The conventional thinking around the beltway and its parameters is we still have time to address nukes. Obama is too busy stealing from the working, from the private sector, from our children to fund his communist revolution to be concerned with national security. That is just so last century. The individual built, the collectivist dismantles. The idea of water downed sanctions is a circle jerk. Saying something, anything for the sake of saying something, anything. Obama is prepared to live with a nuclear Iran. Would Obama have accepted a nuclear nazi Germany? Back in 2007, George W. Bush was, for all intents and purposes, cut off at the knees. Whatever plan he may have had for de-nuking a brutal jihadistregime were all but scuttled when the NIE issued a fallacious report on Iran's cessation of their nuclear program. It was a thinly veiled attempt to change the direction on how how we were going to handle Iran's nukes. And it clearly succeeded. Foreign officers at the Director on National Intelligence, un-american, disloyal and seditious, were not elected by the people of this great nation but they are imposed their foreign policy agenda on this country. It was, in fact a coup on the White House. There should be no permanent diplomatic institution, even at the federal level. They're too readily converted into bastions for America's enemies. It was treachery at the highest levels of government - a stall until their man seized power. Back in January of 2008, I warned of this in the Obama candidacy here. That was an end run around the administration and easily provided the much needed out to everyone on the security council, the EU3, the Democrats and everyone that has been loathe to take any action on the development of Iran's nuclear's weapons.The NY Times and the left wing media hungrily devoured the bait. And now we have the CIA finally admitting Iran's nuclear capacity: Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons after its uranium program expansion in 2009, even though it has had problems with thousands of its centrifuges, according to a newly released CIA report. "Iran continues to develop a range of capabilities that could be applied to producing nuclear weapons, if a decision is made to do so," the annual report to Congress states. A U.S. official involved in countering weapons proliferation said the Iranians are "keeping the door open to the possibility of building a nuclear weapon." "That's in spite of strong international pressure not to do so, and some difficulties they themselves seem to be having with their nuclear program," the official said. "There are powerful incentives for them to close the door completely, but they are either purposefully ignoring them or are tone deaf. You almost want to shout, 'Tune in Tehran.'" The CIA report is the latest official study expressing concern over Iran's continuing nuclear activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency on March 3 issued a report warning that continuing nuclear activities in violation of U.N. resolutions raise "concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile." The U.S. report was produced by the CIA Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center, known as WINPAC. It is called the 721 report for the section of a 1997 intelligence authorization law requiring it. The report also says that North Korea, based on a nuclear test in May 2009, now "has the capability to produce nuclear weapons with a yield of roughly a couple of kilotons TNT equivalent." A kiloton is a measure of a nuclear bomb's power and is equal to 1,000 tons of TNT. On Iran, the report says that it is "keeping open" its options for building nuclear arms, "though we do not know whether Tehran eventually will decide to produce nuclear weapons." The report reflects the published conclusion of a controversial 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that stated Iran had halted work onnuclear weapons in 2003. The report, posted on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Web site, was written before a newNational Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program, which is nearing completion and is expected to revise the earlier estimate, although details have not been disclosed. According to the report, Iran expanded nuclear infrastructure and uranium enrichment in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions that since 2006 have called on Tehran to halt the enrichment. During the first 11 months of last year, the main uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz produced about 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride, compared with about half a ton the previous year. The number of centrifuges at Natanz increased from about 5,000 to 8,700 last year, although the number reported to be working is about 3,900, indicating the Iranians are having problems with the machines. The centrifuges enrich uranium gas by