Hrmmm…why should we cutoff all funding for the UN?  Gee, it’s so hard to think of a better example:

Details have emerged of huge casualty figures in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where troops have launched a brutal crackdown on protesters.

More than 200 people are known to have died, doctors say, with 900 injured.

The most bloody attacks were reported over the weekend, as funeral marches were said to have come under machine-gun and heavy weapons fire.

One doctor, speaking amid the sound of fresh gunfire on Sunday, told the BBC that “a real massacre” had happened.

For the ADHD set, Libya was anointed the Chair of the UN Human Rights Commission a few years ago in a secret ballot of like-minded dictatorships:

While human rights groups have complained, Libya’s chairing of the commission has been staunchly defended by the son of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Seif al-Islam al-Gaddafi told the BBC recently: “The Middle East has a generally bad record on human rights and this is an opportunity to embarrass middle eastern governments into improving that record”.

How embarrassing.  With 200 dead and 900 injured, I can’t help but wonder how many of the injured owe their lives to snipers blushing from all the embarrassment.

An open request to the British Press. In addition to absolutely kicking the arse of your counterparts in the American unofficially state-run media on the subject of so-called “climate change” – your next story should be about how and why they have ignored this story completely.

Call them up. Interview them. Get them on the record as to how this story that you all are exploiting, like the fabled last oil reserve buried deep in a caribou’s hindquarters, is nary worth a mention by our Rip Van Winkle Press. Perpetually trapped in a mental time warp between an early club-you-over-the-head 1990′s Mtv raising awareness campaign and it’s discredited future.

They have plenty of time to procrasturbate over Sarah Palin’s hand notes, perpetuating Government Motor’s smear campaign against Toyota, or some dude setting the World’s Record for hugs yet can’t dedicate anyone to covering the Greatest Con Game In The History of Ever.

It makes The Sting look like The Flea Bite.

Cheerio. Pip-pip. And all that other hoo-ha, Old Chum. Have at it.

UPDATE: Thanks to all you Instapunditeers and Big Journalism visitors. Doing the jobs American “journalists” don’t want to do on this issue.

See the difference?  Because I don’t.

The guy who spends his whole life thinking about how to screw people in the ass has a plan to stop the ebbs and flows of the global market with some prescription-strength Astroglide applied liberally.  Yea, yea, yea.  A hammer sees every problem as a nail.

QOTD from the prolapsed Prole himself:

Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.) said that a bank tax and other tough new measures would be introduced by the individual countries, but in a coordinated way to prevent bankers from moving from one place to another to escape regulation.

“Lenin might have been able to put socialism in one country, but tough bank regulation in one country ain’t going to happen because we will lose people,” said Frank, who heads the House Financial Services Committee, a key spot for any American decisions.

But don’t call them Bolsheviks.  It’s like poison complaining about a skull and crossbones on it’s warning label.

Shorter Frank:  Wenin put sociawism in one country but what we need is a Gwobal Weninist so that the sands of other people’s money won’t swip through our fingers.

You have the head of the House Financial Services Committee arguing in favor of Global Leninism.

You can go ahead and pull your money out of the stock market now.

Germany celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall last night.  Children today may remember that event as the joyful mutual end of years smart diplomacy whereby US hegemony was imposed at the barrel of a gun on native East German peoples who prospered during the Soviet Golden Age.

In actuality, it stemmed from peace through strength and not compromising basic American principles coupled with a President willing to call Evil by it’s name to it’s face.  In honor of the collapse of the Soviets who cordoned off half of Europe and consigned millions to death, prison and poverty, Barack Obama stood them up so he could work in a few rounds of golf:

Angela Merkel, Germany’s first chancellor from the former communist East, recalled the euphoria in an address last week to the U.S. Congress.

“Where there was once only a dark wall, a door suddenly opened and we all walked through it: onto the streets, into the churches, across the borders,” Merkel said. “Everyone was given the chance to build something new, to make a difference, to venture a new beginning.”

That’s what you call real “hope and change”.

When reached for comment, President Icarus responded:

“We are now moving towards the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down and Germany being reunified after so many painful years,” Obama said. “And this is a special moment for Chancellor Merkel, as somebody who grew up in East Germany, who understands what it’s like to be under the shadow of a dictatorial regime, and to see how freedom has bloomed in Germany, how it has become the centerpiece for a extraordinarily strong European Union.”

