Are you sure Hillary lost? - Update

You couldn't make this stuff up.

I wonder if here has been a coup that we didn't hear about?

Now we find that Eric Holder, Deputy AG under Clinton will be Hussein's Attorney General. Just to make it even more old style, Holder signed off on Clinton's last gasp pardon of Mark Rich, tax fraud fugitive who gave up his citizenship. I wonder how many questions that will get from the Demos in his confirmation hearing...

And even more of the old team...

The sources said the Obama transition team is still debating over who should serve under Holder in the key post of deputy attorney general. One top candidate, favored by Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and other former Clinton White House officials, is Elena Kagan, dean of the Harvard Law School and a former lawyer in the White House counsel’s office under Clinton. Another top candidate, favored by other Obama advisors, is David Ogden, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Janet Reno, who is currently heading Obama’s Justice Department transition team. Kagan brings legal policy credentials; Ogden has more experience in the Justice Department trenches.

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Wish I had said this.

UPDATE AT 7:02 A.M. ET: From The Politico: Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials.

COMMENT: And Rahm Emanuel is chief of staff. And Hillary may go to the State Department. You know, all they need is that chubby girl with the blue dress... No, no, no, I did not write that. I absolutely did not.

Obama shows his colors....and intelligence level

Okay boys and girls. You wanted to see what the Idiot In Chief will do. Well, he tells you.

Obama continues that "too often, Washington has failed to show the same kind of leadership. That will change when I take office. My presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs in the process.

"That will start with a federal cap and trade system," he says. "We will establish strong annual targets that set us on a course to reduce emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020 and reduce them an additional 80 percent by 2050. Further, we will invest $15 billion each year to catalyze private sector efforts to build a clean energy future. We will invest in solar power, wind power, and next generation biofuels. We will tap nuclear power, while making sure it’s safe. And we will develop clean coal technologies.

All of this when more and more scientists are saying it doesn't exist. That the world is actually cooling.... yet it is full bore ahead for the dunderheads we elect.

And I hate to bring this up, but can anyone tell me where these millions of new jobs will come from? I mean failing to press forward on new oil sources will allow OPEC and the speculators to drive the price back to $146 a barrel. That will finish off the economy. The cap and trade BS will double the price of coal and run your electric bill up two to three times what it currently is.

I mean, how stupid can these people be? Survey says:

Very, very, very, stupid.

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One of the most frightening Obama videos I have seen

My feelings exactly.

This link will take you to interviews with Husseinn voters.

Be sure to have anything that you could use to commit suicide with locked up and unreachable while watching.

Do have a waste can to puke in.

If there ever was a demonstration of why a test is needed before people can vote, this video is that demonstration.

Hat tip to Powerline.

The priorities of the Left and how they will effect Obama

The following is an excellent point that no one is making. Why are the women's groups so silent about women's rights in Islamic lands?

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

From The Politico: Intense backlash from women’s groups may have pushed former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers off the short-list to lead Treasury for President-elect Barack Obama, according to widespread reports circulating in Democratic circles...

...The Summers backlash rises out of a controversial 2005 comment he made as president of Harvard University that innate differences between men and women might be one reason fewer women succeed in science and math careers. Coming on top of other tensions with faculty, the incident led to his ouster as president.

"Despicable. Absolutely despicable. The man did nothing wrong. He never said what was attributed to him, but the truth doesn't matter. Larry Summers was a breath of fresh air as president of Harvard, but the leftist, ultra-feminist crowd isn't interested in fresh air. It's easier to take on Summers than Muslim oppression of women, about which they're silent."

I have posted this before as an example of what the Left can expect, yet they say nothing. Nothing at all.

FP: Ms. Zand-Bonazzi let me begin with you. Tell us a bit about the circumstances behind Atefeh’s execution.

Zand-Bonazzi: Well, sadly this young woman was hung in public charged with adultery. The man with whom she had allegedly had sexual relations with was also arrested but he only received 75 lashes apparently and then freed!

However, in spite of the fact that her entire family pleaded, was condemned to death. Her parents had even specifically produced her birth certificate proving that she was 16 (proving that she's not an adult) and the ruling clergy of the town of NEKA (the town where she was hung) forged papers and insisted that in fact she was 22and that that was enough reason to hang her.

NOT EVEN her parents' word for their daughter's age was acceptable to them because when these characters put their mind to it, they will falsify anything they want in order to justify heinous acts...just like all the "stories" they've woven around the death of the brave Ziba Kazemi!

FP: Ms. Zand-Bonazzi, why does the male get lashes and the girl gets executed? What is the psychology here?

Zand-Bonazzi: Well, according to the Islamic Republic of Iran's interpretation of the Shari'a (I don't know how it's interpreted or done in Arab countries) a woman is automatically the seductress, however young and innocent. According to them, a man, no matter how old and promiscuous, is considered to be a "victim."

Now, quite a few facts about this poor young girl has come to light. First of all she was visibly mentally unwell (I guess bi-polar because by all accounts she wasn't retarded or dysfunctional; she defended herself at the so-called trial ) She told the religious judge, Haji Rezaii, that he should punish the main perpetrators of moral corruption not the victims. I've also heard charges (which I had suspected would be the story) that the Mullah judge, Hadji Rezai, who was also the proud executioner, had in fact wanted her for himself as a "temporary wife" and because either she or her parents had refused him, he had become enraged and had turned against her and falsified her age as 22, so that he could execute her.

It can be claimed, of course, that this is but an isolated instance. But note that this is justified under Shari law in Iran.

If that doesn't send a tingle of concern up the Left's leg, nothing will.

