UN Chief Laments 'Politics of Hate'

No word if he was looking directly at Barack Obama when he said this.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned kings, prime ministers and presidents Thursday of growing political polarization and social inequalities and implored U.N. members to show greater tolerance and mutual respect to bring the world together.

In his keynote speech to the opening of the General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting, the U.N. chief told leaders from the 192-member nations that "today, we are being tested."

Ban said people everywhere are living in fear of losing their jobs, too many are caught in conflict, "and we see a new politics at work - a politics of polarization."

"We hear the language of hate, false divisions between `them' and `us,' those who insist on `their way' or `no way,'" he said.

Does that cover people who dismissed opposition and said I won?

As to the "language of hate," has Moon ever read any leftwing media and blogs talking about Tea Partiers?

Unexpected! Jobless Claims Rise Again

It's like a running gag now. Any time things look bleak for Obama and his merry band of idiots it's unexpected. The media are apparently the last ones to realize how stupid they look every time they call job losses and upticks in unemployment unexpected.

Weaker-than-expected economic data boosted U.S. government securities prices on Thursday and seemed to increase the likelihood the Federal Reserve would buy debt to aid the economy.

An unexpected rise in new U.S. jobless claims and overnight reports showing a slower pace of growth in the euro zone's services and manufacturing sectors boosted demand for safe-haven government debt.

The news was also unexpected here, here and here.

The rest of us don't see any of this as unexpected. What else should we expect with Democrats in charge?

Obama's America: Rich Democrats Getting Richer

The deep recession sure hasn't hurt Obama pals Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

The richest Americans are getting richer, according to the latest release of the Forbes ranking of the 400 richest Americans.

At a combined wealth of $1.37 trillion, the 400 Richest Americans saw their wealth increase by 8% over last year. The wealth level needed to make the Forbes 400 also pushed back above $1 billion; it had fallen below $1 billion in 2009 for first time since 2006.

No surprise at the top of the list, Bill Gates of Microsoft in the No. 1 spot with a net worth of $54 billion, and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway at No. 2 among America's richest, with wealth estimated at $45 billion.
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Among the Top 10 Richest Americans in the Forbes 400, only Larry Ellison of Oracle and Michael Bloomberg have made the Buffett/Gates charitable pledge. Ellison is No. 3 on the Forbes 400, with an estimated wealth of $27 billion. Bloomberg rounded out the Forbes 400 Top 10 with an estimated wealth of $18 billion.

We all know Bloomberg gives Obama a tongue-bath at every opportunity, and Ellison is a supporter.

Just remember this the next time Obama rails against "the rich" his pals become more wealthy while he's busy wrecking our economy.

Angry Teabaggers Heckle Obama: 'Obama Broken Promises KILL'

Tea Partiers really have to get control of their activists. We must return to civility and stop with this angry, raucous behavior. What sort of example does this set to the rest of the public?

Oh, wait, it was core Democrat constituents booing him.

Never mind.

President Barack Obama got heckled at a fundraiser Wednesday night by protesters pushing for more funding for AIDS programs and quicker action to allow gays to serve openly in the military.

Activists yelled slogans and held signs aloft reading "Obama broken promises KILL." Supporters of the president tried to drown them out with shouts of "O-bam-a! O-bam-a!"

The hecklers were so raucous Obama went off-script several times to address them, insisting he's increased AIDS funding and is working to overturn the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. He told them to go shout at Republicans, noting that a vote on repealing "don't ask, don't tell" failed this week in the Senate, with Republicans united in opposition.

"Some of those signs should be going up at the other folks' events, and folks should be hollering at the other folks' event. Because the choice in November could not be clearer," the president said.

How pathetic. The man just refuses to accept responsibility for anything. Oooh, ooh, don't yell at me, yell at them!

Addressing an activist pushing for more funding for global AIDS initiatives, the president said, "We heard your point. And as I said before, we increased AIDS funding. ... The people who will take over if we don't focus on the election, I promise you, will cut AIDS funding."

Really? Can he point to a single vow from a single Republican who said they'd cut AIDS funding?

'Have I Voted for the Mayor? Yes'

Geez, this guy can't even tell the truth about something so innocuous as to who he voted for? Well, it's no big deal, I guess. It'll be a one-night story and the media will basically give him a pass.

But for all his actions as the state’s chief law enforcement officer, Cuomo did have a little problem with telling the truth about his election box support for Mayor Bloomberg.

“Have I voted for the mayor? Yes,” Cuomo said.

Actually, he didn’t. The Cuomo campaign had to issue a clarification, saying he was only registered to vote in New York City in 2005 when he endorsed Democrat Fernando Ferrer.

Political experts say Cuomo can’t afford to make a mistake like that in a close contest.

“When the races tighten up in this way you can’t afford many more ‘whoops’ moments. He’s got to be a lot more careful going forward,” political consultant Hank Sheinkopf said.

The Paladino team used the faux pas to taunt Cuomo about not yet agreeing to debates.

Paladino spokesman Caputo said “Perhaps that’s why Andrew is afraid to debate. He misspeaks so much he fears facing the voters.”

Not exactly the best timing to be caught in a lie.

Lend Us Your Rear: KFC's Cheeky New Ass-vertising Campaign

Just make sure the young ladies have the right proportions. You don't want people confusing this with flat-bread sandwiches.

KFC wants folks to watch its backside.

Or, more precisely, the backsides of female college students it's recruiting to promote its hot new bunless Double Down sandwiches.

Women on college campuses are being paid $500 each to hand out coupons while wearing fitted sweatpants with "Double Down" in large letters across their rear ends.

The promo comes as KFC is in the doldrums domestically. The world's largest chicken chain's U.S. same-store sales fell 7% in the second quarter. Nearly all its growth now is in international expansion.

Last week, the chain confessed that more than six in 10 Americans ages 18 to 25 — the chain's key demographic — couldn't identify who Colonel Sanders was in the KFC logo.

Now, it's turning to cute women parading around campus with "Double Down" emblazoned across their fannies.

Naturally, those charming ladies from the Nationals Association of Gals have a problem with these coeds making a quick buck.

The nation's largest women's group doesn't like it one bit. "It's so obnoxious to once again be using women's bodies to sell fundamentally unhealthy products," says Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women. What's more, she says, KFC has forgotten something important: Women make more than half the decisions about what to eat for dinner.

But KFC marketing chief John Cywinski says it's an effective way to catch the attention of young men — KFC's key customers and the biggest fans of Double Down.

Tired Old Memo: Al Qaeda Threat Overblown; Urgent New Memo: Al-Qaeda Threat More Complex

The left has been fond of telling us that al Qaeda no longer poses a threat to us and in fact just yesterday the current occupant of the White House said it was really no big deal. Just shrug it off. Besides, we don't want to fuel anti-American extremism with our behavior, as preached here.

In 2008, in his book “Leaderless Jihad,” Marc Sageman, a psychiatrist and former C.I.A. officer who has long studied terrorism networks, wrote that Al Qaeda was in decline, to be replaced by dispersed terrorists for whom it provided mostly inspiration. The new generation of extremists, he believed, would be less skilled and would likely pose less of a threat than the network responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.

Dr. Sageman said he saw no reason to revise that judgment today. The plots of the last year should be carefully analyzed and the findings used to improve counterterrorism, not turned into fuel for thoughtless anti-Muslim panic and discrimination, he said.

“If we overreact and upset 1.5 billion Muslims,” Dr. Sageman said, referring to the global total, “then we’ll have a lot bigger problem on our hands.”

