-For everything else, there's ObamaCard

This is the Republican's new commercial.



Maybe if the Republican party would put all the time and energy they put into new commercials into stopping Obama's rampant, devastating spending, they would get something done.

Thanks to IHatetheMedia

-Obama Provides Funding for our Enemies, Not our Fallen Officers

Obama's Supplemental Bill Passes, Gives Billions to Enemies? From Creeping Sharia

Barack Obama’s 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu was revised and “passed by the full committee”. Not sure what the next step is, but based on the summary, it gives billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.

Read the summary from David Obey’s office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.

• $3.6 billion, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces

• $400 million, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces

• Afghanistan: $1.52 billion, $86 million above the request

• West Bank and Gaza: $665 million in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza

• Jordan: $250 million, $250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance

• Egypt: $360 million, $310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance, $50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance

• Pakistan: $1.9 billion, $591 million above the request

• Iraq: $968 million, $336 million above the request

• Oversight: $20 million, $13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq

• Israel: $555 million of the $2.8 billion 2010 request for security assistance, $555 million above the supplemental request. (Note: that means Obama’s original request did not include any money for Israel in 2009)

• Lebanon: $74 million

• International Food Assistance: $500 million, $200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis

• Refugee Assistance: $343 million, $50 million above the request, …including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)

• Disaster Assistance: $200 million to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia

• Peacekeeping: $837 million for United Nations peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic

• HIV/AIDS: $100 million, $100 million above the request, for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to address a funding shortfall for grants in key countries such as Haiti, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Afghanistan. (Note: That means Obama’s original request didn’t include any money for AIDs)

• Africa: $151 million, $18 million above the request, for economic and security assistance for Kenya, Somalia, Southern Sudan, and Zimbabwe

• Mexico: $470 million, $404 million above the request, to address growing violence along the United States-Mexico border by supporting the Government of Mexico’s war against organized crime and drug-trafficking

• Georgia: $242 million to fulfill the United States commitment to the people of Georgia

• Global Financial Crisis: $300 million, $148 million below the request, to address the global financial crisis in developing countries

• Nuclear Non-Proliferation: $55 million, $34.5 million below the request, for the National Nuclear Security Administration to safeguard nuclear material in Russia and other sites world-wide

• Department of Justice: $17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system


This has not been reported in the U.S. media. We cannot count on the press to properly do their job and inform the American people and keep the government accountable and in check.

We have to cut defense spending and spending for the families of fallen police officers but we can give money to Terrorist supporting countries laden with anti-Western citizens.

Source: Creeping Sharia via Atlas Shruggs

-Quote of the Day: Obama on Gay Marriage

'I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.'
~Barack Obama



Where is the left on this one? Crying homophobia on Obama? Hypocrites.

-Muslim Persecution of Christians

Watch this video. The Islamic prosecution of Christians is under reported in the media and if it is, they are reported as isolated incidents. THESE ARE NOT ISOLATED INCIDENTS. This video is from terrorismawareness.org, and everyone should check it out. Spread the word about this. Send this link to everyone you know.

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This is what these radicals are taught. To Kill the Christians. It has been proclaimed by leaders of Islam. THIS IS JIHAD. We are letting it catch us unawares. These beliefs and the act of Jihad in general is not an extreme minority belief among Muslims. The majority of Muslims that do not support Jihad LIVE IN THE WEST. They aren't speaking out enough against the radicals and their Jihad. We definitely aren't hearing any Muslims speak up in the Islamic states.

EVEN IF THE MAJORITY VIEW OF MUSLIMS IS AGAINST RADICALISM AND JIHAD, they are NOT the ones with power, they are not speaking out, and they are LOSING. Spread the word, email this to your friends.

Below is a video stating the goal of Islam. Al-Jazeera and Hamas TV represent the Muslims in the middle east. Their ideals are anti-Western, anti-Christian, and pro-Jihad. See for yourself.



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-Dead People Get Stimulus Checks

Our inefficient and ineffectual government headed by an inefficient and ineffectual administration that pushed through a pointless spending bill can't even get its own agenda right. Apparently the government wasted a ton of money sending "stimulus" checks to dead people.

The government has dead people filed as alive. What else do they have screwed up in their system?

From Fox News:

Thousands of Americans are receiving federal stimulus checks in the mail, this week. Only problem: many of them are deceased.

