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BS Apology

by Macker ( 89 Comments › )
Filed under Communism, Holocaust, Political Correctness, Tranzis, Venezuela, World War II at July 28th, 2010 - 11:30 am

I do not believe one word of the apology emanating from the mouth of Anti-American, Anti-Semitic film director Oliver Stone:

‘In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret.
‘Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry.
‘The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity – and it was an atrocity.’

And here’s the reason why I do not believe him:

Need I say more?

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Red Dawn 2010

by Rodan ( 306 Comments › )
Filed under Australia, China, Communism, Movies, Open thread, Progressives, Russia at July 26th, 2010 - 9:00 pm

The Film Red Dawn is a classic 80′s movie and one of the last great patriotic films. In that movie, set back in 1984, the Soviets, Cuban and Nicaraguan Army invade the United States. A rag tag band of teen age/early 20′s guerrilla fighters form a group called Wolverines, named after their football team, and they lead the resistance. The movie ends with the Wolverines decimated but shows that America eventually goes on to win WWIII.

Well there is now a remakeset in today’s time. In this version China and Russia invade the US on the pretext that the America’s fiscal and economic irresponsibility is a threat to world stability. This time it take places in the Pacific Northwest and not Colorado like in the original.

Here is a synopsis:

Set against the backdrop of contemporary politics, the film begins with an American withdrawal from Iraq. The President decides to redeploy troops to Taiwan, where escalating Chinese militarism is threatening America’s ally. At the same time, he also welcomes the former Soviet republic of Georgia into NATO, unleashing Russian worries that America is spreading its sphere of influence deep into Eastern Europe. Having destabilized relations with two of the world’s largest powers, the President then claims that the U.S. is only partly to blame for a global economic meltdown, further escalating tensions with China and ultimately leading to the invasion of the Pacific Northwest.

While the scenario is far-fetched, China’s occupation of America carries several elements that seem oddly plausible. Soon after their arrival, the Chinese invaders put up dozens of inspirational posters. One shows a red mallet smashing the U.S. Capitol under the title “Defeating Your Enemy.” Another shows a selection of doughnuts, proclaiming “Obscene Choice. A Weapon of Mass Distraction.” Above all, the theme of the invasion seems to be that America’s economic woes have led to its overthrow and that the Chinese invaders will help the country to recover its economic footing. One poster, for example, depicts a red-clad worker beating a dollar sign under the slogan “Repairing Your Economy.”

These are the propaganda posters from the movie:

This is the flag of the Chinese Occupied United States.

This is a photo shot of the PLA Occupation forces.

Although the film is slated for release in November it’s very possible that it will not see the light of day. Progressive organizations are already calling this racist and xenophobic. China is already complaining about this movie and as we know in this day and age, Hollywood is concerned about how foreigners view it. However it gets even more interesting. There is an Australian movie that is also similar to Red Dawn, but set in today’s Australia. Tomorrow, When the War Began is about a rag tag group of teenagers fight a Chinese invasion of Australia. This is actual based on a book trilogy.

Is this scenario plausible at all? One never knows the future and if it were to happen, the Progressives would welcome in the Chinese and Russians as liberators. That would not be fictional or far fetched. In fact, a certain Jazz Artist and his blog would probably welcome the invaders as liberators from the evil “racists”!

Here is an old trailer for the New Red Dawn:

Here is a trailer for Tomorrow When The War Began:

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Saturday Lecture: The 45 Goals of Communism

by coldwarrior ( 17 Comments › )
Filed under Cold War, Communism, Open thread, Progressives, saturday lecture series at July 17th, 2010 - 8:00 am

These are the 45 goals of Communism (as cited by Beck and by Jim Quinn). I know many of you have already seen this list, some may have not. I want to get them back into the conversation here as a reference point on what the progressive trans-nationalist are trying to do the the US. Some may be a little antiquated, others are right in the leftist playbook to this day. So for today’s lecture, read each one and think yes/no/in progress. What is the grade for the left and the grade for the right?

Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963, Current Communist Goals, EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Thursday, January 10, 1963:

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

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Agitprop and Stalinism

by Speranza ( 109 Comments › )
Filed under Communism, Media, Politics, Progressives at July 11th, 2010 - 1:00 pm

Stalinism did not die with Joseph Stalin (March 5, 1953).  It has always been present with the Left and sadly with the people who influenced Barack Obama. No matter how hard the committed Left tries to wash it off, the stain of Stalinism will never go away. The author tells his how Western correspondents in Moscow during the purge show trials such as Walter Duranty and Malcom Muggeridge deliberately acted as propaganda spokesmen for the murderous regime – sort of like MSNBC running cover for Obama. In the 1930′s, 40′s and early 50′s  the Stalinists loved to throw terms around at their perceived enemies; “Fascists”, “Trotskyites”, Mensheviks”, Titoists”, “Cosmopolitans”, “Wreckers”, and “Saboteurs” – anticipating the Alinsky methods.

