End Run To Circumvent Constitutional Requirement

The key word in this article is "toxic". CO2 is going to be placed in the same category as mercury and lead. CO2 is NOT a toxic substance. If it were, plants would be dead. This is an end run by the administration to avoid the required Senate ratification of a treaty. In other words, its a Marxist tactic. Hows that hopey-changey thing working for ya so far?

Wall Street Journal -- Business Fumes Over Carbon Dioxide Rule

With the chance for a global treaty on carbon dioxide looking unlikely and the U.S. Senate not interested in taking up the president’s cap and trade plan, the Obama administration is about to take the next step in regulating greenhouse gasses in the same way they restrict emissions of mercury and other toxic substances.

Writers Jeffrey Ball and Charles Forelle look at the EPA’s move to finalize it’s carbon-dioxide “endangerment” finding today or Tuesday, a move that advances the policy business people see as the worst possible outcome.

“The spokeswoman said that the EPA is confident the basis for its decision will be "very strong," and that when it is published, "we invite the public to review the extensive scientific analysis informing" the decision.

EPA action would give President Barack Obama something to show leaders from other nations when he attends the Copenhagen conference on Dec. 18 and tries to persuade them that the U.S. is serious about cutting its contribution to global greenhouse-gas emissions.”

There Is No Terrorist Threat To The United States

Well, according to some idiots on Facebook there isn't. Some nitwit left this comment on a thread over the weekend:
"i am always flabbergasted that there are still people that think there is a "terrorist threat" to our country"
I immediately called BS and told said nitwit that he was just baiting us; playing Devils Advocate just for the sake of argument. (I have friends who will do that, because they like to see me get worked up and go off on a tangent.)
Sadly, in this case, the referenced nitwit was serious.
The moron actually thinks there is no terrorist threat.

Los Angeles Times -- U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat

Writer Sebasian Rotella provides an unsettling litany of attacks and near misses on America soil by Islamist radicals in the past year.

“‘Radicalization is clearly happening in the U.S.,’ said Mitchell Silber, director of analysis for the Intelligence Division of the New York Police Department. ‘In years past, you couldn't say that about the U.S. You could say it about Europe.’

Europe has suffered a militant onslaught: transport bombings in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005, an assassination in the Netherlands in 2004, and close calls such as the fiery failed attack on the Glasgow airport in 2007.

Hard borders have helped the U.S. ward off the threat. But experts also said that Islamic radicalization is more widespread in Europe. Crime, alienation and extremism roil Muslim immigrant communities in places like tiny Denmark and the vast slums of France.”

Founders Quote Daily from Patriot Post

"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." --James Madison, Federalist No. 41

Why Radical Islam Is A Threat

Free Americans believe everyone should have the opportunity to practise their religious beliefs as they see fit. However, we must draw a line when that belief system restricts the opportunities of others to do the same. We cannot allow one religion to take precedence over another.

From Sea to Shining Sea

Islam is not “just another religion” to be granted the protection and deference we grant to other religions like Judaism and Christianity. Islam demands that it be the only religion and that all must bow down to it in all matters, religious and civil – from marriage and divorce to contract disputes and to punishments for criminal behavior. Islam is incompatible with our constitutional government and must be dealt with before it grows along with the exploding birth rates of its members. It is the duty of all Muslims to work toward the imposition of Islam and the Sharia wherever they live, and the only way to counter this is to shut down any further immigration of Muslims into this country.

The rot of multiculturalism is not just something that will some day destroy America, it is already well on its way, as the events pertaining to the massacre by a Muslim terrorist at Fort Hood make abundantly clear. What has happened to our army at higher command levels began long before Obama came to the presidency, but the lunacy of deliberately casting a blind eye at the role of Muslims in world-wide terrorism has gotten much worse, and this has become a perilous problem for all Americans as home-grown Muslim terrorism gathers strength.

God and Government: Islam and West Are Incompatible
American Thinker

John McCormack in the Weekly Standard

Rally Against Holder/KSM in NYC: "The Beginning of a National Campaign"

Manhattan: Despite near freezing temperatures and steady rain, a spirited crowd of 9/11 families, first responders, and their supporters rallied this afternoon outside a federal courthouse in Manhattan to protest Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 conspirators the right to a civilian trial in that very court. Interspersed among the sea of umbrellas at the rally were American flags and homemade signs:

"Give Us Liberty, Give Them Death," read one. "Treating Terrorism As A Street Crime Is What Brought Us 9/11 In The First Place," said another. One took direct aim at the attorney general: "Eric Holder=Disgraceful and Despicable," and “2,921 Souls Shout: Can You Hear Us Now?”