Recently, a Long Island, New York woman was shocked when she checked the mail and received a letter from the U.S. Treasury -- but it wasn't for her.

Antoniette Santopadre of Valley Stream was expecting a $250 stimulus check. But when her son finally opened it, they saw that the check was made out to her father, Romolo Romonini, who died in Italy 34 years ago.

Romonini was a U.S. citizen when he left for Italy in 1933, but only returned to the U.S. for a seven-month visit in 1969.

The Santopadres are not alone. The Social Security Administration, which sent out 52 million checks, said some of those checks mistakenly went to dead people because the agency had no record of their death. That amounts to between 8,000 and 10,000 checks for millions of dollars.

The feds blame a rushed schedule, because all the checks have to be cut by June. But strangely, some of the checks were made out to people -- like Romonini -- who were never even part of the Social Security system.

If they aren't prepared to figure it out and get it right then they have no business pushing it through. It's common sense.

-John Murtha Gives Your Money to John Murtha Airport

Here's another example of how your tax dollars are being wasted because of a corrupt Congress.



Think of what those $150 million dollars could have been spent on instead. Way to clean up D.C. Nancy.

Source: Moonbattery

-Mother's Day Far Left Loon Style

Actress Cynthia Nixon wanted to wish mothers everywhere a happy mother's day. She decided to honor the occasion by promoting donations to Planned Parenthood abortion centers.

I am Cynthia Nixon. I am an actor, an activist, a mom, a daughter. But today, I am writing to you about motherhood, on behalf of Planned Parenthood and the many people they serve.

The truth is, in my book, there is no organization that supports motherhood more than Planned Parenthood..That's why I'm honoring the moms I know with a gift to Planned Parenthood today.

It's not easy to be a mother these days. Believe me, I know I'm lucky — I've had help and support — including the amazing, strong woman who blazed her own path to raise me as an independent, bold woman.

That's what Planned Parenthood is all about, too — providing the reproductive health care, education, and advocacy that help women everywhere to be healthy and to thrive. And right now — with more and more women seeking care from Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers — we need to do all we can to support them.

To me, it just makes sense: honor the courageous mothers who are raising kids, often in difficult situations these days, with a gift to the courageous organization that helps so many women.

As Mother's Day approaches, I am so grateful for the opportunity to make a difference and hope you'll join me.

This Mother's Day, you can make your gift in honor of someone you love. And the fine folks at Planned Parenthood will send that special person a special card saying you've chosen to make a gift to Planned Parenthood Federation of America in her or his name.

You'll be making a gift to millions of mothers — and to a generation of daughters and sons. What a profound way to mark this day.

Here's just a sample of what kind of action this company condones. Lila Rose, a UCLA student, recently went undercover posing as a 13 year old girl who was impregnated by her 31 year old boyfriend. What unfolds is pretty despicable.




Source: Newsbusters

-Too little, too late for Barack.

President Barack Obama, called our current debt "unsustainable" and that we cannot keep borrowing from other countries. Are you kidding me? This is coming from the man who pushed and signed a 700 billion dollar spending bill that was predominately earmarks or unnecessary projects.

“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

This just blows my mind. What is he thinking? Why was he okay with all that spending, that he said would create jobs, when in fact we're losing over 500,000 a month? This is what the majority of Republicans have been saying the whole time: this incredible debt will drive up interest rates and inflation rates. Now Obama gets it apparently. Someone needs to break it to him that it's too little, too late.

Source: Bloomberg

-You're paying for Chinese hooker training!

Here's an excellent use of your taxpayer dollars: the government is paying 2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job. And you don't even get the benefits as they live in China. Shame.

We feel it necessary to pay for this but Obama decided to cut military spending such as paying for new F-22 Raptors?

The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job. Dr. Xiaoming Li, the researcher conducting the program, is director of the Prevention Research Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. The researcher outlined three components of the intervention program in the abstract for the project:

“(1) gatekeeper (pimps) training with a focus on changing or enhancing the protective social norms and policy/practice at the establishment level; (2) FSW (female sex workers) training with a focus on the acquisition of communication skills (negotiating, limit setting) and behavioral skills (e.g., condom use skills, consistent condom use); and (3) semi-annual boosters to reinforce both social norms within establishments and individual skills,”

Our government is so corrupt and inefficient and yet we want to hand over the reigns of just about every industry to these incapable individuals.


