Alan Caruba; "Memories of Thanksgiving's Past"

Warning Signs  "This Thanksgiving Day I will dine alone. I will think about what I have to give thanks for—my health, the fact that I have seen 75 Thanksgiving Days come and go, a life with few regrets—but my day will be a sad one, not for myself, but for my nation.

"I have always been an optimistic person, but that optimism has been drained by four years of Obama’s regime and the prospect of four more. It is compounded by a Congress that has steadily marched toward turning America into a European socialist economy now on the brink of financial collapse and, worse, by a nation that has abandoned many of the values and shared beliefs that made it great; a beacon of freedom for those who chose to come here, a superpower following World War II, a compassionate and largely tolerant nation.
"I mark its long decline from the 1960s when the sons and daughters of a generation that had worked hard and followed the rules thought it was cool not to believe “anyone over thirty”, and, in 1967, adopted Timothy Leary’s drug-induced advice to “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” He was speaking at a “Human Be-in” gathering of 30,000 “hippies” in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park."....

Here, let the president help you

Hamas and Obama

PowerLine; That didn’t take long — Obama reverses himself on Israel  "We gave Obama credit for his initial reaction to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, namely that Israel “has the right to defend itself” against attack and that the Israelis will make their own decisions about their “military tactics and operations.” We recognized, however, that Obama would likely back away from this line if the conflict dragged on for an extended period of time.

"As it turned out, Obama reversed himself almost immediately. The Washington Post says as much in this report called “With Hillary Clinton’s dash to Middle East, Obama signals a shift in his approach.” "

Krauthammer: Hamas "Very Adept At The Pornography Of Grief"  Transcript of the video at the link: "The Israelis always end up the ones looking on the wrong side of this because the world media are on the Palestinian side. And the Gaza Palestinians, Hamas, [are] very adept at the pornography of grief. They are quite useful. They kill civilians on the other side, as terror groups do, but they also invite the killing of their own people as a way to win the propaganda war. That's why they put the weaponry, their rockets and their ammunition under houses, under schools, under hospitals and under mosques. They know the Israelis have to attack the weapons. That inevitably despite the incredible scrupulousness and skill with which Israel targets its attacks, there's always going to be a rocket that will go awry and then they will be able to show all that on television."

Coulter: ROMNEY WAS NOT THE PROBLEM

Ann Coulter  "Small minds always leap to the answers given the last time around, which is probably why Maxine Waters keeps getting re-elected. But the last time is not necessarily the same as this time. A terrorist attack is not the same as the Cold War, a war in Afghanistan is not the same as a war in Iraq, and Mitt Romney is not the same as John McCain or Bob Dole."
....
"Romney was the most libertarian candidate Republicans have run since Calvin Coolidge. And he got more votes from the dwindling white majority than Reagan did.

"How many more votes would Romney have gotten by being a rude, condescending jerk? Sure, it worked for Obama, but he was the incumbent."

The world knows us Americans now

Luke ''The Drifter'' says:

"We Americans got so tired of being thought of as dumbasses by the rest of the world that we went to the polls this November and removed all doubt."

Hat tip to Robert Hope, Sacramento.

Obama press coverage

And this next cartoon is an example of the lap-dog media as it covers Obama:

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons

More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before

U.S. News and World Report  "The Food Stamp Challenge, which challenges higher-income families to live as if they are on food stamps, estimates that a person on food stamps has a budget of about $1.25 per meal. In other words, a family on food stamps must buy an entire meal per person for less than the cost of an average cup of coffee."

...."This Thanksgiving, 42.2 million Americans will be on food stamps, according to the Economic Policy Institute. This is roughly the size of the populations of California and Connecticut combined.

"Not surprisingly, feeding millions of Americans isn't cheap. The cost of the SNAP program last year reached $72 billion, the highest to date, according to the Congressional Budget Office."

Obama will heel this nation

http://terrellaftermath.com/

A time for courage, and action

Caroline Glick  ...." And [Romney] was probably the strongest Republican candidate among the primary field of contenders. That is, he was the best man available to run against Barack Obama.
"And he did a pretty good job.
"Obama, on the other hand, was a horrible candidate. He was mean and vindictive. He was contemptuous and superficial. He ran on irrelevancies like abortion and a fictitious Republican war against women. He didn't give his supporters any reason to feel good about themselves.
"Instead, he used class warfare to stir them to hatred of their countrymen.
"Yet Obama won. And Romney lost."....
...."No one said any of this will be easy. But difficult is not the same as impossible. Within a year, the consequences of Obama's failed domestic and foreign policies will make him weaker rather than stronger than he was in his first term. He will be hard pressed to pressure Israel when the US loses its leadership role in the Muslim Brotherhood- dominated Middle East. And Israel's independence of action will consequently grow.
"Our side suffered a massive loss on [Election Day]."
About Caroline Glick:

I am the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC and travel several times a year to Washington where I routinely brief senior administration officials and members of Congress on issues of joint Israeli-American concern.