So many “painful years”.  Like living with arthritis.  The only good thing about German reunification is it began to pave the path for One World Government.  That was what that wall falling was all about.

Trading one dictatorial regime of paranoid murderers to surrender your hard fought sovereignty to a bunch of foreign bureaucrats.

That wall represented The Cold War.  Hundreds of billions spent on a strong military so that tens of millions wouldn’t have to die in a Hot War.  Decades of working and fighting through proxies so that an expansive Soviet regime couldn’t get a foothold in Southeast Asia as well as Central America.

It’s understandable that Barack Hussein Obama would not want to take part in the celebration of the defeat and rejection of his Communist ideals and heroes while his job of building the next wall is in progress.

In the new Queen Zsa Zsa version of The Bible (Simon & Schuster), being written while we wait, today is a beautiful day for us to be alive – spiritual peasants though we are – for in 3 days time.  He will Rise again.  And we will see His Brilliance and laugh at our foolishness for trying to tame His Spirit:

Thank you, Glenn Beck. By helping force the resignation of Van Jones, you have done a great service to your country. But in the exact opposite way than what you intended.

Your vile and vicious smear campaign has helped reverse one of the worst examples of miscasting since John Wayne took on the role of Genghis Khan in The Conqueror.

Strike me down and I will become more powerful than you can imagine.

Actually Zsa Zsa, dear, the worst miscasting was you playing the title role of “Wife” in the soap opera known as The Wedding of Arianna and Michael Huffington.

Contrary to the media caricature, the real Van Jones is a thoughtful leader who knows how to use words to move people to action. To stick him behind a desk, working out the details of tax credits for green jobs — incredibly important though the job is — was never the best use of his unique and abundant skills.

What a coincidence.  I feel exactly the same way about one Barry Hussein Carter-Obonga.  He would really be better suited giving marching orders than leading a democracy.  Democracy’s are messy.  And if I am to believe what the Vice President  of the Hair Club for Men says, he’s also a rather clean fellow.

I’ve watched him hold an audience spellbound at a wide range of events — from progressive gatherings to the World Economic Forum.

Which is like running the gamut from A, all the way to B.

And I’ve never failed to be impressed by Van. He is a remarkable man. One of the things I’ve always found so impressive about him — and something completely lost in the partisan mudslinging — is his ability to build coalitions and create unlikely alliances. In pursuit of a clean energy future for America, Van has successfully brought together urban youth with clean-tech entrepreneurs, labor leaders with business leaders, civil rights activists with environmentalists.

Foxes and henhouses.  Matches with gas.  Xanax with Ex-lax.

I wrote about how the staid and anything-but-radical heads of the World Economic Forum had invited him to their conference and honored him as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow.” Jones had been protesting the World Trade Organization in Seattle and the International Monetary Fund in Washington. But that didn’t keep him from exchanging ideas with the rich and powerful at the Forum, or from keeping an open mind.

“The people I’ve met here,” Van told me at the time, “are much more thoughtful, complex, and concerned about social issues than either the left or the media portray them to be.”

And I’m sure no small honorarium to a mutually beneficial foundation couldn’t help grease the wheels to understanding how much  more thoughtful, complex and for a negotiated rate concerned that the “rich and powerful” can be.  This is a global shakedown racket.

Isn’t it time we acknowledge that no human being with any passion and deeply held beliefs ever emerged flawless into the world? And that if every mistake, misstep, boneheaded decision, or error in judgment becomes an automatic disqualifier for public service, then we’re going to be left with a political landscape filled with nothing but wrinkle-free, foible-free, passionless automatons who have never made a mistake because they never took the risk of having an original thought.

Who hasn’t made a rap LP with one of our nation’s most notorious copkillers?  These kinds of “foibles” do just happen.  Admitting on video that you’re using the pretext of “environmentalism” as a means to transfer wealth and overthrow the capitalist system in stages to fight whitey as he’s poisoning the black community….oh well.

Who can’t appreciate that level of candor?   *sniff* At least he’s not dead inside like the rest of you. *sob*
(hurls third glass of Chardonnay against the wall)

Glenn Beck has taken Van out of his in-the-shadows position and thrust him into the spotlight. I told Van after his resignation that I hope he will take the extra attention and energy Beck created for him and, like a jujitsu black belt, turn the blow into an opening, an opportunity to transform the negative attack into something positive for himself and for the country.

