OChange You Can't Believe In

clipped from www.bloomberg.com Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- It's hard to believe Barack Obama would even think of calling this change. Take a good look at some of the 17 people our nation's president-elect chose last week for his Transition Economic Advisory Board. And then try saying with a straight face that these are the leaders who should be advising him on how to navigate through the worst financial crisis in modern history. First, there's former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Not only was he chairman of Citigroup Inc.'s executive committee when the bank pushed bogus analyst research, helped Enron Corp. cook its books, and got caught baking its own. He was a director from 2000 to 2006 at Ford Motor Co., which also committed accounting fouls and now is begging Uncle Sam for Citigroup- style bailout cash. Mulcahy and Parsons also once were directors at Fannie Mae when that company was breaking accounting rules. So was another member of Obama's new economic board, former Commerce Secretary William Daley.

And He Smiled And Waved A Lot

clipped from patdollard.com Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two. We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why? We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. And I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. And he smiled and waved a lot.

Indistinguishable

clipped from littlegreenfootballs.com Nazism and Facism are left-wing ideology. Take the racism out of the equation, and a regular solial-democrat platform is indistinguishable from a FACIST platform. Heath care, entitlements for veterans, eugenics, care of the elderly, etc. Fascim promotes ACTION. Violence if its needed. And it usually is. Or like, getting involved socially. Getting in people's face, like somebody said not too long ago. The "reasonable limits on free speech, assembly" etc came after the Reichtach fire. Hitler did not seize power and make this up. He merely invoqued article 48 (?) of an illiberal constitution that allowed for the government to so this stuff in case of crisis. All of it legal. So, to answer the question: Facism is Socialism that substitute nationalism for class warfare. Another take on it is to substitute race for class. Like Reverend Wright. (Did you really think Jesus came up with this stuff?)

And, no, racism hasn't been taken out of the equation...

OFaithful Trinity

clipped from proteinwisdom.com “One of the churches that I became involved in was Trinity United Church of Christ,” Obama said in the interview. “And the pastor there, Jeremiah Wright, became a good friend. So I joined that church and committed myself to Christ in that church.” Obama began attending the church in 1988 and formally joined Trinity in 1992. Falsani asked, “Do you still attend Trinity?” Obama answered, “Yep. Every week. 11 o’clock service. Ever been there? Good service. I actually wrote a book called ‘Dreams from My Father,’ it’s kind of a meditation on race. There’s a whole chapter on the church in that, and my first visits to Trinity.” That is in direct contradiction to what he has said throughout this campaign year.

O What A Surprise

clipped from www.qando.net Via Scott at Flopping Aces this interesting find which calls into question a couple of existing myths about pre-invasion Iraq: Charles "Sam" Faddis, who led a CIA team into northern Iraq following the 9/11 attacks, says the Pentagon's "endless planning and delays" foiled a chance to wipe out a band of al Qaeda leaders who were fleeing American bombs in Afghanistan. Faddis says the delays, beginning in 2002, also facilitated the escape of some "key" al Qaeda figures, including terrorist scientists who were working on chemical and biological weapons. "Some died, some are still on the run," Faddis said in a telephone interview Tuesday, following his appearance on NPR's Diane Rehm Show to promote a new book, Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq. "The site was physically destroyed ... but certainly the research wasn't destroyed." Naturally, this starts trickling out now.

Watch For The OReplay

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Family Friends

clipped from hotair.com Via Ace. The bad news? Obama was lying to us when he dismissed Ayers at the debate as merely “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” The good news? We already knew that, thanks to Axelrod and Mayor Daley. Anyway, belated confirmation. “We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign,” he writes.

The Parallel Universe

clipped from hotair.com So the Vietnam War veteran who was tortured by Marxists lost the election, but the young charismatic speaker who was mentored by Marxists now sits in the oval office. rob verdi on November 13, 2008 at 9:12 PM welcome to the dreaded parallel universe!

Nope

clipped from pajamasmedia.com “One hopes that there is some core clique in the Democrat Establishment that actually has enough common sense to care about the future of their children.” - Mongoose Um .. nope. The horse of common sense left the barn somewhere between 10 and 30 years ago. It takes “true believers” to vote for a guy with less than two years Senate experience, NO accomplishments, solid Marxist/Socialist connections, the son of foreign national, a family Muslim background, and an Arabic middle name, seven years removed from 9/11. There is NO escaping responsibility for this least election vote. Over half of voting Americans put their children’s lives and future into the hands of THAT one, the messianic BHO.

