Hilarious! SNL Parodies Obama Jintao Press Conference

Laugh out loud funneee!

Is Andrew Sullivan An Anti-Semite?

The always stimulating RS McCain asks the question:

I certainly don't think so, and consider it terribly unfortunate that Sullivan has exposed himself to this damaging accusation through his reflexive enthusiasm for all things Obama -- just as he once was denounced as a "neocon" because of his reflexive enthusiasm for all things Bush.

I'm normally rather hesitant to play the Jew hater card myself...but in Sully's case, I have absolutely no problem pulling it out.

He may not even realize how much of an anti-Semite he actually is.

Andrew is one of the new breed of Jew haters, who attempts to mask his bigotry by promoting it as 'anti-Zionism',using the term 'neocon' as a synonym for Dirty Jews and questioning why the US doesn't cut loose from Evil Israel,and by implication agrees with Osama bin-Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that 9/11 and the current War against Jihad we're currently engaged in is basically Israel's fault . He also spends a lot of time fantasizing about the all powerful Jewish lobby, a staple of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists.

Even his Atlantic colleague Jeff Goldberg has noticed a certain smell about his increasingly paranoid ravings.

So fine, we've established that Sully has a major jones against Israel and `Zionists'. Does that make him a Jew hater?

There's no such thing as a perfect nation, Israel's no exception to that rule and I'm the last person who would suggest that it is.

But when you make special rules for the only Jewish country that you apply to no other country, when you place an inordinate focus on Israel's supposed sins, when you want to restrict Jews and only Jews as to where they may live and build homes, when you bitch at them for the sin of actually defending themselves from genocidal enemies and when you actually shill for those enemies, then the label Jew hater applies.

That's a simple truth, even if you have self-hating,misguided Obamabots like J-Street to wear as a mask.

Another thing Sully and the people with his particular outlook always neglect to mention is the huge upside to America's alliance with Israel, one of our major strategic allies.

That's makes him and people of his ilk not only unpatriotic but either ignorant, willfully disembling or both.

-selah_

There's Always A Solution To Any Problem...

Let's illustrate this by looking at two very different stories:

The first one comes from the London Times, a heart rending account about how the city of Detroit, long mismanaged on behalf of leftist high tax and spend policies, corruption and racial politics is now so broke that it can't even afford to bury its dead:

The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe, lie one above the other on steel racks inside a giant freezer in Detroit’s central mortuary, like discarded shoes in the back of a wardrobe.

Some have lain here for years, but in recent months the number of unclaimed bodies has reached a record high. For in this city that once symbolised the American Dream many cannot even afford to bury their dead.

“I have not seen this many unclaimed bodies in 13 years on the job,” said Albert Samuels, chief investigator at the mortuary.

Definitely a bad situation..but like I said, for every problem, there's a solution:

A Peruvian gang that allegedly killed people and drained fat from their corpses for use in cosmetics may have been inspired by a grisly Andean legend.

Hilarió Cudeña Simon, the alleged ringleader, linked the crimes to tales of demonic assassins, known as Pishtacos, who purportedly waylaid victims in pre-Columbian times, police said. {..}

At a news conference police displayed two bottles of fat, which laboratory tests confirmed were human. "The fat was extracted from the thorax and thighs," said Eusebio Felix Murga, chief of police of Dirincri district. Police also showed a photo of the rotting head of a 27-year-old male victim discovered last month in a coca-growing valley.

Police said they received a tip four months ago about a trade in human fat, which exported the amber liquid to Europe as anti-wrinkle cream. In addition to the alleged ringleader the suspects were named as Segundo Castillejos Agüero, Marcos Veramendi Princípe and Enadina Estela Claudio. They have been charged with homicide, criminal conspiracy, illegal firearms possession and drug trafficking.

I think we have a win-win situation here and I recommend that the powers that be in Detroit head down to Peru and contact these people forthwith. The city could probably make additional money on the deal by offering the gang a direct shipping contract, since Detroit is closer to Europe than Peru and could thus service the deal more efficiently.

As a matter of fact, now that I think of it Detroit could probably deal directly with the Europeans and cut the Peruvians out of the loop entirely. The murder rate in MoTown is also skyrocketing, so there ought to be a fairly steady supply of 'product'.

This fits in well with Detroit's other new alternative commercial endeavor, a cannabis college.

Now, if they develop some laboratories and processing plants for other recreational pharmaceuticals and maybe a few human organ rings, the Motor City's transformation will be complete.

It'll be a major showplace that shows how well things go when the Left runs things, baby!

Sarah Palin On O'Reilly

Not my favorite host by any means,but here he grills Governor Palin on foreign policy issues and you can tell she's doing her homework.

On some of the questions,( particularly on the question about Israel bombing Iran) O'Reilly delves into the hypothetical and I would have liked to have seen Governor Palin respond by simply telling him that it was a totally hypothetical situation and that her reaction would be based on realities and conditions existing at that time. A bit of a hedge, but a valid one.

All in all,I give her a B+ here..a markedly higher grade than the present occupant of the White House.

Oh, And Senator Landrieu Is A Smarter Hooker Than I Thought..

When I originally found out that Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana sold her vote yesterday for a measly $100 mill bribe of your tax dollars in special federal aid from the White House, I referred to her as setting her price too early, like a low ball Vegas hooker. And I mentioned that if she was really together, she would hold out until the last minute for a higher price.

Well, I stand corrected. She did exactly that and got her White House John - er- Barack to shell out $300 mill of our money for her performance.

Of course, like Ben Nelson ,Blanche Lincoln and a few others, she let it be known that her vote today was not to be construed as a vote for the final bill.

In the trade, I believe that additional acts not covered in the initial arrangement between a business girl and her client are known as 'extras', and they always cost more.

I have no doubt that Senator Landrieu willbe able to get some more money out of the Obama Administration when the time comes.

Oh, and as Michelle Malkin reveals, plenty of your money is earmarked for a lot of interesting people inside the bill itself...

Cloture Passes On ObamaCare, 60-39

And yes, the Democrats were united in bringing this monstrosity to the floor for debate.

It was entirely a straight party line vote. Ohio Republican George Voinivich decided to miss the vote, but in the end it affected nothing.

This vote is simply a motion to proceed with debate, amendments, etc. on the floor. It could go on for quite some time. Tom Coburn (r-OK), for instance wants the Senate clerk to read every word of the 2,000 page bill on the Senate floor,although that probably won't happen.And Senator Lieberman, who owes the Democrats absolutely nothing at this point has pledged a filibuster.

There will be another cloture vote after all this, to end debate and vote onthe bil itself,and we may see a few Dems defect.

Although once again, I want to emphasize that the White House and Harry Reid have already said that they if they can't get the votes in the Senate, they will shove ObamaCare through by a fraudulent use of the reconciliation process ( it's supposed to be used for emergency budget matters only), locking the GOP out of the room and putting together whatever they want with Pelosi and her 'droids in the House.

Well and good,if it's comes to that. Let's force the bastards to foist this on the American people. And reap the inevitable fallout.

On the bright side, while a lot of federal money will be wasted and further damage done to the economy, most of this garbage can be repealed because th eimplementation doesn't take effect until 2013.

Dems Try shoving ObamaCare Through - And Sen. Landrieu May Be That Kind of Girl

The push is on for the first cloture vote on Obama Care in the 2,000 page bill in the US Senate, scheduled for Saturday night by Dem. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

He'll need all 60 Democrat votes to pass it which means the bill is allowed on to the floor for the debate phase.

The key arm twisting is focused on Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska,Evan Bayh of Indiana, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.

In Landrieu's case, she appears to have established her price as inefficiently as a low ball Vegas hooker - $100 mil in Federal giveaways of other people's money to love Obamacare long time. She probably could have gotten even more if she'd held out another day...

Lincoln's case is very dicey. She basically faces a choice between voting for ObamaCare or being re-elected.

Bayh and Nelson both come from states that have an electorate that hates the idea of government run ObamaCare, but they're also well established incumbents, so we'll see.

It might be nice if all four of these senators heard from a few million of the American people today...call,baby call.

The Council Has Spoken- The Affirmative Action President And a Detainee Circus

Another week has passed, and the Council has spoken!

In the Council category, the winner this week was Bookworm Room with The Perils Of An Affirmative Action President:

My argument is that Barack Obama is one of the number of useless, mediocre people who, thanks to affirmative action, have been elevated to a position far above their natural abilities. The absence of grades is not the only indication of Obama’s intellectual weakness. (And believe me, if his grades were good, they’d be published in every paper in America, including the want ads.)

Everything Obama’s turned his hand to — except for using people to advance his career — has failed. The Annenberg Challenge was a $100 million disaster. His legal career was, to say that least, undistinguished. (I should add here that junior associates always have undistinguished careers. There’s just not that much scope there.) His tenure as an Illinois State Senator was marked by dithering indecision, coupled with the intelligent strategy, for a stupid person, of simply vanishing when the votes came around. The same holds true for his career in the United States Senator. If you examine those two tenures in political office without the gloss of the media love affair, all you’ve got is plenty of nothing.

