Fouad Ajami: A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy

No despot fears our president, and no demonstrator in Tehran expects him to ride to the rescue

The joke is on the enthralled crowds in Cairo, Ankara, Berlin and Oslo. The new American president they had fallen for had no genuine calling or attachments abroad. In their enthusiasm for Mr. Obama, and their eagerness to proclaim themselves at one with the postracial meaning of his election, they had missed his aloofness from the genuine struggles in the foreign world.

Everywhere there is on display evidence of the rogues taking the Obama administration's measure, and of America's vulnerable allies scurrying for cover.

Read it all. This is where appeasement fails. If you act like a pussy, they treat you like a pussy.

Obama vents frustration at Senate delays

Does this sound to anyone like he's about to try to make a change here? Floating this up there to see what kind of crap he stirs up. And if not enough, then he will push forward. Hugo Chavez likes the idea. He might next suggest "President for Life".

Watch out.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed frustration with the way the Senate does business, saying the use of delaying tactics there harms the nation's ability to "deal with big problems in a very competitive world."
"Other countries are going to start running circles around us," Obama said in a White House interview with PBS. "We're going to have to return to some sense that governance is more important than politics inside the Senate."

InterPol Gets Immunity in the U.S. And the Constitution goes under the bus

Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law? - Andy McCarthy - The Corner on National Review Online

One week ago, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law.

President Obama issued an executive order removing the Reagan limitations. That is, Interpol's property and assets are no longer subject to search and confiscation, and its archives are now considered inviolable. This international police force (whose U.S. headquarters is in the Justice Department in Washington) will be unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law while it operates in the United States and affects both Americans and American interests outside the United States.

It's true. Obama has no respect for America. He wants to complete transform it into his image of everyday, nothingness. Get him out!

Obama and Congress: It is almost as if they had a death wish for the country

Tempting the tipping point: Can the U.S. escape a fiscal death spiral?

The only thing I can add, or ask, is if it's actually intentional. Manchurian Candidate Alert!

I hope we can recover in 2010 and 2012 respectively.

The Obama administration and the Congress are in a headlong rush to push the country over the fiscal tipping point. The fiscal tipping point is the point where the interest that premium bond buyers are demanding to compensate them for the risk of default and/or accelerating inflation causes the total interest cost to be so high that the government is borrowing just to pay the interest. This is equivalent to a family being so far in debt that it is borrowing just to pay the interest on its mortgage, credit cards, etc.

The proposed health care plan and the environmental cap-and-trade scheme will add trillions of dollars to the U.S. debt over the next few years and, in all likelihood, soon will drive the total debt burden to well over 100 percent of GDP. Even if the administration were to tax the "rich" at 100 percent of their incomes, there would still not be enough money to pay for all of these spending schemes.

The following should be known to most members of Congress. The size of the U.S. government is already well over the welfare and economic growth-maximizing rate. Taxes on upper-income Americans are well above the revenue-maximizing rate. Thus, for those in the political class to further increase the size of government and government debt as a percentage of GDP is grossly irresponsible. It is almost as if they had a death wish for the country.

I'm starting to believe it may be the Cloward-Piven strategy of manufacturing crises to overwhelm the government to bring about Socialist change in action.  When I first heard about this I laughed.  Now, it makes sense.  I am becoming a conspiratorial nutjob.  Save me!

"I am Muslim, I am American"

Notice which comes first - via Atlas Shrugs

CAIR is a terrorist organization. Funds it. Supports it. Apologizes for it. And "Atlas" is right. Religion is first. It is everything to them. I am an American first. No questions.

Transvestites, Mao And Obama Ornaments Decorate White House Christmas Tree

From BigGovernment.com:

I'm an Atheist.  And I find this COMPLETELY OFFENSIVE AND INSULTING.

And how about that image of Obama on Mt. Rushmore.  Pretty sweet, huh?  VILE!!!

Limbo time!

He doesn't need to vacation in Hawaii this week.  He's already doing the Limbo in the polls.

 -21%.  That's some strong Hope and Change.

