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Sep 20 2012

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Via The Republican Revolution, on a tip from Dan F.

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  1. AC says:

    Serial burglar apprehended after being caught by armed mother/daughter team

    Why is it that so many of these self-defense stories are being brought to us by British media? (that’s a rhetorical question)

  2. Henry says:

    AC, that story makes me sick!

  3. Spider says:

    Did you ever think you would see a judge uphold the First Amendment rights of an American citizen over the loud protests of Muslims and their American supporters?

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/20/anti-jihad-avage-ads-going-up-in-new-york-city-subway/?test=latestnews

  4. F.D.R. in Hell says:

    Read this…

    http://www.nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/49113168

    Coincidence… or Bad Omen? You decide; I know which one.

  5. AC says:

    Coincidence… or Bad Omen? You decide; I know which one.

    I can already picture the native muggers salivating like a circling wolf pack.

  6. Oddly though he may well get re-elected. It;s rather frightening.

  7. Screwy Puppy says:

    An absolutely awesome and classic Pat Condell rant about the Muslim riots.

    The Muslim outrage and rioting is tired and contrived. We are out of tolerance because they have none.

  8. F.D.R. in Hell says:

    1933 was not a good year… and this is déjà vu.

  9. Sam Adams says:

    Obama claims that he loves America, yet he claimed he wanted to fundamentally transform America. He still believes the foolish Marxist crap he was taught as a kid. He hasn’t bothered to ask himself whether it really is true or not.

  10. Open Thread says:

    [...] Thread Originally Posted September 21, 2012 Via The Republican Revolution, on a tip from Dan F. Moonbattery Tags: Open, Thread Posted in Pundits | No Comments [...]

  11. Ummah Gummah says:

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    Velvet Fascism in Germany:

    Le plus ça change.. limp-wristed German foreign minister Westerwelle has single-handedly banned heroic Florida Preacher Terry Jones from entering Germany, where he’d been invited by local Patriots “Pro Deutschland”, a group which has formed in reaction to the inaction of German politicians when it comes to the excesses and abuses by followers of the “religion” of peace™.

    All of this cheered on, of course, by the usual suspects here in America:

    http://www.salon.com/2012/09/18/germany_bans_hate_preacher_terry_jones/

    Maybe fascism in Germany no longer wears brown shirts, jackboots and uniforms, but it is well alive in form of velvet-gloved bureaucrats.

    A sad day indeed, like the banning of Michael Savage from Britain, this is further proof that “our” Western governments will act against Western Citizens on behalf of the “moslem street”.

    It’s positively revolting.

    One day, when PIGSlam takes over in Germany, the gay minister Westerwelle will be one of the first to dangle from a goalpost in front of a cheering mooozeleeembeh audience..

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  12. Ummah Gummah says:

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    Meanwhile in Germany.. Moonbat judges – what else is new – halt expulsion of WELFARE-MOOCHING bin Laden bodyguard from the country with anchor wife and anchor children.

    The FACT that he’s been on public assistance ever since his arrival is not mentioned in this particular article by the ULTRA-LIEberal “der Spiegel”, but since they provide what information they do translated into English, I’ll make do with that. So if any Moonbat lib wants to proclaim “where does it say in the article that he’s on welfare” I’ll be happy to supply proof on German-language websites.

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/former-osama-bin-laden-bodyguard-living-in-germany-a-848668.html

    Where’s the Moonbat judge when Terry Jones is banned from entering the country??!!!

    Terry Jones is not looking to mooch off the German taxpayer, that much is sure, Herr Westerwelle!

    .

  13. TED says:

    If Bush thought like Obama…

    Flight to Vegas

  14. Fred C. Dobbs says:

    Pat Condell once again hits a home run and says what all the rest of us have been thinking.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCXHPKhRCVg&feature=player_embedded

  15. Ghost of FA Hayek says:

    This one hits close to home
    http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-09-20/farmer-acquitted-in-minn-dot-raw-milk-trial

    For some odd reason the server here likes to eats links to the MPLS Star and Sickle.
    No loss though

  16. Ummah Gummah says:

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    The apologizer-in-THIEF uses America Taxpayer funds to pay for APOLOGY SPOTS on PORKistan TV:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RostqHkiYDg

    When is enough enough??!!! I can’t eat as much as I want to retch. These vile usurpers DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME!!!!

