1) Barack Obama: The Most Anti-Israel President
With his remarks in Jakarta, Indonesia, President Obama made history once again. Sadly, it’s a most unenviable title. I believe he is the most anti-Israel President in U.S. history.
In going to Jakarta, Indonesia, to launch his latest attack, he literally went to the ends of the earth to give voice to his displeasure. He emphasized his opposition to the policies of the elected government of Israel.
He used his Jakarta platform to complain about Israel building apartments for her growing population. Where? In Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.
To make matters even worse, Jakarta is a city no Israeli is allowed to enter! The symbolism of saying what he said in the country and city where he said it is simply atrocious.
See: http://townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2010/11/12/barack_obama_the_most_anti-israel_president
1a) We are not for sale
Over the past week, it has been widely reported that the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government are conducting secret negotiations regarding future Israeli land surrenders to the Palestinians in the Jordan Valley and Jerusalem. According to the reports, the Obama administration has presented Netanyahu with a plan whereby Israel will cede its rights to eastern Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley to the Palestinians and then lease the areas from the Palestinians for a limited period.
The reports on the length of the lease vary. Some claim that the White House is offering a seven year rental (emphasis mine). Others claim the Americans are offering Israel to lease Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley for several decades before relinquishing them completely.
Netanyahu has reportedly accepted Obama's proposal in principle. The only remaining dispute is the length of the lease. Netanyahu is demanding that Israel be permitted to lease Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley from the Palestinians for somewhere between forty and ninety-nine years. The Americans foresee a shorter timeframe.
The fact that these discussions are taking place is deeply disturbing both for what they tell us about the Obama administration's view of Israel and for what they tell us about Netanyahu's wisdom and character.
By calling for Israel to cede the Jordan Valley to the Palestinians, US President Barack Obama is ignoring the most fundamental reality of the Middle East: Israel is besieged by its neighbors who seek its destruction (emphasis mine). Without the Jordan Valley Israel would become the modern day equivalent of Czechoslovakia stripped of the Sudetenland in 1938. It would be utterly indefensible. None of Israel's neighbors have accepted Israel's right to exist. The absolute majority of the Arabs in all of the states neighboring Israel wish to see Israel destroyed. By relinquishing the Jordan Valley Israel would effectively be committing national suicide by inviting an invasion it would be incapable of staving off.
See: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1110/glick110510.php3
1b) Netanyahu to Obama: Jerusalem is not a settlement
The peace process threatened to spiral out of control Tuesday over Israeli plans to advance 1,345 housing units in Jewish neighborhoods of east Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had flown to the US Saturday night hoping to break the impasse in the stalled peace talks. Instead, US President Barack Obama publicly reprimanded him as the Palestinians reissued their threats to seek unilateral statehood.
“The international community must respond to Israel’s unilateral measures by instantly recognizing a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders,” said chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat.
Speaking about the Jerusalem homes at a press conference in Indonesia, Obama said, “This kind of activity is never helpful when it comes to peace negotiations.” He added that such “incremental steps can end up breaking down trust between the parties.”
Netanyahu, in turn, sharply defended Israel’s right to build in Jerusalem, which it claims as its eternal united capital, even as the Palestinians claim the eastern party of the city as the capital of their future state.
“Jerusalem is not a settlement. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the government had never agreed to place any restrictions on construction in Jerusalem, which has 800,000 residents.
See: http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=194673
1c) Jerusalem is Israel's Capital, It Is Not A Jewish Settlement
On November 9, 2010, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) released a communication entitled “Construction in Jerusalem,” by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Media Adviser. Stating, “Jerusalem is not a settlement; Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Israel. Israel has never accepted upon itself restrictions of any kind on construction in Jerusalem…Israel sees no connection between the diplomatic process and planning and building policy in Jerusalem, which has not changed in 40 years…Construction in Jerusalem has never hindered the peace process.”
This was in response to Obama claiming, in a news conference on November 9th, that Israel hindered efforts for a two-state solution by building ‘Jewish settlements’ in territory that Palestinians have claimed. As was reported on November 10, 2010, on the Daily News and Analysis website (DNA - DNAIndia.com), in the article, “Obama speaking to Muslims, shortens Indonesia trip.”
The Myth of Illegal Jewish Occupation
Many Palestinians and Palestinian supporters refer to the land that Israel acquired in the Six-day War, in June of 1967, as ‘illegal Jewish occupation’. The territory Obama was referring to as being claimed by the Palestinians, includes east Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (a.k.a. as the West Bank), and Gaza.
