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Peru Paroles NY Terrorist Lori Berenson After 15 Years
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Omion: "...the mailed hand of Obama shall smite all offenders."
WASHINGTON—After serving 12 years in the position, Motley, the official White House Jester, was beheaded Tuesday after delivering a poorly received jape about the spiraling national debt before President and Mrs. Obama.
"Surely you jest!"
"For crimes of great arrogance and cheek, His Idiocy the White House Jester has been sentenced to a swift demise," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said following the death sentence. "Let it be heard over every city and suburb of this land that the National Debt is no topic for frivolity, and the mailed hand of Obama shall smite all offenders."
"I'm serious--and my name isn't 'Shirley.'"
Posted by: Mike || 05/26/2010 06:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought Robert Gibbs held the position of White House Jester.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/26/2010 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Steve: there's a difference between being funny and just being a clown
Posted by: Frank G || 05/26/2010 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  When did Chris Matthews resign from the job?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 05/26/2010 8:41 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought the part of the jester was played by several people, including teh ONE himself.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/26/2010 10:20 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Genocide Girl's Chutzpah
Posted by Robert Spencer

Questioned by David Horowitz, Jumanah Albahri, a Muslim student (and Muslim Student Association member) at the University of California at San Diego, recently endorsed a new genocide of Jews -- thereby giving voice to the real agenda behind the land-for-peace rhetoric that Palestinian spokesmen generally retail in America. Aware of the enormity of what she had admitted, Albahri tried to quell the controversy by issuing a statement full of evasions, half-truths, and claims that she was the true victim. Now she has compounded that with a letter to the UCSD student newspaper, the Guardian, complaining about biased press coverage!

Whatever else you can say about Jumanah Albahri, you've got to admit she's got chutzpah.
Got a little Jew in ya?
No? Then would you like to?

The new letter is a tour de force of self-righteous victimhood, demonstrating that Albahri has been a dutiful and attentive student of her Islamic supremacist and Leftist mentors, since both camps make such liberal use of this tactic. She begins with a double ad hominem, as the girl who endorsed genocide of the Jews complained that the Guardian's "abysmal coverage of Justice in Palestine Week and the Horowitz fiasco reeks of Hearstian and Horowitzian journalism."
Posted by: ed || 05/26/2010 14:07 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jumanah Albahri, a Muslim student (and Muslim Student Association member) at the University of California at San Diego, recently endorsed a new genocide of Jews – thereby giving voice to the real agenda behind the land-for-peace rhetoric that Palestinian spokesmen generally retail in America.

The little islamic Nazi admitted to wanting genocide for the Jews! This is the real Palestinian agenda and that of many others in the mideast.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/26/2010 17:42 Comments || Top||

#2  It's fun to take their statements and speeches and use a find/replace function to replace jew with muslim. Then they consider it hate speech.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/26/2010 19:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Compare wid PAKISTAN DAILY > [NOT-MUFTI-DEOBAND New Islamic Seminary]FATWA: MUSLIM WOMEN MAY WORK IN OFFICES BUT WITH VEIL. Deemed allowable under Sharia wid certain Conditions.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/26/2010 21:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Joe Sestak is a: (a) coward; (b) liar; (c) political sycophant; (d) all of the above
"Uber Pig" @ Blackfive

...According to Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod, no such inappropriate offer was made to Joe Sestak. Which means: Someone is lying.

Specifically, it means that Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod are calling Joe Sestak a liar....

...Most of the Navy guys I know would not let themselves be called a liar by a sad sack like Robert Gibbs if they weren't, you know, lying. Froggy would have waterboarded his fat ass quicker than you can say "Charlie Sheen is an awesome actor." And Subsunk would have appeared out of a storm drain like some kind of an angry sea wolf ninja, kicked him in the nuts until he fell to the ground holding onto what was left of them, grabbed the hair on the back of his head and shoved his face into the pavement until his nose and teeth were mashed up into some kind of a bloody stew.

But Joe Sestak didn't do that.