spinning it at high speeds. Last year, Iran disclosed it is building a second gas-centrifuge plant near the city of Qom that will house an estimated 3,000 machines. U.S. officials have said the Qom facility, which was discovered in 2007, is a clear sign Iran's nuclear program is geared toward producing weapons, because the facility is too small for nonmilitary uranium enrichment. Iran also continued work last year on a heavy water research reactor. Most people know this and shrug. The left loves to regurgitate the mantra that we can't be sure, that we got the intel wrong in Iraq. But I say, so what? Saddam was removed. The threat of his despotic regime destroyed. Here we are taking the opposite approach. Inaction based on bad intel is a deadly formula. Even the godless can not escape this religious war declared on the world by Islam. The fact is, it is a values issue. Right and wrong. Good and evil. And what side you are on in the war between the civilized man and the savage speaks volumes about your character, your credibility and your morality. The well developed obfuscation used by the haters of good - words like nuanced, gray area, complicated - are tools to confuse and confound lazy thinkers. But in this, the opposing sides could not be more clear. Yes, there is a very definite good and a very definite evil. If national self interest converges all the better. But at the end of the day if your national self interest aligns itself with evil, your country is on a one way trip to nowhere. History is proof of that. Americans know this. Time and time again they have demonstrated their support for Israel (invariably support for free men) even if their political leadershave not. The clock is ticking, must we wait for the catastrophe? GE – 12 visits AT&T, Caterpillar, Deere, Verizon, Valero, AK Steel, 3M – 8 visits combined Ivan Seidenberg has been chairman and CEO of VZ for a while, a lot longer than BHO has been Pharoah – no White House visits recorded for Ivan in the visitor logs, reflected in the latest excel file… As an aside, many of the traditional phone companies did not back.B. Hussein during his campaign, but most of the cable companies did back him – this has been manifesting itself via issues like early termination fee investigations (ETFs), broadband stimulus restrictions, handset exclusivity issues, etc…FCC doing his dirty work… Wonder what kind of “offer” GE got from Don Vito Hussein that they “couldn’t refuse”… (hat tip Mark) UPDATE: Auntie Maddie writes, "read the four-part news story linked to below. Written in May 2009, it explains how GE, Gingrich, Immelt and others stand to make gazillions on nationalized health care and crap & tax, and how all of this has been in the works and more or less inevitable for some time before the 2008 elections." Part I Obamagate – The tangled web of Obama, GE, Immelt, Cap & Trade, GE Healthcare and Daschle Part II Obamagate – The tangled web of Obama, GE, Immelt, Cap & Trade, GE Healthcare and Daschle part II Part III Obamagate – The tangled web of Obama, GE, Immelt, Cap & Trade, GE Healthcare and Daschle Obamagate part IV -The ‘3 Congressional stooges’ of Healthymagination – Daschle, Gingrich and Frist In light of the Islamic bomb attacks on the Moscow subway yesterday, NYC went into lock down mode. Obama says, respect it! Do not insult Islam! Armed officers police subways (Penn Station) 52nd and Lexington Stand clear of the submachine guns. NY Post In an unusual move, a heavily armed NYPD security battalion with enough firepower to wipe out Downtown Brooklyn descended onto the city's subway trains yesterday in response to suicide bombings in Russia that killed dozens of passengers in Moscow's subway. Bleary-eyed New Yorkers began their work weeks with a morning rush hour that featured city cops in full military gear, including helmets, goggles, body armor, sidearms and M16 assault rifles. The underground arsenal startled sleepy straphangers, many of whom wondered whether the extra security was overkill. UPDATE: This security theater was to benefit who, exactly? A shaheed (homicide bomber) like the "brides of allah" yesterday in Moscow are dying for allah. Is a gun, machine gun, etc going to stop them? Thwarting a new Beslan. "Azerbaijan Says Thwarts Plot to Attack School," from Reuters, March 29: BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan said on Monday it had.. Only Islam returns to its own vomit: MOSCOW. (Maxim Krans, RIA Novosti political commentator) - On September 1, 2004, The North Caucasus town of Beslan became know to the world for a tragic reason. A terrorist group took hostage 1,128 people who gathered at a local school on that day; two days later, 319 hostages including 187 children were killed in the storming of the building. Hundreds of schoolchildren and their relatives were injured. From the days of Prophet Muhammad, sexual terror has been an integral part of Islamic Jihad. The siege