Obama’s professorship at the U. of Chicago law school was equally undistinguished. He published nothing. His disquisitions on the Constitution show he knows nothing. That is, he doesn’t even have the true intellectual’s excuse of fully understanding, but nevertheless arguing against, the language of the Constitution itself or the standard interpretations of that language. I pity the students who had his class.

In the non-Council category the winner was The Rosistance for The Lawyer in the White House, the Spy in Federal Prison: Giving Away National Security :

The President is now going to give away our national intelligence gathering and analysis capabilities, as now “discovery” is in play, and you can bet the rest of the world will be clamoring for official transcripts of the trial, and full sets of all evidence, so they can discern how we finally caught them after we first let them do their harm to the nation and our society. The men who have cost this nation close to over 7,000 lives (9/11 and the military casualties), not to mention the tens of thousands who were wounded, and on top of all of that, the massive amount of spending to demolish, then reconstruct ships, and structures they destroyed. And don’t forget to add to that the spending, both governmentally and personally, in excess of just flying from one place to another, pretty much anywhere in the world, and the cost of the delivery of goods by shipping. Yes, airport/airline and port security are major costs we have had to bear because a few men think the entire world deserves to return the the salad days of living in the desert with tents and slaves from all other parts of the world they could easily reach, or take by force of arms.

Just as the disclosures by the New York Times regarding the tracking of terrorists by their cell phone signals put out our eyes, followed by the disclosure that the US was tracking money moving to the terrorists in the international electronic banking network put us in the dark again, the discovery process will be a very similar exposure of how we actually keep ourselves protected from mass murdering individuals and groups and other nations.

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Here's the complete rundown of this week's results. Only Mere Rhetoric was unable to vote this week and suffered the mandatory 2/3 vote penalty, but it had no effect on the outcome this week.

I can't wait to see next week's exciting entries, and as always, congratulations not only to the winners but to all the participants.

Council Submissions

• First place with 2 2/3 points! – Bookworm Room - The Perils Of An Affirmative Action President


• Second place with 2 points – The Razor - The Ignorance of the Obama Administration


• Third place with 1 1/3 point – (Tie*) – Joshuapundit - The Afghan Shuffle


• Third place with 1 1/3 point – (Tie*) – Soccer Dad - I Am Not A Schnook


• Fourth place with 2/3 points – Right Truth - When Muslims Attack


• Fifth place with 1/3 point – (Tie*) – Rhymes with Right - On Judicial Confirmation


• Fifth place with 1/3 point – The Colossus of Rhodey - The Messiah still in "blame the US" mode in Japan

Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 3 points! – The Rosistance - The lawyer in the White House and the spy in federal prison giving away national security secrets


• Second place with 2 points – Flopping Aces - America's War of Aggression Against Muslims Confirmed by Abuse Photos


• Third place with 1 2/3 points – Middle East Strategy at Harvard - How the Saudis radicalized US Troops


• Fourth place with 2/3 points – (Tie*) – Melanie Phillips - Everything's clear to me Now


• Fourth place with 2/3 points(Tie*) – Big Government - # Obama Ally Code Pink targets children of military families for abuse


• Fifth place with 1/3 point(Tie*) – The American - Economic Prosperity: A Step of Faith


• Fifth place with 1/3 point(Tie*) – Hot Air Pundit - President Obama vs. The Rest of the World Greeting The Emperor of Japan


• Fifth place with 1/3 point(Tie*) – Common Cents - A Tale Of two Bows

If This Doesn't Make You Crack Up...

Just in time for the holidays....the Obamao toy!!! Dance to da music!

Courtesy of KGS, with maybe an assist from Pamela

AG Holder Ripped Apart in Senate Over NY 9/11 Trial

I've already given you a head's up (with a valuable assist from Rudy Giuliani) on the ridiculous notion of trying 9/11 conspirator Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court in New York City.

Today, Attorney General Eric holder went before the Senate trying tojustify this abomination - and Senator Lindsay Graham reduced him to stuttering idiocy:



My only problem with this is that Graham was far too polite, giving Holder credit for having good motives but being 'misguided' and setting bad precedent.

In fact this is absolutely deliberate on the Obama Administration's part, because it gives them a chance to 'try' the Bush Administration, excite Obama's Angry Left base and take the heat off Prez Zero.

Yes. They're willing to compromise national security for a domestic political agenda.

Remember that you heard it here first - there's at least a 50/50 chance that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be acquitted, because (a)his attorneys will claim the evidence gathered against him is inadmissible because it was obtained under duress and 'torture', (b) because he was not given his Miranda rights when he was arrested, (c) because the federal government will have to make a choice between abiding by the disclosure rules of evidence by revealing confidential info or dropping the charges or a combination of all three.

Rest assured that if this happens, Obama and Holder attempt to spin it by blaming the Bush Administration for the acquittal instead of their decision to try KSM in civilian court, with all that implies. And it's also a nice lead in to the show trials and prosecution of Bush Administration figures who interrogated Islamist terrorists that Obama and Holder are busily working on for the near future.

The National Review's Andrew McCarthy, who actually convicted th efirst World Trade Center bombers has a superb piece on why this is such a dangerous idea for those of you who want some additional reading on the matter, and I strongly recommend it.

UPDATE: President Obama, whom I remember hearing somewhere has a law degree has committed a major legal error by commenting publicly and thus giving KSM's attorneys a handle to toss this out of court because the President of the United States just prejudiced the outcome by commenting publicly:

“I don't think it will be offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him,” Obama told NBC’s Chuck Todd.

When Todd asked Obama if he was interfering in the trial process by declaring that Mohammed will be executed, Obama, a former constitutional law professor, insisted that he wasn’t trying to dictate the result.

“What I said was, people will not be offended if that's the outcome. I'm not pre-judging, I'm not going to be in that courtroom, that's the job of prosecutors, the judge and the jury,” Obama said.

Yes,but Obama is a public figure, and he just said that KSM will be convicted and receive the death penalty - on national television! That's not something that a reasonable person would expect to have no impact, and certainly is not something KSM's attorneys are going to ignore.

Does the ONE want KSM acquitted? I wonder...

Israeli Satire OnThe Ft. Hood Attack - A Must See

From Latma, the Israeli satire group. Very funny, but very sad.

Hat tip to Caroline Glick, via the infamous Pamela.

The Next Bow...

Iran Officially Rejects Nuclear Deal

Actually, they rejected it some time ago,but this just makes it official:

Iran will not ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country for processing, its foreign minister said Wednesday, once again rejecting a UN plan aimed at thwarting any attempt by Teheran to make nuclear weapons.

Instead, Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki countered with a proposal certain to fall short of Western demands. {...}

"We will definitely not send our 3.5-percent enriched uranium out of the country," Mottaki told the semiofficial ISNA news agency. But he added: "That means a simultaneous fuel swap could be considered inside Iran."

Believe it not, the Obama Administration still is unwilling to admit they've been played:

In Washington, State Department spokesman Ian C. Kelly said the US was waiting for Iran to submit its formal response to the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA.

"What was said today doesn't inspire our confidence" that Iran will accept the proposal that was tentatively agreed to in Geneva.

Except, as you know if you read this site, there was no deal in Geneva!

That hopeychangey unclenched fist seems to be working out just fine, isn't it?

Palin Skewers Obama On Israel, Says He's 'Backasswards' On Economy

Sarah Palin's book comes out today, and since it's a massive bestseller that everybody's talking about already, even Lefties like Barbara Walters need her on to boost their flagging ratings.

Unlike the Oprah interview, this one had a lot less on the campaign and a lot more on policy, and Sarah Palin used the opportunity to give President Obama a few well deserved shots:

Palin, whose book, "Going Rogue: An American Life," hit bookshelves today, took aim at the Obama administration's stance on Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories.

"I disagree with the Obama administration on that," Palin told Walters. "I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don't think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand."

This comes a day after Prez Zero finally grew a pair and finally faced a FOX news interview. Believe it or not, with Afghanistan, the economy, and Iran sitting unattended on the One's plate,he still made a point of bitching to Major Garret about Jews building houses in its capitol in Gilo, a Jerusalem neighborhood that's almost entirely Jewish and has been for years.

While he always takes care to make the usual noises about how committed he is about Israel's security, thefact that he has absolutely no problem with embracing the Arab narrative at every turn and ging along with the anti-Semitic notion that Jews ought to be forbidden to build homes in certain places because they're Jews sure clue you in as to how important Israel's security is in Obama's frame of reference.


Of course, Sarah Palin never made a point of hanging out with folks like Jeremiah Wright, Khalid al-Mansour or Rashid Khalidi either.I only hope some of the misguided Left-leaning Jews that voted for this clown are finally paying attention.

On Afghanistan, she had this to say: "To listen to McChrystal, to listen to the appointee that President Obama asked for, the advice from," she said. "McChrystal gave the president the advice and said, 'We need essentially a surge strategy in Afghanistan, so that we can win in Afghanistan. And that means more resources, more troops there.' It frustrates me and frightens me -- and many Americans -- that President Obama is dithering around with the decision in Afghanistan."

