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Where do you see America
Guest post from a Marine Vietnam vet.
Excerpt: So, on a highly symbolic date, mobs storm American
diplomatic facilities and drag the corpse of a U.S. ambassador through the
streets. Then the president flies to Vegas for a fundraiser. No, no, a novelist
would say; that’s too pat, too neat in its symbolic contrast. Make it Cleveland , or Des
Moines . The president is surrounded by delirious
fanbois and fangurls screaming “We love you,” too drunk on his celebrity to
understand this is the first photo-op in the aftermath of a national
humiliation. (Mark Steyn comes down hard on the murder of our ambassador
and what it means, and how incredibly poorly the response of the Prez and
others has been. He expresses some of the deep anger every American should feel
about this atrocity, and secondarily about the sad excuse for a proper
response. --Del )
The
Problem Is?
Long-awaited
'Furious' report places blame on ATF, Justice
Excerpt:
Dozens of senior-level U.S. government officials turned a blind eye to public
safety as they pursued an ill-conceived and poorly managed investigation into
gun trafficking in Mexico, according to a long-awaited inspector general's
report on Operation Fast and Furious. (Fox has some sections of it, and the
finger pointing has started. Heads will roll, of course, but will t hey be all
the right ones? Or will it be the lower down guys taking the heat while the
upper level managers who really have responsibility get to skate? --Del
Excerpt:
You just knew Che Guevara would show up as an icon of the union demonstrators
in Chicago
Excerpt:
On September 13, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent an
internal email to its staff under the subject line "Hispanic Heritage
Month." The email, obtained by The Weekly Standard magazine, featured a
picture of infamous communist butcher Che Guevara with the slogan "hasta
la victoria siempre," or "on to victory, always."
Excerpt: The so-called excuse was that German diplomat Ernst vom
Rath had been assassinated in Paris, France on November 7th, 1938 by Herschel
Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew. Shortly thereafter, on November
9th and 10th, a series of brutal and coordinated Nazi attacks were carried
out on Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues.
Excerpt:
An Egyptian security official speaking to WND today said there is information
about large-scale infiltration by al-Qaida and its affiliated Jihadia Salafiya
groups within the Libyan security apparatus. The claim comes amid speculation
about how Islamists who targeted the U.S.
mission in Libya seemed to
have inside information about the movement of the American diplomats in the
country as well as the location of a supposedly secret U.S. safehouse in Libya
Excerpt:
Well, yesterday we learned from Federal Reserve Chief Bernanke that he plans to
pump another $40 billion dollars into the U.S. America
Principal
Sees Racism in Peanut Butter. By Todd Starnes
Excerpt:
An Oregon
Taliban
'Targeted Prince Harry' On Base: Two US Marines
die in an attack on Camp Bastion
Excerpt:
A Taliban commander has told Sky News that Prince Harry was the primary target
of an attack on a major Allied military base in Afghanistan Camp Bastion
Didn’t
get the “Islam is a Religion of Peace” memo. ~Bob
State
Department official: Egypt
By James Rosen
No
wonder they despise us as weaklings. ~Bob.
Excerpt:
Don't be concerned: the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims is just blocks away
from the embassy now, and just about to put a stop to the actions of their
violent coreligionists. The count of the dead and wounded comes from this Reuters/DPA report.
Enraged
Muslims protest worldwide, demanding end to free speech
Love
the pictures of members of “The Religion of Peace.” ~Bob
Sometimes,
the headline is all you need. Who could have predicted the “democratic Arab
Spring” would turn out this way. Okay, me among hundreds, but no one in power.
~Bob.
