Time to Sing the Praises of Sheer Prevarication

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Posted by farleft | Posted on 30-03-2008

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If Hosanna Obama succeeded in obfuscating the row over the anti-white and anti-American fulminations of Rev. Jeremiah Washington, then St. Hillary went one better.  She became a hero bigger than John McCain–in her mind anyway.

Hillary evidently awoke one day at 3 a.m. and remembered how snipers had pinned her down in Bosnia in 1996.  Problem was, videotapes soon surfaced showing her and Chelsea (how much plastic surgery has she had since then?) smiling on the tarmac and being civilly greeted by several unharried, unworried people, including a young girl in a ponytail.

I guess the sniper fire came after the news crews left.  Or something like that.

Or maybe, as Roger Clements accused buddy Andy Pettitte, she just misremembered.

As usual, the liberal media downplayed, ignored and made excuses for this blatant lie.  I guess when you’re a sainted savior of all that’s best in America, you get the benefit of a cover-up.

Pardon me while I go throw up.

 

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Which Presidential Candidate Is Most at Risk of Harm?

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Posted by farleft | Posted on 27-03-2008

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By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
Courtesy of Stratford

As the struggle grinds on in the United States for the Democratic presidential nomination, it appears there will be no clear winner before the Democratic National Convention begins Aug. 25 in Denver, Colo. This contest of firsts — the first female presidential candidate in Hillary Clinton and the first African-American candidate to win so many primaries and delegates in Barack Obama — has been hard-fought, and likely will become even more heated between now and the convention.

The Obama campaign has leveled claims of racism over remarks made by former President Bill Clinton before the January South Carolina primary, and more recently over the widely publicized comments by Geraldine Ferraro, who was forced to resign from the Clinton campaign. The Obama campaign also has had to face racism charges over controversial comments made from the pulpit by Obama’s longtime friend and pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who until February was pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

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Whither Goeth France Under Sarkozy?

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Posted by farleft | Posted on 26-03-2008

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By George Friedman
Courtesy of Stratford

French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the week of March 16 that France is cutting its nuclear arsenal to less than 300 warheads, which he said was less than half the number France had during the Cold War. Meanwhile, plans are under way in Paris to return to full membership in NATO; Sarkozy will travel to London the week of March 23 to discuss reintegration.

Sarkozy spoke while attending the launch of France’s newest nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine in Cherbourg. During his speech, he added that, at present, none of France’s nuclear weapons is aimed at anyone. During the same appearance he said, “All those who threaten to attack our vital interests expose themselves to a severe riposte by France.” This was said in the context of discussions of Iran, which he said was among those countries in the process of developing nuclear weapons. France is simultaneously calling attention to its nuclear capability and adopting an increasingly hostile posture toward Iran. While the media focus is on Sarkozy, it seems to us that this issue goes deeper than personalities. Processes are under way that are shifting French foreign policy.

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Demofiend Solution to Scarcity: Wait in Line Till You Die

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Posted by farleft | Posted on 25-03-2008

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Though I routinely bash the Demofiends for their eternal mantra of "tax, deny and regulate them until they’re happy" (they being we the people), I am genuinely optimistic about humankind’s ability to solve its own problems–outside of government, that is.  Even so, I must admit that either scarcity or over-demand or both are currently plaguing our world.

Even if there is a limit–temporary or permanent–to growth, however, the Demofiends’ only answer is to ration everything through nationalization/socialization–in other words, if you need health care, nationalize it, parcel it out, and put everyone on a waiting list.

Likely scenario:

Doctor:  "You have cancer, and we have to operate immediately or you’ll likely die within six months."

Patient:  "Sounds scary, but when can we do the operation?"

Doctor:  "Looks like we can get you a hospital slot in 18 months."

Nancy Pelosi/Hillary Clinton in the same scenario:  Operation the next day because people in Congress and high places will be outside the system.

