Life with Monkeys

Insomnia Trigger

Here it is, folks. The one website that makes me so nervous and angry that I can not read it every day! This website posts too many stories, about events going on under our noses, that the media should be screaming about! Stupid and corrupt 'leadership' that makes me ashamed they 'represent' us. THEY DO NOT REPRESENT ME! Since this keeps me up at night, I thought I'd invite you to join me! You have been warned.
If you have a strong stomach, click here...

Van Helsing : Biden: Panic! Stay home from school, stay off airplanes, and whatever you do, don't get on public transportation. But there's no need to get really carried away by asking the government to assert control over the Mexican border. Anybody else notice the only death in America was an illegal immigrant child from Mexico? Andy McCarthy "From their perspective it would be akin to closing the barn door after the horses are out, because we already have cases here in the United States." -- Barack Hussein Obama ...isn't that statement preposterous — unless, I suppose, we know for a fact that every conceivable infected Mexican is already in the United States? ... I mean, if the possibility (probability, certainty . . .) of additional infected people coming into the country is of no concern, why on earth are we trying to identify, locate, and quarantine the infected people (Americans and others) who are here? Why did President Obama yesterday suggest that schools should close if they have infected students, teachers, or staff? I guess I was under the crazy misconception that it was because exposure to infected people risked additional infections, which would themselves then spread the flu, causing a geometric increase in the infected population — you know, like an epidemic. Mark Steyn : Undocumented Flu Having proposed renaming swine/Mexican flu "undocumented flu" only the other day, I failed to notice that it's now been redesignated as "H1N1 flu." It sounds oddly like a guestworker program, don't you think? I may try it next time I come through the border post at Derby Line, Vermont: "I'm here on an H1N1 visa."  "Hey, great to have you. Welcome to America." By the way, many readers have said that, given Janet Napolitano's view that the Canadian border is as great a threat as the Mexican one, we should call it "maple flu" or "beaver flu." I'm in favor of "clubbed seal flu" myself.

Shut Up

Andrew Klavan reveals the strategy used to silence the criticism and ideas of conservative thinkers.

Happy Birthday, Israel

 

61 years-ago today the state of Israel was born from the ashes of the Holocaust, I remain proud-as-ever to stand by her side, God bless Israel......

Tel Aviv - Israel will not compromise on its security, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday, as the country commemorated the over 22,000 soldiers and civilians killed in wars or attacks since Israel's foundation and the years leading up to it.

'Never will we forsake our fate again. Never will we lose our defensive force. Our hand is extended in peace to all of our neighbors, but our enemies ought not to misconstrue us,' he said at an official memorial ceremony at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery.

Exactly 22,570 soldiers and civilians have died in wars against Israel and attacks on Jews, since Jews set up their first neighbourhood outside the wall of Jerusalem's Old City in 1860.

The 24-hour commemoration ends Tuesday night, when massive celebrations marking Israel's 61st anniversary begin throughout the country.

Israel traditionally marks its Independence Day a week after its national Holocaust Memorial Day - to symbolize its rebirth from the ashes of the attempted Nazi genocide of the Jews of Europe - and immediately after its Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers, a reminder that statehood came at a price.

Wow! Obama Sure Cares About Reducing Carbon Emmisions. NOT!

April 22, 2009 5:09 PM

Obama Earth Day Flights Burned More Than 9,000 Gallons Of Fuel

 by Mark Knoller 

(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

It happens every time a president leaves town to make an Earth Day speech. Reporters scramble to point out how much fuel was expended so the President could talk about conserving energy and using alternative fuels.  In flying to and from Iowa today, President Obama took two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One.

The press office at Andrews AFB wouldn’t give me the fuel consumption numbers for the 747 that serves as Air Force One without the approval of the White House Press Office, which as I write this has yet to be given.

But Boeing says its 747 burns about 5 gallons of fuel per mile. It’s 895 miles from Washington to Des Moines, so a round trip brings the fuel consumption for the fixed-wing portion of the President’s trip to 8,950 gallons.

(AP )

The trip also put President Obama on Marine One for round-trip flights between the White House and Andrews AFB and between Des Moines International Airport and Newton, Iowa, site of his Earth Day speech. It totaled about an hour of flight time. The VH-3D that serves as Marine One consumes about 1200 pounds of fuel per hour which comes out to about 166 gallons consumed flying the President today.

