So, now Obama is 0-4. First in Virginia, he endorsed and campaigned for Democrat Creigh Deeds for governor, who was destroyed by Republican Bob McDonnell. Next in New Jersey, he endorsed and campaigned for Democrat Jon Corzine for governor and he was defeated by Republican Chris Christie. Then in Massachusetts he endorsed and campaigned for Democrat Martha Coakley who was handily defeated by Republican Scott Brown in a total upset. Last night, he gave the Colts the kiss of death when he predicted they would defeat the Saints in the Super Bowl.

President Barack Obama says the Indianapolis Colts "have to be favored" in the Super Bowl, even though he has a "soft spot" for the New Orleans Saints.

Obama's Super Bowl prediction was based on his opinion that the Colts have "perhaps the best quarterback in history."

"Peyton Manning is unbelievable," the president told CBS' Katie Couric during a live pre-game interview.

Peyton Manning essentially collapsed, the Colts's defense didn't show up for the second, third, or fourth quarters, and the Saints routed the Colts, 31 - 17.

The Blog Prof quips:

So how nervous is Harry Reid right now that Obama is promised to stump for him in Nevada???

Cross-posted at Kim Priestap.

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Filed under: Barack Obama, Sports

Brought to us by Philmon:

National Socialism was considered "right-wing" because (again, by its close relative just to its left) of it's emphasis on strong, strict, social controls.

But are you really going to try to convince me that the Soviets and the Maoists didn't use strict social control?

I think the globalists kid themselves about how different they really are, and how egalitarian they really are.  The Ruling Class always develops, and it always has special privileges.

I also think the reasons they object to the term "socialist" are 1) bad connotation due to abuses of socialist governments in the 20th century (in other words, it's bad marketing) and 2) they really think that they can do this gradually, without a bloody revolution, and everybody will just be happy once we all see how wonderful it is.  So in other words, no boody revolution, no "Socialism".

But they fail to see ... the reason that we are anti-socialist has little to do with the bloody revolution aspect.  It has to do with the fact that, as a political philosophy for running a state and its economic system, it doesn't work.  And it doesn't "not work" because of the bloodiness of the revolution or the iron-fistedness of the State --- it doesn't work because it rewards sloth and punishes productivity and innovativeness. (And the iron-fistedness of the state becomes necessary because it doesn't work!)

It is inherent in human nature to want to better one's lot in life.  Generally speaking, when bettering one's lot in life while following rules that keep you from confiscating from others -- you better others' lives as well.  You produce.  "Money", in reality, is a representation of production. (A portable proxy, if you will.)  The more you produce as a nation, the wealthier your nation is ... the better you do.  The less incentive to produce, the less will be produced.  The poorer your country will be.

So what you end up with is lower production, and confiscation from the productive to redistribute to the non-productive.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

Sounds great, on the surface, but it ain't human (or animal) nature.  On top of that, who decides what your abilities are, and who decides what someone's needs are?   And if I "need" more because I'm not performing up to my ability ... how does that get resolved?

By force.

That's right.  The state must either force me to work, or force someone else to support me.  If neither really works, then everybody gets poorer.   This will not stop the state from continuing to use force, though, and it will use more and more of it as time goes on in more and more desperate attempts to keep control.  This happens eventually every time.  It is inevitible, because of the nature of what we are, and that is homo sapiens.  It gets bloody one way or the other, because at some point someone's going to rebel against being used.

He's got more.  It's all enlightening.

Crossposted(*).

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Filed under: Big government, Education, Politics

There's growing scientific consensus that the IPCC is on its deathbed:

It's not just the threat of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035.

Now another headline grabbing IPCC scare story is melting away.  A report in Sunday's London Times highlights new humiliations for the IPCC.

The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

There is however one teensy-weensy little problem.  As Professor Chris Field, the lead author of the IPCC's climate impact team has now told reporters that he can find "no evidence" to support the claim in the IPCC's 2007 report.

There's more.  When the glacier story broke, IPCC apologists returned over and over again to a saving grace.  The bogus glacier report appeared in the body of the IPCC document, but not in the much more carefully vetted Synthesis Report, in which the IPCC's senior leadership made its specific recommendations to world leaders.  So it didn't matter that much, the apologists told us, and we can still trust the rigorously checked and reviewed Synthesis Report.