Al Gore and Gordon Brown walk together into a closet in Copenhagen

Not only did this idiot flunk out of Vanderbilt Divinity School (I guess he really isn't holier than thou), but this Global Warming fear monger also flunked out of Vandy Law.

Oh... The Left is Elite.  Smarter than you (or Sarah with the gun).  Turnip!

UPDATE 3-Ford offers buyouts to all UAW workers | Reuters

UPDATE 3-Ford offers buyouts to all UAW workers | Reuters

Does this suggest that some Unions (unfortunately not Barack Hussein Obama's pal Andy Stern and SEIU) are seeing their stranglehold wane? Unions are 25% less profitable than th3eir non-Union counterparts, thus killing jobs and growth. Ford knows why U.S. automakers aren't as competitive as they should be. And why they can't put money into making more appealing cars. ... UNIONS!

* Ford offers buyouts to 41,000 UAW workers
* Second round of buyouts offered to U.S. factory workers
* Ford says has excess workers despite turnaround progress

Egyptian FM: We Have Right to Build Defense Structures - News Briefs - Israel National News

Egyptian FM: We Have Right to Build Defense Structures - News Briefs - Israel National News

It's not a wall. It's a security barrier. The UN is going to be very upset.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said Tuesday that the government in Cairo has every right to erect engineering structures and surveillance devices in its territory.
He was responding to opposition attacks on Egypt's establishment of an underground barrier along the Gaza border to prevent smuggling into the Hamas-controlled area.

More details of Olmert offer disclosed :: Middle East Forum

More details of Olmert offer disclosed :: Middle East Forum

Why bother? Anyone with a brain knows that these savages don't want to make peace with Israel. They just want them dead so that they can turn it into an Arabic paradise like...um.... I don't know. Some Arab shit hole.

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert proposed giving the Palestinians land from communities bordering the Gaza Strip and from the Judean Desert nature reserve in exchange for Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank.

Palestinian prof admits Arab denial of Temples is baloney

Palestinian prof admits Arab denial of Temples is baloney

This guy is so dead. Telling the truth will get him killed. Sharia justice!

"If you went back a couple of hundred years, before the advent of the political form of Zionism, I think you will find that many Muslims would not have disputed the connection that Jews have toward [the Mount]," said Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al-Quds University in eastern Jerusalem.

 

Data Shows that the Stimulus Package Was a Waste of Money - Peter Roff (usnews.com)

Data Shows that the Stimulus Package Was a Waste of Money - Peter Roff (usnews.com)

No kidding! These people are morons and stealing YOUR money! Throw these bums out! All of them!

To put it kindly, the stimulus package that President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rushed through Congress at the beginning of his presidency has been a flop. It is not just that the $789 billion package has not had the effect the White House promised it would; it's that it may actually have been counterproductive, actually lengthening the recession by effectively taking money out of the private economy, where it could have been used to create jobs and for investment purposes. Instead it has been parceled out by the government, which has been unable to track where it has gone or what impact it has really had on job creation. And that has led to any number of fallacious statements by senior administration officials about jobs "created or saved."

Reid defends deals - Live Pulse - POLITICO.com

Reid defends deals - Live Pulse - POLITICO.com

Is there a more corrupt politician in Washington? I'm not sure if there is. This guy should be locked up for what he's doing to our Republic.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) offered a vigorous defense Monday of the deals in the Senate reform bill that benefit individual states, saying “it doesn’t speak well” of senators who didn’t secure such deals.

“There are 100 senators here and I don’t know that there’s a senator that doesn’t have something in this bill that isn’t important to them,” Reid said. “If they don’t have something in it important to them then it doesn’t speak well of them.”

He likened the legislation to the defense bill, which is thick with earmarks and other provisions benefiting individual members and even private corporations.

 

Dreading our future - NYPOST.com

Dreading our future - NYPOST.com

President Obama, for whom I voted because I believed he was the best choice available, is a profound disappointment. I now regard his campaign as a sly bait-and-switch operation, promising one thing and delivering another. Shame on me.

Well, I agree with him. But wasn't all of this completely obvious to the non-Kool Aid drinkers before the election? This guy's positions were completely obvious. Shame on you, indeed. Now we're completely screwed.

