There's no bus big enough.

Yup. I'm sure I'm not the first to observe Obama is good at dialogue.

Obama will make the world love us! What could go wrong?

/

Pretty sure they see Jimmy Jr. between those remarkable ears. Plus, they gotta love his name...

We seem to be getting better and better all the time at doing what other countries think is best at the expense of what is good for the US. Why can't we get a President who vows to do what's best for the Unites States first?

Barry just keep on racking up some great endorsements!

And we all the affinity the Saudis have for black people

/

/Can't wait 'til Osama send his endorsement, via either the cave or the grave.

As if Bush didn't appease the Saudis enough! They must be salivating to get a true believer in Gorebull Warming at the helm. $7 a gallon gas, here we come.

re: #10 sloggin420

You mean like maybe drill for oil, build nuclear power plants, enforce our boarders, support and celebrate capitalism?

NOW YOUR TALKIN"

re: #10 sloggin420

You mean like maybe drill for oil, build nuclear power plants, enforce our boarders, support and celebrate capitalism?

THAT'S CRAZY TALK, YOU RACIST!

/

Good thing. Obama needs the Saudis to afford fuel for his bus.
Running over people is bad for mileage.

the Middle East countries should launch a dialogue with him and help him better understand what is going on.

Did they just extend dawa'h to obama?

You can always tell a man by his friends.

Talk about being know by the friends you keep!

re: #6 sloggin420,

Think he'll go in and kiss the rock?

I wonder what Michelle thinks of life in Saudi Arabia? Would she be proud of it?

The Middle East countries should launch a dialogue with him and help him better understand what is going on.

That's not all they'd like to launch at America.

re: #10 sloggin420

The problem with America as a nation is its too damn nice.

Middle East countries should launch a dialogue with him and help him better understand what is going on.

Translation

we can yank his strings like a puppet.

ME leaders are salivating at the possibility of this light-weight winning the US Presidential nod because they will finally get their wish: no one will stand beside Israel against their long-term goal of driving her into the sea.

re: #18 Iron Fist

You beat me to it - I was gonna suggest a Pit Stop in Mecca.

re: #11 Iron Fist

As if Bush didn't appease the Saudis enough! They must be salivating to get a true believer in Gorebull Warming at the helm. $7 a gallon gas, here we come.

Bush only promised to sell the Saudis nuclear reactors.
Whereas Obama will have some spare nuclear weapons after he unilaterally disarms.

...the Middle East countries should launch a dialogue with him and help him better understand what is going on....

so, they acknowledge he doesn't understand the situation? Or they know he will believe the way the spin it?

Or both?

Barack Obama is more capable than anyone else of bringing about change in U.S. policy, particularly in all things connected to the Middle East.

In other words, throwing Israel under the bus.

re: #1 unrealizedviewpoint

There's no bus big enough.

For all of us to fit under!
// {:-(™

That's because NObama will turn a blind eye to any thing the house of S(fr)aud will do.....

Anybody our foreign "friends" want for President should be automatically disqualified for the position. Of course it depends on the country, but since most of 'em either hate our guts or downright dislike us, we need to make note of whom they support...

JAFLW

/...or whom the moonbats support...

They must be nervous that nobody will be able to kiss their ass like Bush did

Hamas, Ahmadinejad and the Saudis all agree: Obama '08.

re: #14 Kosh's Shadow

yes, unless its a GREEN bus powered by self-righteousness of Obamaniacs ...then it will be a perpetual motion machine.

Someone seriously needs to investigate where all the $200 donations are coming from.

I wonder what the netroots will say. They have always used Bush's friendship to the Saudi's as a slur.

re: #32 Cicero05

Hamas, Ahmadinejad and the Saudis all agree: Obama '08.

The Shi'ites and the Sunnis together. He really is a uniter!

I'm sold now...if the Saudi's think he's the golden boy...nuf said!

re: #19 Roentgen

I wonder what Michelle thinks of life in Saudi Arabia? Would she be proud of it?

She's frikkin' clueless. Willfully blind. Ignorant. LLL. Need I say more?

JAFLW

Man I get an image of Obama as that little pointy part on a virus as it approaches a cell.

re: #33 leprechaun

yes, unless its a GREEN bus powered by self-righteousness of Obamaniacs ...then it will be a perpetual motion machine.

The smug cloud following that bus around is astounding in size. Let's just hope it doesn't run into the smug cloud from George Clooney's acceptance speech, or Utah may become an uninhabitable wasteland.

Charles, Thank you!

I posted about the Saudi's lobbyists in DC hiring Obama supporter Bill Richardson's former press secretary today on another thread.

Qorvis Communications which represents the Saudis in DC, just hired democrat Tom Reynolds to be a director.

It will be interesting to see if the Umma Kahuna visits Saudi before he visits Iraq. $10 bucks say he goes to the Magic Kingdom first.

re: #23 Intrepid

that's what scares me - and actually makes me want to make aliyah more than ever.

obama will single-handedly do more to harm the situation in the middle east than ... well... anyone since or before carter.

obamanos - right into the sea. terrifying.

Bush hates the Saudis.

McCain commercial:

Actor dressed to look like a Saudi prince/minister of info addressing the camera:

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is more capable than anyone else of bringing about change in U.S. policy, particularly in all things connected to the Middle East.

In light of Obama’s intent to conduct a dialogue with Iran, the Middle East countries should launch a dialogue with him and help him better understand what is going on.

Source: Al-Watan, Saudi Arabia, June 6, 2008.

"Dude ain't one of us"

which poster said that?

it's right.

It's dawa'h- they've invited him to islam.

Yes, Saudi, by all means open a dialog with the"messiah" about what's happening in the middle east.Some body has to, as it is certainly obvious he doesn't have a clue. Oh, and don't forget the part about how the evil jooooooze are to blame for everything. Of course we all know Barry already thinks that.

OT

Cavuto on Fox just slam dunked a Dem rep on resources exploration - cut him off when he wouldn't stop doing the blame game.

Now he's talking with Senator McConnell.

Mr. Cavuto talking sense about focusing on the issue instead of partisan fighting.

McConnell says he'd be open for a deal.

Cavuto ssays he will broker the deal in his spare time. I WISH they'd listen to him.

re: #39 Ojoe

Man I get an image of Obama as that little pointy part on a virus as it approaches a cell.

Cellular pr0n? Shame on you!

JAFLW

“We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance,”

-Ahmed Yousef, ; political advisor to HAMAS

re: #50 Just Another Four-letter Word

one man sleeper cell

In light of Obama’s intent to conduct a dialogue with Iran, the Middle East countries should launch a dialogue with him and help him better understand what is going on.

What? That Arabs are committing genocide against African Blacks?

Or the whole "Joo" thing?

re: #44 Ben Hur

Bush hates the Saudis.

tag seems to be missing.

re: #47 Sharmuta,

It's taqiya that he claims not to have already accepted. I want to see his birth certificate. I want to know what he is hiding.

The Saudis have tired of blackmailing Bush and the US economy, and have now moved to place their own financed and controlled candidate in the WH.

re: #44 Ben Hur

Bush hates the Saudis.

Did you forget the /sarc tag again?

JAFLW

re: #47 Sharmuta

It's dawa'h- they've invited him BACK to islam.

/fixed

re: #47 Sharmuta

It's dawa'h- they've invited him to islam.

* * *
He is the only candidate for US president who is on record as saying the Call to Prayer from the Minaret is the most beautiful sound on Earth! (learned in Indonesia)

I don't tag when it's so blatantly obvious.