Not included in these calculations are the presidential vehicles that took him the short distance from the landing zone in Newton to the event site at the Trinity Structural Towers Manufacturing Plant.

In his speech there, President Obama called for a “new era of energy exploration in America.”

At a plant that manufactures the towers for wind turbines, he urged Americans to support his plan for promoting expanded use of alternative and renewable fuels.

And he announced that for the first time, the Interior Department would be leasing federal waters for projects to generate electricity from wind and ocean currents.

President Obama could have saved at least 9,116 gallons of fuel by giving his speech at the White House – but no wind turbines are manufactured there.

Castro is right! About Obama...

Castro Calls Obama “Conceited, Superficial”

April 22nd, 2009

From Fox News:

Fidel Castro: Obama ‘Misinterpreted’ Raul’s Words

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

HAVANA — Fidel Castro said Tuesday that President Barack Obama "misinterpreted" his brother Raul’s sentiments toward the United States and bristled at any suggestion Cuba should free political prisoners or reduce official fees on money sent to the island from the U.S.

Raul Castro touched off a whirlwind of speculation that the U.S. and Cuba could be headed toward a thaw in nearly a half-century of chilly relations last week, when he said Cuban leaders would be willing to sit down with their U.S. counterparts and discuss "everything," including human rights, freedom of the press and expression, and political prisoners on the island.

Obama responded at the Summit of the Americas by saying Washington seeks a new beginning with Cuba, but he also said Sunday that Cuba should release some political prisoners and reduce official taxes on remittances from the U.S. as a sign of good will.

That appeared to enrage Fidel Castro, 82, who wrote in an essay posted on a government Web site that Obama "without a doubt misinterpreted Raul’s declarations."

The former president appeared to be throwing a dose of cold water on growing expectations for improved bilateral relations — suggesting Obama had no right to dare suggest that Cuba make even small concessions. He also seemed to suggest too much was being made of Raul’s comments about discussing "everything" with U.S. authorities…

For the record, here are Mr. Castro’s complete remarks on the subject, from his blog Reflections By Comrade Fidel:

Obama Gets Spanked By Chavez and Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer’s Take   [NRO Staff]

From last night’s “All-Stars.”

 

On Obama’s performance at the Summit of the Americas:

 

The Obama people, after he criticizes America in Europe, and after he stands utterly silent when America's excoriated at this meeting in Trinidad, say he is planting the seeds for a new relationship.

 

Well, I'm watching for the flowers to bloom and the garden to grow. To me, it looks like a Chauncey gardener doctrine, that everything will happen in the future. Let's see. I'm not that sure.

 

The most telling moment, however, was when Daniel Ortega, the president of Nicaragua, delivered a 53-minute excoriating attack on the United States. And Obama's response was "I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for the things that occurred when I was three months old."

 

Does the narcissism of this man know no bounds? (No, Mr. Krauthammer, apparently not) This is not about him. It is about his country. This is something that occurred under John Kennedy — the Bay of Pigs is what he is referring to. And what he is saying is that it's OK that he attacked John Kennedy, as long as it wasn't me. (exactly. Egobama cares only the HE be liked, not the US because he despises this country so why would he defend her?)

 

Doesn't it occur to him that he ought to defend his country even if stuff happened before him? It doesn't all start with him.

 

And with all of these attacks on the U.S., he said almost nothing except I don't want to engage in stale arguments. It's not a stale argument to say in one simple sentence that American policy in Cuba since Eisenhower and Kennedy has been to try to rid these people of a communist dictatorship that imposed itself by force 50 years ago.

 

That's all he had to say, but he couldn't, and he didn't.

Gerald Warner is BRILLIANT! This English writer understands what most Americans don't even notice!

Barack Obama and the CIA: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?

Gerald Warner

Posted By: Gerald Warner at Apr 24, 2009

If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter.

Obama's problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.

That is why he opened Pandora's Box by publishing the Justice Department's legal opinions on waterboarding and other hardline interrogation techniques. He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley, Virginia to try to reassure a demoralized CIA that had just discovered the President of the United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda.

"Don't be discouraged by what's happened the last few weeks," he told intelligence officers. Is he kidding? Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies and can train its operatives to withstand them - or would do so, if they had not already been outlawed.

So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be irradiated by a dirty bomb. Your view of this situation will be dictated by one simple criterion: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the twin towers.

