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The Obama Boom leads to a loss of 54,000 Jobs

by Rodan ( 165 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2010, Misery Index, Progressives, Socialism, Tranzis at September 3rd, 2010 - 11:30 am

It’s early September andthe Friday before Labor Day weekend, thus officially ending Joe Biden’s Recovery Summer. The results of this much hyped turnaround shows that It should have been called Wreckovery Summer due to the damage Obama’s Progressive policies have done. The much hyped and heralded Obama Boom has proved to be a mirage and a lie invented by the media. As a result, the American people have turned against the Progressive establishment and are set to deliver a massive blow on November 2nd.

WASHINGTON — Job losses continued to mount in the U.S. economy last month, though at a more modest pace than expected, putting further pressure on policy makers to take action to spur growth and employment.

Nonfarm payrolls fell by 54,000 last month, matching the level of revised losses recorded the previous month, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday. The revision in July layoffs to 54,000 followed an original estimate of a 131,000 drop in payrolls.

The U.S. economy has shed jobs for three straight months, though the losses in August were about half the 110,000 predicted by economists in a Dow Jones Newswires survey.

The unemployment rate, calculated using a separate household survey, edged up to 9.6%, as expected, after holding at 9.5% for previous two months.

The report is likely to cause renewed debate during the long Labor Day weekend over what new steps the Federal Reserve and Congress should consider to jump-start the job market.

Read the rest: U.S. Economy Lost 54,000 Jobs in August; Unemployment Rate Rises to 9.6%

Americans are suffering from wage stagnation and dim job prospects, yet the Progressive Propaganda media keeps lying. Here is an article claiming that the jobs are numbers are actually good!

“These are very nice numbers for the labor market,” said Kathy Lien, a director of currency research at GFT in New York. “It means for the time being, some of the fears of weakness in the U.S. economy may be misplaced as the data shows the labor market is not as bad as feared.”

[....]

The smaller-than-expected job losses last month lessened fears the economy risked sliding back into recession and eased pressure on the Fed to launch a fresh round of bond buying to keep borrowing costs low.

Can you imagine the media saying this if a Republican was President? When Bush was President and the economy was adding 150,000-200,000 jobs a month, they claimed that was stagnant. Meanwhile jobs losses or anemic private hiring is called a boom! The American people are not being fooled and it will be the Tranzi Totalitarian Progressive Democratic Party who will have to answer to the people. Obama’s policies have failed and no amount of spin can hide this fact.

This was not recovery summer and there is no Obama Boom.

Update: Obama’s Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis claims the Economy is good and that jobs are out there!

The big question: Are things getting better? To answer that, we need to look back more than a year ago, when the economy was losing a staggering 800,000 jobs a month. Our actions, most notably the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, stopped those losses.

The Recovery Act saved millions of American jobs — keeping health care providers in hospitals, teachers in classrooms, and police and firefighters on the beat. But the benefits weren’t just in the public sector. During the past eight months, the economy has averaged 95,000 new private sector jobs.

[...]

There are jobs out there. And, this Labor Day — and every day — I’m going to continue helping people find them and employers fill them. If you’re ready to embrace a 21st century career, I want you to know your Department of Labor is here to help you. And, if you’re an employer looking to fill positions, we’ve got a list of great candidates for you.

We have always been at war with Eastasia! This is outright 1984 style propaganda that Totalitarian regimes have done. It sounds very reminiscent of the Soviet Union’s declarationsof their economic success. Those were false and this hype over the Obama boom is false.

Update II: The young whom analysts had proclaim as solidly Democratic and would lead to a permanent Leftist majority, has lost faith with Obama. A bad job market has awaken many young people to the economic reality that Progressive policies don’t work.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama

Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties: far fewer 18- to 29-year-olds now identify themselves as Democrats compared with 2008.

“Is the recession, which is hitting young people very hard, doing lasting or permanent damage to what looked like a good Democratic advantage with this age group?” asked Scott Keeter, the director of survey research at the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan group. “The jury is still out.”

[....]

“There’s a vibe,” he said on a recent afternoon, while pumping weights at the gym. “Right now it seems like Republicans just care a lot more than Democrats.”

The Republicans have an opportunity to win over younger voters. Republicans such as Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor can appeal to the youth. The Republicans need to focus on the economy to seal the deal with these voters.

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The poll that scares the Dimocrats most

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 128 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2010, Elections 2012, History, Misery Index, Politics, Polls, Progressives, Republican Party at September 3rd, 2010 - 8:30 am

With yesterday (9-2-10), being two months until the 2010 mid-term elections, here’s some food for thought-

The poll that scares the Dimocrats most

Posted by Moe Lane
Wednesday, September 1st at 2:30PM EDT

It’s this one, from the never-to-be-sufficiently-hated-by-the-Left Rasmussen: and on its face it’s innocuous enough. It’s the partisan identification poll, and it currently lists Democrats at 35%, Republicans at 33.8%, and Neither at 31.1%. Unsurprising, based on recent events, right? – Also, it’s a poll of adults, so this probably means a Republican advantage among likely voters, as that’s the usual rule of thumb for these things. So, nothing really unusual here, right?

