Russian Communists: Bond Girl a Traitor

I always thought the Left had a tenuous grip on reality, but the Russian Commies take hallucinating to a new level. If Obama is elected we should expect William Ayers to lobby Obama for the arrest of Cartman and Jack Bauer. Then they will then be sent for training or execution in his reeducation camps.

Are these guys also after Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore and Sean Connery. George Lazenby isn't a threat to the revolution, is he? He was the Shemp of 007's and should be left alone

" Kurylenko, the Ukrainian actress who plays Bond's sidekick in Quantum of Solace, has been condemned by the Communist Party of St Petersburg for aiding “the killer of hundreds of Soviet people and their allies”. Apparently oblivious to Bond's fictional nature, it accused her of assisting “a man who worked for decades under the orders of Thatcher and Reagan to destroy the USSR”.

In an appeal to the actress on its website, the party said: “The Soviet Union educated you, cared for you and brought you up for free but no one suspected that you would commit this act of intellectual and moral betrayal.”
...

...The Communists are, however, willing to rehabilitate Kurylenko — if she delivers her co-star, Daniel Craig, into the clutches of Russia's secret services for interrogation. “Let him tell what other plans are being written in the Pentagon and Hollywood to discredit Russia and drive a wedge between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples,” it said.

Obama Plans to Lower Expectations

From the London Times:

"Barack Obama’s senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week’s election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are harbouring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve. The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of “hope” and “change” are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy."

Sudden financial crisis my arse. Obama's promises have never passed the smell test and there never was a way to raise the $450 billion or so needed annually f0r his $4.2 trillion worth of a harebrained schemes, no matter what the economy does.

His tax hikes on the "rich", the definition of which gets lower by the day, don't even begin to make a dent in the current debt much less the socialist nonsense The One has been peddling. It's the spending, stupid.

I guess Obama has concluded that he's wrapped up as much of the Bubblehead vote as he's going to get with his snake oil economics. Now he's trying to figure out the least damaging way of putting the shiv in their backs.

Terrorists for Obama

I guess this shoots down Nicholas Kristoff's crackpot theory that AQ wants Mc'Cain to win:

DUBAI
(Reuters) - An al Qaeda leader has called for President George W. Bush and the Republicans to be “humiliated,” without endorsing any party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to a video posted on the Internet. “O God, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him,” Abu Yahya al-Libi said at the end of sermon marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, in a video posted on the Internet. Libi, one of the top al Qaeda commanders believed to be living in Afghanistan or Pakistan, called for God’s wrath to be brought against Bush equating him with past tyrants in history.

Weee! Free Lunch for ME!!

"I never thought this day would happen. I won’t have to work on puttin’ gas in my car. I won’t have to work at payin’ my mortgage.

You know. If I help him [Obama], he’s gonna help me."

So says another over entitled Obamoron who thinks her Sugar Daddy will rain money on her in exchange for her vote. Where will it come from? She doesn't know or care that it will come from her fellow citizens through legalized robbery. Obviously she also (unsurprisingly) doesn't know that The One's numbers don't even come close to adding up and that he would have to impose massive tax increases on everyone in order to pay for even half of his promises.

If Obama is elected how will her life change? Well it wont. She might get a pittance more in handouts designed to be just enough to keep her poor. Just enough to sap her and her child of ambition and opportunity. And there will be plenty enough new taxes to drive capital, investments and jobs elsewhere.

We've seen this movie and the remakes many times in many places. The ending is always the same.

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head." Eric Hoffer

Khalidi Tape News: The Guest List

Via Little Green Footballs is the guest list of the Rashid Khalidi party where The One professed (on tape) his love for the Islamo-Fascist sympathizer. Hot Links added:

Verified Information
Location:Burbank Manor, 6312 W 79th St., Burbank, Illinois

Time:Friday, August 1, 20036pm - Reception7pm - Dinner and Reception

Those who attended:

1. AAAN (Arab American Action Network)
2. Not In My Name
3. Ali Abunimah (a Palestinian rights activist in Chicago who helps run Electronic Intifada, who met Obama in 2000)
4. Bernadine Dorhn and Bill Ayers
5. Barack Obama
6. Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley
7. Rashid Khalidi
8. Mona Khalidi
9. Gihad Ali, a Palestinian spoken word poet
10. NPR Worldview host Jerome McDonnell (not McDonald as written in the e-mail)
11. Camilia Odeh (director of SWYC Southwest Youth Collaborative)
12. Sanabel debka troupe (traditional Palestinian dance group)
13. Hatem Abudayyeh
14. Others - Up to 50 to 500 guests

Lil' Obama Spreads the Wealth

And then we have Obama misleading his ignorant followers with this defense of his socialist plans for legalized theft:

"By the end of the week, he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten," Obama joked before an estimated crowd of 28,000 people. "I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich."

No Barry. When you voluntary share your toys and PB&J with others we call that charity and kindness. When you force others to share their toys and PB&J's with people of your choosing we call that Socialism., Communism, Marxism, Fascism or whatever the hell you want to call your tyrannical, crackpot ideas.

Barney Frank Whines: They Hate Me Because I'm Gay

Via Yid with a Lid we have another Democrat attempt to shut off speech with the bigotry card. This time it's Barney Frank trying to intimidate Mc'Cain criticisms with bogus charges of homophobia.

"Frank yesterday dismissed McCain's words as "an appeal to prejudice" that he said reminded him of past Republican efforts to raise voter concerns about the prospect of congressmen Charles Rangel and John Conyers, who are black, becoming committee chairs.

