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Palin’s Other, Much Bigger ‘Jewish Problem’
Post Date: 2011-01-16 19:16:24 by Brian S
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I facetiously noted yesterday that Sarah Palin probably wasn’t to blame for her use of the expression “blood libel” — a term associated with anti-semitism since the Middle Ages — because she had probably just picked it up from an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. As politicians like to say, I’m now “re-thinking” what I wrote because it looks like Palin has a bigger “Jewish problem” than just parroting an old expression. This morning, when I read an in-depth piece in Huffington Post, written by Jordan Zakarin, it reminded me of Palin’s long association with Wasilla Bible Church, and her stated religious views which, to this writer, ...
Americans Are Figuring Out Who Is World’s No. 1
Post Date: 2011-01-14 11:45:05 by Brian S
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Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Nine percent of Americans think Japan is the world’s top economic power, and that raises an obvious question: Huh? If we knew exactly who that current-events-challenged minority was, we could make a bundle sending them e-mails on how to redeem unclaimed fortunes in Nigerian banks. Thankfully, most Americans got it right in a Jan. 5-9 survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. It’s that China, not the U.S., is on top, reflecting a marked shift in attitudes after the global financial crisis. Make that Asia in general. When John Calverley, global head of macroeconomic research at Standard Chartered Bank in New York, predicts annual world ...
As Obama Urged Unity, Palin Brought Division
Post Date: 2011-01-13 16:06:24 by Brian S
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President Obama did not miss the moment. From the generally positive overnight reaction, Obama's speech in Tucson on Wednesday night struck just the right notes. Amid grief over a senseless tragedy and against a raging debate that threatened to further divide the country, the president urged healing and reconciliation rather than recrimination and hatred. The role of mourner-in-chief is relatively new in the history of the presidency, but it is now an important part of the job description for anyone who seeks the nation's highest office. In times of tragedy, people turn to presidents to help soothe the pain and bind the wounds, to give hope at times where there is little or resolve ...
Rattling The Cage: Still Want To Bomb Iran?
Post Date: 2011-01-13 13:40:43 by Brian S
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If ever the term “game-changer” could be applied without fear of exaggeration, it can be applied to Meir Dagan’s statement a week ago, on his last day as Mossad chief, that Iran will not have nuclear weapons before 2015. And that’s the worst-case scenario, he told reporters and Knesset members – that’s if Israel, the US and the rest of the world suddenly take the pressure off and let Iran go on its merry way to the bomb. If, on the other hand, the campaign of covert operations – i.e. sabotage and assassination – and sanctions continues, then, Dagan said, Iran will be unable to go nuclear for many years beyond 2015. This is extraordinary news in and ...
Why the Tucson Speech Succeeded
Post Date: 2011-01-13 12:23:05 by Brian S
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Because it was hopeful and positive, even joyous, rather than morose. The standard comparisons of the past four days have been to Ronald Reagan after the Challenger disaster and Bill Clinton after Oklahoma City. Tonight's speech matched those as a demonstration of "head of state" presence, and far exceeded them as oratory -- while being completely different in tone and nature. They, in retrospect, were mainly -- and effectively -- designed to note tragic loss. Obama turned this into a celebration -- of the people who were killed, of the values they lived by, and of the way their example could bring out the better in all of us and in our country. That is to Obama's ...
The President's Speech
Post Date: 2011-01-13 10:06:42 by go65
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Barack Obama spoke to the city of Tucson, and to the United States of America, not so much as our President tonight, but as a member of our family. He spoke as a son--I couldn't help but think of his personal regret over not being by his mother's side when she passed as he said, "Did we spend enough time with an aging parent, we wonder." You could see the devastation insinuate itself onto, and then be quietly willed away from, his face. He spoke as a brother to his fellow public servants, killed and wounded in the events--an eager brother bringing the glad tidings the Gabrielle Giffords had opened her eyes. He repeated it, joyously, three times. But most of all, he spoke ...