Wrong. If this poll is accurate, it’s a harbinger of DOOM for the Democrats.

I don’t pretend to be a professional pollster, but I’ve been dealing with polls on a regular basis since 2003, so I at least know the basics. And I know that – once you get past the pure technical details about whether or not a poll has gotten a true random sample, or whether there’s deliberate bias in the questions – the two major questions that have to be addressed about an election poll both touch on how well it snapshots the actual electorate.

For example: experience shows that a poll that samples 1,000 adults will have a result that is significantly different than one that samples 1,000 likely voters*. The trick is determining what a ‘likely voter’ is, which is why many pollsters at least try to work with the more quantifiable ‘registered voters:’ it doesn’t give you as good results, but it at least screens out the people who can’t vote. It’s also why pollsters try to find out who is enthusiastic about voting, and who isn’t. But that’s only half of the problem; the other half is determining whether or not the current partisan mix of voters has shifted since the last benchmark. That benchmark is usually an election; it’s a truism that, generally, Republicans vote for Republicans and Democrats vote for Democrats. So pollsters look at reliable exit polls, and they look at election results, and every so often they do new partisan identification polls.

And that’s what makes this such a problematic poll of Rasmussen’s for the Democrats. As the pollster noted, historically speaking:

In August 2004, the Democrats had a 2.6 percentage point advantage. In August 2006, they enjoyed a 5.4 percentage point advantage. In August 2008, the gap was 5.7 percentage points. See the History of Party Trends from January 2004 to the present.

…and if you look at the results for those years, you’ll notice that they trended between August and November in all three years towards the party that ended up ‘winning’ those particular election cycles. Which implies that the breakdown is going to be even worse for the Democrats in November. It might even be close to equal.

Why this matters is that a perennial complaint this election cycle is that pollsters keep using partisan breakdowns that assume no major changes between the fundamental makeup of the 2008 electorate and today’s. Yes, pollsters will address the enthusiasm gap – but there is a difference between a politician being down five points because of one party not being motivated to get out the vote and a politician being down five points because there are less members of that party to draw votes from. If Rasmussen is right – and there are a lot of people out there in this business who have a vested professional interest in getting Rasmussen perceived as being wrong – then the problems for the Democratic party will not be addressed in better appeals to their base; they’ll be addressed by changing the policies that are apparently driving voters into the Republican camp**.

And if they don’t, they will simply not be prepared for the psychic shock of Election Night.

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Obama considering Bloomberg for Treasury Secretary

by Rodan ( 255 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Economy, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Socialism, Tranzis at September 2nd, 2010 - 2:00 pm

The Totalitarian Tranzi Progressive Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Hussein Obama are both appeasers and supporters of Islamic Colonialism. They are elitists and tjey seek to impose a Neo-Feudal system on America. Mike Bloomberg is a Fascist who supports a nanny state and tells New York City residents how to live. He is anti-gun rights and has sued gun makers as a means to keep Americans disarmed. Now there is talk that the Obama regime will hire him for Treasury Secretary.

Is Mayor Bloomberg being wooed to join the Obama administration?

Asked about last weekend’s four-hour golf game with President Obama on Martha’s Vineyard, Bloomberg told reporters yesterday, “The economy was the main subject, other than discussing golf.”

Now there are whispers that the president went even further and sounded out Bloomberg about whether he would join his foundering economic team as treasury secretary, replacing prime blame-target Timothy Geithner.

“Obama needs Bloomberg more than Bloomberg needs Obama,” a source tells us. “Obama’s looking to do something bold and credible before the election.”

Read the rest: White House flirts with Mayor Bloomberg

It’s bad enough that Barack Hussein Obama is perusing a radical Progressive economic agenda, but with Mike Bloomberg as Treasury Secretary it will be even worse. He is for government controls and raising taxes. He is anti-small business and loves burdensome regulations. This will be a nightmare for America. This is probably a reward for his support of the 9/11 Ground Zero Mosque. Both Obama and Bloomberg are allies of the Islamic Imperialists.

Question for the readers, does Mayor Bloomberg and Chuckie look similar?



To me the Prince and the Mayor have a resemblance.

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Americans give Republicans edge over Democrats on major issues

by Rodan ( 152 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections, Elections 2010, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Politics, Polls, Progressives, Republican Party at September 2nd, 2010 - 8:30 am

Just 2 years ago, Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats where swept in a landslide.  Americans at the time rejected the Bush/McCain Compassionate Conservatism, which was Progressivism with a Conservative face. The Progressive Movement was riding high and now in one of the biggest changes in American politics, it’s on the verge of collapse. On almost every major issue, the Republicans are leading Democrats for the first time in years in the  Gallup poll.