Yes, That Perestroika Has Worked So Well

clipped from en.rian.ru MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said that the Obama administration in the United States needs far-reaching 'perestroika' reforms to overcome the financial crisis and restore balance in the world. The term perestroika, meaning restructuring, was used by Gorbachev in the late 1980s to describe a series of reforms that abolished state planning in the Soviet Union. In an interview with Italy's La Stampa published on Friday, Gorbachev said President-elect Barack Obama needs to fundamentally change the misguided course followed by President George W. Bush over the past eight years. Gorbachev said that after transforming his country in the late 1980s, he had told the Americans that it was their turn to act, but that Washington, celebrating its Cold War victory, was not interested in "a new model of a society, where politics, economics and morals went hand in hand."

Gorelick, The Inevitability

clipped from www.pajamasmedia.com HOPE AND CHANGE! Jamie Gorelick being considered for Attorney General. I think she'd be a great choice. I mean, any friend of Angelo's is a friend of mine! And, really, what could go wrong?

And just what superlatives might one be able to attach to a President who appoints the Anti-Christ as the Attorney General?

One is simply left with a failure of words. Just as Antonio longed for. He is risen!

Accountability R.I.P.

Gorelick, The Predicate

clipped from www.pajamasmedia.com MORE ON THE UBIQUITOUS JAMIE GORELICK: "It's not often that one person plays key roles in two -- count 'em, two -- trillion-dollar disasters." Plus the Duke Lacrosse Rape Hoax case, which was a disaster of the first order too, even if it didn't have a trillion-dollar price tag.

The Great FDR And The Slaughter Of The Jews

clipped from www.transterrestrial.com It's the seventieth anniversary of Kristallnacht. While many Americans would also claim they were unaware of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, the events of November 9-10 were well documented. The New York Times ran a front-page story on November 11: "A wave of destruction, looting and incendiarism unparalleled in Germany since the Thirty Years War and in Europe generally since the Bolshevist Revolution swept over Great Germany today as National Socialist cohorts took vengeance on Jewish shops, offices and synagogues for the murder by a young Polish Jew of Ernst vom Rath, third secretary of the German Embassy in Paris." Another Times story was headlined, "All Vienna's synagogues attacked." FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT made no immediate comment after Kristallnacht, referring questions about it to the State Department. Only after five days of widespread public outrage did he take any action:

Way Out There

clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com Something may be out there. Way out there. On the outskirts of creation, unknown, unseen "structures" are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets, a controversial new study says. Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps of matter at more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) an hour—a movement the researchers have dubbed dark flow. The presence of the extra-universal matter suggests that our universe is part of something bigger—a multiverse—and that whatever is out there is very different from the universe we know, according to study leader Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

And Don't Forget The Muslim Bigots...

clipped from www.pajamasmedia.com MORE ON gays vs. blacks in Los Angeles. "By any standard, the conduct displayed by the bigoted gay demonstrators is outrageous, inexcusable, and indefensible. However, speaking as an individualist, I don't think it any more reflects on gays as a whole than it would reflect on blacks as a whole if some angry black demonstrators hurled epithets at gays or Jews." Plus this: "Can there be any doubt about the Muslim position on gay marriage? While there are no statistics on the Muslim vote, I would be flabbergasted if support for gay marriage mustered more than the single digits. Yet Mormons have been singled out as bigots. I'm wondering whether some bigots are more equal...."

Those Who Cannot Remember History

clipped from www.commentarymagazine.com Fueled by easy credit, the real-estate market had been rising swiftly for some years. Members of Congress were determined to assure the continuation of that easy credit. Suddenly, the party came to a devastating halt. Defaults multiplied, banks began to fail. Soon the economic troubles spread beyond real estate. Depression stalked the land. The year was 1836. Much of this easy-credit-induced speculation had been caused, as it happens, by President Andrew Jackson. This was a terrific irony, since Jackson, who served as President from 1829 until 1837, hated speculation, paper money, and banks. His crusade to destroy the Second Bank of the United States, an obsession that led him to withdraw all federal funds from its coffers in 1833, removed the primary source of bank discipline in the United States. Jackson had transferred those federal funds to state banks, thereby enabling their outstanding loans to swell.

