As we bring 2011 to a close, let's recap some of the events which took place this year.
Read from Human Events:
Top 10 Lowlights of 2011
"Say goodbye and good riddance to 2011— another tough year for America. Before we move on to 2012, let us pause to reflect upon the year gone by. Here then, are the Top 10 Lowlights of 2011.
1. Obama’s class warfare: Obama began his re-election bid by attacking bankers, insurance companies, Big Oil, and pharmaceuticals—while raking in campaign cash from the very same. This sophomoric and cynical appeal to inflame class warfare in order to win votes ignores the root of America’s woes: big government, out-of-control spending and massive debt.
2. Occupy Wall Street: This so-called movement of the 99% that arose in 2011, soon disintegrated into local bands of ruffians, homeless squatters, progressive activists, and aimless youngsters. By blocking workers from earning a living, these so-called 'social justice' advocates hurt the very people they claim to represent. Not to mention the public health hazard caused by their filth. Go occupy your parents’ basement for awhile and give us a break.
3. Pipeline politics: For a President who assures the nation that he is all about job creation, Obama’s delay of the Keystone XL pipeline is the height of hypocrisy. Choosing political support from environmentalists over tens of thousands of good paying jobs is an insult to unemployed workers.
4. Fast and Furious: Letting guns 'walk' into the hands of Mexican drug lords was not a good idea in the first place, but the way that Atty. Gen. Eric Holder’s Justice Department is covering up 'who-knew-what when' is equally criminal. With pitbull Rep. Darrell Issa on the investigative trail, new revelations will likely keep this one on next year’s lowlight list.
5. Solyndra goes belly-up: Billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent trying to create 'green jobs' and finding alternative sources of energy. As the bankruptcy of Solyndra proved, those ventures can’t compete in the marketplace even when heavily subsidized. To get real energy jobs, it’s time to allow the real development of U.S. energy resources, opening up coastal oil drilling and tapping the vast deposits of natural gas and shale oil in the heartland.
6. Wisconsin union war: Faced with a rollback of their lucrative taxpayer-funded benefits and pension plans, public employees in Wisconsin protested the cuts, with teachers leaving their classrooms, Democratic legislators fleeing the state and unions flooding the state capital building with boisterous members. How about funding your own 401 (k) like the rest of us?
7. Weiner’s Tweets: Rep. Anthony Weiner (D.-N.Y.) broke new ground in political sleaze, bringing congressional indiscretion into the world of Twitter. Horrified Americans were forced to see a new bulging crotch shot every time they turned on the news, until the humiliation drove Weiner from office. Good luck with your job search, Tony.
8. Media attack on GOP: No matter which Republican running for President rose in the polls, the media was ready to pounce. Bachmann was portrayed as a flake; Perry, a dunce; Cain, a molester; Gingrich, as zany. Interestingly, many of the same reporters now on the attack are the same ones that forgot to vet a certain Democratic candidate in 2008.
9. Do-nothing Senate: The Democratic-led Senate is setting new records for not getting things done. It’s been years since the chamber passed a budget and unless a spending bill has money for a Cowboy Poetry Festival it is unlikely to pass muster with Majority Leader Harry Reid. We say it’s time for the Senate to get to work and a good place to start would be the pile of bills already passed by the House of Representatives.
10. Hollywood shenanigans: We had to save a place for Hollywood on the list. After all, 2011 saw Charlie Sheen go insane, Lindsay Lohan pose for Playboy between court appearances, Kim Kardashian’s nano-second marriage, and Alec Baldwin get tossed from a plane for boorish behavior. Need we go on?"
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Canada's Economy Is Soaring
I absolutely LOVE to see Bible prophecy fulfilled. In Genesis 12:3, God warned that He would bless those who bless the Jewish people and curse those who curse them. Too bad our leaders do not abide by God's advice.
We are witnessing the promise made by God, even today. America and Europe in particular have both pressured Israel to give up its God-given land and have defended the enemies of the Jews, and where have such policies led us? We are both in economic ruin and have little hope for the future.
There is one nation which has stood by Israel in recent years, while at the same time, nation after nation has mocked and villified the Jewish nation. That nation is Canada. And while the world's economies are blowing up before our very eyes, what's the situation in Canada?
Amazingly, the Canadians are sitting pretty amidst all this chaos. Sure, a conservative form of government makes a huge difference, but there is more to it than that. The favor of God is upon Canada for its support of Israel, especially when it is probably the only nation to show such support. I certainly can't think of another nation to do so. I hope the Canadian people realize the gem they have in Stephen Harper, the loyal friend to Israel.
There is a lesson to be learned, but don't expect the morally bankrupt and spiritually depraved nations in Europe and America to figure out the secret of Genesis 12:3.
Read from the Anerican Thinker:
Canada Soars
A.M. Mora y Leon
"As America's economy struggles, a funny thing happened on the way to the next-door neighbor nation that has up until now always been considered a dogleg off our economy. Canada's economy is soaring.
It's that they did anything particularly unusual. And it's definitely not that they are what economists casually dismiss as 'a commodity economy' experiencing a temporary boom.
In reality, Canada has genuinely gone its own way, getting itself out from the shadow of the US economic picture at just the right time. The government of conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has embraced free markets, not just one or two things, but a whole banquet of all the things that make economies grow - smaller government, free trade, one tax cut after another, and energy development and security. Net result? Same as what Chile got when it tried the same kinds of reforms - a booming economy.
IBD wonders what the heck the U.S. would look like if it just followed the tax-cutting, government slashing model that has made even the dullest nation turn into the Canadian puma state. What really would it look like?"
We are witnessing the promise made by God, even today. America and Europe in particular have both pressured Israel to give up its God-given land and have defended the enemies of the Jews, and where have such policies led us? We are both in economic ruin and have little hope for the future.
There is one nation which has stood by Israel in recent years, while at the same time, nation after nation has mocked and villified the Jewish nation. That nation is Canada. And while the world's economies are blowing up before our very eyes, what's the situation in Canada?
Amazingly, the Canadians are sitting pretty amidst all this chaos. Sure, a conservative form of government makes a huge difference, but there is more to it than that. The favor of God is upon Canada for its support of Israel, especially when it is probably the only nation to show such support. I certainly can't think of another nation to do so. I hope the Canadian people realize the gem they have in Stephen Harper, the loyal friend to Israel.
There is a lesson to be learned, but don't expect the morally bankrupt and spiritually depraved nations in Europe and America to figure out the secret of Genesis 12:3.
Read from the Anerican Thinker:
Canada Soars
A.M. Mora y Leon
"As America's economy struggles, a funny thing happened on the way to the next-door neighbor nation that has up until now always been considered a dogleg off our economy. Canada's economy is soaring.
It's that they did anything particularly unusual. And it's definitely not that they are what economists casually dismiss as 'a commodity economy' experiencing a temporary boom.
In reality, Canada has genuinely gone its own way, getting itself out from the shadow of the US economic picture at just the right time. The government of conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has embraced free markets, not just one or two things, but a whole banquet of all the things that make economies grow - smaller government, free trade, one tax cut after another, and energy development and security. Net result? Same as what Chile got when it tried the same kinds of reforms - a booming economy.
IBD wonders what the heck the U.S. would look like if it just followed the tax-cutting, government slashing model that has made even the dullest nation turn into the Canadian puma state. What really would it look like?"
The Religious Cleansing of Christians
Being a Christian in a Muslim nation must be the worst nightmare imaginable for these servants of God. When God stated, "In this world, you will have persecution...", it was as if He was speaking to Christians in the Islamic world because they are undergoing horrific treatment by their Muslim abusers.
Christians Could Disappear Altogether From Afghanistan, Iraq and Egypt
"I anxiously await the media's pursuit of the motive and perpetrator of the mass persecution and slaughter of Christians in Muslim countries. But all we can expect is more of the same blind and fatal stupidity by the media that cheered the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt from a 30-year US ally and turned a blind eye for years to the persecution of Christians in Iraq.
Christians could disappear from Iraq and Afghanistan Christian Post December 30, 2011
'Christianity in Afghanistan and Iraq could be eradicated in our lifetime, partially as a result of the US troop withdrawal, says Leonard Leo, chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
This is the pattern throughout the Middle Eastern region, Leo said in a video interview with Terry Jeffrey, editor in chief of CNSNews.
“The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it’s increasing year by year,” Leo said, concluding with a grim prediction that Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan and Egypt.'
They could disappear from Egypt because of the Obama-endorsed ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood.
'Since the war began in March 2003, Iraq erupted into sectarian violence, leaving US troops in charge of trying to contain what threatened to become a civil war.
The situation turned out to be catastrophic for the Christian community there, as violence against Christians soared, including an attack on a church in Baghdad in October last year, in which 58 congregants were killed.'
Even the Christian Post doesn't dare name who was responsible for that violence: Islamic jihadists.
'Up to 900,000 Christians have fled the country since, according to a recent study by Minority Rights Group International.
The religious freedom expert echoed many others in accusing the Iraqi government of failing to take adequate steps to protect Christians or prosecute those who attack them.
“One of the big problems from the very beginning was that our country and others were unwilling to acknowledge that the fight in Iraq was largely a sectarian conflict and there wasn’t enough emphasis placed on the flight of Christians and other religious minorities, particularly in the northern part of Iraq,” Leo told CNSNews.com.'"
Christians Could Disappear Altogether From Afghanistan, Iraq and Egypt
"I anxiously await the media's pursuit of the motive and perpetrator of the mass persecution and slaughter of Christians in Muslim countries. But all we can expect is more of the same blind and fatal stupidity by the media that cheered the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt from a 30-year US ally and turned a blind eye for years to the persecution of Christians in Iraq.
Christians could disappear from Iraq and Afghanistan Christian Post December 30, 2011
'Christianity in Afghanistan and Iraq could be eradicated in our lifetime, partially as a result of the US troop withdrawal, says Leonard Leo, chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
This is the pattern throughout the Middle Eastern region, Leo said in a video interview with Terry Jeffrey, editor in chief of CNSNews.
“The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it’s increasing year by year,” Leo said, concluding with a grim prediction that Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan and Egypt.'
They could disappear from Egypt because of the Obama-endorsed ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood.
'Since the war began in March 2003, Iraq erupted into sectarian violence, leaving US troops in charge of trying to contain what threatened to become a civil war.
The situation turned out to be catastrophic for the Christian community there, as violence against Christians soared, including an attack on a church in Baghdad in October last year, in which 58 congregants were killed.'
Even the Christian Post doesn't dare name who was responsible for that violence: Islamic jihadists.
'Up to 900,000 Christians have fled the country since, according to a recent study by Minority Rights Group International.
The religious freedom expert echoed many others in accusing the Iraqi government of failing to take adequate steps to protect Christians or prosecute those who attack them.
“One of the big problems from the very beginning was that our country and others were unwilling to acknowledge that the fight in Iraq was largely a sectarian conflict and there wasn’t enough emphasis placed on the flight of Christians and other religious minorities, particularly in the northern part of Iraq,” Leo told CNSNews.com.'"
"My Mother-in-Law Pulled Out My Nails"
With all the extensive research that I've done on Islam, I am grieved over the ill treatment that Muslim women receive from their males. But, I find it mind-boggling when some of the abuse directed at these women comes from other women. How can that be? I guess it is similar to cases we hear regarding abused people growing up to become abusers themselves.
Read this horrific story coming out of Afghanistan, and imagine the pain the 15-year-old experienced. These people are truly monsters. And to think that we are giving our blood and resources to such people.
From Gateway Pundit:
Afghan Child Bride Beaten and Tortured: “My Mother-in-Law Pulled Out My Nails” (Video)
"Horrible. An Afghan 15 year-old child bride describes being locked and tortured by her husband and in-laws.
Sahar Gul told officials: 'My mother-in-law pulled out my nails.'
Via ROP:
The BBC reported:
'A video given to the BBC shows the extent of the injuries suffered by a 15 year-old Afghan child bride who was locked up and tortured by her husband.
The girl was left starving after being detained by him and his family for several months.
The case came to light this week when police rescued the teenager, Sahar Gul, who had been locked up in the basement of her in-laws’ house.
Police say that she had had her nails and clumps of hair pulled out.
In addition they say she had chunks of flesh cut out with pliers.
Sahar Gul was married off to a 30-year-old man around seven months ago, when she was just 14 years old. Her parents contacted police after not being able to see her for several months.'"
Read this horrific story coming out of Afghanistan, and imagine the pain the 15-year-old experienced. These people are truly monsters. And to think that we are giving our blood and resources to such people.
From Gateway Pundit:
Afghan Child Bride Beaten and Tortured: “My Mother-in-Law Pulled Out My Nails” (Video)
"Horrible. An Afghan 15 year-old child bride describes being locked and tortured by her husband and in-laws.
Sahar Gul told officials: 'My mother-in-law pulled out my nails.'
Via ROP:
The BBC reported:
'A video given to the BBC shows the extent of the injuries suffered by a 15 year-old Afghan child bride who was locked up and tortured by her husband.
The girl was left starving after being detained by him and his family for several months.
The case came to light this week when police rescued the teenager, Sahar Gul, who had been locked up in the basement of her in-laws’ house.
Police say that she had had her nails and clumps of hair pulled out.
In addition they say she had chunks of flesh cut out with pliers.
Sahar Gul was married off to a 30-year-old man around seven months ago, when she was just 14 years old. Her parents contacted police after not being able to see her for several months.'"
More Indoctrination in VA School
Thank God that my children are not in the public school system. If they were, and I found evidence that they were being indoctrinated in left-wing propaganda, I would be the school district's biggest headache, and my kids would probably be mortified by my behavior.
Needless to say, we need more parents who will not tolerate such displays of leftist indoctrination directed at their children. Rise up parents and take a stand! Your children belong to you, not to the state.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Virginia Elementary School Indoctrinating Third-Graders With Occupy Sing-Along: “They Want More Money, They’re The 1%. . . I’m Happy To Be Part Of The 99%”…
"A reader sent over a sing-along pamphlet being used at the Woodbrook Elementary School in Charlottesville, Virginia. Academia indoctrinating college students is bad enough, but to have third-graders sing about class warfare and rail against the one percent is evil and a violation of the trust parents put in them.
Here’s a transcription of the song:
'Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more money
A faster ride
They’re not content
Never satisfied
Yes — they’re the 1 percent
I used to be one of the 1 percent
I worked all the time
Never saw my family
Couldn’t make life rhyme
Then the bubble burst
It really, really hurt
I lost my money
Lost my pride
Lost my home
Now I’m part of the 99
Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more money
A faster ride
They’re not content
Never satisfied
Yes — they’re the 1 percent
I used to be sad, now I’m satisfied
’Cause I really have enough
Though I lost my yacht and plane
Didn’t need that extra stuff
Could have been much worse
You don’t need to be first
’Cause I’ve got my friends
Here by my side
Don’t need it all
I’m so happy to be part of the 99'"
Needless to say, we need more parents who will not tolerate such displays of leftist indoctrination directed at their children. Rise up parents and take a stand! Your children belong to you, not to the state.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Virginia Elementary School Indoctrinating Third-Graders With Occupy Sing-Along: “They Want More Money, They’re The 1%. . . I’m Happy To Be Part Of The 99%”…
"A reader sent over a sing-along pamphlet being used at the Woodbrook Elementary School in Charlottesville, Virginia. Academia indoctrinating college students is bad enough, but to have third-graders sing about class warfare and rail against the one percent is evil and a violation of the trust parents put in them.
Here’s a transcription of the song:
'Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more money
A faster ride
They’re not content
Never satisfied
Yes — they’re the 1 percent
I used to be one of the 1 percent
I worked all the time
Never saw my family
Couldn’t make life rhyme
Then the bubble burst
It really, really hurt
I lost my money
Lost my pride
Lost my home
Now I’m part of the 99
Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more money
A faster ride
They’re not content
Never satisfied
Yes — they’re the 1 percent
I used to be sad, now I’m satisfied
’Cause I really have enough
Though I lost my yacht and plane
Didn’t need that extra stuff
Could have been much worse
You don’t need to be first
’Cause I’ve got my friends
Here by my side
Don’t need it all
I’m so happy to be part of the 99'"
A Profitable Business
And we thought they were carrying out their terrorist activities out of devotion to the evil teachings from the Koran, and we are absolutely correct to think that to be the case.
