Standing up to Obama
Posted on April 26, 2010
Filed Under Ahmadinejad, Ahmedinejad, Atlas Shrugs, Barak Hussein Obama, Beth Gilinsky, Channel 2, Christians, Curtis Sliwa, David Axelrod, Dov Hikind, Hindus, International, Israel, Israeli Consulate, Jews, Lou Young, Michael Faulkner, Muslims, Neturey Karta, Obama, Palestine, Rabbi Spero, Rabbi Yaakov Spivak, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Spencer, Sharia Finance, Sikhs, State of Israel, US President, Yasser Arafat | 1 Comment
The weather was bad, cold and wet, but about 2,000 people gathered to say ENOUGH!!! to Barak Hussein Obama. Yesterday, across from Israel’s Consulate in New York City, Jews, Christians, Hindus and some Muslims gathered to protest the President’s misguided policy in the Middle East.
There were many speakers, people from varied backgrounds, but on they all agreed on one thing… Obama and his policy advisors are hopelessly wrong; selling out Israel will buy neither peace nor long term prosperity for the United States of America!
Beth Gilinsky, of the Jewish Action Alliance, brought together a wide coalition of people who are fed up with the administration’s amateurish, capricious policies which endanger this country and Israel.
New York State Assemblyman, representing the 48th District, Dov Hikind being interviewed Channel 2’s Lou Young…
…and speaking to the crowd
Rabbi Yaakov Spivak, interviewed by Lou Young…
…and speaking from the podium
Beth Gilinsky, the rally’s main organizer
Rabbi Joe Potasnick, host of the popular Religion On The Line
A financial consultant, former Wall Street trader, speaking on Sharia Finance and how Wall Street and most of America’s banking system greedily stand behind it. Warning us of a new upcoming financial crisis…
Rabbi Spero
Curtis Sliwa, mingling…
…speaking
The Reverend Michael Faulkner, pastor of Harlem’s New Horizon Church
Reverend Faulkner is running for Congress against the very powerful, utterly corrupt, Charles Rangel.
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs and scholar of Islam Robert Spencer
The Queen of bloggers speaking as forcefully, as fearlessly, as she writes
As you can see on this blog, there were far more speakers, each one spoke from his or her heart, all of them – however different the phrasing – agreed… How dare Barak Hussein assault the only Middle Eastern democracy, how dare he point his finger, or poke the chest of a democratically elected leader of a sovereign country? How dare Barak Hussein insult the Prime Minister of a truly allied country, while he – the same Barak Hussein – bows and kowtows to the likes of Wahabbi King Saud, a king whose people know no freedom, a king of a country where no churches are allowed (no synagogues either, of course, isn’t it obvious?!?!?!?), a king of a country that practices the worst form of apartheid by not allowing infidels into Mecca, a king of a country where women are mere chattel, to be used, abused and disposed of?!?!?!?
But in all fairness to Barak Husein, as despicable as his policies are, as obvious as his anti Israel hatred is, he’s not alone! A few crackpots, parading in Jewish dress, talking like Jews, pretending to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, applaud him and his dangerous folly.
Across the street, on the southwest corner of 2nd Avenue and 42nd Street, were those representing the ugly face of infamy, those who embrace the putrid little maggot – Ahmadinejad (you may also look here), those who prayed with bitter tears asking for his speedy recovery, as arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat lay dying of AIDS in a French hospital, were rallying as well… All 19 of them!
Abraham, the first convert to Judaism was born in 1948 of the Hebrew Calendar (currently the Hebrew Year is 5770), the modern nation of Israel was born in 1948 of the Current Era… mere coincidence?!?!? Yet, the above pseudo Jews who are so zealous in their presumed observance of Judaism, these same Neturey Karta members have no compunction in trampling every law of the holy Jewish Sabbath, as was amply evidenced when they marched on a Saturday – the Jewish Sabbath – last year in San Francisco, carrying Palestinian and Iranian flags (when carrying anything in a public venue is prohibited on the Sabbath).
They claim to be Jews but they forfeited the right to that name, they cut themselves off from their brethren when they embrace, kiss and support murderers and would-be murderers of Jews (in direct violation of the Jewish Law they claim to zealously guard). Hypocrites! Hypocrites!!! Hypocrites!!!!!
Since Israel’s neighbors tried to overrun the fledgling Jewish State, within hours of its independence, Israel – in spite of its tremendous outlay for defensive purposes – has had more Nobel Prize winners than all Arab nations combined. Israel has pioneered more technological advances and inventions than all its Arab neighbors combined. Israel has contributed to science, medicine, etc, etc, to the world than ALL its Arab neighbors combined! Yet, Barak Hussein aided by his Court Jews (Emanuel, Axelrod, and Congressional Democrats) would sooner get rid of Israel than stand up to the politiculture that gave us airplane and ship hijackings, 9/11 and so much more.
Mr. President, throughout its history the Jewish nation has been repeatedly conquered, derided, tortured and murdered by the most powerful nations that ever existed. Each of those once glorious, mighty, empires ended up as a little more than a collection of ruins which bespeak of the might and glory that once was. Mr. President, Israel and the Jews WILL survive you, your court Jews and every despicable worm that would willingly try to destroy them. The blood of the Jews, your actions endanger, will unlike Pontius Pilate, NEVER BE WASHED OFF YOUR HANDS. But WE WILL SURVIVE YOU, Mr. President, in spite of the pain and the blood you and your ilk may inflict upon us. Why? What is our secret? It is no secret, read the Bible’s Old Testament, Mr. President, perhaps you can read it as fluently as you read the Qur’an… The Jewish nation has a divine deed to its land, and all your might and all the hordes of your terrorist friends and oil potentates can not stand up to it. You can rest assured Mr. President, the Jews and the State of Israel will still be here long, long, after you, your administration and the despots you so willingly bow to, have become the discarded, forgotten refuse of history!