Since Israel’s conception in 1948, six Arab armies attacked Israel in an attempt to wipe the state off the map. In 1967, Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies again threatened the existence of Israel. The West and the Soviets had supplied advanced conventional weapons to Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Israel was completely surrounded by her enemies, had fewer weapons, and was strategically at a disadvantage.
In response to the Six-Day war, the United Nations Security Council, on Nov. 22, 1967, carefully prepared and invoked the UN Resolution 242. Which has been the cornerstone for such negotiations as the Oslo Accords and the Road Map peace plans.
One of the architects of the UN Resolution 242, Leonard J. Davis, was quoted in the Daily Star (Beirut) in 1974, stating, “It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of 4 June 1967, because those positions were undesirable and artificial. After all, they were just the places the soldiers of each side happened to be the day the fighting stopped in 1948. They were just armistice lines. That's why we didn't demand that the Israelis return to them and I think we were right not to…”
…Israel did not start the Six-Day War, but they had the courage to stand against all the odds, and were victorious. Now, Palestinians accuse Israel of illegally occupying the land. In an effort to make peace Israel forced Israelis to leave their homes in the Gaza in August of 2005, where many had lived for over 20 years. The Palestinians responded by firing thousands of missiles and mortar shells at Israeli citizens from within the Gaza (emphasis mine).
See: http://www.suite101.com/content/jerusalem-is-israels-capital--it-is-not-a-jewish-settlement-a307341
1d) Canadian PM: I Will Defend Israel 'whatever the cost'
Perhaps I need to move to Canada…
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfFdhIOoQM&feature=share
1e) Giving money and aid to our enemies: U.S. gives $150 mln to Palestinian Authority
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The United States will give an additional $150 million to the Palestinian Authority as Washington seeks to boost the fledgling government amid an impasse in peace talks with Israel, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
Clinton made the announcement in a joint video conference with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who has been scrambling to fill a huge projected budget hole as his government expands services in expectation of full eventual statehood.
See: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WBT014236.htm
2) Obama's Asian trip shows limits on global stage
…But the narrative soured once Obama arrived in Seoul, South Korea, for a meeting of the Group of 20 developed and emerging economies. Obama failed to achieve a free-trade deal with Korea that was to have been the biggest trophy of his trip, and instead of banding with America against China's currency manipulation, several countries aligned themselves against the U.S (emphasis mine. No doubt they didn‘t like the fact that we are printing $600 billion to buy our own debt, either).
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101115/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_asia
2a) CEO in India refers to Obama as “fellow Kenyan”
There was an odd little moment with Spice Jet founder Bhupendra Kansagra when President Obama spoke to CEOs Saturday in Mumbai.
MR. KANSAGRA: Thank you. Welcome, Mr. President, to India. As a fellow Kenyan, I’m very proud to see that you have made --
THE PRESIDENT: Made something of myself. (Laughter.)
MR. KANSAGRA: -- India as the focus of your drive for exports out of the U.S.
See: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/11/odd-little-moment-at-the-ceo-meeting.html
2b) Obama tells Medvedev START vote is 'top priority'
YOKOHAMA, Japan – President Barack Obama, capping a far-flung Asian trip of mixed results, assured Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday that getting the Senate to ratify the START nuclear weapons treaty is a "top priority" of his administration.
"I reiterated my commitment to getting the START treaty done during the lame-duck session," Obama said, noting that Congress returns next week for its postelection session.
In talks with Medvedev on the sidelines of the summit of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Obama also reiterated his support for bringing Russia into the World Trade Organization, calling Russia "an excellent partner."
…The START treaty, which has been pending in the Senate for months,would reduce the limit on strategic warheads to 1,550 for each country from the current ceiling of 2,200. It also would set up new procedures to allow both countries to inspect each other's arsenals to verify compliance.
Oh, what a fantastic idea! NOT! Reminds me of Isaiah 39...
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101114/ap_on_re_us/obama_asia
3) Chinese Credit Rater Downgrades U.S.
Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., the Chinese rating company that was recently rejected in its bid to be an officially recognized bond rater in the U.S., just downgraded the entire U.S. The always objective Xinhua has the “scoop.”
The United States has lost its double-A credit rating with Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., Ltd., the first domestic rating agency in China, due to its new round of quantitative easing policy.
Dagong Global on Tuesday downgraded the local and foreign currency long-term sovereign credit rating of the U.S. by one level to A+ from previous AA with “negative” outlook.
