"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, September 12, 2009

THE CHICAGO MACHINE STRIKES AGAIN: KEY WITNESS AGAINST BLAGO FOUND DEAD




CHICAGO SUN-TIMES - VIA DRUDGE:
The man federal prosecutors pressured to cooperate in the corruption probe of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich died of an apparent aspirin overdose on Saturday, law enforcement sources said.

Christopher Kelly, 51, of Burr Ridge, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 10:46 a.m.

An autopsy is scheduled for today, a Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office spokeswoman said.

Kelly was Blagojevich’s “go-to guy” who once was the mastermind of the ex-governor’s lucrative campaign fund.

Kelly’s death comes just four days after he pleaded guilty to a scheme involving $8.5 million in fraud at O’Hare Airport. It was the second conviction this year -- he still faced trial along with the ex-governor, in June.
EVERYONE KNEW SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD HAPPEN.
  • IT MAY QUASH THIS TRIAL AND PREVENT OTHERS FROM TALKING.
  • THE CHICAGO MACHINE IS JUST LIKE THE COSA NOSTRA.
  • AND THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT THIS SCANDAL FROM BURGEONING INTO SOMETHING WHICH CAN HARM THEIR STAR, OBAMA.
CONVICTED FELON AND ORIGINAL OBAMA FINANCIAL BACKER AND REAL ESTATE BENEFACTOR ANTOIN REZKO IS ONLY ALIVE BECAUSE HE HASN'T TALKED YET - OR THE MACHINE ISN'T AWARE THAT HE HAS.

ULTIMATELY, IT MATTERS NOT;

WE WILL DEFEAT THE DOMESTIC AXIS OF EVIL:

THE CHICAGO MACHINE
AND THE SHADOW PARTY.

TEA PARTIERS TO POLITICIANS: "LISTEN OR PERISH!"


Image adapted from one here.

THE NEW MUCKRAKERS: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS JONAH GOLDBERG BY A WEEK

THE NEW MUCKRAKERS.

JONAH USED THE TERM TODAY.

WE USED IT LAST WEEK.
  • JONAH USED IT IN REFERENCE TO GLENN BECK ALONE.
  • WE USED IT TO REFER TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BLOGOSPHERE - AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: WITHOUT BLOGGERS - AND TALK RADIO - BECK WOULDN'T HAVE SUCCEEDED IN GETTING VAN JONES DUMPED.
  • THE TALK-RADIO/BLOGOSPHERE CONVERGENCE IS FINALLY HAPPENING.
  • THE PROOF WAS TODAY'S HUGE TURNOUT.
  • YUP: TODAY'S HUGE TURNOUT PROVES THE TALK RADIO/ BLOGOSPHERIC CONVERGENCE IS FINALLY HAPPENING.
  • AND IT WILL SAVE AMERICA!
"CONVERGENCE" - THAT'S A TERM YOU WILL HEAR THE BIGGIES USE NEXT WEEK TO DESCRIBE THE NEW LAY OF THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE.

REMEMBER: YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.

TEA PARTY VIDEO: OBAMA PROMISED "HOPE & CHANGE" BUT HE'S REALLY OFFERING ROPE AND CHAINS!



VIA LONELY CONSERVATIVE WHO HAS MORE LOTS HERE.

FREDDIE, EMU, NIKKI, SWIZZLE/SAM - AND ALL YOU OTHER ILLINOIS TROLLS: USE THIS POST AND I WILL LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS UP

THIS BLOG IS UNDER ATTACK BY TROLLS SPAMMING THE COMMENT THREADS...

... AND THEY ARE ALL VERIZON USERS AND ALMOST ALL FROM ILLINOIS.

OBAMASTAN.

FASCINATING.

I HAVE ALL THEIR IP ADDRESSES AND A COMPLETE LOG OF THEIR VISITS.

I HAVE TRIED TO BAN THEM BUT "HALOSCAN BAN" SEEMS TO BE A VERY WEAK TOOL.

MAYBE I WILL MOVE TO WORDPRESS?

ANY ADVICE?

BLUE DOGS & THE GOP HAD BETTER TAKE NOTICE: THE PUBLIC REWARDS THOSE WHO STAND UP TO OBAMA: WILSON RAISES $1,000,000 SINCE OUTBURST

FACTS HERE.



BLUE DOGS; YOU'D BETTER TAKE NOTICE!

IF YOU STAND UP TO OBAMA THE PEOPLE WILL REWARD YOU, TOO!

THE SAME SPIRIT MOTIVATES PATRIOTS TODAY


Excerpts from an address delivered at St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, March 23, 1775:

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.

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They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.

Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field!

Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

HUGE TEA PARTY IN DC PUTS THE BLUE DOGS BETWEEN BARACK AND A HARD PLACE


  • BECAUSE OF THIS HUGE TEA PARTY IN DC TODAY (9/12), DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMEN HAVE TO BE SHITTING IN THEIR PANTIES.
  • THEY MUST KNOW THAT A SOLID MAJORITY OF AMERICANS ARE ANTI-OBAMACARE - AND THESE TEA-PARTIERS ARE VERY ENERGIZED - MUCH MORE ENERGIZED THAN THE ANTI-CLINTON FORCES IN 1994.
  • IF THEY WANT TO BE REELECTED, THEN THEY MUST REALLY WANT TO VOTE NO ON OBAMACARE.
  • RAHM AND AXELROD AND REID AND PELOSI WILL THREATEN ANY DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMEN WHO WAIVER IN THEIR SUPPORT FOR OBAMACARE.
  • AND OBAMA AND RAHM AND AXELROD WILL USE THE SO-CALLED STIMULUS MONEY (WHICH IS STILL 85% UNSPENT) AS THE CUDGEL:
  • THEY WILL EITHER USE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HELPING A CONGRESSMAN OR HIS CHALLENGER/OPPONENT DEPENDING ON IF THEY BUCK "THE ONE".
  • THIS IS EXACTLY WHY MOST OF THE SO-CALLED STIMULUS IS STILL UNSPENT - DESPITE THE FACT THAT UNEMPLOYMENT IS STILL RISING.
  • THEY HAVE PLANNED FROM THE VERY START TO SPEND IT NEXT YEAR - AN ELECTION YEAR - IN THE DISTRICTS THEY NEED TO WIN.
  • OBAMA AND RAHM AND AXELROD WILL ONLY SPEND IT ON CANDIDATES WHO SUPPORT THEM NOW.
  • THIS CUDGEL PUTS WAVERING CONGRESSMEN IN A TOUGH SPOT, BETWEEN BARACK AND A HARD PLACE.
  • THE RED PILL OR THE BLUE PILL.
  • THE FORCES OF SWEETNESS AND LIGHT...
  • OR THE DARK FORCES OF THE LEFT.
  • TIME WILL TELL IF THEY WILL LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE OR NOT.
  • IN A DEMOCRACY, ON DOMESTIC ISSUES ESPECIALLY - THEY SHOULD LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE.

TIME WILL TELL.

