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  • 7 arrested in NC terror plot; DUmmies call BS

    You’ve probably all seen the story about 7 folks arrested in North Carolina for plotting a terrorist attack. All but one were Americans, one claims to have experience fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan (Fox News link);

    Two of the suspects are Boyd’s sons: Zakariya Boyd, 20 and Dylan Boyd, 22. The others are Anes Subasic, 33; Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, 22; and Ziyad Yaghi, 21.

    Hysen Sherifi, 24, a native of Kosovo and a U.S. legal permanent also was charged in the case. He was the only person arrested who was not a U.S. citizen.

    The suspects face charges of providing material support to terrorism and “conspiracy to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons abroad.”

    Of course, even though it’s their guy in charge of the people doing the arresting now, the folks at Democratic Underground are calling BS – I guess the investigation had been going on since the Bush Administration, so somehow, it’s tainted.

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    4. They did all this to hurt people “overseas” ??? If they hate America so much, why didn’t they just go down to the new convention center and set off a fucking bomb? When are people going to get it???? These so called terrorists are figments of the propaganda machine. Here! Here’s a good one: The Tooth Fairy says you are all a bunch of idiots.!!! Can I get that on Page One?

    Mr/Mrs No Sheep fails to mention which “propaganda machine” is responsible. I suppose there’s just a generalpurpose propaganda machine out there somewhere that releases these stories irrespective of events.

    The next thing you know, someone will be telling that the president isn’t a US citizen.

  • A compliment from Bill Maher

    At about 1:55, Bill Maher tells Wolf Blitzer, in reference to the possibility that Sarah Palin would run for President that he wouldn’t put anything past “this stupid country”. He expands on that empty thought at about 4:55. Of course, the election of Barack Obama was an aberration. Just because we accidentally elected a smart guy doesn’t make us smart, he says. Then at about 7 minutes, he calls Michael Moore’s documentaries “brilliant”.

    I’m guessing he’s being contrary for effect. Anyone who calls Americans stupid and Michael Moore brilliant is just working too hard at being funny.

    To demonstrate how smart he is, Maher tells us that capitalism would be good if it wasn’t for profit motive. I guess that’s his idea of brilliant.

    You’d think Wolf Blitzer, who considers himself a journalist, would be embarrassed to be seen interviewing this clown.

  • World Can’t Wait protests NAACP

    It seems that the World Can’t Wait and their attendant affiliates got angry at the NAACP “Diversity Career Fair” at their annual convention earlier this month. In the post-racial era, the Left decided that people of color shouldn’t be allowed the opportunity to serve their country and reap the benefits of the service. And who is surprised that Matthis Chiroux was on hand;

    The demonstration was a follow up to a press conference held on Saturday July 11th, the opening day of the convention where Benjamin Jealous, CEO and President of the NAACP, was asked by a high school student and a military mother why military recruiters were invited to recruit, given that the NAACP had come out against the Iraq war. Benjamin Jealous refused to disinvite the Army Strong Recruitment Tour and said that the recruiters would not be recruiting.

    At the press conference this afternoon Debra Sweet, representatives of the Ya Ya Youth Network, revolution youth, war resister Mathis Chiroux, and Barbara Harris all spoke very eloquently as to why the NAACP should not allow military recruiters into its convention. The main points driven home were that the wars/occupations decided to go inside the convention to see what the Army Strong Tour was doing. What we found was appalling. Over 60% over the Diversity Career Fair was military.

    That’s horrible – unless you factor in that the military is the most color-blind facet of our society and has been for decades. In fact, one Black recruiter got a first hand look of the racist attitude of the writer of this piece;

    The recruiter tried to defend recruitment by going into what the navy had done for her. My activist friend began to tell her she understood that this recruiter felt that the navy had done a lot for her but … This was when the conversation was cut short by another Black male recruiter approaching us and demanding to know what we were doing there. He demanded that we leave and that if we didn’t we would be escorted out. My friend asked why. We were told we were being loud and disruptive.

    The Black female was obviously so stupid that she didn’t realize that the Navy had abused her somehow and it took a white loudmouthed Leftist to tell her how her life wasn’t really better.

    All WCW and the others will accomplish is convince more impoverished Blacks to be left out of the economy. According to the Stars and Stripes this morning, the basic training stations are jam-packed with new recruits;

    A sagging economy, declining casualty rate in Iraq and a resurgence in the U.S. military’s popularity appear to have contributed to a strong recruiting year, Army leaders said.

    And the steady training schedule at Fort Jackson is likely to continue into next year as recruits find themselves on a waiting list to report for duty.

    “Shipping dates are anywhere from six weeks to two to three months out,” said Sgt. 1st Class Jay Jenkins, who works at the Army’s downtown Columbia recruiting station.

    So instead of helping minorities out their poverty, WCW and Matthis Chiroux are content to leave them mired in their unfortunate circumstances. Oh, and here’s a little bit about World Can’t Wait from Discover the Networks;

    Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, World Can’t Wait (WCW) is a direct action movement seeking to organize “people living in the United States to take responsibility to stop the whole disastrous course led by the Bush administration.”

    I guess that’s where the money is, huh, Matthis? Did it suddenly dry up in Alabama?

    Thanks to Navy Brat for the link.

  • Stupid Bush news

    The New York Times tries to make us believe that President Bush was tempted to send US troops into the streets to arrest the Lackawanna Six with this headline;

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    Of course, according to the article, Darth Cheney advocated for the US of Federal troops to round up the terrorists. It was a proposal that was never acted upon. I wonder how many people know these discussions go on every day as every administration engages in legal navel-gazing. But now this’ll become the standard answer to everyone who asks themselves if they should vote for a Republican.