PRINCETON, NJ — A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds Americans saying the Republicans in Congress would do a better job than the Democrats in Congress of handling seven of nine key election issues. The parties are essentially tied on healthcare, with the environment being the lone Democratic strength.

Read the rest: Americans Give GOP Edge on Most Election Issues

Clearly the Republicans have the advantage and this finding confirms a similar one done by Rasmussen. The issue driving people towards the GOP is the Economy. This same poll shows the Economy is voters #1 concern.

The economy the issue that Americans care about. It’s about jobs, financial security and money in people’s pocket. The Republicans should hammer the Democrats on the economy from now towards election days. As James Carville said “It’s the economy stupid” and he was right. Now let’s use it as a club to clobber the Progressives. This issue in conjunction with the Progressives and their  collaboration with Islamic Imperialists over the 9/11 Ground Zero Mosque is what will lead our side the victory.

If the Republican do get power, they must never again govern as Progressives. If they go leftists and appeasing Islamic Colonialists like they did under the Bush years, then a new Conservative party will emerge. They are being given another chance, they better not blow it!

Update: What gives hope for the GOP this time around are the young guns like Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan. They are aggressive and demolished Barack Hussein Obama at the Health Care debate.

Washington’s chattering class zeroed in Tuesday on a potential but still nonexistent leadership battle between House Minority Leader John Boehner and Minority Whip Eric Cantor after members of the press received their advance copies of the latter’s new book, “Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders.” While the book may indeed elevate Cantor, who co-authored the book with Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, its title couldn’t make its purpose any clearer – the trio sets out to prove that there’s a new Republican Party emerging that’s younger, bolder and more diverse.

Boehner has given two major policy addresses in as many weeks to go toe to toe with President Obama as he sets the stage for a possible speakership that would make him his party’s official foil to the Democratic commander in chief. On Tuesday, Boehner addressed the 92nd American Legion National Convention in Milwaukee about the end of combat operations in Iraqas a precursor to Obama’s speech later in the evening. At the same time, about a dozen reporters in the Beltway had just finished combing through Young Guns and found only limited references to Boehner and took that to mean the Ohioan is on the outs.

But the book is less a preview of a leadership battle as it is a forced rebirth.

Personally I hope Eric Cantor challenges John Boehner for the Speaker position, should Republicans win the House. Boehner is an elitis Progressive Republican who needs to get out the way. Imagine House Speaker Eric Cantor and Majority leaders Paul Ryan! Barack Hussein Obama would have nightmares over that one!

Update III:Political analyst Larry Sabato has the The Republicans winning the house, winning 8-9 in the Senate and 8 governorships.

Let’s keep up the pressure!

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Jammin’

by Bunk X ( 319 Comments › )
Filed under History, Humor, Multiculturalism, Open thread at September 1st, 2010 - 11:00 pm

Image from here. From the Wikipud:

Larry Harmon [Lawrence Weiss 1925-2008] was born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in Cleveland. During World War II, he served as a private in the Army. Upon returning, he harbored dreams of becoming a doctor, until he met legendary entertainer Al Jolson. According to Harmon’s autobiography, The Man Behind the Nose, Jolson told him, “Being a doctor of medicine is honorable, but you’ll touch so many more lives as a doctor of laughter!” Harmon instead attended the University of Southern California, where he majored in theater and performed in the Spirit of Troy marching band.

That’s Bozo above, 4th from the left, jammin’ with some of his USC fraternity brothers, decades before he appeared on an Overnight Open Thread.

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“You’re a bigot, now STFU and vote for me”

by Speranza ( 194 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2010, Progressives at September 1st, 2010 - 8:30 am

That pretty much sums up the progressives strategy for this coming November. After flouting the will of the people, calling them all a bunch of racist, know-nothings, “tea bagging”, yahoos who cling to  guns,  God and the flag -they still want your vote and are counting on what they perceive to be your short term memory, laziness  and ignorance -  to overlook the fact that they despise you and your values. Vote against every single Democratic candidate and do not throw your vote away on some third party candidate who has zero chances in hell to win.

by Derek Hunter

Are you opposed to Obamacare or illegal immgration? You’re a racist. Are you opposed to gay marriage? You’re a homophobe. Did you oppose Elana Kagan’s appointment to the Supreme Court? You’re a sexist. After less than two years of complete Democrat control of government, there aren’t many Americas progressives haven’t accused of some sort of bigotry for simply having an opinion different from theirs. The politics of “hope” and “change” have devolved into exactly what those espousing them claimed they would end. Is this really Democrat’s plan to win votes in November?

Barack Obama campaigned under the banner of unity and ending the “politics of division.” But that banner was swiftly furled and the true banner of progressive politics began flying over our country. Progressivism leaves no room for debate or disagreement. To paraphrase former President Bush, to progressives you’re either with them or you’re with the enemy.