LARGEST POLITICAL RALLY IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA? ABC NEWS REPORTS 1.5 MILLION ATTEND RALLY IN WASHINGTON

UPDATES AT THE END OF POST

Compare that to 250,000 for the MLK speech. Now admittedly, the country had a smaller population at the time, but the problem MLK was dealing with was far more specific. It was a matter of right and wrong. Honestly, there is a sense in which everyone OUGHT to have been there.

Additionally, in Martin Luther King Jr., that movement had a central Charismatic figure around whom to rally.

This new American movement does not have a central Charismatic figure as a fountainhead.

This Rally is, as I see it, a Rally in support of our Democratic Republic; our Constitution.

That is a complex set of ideas, but obviously it is a set of ideas that Americans have been willing to fight and die for repeatedly throughout our history.

I think Democrats in Congress would be advised to see this crowd for what it is; a massive uprising against the Obama Agenda.

UPDATE: I note that Reliapundit has a post up on this right below mine. His post reports 2 million.

Even better, if true.

For now, I'll take the Leftist, Obama-supporting ABC estimate as a legitimate number, just to rub their noses in it.

The real truth of the numbers will come out eventually. And, don't be surprised if it is even more than 2 million people.

UPDATE: This is, apparently, the largest peaceful political rally ever held in the history of the United States.

*******UPDATE/RELIAPUNDIT:

  • THIS IS NOT SOME ASTRO-TURFED RALLY; IT IS A POPULAR UPRISING!
  • THEREFORE, THIS IS NOT ONLY THE LARGEST DEMONSTRATION IN USA HISTORY; IT IS UNIQUE IN THAT MOST PEOPLE IN THIS HUGE CROWD CAME ON THEIR OWN WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP OF A LARGE NATIONAL APPARATUS.
AWESOME!

POLITICIANS WHO IGNORE THIS DO SO AT THEIR OWN PERIL!

UPDATE FROM PASTORIUS: I just got off the phone with Always on Watch. She tells me the word is, DC Metro Police estimated the crowd at 2.4 million.

I have also received multiple reports that ever the time of the ABC estimate of 1.5 million people, hundreds of thousands were still streaming in.

AOW reports that of the tens of thousands of people she personally laid eyes on today, she saw seven Ron Paul t-shirts. That's it.

So, shut the fuck up, Charles Johnson.

Always on Watch promises to post photos tomorrow.

TWO MILLION CELEBRATE A NEW REVOLUTION AT DC TEA PARTY: WE WON'T BE FOOLED BY OBAMA AGAIN!

SOME ESTIMATE THE DC TEA PARTY AT 2,000,000!

IT'S A NEW REVOLUTION!

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

RIGHT ON!



VIA JWF.

UPDATED: ON 8TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11, OBAMA AGREES TO NEGOTIATE WITH IRAN - UPDATE: AGREES TO MEET WITH NORTH KOREA, TOO


NYTIMES: U.S. to Accept Iran’s Proposal to Hold Face-to-Face Talks

Published: September 11, 2009

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that the United States would accept Iran’s offer to meet, fulfilling President Obama’s pledge to hold unconditional talks despite the Iranian government’s insistence that it would not negotiate over the future of its nuclear program.

The decision to engage directly with Iran would put a senior representative of the Obama administration at the bargaining table, along with emissaries from five other nations, for the first time since Mr. Obama took office.
WASH POST:

The United States has decided to ignore Iran's refusal to discuss its nuclear program and instead accept a vague Iranian plan for talks on security issues as the opening gambit to draw Tehran into real negotiation.

The effort to "test" Iran's intentions, announced on Friday, came after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said his country is skeptical of the need for new sanctions on Iran, giving the Americans little choice but to treat seriously Iran's latest offer.

Iran this week ruled out talks on its program, instead offering a five-page plan that it said would lay the groundwork for peace and stability in the region. The document, first posted Thursday on the Web site of ProPublica news service, made no reference to international demands that Iran suspend its efforts to enrich uranium, but did mention ending proliferation in nuclear weapons as well as a broad offer of dialogue.

Iran's plan was disappointing but not surprising to U.S. officials, who nonetheless decided to take at face value the offer of a dialogue.
THE DECISION TO ACCEDE TO IRAN'S DEMANDS AND TO TO ANNOUNCE IT ON 9/11 SAYS A LOT ABOUT OBAMA.

*******UPDATE: OBAMA IS FELLATING KIM JONG IL, TOO:

US Shifts Policy, Willing to Meet 1-on-1 With North Korea

September 11, 2009 4:08 PM

The US shifted its policy today, saying it is now willing to meet one on one with North Korea if that is helpful to bring Pyongyang back to the nuclear negotiations.

US envoy Stephen Bosworth got the green light from the other members of the 6-party talks, negotiations to rid Pyongyang of its nuclear program, during meetings in the region in recent days.

North Korea has extended an invitation for Bosworth to visit Pyongyang, but officials say it’s unclear where or when a meeting could take place.

“It's designed to convince North Korea to come back to the six- party process and to take affirmative steps towards denuclearization,” State Department spokesman PJ Crowley said of the decision to meet.

Speaking on background, a senior US official said: “Our assessment, after consulting with the other parties in the six-party process, is that if a bilateral discussion can be an effective mechanism to get North Korea to come back to the six-party process… so that we can remind them of what their obligations are and to push them to take affirmative steps… then that would be a potentially useful step.”

OBAMA IS ALSO DOING THIS BIT OF APPEASING ON 9/11. HE IS SENDING A SIGNAL TO OUR ENEMIES AND ALLIES ALIKE: OBAMA IS AN APPEASER!

OUR ENEMIES - LIKE IRAN - ARE REJOICING: OBAMA IS WRECKING OUR ECONOMY AND OUR NATIONAL DEFENSES.

MORE HERE.

ARE WE HEADED FOR A "VENEZUELA MISSILE CRISIS"?



BBC - VIA K-LO:

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has announced that the country will soon take delivery of Russian missiles with a range of 300km (185 miles).

Returning from a 10-day tour of Africa, Asia and Europe, including Russia, Mr Chavez is also planning to buy Russian T-72 and T-90.

"Soon some little rockets are going to be arriving... and they don't fail," he announced at the presidential palace.

WILL THIS CREATE A CRISIS?

NOPE.

WHY NOT? SIMPLE:

(1) OBAMA IS NO JFK AND (2) (LIKE OLIVER STONE) OBAMA IS A FRIEND OF HUGO'S.

SO OBAMA WILL LET CHAVEZ BUILD-UP A VERY THREATENING MISSILE CAPABILITY - ONE THAT THREATENS OUR ALLIES COLOMBIA AND HONDURAS.

OBAMA IS AS SILENT ON HUGO'S RUSSIAN MISSILES AS HE IS ON THE MURDER OF THE PRO-LIFER.

THAT TELLS US EVERYTHING WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WHERE OBAMA REALLY STANDS.

THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA

The pot calling the electric kettle black

For anyone from that a cesspit of bias and misinformation which is the NYT to call blogs biased is really rich

On Meet the Press this past Sunday, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman railed against internet news sources, referring to them as an "open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information." He continued to mock new media, suggesting that the American public is incapable of deciphering between facts, fiction and opinion, when he said that modems should have a warning label from the surgeon general that reads "judgment not included." What Mr. Friedman cannot understand is that web-based information sources like blogs, wikis and vlogs (video blogs) are the new beat reporters and investigative journalists of our time.