Fast forward to today and what do you know, we've got an election to win, so it's time to panic, everybody!

Three top Obama administration officials in the fight against terror said Wednesday that the al-Qaida threat to the United States has grown more complex in the past year and underscores the challenges of pinpointing and blocking terrorist plots.

In remarks to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday, Michael Leiter, director of the national counterterrorism center, said al-Qaida in Pakistan is at one of its weakest points organizationally.

Nonetheless, said Leiter, the terrorist group remains a capable and determined enemy that has proven its resilience over time.

"Groups affiliated with al-Qaida are now actively targeting the United States and looking to use Americans or Westerners who are able to remain undetected by heightened security measures," said FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said al-Qaida has inspired an array of terrorist groups.

"We are all seeing more diverse activity" by a more diverse collection of groups, said Napolitano.

"The threat is still all too real," committee chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said as the start of the hearing.

If I didn't know better I'd suggest they're instilling fear int he public just six weeks before an election.

Wasn't that the mantra every election cycle during the Bush years any time terrorism was mentioned?

Just watch: The Obama media will dutifully parrot these threats today after years of downplaying them while Bush was president.

'Ohio Democrats Have Clearly Lost It Before They've Lost It'

We just under six weeks from the midterms and foul-mouthed Democrat leaders are becoming completely unglued. Do these morons thinks their continued assault on tea partiers is a winning strategy?

In the midst of a heated general election cycle, Ohio's Democratic Party chairman is admitting he used some "colorful language" during a political event in Monroe County Monday night.

As the United Steelworkers union was announcing its endorsement for a number of Ohio democrats, including Gov. Ted Strickland, Chris Redfern used a variation of the f-word to describe opponents to his party's agenda.

A NEWS9 reporting crew was invited into the union hall in Clarington for the endorsement announcement, and the camera was rolling as Redfern leveled the expletive at critics in the tea party, who, in his words, believe health care is a privilege, not a right.

"If your kids are going to graduate from college, now he or she gets health care, your heath care, while he or she looks for a new job," Redfern said. "It's in the very base terms we win these arguments. Every time one of these (expletive deleted) says, excuse my language."

When NEWS9 contacted Redfern for an explanation of his comment, he was under the impression that the endorsement announcement was a private event.

Redfern also said he saw both the NEWS9 reporter and videographer, but did not see the reporter holding a microphone and assumed his comments were not being recorded.

How big a tool is this guy? You see a reporter with a camera but don't think you're being recorded? What an idiot.

Tuesday, after reviewing Redfern's comments and his explanation, NEWS9 used a laptop computer to play the speech for local voters to ask if they thought his remark crossed a line.

"Well, i think it's probably inappropriate for the setting, but I think emotions are starting to take place with the tea party movement," said Jeff Gray, of Steubenville. "These guys are starting to panic."

Gray said he is a Democrat who occasionally votes for Republicans.

"With this comment, I don't know, it was an emotional comment," said Gray. "I think things are coming to a head. It should be a very interesting election."

Elizabeth French, of Steubenville, who did not offer to reveal her political affiliation, questioned Redfern's choice of words.

"Even being as angry as he is, why (swear)," said French. "That's not going to solve the problem."

The Strickland campaign had not heard Redfern's quote firsthand as of midnight Tuesday, and did not want to respond directly to it until they had gotten a chance to review it.

The campaign did issue a general statement reading: "The Strickland campaign does not condone that sort of language, even behind closed doors."

State Republican Party communications director John McClelland offered his party's response.

"Ohio Democrats have clearly lost it before they've lost it," said McClelland in a statement e-mailed to NEWS9. "It's unfortunate that a few bad poll numbers have them lashing out at voters with name-calling and profanity. Ohioans deserve better from a party that promised a higher standard."

The video clip is here.

H/T.

3,000 Dead Americans Just Another Day At The Office

That is unless it is your office that is object of affection of the terrorists. This shouldn't surprise anyone really coming from a man who has vilified everyone and everything at one time or another as being the next great evil but Islamic extremists. Big Banks, Wall St, Insurance companies, Tea Party supporters, Big Pharma and the list goes on and on. I guess he didn't shed too many tears over the 9/11 attack since the target was some of those very same evil Wall St type folks he holds in such contempt.

Woodward's book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said, "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger."

More people died in the attacks on the World Trade Centers (2977) then died in the attack on Pearl Harbor (2388), A day which will live in infamy. One was an attack on a military target while the other was aimed directly at civilians.

His revelation comes across as callous, and like everything else this administration does it all boils down to numbers. You are just a number, whether it comes to how the health care takeover which will dole out it's services or the number of unemployed, which they seem to come up with a different euphemism to describe every time you turn around. Remember the flap over the removal of a cancer drug from an approved list because of the cost benefit analysis?

So we can "absorb a terrorist attack" huh? That sounds like the drunk in a bar challenging the big dude with a taunt of is that the best you can do. C'mon hit us again, we can take it. I want to be the big guy who turns around and with a stare that freezes the blood in your veins responds with a promise that you will no longer be eating your meals with that big mouth of yours but rather you will be sucking them through a straw.

In other words America, suck it up. Now watch this - "Fore"

It is true that Americans when we get knocked down, at least in the past anyway, didn't spend a lot of time crying in the dirt but rather we pick ourselves up and get back into the fight. Nowadays I am not so sure. The rise of the metrosexual and a culture which lionizes beta males while trying to drug and suppress any signs of macho out of our males just doesn't seem to me to be a lot to hang your hat on. It may explain the rise of women in Republican politics. Somebodies got to wear the pants and apparently it ain't the men anymore.

The only person in this country who is really happy that Obama is president is Jimmy Carter because he can now shed the moniker of worst president ever.

"Death of one man is a tragedy. Death of a million is a statistic," - Joseph Stalin

Toomey Up 50-43 in PA Senate Race

Doesn't look like the deeply unpopular Barack Obama's visit to Pennsylvania has done any good for Joe Sestak, and GOP candidate Pat Toomey had moved out to a 50-43 lead according to a Quinnipiac poll released this morning.

Republican Pat Toomey has hit the magic 50 percent mark as he leads Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak 50 - 43 percent in the race for Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate seat, according to a Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters released today.

Pennsylvania likely voters disapprove 56 - 40 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, the independent Quinnipiac University survey, conducted by live interviewers, finds. This first general election survey of Pennsylvania likely voters in this election cycle cannot be compared to earlier surveys of registered voters.

By a 52 - 43 percent margin, voters want a U.S. Senator who opposes rather than supports the president's policies and say 46 - 35 percent they want Republicans, rather than Democrats, to control the U.S. Senate after the November ballots are counted.

Toomey is winning 86 - 9 percent among Republicans and losing 87 - 7 percent among Democrats. He holds a commanding 54 - 36 percent lead among independent voters, which provides his current lead overall.

There is a very large gender gap in the Senate race, with Toomey ahead among male likely voters 58 - 37 percent and trailing among women likely voters 51 - 40 percent. The gender gap on the president's job performance is even wider with women approving 50 - 43 percent, while men disapprove by more than two-to-one, 66 - 31 percent.

No wonder Obama is reduced to sending his wife out to campaign.

Oof: Paladino Within Six Points of Cuomo

As the impending GOP tide threatens to consume the Democrats come November 2, we always figured one sure Democrat winner would be Andrew Cuomo in the New York gubernatorial contest. His victory, of course, would be trumpeted loudly on CNN and MSNBC on election night as a sign of a Democrat wave or something, before they got back to crying on national television.

