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From the "you can't make this up" file, President Obama is turning NASA into his Muslim-outreach agency. According to Fox News, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says that NASA's foremost mission in 2010 is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

You might want to push instant replay and read that again just to make sure you're awake.

He went on to say, "[w]hen I became the NASA administrator - or before I became the NASA administrator - [President Obama] charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science . and math and engineering."

Huh?  We want our space program to concentrate on making Muslims "feel good" about themselves?  Can someone explain to me why this was the "foremost" mission our Dear Leader directed at NASA?  Not replacing the aging Shuttle fleet?  No no, not that.  How about building our own space station?  Uh-uh, can't do that.  Umm, how about going back to the moon. Sorry, not going to happen.  But we do want Muslims to feel good about their rich history of........?  Let's see, they did invent our numeric system right?  Oh no, wrong.  Our numbers came to us via Indian/Arabic culture around 300 BC (that's Before Christ for those of you in public school.)  That was more than 1,000 years before Mohammed starting lopping off heads to bring us the religion of peace. 

Okay, then they invented the telescope right?  Oh sorry, a man named Hans Lipperhey invented the telescope. He was born in Wesel, Germany and made his home in Middleburg, part of the Zeeland province in the Netherlands.

Alright, how about the pendulum?  Wrong again, that pesky Italian Galileo Galilei invented that between inventing everything else in Europe.  How about the clock?  Nope, the ancient Eqyptians.  The watch?  No again.  The compass?  Nope, Chinese.  Gunpowder?  Double no, our good friends and T-bill holders the Chinese again.

And as to Mr. Bolden's assertion that Muslims invented mathematics and engineering.  Well, not so much.  Actually, no single person invented mathematics.  Mathematical systems have been developed by different cultures independently. The mathematics in western civilization can mostly be traced to roots in Mesopotamia, Egypt (especially for geographical use) and Babylon (especially for astronomical use).  All cultures that preceded Islam.  And call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure engineering began in ancient Egypt with the building of the pyramids.  Again preceding Islamic culture by many millennia.

Well, they must have invented something, after all, they must be made to feel proud about something!  

Well, they did invent jihad and suicide bombers.

Both things, I'm sure, they're very proud of.

I can't take credit for this as much of this is taken from an article written by Scott Wheeler from The National Republican Trust political action committee:

 

On June 9, President Obama announced a 400 million dollar aid package to the West Bank and Gaza, which are currently two separate entities; the West Bank under the control of Mahmoud Abbas, a moderate by radical Islamic standards, Gaza is run by the democratically elected Islamic Resistance Movement known otherwise as the terrorist group Hamas. Obama was trying to be sneaky in announcing this "aid package" to Gaza with Abbas present thus conflating the moderate with the radical terrorist group Hamas, a clear attempt to avoid scrutiny of handing over American's money directly to a terrorist organization that has murdered American citizens. Whatever else you can say about Obama, at least he never forgets his friends. Thanks to the investigative work of Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs we know that in 2007 Obama's campaign received over 30 thousand dollars in illegal donations from Hamas controlled Gaza.

 

Curious is the timing of Obama's announcement. Israel had just taken action against ships attempting to break its blockade of Gaza, which was put into place to stop the flow of weapons and war supplies that Hamas uses to attack Israelis. And Obama joined the rest of the Islamic world in condemning Israel for taking action to defend itself against terrorists who have not only killed Americans and Israelis but have declared that it would drive the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea.

 

Since 2001, the United States has listed Hamas as a "Specifically Designated Global Terrorist" organization. The sanctions for providing support for a SDGT are harsh.

 

Even the New York Times, which is as a rule sympathetic to terrorists, stated "The details of how the aid would be used in Gaza remained unclear. Nor was it immediately clear how Mr. Abbas, who has authority in the West Bank but not in Gaza would be able to administer it."