    F*CK PISSLAM!! F*CK moHAMet!!!!

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  17. wingmann says:

    @Spider@8:33
    __________________

    “If you don’t want to see what happened in Libya and Egypt after the video — maybe not so strong here in America — you shouldn’t put this up,Yasar said”

    Thanks for making Pam’s point you jihadist bastard.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/20/anti-jihad-avage-ads-going-up-in-new-york-city-subway/?test=latestnews

  18. Ummah Gummah says:

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    PS. If you watch the Hitlery part of the apology video, have a look at her hair.. It’s so hidden, she’s almost wearing a burka.

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  19. Ummah Gummah says:

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    Having to watch Hitlery on TV can give regular Americans fits of rage.

    I don’t think it’s a good idea to make appeasement ads with Hitlery in PORkistan.

    LOL

    That’ll really set them off and some of US may even agree with them in this particular instance.

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  20. SR says:

    Wilberforce says: “Press suckered by Chick-fil-A fairytale.”

    That was good news!

    http://www.citizenlink.com/2012/09/20/chick-fil-a-sets-the-record-straight-2/

  21. Bob Roberts says:

    I think it’s about time we assessed the results of Obama’s plan to talk/negotiate/work with our sworn enemies:

    PROTESTS IN IRAN, INDONESIA, IRAQ, SRI LANKA, BANGLADESH, LEBANON, KASHMIR.

    Wow, that bad…

  22. Bob Roberts says:

    AC says: September 20, 2012 at 7:58 pm
    Serial burglar apprehended after being caught by armed mother/daughter team
    ———————-
    Note the race/ethnicity of the perp.

    I know your question was rhetorical, but I think the answer goes further than you might guess: There are those in the British press who know that their strict anti-gun stance over there actually encourages criminals to seek out weapons and encourages criminals to commit crimes, knowing that they will NOT be confronted by armed victims.

  23. Bob Roberts says:

    St. Gilbert says: September 20, 2012 at 7:42 pm
    —————
    This is the information that needed to come out before the election in 2008. Thanks media!

    Yet even if it had you can bet a large number of brain-dead zombie moonbats would have voted for Obama anyway.

    Maybe not enough, but many.

  24. Bob Roberts says:

    Once again, we see the inevitable results of allowing socialists to get power:

    Chavez Reelection in Jeopardy Because of Spending and Crime in Venezuela

    I am NOT pleased that it’s come to this, but at least this may be a wake-up call. I’m not pleased, but I’m not sorry either – this is ANOTHER inevitable result of electing socialists so it’s fair to say SOME of us brought this on ourselves and the rest – well the rest, unfairly, are paying along with them:

    Jobless Rate Rises in Five of 10 U.S. Campaign Swing States

    I would rather things like the above could be avoided – but sometimes you have to feel the pain of your mistakes to learn.

    Unfortunately, no matter how bad the pain, it seems some moonbats NEVER DO LEARN! We shall see come November.

    Funny how giving socialists power, and the mistakes they make while in power, seems to be a downward spiral that just gives them more power:

    Dalio Fears Social Unrest That Led to Hitler’s Rise

    WAKE UP! This is EXACTLY what Soros and Obama had in mind when they came up with the “occu-tard” movement. Chaos and anarchy are the friends of socialism and they are their inevitable result.

    Delusional Letterman begs Romney to come on his show.

    Romney should go on Leno, Conan and other shows but should make it a point to snub Letterman.

    VA Democrat reveals real Democrat plan: TAX EVERYONE!

    The “Bush tax cuts” (which were wrongly attributed to him – it was the CONGRESS who cut taxes, not Bush) helped EVERYONE yet they were called “tax cuts for the rich”.

    Now with the looming taxes ON EVERYONE coming from Obamacare, perhaps people will begin to understand why Roberts ruled the way he did at the USSC.

