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I’m starting a new category on Obama Will Lose. I don’t think I’m an optimist, I just don’t see him as electable, any more than McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis or Kerry were. What a collection of turkies!

Roger L Simon has a post on Obama and Hillary’s lies on NAFTA.

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Stephen Bainbridge writes on ‘Obama, Judicial Selection and the Rule of Law, in which he criticises Obama’s take on the role of judges, such as:

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.

Some of the commenters disagree with SB, quite eloquently sometimes, but they miss the point which is that judges should not make decisions based on a political agenda. For better or worse we have elected politicians and occasionally a Statesman to do that. Something to do with Democracy I’ve heard tell.

Time to get back to work here.

One of my hobby horses has been the Global Warming Scam. Sometime last year I got into a discussion at The Vigil [I won’t link to it, don’t want to attract loony lefties] wherein I got a couple of hoity toity look down your nose responses to the effect that if I couldn’t link to some peer reviewed articles to support my views I wasn’t worth reading. I posted this link to the series of articles in The National Post by ‘The Deniers’, eminent scientists all who are not part of the ‘consensus’ so touted by the Goracle and the rest of the lefty brain dead. Made no difference.
I should say I support Global Warming, bring it on I say, but alas I think we may be in for a period of Global Cooling. Another five years and they’ll be handing out credits for CO2 production and a big carbon foot print [not to be confused with a Big Foot footprint, something else entirely] will be deemed socially and morally correct. Which brings me to this article, ‘Temperature Monitors Report Wide Scale Global Cooling’. It’s actually kinda scary.

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.

Haven’t heard much from the Goracle lately, have we?

Update. The link seems to have gone screwy but Dr. Sanity has a post on the article with a link that worked when I tried it.
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A YouTube video worth seeing, Mark Steyn on Multiculturism.

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A couple of days ago it was my birthday, one week later it is my daughter’s. Today she mentioned that I was born in ‘36 and I’m 72, she was born in ‘72 and she will be 36. I don’t know if this might be a common occurrence, it seems odd enough to me to not be. Numbers are fascinating, wish I could be a mathematician.

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Project for Sunday, figure out uploading pics here. [Put that to remind myself].

Editors note: I have five years of archived posts in one file that I will have to hand post individually into this WordPress platform and it is, indeed, a daunting task. There are all kinds of extra squiggles and code that needs to be ferreted out and deleted, links updated and images found. So expect to get hit with some golden oldies as I plunge ahead with this task. If I am to make any inroads, time to write new posts will be a bit truncated.

But, sadly, what I wrote about back in 2004, when the below was posted, is even more relevant today.

In 2004 I remember thinking, we still have time, that the culturally imperialist Sharia mongers couldn’t possibly infiltrate so pervasively and thoroughly in America as they have in Europe.

I was wrong. This post describes one instance, of thousands, of an ongoing national effort to promote “understanding” under the guise of “ecumenical out reach” between muslims and Christians. Christian churches - apparently as gutted by “progressive” infiltration as the rest of America - are blindly providing trojan horse groups like CAIR center stage.

And most of you have probably read about the “redneck” baiting ABC is doing on behalf of CAIR. That still angers me so much that I can’t yet write about it.

But I touch on the evidence of “creeping sharia” in this post. And all of this to set up a post describing how blatantly Great Britain’s muslims are defying western law and defiling western culture. Hell, it ain’t creeping sharia anymore, it’s freaking marching across the continent. But, that’s the next post.

From February 25,2004…. “This is How They Do It”
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I see how this might work. See, the socialists in Washington state have a head start on Obama. Washingtonians are going to buy all of their poor neighbors new toilets.

Help is on the way for low-income homeowners wanting to cut water consumption and utility bills. Seattle Public Utilities is offering qualified homeowners the opportunity to replace old, water-wasting toilets with free, new, efficient ones. The new models should save thousands of gallons of water each year and more than $100 a year on utility bills, according to program organizers.
H/T: LGF links

I’m sure Seattle tax payers really, really want to support the disposal of their indigent comrades fecal matter.

Anyway, the messianic wanna-be Obama mentioned that he is going to have

taxpayers underwrite everyone’s indoctrination college education if they volunteer as brown shirts.

I suggest he send his merry bands of fledgling socialists to install these free toilets around the country. I also suggest that he supply them with toilet paper and command have them teach all of us poor, helpless Americans how to wipe our asses.