But that's where the African rain crisis prediction is found -- in the supposedly sacrosanct Synthesis Report.

So: the Synthesis Report contains a major scare prediction -- 50% shortfall in North African food production just ten years from now -- and there is no serious, peer-reviewed evidence that the prediction is true.

But there's more. Much, much more. 

Pull the plug on the IPCC and pull the plug now.  They need to seriously give up the Nobel Peace Prize, give back the money and her members go back to doing whatever it is they were doing before.

Now.

Crossposted(*).

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Filed under: Asshats, Environment, Global Warming, Scams, Scandals

At the Tea Party Convention this weekend, professional gadfly Andrew Breitbart got into it with some folks from World Net Daily about the "birther" issue. For those who've been living under a rock for the past two years, that's the term for those people who -- to put it charitably -- have unresolved doubts as to whether or not President Obama was actually born in Hawaii and is therefore Constitutionally eligible to serve as president.

Breitbart's main argument seems to be that it is a "loser" argument. And he's right.

Speaking strictly for myself, I am 99.44% convinced that Obama was born in Hawaii, is an American citizen by birth, and eligible to be president. And that's more than enough certainty for me.

The arguers against Obama's eligibility base their arguments on several grounds, and I'm not going to go into them in their obsessive meticulous detail. Suffice it to say that there is enough circumstantial evidence and supporting documentation that I really, really don't want to get into the issue on a "factual" basis. (I spent way too many years as an amateur scholar of the Kennedy assassination, and that burned up my conspiracy glands.)

But let's look at the "birthers" from a slightly more strategic level.

First up, what are they achieving now? Well, for one, they're giving Obama's supporters a ton of cover. While they're chasing this mythical "proof," they're NOT looking at what he's doing right now. By obsessing in what may or may not have happened on August of 1961 in Hawaii, or Kenya, or Indonesia, or Iceland, they're not paying attention to what's going on in DC today.

For another, they -- let's face it -- come across as silly. And that lets Obama's backers tar all of his detractors with a very broad brush, and distract from things that really matter.

For one more, I have to ask: what is their long-term goal? Let's play this out. Suppose they get proof that the Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth is faked, and they get proof Obama was born in Kenya. Then what?

Well, it's way, way too late to overturn the election. Obama was certified as the winner, and his administration has been running things for for over a year. McCain and Palin admitted defeat and have moved on.

Congratulations, birthers. You've just given us President Joe Biden. Smooth move, assholes.

I'd be willing to bet that President Biden wouldn't run for a term of his own, so we'd have a lame duck president in 2012. And at that point, we'd have an open presidency, like in 2000, The Democratic nominee would be able to distance himself or herself from the Obama/Biden administration's record, and wouldn't have to defend all the screwups they've made.

To the birthers: hang it up. It's over. You lost. It's not likely you ever had a chance of winning, and it's far less likely now -- if not impossible.

Put your energies into finding better candidates for 2012, for documenting all the failures, mistakes, flubs, and errors for that race, and fighting fights where you might actually win, and might actually win something.

'Cuz all you're doing here is making the big L on your foreheads even bigger and bigger.

And you're getting the ink on the rest of us, too.

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This week's Weekend Caption Contest™ was another monster hit. The assignment this week was to caption the following picture:

Here are the winning entries:

1) (Faith+1) - "Stewart is giddy with glee at O'Reily asking him to pull his finger."

2) (Rodney Dill) - "I didn't get a HARUMPH from that guy."

3) (Pretzel Logic) - "Megyn Kelly? DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT PAL."

4) (hermie) - O'Reilly: "Sarah Palin's right behind you Jon."

Stewart: "I just made poopy."

5) (Wyatt Earp) - "A tingle goes up Jon Stewart's leg after Bill O'Reilly scolds him."

6) (Sir Toby Belch) - "GOTCHA WITH THE WHOOPIE CUSHION, STEWART!"

The Readers Choice Award this week goes to:

(IowaRight) - "While O'Reilly warns him to stop, Stewart goes into is tuck position to maximize his rate of spin..."

