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The Wolf Who Cried “Boy!”

The Wolf Who Cried “Boy!”

By: Paul A. Ibbetson
(Right Truth Exclusive)

The wolf who cried “boy!” Make that statement today and it won’t take but a moment for someone to utter that a correction must be made, as you have obviously gotten the important parts of the childhood story title turned around. Of course, they would be right. The childhood story of the boy who cried wolf depicts a youth in charge of a flock of sheep that were under potential threat from the dangerous, hungry wolf that crept along the woods near the foot of a nearby mountain.  The boy, fighting bouts of loneliness, repeatedly tricked the villagers into coming to his aid with false calls of “wolf!” Of course, as the story goes, when the wolf actually came, no one believed the boy’s distress call and the hungry wolf had “leg of lamb” for supper. It’s an exciting and educational story about honesty and it shows the ramifications of true threats that are not addressed properly.

We can attempt to apply this very useful analogy to the wolves that crouch at America’s doorstep today. We can talk about who the wolves are and wonder, “Do we have the knowledge and fortitude to sound the danger call in time to save what is precious to us?” The problem is, for expanding periods of time today, the American people, the true shepherds of their own destiny, are having their attention diverted to nonsensical distractions while they are about to get bit in the backside.

We, the American people, are increasingly being faced with 24 hour news coverage by the media for events which have a news value equivalent to that of cheap plastic baubles. Walking hand in hand with quality is the issue of quantity. The amount of meaningless news feces being thrown at the public is now unending and, to prove the point, I can start almost anywhere. The Anna Nicole Smith death is a salient example. The death of the relatively unaccomplished reality star ran for weeks and was treated by the press with the same media blitz given to the JFK assassination. Like it would never end, the television talking heads pondered the obvious (to the public) as to whether Smith, who hadn’t uttered a slur-less word in years, might have died from drug abuse. It could be said that to expend the energy to say, “Why should I care about this?” is to care too much. The demise of Michael Jackson, in its grotesque over-coverage and analysis, may, in its own strange way, make the Anna Nicole Smith coverage seem normal and proper. Do you see the problem?

It could be addressed that the news stories like Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson depict the false framing by the media that minimizes the true life tragedies of the lives of such people and treats them like success stories.  If this were the case, it would be much more like the story of the boy who cried wolf; it would be an issue of truth telling and accuracy when a true foe, that is - the truth itself, is at stake. Unfortunately, we are currently not in that ballpark, not even in that universe. Our country is in the midst of real monumental historical challenges, such as the War on Terror, border security, escalating national debt, and an environmental “cap and trade” bill, which will be the largest tax increase in U.S. history. Issues such as these are being left on the cutting room floor so extra 30 year old footage of the Jackson Five in concert can be aired. It’s not an issue of Jackson’s talent, or the inventiveness of the “moon walk,” or even the creativeness of the video “Thriller,” which took place over two decades ago; it’s the point of fact that the nation does not have time for this or other meaningless distractions. It is also a point of fact that the meaningless begets the meaningless to the point where we as a people, and as a nation, are so turned around on what is important that we live in a place where the statement “the wolf who cried boy” makes as much sense as anything else. It’s a place we can’t afford to be.

Paul A. Ibbetson is the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 FM. For interviews or questions, please contact Ibbetson91.9@gmail.com or go to www.IbbetsonUSA.com.

Sick of Sotomayor Stories

Fellow blogger Torrence Stephens, a/k/a Raw Dawg Buffalo is as fed up with the Sotomayor hearings as I am, and the pitiful excuses for politicians in Washington.  He writes a great article Men all pause, you must read.  Here's a taste:

  ...   It seems that over the past 10 to 12 years, biologists have been observing interesting occurrences in the lakes, streams and rivers in our nation. They have been detecting extreme levels of organochlorine levels in tissues of fish.

In the Mississippi River, they have detected Chlordane, which is both a carcinogen and an endocrine disrupter, in shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platyorynchus) Potomac River. This has also been observed in Small Mouth Bass in the Virginia area, namely the , where a high rate of intersex (male fish exhibiting female characteristics) has led to an investigation of water quality and wastewater discharge the nation water-ways.

These chemicals have resulted in an interesting outcome to say the least – male fish that carry eggs. Yes eggs. It seems that this group of chemicals is not as important to our politicians as greenhouse gasses. Moreover, t seems that our government is so concerned with farts and global warming that they have missed something that may be even more dangerous than carbon emissions. Xenobiotic pollutants have revealed the capacity to disrupt reproductive endocrine system functions.   (continue reading, ... you know you want to.  Then check out his other great articles.

 At least 15 schools are participating in a program where young school children are given lessons on being a sex slave, or prostitute, at a brothel by a madam in the UK.  Don't let schools in the US know about this.  Also, I'll bet there are no Muslims in the class or we would hear about riots in the streets.   Remember that surplus of tolerance?  
Oh my.

Pupils initially heard a first-person account from 'Katerina', a Romanian prostitute who told how she came to Britain after being promised a job as a waitress.

When she arrived she was taken to a flat and gang raped before being forced into prostitution.

They also heard a recording of an undercover investigator's phone call to a brothel madam in Croydon.

The woman lists a string of services available along with prices. She also gives the vital measurements of prostitutes on offer and their ethnicity. (continue reading)

Another "oh my"  is the story of those poor White House staffers. They're just working so hard: "In West Wing: Grueling Schedules, Bleary Eyes."   Apparently they are not working hard enough, just look at The Wonders of Obanomics, graphs, graphs, graphs....


Be sure to see:

Government health care:  The Indian Health Service, and it is a harbinger of what a national single-payer system holds for all of us..

Budget deficit hits one trillion

PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE?   Sure, but if you want members of Congress to know, it’s not enough to send a memo. You need to staple a check to it.

Sotomayor hearings:  Sessions interviewing Sotomaryo  -video-

Sonia's Senators, IBD

Sarah Palin Writes ....

In the Washington Post today Sarah Palin writes in her op-ed "The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End":

  ...  nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented. 

Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:

And Palin does just that:

Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.

In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.

The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.[snip]

We must move in a new direction. We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil. Just as important, we have more desire and ability to protect the environment than any foreign nation from which we purchase energy today. [snip]

We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? Or, do we want to outsource it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia? Make no mistake: President Obama's plan will result in the latter.   (read it all)

Of course the typical responses are out there.   I give the Huffington Post credit, they posted a couple of paragraphs with a link back to the original article and did not use the image of Palin winking, as some sites did ...

It has that 9th grade, five paragraph essay style along with random bits of right-wing jargon sprinkled throughout in appropriate contexts.   (The Plank)

And:

And then you have Sarah Palin show up, blathering about how we're "destroying America's economy" while we're "literally" sitting on mountains of oil and drill baby drill and blah blah blah. Sickening.  (Andrew Sullivan)

And:

 ...   Today, the world rakes you over hot coals while cackling wildly as it gives the dimmest American her own op-ed piece in The Washington Post. It’s the universe’s biggest bird-flip to those who make some vague attempt at being decent, intelligent, compassionate, hard-working people.  (Black Book Mag) 

In the meantime...   Carpet bomb American citizens with every possible program under the sun, that seems to be the Obama plan.  Drop bills in committee and congress, hoping to get them passed.  The media won't have enough pages or minutes of air time to cover them all,  seems that's the policy behind the Obama administration -- just ram it all down their throats at the same time, choke them if necessary, and push legislation through. 

Health Care bill  

We all hear the hoopla about how national health care would be the greatest thing since bandages for sliced fingers, but little has been discussed about what the industry groups will be getting in return for their cooperation in turn for their promised savings that may or may not ever materialize...  Health Deals Could Harbor Hidden Costs  

 
Day two of the Sonia Sotomayor hearing continues:

“Judge Sotomayor’s record on the Second Amendment causes us grave concern over her treatment of this enumerated right [to keep and bear arms] . . . As Second Amendment leaders deeply concerned about preserving all fundamental rights for current and future generations of Americans, we strongly oppose this nominee, and urge the Senate not to confirm Judge Sotomayor.”  --Sandy Froman former president of the National Rifle Association (NRA, Special Guest)

Obama eligibility case will be heard on merits

Obama eligibility case will be heard on merits, seems to be all over the web.   (hat tip Anti-Mullah)   WND reports:

In what ultimately could prove to be a turning point in the legal challenges to Barack Obama's eligibility to be president, a federal judge in California has planned a hearing on the merits of a federal court case raising those questions.

According to attorney Orly Taitz, who is working on multiple cases alleging Obama is a "usurper" because he doesn't meet the constitutional requirement that only a "natural born citizen" can be president, U.S. District Judge  David O. Carter ruled in a hearing today that her case will move forward.

The hearing was on her motion for a default order against Obama, because although Taitz said she notified him of the action, Obama's attorneys did not make an appearance.

Her complaint was filed against the president on Jan. 20, the day of his inauguration, over his actions before he became president.

Taitz has told WND if her motion for default is granted she immediately would request access to Obama's birth records and other documentation that could determine his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office.  (continue reading)

Other reading:

New Polls Reveal Big Problems for Obama, Fox

Obama Numbers Follow The Economy, National Journal

Dinner with Obama — a parable *UPDATED*, Bookworm Room

July 1914, July 1939 — July 2009:   We all seem to be moving in slow motion, serenely out of touch with the hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen, distracting ourselves from the dark, gravitational pull of war  ... Dr. Phyllis Chesler

Obama Frees Iranian Terror Masters
The release of the Irbil Five is a continuation of a shameful policy.   National Review

An Open Letter to President Obama from the African American community, Townhall

Strategic Calculus and the Afghan War, StratFor

Iran to hang 14 rebels publicly Tuesday, 

Full recovery for two hearts girl, BBC

Obama Wants Health Reform Bill This Week, Fox

Video:  Ted Nugent on guns

The Tolerance Surplus, Sultan Knish

Get Real Hip Hop for peace in the Middle East

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Are American Catholics more Obaman than the Pope?

Are American Catholics more Obaman than the Pope?