I just RSVP'd to go to the Townhall Meeting with John McCain being held in my backyard in Pemberton in South Jersey on Friday

I want to go with a list of provocative questions...maybe he'll

re: #6 sloggin420

But sadly-potentially the second to do Dances With Saudi Swords.

re: #59 alegrias

you're joking. citation? did he REALLY say that?

re: #52 Ojoe

one man sleeper cell

creative.

re: #49 Catttt

OT

Cavuto on Fox just slam dunked a Dem rep on resources exploration - cut him off when he wouldn't stop doing the blame game.

Now he's talking with Senator McConnell.

Mr. Cavuto talking sense about focusing on the issue instead of partisan fighting.

McConnell says he'd be open for a deal.

Cavuto ssays he will broker the deal in his spare time. I WISH they'd listen to him.

* * *
Chuck Norris the actor is out there on tv talking about drilling for oil in the USA.

OT
Looking at the Realclearpolitics electoral college map, Obama is not strong in the West, and South, and is in fact probably going to lose every state in the South, and most in the West. If McCain loses this election, he has no one to blame except himself.

re: #55 Iron Fist

,

It's taqiya that he claims not to have already accepted. I want to see his birth certificate. I want to know what he is hiding.

Why do I keep getting the nagging feeling it may show somehow that he's not born a Citizen of the US?

Can't shake the feeling. Weird...

JAFLW

re: #51 looking closely

-Ahmed Yousef, ; political advisor to HAMAS

Hearted that for my personal use later. Hamas knows he one of them.

re: #62 WriterMom

Apparently, Oovda did quite the piece on Baruch and his Kenyan family.

The Israelis I spoke with were pretty un-nerved by it.

"..the Middle East countries should launch a dialogue with him and help him better understand what is going on."

Uh Ha. Well we already know. First, they want our money and then our country while blowing up a few people along the way to get it.

re: #66 maddogg

OT
Looking at the Realclearpolitics electoral college map, Obama is not strong in the West, and South, and is in fact probably going to lose every state in the South, and most in the West. If McCain loses this election, he has no one to blame except himself.

He'll blame republicans

re: #69 Ben Hur

is there a link to that available?

re: #60 Ben Hur

I don't tag when it's so blatantly obvious.

Well, try to be nice on the newly-hatched lizards, okay? They hardly know ye!

JAFLW

re: #53 Ben Hur

Did you see that Frontline piece on Darfur last night? I think the word Islam was mentioned once, and not in the same sentence as Janjawid. Somehow PBS decided that it is all China's fault, not that China wouldn't be in league with the Saudis and arab oil ticks.

re: #60 Ben Hur

I don't tag when it's so blatantly obvious.

Some lizards not speedy as other lizards.

re: #27 Gjergj Skënderbeu

Despite that, I think there are enough Americans who-if Obama does try to throw Israel under the bus-would tip it over without a second thought and set Israel free. I hope my crappy metaphor makes sense.

/long day...

This is not the peaceful religion I thought I knew...

re: #76 WriterMom

how?

re: #66 maddogg

OT
Looking at the Realclearpolitics electoral college map, Obama is not strong in the West, and South, and is in fact probably going to lose every state in the South, and most in the West. If McCain loses this election, he has no one to blame except himself.

Yes... BUT... If Ohio and Virginia go to Obama's side, it won't matter...

re: #71 DistantThunder

GMTA

JAFLW

re: #69 Ben Hur

I saw it...the tall skinny dude went to Obama Grama's village and there was a sister (half sister?) translating...she said she doesn have a TV boo hoo...my husband and I watched it. It was FREAKY.

Damn! MEMRI doesn't give any more detail on the Al-Watan editoral.

In fairness -- to the Saudis of all people? what th' heck am I thinkin'! -- the editorial could have meant that they (the Saudis) trust the Shi'a Iranian theocracy like they trust a snake. They might want to tell BO to back off, or at least be careful what he promises.

re: #63 Kefirah

you're joking. citation? did he REALLY say that?

[Link: select.nytimes.com...]

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

re: #67 Just Another Four-letter Word,

There's something he's hiding. Even as ham-handed as he's been since he wrapped up the Donk nomination, he surely wouldn't be making this kind of mistake because of shere arrogance. Would he? I know he believes his own Cult, but some things are pretty simple.

Release the Documents.

re: #63 Kefirah

you're joking. citation? did he REALLY say that?

* * *
google "Obama, call to prayer", even the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof reported on this statement by the Illinois candidate.

re: #78 Kefirah

Grassroots political activism, letter writing, demonstrations, public pressure.

Hurry up, peak oil!

re: #85 alegrias

I remember reading about that.

re: #74 Biff

Did you see that Frontline piece on Darfur last night? I think the word Islam was mentioned once, and not in the same sentence as Janjawid. Somehow PBS decided that it is all China's fault, not that China wouldn't be in league with the Saudis and arab oil ticks.

SAw it - tragic how the women and children were so excited to see the first UN vehicles show up - and started chanting Un, Un, UN, but it was a fact finding mission. The UN never planned to do anything.

Mia Farrow said that one point the women came to her and said: The UN isn't coming are they? No one's coming, are they?

Welcome to the New World Order - Liberal/Socialist style practicing the not so fine art of sElective caring.

re: #25 Kosh's Shadow

Bush only promised to sell the Saudis nuclear reactors.
Whereas Obama will have some spare nuclear weapons after he unilaterally disarms.

And he can use the money for fighting real wars, like the war on poverty part 2, or the war on warm, or the war on wealth. And it's okay, because Israel has nukes already, so what's the big deal? All religions are equal, and only American weapons are bad.

re: #43 Kefirah

If he is elected, and if he does follow through on his plans to basically gut our military, then he won't even have the means to help protect Israel, even if he had the will to do so.

He plans to completely cut any space-based weaponry/defense systems, and I'm sure defensive systems like Patriot-type missiles will not be far behind.

Barack Obama is the "Delilah" to our armed forces' "Samson".

re: #83 Diamond Bullet

....

i'm left speechless. and i'm rarely speechless. why isn't THAT making the rounds? why isn't it the sound of a crowd of americans at a summer baseball game, singing the national anthem with their hats off and hands over their hearts?

not to be maudlin - but - seriously, folks.

It's gotta be tough to be a new hatchling. DataOverload and all.

re: #65 alegrias

* * *
Chuck Norris the actor is out there on tv talking about drilling for oil in the USA.

If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.

There is no 'ctrl' button on Chuck Norris's computer. Chuck Norris is always in control.

Apple pays Chuck Norris 99 cents every time he listens to a song.

Chuck Norris can sneeze with his eyes open.

Chuck Norris can eat just one Lay's potato chip.

Chuck Norris is suing Myspace for taking the name of what he calls everything around you.

Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table, because he only recognizes the element of surprise.

Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.

re: #84 Iron Fist

,

There's something he's hiding. Even as ham-handed as he's been since he wrapped up the Donk nomination, he surely wouldn't be making this kind of mistake because of shere arrogance. Would he? I know he believes his own Cult, but some things are pretty simple.

Release the Documents. Hounds!

Fixed!

JAFLW

Barrack Obama in Sword Dance 2010!

Co-starring Michelle obama as lump under bag number 1.

re: #83 Diamond Bullet

* * *
Thank you, there were several references to Obama's call to prayer quote, saying the Clintons made this up, as if!

re: #91 Intrepid

what is his logical reasoning behind cutting space-based defense? does he HAVE any?