Kind of like a woman who was taking her gay pretend Republican husband to the cleaners and parlayed that personal celebrity wreckage into one of the highest ranked leftwing websites today.

Never miss an opportunity to exploit a crisis.

The lecture tour awaits.  Now get back out there and start saying all the crazy stuff that got you just apologized for.

I’m confused when I hear people talk about Obama sending mixed messages.   He is in no way inconsistent.

Whether you are referring to Iran, or Israel or Honduras, he is objectively anti-democracy.

There is no line you can cross that is so offensive that we won’t still sit down and chat about how you’re feeling as Father Oprah.  Make threats that you’re going to attack us.  Fire missiles towards our states.  Threaten war.  Threaten death to our country.  Send your troops to attack our troops because they are bringing democracy in your backyard.

In terms of arrogance, you can’t get much better than patting a rogue dictator on the head while asking him why’s he acting out so much as if he had too much Capri Sun before beddy-bye time.

And the Honduras thing.  Just read this.  In the Christian Science Monitor of all places.  It is a sad time to be an American when the mistake our misguided neighbors and family members elected to office is suppressing democracy in favor of a Marxist thug and is attempting to install him back to his wrongful place.

And so the United States now finds itself in league with the likes of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the latter of whom has threatened war on the nascent Honduran government. In his weekly newspaper column, Castro gloated about American support for Zelaya, writing that “Even Mrs. Clinton had declared that Zelaya is the only president of Honduras, and the Honduran coup leaders can’t even breathe without the support of the United States.”

This is nothing short of wrong.   Our country’s support of Zelaya is sentencing Honduras to Venezuela’s fate.  Siding with Castro to boot while he taunts the people who followed the rules against his protege.

If the Honduran people can fight off the advances of the so-called civilized world, maybe we can recruit some of them to help take our’s back.

It’s too obvious the people who call themselves Republicans don’t have the guts of the dirt poor Hondurans who are at least fighting off the advances of a dictator drunk with power.

Dear Leader and his D.C. crime family are ready to team up with their third-world heroes at the U.N. to take away even more of your parental rights – including the right to homeschool, discipline and make even the most pedestrian decisions about your child’s education and healthcare. And, surprise, surprise, the UN treaty was originally signed by Government Gargoyle Madeliene Halfbright way back in 1995, but never ratified. They’ve got the deck stacked now, though.

Their plan has always been to get control of your kids as early as possible so that they can be indoctrinated and warped to usurp the structure of the traditional family. It’s gone well, hasn’t it, teachers’ unions? A few gems:

It’s a brave new world. Contact your Senators now before this even gets close. They need to be aware that we know this shit is coming down the pike.

h/t MB

Come on, baby.  And I thought we had a good time the other night.  I was all up in your Kool-Aid.  You were helping me mix mine.  Don’t say you didn’t feel it too:

Obama Calls on U.N. to Punish North Korea Over Rocket

PRAGUE — President Obama said that North Korea violated international rules when it tested a rocket that could be used for long range missiles, and called on the Security Council to take action.

“This provocation underscores the need for action—not just this afternoon at the U.N. 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.”

Citing a recent internal U.N. poll, Secretary Bunky Moon notes that only 43% of members felt that “rules must be binding” while a crowded lunch table of 7% felt that words must mean something.  A staggering 82% felt we should invade Israel for having to answer this question in the first place.

In response to Mr. Obama’s calls to “do something”, the Secretary has asked several countries to volunteer setting up a scam foreign aid delegation to Pyongyang and commissioned a census of potential child refugees to entice other U.N. members to help in prospect of trading sex for food or medical care.

There’s a reason we refer to the TSA as “Thousands Standing Around”. They are worthless. This is the end result of another one of Bush’s mistakes (turning airport screeners into Federal employees) and here is a prime example of the power trips these little Napoleons engage in regularly. Most of us have experienced this on some level or another.

It didn’t help that this guy is a Ron Paul supporter and, therefore, according to Missouri state officials, a potential terrorist. He might have even had subversive literature on him – you know, the Constitution, the Bible, the Federalist Papers – OH CALAMITY!