A Climatology Conspiracy?

A Climatology Conspiracy?

The CRU e-mails have revealed how the normal conventions of the peer review process appear to have been compromised by a team* of global warming scientists, with the willing cooperation of the editor of the International Journal of Climatology (IJC), Glenn McGregor. 

Put them in jail! Me no like free speech!

Frankenstein doesn't like it when you make fun of him:

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando took such offense at a parody website aimed at unseating him that the freshman Democrat has asked that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder investigate the Lake County activist who started the anti-Grayson website “mycongressmanisnuts.com.”

Grayson’s office did not respond with comment other than to confirm the letter exists — including its request that Langley be fined and “imprisoned for five years.” 

 

Honduras to Obama: Chupalo!

Hondurans rejects Communism.  We're getting close to that ourselves.  Obama, not so much.

MPs in Honduras have voted overwhelmingly against reinstating President Manuel Zelaya, shrugging off international pressure four months after a coup that has isolated one of the poorest countries in the Americas.
As the vote continued, more than two-thirds of members of Congress had voted not to return the deposed president to power for the remainder of his term, which ends on January 27, as Washington and many Latin American governments had urged.


Honduran media put the ongoing vote at 98-12, well in excess of the simple majority needed in the 128-member, single-chamber Congress for the vote against restoring Mr Zelaya to succeed.

Obama Job Summit: Another Manufacturer Opts Out of U.S.A.

It's very simple.  The government should create a positive climate for business.  Not run it.  Obama, listen to this guy...it's a great company.  But they're going to leave because you simply don't get it. 

On November 11, David N. Farr, Chairman, CEO and President of Emerson Electric Co., announced at the Baird 2009 Industrial Conference in Chicago that President Obama has succeeded in chasing his multi-billion dollar industry right out of the U.S.A. Why? Onerous regulation, high taxes, and the over $1 trillion Obama debt should be reason enough for any business to consider shutting down U.S. facilities and seeking greener pastures overseas says Farr.

What policies in specific?

• $1.41T Deficit 10% of GDP
• $12T of Government Debt Going to $20+T in 10 yrs
• Print more money – “Quantitative Easing”
• Non-Targeted $800B Stimulus
• Wall Street & Car Bailouts
• Cap & Tax Legislation?
• Government Healthcare takeover: $1+T
• Taxes and Regulations (increasing)
• Lack of U.S. $ Support

Read the whole thing for a primer on how to fuck up an economy.  And on the other side, the simple ways to fix it.

US: Time running out for Iran

Ha! Ha! Ha!  It is to laugh. 

Bush didn't have the nuts to do anything.  And we know that Obama won't.  Israel is left doing the dirty work again.  Funny thing is, the Saudis will likely give Israel air rights to do the job.

Iran has resisted a deal with Western powers that would see its low-enriched uranium sent abroad for processing into uranium for making fuel. Gibbs said it was "pretty clear" that the Iranians were backing out of that agreement.

Washington and its allies suspect Iran is secretly using its nuclear energy program to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran says it is enriching uranium only to generate electricity.

This midget is laughing at us all.

Putin says no plans to leave power

He's not going anywhere.  In fact, he really hasn't left office at all.  He is a Stalinist.  And a violent and dangerous one as well. 

Putin, 57, also said he "will think about" taking part in the 2012 presidential election, when many Russians expect him to return to the Kremlin for a six-year term.

What does that mean for the rest of us?  Well, it means arms facilities in Venezuela, and it means more support for Iran.

Russia has no evidence that Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

"We have no information that Iran is working on the creation of a nuclear weapon," Putin said when asked by a reporter if Iran was close to making an atomic bomb.

When asked if Russia would support international sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Putin declined to answer.

Why the Swiss Were Right to Prohibit Construction of Minarets

An interesting op-ed via Pajamas Media from a Norwegian who tries to explain the logic behind the ban.  The crux of the argument is that the Swiss people have looked into who is behind the minaret push, and what Islam means to a secular society.  The radical aspects of a political system that also serves as a religion is very frightening to a lot of people.  And in the privacy of a ballot box, they can finally express those fears without being directly ridiculed by the deniers who may not have the same understanding of the situation. 