Their importance was revealed, just this past weekend, before which, very few Americans recognized the name Van Jones. The White House environmental adviser was one of thirty-two "Czars" appointed by the president who is accountable only to the president, immune to government oversight and senate confirmation. The major networks and newspapers including Mr. Friedman's employer, the New York Times, failed to acknowledge his existence until after new media watchdog's revealed information that the mainstream press failed to uncover.

In an on online story posted last April 6, New Zealand blogger Trevor Jones exposed the world to the Van Jones the Obama administration did not want you to know about. Three days later, the American website World Net Daily exposed Jones' research to a wider audience. The article revealed Jones's ties to radical leftist groups, being a self-proclaimed communist and racially incendiary remarks. These revelations did not trigger any journalistic instincts at the major networks, cable news channels or major newspapers. It did, however, reach a core with citizen watchdogs.

During the six months after Jones and then WND published their first Van Jones stories, new media sources uncovered his signature on a petition suggesting the Bush administration was involved in the September 11 attacks. Citizen investigators produced a recording of Van Jones exposing his disdain for the existence of Israel. On a lighter note, a video surfaced showing the president's "green jobs" Czar calling Republicans an expletive. The discovery that Mr. Jones was a supporter of Philadelphia cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, served as icing on the cake. These revelations were met with silence from the Washington Post, New York Times and major news networks.

At the eleventh hour, approximately twenty-four hours before Van Jones resigned, the "big three" and the so-called newspaper of record, the New York Times, acknowledged the Jones fiasco. It is a shame that Thomas Friedman and company will never admit that new media did the job the American people previously entrusted in traditional media.

Not anymore. In a June 18, 2009, article in Forbes magazine, pollster John Zogby noted that over twice as many Americans trust internet news sources more than television, newspapers and radio. That poll came just eighteen months after a Sam Adams Alliance, a Chicago-based nonprofit that utilizes new media to promote government accountability and transparency. Opinions expressed are not endorsed by any organization and are strictly those of the author.

Mr. Friedman is right that information should be filtered, but that process should be left to the individual to decide what is credible and what matters. Journalists have an obligation to their profession and the public to disseminate the facts, especially when they involve government officials whose actions greatly impact the country. The mainstream media didn't just drop the ball regarding Van Jones - they never showed up to the game. Thankfully, new media players were able to step up to the plate and bring home a victory for the people and the journalism profession.

SOURCE

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Anti-abortion activist shot

This is a tragic story but perhaps the most interesting thing is how the media headlined it. They did not headline it as I have above. The paper I got the story from headed it "Michigan trucker shoots 2 on hit list" which tells you just about nothing. I am told that the Detroit Free Press actually changed its headline from “Pro-life activist shot dead near Owosso High” to “Owosso police look into two murders” to play down the anti-abortion angle. Funny, I don’t recall anything like that happening when abortionist George Tiller was shot

A Michigan trucker with an apparent hit list fatally shot two men - a well-known pro-life activist and a gravel-pit owner - and likely planned to gun down a third victim Friday before he was arrested by police.

Harlan James Drake, 33, of Owosso, Mich., was arrested at his apartment about 8:30 a.m. and charged with two counts of first-degree murder after shooting two of the three men on his grudge list, said Shiawassee County District Attorney Randy Cobry.

"The information is that he had ill will toward these three individuals, not for the same reason, necessarily, but he had a grudge, if you will, against this trio of individuals," Mr. Cobry said.

Still unclear is the victims' connection, if any, to each other and to Mr. Drake. The first victim, 63-year-old Jim Pouillon, was a pro-life activist who spent hours on Owosso street corners and at local events with his chair, oxygen tank and anti-abortion signs, earning him the nickname "the sign guy."

Mr. Pouillon was gunned down about 7:20 a.m. as he sat across the street from Owosso High School, holding a sign showing a picture of a 4-week-old baby and a caption saying "Life."

Many students and parents witnessed the shooting and were able to identify the vehicle and license plate, leading police to Mr. Drake's apartment. During his arrest, authorities said, Mr. Drake reportedly told police that he had been involved that morning in another shooting. Authorities received a call at 8:17 a.m. from Fuoss Gravel, where owner Mike Fuoss, 61, was found dead in his office by an employee. Mr. Fuoss had been shot multiple times, according to the Shiawassee County Sheriff's Department.

More here

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PRO-INFANTICIDE OBAMA IS APPARENTLY ALSO A FAN OF MURDERING PRO-LIFERS

WE ALREADY KNOW THAT OBAMA FAVORS MURDERING FETUSES.

NOW WE KNOW THAT OBAMA ALSO LIKES THOSE WHO WANT FETUSES TO BE ABLE TO GO TO TERM TO DIE, TOO.

SEE HERE.

VIA HERE.

Friday, September 11, 2009

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR: 2009 WAS COLD!

2009 THE 34TH COLDEST IN THE LAST 114 YEARS.

WHO SAYS SO? NOAA SAYS SO.

AND THE COOLING OF THE EARTH MAY HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN!


MEANWHILE, LEFTISTS COMMITTED TO DESTROYING OUR FREE MARKETS, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND HIGH LIVING STANDARDS ARE ABOUT TO SHUT DOWN 79 COAL MINES IN THE USA - INCREASING BLUE COLLAR UNEMPLOYMENT, AND THE COST OF ENERGY FOR EVERYONE.


GEE, THANKS AL!

OBAMA THE SNAKE OIL SALESMAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS KRAUTHAMMER, GATEWAY AND HOT AIR

Krauthammer - yesterday:

"Obama last night sounded smooth, polished, strong and convincing, and what he was selling was snake oil, that was a completely bogus claim. When he talked about what would be in his bill and how he would not end up with a dime of deficit, he said it will cost almost a trillion dollars and the majority of it, more than half, will come from what? from removing waist, fraud and abuse from Medicare. Now that's an insult to the intelligence of the American people..."
(ALSO TODAY, HOT AIR RAN THE KRAUTHAMMER/SNAKE OIL STORY TOO)

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SAID THIS MONTHS AGO; JULY 22ND:




AND AGAIN ON AUGUST 4TH.


REGUALR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME.

SPREAD THE WORD.

OBAMA HAS COMMITTED AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE: FAILING TO ENFORCE ARTICLE IV SECTION 4

SENATOR CORNYN SHOULD GET SOMEONE IN THE GOP HOUSE DELEGATION TO DEMAND IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS:

MSNBC:
Texas governor sends Rangers to Mexico border

Perry accuses federal government of failing to ‘adequately secure’ zone

HOUSTON - Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address growing problems there, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday.

"It is an expansive effort with the Rangers playing a more high-profile role than they've ever played before," Perry said of the Department of Public Safety's elite investigative unit.

The forces, dubbed "Ranger recon" teams, are the latest effort "to fill the gap that's been left by the federal government's ongoing failure to adequately secure our international border with Mexico," he said.