That's all for this weekend. A new edition of the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™ will debut Friday morning.

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errrrrrrrrrrrrr, oops.

This was not supposed to be published at this time. The Round 2 results and Round 3 pairings will be up today, sorry for the blunder.

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First there are those like Mark Liebovich at The New York Times:

Ms. Palin is becoming increasingly vocal and visible, with a series of events scheduled this weekend: delivering a paid speech to the Salina, Kan., Chamber of Commerce on Friday night, headlining a national Tea Party convention in Nashville on Saturday and appearing on behalf of the re-election campaign of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas in Houston on Sunday.

This latest foray "Outside" (Alaskan slang for the rest of the country) culminates a week in which she achieved a typical run of multimedia ubiquity from Wasilla: She e-mailed a high-profile endorsement of Dr. Rand Paul in a Republican Senate primary in Kentucky. She called -- via Facebook -- for the resignation of the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, for using the term "retarded," and announced -- via a column in USA Today -- that she would attend a Tea Party gathering next month in Searchlight, Nev., the hometown of the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid.

Her growing cast of advisers and support system could be working in the service of any number of goals: a presidential run, a de facto role as the leader of the Tea Party movement, a lucrative career as a roving media entity -- or all of the above. Ms. Palin represents a new breed of unelected public figures operating in an environment in which politics, news media and celebrity are fused as never before. Whether she ever runs for anything else, Ms. Palin has already achieved a status that has become an end in itself: access to an electronic bully pulpit, a staff to guide her, an enormous income and none of the bother or accountability of having to govern or campaign for office.

...

Ms. Palin has also enlisted a small team of policy counselors to guide her through the substantive areas in which many deemed her to be lacking in 2008. Randy Scheunemann, a foreign policy adviser to Mr. McCain who also clashed with the campaign leadership, got $30,000 from Ms. Palin's PAC in the second half of 2009. He helped write a speech for Ms. Palin in Hong Kong last September and also contributes to a daily briefing prepared by Kim Daniels, a Maryland lawyer who did legal work in Alaska for the McCain campaign. (She is now advising Ms. Palin on domestic policy issues and received $21,000 from SarahPAC in the second half of 2009.)

People with knowledge of the daily briefings say they are conducted by phone or e-mail. They typically include information on the day's news, material that could be relevant to an upcoming speech, or guidance about a candidate Ms. Palin might endorse. Mr. Scheunemann in particular is known as a conservative hawk on foreign affairs, in keeping with what many Palin-watchers have viewed as her steady shift to the right.

In other words, Liebovich is seeing the machinations of political maturity, a woman of substance who's not just learning the ropes but fashioning them into a noose to perhaps hang those that underestimate her... like Robert at Work in Progress who reacts to Palin's speech before the Tea party conventioneers with this:

The first question that comes to mind is how many empties of moonshine does one have to return to accumulate $1,100?

I wasn't even aware they had recycling projects in the banjo-pickin', cousin-marryin', less learnin'-more earnin' areas of the country from which Mrs. Palin supporters hail.
 
While I suppose we should all take comfort the $1,100 spent on the conference admission will reduce attendees' ammo budget for the next few months, liberals are not the only ones who should be terrified by the idea of President Palin. All bipeds without feathers should be terrified of the notion of that arrogant know-nothing with access to the nuclear codes.

Nothing would ensure the reelection of President Obama than running against Mrs. Palin as the GOP candidate which is why it will never happen. But we can dream...

Let's ignore the fact that Robert can't seem to correctly reference the story he cites as to the convention's admission price (it was $349 and not $1,100).  Let's instead hope that he and other liberals continue to make light not only of Palin's abilities but of those who find her striking a chord.

It will make this November (and November in 2012) that much sweeter.

By the way, I left the following at Robert's place but expect it to disappear within minutes... perhaps some of you can stop by and gently chide the man for his lapses:

Say Robert...

Re-read the story you've cited and get your numbers straight... 1,100 paid $349 to get into the convention... twice you mention an $1,100 admission price... I'm thinking you need a teleprompter...

Just sayin'...

Crossposted(*).

