TNT'S 'RIZZOLI & ISLES' WHACKS FRACKING

Big Hollywood  "And then you have the recent episode of TNT's "Rizzoli & Isles," a program which lashed out against the process of fracking repeatedly throughout the course of the show."

The plot featured an ex-Blackwater agent, masquerading as a yoga guru, who kills a vegan student and a professor in order to hide his drilling for natural gas from shale. This episode was a triple decker for left-wing stereotypes.
The professor that was murdered had condemned hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, in a video saying, “fracking is an invasive way to extract natural gas. Proponents say it will liberate the U.S. from dependence on foreign oil. But, my research indicates it will destroy the environment.”
One of the two main characters, medical examiner Dr. Isles reinforces that idea later in the episode saying, “they pump hundreds of chemicals thousands of feet underground. It pollutes groundwater.” Even the villain ominously tells Detective Rizzoli and Dr. Isles (after tying them in their car, which is parked on a spillway) saying, “a few million gallons of water’s gonna come pouring through here. It’s pretty toxic, from all the fracking.”

Angie Harmon (Rizzoli) is on the list of Hollywood conservatives that are admired. I hope she didn't go along with this propaganda without protest and do earnestly hope Ms. Harmon will speak out against this travesty.

Newsbusters; TNT’s ‘Rizzoli and Isles’ Demonizes Fracking  "The clear anti-fracking statements throughout the show are not new for Hollywood, and they leave out important facts. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin recently concluded that “there is no evidence” of polluted drinking water caused by fracking. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson even told the Ithaca Journal, “We have absolutely no indication now that drinking water is at risk.” 


Media Research Center;TNT’s ‘Rizzoli and Isles’ Demonizes Fracking. One of the comments to this post:

 Actually a lot of uninformed people watch shows like this.  Most will take as fact the science from shows like this and CSI etc.  Just one more way the left controlled media pushes blatantly false propaganda out to an extremely uninformed populace

They have been concerned and are watching the technology and its effects. 

Power Engineering: Fracking chemicals not harmful From 2011.

Experts: Drilling, fracking not harmful to health " "There has been nothing yet as a result of drilling activity that has adversely affected the environment or public health," Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department Administrator Howard Gamble said. "We do do water testing, but we have not yet seen anything different from either pre- or post-testing results."

"An official with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection confirmed the state has seen no cases of water contamination from fracking."

Most Israelis think Romney would be 'friendlier'

Jerusalem Post  "Thirty percent of the respondents said US-Israeli ties would improve under a Romney presidency, 26% said they would remain the same and only 6% said they would get worse.
"The poll showed that there was not a great deal of concern among Israelis that a second Obama term would significantly change US-Israeli relations.

"Asked what Obama’s policies toward Israel would likely be in a second term, 68% said he would maintain the status quo, 8% said relations would improve and 15% said they would get worse" 
I can't figure that out at all. Unless the Israeli press is also like this:

'Amateur’ Publisher: MSM Handing Obama ‘In-Kind Contribution’  "The book, for instance, says that the Obama campaign tried to silence the Rev. Jeremiah Wright during the 2008 campaign – and in audio tapes, Wright said he helped Obama accept Christianity without renouncing his Islamic background.
" “The Amateur” has received extensive coverage from Fox TV’s Sean Hannity and other conservatives, but the so-called “mainstream media” has attacked the book or ignored it outright."

Eco-friendly president recycles another speech

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/06/14/100218

Doug Powers  "The latest example is from President Obama’s speech in Ohio yesterday. Somebody at the RNC noticed that a good portion of it was the same address he delivered over two months earlier — the exact same address. The Obama campaign pushed the reset button yesterday, and now we know what date it defaulted to: April 3, 2012:

Via Michelle Malkin

Goodies buried in the farm bill

Neal Boortz:

"How many of you realized that our food stamp program is actually paid through this farm bill?  Not only that, but 73% of the entire freaking bill goes to pay for food stamps.  That’s an astounding $969 billion for food stamps."