During the Obamacare debate, opponents were compared to opponents of civil rights legislation. The ethically challenged Congressman from New York, Charlie Rangel, said “The group that were in Washington fighting against the health bill and fighting against the President, [they] looked just like and sounded just like those groups that attacked the civil rights movement in the South.” Left-wing blogs ran with this mantra and agenda-driven media outlets like MSNBC dutifully followed. They still advance the lie that African-American Members of Congress were pelted with racial slurs as they walked to cast their vote, something even the New York Times has acknowledged there is zero evidence of.

The ends justify the means, no matter how sickening and divisive the means.

[...]

The bigotry arrow has become the default weapon in the progressive’s quiver, only it’s lost its sting.

When Arizona passed a state law allowing police to enforce federal law on immigration, progressives cried racism. It couldn’t be that a majority of Arizonans, and Americans, simply support forcing immigrants to enter the country legally – opponents needed to be painted as bigots.

When 9/11 families expressed discomfort with building a Mosque two blocks from where Muslin extremists senselessly murdered their loved ones they were ignored by Progressives. Why? Because attacking them is a losing proposition. So they attacked those who sided with them, many of whom are Republicans, as bigots. They’ve basically ignored Democrats, including Howard Dean and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who’ve said the same things. Opponents are not trying to “block” the Mosque, Progressives claim, yet no law to stop it has been proposed. They’ve made appeals to sensitivity, nothing more.

[...]

Progressives show little concern for the will of the people. They have an agenda, and nothing is going to stand in the way of achieving it. They will lie, they will demonize, they will do anything to achieve it.

In their zeal to advance that agenda they’ve gone farther than they ever have before and thus exposed their true nature. Progressives have accused about 90 percent of the country of bigotry, in one form or another. On every one of the issues listed above polls show the American people are unambiguously not buying the spin and siding with their opponents. That’s a fact progressives will learn the hard way when it comes time for these “bigots” to vote.

Read the rest here: You’re a bigot, now vote for me! The progressives plan for America

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Flight 93 father: Ground zero mosque is the SECOND mosque being built on a 9/11 site

by 1389AD ( 100 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Dhimmitude, Islam, Islamic Invasion, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Sedition at August 31st, 2010 - 5:30 pm

Pamela Geller, who is leading the fight against the ground zero mosque in New York, has posted the following letter from Tom Burnett Senior.

To our fellow 9/11 families and to all who are concerned about the Ground Zero mega-mosque in New York:

We want everyone to know that the Park Service is right now building an even larger Islamic victory mosque atop the Flight 93 crash site. Many of you were outraged in 2005 when the Crescent of Embrace design was unveiled to be a half-mile wide Islamic shaped crescent:

Left: 2005 publicity shot of the Crescent of Embrace design. Right: typical Islamic crescent and star, viewed from a similar angle.

Few people know that this giant crescent actually points to Mecca, or understand the religious significance of this orientation. A crescent that points the direction to Mecca is a very familiar construct in the Islamic world. Because Muslims face Mecca for prayer, every mosque is built around a Mecca direction indicator called a mihrab. The classic mihrab is crescent shaped. Here are the two most famous mihrabs in the world:

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Left: the Mihrab of the Prophet, at the Prophet’s mosque in Medina. Right: the mihrab of the Great Mosque in Cordoba Spain.

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Face into the crescent to face Mecca

As with the Medina and Cordoba mihrabs, a person facing into the Crescent of Embrace will be facing Mecca. In the image below, superimposed red lines show the orientation of the Flight 93 crescent. The green qibla circle is from an online Mecca-direction calculator:

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A person standing between the tips of the crescent and facing into the center of the crescent (red arrow) will be facing almost exactly in “qibla” direction (the Muslim prayer direction). You can verify the qibla direction from Somerset PA using any number of on-line Mecca-direction calculators.

To be precise, the Crescent of Embrace points 1.8° north of Mecca, ± a tenth of a degree. The final construction drawings alter this orientation slightly, so that instead of pointing a little less than two degrees north of Mecca, the actual crescent will point less than three degrees south of Mecca. Such small deviations from Mecca are insignificant by Islamic standards, which developed over a period of more than a thousand years during which far flung Muslims had no accurate way to determine the direction to Mecca.

The Park Service does not call the Crescent of Embrace a crescent anymore. Now they call it Circle of Embrace, but the only actual change was to add an extra arc of trees (planted to the rear of a person facing into the giant crescent) that explicitly represents a broken off part of the circle. The unbroken part of the circle, what symbolically remains standing in the wake of 9/11, is just the original Crescent of Embrace. It is still a giant Islamic shaped crescent, still pointing at Mecca.

This is the Park Service’s official explanation for the design: the terrorist attacks are depicted as smashing our peaceful circle and turning it into a giant crescent. A clearer depiction of Islamic victory is hard to imagine, so no one should be too surprised that the d***ed thing points to Mecca, and actually turns out to be a mosque.