by James Lewis

“Stalinism” is a useful term for the totalitarian left — even to the left itself. It’s one word they haven’t been able to chew up, gulp down, and transform into its opposite. They still know what “Stalinist” means, even after generations of new names for the same community agitators: “The New Left,” “hippies,” “Black Panthers,” “youthful radicals,” “idealistic students,” “feminists,” “the workers,” “black nationalists,” “Third World socialists,” “the wretched of the earth,” “Green Party,” “Gay activists,” “LGBT,” “Global Warming,” “peace and freedom party,” “eco activists,” “civil rights campaigners,” “post-modernists,” “gender studies,” “J Street,” “Bolivarismo,” “ACORN,” “undocumented workers,” “Moveon.org,” “Liberation Theology” — there must be hundreds and hundreds of front labels for the Same-Old, Same-Old. They make up new ones all the time. This year’s fashionable lefty cult is called … “progressivism!”

But they do remember what “Stalinism” means, because that was the bad left. It’s what they call each other in their constant civil wars. Wasn’t Stalin somebody eighty years ago? It’s hard to remember. Don’t know much ’bout history, don’t know much ’bout nuthin, but Stalin still rings a bell.

The fact is that Stalinism is still here today because it has never gone away. Or what do you suppose Bill Ayers and Jodie Evans were doing in Egypt and Cyprus before sailing toward Gaza with that boatful of Turkish suiciders who were all ready to kill and be killed for Allah? Was that a coincidence? It looked like a classic piece of agitation-propaganda. A whole mob of journos were there to get pictures of all the blood and gore. The media are basically lazy, and they want onlly to hustle for photo-ops when they know they can get a big headline. It’s simple laziness. The Turkish suicider stunt on the “peace flotilla” gave them headlines for weeks. Today the brainwashed masses in Europe and the Muslim countries still think the innocent side was guilty, which was the whole purpose of the stunt. Turkish fascist demagogues like Erdogan are still making hay off it.

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We have a big jihad sympathizer in the White House, just like Obama and his buds from Chicago, just like Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan, just like Obama’s hero Malcolm X, and just like Jodie Evans and Bill Ayers whipping up crowds for Hamas. These people are predictably on the side of medieval reactionaries who practice barbarities against women, gays, Jews, Christians, and especially any creed that advocates tolerance and open-mindedness. The left is enabling evil today, just as it enabled Mao Zedong’s evil in China, Pol Pot’s evil in Cambodia, and Stalin’s evil in Russia, Poland, and Ukraine.

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Agitprop was the Stalinist name for “community organizing,” back when Communist agitators were proud to be called Communist agitators. The Gaza crisis served community agitator Obama with perfect timing, because it put overwhelming pressure on Israel just when he wanted to do some heavy-duty arm-twisting.

Yes, I know — Obama loves Israel this week. But Obama is a cold-blooded Stalinoid. His slogan is “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a pistol.” He just pulled the race card on Israel while seeming to sound friendly. He “has a gift” for that kind of double-message. Look at old photos of ruthless Malcolm X, and you can see a bit of Obama.

The radical left is run by agitprop artists who practice the same mob incitement that worked so well for Mom and Pop the Reds in the good old days. The Reichstag Fire was an agitprop stunt by the Nazis, but they learned to do all that in the same Bohemian cafés that Lenin used to haunt. It was Hitler and Goebbels who first articulated the Big Lie technique, but it was the Marxists who have used it since 1848. The Communist Manifesto starts with a threat to stir up class revolution throughout Europe. The left knows Marx and Engels wrote that threat in to make it happen all over Europe. Their agitprop created the reality, they think. This is a standard Alinsky tactic, but it’s old, old.

Saul Alinsky just wrote up those old techniques for sixties radicals to memorize and made them look brand-new. There is nothing new about it. Every mob leader in history has used the same gambits.

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Stalinism is no stranger to the American left. It is part of its very being. Every time another old Stalinist dies, the New York Times has a crying fit, telling us what a sweetheart the bloody-minded old fanatic really was. That’s all you really need to know about the New York Times.

At some point you have to conclude that the left knows exactly how bloody and destructive it really is. Sure, a lot of the brainwashed followers live in deep denial, but the big names know. Chomsky knows where the bodies are buried, and he knows where he wants to have the next Gulag. So does Jimmy Carter, another peace-loving fan of Hamas and Hezb’allah. So does Obama. They know, they know. They are not innocent.

Malcolm Muggeridge, who ended his life as a passionate conservative and a Catholic, was born into that “progressive” little world in Manchester, England. Muggeridge became a journo for the BBC and the Guardian, the left-totalitarian organs of propaganda in the U.K. He admitted in his excellent autobiography that the Guardian writers just lied their heads off every day to push the Party Line.

