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Archive - June 2009 News Headlines, Links, and Comments
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News Archives: Headlines, Links, and Comments
for June 2009
June 29, 2009 -
Ailing Calif. economy could prolong US recession - Comment: So,
how many years did it take for liberals to transform California from
prosperity to a failed state? Does the rest of the country really
want to follow California down that path? Meanwhile, Congress
keeps copying various California regulatory initiatives as mandates for
other states to follow. Insane.
Note that
Congress and federal government agencies are now pushing California
emissions standards, building codes, environmental regulations and other
regulatory practices as standards for the rest of the country. In
effect, this is the opposite of what the Commerce Clause of the
Constitution intended - by giving California the indirect power to
impose new interstate standards affecting trade through collusion with
regulators in Washington. In effect, California winds up setting
the standards, and the rest of the country is forced by the federal
government to go along with the same regulations, without really having
any say in the matter unless our members of Congress stand up and fight
through legislation against each administrative regulatory decision.
This is an unprecedented abuse of the power given to the Executive
branch regulatory agencies.
Why should we adopt California as the model when they
have clearly destroyed their economy?
June 29, 2009 -
Congressman's wife resigns from Detroit Council - Comment:
Of course, nobody in the media is screaming for Rep. John Conyers to
resign. Just as Obama's prior praise for Detroit Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick was conveniently swept under the rug during the election.
June 29, 2009 -
Obama says he'll get prime initiatives into law - Comment:
Bragging to his DNC supporters that he will get his agenda passed this
year, with even more to come next year. So much for his alleged
interest in bipartisan solutions last year. Now he doesn't even
pretend.
June 29, 2009 -
Weeping, 1st Khmer Rouge prison survivor testifies - Comment:
How many people remember
Pol Pot's reign of terror? Remember who
was the US President (1976-1979)? Remember the debate over the
legitimacy of his genocidal regime - and the one that replaced it?
June 28, 2009 -
Obama officials say talks with Iran still possible - Comment:
Note this quote by the AP report of what the US ambassador to the
UN, Susan Rice, said: "The legitimacy of the government, while
questioned by the people of Iran, is not the critical issue for the U.S.
goal of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear capability".
Wow. Tyrants of the world, rejoice.
The
White House word of the day, both for David Axelrod on ABC and Susan
Rice on NBC, was to characterize Ahmedinejad's accusations as
"bloviating". Is this latest stunt trying to suggest that Bill
O'Reilly of Fox News is the moral equivalent of that tyrant? That
seems similar to other red herrings, like their attacks on Rush
Limbaugh. The obvious point is that it is the Obama administration
which is doing the bloviating these days - through empty rhetoric as
they try to distract from their failed policy initiatives and growing
evidence of weakness and naivete.
June 28, 2009 -
White House open to new tax on health benefits - Comment:
Axelrod floats the trial balloon of taxing health benefits, contrary to
campaign promises last year. Once again, this new tax may be
muddled by excluding some affected groups (unions) or by other paybacks.
June 26, 2009 -
Major energy-climate bill chugs toward House vote - Comment:
Still trying to ram through the largest tax increase in history by
stealth and lies. Let your member of Congress know that this vote
will be remembered when the time comes to work to replace them.
June 24, 2009 -
Obama signs bill funding wars - Comment: No mention of the IMF
funding, and almost none about the "cash for clunkers" provision as an
incentive for buying fuel efficient cars. Remember the promise
that this will be the "last time" for such an emergency spending bill
(since virtually every new spending idea he has is treated as an urgent
budget priority anyway).
June 22, 2009 -
New US battle rule: No fighting near Afghan homes - Comment: Now
it's official. All the Taliban and Al Qaeda supporters have to do
is hide behind civilians in the villages, and they're safe. Is
this any way to fight an insurgency? Is this a deliberate plan for
failure? Will Afghan security forces take the lead now in going
after the Taliban in villages or remote areas?
Text of the poem in the video, as reflected by the
English subtitles:
"Tomorrow is Saturday. Tomorrow is a day of destiny.
