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Obama and the Phony Fainting Woman

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 18, 2008 1:41:19 PM
If you haven’t heard about this it’s because the Main Scream Media is keeping it quiet. You don’t think it’s staged? Here’s the video for 2 separate incidents:

Hanover, NH on Jan. 8th Watch and listen carefully.

Hartford, CT on Feb. 4th

Coincidence? I DON’T THINK SO!

He’s done the same thing in Montecito, CA; Madison, WI, and Seattle, WA.

But does the media care? Absolutely not. The MSNBC report on the Seattle incident, the 5th such occurrence, makes no mention of previous acts, … uh, I mean, fainting spells. And the Seattle ‘Anti’-Intelligencer dismisses the idea that these are staged events; it was really “hot and stuffy at the Pier 30 warehouse” and relegates the report it its blog.

Gee, I wonder if the MSM would be so flippant about this crap if it was being done by a Republican. But let a (excuse me while I slip into my Liberal foul-language mode) Liberal fascist do it and “ho hum, who really cares”.

I smell a rat!

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Obama supporters love murderous thugs

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Sunday, February 17, 2008 12:55:38 PM
Another day, another Obama scandal ignored by the Mass Media. What should be campaign ending scandals are nothing more than a few pebbles in the road for the Obama sycophants in the Main Scream Media. They are doing everything they can to ignore or dismiss the phony fainting woman. Now they are ignoring the fact that Obama volunteers were prominently displaying a Cuban flag festooned with an image of the murderous thug Che Guevara. If you want to know about this you have to go to the blogosphere. A Google News search lists several locations for the story, but none from AP, Reuters, the Democrat Time of New York, MSNBC, CNN or any other main stream news source.

Jeff Jacoby reports the scandal in his latest column, but you will only see the actual image if you get Jeff's email update. The Boston Globe refuses to provide the image or link to the Houston news report wherein the Che image appears. Furthermore, the Fox News affiliate in Houston, which panned past the disgusting flag, does not even mention the image. You will have to look fast during the clip or you may miss it. I guess communist executioner Che Guevara's image is par for the course among Democrat supporters; so much so that seeing it is a "dog bites man" story to the press. Why shouldn't it be, given that, as Jacoby notes, it has become a "trendy bestseller", "cult favorite" and was once offered on a watch sold at the New York Public Library Gift Shop. ... An aside: It also is prominently displayed on the exterior of the Cuban Secret Police headquarters.

Imagine a news team going to a McCain or Huckabee volunteer office and seeing a Ku Klux Klan banner or Timothy McVeigh's or David Duke's face plastered on the wall. Do you think the reporter would ignore it? Do you think the story would stick with McCain vs. Huckabee storyline? Or would the story become "Will Republicans support a candidate that seems to condone the evil represented by KKK, McVeigh or Duke?" That kind of story would end any chances a Republican had for any office, let alone President of the United States. So why is it that the image of Che Guevara prominently displayed in an Obama for President office does not do the same for Obama? Especially when you pile it onto the phony fainting woman crap.

Jeff Jacoby notes that "when word broke last week that Obama's supporters in Houston work under a banner glorifying Che, the campaign's reaction was to brush it off as an issue involving volunteers, not the official campaign. After two days of controversy, the campaign issued a statement calling the flag 'inappropriate' ..." Two days?!? Inappropriate?!? Gee, you think? How about immediately cutting all relations with those volunteers once the story broke; tell them never to darken your door again, and clearly state that your campaign does not in any way want to be associated with a man who was "a sociopath who relished killing and acclaimed 'the pedagogy of the firing squad' ..." Nope. None of that. Instead all we get is a mild statement that the image is inappropriate.

Obama's campaign has been attacked as not having any substance. I disagree it has substance; the substance of a Liberal Fascist.
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How come we're in Iraq?

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:38:31 AM
Kenneth Timmerman's FrontpageMag.com interview leads me to ask this question (despite the fact that it might make me sound like the Seattle Lefties I'm surrounded by). If you really have an open mind you might be led to the same question after reading this:
"First, there is the evidence discovered very late in the day by the 9/11 Commission, which I describe in detail in Countdown to Crisis. What is astonishing is that this information has not been widely publicized. I spoke again just yesterday with one of the top investigators involved in reviewing the highly-classified U.S. intelligence reports on Mugniyeh’s involvement in convoying 9/11 hijackers in and out of Iran prior to 9/11. He was astonished when I told him that few people were yet aware of this. “That’s like saying you didn’t know that Jesse James was a crook,” he said.

