United Nations votes 79-70: It's OK to kill Gay People

I shit you not. From the mostly always unlinkable Huffington Blows...

NEW YORK, NY -- Last week, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly voted on a special resolution addressing extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions. The resolution affirms the duties of member countries to protect the right to life of all people with a special emphasis on a call to investigate killings based on discriminatory grounds. The resolution highlights particular groups historically subject to executions including street children, human rights defenders, members of ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority communities, and, for the past 10 years, the resolution has included sexual orientation as a basis on which some individuals are targeted for death. ...

The tiny West African nation of Benin (on behalf of the UN's African Group) proposed an amendment to strike sexual minorities from the resolution. The amendment was adopted with 79 votes in favor, 70 against, 17 abstentions and 26 absent.

A collection of notorious human rights violators voted for the amendment including Afghanistan, Algeria, China, Congo, Cuba, Eritrea, North Korea, Iran (didn't Ahmadinejad tell the world there were no gays in Iran?), Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Sudan, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

Add to this Bahamas, Belize (where you get 10 years for being gay), Jamaica (10 years of hard labor), Grenada (10 years), Guyana (life sentence), Saint Kitts and Nevis (10 years), Saint Lucia (10 years), Saint Vincent (10 years), South Africa (Apartheid? What apartheid?), and Morocco (ruled by a gay monarch!). They are all on the list of nations that do not think execution of gays and lesbians is worthy of condemnation or investigation. ...

Not a single African nation voted against the amendment. This is not surprising. Homosexuality is illegal in most of Africa. So acceptable is the notion of extra-judicial killings of gay men and women for their consensual private conduct that one of these countries, Uganda, is considering legislation making homosexuality (not the behavior, just being gay) punishable with death. The proposer of the bill, David Bahati, and the Ugandan "Minister for Ethics and Integrity," Nsaba Buturo, have vowed the bill will pass before parliament dissolves on May 12, 2011.

There you go. Multiculturism suffers an ignominious worldwide setback, thanks to the United Nations.

Aren't you leftists proud of your support for the U.N.?

Another smaller question: does anti-gun U.N. employee Mikeb302000 support his parent organization? Or would he prefer to stay quiet on the United Nations, given his paycheck comes from their coffers, and instead bitch about Pennsylvania gun laws ?

"As long as they don't use guns for the executions", right, Mikeb ?

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h/t Iowahawk

Barack Obama finally wins one! Narcissistic Personality Disorder removed from Psychiatrist's Manual

It's about time something went right for our Mr. Littlest Prezzidint Man...

Narcissistic personality disorder, characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance and the need for constant attention, has been eliminated from the upcoming manual of mental disorders, which psychiatrists use to diagnose mental illness.

As Charles Zanor reports in today’s Science Times, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — due out in 2013 and known as D.S.M.-5 — has eliminated five of the 10 personality disorders that are listed in the current edition. The best known of these is narcissistic personality disorder.

It is a puzzle why the manual’s committee on personality disorders has decided to throw N.P.D. off the bus. Many experts in the field are not happy about it….One of the sharpest critics of the D.S.M. committee on personality disorders is a Harvard psychiatrist, Dr. John Gunderson, an old lion in the field of personality disorders and the person who led the personality disorders committee for the current manual.

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The central requirement for N.P.D. is a special kind of self-absorption: a grandiose sense of self, a serious miscalculation of one’s abilities and potential that is often accompanied by fantasies of greatness. It is the difference between two high school baseball players of moderate ability: one is absolutely convinced he’ll be a major-league player, the other is hoping for a college scholarship.

Mr. Obama fits the old profile of a classic narcissist...(below the fold)

WikiLeaks: Julian Assange gives Barack Obama a fat lip. Oh, and the NYT's OK with Sharia Law. Who knew?

Most of the articles I've read this morning are of the fainting-couch sort, with much decrying of WikiLeaks' latest releases, consisting of embarrassing U.S. diplomatic cables. MEH, I say; there's nothing there we didn't know or surmise. That Obama is a two-faced man with as much disregard for foreign leaders as he has for American citizens? Who knew?

Dan Collins is raking some Wiki Leaves, if you're interested.

So, instead of completely mesmerizing myself in teh Wiki, I found this little piece of rot nestled amongst the rest of the turds on the front page of the New York Times.

The NYT's unnamed editor flushes out another editorial, a piece mostly designed as red meat for their far-Left readership: "Intolerance and the Law in Oklahoma"...

For a few days this month, it was illegal in Oklahoma for a state judge to base a court decision on Islamic religious law or consider any form of international law. It was a manufactured problem; the issue has never come up in the state’s courts. But more than 70 percent of voters in Oklahoma still approved a state constitutional amendment to that effect, apparently persuaded by anti-Islamic activists, and a few cynical politicians, that Oklahoma was about to be brought under Islam’s heel. ...

It is fear-mongering, of course, and all too successful. As James McKinley Jr. recently reported in The Times, the issue helped drive the high Republican turnout at the polls in Oklahoma.

That, combined with the national Republican wave, helped give the party veto-proof control of the Legislature and a Republican governor for the first time. Now Republicans in several other states are talking about similar measures. Muslim leaders in Oklahoma say they are getting more hate mail.

It’s bad enough that in its hatred the state amendment singles out a religion’s law for condemnation, in violation of the nation’s Constitution. Or that it forbids a longstanding practice of mentioning the laws of other nations in a legal ruling. It is not even clear what the implications might be if the courts allowed this measure.

Oh! still crying over the butt-hurt in November, these Leftists, hoping to find an 'easy target' on whom to blame their losses: fear-mongering haters, scaring up all these Republican voters! We will editorialize them to THE BITTER END!

No one noticed the Christmas Tree Bomber in Oregon, that fellow who was a Beserker Baptist, right? Oh, his name was Mohamed (Mohammed’s Child) Mohamud, you say? Bad timing, NYT; should've held this editorial for a couple weeks longer.