"C'mon in ladies! I mean, we paid for it."


Source:CNSNews

-A small victory for the first amendment

Finally some good news. The first amendment was upheld today in the case of a public high school teacher preaching against religion in a public high school. If you want to keep God and religion out of schools, we should keep atheist philosophies out as well wouldn't that make sense? In this case, the courts got it right saying that showing hostility towards Christians and promoting "irreligion over religion" is a violation of the first amendment.

This is shameless indoctrination of young kids. This is not a college class, this is a taxpayer funded public high school with 14-18 year old kids.



Source:IHatetheMedia

-Bill O'Reilly must hate gay people

Here's a great example of liberal ignorance. David Shuster filled in on Hardball last night and took a Bill O'Reilly statement out of context and then made himself sound like an idiot.

-Now let me tell YOU a thing or two about marketing...

Marketer-in-Chief Barack Obama and his auto-industry task for has deemed Chrysler unworthy of advertising dollars. The executives at Chrysler who admitted have done an awful job in bankrupting the company, are being superseded by an executive who has essentially bankrupted the country. Things are looking up in Chryslerland. Good luck to GM when they want to try to make decisions about their company.

Things like this are what happens when you hand over nearly fifty percent of your company to a growing, irresponsible government headed by an irresponsible and manipulative leader.

Chrysler wanted to spend $134 million in advertising over the nine weeks it's expected to be in bankruptcy -- the U.S. Treasury's auto-industry task force gave it half that.

So if GM, which is wrestling with the possibility of a Chapter 11 filing itself, is wondering how much influence the task force will have over marketing, the answer is: plenty. However, transcripts from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Southern District of New York, where the Chrysler case is being heard, proved for the first time that the task force at least understands that advertising is a necessary expense -- even if it doesn't think Chrysler needs $134 million for nine weeks of car ads.

I had no idea that Barack Obama knew so much about marketing! Hm. Must have learned it while community organizing.

Source: Adage

-Garofalo Embarrasses Herself

If I were a liberal, I would be embarrassed to say Janeane Garofalo shared my ideology.



There were people of all colors and of all political affiliations there Janeane. Maybe they weren't protesting spending the last eight years because they recognized that we were fighting two wars, and that Bush's spending was essentially one third of what Obama has pushed through, with no way to make it up in time for our children to not have to sell their souls to Big Government. And for the record "Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willis" is the best sign of racism at the tea parties that she could think of? Give me a break, and lighten up. For the very large majority of these protesters, it's not about Obama's skin color. It's about the frightening prospect of a huge government and a enormous debt that is being built up for the generations to come.

The sad part for Janeane is that she has a lot more notoriety from her hate speech about "rednecks" than for any "entertaining" she has ever attempted to do.


Poor thing...

-Obama's Rampant, Irresponsible Spending

According to Barack Obama's new federal budget, the government will have to borrow fifty cents for every dollar it spends. An easier way to represent this is to say that you are going to spend a total of $200,000 next year, including mortgage car payments loans etc. What the government is doing is like if you put $100,000 dollars of worth of those payments on your Visa. Then, to top it off, there really is no way for them to pay it back anytime soon, even if they raise taxes to unprecedented levels.

The unprecedented deficit figures flow from the deep recession, the Wall Street bailout and the cost of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill - as well as a seemingly embedded structural imbalance between what the government spends and what it takes in.

The government does not know how to make money with its poor business structure. All it knows is taxing the "rich" who provide jobs, and spending, often to help those who are unwilling to help themselves and have come to expect handouts.

This shows ZERO fiscal responsibility and so do the excuses this administration makes.

"The deficits ... are driven in large part by the economic crisis inherited by this administration," said budget director Peter Orszag.

When are they going to accept responsibility for this spending? Do they not realize they are spending triple what Bush spent? The concept of Obama having to cover for Bush's spending by SPENDING MORE makes no sense, and the administration has really never been able to justify it with a straight answer.

If you find yourself $10,000 dollars in debt, you cut your spending, do you not? It wouldn't make sense for you to add another $20,000 in debt the next year.

Keep in mind that what the administration is doing act like they are fiscally responsible is to cut defense spending and military funding. Great idea when we are fighting two wars, we likely have another on our hands, and our national security is at risk from radicals.

