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I Am Disgusted

Harry Reid just told the media that he hopes to have a vote on the latest bill later today.  I find that interesting since there is no written bill, and if there were, no one has had a chance to read or study it.  The entire process is obscene.  Again the American people get screwed.   I am thoroughly disgusted with what has been going on in Washington over the past weeks, months, and years.  This debt ceiling debate and proposed bills are nothing more than smoke and mirrors.  The American people are not stupid and they see through this pathetic back-and-forth theater from Congress and the President, yet they are expected to simply bend over and take whatever Congress dishes out.

The spin has already started with some in the media trying to make this look like a big win for Republicans because there are so many spending cuts.  What a crock of manure.  Spending cuts promised over 10 years are like reaching out and grabbing a handful of air.  Never happen.

President Barack Hussein Obama is as pathetic as ever, using scare tactics against our elderly and military.  "Disgustingly Outrageous Behavior By Obama: Has Top Admiral Tell Troops in Afghanistan They May Not Get Paid (Video)".

Related:

Disgustingly Outrageous Behavior By Obama: Has Top Admiral Tell Troops in Afghanistan They May Not Get Paid (Video)

Moody’s: Boehner and Reid plans both completely fail to avoid downgrade

Obama’s “Leadership” Style is Classic Liberalism: No Vision + Utter Incompetence = Total Failure

Disgusting!

 

Norway Utoya Island Youth Camp Connected With Fatah - updates

Debbie Schlussel has the story, here's an excerpt:

More proof that Glenn Beck was spot on when he compared Norway’s Utoya Islam political camp, shot up by Anders Breivik, to a Hitler Youth camp.  It’s not just, as I told you yesterday, that these “kids” (many of whom were adults and 18 or over) boycotted Israel and played HAMAS flotilla “games.” In fact, Fatah Youth, the Fatah/PLO terrorist group’s youth movement had its own presence at the camp for the last 15 years, as noted by the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency. Check out the statement below from Fatah Youth. It says it all. The Muslim Nazis knew this camp was their kinda place filled with their kinda useful idiot dhimmi Eurotrash. This was definitely a Fatah/HAMAS Youth camp (remember, Fatah recently merged with HAMAS, and they have the same goal, Judenrein and Christianrein).  Check out the keffiyeh-encrusted photo, the caption, and what’s on the t-shirts that Norway’s piece of crap Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg thinks is so smile-worthy. And don’t forget, Fatah is the Islamic terrorist group that brutally murdered the Fogel Family while they slept and beheaded the baby.  (continue reading, hat tip Frederick William Dame) 

 

Please go read the entire article.  A few readers here at Right Truth insisted that the youth/adults at the island must have been Muslims for Anders Breivik to attack them.  But even though I knew they were Palestinian sympathizers, I found no evidence that they were Muslims or Muslim converts.  With this Fatah connection it makes a little more sense (if any sense can be made from the ramblings and actions of a mass murderer) why Breivik chose the youth camp.  We knew that the youth/adults called for a boycott of Israel and for recognition of 'Palestine', but we did not know about the direct connection to Fatah.

Updates:

Barry Rubin gets it right:

The "Oslo Syndrom" and the Terror Attacks in Norway

The camp, run by Norway’s left-wing party, was lobbying for breaking the blockade of the terrorist Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip and for immediate recognition of a Palestinian state without that entity needing do anything that would prevent it from being a terrorist base against Israel. They were backing and justifying forces that had committed terrorism against Israelis and killing thousands of people like themselves. [snip]

The Oslo Syndrome can be defined the opposite of the Stockholm Syndrome. Instead of being a target of terrorism and then changing views to support the terrorists’ side, it means—individually, as part of a movement, or as an entire country—supporting the terrorists’ side then being victims of terrorism. (continue reading at Rubin Reports)

Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs has more:

Summer Camp? Antisemitic Indoctrination Training Center

"Some of my friends tried to stop him by talking to him. Many people thought that it was a test ... comparing it to how it is to live in Gaza." Eyewitness statement the day of the shooting. (ABC News)

[snip] ... the jihad-loving media never told us what antisemitic war games they were playing on that island. Utoya Island is a Communist/Socialist campground, and they clearly had a pro-Islamic agenda.    [snip]

The main activity at the Utoya Island Meeting were mock “Break the Israel blockade” games.