"Listen,
listen Obama, we are all Osama" -- Lebanon
"Obama, Obama,
we are all Osama." "USA
This is the result of Obama's
foreign policy of reaching out to Muslim countries. The chant on the
streets of Cairo
and elsewhere in the Arab and Muslim world: "Obama, Obama, we are all
Osama." "USA ,
go to hell." The notion that an offensive film was the cause of the
violence is nonsense. Islamist forces in those countries are on the lookout for
any pretext to organize violent mobs on the streets and arm them. The new
authorities in the countries of the Arab Spring are only too happy to abet and
ignore violence against the US
to gain their favor or because that is their tacit policy. The Administration
has been unprepared to meet this threat. Remember, earlier this year an
Egyptian Islamist mob stormed the Israeli embassy in Cairo . It took some strong arming by the
Administration to get the Egyptian government to end the attack. Given this
experience and intelligence about the growing influence of
Islamists in those countries, why were we not prepared? Why had we not put
those governments on notice? Why are we not ending aid, or at least making
it conditional, to countries that in every possible way are not our friends? We
are paying protection money to bad, if not rogue, states that have nothing to
offer us except the possibility of participation in the suppression of Islamist
terrorist groups that threaten us. If they don't, can't or are unwilling to do
this, we would be better off keeping the money or funding elements of
those societies that desire more internally focused, non jihadist
governments. Cordially. Larry Greenberg
"US
Embassy Zings Egypt
Excerpt:
The US embassy in Cairo caught the ruling Muslim Brotherhood being two-faced as
the protests were under way earlier this week, reports the Hill. The Egypt
Islamophobia
averted in UK
Excerpt:
The world breathes a collective sigh of relief as Britain
Excerpt:
Sudanese demonstrators broke into the German embassy in Khartoum
Obama:
Detention OK for 1st Amendment 'activities'
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/obama-detention-ok-for-1st-amendment-activities/
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/obama-detention-ok-for-1st-amendment-activities/
Excerpt:
Faster than he can play a round of golf, Obama had his attorneys file an appeal
to a judge's permanent injunction against enforcement of Section 1021 of the
most recent National Defense Authorization Act. The judge declared
unconstitutional the indefinite detention of U.S.
CALLING
ALL AMERICA-BASHERS: From the Fabulous Weaselzippers.us: Muslim Brotherhood
Praises Anti-American Protests on Arabic Twitter Feed, Feigns Support for
Embassy Staff on English Feed...
IT'S A LANDSLIDE: The Empty Chair is Losing. By William L.
Gensert
http://losangelescitycollege.blogspot.com/2012/09/its-landslide-empty-chair-is-losing-by.html
Excerpt: President Obama is headed to defeat in November, and it won't be close. Forget about the polls, and forget about the cadre of delusional Democrats who can't stop telling us how great and successful the last three and a half years have been. Slick Willy can shill all he likes, but seriously, he's preaching to the choir, because the only ones believing his shtick are bought and paid for sycophants, crony capitalists, and members of the mainstream media.
http://losangelescitycollege.blogspot.com/2012/09/its-landslide-empty-chair-is-losing-by.html
Excerpt: President Obama is headed to defeat in November, and it won't be close. Forget about the polls, and forget about the cadre of delusional Democrats who can't stop telling us how great and successful the last three and a half years have been. Slick Willy can shill all he likes, but seriously, he's preaching to the choir, because the only ones believing his shtick are bought and paid for sycophants, crony capitalists, and members of the mainstream media.
The United States of America
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/316832/obamas-mistake-much-bigger-ally-gaffe#
Excerpt: We cannot be the all-purpose bogeyman in the political rhetoric of states that claim to want to be our friends, a convenient caricature for regime spokesmen to trot out when they need to distract from their own failures. The demonization ofAmerica is so pervasive in Egyptian
media it even percolated freely in the English-language press under Mubarak.
No one’s asking foreign governments to shut down voices critical of America;
just to refute the lies and stand up for our reputations, to stop letting us be
the perpetual villain in all of their political discussions.
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/316832/obamas-mistake-much-bigger-ally-gaffe#
Excerpt: We cannot be the all-purpose bogeyman in the political rhetoric of states that claim to want to be our friends, a convenient caricature for regime spokesmen to trot out when they need to distract from their own failures. The demonization of
Romney Is Right: Suddenly it’s wrong to articulate a
foreign policy different from Obama’s? By Rich Lowry
Excerpt:
When a U.S.
