOW!

We were right then; we are right now:

Sunday, July 26, 2009

THE TITANIC DISASTER AWAITING THE USA - AND OBAMA

THE FIRST IMAGE DEPICTS
THE COURSE OBAMA HAS THE USA ON
- AT THE PRESENT TIME,
AND YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT WILL HAPPEN
TO THE USA IF THE USA STAYS ON THIS COURSE..


THE SECOND IMAGE DEPICTS
THE COURSE THAT OBAMA HAS HIS OWN PRESIDENCY ON,
AND YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT WILL HAPPEN
TO OBAMA IF HE STAYS ON THIS COURSE...

• THE EVENTS DEPICTED IN THE FIRST IMAGE ARE NOT INEVITABLE: WE CAN STOP AND CHANGE COURSE!

• BUT THOSE IN THE SECOND ARE INEVITABLE - EITHER BECAUSE THE USA IS PLUNGED INTO DISASTER (AND OBAMA IS REBUKED), OR BECAUSE OBAMA MUST ADMIT HIS POLICIES SUCK AND REBUKE HIMSELF.

• ULTIMATELY, THE USA WILL REBOUND AND REBUKE LEFTISM ONCE AGAIN - NOW JUST AS IN 1980.

IT IS SAD A WHOLE NEW GENERATION MUST - IT SEEMS - LEARN THE HARD WAY.

SIGH...
Posted by Reliapundit @ 11:10 AM ; Permalink

SOON, OBAMA WILL EITHER OBAMA ADMIT DEFEAT - AND BE REBUKED AT THE POLLS, OR PASS OBAMACARE AND DAMAGE THE USA AND BE REBUKED AT THE POLLS.

SINCE OBAMA IS A RAVING NARCISSIST I THINK HE WILL CHOOSE THE LATTER.

UNLESS HE CAN FIND SOMEONE TO BLAME FOR LOSING OBAMACARE.

IF THE WHITE HOUSE STARTS LEAKING SOME REAL DAMAGING CRAP ON PELOSI AND RAHM, THEN I THINK WE'LL HAVE OUR ANSWER...

STAY TUNED...

The L.A. Times reports:

Rising political and religious tensions in Jerusalem spilled into the streets Tuesday with a string of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police that left more than 100 people injured.

In scenes reminiscent of past uprisings, dozens of Palestinian youths, some with scarves masking their faces, pelted police with rocks, blocked roads and burned tires in half a dozen neighborhoods around East Jerusalem.

Tuesday's protests were part of a "Day of Rage" called for by Palestinian leaders in response to the recent reopening of a historic synagogue in the Old City.

And they were undoubtedly encouraged by the anti-Israeli harangues of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.

IF YOU'RE A WORKING MAN, then you work your whole life and give about 7% of all your wages - off the top - to the GOVERNMENT.

When you retire, you get a pittance you can't live on.

And when you croak, maybe your widow gets a little, and then when she croaks, the GOVERNMENT gets to keep the rest; in fact, the solvency of the whole freakin' thing is based on you croaking before you can collect all YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY + INTEREST. It's a Ponzi Scheme whose solvency is predicated on YOUR dying BEFORE collecting what's YOURS.

Rich folks don't give a crap, 'cause they have retirement plans on the side.

But the working man: he gets screwed bigtime.

If the working man could put this 7% into a private fund of T-bills (or something else conservatove and risk-proof), then he'd have a pile of dough when he retired - one he could leave IN ITS ENTIRETY to his widow or grandkids or anyone he damn pleases.

But not the USG.

And this is why the liberal politicians are opposed to privatization.

Social Security is really GOVERNMENT SECURITY or LIBERAL POLITICIAN SECURITY.

It prolongs dependence and poverty.

If we privatized Social Security, then we could END POVERTY in 30 years.

But that would end government dependence and that's something the liberals won't ever accept.

Which is why I have long said, that to make poverty history we have to make the Left history.

AND ANOTHER THING: The liberals' desire to take over the healthcare industry is just as pernicious.