We first blogged this way back in March:
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
******* UPDATED: OBAMA HAS COMMITTED AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENCE: FAILING TO ENFORCE Article IV, Section 4


OBAMA IS NOT FULFILLING THE OATH OF OFFICE TO UPHOLD AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, SPECIFICALLY...
Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
TEXAS GOVERNOR PERRY REQUESTED FEDERAL TROOPS TO PATROL THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER BETWEEN THE USA AND MEXICO IN TEXAS AND OBAMA REFUSED - A VIOLATION; (IN THIS CLAUSE, THE WORD "SHALL" MEANS MUST).

UPDATE: WE GET RESULTS: OBAMA IS CONSIDERING SENDING TROOPS.
- Posted by Reliapundit @ 10:16 PM ; Permalink;
We were right then; we are more right now!

Obama's meager face-saving efforts weren't up to the job.

Obama has failed to fulfill the duties of his office.

SENATOR CORNYN SHOULD GET SOMEONE IN THE GOP HOUSE DELEGATION TO DEMAND IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AT ONCE!

ONCE AGAIN, DEREK JETER PROVES WHY HE IS A GREAT AFRICAN-AMERICAN - (AND WHY OBAMA IS NOT)


DEREK BROKE GEHRIG'S RECORD: MAZELTOV!

JETER IS AN ALL-CLASS ALL-STAR AND A MAN WHO DESERVES TO BE CAPTAIN OF THE BEST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE.

OBAMA DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE JETER'S WATER-BOY.

MORE ON THE HALF-BLACK/HALF-WHITE JETER - AND A COMPARISON TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JUNIOR - HERE

WORLD CURRENCY MARKETS HAVE VOTED "NO!" ON OBAMA: DOLLAR SLIDING TO 2008 CRASH LOWS





US: Dollar index falls

The Dollar Index fell for a sixth day, its longest losing streak since March, after reports showed China’s factory output and lending gained by more than economists estimated, spurring demand for emerging-market assets.

The euro rose to a nine-month high against the dollar on signs Europe’s recession is abating. The pound climbed to the strongest in a month versus the dollar before a U.K. report forecast to show producer prices gained a second month.

The yen strengthened for a second day against the euro amid speculation Japanese exporters are repatriating earnings.

“Solid data in China show economic fundamentals are improving, weighing down on the dollar,” said Koji Fukaya, a senior currency strategist in Tokyo at Deutsche Bank AG. “Risk appetite is coming back.”

The Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against the currencies of six major U.S. trading partners including the euro, yen and pound, retreated to 76.627 as of 7:48 a.m. in London from 76.817 in New York. The gauge earlier touched 76.511, the weakest level since Sept. 25, 2008.

The euro rose to $1.4596 from $1.4582. It earlier gained to $1.4627, the highest level since Dec. 18. The yen increased to 133.11 per euro from 133.76. Japan’s currency was at 91.20 per dollar from 91.73. It touched 91.00, the strongest since Feb. 13.

The pound appreciated to $1.6699 from $1.6651 yesterday. It earlier touched $1.6742, the highest level since Aug. 7.

THE ECONOMIES OF JAPAN, CHINA, GERMANY AND FRANCE ARE ALREADY GROWING AGAIN.

BUT OBAMA'S USA ISN'T, AND THE WORLD HAS DECIDED THAT OBAMA AND THE USA ARE NOT A GREAT BET RIGHT NOW.

IF OBAMACARE FAILS THEN THE DOLLAR WILL REBOUND.

AND SO WILL THE USA.

IF IT DOESN'T THEN WE'RE HEADED THE WAY OF WEIMAR AND POST WW2 BRITAIN ZIMBABWE AND CUBA.

A DAY AFTER BIBI'S SECRET MEETING IN MOSCOW BECOMES PUBLIC, PUTIN WARNS WEST: "DON'T ATTACK IRAN!"

A FEW DAYS AGO, BIBI WENT TO MOSCOW TO MEET WITH PUTIN (NOT MEDVEDEV) - SECRETLY.

TODAY: Russian PM Vladimir Putin has warned against military action targeting Iran or imposing new sanctions to curb its nuclear programme.

Coincidence?

NIMHO.

UPDATE: HAARETZ
ANALYSIS: "Clock is ticking for Iran as Israel appears ready for strike"

During the past year, military experts and commentators are increasingly coming around to the view that the Israel Air Force is capable of executing the mission. The Israel Defense Forces was significantly upgraded during the tenure of Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi. The goal, it is argued, is not to liquidate the Iranian project but to set it back. According to this line of thought, if an attack, American or Israeli, causes a couple of years' delay in the project it will have achieved its aim. Similarly, before launching the attack on the Iraqi reactor in 1981, Israel did not foresee the chain of events that finally forced Saddam Hussein to forgo his nuclear ambitions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak take a similar view of the Iranian threat. At least, that is what both their public statements and their comments in closed meetings suggest.

For an Israeli attack to be considered, Israel would need the tacit approval of the Obama administration, if only in the sense that it looks the other way. This is due above all to the necessity of passing through the Iraqi air corridor, as American soldiers will still be in Iraq in 2011. No less important is strategic coordination for the day after: How will the United States react to a prolonged aerial attack by Israel on the nuclear sites and to the regional flare-up that might follow?

These are matters that would have to be agreed on directly between Obama and Netanyahu. The disparity in their policy stances, together with the total lack of personal chemistry between them, is liable to prove a hindrance.

Iran is likely to respond to an Israeli attack by opening fronts nearby, via Hezbollah from Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF WHEN...

  • AND I'D BET BIBI GETS REBUFFED BY BARRY AND DECIDES TO GO IT ALONE, AND THAT BARRY SIDES WITH THE WORLD AGAINST ISRAEL IN THE AFTERMATH.
  • OR THAT BARRY PREEMPTIVELY ATTACKS ISRAEL TO PREVENT THEIR PREMPTIVE ATTACK ON IRAN.
  • (BTW/FWIW: EITHER OF THESE POSSIBLE SCENARIOS WOULD ESSENTIALLY AGREE WITH DANIEL, ISAIAH AND EZEKIEL.)

NATURE GEOSCIENCE STUDY: OIL AND GAS FOREVER?



The abiotic oil theory gets a boost. It has long been supported in Russia and the Ukraine -- and one notes the Russian connections of the authors below -- but has had little support in the West. Publication in a major Western journal would however seem to mark a turning point. As I have been pointing out in my GREENIE WATCH sidebar, the claim that oil is a fossil fuel has long been a patent absurdity. I wonder if any of the peak-oilers will ever apologize for their foolish certainty? Unlikely

KTH is an abbreviation of Swedish words meaning "Royal Institute of Technology". It is one of Sweden's largest and oldest universities


Researchers at KTH have been able to prove that the fossils of animals and plants are not necessary to generate raw oil and natural gas. This result is extremely radical as it means that it will be much easier to find these energy sources and that they may be located all over the world. "With the help of our research we even know where oil could be found in Sweden!" says Vladimir Kutcherov, Professor at the KTH Department of Energy Technology in Stockholm.