But, did you know that running a terrorist group is quite a profitable venture? Look at the former Father of Terrorism Yasser Arafat who was worth billions because he stole money from his people, yet they foolishly still idolized him. Well, he's not the only terrorist leader who has struck it rich.
Read from Jihad Watch:
Hizballah honcho Nasrallah reportedly worth $250 million
"'A fool and his money are soon partying' - Steven Wright
Hizballah is reportedly going broke, but Nasrallah is said to be livin' large. 'Hezbollah's Nasrallah worth $250M?' by Doron Peskin for YNet News, December 29:
'American intelligence officials estimate fortune of Shiite organization's leader, senior members totals some $2 billion, which are scattered in hundreds of bank accounts across the world
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah is worth some $250 million, a Saudi newspaper reported recently, quoting American intelligence officials.
According to the report, the fortune of Nasrallah's deputy, Sheikh Naim Qassem, and other senior organization members amounts to as much as $2 billion.
The anonymous intelligence sources believe the funds have been deposited in hundreds of bank accounts across the world, including in Europe, using fabricated or fake names.
Two Western sources are quoted as saying that the Hezbollah leaders from time to time channel millions of dollars from their bank accounts or their wives' bank accounts to senior members of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran, who are responsible for transferring money to the Shiite organization from the office of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
According to the report, Iranian parliament members are aware of this corruption, are unhappy with it but are avoiding discussing it.
Straw companies
A British security source who worked at the embassies in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in the 1990s is quoted as saying that the West has figured out Hezbollah's money laundering method.
According to the source, the Shiite organization's common method is setting up straw companies in Arab or African countries, which sell cars or large amounts of goods.'
See also: the recent identification of a ring of over 30 U.S. auto businesses implicated in funneling almost half a billion dollars to Hizballah.
'The organizations also operate small cells of six to 10 people who specialize in stealing cellular phones, personal computers or credit cards, and open fake bank accounts using the victims' details.
According to the report, the Hezbollah members also specialize in stealing passports, which are used by the organization operatives to travel around the world for commerce purposes, among others.
By setting up companies, mainly in Eastern European countries and in Soviet republics in central Asia, Hezbollah provides all the financial needs of the organization members in Lebanon.
According to a recent report among many on the organization's financial situation, senior Iranian officials are furious over an internal report pointing to corruption among Hezbollah's highest ranks.
Another report says the Iranians were "amazed" to learn of the flamboyant life led by the organization members, mainly during their visits abroad.'"
But, did you know that running a terrorist group is quite a profitable venture? Look at the former Father of Terrorism Yasser Arafat who was worth billions because he stole money from his people, yet they foolishly still idolized him. Well, he's not the only terrorist leader who has struck it rich.
Read from Jihad Watch:
Hizballah honcho Nasrallah reportedly worth $250 million
"'A fool and his money are soon partying' - Steven Wright
Hizballah is reportedly going broke, but Nasrallah is said to be livin' large. 'Hezbollah's Nasrallah worth $250M?' by Doron Peskin for YNet News, December 29:
'American intelligence officials estimate fortune of Shiite organization's leader, senior members totals some $2 billion, which are scattered in hundreds of bank accounts across the world
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah is worth some $250 million, a Saudi newspaper reported recently, quoting American intelligence officials.
According to the report, the fortune of Nasrallah's deputy, Sheikh Naim Qassem, and other senior organization members amounts to as much as $2 billion.
The anonymous intelligence sources believe the funds have been deposited in hundreds of bank accounts across the world, including in Europe, using fabricated or fake names.
Two Western sources are quoted as saying that the Hezbollah leaders from time to time channel millions of dollars from their bank accounts or their wives' bank accounts to senior members of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran, who are responsible for transferring money to the Shiite organization from the office of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
According to the report, Iranian parliament members are aware of this corruption, are unhappy with it but are avoiding discussing it.
Straw companies
A British security source who worked at the embassies in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in the 1990s is quoted as saying that the West has figured out Hezbollah's money laundering method.
According to the source, the Shiite organization's common method is setting up straw companies in Arab or African countries, which sell cars or large amounts of goods.'
See also: the recent identification of a ring of over 30 U.S. auto businesses implicated in funneling almost half a billion dollars to Hizballah.
'The organizations also operate small cells of six to 10 people who specialize in stealing cellular phones, personal computers or credit cards, and open fake bank accounts using the victims' details.
According to the report, the Hezbollah members also specialize in stealing passports, which are used by the organization operatives to travel around the world for commerce purposes, among others.
By setting up companies, mainly in Eastern European countries and in Soviet republics in central Asia, Hezbollah provides all the financial needs of the organization members in Lebanon.
According to a recent report among many on the organization's financial situation, senior Iranian officials are furious over an internal report pointing to corruption among Hezbollah's highest ranks.
Another report says the Iranians were "amazed" to learn of the flamboyant life led by the organization members, mainly during their visits abroad.'"
Christian Mother of 3 Killed By Her Muslim Boyfriend
I hate the fact that I have to report on yet another honor killing. Oh, how I hate the Islamic faith and what it does to females.
Read about the latest tragedy from Atlas Shrugs:
Honor Killing: Christian Convert Mother of Three (Month-Old Baby, 2-year-old and 9-year-old) Brutally Murdered by Muslim Boyfriend on Christmas day
"Christian convert mom of three, Ruby Love, was murdered and dumped in a canal on Christmas day by her Muslim boyfriend. It sickens the soul, the spike in Christian killing by Muslims on and around Christmas day.
As a tribute, her mother has painted a white cross on Miss Love’s front door under the words: 'Ruby’s Angel House.' The family had converted to Christianity and changed their surname from Malik. More here.
The Telegraph reports:
'Manzar Juma, 27, the father of two of her children, was charged by police with her murder. He is understood to be Muslim and unemployed. He is due to appear in court on Friday.
Miss Love was born Rabina Malik into a Sikh family but her mother changed the family’s names by deed poll in 2003. They attend a nearby Catholic church, she said.
She had three children, a girl, nine, and two boys, Adam, two, and Amir, four weeks, and worked in her family’s property business. She had hoped to train as a midwife before having children.
Her mother Precious, 45, said: "Both my daughters are very devout Christians. She was a daughter of God. She had a cross tattood on her foot.'
First picture of Christmas day murder victim Ruby Love as man is charged Metro
'A picture has been released of Ruby Love, the young mother whose body was discovered in a canal on Christmas Day, as her boyfriend was charged with her murder.
Ruby Love, pictured with her one-month-old son Amir, was found dead on Christmas day
Mother-of-three Ms Love, 23, from Harrow, north London, was found dead in the Grand Union Canal in Southall, west London, on Sunday morning by a dog walker.
Her boyfriend and father of two of her children, Manzar Juma, 27, will appear at Brent Magistrates' Court today after being charged on Thursday night with murder.
Ms Love, who had a one-month-old baby, was last seen leaving for a night out at 6pm on Christmas Eve, and had been expected to return home before Christmas morning to open presents with her children and her mother and sister, with whom she lived.
Her mother Precious, 45, paid tribute to her daughter, who she called "my angel", as she explained the events before Ruby's body was found.
"We were having our Christmas dinner and opening our presents as we were waiting for her. I waited and waited and I texted her through the night.
"I waited until it had got to 24 hours after [she left] and then I gave it one more hour, and then there was a knock on the door. It was the police.
"It's such a loss - I don't know how we are going to cope."
A Scotland Yard spokesman said officers "are aware of previous incidents which will form part of our investigation"'"
Read about the latest tragedy from Atlas Shrugs:
Honor Killing: Christian Convert Mother of Three (Month-Old Baby, 2-year-old and 9-year-old) Brutally Murdered by Muslim Boyfriend on Christmas day
"Christian convert mom of three, Ruby Love, was murdered and dumped in a canal on Christmas day by her Muslim boyfriend. It sickens the soul, the spike in Christian killing by Muslims on and around Christmas day.
As a tribute, her mother has painted a white cross on Miss Love’s front door under the words: 'Ruby’s Angel House.' The family had converted to Christianity and changed their surname from Malik. More here.
The Telegraph reports:
'Manzar Juma, 27, the father of two of her children, was charged by police with her murder. He is understood to be Muslim and unemployed. He is due to appear in court on Friday.
Miss Love was born Rabina Malik into a Sikh family but her mother changed the family’s names by deed poll in 2003. They attend a nearby Catholic church, she said.
She had three children, a girl, nine, and two boys, Adam, two, and Amir, four weeks, and worked in her family’s property business. She had hoped to train as a midwife before having children.
Her mother Precious, 45, said: "Both my daughters are very devout Christians. She was a daughter of God. She had a cross tattood on her foot.'
First picture of Christmas day murder victim Ruby Love as man is charged Metro
'A picture has been released of Ruby Love, the young mother whose body was discovered in a canal on Christmas Day, as her boyfriend was charged with her murder.
Ruby Love, pictured with her one-month-old son Amir, was found dead on Christmas day
Mother-of-three Ms Love, 23, from Harrow, north London, was found dead in the Grand Union Canal in Southall, west London, on Sunday morning by a dog walker.
Her boyfriend and father of two of her children, Manzar Juma, 27, will appear at Brent Magistrates' Court today after being charged on Thursday night with murder.
Ms Love, who had a one-month-old baby, was last seen leaving for a night out at 6pm on Christmas Eve, and had been expected to return home before Christmas morning to open presents with her children and her mother and sister, with whom she lived.
Her mother Precious, 45, paid tribute to her daughter, who she called "my angel", as she explained the events before Ruby's body was found.
"We were having our Christmas dinner and opening our presents as we were waiting for her. I waited and waited and I texted her through the night.
"I waited until it had got to 24 hours after [she left] and then I gave it one more hour, and then there was a knock on the door. It was the police.
"It's such a loss - I don't know how we are going to cope."
A Scotland Yard spokesman said officers "are aware of previous incidents which will form part of our investigation"'"
Youth Unemployment
The youth of America tend to be a gullible bunch. They foolishly bought the lies from Obama in 2008 and threw their weight behind him. And what has that gotten them in return? Nearly half of them are without jobs.
Sometimes we have to learn a lesson the hard way, and our youth is doing just that. Let's hope the realities of the economy knock some sense into them this time around.
Read from Gateway Pundit:
How’s That Hopey-Changey Stuff Working Out For You?… Just 55.3% of Americans Between 16 & 29 Have Jobs
"How’s that hopey-changey stuff working out for you?
In 2008 the youth vote propelled Barack Obama to the White House.
How did he repay them?
By giving them no jobs.
CNN reported, via FOX Nation:
'In 2008, the youth vote helped sweep Barack Obama into office. Americans 18-29 spread the word on social media, energized energized fundraising and went to the polls.
In 2012, the youth vote is moving on and throwing those omnipresent “Hope” bumper stickers and t-shirts in garbage bins.
Not because of apathy. Not because another candidate generates more enthusiasm. Not because of his character. Not because they think voting is pointless. The 18-29 vote is up for grabs in 2012 because youth can’t afford cars to put bumper stickers on and those t-shirts are worn out from too many days sitting on the couch unemployed.
The sobering reality: just 55.3 percent of Americans between 16 and 29 have jobs. And earlier this year, Americans’ student loan debt surpassed credit card debt for the first time ever.
Rather than develop a lasting initiative to help young unemployed Americans, the President launched “Greater Together” – a campaign tool that offers community forums rather than jobs. Rather than provide a bailout to those crushed by the burden of educational loans, his student debt relief program was pathetic – only reducing interest rates by a measly 0.5 percent.
No wonder less than half of Americans 18-29 approve of Obama.'"
Sometimes we have to learn a lesson the hard way, and our youth is doing just that. Let's hope the realities of the economy knock some sense into them this time around.
Read from Gateway Pundit:
How’s That Hopey-Changey Stuff Working Out For You?… Just 55.3% of Americans Between 16 & 29 Have Jobs
"How’s that hopey-changey stuff working out for you?
In 2008 the youth vote propelled Barack Obama to the White House.
How did he repay them?
By giving them no jobs.
CNN reported, via FOX Nation:
'In 2008, the youth vote helped sweep Barack Obama into office. Americans 18-29 spread the word on social media, energized energized fundraising and went to the polls.
In 2012, the youth vote is moving on and throwing those omnipresent “Hope” bumper stickers and t-shirts in garbage bins.
Not because of apathy. Not because another candidate generates more enthusiasm. Not because of his character. Not because they think voting is pointless. The 18-29 vote is up for grabs in 2012 because youth can’t afford cars to put bumper stickers on and those t-shirts are worn out from too many days sitting on the couch unemployed.
The sobering reality: just 55.3 percent of Americans between 16 and 29 have jobs. And earlier this year, Americans’ student loan debt surpassed credit card debt for the first time ever.
Rather than develop a lasting initiative to help young unemployed Americans, the President launched “Greater Together” – a campaign tool that offers community forums rather than jobs. Rather than provide a bailout to those crushed by the burden of educational loans, his student debt relief program was pathetic – only reducing interest rates by a measly 0.5 percent.
No wonder less than half of Americans 18-29 approve of Obama.'"
Friday, December 30, 2011
God Must Be Smiling!
Time to celebrate! What a way to end the year! It may not be New Years Eve yet, but I have found some news worth cheering over. Two more abortionists have been arrested and charged with murder. Think of the babies that will be saved. Hallelujah! And in bluer than blue Maryland no less.
Read the good news from Weasel Zippers:
Maryland: Two Doctors Charged With Murder For Performing Late-Term Abortions…
"And I use the term 'doctor' lightly.
WASHINGTON (AP) — 'Two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder under the state’s viable fetus law, authorities said.
Dr. Steven Brigham, of Voorhees, N.J., was taken into custody Wednesday night and is being held in the Camden County jail, according to police in Elkton, Md. Authorities also arrested Dr. Nicola Riley in Salt Lake City and she is in jail in Utah. Each is awaiting an extradition hearing.
The two doctors were indicted by a grand jury after a 16-month investigation, police said.
The investigation began in August 2010 after a botched procedure at Brigham’s Elkton clinic. An 18-year-old woman who was 21 weeks pregnant had her uterus ruptured and her bowel injured, and rather than call 911, Brigham and Riley drove her to a nearby hospital, where both were uncooperative and Brigham refused to give his name, authorities said.
A search of the clinic after the botched abortion revealed a freezer with 35 late-term fetuses inside, including one believed to have been aborted at 36 weeks, authorities said.
Brigham, 55, is charged with five counts of first-degree murder, five counts of second-degree murder and one count of conspiracy. Riley, 46, faces one count each of first- and second-degree murder and one conspiracy count.'"
Check this out, also from Weasel Zippers. Think of the damage we could do to this abortion mill with the right people elected in 2012.
Planned Parenthood Report: $1.04 Billion Budget, 46% Comes From U.S. Taxpayers…
"Sickening.
Via LifeNews:
'Planned Parenthood has released its new annual report and the figures show the abortion business continues to make money despite its status as a nonprofit organization — and it receives almost half of its income from taxpayer dollars.
On December 27, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) released its latest Annual Report for 2009-2010. The report indicates PPFA had a total budget of $1.04 billion and an excess of revenue over expenses of 18.5 million dollars — a net profit.
The abortion business reports $513 million in current assets and $570 million in property, equipment and an endowment while showing $184 million in liabilities for buildings and other debts.
The new report also reveals 46 percent of the total PPFA budget comes from taxpayer dollars in the form of government funding. At the same time, just 21 percent of the income the abortion business brings in comes from private donors (it lists 528,000 active donors) while 31 percent of its revenue is derived from abortions “non-government health services revenue.”'
Keep reading…"
Read the good news from Weasel Zippers:
Maryland: Two Doctors Charged With Murder For Performing Late-Term Abortions…
"And I use the term 'doctor' lightly.
WASHINGTON (AP) — 'Two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder under the state’s viable fetus law, authorities said.
Dr. Steven Brigham, of Voorhees, N.J., was taken into custody Wednesday night and is being held in the Camden County jail, according to police in Elkton, Md. Authorities also arrested Dr. Nicola Riley in Salt Lake City and she is in jail in Utah. Each is awaiting an extradition hearing.
The two doctors were indicted by a grand jury after a 16-month investigation, police said.