The Chinese rating agency said the downgrade reflected the U.S.’s deteriorating debt repayment capability and drastic decline of the U.S. government’s intention of debt repayment.
“The serious defects in the U.S. economy will lead to long-term recession and fundamentally lower the national solvency,” Dagong said in a report.
See: http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/11/09/chinese-credit-rater-downgrades-us/
4) Ryan: Spending up 84 percent under Obama
Republican Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.), who is set to take over the House Budget Committee next year, said federal spending has increased a whopping 84 percent under President Obama.
The budget for the Environmental Protection Agency has increased by 124 percent under Obama, according to Ryan, who counted stimulus spending in his analysis.
Ryan and other Republicans are calling for a $100 billion cut in non-defense discretionary spending to bring it back to 2008 levels.
“There have been so many massive spending increases, 24 percent in the base budget, 84 percent when you add the stimulus,” Ryan said in an interview on Fox News Sunday.
See: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/128047-ryan-spending-up-84-percent-under-obama
5) Soros group wants Obama to rule by executive order
Organization cites mid-terms, claims progressives registered victory
NEW YORK – It was progressives who won the mid-term elections, particularly incumbents in a socialist-founded congressional caucus that emerged from last week's ballots virtually unscathed, boasted an article published by the George Soros-funded Institute for Policy Studies, a Marxist-oriented think-tank in Washington, D.C.
The article recommends that President Obama govern from executive order to push through a progressive agenda.
…"The veil of a happy Democratic governing majority is finally lifted. We didn't have it then; We don't have it now. But what we do have now is a more solidly progressive bunch of Dems in Congress and a president presumably less encumbered by the false illusion that playing nice will get him a date with the other team."
She went on to recommend that progressives "throw our support unabashedly behind the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and let's push Obama to finally do the right thing through as many Executive Orders as we can present to him."
See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=225829
6) Obama Remembers Mumbai Massacre; Forgets Ft. Hood First Anniversary
he first week of November proved historic with the Democrat mauling in the mid-term elections and the 10th anniversary of the crews aboard the international space station, but there was one notable event that went unnoticed by the White House. The first anniversary of the Fort Hood massacre.
President Obama’s remarks a year ago were odd enough leading with an unpresidential and out of touch “shout out,” but for the White House to completely ignore the Ft. Hood anniversary is disturbing.
Obama, though he likes to remind himself that he is the commander-in-chief, has always demonstrated his disdain for our troops and seemingly cannot help it. Ignoring Ft. Hood is just another example.
America lost 14, yes 14, lives that day.
…There were no statements or Tweets from the White House or Robert Gibbs regarding Ft. Hood. However, Obama did mention, in his statements upon arrival in India, the Mumbai massacre:
President Obama opened his 10-day Asia trip on a somber note Saturday, memorializing the victims of the devastating terror attacks that tore through Mumbai two years ago. “We’ll never forget,” he said.
It is eerie that the President has such a repeated disconnect to Americans, the military, and is continually seen as unsympathetic, cold, uncaring, and tone deaf when it comes to his own country, but when overseas his heart pours out.
7) Health Care Reform Group Gets Waiver from… Health Care Reform?
The Hot Air Boss Emeritus has published an updated list of the exploding number of groups and businesses being granted waivers from having to participate in Obamacare. This is one of the more under-reported stories of the entire HCR saga in the mainstream media, in my opinion.
In early October, the Obama administration announced it had granted waivers not only to McDonald’s, but also to several other firms and labor unions.
Now comes word that Torquemada HHS Secretay Kathleen Sebelius has approved a whopping 111 waivers for businesses of all sizes, along with more unions and other providers of health insurance. The escapees include employers of many low-wage and part-time workers whose health insurance plans would otherwise be dropped, including Darden Restaurants — the parent company of the Olive Garden and Red Lobster and other chains, which employ some 34,000 people.
Via Michelle you can read the full list of those not having to participate here. But for me, it’s not just the swelling, raw number of groups being granted waivers, but the size and types of companies and organizations making the list. There are large numbers of small to medium businesses on there, many with less than 25 employees. Weren’t these precisely the types of businesses that Obamacare was supposed to rescue from the evil health insurance system?
See: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/11/14/health-care-reform-group-gets-waiver-from-health-care-reform/
8) Democrats pressing Pelosi to step aside
WASHINGTON – In a fresh sign of turmoil among defeated Democrats, a growing number of the rank and file say they won't support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically symbolic roll call when the new Congress meets in January.