Together with two research colleagues, Professor Kutcherov has simulated the process of pressure and heat that occurs naturally in the inner strata of the earth's crust. This process generates hydrocarbons, the primary elements of oil and natural gas. According to Vladimir Kutcherov, these results are a clear indication that oil supplies are not drying up, which has long been feared by researchers and experts in the field.

He adds that there is no chance that fossil oils, with the help of gravity or other forces, would have been able to seep down to a depth of 10.5 kilometres in, for example the US state of Texas, which is rich in oil deposits. This is, according to Vladimir Kutcherov, in addition to his own research results, further evidence that this energy sources can occur other than via fossils - something which will cause a lively discussion among researchers for a considerable period of time.

"There is no doubt that our research has shown that raw oil and natural gas occur without the inclusion of fossils. All types of rock formations can act as hosts for oil deposits," asserts Vladimir and adds that this applies to areas of land that have previously remained unexplored as possible sources of this type of energy.

This discovery has several positive aspects. Rate of success as concerns finding oil increases dramatically - from 20 till 70 percent. As drilling for oil and natural gas is an extremely expensive process, costs levels will be radically changed for the petroleum companies and eventually also for the end user. "This means savings of many billions of kronor," says Vladimir.

In order to identify where it is worth drilling for natural gas and oil, Professor Kutcherov has, via his research, developed a new method. The world is divided into a fine-meshed grid. This grid is the equivalent of cracks, known as migration channels, through strata underlying the earth's crust. Good places to drill are where these cracks meet.

According to Professor Kutcherov, these research results are extremely important not least as 61 percent of the world's energy consumption is currently based on raw oil and natural gas. The next stage in this research is more experiments, especially to refine the method that makes it easier to locate drilling points for oil and natural gas.

The research results produced by Vladimir Kutcherov, Anton Kolesnikov and Alexander Goncharov were recently published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience, Volume 2, August.

SOURCE

Journal abstract follows:

Methane-derived hydrocarbons produced under upper-mantle conditions

By Anton Kolesnikov et al.

There is widespread evidence that petroleum originates from biological processes1, 2, 3. Whether hydrocarbons can also be produced from abiogenic precursor molecules under the high-pressure, high-temperature conditions characteristic of the upper mantle remains an open question. It has been proposed that hydrocarbons generated in the upper mantle could be transported through deep faults to shallower regions in the Earth's crust, and contribute to petroleum reserves4, 5. Here we use in situ Raman spectroscopy in laser-heated diamond anvil cells to monitor the chemical reactivity of methane and ethane under upper-mantle conditions. We show that when methane is exposed to pressures higher than 2 GPa, and to temperatures in the range of 1,000-1,500 K, it partially reacts to form saturated hydrocarbons containing 2-4 carbons (ethane, propane and butane) and molecular hydrogen and graphite. Conversely, exposure of ethane to similar conditions results in the production of methane, suggesting that the synthesis of saturated hydrocarbons is reversible. Our results support the suggestion that hydrocarbons heavier than methane can be produced by abiogenic processes in the upper mantle.

Nature Geoscience 2, 566 - 570 (2009), 26 July 2009


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ANDREW BOSTOM GIVES MICHAEL KRUSE SOME EDUCATION

Over on Jihad Watch, they present a discussion Andrew Bostom had with the propagandistic pro-Islam journalist Michael Kruse, who doesn't like Rifqa Bary, and doesn't like Bostom or Pamela Geller of Newsmax/Atlas Shrugs either. From what I can tell, Kruse refused to answer on whether he ever interviewed any of Rifqa's friends in Ohio, and did not want to provid any intelligent answers on anything else in the case either. Honestly, I think Mr. Kruse does stand discredited.

In more news on the subject, Geller has interviewed Jamal Jivangee, another apostate, pastor, and one of the people in Ohio who helped work on her conversion to Christianity. He takes on the mendacity displayed by Newsweek, long one of the most loathsome newsmagazines on the stands. And here's another interview with another of Rifqa's friends, Brian Williams.

9-11: EIGHT YEARS LATER

It's been eight years already since the murderous attack on the WTC in 2001, yet has anything improved? It's clear that very little has. And there's problems arising, if the following article (via A Blog For All) is any indication:
On the morning of the 9/11 anniversary, it's expected all the local stations will once again go wall-to-wall with coverage of the name-reading ceremony at Ground Zero.

They'll do as they have for the previous seven anniversaries, tossing out commercials and carrying the coverage until the last victim's name is read.

However, there's a growing reluctance to do so, one partly driven by money.

"This is crazy," said one station insider. "Nobody wants to be the first to pull out."

From a moral standpoint, station officials know well that airing the ceremony is the right thing to do. The ceremony is New York, and it has been an emotional event each time before.
The sad thing is that sooner or later, they will stop giving the serious coverage they are to the 9-11 Memorial, and the public's memories could fade even more. All because of money.

The tragedy has continued to take its toll on people in the NY area:
More than 800 World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers have died since 9/11 -- and cancer has killed at least 270 of those heroes, new data show.

The figures also show that 33 WTC responders committed suicide.

State researchers have tallied 817 deaths of workers and volunteers who toiled at toxic Ground Zero or the Fresh Kills landfill, where rubble was sifted.
This is simply terrible, and that's why everything must be done to remind all future generations about this. It cannot be forgotten.

Project 2,996 9/11 Tribute: Anthony DiOnisio

Project, 2996: Remembering the Victims of 9/11


On this eighth anniversary of 9/11, I remember Anthony DiOnisio, Jr., vice president of operations at Cantor Fitzgerald, where he had worked since 1987. He worked at the World Trade Center in 1993, when the first attack occurred there.

Mr. DiOnisio perished at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Final services were held at St. Catherine's Roman Catholic Church on September 29, 2001.

Read the rest at Always On Watch.

Boehner: Dems Shot Down Two Amendments Which Would Prevent Illegals From Being Covered Under Obamacare

This is a follow-up to this post, in which Mark Krikorian from the Center for Immigration Studies discusses the amendment which would prevent illegals from being covered under Obamacare. I had no idea that two amendments were shot down.

9/11 Photo Essay: ‘Never Forget, Never Give In’

El Marco 9/11 Photo 1

Photographed over three decades, El Marco’s 9/11 memorial photo essay offers a moving tribute to the workers and rescuers who perished 8 years ago in New York City. Some two-dozen previously unpublished photos of the Twin Towers combine with scenes photographed after 9/11 to provide unique insight into America’s loss and strength.

El Marco 9-11 Photo 2 El Marco 9-11 Photo 3

Click on any of the photos above to enlarge. To see the entire collection of amazing photographs, click here.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Updated: Senate makes it official: OBAMA LIED, WILSON WON

FOX:
Among three House committees to pass bills for health reform, only one expressly bans federal funding for proving health coverage to illegal immigrants.

"The Congressional Research Service has indicated that indeed the bills that are before Congress would include illegal aliens," Wilson said. "And I think this is wrong."

Indeed, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service study found that the House health care bill does not restrict illegal immigrants from receiving health care coverage.