This comment, from a regular New York Times Reader who is Leftist...

Demagogues couldn't mislead American voters if the voters would seek out information from various sources, better evaluate the information, remember American and world history, and, most important, devote serious time and energy to becoming well-informed, thoughtful citizens. As Dwight D. Eisenhower said, "Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen." Until it does, American voters, will likely follow any instigator or fanatic or cynic who catches their fancy.

That's funny, Cordelia28 from Astoria Oregon, considering it's likely that you voted for Obama, a man who rode in on "HOPE" and "CHANGE" and little else of substance; a man who rode the fanatical cynicism for the policies of and the sponsored hatreds for George Bush. Aren't you proud, today, that BHO is your prezzidint? Are you one of the 38% who still approve without qualification?

This Oklahoma law is preemptively stalling what we see happening in European countries, including (the formerly) Great Britain. I suppose American liberals, mostly atheists, feel that since they've managed to throttle Christianity that there's no other religion that they can't bring to heel, that all religions are as easily subdued as Christianity.

That's not the case, really. Look to European countries, as you do for your economic revelations, for examples of Shariah Law's pernicious tendrils in their societies; and look at the harm the (lack of) integration has wrought from Great Britain to France to Spain.

Best we keep this law intact. If it'll make you feel better, consider it another sprout of the 'Separation of Church and State' doctrine you hold in such high regard.

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Sarah Palin's Verbal Gaffes

Heh.

My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…

Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.

That little gal can be so annoying, you know ?

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TSA in action: West Palm Beach Airport

Fits the profile, doesn't he? Middle-aged, camo t-shirt, Calvin Klein underwear, definitely a known right-wing terrorist.

A good thing BHO and Big Sis are looking out for us. I feel better already, really.

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Turkey Day

So, how much do you know about the Bird of the Day?

An easy-enough quiz that even your tryptophan-encrusted brain can handle.

Oh, and if Detroit whups New England today, I'll come over and do your dishes. No, really!

That's what's known as a 'safe bet'. I doubt the Lions will even score a single TD.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving~!

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Jake Shannon, you are not a prize Catch.

Ew! You STINK!

Who? is Jake Shannon, and Why? is he not a prize Catch, you might ask, and rightly so, unless you've an interest in Catch wrestling (there, I said it, the "wWf" word, and no I don't mean that stuff you see on the TV with the gaudily-dressed Halloween - KISS escapees who plan their 'shows' in advance and game-play for unsophisticated audiences like your Uncle 'Bubba' Hatmccoyfield, you know, the one missing six teeth and drooling tobacco juice out the corner of his mouth...even Jake Shannon is above that, at least for the moment). The type of wrestling I speak of is American Catch wrestling, a serious form of wrestling with a storied past.

It seems Jake Shannon has brushed aside the original history of Catch wrestling and seeks to re-write it for the purpose of his own self-promotion; he's taking shortcuts to make a name (and a lot of monies) for himself without giving proper credit to whom credit is due, namely, to Tony Cecchine, the only remaining American Catch wrestler to learn his art from the original practitioners.

Where does the stink come from, you ask? Why, Jake Shannon, besides creating a revised history has taken to hiring and using 'professional' Search Engine Optimization experts to drive all-important eyes and interest to his heavily-fondled version of 'truth'. No, no, Jake, you can't get away with that; the word is out.


Jake Shannon is completely and elegantly exposed here...

Important to keep in mind is the following: the attacks on Tony Cecchine from with the so-called "catch wrestling community" didn't begin until after the deaths of both Radwan and Lou Thesz. And that's because, in the US at least, Cecchine WAS the catch wrestling community. Until Shannon launched his coup.

What Shannon has been able to do is to conflate catch wrestling -- and anyone who uses wrestling and agrees to catch any hold can be labeled a catch wrestler -- with catch wrestling "hooks," in order to hide that very important distinction.

Hooks were known by relatively few wrestlers; whereas these days, anyone who ever put on a pair of tights and fought some "wild Samoan" or some such is being passed off as a "catch wrestler."

What these people are are retired pro wrestlers. Do any of them know hooks? I can't say for certain. All I CAN say is that, if they know them, they aren't showing them on video. Only Tony Cecchine has done that.

There's plenty of evidentiary video at the link.

It's not right that a person should try to lock down a market in which he can't prove his value, other than with an ability to hire the geek squad to funnel to him some unearned g00gle hits.

Here's an unwelcome g00gle hit, Jake, or, if you like, a slap o' the truth.

Always glad to help out a Good Man.

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Sarah Palin and her Lefty Haters, and the intentional (!) mockery thereof.

This comment, found amongst the thigh-deep Sarah-hating comments accompanying yesterday's Guardian article on Sarah Palin's newest book is...well, read it for yourself and you decide if it's straight-up knife-in-the-belly malicious parody or completely unintentional (which would make it even more awe-inspiring!) (I've made no changes whatsoever) ...

The Palins are a bunch of uncultured country bumpkins hillbillies. They have no impressive education, no social class, no cultural fine taste, no decent family pedigree. They are a bunch of stinking losers.


Compared that to President Obama who has consistently scored excellent grades in his Ivy League education, elevated to highly-envied social stauts, developed tremendous fine things in life and unparalleled family upbringing. President Obama even played better golf than the those Hillbillies Palins. Civilised people like us hold more than one golf country clubs while those country bumpkins hillbillies would never have touched even one single golf club in their entire pathetic miserable lives. People who have never played golf like the Palins are worse than pigs and cockroaches.


People like us are highly educated, highly cultured, highly civilized, highly developed, well-born, well-nurtured and well-bred should never be allowed to be led by those Wasilly trash. America is the land Of the Best, By the Best, and For the Best. We simply represent the Best and those filthy barbarians like the Palins are simply the worst.


America has become such a great country because we have never allowed cheap serfs like those Wasilly Hillbilly ever become our leaders. India becomes a great civilisation because they keep those uncultured Untouchables caste at the bottom of the society. We should continue to follow the great foot-steps of our Indian mentors to suppress those untouchable Wasilly Hillbilly at the very bottom of our feet forever. Low-life Hillbillies like the Palins are only worthy to clean my toilets and polish me loos.