To put it bluntly, a mosque with minarets is not the equivalent of a church with a spire. Why? Because Europe’s churches have no political agenda, and because they aren’t obsessed with the painstaking study of ancient “divine” laws that are consistently placed above secular law.

It is precisely this disagreeable aspect of Islam, in contrast with Christianity, that I think we would profit by discussing openly and honestly. Because if I could be sure that a Muslim congregation (with or without its own minaret, even though the minaret adds an extra dose of religio-political power) was founded on the same freedom-based values as, say, the Norwegian state church, and that any “struggle” involving that community was limited to arguments about things like same-sex marriage and whether Muhammed was born of a virgin, they could build as many minarets in my neighborhood as they wanted –  because in that case Islam would not represent a challenge to Norwegian liberty and democracy. But unfortunately Islam does represent a challenge. Therefore I pose this challenge to the elite of my country: Of the over 100 Muslim congregations in Norway, name one that will forever fight tooth and nail against sharia and for a secular Norway. If such a faith community exists, it’s doing a very good job of keeping itself hidden.


What the people of Switzerland have understood is that Islam, in its fundamentals, does have political ambitions. By contrast, elsewhere in Europe — and certainly here in Norway — the media have been almost entirely silent about the real-world conditions that help to explain the Swiss vote to begin with. Switzerland already had three mosques with minarets. Then the Turkish cultural association in the town of Olten bought a lot outside of town and applied for permission to build a mosque with minarets. It thereupon emerged that the association’s ideological lodestar was the ultranationalist Alparsan Turkes, founder of the racist National Movement Party and the paramilitary group “The Gray Wolves,” which was responsible for several assassination attempts in Turkey and elsewhere. As several observers have noticed, the ties between totalitarian ideologies such as Nazism, fascism, and Islamism (i.e., political Islam) are intimate.  It is not surprising, then, that this so­-called “cultural association” is infected by extremism.

911 Memorial in Israel

That is more than any other ally has ever done.  Beautiful.

Boxer: Hackers should face criminal probe over 'Climategate'

Good work, Barbara!  That's the key.  Not the potential $145 Trillion the world is spending on this fucking boondoggle.  No. No.  Let's get the whistle blower.

"You call it 'Climategate'; I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate,'" she said during a committee meeting. "Whatever it is, the main issue is, Are we facing global warming or are we not? I'm looking at these e-mails, that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public."

Stupid "Senator".  She's worked hard for that title.  So that's what I'm going to call her.

WH Budget Director: May Be "Decades" Before Health Care System Works

How about that for a warm and fuzzy?  Stop this catastrophe NOW!!!

"It will be years to decades" before the nation has a properly working health care system that rewards quality over quantity, Peter Orszag told reporters. He said improving the quality of health care "is more like a lifelong nutrition or diet, not studying for an exam," but he added that continuous progress is a crucial goal.

I hope for his sake that they not only cover toupees, but that they also figure out how to cover them before he croaks.

Iran bans make-up for women on TV

Why?  Because a man says it's against Sharia law of course.  You're so stupid.

National Organization for Women, Oprah, Elle Magazine, Cosmo start screaming 'bloody murder' in 1, 2, 3...NEVER.

Women appearing in television programs will not be allowed to wear make-up because it is against Islamic law, or sharia, media on Wednesday quoted the head of Iran’s state television as saying.

"Make-up by women during television programs is illegal and against Islamic sharia law ... There should not be a single case of a woman wearing make-up during a program," Ezatollah Zarghami was quoted as saying by the reformist Etemad newspaper.

Govt will need to help shape U.S. media: Waxman

That's pretty laughable.  Are they going to change all of the state-funded media institutions to 'Pravda'?  Freedom of the press of course goes right down the toilet at this point.  Violates every single American core principle.  But, as long as the MSM gives the Dems what they want, it makes complete sense.

Communists!

A hate this rat bastard.  And I mean 'rat'!

Baucus Admits Reid Bill Costs $2.5 Trillion Over 10 Years “Depending On Where You Start"

Please stop this man-made disaster!