    Decades after Nixon ruminated over sending the IRS after his enemies, it is part of the “Evil Nixon” caricature the Left likes to put forward. Nixon never used the IRS against his enemies – he merely asked the question once. Bush never sent troops to take out the Lackawanna Six, but a year from now that’s not what the conspiracy nuts will be saying.

    Still, at least one high-level meeting was convened to debate the issue, at which several top Bush aides argued firmly against the proposal to use the military, advanced by Mr. Cheney, his legal adviser David S. Addington and some senior Defense Department officials.

    Among those in opposition were Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser; John B. Bellinger III, the top lawyer at the National Security Council; Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Michael Chertoff, then the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division.

    The discussions did not proceed far enough to put military units on alert.

    And yet, somehow, it’s news.

    Actually, it makes no sense to use US troops the way law enforcement these days are trained and equipped almost exactly like the military. The only feasible reason is to make a political statement. And I don’t think the American people want to hear that political statement.

    If it was the Obama Administration having this discussion (and who says they aren’t) The New York Times would be applauding him for keeping a cooler head. So where’s the applause for Bush making the right decision?

  • Priorities

    The real news in the country is that Obama’s health care planis floundering in Congress because no one wants to be responsible for destroying the economy and the health care system in the country. Obama and his favorability ratings are falling in the polls. But what does the Washington Post put on the front page of their fishwrap this morning?

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    I guess it’s hard to break old habits. While Palin was the vice presidential nominee last year, the Post and the media in general, thought it was more appropriate to compare Obama, the presidential nominee, to Palin rather than a more appropriate comparison to the Republican presidential nominee. In such a comparison, Obama fell short in experience and actual accomplishments, but against the Governor of Alaska, they thought Obama looked more competitive.

    So, while Obama’s favorability rating falls 12 percentage points, the Post finds this more newsworthy;

    Overall, the new poll found that 53 percent of Americans view Palin negatively and 40 percent see her in positive terms, her lowest level in Post-ABC polling since she first appeared on the national stage last summer as Sen. John McCain’s running mate.

    It’s clear that the Post senses an insurgency campaign from Alaska that threatens the status quo in Washington. Why else would a governor of a distant, remote state, who is leaving her office in a few days, garner more attention than a president who is losing his momentum?

  • 2 NJ mayors arrested, no discernible political affiliations

    According to Associated Press, two New Jersey mayors were among the 30 folks rounded up for corruption. I know, I’m shocked, too – corruption in NJ? Really? But what’s really surprising about the article, is that none of the people involved seem to belong to any political party.

    The mayors of two New Jersey cities and a current and former state legislator were among more than two dozen people arrested Thursday in a sweeping corruption investigation. Among about 30 people arrested Thursday were Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano III, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, former Jersey City Council President L. Harvey Smith and state Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt. Van Pelt is accused of accepting $10,000 from a cooperating government witness posing as a developer who sought help in getting permits for a project in Ocean County. Smith, a former state Assemblyman and Jersey City mayoral candidate who served four years as the city’s council president, and several other current and former Jersey City public officials also are accused of accepting money to help the fake developer gain permits and approvals.

    It’s not like they didn’t have room to put the political party in the article – in the middle of the story they start talking about the FBI raiding a synagogue in NYC for trafficking in human kidneys.

    ADDED: Here’s longer version of the same article – it even lists the suspects and gives little bios on them. But no political party.

  • Health care struggling

    So the President thought he could convince us to stop thinking about numbers last night. Didn’t work. JammieWearingFool recounts the conversation Senator Charles Grassley had with a Democrat colleague in which the colleague related the President telling the Blue Dog Democrats “You’re going to destroy my presidency.”

    Karl Rove, In the Wall Street Journal “ObamaCare in Trouble“;

    The polls are crumbling because of a flood of bad news about Mr. Obama’s health-care proposals. One batch of such news came from a July 17 study by the Lewin Group that was commissioned by the Heritage Foundation. It projects that if the House bill becomes law, 83.4 million people—nearly half of those with private coverage—will lose private insurance as employers drop their plans. Mr. Obama’s promise that you can keep your plan is being left on the cutting room floor with nary a peep from the president.

    Another batch of bad news came this week as Democratic governors from Colorado, Tennessee, New Mexico and Washington joined GOP colleagues at the National Governors Association summer meeting to blast the administration for plans to shift millions of families into Medicaid. That could stick states with $440 billion in new costs over the next decade.

    Even the Associated Press can’t put a happy face sticker on the White House these days;

    The sense of bipartisanship the president infused into the effort in March has been dissipated; lawmakers may never have taken it seriously. And the clear, confident message of last year’s presidential campaign has turned into confusing policy options and messy politics, a standoff on Capitol Hill over how to expand and improve health coverage — and somehow pay for it.

    It’s all recasting Obama’s image. The cool, crisp candidate who captivated voters last fall has been replaced by a president who is constantly calling for action, with little to show for it and his credibility at stake.

    Democrats are putting on a brave face, noting that in Congress a legislative standstill can quickly shift into high-gear action.

    It’s called biting off more than you can chew. George Bush knew it. he didn’t try to shove massive tax cuts down Congress’ throats, he took it slowly over five years and got everything he wanted. But Obama thought he had some kind of leverage over everyone because everyone around him told him so – that echo chamber effect.

    All of those people who took the fall for his miscalculations during the elections are about to get some more company under the Obama bus.

  • Is this one of the industrialized nations we should emmulate?

    I’m just wondering because I’m always hearing about how far we are behind the “industrialized world” in so many things. Maybe we need more of this in Congress. We haven’t been treated to a spectacle like this since Preston Brooks caned Charles Sumner on the Senate floor in 1856.