Remember all those ex Bush staffers who ran for the exits to write moronic and self serving memoirs? It will sure be interesting to see how the media treats the inevitable Obama defectors. Somehow I do not think that they will be welcomed with open arms and book deals.
by Victor Davis Hanson
The usual rush to the exits from a sinking administration is now ongoing. The only difference in this cycle is that — whereas in the case of the Bush departed who, we were lectured, were rightfully bitter that their genius was not appreciated (e.g., Paul O’Neil, Richard Clarke, Scott McClellan, etc) by the Bush Neanderthals, and were men of conscience who were “blowing the whistle” — we are now told by the New York Times that the Obama parachutists are burned out and “exhausted,” from “blackberrying” all day long!
You see, we should not imagine that these technocratic careerists want to leave the bank before the posse arrives in November, or are moving on to lucrative seven-figure jobs after the requisite administration bumper-sticker billet, but rather after being on the cross suffering for our sins for 18 months, well, can suffer no more for the unworthy. We hoi polloi didn’t turn around the economy, and we couldn’t win the war, and we made them keep Guantanamo open, and we wore them out over healthcare, and we forced more of those once damn Predators and formerly unconstitutional renditions down their throats.
Defeat?
Al Gore just shrieked that his green war is over. He says he lost and is withdrawing from the front. His retreat from his epic Stalingrad-like stand-off had nothing to do with the green equivalent of the ice and cold, the Red Army, or his shaky Eastern European allies, but was simply a crisis of will among the faithful: no one was brave enough [1] to follow Commander Gore into battle anymore.
So Gore did not bring up the recent green-gate email revelations [2], the weirdly cold weather the last two years in a variety of places (my grape crop is 2-3 weeks late here in once scorching California), the lack of green leadership shown by his splurging on multiple estates all the way to Montecito, or his own public devolution from Nobel Laureate to “sex poodle.” (Green gurus can’t fly on private jets; sorry, they just can’t — at least if they want still to remain green gurus.)
The Thrill Is Gone
Obama himself is not the Obama of 2008 when all America’s problems were declared coterminous with twangy George Bush, and executive governance was defined as sitting at a Senate hearing table in front of blaring cameras and pontificating before squirming witnesses. (Obama, Biden, and Hillary sitting in judgment of Petraeus [who in just three years would now offer them a life-raft for the moment] was one of the more bizarre moments of the last twenty years.)
The tingling legs are gone. The Newsweek editor who declared [3] Obama a god is gone [4]. Heck, there is not even a Newsweek anymore, wrecked on the shoals after sailing blindly to the siren song of hope and change [5]. Even the left is saying if you sing “Close Guantanamo” for years, then, close Guantanamo.
I don’t think we will hear any more Obama assurances of on-hand first responders, ready to attend to the fainted at his hope-and-change rallies. There is no more Victory Column, faux Greek capitals, or cooling planet moments any more. The fair left town and all that is left is the clean-up and the remorse for acting so stupidly last Saturday night on the Midway.
Now we will see the real Obama. Does he have the character to persevere with soon to be 40% something approval ratings, an angry base, a fleeing media, and an organized, energized opposition? Or is it to be two more years of golfing, Bush did it, Martha’s Vineyard, blame the limb-lopping surgeons, beer summits, killing time in preparation for a $50-million-a-year, Mandela-like, globe-trotting post-presidency.
Then There’s John’s Room
There was a time when blow-dried John Edwards gripped the nation with psychodrama interviews with the network anchors about his heroic ordeals and triumphs. And now? Only John’s room remains. Strike that — he does not even get to play in John’s room anymore. John Edwards did the impossible: he turned the National Enquirer into a premier American newspaper, whose reporters had more integrity (albeit a weird sort of prurient profit-driven integrity) than did all those Columbia Journalism School graduates at the Los Angeles Times or Washington Post).
The Problem With Spandex
I used to think in 2004 that John Kerry was trying to lose the election. Why windsurf or bike in spandex when you’re trying to prove Bush an out-of-touch elitist, insensitive to a “jobless recovery” of 5.7 percent unemployment (those were the days)? But what now are we to make of buying a $7 million yacht, and weaseling out on high-tax state Massachusetts’s $500,000 bite (he used to call those who did that “Benedict Arnolds”). That’s a new one: a populist Democrat skipping the yacht tax in times of recession even amid liberal calls for even more taxes and the president’s warning for all of us to “have skin in the game.” (Michelle showed a lot of skin with a one-strap designer blouse in Marbella the last week, perched over the Costa del Sol, recharging her batteries for Martha’s Vineyard, after all of us downright mean people raised the bar on her.)
[...]
The only difference? Just as the traditional-values right suffers the additional charge of hypocrisy when its luminaries get caught on massage tables or in airport bathroom stalls, so too blue-collar Democrats, who spread around other people’s money, should not prefer Marbella to Pismo Beach or spandex to shorts and a T-shirt. I don’t think I have ever seen the country so mad; and the furor will explode at the ballot box in November in ways even the Democrats’ depressing polls underestimate.
And that’s that.
Read the rest here: The weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth
Tags: Victor Davis Hanson
VDH hits it out of the park, as usual. His final note is right -- I believe the MSM is massaging the poll data to make it look “not too bad” for the One. It will be much worse than anyone is anticipating.
BTW, how welcome is VDH’s opinion in the swamp these days, hhhmmmm?
O’Relly being nice to Michael Gerson.