"The reality is that she is politically toxic," said Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley, one of several Democrats who are trying to pressure Pelosi to step aside as her party's leader in the wake of historic election losses to Republicans last week.
Pelosi startled many Democrats with a quick postelection announcement that she would run for minority leader. She has yet to draw an opponent for the post.
Party elections are scheduled for next week, although a postponement is possible.
In the interim, Pelosi's critics have become more vocal in their efforts to retire her from the party leadership.
There's "starting to be a sense that this may not be as much of a done deal as people might have thought," Rep. Jason Altmire said of Pelosi's quest to remain the top Democrat.
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101111/ap_on_go_co/us_democratic_turmoil
9) New GOP senator could vote with Democrats on campaign finance bill
Sen.-elect Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) could buck his Republican leadership in his first two weeks on the job and vote in favor of a campaign-finance transparency bill that the GOP’s top brass ardently oppose.
Watchdogs are pushing for a vote on a stripped-down version of a campaign finance bill during the upcoming lame-duck session. That version of the legislation would force groups bankrolled by anonymous donors to disclose the sources of their funding, as well as their political spending.
…“I broke with my party early. I think we should continue with further reforms,” Kirk said. “Federal candidates should disclose all of their campaign contributions within 24 hours on the Internet. I hope we can get that done in the next Senate and Congress. Also, for all of these outside groups we don’t want to silence any political voice ... we should have them disclose all of their donors, both from the left and the right.”
Kirk is a longtime supporter of more limits on campaign finance. But, as a member of the House, he voted against the Disclose Act when it came up for a vote in late June. His resolve will be tested in the Senate, where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) has spent years trying to fight greater restrictions. In his comments, Kirk said he hoped Congress could pass tougher disclosure laws in the next Senate and Congress, but with fewer Democrats in the Senate and Republicans in charge of the House, passing the Disclose Act will be virtually impossible.
See: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/128185-sen-elect-kirk-could-give-dems-a-vote-on-disclose-act
9a) A reminder of what the DISCLOSE act really is:
For those of us who welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, which restored First Amendment rights confiscated by federal campaign-finance laws, watching the progress of the DISCLOSE Act in Congress is depressing.
The “Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act” (H.R. 5175) was approved in the House Administration Committee on May 20 on a party-line vote. In addition to the fact that it is filled with onerous, burdensome, and unnecessary provisions, it is extremely tilted against corporations in favor of unions (i.e., DEMOCRATS, comment mine).
See: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/199905/one-sided-disclose-act/hans-von-spakovsky
10) Soros’s Role in Kenya Chaos
In a series of investigative reports this week, Glenn Beck has been analyzing the five-point strategy by which George Soros and his Open Society Institute have destabilized and overturned governments in several countries, including Yugoslovia in 2000, Georgia in 2003 and Ukraine, in the so-called “Orange Revolution” of 2004. Compelling evidence indicates that Soros may have employed a similar strategy in Kenya, but with far more gruesome results.
Following Kenya’s disputed elections of December 2007, activists funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute demanded that the election be overturned. The country erupted into violence, leaving more than 1,100 people dead and some 350,000 homeless. Thousands were injured, tortured, mutilated and raped.
In his five-point regime-change strategy Soros, 1) infiltrates countries with his operatives, under the cover of humanitarian aid; 2) takes control of the air waves by creating “independent media” under his own control; 3) destabilizes the targeted country with financial manipulations and political agitation, 4) waits for an election, then disrupts it with charges of voter fraud, then; 5) takes the streets with armies of activist youth whom Soros has recruited, trained and funded, all demanding that the incumbent step down. The formula often works. In theory, it is supposed to produce a “bloodless” coup, in which few people are killed or harmed. Things went tragically wrong in Kenya, however.
…Last month, Soros donated $1 million to a leftwing activist group called Media Matters for America. The money is to be used to muzzle Fox News, and, in particular, to silence talk show host Glenn Beck (emphasis mine). Soros says that he donated the money because “the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News may incite violence.” Given what happened in Kenya, it is difficult to take Soros’ moralizing at face value.
See: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/47966/
11) Liberal cartoonist and author Ted Rall advocates burning DC to the ground
Liberal media outlets continue to find Ted Rall’s advocacy of violence a hoot. Here’s Rall yesterday from the David Pakman show. In this clip, he explains that he’s against the violence of “the system” and then goes on to envision riots that burn Washington DC to the ground.