By R.J. Godlewski
© July 12, 2009, All Rights Reserved
(Right Truth Exclusive)

“Even though incorporated into the Church, one who does not however persevere in charity is not saved. He remains indeed in the bosom of the Church, but ‘in body’ not ‘in heart’” [837]

“…the approval of new forms of consecrated life is reserved to the Apostolic See.” [919]

“’For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered.’” [882] -- Catechism of the Catholic Church

    When I heard about the recent commentary in Newsweek that suggested that President Obama was more Catholic than the Pope was, I could not stop laughing long enough to post these thoughts precisely when I wanted them to appear. It took a day or two, or maybe three now before I calmed down sufficiently to deal with this latest progressive liberal (read that, asinine) outlook on reality. I could very easily have tossed this insanity into the same trashcan that bears that report that informs us that ninety-odd percent of the U.S.-manufactured guns involved within Mexico’s drug wars can be traced back to the U.S. For the same reason, I am quite willing to suggest that at least ninety percent of federal government paychecks can be traced back to the U.S. taxpayer.

    As I said, I wanted to get on with life. To worry about things more important than what progressives spout through their mouthpieces. Important topics such as university homework assignments, whether the first place Tigers will lose two in a row to a last place team again, and whether I have Brats or burgers for dinner. Regardless, as a Roman Catholic layperson I have a fundamental responsibility to protect my Church and, henceforth, I do not want to deal with such secular issues on the Holiest day of the week.

    For starters, I am more African-American than President Obama is Catholic (hint for you liberals: both sets of my grandparents were Polish). Regardless of where Mr. Obama spent his childhood schooling, being Catholic is an “is or isn’t” proposition. You can be Roman Catholic for ninety years of your life and once you abandon the Church’s teachings, then you cease being Roman Catholic. God’s laws do not incorporate any “independents” like within American politics. This is precisely why we have had the 265 Popes descended directly from Saint Peter. Every decent Catholic bible has these popes outlined for the entire world to see and my trusty New American Bible that I have had beside me since February, 1994 states neither a Pope Barack Obama I nor a Saint John Q. Public of America in the leadership of Christ’s Church here on Earth.

    For starters, I fully understand that progressive liberals tend to pick and choose their beliefs to suit some specific agenda. This tinkering of the human mind leads to some pretty confiscatory thoughts as “Pro-Choice Catholics” when the Church has always been defensive of the unborn. This is why Pope Benedict reamed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ass whereas the good pontiff merely spoke pleasantries with the current President. I am quite certain that, had Obama been a member of the Catholic Church, then Pope Benedict would have sent the politician to Ghana waddling as if his thongs were ten sizes too junior.

    The fact is, a pope leads his Church; he does not merely preside over it. He holds the literal keys of the “kingdom of heaven” and thereby gauges whatever loose on earth will also be loose in heaven. [Matthew 16:19 NAB] Christ did not pick a mere “community organizer” on which to build His Church. He picked a rock. If President Obama were even a legitimate Christian, he would be speaking out in fervent protest against abortion, against homosexuality, against government control, and against illegal immigration. Notice, friends, that I did not say procurers of abortion, homosexuals, or illegal aliens.

    The truth is, President Obama is a politician and nothing more. Albeit a significantly opportunistic one, but his talents to lead are no stronger than either Madonna’s or Michael Jackson’s abilities to entertain. It is not what we are that counts, but who. In others words, our actions speak volumes compared with our thoughts. Unfortunately, this is where we get into trouble here within America.

    Some sources have the number of “Catholic” voters who cast their lot with President Obama as high as eighty-percent. That is not a very scientific estimate. I would counter and say that no true Catholic ever voted for President Obama. Some erstwhile pew-warmers may have voted for Obama because they were concerned about the economy, or the poor, or the war in Iraq, but these are simply topics that even Christ largely ignored (You know, the poor will always be with us, don’t fret about tomorrow, etc. etc.).

    Those Americans who voted for the President because they supported abortion rights, gay marriages, or euthanasia for that matter have long since forfeited their allegiance to either Christ or His Church. They have simply abandoned their oaths of baptism and confirmation. Americans do that from time to time – abandoned their personal responsibilities in exchange for temporal convenience. Hispanics, for one, are notorious for this.

    Tomorrow begins the week of confirmation hearings for what could possibly be the United States’ first Latino justice of the Supreme Court. Already, thousands of Hispanics within this country are calling for her to be confirmed. I have nothing against the woman herself, but her policies and actions are definitely anti-Latino. It is just another egregious example of an overwhelmingly Catholic culture abandoning its principles on a matter of race. And they call us white folk racist…

    Roman Catholicism is “universal” because it hands down the only non-discriminatory set of standards available from the only non-discriminatory being in existence: God. Each of us is free to gaze into our hearts and determine whether we wish to follow the Church’s teachings or not. Each of us can freely decide whether politics or Salvation is to be our guide. Each of us is given free rein by God to choose temporal convenience over the much more demanding structure of eternal harmony with the Blessed.

    In a culture where “American” has come to mean anyone who can sneak across the border without being caught, where “life” means any living species of value to the state’s agenda, and where personal responsibility is acquiesced to Washington on appeal, then I suspect  that being Roman Catholic does not mean very much.

    Fortunately, there are still a few of us devotees who remain. We carry on the spirit of those who were burned as ornamental torches within some ancient Roman governor’s courtyard. We still honor those who were fed alive to lions; hung, drawn, and quartered; or, if mercifully disposed by the emperor or king in question, simply beheaded for following the Church’s teachings. And folks, President Barack Hussein Obama isn’t even fit to loosen their sandals.

Liberation

There's something very liberating and frustrating at the same time about having a hard drive suddenly die, or having your computer croak completely.  Either way you start from scratch -- fresh, a clean slate, free of all the clutter you collected.  My new hard drive arrived via FedX yesterday, overnight service is really wonderful.  I spent most of the day yesterday installing my virus protection (Trend Micro Internet Security) and other programs I find necessary to daily computing -- Word, Micrografx Picture Publisher, Cannon camera software, Carbonite, iTunes, and a few other odds and ends. 

Outlook Express was empty, no folders, no contacts, and it looked good.  I've been having a great time with the "block message/sender" option today, getting rid of all those mailing lists I somehow got placed on without my knowledge.  Wooooo hooooo, checking email will be a breeze for a while.  I feel great!

I'm sure the Iranians would love to feel some liberation as well as many other people around the world.  Obama had time to visit Russia and Ghana to give another of his 'major speeches', saying "I do not see the countries and peoples of Africa as a world apart; I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world - as partners with America on behalf of the future that we want for all our children."  Too bad he couldn't have the same consideration for Iranian people, Georgians and the South Ossetians.

Obama has no problems meddling in Israeli affairs and completely destroying America, but sucking up to our enemies gives him a thrill.  Our foreign policy is a faux pas.  Abraham H. Miller writes:

The difference between radical Muslims and liberal American Jews is that the former seek to become martyrs, while the latter aspire to become victims. In an ironic twist of fate, radical Muslims and liberal American Jews were made for each other.

This ideological symbiosis is sufficient to give pause to the presence of intelligent design. But like all things that seem to emanate from a higher power, there is a paradoxical twist. It is not themselves that liberal American Jews want to sacrifice on the altar of victimhood; it is their Israeli brethren.

Barack Hussein Obama received nearly eighty percent of the Jewish vote and still garners strong approval among America’s Jews. In contrast, only six percent of Jewish Israelis support Obama.
Even before the election, Israeli Jews, unlike their sycophantic American brethren, saw through Obama.  Israelis were the least supportive population anywhere in the Western world of the inexperienced politician turned presidential candidate.  (continue at Pajamas Media)

I'm sure the Israelis would love to be liberated from their terrorist neighbors, able to live quiet peaceful lives.  Unlike my computer hard drive, wiped clean in an instant, liberation for suffering people around the world and here in the us is nowhere in sight.  Wouldn't it be wonderful to somehow with one keystroke call a special election, vote out Obama, the crazy Liberals, the RINOs in our own party and replace them with Conservatives.  I can dream can't I?

Cyber Attacks May Target Your Computer Next:

From The Gerard Group International and their blog Prometheus' Clarion:

Friday, July 10, 2009 - South Korea announced today that the cyber attacks that targeted scores of South Korean and U.S. Web sites was designed to morph into a more dangerous direction at 12:00 GMT today. Even as the announcement was made, the malicious codes broke into tens of thousands of local personal computers and started wiping hard drives.

The Korea Communications Commission said more than 350 computers were reported damaged as of Friday, but warned that the number could quickly rise, since up to 50,000 have been contaminated by the latest wave of cyber attacks.

South Korea's Intelligence agency, the NIS, told lawmakers on Friday that the hackers responsible for the attacks used 86 IP addresses in 16 countries. The countries include South Korea, the United States, Japan, China, Turkey, and Guatemala. But the spy agency cautioned it was too early to conclude that North Korea was responsible as the investigations were still under way. Some analysts have questioned the North's involvement, saying it may be the work of industrial spies or pranksters.

The breach of US government websites including those tasked with securing America's IT networks should be a cause of concern for security professionals. Our vulnerability to even the most unsophisticated of malicious codes should be a wake-up call.

Gerard Group recommends that network administrators take immediate measures to harden their security defenses. Firewalls should be re-set to the highest security levels. Counter-viral systems should be updated and set to scan all incoming and outgoing email utilizing heuristic algorithms at high security settings.

 Other Reading:

Obama Breaks His Promise on Presidential Signing Statements

Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin and the Piranhas of the Press

DARWIN DEBUNKED BY SHOCKING DISCOVERY

Another Elvis Sighting

Another Elvis Sighting

By: Paul A. Ibbetson
(Right Truth Exclusive)

    “I just saw Elvis!” Even decades after the death of the legendary singer, people still exclaim these same words with detailed accounts of their personal sighting of “The King.” I, along with most of the nation, mourned Presley’s death in 1977 but for me, like for most people, that day was the closing of the living story of Elvis, not the beginning of the secret life of the musician/actor.  When we look critically at the Elvis sighting phenomena of more than three decades, we can see a complex mental conditioning that allows certain people to come to a place where logic and reason are altered to a point where the next guy shuffling down the sidewalk in a pair of blue suede shoes could be “you know who”.