One event was Palestinian aide boats would try to break the Israel blockage.  (continue reading and see images)

“Compromise without solutions is a waste of time,” Marco Rubio (video)

If you can handle the truth, here is is from Marco Rubio, on the Senate floor today. Here is the video — be sure to catch his exchange with John Kerry:

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You've got to love this man, his politics, his sincerity, his goals.  We need more like him.  We need a president like him.

Interesting:  Note to GOP prez contenders: All five Iowa representatives opposed Boehner plan

 

The $1 Billion Armageddon Trade Placed Against the United States

The article is by Jack Barnes, Contributing Writer, Money Morning,  "The $1 Billion Armageddon Trade Placed Against the United States", and was brought to my attention by Frederick William Dame who says:  "Someone is betting 850 million (in reality one billion) dollars that the U.S. government will default on its payments and/or lose its AAA credit rating?   The article is below.  I have highlighted  the interesting portions.  It is from Gold Silver.com.  After reading, ask yourself the questions at the end of the article."

"The $1 Billion Armageddon Trade Placed Against the United States"

Someone dropped a bomb on the bond market Thursday – a $1 billion Armageddon trade betting the United States will lose its AAA credit rating.
In one moment, an invisible trader placed a single trade that moved the most liquid debt market in the world.

The massive trade wasn't placed in bonds themselves; it was placed in the futures market.

The trade was for block trades of 5,370 10-year Treasury futures executed at 124-03 and 3,100 Treasury bond futures executed at 125-01.

The value of the trade was about $850 million dollars. In simple terms, if that was a direct bond buy, no one would be talking about it.

However, with the use of futures, you have to have margin capacity behind the trade. That means with a single push of a button someone was willing to commit more than $1 billion of real capital to this trade with expectations of a 10-to-1 return ratio.

You only do this if you see an edge.

This means someone is confident that the United States is either going to default or is going to lose its AAA rating. That someone is willing to bet the proverbial farm that U.S. interest rates will be going up.

I believe what happened is a debt-ceiling deal was done in Washington and leaked to a major proprietary trader. Everyone knows the debt negotiations in Washington have been an extreme game of brinksmanship between political parties, but now someone knows how that game played out.

This had the hallmarks of one of the largest bond shops in the world knowing something the rest of the market didn't.

The number of shops or even central banks that can take on this level of market risk is extremely small. Some that come to mind are hedge fund manager John Paulson, Bill Gross's PIMCO, and the U.S. and Chinese central banks.

Paulson already scored big – about $6 billion big – on a similar trade years ago when he bet against subprime mortgages, the investments that helped bring down Lehman Bros. and many other investors.
Whoever was behind it wanted a trade on ASAP, and didn't care about the ripples they would cause.

Pay attention to the content of the first sentence!

 You can see how this trade caused fear to be unleashed in the market once it got out and the implications hit by looking at U.S. Treasuries. People who were long 30-year Treasuries panicked as they saw the huge short put on the futures market, and started to unwind their long exposure.

What you, as investors, should do now is look at the bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that provide a positive rate of return when U.S. Treasuries drop in value. Yields are going up sooner rather than later, if the person behind this Armageddon trade is correct.

 

Dame says :  Ask yourself these questions (DAME's ANSWERS):

1.     Is it a rist if it is a certain to happen?  (NO)

2.    Do you think that Basrack Hussein Obama is planning to allow a disaster to happen?  (YES)

3.    Would Barack Hussein Obama allow this disaster to happen so that he can blame the Republicans?  (YES)

4.     Would Barack Hussein Obama, the Chicago thug, execute this disaster in order to make his supporters wealthier?  (YES)

5.    Would Barack Hussein Obama cause this disaster in order for himself to reap in billions of profits?  (YES)

6.    Would Barack Hussein Obama want this disaster to make his partners-in-crime wealthier so that they will thank him by contributing to his reelection campaign?  (YES)

7.    Do you think that George Soros is the billion-dollar better?  (99.9% sure)

 

Who Voted 'NO' On Boehner Bill?