George Orwell was part of that circle, and after he saw the bloodshed in Spain by the Reds and the fascists, each killing innocents with abandon, he satirized the mendacious BBC as the Ministry of Truth in 1984. Guess what? They haven’t changed one little bit. Today, the Guardian and BBC combine leftist agitprop with Islamist ideology. That’s why they constantly beat up on Israel in the Euro media, just like the New York Times. The left is predictable, marching in lockstep just like the old days, and they always pick the most destructive and mendacious side. They think it’s Progress because to the left, we are the enemy. Don’t believe me? Look it up in Alinsky’s little book. America and its middle-class culture are the enemy.

But they know what really happens when leftists take over. They can’t be stupid enough not to know, not after all these years. Some of them even read history books. It was a Marxist historian in France who pinned the “100 million dead victims” on the left. They know, they know.

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Historically, liberal Democrats played footsie with Stalin for thirty years (1922-1953). So did Labour socialists in Britain and Western Europe. An estimated 40 million people were killed by Stalin during that time, and that was no secret on the left. They knew, they knew. They just covered it up in the media, and thereby kept the mass killers in power. It’s pretty much what they are doing right now for the genociders in the Sudan and the Congo. Scratch a Stalinist, and you find a willing defender of mass murder. All for the good of humanity, of course.

Read the rest here: Alinsky, Stalinsky, it’s the same old agitprop

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Back to the 1950′s

by Speranza ( 144 Comments › )
Filed under Communism, Russia at July 6th, 2010 - 12:00 pm

The Rosenberg’s were as guilty as hell. Ron Radosh points out that even greater evidence against them was not presented during the trial because we did not want the U.S.S.R. to know that we had broken the Venona codes. Despite the end of the Cold War – Russia is still our enemy and her espionage against us has never ceased.

by Ronald Radosh

The emerging details about the Russian espionage ring exposed last week have bizarre echoes of classic Soviet-era spy cases.

Of course, the difference is obvious: Most of these 10 sleeper agents were Russian nationals given false American names and identities, rather than native-born traitors. Yet it’s remarkable how, nearly two decades after the fall of communism, ideology was still of vital importance to them.

Take “Juan Lazaro,” a Siberian-born Russian who posed as a Uruguayan national. He had married a Peruvian-born journalist who was also arrested, Vicky Palaez — and both are hard-line leftists.


Reds: Juan Lazaro (inset) and the Rosenbergs were willing to sacrifice even their children for their ideology

Last month, Fidel Castro himself quoted favorably one of Palaez’s articles lambasting the United States for “imperialism.” Lazaro taught Latin American and Caribbean politics at Baruch College, where his students said he regularly engaged in diatribes against America.

He even wrote and had published a paper heralding the supposed great work for women’s liberation — by having females engage in guerrilla operations — conducted in Peru by the Shining Path, a Maoist group dedicated to violent overthrow of the Peruvian government.

This fervent anti-Americanism recalls the ideological spies of the 1950s, like Alger Hiss and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Those communist agents were motivated by their belief that the

Soviet Union was on the right and just side of history. The USSR is no more — yet the Russians recruited by the SVR (the new name of the old KGB) seem to regard the spy agency as a vehicle for keeping alive the communist legacy of the old system.

Strikingly, like the Rosenbergs, these spies were willing to sacrifice their own children for the cause they serve, even if it means abandoning them to the care of strangers.

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg built a spy ring for the KGB that, among other work, stole US secrets to save the Soviets years in developing the atomic bomb. After their arrest in 1950, they feigned innocence — claiming to be regular parents with “progressive” views that led them to oppose the Truman administration’s Cold War foreign policy. They insisted they’d been framed by the FBI to scare others out of opposing President Harry S. Truman’s “fascist” warmongering.

Because it did not want to reveal that it had intercepted and decoded vast amounts of Soviet communications, our government could not disclose its most damning evidence against the Rosenbergs. The totalitarian system that the traitors served saw value in having them pose as martyrs — so they did.

To preserve their lie, they were willing to sacrifice their lives and make their sons orphans. In their final letter to their sons on June 19, 1953, Ethel Rosenberg manipulated her children into unknowingly dedicating their lives to serving the lie. “Always remember that we were innocent,” she wrote — pushing the boys to waste the rest of their lives trying to prove that false claim — “and could not wrong our conscience.”