I agree wholeheartedly with the dithering part,if not with the surge idea. It maddens me that our commander-in-chief has so little regard for our military that he's been letting this simmer for over ninety days now an dhas done nothing while our warriors take casualties. Not unexpected mind you, but still despicable.

And I loved this exchange,on the economy:

To address the highest unemployment levels since 1983, Palin said she would cut taxes.

"I would start cutting taxes and allowing our small businesses to keep more of what they are earning, more of what they are producing, more of what they own and earn so that they could start reinvesting in their businesses and expand and hire more people," she told Walters. "Not punishing them by forcing health care reform down their throats; by forcing an energy policy down their throats that ultimately will tax them more and cost them more to stay in business. Those are backassward ways of trying to fix the economy."

"You do have a way with words," Walters replied.

"I call it like I see it," she said. {...}

Palin said that on a scale of one to 10, she would give the president a mere four for his job performance.

"There are a lot of decisions being made that I -- and probably the majority of Americans -- are not impressed with right now," Palin said. "I think our economy is not being put on the right track, because we're strayed too far from, fundamentally, from free enterprise principles that built our country. And I question, too, some of the dithering, and hesitation with some of our national security questions that have got to be answered for our country. ... So, a four."

Heh! You go,Governor!

Watcher's Council Nominations, 11/18/09

Welcome to the latest edition of the Watcher's council, a group of some of the most incisive blogs in the`sphere. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one of their own and one from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.

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So, without further ado let's see what we have this week....

Council Submissions

• Soccer Dad - I am not a schnook


• Joshuapundit - The Afghan Shuffle


• Right Truth- When Muslims Attack


• Bookworm Room - The perils of an affirmative action president


• The Provocateur - The definitive dossier of Dr. Chacko


• The Colossus of Rhodey - The Messiah still in "blame the US" mode in Japan


• The Razor - The Ignorance of the Obama Administration


• Rhymes With Right - On Judicial Confirmations


• The Glittering Eye - Setting Priorities on Carbon Reduction


• Mere Rhetoric - Carter II: Obama's Losing Turkey To Political Islam

Honorable Mentions

• Another Black Conservative - Doug Hoffman Unconcedes NY 23 Race

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: The Watcher – Powerline- Blind Pig finds Acorn


• Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Middle East Strategy at Harvard - How the Saudis radicalized U.S. troops


• Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Melanie Phillips - Everything's Clear To Me Now


• Submitted By: Right Truth – GrEaT sAtAnS GiRlFrIeNd - 2nd Hand Buzz


• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Flopping Aces - America's War of Aggression Against Muslims Confirmed by Abuse Photos


• Submitted By: The Provocateur – The Rosisitance - The lawyer in the White House and the spy in federal prison giving away national security secrets


• Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – The American - Economic Prosperity: A Step of Faith


• Submitted By: The Razor – Common Cents - A Tale Of Two Bows


• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Big Government - Obama Ally Code Pink targets children of military families for abuse


• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Thomas Lifson/American Thinker - Obama's Botched Bow


• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – HotAir Pundit - President Obama vs. The Rest of the World Greeting The Emperor of Japan

Iran: "We've Already Begun Production Of Weapons Grade Uranium"

MEMRI has an interesting if disturbing article about Iran's response to the West..that they are already beginning enrichment of uranium to the 20% weapons grade threshold. Apparently we were misled by our Fearless leader about the state of negotiations with the Mullahs:

On November 9, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama told Reuters in an interview that an unsettled political situation in Iran may be complicating efforts to seal a nuclear fuel deal between Tehran and major world powers. This implies that a deal was reached with Iran during the nuclear talks in Vienna, but that Iran is having a hard time ratifying that deal due to criticism of it at home.

This depiction of the October 18-19, 2009 Vienna talks, and the explanation that the unstable political situation in Iran is making it difficult for the Iranian regime to announce that it agrees to the deal, are misleading. Iranian public statements since the end of the talks to date attest that:

1) No deal was ever reached during the Vienna talks. In his statements at the end of the talks - that Iran must respond to the proposal within two days - International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei was referring to a proposal to which Iran was not a party in any way, that is, the proposal drawn up by the West and by ElBaradei. According to Iran's version of events, the Vienna talks did not deal at all with the future of its nuclear program, but with its request to purchase 20%-enriched uranium for its research reactor in Tehran. The West has tried, and is still trying, to set conditions for Iran's request by insisting that it send 75% of its nuclear fuel, or approximately 1,200 kg, outside the country for enrichment; however, this enrichment will neutralize it so that it can no longer be used for military purposes. Iran rejected this condition, announcing that if it could not purchase the enriched uranium that it wanted, it would enrich it itself, and it even acknowledged that it had already begun doing so. Iran also emphasized that the two-day deadline set by ElBaradei has been misrepresented as an ultimatum - but that Iran has not recognized it as such and will not respond to any ultimatum. Iran's claim is that it has submitted its own proposal, the main thrust of which is that it either purchase enriched uranium or enrich it itself, and is insisting that it is still waiting for a response to this proposal from the West.

2) Iran's regime is currently stable. The crisis that followed the June presidential election is over, and it does not constitute a pretext for any delay on Iran's part in giving an answer to the deal because no such deal was ever concluded, and also because there is no dispute whatsoever among the various political streams in Iran regarding the nuclear issue. President Obama's claim that "an unsettled political situation in Iran may be complicating efforts to seal a nuclear fuel deal between Tehran and major world powers" reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of Iran's internal power-structure, whereby Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sets the country's nuclear policy, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad implements it.

Iran's answer was conveyed to the IAEA a week after the Vienna talks by Iranian representative to the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltanieh, upon his return to Vienna. Iran chose not to publicly release its official response, but instead leaked its views via various regime spokesmen. However, both the West and the IAEA have also, for weeks, refrained from publicly revealing Iran's position, so as not to expose the existence of a deep crisis in the West regarding how to deal with Iran.

The West continues to extend the deadline for Iran to weigh its proposal but the Iranian position is unchanging. However, despite Iran's unwaveringly rejectionist stance, President Obama took advantage of the date of November 4 - the 30th anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, celebrated every year across Iran - to declare that the U.S., under his leadership, seeks to establish new relations with Iran. He said "I have made it clear that the United States of America wants to move beyond this past, and seeks a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interests and mutual respect." To this, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki responded by announcing that the road to establishing Iran-U.S. relations was still long, and called on the U.S. to change its policy in order to create a new atmosphere in the Middle East. He added that Iran had as yet noticed no actual change in U.S. policy. {...}

I recommend you take a minute to read the whole thing.

The Iranian regime has again reiterated that it will not relinquish any of its uranium at all unless it receives enriched uranium from the West at the 20% level..which is the threshold for weapons grade. And they have also said that they have already begun enriching the uranium currently in Iran to that 20% level. In other words, they have already taken the measure of the man in the White House and see that he's not going to impede their plans.

Obama's little apology to the Mullahs on the anniversary of the storming of our embassy and the taking of our hostages probably underlined exactly how weak he really is.

As I said before, Iran has already been very clear about it's choices. It's Obama's turn to make one.

And the time grows short.

( hat tip and a commendation to long time Joshua's Army member Joyce C.)

Melanie Philips Explains All About The Jewish Lobby

Spectator writer Melanie Phillips, the author of the superb Londonistan has a new piece that explains how powerful the Jewish Lobby is in Britain that made me laugh out loud:

After watching Peter Oborne’s ‘Dispatches’ programme on the power of the Israel lobby in Britain, the scales have fallen from my eyes.

I now see things in an entirely different light. I now realise that the power of this unique cabal is so vast and unprecedented in its truly demonic power – a power given to no other lobby – that both the Labour government and Tory opposition slavishly and unquestioningly support Israel’s military actions and that the Guardian and the BBC have found themselves totally unable to publish or transmit anything other than wholehearted support for Israel.

I now realise that, every day, a cowed and intimidated Guardian publishes story after story in support of Israel, focusing relentlessly upon the beleaguerment of its citizens under the onslaught from Hamas while never carrying anything in favour of the Palestinians, presenting the Middle East entirely through a pro-Israel prism and never even reporting the Palestinian point of view except for a few contemptuous references suggesting that they are always lying.

Simply superb...you gotta read it all!

Sarah Palin On Rush Limbaugh - Initial Impressions

I just got finished listening to Sarah Palin do a half hour on Rush Limbaugh's show.

I thought she did pretty well.

Obviously,the interview was on friendly ground but I find that less biased than the hit jobs Katy Couric and Charlie Gibson did on her on the other direction, simply because it was live without any editing. And to be honest, Limbaugh has a great deal more integrity than those two 'journalists'.

Rather than deal with Oprah-style dirt or the 2008 campaign, Limbaugh's interview focused on politics and policy.

On the economy, Palin was outspoken about the need to do what has historically worked in bad economic times - lowering taxes on job creators and investment to put people back to work. Her views on ObamaCare are also well known and were articulated in a refreshingly straight forward way.

Palin and Limbaugh also spoke briefly about the idea of a third party ( she's against it) and attracting independents to vote for the GOP. To Governor Palin, the road there is to stand for principle and naturally attract independents, and she sees that as a coming trend, which should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with her style.