Chaim
The Hateful Face of Multiculturalism
Posted on March 15, 2010
Filed Under America, Animal Farm, Antisemitism, CAIR, Europe, George Orwell, Gottenburg, ISNA, Jews, Malmo, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Norway, Scandinavia, Sweden, Terrorism, US, anti western hatred, anti western preachings, anti western rhetoric, anti western sermons, anti-Christianity, anti-Israel, anti-Israel incitement, anti-Jewish, anti-west, anticulturalism, islam, multiculturalism, terror, terrorists | 3 Comments
Multiculturalism may have seemed like a good idea, to some, at one point; but by now there can be no question – in any rational being’s mind – that it is just another failed progressive politically regressive and dangerous experiment that must be shut down.
Who is pushing for multiculturalism these days? Some naive, empty headed liberals who refuse to look at the facts, who refuse to think with their own, fast atrophying, gray matter. Preferring instead to read the screeds of fashionable sophists like Chomsky and those of his ilk, people who’d lovingly sell their own mothers if by doing so they could spread their name, their fame. They’ve made an industry out of their hatred for the west, the very west that affords them the freedom to spew their venom.
What has multiculturalism wrought? Look at the following videos and tell me…
Things just happen, i guess…
Just like in Sweden, just like in Europe, some politicians on our shores have been bought and generously paid for. But America and its liberals are too busy partying when not ramming disastrous policies down our throats. They care little, life’s a ball! And the rest of America, except for an occasional whimper, sits back…
The Muslim march to victory has begun in other parts of Europe as well…
..and the dress rehearsal before the triumphant opening is getting started…
Is America following the Swedish or European model?
America, became the first line of defense for the world’s freedoms precisely because since 1776 it attracted the poor, the downtrodden, those seeking a better life for themselves and their children. Historically, almost everyone of those immigrants regardless of ethnicity, regardless of religious belief, regardless of skin color was ready to work hard and adapt to the new country. None of them came here hoping for more than a simple opportunity to better their lot. Yes, they kept their traditions, their remembrance of the old country but they also developed a fierce pride in America and eventually this very land became their country! Thousands of Italian descendants fought bravely, as part of the US forces, during the various world wars… even when it was fought on Italian soil! So did many other ethnic groups selflessly gave up their lives for our rights and those of the foreign countries we were fighting for… Did America make mistakes? Yes, even grievous ones! But… through it all it remained a bulwark of freedom. The rest of the world envied it, while trying hard to imitate it. Now, things changed. In their quest for a multicultural society, those wearing the rose colored glasses of misplaced idealism fail to grasp reality. Thereby, while wanting to bring the advantage of freedom to “refugees” who “fled” their own oppressive regimes. They instead erode our hard fought for freedoms. Imagine what would happen if a Christian group tried to run its own city, according to its own rules (remember Waco?).
Would a Christian or a Jew not have been barred from serving as officer in the Pentagon or in army bases if they had expressed anti American views? He would never have made it into the Armed Forces!!! Remember Fort Dix, however? And the list goes on….
Imagine what would happen in Europe or in the US if a Rabbi or a Christian priest would get up on his pulpit and preach the slaughter of Muslims? Would not his own congregation rightfully denounce him as a despicable bigot and throw him out? Would not the local, state and federal governments rightfully condemn his poisonous words? Yet in Europe, in America, imams living on the public dole speak freely against the west and its values… and somehow that is taken as “freedom of speech!”
In 1987 photographer Andres Serrano took an (in)famous photograph. It was called Piss Christ, it depicted a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist’s urine. It won a number of awards including one by American taxpayers’ supported National Endowment for the Arts. Of course, there were protests, but… did they turn violent? Was anyone killed? Anyone hurt? Any museum burnt down? Remember the Danish Cartoons and the violence that followed around the world? How come western governments were apologetic? How many atrocities will it take to mobilize the west to defend its heritage, its lifestyle, its civilization, its advances in science and technology? Have we already given up?!?!?
CAIR, ISNA and other Muslim Brotherhood, terror supporting “civil rights organizations” (read: unindicted co-conspirators!) continue to use our laws against us, while being feted by some of our servants politicos?
When did the West turn into Orwell’s Animal Farm? When did the pigs become more equal than all the others?!?!?
Chaim
Sphere: Related ContentThe View From Israel
Posted on December 21, 2009
Filed Under American President, Avigdor Lieberman, Barak Hussein Obama, Barak Obama, Bibi, Bibi Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, History, IDF, Mahmoud Abbas, PA, Palestine, West Bank, Zionism, Zionist Entity, construction freeze | 4 Comments
The peace negotiations between Israel and the PA have not been moving any closer to a signed agreement for quite some time. Actually, the sudden intransigence of the PA has driven them further apart than ever. In fact, with Obama’s witting or unwitting encouragement, the PA has painted itself into a corner. It had ample reason to believe that the American President would exert extra heavy pressure on Israel to present the PA with further and further gestures that would whittle away the structure and the resolve of the Jewish State. Obama, and Mahmoud Abbas, miscalculated! Netanyahu is not so ready to commit national suicide to please an American President who is regarded as a laughingstock throughout most of the world.
