Taliban Leader Vows To Attack D.C. "Soon"

CBS News reported The top Taliban commander in Pakistan promised an assault on Washington "soon" - one he says will "amaze" the world.

He better hurry. Obama is destroying not just DV, but the entire country.

"Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world," Baitullah Mehsud told The Associated Press by phone.

You may find it is easier to attack a police academy outside of Lahore than Washington DC, Baitullah

Mehsud also claimed responsibility for Monday's attack on a police academy outside the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, saying it was in retaliation for U.S. missile strikes against militants along the Afghan border.

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We The People Stimulus Package

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Common Sense

Thomas Paine, author of "Common Sense," returns to modern times to pleas for a second revolution to take back America, Now!

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ACLU supports violence

FrontPage Magazine reported An unlikely alliance of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian lawyers’ group that usually fiercely opposes the ACLU, along with several other groups, is contesting a proposed Bureau of Prisons rule that prohibits “materials that could incite, promote, or otherwise suggest the commission of violence or criminal activity” from being placed in prison chapel libraries. It would enable prison officials to remove from libraries books that they deem to be “advocating or fostering violence, vengeance or hatred toward particular religious, racial or ethnic groups” or advocating “the overthrow or destruction of the United States.”

The ACLU has framed the issue as one of religious freedom. David Shapiro, a staff attorney with the ACLU National Prison Project, explained: “BOP officials need to follow the law, not engage in the business of banning religious material.

If they were banning all religious material, I would agree with you. But material inciting people to create violent acts should not be protected because someone says it is "religious material"

Distributing and reading religious material is as protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as worshipping in churches or preaching from the pulpits. It is not the role of the government to dictate what is religiously acceptable.”

They are not saying what is religiously acceptable, they are saying violence, or encouraging violence, is not socially acceptable.

What’s more, the ACLU and its allies charge that the rule as written, with its language about material that “could…suggest” violence, is too broad, and can be applied in far too sweeping a manner. “We’re with the ACLU on this particular issue because it’s very important for religious freedom that these texts be available,” said Kevin Theriot of the ADF. “Somebody could take offense with the Bible, which teaches that Jesus is the only way to the Father. That’s an offensive idea to people who are not Christians.

There is a big difference between saying something someone might find offensive and encouraging violence. He also said And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.. He did not say Fight those who do not believe in God and the Last Day and do not forbid what God and his Messenger have forbidden — such men as practice not the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book [i.e., Christians and Jews] – until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been humbled

Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan, indicating that "your neighbor" means a total stranger, or someone that happens to be nearby. He did not say O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.

And He certainly did not say So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks [cut off their heads] until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates. That (shall be so); and if Allah had pleased He would certainly have exacted what is due from them, but that He may try some of you by means of others; and (as for) those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will by no means allow their deeds to perish.

Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross so that people could come to God. Muhammad shed other people's blood so that his constituents could have political power throughout the Arabian peninsula.

They could say that’s inciting trouble.”

If you commit violence because you are offended, then you are the one at fault.

Shapiro agrees in principle: “They could remove texts that are critical to prisoners’ ability to practice their religion.” And indeed, there are indications that Bureau of Prisons officials have been overzealous in applying the law. The ACLU says that authorities have ordered removed from prison chapel libraries books that do not incite violence by any stretch of the imagination, including Moses Maimonides’ Code of Jewish Law and The Purpose Driven Life by the popular evangelical pastor Rick Warren.

I suspect they did that because they thought it was easier to ban all religious material, but if they did that, they were wrong.

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Cocks and Balls shrinking in the UK

Oddly Enough reported The number of people in Britain with surnames like Cockshott, Balls, Death and Shufflebottom -- likely the source of schoolroom laughter -- has declined by up to 75 percent in the last century.

This isn't related to the nutcase in Britain calling for the population to decrease by 50%, is it?

A study found the number of people with the name Cock shrank to 785 last year from 3,211 in 1881, those called Balls fell to 1,299 from 2,904 and the number of Deaths were reduced to 605 from 1,133. People named Smellie decreased by 70 percent, Dafts by 51 percent, Gotobeds by 42 percent, Shufflebottoms by 40 percent, and Cockshotts by 34 percent, said Richard Webber, visiting professor of geography at King's College, London. "If you find the (absolute) number goes down, it's either because they changed their names

I'd be willing to bet they changed their name.

or they emigrated," Webber, author of the study, told Reuters on Wednesday.... Webber also found that between 1996 and 2008, the names Zhang, Wang, and Yang and experienced the fastest growth. Zhang rose by 4719 percent, while Wang grew by 2225 percent.

Must have a slant to the East.

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Transexual to give birth to twins

Spanish man in world first as he prepares to give birth to TWINS | Mail Online reported A Spanish man is set to become the first in the world to give birth to twins.... Sparking what promises to become a bidding war for the first pictures of his pregnancy, he added: 'To protect my children I'm not going to sell my story now or in the future.

