The fatal flaw in the Iran deal

Charles Krauthammer

"A sunset clause?

"The news from the nuclear talks with Iran was already troubling. Iran was being granted the “right to enrich.” It would be allowed to retain and spin thousands of centrifuges. It could continue construction of the Arak plutonium reactor. Yet so thoroughly was Iran stonewalling International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors that just last Thursday the IAEA reportedits concern “about the possible existence in Iran of undisclosed . . .development of a nuclear payload for a missile.”

" Bad enough. Then it got worse: News leaked Mondayof the elements of a “sunset clause.”. . .

We in the west turned "Jihadi John" from a sweet, loving human into what he became.

Unbelievable: ‘Human Rights Group’ Says MI5 Is Reason For Jihadi John Beheadings Because They ‘Alienated’ ‘Beautiful, Gentle Young Man’

"The group who helped name Mohammed Emwazi as ISIS executioner Jihadi John caused outrage today after blaming MI5 for pushing him towards his killing spree in Syria.

"Asim Qureshi, research director at the rights group CAGE, described the world’s most wanted man as ‘extremely kind, extremely gentle and the most humble young person that I ever knew’.

"At a press conference today Mr Qureshi was close to tears as he said Emwazi, who is linked to a string of executions of ISIS prisoners, ‘was such a beautiful man’." .

Much more here.

The anger is just a front; one can see the tenderness in his eyes. . . 

If only the world would have offered ‘Jihadi John’ some economic opportunity…

But his real name, according to friends and others familiar with his case, is Mohammed Emwazi, a Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. He is believed to have traveled to Syria around 2012 and to have later joined the Islamic State, the group whose barbarity he has come to symbolize.

"According to the Obama/State Department model, the poor kid never had a chance!"

Obama Dares GOP: “Have a Vote on Whether What I’m Doing Is Legal…I Will Veto”

Weasel Zippers

"Pres. Obama is daring Republicans to vote on whether or not his executive actions are legal.

"Discussing opposition to his executive amnesty orders at an immigration town hall Wednesday, Obama said he would veto the vote because his actions are “the right thing to do”:

“ 'So in the short term, if Mr. McConnell, the leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, want to have a vote on whether what I’m doing is legal or not, they can have that vote. I will veto that vote, because I’m absolutely confident that what we’re doing is the right thing to do.' ”  Keep reading…

Obama Putsch: Without authorization by Congress, FCC approves Net Neutrality rules For ‘Open Internet’

Pamela Geller

. . . "Verizon mocks FCC with typewriter font and warns of internet “throwback Thursday” - 

FCC votes 3-2 in favor of net neutrality

"Is there anyone who is surprised that the FCC has voted in favor of net neutrality, and that the vote followed party lines? I doubt it. The general trend has been for greater and greater control by agencies in matters that may seem innocuous, technical, and/or unimportant at the time but can have wide-reaching effects, especially when they are followed by ever-expanding restrictions.

"The net neutrality rules don’t sound so bad. And maybe they’ll stay that way. But I wouldn’t bet a dime on it.

"Here’s the “neutrality” part:" . . . 

Another perspective on the origins of the mutual Obama-Netanyahu disdain

WaPo, via Volokh Conspiracy

. . . "Very succinctly, the Obama Administration came in to office thinking it could either force Netanyahu to make concessions, or force his government to fall.  Both the Shamir and the first Netanyahu governments made concessions and ultimately got tossed out by the voters after tensions rose with the U.S., so this was not a completely unreasonable  assumption.

"However, Obama and his advisors missed several contrary factors.  The Israeli public never liked Obama, never trusted him due to his well-known associations with various anti-Israel leftists such as Rashid Khalidi. Israelis’ impressions were solidified by major blunders made by the Obama Administration, which did not get much attention in the U.S., but did in Israel." . . .