Read the rest here: That Fifties Show

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Still a Young Communist…

by Macker ( 118 Comments › )
Filed under Communism, Cuba, Democratic Party, Socialism at July 2nd, 2010 - 4:30 pm

Yep. Y’all remember this photograph from April 22, 2000, courtesy of Janet Reno, Algore, Bill Clinton, Eric Holder, and the Demo☭rats:

Ten years later, Elian Gonzalez is still treated as a Socialist Hero by Comrade Raul (never mind that Comrade Fidel is still not doing so hot):

“Even though they didn’t help me in every way possible, they didn’t help me move forward, they are still my own family,” Gonzalez said of his South Florida relatives, speaking in a shy, almost timid voice.
“I don’t have anger for them,” he said. “It’s only that it wasn’t the best effort possible, and thanks to a large part of the American public, and our public, today I’m with my father and I feel happy here.”

Remember folks…he’s speaking the words which the Communists in Cuba want us to hear. Since he was taken at that formative age, he really doesn’t have solid memories of his life in the USA.
Let’s visit him again after the Brothers Castro are DEAD.

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BREAKING NEWS! EPA overturns 16-year-old Texas permit program

by coldwarrior ( 123 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Economy, Environmentalism, Liberal Fascism, Open thread at July 1st, 2010 - 7:29 pm

EPA overturns 16-year-old Texas permit program

so thats 1/3 of the US oil refining capacity closed by bureaucrat fiat.

Obama is at war with the Southern States that didn’t vote for him.  This is Chicago politics gone mad and national.  Texas must ignore this, keep refining and FORCE Obama to try to call out the troops because the bureaucrats can’t enforce this on their own.  They need firepower to pull this off for real if Texas says, “BITE ME”.  Gov Perry can use those words if he likes, as long as we get a hat tip

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HOUSTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday officially overturned a 16-year-old Texas air permitting program it says violates the Clean Air Act, leaving some of the country’s largest refineries in a state of limbo.

The move comes after years of backdoor bickering, negotiations and public arguments between the EPA and Texas. The argument recently escalated from a battle over environmental issues into a heated political dispute over states’ rights.

Gov. Rick Perry has been using it to drive home his contention that President Barack Obama’s administration is overreaching, saying in a statement Wednesday that “Texas will continue to fight this federal takeover of a successful state program.”

The EPA’s decision, announced in a statement, will force some 125 refineries and petrochemical plants to invest millions of dollars to get new permits. Many of the plants may also have to invest in updates to comply with federal regulations.

The decision did not come as a surprise to Texas or the industries. EPA regional director Al Armendariz has said for months he would disapprove the permits if Texas did not comply with the Clean Air Act.

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Caption This!

by Macker ( 134 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Caption This, Communism, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2010, Financial, Guest Post, Investments, Misery Index, Progressives at June 26th, 2010 - 10:30 am

This, in light of the 2,000-page bill regulating the financial services industry, which may be headed for Президент Оба́ма’s desk for signature on the 4th of July:How apopos, they’re thinking. Have at it!

Addendum by m ~ There was a guest post submitted along the same lines, so I am combining them ~ Caption this AND discuss this ~:)

We now return to your program…

Blogmocracy in Action!
Guest post by: MacDuff!

Barney Frank (trying to hold up his pants) and Christopher Dodd emerge after an all nighter.

House, Senate leaders finalize details of sweeping financial overhaul

Key House and Senate lawmakers approved far-reaching new financial rules early Friday after weeks of division, delay and frantic last-minute dealmaking. The dawn compromise set up a potential vote in both houses of Congress next week that could send the landmark legislation to President Obama by July 4.

The final and most arduous compromise began to fall into place just after midnight. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) agreed to scale back a controversial provision that would have forced the nation’s biggest banks to spin off their lucrative derivatives-dealing businesses.

The panel also reached accord on the “Volcker rule,” named after former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. That measure would bar banks from trading with their own money, a practice known as proprietary trading.

Lawmakers pulled an all-nighter, wrapping up their work at 5:39 a.m. — more than 20 messy, mind-numbing hours after they began Thursday morning.

I must stipulate that I’m no financial expert and I have no projections to offer as to how this legislation will effect the financial structure of the country. I do know that it contains a lot of govenment oversight and control.

That said, when Democrats stay up all night drafting legislation called a “sweeping financial overhaul”, I become worried. And when I read:

Despite myriad changes in recent days, Democrats appear poised to deliver a final bill that largely reflects the administration’s original blueprint unveiled almost precisely a year ago. (“almost precisely”??)

I become very worried, but when I read:

“We’ve put in the hands of the president a very powerful set of tools for him to reassert American leadership in the world,” Frank said.

I begin to wonder just what the hell it is they are trying to foist upon us.

Remember when Nancy Pelosi said of the Health Care overhaul; “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it”? Well, here’s Christopher Dodd on the 2,000 page financial overhaul crafted last night:

“It’s a great moment. I’m proud to have been here,” said a teary-eyed Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee led the effort in the Senate. “No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done.”