I'm sure the children will be fine, with mommy looking like daddy, and what will the person looking like mommy be.

'I've gone public with this so people start to see transexual pregnancy as normal.

Oh yes, completely normal. Stephanie does not like being a girl, so starts the change procedure to become Ruben, but wants to marry Esperanza, already a mother of two, that can not have any more children, but Stephanie/Ruben still has female plumbing, so he/she/it has a doctor use donor sperm to create twins. At least he did not implant 8 embryos. Who could think that was not normal? Me!

'But I am thinking of selling the picture everyone's going to want of me looking pregnant.

Might as well make some money off of this.

'If I don't do it, someone else will and they'll make a fortune.'

And you can't have someone else making a fortune when you could have it.

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Rep. Stark's Maryland tax break under scrutiny

Los Angeles Times reported Rep. Pete Stark (D-Fremont), dean of the California congressional delegation, has claimed his Maryland home as his principal residence to qualify for a $3,770 tax break, even though it is thousands of miles from the Northern California district he represents -- and where he is registered to vote.

Make him inelligible to run for reelection, and prosecute him for voter fraud.

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Obama Uneasy About Tax on Bonuses

NYTimes.com reported The White House stopped short on Friday of endorsing legislation to severely tax bonuses paid to executives of companies that accepted taxpayer bailout funds.

That is what you get when you pick your position based on polls and new accounts. The proposed law is unconstitutional, but Congress passes many unconstitutional laws. Also this not the serious problem. The serious problem is what they are spending at 1,000 times the level of the bonuses.

Administration officials said instead that President Obama would assess the potential effect of the bill that emerged from Congress on efforts to stabilize the financial system.

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Singing the tea party song!

Hat tip to Greta

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Democrats’ blame game

TheHill reported Democrats, rocked by public outrage over bonuses, on Thursday began blaming each other over who was responsible for the mess.

The are all to blame, but I would hang Barney Frank and Chris Dodd first.

The House blamed the Senate; the Senate blamed the Obama administration. President Obama, on travel in California, was relatively quiet on the issue.

Go ahead and complete the circle. Blame the House.

But Republicans blamed everyone. The finger-pointing took place even as the House rushed legislation meant to soothe anger over millions of dollars in bonuses paid out by bailed-out insurer AIG. Legislation meant to claw-back those bonuses was approved in a 328-93 vote.

Unfortunately it will never stand up in court.

The blame game surrounded language in the economic stimulus bill that Republicans charge protected bonuses to bailed-out firms. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the House had nothing to do with the now-toxic provision,

except voting for it.

authored by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), and pointed reporters pressing her for answers to her colleagues in the Senate.

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Bars press from press

Andrew Malcolm wrote in Los Angeles Times reported Barack Obama was elected commander-in-chief promising to run the most transparent presidential administration in American history.

That was to get elected.

This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. to name him "Newsmaker of the Year."

If he had been white would they have given him the award?

The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers in a White House ceremony this afternoon. The Obama White House has closed the press award ceremony to the press.

That'd transparency for you.

From the president's official schedule:

"Later in the afternoon, the President and the First Lady will attend a reception with the National Newspaper Publisher Association in the State Dining Room, where they will be presented the Newsmaker of the Year award. This event is closed press."

Maybe they'll let the newspaper people pass the award through the fence.

I just hope they don't make them use the servant's entrance.

Warner Todd Huston wrote in Stop The ACLU Well, I guess this is par for the course, at least. After all, Obama had a “bi-partisan” stimulus bill that was closed to one of the parties. So, he’s used to doing things that are closed to one group or another. So much for “transparency,” though.

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"Man-caused" disasters

SPIEGEL reported Janet Napolitano, 51, is President Obama's new Homeland Security Secretary. She spoke with SPIEGEL about immigration, the continued threat of terrorism and the changing tone in Washington.

SPIEGEL: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?

Napolitano: Of course it does.

I am glad you are aware of that.

I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear

to see if they won't kill us if we stop calling them names. Ignoring the fact that we were not calling them names before 9/11.

toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.

If you can't even discuss it with the right words, how can you be prepared.

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Disaster

Telegraph reported The Pope is isolated and fails to adequately consult his advisers, said a Vatican source with 20 years' knowledge of the Holy See.

If I was Pope, he would be a former Vatican insider.

Another Vatican insider described Pope Benedict's four-year-old papacy as "a disaster", recalling the pontiff's previous inflammatory remarks on Islam

Which was absolutely correct

and homosexuality.

Which stated long time Catholic teaching.

"He's out of touch with the real world," the Italian insider said. "On the condom issue, for example, there are priests and bishops in Africa who accept that condoms are a key part of the fight against Aids, and yet the pope adheres to this very conservative line that they encourage promiscuity.