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Here's the original ad that garnered all the attention. It's a cute ad with Tim tackling his mom as she talks about his being her miracle baby whom she still worries about.

As I said in the post below, the pro-abortion groups should be feeling pretty stupid about now after all their screaming that a pro-life ad had no place in the Super Bowl.

But as Ed Morrissey notes, the radical feminists are still finding reasons to criticize it.

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This is the first of two Super Bowl ads that Tim Tebow and his mother Pam filmed for Focus on the Family. This one is running during the pre-game shows. As you will see it's completely innocuous and doesn't even mention the word abortion. Instead Pam talks about her miracle baby, Tim, and then the ad directs viewers to the Focus on the Family website to learn more about the Tim Tebow birth story.

The second and more controversial one that pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and the National Organization of (Pro-Abortion) Women got all hot and bothered about will run during the game itself. I'm guessing the second ad will be pretty much like this first one, but we'll find out very soon. And to think pro-abortion groups lost their minds over this.

Hat tip: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air

Update: I just saw the second ad, which followed a hilarious ad for Snickers featuring Betty White and Abe Vigoda (you had to see it). This second Tebow ad was much like the first, as I expected, but with Tim "tackling" his mom. It was a truly innocent ad, and the pro-abortion groups should feel really stupid about now.

Cross-posted at Kim Priestap's Political Insights

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Filed under: Abortion, Life Issues

It's not your business model that sucks...

It's you that suck!

Hat Tip: Randy G at SayAnythingBlog

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Tags: accuracy, bias, bias, bias, MSM, MSM

For the uninitiated, Mr. McLaren is a Religious Leftist leading the effort in righting the alleged wrongs committed by Israel against Palestinians.  He and his like-minded cohorts are of the mind that Israel, and Israel's supporters, are propagating a big lie as to the danger posed by the Palestinian people. 

Listen carefully.

I applaud a heartfelt and sincere desire by anyone to seek peace and justice.  There's a part of me that sees that attempt as honorable and necessary... but reason, prudence and knowledge, especially of history and of ideology, must form the basis for that attempt, not naivete based on wishful thinking.

Yesterday, I covered the BBC story detailing the experiences of a 13 year old girl named Meena whose father and brother were members of the Taliban. 

Today I bring you the story of Medine:

A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in southeast Turkey in a gruesome honour killing just because she reportedly befriended boys, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.

Acting on a tip-off, police discovered Medine Memi's body in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre-deep hole in a chicken pen outside her house in Kahta town, Adiyaman province, 40 days after she went missing, the agency said.

A subsequent post mortem revealed that she had a significant amount of soil in her lungs and stomach, meaning that she was buried alive, foresic experts told the agency.

"The autopsy result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl -- who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood -- was alive and fully conscious when she was buried," one anonymous expert said.

Medine's father and grandfather have been formally arrested and jailed pending trial over her killing, the agency said.

The father is reported to have said in his testimony that the family was unhappy she had male friends.

In honour killings, most prevalent in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, a so-called family council names a member to murder a female relative considered to have sullied the family honour, usually by engaging in an extra-marital affair.

I find myself seriously struggling with a mindset that finds Israel to be such a danger when she is surrounded by those who embrace an ideology subjecting young girls like Meena and Medine to what they've been subjected to on a daily basis.  And I think we all know that there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Meenas and Medines out there in the Islamic world.

If you were able to ask Mr. McLaren and those who think as he does one question, what would that question be?

Please leave that question in the comments.  I may actually have an opportunity to pose it to him later this week.

Stay tuned.

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Filed under: Islamic Fascism, Israel

Where indeed:

"We can fly Orion in 2013", says John Karas, the VP and General Manager of Human Space Flight for Lockheed Martin. Lockheed is the prime contractor for NASA's Orion capsule.

"There is no doubt in my mind we can do this. And Orion is very safe". He strenuously repeated this statement to me several times with absolutely no doubt in his mind during a wide ranging interview. I spoke at length with Karas today (Feb. 6) at the NASA Press Center shortly before the scheduled Feb. 7 launch of shuttle Endeavour on the STS 130 mission to the ISS.
Lockheed Martin has issued an official statement saying, "We are keenly disappointed in the Administration's budget proposal for NASA that would cancel Project Orion as part of an elimination of NASA's Constellation Program. Orion's maturity is evident in its readiness for a first test flight in a matter of weeks. In fact, Orion can be ready for crewed flights to low Earth orbit and other exploration missions as early as 2013, thus narrowing the gap in U.S. human space flight capability when the shuttle is retired later this year".

