Once this particular drama is over the real explosions will begin. David Sirota and Chris Matthews who so wanted a “white American” male to be the killer will have to be held to account. The attempts to blame “white supremacists” or Nazis or the Tea Party or something has failed:
“Several posts on what is believed to be the Twitter profile of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicate that that the 19-year-old Chechnyan immigrant was a supporter of Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election. [snip]
Besides making an apparent joke at the expense of the victims who were killed in the blast (“Lol those people are cooked”), blogger Bob Owens discovered that the owner of the account made clear his political preferences as he celebrated the reelection of President Obama on November 6th.
This week has been bad – the worst is yet to come.
AP and Pete Williams say the killers are brothers from Chechnya. The one at large is called Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19 years old. They are/were permanent legal residents living in the U.S. for a year. This more than likely kills immigration “reform” because their will now be so many questions to prevent this from happening again the Gang of Eight will never be able to answer them.
NBC News reported Friday morning that a missing Brown University student — the subject of intense speculation on social media — is not in fact a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.
“Authorities say these people came from overseas… had overseas military training [and have] been here about a year,” NBC’s Pete Williams — the most reliable source through a chaotic week in Boston — reported Friday, citing multiple sources.
“There’s been a lot of speculation that one of these suspects is a student that went missing from Brown,” Williams said, dismissing the speculation.
That speculation reached a fever pitch when police officers mentioned 22-year-old Sunil Tripathi and another man on the police scanner in the early hours of Friday morning. His name had surfaced on Reddit Thursday night.
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Update IV: We changed our headline. One killer was caught but now he is dead so the new headline reflects that. And the other killer is at large. Shootout witness video:
Update II: Watertown Police in a press conference confirm Boston Killer Suspect #1 in custody – KILLED after a firefight and thrown explosives. Suspect #2 at large and dangerous.
Will Barack Obama call Watertown Police stupid like he did to the Cambridge Police?
“I’m hearing that the Scanner has confirmed that White Hat was indeed Sumil Tripathi, a Brown student who walked away from his life last month and disappeared.”
“The FBI has joined a search for 22-year-old Indian-American Sunil Tripathi , an undergraduate Brown University student who went missing on March 16. [snip]
According to the Facebook Page set up by family, Tripathi who went missing from his Angell Street residence since Saturday morning is 6’0, 130 pounds, with brown eyes and short brown hair. “Sunil has been struggling with depression since he took a leave of absence from Brown last year. A note suggestive of suicidal intent left behind has his family extremely worried ,” the family said.”
Now (3:45 a.m. EDT) police are warning Watertown residents not to answer their doors and keep away from windows.
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Boston Globe reports at about 2:30 in the morning that one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been caught:
One Marathon bombing suspect has been caught, and another is on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police, officials said.
Now, at 3:00 a.m. EDT a second suspect is under arrest and in the custody of the FBI. [Note, new reports state that suspect #2 is not under arrest.] As we listened to CNN’s eyewitness report by cameraman Gabe Ramirez (which has not been repeated since) the naked suspect has been described as “middle eastern”. Having seen the video of the naked man’s arrest that does seem to be a fair assessment.
Earlier the FBI released two new face front photos of the suspects which can be viewed HERE.
Update IV: Explosions, gunfire, continue in Watertown. One suspect arrested. Police told him to take off ALL his clothes before coming near them. We’ll post a link to the brand new FBI pictures we discussed in earlier update ASAP.
“Authorities say a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has died from injuries in a shooting on the campus outside Boston. [snip]
CBS Boston station WBZ reports a pursuit and shootout in nearby Watertown early Friday morning. [snip]
WBZ says the officer was found with multiple gunshot wounds. [snip]
According to WBZ, at about 1 a.m. Friday, officers from several agencies were involved in a pursuit into Watertown. It is unknown if it was connected to the shooting at MIT. A WBZ employee on the scene says one person has been taken into custody in Watertown, apparently in connection with the activity there.
A witness says he heard explosions and gunshots before the suspect was apprehended. WBZ-TV’s Lauren Leamanczyk reports that the National Guard is at the scene in Watertown.
Another suspect is reported to be at large.”
The suspect is still naked and under FBI interrogation. Pictures of him have been taken by FBI.
BREAKING: Now another suspect is under arrest. More soon.
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Update III: It’s 2:30 a.m. in the morning. New Photos of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have been released by the FBI.
PLUS: A cop shot at MIT. A person has been arrested in Watertown in connection with the dead police officer. The FBI is involved. FBI rarely if ever gets involved in local crime. One person is in custody. Another person is being hunted down.
“WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Police have converged on a neighborhood outside Boston where there were reports of explosives being detonated and police are telling reporters to turn off their cell phones.
Dozens of officers and National Guard members are in Watertown, where television outlets report that gunfire and explosions have been heard. A helicopter is circling overhead.
Authorities early Friday were calling for somebody to get on the ground and put their hands up and a loud thud was heard after someone shouted “fire in the hole.”
Reporters are being told to move away from the scene. A police officer told a reporter: “If you want to live, turn off your cell phone.”
Earlier Thursday night a campus police officer was shot and killed at MIT and authorities were searching for the person responsible.”
Update IV: Explosions, gunfire, continue in Watertown. One suspect arrested. Police told him to take off ALL his clothes before coming near them. We’ll post a link to the brand new FBI pictures we discussed in earlier update ASAP.
“Authorities say a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has died from injuries in a shooting on the campus outside Boston. [snip]
CBS Boston station WBZ reports a pursuit and shootout in nearby Watertown early Friday morning. [snip]
WBZ says the officer was found with multiple gunshot wounds. [snip]
According to WBZ, at about 1 a.m. Friday, officers from several agencies were involved in a pursuit into Watertown. It is unknown if it was connected to the shooting at MIT. A WBZ employee on the scene says one person has been taken into custody in Watertown, apparently in connection with the activity there.
A witness says he heard explosions and gunshots before the suspect was apprehended. WBZ-TV’s Lauren Leamanczyk reports that the National Guard is at the scene in Watertown.
Another suspect is reported to be at large.”
The suspect is still naked and under FBI interrogation. Pictures of him have been taken by FBI.
BREAKING: Now another suspect is under arrest. More soon.
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Update III: It’s 2:30 a.m. in the morning. New Photos of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have been released by the FBI.
PLUS: A cop shot at MIT. A person has been arrested in Watertown in connection with the dead police officer. The FBI is involved. FBI rarely if ever gets involved in local crime. One person is in custody. Another person is being hunted down.
“WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Police have converged on a neighborhood outside Boston where there were reports of explosives being detonated and police are telling reporters to turn off their cell phones.
Dozens of officers and National Guard members are in Watertown, where television outlets report that gunfire and explosions have been heard. A helicopter is circling overhead.
Authorities early Friday were calling for somebody to get on the ground and put their hands up and a loud thud was heard after someone shouted “fire in the hole.”
Reporters are being told to move away from the scene. A police officer told a reporter: “If you want to live, turn off your cell phone.”
Earlier Thursday night a campus police officer was shot and killed at MIT and authorities were searching for the person responsible.”
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Update II: Via Reddit “investigators” online the picture of the “Bridgestone” golf hat suspect #1 wears should help a little with identification especially for those who were at the marathon. Suspect #2′s hat has also possibly been identified.
The FBI might have the names of the suspects but if so why not release them? For that matter we wonder why the pictures of the suspects were not released yesterday or even earlier? Reasons? Anyone? Meanwhile John Miller explains why they are suspects:
“They have other video, including the one Orr referenced, where they believe they actually have on tape one of the suspects in the white baseball cap putting the bomb down in front of the Starbucks at the second location. But reason they selected the pictures we’re seeing here is they wanted to find the pictures that didn’t have the most sinister activity but the pictures that gave people the best chance of recognizing them.”
As the bombs were planted the Boston Bomber(s) saw the people they were about to kill or maim. That includes the dead 8 year old Martin Richard and his younger sister who is now in the hospital with a missing leg and a brain injured mother.