…What’s astounding to me is the double standard. A few years ago there was tremendous outrage when Ann Coulter said “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.” More recently, Paul Krugman was in a tizzy over a map that appeared on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page. Any language that even hinted at violence was beyond the pale, he tut-tutted (ignoring that the DCCC had done the same thing). And of course gallons of ink have been spilled trying to connect Glenn Beck to a two-time felon who wanted to shoot some people at the Tides foundation. Message: The right is violent and dangerous.
But when President Obama told a radio audience to “punish your enemies” a few days before the election Krugman was conspicuously quiet about it. And now we have a well-known, award winning cartoonist/journalist traveling the country telling anyone who will listen that it’s time to burn some shit down and pick up guns. And what is the response from the left? Bemusement that the right is so bothered by it.
See: http://www.verumserum.com/?p=18940
11a) Ted Rall Book Excerpt: Let’s Kill Some Christians and Tea Partiers
Ted Rall has a new book out titled The Anti-American Manifesto. In it he makes an explicit call for a violent socialist revolution from within. In case you think this is all a big joke, here’s an excerpt from the book:
…A war is coming. At stake: our lives, the planet, freedom, living. The government, the corporations, and the extreme right are prepared to coalesce into an Axis of Evil. Are you going to fight back? Will you do whatever it takes, including taking up arms?…
The millions of partisans who follow Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and right-wing televangelists happen to be the best-armed people around, and they despise just about everyone who doesn’t think and pray like them. They will see collapse as affirmation of their beliefs that secular liberalism is destructive. They will also see it as an opportunity to create a new, ordered world atop the ashes. They will act to stop teenage sluts from getting abortions, teach niggers a lesson, and slaughter those spics, dots, and everyone else who doesn’t fit into their vision of what and who is right…
I want to kick people in the ass. To get them thinking. To get you thinking. I want you to understand the situation—your situation. I want you to see that revolt is a good idea, and that it has never been more necessary. I also want you to size up the opposition (both the government and 28 The Anti-American Manifesto the extreme right): They will never get weaker.We have as good a chance at taking them on as ever.
That’s a small sample of chapter one. He’s not kidding. He wants a war. He even uses al Qaeda sleeper cells as an example. And of course where would one go to promote a book about the violent tearing down of America? Here’s Rall on MSNBC:
See: http://www.verumserum.com/?p=18820
11b) MSNBC’s Ratigan Goes Way Off the Deep End
Discussing violent revolution as if it’s just another policy option
MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan not only decided it was a good idea to have on far-left cartoonist Ted Rall to discuss his new book The Anti-American Manifesto, which calls for the left to consider violent revolution if its aims aren’t met, but Ratigan overtly endorsed revolution and implicitly endorsed considering violence.
If this were on Fox News, the media would be blowing a fuse. It better get working on this one. If it’s suspension-worthy for an obiously left-wing host to give campaign donations to politicians, what is it when one quasi-endorses considering overthrowing the government via the gun?
Here’s Ratigan introducing his segment (via NewsBusters’ transcript):
RATIGAN: Welcome back. We are here with a very disconcerting question. Are things in our country so bad that it might be time for a revolution? The answer obviously is yes, the only question is how to do it. From the wrongful wars to the corrupt economy to the special interests and the six industries that control every politician in this country, the political system itself, gerrymandering, 75% of all districts weren’t even up for grabs last week. You call that a competitive market?
To clear our dire problems may require even more drastic solutions. And our next guest, cartoonist and author Ted Rall, targets the day-to-day absurdities in Washington through political cartoons printed in newspapers across the country, but now he’s tackling something bigger. The need for real change and real action, perhaps even through violence, or at least the threat thereof. It’s the subject of his new book, the “Anti American Manifesto”. Ted, nice to see you. What do you mean with that title?
See: http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/msnbcs_ratigan_goes_way_off_th.php
12) Oh, the irony! Look who's calling you terrorist!
Former Weather Underground leader worries about 'armed' tea parties
A former leader of a '70s protest group responsible for bombing the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, police stations and other targets is worried that "racist, armed, hostile, crazy-making" tea parties pose an "unspeakable" threat to America.
Bernardine Dohrn, who with her husband William Ayers were leaders of the communist revolutionary Weather Underground, had been tied to so many acts of protest violence in the '70s that she was placed on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as the "most dangerous woman in America."
