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."