This is becoming a disturbing theme with Democrats; we really don’t know how it’s going to work until it’s in place, but it’s something that we’ve needed for a long time. What could go wrong?

Yeah, I’ve got a real bad feeling about this.

-MacDuff

(MacDuff addendum cross posted at The Week’s Review)

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60 years and 134 years ago today

by Speranza ( 170 Comments › )
Filed under Communism, History, Military, North Korea, Politics, South Korea at June 25th, 2010 - 11:30 am

Sixty years ago today (June 25, 1950)  the armies of North Korea invaded the Republic of Korea sparking the Korean War. The Korean War set the template for future “hot wars” that the West was going to fight i.e. that we were going to rely on the United Nations and that we were going to impose limits and restraints on our men in the field. Only when the Communists realized that newly elected president Dwight Eisenhower was prepared to use nuclear weapons was an armistice signed. To this day, North Korea is still officially at war with the South as no peace treaty has been signed.

by Arthur Herman

On June 25, 1950, 90,000 North Korean soldiers backed by 150 Soviet-built T-34 tanks poured across the border into South Korea. The Cold War had suddenly turned hot, and America found itself drawn into the longest war in its history.

Vietnam used to claim that dubious title. Now it’s Afghanistan. But the surprise communist invasion 60 years ago today began a Korean war that eventually saw an armistice but still no peace treaty.

Indeed, since major fighting stopped in 1953, more than 90 Americans and 300 South Korean soldiers have been killed in clashes along the DMZ barbed wire between North and South Korea — in addition to the 46 ROK sailors killed by a North Korean torpedo in March.

That summer of 1950 tested America’s commitment to the cause of freedom as never before, not even in World War II. There was no Pearl Harbor, and no American interests at stake in Korea but one: that other peoples should never be enslaved against their will.

The Soviet-backed invasion came just five years after V-J Day. It was the first serious test of America’s post-World War II strength of will and its new strategy of containing communism. Would America step up to protect an impoverished nation so far from any vital shore? Many feared the Truman administration, with its attention focused on Europe, would not.

They were wrong. President Harry Truman got off a plane in Washington and immediately agreed to swift action to save South Korea. He had been thinking about Hitler and Mussolini on the plane, Truman said; this time, the totalitarians would not get away with it. America would send in troops at once.

The problem was, there were no troops — or very few. In 1945, America had spent $50 billion on defense, in 1950 $5 billion. Its 8.25 million-strong military had shrunk to less than 600,000, most of them still in Europe. The Eighth Army’s four undermanned, underequipped divisions would somehow have to stem the massive communist tide, as Gen. Walton Walker fed his troops in piecemeal.

The shortage of manpower also forced the integration of African-Americans into front-line combat units. Indeed, the all-black 24th Regimental Combat Team scored the first American success, on July 20 at Yochen, where Lt. William Bussey became the war’s first African-American Silver Star.

By the end of July, 94,000 US and South Korean troops were clinging to a narrow perimeter around Pusan, at the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. One infantryman from the 34th Regiment remembered: “We stacked our dead around us for protection.” Gen. Walker told his men there was no retreat, because there was nowhere to go. “We must fight to the end.” If they had to die, he said, “at least we die together.”

But they held on, while waves of carrier-borne Navy planes pounded the sputtering North Korean attack. By now, Walker’s men were joined by the British, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders of the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade, as Truman’s decision to seek support from the United Nations began to kick in — and nations America had liberated in World War II, like Greece and France, stepped up in her support.

To relieve Pusan and reverse the war’s course, Gen. Douglas MacArthur launched his dramatic amphibious landing at Inchon on Sept. 15, and the long slow slog of retaking South Korea began.