of the Beslan School by Islamic Jihadis in 2004 was no exception as reveals Dr. Schurman-Kauflin. -- Editor, MA Khan Excerpt from Chapter 1, “Disturbed: Terrorist Behavioral Profiles” (2008) On September 1, 2004, terrorists stormed a school in Beslan, Russia, and perpetrated one of the most heinous terror attacks in history. Though many people may have heard of this attack, it is very likely that most do not know what really happened there. The reality is so dark that few dare speak of what went on. On September 1, 2004, terrorists stormed a school in Beslan, Russia, and perpetrated one of the most heinous terror attacks in history. Though many people may have heard of this attack, it is very likely that most do not know what really happened there. The reality is so dark that few dare speak of what went on. There are predators in wait lurking everywhere searching for unsuspecting victims. If a person has a proclivity or a secret desire, that inclination can easily come out if an opportunity arises. And that is what happened at Beslan. The terrorists immediately killed the men because they wanted no resistance for their plans. Then, when they saw the helpless girls in front of them, the temptation became too much. Their perverse dreams came true. Things had deteriorated when the media reported that there were only 354 victims. Wanting to have a dramatic impact, the terrorists exploded with anger. There were 1200 victims, and the Russians were trying to down play the incident. The terrorists said they would have to eliminate victims to fit with what the media had reported. Their demeanor worsened, and they got really mean. It was then that they began raping the girls. They wanted sex as they killed, and this is sexual homicide. A sex killer gets excited when he thinks about forcing himself inside an unwilling victim, but the rape itself does not produce the ultimate excitement. It is the rape followed by the killing that is arousing. This is what happened at Beslan. One by one, females were targeted. The sex killers looked for the perfect victims, and after zeroing in, they grabbed and disrobed the little girls in the middle of the gym. There were muffled cries as the girls were humiliated in front of everyone. They were stripped, raped, and sodomized by several men. Not content to simply rape, the terrorists used their guns and other objects to penetrate the screaming victims while the other hostages were forced to watch. And the terrorists laughed. They laughed as they violated the children and made them bleed. What few people know is that some of the girls died as a result of being raped with objects. The internal damage was so severe that without immediate medical attention, the girls bled to death. Those who managed to survive required extensive reconstructive surgery and painful recoveries. But raping the girls was not enough for the deviants who had entered the school. The terrorists beat the other children. In fact, beatings took place regularly, and as they pummeled the little ones, the terrorists smiled and laughed. It was said that they would strike a child and then watch the child cringe. When the youngsters recoiled, their captors laughed. This says the offenders enjoyed inflicting the suffering. They wanted their victims to suffer. Such behavior is sadistic. Bringing others pain brings the sadist pleasure. And the terrorists tortured the victims in many ways. Along with causing paralyzing fear, the terrorists had an ally in the weather. It was extremely hot outside, but the school had no working air conditioner. As the heat raged, the hostages begged for water, and at first, some was given. Time crept on, and the terrorists became increasingly cruel. They drank in front of the hostages and mocked the children who were crying out for water. Things got so bad that the victims were forced to drink their own urine. In some cases, the hostages poured urine over one another in a feeble attempt to keep cool. Seeing the suffering enhanced the joy of the perpetrators. In a twisted, ghoulish game, the terrorists put water in front of the children who were desperately thirsty and told them if they reached for the water, they would be killed. Still, this horror wasn’t enough for the hostage takers. Raping, beating, torturing, and mocking were just not evil enough. Thus, to further frighten the victims, one terrorist stated “we came here to die.” Russian Tagirovich Khuchbarov was called the “colonel.” When the children asked for water or to use the restroom, he simply stated “I’m not your uncle, I’m a terrorist … I came here to kill." Up until this point, the hostages most likely believed they could survive, but then…hearing these words…it meant they were to die too. This surely would have made the victims scream in their minds. If they cried out loud, they risked being beaten or shot. As a crowd gathered outside the school, several terrorists goaded the