It is only going to get worse, with Barack Obama pushing his government regulated and backed health care plan that will likely cost over a trillion dollars and will destroy a private sector of the economy.




Source: My Way News

-Al Gore Can't Save All the Polar Bears

-Assorted Ahmadinejad quotes on Israel, Nuclear Weapons, and the Holocaust

In light of President Obama's recently announced Middle East outreach speech to the Muslim community in June, I present to you a reminder of Iran and President Obama's feelings towards Iran and the Muslim world in general." Here is a video addressing the leaders and people of Iran, seeking "honest engagement that is grounded in mutual respect" as Dear Leader so eloquently put it.



Here are some quotes from the leader of Iran whom Obama addressed, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Do you think honest engagement and mutual respect can possibly be achieved with a person like this?

*"We don't shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world."

* "The wave of the Islamist revolution will soon reach the entire world."

* "Soon Islam will become the dominating force in the world, occupying first place in the number of followers amongst all other religions."

* "Is there a craft more beautiful, more sublime, more divine, than the craft of giving yourself to martyrdom and becoming holy? Do not doubt, Allah will prevail, and Islam will conquer mountain tops of the entire world."

* "What is important is that they have shown the way to martyrdom which we must follow.'' [President Ahmadinejad's comments on an aircraft crash in Tehran that killed 108 people in December 2005].

* Ahmadinejad praises Iran for being able to recruit thousands of suicide bombers a day. Iranian President Ahmadinejad praised his country's ability to recruit "hundreds of suicide bombers a day," saying "suicide is an invincible weapon. Suicide bombers in this land showed us the way, and they enlighten our future. The will to commit suicide is one of the best ways of life."

*"This regime (Israel) will one day disappear."

*"The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.

*Israel is doomed to be "wiped from the map" in "a war of destiny."

* Ahmadinejad said that "the countdown for the destruction of Israel" has begun.

* Zionists are "the personification of Satan."

* "Them (Whites) invented the myth of the massacre of the Jews and placed it above Allah, religions and prophets."

* "Iran does not give a damn about resolutions."

* "Our enemies should know that they are unable to even slightly hurt our nation and they cannot create the tiniest obstacle on its glorious and progressive way."


Source: Middle East Analysis

-Big Brother Using GPS to Keep Track of You

In Madison, Wisconsin, police can now secretly attach GPS units to any vehicle without needing to obtain a search warrant.

A district court ruling in a 2003 stalking case in which GPS tracking was used said that the tracking does not violate constitutional protections because the device only gave police information that could have been obtained through "visual surveillance"

"The idea that you can go and attach anything you want to somebody else's property without any court supervision, that's wrong," he said. "Without a warrant, they can do this on anybody they want." said Larry Dupuis, legal director of the ACLU of Wisconsin

Just another loophole for corrupt politicians and government workers to take advantage of and control the populous. It is absolutely frightening what the government could legally do if it really wanted to. More of these ridiculous laws fly right under the radar as it is. Privacy issues for private citizens are being virtually ignored by both Republicans and Democrats.

Source: Chicago Tribune

-Free Speech Under Attack at Purdue

Just another instance of free speech coming under attack. Nonie Darwish, a woman who escaped Sharia Law in the Middle East after living there for 47 years, came to Purdue University. The students there showed her true American hospitality by expressing their believe in the freedom of speech for radicals only. These kids seemed to think they knew more about Sharia Law than a woman who was born and raised in Egypt and Gaza for nearly 50 years knew.



Source: CreepingSharia via IHatetheMedia

-Top Ten Obama Gaffes (So Far)

You probably have only seen a few of these heavily publicized in the media. When reading these, ask yourself whether or not these colossal screw-ups would be treated differently by the media and liberals if the President were a Republican.


10 57 States?
"Because, you know, it is just wonderful to be back in Oregon, and over the last 15 months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states, I think, one left to go. One left to go, Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it." (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At A Campaign Event, Beaverton, OR, 5/9/08)




9 Special Olympics
As the first President to appear on Jay Leno's talk show, Obama stands out with Special Olympics humor.



8 That's a window, Mr. President...
Obama mistakes a window for a door. Can you imagine the things the left would say if Bush did this?



7 My Muslim Faith
Hm...Obama's slip of the tongue on his faith looks pretty bad...



6 Who invented the automobile?
During his first address to a joint session of Congress Obama stated: “And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.” Unfortunately for The Messiah, a German invented the automobile.