Who’s Really ‘Frayed’ the U.S.-Israel Relationship? Susan Rice and Her Bosses  . . . "Let’s set the record straight on this laughable spin-job. Since 1967, no U.S. administration has been as guilty of “injecting partisanship” into the U.S.-Israel relationship as those of the presidents Rice has served, namely Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. And few officials in the history of the United States have been as guilty as of injecting partisanship, to say nothing of poisonous insults, into that relationship, as Susan Rice.

Rush sees what Obama is changing America into, even if nobody else does

Obama's Infuriating Town Hall on Immigration

. . . "Right.  Now, there will be consequences for ICE officers who do not obey his illegal executive order.  There will be consequences.  There will be blood.  But there will not be consequences for the millions of illegals who have violated the law for years and entered the country.  No, no, no.  We're gonna ignore that.  Prosecutorial discretion.  We're gonna just choose to ignore the law. 

"So if an ICE agent actually now enforces US law, in doing so defying the president's order to break the law -- 'cause that's what Obama's demanding they do. He's demanding they break the law like he is.  If they don't follow through on his demand to violate the law, there will be consequences.  The ICE agents, yeah, we're gonna get 'em, man, if they don't follow orders, we're gonna get 'em. Who is it now, the enemy?  What's it look like to you?"

. . .

" 'I will ignore the judge's order. I'm not gonna deport anybody who qualifies for my executive action under my prerogatives of prosecutorial discretion.  I, I, I, me, me, me, mine, mine, mine.  I'm king.  Whatever I want to do is what's gonna happen here.  And whenever I want to do it is when it's gonna happen. I don't care what anybody else says."  And then he dared the Republicans to stop him."

How many blondes does it take to leave our borders wide open to terrorists, to neutralize all national defense, and to shred the Constitution?

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2015/02/25/marie-harf/

Deborah C. Tyler  "How many blondes does it take to “spokesmodel” Obama’s and Kerry’s psychopathic reverse victimology that provides cover for bloodthirsty fiends committing atrocities against innocent civilians? How many flaxen chicks does the State Department need to regurgitate a horrifying indifference to human suffering while expostulating sympathy for Islamic monsters?

"Just one – if she’s Marie Harf. It is not only that Harf seems to have graduated from the Glozell School of International Studies and believes the American taxpayer can provide voc rehab for a billion Islamic youths. It is her parrotlike incapacity to name the dropouts from the human race -- the ideological death cultist Islamic sadist-murderers. She will not distinguish them from any other “kids” with AK-47s. Worst of all, she deadpans the State Department’s comprehensive lack of compassion for the victims of today’s holocaust. . .  .

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Jerusalem Post

"President of Germany's Central Council of Jews advised against wearing a kippah
in neighborhoods with a high proportion of Muslims on Thursday.

"Speaking in an interview with local radio, Josef Schuster said that observant Jews should consider covering their heads with less conspicuous headgear that would not so clearly identify them as Jews in potentially dangerous neighborhoods.

"Schuster said that the potential for anti-Semitic attacks in the country had risen. He said that he could not have imagined that it would be necessary to give such advice five years ago." . . .

Obama Derangement Syndrome? Scott Walker too?

 Victor Davis Hanson                                     "Some, like Ezra Klein, have posited that Rudy Giuliani’s suggestion that Obama may not be patriotic and Scott Walker’s hesitation to assert that Obama is a Christian illustrate a sort of unhinged Obama Derangement Syndrome.

"Aside from the fact that Obama himself characterized President George W. Bush as “unpatriotic” (for overseeing deficits at about half the size of the debt that Obama will bestow on us in his tenure), and aside from Nancy Pelosi’s and Harry Reid’s chronic tendency to smear their conservative critics as “un-American,” there should be an easy standard to identify the point at which criticism becomes clinically deranged.

"I’d suggest that there is. Certainly, a pathology is at work when writers and artists wish, dream, or fantasize about the death of a sitting president and express such abject, irrational venom in a mainstream venue." . . .