Yesterday did not end with a whimper. After a dramatic day which saw Barack Obama quacking across the landscape like a lame duck singed with defeat instead of hailed with what was supposed to be the first of many more victories this year – leading to greater more glorious victories next year as the House would join the Senate under imperial control – then greater and more magnificent laurels and victories and the building of legacy monuments to the great leader of the millennials and the millennium… but instead it was failure piled on failure.
Shortly thereafter came a new dire report: 60-70 dead in Texas fertilizer plant explosion. Hundreds are injured and the hospitals, unlike in Boston, are not nearby. It was as if David Koresh and the Branch Davidians came near the ghoulish April 19 anniversary to visit their old haunts at Waco. Or perhaps it was executed mass killer Tim McVeigh lured by the scent of fertilizer and death back to the land of the quick.
The entire day was a horror and it did not end with unicorns and rainbows. Still at large at the end of the day, or perhaps waiting for an Obama publicity stunt to announce their capture or progress in the investigation, were the Boston Bomb killers.
Update VII: We wonder if the cancelled FBI press conferences are because Barack Obama wants to break the news of progress in the investigation when he torments Boston with a visit tomorrow. Just wonderin’ and a thinkin’.
The other political bomb exploding in Obama’s face is Toomey/Manchin (vote taking place right now at 4:15 pm). Toomey/Manchin is going down and Reid will likely announce he will pull the entire bill at a 5:00 press conference (after all the amendment votes) – just as the Boston Bomber press conference takes place.
It can get worse for Obomba. If the Coryn or Grassley amendments pass, Obama might have to veto gun legislation and take the blame for the impasse after he forced these tough votes on red state candidates from his own party.
C-Span 2 has the gruesome votes. At 5:00 it will be dueling pressers with Boston beating Reid.
We strongly suggest you check out the 4Chan people and the interesting photos on their website HERE. Scroll down there are some intriguing photos in which you see the bulge of what could very well be a pressure cooker in a backpack. Great work ladies and gentlemen.
Update IV: Is Michelle a suspect? After all there is only so much she can take being married to a lunkhead. Seriously though, Obama must be furious that he is an afterthought and not the main attraction on this news that is breaking: Second ricin letter addressed to White House, suspicious package alert in Senate office. Obama always wants to be the bride at the wedding and the corpse at the funeral so he can’t be happy that Representative Wicker got a Ricen letter first. Be careful Barack. It’s not blow. Don’t snort it.
Don’t you feel extra secure these days with Barack Obama in charge?
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Update III: That white rabbit David Sirota has lost all logic and proportion. Almost as if responding to many of the arguments we made in our last two articles, Sirota declares we should all want the Boston Bomber to be white and American. Sirota is race-baiting again as he did during the Newtown killings.
Sirota’s argument (borrowed from equally white rabbit Tim Wise) is that if white Catholics kill we don’t bomb the Vatican and if white Irish people kill we don’t bomb Dublin. It escapes this white rabbit that neither the Vatican nor the government of Dublin condone terrorist attacks in America like, let’s say, Afghanistan’s government did during 9/11.
What do left wing DailyKooks like Sirota and right wing Kooks have in common? They’re kooks.
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Update II: DailyKooks and Matthews O’Tingles take note. What we wrote yesterday in an update and follow up in today’s article is holding up. We wrote yesterday and write today that the Boston Marathon terror attack does not make sense as a right wing anti tax explosion. The Southern Poverty Law Center can usually be relied on to blame the blameless but even they don’t think it is the work of a domestic issue terrorist:
“When you think about it, the target is not clear,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center. “What the target was not was the government, or the IRS, or a minority group—black people, gay people, Muslims, immigrants, Latinos, and so on. It wasn’t targeted at any sort of specific subgroup.”
Mark Pitcavage, the director of investigative research for the Anti-Defamation League, agreed, saying this target didn’t feel like the work of extreme right-wing terrorists since it had no clear connection to the government.
“The bottom line is that no domestic extremist movement just based on their ideology alone would have a huge reason to attack the Boston Marathon,” Pitcavage said.
Didn’t Eric Rudolph bomb random civilians at a concert during the Olympics, an event kinda sorta like the Boston Marathon? Sure, says National Journal — but he wasn’t part of a group. Their real argument here, in other words, isn’t that a domestic terrorist didn’t do it, it’s that if one did, he probably wasn’t being sponsored or supported somehow by an organization. (BuzzFeed actually dialed up a few militias this morning and got denunciations of the Boston attack across the board.) Note that well, because if the bomber turns out to be domestic, the idea that he doesn’t represent any larger movement will instantly go straight into the toilet.
Update: This certainly fits in with today’s article. Breaking: Letter sent to GOP Sen. Roger Wicker tests positive for Ricin. It will be painful to hear what Matthews O’Tingles and the DailyKooks will come up with to explain this potential, or not, follow-up attack but this time on a Republican conservative. Still blaming the Tea Party you DailyKooks?
BTW, this does not appear to be a Boston Marathon related event but again, who knows? This looks more like an unrelated event. Still, even if this is not coordinated with the Boston terror attack this does increase anxiety levels. Best way to fight terror attacks is don’t be terrorized, don’t be frightened away – especially from your rights as an American citizen.
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Imagine for a moment, as the most fevered Obama dimwits – including according to David Axelrod what Barack Obama himself imagines – that a right wing tax protesting gun rights teabaggin’ party Sarah Palin lovin’ birther Mitt Romney voter exploded those bombs at the Boston Marathon yesterday. Imagine that and ask yourself what would have happened immediately after the culprit was exposed.
We have no doubt that immediately every Tea Party organization and activist along with every tax protestor, Sarah Palin herself and her active supporters, Second Amendment NRA type, along with all of the above would immediately issue a heartfelt, sincere, unvarnished, and absolute repudiation of the Boston Marathon bombing. We don’t doubt that. Not only would those organizations and individuals truly believe the bombing was heinous but they would also recognize that such a repulsive ugly act would be counterproductive to whatever political aims were meant to be espoused.
Yesterday however, Barack Obama Hopium Guzzlers like Matthews O’Tingles not only stated that it was this sort of “home-grown” killer but indeed the O’Tingles Obama Hopium Choomers craved that the bombing killer be from the American right wing. It would be the icing on the cake to marginalize Americans who disagree with Barack Obama. It would serve Obama political interests. It would divide Americans instead of unite America.
If the culprit however, was a “Saudi” or a Middle Eastern type, or an Islamist terrorist, the Obama O’Tingles mob would be unhappy. This would once again expose their naivete and Obama’s policies as stupid. The grandma and little children gropers at the TSA would be under pressure once again to target their investigations toward more likely suspects. The Global War On Terror would be back on.
Worst yet for the Obama O’Tingles Big Media Hopium Guzzlers there would not be universal condemnation of the bombing from Muslims. Some small groups and honorable individual Muslims would condemn the bombing. Many American Muslims would be disgusted and know these bombings do not help Muslims or Islam. But larger groups and even entire countries in the Middle East would rejoice and instead of repudiations there would be celebrations at the Great Satan being attacked yet again.
The reason a Timothy McVeigh terror attack is not as significant as a terror attack from a Muslim terrorist is that there are extremely wealthy organizations and individuals, entire countries, world wide networks of terrorists that devote themselves to destruction of the United States and removal of the United States as a world power.
A lone bomber like Tim McVeigh is capable of horrid acts that kill many, but the networks and capabilities for many follow-up terror attacks are very limited and not likely to go much farther because the home grown terror network did not exist and the few that sympathized with McVeigh were not willing to follow in McVeigh’s death-dealing footsteps.
Tim McVeigh did commit a political terror attack which killed many. McVeigh was not a kook however in the sense that he did have political motivations and he did target a federal building which does make sense if you are anti-government. But why would an anti government person target runners in a race? Have we run out of federal buildings or post offices filled with people on tax day?
A nut or a purposeful terrorist of whatever variety it is still very disturbing that bombs exploded in a place with much police activity. However this happened, Barack Obama, the city officials of Boston, and the leadership of Massachusetts still has a lot to answer for. Why with all the security was this allowed to happen? Bromides such as “we have to be correct 100% of the time they only have to be right once” are not going to cut it. Enough money has been spent and contrary to the latest political excuse makers (which we mocked yesterday) the sequester is not to blame.