Obama Brings It Home
Post Date: 2011-01-13 10:01:11 by go65
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Maybe President Obama was saving the magic for a time when we really needed it. We’ve been complaining for two years about the lack of music and passion in his big speeches. But if he’d moved the country when he was talking about health care or bailing out the auto industry, perhaps his words wouldn’t have been as powerful as they were when he was trying to lift the country up after the tragedy in Tucson. “Our hearts are broken, and yet our hearts also have reason for fullness,” he said, in a call to action that finally moved the nation’s focus forward. The days after the shootings had a depressing political rhythm. There was the call for civility, followed ...
Palin Fails the Test - Sarah Palin's response to the Tucson shooting is defensive, illogical, distracting—and late.
Post Date: 2011-01-12 19:53:54 by Ferret Mike
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Sarah Palin's name has risen and fallen in concert with the Tucson shooting that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. As Charles Krauthammer argues, she has been unfairly tied to a madman's rampage. Perhaps this is the post-hoc political burden when you traffic in images and talk of guns. Unfair, yes—but then, politics isn't fair. And it's also true that this moment presents an opportunity for Palin. We judge our politicians in part on what they make of unfair circumstances, on how they rise to an occasion. Palin did not do well. Her statement on the shooting and our political discourse, blasted out on all her social media channels, arrived as the national conversation was ...
Poor, Poor Sarah
Post Date: 2011-01-12 19:48:53 by Brian S
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So let me get this straight.Twenty people were gunned down at a supermarket in Arizona on Saturday. Six were killed, including a nine-year-old girl. Fourteen others were wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was the main target of the attack, and who was shot through the head. She is currently lying in a hospital bed with half of her skull removed because brain swelling from her bullet wound could kill her.Twenty people shot.Six killed.Fourteen wounded.And guess what?It appears Sarah Palin is the principal victim of the shooting. No, really.Don't believe me? Watch the video she posted to her Facebook page. There she sits, in front of a fireplace and beside an American flag ...
The Rise Of Fanatical 'Israeli Ayatollahs' Is A Godsend For Anti-Zionists
Post Date: 2011-01-12 18:48:13 by Brian S
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Last week, Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman compared Turkey with Iran before the 1979 Islamic revolution. But if Mr Lieberman were to be honest, he’d recognise that the greater threat to Israel from rising religious fundamentalism comes from within – on an almost daily basis. At the same time as he was doing his tough-guy act with the Turks, Israel’s High Court was buckling to the fait accompli of sexually segregated bus services (women at the back) on over 100 state bus routes, demanded by an emboldened ultra-orthodox community. On the same day, an Israeli activist who defied orthodox Jewish custom by leading a group of women in open prayer at ...
Fort Hood Terror v. Neocon Arizona Terror
Post Date: 2011-01-12 14:30:11 by Brian S
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When news of the 2009 Fort Hood Massacre broke, the most tenuous evidence was used to paint the killing as the work of Al Qaeda and other Islamic groups. (Fox) “The murders at Ft. Hood are about the radicalization of individuals by an extremist ideology — jihadism — which fuels acts of terror,” writes Walid Phares at FoxNews.com’s Fox Forum. But suggestions that Sarah Palin-Glenn Beck-Michele Bachmann-gun-toting Tea Partiers-Jesse Kelly’s “shoot a fully automatic M1683; to “get on target for victory” might constitute a “radicalization of individuals by an extremist ideology” evoke expressed shock and outrage by the neocons. At the ...
FOX "News" Pushes Antisemitism Angle Knowing the Shooter Was Jewish
Post Date: 2011-01-12 11:41:08 by Jack
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Whatreallyhappened reports that FOX was informed that the shooter is Jewish, but they've shut down the comments section and refused to correct this story. www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1320522/pg1 Latest on shooting of Congresswoman Giffords...motivation: anti Semitic and she was the target Greta Van Susteren | January 9, 2011 8:11 AM Below is a note from my FNC colleague Jennifer Griffin: (by the way, the fact that my blogs focus on Congresswoman Giffords in no way is meant to take away from the other victims and their families. The tragedy is immeasurable and words inadequate.) ---- Per Griffin This is an internal memo obtained by Fox News put out by DHS compiling ...