Read the rest here: The forever war

On June 25, 1876 – 5 companies of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry Regiment led by Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer (he was a Major General only in the Volunteer Army of the Civil War) were killed to the last man at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana Territory. The troops were the advance party of three columns that were to converge  from the East, West and South on the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians who were believed to be camped somewhere between the Little Bighorn and the Rosebud rivers. The U.S. Government wanted the Sioux to cede the Black Hills to the Untied States primarily because of rumors of gold to be found there. The Black Hills were considered to be sacred to the Indians and most of the Indians rejected the offer and many left the reservations to join Sitting Bull and other chiefs to resist. The fear during the 1876 campaign was not that the Army would be defeated but that the Indians would get away. Custer thought that he would find maybe several hundred warriors instead he struck the village which contained up to 2,000 warriors (there were only 560 or so soldiers in the 7th cavalry). Dividing his command into three parts he retained 5 companies under his direct command and attacked the center of the Indian camp, he was quickly repulsed and his men were strung out on a ridge for over a mile and slaughtered by companies. Gall lead the frontal attack on Custer while Crazy Horse and Two Moon attacked from the flank and rear. The Indians stampeded the soldiers horses (every 4th man held his own horse and the horse of three other soldiers) and by doing so deprived  the men of much needed ammunition. The Custer family lost George A. Custer, his brother Captain Tom Custer (commander of C Company), brother-in-law Lt. James Calhoun (commander of L Company), brother Boston Custer (a scout) and nephew Henry Reed. The other two parts of the regiment were divided into battalions led by Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen. Reno attacked the village before Custer did and was quickly stopped, and panicking – he lead his battalion into a retreat across the river and onto a hill in which he was besieged. Benteen arrived after a scout to the left and joined Reno on the hill that now bears his name and none of them arrived to aid Custer. Custer lost 210 men and Reno-Benteen lost around another 40 men killed. This was the worst defeat for the U.S. Army during the Plains Indian Wars. By the way, the Indians did not ride around Custer’s men on horseback but took positions in the high grass and broken ground and fired upon them (some Indians had repeating rifles) and fired great clouds of arrows upon them and it was all over within an hour. Most of the soldiers were scalped and mutilated. The next day the remnants of the 7th Cavalry entrenched on Reno Hill  fought off Indian attempts to annihilate them  until relieved by General Terry and Colonel Gibbon. Although called “Custer’s Last Stand” the battle really was the Northern Plains Indians Last Stand. The Army pursued them in a winter campaign and chased them into Canada where eventually  Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Gall all surrendered one by one.

Little Bighorn History and Photo gallery

General G.A. Custer

Captain T.W. Custer
Brothers Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer (L) and Captain Thomas W. Custer (R), Company C commander

Major Reno

Captain Benteen
After Custer, the 7th’s two senior officers, Major Marcus A. Reno (L) and Captain Frederick W. Benteen (R)

Sitting Bull

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Sitting Bull and Gall. There are no photographs of Crazy Horse.

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A book review- “Whiny Little Bitch: The Excuse-Filled Presidency of Barack Obama”

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 137 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2010, Misery Index, Progressives at June 25th, 2010 - 9:00 am

First of all, believe it or not, this is an actual book! But, if you’d like to order a copy ($14.95), please note that it will not be released until June 29th. I hope that a lot of other people will also want to read about the Whiny Little Bitch in the White House, and it becomes a New York Slimes #1 best-seller, but I digress.

It’s written by Mike Cullen, and it’s about the total incompetency of the America-hating POS that occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Av. NW, the man-child bungler-in-chief himself, and the other America-hating scumbags, that, like cockroaches, infest his pathetic, inept socialism-loving administration.

Here’s the introduction, and it’s excellent, because it is spot-on…

I had never seen anything like it. Only 44 men have held the office of President of the United States. This guy gets into office, and even one year later, he still can’t stop sniveling about the man who held the position before him. Can you picture Abraham Lincoln engaging in a year-long whine about James Buchanan? I inherited this slavery problem, you know. So don’t get your hopes to high.

Touché! Beautifully written, huh? I thought so, also!

But I know, you want more, huh? I’ve got more!!!

About Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Incompetano, Cullen writes:

She’s proof that there is at least one person in Washington who is less qualified for her job than Barack Obama is for his.

Bwahahahaha!!!

Then there’s a chapter called “The 7 Habits of a Highly Ineffective President”. BTW, habit #7 is priceless!

1. I Didn’t Explain it Right- There’s nothing wrong with the policy. You yokels are too stupid to understand it.

2. Let Me Be clear- Let me be clear is the rhetorical equivalent of an exploding dye pack in a bag of cash. It indelibly marks all words that follow as false. “Let me be clear” pegs my bullshit meter.

3. Conflation – Treating two different concepts as if they were one: In an attempt to marginalize the Tea Party movement, Obama described them as people who question whether he is a US citizen and believe he’s a socialist. Two totally unrelated things.

4. The False Choice- When Americans look to their government for responsible solutions, Barack Obama lives to offer us the false choice. We can either support his stale brand of socialism or we can do nothing.

5. The False Promise- Closing Gitmo. Broadcasting the health care debate on CSPAN.

6. Blaming Your Opponents- Even more bizarre were his repeated attempts to blame Republicans for his own failures. With an overwhelming Democrat majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, he still didn’t sign a single piece of major legislation in 2009.

7. Talking out of Your Ass- In situations that require a careful, measured (Let’s say presidential) response, Barack Obama comes across like the barroom drunk who thinks he’s an expert on everything. Facts are not important. Barry’s got something to say, and it’s a free country, dammit.

Examples: Skip Gates. Comments about Las Vegas.

This thread also ties in, rather nicely, to what former Florida governor Jeb Bush said Wednesday about Obama:

Jeb Bush tells President Obama: Stop blaming George W. Bush

Former Florida GOP Gov. Jeb Bush has grown tired of listening to Barack Obama blame his brother, telling Matt Bai, the “Political Times” columnist for The New York Times, that he finds the president’s behavior “childish.”