Karas decried the complete lack of vision and realism by the Obama Administration and NASA in deciding to terminate Project Constellation, which includes the new Orion Capsule, the Ares 1 booster rocket for Orion and the Ares 5 Heavy Lift booster required to reach the Moon, Mars and beyond. "I was very surprised by the cancellation. We expected and felt that a middle ground with some changes to Constellation was reasonable. We did not expect to be left with nothing".

"Where is the US Leadership in space if we don't have a heavy lifter soon ?

"Russia, China and India will all have Heavy Lift boosters better than the US. Why would anyone have an incentive to work with us if they have already developed their own Heavy Lifter. The nations of the world will look elsewhere, not to the US", Karas told me emphatically.

"We will not maintain Space leadership if the US will only be spending money on technology development under the new proposals by the Obama Administration, and not on an actual rocket program that builds, tests and launches flight hardware."

"For now, I told the team that Job 1 is to stay calm and keep focused. We are not terminated yet. We are continuing the Constellation program according to our contracts with NASA. By law, the Congress must still have its say. The program cannot be terminated without congressional approval. We have some hope there and are working with Senators and members of the House of Representatives."

Crossposted(*).

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Filed under: Barack Obama, Dumbasses, History

Via Left Coast Rebel, something that brings it all back:

The video was shot by an optometrist named Jack Moss from the back garden of his home in Winter Haven Florida. It is moving, stirring and fascinating to witness the event from his (BETA) video camera and to note that Jack Moss and his wife and neighbor weren't quite sure what had transpired before their eyes. As you can tell from the video, they were excited, then perplexed, then shocked and horrified. I'm sure that we can all relate.

We can indeed.

Crossposted(*).

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Filed under: History, Space

It's been a while since I've posted a good music mash-up, so here goes ...

Something Old - Nina Simone "My Baby Just Cares For Me"

This adorable Claymation video has been around for quite a while, but if you haven't seen it you're in for a real treat.

Something New - Roy Hargrove Big Band and Roberta Gambarini "La Puerta"

This is a concert video of the Roy Hargrove Big Band, featuring the sensational new singer Roberta Gambarini. Gambarini's latest album, So In Love, received a 2010 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album; Roy Hargrove also received a Best Improvised Jazz Solo nomination this year for his work with the Big Band.

Something Borrowed - Natasha Bedingfield "This Love"

Yes, yes, I know ... this is technically a pop singer doing a pop song, but the "unplugged" setting and the superb playing of this unidentified guitarist give this performance a decidedly jazzy feel.

Something Blue - Wes Montgomery "West Coast Blues"

Speaking of phenomenal jazz guitarists here is one of the best, the late Wes Montgomery. His all-star band was taped in rehearsal by West German television in 1965. You'll note that Montgomery developed (on his own) a stunningly original playing technique: he plays complex melody lines, octave note parings, and chords using only single strokes of his thumb.

Whatever style of music you prefer, take some time today to indulge yourself. You'll be glad you did.

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Tags: Natasha Bedingfield, Nina Simone, Roberta Gambarini, Roy Hargrove, Wes Montgomery

President Obama's repeated references to Friday's surprising decline in the unemployment rate epitomize his utter disregard toward the intellect of our citizenry. His citation of these numbers as evidence we are "climbing out of the hole we found ourselves in" reveals an assumption on his part that the folks are incapable of figuring things out for themselves. While Obama surely isn't the coldest beer in the fridge, he isn't stupid enough to actually believe Americans can't figure out this scam. No, his use of the 9.7% figure to support his position is a blatant lie. After all, his own budget plan projects unemployment will remain higher than this figure at the end of the year. Even his own economic advisor, Christina Romer contradicited the President, saying, "The monthly employment and unemployment numbers are volatile and subject to substantial revision. Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative."