"The Iranians were TERRIFIED on the day of 9/11 and for the next month that the United States would “connect the dots” and discover their involvement to the 9/11 plot, as I reported in Countdown to Crisis.

"Senior Iranian government officials were making desperate phone calls to relatives in the United States, asking them to rent apartments for family members so they could get out of Tehran before what they assumed would be a massive retaliatory U.S. military strike."
So explain to me why we are in Iraq and not Iran.
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Liberal Fascism and our post-apocalyptic future

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:15:44 AM
When I get into some serious day-dreaming, I sometimes slip into a world where I'm a famous horror-fantasy author who happens to be a conservative. In that day-dream world Jonah Goldberg's great new book - Liberal Fascism - should be planting all kinds of idea seeds: A loner, wanders a world overrun by smiley-face festooned, feel good fascists forcing group hugs on the masses; said loner demolishes the liberty crushing facade of smoking bans, mandatory physical exams, and electric cars. ... OK, it needs some work.

Maybe I should go a Richard Hugo House & Northwest MediaArts "Writing Fantastic Fiction" workshop. I think I found just the one taught by Elizabeth Hand:

This is the Way the World Ends

Let's see what the course description is to see if it fits what I'm thinking about for my LF post-apocalyptic future stories.

"The popularity of a new genre of fiction that reflects what's really happening in the world today has surged dramatically since 9/11. Writers have realized that it's a good time to be addressing in fictional terms some of the issues we're facing."

That must be why we're seeing all these books, movies and television shows about the threat of Islamo-Nazism and the death of the West. ... Oh, wait. I better keep reading.

"People are feeling helpless in the face of global warming, the erosion of human rights, political extremists and terrorism."

Well at least she gave a brief nod toward terrorism. I wonder how receptive Ms. Hand will be to my ideas about the threat of Fundamentalist Secular Liberal Fascists, forcing Christians, Marines and Smokers out of America's public squares.

"What would it take to dissolve one of the world's problems? What would the fulcrum be that could stop what's going on and change everything? How would you do world building based on the patterns of extinction we're dealing with now? Plague, flooding, extinction of species; what is the domino chain impact?"

Wait, what happened to the threat of political extremism and terrorism? Now it's all environment all the time. If this workshop isn't the one that will give my storytelling that big push I need, what are Ms. Hand's suggestion as to what else I might to with my free time?

"Eco-tourism has taken off as people rush to see rainforests and glaciers before they disappear."

Great idea. I'm the center of the universe, at least that what the Barak Obama tells me ("we are the ones we've been waiting for"). And I will surely live forever (or at least some 70, 80, 90 years or more). I better rush up to Alaska or the Antarctic before those glaciers which have been around only since I started paying attention to them (thousands of years? tens of thousands of years?!? So you say!) melt away because Al Gore won't stop flying in his private jets.

Something tells me that Ms. Hand is not going to like my ideas about a world in which a handful of God-fearing Americans struggle for individual liberty in the smiley-face world of Liberal Fascism.
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Berkeley: America's most Anti-American City

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:11:43 PM
We all know about Berkeley's protest of America's brave Marines, and how the City Council for that armpit of America described the Marines as "unwanted intruders".

But watching the video of cops standing by doing nothing, while one group of anti-American fascists are breaking the law, blocking access to a building, while others are attempting to engage in legal activity really makes me angry.

This kind of behavior by Berkeley's cops makes them worthy of the epithet - "Pigs".
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Battlestar Galactica Show Runner: Are we adopting Islamo-Nazi tactics?

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 11, 2008 11:24:44 PM
That might be the point of a post Ronald D. Moore's blog. Or it just might be something he thought was interesting because he thinks the current Administration is run by Drinky McBushitler. Who knows?

Moore is Battlestar Galactica's Show Runner, i.e., Executive Producer - the guy in charge of producing the show each week. During the WGA's Writers' Strike he created has his own blog (he needed something to do while waiting for his extended vacation ... uh, I mean the Writers' Strike to end) creatively titled: "Ronald D. Moore blog".

Under the heading "I like Ike", he has this 'sound bite' from the book Legacy of Ashes:
“We were engaged in the defense of a way of life, and the great danger was that in defending this way of life we would find ourselves resorting to methods that endangered this way of life.”

"The president noted that the Joint Chiefs of Staff  had told him, “we should do what was necessary even if the result was to change the American way of life.  We could lick the whole world... if we were willing to adopt the system of Adolph Hitler.”
My question is: What's the point?

A constant theme in BSG is how a government becomes like the enemy in order to fight the enemy. So is Mr. Moore saying that America is at risk of becoming like the Islamo-Nazis that we are at war with?