Why not? Obama’s vision for America doesn’t rise far above the sewer anyway. I mean, I’m just practicing how to “measure our greatness by the least of these…” Is that kinda what you mean, oh-great- messiah, when you suggest I need to ” fix my soul“? I have yet to hear a remark from a politician that has made me so livid. That’s why the free toilets reminded me of you and your chump change, Obama.

My guess is you are much more knowledgeable about matters closer to issues of sewage than you are about the condition of America’s soul. Until your vision rises out of the toilet Obama, you ain’t talking to me..

So come on Obama baby, just tell everyone how you want your ass wiped. I’m sure there are thousands of pathetic “progressives” who will be delighted to undertake the task.

As for me, my sights are set much, much higher. And I don’t need your stinkin’ help.

Editor’s Note: For a yet unknown reason, comments are not working on just this one post . If you want your say on free toilets, you can drop a comment in the post above this one. Thanks

Gee Obama, I know actually performing in the capacity that you were elected to perform in has proven to be a little too much for you. I mean, performing as the Messiah is very taxing, but gee, Obama honey, get your role down better. You preach change but you play the same games that Libtards have been excelling at for years. It seems that you have taken snake lessons from Hillary. Well, you two are cut from the same cloth…..

Barack Obama is promising to end partisanship in Washington, and here’s a place to start: He could stop playing politics with the Federal Election Commission in a way that could hamper John McCain’s campaign against, well, Mr. Obama.

The Illinois Senator is blocking confirmation of one of President Bush’s appointees to the FEC, which administers election laws. This has left the agency two commissioners short of the quorum it needs to make decisions — with the potential for direct harm to Mr. McCain’s campaign. As we’ve been writing, the Arizona Senator took out a controversial $1 million loan that FEC Chairman David Mason has said might lock him into the public finance system for the primary season. Mr. McCain doesn’t want to do that because he’d have to abide by spending limits that would reduce his campaigning this spring and summer. Mr. Mason says the FEC needs to rule on the matter, but without a quorum Mr. McCain is left hanging.

continue reading at….Obama’s Finance Ploy - WSJ.com

Any group of people who stick their asses up in the air five times a day certainly do not need be accommodated. Take your prayers and your foot baths and your allah and stick them where the sun don’t shine.

MUSLIM university students want lectures to be rescheduled to fit in with prayer timetables and separate male and female eating and recreational areas established on Australian campuses.

International Muslim students, predominantly from Saudi Arabia, have asked universities in Melbourne to change class times so they can attend congregational prayers. They also want a female-only area for Muslim students to eat and relax.

But at least one institution has rejected their demands, arguing that the university is secular and it does not want to set a precedent for requests granted in the name of religious beliefs.

La Trobe University International chief officer John Molony said several students had approached the Bundoora institution about rearranging class times to fit in with daily prayers.

Mr Molony said the university was attempting to “meet the needs” of an increasing number of Muslim international students, including doubling the size of the prayer room on campus.

La Trobe University International College director Martin Van Run said that although it was involved in discussions with the Muslim students who had made the requests, the university was not planning to change any timetables.

Muslims want unis to fit prayer time | The Australian

And so CAIR and other Islamic apologists, along with the the dhimmi media, would have you believe. And so you have, for the most part. Yes, folks are starting to wake up but, too many yet choose to accept the bromides from the silky snaked tongues of Islamists who know how well cultivated the field of America’s naïveté is.

A little while back the Jawa Report posted links to a video that records a 12 year old beheading a prisoner. He also links to a bonus feature where death was delivered to  living prisoners via fire. Sounds like torture doesn’t it? Oh, silly me, waterboarding is torture. I forgot. My PC chip must be malfunctioning.

Why? Why does Jawa post them? Why do I, or anybody, post about that ugly barbarous ritual at all?

Because the media won’t. Because Hollywood won’t make an honest movie about it. Few journalists will touch it and you can bet your last dollar nary one presidential contender will allude to it. They have a hard enough time spitting out the word jihad.

Not to worry. Those muslims who find this manner of slaughter commendable regularly post videos and images of their proud achievements. And their appreciative allah-besotted audience eats it up.

And I only can assume the folks at CAIR must be entirely oblivious to it because surely, an organization so damn convinced that their religion is maliciously maligned would really get their panties in a wad if they knew muslims were proudly mutilating men and women, bragging about it, and damn, all in the name of Allah. (spit) Right?

Hell, one devotee of the practice wrote poetic odes, lovingly detailing the subtle killing skills she so obviously savors. What, does she tenderly caress the image of the severed neck in her mind? Does she taste blood while she composes various stanzas? Will she read her poems to her children?