"I'm flattered by this," said Frank, who is gay. "But I don't think I'm
the single most important member of the House after Nancy Pelosi. There are also a lot of straight white men who are committee chairmen."Source Boston Globe,

No Barney, there's plenty of better reasons to criticise you. How about the fact that you're a moron, a crook and a tyrannical little shit. Actually, the only thing that disturbs me about your sexuality is thinking about what kind of guy would sleep with a fat, fugly douchebag like you.

Howard Fineman: Just Lie Barry!

Since when does Obama need to be told to blow smoke in our faces? Well just to make sure, Howard Fineman reminds The One of Democrat campaigning 101.

CHICAGO – Here’s my advice to Sen. Barack Obama’s supporters: Stop predicting that the Democrats will sweep into the White House and Congress come January with a mandate to expand Big Government.

That prospect, coupled with some of your candidate’s own tax and health-care plans, could scare swing voters you need next Tuesday...

...Obama needs to underscore — there's no risk of doing it too much — that he doesn’t like government for its own sake, but for the sake of individuals and families.

And now for the Big Lie:

"On these and other issues, he also needs to reassure voters that he will not necessarily march in lockstep with resurgent Democrats who will want to launch a top-to-bottom New New Deal and reverse the Reagan Revolution 28 years after it took place. "

That's right. Forget the fact that Obama has never voted against his party, for less government or lower taxes. Obama will do a complete about face on the statist philosophy he's held his entire adult life. Yeah, that's the ticket!

LA Times: We Promised Not to Release the Tape

Do we really need to see the video in order to add this creep to the huge stinking pile of evidence that Obama is a dangerous anti-American radical?

"A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi," said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb. " . . . The election is one week away, and it's unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job -- make information public.

"The Times on Tuesday issued a statement about its decision not to post the tape."The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it," said the newspaper's editor, Russ Stanton. "The Times keeps its promises to sources."

Here's the original story and Obama's presence alone is sufficient, although the relationship goes far beyond just a farewell party:

A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking...

His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. . . . It's for that reason that I'm hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation -- a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid's dinner table," but around "this entire world."

There were other speakers as well. Did Obama not hear them just as he didn't hear 20 years of racist, Marxist and anti-American rants from Jeremiah Wright? Or is it exactly what it appears to be?

At Khalidi's 2003 farewell party, for example, a young Palestinian American recited a poem accusing the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply criticizing U.S. support of Israel. If Palestinians cannot secure their own land, she said, "then you will never see a day of peace.

"One speaker likened "Zionist settlers on the West Bank" to Osama bin Laden, saying both had been "blinded by ideology."

It's sad and frustrating that Jews still overwhelmingly support The One. They say "never forget" when it comes to the Holocaust but turn a blind eye to Obama's long list of alliances with those who would like to see it happen again. Their liberalism apparently trumps the well being of Jews everywhere and I find myself in the perverse position of caring more about them than they do.

How extensive is Obama's relationship with this anti-semetic terrorist sympathizer? From Discover The Networks:

Khalidi is longtime a friend of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. In the 1990s, Obama and his wife were regular dinner guests at Khalidi's Chicago home. During the 2000 election cycle, Mr. and Mrs. Khalidi organized a fundraiser for Barack Obama's unsuccessful congressional bid. In 2001 and again in 2002, the Woods Fund of Chicago, while Mr. Obama served on its board, made grants totaling $75,000 to Khalidi's Arab American Action Network. In 2003 Obama would attend a farewell party in Khalidi's honor when the latter was leaving the University of Chicago to embark on his new position at Columbia.

In a 2008 interview, Khalidi praised Obama effusively, stating that, if elected President, Obama would be more understanding of the Palestinian experience than other politicians. "He has family literally all over the world," Khalidi noted. "I feel a kindred spirit from that."

Socialism is Evil

In all the hub bub over Obama's Marxist redistributionist designs on the country, some say "what's so bad about that?" An old column by Walter Williams addresses that very question:

...Regardless of the purpose such behavior is immoral. It's a reduced form of slavery. After all what is the essence of slavery? It's the forceful use of one person to serve the purposes of another person. When Congress, through the tax code, takes the earnings of one person and turns around to give it to another person in the forms of prescription drugs, social security, food stamps, farm subsidies or airline bailouts, it is forcibly using one person to serve the purposes of another.

The moral question stands out in starker relief when we acknowledge that those spending programs coming out of Congress do not represent lawmakers reaching into their own pockets and sending out the money. Moreover, there's no Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus giving them the money. The fact that government has no resources of its very own forces us to acknowledge that the only way government can give one American a dollar is to first through intimidation, threats and coercion take that dollar from some other American.

Some might rejoin that all of this is a result of a democratic process and it's legal. Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa's apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal but did that make them moral?

Can a moral case be made for taking the rightful property of one American and giving it to another to whom it does not belong? I think not. That's why socialism is evil. It uses evil means (coercion) to achieve what are seen as good ends (helping people). We might also note that an act that is inherently evil does not become moral simply because there's a majority consensus.

An argument against legalized theft should not be construed as an argument against helping one's fellow man in need. Charity is a noble instinct; theft legal or illegal is despicable. Or, put another way: reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

For the Christians among us, socialism and the welfare state must be seen as sinful. When God gave Moses the commandment "Thou shalt not steal", I'm sure He didn't mean thou shalt not steal unless there's a majority vote. And, I'm sure that if you asked God if it's okay just being a recipient of stolen property, He would deem that a sin as well.