If you're going to step out onto the blogging stage, Mr. Moore, you might want to do a little more than just drop a pithy quote into a post now and then. Being able to copy something from a book means very little, in my book.
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Oh Polygamous Canada

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 11, 2008 11:10:47 AM
More evidence for the West's slow suicide. Canada is working hard to beat Britain in giving welfare benefits to Muslim "families" based on the number of wives.
"Mumtaz Ali, president of the Canadian Society of Muslims, said wives in polygamous marriages are recognized as spouses under the Ontario Family Law Act, providing they were legally married under Muslim laws abroad. ...  He estimates "several hundred" GTA husbands in polygamous marriages are receiving benefits. Under Islamic law, a Muslim man is permitted to have up to four spouses. ... The average recipient with a child can receive about $1,500 monthly, city officials said."
Four spouses, with one child from each spouse, means that a Muslim man in Canada can potentially receive about $6,000 a month in welfare benefits.

How long before the polygamous heathens start screaming for such benefits in America? Will Dearborn-istan be the first to establish welfare based on number of wives?
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Mitt Romney did the right thing. Will Huckabee?

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:25:42 PM
Late Tuesday night I wrote that Super Tuesday was to Romney  what Florida was Giuliani. Today, at CPAC, Mitt Romney stood up like a true conservative, put America before his own personal desires and dropped out of the Presidential race.

Thank you, Gov. Romney.

Now, will Gov. Huckabee do what is right and also step aside so the GOP can establish a unified front against the party of retreat, defeat and European style socialism?

Furthermore, what will McCain say to those gathered at CPAC? Will he make a strong conservative case against the hard Left policies promoted by Obama or Clinton?
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China Mieville - Mind the Trees, not the Terrorists

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:59:54 AM
It is a wonder that any young person develops conservative ideas given the Leftist indoctrination that occurs nearly every minute of every day. Even a bit of escapist fantasy isn't safe from the Left's heavy hand.

Case in point: China Mieville's book Un Lun Dun. The Democrat Times of New York Book Review does readers a favor by warning them (or teasing them, depending on your politics) of the Leftist ideology Mieville is feeding his "Young Adult" (I think we used to call these "teenagers" - or are they "tweens" now?) readers.

"Beyond its abundant charms, “Un Lun Dun” never misses an opportunity to undermine the tiresome plot devices and tedious moralizing of traditional fantasy. When its disheveled characters are sent on exactingly prescribed quests, you can be sure these heroes will cut corners or otherwise fail to fulfill their missions; when prophecies are invoked, they generally don’t come true; and any character complacent enough to believe he or she is some sort of Chosen One is all but guaranteed not to save the day. Like his fellow Britons Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl, Miéville has no illusions about what utter bastards children can be, and his novel encourages them to be reckless, mistrustful and secretive; it also finds time to teach them lessons about caring for the environment and being suspicious of officials who raise the specter of terrorism for their own political gain." (emphasis added)

There you have the Leftist world-view in a nutshell: Global Warming is a greater threat than Islamo-Nazis who strap bombs to adults with Downs Syndrome and kill them, and anyone standing next to them, in a pet store. And never mind the bomb-vest wearing crazy chanting "Allah hu Akbar" who wants to see your body blown into bits small enough to fit into a Glad sandwich bag; we need to save ANWR. If the Islamo-Nazi swine, which currently target people, started targeting so-called old growth forests, perhaps then Mr. Mieville, and his ilk, would begin to think ill of them.

That this work, at least, seems to hustle his Left-wing tripe, shouldn't surprise us given that Mr. Mieville is a communist ... uh, I mean active member of the British Socialist Workers Party (a distinction without a difference). And we all know that for the Left life begins and ends with politics.
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Let the Dems fight it out

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 12:22:48 AM
Senator John McCain looks like the big winner on the Republican side. I was for Romney in the Primaries and will be for the Republican come the General. If that means I cast my vote for McCain, so be it.

At this point, I think Romney and Huckabee would do the GOP a great favor, given the acrimony during the Primary contests, to drop out, back McCain and let Hillary and Obama fight it out till until the Democrat Convention.

Knowing when to get out shows a great deal of grace and character. On the other hand a wasted effort that will do little but create even more division among the Republican base shows a certain lack of character. Super Tuesday was to Romney and Huckabee, what Florida was to Giuliani. Mayor Giuliani knew enough to drop out after losing in Florida. How long will it take for the same message to sink into Mitt & Huck?

And will Congressman Ron Paul please go home to Texas. He is a rather pathetic side show.
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The McCain - Santorum kerfuffle

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:52:08 AM
When Sen. Santorum, who supports Mitt Romney, made statements critical of John McCain's temperament, Sen. McCain responded, "... I don't know what a defeated candidate for reelection who begged me to come up and campaign for him has to say."