Her association with Barack Obama notably led to Sarah Palin's famous comment during the 2008 presidential campaign that Obama had been "palling around with terrorists."
Dohrn, however, told an Indian news and views website that she's concerned about a new breed of protesters, the tea partiers, whom she describes as "a hard right emerging, an armed, new hard right with massive control of media."
"It's racist, it's armed, it's hostile, it's unspeakable," she said. "White people armed, demanding an end to this president – it's very crazy-producing."
See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=224817
13) MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell admitted on national television Friday that he's a socialist.
In the middle of a heated debate with Salon's Glenn Greenwald on "Morning Joe," O'Donnell said, "I am a socialist. I live to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals" (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: Glenn, unlike you, I am not a progressive. I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive. Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist. I live to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals, okay? However, I know this about my country. Liberals are 20 percent of the electorate. Conservatives are 41 percent of the electorate, okay? So I don't pretend that my views, which would ban all guns in America, make Medicare available to all in America, have any chance of happening in the federal government, okay? You can sit there and pretend that liberals should run more liberal in conservative districts. You love the loss of the Blue Dogs. The only way, the only way you have a chairman Barney Frank, there's only one way, that's by electing Blue Dogs. It's the only way. That's the only way you have a Speaker Pelosi.
So there you have it: a host on MSNBC admitted that he is on the extreme far left of the political spectrum.
NBC must be so pleased with its decision to give this man his own show.
14) Calif. School Orders Boy to Remove American Flag From Bike
…Cody Alicea, 13, likes to fly a small American flag on his bike in honor of veterans such as his grandfather, Robert. He’s been doing it for two months. But now, the school he attends has ordered him to remove the flag citing “racial tensions.”
…“Our Hispanic, you know, kids will, you know, bring their Mexican flags and they’ll display it, and then of course the kids would do the American flag situation, and it does cause kind of a racial tension which we don’t really want,” Parraz said. “We want them to appreciate the cultures.”
UNBELIEVABLE.
See: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/calif-school-orders-boy-to-remove-american-flag-from-bike/
15) Mystery 'missile'
California vapor streak confounds sky watchers
A possible missile launch that left a spectacular red vapor trail off the California coast triggered a frenzied search yesterday for explanations.
The Pentagon insisted there was no threat to national security, but no agency -- including the Navy, Air Force, FAA and North American Aerospace Defense Command -- could say what it was or who was behind it.
"Nobody within the Department of Defense that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from," Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan said, referring to the condensation trail.
"So far, we've come up empty with any explanation." Both the US Strategic Command and the Northern Command have been asked to "count noses" to make sure they're not missing any missiles, Fox News reported.
…One blogger, naval analyst Raymond Pritchett, expressed alarm at the inability of US air-defense officials, nearly a day after the sighting, "to have any answers at all" about the apparent launching of "a ballistic missile 35 miles from the nation's second-largest city."
Ordinarily, a sea launch would require several layers of notification to airmen and mariners and closure of airspace in the area.
The FAA said it didn't approve any commercial-space launches. Vandenberg Air Force Base said it did launch a satellite -- but that was on Friday.
Former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Ellsworth told CBS that it might have been an intercontinental ballistic missile being secretly launched for the first time in the Pacific Ocean by a US submarine.
See: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/california_vapor_streak_confounds_4xEOTdPZ66LdCKuxFup8iL
16) San Fran bans toys in some fast-food kids meals
Ninny Nanny’s rule the world…
SAN FRANCISCO – It's a happy moment for people who see the Happy Meal as anything but.
San Francisco has become the first major American city to prohibit fast-food restaurants from including toys with children's meals that do not meet nutritional guidelines.
The city's Board of Supervisors gave the measure final approval Tuesday on an 8-3 vote. That's enough votes to survive a planned veto by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
The ordinance, which would go into effect in December of next year, prohibits toy giveaways in fast-food children's meals that have more than 640 milligrams of sodium, 600 calories or 35 percent of their calories from fat. The law also would limit saturated fats and trans fats and require fruits or vegetables to be served with each meal with a toy.
"Our effort is really to work with the restaurants and the fast-food industry to create healthier choices," said Supervisor Eric Mar, the measure's chief sponsor. "What our kids are eating is making them sick, and a lot of it is fast food."
Right. “Work with the restaurants.” Legislating what they can market is NOT “working with” them. And, what is “making kids sick” is bad parenting, not McDonald’s.
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101110/ap_on_bi_ge/us_kids_meal_crackdown
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