Other mosque features

Mosque design is based on a dozen typical mosque features, every one of which is realized in the Crescent/Circle design, all on the same epic scale as the half mile wide crescent-mihrab. Note, for instance, that the 93 foot tall minaret-like Tower of Voices is topped with another Islamic-shaped crescent, akin to the crescent-topped minarets seen in many Islamic countries:

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An Islamic shaped crescent, soaring in the sky above the symbolic lives of the 40 heroes, which literally dangle down below. In Islam, there is only heaven and hell. Symbolic damnation?

The Flight 93 mosque needs to be stopped, along with the Islamic victory mosque at ground zero in Manhattan. May the fight against these two desecrations strengthen each other.

Sincerely,

Tom Burnett Senior
Loving father of Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett Junior

Pamela’s Atlas Shrugs post includes a second letter from Mr. Burnett, thanking her for her help and passing on some information about the design selection process. (The vote for was 9 to 6 from a judging panel where family members were outnumbered 8-7 by left wing design professionals.)


Want to join our blogburst against the crescent mosque?

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2 arrested for Terrorist attempt

by Rodan ( 221 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Dhimmitude, Islam, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic Terrorism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Liberal Fascism, Multiculturalism, Progressives, Terrorism at August 30th, 2010 - 8:51 pm

Our elites have given preferences to Immigrants from Islamic countries. Dearborn Michigan has become an enclaves of AL-Qaeda, Hizballah and Muslims Brotherhood supporters. This is not Immigration, it’s Colonialism and the goal is to establish an Islamic state in America. No matter how we appease, they seek to carry out acts of aggression. In the latest episode of Islamic Imperialism, 2 men identified as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofiand Hezem al Murisi from the Deaborn area have been arrested on Terror charges.

Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands have been charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attack,” U.S. law enforcement officials tell ABC News.

[...]

Once in Chicago, officials say they learned al Soofi checked his luggage on a flight to Washington’s Dulles airport for connections on flights to Dubai and then Yemen, even though he did not board the flight himself.

Instead, officials say, al Soofi was joined by the second man, Al Murisi, and boarded the United flight from Chicago to Amsterdam.

When Customs and Border officials learned al Soofi was not on the flight from Dulles to Dubai, the plane was ordered to return to the gate so his luggage could be removed. Officials said additional screening found no evidence of explosives

Read the rest: Two Men on United Flight from Chicago Arrested on ‘Preparation of a Terrorist Attack’ in Amsterdam

It is time to end Islamic Immigration. This is just latest case of Islamic Colonialists using America to prepare acts of aggression. The time for tolerance of Islamic Imperialism must end.

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Lifestyles of the Rich and Progressive

by Speranza ( 240 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Progressives at August 30th, 2010 - 2:00 pm

I agree with the last paragraph – Obama could survive his less then stellar work ethic if the rest of the nation has jobs.  Jobs will be the key to his winning or losing reelection, not peripheral social con issues. That is why we have to hammer him day after day with the question “Where are the (private sector) jobs?”

by David Pietrusza

By now, the adjectives have become commonplace for Barack Obama and his administration.

Progressive.

Game-Changing.

Wilsonian.

Yes, similarities do exist between Barack Obama and his Democratic predecessor, Woodrow Wilson. Both are frigidly demeanored but messianic academics. With barely two years of government experience in statewide office, each assumed the presidency and presided over fundamental overhauls of the existing American system.
But here’s where one can find another little-noticed but perhaps telling comparison: their work habits.

Barack Obama is already more famous for vacations, golfing, and theater-going than he ought to be. In a period of economic crisis, he is off to Maine and Hawaii and Broadway and Martha’s Vineyard. His wife communes with the King of Spain. In time of war, he ducks a Memorial Day ceremony to vacation in America’s favorite sun-and-fun vacation spot — Chicago. He plays basketball. He works out. He golfs and golfs — and golfs.

The pattern and the perception are set. Aside from Barack Obama’s time before the teleprompter, the American public, now out of work, remains unsure of just when this fellow works.
And that brings us back to Mr. Wilson.

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Yet Wilson survived a Republican resurgence to narrowly gain another term in 1916. The early Wilson years, after all, were years of prosperity. And in comfortable times, it matters not at all whether Ike golfs or LBJ pulls beagles up by their ears. Conversely, when unemployment or inflation stalk the land, it remains of similar low consequence if solemn engineers Herbert Hoover or Jimmy Carter burn the midnight oil to fiddle with the details of a sinking ship of state.

The bottom line: if the American people are at work in 2012, it matters not at all if Barack Obama plays.

Read the rest: Lifestyles of the rich and progressive


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Nation-Building in Muslim Countries: EPIC FAIL

by 1389AD ( 182 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Financial, George W. Bush, Iraq, Islam, Military, Republican Party, Tranzis at August 30th, 2010 - 8:30 am

US Government Wasted Billions in Rebuilding Iraq
h/t: NoThreat2U

By Kim Gamel, AP

KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq — A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets

As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds of abandoned or incomplete projects. More than $5 billion in American taxpayer funds has been wasted — more than 10 percent of the some $50 billion the U.S. has spent on reconstruction in Iraq, according to audits from a U.S. watchdog agency.