Part II

The End of Prosperity

The history of government meddling in free markets has such a long record of failure that only the wilfully ignorant and die hard socialists can fail to see it. FDR's constant and unpredictable inteference prolonged the Great Depression by several years. Nixon's wage and price controls and Carter's windfall profits taxes were among the many things that turned the 70's into an economic disaster. Arthur Laffer explains:

"When markets are free, asset values are supposed to go up and down, and competition opens up opportunities for profits and losses. Profits and stock appreciation are not rights, but rewards for insight mixed with a willingness to take risk. People who buy homes and the banks who give them mortgages are no different, in principle, than investors in the stock market, commodity speculators or shop owners. Good decisions should be rewarded and bad decisions should be punished. The market does just that with its profits and losses.

No one likes to see people lose their homes when housing prices fall and they can't afford to pay their mortgages; nor does any one of us enjoy watching banks go belly-up for making subprime loans without enough equity. But the taxpayers had nothing to do with either side of the mortgage transaction. If the house's value had appreciated, believe you me the overleveraged homeowner and the overly aggressive bank would never have shared their gain with taxpayers. Housing price declines and their consequences are signals to the market to stop building so many houses, pure and simple.

But here's the rub. Now enter the government and the prospects of a kinder and gentler economy. To alleviate the obvious hardships to both homeowners and banks, the government commits to buy mortgages and inject capital into banks, which on the face of it seems like a very nice thing to do. But unfortunately in this world there is no tooth fairy. And the government doesn't create anything; it just redistributes. Whenever the government bails someone out of trouble, they always put someone into trouble, plus of course a toll for the troll. Every $100 billion in bailout requires at least $130 billion in taxes, where the $30 billion extra is the cost of getting government involved."

Joe Gets a Dose

This is what is know as a man bites dog story. And the dog is pretty angry.

WFTV is clearly a counter-revolutionary stooge and must be punished. It's not nice to ask Joe the Dumber a real question.

Terrorists For Mc'Cain?

Nicholas Kristoff puts forth the ridiculous notion that Al-Qaeda endorses Mc'Cain and uses as evidence a comment on a message board at an Islamo-Fascist Web Site. Well, that proves it then!

That would put them at odds with all the other thugs and psychopaths that have endorsed Obama. That group of solid Citizens of The World includes, but is not limited to: Hamas, Kim Jong Il, Fidel Castro, Louis Farrakhan, Moammar Qadafi, William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, FARC and The New Black Panther Party.

Kristoff says that a Mc'Cain Presidency would just make people angry, whereas an Obama Presidency will convince 100 million or so extremists to disown their divine belief in a world wide caliphate and the slaughter or subjugation of all who would oppose them:

"An American president who keeps troops in Iraq indefinitely, fulminates about Islamic terrorism, inclines toward military solutions and antagonizes other nations is an excellent recruiting tool. In contrast, an African-American president with a Muslim grandfather and a penchant for building bridges rather than blowing them up would give Al Qaeda recruiters fits."

Yeah, that's it. Kill em' with kindness. That will teach them! Killers that blow up civilians indiscriminately, behead "infidels" on the Internet and murder over cartoons are always open to "building bridges". Then they'll hang you from them.

And the 11,000+ attacks these savages have committed worldwide since 9/11 were because George Bush "fulminates about Islamic terrorism", as if denouncing Barbarism creates more Barbarians. Obama could just ignore the problem as Bill Clinton essentially did. That worked out well.

Kristoff and his pacifist ilk seem immune from the lessons of history. Tyrants and bullies always view appeasement as weakness. Neville Chamberlain learned that the hard way and Kristoff is determined to as well. This enemy views the destruction of western culture as a divine calling and no amount of feel good nonsense will change their mind. Although when it comes to American culture Obama...no Al-Qaeda...no wait a minute. Who were we talking about?

Deja' Vu All Over Again

I and others of a certain age remember the Seventies and Jimmy Carter's disastrous Presidency. The economy was in such a shambles our problems today are a day at the beach by comparison. Our military was at the nadir of its popularity and we were seen as an easy mark by thugs and tyrants the world over.

A lot us have obviously forgotten those years. Obama's youthful followers know nothing more about that time other than what they see on That 70's show. Mark Moyer at National Review takes us on a trip down memory lane and reminds us that a lot of things don't change other than the packaging:

"A newcomer to national politics, he claimed to transcend partisan labels. He moved to the center during the campaign, at a time when the Democrats held large congressional majorities. In a troubled economy, he told voters he would keep taxes down for most Americans, limit spending, and balance the budget, all while implementing ambitious social programs. He planned to cut military spending to free money for other purposes, but assured moderates and conservatives that when it came to America’s enemies, he would be tougher than the Republicans. The media, droves of moderates, and some conservatives believed him, having pegged him as a man of character.

His name was Jimmy Carter, the year was 1976, and he won. His presidency helps us predict the likely results of an Obama victory in 2008...

What did the majority of 1976 get in return for its votes? Carter’s campaign vow to avoid increasing payroll taxes went out the window: He and Congress raised Social Security taxes through the roof. They also slapped large new taxes on oil and gas. Meanwhile, Carter canceled his plan for a tax refund to Americans earning under $30,000. Casting aside more campaign pledges, Carter and Congress increased annual federal spending from $403 billion to $579 billion and grew the national debt from $709 billion to $914 billion. Tens of billions of dollars went to new jobs programs, urban aid, and mushrooming entitlements, and Carter’s promise to stop Democratic pork-barrel spending was abandoned.

Carter and the Democratic Congress generated 18 percent inflation and economic stagnation at the same time. Unemployment rose. Americans came to regret the votes they had cast — Carter’s approval rating sank to 21 percent in 1980, the lowest in the history of polling.