5 Ouch...
Obama bangs his head on his helicopter. Funny.



4 Celebrating Earth Day in Style
In celebration of Earth Day, Obama takes two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One to reach his ultimate destination, Iowa. He burns up more than 9,000 gallons of fuel in the process.

3 Seeing Ghosts
"On this Memorial as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today." (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks On Memorial Day, Las Cruces, NM, 5/26/08)

2 The Bow
Obama, the most powerful man in the world, bows to a Saudi King that presides over a dictatorship that outlaws Christianity, forbids women the right to vote, drive a car, or basically think for themselves, and a country that executes homosexuals. Later, an Obama aide insists: "It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah." See for yourself:



1 Disrespecting the Troops
In August 2007, Obama Said American Troops Were "Just Air Raiding Villages And Killing Civilians" In Afghanistan. "So now you have narco, you know, drug lords, who are helping to finance the Taliban. So we've got to get the job done there. And that requires us to have enough troops that we're not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there." (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At Nashua, NH, 8/13/07)

-A View from the other side

Below is a letter from a high-ranking Army officer to a person within the government whose name must be withheld. The letter and the accompanying articles give you a better understanding of how the military feels about the political games that Obama is playing. This letter and articles are must reads.


Hey,

Previously I gave my thoughts about what impacts the new administration would have on our involvement here. I said that militarily things would not change that much but I was mainly worried about the negative impacts of his socialist policies. Here is my latest view point.

Here in Iraq we are starting to feel the effects of going from the main effort (top priority) to third (behind the economy and Afghanistan). I understand shifting priorities and am OK with that. Things here are much better than they were over the last few years.

The main concern I have militarily is the political stand of trying to look like the “good guy” by blaming the military or “taking responsibility” for what goes wrong and then later restricting military action thereby making us ineffective. In Vietnam there were times when our guys were not allowed to shoot back at the enemy. It is proper to be responsible for our actions as well as avoid hurting civilians. However, we in the military cannot accomplish missions if we are held to impossible standards and sold out for short term political gains.

Below are two articles, one from the New York Post and the other from the Wall Street Journal. These are examples of what I am worried about. Of course I am just saying this as a concerned citizen and not as an Army Officer. Officially I support the administration and will do my best to carry out my duties in accordance with the guidance I have been given.

A High-Ranking Army Officer (Name Withheld)



New York Post
May 8, 2009

The Casualty Con

Bam Falling For Taliban Tricks

By Ralph Peters

THE most effective weapon terrorists have found to wield against us isn't the headline-grabbing suicide bomber or even the deadly roadside bomb, the IED.

Such weapons can harm us, but they can't stop us. Terror's super-weapon is the lie.

Lying about civilian casualties is the one sure way to impede or even halt US (or Israeli) operations, to force such tight restrictions on our troops that they can't win.

The casualty con's so effective as both propaganda and tactic that terrorists everywhere have adopted the technique. It's been so successful that our enemies long ago transitioned to the next phase: creating civilian casualties and blaming us.

It works. The media love the charge. Our troops and pilots are always guilty -- even if proven innocent. Because so many on the left want us to be guilty.

Few journalists bother to investigate. If the Taliban, al Qaeda, Hezbollah or Hamas says it, it must be so. In Media Wonderland, terrorists never lie. Now every successful strike on a Taliban target generates the instant claim that the dead were all civilians.

And it isn't just the media who back the Taliban. The Obama administration -- a case study in instant foreign-policy ineptitude -- signs up, too.

This week, Taliban terrorists publicly beheaded three civilians in Afghanistan's Farah province, then herded women and children into compounds from which they fought government forces and US advisers.

With a vicious ground battle under way, the Talibs knew attack aircraft would appear. According to military sources, they set up the target. And, just in case, they slaughtered those women and children with grenades before any aircraft appeared. The entire massacre was a planned media event.

And who gets blamed? Not the Taliban. Before the smoke cleared, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was apologizing. (Apologizing is one thing this administration does with real enthusiasm.)

Our SecState played right into the Taliban's hands. It was instinctive on her part. Clinton and her new Cabinet peers know that our military's evil. No need to say a single word about the Taliban's atrocity.