... the entire South Carolina delegation – five Republicans and one Democrat – voted “no.”

The 22 Republicans voting “no” were Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.),

Michele Bachmann (Minn.),

Paul Broun (Ga.),

Jason Chaffetz (Utah),

Chip Cravaack (Minn.),

Scott DesJarlais (Tenn.),

Jeff Duncan (S.C.),

Trey Gowdy (S.C.),

Tom Graves (Ga.),

Tim Huelskamp (Kansas),

Tim Johnson (Ill.),

Jim Jordan (Ohio),

Steve King (Iowa),

Tom Latham (Iowa),

Connie Mack (Fla.),

Tom McClintock (Calif.),

Mick Mulvaney (S.C.),

Ron Paul (Texas),

Tim Scott (S.C.),

Steve Southerland (Fla.),

Joe Walsh (Ill.) and

Joe Wilson (S.C.)

Interesting to note that freshman Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) intentionally waited until the Boehner plan passed the 216 mark with about 3 minutes and 45 seconds remaining on the clock before he case his "yes" vote. 

According to the Washington Post:  Several other members -- including Scott, Latham and Duncan -- waited until the very end to cast their votes; they all voted “no.” 

May warts grow on all who voted 'yes', may they be voted out of office at the next opportunity.

As to Boehner, who said  “people can be critical of what we’ve done, but where are the other ideas?”...  Plenty of simple ideas were offered, but you would have nothing to do with them.  May you lose your position as speaker of the house quickly.

As to those who voted 'no', please write, call, email and tell them how proud you are of them and please contribute to their re-election.

 

Female Navy Seals

I'm wondering what the current SEALS think about this idea.

The top commander of U.S. special operations says he thinks it's time for women to go into combat as Navy SEALS.

A Navy SEAL himself, Admiral Eric T. Olson said at the opening session of the 2011 Aspen Security Forum that he would like to see female SEALs in combat roles.

"As soon as policy permits it, we'll be ready to go down that road," said Olson.

He added that being a SEAL is not just about physical strength. "I don't think the idea is to select G.I. Jane and put her through SEAL training, but there are a number of things that a man and a woman can do together that two guys can't," said Olson. "I don't think it's as important that they can do a lot of push-ups. I think it's much more important what they're made of and whether or not they have the courage and the intellectual agility to do that."

While women serve in the U.S. special forces community as information specialists and civil affairs specialists, there are currently no female SEALs, Green Berets, Rangers or Marine special operators as a result of the 1994 combat exclusion policy that precludes women from being assigned to ground combat units.

But given the unique access females can secure with local women in conservative societies where the U.S. military is operating, said Admiral Olson, "Cultural Support Teams" made up of two to four women were created last year to be attached to SEAL teams and Green Beret units and are already at work. Olson said that 56 more women graduated last week, "all of whom will be in Afghanistan by the end of August."   (Continue reading and see video at ABC)

Naser Jason Abdo

Naser Jason Abdo had his first court appearance today where he shouted out the name of his hero,  Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan, who also received his inspiration from Anwar al-Awlaki.  Abdo was charged with the federal crime of possession of a non-registered firearm in addition to previous charges of possession of child pornography and going AWOL from his unit.     

Who is this latest Fort Hood Muslim terrorist Naser Jason Abdo?  He is a 21 year old AWOL Army private, a Muslim infantryman who was granted conscientious objector status last year.  His discharge was suspended after he was charged with having 34 images depicting child pornography on his computer.  He is of Palestinian descent, born to a Christian mother and Muslim father, and adopted Islam as his religion at age 17.  He chose to go AWOL on July 4.