If healthcare was entirely private fee for service, then each death would be a loss of revenue.

In a government system each death is a COST SAVING.

And a double cost saving since they don't have to make any more pension payments when you're dead.

That's a huge whopping double incentive to let the WHOLE FREAKIN' BOOMER GENERATION DIE.

No wonder the Left is fighting to make Obamacare happen. They know it's the only way to prevent the looming train wreck; THE HUGE FREAKIN' INSOLVENCY/UNFUNDED LIABILITY OF MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY.

BOTTOM-LINE: We are all better off if the government keeps its grimy paws out of our personal affairs - and that includes retirement and healthcare.

Especially the working man and working woman.

Socialism is the opiate of the masses.

Don't continue to let anyone be duped.

Let's defeat Obamacare.

And then let's privatize Social Security.

For the working men and women of the USA!

GUARDIAN:

A quarter of health trusts failed to meet standards over hospital infections while five were warned over blood-spattered walls and mouldy instruments under a toughened regulatory regime, the Guardian has learned.

Of particular concern was the state of ambulances, which were inspected for the first time. Investigators found dirty forceps stored in some vehicles as well as bloodstains.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) used its sweeping powers last year to assess how well NHS trusts were coping with hospital infections – which affect 300,000 patients a year.

Of the 167 trusts inspected, 42 were found by the commission to be in "breach" of NHS registration requirements by not meeting standards.

IF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE SUCKS THERE - WHERE THEY INVENTED IT AND BEEN AT IT FOR 60 YEARS - THEN OBAMA CAN'T MAKE IT WORK HERE.

IF PASSED, OBAMACARE WILL BE A DISASTER.

WE MUSTN'T LET IT PASS.

I HOPE HE'S RIGHT.

BUT WHY TAKE CHANCES: WHACK THEM NOW!

ADDENDUM: NO SURPRISE HERE: TURKEY'S ISLAMIST PM DEFENDS IRAN AND AHMADINEJAD:

Mr Erdogan said he was confident Iran's nuclear programme was for civilian purposes only and described President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a "friend".

TURKEY SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF NATO.

ABC/(OZ):

Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi has spent 10 years training dogs to ride the nose of his board when he catches waves, and now he is the first to surf with an alpaca.

Mr Pianezzi, 44, has introduced his alpaca Pisco to the waters of the Pacific Ocean over the past several months.

Unlike dogs, an alpaca does not instinctively jump into the sea for a swim.

But Mr Pianezzi says Pisco, named in homage to the distinctive Peruvian liquor distilled from grapes, is getting used to the water.

The duo caught three waves on a three-metre yellow longboard on Tuesday at a small break south of Lima, Peru's capital.

Pisco, wearing a flotation vest, crouched on the board while taking off on each wave and cruised for a few seconds before bailing into the water.

COOL.

WUWT: "... there has been essentially no warming in the U.S. since the 1970s."

The UHI explains it all.

Bottom-line: If you cherry-pick data and then fudge the data with tricks to skew the results and hide the decline then AGW exists.

THE HILL:

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday used language that compared House Democrats' efforts to pass healthcare reform legislation to a Japanese kamikaze mission.

"Nancy Pelosi, I think, has got them all liquored up on sake and you know, they're making a suicide run here," Graham said on the Keven Cohen Show on WVOC radio in Columbia, S.C.

SAKE!? NAW. THEY'RE LIQUORED UP ON KOOL AID.

YUP, THIS HAS MORE IN COMMON WITH REV JIM JONES THAN WW2.

(GRAHAM IS AN ODD ONE: WHEN HE'S BAD, HE'S VERY BAD. AND WHEN HE'S GOOD, HE'S VERY VERY GOOD.)

POLITICO/EXCERPT/RTWT:

The second-ranking House Republican blasted the Obama administration as “irresponsible” in its dealings with Israel, accusing the White House of trying to curry favor with the Arab world by deriding America’s closest ally in the Middle East.