The surprisingly low unemployment figure, of course, occurred as a result of an inordinately large number of job seekers dropping from the record as their unemployment benefits expire and many others have simply given up all hope of procuring employment. The government's hiring of over a million temporary workers this year to perform the census also takes the edge off the numbers.

CNBC's Rick Santelli emphasized that the commonly-used U3 numbers are being grossly manipulated in an effort to hide the depth of this recession. He explained on Friday how the Obama administration has lowered the total number of jobs supposedly available in the marketplace, taking the 136 million figure down to 129 million. Thus, the percentage of employed per available jobs rises and the U3 number magically goes down.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provides far more data on actual unemployment than is ever reported by the mainstream media. The U6, which includes the U3 totals plus those who have given up plus part-time and temporary workers plus marginally attached workers, provides a much broader and more reliable measure of actual unemployment. The U6 doesn't require any math or massaging of the numbers. It simply represents the data from the BLS in the least manipulable manner. Incidentally, the U6 has risen every month since Obama took office - and currently sits at around 18 percent.

The President got his headlines on Friday. We lost 20,000 more jobs in January and added a million more unemployed from last year. But the U3 mysteriously shrinks to 9.7% and Obama has the temerity to proclaim we are "climbing out of the hole". This was a foolish mistake. Jobs have not been created (nor saved) and will not be in the foreseeable future. These false hopes shamefully advanced by the administration will only result in heightened frustrations down the road.

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Via BlackFive comes this report from the BBC that will surely turn your stomach:

In Pakistan an account of life with the Taliban has emerged from a 13-year-old girl called Meena, who says her own family tried to turn her into a suicide bomber.

There is no independent confirmation of her account but police say they believe she is telling the truth, and her information could be valuable.

Meena told her story to our Pakistan correspondent Orla Guerin.

...

My brother used to tell me that the place for a woman is either at home or in the grave. I was always restricted to home.

He said: "If you leave the house I'll cut off your head and put it on your chest."

My brother had been to the local school and beaten the girls and the teachers.

He said anyone who wanted to study was a friend of America.

I wanted to be a doctor. I wanted it so much that once I dreamt I was sitting in a hospital, working as a doctor. I wanted to help the poor, those who cannot afford medical fees.

Taliban commanders used to come to our house. There was an underground bunker beside the house, with electricity.

It was concrete and very strong. Cars would drive on top but no-one would realise what was underneath. In that hideout they used to train suicide bombers.

Most were children of my age or younger than me. They were used for these activities because they were too young to know any better.

Going to 'paradise'

I used to see these children getting on a vehicle to go for their missions. They used loud Islamic CDs to motivate them.

And I would think, "My God, more Muslims are going to be buried". Then the news would come that more Muslims were wiped out.

There's more, including a video.

How anyone can think we can coexist with this sort of wickedness is beyond me.

Crossposted(*).

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I'll be watching Sarah Palin speak at the first ever Tea Party Convention at 9:00pm ET. Are you watching as well? CNN, FOX, MSNBC, and C-SPAN are all showing it. Pajamas Media is live streaming it. Feel free to leave your reactions in the comments section below.

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What I'm talking about

Round 1 Results

George Washington 15, Ronald Reagan 7
John Adams 18, Millard Fillmore 1
Thomas Jefferson 15, FDR 3
James Madison 16, John Tyler 2
James Monroe 10, James K Polk 8
John Quincy Adams 15, Ulysses S. Grant 3
Andrew Jackson 10, Teddy Roosevelt 9
Martin Van Buren 11, Fluffy Roadkill 8
William Henry Harrison 10, Warren Harding 9
Zachary Taylor 5, Gerald Ford 13
Franklin Pierce 11, LBJ 7
James Buchanan 0, George W Bush 18
Abraham Lincoln 14, William McKinley 4
Andrew Johnson 15, Jimmy Carter 3
Rutherford B Hayes 4, Grover Cleveland 14
James Garfield 8, Bill Clinton 9
Chester A Arthur 7, Richard Nixon 8
Benjamin Harrison 6 George HW Bush 10
William Howard Taft 18, Barack Obama 0
Woodrow Wilson 1, Calvin Coolidge 16
Herbert Hoover 1, Dwight Eisenhower 16
Harry Truman 18, JFK 0