The investigation began in August 2010 after a botched procedure at Brigham’s Elkton clinic. An 18-year-old woman who was 21 weeks pregnant had her uterus ruptured and her bowel injured, and rather than call 911, Brigham and Riley drove her to a nearby hospital, where both were uncooperative and Brigham refused to give his name, authorities said.
A search of the clinic after the botched abortion revealed a freezer with 35 late-term fetuses inside, including one believed to have been aborted at 36 weeks, authorities said.
Brigham, 55, is charged with five counts of first-degree murder, five counts of second-degree murder and one count of conspiracy. Riley, 46, faces one count each of first- and second-degree murder and one conspiracy count.'"
Check this out, also from Weasel Zippers. Think of the damage we could do to this abortion mill with the right people elected in 2012.
Planned Parenthood Report: $1.04 Billion Budget, 46% Comes From U.S. Taxpayers…
"Sickening.
Via LifeNews:
'Planned Parenthood has released its new annual report and the figures show the abortion business continues to make money despite its status as a nonprofit organization — and it receives almost half of its income from taxpayer dollars.
On December 27, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) released its latest Annual Report for 2009-2010. The report indicates PPFA had a total budget of $1.04 billion and an excess of revenue over expenses of 18.5 million dollars — a net profit.
The abortion business reports $513 million in current assets and $570 million in property, equipment and an endowment while showing $184 million in liabilities for buildings and other debts.
The new report also reveals 46 percent of the total PPFA budget comes from taxpayer dollars in the form of government funding. At the same time, just 21 percent of the income the abortion business brings in comes from private donors (it lists 528,000 active donors) while 31 percent of its revenue is derived from abortions “non-government health services revenue.”'
Keep reading…"
So Revealing!
Oh, what a difference as to how Obama handles recognition of a Muslim holiday versus our Christmas.
From Israel Matzav:
Christmas v. Ramadan, Obama style
"What do Christmas and Ramadan have in common in Barack's world? What's the difference in his approaches to the two holidays?
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Will)."
From Israel Matzav:
Christmas v. Ramadan, Obama style
"What do Christmas and Ramadan have in common in Barack's world? What's the difference in his approaches to the two holidays?
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Will)."
Obama's Efforts Toward Appeasement
Leave it to Barack Obama to use a Jew-hating Islamist to be the mediator in U.S. discussions with the evil Taliban. Does such an individual sound like someone who will be looking out for the best interests of America? Of course not, but then neither is our commander-in-chief.
I guess that makes us a nation which is royally screwed, and we have our own citizens to thank for blindly following and voting for the likes of one Barack Hussein Obama.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
"Egypt's New Hitler," Vile Jew-Hater Qaradawi, Key Mediator In U.S.-Taliban Talks
"Qaradawi, the vile America-hater and virulent Jew-hater, the spiritual guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, is an advocate of suicide bombings who has often called for the death of all Jews: '...oh Allah, take this oppressive, tyrannical band of people…take this oppressive, Jewish Zionist band of people…do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one.'
Remember that this is the annihilationist whom the Ground Zero mosqueteer Imam Rauf lauded and admired. Listen here, in his own words.
Spencer on Qaradawi: Egypt's New Hitler
So of course he is the perfect mediator for the Obama Administration.
Report: Radical Sheikh a Key Mediator in U.S.-Taliban Talks IPT News December 28, 2011
'Radical Islamist cleric and longtime Muslim Brotherhood spiritual guide Yusuf al-Qaradawi serves as a "key mediator in secret talks between the U.S. and the Taliban," according to unnamed government sources referenced in a report published late Wednesday in The Hindu.
In early December, the report said, "Qaradawi helped draw a road map for a deal between the Taliban and the United States, aimed at giving the superpower a face-saving political settlement ahead of its planned withdrawal from Afghanistan." The United States is expected to begin pulling out of Afghanistan in 2014.
The Qaradawi-brokered deal calls for significant American commitments, including "the release of prisoners still held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, the lifting of United Nations sanctions on its leadership and its recognition as a legitimate political group." In return, the Hindu's sources say, the Taliban would be "expected to sever its links to transnational organisations like al-Qaeda, end violence and eventually share power with the Afghan government."
If true, the report raises significant questions about American strategy in the talks and the enhancement of a radical cleric's stature.
Qaradawi repeatedly has lashed out against Jews, glorifying violence against them and calling for Allah to "count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one." In 2009, he prayed for the chance to kill a Jew before dying. He has readily encouraged suicide bombing as "the greatest of all sorts of Jihad in the Cause of Allah." And, perhaps most troubling when considering the nature of the talks, Qaradawi actively supported the killing of U.S. servicemen and women, writing in 2003:
"Those killed fighting the American forces are martyrs given their good intentions since they consider these invading troops an enemy within their territories but without their will…Although they are seen by some as being wrong, those defending against attempts to control Islamic countries have the intention of Jihad and bear a spirit of the defense of their homeland."
None of this should come as a surprise to U.S. officials. In September, Wikileaks released U.S. diplomatic cables showing, among other things, the government's awareness of the Doha-based cleric's support for "martyrdom operations" and the Iraqi insurgency.'"
I'm assuming you're not shocked by this news. Neither will you by this story coming from Weasel Zippers:
Reuters: Obama Considers Releasing Top Taliban Detainee From Gitmo To Jump Start Peace Talks…
"Nuts.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — 'The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspected of major human rights abuses as part of a long-shot bid to improve the prospects of a peace deal in Afghanistan, Reuters has learned.
The potential hand-over of Mohammed Fazl, a ‘high-risk detainee’ held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison since early 2002, has set off alarms on Capitol Hill and among some U.S. intelligence officials.
As a senior commander of the Taliban army, Fazl is alleged to be responsible for the killing of thousands of Afghanistan’s minority Shi’ite Muslims between 1998 and 2001.
According to U.S. military documents made public by WikiLeaks, he was also on the scene of a November 2001 prison riot that killed CIA operative Johnny Micheal Spann, the first American who died in combat in the Afghan war. There is no evidence, however, that Fazl played any direct role in Spann’s death.
Senior U.S. officials have said their 10-month-long effort to set up substantive negotiations between the weak government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban has reached a make-or-break moment. Reuters reported earlier this month that they are proposing an exchange of “confidence-building measures,” including the transfer of five detainees from Guantanamo and the establishment of a Taliban office outside of Afghanistan.
Now Reuters has learned from U.S. government sources the identity of one of the five detainees in question.'"
November, 2012, cannot come too soon. Let's just hope and pray Americans have wised up since 2008 and that they will throw Obama overboard and try to save what's left of this nation.
I guess that makes us a nation which is royally screwed, and we have our own citizens to thank for blindly following and voting for the likes of one Barack Hussein Obama.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
"Egypt's New Hitler," Vile Jew-Hater Qaradawi, Key Mediator In U.S.-Taliban Talks
"Qaradawi, the vile America-hater and virulent Jew-hater, the spiritual guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, is an advocate of suicide bombings who has often called for the death of all Jews: '...oh Allah, take this oppressive, tyrannical band of people…take this oppressive, Jewish Zionist band of people…do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one.'
Remember that this is the annihilationist whom the Ground Zero mosqueteer Imam Rauf lauded and admired. Listen here, in his own words.
Spencer on Qaradawi: Egypt's New Hitler
So of course he is the perfect mediator for the Obama Administration.
Report: Radical Sheikh a Key Mediator in U.S.-Taliban Talks IPT News December 28, 2011
'Radical Islamist cleric and longtime Muslim Brotherhood spiritual guide Yusuf al-Qaradawi serves as a "key mediator in secret talks between the U.S. and the Taliban," according to unnamed government sources referenced in a report published late Wednesday in The Hindu.
In early December, the report said, "Qaradawi helped draw a road map for a deal between the Taliban and the United States, aimed at giving the superpower a face-saving political settlement ahead of its planned withdrawal from Afghanistan." The United States is expected to begin pulling out of Afghanistan in 2014.
The Qaradawi-brokered deal calls for significant American commitments, including "the release of prisoners still held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, the lifting of United Nations sanctions on its leadership and its recognition as a legitimate political group." In return, the Hindu's sources say, the Taliban would be "expected to sever its links to transnational organisations like al-Qaeda, end violence and eventually share power with the Afghan government."
If true, the report raises significant questions about American strategy in the talks and the enhancement of a radical cleric's stature.
Qaradawi repeatedly has lashed out against Jews, glorifying violence against them and calling for Allah to "count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one." In 2009, he prayed for the chance to kill a Jew before dying. He has readily encouraged suicide bombing as "the greatest of all sorts of Jihad in the Cause of Allah." And, perhaps most troubling when considering the nature of the talks, Qaradawi actively supported the killing of U.S. servicemen and women, writing in 2003:
"Those killed fighting the American forces are martyrs given their good intentions since they consider these invading troops an enemy within their territories but without their will…Although they are seen by some as being wrong, those defending against attempts to control Islamic countries have the intention of Jihad and bear a spirit of the defense of their homeland."
None of this should come as a surprise to U.S. officials. In September, Wikileaks released U.S. diplomatic cables showing, among other things, the government's awareness of the Doha-based cleric's support for "martyrdom operations" and the Iraqi insurgency.'"
I'm assuming you're not shocked by this news. Neither will you by this story coming from Weasel Zippers:
Reuters: Obama Considers Releasing Top Taliban Detainee From Gitmo To Jump Start Peace Talks…
"Nuts.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — 'The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspected of major human rights abuses as part of a long-shot bid to improve the prospects of a peace deal in Afghanistan, Reuters has learned.
The potential hand-over of Mohammed Fazl, a ‘high-risk detainee’ held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison since early 2002, has set off alarms on Capitol Hill and among some U.S. intelligence officials.
As a senior commander of the Taliban army, Fazl is alleged to be responsible for the killing of thousands of Afghanistan’s minority Shi’ite Muslims between 1998 and 2001.
According to U.S. military documents made public by WikiLeaks, he was also on the scene of a November 2001 prison riot that killed CIA operative Johnny Micheal Spann, the first American who died in combat in the Afghan war. There is no evidence, however, that Fazl played any direct role in Spann’s death.
Senior U.S. officials have said their 10-month-long effort to set up substantive negotiations between the weak government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban has reached a make-or-break moment. Reuters reported earlier this month that they are proposing an exchange of “confidence-building measures,” including the transfer of five detainees from Guantanamo and the establishment of a Taliban office outside of Afghanistan.
Now Reuters has learned from U.S. government sources the identity of one of the five detainees in question.'"
November, 2012, cannot come too soon. Let's just hope and pray Americans have wised up since 2008 and that they will throw Obama overboard and try to save what's left of this nation.
American Pravda Covers for Islam Once Again
Two days ago I posted the story about the Muslim Santa who slaughtered his family members in an honor killing in Texas. This should surprise no one, but the American Pravda, when telling the story has conveniently left out the key part of the crime -- the fact that the killer was a Muslim carrying out the demands of his religion which call for the killing of a female who refuses to follow the commmands of Islam.
Read from Gateway Pundit:
Islamo-Coverup: Lib Media Forgets to Mention Santa Killer Was Muslim & Murders Were Likely Honor Killings
"Aziz Yazdanpanah, dressed as Santa, shot dead his former wife, his daughter, his son, his-sister in-law, his brother-in-law, and his niece. Then he shot himself.
Aziz didn’t want his daughter Nona Yazdanpanah to date non-Muslims.
On Christmas Day Aziz Yazdanpanah shot his family dead. He didn’t want his daughter dating a non-Muslim.
Today Reuters and Yahoo wrote about the vigil for the victims in Dallas. They forgot to mention the killer was a Muslim and his murders were likely honor killings.
Of course, if we weren’t so used to this we would be shocked."
Read from Gateway Pundit:
Islamo-Coverup: Lib Media Forgets to Mention Santa Killer Was Muslim & Murders Were Likely Honor Killings
"Aziz Yazdanpanah, dressed as Santa, shot dead his former wife, his daughter, his son, his-sister in-law, his brother-in-law, and his niece. Then he shot himself.
Aziz didn’t want his daughter Nona Yazdanpanah to date non-Muslims.
On Christmas Day Aziz Yazdanpanah shot his family dead. He didn’t want his daughter dating a non-Muslim.
Today Reuters and Yahoo wrote about the vigil for the victims in Dallas. They forgot to mention the killer was a Muslim and his murders were likely honor killings.
Of course, if we weren’t so used to this we would be shocked."
Responsibility to Protect -- in Syria?
It looks like Syria is next, folks, in Obama's campaign to protect suffering citizens from their wicked dictators. We saw how well that worked out for us in Libya as we aided and abetted the Islamists who have since raised an al-Qaeda flag over Libya.
I still believe that Obama is waiting for the moment when Israel attacks Gaza so that he can apply his "responsibility to protect" to the savage Palestinians; he's just itching to take on Israel. Of course, none of this can take place until his presumed re-election. Gotta deceive those Jewish voters, you know.
The question I have: Who will protect Americans from our dictator?
Read from The Cable, via Prophecy Update:
Obama administration secretly preparing options for aiding the Syrian opposition
"As the violence in Syria spirals out of control, top officials in President Barack Obama's administration are quietly preparing options for how to assist the Syrian opposition, including gaming out the unlikely option of setting up a no-fly zone in Syria and preparing for another major diplomatic initiative.
Critics on Capitol Hill accuse the Obama administration of being slow to react to the quickening deterioration of the security situation in Syria, where over 5,000 have died, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. Many lawmakers say the White House is once again 'leading from behind,' while the Turks, the French, and the Arab League -- which sent an observer mission to Syria this week - take the initiative to pursue more aggressive strategies for pressuring the Assad regime. But U.S. officials said that they are moving cautiously in order to avoid destabilizing Syria further, and to make sure they know as much as possible about the country's complex dynamics before getting more involved.
But the administration does see the status quo in Syria as unsustainable. The Bashar al Assad regime is a 'dead man walking,' State Department official Fred Hof said this month. So the administration is now ramping up its policymaking machinery on the issue. After several weeks of having no top-level administration meetings to discuss the Syria crisis, the National Security Council (NSC) has begun an informal, quiet interagency process to create and collect options for aiding the Syrian opposition, two administration officials confirmed to The Cable.
The process, led by NSC Senior Director Steve Simon, involves only a few select officials from State, Defense, Treasury, and other relevant agencies. The group is unusually small, presumably to prevent media leaks, and the administration is not using the normal process of Interagency Policy Committee (IPC), Deputies Committee (DC), or Principals Committee (PC) meetings, the officials said. Another key official inside the discussions is Hof, who is leading the interactions with Syrian opposition leaders and U.S. allies.
The options that are under consideration include establishing a humanitarian corridor or safe zone for civilians in Syria along the Turkish border, extending humanitarian aid to the Syrian rebels, providing medical aid to Syrian clinics, engaging more with the external and internal opposition, forming an international contact group, or appointing a special coordinator for working with the Syrian opposition (as was done in Libya), according to the two officials, both of whom are familiar with the discussions but not in attendance at the meetings.
'The interagency is now looking at options for Syria, but it's still at the preliminary stage,' one official said. 'There are many people in the administration that realize the status quo is unsustainable and there is an internal recognition that existing financial sanctions are not going to bring down the Syrian regime in the near future.'
After imposing several rounds of financial sanctions on Syrian regime leaders, the focus is now shifting to assisting the opposition directly. The interagency process is still ongoing and the NSC has tasked State and DOD to present options in the near future, but nothing has been decided, said the officials - one of whom told The Cable that the administration was being intentionally cautious out of concern about what comes next in Syria.
'Due to the incredible and far-reaching ramifications of the Syrian problem set, people are being very cautious,' the official said. 'The criticism could be we're not doing enough to change the status quo because we're leading from behind. But the reason we are being so cautious is because when you look at the possible ramifications, it's mindboggling.'
A power vacuum in the country, loose weapons of mass destruction, a refugee crisis, and unrest across the region are just a few of the problems that could attend the collapse of the Assad regime, the official said.
'This isn't Libya. What happens in Libya stays in Libya, but that is not going to happen in Syria. The stakes are higher,' the official said. 'Right now, we see the risks of moving too fast as higher than the risks of moving too slow.'