Well, I might have to pull back on that forecast. If Cuomo can't beat Carl Paladino, is any Democrat safe?

Flame-throwing Republican Carl Paladino is within striking distance of overtaking longtime gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, a shocking new poll finds.

Among likely voters, the Democrat Cuomo has a paltry 49% to 43% lead over Paladino, the blowhard Buffalo businessman who won a shocking and decisive victory last week in the GOP primary, the Quinnipiac University poll finds.

Quinnipiac's findings are in stark contrast to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday that showed Cuomo with a more robust 54% to 38% lead.

Cuomo "might be a victim of his own excess," Quinnipiac pollster Maurice Carroll said. "Politicians and polls have depicted him so relentlessly as a sure thing that he might be a victim of the 'throw the bums out' attitude that hits incumbents in this angry year."

Neither the Quinnipiac nor the Rasmussen polls included Rick Lazio, who Paladino beat in the Republican primary, but who won a spot on the Conservative line.

Lazio, who many experts believe would draw more votes from Paladino than Cuomo, is deciding whether to remain on the ballot.

In the two-way race between Cuomo and Paladino, Quinnipiac found that Cuomo has strong leads among Democrats and women.

Paladino not only crushes Cuomo among Republicans and those who consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement, but he also leads by a 49% to 43% margin among independents - a key voting bloc.

The tough-talking Paladino also leads among men by a 49-46% margin, Quinnipiac found.

Nearly 80% of voters say their minds are made up.

"The question was whether Carl Paladino would get a bounce from his big Republican primary victory," Carroll said. "The answer is yes. He's within shouting distance and - you can count on it - he will be shouting."

While Paladino has flown under the national radar as opposed to Congressional and Senate races involving declared Tea Partiers, his often eccentric and belligerent behavior has begun to attract notice of the drive-by media. As their obsession with Christine O'Donnell wanes, they'll likely move on to the bomb-throwing Paladino and make him the template representative of all things Tea Party. It won't work, but they'll give it their best as ordered by their Democrat bosses.

Oh, and memo to Rick Lazio: Get out now and throw your support to Paladino. At this point it doesn't mean much, but man up and do the right thing.

Consider also that the overwhelmingly Democrat New York State has both senators facing the voters November 2, albeit against token opposition. Yet still Kirsten Gillibrand leads by only 10 points against a virtual unknown. Is it possible a surge for Paladino could endanger Gillibrand?

It's a shame no Republicans of any note stepped up to challenge Chuckie Schumer. Now there would be a nice scalp for the GOP to claim on election night.

One more thing working in favor of Paladino: The douchebag Mayor of New York City will likely be endorsing Cuomo.

Thanks to Instapundit and Hot Air for the links.

'I'm Not Going to Run a Campaign That Engages in Gutter Politics'

So says the man whose party just released a photo depicting his opponent as a pig.

Andrew Cuomo says he won't be getting into the political mud with Carl Paladino -- a day after the state Democratic Party he controls released a photo of Paladino's face slapped onto the body of a pig.

"I'm not going to run a campaign that engages in gutter politics. I'm not going to do that," the state attorney general and gubernatorial candidate said on an interview this morning on WGDJ radio in Albany.

The Democrat's comments signaled a public desire to let surrogates publicly take on the Buffalo Republican in the governor's race.

But Cuomo did try to distance himself from a "Paladino pig" photograph released Monday by the state Democratic Party, claiming Paladino is "at the public trough" because of his real estate business that has had dozens of leases with state agencies for space in Buffalo area office buildings.

"I don't think that was necessary," Cuomo said of the attack photo by his party. But, asked if he admonished those who created the photograph, Cuomo said, "No, I don't admonish anyone."

Cuomo insisted his campaign will take the high road over the next six weeks.

"In terms of getting involved in the name-calling situation, I'm not going to do that. I am not going to further degrade the political process of New York, which has been degraded plenty," Cuomo said.

Especially by all the lowlifes and miscreants in his party.

As to name-calling, Cuomo allegedly has a history of that.

Man Up! Desperate Obama Sends His Wife Out to Campaign

Start praying

I guess now an official role of the First Lady is to fly around the country on the taxpayer dime to campaign for endangered Democrats. Of course they're endangered thanks to her husband. Ought to be an easy sell to a skeptical public: Take a woman most recently known for a lavish trip to Spain and get her out on the hustings to tell the great unwashed why we should continue down the disastrous path set forth by her husband and the band of losers she'll be appearing with.

The White House is rolling out first lady Michelle Obama on the campaign trail as Democrats try desperately to maintain control of the House and Senate.



Obama will headline nine fundraisers in six states in the coming weeks — including for some of the most vulnerable incumbents — with more likely to be added, the White House announced Tuesday.



"From the beginning, she's wanted to hit the campaign trail," Obama chief of staff Susan Sher said. "It was just a matter of figuring out what would work with her schedule and what would be most useful."

From Oct. 13 to Oct. 27, the first lady will attend fundraisers for Sens. Russ Feingold (Wis.), Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Patty Murray (Wash.) and Michael Benett (Colo.). She will also attend a fundraiser for Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias and raise money for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Los Angeles and New York City.

Rounding out her tentative schedule, Obama will do an event with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Illinois congressional candidates Debbie Halvorson, Bill Foster and Dan Seals for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).



Oh, and just so they know, this now makes her fair game for political attack and those won't be long in coming. The woman steps in it nearly every time she opens her mouth, so there should be plenty of fodder.

Surely our friends in the Obamamedia will be providing us with a detailed accounting of the costs of all her travel.

Best and Brightest: '15 Best Things About Our Pubic Schools'

Obviously proofreading is a lost art in South Bend.

An embarrassing billboard spelling error on a sign meant to tout South Bend schools has been pulled.

The billboard is a digital one near the intersection of State Road 23 and Ironwood in South Bend. It went up on Thursday and was pulled Monday morning.

The billboard encouraged people to go to "southbendon.com" to check out the "15 best things about our PUBIC schools." Obviously it was supposed to say "public", but the "l" was left out.

Lee MacMillan said his wife first spotted it on Saturday.

“She got home and said 'I can't believe it said what I think it said,' so we were out driving around yesterday and sure enough, it had that typo in it, so we took a pic and the rest is history as they say," said Lee MacMillan.

The president of a company called "the Blue Waters Group" told WSBT-TV the mistake was not made by the city or the schools. He said the ad was proofed by 4 people and the typo got by all of them.

Rich Democrats Getting Richer

Of course if she were a Republican there'd be a call for hearings and investigations. But since she's above the law, nobody care. Still, it's curious how much more wealthy Nancy Pelosi has become while Speaker of the House.

According to The Hill’s analysis of financial disclosure forms filed last summer, the Speaker’s net worth rose more in 2009 than any other lawmaker’s, from $13.7 million in 2008 to $21.7 million in 2009.

Nice work if you can get it. Raking in an extra $8 million in one year. Knowing her she probably gave five bucks to charity.

Arlington Now a National Disgrace

I have regained enough of my composure, in the Army we used to call it military bearing, to allow me to write about this national disgrace. Arlington National Cemetery has royally screwed the pooch. Most of this information is being lifted directly from This Ain't Hell because nobody does it better. You need to read the article about how so totally screwed up Arlington became over the years that families are now having to comb through the remains of their loved ones looking for something that can indeed verify that who is supposed to be buried in a certain plot is indeed who the headstone says it is.

This ranks right up there with crematorium in Georgia that a few years ago was discovered instead of cremating the remains of the deceased was merely dumping them into an improvised landfill.