Abdo's plan was to plant two bombs at a restaurant near Fort Hood that is popular with the base's soldiers — then pick off survivors with a pistol.  So he objected to fighting against his own, how does that translate into killing fellow soldiers?  One must ask why did he join the military in the first place?  He was a Muslim before he was military.  He was inspired by al-Qaeda and jihadi literature was found in his possession.

"A Muslim is not allowed to participate in an Islamicly unjust war," he said in an interview with ABC News last August. In a separate statement he said that he did not "believe I can involve myself in an army that wages war against Muslims. I don't believe I could sleep at night if I take part, in any way, in the killing of a Muslim…"

Similar sentiments were expressed by Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood in November 2009. Hasan had told classmates that he considered himself to be "a Muslim first and an American second" and he was found to have had email interaction with American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.  (The Investigative Project)

Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/3068/fort-hood-targeted-for-second-terrorist-attack

Naser Jason Abdo was/is a practicing Muslim, which leads some to question why we have Muslims in the military and also to question our immigration policies.  The Jawa Report says he went from peaceful moderate to radical in one year. 

An antiwar group calling itself Courage to Resist started a legal defense fund for Pfc. Naser Abdo and called him a Muslim peacemaker.

Money:

Hyscience notes 'Robert Spencer points out over at Jihad Watch, double standards are obvious in the AP's vague, hands-off treatment of the suspect's identity ...'.  And since he has no job and no income, where does he get his money?

So, Abdo is an AWOL soldier which means he's not receiving income from the ARMY. As an AWOL soldier on the run he's very unlikely to have any other source of income since any employer is going to require a social security number which, once used, would immediately tell the Army where he is. Yet he has plenty of cash to have a place to live, ride around in a taxi, buy items for a disguise from an Army Surplus Store, and buy 6 pounds of smokeless gunpowder, three boxes of shotgun ammunition and a magazine for a semi-automatic pistol - all with cash. We can safely assume that he also has enough money to eat.

So where's the cash coming from? Is there someone in the Muslim community funding this guy, and if so, is the person or persons aware of the plot? (more)

Plenty of evidence:

Abdo’s motel room was stocked with gunpowder, firearms, and ammunition. Officials told ABC News that an article from al Qaeda’s “Inspire” magazine entitled “How to Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” was also found in his room. (Christian Post)

From BlackFive:

Update:  Sean Linnane had a post up about Private Abdo's AWOL 12 days ago.  Check it out.

Update 2: The Farm Team at This Ain't Hell were all over this guy last year. There's an IVAW connection.

Sources:  Yahoo, NY Times, New York, ABC News, CBS News, Huff. Post  

Interesting:  Over A Dozen U.S. Church Websites Hacked, Told To Convert To Islam.

Related:

Olberdouche Outraged Over Rep. Peter King’s Radical Islam Hearings: “He’s Un-American And Frankly, He’s An Asshole”…, While his guest Keith Ellison eagerly nods in approval.  from Weasel Zippers by ZIP  

Showdown At The TEA Party Coral Today

Against popular opinion.

Is the Boehner legislation the best legislation possible? Of course not! You don't get your heart's desire when you control only one house of Congress and face a presidential veto.

The most basic fact of life is that we can make our choices only among the alternatives actually available. It is not idealism to ignore the limits of one's power. Nor is it selling out one's principles to recognize those limits at a given time and place, and get the best deal possible under those conditions.

That still leaves the option of working toward getting a better deal later, when the odds are more in your favor. [snip]

There are a lot of things to weigh against each other, not only as regards the economy, but also what the consequences to this nation would be to have Barack Obama get re-elected and go further down the dangerous path he has put us on, at home and abroad. Is it worth that risk to make a futile symbolic vote in Congress?

One of the good things about the Tea Party movement is that it resisted the temptation to actually form a third political party, which has been an exercise in futility, time and time again, under the American electoral system.