Obama promised his CIA audience that nobody would be prosecuted for past actions. That has already been contradicted by leftist groups with a revanchist ambition to put Republicans, headed if possible by Condoleezza Rice, in the dock. Talk about playing party politics with national security. Martin Scheinin, the United Nations special investigator for human rights, claims that senior figures, including former vice president Dick Cheney, could face prosecution overseas. Ponder that - once you have got over the difficulty of locating the United Nations and human rights within the same dimension.

President Pantywaist Obama should have thought twice before sitting down to play poker with Dick Cheney. The former vice president believes documents have been selectively published and that releasing more will prove how effective the interrogation techniques were. Under Dubya's administration, there was no further atrocity on American soil after 9/11.

President Pantywaist's recent world tour, cosying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America's enemies. Here, they realised, is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?

It's Official; Obama HATES Israel

Obama refuses to meet with Netanyahu

He bowed to the Saudi King. He wants to meet with the Thug-In-Chief. He called Hugo Chavez "my friend." But Barack Obama has apparently refused to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Netanyahu won't attend AIPAC summit, asks Peres to represent Israel," from the Jerusalem Post, April 19 (thanks to Pamela):

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday canceled his plans to attend the upcoming AIPAC summit, after it became clear that US President Barack Obama would not meet him during the conference.

Netanyahu announced that while he will not attend the conference in person, he will send a video-taped message to Washington....

Sin vergüenza

vergüenza; Spanish : disgrace, shame
The man has no shame because he hasn't clue. He has no idea that Chavez smiles in his face and then laughs behind his back. And publicly. He is being used like the tool he is.

Via iOwnTheWorld.com.

Coward-in-Chief

Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler

Friday, 17 April 2009

All of us want to raise our glass the highest this week to the Navy SEALs who popped those three Somali pirates.  And I'm sure you want to hear the real story of what happened.   Especially because there is a revoltingly opportunistic and cowardly side to it.  Guess which side Zero is on. Why, for example, did it take SEAL Team Six (aka DEVGRU, Navy Special Warfare Development Group, the Navy's equivalent of Delta Force) over 36 hours to get to the scene? Because Zero refused to authorize the SEAL deployment for those 36 hours, during which the OSC - the on scene commander, Cmdr. Frank Castellano of the USS Bainbridge - repeatedly requested them. Once the SEALs arrived - parachuting from a C-17 into the ocean near the ship - Zero then imposed Rules of Engagement (ROE) specifying the SEALs could not do anything unless the life of the hostage, Captain Richard Phillips, was in "imminent" danger. Thus, when Capt. Phillips attempted to escape by jumping off the lifeboat into the ocean, the SEAL snipers had all four pirates (one later surrendered) sighted in and could have taken them out then and there - but they could not fire due to Zero's ROE restrictions. When the SEALs approached the lifeboat in a RIB (rigid-hull inflatable boat) carrying supplies for Capt. Phillips and the pirates, the pirates fired upon them.  Not only was no fire returned due to the ROE, but as the pirates were shooting at the RIB, SEAL snipers on the Bainbridge had them all dialed in.  No triggers were pulled due to the ROE. Two specific rescue plans were developed by Cmdr. Castellano and the SEAL teams.  Zero personally refused to authorize them. After the second refusal and days of dithering, Cmdr. Castellano decided he had the Operational Area and OSC authority to "solely determine risk to hostage" and did not require any further approval of the president. Four hours later, the White House is informed that three pirates are dead and Capt. Phillips has been rescued unharmed.  A WH press release is immediately issued, giving credit to the president for his "daring and decisive" behavior that resulted in such success. Zero has absolutely no military knowledge or experience whatsoever.  He demanded decisional control over the entire hostage drama to the last detail.  All actions required his personal approval.  He dithered like a coward while the world laughed at our warships flummoxed by four illiterate teenagers with AKs in a lifeboat. Only when the Navy Commander decided to ignore his Chief and take action and responsibility himself, were the incredible skills of the SEALs put into play. That Zero could cynically and opportunistically claim that his "bold" "calm" "tough" leadership was responsible should remind everyone that not a single action, not a single word of this man can be trusted.