That amount is likely an underestimate, based on an analysis of more than 300 reports by auditors with the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction. And it does not take into account security costs, which have run almost 17 percent for some projects.

Read it all.

What a waste!

We need to rebuild America, and we can do it only by restraining our spending, by cutting the deficit, by deregulating, and by lowering taxes.

“Foreign aid” is one place where we need to stop spending money. I do not mean that we should merely “cut” spending, I mean that we should stop entirely. That also means not a penny more for QUANGOs or NGOs such as USAID.

Nation-building = EPIC FAIL

Presidents in both parties like to use the often illusory and temporary benefits that the US government provides for overseas beneficiaries as a PR move and sometimes a backdrop for photo ops. Too bad nobody ever asks the American people whether we want or can afford to spend this money.

The amount of waste, graft, and simple incompetence taking place place on government projects overseas tends to be even higher than that which takes place on the same type of government project at home. One reason is that distance is always and everywhere the enemy of accountability. The other reason is that the US has so often been trying to modernize Islamic countries, which is inherently impossible to do without eliminating Islam. This is one area where I do fault George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice. Due to their backgrounds in the oil industry, and due to their indoctrination in the fraudulent Wilsonian ideology, neither one of them is intellectually, emotionally, or spiritually capable of comprehending the threat that is Islam.

Money sent to Islamic nations is not received with gratitude. It is interpreted either as an attempt at manipulation on the part of the Judaeo-Christian West, or as a form of jizya and a sign of weakness and dhimmitude.

Any US government spending overseas costs us heavily at home. We cannot afford it; more often than not, it is counterproductive; and the sooner we put an end to it, the better.

GWB and the Republican Party have paid the price for these fruitless attempts at ‘nation-building’.

The exchange of comments that appeared on a prior thread on 2.0: The Blogmocracy, regarding this very issue, underline my point:

1389AD wrote:

Speranza wrote:

Rodan wrote:

@ 1389AD:
Bush has a Progressive Pro-Islamic Wilsonian foreign policy. He really believed they would love Democracy.

Islam and democarcy are not compatible.

Islam and anything other than Islam (with the proven historical exception of Nazism) are not compatible.

(Visit this link to read the other comments.)

What to do?

Our politicians must be taught the lesson that ‘nation-building’ is always and everywhere doomed to fail. But that will happen if, and only if, people like ourselves hold their feet to the fire.

If you are an American, I ask that you write, call, or better yet, VISIT the offices of your US Senators and your US Representative. Tell them NO more tax dollars should go to foreign aid or nation-building, and that the money should go instead toward deficit and tax reduction. If you visit their district offices, you will usually be able to talk with a staffer. That’s just fine – the staffers relay constituent concerns to the legislator, and your message will get through.


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RS McCain smacks down Sharpton and the Jazz Man

by Rodan ( 64 Comments › )
Filed under Blogwars, Censorship, Democratic Party, Fascism, LGF, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Liberal Fascism, Political Correctness, Progressives at August 29th, 2010 - 5:42 pm

Robert Stacy McCain never bites his tongue for no one. He has a piece at his blog, where he gives Black National Socialist, Al Sharpton a good beat down.

Joyce White arrived at a what she called a counter-march to Fox News host Glenn Beck’s rally. She came to remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech but also to show her opposition to Beck.
“If we hadn’t elected a black president, do you think they would be doing this today?”
she asked. . . .
The bleachers
[at the Dunbar High football field] still weren’t filled 10 minutes before the “Reclaim the Dream” rally organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton was scheduled to start. . . .
Bianca Farmer, a senior at Dunbar High School, received big applause when she told the crowd not to stop at celebrating Obama. “We must be fearful of stopping there,” she said. “The fight is not in the same arena as it was 47 years ago but the fight lives on.” . . .
Representatives are here from various District political campaigns, labor unions and churches . . .
The Rev. Al Sharpton
said in an interview before he spoke to thousands at his rally in Northwest Washington that “people are clear in what Dr. King’s dream was about and we will not react to those who try to distort that dream.”

RS McCain then gives the Tranzi Totalitarian Progressive IslamiC-Imperialist Collaborator a good smackdown.

The husky ponytailed blogger can’t stand it:


Explaining the specific causes of Charles Johnson’s failure as a writer — his inability to compose persuasive rhetoric, etc. — would be a simple task, but why bother with analysis? Just enjoy the laughs.

The Corpulent Racist and the Corpulent Jazz Man both deserve ridicule and R.S McCain provides just that!