That being said (and it’s oh so true), what I really wanted to do here was to share some quotations that I read yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, quotations that got me thinking about the so-called limits to growth.  Frankly, I’ve always felt that humankind’s ingenuity would always trump any limit to natural resources, but we shall see what happens.  Here are the quotes:

"The power of the population is so superior to the power of the Earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit for the human race."–Thomas Malthus, 1798

"If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next 100 years."–The Club of Rome think tank, 1972

Were Hillary or Pelosi to read those quotations, the likely reaction would be more regulation and taxes, resulting in long gas lines, winters when you couldn’t heat your house and food rationizing–for everyone except people in Congress and high places.

Go ahead and vote for them if you like, but those are guaranteed predictions.  Just pray that you’re one of those people in high places.

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The Obama Speech: Silencing the White Voice

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Posted by farleft | Posted on 20-03-2008

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I’ve read a lot of raves about Barack Hussein Obama’s speech yesterday about race relations, but only a few, including Michelle Malkin, seem to have gleaned its essence.

Rather than dealing with the outrageous and anti-American, hateful comments that he heard for more than 20 years from the Reverend (?) Jeremiah Wright, Obama instead shifted the onus on everyone else, saying that, in essence, race relations remain unresolved in the United States.

Hell, yes, they do, when you as a white person can’t say anything without being branded a racist, a bigot or a code-worder by the black constitutency and their Democractic Party shills, who laugh as the votes are counted against the Republicans.

What Obama did, rather than open a public dialogue on race, was to shift the onus to the whites so they would shut up lest they be seen as racists.  It was a cover-up, not an opening up, and what the hell did he admit to except to say that all pastors invariably lie or say things we don’t agree with, so I’m just human, right?  Vote for me–I’m like you!

Nice trick, and the liberal media will let him get away with it, but if he’s the nominee come this general election, the issue will return big time to slap him in the face–and John McCain won’t have to say a word to make it happen.

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China: Are Gasoline Bombs on Planes the Next Terrorist Tactic? Some Say the Incident Was a Hoax

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Posted by farleft | Posted on 19-03-2008

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By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
Courtesy of Stratfor

Chinese authorities reported March 18 that an incident earlier in the month aboard a domestic flight was an attempted militant attack orchestrated by separatists living abroad. The incident in question occurred March 7 on China Southern Airlines flight CZ6901, which was flying from Urumqi in Xinjiang province to Beijing. Some 40 minutes into the flight, a woman reportedly was confronted by the crew, who discovered her in a restroom with two gasoline-filled soft drink cans she had managed to smuggle onboard. Apparently, she intended to ignite the fuel while in the restroom, which was located near the wing of the Boeing 757. The woman was restrained and the pilot made an emergency landing in Lanzhou, capital of northwestern Gansu province.

The reaction to this incident has been mixed in the West. Many analysts have eyed Beijing’s report with skepticism, noting that it appeared in the midst of repeated government warnings concerning a Uighur militant threat. Others have called the incident an atypical, amateurish and impractical plot that could not possibly have been the work of a sophisticated terrorist group.

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Why the War in Iraq Was Really Undertaken

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Posted by farleft | Posted on 18-03-2008

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By George Friedman
Courtesy of Stratfor

Five years have now passed since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney, in Iraq with Sen. John McCain — the presumptive Republican nominee for president — summarized the five years by saying, “If you reflect back on those five years, it’s been a difficult, challenging, but nonetheless successful endeavor. We’ve come a long way in five years, and it’s been well worth the effort.” Democratic presidential aspirant Sen. Hillary Clinton called the war a failure.

It is the role of political leaders to make such declarations, not ours. Nevertheless, after five years, it is a moment to reflect less on where we are and more on where we are going. As we have argued in the past, the actual distinctions between McCain’s position at one end (reduce forces in Iraq only as conditions permit) and Barack Obama’s position (reduce them over 16 months unless al Qaeda is shown to be in Iraq) are in practice much less distinct than either believes. Rhetoric aside — and this is a political season — there is in fact a general, but hardly universal, belief that goes as follows: The invasion of Iraq probably was a mistake, and certainly its execution was disastrous. But a unilateral and precipitous withdrawal by the United States at this point would not be in anyone’s interest. The debate is over whether the invasion was a mistake in the first place, while the divisions over ongoing policy are much less real than apparent.

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