Happy Earth Day

 

(American Thinker)

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Thank You Al for Destroying the Childhood of Our Nation by Rorschach

Al Gore is an unrepentant charlatan who has made a fine living fueling the neomarxist fantasy of manmade global warming. He is a Nobel prize winner (for Peace, not science, tellingly enough); Academy Award winner for his mockumentary An Inconvenient Truth; and he continued his self-parodying antics with his book The Assault on Reason.

Our granting of rock-star status to a has-been presidential candidate who washed out of the 2000 election shows that the left loves a loser. His half-cocked theory of CO2 driving the weather has wrought immense damage to the country and looms large over the economy; especially given the international marxist redistribution schemes of the Obama administration. But, as if according to plan, the worst damage has been dealt to the psyche of our youth.

A recent poll shows that one out of every three children ages 6 to 11 believes that the world will cease to exist when they grow up, and more specifically, fifty-six percent believe that it will be a "blasted heath."

As disturbing as those statistics are, we can witness the absurd effect of the left's propaganda, completely unchecked by any truly critical debate, by their most tangible concern: That polar bears and penguins will become extinct! (No mention of mankind anywhere here.)

Read the rest here...

Senator Feinstein is corrupt and a complete waste of space

On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms, the Washington Times reported on Tuesday.

Mrs. Feinstein's intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn't a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments - not direct federal dollars.

Documents reviewed by The Washington Times show Mrs. Feinstein first offered Oct. 30 to help the FDIC secure money for its effort to stem the rise of home foreclosures. Her letter was sent just days before the agency determined that CB Richard Ellis Group (CBRE) - the commercial real estate firm that her husband Richard Blum heads as board chairman - had won the competitive bidding for a contract to sell foreclosed properties that FDIC had inherited from failed banks.

About the same time of the contract award, Mr. Blum's private investment firm reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it and related affiliates had purchased more than 10 million new shares in CBRE. The shares were purchased for the going price of $3.77; CBRE's stock closed Monday at $5.14.

Spokesmen for the FDIC, Mrs. Feinstein and Mr. Blum's firm told The Times that there was no connection between the legislation and the contract signed Nov. 13, and that the couple didn't even know about CBRE's business with FDIC until after it was awarded.

Senate ethics rules state that members must avoid conflicts of interest as well as "even the appearance of a conflict of interest." Some ethics analysts question whether Mrs. Feinstein ran afoul of the latter provision, creating the appearance that she was rewarding the agency that had just hired her husband's firm.

Continue reading at the Washington Times

Why I Love Sarkozy; Reason #437

French President Sarkozy Not a Fan of Dear Leader: Annoyed by Fawning Media and Proposals That Were Already Made by Bush.....

Welcome to the club.....

France has been cooing along with everyone else over the arrival of Bo Obama at the White House, but the master of America's new First Dog is no longer in good odour with President Sarkozy.

Mr Sarkozy is pouring cold water on President Obama's efforts to recast American leadership on the world stage, depicting them as unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated.

Behind leaks and briefings from the Elysée Palace lies Mr Sarkozy's irritation at the rock-star welcome that Europe gave Mr Obama on his Europan tour earlier this month.

The American President's call "to free the world of the menace of a nuclear nightmare" was hot air, Mr Sarkozy's diplomatic staff told him in a report. "It was rhetoric – not a speech on American security policy but an export model aimed at improving the image of the United States," they said.

Most of Mr Obama's proposals had already been made by the Bush administration and Washington was dragging its feet on disarmament and treaties against nuclear proliferation, the leaked report said.

Personal pique and French politics are also behind the souring of Mr Sarkozy's self-promoted honeymoon with the United States. On the personal side, the French President is needled by the adulation for an unproven US leader whose stardom has eclipsed what he sees as his established record as a world troubleshooter.

"The President is annoyed by what he sees as the naivety and the herd mentality of the media," said a journalist who is privy to Elysée thinking.

(Sarkozy rocks!)

Rest here>>>

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Welcome to the club.....

France has been cooing along with everyone else over the arrival of Bo Obama at the White House, but the master of America's new First Dog is no longer in good odour with President Sarkozy.

Mr Sarkozy is pouring cold water on President Obama's efforts to recast American leadership on the world stage, depicting them as unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated.

Behind leaks and briefings from the Elysée Palace lies Mr Sarkozy's irritation at the rock-star welcome that Europe gave Mr Obama on his Europan tour earlier this month.