Call your Senators.  This is a huge turd that's going to cripple us.

And the below comments come from Senator Max Baucus's (DEMOCRAT-Mont.)

"Just for a second -- health care reform, whether you use a ten-year number or when you start in 2010 or start in 2014, wherever you start at, so it is still either $1 trillion or it's $2.5 trillion, depending on where you start…"

Propaganda Video: NYC 2nd Graders Being Turned Into Tree-Huggers, Indoctrinated Into The Cult of Global Warming

They get to them so early.  The schools just suck them in.  You need to talk to your kids at home and explain reality.  The schools simply don't want to teach facts, merely left-leaning ideology that leads to CRU's ClimateGate and the like.

Hamas readies anti-Israel suicide terror to follow prisoner swap

Not always the most reliable of sources, Debka.com hints that Hamas is already preparing for the next round of atrocities once they get their 1,000 terrorists for 1 23 year old IDF soldier deal taken care of.

DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources disclose Hamas planned a wave of large-scale suicide attacks in southern Israel and its central heartland, for which five to eight operatives based in the West Bank were instructed to infiltrate Israel.

Hamas prepared a set of identical rucksacks for the bombers to carry their explosives and weapons, following the model of the Mumbai massacre perpetrators.

Palestinian woman stabs Israeli soldier

These are the animals that Israelis are dealing with.  There is NOTHING that justifies what this woman has done.

A video posted on the Youtube video sharing website shows a young Palestinian woman stabbing a security guard at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem.

The attack took place on October 25. A female terrorist in her 20s pulled out a knife she had been hiding in her clothes and stabbed one of the security guard at the checkpoint in his lower abdomen.

The two-minute video shows the guards checking the woman's items in an x-ray machine. When shift their gaze from her for a moment, she seizes the opportunity to quickly pull out a knife and attack.

Lebanon: Cabinet lets Hezbollah keep weapons

Slitting their own throats.  Israel could care less about Lebanon.  They just want to be left alone.  Hezbollah wants to remove the Lebanese Christians, strengthen ties with Iran and wipe out Israel.  You reap what you sew.

UN resolutions broken.  World yawns.

The Lebanese government decided Wednesday to back a bill allowing Hezbollah to keep its weapons. The bill contradicts UN resolutions 1559 and 1701, which call for the Shiite group's disarmament.

Ahmadinejad: Israel can't do 'damn thing' against Iran

Those are fighting words.  I challenge you to a duel!

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  rejected on Wednesday as "illegal" a UN nuclear watchdog resolution  over the country's disputed nuclear activities, state television reported.

Ahmadinejad also said Israel could not do a "damn thing" to stop the Islamic state's nuclear program, which the West suspects is a front to build bombs. Iran denies the claim.

Climate Change 'Fraud'

British professor claims climate fraud aimed at keeping that 'gravy train' rolling and stealing tax revenues from the people.  It's criminal.  No two ways about it.

Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the “gravy train” going.

In a controversial talk just days before the start of a climate summit attended by world leaders in Copenhagen, Prof Plimer said Governments were treating the public like “fools” and using climate change to increase taxes.

Fatah Embarrassed About Accepting Trees from JNF

Damn it!  Jews are good people. The cat is out of the bag.  And the Arabs just don't want to admit it publicly.

HA!

The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority has expressed displeasure that the Israeli media publicized the contribution of 3,000 trees by the Jewish National Fund to a new Arab city near Ramallah in Samaria. The PA leadership has requested that such reports, which portray pro-Israel organizations as contributing to the wellbeing of local Arabs, be minimized so as not to create the impression that Israel or its supporters do anything to benefit local Arabs. Fatah also expressed fears that the media reports on the gift may fuel a negative reaction among Arab states for accepting “Zionist” assistance.

(Hat tip if you get the reference below)

Government Agreed to Release Marwan Barghouti

What does this say about Israel?  Does it suggest that they are so dedicated to their people, their soldiers, that they would risk releasing a brutal child murdering terrorist to set IDF solider Gilad Shalit free?  Or does it suggest foolishness?  I can't answer this question, but I do know this... there is no other country in the world that I know of that would even consider this.  Let alone have to consider this.