The option of establishing a humanitarian corridor is seen as extremely unlikely because it would require establishing a no-fly zone over parts of Syria, which would likely involve large-scale attacks on the Syrian air defense and military command-and-control systems.
'That's theoretically one of the options, but it's so far out of the realm that no one is thinking about that seriously at the moment,' another administration official said.
Although the opposition is decidedly split on the issue, Burhan Ghalioun, the president of the Syrian National Council, earlier this month called on the international community to enforce a no-fly zone in Syria.
'Our main objective is finding mechanisms to protect civilians and stop the killing machine,' said Ghalioun. 'We say it is imperative to use forceful measures to force the regime to respect human rights.'
Is the U.S. bark worse than its bite?
Rhetorically, the administration has been active in calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step aside and protecting the rights of Syrian protesters, despite the lack of clear policy to achieve that result. 'The United States continues to believe that the only way to bring about the change that the Syrian people deserve is for Bashar al-Assad to leave power,' White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Dec. 21.
On Tuesday, Dec. 27, the administration hinted at stronger action if the Syrian government doesn't let the Arab League monitors do their work. 'If the Syrian regime continues to resist and disregard Arab League efforts, the international community will consider other means to protect Syrian civilians,' State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement.
The Syrian National Council (SNC), the primary organization representing the opposition, has been very clear that it is seeking more than rhetorical support from the United States and the international community. An extensive policy paper titled, 'Safe Area for Syria,' edited by SNC member Ausama Monajed, laid out the argument for armed intervention by the international community to aid Syrian civilians."
Read it all.
I still believe that Obama is waiting for the moment when Israel attacks Gaza so that he can apply his "responsibility to protect" to the savage Palestinians; he's just itching to take on Israel. Of course, none of this can take place until his presumed re-election. Gotta deceive those Jewish voters, you know.
The question I have: Who will protect Americans from our dictator?
Read from The Cable, via Prophecy Update:
Obama administration secretly preparing options for aiding the Syrian opposition
"As the violence in Syria spirals out of control, top officials in President Barack Obama's administration are quietly preparing options for how to assist the Syrian opposition, including gaming out the unlikely option of setting up a no-fly zone in Syria and preparing for another major diplomatic initiative.
Critics on Capitol Hill accuse the Obama administration of being slow to react to the quickening deterioration of the security situation in Syria, where over 5,000 have died, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. Many lawmakers say the White House is once again 'leading from behind,' while the Turks, the French, and the Arab League -- which sent an observer mission to Syria this week - take the initiative to pursue more aggressive strategies for pressuring the Assad regime. But U.S. officials said that they are moving cautiously in order to avoid destabilizing Syria further, and to make sure they know as much as possible about the country's complex dynamics before getting more involved.
But the administration does see the status quo in Syria as unsustainable. The Bashar al Assad regime is a 'dead man walking,' State Department official Fred Hof said this month. So the administration is now ramping up its policymaking machinery on the issue. After several weeks of having no top-level administration meetings to discuss the Syria crisis, the National Security Council (NSC) has begun an informal, quiet interagency process to create and collect options for aiding the Syrian opposition, two administration officials confirmed to The Cable.
The process, led by NSC Senior Director Steve Simon, involves only a few select officials from State, Defense, Treasury, and other relevant agencies. The group is unusually small, presumably to prevent media leaks, and the administration is not using the normal process of Interagency Policy Committee (IPC), Deputies Committee (DC), or Principals Committee (PC) meetings, the officials said. Another key official inside the discussions is Hof, who is leading the interactions with Syrian opposition leaders and U.S. allies.
The options that are under consideration include establishing a humanitarian corridor or safe zone for civilians in Syria along the Turkish border, extending humanitarian aid to the Syrian rebels, providing medical aid to Syrian clinics, engaging more with the external and internal opposition, forming an international contact group, or appointing a special coordinator for working with the Syrian opposition (as was done in Libya), according to the two officials, both of whom are familiar with the discussions but not in attendance at the meetings.
'The interagency is now looking at options for Syria, but it's still at the preliminary stage,' one official said. 'There are many people in the administration that realize the status quo is unsustainable and there is an internal recognition that existing financial sanctions are not going to bring down the Syrian regime in the near future.'
After imposing several rounds of financial sanctions on Syrian regime leaders, the focus is now shifting to assisting the opposition directly. The interagency process is still ongoing and the NSC has tasked State and DOD to present options in the near future, but nothing has been decided, said the officials - one of whom told The Cable that the administration was being intentionally cautious out of concern about what comes next in Syria.
'Due to the incredible and far-reaching ramifications of the Syrian problem set, people are being very cautious,' the official said. 'The criticism could be we're not doing enough to change the status quo because we're leading from behind. But the reason we are being so cautious is because when you look at the possible ramifications, it's mindboggling.'
A power vacuum in the country, loose weapons of mass destruction, a refugee crisis, and unrest across the region are just a few of the problems that could attend the collapse of the Assad regime, the official said.
'This isn't Libya. What happens in Libya stays in Libya, but that is not going to happen in Syria. The stakes are higher,' the official said. 'Right now, we see the risks of moving too fast as higher than the risks of moving too slow.'
The option of establishing a humanitarian corridor is seen as extremely unlikely because it would require establishing a no-fly zone over parts of Syria, which would likely involve large-scale attacks on the Syrian air defense and military command-and-control systems.
'That's theoretically one of the options, but it's so far out of the realm that no one is thinking about that seriously at the moment,' another administration official said.
Although the opposition is decidedly split on the issue, Burhan Ghalioun, the president of the Syrian National Council, earlier this month called on the international community to enforce a no-fly zone in Syria.
'Our main objective is finding mechanisms to protect civilians and stop the killing machine,' said Ghalioun. 'We say it is imperative to use forceful measures to force the regime to respect human rights.'
Is the U.S. bark worse than its bite?
Rhetorically, the administration has been active in calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step aside and protecting the rights of Syrian protesters, despite the lack of clear policy to achieve that result. 'The United States continues to believe that the only way to bring about the change that the Syrian people deserve is for Bashar al-Assad to leave power,' White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Dec. 21.
On Tuesday, Dec. 27, the administration hinted at stronger action if the Syrian government doesn't let the Arab League monitors do their work. 'If the Syrian regime continues to resist and disregard Arab League efforts, the international community will consider other means to protect Syrian civilians,' State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement.
The Syrian National Council (SNC), the primary organization representing the opposition, has been very clear that it is seeking more than rhetorical support from the United States and the international community. An extensive policy paper titled, 'Safe Area for Syria,' edited by SNC member Ausama Monajed, laid out the argument for armed intervention by the international community to aid Syrian civilians."
Read it all.
Brave Ex-Muslim Speaks Out
More from the liberated one, a former Muslim who saw the light and left the cult-like faith and now shares her experiences as a former Muslim.
Read from Jihad Watch:
"I have spent 35 years in an evil cult and it is so difficult to get over it or put it behind me"
"Here is the latest from Shakila, the Liberated One, over at her blog. She is very concerned, as you'll see, that some Islamic supremacists are saying that she is a fictional character of my creation. While I appreciate her concern, it is not necessary: as we have seen here again and again and again, Islamic supremacists have no interest in the truth whatsoever, and will say anything to exonerate Islam from the natural consequences of its texts and teachings.
...'Someone has commented on my last post that why don’t I share it with my parents instead of writing about it on the blog? I think either that guy is mentally challenged or he is just a sadist who wants to read about yet another honor killing in the Muslim world. My parents are really staunch Muslims. My dad prays in the mosque five times a day and my mom wears the burqa and prays 6 times a day, 5 obligatory prayers and then an additional one called Tahajjud. There is no way I can share with parents or my siblings or any of my relatives, and not even with my Muslim friends or colleagues. If my family ever finds out, they might not kill me, but they will definitely disown me for life.
The only reason I am writing this blog is because I need to release my pent up frustrations and this is the only way I can do it, an anonymous blog. None of you can understand my predicament unless and until you also happen to be an ex-Muslim. Even now, I get nightmares every night where I am either fasting or praying or circumambulating around that black square object in Mecca. I get panic attacks each time I pass by a mosque or hear or see people praying. I have spent 35 years in an evil cult and it is so difficult to get over it or put it behind me. Sometimes, I even feel suicidal because I just cannot take it anymore, I feel extremely lonely and disconnected from the people around me. I feel totally alienated from my own family and I feel this suffocation inside me which is really killing me.
When I was in school, we were taught Islamic studies right from kindergarten till grade 12, and even during my graduation, Islamic studies was a compulsory subject. We were taught a whitewashed version of Mohammed’s biography which depicted him as a saint, a kind hearted and loving prophet of God who wanted a Utopian society where everyone believed in one God. He was a poor orphan who lost his mother at the age of 6 and then was brought up by his grandfather and uncle, then married a woman 15 years older than him. He defended this people from the enemy and the wars that he fought were only defensive. This was what I knew all my life until recently when I read the truth behind his benevolent demeanor, when I was exposed to books such as " target="_blank">Understanding Muhammad, The Truth about Muhammad, The Cult of the Moon God, Why I am not a Muslim and several other similar books. One day, I want to write a book as well, about my past life and a typical Muslim woman’s life, the challenges she faces on a day to day basis. In fact, I already got an offer to co-write a book, and I am seriously considering the possibility of doing it.'
Read it all."
Read from Jihad Watch:
"I have spent 35 years in an evil cult and it is so difficult to get over it or put it behind me"
"Here is the latest from Shakila, the Liberated One, over at her blog. She is very concerned, as you'll see, that some Islamic supremacists are saying that she is a fictional character of my creation. While I appreciate her concern, it is not necessary: as we have seen here again and again and again, Islamic supremacists have no interest in the truth whatsoever, and will say anything to exonerate Islam from the natural consequences of its texts and teachings.
...'Someone has commented on my last post that why don’t I share it with my parents instead of writing about it on the blog? I think either that guy is mentally challenged or he is just a sadist who wants to read about yet another honor killing in the Muslim world. My parents are really staunch Muslims. My dad prays in the mosque five times a day and my mom wears the burqa and prays 6 times a day, 5 obligatory prayers and then an additional one called Tahajjud. There is no way I can share with parents or my siblings or any of my relatives, and not even with my Muslim friends or colleagues. If my family ever finds out, they might not kill me, but they will definitely disown me for life.
The only reason I am writing this blog is because I need to release my pent up frustrations and this is the only way I can do it, an anonymous blog. None of you can understand my predicament unless and until you also happen to be an ex-Muslim. Even now, I get nightmares every night where I am either fasting or praying or circumambulating around that black square object in Mecca. I get panic attacks each time I pass by a mosque or hear or see people praying. I have spent 35 years in an evil cult and it is so difficult to get over it or put it behind me. Sometimes, I even feel suicidal because I just cannot take it anymore, I feel extremely lonely and disconnected from the people around me. I feel totally alienated from my own family and I feel this suffocation inside me which is really killing me.
When I was in school, we were taught Islamic studies right from kindergarten till grade 12, and even during my graduation, Islamic studies was a compulsory subject. We were taught a whitewashed version of Mohammed’s biography which depicted him as a saint, a kind hearted and loving prophet of God who wanted a Utopian society where everyone believed in one God. He was a poor orphan who lost his mother at the age of 6 and then was brought up by his grandfather and uncle, then married a woman 15 years older than him. He defended this people from the enemy and the wars that he fought were only defensive. This was what I knew all my life until recently when I read the truth behind his benevolent demeanor, when I was exposed to books such as " target="_blank">Understanding Muhammad, The Truth about Muhammad, The Cult of the Moon God, Why I am not a Muslim and several other similar books. One day, I want to write a book as well, about my past life and a typical Muslim woman’s life, the challenges she faces on a day to day basis. In fact, I already got an offer to co-write a book, and I am seriously considering the possibility of doing it.'
Read it all."
Take This, President Obama!
In spite of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Americans are not falling for all that socialism crap.
Check out the results of recent polls on the subject, via Gateway Pundit:
Despite Obama-Endorsed #OWS Protests 60% of Americans Still Reject Socialism
"Despite the Obama-endorsed #Occupy Wall Street protests and three years of Barack Obama, 60% of Americans still reject socialism.
The Pew Research Center reported:
'The recent Occupy Wall Street protests have focused public attention on what organizers see as the excesses of America’s free market system, but perceptions of capitalism – and even of socialism – have changed little since early 2010 despite the recent tumult.
The American public’s take on capitalism remains mixed, with just slightly more saying they have a positive (50%) than a negative (40%) reaction to the term. That’s largely unchanged from a 52% to 37% balance of opinion in April 2010.
Socialism is a negative for most Americans, but certainly not all. Six-in-ten (60%) say they have a negative reaction to the word; 31% have a positive reaction. Those numbers are little changed from when the question was last asked in April 2010.
Of these terms, socialism is the more politically polarizing – the reaction is almost universally negative among conservatives, while generally positive among liberals. While there are substantial differences in how liberals and conservatives think of capitalism, the gaps are far narrower. Most notably, liberal Democrats and Occupy Wall Street supporters are as likely to view capitalism positively as negatively. And even among conservative Republicans and Tea Party supporters there is a significant minority who react negatively to capitalism.'"
Check out the results of recent polls on the subject, via Gateway Pundit:
Despite Obama-Endorsed #OWS Protests 60% of Americans Still Reject Socialism
"Despite the Obama-endorsed #Occupy Wall Street protests and three years of Barack Obama, 60% of Americans still reject socialism.
The Pew Research Center reported:
'The recent Occupy Wall Street protests have focused public attention on what organizers see as the excesses of America’s free market system, but perceptions of capitalism – and even of socialism – have changed little since early 2010 despite the recent tumult.
The American public’s take on capitalism remains mixed, with just slightly more saying they have a positive (50%) than a negative (40%) reaction to the term. That’s largely unchanged from a 52% to 37% balance of opinion in April 2010.
Socialism is a negative for most Americans, but certainly not all. Six-in-ten (60%) say they have a negative reaction to the word; 31% have a positive reaction. Those numbers are little changed from when the question was last asked in April 2010.
Of these terms, socialism is the more politically polarizing – the reaction is almost universally negative among conservatives, while generally positive among liberals. While there are substantial differences in how liberals and conservatives think of capitalism, the gaps are far narrower. Most notably, liberal Democrats and Occupy Wall Street supporters are as likely to view capitalism positively as negatively. And even among conservative Republicans and Tea Party supporters there is a significant minority who react negatively to capitalism.'"
Thursday, December 29, 2011
No Ticker Tape Parade for Our War Heroes
I know America is broke, but if we have enough money to fund a luxurious vacation to Hawaii for the First Family, don't we have enough money to finance some sort of celebration or acknowledgment of our troops for the sacrifices made in the war in Iraq? Apparently not. The disregard of our brave men and women is truly disgraceful.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Obama Administration Nixes Ticker-Tape Parade for Iraq War Troops
"Obama's contempt for the military is palpable. They say they are afraid a celebration 'could spark violence overseas.' How ridiculous. As if the jihadis weren't already trying to kill U.S. military personnel. Now the Obama Pentagon would have us believe that everything is fine and peaceful, but a ticker-tape parade for our troops will set the jihadis off? Please.
No troop parade imminent as Iraq war ends Associated Press (hat tip Gateway)
WASHINGTON — 'Americans probably won’t be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it’s not clear if veterans of the nine-year campaign will ever enjoy the grand, flag-waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming that the nation’s fighting men and women received after World War II and the Gulf War.
Officials in New York and Washington say they would be happy to help stage a big celebration, but Pentagon officials say they haven’t been asked to plan one.
Most welcome-homes have been smaller-scale: hugs from families at military posts across the country, a somber commemoration by President Obama at Fort Bragg, N.C.
With tens of thousands of U.S. troops still fighting a bloody war in Afghanistan, anything that looks like a big victory celebration could be seen as unseemly and premature, some say.
“It’s going to be a bit awkward to be celebrating too much, given how much there is going on and how much there will be going on in Afghanistan,” said Don Mrozek, a military history professor at Kansas State University.
Two New York City councilmen, Republicans Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo, have called for a ticker-tape parade down the stretch of Broadway known as the Canyon of Heroes. A similar celebration after the Gulf War was paid for with more than $5.2 million in private donations, a model the councilmen would like to follow.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said last week that he was open to the idea but added, “It’s a federal thing that we really don’t want to do without talking to Washington, and we’ll be doing that.”