The American President's call "to free the world of the menace of a nuclear nightmare" was hot air, Mr Sarkozy's diplomatic staff told him in a report. "It was rhetoric – not a speech on American security policy but an export model aimed at improving the image of the United States," they said.

Most of Mr Obama's proposals had already been made by the Bush administration and Washington was dragging its feet on disarmament and treaties against nuclear proliferation, the leaked report said.

Personal pique and French politics are also behind the souring of Mr Sarkozy's self-promoted honeymoon with the United States. On the personal side, the French President is needled by the adulation for an unproven US leader whose stardom has eclipsed what he sees as his established record as a world troubleshooter.

"The President is annoyed by what he sees as the naivety and the herd mentality of the media," said a journalist who is privy to Elysée thinking.

(Sarkozy rocks!)

Rest here>>>

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Yom Ha Shoah

April 20th is Holocaust Remembrance day, also known in Israel as "Yom Ha Shoah". It is a day of mourning. No stores are open, no commercials are shown on TV, few people go to work. Every year, there is a moment of silence in Israel, in remembrance of those who perished in the Holocaust. A siren rings throughout the country and every citizen stands at a attention no matter where he or she may be.

The More They Hate The U.S., The More Obama Loves Them

Now, I'm no expert but it certainly looks to me like Obama was traumatized by the abandonment of his father. Just look at the way he grovels for any man in a position of authority who has disdain for this country and by extension, Obama. He grovels. He BOWS, he puts on his shiniest smile and extends his warmest handshake. He is desperate to be loved. Desperate. I thought Bill Clinton was bad but this is disgusting. Obama grovels at the feel of any leader, despot, king who does not like or respect us. You tell me, how dangerous is it to have a president who is more interested in currying favor, rather than protecting our country?

OBAMA'S BIRDS OF A FEATHER

THERE'S A SINGLE CONTEXT HERE... BIRDS OF A FEATHER... THEY ARE ALL AMERICA-BASHERS...

Ah yes, The Wisdom of the Idiots who Voted Obama

Congratulations, Libtards! Vote for change and get a President that will cripple the economy AND make us all poorer. "We hate rich people and want to punish them." Little did you realize that your world will be a much poorer, oppressed place, and you will have less liberty than ever in our country's history.
But the Conservatives are the knuckle-dragging ignoramus', right?
On a tip from pianogirl

Barack at the Airport

There I was, at the airport, just minding my own business. Shopping in the airport gift shop, looking to spend six or seven dollars for a pack of gum when I notice a brightly colored package on the counter. And there it was, a pack of chocolate bars (CHOCOLATE BARS, PEOPLE!!!) with the name and visage of The One on it, looking all serious and stuff. I asked the cashier (a lovely Moroccan man who calls his mother in Morocco nearly every day, or so he said. Yes, we actually had a brief chat; I'm just a people person, I guess.) if he would mind if I took a photo of this most impressive pack of chocolate bars. My Moroccan friend said, not at all, so here it is. For your viewing pleasure. I regret a few things about this moment. I regret not finding out how much this goes for. I regret not reading the ingredients; as a chocolate lover, I would easily know if the chocolate is any good and I regret that I did not surreptitiously pick up the two packs of chocolates and move them next to the laxatives or perhaps, feminine hygiene products. What on Earth was I thinking?

Obama's Groveling in Turkey Sure Worked!

After Apologizing For the Liberation of Iraq All Week... Obama Arrives in Baghdad

A few weeks ago, Barack Obama traveled Europe attacking President Bush and apologizing for the liberation of Iraq from the brutal Saddam Hussein regime.

Just days ago Obama landed in Baghdad for a surprise visit.

For some reason the media payed little attention to the thousands who protested Obama in Turkey.

Turkish demonstrators step on a poster of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest in Istanbul April 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Gurcan Ozturk)

Obama Gets High on 60 Minutes

Tea Party

Marxism Defined

Young, Black & Republican

This is what intellectual integrity and courage looks like, folks. These are the Republicans that could be the undoing of the Democrats. The left has banked on the propaganda that only white and wealthy people are Republicans. Years ago, when I told my nephew I was a Republican, he (17 at the time) was incredulous. He simply could not imagine it. I mean, I am female, Mexican, Jewish! And Republican? And when I told him I joined the Republican Jewish Coalition, he could not believe there even was such a thing! We need better publicists, I guess!

Obama; Not Really So Bright, After All...