So what happened? Why did it happen? Who is to blame?
It is a truism that many initial reports in events such as yesterday’s or in the “fog of war” are incorrect. But that does not mean some basic facts should be denied. Yesterday Barack Obama did not call it “terror”. Barack Obama has not wanted to use the word terror and specifically issued orders to stop government officials from referring to the Global War on Terror. “Terror” as a diagnosis has been removed.
But as any doctor or any patient can attest, the correct diagnosis leads to the correct treatment. An incorrect diagnosis can get you killed.
Imagine if you go to a hospital with your legs blown off after a bomb explodes and the doctor’s diagnosis is “high blood pressure”. You’d get rid of that doctor immediately.
If a home inspector says your house is under a sinkhole but the real problem is termites you’d get rid of that idiot too. You have to identify the problem before you can fix it.
If there is a terror attack you should call it a terror attack and proceed accordingly. But as in Fort Hood Barack Obama runs away from the word “terror” especially when the attack is successful. The hated George W. Bush did not have a terror attack on American soil after 9/11 so how can the golden calf Obama ever possibly do anything worse than George W. Bush?
Yesterday there were reports of pipe bombs and unexploded other bombs. Those reports were not accurate. Today we have a new report: Boston bomber used at least one pressure-cooker IED. These cookware bombs have terror pedigrees in “Nepal, Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan. They were used in the 2006 Mumbai attack, and a very crude version was part of the car-bomb attempt in Times Square in 2010.” Who knew pressure cookers are so popular with terrorists?
Of course with the internet terrorists cookbooks can be read by anyone so we should not rule out anybody. Still, it is terror. But yesterday other than here, “terror” was verboten, the word not to be spoken. Obama apologists Sam Stein, Tommy Vietor, David Corn, Nate Silver, and Chuckie Todd, took to twittering tweets to defend Obama’s allergy to “terror”:
The race to call this a terrorist act confounds me. What is the downside of waiting for more information first?— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) April 15, 2013
There isn’t one MT @samsteinhp: race to call this a terrorist act confounds me. What is the downside of waiting for more information first?— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) April 15, 2013
What matters: 1) who did it; 2) how they did it; 3) why they did it. What doesn’t matter: what we call it.— Nate Silver (@fivethirtyeight) April 15, 2013
Here’s a question: is an act of terror necessarily. terrorism?— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 15, 2013
Most important thing POTUS did not say: he did not use the word “terrorism.” Admin being very careful— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) April 15, 2013
Why call “terror” terror as soon as you see it? Because the diagnosis matters. The correct diagnosis is the first step to the cure. And that’s the problem that leads these Obama apologists to be so confounded and bewildered. They don’t want the cure, they want to protect their precious, their Obama.
Obama? Today Barack still did not really call it terror. Obama: The FBI is investigating the Boston bombing as an “act of terrorism”. Obama also gave the definition of terror we provided yesterday. But Obama still has not said yesterday’s Boston Marathon attack was a terror attack. That matters because it tells us Barack Obama is more worried about Barack Obama and his publicity stunts than about anything or anyone else.
DailyKooks and other low hanging nuts (including the despicable Matthews O’Tingles) are blaming the Tea Party for the terror attack because today is tax day and Patriots Day in Boston and because parents of the Newtown Connecticut shootings were invited and honored at the marathon. But domestic political attacks usually have some logic to them. If bombs exploded at IRS offices in Boston or post offices or even police stations then domestic terrorist groups might be suspect. These nonsensical attacks on American events or locales are usually the hallmark of people who hate America first and last.
“There were at least 111 victims at six area hospitals on Monday night. Brigham and Women’s Hospital said it was treating 26 victims, the largest number, and said two were at risk of losing limbs. Boston Medical Center said it had received 23, and Massachusetts General Hospital was treating 22 patients, including six in critical condition and five in serious condition. Beth Israel Deaconess had 21 patients, and Tufts Medical Center had received nine.”
Reports have it that the youngest killed was 8 years old. Reports also surfaced that “five additional, undetonated explosive devices around the Boston area” have been found and neutralized. The search for suspects however continues:
BOLO put out by Boston law enforcement for “dark skinned or black male” who tried to gain restricted access minutes b4 1st explosion #CNN
— Nick Valencia (@CNNValencia) April 16, 2013
MORE- The man was seen wearing a black sweatshirt & had a black packback. Possible foreign national based on accent #CNN #BostonExplosion
— Nick Valencia (@CNNValencia) April 16, 2013
Update II: As one of our commenters asks, how long before Barack Obama blames his failure of leadership and the Boston Marathon terror attack on the sequester?
“A federal law-enforcement source confirmed to The Post there are at least 12 dead and nearly 50 injured. Fox News reported that Massachusetts General Hospital was treating 10 people with amputated limbs and all operating rooms were on hold.
Authorities have a identified a suspect, a Saudi national, who is currently being guarded in a Boston hospital with shrapnel wounds.“
We would be surprised if this early report is entirely accurate. Saudi terrorist’s have much more experience blowing up Americans so to be caught so quickly would confound suspicious us.
Confirmed is a fire, possibly due to a bomb, at the JFK Library. More video:
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Update: Today’s explosions have knocked Kermit Gosnell coverage off the front pages the story never appeared on anyway (including us here at Big Pink). Fairly or unfairly, wisely or not, today’s terror attack at the Boston Marathon will also impact the gun control debate for which the votes don’t exist anyway even with the contents stripped of all the bans and scams Barack Obama wanted. Immigration reform will also be impacted as questions of border jumping terrorists will now come to the fore no matter how much Big Media steers the conversation to sympathetic portraits of families divided by immigration laws and flaws.
Before the Obama Hopium Guzzlers accuse us of politicizing this terror attack, which we are and rightly so, we’ll point out that Kristof is busy making political attacks and Obama won’t let this crisis go to waste.
The explosion as it happened:
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We were just about to hit the “publish” button on our scheduled new article focused on Kermit Gosnell. But now news is breaking: Explosion at Boston Marathon.
“Multiple casualties are reported after at least two explosions were heard near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, according to the Boston Herald.
Witnesses reportedly heard two booms that sounded like two claps of thunder near the finish line inside the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel.
The explosions occurred just before 3 p.m. Video of the scene showed a number of emergency crews in the area tending to victims and blood on the ground near the finish line.
“I saw two explosions. The first one was beyond the finish line. I heard a loud bang and I saw smoke rising,” Boston Herald reporter Chris Cassidy, who was running in the marathon, told the newspaper. “I kept running and I heard behind me a loud bang. It looked like it was in a trash can or something…There are people who have been hit with debris, people with bloody foreheads.”
A photographer with Fox affiliate WFXT reported seeing a number of victims with lost limbs.”
At 70 years of age, after years in a multiple sclerosis induced coma, original Mickey Mouse Club member Annette Funicello died today with her family by her side. “She’s on her toes dancing in heaven… no more MS. My brothers and I were there, holding her sweet hands when she left us.”
The Iron Lady died today too. Margaret Thatcher, the woman who put steel in the spine of a wobbly George H. W. Bush during the Iraq invasion of Kuwait deserves respect even from ideological opponents today for a life well lived. Margaret Thatcher not only broke the glass ceiling in Great Britain but she also rose to Prime Minister in class conscious Britain from her beginnings as a grocer’s daughter.
Instead of respect, reptiles like Donna Brazile who embraced Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in 2008, has the hideous effrontery to ask “Okay, what did the #ironlady do to advance Great Britain and the world? Did she leave lasting footprints for women in politics? #justsayin” Donna Brazile is a pig. Donna Brazile is a stupid pig.
Baroness Thatcher and Annette Funicello, dead as they both are, still have more honesty and life in them than the still breathing Barack Obama.
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What is the sound of a lame duck quacking? That “quack” sounds more like a croak. Lame duck Obama is croaking and Big Media is beginning to notice:
“Obama running short of time to burnish legacy in second term
The next 10 weeks are a make-or-break period for President Obama’s second-term agenda.