If McCain was that tough on Democrats I would gladly cast my vote for him. Instead McCain's most vile attacks are directed at the most conservative members of his own party.

No wonder the Democrat Times of Los Angeles and New York both support John McCain.
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Maybe we should leave Los Angeles

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 04, 2008 6:23:30 PM
The LA Times' Homicide Report chronicles about 1,000 murders in LA County each year, mostly minorities. Given that kind of body count will be long before the politicians start calling for America to leave LA? Or perhaps there is a "civil war" going on in Los Angeles.
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Conservative case for McCain

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 04, 2008 5:30:12 PM
Jeff Jacoby, despite being highly critical of McCain in the past, makes a good conservative case for John McCain.

Included in Jacoby's list of McCain's conservative qualities are:

"On the surpassing national-security issues of the day - confronting the threat from radical Islam and winning the war in Iraq - no one is more stalwart."
...
"He is a spending hawk and an enemy of pork and earmarks. He has never voted to increase taxes, and wants the Bush tax cuts made permanent for the best of reasons: "They worked." He is a staunch free-trader and a champion of school choice. He is unabashedly prolife and pro-Second Amendment. He opposes same-sex marriage. He wants entitlements reined in and personal retirement accounts expanded."

Not one candidate forcefully argues for reigning in the leviathan and establishing a limited federal government as envisioned by the Founders, except Ron Paul. Unfortunately, Ron Paul is a force of one on that score even as a Congressman, and he has no understanding of foreign policy and the threat of Islamo-Nazism.

For me, however, it comes down to a matter of trust. Just like I don't trust the government to when it comes to "comprehensive immigration reform", at this point I don't trust John McCain to act like a conservative. Many McCain supporters offer McCain's 83% American Conservative Union rating. However, this overall lifetime rating ignores his 65% rating in 2006, and his average rating of 74% between 1998 and 2006. The 2006 rating puts John McCain between such staunch "conservative" Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE), at 64%, and Chuck Hagel (R-NE), at 75%.

What really strikes me about McCain's ACU rating numbers is how much he fluctuates, from a low of 65% in 2006 to a high of 96% in 1994. This makes me wonder what his rating might be as President over the next 4 years.                    
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Pure Evil in Iraq

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 04, 2008 12:29:11 PM
Is there any other way to describe the bottom dwelling sacks of human waste who would send mentally handicapped men and women into a market as unwitting homicide bombers?

I do not receive television service at home and get my news from the radio and the internet. So it wasn't until this morning that I learned about this evil while browsing Roger Kimball's blog 'Roger's Rules'. Where is the Main Scream Media on this story?

Aaron Hanscom, at Pajamas Media, notes, "In fact, this was only the latest – not the first – instance of mentally disabled individuals being used unwittingly as human bombs." Mr. Hanscom goes on:

Last year, two children with mental problems were put in the back seat of a car that was subsequently blown up in a suicide attack in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighborhood.

A local NGO spokesperson explained how these children are “recruited”:
Some children were given by their families but many others were kidnapped by insurgents when they knew that those children had mental problems. Some of them were even taken from the doors of their houses or schools.
Abu Ahmed is a spokesman for al-Qaeda in Iraq and was quoted by IRIN. He spoke about 13-year-old Barak Muhammad, a mentally handicapped boy who was sold to the terrorist group by his father.
We’re doing a favour to Barak. We’re giving him the chance to be useful and not suffer daily beatings from his father. Here, with us, he gets Islamic lessons and is soon going to be a good fighter and maybe one day even become a suicide bomber in the name of God.
Ahmed’s celebration of death could not be more at odds with Western values.

"At odds with Western values" Gee, you think? Will the Left finally get with the program and recognize this evil and call it what it is? Apparently not. Liberal blogger Libby, at 'The Newshoggers', has described the use of Down's Syndrome adults as "a sign of adaptation and a brilliant one at that." Brilliant, Libby? You should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking this obscenity.

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How much is that extra wife worth?

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 04, 2008 10:41:49 AM
According to the British Department for Work and Pensions Muslim men, and anyone else in a polygamous marriage legally sanctioned in a foreign nation, each extra wife garners an extra $66.44 a month in dole.
"New guidelines on income support from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) state: "Where there is a valid polygamous marriage the claimant and one spouse will be paid the couple rate ... The amount payable for each additional spouse is presently £33.65."
Outside of Islamic nations, what government legally sanctions polygamous marriages?

Thanks to KJL at NRO's The Corner.
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