Corrupt, deranged dictators meet

• Obama shares handshake from the hood with his apparent soul mate, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. photo from Drudge Report

Lacking representation in government, the Silent Majority sheds its silence

• 'Eagles Up,' via Lucianne.com

Washington Post favored press sycophant to Obama regime

Actions speak louder than words-should you be tempted to think the Washington Post is an objective rag. Obama's hideous wife apparently gave them exclusive word on what passes for breaking news today, being the family's choice of a dog:

• (AP): "White House aides told the AP that the office of the first lady arranged an exclusive deal on the dog story with the (Washington) Post.

• The officials, who demanded anonymity because of the deal with the Post on exclusive details,

• said the dog was not in the White House as of Saturday evening."...via Drudge Report/Breitbart, 'Obama Girls Name their new Puppie Bo'
  

Blundering Obama falls for ploy of 'moderate Taliban'--trusts you will too

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO THE STUNNINGLY EFFEMINATE WIMPS WHO STILL INHABIT THE SO-CALLED GOP AND THEIR TROJAN HORSE CANDIDATE JOHN McCAIN:

• (Times of India): "Anxious to win a war through the treasury rather than the Pentagon, he (Obama) has discovered something called the
  
• "moderate Taliban" in Afghanistan.

Joe Biden, his vice president, has found the mathematical coordinates of this oxymoron: only 5% of the Taliban are "extremists".

• Welcome to Obama's first big mistake.

The war in Afghanistan and Pakistan is not simply against some bearded men and beardless boys who have been turned into

• suicide missionaries.

• The critical conflict is against the ideology of a chauvinistic theocracy that seeks to remould the Muslim world into a regressive region

• from which it can assault every aspect of modernity, whether that be in political space or the social sphere.

Washington has a single dimension definition of "moderate": anyone who stops an active, immediate war against the US is a "moderate". Let me introduce him to a couple of "moderate Taliban". They are now world famous, having been on every national and international news channel these past few days, stars of a video clip from Swat.

• Two of them had pinned down a 17-year-old girl called Chand Bibi, while a third, his face shrouded, lashed her with a whip 37 times on suspicion of being seen with a man who was not her father or brother.

Obama should record the screams of Chand Bibi and play them to his daughters as the "moderate" music to which he wants to dance in his Afghan war. These Taliban are "moderate" by the norms of the Obama Doctrine:

• they have come to a deal with America through Islamabad.

Pakistani troops are not engaged in their medieval haven, nor are American Drones bombing their homes. All that remains, one presumes, is that they are placed on the Pentagon payroll as insurance of their ceasefire.

• Perhaps, in their desperate search for moderation,

Obama and Islamabad will promote the denial

• being manipulated into public discourse.

The unbearable Swat-lashing video is now described as fake. It would be nice to know the names of the actors who played such a convincing part in the filming of this 'fake'. Chand Bibi has "denied" any such incident. Sure: but was any doctor sent to check the scars?

• Such compromise with 'moderation' has also taken place next door, in Afghanistan, under the watchful eye of American ally Hamid Karzai.

• He has just signed a family law bill which compels Afghan women to take permission from their husbands before going to a doctor,
  
• seeking education, or getting a job.

The husband has become complete master of the bedroom.

• Custody of children can only go to fathers or grandfathers; women have no rights.

A member of Afghanistan's upper house, Senator Humaira Namati, has called this law "worse than during the Taliban (government). Anyone who spoke out was accused of being against Islam". It makes no difference to the Taliban, of course, that the Quran expressly forbids Muslim men from forcing decisions on their wives "against their will". Karzai's justification is the usual one: politics. He wanted the support of theocrats in the election scheduled for August this year. Under pressure, there is talk of a review but no one is sure what that means.

• If it's democracy, it must be "moderate", right?

One can understand a post-Iraq America's reluctance towards wars that seem straight out of Kipling. But we in the region

• have to live with the political consequences of superpower intervention,

• and the casual legitimacy that Obama is offering
  

• to a destructive ideology

• will create blowback that spreads far beyond the geography of "Afpak".

Benazir Bhutto and the ISI did not create the Taliban in the winter of 1994 for war against America. Its purpose was to defeat fractious Afghan warlords, and establish a totalitarian regime that would equate Afghanistan's strategic interests to Pakistan's. The ISI conceived an "Afpak" long before the idea reached the outer rim of Washington's thinking.

• Pakistan worked assiduously to widen the Taliban's legitimacy and would have drawn America into the fold through the oil-pipeline siren song if Osama bin Laden had not blown every plan apart.

In some essentials, things have not changed. Pakistan's interests still lie in a pro-Islamabad Taliban regime in Kabul.

• The "moderation" theory is a ploy to provide war-weary America with an exit point.

India's anxieties will be offered a smile in public and a shrug in private.

• History is uncomfortable with neat closures. Neither the Taliban nor Pakistan are what they were in 1994:

the former is much stronger, the latter substantially weaker. The fall of Kabul to the Taliban this time could be a curtain raiser to the siege of Islamabad.

• There is nothing called a moderate lash, or backlash, President Obama." via Lucianne.com
  

Obama nomination of Caroline Kennedy blocked by Vatican

• "Vatican sources told Il Giornale that their support for abortion disqualified Ms

Kennedy and other Roman Catholics President Barack Obama had been seeking to appoint.

