Big Deal!!! Leaked secret image of Mossad attack shark!

From Carl. Who also brings us this further idiocy :
Only days after it was removed from the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Information website, a “study” denying Jews’ rights to the Western Wall has resurfaced, this time on the official website of the PA’s news agency, Wafa.

By publishing the document on Wafa’s website, the official mouthpiece of the PLO and the PA, the authority has sent a message that its has officially endorsed its findings.
Actually, 'idiocy' isn't the right word; this edges right up to evil, when you consider all the why and desired result involved.

I'm going to start thsi morning with the Reverend of Crap,

Al Sharpton. He wants to shut Limbaugh up because of his 'racism'. Which is truly rich, coming from this lying, racist, bigoted piece of crap. Search around and you can find statements from him about 'Greek homos', Jews, whites and pretty much everyone who's not black. And if you're black and don't have his 'correct' point of view, he'll crap on you, too; but Rush is a nasty racist who should be silenced...

By the way, I'm going to be using Tinyurl on a lot of links for a while; Clayton Cramer noted that Righthaven has a bunch more papers now, and when I added the names to the blocklist it started blocking EVERYTHING. So until that gets sorted out.


Back to progressive dirtbags, the clown Obama has as FCC Commissioner wants to take control of crap he has no legal privilege to take over. All in the name of 'fairness', of course. And another one, the offspring of other corrupt politicians, says 'free internet for 'nappy-headed children' is a right. Ignore all the other bullshit here, can you imagine of a white, or a conservative, made a comment about 'nappy-headed children'? But this clown can get away with it.


About a year or so ago I caught part of one of Kathy Griffin's routines; took about two minutes to change the channel. I have to ask, how effing stupid IS this woman?
Yeah, make insults about the kid of a politician who's also sister of a troop? And then give the troops crap for not liking it?
Added: oh, my Deity, maybe it wasn't the bad jokes they were booing.

SEIU: "We screwed coverage on your kids because of Obamacare, but don't tell anybody that 'cause we have a new story. And we don't want to say bad things about Obama even when he's an idiot."


Some "Why things are so screwed for years to come" thoughts from Ace. I'll throw in, along with enviro regs and labor standards the greed of unions and spinelessness of many businesses in dealing with it. Few years back I read an article about a firearm manufacturer who had an idea for a .22 autoloading rifle, but had one hitch: if the bolt had to be forged and machined it would be far too expensive, but if it could be extruded, cut to length and finish-machined(design had this in mind) it would be good. So they started calling manufacturers here in the US and all answered either "We can't do it" or "It'll cost about three times what you want to pay." So they decided to check on foreign makers and contacted a company in- as I recall- Germany, who looked at the specs, quoted a very good price and asked "How many tons do you want?" Smaller orders just fine, too, slightly higher cost. Giving in to unions for decades had kept most US companies from modernizing as they should have, so business kept going to foreign companies. As Ace puts it, providing service or information is great, but when people are making things they need parts; and if you can't make them(and for an affordable price), somebody else will.


Some "Why aren't people more aware of the Muslim Brotherhood?" questions. And why people NEED to be aware of the group.
I just finished reading 'Flight of the Intellectuals', which spends far more words than necessary trying to figure out why so many 'intellectuals' in the west cannot, or refuse to, acknowledge what and who the enemy is. For that matter that they ARE the enemy. Kind of amazing, really.


So it looks like our taxes won't get hit with the Obama Tax Increase next year, which is good; also good is this "We wanted to raise taxes but the House Democrats wouldn't stand up!" noise. Especially when you consider Democrats still control both Houses.


On the subject of the economy, last night I took daughter to dinner, and enroute we drove past Penn Square Mall. Every year I can remember, end of first week of December the parking lot was packed; last night there were lots of empty spaces. Years past the restaurant would have been a wait to get seated; last night, "How many? Follow me!" Anybody who says the economy is recovering is a liar or a fool.


"Is Governor Rendell French?" Close enough, it seems; from the linked article
“What this would do is expand the Castle Doctrine to outside the home, to a city street, for example, and eliminate the principle of law that we’ve had since English common law: The duty to retreat.”

