Man bites dog and gets rabies. The left and the MSM

Here is a great opinion from Totus. If you have not checked Totus and Obama Cartoons yet, then please do so. You will not be let down by either site. The MSM and the left are like twins, identical twins. The left and MSM are quick to shoot from the hip without taking the time to verify or have the facts at hand to support their lies and accusations that they fling at the conservatives every chance they get. One of the biggest problems with this is that many Amricans still believe all the tripe and bull they are feed by the left and MSM. As Ron at Totus has stated: Man bites dog, and yes he get rabies. Both the left and MSM are terminally infected. It is extremely tempting to stoop the lowest levels of hell as the the left and MSM has done. We MUST keep to the truth, and stay on the high road to wipe this infection from our land. The truth will win out, it just might take us a very long time.

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 Man bites Dog
 Ron Russell

Everyone knows the old saying that, "dog biting man is no story but man biting dog" now that's news. We are now seeing this play out in spades in the MSM. We have all become accustomed to the violence on the left its almost a daily occurrence and is a part of life in this country. Campus radicals shouting down speakers, rock throwing mobs breaking store front windows, eco terrorist burning SUV's and running boats into whaling ships, union thugs beating up peaceful protesters in the streets and the list goes on and on. However, when the same things are perpetrated by some on the right suddenly its "man biting dog" and more. The MSM will use anything to marginalize those on the right especially an emerging power group such as the Tea Party. So they are now pointing the finger at those on the right for the recent acts of violence, not even knowing who the culprits are. But then it really doesn't matter to them, its not the acts of violence that's important but rather the discrediting of a movement, of a cause. This is their goal, their objective.

I recall the day JFK was shot. The MSM of that day quickly condemned the right and that continued for a day until it was found out Lee Oswald was a communist, a committed leftest then the condemnation stopped, but the fingers never, never pointed to the American left where the attack actually came from. We have the same thing here today with the MSM carrying the ball once more not for the public, but for the left and pointing their leftest fingers at the right before the facts are in while ignoring all the acts of violence committed by those on the left. In this country "left biting right" is not news, but "right biting left" well that's akin to "man biting dog"!

Thanks to Totus for letting me 'steal' this!

Here are the Demands that the Obama administration is going to force on Israel

This is quite troubling and could set a precedent that will pave the way for the so called Palestinians to get what they want, Jerusalem as the capital of the fake Palestinian state, Israel forced by this administration and the world back into indefensible pre-1967 borders. Netanyahu is in a tough spot and I do not think he has the balls to stand up to the Anti-Semitic Obama and the Jew hating Clinton. You can throw Joe Biden, David Axelrod into the black kettle of Jew haters that Obama has in his administration. For someone who campaigned as a friend of Jews and Israel, Obama is turning out to be the true nightmare that so many of us knew that he already was. A Leopard cannot change its spots. I am calling the kettle black in regard to Obama and his hatred for Jews and the State of Israel. How tragic is it when the State of Israel will now only approve Arab building permits and deny the same to Jewish permits that are or have been submitted. Please note the link for the latest Debkafile story at the bottom of the feed. I did not want to make this longer than it already is.

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Israel envoy: U.S. ties at their worst in 35 years
By Barak Ravid

Haaretz, Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has told the country's diplomats there that U.S.-Israeli relations face their worst crisis in 35 years, despite attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office to project a sense of "business as usual""

Oren was speaking to Israeli consuls general in a conference call on Saturday night. Sunday, Netanyahu continued to consult with the forum of seven senior cabinet ministers over a list of demands that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made in a telephone conversation Friday.

Clinton harshly criticized the announcement last week of plans to expand the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in East Jerusalem while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting Israel.

Haaretz has learned that Clinton's list includes at least four steps the United States expects Netanyahu to carry out to restore confidence in bilateral relations and permit the resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians.

1. Investigate the process that led to the announcement of the Ramat Shlomo construction plans in the middle of Biden's visit. The Americans seek an official response from Israel on whether this was a bureaucratic mistake or a deliberate act carried out for political reasons. Already on Saturday night, Netanyahu announced the convening of a committee to look into the issue.

2. Reverse the decision by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee to approve construction of 1,600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo.

3. Make a substantial gesture toward the Palestinians enabling the renewal of peace talks. The Americans suggested that hundreds of Palestinian prisoners be released, that the Israel Defense Forces withdraw from additional areas of the West Bank and transfer them to Palestinian control, that the siege of the Gaza Strip be eased and further roadblocks in the West Bank be removed.