A True Opium

clipped from www.davidwarrenonline.com God Himself could not "reset the game" if He wanted: for in the Judeo-Christian view, even what God does is done irrevocably. This is an extraordinary theological position, and it is easy to understand why "post-modern" or "post-Christian" man, along with followers of every other known religious tradition, should feel quite uncomfortable with such a restriction on God's power. For with such radical freedom comes the pain of radical accountability: to God, and also to each other. But perhaps we don't care what happens to others. As I have quoted in the past, let me quote again, the profound words of the late Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, replying to the central lie in Marxism, which remains the central post-modern or post-Christian lie: "A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death -- the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we are not going to be judged."

Something's Creeping Up Your Leg

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The Pelosi Genius

clipped from www.rushlimbaugh.com PELOSI:  You could reduce the price at the pump immediately with (inaudible). You can have a transition with natural gas. You can have a transition with natural gas. That is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels.  The Bush administration, two oil men in the White House, they want us to believe that the status quo is what we should do and more of it -- and more of it, when it will just only keep us in the same place that we are now.

Ingrid To The Dung Heap Apparently

clipped from atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com America is Worth fighting for and Freedom is worth defending.  I do not want my children to grow up in oppression, nor do I wish exile upon them. Please allow me to help, again, Id like to lead a county. My name is Ingrid and Im in Miami, in Miami Dade County May the Light always shine upon America, Ingrid UPDATE: In case there was any doubt as to what the victorious zombies have in mind. Check out this comment (left in the comment section) . Can you say rude awakening? You people are pathetic! Your racist fear mongering will not go unchallenged!  Soon we will shut down your hate spewing web sites.  We will confiscate your firearms.  In prison, you will get an education on the error of your ways.  We will take your children and raise them as our own and instill in them the values of social justice.  We will have a new American Republic of justice and order for all! You time is almost up!  Prepare for the dung heap of history!

Sound Familiar?

clipped from atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com 2.  The Waffen-SS were above the police and the military, they were considered a 'National Security Police/Citizen Force'.  They did not come into existance until Hitler created them and he used them to be the 'muscle and killing' machine of citizens, officials, military officers, and judges that would not comply with his agendas.  And now with Obama we are hearing that there will be a new 'Civilian National Security Force' and we are told they will be larger than the military, better funded, better equiped, and our military and law enforcement will answer to them.        SOUND FAMILIAR?   I thought the Left was 'for sure' that there were no enemies here on U.S. soil.  So who is the ARMY being raised against but the American citizens.   It is a chillig thought that maybe, just maybe........the fighting in WWII ended but the war never did.  We are seeing the same enemies advancing the same causes.

The Mufti Again

clipped from atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com Original plans for the construction of the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz, including a gas chamber and crematorium, have been found in a Berlin apartment, a newspaper reported Saturday. Interestingly, the apartment that these plans were found in may have been the very apartment/s' of the Grand Mufti and/or one frequented by Francois Genoud. Regular Atlas readers are familiar with Genoud here - Soros' collaboration with Nazi Francois Genoud  (they were both ONE WORLDERS) after the war (more here.) If it is the apartment of the Grand Mufti it would further support the 'testimony' at the Nuremburg Trials of Eichman that stated 'the Grand Mufti orchestrated the concentration camps and the killing of the Jews for the muslims'. The Grand Mufti was a personal guest of Hitler during WWII and lived in an apartment in Berlin.

A Sponsor Of Hope N Change

clipped from atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com KROFT: No feeling of guilt? Mr. SOROS: No. KROFT: For example that, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that? Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c--I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was--well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets--that if I weren't there--of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would--would--would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the--whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the--I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.  (George Soros, 60 Minutes interview transcript, December 20, 1998)

And not just the re-education camp kind of change.

Hope For Some Change Left In Your Pockets

clipped from mypetjawa.mu.nu President-elect Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot "red flags," according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com. According to a complaint later filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Freddie Mac, known formally as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002. Really? Well, where is the CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC prime-time, multi-day expose of this blatant corruption that was apparently just installed in a position of power in the incoming Hope-n-Change Administration? Look no further than members of the only party in power in Washington, and the Chief of Staff for Barack Obama (who took more campaign slush fund money from Fannie-Freddie than any Congressperson save Chris Dodd (D).

Because it isn't likely is it?