In its Israeli Independence Day supplement in 2003, Ma’ariv named me the most prominent woman in Israel. In December 2005, I was awarded the Ben Hecht award for Middle East reporting from the Zionist Organization of America. In January 2006, I was awarded the Abramowitz Prize for Media Criticism by Israel Media Watch.

The U.N. Tilt to Terrorists

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE "Nowhere in the charter of the United Nations is there any mandate for the U.N. to stack the deck in favor of terrorists. Yet that is exactly the effect of the current U.N. furor over conflict between Israel and the terrorists who control Gaza.

"When terrorists in Hamas-run Gaza busied themselves in recent years launching well over 2,000 rocket and mortar attacks on Israel, including hundreds of attacks in recent months, the U.N. shrugged it off as business as usual. That’s not to say that the U.N. ignored the attacks entirely. As the bombardments went on, and on, a few U.N. officials did occasionally call for them to stop. But these statements were invariably coupled with calls for Israel to practice “restraint,” or, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon put it last week, “maximum restraint.” Under the circumstances, this amounts to a demand that Israel refrain from defending itself."

Inhumanity In Gaza "If you took the world’s liberal media seriously, you might think that Hamas is a group of human rights activists whose worst sin is protesting against Israel’s “occupation.” Occupation of what? Not Gaza, obviously. But the truth is that Hamas is a brutal, inhuman terrorist organization–worse, a brutal, inhuman terrorist organization that is supported by many, perhaps most, inhabitants of Gaza."

"So this is what Israel is up against. Are these Hamas terrorists even human beings? Watch the video, and judge for yourself. If they are humans, they are depraved and degraded to an extent that makes them unrecognizable as such."

Unions Feel Emboldened

Neal Boortz  "This is anecdotal, I know … no way to verify it … but the story is being told on Twitter of a Christian living in Israel just returned to her church in the U.S. an told other members of the congregation that as soon as Obama won reelection the Israelis knew the rockets would be coming soon. That’s pretty easy to believe. Why WOULDN’T Hamas and other Mideast Islamic terrorist groups be encouraged by Obama’s reelection? First, he clearly holds Israel in disdain, and, as we’ve found out, he is reluctant to call them out even when they kill an American Ambassador! “That? Oh, just blame it on a video.”

"Unions are feeling pretty much the same way .. emboldened. Obama’s win means they can really start to flex their muscles; after all, they have their “man” in the White House.
"And thus endeth the Twinkie.
"You know the Twinkie story .. and if you don’t, how about some bullet points."....

....

"It’s no coincidence that the labor unions have ramped up their activities.  They poured tens of millions of dollars into the reelection of Obama, and they see this as a personal victory … a green light, if you will, to seek additional favors from the Obama Junta.  Those favors that can’t be gathered through legislative action (the GOP does still control the House, thank God!) they will seek through administrative action; principally through rules changes with the National Labor Relations Board."

So You Want to End the Israel-Hamas War? Here’s How To Do It

Barry Rubin  "A lot of people have asked the purpose of Israel’s defensive war against Hamas. Some, including those supposedly expert on the region, have been mystified. They cannot seem to figure out what is going on or what the goal of this Israeli operation could be.
"The answer is simple. Given the premise that Hamas is in a permanent state of war with Israel and will attack Israel whenever it can get away with it, Israel needed to do three things.
"First, Israel had to show Hamas that it cannot daily attack Israel and Israeli civilians without a cost.
"Second, Israel had to show Hamas that the cost is unsustainable and that it needs to keep the peace or suffer massive losses to its governmental, economic, and military infrastructure. This includes a personal cost to those who have taken the lead in attacking Israel and especially to those who have organized terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
"Third...."

...."So far, Hamas has been turning down the efforts by Egypt and Qatar to broker a ceasefire, making huge and ridiculous demands. Hamas is banking on the idea that the suffering of Gaza’s people–a suffering that it adds to and fictionalizes–will bring enough Western sympathy to force Israel to stop fighting without conditions. It is not in anyone else’s interests to let this happen."

Read this next article and tell me if you expect courageous backing for Israel from the Democrats now in power:

'Mainstream' Muslim groups back Hamas in latest Mideast mayhem

"A statement issued Thursday from the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) illustrates this point. Israel "has escalated air and ground attacks against the Gaza Strip, killing Palestinian men, women and children," it says. "Israel is claiming these attacks are about going after militants, but in reality it's about assassination of Palestinian leaders, destruction of Gazan infrastructure and the gross killings of Palestinian civilians, including women and children."
"The statement offers no information to substantiate such a claim. Israel military officials, in contrast, have posted videos of one of their strikes, which targeted the longtime head of Hamas's military wing."
 Jewish World Review