Unless
one of the candidates is President Barack Obama
and the other is Mitt Romney. Then, everything changes.
Worth Reading : The Abandonment: Not since its birth has Israel
Excerpt:
What is incoherent is President Obama’s position. He declares the Iranian
program intolerable — “I do not have a policy of containment; I have a policy
to prevent Iran from
obtaining a nuclear weapon” — yet stands by as Iran
Obama’s
‘proud’ statements on changing US
Excerpt:
President Obama has said that elevating the image of the United States Middle East
are bringing fresh attacks on the president’s foreign policies as Muslim rage
is intensifying in the region.
When Is a Religion not a Religion? When its adherents will not
rest until Sharia rules humanity. By Michael Rulle
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton has managed to stay out of the
limelight these last four years. Her image and approval rating had been pretty
high. The media and most of the public have assumed she has been doing a good
job.
Press Endangers Private Citizen To Hide Obama's
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/09/13/Press-Endangers-Privat
e-Citizen-to-Distract-from-Obamas-Middle-East-Failures
Excerpt: Instead of questioning President Barack Obama about
the intelligence and security failures that led to the deaths of four
diplomatic personnel in Libya
Tuesday, the media has focused its ire on a California private citizen. (A scathing
review of how the media have mishandled the whole Middle
East murder subject here. --Del )
Sixteen Reasons Why Islam Is Not the Religion of Peace.
By James Arlandson
Excerpt: Islam is not the religion of peace. The
following sixteen reasons, all sourced from the original sacred documents (the
Quran and Traditions), classical law, and history, tell us why.
Obama Flashback: The Day I’m Inaugurated Muslim Hostility will Cease
http://visiontoamerica.com/12209/obama-flashback-the-day-im-inaugurated-muslim-hostility-will-cease/
Excerpt: Then-Senator Barack Obama makes the case for an
Obama Presidency on November 21, 2007 by saying he is uniquely qualified to
bring stability to America ’s
relationships in the Muslim world because he lived in an Islamic country during
his youth and his half-sister is Muslim.
Excerpt: It would now seem that the Obama/Pelosi/Reid
regime, and the entire liberal electorate, have now succeeded in being able to
re-direct the national conversation on any issue toward the demonization of
anyone who clings to moral or constitutional principles.
Teen held in 'jihad'
terrorist plot to bomb Chicago
Didn't get the memo here in Chicago . ~Bob. Excerpt: A Hillside teenager
has been charged with trying to detonate a car bomb outside a bar in downtown
Chicago, following months of surveillance in which he boasted to undercover
federal agents of ignoring reprimands from a mosque leader against plans for
terrorism, the U.S. attorney's office announced.
Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
Excerpt: This is what the violence and protests are all
about. This is what the goal is. There will be more and more calls like this in
the coming days. (Of course, since they get to decide what is an insult, it
could be a crime to walk your dog on the street near Muslims, or have a cross
on your church. ~Bob.)
A Cool-Headed Climate Conversation With Aerospace Legend
Burt Rutan
Excerpt: I was shocked to find that there were actually
climate scientists who wouldn’t share the raw data, but would only share their
conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories
about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the
worse that smell got, the deeper I looked. (...) Tragically, policymakers have
thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at
solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists
who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood
mute. (Burt Rutan is widely acknowledged as one of the greats in the Aerpspace
industy and is especially known for his ability to find the right data from
among the cloud of possibility and make the best choices based on it. Ron P.)
Insurgents wore US
uniforms attacking British air base in Afghanistan
Excerpt: Coalition military authorities in Afghanistan say the insurgents who attacked
a British airfield in southwestern Afghanistan on Friday, killing
two U.S. Marines, wore U.S. Army uniforms and destroyed six Harrier fighter
jets.