Carter also threw out his professed hawkishness on foreign policy. Declaring America liberated from its “inordinate fear of Communism,” he sought better relations with the Communists in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and Vietnam. He was much less nice to America’s allies, withdrawing support from those who did not accept his self-righteous demands for human-rights reforms. Friendly regimes in Nicaragua and Iran fell to hostile tyrants...MORE

The Depraved World of Jihadi Child Porn

From Steven Brown at Front Page Magazine:

...According to a report on The Times website last week, police in Great Britain are discovering that their investigations into Muslim terrorism are leading them into the depraved world of child sexual exploitation. The reverse is also occurring with child protection officers encountering people who are “preparing to carry out terrorist acts.” ...


...Muslim extremists’ attraction to child pornography has been attributed to cultural factors. An Italian magistrate involved in the Milan mosque case said possession of child porn by Islamists did not necessarily indicate paedophilic tendencies, but rather was the result of cultural differences. Girls, he stated, often become wives in the Muslim world at age 11 and 12.

The Islamists’ interest in boys as sex objects is generally owed to their beliefs and social milieu. Their strict religious convictions do not allow them to be with a woman outside their own families, let alone touch one, before marriage. Moreover, in some Muslim countries, males can’t even catch a glimpse of the demonized female form because of the body-encompassing clothing she is forced to wear. In such a gender segregated environment, homosexual behavior develops, especially towards boys.

Even the Taliban, which executed homosexuals when it ruled Afghanistan, could not eradicate the sexploitation of boys, even in its own ranks. Among the 30 commands it issued to its fighters, Rule No. 19 forbid them from taking young boys without facial hair into their barracks. After the Taliban regime fell, a Fox news report indicated pederasty in Afghanistan returned to its previous place as an accepted social norm...

...Perhpas not altogether insignificant in this grotesque phenomenon is that the Koran itself promises to put pre-pubescent boys at the service of jihadi martyrs not interested in the female virgins awaiting them in paradise. The boys will be like “scattered pearls” of “perpetual freshness” (Suras 52:24, 56:17, 76:19).

Trick or Treat

Fred Thompson Warns of a Left Wing Government

A lot of us have been warning of what an unrestrained Democrat Congress along with an Obama Presidency would mean. The RNC now does it as well using Fred Thompson's considerable communication skills. Sadly, this also reminds me of what could have been had Fred run a more energetic campaign.

More at Hot Air

Weather Underground's Plans for Genocide

William Ayers says he wishes he'd done more. I imagine he would since his revolution didn't come to fruition, yet. What was his group's plan if they were successful? Watch this video to see what probably still is the plan of Obama's pals and their fellow travellers.

Hat Tip to No Quarter

Finding Black Socialists

Facts are stubborn things and they often get lost in the emotions surrounding demagoguery. Lewis Diuguid's column is the latest in the countless attempts by the Left to label any criticism of Barack Obama as racist. Beyond the fact that his assertions are libelous and a vile disrespect of those who have suffered from real racism, he bolsters his thesis with examples that run counter to his own argument:

"J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans who spent their lives fighting for equality.Those freedom fighters included the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who led the Civil Rights Movement; W.E.B. Du Bois, who in 1909 helped found the NAACP which is still the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization; Paul Robeson, a famous singer, actor and political activist who in the 1930s became involved in national and international movements for better labor relations, peace and racial justice; and A. Philip Randolph, who founded and was the longtime head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a leading advocate for civil rights for African Americans."

Diuguid repeats the hagiographies of these men as benignly fighting only for equality, when in fact they were exactly what Hoover purported them to be.

*W.E.B. Dubois was a communist and openly so. He was a member of the Socialist Party and later the Communist Party U.S.A. He wrote glowingly of the USSR and expounded the virtues of Marxism.

*Paul Robeson was also openly communist and a devoted follower of Josef Stalin.

*A. Philip Randolph was a member of Eugene Debs Socialist Party and edited The Messenger, a radical monthly magazine.

*Martin Luther King Jr., while not an open advocate of socialism, certainly had sympathies toward Democratic Socialism and associated with Communists.

In short, although American and European Socialists and Communists were almost exclusively white, Diuguid manages to find actual Black socialists to make the argument that calling Obama a socialist is racism. Is exposing irony going to be the next expression of racism? Might as well be. Everything else is.

Cuba Claims Huge Gulf Oil Reserves

BBC-The state-owned Cuban oil company says the country may have more than 20bn barrels of oil in its offshore fields - more than double the previous estimate.
Cubapetroleo's exploration manager said drilling in the offshore wells would
begin as early as the middle of 2009. Such reserves would place Cuba among
the top 20 oil producing nations. MORE

No word yet on whether US enviro-nuts will be running to Havana and filing lawsuits to stop the drilling. Don't worry. Nancy Pelosi is going to save the planet by preventing drilling on our side of the Gulf.

The Tyranny Cometh

The Democrats can't wait to impose their Orwellian vision on the country and Senator Jeff Bingaman is wasting no time in his quest to destroy dissent and the First Amendment.

More at Radio Equalizer

Steal a Sign, Get a Pizza

A pizzeria in Michigan is offering free pizza for every Mc'Cain/Palin sign brought into the store. I started doing research on these un-American thugs and realized that Debra3401 at Michigan Grapevine had done it for me. Thanks!

Since Joe the Plumber's personal life seems to be fair game for merely asking a question of The One, then Salvatore's Pizza owner Diane Frazoni's encouragement of larceny certainly qualifies her for some scrutiny. This is the way the game is played, right Obammunists? You can add her to the long list of goons and misfits that support the messiah.