Whether or not people are driven to denounced the obvious death of Presley because they love his records or movies or any other variation thereof is moot; the point is that some people find themselves predisposed to deny factual evidence (e.g.: death certificate, accounts of people who handled the body, the funeral, the burying of the coffin). Instead, they cling to fantastic, non-realistic, evidence that Elvis still lives, which can be found in reported cryptic songs by Waylon Jennings, crazy theory books, movies, and, of course, the person on the street that swears that Elvis just pumped their gas and checked the oil on his or her car. On a more magnified level, for the Elvis seer of today, the direct evidence that the musician must be dead is replaced with the theoretical evidence that he could still be alive if a series of less probable possibilities were to fit together properly. Thus begins the mysterious stories of conspiracy theories and the other grand creations that tantalize many, but have no true factual substance. Don’t think for a moment that this is just an “Elvis thing.”

In the political sphere we see the same psychological reality building that created the immortal Elvis scenario being used by the modern liberal. Wrapped within radical leftist organizations, such as PETA, the man-made global warming crowd, or the tax-and-spend liberals that Barack Obama faithfully leads, we see the same framing of non-reality that has brought some Elvis admirers to seeing the equivalent of jumpsuits and capes that don’t really exist. The radicals at PETA ignore the fact that they exploit women to save chickens, and that their mission statement falls in diametric opposition to mainstream Christianity. The man-made global warming crowd disregards the direct evidence that their green initiatives will most certainly destroy the American economy and, of course, that the planet keeps getting cooler, in order to follow a socialistic game plan to “save the Earth.”

When it comes to Barack Obama and his tax-and-spend philosophy, it’s so expensive that even a scrap of logic left on the table causes major problems to the reality that is being spun. It’s true that many of these groups have cross-over affiliations but they are all searching for their own personal “Elvis” sighting. That is, they search for something that is unattainable, not real, and there are going to be a lot of disappointed people in the end.

As the curtain begins to close, we are faced with some facts that shake, rattle and roll many of us, but it is time we face the music. In reality, Elvis will always be the “The King” in the music industry, but on this Earth, he is as dead as dead can be. On the other hand, liberalism, in all its facets and faces, will always be a dead philosophy that we dare not allow to become “king.” I would say that the latter situation is painfully close to coming to fruition, and for that I have great concern for this country. Through years of mental conditioning, the liberal philosophy threatens to create a world where reality has truly left the building and our nation pre-destines itself for future anguish and woe far greater than the passing of the beloved Elvis Presley. 

Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 FM. For interviews or questions, please contact Ibbetson91.9@gmail.com or go to www.IbbetsonUSA.com.
 

Here are the links to Mr. Ibbetson's last couple radio shows:  Enjoy:

 
http://ibbetsonusa.podomatic.com/player/web/2009-07-01T00_12_15-07_00
 
http://ibbetsonusa.podomatic.com/player/web/2009-07-07T23_35_24-07_00

Love her or hate her -- you are talking about her

As has been stated before, the conventional wisdom in Washington is if you have bad news you bury it by announcing it late on Friday afternoon.   Nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to Sarah Palin.  She announced that she was resigning her position as Governor of Alaska and media on both sides of the isle can't stop talking about her.  One must ask why?    Why is she so hated, feared, loved???  

During the last presidential elections, Sarah Palin said many things that most of us knew to be true, and many have since proven to be true, like Barack Obama paling around with terrorists.  Just being a private citizen, like that's a bad thing, Sarah Palin can truly speak her mind and share her beliefs, beliefs that so many American citizens also share.

According to a Gallup Poll,  Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal.  You can't say that about our present elected officials, but it is true of private citizens.

I do not believe that Sarah Palin is leaving politics forever [see my predictions below].  Just look at the words she used in her announcement ... "I WILL,  ...STAND FOR... FIGHT FOR...  CONTINUE TO...  SPEAK OUT..."  Also look at the reasons for resigning vs reasons to stay on, and it is obvious she has done the right thing for her family, her future, Alaska's future and the future of America.  She is putting Alaska first, leaving her position of Governor which brought with it endless frivolous lawsuits draining both Alaska and the Palin family financially.  Jay Valentine says:
 

The fight is between an out of control government led by media and government elites and common sense Americans, of both parties, who have had enough.  Sarah Palin is in the enviable, although personally painful position, of being the "anti elite" voice of common sense and shared American values. 

The vicious left put her there and now they may live to regret it. [snip]

What an irony if the only American President who can make a 3 point shot were taken out by a point guard who came up to his shoulder.  And if the guard was a chick -- who went to a no name school?

After reading J.R. Dunn's thoughts on Sarah Palin and the utterly retarded and useless Republican Party (see below), I predict that the country may be ripe for a third party -- a true Conservative party -- and Sarah Palin will be leading the charge.  Either that, or she will bust the old rank and file of the GOP wide open, shake that useless tree free of all the dead wood and set it back on the right direction.

She will be back. Not for 2012. The GOP has its plans already worked out. Very clever ones, too. The Republicans will do what they always do when they're up against it: grab an empty suit and run around shaking it in people's faces while shouting, "Here's the man!" By 2012, after his policies really hit home, as gas and home fuel prices triple and quadruple, as medical rationing begins, as the renewed Axis of Evil runs wild across Eurasia, Obama will be ready to drop. At that point he could be defeated by a ticket consisting of Charley Manson and Jojo the Dogface Boy. But the GOP will blow it all the same. Exactly as the party did in '96, following the same script to the letter. They will, to coin a phrase, Mitt it up.

That moment will mark the start of a new phase for Sarah Palin. The exquisite branch of conservatism will drift away, assuring each other that "It's still possible to live well in a dying civilization." The GOP operatives will, as always, be blaming the "legacy of Reagan" and looking for a RINO who can somehow fool the backwoods rubes. Obama will spend his entire second term racing back and forth trying to put out forest fires using buckets with holes in them. Palin's enemies will have destroyed themselves, and her moment will come at last.  (continue)

All the Palin bashing from the Left and even some from the RINOs in the Right, may be helping Palin rather than hurting her.  Conservatives are the true feminists, and Sarah Palin is the leader.  Sarah Palin doesn't need more than twenty attendants costing tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars like Michelle Obama has, she cooks her own meals, washes her own clothes, takes care of her own family, hunts, shoots, fishes, attends church regularly, she loves her husband and he loves her, she can lead a town as mayor, a state as governor, or a country as president ...  That is a feminist in the true Conservative sense.  That's a feminist that men love, women respect, and children can look up to.

I understand Palin will give an interview to Fox News today and I look forward to hearing what she has to say, just as I look forward to following her plans for the next several years.

Go Sarah Go!

Al Franken, Chickenhawk

Al Franken, Chickenhawk

By Anthony Gregory, The Independent Institute

I used to love Franken on Saturday Night Live. Although his Stuart Smally character got old very quickly, he did a wonderful Paul Tsongas impression. I’d link to an example on YouTube, but NBC takes its intellectual property very seriously and therefore hundreds of the most humorous bits ever to air on late night television have been tragically withheld from us.

I enjoyed his 2003 book Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Well, I enjoyed the first half, much of which was a trenchant critique of modern, Fox-style conservatism. Some of the worst distortions of the Bush-era right were properly put in their place. The second half was just left-liberal boilerplate.

But this is what has always stuck in my mind about Franken’s book. It includes an illustrated chapter called “Operation Chickenhawk: Episode One” in which he characterizes many modern war advocates as hypocrites for their effortless success in dodging “service” in Vietnam. The chapter discusses such prominent hawks as George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill O’Reilly, and Bill Bennett. But one big problem with this humorous chapter is it includes Pat Buchanan, who, although we might all agree holds many bad positions, including on the Cold War, did not support the Iraq War. But do you know who did? Al Franken.

In chapter 41 of Liars, Franken discusses how he was among the many deceived about the war, convinced by Bush of its necessity because, after all, “the world changed” on 9/11, and the U.S. government needed to deal with Saddam’s infamous Weapons of Mass Destruction. Franken cites the uranium-from-Niger lie as the piece of evidence that clinched it for him. When it became politically correct to point out that Bush had lied the country into war, Franken felt so betrayed.

But actually, that uranium lie was discredited before the war even began. Given that he had so many researchers helping him with his book, he should have known that.

Besides, even if he did believe every single piece of propaganda about Saddam’s non-existent weapons program—and here, by the way, is my Independent Institute article from before the war, explaining why we could not trust the propaganda and why the case for war was so transparently without credibility—he should have still opposed the war. There was never any justifiable reason to support Bush’s plan to wage aggressive war on the people of Iraq, to murder many thousands of them, even if you believed Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction. It is an act of aggression to start a war, even if the enemy has scary weapons. The U.S. has a weapons stockpile that makes all the Middle East countries combined—even including Israel—seem minor in comparison. But that sure didn’t justify 9/11, did it?

Al Franken is a warmonger who turned against Bush only after it became politically correct to do so, and only turned against the war to score partisan points. He is, in principle, no less committed to U.S. imperialism and mass killing than are the neocons, even if his rhetoric isn’t nearly as offensively bloodthirsty as theirs is. In fact, his book also reveres Lincoln, one of the greatest warmongers in U.S. history.

This is all you need to know about the Franken left: They aren’t quite as crazy as the neocon right when they discuss foreign policy, but they are every bit as devoted to U.S. empire and aggressive war. And Iraq, even given Bush’s propaganda, was still, by any measure, an aggressive war, and it still is an aggressive occupation.

Am I being too harsh? I’d be happy to see Franken prove me wrong. Next chance he gets, he can refuse to finance Obama’s bloody exploits in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He can stand by principle and resist the urge to vote with the hordes to continue to appropriate our tax dollars to slaughter abroad. If he turns out to be a consistent critic of the Obama administration on questions of war and peace, I will apologize and praise his principle to the skies. But if he does vote to continue sending Americans to die and kill, he is no better than the lying liars he has made a fortune criticizing. He is no better than the chickenhawks he lambastes, and certainly not nearly as good an opponent of jingoism and aggressive war as the much more thoughtful, if sometimes inconsistent, Pat Buchanan.

We are what we do

The truth is, people notice what we actually do rather than what we say, "actions speak louder than words."  Star Parker writes "When color trumps Christianity", directed at Black Christians.  She points out that Obama equated the homosexual political movement to the black civil rights movement saying,  "Obama sees the black community as being a little slow on the uptake to grasp that homosexuality and same sex marriage are okay. There still are those, according to him, "who don't yet fully embrace their gay brothers and sisters..."

President Obama hosted a reception at the White House celebrating LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Pride month Black Christians should take note and learn a few things about our black President.