I wonder if Obama and Michelle were in Sudan would they be with the refugees in camps or with the Janjaweed, ethnically cleansing the darkest-skinned Africans out of the country?
Has Obama even addressed the Sudan issue?

re: #82 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Damn! MEMRI doesn't give any more detail on the Al-Watan editoral.

In fairness -- to the Saudis of all people? what th' heck am I thinkin'! -- the editorial could have meant that they (the Saudis) trust the Shi'a Iranian theocracy like they trust a snake. They might want to tell BO to back off, or at least be careful what he promises.

The Mullah's have absolutely no intent to move on Riyadh. They are adverse to fires.

/

re: #92 Kefirah

....

i'm left speechless. and i'm rarely speechless. why isn't THAT making the rounds? why isn't it the sound of a crowd of americans at a summer baseball game, singing the national anthem with their hats off and hands over their hearts?

not to be maudlin - but - seriously, folks.

Exactly. Apparently the guy would like nothing more than, when he's sitting in the Oval Office with his feet up on a nice summer evening in D.C., to hear the melodic strains of the Islamic call to prayer on the breeze.

Also, the NY times article has some other truly mesmerizing feats of idiotic logic:

He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

That makes a lot of sense.

re: #98 Kefirah

what is his logical reasoning behind cutting space-based defense? does he HAVE any?

In the words of another generation, so the Pentagon will have to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.

re: #99 mean Gene

I wonder if Obama and Michelle were in Sudan would they be with the refugees in camps or with the Janjaweed, ethnically cleansing the darkest-skinned Africans out of the country?
Has Obama even addressed the Sudan issue?

Of course he has. He's criticized Bush and called for more diplomacy and "action" (without specifying what action, or what sort of diplomacy he thinks is going to accomplish anything):

[Link: obama.senate.gov...]

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) made the following statement on the announcement that the Sudan People's Liberation Movement withdrew from Sudan's government of national unity because of the ruling party's breaches of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement:

"Yesterday the Sudan People's Liberation Movement withdrew from Sudan's government of national unity in frustration with the ruling party's breaches of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Once again, the Bashir government's credibility and intent to honor its own commitments has been called into question. Unless the Sudanese government implements elements of the CPA relating to border demarcation, oil wealth sharing, troop redeployment, and ensuring that a census and elections will proceed as scheduled, the already tragic situation in Sudan will become even more unstable.

"As one of the principal guarantors of the Comprehensive Peace Accord that ended over twenty years of war between north and south Sudan, the Bush Administration needs to rededicate itself to saving this treaty. A focused and revitalized diplomatic effort that includes all parties that helped negotiate the CPA is the only way in which this process can be salvaged.

"Allowing the Bashir government to renege on its commitments would not only rob the people of Southern Sudan of their best opportunity to build a peaceful and more prosperous future, it would also have devastating consequences for all efforts to achieve peace in Darfur. Recent United Nations reports indicate that the Sudanese government is continuing to fuel violence in Darfur and is delaying the deployment of the joint UN-AU peacekeeping mission. The international community must reject these obstructionist tactics, insist that diplomatic breakthroughs and paper agreements are followed up with real action, and hold the regime in Khartoum accountable for its actions."

re: #85 alegrias

* * *
google "Obama, call to prayer", even the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof reported on this statement by the Illinois candidate.

This isn't the Obama I knew!

re: #101 Diamond Bullet

Hmmm... Koran study classes? Interesting...

re: #94 looking closely

(I can't help it. I love those jokes!)

Put in parentheses so no one will know I said that.

re: #66 maddogg

OT
Looking at the Realclearpolitics electoral college map, Obama is not strong in the West, and South, and is in fact probably going to lose every state in the South, and most in the West. If McCain loses this election, he has no one to blame except himself.

Realclearpolitics also gives PA to Obama; I'm not so sure about that. As for the blue collar Midwest (I'm in Michigan), many (but not all) of the blue collar types I know are not voting for the Messiah.

re: #104 Rednek

This isn't the Obama I knew!

Like this?

re: #102 pre-Boomer Marine brat

yeah, well. i'm sure the marines can make a killer apple pie and all, but that's not really their JOB, is it?

i wonder how barack would enjoy being PotUS without airforce one or pens or paper or intelligence briefings - you know - things he would hypothetically need to do his job.

re: #106 wolfie

Said what?

I think it's time for AIPAC to use its magical powers on Obama and get him into line.

re: #106 wolfie

You have to write it in invisible ink.

American Murder Mystery (spoiler: The Democrats did it - again.)

Why is crime rising in so many American cities? The answer implicates one of the most celebrated antipoverty programs of recent decades.

About five years ago, Janikowski embarked on a more ambitious project. He’d built up enough trust with the police to get them to send him daily crime and arrest reports, including addresses and types of crime. He began mapping all violent and property crimes, block by block, across the city. “These cops on the streets were saying that crime patterns are changing,” he said, so he wanted to look into it.

When his map was complete, a clear if strangely shaped pattern emerged: Wait a minute, he recalled thinking. I see this bunny rabbit coming up. People are going to accuse me of being on shrooms! The inner city, where crime used to be concentrated, was now clean. But everywhere else looked much worse: arrests had skyrocketed along two corridors north and west of the central city (the bunny rabbit’s ears) and along one in the southeast (the tail). Hot spots had proliferated since the mid-1990s, and little islands of crime had sprung up where none had existed before, dotting the map all around the city.

Janikowski might not have managed to pinpoint the cause of this pattern if he hadn’t been married to Phyllis Betts, a housing expert at the University of Memphis. Betts and Janikowski have two dogs, three cats, and no kids; they both tend to bring their work home with them. Betts had been evaluating the impact of one of the city government’s most ambitious initiatives: the demolition of the city’s public-housing projects, as part of a nationwide experiment to free the poor from the destructive effects of concentrated poverty. Memphis demolished its first project in 1997. The city gave former residents federal “Section8” rent-subsidy vouchers and encouraged them to move out to new neighborhoods. Two more waves of demolition followed over the next nine years, dispersing tens of thousands of poor people into the wider metro community.

.........

About six months ago, they decided to put a hunch to the test. Janikowski merged his computer map of crime patterns with Betts’s map of Section8 rentals. Where Janikowski saw a bunny rabbit, Betts saw a sideways horseshoe (“He has a better imagination,” she said). Otherwise, the match was near-perfect. On the merged map, dense violent-crime areas are shaded dark blue, and Section8 addresses are represented by little red dots. All of the dark-blue areas are covered in little red dots, like bursts of gunfire. The rest of the city has almost no dots.

Betts remembers her discomfort as she looked at the map. The couple had been musing about the connection for months, but they were amazed—and deflated—to see how perfectly the two data sets fit together. She knew right away that this would be a “hard thing to say or write.” Nobody in the antipoverty community and nobody in city leadership was going to welcome the news that the noble experiment that they’d been engaged in for the past decade had been bringing the city down, in ways they’d never expected. But the connection was too obvious to ignore, and Betts and Janikowski figured that the same thing must be happening all around the country. Eventually, they thought, they’d find other researchers who connected the dots the way they had, and then maybe they could get city leaders, and even national leaders, to listen.

re: #98 Kefirah

what is his logical reasoning behind cutting space-based defense? does he HAVE any?

My guess would be that it's the same reason he thinks NASA's budget should be cut - all those billions could be used for domestic programs...

...read "Universal Healthcare".

re: #100 unrealizedviewpoint

The Mullah's have absolutely no intent to move on Riyadh. They are adverse to fires.

/

I'm not so sure. There are a number of Twelvers among them, MA for one. A fire (chaos, to speed the return of the 12th Mahdi) may be just what they want.

re: #108 songbird

Like this?

Very funny!

re: #107 shibumi

Realclearpolitics also gives PA to Obama; I'm not so sure about that. As for the blue collar Midwest (I'm in Michigan), many (but not all) of the blue collar types I know are not voting for the Messiah.

I don't see PA either but I would never underestimate the impact of Philly and Pittsburgh on the overall numbers in PA...

re: #106 wolfie

Wolfie! Look for me. I'm going to the game also. Gonna be wearing my Reagan Revolucion T-shirt! (Green!)

I'd love to meet a lizard in person.

A friend of mine sent me this quote. Has anyone read the book and know if the quote is accurate or not?

From Barack's book, Audacity of Hope:
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

re: #98 Kefirah

what is his logical reasoning behind cutting space-based defense? does he HAVE any?

Have any what? Reasoning? No, and he's equally clueless as to How The World REALLY Works.

We're in for a terrible time if the loonaticks ever get control of the Presidency. The McCainiac is bad enough...

JAFLW

re: #114 Intrepid

and that's another question. is his plan for catastrophic coverage? preventative? has he SEEN what happened when mass. tried it? no one, NO ONE could get in to see a doctor. it was a two year waiting period to see a family practitioner. and gee - that doesn't seem conducive to promotion of health.

re: #112 Cap'n DOC

re: #65 alegrias

* * *
Chuck Norris the actor is out there on tv talking about drilling for oil in the USA.

Sign the petition.

re: #119 ethanxxx

Out of context. He said (paraphrasing) "If Muslims are discriminated against and rounded up in America, then I will stand with the Muslims." It's a bullshit email.

re: #122 wolfie

re: #103 looking closely

I had also read that.
But it is so ambiguous.
He is ultimately FOR the government of Sudan being allowed to buy more time to commit more genocide.
Talk, talk, talk.
Meanwhile the darkest-skinned Sudanese are slaughtered and raped.

re: #115 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I'm not so sure. There are a number of Twelvers among them, MA for one. A fire (chaos, to speed the return of the 12th Mahdi) may be just what they want.

There was a tag below my comment.
It appears we both see the Mullah's for the danger they truly are. How to get American's to understand this though?

but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

That makes a lot of sense

Yeah, that idiotic writer should have added at the end...

"because that's what I think"

And then that stupid article would have made sense.

re: #106 wolfie

(I can't help it. I love those jokes!)

Put in parentheses so no one will know I said that.

They're so silly. . .
I'm actually a little embarassed to have even posted them.

Oh crap. There I go again.

re: #79 tfc3rid

Yes... BUT... If Ohio and Virginia go to Obama's side, it won't matter...

Oh, but is Does matter. He will be viewed the same way as a damn Yankee carpetbagger, and will be shown the same respect. And, thats exactly what he will be, and will deserve no respect. And his inevitable foundering around and piss poor choices for his cabinet will exacerbate the situation, further reducing his effectiveness. to the point of impotence.

Two Obompa is the antichrist calls in a row on the Medved show. People are loosing it.

re: #124 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Thank you FBV. I knew the truth could be found here. I'll correct him ASAP.

re: #119 ethanxxx

A friend of mine sent me this quote. Has anyone read the book and know if the quote is accurate or not?

From Barack's book, Audacity of Hope:
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

I pride myself on staying on top of the facts and reading alot, but for the life Of me I can't bing myself to read his book. Then again I must admit I never read Mein Kampf either.

re: #132 JimInMN

Meh.

re: #118 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Wolfie! Look for me. I'm going to the game also. Gonna be wearing my Reagan Revolucion T-shirt! (Green!)

I'd love to meet a lizard in person.

Yes indeed! I'll look for you!

re: #119 ethanxxx

A friend of mine sent me this quote. Has anyone read the book and know if the quote is accurate or not?

From Barack's book, Audacity of Hope:
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

Page 261 from his book.

re: #119 ethanxxx

A friend of mine sent me this quote. Has anyone read the book and know if the quote is accurate or not?

From Barack's book, Audacity of Hope:
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

Here's what I find....

The actual quote from the book is from page 261 and is as follows:

"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

re: #109 Kefirah

yeah, well. i'm sure the marines can make a killer apple pie and all, but that's not really their JOB, is it?

i wonder how barack would enjoy being PotUS without airforce one or pens or paper or intelligence briefings - you know - things he would hypothetically need to do his job.

No. Excuse me.

Barak's political ancestors (e.g., his buddy Wm. Ayers) are the Sixties Children. They are kneejerk against the military. BO follows the same pattern.

The "bake sale/bomber" quote is from the Sixties. It was meant as a metaphor.

re: #131 maddogg

Oh, but is Does matter. He will be viewed the same way as a damn Yankee carpetbagger, and will be shown the same respect. And, thats exactly what he will be, and will deserve no respect. And his inevitable foundering around and piss poor choices for his cabinet will exacerbate the situation, further reducing his effectiveness. to the point of impotence.

Well, he would be effective with 58 maybe 60 Dems in Senate and a nice majority in the House...

That's the problem, he would be dangerously effective...

re: #133 ethanxxx

Thank you FBV. I knew the truth could be found here. I'll correct him ASAP.

I am basing that on a discussion about his book I heard on John Gibson's radio show last night. Caller called and and John bitch-slapped him with some facts.

re: #123 redstateredneck

Sign the petition.

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re: #113 DistantThunder

I bet I know the ending to thst story: Crickets!
(No, I haven't read ahead yet...)

JAFLW

re: #107 shibumi

Realclearpolitics also gives PA to Obama; I'm not so sure about that. As for the blue collar Midwest (I'm in Michigan), many (but not all) of the blue collar types I know are not voting for the Messiah.

I think PA. will go to McCain, as there are a lot of hunters in PA. and Obama is 100% gun controller, and is considered by the NRA to be a grave threat to the 2nd. Amendment.

re: #130 looking closely

Bookmarked for when I need a giggle fix!

re: #138 JCM

NO, NO not the "hard staress from neighbors!" How would you know if you weren't staring at them back?

Whaaaaaa

re: #121 Kefirah

and that's another question. is his plan for catastrophic coverage? preventative? has he SEEN what happened when mass. tried it? no one, NO ONE could get in to see a doctor. it was a two year waiting period to see a family practitioner. and gee - that doesn't seem conducive to promotion of health.

Boortz had a little writeup this AM:

The Democrats must be extremely partial to fine dining ... because they were willing to take a page out of the Republican handbook to achieve it. That's right. The Senate Dining Room has lost more than $18 million since 1993 and has dropped about $2 million this year alone. In other words, the government service in the Senate Dining Room is so lousy that it took a Democrat to come up with a brilliant solution: privatize it. And you'll never guess who wants to privatize: Dianne Feinstein!

Now here's a real mind blower ... are you ready for this? Feinstein says, "Candidly, I don't think the taxpayers should be subsidizing something that doesn't need to be. There are parts of government that can be run like a business and should be run like businesses." Now we're getting somewhere!

Now .. here's another surprise. The restaurants on the House side of the Capital have been privately operated for years ... and making a tidy profit all the while. That's where the Senate staffers would go to eat.

Come on, folks. The Senate can't even run a restaurant ... but they want to run your health care.

[Link: boortz.com...]

re: #121 Kefirah

I haven't studied his healthcare plan in any great detail, so I can't answer that.

What I do know is that any type of Universal Healthcare plan is going to be catastrophic - for our economy, that is.

re: #114 Intrepid

Bingo

Ya see, you don't understand, but we'll gladly explain it for you.

First, cover that woman and be sure that she walks six paces behind you.

The Saudis should be terrified of an Obama presidency. They even note the reason in this editorial:

The paper added that in light of Obama’s intent to conduct a dialogue with Iran, the Middle East countries should launch a dialogue with him and help him better understand what is going on.

The Saudis have every reason to fear Iran. And they know it. They also know that Israel does not threaten their hold on power. In fact, quite the contrary: Israel is the stabilizing force in the Middle East.

The Saudi have always paid lip service to the Palestinians. But with Hamas being in the hip pocket of Iran, even the Saudis know which way the wind is blowing.

I suspect that the key to understanding what the Saudis are saying is in this second paragraph. They're afraid Obama will not stand up to Iran and thus Iran will increase it's hegemonic designs over Islam...especially the 40% of Saudi Arabia which is Shia.

Their behavior at the Annapolis peace farce was despicable. But we understood!

re: #137 songbird

ARRGGH! Beat me by 7 seconds!

re: #123 redstateredneck

Sign the petition.

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re: #134 Nevergiveup

Then again I must admit I never read Mein Kampf either.

I actually have wanted to read it, but cannot bring myself buy it and give money to someone spreading that filth. I wonder if the library carries it. And would I hate them if they did?

Ditto the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

re: #124 Fat Bastard Vegetarian,

It is still telling where his sympathies lie. Mohammedans killed 3000 Americans on 9-11. Obama's sympathy lies with the Mohammedans if we do anything about that.

[spit]

Just got back from grocery shopping.

The paper added that in light of Obama’s intent to conduct a dialogue with Iran, the Middle East countries should launch a dialogue with him and help him better understand what is going on.

for barbarians dialog means that we shut up and listen to them.

re: #140 tfc3rid

Well, he would be effective with 58 maybe 60 Dems in Senate and a nice majority in the House...

That's the problem, he would be dangerously effective...

Especially when you consider how far to the left the congressional Democrat leadership is.

re: #155 jcm

ARRGGH! Beat me by 7 seconds!

At least we're working on the same team!

Againre: #136 wolfie

Yes indeed! I'll look for you!

Cool! Wearing the green Reagan T-shirt and a Cleveland Indians ball cap.

WEET!

Just don't yell out my name, there are kids there! (HA). But I'll be listening for "Hey! FBV!"

re: #98 Kefirah

what is his logical reasoning behind cutting space-based defense? does he HAVE any?

Because China knocking out our satellites is just another Bush scare tactic that McCain plans on continuing.

re: #128 sloggin420

Vote Obama '08 or YOU are a racist!

Rotating title nomination, if it hasn't been nominated already...

JAFLW

I wonder what Comrade Obama's birth certificate really says?

As far as cuts to the defense budget, Comrade Obama wants to buy your vote with the money saved.

re: #137 songbird

Thank You Songbird.

re: #127 unrealizedviewpoint

re: tag

Sorry, I'm new to posting on the web, and miss some of the nuances.

I know what "/sarc" or "/s" means. Does "/" by itself do the same thing?!?

re: #143 alegrias

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Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.
A Real Change Campaign to Lower Your Gas Prices

I like this campaign motto for America.
Thanks for linking & sharing.

Newt Gingrich is Chairman of American Solutions. Time somebody got on congress' ass about energy. This back and forth bullshit has got to stop and something get done! Chuck Norris has been out there as a spokesperson for them. I saw him this morning on Fox & Friends.

re: #131 maddogg

Oh, but is Does matter. He will be viewed the same way as a damn Yankee carpetbagger, and will be shown the same respect. And, thats exactly what he will be, and will deserve no respect. And his inevitable foundering around and piss poor choices for his cabinet will exacerbate the situation, further reducing his effectiveness. to the point of impotence.

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Yankee carpet bagger?

Buzzing prayer carpetbagger!

re: #126 mean Gene

I had also read that.
But it is so ambiguous.
He is ultimately FOR the government of Sudan being allowed to buy more time to commit more genocide.
Talk, talk, talk.
Meanwhile the darkest-skinned Sudanese are slaughtered and raped.

IMO, its not ambiguous, its simply empty political posturing, to wit:

a. Bush is bad.
b. We need more talk and action (what kind of talk and action, he doesn't say).

McCain, to his credit, has been considerably more substantive when it comes to Darfur:
[Link: www.time-blog.com...]

I don't know if McCain as President would spend his political capital on Darfur (probably not), but at least its clear he's given the matter thought and understands what is going on there.

re: #140 tfc3rid

Well, he would be effective with 58 maybe 60 Dems in Senate and a nice majority in the House...

That's the problem, he would be dangerously effective...

They are all stinking politicians, and as soon as his approval numbers start to plummet, they will abandon him like the rats they are.

re: #145 maddogg

I think PA. will go to McCain, as there are a lot of hunters in PA. and Obama is 100% gun controller, and is considered by the NRA to be a grave threat to the 2nd. Amendment.

Two "special-interest" groups that need to get their act together and back McCain with all their might: the NRA and the pro-lifers. They can hurt Obama in PA, VA, and Ohio.

re: #158 Iron Fist

,

It is still telling where his sympathies lie. Mohammedans killed 3000 Americans on 9-11. Obama's sympathy lies with the Mohammedans if we do anything about that.

[spit]

Not gonna fight you on that one. The context was more (if I understand correctly) about Japanese Interment Camps. That kind of thing.

Still don't like the SOB. Please don't think I am defending him.

re: #89 DistantThunder

SAw it - tragic how the women and children were so excited to see the first UN vehicles show up - and started chanting Un, Un, UN, but it was a fact finding mission. The UN never planned to do anything.

Mia Farrow said that one point the women came to her and said: The UN isn't coming are they? No one's coming, are they?

Welcome to the New World Order - Liberal/Socialist style practicing the not so fine art of sElective caring.

What? The UN never planned to rape the women and molest the children?

re: #161 songbird

At least we're working on the same team!

LOL!

I wonder how many Koskiddies bother to quash a rumor about GWB!

Stupid question! It's all rumors over there.

re: #167 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Sorry, I'm new to posting on the web, and miss some of the nuances.

I know what "/sarc" or "/s" means. Does "/" by itself do the same thing?!?

Yep, extreme shorthand.

re: #172 wolfie

Two "special-interest" groups that need to get their act together and back McCain with all their might: the NRA and the pro-lifers. They can hurt Obama in PA, VA, and Ohio.

The truth is we all have to get our act together before it is to late!

re: #167 pre-Boomer Marine brat

yep. and when you see a bunch like this /////
it's really really sarcastic. LOL

More from American Murder Mystery article quoted above:

If replacing housing projects with vouchers had achieved its main goal—infusing the poor with middle-class habits—then higher crime rates might be a price worth paying. But today, social scientists looking back on the whole grand experiment are apt to use words like baffling and disappointing. A large federal-government study conducted over the past decade—a follow-up to the highly positive, highly publicized Gautreaux study of 1991—produced results that were “puzzling,” said Susan Popkin of the Urban Institute. In this study, volunteers were also moved into low-poverty neighborhoods, although they didn’t move nearly as far as the Gautreaux families. Women reported lower levels of obesity and depression. But they were no more likely to find jobs. The schools were not much better, and children were no more likely to stay in them. Girls were less likely to engage in risky behaviors, and they reported feeling more secure in their new neighborhoods. But boys were as likely to do drugs and act out, and more likely to get arrested for property crimes. The best Popkin can say is: “It has not lived up to its promise. It has not lifted people out of poverty, it has not made them self-sufficient, and it has left a lot of people behind.”

Baffled, confused, disappointed.

re: #99 mean Gene

I wonder if Obama and Michelle were in Sudan would they be with the refugees in camps or with the Janjaweed, ethnically cleansing the darkest-skinned Africans out of the country?
Has Obama even addressed the Sudan issue?

I was curious.

Obama on Darfur

There is something in this speech that doesn't sound right to me:

"Already, 50,000 African Muslims have been killed and 1.2 million displaced by the Sudanese Government and by Arab Janjaweed militias armed and encouraged by Khartoum."

There have been scores of non-Muslim Africans killed in Darfur. Interesting he didn't mention that.

The Janjaweed are Muslim. Interesting he didn't mention that either.

re: #157 Silhouette

The public library should have it-and I believe it should definitely be available for borrowing. It's an important historical document.

re: #89 DistantThunder
The UN and Kofi in Darfur were simply doing the arab islamist and slave trader decendant's bidding. Clear evidence of the UN aiding and abetting arab racial genocide of african blacks. Too bad Frontline somehow lost the lead.

re: #134 Nevergiveup

Here is the quote, according to the below source (I don't have the book, but this sounds about right and puts the "I will stand" part in full context).

The actual quote from the book is from page 261 and is as follows: "Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

Source: [Link: righttruth.typepad.com...]

re: #151 buzzsawmonkey

Obamamaniacs

We're Obamamaniacs
And we're zany to the max
We'll just sit back and relax
And watch the US collapse
Obamamaniacs!

Come join Rashid Khalidi and the wacky Reverend Wright
We know that they haven't vanished even though they're thrust from sight
Obama will go visit Iran, to the mullahs' delight
He'll backtrack from Iraq because he knows it's bad to fight

Obamamaniacs!
Free health care and lots more tax!
We'll turn backs upon the facts
Because fantasy attracts
Obamamaniacs!

You can meet all his advisors who don't care for Israel
Forget Rezko and Soros, never mind the fetid smell
Just let him eat his waffle and try to ignore Michelle
While Lefty gets his free stuff and the national debt swells

Obamamaniacs!
You can watch your rights contract!
Your lifestyle will be attacked when we join the Kyoto pact
We're Obama-mani--totally insane-y--Obamamaniacs!

Those are the facts!

JAFLW

/Good filk - you are a true poet and may even know it...

re: #180 shibumi

Obama's cousin's party in Kenya is essentially Janjawid South.

re: #117 tfc3rid

I don't see PA either but I would never underestimate the impact of Philly and Pittsburgh on the overall numbers in PA...

You have a point. Detroit, Ann Arbor and Flint turn Michigan bright blue during the elections.

re: #166 ethanxxx

Thank You Songbird.

Glad to help. Kudos to jcm who also searched hard.

WOLFIE...YOU STILL THERE?!

re: #18 Iron Fist

,

Think he'll go in and kiss the rock?

Blarney Stone?

re: #176 jcm

Hey, I'm wearing your avatar tonight!

re: #172 wolfie

Two "special-interest" groups that need to get their act together and back McCain with all their might: the NRA and the pro-lifers. They can hurt Obama in PA, VA, and Ohio.

The NRA is already moving in his direction. McCain will get their endorsement.

I'm not voting for the change Wahhabism wants.

re: #187 shibumi

You have a point. Detroit, Ann Arbor and Flint turn Michigan bright blue during the elections.

If you have ever seen a red blue map of the country broken down by voting districts? The whole country is essentially red except or these real deep blue islands called big cities.

Good afternoon, Lizards.

re: #177 Nevergiveup

The truth is we all have to get our act together before it is to late!

Absolutely.
Funny.
Mr. Wolf and I have never contributed any money to a candidate before.
We could never have guessed that McCain of all people would be the first one we would write a check to.

We're in VA so we really need to find ways to help stop Obama here.

re: #186 Biff

Obama's cousin's party in Kenya is essentially Janjawid South.

America's New First Family

scary.

re: #176 jcm

jcm and unrealizedviewpoint,

Thanks. Tutor me further.

I occasionally see words or phrases postscripted after a fwd-slash (wish I had an example handy) but the contexts don't seem to imply "/sarc".

What else is the "/" used for?

OK, Obama did try to fund African troops in Darfur:

[Link: obama.senate.gov...]

Obama/Reid Amendment
On Oct. 2, 2006, Sens. Obama (D-IL) and Reid (D-NV) offered a $20 million amendment to H.R. 5631, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act. The amendment allocated funds to support the African Union troops in Darfur.

Its not clear to me that Obama's approach would actually accomplish anything, but you can't say he didn't at least propose something.

re: #168 redstateredneck

Newt Gingrich is Chairman of American Solutions.

John McCain we'd like you to meet someone by the name of Newt Gingrich. He can help you understand how American's feel about this Anwar non-issue. Ya know this frozen place American's care nothing of when gasoline is $5 a gallon.

Off Topic

For Muslim women in Europe, a medical road back to virginity
[Link: www.iht.com...]

If you're a Muslim woman growing up in more open societies in Europe, you can easily end up having sex before marriage," said Hicham Mouallem, a doctor in London who performs the surgery. "So if you're looking to marry a Muslim and don't want to have problems, you'll try to recapture your virginity."

What does "have problems" mean?

And why do these Muslim men think bleeding = virgin? This is Western society? When the woman appears to know what she's doing in bed, this doesn't concern them, but bleeding allays all that?

This whole thing is just sickening.

re: #177 Nevergiveup

The Republican party should be neutral on pro-life issues. It should not be a political issue.

re: #193 alegrias

I'm not voting for the change Wahhabism wants.

Neither are most of those morons voting for Obama but non the less that is what they will get.

re: #194 Nevergiveup

If you have ever seen a red blue map of the country broken down by voting districts? The whole country is essentially red except or these real deep blue islands called big cities.

Also known as population centers... Where A LOT of votes are cast...

See NY State... NYC basically controls what happens statewide...

Desmond has his barrow in the market place...
Molly is the singer in a band...
Desmond says to Molly "Girl, I like your face"
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand...
Ob-ba-mi, Ob-ba-ma, life goes on, bro!...
Lala how the life goes on...
Ob-ba-mi, Ob-ba-ma, life goes on, bro!...
Lala how the life goes on.

_{And if you want some fun, take Ob-ba-mi-ba-ma}

re: #195 goddessoftheclassroom

Good afternoon, Lizards.

SLURP!

re: #198 pre-Boomer Marine brat

jcm and unrealizedviewpoint,

Thanks. Tutor me further.

I occasionally see words or phrases postscripted after a fwd-slash (wish I had an example handy) but the contexts don't seem to imply "/sarc".

What else is the "/" used for?

I think you're seeing the tag immediately following the comment. It means the same thing.

re: #167 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Sorry, I'm new to posting on the web, and miss some of the nuances.

I know what "/sarc" or "/s" means. Does "/" by itself do the same thing?!?

'/' nah its just slashies.

/ like rain our your wedding day
/ a no smoking sign on your cigarette break
/ irony.

re: #189 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

WOLFIE...YOU STILL THERE?!

Yes! I just went to get a cookie before the little wolves ate them all!

re: #179 DistantThunder

I took a GIS (Geographical Information Systems) class in college we had access to all the databases like that. I did a bunch of overlays like that.

High lotto ticket sales -> low income.
Single parent families -> high crime, more of a correlation than income.

One of the more interesting things I discovered was crime and parks. Stats are all counted against population a given area. Parks always come out as very high crime areas. The only people counting as living in a park are those living directly across the street, parks have very low population so the crime rate is "high".

MYBO's new webmasters.

[Link: www.pritchettcartoons.com...]

re: #202 Biff

The Republican party should be neutral on pro-life issues. It should not be a political issue.

Republican's stand for life, all lives.

re: #179 DistantThunder

If replacing housing projects with vouchers had achieved its main goal—infusing the poor with middle-class habits—then higher crime rates might be a price worth paying. But today, social scientists looking back on the whole grand experiment are apt to use words like baffling and disappointing.

Not so baffling. If you take a bottle of fine wine, and pour it into a bottle that is half full of piss, have you improved the piss, or ruined the wine?

re: #206 pre-Boomer Marine brat

SLURP!

Cats rule. Dogs drool.

re: #122 wolfie

Yes?

re: #208 ccrnyc

Hmmm. Irony, too. Okay. Thanks!

re: #201 USASupport

Off Topic

For Muslim women in Europe, a medical road back to virginity
[Link: www.iht.com...]
And why do these Muslim men think bleeding = virgin? This is Western society? When the woman appears to know what she's doing in bed, this doesn't concern them, but bleeding allays all that?

This whole thing is just sickening.

It's actually more grotesque than that. According to the original NY Times article that started the furor, many Muslim families don't believe the whole 'blood in the bed' thing anymore either. They actually require the woman to give them a Certificate of Virginity signed by a doctor! That's why these women have to go to such ridiculous lengths - they have to be able to fool a medical examiner employed by the family of their future husband!

Calling this someone's "culture" defames the concept of culture.

Maybe Obama can CHANGE S.A. to let women:

1. Have the right to vote
2. Have the privilege of driving a car
3. Have the right to leave the house without requiring a man's permission
4. Have the right not to get beaten by their husbands
5. Have the basic human right of allowing women to marry who they please

Oh, wait a minute, numbers 4 and 5 applies to ALL Muslim women, not just those cursed to be born in S.A.

re: #145 maddogg

I think PA. will go to McCain, as there are a lot of hunters in PA. and Obama is 100% gun controller, and is considered by the NRA to be a grave threat to the 2nd. Amendment.

I'd look for Michigan to do likewise, inspite of the endorcement of Obama by the UAW leadership.

re: #113 DistantThunder

Earlier this year, Betts presented her findings to city leaders, including Robert Lipscomb, the head of the Memphis Housing Authority. From what Lipscomb said to me, he’s still not moved. “You’ve already marginalized people and told them they have to move out,” he told me irritably, just as he’s told Betts. “Now you’re saying they moved somewhere else and created all these problems? That’s a really, really unfair assessment. You’re putting a big burden on people who have been too burdened already, and to me that’s, quote-unquote, criminal.” To Lipscomb, what matters is sending people who lived in public housing the message that “they can be successful, they can go to work and have kids who go to school. They can be self-sufficient and reach for the middle class.”

But Betts doesn’t think this message, alone, will stick, and she gets frustrated when she sees sensitivity about race or class blocking debate. “You can’t begin to problem-solve until you lay it out,” she said. “Most of us are not living in these high-crime neighborhoods. And I’m out there listening to the people who are not committing the crimes, who expected something better.” The victims, she notes, are seldom white. “There are decent African American neighborhoods—neighborhoods of choice—that are going down,” she said.

re: #214 goddessoftheclassroom

Be quiet and wipe your face.

re: #202 Biff

The Republican party should be neutral on pro-life issues. It should not be a political issue.

It certainly should NOT be a federal issue.
It's a terrible shame judicial activism made it one.

re: #180 shibumi

Over the last 22 years? I've lost count. I think over a million.

It will keep on.

To say nothing of the slave trade.

I hate Sudan.

re: #201 USASupport

Off Topic

For Muslim women in Europe, a medical road back to virginity
[Link: www.iht.com...]

If you're a Muslim woman growing up in more open societies in Europe, you can easily end up having sex before marriage," said Hicham Mouallem, a doctor in London who performs the surgery. "So if you're looking to marry a Muslim and don't want to have problems, you'll try to recapture your virginity."

What does "have problems" mean?

And why do these Muslim men think bleeding = virgin? This is Western society? When the woman appears to know what she's doing in bed, this doesn't concern them, but bleeding allays all that?

This whole thing is just sickening.

Bleeding = good
No bleeding = bad
muslim non - logic

re: #210 jcm

I took a GIS (Geographical Information Systems) class in college we had access to all the databases like that. I did a bunch of overlays like that.

High lotto ticket sales -> low income.
Single parent families -> high crime, more of a correlation than income.

One of the more interesting things I discovered was crime and parks. Stats are all counted against population a given area. Parks always come out as very high crime areas. The only people counting as living in a park are those living directly across the street, parks have very low population so the crime rate is "high".

Interesting

re: #117 tfc3rid

re: #107 shibumi
Realclearpolitics also gives PA to Obama; I'm not so sure about that. As for the blue collar Midwest (I'm in Michigan), many (but not all) of the blue collar types I know are not voting for the Messiah.

I don't see PA either but I would never underestimate the impact of Philly and Pittsburgh on the overall numbers in PA...

Don't write off Penna for McCain. Obama is very unpopular outside of the Southeast PA and the Harrisburg area. I key issue will be Mayor Mike Nutter in Philadelphia. He seems to be an incorruptible independant black democrat. The Democrat bosses may not be able to count on him to allow them to mess with the Philly vote counts (a la Mayor Daly in Chicago in 1960).

re: #198 pre-Boomer Marine brat

jcm and unrealizedviewpoint,

Thanks. Tutor me further.

I occasionally see words or phrases postscripted after a fwd-slash (wish I had an example handy) but the contexts don't seem to imply "/sarc".

What else is the "/" used for?

/moonbat

means moonbat mode off. The previous statement is my impression of what a moonbat would say.

Obama will save us from ChimpyMcBushitlerCheneyHaliburtonRove!
/moonbat

re: #215 Cap'n DOC

Yes?

You can't read invisible ink?!?

It was a Chuck Norris joke!
Too bad you missed it! :D

re: #15 Sharmuta

Did they just extend dawa'h to obama?

It's either that or a party on the beach.

re: #219 Honorary Yooper

He came out here (MT) and spewed some crap about how he admired those of us who hunted, since you know, we like, it it. He said not one word about how the company he keeps are all gun-control advocates...

re: #200 unrealizedviewpoint

John McCain we'd like you to meet someone by the name of Newt Gingrich. He can help you understand how American's feel about this Anwar non-issue. Ya know this frozen place American's care nothing of when gasoline is $5 a gallon.

Analysis of Crude Oil Production in the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(PDF warning)

Additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR would be only a small portion of total world oil production, and would likely be offset in part by somewhat lower production outside the United States. The opening of ANWR is projected to have its largest oil price reduction impacts as follows: a reduction in low-sulfur, light crude oil prices of $0.41 per barrel (2006 dollars) in 2026 for the low oil resource case, $0.75 per barrel in 2025 for the mean oil resource case, and $1.44 per barrel in 2027 for the high oil resource case, relative to the reference case.

$1.44 per barrel is a bit over 3 cents per gallon. $.41 per barrel is less than a penny per gallon.

The "Drill here, drill now" stuff is just political theater concocted to feed off the pain of Americans.

re: #217 Diamond Bullet

It's actually more grotesque than that. According to the original NY Times article that started the furor, many Muslim families don't believe the whole 'blood in the bed' thing anymore either. They actually require the woman to give them a Certificate of Virginity signed by a doctor! That's why these women have to go to such ridiculous lengths - they have to be able to fool a medical examiner employed by the family of their future husband!

LOL. . .

Seems like an easy way for Doctors to earn some scratch.

"Sure, she's a virgin, that will be $150, please".

Its a win-win-win. Honor is preserved, marriage happens, Doctor gets paid.

re: #181 WriterMom

Just checked...four copies, one at the branch I use.

re: #227 jcm

"mode off" ... yeah, that makes sense

re: #208 ccrnyc

'/' nah its just slashies.

/ like rain our your wedding day
/ a no smoking sign on your cigarette break
/ irony.

I think it means "off". As in,
[sarcasm]
That Obama, he's got all the answers!
[/sarcasm]
As used in bulletin board code and like sources. In casual posting at LGF, the "/sarcasm" has evolved down to just a /.

re: #47 Sharmuta

It's dawa'h- they've invited him to islam.

How can you go when you never left?

re: #231 freetoken

$1.44 per barrel is a bit over 3 cents per gallon. $.41 per barrel is less than a penny per gallon.

The "Drill here, drill now" stuff is just political theater concocted to feed off the pain of Americans.

Put if what is driving up the price is speculation on the fact that America will NOT drill at home for additional oil, the very acting of breaking the eggs on this will send a strong message to the commodity markets that we're willing to do what is necessary to find the oil.

re: #190 debutaunt,

The Mohammedans worship a rock they keep in the Ka'aba. It is supposed to be a meteroite that Mo found in the desert. I'm not sure why the Mohammedans worship it, but it is what they are bowing to when they beat their head on the ground five times a day. They have a ritual where they walk around the Ka'aba (big black cube of stone in the desert) several times then enter the Ka'aba and kiss the rock.

Hey, at least they aren't sacrificing babies on it.

re: #212 unrealizedviewpoint

Republican's stand for life, all lives.

I just finished a (IMHO) brilliant post on the topic, but just as I was about to hit "post this comment" I remembered Charles's injunction against it.

re: #25 Kosh's Shadow

Bush only promised to sell the Saudis nuclear reactors.
Whereas Obama will have some spare nuclear weapons after he unilaterally disarms.

That was my first thought too. Bush is giving the Saudis nuclear technology and yet they still want Obama. The know Obama is going to throw Israel under the bus.

re: #231 freetoken

Trotting out that old tired horse again? thats been debunked so many times its pathetic.

re: #228 wolfie

You gotta dingyup for that one...

The forward slash does mean "mode off" but for some reason it has also morphed into sometimes meaning a post-script, add-on type of thing.

/and I don't know why.

re: #231 freetoken

The "Drill here, drill now" stuff is just political theater concocted to feed off the pain of Americans.

Bull. It's about creating supply. It's tough to create supply when Congress will not allow drilling in areas where we have supply, where there is known supply, where there is unknow supply, and will not let us create more supply by converting coal to gasoline with proven and well-tested technologies.

We can have gas back to $2 again. It is possible, people.

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re: #223 Dianna

Over the last 22 years? I've lost count. I think over a million.

It will keep on.

To say nothing of the slave trade.

I hate Sudan.

It's from an Obama speech. So actual numbers and facts are irrelevant.

re: #222 wolfie

It certainly should NOT be a federal issue.
It's a terrible shame judicial activism made it one.

Because it's been an issue during each election, it's been the cause for the needed exposure, therefore the change of attitude. Pro-abortionists no longer have the support they did just a few cycles ago. Right-to-Lifer's are gaining ground. Soon, we hope to see a reversal of Roe v Wade.

re: #209 wolfie

Yes! I just went to get a cookie before the little wolves ate them all!

Scratch the Cleveland Indians cap. No cap. (Avs are playing the Indians.) Don't wanna get beat up!

re: #214 goddessoftheclassroom

Nothing looks worse than a cat which has just been licked by a dog!

re: #222 wolfie

It certainly should NOT be a federal issue.
It's a terrible shame judicial activism made it one.

The shame is that you have people supporting the whole scissors in the head thing.
I agree that it shouldn't be an issue, because in a decent society, the dems and the repubs would both be aghast at the thought. Ditto pulling out of Iraq, pleading with dictators, etc.

re: #210 jcm

One of the more interesting things I discovered was crime and parks. Stats are all counted against population a given area. Parks always come out as very high crime areas. The only people counting as living in a park are those living directly across the street, parks have very low population so the crime rate is "high".

The "low denominator" argument is undoubtedly correct, but I think parks actually *do* represent places where crime happens, if only because they represent some of the only open unguarded spaces in urban places.

Simply put, bad people go to parks at night to do questionable things.

re: #221 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Be quiet and wipe your face.

LOL!

re: #246 shibumi

It's from an Obama speech. So actual numbers and facts are irrelevant.

His uncle freed the people of Darfur.

re: #244 Honorary Yooper

Yes we can? lol

re: #240 gman

That was my first thought too. Bush is giving the Saudis nuclear technology and yet they still want Obama. The know Obama is going to throw Israel under the bus.

You know he already has. The day after he spoke so eloquently to AIPAC about keeping Jerusalem united, he gave an interview on CNN and said that the final disposition of Jerusalem is subject to negotiation. In other words, Jerusalem? eh!

re: #101 Diamond Bullet

Also, the NY times article has some other truly mesmerizing feats of idiotic logic:

He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

That makes a lot of sense.

What is Muslim nationalism?

re: #222 wolfie

I'll disagree with you there. I don't believe the states should individually legislate prohibitions on medical treatment. The question of when and how the Constitution may protect the unborn is a federal judicial issue.

interesting that so many people and so many countries who don't like us, sure like him.
why wouldn't they after what he has said abt. america.

re: #243 Silhouette

The forward slash does mean "mode off" but for some reason it has also morphed into sometimes meaning a post-script, add-on type of thing.

/and I don't know why.

It does sometimes confuse.

/and I don't know why.

re: #237 DistantThunder

Put if what is driving up the price is speculation on the fact that America will NOT drill at home for additional oil, the very acting of breaking the eggs on this will send a strong message to the commodity markets that we're willing to do what is necessary to find the oil.

Right.

By simple supply/demand, oil should be much cheaper than it is now. A lot of the elevation is a speculation driven "bubble".

Commitment by the US to increase the supply. . .heck even credible TALK of such a commitment. . .could be enough to burst the bubble and drop oil prices signficantly.

re: #231 freetoken

$1.44 per barrel is a bit over 3 cents per gallon. $.41 per barrel is less than a penny per gallon.

The "Drill here, drill now" stuff is just political theater concocted to feed off the pain of Americans.

Here's the thing: the media tends to like "political theater." It makes good copy in newspapers, and interesting sound bites on the tv news.

And if the media notices it, the politicians will notice it.