Salvatore's Pizzeria: 30830 Ryan RdWarren, MI 48092 Phone: (586) 574-0023

Corporate Info:

Name: NICO'S CORP. Type of Entity: Domestic Profit Corporation, Resident Agent: PETER D FRANZONI Registered Office Address: 14424 HOPE STERLING HTS MI 48313

The Hope Street address would seem to be to be residential (her home?) and the registered agent is most likely a relative, probably her husband or father.

The Argument Against Obama

The folks over at Hot Air have assembled a compendium of the arguments against an Obama Presidency with supporting video. If nothing else, their service allows me to memorialize a big fat "I told you so" should he be elected along with a Reid/Pelosi congress:

"What follows is by no means comprehensive, but it does shed some much-needed light on a number of Obama’s positions, statements, and associations about which he has been less than honest. We’ve attempted to boil each issue down to a succinct explanation with an accompanying, brief video clip—often
starring Barack Obama in his own words. Before pulling the lever for someone who hopes voters will ignore his paper-thin resume, unsavory associations, and hard-left voting record, each citizen has a duty to do his due diligence.In short, we hope this “closing argument” is compelling and clear, and we encourage
you to share this essay with undecided or wavering family members, friends, and co-workers." LINK

Joe Biden's Fears

First of all, I think it's fair to wonder whether Joe Biden has the temperment and dare I say it, the sanity to be one heartbeat away from a Presidency that will be occupied by the most inexperienced man to hold the office. Having said that, Biden's concern for the country's security should give pause:

"Mark my words," Biden told donors at a Seattle fund-raiser Sunday night. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. "Watch. We're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. "And he's going to need help . . . to stand with him. Because it's not going to be apparent initially; it's not going to be apparent that we're right."

Well isn't that lovely. "The One the world's been waiting for" is going to be ambushed. Putin, Ahmadinijad, Kim Jong Il, Chavez and the rest of the Axis of Evil Street boys are waiting for The One in a dark alley with a baseball bat.



And it's probably true although one doesn't expect to hear it from the VP nominee unless we're talking about Joe "diarrhea mouth" Biden.



The New York Post reminds us what happened when we had a new inexperienced President, although JFK had a much fatter resume than Obama:

"For those who don't recall, it was a scant five months after JFK became president that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev took his measure. Kennedy had just bungled the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, then went off to a summit in Vienna - where Khruschev determined that the rookie chief executive could be had. Two months later, construction began on the Berlin Wall,
precipitating a crisis that nearly led to a US-Soviet shooting war in Europe. And 14 months after that came the Cuban Missile Crisis - when nuclear Armageddon was only barely averted. "

It's probably not a coincidence that the Obama camp has just been briefed by the Bush administration on potential threats and hot spots facing the country:

White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten reportedly held a meeting this week with senior White House staffers and representatives from both the McCain and Obama camps. The goal was to make sure everyone is up to speed on the latest threats and have the information they need to be ready come inauguration day, Jan. 20.

Biden now says that he can think of several things that can happen. No kidding Joe, so can I and everyone else who takes this stuff seriously.



** Vladimir "KGB" Putin could invade the Ukraine or other former Soviet satellites in his quest to regain Russian influence in Europe.



**Hugo Chavez (Bill Ayers buddy) is buying tanks and other heavy weapons from Russia and could use them to threaten and perhaps invade Colombia or other countries in the region.



**North Korea has an ailing dictator and the military might decide to exert its influence with some more nuke tests.



**Iran's mullahs have plenty of opportunities for mischief in the Middle East and might want to start another war through Hezbollah in Lebanon, pick a fight in the Straits of Hormuz or just sponsor a massive terrorist attack somewhere, even here.



The list goes on but the point is made. It's still a real dangerous world out there and it will be even more dangerous with an untested rookie in the White House who is ambivalent about his country to begin with.

Barney Just Can't Shut His Mouth

It's not enough that Barney Frank is guilty of criminal neglect and malfeasance in the near economic meltdown of the country. Now this shameless bastard is rubbing his hands over the prospect of taxing some more "rich" people; the definition of which gets lower and lower since there aren't enough truly rich people in the world to satisfy the appetites of power mad jerk-offs like Frank.

And just because I think it's funny, here's Lil O'Reilly's interview with Barney.

BTW - What's with you dumbasses in Massachusetts anyway? This is who you send to congress?

How to Bribe a Country

Obama is telling us that sending checks to the 40% of tax filers who pay no taxes is a cut. In reality it's impossible to cut a bill below zero without calling it a gift of other's money. Obama knows this and it's part of a long Democrat tradition of buying votes through the Treasury.

Michael Medved explains in this column:

"...As Amity Shlaes shows in her necessary new book “The Forgotten Man,” FDR failed miserably at turning around the US economy (the Depression lingered until the beginning of World War II) but succeeded brilliantly in achieving long-term power for the Democratic Party. The innumerable government programs launched by the New Deal may have done nothing to advance the overall interests of the nation of the economic system, but they performed magnificently at creating dependent interest groups who voted reliably Democratic for decades. If the government hands out goodies to various constituencies, those segments of the population will continue to support the idea of enriching themselves with other people’s money..."

Killing the Goose

Today's WSJ lays out the what will be the job killing result of the Obama (Democrat) tax hikes:

"Barack Obama declared last week that his economic plan begins with "one word that's on everyone's mind and it's spelled J-O-B-S." This raises the stubborn question that Senator Obama has never satisfactorily answered: How do you create more jobs when you want to levy higher tax rates on the small business owners who are the nation's primary employers?" - More...

My only problem with this editorial is that it assumes Obama doesn't know that his policies will reduce job formation and chase capital overseas. They do know that and their economic plans are part of a larger plan to discredit free markets and consolidate the power of the state.