As they say, we are what we do.

It tells us something that Mr. Obama had no time to host an event for the National Day of Prayer.

Nor did he have time to accept the invitation to convey greetings and a few remarks to the couple hundred thousand who came to Washington, as they do every January, for the March for Life.  (continue reading)

Indeed we are watching United States President Barack Obama, watching what he says and what he does.  He seemed to have plenty time for Muslim events, yet no time for Christian events. 

He claims to be a strong Christian, yet can can't seem to find a church that he and Michelle can comfortably join.  He had no problem staying in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church year after year.  Yes, you are what you do Obama, and your actions are loud and clear.

Obama and Michelle snubbed French President Nicolas Sarkozy and wife while in France, refusing a dinner invitation.  Obama had no problem bowing down to Saudi King Abdullah, yet he displayed the souls of his shoes (an insulting action) to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Obama has a record of being for live-birth abortions and all abortions -- heaven forbid anyone should be burdened with a baby -- Obama's words not mine.  But no concern for Iranian women and men being shot in the streets of Iran as they protest rigged elections and pray for freedom and democracy.  I guess it's no burden for Iranian women to be arrested, beaten, killed -- or for Israeli women and children to have missiles shot at their homes from Gaza.

Obama is buddies with dictators, but tells Americans he doesn't want to take over private business, as he does just that.  He's for free and open elections [yet ACORN seems to have helped get him elected and are now doing our census, which will affect upcoming elections].  Words and actions ...

I could go on and on, but you get the idea.  There was a time when our word was our bond, but that certainly does not go for politicians these days.  No we don't listen to their words any more,  we watch their actions.  Anyone planning to run for office in 2010 and 2012 needs to take need -- You are what you do and I've got my eye on you!

July 4th: Depend on us day.

July 4th: Depend on us day.

By R.J. Godlewski
© July 2, 2009, All Rights Reserved.
(Right Truth Exclusive)

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.” 

Gen. George S. Patton

    As a nation rapidly losing its heritage through ever enlarging federal entitlement programs, I have spawned mixed emotions regarding celebrating our Independence Day holiday this year. On the one hand, I am extremely proud of everything that my country has achieved over the past 233 years. Did ancient Egypt teach men to fly? Did ancient Rome land upon the moon? Did Muhammad invent rock and roll? Of course, there’s always the “other hand” to such arguments. Would our founding fathers have anticipated the size and intrusiveness of our present government? Would Patrick Henry accept a commander-in-chief who berates his own nation at every turn? Would the inventors of the Boston Tea Party have believed that over two hundred years into the future there would still be a need to address tax grievances in America?

    Make no mistake about it; our founding fathers did not imagine for a moment that their miniscule nation would survive two centuries into the future. They were realists, not idealists. What inspired them to throw caution into the wind and risk everything was not that their new country was the panacea for human rights, but that their concept of a free and responsible individual was. This was unheard of at the time. For thousands of years, civilization had been patterned on the concept that the few ruled the many.  There were kings and reagents, administrators and emperors, but few outside the social elite had a prayer of a chance to impart change. In England, even the lords could not address the crown without bowing their way backwards out of his or her presence.

    Our founders saw things differently. They were driven to extremes as evident by the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

    In our modern, politically correct environment, it is considered sacrilege to use the term founding “fathers” but it is obvious that they possessed balls nevertheless. These tiny thirteen countries willingly signed their own death warrant. They told the most powerful and, arguably, most unstable monarch in the world that people were the foundation that any government rested upon and to add salt to an opening wound, any one person was equal to that very same monarch and possessed the very same rights, freedoms, and opportunities. Think about it. I doubt very much that you can.

    In 2009, we are afraid to say that while singer Michael Jackson may have had extraordinary musical talent, he was by no means a “king” (of pop or otherwise) and was probably just as disturbed (if not more so) than George III. Nearing the conclusion of the first decade of the 21st century, our media – ascribed to uphold our best interests by way of journalistic tradition – is afraid to acknowledge that President Barack Obama is by no means either a king or a messiah. That he is simply a man deriving his “powers from the consent of the governed”.

    This is precisely why my soul remains heavy and sad during this particular period within our history. I feel that we have come to celebrate “Independence Day” less than we celebrate the “Fourth of July”. We have diluted the day as much as we have collectively diluted Christmas into mere “Holidays”. By doing so, we gravely misjudge the reasoning and purpose behind both. Men are to be free and governed, not ruled and subjugated. Our national leadership is supposed to listen to our voices, not act upon their preferences within secretive sessions, late night votes, and subliminal agendas.

    Our “coordinator in chief”, as C4ISR Journal refers to the president, is but a man – an employee of “We the People” – and his fundamental responsibility is to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Not even a year into office and he has already trash talked his nation, commandeered the auto, banking, and student loan industries, and is on the verge of enforcing national healthcare. King George had less control over the colonists. King Philip of Spain conquered an entire hemisphere merely by controlling the mercury used to refine gold – the rest of New World exploration was left to opportunists, explorers, merchants, and malcontents, the kind of people that felt quite at home developing a new nation of individuals.

    Sovereignty has been sucked from our populace. We are no longer a people reared on the responsibilities and opportunities of the individual. We have simply become incapable of effort. I remember my own father praising the merits of Franklin Roosevelt’s Social Security program: “He made it so that I would no longer have to work!” I knew what my father meant; after working his life away in hot, filthy, automotive forging plants, when both emphysema and a mangled foot made it difficult to continue on, he was able to “retire”. I seriously doubt, however, that President Roosevelt expected my father to be retired for decades. Then again, what could you expect from someone who thought that he deserved to be president for at least sixteen years?

    Our culture ceased being independent when those amongst us considered Social Security to be “their money”, when new college graduates mandated that the federal government do something to “guarantee” them employment, and when those who have made piss-poor decisions demanded that the rest of us absolve them of all responsibilities for their indiscretions. Things became terminal when our elected officials made it a crime to challenge the unrepentant, to seek out individuality, and, most of all, to consider that inalienable rights came as a gift from God and not legislated as privileges by those currently in power.

    Therefore, I wish to extend to all, a very happy and enjoyable Fourth of July. Have fun at your weekend barbecues, your sporting events, and watching your multitude of fireworks displays. Remember, always, to do precisely what your government tells you to do. Listen obediently to your president, your Congress, and your Senate. Do exactly as they tell you to do. Normally, I would extend congratulations on experiencing another Independence Day but, frankly, I do not think that you possess the necessary balls to be an American…

.Ray Charles, America...

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You can't take a stand, sitting on your butt.

Sarah Palin: Crazy like a fox!

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has resigned her position and most of the immediate comments are very negative.  I have a very different take -- I believe this is a stroke of genius on Palin's part.  She is saving Alaska from the constant trashing from the Left, from the continuous frivolous lawsuits and the cost of defending them.  Her comments were from the heart, not scripted and certainly not from a teleprompter.  Palin can use this time to travel, educate herself and improve her shortcomings, write a book, spend time with her family, travel across this great nation and re-introduce herself to Americans.

I could always be wrong and her enemies could be right.  Some suggest there may be illness in the family; or trouble with Sarah and Todd; or some deep dark secret yet uncovered... Anything is possible but remember, Sarah Palin is a candidate like we have never seen before.  She is real.

She emphasized today what she believes in:  Conservatism; capitalism; freedom; security; military; small government; low taxes; ...

Mitt Romney and the other rejects from 2008 elections -- LOOK OUT!

Across the nation Democrats are shaking in their boots!

Go Sarah!  Here's her press conference, thanks to FireDogLake:

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The Watcher of Weasels wishes all of you a safe and enjoyable Independence Day celebration!  Check out the winning articles (Right Truth came in second)

Winning Council Submissions

• First place with 2 points! – The Razor - Settlement
• Second place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – Right Truth - LIFE
• Second place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – The Glittering Eye - Affording Everything
• Third place with 2/3 point – (T*) – The Provocateur - The Libertarians Downfall: Conspiracy Theories
• Third place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Joshuapundit - Masquerade In iran
• Third place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Mere Rhetoric - Shh… Massachusetts Proves Mandate-Based Health Reform Will Be A Disaster
• Fourth place with 1/3 point – (T*) – Wolf Howling - Politicized Science
• Fourth place with 1/3 point – (T*) – Soccer Dad - Diehl me out

Winning Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 2 1/3 points! – Fausta’s Blog - Responses to “Coup in Honduras – Correction: This is NOT a coup”
• Second place with 1 2/3 points – Christina Hoff Sommers - Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship
• Third place with 1 point – (T*) – The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - Iraq June 30th
• Third place with 1 point – (T*) – EU Referendum - Rigging The Debate
• Fourth place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Delaware Liberal - Should Sanford Resign?
• Fourth place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Diana West - “Role of Women in Iran Protest Kindles Hope”…OF WHAT?
• Fifth place with 1/3 point – (T*) – American Daughter - Religion and Politics Don’t Mix
• Fifth place with 1/3 point – (T*) – Financial Times - Obama is Choosing to be Weak

Dissent isn't hate!

Jon Voight gave the best speech I've heard lately, it put the Republican politicians to shame.  Now he is being accused of hate speech, threatening the President Barack Obama, and home-grown terrorism.  The accusations come from the likes of the Communist Party, People’s Weekly World, a magazine once known as the “Daily Worker” and sympathetic to the Communist Party,  Paul Krugman, and Frank Rich  Among other things, Voight called Obama a “false prophet” and “we and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression.” 

Mr. Voight's words brought criticisms from the New York Times, activists and bloggers. But they particularly troubled Teresa Albano, editor of the People's Weekly World -- a Chicago-based publication sympathetic to the Communist Party.

"I don't want to equate what Jon Voight said as expressing a conservative opinion on politics. It went way beyond that. He made a threat against the president of the United States to a crowd at a GOP fundraiser and got a good response from the Senate minority leader and other powerful people. And that is scary," Ms. Albano, editor of the publication, said at the time.

An editorial also said his speech was a form of "home-grown terrorism."

Not to worry though, Jon Voight isn't skulking away, he denied both charges, saying that those who speak out against the Obama administration are "demonized" and "attacked," often with hate speech.  In my book, John Voight is a breath of fresh air and I look forward to hearing him speak again soon.