The World's Greatest Orator Hems and Haws so Badly Though a BBC Interview Even the Guardian is Making fun of Him.....

"I, I, I ummmm, I'm really, ummm, I, I, I'm, ummmm, not that, ummmm, not that bright"

The question that flummoxed the great orator- Guardian

Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ...

Nick Robinson: "A question for you both, if I may. The prime minister has repeatedly blamed the United States of America for causing this crisis. France and Germany both blame Britain and America for causing this crisis. Who is right? And isn't the debate about that at the heart of the debate about what to do now?"

Brown immediately swivels to leave Obama in pole position. There is a four-second delay before Obama starts speaking  [THANKS FOR NOTHING, GORDY BABY. REMIND ME TO HANG YOU OUT TO DRY ONE DAY.]  Barack Obama: "I, I, would say that, er ... pause  [I HAVEN'T A CLUE] ... if you look at ... pause [WHO IS THIS NICK ROBINSON JERK?] ... the, the sources of this crisis ... pause  [JUST KEEP GOING, BUDDY]  ... the United States certainly has some accounting to do with respect to . . . pause  [I'M IN WAY TOO DEEP HERE]  ... a regulatory system that was inadequate to the massive changes that have taken place in the global financial system ... pause, close eyes  [THIS IS GOING TO GO DOWN LIKE A CROCK OF SHIT BACK HOME. HELP].  I think what is also true is that ... pause  [I WANT NICK ROBINSON TO DISAPPEAR] ... here in Great Britain ... pause  [SHIT, GORDY'S THE HOST, DON'T LAND HIM IN IT] ... here in continental Europe ... pause  [DAMN IT, BLAME EVERYONE.] ... around the world. We were seeing the same mismatch between the regulatory regimes that were in place and er ... pause  [I'VE LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT AGAIN] ... the highly integrated, er, global capital markets that have emerged ... pause  [I'M REALLY WINGING IT NOW]. So at this point, I'm less interested in ... pause  [YOU]... identifying blame than fixing the problem. I think we've taken some very aggressive steps in the United States to do so, not just responding to the immediate crisis, ensuring banks are adequately capitalised, er, dealing with the enormous, er ... pause  [WHY DIDN'T I QUIT WHILE I WAS AHEAD?] ... drop-off in demand and contraction that has taken place. More importantly, for the long term, making sure that we've got a set of, er, er, regulations that are up to the task, er, and that includes, er, a number that will be discussed at this summit. I think there's a lot of convergence between all the parties involved about the need, for example, to focus not on the legal form that a particular financial product takes or the institution it emerges from, but rather what's the risk involved, what's the function of this product and how do we regulate that adequately, much more effective coordination, er, between countries so we can, er, anticipate the risks that are involved there. Dealing with the, er, problem of derivatives markets, making sure we have set up systems, er, that can reduce some of the risks there. So, I actually think ... pause  [FANTASTIC. I'VE LOST EVERYONE, INCLUDING MYSELF] ... there's enormous consensus that has emerged in terms of what we need to do now and, er ... pause  [I'M OUTTA HERE. TIME FOR THE USUAL CLOSING BOLLOCKS] ... I'm a great believer in looking forwards than looking backwards.

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H/T:Brent

Obama's Building a Religion

Michael Hussey created this video and uploaded it to Youtube last year.

The Objects of my Desire

I want a pair of these in every color. But if I had to choose one, I'd choose the silver. No, black. I could really use both, you know!

courtesy of the lovely and talented, Robert J. Avrech 

Happy Pesach

On this holiday, Jews all over the world, retell the story of the Exodus and celebrate G-d leading our ancestors out of Egypt, out of slavery. We also remember those around the world who are not free today. May we continue to work towards repairing the world (tikkun olam) and bringing peace and freedom to those who are oppressed.

Next year in Jerusalem!

Thanks Libs

Idiot in Chief

Krauthammer Spanks Obama

Carla Bruni is not taken in by Egobama

FRANCE'S first lady broke with protocol today as she held out a frosty hand to welcome Barack Obama.

Stunning Carla Bruni was business-like in her greeting — while her hubby treated the US President's wife to a hug and Continental double kiss.

The former model gave customary pecks on both cheeks to Michelle Obama and other dignitaries when the couple arrived in France.

But when it came to the dashing US President the beauty kept a noticeable distance.