When the economy grinds to a halt the villains will be the "traitorous and greedy" capitalists who wont sacrifice their own well being for the collective whole. That will be the excuse for more government punishment of "the rich" and more government power over the economy in order to counteract the "flaws" of the free enterprise system.

In other words, Obama will distort the free market with government meddling, then blame the free market's natural reaction when it fails and offer more government meddling to fix the problems government caused in the first place. In the end equality is achieved. Equality of poverty, misery and slavery.

This is what created the sclerotic European economy. On the extreme this blame the victim strategy of the left has given us Cuba and North Korea, with Venezuela trying to catch up to those socialist utopias. The only differences are a matter of degree.

**On a related note. Thomas Sowell asks what exactly is the change we are talking about?

"Yet many today seem to assume that if things are bad, "change" will make them better. Specifics don't interest them nearly as much as inspiring rhetoric and a confident style. But many 20th century leaders with inspiring rhetoric and great self-confidence led their followers or their countries into utter disasters. These ranged from Jim Jones who led hundreds to their deaths in Jonestown to Hitler and Mao who led millions to their deaths."

Clarence Thomas: How to Read the Constitution

The Wall Street Journal has printed an excerpt of a lecture Justice Clarence Thomas gave to the Manhattan Institute last week. In the the last two paragraphs, Justice Thomas describes the type of jurisprudence we wont be getting with an Obama Supreme Court:

As important as our Constitution is, there is no one accepted way of interpreting it. Indeed, for some commentators, it seems that if they like or prefer a particular policy or conduct, then it must be constitutional; while the policies that they do not prefer or like are unconstitutional. Obviously, this approach cannot be right. But, it certainly is at the center of the process of selecting judges. It goes something like this. If a judge does not think that abortion is best as a matter of policy or personal opinion, then the thought is that he or she will find it unconstitutional; while the judge who thinks it is good policy will find it constitutional. Those who think this way often seem to believe that since this is the way they themselves think, everyone must be doing the same thing. In this sense, legal realism morphs into legal cynicism. Certainly this is no way to run a railroad, not to mention interpret the Constitution. . . .

Let me put it this way; there are really only two ways to interpret the
Constitution -- try to discern as best we can what the framers intended or make it up. No matter how ingenious, imaginative or artfully put, unless interpretive methodologies are tied to the original intent of the framers, they have no more basis in the Constitution than the latest football scores. To be sure, even the most conscientious effort to adhere to the original intent of the framers of our Constitution is flawed, as all methodologies and human institutions are; but at least originalism has the advantage of being legitimate and, I might add, impartial.

Contrast that with the philosophy The One will be employing when he looks for a Supreme Court nominee.

"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's
like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be
poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria
by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."

Or this:

So this is going to be an important issue. I will look for those judges who have
an outstanding judicial record, who have the intellect, and who hopefully have a
sense of what real-world folks are going through... I think that it’s important
for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family,
trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has
to stand up, if nobody else will. And that’s the kind of judge that I want.

I don't know how Obama calls himself a constitutional lawyer when he doesn't even believe the constitution deserves consideration in the nominating process. His is the vacuous "living constitution" argument that says the constitution should mean different things depending on the zeitgeist of the time or the political preferences of the judge.

But the constitution is a legal document, a contract that was intended to be interpreted within its four corners. If somethings not there, then it's up to the people and their representatives to decide what to do, not nine lawyers handing down decrees from on high. Obama and his leftist allies take the view that the constitution can mean anything, which is to say it means nothing.

Democrats have been trying to circumvent legislatures and the people through judicial fiat for a while and two or three Obama picks will do that for generations. The country will in time become unrecognizable from that which was originally envisioned and The Bill of Rights, Constitution and The Declaration of Independence will be reduced to quaint museum pieces.

The Third Jihad

The terrorist front group CAIR has been going after the makers of the film Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West after they paid to have it placed in newspapers across the country. The same producers have now completed The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America, which will hopefully drive CAIR nuts too while reminding complacent Americans of the very real threat of Islamo-fascism, not just as a foreign terrorist issue but as a home-grown fifth column.

More at Pajamas Media

WAPO Defends Capitalism?

Imagine my surprise at seeing this in the Washington Post of all places:

...The deregulation of U.S. financial markets did not reflect only the narrow ideology of a particular party or administration. And the problem with the U.S. economy, more than lack of regulation, has been government's failure to control systemic risks that government itself helped to create. We are not witnessing a crisis of the free market but a crisis of distorted markets...More

Hollywood Fascism

Family Guy's Stewie sports a Mc'Cain/Palin button while wearing a Nazi uniform. How original. It's also factually and historically inaccuarate as the Nazi's full name was the National Socialist Party and that's what they were. Hitler would find far more to like in the Democrat Platform than with the Republican's. Projection anyone? Someone should send these guys a copy of Liberal Fascism.

The Hollytard community represents the most intolerant and insular industry in the country. I thought creative types understood the concept of irony. Apparently not. Here's a story about the Hollywood resistance:

"It's no secret that the entertainment industry is overwhelmingly liberal -- political donations this presidential cycle from the movie, TV and music industries recently were running about 86% Democrat versus 14% Republican. But being outnumbered is one thing, being bullied by your liberal co-workers into keeping your opinions to yourself is quite another.

"Are you kidding me? Of course it's true," Kelsey Grammer said when asked whether the town is hostile to conservatives. "I wish Hollywood was a two-party town, but it's not."