Obama extended his hand to Iran and was thoroughly rebuffed! He refused to meet with the Dalai Lama in order to please Communist China but it bore no fruit. He went to Copenhagen, fancying himself as the most powerful leader in the world, yet not only was most of his agenda rebuffed, but he often had to barge in to various meetings he was purposely not invited to. Chavez, that Venezuelan piece of malodorous Devil’s excreta, even started referring to Obama as the Devil. Same name he had used for… G.W. Bush! What has happened that an American President has become so irrelevant, so fast? The answer, to borrow a Bob Dylan phrase, is blowing in the wind. Obama and his closest advisors have shown not only a total lack of experience, but a total lack of understanding of both international as well as their national realities.
But… while President Obama continues to make himself more irrelevant every time he opens his mouth, not all’s well with Bibi in Israel either. His government agreed to a 10 months construction freeze in the west Bank, as if that would bring peace closer. The fact remains that Mahmoud Abbas had no problem negotiating with earlier governments without any freeze. And after the 10 months are up, what then? Will he extend the freeze? Will he allow construction again? How will either option advance peace? How will either option make him look better in the eyes of the hypocritical West?
Defense Minister Ehud Barak has given orders, according to leaked documents, to apply paralyzing force against those who continue to build in spite of the freeze as well as against those who will be evacuated. One must ask, what moral imperative, what twisted logic would compel a Jewish Defense Minister, to use use a Jewish Army against Jewish civilians in a Jewish democratic state?!?!? If there are those who are defying the government that is a police matter, not something that an army whose purpose is to defend the Jewish State against its enemies, against terrorist infrastructures, should deal with. To send an army against Jewish civilians is far too reminiscent of horrendous events, the world witnessed 60+ years ago.
A soldier must serve the army unhesitatingly, or chaos ensues. An army must serve its government, or chaos ensues. Yet, to use the IDF to apply “paralyzing force” against one’s own civilians – instead of against the real enemy – is not only illogical but merely a first step into the country’s disintegration while it encourages further terror, further bloodshed.
What happened to Ehud Barak, once Israel’s highest decorated soldier? What happened to both Prime Minister Netanyahu and, supposed right winger, Foreign Minister Lieberman that they have never called Defense Minister Barak to task over such an outrageous order?!?
Will Israeli politicians acquiesce so readily to the whim of the West’s newest village idiot, when everyone else so pointedly laughs or ignores him?!?!?
David Waldman
[David Waldman is a good friend living in Israel, who is currently a consultant to Gelco Woodcraft, a manufacturer of unfinished furniture.]
Sphere: Related ContentThese Are a Few of my Favorite Things
Posted on November 17, 2009
Filed Under Charlie Bernhaut, FullBooks.com, International, The Kosher Scene, Uruguay, Webmuseum, onephoto.net, violin | 3 Comments
Yes, it’s true! I am a news junkie, the need to read the news and discuss politics is an intrinsic part of my mental makeup. Just like one needs the morning cuppa Java I need to look at, think and talk about the news. Having said that, however, I do have a few other – very strong – interests and, in any case, one has to take a break every once in a while, otherwise the ugly political realities can make you crack up!
I like photography, in my youth I used to eat, sleep and breathe with it. I still love it and while it’s no longer my main means of earning a living I very much indulge in that activity, which is why this Polish site – onephoto.net – is one of my favorites in its type. My parents only spoke Polish among themselves and in a whisper, because I was not meant to understand. Photography, however, is a universal language I understand it well even if I do not even know what the captions or titles mean. Their still life, architectural, nature and macro-photography sections are tops!
Fine dining is an activity I engage in far too often for my wallet’s health, nevertheless it’s part of what makes life fun and interesting. That’s why I like The Kosher Scene, a brand new blog that features photos and reviews of my favorite restaurants in New York City and environs. As an orthodox Jew, as someone who follows a strict kosher diet, it’s not always easy to find a top restaurant. In that blog I review the best kosher establishments in my immediate surroundings.
Since earliest childhood, having been brought up in an orthodox Jewish home, I’ve enjoyed listening to the voices of cantors. The nuances of each cantor’s phrasing, and particular interpretation of the specific prayer adds to my deeper understanding of the words. I was very pleased, therefore, when I stumbled upon Charlie Bernhaut’s web site, it has a superb archive with recordings of the greatest cantors of the 20th century. Mr. Bernhaut is a promoter of cantorial concerts, having produced Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgodt’s sold out concert at the Metropolitan Opera. He hopes to revive interest in the cantor’s art, once so popular in the Jewish world.
I started playing the violin when I about 7 years old and even gave a concert at age 12, back in Uruguay, as soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal in Montevideo… just over half a century ago. I still get emotional when I hear a violin performing a classical piece, and far more so when I would play it myself. My parents, to my chagrin (but wisely, as I look back), took my violin away after that and never allowed me to play again. When I first got married I bought an expensive violin, when my wife told my parents, that violin also disappeared! I do, however, indulge my love of the violin by frequenting sites that feature such music. This Italian site is among my favorites for violin as well as classical music, in general: karadar.com
I like museums, whether they specialize in art or history. To look at the past whether that past is shown through art, artifacts or documents is fascinating to me, it connects me to other eras, other people. My favorite one on line is the Webmuseum.
As for books, there are quite a few sites. One that I like a lot is: FullBooks.com. It has thousands of full texts on line. From fiction and non fiction on just about every subject of interest to me.