    Voters need to be accountable for their actions. They need to feel the pain of their mistakes. I know this was a hard choice for Roberts, but this is a decision he made that is right up there with Solomon commanding that the baby be split in half. I know it’s hard to see that now, but really under the circumstances, I believe in time a majority will understand and agree this was the only way to wake America up to the fact that it’s not just the executive branch but the CONGRESS we have to clean up. We have to stop giving the Democrats power. Who knows, maybe in a decade or two they will wise up and clean up their own act. I doubt it, but I think a quarter century as an impotent minority party might help at least some of them see the light.

  25. Bob Roberts says:

    And of course the moonbats are ignoring the fact that Antarctic ice just set a new record all time high level

    They’re too busy comparing the annual high mark for Arctic ice against the current low mark and acting like that’s something significant.

    Two points:

    1) We are in a period of NORMAL, NATURAL warming that has been going on for about the last 15,000 or so years. Long before we had SUVs and fossil fuels.

    2) WARMER IS BETTER! MORE CO2 IS BETTER. The biosphere is THRIVING thanks to rising atmospheric CO2 and warmer temperatures.

    And all the gloom-and-doom talk has been revealed as THE NONSENSE many of us knew it was all along.

  26. Bob Roberts says:

    Time for another “Guess the race/ethnicity”:

    (Be sure you guess BEFORE you click on the link.)

    A Florida woman who posed her newborn in a series of disturbing photos that she then texted to the baby’s father was sentenced this week to a year in prison for child abuse.

    NOTE: I know, all races/ethnicities do this sort of thing. I’m just trolling for the racists, those who will accuse me of being racist, over this and other posts.

  27. Bob Roberts says:

    Moonbat problem may be solving itself.

    Researchers have long documented that the most educated Americans were making the biggest gains in life expectancy, but now they say mortality data show that life spans for some of the least educated Americans are actually contracting.

    The steepest declines were for white women without a high school diploma, who lost five years of life between 1990 and 2008, said S. Jay Olshansky, a public health professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the lead investigator on the study, published last month in Health Affairs. By 2008, life expectancy for black women without a high school diploma had surpassed that of white women of the same education level, the study found.

    White men lacking a high school diploma lost three years of life. Life expectancy for both blacks and Hispanics of the same education level rose, the data showed. But blacks over all do not live as long as whites, while Hispanics live longer than both whites and blacks.

  28. Clingtomyguns says:

    The overwhelming majority of Americans do not understand that Obama’s first term was dedicated to putting in place executive power to enable him and the administration to fulfill the campaign promise of “transforming America” in his second term regardless of which political party controls Congress. That is why his re-election team is virtually ignoring the plight of incumbent or prospective Democratic Party office holders.

    The most significant accomplishment of Obama’s first term is to make Congress irrelevant. Under the myopic and blindly loyal leadership of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats have succeeded in creating an imperial and, in a second term, a potential dictatorial presidency.

    The nation is not dealing with a person of character and integrity but someone of single-minded purpose and overwhelming narcissism. Judging by his actions, words and deeds during his first term, he does not intend to work with Congress either Republican or Democrat in his second term but rather to force his radical agenda on the American people through the power he has usurped or been granted.

    The governmental structure of the United States was set up by the founders in the hope that over the years only those people of high moral character and integrity would assume the reins of power. However, knowing that was not always possible, they dispersed power over three distinct and independent branches as a check on each other.

    What they could not imagine is the surrender and abdication of its constitutional duty by the preeminent governmental branch, the Congress, to a chief executive devoid of any character or integrity coupled with a judiciary essentially powerless to enforce the law when the chief executive ignores them

    Conservatives, Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney must come to grips with this moment in time and their historical role in denying Barack Obama and his minions their ultimate goal. All resources must be directed at that end-game and not merely controlling Congress and the various committee chairmanships.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/obamas_second_term_transformation_plans.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcAy6yjSXjo

  29. Bob Roberts says:

    Another Obama fail.

