Sunday, 11 September 2011


A Special Day

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Every year since 2001, September 11 is "una giornata particolare" (a special day) or, as Flemish news anchor Martine Tanghe once said, "the most famous date of the year". For those who consider the U.S. to be the navel of the world, September 11, 2001 was a day when everything changed. The problem of Islam, that had already made millions of victims elsewhere, had made a further three thousand in the U.S. The rumors about jihad, somewhere in distant lands, suddenly became very real.


The Blind Man In The White House

Photo: Vice President Joe Biden appears to temporarily lose his mind during President Obama's jobs speech on 9-8-11. This is not an altered photo, but a well-timed freeze-frame from a video recording made by Russ Allison Loar.

Obama lost his way. He is drowning in economic problems: unemployment doesn’t fall, au contraire; the economy is in a virtual standstill; the Government debt reaches dangerous heights; the yearly deficits are just plain immoral, and the dollar is weak. He still believes it’s the government’s task to create jobs by pumping borrowed money into the economy. The friendly explanation is he has no clue how a free market economy works. The more stringent view is he hates the free market and wants to destroy it. Today, people are not any more afraid to ask: Why does he repeat the same failed policies over and over again?