Ahhh, the internet! What would we do without it?
Chaim
Sphere: Related ContentThe Dangerous Incorrectness of Political Correctness
Posted on November 16, 2009
Filed Under Al Qaeida, Al-Qaida, Anwar al-Awlaki, Brigitte Gabriel, Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan, For Hood army base, Fort Hood shooting, Infidel-o-Phobia, International, IslamoFascism, Jihad, Major Nidal Hasan, Muslims, Political Correctness, US Armed Forces, army psychiatrist, clash of civilizations, islam, palestinians | 2 Comments
For way too long this blog has decried the incorrectness, the lies and the myths of Political Correctness. We all agree that hate speech is despicable, regardless of its source; we fully agree that while a country’s majority should rule that country there must be respect, protection and representation for the minorities. Having said that, however, to use euphemisms for what should be stated outright will only confuse and obscure issues of true concern. That confusion will equally affect the majority and those whom the euphemisms seek to protect.
The fear of appearing politically incorrect has now infected the highest echelons of our armed forces, our State Department, and myriad pandering politicians in Washington DC and the rest of the country. Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan gave many signals that disturbed some of his colleagues of what he was to do on November 5th. The fact remains that Army intelligence and some of his superiors were aware of his making contact with charismatic imam and former American, Anwar al-Awlaki, a top Al Qaieda recruiter. At a gathering where he was supposed to discuss medical issues in his field of expertise, he instead spoke of Muslim American soldiers rights to leave the military because it brought war to Muslim lands. There is no conscription in this country, our military is made of volunteers, and nothing would have stopped the good Major of resigning his commission. Instead, he choose the path of jihad! You can watch the video and wonder what Army official decided to do nothing about the disturbing behavior Major Hasan was showing. What fear suddenly gripped those charged with defending this country that they ignored the obvious?!?
Brigitte Gabriel, whom we’ve shown on these pages before, puts into words what few others have the courage to express. Ms. Gabriel speaks with righteous indignation about this country’s descent into suicidal irrationality:
Political Correctness can not come at the cost of safety, to bury one’s head in the sand, to fail to recognize a problem, not only exacerbates that problem but it accelerates its dangerous outcome. Dr Nidal Malik Hasan, taking advantage of Political Correctness and of the unprecedented freedom and protection the US afforded him, willingly, in cold blood and in full accordance with the teaching of IslamoFascism murdered 13 and wounded 38. If as recently as the the Russian/American Cold War a communist had become an officer in the US Armed Forces the outcry from both the Republican and Democrat parties would have been loud and unequivocally against such a foolish step.
What has changed in almost 20 years, that the unthinkable has now suddenly become the routine? What is this rotting cancer within? What is this disease of political correctness that would endangers us all, rather than risk offending one person or even a minority group? What caused media analysts (and many an “expert”), to portray the shooter as a victim, rather than as the cold blooded terrorist he really is? Why are we bending over backwards, why are we offering excuses and protection for those to whom our lives, our values, are meaningless?
Chaim
Political Correctness and Multicultural Madness
For the Sake of Multiculturalism and Political Correctness
Women Should Know Their Place! – Along the Road to Eurabia
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Sphere: Related ContentIt Happened on Facebook…
Posted on November 9, 2009
Filed Under Allah, America, Antisemitism, Black Muslims, Egypt, Ellis island, Europe, Germany, HIV, Henry Ford, Hitler, International, James Miller, Jews, Kemetans, Khazaria, Middle East, Nubians, Racism, Russia, US, arrogance, bigot, bigotry, hatred, historical revisionism, ignorance, ignorance of facts, islam, judaism, religion of peace, rewriting history | 2 Comments
I received the following email, yesterday, on Facebook. Please note the lovely sentiments expressed by the writer. Isn’t his lack of any bigotry, touching? His grasp of truth monumental?
James Miller November 8 at 6:50pm
i hope all you fake imposter jews have another holocaust and this time they get all of you greedy bloodsucking leechs lol….you have the nerve to call yourselves a chosen race….you were crawling around the caves of Germany and Russia when indigenous nubians and kemetans were ruling the world…..the moors came up to europe for 700 years and brought ur people out of the dark ages….you stole their religions and customs and came to America calling it your own….Hitler knew you weren’t Jews that’s why he tried to exterminate you!!! Quit telling people that he killed 6 million of you….that proves you people are of the beast because you use his number too much……6 million imposter jews supposedly died in concentration camps, the number 6 million has 6 zeros, and you use a 6 pointed star…..you are the 666 people spoken of in revelations….It was written that Allah knows the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not!!! I’m sick of you people trying to corner the market for sympathy….You people are filthy parasites!!! You brought ur diseases to america through Ellis Island in the early 20th century…..and now ur evil doctors have created the biological warfare that exists upon us today….injecting black babies with the HIV virus…..now you have us in this recession because you have hijacked the banking system!!! You try to walk around like ur meek and innocent but you people are the most corrupt…..you are wolves in sheeps clothing!!! You white devils could never be the original Jews….you don’t even speak the ancient language….Yiddish is not an ancient language!!! If you were the chosen people shouldn’t you be able to speak the ancient language??? You always want to holler anti-semitiscm and ur not even semitic people…..The semites were black nubians not white europeans…..make up your minds!!! You want to be semitic and european??? that’s contradictory!!! you were never in Egypt because we all know you don’t have enough melanin to survive the Sun and the heat….so quit telling people that……the hieroglyphs clearly depict dark-skinned people not pale european jews!!! Get ur facts straight!!! Imposters!!!! The truth is coming to the surface and you will be revealed for who you are just as Henry Ford revealed that you people come from Khazaria and not the middle east or northern Africa….you’re not Jewish or Hebrew at all but Khazarian Germans impersonating Hebrews lol….I know more of ur wicked history than you do….