Neither Thing Matters

clipped from iowahawk.typepad.com Yes, I know there are probably other African-Americans much better qualified and prepared for the presidency. Much, much better qualified. Hundreds, easily, if not thousands, and without any troubling ties to radical lunatics and Chicago mobsters. Gary Coleman comes to mind. It's also heartening to realize that as president Mr. Obama will soon be working hand-in-hand with a former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard like Senator Robert Byrd to craft the incoherent and destructive programs that will plunge the American economy into a nightmare of full-blown sustained depression. So for now, let's put politics aside and celebrate this historic milestone. In his famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial 45 years ago, Dr. King said "I have a dream that one day my children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Let us now take pride that Tuesday we Americans proved that neither thing matters anymore.

The Purchase

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The Underground?

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb. The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground.

Next In The Series

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com Michael Graham forwarded me this. From CBS MarketWatch: How Obama Can Win Over The Media Next in the series: "How Obama Can Win Over Blacks, Upscale White Liberals and Chicago Activists."

The "Diva"

clipped from www.politico.com “I’m appalled by it because Sarah Palin was one of nicest people I have ever had the chance to work with,” says Biegun, a former Bush NSC aide. “I’ve worked in Washington for 20 years, on the Hill, in the White House and in the private sector, and she ranks at the highest levels of decency, kindness and graciousness of anybody I’ve ever worked with.” Nicolle Wallace, a senior adviser to McCain who helped on the Palin account early on, said Friday on NBC that the governor was “perhaps the most un-diva politician I've seen." Twelve hours before Palin said all she’d ever asked for was a Diet Dr Pepper, Wallace told NBC: “The only thing I’ve seen her ask for is a diet soda.” Two other McCain aides who were pressed unexpectedly into Palin duty also have only positive things to say about her now. “She's smart, insightful, and has an uncanny ability to ask the right questions.”

Hope. Change. Thievery.

clipped from gatewaypundit.blogspot.com The Democrats are eying your 401K money. The money grabbers are already talking about confiscating your retirement accounts. The Carolina Journal and LGF reported: Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration.

The Mandate?

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Newsweek Is So Dumb That...

clipped from www.weeklystandard.com So according to the hatchet man/woman who talked to Newsweek, Palin is such an ideologue about drilling in ANWR that she won't stand next to Bradley, even though John McCain has the exact same position? And Palin is such an ideologue that she won't appear with pro-choice politicians, even though she attended events with pro-choice Clinton donor Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild? And we're really supposed to believe that Palin is so dumb she doesn't know Africa is a continent, but she knew about the voting records of John Sununu and Jeb Bradley in the first place? Hmmm. I guess that might be remotely possible if it weren't for the fact that John Sununu has a 100 percent pro-life rating from the National Right to Life Committee. Glad to see that whoever leaked this story is too dumb to come up with a plausible smear. And kudos to Newsweek for dumping this whopper without bothering to check if Sununu is in fact pro-abortion.

The Job

clipped from www.qando.net One top McCain aide came to Palin’s defense today. Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, who helped prepare Palin for her vice presidential debate, praised Palin’s campaign effort and intelligence. “I’ve been working over 20 years in Washington and I’ve been around literally dozens and dozens of politicians. She is among the smartest, toughest, most capable politicians I’ve ever dealt with,” Scheunemann said. “She has a photographic memory.” She also has to broaden her appeal. One of the things no one seems to understand is the role she played, that of the attack dog, is the traditional role of a VP candidate. That. Was. Her. Job.

Snookered

clipped from www.qando.net even though I was an assistant editor (big doings at this “consulting firm”) and he was, well, he was doing something there, he certainly treated me like something less than an equal. Funny thing… A journalism/political science major… Writing about finance… Pretending in his book to be an expert on interest rate swaps. I remember trying to explain the nuance of these instruments to him in the cramped three Wang terminal space we called the bull pen. In contrast to his his liberal arts background, I had a degree in finance and Wall Street experience, so I knew what I was talking about. But rather than learn from a City College kid, the Ivy Leaguer just sort of rolled his eyes. Condescendingly. I’ll never forget it. God forbid he leave the impression that a mere editor like myself knew more about something than did Barack. He was like that… But the myth stands, and it is useful to trot out to calm the fears of those who have a sneaking suspicion they've been snookered,