@ Crashnburn01:
He’s been declared a Fascist.
I fixed the problem with Opera, so Opera users should now see the site as it should be. Sorry that took so long. On another note I landed CL Bryant as a client … check him out here …
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Listening to Rush yesterday a caller referred to Mocchelle as an Eva Peron rather than Marie Antoinette.. It fits.
MightyConservative wrote:
Hey thanks for the assistance and Congrats on your new client!
Much success for you!
What a great article. VDH is my favorite.
I love this brilliant scholar, historian, farmer.
Thanks Speranza.
vagabond trader wrote:
I have made the comparisons of America under Obama to Argentina under the Perons.
This wingnut will not be happy until Husseins numbers are in the same toilet as congress. Who are these 40%? Good grief!
I agree with the bolded part. Without question. Things are a lot angrier than they were in 1994. Whether that will translate into a thrashing at the ballot box, I don’t know. The Republicans have little chance to get the Senate. Everything has to fall just right for them to even squeak it out, and if they do like as not one of the RINOs will jump ship to the Donks to keep the Senate in Donk hands. I have little hope for the Senate.
The House is a different matter. We should take the House, and take it handily. The Republicans are masters at fucking up, but this oppertunity is almost too good to fuck up. They’d have to start taking campaign advice from Barack Obama (or NBCCBSABCNYT, which is possible) to lose. What we will get when they win, though, well, I am not holding out great hope. The Republicans never fail to dissappoint. We’ll probably get a lot of reaching out to the Senate and the Administration to work in bi-partisanship to elect more Democrats in 2012. Just as John McCain rose to the occasion to work with the Democrats to elect Obama in 2008 in the first place.
vagabond trader wrote:
She;s disgusting?
(Michelle showed a lot of skin with a one-strap designer blouse in Marbella the last week, perched over the Costa del Sol, recharging her batteries for Martha’s Vineyard, after all of us downright mean people raised the bar on her.)
George “Islam is peace” Bush is staying quiet on the Mosque issue.
Former US president Bush mum on mosque furor
We know he wants to come out in support of this! He loves the Muzzies, they are his pals. George, keep you mouth shut!
chickadee wrote:
Why did I put a ? mark there. lol
That was a statement.
She is worse than disgusting. She is downright mean.
Crashnburn01 wrote:
I imagine as welcome as Zombie. When you guys showed me his banning I was dumbstruck. The comments were all “after everything you did for him/her” and “you made his/her blog” BS. Pretty sure it was the other way around, how many threads were Zombies? How many Hat Tips? Charles won’t even link to VDH so I doubt he is any more welcome than the rest of us.
@ chickadee:
She needs an orthodontist,get that Edsel looking lemon puss off her face.
Chickadee, I left something at the end of the last thread for you
Oh hell, maybe I will just bring it here:
@ chickadee:
What a dipshit bunch of bitches.
I love it when you are pissed. lol lol Here, this should really piss you off. I hope Rodan gets it and does a post:
Link
Ih hell…the link is still back there ———>
Rodan wrote:
I don’t think that is fair. Bush waged War against the Muslims and was the best friend Israel had as President. Sure he made mistakes and shouldn’t have said some of the things he said but George is OK in my book and looking better and better every day.
@ Iron Fist:
Saw a car a grocery parking lot in MA.I stood there and read everything. Tea Party stickers and Gasden flags all over the bumper. It was a courageous statement in the Peoples Republic.
Rodan wrote:
Wow, that’s eerie. And carry.
@ Rodan:
I don’t think he wants to come out in favor of it. Remember he stood down there on that rubble and smelled the carnage. He felt the devastation. I think it’s fine he says nothing. We don’t need him to wade in right now and give the progs any thing to use to derail what is going on at this moment.
Which is the progs under the microscope, looking like a disease.
@ vagabond trader:
Man that came out wrong but you get my drift.
@ vagabond trader:
Cool! People are mad here, but there isn’t much we can do about it on my end of the State. There are some races for congress in other parts of the State that may be interesting.
MightyConservative wrote:
Congratulations! Keep us informed. How exciting for you.
OT: Something for the NYCers here at Blogmocracy to check out. Found this on the comments section on another site today. There may be more than one pothole that this mosque may run into.
“For those outside of Manhattan missing the biggest potential piece of irony in this story, the FDNY has final say in granting certificates of occupancy for all buildings in New York City. I don’t know a single FDNY officer that wants his signature on that document. Good luck on the approval process.”
@ chickadee:
Never interfere when the enemy is in the process of destroying himself. I am of mixed mind about what the Republicans shoudldo right now. Part of me says “Attack!Attack!Attack!”, but part of me says draw them out more, let them expose themselves to the American public more. Let the People see what the Progs have in store for them. The Ground Zero Mosque is only the flashpoint. The totality is much worse.
OK this is tooo funny!
http://tinyurl.com/2ex2pc3
@ yellow flag:
Oh I do hope this is true. My husband knows some guys on FDNY,I’ll have him ask around.
vagabond trader wrote:
roflmao
an Edsel after it ass ended a pickup truck.
vagabond trader wrote:
I just knew I came to the right place with this…. hmmm … fight ‘em every which way we can.
Crashnburn01 wrote:
Because VDH never changed, Chuckles did (into a totalitarian control freak).