I could comment for many pages on the venom this viper has spewed, I could remind him that were it not for Jews in medicine he would probably be dead by now or perhaps he would never have been born. But… as I already said on Facebook, the individual has done a far better job than ever I could dream of in showing us WHO and WHAT he really is! His spelling prowess, his expletives, all show an exquisitely superior intellect. Don’t you agree, gentle reader?
He obviously thought that by emailing me he’ll get his 15 minutes of fame, but I’ve done better for him I just immortalized what passes for his hatred filled “brain.” Hitler must be writhing in his grave with envy!
Chaim
Sphere: Related ContentWaking up to Reality
Posted on October 29, 2009
Filed Under Chicago tribune, GOP, House Ways and Means Committe, International, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Obamacare, Pelosi, President Obama, Representative John Shadegg, Representative Paul Ryan, Representative Roy Blunt, Senator Jim DeMint, US, US House of Representatives, US Representative Mark Kirk, US Senate, Us Representative Tom Price, democrats, healthcare, republicans | 3 Comments
The Chicago Tribune, who less than a year ago would wax poetic – as almost every other member of the MSM did, at the time - in its endorsement of candidate Obama, wrote the following yesterday:
A GOP health plan
Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate have spent the spring, summer and fall grappling with how to fix the health care system. They’re still trying to craft a bill they can sell to Americans — or even explain in plain English.
And the Republicans? Well, as the minority party, they’re mainly on the sidelines. They’ve become the party of “no,” sniping at every Democratic health care reform idea without promoting any of their own. Right?
Not entirely.
Wooow!!! What a surprise to those whose only defense of Obama is calling the Rebups the “party of no.” One of their staunchest members is actually acknowledging the Republicans have something to say, something far different and infinitely better than merely “No.”
Over the summer and fall, Republicans in the House and Senate have introduced six — yes, six — health care reform proposals. You didn’t hear? Well, those plans didn’t produce much of a ripple because Democrats dominate the Congress.
Exactly! While doing little of value on their own the Dems couldn’t allow anyone to know that the Republicans were actually doing the job, the job of they got voted in to do, the job which the Dems too capriciously refused to do.
But now Republicans are weighing a shift in strategy. Instead of taking more potshots, some Republicans say their party should present a coherent alternative to whatever final Democratic plans emerge in the House and Senate. Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee reportedly are drafting legislation the GOP could introduce when Democrats bring their proposals to the floor.
Here’s hoping they do. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., who sponsored a health reform bill, said recently: “The job of the opposition is not just to point out all the flaws in legislation coming to the floor, but to offer ideas for how you would fix it.”
Here’s hoping they do. Is this coming out of the pages of a Democrat publication? Are they experiencing buyer’s remorse? The job of the opposition is not just to point out all the flaws in legislation coming to the floor, but to offer ideas for how you would fix it. Now, that’s really rad! Under Dubya, the Dems kept on attacking and attacking without ever proposing anything constructive instead. Nobody in the MSM seemed to care either.
He’s right. Others offering proposals: Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona and Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina.
We don’t agree with everything in these bills. But the GOP proposals contain smart ideas to increase choice and competition in the health insurance market — a powerful Republican counterpoint to the Democrats’ expensive plans.
But the GOP proposals contain smart ideas to increase choice and competition in the health insurance market — a powerful Republican counterpoint to the Democrats’ expensive plans. “Smart ideas,” “powerful Republican counterpoint,” I guess they are finally recognizing that the Republicans in Congress are far from mere obstructionists as some Dems would like us to believe. I’m truly impressed by the candor!
The ideas include:
–Let insurers sell policies across state lines. That would loosen the strangling state-by-state regulations and unleash competition to drive premium prices down.
–Give people who buy insurance in the private market the same tax breaks as those who get it through employers. Now, employers that offer coverage get a tax break on the premiums they pay for employees. And employees don’t pay taxes on the value of the coverage they receive. People who want to buy insurance in the individual market should get the same tax breaks. That would help millions of people acquire coverage.
–Expand the ability of small businesses, trade associations and other groups to set up insurance pools to offer coverage at more attractive rates.
Control health costs in part by reining in the medical malpractice system that raises insurance premiums and forces doctors to order tests to protect themselves from lawsuits. Limiting certain kinds of damage awards would reduce spending on health care by about $11 billion in 2009, or about one-half of 1 percent, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. Think about that in human terms: Reform would save millions of patients the expense and trauma of unnecessary tests and procedures.
would reduce spending on health care by about $11 billion in 2009, or about one-half of 1 percent, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. I fully realize that in these age of trillion dollar deficits, $11 billion is barely a drop in the bucket. But as former Democrat Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, once famously quipped: “A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you are talking real money.”
These excellent ideas could expand coverage for the uninsured without cratering the federal budget or curbing the competition and innovation that drive the U.S. health care system. Republicans should keep pushing them — and ruling Democrats need to give them a full and fair hearing.
Hear, hear! Republicans should keep pushing them — and ruling Democrats need to give them a full and fair hearing. But Pelosi and company, won’t give them a fair hearing, it’s against her partisan principles. It isn’t America the Dems care about, it’s the wish to perpetuate their party grip on power that drives them and America be damned, as far they are concerned!