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Imam Rauf called for end to Israel

by Rodan ( 37 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Invasion, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic hypocrisy, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Progressives, Sharia (Islamic Law), Tranzis at August 29th, 2010 - 12:30 pm

Imam Rauf of the 9/11 Ground Zero Islamic Colonial Center is beloved by Progressives and Elite Republicans. He is praised as a Moderate and is even paid by our Pro-Islamic State Department to travel overseas. Well the game is up with this Imperialist fraud and recording have come out where his true colors have come out. Mayor Bloomberg is one of his biggest supporters. In fact NYC Comptroller John Liu has said that the Islamic Center might even qualify for public funds. I wonder what Bloomberg who claims to be a supporter of Israel has to say on Imam Rauf’s views on Israel?

Meanwhile, records show Rauf has called for a “one state” solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem — an outcome some say could lead to Israel’s disappearance.

The view, expressed in a 2005 speech in Australia, is contrary to the US government’s long-standing “two state” solution of Israel and Palestine living “side by side in peace and security.”

Imam Rauf like the all Islamic Imperialists hate Israel and wants it exterminated. Some like AL-Qaeda, Iran, Hizballah, Syria and Hamas, want to wipe it out by force. Others like the Tranzi Progressives and the Muslim Brotherhood want to eliminate it by created a Bi-National State, where Arab Muslims are the majority due to a right of return. This is what happened to once Phoenician Christian majority Lebanon, where Arab Immigrants from Iraq were given citizenship and thus now the Shiite savages are the majority. This man is evil and an enemy of America and the recording shows his nature. People that support this Islamic Center are traitors and collaborationists.
Addedum by Rodan:
Another fact the Progressives and Elite Republicans don’t mention about Imam Rauf is his refusal to condemn Hamas. This alone shows his support for Genocidal Islamic Imperialism.

Hamas is a shibboleth. If you want to know whether an ostensible Muslim “moderate” is really moderate, ask him if Hamas is a terrorist organization.

It is really not a hard question, even if Feisal Rauf can’t — or won’t — answer it. Rauf, the would-be imam of the controversial Ground Zero mosque, is also a stud in the State Department’s stable of ready-to-travel-on-your-dime “moderates.” That same State Department has branded Hamas a terrorist organization, and we can’t even get it to say that about the Taliban, the guys we’re fighting in the overseas contingency operation formerly known as the War on Terror.

During a WABC radio interview, Aaron Klein three times pressed Rauf to admit that Hamas is a terrorist organization. Rauf bobbed and weaved in classic Islamist style. “I’m not a politician,” he replied, as if only politicians trouble themselves over whether terrorists are terrorists. “I try to avoid the issues. The issue of terrorism is a very complex question.” Avoid the issues? You don’t say!

Imam Rauf is an evil individual who should be given no respect. This Islamic Colonial Center must be resisted at all costs. It is time to show intolerance towards our enemies.
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Dog Haters in Iran and San Francisco

by 1389AD ( 70 Comments › )
Filed under Iran, Islam, Leftist-Islamic Alliance at August 29th, 2010 - 10:00 am

What do Iran and San Francisco have in common?

  • Dog-haters
  • Jihadi-sympathizers
  • Moonbats who thought they could control radical Muslims

Iran bans pet ads, brands dogs “unclean”

Of course, so did the prophet of Islam: “Ibn Mughaffal reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) ordered killing of the dogs, and then said: What about them, i. e. about other dogs? and then granted concession (to keep) the dog for hunting and the dog for (the security) of the herd, and said: When the dog licks the utensil, wash it seven times, and rub it with earth the eighth time.” — Sahih Muslim 551

Note also that just as unclean as dogs are unbelievers.

Sharia Alert from the Islamic Republic of Iran: “Iran bans pet ads, brands dogs ‘unclean,’” from NewsCore, August 27 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):

IRAN today banned all advertisements in the country for pets, pet shops, pet food and other pet products, claiming that people’s love for their dogs and cats may lead to “evil outcomes”.

The edict, announced by Iran’s powerful Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, is based on a fatwa issued by Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, 86, a hardliner who lives in Iran’s holy city of Qom.

Read the rest. The comments are truly fascinating.


Okay, I’ll admit it. Although I’m mostly a cat person, I like dogs too. But that isn’t the point here. The real issues here have to do with tyranny, and with the unreasoning hatred and disgust that some people feel toward innocent living creatures.

Whenever any government, at any level, arrogates the power to micromanage the lives of its citizenry to this extent, we have a problem. Evidently, in the case of San Francisco, they might have become a little embarrassed by the ridicule resulting from media exposure. Iran, on the other hand, has no such compunctions.

San Francisco Pet Ban Delayed

San Francisco has told its contentious plan to ban the sale of all pets but fish to sit and stay — until January at the earliest.

The city garnered national headlines last month, when the city’s Animal Control and Welfare Commission proposed banning all pet sales in a move aimed at keeping small animals from being dumped on the Animal Control.