Yuma Harrier jets,
Marine felled in Afghanistan
Excerpt: ISAF personnel fired on
the attackers and killed all but one, who was wounded and is being held in a
medical facility. The base was secured early Saturday morning, military
officials said. (But they said Prince Harry was never in any danger, so all is
well. --MasterGuns)
Excerpt: The State Department told reporters Friday
afternoon that it won’t answer any more questions about the Sept. 11 attack on
the consulate in Benghazi that
killed four Americans until the investigation into the incident is
complete. “I’m going to frustrate all of you, infinitely, by telling you
that now that we have an open FBI investigation on the death of these four
Americans, we are not going to be in a position to talk at all about what the
U.S. government may or may not be learning about how any of this happened — not
who they were, not how it happened, not what happened to Ambassador Stevens, not any of it — until the Justice Department is ready to
talk about the investigation that’s its got,” State Department spokeswoman
Victorian Nuland told reporters late Friday afternoon.
Tee shirts at Florida
A Time For Choosing: Sharia
Or The Constitution!!! By Roger Kimball
Excerpt: When the motor of history gets revved up (as it
surely is now), it becomes more than commonly difficult to discriminate between
the mere static of events rubbing against one another and that appoggiatura
that announces the main theme of the moment.
You’d have to be pretty thick not to sense that something big is happening in the world. Just
yesterday, the Evening Standard published a column of mine in which I reprised James Carville’s
famous taunt, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Excerpt: The turmoil in the Middle East turmoil, the Federal
Reserve's decision to further devalue the U.S. dollar through a third round of
"quantitative easing" (QE3), and rising oil prices are combining to
create a toxic economic brew that could send the global economy into recession.
That was the assessment of International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih
Birol. (Yes, plans are in place so that we will fondly remember the days when
gas was only $4.10/gal….The US has been crippled and disabled from the inside
out. His “Plan is working.” With MSM help, John Doe has yet to imagine the
unimaginable…Barb)
Producer Of
Anti-Islam Film Was Fed Snitch
Excerpt: In remarks stressing that the U.S. government had “absolutely nothing to
do with” the anti-Islam film that has touched off violence in the Middle East , Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday
sought to quash Arab concerns that the “disgusting and reprehensible” movie was
somehow produced or condoned by American officials. However, Clinton’s attempt
to distance the U.S. from “Innocence of Muslims”–and, by extension, its
felonious producer–may be complicated by the revelation that Nakoula Basseley
Nakoula became a government informant after his 2009 arrest for bank fraud, The
Smoking Gun has learned.
Ms Clinton Causes
Islamic Radicals To Wet Their Trousers, From Laughter
Excerpt: The Muslim Brotherhood continues to impose Sharia
and the Obama Administration acts as the facilitator and enabler. It is their
purpose to impose Sharia on the free world and such statements by our Secretary
of State makes that goal more of a reality.
Excerpt: And then there’s top
White House aide Valerie Jarrett, who seems to run the White House. She is a leftist, descended from leftists, long associated with leftists--and as we have seen, the left
veers toward the multicultural and towards a Fanon-esque romanticism
of anti-Western violence. And, for what it’s worth, she was born in Iran.
Muslims Killed Pastor for Showing ‘Jesus Film’ but no Media
Outrage. By Gary DeMar
Excerpt: In 2003, Christian evangelist Hridoy Roy was murdered by a gang of eight men who
attacked him at his home. The assailants stabbed Roy repeatedly after tying him “crucifixion
style” to his bed. Roy
was known for showing the popular “Jesus Film,” a word-for-word account from
the book of Luke used for evangelism purposes worldwide.
Great ad if you haven't seen it
Don't Buy the
Narrative! Muslim Mob Violence Was Not Caused by a Movie
Excerpt: So Carney's contradicting the undersecretary of
state. He's contradicting the UK Independent and other sources quoted. "It
wasn't planned. It's the movie." Clearly this guy's been told to go out
there, "Jay, we don't care how bad it tastes, you tell 'em it's the
movie.
