"If I die, I die", How Naive is Obama?, A Filibuster-Proof Senate, Cyber-Attack in South Korea

“Wealth isn’t immoral. Thievery is.” - protestor’s sign at the Asheville, NC TeaParty I attended I’m back! Did you miss me? 1) Palin: Politically speaking, 'If I die, I die' KOTZEBUE, Alaska (AP) - Sarah Palin says she's not a quitter, she's a fighter, but adds that, politically speaking, "if I die, I die. So be it." Sporting fishing waders and a T-shirt, Palin defended her decision to resign as Alaska governor in half a dozen interviews broadcast and published Tuesday morning. See: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D999Q9000&show_article=1 I recall another courageous woman who said the same thing: Esther 4:15-16: Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: "Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish." 1a) Palin returns to work, defends decision to resign …While many political analysts argued that Palin's decision to step down hurt her chances at a presidential run, a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Monday night found that 53 percent of Americans felt the media coverage of Palin was unfairly negative and that 70 percent said their opinion of Palin hadn't changed since she decided to step down as Alaska governor. See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090707/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_resignation 1b) I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin The Republicans bring a knife to a gunfight, and lose again. A tongue-in-cheek conservative writes from the perspective of a liberal (comment mine, for clarification): One of the most terrifying moments of my political life came last summer at the Republican convention in St. Paul. No, I don’t mean seeing John McCain careering around the Xcel Energy Center like Eyegore in Young Frankenstein, his face frozen in a Lon Chaney Sr. rictus grin as he reached across the aisle to his erstwhile friends in the media and got his hand bitten off. Rather, I’m referring to the aftermath of Sarah Palin’s outrageous acceptance speech, which whipped up the Rotary Club delegates into a frenzy of white-boy fury that not even heckling by a brave Code Pink embed could deter. Truly a fascist classic and one that sent shivers down our collectivist spines. …What the hell just hit us? For one horrible moment, it looked as if the carefully crafted plans of David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, George Soros, and the Second Chief Directorate, first department, of the old KGB were about to gang agley. Not only were we offended at the sheer effrontery of McCain’s pick: How dare the Republicans proffer this déclassée piece of Wasilla trailer trash whose only claim to fame was that she didn’t exercise her right to choose? Where were her degrees from Smith or Barnard, her internships at PETA, the Brookings Institution, or the Young Pioneers? We were also outraged that the Stupid Party had just nominated a completely unqualified candidate nobody had ever heard of, a first-term governor of Alaska whose previous experience consisted of a small-town mayoralty. As opposed to our guy, Barry Soetoro of Mombasa, Djakarta, and Honolulu, a first-term senator nobody had ever heard of, whose previous experience had been as a state senator (D., Daley Machine) in Illinois. After eight long, illegitimate, lawless years of &*^%BUSH$#@! tyranny, how dare you contest this election? And so the word went out, from that time and place: Eviscerate Sarah Palin like one of her field-dressed moose. Turn her life upside down. Attack her politics, her background, her educational history. Attack her family. Make fun of her husband, her children. Unleash the noted gynecologist Andrew Sullivan to prove that Palin’s fifth child was really her grandchild. See: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDE3MmE5MDVmMGM1YjQ2NmVhMjJkN2I2ZTcxMzhlNjU= 2) Just how naïve is President Obama? Today, from the group Stratfor, comes this stunning offer to Iran from President Obama: "U.S. President Barack Obama said July 7 that if Iran stops its nuclear weapon development program, the U.S, has no reason to develop a missile defense system, Interfax reported. Obama was speaking at the Russian School of Economics in Moscow." Is the President unaware that North Korea is a nuclear power, and produces long range missiles that it tests and delivers to other countries?   Are there no other threats from terror groups or nations, other than Iran for which an American missile defense might be useful? …Is Obama so delusional about nuclear weapons, that he thinks if we disarm (the proposed agreement with Russia), and follow up by giving up our missile defenses, that the world will lay down its arms, and start singing Pete Seeger songs? See: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/just_how_naieve_is_president_o.html 2a) Obama’s Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of “a nuclear free world.” He railed against discussions of “first- versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads. The student was Barack Obama, and he was clearly trying to sort out his thoughts. In the conclusion, he denounced “the twisted logic of which we are a part today” and praised student efforts to realize “the possibility of a decent world.” But his article, “Breaking the War Mentality,” which only recently has been rediscovered, said little about how to achieve the utopian dream. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/world/05nuclear.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=obama%20columbia&st=cse 3) EXCLUSIVE: Israel declines to ask U.S. to OK Iran attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top deputies have not formally asked for U.S. aid or permission for possible military strikes on Iran's nuclear program, fearing the White House would not approve, two Israeli officials said. See: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/07/israel-fears-us-would-foil-iran-strike/ 4) Tax on health benefits causing second thoughts (His own party rebels) WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic leaders rebelled Tuesday against a proposed tax on health insurance benefits, raising fresh doubts about the prospects for bipartisan legislation on President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul 5) Franken sworn in as Minnesota senator Al Franken became a senator on Tuesday, completing the transformation from comedian to politician. The Minnesota Democrat's swearing-in marked the end of an eight-month political and legal struggle and drew thunderous applause and a standing ovation in the Senate chamber. His presence gives Democrats 60 votes, enough to thwart possible Republican filibusters. See: http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2009/07/07/franken_sworn_in_as_minnesota_senator 6) SKorean Web sites hit by suspected cyber attack SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea says the Web sites of major government agencies, banks and Internet sites were paralyzed due to a suspected cyber attack. The state-run Korea Information Security Agency said that Web sites of the presidential Blue House, the Defense Ministry, the National Assembly, Shinhan Bank, Korea Exchange Bank and top Internet portal Naver have been down or had access problems starting late Tuesday. Some of the sites remain unstable. Agency spokeswoman Ahn Jeong-eun says the paralysis happened because of a deluge of computers trying to connect with the affected sites, overwhelming computer servers that handle the traffic. See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_cyber_attack 7) Tea parties from sea to shining sea More than 2,000 tax, Big Government protests in all 50 states WASHINGTON – More than 2,000 tea parties from coast to coast attracted hundreds of thousands tax and Big Government protesters on Independence Day – perhaps the biggest July 4 political event in America since the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence. See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103126 8) OATH KEEPERS: ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY (I heard of these guys at the Tea Party I attended. They target those serving in the military and police officers. Great stuff…) 1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people. 2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people 3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal (emphasis mine). 4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state. 5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty. 6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps. 7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext. 8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control." 9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies. 10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances. See: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/ 9) New York Congressman Blasts Jackson as 'Pervert, Low-Life' A New York congressman says Michael Jackson was a "pervert" and calls on society to stop "glorifying" the late entertainer in a YouTube video. Rep. Peter King said Jackson -- whom he called a "low-life" -- is being glorified in the days after his death while society ignores the efforts, of teachers, police officers, firefighters and veterans. In the two-minute video, King claims the "day in and day out" coverage of Jackson's death is "too politically correct." "Let's knock out the psychobabble," King said in the video taped outside an American Legion Hall on New York's Long Island. "He was a pervert, a child molester; he was a pedophile. And to be giving this much coverage to him, day in and day out, what does it say about us as a country? I just think we're too politically correct." King, a Republican who is among the possible contenders for the seat held by Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, said Jackson "may have been a good singer" and "did some dancing," but blasted the singer as someone who could not be trusted around children. See: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/06/new-york-congressman-blasts-jackson-pervert-low-life/