She also contrasted what she termed as the vigorous and healthy debate within the GOP with what she termed as the lock step mentality among the Democrats,where anyone who steps out of line is demonized. Frankly, I think that applies to some degree to both parties,but the difference is that in the GOP the debate tends more to range around principle and not to assume the sort of personal cast it frequently does onthe Left side of the spectrum.

On energy,Governor Palin shone. She effortlessly made the link between the energy issue and the national security issue, and referred to it as a crime that we're not utilizing the resources under our feet to enhance our own prosperity, create jobs and distance ourselves from catering to certain regimes. I couldn't agree with her more.

She also discussed increased and strict sanctions on Iran, especially of refined petroleum products as beginning steps in getting Iran's leaders to pay attention. There's no doubt in my mind that a President Palin would never countenance a nuclear armed Iran.

As you can imagine, I was disappointed that she appeared to embrace the standard conservative line on Afghanistan, calling for us to immediately send General McChrystal the troops he says he needs. I appreciate where she's coming from when she says about the Islamist terrorists 'you lose, we win', and the only place we disagree is on what winning looks like and where best to fight the battles.

She's obviously gotten a bit more polished as time has gone on, but she's also gotten a lot more effective in getting things across without losing her essential charm. Look for her to create some major waves in the future.

"If you want something said, look to a man. If you want something done, look to a woman!" - Baroness Margaret Thatcher

The Afghan Shuffle

Should I stay or should I go? If I go there will be trouble.... If I stay it will be double..-The Clash


Afghanistan has reared its ugly head, and the debate on how to handle it is in full swing. The latest is that President Obama has taken a look at the options presented to him after all this time and has decided he doesn't like any of them....so he's 'reassessing' and stalling for time again with a road trip to Asia. This time the excuse is that he wants a handover date written in stone and has questions about the Karzai government's viability as a partner.

This is not a decision where the president can vote 'present' anymore. It's been over 9o days since General McChrystal requested additional troops, and our warriors are in danger and taking casualties because the president seems to be unable to choose between his apparent inclination to stroke his Leftist base and pull out and the political need he has to justify all of the 'war of necessity' rhetoric he spouted off during the campaign in an attempt to appear presidential.

There have been some absolutely ridiculous PR tactics in an attempt to cover what ex-Vice President Dick Cheney rightfully referred to as 'dithering.'

First, there was the excuse spearheaded by Rahm Emanuel and Senator John Kerry, who said that any future troop commitments should be held off until we know for certain who won the disputed Afghan elections - as if that matters in the grand scheme of things with the corrupt Karzai government or when we have troops under fire.

Kerry managed to muscle Afghan President Hamid Karzai into a runoff, but that's a good example of how wrongheaded our strategy is there. Karzai's opponent, Abdullah Abdullah is half Tajik and was unlikely to be supported by the Pashtuns, the dominant group in Afghanistan even in the unlikely event he won.

Even more farcical, Abdullah Abdullah realized he had no chance to win, withdrew from the runoff and Karzai is the president anyway. And Karzai is unlikely to forget the slight to his personal honor, a major offense according to Pashtunwalli, the Pashtun tribal cultural code that predates Islam and in some respects is an even more powerful influence. We now have a 'partner' in Afghanistan who is livid at the Obama Administration on a personal level for besmirching him and undermining his authority.

Next there was White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and Spokesmouth Robert Gibbs' contentions that more time was needed because there was no plan for Afghanistan and the Bush Administration had left them no intel review or strategy, they needed to start from scratch and that ex- Vice President Dick Cheney had 'left recommendations sitting on his desk for eight months.'

That ended up being proven to be a bald faced, self serving lie, with Gibbs fumbling in a press conference when asked about the review and recommendations presented to the Obama Administration by Lt. General Douglas Lute by saying he 'hadn't read it and couldn't comment.'

Leaving these bits of despicable nonsense aside, the question remains: how should we handle Afghanistan?

Part of answering the question is a realistic assessment of what's both possible and desirable, and that's been in rather short supply lately on both sides of the debate.

I've been covering the Afghanistan war in detail these past four years, even when the dinosaur media was focused on the Iraq 'carnage'. I did it because of the incredible heroism shown by our warriors there, some of whom I'm honored to be on pretty friendly terms with. They have performed everything they've been asked to do superbly under the most difficult of conditions. But Afghanistan has to be seen as what it is, a battle in a wider war, and it's time we asked ourselves whether this is the battleground we want to focus on.

The usual reason given for us staying in Afghanistan is that if we pull out, the country will become a failed state, a breeding ground for Islamist terrorism, a place for al-Qaeda to regroup and a training ground for future terrorist attacks against us. That may all very well be quite true, but tell me - is that really any different from Somalia? Or Yemen? Or Pakistan, for that matter where al Qaeda already has regrouped, together with its Taliban allies?

Pakistan, of course, is the key to the whole ballgame and what happens there will drive what happens in Afghanistan. Considering one without the other is senseless. It always was, from the very beginning.

That's another way of saying that if we really wanted to strike a blow against Islamic fascism,we went one country too far north north. Far more Islamist attacks have originated in Pakistan than in Afghanistan.

Here's the hard truth to examine. After 9/11,our political leadership refused to face the fact that a whole lot of the Muslim ummah thought what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the boys had pulled off was absolutely wonderful. That would have meant looking into who was financing the gig as well as who was financing the pushing of the ideology behind it.And it would have meant confronting some old business partners and friends known to be very generous to retired politicians and State Department functionaries.

So instead of that, they miniaturized it. Instead of telling the American people that we were in a war against jihad and Islamic fascism and confronting, militarily or otherwise the nations behind it, we were given the nonsensical notion of a 'war on terror'.

Afghanistan was part of that miniaturization. From a strategic standpoint it's worthless, especially with an increasingly Islamist Pakistan next door. I may not have gone to West Point, but even I see the folly of committing an army and billions of dollars worth of equipment into a battle ground that's land locked, surrounded by hostile territory and depends on bribes paid to a hostile Pakistan for its lifeline,via the port of Karachi and the Torkum Pass.

Even worse is the problem we may have with how we're actually fighting the war. General McChrystal is an excellent field commander, but like many of our other Generals he's a zealot for political correctness. which is likely one reason why he has the job in the first place. We've become boxed into a situation that makes actually focusing on offensive war and killing the enemy difficult, because an offensive war strategy to be effective would involve either going into Pakistan or sealing the border effectively. And the latter is difficult if not impossible in this particular terrain. Instead, we now have our troops engaged in a kinder, gentler PR push that places the emphasis on nation building, drinking tea and eating goat with the Pashtuns who want us gone anyway and see us agents of a despised Afghan government.

McChrystal's ideas are based on what he accomplished in Iraq, a very different place. He wants us to control the population centers, protect the Afghan people and gradually wean them over to our side while essentially fighting a defensive war.

The problem is that unlike Iraq, Afghanistan is a tribal society that has rarely ever had a functioning central government. And I'm not sure the American people are willing to invest another trillion dollars and 4,000 lives to experiment with nation building again at this point. Neither are our NATO allies, the ones Obama claimed he bring on board by sheer hopeychangy charm. They're champing at the bit to get away.

And since Obama has now alienated the Karzai regime, the idea that we're going to be able to control the population centers in the face of a hostile government is ludicrous on the face of it.

I'd also have to perfectly honest and say that based on his performance thus far, President Barack Hussein Obama is the last man I'd want as commander-in-chief during a war. If he wants to pull out, well and good. We're probably better off. The problem of course is that Obama always wants it both ways, because it's about him , you see. Not only does he want kudos from his Leftist base for leaving, he wants everybody to forget all those cute remarks he made about how Afghanistan was 'the real war' one that he wouldn't neglect like President Bush did.

He's always wanted to bug out, while having it both ways and avoiding being saddled with any hard choices. It's his basic nature and I'm fine with letting him go with it - except it still doesn't solve the problem of stabilizing Afghanistan or at least monitoring it.

Of course, there is another way to go to accomplish those goals there, and it basically mirrors how the British Empire successfully handled the Afghans and how Reagan dealt with the mujaheddin, but with a few changes.

If we actually want to 'win' here, we need to define it strictly as making sure that we have enough oversight in Afghanistan to make sure that it doesn't become an Islamist fascist state that's going to pose a security problem for us.

If that's the goal, then flooding the area with US power including Pakistan, and engaging in an occupation and nation building again might achieve it, but the end results are likely to be fairly dubious and counterproductive. High cost, low return.

Instead,a far better and more workable idea is to stop treating Afghanistan as a 'country' and more like a system of tribal areas of influence, which is what it actually is.

First, we should waste no time in distancing ourselves from the Karzai government and pulling most of our troops out as soon as feasibly possible , along with every bit of our gear that isn't nailed down.

And as we do that, I'd concentrate on dealing with the tribes and the warlords directly, because that's where the real power lies.

I've seen some excellent ideas from men who ought to know about actually utilizing the tribal society of Afghanistan to our advantage by embedding small,specialized groups of troops within the tribes to to live with - and fight alongside - the Pashtun tribesmen who dominate southern and eastern Afghanistan and have no loyalty to the government in Kabul.