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Are you sure Hillary Lost??

Wish I had said this.

UPDATE AT 7:02 A.M. ET: From The Politico: Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials.

COMMENT: And Rahm Emanuel is chief of staff. And Hillary may go to the State Department. You know, all they need is that chubby girl with the blue dress... No, no, no, I did not write that. I absolutely did not.

Nasa screws up..... again

The man made global warming hoax gets more outrageous every day.

It is obvious Nasa needs new leadership, or maybe some eyes in its belly...

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record......

The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two blogs - run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre, the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the notorious "hockey stick" graph - GISS began hastily revising its figures. This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new "hotspot" in the Arctic - in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year.

A GISS spokesman lamely explained that the reason for the error in the Russian figures was that they were obtained from another body, and that GISS did not have resources to exercise proper quality control over the data it was supplied with. This is an astonishing admission: the figures published by Dr Hansen's institute are not only one of the four data sets that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) relies on to promote its case for global warming, but they are the most widely quoted, since they consistently show higher temperatures than the others.

If there is one scientist more responsible than any other for the alarm over global warming it is Dr Hansen, who set the whole scare in train back in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore. Again and again, Dr Hansen has been to the fore in making extreme claims over the dangers of climate change. (He was recently in the news here for supporting the Greenpeace activists acquitted of criminally damaging a coal-fired power station in Kent, on the grounds that the harm done to the planet by a new power station would far outweigh any damage they had done themselves.)

Yet last week's latest episode is far from the first time Dr Hansen's methodology has been called in question. In 2007 he was forced by Mr Watts and Mr McIntyre to revise his published figures for US surface temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s, as he had claimed, but the 1930s.

Another of his close allies is Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, who recently startled a university audience in Australia by claiming that global temperatures have recently been rising "very much faster" than ever, in front of a graph showing them rising sharply in the past decade. In fact, as many of his audience were aware, they have not been rising in recent years and since 2007 have dropped.

Dr Pachauri, a former railway engineer with no qualifications in climate science, may believe what Dr Hansen tells him. But whether, on the basis of such evidence, it is wise for the world's governments to embark on some of the most costly economic measures ever proposed, to remedy a problem which may actually not exist, is a question which should give us all pause for thought.

Obama is black and you must vote for him.

That's a rather obvious statement. And even though his mother was white, he has self-identified himself as black. Nothing wrong with that and it is just another obvious fact, but I want to get rid of the "half white" arguments.

He also was Muslim. He was identified as such by both his fathers and went to a Muslim school. That he converted to, if not main stream Christianity, at least the Black Liberation Theology sect of it is a fact. I mention this to set aside the arguments that he is Muslim.

He has a Muslim name. And if it is not "Muslim," it is certainly a very common name in Muslim societies and culture, just as Paul Richard White is an "American" name and would be recognized as such in any Muslim country/society or culture, although I doubt Richard could be elected to anything... (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

He also associated with self identified terrorists, attended a Black Liberation Theology Church and made enough gaffes on the campaign trail that most candidates would have been sunk. I refer to his "57 states" and "clinging to their religion and guns" statements. And even more, we had his various declarations of socialism both in the campaign and before.

None of it stuck. It wasn't that he was the "teflon" candidate, it was that he was the "we know but don't care" candidate. He adroitly played the race card himself by declaring that "they" will tell you I am "different" "don't look the same as those guys on a $5.00 bill..." That worked so well that the Left claimed that even mentioning his association with Ayers was racist..and they were taken seriously.. And even though he was on video declaring that he would meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela and North Korea, his followers would argue that he didn't say it... and get away with it.

And perhaps his master stroke was telling the world that we shouldn't call him Hussein because that reminded people of Muslims and he wasn't a Muslim... And no one pointed out that, if calling him Hussein was a problem, wouldn't Barack Obama also yield the same problem? And that morphed quickly into calling him Hussein was racist, even though no race is involved with members of the Islamic faith.

Some have noted that he received 95% plus of the black vote, and that is factual. But in that he is not all that different than John Kerry was in 2004. But what must be remembered is that although the percentage is close, in raw numbers the black vote was much larger than in 2004. And then when you look at the primaries, Democrat against Democrat, he still received around 95% of the black vote. Without race trumping gender, which it always will on the Left, it might very well be Madame Present-elect.

But even including the increased registration of blacks he still required white votes. And he got them, as he did the black vote, because, first and foremost, he was a black candidate. Because of that all his short comings were not only forgiven, they weren't even allowed to be discussed.

What we had there was the flowering of twenty plus years of the Leftist America Bad crowd's continual insistence that a black man could not be elected and if you voted against one you were a racist. His background, his lack of experience, his obvious socialist/Marxist leanings made no difference, just as the fact that McCarthy was correct, there were communists in the government, made no difference. To be acceptable you had to condemn McCarthy and now find Hussein wonderful, or at least so in public.

The amazing thing now is watching the pundits all try to guess how he will govern. They all talk of the "center" and how he shouldn't "repeat" Bill Clinton's mistake of trying to do too much too soon. What nonsense. He has started on the Left and he will go farther to the Left, all the time claiming that he is only doing what needs to be done.

His hands will be as clean as any Chicago Politician.

It is the ward heelers who do the dirty work.

In the leftie blogs and on talk radio you can start to see and hear complaints that he isn't moving fast enough with "change."

Be patient little ones, be patient.

Just as his race made no difference to most of those who voted against him, race will continue to have an effect on many of those who voted for him.

The question that is yet to be answered is how far they will support unpopular policies before he becomes what I and many others see him as..... just another man.