A spokesman for the mayor declined to elaborate on the city’s reasons for consulting with Washington. Ignizio said he had been told by the mayor’s office that Pentagon officials were concerned that a celebration could spark violence overseas and were evaluating the risk....
“The sports celebrations that we’ve had in New York for the Yankees and the Mets were amazing,” Oddo said. “But these are the real heroes.”'"
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Obama Administration Nixes Ticker-Tape Parade for Iraq War Troops
"Obama's contempt for the military is palpable. They say they are afraid a celebration 'could spark violence overseas.' How ridiculous. As if the jihadis weren't already trying to kill U.S. military personnel. Now the Obama Pentagon would have us believe that everything is fine and peaceful, but a ticker-tape parade for our troops will set the jihadis off? Please.
No troop parade imminent as Iraq war ends Associated Press (hat tip Gateway)
WASHINGTON — 'Americans probably won’t be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it’s not clear if veterans of the nine-year campaign will ever enjoy the grand, flag-waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming that the nation’s fighting men and women received after World War II and the Gulf War.
Officials in New York and Washington say they would be happy to help stage a big celebration, but Pentagon officials say they haven’t been asked to plan one.
Most welcome-homes have been smaller-scale: hugs from families at military posts across the country, a somber commemoration by President Obama at Fort Bragg, N.C.
With tens of thousands of U.S. troops still fighting a bloody war in Afghanistan, anything that looks like a big victory celebration could be seen as unseemly and premature, some say.
“It’s going to be a bit awkward to be celebrating too much, given how much there is going on and how much there will be going on in Afghanistan,” said Don Mrozek, a military history professor at Kansas State University.
Two New York City councilmen, Republicans Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo, have called for a ticker-tape parade down the stretch of Broadway known as the Canyon of Heroes. A similar celebration after the Gulf War was paid for with more than $5.2 million in private donations, a model the councilmen would like to follow.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said last week that he was open to the idea but added, “It’s a federal thing that we really don’t want to do without talking to Washington, and we’ll be doing that.”
A spokesman for the mayor declined to elaborate on the city’s reasons for consulting with Washington. Ignizio said he had been told by the mayor’s office that Pentagon officials were concerned that a celebration could spark violence overseas and were evaluating the risk....
“The sports celebrations that we’ve had in New York for the Yankees and the Mets were amazing,” Oddo said. “But these are the real heroes.”'"
By His Fruits Will You Know Him
Wise words spoken by the Lord Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount. I can't think of a better verse to use to expose the truth about Barack Obama. While running for president in 2008, he sold himself as a "committed Christian", and way too many Christians fell for his lie.
One look at his pastor, Jeremiah Wright should have caused great concern from any true Christian. Those of us who cling to our Bibles saw Wright as a charlatan as soon as he was introduced on video with his rants against whites and Jews.
It's actually a simple process to determine whether the American people were sold a bill of goods; examine Obama's actions as president and you will soon see that there is nothing Christ-like about this man or his policies.
Read from One News Now:
An open letter to President Obama
Dr. Michael Youssef
"Dear Mr. Obama,
From the time you declared your candidacy for president of the United States and announced under your breath that you are a Christian, many true, Bible-believing Christians immediately had doubts about your muffled profession of faith. After all, for 20 years you drank deeply from the well of Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- who, in spite of the clerical garb he wears, preaches a Universalist gospel. It is not the true gospel that Jesus proclaimed, which clearly states that He and He alone is the only way to heaven and the Father. That claim was for all people of the earth.
The Bible is not ambiguous, Mr. President, as you and some of your Universalist friends believe. Jesus made it clear in John 14:6 that He alone is 'the way, the truth, and the life.' Furthermore, the Bible testifies in Acts 4:12 that 'there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved' except the name of Jesus.
That, Mr. Obama, is true Christianity.
Be that as it may, millions of Bible-believing Christians gave you the benefit of the doubt and decided to wait and see. After all, in the words of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, 'By their fruit you will recognize them' (Matt. 7:20). Many in the Evangelical community deliberately refused to judge you by your questionable associates and friends; they wanted to see for themselves.
And sadly, Mr. President, you deeply disappointed them.
Not only did you use endearing, even fawning, statements and declarations regarding Islam and Muslims, but you deliberately treated the National Day of Prayer underhandedly. While publicly recognizing every Muslim holy day in the past year, you failed to issue an Easter proclamation in 2011. You chose not to mention the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is, after all, the foundational bedrock of your Christian faith and the very reason why our nation celebrates Easter.
The limits of time and space do not afford me the luxury of enumerating your many anti-biblical and anti-Christian executive orders and policies. But I must speak to the bombshell of December 6, 2011.
You see. Mr. President, there are persecuted Christians in your home country of Indonesia, as well as in Nigeria. And thanks to your indecisive and failed policies, we have added Egypt to the list. These beleaguered Christians have always looked to the United States for encouragement and affirmation. But when they look to you, they find none.
Imagine, Mr. Obama, their dismay that you have not publically threatened to tie foreign aid -- which is the taxpayers' money, not the government's -- to stopping the church burnings and the severe persecution and killings of Christians in Egypt. Yet on December 6, your administration did decide to publically threaten to tie American taxpayer money in the form of foreign aid to the support of gay and lesbian rights. (See related article)
You surely know, Mr. Obama, that as Christians, while we see homosexuality as the Bible sees it ... a sin, we never hate nor advocate the killing of homosexuals. That is something left to your dear 'friends' in the Muslim world; something they do to both homosexuals and Christians on a regular basis.
The White House declared that this announcement 'marked the first U.S. government strategy to combat human rights abuses against gays and lesbians abroad.' This was no great comfort to desperate and persecuted Christians worldwide.
One final question, Mr. President.
If you are a true Christian, as you claim under your breath, why do you not feel that same passion and commitment toward your brothers and sisters in Christ, who are paying for their faith with their lives?
May the Lord's hand guide you to all truth.
This is my regular prayer for you."
One look at his pastor, Jeremiah Wright should have caused great concern from any true Christian. Those of us who cling to our Bibles saw Wright as a charlatan as soon as he was introduced on video with his rants against whites and Jews.
It's actually a simple process to determine whether the American people were sold a bill of goods; examine Obama's actions as president and you will soon see that there is nothing Christ-like about this man or his policies.
Read from One News Now:
An open letter to President Obama
Dr. Michael Youssef
"Dear Mr. Obama,
From the time you declared your candidacy for president of the United States and announced under your breath that you are a Christian, many true, Bible-believing Christians immediately had doubts about your muffled profession of faith. After all, for 20 years you drank deeply from the well of Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- who, in spite of the clerical garb he wears, preaches a Universalist gospel. It is not the true gospel that Jesus proclaimed, which clearly states that He and He alone is the only way to heaven and the Father. That claim was for all people of the earth.
The Bible is not ambiguous, Mr. President, as you and some of your Universalist friends believe. Jesus made it clear in John 14:6 that He alone is 'the way, the truth, and the life.' Furthermore, the Bible testifies in Acts 4:12 that 'there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved' except the name of Jesus.
That, Mr. Obama, is true Christianity.
Be that as it may, millions of Bible-believing Christians gave you the benefit of the doubt and decided to wait and see. After all, in the words of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, 'By their fruit you will recognize them' (Matt. 7:20). Many in the Evangelical community deliberately refused to judge you by your questionable associates and friends; they wanted to see for themselves.
And sadly, Mr. President, you deeply disappointed them.
Not only did you use endearing, even fawning, statements and declarations regarding Islam and Muslims, but you deliberately treated the National Day of Prayer underhandedly. While publicly recognizing every Muslim holy day in the past year, you failed to issue an Easter proclamation in 2011. You chose not to mention the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is, after all, the foundational bedrock of your Christian faith and the very reason why our nation celebrates Easter.
The limits of time and space do not afford me the luxury of enumerating your many anti-biblical and anti-Christian executive orders and policies. But I must speak to the bombshell of December 6, 2011.
You see. Mr. President, there are persecuted Christians in your home country of Indonesia, as well as in Nigeria. And thanks to your indecisive and failed policies, we have added Egypt to the list. These beleaguered Christians have always looked to the United States for encouragement and affirmation. But when they look to you, they find none.
Imagine, Mr. Obama, their dismay that you have not publically threatened to tie foreign aid -- which is the taxpayers' money, not the government's -- to stopping the church burnings and the severe persecution and killings of Christians in Egypt. Yet on December 6, your administration did decide to publically threaten to tie American taxpayer money in the form of foreign aid to the support of gay and lesbian rights. (See related article)
You surely know, Mr. Obama, that as Christians, while we see homosexuality as the Bible sees it ... a sin, we never hate nor advocate the killing of homosexuals. That is something left to your dear 'friends' in the Muslim world; something they do to both homosexuals and Christians on a regular basis.
The White House declared that this announcement 'marked the first U.S. government strategy to combat human rights abuses against gays and lesbians abroad.' This was no great comfort to desperate and persecuted Christians worldwide.
One final question, Mr. President.
If you are a true Christian, as you claim under your breath, why do you not feel that same passion and commitment toward your brothers and sisters in Christ, who are paying for their faith with their lives?
May the Lord's hand guide you to all truth.
This is my regular prayer for you."
New Findings About 9/11
Iran has been a thorn in America's side since 1979 when the Iranians kidnapped Americans from the U.S. embassy and held them hostage for 444 days, making a fool out of Jimmy Carter and releasing the hostages moments after Reagan was inaugurated. Now, Reagan was a man who commanded respect from the enemies of America, something for which our current president could never identify.
With the new revelation that Iran was involved in the 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil, everything changes. What will our weak commander-in-chief do now that we know the Iranians have committed an act of war on our homeland? Perhaps, Obama will apologize to the Iranians for alleged offenses from America against the Iranian regime.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Federal Judge: Iran, As Well As Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Responsible For 9/11
"This was an act of war. Yet Iran has not been punished for its role in the 911 attacks. As this new information contines to emerge, the next President of the United States should remove this murderous regime. That should be a campaign promise.
We can be sure that Obama is going to do nothing about this, except maybe film another obsequious video reaching out to the bloody mullahs.
Judge: Iran, Taliban, al Qaeda liable for 9/11 Associated Press
NEW YORK - 'A federal judge has signed a default judgment finding Iran, the Taliban and al Qaeda liable in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Judge George Daniels in Manhattan signed the judgment Thursday, a week after hearing testimony in the 10-year-old case. The signed ruling, which he promised last week, came in a $100 billion lawsuit brought by family members of victims of the attacks. He directed a magistrate judge to preside over remaining issues, including fixing compensatory and punitive damages.
Daniels signed findings of fact saying the plaintiffs had established that the 2001 attacks were caused by the support the defendants provided to al Qaeda. The findings also said Iran continues to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda by providing a safe haven for al Qaeda leadership and rank-and-file al Qaeda members.
During last week's open-court hearing, family members of Sept. 11 victims sat through a four-hour presentation from attorneys who cited evidence supporting their claims that Iran actively assisted the hijackers of planes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers, at the Pentagon and into a field in Pennsylvania. Former members of the Sept. 11 Commission and three Iranian defectors also spoke.
It would be near impossible to collect any damages, especially from the Taliban or al Qaeda.
Iran has not commented on the ruling. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied any Iranian connection in the Sept. 11 attacks or with al Qaeda. Saudi Arabia had been knocked out of the lawsuit, but lawyers filed papers on Thursday to reinstate Saudi Arabia as a defendant.'"
Hey, Mr. Vice-President, ya still think the Taliban is not our enemy?
With the new revelation that Iran was involved in the 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil, everything changes. What will our weak commander-in-chief do now that we know the Iranians have committed an act of war on our homeland? Perhaps, Obama will apologize to the Iranians for alleged offenses from America against the Iranian regime.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Federal Judge: Iran, As Well As Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Responsible For 9/11
"This was an act of war. Yet Iran has not been punished for its role in the 911 attacks. As this new information contines to emerge, the next President of the United States should remove this murderous regime. That should be a campaign promise.
We can be sure that Obama is going to do nothing about this, except maybe film another obsequious video reaching out to the bloody mullahs.
Judge: Iran, Taliban, al Qaeda liable for 9/11 Associated Press
NEW YORK - 'A federal judge has signed a default judgment finding Iran, the Taliban and al Qaeda liable in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Judge George Daniels in Manhattan signed the judgment Thursday, a week after hearing testimony in the 10-year-old case. The signed ruling, which he promised last week, came in a $100 billion lawsuit brought by family members of victims of the attacks. He directed a magistrate judge to preside over remaining issues, including fixing compensatory and punitive damages.
Daniels signed findings of fact saying the plaintiffs had established that the 2001 attacks were caused by the support the defendants provided to al Qaeda. The findings also said Iran continues to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda by providing a safe haven for al Qaeda leadership and rank-and-file al Qaeda members.
During last week's open-court hearing, family members of Sept. 11 victims sat through a four-hour presentation from attorneys who cited evidence supporting their claims that Iran actively assisted the hijackers of planes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers, at the Pentagon and into a field in Pennsylvania. Former members of the Sept. 11 Commission and three Iranian defectors also spoke.
It would be near impossible to collect any damages, especially from the Taliban or al Qaeda.
Iran has not commented on the ruling. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied any Iranian connection in the Sept. 11 attacks or with al Qaeda. Saudi Arabia had been knocked out of the lawsuit, but lawyers filed papers on Thursday to reinstate Saudi Arabia as a defendant.'"
Hey, Mr. Vice-President, ya still think the Taliban is not our enemy?
The Wisdom of Church Goers
I found this recent poll interesting. As believers in Jesus Christ, we are given an ability to discern good from evil, if we will only take advantage of this gift. Unbelievers, on the other hand, are out there floundering, susceptible to the charismatic, slick-talking Obama-types. So, it is quite revealing that Obama's approval numbers are significantly lower among church goers.
Read from Weaasel Zippers:
Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Among Church Goers 20 Points Lower Than Those Who Don’t Attend…
"Via Rasmussen:
'Opinions about President Obama are divided sharply along lines of faith and religious participation.
New Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveying of Likely U.S. Voters shows that the president earns a job approval rating of 58% among those who rarely or never attend church or religious services. However, among those who attend services every week or nearly every week, just 38% offer their approval. Among those who attend more than one service a week, approval is even lower at 31%.'
Read from Weaasel Zippers:
Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Among Church Goers 20 Points Lower Than Those Who Don’t Attend…
"Via Rasmussen:
'Opinions about President Obama are divided sharply along lines of faith and religious participation.
New Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveying of Likely U.S. Voters shows that the president earns a job approval rating of 58% among those who rarely or never attend church or religious services. However, among those who attend services every week or nearly every week, just 38% offer their approval. Among those who attend more than one service a week, approval is even lower at 31%.'
Defund the UN TODAY
I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the UN would lower its flag to honor the North Korean dictator. Nevertheless, I am thoroughly disgusted by its action. How can it honor such a horrific man who tortured and killed his own people? I don't know about you, but I don't want my money going to support such an organization.
Read from Gateway Pundit:
UN Flies Flag at Half-Mast in Honor of Kim Jong Il
"UNreal.
The flag of the United Nations flew at half-mast Wednesday at the world’s body headquarters in New York and its Geneva offices to mark the funeral for late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. (AFP)
The United Nations flew its flag at half-mast in honor of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il today.
The AFP reported, via Lucianne:
'The flag of the United Nations flew at half-mast Wednesday at the world’s body headquarters in New York and its Geneva offices to mark the funeral for late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.
Choi Soung-ah, a spokeswoman for UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, said it was customary practice for the UN flag to be lowered to half-mast upon the deaths of leaders of UN member states.
The non-governmental organization UN Watch said while protocol had to be followed, “the world body must not forget that its founding purpose is to defend basic human rights.”
“Sadly, that message is at serious risk of being blurred today,” UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said.
“Today should be a time for the UN to show solidarity with the victims — the millions of North Koreans brutalized by Kim’s merciless policies of starvation and oppression — and not with the perpetrators.”'"
Read from Gateway Pundit:
UN Flies Flag at Half-Mast in Honor of Kim Jong Il
"UNreal.