@ yellow flag:
It would be amusing for them to spend $100 million and then never be able to occupy the building. Sadly, though, I think they’d win the discrimnination lawsuit that they would without question bring. It is a nice thought, though.
chickadee wrote:
My pleasure. VDH, Charles Krauthammer, Mark Steyn, Caroline Glick, Melanie Phillips are all welcome here.
vagabond trader wrote:
I can’t remember if this was already posted. MEchelle and the ‘bigger picture’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/08/09/spain-trip-todd-senses-something-more-happening-behind-scenes-mich
@ NoThreat2U:
I read it. You’re right, I’m double plus pissed.
The muzz in Spain are emboldened by sasquatch’s visit. And zero’s endorsement of the 9-11 mosk.
The Christians in Spain can’t give the muzz an inch. If the muzz get their foot in the door, they will push the Christians out on their asses for their kindness, tolerance and understanding.
No Muzz.
@ Iron Fist:
Tis true,some bureaucrat in FDNY would overide any obstructionists.
OT I know, but I couldn’t resist. Seems Charles has taken on several characteristics of the One these days. You see, it doesn’t matter what someone votes for. When you have the kind of power you have strived for you just simply take it away…..
Revoking John Bolton’s AwardLGF | Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:12:28 pm PDT
In 2006, LGF readers voted to give the Anti-Idiotarian Award to former UN ambassador John Bolton, largely because of his passionate support of the US and Israel in the frequently hostile environment of the United Nations.
I feel slightly sad to announce that today, as the proprietor of LGF, I’m revoking that award. And when I say “slightly sad,” I mean “very disgusted with John Bolton.”
It was bad enough that Bolton actually wrote the foreword for hate monger Pamela Geller’s anti-Obama “book.” But the final straw was the announcement by Geller that Bolton will be speaking at her anti-Muslim rally.
John Bolton is no “anti-idiotarian.” He’s lent his credibility to a nasty un-American cause, organized and run by people who are insane with hatred and obsessed with conspiracy delusions.
Mr. Bolton, you should be ashamed of your disgraceful behavior, and for dishonoring the office you once held. We’re taking back our award. You do not deserve it.
@ Whippet:
The stupid! It burnssssss!
@ Whippet:
cj is a pompous azz and quite possibly delusional.If an anti idiotarian award is taken away from its recipient by an over the hill beyond its expiration date irrelevant blog does anyone really give a flip?
I never go there anymore. Pisses me off too much. He’s just another Kos as far as I’m concerned. Wanted to see how he’s spinning all the bad news for Obama these days…..couldn’t get past this one. It seems to pretty much sum up all that he has become…
@ chickadee:
Not. One. Inch. Just like in interfaith rooms at hospitals and such, the moetard bitch about crosses being hung. Will this church have to strip itself down of all religious artistry? Oh how I hate these people.
@ Whippet:
Amusing, isn’t it?
From Drudge; Possible compromise on GZ mosk?
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/08/17/paterson-king-hope-for-mosque-compromise/
Would these fanatics (aka moderates) change their strategy? Because that’s all it is. Stealth jihad is everywhere; all the time.
Whippet wrote:
So who cares,
So who cares,
They’ve revoked an award over there?
Or that “yanks” are coming
From folks bent on plumbing
Depths so mind-numbing in their lair?
Let ‘em swear
Tear their hair
As they try to put on fancy airs
They are over
So very over
And who cares if they take back an award over there?
—apologies to George M. Cohan, and “Over There”
@ yenta-fada:
Once again we are having to work to placate the fucking moes.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Let me offer my services as proofreader for your forthcoming book
(Not saying you have errors in the above, I just want to help you get your book together.)
@ yenta-fada:
For me it is quite simple. I believe absolutely nothing a muzz says. Nothing.Come to think of it this must be the culture Hussein learned to become a pathological liar in.
Iron Fist wrote:
I think we should let them keep roiling and messing themselves. The public is really getting pissed as zero continues to rule like King George and sasquatch pretends to be a grand ‘lady’ of entitlement, blowing our hard earned money which is in such short supply.
The depth of zero’s stupidity and ignorance is incredible. And such a gift to us. In fact, he is so generous, I wonder if he a GOP operative at this point.
I say we let them keep floundering and let America watch the spectacle.
@ Iron Fist:
Now, that made my evening! LOL!
@ MightyConservative:
That sure does need to be heard. Congratulations!
Artificial meat? Food for thought by 2050
Leading scientists say meat grown in vats may be necessary to feed 9 billion people expected to be alive by middle of century
So run out to OutBack or Mortons and get it while the getting is good. I know I am.
@ Whippet:
I used to drop by there (after being canned) about once a week, then about once a month, but it got to be so bad with all the petty crusades of CJ that it’s not worth visiting.
@ ThreeHundred:
Welcome!
vagabond trader wrote:
I’ve had the same thoughts. What astounds me is that there are actually Americans who listen to MObama say that a mosk at Ground Zero is just peachy. Doesn’t everybody remember Sept 11 as a living nightmare for the civlized people of the world? Nobody who saw those minute-by-minute news reports, in a sane world, would STOMACH this coming from an American President. From the Oval Office? OUTRAGEOUS!!
Nevergiveup wrote:
So, vat’s for dinner?
yenta-fada wrote:
If we can block the 9-11 mosk it is a victory for us, for freedom.
And a solid bitch slapping to the muzz imperialists. It is a big NO to their stealth jihad.
It is a statement that we know who they are and we know what they are up to.
