"Can you promise that I will come back?"

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Kim "The Beast" Jong-Un Next Up in North Korea

Just over a year ago I posted on Kim "The Beast" Jong-un. Now, we'll get to see if he 'lives up' to that moniker. From that earlier post, a background primer on this, the third-generation succession path in NonkLand. Seems Kim Jong-Il (Baron Harkonnen) appointed Kim Jong-Un (Glossu “The Beast” Rabban), and there's no sign of any Feyd-Rautha coming for to save the day.

Hopefully, this world's only Communist Monarchy, this Korean Mobile Triumvirate of Successive Evils, will end soon enough, and with little loss of human life in NonkLand or her surroundings.

Yeah. And I believe in Santa Claus, too.

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'I'm the fourth best president in American history': Barack Obama on 60 Minutes

No, Mr. Bozo, you are not even approaching the stature of Ronald Reagan or even that of either of the George Bush(s). Your narcissism, however, is greater than that of ANY modern U.S. President's; and rivals that of some of the worst of foreign dictators, including but not limited to Hugo Chavez, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi.

h/t Darleen Click

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Obama Releases Known Murdering Terrorist Ali Musa Daqduq

Yes, this is shameful. Our President is without honor...

The Daqduq Disgrace

Obama releases a terrorist rather than send him to Gitmo.

One of the most widely photographed acts of President Obama's first year in office was his symbolic pre-dawn salute to the caskets of U.S. soldiers returning to Dover Air Force Base. In the case of a terrorist named Ali Musa Daqduq, who was released yesterday from U.S. custody in Iraq, the President is letting down those fallen soldiers and their families.

Daqduq is a Lebanese national and top Hezbollah operative who in January 2007 masterminded the ambush, kidnapping and murder of five American soldiers in the Iraqi city of Karbala. Arrested by U.S. forces in Basra two months later, Daqduq is said to have initially pretended to be deaf and mute. But he eventually talked, giving U.S. interrogators an extensive picture of the ways in which Iran was arming and training Iraq's insurgents.

Now Daqduq is in Iraqi custody—released, according to the Administration, because it could not lawfully do otherwise. "We have sought and received assurances [from the Iraqi government] that he will be tried for his crimes," said Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the National Security Council.

Mr. Vietor surely knows the likelier outcome is that Daqduq will be released or acquitted so that he can rejoin his comrades in Beirut or Tehran. The Iraqi government has already released some 50 other prisoners responsible for attacks on U.S. forces.

The Administration contends that its hands were tied by the U.S.-Iraq status-of-forces agreement negotiated by the Bush Administration, which required Iraq's consent—not forthcoming—to remove any prisoners from the country. But it's hard to see why that stipulation would apply to Daqduq, who is not an Iraqi citizen.

It's almost 2012, thankfully.

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Presidential Pout Job

Aww, didn't you get your surtax on the EEEEVIL! rich? And that pipeline..a damned shame you're gonna have to expose yourself as against Union jobs and for the environmental whack-jobs who've camped out in front of your house for the last several weeks?

Can't have everything you want, Barry. Sorry.

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Occupy Wall Street EPIC FAIL! OWS Kids, Missing Zuccotti Park, Arrested for Attempting to Occupy a Church.

These miserable little Marxists just can't seem to learn, can they?

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday after they scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to an Episcopal church-owned lot they want to use for a new camp site.

Protesters used a wooden ladder to scale the fence or lifted it from below while others cheered them on. A man wearing a Santa suit stood on the ladder among others, as they ignored red “Private Property” signs.

As officers made arrests, protesters shouted obscenities and hollered: “Make them catch you!” The group was inside the lot for a short time before being led out by police in single file through a space in the fence. About 50 people were arrested, police said.
About a thousand people gathered across the street at a city-owned park.

Protesters have been looking for a new place to set up camp since they were ousted from Zuccotti Park and are considering Duarte Square, which is owned by Trinity Wall Street Episcopal church.

Now, they've begun a march on the Rector's home; via Twitter, there are reportedly 'paddy wagons and netting' lining up to catch the loose 'tards.

Hey, OWS! "SUCCESS" comes before "WORK" ONLY in a DICTIONARY!

Freakin' morons. See what happens when LeftLibProggs have kids ?

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UPDATE: Video.

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Christopher Hitchens...

...woke up dead this morning. Not unexpectedly; that outcome is guaranteed to all of us.

As a celebrated atheist who spent much of his life bashing God and godbotherers, he's now knowing the final answer: either he has an immortal soul that was collected and returned to it's Maker (or, perhaps rejected and sent somewhere, maybe to be reborn as a goat-fucking Iranian) or he spent his life as just another planet-bound animal with a short lifespan and a mildly-swollen brain case; in which case he's returned to the nothing from whence he came, quickly to be forgotten.

Either way, sayanora. Wouldn't want to be like you were, really.

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Hey, just look at what George Bush has done this time!

George Bush has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.

Human rights groups accused the president of deserting his principles and disregarding the long-established principle that the military is not used in domestic policing. The legislation has also been strongly criticised by libertarians on the right angered at the stripping of individual rights for the duration of "a war that appears to have no end".

The law, contained in the defence authorisation bill that funds the US military, effectively extends the battlefield in the "war on terror" to the US and applies the established principle that combatants in any war are subject to military detention.

That dirty S.O.B. just won't go away, will he ?

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Sarah Palin, to the REAL 1%'ers: "Congress, it's time to stop lining your pockets"

A newly-penned essay by the one who got away, in today's USA Toady [no sic there]...

Thanks to the solid new research and recent revelations in Peter Schweizer's book Throw Them All Out and the subsequent coverage on 60 Minutes, we have concrete proof to explain how members of Congress accumulate wealth at a rate astonishingly faster than the rest of Americans and have stock portfolios that outperform even the best hedge-fund managers'. (Full disclosure: Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a foreign policy adviser.)

From sweetheart land deals to initial public offering (IPO) stock gifts to insider trading with non-public government information, the methods of unethical wealth accumulation for our permanent political class are endless. The reaction from the Beltway establishment to the revelations concerning insider trading among members of Congress was predictable. First they denied it, then they dismissed the problem as much ado about nothing. Some said there was no need for new laws or action because the Securities and Exchange Commission could prosecute members of Congress under existing laws against insider trading.

But under current law, there is no way the SEC will ever go after a powerful congressman or senator. The SEC never has, even though insider trading prohibitions have existed since the 1930s. Here's why: Congress sets the SEC's budget, and senators approve the head of the SEC. Congress uses its power of the purse strings to threaten federal agencies that get in their way.

For example, in 2006 the FBI got a search warrant from a federal judge to comb former congressman William Jefferson office. The FBI already had evidence that Jefferson was taking bribes. Congress was furious that the FBI would dare search a fellow member's office. Members claimed the search was unconstitutional. They even threatened to cut the Justice Department's budget in retaliation. All this despite the fact that 86% of Americans supported the FBI raid. ...

Our permanent political class relies on an apathetic and uninformed public to get away with this stuff. But if there is one issue that unites Americans across the political spectrum, it's absolute disgust with the corruption of our elected leaders. Congress and the White House need to earn the American people's trust again. We the people are not going to give up until we get the sudden and relentless reform we deserve or, as the book says, "we throw them all out" in 2012.

It'd be nice to 'throw them all out', and start with a fresh lot of eventual crooks. But, I'm thinking there's no good way to be rid ourselves of our corrupt political class.

Throw Them All Out: Amazon

Few, if any, are worth keeping.

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Al Sharpton ...Speaks

I swear, this IS REALLY AL SHARPTON~! No, REALLY!

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