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia also declined to condemn Israel for announcing the construction of more settlements while Vice President Joe Biden was on a visit to the country. Many diplomacy experts saw that move as a snub to the Obama administration, hurting relations between the longtime allies.

“While it condemns Israel, the administration continues to ignore a host of Palestinian provocations that undermine prospects for peace in the region,” Cantor said in a statement.

“Where is the outrage when top Fatah officials call for riots on the Temple Mount?

Why does the Palestinian Authority get a pass when it holds a ceremony glorifying the woman responsible for one of the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history?

Surely, the Administration’s double standard has set back the peace process.”

NYTIMES:

Ordinarily, Felix Baumgartner would not need a lot of practice in the science of falling.

He has jumped off two of the tallest buildings in the world, as well as the statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro (a 95-foot leap for which he claimed a low-altitude record for parachuting). He has sky-dived across the English Channel. He once plunged into the black void of a 623-foot-deep cave, which he formerly considered the most difficult jump of his career.

But now Fearless Felix, as his fans call him, has something more difficult on the agenda: jumping from a helium balloon in the stratosphere at least 120,000 feet above Earth. Within about half a minute, he figures, he would be going 690 miles per hour and become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound.

... Plenty of planes have broken the sound barrier, but transonic humans are a mystery, said Art Thompson, the technical project director for the Red Bull Stratos mission, and a former Northrop engineer who worked on the B-2 stealth bomber.

“You can run a lot of models, but with the human body you’re not dealing with a hard surface or a ballistic shape,” Mr. Thompson said. “You’ve got this rounded bulbous helmet, and the shoulders and the feet sticking out, and everything starts to happen at different times. Parts of your body may be going supersonic while others aren’t, causing flutter waves pulling back and forth among the surfaces.”

Could such waves harm the body? Could they create disastrous turbulence?

“We just don’t know what will happen to Felix and the suit when he goes supersonic,” said another Stratos engineer, Mike Todd, who worked on high-altitude suits for the Air Force’s spy-plane pilots with the renowned Skunk Works research division of Lockheed. “Felix could slip right through it, but if half the suit’s supersonic and the other half isn’t, there could be turbulence that knocks him out of control.”

Such risks are one reason why Mr. Kittinger’s record has stood for half a century. Air Force and NASA officials have become understandably reluctant to explain potential mishaps to Congressional committees.

... But private adventurers have more freedom to take their own risks.

REPEAT:

... more freedom to take their own risks.

THIS IS WHY PRIVATE ENTERPRISE ALWAYS OUTPERFORMS GOVERNMENT "ENTERPRISE".

From AP:

SAN DIEGO – Toyota cast doubt Monday on a California man's claim that his Prius sped out of control, saying the report is inconsistent with the findings of the company's preliminary investigation.

Toyota said in a statement that the accelerator pedal was tested and found to be working normally and a backup safety system worked properly. The automaker said the front brakes showed severe wear and damage from overheating, but the rear brakes and parking brake were in good condition.

The motorist, James Sikes, said his car raced to 94 mph on a freeway near San Diego last week. The March 8 incident ended when Sikes stopped the car with help from a California Highway Patrol officer.

"While a final report is not yet complete, there are strong indications that the driver's account of the event is inconsistent with the findings of the preliminary analysis," the statement said.

A telephone message seeking comment on Toyota's assertions was left by The Associated Press at the office of Sikes' attorney, John H. Gomez.

Toyota said testing found that the car's accelerator pedal had no mechanical binding or friction, and the floor mat was not interfering with or touching the pedal.

A self-diagnostic system did show evidence of repeated applications of the accelerator and brake pedals, Toyota said.

"The data from the diagnostics test indicated that the accelerator and the brake had been rapidly pressed, alternately back and forth, 250 times," Mike Michels, vice president of corporate communications for Toyota Motor Sales USA, told a press conference.

In a test, the front brakes were replaced and then purposely overheated by continuous light application and still stopped the car, the company said.