Speakers and attendees argued that by giving enemy combatants a trial in a civilian court -- rather than a military tribunal -- Holder has needlessly put lives at risk. The decision will restrict what evidence may be used against the terrorists, could reveal intelligence secrets, and sets back the clock to September 10. “[Terrorists] declared war on us 15 years ago,” said Andy McCarthy, who prosecuted the “Blind Sheikh” following the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. “When they declared war on us, they were using bombs, and we answered with subpoenas. They attacked, and we indicted.”

Read the rest here.

Urban Infidel: KSM Trials Protest New York City

Urban Infidel: KSM Trials Protest New York City

Good pictures. Thanks to NYGoE for sending this out so quickly.

Make Mine Freedom

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Funny Stuff!!!

H/T FreeRepublic:
As for the president, Palin joked that she was looking at a magazine cover of Obama and Chinese president Hu Jinato during an airplane flight. A nearby passenger stated, “Hu’s the Communist,” she related.
And, Palin said, “I thought he was asking a question.”

Palin said if GOP ticket had won last year, she would be veep and Biden would be “selling his book, Going Rogaine.”
Palin tells gridiron she loves her hotel room in DC: “I could see the russian embassy”
Palin takes a shot at steve schmidt, “if I ever need a bald campaign mgr,it appears all I am left w is james carville.”
Palin joke in speech re book travels : “the view is so much better from inside the bus than under it.”
Palin said she was addressing “leading journalists and intellectuals, or as I put it, a death panel.”
Palin said “sometimes you’ve got to trust your instincts and when you don’t, you end up in places like this “
Palin jokes big announcement: “tomorrow I am going to Iowa ......noon to 3p at barnes & noble “
Palin tells gridiron that in dc “I went out for a jog. Or as newsweek calls it—a photo shoot.”
Palin at gridiron jokes normally dem speaker next but: “McCain campaign staff asked if they could have that time for rebuttal.”
Palin’s parents show up unexpectedly at gridiron. She says, “don’t treat them like the ... Salahis”.
Palin jokes book title debate included “the audacity of the north slope.”

Why the Left Hates Sarah Palin (and the country needs her)

(and I will work to help her do whatever she wants to do, whenever she wants to do it.)

By Dewie Whetsell
Alaskan Fisherman.
(As posted in the comments section on Greta Susteren's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.)

The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.

1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" ( CBC ) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la"( well, you know how they are ). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.

2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon ( the biggest corporation in theworld ) protested and Sarah told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.

3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over"stack. She let locals know that if we need something built,we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I imagine -that she's packing heat herself ). I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started...This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.

6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.

By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.

You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives.

So "You go, Girl."

I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals. I rest my case.

Only FOOLS listen to the biased media. [Now we know why Lou Dobbs quit CNN]

Atlas Shrugs On Sarah Palin

and Pamela, as always, nails it.

Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced yesterday that she is resigning and will not seek a second term as governor. Many conservatives are characterizing this as an abdication of responsibility and a failure of will.

Quin Hillyer wrote in the American Spectator that "Sarah Palin's resignation is an appalling dereliction of duty and a highly cynical move to set herself up for a presidential run for which she is manifestly unqualified."

I vehemently disagree. She did not quit. From what I saw of her speech before Fox inexplicably cut it off (after seven days of wall-to-wall Michael Jackson coverage), this is not a woman who is retiring or "cutting and running," as Hillyer put it.

She is getting into the fight to save America. Palin committed herself to fighting "for our state and our country, and campaign(ing) for those who believe in smaller government, free enterprise, strong national security, support for our troops and energy independence."

Obama's treasonous presidency has made this struggle necessary.

Palin, like all patriotic Americans, is shocked by what is happening.

Obama is destroying this country. She knows it. We all know it. We need a leader.

Palin is that leader.

On Friday she assumed the mantle. She delivered a campaign speech. She spoke on the eve of Independence Day about the sacrifices great Americans have made, and what our Founding Fathers fought and died for.