Is Rendell French?

Remember, folks, according to Rendell, if your family is getting violently car-jacked or being violently assaulted by thugs in a mall parking lot over the X-box you just purchased, your duty is to surrender and retreat.

“It promotes violence first,” Rendell continued in explaining his veto. “If we can help keep violence down, if we can protect the sanctity of life, we should. We should not have a basis that you can shoot first.”

Huh?

The sanctity of the thugs’ lives? We should be more concerned about them?

What’s a poor, frightened liberal to do?
Surrender, of course.

Also from SiH, a thought on the mental processes of Japete:
I’ve come to one conclusion in what limited reading I’ve done of Joan Peterson’s blog. If it’s legal and she doesn’t like it, then she assumes it is actually illegal and everyone who does what she doesn’t like is a criminal. If it’s illegal, and yet criminals still find a way to get around the law, then clearly it is actually legal and she wants to regulate EVERYTHING in an attempt to make it illegal(er).

I’ve had my share of experiences at smaller non-profit shops that sometimes have board members who like to speak out on their own. If I worked for the other side, I’m pretty sure my head would be dented from banging it against the desk and/or wall after reading Peterson’s comments. Seriously, Peter, if you don’t have a stash of the Montezuma in your desk for a quick chug every time she posts, let me know and I’ll bring you a bottle next time I’m down there.


Let's see, Obama sends empty-hat Salazar out to tell us "No more drilling", and gas prices go up. Again. Any bets as to whether the major media will give a rant about the harm this does like they did when Bush was President?


In todays' bit of "Blame the JOOOOOS!" idiocy,
Egyptian officials say they have not ruled out the possibility that a fatal shark attack in Sinai on Sunday could have been a plot by the Mossad.

“What is being said about the Mossad throwing the deadly shark [in the sea] to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question, but it needs time to confirm,” South Sinai Gov. Muhammad Abdel Fadil Shousha was quoted as saying by the Egyptian state news site egynews.net.


On that note, I take my leave for the time being.

Anybody else noticed that when gas prices jump we don't hear

wailing 'news' reports of how the situation is hurting people and why isn't the President doing something like happened when Bush was President?

And when more troops die in Afghanistan we don't get a daily death count the way we did in Iraq a few years back?

You'd almost think the major media had an agenda, wouldn't you?

Ever get sick of the news?

Me too. I guess it's as much a fascination with the "WHAT?!?" you run across, and the absolute bullshit in too many cases, that keeps dragging you back to looking. In the BS category, this for instance:
Could Israel be using Wikileaks to prepare the US for an Israeli air strike against Iran?

This nation is moving toward a repeat of the US rush to invade Iraq in 2003. Mass media coverage of the Wikileaks story is performing the same function the media played to make the case for the 2003 US invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq.
It's being done by the JOOOOOOS!
President George W. Bush was a willing instrument in the military invasion of Iraq. Controlling a major Arab state, Bush assumed, was in the best interest of the US.

Jeff Gates argues in Sabbah Report that Wikileaks is being used as part of Israel’s game theory warfare:
So it's not really Bush's fault, he was a tool of the evil Zionist Jews, etc. I wonder if they've added this to an updated version of the Protocols?


Mr. Frum, you're a vile piece of progressive crap, and you don't get to tell me what I'm allowed to say. Or read or see, either. "There must be free speech, but only that which we approve of!" my ass.


The wealth of my people is our culture. The things we have are a side effect. I'm going to build some shelves tomorrow.
Oh yeah, culture matters; a LOT.


Under the heading of "History we'd damn well better not forget", thanks to Mr. Huffman,

The Jew Alfred Flatow was found to be in possession of one revolver with twenty-two rounds of ammunition, two pocket pistols, one dagger, and thirty one knuckledusters. Arms in the hands of Jews are a danger to public safety.

Police First Sergeant Colisle
Via an arrest report from Berlin, October 4, 1938.
He was arrested based on the above while attempting to comply with an order to turn in all firearms to the government. His firearm was legally owned and registered. It wasn’t until November 11, 1938 that the Weapons Control Act of 1938 went into effect making it illegal for Jews to own firearms. Hence, he was arrested while complying with the law at the time.