The flag of the United Nations flew at half-mast Wednesday at the world’s body headquarters in New York and its Geneva offices to mark the funeral for late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. (AFP)
The United Nations flew its flag at half-mast in honor of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il today.
The AFP reported, via Lucianne:
'The flag of the United Nations flew at half-mast Wednesday at the world’s body headquarters in New York and its Geneva offices to mark the funeral for late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.
Choi Soung-ah, a spokeswoman for UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, said it was customary practice for the UN flag to be lowered to half-mast upon the deaths of leaders of UN member states.
The non-governmental organization UN Watch said while protocol had to be followed, “the world body must not forget that its founding purpose is to defend basic human rights.”
“Sadly, that message is at serious risk of being blurred today,” UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said.
“Today should be a time for the UN to show solidarity with the victims — the millions of North Koreans brutalized by Kim’s merciless policies of starvation and oppression — and not with the perpetrators.”'"
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Charlie Brown Converts to Islam
Muslims represent less than 1% of the US population. Yet, we can't seem to get away from them. Now, they've even invaded Charlie Brown.
Read from Now the End Begins:
It’s An Islamist Christmas, Charlie Brown!
"In the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, you may have missed one of the Christmas season’s most intriguing — and potentially inflammatory – parody videos.
Comedian Denis Leary‘s production company, Apostle, posted a Charlie Brown spoof that is sure to cause some laughter, anger and — confusion.
Perhaps Gothamist describes it best as a 'very uncomfortable jihadist joke.' The premise of the short clip is that Charlie Brown converts from Christianity to Islam. As the video progresses, its themes become increasingly controversial.
What starts with Charlie saying, 'I’m so depressed. I think I’m losing my faith in Christianity,' ends with the beloved character in hell awaiting 72 virgins. Leary, who’s been known for his controversial work and commentary in the past, tackles other issues as well: praying facing mecca and Islamic garb, among other elements. source – The Blaze
Read from Now the End Begins:
It’s An Islamist Christmas, Charlie Brown!
"In the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, you may have missed one of the Christmas season’s most intriguing — and potentially inflammatory – parody videos.
Comedian Denis Leary‘s production company, Apostle, posted a Charlie Brown spoof that is sure to cause some laughter, anger and — confusion.
Perhaps Gothamist describes it best as a 'very uncomfortable jihadist joke.' The premise of the short clip is that Charlie Brown converts from Christianity to Islam. As the video progresses, its themes become increasingly controversial.
What starts with Charlie saying, 'I’m so depressed. I think I’m losing my faith in Christianity,' ends with the beloved character in hell awaiting 72 virgins. Leary, who’s been known for his controversial work and commentary in the past, tackles other issues as well: praying facing mecca and Islamic garb, among other elements. source – The Blaze
The American Pravda Ignores Scandal After Scandal
No one is more effective than Michelle Malkin in exposing the corruption of the Obama regime and the American Pravda for looking the other way regarding Obama's crimes against the American people.
Go Michelle! If only we had someone with her boldness to run against Obama for president. Actually, we do -- Newt Gingrich, but sadly his negatives outweigh his positives.
Read from One News Now:
The year in Obama scandals -- and scandal deniers
Michelle Malkin
"With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.
Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan asserted in May -- while Operation Fast and Furious subpoenas were flying on Capitol Hill -- that 'one of the least remarked upon aspects of the Obama presidency has been the lack of scandals.' Conveniently, he defines scandal as a 'widespread elite perception of wrongdoing.'
So as long as left-wing Ivy League scribes refuse to perceive something to be a scandal -- never mind the actual suffering endured by the family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, whose death came at the hands of a Mexican cartel thug wielding a Fast and Furious gun walked across the southern border under Attorney General Eric Holder's watch -- there is no scandal!
Self-serving much?
Mother Jones' Kevin Drum likewise proclaimed: 'Obama's presidency has so far been almost completely free of scandal.'
This after the year kicked off in January with the departure of lying eco-radical czar Carol Browner. In backroom negotiations, she infamously bullied auto execs to 'put nothing in writing, ever.' The previous fall, the White House's own oil spill panel had singled out Browner for misleading the public about the scientific evidence for the administration's Draconian drilling moratorium and 'contributing to the perception that the government's findings were more exact than they actually were.'
The Interior Department inspector general and federal judges likewise blasted drilling ban book-cooking by Browner and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who falsely rewrote the White House drilling ban report to doctor the Obama-appointed panel's own overwhelming scientific objections to the job-killing edict.
In February, federal judge Martin Feldman in Louisiana excoriated the Obama Interior Department for defying his May 2010 order to lift its fraudulent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf. He called out the administration's culture of contempt and 'determined disregard' for the law.
This spring saw rising public anger over the preferential Obamacare waiver process (which I first reported on in September 2010). Some 2,000 lucky golden ticket winners were freed from the costly federal mandates -- including a handful of fancy restaurants in Aloha Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district, the entire state of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Nevada, and scores of local, state and national Big Labor organizations, from the Service Employees International Union and Teamsters on down. Meanwhile, as The Hill newspaper reported last month, other not-so-lucky Republican-led states seeking waivers, such as Indiana and Louisiana, were rejected.
But it wasn't just Republicans objecting to the president's arbitrary Obamacare fiats. In July, congressional Democrats turned on the monstrous federal health bureaucracy known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The constitutionally suspect panel -- freed from normal public notice, public comment and public review rules -- would have unprecedented authority over health care spending and an expanding jurisdiction of private health care payment rates.
Obama's health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, faced separate legal questions over her overseer role in a hair-raising document-shredding case when she served as governor of Kansas. In October, a district judge in the Sunflower State suspended court proceedings in a high-profile criminal case against the abortion racketeers of Planned Parenthood. Bombshell court filings showed that Kansas health officials 'shredded documents related to felony charges the abortion giant faces' and failed to disclose it for six years.
That same month, Bloomberg News columnist Jonathan Alter gushed: 'There is zero evidence ... of corruption. Where is it?'
Alter's declaration of the 'Obama Miracle' came just weeks after the politically driven half-billion-dollar Solyndra stimulus 'investment' went bankrupt, prompting an FBI raid and ongoing criminal and congressional probes of the solar company funded by top White House bundler and visitor George Kaiser.
As Solyndra and an avalanche of other ongoing green subsidy scams erupted, so did the LightSquared debacle -- a federal broadband boondoggle involving billionaire hedge fund managers and Obama donors Philip Falcone and George Soros. In September, two high-ranking witnesses -- William Shelton, the four-star general who heads the Air Force Space Command, and National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Director Anthony Russo -- exposed how the White House had pressured them to alter their congressional testimony and play down concerns about LightSquared's interference threat to military communications.
The White House continues to block efforts to gain information about the Federal Communications Commission's approval of a special waiver for the company, even as new government tests this month showed that the company's 'signals caused harmful interference to the majority of ... general purpose GPS receivers.'
The Obama White House closed out the year with Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri demanding a probe of the smelly $443 million no-bid smallpox antiviral pill contract with Siga Technologies -- controlled by big lefty donor Ron Perelman. Then there was the small matter of massive voter fraud in Indiana, where a Democratic official resigned amid allegations that 'dozens, if not hundreds,' of signatures were faked to get Obama on the state primary ballot in 2008. And while Americans busied themselves with the holidays, White House and Democratic campaign officials were dumping more than $70,000 in contributions from another deep-pocketed contributor -- scandal-plagued pal and former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who oversaw the collapse of MF Global.
All this -- and so much more -- yet erstwhile 'conservative' journalist Andrew Sullivan of Newsweek/The Daily Beast scoffed, 'Where are all the scandals promised by Michelle Malkin?'
There's none so blind as those who will not see."
Go Michelle! If only we had someone with her boldness to run against Obama for president. Actually, we do -- Newt Gingrich, but sadly his negatives outweigh his positives.
Read from One News Now:
The year in Obama scandals -- and scandal deniers
Michelle Malkin
"With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.
Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan asserted in May -- while Operation Fast and Furious subpoenas were flying on Capitol Hill -- that 'one of the least remarked upon aspects of the Obama presidency has been the lack of scandals.' Conveniently, he defines scandal as a 'widespread elite perception of wrongdoing.'
So as long as left-wing Ivy League scribes refuse to perceive something to be a scandal -- never mind the actual suffering endured by the family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, whose death came at the hands of a Mexican cartel thug wielding a Fast and Furious gun walked across the southern border under Attorney General Eric Holder's watch -- there is no scandal!
Self-serving much?
Mother Jones' Kevin Drum likewise proclaimed: 'Obama's presidency has so far been almost completely free of scandal.'
This after the year kicked off in January with the departure of lying eco-radical czar Carol Browner. In backroom negotiations, she infamously bullied auto execs to 'put nothing in writing, ever.' The previous fall, the White House's own oil spill panel had singled out Browner for misleading the public about the scientific evidence for the administration's Draconian drilling moratorium and 'contributing to the perception that the government's findings were more exact than they actually were.'
The Interior Department inspector general and federal judges likewise blasted drilling ban book-cooking by Browner and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who falsely rewrote the White House drilling ban report to doctor the Obama-appointed panel's own overwhelming scientific objections to the job-killing edict.
In February, federal judge Martin Feldman in Louisiana excoriated the Obama Interior Department for defying his May 2010 order to lift its fraudulent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf. He called out the administration's culture of contempt and 'determined disregard' for the law.
This spring saw rising public anger over the preferential Obamacare waiver process (which I first reported on in September 2010). Some 2,000 lucky golden ticket winners were freed from the costly federal mandates -- including a handful of fancy restaurants in Aloha Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district, the entire state of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Nevada, and scores of local, state and national Big Labor organizations, from the Service Employees International Union and Teamsters on down. Meanwhile, as The Hill newspaper reported last month, other not-so-lucky Republican-led states seeking waivers, such as Indiana and Louisiana, were rejected.
But it wasn't just Republicans objecting to the president's arbitrary Obamacare fiats. In July, congressional Democrats turned on the monstrous federal health bureaucracy known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The constitutionally suspect panel -- freed from normal public notice, public comment and public review rules -- would have unprecedented authority over health care spending and an expanding jurisdiction of private health care payment rates.
Obama's health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, faced separate legal questions over her overseer role in a hair-raising document-shredding case when she served as governor of Kansas. In October, a district judge in the Sunflower State suspended court proceedings in a high-profile criminal case against the abortion racketeers of Planned Parenthood. Bombshell court filings showed that Kansas health officials 'shredded documents related to felony charges the abortion giant faces' and failed to disclose it for six years.
That same month, Bloomberg News columnist Jonathan Alter gushed: 'There is zero evidence ... of corruption. Where is it?'
Alter's declaration of the 'Obama Miracle' came just weeks after the politically driven half-billion-dollar Solyndra stimulus 'investment' went bankrupt, prompting an FBI raid and ongoing criminal and congressional probes of the solar company funded by top White House bundler and visitor George Kaiser.
As Solyndra and an avalanche of other ongoing green subsidy scams erupted, so did the LightSquared debacle -- a federal broadband boondoggle involving billionaire hedge fund managers and Obama donors Philip Falcone and George Soros. In September, two high-ranking witnesses -- William Shelton, the four-star general who heads the Air Force Space Command, and National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Director Anthony Russo -- exposed how the White House had pressured them to alter their congressional testimony and play down concerns about LightSquared's interference threat to military communications.
The White House continues to block efforts to gain information about the Federal Communications Commission's approval of a special waiver for the company, even as new government tests this month showed that the company's 'signals caused harmful interference to the majority of ... general purpose GPS receivers.'
The Obama White House closed out the year with Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri demanding a probe of the smelly $443 million no-bid smallpox antiviral pill contract with Siga Technologies -- controlled by big lefty donor Ron Perelman. Then there was the small matter of massive voter fraud in Indiana, where a Democratic official resigned amid allegations that 'dozens, if not hundreds,' of signatures were faked to get Obama on the state primary ballot in 2008. And while Americans busied themselves with the holidays, White House and Democratic campaign officials were dumping more than $70,000 in contributions from another deep-pocketed contributor -- scandal-plagued pal and former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who oversaw the collapse of MF Global.
All this -- and so much more -- yet erstwhile 'conservative' journalist Andrew Sullivan of Newsweek/The Daily Beast scoffed, 'Where are all the scandals promised by Michelle Malkin?'
There's none so blind as those who will not see."
Destroy Israel in Stages
Islamists can be oh so honest when given the opportunity, probably because they know that they have the corrupt left-wing media in their camp. Only those of us who bother to actually investigate what is taking place in this world are aware of their true intentions.
Read from Jihad Watch:
Hamas top dog Haniyeh: Goal is destruction of Israel in stages
"They state their aspirations quite openly, but Western authorities remain determined to ignore them. 'Hamas leader Haniyeh: Goal is destruction of Israel in stages,' by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik for Palestinian Media Watch, December 27 (thanks to all who sent this in):
'At a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh said that Hamas may work for the "interim objective of liberation of Gaza, the West Bank, or Jerusalem," but that this "interim objective" and "reconciliation" with Fatah will not change Hamas' long-term "strategic" goal of eliminating all of Israel:
"The armed resistance and the armed struggle are the path and the strategic choice for liberating the Palestinian land, from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river, and for the expulsion of the invaders and usurpers [Israel]... We won't relinquish one inch of the land of Palestine."
Click to view
In his speech, Haniyeh also promised that Hamas will "lead Intifada after Intifada until we liberate Palestine - all of Palestine, Allah willing. Allah Akbar and praise Allah."
Two days later, contradicting Haniyeh's statements, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said that Hamas leader abroad Khaled Mashaal had agreed that:
- "There will be no military resistance."
- "The permanent solution is on the '67 borders."
According to Abbas, Hamas agrees to a permanent solution on the '67 borders. However, Haniyeh said that Hamas agrees to a temporary solution on the '67 borders as a first stage only.
For many years, the PLO promoted a "stages plan" that would first create a Palestinian state on the 1949 - 1967 armistice lines, and then work from that position to destroy Israel.
Senior Fatah official Abbas Zaki recently stated that this remains the goal for Fatah as well, but that "you can't say it to the world. You can say it to yourself."...'
And the world is willingly fooled."
Read from Jihad Watch:
Hamas top dog Haniyeh: Goal is destruction of Israel in stages
"They state their aspirations quite openly, but Western authorities remain determined to ignore them. 'Hamas leader Haniyeh: Goal is destruction of Israel in stages,' by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik for Palestinian Media Watch, December 27 (thanks to all who sent this in):
'At a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh said that Hamas may work for the "interim objective of liberation of Gaza, the West Bank, or Jerusalem," but that this "interim objective" and "reconciliation" with Fatah will not change Hamas' long-term "strategic" goal of eliminating all of Israel:
"The armed resistance and the armed struggle are the path and the strategic choice for liberating the Palestinian land, from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river, and for the expulsion of the invaders and usurpers [Israel]... We won't relinquish one inch of the land of Palestine."
Click to view
In his speech, Haniyeh also promised that Hamas will "lead Intifada after Intifada until we liberate Palestine - all of Palestine, Allah willing. Allah Akbar and praise Allah."
Two days later, contradicting Haniyeh's statements, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said that Hamas leader abroad Khaled Mashaal had agreed that:
- "There will be no military resistance."
- "The permanent solution is on the '67 borders."
According to Abbas, Hamas agrees to a permanent solution on the '67 borders. However, Haniyeh said that Hamas agrees to a temporary solution on the '67 borders as a first stage only.
For many years, the PLO promoted a "stages plan" that would first create a Palestinian state on the 1949 - 1967 armistice lines, and then work from that position to destroy Israel.
Senior Fatah official Abbas Zaki recently stated that this remains the goal for Fatah as well, but that "you can't say it to the world. You can say it to yourself."...'
And the world is willingly fooled."
The Santa Killings in Texas
A family is slaughtered in Texas, and we don't hear about it? Unusual, you might say. Not really, because the victims were all Muslims killed at the hand of their Muslim relative who was cleansing the family's honor. The American Pravda dare not make an issue of such a story.
Read all about it from Gateway Pundit:
Texas Christmas Honor Killings: Mass Murderer Didn’t Want Daughter Dating Non-Muslim
"Aziz Yazdanpanah, dressed as Santa, shot dead his former wife, his daughter, his son, his-sister in-law, his brother-in-law, and his niece. Then he shot himself.