UPDATE:

The MANDATORY VOLUNTEERISM part of this bill is not gone, they just moved it to house bill HR 1444. The bill text is here. The mandatory language and “four year service academy” language are all back.

Big surprise, now we have another bill to fight. You know what to do.

The so-called “Give” act – the bill that aims to create an army of 250,000 paid “volunteers” that will be an additional Dim-O-Crack voting bloc – has passed the Senate with the loving endorsement of many, many RINOs, including our own embarrassment, very special Senator Lamar Alexander.

On the bright side, Senator Corker was on the right side of this one, so I’ve just called to thank him for his vote. We have to give them props when they do the right thing, which means there will rarely be a need to call and thank Lamar! for his votes.

We’ve been covering it, as has Malkin.

Read the whole thing. The bill will now go to be reconciled by both houses of congress, where they will slip in even more spending and likely put the “mandatory volunteerism” clause back into it. Why? Because they know you aren’t paying attention. Or are you?

Here are your good guys in the Senate, at least on this bill:

NAYs —19

Barrasso (R-WY)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Coburn (R-OK)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R – LA)

Here we go.  The adolescents who are now in charge of our government are going after a private citizen for criticizing our Tax Cheat Czar.

It’s hard not to make a mockery of the Obamessiah’s administration – they do it to themselves on a daily basis.  Stand by, because with a bunch of narcissistic adolescents in power, any of us to stand up to their corruption will undoubtedly make their enemies list.

From someone handled Cashncarry in the forum over at Denninger’s place.

Clutch cargo quote.

The lovely and controversial Cara Ellison has summed our collective situation up quite nicely.

I’ve been referring to the Hussein Administration as Communist for quite a while and I don’t use the term sardonically. People immediately dismiss you as a crackpot when you use a term like “Communist”, but it’s the term that most accurately applies to these people. You can call them socialists, but I believe their plans go further than the simple confiscation and redistribution of wealth, which has already been going on since the 60′s.

This cabal is running a full court press for Federal control of private industry (banking, health care, markets, environment, energy, the list goes on…) and the corruption of both political parties blended with the greed and theft by some on Wall Street and the bad behavior of both borrowers and lenders in the sub-prime pyramid scheme have created the perfect opportunity for President Hussein to use the politics of fear to browbeat his braindead followers into doing whatever he claims is necessary.

These people are nothing more than 60′s-era Marxists who have used the Saul Alinsky playbook to hoodwink a dependent population dumbed down by Government schools with platitudes like “hope” and “change”. We have truly sunk to the depths of human intellect when these words are the extent of a supposedly informed voter’s education.

If you believe that President Hussein, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid passed this crippling bailout because they truly meant for it to help the economy rebound, you’re in as much denial as the zombies who went around last fall moaning about hope and change. Their plan is simple – (1) destroy the economy through catastrophic debt and national bankruptcy, (2) then as society breaks down in the wake of economic chaos, a firm crackdown on freedom will be necessary to restore order, (3) after which, the country can be reconstructed under whatever Federal control these people decide is needed (i.e. full-on unapologetic Communism).

American free-market style Capitalism is the enemy of this administration and they will do whatever is necessary to finish it off for good. Once they have done this, they will be able to move us to a true One World Government, erasing that nasty era of American superiority and unprecedented advancement in individuality and human freedom.

This is about absolute power and that’s the ultimate goal for the Hussein Gang. At least with Bill Clinton, he just wanted to get rich and get laid. This bunch is a much more sinister – and focused – group.

It is more important than ever for the average citizen to get involved and demand accountability from these thugs. This includes Senators and Reps from both parties – there is a vast silent majority that is pissed off about what is going on and if they/we will get off our asses, we can stop the bleeding.

It’s time to wake up.

RTWT.

UPDATE:

If you think this causes any genuine concern in the White House, think again. Everything is on course.

Freedom of speech is such a pain in the ass for dictators, authoritarians and community agitators.

via Jihad Watch

Ron Hart, who is usually hilarious, puts aside the humor and pens an apology letter to his great grandkids. I’m sending it to mine as well.

You should really read the whole thing. It hits the nail on the head. There is nothing funny about the untimely and unnecessary death of the greatest country mankind has ever created.