Peck on the cheek ... warm greetings

Mr and Mrs Obama flew in to Strasbourg's majestic 18th-century Rohan Palace this morning to meet with President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The meeting was being held before the formal start of the NATO alliance’s 60th anniversary summit.

Sarkozy rolled out all the pomp possible for the visit, with a red carpet arrival and full military honours from a company of soldiers dressed in camouflage.

The two couples lined up to listen to their respective national anthems played by a French military band but even in his trademark stacked heels Mr Sarkozy was a sight for smaller eyes.

~Okay, here's the deal. I boycott all things coming from France as it is currently
THE most anti-semitic country aside from the usual Muslim countries.  Nowhere have
 the flames of anti-Semitism burned more furiously than in France. In Lyon, a car
was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. In Montpellier, the Jewish religious
center was firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourg and Marseilles; so was
a Jewish school in Creteil - all recently. A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was attacked
with Molotov cocktails and on the statue of Alfred Dreyfus, in Paris, the words
'Dirty Jew' were painted. In Bondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish football
team with sticks and metal bars. The bus that takes Jewish children to school in
Aubervilliers has been attacked three times in the last 14 months. According to the
 Police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents PER DAY in the
past 30 days. Walls in Jewish neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans
proclaiming 'Jews to the gas chambers' and 'Death to the Jews.' A gunman opened
fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher) in Toulouse, France.
A Jewish couple in their 20's were beaten up by five men in Villeurbanne, France
(the woman was pregnant). A Jewish school was broken into and vandalized in Sarcelles, France.The number one bestselling book in France is....'September 11: The Frightening
  Fraud' which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon! That said, I love President
Sarkozy and his wife, the lovely Carla Bruni. She shows good judgment in not allowing
herself to be used for Obama propaganda. Tres bien, Madame Sarkozy, très bien!

                          

Obama BOWS To The Saudi King and KISSES HIS HAND! Disgusting!

The President of the United States! The leader of the free world and the best country ever, bowed to the Saudi King?!? Tiny neck bow for the Queen of England, which is protocol, but a full bow at the waist, for the Saudi King? That's what is expected from the king's SUBJECTS, people! What sort of message do you think Obama is sending to th world? This is a king whose subjects have few human rights! Women aren't even allowed to drive! Women are treated like property! Gays are persecuted! Is anyone paying attention? Hello?!?

The following comment was left by reasonsjester  (if you haven't read his blog yet, do yourself a favor, read it; every day! He is wicked smart and his blog is fantastic.)
"Would a foreign leader bow to the President? No, he shakes hands - a symbol of two world leaders coming together as legal equals. This is pathetic. Imagine our first Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson going to France and bowing before Louis XVI before the French lopped his head off. Ridiculous!"

Would Abe Lincoln bow down to a slave-keeping Arab king?

James Lewis
Step aside, Queen Elizabeth dearie, and allow us to poke you in the ribs on Larry King. What a gag! And to you, imperialist swine Gordon Brown, we give you a well-considered diplomatic slap in the face. Take those cheap DVDs and shove them.  As for that Churchill bust, get it outta here. I am the Egg of Change.

As for King Abdullah bin Saud, I, a free-born Black man, bow down to you in the ancient gesture of slave submission --- even though the Saudis no longer welcome bowing to a mere human being, but only to Allah. That low bow and that series of "Up yours!" gestures to the Brits, who are still helping us militarily in Afghanistan, are carefully scripted gestures. They are meant to be seen by you and me -- imperialistic monsters -- and by the famous Arab street, who understand bowing and submission quite nicely. Even though the Arab League just applauded the indicted little Hitler of the Sudan, a regime still deeply enmeshed in criminal genocide and Black slavery -- raiding, killing, and forcible conversion of native African peoples to Islam.

Take a good hard look at the single most shameful moment in American history.

IDF Chief snubbed in Washington - Obama's message to Israel

Rick Francona - Mar 25, 2009
Middle East Perspectives

The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, visited Washington, DC, last week to meet with senior American officials to discuss what Israel believes is the growing Iranian threat to his country. In light of President Obama`s attempts to reach out to the mullahs in Tehran - the most recent a Nowruz (Persian new year) video message - the IDF chief brought new intelligence on Iran`s nuclear and missile programs.