Walker Derangement Syndrome appearing in mainstream media   "The Democratic-media establishment is rolling out the hate for Scott Walker. An article in the New Yorker (“The Dangerous Candidacy of Scott Walker”) by John Cassidy gives away the game in its first sentence:

Let’s stipulate up front that Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is an odious politician whose ascension to the Presidency would be a disaster.

"Richard Baehr points out that the early 1984 style hate campaign suggests that either Dems are not so comfortable that Clinton is a sure winner, or that they see how well the anti-Romney stuff worked by defining him early for people who were not Republican or engaged in following politics, so they are trying to take down the top candidates on our side early.  So far that looks like Bush and Walker, who seem to be breaking apart from the filed in different ways -- Jeb with money, and establishment support, Walker among conservative  voters."   Thomas Lifson

So get used to seeing the likes of this in the MSM:

FOR DEATH BY ISIS YOU HAVE TO GO OUT; ILLEGAL ALIENS DELIVER!

Ann Coulter  "You can always tell the media are hiding something when they obsessively focus on Muslim atrocities someplace else in the world. Cable TV could cover Muslim atrocities 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from 632 A.D. to the end of time, without repeating themselves. 

"For at least a year after 9/11, I used to turn on the TV, and if I saw a "Survivor" contestant, I'd think, "Good. No news." These days, I turn on the TV, and if I see former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, I think, "Good. No news." 

"By now, the public knows more about ISIS than they know about the Kardashians. But it has no idea that the very same Senate Democrats who claimed to oppose Obama's amnesty when they were campaigning are currently filibustering a bill to defund it, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is ready to cave. 

"ISIS has killed four Americans -- in Syria. We're not exactly talking about another 9/11. Here's a tip: If you don't want to be killed by ISIS, don't go to Syria. 

"Meanwhile, illegal aliens have killed, raped and maimed thousands of Americans -- in America. If you don't want to be killed, raped or maimed by illegal immigrants in your own country, I have no tips for you. There's nothing you can do. You're on your own. Good luck." . . . 

North American Infidels Exclusive: Twitter Muslim’s Instructions on how to Behead!

Logan's Warning  "Even if you do not own a website, there are other ways you can help out in the war with Islam. One of them is what I like to call jihadi hunting (in a non-violent way) on the social media networks. Because Muslims are getting more and more brazen we can find online threats, and also expose their deplorable beliefs to the public.

As per Koranic verse 47:4. Beheadings.

Please keep in mind that I discovered that Tweet after he implied Islam was non-threatening.

Which of course when countered, lead to this…..

So what's the latest story on the benighted Costa Concordia?

Costa Concordia disaster  Below: the good ship in a better day

click to enlarge 

. . . "Passengers were in the dining hall when there was a sudden, loud bang, which a crew member (speaking over the intercom) ascribed to an "electrical failure".^[56] "We told the guests everything was [okay] and under control and we tried to stop them panicking", a cabin steward recalled.^[32] Coincidentally, when the ship first made impact with the rock, it was claimed that Titanic's theme song My Heart Will Go On was playing in a restaurant." . . .

The ship in less-prosperous times:

From the New York Post

. . . "The footage provides an eerie fisheye view of the wreck of the Concordia which appears remarkably intact despite the 18 months she has spent under the Tyrrhenian Sea.

"Through the clear turquoise blue water, the divers reveal the twisted metal of pipes of the wreck as fish swim by."

"Elaborate staircases that would have taken the guests from their staterooms to the dining room remain intact and the divers float silently down the empty corridors where the guests would have strolled to the pool decks and bars.

"There are also poignant reminders of the passengers and crew who met their fate on the crippled ship — a magazine on the pool deck, an unmanned reception desk complete with a vase of flowers and a computer screen, and empty deckchairs where guests would have sipped their pina coladas and watch the world sail by.

"As the video ends, the diver from Italy’s Carabinieri police emerges from the murky water to find himself inside the huge central atrium of the ship, which sits above the waterline."

Photo above and others from Frozen in Time: Inside the Sunken Costa Concordia