Round 2 Match-Ups

G Washington (1-0) vs H Truman (1-0)
J Adams (1-0) vs C Coolidge (1-0)
T Jefferson (1-0) vs W Taft (1-0)
J Madison (1-0) vs GH Bush (1-0)
J Monroe (1-0) vs R Nixon (1-0)
JQ Adams (1-0) vs B Clinton (1-0)
A Jackson (1-0) vs G Cleveland (1-0)
M Van Buren (1-0) vs A Johnson (1-0)
WH Harrison (1-0) vs A Lincoln (1-0)
G Ford (1-0) vs GW Bush (1-0)
F Pierce (1-0) vs JFK (0-1)
R Reagan (0-1) vs Fluffy Roadkill (0-1)
M Fillmore (0-1) vs W Wilson (0-1)
FDR (0-1) vs B Obama (0-1)
J Tyler (0-1) vs B Harrison (0-1)
J Polk (0-1) vs C Arthur (0-1)
U Grant (0-1) vs J Garfield (0-1)
T Roosevelt (0-1) vs R Hayes (0-1)
W Harding (0-1) vs J Carter (0-1)
Z Taylor (0-1) vs W McKinley (0-1)
LBJ (0-1) vs J Buchanan (0-1)

Again, this is a triple-elimination tournament with pairings set up by initial random draws. This is not to be taken seriously, but to exercise perspectives of how different Presidents faced their duties, crises, and opportunities.

As before, no actual politicians were harmed in the creation of this post. Not much, anyway.

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It's become almost a competition within the Obama White House: who cam come up with the best way to blame a problem on the preceding administration. The variations on the theme have become cliche's so quickly:

"We have to clean up this mess..."

"We inherited this mess..."

"This was here when we walked in the door.."

"We have to overcome eight years of..."

"Our predecessors left us a worse mess than we thought..."

"This is a result of eight years of..."

And it's getting tiresome.

Hey, Mr. Obama, you're so damned smart, how come you didn't know any of this when you were running for office? Back then, you had all the solutions if we just trusted you.

You were going to reverse all our failures. Solve all our problems. Bring an end to bitter partisanship. Improve our standing in the world.

But now that you're actually expected to keep those promises, all of a sudden things are far more complicated and involved and challenging and generally worse than you thought.

But not worse than you told us. You made it abundantly clear just how badly eight years of Bush-Cheney had screwed us. It was a hell of a mess, but you were ready to clean it up. To coin a phrase, it was a shovel-ready project, and you had the shovel.

Instead, you've given us a steady stream of excuses and rationales and finger-pointing and more partisan rhetoric.

And how about those promises? "Closing the door to lobbyists." Except the couple of dozen you've appointed to powerful offices. "Closing Guantanamo within a year." Still open. "No tax hikes on people making less than $250,000." Whoops. "Unemployment won't go above 9 percent." That depends on how you define "percent," and if you're still operating on a Base 10 number system. "The most ethical administration ever." Unless you count things like paying your taxes.

Sheesh, you're acting like a guy who's never had a position of leadership or responsibility before, never really been held accountable for anything, never had to meet a payroll or be the boss.

Oh, that's right, you are.

If only someone had pointed that out when you were running for president.

Oh, that's right, a lot of us did.

But you won anyway. You're the president now. You wanted the office, you said you could handle it, you said you could do the job.

Start doing it.

If you can't grow a pair, then, sir, then at least act like it. Fake it if you must.

A lot of people start out faking it, then later discover that they actually can do the job. Give it a whirl.

And retire the "it's not my fault, it's the fault of the guy who had the job before" crap. Nobody forced you to take the job. Hell, there were a lot of other applicants for the job, and you told us all that you were better qualified and would do a better job than any of them.

And, for god's sake, even after the Massachusetts election, you STILL have a bigger majority in Congress than your predecessor ever enjoyed. Hell, in his last two years, your party held both Houses and you're STILL blaming him for everything.

You said you were ready "from day one" to be president. We're closing in on Day 400.

Start proving it.

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