Pro-Palestinian flotilla activists armed with poison chemicals for Israeli troops

DEBKAfile  "Contrary to the purportedly peaceful nature of the flotilla setting out this week to break Israel's Gaza blockade, Israeli intelligence sources reported Monday, June 27, that some of the activists aboard the boats are extremists who are perfectly willing to forcibly resist efforts to intercept them and are ready to kill Israeli servicemen coming on board."



Tension Builds as Israel Warns Planned Gaza Aid Flotilla 

American activist Ann Wright* is a former official of the U.S. State Department who will take part.
"We say to the people of Gaza, we are coming!" she said.
"Hundreds of people will be on board the flotilla, including journalists, politicians, writers and religious figures."

Right: US activists chant slogans as they hold placards after a news conference about an international flotilla to blockaded Gaza, in Athens, June 27, 2011


Israel Orders Military to Stop Gaza Aid Flotilla   "The head of the Israeli government press office had said in a letter to journalists Sunday that the flotilla is being organized by Western and Islamic extremists, and that those taking part would be in violation of Israeli law."

*Ann Wright,an American peace activist will participate in the flotilla.

Obama and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve



http://terrellaftermath.com/



First Ignored, Then Attacked: 6th International Climate Change Conference

Alan Caruba  "In the words of Gandhi, “First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win.”"  ....

"When, in 2009, emails exchanged between a handful of scientists who provided the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the most specious, deliberately duplicitous “data” to prop up the “global warming" hoax were revealed, the whole house of cards began to collapse."
Mr. Caruba blogs at Warning Signs

Next and not unrelated:

Does Ethanol Keep Our Gas Cheap? "...the growth in ethanol production reduced wholesale gasoline prices by $0.25 per gallon on average. The Midwest region experienced the biggest impact, with a $0.39/gallon reduction, while the East Coast had the smallest impact at $0.16/gallon."

Ethanol ruling aside, higher corn prices bad for everyone  "...And corn prices are likely to continue their spike if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is successful in mandating a 5 percent increase of corn-based ethanol, to 15 percent, in gasoline."  Thanks for the cheaper gasoline.

Where do we go to get our reputations back?

American Thinker "In 2008 having elected and given immense power to a person with no experience, no school records, no verifiable birth certificate, and paying lawyers millions to keep these details of his history secret. What kind of a people or country born in freedom would be so careless as to take such a risk? How do we explain these errors in judgment to our children and grand children, and the world? We have let this man and his group of revolutionaries harm this nation and the entire world in no small way. How do we make amends for letting such things happen?"

Obama vs. our generals

LA Times  "In the first two years of Obama's presidency, his top aides had grown accustomed to a process in which Obama drew out and explored the views of his full team and searched for a consensus — decision by ballot, some called it.
"Increasingly, however, that process has changed, according to a wide group of Obama's personal friends, informal advisors and top aides interviewed during the spring. In recent months, they say, the president has been relying more heavily on his own instincts and feeling less impelled to seek accord among advisors."

Tony Branco;comicallyincorrect.com/

Real-World Effects of Anti-War Activism  "Bumper sticker slogans, like War No More, aren’t serious; and they need to be examined in terms of their human consequences. In this instance, it won’t be pretty. But for many anti-war activists on the left, it won’t really matter. They will have turned their attention to new efforts to promote social justice, to inspire hope, and to free the captives, even as those they leave behind will suffer, will bleed and will die." Peter Wehner

Elders are Right: Drawdown Sends Negative Message to Afghan Civilians  "Hajji Kala Khan, a tribal elder from Maiwand: “This drawdown will embolden the morale of the Taliban, and actually it has already emboldened them. The Taliban are saying to the elders not to support Americans or you will be killed, and now they say, ‘The Americans are leaving and your lives will not be spared.’ ”"Max Boot

Obama's plan to raise taxes on small businesses in this country

Neal Boortz  "Addressing Obama’s plan for tax increases on small businesses Geithner said that the administration had “no alternative” but to raise taxes on small businesses because if you didn’t you would “have to shrink the overall size of government programs.” "

"Don’t you just love this?  Doesn’t this pretty much describe the Democrat and the Obama philosophy?  When given the choice between reducing the size of government and raising taxes, the answer is clear!  You must raise taxes?"

People of the government, by the government and for the government.

Small business owners; BOHICA!  "You see, Tim Geithner, and big-government politicians are under this false liberal assumption that all money earned in the United States belongs to the government, and it is the government that decides how much of it you get to keep."

Follow-up: In Rose Bowl, Mexico is 'home' team as U.S. soccer team is booed (updated)

bustedcoverage.com

American Thinker  "The massive river of immigrants from Mexico, legal and illegal, that the Democratic Party has been chaperoning into America for decades, in goals and desires, is not your grandparents' immigrants. The vast majority come to share space and partake of our prosperity (such as it is), not to become Americans. They are encouraged in these aims by those who welcome them for their own electoral purposes -- Democrat activists, who know that, as an unassimilated nation apart, laden with grievances and a sense of victimhood, Mexican immigrants are most likely to become dependable clients and voters of the statist party."

US Soccer Team Viciously Booed in L.A. -- Mexico was "home team" Enemedia calls it "Uniquely American"  "The US soccer team booed, its players on the receiving end of vile obscenities in LA's Rose Bowl, and the left-wing media calls this a marvelous moment for America. Yes, the LA Times is at it again (where's the Rashid Khalidi tape, traitors?)."

What’s Up With All the Presidential Gaffes, Anyway?

Michael Ledeen  "That would explain today’s embarrassment (embarrassment to us, to the nation–he speaks for us, after all–since he doesn’t seem to suffer embarrassment very often), but it doesn’t explain things like the apology for his lack of fluency in “Austrian” or his lack of knowledge that we have a Marine Corps (pronounced “core”). That comes from lousy education, from lack of basic knowledge about the world. And if I’m right about the small number of administration officials who get to see his words before they’re delivered in public, it tells us that they, too, aren’t properly educated.
....

" It’s part of the Orwellian universe that envelops many of our leaders, a universe in which they feel free to simply invent “facts” so long as they fit the emotional and ideological pattern that really matters to the elite."

Remember this? Letterman writer: Obama 'too competent' to make jokes about   "It's not because he's black and it's not because we're afraid. It's just that he's, just so far, just a little too damn competent and we ain't used to that. [multiple panelists say "yeah."]"

 Why so many presidential mistakes in so little time?
"Obama and friends even taught at these elite institutions of higher learning; why Obama himself was a perfessor or something at the University of Chicago's Law School. Again though he produced no major articles or profound insights as is customary from a university noted for its research. "

Demonic and The Underrated Ann

Coulter and her most recent book

Andrew Klavan   "I don’t expect anyone to give her the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer is one of those prizes liberals give to other liberals so they can call each other “prize-winning.” It’s appalling, however, that in a country where a blithering bomb-throwing hack like Paul Krugman is given an ongoing column in a prominent former newspaper, Coulter is considered too incendiary to have a mainstream column of her own. Her weekly piece online is routinely so witty, slashing and packed with information that it makes even some of the best newspaper columns look like pretty weak sauce in comparison."....

"But she is, I’m convinced, one of the essayists of the day, possibly of the age, and some of her writing will be taught in schools long after the work of more sober and “respectable” journalists is forgotten."

Mexico rallies for a 4-2 win over U.S. behind overwhelming support at Rose Bowl. In what other country would the visitors have home-field advantage?

LA Times   "On a balmy early Saturday summer evening, the U.S soccer team played for a prestigious championship in a U.S. stadium … and was smothered in boos.
"Its fans were vastly outnumbered. Its goalkeeper was bathed in a chanted obscenity. Even its national anthem was filled with the blowing of air horns and bouncing of beach balls.

freerepublic.com

"Most of these hostile visitors didn't live in another country. Most, in fact, were not visitors at all, many of them being U.S. residents whose lives are here but whose sporting souls remain elsewhere."  Bill Plaschke

Could the US National anthem have been something like this?  From 2009.

Or when Mexico City booed Miss USA?

And Democrats desperately want to represent these people- many of whom are labor union members- and fervently seek their votes.

Vicious campaign? You ain't seen nuttin yet

Neal Boortz "That will leave the left with that one dependable tool that always gets dusted off in hard times. The “R” word. That’s right …. RACISM! As this election season progresses anyone with an audience of more than three who dares to utter a word of disagreement with the policies of Barack Obama, or who points out the abject failures of his presidency, will be called a racist. The charge will have absolutely no impact whatsoever on rational-thinking Americans .. but it will feed the rage among other leftists.

"The intensity and viciousness of the attacks on those who oppose Obama will be quite a spectacle. So get out your scorecards, pull up a comfortable chair and enjoy the show."

What the Murder of Iraqi Jews in 1941 Tells us About the Middle East Today

Pajamas Media  "Numerous Nazis found shelter in the Middle East, especially Egypt and Syria, after the war, as well as employment in their security services and propaganda ministries. Some even converted to Islam, finding in it the fullest expression of their fascism. In this sense Nazism played a direct role in shaping the modern Middle East.

"Three elements drew Arab and Muslim leaders to the Nazis. First was Muslim theological antisemitism, which meshed well with Nazi racist antisemitism. Muslims needed no lessons regarding Jew hatred. The Koran and other Islamic sources are filled with verses reviling Jews as filthy schemers and betrayers of the prophet and calling for their mistreatment and murder. The lengthy history of pogroms against Jews in the Arab and Muslim worlds shows these theological exhortations were taken seriously. New, however, was the language of Jews as vermin and the fantasy of a single global Jewish conspiracy. Treatment of Jews in Germany also emboldened Muslim anti-Semites who were encouraged to prepare their own attacks."

The Case for a Boycott of Delta Airlines (UPDATED)  "A day ago, after a story in USA Today that has since been taken off its website, the Jewish community in the United States was enraged to evidently learn that Delta Airlines, which made Saudi Arabian Airlines one of its partner airlines, would not let Jewish passengers fly on Delta to Saudi Arabia."   Ron Radosh

Cartoons from the Arab World

"This cartoon, from the Syrian newspaper Al-Ahram (May 29, 2002), shows an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew with a long beard and hooked nose, fuelling the “World Media” with “Zionist Media” propaganda, while in the background bombs are falling on the Moslem al-Aqsa shrine on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. This cartoon stereotypes Jews, repeats the anti-Semitic myth that the Jews control the world media, and adds the lie that the Israeli government has damaged the al-Aqsa complex on the Temple Mount."

Hamas Mickey Mouse Teaches Terror to Kids   "'Progressives' like to think: 'Islam is a great religion, too--no worse than any other...""  from the comments to this blog.