townspeople. It was said that they “took delight” in egging the crowd on. They fired shots. They taunted. And again, they laughed. This psychopathic, sadistic behavior continued into the night as they ordered hostages to throw naked dead bodies out to the west yard. Yet, the Russian government did not want to negotiate with these offenders. Russian officials knew what they were dealing with: men intent on murder. However, in any hostage event, negotiations are necessary, but negotiations at Beslan were very difficult. When offered food, the terrorists refused because they feared poisoning. They had learned from Nord Ost and other terrorist standoffs. They would not make the same mistakes at Beslan. Knowing that the elite Alpha and Vympel (Russia Special forces) would be called, the terrorists made it clear that if gas was used or electricity shut off, they would kill hostages immediately. The offenders had studied prior attacks and Russian counteroffensive techniques. So, they knew that Russia would stop at nothing to end the siege. With this knowledge, the terrorists had brought amphetamines with them to help stave off fatigue. This made them more wild and unpredictable. At one point, the terrorists allowed some hostages to leave. They told some mothers that they could get out with their babies and leave behind an older child or stay with both children. Those who left a child behind will certainly be tormented for the rest of their lives. At least one child who had been left behind survived the ordeal. One can only imagine that she could develop feelings of anger and maybe even hatred for the parent who abandoned her with psychopathic sexual sadists. The bloodsucking Dem despotic government is threatening retribution to businesses for filing reports required by law. Maxed out mama explains: Here's the gestapo "invite": The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on April 21, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to examine the impact of the new law on AT&T and other large employers. We request your personal testimony at this hearing. To assist the Committee with its preparation for the hearing, we request that you provide the following documents from January 1,2009, through the present: (1) any analyses related to the projected impact of health care reform on AT&T; and (2) any documents, including e-mail messages, sent to or prepared or reviewed by senior company officials related to the projected impact of health care reform on AT&T. We also request an explanation of the accounting methods used by AT&T since 2003 to estimate the financial impact on your company of the 28% subsidy for retiree drug coverage and its deductibility or nondeductibility, including the accounting methods used in preparing the cost impact statement released by AT&T this week. We ask that you provide the requested information by April 9, 2010. For purposes of this request, the term "senior company officials" includes all company officials at the level of Vice President and above for the company or any subsidiary. Attachments to this letter provide additional information about responding to Committee document requests and testifying before the Committee. If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact Meredith Fuchs with the Committee staff at (202) 226-2424. ~a.~ Henry A. Waxman Democrat Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce,, infinitely more beautiful on the outside than the inside Democrats threaten companies hit hard by health care bill Byron York, Washington Examiner Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, has summoned some of the nation's top executives to Capitol Hill to defend their assessment that the new national health care reform law will cost their companies hundreds of millions of dollars in health insurance expenses. Waxman is also demanding that the executives give lawmakers internal company documents related to health care finances -- a move one committee Republican describes as "an attempt to intimidate and silence opponents of the Democrats' flawed health care reform legislation." On Thursday and Friday, the companies -- so far, they include AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar, Deere, Valero Energy, AK Steel and 3M -- said a tax provision in the new health care law will make it far more expensive to provide prescription drug coverage to their retired employees. Now, both retirees and current employees of those companies are wondering whether the new law could mean reduced or canceled benefits for them in the future. The news is an embarrassment for Democrats. As President Obama and congressional leaders tout the purported benefits of the new health care law, some of the nation's biggest companies are saying it will mean higher costs and fewer benefits -- not exactly what Democrats want to hear in the days after their historic victory. So Waxman has ordered the executives to