The Chicago Tribune wholeheartedly endorsed Obama in the last elections as did the overwhelming majority of the MSM. Now, they just join that illustrious list of White House enemies. In fact, I expect Anita Dunn might denounce them any moment now.
Meanwhile far too many knee jerk libs, far too many Obama “right or wrong” can do no wrong worshipers, will insist on blaming Obama’s predecessor, or will claim that anyone who dares question or oppose THE ONE, is spitting on America. They’ll claim that even their dogs know how dastardly the Republicans are. Some of the sweet kids are actually making these very statements on digg and on propeller, among others. Perhaps it would behoove them to remove their heads from their dogs’ rear ends, look at and smell the real world for a change. The President has to stop building straw men, he has to stop playing the blame game. It’s wearing too thin already (look at his ratings!!!) When will he take responsibility and get down to work? He was elected to fix what’s wrong, will he ever try?!? Or will he rather spend the rest of his mandate blaming anybody in sight?
Overall I’m pleased with the Chicago Tribune, even when I more often than not disagree with them. But… I feel compelled to ask… has hell frozen over? Or are some staunch Democrats, some former Obama worshippers waking up to reality and smelling the stench of the old, stale, political coffee? So much for hope and change!
Chaim
Sphere: Related ContentFor the Furtherance of Women’s Rights
Posted on October 28, 2009
Filed Under Doha, International, Iran, Muslim women, Muslimas, Muslims, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, islam, women, women as chattel, women's clothing, women's rights, women's veil | Leave a Comment
Cat in the Gulf writes:
The joy of tennis
Can someone tell me why end of season women tennis championship is held in Doha?? Ah yes, that is to “further women’s rights” in Qatar and supposedly in the Middle East in general.For the uninitiated, the girl on the left is Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis star. On the right is a lady whose rights are about to be furthered by the said event.Utterly ridiculous.
posted by Bravecat @ 2:27 PM
2 Comments:
- At 28/10/09 22:52,
Snake said…
- At 28/10/09 22:59,
Yep. Although in this case, the only alternative to “choice” is “social suicide”.
The alternative, unfortunately, may also entail an “honor” killing! I happen to be a devout Orthodox Jew, orthodox married women cover their hair (with a snood, wig, or scarf), since they are little girls they are taught to dress modestly. Having said that, NO orthodox woman would be “honored” killed or would commit “social suicide” for not adhering to the dress code or for any other reason. And dressing modestly does not mean that a woman’s femininity is to be denied.
Many will argue that “honor killings” are really more a tribal custom rather than one prescribed by the Qur’an… Wasn’t Islam supposed to root out anything from the idolatrous past? Haven’t 1400 years of Islam been enough to civilize these tribal minds? In any case where does the Qur’an prescribe a woman wearing a burka?
The Qur’an in Sura 24:31 says:
And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or those whom their right hands possess, or the male servants not having need (of women), or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known[..]
Nowhere in the above or in any other Surah is such a commandment made. It sounds more like something demanded by a patriarchal society.
Apparently, today, some Muslims must consider themselves far more religious than their ancestors, since never in history have there been so many Muslimas – even throughout western lands – covering themselves from head to toe. Frankly, it does not show women’s emancipation at work it merely shows their men’s need to lord it over them! Look at Saudi Arabia or Iran’s morality police…
Chaim
Misogyny and Racism! In Paradise?!?!?
Women in Islam – Educating the West’s “Progressives”
Men Are Human, Women Are Not! Got That?!?!? – Part VII
The Islamist World View – Part II, Women
The Cost of Being a Muslim Woman in a Muslim World
Men Are Human, Women Are Not! Got That?!?!? – Part VI
Men Are Human, Women Are Not! Got That?!?!? – Part V
Men Are Human, Women Are Not! Got That?!?!? – Part IV
Men Are Human, Women Are Not! Got That?!?!? – Part III
Men are Human, Women are not! Got That?!?!? – Part II
Men are Human, Women are not! Got That?!?!?
Women in Islam, From a Muslim Woman’s Perspective
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Sphere: Related ContentThe Real Truth Behind the Rioting in Jerusalem
Posted on October 27, 2009
Filed Under International, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, Jooz, Joseph Farah, Palestina, Palestine, Political lies, Romans, Rome, Temple Mount, Terrorism, Wailing wall, appeasement, appeasing Islam, historical revisionism, palestinians, political hypocrisy, political myths, terror, the Temple, violence | 4 Comments
Arab American journalist, Joseph Fara, writes:
Truth about the Middle East
by Joseph FarahI’ve been quiet since Israel erupted in fighting spurred by disputes over the Temple Mount. Until now, I haven’t even bothered to say, “See, I told you so.” But I can’t resist any longer. I feel compelled to remind you of the column I wrote just a couple weeks before the latest uprising. Yeah, folks, I predicted it. That’s OK. Hold your applause.
After all, I wish I had been wrong. More than 80 people have been killed since the current fighting in and around Jerusalem began. And for what?
If you believe what you read in most news sources, Palestinians want a homeland and Muslims want control over sites they consider holy. Simple, right?
Well, as an Arab-American journalist who has spent some time in the Middle East dodging more than my share of rocks and mortar shells, I’ve got to tell you that these are just phony excuses for the rioting, trouble-making and land-grabbing.
Isn’t it interesting that prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there was no serious movement for a Palestinian homeland?