 

But, according to the Times, "White House officials said the money would be spent on housing, schools, efforts to provide access to drinking water and other health and infrastructure projects." Of course, with Americans providing all of their financial needs it frees up Hamas' other money to buy weapons and afford them more sophisticated means by which to smuggle them into the strip, no more raggedy flotillas for these terrorists.

 

Obama also used the occasion to attack Israel's blockade "there should be some way of focusing narrowly on arms shipments rather than focusing in a blanket way on stopping everything and then, in a piecemeal way, allowing things into Gaza." Even Obama himself acknowledges that supplies still get to the Gazans, Israel just searches the incoming vessels to insure that the cargo isn't going to be used to kill people. Apparently Obama thinks there is some other magical way to find the weapons among the "humanitarian supplies" other than looking through them. Here's a thought; how about you get no supplies at all until you stop smuggling weapons and murdering innocent civilians?

 

The Times reports that international aid organizations "working in Gaza have warned of growing hardship. Deprived of raw materials, local industry has been severely damaged, and the Gaza economy has collapsed." This account seems to suggest that the poor Gazans have absolutely no control over their situation, the fact is though that they went to the polls and freely elected Hamas agents to run Gaza. These poor victims elected representatives for themselves whose stated objective is to annihilate the Jews. But we should feel sorry for them anyway, Obama and the liberals here tell us the most evil crime in the world is racial discrimination and yet they take our money and give it to people whose sole objective for their existence is to exterminate a race of people. Welcome to Obama's world.

 

It needs to be pointed out that despite attacks by Hamas, Israel maintains an ongoing humanitarian corridor for the transfer of perishable and staple food items to Gaza. This conduit is used by internationally recognized organizations including the United Nations and the Red Cross.

 

Well over a million tons of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza from Israel over the last 18 months equaling nearly a ton of aid for every man, woman and child in Gaza. Millions of dollars worth of international food aid continually flows through the Israeli humanitarian apparatus, ensuring that there is no food shortage in Gaza.

 

Food and supplies are shipped from Israel to Gaza six days a week. These items were channeled through aid organizations or via Gaza's private sector.

 

Large quantities of essential food items like baby formula, wheat, meat, dairy products and other perishables are transferred daily and weekly to Gaza. Fertilizers that cannot be used to make explosives are shipped into the Strip regularly, as are potato seeds, eggs for reproduction, bees, and equipment for the flower industry.

 

In 2009 alone, more than 738,000 tons of food and supplies entered Gaza. Pictures in local newspapers show local markets aplenty with fruit, vegetables, cheese, spices, bread and meat to feed 1.4 million Gazans.

 

In the first quarter of 2010 (January-March), 94,500 tons of supplies were transferred in 3,676 trucks to the Strip: 48,000 tons of food products; 40,000 tons of wheat; 2,760 tons of rice; 1,987 tons of clothes and footwear; 553 tons of milk powder and baby food.

 

In a typical week the IDF coordinates the transfer of hundreds of trucks containing about 15,000 tons of supplies. During the week of May 18, 2010 there were more than 100 truckloads of animal food, 65 trucks of fruit and vegetables; 22 truckloads of sugar, some 27 truckloads of meat, poultry and fish; and 40 trucks of dairy products. At holiday times, Israel increases transfers. During the Muslim holy days of Ramadhan and Eid al-Adha, Israel shipped some 11,000 heads of cattle into the Strip.

 

Yet all we hear from the media is how Israel is oppressing the people in Gaza.  How come we don't hear about how our federal government has, for decades, been "oppressing" minorities here.  After all, isn't the aid the Israelis send to Gaza the same as the aid that's given here as free housing, food stamps, free medical care, free cell phones, free cars, unemployment, federal grants for everything from education to electric wheelchairs, free job training, etc., etc.? 

 

Maybe we should all be "oppressed" like that.

 

Oh wait, isn't that what's coming?

Truly surprised this is NOT getting more attention!

'Beware the Ides or March', or in this case the Ides of December, when the 'socialists of the world' will meet in Copenhagen in hopes to mete out final punishment on free markets, capitalism and the Liberty and freedoms of the American Middle Class.