I am also utterly disgusted by these filthy Untouchables. These unpolished, uncivilised barbarians are born to be led, not to lead.

This has to be a polished gem of satiric wit; purposeful Lefty mockery. To conclude otherwise would be simply too mind-boggling.

I think we've found a nascent Iowahawk ! 

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Hey, Bud Adams! Got Aricept ?

Got Albatross ?

Mike Florio notes what’s left unsaid in Nashville...

A source with an AFC team that doesn’t play its home games in Nashville asked me today whether we think there’s a relationship between the acquisition of receiver Randy Moss by the Titans and the recent implosion of the Titans and Vince Young.


Though we doubt that Moss has had sufficient time to metastasize, the reality is that Moss increased fan expectations, which made fans more apt to boo when things weren’t going well on Sunday, which fueled Vince Young’s meltdown.


On Monday, coach Jeff Fisher spent some time explaining away the failure to use Moss on Sunday in a game that resulted in only three targets and zero catches for the future Hall of Famer.

Unsaid, but we wonder, do we not? I can just imagine the conversations at water coolers all around this city: 'hey, we were doing just fine, until Randy Moss came along; do ya think… ?'. But the sad truth is, Vince Young is, and always has been, a non-leader of men. You can point to his sub-10 Wonderlic score (which, like IQ, is simply a measure of how much capacity one’s brain can absorb and process). A low Wonderlic doesn't mean VY can't play ball, but there are more expectations than simple field mechanics, despite those who poo-pooh the Wonderlic.

We know VY hasn’t diligently studied tapes; that's been a complaint of the coaching staff for years. He’s relied heavily on his innate physical skills on the field – skills that don’t translate to locker-room (or sideline) leadership qualities necessary for the quarterback position.

Randy Moss came into the fragile little nest Vince Young has hollowed out, and was likely seen by Vince as an immediate threat to his tenuous leadership. Moss' mere presence was enough to upset the apple-cart pulled by the donkey that is the extent of the horsepower in Vince’s fierce but tiny mind.

But this meltdown had to happen sometime. The zit comes to a head, again, now it’s popped.

Jeff Fisher has my support, again; Bud should keep taking his Aricept and let the Coach run his team as he sees fit.

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Vince Young throws his junk, loses his job.

Setting the tone: #10 Turkey Head

The Vince Young era in Tennessee is likely over.

Vince Young suffered his second meltdown at LP Field today. I could tell the fans were in a pissy mood; early in the first quarter I heard the scattered first boos. On the 3rd play from scrimmage, VY fumbled away what should have been a go-ahead score: the 'Skins had kicked a short, wobbly kick that didn't cross midfield, the Titans had excellent field position, then Vince with the fumble, and the entry-level boos.

By the second quarter, the boos were more noticeable. I heard some (drunken ?) fans calling out, 'Hurt yourself Vince! Hurt yourself!' VY, not a person immune to crowd reaction, waved to the crowd for more.

It was the end of the 3rd when VY left the game, with a thumb injury (a flexor tendon that might've ended his season in it's own right, had it not been for events following). Rusty Smith came in to cheers, tossed a long pass for a TD that was ruled not a TD because of a 'push-off' penalty. The next series, he threw a long, loopy pass that was an interception. VY could've gone back in, but Fisher didn't ask him to because...he didn't ask Fisher to go back. His thumb injury probably precluded that anyway.

Some photos...

Vince Young throwing shakily on the sideline after his thumb injury

Vince Young gets attention to his injured right hand. Rusty Smith and Kerry Collins look on.

Rusty Smith in pregame warmups

Rusty Smith in 4th Quarter action

Oh, and consummate pro Donovan McNabb makes Mike Shanahan happy.

After the game was over, VY, taunted by some fans, removed his jersey, helmet and pads and tossed them into the stands. He entered the locker room, argued with Jeff Fisher, and left without speaking to the Press. Michael Griffin ran after him (in his shorts) and was reportedly shoved aside.

Jeff Fisher spoke after the game (video and photos after the fold). He was very upset, more so than I've ever heard. From of his postgame interview (not included in this excerpted video), he promised that heads will roll. Who knows? His head may roll. Vince Young is the favorite of owner Bud Adams, who overrode Fish twice to have him reinstated as starting QB. I can hear Jerry Jones praying "please, let it be so, let Jeff Fisher go!" from here.

TSA Titty Twisters!

"...she grabbed my arm and started pulling me into this area...I'm like, Whoa, what's going on here?"

"She (TSA Agent) said, 'well, if you opt out, I have to give you a full pat-down'."

"I've gone through these pat-downs as well, and it's ..physical full palm on every area of your body, including your breasts, they have to squeeze and like..twist them. It hurts."

"They're twisting on your breasts? That's horrifying."

The TSA chose Meg McLain for special screening. They wanted her to go through the new porno-scanners. When she opted out, TSA agents raised an enormous ruckus. When she asked some question about what they planned to do to her, they flipped out. TSA agents yelled at her, handcuffed her to a chair, ripped up her ticket, called in 12 local Miami cops and finally escorted her out of the airport. Listen to her story as she told it on radio show Free Talk Live last night. Things are truly getting scary. http://wewontfly.com/question-tsa-risk http://FreeTalkLive.com

Update: US Airlines screwed her over: http://wewontfly.com/meg-mclain-cant-get-home

Update 2: TSA releases security video. It vindicates her. Oops. http://wewontfly.com/tsa-videos-meg-mclain

Ummm...

Don't fly.

Really.

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Video: Don't Touch My Junk (the TSA Hustle)

Now, this is good stuff, a parody loosely based on the rap hit "Baby Got Back" (well, maybe not, but that's the only rap song I know!).

If your preference is Country Music, listen to this song parody "Help You Make it to Your Flight".