A few hours later, President Obama stepped up to his mike and read a prewritten statement about his meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's bookie-in-chief, President Asif Ali Zardari.

We'd need to comb the historical records, but it's just possible that no American president ever read a statement so out of touch with on-the-ground reality. The platitudes were thick, the substance was thin and the vision was pure fantasy.

No criticism of Karzai for consistently playing the populist card and backing Taliban claims. No criticism of Zardari for cowering while the Taliban overruns his country and its huge military twiddles its thumbs, dreaming of a war with India.

No, our president announced that he's going to bring civilian resources to bear now, sending $1.5 billion a year to Pakistan. Yet self-impoverished Pakistan has more than 170 million angry Muslims. Our president's going to make them our pals for an annual nine bucks a head?

It wouldn't matter if we poured in $90K for every Pak. Multi-year development projects are useless against an insurgency that's 60 miles from the capital. We're turning a home fire extinguisher on an inferno.

The Pakistanis have to fight. If they're not willing to fight to save their own country, there's nothing we can do.

Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan, the Taliban strategy of creating civilian casualties -- and lying about who the casualties are -- is undercutting any potential effectiveness of the 21,000 more troops we're sending to that worthless, hopeless country.

At the end of the day, the Taliban strategy works because our own government sides with the terrorists against our troops.

Instead of begging for forgiveness, Clinton needed to take a firm position. She should have said: "The deaths in Farah province were entirely the fault of the Taliban. To punish these terrorists and better protect Afghan civilians, we're loosening our rules of engagement. We will not tolerate this cynical use of women and children as unwilling weapons of war. These war criminals will be hunted down and killed."

Instead, Hillary blamed our military. Again.

This is war, Madame Secretary. Tragic mistakes happen, but the incident in Farah province wasn't an error -- it was a brutal, cynical set-up. And you stabbed our troops in the back. Again.

If the Obama administration doesn't want to fight, it should bring our troops home now. And let's see how much good those civilian-aid workers do.

Ralph Peters is Fox News' strategic analyst and the author of "Looking for Trouble."




Wall Street Journal
May 8, 2009
Pg. 11

Photos That Could Cost Lives

There is nothing to be learned from more images of detainee abuse.

By David K. Rebhein

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but is it worth the death of a single American soldier? Is any photograph worth the life of your Marine Corps daughter? Or your neighbor's deployed husband?

I would like to concede that these are tough questions, but they are really quite simple. The answer is a resounding "No." Releasing photographs of alleged or actual detainee abuse in the War on Terrorism is not worth the life of a single American. Of course, as some have noted, the incidents at Abu Ghraib have already endangered our troops. So did any orders and policies that may have led to those incidents. But what is to be accomplished by continuing to provide ammunition and provocation to the enemy?

At issue is the Pentagon's decision -- in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) -- to release a "substantial number" of images depicting the treatment of detainees by May 28 after being ordered by a judge on the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to do so. But given the riots that occurred after the release of the first round of Abu Ghraib photos and the enemy's penchant for using such images for propaganda and recruiting purposes, the Defense Department owes it to the soldiers to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to block the release of these photos.

Gen. Richard B. Myers, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, voiced his concern about the dangers of releasing photos in 2005. "It is probable that al Qaeda and other groups will seize upon these images and videos as grist for their propaganda mill, which will result in, besides violent attacks, increased terrorist recruitment, continued financial support and exacerbation of tensions between Iraqi and Afghani populaces and U.S. and coalition forces," he said in a statement in support of the Pentagon's efforts to oppose the ACLU's request. He added, "riots, violence and attacks by insurgents will result."

I was deeply disturbed by the images of Abu Ghraib. The military, however, has investigated the abuses and punished those involved. Moreover, the photographs that are now about to be released are already being used for investigative purposes. Other than self-flagellation by certain Americans, riots and future terrorist acts, what else do people expect will come from the release of these photographs?

This is not so much a matter of "the people's right to know" as it is a matter of needlessly endangering the lives of our brave troops -- 99% of whom have had no role in any interrogations or allegations of detainee abuse.

As commander of the nation's largest veterans service organization, I have had the honor to present Blue Star Banners to military families, with the Blue Star signifying the deployment of a service member. It is always a moving experience. But it is the Gold Star Banner, the star that signifies the death of a service member in war, that I never hope to present. I fear that there will be many Gold Stars as a result of this misbegotten policy.