Buzz words to remember:

• Reparations
• Climate-Debt
• Global Government
• Treaty Enforcement

As a gentle reminder, treaties  ratified by Congress supersede ANY and ALL rights guaranteed by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

Beware: these Climate Change thugs are coming after you and me - that's us - the U.S.  to collect a climate debt for our use of fossil fuels and collect the will try. If our congress ratifies this Global Warming Treaty Jackassary from Copenhagen - they will have just handed some dumb-tard Bureaucrat in Belgium sovereignty over you, your family and your children's future - FOREVER!  The dirty little secret is that once a treaty is Signed,it can NOT be unsigned without the consent of 100% of the signers.  Since the U.S will be the largest single financial contributor, it is highly unlikely that those on the recieving end will allow the U.S. to leave the treaty without some sort of conflict.

Please take a few minutes to view Lord Christopher Monckton commentary from October 14, 2009...



 


Et tu Barrack, et tu Congress? Despicable, like modern day Bruté attacking the last vestiges of freedom in the world.

The other day, President Obama's Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu, was speaking at the St. James' Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium" in London (that's in England for those of you in public school.) giving a speech on global warm...oh excuse me, I mean global climate change of course, when he told this distinguished group of Nobel prize winners that we should paint much of the world white to reflect heat back into space and so cure global warming, er, I mean global climate change.  

Huh!

I didn't make this up honest.  I know it sounds like lunacy, but what else would you expect from an Obama appointee.  This guy might actually be funnier than Joe Biden!  He actually went on to say that building regulations should insist that all flat roofs be painted white, and visible tilted roofs could be painted with "cool-colored" paints that looked normal, but which absorbed much less heat that conventional dark surfaces.  Roads could be lightened to a concrete color so they would not dazzle drivers in bright sunlight.  Hang on a second please, I'm laughing so hard, I can't typ........

OK, I'm done.  Now let's get down to some serious business.  I want to help the environment.  I'm not mean, I like polar bears and Frosted Flakes.  So here are my Top 10 suggestions to combat global warm, darn, I mean global climate change.

10. Let's cover the dark blue world's oceans with a thick layer of non-fat plain yogurt.  It's nice and white.  Added plus, if the fish eat it, they'll all live to be 100 years old!

9. Put giant mirrors on all skyscrapers and aim them at Pluto.  The planet could use a little warming           up.

8. No more black or brown shoes.  Only white.  White belt optional (no black socks with shorts.)

7. Everyone dress in white clothes during the day.  Better bring extra anti-perspirant though.

6. No more lawns.  Just big patches of white sand.

5. The only car colors are white or chrome.  Dazzling!

4. Pick the leaves off of every tree.

3. Everyone wears tin foil on his head to reflect the sun's rays.  Tin foil can be very creative.

2. No tin foil?  People with dark hair shave their heads.  Blondes you're exempt.

And the number 1 suggestion:

Black folks (and people with suntans) can only go out at night.

There you have it.  My 10 simple solutions to save the planet from global warm, I mean GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE!

Last week I heard Mainstream Media (MSM) types, rabidly loyal to their social cause, leg furrowing, knickers twisting and nearly apoplectic in their ebullience, joyfully echoing the Office of the President Elect BHO - PEBO statement "Only Government can solve nation's (economic) problems"

 

Change is already  upon us and the "anointed one" has yet to take office. It's not so unusual that a socialist lefty would propose a state solution over a private solution.

The real story is in how readily accepted socialist solutions have become in the new "Yes We Can" - err I mean "Yes The Government Can" (and will with your money) world of PEBO USA.

 

Even in a post modern America, the shift to government managed economy should scare everyone and not just the 48% of the payer vote.

 

Like a frog in pot coming slowly to boil, America's embrace of socialism has been a long, slow, concerted effort. The "52 percent-ers" have been inculcated by a "tenured instructor class" who's economic ignorance is as dangerous as it is fallacious and continues to foist the "great fiction that we can all live at the expense of others".