The Hamtastic Mary Katherine, a favorite of this blog and all meat byproducts, warns us of the  incoming Trade Rep. (I know, exciting stuff but it gets better and “better”, I mean worse) being touted by one Pres. Barrington H. O’Snobba for The Great Trade War Czar :

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles) could become the administration’s point person on international trade. He’s a terrible choice, and not just because of a history of unsavory behavior — such as his successful efforts to win a pardon from President Clinton for convicted cocaine kingpin Carlos Vignali, or the screamingly unethical robo-calls his campaign engineered during his run for Los Angeles mayor in 2001. Becerra is a leader of the Democratic Party’s protectionist wing, which opposes NAFTA, the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement and most other trade deals.

Now for the worst part.  The typically and predictably Chicago part.   In a news item that I have seen no one really commenting on today, Obama threatens to unleash the power of Urkelnomics on the soon to be unemployed masses by way of a brainless trust of narrow special interest bundlers and fundraisers he’s dubbing the “Economic Recovery Advisory Board”.   Tell me if you think these people should be advising anyone about what it takes to jumpstart an economy:

Choosing from corporate boardrooms, labor unions (lulz) and academia (hahahahahaha!), President Obama named a team of outside  (ROTFFSMFP) economic advisers Friday that he says he will turn to for help in boosting the sagging U.S. economy.

William H. Donaldson, who served as SEC chairman from 2003 to 2005

Donaldson is the rocket surgeon who implemented Sarbanes-Oxley.  SOX as it’s called is (also called many other things under people’s breath) is widely considered to be one of the worst and most costly laws ever inflicted on any business ever.  i.e., not growth friendly.  The stock market collapsed after it was implemented so it must be working!

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., president and CEO of the TIAA-CREF retirement fund

How’s that retirement fund working out?  Another Harvard egghead who happened to be Urkel’s crony Transition Economic Advisory Board and Trustee of the whackadoo Carnegie Endowment for Dictators with the Ketchup Lady.  Alger Hiss not available for comment.

Robert Wolf, chairman and CEO of the financial services firm UBS Group Americas

Investment banker scumbag / Urkel fundraising bundler

David F. Swensen, CIO of Yale University

Yale’s trustfund baby daycare provider / Ever get the feeling that the fix is in?  Last week he penned an Op/Ed in the New York Times arguing that we should “stimulate” the economy by bailing out the New York Times as well as making them a tax-exempt organization. It’s For The Public Good! ™

Mark T. Gallogly, founder and managing partner of the investment advisory firm Centerbridge Partners LP

Is there a Democrat he hasn’t written a check to? If not, hold out your hand and get to the back of the line based on your particular aggrieved status – race, sexual orientation and gender in that order please.  Again, the New York Times inadvertently spills the beans.

Penny Pritzker, chairman and founder of Pritzker Realty Group

This one is truly priceless.  See above “spill the beans” link.  Pritzker was the billionaire Finance Chair of Urkel’s campaign.  He was going to repay her with the Commerce Secretary job but that’s way more work than causing the subprime mortgage crisis.  Which she did.  Chicago all the way.  What does a Chicago realty bitch know about fixing the economy? About as much as the next bitch.

Monica C. Lozano, publisher and CEO of the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion

She publishes a Southern California Spanish newspaper.  WTF?????  National Council of La Raza member.  Castrophile.   Why does Bank of America extend credit to illegal aliens?  You’re looking at one of the reasons.  Fix the US economy?  I don’t think so.  This woman has no business being anywhere outside of a sanctuary city.

The rest are below and there are some jewels.  Doerr a no account Green Baron who’s got a carbon credit in your size, Anna Burger another Chicago Madame who was likely in league as the head of Change To Win negotiating a soft landing for Blagojevich with Rahm Emanuel as she was also part of his Transition Team.  The AFL-CIO Union thugs.  I know they know how to lose jobs but have they figured out how to make one yet without it costing $75 a hour with 3 months of vacation a year?

This list is 95% Hoover with a chance of Debs.

Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO of General Electric
John Doerr, a partner with the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Venture capitalist who backs Google who in turn backs Obama to the hilt.  As an Al Gore partner, he wants to legislate “greening” laws on every company which – sa-prize! -that just happens to be the business he’s in.  Another Obama loyalist.

Jim Owens, chairman and CEO of the heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.