Both American and Israeli intelligence establishments believe that Iran is intent on developing nuclear weapons. The difference between the two assessments is how soon Iran will achieve that capability. The Israelis believe the Iranians are on the verge of developing a nuclear warhead for its ballistic missiles - missiles that can easily reach anywhere in Israel.

Press reports described Ashkenazi`s reception in Washington as "extraordinarily cool" - he did not meet with any of the Obama Cabinet, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. He also was unable to schedule a meeting with his counterpart, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen. Add to that list Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair.

This is almost unheard of. The United States and Israel have close military and intelligence ties. It is quite normal for the IDF chief to meet with defense and intelligence officers. Keep in mind that in Israel, the defense establishment is the senior intelligence authority, making Ashkenazi not only Admiral Mullen`s counterpart, but Admiral Blair`s as well. Meetings such as those that did not happen are commonplace, at least they were.

What has changed? Obviously, we have a new administration whose foreign policy is somewhat changed. The unavailability of virtually any senior official is telling. This administration appears to have determined that forging a new relationship with Iran may come at the expense of the close relationship with Israel that goes back decades.

The only meeting with a senior American official was with National Security Advisor General James Jones. However, the meeting was focused on U.S. demands that Israel lift some military restrictions on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Jones was not there to listen to anything about what Israeli leaders considers an "existential" threat to the Jewish state.

The IDF spokesman tried to soften the blow with this emailed explanation, "The schedule for the United States visit of the IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, was preplanned according to requests made by American officials. Any meetings that were canceled were substituted with telephone conference calls." An IDF internet site claimed that Ashkenazi returned to Israel to participate in talks revolving around the negotiations for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Conference calls? I`m not buying it. This treatment of General Ashkenazi is a not-so-subtle message to the Israelis: the situation has changed and you may be on your own in dealing with the Iranians.

How else can the Israelis interpret it? Obama has made several overtures to the Iranians - a terrorist country (unless you ask Janet Napolitano, then it is a "state sponsor of human-caused disasters") according to the State Department - all of which have been rebuffed. Obama advisors are urging the President to talk to not only the Taliban (a terrorist organization), but also Hizballah and Hamas (also terrorist organizations). As one analyst (that would be me) puts it, "We are trying to talk to the exact people we should be trying to kill."

Rather than dissuading the Israelis from a military strike on Iran`s nuclear facilities, the Obama Administration`s refusal to talk to senior Israeli military and intelligence officials may actually hasten the action they seek to stop. If Israel cannot get some assurance of support from the United States, it will feel compelled to act unilaterally.

Mr. President, you are talking to the wrong people.

The Obamas - No Clue, No Class

Obamas Embarrass America (again!)- Give Queen an IPod... She Already Has One (Video)

This says it all.

Oh, and Obama banned the press... again:

The president banned most reporters from nearly every event he held on a day busy with bilateral talks with foreign leaders, and even held cameras at bay for his visit to Buckingham Palace to meet the queen. 

What Does One Get a Queen?- ABC News

President and First Lady Obama gave Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II a video iPod with inscription, songs uploaded and accessories, plus a rare musical songbook signed by Richard Rodgers.

Uploaded onto the iPod:

• Photos from the Queen's 2007 White House State Visit
• Photos from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown, Va., Visit
• Photos from the Queen's 2007 Richmond, Va., Visit
• Video from the Queen's 1957 Jamestown Visit
• Video from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown Visit
• Video from the Queen's 2007 Richmond Visit
• Photos from President Obama's Inauguration
• Audio of then-state senator Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and
• Audio of President Obama 2009 Inauguration Address

Britain's Press Association reports that the Royal couple gave the Obamas "a silver-framed, signed photograph of themselves."

ZIP (How long do you think it took for the Queen to order the thing thrown away stored?)

(Wake up, folks. Michelle Obama is NOT Jackie Kennedy. She's not even Carla Bruni. President and Mrs. Bush may not have been the most stylish folks in town but they actually DID know how to conduct themselves among world leaders. World leaders, and the Dalai Lama, liked President Bush a great deal; it was the unwashed masses who were brainwashed against him. Now, it is world leaders who think Obama is an idiot and the unwashed masses who fancy him a deity. Sheesh!)

Here's video from the meeting with the Queen of England. It is customary for a lady to curtsy when she meets the Queen.
Michelle forgot to curtsy. Perhaps she thought it was the Queen who was supposed to curtsy for her!

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