This 9-11 mosk issue is a battle. If we stop them we win.
And they are humiliated. They need more of that to become enlightened people.
Love, Love, LOVE VDH. Thanks.
Man, I hope people sustain the anger and disgust and takes steps to fix what has been going wrong.
ThreeHundred wrote:
ANd they are so far left sick wacko that I want to puke thinking I lent my name ( ok a nic but still ) to that site
@ yellow flag:
Hooray for the FDNY! They have a chance to be real heroes again and stop this mosque. As a native New Yorker, I know there are not enough Muslims in lower Manhattan to justify having 2 mosques in the same general vicinity.
@ yenta-fada:
How anyone who witnessed 9-11 in NYC yet remains uninformed about islam boggles the mind.The sights smells the horror,it wasn’t because they hate our freedoms folks.
@ Nevergiveup:
I almost hit the tip jar once, but fortunately the inebriated state was temporary, so do not have to live with regret.
@ Whippet:
Someone on an earlier thread suggested he just pull the old switcharooooo and give all Fiskies to Fallaci winners and vice versa. Sadly, that is the state of lgf.
Look at this “Canadian” charmbucket and his website. He’s busy defending Islam, but still has the time to rejoice over the fact that Christopher Hitchens has cancer.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/From+Islam+defence+rejoicing+cancer/3406768/story.html
All cut from the same cloth in every country in the world. Islam is a disease and the resounding silence of all Muslims tells us what we need to know. Individuals may be okay, but they dare not speak or will not speak. Fatwa!
mtc wrote:
Since they are attempting to spuriously compare the Ground Zero Mosque to the 92nd Street Y, they will probably also expropriate the old Jewish joke about the Jew who was shipwrecked on a desert island. When he is rescued, many years later, he shows the rescuers all he has built—a house, and even a synagogue. “But I thought you said you were all alone here?” asks one rescuer. “I am,” said the castaway. “Then, what’s that building I see, way over on the other side of the island?” “Oh, that,” the castaway replies, “That’s the shul (synagogue) I don’t go to.”
No one cares that train wreck charlie is now feigning tears that he has to throw Bolton under the bus.
People are just shaking their heads at his odd deranged thinking and wondering when the guys in white suits from the county will show up with the straight jacket.
vagabond trader wrote:
Y’all can actually blame Bush for that crap. IMHO, of course. ROP. The mediocrities sitting in the Oval Office and in Congress are unfit to govern. Now they don’t just govern, they RULE. The frog boil in the pot so slowly that they never feel a thing.
chickadee wrote:
Fatboy Charlie’s Got the Progs
—apologies to Danny O’Keefe and “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues”
Everybody’s gone away
From where the iceweasels bray
Though some sycophants hung around
Nobody likes their noses brown
They changed the tenor of the threads
Updinged you if you were brain-dead
Endorsed progressive fantasies
That’s why it’s not the place to be
Some people have successful blogs
Fatboy Charlie’s got the progs
Fatboy Charlie’s got the progs
Fatboy Charlie’s got the progs
A site once worth a daily look
Now shills Kindles and comic books
And hosts a horde of kids who whine
The most whacked-out progressive line
Some still watch as this sad train-wreck
Obsesses daily on Glenn Beck
But most people have now moved on
Because the site is now a yawn
Some people have successful blogs
Fatboy Charlie’s got the progs
Fatboy Charlie’s got the progs
Some people have successful blogs
Fatboy Charlie’s got the progs
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Hey Buzzsaw how about a song called The Call The Law Shariah!
PIMF- They Call The Law Shariah!
chickadee wrote:
The key word is that he is deranged!
@ mtc:
Yeah I just wanted this checked out to see if this is true. If it is true and the Bloomie finds some flunkie to override this … well, that flunkie better know how well he is going to sleep at night if the FDNY gets a little annoyed.
As for lawsuits, Levin will tell you the discovery process is always interesting. Lawyers can ask for anything related about any person related to the case I believe. But, I am not a lawyer.
@ yenta-fada:
A friend gave me a dvd of Starship Troopers III. I watched it the other night, mainly because I couldn’t believe they made another one, but the plot is somewhat timely. The ‘beloved leader’ figure in the movie got religion -- the religion of the bug enemies, and total destruction was only narrowly averted.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
LOL, I love it.
You posted this one once before. It is just fantastic.
“Fat boy Charlie’s Got the Progs”
@ chickadee:
We really do need to turn them back,its crucial. Europe doesn’t have the will,too decadent. We remain the beacon of freedom and must not allow a small minority of koranimals to get a foothold with their taqiyya and kitman.
The truth
Speranza wrote:
I did one of those years ago; I’ll have to dig through the archives. Maybe I can put it up tomorrow.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Sorry, I did not realize you had done one before.
Speranza wrote:
Oh, it was a few years ago, back at Yertle’s pond. I’ll see if I can find it, but I have to sign off in a minute or two.
Unfreekingbelievable. Chuck’s bent out of shape because George W Bush refuses to go on record supporting the GZ mosque. So is Chuck going to ban GWB now?
vagabond trader wrote:
The national outcry abt. the 9-11 mosk makes me think Americans are becoming more and more aware of what the rop is. I’m encouraged by 70% of this country standing up and saying NO.
In fact I got up this morning, so light hearted and happy, the thought of a poached egg made me smile.
snork wrote:
I guess that, unlike the Mad King, former President Bush actually remembers 9/11.