    Hitlery gave a briefing on the whole Libya mess:

    “That was the most useless, worthless briefing that I have attended in a long time. Believe me, there is more written in every major and minor publication in America about what happened.” said Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Bob Corker (R-TN), emerging from the all-senators briefing that included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Adm. Sandy Winnefeld. “It was like a one-hour filibuster with absolutely not one single bit of new information being brought forth… very disappointing.”

    Corker said that the briefing was so poorly received by senators that it would spur Congress to push for more independent investigations about the causes of the attack, the perpetrators, the security at the consulate, and the personal security of Amb. Chris Stevens, who died in the attack.

    “[The briefing], if anything, built far greater distrust about what’s happening than just answering questions. It was pretty unbelievable,” said Corker. “In every event, when a serious question was asked, the answer was, ‘It’s under investigation.’ If I were them I would not have come to the Hill … I think it is going to cause folks to push for something different, because it was received so poorly.”

    Senate Armed Services Committee ranking Republican John McCain (R-AZ) agreed and said the briefing was indicative of the administration’s pattern of not sharing information with Congress about important national security matters. He also said the administration is maintaining its argument that the Benghazi attack was the result of militants taking advantage of protests spurred by an anti-Islam video on the Internet.

    “I learned nothing in that briefing that I hadn’t seen or read in the media,” said McCain. “They still are blaming the video and they have a fundamental misunderstanding. It’s not the video; it’s the Islamists that are pushing this video throughout the world to inflame passions on the part of people of the Muslim faith.”

  30. 762x51 says:

    Actually, re-electing Barack Obama is an act of treason against the United States.

    Anyone who votes for this enemy of America is a traitor and your mortal blood enemy, treat them as such for they are trying to destroy you.

  31. Ghost of FA Hayek says:

    Someone forgot to tell Republicans the AARP is now a Democrap front group
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/paul-ryan-booed-aarp_n_1903937.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012
    Seriously ?
    Obama would only loose their votes if Lenin came back from hell

  32. Bob Roberts says:

    Guess the race/ethnicity:

    TEXT

    I want to clearly point out this guy wound up surrendering – GOOD FOR HIM – without harming anyone, apparently.

    But, given this fact, why was he even not incarcerated:

    Thaxton has a criminal record that includes a guilty plea to robbery earlier this year and a minimum six-month jail sentence.

    Did they plea bargain for no time somehow? Did he do his time then get out? It was only 6 months.

  33. Bob Roberts says:

    OOPS the link is good, just no text, which was supposed to be: An armed man who took a hostage inside a downtown Pittsburgh office building has surrendered to police.

  34. Bob Roberts says:

    The best the left can do when faced with truth and heroism is this

    They keep forgetting it was National Socialism, Nazism, (German: Nationalsozialismus)

  35. J says:

    President Obama Falsely Claims Fast and Furious Program “Begun Under the Previous Administration”

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/president-obama-falsely-claims-fast-and-furious-program-begun-under-the-previous-administration/

    I suppose that means we’ll have to listen to the fringe left parrot Obama’s But-Bushing with regards to Fast & Furious for the next 20 years.

  36. Highway Hospital Student says:

    Bill Kristol and Rich Lowsey –pipsqueak creeps using the tried-and-true tactic of attacking the right just in case things don’t go so well in November:

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/327961/romney-s-47-percent-blunder-rich-lowry#

    Apparently, Lowsey had such a great time kicking Derbyshire down the stairs that he’s decided he’ll try and trip up Romney as well.

  37. Bob Roberts says:

    NOTE ON POLAR SEA ICE:

    We haven’t been measuring it for long. So “most or least ever” records aren’t really that meaningful. We don’t really know, in this sense at least, what the levels mean. Now at the same time there are anecdotal reports of really bad winters – for instance, during the last mini ice age and also during extremely cold snaps such as when the Delaware froze over or whatnot – where the ice extent was apparently significant.

    After we’ve been measuring sea ice at both poles for 100 or so years we will be able to derive more significant conclusions, but still not absolute ones. That will take thousands of years, if not more.