It's a sensible strategy, especially if we allow the warlords and tribes to cut a deal with us so that we're paying them directly, just as we did with the Sunni tribes in Iraq. And there's an additional advantage in that many of the Afghan tribes, having experienced Taliban-style government at first hand already would just as soon keep their autonomy.

We'd keep the arms and a stipend coming to our tribal allies as long as they followed through, just like the British did to theirs, and we'd have enough boots on the ground to provide intel so we could utilize air and drone power to keep things tidy when necessary.

Part of assuring that loyalty would involve decisively dealing with Afghanistan's other problem, the opium trade. That's something we're not doing at all now.

Over a year ago, I suggested that we choke the financing of the Taliban and its allies by becoming a major player in the Opium trade.

Afghanistan is by far one of the largest sources of opium poppies. That trade not only plays a major role in the finances of the Taliban but is the major source of income for a number of US-friendly warlords as well...which is one reason that efforts to curtail the trade have been sporadic at best. It's a $100 billion US plus industry, money which goes a long way there. But simply destroying the fields would deprive a number of Afghans of their livelihood, not to mention turning a great many tribal chiefs against us.

Instead, we should use classic capitalism,combined with a bit of Mafia-like intransigence. We should 'offer' to buy the opium poppy crops outright at fair market prices from friendly warlords and tribal chiefs with the proviso that anyone caught selling and delivering to anyone other than the US is going to have his fields destroyed without delay.

A portion of the crop could be resold legitimately to pharmaceutical companies to manufacture prescription opiates - the rest could be destroyed. The tribal chiefs would be happy with this arrangement, because they would be receiving money for their usual product without the risk of smuggling, and the US could then command their loyalty as their chief economic benefactor. It would also have the side benefit of having the US government controlling the market on these substances rather than, say, the Mafia or the Union Corse' or some other group of drug lords.

We might also, as a parting shot, destroy the processing labs, which are located in Pakistan. The Taliban have invested heavily in these facilities. And if I were making the decision myself, I might give some thought to taking out Pakistan's nuclear facilities at the same time, or at the very least I'd want a clear contingency plan for doing so that could be implemented on fairly quick notice. But that's another topic.

The Afghan tribes themselves, backed up by our inter-tribal teams and our air power would take charge of keeping our enemies out of the areas of Afghanistan they control. It would pay for them to do so, and it would accomplish what we need to accomplish there at a fraction of the human and economic cost.

Then, with that front stabilized to a degree, we might, hopefully with different leadership be able to begin to prepare our forces and resources for the real war to come.

-selah-

Obama Bows Down Low - Again

A minor item, one that tells us a great deal about President Barack Hussein Obama.

Fleeing from the bad news on unemployment and the necessity of making a decision on how to handle Afghanistan, the president decided once again to resort to a road trip - this time to Asia.

The picture above shows him greeting Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko with a full on bow from the waist,looking as though he was bending down to tie the Emperor's shoes. it's reminiscent of his bowing and scraping to the Saudi King on a prior occasion, an instinctual movement when Obama's early Muslim training took over for a minute.

This time was very different, and was such an embarrassment to the Japanese that several papers avoided running the photo.

Here's why. Bowing in Japan is a custom showing mutual respect, but it's never done in this fashion.

First,it's never combined with a handshake..ever. it's always one or the other.

Second,the normal Japanese bow is a slight hunching of the shoulders and an inclination of the head about fifteen degrees or so, with the person who is subservient or of lower status going a bit lower than the person he's bowing to.

The Emperor never bows to anyone, so either a slight inclination of the head or even better, a handshake would have been the correct way to greet him.

For President Obama to virtually kowtow like this was not only demeaning to America but embarrassing to the Emperor,who covered his discomfort by smiling, as is the Japanese custom. It was the equivalent of Obama's wearing a kick me sign on the seat of his pants.

What's more, I would assume that Obama, being from Hawaii would be familiar with this aspect of Japanese culture. or at the very least, you'd think that he would have the basic common sense to ask our embassy staff in Japan about the correct protocol so as not to embarrass himself and our country.

Here's a cute video showing how virtually every other world leader greets the Japanese Emperor..as compared to Obama's faux pas:



The Japanese are already not exactly enamored of Obama because of our fecklessness on North Korea, which was a factor in their recent elections.

This just sort of underlined it.

Psycho babble

Obama Caught Endorsing Gitmo Detainee Military Tribunals - in 2006

A little history, courtesy of Breitbart, giving us a look at Senator Obama back in 2006 speaking in favor of military tribunals, saying on the senate floor that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to get a "full military trial with all the bells and whistles"..."justice will be carried out in his case".

How do you know when Obama is lying? Simple - are his lips moving?

Maximum Denial - Gitmo Enemy Detainees To be Tried In NYC

By now, many of you know about the Obama administration's latest brainstorm - take Khalid Sheik Mohammed and the other Gitmo scum and try them in civilian courts in New York City.

I originally had a piece scheduled to dissect this nonsense, but then I ran across this video of ex-NYC mayor an dex-federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani being interviewed by Neil Cavuto that explains it even better:





Everything Rudy Giuliani says here is one hundred per cent accurate, including the possibility of a change of venue and/or an acquittal.And keep in mind that KSM and his fellow enemy combatants have already confessed to what they were accused of.

Confessed?!?! They're are proud of what they did as Soldiers of Allah. There's absolutely no reason whatsoever not to do a quick military tribunal and an execution, followed by a pigskin burial as a warning and deterrent to others.

That's exactly the way FDR treated German saboteurs in WWII sans pigskin...a military tribunal and then a rope necktie party. Or what our Brit friends would call the Tyburn Jig.

Maybe if we started doing that, the Major Hasans among us might have a few second thoughts.

Rudy skirts around saying it, but I'll call it what it is - a blatant attempt by the Obama Administration to appease the Muslim world at the expense of his fellow citizens. And it's also likely designed to distract the news cycle from the Obama Administration's abysmal failings by putting the Bush Administration on trial. And believe me, that's exactly what will happen. The ACLU,Lawyer's Guild and Center For Constitutional Rights Leftard attorneys will literally fistfight over the opportunity to volunteer to do just that,and the dinosaur media will eagerly embrace any opportunity to try and take the heat off Prez Zero.

Not only that, but it paves the way for those CIA witch trial prosecutions Obama and Holder are planning, to massage Obama's Leftist Base with political payback.

Another thing Rudy obviously knows but doesn't say is the problem of discovery. The defense attorneys will be screaming for classified US intel to make public not only during the discovery phase but during the actual trial, where they will try to call intelligence informants as witnesses. Even if the data is given to them with the proviso that it remain classified, rest assured that with these particular lawyers, it wil be leaked to our enemies.

Remember Lynne Stewart?

Take Me Out To The Kosher Ball Game

It's always lovely to see my friend Dymphna at Gates of Vienna in top form,as she is here, writing about the jihadi backlash to the NY Mets baseball team being involved in fund-raising for the Jewish community in Hebron:

Hebron is in the West Bank, a holy place to both the 166,000 Muslims and the 500 Jewish settlers who call it home. Needless to say, it is often holy hell to live there, especially for the Jewish minority, even though the area is under Israeli military control, and has been since the aftermath of Six-Day War in 1967. That is when the first Jewish settlements were built in an attempt to stop any further belligerent incursions into Israeli territory by the Religion of Peace. Of course the United Nations & Assorted Cronies continue to insist that the settlements in Israel are illegal. However, as our own President, a man of dialogue and peace, said to the Republican opposition when they asked him for bipartisan meetings, “I won”.

Now it turns out that there is a new license available for Muslim Grievance sessions: the New York Mets, a professional baseball team based in (duh) New York City, is fund-raising for the Jewish settlement in Hebron. In response, the professional anti-Semitic scolds are in full dudgeon over this one:

Controversy continues to grow over allegations that a top United States baseball team is supporting fundraising efforts for illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, according to Adalah-NY, a US-based non-governmental organisation involved in a campaign calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.

“The Mets are aiding Israeli settlers who terrorise thousands of Palestinians, assaulting them regularly, forcing them to stay in their homes, and calling Palestinian mothers whores in front of their children,” Adalah-NY spokesperson Andrew Kadi told Adnkronos International (AKI) on Thursday.

“It is shameful that this event will be held above Citi Field’s Jackie Robinson Rotunda,” Kadi said.

Wrong. It is deliciously ironic that the event is being held at a place named after the beloved American baseball icon, Jackie Robinson. As for the name-calling and harassment, when was the last Israeli suicide bomber seen in Palestine?

A minor addendum, just as an aside.

First, the 'settlers' have lived in Hevron for centuries, and only left when they were physically driven out by Arab violence.

And there are a lot more of them than 500, since Hevron's city limits include Kiryat Arba, population 15,000, give or take.

Now, the Israelis would have been perfectly justified in the quid pro quo of removing those Jordanian citizens (there were no 'Palestinians' prior to 1967) to their own country after the Six Day War, but instead, the Israelis decided to actually try and live with them and allow them to keep their ill-gotten gains,which proved to be a monumental mistake.