In an interview with Bai, Bush said that he has had enough of Obama frequently pointing back to his brother George W. Bush’s tenure to explain economic and budget problems, as well as failed oversight of the oil industry.

“It’s kind of like a kid coming to school saying, ‘The dog ate my homework,’” the former governor said of the president. “It’s childish. This is what children do until they mature. They don’t accept responsibility.”

“He apparently likes to act like he’s still campaigning, and he likes to blame George’s administration for everything,” Bush added.

Bush went on to criticize the president’s own stewardship of the economy, calling Obama “Hubert Humphrey on steroids.”

Read the whole piece here.

A tip o’ the hat to Denny!

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Protest Outside the ‘House of the Lord’ Church in Brooklyn

by Delectable ( 122 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Communism, Gaza, Islamists, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Turkey at June 18th, 2010 - 2:00 pm

Last night I attended a protest outside where certain Gaza ‘flotilla’ (aka terror armada) passengers were speaking in Brooklyn, at the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn. It should be noted that this ‘church’ actually believes in liberation theology, and claims that Jesus was an African, rather than Jewish.

Anyway, back to this protest. Here are pictures of the event. This is my favorite picture of the protest.

Protest

About 40 people of mixed background came to the protest in Brooklyn, on Atlantic Avenue. It should be noted that the Blind Sheikh was based out of the Masjid al-Farooq Mosque, at 554 Atlantic Avenue. This ‘church’ was at 415 Atlantic Avenue. So this protest occurred deep in the heart of Radical Islam.

In any case, the pro-jihadis had this clown singing ‘peace’ songs. It was quasi-comical. Of course, I also was handed the newspaper of the Communist Worker’s Party. Red/Green Alliance strikes again.

Clown

Some of the protesters (i.e., the good guys) started singing “We Con the World” while wearing clown wigs, which is the song popularized by the group Latma. It was quite appropos.

Some observations of the event:

  • A person running for City Council happened to be half a block from the ‘flotilla’ event. I asked him if he was pro-Israel, and he said yes. I then asked him if he backed Israel specifically in the ‘flotilla’ bruhaha, and he said “Well, it is complicated.” And then he went into a long story. I replied that it is not complicated at all and it is about Israel’s right to self defense. I then informed this would-be City Councilman (a Dem, of course), that I will not support him.
  • There was someone from Brazilian TV there, and I told him on camera that what I am most troubled by is language desecration, and I fear for the future over the misuse and defamation of the word “peace.” I told the same to a Columbia School of Journalism reporter.
  • More evidence of the red/green alliance – al-Awda NY sponsored this event, and you had communists handing out the Communist Worker’s Party newspaper. Al-Awda is linked to extremely unsavory jihad groups, as documented here.
  • I saw Turkish flags at this event. Never before have Turkish flags flown at such pro-jihad events. This is an extremely troubling trend.
  • At the event, the so-called ‘peace activists’ were screaming that Zionism is racism.

Overall, it is my considered opinion that peace is not possible while we buy into these false narratives, and claim that those who wish for the destruction of another are ‘peaceful.’ We must fight the war on the English language that the press has bought into, hook, line, and sinker.

And on a final note, I want to say that the pro-jihadis were really…pathetic. I mean, a tired, sad-looking man, singing a hippy-dippy ‘peace’ song, while wearing a jihad scarf? Come on! The only tragedy of this all is that we take these people seriously, and actually treat them like they have a substantial opinion, rather than the farces that they are.

Once we cut off the teat of the Western largesse to our jihadi adversaries, and stop treating the jihadis and their sympathizers as people worth listening to, real peace is possible.

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America’s 3rd World Style Demagogue President

by Rodan ( 63 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Liberal Fascism, Progressives at June 16th, 2010 - 5:00 pm

Our President Barack Hussein Obama, in reality is nothing more than a Viceroy for the Progressive-Islamic Axis. In last night’s speech, he once again showed his 3rd World style rhetoric. Like all Progressive dictators, he blamed the previous government. Obama then used the BP spill as an excuse to enact his radical Cap and Trade agenda. Last night’s speech could have been written by Hugo Chavez as it was similar in style and full of demagoguery.

Now, no one disputes that this is a real disaster and that BP acted irresponsibly in commissioning Trans-Ocean and Halliburton to drill for oil in waters so deep that if a failure occurred there would be no way to fix it — at least until major damage had been done. BP, Trans-Ocean, and Halliburton, as well as the individuals involved, have much to answer for.

But the action of the President in demanding this immense transfer of the stockholders’ wealth without any legislation or court decision is extremely worrisome.