“Well, Farah,” you might say, “that was before the Israelis seized the West Bank and Old Jerusalem.”
That’s true. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. But they didn’t capture these territories from Yasser Arafat. They captured them from Jordan’s King Hussein. I can’t help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war.
I can’t help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war. Simple answer, gentle reader, it is a great way to de-legitimize the despised Jooz. And the hypocritical West bought it all with nary a sound in protest.
The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.
The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The truth, gentle reader is that there is/there was no “Palestinian people” historically, unless you mean the name given to the area and its JEWISH population by the Romans. Fact remains that for a couple of thousands of years, antisemites would taunt the Jews by telling them to “Go back to Palestine!”
Palestine has never existed — before or since — as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.
There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass.
But that’s too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.
Fact remains that most of the “Palestinians” arrived in the area (which already had an indigenous Jewish majority dating back to biblical times, though augmented during the height of the Spanish Inquisition) after 1920, when France formed the entities called Syria and Lebanon. The Syrians wanted to flood the area with their own to later claim the land as part of Greater Syria. Winston Churchill spoke about it, in his writings, extensively.
Before Churchill wrote on the subject, Mark Twain visited the Holy Land – in the 19th century – and described it as a barren, impoverished land with a Jewish majority.
What about Islam’s holy sites? There are none in Jerusalem.
Shocked? You should be. I don’t expect you will ever hear this brutal truth from anyone else in the international media. It’s just not politically correct.
I know what you’re going to say: “Farah, the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock [Haram es Sharif] in Jerusalem represent Islam’s third most holy sites.”
Not true. In fact, the Koran says nothing about Jerusalem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem. With good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammed ever visited Jerusalem.
So how did Jerusalem become the third holiest site of Islam? Muslims today cite a vague passage in the Koran, the seventeenth Sura, entitled “The Night Journey.” It relates that in a dream or a vision Mohammed was carried by night “from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs. …” In the seventh century, some Muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And that’s as close as Islam’s connection with Jerusalem gets — myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham.
And yet the western world, for the sake of oil, will deny anything about the despised Joo’s history, even if that means Christianity’s own premises are put in doubt! Have they forgotten that Jerusalem is the holiest site (not the questionable third!) to Judaism and Christianity? Do they care?
The latest round of violence in Israel erupted when Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon tried to visit the Temple Mount, the foundation of the Temple built by Solomon. It is the holiest site for Jews. Sharon and his entourage were met with stones and threats. I know what it’s like. I’ve been there. Can you imagine what it is like for Jews to be threatened, stoned and physically kept out of the holiest site in Judaism?
Heyyy, Israel has no known oil deposits, the Jooz have always been despised throughout Europe! Here’s a chance to get rid of a burdensome lot! Got a problem with that?!?!?
So what’s the solution to the Middle East mayhem? Well, frankly, I don’t think there is a man-made solution to the violence. But, if there is one, it needs to begin with truth. Pretending will only lead to more chaos. Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming historical and archaeological evidence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad name.
The solution can only come about when the lies are exposed, when the West stops bowing and kowtowing to Arab oil. The solution won’t come about just because an American President shamelessly curtsies to an Arab despot, regardless of what holy titles the latter chooses to give himself! In fact that simple bowing only encourages the intransigence, the intolerance, the lies.
For two thousand years the despised Joo lived, prayed, cried, hoped and died with the word “Yerushalayim” (Jerusalem) on his lips. No Muslim myth, no Western hypocrisy, no historical revisionism will disengage the Jew from his patrimony this time around. NEVER AGAIN!!!
Chaim
Sphere: Related ContentThe Deity Undeified
Posted on October 26, 2009
Filed Under Ariana Huffington, Barak Hussein Obama, Barak Obama, Chávez, Devil's Excreta, Fox News, Freedom of the Press, George Soros, Harry Reid, International, Nancy Pelosi, New York Times, POTUS, Racism, Rahm Emanuel, Telegraph, The Huffington Post, The Washington Independent, United States, Venezuela, bigot, bigotry, bigots, democrats, divisivness, economy, finances, partisanship, political arrogance, political fumbling, political incompetence, political ineptitude, political naivete, politicians, politics | 1 Comment
Jay Leno on Obama (H/T: USS Neverdock):
Jay Leno, above, is laughing at Obama’s attack on Fox News. The President and his administration are showing the citizenry, at large, how vulnerable, how thin skinned they really are.
As the San Diego Union Tribune says:
Not only is it dangerous and wildly inappropriate for the White House — any White House — to start compiling enemies lists, it’s also not very smart. Government should not make a habit of insulting and isolating a major news organization. Better to just ignore whatever bothers you. Otherwise, people might get the idea you have a thin skin and that you have something against being asked tough questions.
And the next thing you know, there are tough questions coming from all directions. Earlier this week at the White House press gaggle with reporters, ABC News’ Jake Tapper tore into White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. Tapper wanted to know why the administration thought it was appropriate to single out a specific news organization as inauthentic and then invite everyone to pile on in an attempt to marginalize critics. Gibbs couldn’t come up with a good answer, and he frankly seemed surprised at the question. After all, isn’t ABC News part of the club? Why would one of its reporters defend the opposition instead of just going along? The best that Gibbs could do was to insist that this was the White House opinion and it was sticking by it.
Gibbs couldn’t come up with a good answer, and he frankly seemed surprised at the question. After all, isn’t ABC News part of the club? Even “members of the club” are getting fed up with the cardboard Messiah they themselves created.