Mr. Rich observed: “This kind of rhetoric, with its pseudo-scriptural call to action, is toxic.”   (Washington Times)

I suppose Rich has forgotten about all the Liberals in Hollywood who miss no opportunity to bash George W. Bush.

In case you missed what Jon Voight said, here it is:

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Obama Must Go

I'm serious, Obama must not have a second term as President of the United States, he must be replaced with a Conservative Republican.  The US cannot survive as we know and love it with eight years of Obama, I'm praying she can survive four years of him.  The MSM is useless, even though we are seeing a few cracks in their devotion (Helen Thomas of all people).

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors.   (Politico)

Obama must go - no Obama in 2012.  Elect a Conservative. 

US President Barack Hussein Barry Soetoro Obama says "community service is a national duty...  "Serving our country is not just something that we should expect our members of our armed forces to do," Obama said, "That's something that we should expect all of us as citizens to do""  I think we all agree with that statement, but serving, volunteering, is something we do on our own, we don't have to be told to do it and we don't need to government to PAY us to do it.   Let me tell you a little about Hussein's volunteer programs.

Our government is broke, worse than broke, in huge and growing debt, families are cutting back, trying to balance their budgets, keep their bills paid, honor their commitments, while Obama is spending money like there's no tomorrow.

Obama must go - no Obama in 2012.  Elect a Conservative.

Obama increases aid to Islamic countries:

Although President Obama had recently stated that "We're out of money now" he still continues with his nonstop catering to the Islamic world. It is obvious where his loyalties are.

For Some White House Aides, Public Service Has Its (Six-Figure) Rewards,
[18% more than the Bush Administration] not even counting all the czars and other new positions...

Twenty-two of the president's top aides -- most with the title "assistant to the president" -- make exactly that much [$172,000.00] in exchange for their service to the country, the White House reported to Congress today. The Obama administration also published the information on the White House blog.

Obama must go - no Obama in 2012.  Elect a Conservative.

"Volunteers" are getting paid by you, the taxpayer, to 'work' in positions they have no idea what they are doing, ... other than getting a paycheck.  I visited my family doctor last week as a follow-up from my fall three weeks ago.  The ribs and bones in my lower lumbar back are healing and I do feel much better. 

When I walked into the office I saw a young man with a stethoscope around his neck.  I thought I recognized him but couldn't place him at first ... then realized he works the door at our local bar and grill accepting the cover charge from patrons.  When I inquired as to what he was doing in the doctor's office, he informed me he was 'working' and getting paid by Obama.  He was not working as he had no knowledge of anything medical, he is actually planning on attending engineering school this fall.  It's awfully nice of Obama to pay him money this summer, what a guy.

In Britain we have the following, while in the US the DOW Jones launches an Islamic index -- US Wall Street to Draw Muslim Investors With New ETF.

Let's hope we don't end up like Britain:  Britain has 85 sharia courts: The astonishing spread of the Islamic justice behind closed doors:

The astonishing figure is 17 times higher than previously accepted. The tribunals, working mainly from mosques, settle financial and family disputes according to religious principles. They lay down judgments which can be given full legal status if approved in national law courts.

Obama must go - no Obama in 2012.  Elect a Conservative.

We are suffering because too many American voters, many young and uninformed, got caught up in a 'feel good' movement of hope and change.

Not just another pretty face...

(The following is from June 2008, but I find it fascinating.  See more on Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Invention here)

  Hedy Lamarr wasn't just a beautiful movie star. According to a new play, Frequency Hopping, she was also a shrewd inventor who devised a signal technology that millions of people use every day.

Lamarr—born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Austria in 1914—developed a passion for helping the U.S. military after walking away from an unhappy marriage to an Austrian Fascist weapons manufacturer in 1937. In an attempt to stall her acting career, he had brought her to his business meetings, where she found herself continuously listening to "fat bastards argue antiaircraft this, vacuum tube that," explains Lamarr's character—played by Erica Newhouse—in the play, Frequency Hopping. In the meetings, they had talked about developing detection devices to listen to, and jam, the radio signals that American aircraft and weapons used to communicate with one another; and Lamarr wanted to foil their plans. "Can you guide your torpedo towards an enemy target—or just use radio control period—without being detected? Or jammed?" Lamarr's character asks. 

Lamarr realized that by transmitting radio signals along rapidly changing, or "hopping," frequencies, American radio-guided weapons would be far more resilient to detection and jamming. The sequence of frequencies would be known by both the transmitter and receiver ahead of time, but to the German detectors their message would seem like gibberish. "No jammer could detect it, no German code-breaker could decipher a completely random code," she says in the play.  (continue at Scientific American)

Then there's this:

Democrat or Decepticon?

Punish and Enslave!

As you know the House passed the Waxman-Malarkey cap-n-tax global warming bill thanks in part to 8 sellout Republicans that took money from environmental whackos in return for a vote that will cost American’s millions of jobs, further erode our nation’s competitive standing and suck more of the hard earned money you make from your family so it can be siphoned to friends of those in Congress.

But don’t believe me. The Heritage foundation took a look at the figures from both the EPA and the CBO and found that they vastly under estimated their numbers. These are the numbers being peddled as fact for your reference.  (continue at the Watcher of Weasels)

The following list is their submissions of articles that seek to expose the week’s biggest weasels. Join us on Friday for the winning entries.

Council Submissions

• The Razor - Settlement
• Rhymes With Right - How A Real President Responds
• Joshuapundit - Masquerade In iran
• The Glittering Eye - Affording Everything
• Mere Rhetoric - Shh… Massachusetts Proves Mandate-Based Health Reform Will Be A Disaster
• Wolf Howling - Politicized Science
• Soccer Dad - Diehl me out
• Bookworm Room - All violence is equal, but some violence is more equal than others
• Right Truth - LIFE

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: The Watcher – Forbes.com – Karl Gaard - Waxman-Markey Flunks Math
• Submitted By: The Razor – Financial Times - Obama is Choosing to be Weak
• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Delaware Liberal - Should Sanford Resign?
• Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Diana West - “Role of Women in Iran Protest Kindles Hope”…OF WHAT?
• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - Iraq June 30th
• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Kaplan / Washington Post - Iran’s Struggle, and Ours
• Submitted By: Wolf Howling – EU Referendum - Rigging The Debate
• Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Fausta’s Blog - Responses to “Coup in Honduras – Correction: This is NOT a coup”
• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Christina Hoff Sommers - Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship
• Submitted By:  Right Truth - American Daughter - Religion and Politics Don't Mix

Other items you may want to read:

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RIGGED CENSUS – PART TWO, The Last Crusade, Dr. Paul Williams

'Obama' Think-Tank: Israel Should Cede Jerusalem Sovereignty, by Hillel Fendel

Seven Reasons for Leftist Anti-Semitism By: Don Feder

Message to Israel – from the Christians in America, Heaven Waits

Iranian ambassador hopeful about Silva Harotonian appeal, by Armenian Reporter staff

Iran Regime Hangs Protesters; Oppo Newspaper Shut Down, Mousavi Defiant!, by Donald Douglas

America’s Tripwire: the Coming Revolution in Rational Politics

America’s Tripwire: the Coming Revolution in Rational Politics

By R.J. Godlewski
© June 30, 2009, All Rights Reserved.
(Right Truth Exclusive)

    Every revolution has, at its heart, a tripwire that might seem inconsequential to the events that will ultimately transpire on its merits. No one could adequately understand, for instance, the death and destruction that resulted from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Nor would anyone believe that the protests currently expressed in Iran have anything to do with the failure of a single political candidate. Yet, each of the above events will forever be linked to the initiator regardless of the underlying stress on the respective culture that ultimately caused the crisis.

    America, in the midst of 2009, is riding atop another bubble of societal dissatisfaction, aided in no small part to the grandiose promises of an anointed opportunist. President Barack Obama’s ascendance from political obscurity had less to do with his promises of extraordinary change than the growing resentment of a society on the verge of chucking out its national leadership en masse. President Obama did not win, the ruling class merely lost.

    The United States has always been a boiling stew led by the froth of turmoil. The more that our national leadership becomes corrupt, the more the underlying recipe becomes putrid and indigestible. Like a hardening crust on an otherwise magnificent soufflé, our nation has unwittingly elected the worst possible government during a period of great economic expectation. With the likes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and now, apparently, Al Franken at the helm, the pot is primed to boil over. Perhaps even detonated.

    As our culture of death, entitlement, government control, and rampant spending festers, the final spark for revolution may be quite unobservable to the untrained eye but it exists nevertheless. For the past one hundred years, Americans have quietly endured the erosion of personal liberties and economic success. We have endured these transgressions because natural evolution of our economy always kept pace with the overindulgence of our national leadership. Unfortunately, however, our present government has exceeded this equilibrium to unsustainable levels.

    With the ‘Guerrilla Government’ takeover of the banking, auto, energy, and, soon, heath industries, the average American will come to realize what large segments of the global population had already learned long ago: government programs invariably fail. It is the private individual who inspires evolution, not bureaucracy.

    What has kept America safe and secure for two hundred and thirty-odd years has been that we remain – and will continue to remain – an armed population. This silent undertow has propelled the United States as the world’s vanguard against tyranny and it is this reality that will keep the country safe and secure from those who have repeatedly overstepped their Constitutional boundaries. With the election of Barack Obama, this safeguard has been accelerating at a phenomenal rate as thousands of men and women assail their local gun shops to purchase firearms and ammunition in historical quantities.

    With 300+ million firearms already in America before President Obama’s election, it would not have taken a large change to drastically tip the balance beyond even Hitler-esque confiscation. The fear on the street is that President Obama understands that messing with firearm ownership would be political suicide so he will have to resort to taxing ammunition to effect his progressive anti-gun legislation. This too, however, can be considered political suicide for many of his votes came from otherwise gun-toting Democrats.

    Every significant culture has gone through both a civil war and suffered under the prospects of a tyranny. America had endured a bloody Civil War, but it had never experienced allegiance to a tyrant since its founding. We have fought them and most of us know to prefer freedom to government, but a direct tyranny is something that we have never witnessed while under our flag. Until now…

    With each takeover of a capital enterprise, those presently infesting our government take an oath of treason. With each new tax raised upon us citizens, their allegiance to George III of old is reaffirmed. Their desire is for absolute government control of our lives without due representation and their insistence upon taxing us into oblivion is merely the energy source for the coming revolution. It is not the blasting cap for change, however. That comes when President Obama and his dominant progressive legislation acts on imposing further gun laws upon a skeptical populace.