CNN's Erickson: In Wake Of Attempted Murder Of Jewish Politician, It's Important To Stress "A Saving Faith In Jesus Christ"
Post Date: 2011-01-11 18:24:29 by Ferret Mike
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CNN's Erick Erickson is upset with what people aren't saying about the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: Through it all though, well meaning people on both sides of the ideological and partisan divide are not talking about the one thing that should be talked about — a saving faith in Jesus Christ. For the record: Rep. Giffords is Jewish, so "a saving faith in Jesus Christ" might not be "the one thing that should be talked about." Erickson concludes: The topic of faith in Christ makes people cringe. But whether you believe it or not, here is the reality: beyond us is a world we cannot see with our eyes. It impacts us on a daily basis. It ...
Tea Party Will Picket Christina Greene´s Funeral
Post Date: 2011-01-11 15:31:43 by Brian S
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Conservative Tea Party Activists from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas say they will picket the funeral of Christina Greene, the 9-year-old girl who was murdered in cold blood during the Tea Party sponsored assassination rampage in Tucson, Arizona last weekend. In a statement released to the press yesterday, activists for the Westboro Tea Party movement said, "You put that child (and all of your children) in the crosshairs of a raging mad God when you raised her in the Catholic Pedophile Monster: priests rape children! You Catholic perverts pay the salaries of pedophile rapists worldwide. You taught her that humans are able to circumvent God´s commandments. He says, ...
Blowback Erupts For Palin Over Arizona Shootings
Post Date: 2011-01-11 11:38:54 by Brian S
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So suddenly the Mama Grizzly has become the Mama Gandhi? For those of you who might have missed it, former Alaska Gov. Palin, the self-proclaimed mother of all Mama Grizzlies, reportedly e-mailed radio talk show host and buddy Glenn Beck a message Sunday saying, "I hate violence. I hate war." Could this be the same Palin who only a couple months ago told ABC's Barbara Walters, "We need essentially a surge strategy in Afghanistan, so that we can win in Afghanistan. And that means more resources, more troops there." Did Palin think the military wanted to do some sort of hug surge, wherein they'd send a bunch of young soldiers in to love the Taliban to death? ...
Trends Analyst Predicts Global Youth Uprising, 'Progressive Libertarians’ In 2011
Post Date: 2011-01-11 11:32:37 by Brian S
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An American trends analyst told a Russian news service recently that in 2011, young people from industrial societies around the world will unite on the Internet to overthrow increasingly ineffective elements of globalism that have driven their economies into depression. In a wide-ranging interview with Russia Today (RT) on Monday, Gerald Celente made the bold prediction along with a raft of other prognostications on humanity's growing trends. As founder of the Trends Research Institute, Celente has made a number of highly accurate predictions in the past, including the rise of gold as an alternative store of monetary value and the popularization of hyper-local, organic food ...
Right Wing, Tea Party Trying To Mitigate Damage From AZ Shooting [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-01-10 18:23:05 by Brian S
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When Jared Lee Loughner opened fire on a group of Representative Gabrielle Giffords’ constituents, it was not on the orders of anyone specific, but it was after more than two years of demonization coming from within the Right that had been largely ignored and rarely denounced from within the Conservatives of the United States. Right now, there is a push to mitigate the damage done to the Conservatives by Loughner’s actions, but it is not likely to succeed. The extreme and violent rhetoric has been seen to have come from the Right, and the American public are not going to be dissuaded from saying that enough is enough. That it took the deaths of six- including a nine year old girl- ...
Right Wing Scrambles to Reassign Blame for Tucson Tragedy [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-01-10 14:33:28 by Brian S
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My, my, MY! There's one thing a hate speaker hates more than anything else and that's to be identified as a hate speaker! Just like racists get ALL KINDS of sore when you call them racists, when you call a hate speaker on his or her hate speech, it gets them riled up like a nest of hornets gettin' hit with a stick. Look at the way the Right Wing Webbies like Red State and Free Republic and even the honestly racist white supremacist Stormfront.org have been scurrying and worrying about what the media is gonna SAY about their hate speech. "Oh noes! They gots TAPE recorders and they recordeded what I said at that town hall meeting about how we should all hop into the back of ...