He needs quick victories in the Senate on gun control and immigration if he is to build momentum for a fight in the Republican-controlled House — the chief obstacle to his agenda. [snip]
As the gun-control fight has gone on and Obama’s initial talk of wide-ranging reform has been trimmed and trimmed again, the president has faced renewed criticism over his ability — or inability — to shepherd meaningful legislation through Congress.
On immigration, there are doubts as to whether he seriously wants a deal. [snip]
Obama has thrown the weight of his office behind a push for stricter gun-control measures, squaring off against the National Rifle Association (NRA), one of the most powerful lobby groups in Washington.
Losing such a high-profile battle when polls show voters support an assault-weapons ban and expanded background checks would rank as one of Obama’s biggest policy failures.
Proponents of immigration reform say it must pass before the end of June to avoid becoming entangled in the fight over the federal debt limit, expected in July.
Obama’s immediate problem on guns is weak support from Democrats, especially centrists running for reelection next year in conservative or swing states. [snip]
When asked about legislation to expand background checks to cover sales between private individuals, Begich said he wanted to see a Republican with an “A” rating from the NRA endorse it.”
Yeah, that’s gonna happen. Begich has a long wait.
The problem is that… well have you noticed that all the stories about North Korea emphasize the danger of inexperienced leadership in North and South Korea? Go ahead, Google it.
North Korea and South Korea have inexperienced leaders and that is somehow a problem. But in the mighty United States having a boob with no experience in moving legislation forward or any leadership qualifications… and 2008 Big Media cheers “Let’s go with change and hope for the best because anyway he’s not that woman we don’t like who does have experience and leadership skills.”
“PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama’s IOUs start coming due
He’s promised to set a course in law against global warming, stop Iran from gaining the ability to make nuclear weapons, slash America’s use of foreign oil, restrain college costs, take a big bite out of the national debt even while protecting the heart of the big entitlement programs and overhaul immigration law.
He’s promised to make health insurance not only universally accessible, but “affordable,” through a 2010 health care law that is finally entering prime time and will soon be tested.”
Barack Obama thought he could exploit the deaths of small children to pass gun control measures that would have done nothing to prevent the deaths of small children in Newtown Connecticut. It should have worked. Small children and cute pets steal scenes in movies and in a political war you just can’t beat a cute kid - especially one that has been butchered while in school. But Obama can’t even do the easy stuff
“President Obama’s make-or-break week on guns
President Barack Obama finds out this week whether he scratches out a narrow victory on gun control — or ends up with nothing at all. [snip]
Senate action is Obama’s best chance for a deal — but even there, Democrats haven’t settled on which bill to advance. The White House and most Democrats are behind a proposal that requires background checks for all gun sales, although even that is far less than what gun control advocates had hoped. Obama, though, won’t get anything better in the House, and he might not get that much.
After the Newtown tragedy, Obama pledged to use the full power of his office to prevent another such rampage.”
Obama’s “full power” is about the same as two aged fireflies with asthma.
“Proposed bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines are all but guaranteed to go down to lopsided defeats. The battle is now over how tough to make a background checks bill for gun sales — which polls show the public broadly supports. Conservatives have balked at record-keeping requirements when background checks are conducted, and Democrats have had a difficult time finding a GOP ally to sign on to a deal including them. [snip]
Reid has promised gun control advocates votes on an assault weapons ban and prohibitions on high-capacity ammunition magazines — both of which will go down to certain defeat — but it is the battle over expanding background checks where all the action is focused.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and a dozen other Republicans — including Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and Marco Rubio of Florida — have threatened to filibuster any gun bill, potentially restricting Reid’s options over what can be brought up for votes. [snip]
Reid is also boxed in by his desire to protect red-state Democrats up for reelection in 2014. These lawmakers would be happy to oppose the assault weapons ban or magazine limits yet might not want to be forced to support a Democratic-authored background checks bill with no Republican cover.”
Barack Obama and lantern jawed Michelle Obama can traverse the country burning fuel along the way all they want. But Obama’s fate, according to Obama lovin’ Politico, is in the unsteady hands of the promiscuous Hill:
“Hill holds President Obama’s legacy in its hands
It’s now or never for the White House.
President Barack Obama’s second-term agenda is in doubt as Congress returns to Washington this week for a spring and summer stretch that could go a long way to define the scope of Obama’s legacy.
Obama will unveil what his team is calling a “compromise” budget on Wednesday, but Republicans and Democrats alike are already criticizing elements of the plan.
The president’s effort on gun control might do no better than a watered-down bill destined to fail in the House, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) may bring to the floor as early as this week. Gun control advocates who had hoped for an assault weapons ban or other big reforms are bound to be disappointed by a strategy expected to allow for votes on those issues but don’t secure victories.
And Obama’s push to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws — the best chance he has to enact a sweeping social policy change in his second term — still faces significant hurdles, even in the Senate, where chief negotiators have fallen behind schedule.
The window for action on these issues will start to close as the 2014 midterm election cycle whips into full swing at the end of the year. After that, the next Congress figures to be colored by partisan posturing for the 2016 presidential election.
The president and his aides say Republicans will determine whether gun control, immigration reform and a major deficit-reduction deal become law or fade away.“
Republicans can barely do what is in their own interests. Yet Barack thinks Republicans will save him. What is the sound of this lame duck quacking? “Baaaaaraccckkkk”, “Baaaaaraccckkkk”, “Baaaaaraccckkkk”.
It’s good to know that one of the co-founders of ReadyForHillary is Allida Black and she remembers: She was at the Democratic National Committee meeting, protesting, when the Michigan and Florida delegates were assigned in a way that helped Obama. Some of her fellow travelers were so angry that they jumped to the McCain campaign, or fed the rumors that the “inadequate black man” was born in Kenya. [The source for the quote "inadequate black man" cannot be found in the Slate article nor in the links within the Slate story. We suppose it is another example of race-baiting from the Obama protection squads of Big Media.]
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Talk about the Axis of Evil! There is a new “Axis of Evil” on the loose.
Republican David Frum, despised by intelligent Republicans and conservatives is the speechwriter who coined the phrase “Axis of Evil” to describe the danger of terror allies Iran, Iraq, and North Korea in a January 29, 2002 George W. Bush speech. These days David Frum most resembles an Obama lovin’ Hopium Guzzling DailyKook screaming “Stop Hillary!”
Frum + DailyKooks = “Axis of Evil 2016″.
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David Frum is despised by Republicans/conservatives in large part because Frum wants the Republican Party to dump all the issues which arguably give them success. If you are an Obama Dimwit that believes Obama heralds a new age and the death of the Republican Party we suggest you read Obama Dimwit Roland Martin, our two series on the Obama Cult demographics called “Mistake In ’08” and “Barack Obama’s Situation Comedy”. For extra credit you might want to read this year’s Rick Perlstein warnings for Dimocrats (which we will have much for to say about in the coming months and years) in The Nation magazine Part I, Part II, Part III, and the desperate Epilog. Extra-extra credit if you read the always readable Sean Trende’s Why 2012 Postmortems Overstate Republican Woes along with Victor Davis Hanson’s Obama’s Presidency Won’t Stand the Test of Time.
David Frum, not having exhausted his bad advice for Republicans, now offers destructive advice to all. This time Hillary Clinton 2016 is the target of analysis.
Most readers of the Frum article are upset with the atmospherics of Frum essentially calling Hillary Clinton old while not bothering to focus on the older Cat Ballou style drunk called Joe Biden. For us what is mind-numbingly stupid is that David Frum does not seem to understand that for the Democratic Party to be resurrected as a sane functioning political organization that is not a Mao cult of personality Obamination the party has to do precisely what Frum advises against.
Washington (CNN) — Democrats seem poised to choose their next presidential nominee the way Republicans often choose theirs: according to the principle of “next in line.” [snip]
Democrats, by contrast, prefer newcomers. Six of their eight nominees since 1972 had never sought national office before. [snip]
Hillary Clinton is 14 years older than Barack Obama. A party has never nominated a leader that much older than his immediate predecessor. [snip]
Parties have good reasons to avoid reaching back to politicians of prior generations. When they do, they bring forward not only the ideas of the past, but also the personalities and the quarrels of the past.