This is the most confusing pick on this panel.  Owens is an unlimited Free Trade proponent for an Illinois based company that has never had a productive relationship with Obama as he is, quite simply, the most rabid anti-business President (and former Senator) in US history.  The protectionist unions (especially the Steelworkers) could potentially force Caterpillar into bankruptcy as they are the leading purchaser of steel in the United States.  Bankruptcy or relocating all of their manufacturing overseas to offset the operating expenses caused by an international steel trade war.  Those will be tens of thousands of Illinois jobs lost.

Good luck building those infrastructure projects without that company.  I know I’ll feel comfortable driving over that bridge built by the affirmative action hire to promote social justice.

Charles E. Phillips Jr., president of the computer software maker Oracle Corp.
Anna Burger, secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union and chairwoman of the labor coalition Change to Win
Richard L. Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the labor organization AFL-CIO

After losing his job as a stunt double for Alex Karras in “Webster”, Trumka is Urkel’s “house cracker” who shills for the protectionists at the labor union.  In that link, he compares Hillary Clinton supporters as bigots because the only reason why you wouldn’t vote for Obama is because you’re a racist – duh.   Complete with forehead wiping black preacher shtick.  Some assembly required but given his track record of success in his field all future assembly will be done in Korea, Vietnam or Mexico.

Laura D’Andrea Tyson, who served as a key economic adviser to President Bill Clinton and is dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley

Another Berkeley space case, Clinton leftover, yet another liberal Brookings Institution, CFR member (as are several others on this panel) and had no qualms knitting golden parachutes while running Morgan Stanley into the ground.

Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Let’s provide “stimulus” by slashing the defense budget.  Didn’t see that coming.  Funny how all these people writing big Op-Ed pieces in the last month all get selected.  It’s almost as if they knew that they were going to be nominated and were writing the narrative before this “Board” was going to be announced.

…And Israel promptly ignores them. In the wise words of Wilfred Brimley, “It’s the right thing to do.”

In other words, the anti-Semites at the U.N. once again call for Israel to quit being meanie-butts and beating up on those poor terrorists (all the while supporting Hamas’ practice of flinging rockets into Israel unabated). It’s a formula that’s worked for them for years, why stop now?

Our friend Zack from Diversity Lane is on the case, as usual.

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As U.S. Federal Government officials have demonstrated over the past several months, they have absolutely no clue what they’re doing when it comes to economics. So President Junior took a seat on the big white phone, pulled out the big red phone and called his buddies around the world and had them over for dinner. I believe this is called a “summit” or some such.

The most important call he made, however, was to the hero who unfroze the Knoxville credit markets, Rooftop Credit Ape. The leadership of Rooftop Credit Ape was said to have “set the tone” at the G20 meetings.

 

Rooftop Credit Ape shares one of his
secret strategies for economic success.

 

 

 

Rooftop Credit Ape sparred with French Prime
Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy called Rooftop Credit
Ape, “knowledgeable, inflatable.”

 

 

 

Here, Rooftop Credit Ape tries to explain
to world leaders that socialism has failed
time-and-again, and that free markets are the
answer to the current global economic crisis.

 

 

 

In non-Credit-Ape related news, Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev was horrified by the appearance
of former Secretary of State Helen Thomas
Madeleine Halfbright

Here comes the New World Order. Won’t Presidents Bush I and II both be so pleased in the way they’ve helped bring about their dream.

No, it gives socialist world leaders an excuse to drag us into their economic and social quagmire.

Ummmm… hell no.

With the Obamessiah already waving the white flag everywhere he can, the climate is finally ripe to enact country-based wealth redistribution on a much grander scale. We wouldn’t want to be thought of as being selfish would we?

That’s what it’s basically come down to. Last week when I was writing and calling my RINO Senators, I knew down deep that it was pointless. They answer to the almighty dollar, not us. It’s hard to muster passion when you know that the only things on the other end are deaf ears.

Longtime friend of the Buffet Michele sums up my feelings so much better than I can.

Quote of the year.

Read the whole thing.

It’s steamy. And it’s sitting at the steps of the House. I can see some of the House Reps cracking their office doors and looking out at the log. They can smell it. Due to its massive size, they are amazed that the Senate was able to force it out of their collective legislative anus. A few of them just wretched retched.