 

 

I recently heard Newt Gingrich say (paraphrasing here) that "Our parents generation scrimped, saved and scarified all their lives to provide for our generation, and Now our generations is diligently working and sacrificing our children's future to provide for our generation". 

 

What we have is "trickle up moral cannibalism" eating away at the very fabric of our beloved republic and few even seemed concerned.

 

Just today, in the Business Section of our local Pravda (Orlando Sentinel - who's begging for it's own bail out)  the business columnist opines:

 

"So you can imagine the fear running through politicians and economic-development gurus whose success is often measured by how many jobs they help create"

 

The author goes on to bemoan that current economic environment that will force the State to curtain spending to incent other businesses to relocate here. Source

 

The inference of course is that jobs come from politicians and economic-development gurus instead of business!!!! And the state must bribe other companies to move hear via loans, cash and tax incentives.

 

Somebody must stand up and say it: "Governments don't have ANY money for loans, cash or other incentives unless they take it , yes CONFISCATE IT from someone else first!".

 

The saddest commentary is that we have politicians, "economic-development gurus", and apostle of ignorance  willing to plunder existing business to incentivize  others to move here - for what: - so they too can be cannibalized?

 

In a Brave New World ignorance is indeed bliss - or at least doesn't raise your blood pressure. Is it time yet for the "Soma Holiday"? 

Okay, so the Apostles of Ignorance have outdone themselves today!

 

With a  sputtering economy and companies shedding jobs like a sycamore in a snow storm, Congress has decided to say "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" - "Let them eat cake"!

  

In a move that would make Marie Antoinette seem like the great philanthropist, Lawmakers have determined they deserve a pay raise.  Quickly, overlooking the fact that they had the chance to do the "right thing" and freeze their pay, instead, Lawmakers "pimped their pocketbooks" and voted themselves a raise.

 

While I supposed we should take heart that congresses has confidence that there will indeed some taxpayers left and we all won't be in breadlines, this certainly is a biter pill to swallow when 2 million Americans have lost their jobs - so far this year.

 

The hypocrisy of these "congressional confiscators" is unbelievable, their "over-the-top" histrionics while forcing auto exec to accept a one dollar a year salary - yes, I mean a buck a year - is beyond any sane understanding. And it's obvious that their hubris knows no bounds. It's okay for us to "tighten our belts" yet their ever expanding appetite for our money shows no sign of satiation.

 

Instead of representatives, we now seem to have  "Washingtonian monsters" whose hunger for money and the power it buys is unquenchable.

 

Regrettably we just missed the most recent opportunity to make things right with the voter's equivalent of 'pitchforks and torches' known as the ballot box.  Will it be too late to set things right in 2010? And, with such Congressional Jackassery on proud display, when might the need arise to switch the ballot box for the real pitchforks and torches to chase these monsters out of office?

Quiz Time

 

A labor union is:

 

Answer A:

Workers bind together to form Unions so that they together can fight for better work conditions. Without the power of the Union workers would completely be at the mercy of the employers. But sticking together they got a better change to fight for their interests.

 

Answer B:

Outdated social construct perverted from a once noble mission into socioeconomic virus destined to usher in the next great depression.

 

Answer C:

An association that uses thuggery, hooliganism, bribery, extortion and blackmail to get the wage level raised above its true value for its workers and the real reason jobs are shipped overseas.

 

Answer D:

The reason why  the "Big 3" auto maker's cars cost, on average, $2000 more than the same type car made domestically by their Japanese competitors  everything made in blue states cost so much.  

 

Answer E:

All of the Above.

 

No matter how you answer the question above, labor unions impact have had a deleterious affect on a free-market and apparently and probably only temporarily, on their own the bail-out future.

 

To their credit, Senate Republicans refused to back federal aid for Detroit's Big Three without some guarantee that United Auto Workers would agree to wage cuts to match pay with prevailing market value - that is to be more inline with the pay of Japanese car makers. The UAW refused!  Even though these cuts would not occur until the end of 2009!