One particular quarrel that a Hillary Clinton nomination would bring forward is the quarrel over the ethical standards of the Clinton White House — and, maybe even more, of the Clintons’ post-White House careers. [snip]
Yet the biggest risk to Democrats from a Hillary Clinton nomination is not that it would be generationally backward-looking – or that it would reopen embarrassing ethical disputes — but that it would short-circuit the necessary work of party renewal. [snip]
Barack Obama offered another in 2008 with his careful but unmistakable criticism of Clinton-era domestic policies and Hillary Clinton’s Iraq war vote. But if Hillary Clinton glides into the nomination in 2016 on the strength of money, name recognition, and a generalized feeling of “It’s her turn,” then Democrats will forgo this necessary renewal.”
Frum somehow believes that Hillary Clinton 2016 is an “It’s her turn” candidate. That is stupid.
All of us, and Hillary, are fighting the Democratic Party establishment.
All of us, and Hillary, are fighting Big Media.
All of us, and Hillary, are fighting for democratic principles.
It’s now a Peoples Campaign.
How does Barack Obama win the nomination? Barack Obama wins by excluding votes, by NOT counting votes.
How does Hillary Clinton win the nomination? Hillary Clinton wins by including all votes, by COUNTING votes as they were cast.”
David Frum does not understand that the fire this time is to correct a great wrong. It wasn’t a great wrong that harmed Hillary however. It was a great wrong against us and democratic principles that happened in 2008. It is a return to history after a great deviation that flung us into the ditch in 2008. Hillary Clinton 2016 very much echoes what we wrote about in 2007 about being Hillary “READY”.
Frum writes about the need for party “renewal”. That is what Hillary Clinton 2016 is. The Democratic Party must be resurrected to compete in the battlefield of ideas not by launching mud balls of Obama style race baiting against the opposition party. A debate about ideas to renew America is needed not Obama race baiting and cult of personality temple worship.
David Frum has somehow missed the news that Barack Obama in 2012 was in great trouble and that the only response he could think of was to bring in then pretend to become – Bill Clinton. Yeah, “racist” Bill Clinton. We don’t believe surrogates can influence a campaign that much. But it was clear to all that Barack Obama did everything possible to praise and promise to be more like Bill Clinton in 2012. Mitt Romney surrendered the “referendum on Barack Obama” campaign strategy and that helped destroy his campaign. But in the end it was lying Obama putting on the political clothes of Bill Clinton that helped him in November 2012. So what the hell is David Frum talking about?
One candidate could seek the Democratic nomination on a platform of keeping faith with the ideals of the pre-presidential Obama: closing Guantanamo, ending targeted killings, and so on.
Another Democrat could run to represent those Democrats who supported Bill Clinton back in the 1990s, and who worry that the Obama administration has drifted too far to the left: spending too much, ignoring budget deficits, getting into too many fights with business.
Yet another could run as a full-throated defender of the Obama legacy, updating the 1988 George H.W. Bush “stay the course” message.”
That’s right, but let’s assign names: The phony candidate and stalking horse who would try to out-Obama Obama would be “Fauxcahontas from Massachusetts” Elizabeth Warren.
Hillary Clinton 2016 is the one to “represent those Democrats who supported Bill Clinton back in the 1990s, and who worry that the Obama administration has drifted too far to the left: spending too much, ignoring budget deficits, getting into too many fights with business”.
The “full-throated” defender of the Obama legacy”? We’ll have to check the mental wards for escapees before we assign that spot to Joe Biden, or Martin O’Malley, or even the lantern jawed Michelle Obama.
Those chomping at the bit after five years of being in Winter quarters better learn the lessons of 2007/2008. In 2007/2008 this Big Pink bad ass site was all alone in defense of Hillary Clinton. Eventually other sites organized but they were too late in coming. This time Big Pink is not alone.
“Does Our Current Romance With Hillary Mean an Easier Path for Her in 2016? [snip]
When she ran in 2008, the media (and her own party) treated her as a vile harpy standing in the way of “history.” As if the first woman after 43 male presidents would not make history. We were looking to elect Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and leader of the free world. Big media was concerned with ankles and cackles, deriding Hillary as a “white b*tch” and “Nurse Ratched.”
Arguably, there are thousands, if not millions, of women and fair minded men who would make a bigger stink if the type of sexist media bullying that Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin, experienced were to once again rear its ugly head. But that doesn’t mean it won’t occur. Not unexpectedly, the current media narrative ignores sexism as having had any influence over the outcome in 2008, though respected studies have proven otherwise. [snip]
“Hillary 2016″ may or may not turn into a reality, but if her campaign comes to pass, I am not deluded enough to think the fight won’t be just as tough.“
We are sure Hillary Clinton will make a decision on seeking the presidency in 2016 after the 2014 elections which will be a referendum on ObamaCares’ corruptions. After November 2014 it will be time to decide on 2016 for the tribes on all sides.
Over the years even some Hillary Clinton supporters from 2008 are too angry with the corruptions of Barack Obama to support Hillary Clinton now. When they look at Hillary, they see Barack. And it is a maddening sight. The old saying if you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas (if you lie down in sh#t don’t be surprised if you stink) is their righteous motto.
Some blame Hillary Clinton for Benghazi deaths, or protection of Barack Obama or blame Hillary Clinton for not openly challenging Barack Obama. Some are so disaffected no Democrat ever will get their votes.
For our part we believe we need a fully functioning Democratic Party and a fully functioning Republican Party that argue policy, programs, and present their ideologies honestly without the distractions of race-baiting or sexism and misogyny – and let the voters decide in honest elections.
We also believe that in 2016 neither Benghazi, the Clinton “ethical standards” Frum is still thumping after suffering defeat upon defeat, Bill’s speech dollars, Chelsea’s apartment, nor Hillary’s hairdo and speaking fees, will matter.
In 2016 the greatest threat to Hillary Clinton is once again Barack Obama – and his legacy of weakness and profligacy. Tie Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama and she loses.
Polls show Hillary Clinton 2016 could even win Texas. Exit polls in 2008 showed that Hillary Clinton would have done better than Barack Obama because she would have won white working class voters along with traditional Democratic base voters. Hillary Clinton 2016, the enemy of the DailyKooks, would mark the resurrection of the Democratic Party if she only gets the nomination. It would be a return to sanity.
What will matter in 2016 is the “center”. If Hillary stays in the center she wins. Hillary spent four years as far from Barack Obama as air travel made possible so she still can make it a convincing argument. If the Republican candidate seizes the center, he or she wins. In either case what matters is that the country win.
We still have not gotten over our Easter weekend Doubting Thomas ‘tude. So, as we are too doubting to believe without verification, we leave it to you to decide – are the following news items from today April Fools Day jokes?:
That’s supposed to be on April 24. Then “Clinton and Bush are also set to appear at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University on April 25.” This is not Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.
How’s this news feel on your nose?: “The buzz is beginning about first lady Michelle Obama and the political ambitions she might hold.” [snip] “She’s a supporting actress. I don’t know if she can play the lead,” says Green. He points out that unlike Hillary, she has never taken a position on anything that is controversial. Can she stand up in debates when someone really comes after her?”‘ Believe it or not, does it pass the smell test?
Believe it or not? Wasn’t it in 2007/2008 that Obama Hopium Guzzlers attacked Hillary running for president because they were so opposed to “dynasties”? Now in 2013 for Obama Dimocrats it’s all dynasties, all the time: Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Senator Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Udall of Colorado, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M, Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, wannabee senator Brendan Johnson (“appointed by Obama as state U.S. attorney having never held elective office).
While we are recalling 2007/2008, is that really the great Harriet Christian who “friended” us on Facebook today? We believe it!
Ah, memories. Thank you Harriet.
And during this Passover season, let’s go to the past and get an update from something we wrote repeatedly about. Remember our 2011 article Hanukkah In July?:
Check out the links in that quote from 2011 for the full and wonderful Hanukkah story which got a great update from the Professor at Legal Insurrection this past weekend in the article Yesterday the Middle East changed forever, and you didn’t know it. The Professor cites The Times of Israel for this Passover gift:
“Netanyahu hails ‘historic day’ as Israel starts pumping gas from major offshore find Four years after discovery, flow from Tamar field marks start of Israel’s transformation to ‘energy independence’ and eventual natural gas exporter [snip]
Natural gas from the offshore Tamar field was pumped to Israeli shores for the first time Saturday, four years after its discovery, in preparation for its first use in the Israeli energy market — a move that could transform the Israeli economy.