Arlington’s assistance during this time consisted of providing him with latex gloves. The father removes his rancid dress gloves used in digging through the soupy carnage and discards them in the trash. He also removes his jacket, hat and sunglasses, and continues to search for the missing arm. This arm with the tattoo would positively confirm that the unrecognizable severely decomposed corpse was his son’s. The father still searching as he inhales the pungent stench of rotting flesh discovers for the first time since his son’s death, that only a torso, arm, and leg were there.

Finally, after frantically searching the carnage, the arm is found under the torso with the tattoo mostly intact.

For the whole story here is your link.

The entire staff of Arlington needs to be fired. They should have been fired yesterday. I could bring in a couple of teenagers who had experience at cataloging their CD collections and do a better job then these lowlifes have done. It is a disgrace and a slap in the face of all Americans not just those interred and their families.

I would think if pictures of a fraternity hazing at Abu Ghraib can rank front page coverage on the New York Times for like 243 straight days something like this could make the front page.

Prince Charles: 'I Happily Talk to the Plants and Trees, and Listen to Them'

Talking to plants keeps him relatively sane, he says. Who knows how nutty he'd be otherwise?

"I happily talk to the plants and trees, and listen to them. I think it's absolutely crucial," the prince says. "Everything I've done here, it's like almost with your children. Every tree has a meaning for me."

For the man who would be king, the disclosures could be a little off putting. But not for Katie Nicholl, author of the upcoming book "William and Harry."

"He is slightly eccentric, but I think eccentric people make the world go 'round and make it a lot more fun," Nicholl told "Good Morning America."

Prince Charles was an organic pioneer long before it was hip.

"I got a lot of flak for a lot of things," Charles says in the documentary. "I mean, potty this, potty that, loony this, loony that."

But far from looney, the prince says speaking to the plants keeps him "relatively sane," according to the UK Press Association.

Olmert Claims Bush Offered to Take 100,000 Palestinian Refugees

Well, nobody in the Arab world ever takes these people in, so why not us? No doubt this would have gone over well, if indeed there's any truth to it. Surely Obama would rather not take in 100,000. He'd probably prefer half a million.

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that the Bush administration had assured him that the United States would be willing to absorb some 100,000 Palestinian refugees immediately as American citizens, should Israel reach a permanent settlement with the Palestinian Authority.

The former premier told a Geneva Initiative conference in Tel Aviv that during negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2008 he had offered a solution to the refugee problem that would have been in line with the Arab League peace plan and promised that any measures would be the result of a coordinated agreement.

The Bush administration had offered this American contribution to the refugee problem as part of what would be a framework of international compensation, he said.

"I think that if the refugees - many of whom are already second or third generation [Palestinians] living outside of the territories – were given a choice between returning to Israel or the United States, we could guess what they would choose," he said.

How about choosing to go to a country like Jordan or Syria?

Man Chops Off Girlfriend's Head, Brings It to Bar

This macabre incident took place in Cordoba, Spain, so maybe this unidentified man was upset over the Cordoba House controversy and decided to show his support by lopping off his girlfriend's head. Anyway, we'll never know since he later took a header off an electrical tower.

A Spanish man calmly drank beer with his mates in a bar with his murdered girlfriend's head in a bag, press reports said Tuesday.

After leaving the bar on Sunday, the 34-year-old climbed an electrical tower, was hit by a shock and plunged 30 metres (100 feet) to the ground, dying that evening in hospital, they said.

According to a report in the ABC daily newspaper, citing witnesses, the man told friends in the bar in Cordoba, southern Spain, that he had decapitated his 30-year-old partner.

But he was so calm they did not believe him, despite bloodstains on his shirt.

"A while later when several customers left the bar and saw a pool of blood in the road, they immediately realized this was not a macabre joke. Horrified, they discovered a bag near the bar, inside of which was the victim's head," the ABC daily said.

Police confirmed they had found the woman's body with knife wounds, and that her suspected killer, identified only by his initials MRTR, had fallen from the electrical tower, later dying in a Cordoba hospital.

'I Can't Spend Money I Don't Have. I'm Not Barack Obama'

What's up with this crazy Chris Christie? He actually wants to cut taxes to spur economic growth? Doesn't he know that according to the Democrats that's money we don't have?

New Jersey has a top income-tax rate of 9 percent, compared with 3 percent in Pennsylvania. New York's also is 9 percent.

Garden State homeowners also are burdened with the highest property taxes in the nation.

Christie, who noted that the state's revenues have been virtually flat, said he hoped to cut taxes within a year or two.

He has already battled the Democratic-run Legislature over taxes, having devoted a bill to extend a tax surcharge on the wealthy. The governor did get lawmakers to substantially reduce state spending.

Christie said his focus in the short term will be to continue to hold down spending.

"There are going to be some worthwhile programs that are cut," Christie said.

"I can't spend money I don't have. I'm not Barack Obama. I can't print it," he said on WOR's "The John Gambling Show."

Meanwhile, greedy New Jersey Democrats lost another battle to the Baddest Governor on the Planet yesterday.

'I Did Not Expect This At All'

Fox 5 in New York snagged an interview with Ground Zero Victory Mosque money man Hisham Elzanaty. Watch as he stammers and stumbles throughout. Curious how no other media outlets care to interview this very shady man.

Fox 5 News reported, Elzanaty made a $6,000 contribution to the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). The federal government declared HLF a terrorist organization in 2001 and shut it down. When asked about what kind of research he did before sending his money to the organization, Elzanaty admitted he sent the group money without doing any research.

Holy Land's leaders were eventually convicted and sent to prison for funneling money to Hamas, which the FBI has said was HLF's sole purpose since its inception.

"At that time, HLF was one of the biggest... recognized Islamic charities in the United States," Elzanaty said. "I was making those contributions specifically to the orphans. And I was getting photographs of those orphans and how they were progressing. I was getting those pictures on a regular basis."

But when asked if he still had those orphan pictures Elzanaty said: "We lost them in the flood in our house." He elaborates that a pipe burst in his $2 million Long Island home and destroyed everything inside.

Elzanaty has lived in the United States for 28 years and is a U.S. citizen.

"I'm here and I'm staying and I love this country," he said. "I will never do anything to harm America."

Naturally he accuses oppoents of "hate," whatever that means any more.

"I did not expect this at all," he said. "I did not expect this commotion, this hate, this anger I did not expect any of this."

Probably becasue he was kept well behind the scenes until people started doing some actual research.

Meanwhile, a group of radical Islamists showed up yesterday in support of the Victory Mosque and to no surprise the gathering included a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah.

Among the Islamic clerics defending plans for a mosque near Ground Zero yesterday was an outspoken critic of Israel who enthusiastically signaled his support for terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah during a rally a decade ago.

At a news conference outside the site of the proposed mosque, Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Washington-based Muslim American Society, was adamant about Muslims' right to build a mosque where they choose.

But he refused to discuss a video, from a rally in Lafayette Park in Washington, DC, that shows him onstage repeatedly raising his arms when an unidentified speaker asked how many in the crowd supported Hamas and Hezbollah.

Michael Bloomberg was unavailable for comment. No word either from the New York Times, where their reporter who was trained by Imam Rauf hasn't managed to snag an interview with Elzanaty.

More Good News for Dems: West Virginia Governor Turned Senate Candidate Under Investigation?

How ironic the man who want to inherit Sheets Byrd's Senate seat is under investigation over a highway project involving his home town. I thought this was business as usual in West Virginia?