 

As similarly blogged in Shark Diving many people do NOT have a understanding of business - except that they believe that the purpose of business is to provide jobs (jobs, jobs, jobs baby.). And if a business fails and the jobs go away, then the assumption is; " well okay I'll just get another  job". . .

 

So the "Big 3 Bailout" or Car-pocalypse if you will, fails -  due to UAW intransigence  and the Republicans will get the blame. 

Chris Matthews, yes, that same 'tingly feeling leg-furrower' alleged journalist and former W. 'hardballer' who recently dispensed with any vestige of impartiality declared that it was his "job to make Obama Presidency Successful" ;

 

 

has recently intimated at a senate Seat in Pennsylvania in 2010

 

 

Though the Fox and Friends video with a more entertaining discussion can be seen here:

 

Leg furrowing aside, perhaps that - meaning the senate seat - would be a better position to enable that desired success Matthews so "desperately seeks".

 

Hey, we all know that nearly all of the mainstream media is 'in the tank' for most liberal causes including this past US election for president and the former 'hardballer' now 'leg furrower' more than most..

 

The real story isn't that Matthews is a democrat supporter. It is in his new found sense of "obligation for the country" and a "need for a successfully presidency" - now of course that b. Hussein has been elected.

 

Sweet Mother of Pearl pal, where was your sense noble obligation for the country during  the past eight years? It certainly wasn't dribbled and drooled out over the airwaves where you heaped all manor of vituperation and vile invective on Bush, Cheney, the War on Terror, conservatism, Sara Palin, and everything but American Pie.

 

In fact, the derision provided by you and your ilk for the past eight years allowed you to function as a fifth column for our country's enemies abroad and functioned as fallacious purveyor of propaganda for the Apostles of Ignorance.

 

My opinion is that most Americans would really appreciate your desire for a successfully presidency regardless of party in power.  

While the approval ratings of President George W. Bush are low, the approval ratings of Congresses are even lower still.

 

Within the context of being lower poll numbers than President Bush the Speaker of the House "Comrade Pelosi" is being urged by the 'Acolytes of Idiocy' in her party  to Impeach  the President  for "widespread abuses of power and potentially criminal transgressions against our Constitution".  The Detroit Free Press article can be found here:  http://www.freep.com/article/20081125/COL10/81125018 .

 

 

"For economy's sake, Pelosi needs to push for impeachment now" the acolytes proclaim; but, much of the "widespread abuse" mentioned involve the possible issue of Pardons by President  Bush. Even though he has pardon fewer than his predecessor. Possible pardoners can be found here: http://pardonpower.com/2008/11/watch-list-ryan-in-finally.html .

 

With a mere 55 days left before those who were put in control by the 52% "beggar vote" control the country. It is obvious that far, far left fringe is demanding retribution. And for that, you, I and the other 48% should be on "stand by".  For Change is coming  - fast and hard.

 

Be ready.

So, the seeds of our current economic condition were most recently sown in the 1990s during the Clintonista regime by the same cast of clowns recently charged with the investigation of same!

 

What's even more 'rich', is the prospect that these 'apostles of ignorance' will be recycled into the new b. Hussein Obama's rule - to continue the work they started lo those many years ago.

 

Hmmm, this type of jackassary - doubling down on stupidity - coupled with concerted actions by campaign donors unfriendly to laissez faire capitalism - 

(Not limited to making a fortune manipulating the stock market by shorting stocks

Read the George Soros interview in Spiegel online : http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,592268,00.html ) help create a perfect storm  - where the 52% of b. Hussein's "beggar vote" will demand an even larger endowment from the public treasury.

 

What should concern every American - even the beggar vote - is that inclusion of the "Acolytes of Idiocy" - many of whom have never run a business, never met a payroll and never had to match suta/futa/fica payments for their employees - into the financial team of the president elect.  And once their unsteady hand is on the tiller of our economy  there is a good chance there will be nothing left in the treasury to buy votes for 2010.