The Tamar deposit, discovered in 2009 some 90 kilometers west of Haifa, holds an estimated 8.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. [snip]
The gas from Tamar is expected to help meet Israel’s energy needs for the next 20 years, Channel 2 said, and will save the economy some NIS 13 billion (some $3.5 billion) per year. Its ahead-of-schedule use will also save Israeli citizens some cash — lowering a planned rise in electricity costs to 6 percent, less than originally planned.
“This is an ‘energy independence day’ for Israel,” said Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom. “This breakthrough is the harbinger of the foray of additional private companies” into the Israeli energy market, he added.
The Tamar deposit, and especially the heftier Leviathan, which was discovered in 2010, are expected to provide Israel with enough natural gas for decades and transform the country, famously empty of natural resources, into an energy exporter.
Leviathan, which boasts an estimated 16 to 18 trillion cubic feet of gas, is expected to go online in 2016, the approximate time when exports are expected to begin.”
Energy independence – what a concept. Great news for Israel and in past years for the U.S. Not so much now and Barack Obama is probably steamed at Bibi’s drilling. We wrote about this great news years ago so we believe it. What about you? Gee, we wish we had smart leaders running the country.
“Obama is whining and wants the Security Council of the United Nations to do something about North Korea’s latest slap in the Obama face. Obama whines that North Korea violated international “rules”. This risible plea from Obama made us laugh because Obama, of all people, now wants words to “mean something”. Here is what Obama yelped: “This provocation underscores the need for action, not just this afternoon at the Security Council but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons,” Mr. Obama said. “Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something.”
Any doubt that North Korea wanted to deliberately slap Obama in the face, throw a shoe at him, is dispelled by the timing (which the hapless New York Times labels an “irony”).”
Read our article from 2009 if you want to know what is going on in North Korea today. Bottom line: No Respect For The Boob.
World leaders don’t respect Barack Obama. North Korea’s losers know Barack Obama is a boob. He’ll get us all killed with his boobery.
“Hanging out during the Easter Egg Roll festivities, President Obama decided to try taking some shots on the White House basketball court. Big mistake.
Miss. Miss. Off the rim. Miss. Miss. Off the rim. Airball.
He moved closer to the net.
But time and again, he missed. Of 22 shots POTUS took, he made two. (22 was general consensus of poolers)
At one point, POTUS handed a ball to a boy and asked for help. The boy made the layup.
“He couldn’t make one. I had to help him out,” said Kahron Campbell, 10, of Landover, MD.”
A 10 year old had to help out the boob. The boob that constantly plays basketball with his male pals. The boob that everyone of his Hopium Buzzlers say is such a great B-ball player. Obama is a national embarrassment on and off the court.
Ronald Reagan step aside. Here we are at the end of a week and the beginning of a weekend that is so very important in the history of Jews and Christians – a week in which gay rights and other secular issues dominate the headlines – and we are all about the Apostle Thomas. It was the Apostle Thomas, who after the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday, looked at his divine mentor and demanded inspection of the holes drilled into the hands by nails and the stab of a spear on the chest. The Apostle Thomas was beating Ronald Reagan by millennia: Trust, but verify.
“With red state Democratic Senators remaining skittish about embracing Obama’s gun proposals, at least two top Democratic donors are stepping forward and vowing to withhold any and all future financial contributions from any Democrats who don’t support the centerpiece of Obama’s plan: Expanded background checks.
Kenneth Lerer, a New York businessman who is chairman of Buzzfeed.com, and David Bohnett, a technology entrepreneur and philanthopist based in Los Angeles, are both major financial supporters of Democratic candidates, having each given scores of large contributions over the years.”
Don’t trust Obama protecting Big Media outlets.
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Gee, it’s really hot outside isn’t it? It must be the hottest ever and getting hotter. No one can possibly be making money or ginning up temperature data right? It must be hotter and getting hotter and hotter since it began to get hotter:
“Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled
DEBATE about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the sceptical fringe to the mainstream.
In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating agencies, then climate sensitivity – the way climate reacts to changes in carbon-dioxide levels – would be on negative watch but not yet downgraded.
Another paper published by leading climate scientist James Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, says the lower than expected temperature rise between 2000 and the present could be explained by increased emissions from burning coal. [snip]
But the fact that global surface temperatures have not followed the expected global warming pattern is now widely accepted.
Research by Ed Hawkins of University of Reading shows surface temperatures since 2005 are already at the low end of the range projections derived from 20 climate models and if they remain flat, they will fall outside the models’ range within a few years.
“The global temperature standstill shows that climate models are diverging from observations,” says David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
“If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change,” he says.
Whitehouse argues that whatever has happened to make temperatures remain constant requires an explanation because the pause in temperature rise has occurred despite a sharp increase in global carbon emissions.”
OoooooOooh, those darn Israelis. Darn those gay hating, gay executing, Jewish bigots. Oh, um, uh… never mind. It’s not the Jews after all:
“The most revealing essay in Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality?* was entitled “Gay Imperialism: Gender and Sexuality Discourse in the War on Terror.” Hinging upon the premise that “besides terrorism, gender and sexuality are the grounds upon which the Islamophobic wars at home and abroad are fought,” the authors sought to portray discussion of homosexuality in Muslim countries as a new form of the 19th-century mission civilisatrice of the French empire.
Coming in for special scorn were those Muslims who themselves criticized attitudes in their own cultures. [snip]
So averse are these academics to finding fault in Arab, Muslim, or other nonwhite communities that they have attempted to isolate mere discussion of homophobia by decrying it as a form of racism. Indeed, according to them, the promotion of gay rights is itself an offshoot of racism. [snip] In other words, to expect immigrants from nonwhite majority countries to reject wife-beating and tolerate gay relationships is to be a racist.
The last stripe in this rainbow flag of cynical distortion is the alleged phenomenon of “pinkwashing,” defined by City University professor Sarah Schulman in a New York Times op-ed in 2011 as the “deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life.”
Though the phrase gained worldwide attention thanks to Schulman, it actually first came to prominent attention in a 2010 piece in the British Guardian by Rutgers academic Jasbir Puar, who claimed Israel was engaged in a “gay propaganda war,” using its supposed openness to homosexuality as a smokescreen to trick gay activists into thinking better of it rather than standing with those who argue Israel is an evildoer because of its conduct toward Palestinians.
The campaign against “pinkwashing” reached a paranoid height in 2011 in a determined campaign by Arab and left-wing gay activists against gaymiddleeast.com—a Web portal featuring news and information about gay-related issues across the Middle East. [snip]
And, according to its enemies, the site failed to condemn Israel and the positions of its government on issues wholly unrelated to gay rights (such as relations with the Palestinians). To add insult to injury, it had the temerity to publish “article after article of [sic] how awesome Tel Aviv’s gay life is,” rather than the “anti-apartheid statements of the various Arab LGBT groups.” [snip]
What the relativists ultimately cannot stomach are moral arguments coming from the mouths of Westerners, directed at non-Westerners. [snip] These ideas will get an airing in April at the City University of New York, at a conference entitled “Homonationalism and Pinkwashing,” in which the United States will also be accused of using its supposed open-mindedness toward homosexuality as a propaganda tool. To the proponents of the “pinkwashing” meme, the hard-fought, tangible victories won by gay people over the past five decades are illusory, because America remains a capitalist, oppressive, and imperialist hegemon.
“In the United States, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have been invited into an equality defined, not by rights, but by the ability to participate openly in immoral wars,” Sarah Schulman writes in the conference description, reducing over half a century of gay-rights activism to enjoying, as an acknowledged homosexual, the right to kill innocent, dark-skinned people. By failing to engage in a more radical, Marxist critique of society, gay activists have sold out: They advocate for “assimilationist” goals like marriage and military service, when what they should really be doing is undermining the patriarchy and advocating pacifism. They have become handmaidens to “homonationalism,” or the “collusion between LGBT people and identification with the nation state, re-enforcement of racial and national boundary, and systems of supremacy ideology no longer interrupted by homophobia.”