Harry Reid is currently speaking to the press. He notes that “they (the U.S. Senate) are not going to let our economy fail.”

Reid may be worried that the economy may not be able to fail all by itself, so he wants the Federal Government to make damn sure it happens.

Mitch McConnell has stated that this is the “Senate at its finest.”

Taking your money and wasting it and shunning accountability for all involved. That sounds like the U.S. Senate to which I’ve become resigned.

They are each stepping up to the podium to pat themselves on the back for their “bi-partisanship”. I hope they all painfully dislocate their shoulders.

Congratulations, you thieving bastards.

S&L posits an interesting proposition but unless there’s a coup at the RNC convention we can still expect the Pompous Pilate Pope of Hope to square off against the Aging Arizonan.

Still, I can dream of a day where John Bolton conveys his executive middle finger to the White House press corp the way he does to Obambi’s Innocents Abroad speech:

Perhaps Obama needs a remedial course in Cold War history, but the Berlin Wall most certainly did not come down because “the world stood as one.” The wall fell because of a decades-long, existential struggle against one of the greatest totalitarian ideologies mankind has ever faced. It was a struggle in which strong and determined U.S. leadership was constantly questioned, both in Europe and by substantial segments of the senator’s own Democratic Party.

C-Span re-aired The Greatest Speech To The Largest Audience In History (each speech greater than the last) this morning and I must say that Amy Winehouse would do well to be as substance free as your typical Obama speech.  The idea that the Berlin Wall fell because the world grabbed a Coke and defeated Communism with a rousing chorus of “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing” in our collective native tongues is beyond preposterous.  But it’s what he says.  Speeches as vacuous as lyrics to a U2 hit and the sunglasses to boot.

Bono Diplomacy may “raise awareness” but to date it hasn’t solved a single problem save moving a few ipods.

The successes Obama refers to in his speech — the defeat of Nazism, the Berlin airlift and the collapse of communism — were all gained by strong alliances defeating determined opponents of freedom, not by “one-worldism.” Although the senator was trying to distinguish himself from perceptions of Bush administration policy within the Atlantic Alliance, he was in fact sketching out a post-alliance policy, perhaps one that would unfold in global organizations such as the United Nations.

Seeing as how the UN is going to be run by African tinpots and the usual kleptocracy of one-world appointees for the foreseeable future, good luck with that whole “never again” Darfur thingy.  You think those soldiers can tell the difference between the Janjaweed militia and civilians anymore than you can tell a Shia from a Sunni?  You think that’s a compelling US interest to expend blood and treasure?

Maybe it is.  Maybe it isn’t.  But you certainly can’t make that case if Iraq didn’t meet the criteria.

Here’s a real-life “Dreams of My Father” in today’s Financial Times.  This is the reality of what The One-Worlders accomplish when One World foolishly relies on them.  If the US had gotten involved there, they would be trying to indict our representatives in the Hague instead of the true purveyors of genocide.

Can a Bolton/Burge ticket save us?  I think I found my write-in.

Well, the virulently anti-American German media has spoken:

Anyone who saw Barack Obama at Berlin’s Siegessäule on Thursday could recognize that this man will become the 44th president of the United States. He is more than ambitious — he wants to lay claim to become the president of the world.

Is that what Americans are wanting to elect?  Never say “politics ends at the water’s edge” anymore.  An ostensibly American candidate for President campaigning overseas is nauseating.  Pandering to the people who made the worst parts of the last century possible.

Europe is witnessing the 44th president of the United States during this trip. [...]

Let’s allow ourselves to be warmed today, by this man at the Victory Column. Then we’ll take a further look.

Gerhard Spörl is the chief editor of DER SPIEGEL’s foreign desk.

Yes, let’s “be warmed today”.  Tonight the hot sex – tomorrow the AIDS test.

Nothing resonates with the foreign media like apologizing for us being a bunch of fuck-ups who mean well.

Yea, we suck but we try dammit.

Yea, our history is one of never quite living up to our creed but one of these days….

Don’t call him or Hobama bitter though.

A taxpayer funded Benetton campaign ad culminating in ditching a visit to US forces stationed in Germany.

Obama has “cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl U.S. military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday.”

“Barack Obama will not be coming to us,” a spokesperson for the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl told Der Spiegel. “I don’t know why.”