According to Toyota, the Prius has a self-protection system that cuts engine power if the brake pedal is pressed moderately or greater. Tests found that system to be functioning, the carmaker said. The company also said the car's push-button power switch worked normally and shut off the vehicle when pressed for three seconds, and that the shift lever worked normally and allowed neutral to be selected.

The power management computer contained no diagnostic trouble codes, and the dashboard malfunction lights were not activated, Toyota said.

Earlier in the day, federal regulators said they were reviewing data from the gas-electric hybrid but so far had not found anything to explain the out-of-control acceleration reported by Sikes.

From Flopping Aces:

911 repeatedly told Sikes to utilize the NHTSA recommended, and amazingly simple solution in case of SUA (sudden unintended acceleration)… either shift to neutral, or turn off the engine.

In both cases, Sikes refused to respond, or indicated he would not take that advice.

Over a 23-minute period the 911 dispatcher repeatedly pleaded with Sikes to shift into neutral. He simply refused and then essentially stopped talking to her except to say that he thought he could smell his brakes burning.

...

Matt Hardigree at Jalopnik finds his ex-partner ditched Sikes for his “numerous incidents of fraud and theft”.

William Sweet says he went into business with Sikes, together opening up a paralegal services company called “AAA California Aid” in 1997. Sweet operated the main office and Sikes ran one in Los Banos, California. Sweet alleges numerous incidents of fraud and theft involving Sikes led him to dissolve their partnership, including an incident in which Sikes sent an employee to break into the main office to steal payment records.

“I had him on video where he would have one of his employees from the Los Banos office go through our files and he would pull out cases that have balances on them and he would go collect the money,” said Sweet, now sole owner of the company operating under a new name. “He would take the money over in Los Banos.”

Disagreement over the business finances wasn’t the only issue Sweet had with Sikes as he echoed reports of mysterious thefts involving Sikes and claims his former partner stole office supplies.

“We’d buy paper for the office ten reams at a time, and within two weeks he’d be totally out. According to the cameras he was hauling boxes out three-or-four at a time. He was feeding his other two offices.”

Jim Sikes apparently was displeased with Sweet over the installation of a security system and security cameras, but since Sweet ran the office there was nothing Sikes could do.

It comes as no surprise that when Sweet heard it was Sikes on the news, his mind immediately raced to a scam operation.

“As soon as i heard the words “Jim Sikes” I immediately woke up out of a dead sleep and thought “uh oh what the hell is this guy up to now?” He’s trying to do a scam, and get in on that lawsuit for the Toyota thing, that’s immediately what I thought.”

Sikes… originally quite happy to be in front of the cameras, is now staying extremely low profile.

One would have to wonder about the faculties of a man who seems capable of running multiple businesses, handling finances and the futures of homeowners, but is too “scared” to follow simple instructions over 23 minutes to simple shift to neutral… three inches away from his fingertips, the press the ignition “Off” button.

Scam for cash? Looking pretty good for that one. And kudos to the independent blog world journalists for doing the work the main stream media should have been doing during that 23 minutes.

THEY NEED A DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION IN EUROPE - AND SOON!

GEERT AND THE UKIP TO THE RESCUE!

RUSTY AT JAWA TODAY.

ME YESTERDAY.

REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS BLOG SCOOP THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME.

SPREAD THE WORD.

IOW: This may be the moment when a Democrat officeholder who is a liberal and who is popular with secular/liberal Jews loses much of his Jewish support by being seen as openly siding with antisemites.

Here's the Dinkins/Crown Heights history:

Impact of the riot on the 1993 mayoral race:

"The repercussions of the Crown Heights riot, based on the official indifference to the plight of Jews, contributed directly to the defeat of the incumbent mayor of New York,"^[27] David Dinkins. He was embattled by many political adversaries in his reelection bid, including vocal proponents of “black nationalism, back-to-Africa, economic radicalism, and racial exclusiveness.”^[1]

On November 17, 1992, New York Governor Mario Cuomo gave the Director of Criminal Justice Services, Richard H.Girgenti, the authority to investigate the rioting and the Nelson trial. The Girgenti Report was compiled by over 40 lawyers and investigators, and consisted of a two volume, 600-page document of its findings on July 20, 1993. It was extremely critical of Police Commissioner Lee Brown. The report also embarrassed Dinkins on his handling of the riots.