House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner amplified the complaint that without proof of citizenship, illegal immigrants could be insured.

"There were two opportunities for House Democrats to make clear that illegal immigrants wouldn't be covered by putting in requirements to show citizenships," he said. "Both of those amendments were, in fact, rejected."

In the Senate, Democrats in the so called "Gang of Six," a group of bipartisan senators on the Senate Finance Committee which is the last panel yet to release its bill, began moving quickly to close the loophole that Wilson helped bring greater attention to.

THIS LOOPHOLE DISAPPEARED ALMOST AS FAST AS THOSE 17 MILLION UNINSURED!

WILSON DELIVERED!

See Hot Air on 9/11.

BIBI SECRETLY WENT TO MOSCOW, WHY? WAS IT ABOUT IRAN OR THAT "PIRACY"

JPOST:

A senior Kremlin official confirmed Wednesday to the Russian paper Kommersant that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did indeed make a clandestine trip to Russia on Monday.

Commenting on the visit, the official said that "this kind of development could only be related to new and threatening information on Iran's nuclear program."

The Russian newspaper quoted experts speculating that such a trip would only be justified under extraordinary circumstances, "for example, in the case of Israel planning to attack Iran."

The report comes despite a statement Wednesday from the Kremlin press service that "nothing is known" about reports of the visit. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, also said he had no information, the Interfax news agency reported.

Nevertheless, there was never any official denial of the report from Moscow.


WAS IS ABOUT AN IMPENDING ATTACK BY THE IAF ON IRAN?

OR WAS IT ABOUT THAT BIT OF PIRACY SOME CLAIM WAS REALLY AN IDF MISSION TO INTERCEPT WMD'S HEADED FOR ISRAEL'S ENEMIES?

STAY TUNED...?

DID STANLEY ANN DUNHAM REALLY WORK AS AN "AU PAIR" IN CHICAGO - AND IF SO: THEN WHEN AND WHO FOR, AND WHY... AND HOW?


  • WHY CHICAGO? HOW DID THE KANSAS-WASHINGTON-HAWAII CHICK WIND UP THERE OF ALL PLACES?!

  • WHAT AND WHO WAS HER CONNECTION TO CHICAGO, AND WHO GOT HER THE GIG?

WELL... ER, UM ... FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS WAS FROM CHICAGO, AND SO WAS FRANK'S CAUCASIAN WIFE - WHO CAME FROM AN ARISTOCRATIC CHICAGO FAMILY.

  • DID MARSHALL'S WIFE GET HER THE GIG?

  • WAS IT WITH THE AYERS FAMILY - ANOTHER ARISTOCRATIC CHICAGO FAMILY?

ACCORDING TO THE AGE BARACK CLAIMED STANLEY ANN RECALLED SHE WAS AT THE TIME, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN 1958.

BUT:

BARACK WROTE THAT HIS MOTHER TOLD HIM SHE SAW THE GREAT MOVIE BLACK ORPHEUS WHILE IN CHICAGO WORKING AS AN AU PAIR FOR A SUMMER.

ONE PROBLEM: THE GREAT FILM BLACK ORPHEUS WASN'T MADE UNTIL 1959!

IT WAS ACTUALLY RELEASED IN THE USA IN THE WINTER OF 1959,

SO IF SHE REALLY SAW THE MOVIE IN THE SUMMER IN CHICAGO - (I DON'T THINK SHE'D CONFUSE A SUMMER IN CHICAGO WITH A WINTER IN CHICAGO! PLUS SHE'D HAVE BEEN IN SCHOOL IN HAWAII EXCEPT IN THE SUMMER!) -

AND SINCE I THINK BARACK IS ACCURATELY RECOUNTING HIS MOTHER'S STORY (THAT SHE SAW BLACK ORPHEUS IN SUMMER IN CHICAGO - THE SUMMER SHE WAS AN AU PAIR)...

THEN IT MEANS STANLEY ANN DUNHAM WAS IN CHICAGO IN JUNE-JULY-AUGUST 1960 AND THAT'S THE SUMMER BEFORE BARACK WAS BORN.

SHE WAS 17.

BILLY AYERS WOULD HAVE BEEN 13.

  • CAN ANYONE FIND OUT IF DAVIS'S WIFE'S FAMILY KNEW THE AYERS FAMILY?

(IT'S LIKELY SINCE BOTH FAMILIES WERE UPPER CRUST CHICAGO.)

  • DID MR. AND MRS DAVIS SEND STANLEY ANN TO CHICAGO TO COMMUNE WITH THEIR COMMUNIST COMRADES THERE AS PART OF HER "AWAKENING"?

  • PERHAPS THERE WAS ACTUALLY NO AU PAIR JOB AT ALL, PERHAPS IT WAS COVER STORY?

  • WAS STANLEY ANN INDOCTRINATED THAT SUMMER BY PEOPLE LIKE VERNON JARRETT - VALERIE'S FATHER? AND/OR THE AYERS?

  • WAS THE AYERS FAMILY A FINANCIAL BACKER OF THE CHICAGO DEFENDER - THE LEFT-WING BLACK NEWSPAPER DAVIS AND JARRETT BOTH WORKED AT?

  • DID THE AYERS FAMILY BACK THE SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITY ART CENTER?

CAN ANYONE FILL IN THE BLANKS?

HECKLE OBAMA AND YOU'RE A RACIST; HECKLE BUSH AND YOU'RE COOL WITH THE MSM

JOE WILSON WAS RIGHT: EVEN THE AP WROTE THAT OBAMA LIED.

AND THE MSM TREATED THE INTERRUPTION AS IF IT WAS PROOF OF SOME NEW AND TERRIBLE PARTISANSHIP LET LOOSE UPON THE LAND BECAUSE OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS AND RACISM AGAINST OBAMA.

BULLSHIT.

AS FORMER TAB CO-BLOGGER OMRI PROVED: THE DEMS DID WORSE TO BUSH.

BY TREATING WILSON AS A RACIST AND PARIAH THE MSM AND OBAMA AND PELOSI AND BIDEN HAVE ONLY EXPOSED - ONCE AGAIN - THEIR AMORALITY AND HYPOCRISY.

SPAIN SENDS CLEAR DIPLOMATIC SIGNAL TO ISRAEL: WE'RE ANTI-SEMITIC!

HAARETZ:
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos on Thursday canceled a meeting scheduled for the following day with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, cutting short his trip to Israel to return to Madrid for talks with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero had instructed Moratinos to be present in Madrid on Friday for the meeting with Chavez, the foreign minister's associates said.
IT'S NATURAL THAT SPAIN SHOULD SNUB ISRAEL FOR CHAVEZ:

  • CHAVEZ IS A VIRULENT ANTISEMITE WHO DIRECTLY AIDS IRAN AND SYRIA AND HIZBALLAH AND HAMAS. IOW: CHAVEZ IS CLEARLY ALLIED WITH GLOBAL JIHAD.

  • ZAPATERO AND THE SOCIALISTS ARE - AND HAVE BEEN FOR A LONG LONG TIME - PRO-JIHAD AND ANTI-SEMITIC.