We now know a major target of the federal probe into Gov. Joe Manchin's administration and the Department of Highways is a multi-million dollar road that runs through Fairmont.

Subpoenas have been issued to the Department of Highways and the Office of Administration, but those subpoenas have been off limits. The Attorney General's office is refusing to release any information about the investigation, despite media law experts who say the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires the Attorney General to release the information.

But WSAZ.com has learned more about the investigation. A source within the DOH says the subpoenas are broad, but the Fairmont Gateway in Marion County is one of the targets.

The $150 million road has been under construction for several years and connects I-79 to Fairmont, which is Manchin's hometown.

Larry Puccio, Manchin's former chief of staff and current chair of the Democratic Party in West Virginia, also runs a real estate business in Fairmont. Sources believe Puccio could be part of the probe.

The governor says he cannot comment on the investigation and says he doesn't know if Puccio is a target.

"It's a process," Manchin says, referring to the investigation. "That's all I can tell you; it's a process."

And mum is the word when it comes to this federal probe. Numerous FOIA requests filed by WSAZ all get the same response.

Dwane Tinsley a special assistant attorney general assigned to the investigation cites this exemption:

"The statute which specifically exempts disclosure in this instance is Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e), which prohibits government attorneys and others from '(disclosing) a matter occurring before the grand jury.' "

But media law expert Dave Barnette says the exemption for "government attorneys" is for U.S. Attorneys who are part of the investigation not defense attorneys.

Barnette says the attorney general's office is stonewalling the media and the public's right to know.

"There is nothing contained in Rule 6 which prevents a defendant's attorney from releasing a subpoena," Barnette says. "And in this case because the defendant's attorney is the Assistant Attorney General, it is clearly improper for them to withhold this information under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act."

Barnette says in Illinois, Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to use the same argument, Rule 6 exempting government attorneys, to keep federal subpoenas issued out of the public's hands. The courts there ruled that was not allowed, and the subpoenas were released.

This probably isn't a good time to have your name mentinoned in the same breath as Rod Blagojevich. Naturally, they're trying to keep this under wraps until after the election.

The next step is to take the issue to court. Manchin said Monday that is what we should do.

The state would likely appeal and it would be several months before we found out anything, many speculate that the state would drag out the issue until after the November election.

The latest poll has GOP opponent John Raese within shouting distance of Manchin, who was though to be a lock a month ago. This news could tighten things up considerably.

Chicago Man Arrested After Seeking Change, Political Transformation

Another poor misguided Muslim not satisfied with the pace of political change in Chicago. He should have gotten into community organizing instead.

A 22-year-old North Side man who wanted to bring political change to the city was arrested early Sunday after placing a backpack which he thought contained explosives into a trash can on a crowded street near Wrigley Field.

Sami Samir Hassoun, a Lebanese citizen and permanent U.S. resident, was arrested just after midnight Sunday morning without incident on North Seminary Avenue near the 3500 block of North Clark Street by members of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to a release from the FBI.

The arrest followed an investigation that accelerated in June, according to the release. The FBI said the public was never in danger as the explosive device was provided to Hassoun by an undercover agent.

A federal criminal complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court alleges Hassoun's motivation for planning the attack was a combination of greed and political dissatisfaction.

In June, Hassoun, of the 4700 block of North Kedzie, began expressing to an associate the desire to commit acts of violence in the city for monetary gain and to cause political transformation, the complaint alleges. Unbeknownst to him, his associate was secretly cooperating with the FBI.

Through the summer, Hassoun discussed a number of possible plots, including a biological attack on the city, poisoning Lake Michigan, attacking police officers, bombing the Willis Tower or assassinating Mayor Daley, the complaint alleges.

Eventually, he selected the Wrigleyville area as his target, and planned to detonate an explosive device on a weekend night to inflict maximum damage, the complaint alleges.

While the cooperating witness told Hassoun repeatedly, and the suspect at times agreed, not to kill anyone, he allegedly said he wanted to plan a "diversionary incident, followed by a more substantial strike that would likely result in casualties," the complaint alleges.

Hassoun told the undercover agent he was not motivated by religious ideology, but did suggest in a meeting on June 14 that terrorists motivated by extremist views of Islam could be framed for his proposed actions, the release said.

When an undercover agent told Hassoun his motivation was to change the way the United States treated "our people back home," Hassoun, according to the complaint, said, "Mine is a kind of a different concept than this.”

He saw attacking Chicago as a means of creating chaos to gain political control of the city and its sources of revenue, the release said.

Stunner: Radical Islamist Groups Support Ground Zero Mosque, Call for Three-Day 'Week of Dialogue'

Not only that, but they're working toward another teachable moment for all those stupid Americans out there.

A coalition of Muslim groups called Monday for interfaith dialogue to combat religious intolerance and said they support the right to build a controversial Islamic center near ground zero.

"We stand for the constitutional right of Muslims, and Americans of all faiths, to build houses of worship anywhere in our nation as allowed by local laws and regulations," the Muslim leaders said in a statement delivered at the site of the proposed Islamic center in downtown Manhattan, to be called Park51.

They called for a "week of dialogue" on the weekend of Oct. 22-24, during which Muslims would conduct open houses at their places of worship to help ease tensions.

Huh? A week of dialogue all in one weekend? I'd say something about their poor math skills but that might result in hurt feelings and a fatwa from the folks who invented math or something.

"This might indeed be another teachable moment for America," said Mahdi Bray, executive director of a Washington, D.C.-based group called Muslim American Society Freedom.

The Muslim leaders spoke after a daylong summit meeting Sunday at a hotel near Kennedy Airport.

Groups participating in the summit included the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim Alliance of North America and the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Naturally the AP fails to note the extensive support of radical Islam from these groups. Go here, here, here and here for just a taste of how nefarious these groups are. Don't expect the media to note any of these ties.

Castle: 'We Have the Responsibility to Work Together'

Funny, but Mike Castle isn't practicing what he preached, huh?

More here.

When it’s all said and done, we have a responsibility to work together to make sure we are supporting our candidates. The bottom line is, no matter who we nominate…that person will be more qualified ... than the Democrat.

Seems pretty clear to me. So why such petulance after his defeat?

H/T.

'This is Like a Holy Jihad to Keep the Tax Cuts Going'

Memo to Democrats: Just keep talking like this. Compare Americans who want to keep some of their money to terrorists is always a surefire winner at the polls.

Republicans are fighting to extend tax cuts for high earners with the intensity of a "holy jihad," a Democratic senator charged Monday.

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) said he didn't see any room for compromise with Republicans on the extension of income tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of the year, blaming the GOP for being unflinching on tax rates.

"We talk about bending — it's incredible. There's no bending! Pick up your morning Washington Post and find out what Republicans are willing to bend on," Kaufman said during an appearance on CNBC. "This is like a holy jihad to keep the tax cuts going."

Next thing you know some media babblehead will say Kaufman is insulting jihadist by comparing them to Republicans.

'Had We Not Had the Hostage Crisis, I Would Have Won'

Poor delusional Jimmy Carter. He's taking a stab at rewriting history as he claims without the Iran hostage crisis he'd have actually beaten Ronald Reagan. He conveniently forget the economy under his "leadership" was in a complete shambles, inflation was out of control and interest rates were obscenely high. Maybe people under 30 might buy this crap but anyone who remembers his administration knows well it was much, much more that finished him off than the hostage situation.

Sadly, he also tries to play make believe and compare himself with Tea Partiers.

Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday he sees parallels between today's tea party and his own campaign for the White House in 1976. But he doesn't think the movement will be much of a factor beyond this fall's elections.