Mr. Rehbein is national commander of the American Legion.

-No Jews Allowed

A hotel in the Austrian region of Tyrol now has a strict no Jews policy. The owner has stated that she does not want to take in Jewish guests because of "bad experiences" she has had in the past.

Why is this ignored by the media and tolerated by nearly everyone? Imagine the consequences if this Austrian hotel had employed a "No Muslims" or "No Blacks"policy, and the subsequent uproar it would cause.

The world is heading backward rather than forward.



Source: Haaretz via Atlas Shrugs

-Wanda Sykes "Roasts" Obama

Maybe sometimes we're all a little hard on Barack Obama huh? No? Well anyway, no matter what you think of President Obama, you have to give him a little bit of credit for his sense of humor. He can be self-depreciating when the time calls for it, such as at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial dinner, where he and Senator McCain both stood out. This is a very funny video.




Now for some one-liners from the Journalists' Dinner on Saturday night from the President:

"The minute she got back from Mexico, she pulled me into a hug and said I should go down there myself."

"This is a tough holiday for Rahm. He's not used to saying the word 'day' after 'mother.' "

"During the second 100 days, we will design, build and open a library dedicated to my first 100 days."

"My next 100 days will be so successful, I will complete them in 72 days. And on the 73rd day, I will rest."


But then Wanda Sykes, in charged with roasting the President, had to ruin all the fun. Here's are a few of her zingers.

* I know Governor Palin, she's not here tonight. She pulled out at the last minute. You know, somebody should tell her that's not really how you practice abstinence.
* And I have to say to the First Lady, kudos to you for unveiling the bust of the Sojourner of Truth in the White House. That's, yes. And, but, could you do me a favor and please make sure it's nailed down real well since, 'cause you know when the next white guy comes in they gonna move it to the kitchen.
* Rush Limbaugh, one of your big critics, boy, Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails. So, you're saying "I hope America fails," it's like, I don't care about people losing their homes, or their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq. He just wants the country to fail. To me, that's treason. He's not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, Sir, because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung out on oxycontin he missed his flight.
* Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how 'bout that? Needs a little waterboarding, that's what he needs.
* Sean Hannity, Sean Hannity said he's going to get waterboarded for charity, for our armed forces. He hasn't done it yet, I see. You know, talking about how he can take a waterboarding. Please. Okay, he can take a waterboarding by someone you know and trust, but let somebody from Pakistan waterboard, or Keith Olbermann. Let Keith Olbermann waterboard him. He can't take a waterboarding. I can break Sean Hannity just by giving him a middle seat in coach.
* Dick Cheney, oh my God, he's a scary man, scares me to death. I tell my kids, I says, "Look, if two cars pull up, and one has a stranger, and the other car has Dick Cheney, you get in the car with the stranger."
* And finally, Sir, they even gave you grief about the dog, about Bo. You know, the animal rights people on you, "Why didn't he get a rescue dog? Why didn't he get a rescue dog?" Look, the man has to rescue a country that's been abused by its previous owner. Let him have a fresh start with a dog.

Strong words Wanda. Remember last year's event and Stephen Colbert's roast of George W. Bush? Yeah, pretty different.



Source:The Washington Post

-Barack Obama VS George Bush: Newsweek Style

Newsweek lost any credibility it may have had left as a viable,impartial news source with this biased and quite frankly stupid visual. Click to read the fine print.




Source: Newsweek

-"Cyberbullying" bill threatens free speech

The bipartisan Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act has been reintroduced into Congress. The proposed legislation would legislation would demand up to two years in prison for those whose electronic speech is meant to “coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person.”

The act is in response to and is named for last year's case of cyberbullying in which the mother of Megan Meier's friend posed as a teenage boy and ultimately caused her to kill herself. The wording of the bill however, can easily be interpreted as to covering anything if it is convenient.

The bill includes limiting "hostile speech" among such mediums as email, websites, blogs, text messaging, and even over the telephone. Why don't they just try to outlaw the emotions of anger and hate while they're at it?

A bill such as this, while seemingly well-intentioned, is a severe infringement on free speech which, as noted in period days, is being quickly, quietly, and efficiently eroded right in front of our eyes. The government cannot possibly try to control every form of possible evil, and in doing so they threaten the very foundation our country was founded upon.

This document has been disregarded in recent years.

Source: Wired