Good luck, Gilad Shalit.  Good luck.

The Arab newspaper al-Hayat has reported that the government of Israel had agreed to discuss the release of Fatah terrorist Marwan Barghouti as part of a deal with Hamas to free captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Israel’s willingness to release Barghouti was on condition he be deported from the Land of Israel.

UN marks November 29 'day of mourning'

Why is this?  Because this was the day that the UN gave Israel the right to exist.  That's why.

The UN is infested with racist vermin.  And I hate it.

The UN is currently marking the historic date of November 29 1947, the day in which it approved the partition plan separating Israel into two states – Jewish and Arabic.

But while in Israel the date is celebratory, as it marks the end of the British mandate and the beginning of independent rule, the UN headquarters in New York and Geneva are holding ceremonies of mourning and solidarity with the Palestinian people.  

This is why you need Military Courts

Terrorists now claiming that their civil rights have been violated.

Well done Hold-the-Obama.  Nice work!

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani contends that he was denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial.

Lawyers for a terrorism suspect once held at Guantánamo Bay who is now facing prosecution in Manhattan asked a judge on Tuesday to dismiss his case on the ground that his nearly five years in detention denied him his constitutional right to a speedy trial.

Australia's Global Warming Bill Defeated

Auzzie! Auzzie! Auzzie! Oy! Oy! Oy!

Australia's version of Cap and Trade SHOT DOWN.   Someone gets it!

Australia's Parliament defeated legislation to set up a greenhouse gas emissions trading system on Wednesday, throwing a central plank of the government's plans to combat global warming into disarray. 

Vile! New "Thank You, President Obama"-Another School Exploition Video

When are teachers in this country going to stop indoctrinating our children?  This is brainwashing and disgusting to say the least.  They do this in North Korea and Cuba.  NOT HERE!  At least not until January 20th, 2009.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews calls West Point the "Enemy Camp"

No. Seriously.  Take a look.

Explosives found in DC near White House

And the source of this information?  Well, given that we're all worried about Tiger Woods and CrasherGate, it would have to come from an alternative source.  And the source is.... Russian (RIA Novosti).

Regarding a "paper case containing explosive material was removed by the Secret Service" (per RIA Novosti report) and DC Fire Department Officials from somewhere near 15th Street and Pennsylvania Ave.  The Fire Department officials gave no comment on what was found inside the case (and this report does not attribute the source of the claim that the Secret Service found explosive material in it).

Inhofe Asks Boxer to Investigate Possible Scientific ‘Conspiracy’ in ‘Climategate’

This will NEVER happen.  But I love the effort.  Time to make this into a huge show.  Out the liars! 

Glenn Beck says the world Governments are planning to spend $145 Trillion on this scam.  Think about that!!!

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, is calling on Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to conduct hearings on a possible conspiracy between some of the world’s most prominent climatologists to, among other things, manipulate data on so-called global warming.

Climate scientist at center of e-mail controversy to step down

Jones down. Michael Mann next.

Now, if we can only get Al Gore to STFU!

Olmert Details His Offer to Abbas

The "Palestinians" don't actually want to negotiate.  It's not about living alongside each other.  It's about having it all, and getting rid of every Jew along the way.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert provided the first detailed account of the offer he made to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on 2008, in an interview with the Australian newspaper published November 28.

 Read it all and wise up!

Millions of Families Will Pay $2,100 More in Annual Health Insurance Premiums Under Senate Bill

It's just so predictable.  There are hundreds of mechanisms to improve health care that wouldn't cost anyone a single cent.  But the Democrats don't want that.  All they want is a single payer system which will cost trillions.  Yes, trillions.  Some of it directly from government spending (your tax money), some through additional taxes and fees (your tax money) and still other money by taxing health care providers (thus a pass through tax to you).  Did you ever think that one of the reasons that Europe and others have a socialized system?  Even though it's a complete failure, they think they can afford to do it because the U.S. is funding their military budgets.  We spend over billions, so others don't really have to.  They have extra money to piss away on bad ideas.  We do NOT.