    Progressives understand this. They want this. They want to tip America into full-scale revolt. This is what treason is – destroying the very fabric of a society for personal gain. Nowhere is this more evident than through a brief rummage of history’s refuse pile. The progressives in Washington have convinced you that they need to spend trillions to jumpstart an otherwise cyclic economy. They have convinced you that businesses, corrupt as they are, are simply “too big to fail”. The more that the progressives find excuses for their extravagances, the more they will try to convince you that the “crisis” in question mandates another trillion or, at a minimum, another czar. Leave it to our government to equate itself with a failed monarchy.

    The Great Progressive Spin Machine, riding on the current of post-Clinton gun control defeats, is now salivating over the neighboring crisis in Mexico as their prime opportunity to enact restrictive measures on law-abiding patriots. Our Constitution guarantees that each of us is permitted to keep and bear firearms (including ammunition) for self-protection, subsistence, and entertainment, yet over the past one hundred years we have allowed them to subjugate these very rights under the guise of “reasonable” gun laws. The problem is, there is NO reasonable interpretation of the Constitution that sacrifices an inalienable right in the process.

    We the people of the United States remain more powerful than the President, the Congress, and the Supreme Court combined. They are our limbs, not our brains. They represent our servants, not we their slaves. Police and federal agencies are bound by the Constitution. We are empowered by it. The stresses underlying our society are sufficiently powerful enough to topple one or more political parties and, quite possibly, the very nature of our Washington leadership. We are resilient and permissive, but the cracks enforced by the Obama Administration’s unconstitutional threats upon our culture have laid the foundation for serious change beyond even that envisioned by his campaign promises. Gun ownership may very well represent the tripwire that detonates society’s “claymore” of wholesale activism. It may represent that final line in the sand that distinguishes citizens from inhabitants. 
   

Out of the ball park presidential picks

You can find lists of potential presidential candidates for 2012 all over the web, here, here,  here, Most of them are re-runs and I don't want a re-run.   Here are my suggestions as possible candidates for President in 2012:

1.  U.S. Army Lieutenant Ralph Peters.

2.  Liz Cheney

 

3. Bobby Jindal

4. Sarah Palin

5.  John Bolton

What about you.  Who would you love to see as President of the United States of America?  Put on your thinking caps!!!

Congress impatient with Obama on Iran, North Korea

Good.

Washington - Some members of Congress, increasingly impatient with the Obama administration's "give diplomacy a chance" stance toward Iran and North Korea, are pressing for new punitive measures against those countries.

This week the House Appropriations Committee attached an amendment to the 2010 foreign operations appropriations bill that would direct the Export-Import Bank to cut off US loan guarantees to certain companies doing business with Iran, particularly in the petroleum sector.

On Wednesday, Sen. Sam Brownback (R) of Kansas called on the Obama administration to use measures included in the Patriot Act to designate North Korea a "primary concern" of the US over its money-laundering networks. That would authorize the Treasury Department to take steps on the issue.

The two measures follow several months in which congressional attempts to sanction the regimes stalled as the Obama administration argued for time to see if international diplomacy would produce any results. The overriding concern in both cases is the regimes' nuclear programs.

But Iran's recent crackdown on protesters disputing the June 12 presidential election has galvanized many in Congress, especially Republicans critical of President Obama's initial response to the Iranian repression. North Korea's unabated belligerence in the wake of toughened UN sanctions – in particular Pyongyang's threat to launch a missile toward Hawaii – has had a similar effect.  (continue Christian Science Monitor)

Related from Instapundit:

ADVICE TO THE REPUBLICANS: “They need to become hard line zealots against the ‘public option’ health care ‘reform’.”

New Detention Plan

Obama's new terrorist detention plan same as G. W. Bush's detention plan, except here on American soil.  Oh my:

The Nation -- The Obama administration is rushing towards a unilateral plan to imprison people without trial, according to a huge, new joint article from the Washington Post and ProPublica. The proposal would completely cut Congress out of the process by using an executive order to essentially bring Gitmo stateside:

The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations. Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush  that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war. Obama advisers are concerned that bypassing Congress could place the president on weaker footing before the courts and anger key supporters, the officials said.  (continue)

I bet the Obamaites are not very happy!

Who is Obama?

Obama, the African Colonial

By L.E. Ikenga, The American Thinker

Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.

Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign "isms", instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.

The tropes of America's racial history as a way of understanding all things black are useless in understanding the man who got his dreams from his father, a Kenyan exemplar of the African Colonial.
Before I continue, I need to say this: I am a first generation born West African-American woman whose parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970's from the country now called Nigeria. I travel to Nigeria frequently. I see myself as both a proud American and as a proud Igbo (the tribe that we come from -- also sometimes spelled Ibo). Politically, I have always been conservative (though it took this past election for me to commit to this once and for all!); my conservative values come from my Igbo heritage and my place of birth. Of course, none of this qualifies me to say what I am about to -- but at the same time it does.

My friends, despite what CNN and the rest are telling you, Barack Obama is nothing more than an old school African Colonial who is on his way to turning this country into one of the developing nations that you learn about on the National Geographic Channel. Many conservative (East, West, South, North) African-Americans like myself -- those of us who know our history -- have seen this movie before. Here are two main reasons why many Americans allowed Obama to slip through the cracks despite all of his glaring inconsistencies:

First, Obama has been living on American soil for most of his adult life. Therefore, he has been able to masquerade as one who understands and believes in American democratic ideals. But he does not. Barack Obama is intrinsically undemocratic and as his presidency plays out, this will become more obvious. Second, and most importantly, too many Americans know very little about Africa. The one-size-fits-all understanding that many Americans (both black and white) continue to have of Africa might end up bringing dire consequences for this country.   (continue at American Thinker)

Experience, Judgment, and Character: The Road from Eisenhower to Obama

Experience, Judgment, and Character: The Road from Eisenhower to Obama

By: Paul A. Ibbetson
(Right Truth Exclusive)

I recently found myself in the childhood home of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Abilene, Kansas. It was a tremendous experience to hear the creek of the floorboards, to see the handcrafted furniture, and to feel the texture of the wallpaper (even though that is probably against the rules for visitors) in the boyhood home of one of the most important historical figures of the United States. They say that the Eisenhowers lived on the wrong side of the tracks, but you can’t tell that today. What you can tell, is that the Eisenhower family home was not a place of extravagant frills, but of family necessity, with a delicate dash of austere country beauty.

It was from my visit to Abilene, Kansas, that I thought myself bold enough to compare the man they called “Ike” to the newest sensation on the presidential stage, Barack Obama. Some would say that it is not fair to make the comparison of these two presidents and that the list of reasons might possibly reach infinity - and to some degree that’s a valid argument. However, there are some situations in the country now facing Obama that are very similar to those which were faced by Eisenhower that had defined him as a leader.  That is, the current threats to the national security of the United States, and the manner in which the President is dealing with them. Let’s throw political parties to the side and talk about what really matters in the crunch from a leader: experience, judgment, and character.

The United States is once again faced with a foe that desires our total destruction. This time the foe is radical Islamic extremists, and it is here that we see a tremendous separation between the experience, judgment, and character, of Barack Obama and that of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Barack Obama seems all too willing to talk to our enemies about America’s wrongdoings, and then appears to be overly restrained when freedom-seeking people challenge those same totalitarian regimes. If the same situation of election violence that has recently taken place in Iran were to have befallen Eisenhower, would we see the same vague and flaccid statements of condemnation that have sprung forth from the lips of Obama? I seriously doubt it. In fact, if we are honest, Eisenhower had probably made more clutch decisions before becoming President than Barack Obama or most people have had to make in their entire life.

This is not to say that Eisenhower was a war hawk, because that would be far from the truth. Eisenhower had the same distaste for war that entails most soldiers, but he had a keen eye for sizing up the enemy. He had celebrated abilities that are entrusted to a special few that bear the burden of momentous decisions that will affect the nation, where failure is not an option. It was this kind of tested judgment, combined with Eisenhower’s internal character, which placed him in the historical position of Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II. With a humble grace, Eisenhower shined in this harsh war environment with its extreme pressures that require not only experience and good judgment, but also the strength of character that comes from knowing the righteousness of freedom, and the rightness of America.

It is in this arena that Eisenhower excelled and that, I believe, Obama will fail us. As Barack Obama spends his precious time talking about the challenges of the day by noting the shortcomings of the past administration, Eisenhower went to work. As Obama rubs shoulders with Hollywood elites and runs the late night talk show circuit, Eisenhower addressed the bottom line needs of the country. As Obama triples the country’s debt and nationalizes the free market system, Eisenhower gave us economic prosperity after the bloodiest of wars.

There is no doubt that Obama would win an oratory flare contest against the thirty-fourth President of the United States, and would most likely come off more flamboyant after an evening of chit chat with Jay Leno or David Letterman; but when it comes to substance, and a leader for troubled times, I still like Ike.

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Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 FM. For interviews or questions, please contact Ibbetson91.9@gmail.com or go to www.IbbetsonUSA.com.

Right Truth Advice Column - Second Edition

 In this second edition of the Right Truth Advice Column, I answer questions from Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.  These are two strong women with decisions they need to make for their future.  Will they choose the right path or will they allow circumstances, media, and bad advisers to lead them down the wrong path?  The next three years will be very interesting.

To Hillary Clinton:  You find yourself in a precarious position today, you're not happy and wondering what you need to do.  You failed to get your party's nomination, losing to your rival Barack Obama.  Your actions immediately after his election have led you to the place you are today, and it does not look pretty.

You could have held your head high, sticking to your beliefs and biding your time until 2012.  Your followers would have respected you for this, they would have stayed with you, especially after seeing the destruction Obama is bringing on America. 

But no, you sold yourself out to the devil for a position as Secretary of State... a position where you are nothing more than a mouthpiece for Obama.  Shame on you.  You let your faithful down, especially the women.  A Nexis database search shows you had fewer mentions last month than any time since you launched your presidential bid in January 2007. 