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Dont Touch My Junk

Mick Jagger approved.

h/t the notion of the Gadsen - Junk mixup to Dan Collins, who asks, "Would you allow Mary Katherine Ham to touch your junk?"




Why, sure! But not whilst standing in line to board a sealed, airtight aluminum cylinder. Can't we find a bunk?

Just don't fly. It's that simple, Americans! Starve the junk-fondling beast, TSA. If we stop flying, the airports will opt to bring in private security, booting out Janet Renapolitano's thugs. We shrink government AND boost the private sector; what's wrong with that?

John Galt doesn't fly American anymore.

UPDATE: Colorized. Which is better ?

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Team Zombie member Gail Collins' column at Zombie Central (the NYT)

"Unlike the rest of us back here".

Are you seriously going to sit back up 'there', Zombie Gail Collins, writing at Zombie Central (the NYT) and speak of the Tea Party, an entity that exists only because of the far-left shift that's zombified the Democrat Party, going back 30 plus years? Seriously?

You are a member of the original Team Zombie; the Democrats. Since I can remember (and I voted for Jimmy Carter in my first presidential vote) you've been drifting farther and farther Left, into certifiable Zombie Land; accelerating your drift to a keels-up posture in 2000 when Zombie Al Gore lost his home State (Tennessee, thanks to me and other NRA volunteers who worked tirelessly to defeat him, because he was undead in the head) and the Presidency. Your 'Bush Derangement Syndrome' (BDS) recruitment drives, thanks! to the NYT and other MSM's, pulled in millions and millions of newly Undead 'Progressives' and 'Leftists'. Now, there's not even widespread denial of your embrace of soft but recognizable Euro-style Socialism.

And you wonder why there is this counter movement underfoot. There must be a Tea Party to save this shattering Republic from the fate you've put in motion.

Politics could be viewed as a pendulum swinging, but returning to center more often than not. You, exemplar of this Undead Progressive Movement, have taken us so far to the Left, towards bloated Statism, that of course you had to expect the Tea Party to come along; coming into existence maybe in the knick of time (hopefully not too late!) to combat the Ruling Class of BOTH parties, including John McCain and even, unfortunately, Karl Rove.

But don't misconstrue us as the Zombies. We see YOU and your RULING CLASS on both sides of the aisle as the REAL zombies.

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Friday Photo: .44 Magnum Silvertip Hollow Points

A reloaded reprise from December 2008.

..using the 210 grain Winchester Silvertip® Hollow Point (STHP). I usually load a 240 grain bullet, but this was all that was left at the gun show.

These serious silvertips sitting atop 12.9 grains of Vihtavuori N 350, with Case Overall Length (COL) 1.600".

Vihtavuori is a trademark of Eurenco, a private corporation based in Finland...

EURENCO Vihtavuori: Single base propellants for medium and large caliber ammunition, mortar increments, small arms ammunition in addition to sporting and hunting cartridges and reloading powders.

Reloading guide here (PDF).

This is not the maximum load, but it's very close. Feels nice and crisp in my Smith & Wesson, a bit sharp in this Ruger.



This is red meat for gun lovers, a nightmare for certain United Nations gun-haters who blog from work. Or, given the U.N.'s stated position on personal gun ownership, likely he's paid to blog.

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Hey Democrats, your Owner has Spoken. Obama's time is UP!

Pat Dollard alerts us to this Sam Stein piece from the Huffington Post (no linky for crazy Arianna). George Soros is getting restless...

WASHINGTON -- At a private meeting on Tuesday afternoon, George Soros, a longtime supporter of progressive causes, voiced blunt criticism of the Obama administration, going so far as to suggest that Democratic donors direct their support somewhere other than the president.

The Hungarian-American financier was speaking to a small side gathering of donors who had convened in Washington D.C. for the annual gathering of the Democracy Alliance -- a formal community of well-funded, progressive-minded individuals and activists.

According to multiple sources with knowledge of his remarks, Soros told those in attendance that he is "used to fighting losing battles but doesn't like to lose without fighting."

"We have just lost this election, we need to draw a line," he said, according to several Democratic sources. "And if this president can't do what we need, it is time to start looking somewhere else."

A Soros wormtongue tries to clarify...

"Mr. Soros fully supports the president as the leader of the Democratic Party," said Vachon. "He was not suggesting that we seek another candidate for 2012. His comments were made in a private, informal conversation that was about the need for progressives to be more forceful in promoting their agenda. He was stressing the importance of being heard by elected officials."

There's much Democrat party questioning of Obama, not just from Owner George Soros...

Dissatisfaction with the Obama administration was not limited to Soros's private gathering with donors. On Wednesday morning, Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina received several tough questions during his address to the Democracy Alliance. According to a source in the room, he was pressed multiple times as to why the administration has declined to be more combative with Republicans, both in communication and legislative strategy. Another source in the room said the exchange was not entirely contentious as people were simply expressing frustration about the fact that "we just came out of an election where the right wing and the Republicans distorted what was going on." ...

"There was frustration," said one Democratic operative who attended the meetings. The main concern was about messaging. I think they are frustrated that the president isn't being more direct. But I did not get the sense that anyone's commitment to the progressive movement was wavering... The general consensus is that support has to move beyond being about one person and more about a movement. I don't know if we've moved beyond there."

Meh. Let 'em squabble. At the moment, they are on the run, we are in the hunt. Yesterday's votes confirming Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as minority and majority leaders of the split Congress are perfect; also, I'm pleased we didn't retake the Senate. Leaves us still hungry, it does, not fat, dumb and happy, as happened after 1994 with Gingrich and Clinton.

I don't think the American people have yet gotten enough of a taste of Progressive politics to turn out in force. We, unfortunately, still need a couple of summers to simmer, to get to the point where we can really make a dent in the far-left swing this country has taken, thanks to the Democrats. We must, and I hate to say it but it's true, suffer some more before our core values can rise up and fuel our rescue.