@ MightyConservative:
It Worky! Thanks!
@ snork:
He11,I want to hear the opinion of every D in congress. Come on fess up,Harry Reid manned up.Sure,it was a futile effort to boost his numbers but come on Ds,lets hear you affirm that famous tolerance,loud and clear.
Urination contest:
Sleep in it, guys. The ammonia wakes you up the next morning.
vagabond trader wrote:
Interestingly, Obama was in Seattle today stumping for Murray, and there were as many moonbat protesters as tea partiers. Not a whole lot of either, though the press may be embargoing the tea party numbers.
A whopping 50 people showed up at the airport.
@ Nevergiveup:
Bush gave preferences to Immigrants from Muslim countries via Visa lotteries, he called Islam peaceful, he didn’t fight the Muzzies to crush them, he fought them to “give them democracy”, He recognized the Islamic state of Kossovo, He pushed for Elections among the Palis which gave power to Hamas, he forced Israel to a ceasefire in 2006 and pressured them to fight limited against Hizballah and he was buddies with the Saudis.
Was he better than Obama, yes but it’s not saying much.
We will have to agree to disagree.
‘Nite.
@ snork:
So all you guys got out of the trip was the Obama Sonic Boom?
New DOD!
Pam Geller’s night in Hollywood – Charles Johnson spotted busing tables!
@ Rodan:
Rose wrote:
Yes we are angry and will vote these Leftists out!
vagabond trader wrote:
It’s funny as hell!
Rodan wrote:
Major league LOL’s!!!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I just can’t imagine how people can rewrite their whole past and everything they once felt or thought or said.
The contortions must give him a headache. Every little thing has to be repealed. Re-nuanced. ‘Refudiated’ He has to distance himself from his own words. He is back tracking through his beliefs with a machete. He is no longer familiar with what he once said. Who knows what he stands for.
This is why the NYT writer, Jonathan Dees, had absolutely no respect for him.
ThreeHundred wrote:
Interesting. You might be one of the few who ‘got’ the movie.
hey folks
some new victory-mosque info?
http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/17/ground-zero-mosques-hidden-websites-follow-the-shariah/
Ground Zero Mosque’s Hidden Websites: Follow the Shariah
Do the math. The 15 floors planned for the Ground Zero Mosque just don’t add up.
What’s the goal? Maybe the Imam’s goal is not simply to force a provocative “insensitivity” about 9-11 on the American public, with the help of America’s elites. Maybe the Imam’s long-term goal is to force Shariah law on the American public – of course, again, with the help of America’s elite
Why don’t the 15 floors add up? How many floors does Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf need for the mosque portion of this triumphal Islamic command center planned for the two building sites at 45-47 Park Place in New York City? Think about it: maybe 2 floors for the mosque itself and related offices. A 3rd floor for the swimming pool, a 4th for the 500 seat auditorium, a 5th for the halal restaurant and halal culinary school, a 6th for the art studios, the childcare center and library, a 7th for the gym and basketball court. Add an 8th floor for miscellaneous storage and offices. And then add a 9th floor for the September 11 memorial, an after-thought that was recently added to the Imam’s plan, although that may in fact be more of a room off to one side than a whole floor.
That leaves six mystery floors empty – or dedicated to other activities. Six floors – that’s a lot of offices, a lot of employees, maybe more than half of the 150 full-time and 500 part-time jobs the Imam says he’ll bring to Lower Manhattan. What are Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s plans for those six mystery floors?
Follow the Shariah Index Project to solve the puzzle of the 6 mystery floors: We found two hidden websites with copiously deleted information, all about the Imam’s Cordoba Institute Shariah Index Project. For reference, here’s the Imam’s most recent hidden website (also available here as a pdf). And here’s the Imam’s earlier hidden website (also available here as a pdf). The information on those websites – information that the Imam tried to hide with a new whitewashed version – suggests that the six mystery floors of the Ground Zero Mosque will be dedicated to the Imam’s long-term goal: the Shariah Index Project, designed to benchmark Shariah compliance, to distribute Shariah propaganda, and to enforce Shariah law in America and worldwide.
“things that make you go hmmmmm….”
chickadee wrote:
Something very 1930′s Stalinesque about The Johnson.
yenta-fada wrote:
Was Denise Richards in that flick?
@ rain of lead:
Fantastic detective work there. No surprise, keep digging,root these jihadis out, expose them to some good old fashioned American disinfectant.
I’ve reached the point if there was an accidental fire over there I would think it was the hand of God.
AS a matter of fact as long as nobody got hurt and no adjacent buildings were damaged, I would not shed a single tear if the place burndd down.
Speranza wrote:
She was in the first one (1997).
m wrote:
How true.
But it’s hilarious to see the mass hypocrisy.
I’m just waiting for November, when der blog fuhrer and his quislings start their whining about how “racist and bigotted” all of America is for shit-caning all their precious democrats.
Should be hilarious.
Even more funny when President Hussein is retired in 2012.
@ Speranza:
Oh dear. If something like that happened who would have to respond? Why the FDNY!
@ Speranza:
In’shallah baby!
@ refugee000:
That bunch of upscale trash won’t go out with quiet dignity. Count on it.The WH will need a complete make over.
Rodan wrote:
Angry doesn’t even begin to describe what I feel over what الرئيس أوباما and the Demo☭rats have done to our country.
@ vagabond trader:
Someone should inventory the silver and place settings.