  • JUST MORE PROOF THAT THE HOME OF ANTISEMITISM IS THE LEFT.

BRITISH AGW SKEPTICS INCREASING!

BBC:

The British public has become more sceptical about climate change over the last five years, according to a survey.

Twice as many people now agree that "claims that human activities are changing the climate are exaggerated".

Four in 10 believe that many leading experts still question the evidence. One in five are "hard-line sceptics".

The survey, by Cardiff University, shows there is still some way to go before the public's perception matches that of their elected leaders.

THERE IS HOPE!

  • NEVER FORGET THAT THE ANTI-CARBON TAX SCHEMES THE LEFT HAS HATCHED UP WON'T DECREASE GLOBAL MAN-MADE CO2 ONE IOTA.

  • THEREFORE - EVEN IF CO2 WAS CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING (WHICH IT ISN'T), THESE SCHEMES WOULDN'T HAVE ANY EFFECT -

  • EXCEPT TO RAISE REVENUES FOR POLITICIANS, REVENUES THEY COULD DOLE OUT TO THEIR CRONIES AND MACHINES.

REMINDER: USA LIFE EXPECTANCY IS BETTER THAN THE SOCIALISTIC EU'S

REPRISE POST:

Thursday, August 20, 2009

STOP THE PRESSES: THE USA'S LIFE EXPECTANCY IS BETTER THAN THE EU'S!
EU Life expectancy 77.32 years

  • male: 74 years
  • female: 80.84 years

USA Life Expectancy 77.9 Years


  • 75.3 years for men
  • and 80.4 years for women.

TELL THE LIBS WHO WANNA MAKE THE USA MORE LIKE THE EU TO STFU.
- Posted by Reliapundit @ 7:49 PM ; Permalink;
NYTIMES:
U.S. Life Expectancy at All-Time High
By Tara Parker-Pope

Americans are living nearly two-and-a-half months longer, according to new life expectancy statistics released today. In 2007, life expectancy in the United States reached a high of nearly 78 years, up from 77.7 a year earlier.

Life expectancy in the United States has been on the rise for a decade, increasing 1.4 years — from 76.5 years in 1997 to 77.9 in 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The life expectancy data, compiled by the agency’s National Center for Health Statistics, are based on nearly 90 percent of the death certificates filed in the United States.

Doctors say that not only is lifespan increasing, but more important, the “active” lifespan is increasing as well.
ALL DURING THE BUSH YEARS AMERICA LIFE EXPECTANCY WENT UP. FOR EVERYONE.

WHEN OBAMA AND THE LEFT TELL YOU WE PAY MORE FOR HEALTHCARE THAN THE EU AND DO WORSE THEY LIE.

Why are Lugar and Kerry stalling?


From the Indy Examiner:
Senator Frank Lautenberg's September 2 call for a congressional probe regarding Scotland's release of Libyan terrorist Abdel Bassett al-Megrahi continues to go unanswered. Lautenberg (D-NJ) wrote to Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asking for "a hearing and investigation to uncover whether justice took a back seat to commercial interests." The letter, significantly, asks the committee to investigate whether Megrahi's release "violated the international agreement between the US and the UK," which may unearth corruption in the Obama administration.

John Bolton, writing in the New York Post, succinctly explains this special agreement as follows:
In the Clinton years, the United States made two key concessions in exchange for Libya turning over Megrahi and another defendant to Scotland for prosecution. The first was explicit: The trial would not be used to undermine Libya's regime, which was uniformly understood to mean that prosecutors wouldn't seek to tie Khadafy directly to the decision to blow Pan Am 103 out of the sky. The second was implicit: By agreeing that trial would be under Scottish, rather than US law, the maximum sentence could only be life imprisonment. (The death penalty is not available in Britain.)

Megrahi's release clearly undermines this agreement, particularly given that Libya paid doctors to give Megrahi his three-months-to-live prognosis and given that he is not staying in a hospital.

The most distinct possibility that exists as to why Lugar and Kerry have not responded to Lautenberg's call for a congressional probe is quite unsavory: that they are covering for President Obama, as all indications are that Obama gave the green light to release Megrahi and then lied about it. The administration is now claiming to have been caught off-guard by the decision, but this flatly contradicts the Secretary of State's spokesmen's claim that she had worked for "weeks and months" to prevent Megrahi's release, and that Attorney General Eric Holder knew about the oil-for-terrorist deal back in June. According to Bolton, some even claim that "Obama's national-security transition team was briefed well before the inauguration."

Bolton speculates that Obama did not believe that keeping the terrorist in prison and upholding the sentence/agreement between the U.S. and the U.K. was "worth much effort or political capital" and that what truly blindsided the administration was the public outrage at the decision.

Obama, Kerry, and Lugar all have long, checkered histories as terrorist sympathizers. Discussing Obama's would yield a 200-page tome, so I will just leave it at the fact that he held a Ramadan dinner at the White House just last week with the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood front group and unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation's landmark Hamas-funding case in which all suspects were found guilty on all charges.

Kerry never met an enemy he didn't love. Last February he visited Gaza in the wake of Operation Cast Lead for what was clearly nothing more than a propaganda campaign for Hamas. He was to personally transfer a letter from Hamas to Obama, but when he was blindsided by international outrage over the travesty (or really, that anyone would find out about it) he opted instead to turn the letter over to the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, which is essentially a stronghold for Hamas, along with a more moderate terror organization, the Palestinian Authority (a newer incarnation of Yasser Arafat's P.L.O.).

Lugar has always been a strong supporter of recognizing, negotiating with, and aiding Hamas, despite the fact that it is an internationally-listed terror organization predicated on genocide. He has also pushed for the Saudi Plan, which he renamed the "Feinstein-Lugar Israeli-Palestinian Peace Resolution" in order to help it be realized. The plan, which ensures the "right of return" for Jordanians to land which they never inhabited, would flood Israel with terrorists ensure their destruction, or at best, force Israel to officially accept a neighbor who lobs Iranian rockets at them daily.

Senate investigations would likely unearth some very interesting facts. It is likely that Hillary Clinton, whose statements on the matter contradict the official statements by the administration, would testify against President Obama, since she has managed to keep her hands clean throughout the debacle. Now that she may be eyeing a run for governor of New York, this seems all the more likely.

Glenn Beck Prime-Time Petition

Let’s bump Greta to 5 o’clock and give Glenn Beck her slot. Definitely. He’s now got the #1 news show. It makes little economic sense to keep him in that stupid time slot. Moving him to 10 will be the nail in CNN’s, MSNBC’s, and HLN’s coffin. Bring it.

Has the Democratic Party Been Hijacked by a Tiny Minority of Extremists?