Bernanke’s Quantitative Easing: Wrong Medicine for an
Ailing Economy. By J.D. Foster, Ph.D.
Excerpt: The real problem with QE—beyond increased near-term
uncertainty—is that the Fed must at some point unload all these bonds it has
bought. The Fed will buy bonds in soft markets and sell them when interest
rates are already rising, pushing interest rates up further, faster. The
problem, in short, is that the Fed will have failed to prop up the economy when
it was weak only to risk killing the recovery once it really takes off.
Excerpt: The Obama Administration is finalizing an aid
package to Egypt that
includes forgiving approximately $1 billion of Egypt ’s
debt to the United
States . This is in addition to about $1.5
billion in annual U.S. foreign
aid. However, the lax reaction of Egypt ’s
new Islamist government to the violent demonstrations at the U.S. embassy in Cairo has
raised questions about the motivations of Egypt ’s new Islamist leaders.
Congress should monitor the Administration’s ongoing aid negotiations
with Cairo and ensure that conditions
are attached to any forthcoming aid that will advance U.S. national
interests. (Reduce the deficit that much or give the $$ to our own
military…Barb)
Terrorists Storm
International Peacekeeping Base in Sinai: At least 3 hurt as dozens of armed
Muslims storm the international peacekeeping force base in the Sinai
Peninsula. By Elad Benari
Excerpt: At least three people were hurt on Friday as dozens
of armed terrorists, affiliated with the Salafi movement of Islam, stormed the
international peacekeeping force base in the Sinai
Peninsula , near the Gaza-Israel border. They were protesting the
controversial film mocking the prophet Mohammed which has resulted in protests
throughout the Arab world.
Official: Obama
Rejected Netanyahu's Request for 'Red Line.' Senior official says the divide
between Obama and Netanyahu in Iran
Obama, the official told The New York Times, repeated
the assurances he gave to Netanyahu in March that the United States
would not allow Iran to manufacture a nuclear weapon. The president was
unwilling to agree on any specific action by Iran , like reaching a defined
threshold on nuclear material, or failing to adhere to a deadline on
negotiations, that would lead to American military action. “We need some
ability for the president to have decision-making room,” the official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the talks,
told The New York Times. …Israeli officials, however, say this guarantee
may not be enough for Israel ,
which Iranian leaders have repeatedly threatened with annihilation. (Not in the
Dem talking points being reiterated en masse on MSM. --Barb)
Langfan Challenges
U.S. Senator Over Letter to Netanyahu
Excerpt: New York attorney
Mark Langfan, a staunch supporter of Israel and a regular op-ed contributor to Arutz Sheva, challenged a
U.S. Senator this week after she sent an angry letter to Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu. He received no response. On Wednesday, Senator Barbara
Boxer (D-CA), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, sent Netanyahu an angry letter in response to his comments that
“those in the international community who refuse to place red lines
before Iran have
no moral right to place a red line before Israel .”
Pakistan Interior Minister pushing Interpol to ban anti-Islam material
online. By Caroline May
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/14/pakistan-interior-minister-pushing-interpol-to-ban-anti-islam-material-online/#ixzz26YeEwCnI
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/14/pakistan-interior-minister-pushing-interpol-to-ban-anti-islam-material-online/#ixzz26YeEwCnI
Excerpt: If one well-known Pakistani politician gets his
way, international law will forbid “anti-Islam” material from the Internet. Friday
afternoon, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik wrote in a series of tweets
that he has spoken with and written to the Secretary General of Interpol about
enacting an international law to stop all
anti-Islam propaganda online.
Even Ezra Klein not buying apparent White House belief that anti-Islamic
video is responsible for Libyan ‘unrest.’ By Jeff Poor
Excerpt: “From what we think we know, attacks in Benghazi were not about the weird Internet video
which created the attacks in Egypt . The attacks in Benghazi appeared to
have been a response to an American drone strike against an al-Qaida leader. And
that drone strike wasn’t an anomaly.
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