4. Issue an official declaration that the talks with the Palestinians, even indirect talks, will deal with all the conflict's core issues - borders, refugees, Jerusalem, security arrangements, water and settlements.

Two advisers of the prime minister, Yitzhak Molcho and Ron Dermer, held marathon talks Sunday with senior White House officials in Washington and U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell and his staff to try to calm the situation. Mitchell will return to Israel Tuesday and expects to hear if Netanyahu intends to take the proposed steps.

At the beginning of Sunday's cabinet meeting, Netanyahu tried to convey a message that there was no crisis in relations with the United States. But he sent precisely the opposite message to Oren in Washington.

In Oren's Saturday conference call with the Israeli consuls general, he said that the current crisis was the most serious with the Americans since a confrontation between Henry Kissinger and Yitzhak Rabin in 1975 over an American demand for a partial withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.

At Sunday's cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said the matter had been blown out of proportion by the media. He added: "There was an unfortunate incident here that was innocently committed and was hurtful, and certainly should not have occurred."

He said steps would be taken to prevent such cases in the future. "It is extremely important to understand that the State of Israel and the United States have common interests," he said, adding that those interests "also require us to take decisions to change the situation in the country."

Four consuls discussed the conference call with Haaretz. Some noted that in previous conference calls with Oren, the ambassador took pains to make clear that relations with the United States were excellent. This time, however, Oren sounded extremely tense and pessimistic. Oren was quoted as saying that "the crisis was very serious and we are facing a very difficult period in relations [between the two countries]."

Oren told the consuls to lobby congressmen, Jewish community leaders and the media to convey Israel's position. He said the message to be relayed was that Israel had no intention to cause offense to Vice President Biden and that the matter had stemmed from actions by junior bureaucrats in the Interior Ministry and was caused by a lack of coordination between government offices. "It should be stressed that [our] relations with the United States are very important to us," Oren reportedly said.

Several of the consuls suggested waiting, but Oren hinted that his approach reflected Netanyahu's wishes. "These instructions come from the highest level in Jerusalem," he was quoted as saying, adding that the utmost must be done to calm matters.

Oren told participants in the conference call of a meeting he was summoned to on Friday with Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg for a reprimand. Oren spoke of his surprise at being summoned after believing that the crisis had ended on Thursday.

"Steinberg read to me from the [American] letter of protest, whose content was extremely harsh," Oren reportedly said. Despite several requests for a reaction from the embassy, no response was forthcoming at press time.

I just picked up this from Debkafile and if confirmed, is more bad news.

Debkafile, Netanyahu bows to US demand for Jerusalem building freeze

Defense Secretary Gates raked over the coals in recent visit to Pakistan

$3 billion dollars in military aid in the last year, plus all the other aid
we have given Ragastan,  Pakistsan one would think they would be
a a bit more hospitable to Defense Secretary Gates. This was certainly
not the case on his most recent trip to our ally(?) who shares a nasty,
unruled border with Afghanistan. Pakistan consistently denies the
presence or links to Al-Qaeda with Muslim Islamic terrorist groups.
This is an outright lie. No other words for it, or at least ones that I can
write here as not to offend anyone. With all the aid we have given
'this ally' of ours, the treatment and comments made to Gates, maybe
it is time to see how they do without so much aid from us. India would
most likley find that an appealing turnabout for the region. We should
have secured Ragistan's, Pakistan's nuclear weapons long ago. The
government is so unstable and there have already been too many
close calls. The struggle between India and Ragistan Pakistan for
control of the region will continue to be a major distraction, allow
Muslim Islamic terrorist groups to rain havoc and death upon both
countries. When you get right down to it we have no trustworthy
allies in any Islamic country. I would hesitate to call any Islamic
country our ally, period. We should tell them all to go to Hell.


New York Times
Elisabeth Bumiller


As the No. 2 official at the C.I.A. in the 1980s, Mr. Gates helped channel Reagan-era covert aid and weapons through Pakistan’s spy agency to the American allies at the time: Islamic fundamentalists fighting the Russians in Afghanistan. Many of those fundamentalists regrouped as the Taliban, who gave sanctuary to Al Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and now threaten Pakistan.


In meetings on Thursday, Pakistani leaders repeatedly asked Mr. Gates to give them their own armed drones to go after the militants, not just a dozen smaller, unarmed ones that Mr. Gates announced as gifts meant to placate Pakistan and induce its cooperation.