Via http://blogsensebybarb.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/federal-government-ad-get-in-shape-with-food-stamps/

Obama: inside that handsome, celebrity-personality is a third-world dictator aching to be free

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Obama v. Religious Liberty: How Legal Challenges to the HHS Contraceptive Mandate Will Vindicate Every American’s Right to Freedom of Religion

....."The contraceptive mandate—a regulatory mandate issued pursuant to Obamacare—requires that religiously affiliated institutions provide contraceptives or abortifacients. Providing such services would require these institutions to violate their religious convictions and would give unprecedented power to the federal government to dictate how religiously affiliated institutions must behave."....

Obama’s Preemptive Strike for the Hispanic Vote "The president's pander to Hispanics will help him in some battleground states."

Boortz: Based on these facts alone, you begin to understand why Obama has been an abysmal failure when it comes to our economy   "The fact is that we cannot have a thriving economy without the private sector.  Even worse for ObamaBots … we can’t have a thriving America without rich people!  Think about it.  How many poor people create businesses or hire workers?  You can’t do these things without evil rich investors or becoming an evil rich person yourself."

Thomas Sowell: Is Obama a fascist or a socialist and what's the difference?   "What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people -- like themselves -- need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat."  Dr. Sowell comes down on the side of "fascist".  Hitler was a fascist; Stalin was a socialist. Yes, I know that "Nazi" stood for "national socialist", but read on. TD

Stay Out of Syria; A response to Clifford D. May

Andrew C. McCarthy  "The Butch & Sundance team of John McCain and Lindsey Graham are not just cheering on their team...the senators want to arm thepredominantly Islamist, demonstrably murderous Syrian “opposition” — to strengthen America’s enemies with training and weaponry that America would either coordinate or provide directly."

...."The Butch and Sundance team of John McCain and Lindsey Graham are not just cheering on their team, the way Chávez and I were pulling for Johan; the senators want to arm the predominantly Islamist, demonstrably murderous Syrian “opposition” — to strengthen America’s enemies with training and weaponry that America would either coordinate or provide directly.
...."In any event, if you really want to weaken Iran, then stay out of Syria and let it play out. Let the mullahs try to prop up the reeling Assad while the alliances with Sunni supremacists that they have spent two decades building disintegrate. It is in our interests that not only Iran but all of our enemies be weakened. What Cliff’s NRO essay labels the “Battle of Syria” is doing just that. The best thing we can do for American national security is: stay out of it and let them have at each other."

“The Amateur” by Ed Klein – Chapters 10 -11

Independent Sentinel  "This book has 22 chapters filled with quotes and interviews by people with insider information on Barack Obama. While the left has put down the author, they have not been able to dispute the quotes in the book.

"Ed Klein offers a good deal of opinion based on interviews. It is an intense character analysis."

Chapter 10;  Valerie V. Rahm  "Emanuel and Jarrett were not friends and Emanuel did try to block her appointment to the WH staff. She didn’t like his style of one-hand-washes-the-other. Emanuel is a realist and wanted to cut deals on the economy. Jarrett thwarted him at every turn. Axelrod and Jarrett kept Obama on his big-spending, big-government path."

Chapter 11; The Wrath of Michelle

"Michelle hides her co-presidency with her husband and their shared worldview is what is bringing us closer to European-style socialism.
"She is even further left than her husband. She pushed the healthcare initiative when most advisers were saying not to. She has a strong sense of social justice."

The President's Oval Office desk

The President's Desk

"Many presidents have used the Resolute desk in the Oval Office or ...their study in the Residence. It was made from the timbers of HMS Resolute, an abandoned British ship discovered by an American vessel and returned to the Queen of England as a token of friendship and goodwill. When the ship was retired, Queen Victoria commissioned the desk from William Evenden, Royal Naval Dockyard at Chatham, England, and presented to President Rutherford Hayes in 1880.

"The desk has twice been modified. Franklin Roosevelt requested that the kneehole be fitted with a modesty panel carved with the presidential seal (he preferred people not see his leg braces and often placed a waste basket in front of his desks), but he did not live to see it installed. However, President Truman liked the eagle motif and had it installed when he came into office in 1945. Since this was prior to Truman's decision to turn the head of the eagle in the presidential seal to face the olive branch of peace, the eagle in the Resolute's modesty panel faces the arrows of war.

"Every president since Hayes—except Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Ford—has used the Resolute desk, although some chose to use it in their private study in the Residence. The desk was made famous in part by a photograph of John Kennedy at work while his son, John Jr., peeked out the front through the kneehole panel."