For millions of American families, the cost of health insurance premiums will increase $2,100 a year under the Democratic health care bill now being debated in the U.S. Senate.

That’s according to an analysis conducted by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JTO). 

The CBO-JCT analysis of Sen. Harry Reid’s bill found that people buying their own health insurance policies on government-run exchanges – as they will be required to do if they lack coverage through work -- will see their premiums increase by up to 13 percent in 2016, the year in which the Senate bill takes full effect.

What are these people really up to?

Climategate: Follow the Money

Now this is the kind of stuff that I like.  This is what news journalists are supposed to do!  They see an lie and they try to uncover the who, where and why behind it. 

Climate change researchers must believe in the reality of global warming just as a priest must believe in the existence of God.

But the deeper question is why the scientists behaved this way to begin with, especially since the science behind man-made global warming is said to be firmly settled. To answer the question, it helps to turn the alarmists' follow-the-money methods right back at them.

Consider the case of Phil Jones, the director of the CRU and the man at the heart of climategate. According to one of the documents hacked from his center, between 2000 and 2006 Mr. Jones was the recipient (or co-recipient) of some $19 million worth of research grants, a sixfold increase over what he'd been awarded in the 1990s.

Why did the money pour in so quickly? Because the climate alarm kept ringing so loudly: The louder the alarm, the greater the sums. And who better to ring it than people like Mr. Jones, one of its likeliest beneficiaries?


Thus, the European Commission's most recent appropriation for climate research comes to nearly $3 billion, and that's not counting funds from the EU's member governments. In the U.S., the House intends to spend $1.3 billion on NASA's climate efforts, $400 million on NOAA's, and another $300 million for the National Science Foundation. The states also have a piece of the action, with California—apparently not feeling bankrupt enough—devoting $600 million to their own climate initiative. In Australia, alarmists have their own Department of Climate Change at their funding disposal.

Climategate: Imminent Demise of Glaciers Due to … a Typo!

Well isn't this just getting pathetic?  A typo?  Decades and decades of faux research, and this is the best excuse that this scumbags can come up with?

The IPCC has been claiming Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035. The research paper they used concluded 2350.

According to Prof Graham Cogley (Trent University, Ontario), a short article on the future of glaciers by a Russian scientist (Kotlyakov, V.M., 1996, The future of glaciers under the expected climate warming, 61-66, in Kotlyakov, V.M., ed., 1996, Variations of Snow and Ice in the Past and at Present on a Global and Regional Scale, Technical Documents in Hydrology, 1. UNESCO, Paris (IHP-IV Project H-4.1). 78p estimates 2350 as the year for disappearance of glaciers, but the IPCC authors misread 2350 as 2035 in the Official IPCC documents, WGII 2007 p. 493!

The Yetti is relieved!

Obama’s Aunt ‘Anguished by Separation’ From Him; George W. Bush Is Her Hero

I love the fact taht GWB is her hero. I can see why Barack Hussein Obama is NOT.  This holier-than-thou windbag is the P.O.T.U.S. and he can't even help this woman pay for her basic needs. 

Zeituni Onyango told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that she is troubled that her immigration woes have made her a political liability to her nephew.

Onyango, the half sister of Obama's late father, says she has exiled herself from the family after attending Obama's inauguration because she didn't want to become fodder for his foes. Obama and his family have not reached out to her either, she said.

"I loved President Bush," Onyango said while moving toward a framed photo of Bush and his wife standing with Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House on inauguration day. "He is my No. 1 man in my life because he helped me when I really needed that help." [Oddly enough, her nephew wasn't there to help her with her medical bills and basic needs.  He did get a lovely house in Hyde Park though].

 

White House still listening to Van Jones 'green' advice

Would you look at that.  Admitted Communist and former "Green Jobs" czar for the Obama Administration who resigned in shame after racist, paranoid and anti-American rants is still on the job for the Greatest Leader in the History of Mankind.

Why am I not surprised in the least?

Van Jones, President Obama's controversial former "green jobs" czar, serves on the advisory board of an independent environmental organization actively working with the White House, WND has learned.