Ahhh, the Democratic Party, that great American institution, that bastion of progress, bedrock of our way of life. It has made countless worthwhile contributions to the American legal system and culture, such as open borders, the right to be extorted by the federal government for one’s labor for seven out of every twelve months of the year, the right to kill one’s own babies, and the right to treat Uncle Sam as an absentee landlord by paying him rent (property tax) on land which one already owns outright, just to name a few. Unfortunately, a few bad apples have made the whole bushel look pretty unappetizing of late, and have caused many to question whether said bad apples might actually be representative of the party as a whole. Communists, troofers, those who oppose freedom of speech, would-be organ thieves, racists and race-baiters of every flavor have recently turned up in, of all places, the White House. These people could not possibly represent the views and experiences of Democrats as a whole, could they? After all, Democrats are not monolithic and most are, in fact, quite moderate. My question is this: has the Democratic Party been hijacked by a Tiny Minority of Extremists?

I would certainly hope so. I would hate to have to consider that something might be fundamentally, very deeply wrong with the Democrats’ ideology and approach to government. Some Democrats are actually very good public servants who have committed themselves to advancing and preserving the American way of life. Take, for instance, Joe Lieberman. He is a guy who has consistently worked to keep us safe, supported our allies, and generally done what was best for his constituents and the rest of us. Oh, wait. He is an Independent now. Well, John and Bobby Kennedy were hawks on foreign policy who fought against communism and for civil rights. Darn. None of those positions reflect those of the Democratic Party. Well, FDR was a great president. Sure, he undermined the Constitution by running for a third term, applied Keynesian economics (which have long since been disproven and which never held up to simple arithmetic) to vastly expand the federal government and create an enormous welfare state, and refused to fight Hitler even as he slaughtered Jews left and right and rolled over democracy after democracy until he finally started posing a real threat to Stalin’s precious commies, but it all worked out in the end. Well, except for every program FDR put in place, all of which were instant failures. Plus, Truman really won the War, but whatever. I’m sure FDR was a good president. My professors told me so.

That was all in the past, anyway. My main concern is the here and now. I just have to wonder whether the crazies and the radicals in the White House represent the Democratic Party at all. Are Democrats troubled by the fact that 37 czars occupy positions in the White House, czars who are not subject to Senate confirmations and who dictate policy under cover of darkness? Are Democrats at all bothered by the totalitarian nature of their roles and the fact that they necessarily serve to undermine our precious system of checks and balances? Democrats love and wish to preserve our capitalistic republic, do they not?

For crying out loud, we have a Science Czar who based his career on the idea of de-development and de-population, even though development is essentially the primary manifestation of human progress and the scientific consensus since 1961 has been that population rates are in decline. Common sense dictates that both curbing de-population and increasing development are really the only way to take care of the elderly, who keep living longer and who continue to be the fastest-growing segment of the population. Oh well. Maybe we are just a “pulsating mass of maggots” and surely there must be some sort of benefit in the mass sterilization of the populace via the water supply. Besides, forced abortions might be kind of fun. We sure do not hear many complaints about them coming out of China.

Read the rest.

Scum British doctors let baby die

Bureaucracy seems to destroy every shred of human decency. Baby had a strong heartbeat and was moving his arms and legs when he was born, says his mother. The baby was clearly viable and would have been saved in a private hospital



A DEVASTATED mother claims doctors refused to treat her premature baby because it was born two days early. The tiny boy from the UK - born 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy - died just two hours after being born, The Daily Mail reports. Sarah Capewell, who has suffered five miscarriages previously, said she went into early labour and was told her newborn would be dead once delivered.

But after discovering her son, Jayden, had a strong heart beat and was moving his arms and legs, she called doctors and begged them to help. Ms Capewell said doctors refused, saying medical guidelines state that "babies born before 22 weeks are not viable and are not to be helped". She claims doctors at James Paget Hospital in Norfolk told her that they would have tried to save the baby if he had been born two days later, at 22 weeks.

According to the Daily Mail, she told one paediatrician, "You have got to help", only for the man to respond: "No we don't."

"When I went into labour I was told he would be born dead, disabled and his skin would most likely be peeling off, in actual fact he was perfect," she wrote on her website Justice for Jayden. "As you can see from his pic he was born alive, he was responsive and lived without help for nearly 2 hours. "Regardless of this doctors refused to come and see him let alone consider helping him."

A hospital official said it not to blame for setting the nation's guidelines and "like other acute hospitals, we follow national guidance". [Is the thing that said that a human being??]

Ms Capewell is now campaigning to make the Government change the law. "This is down to government legislation stating that babies born before 22 weeks are not viable and are not to be helped," she said. "Now I'm asking for your help in changing legislation so other families don't have to suffer unnecessarily."

SOURCE


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WHEN OBAMA SAID HIS OPPONENTS ARE SPREADING BOGUS INFO BECAUSE THEY JUST WANT TO STOP ALL REFORM HE LIED - AGAIN

OBAMA - LYING AND USING THAT OL' STRAWMAN AGAIN:

Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost


GOP REPLY - FROM AN MD - WITH REAL REFORM WHICH WILL LOWER COSTS AND COVER MORE PEOPLE:

SARKOZY TO RAISE CARBON TAXES

HE'S A NOT A DUPE; HE NEEDS TO RASIE REVENUE AND THINKS THE VOTERS ARE DUPES WHO BELIEVE IN AGW.

BBC:


rench President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans for a new carbon tax aimed at combating global warming.

The tax will be introduced next year and will cover the use of oil, gas and coal, he said.

The new tax will be set at 17 euros (£15) per ton of emitted carbon dioxide (CO2). It will be phased in gradually.

It will apply to households as well as enterprises, but not to the heavy industries and power firms included in the EU's emissions trading scheme.


  • IF CO2 WAS CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING - WHICH IT ISN'T - AND SINCE EVEN IF FRENCH PEOPLE AS A WHOLE REDUCED THEIR CO2 OUTPUT IT WOULD HAVE ZERO EFFECT ON GLOBAL MAN-MADE CO2 LEVELS (BECAUSE INDIA AND CHINA WILL MORE THAN MAKE UP FOR IT!) THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT ON GLOBAL WARMING.

  • NONE.

  • THIS IS MERELY AN ATTEMPT BY A POLITICIAN TO GET MORE TAX MONEY TO SPEND AS HE DAMN PLEASES WITH IT.

SARKO HAS BEEN A MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT.

WILSON WAS WRONG: HE SHOULD HAVE WAITED UNTIL AFTER THE SPEECH TO CALL OBAMA A LIAR

  • SIMPLE: WILSON SHOULD HAVE WAITED UNTIL AFTER THE SPEECH TO SAY SO.
  • OBAMA INVITED THE DESCRIPTION AND INTERRUPTION FROM WILSON WHEN HE - A MOMENT BEFORE - CALLED HIS CRITICS LIARS, AND THEN PROCEEDED TO LIE.
  • OBAMA IS THE WORST PERSON EVER TO ATTAIN THE PRESIDENCY.
THIS IS EXACTLY THE TYPE OF BEHAVIOR ONE SHOUD EXPECT FROMA SLIMEBALL WHO BROKE THE HIS CONTRACT WITH THE LITERARY AGENT WHO PUT HIM ON THE MAP.

UPDATE: VIA MR:
Listening to Democratic histrionics about civility in the aftermath of Joe Wilson's "liar" outburst, you'd almost think they hadn't booed and yelled "no" at President Bush during his 2005 State of the Union. Turns out they did!