We are not a 'Progressive' nation; we are not all socialists now; as long as we can stand and fight the 'Ruling Class' who seemingly make up both political parties, we have a chance to stay a Republic.

“You know what my biggest fear is?” our host asked. “It’s not really Obama, for what he’s done is to accelerate what the liberals have been slowly doing for decades – so quickly that their socialism is obvious to everyone. Which means the solution is obvious to everyone. My biggest fear is that voters will give Republicans the power to repair America on November 2nd – and the Republicans won’t have the courage to do it.”

All of our hopes ride with the TeaPartyers, now.

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Amputate or Die, by Dr. Jack Wheeler

One of the best posts I've read all year, anywhere. The linky stopped working; but fortunately I had a copy of the post save to my hard drive. In the interest of fighting the internet's 'memory hole' problem, I'm re-posting it in it's entirety here, unchanged.

As follows, written by Dr. Jack Wheeler, "Amputate or Die".

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AMPUTATE OR DIE

Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, 17 June 2010

It was a sobering dinner party last night (6/16). Hosted by a London billionaire in his exquisite home – a Boccaccio hung on the wall behind me – the wine flowed liberally, but the conversation between the ten of us was stone-cold serious.

There were lighter moments, as when I proposed a toast to “a great hero of Europe – Geert Wilders.” Every one raised their glass in a smile, but the biggest smile was that of a spectacularly gorgeous super-model (you’ve seen her in many a high-fashion ad). She was from Holland .

Then a well-known Hollywood producer raised his glass to toast his hero – Ronald Reagan. “We need him again,” he commented. I guarantee you’ve watched one of his TV shows.

But when a self-made billionaire with an 11-figure private equity fund and a clear grasp of Austrian economics starts to talk about America ‘s prospects, you listen. So we all listened.

Being in London , he started there. “To call (new Brit PM David) Cameron a disaster is like calling Hurricane Katrina a squall. He’s as much a Conservative as I am a Moslem. I have already started preparing to relocate to Switzerland . If he succeeds in his current push to raise capital gains taxes from 18% to 50% — and it looks like he will – the British economy and the London real estate market will crash. The best play around will be to short the pound.

“In short, Cameron and Osborne (George Osborne, David Cameron’s Oxford classmate and now in Cameron’s cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer, equivalent to our Treasury Secretary) lead secret lives. Just as they hide from the public that they are homosexual behind the pretense of a marriage, they hide their liberal agenda behind the pretense of being conservative. They will destroy Britain ‘s economy just as sure as Obama is destroying America ‘s.”

There followed a spirited exchange about financial escape hatches – if the euro, the pound, and the dollar fall off their respective cliffs, where does anybody go? The time-worn adage of “buy gold, buy silver, buy Swiss Francs” may work for individuals, but world equity markets are in a trap from which there is no clear exit.

One opinion was, “The best run governments around today are those of Canada and Singapore – having one’s savings denominated in their currencies is not a bad idea.” Then we got back to America .

“You know what my biggest fear is?” our host asked. “It’s not really Obama, for what he’s done is to accelerate what the liberals have been slowly doing for decades – so quickly that their socialism is obvious to everyone. Which means the solution is obvious to everyone. My biggest fear is that voters will give Republicans the power to repair America on November 2nd – and the Republicans won’t have the courage to do it.”

All I could respond with was “Ouch,” to shake my head and sigh. I mentioned an email I just got from a friend of many years in Las Vegas . He’s a very successful banker and businessman who knows everyone in Republican politics in Nevada – and I had asked his opinion of how Sharron Angle might possibly beat Harry Reid. The reply I got back shocked me. He will do nothing to help her, he said, as she is too “extreme.”

Why is she considered extreme? our host asked, not on intimate terms with Nevada primary elections. Because she wants a government restricted to constitutional activities, I replied, which means, for example, eliminating such things as the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Our host leaned over the table to look at me as if his eyes were lasers. “Jack, you need to explain something to your friend. You need to explain something to America and all those Congressmen you know. Amputate or die. That’s the choice America has right now. That’s the choice Republicans will have after November 2nd, because they’re the only surgeons around who can do the surgery.”

Everyone was quiet so he continued. “Gangrene will kill you. If you don’t amputate a finger or other limb that’s gangrenous, it will spread bacterially [via Clostridium perfringens], and you will die. Look at these unconstitutional growths of government on the body public as gangrenous infections that have to be amputated for the body to continue living.”

He looked around the table at all of us. “You know that I know all the main players in the world economy. Some are fools who don’t know what they are doing like Strauss-Kahn (Dominque Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, International Monetary Fund), some are not like Trichet (Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank). America has no adult on the economy’s lever – Geithner is more of a hopeless disaster than Bush’s Paulson was, and Bernanke is worse than Greenspan.

“So I don’t know any player whose smarts I really respect who has much hope for America , who doesn’t see an alternative future than the destruction of America ‘s wealth through hyper-inflation. They think elephants will fly before Republican elephants will do what is necessary if the voters give them the power to do it.”

He looked at me – so everyone else did. “Are they wrong, Jack?” The question hung in the air as I felt my face redden.

“Thanks, pal,” I responded with a smile to gain a little time. Everyone did laugh for just a moment, then I had to jump into the waiting silence. Here’s what I said.

“The situation is dire, there is no doubt, the gravest since the Civil War. The only hope I see is with the anger of the TeaPartyers. That anger is directed just as much towards Republican cowards as towards Democrat fascists. We don’t have to wait long to see the power of that anger. Just six days from now (6/22) in South Carolina , Nikki Haley the TeaPartyer is going to wipe out Gresham Barrett the RINO, even though the state GOP establishment is doing everything slimy to smear her.

“I think your player-friends have to see things not as Democrat vs. Republican but as the Court Party – the establishment in power be they Democrat or GOP – vs. the Country Party, the TeaPartyers who want an end to all the corruption, Dem or GOP. Your players are part of the Court Party. The TeaPartyers you might think are like those who led the French Revolution – but they are like those who led the American Revolution instead.