But, if the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party becomes just a rule-or-ruin minority, then they might just as well have formed a separate third party and gone on to oblivion.

Writers can advocate things that have no chance at the moment, for their very writing about those things persuasively can make them possible at some future date. But to adopt the same approach as an elected member of Congress risks losing both the present and the future.   -- Thomas Sowell

Another:

I believe that Boehner and proponents of his plan are acting honorably. Tons of conservatives I respect support the plan, including Paul Ryan and Allen West.

If a bill is passed, let's pray that we conservatives will wake up the very next day and start hammering away at the overarching debt crisis and do a better job of taking our case to the people. We are not one another's enemies.  -- David Limbaugh

I personally do not know what the answer is to the impasse.  I know what I would like the Republicans to do, but that doesn't seem possible today.  We're threatened with 'if you don't vote for Boehner's bill (with Harry Reid's changes) you will be responsible for Barack Hussein Obama's re-election in 2012'. 

I feel for the TEA party politicians in Washington.  They want to do the right thing, stand firm for those who elected them.  They are dealing with clowns and ancient relics, career politicians who play the game and play it well.  I don't know what the answer is, but if the Boehner plan is the best we can get, we're in a pretty sad state of affairs.

What we've seen is a well intentioned but grandly mishandled affair by House Leader John Boehner and certain strains of the conservative press. 

The true compromise is obvious: you want to spend here, you will have to cut your spending there. As for taxes, we all welcome tax reform where indeed, if revenues can be increased by trading loopholes for reduced rates, then by all means. That will take time and let’s do it after this debt ceiling problem is resolved. This simple answer was rarely voiced by conservatives. [snip]

There is still time. Boehner, who is well intentioned and strong, along with the House Republicans should create turmoil for days. Some should be out screaming to go back to Cut Cap and Balance while they work behind the scenes on a revision to Cut, Cap and Balance that is somewhat more digestible to the Democrats in addressing the immediate 40% cuts more prudently. But carry out the drama until the 2^nd and then vote on it, send it over to Reid, and send Obama an early Happy Birthday wish.

 

Otherwise, by creating the fundamental expectation that this was to be a genuine good faith “coming together” of parties, Obama and Reid have assured that at the last minute it will be Reid who sends something back to Boehner and he will have little room to do anything but accept with minor tweaks and lose the one day game. -- Bill Siegel

No!  What the Republicans need to do is go back to Cut, Cap, and Balance or even back further to Paul Ryan's budget, and tell the Senate "here it is, here is our bill, pass it and sign it or you suffer the consequences".

That's my two cents.

Updates and what others think:

Michele Bachmann Strongly Opposes Boehner Debt Plan

from 2012 Campaign Trail Report by Eric Odom

As we all sit and wait for news on the delayed vote in Washington, Michele Bachmann is sending a frenzy of fundraising emails blasting Boehner’s plan and Obama’s appetite for spending. I will not vote to raise the debt ceiling. The answer to our nation’s spending problem is not to spend more — it is [...]

Americans for Limited Government today issued a statement urging the House of Representatives to pass the "Cut, Cap, and Balance Act" again with even more cuts:

"There is no need for the House to pass anything today that the Senate simply wants to modify anyway.  If the House feels it must pass something, it should just stand its ground and pass 'Cut, Cap, and Balance' again with even more cuts to 2012 than before.  And urge the Senate to vote on it up or down.  If Congress cannot get a balanced budget amendment now, cap spending, and make immediate cuts, we may never get our fiscal house in order. 

"The bill should include a revenue prioritization when the debt ceiling is reached, instructing the Treasury to pay interest on the debt and otherwise refinance debt up to the limit.  This will take default or withholding Social Security checks out of the equation, and begin an honest debate without a loaded gun in Obama's hands."

What Role Does Fear Play in Obama’s Debt Ceiling Strategy?, Ask Heritage

[snip] The Obama Administration spent all weekend trying to talk down markets, hoping to make use of any artificial drop for political purposes.