So here's what I think. I think the fact that Joe Sestak -- even after being called a liar by Robert Gibbs -- has not come forward and made a statement to the authorities about felony corruption he claims to have witnessed says something about Joe Sestak. And what it says is this: Joe Sestak is either a coward, a liar, a political sycophant or -- and this is where I'd put my money -- all three of these things....
Posted by: Mike || 05/26/2010 06:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My theory is that someone explained to Joe exactly what would happen to him (or his family) if he told who had made the offer.
It's the Chicago way.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/26/2010 7:20 Comments || Top||

#2  the transition from warrior to astute politically correct warrior to careful and politically correct functionary to clumsy functionary is well worn
Posted by: lord garth || 05/26/2010 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Sestak aside, this is just another in the long list of Obama and his staff's total disregard for our constitutional process.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/26/2010 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm with Rambler; Sestak woke up to a horse's head one morning ...
Posted by: Steve White || 05/26/2010 9:17 Comments || Top||

#5  -- even after being called a liar by Robert Gibbs --

Mr. Uber Pig is a dullard. First, Gibbs has not refuted Sestak’s claim. Gibbs has only given the non-denial denial that WH lawyers have assured him nothing inappropriate has occurred. Second, until there is some formal inquiry Sestak is under no “obligation” to fill in the blanks. There are plenty of reasons not to support Sestak but to call him a liar and coward over this is bullshit.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 05/26/2010 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  The Whitehouse, DOJ, or Congress is not going to investigate this. The best that can happen is that voters will be so fed up with this kind of Chicago sleeze exported to PA is that it will drive voters to Toomey and he will win.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/26/2010 9:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Toomey should be making a bigger issue out of this since the MSM is starting to show a somewhat tepid interest in this scandal.
Posted by: DK70 the Scantily Clad7177 || 05/26/2010 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  (D)
Posted by: charger || 05/26/2010 11:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Toomey should make a big deal out of this felony which most likely came out of the WH (BO, Axlerod, or Emanuel or all).
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/26/2010 11:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/26/2010 12:04 Comments || Top||

#11  This entire affair needs some daylight shone upon it, as somebody is either outlying or skirting the edges ("I did not have sex with that woman")
Personally, I think the WH is the one that needs to eat the bar of soap. And yes, it is unlikely that there will be any invenstigations done ( maybe after November, but not holding my breath).
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 05/26/2010 14:10 Comments || Top||

#12  for what its worth a fair number of the left are interested in this too

for example, Dickerson of Slate, Senator Durbin (IL) and Representative Weiner (NY)
Posted by: lord garth || 05/26/2010 15:09 Comments || Top||

#13  Interested lord garth or smelling a problem wanting to get in front of it and steer?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/26/2010 16:49 Comments || Top||

#14  DepotGuy -
Your points were well put, and LMAO @ "Mr".
Posted by: ryuge || 05/26/2010 21:03 Comments || Top||


Why Obama won't be visiting Israel
First, Obama cannot give the speech without changing the underlying policy that necessitated it in the first place.

Second, Obama is unlikely to risk a less-than-admiring reception from the Knesset...

Third, a Knesset speech would invite comparisons with George W. Bush's Knesset address... Obama cannot approximate Bush's address, because he does not share Bush's perspective.

Fourth, even if Obama gave a comparable speech, it would not be believed. His actions — reneging on his pledge of an undivided Jerusalem; failing to honor U.S. understandings regarding settlements; ignoring the commitments in the 2004 Bush letter, given in exchange for the Gaza withdrawal; failing to visit Israel when he visited Turkey, failing again when he visited Egypt, and failing again over the past 12 months; slurring Israel in his Cairo speech...represent a record that cannot be corrected merely with a speech, even if it begins with “Let me be clear.'
Posted by: lord garth || 05/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fifth: 0bama is a socialist jerk who is in way over his head.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 05/26/2010 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Sixth: No dinner for you, Barry, at Bibi's house.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/26/2010 2:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Why Obama won't be visiting Israel

Most fortunate for Israel, relgardless of the reason.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/26/2010 4:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Most fortunate for Israel, relgardless of the reason.

Sensei!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/26/2010 4:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Because he expects a nuclear strike from his Iranian friends.
Posted by: JFM || 05/26/2010 4:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Because an Israeli passport stamp will prevent him from performing the hajj.
Posted by: Excalibur || 05/26/2010 6:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Seventh: The Secret Service isn't full of fools. Yet.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 05/26/2010 6:57 Comments || Top||

#8  The Secret Service isn't full of fools. Yet.