According to the report, Dinkins hesitated to deploy vast numbers of police to stop the rioting because he had been elected as a peacemaker. However, this strategy proved disastrous.^[28] Many Jews criticized Dinkins for this.

^{Roger Simon has similar thoughts:}

Is the Jewish love affair with the Democratic Party about to end? I know many will be skeptical. And they should be. But I suspect something is brewing. This kind of excessive and weirdly paternalistic attitude to the state of Israel, directed so clearly from the top, seems to come out of a kind of unexamined personal animus. The long record that Obama has of friendship with virulent enemies of Israel has not gone unnoticed.

Whatever the etiology, group love affairs with political parties cannot help but be self-destructive. They may begin in a burst of mutual admiration but they will almost always devolve into a self-destructive “taking for granted” that could only work to the benefit of one party (if that). The love affair between African-Americans and the Democratic Party has been similarly useless for blacks. In the forty years I have lived in Los Angeles, I haven’t noticed life getting significantly better in South Central, a region of the city in which Republicans are about as scarce as killer whales.

This doesn’t mean I think Jews or blacks or anybody else should become Republicans. They should think for themselves and even change sides when it’s advantageous. For Jews, Obama’s behavior is indeed a “teaching moment.” The bizarre over-reaction to a minor incident in Israel should serve as a wake up call.

ME: I THINK THAT AMERICAN JEWS WILL NOT YET FALLOUT WITH THE ENTIRE DEMOCRAT PARTY, BUT WILL WITH OBAMA.

THE OVERREACTION OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WAS CLEARLY HOSTILE.

OBAMA OPENLY SIDED WITH THE ARABS AND WAS TACITLY IMPOSING A PRE-CONDITION ON ISRAEL WHICH ISRAEL HAS NEVER EVER ACCEPTED: RETURNING HALF OF JERUSALEM.

JEWS WHO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OBAMA MIGHT AS WELL BE SUPPORTING FATAH.

IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE - AND GENESIS 12:3, THEN OBAMA'S STUNNINGLY HOSTILE ATTACK ON ISRAEL MAY VERY WELL BE A VERY BAD MOVE FOR THE USA.

UNLESS OBAMA RELENTS, ANOTHER MAJOR STOCK MARKET CRASH AND BUBBLE BURST MAY BE HEADED OUR WAY. WHY? HERE:

GENESIS 12:

1 Now the LORD said to Abram,
"Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father's house,
To the land which I will show you;
2 And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;
3 And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse

REPEAT:

³And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse

IT HAPPENED BEFORE. WAS IT A COINCIDENCE?

Read it and decide for yourself.

Alvaro Vargas Llosa: The Spanish noose around Chavez's neck tightens

An investigation triggered by the contents of computer files captured during a raid on a guerrilla camp in Ecuador has now suggested a Venezuelan link between the ETA terrorist organization in Spain and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

A Spanish court's decision to indict 13 Spaniards and Colombians as a result of that investigation should shame those who questioned the validity of the computer files at the time of the raid.

Among those indicted is Arturo Cubillas Fontan, an ETA member employed by Venezuela's Ministry of Agriculture and married to Goizeber Odriozola, the chief of staff of Hugo Chavez.

... The political significance of the Spanish National Court's indictments cannot be underestimated.

Spain's left-wing government has been a friend of Cuba and Venezuela; it even sold Chavez weapons a few years ago. Madrid has resisted attempts by the European Union to denounce Venezuelan and Cuban human rights violations.

RTWT.

In a just world, Chavez would charged, arrested, tried, convicted and executed.

MORE HERE: "... we are looking at the tip of the iceberg”