“Yes, the TeaPartyers own most of the 300 million guns in America , but they don’t want blood unless there’s no choice. Note the ‘unless.’ November 2nd better be an honest election. What the TeaPartyers must grasp is Churchill’s call after the battle of El Alamein [November 1942], that November is only ‘the end of the beginning.’

“So you are right – the only hope is radical surgery to cut out all the metastasizing cancer, to amputate unconstitutional gangrene, or another metaphor, to be like Alexander and cut the Gordian Knot with a swordstroke.

“But the question really is not whether Republicans have the courage to perform the surgery, to defund ObamaCare, to defund the entire Obama agenda, to defund entire agencies like the Department of Education, Energy, and the EPA. It is whether the TeaPartyers have the courage and capacity to force the Republicans to. I mean, how is eliminating the EPA extreme, and EPA unconstitutional fascism not extreme? We’ll find out, because they are America ‘s only hope now.”

Everyone waited for our host’s response. “And the hyper-inflation? The debt’s already baked in the cake, no matter what future spending is cut.”

“Hyper-inflation is only another word for total default. The only way to avoid it is a government default on its debts only. Then we can switch from a worthless fiat currency to an asset-backed currency.” I smiled. “Gold brings freedom.”

He smiled in return and raised his glass. “We can all drink to that. To gold, to freedom, and these TeaPartyers – may Jack be right about them. May they amputate fascism before the fascists amputate our freedom.”

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Back to your regularly scheduled postings.

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Mikeb302000, Anti-Gun Blogger, is a United Nations SPY working out of ROME.

 AGENT PROVOCATEUR

This bastiche and I had a run-in over his anti-gun loonery. Another blogger told me he was actually from Rome, so I checked my visitor ISP records. lo and behold (clicky to enlarge)...

...the little guy is working for the United Nations World Food Programme!

Just WTF, Mikeb, why do you have interest in the United State's citizen's rights to Keep and Bear Arms?

Is this one of your 'official' United Nations functions, to keep tabs on American gun bloggers? To try to influence our policies and politics from freakin' Rome? Don't you UN 'tards have more better thing to worry about, such as keeping Israel slapped down and giving terrorist groups such as HAMAS an open microphone?

Go feed some Kenyans. Keep your stinkin' nose out of American politics, you bastard.

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Hey, Baracky, remember when your Justice Department sued Arizona ? Oh, START!

The announcement by the senator, Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican point man on the issue, blindsided and angered the White House, which vowed to keep pressing for approval of the so-called New Start treaty. But the White House strategy had hinged entirely on winning over Mr. Kyl, and Democrats, who began scrambling for a backup plan, said they considered the chances of success slim. *

Another lesson for little Barack Obama: when you go out of your way to promote Leftist causes, when you slap at States for trying to enforce a Federal law, you anger people. People with power. People who have the ability to slap back, to say NO. Or, HELL NO YOU DIRTY SOCIALIST!.

This isn't the first time Jon Kyl, (R) Arizona, has stirred Obama's wrath. Kyl is the better Arizona Senator. A good man, Jon.

Now, to listen for the sweet sound of Democrats railing away at REPUBLICANS, the party of NO!.

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EXCLUSIVE! John Pistole, TSA Chief, FULL BODY SCAN !

John Pistole, Janet Napolitano's right-hand 'man' in charge of the TSA, has submitted to a full-body scan and released the image to me. Says Pistole...'There's nothing wrong with this new backscatter scan. As you can see, it's somewhat flattering; we'll start selling these to our customers as an option after they pass through my airports, much like some high-speed roller coaster operators do. It'll help defray the costs of prosecuting non-compliant sorts like this San Deigo terrorist John Tyner, likely.'



Here's John Pistole's newly-released full body scan.

When I asked Janet Napolitano to send me her full-body scan, she declined, saying 'Oh, that's just for the little people. We high-level sorts will never need to go through those dangerous machines. Rules are for you, tiny person, not for me.'

She hadn't seen John Pistole's scan at the time, obviously.

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Hey, Hey, TSA, guess what? We won't fly.

Over the top. The TSA, as commanded by Janet Reno Janet Napolitano, has gone too damned far. There's a palpable resistance forming against the groping and harassing and just plain un-American scanning and grab-assery these thugs are conducting at airports today. This report from San Deigo...

A male agent (it was a female who had directed me to the backscatter machine in the first place), came and waited for me to get my bags and then directed me over to the far corner of the area for screening. After setting my things on a table, he turned to me and began to explain that he was going to do a "standard" pat down. (I thought to myself, "great, not one of those gropings like I've been reading about".) After he described, the pat down, I realized that he intended to touch my groin. After he finished his description but before he started the pat down, I looked him straight in the eye and said, "if you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested." He, a bit taken aback, informed me that he would have to involve his supervisor because of my comment.

Read the rest of that entry, that has amassed 2500 plus comments as of this morning.

Other sites:

Reddit's newly-themed TSA Watchdog page: Operation GrabAss, where we find

TSA agent says to backscatter operator, "Heads up, got a cutie for you!"

Mother provides her account of TSA sexual assault

Full Frontal Nudity Doesn’t Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA - Art Carden - The Economic Imagination - Forbes

We Won't Fly dot com.
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The Plan is Simple

1. If you absolutely, positively must fly, opt out of the scanners. Do it to protect your health and privacy.
2. If you can avoid flying, don’t fly. Hit the airlines in the pocketbook until the scanners and gropers are gone. Make the airlines work for us.
3. Raise holy hell. Register your disapproval of the scanners and gropers to your airline, your hotel and all government officials who claim to work for you. Educate your community.

Let's make this as noisy as possible, shall we? Because Janet Napolitano, and her controller Obama, are just damned wrong and stupid to subject Americans to this nonsense when who we are looking for is obvious, but protected by our own political correctness. We are looking for young Muslim men ages 17-40, period. Anyone else is likely exempt.

So, make your voice heard. Stop this madness, stop the Napolitano - Obama thugs in the TSA.