The Tea Party's Homegrown Terror Blind Spot
Post Date: 2011-01-10 13:12:56 by go65
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Instead of blaming people like Sarah Palin for the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, liberals should target the casual assumption that the only real terrorist threat we face is from jihadist Islam—not good old-fashioned white Americans. Liberals should stop acting like the Tea Party is guilty of inciting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting until proven innocent. That’s unfair. If someone finds evidence that violent anti-government, or anti- democratic, rhetoric helped trigger Jared Lee Loughner’s shooting spree, then the people making those statements should pay with their political careers. But so far, at least, there is no such evidence. Of course, Sarah Palin should ...
Climate of Hate
Post Date: 2011-01-10 11:34:29 by Brian S
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When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen? Put me in the latter category. I’ve had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since the final stages of the 2008campaign. I remembered the upsurge in political hatred after Bill Clinton’s election in 1992 — an upsurge that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. And you could see, just by watching the crowds at McCain-Palin rallies, that it was ready to happen again. The Department of Homeland Security reached the same conclusion: in April 2009 an internal report warned that right-wing extremism was on the rise, ...
Exclusive: America Has ‘Reached The Point Of No Return,’ Reagan Budget Director Warns
Post Date: 2011-01-10 11:31:01 by Brian S
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The Obama administration's $78 billion cut to US defense spending is a mere "pin-prick" to a behemoth military-industrial complex that must drastically shrink for the good of the republic, a former Reagan administration budget director recently told Raw Story. "It amounts to a failed opportunity to recognize that we are now at a historical inflection point at which the time has arrived for a classic post-war demobilization of the entire military establishment," David Stockman said in an exclusive interview. "The Cold War is long over," he continued. "The wars of occupation are almost over and were complete failures -- Afghanistan and Iraq. The ...
Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Reignites Row Over Rightwing Rhetoric In US
Post Date: 2011-01-09 17:03:17 by Brian S
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Sarah Palin at centre of storm over political vitriol after spree leaves six dead and congresswoman in critical condition Ewen MacAskill in Washington The American flag flies at half-mast on the US Capitol building in Washington after a shooting spree in Arizona, that targeted Gabrielle Giffords and left six dead. The spree reignited a debate over rightwing rhetoric. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP The US was tonight seized by a fierce debate over whether inflammatory rightwing rhetoric was to blame for a shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona, that targeted congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and left six dead, including a nine-year-old child. Giffords, 40, who remains in critical ...
The Texas Omen
Post Date: 2011-01-07 10:07:54 by go65
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These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas. Wait — Texas? Wasn’t Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn’t its governor declare, during his re-election campaign, that “we have billions in surplus”? Yes, it was, and yes, he did. But reality has now intruded, in the form of a deficit expected to run as high as $25 billion over the next two years. And that reality has implications for the nation as a whole. For Texas is where the modern conservative theory of budgeting — the belief that you should never raise taxes under any ...
Get Ready for a G.O.P. Rerun
Post Date: 2011-01-06 15:19:55 by Skip Intro
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You just can’t close the door on this crowd. The party that brought us the worst economy since the Great Depression, that led us into Iraq and the worst foreign policy disaster in American history, that would like to take a hammer to Social Security and a chisel to Medicare, is back in control of the House of Representatives with the expressed mission of undermining all things Obama. Once we had Dick Cheney telling us that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and belligerently asserting that deficits don’t matter. We had Phil Gramm, Enron’s favorite senator and John McCain’s economic guru, blithely assuring us in 2008 that we were suffering from a ...
Fiscal Shock
Post Date: 2011-01-06 15:07:10 by go65
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I see that the Washington Post editorial board is shocked, shocked to discover that the incoming Republicans aren’t serious about deficit reduction. Who could have suspected? I was going to be snarky all the way here, but actually let’s be serious: the gullibility of much of the media establishment on all this amounts to journalistic malpractice.. Republicans have, after all, been the party of fiscal irresponsibility since 1980; the GW Bush administration confirmed, if anyone was in doubt, that unfunded tax cuts are now in the party’s DNA. Then along comes a Democratic president who presides over all of two years of deficits in the immediate aftermath of a severe financial ...
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