Hold him
Tie the arms behind his back
And bandage his legs together
Just by the ankles
Blindfold the punk
So that he won’t hesitate as much
For on seeing the sharp pointy knife
He’ll begin to shake
And continuously scream like an eedyat
And jiggle like a jelly
Trust me–this will sure get you angry
It’s better to have at least two or three brothers by your side
Who can hold the fool
Because as soon as the warm sharp knife
Touches his naked flesh
He’ll come to know what’ll happen
It’s not as messy or as hard as some may think,
It’s all about the flow of the wrist.
No doubt that the punk will twitch and scream
But ignore the donkey’s ass
And continue to slice back and forth
You’ll feel the knife hit the wind and food pipe
But don’t stop
Continue with all your might.
About now you should feel the knife vibrate,
You can feel the warm heat being given off,
But this is due to the friction being caused.

from…Beheading in the Name of Islam Online

Repeat after me. Islam is peace, Islam is peace, Islam is……………..

Perhaps some of the change Obama will offer is a new theater of war. After all, the current conflict in Kenya features Obama’s cousin, Raila Odinga, a man currently accused of ethnic cleansing as his Luo tribesmen protest his election day loss. One can only hope that Obama’s American contingent of rabid fans are not quite as excitable as his cousin’s fans in Africa.

As they wave machetes with gleaming blades, rioters in Kenya’s sprawling slums say they have two things on their minds: protesting Kenya’s presidential election and Barack Obama.

The US presidential candidate — whose father is Kenyan — is a favourite son of the nation which erupted into violence after hotly-contested elections in December.

President Mwai Kibaki has claimed victory in the December 27 vote but opposition leader Raila Odinga said the polls were rigged while international observers have cited serious flaws.

About 1,000 people have since died in ethnic clashes, riots and looting.

The ethnic clashes have fueled Obama fever, with members of the Luo ethnic group rallying behind Obama, whose father was a Luo.

“Obama!” a group of Luo men shouted in unison, as they stood guard at a makeshift roadblock near the entrance of Kibera, Kenya’s biggest shantytown outside Nairobi.

“We are supporting him here. We want him to win the election,” said Mohammed Noor, 27. “Did you know that Obama’s father is also Luo?” he added.

Behind Noor, young men yelled: “Tell Obama we want guns!”

from…Obama Mania Soars Amid Kenyan Unrest

What role does Islam play? Reading so far suggests it isn’t the prime militating factor, but, it is definitely in the mix. There certainly are the tell tale signs indicating that the true believers are operative - like a church full of burning Christians - torched by Odinga’s Luo tribe.

A mob torched a church where hundreds had sought refuge Tuesday, and witnesses said dozens of people — including children — were burned alive or hacked to death with machetes in ethnic violence that followed Kenya’s disputed election.

This article refers to Odinga’s strong muslim support

…most of Kenya’s Muslims and most of Kenya’s poor in the vast slums that ring Nairobi backed Mr Odinga. Many of them are angry. Some have vented their spleen against Kikuyus living among them, often chasing them away, burning their houses and shops and sometimes killing them.

And perhaps he earned their support by pledging to implement sharia law when he takes over.

Raila has now made a deal for support from the Soviets’ successors as world-champion enemies of the West and democratic freedoms: Muslim fundamentalists… The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya has posted on its website a photograph copy of a Memorandum of Understanding, dated and signed on August 29, 2007, between Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya…

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It matters little whether individual Kenyans view this as a religious war, the purveyors of Jihad intend to swallow Kenya as well.

Islamic governments have targeted Kenya as a key element in the spread of Islam in Horn of Africa and ultimately the world. The Kenyan Diaspora including Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Hussein Obama has also played a part. The fall of Kenya into Islamist control would be devastating to anti-terrorist activities in the Horn of Africa, not to mention the potential for expansion of a caliphate. One has to ask, how fast will Kenya go Islamic and apply Shariah law?

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…. I believe that the recent events Kenya stand out as a watershed event signaling emerging resurgence of Islam in Kenya and the beginning of the open Clash of Ideologies between the Muslims and Christians.

The events unfolding do not represent a Clash of Civilizations, ethnic issues or a race issue, the conflict is between Ideologies – Muslim vs. Judeo Christian Ideologies and between Leftist/Marxist authoritarian (Liberal Fascism vs. democratic free enterprise.)

The Clash of Ideologies in Africa: Kenya

There is no doubt Obama will have his hand in Africa…. “In his speech to well-wishers, Obama expressed a deep sense of solidarity with this small community and the Kenyan people…” … and it appears that Bush is paving the way for him.