After his arrest he was turned over to the Gestapo and transported to Terezin in October of 1942. He died of starvation in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in December 1942.
Journal on Firearms & Public Policy Volume 21, Fall 2009, “Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety”: Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass, pages 28 & 29.

Note that one part: He was arrested based on the above while attempting to comply with an order to turn in all firearms to the government. Which might be considered crap from the past if it weren't for crap like this from New Jersey. No, it wasn't Nazis going after Jews; it was sorry excuses for lawmen and bureaucrats with a love of power putting someone in prison for a legal act, helped along by jurors with no guts or integrity. Which things really helped the Nazis along back then.

Why yes, I do have a very low view of the bastards. And if Christie doesn't at least get the guy out of jail, he can go to hell too.


The Madman brings us more news on the bigot Paul Helmke, who really is a sorry piece of work.
Also the situation in northern Mexico, which absolutely sucks.

Speaking of absolutely sucking, we come to Helen Thomas, who is vile on a hard-to-describe level. But she's a 'respected journalist', etc.


And finally, some of those wonderful people always bitching about 'the rich not paying their fair share':
The 50 wealthiest lawmakers were worth almost $1.4 billion in 2009, about $85.1 million more than 12 months earlier, according to The Hill’s annual review of lawmakers’ financial disclosure forms.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) tops the list for the second year in a row. His minimum net worth was $188.6 million at the end of 2009, up by more than $20 million from 2008, according to his financial disclosure form.

…There were a few other new faces in the Top 50, including Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), who received an inheritance after his late father, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), died in 2009. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis.) also made the list.
Remember the video of Swimmer Kennedy admitting he was sheltering as much of his estate as possible from the taxes he said it was only fair for people to pay? And, as she asks, has Kerry actually paid those taxes he dodged but said he'd pay anyway?
The Wall Street gamblers that Obama and his wife carped about on the campaign trail were shoveling money to his campaign hand over fist. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, hedge funds and private equity firms donated $2,992,456 to the Obama campaign in the 2008 cycle. Obama, erstwhile critic of the campaign finance practice known as “bundling,” happily accepted more than $200,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager James Torrey, more than $100,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones and more than $50,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, chief executive officer of Citadel Investment Group in Chicago.
Yeah, they're evil, crooked people EXCEPT when they're handing cash off to Obama & Co.

Enough. I shall now bundle myself up and head out into the cold.

While I'd love to take the Garand out for a spin

and it'd probably be good training, it's 22 degrees outside and I'm not agonna do it.

If you're not reading Lawdog,

why not?
Kissing the thoughts of a tranquil evening goodbye, I checked my pepperspray, stepped out of the cruiser, and eased up on the couple.

"Desmond," I greeted the gentleman, "Opal. What's on y'alls minds?"

"Go 'way, Mister Dawg,"said Opal, without turning around, "This don't concern the law none."

"Oh, Sweet Jesus," yelped Desmond, "Mister Dawg, you got to do something!"

Well, hell.

"Opal," I start to say as I ease around to where I can see her hands, "We need to talk...Holy Mary." The anguish in Desmonds voice was quite understandable once I got far enough around the two to notice that Opal had Desmonds schnitzel in both ham-sized fists, and was apparently trying to rip the old boy out by the roots.

I'm here to tell you folks, walking up on that sort of thing without advance warning can make a feller get kind of wobble-legged around the knees.

"Opal," I yipped, "You turn loose of that! Now!"

Yeah, SURE the media will be reporting this

the same way they did bloody countdowns on the body count in Iraq, won't they?

I am inclined to write a bit more about son's dog

Dogmatyx was his name, he was half beagle and half Irish Wolfhound. And the strangest-looking puppy you ever saw, who grew into a very handsome adult. Smart as hell, friendly, protective, and could catch any critter silly or suicidal enough to get into the yard. Including a large turtle; he crunched up the shell to get to the chewy center(them Wolfhound jaws were something).