@ Speranza:
Wonder what happened to the 9-11 landing gear that crashed through the roof?
hmmmmm
maybe my report last night of the rumors was not premature after all
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/08/17/paterson-king-hope-for-mosque-compromise/
Ground Zero Mosque On The Move?
NEW YORK (CBS 2) – There was a possible resolution in the works Tuesday night in the debate surrounding the proposed mosque and Islamic cultural center near ground zero.
CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer has learned it looks as if the developers of the mosque may be willing to budge and move away from the Park 51 location where they originally planned the construction.
So will the mosque be moving?
New York Gov. David Paterson plans to meet with developers of the controversial ground zero mosque as early as this week to offer them state land – at another location – for their cultural and religious center. Paterson told Congressman Peter King about the meeting, and King said the governor asked him to make it public.
“more things that make you go hmmmm”
vagabond trader wrote:
And fumigation.
The stench of their hatred will need a wanding with an Indian smudge stick. Lots of fragrant herbs.
@ rain of lead:
Hope its waaay upstate 20 miles away from real Americans.
Rodan wrote:
Hey Rodan…I like DOD’s new look.
aawwwwwww!
work accident
Iranian fighter jet crashes near nuclear plant
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian fighter jet crashed Tuesday in southern Iran near the country’s nuclear power plant that is to start up over the weekend, a semi-official news agency reported. The two pilots ejected safely.
The Fars agency quoted local government official Gholam Reza Keshtkar as saying one of Iranian airforce’s F-4 planes crashed about four miles (six kilometers) north of the city of Bushehr. The city is located 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) south of the capital, Tehran.
Keshtkar said the pilot and co-pilot ejected safely from the plane before it crashed but were rushed to the hospital in Bushehr. He didn’t provide other details.
Another local official, Mohammad Hasan Shanbadi, said technical failure was the cause of the crash but did not elaborate. He said the plane crashed in the desert, close to an industrial center.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant — Iran’s first such facility — is expected to start fueling up this weekend.
I haven’t seen, but have Chuckles & his merry band come up with a reason it’s ok for the Muzzies to be willing to slaughter homosexuals and stone women for the crime of being raped? Have they excused the pedophilia of Mo while (rightly) condemning the Catholic priests who abused altar boys?
@ rain of lead:
I really don’t think it is going to be built. There is just too much opposition to it.
I think Paterson was wise to give them an out. I just hope it is far enough from GZ so they know they have lost this battle. I bet they don’t even build it at a new location that doesn’t conclusively show their dominance. Maybe we have mooted them.
yellow flag wrote:
Do you have a link to that story? I’d love to see it.
I’ve never worked in NYC, but there are myriad ways to legally stall and/or thwart a project. I couldn’t find a link for the permit status either, and a ceremonial groundbreaking on 11 September doesn’t necessarily mean that demolition/construction permits have been issued.
In most jurisdictions, the Fire Department can overrule the Building Official, and it’s not uncommon to have a 60 day window from the time construction documents are issued to comply with plan check & code requirements, submit for recheck(s) and pull permits. If that grace period is exceeded, the permit applicant can be forced to start the review process all over again, from Step 1.
Now, assuming they get their permits who’s gonna build it? The city inspectors can yellow tag and red tag all they like, and the city officials, including the Fire Department, will have to sign off before the Occupancy Permit is issued. Lotta ways to drag feet on this.
@ Formercorpsman: Sorry, that was Bolton upon the rescinding of his award.
(Simpsons reference in there)
@ mfhorn:
Excellent questions.
Now get off my blog!
@ Speranza:
If they build it (and I suspect they will) and someone blew it up, I wouldn’t necessarily approve, but I might have to donate to the bomber’s legal defense fund. It is an intolerable provocation.
@ Formercorpsman:
LOL!
@ Iron Fist:
Kind of like The Fountainhead.
@ rain of lead:
Could it have been a two man wrecking-ball mission and they were shot down?
Testing the S.A.M. system?
Inquiring minds want to know.
vagabond trader wrote:
I’m sorry, I can’t help it. I still can’t believe he actually made a post about that.
I’m still tearing up. Good lord. It has to be humor. It has to be.
Iron Fist wrote:
What do you mean “intolerable provocation?” It could be a justifiable defense.
@ Bunk X:
You can rest assured that Obama’s Department of JustUs will be all over any accusations of discrimination. They will take it far more seriously than, say, Black Panthers intimidating voters.
Bunk X wrote:
The quote showed up in the comments section for this article on Politico.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/maggiehaberman/0810/King_Governor_says_hes_meeting_with_mosque_leaders_this_week.html#comments
@ vagabond trader:
I’ve never read Ayn Rand, but I think I can guess that there would be similarities.
@ Iron Fist:
Architect blew up his own building because the bigwigs made unacceptable changes to his design.
@ Jorline:
Thank the lovely M!
Have a good night folks. I had quite few good laughs today. I’m going to try and catch the radio show hopefully this week.
Take it easy.
@ Iron Fist:
Or maybe they will have a bunch of Brunos out there!
Hey you get Prime time tomorrow at 8:00 PM!
Iron Fist wrote:
I can’t believe you have never read Ayn Rand. You have a lot to look forward to.
Now would be a good time to start.
Formercorpsman wrote:
Take care!