Who knew? If you drink a Mimosa at a gay bar you’re a racist! If you’re gay and don’t burn the American flag you’re a racist! If you’re gay and are mostly interested in Judy Garland and Ru Paul – you’re a racist! That’s how crazed the Obama left DailyKooks have become.
If you think Judeo-Christian Western civilization and culture has virtues in abundance and lessons to teach you’re a racist!
There’s a lot in that article worth reading. If you want to help free Muslim gays with policies recycled from the campaign to help Soviet Jewry the article has some ideas to consider. If you want to read how corrupt the Obama left is (hint: gay Muslims are smart to cooperate with the gay hating misogynist Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt and give these thugs power), indulge yourself.
Back in 2007 almost from the very first postings in this website we declared that “Obama cannot be trusted”. Eventually entire articles detailed why “Barack Obama cannot be trusted.” Our catechism was written:
“Obama simply cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted on any issue. Obama cannot be trusted by his friends. Obama cannot be trusted by his enemies. Obama cannot be trusted.”
Whether he’s trying to make nice with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu or suddenly at the doorstep of Republicans, looking for meetings, Obama is starting his second term merely trying to get those he has to deal with to trust him.
They’d be better off trusting their instincts instead, which most likely tell them: Once bitten, twice shy.”
“Every woman knows the type. He doesn’t call when he said he would, he forgets Valentine’s Day, he’s late to pick you up – the only thing he has a good memory for is excuses. [snip]
President Obama’s recent flurry of “outreaching” and shifting policies suggests the political incarnation of just such a man. And those on the receiving end of his sudden flattery can be excused for trusting him just as much as one might a cad bearing flowers and an apology.
Obama has left a long trail of broken hearts, reneging on commitments to major groups – political, national, and social – that thought they might count on him. The great challenge of Obama’s second term isn’t one particular program or another. It’s merely getting people to trust him.“
“Last week, the Israelis were treated to the odd spectacle of an abruptly cuddly and warm American president who had previously insulted their prime minister, changed the starting point for negotiations with the Palestinians to the pre-1967 borders, and demanded an end to settlements as a prelude to peace talks.
So here he was in Jerusalem bearing gifts – quite literally, a framed wooden artifact from a synagogue visited by George Washington for Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and a set of original stationery by New York designer Christen Maxwell for the prime minister’s wife.
He lavished attention on Netanyahu, visited the grave of Zionism founder Theodore Herzl to dispel all doubt about his commitment to Israel’s existence and paid respects at the tomb of Yitzhak Rabin – but pointedly not that of Yasser Arafat when Obama briefly stopped in the Palestinian territories.
Oh, and he assured the Israelis that peace negotiations could begin even as settlement construction continued.
All he asked in return was to please trust that the United States – and ideally not Israel – will eradicate Iran’s nuclear program and not “cut it too close,” as Obama put it, to the point where nothing can be done.
That is, trust me with your nation’s survival, with your children’s future.“
“Just the week before, Republicans were barraged with a furious series of phone calls, visits, and White House invitations from a president who had ignored them for much of his first term and savaged them each time campaign season came around. Suddenly, the husband who’d been out club hopping and golfing with the boys was home for dinner and eager to help take care of the kids. [snip]
Republicans had better read the fine print, and remember that while tax increases happen today, spending cuts are for later and are always renegotiable.”
“The rest of those who find Obama has materialized out of nowhere at their doorstep should be just as careful.
The list includes gays who found out just last year Obama supports same-sex marriage; Hispanics who were promised immigration reform during Obama’s first term and are now told they’ll get it in the second; gun control advocates getting their due only after a horrific mass shooting got Obama’s attention; and environmentalists who thought global warming shouldn’t wait another four years before getting a serious response from a Democratic president. [snip]
Now, supposedly, they’ll all have their day in Obama’s court, even though the House is still run by Republicans.
But people don’t really change. Someone, and maybe everyone, will be disappointed. [snip]
And America finds out, contrary to what the president promised, that under Obamacare their premiums are rising, the cost of the program is soaring, and they might not be able to keep that plan and doctor they like after all.“
Doubting Thomas was right: Trust – but verify.
If Doubting Thomas lived today and knew Obama he would say:
“Don’t trust Obama. Obama cannot be trusted. Obama simply cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted on any issue. Obama cannot be trusted by his friends. Obama cannot be trusted by his enemies. Obama cannot be trusted.“
On the day yet to come that time and gravity provide Sarah Palin with the slightest of watery bags under her eyes, a wrinkle or two on her smooth face, a grey hair on her head – Big Media will explode with the virulent sexist misogyny Hillary Clinton supporters saw in 2007/2008 from Barack Obama supporters in and out of Big Media. Tina Fey will perform her impression of Sarah Palin with a Susan Sontag wig the moment a grey hair grows on Sarah’s head and Trig gran-momma jokes will erupt soon thereafter from ogres like Andrew Sullivan.
Hillary Clinton 2016 supporters better prepare for the onslaught of “you’re likeable enough Hillary” sexism and misogyny that will slew forth from Big Media. Hillary Clinton supporters (those who return to the fight with new Facebook pages and the many new organizations and websites that ensure that Big Pink is not alone as we were in 2007 and the early days of 2008) better prepare now for the sexism and misogyny that will come disguised as paeans to Hillary.
This past weekend the Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker wrote a seemingly flattering tribute to Hillary declaring that Hillary’s time has come. Parker wrote amidst her flattering words:
“It would be exhausting. Time wears us down, and Hillary would be 69 in 2016. The past four years have been brutal, and she shows the effects of constant travel, immense pressure and a rather noble lack of attention to her vanities. A presidential campaign, though more familiar, would be worse. So much engagement, so many bad meals, a terrible pace for anyone of any age but especially for a woman who may be musing about grandchildren and doting.”
Poor ol’ broken down Hillary. Send her to the glue factory or watch as she ends her life as an unpaid baby sitter. Yeah right. In 2008 we recall the many attacks against Hillary’s physical appearance by Obama supporters. Hillary’s “cankles” and her “cackle” were daily grist for the sexist misogyny mill that are the DailyKooks and other assorted Obama websites. These same people still control the DailyKooks and Obama websites and they will not apologize nor regret their attacks against Hillary in 2007/2008. Their attacks at first will be subtle. But the old attacks will reemerge refreshed once the left decides who the Barack Obama of 2016 will be.
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Ol’ broken down Hillary has a “noble lack of attention to her vanities” wrote Kathleen Parker. Translation: ‘Hillary has gone to seed and doesn’t care that she looks like a beaten up bagwoman’. Or is it an old wet bag of potatoes?
Back in September 2011 when there was a behind the scenes move to dump Barack Obama and bring in the “A” team, Hillary, the rumors began that Hillary Clinton had a facelift.
Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State then and meeting with Libyan Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil when the facelift rumors began. The rumors lifted only after it became clear that Hillary’s fresh new appearance was due to finally getting a few hours of sleep. Which brings us to Secretary of State John Kerry.
Have you seen John Kerry lately? The man must be 50% Botox. There is sufficient Botox in Kerry to float the corpse of Michael Jackson like a coffin on the high seas or a cork in a toilet bowl. But no one in Big Media notices.
Have you seen John Kerry lately? Kerry looks like a refugee from Terry Gilliam’s film Brazil.
Yet, because he’s a man, there is no other reason is there?, no one is mentioning John Kerry’s Botox face.
Back in 2004 there was some attention to the Botox Kerry was injecting into his equine face (apologies to our horse friends). But today, as John Kerry travels the planet as Secretary of State no one in Big Media writes about the Wilderstein appearance of Kerry. Kerry looks as if Theresa got out an iron and did a permanent press on hubby.
Mind, we have nothing against a little surgical pick-me-up other than we don’t really like any type of surgery if it can be at all avoided. But why is it that John Kerry gets a pass on what is obvious to everyone? If it was a woman gone to such extreme wrinkly annihilation “Wilderstein!” would be heard throughout the Big Media swamps.