????????????????????
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/26/2010 7:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Eighth:

Obama is antisemitic.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/26/2010 7:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Tenth - "Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash."
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/26/2010 8:22 Comments || Top||

#11  Eleventh: The Messiah has already come to Israel.
Posted by: Matt || 05/26/2010 8:36 Comments || Top||

#12  Ninth: because he raises such negative passions that reasons are numbered out of order.

Thank you, President Obama, for another first.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/26/2010 9:08 Comments || Top||

#13  Excalibur wins the coveted 'Rantburg Snark of the Day' award!
Posted by: Steve White || 05/26/2010 11:33 Comments || Top||

#14 
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/26/2010 12:16 Comments || Top||

#15  Yeah. And then there's this one too...
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/26/2010 12:18 Comments || Top||

#16  #13 - agreed, Excal's was untoppable.
Posted by: Matt || 05/26/2010 13:55 Comments || Top||

#17  Twelfth: If there's nothing to apologize for, what's in it for The One?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/26/2010 15:14 Comments || Top||

#18  thirteenth. If he sticks his finger in Bibi's chest again, he'll get it bitten off.
Posted by: Ulegum Forkbeard9799 || 05/26/2010 15:31 Comments || Top||

#19  Fourteenth: Oblahblah can't find the foreign adapter plug set for the teleprompter.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 05/26/2010 19:38 Comments || Top||

#20  To wit,

PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN DAILY > YOUTUBE VIDEO SERIES = THE US MILITARY KNOWS ISRAELI AGENTS DID 9-11 [Israeli Operatives + Rogue Factions of US GOVT] | ISRAEL DID 9-11 UPDATED, REVISED - SHOCKING + REVEALING.

THREAD/ARTIC > USMC Officials allegedly quoted as stating that the US CAN/SHOULD WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH FOR 9-11 + AFTER.

* Also from PAK DAILY > WAPO Investigative Reporter JEFF STEIN > FORMER US CIA OFFICER ADMITS TO FAKING BIN LADEN VIDEO.

ARTIC > Among other, USDOD = USARMY PYWAR/PYOPS at US SPECWARCENT FORT BRAGG, US DIA [DIA Agents-OPeratives] indic as taking over project from $$$-STRAPPED CIA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/26/2010 21:30 Comments || Top||

#21  man, excalibur brings it strong to the bucket. I bow...for today
Posted by: Frank G || 05/26/2010 22:08 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Spengler: Wife-beating, sharia, and Western law
Posted by: tipper || 05/26/2010 09:45 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Personally I think that discussions of wife beating, female genital mutilation, honor killing and Muhammud's age at marriage to be better topics to discuss than cartoons of Mo.
Posted by: lord garth || 05/26/2010 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  In ancient Rome, the paterfamilias had absolute power over the rest of his household. He could execute his children or sell them into slavery. When he died his authority passed to his nearest male relative. Tiberius Caesar led his private and public life just that way, creating a police state and choosing the eminent Caligula as his successor. Parts of the world have not advanced beyond this type of misrule yet.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/26/2010 13:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Anguper. No argument but consider absolute rule by such women as Messalina or Agrippina. Ain't just men that can't be trusted with absolue power.
Posted by: Glusoling McCoy9364 || 05/26/2010 15:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Rule under Messalina would have been, uh, noteworthy.

However, had Livia Drusilla been Empress, I suspect her reign would have been exceptionally orderly. She knew how things worked in Rome. For all her bad press, about everybody agreed she was on the ball.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 05/26/2010 16:59 Comments || Top||

#5  IOW, LEADERSHIP IS EVERYTHING.

* RAMBO > [paraph] THE MIND + HEART/SPIRIT, NOT THE WEAPON.

PATTON versus POTUS CARTER versus MADGE THATCHER versus ..........................@etal, I-HAVE-IN-MY-HAND-A-PAPER-SIGNED-BY-MR. HITLER versies WE-WILL-FIGHT-IN-THE-FIELDS-IN-THE-STREETS-WE WILL-NEVER-SURRENDER.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/26/2010 21:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Where is the proper Story Pic? Please, add this to the Rantburg news photo collection: Spengler

Posted by: OldSpook || 05/26/2010 22:38 Comments || Top||

#7  However, had Livia Drusilla been Empress, I suspect her reign would have been exceptionally orderly. She knew how things worked in Rome. For all her bad press, about everybody agreed she was on the ball.

You mean she wasn't Empress?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/26/2010 23:32 Comments || Top||



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