Pakistani journalists asked Mr. Gates if the United States had plans to take over Pakistan’s nuclear weapons (Mr. Gates said no) and whether the United States would expand the drone strikes farther south into Baluchistan, as is under discussion. Mr. Gates did not answer.

At the same time, the Pakistani Army’s chief spokesman told American reporters at the army headquarters in Rawalpindi on Thursday that the military had no immediate plans to launch an offensive against extremists in the tribal region of North Waziristan, as American officials have repeatedly urged.

And the spokesman, Maj. Gen Athar Abbas, rejected Mr. Gates’s assertion that Al Qaeda had links to militant groups on Pakistan’s border. Asked why the United States would have such a view, the spokesman, General Abbas, curtly replied, “Ask the United States.”

General Abbas’s comments, made only hours after Mr. Gates arrived in Islamabad, were an affront to an American ally that gave Pakistan $3 billion in military aid last year. But American officials, trying to put a positive face on the general’s remarks and laying out what they described as military reality, said that the Pakistani Army was stretched thin from offensives against militants in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan and probably did not have the troops.

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Why President Bush was a more intelligent leader than Obama. Here are 10 reasons why.

I voted for George Bush twice and have no problems with that or him.
He did a decent job during extremely tough times. I did not agree
with everything he did but compared to what we have now,
he did and still does understand the complexity of world power better
than BHO ever will. Bush never apologized for America and
understood the need for a very strong military defeating our enemies.

Down the road, as the years pass by, the presidency of George Bush
will stand out much more favorably than it does today.


Niles Gardiner
Telegraph.co.u.k.


When President Bush was in power he may not have been hugely popular abroad, but the United States was widely feared on the world stage, her enemies were hunted to the ends of the earth, and her real allies were treated with respect. As Barack Obama is discovering to his cost, the world stage is not an extension of the set of American Idol, and global leadership is not about winning popularity contests. The doctrine of “smart power” looks increasingly like an empty shell, a naive approach that has reaped no dividends and threatens to usher in an era of American decline, unless it is reversed.

I’ve outlined below ten areas where George W. Bush’s international leadership was considerably smarter than that of his successor. As I noted in an article at the end of the Bush presidency, ten or twenty years from now, historians will view Bush’s actions on the world stage in a more favourable light. President Bush, like Ronald Reagan, understood that American global leadership rests heavily upon the projection of hard power as well as diplomacy, and the United States can only lead effectively if it is willing to aggressively confront its enemies and defeat them.



1. Bush never apologised for his country

Barack Obama has apologised for America’s past actions in practically every speech he’s given on foreign soil, and has humiliatingly referred to America’s “arrogance”. In contrast, George W. Bush’s speeches before international audiences were filled with pride for America’s history and achievements, with an uncompromising belief in the greatness of his country. The Obama approach has simply projected weakness rather than strength, and his diatribes against the previous administration’s counter-terror strategy has provided ample ammunition for those who believe the United States lacks the stomach for the fight ahead.

2. Bush identified and confronted evil

There was something very refreshing in George W. Bush’s Reaganesque interpretation of the world in terms of good and evil. In contrast, Barack Obama has viewed the globe largely in shades of grey, with a reluctance to describe who exactly America’s enemies are, from North Korea and Iran to Islamist terrorists. I applauded Bush when he delivered his infamous Axis of Evil address because he correctly identified the nature and scale of the threat the West is facing from an array of rogue regimes, who in some cases also act as large-scale sponsors of international terrorism. President Obama’s disastrous decision to engage Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs of Iran has simply bought the regime in Tehran valuable time to advance its nuclear and ballistic weapons programme, as well as its ambitions to dominate the Middle East.

3. Bush made the advance of freedom a key component of his agenda

The spread of freedom and liberty was always a centerpiece of the Bush agenda. His critics derided this approach as unrealistic, or as a grandiose dream. But few would argue today that the people of Iraq were better off living under a monstrous tyrant like Saddam Hussein. In marked contrast, Barack Obama rarely mentions the word freedom, and the issue of human rights is far down his list of priorities. He has remained largely silent in the face of extreme brutality by the Iranian regime, has extended the hand of friendship to genocidal killers in Sudan and has turned a blind eye to repression in places like Burma. There is a name for this kind of strategy – appeasement – and it only serves to weaken America’s standing in the world and strengthen the brutal fist of its enemies.


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