That commission last night, however, opted to put off discussion of its potential ban until 2011. The commission did come up with a new idea, however: Requiring would-be pet owners to obtain a license and take classes. This would ostensibly cut down on impulse purchases of guinea pigs and other small animals inundating the Animal Control office.

Let it be known that, as far back as last month, SF Weekly suggested alternatives: a “guinea pig fee” to offset the city’s costs in caring for hordes of abandoned rodents or a waiting period for potential pet buyers — “the Guinea Pig Brady Bill.”

These half-serious suggestions don’t look so outlandish anymore.


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Obama’s Islamic America

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 192 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Dhimmitude, History, Islam, Islamic Terrorism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Sharia (Islamic Law) at August 28th, 2010 - 8:30 pm

Obama said Islam is and always has been tolerant. That’s an outright lie.

Obama said Islam has had a role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Yet another outright lie. The only thing Islam has contributed to mankind has been death and destruction everywhere it has been allowed to infest.

Obama said that here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country. LIE! Driving a taxi or running a 7-11 are not extraordinary contributions.

Obama also said that Islam has always been part of America. No, it hasn’t, moron.

I have to ask the following question: Does this imbecile seriously believe this delusional boatload of bullshit, and if so, what the hell was he smoking? It certainly wasn’t a pack of Kools.

What country is he talking about?

President Obama says Islam has always been part of America, which raises the question, does the president know something about American history that we don’t?

It has become customary for presidents to offer greetings to various religious communities on the occasion of their most holy days. Presidents Ford and Carter both issued Ramadan messages, as did Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. The Ramadan greeting became intensely political during Mr. Bush’s tenure because he was seeking to dispel the charge that the war on terrorism was a crusade against Islam. But Mr. Obama has used the occasion of Ramadan to rewrite U.S. history and give Islam a prominence in American annals that it has not earned.

In this year’s greeting, Mr. Obama said the rituals of Ramadan “remind us of the principles that we hold in common and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. And here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country.”

That Islam has had a major role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings may come as a surprise to Muslim women. Young Afghan girls who are having acid thrown in their faces on the way to school might want to offer their perspectives. That Islam is “known” for diversity and racial equality is also a bit of a reach. This certainly does not refer to religious diversity, which is nonexistent in many Muslim-majority states. This is a plaudit better reserved for a speech at the opening of a synagogue in Mecca.

Most puzzling is the president’s claim that “Islam has always been part of America.” Islam had no influence on the origins and development of the United States. It contributed nothing to early American political culture, art, literature, music or any other aspect of the early nation.

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Enough with the ‘Coexist’ stickers already!

by 1389AD ( 89 Comments › )
Filed under Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness at August 28th, 2010 - 10:00 am

It takes a particular type of self-righteous and aggressive ignoramus to think that the real evils of this world will all go away if enough people can be shamed or bullied into denying that those evils exist.

Case in point:

Russell Simmons Unveils ‘Coexist’ Banner Near Ground Zero

Huge 'coexist' symbol banner in the apartment windows of Russell Simmons near Ground Zero

Simmons’ apartment on Liberty St. overlooks Ground Zero. Each letter of the banner features different religious and spiritual symbols. Like Bloomberg, Simmons is a big supporter of the planned center: “I was trying to figure out ways I could reach people and promote a message of tolerance…The fact that it is a public discussion, that there’s so many against it is what I think is disappointing to me, that so many people don’t know that we founded our country on the First Amendment,” he told the AP.

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I am not the only one to complain

Recently, I have noticed that I am not the only one who despises this asinine symbolic slogan:

YouTube: Allen West Hates the Co-Exist Bumper Sticker
h/t: Kitman TV

More of Allen West’s speech here.


Coexist Reaction: The Good, The Bad, The Just Plain Silly

By Charlie Sykes
Story Created: May 15, 2009
(Story Updated: May 15, 2009)

As John McAdams sums up the story so far:

It all started with a parody from Tom McMahon, who was aggravated by the extremely smug and intellectually slovenly bumper sticker in which a variety of religious symbols spell out “COEXIST.”

McMahon produced a parody bumper sticker with Nazi and Communist symbols substituted.

His point, of course, was that some religious views are simply impossible to coexist with, and must (like Nazism and Communism) be fought.

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Update: Here’s another parody, courtesy of Mike C. on Blogmocracy:

‘Coexist’ in Firearm Manufacturer Logos

Parody of 'Coexist' bumper sticker spelled out in firearm manufacturers' logos


The underlying spiritual problem

When ‘tolerance’ proves to be nothing more than moral indifference and cowardice cloaked in self-righteousness, it is not a virtue but a vice.

Gates of Vienna: The Sin That Believes in Nothing

We Christians strongly believe in tolerance, and this is what British novelist Dorothy Sayers pointed out about “Tolerance”:

In this world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called indifference, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

If any viewpoint is equally as valid as any other, then no viewpoint has any meaning, and it matters not what any of us thinks, says, or does. This philosophy is truly satanic, and it is called nihilism.


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