Obama Gives Iran all the Time it Needs for Holocaust II Preparations

If Obama were merely naive, we’d be better off than this:

U.S. President Barack Obama set a rough timetable for his diplomatic outreach to arch-foe Iran for the first time on Monday, saying he wanted to see serious progress by the end of the year.

He also held out the prospect of tougher sanctions against Tehran “to ensure that Iran understands we are serious.”

The only “serious progress” we’re going to see down this road is serious progress towards an Iranian nuke and/or progress towards an Israeli attack on Iran – and that attack, it must be remembered, might end up nuclear if Israel feels it is the only way to insure itself against an Iranian nuke now and for at least a considerable time in the future. Does Obama realize we’re dealing with messianic lunatics in Iran and an Israel which, pardon them, doesn’t want to be exterminated?

I hope he figures it out, soon.

Obama: the Working Man's Friend?

Not hardly:

One statistic that stands out in America’s recession-stung economy is the unemployment rate for adult men: in April for the second month in a row it surged ahead of the national average to 9.4 percent versus 8.9 percent for all workers. The jobless rate for adult women was 7.1 percent.

The reasons are clear: male-heavy sectors such as construction and manufacturing have been hard hit. But the implications may be dire for the broader economy and hamper the recovery as families that once had male breadwinners struggle.

“In the 2001 recession, 51 percent of all job losses were for men. It was evenly split. But in this recession 80 percent of the jobs that have been lost have been men’s,” said Andrew Sum, a labor economics professor at Northeastern University who has studied this issue in detail.

Which means that the sectors most hurt right now are those areas which make, mine and grow things – areas which Obama is completely ignoring in favor of bailing out bankers and foreign investors while mortgaging more of our future to China simply because he doesn’t want to give up on his megalomaniac plans for health care reform. Rather than send a trillion dollars down the usury rat hole, its time to use the money to fund start ups for new manufacturing, mining and farming enterprises – its time to get back to work and start creating wealth in this country.

Too bad Obama doesn’t understand this at all.

The Pakistani Nuke Issue

Might boil over, so I’m glad to hear this:

The United States has a detailed plan for infiltrating Pakistan and securing its mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads if it appears the country is about to fall under the control of the Taliban, Al Qaeda or other Islamic extremists.

American intelligence sources say the operation would be conducted by Joint Special Operations Command, the super-secret commando unit headquartered at Fort Bragg, N.C.

If it looks like the government of Pakistan is about to collapse, then securing Pakistan’s nuclear weapons will be required. Its not a matter of “should” but “must” – no ifs, ands or buts about it, we have to go get them, cost what it might. Nothing which could happen in the course of getting those weapons would be worse than allowing those weapons to fall into the hands of messianic fanatics.

While President Obama can rely upon it that his base will be lukewarm, at best, over such an action he can rely absolutely upon conservatives to back him 100%. No horror stories, no planted “American criminal” propaganda will sway us from support to opposition – when the guns go off, the only thing we seek is victory in the shortest amount of time for the least possible cost and only a clear unwillingness to fight for such could turn us to opposition.

Subversive Phrase of the Day

A warning:

Now it doesn’t require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? – Ronald Reagan

When You've Dug Yourself Into A Hole, You Should Stop Digging

This is good advice for Nancy Pelosi, who has  changed her story regarding what she knew and was told about “enhanced interrogation” techniques several times. 

Her most recent outrageous claim was that she was misled by the CIA – a claim that CIA director and Obama appointee Leon Panetta outright refuted. 

Well, she has changed her story again, and is now blaming Bush.

 Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded Friday to CIA Director Leon Panetta’s public disagreement with her charge that she was misled by the agency on the use of waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques.

“We all share great respect for the dedicated men and women of the intelligence community who are deeply committed to the safety and security of the American people,” she said in a statement issued by her office. “My criticism of the manner in which the Bush Administration did not appropriately inform Congress is separate from my respect for those in the intelligence community who work to keep our country safe.

Pathetic. How can someone keep changing their story and expect to be taken seriously?

A Word About Dr. Obama of Notre Dame

How instructed Catholics view the matter:

So, Dr. Barack Obama is now an alumnus of Notre Dame. And, Our Lady Weeps for him and all who continue to be deceived by the siren song of the culture of death. The event is over but the work only begins. We need to pray for the grace of conversion for the President. Can you imagine what might happen if Dr. Barack Obama of Notre Dame was converted and recognized the truth concerning the inviolable dignity of every human life, which includes our smallest neighbors? It can happen. As I prayed the Holy Rosary today I prayed these words attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux:

“Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me”. The intercession of the Mother of God is extremely powerful!

I believe that the events which led up to this commencement will go down in history as the beginning of a New Catholic Action in America. Our Bishops must meet and deal with what just occurred. We need their immediate and decisive pastoral and corrective action concerning the very nature and obligations of all Catholic Colleges and Universities. The confusion arising out of the opportunistic use of piecemeal quotes from Catholic Social Doctrine to promote the Culture of Death and the use and abuse of Catholic platforms to promote this error has gone on for too long.