Updated – no visit because he would not be allowed to use it for a campaign stop.

Wouldn’t want to ruin the post-coital glow with a fawning European press corp that makes their US counterparts look like militant Birchers.

Count yourselves lucky, troops.  The only way Obama could have gone out on a higher note would have been if he rolled a live grenade into your barracks and raised the UN flag over your base.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Today, some of the causes are getting declared:

The United States has quietly informed Western allies of its intention to walk away from the U.N. Human Rights Council, diplomatic sources said on Friday.

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“They said they were going to disengage totally,” said one representative of a rights watchdog group.

Clearly complaining to this group about Human Rights is a waste of everyone’s time and our money.

The Council replaced the widely discredited U.N. Commission on Human Rights. But it is seen by critics as having fallen under control of a bloc of Islamic and African countries, which have a majority when backed by their frequent allies Russia, China and Cuba.

My first instinct is that the Left will be cheering this move as well. As if reciting “Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo!!!@11!” carries the same weight as Sudanese genocide, mass starvation in Zimbabwe, a junta shutting out foreign aid from helping its cyclone-ravaged citizenry, Islamic attacks on a Danish Embassy on the anniversary of a cartoon being published, a militarized Venezuela shutting down all opposition press, and forced clitorectomies for all is preferable to playing naked twister with enemy combatants and providing terrorists with legal representation / religiously appropriate meals.

However, when it comes to getting the U.S. out the U.N. we’ll take the small victories where we can get them.

Judging from my last few flying experiences, the TSA, Homeland Security Department, and all major airlines are not going to be satisfied until they are all out of business. From the cattle call lines, rude customer service, and friendly reminders in my luggage that it’s been searched by a professional, I no longer fly anywhere unless I have to for work.

Today the list of destinations that I will refuse to ever vacation grew ten cities longer:

Body-scanning machines that show images of people underneath their clothing are being installed in 10 of the nation’s busiest airports in one of the biggest public uses of security devices that reveal intimate body parts.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently started using body scans on randomly chosen passengers in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and at New York’s Kennedy airport.

Airports in Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas and Miami will be added this month. Reagan National Airport in Washington starts using a body scanner today. A total of 38 machines will be in use within weeks.

“It’s the wave of the future,” said James Schear, the TSA security director at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, where two body scanners are in use at one checkpoint.

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“We’re just scratching the surface of what we can do with whole-body imaging,” Schear said.

That’s what I was afraid of. This is really a Department of Perversion and Psychosexual Assault and the invasion of privacy risks and potential for abuse is evident in every single one of it’s uses. It’s a child pR0nography machine as it will be taking photos of underage children every time they are screened. The “security officer” whose job will be to get up every morning and examine the naked bodies of everyone taking flights that day will undoubtedly be a masturbator of the first order while he mans the digital gloryholes of the 21st century:

The TSA says it protects privacy by blurring passengers’ faces and deleting images right after viewing. Yet the images are detailed, clearly showing a person’s gender. “You can actually see the sweat on someone’s back,” Schear said.

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“I’m delighted by this development,” said Clark Kent Ervin, the former Homeland Security inspector general whose reports urged the use of body scanners. “This really is the ultimate answer to increasing screeners’ ability to spot concealed weapons.”

A lot of people concealing weapons in the sweat on their backs these days? It was unfair for me to character this is a Digital Gloryhole for the 21st Century. Gloryholes have two willing participants.

Without a doubt this is a clear violation of a person’s right to be secure in the persons and they are not going to listen until people boycott the cities clamoring for the right to ogle you, your wife, and children naked in exchange for what they are calling “security”.

“Most passengers don’t think it’s any big deal,” Schear said. “They think it’s a piece of security they’re willing to do.”

Wrong. The idea of Uncle Sam in a polyester blue security guard’s outfit leering at sweat glistening down my ample privates isn’t what this country is about and the fact that Rear Admiral Schear is taking his former title a little too literally comes as little surprise considering who he supported for President.

My opposition to this gross personal assault is not based on some Judeo-Christian sanctity I hold for the human form, as I have none, but rather the one I hold for personal liberty. That the government refuses to recognize even a prima facie respect for individual privacy is the reason why every Amendment in the Bill of Rights start with “The Congress Shall Make No Law…”