The Georgia Democrat told The Associated Press he rode a wave of voter discontent to the presidency on the heels of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal that felled President Richard Nixon, much like tea party conservatives are now earning support by voicing anger at the nation's economic woes.

"I was a candidate that was in some ways like the tea party candidate," Carter said in an interview. "I was a complete outsider. I capitalized legitimately on the dissatisfaction that was permeating our society."

He said the tea party's momentum will likely wear off and they will be co-opted by the Republican Party.

"I think they're going to be quite a major factor in November," he said. "I think there's already a process of absorbing them into the Republican Party. I think they will be much less of a factor in 2012 and in future years."

The comments came the same day the former president's new book, "White House Diary," was released.

In the book, Carter said he pursued an overly aggressive agenda as president that may have confused voters and alienated lawmakers. But he said the tipping points that cost him the 1980 election were the Iran hostage crisis and the primary challenge by U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy.

"Had we not had the hostage crisis, I would have won," he said in the interview of his defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan, adding: "Had I not had Kennedy as my opponent, who sapped away a portion of the Democratic wing, I would have been re-elected."

Carter said in the book that he is proud of his accomplishments during his presidency, but that pushing controversial decisions such as the end of U.S. control of the Panama Canal and working to normalize relations with Communist China cost him political support.

So except for the hostage crisis, Ted Kennedy, runaway inflation, an economic disaster, a military in decline, the Panama Canal, the ChiComs, confused voters and an overall national malaise he'd have cruised to re-election.

Keep believing that, Jimmy.

Angry Mob Beats Up Politician

Just remember this the next time you see some lamestream media story about "angry" and "raucous" Tea Partiers.

PAPUA New Guinean villagers have taken democracy to a new level when they set upon their local MP with stones and sticks for failing to deliver the area basic services.

'The angry mob of 300 men and women chased, kicked and punched Kerema MP Pitom Bombom last Thursday when he got off his plane in the Gulf Province, on PNG's southeast coast.

Both national newspapers reported Mr Bombom came under attack by his own people who accused him of lying and failing his electorate during the last three years he had been in parliament.

Mr Bombom had returned to his home to celebrate PNG's 35th Independence Day but ended up suffering cuts and bruises after constituents attacked him.

Mr Bombom also suffered a spear wound in the back.

Police, who had been travelling with another local politician, intervened and chased away the violent mob saving Mr Bombom from further injury.

Of course the peaceful Tea Party movement, despite not a single incident of violence since its inception, is characterized by some as Molotov cocktail-tossing anarchists in a desperate attempt to bamboozle Americans. They need to look at their own.

'The Government is Lying About the Amount of Debt. It is Engaging in Enron Accounting'

There once was a time when the media salivated over all things Enron, especially to use it as a club over the head of George W. Bush because he knew Kenneth Lay. Lay was also pals with plenty of Democrats but that didn't interest.

Neither does it seem to interest the media that we may well be in deeper debt than anyone in the government cares to admit. An inconvenient truth, I guess, around election time.

THE actual figure of the US' national debt is much higher than the official sum of $US13.4 trillion ($14.3 trillion) given by the Congressional Budget Office, according to analysts cited on Sunday by the New York Post.

"The Government is lying about the amount of debt. It is engaging in Enron accounting," said Laurence Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University and co-author of The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future.

"The problem is we're seeing an explosion in spending," added Andrew Moylan, director of government affairs for the National Taxpayers Union.

In 1980, the debt - the accumulated red ink incurred by the Federal Government - was $US909 billion.

This represented some 33 per cent of gross domestic product, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Thirty years later, based on this year's second-quarter numbers, the CBO said the debt was $US13.4 trillion, or 92 per cent of GDP.

The CBO estimates the debt will be at $US16.5 trillion in two years, or 100.6 per cent of GDP.

But these numbers are incomplete.

They do not count off-budget obligations such as required spending for Social Security and Medicare, whose programs represent a balloon payment for the Government as more Americans retire and collect benefits.

In the case of Social Security, beginning in 2016, the US Government will be paying out more than it is collecting in taxes.

Without basic measures - such as payment cuts or higher payroll taxes - the system could be on the road to bankruptcy, according to officials.

"Without changes," wrote Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue, "by 2037 the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted. There will be enough money only to pay about $US0.76 for each dollar of benefits."

Mr Kotlikoff and Mr Moylan agree US national debt is much more than the official $US13.4 trillion number, but they disagree over how to add up the exact number.

Mr Kotlikoff says the debt is actually $US200 trillion.

There are few politicians out there will to even discuss reforming Social Security since the people who've left us in crippling debt would simply demagogue the issue. But how much longer can people listen to fear tactics while we face a financial collapse?

Booming Business in China: Body Fishing

Tom Friedman among those hardest hit.

From his perch on an overhang above the Yellow River, Wei Jinpeng pointed to a fisherman's cove below and began counting his latest catch. He stopped after six and guessed that perhaps a dozen human corpses were bobbing in the murky waters.

The bodies were floating facedown and tethered by ropes to the shore, their mud-covered limbs and rumps protruding from the water.

Wei is a fisher of dead people. He scans the river for cadavers, drags them to shore with a small boat and then charges grieving families to recover their relatives' corpses. Wei said he kept the faces submerged to preserve their features. Any dispute about identity makes it harder to collect his bounty.

Wei doesn't worry about how the bodies got here, but he's heard tales from relatives who have come to claim the bodies, haunting portraits of average people crushed in the extraordinary stress of China's economic boom.

While some of the 80 to 100 bodies Wei gathers each year are victims of accidents and floods, he thinks most end up in the river after suicide or murder. There's no overt sign of a crime spree, though there's evidence of many people taking their own lives. Suicide is the leading cause of death for women in rural China, and 26 percent of all suicides in the world take place in the nation, according to the World Health Organization.

Most bodies apparently are swept downriver from Lanzhou, the provincial capital of Gansu in the country's northwest. The city boasts rows of new skyscrapers, built by a rush of poor laborers with few rights and businessmen notorious for operating above the law.

The work of "body fishers" has received increased attention in Chinese media lately, including the release of a documentary about a clan that works near Wei. One English-language state newspaper described the profession as "living on the dead"; it noted the filmmaker saw the family retrieving bodies almost daily.

Wei's fishing spot is about 18 miles from Lanzhou. A bend in the river and a hydroelectric dam slow the currents and give the bodies a place to float to the surface.

The relatives who come to claim the bodies whisper about a father who, unable to make ends meet with low pay, jumped off a bridge. Wei also has retrieved bodies with gagged mouths and bound hands, the hallmark of criminal gangs and corrupt police. There are also the remains of young women no one recognizes that Wei eventually cuts loose back into the river, he said.

"Most of the bodies that are not claimed by relatives are female migrant workers who had moved to Lanzhou," said Wei, who drives a red motorcycle and wears large circle-rimmed sunglasses. "Most of them have been murdered. ... Their families don't know; they think they're still working in Lanzhou."

Via Tim Blair.

Seems the Chinese have a serious problem discarding bodies.

Dem Congressman Aided Man With Links to Al Qaeda

Democrats tend to get their panties all up in a bunch when people declare they and Islamic terrorists pose a threat to the nation. Then when one of their own is busted aiding Muslims with ties to Osama bin Laden they talk about discrimination or something.

US Rep. Gregory Meeks scolded immigration officials for questioning a Muslim scholar whose nonprofits have been linked to financing terrorism.