  38. Bob Roberts says:

    Read more here:

    http://icecap.us/

  39. Bob Roberts says:

    GREENIACS SUCCEED IN REWRITING HISTORY AND FACTS:

    Death Valley, Calif. now holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in the world with a maximum temperature of 134 degrees. This temperature was not recorded this past summer, but nearly 100 years ago on July 10, 1913. So, how can it be a new all-time record?

    The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released information on Thursday showing that the now previous all-time world record of 136 degrees on September 13, 1922 in El Azizia, Libya has been ruled invalid.

    —————————
    In other words, the greeniacs don’t like it that a temperature even more unlikely to be broken soon exists, so they lowered the bar. Now it will be easier for them to claim a new world record, thus “proving” anthropogenic global warming is real.

    In an average year Death Valley sees triple-digit heat from mid-May through early October. Highs in the 110s are common from mid-June through early September. Morning lows in the upper 80s or low 90s are frequent from mid-July through mid-August.

    The summer of 1996 featured daytime highs over 120 degrees for forty days. Five years later, the valley sizzled in a stretch of 154 consecutive days of triple-digit heat, a roughly five-month stretch!

    Those are just air temperatures. How hot can ground temperatures get? Try an incredible 201 degrees, measured at Furnace Creek on July 15, 1972. Yep…11 degrees from the boiling point of water! The maximum air temperature measured that day was 128 degrees.

    Why is this Valley so Hot?

    Elevation: Furnace Creek, home of the Death Valley Nat’l Park Visitor’s Center, is roughly 190 feet below sea-level. Since air warms as it moves down, that extra elevation plunge adds extra heat.

    It’s a Desert: Only 2.26” of precipitation falls each year in the valley. The average evaporation rate: 150” a year. In some years (1953, 1929), no rain or snow fell. Most Pacific storm systems have the lion’s share of their moisture taken away by four mountain ranges to the west of Death Valley. Their wettest month, February, averages only 0.49” of precipitation. Amazingly, despite this desert environment, there have been destructive floods.

    On August 15, 2004, torrential rain, by valley standards, sent walls of floodwater up to 8 to 10 feet deep through parts of Death Valley National Park in the late evening hours.

  40. Bob Roberts says:

    Just like Polar Bears, if you stop killing whales, they stop dying in large numbers and the damage “caused” by global warming disappears.

    More at the above linked site.

  41. Bob Roberts says:

    NOAA Data (Again) Shows No Acceleration In Sea Level Rise CO2 Climate Hypothesis Is In A Free-Fall”

    (READ IT AT THE ABOVE LINK!)

  42. Bob Roberts says:

    Don’t Get Crazy about Climate

    1.Quietest tornado summer on record
    2.Quietest hurricane summer on record
    3.Quietest long term hurricane period since the Civil War
    4.No global warming for 16 years
    5.No change in sea level rise rates
    6.Record cold in the midwest
    7.Average fire season
    8.A cyclical drought affecting portions of the country

    Let’s panic and turn control of the US over to the UN, in order to stop all this bad stuff.

    From the above linked site.

  43. Bob Roberts says:

    From Jack Black’s Climate Change Dictionary

    PEER REVIEW: The act of banding together a group of like-minded academics with a funding conflict of interest, for the purpose of squeezing out any research voices that threaten the multi-million dollar government grant gravy train.

    SETTLED SCIENCE: Betrayal of the scientific method for politics or money or both.

    DENIER: Anyone who suspects the truth.

    CLIMATE CHANGE: What has been happening for billions of years, but should now be flogged to produce ‘panic for profit.’

    NOBEL PEACE PRIZE: Leftist Nutcase Prize, unrelated to “Peace” in any meaningful way.

    DATA, EVIDENCE: Unnecessary details. If anyone asks for this, see “DENIER,” above.

    CLIMATE SCIENTIST: A person skilled in spouting obscure, scientific-sounding jargon that has the effect of deflecting requests for “DATA” by “DENIERS.’ Also skilled at affecting an aura of “Smartest Person in the Room” to buffalo gullible legislators and journalists.

    JUNK SCIENCE: The use of invalid scientific evidence resulting in findings of causation which simply cannot be justified or understood from the standpoint of the current state of credible scientific or medical knowledge

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