Grammer said he knows of a makeup trailer that sported a sign warning Republicans to keep out and of U.S. war veterans who keep their backgrounds a secret from their Hollywood co-workers because they hear them belittle the military.

He even said that, earlier in his career, his job was threatened by a prominent sitcom director who demanded he donate money to Barbara Boxer's U.S. Senate campaign. To keep his job, he gave $10,000 to Boxer and the Democrats.

The Plumber and The Nurse

Joe the Plumber has become a reluctant symbol of Obama's dedication to the leftist goal of government forced "fairness". If Joe works too hard and takes too many successful risks, then it's only right that Joe "give back" some of his money for The One to spread around to his grateful subjects, less the government's cut of the loot of course.

One person Obama would give Joe's money to is the less known symbol of political charity: Hannah, The Nursing Student.

At another campaign stop, Obama had this encounter:

" ...Obama met a 19-year-old nursing student named Hannah, already deep in debt with student loans.
HANNAH: I'm paying for school myself, so-
BARACK OBAMA: How much, how much you in debt?
HANNAH: Right now about $24,000 and I'm only 19.
OBAMA: Alright well we're gonna try to see if we can provide you some relief, alright?
HANNAH: Yeah I need it because the grants aren't enough.
OBAMA HUGGING STUDENT: I know, I know! I appreciate it, c'mon. Nice to meet you.
HANNAH: Thank you.

Did Obama wonder if she had any responsibility for her plight or what she might be able to do for herself in order to further her career? No, of course not. That would mean one less victim, one less malleable dependent, one less vote. The grants (gifts) taken from her fellow citizens "isn't enough".

It's also much easier for her to hire Obama to put a gun to Joe's head and take his money by force of law than do it herself and risk jail. Besides, she needs it more than Joe even if it is his property. He can "afford' it because the anointed tell us so.

It doesn't matter if Joe will have less for his family, employees or business because he not only made "too much" money, he did it without pledging loyalty to The Party, as Hannah most assuredly will. The fact that Hannah has done nothing to earn the right to Joe's money is irrelevant since Obama has determined that she needs it more than he does.

Obama also doesn't wonder why Hannah's tuition is so high and has been rising much faster than the rate of inflation longer than anyone can remember. The education system is also protected by The Democrat Party and will never be called on the congressional carpet to explain themselves. That kangaroo court is reserved for capitalists. It would be counterproductive anyway since a lot of Joe's money already goes to these leftist incubators in order to create more Hannahs.

Obama's leftist philosophy is not about compassion or concern for the downtrodden. If it were, he and his running mate would have given more of their money to private charity than the miserly amounts they've given.

But charitable giving doesn't return the benefit of control over the recipient's lives. And it competes for funds with the politically motivated charity of the state. In short, it's about power. The forceful sacrifice of the individual to tyrants that use stolen property and force to mold the populace to their liking.

Obama and the Democrats don't believe they are taking Joe's money since they never considered it his to begin with. The only money he has is that which the government allows him to keep. Question: What do we call it when someone is forced to work for another's benefit? You know the answer.

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison

"We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money." - Congressman Davy Crockett

"There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." - Ayn Rand

The Whiny, Hypocritical Left

The Obamamedia has their panties in a knot over allegedly out of control Mc'Cain/Palin supporters. On the flimsiest of evidence, MSM reporters breathlessly fret that the Republican candidates are fomenting violence by merely campaigning against The One. Nothing compares however to the barbarism that is visited on the left's opponents and we can see it even on Obama's community blog.

Michelle Malkin has put together a compendium of the real and sustained viciousness of the "by any means necessary" left that is a constant of their politics. Gateway Pundit has more. And let's not forget the classics of the oh so tolerant left.

BTW: Why do all the guys in these photos look like a bunch of noodle-armed losers? Work in a push-up fellas and you might not have to hang out with crazy chicks all the time.

Related Post: Obama's Brown Shirts

Jesse Ready to Call In Chits

Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson offers his insights on Obama and his potential Presidency:

Jews ("Zionists") overwhelmingly support Obama and Jesse says Obama wont forget them:

The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end. Jackson believes that, although "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" remain strong, they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.

Jesse "strong arm" Jackson reminds The One that he better give him a seat at the table:

"We helped him start his career," says Jackson. "And then we were always there to help him move ahead. He is the continuation of our struggle for justice not only for the black people but also for all those who have been wronged."

And don't think for a minute that an Obama presidency will put Jesse out of the perpetual grievance business:

Will Obama's election close the chapter of black grievances linked to memories of slavery? The reverend takes a deep breath and waits a long time before responding. "No, that chapter won't be closed," he says. "However, Obama's victory will be a huge step in the direction we have wanted America to take for decades."

On Iraq and Iran Jesse displays his scary expertise on foreign affairs:

"We have a collapsing economy and a war that we have lost in Iraq...He passionately denounces the toppling of Saddam Hussein as "an illegal and unjust act."

On Iran, he strongly supports Obama's idea of opening a direct dialogue with the leadership in Tehran. "We've got to talk to tell them what we want and hear what they want," Jackson says. "Nothing is gained by not talking to others."

Iran has already told us what they want:

Vice President for Media Affairs Mehdi Kalhor said on Saturday that Iran has set two preconditions for holding talks with the United States of America. In an exclusive interview with IRNA, he said as long as US forces have not left the Middle East region and continues its support for the Zionist regime, talks between Iran and US is off the agenda.

Well in all fairness, Obama didn't say anything about meeting without Iranian preconditions, just the United States. Besides, Obama and Jackson aren't going to find those Iranian requirements to be unreasonable anyway.