My advice to you is while you nurse your broken elbow you need to decide what you really want -- to be Obama's lackey or to run for president again.  If running for president is what you truly desire, then resign as secretary of state today.  People, including his loving media, are beginning to question his ideas, programs and direction for this nation.

Take to the airwaves, print media, YouTube, and networking sites.  Start sharing with Americans what you would be doing if you were president, what you will do to get this country back on track if elected in 2012.  Time is slipping by Hillary, this is your last chance -- go for it now.

To Sarah Palin:  You want to stay in politics, you want a chance to run for president in spite of the blatant attacks from the Left that continue and will continue until they feel you are no longer a threat to them.  They do feel you are a threat or they wouldn't waste their time on you.  They are right, you are a threat.

Sarah, 73% of Republicans have a favorable opinion of you.  Mitt Romney has a 57% favorable opinion among American voters.  Think about that.  Republicans, Conservatives, many women love you, what you stand for, your values, your politics.  Don't change any of this.  Do you hear me -- Don't Change.

Think about this:  Glenn Beck's book "Common Sense" and Mark Levin's book "Liberty and Tyranny" are best sellers, flying off the shelves.  With the second quarter coming to a close, Fox News averaged about the same number of viewers as the top three other cable news networks combined. Compared with last year, the Fox News (averaging 2.1 million viewers, 509,000 adults 25-54 quarter-to-date) is up 35% over last year in primetime viewers and 48% in the demo.  (THR.com)  Listeners to radio shows like Rush Limbaugh are increasing at an unbelievable pace.  Why?

The answer is easy, the majority of Americans believe the way Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh believe.  They believe the way you do Sarah.

My advice to you is do not change your beliefs, do not change your personality, do not change your politics -- Increase your knowledge of world affairs, other nations, visit with world leaders, seek out reliable associates who believe the way you do.  Attend Tea Parties and other events around the nation.  Give interviews, set your own agenda, give speeches when the opportunity arises.  

You have the potential to go far in spite of the hatred from the Left.  It's up to you.  Only you can take advantage of the opportunity that is ripe for the picking, and only you can screw up this opportunity. 

Choose your battles carefully, choose your associates carefully, and be the strong woman, strong Conservative that we all know you are.  Don't change.

Right Truth Advice Column

I feel the need to start a Right Truth Advice Column, with short bursts of advice directed at specific people.  Here goes:

To Mrs. Mark Sanford:  Tell your husband South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford to 'hit the road and don't cha' come back again.'  Listening to his press conference today it is obvious that he (1) loves the other woman;  (2) is sorry [he got caught];  (3) is not worth your time.

To South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford:  Shut up.  Resign from public office.  Give your wife a hassle-free divorce and disappear.

To General Brent Scowcroft :  You stated today the the United States does in fact have agents working undercover in Iran.  Shut up.  I have no doubt that the statement is true, but now is not the time to be broadcasting such a statement when we have several individuals in Iranian jails on espionage charges.  My contact tells me:

One case, on which I am personally engaged, to the point of being on the point of getting the person sprung. One may assume, continued stupid statements such as the General's will help cook their goose.  And just as Ayatollah Rafsanjani was gaining momentum within the Group of Experts, GEN Scowcroft has to feed into the regime's worst suspicions. (Alas, one may hope the Iranians do not go down the path of the Hungarians.)  For the record, complete idiocy on the part of someone, who should know better. IT WILL COST WESTERN LIVES.

To Republicans:  Stand up for Conservative principles.  Do not put wishy-washy moderates in positions of power and leadership.  We don't want them.  You can't win with them.  We won't make donations to them or to the party if you promote them.  You want to win in 2010 and 2012?  Then straighten up and fly RIGHT -- Conservatively right.

If you have questions, want advice, contact the Right Truth Advice Column by leaving a comment for Dear Debbie at this post. 

Iran media: Obama sent secret letter of support to Khamenei before election - DEBKA

US and Iranian sources report that before Iran's presidential election, the Obama administration sent a secret letter to its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for "cooperation in regional and bilateral relations" and a resolution of the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.

The Iranian media gave great prominence to the disclosure - for which they cited the Washington Times of Wednesday, June 24 - in order to underline US president's backing for Khamenei and president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in contrast to his latest words of condemnation for the regime and support for the "reformists."

According to the WT, a senior Obama administration official speaking on condition of anonymity refused to confirm or deny that this letter had been sent to the supreme leader or whether there had been a response.

DEBKAfile's Iranian sources say the Iranians are using this expose to embarrass president Obama for telling a news conference in Washington Tuesday that Iran's rulers are on the wrong side of history.

The secrecy of the communication can only add to the awkwardness because it points to Obama being convinced that once the protest movement dies down, he can go back to his plan for engaging Iran's leaders in dialogue.

Khamenei himself referred indirectly to the missive when he commented in his sermon last Friday:

"On the one hand, they write a letter to us to express their respect for the Islamic Republic and for re-establishment of ties, and on the other hand, they make these remarks. Which one of these remarks are we supposed to believe."

Following the disclosure of the Obama letter, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs announced: "Given the events of the past many days, those invitations [for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 events in different world capitals] will no longer be extended."

The events going back and forth in a single day, Wednesday, signaled a conspicuous retreat in the process of US-Iranian rapprochement.  (DEBKAfile.com)

When Presidents Tell Yarns: A Culture of Deceit, Watcher of Weasels Council:

Helping to expose the President on this and other world events is the Watcher’s Council that submitted the following for consideration as the week’s best article exposing the week’s biggest weasels.

Council Submissions

• The Provocateur - Too Good To Check: How the Conservative Media Unwittingly Smeared ACORN and Handed Them a Gift
• Joshuapundit - Obama’s Press Conference: The Fiction Starts To Crack
• The Razor - Iran and the Seasons of 1989
• Rhymes With Right - NY Times Buries Important Detail In Promoting Another Law Limiting Second Amendment Rights
• Wolf Howling - Obama On Iran: A Broken Moral Compass, A Distorted Perception Of Reality
• The Glittering Eye - Thought Experiment: the Great De-Leveraging
• The Colossus of Rhodey - Why does the Left accept the legitimacy of “elected” dictators so quickly …
• Right Truth - The Fence Sitter
• Soccer Dad - The njdc’s ledge
• Bookworm Room - An Open Letter to the Iranian People
• Mere Rhetoric - It’s Official: Obama Policy Triggers “Most Tense Encounter” In Years Between US And Israel (Plus: Can You Guess MR’s Blind Item?)

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: The Provocateur – National Review - Misremembering Reagan
• Submitted By: Joshuapundit and Rhymes With Right- Dry Bones - Obama’s 3 AM Phone Call
• Submitted By: Wolf Howling – Roger Pielke Jr.’s Blog - Obama’s Phil Cooney And The New CCSP Report
• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Christopher Badeaux / The New Ledger - Through the Looking Glass With Andrew Sullivan
• Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – Oliver Kamm - Reaching out to ‘the Muslim world’
• Submitted By: Right Truth – AP – AINA - Unrest could hinder Tehran’s regional goals
• Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Instapundit - Why worry about an EMP attack?
• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – The Futurist - Eight Ways to Supercharge the US Economy
• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Christopher Hitchens - Persian Paranoia
• Submitted By: The Watcher – Michelle Malkin - Who’s funding the Obamacare Astroturf campaign?

The Fence Sitter

United States President Barack Obama is the typical fence-sitter -- One who takes a position of neutrality or indecision, as in a controversial matter.  His continued response to the protests for freedom in Iran have turned the world upside down.  France, known for weakness and failure to fight, has along with Britain become the new America, while the US is now France.  Nile Gardiner spoke on Fox News after Obama's press conference today and expressed what most Conservatives and Republicans have already decided -- Obama is weak -- Britain and France have become the strong nations, expelling Iranian diplomats and boldly condemning the violence in Iran.

He said, "The Obama administrations response to Mahmoud Ahmadinejads fraudulent election victory is cowardly, lilylivered and wrong. ... Iran threatens genocide, Obama offers hot dogs.  [The State Department has asked US embassies across the world to invite Iranian diplomats to 4th of July celebrations, for the first time in nearly 30 years.]

Nile Gardiner, a British scholar who served as an adviser to Lady Margaret Thatcher and director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation,  says neither German Chancellor Angela Merkel nor French President Nicholas Sarkozy really respect President Barack Obama, specifically  "They don't have a particularly warm relationship -- and certainly the German chancellor is fundamentally opposed to the kind of big-scale economic bailout plans that President Obama is pushing."

"A direct parallel is now being drawn between the fight for freedom from Islamist tyranny in Iran and across the Middle East and the fight decades earlier for freedom from Soviet tyranny,"  said Nile Gardiner, ...

"It's almost as if the president lacks confidence in the greatness of his own nation," he added. "He seems unwilling to aggressively project American global power, as if it were something to be ashamed of."   (Washington Post)


What next from the generous Obama team? Burgers for North Korean Stalinists? Water melon for the Burmese junta? Potato salad for the Sudanese-backed Janjaweed militias in Darfur? This whole strategy of “engagement” is a humiliating farce. This isn’t “smart power” diplomacy - it’s kowtowing to some of the most odious tyrannies on the face of the earth. The United States used to be feared by its enemies. Thanks to Obama it’s now increasingly viewed by tyrants as a free lunch.  (The Telegraph)

Gardiner has a point, can you imagine Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan's response to Iran?  Does Obama's response measure up?  No way.  From the transcript of today's press conference, you can read Obama's statements.

The world needs to hear decisiveness from the American President, and we are getting fence sitting, luke warm comments with no direction and no encouragement for the Iranian people.  Under Obama we have become the France of old.

Rev. 3:14-22, "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

If all else fails, give a press conference

With opposition to Barack Obama's health care plan and negative reaction to his response to the protests for freedom in Iran, Obama takes to the position he is most comfortable -- talking.  On Fox News Charles Krauthhammer reminds viewers that diplomats from Iran are still invited to visit Washington on July 4th, 2009 and suggests someone ask Obama, "can you really sit down and break bread with these people while blood is still fresh in the streets of Tehran?"  I doubt this question will be asked, but I would love to hear the answer.  Live blogging:

Obama:  "I strongly condemn these actions [in Iran].  We respect the sovereignty of Iran. ...  We deplore the violence against innocent people everywhere.   ...  We've seen the dignity of Iranians ... We've seen courageous women stand up ...  This loss is raw and extremely painful ... 