I am not comfortable with a would-be president whose brother is a Muslim, whose cousin, if not Islamic, shares Obama’s populist/socialist ideology. I’d like him to declare unequivocally his denunciation of sharia law. Fat chance.

But when you consider the ideological similarities between the totalism in socialism and Islam, you can see where, like in England, sharia law easily insinuates itself through the rot multiculturalism has bred.

And that is one of many, many reasons for me to work furiously to see that Obama never steps a foot into the White House - except when McCain has some chores for him to do.

Related Reading…

AFRICA INSIGHT - Obama must tame America for the continent of his ancestors

Obama’s African Hubris
Class and Kinship in Kenya’s Killing Fields

The Kenyan Jihad

Kenyan Government calls Obama ’stooge’ for Odinga

Barack Obama, Kenya, his cousin Odinga and Islamic jihad

Class and Kinship in Kenya’s Killing Fields

Who is this Man with Obama?

I am enjoying the speculations of Gullyborg at “Resistance is Futile” as to who John McCain will choose as his running mate.

He nails McCain’s manipulation of Huckabee….

….my real point is that McCain won’t choose Huckabee as his running mate. He played Huckabee, got him to stay in the race long enough to force out Thompson, Giuliani, and Romney… now he serves no purpose and can be discarded. McCain is a back stabber egomaniac, after all.

He goes on to point out how Huckabee can still screw things up for McCain if he gets enough votes, regardless of delegate count.

…if he can get enough people to vote for him simply as “not McCain” that, in terms of actual votes and not delegates, he could “win” the nomination even if he doesn’t. Imagine if, after all the primaries are done, McCain has “won” the delegate count but is far behind in terms of actual votes… that could lead to a breakdown of the nomination process and all hell could break loose at the convention.

After weighing the likely impact of Thompson and Romney, he posits that selecting Giuliani has better all around payoff and, quite frankly, I can live with that.

It isn’t about winning big in Red States. It is about holding on to Red States, even if by only one vote, and making gains in Blue States. McCain/Giuliani does that.

So what if the GOP loses Kansas? What is that, like six votes in the Electoral College? McCain/Giuliani could win New Jersey. That’s more than double. They could win Pennsylvania. That’s more than triple. They could force the democrats to spend all their money retaining New York and California, leaving states like Ohio and Florida safe in GOP hands - and the democrats CAN’T win the Electoral College without taking a state like Ohio or Florida away from the GOP.

McCain also benefits from ticket balancing with Giuliani. Not liberal/conservative, but in other ways. Giuliani is a lawyer and an executive. He has a record of running things. As VP, he could be tasked with running a number of projects for the administration - and would probably do them well.

My prediction: McCain/Giuliani, and they win BIG in the Electoral College even without getting the conservative base out in droves.

Yup, I can live with a McCain/Giuliani ticket. Sort of… given both he and McCain are too easy on illegals, and well, if I start thinking of the many trepidations I have about McCain, I realize that Obama is the only reason I have gravitated towards voting for McCain at all. The more I read about him, the more appealing McCain becomes.

And Giuliani can name the enemy, whereas an Obama presidency will probably inspire the enemy to name their kids after him.

What say you?

You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq.

And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.

You know, Obama, you’d be wrong on that.

The image of bereft and bumbling troops that Obama conjured up, however, probably confirms conclusions that he would prefer to reach. Just like his wife’s deficit in American pride is derivative of a certain mind set, so also is the would-be commander-in-chief’s. I fear Obama -and whatever leftist posse he drags into office with him - will dress the troops in shades of UN Goon Blue and send them traipsing around the world, redistributing America’s wealth, which, he has already promised, you’ll have no choice but to labor for. All for the greater good (but not your grandchildren’s greater good).

Amy Proctor’s husband, currently deployed, is one of hundreds who have responded to Obama’s questionable statements on arming the troops. He “wrote from Iraq that Obama has his facts completely wrong and that his words are a diversion”. Read his email and others weighing in at Amy’s site

Also of interest is ABC’s Jake Tapper’s attempt to fact check Obama’s statements, concluding, in his mind, that Obama was not in error. A perusal of the comments convincingly demonstrates that Mr. Tapper would likely be wrong, too. This one sums up the general consensus pretty well….

Obama said:

“You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon,” he said. “Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.”