The Arab part of Hevron, like the rest of the Arab occupied areas of Judea and Samaria (AKA the West Bank) became part of the Palestinian Authority as a result of the peace agreements with Arafat in 1997, As most of you know, Arafat never had any intention of following through on his end of things and that agreement was never worth the paper it was written on.

Hevron is the second holiest site in the Jewish religion the location of the Cave of the Patriarchs. As we read in Genesis, Abraham purchased the cave and the field surrounding it at an exhorbitant price from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place for his wife, to bury Sarah and actually insisted on and got a written deed to the property. Afterwards,Jewish patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah were also buried there.

The Muslim claim to Hevron as a Holy site comes mainly from the reference to Abraham.

The Israelis attempted to find a middle ground to share it with the Muslims, but as we've found out, unfortunately Islam generally does not play well with others. At the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, where the Israelis attempted to allow Muslims equal access with separate scheduled times, the Jews returned during their Holy Days to find that the Muslims had urinated on the Jew's Torah scrolls and decked out the designated Jewish area with Hamas flags and anti-Semitic grafitti.

This unfortunate behavior is characteristic of virtually every area controlled by Islam or situated on Islam's aptly named 'bloody borders', but I digress.

That said, read the rest of Dymphna's fine piece here

A hat tip and a commendation to Joshua's Army member Louie Louie.

The Council Has Spoken...Jihad Comes To America With A Vengeance

Another week has passed, and the Council has spoken. Both of this week's winning entries concerned the recent attack at Fort Hood and what it signifies.

In the Council category, the winner was Joshuapundit with Death By A Thousand Cuts :

For all our protestations and manipulation to avoid war,to forget, to appear humane and civilized, to allow our leaders to label it as something other than what it is, the war has come to us. In fact, it's been coming to us for eight years and many of us have yet to admit it.

When I first found out about Major Malik Nadal Hasan gunning down his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood while shouting "Allahu Akbar" on November 5th, I immediately recognized this as the jihad attack it was and wrote that that when the dots were connected, there would be a Saudi funded mosque and a radical imam in the picture. There always is.

I was right. And yet, the obvious questions remain floating in the wind, unsaid, like a foul odor polite society avoids mentioning.

In the non-Council category the winner was the Watcher's nominee, Selwyn Duke /American Thinker for Jihad and America, the land that cried sheep :

We have become a sick society, where fantasies are favored and reality is called "racist." If there were an officer of Japanese descent in our military during WWII, he wouldn't have lasted til the next day's rising sun if he had expressed pro-Imperial Japanese sentiments. But that was then, when America was America, before she was sacrificed on the altar of the leftist dystopia in utopian clothing.

Furthermore, only a sick society would tolerate a far more dangerous fifth column: those traitors who, as Cicero said 2,000 years ago, appear not as traitors, who speak in accents familiar to their victims, who wear their victims' face and use their arguments. I speak of those who wasted no time painting Hasan as a victim: writers such as Kenyon Wallace, who only emphasized the claim that the major was "harassed" by colleagues and theorized that post-traumatic stress disorder might have influenced this man who never saw a firefight until he started one at Fort Hood.

Council Notes: We currently have a seat open for a qualified blogger on the Council up for grabs. If you're interested, you may apply here...or e-mail me at rmill2k@msn.com for details.

And remember, If you want to see your blog piece listed on the Watcher’s Council page our generous offer of link whorage remains open.

Simply make a post linking to this week’s Council winners and send me an e-mail with the subject line ‘link whorage’ at rmill2k@msn.com. Include a link to the post and a link to the piece you want to appear, and the resulting fame, glory and increased traffic are yours for the taking.

Here's the complete rundown of this week's results. Only the Provocateur was unable to vote this week and suffered the mandatory 2/3 vote penalty, but it had no effect on the outcome this week.

I can't wait to see next week's exciting entries, and as always, congratulations not only to the winners but to all the participants.

Council Submissions

• First place with 2 points! – Joshuapundit - Death By A Thousand Cuts
• Second place with 1 1/3 points – Mere Rhetoric - Agitprop-Funding NEA Chief: “Barack Obama Is The Most Powerful Writer Since Julius Caesar
• Third place with 1 point – (Tie*) – Bookworm Room - Watch the Democratic Dominoes Fall
• Third place with 1 point – (Tie*) – The Glittering Eye - Triage
• Third place with 1 point – (Tie*) – The Razor - Suburban Perspective on Rural America
• Fourth place with 2/3 points – Right Truth - A Small Nation
• Fifth place with 1/3 point – Rhymes With Right - Just a reminder - Hasan not the first

Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 2 2/3 points! – Selwyn Duke /American Thinker - Jihad and America, the land that cried sheep
• Second place with 2 1/3 points – Villainous Company - Obama doesn’t “get” the military he commands
• Third place with 1 1/3 points – Tigerhawk - The Myth of American Heroism
• Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Red County - Tragedy At Ft. Hood
• Fourth place with 1 point(Tie*) – MG Hoft - Wash U Shuts Down Freedom Memorial
• Fifth place with 1/3 points – Danger Room - Is This China’s Anti-Satellite Laser Weapon Site?

Oz Warrior Dog Safe After Being Missing 14 Months In The Afghan Desert

This one could make an amazing movie someday.

Sabi, a black Labrador sniffer dog trained to detect bombs was part of a joint Australian-Afghan army patrol in a remote part of Uruzgan province when it was ambushed by the Taliban back in September, 2008.

Nine soldiers were wounded in the ruckus, and one heroic digger, SAS trooper Mark Donaldson earned Australia's highest gong, the Victoria Cross for going back under heavy fire to rescue one of his men.

But there was no sign of Sabi after the firefight. The dog had simply disappeared into the desert and was never found, even though Sabi's handlers spent months searching for the dog, who was on her second tour of Afghanistan.

But last week, against all odds she was found by an American soldier near his base in another part of Uruzgan, and she made it back to her overjoyed unit just in time to give an in-depth briefing to a couple of high level visitors, Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and US commanding General Stanley McChrystal:



No one's really sure what happened to Sabi or how she survived, but she's been checked out and ruled in good health. She appears to have been well taken care of by someone, which is odd in itself since Afghans, like all Muslims, despise dogs as unclean.

Perhaps she was undercover, or conducting a bit of psychological warfare against the enemy...

Sabi's now awaiting the results of quarantine before she can be shipped home to a hero's welcome and a well deserved and happy retirement in Oz. Her handler and commanding officer wants to adopt her and take her home with him.

According to an Australian military spokesman who spoke off record, no charges will be filed against Sabi for going AWOL.

I may have made that last bit up.

As I said, an amazing story with a happy ending.

Wanna Laugh? Elliot Spitzer Will Lecture At Harvard - On Ethics!

If anyone has any doubts remaining about how dysfunctional our Ivy League universities have become, this should put them to rest.

What's next, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Zionism? Oh wait...didn't they already do that?

Hat tip, Big Government

BREAKING: Hoffman May End Up Winning In NY 23 Race

Now isn't this interesting! Conservative congressional candidate Doug Hoffman may have conceded too soon,based on suspiciously misleading poll totals:

Conservative Doug Hoffman conceded the race in the 23rd Congressional District last week after receiving two pieces of grim news for his campaign: He was down 5,335 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted on election night, and he had barely won his stronghold in Oswego County.

As it turns out, neither was true.{..}

Recanvassing in the district shows that Owens’ lead is now only 3,026 votes over Hoffman, according to the state Board of Elections.

So...what happened? Some highly suspicious under reporting of Hoffman's actual votes.

For instance, in Hoffman's base in Oswego County, Hoffman was reported to lead by only 500 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted on election night. Afterwards inspectors found Hoffman actually won by 1,748 votes, 12,748 to 11,000.

And in Jefferson County, the district's second biggest turnout, Owens supposedly led Hoffman by 300 votes on the final election night tally. But after recanvassing, Hoffman actually leads now by 424 votes, 10,884 to 10,460.

"I don’t know if we would have conceded on election night," Rob Ryan, Hoffman’s campaign spokesman, said Wednesday while discussing the latest results of the recanvassing. "I’m someone who doesn’t like to look back. But would we have taken longer to make a decision on election night? Probably, if we knew it was only 3,000 votes making the difference."

Ryan, while acknowledging that Hoffman’s chances of pulling off a come-from-behind victory are still remote, said the campaign is looking at its legal options.

"We’re basically watching and waiting," Ryan said. "We’ve been looking very closely at the recanvass. We’re going to see how this week shapes up, and then we’re going to determine what to do."

Ryan said an important factor in the decision to concede was the unexpected -- and erroneous -- close vote in Oswego County, where polls had Hoffman with a double digit percentage point lead heading into Election Day.

"That’s the thing that threw us off," Ryan said.

Inspectors have found four districts where Hoffman’s vote total was mistakenly entered as zero...so far.

How 'bout that?

What this all comes down to is that the race is ultimately going to be decided by absentee ballots.There were about 10,000 of those distributed.