Bravo to Tapper. But shame on the White House. It’s behavior is outrageous and petty. It can’t win this battle, and it should never have engaged the fight. It’s time to stop picking on Fox News, and start showing some maturity. Freedom of the press is not something to be trifled with — especially when it makes the powerful uncomfortable.
Freedom of the press is not something to be trifled with — especially when it makes the powerful uncomfortable. Ah, but these bunch are learning from Hugo Chavez how they should treat the Press. Freedom of Speech is something this administration has no use for, just like that malodorous piece of Devil’s excreta down in Venezuela!
Did GWB attack ABC, CBS or NBC over the many unfounded attacks? About their warped opinions passed off as facts? No, neither did Presidents before Dubya. They took their lumps and continued with their work. Obama, however, needs to distract us from his failures, he needs to hide the important issues. The Great Unifier is nothing more than a Great Divider. Why? By creating diversions, by dividing the country into factions, by reopening old wounds, he hopes we won’t notice his ineptitude, his lack of any ability that may qualify him for the job he holds. All the while his puppet masters – Pelosi, Reid and especially Rahm Emanuel (under the direction of George Soros) – continue destroying the country with their elitist (but utterly bankrupt) ideas of what is best for us. “Best” for us, but not for them!
It’s interesting how some of those who shielded Obamessiah, who overlooked and hid his faults, who slanted their “reporting” to pushed him as a candidate are now coming out against him. The New York Times has started to show some discomfort with their hero Obama – as did various other prestigious members of the MSM – it’s becoming all too obvious that disenchantment is starting to set in.
Even someone as left wing a publication as The Washington Independent noticed:
…the President has made lots of hopeful promises about a new transparency and accountability in government. He has yet to follow up on them.
The President has made lots of hopeful promises about a new transparency and accountability in government. The sad reality, however, shows this administration as the most secretive in recent history. No transparency exists and every loophole that might allow something to be hidden is readily used.
His big chherleader, Ariana Huffington, over at The Huffington Post writes:
tragic for the rest of us — both in terms of what hasn’t been accomplished, and in terms of how much more misery it will lead to down the road. Misery that is avoidable — if only Barack Obama would stop acting like a pundit, egging on change from the sideline, and start acting like the president, dictating the game from the middle of the field.
if only Barack Obama would stop acting like a pundit, egging on change from the sideline and start acting like the president. Actually Ariana, he’s merely paying lip service to change, as The Washington Independent noted, the promised transparency hasn’t been delivered. His plans so far can only bring further misery. And that will only make Pelosi and company that much more powerful while Soros can only get richer on the backs of lowly taxpayers like you and I, gentle reader.
Americans, in general, are deserting the Democrats in droves. From the UK’s Telegraph:
Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years
The decline in Barack Obama’s popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.
Gallup recorded an average daily approval rating of 53 per cent for Mr Obama for the third quarter of the year, a sharp drop from the 62 per cent he recorded from April.
His current approval rating – hovering just above the level that would make re-election an uphill struggle – is close to the bottom for newly-elected president. Mr Obama entered the White House with a soaring 78 per cent approval rating.
The bad polling news came as Mr Obama returned to the campaign trail to prevent his Democratic party losing two governorships next month in states in which he defeated Senator John McCain in last November’s election.
Jeffrey Jones of Gallup explained: “The dominant political focus for Obama in the third quarter was the push for health care reform, including his nationally televised address to Congress in early September.
“Obama hoped that Congress would vote on health care legislation before its August recess, but that goal was missed, and some members of Congress faced angry constituents at town hall meetings to discuss health care reform. Meanwhile, unemployment continued to climb near 10 per cent.”
Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey is in severe danger of defeat while Democrats are fast losing hope that Creigh Deeds can beat his Republican opponent in Virginia. Twin Democratic losses would be a major blow to Mr Obama’s prestige.
Campaigning for Mr Corzine in Hackensack on Wednesday night, Mr Obama delivered a plea that almost seemed as much for himself as the local candidate: “I’m here today to urge you to cast aside the cynics and the sceptics, and prove to all Americans that leaders who do what’s right and who do what’s hard will be rewarded and not rejected.”
Mr Corzine, a former Goldman Sachs executive and multi-millionaire, is currently running even in New Jersey, which is normally comfortably Democratic, while Mr Deeds is trailing badly in Virginia, a swing state that was key to Mr Obama’s 2008 victory.
Mr Obama is also facing widespread criticism for his drawn-out decision-making process over what to do next in Afghanistan.
Republicans sense Mr Obama is in a vulnerable position and this week saw the return to the public stage of his perhaps most vehement opponent – Vice-President Dick Cheney.
In a blistering speech on Wednesday night, he accused Mr Obama of failing to give Americans troops on the ground a clear mission or defined goals and of being seemingly “afraid to make a decision” about Afghanistan “The White House must stop dithering while America’s armed forces are in danger,” Cheney said at the Center for Security Policy in Washington.
“Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries.”
He hit out at Obama aides who suggested that the Bush administration had failed to weigh up conditions in Afghanistan properly before committing troops.
“Now they seem to be pulling back and blaming others for their failure to implement the strategy they embraced. It’s time for President Obama to do what it takes to win a war he has repeatedly and rightly called a war of necessity.”
The People are starting to open their eyes, beginning to realize the new deity is not divine. He’s merely a very flawed individual devoid of ideas, lacking in qualifications and simply a charlatan who can’t even get his facts or his numbers straight. Just another politician. Pity!
Chaim
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