The last year or so he'd gotten creaky, but still got around pretty well, and son spent time with him when home on leave. Then a couple of days ago the ex notified me that he'd taken a real turn for the worse; I went over after work, and yeah, it was bad. So it was time. Preparations were made, and she found a vet who made house calls. That last being important because he was hurting enough I didn't want to have to move him any more than necessary.

So yesterday morning went over. Daughter had taken a couple of hours so she could be there as well, and we spent some time with him until the vet arrived. It went about as smoothly and peacefully as such a thing can. Then we buried him in the blue comforter he liked to snooze on.

Bye, guy.

Well, yeah, I think this wouldreduce the chances

of one of your ships being assailed by someone wanting to play modern-day Jack Sparrow.

Professor Amy Hagopian is enough to give rabid moonbats

a bad name:
A Seattle woman, who fought allowing military recruiters in local high schools, is the lead author of a report that compares the behaviors of recruiters with the behaviors of sexual predators.

...assistant professor with the University of Washington's Department of Global Health concludes military recruiters are a "threat to the health of adolescents."

Hagopian says, "A review of the medical literature suggests military service is associated with disproportionately poor health for young people. The youngest recruits have the greatest number of mental disorders in the U.S. military, including alcohol abuse, anxiety syndromes, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder."
You need a dose of pissed-off, go listen to the linked audio.

Naw, not 'offensive' at all;

just a bit revealing of the truth, which some people don't want to deal with.
She and other family members say the student should not have been sent home.

“His story’s got to come out,” Harris said only moments after putting the teenager on the airplane. “There should have been a better way to handle this.”

The 15-year-old student is accused of writing “Death to Americans” in Arabic on a classroom board during a discussion with classmates.

Harris said the teenager wrote the words on the board when interacting with another foreign exchange student an American student during a class at the school.

The student’s father, Khaled Kasab Mahameed, said the phrase was not written as a threat or with any malicious intent.
Really? Generally, I'd having trouble believing that; then we get down near the end:
Mahameed’s son was studying at Niceville High as part of the Youth Exchange and Study Program (YES) through AYUSA Global Youth Exchange. YES was created in 2003 through a grant to AYUSA from the United Stated Department of State to “build bridges of understanding between the United States and countries with significant Muslim populations,” according to its website.

Mahameed said the message of understanding between cultures is one that his son has advocated, no matter how difficult for himself, since he was about nine years old. The teenager’s family members are Muslim Arab Palestinians forced, Mahameed said, to leave their homeland a generation ago. They now travel and teach other Muslims and Arabs about the Jews as they advocate a message of peace.
And with that the little red flags and warning whistles all went off.
'Forced' to leave their homeland? Teach other M and A 'about the Jews'?
Gee, why do I find it more difficult to believe, after reading this, that 'Death to Americans' didn't actually mean anything? Either there's a lot of the incident we don't know, or the bastards ought to all be thrown out of this country.

It constantly astounds me that people still try to minimize

just what an evil form of government communism has been.
Although the trials of former Soviet leaders were widely publicized, the hundreds of thousands of other arrests and executions were not. These became known in the west only as a few former gulag inmates reached the West with their stories. Not only did foreign correspondents from the West fail to report on the purges, but in many Western nations, especially France, attempts were made to silence or discredit these witnesses; Jean-Paul Sartre took the position that evidence of the camps should be ignored, in order that the French proletariat not be discouraged.
….
Efforts to minimize the extent of the Great Purge continue among revisionist scholars in the West.
….
According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,366 victims, of whom 681,692 were shot – an average of 1,000 executions a day (in comparison, the Tsarists executed 3,932 persons for political crimes from 1825 to 1910 – an average of less than 1 execution per week).
….
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, numerous mass graves filled with executed victims of the terror were discovered. Some, such as the killing fields at Kurapaty near Minsk and Bykivnia near Kiev, are believed to contain up to 200,000 corpses.

In 2007, one such site, the Butovo firing range near Moscow, was turned into a shrine to the victims of Stalinism. From August 1937 through October 1938, more than 20,000 people were shot and buried there.