Under a new law in New York military and overseas ballots received by this coming Monday,November 16th will be counted provided they were postmarked by by November 2. Any others had to have come in by last Monday, November 9th to be valid. And those absentee ballots are expected to favor Hoffman, since they were issued before RINO Dede Scozzafava suspended her campaign three days before the election:

"For Doug to win, we needed a three-way race," Ryan said, adding that the campaign’s internal polls showed Hoffman would win with all three candidates.

"Given the majority of these ballots are from a three-way race, we think the ballots are going to break Doug’s way," Ryan said.

They'll start counting the absentee ballots next week.

Owens swearing in was rushed ahead by Nancy Pelosi so that he could vote for Obamacare, the direct opposite of what he told NY 23's voters during the campaign. If it turns out that Hoffman actually won, Owens will need to be removed once the results are certified.

Stay tuned...

Keeping the Faith

I wrote a piece on this site about how the Democrats will likely try to force ObamaCare through the Senate via reconciliation, and how I believe it will cost them their majority in both houses.

Long time pal and stalwart Joshua's Army member Louie Louie responded:

uh, yeah, good luck with that.

Come 2010, the jackass party picks up 10 seats in the house and 2 in the senate.

Remember, Americans are as dumb as a sack of hair.

Here's the thing about that.

If you're going to live in a democracy, you have to have some confidence in your fellow citizens to do the right thing ultimately.Otherwise there's no point.

This isn't any disrespect on my part towards Louie Louie, but simply what I innately believe.

I too am still amazed that the American people were misled enough to buy into Obama's con game, but they did, and there was obviously a reason for it. Remember my riffs on historical resonance. Leaders in a democracy usually get chosen because they reflect the needs and ethos of the electorate at a given time.

Consider this: When Obama ran, America had been toying with massive entitlements, debts and quasi-socialism for quite sometime. And in foreign policy, we had also been dealing with mostly ignoring or deliberately misdirecting our efforts towards defeating the Islamist jihad directed towards America, particularly within our own country, as well as coping with what I consider to be virtually a fifth column of the Left.

So we ended up with basically two inferior candidates, and people elected the Wizard of O because he was marketed as a panacea for what was ailing us. He was supposed to be all things to all people, and after 8 years of Bush people wanted to give it a try.

In Obama, we are seeing all of the qualities the Leftist elite always told us would be good for America...socialist take overs and diktats for 'fairness', a conciliatory foreign policy, appeasement of the Muslim world to make them go away, a so-called post racial America, 'green' policies, health care and assorted goodies for all.

None of it worked, of course. And having got what they thought they wanted, only now is the average American seeing how dangerous all this really is, as the facade cracks. We have never seen a president's approval ratings fall as quickly as Obama's in our history.

It never happened to me,but I have heard of parents catching their young children sneaking smokes or alcohol and curing them of the habit by sitting them down,breaking out the liquor or cigarettes and having them indulge excessively to the point of illness. And I believe that as a nation, we're going through something like that right now, because we were unable or unwilling to clean up our act otherwise.

What Obama and a number of his followers represent is the anti-America, in the sense of having values so divorced from the basic principles this country was founded on as to be almost direct opposites. My friend Bookworm recently wrote a superb piece in American Thinker on this very premise.

Either Obama will help clean out the arteries and provide a catharsis for us to reclaim our true nature, or he will be the death of our Republic, not because of any particular power he possesses but because he happened to come along at a very dangerous time, after a couple of mediocre presidents. And I fully believe it will be the former for a number of reasons, not least of which is my conviction that Almighty G-d has a special purpose or America and my bedrock faith in its people.

I've been fortunate to travel all across this amazing country we call home, and for all the chiseling,conniving and stupidity you find ( and that sort of thing exists in every country, trust me) what most stuck with me was the simple decency of the average American, their common sense, their willingness to lend a hand and pitch in, their basic sense of fairness.

Why else do you think the Left prefers to use the courts, resort to dirty tricks and do things behind closed doors rather than face a vote by their fellow citizens? And when an election can't be avoided, why else would the Left resort to things like voting illegal aliens and dead people, eliminating military absentee ballots on technicalities and similar tactics to cook the results if they really felt their ideas had widespread acceptance?

What Obama is doing is to wake people up who were placidly asleep and remind them of why this country was founded in the first place. Not all of them, and many of them are not entirely awake yet, but it's coming.

That's why Sarah Palin is such a visceral force politically..because she shares the values of average Americans and has an instinctive sense of what drives them and moves them. Reagan had the same quality, and likewise came along when the country was in danger and seemed to be in an unchangeable spiral of decline.

In the end, it will go how G-d intends, and I'm keeping the faith.

-selah-

White House To Use Reconciliation To Shove Obamacare Through

You'll recall that I mentioned before that if they can't get 60 votes in the Senate, Rahm Emanuel,Harry Reid,Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are fully prepared to make ObamaCare the law of the land the same way they passed Obama's bogus 'stimulus' - by misusing budget reconciliation rules to lock Republicans out of the room while they craft whatever they want, rush it through the House and send it to the White House for Obama's signature.

White House Spokesmouth Robert Gibbs just confirmed it:

President Barack Obama is hopeful that the Senate will pass a healthcare bill with 60 votes, but White House press secretary Robert Gibbs held out the possibility that budget reconciliation rules could still be used.

He said Senate leaders and the White House would turn to those rules, which would prevent the Senate from needing to secure 60 votes for procedural steps, only if they are not making progress.

As long as “we continue to make progress, then we don't see any need to change the process,” Gibbs said.

Translation? "Hey baby, we're gonna rape you anyway no matter what,so why not avoid a beat up and co-operate?"

Leftist fascism indeed...do what we want and we'll observe the formalities. If not, we'll subvert the legislative process to do whatever we want just the same.

Oh, and the Stupak amendment th eGOP stupidly voted for? On the cutting room floor,guaranteed.

This will cost the Democrats majorities in both Houses,but it is up to us to make sure it happens so this monstrous nonsense canbe repealed before it goes into effect in 2013.

What's In Sarah Palin's New Book?

"Going Rogue: An American Life" ships out officially on November 17th (it's already a huge bestseller in preorder) but as advance copies are released and Governor Palin's upcoming Oprah interview nears, speculation and leaks from the usual sources abound.

For instanceMark Halperin in Time characterizes Palin and MCcain staffers as being 'nervous and curious' but it's hard for me to imagine why they would be. After all, most of Palin's people have been by the governor's side for a long time and they lived what happened. And if you're one of McCain's people, you also know what happened. If you happen to be someone like Steve Schmidt, who made a mini career for yourself out of bashing Palin after the election to hide your own ineptness, you likewise ought to have a pretty good idea of what to expect. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

According to Halperin, the book also has no index, so any DC insiders who wan ttoknow what she said about them won't be able to flip to the back pages and scan for their own names. If they want to know what Sarah Palin has to say about them, they will have to buy the book—and read it all.

Smart girl, that Sarah Palin...

Here are a few other things Halperin purports to have sources reveal to him about the book.

It's got five long chapters in it.There's some well deserved push back at certain McCain staffers and media figures, and yes, she names names. The book focuses on who she is and how she became that way, including the importance of G-d and faith in her life rather than pages of policy wonkishness, another smart move on her part. She'll have plenty of opportunities for that later anyway.

And most importantly, according to Halperin's sources the book manages to capture Governor Palin's warm, personal and unpretentious tone.

If that last bit is true, there are going to be a lot of people who are going to realize that the real Sarah Palin is very different than the cartoon character portrayed in the media and on Saturday Night Live.

The Unnamed 14th Victim Of The Fort Hood Jihad

Maria Vitale( via Michelle Malkin) makes an excellent and overlooked point - there were fourteen murder victims at Fort Hood, not thirteen:

In the massive media coverage following Major Nidal Hasan’s killing spree at the military post, I have heard over and over again about the death toll from the tragedy.


But seldom mentioned is the most hidden victim — soldier Francheska Velez’s unborn baby. Velez was on maternity leave when she stopped at Ft. Hood, where she and the child she carried in her womb fell victim to Hasan’s bullet.

Vitale goes on to make the case that Hasan should also be charged under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, also known as Laci and Conner’s law, named for the pregnant woman and her unborn child murdered in California by the child's father, Scott Peterson.

Unfortunately, aside from the fact that the Obama Administration's Justice Department would be unlikely to prosecute, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act is part of civilian law,not the Uniform Military Code of Justice. And Hasan is being tried under military law.

In passing, I should mention this. During the height of Arafat's War on The Jews, I subscribed to several pro-Arab, pro-Palestinian e-mail lists under an alias.

I eventually got hardened to it, but I will never forget the ghoulish glee with which many of these people would greet the news of the successful murder of an Israeli child and especially that of a pregnant woman. The usual phrases they would happily use on those occasions were things like 'two for the price of one' or 'double bonus'.

Concepts of empathy, humanity and mercy are absent from people with Hasan's mindset.

The sooner we realize it,the better.

Rasmussen: Obama Approval At 46%

Can we say Carter redux yet?

Yes we can!

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 30% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10 (see trends). Republicans have opened a six-point lead on the Generic Congressional Ballot.