Curiously enough, I do believe he will be converted – freed from the poison of Jeremiah Wright, Obama is now in a position where orthodoxy has its chance. We must pray for him – that the father of those two delightful girls comes to understand the truth of the matter. It might not happen while he’s President, but I believe it will happen, in the by and by.

GOP Strength in New Jersey

Quite stunning:

In his bid for re-election, New Jersey’s Democratic Governor Jon Corzine trails Republican challenger Chris Christie by nine percentage points. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Garden State voters shows Christie with 47% of the vote and Corzine with 38%.

The Governor does better when matched against Republican Steve Lonegan. In that case, it’s Lonegan with 42% and Corzine just a point behind at 41%.

Now, Corzine has actually climbed out of the polling cellar but its never good for a man seeking re-election to be sitting at 38% less than six months prior to the vote. Right now, things are looking up for the GOP in New Jersey and Virginia, States won by Obama just this past November. These States were harbingers in 1993 and 2005. Will they be again?

The Atheist Delusion

Charlotte Allen takes the atheists to task:

I can’t stand atheists — but it’s not because they don’t believe in God. It’s because they’re crashing bores…

…My problem with atheists is their tiresome — and way old — insistence that they are being oppressed and their fixation with the fine points of Christianity. What — did their Sunday school teachers flog their behinds with a Bible when they were kids?…

…Maybe atheists wouldn’t be so unpopular if they stopped beating the drum until the hide splits on their second-favorite topic: How stupid people are who believe in God. This is a favorite Dawkins theme. In a recent interview with Trina Hoaks, the atheist blogger for the Examiner.com website, Dawkins described religious believers as follows: “They feel uneducated, which they are; often rather stupid, which they are; inferior, which they are; and paranoid about pointy-headed intellectuals from the East Coast looking down on them, which, with some justification, they do.” Thanks, Richard!

Dennett likes to call atheists “the Brights,” in contrast to everybody else, who obviously aren’t so bright. In a 2006 essay describing his brush with death after a heart operation, Dennett wrote these thoughts about his religious friends who told him they were praying for his recovery: “Thanks, I appreciate it, but did you also sacrifice a goat?” With friends like Daniel Dennett, you don’t need enemies.

They are crashing bores – arrogant, too. But in the end, I don’t believe in atheists – meaning, I don’t believe there is, has been or ever will be any person who will be entirely convinced there is no God. Atheism is an attitude – a self-centered, elitist conceit about one’s supposed intellectual superiority coupled with a desire to have this alleged superiority acknowledged by others.

This is the only way to explain the phenomena of atheists who sue in court to, say, have a prayer said at high school graduation banned. If you were really convinced that God didn’t exist then you simply wouldn’t care that some words were said to what you consider to be a non-existent entity. A truly intellectual person would understand that others do believe it and have this need and so common courtesy means you’d not stand in their way…and you wouldn’t be spreading absurd theories about how Christians are just waiting for their chance to start burning heretics at the stake, unless the ACLU stops them from having a Nativity scene at town hall.

If, on the other hand, what you’re really about is insisting how smart you are then what you’re really trying to do is hide any reference to the one entity who is and always will be so vastly smarter than you that you are reduced to absolute insignificance in and of yourself. For some people the problem is that they are created – can’t stand the thought that they didn’t just will themselves into existence and thus became the smartest person in the room. So, they cook up absurd theories of universes creating themselves and look down upon those poor fools on their knees in prayer.

Meanwhile, we’re just sorry for them; and we’ll keep praying for them. Its so hard to see some of our fellows so cut off from reason and love – so unwilling to first admit to the superior and then realize you can endlessly draw upon this superior for whatever it is you need. Its like watching a man die of thirst in the desert for simple unwillingness to walk to the lake – he wants the lake to come to him and prove to him it exists, then he’ll deign to admit to the existence of the lake.

President Palin's First 100 Days

Victor Davis Hanson looks at an alternate version of history, where Sarah Palin was elected president in 2008, but has made the same choices, mistakes, fumbles that Obama has, and offers the different reaction from the media for them.

This is one of my favorite parts:

IT’S THE MATH, STUPID!
“Well,” lectured Paul Krugman, again in the Times, “we were worried that they didn’t teach math at Idaho U., and now we know for sure they don’t. Is it $1.6 trillion, $1.7 trillion, or $2 trillion in red ink this year? Are we supposed to be impressed that she offers ‘fiscal sobriety’ by cutting 0.003 percent of the budget? She gives out money to those who don’t pay taxes and calls it a tax cut. And now Queen Sarah tells us that in four years she’ll ‘halve’ the deficit, as if she hasn’t borrowed another $5 trillion in the meantime. Does she think we’re morons? How many ‘Drill, baby, drill!’ oil wells can she tap into up there in Alaska to pay for the extra $11 trillion in debt she’s saddling us with?”

Read the whole thing.

Subversive Phrase of the Day

A Founding rightwing extremist explains the opposition to President Bush:

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. – Alexander Hamilton