The Queens Democrat contacted federal agencies -- finally appealing to then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff -- asking why Anwar Hajjaj faced "unwarranted scrutiny" when he returned to the United States from trips abroad through JFK Airport.

Meeks described Hajjaj as a "highly regarded" professor of Islamic studies who leads Friday Muslim prayers at the Capitol.

Meeks said Hajjaj was "a pioneer in distance-based learning of Islam" through the American Open University in Virginia, according to a copy of the Sept. 30, 2006, letter to Chertoff, which was obtained by The Post under a Freedom of Information Act request.

But The Post has learned Hajjaj also headed the Taibah International Aid Association, a charity that has been accused of funding Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. The group was co-founded by Abdullah A. bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's nephew, who has been investigated for his ties to groups that have funded al Qaeda and Hamas.

Hajjaj is also director of another Virginia-based nonprofit, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth International, or WAMY. It was also founded by bin Laden's nephew and said to support al Qaeda. The group's 2005 federal tax form, the most recent available, is signed by Hajjaj, who is listed as director.

Steven Emerson, executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, said WAMY has been a financial and ideological supporter of Islamic terrorist organizations. A WAMY publication lists people who have attacked Israelis as "heroes of Palestine" and referred to Jews as "humanity's enemies," according to a 2003 affidavit by a customs special agent.

Both organizations are named as defendants in several ongoing civil lawsuits filed on behalf of families of 9/11 victims.

A 2004 complaint filed in one of the suits alleges that although Taibah "purports to be a humanitarian organization, the Taibah International Aid Association furthers the aims and materially supports Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda."

Hajjaj is not specifically named as a defendant in the suit, but the complaint does say Taibah's directors and officers, including Hajjaj, are material sponsors and co-conspirators of al Qaeda and international terrorism.

The complaint says WAMY, founded in Saudi Arabia in 1972, has been identified by the FBI as a suspected terrorist organization since 1996.

In a decision in the lawsuit made last week, US District Court Judge George Daniels refused to dismiss WAMY as a defendant, saying the allegations against the group are "sufficient to demonstrate that they are knowingly and intentionally providing material support to al Qaeda."

They knowingly have ties to al Qaeda and we have Democrat Congressmen supporting them. But don't question their patriotism or anything.

Obama Joins Nation of Islam

All you needs is a clip-on bowtie and an bad attitude. He's now got both.

"I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods and your workplaces, to your churches and barbershops, and beauty shops," Obama said. "Tell them we have more work to do. Tell them we can't wait to organize. Tell them that the time for action is now."

Now they need to organize? What happened to the Community Organizer's Organizing for America?

Hairy Munchkin Returns to New York

It'll be interesting to find out exactly who these American government officials are he claims to be meeting with.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can’t get enough of the Big Apple.

The Iranian President left Saturday for a three-nation trip, which includes the U.S., where he’ll attend the United Nations General Assembly meetings next week, AFP reported.

Ahmadinejad said that besides attending the U.N. meeting, he’d also meet with American government officials.

"In New York, I will talk to heads of governments, a group of American people, industrialists, thinkers, politicians and decision-makers, have a dialogue with one of the American universities, and talk to the media," local media outlets reported.

In Syria, the anti-American leader said that Middle Eastern countries will “disrupt” U.S. and Israeli plans to change the political geography of the region but did not elaborate.

That meeting comes just days after Syrian President Bashar Assad met with President Obama’s special Middle East envoy, George Mitchell. The back-to-back trips symbolize the battle between Iran and the U.S. to influence Syria, a historic Iranian ally.

Ahmadinejad later made a brief stop in Algeria and met with the country’s president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, according to local media reports.

The Holocaust denier, accused terrorist and proud member of the “axis of evil” has been a guest at the United Nations several times since being elected to power in 2005.

He has set off firestorms in the past in New York. He previously asked (but was denied the opportunity) to lay a wreath at Ground Zero. He also made a previous controversial visit and speech at Columbia University.

After that debacle at Columbia in 2007 it'll be curious to see which university opens it's doors to this maniac. No doubt all his media pals will be lining up to slobber over him.

Weiner's Witchhunt

This ought to go over well with an already enraged populace counting down the days until the midterms. A sniveling, whiny twerp holding hearings against businessmen who have the temerity to advertise their product on radio programs that have actual ratings.

A gold trading company has no plans to end its high-profile sponsorship of conservative commentators despite coming under congressional scrutiny.

Scott Carter, executive vice president of Goldline International, Inc., told The Hill that the firm is “very pleased” with its advertising relationship with Glenn Beck and other radio and television pundits that are popular among conservatives.

“We get pressure from organizations to stop advertising on these programs all the time. We pushed back against them and state that we want to evaluate our advertising based on its performance,” Carter said.

“We have a passion for gold and our product. We don’t have a political platform that we are trying to push,” he said.

The advertising on conservative programs, however, is what Carter believes had led lawmakers to target the company for investigation. On September 23, Carter is expected to testify at a hearing of the House Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee to discuss legislation that would regulate the gold trading industry.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) has been leading the charge against Goldline, releasing an investigative report in May about the company’s business practices. Citing consumer complaints, Weiner has charged that the company overprices its gold coins and also offers unsound investment advice to customers.

Weiner has also taken issue with the firm’s advertisements with conservative commentators, believing both sides benefit from driving up fear of an economic collapse.

“They prey on fear. They prey on insecurity. And they prey on the ignorance that most Americans have when they buy and sell a rare commodity, like a collector coin or gold bullion,” Weiner said.

Great electoral strategy there, Weiner, calling most Americans ignorant. Weiner's problem is he's never spent a minute of his live in the private sector and has no idea that most Americans aren't ignorant of how the world works.

The arrogance of Weiner and his ilk is simply breathtaking. And if he had the slightest clue how business works, he'd realize these companies would gladly advertise on liberal shows if any of them had ratings.

Time is short on the legislative calendar to move the bill, considering the fast-approaching midterm elections in November. But Weiner said he is looking for Republican co-sponsors and that the “non-controversial” legislation could pass quickly in the House under a suspension of the rules, which requires a two-thirds vote of House members for approval.

Oh sure, Republicans are going to race to Weiner's side when they know four months from now this pasty-faced puke is going to be relegated to backbench bomb-throwing as part of the Democrat minority. Any Republican joining in this abuse of power deserves to be voted out themselves.

Carter said Goldline is looking forward to discussing its business model at the hearing, noting the company’s A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. The executive also has been meeting with lawmakers this week to discuss the company.

His company has an A+ rating and Weiner's Democratic Congress has an approval rating nearing single digits. It should make for fascinating theater.

Vulnerable Senate Dems and Candidates Fleeing From Obama Tax Hikes

Of course none of them likely would be for Americans keeping more of their own money if their political futures weren't at stake. Still, seeing Democrats fleeing Obama is a sure sign of desperation. Less than two years ago they were so haughty and arrogant they figured they could just tax us to death with impunity.

Those days are over. For now.

Senate Democratic candidates are wavering over whether to support President Obama’s plan to raise taxes on families earning more than $250,000 a year.

At least seven Democrats in battleground states say they support or could support extending tax breaks for families who make more than $250,000.


Obama has called on letting tax cuts for those families expire at the end of the year.

Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher (D), who is running to replace Sen. George Voinovich (R), has suggested a one-year extension of current tax rates for families earning between $250,000 and $1 million.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall (D) have also said they are flexible about extending tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush for families earning above $250,000.

Even the stalwart liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has not ruled out an extension of tax relief for wealthier families.