Sixty percent (60%) say that the Fort Hood shootings should be investigated by the military as a terrorist act. Just 27% prefer a criminal investigation by civilian authorities.

This Veterans Day, 81% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the U.S. military. Thirty-six percent (36%) had a close friend or relative who gave their life for our country. A Rasmussen video report notes that 69% say that military service is good for young people.

Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.

In other news, Gallup shows the so-called generic ballot with a GOP edge for 2010 with registered voters preferring Republicans for the House, 48% to 44%.

Hope.....Change....

DC Sniper Executed

I note that domestic Islamist terrorist John Allen Muhammed, AKA the DC Sniper was executed last night.

He was allowed to go off peacefully and painlessly via lethal injection, something his victims were denied. It only took a mere seven years for justice to be done...seven years....

Rot in hell, jihadi.

Watcher's Council Nominations, Veteran's Day Edition

Welcome to the Veteran's Day edition of the Watcher's council, a group of some of the most incisive blogs in the`sphere. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one of their own and one from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.

NEW AND EXCITING: Want to see your blog piece listed on the Watcher's Council page? Take advantage of our link whorage opportunity, as Okieand Avi did this week.

Simply make a post linking to this week's Council winners and send me an e-mail with the subject line 'link whorage' at rmill2k@msn.com with a link to the post and a link to the piece you want to appear,and the resulting fame and glory are yours for the taking.


So, let's see what we have this week....

Council Submissions

• Mere Rhetoric - Agitprop-Funding NEA Chief: "Barack Obama Is The Most Powerful Writer Since Julius Caesar





• The Glittering Eye - Triage





• Rhymes With Right - Just A Reminder – Hasan Not The First





• Bookworm Room - Watch the Democratic dominoes fall





• The Provocateur - Dr. Chacko Comes to Lahey





• The Colossus of Rhodey - The problem with Islamic terrorism and the Left





• The Razor - Suburban Perspective on Rural America





• Right Truth - A Small Nation





• Joshuapundit - Death By A Thousand Cuts

Honorable Mentions

Okie On The Lam - Nanny Nancy Pelosi Shoving 1990-Page Health Care Up Our Collective Wazzoo!

Tel-Chai Nation - Turkey's Erdogan continues with his bigotry

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: The Watcher – Selwyn Duke /American Thinker - Jihad and America, the land that cried sheep





• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Tigerhawk - The myth of American heroism





• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Red County - Tragedy At Ft. Hood





• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Villainous Company - Obama doesn't "get" the military he commands





• Submitted By: The Provocateur – WSJ Blog - Doctor: I Was Fired for Fighting Hospital’s Ties to Medtronic





• Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – The Scientist - Promises, Promises





• Submitted By: Right Truth – Right, Wing-Nut - A Nation, Hi-Jacked





• Submitted By: The Razor – MG Hoft - Wash U Shuts Down Freedom Memorial





• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Danger Room - Is This China's Anti-Satellite Laser Weapon Site?





• Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Ron Radosh/Hot Air - The Nation, Jihad and General Casey

Death By A Thousand Cuts

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

- Lt. Colonel John McCrae, Canadian Army Medical Corps(1872-1918)



The poem above is a product of World War One, the great scar of history that changed the world and differentiated between ages. As with most such times, many of the men and women involved were aware of this as much as those who came after them and looked backwards.

We live in such times today, and we were given a reminder a few short days ago.

For all our protestations and manipulation to avoid war,to forget, to appear humane and civilized, to allow our leaders to label it as something other than what it is, the war has come to us. In fact, it's been coming to us for eight years and many of us have yet to admit it.

When I first found out about Major Malik Nadal Hasan gunning down his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood while shouting "Allahu Akbar" on November 5th, I immediately recognized this as the jihad attack it was and wrote that that when the dots were connected, there would be a Saudi funded mosque and a radical imam in the picture. There always is.

I was right. And yet, the obvious questions remain floating in the wind, unsaid, like a foul odor polite society avoids mentioning.

Fort Hood makes me angry,because it was totally unnecessary. Those thirteen men and women need not have died, and the wounded should have remained whole. The dead were slain by fear, not in themselves but in us.

That climate of fear was generated by our consistent refusal to look at what we fight in the face or to give it its proper name. Our current president won't even admit that we are in a war at all or that jihadists are any danger to us , and has his attorney general busily working on legally prosecuting some of the men who successfully interrogated and prosecuted jihadis during the last eight years and at least kept them mostly at bay.

And the only thing President Obama's been willing to say to the nation about what happened at Fort Hood is to avoid mentioning 'Muslim' or 'Islam' and to tell us that even though we had a Muslim army officer with violent, jihadist views that were apparently well known to both the FBI and the military shooting up a military facility, 'we don't know all the facts.'

He operates in exactly the same way with Iran, avoiding the unpleasant choices of dealing with a nation in the process of obtaining nuclear weapons that openly states it is at war with The Great Satan, kills our warriors whenever it can,supports and nurtures jihad and Islamic fascism.

This is denial writ large.

With that sort of direction from the top down, is it any wonder that our FBI looked the other way? That our military establishment covered for Hassan even though he expressed blatantly disloyal sentiments in violation of his oath of service and openly let them know where his loyalties lie?

And it still goes on. Both Army chief of Staff General George Casey and head of the grossly misnamed Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano fell all over themselves to let us and the Muslim world know that they are primarily concerned with a 'backlash' against Muslims and avoiding any connection of the events at Fort Hood with Islamism rather than getting to the root causes of what happened to prevent it from occuring again.

As I write this,our military and our CIA are involved in a major push to seek translators for Farsi and Arabic and recruits in Dearborn, Michigan, also known as Dearbornistan. The area is filled with Shi'ite Hezbollah supporters of questionable loyalties,yet the CIA and the military concentrate their efforts here and refuse to seek out or hire loyal Chaldean Christians, Armenians or Jews in places like Los Angeles or New York who speak and write Farsi and Arabic perfectly and would be more than willing to serve their country. Diversity uber alles, but some flavors of diversity apparently trump others.

This kind of suicidal refusal to look at reality was aided and abetted by a president who lied to us eight years ago when he told us we were fighting 'terror' and a handful of fanatics rather than an established ideology adhered to by a significant part of the Muslim world, the ummah. That ideology was and is nurtured and promoted by certain nation states, some of whom who were otherwise nice to do business with and especially generous to politicians and government figures when they retired, provided they were willing to look the other way on certain matters.

And it is nurtured in our country, given legitimacy by the very people we trust to lead and protect the nation.

Because jihad's ideology now has a home in many mosques here and around the world, major outside involvement is no longer necessary. Tools like Hasan can be warped and nurtured in place like land mines set to go off. It's no accident that al-Qaeda and The Muslim Brotherhood both advise their adherents to infiltrate the military and law enforcement. It is part of their strategy to destroy us from within, and even a cursory study of Islamist literature on the subject will tell you that.

We've decide to be like Gulliver, tied down by a bunch of 7th century lilliputian savages as they inflict the death of a thousand cuts on us. Except unlike Gulliver,we seem committed to ignore the problem and remain tied down by choice.

I wonder how long this can continue, and how much more blood will have to be spilled before we realize it.

Will we break faith with the men and women who died at Fort Hood, in Kandahar, in Falujah, in Little Rock,at the World Trade Center, at a thousand battlefields in this war and others through the ages? Will we pick up the torch?

Will we be as singleminded and unequivocal in defending our freedom and our posterity as those who think it their holy purpose to take it away? Or will we remain mired in illusion?

Something to ponder this Veteran's Day, as we sit in the crosshairs.

-selah-

Obama: "Hey All those Jooos Look Alike Anyway."

Apparently President Obama really did want a meeting in the end after all, since he and Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu did experience a little face time after all at the General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities function in DC they were both speaking at.

And Obama had a real knee slapper of a modest proposal:

At the meeting's conclusion, the two leaders walked out to the adjoining room where the Israeli and American delegations were talking.

“So," Obama announced, according to the source in the room, "we’ve decided that we are going to trade our Lieberman for their Lieberman," referring to the independent American senator and the hard-line Israeli foreign minister.

I'm sure that dissing an Israeli foreign Minister went over just wonderfully with Netanyahu and the assembled Israeli delegation.Guaranteed to create a real bonding experience.

Of course, to Prez Zero, one Jew's interchangeable with another, I suppose.

So....how 'bout we trade our Obama for his half brother in Kenya, the one that lives in a cardboard shack? Just as big a funny, no?

Naw. That would be raa-aa-acist.

I seem to remember some campaign noise out of a certain presidential candidate about how he was going to revive the relationships with our allies that the evil BushHitler had ruined.

Now, there's a real laugh riot for you.

A Perfect Postcard To Send To Pelosi

The perfect card... moist,meaty and absolutely,perfectly appropriate to express your gratitude for her efforts on ObamaCare.

Muchas gracias, sweasel!

And speaking of Madame Pelosi, be aware that if you live in the Bay Area, there is an up close and personal protest planned on her home turf November 15, courtesy of the Bay Area Patriots.

Click on the link for details...