Without naming Obama, she went after his disastrous policies, saying that "living beyond our means today is irresponsible for tomorrow," and noting that as governor she had "vetoed debt-ridden stimulus dollars." She believes in and wants to fight for free enterprise, small government and national security.

Mark Alexander on Colonel Barfoot

Profiles of Valor: Col. Van Barfoot

This is not the usual profile of valor. This is the story of a highly decorated 90-year-old World War II and Vietnam vet fighting his homeowner’s association to keep his flagpole. Col. Van Barfoot has been awarded more than 20 medals, including three Purple Hearts, the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit and the Medal of Honor, and is thought to be the most decorated living combat veteran.

Barfoot recently placed a flagpole and U.S. flag outside his home near Richmond, Virginia. The homeowner’s association guidelines don’t expressly forbid flagpoles but say they must be “aesthetically appropriate.” Apparently, that means only short poles on porches. The association issued a statement saying, “This is not about the American flag. This is about a flagpole… We are a neighborhood of patriotic Americans, many of whom have served our country in the military as Col. Barfoot has done…” They might try serving it again by dropping this outrageous request.

Barfoot’s story is also quite a contrast with that of our current commander in chief, who, while at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, refused to be photographed with the F-22 that he fought so hard to cancel.

Mark Alexander on the SEALs

Department of Military Correctness: SEALs Face Courts Martial

As if there weren't already enough evidence that Obama's war "leadership" is insane... On Sept. 3 in Iraq, three of our elite SEALs captured Ahmed Hashim Abed, a high value target whom the military had code-named "Objective Amber."

Abed was responsible for murdering four Blackwater employees in March 2004 and hanging their charred bodies from a bridge over the Euphrates River near Fallujah for the entire world to see. Clearly, Abed was someone the U.S. wanted, and our SEALs expertly and professionally captured him this past September. Time for saluting our heroes and giving them commendations, right?

Fat chance, because somehow Abed got a fat lip, or possibly a punch in the stomach, by one of our SEALs -- or so he says. Standard jihadi operating procedure, after all, is to claim abuse at the first opportunity. And in today's upside-down, PC military, such "extensive abuse" of a prisoner means that our three SEAL heroes will, unbelievably, be facing courts martial for possibly injuring a wanted terrorist while capturing him.

The three heroes, Petty Officers Matthew McCabe, Jonathan Keefe and Julio Huertas, could have chosen an administrative hearing, leaving them with no possibility of jail time or dishonorable discharges, but tarnishing their reputations forever. Instead, like the men they are and knowing they are in the right, they chose a court martial, which could (and should) exonerate them completely, though, if convicted, it could also land them behind bars and end their military careers.

Leaving aside the question of how, or even whether, Abed was hurt, does a sane country prosecute its own soldiers for fighting and capturing the enemy? Why are these young heroes standing trial for bringing an enemy suspect in alive? Where is the outrage?

Its A Crime OK, but the Victim Is Fighting Back

How Much Longer Before Climategate Explodes?

"You call it 'Climategate,' I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate. ...This is a crime." -Senator Barbara Boxer

Well, Barbara "Call Me Senator" Boxer, at least got the crime part right.

The Lame Stream Media (LSM) are doing their best to ignore Climategate,while they desperately try to come up with some consensus on how to spin it.

Well guess what bozos, you can't spin this one, it's too big. You keep standing in its way, and it'll squash you like a steam-roller going over amarshmallow. This isn't just the biggest story of the 21st century. This is the biggest fraud in world history. Good luck spinning this one away.

As Jonah Goldberg points out in a recent article, the fact that the LSM is covering up Climategate, is a scandal in its own right. The LSM is practicing CYA, by either (like Boxer) building a "strawman" to attack, or trying to dismiss it as something beneath their notice-some inconsequential blip on the radar screen.

The LSM are not covering Climategate because;
(1) they are directly, or indirectly connected to the scandal; like New YorkTimes reporter Andrew Revkin, or
(2) the company that they work for, has huge investments in "green technology" based on the global warming fraud-like the NBC/GE connection, or
(3) they don't want to get "egg on their face," for having so vociferously and doggedly promoted, what has turned out to be a Big Lie, and
(4) they have ideological blinders on-they don't care what the truth is, they only want to push Agenda 21-style programs. It is this last reason that is the most dangerous and troubling.

Agenda 21, as you no doubt know, is the UN's effort to place all of the world under its control (at the behest of a Global Elite). I won't bother to go into its history with The Club of Rome, the Rockefellers, and the UN's Earth Summit in 1992, et al. It's enough to be aware that Agenda 21 is designed to destroy America's middle-class, ruin America's economy, steal America's sovereignty, and abolish America's freedom.

One can only hope that a number of reporters in the LSM, wake up and say,"Hey wait a second, I didn't sign on for THAT." They need to realize that they have been duped, and used as "useful idiots"by Far Left puppet masters. The LSM are moving like a horde of lemmings, in thrall to some herd instinct-humming "Deutschland Uber Alles," as they blindly march-step off a cliff.

By being good little "greenie weenies" they have been cutting their own throats, and America's. In spite of the LSM's silence, Climategate has been rapidly taking on a life of its own. Phil Jones has resigned as the head of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) atthe University of East Anglia. Michael "Hide the Decline" Mann, author of the infamous "hockey stick graph," is under investigation by his employer, Penn State. (Personally, I think Penn State's "Joe Pa" Paterno ought to march over to Mann, and kick his butt-on second thought, Joe should send over one of his Nittany Lions).

Six Important Facts Regarding the SEALs in Norfolk

Six Important Facts About the Assault Charges Three Navy SEALs Face for Doing Their Jobs
by Bob McCarty

In recent years, I’ve published too many posts about members of the Armed Forces facing undeserved charges:

First, it was the so-called “Haditha Marines” who faced trumped-up charges, thanks largely to idiots like Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) declaring them guilty before a mainstream media eager to paint them in a bad light.

Next, it was Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna who was wrongly convicted of executing an Iraqi detainee, Ali Mansur, on May 16, 2008, and is now serving a 25-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Now, I’m following the case of three Navy SEALs facing assault charges related to their capture of Ahmed Hashim Abed.

Who is Abed? He’s the alleged planner of the March 2004 ambush, killing and mutilation of four Blackwater contractors in Fallujah, Iraq. The SEALS gave this enemy combatant piece of dirt a fat lip while apprehending him.

As my first investigative reporting effort related to the SEALs’ case, I offer six important facts about the case you’re likely not to read about in the mainstream media supplied to me by a source whom I cannot name inside the Pentagon:

1) The charges or accusations against the three Navy SEALs were not made from within the SEAL community. Sources tell me they came from someone within the Navy’s Master-at-Arm community.

2) The SEALs were presented with the option of going to Captain’s Mast for these charges but declined this form of non-judicial punishment and opted for court-martial instead. Why? Because they did not want to be judged by those outside of the SEAL community and believed the court-martial route would assure them the representation necessary to prove their innocence.

3) At no time did anyone within the Naval Special Warfare community have any control over these accusations or events other than providing advice or guidance to the accused SEALs.

4) The integrity of the chain of custody of the prisoner is at question.

5) There are extenuating circumstances that indicate there is questionable evidence in some of the accusations made.

6) Evidence will come out in a court-martial that might not have come out in a Captain’s Mast in favor of the accused SEALs.

Uncle Jimbo in New York City

Don't miss my bud Uncle Jimbo Saturday in New York.

CSPAN may cover the entire rally. I would be there in person, but I'm under travel restrictions for the entire month.

Rep Duncan Hunter, Jr Asks Gates To Review SEAL Charges

Hunter to Gates: Review SEAL abuse claims
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Dec 4, 2009 16:06:59 EST

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego area congressman and Iraq war veteran is asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates to look into charges levied against three Navy SEALs in connection with the alleged abuse of a detainee in Iraq in early September, calling the charges an “overreaction.”

“It’s just so absurd. I mean, they split his lip. In a boxing situation, that’s legal,” Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, R-Calif., told Navy Times during a telephone interview Thursday. “They punched a terrorist in the face and, boom, we’re going to launch these guys out of the Navy.”

Some Sentences Shouldn't Even Be Written

Read this sentence and tell me why you should not be reading it:

One of this country's last remaining WWII Medal of Honor recipients is being asked to remove a flagpole from his property.