@ chickadee:
She predicted alot of this that is happening.
chickadee wrote:
I don’t even think they have the funding lined up. I think this is the mother of all cons. They imam is trying to position himself as this pivotal figure fighting the good jihad, so the purse strings of Arabia have to open up. Right now, I don’t think he has a couple of nickels.
@ vagabond trader:
*grovels*
I’m sorry, sir. I never should have said anything that might have offended the great & powerful leader of this wonderful site. Let me buy a cookbook. Let me buy 5 cookbooks. Let me hit the tip jar…
@ vagabond trader:
Oh. Wouldn’t that be more like a work accident? If a Mohammedan Building is bombed, how do you sort out who is the terrorist(s) and who is the victim(s)? It could have been a Junior Jihadis slumber party got into Grampa Abdul abu bin Blowinshitup’s nitroglycern and thought it was candy…
Rodan wrote:
I know. Human nature is human nature. It is predictable if you pay attention.
What can I say?
@ Rodan:
Cool! I thought you’d like the piece
@ Formercorpsman:
Nite,keep laughing,it sure beats crying!
@ snork:
Failing to show sufficient revolutionary fervor is troubling, comrade. The NKVD are most concerned…
@ snork:
Wow, what an adult!
aaarrrgggghhhhh!!!!
brain rips out of skull and runs yipping around the roon
Sec. Gates’s exit sparks talk of Hillary Clinton taking over at the Pentagon
Speculation in the nation’s capital on who will replace Robert Gates at the Pentagon has centered on an intriguing possibility: Hillary Clinton.
Gates told Foreign Policy magazine that he wants to step down as secretary of Defense sometime in 2011. A Republican, Gates was the only member of President George W. Bush’s Cabinet to stay on under Obama.
“It would be a mistake to wait until January 2012 [to leave],” Gates said. “This is not the kind of job you want to fill in the spring of an election year.”
Clinton may seem an unlikely choice to head the Pentagon, but she has won praise for her performance at State and forged a strong relationship with Gates. Many supporters argue she has the most credibility with the military of any Democrat and would be a logical choice to take Gates’s place at the Pentagon.
“The military loves her. They love her,”(wtf, since when?) said Leslie Gelb, a former president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Gelb floated the possibility of a Foggy Bottom-to-Pentagon move for Clinton in a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this year.
The appointment of Clinton to replace Gates would be historic. The former first lady and presidential candidate would be the first woman to serve as Defense secretary and only the second person – after George C. Marshall – to have served as both secretary of State and Defense.
“That might appeal to her,” Gelb said.
@ rain of lead:
shit, hard to link properly when your brain is yipping around the room.
Rodan wrote:
M….Looking good!
@ chickadee:
I’m reading VDH Carnage and Culture right now. I’ve decided I am deficient in military history, and am taking steps to remedy that
@ Rodan:
I don’t usually personify reason like that. Just another symptom of his advancing mental illness…
@ rain of lead:
Wouldn’t that be just like the uniform hatin’ beotch to lord it over the demise of our military? Seriously tho,I strongly suspect there may be a “health emergency” and Biden will not be on the 2012 ticket. Enter Hillary.
@ Iron Fist:
IF, I have always been amazed how in a battle the smallest things can turn the tide…
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
Taco Tuesday officially underwayyy!
Did Speranza bring the guacamole? It’s his turn.
snork wrote:
I agree. Screw that creep. I don’t think he has any money either. That’s why we are funding his foray into the ME, as he tries to scape up some cash to build the jihad monument. I don’t think it will get built.
I think their effort at dominance and subjugation is backfiring on them. Look at all the American Patriots coming forward to say Hell No.
This stealth move by the jihadis is galvanizing people to come together and stand up for American values and traditions. The muzz are not winning friends but they are influencing people, who are telling them to take their sharia and stuff it.
@ rain of lead:
And for want of a brain, a blog was lost…..
@ yellow flag:
Thanks. I’ve seen first hand what some large cities’ Planning, Building and Fire Departments can get away with legally. I doubt that NYC is any better. They can expedite it or thwart it, and do either with ease under the fuzzy gray umbrella of code compliance.
Iron Fist wrote:
Of Course, you were one of my Blog Idols and to have you as a writer here is like a dream to me!
@ vagabond trader:
No, Biden is Obama’s assassination insurance. Not even our enemies wish a President Biden on us. OTOH, if Hillary were VP she’d be serving homemade arsneic turnovers at every high-level meeting with the President. The Secret Service would probably have to stay between her and Obama in stairwells, too. And near heavy traffic, or any heavy machinery. It’d be complicated…
@ Rodan:
Look @ DoD
@ Carolina Girl:
I’ll bring the Red Beans!
@ Iron Fist:
That looks interesting.
mfhorn wrote:
Shout it from the rooftops, mfhorn! F’in hypocrites.
@ rain of lead:
Yep. I just finished a good book on the Civil War. There is so much to learn. You learn something new every day you don’t die, right?
@ vagabond trader:
If the Hildabeast is on the ticket and, God forbid, they win, I wonder how long it’ll be before something causes the Obamessiah to leave office. Health issues? Scandal?
@ mfhorn:
or check IF # 157.
@ Bunk X:
Between construction workers refusing to work on it and the FDNY’s inspection powers…
Of course, from the comfort of his ever-tightening office chain, the Cheetos Eater from Century City will call them racist intolerant shameless bigots. But not to their face, right Balls of Jello?
@ m:
@ mfhorn:
I wonder if these comments will finally get me on the list of evil, bigoted haters over at Chuckies site?