• Mr Obama was reportedly seeking to reward John F Kennedy's daughter, who publicly gave her support to his election bid. She had been poised to replace Hillary Clinton as New York senator, but dropped out amid criticism that she lacked enough experience for the job.

The Italian paper said that the Vatican strongly disapproved of Mr Obama's support for abortion and stem cell research. ...

• The White House refused to comment." via Lucianne.com
  

Michelle Obama cover hastens Newsweek's demise

• NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- "Vogue's March cover story on Michelle Obama

called her "The First Lady the World's Been Waiting For." No doubt she's been embraced by the media world, appearing on cover after cover, from Us Weekly to Newsweek.

• But when it comes to sales, Ms. Obama may not yet be general-interest magazines' new Princess Diana, who regularly helped the industry sell more copies at newsstands.

A Michelle Obama cover doesn't hurt a general-interest magazine, the numbers suggest, but it doesn't produce more than an occasional lift either.

• New York magazine's March 23 issue, with a cover story about "The Power of Michelle Obama," looks like it produced
  

• "average" sales, New York said April 3, although the numbers remain subject to change."...

ESPECIALLY WEAK SALES...NEWSWEEK, THE SELF DESCRIBED THOUGHT LEADER is REJECTED BY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY HAVE BRAINS:

• (Ad Age): "Then there are a few covers with relatively weak sales.
  
• Newsweek's Dec. 1 cover story on "The Meaning of Michelle," using a black-and-white photo, only sold 90,000 copies on newsstands,
  

• 15% below its average for the second half of last year.
  

More's October issue featuring a cover story on "Michelle Obama at 44" sold just 154,000 copies on newsstands,

• 23% below the second-half average." ...
  

via Rush Limbaugh radio show

• PROVING THE MEDIA ISN'T FOOLING THE PUBLIC WITH THEIR RIDICULOUS ADULATION OF THIS UNREMARKABLE WOMAN (to be as polite as possible). sm
  

Obama's $30 billion tax on US oil and gas--rather obvious

Soros and Maurice Strong have been very open about the need to destroy America. They didn't need so much as a pea-shooter to do it. Just a compliant media and a feminine, submissive Obama:

• "Oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, along with Venezuela, will grow rich while Americans will be faced with high costs for gasoline, motor and heating oil, and everything else that depends on oil such as asphalt or even Vaseline.

Meanwhile, oil producers in America, large and small, will take a financial beating. If you don’t like living in a modern, advanced and industrialized society, you will favor this. If you think Americans consume too much, drive too much, and deserve to be punished for it, you will favor this.

• Recently, Barry Russell, the president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, released a statement in which he said, “President Obama delivered a devastating blow to the American oil and natural gas industry by proposing an astonishing $30 billion tax increase (as part of his FY 2010 budget) on American energy producers, most of whom are small businesses.”

“Ninety percent of the oil and natural gas wells developed in the United States are done by small, independent businesses—not so called ‘Big Oil’—so tax increases hurt these companies most.” It also, of course, hurts any prospect for the discovery and production of new sources of oil and natural gas in America.

• It is a plan to destroy the American oil and natural gas industry, and with it the nation’s economy

In a world where more oil and natural gas is required by developing nations such as India and China, the Obama administration proposes:

• (1) A repeal of expensing of intangible drilling costs; a repeal of percentage depletion that allows for the depreciation of existing small, barely economic wells;

• (2) A repeal of marginal well tax credit, a safety net for wells that produce small amounts of oil and gas that, collectively, supply almost 20% of the nation’s oil and 12% of its gas;

• (3) A repeal of the enhanced oil recovery credit that allows industry to get more energy from wells that are depleted instead of drilling new wells;

• (4) Increases the costs of geological and geophysical amortization costs involving the high cost of doing seismic and other high-tech surveys;

• (5) An excise tax on Gulf of Mexico production;

• (6) And a repeal of the manufacturing tax deduction, a provision given to every other American manufacturer and which allows independent oil and natural gas producers to put more money

into new energy projects.

• It is a plan to destroy the American oil and natural gas industry, and with it
  
• the nation’s economy.

Right now, however, the Obama administration has installed an “energy team” that is completely opposed to the development of any energy resources in America, from offshore and ANWR oil to coal mining or the construction of coal-fired plants to generate electricity. Coal currently produces 50% of the nation’s electricity.

• Steven Chu, the Secretary of Energy, is on record saying, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” It is $8 a gallon there.

Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior, the agency that administers energy leasing on federal lands and most offshore areas, has a long record of opposition to such leasing of oil, natural gas, and coal exploration and extraction. He has already nullified recently awarded leases for natural gas drilling in federal land in Utah. Salazar is responsible for legislation blocking the development of shale oil.

• Obama’s science advisor, John Holdren, out-does Al Gore with predictions of global warming calamities. Back in the 1970s he was worrying whether mankind would survive the “threat of making the planet too cold.”

Meanwhile, Wall Street is watching investment drop like a stone as Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, testifies that U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks

• because their businesses contribute to global warming!

• This attack on energy companies and access to energy resources in America is a formula for failure. "

Canada Free Press, 4/5/09, 'A Formula for Failure'

Obama ever feminine and submissive, bows to Saudi King

• Crumbles before his master.
  
• 
  
• Anyone can be submissive to a guy who has done nothing except be born rich. More of the same Obama--
• always in a rush to subvert and deny our existence. photo via Atlas Shrugs