Tonight, the cries of Allah-o Akbar are heard louder and louder than the
nights before.
Where is this place? Where is this place where every door is closed?
Where is this place where people are simply calling God? Where is this
place where the sound of Allah-o Akbar gets louder and louder?
I wait every night to see if the sounds will get louder and whether the
number increases. It shakes me. I wonder if God is shaken.
Where is this place that where so many innocent people are entrapped?
Where is this place where no one comes to our aid? Where is this place
that only with our silence we are sending our voices to the world? Where
is this place that the young shed blood and then people go and pray —
standing on that same blood and pray. Where is this place where the
citizens are called vagrants?
Where is this place? You want me to tell you? This place is Iran. The
homeland of you and me.
This place is Iran."
NB:
updates here were suspended temporarily in June for a two week vacation
period.
June 5, 2009 - AP Analysis: Obama tries evenhanded approach -
Comment: How is it evenhanded to hardly say a word in defense
of all that we have done for the benefit of Muslims? Indeed, the
very premise of talking to the "Islamic world" accepts the false idea of
radicals that all Muslims are engaged in a great clash of civilizations
with the West, as if they were all a single special interest group
rather than a highly diverse mix of people in different countries and
cultures who frequently do not agree with each other on very much.
This myth of a common enemy is one of the most fundamental tools of the
terrorists, and he just reinforced this "us vs. them" perception by
pretending that it we somehow wronged all of them in the past, and
promise to behave now.
June 3, 2009 - Obama visits Saudi king before high-stakes speech -
Comment: " meant to ease long-held Muslim grievances against
the United States"? "In one gesture, organizers made sure
that members of Egypt's main opposition movement, the outlawed Muslim
Brotherhood, would be in the audience at Cairo University." Why
not invite Ayman al Zawahiri, too?
June 3, 2009 - To open a Muslim dialogue, Obama visits Saudi king -
Comment: How on earth can he talk about "misapprehensions"
about Muslims in the West as the moral equivalent of the hate mongering
and terrorism spread by Islamist extremists - notably the Wahabbists
from Saudi Arabia?
June 3, 2009 - Fourth UK minister quits, dealing blow to PM -
Comment: Very little attention was paid here in the media to
the resignation of Jacqui Smith, who had the audacity to put
conservative US talk radio host Michael Savage on a list of extremists /
terrorists who would not be allowed into the UK. As the UK
headline said, rats deserting a sinking ship.
Daniel Hannan ripped into Brown
recently.
June 2, 2009 - US inviting Iranian diplomats to July 4 parties -
Comment: Let's do better than the White House and State
Department on this outreach initiative. Let's invite all the
Iranian refugees in this country who have fled the tyranny in Iran to
live in freedom here to join us at Tea Party protests across America on
July 4, and show their opposition to appeasement toward the Iranian
zealots.
June 1, 2009 - "Big Hollywood" blog by Brian Jennings -
FCC: America's New Speech Police - Comment: An indirect
attack on talk radio by challenging the Arbitron listener rating system.
June 1, 2009 -
US military tweets and
subsequent version- Comment: Increased military use of
social networking tools to report directly from Afghanistan about their activities,
and to receive messages of public support, rather than just communicate through formal press channels.
June 1, 2009 - AP source: Tentative deal struck for funding war -
Comment: Note the $100 billion credit line for the IMF to help
developing countries, as Obama promised at the G20 Summit in April.
That is only treated as a $5 billion commitment on the fiction that it
will somehow be repaid with interest over time. Think of it as a
subprime loan via the IMF instead of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in
which the US taxpayer is assumed to not be on the hook for the $100
billion capital commitments which the IMF can make, somewhat like 20:1
leverage. That worked out really well for us, didn't it?
June 1, 2009 - Obama's outreach to Muslims is a big gamble -
Comment: Trying to sell it as a prudent or brilliant gesture
rather than another naive and reckless mistake at a very dangerous time.
Success is now defined as progress from outright hostility to grudging
disapproval of US policies, as though the possibility of standing up for
what we believe is simply irrational and out of the question..
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