OSearing Sirhan Sirhan

clipped from littlegreenfootballs.com In December 1997, Barack Obama gave William Ayers’ book on juvenile criminals a rave review. Just a few weeks before this review was published in the Chicago Tribune, Obama and Ayers appeared together on a panel about juvenile justice organized by Michelle Obama on November 6, 1997: Children who kill are called “super predators,” “people with no conscience,” “feral pre-social beings” — and “adults.” William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), says “We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn’t suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?” Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School, who is working to combat legislation that would put more juvenile offenders into the adult system I find it very hard — no, make that impossible — to believe that Barack Obama had “no idea” who William Ayers really was

Let's give up on the Ayer's was just a guy in the neighborhood bit, OK? Even CNN has put the lie to that.

So why the title reference to Sirhan Sirhan?

Well, it turns out that one of the people Ayers' first book "Prairie Fire" is dedicated to is Sirhan Sirhan. That would be the assassin of Robert F Kennedy, Jr!

You can check it out at zombietime.

On Lipstick

For the past few months I had settled on "Mayor Daley with lipstick and a Che t-shirt" as my "polite" summary of the annointed one.

But now I will have to remove the "lipstick" part. If he had tried to take Sarah's lipstick he would have found himself wrong end up in a porcelain god!

I don't know? Maybe now it's "Mayor Daley with a tutu and a Che T-shirt"? I'm pretty sure Sarah doesn't own a tutu anymore. Or possibly ever.

But if she has given one to her daughter and the messiah tries to take it, watch out!

NOTE: This post was made on 9/4/08 and has been bumped to the top of the blog for now. Follow the link in the next post below to follow recent material on the blog...

UPDATE 9/9/08: W-o-w. He just tried to steal her lipstick! And called her a p-i-g! The politics of hope?

#24: Long March Update

clipped from proteinwisdom.com The Left has always been very good at one particular thing, committees, forming them, running them, setting up the underlying rules that govern them. One of “Ric’s Rules” is “the ants will find the sugar”. The changes to the rules made sure that only the most ruthless and aggressive ants could gain and hold onto the sugar. After that nature took it’s course and “will to power” became the way to rise. The first major results were seen in 1992. It was however premature and 1994 resulted. Those lessons have been learned. There will be a drive to make sure no Gingrich or Gingrich revolution can happen. “Never again” is not just a slogan for the “Holocaust Jews” only. The first 100 days of Obama will be some “interesting times”. What we call “the long march through the institutions” is the same adjustment of the committee rules applied to other institutions. Today I have dark thoughts and foresee dark times ahead. I pray I’m wrong and fear that I am right.

I Doubt #5 Will Ever Happen -- But You Can Count On The Second Holocaust

clipped from chizumatic.mee.nu 1. Obama's "hold out your hand to everyone" foreign policy is going to be a catastrophe. They'll love it in Europe. They're probably laughing their heads off about it in the middle east already. 2. The US hasn't suffered a terrorist attack by al Qaeda since 9/11, but we'll get at least one during Obama's term. 3. We're going to lose in Afghanistan. 4. Iran will get nuclear weapons. There will be nuclear war between Iran and Israel. (This is the only irreversibly terrible thing I see upcoming, and it's very bad indeed.) 5. There will eventually be a press backlash against Obama which will make their treatment of Bush look mild. Partly that's going to be because Obama is going to disappoint them just as much as all his other supporters. Partly it will be the MSM desperately trying to regain its own credibility and 6. Obama will not be re-elected in 2012. He may even end up doing an LBJ and not even running again.

Skeletons, Ash And Hubris

clipped from proteinwisdom.com But let’s not pretend you are being honest or principled. Graciousness is one thing; praise is another. This “good man” was involved in ACORN blackmail schemes. With an attempt to fraudulently undermine the Second Amendment by gaming court rulings. He got rich off of schemes that led to the mortgage crisis — then stood by and let others fix it in order to keep his hands clean during the final stages of an election. He has thrown in with race hustlers,”reformers” who believe that domestic terrorism was a valid form of expression, odious foreign potentates – There is nothing at all noble about praising a man and a party who reviles you simply because in doing so you appear noble. Jews have tried that. And it’s often ended with skeletons and ash, or the twisted wreckage of a bus in Tel Aviv. Sorry. But good men don’t lie, cheat, steal, and throw longtime supporters by the wayside just so they can rise to power The rest is hubris.