Never mind that the financial security of hundreds of millions of Americans and others would be injured in the process. The Administration needs what it has already dubbed “the Boehner drop”—named after Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner—to try to get its way in the debt ceiling negotiations. (continue reading)

The Corrupt Bargain, from Hyscience by Dr. Robert Owens

$10 trillion (Updated), from Hyscience

$10 trillion is the amount in cuts that the rating agency Standard & Poor says is needed over time to bring the nation's finances under control.

 

Carney: If We Have No Other Alternative We Will “Take Action”, from NoisyRoom.net by TMH

 

 

As If I Needed Another Reason To Root For A Government Shutdown..., from Right, Wing-Nut! by The JerseyNut

....listening to these whiny bitches - aka federal employees - complain about how tough their lives are and how unfair the current political environment ("the return of common sense") is to them, makes me pray for an extended government shutdown, just to learn these pampered fops a lesson they so strongly deserve.

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Interesting:

  http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-dft/f8938--dft.pdf. The suspicion is that Obama is considering a "wealth tax." On Americans at home and abroad.   An American would be taxed not just on income, but on the value of his foreign assets.

Minorities in the IDF

By Aryeh Tepper, Jewish Ideas Daily

Recently, while driving by the Israeli settlement of Nokdim (where Avigdor Lieberman lives), I picked up a hitchhiking soldier. We started chatting, and I asked the soldier his name. "Mustafa," he said. "You're a Muslim?" I asked. "Yes," he answered, "from Haifa." As our conversation progressed, I asked him his thoughts about Lieberman's criticism of Arab-Israeli society, saying that I thought the foreign minister wouldn't have any problem with an Arab-Israeli who serves in the army. Mustafa demurred: "Lieberman only loves me so long as I'm in uniform."

When most people think of the conflict in the Middle East, they naturally enough imagine Israeli Jews fighting Middle Eastern Arabs and Muslims. But non-Jews from the Muslim, Druse, and Christian communities in Israel serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) alongside their Jewish peers. After completing their basic training, these soldiers swear fealty to the state of Israel on a copy of the Quran or the New Testament instead of the standard Hebrew Bible.

But soldiers like Mustafa are still very rare. For various reasons (including security concerns), Israeli Arabs are not drafted—though some still do serve voluntarily. A recent documentary film, Ameer Got His Gun, explores the decision of one eighteen-year-old Arab-Israeli Muslim to voluntarily enlist in the IDF. The film is a bit saccharine, following the trajectory of Ameer's untested idealism, but the (Jewish) producer and director thankfully refuse easy moralizing, and let the characters speak for themselves. The film's most touching scene follows the intense preparations of Ameer's family for what turns out to be a sparsely-attended enlistment party. Why throw a party? "To show everyone that you're not ashamed," says Ameer. After all, in the eyes of many Arab Israelis—Palestinians, according to their own self-definition—Ameer and his fellow Muslim soldiers in the IDF are nothing less than traitors.

NHS delays operations 'as it waits for patients to die or go private'

NHS managers are deliberately delaying operations as they wait for patients either to die or go private in order to save money, according to an official report.

By Martin Beckford, Health Correspondent, The Telegraph UK

Health service trusts are “imposing pain and inconvenience” by making patients wait longer than necessary, in some cases as long as four months, the study found.

Executives believe the delays mean some people will remove themselves from lists “either by dying or by paying for their own treatment” claims the report, by an independent watchdog that advises the NHS.

The Co-operation and Competition Panel says the tactic is one of a number used by managers that “excessively constrain” patients’ rights to choose where to be operated upon, and damage hospitals’ ability to compete for planned surgery.

It claims unfair practices are “endemic” in some areas of England and pose a “serious risk” to the Government’s drive to open up the health service to competition.

But managers, who are already rationing surgery for cataracts, hips, knees and tonsils, say they must restrict treatment as the NHS is under orders to make £20 billion of efficiency savings by 2015. (continue reading, hat tip Marcus Wilder)