We're told there was no teleprompter, what a risk actually reading from a script at the podium.  It's great when a baby can give up his binky or blankie, isn't it??? 

His comments on Iran were aimed at reviving his pathetic previous responses.  I'm not sure he achieved that purpose.  He also spoke on energy, health care, which he said "is a complicated issue, it will not add to our deficits,  ... we can't have a system where we throw good money after bad ... we must preserve what is good ...  "

Questions:  "Is there any line your administration will not cross when it comes to Iran?"

Answer:  "...  We have provided a path where by Iran can reach out to the  international community ...  It is up to them to make a decision ...  What we have been seeing ... is not encouraging.  ...  They are in the midst of a debate going on in Tehran... we will monitor and see how this plays out before we make any decisions as to how to proceed ....  "

Question:  "Should there be consequences for what has happened so far?"

Answer:  "The international community ...  "

Question:  "Directly from an Iranian ... Under which conditions would you accept Iran's ...

Answer:  "We did not have watchers on the ground, we don't know what happened at the poling stations ....  There is significant questions about the election .  The most important thing for the government to consider is ... ultimately this is up to the Iranian people ... What we can do is say unequivocal    international norms about dealing with peaceful descent ... than spans borders ...  and what we have been seeing violates those norms.

Question:  "Republicans say ... John McCain and Lindsy Graham say ... your response toward Iran has been tepid.  ... do you agree."

Answer:  "What do you think ... [laughter from press corps, probably smacking sounds of butt kissing mixed in] ... no.  ...   I'm the president ..."

Question:  "You said there will be consequences ..."

Answer:  "I think when a woman gets shot getting out of her car ..."

Question:  "Why would you say there would be consequences ..."

Answer:  "I answered ...  we do not know how this will play out."

Question:  "re Neda, have you seen this video and what do you think?"

Answer:  "It's heartbreaking ..."

Obama pretty much repeated the comments he made yesterday.  The questions followed on the economy, health care, mostly the same old line.

NewsBusters is doing a great job of live blogging:

1:07:  Jake Tapper asks about promise that Americans won't have to change plans even if their employers ditch them.

1:08  ... from andrewbreitbart on Twitter:  Obama to ABCNEWS Jake Tapper:  "You're pitching, I'm catching."  In fact, it's the other way around ...

1:12 .... Ask Obama: Has there been a study on how many jobs will be lost if health care is mandated?

It seems obvious that unions will again be protected, their health accounts will not be taxed, while the average working person in America gets no breaks.  The only job increases seem to be in Washington and government programs, while again average folks like the current health care workers, will lose their jobs.

There were the anticipated "staged" questions, with the canned answers.  My assessment of the entire press conference:  No news was made, Obama did not do himself any good, nor did he do himself any further damage.

The Fox News Panel:  Bill Sammon, Juan Williams, Charles Krauthhammer.

Krauthhammer says:  I think he finally adopted McCain language ...  Why did it take so long?   Obama insists he has been consistent ... he has not.  As to asking the Iranians to the US Embassy on July 4th, Obama said the doors are open if Iranians want to come....   Amazing...

Williams:  I think the president responded ... McCain and Graham have their roles to play, but Obama said "I'm the President", defensive, petty.  Obama doesn't want to be in the roll of condemning.

Sammon:  Give him credit, he was stronger on Iran ... lack of emotion, his demeanor,  cold, cool, detached, too cool for his own good.

Williams:  He did a good job on health care.  

Krauthhammer:  Always amazed at how nimble he is ... but he's a rookie at this ... he thinks a lot ...

Now to Brit Hume:

Hume:  There was a change, we never heard the word 'condemn' before, this was the strongest statement by far on Iran ...  ...  He would not acknowledge engagement... It would be difficult for him to acknowledge the regime and engage these rulers ...  pressuring them will not work.  He did not rule out [hot dog diplomacy].  He tried to avoid the question of the July 4th, tried to duck the question.  The important thing ... we are beginning to see the first stages of the honeymoon. 

Hume:  Questioning was more pointed, atmosphere different, people having gathering questions on economy, concerns about policy above personality, slipping in approval rating, ... chickens coming home to roost...  Reporters showing some teeth.

Hume:  He has been shown up by congress.  Congress has shown much tougher on Iran... He was playing catchup...

From State of the Union Comics, thanks to David:
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Obama has been 'moved'

By way of the White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Obama tells the world that he has been 'moved' by images out of Iran, especially by the women -- but he still has "concerns and questions".   The first thought that popped into my mind was the song "Wild Thing" performed below by the Troggs:

Wild thing
I think you move me
But I wanna
know for sure
C'mon... c'mon

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Obama has been moved, but he's not sure... What more will it take?

On another note, just to make you smile for a moment (thanks to "Z" for the video, go check out her place:

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Where's the response from Conservatives and Republicans?

Where is the response from Conservatives and sane Democrats to articles like this one by Leonard Pitts, Jr. "What to tell the 'grand ol' bigots" and this one by Kathleen Parker, "Can shame inspire real change?".  Republicans are painted as white sheet-wearing haters of any race other than pure White, whatever that is as if there is such a thing.  At least Pitts recognizes the racist history of the Democrats also.  The Republican party is not represented by actions of a handful of idiots.  Really.

Pitts:

Which is that, yes, I am cognizant of the danger of painting with too broad a brush and no, I am not saying membership in the GOP is synonymous with membership in the KKK. I know there are Republicans of racial enlightenment and common decency. Indeed, I am counting on it, counting on them to search conscience and demand their party find ways of winning elections that do not depend on lazy appeals to the basest emotions of the hateful and the unreconstructed.

Parker:

 ...  [snip] Racist jokes have become commonplace since Barack Obama's election, and, sadly, they keep popping up in Republican quarters.   [snip]

If Republicans ever want to see the Oval Office again, they'll have to purge their tent of this foul air.

Are there still a few people in both parties who are true racist?  Yes.  There probably always will be.  Should the entire party be judged by a few, dare I say, Black sheep?  No.

Where are the Republicans anyway?  Are they rolling over and playing dead?  Why are they not on the talk shows, Sunday news magazines, stepping up to every podium they can get access to and preaching Conservatism to the masses?  If Obama can get elected with pretty speeches of empty 'hope and change', Conservatives can surely get elected preaching Conservative values.  Will we have to wait for the Young Conservatives who are still in college before we get some new Conservative leadership?  A ship without a rudder ....

I can tell you what I DO NOT want to see --  The 2012 Presidential election with the same cast we were confronted with in 2008.  I do NOT want to see the same sad excuses for Republicans, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Duncan Hunter, Tommy Thompson, Tom Tancredo, Fred Thompson.  There are a couple of those I could have supported, but none of them really fit the bill 100%.  If Fred Thompson has acted like he does now, said what he says now, and moved like he had some energy -- he might have done better in 2008.

Please, give us a new crop of potential candidates, don't recycle the same old bunch.

Can I get an AMEN?

We see, we hear, and we support you Iranians

Iranians continue risking their lives in Iran, fighting against an Islamic government, while here in the United States Muslims are allowed to take to the streets, call for killing of the infidels.  What a different world it would be for everyone if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were no longer in power, if the mullahs were no longer in power.  Think of the peace in the region, think about Israel no longer under the threat of a nuclear Iran... Just think!

The man who would be God has missed an opportunity to change the world.  Hope and change, his key phrases that won him the election, this citizen of the world, when presented with an opportunity to truly change, did not step up the the plate.  No on the contrary, his plate was already too full with destroying America.  He dodges facts, skips details and governs Chicago style.  The media kisses his rear, more concerned with the fact that he can swat a fly, that if he can swat an enemy.

"We are the one we have been waiting for", said Obama of himself.  No god complex there, heh?  Obama raises his arrogant nose in the air while Iranians DIE.

From Islam in Action yesterday:

In the past I have posted videos from NY based RevolutionMuslim.com. In the last one Muslim convert Yousef al-Khattab preached for Muslims to understand the terms of engagement in jihad. Now he has stepped up his up rhetoric and stated that Muslims need to use "your limbs, your bodies, their weapons, to promote the religion of Allah" and then finally a straight out call to "attack" the kafir. This man is obviously dangerous and needs to be locked up.
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From Mike's America yesterday:

Obama Cut Funding for Iranian Freedom Project
Whose side is he on?

Obama Erases Pro-Democracy Money for Iran
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Newsmax
Friday, June 19, 2009

Newsmax has learned that the Obama administration also has zeroed out funding for pro-democracy programs inside Iran from the State Department budget for fiscal 2010, just as protests in Iran are ramping up.

Funding for pro-democracy programs began in 2004, when Congress earmarked $1.5 million of the State Department budget for “educational, humanitarian, and non-governmental organizations and individuals inside Iran to support the advancement of democracy and human rights in Iran.”

The funding ramped up dramatically two years later, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requested $75 million for pro-democracy programs. More than half of the $66.1 million Congress finally appropriated went to expand U.S. government-funded Persian language broadcasting services at Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

But no money has been earmarked for such programs in the administration’s fiscal 2010 foreign operations budget request. Congressional sources told Newsmax they doubted that a Democrat-controlled Congress would add it when the budget comes before a committee next week.

Need I remind readers that Obama recently pledged $900 million in assistance to Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip?  [snip]

A young woman named Neda, "voice" in Farsi, shot and killed by Iranian government squad.

Neda looks directly into the camera moments before blood gushes from her mouth and nose as she lays dying on the street in Tehran. The eyes seem to ask: "What are you doing?"

What was Obama doing while all this was going on? Wordsmith has the story. He was taking his girls out to the Dairy Godmother ice cream store in Virginia. Patterico at Hot Air arranged this contrast between what was happening on the streets of Iran with what one member of the White House press corps was reporting on Saturday:  (continue at Mike's America)

From Always on Watch yesterday:

For God's sake. Look at what's coming out of Iran today!



Neda, the young woman in the video:



More information about the protests in Iran HERE. Please look and read. Also see THIS, an Iranian medical student's blog.  [snip]


Tonight in Washington, D.C., BHO and family are out and about right now getting ice cream:



Not a care in the world, even as, in BHO's own words, "the world is watching"?  (continue at Always on Watch)

Other reading:

Obama’s Deviant Denomination Emerges from Closet, The Last Crusade