Sexism and misogyny crested in 2008 as first Hillary Clinton then Sarah Palin became the targets of the Barack Obama smear machine. The War on Women is waged by men and women from the left and the right. Anyone who thinks sexism and misogyny will disappear in 2016 from the propaganda organs of the DailyKooks left is in for a shocking face stretch as reality slaps them in the face.
The DailyKooks left wants Hillary Clinton to move closer to the disaster that is Barack Obama even as he sinks in the polls. As we note at the end of our article Obamacare will be the issue in 2016 (and 2014) and Hillary better run from Barack Obama and statements such as this one from an Obamacare official on exchanges: “Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience.”Hillary Clinton better stay in the center, not move to the left.
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It’s difficult to cheer Republicans up as they contemplate the possibility of Hillary Clinton 2016. But we will try. Up at bat, Anthony Weiner, in our campaign to bring cheer to Republicans:
“Weiner is still fuming over his downfall, and he blames Nancy Pelosi,” said a source. [snip] Our source further adds, “Weiner has recently been telling pals that ‘when Hillary is president,’ he will get his revenge.” Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is a longtime Clinton aide.”
Now why would Weiner believe he will get his revenge when Hillary is president? It has been reported that Hillary Clinton was furious with Weiner when he unwittingly circulated twitter pictures of his weiner to several women while his own wife was pregnant with his first child. Hillary, certainly is not about to hurt herself politically with a defense or support for Weiner. Hillary haters will draw parallels with cheatin’ Bill but Weiner is not Hillary’s beloved life-long partner (in politics and childbearing) husband. So why does Weiner think President Hillary Clinton will bring about his revenge?
Weiner knows, like we do, that President Hillary Clinton will decapitate Pelosi, the Obama Dimocrats cult, and the DailyKooks who hate Hillary. Don’t believe us? Think Hillary and Bill are too darn nice to give payback? Think it’s “let bygones be bygones” time? Ask Judas Bill Richardson about Hillary’s long memory.
Hillary Clinton probably does not even have to win the general election to begin the decapitations. A nomination win will be sufficient to whet the guillotine’s thirst. That’s why we have written:
“Barack Obama and his minions will do everything in their power to destroy Hillary Clinton and make sure she does not get the nomination in 2016 let alone the presidency.
There is no way that the crazed Obama left is going to go back to the hated paradigm of clinton-bush-clinton-bush interrupted by Obama for clinton-bush years. The crazed left minions might think they love Hillary Clinton now, but wait until their overlords decide they will oppose Hillary and the minions will fall back into the Hillary hate line.
The crazed Obama left is not going to have Hillary Clinton, THE CLINTONS, be the culmination of their revolution by having Hillary inherit the mantle of Obama. The left might be crazed but it is not stupid and the leadership of the totalitarian Obama left is not about to surrender its power to Hillary and Bill and Terry and the hated DLC.”
Right now Republicans are in dread about Hillary Clinton 2016. But wait until the intra-party fighting comes out into the open. The Lanny Davis defense of Bob Woodward and calling out Obama’s thugs is but a foretaste of meals to come.
“(CNN) – Let’s say Hillary Clinton is the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and either Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio is the GOP nominee.
A new poll suggests Clinton would hold double digit leads over both men in hypothetical general election matchups in their home state of Florida, the largest of the battleground states.
According to a Quinnipiac University survey released Thursday, the former first lady, former senator from New York, 2008 Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of state leads Bush, the former two-term governor of Florida, 51%-40% in the Sunshine State. And the poll indicates Clinton topping Rubio, the first term senator from Florida, 52%-41% in his home state.
Clinton has a 62%-33% favorable/unfavorable rating among Florida voters, compared to 50%-35% for Bush and 41%-34% for Rubio. [snip]
“We probably won’t know for some time whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016, but if she decides to make the race, she begins with a sizable lead in a state that Republicans cannot win the White House without,” says Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “Florida voters have a very positive view of Mrs. Clinton and it’s not just Democrats who feel that way.”
The Democratic front-runner is incredibly popular. Sixty-two percent of Floridians look on her favorably, and only a third have a negative opinion. Twenty-six percent of Republicans and 56 percent of men have a favorable opinion of Clinton.
In 2016 it will once again be all about Florida. While there have been good polls for Hillary in Texas they cannot possibly hold. Can they? So as in 2012 it will be all about Florida again.
In 2012 Mitt Romney foolishly thought he had Florida locked up even though this website and much anecdotal and empirical evidence made it starkly clear that Florida was in peril of voting for Obama. Poll after poll put Florida in the undecided column and even though there was voter fraud a Marco Rubio on the ticket would have carried enough clout to give Romney the state.
If Republicans are smart they will come up with a strategy NOW to win Florida. Republicans have a powerful winning strategy to win Florida, if they grow brains, and it is called OBAMACARE.
Hillary Clinton will also have to develop a counter-strategy if Republicans do something smart for once and continue their assault on Obama’s health scam.
For Hillary Clinton 2016 and for the Republicans Obama’s health scam will be the issue. For Hillary Clinton 2016 and for the Republicans Florida will be the battleground.
Born into slavery as one of the youngest of thirteen children of James and Elizabeth in Ulster County, New York, in 1797, Sojourner Truth’s given name was Isabella Baumfree. As almost all of her brothers and sisters had been sold to other slave owners, some of her earliest memories were of her parents’ stories of the cruel loss of their other children. [snip]
In 1843, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth – her name for a traveling preacher, one who speaks the truth – and left New York. She traveled throughout New England, where she met and worked with abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass. Her life story, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, written with the help of friend Olive Gilbert, was published in 1850.
While traveling and speaking in states across the country, Sojourner Truth met many women abolitionists and noticed that although women could be part of the leadership in the abolitionist movement, they could neither vote nor hold public office. It was this realization that led Sojourner to become an outspoken supporter of women’s rights.
In 1851, she addressed the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, delivering her famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” The applause she received that day has been described as “deafening.” From that time on, she became known as a leading advocate for the rights of women. She became one of the nineteenth century’s most eloquent voices for the cause of anti-slavery and women’s rights.
Because we want to share our ideas and experiences, our common goals, and nonpartisan solutions to the challenges that we face - and there are no limits to what we can achieve when we do.
And because we want to keep working for a better future for every child, from every family – a world in which no limits is not just our goal, but a reality!
NoLimits.org will "keep you up to date with news about issues on which Hillary took a lead and we know you care so much about," group President Ann Lewis said in an e-mail to as many as 2 million people culled from the Clinton campaign database.
Because No Limits is a registered nonprofit, "it cannot do anything political. It has to be nonpartisan," said Lewis, a longtime senior adviser to Clinton.
In Clinton's job as secretary of state for President Obama, her political dealings are highly restricted.
For example, she shut down her political action committee.
Some, like Democratic consultant and former Bill Clinton aide Chris Lehane, dismiss talk that the group could be a springboard for Clinton to try again for the White House in, say, 2016.
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," Lehane said. "I think this is just [a] group of folks who developed relationships in an intense [electoral] environment and want to stay together."
But the University of Virginia's Larry Sabato countered: "Whenever a group like this says it's not a political organization, you just know it is."
"Maybe [this] is Hillary's answer to Obama's new 'change' group that controls his golden mailing list. Maybe it's a way for Secretary of State Clinton to mobilize backing for her objectives at the State Department," he said. "And maybe [it's] a standby committee of supporters in case Hillary decides to get back into elective politics."
Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf said NoLimits.org is "one way to make sure that she - and/or the former President - still have political leverage."
Hillary World-Wide January 26, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton Meets Afghan Women Lawyers. Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton met today at the State Department with fourteen prominent Afghan women judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. These jurists were in Washington to participate in a training program arranged by the Department’s Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan. Secretary Clinton told them: "Your American friends greatly admire your bravery and courage. It is your work in the tough environment of Afghanistan for women lawyers that will bring real reform and the rule of law to the Afghan people. As President Obama made clear yesterday in his first foreign policy announcement, we are committed to supporting your efforts to bring security and stability to your country."