The captain disavowed the complete last sentence of the anecdote. Obama’s wording in the first part makes it sound like this platoon didn’t have enough basic ammunition as opposed to specialized ammo. And he makes it sound like the platoon was split up, rather than individuals being reassigned to other units that eventually wound up in Iraq.

But the anecdote checks out? Tapper might be a good writer, but he’s not a magician. Obama more than shaded the truth. He didn’t “let the facts get in the way of a good anecdote.”

Well, they’re in the way now, and Tapper’s article, while it softens the blow, does nothing to dissuade objective observers from concluding that Obama is uninformed about military procedure (for example, many military personnel have pointed out that platoons are rarely at 100% strength) and clearly willing to distort the facts for political gain - the precise thing he accuses the current administration of doing.

Posted by: Me | Feb 22, 2008 6:00:43 PM

May killer clowns rise up to avenge them……

Rahman, Ali and Safi are members of Happy Family Clowns group, established in 2004 to put smiles on the faces of Iraqi children.

A few months ago the group started receiving death threats warning them against continuing their show, entitled A Child is as Scared as a Country.

But the clowns kept going, until two members of the troupe were murdered.

This was enough to drive the surviving three to leave Iraq.

“We don’t know why they targeted us. We were entertaining children,” says Rahman.

Via…LGF: Saddest Story of the Week

Ezra Levant reports…

PEN Canada has issued a statement calling not only for the immediate dismissal of the human rights complaints against Mark Steyn and me, but calling for an amendment to the Canadian Human Rights Act to excise the abusive Section 13 — the thought crimes provision.

I would call PEN’s statement a political landmark on par with the Globe and Mail’s on the subject, and with Keith Martin’s >private member’s motion.
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When PEN Canada is on side to amend the Human Rights Act, and every newspaper in the country, even the most timorous Justice Minister has no political reason to delay making such an amendment.

continue reading at … Ezra Levant

A Canadian Guy reports that the muslim Syed Soharwardy, the iman who has been trying to silence Izra Levant , is now being accused of trying to intimidate a muslim woman who lodged a complaint against him with the very same Human Rights (snort) commission that he is using to beat up Levant. He includes the photographic evidence of the assault (to your right) discovered by Ezra Levant in a “foreign-language” publication.

Const. Paban Dhaliwal said a man and a woman knocked on the door of Butt’s home, and when questioned, identified themselves as members of the press.
When Butt opened the door, the couple forced their way into the home, pushing Butt against the wall a number of times and producing a weapon…He said the woman was fully covered in a dark burka and was wearing black gloves. The male suspect is described as of East Indian descent….

It gets repetitive to point out the obvious, but so many people seem stubbornly resistant to recognizing the disparity in media coverage. Had a Muslim woman been assaulted by “right-wing radicals” whom she was suing for discrimination, the press would salivate over every morsel of indignation and outrage that they could cull from story.

Likewise, had a lesbian accused a christian leader of instigating similar thuggery in retaliation for, lets say, charges alleging hate speech, the bellowing of the blithering gender defenders would pollute the airwaves for days.

Yet, an iman can, in a Western country, without consequence and scant media notice, merrily and repeatedly whittle away at free speech while disabusing women in his mosque of any notion that they deserve a fair hearing for grievances.

Luxembourg parliament adopted a law late on Tuesday to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide.
This added the Grand Duchy to a small group of countries that allow the terminally ill to end their lives.
The law, expected to come into force towards the summer, was passed by 30 votes to 26. Luxembourg’s media said it was a symbolic defeat for Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker whose Christian Social Party opposed it.
“The Christian Social Party and the Catholic church were against the euthanasia law, calling it murder but we said no, it’s just another way to go,” said Jean Huss, a member of parliament of the Green Party and co-sponsor of the bill.
Luxembourg adopts euthanasia law

Baby killers basically got a two-for-one when they won the right to murder the fruits of their indiscretions . Once the high priestess of Abortion sweet talked her way into the sanctuary, her twisted sister, Euthanasia, sashayed on in right behind her. Predictable. And absolutely chilling when you understand the import of the government dispensing your health care. How expendable are you?

For those too young to have seen the movie Soylent Green, (trailer above) I suggest you rent it. If you vote socialism in (Obama or Hillary), not only will your wealth be redistributed, eventually, so will portions of your body. After all, who wants to waste all that protein? (See the movie if you don’t get it)

Related Reading:

Retroactive Abortion

In Canada, the Schiavo case with an outrageous twist

Half of Dutch euthanasia cases go unreported

Modern Eugenics: Our Brave New World

Don’t treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors