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The tens of thousands of Americans buried in our National Cemeteries here and American Cemeteries on foreign soil, who died in the fight for the liberty of others around the world, can now rest in peace knowing that what is truly good about America comes from Barack Almighty’s concrete actions since his anointment last January.

‘Special Report’ Panel Rates Obama’s U.N. Speech – Special Report w/ Bret Baier – FOXNews.com

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We know the future will be forged by deeds and not simply words. Speeches alone will not solve our problems. It will take persistent action. So for those who question the character and cause of my nation, I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months.

BRET BAIER, HOST: President Obama speaking here at the General Assembly at the United Nations today, interrupted several times for applause. But what about the speech overall and the message it sent to the world? Let’s bring in our panel tonight from Washington — Steve Hayes, senior writer for “The Weekly Standard”, Juan Williams, news analyst for National Public Radio, and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. Alright Steve, let’s start with you, an overview of your thoughts of the speech.

STEVE HAYES, SENIOR WRITER, “THE WEEKLY STANDARD”: I thought it was a terribly embarrassing speech.

Just think about the last sentence that we heard in the introduction there, “When you question the cause or character of my country, think about the concrete actions of the last nine months.” Basically what President Obama is saying there, think about me when you think about the goodness or the greatness of the United States. I think that is an unbelievably arrogant thing to say, and, sadly, it wasn’t the only thing that he said in the speech that was like that. I think the whole speech was filled with that.

I think what we saw today in so many ways is representative of the way that the Obama administration wants to elevate the United Nations and make it a serious global policy-making body. And it’s also emblematic of the way that the United Nations is a broken institution. You have Muammar Qaddafi, a rogue dictator, a crazy man, speaking — supposed to speak for 15 minutes, ends up speaking for some 90 minutes, filled with untruths, half-truths, complete nonsense. The United Nations was never able to enforce its resolutions on Iraq. It is not able to enforce its resolutions on Iran. It is not even able to keep Muammar Qaddafi from talking for more than 15 minutes. I think it was a dangerous speech in many ways.

JUAN WILLIAMS, NEWS ANALYST, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: Well, I couldn’t disagree with Steve more. I thought it was a terrific speech. (Oh, please. Read the rest of what Williams had to say for yourself, if you must.)

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: I could see all the other nations racing to step up and do what the United States wants.

This speech hovered somewhere between embarrassing and dangerous. You had a president of the United States actually saying no nation can or should try to dominate another.

I will buy the “should try to” as kind of adolescent wishful thinking, but no nation can dominate another? What planet is he living on? It is the story of man. What does he think Russia is doing to Georgia?

But the alarming part is what he said in the same paragraph where he said that it is — makes no sense anymore– quote, “The alignments of nations that are rooted in the cleavages of the cold war.”

Well, NATO is rooted in the cleavage of the cold war. The European Union is rooted in the cleavage of the cold war. Our alliances with Japan and Korea and the Philippines, our guarantees to Taiwan and Eastern Europe are all rooted in the cleavage of the cold war.

Interesting noun, incidentally. So he is saying that is all now irrelevant. What does he think our allies are going to think who hear this?

Obama’s speech is alarming because it says the United States has no more moral right to act or to influence world history than Bangladesh or Sierra Leone.

It diminishes the United States deliberately and wants to say that we should be one nation among others, and not defend the alliance of democracies that we have in NATO, for example, or to say as every president has said before Obama that we stand for something good and unique in the world.

And it is not the equivalent, for example, of the alignment of Chavez with Ecuador and Bolivia and Nicaragua and Russia and Cuba and Iran. And that’s what I think is alarming about that speech.

via ‘Special Report’ Panel Rates Obama’s U.N. Speech – Special Report w/ Bret Baier – FOXNews.com.

Sheryl ‘Single Sheet’ Crow should jump right on this.

Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper

Soft Toilet Papers Hard on the Earth, But Will We Sit for the Alternative?

By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 24, 2009

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. — There is a battle for Americas behinds.

It is a fight over toilet paper: the kind that is blanket-fluffy and getting fluffier so fast that manufacturers are running out of synonyms for “soft” Quilted Northern Ultra Plush is the first big brand to go three-ply and three-adjective.

Its a menace, environmental groups say — and a dark-comedy example of American excess.

The reason, they say, is that plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. They want Americans, like Europeans, to wipe with tissue made from recycled paper goods.

via Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper – washingtonpost.com.

Here’s pretty much everything I ever wanted to know about toilet paper.

A mostly fair and complementary article about Sarah Palin appeared online today at, of all places, NYTimes.com. It is indeed a new age of miracles when “The Gray Lady” has a good word for a conservative republican, in fact THE conservative republican.

More, please.

Palin Speaks to Investors in Hong Kong

By MARK McDONALD
NYTimes.com
September 23, 2009

HONG KONG — Sarah Palin, in what was billed as her first speech overseas, spoke on Wednesday to Asian bankers, investors and fund managers.

A number of people who heard the speech in a packed hotel ballroom, which was closed to the media, said Mrs. Palin spoke from notes for 90 minutes and that she was articulate, well-prepared and even compelling.

“The speech was wide-ranging, very balanced, and she beat all expectations,” said Doug A. Coulter, head of private equity in the Asia-Pacific region for LGT Capital Partners.

via Palin Speaks to Investors in Hong Kong – NYTimes.com.

I love the fact the media wasn’t invited in. Make ‘em pay, Sarah.

Guess Obama will have to sing a few more choruses of Kumbaya.

Al Qaeda Releases Video Predicting Obama’s Fall

Fox News
September 23, 2009

“America has come in a new, hypocritical face. Smiling at us, but stabbing us with the same dagger that Bush used,” said Zawahiri in the message.

“God willing, your end will be at the hands of the Muslim nation, so that the world and history will be free of your crimes and lies,” he said addressing Obama at the end of the two-part video.

via Al Qaeda Releases Video Predicting Obama’s Fall – International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News – FOXNews.com.

AARP’s support of ObamaCare makes sense now. There’s just one hell of a lot more money in it for AARP if ObamaCare passes. Read what Michelle Malkin has to say:

Hmmm: Is the AARP getting “kickbacks” from Obamacare?
By Michelle Malkin
September 22, 2009

AARP members who are still wondering why their leaders in Washington want to sell them out on Obamacare, pay attention.

The GOP has uncovered one very lucrative possibility: Kickbacks.

Here’s the deal:

via Michelle Malkin » Hmmm: Is the AARP getting “kickbacks” from Obamacare?.

The Federal Audit Clearinghouse Website reports ACORN’s total federal funding for the years 2002 through 2007 at $18 million. This PDF File details the ACORN projects to which this money went.

Boehner Says Democrat Health Care Plan is Dead

By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
CNSNews.com
Sunday, September 20, 2009

(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader John Boehner (R.-Ohio) said today that the health-care plan that President Barack Obama is pushing in Congress is now dead and will not pass.

Boehner made the observation in an interview this morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he appeared after President Obama.

via CNSNews.com

Barack Almighty’s remains as feckless now as he was in the pre-election Saddleback Forum.

When asked in the Saddleback Forum, ‘Does evil exist and if it does do we ignore it, do we negotiate with it, do we contain it or do we defeat it?’ President Elect Obama answered:

Ah…evil does exist. I mean, we see evil all the time. We see evil in Darfur. We see evil, sadly, on the streets of our cities. We see evil in parents who have viciously abused their children, and I think it has to be confronted. It has to be confronted squarely, and one of the things that I strongly believe is that, you know, we are not going to, as individuals, be able to erase evil from the world. That is God’s task. But we can be solders in that process, and we can confront it when we see it.

Now, the one thing that I think is very important is for us to have some humility in how we approach the issue of confronting evil, but you know a lot of evil has been perpetrated based on the claim that we were trying to confront evil in the name of good. And I think one thing that’s very important is having some humility in recognizing that, you know, just because we think our intentions are good doesn’t always mean that we’re going to be doing good.

Martin Luther struggled for years with a profound sense of sinful unworthiness and finally came to believe that we are saved by grace alone and not by anything we can produce on our own. Luther wrote in 1531:

Be a sinner, and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly, for He is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides.

Luther understood that by the very nature of our human existence we will always fall short of the glory of God; so his advice to us is go for it, give life our best and forget about trying to do things perfectly. Let history sort out where we hit the mark and where we didn’t. As Americans, let us have the audacity to believe that, even with all our failings, no country in the history world has served the greater good of humanity more than the United States of America.

Sorry, Mr. Obama. No matter how pious or humble we pretend to be, we’ll never know in advance with absolute certainly that we are really serving the good. Trusting in God, we can only have the AUDACITY to boldly HOPE we are.

As our  President, for the love of Christ, have the audacity (aka: guts) to stand up unequivally for America.

Considering the long standing violence in Mexico, a reasonable person might have expected a headline months ago more like ‘Mexico City Boosts Security in Anticipation of Subway Shootings.’

Mexico City Boosts Security After Subway Shootings

FOXNews.com
September 19, 2009

MEXICO CITY —  Police are randomly checking people for guns at Mexico City’s 175 subway stations after a man opened fire inside a crowded station, killing two people and wounding five others.

via Mexico City Boosts Security After Subway Shootings – International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News – FOXNews.com.

But it is government in action, after all; so, manyana is good enough. ‘Manyana’ was defined by Julio Iglesias, on television with British TV host Anne Diamond, to mean:

“Maybe the job will be done tomorrow, maybe the next day, maybe the day after that. Perhaps next week, next month, next year. Who cares?”

The US Congress doesn’t have a word that rises to that degree of urgency.

Russian, Iranian and North Korean leaders must be rolling on the floor laughing their asses off at this inept moron we have in the White House.

Obama Administration’s New Missile Defense Plan Is a Losing Proposition

Baker Spring and Mackenzie Eaglen
The Heritage Foundation
September 17, 2009 (WebMemo #2620)

Today, President Obama reneged on a long-standing agreement with America’s allies and formally abandoned the “third site” missile defense plan. The U.S. will no longer be deploying 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic, a plan formerly regarded as necessary for defending America’s friends and allies as well as the homeland from intercontinental and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

via Obama Administration’s New Missile Defense Plan Is a Losing Proposition.

A Masterstroke of Weakness

Rich Lowry
National Review Online
September 18, 2009

If diplomatic pusillanimity was the aim, Pres. Barack Obama’s decision to abandon our current missile-defense plans in Eastern Europe must be regarded as a masterstroke.

via A Masterstroke of Weakness by Rich Lowry on National Review Online.

This would be funny if the potential consequences to the United States of a failed missile policy weren’t so dire.

Every sentient American should view the YouTube trailer The Heritage Foundation posted for ‘33 Minutes,’ its important documentary on our pressing need for missile defense as Iran presses on with its development of nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles.