[Oby's upset a being portrayed as a Muslim terrorists in a cartoon -
- but who is it that gets upset at cartoons?...]

Alfred E. Obama is Not Funny!!

[HT:GS]
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: That's Not Funny!

If you think that Muslims burning the Danish Mohammed Cartoons don't have a sense of humor, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Just wait til the Political Correct Commissars catch you laughing at Barack Obama.

It's like the old rabid feminists: That's Not Funny!

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Army Captain Receives Silver Star in Afghanistan

Army Capt. William G. Cromie receives the Silver Star Medal from Army Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser, Combined Joint Task Force 101 commander, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, July 12, 2008. Cromie was recognized for his valor and leadership abilities in a combat operation on Nov. 16, 2007.

“While travelling down the road, our first vehicle struck an IED,” Cromie said. “Immediately, we were ambushed on three sides by heavily armed militants.”

Two of Cromie’s soldiers managed to maneuver into a better position that allowed them to cover the platoon, but they were soon pinned down and running dangerously low on ammunition. Grabbing more ammunition, Cromie took off through the small-arms crossfire to resupply his two soldiers...

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Al Qaida Iraq ringleaders captured

-- U.S. forces in Iraq Tuesday announced the capture of the suspected leader of an al Qaida bombing ring allegedly affiliated with Hezbollah.

The Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF) said in a written statement said the suspect is believed to have been trained in Iran in the use of explosives and has been running a "network of explosives experts in Baghdad."

The MNF also said it captured a suspect near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk who allegedly provided forged travel documents for foreign terrorists entering Iraq

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Media Ignores Successful U.S. Military Recruitment Stats

The Armed Forces Press Service issued a press release on Thursday morning, July 10, in celebration of the fact that the U.S. military has had 13 consecutive months of meeting and/or exceeding recruitment goals. Sadly, the media stayed sullenly quite all day, taking no notice of the success of our military on OR off the field.

Regardless of the fact that the media ignored the good news, there is good news, indeed...

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Fear Of The ''Provocative''

Asked how the United States ought to respond to last week's Iranian missile tests, Barack Obama told CNN that it was important ''we avoid provocation.'' Just as last year, Obama criticized a Senate bill designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization because it was too ''provocative.''

(Snip) The Iranian regime is increasingly confident and bellicose. The president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, openly pines for a world without America and Israel.

This has us wondering: Is the problem with Iran that the United States seems provocative?

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Tony Blair Cancels Gaza Visit After Intel Uncovers Plot to Kill Him

On Tuesday, Mideast envoy Tony Blair called off what would have been the first visit of a top Western diplomat to Hamas-ruled Gaza, after Israel's Shin Bet security service received ''pinpointed and imminent'' intelligence that there was going to be an assassination attempt on his life. The Shin Bet security service said it had received ''information that Palestinians were planning to attack Blair in Gaza, ...''

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France probes threats over cable TV porn

Paris - Anti-terrorism investigators in Paris are probing threats against a leading French cable TV channel over pornographic films it airs that can be viewed in North Africa, a judicial official said Tuesday. Canal-Plus, France's first pay-TV channel, received letters from one or more people claiming to be Muslim and threatening to blow up its headquarters if it continues to broadcast once-a-month pornographic films...

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Jordan's Legal Jihad

In a brazen attempt to stifle free speech in the West, a Jordanian court recently summoned twelve European citizens to answer criminal charges of blasphemy and inciting hatred.

Among those sought by the court is Geert Wilders, the Dutch liberal politician who made the anti-Islamist film, Fitna. Released last March, the Dutch MP’s production caused an uproar in Islamic countries, since it equated Islam with violence. Now a Middle Eastern court would like to prosecute Wilders for the “crime.”

The Jordanian court’s move is only the most ambitious attempt to silence debate about Islam. Until now, the preferred strategy has been to file civil lawsuits in western courts to intimidate critics. The latest version of what may be called the legal jihad is even more disturbing...

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Russia to 'neutralise' US missile defence threat: report

MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia's military is ready to "neutralise" any threat to its nuclear deterrent from US missile defence sites in Europe, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak said Monday, according to Interfax news agency.

"If we see the development of systems that could reduce our deterrent potential, our military will have to take steps to neutralise the threat," Kislyak was quoted as saying at a briefing in Moscow.

He did not specify the steps that would be taken, saying "this will be decided by military specialists."

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Back In the USSR?
Vladimir Putin's appointment this spring as prime minister of the symbolic ''union'' of Russia and Belarus was yet another example of the troubling similarities between today's Russia and the other most stable and prosperous Russian regime of the past 80 years: Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union in the 1970s. That economy, too, was fueled by then-record oil prices.
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Russia's Medvedev condemns Western 'paternalism'
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has attacked Western "paternalism" in a major foreign policy speech, singling out US and European policies on missile defence and Kosovo for criticism. "With the end of the Cold War, there is no reason to have a bloc mentality. There is also no reason for paternalism, where some countries decide everything for others," Mr Medvedev said during a meeting with Russian diplomats in Moscow.
['blockish'? they've threaten to point nuclear missiles at Europe]
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China urges court to 'rethink' Sudan arrest warrant

Beijing - China urged the International Criminal Court to rethink its arrest warrant for Sudan's president Tuesday in a sign of Beijing's skittishness over its already difficult relationship with the African country. China, which buys two-thirds of Sudan's petroleum exports, has been repeatedly criticized for not using its economic leverage to apply more pressure on the government...

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KYOTO'S LONG GOODBYE

One of the mysteries of the universe is why President Bush bothers to charge the fixed bayonets of the global warming theocracy. On the other hand, his Administration's supposed "cowboy diplomacy" is succeeding in changing the way the world addresses climate change. Which is to say, he has forced the world to pay at least some attention to reality, says the Wall Street Journal.

That was the larger meaning of the Group of Eight summit in Japan this week, even if it didn't make the papers. The headline was that the nations pledged to cut global greenhouse emissions by half by 2050:

• Yet for the first time, the G-8 also agreed that any meaningful climate program would have to involve industrializing nations like China and India.
• For the first time, too, the G-8 agreed that real progress will depend on technological advancements.
• And it agreed that the putative benefits [?] had to justify any brakes on economic growth.

In other words, the G-8 signed on to what has been the White House approach since 2002. The United States has relied on the arc of domestic energy programs now in place, like fuel-economy standards and efficiency regulations, along with billions in subsidies for low-carbon technology. Europe threw in with the central planning of the Kyoto Protocol -- and the contrast is instructive, says the Journal:

• Between 2000 and 2006, U.S. net greenhouse gas emissions fell 3 percent.
• Of the 17 largest worldwide emitters, only France reduced by more. [you know, the nuclear country]

So despite environmentalist sanctimony about the urgent need for President Bush and the United States to "take the lead" on global warming, his program has done better than most everybody else's. That won't make the evening news. But the fact is that the new G-8 document is best understood as a second look at the "leadership" of . . . you know who, says the Journal.

[you've got to admit, for a guy all but eulogized by the press since the Democrat take over in '06, 'he who shall not be named' has been quietly running up quite a success record both at home and abroad]

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Hot and bothered over climate

If you are confused about the Kyoto Accord, climate change, greenhouse gases, the deleterious effects of carbon dioxide (CO2), and assorted environmental threats as outlined in Al Gore's Academy Award and Nobel Prize winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, I have a solution.

Go on the Internet to www.friendsofscience.org, the University of Calgary-based non-profit volunteer organization of atmospheric and other scientists who challenge politically inspired concepts that the planet is threatened by climate change due to man's irresponsible misuse of the environment.

The website is replete with data that differs considerably from the convictions of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), comprised of 2,500 scientists (of differing disciplines) whose assessments are sorted and selected by another UN body which blends them into a politically acceptable rant.

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Reid: No drilling

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Monday that he would not allow a vote on an amendment giving states new authority to seek oil off their coasts... [snip]

The reaction puts Democrats in line with their presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), who opposes lifting the offshore-drilling ban.

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Bush offshore drilling plan hits wave of opposition in California

California

California's top 'leaders' made it clear Monday that they want nothing to do with President Bush's plan to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling.

Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "Once again, the oilman in the White House is echoing the demands of Big Oil," ... "The Bush plan is a hoax. It will neither reduce gas prices nor increase energy independence. It just gives millions more acres to the same companies that are sitting on nearly 68 million acres of [functionally empty, oil wise] public lands and coastal areas."

Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer: Bush was "taking special-interest government to a new level" and "will do not one thing to lower gas prices for the American people," Boxer said. "This proposal is something you'd expect from an oil company CEO, not the president of the United States."

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said the president was "deluding the American public" into believing that new offshore drilling is a quick fix to $4-per-gallon gasoline. "Nothing could be further from the truth," she said. "We cannot drill our way out of this problem."

[the land of fruits and nuts. seriously, this degree of disinformation is insulting: they're lying to our faces on every point - the only question is if any will ever be held accountable for it...]

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How much have the Democrats cost you at the pump?

Senator Chuck Schumer claims that coercing Saudi Arabia to increase oil production by 1 million barrels a day would drop the per barrel price by $25, saving Americans 62 cent per gallon at the gas pump.

Yet, somehow, that same amount of oil coming from Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would only ease oil prices by a penny according to Schumer.

(Snip) Schumer's daily magic number of 1 million barrels is the exact increase experts believe we would today be pumping through the Alaska pipeline had Bill Clinton not vetoed ANWR drilling back in 1995...

[62 cents off from ANWR + the 75 cents in tax (total, CA) = $1.41 less. But not with this bunch in congress. Too bad we couldn't just vote for somebody else in November...]

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WAITING FOR NEW DRUGS IN CANADA

Access to new medicines in Canada is delayed or blocked by government policies and drug plans, says the Fraser Institute.

A recent Fraser Institute report measured the length of time patients must wait to access new drugs in Canada:

• In 2006, the average length of time taken by Health Canada to approve the use of new medicines was 380 days.
• The subsequent delay resulting from the provincial approval or reimbursement for new drugs averaged 323 days.
• Including both the national delay and the provincial delay, the total average wait time for new patients dependent on public drug benefits for insured access to new medicines was 703 days, or 1.9 years, in 2006.

To make matters worse, 39 percent of drugs approved by Health Canada in 2006 were declared ineligible for reimbursement under provincial drug plans. Patients who were dependent on public drug plans were covered for less than half of the new drugs approved for sale by Health Canada.

By comparison, patients covered by private insurance plans who could afford to purchase these drugs on their own had access to virtually all of Canada's newly approved drugs.

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Dilatory government doesn’t get it done

Illinois Auditor General William Holland was so angry over the Department of Healthcare and Family Services’ delays in submitting information over the past year, he told them he was suspending all activity on his audit and wouldn’t resume until the “delinquent information” was provided. “For the first time in 15 years, I walked away from an audit,” Holland said in an interview. “I said, ‘You guys are just not being responsive.’ ”

The 2007 fiscal year audit, finally completed and released last week, reports 15 significant “findings,” problems with how the state’s largest department handles its finances. In the body of the report there is strong language: “The department’s actions resulted in significant delays in the financial reporting process, were dilatory, and were a disservice to the users of the state’s financial reports.”

The incident shows how sensitive the Blagojevich administration is to the large Medicaid deficit the state carries, at a time when the governor is trying to expand health-care programs. Last month the auditor general released a separate audit, this one showing that the amount the state has owed medical providers at the end of the last four fiscal years has averaged a whopping $1.5 billion...

[a government run health care system running huge deficits despite being the state's largest department - how surprising. And the governor wants to expand it]

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Obama: Embarrassed by America

First there was the flag pin. Barack Obama refused to wear it. Then he refused to put hand to heart during the national anthem. He sat in a pew while his pastor trashed America. He explained to his rich pals in San Francisco that the hard working folks in Middle America "cling to guns or religion” because they are “bitter” over the tough economic times.

Now Obama tells us that we shouldn’t worry about immigrants learning English; our focus should be on getting our children to learn Spanish. He added, "It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is merci beaucoup."

American soldiers are fighting, and dying in battles thousands of miles from their homes, American medical personnel are caring for refugees and orphans throughout the world, and the American people are more generous than any on earth, ready to help the sick and needy wherever they live, and Barack Obama is embarrassed because his countrymen don’t speak French?

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Liberal TNR Editor: 'Bush Never Lied to Us About Iraq'

James Kirchick, assistant editor of The New Republic, has come under NewsBusters scrutiny for his bias before, of course. Our job is, we all know, to document and analyze that bias. But while we naturally focus on when the media get it wrong, we should have the maturity to point out when those who we criticize get it right. Here is a case when a member of the media that we usually criticize did, indeed, get it right and this time it might get him in Dutch with his lefty pals in the nutroots. After all, the surest way to get the nutroots upset at you is to say Bush did not lie about the war. But that is exactly what Kirchick just did and he did an admirable job chronicling it, too.

In an editorial in the L.A. Times on the 16th, Kirchick said that "Bush never lied to us about Iraq" and then went on to substantiate his claim in a style...

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'Brandenburg Gategate'

'Odd." That's what the chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, said when told of Barack Obama's plan to deliver a major campaign speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, right where the Berlin wall used to be, where Ronald Reagan once famously called upon the Soviet Union to "tear this wall down," and not far from where John F. Kennedy once said "Ich bin ein Berliner" — "I am a Berliner" — to show his solidarity with the citizens of what used to be a divided city. One can see her point: We too would find it odd if foreign politicians made campaign speeches in front of the Lincoln Memorial, or asked to use the Washington monument as a political backdrop...

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