Obama Voters on the Issues

Howard Stern sent out a reporter to quiz Obamabots on the why's of their support for The One. I didn't think Joe Biden looked like Sarah Palin at all, did you?

Brady Campaign Endorses Obama

The Anti-Second Amendment group, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has endorsed the Obama/Biden ticket.

"Washington, D.C. - Sarah and Jim Brady and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence with its network of Million Mom March Chapters endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President and Senator Joseph Biden for Vice President today, and urged Americans to vote for them. "

This is the same group that decried the Supreme Court's Heller decision that held in part: "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home."

How radical. At the time the Brady Campaign said: “Our fight to enact sensible gun laws will be undiminished by the Supreme Court’s decision in the Heller case."

What was the "reasonable" law that was struck down? Here's a summary:

"The District of Columbia generally prohibits the possession
of handguns. It is a crime to carry an unregistered
firearm, and the registration of handguns is prohibited. Wholly apart from that prohibition, no person may carry a handgun without a license, but the chief of police may issue licenses for 1-year periods. See District of Columbia law also requires residents to keep their lawfully owned firearms, such as registered long guns, “unloaded and disassembled or bound by a triggerlock or similar device” unless they are located in a place of business or are being used for lawful recreational activities."

In other words, the Brady campaign defines "reasonable" as outlawing an entire class of commonly used self-defense firearms and rendering every other gun useless in an emergency.

There's nothing unusual about this endorsement as Obama dishonestly pays the same lip service to the Second Amendment as Kerry and Gore did during their campaigns. From Obama's Fight the Smears site:

During Barack’s career in the Illinois and United States senates, he proudly stood to defend the rights of hunters and sportsmen while doing everything he could to protect children — including his own two daughters — from illegal gun violence...

Barack has clearly spelled out his position on guns to Field
& Stream:
“I am very mindful of the fact that sportsmen in America
may have gone hunting with their fathers, their grandfathers, their mothers, their grandmothers, and that this is part of a tradition and a way of life that has to be preserved. And there’s nothing that I will do as president of the United States that will in any way encroach on the ability of sportsmen to continue that tradition.”

Notice his position is that the Second Amendment was written only to protect my right to duck hunt or shoot paper targets. I guess my inalienable rights to Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness are not so inalienable since Obama doesn't believe I have a right to defend them.

Make no mistake. An Obama presidency along with a Democrat congress will be relentless in its attempts to negate the Second Amendment. The Democrat party has always lied about its anti-Second Amendment position because the truth is a political loser. Obama is no different

ACORN's Image Maker

I'm sure it's hard to find shamelessly dishonest people to defend the indefensible, but even the criminals at ACORN could have done better than this slimy douchebag right out 0f central casting. If you could see Scott Levenson's personality, it would look like the Elephant Man.

Why aren't these anti-american thugs the subject of a RICO investigation anyway? They certainly seem to qualify.

Obama's Acorn BIG Player in Mortgage Mess

Stanley Kurtz is single handedly doing the job that the MSM wont. While they are up in Alaska rummaging through the trivialities of Sarah Palin's life, he's in Chicago uncovering real news. In his latest column, Kurtz shows that ACORN's thug tactics played a major role in the biggest financial crisis in generations:

"Up to now, conventional wisdom on the financial meltdown has relegated ACORN and the CRA to bit parts. The real problem, we’ve been told, lay with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In fact, however, ACORN is at the base of the whole mess. ACORN used CRA and Democratic sympathizers to entangle Fannie and Freddie and the entire financial system in a disastrous disregard of the most basic financial standards. And Barack Obama cut his teeth as an organizer and politician backing up ACORN’s economic madness every step of the way."

Getting Cocky: A Democrat Opens The Playbook

You have to give Timothy Noah points for honesty although I'm sure he's received more than a few calls telling him to shut the hell up. Noah is salivating over the prospect that Democrats will control all three branches of government and will finally be able to be honest about who they really are:

"The campaigns themselves can't afford to believe it. Many journalists know it but can't say it. And there will certainly be some twists and turns along the way. But take it to a well capitalized bank: Bill Ayers isn't going to save John McCain. The race is over...For the past quarter-century, liberals have sweated and strained trying to make their worldview palatable to a Republican-electing nation."

Even though it's only the eighth inning in a one run game, Noah can't contain himself and is going to pop the champagne now:

"It still isn't wise for Obama to say them, but maybe the New Complacency will loosen other tongues within the political mainstream. Even if it doesn't, it's fun to think about what those utterances might be..."

Here's some examples of the liberal positions that America is too stupid and immature to embrace if Democrats expressed them directly and honestly. They have to lie for your own good doncha' know.

*I think Karl Marx had some valuable insights into capitalist economies!

*I think Mormons are kooks!

*The Second Amendment does too allow government to ban handguns!

*If Israel isn't out of the occupied territories in six months, we'll cut off all aid.

*Higher gas prices are good because they make everybody bike and take public transit like they should!

*America won't be the world's most powerful nation forever. And you know what? Handing that responsibility off will be a relief!

*America's official languages should be English and Spanish!

*Big-city values are better than small-town values!

*We're going to need affirmative action for a long time.

*We're undertaxed. Look at Europe!

*Terrorism isn't that big a threat to America!

*I don't support the troops. I support some troops, depending on whether or not they've committed war crimes!

*I'm not a "progressive," for Pete's sake. I'm a liberal!

*I'm not a "liberal," for Pete's sake. I'm a leftist!

*I'm not a "leftist," for Pete's sake. I'm a democratic socialist!

*The problem with public schools is private schools!

Thanks Timmy! If your team doesn't win, we'll hide you in a small Mormon town somewhere and protect you with well oiled handguns.