I can't remember where I first heard the "Jews are the canaries

in the coal mine" analogy; it still seems to hold true. And Venezuela is a very gassy mine right now.
Jewish community leaders told PolCouns the Venezuelan government's (GBRV's) attacks and "double-talk," constant criticism of Israel, growing alliance with Iran, and increasing limitations on freedom of speech contribute to a heightened sense of vulnerability by the Jewish community. ...
...
XXXXXXXXXXXX said "2004 was a turning point in Venezuela," when Chavez began referring to support of certain Jewish leaders for the 2002 post-coup government as justification for verbal and physical attacks against the Jewish community and synagogues.

XXXXXXXXXXXX said anti-Semitic programs and articles have been regular features of government-owned media since 2004, and "international anti-Jewish campaigns have been tailored for use domestically." XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized that the anti-Semitism is "government-sponsored." He noted that Emilio Silva, the author of a January 20 article on the government website aporrea.org which called for violent demonstrations at the Tiferet synagogue just 10 days before the synagogue was attacked, is still teaching at the pro-government Bolivarian University of Venezuela.
If they're counting on the Obama administration for help, they're in worse trouble than they may believe; Obama & Co. have spent too much time sucking up to Thug Chavez and Iran and crapping on Israel for Jews to have any real confidence in him.

Take a look at all that Chavez has done, and run it through Huffman's Jews in the Attic test; you won't like the result.

Work all night, then a very necessary and unpleasant duty this morning:

son's dog had to be put down.

Just doesn't seem to get any easier.

Want to see some incredible pictures of a supercell?

More here

For your morning collection,(which was the evening collection

that somehow didn't get published last night)
Breakables and RCOB warning in effect: the TSA dirtbags involved should all be fired. Period. And I can only wish there were some way to prosecute the bastards. There is absolutely no excuse- none- for this kind of 'pulling rules out of your ass', let alone what they did to this woman.


Corrupt, vile, highly partisan Sen. Chris Friend of Angelo Dodd says the Senate is too partisan. Screw you, you disgusting piece of crap; you cheated, you lied, you attacked people and now you want to make teary-eyed speeches when you've been thrown out. Just leave, and improve the moral tone of the place.


Your gasoline, heating oil and natural gas costs go up? Thank Obama, the lying little shit.
Wednesday, the Interior Department said it would not propose oil exploration off the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines or the eastern Gulf of Mexico for at least seven years.

But unlike the late March announcement when President Barack Obama took to the podium to embrace domestic energy production and call for bipartisan support in Congress, Wednesday’s declaration came with little fanfare - a press release and a phone call with reporters by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
Because he doesn't have the balls to come out and say it himself.
Hey, Carville, you helped get him in office and now he's screwing Louisiana; hope you like the result of your work.



So, after all the "We have to save our economy!" crap, it turns out FOREIGN banks got billions at 'favourable terms' in the bank bailout. Hard to make a list of all the people who need hanging over this crap.


Rep. Charles Rangel(Corrupt Dirtbag-NY), seems it wasn't that 'he couldn't afford a lawyer':
Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel bailed out on his House ethics trial just as committee lawyers were preparing to call a parade of corporate bigwigs who would testify about his fund-raising tactics, new committee documents reveal.

Lawyers were planning to challenge Rangel with a conga line of corporate officials who would testify about his pitches for multimillion-dollar contributions to the Rangel Center for public affairs at CCNY -- among them Donald Trump, Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg and Hank Greenberg, CEO of C.V. Starr & Co.

Ethics lawyers also planned to call top lobbyists for AIG, NY Life, and Verizon, according to an Oct. 22 letter from the committee to Rangel.
So add chickenshit to corrupt.


Warren Buffet, you are cordially invited to kiss my ass, you hypocritical son of a bitch.
The report highlights the contrast between the public perception of estate tax proponents as fighting to break up wealthy, almost oligarchic families and the reality that a key force behind the tax is an industry for which ten percent of its revenues depend on maintaining the status quo.

One of the most outspoken voices urging a higher estate tax, Warren Buffet, owns six life insurance companies, the report says.


Soon-to-be-former governor Ted Strickland(NSD-OH)joins the "We just don't explain in the right way how wonderful we are" group.
But his frustration was evident as the discussion progressed. Talking, unprompted, about the debate over the expiring Bush tax cuts, Strickland said he was dumbfounded at the party's inability to sell the idea that the rates for the wealthy should be allowed to expire.