President Truman's desk plaque below:

"What the president has on his desk is often symbolic of his style and experience."

Truth or Fiction has a photo of President Bush with his feet on this desk.  And Snopes shows Gerald Ford doing the same.

TW looked for a picture of Bill Clinton using the desk, but our sexual content filter blocked it.

David Gregory: Maybe it’s time Obama started blaming Bush for stuff

Michelle Malkin  "In the coming weeks as the campaign heats up, I’m also expecting David Gregory to suggest that it might be a good idea for Obama to start having some fundraisers and try unwinding by taking up golf." 

Presidential priorities

HopeNChangeCartoons

"But odds are that you didn't hear who paid for Air Force One (at $181,000 an hour) and many of the other ancillary expenses for the event: you did.
"And how did Obama pull off this neat little trick? By arranging an "official" trip which just happened to be near his fundraising event. In this case, visiting the construction site at Ground Zero and asking the workers "howzit going?" before signing an autograph or two and hurriedly getting back in his limousine to speed off to the celebrities, champagne, and campaign dollars.
"That's right: Barack Hussein Obama whored out the site of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks as a dodge to jam Americans with the bills for his fundraising."
(Emphasis in the original).

Failures of progressive-ism

Bruce Thornton:  Obama’s Presidency and the Pathologies of Progressivism  "Failed economic theory, illiberal racial policies, elitist snobbery, political freedom reduced to selfish license, and intolerance of disagreement and dissent — these are some of the pathologies of progressivism that have been illustrated every day of Obama’s presidency. It will take November’s election to show whether a critical mass of Americans has finally had their fill of this rancid progressive wine, or whether it returns once again in a new bottle."


Victor Davis Hanson says the left is imploding   We posted this a few days ago, but it is a good companion article for the one above.
"Yet the hard-Left takeover of the Democratic Party has meant that there is no longer a credible balance in our system, as almost all the tenets of contemporary left-wing ideology are blowing up, imploding super nova style — unsustainable ideas that are contrary to human nature and demand coercion for their implementation, given that they are increasingly anti-democratic and have to be implemented from high by an elite technocracy whether in Brussels, Sacramento, or Washington."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/

Lurita Doan: Barack Obama the Shape Shifter   "And so, our shape-shifting president hopes to disguise his antipathy towards business, entrepreneurs and small business leaders, as he moves skillfully around the country in one staged photo-op after another. Each carefully orchestrated to mask the economic destruction caused by his policies."

From an Israeli comedy group: Tell on Me; The Ballad of US foreign agents

From Caroline Glick, who lives in Jerusalem and has a most interesting resume':

Comment to this post from "ripalinsky" :

You gave a wonderful, inspiring speech. American Jews may well be beginning to feel very uncomfortable. They are most comfortable with the Democrat party, afraid of the Republican party, but more and more are unable to avoid that the Democrat party has become very dangerous for Israel. Obama has speeded up the process of socialization to Socialism, and it would be hard for the party to go backwards. I hope Israelis will realize "If it is to be it's up to us", probably without help from Jews in most other parts of the world, and without the anti-Israel Jews living in Israel. I'm optimistic because it's basically a spiritual battle, and the forces of evil will lose. Unfortunately, there may be a lot of suffering before that happens, as in Hitler's Germany.

 The Joke is on Obama in Israel  "It’s still unclear how the majority of the Israeli public and government feel about the leaks, if they attribute them to the Obama White House like this well-known satirical group, although it’s telling that the U.S. president’s integrity (or the lack thereof) has moved into the realm of public mockery. President Obama’s approval ratings were already scraping the bottom of the barrel in Israel; thus the repercussions of these alleged leaks may be difficult to gauge. Only time will tell if Israeli leaders and the public have any more faith left in the Obama administration. We’ll find out just how much remains the next time Israel is in possession of sensitive information or plans.


Obama Still Not Fooling Anyone on Israel  "And never has an American president treated an Israeli prime minister with such shabbiness as Obama has treated Netanyahu. Indeed one gets the impression that of all the world’s leaders, Obama most detests the prime minister of Israel.”
From Commentary Magazine