We live in a Constitutional Republic. The President’s job under the Constitution is to enforce the laws made by the elected Congress. His job is not to create new laws and enforce them all by himself. His job is as magistrate under the Constitution, not as Caudillo. He is not the law. He is supposed to enforce what Congress decides.

Read the rest: Our Caudillo President

Not only is Barack Hussein Obama our first Post-American President, he is also our first 3rd World style Demagogue!

Jonah Goldberg has a great article describing Obama’s response to the BP Oil spill as a failure.

In a peculiar instance of synchronicity, President Obama’s Oval Office speech to the nation last night resembled the very calamity it was intended to address: Like the oil spewing into the Gulf, it began as a focused and narrow stream of words — and quickly spread out into an amorphous cloud of goo.

What started as a just-the-facts-ma’am explanation quickly got caught up in political currents — by the end we were treated to bromides about the Greatest Generation and putting a man on the moon and preposterous insinuations that the Red Chinese will turn Green before us. (China, mind you, is the country where the rivers burn, the air is crunchy and the government is building a new, filthy, coal-fired power plant every 10 days for the next decade).

News Update: Israel appears to about to cave to International pressure over Gaza.

JERUSALEM – Israel is likely to significantly ease the land blockade of Gaza in coming days in an effort to blunt the international outcry over its deadly raid on a blockade-busting flotilla, officials said Wednesday.

Israel has been scrambling to find ways to ease the embargo and its own growing international isolation.

The leaders of Israel have once again sold their people out.

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No Job creation from the Obama Boom

by Rodan ( 141 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Democratic Party, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Tranzis at June 8th, 2010 - 7:00 pm

The Myth of the Obama Boom is over. Wall Street continues to decline as it realizes the emperor has no clothes. The once great and heralded economic boom, doesn’t exist. It was invented by Rahm Emanuel and the Progressive Propaganda Media. Last Friday’s anemic jobs report showed 41,000 private sector jobs. A dismal figure and the one that exposed the lie of the Obama Economic Boom!


This boom in government spending was supposed to produce a boom in the private economy. So far, we’re one boom short. The May jobs report is a perfect distillation of Obamanomics, with its emphasis on short-term help to the economy — the stimulus package, the cash-for-clunkers program, etc. — that is as sustainable as a sugar high.

The headline jobs number of 431,000 looked good, but 411,000 were temporary census jobs. They will soon disappear, unless we want to employ Americans in the counting of one another in perpetuity. The 41,000 new private-sector jobs were about 60,000 short of what it takes just to absorb the natural growth of the labor force.

The driving force in the private economy has been companies pulling back on the liquidation of their inventories, a natural effect that would’ve occurred even absent President Obama’s various stimuli. The reaction of the Democrats to the failure of all the stimulus is to support yet more stimulus.

Read the rest: Where are the jobs?

The Obama Boom is just another in a series of lies to prop up the failing regime of Barack Hussein Obama. The American public are tired of the lies yet our press keeps deceiving like claiming Obama is still popular. The press will do anything for their glorious leader!

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Progressive Media Lies Open thread

by Rodan ( 107 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Media, Politics, Progressives at May 14th, 2010 - 3:00 pm

Here’s a funny video clip mocking Progressive Media Propaganda.

(Hat Tip: Fritz Katz)

This is an Afternoon Open thread. Discuss any topic you want. It can be Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, The Dali Lama or anything you want!

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Obamacare to cost more than estimated

by Rodan ( 114 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Democratic Party, Economy, Health Care, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Tranzis at May 12th, 2010 - 8:00 pm

The Progressive regime of Barack Hussein Obama claimed that their Eugenics based Obamacare would reduce the deficit. They used the CBO projections as a way to sell this hideous plan to so called Blue Dog Democrats. As it usually is with Totalitarian Progressives, they lied about the cost of their plan. For once the American people didn’t fall for this lie and were opposed to Obamacare. Being the Neo-Feudalists they are, the Progressives passed it against the will of the people.

The director of the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the health care reform legislation would cost, over the next ten years, $115 billion more than previously thought, bringing the total cost to more than $1 trillion.

The revised figure is due to estimated costs to federal agencies to implement the new health care reform bill – such as administrative expenses for the Internal Revenue Services and the Department of Health and Human Services — and the costs for a “variety of grant and other program spending for which specified funding levels for one or more years are provided in the act.”

CBO had originally estimated that the health care reform bill would result in a net reduction in federal deficits of $143 billion from 2010-2019; this revised number would eliminate most of that savings.

Read the rest: CBO: Health Care Bill Will Cost $115 Billion More Than Previously Assessed

Joe Wilson was right. Obama is a liar. The whole Progressive Movement is based on lies and the fact the estimates are higher should be no shock. Barack Hussein Obama just wants to keep piling on the debt so he can fundamentally transform the United States.

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