"I mean, if we can't win that argument we might as well just fold up," he said. "These people are saying we are going to insist on tax cuts for the richest people in the country and we don't care if they are paid for, and we don't think it is a problem if it contributes to the deficit, but we are not going to vote to extend unemployment benefits to working people if they aren't paid for because they contribute to the deficit. I mean, what is wrong with that? How can it be more clear?"
Please note, he says that continuing the CURRENT TAX RATES is a cut 'that has to be paid for', miserable little bastard that he is. And, soon-to-be-former Governor Strickland, despite your wishes we CANNOT AFFORD TO MAY UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS PERMANENT; I notice you don't seem to have any problem with THAT not being paid for.


Damn. Are there ANY actual professional law-enforcement officers in Nevada who'll do their damned job right?



Kilgore College President Bill Holda isn't just a liar; he's a user of biased information. And a liar again.


Well, Nanny of the Month is OKC Mayor Mick Cornett

Apparently his paymasters didn't like the idea. And no, I don't mean the taxpayers.
Thanks to Theo for finding this


And now it's been a LOOONG night and I have an unpleasant duty to perform before I can rest, so I'll leave you with this:
"You give me the memory card, you get the tripod back"

Even without zombies, I've known people who lived in areas

like this

Hey, Amazon, why are you doing this? Updated

”ISSAQUAH, Wash. -- An Issaquah grandmother of two American soldiers said she's outraged at Amazon for providing web hosting to WikiLeaks, the organization that has leaked thousands of classified government documents. Nadine Gulit had two grandsons deploy to Iraq and founded Operation Support Our Troops. She isn't very diplomatic about Amazon helping out WikiLeaks. "That shocked me and it surprises me that Amazon went that route," she said.”
For the first time, I've noticed that there doesn't appear to be a simple 'contact us for questions' link at Amazon, so I can't figure out how to contact them to ask "What's up with this?"


Update: Ace says Amazon kicked Wiki to the curb. And effing Joe Lieberman is taking credit for it. Yeah. All those paying customers and other interested people had NOTHING to do with it...

I haven't mentioned a preacher named Jim Wallis before

for some reason, probably because he's such a disgusting bastard. If you haven't heard of him, this is a clown who had this to say:
In a January 13, 2006 radio interview with Interfaith Voices, Wallis was asked, "Are you then calling for the redistribution of wealth in society?" He replied, "Absolutely, without any hesitation. That's what the gospel is all about."
and then, when Glenn Beck played the quote and talked about him, he accused Beck of lying about him, etc. As in "Don't believe the actual recordings of me, Beck is a liar!" Usually in a calm, "Look into my eyes and believe me" voice. Not a very pleasant guy, and a hard-line communist:
Following the 1979 refugee crisis in Vietnam, Wallis lashed out at the desperate masses fleeing North Vietnam's communist forces by boat. These refugees, as Wallis saw it, had been "inoculated" by capitalist influences during the war and were absconding "to support their consumer habit in other lands." Wallis then admonished critics against pointing to the boat people to "discredit" the righteousness of Vietnam's newly victorious Communist regime.

In 1979, Time magazine hailed Wallis as one of the "50 Faces for America's Future." That same year, the journal Mission Tracks published an interview with Wallis, in which the activist evangelical expressed his hope that "more Christians will come to view the world through Marxist eyes."

What brought this up today is I just read this:
“There wouldn't be a tea party if there wasn't a black man in the White House.:
Yep. If you're a tea part member, you're a racist because that's the ONLY reason you'd oppose Obama and the NSDemocrats. Sure. Right.

I think this 'preacher' needs to revisit that 'don't bear false witness' part of things. Along with explaining how Jesus supposedly said it's a good thing to rob somebody and give his work away.

