Weasel Of The Week!! – 02/04/16

Noisy Room  "Once again, It’s time to present this week’s Statuette of Shame, The Golden Weasel!!

"Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the Statuette of Shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were all slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner… the envelope please… yes,it’s…"

"UN Secretary General, Human Jellyfish And Terrorism Apologist Ban-Ki-Moon!!"

 . . . "Ban Ki-Moon decided to give a speech last week entitled, “Secretary-General’s remarks to the Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East.” It had 52 paragraphs, three about Lebanon, and two about Syria – one about refugees and one about the Golan. The rest of it was a screed aimed at Israel. Nothing about Iran, or about ISIS . Nothing about Saudi Arabia’s mass killings of civilians in Yemen, nothing about Egypt or Libya. Not a mention of the Kurds.

"Ban’s entire speech basically stated that if Israel uprooted 500,000 of its citizens, divided Jerusalem and gave the part with the Jewish Holy sites to the Arabs whom call themselves ‘Palestinians’ and retreated to indefensible borders there would be peace in the entire region. But wait there’s more. Ban Ki-Moon also rationalized the murder of Jews, attributing the terrorist attacks deliberately incited by unelected dictator Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority to “Palestinian frustration.' ” . . .

The perils of Hillary

"Hillary Clinton was relieved to declare victory in Iowa Monday after a razor-thin victory over Bernie Sanders. The voting was so close that Hillary won six precincts by winning all six coin flips to break the tie. She was able to obtain that trick quarter from the New England Patriots just in time."  Comedian Argus Hamilton

Hillary Clinton still feels persecuted by the 'vast right wing conspiracy'  "Hillary [Clinton] was asked by CNN's Anderson Cooper during last night's Democratic town hall if she still believed in a "vast right wing conspiracy" working against her.  The answer she gave is fairly chilling if you care whether the next president of the United States is a paranoid loon." . . .  Rick Moran

Powell says his email use was 'a lot different' than Clinton's  "Former Secretary of State Colin Powell pushed back on attempts Thursday to liken his infrequent use of a personal email address more than a decade ago to Hillary Clinton´s exclusive reliance on a private server when she held the State Department´s top position. "It´s a lot different from what the rest of us were doing and what Mrs. Clinton is doing," Powell, a Republican appointee, told NBC. Powell spoke after a top House Democrat revealed in a public letter the discovery that Powell had received two classified emails in his private inbox while serving as secretary of state."  Lucianne

Hilariously, Bernie supporters are now calling for election monitors at future primaries to prevent voter fraud from Hillary supporters and the DNC.   HopeNChangeCartoons

Branco Cartoon – Feel The Burn   "Whatever it takes."

PARIS ATTACK LEADER SAID HE SLIPPED IN WITH 90 EXTREMISTS

The Associated Press.   "The Belgian who led the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris bragged that he slipped into France with a group of 90 extremists from Europe and the Middle East, according to testimony from the woman who tipped police to his location.

"In an interview aired Thursday by RMC television and confirmed by her lawyer, the woman identified only as Sonia said Abdelhamid Abaaoud was proud of the attack that killed 130 people.

"The 42-year-old woman was with Abaaoud's female cousin on Nov. 15 when the younger woman got a call from a Belgian number. It was Abaaoud, asking for a hideout.

"The two women drove to a deserted industrial road outside Paris and Abaaoud came out of a bush. It was at that moment she realized who he was, according to her testimony. What followed is Abaaoud's only known conversation about the attacks and their aftermath - with a woman so horrified and angered by the bloodshed that she challenged him repeatedly." . . .

Woman who turned in Paris attack ringleader feels 'abandoned'

. . . "I saw that he was proud of himself, that he wasn't scared of anyone."

"- 'Cut off from the world' -

"Sonia said she had received little support from the state in changing her identity for security purposes and was afraid for her safety, even though she had police protection.

"Since turning in Abaaoud, Sonia has lived in limbo. Although she has been given a false name, she claims she has not been given documentation to support it.

" 'I have no life, no social life, no job, no friends, no family. I have been cut off from the world," she said." . . . Via Drudge

Obama Hid “Jesus” at Catholic University – But Allows “Allah” to Be Widely Displayed During Islamic Center Speech

Mosque Obama Visited Under FBI Surveillance Starting in 2010  . . . In 2010, the Islamic Society of Baltimore was placed under FBI surveillance following the arrest of one of its members. The member had been planning to bomb an Army recruiting center near the mosque in Catonsville." . . .

The Gateway Pundit

"Barack Obama hid the Jesus symbol during his speech at Georgetown."

"But Obama allowed the word “Allah” to be widely displayed during his first speech at a US Islamic Center."

"From declaring that the United States is no longer a Christian nation to denying Syrian Christians entry into the country President Obama’s distaste for the followers of Jesus are as obvious as the nose on your face. But with less than a year left in his Presidency Obama hasn’t given up on dissing Christians at every opportunity.

"For example, President Obama gave a speech at a mosque in the Islamic Society of Baltimore on Wednesday. While standing in front of a glass wall where the word “Allah” was written 99 times in Arabic calligraphy, the President took a stab at Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump by stating there was “inexcusable anti-Islamic rhetoric in the political sphere.” The White House staff were even gifted Qurans at the event (picture below):

"What makes this entire event a slap in the face to Christians is that while giving a speech at Georgetown University in 2012 the White House told the Catholic school to cover up all religious signs and symbols, including the small letters IHS displayed inside the triangular pediment directly behind and above where the President would stand since the 3 letters signify the name of Jesus Christ (pictured top left)." . . .

New Obama regulation: White males lose, lawyers and Democrats win

Thomas Lifson  "Last Friday, a new regulation was proposed by the Obama administration that will make it harder and more expensive for employers to hire and promote white males, enrich class action lawyers, and do absolutely nothing to accomplish the ostensible goal of raising the pay of women relative to men.
"Betsy McCaughey explains in the New York Post:

Claiming women aren’t getting paid enough, President

Obama wants to make it easier to accuse employers of gender discrimination and hit them with class-action lawsuits. A new regulation proposed on Friday will require all employers with 100 or more workers to report how much their workforce is paid, broken down by race and gender.
The rule, slated to go into effect in September 2017, will cause headaches for employers and anyone — man or woman — who works hard and expects to get ahead based on merit. The winners are federal bean counters, class-action lawyers and the Democratic Party, which is playing up the gender “wage gap” as usual during this election year.

. . . 
"The new regs will make it risky to hire or promote white males.

"Your employer will have to lump workers into 12 salary bands.  If you’re a white male up for a raise, but the band above yours already includes too many while males, tough luck.  Your boss will be pressured to give the raise to a woman or minority to avoid triggering EEOC scrutiny.

"This data collection is a godsend for EEOC regulators looking for targets, and it hands class-action lawyers the statistics they need on a silver platter.

"Even worse: the presumption is that the employer discriminates, unless proven otherwise:" . . .

Muslim Women Protest Obama's Baltimore Mosque Visit

The Investigative Project on Terrorism  "President Obama'sappearance Wednesday at the Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB) drew a small band of protesters, and their issue might come as a surprise.

"A group of Muslim women and their supporters stood"as close [to the mosque] as the Secret Service allows to protest the separate and unequal standards inside and advocate for equal rights."

"One of the protesters, writer Ify Okoye, used to pray at the ISB but left after unsuccessfully challenging its treatment of women. She took pictures in 2010, showing women relegated to partitioned, drab prayer spaces compared to the wide open space reserved for men.

"In a column published Wednesday morning, Okoye and journalist Asra Nomani explained that at the ISB, "women and girls are usually segregated, unable to see the imam unless they peek over the balcony's edge." Women's prayer space is comparable to a hockey penalty box, they wrote." . . .

Norway: making a huge mistake

Bloviating Zeppelin  "Norway is about to make a massive mistake.

It is committed to disarming its civilian police officers.

"From the UK Independent.com:

This European country is about to disarm all its police . . . 
Police in Norway will no longer carry guns.The country has announced that the armament of its police officers, which began in 2014, will cease “as soon as possible” after it was deemed no longer necessary.Plans to stop issuing officers with guns were announced last November but were postponed after the terror attacks in Paris.

"Allow me to interject briefly for a moment.  This is a perfect example of a

GOWP mindset and belief system.  The whole 1800s disproven and doddering “if we disarm they’ll disarm” thingie.  . . .   Brilliant idea.

"Except that apparently you Brits and Norwegians failed to read your own article.  You know, the part above where it says “Plans to stop issuing officers with guns were announced last November but were postponed after the terror attacks in Paris.

“Postponed after the terror attacks in Paris.”Here in Yankdom, that’s called a “clue.' ”

Wounded Combat Vet SLAMS Generals Suggesting Women Should Sign Up for The DRAFT

Clash Daily . . . "Before anyone starts drawing false comparisons between Women-in-Combat and the previous exclusion of African-Americans from the U.S. military, let it be known that the two are not similar in any way. Black people can do whatever white people can. However, women (in general) cannot do whatever men (in general) can, and vice versa. When a man (a real man, not Bruce Jenner) manages to give birth to a baby, then maybe we can entertain that men and women are truly the same. Until then, we should recognize that men and women are different, acknowledge these differences, and work within those contexts. To sit here and pretend that two different things are in fact that same is the height of idiocy. We should celebrate our differences.

"While I would have some other reservations about Women-In-Combat, there is absolutely no way that I could ever support this policy as it is. From my interactions with hundreds of infantrymen and ex-infantrymen, I have not talked to a single one who thinks that this was a good idea. Not one.

"Amend and/or abolish the Selective Service Act and make the PT standards equal. Until then, this is never going to work. There’s no reason to have trial and error, this will cost many good soldiers to be killed in the battled field… and to prove what?

"Wake up America, because this whole Political Correctness BS is going to bite us in the ass!

"If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it."

Let's go, men and women!

Jimmy Carter: I’d choose Trump

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  "Did Jimmy Carter just say he’d like Donald Trump to become president?
"Not exactly. And only if, you get the feeling, he was down to his very last choice. 
"Carter, 91, appeared in Britain’s House of Lords Wednesday afternoon to deliver a lecture on the Carter Center’s long and impressive campaign to eliminate Guinea worm disease from the world. A question-and-answer session followed, and, despite the presence of many esteemed members of Parliament and other dignified guests in the ornate “Robing Room,” the first one to the mic was — wouldn’t you know it? — a pesky reporter.
“ 'Can you give us your assessement of American politics,” the man from the BBC asked as some veddy British boos began riccocheting around the Robing Room. “Also, whether you’re for Sanders or Clinton.”
“ 'I was hoping I wouldn’t get that question, but I’m not surprised,” Carter said. He then launched into a confident, five-minute response that began with him recalling his own surprise victory in the 1976 Democratic presidential caucuses (“I was the one who put Iowa on the map”) and proceeded to his analysis of this year’s results there.
“ 'Bernie Sanders has had a remarkable showing, particularly among young people. In Iowa, he had 85 percent of young people’s (support),” Carter said. “I don’t know what the final result will be. My own personal opinion is that it’s very likely Hillary Clinton will still prevail in the Democratic party. Of course, I’m a Democrat and I will support the (Democratic party’s) nominee.”
"But wait, the former president was just getting warmed up! Turning to the “almost completely unpredictable” race for the Republican nomination, Carter said he had a “feeling” that Trump’s chances ultimately would “fade away.
“ 'When people actually get ready to put on a ballot, ‘This is the person I want to lead me for the next four or eight years, I think they’ll have a little different opinion,’” Carter said.

"Still, better him than Ted Cruz.

If he had to choose between Cruz and Trump for the Republican nomination, Carter chuckled, “I think I would choose Trump, which may surprise some of you.”

"(It did, judging by the loud laughter from the audience.)“The reason is, Trump has proven already he’s completly malleable,” Carter explained. “I don’t think he has any fixed (positions) he’d go the White House and fight for. On the other hand, Ted Cruz is not malleable. He has far right wing policies he’d pursue if he became president.' ”

When Anger Trumps All

American Thinker  "One of the most dangerous effects of Donald Trump's presidential campaign is the venomous anger his demagoguery has cultivated among his more engaged supporters, to be spewed at anyone who dares to express concern about any of their idol's (yes, idol's) soft spots. 

"Just click on any article, on any website, critical of anything about Trump, and navigate to the readers' comments.  First, notice the unusually large number of them.  Then observe the tone: rarely logical, thoughtful, or truly argumentative, the Trump defenders (granting honorable exceptions) simply attack -- personally, irrelevantly, uncivilly -- any writer or fellow commenter, no matter how unimpeachably serious (even Thomas Sowell, for heaven's sake!) who dares to suggest Trump may be a poor nominee. 

"That's their prerogative, of course, and anyone who writes for public consumption must be thick-skinned enough to stand by his ideas and let the spewers spew.  The problem, however, lies in the way this true believer invective is smothering meaningful political discourse precisely when such discourse is most urgently needed." 

Woodward: Clinton 'shouts,' needs to 'get off this screaming stuff'

Washington Examiner  "Veteran investigative journalist Bod Woodward on Wednesday said a likely reason Hillary Clinton lost young voters in Iowa to her main Democratic rival is because she has a harsh tone that comes across as insecure. 

" 'I think a lot of it with Hillary Clinton has to do with style and delivery, oddly enough," Woodward said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "She shouts. There is something unrelaxed about the way she is communicating."  . . . 

" 'Last night I was watching her and I said to myself, has nobody told her that the microphone works because she always keeps it up here," Scarborough said." . . .

" 'She is especially poor at the podium, where, when she wants to emphasize an applause line, her voice becomes loud, flat and harassing to the ear," Noonan wrote in January. She compared Clinton to a "landlady yelling up the stairs that your kids left their bikes in the hall again.' "

Two signs from Iowa that should worry Clinton

Washington Examiner  . . . "It's bad enough for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to end up in a virtual tie with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders given that she edged him out by a whopping 61 points in a poll taken at this time a year ago.

"But these two results from the entrance polls should trouble Clinton, as well as all Democrats should she win the nomination:

1) Sanders beat Clinton with voters aged 17 to 29 by an insane 84 percent to 14 percent, and 30 to 44 year olds by a narrower but still substantial 58 percent to 37 percent. It's true that the results of primaries and caucuses don't necessarily carry over to the general election. But this wide of a gap has to be concerning given that come November, she'll have to turn out these voters in large numbers.

"2) Among those who said that "honest and trustworthy" was the candidate quality that mattered to them most, Sanders won 83 percent to 10 percent. As Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state continues to produce new revelations, the fact that she's viewed this way among a Democratic electorate is not a good sign."

Sanders rally chant: 'She's a liar!'   "The room at Bernie Sanders' rally here turned ice cold when Hillary Clinton's speech took over the televisions here.

"The crowd booed loudly at first, then cheered when the sound cut out. The sound soon returned and Clinton was drowned out by further boos when she said "I'm a progressive who gets things done."

"It escalated from there: Chants of "She's a liar!" took over the room before the campaign just entirely shut off the stream, cutting away from MSNBC entirely."