Aziz didn’t want his daughter Nona Yazdanpanah to date non-Muslims.
Via ABC News:
On Christmas Day Aziz Yazdanpanah shot his family dead. He didn’t want his daughter dating a non-Muslim.
ABC News reported:
'A Santa-suited gunman who killed six people on Christmas morning was the estranged husband of one of the victims and the father of two teenagers who died in the massacre.
Aziz Yazdanpanah, 56, showed up to his estranged wife’s apartment on Christmas morning dressed like St. Nick and opened fire shortly after the family had unwrapped presents.
Yazdanpanah then killed himself.
The six victims were identified by ABC affiliate WFAA as: Nasrin Rahmaty, 55, who was Yazdanpanah’s wife; Nona Yazdanpanah, 19, his daughter; Ali Yazdanpanah, 15, his son; Zohreh Rahmaty, 58, his sister-in-law; Hossein Zarei, 59, his brother-in-law; and Sahra Zarei, 22, his niece.'
The Dallas Morning News reported more on the killer, via Jihad Watch.
'But a more ominous portrait emerged of Yazdanpanah in interviews with some of his daughter’s other classmates.
“She would come to school crying and telling us her dad was crazy,” said Lacie Reed, 18. “He wouldn’t let her wear certain things. He was always taking her phone away, checking her call history and checking her text messages.”
Friends said Nona’s father had installed cameras all around the home so he could watch the family’s comings and goings. Others said he nailed her bedroom window shut so she could not sneak out at night and see her boyfriend.
“She couldn’t date at all until she was a certain age, but when he was going to let her date she couldn’t date anyone outside of their race or religion,” Reed said.'
Atlas has more on the killer."
Read all about it from Gateway Pundit:
Texas Christmas Honor Killings: Mass Murderer Didn’t Want Daughter Dating Non-Muslim
"Aziz Yazdanpanah, dressed as Santa, shot dead his former wife, his daughter, his son, his-sister in-law, his brother-in-law, and his niece. Then he shot himself.
Aziz didn’t want his daughter Nona Yazdanpanah to date non-Muslims.
Via ABC News:
On Christmas Day Aziz Yazdanpanah shot his family dead. He didn’t want his daughter dating a non-Muslim.
ABC News reported:
'A Santa-suited gunman who killed six people on Christmas morning was the estranged husband of one of the victims and the father of two teenagers who died in the massacre.
Aziz Yazdanpanah, 56, showed up to his estranged wife’s apartment on Christmas morning dressed like St. Nick and opened fire shortly after the family had unwrapped presents.
Yazdanpanah then killed himself.
The six victims were identified by ABC affiliate WFAA as: Nasrin Rahmaty, 55, who was Yazdanpanah’s wife; Nona Yazdanpanah, 19, his daughter; Ali Yazdanpanah, 15, his son; Zohreh Rahmaty, 58, his sister-in-law; Hossein Zarei, 59, his brother-in-law; and Sahra Zarei, 22, his niece.'
The Dallas Morning News reported more on the killer, via Jihad Watch.
'But a more ominous portrait emerged of Yazdanpanah in interviews with some of his daughter’s other classmates.
“She would come to school crying and telling us her dad was crazy,” said Lacie Reed, 18. “He wouldn’t let her wear certain things. He was always taking her phone away, checking her call history and checking her text messages.”
Friends said Nona’s father had installed cameras all around the home so he could watch the family’s comings and goings. Others said he nailed her bedroom window shut so she could not sneak out at night and see her boyfriend.
“She couldn’t date at all until she was a certain age, but when he was going to let her date she couldn’t date anyone outside of their race or religion,” Reed said.'
Atlas has more on the killer."
"One Day We'll Kill ALL the Jews"
Obama's Arab Spring is proceeding as planned. Apparently, the Islamists have the same goal for the Jews as Obama -- their annihilation. After all, he wants Israel to go back to its indefensible 1967 borders.
The only difference between Obama and the Islamists is the fact that they are a little more honest about their intentions.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Muslim Brotherhood Rally In Cairo Mosque: One Day We'll Kill All the Jews
"Now that the Muslim Brotherhood is in the driver's seat in Egypt, their genocidal Jew-hatred can come fully out into the open. No one should be surprised by that -- after all, Islamic Jew-hatred is in the quran.
Cairo rally: One day we'll kill all Jews YNET (hat tip Jack)
'Arab hate: A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo's most prominent mosque Friday turned into a venomous anti-Israel protest, with attendants vowing to "one day kill all Jews."
Some 5,000 people joined the rally, called to promote the "battle against Jerusalem's Judaization." The event coincided with the anniversary of the United Nations' partition plan in 1947, which called for the establishment of a Jewish state.
However, most worshippers who prayed at the mosque Friday quickly left it before the Muslim Brotherhood's rally got underway. A group spokesman urged attendants to remain for the protest, asking them not to create a bad impression for the media by leaving.
'Treacherous Jews'
Speakers at the event delivered impassioned, hateful speeches against Israel, slamming the "Zionist occupiers" and the "treacherous Jews." Upon leaving the rally, worshippers were given small flags, with Egypt's flag on one side and the Palestinian flag on the other, as well as maps of Jerusalem's Old City detailing where "Zionists are aiming to change Jerusalem's Muslim character."
Propaganda material ahead of Egypt's parliamentary elections was also handed out at the site.
Spiritual leader Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb charged in his speech that to this day Jews everywhere in the world are seeking to prevent Islamic and Egyptian unity.
"In order to build Egypt, we must be one. Politics is insufficient. Faith in Allah is the basis for everything," he said. "The al-Aqsa Mosque is currently under an offensive by the Jews…we shall not allow the Zionists to Judaize al-Quds (Jerusalem.) We are telling Israel and Europe that we shall not allow even one stone to be moved there."
'We have different mentality'
Muslim Brotherhood spokesmen, as well as Palestinian guest speakers, made explicit calls for Jihad and for liberating the whole of Palestine. Time and again, a Koran quote vowing that "one day we shall kill all the Jews" was uttered at the site. Meanwhile, businessmen in the crowd were urged to invest funds in Jerusalem in order to prevent the acquisition of land and homes by Jews.
Throughout the event, Muslim Brotherhood activists chanted: "Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, judgment day has come."
Speaking to Ynet outside the mosque following the prayer, elementary school teacher Ala al-Din said that "all Egyptian Muslims are willing to embark on Jihad for the sake of Palestine."
"Why is the US losing in Afghanistan? Because the other side is willing and wants to die. We have a different mentality than that of the Americans and Jews," he said.'
Yes, they love death and we love life."
The only difference between Obama and the Islamists is the fact that they are a little more honest about their intentions.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Muslim Brotherhood Rally In Cairo Mosque: One Day We'll Kill All the Jews
"Now that the Muslim Brotherhood is in the driver's seat in Egypt, their genocidal Jew-hatred can come fully out into the open. No one should be surprised by that -- after all, Islamic Jew-hatred is in the quran.
Cairo rally: One day we'll kill all Jews YNET (hat tip Jack)
'Arab hate: A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo's most prominent mosque Friday turned into a venomous anti-Israel protest, with attendants vowing to "one day kill all Jews."
Some 5,000 people joined the rally, called to promote the "battle against Jerusalem's Judaization." The event coincided with the anniversary of the United Nations' partition plan in 1947, which called for the establishment of a Jewish state.
However, most worshippers who prayed at the mosque Friday quickly left it before the Muslim Brotherhood's rally got underway. A group spokesman urged attendants to remain for the protest, asking them not to create a bad impression for the media by leaving.
'Treacherous Jews'
Speakers at the event delivered impassioned, hateful speeches against Israel, slamming the "Zionist occupiers" and the "treacherous Jews." Upon leaving the rally, worshippers were given small flags, with Egypt's flag on one side and the Palestinian flag on the other, as well as maps of Jerusalem's Old City detailing where "Zionists are aiming to change Jerusalem's Muslim character."
Propaganda material ahead of Egypt's parliamentary elections was also handed out at the site.
Spiritual leader Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb charged in his speech that to this day Jews everywhere in the world are seeking to prevent Islamic and Egyptian unity.
"In order to build Egypt, we must be one. Politics is insufficient. Faith in Allah is the basis for everything," he said. "The al-Aqsa Mosque is currently under an offensive by the Jews…we shall not allow the Zionists to Judaize al-Quds (Jerusalem.) We are telling Israel and Europe that we shall not allow even one stone to be moved there."
'We have different mentality'
Muslim Brotherhood spokesmen, as well as Palestinian guest speakers, made explicit calls for Jihad and for liberating the whole of Palestine. Time and again, a Koran quote vowing that "one day we shall kill all the Jews" was uttered at the site. Meanwhile, businessmen in the crowd were urged to invest funds in Jerusalem in order to prevent the acquisition of land and homes by Jews.
Throughout the event, Muslim Brotherhood activists chanted: "Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, judgment day has come."
Speaking to Ynet outside the mosque following the prayer, elementary school teacher Ala al-Din said that "all Egyptian Muslims are willing to embark on Jihad for the sake of Palestine."
"Why is the US losing in Afghanistan? Because the other side is willing and wants to die. We have a different mentality than that of the Americans and Jews," he said.'
Yes, they love death and we love life."
"Hamas' Long-Term 'Strategic' Goal"
All you have to do is listen to these terrorists. Time after time, they tell us exactly what their true intentions are.
Anyone who actually believes that Hamas intends to work toward peace with the Israelis is either living under a rock or finds the destruction of Israel to be perfectly acceptable. I think we know which category to which our president falls.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Hamas Leader: If We Agreed To 1967 Borders It Would Be Part Of An “Interim Objective,” Our “Strategic” Goal Is The Complete Annihilation Of Israel…
"But Israel is supposed to get to the 'damn negotiating table' according to the Obama regime.
Via PMW:
'At a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh said that Hamas may work for the “interim objective of liberation of Gaza, the West Bank, or Jerusalem,” but that this “interim objective” and “reconciliation” with Fatah will not change Hamas’ long-term “strategic” goal of eliminating all of Israel:
“The armed resistance and the armed struggle are the path and the strategic choice for liberating the Palestinian land, from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river, and for the expulsion of the invaders and usurpers [Israel]. . . We won’t relinquish one inch of the land of Palestine.”'
Keep reading…"
Anyone who actually believes that Hamas intends to work toward peace with the Israelis is either living under a rock or finds the destruction of Israel to be perfectly acceptable. I think we know which category to which our president falls.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Hamas Leader: If We Agreed To 1967 Borders It Would Be Part Of An “Interim Objective,” Our “Strategic” Goal Is The Complete Annihilation Of Israel…
"But Israel is supposed to get to the 'damn negotiating table' according to the Obama regime.
Via PMW:
'At a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh said that Hamas may work for the “interim objective of liberation of Gaza, the West Bank, or Jerusalem,” but that this “interim objective” and “reconciliation” with Fatah will not change Hamas’ long-term “strategic” goal of eliminating all of Israel:
“The armed resistance and the armed struggle are the path and the strategic choice for liberating the Palestinian land, from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river, and for the expulsion of the invaders and usurpers [Israel]. . . We won’t relinquish one inch of the land of Palestine.”'
Keep reading…"
A Pessimitic Outlook at Election 2012
We're screwed, folks. I hate to say it, but I think Obama stands a good chance of getting re-elected. He's screwed our country royally, but the candidates we have to go up against him are sadly lacking. By the time the American Pravda tears them apart, too many ignorant, ill-informed voters may decide to stick with the Marxist.
I know -- it's a terrifying thought because America will never survive another four years of Obama. Think of the damage that he's done to this nation and our freedoms when he was somewhat restrained from doing all that he wanted to do. The thought of re-election was always hanging over his head. Imagine what he will do knowing his election days are over.
Newt Gingrich is beginning to fizzle out as voters get to know him better. Ron Paul may be popular in Iowa, but he is a lunatic on foreign policy, so he'll never make it. Voters are unwilling to give Rick Perry a chance to debate against Obama because they know it would be a disaster. As to Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, both solid conservatives, they aren't gaining any traction, and Jon Huntsman is barely noticeable.
Speaking of Bachmann, I am currently reading her book, Core of Conviction. The more I read it, the more I like her. She's an awesome lady and would lead this nation as a Reagan conservative, but voters lack confidence in her.
Herman Cain, where are you when we need you? Oh, that's right, the American Pravda destroyed his reputation just as they do with any good conservative.
So, when it's all said and done, that leaves us with Mitt Romney. On paper, he looks like an excellent prospect with both his executive experience as governor of the People's Republic of Massachusetts and his free market experience rescuing failing companies. But Mitt has many weaknesses that need to be examined.
Read all about them, via Townhall:
7 Reasons Why Mitt Romney's Electability Is A Myth
John Hawkins
"Mitt Romney was a moderate governor in Massachusetts with an unimpressive record of governance. He left office with an approval rating in the thirties and his signature achievement, Romneycare, was a Hurricane Katrina style disaster for the state. Since that's the case, it's fair to ask what a Republican who's not conservative and can't even carry his own state brings to the table for GOP primary voters. The answer is always the same: Mitt Romney is supposed to be 'the most electable' candidate. This is a baffling argument because many people just seem to assume it's true, despite the plethora of evidence to the contrary.
1) People just don't like Mitt: The entire GOP primary process so far has consisted of Republican voters desperately trying to find an alternative to Mitt Romney. Doesn't it say something that GOP primary voters have, at one time or another, preferred Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and now even Ron Paul (In Iowa) to Mitt Romney?
To some people, this is a plus. They think that if conservatives don't like Mitt Romney, that means moderates will like him. This misunderstands how the process of attracting independent voters works in a presidential race. While it's true the swayable moderates don't want to support a candidate they view as an extremist, they also don't just automatically gravitate towards the most 'moderate' candidate. To the contrary, independent voters tend to be moved by the excitement of the candidate's base (See John McCain vs. Barack Obama for an example of how this works). This is how a very conservative candidate like Ronald Reagan could win landslide victories. He avoided being labeled an extremist as Goldwater was; yet his supporters were incredibly enthusiastic and moderates responded to it.
Let's be perfectly honest: Mitt Romney excites no one except for Mormons, political consultants, and Jennifer Rubin. To everybody else on the right, Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama would be a 'lesser of two evils' election where we'd grudgingly back Mitt because we wouldn’t lose as badly with him in the White House as we would with Obama. That's not the sort of thing that gets people fired up to make phone calls, canvass neighborhoods, or even put up 'I heart Mitt' signs in their yards.
2) He's a proven political loser: There's a reason Mitt Romney has been able to say that he's 'not a career politician.' It's because he's not very good at politics. He lost to Ted Kennedy in 1994. Although he did win the governorship of Massachusetts in 2002, he did it without cracking 50% of the vote. Worse yet, he left office as the 48th most popular governor in America and would have lost if he had run again in 2006. Then, to top that off, he failed to capture the GOP nomination in 2008. This time around, despite having almost every advantage over what many people consider to be a weak field of candidates, Romney is still desperately struggling. Choosing Romney as the GOP nominee after running up that sort of track record would be like promoting a first baseman hitting .225 in AAA to the majors.
3) Running weak in the southern states: Barack Obama won North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida in 2008 and you can be sure that he will be targeting all three of those states again. This is a problem for Romney because he would be much less likely than either Gingrich or Perry to carry any of those states. Moderate northern Republicans have consistently performed poorly in the south and Romney won't be any exception. That was certainly the case in 2008 when both McCain and Huckabee dominated Romney in primaries across the south. Mitt didn't win a single primary in a southern state and although he finished second in Florida, he wasn't even competitive in North Carolina or Virginia. Since losing any one of those states could be enough to hand the election to Obama in a close race, Mitt's weakness there is no small matter.
4) His advantages disappear in a general election: It's actually amazing that Mitt Romney isn't lapping the whole field by 50 points because he has every advantage. Mitt has been running for President longer than the other contenders. He has more money and a better organization than the other candidates. The party establishment and inside the beltway media are firmly in his corner. That's why the other nominees have been absolutely savaged while Romney, like John McCain before him, has been allowed to skate through the primaries without receiving serious scrutiny.
Yet, every one of those advantages disappears if he becomes the nominee. Suddenly Obama will be the more experienced candidate in the race for the presidency. He will also have more money and a better organization than Mitt. Moreover, in a general election, the establishment and beltway media will be aligned against Romney, not for him. Suddenly, Romney will go from getting a free pass to being public enemy #1 for the entire mainstream media.