explain themselves at an April 21 hearing before the Energy and Commerce Committee's investigative subcommittee. That subcommittee just happens to be chaired by Rep. Bart Stupak, the Michigan Democrat who held out his vote on health care reform until a few hours before final passage on March 21, giving the bill's opponents the unfounded hope that he might vote against it. Waxman's demands came Friday in letters to several executives. "After the president signed the health care reform bill into law, your company announced that provisions in the law could adversely affect your ability to provide health insurance," Waxman wrote to Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T. A few hours before Waxman sent his letter, AT&T announced it will take a $1 billion charge against earnings because of the tax provision in the new health bill. AT&T also said it will be "evaluating prospective changes" to its health care benefits for all workers. Texas Muslims Want Diplomas Sans Our Lord Agreed, and the Christians are not chopping your head (or clit) off, either. They want any reference to Christianity off their diplomas? "In the year of our lord?" I want any reference to allah, the koran or islam out of my taxi cabs and my restaurants. I want those stinky footbaths out of my airports and universities. Get the sharia out of our finance. When one attends a school with a Christian heritage, a connection to a Christian denomination, and an obviously Christian name, should one be surprised – or offended – by a reference to Jesus Christ on one’s diploma? And should "one expect that the reference be deleted from every student’s diploma because a minority of students take offense at it? One would think that the answers to such questions would be obvious. Indeed, one would think that the need to even ask the questions is laughable. But that is not the case at San Antonio’s Trinity University. “A diploma is a very personal item, and people want to proudly display it in their offices and homes,” said Sidra Qureshi, president of Trinity Diversity Connection. “By having the phrase ‘In the Year of Our Lord,' it is directly referencing Jesus Christ, and not everyone believes in Jesus Christ.” Qureshi, who is Muslim, has led the charge to tweak the wording, winning support from student government and a campus commencement committee. Trustees are expected to consider the students' request at a May board meeting. Frankly, it seems to me that the PC ideology has been taken way too far here. Respect for diversity is one thing – but respect for the history of the institution and the religious affiliation it still retains is also important. What next – excising the Bible from the school seal, on the theory that not every student is a believer in that divinely inspired book? Or at least the removal of the motto – E Tribus Unum (From Three, One)? Indeed, can this sort of PC lunacy even allow for maintaining the name “Trinity”? After all, there are no doubt all sorts of non-trinitarian folks on the campus who should not find themselves daily confronted with that theological negation of their own beliefs. So to the trustees of Trinity University, I offer this piece of advice – keep “In the Year of Our Lord”, or accept that you will have no basis upon which to maintain any aspect of your school’s Christian heritage. After all, dropping that phrase will constitute nothing less than an abject surrender to the forces of anti-Christian diversity and secularism. UPDATE: Dhimmi sicknessat Trinity: Rashid Khalidi to speak at Trinity April 12th. Stealth jihadist and Jew hater. Good luck with the lions, Christians. Discover the Networks has this: Khalidi has long cited the late Edward Said as his major academic influence. Following the latter's death in 2003, Khalidi penned anobituary that valorized Said for "giving a voice to the voiceless" via his "eloquent espousal of the cause of Palestine." In this context, Khalidi likened Said to another of his idols, Noam Chomsky: "Like Noam Chomsky and very few others, he [Said] managed not only to reshape his own field of scholarly endeavor, but to transcend it, influencing other fields and disciplines, and going well beyond the narrow boundaries of the American academy to become a true public intellectual, and a passionate voice for humanistic values and justice in an imperfect world."
FATAL THINKING
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
WHITE HOUSE VISTOR LIST: CEO INQUISITION - GE'S IMMELT FREQUENT WH GUEST, VERIZON? NEVER
WAR ZONE NYC - BUT DO NOT INSULT ISLAM!
Monday, March 29, 2010
MUSLIM ATTACK ON KINDERGARTEN THWARTED IN AZERBAIJAN
DESPOT DEMS INTIMIDATE/THREATEN BUSINESSES BECAUSE OF THEIR STAGGERING OBAMACARE LOSSES
MUSLIMS ATTACK CHRISTIANITY AT TRINITY UNIVERSITY
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The Opinionator November 19 2008
By Deborah Schurman-Kauflin
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