This group falls between candidates in Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia who have called for an extension of all of the Bush-era tax cuts and Democrats in Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire and Washington state, who are lining up behind Obama’s tax plan.

You can tell how far the popular uprising has gone when California is considered a battleground state. As to those candidates in Connecticut and Delaware still siding with Obama, you can expect them to become tax cut champions as soon as their races tighten over the next month.

Maybe He Hates Bugs Bunny

Just a couple of weeks after Al Gore fan James Lee held hostages at the Discovery Channel building we've got another crackpot who tried to tried to crash the gates at Warner Brothers in Burbank.

So far his motive is unknown but whatever it is I'm sure it all makes perfect sense to him.

Police were still trying to figure out the motives of a man who drove his car through the security gates at Warner Brothers studio Friday afternoon with a trunk full of liquid explosives.

The driver, 43-year-old Michael Rodriguez-Cintron, burst through Gate 5 at around 3:30 p.m. and then proceeded to drive in circles around the lot. Studio security pulled him over for trespassing, but when they searched his trunk they found a duffel bag with liquid explosives in it and an replica firearm, which drew the attention of the bomb squad.

Police also found several ignition sources, all signs that detectives said could point to an act of terrorism.

Detectives said the man was very cooperative with studio security but they must take situations like these seriously where possible terrorism is involved. Authorities were still struggling to answer questions about what the man wanted to do on the studio lot.

Government Efficiency: $111M in Stimulus Saved Just 55 Jobs

You know what this means, right? We need another stimulus! Of course if you complain about this outrageous waste of taxpayer money then you're reacist or something.

More than a year after Congress approved $800 billion in stimulus funds, the Los Angeles city controller has released a 40-page report on how the city spent its share, and the results are not living up to expectations.

"I'm disappointed that we've only created or retained 55 jobs after receiving $111 million," said Wendy Greuel, the city's controller. "With our local unemployment rate over 12 percent we need to do a better job cutting red tape and putting Angelenos back to work."

According to the audit, the Los Angeles Department of Public Works spent $70 million in stimulus funds -- in return, it created seven private sector jobs and saved seven workers from layoffs. Taxpayer cost per job: $1.5 million.

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation created even fewer jobs per dollar, spending $40 million but netting just nine jobs. Taxpayer cost per job: $4.4 million.

Naturally this abysmal failure doesn't get a failing grade. Much like Obama these folks think way too highly of themselves.

"I would say maybe in a grade, a B- in creating the jobs," Greuel told Fox News.

Well, at least they're not blaming Bush.

Liberal Racist Bill Maher Drops the N-Bomb

This knuckledragger calls Republicans racist then uses the N-word himself. Notice the decrepit Larry King laughs when he slanders Republicans.

Via Jim Treacher.

Curious how silent the liberal media is over this.

Is Barney Frank in Trouble?

Let's face it. If a 15-term incumbent in the bluest of blue states is bringing in Bill Clinton to campaign for him it can only mean one thing--he's worried about his re-election. How sweet would it be to have Barney Frank get the boot from Congress?

The last U.S. president or presidential candidate to visit the Silver City, Crowley said, was Jimmy Carter in 1976, who was then running against incumbent Gerald Ford.

Other past presidents to have visited and spoken in Taunton include Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Crowley said his assistant Todd Castro, who was once a U.S. Capitol Police officer, has been working with the Secret Service and local officials to coordinate a plan to stage the event.

Crowley said Frank deserved the rally for all he’s done to help provide funding through the years for various projects in Taunton.

Examples cited by the mayor were programs for seniors, funds for the city-owned Taunton Nursing Home and federal money for the Route 138 road improvement project.

“It’s a testament to his nature and the energy he’s expended on our behalf,” Crowley said.

But some local Republican candidates said the upcoming rally is a sign that Democratic incumbents, including Frank, are feeling the heat this election cycle.

“They’ll need all the help they can get this year,” said Shaunna

O’Connell, the Republican candidate from Taunton, who is running against state Rep. James Fagan, D-Taunton.

O’Connell said voters will “not be fooled by election year antics.”

As for the former president’s prestige and influence, she said the bottom line is that the electorate “are not voting for Clinton.”

Taunton City Councilman David Pottier, the Republican candidate challenging long-term state Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton, said the Frank rally is indicative of Democratic trepidation heading into November.

“I find it interesting that they’re calling out the big guns,” Pottier said. “Obviously they’re afraid [because] they can’t run on the record of the last several years.”

If Frank is worried about true blue Massachusetts, then the time’s certainly are a changin’,” he said, paraphrasing the famous Bob Dylan song.

“I appreciate the historical significance of Clinton coming to town, but this smacks of desperation,” Pottier added.

Sean Bielat, the Republican vying for Frank’s job, said it’s notable that Frank and Clinton will appear together in Taunton, where U.S. Sen. Scott Brown beat Martha Coakley by a 15-point spread.

“I think Barney is concerned about the middle of his district and is trying to shore up support,” Bielat said. “I’m extremely flattered that Bill Clinton is coming.”

Frank dismissed such thinking as “nonsense.”

“I asked Bill Clinton for his help a couple of months ago. It’s no different than a TV ad — it’s all part of a campaign,” said Frank, who is also Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.

Frank is taking on a Marine with a platform of slashing military spending.

Despite what he described as Frank's financial advantage, "There's a lot of concern with the direction of the country. There's a lot of concern with Barney Frank's involvement with Fannie and Freddie and the real estate collapse. There's a lot of concern with just, 'Hey, we need some turnover,'" Bielat said.

"I actually think there's a lot more support for our campaign than people might, at first, expect," he said.

Asked for his own level of confidence about a race against Bielat, Frank said he wanted to focus on the issues.

Among them, he said, is the need to raise taxes on the very wealthy and to "reduce America's worldwide military footprint as a way to reduce the deficit."

Here's Bielat's campaign site. This Marine would be an American hero if he could knock off the odious Frank.

Update: Via Sissy Willis on Twitter, there's also this site from Bielat. Watch Bawney gag on his own words.

'Something STINKS in Albany'

Well, this is sure to help attract voters. Or flies.

Something stinks in about 200,000 mailboxes around New York — a flier from the new Republican nominee for governor.

A garbage-scented mailing by nominee Carl Paladino features the photos of seven Democrats, six of whom have been investigated and two who have resigned in scandal in the past four years.

“Something STINKS in Albany,” the mailer says. Paladino spokesman Michael Caputo told The Associated Press on Thursday that the mailer is scented with a “landfill” odor.

He says the smell will get worse the longer it is exposed, just like Albany.

The mailer doesn’t name Andrew Cuomo, Paladino’s Democratic opponent. But Paladino has been trying to link Cuomo to the Democrats who control every statewide office and both legislative chambers.

Unlike many other Tea Party candidates Paladino is almost sure to get blown out in November. But he's at least giving us some chuckles.

Expect the television outlets to lead with Cuomo's victory on election night. It'll likely be the only time you see any of the babbleheads smiling.

Feingold Now Trailing by 7 in New Poll

How bad is the carnage going to be for Democrats in November? Here you have a three-term incumbent in a Democrat state now staring at the abyss.

After a decisive win in Tuesday’s Republican Primary, businessman Ron Johnson now holds a seven-point lead over incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold in Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race.

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Johnson picking up 51% support, while Feingold earns the vote from 44%. One percent (1%) of voters prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) remain undecided.

How bad of a drag is Obama across the country? Feingold made sure to head for the hills when he showed up last week and it still didn't help him.

Let's hope Obama campaigns across the country for endangered Democrats.