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Michelle Obama has 'female problems'.

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A Venn Diagram, as explained by me to a blogger consumed by the Dumbth

Anyone with a modicum of intelligence can glance at this diagram and discern exactly what's being conveyed, right? Except perhaps for the addition of the term 'blog', the diagram is self-explanatory: one does not drink while carrying - using a gun. Simple enough, right?

There's a dopey anti-gun blogger out there named 'Mikeb' who runs an anti-gun website called 'Mikeb302000', charmingly enough, who doesn't understand this diagram.

Backstory: in Mikeb's pathetic blog he will steadfastly attack gun bloggers for any sorts for things he deems gun bloggers do that he thinks is 'inappropriate'. No only does he blog against our actually owning, using and possessing for self-defense said guns, but he attacks our blogs that defend our rights to own, possess, and use guns. And, as if that were not enough to keep his tiny mind occupied, he obviously thinks that anyone who owns guns cannot also ever use, possess, or blog about alcohol. His arguments are as skunky as a 6-month old Budweiser.

In this post he attacks gun blogger breda for actually posting of her enjoyment for some nice beers...

Alcohol and guns are about the worst combination imaginable. What could possibly motivate a gun blogger to post about drinking alcohol? Breda's done it, and she's not the first that I've seen and I'm sure she won't be the last.

I don't want to exaggerate the offense, describing it in the strongest language I can muster. That's what the pro-gun crowd likes to do. I'll just say it's shabby and irresponsible. Shame on you Breda, and shame on all your fanboys who support you in this. I'd bet not one of them would have the balls or the honesty to take you to task for this.

What a pusillanimous position to take! Several commenters, myself included, tried to school him. I created the diagram above to help him take the mental leap he needed.

But the hill was too steep...

This is a diagram generously submitted by Serr8d. I'm not gonna even comment on it because if I say something serious like pointing out that the top two circles do not overlap and he comes back with the whole thing was a joke, I'll look pretty silly.

But, what do you think? Perhaps the maestro himself could explain, you know, to help those with a "fierce and tiny mind."

Oh, my. The dumbth, it is deep surrounding this one.

 I've wasted enough time on this one.

Finish your schooling, and get back to me.

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UPDATE

A little 'Inside Baseball' from Sean at An NC Gunblogger yields this info on 'Jadegold', the co-blogger mentioned above...

Jadegold is a particularly nasty anti-gun troll named Guy Cabot who hails from Fort Washington MD.

He has a nasaty habit of personally attacking and "outing" any pro-gun blogger he crosses paths with. He's also a pathological liar.

Cabot, eh?

Maybe I should reverse the two in the cartoon above. Mikeb can be the swinging, flea-scritching monkey, and Cabot the jerkyboy with the Fwench painter's hat.

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United Nations using g00gle CHINA to pull up images

I was looking for a troll's ISP addy this morning when I noticed this hit from the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland; coming in on a g00gle search for an image of Hu Jintao and Barack obama. Check this screenshot out (clicky to enlarge)...

Now, my question is why Switzerland is using a g00gle engine based in China to visit this page ?

Not that I mind, of course. I get visits from around the world. All are welcome; stick around, if you like. No worries.

Just a curiosity, this. Carry on.

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NYT Laments 'BHO is LOSING his GLOW!' BONUS! Friday Photo Analysis

Well, of course he's lost his 'Glow'. When you take a mere human, a fundamentally flawed human who's obviously suffering from a noticeable splash of narcissism and artificially 'pump him UP!' as did the fawning JournoList-influenced media for so many years, then you must expect a fall. Is the New York Times oblivious to human nature, or did they really believe in the ObamaMessiah ?

From the NYT...

SEOUL, South Korea — Foreign leaders couldn’t seem to get enough of President Obama when he arrived on the world stage two years ago. They brought copies of his memoir to global conferences seeking his autograph. They angled for handshakes and “bilats” — diplomatic jargon for a one-on-one meeting, or bilateral. They maneuvered to get next to him in photo opportunities.

Now the glow has worn off, both overseas and at home. So when the Group of 20 conference of world leaders — a gathering marked by fights over currency and global trade imbalances between the United States and its allies — wrapped up here on Friday, Mr. Obama found himself on the defensive.

When a reporter asked Mr. Obama at his closing news conference what kind of complaints he was hearing from fellow leaders about the United States, the president laughed and wondered — only half-joking — why he wasn’t being asked about compliments. He said other world leaders are pushing back against the United States because “we’re initiating ideas.”

And when Mr. Obama was asked if the mid-term elections at home have weakened him overseas, he started out with a one word answer — “no” — before going on to say that people are “eager to work with America, eager to engage.”

Before leaving Washington for a 10-day diplomatic tour of Asia that he has characterized as an economic mission, Mr. Obama conceded his relationship with the American people has come down from an “incredible high” and gotten “rockier and tougher” as time went on. But he said here on Friday that his relations with foreign counterparts leaders are better than ever.

Not really. Barack was pummeled by China's president Hu Jintao, who seems to hold the fate of the United States in his hands.

"This hasn't been a love-fest," an official who participated in the negotiations said.

No love for the largest debtor nation in the world?

No love.

China said on Thursday that the U.S. Federal Reserve's move to ease monetary policy risked undermining the global economic recovery, adding that Washington "should not force others to take medicine for its own disease".

A senior Chinese central bank official told reporters at the G20 summit in Seoul that the Fed's move had caused "strong concern" around the globe, and major reserve countries ought to factor in the global impact of their policies.

Brazil's President Lula used the 'B' word...

SEOUL (AFP)--Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday the world economy was headed for "bankruptcy" unless rich nations raise consumer demand rather than relying on exports to power recovery.

"If they don't consume, and they just bet on exports, the world will go into bankruptcy," he told reporters as leaders at the Group of 20 industrial and developing nations headed into a two-day summit in the South Korean capital.

It is cringe-worthy.