The pope adheres to long time Catholic teaching.

The Vatican is far removed from the reality on the ground."

And the Italian insider thinks Catholic teaching should change depending on what the majority wants to hear.

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Forcing blacks into subprime mortgages

AP reported The NAACP is accusing Wells Fargo and HSBC of forcing blacks into subprime mortgages while whites with identical qualifications got lower rates.

Do you have proof of that. The only example cited is a person buying a second home for her child.

Class-action lawsuits were to be filed against the banks Friday in federal court in Los Angeles, Austin Tighe, co-lead counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told The Associated Press.

Are you hoping a black President will force the banks to just give the houses to the people too stupid to realize what they were signing?

Black homebuyers have been 3 1/2 times more likely to receive a subprime loan than white borrowers,

Because the white borrowers read the terms before signing.

and six times more likely to get a subprime rate when refinancing, Tighe said.

Because the subprime conditions seem better until you see what will happen with adjustable rates and balloon payments.

Blacks still were disproportionately steered into subprime loans when their credit scores, income and down payment were equal to those of white homebuyers, he said.

Everything exactly the same???

Melissa Murray, vice president of corporate communications for Wells Fargo & Co., called the lawsuit "totally unfounded and reckless." The bank is receiving federal bailout funds.

What does that have to do with it. Oh, i see, it may give the government leverage for force the bank to make concessions that are not good business. No wonder the banks are wanting to return the money to prevent you from controlling them.

"We have never tolerated, and will never tolerate, discrimination in any way, shape or form in any of our business practices, products, or services," Murray said.... In 2004, she wanted to buy the house next door for her son to live in. She said the bank promised her a low fixed rate for a $40,000 loan, but at the closing, when reading the fine print, she noticed that the rate was actually 11 percent. "I was blown away," said Weaver, an NAACP member. "I didn't have any choice (but to sign).

You had plenty of choice. You could have refused to sign. That is the pirpose of a closing, to allow you to read the terms and make sure everyone knows what is expected of them.

... It made me feel violated."

And so now you speak up, because the government has given bailout money to the bank, and you think you can get them to force the bank to give you terms it would not give you when you bought the house for your kid.

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Why won’t Obama put the economy first?

George F. Will wrote Quicker than you can say "toxic assets," which TARP was supposedly designed to quarantine, TARP was subsidizing the manufacture of automobiles partially designed by Washington. Which recent government adventure in enterprise justifies such government confidence?

None, which is why they should not be running anything. But Obama and George Soros and a conspiracy of Asian and European currency traders want to end American supremacy and change us into a Socialist Country, and they are succeeding.

Fannie Mae? Freddie Mac? Amtrak? Ethanol? The government has subsidized ethanol, protected it with tariffs, mandated levels of production and authorized 10 percent ethanol in gasoline blends, and now the shrinking ethanol industry wants government to authorize 15 percent.... Mature political leaders know that to govern is to choose -- to choose what to do and thereby to choose what cannot be done. The administration insists that it really does have a single priority: Everything depends on fixing the economy.

But he does not want the economy fixed. That is why he and George Soros broke it. The problems in the economy are what are letting him pass things that are going to turn us into a socialist country, and that is his objective.

But it also says that everything depends on everything: Economic revival requires enactment of the entire liberal wish list of recent decades.

They have already stolen enough of our grandchildren's inheritance and put it in liberal special interest groups, where it will come back in campaign donations to keep the Democrats in perpetual power.

... Growth supposedly will cut the deficit in half -- growth and the $1.6 trillion "saved" by first assuming, and then "canceling," a 10-year continuation of the surge in Iraq. Why, one wonders, not "save" $5 trillion by proposing to spend that amount to cover the moon with yogurt and then canceling the proposal?

That is as good as what he is doing, but I don't think te press would be stupid enough to buy that idea.

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Banks Want to Return Aid

NYTimes reported As public outrage swells over the rapidly growing cost of bailing out financial institutions,

Which we never should have done in the first place.

the Obama administration and lawmakers are attaching more and more strings to rescue funds.

The bigger government gets, the more it wants to control things. Power corrupts, and ultimate power corrupts ultimately.

The conditions are necessary to prevent Wall Street executives from paying lavish bonuses and buying corporate jets, some experts say, but others say the conditions go beyond protecting taxpayers and border on social engineering.

"Borders on"??? That is exactly what it is, and it is what Obama intended from the start. That is why they are wasting so much of our grandchildren's money, to stuff it into dependably Democratic special interest groups, because they know that sooner or later the people that voted for Obama are going to figure out his intentions, and they will turn against him, but the stolen money will keep him and other Democrats in power permanently, they figure.

Some bankers say the conditions have become so onerous that they want to return the bailout money. The list includes small banks like the TCF Financial Corporation of Wayzata, Minn., and Iberia Bank of Lafayette, La., as well as giants like Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo.