@ vagabond trader:
It is good. Very readable, if information dense. His central thesis is that the West is militarily superior because in certain features of our culture we are culturally superior. That they feed into one another. He isn’t quite that blunt in phrasing it, but I imagine the multi-cultis brains all committed seppuku at the blasphemy of it all…
@ snork:
Bwahahahahahaha
nope he’s not a fan of reason, hehehehehe
Bunk X wrote:
But the mayor can also fire fire chiefs. If the mayor wants it, and is willing to go through a half dozen fire chiefs before he finds one willing to sign the damn thing, they’ll get the permit. It might finish Bloomberg off, but if he wants to go down in glory.
Push comes to shove, if the FD won’t give them a permit, and they’re in compliance, they can go to court and compel the FD.
@ Jorline:
Feeling good Jorline!
(i fear we may have to change up though -- it’s on wordpress.com not .org so I can’t edit the css. I didn’t notice until it was already set that people with long nics are getting cut off!)
@ mfhorn:
Not from Lewd Wig van Quack Quack. His new inflatable girlfriend made him swear off of us and porn. We’ll see how long that lasts…
@ Bunk X:
Bunk -- That is why my initial post was kinda addressed to the NYCers. The muzzies and the Bloomies have to be shown that the people who oppose this will come right back at them from many angles. They have to know this.
By the way, just who were the 10 people or so who were on the initial Historical Board who agreed to this. And, how are their bank accounts?
@ mfhorn:
And targeted by the Secret Service for threats against the Chosen One.
@ snork:
Like I said up-thread, the Obama JustUs Department will be all over any alledged discrimination against them. It just ain’t going to happen, no matter how deserved or appropriate it is.
@ Iron Fist:
Dang! *pouts* I wanted to be called a bigot.
@ Iron Fist:
Thanks,I’ll look for it at the library. I’m one of those old girls who likes military history.
@ mfhorn:
I had an interesting conversation with my ex-prof “Dr. Greg.” He actually proposed an interesting hypothesis. He conjectures that Obama never intends to run in 2012 -- that he’ll bow and leave the nomination to Hillary. Her stint at State was to give her experience on the world stage.
I opined in turn that while that may well have been the plan, Zero’s narcissism will not let him quit. His response was “no, but a Republican Congress will -- even if it’s only one house. He cannot deal with frustration and stress -- he’s never learned to, in the vernacular, roll with the punches. He’ll begin to act like a spoiled child who doesn’t get his way.”
‘Night, folks
You know, for someone supposedly as “smart” as CJ is you would think he
would have actually thought about what he posted… err … scratch thatThe article by Hanson is awesome. He always hits the nail on the head.
m wrote:
Are you sure you can’t edit that through the admin editor? Try editing the theme’s “style.css”
@ Iron Fist:
Night IF,I’m out too. The kat is hallucinating things on the floor. Bedtime.
@ MightyConservative:
Hey thanks for hooking Opera users up! And congrats on the gig with CL Bryant!
Iron Fist wrote:
More likely a picnic in a park, like Fort Marcy Park…
The Kumquat really sees himself as their equal. And that they should care what he thinks of them.
Pssst…here’s a hint, Twitboy….they don’t.
m wrote:
Looks great…thanks.
As a guy, I was always envious of people with long nics…lol
@ MightyConservative:
Nah, I get this:
We have enough money in this bad boy~ that bad boy will have to suffer, lol!
Carolina Girl wrote:
“Sticks and stones
Can break my bones,
But Chuck…. heheheh. I said buttchuck. heheheh.” --Beavis, 2007
@ snork:
He can’t risk the publicity if he does that, and the fire department union will go on strike. Bloomberg is almost in check, and that’s how he’ll get off the hook.
@ m:
K then … well it was worth mentioning. DoD looks great.
@ m:
This is odd because on my WordPress sites, I change the CSS all the time. I originally bought a Theme that I change, though. Perhaps this is why I can edit mine. I’ve changed the Theme substantially -- I really only use the options for arranging sidebars and things like that. It does let me change the CSS all I want, though.
Could this be the difference?
@ yenta-fada:
He’s about as Canadian as President Obama is an American!
@ Rodan:
He’s a Southern Democrat, so that makes him especially-evil to CJ and his ilk…
@ Bunk X:
I am not familiar with how fire personnel are hired and fired in NYC. That is something for NYCers to know. While it is possible in smaller cities and small towns that a mayor might have that power, it is also doubtful that it is applicable to NYC.
Even if Bloomie had this power (which is doubtful) having a fire company understaffed or inadequately staffed would really make the residents mad and fearful… it is an open invitation to every ‘fire bug’ or ‘troubled business’ (better known as insurance lighting). The residents are very very keenly aware of this.
Speranza wrote:
He’s the Big Brother of his very own digital Oceania.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
Chuckles has a serious case of Dixiephobia.
texasam7 wrote:
Well stated. They are fifth column would-be destroyers of real civilizations.
The Osprey wrote:
He is a huge anti Southern bigot.
@ Speranza:
Come to think of it he is just plain “huge”!
@ yellow flag:
Bloomberg is a little man who thinks because he has a ton of money that it makes him more smart and virtuous then anyone else.
mfhorn wrote:
There would be a palace coup within weeks and The One would be supplanted.
vagabond trader wrote:
That’s funny as heck…
Rodan wrote:
You’re right about all that.
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