Back to Amtrack, you can now ship a firearm BUT

To transport a gun, passengers must notify Amtrak at least 24 hours before their departure. The gun must be stored unloaded in a locked, hard-sided container, the guidelines say.
So Joe Biden's pet money pit is still more restrictive about transporting firearms than airlines are. Just like Biden wants it, I have no doubt

Well, this explains some of the garbage that's come out about Rep. Kris Steele

First off, this Steele fellow is a RINO. The liberal Republican legislator has a cumulative score of 62 (out of a possible 100) on the Oklahoma Constitution’s legislative scorecard for 2010. Steele is also the associate minister of that Wesley United Methodist church. He’s the homeboy at the home church.

Second, Pastor Hewett is quite the devotee of trendy leftist causes. In his oration, Rev. Hewett used his opportunity to offer God a mea culpa for the Trail of Tears: “ … we know some came by forced relocations, against their will. To those we say, ‘We’re sorry for what our foreparents did to your forebears’ … ”

Regarding immigration: “Lord, God, we know that in this our land, some dwell and work, but it has yet to become their land. They’re aliens in our midst; give wisdom and sensitivity to circumstances and compassion to our legislators for these who labor and live among us without appropriate authorization. Lord, God, may Oklahoma become a model for our nation of just, fair, and functional policies of immigration.”
Let's see, apologizing for other people for things they didn't do, check... 'be nice to illegal aliens(like calling them 'undocumented'), check...
Fourth, KTOK newsradio reported that several legislators were “upset” by the invocation but didn’t want to go on the record to the media outlet, just yet, “for fear of retaliation by Speaker Steele in making his House committee assignments …” Hmm. If true, that a) is kinda spineless of these lawmakers, and b) doesn’t make Associate Minister Steele sound like a turn-the-other-cheek sort of Christian. But, if true, it’s also pretty good reporting on KTOK’s part.
Vindictive toward people who don't fall into line, check(spineless politicians, check but on a different list). Just bleepin' wonderful, isn't it?


Speaking of dirtbag politicians,
The Oklahoman reports today that Senator Harry Coates, Tecumseh Republican, and a now-pregnant lobbyist who are having a romantic affair worked together to steer a lucrative state contract toward a private company that had hired the lobbyist.

"The wife of Sen. Harry Coates said Monday her husband has told her he is having an affair with lobbyist Haley Atwood," the newspaper's John Estus and Ann Kelley reported. "Atwood, 29, who didn't deny the affair with Coates, 60, also is married. State officials last week announced plans to award a $10 million-a-year state contract for a new juvenile center to the Ada Youth Academy Authority, which has selected a private operator, Rite of Passage, to run the new center. Rite of Passage earlier this year hired Atwood for consulting work."
These crooks need to be investigated for possible criminal actions. Coates, you're a disgrace.

I have to wonder if the title of this piece describes why Obama

may actually want to do something about Wikileaks now: Why Wikileaks Is Bad For Progressive Foreign Policy. Wonderful, huh? In case you have any doubts of the direction,
Undermining Progressive Policies and Frameworks

In my day job this week, I’m thinking tactically about the leaks’ effects on the issues of immediate concern to me: ratifying the START Treaty and promoting effective diplomacy to deal with Iran, while inching our way toward lasting peace in the Middle East and away from an endless military quagmire(had to throw that in, right?)in Afghanistan.

But underlying all those discrete policy positions is a common set of assumptions and values: that we live in a complex world where posturing, rigid ideology, and indiscriminate use of force will not get us, as a society or a global commons, to where we need to go; that quiet talk is much more effective than loud threats; that, in the long run, America’s national interests will be best served if we see and act on them as inextricably linked with the interests of others.
Etc.

Author says he used to work at the State Department; no wonder things are so screwed up over there.

There was a comment that showed up in my 'Hobbit' post

that for some reason never published. Short version, I'm a fool who should read 'The Hobbit' before speaking, apologize, etc.

Guy, it's been a long time but I have read it; I'm aware of different-shaded hobbits(matter of fact, there's a bit on it in the article, remember?), and it makes no difference. When someone doesn't fit what the job is looking for, to start bitching about Discrimination! and RACISM!! is bullcrap. A Facebook page to gripe about it, yet!

So no, I'm not apologizing. I'm sick of this kind of nonsense. I also found this over at SondraK; maybe I'm getting too cynical, but I tend to think the last two paragraphs in the linked article may well cover the real reason behind this crap.