When you sell your soul to the devil, it is hard to buy it back.

They say they plan to return the money as quickly as possible or as soon as regulators set up a process to accept the refunds. On Tuesday, Signature Bank of New York announced that because of new executive pay restrictions in the economic stimulus package, it notified the Treasury that it intended to return the $120 million it had received from the government only three months ago.

It is no longer "free money".

Other institutions like Johnson Bank of Racine, Wis., initially expressed interest in seeking bailout funds but have now changed their minds. Bank executives told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that one reason they rejected the government money was to avoid any disruption in the bank’s role in the local community, including supporting the zoo or opera company if they chose to.

Rather than letting Washington decide where to spend their money, like they want deciding where to spend our money.

One of the biggest concerns of the banks is that the program lets Congress and the administration pile on new conditions at any time.

"Ex post facto" is supposed to be illegal. Article I, section 9 of the Constitution, but who reads that old thing anymore.

The demands to modify mortgages or forestall evictions are especially onerous,

While Barney Frank controls the banks to give houses to people that have not earned them.

some bank executives and experts say, because they could prompt some institutions to take steps that could lead to greater losses.

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Obama phones NYT to explain why he’s not a socialist

Washington Times reported The phone call came after the president was asked aboard his plane: "Are you a socialist as some people have suggested?"

Maybe he is not going to stop with Socialism, and move on to Communism.

He was clear in his first answer: "You know, let’s take a look at the budget – the answer would be no."

What is there in the budget that says no.

"Is there anything wrong with saying, 'Yes'?" a Times reporter pressed.

And he did not answer the question.

"Let’s just take a look at what we’ve done," Obama said, ticking off efforts his administration has made to stabilize the economy. But he acknowledged that, as he told Joe the Plumber, he plans to try to spread the wealth around.

And is that Socialism or Communism or just crooked Chicago politics?

"If you look on the revenue side what we’re proposing, what we’re looking at is essentially to go back to the tax rates that existed during the 1990s when, as I recall, rich people were doing very well. In fact everybody was doing very well. . . . We said that we’d give a tax cut to 95 percent of working Americans. That’s exactly what we have done."

$13 a month, decreasing to $8 a month. Whoopee!!! And meantime you destroy small businesses so people don't have jobs and are just dependent on government handouts.

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40 lashes for 75-year-old woman

CNN reported A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom

Deportation is unnecessary. The 40 lashes will probably kill her.

for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports.

Hey world. Take note. This is Sharia law.

According to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan, troubles for the woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, began last year when a member of the religious police entered her house in the city of Al-Chamli and found her with two unrelated men, "Fahd" and "Hadian." Fahd told the policeman that he had the right to be there, because Sawadi had breast-fed him as a baby

An interesting excuse, but that is Islamic law.

and was therefore considered to be a son to her in Islam, according to Al-Watan. Fahd, 24, added that his friend Hadian was escorting him as he delivered bread for the elderly woman. The policeman then arrested both men.... The court also doled out punishment to the two men. Fahd was sentenced to four months in prison and 40 lashes; Hadian was sentenced to six months in prison and 60 lashes.

Bread delivery is apparantly more serious than being breast fed as a baby.

In a phone call with Al Watan, the judge declined to comment and suggested the newspaper review the case with the Ministry of Justice. Sawadi told the newspaper that she will appeal, adding that Fahd is indeed her son through breastfeeding.

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Less Than 100 Months To Save The World

Sky News reported The Prince of Wales is preparing to tell the world we have "less than 100 months to act" before the damage caused by global warming becomes irreversible.

Even though the earth has been steady or cooling the past ten years? Anyway Chuck, I hope you are not counting on the US to help, because by the time 100 months have passed, if we keep spending as much as Obama has spent in the past month, there will be nothing left to fight Global Warming or Global Cooling, or anything else.

Charles will issue the warming in a speech to business leaders in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil next week.

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More FHA-Backed Mortgages Go Bad Without a Single Payment

WaPo reported Many borrowers are defaulting as quickly as they take out the loans.

That means that people are borrowing with no intent to pay, and fools are loaning them money. Both should be prosecuted.

In the past year alone, the number of borrowers who failed to make more than a single payment before defaulting on FHA-backed mortgages has nearly tripled, far outpacing the agency's overall growth in new loans, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal data.

Many industry experts attribute the jump in these instant defaults to factors that include the weak economy, lax scrutiny of prospective borrowers and most notably, foul play among unscrupulous lenders looking to make a quick buck.

Prosecute the lender, and the person that took out the loan with no intention to pay.

If a loan "is going into default immediately, it clearly suggests impropriety and fraudulent activity,"

Precisely. They are expecting the government to bail them out.

said Kenneth Donohue, the inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which includes the FHA.

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