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BONUS! New York Times Photo Analysis!
This photo accompanied the article. I've done some markup, free of charge.

Doug Mills/The New York Times

You're welcome.

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Veteran's Day. Thank You, veterans, for your service.

Bumper-Stickers Seen On Military Bases.

"Except For Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, War has Never Solved Anything."

" U.S. Marines - Certified Counselors to the 72 Virgins Dating Club."

" U.S. Air Force - Travel Agents To Allah"

"Stop Global Whining"

"When  In Doubt, Empty The Magazine"

Naval Corollary: Dead Men Don't Testify.

"The Marine Corps - When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight"

"Death Smiles At Everyone - Marines Smile Back"

"Marine Sniper - You can run, but you'll just die tired!"

"What Do I Feel When I Kill A Terrorist?  A Little Recoil"

"Marines - Providing Enemies of America an Opportunity To Die For their Country Since 1775"

"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It"

"Happiness Is A Belt-Fed Weapon"

"It's God's Job to Forgive Bin Laden - It's Our Job To Arrange The Meeting"

"Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Vulgar Brawl"

"One Shot, Twelve Kills - U.S. Naval Gun Fire Support "

"My Kid Fought In Iraq So Your Kid Can Party In College"

"Machine Gunners - Accuracy By Volume"

"A Dead Enemy Is A Peaceful Enemy - Blessed Be The Peacemakers"

"If You Can Read This, Thank A Teacher..  If You Can Read It In English, Thank A Veteran"

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world.  But the Marines don't have that problem."  ..... Ronald Reagan

"States out of Balance": New York Times laments losing the keys. But...CALIFORNIA!

This editorial in today's NYT is especially delusional. Editor speaks thusly...

The Republican Party’s most visible triumph last week was in the House of Representatives, but the more lasting — and possibly more destructive — result was in statehouses across the country. Republicans won more than 690 new legislative seats, taking back at least 19 state chambers and 10 governor’s seats from Democrats. Republicans previously had been in full control of nine states; now they will fully control at least 20.

There is no way that these newly elected Republican lawmakers and governors can follow through on their promises to erase huge deficits without raising taxes — except by making irresponsibly draconian cuts in critical state services, particularly for the poor and for education.

The states, like the federal government, need to get control of spending. That may mean dealing with out-of-control pensions. It may mean careful cuts in services combined with, yes, higher taxes. But with millions of people out of work, this is the worst possible time for the states to try to solve all their problems by simply slashing health care spending, spending on higher and elementary education, and services for the elderly and the poor. It would lead to tens of thousands of layoffs and even lower state revenues.

State budget cuts over the last two years have already been deep and painful, the biggest declines in three decades. High-spending states like New York, New Jersey and California can still find waste and fraud in programs like Medicaid. They are among the states that must make an aggressive effort to bring spiraling pension costs down to earth.

Interesting to note you've mentioned California, awaiting at any moment the largest and most spectacular economic FAILURE ever, paving the path to FAIL for the other several historically Democrat-controlled states (New York and Illinois following closely behind).

California is the one State that Democrats can point to as a huge Democrat-initiatives-first success, with the most 'progressive', neo-liberal programs and entitlements in place; the State that Democrats can claim as their economic and social model for all the rest of the states; and of course it's hugely necessary for 'progressives' to push this California-style progressive nirvana-like entitlement model all the way up to the Federal level.

Democrats've done so we well 'driving the electric car' in California that we should willingly give 'em the keys to the rest of the states!

Wait...voters haven't done that? They've taken the keys away?

What could possibly be wrong with them ?

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Michelle Obama, your (not so little) Mermaid

Love the dress. No, really!

Michelle the Maharani: Glamorous Ginormous First Lady is an Indian queen at lavish state dinner

Couldn't resist fixing the headline. Or the dress.

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M'chelle, save the last dance for...my therapist.

OK. How's about just giving to the "First Lady REPLACEMENT for FINALLY, BLESSED RELIEF!" Fund.

More and h/t at - to Six Meat Buffet.

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Barack Obama brings Wonderment! to India: First time EVAH for a teleprompter in India's historic Central Hall of Parliament

That's right boys and girls, don't touch that dial! Everywhere this World Class World Leader of the Free World goes, he's showing his lack of world-class professionalism, and becoming a near-laughing stock. From Dnaindia.com...

Teleprompter to make its debut in Parliament when Obama speaks

A teleprompter will be in use for the first time in the Central Hall of Parliament when US President Barack Obama addresses MPs on November eight.
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Obama will take the help of a teleprompter to deliver his address to the 780-odd members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, sources said.

Parliament authorities said this will be the first time that such a facility will be arranged in the Central Hall.

Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual--not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.

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It was in the historic Central Hall that the British handed over power to India in 1947. It was also the platform for addresses by several leaders, including former US president Bill Clinton who visited India in 2000.

And from hindustantimes.com...

Obama will make history for more than one reason during the Nov 6-9 visit. This will be the first time a teleprompter will be used in the nearly 100-feet high dome-shaped hall that has portraits of eminent national leaders adorning its walls.

Indian politicians are known for making impromptu long speeches and perhaps that is why some parliament officials, who did not wish to be named, sounded rather surprised with the idea of a teleprompter for Obama.

"We thought Obama is a trained orator and skilled in the art of mass address with his continuous eye contact," an official, who did not wish to be identified because of security restrictions, said.

Obama is known to captivate audiences with his one-liners that sound like extempore and his deep gaze. But few in India know that the US president always carries the teleprompter with him wherever he speaks.

Teleprompters, also called autocue or telescript, are mostly used by TV anchors to read out texts scrolling on a screen and attached to a camera in front of them.

Oh, well. President Bush never used a teleprompter in India's Central Hall of Parliament. No one ever has, not even the janitorial staff.

I suppose BHO can blame his terrible memory on all the dope he smoked back in his Occidental College and Columbia University daze, huh?

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Photoshop: Cartoon credit to Theo Spark, background Central Hall of Parliament photo found at Picasaweb.

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