If you took all those advantages away from Romney in the GOP primary, he'd be fighting with Jon Huntsman to stay out of last place. So, what happens when he's the nominee and suddenly, all the pillars that have barely kept him propped up in SECOND place so far are suddenly removed? It may not be pretty.
5) Bain Capital: Mitt Romney became rich working for Bain Capital. This has been a plus for Romney in the Republican primaries where the grassroots tend to be dominated by people who love capitalism and the free market. However, in a year when Obama will be running a populist campaign and Occupy Wall Street is demonizing the '1%,' Mitt Romney will be a TAILOR MADE villain for them. Did you know that Bain Capital gutted companies and made a lot of money, in part, by laying off a lot of poor and middle class Americans? Do you know that Bain Capital got a federal bailout and Mitt Romney made lots of money off of it?
“The way the company was rescued was with a federal bailout of $10 million,” the ad says. “The rest of us had to absorb the loss … Romney? He and others made $4 million in this deal. … Mitt Romney: Maybe he’s just against government when it helps working men and women.”
The facts of the Bain & Co. turnaround are a little more complicated, but a Boston Globe report from 1994 confirms that Bain saw several million dollars in loans forgiven by the FDIC, which had taken over Bain’s failed creditor, the Bank of New England.'
Did you know Ted Kennedy beat Romney in 1994 by hammering Mitt relentlessly on his time at Bain Capital? No wonder. The ads write themselves.
Imagine pictures of dilapidated, long since closed factories. They trot out scruffy looking workers talking about how bad life has been since Mitt Romney crushed their dreams and cost them their jobs. Then they show a clip of Mitt making his $10,000 bet and posing with money in his clothes. All Mitt needs is a monocle and a sniveling Waylon Smithers type character to follow him around shining his shoes to make him into the prototypical bad guy the Democrats are trying to create.
Now, the point of this isn't to say that what Mitt did at Bain Capital was dishonorable. It certainly wasn't. To the contrary, as a conservative, I find his work in the private sector to be just about the only thing he has going for him. But, people should realize that in a general election, Mitt's time at Bain Capital will probably end up being somewhere between a small asset and a large liability, depending on which side does a better job of defining it.
6) The Mormon Factor: This is a sensitive topic; so I am going to handle it much, much more gently than Hollywood and the mainstream media will if Mitt gets the nomination. Mormons do believe in Jesus Christ, the Mormon Church does a lot of good work, the ones I've met seem to be good people, and two of my best friends are Mormons. That being said, Mormons are not considered to be a mainstream Christian religion in large swathes of the country. There will be Protestants who will have deep reservations about voting a Mormon into the White House because they'll be afraid it will help promote what they believe to be a false religion. There have also been a number of polls that show that significant numbers of Americans won't vote for a Mormon as President.
Just look at a couple of the more recent polls and consider how much of an impact this issue could have in a close election.
'The poll found 67 percent of Americans want the president to be Christian and 52 percent said they consider Mormons to be Christian. Twenty-two percent of those polled said they don't think Mormons are Christians and 26 percent are unsure.
"I do believe they are moral people, but again there is a difference between being moral and being saved," Linda Dameron, an evangelical Republican in Independence, Mo., told the Tribune.
More than 40 percent of Americans would be uncomfortable with a Mormon as president, according to a new survey that also suggests that as more white evangelical voters have learned White House hopeful Mitt Romney is Mormon, the less they like him.
A survey by the Public Religion Research Institute released late Monday also shows that nearly half of white evangelical Protestant voters — a key demographic in the Republican primary race — don’t believe that Mormonism is a Christian faith, and about two-thirds of adults say the LDS faith is somewhat or very different than their own.'
You should also keep in mind that if Mitt Romney gets the nomination, Hollywood and the mainstream media will conduct a vicious, months’ long hate campaign against the Mormon Church. They will take every opportunity to make Mormons look weird, racist, kooky, scary, and different. Would this be a decisive factor? I'd like to say no, but by the time all is said and done, it's very easy to see Romney potentially losing hundreds of thousands of votes across the country because of his religion.
7) He's a flip-flopper. Maybe my memory is failing me, but didn’t George Bush beat John Kerry's brains in with the 'flip flopper' charge back in 2004? So now, just eight years later, the GOP is going to run someone that even our own side agrees is a flip-flopper right out of the gate? Romney doesn't even handle the charge well. When Brett Baier at Fox pointed out the obvious, Romney's response was to get huffy and deny that he was flip flopping, which is kind of like Lady Gaga denying that she likes to get attention. If Mitt can't even handle run-of-the-mill questions from FOX NEWS about his flip flopping, what makes anyone think he can deal with the rest of the press in a general election?
There are a lot of issues with trying to run a candidate who doesn't seem to have any core principles. It makes it impossible for his supporters to get excited about him because you can't fall in love with a weathervane. Even worse, since politicians tend to be such liars anyway and you know Romney has no firm beliefs, it's very easy for everyone to assume the worst. Democrats will feel that Romney will be a right wing death-beast. Republicans will think that Romney will screw them over. Independents won't know what to believe, which will make the hundreds of millions that Obama will spend on attack ads particularly effective. Ronald Reagan famously said the GOP needed 'a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors.' That's particularly relevant when it comes to Mitt Romney who has proven to be a pasty grey pile of formless mush."
So, that pretty much sums it up. It's difficult to win an election when a candidate's supporters are not so much voting for him as they are voting against his opponent, and that's what it will be like next fall. If you don't believe me, ask John Kerry or John McCain because that was the case for both of them.
I sure hope and prayer that the author of this article is dead-wrong, but somehow I fear he may be right in his predictions. May the Lord have mercy on America!!
I know -- it's a terrifying thought because America will never survive another four years of Obama. Think of the damage that he's done to this nation and our freedoms when he was somewhat restrained from doing all that he wanted to do. The thought of re-election was always hanging over his head. Imagine what he will do knowing his election days are over.
Newt Gingrich is beginning to fizzle out as voters get to know him better. Ron Paul may be popular in Iowa, but he is a lunatic on foreign policy, so he'll never make it. Voters are unwilling to give Rick Perry a chance to debate against Obama because they know it would be a disaster. As to Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, both solid conservatives, they aren't gaining any traction, and Jon Huntsman is barely noticeable.
Speaking of Bachmann, I am currently reading her book, Core of Conviction. The more I read it, the more I like her. She's an awesome lady and would lead this nation as a Reagan conservative, but voters lack confidence in her.
Herman Cain, where are you when we need you? Oh, that's right, the American Pravda destroyed his reputation just as they do with any good conservative.
So, when it's all said and done, that leaves us with Mitt Romney. On paper, he looks like an excellent prospect with both his executive experience as governor of the People's Republic of Massachusetts and his free market experience rescuing failing companies. But Mitt has many weaknesses that need to be examined.
Read all about them, via Townhall:
7 Reasons Why Mitt Romney's Electability Is A Myth
John Hawkins
"Mitt Romney was a moderate governor in Massachusetts with an unimpressive record of governance. He left office with an approval rating in the thirties and his signature achievement, Romneycare, was a Hurricane Katrina style disaster for the state. Since that's the case, it's fair to ask what a Republican who's not conservative and can't even carry his own state brings to the table for GOP primary voters. The answer is always the same: Mitt Romney is supposed to be 'the most electable' candidate. This is a baffling argument because many people just seem to assume it's true, despite the plethora of evidence to the contrary.
1) People just don't like Mitt: The entire GOP primary process so far has consisted of Republican voters desperately trying to find an alternative to Mitt Romney. Doesn't it say something that GOP primary voters have, at one time or another, preferred Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and now even Ron Paul (In Iowa) to Mitt Romney?
To some people, this is a plus. They think that if conservatives don't like Mitt Romney, that means moderates will like him. This misunderstands how the process of attracting independent voters works in a presidential race. While it's true the swayable moderates don't want to support a candidate they view as an extremist, they also don't just automatically gravitate towards the most 'moderate' candidate. To the contrary, independent voters tend to be moved by the excitement of the candidate's base (See John McCain vs. Barack Obama for an example of how this works). This is how a very conservative candidate like Ronald Reagan could win landslide victories. He avoided being labeled an extremist as Goldwater was; yet his supporters were incredibly enthusiastic and moderates responded to it.
Let's be perfectly honest: Mitt Romney excites no one except for Mormons, political consultants, and Jennifer Rubin. To everybody else on the right, Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama would be a 'lesser of two evils' election where we'd grudgingly back Mitt because we wouldn’t lose as badly with him in the White House as we would with Obama. That's not the sort of thing that gets people fired up to make phone calls, canvass neighborhoods, or even put up 'I heart Mitt' signs in their yards.
2) He's a proven political loser: There's a reason Mitt Romney has been able to say that he's 'not a career politician.' It's because he's not very good at politics. He lost to Ted Kennedy in 1994. Although he did win the governorship of Massachusetts in 2002, he did it without cracking 50% of the vote. Worse yet, he left office as the 48th most popular governor in America and would have lost if he had run again in 2006. Then, to top that off, he failed to capture the GOP nomination in 2008. This time around, despite having almost every advantage over what many people consider to be a weak field of candidates, Romney is still desperately struggling. Choosing Romney as the GOP nominee after running up that sort of track record would be like promoting a first baseman hitting .225 in AAA to the majors.
3) Running weak in the southern states: Barack Obama won North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida in 2008 and you can be sure that he will be targeting all three of those states again. This is a problem for Romney because he would be much less likely than either Gingrich or Perry to carry any of those states. Moderate northern Republicans have consistently performed poorly in the south and Romney won't be any exception. That was certainly the case in 2008 when both McCain and Huckabee dominated Romney in primaries across the south. Mitt didn't win a single primary in a southern state and although he finished second in Florida, he wasn't even competitive in North Carolina or Virginia. Since losing any one of those states could be enough to hand the election to Obama in a close race, Mitt's weakness there is no small matter.
4) His advantages disappear in a general election: It's actually amazing that Mitt Romney isn't lapping the whole field by 50 points because he has every advantage. Mitt has been running for President longer than the other contenders. He has more money and a better organization than the other candidates. The party establishment and inside the beltway media are firmly in his corner. That's why the other nominees have been absolutely savaged while Romney, like John McCain before him, has been allowed to skate through the primaries without receiving serious scrutiny.
Yet, every one of those advantages disappears if he becomes the nominee. Suddenly Obama will be the more experienced candidate in the race for the presidency. He will also have more money and a better organization than Mitt. Moreover, in a general election, the establishment and beltway media will be aligned against Romney, not for him. Suddenly, Romney will go from getting a free pass to being public enemy #1 for the entire mainstream media.
If you took all those advantages away from Romney in the GOP primary, he'd be fighting with Jon Huntsman to stay out of last place. So, what happens when he's the nominee and suddenly, all the pillars that have barely kept him propped up in SECOND place so far are suddenly removed? It may not be pretty.
5) Bain Capital: Mitt Romney became rich working for Bain Capital. This has been a plus for Romney in the Republican primaries where the grassroots tend to be dominated by people who love capitalism and the free market. However, in a year when Obama will be running a populist campaign and Occupy Wall Street is demonizing the '1%,' Mitt Romney will be a TAILOR MADE villain for them. Did you know that Bain Capital gutted companies and made a lot of money, in part, by laying off a lot of poor and middle class Americans? Do you know that Bain Capital got a federal bailout and Mitt Romney made lots of money off of it?
“The way the company was rescued was with a federal bailout of $10 million,” the ad says. “The rest of us had to absorb the loss … Romney? He and others made $4 million in this deal. … Mitt Romney: Maybe he’s just against government when it helps working men and women.”
The facts of the Bain & Co. turnaround are a little more complicated, but a Boston Globe report from 1994 confirms that Bain saw several million dollars in loans forgiven by the FDIC, which had taken over Bain’s failed creditor, the Bank of New England.'
Did you know Ted Kennedy beat Romney in 1994 by hammering Mitt relentlessly on his time at Bain Capital? No wonder. The ads write themselves.
Imagine pictures of dilapidated, long since closed factories. They trot out scruffy looking workers talking about how bad life has been since Mitt Romney crushed their dreams and cost them their jobs. Then they show a clip of Mitt making his $10,000 bet and posing with money in his clothes. All Mitt needs is a monocle and a sniveling Waylon Smithers type character to follow him around shining his shoes to make him into the prototypical bad guy the Democrats are trying to create.
Now, the point of this isn't to say that what Mitt did at Bain Capital was dishonorable. It certainly wasn't. To the contrary, as a conservative, I find his work in the private sector to be just about the only thing he has going for him. But, people should realize that in a general election, Mitt's time at Bain Capital will probably end up being somewhere between a small asset and a large liability, depending on which side does a better job of defining it.
6) The Mormon Factor: This is a sensitive topic; so I am going to handle it much, much more gently than Hollywood and the mainstream media will if Mitt gets the nomination. Mormons do believe in Jesus Christ, the Mormon Church does a lot of good work, the ones I've met seem to be good people, and two of my best friends are Mormons. That being said, Mormons are not considered to be a mainstream Christian religion in large swathes of the country. There will be Protestants who will have deep reservations about voting a Mormon into the White House because they'll be afraid it will help promote what they believe to be a false religion. There have also been a number of polls that show that significant numbers of Americans won't vote for a Mormon as President.
Just look at a couple of the more recent polls and consider how much of an impact this issue could have in a close election.
'The poll found 67 percent of Americans want the president to be Christian and 52 percent said they consider Mormons to be Christian. Twenty-two percent of those polled said they don't think Mormons are Christians and 26 percent are unsure.
"I do believe they are moral people, but again there is a difference between being moral and being saved," Linda Dameron, an evangelical Republican in Independence, Mo., told the Tribune.
More than 40 percent of Americans would be uncomfortable with a Mormon as president, according to a new survey that also suggests that as more white evangelical voters have learned White House hopeful Mitt Romney is Mormon, the less they like him.
A survey by the Public Religion Research Institute released late Monday also shows that nearly half of white evangelical Protestant voters — a key demographic in the Republican primary race — don’t believe that Mormonism is a Christian faith, and about two-thirds of adults say the LDS faith is somewhat or very different than their own.'
You should also keep in mind that if Mitt Romney gets the nomination, Hollywood and the mainstream media will conduct a vicious, months’ long hate campaign against the Mormon Church. They will take every opportunity to make Mormons look weird, racist, kooky, scary, and different. Would this be a decisive factor? I'd like to say no, but by the time all is said and done, it's very easy to see Romney potentially losing hundreds of thousands of votes across the country because of his religion.
7) He's a flip-flopper. Maybe my memory is failing me, but didn’t George Bush beat John Kerry's brains in with the 'flip flopper' charge back in 2004? So now, just eight years later, the GOP is going to run someone that even our own side agrees is a flip-flopper right out of the gate? Romney doesn't even handle the charge well. When Brett Baier at Fox pointed out the obvious, Romney's response was to get huffy and deny that he was flip flopping, which is kind of like Lady Gaga denying that she likes to get attention. If Mitt can't even handle run-of-the-mill questions from FOX NEWS about his flip flopping, what makes anyone think he can deal with the rest of the press in a general election?
There are a lot of issues with trying to run a candidate who doesn't seem to have any core principles. It makes it impossible for his supporters to get excited about him because you can't fall in love with a weathervane. Even worse, since politicians tend to be such liars anyway and you know Romney has no firm beliefs, it's very easy for everyone to assume the worst. Democrats will feel that Romney will be a right wing death-beast. Republicans will think that Romney will screw them over. Independents won't know what to believe, which will make the hundreds of millions that Obama will spend on attack ads particularly effective. Ronald Reagan famously said the GOP needed 'a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors.' That's particularly relevant when it comes to Mitt Romney who has proven to be a pasty grey pile of formless mush."
So, that pretty much sums it up. It's difficult to win an election when a candidate's supporters are not so much voting for him as they are voting against his opponent, and that's what it will be like next fall. If you don't believe me, ask John Kerry or John McCain because that was the case for both of them.
I sure hope and prayer that the author of this article is dead-wrong, but somehow I fear he may be right in his predictions. May the Lord have mercy on America!!
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