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www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/09/Kerry-threatens-small-consequences

Kerry Threatens 'Unbelievably Small' Action Against Assad

I bet Assad's shaking in his boots.

Who voted for these retards? Seriously. It gets worse when you know Obama voters actually thought this was the "smart government" planet healers with magical negroid powers and black magic to stop the tides. It was the mentally deranged electing the king of the mentally deranged. Ho Lee Fuk.

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323623304579059571477464750.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

So much for John Kerry's "global test," circa 2004. So much for Barack Obama slamming the Bush administration for dismissing "European reservations about the wisdom and necessity of the Iraq war," circa 2007. So much for belittling foreign leaders who side with the administration as "poodles." So much for the U.N. stamp of legitimacy. So much for the "lie/die" rhyme popular with Democrats when they were accusing George W. Bush of fiddling with the WMD intelligence.

Say what you will about the prospect of a U.S. strike on Syria, it has already performed one useful service: exposing the low dishonesty, the partisan opportunism, the intellectual flabbiness, the two-bit histrionics and the dumb hysteria that was the standard Democratic attack on the Bush administration's diplomatic handling of the war in Iraq.

In politics as in life, you lie in the bed you make. The president and his secretary of state are now lying in theirs. So are we.

And then some. All Americans are reduced when Mr. Kerry, attempting to distinguish an attack on Syria with the war in Iraq, described the former as "unbelievably small." Does the secretary propose to stigmatize the use of chemical weapons by bombarding Bashar Assad, evil tyrant, with popcorn? When did the American way of war go from shock-and-awe to forewarn-and-irritate?

Americans are reduced, also, when an off-the-cuff remark by Mr. Kerry becomes the basis of a Russian diplomatic initiative—immediately seized by an Assad regime that knows a sucker's game when it sees one—to hand over Syria's stocks of chemical weapons to international control. So now we're supposed to embark on months of negotiation, mediated by our friends the Russians, to get Assad to relinquish a chemical arsenal he used to deny having, now denies using, and will soon deny secretly maintaining?

One of the favorite Democratic attack lines against the Bush administration was that it was "incompetent." Maybe so, but competence is also a matter of comparison.

So let's compare. The administration will be lucky to win an unbelievably thin congressional majority for its unbelievably small plan of attack. By contrast, the October 2002 authorization for military force in Iraq passed by an easy 77-23 margin in the Senate and a 296-133 margin in the House.

The administration also touts the support of 24 countries—Albania and Honduras are on board!—who have signed a letter condemning Assad's use of chemical weapons "in the strongest terms," though none of them, except maybe France, are contemplating military action. Yet Mr. Bush assembled a coalition of 40 countries who were willing to deploy troops to Iraq—a coalition Mr. Kerry mocked as inadequate and illegitimate when he ran for president in 2004.

The case the Bush administration assembled on Iraqi WMD was far stronger than what the Obama administration has offered on Syria. And while I have few doubts that the case against Assad is solid, it shouldn't shock Democrats that the White House's "trust us" approach isn't winning converts. When you've spent years peddling the libel that the Bush administration lied about Iraq, don't be shocked when your goose gets cooked in the same foul sauce.

So what should President Obama say when he addresses the country Tuesday night? He could start by apologizing to President Bush for years of cheap slander. He won't. He could dispense with the talk of "global norms" about chemical weapons and instead talk about the American interest in punishing Assad. He might. He could give Americans a goal worth fighting for: depose Assad, secure the chemical weapons, lead from the front, and let Syrians sort out the rest. Well, let's hope.

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324123004579054822105682390.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion

Inaction on Syria Strengthens Al Qaeda

For decades, the terror group has used military conflicts to push a tale of Western responsibility for Muslim suffering.

Those who argue that the West's response to 9/11 only aided al Qaeda's recruitment efforts forget the powerful narrative that was already in place as a result of the Bosnian war of the early 1990s: that the West is complicit in Muslim suffering and that only groups such as al Qaeda can protect Muslim communities. Nowhere is this notion more dominant right now than in Syria, where al Qaeda is busy winning hearts and minds while the West continues to debate its role in the conflict.

The Bosnian war set the template. After a Western-led arms embargo in 1991 left Bosnian Muslims almost helpless to defend themselves, foreign jihadists—or mujahideen—from the Middle East and beyond traveled to Bosnia to fight on their behalf. They were reportedly financed by al Qaeda through a variety of front charities. While mujahideen did not play as decisive a role in the Bosnian conflict as al Qaeda-linked groups are apparently playing in Syria, Bosnia nonetheless became central to al Qaeda's propaganda message of a Western war against Islam.

Osama bin Laden's 1996 declaration of war against Americans, for example, referenced the massacres of Muslims in Bosnia. The West, he wrote, "not only didn't respond to these atrocities, but also with a clear conspiracy between the USA and its' [sic] allies . . . the dispossessed people were even prevented from obtaining arms to defend themselves."

All throughout the 1990s and after, radical clerics in Europe have recruited young men on the strength of the Bosnian story...Today, in the Syrian conflict, the graphic videos of last month's chemical weapons attack in Damascus are shocking the world. Images of children struggling to gather their last breaths may corral public support for Western military intervention. But they will also be remembered for decades, in al Qaeda's narrative, as still more evidence of Western complicity in global Muslim suffering.

From the very beginning of the conflict, Syrians have been asking for Western assistance. To date, the West has done little to support them.

Al Qaeda, however, has reacted. And it won't matter that their fighters shot dead a 14-year-old Syrian boy accused of blasphemy, or that they committed any number of other atrocities against the people they claim to protect. After two and half years of fighting and more than 100,000 people killed, the story will be that al Qaeda's fighters risked their lives for their Syrian brothers while world leaders watched the country burn.

www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/09/09/RFK-Calls-Sharpton-a-Buffoon-Says-Jesse-Jackson-Addicted-to-Publicity

In a diary obtained by the New York Post, Robert F. Kennedy tears into Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson saying they both, "give me the creeps." “Al Sharpton has done more damage to the black cause than [segregationist Alabama Gov.] George Wallace. He has suffocated the decent black leaders in New York,” continues RFK. “His transparent venal blackmail and extortion schemes taint all black leadership," RFK writes in a July 5th 2001 entry.

RFK's screed continues calling Sharpton a "buffoon" who still stinks from the "stench" of his defense of Tawana Brawley, the black Dutchess County teen who falsely accused six white males of raping her in 1987.

On Jesse Jackson, RFK cut right to the chase saying, "I feel like with Jesse, it's all about Jesse," he wrote.

Jesse Jackson has "a desperate and destructive addiction to publicity." RFK recalls that Jackson, at the funeral for labor leader Cesar Chavez, pushed, “Cesar’s friends and family out of the way to make himself lead pall bearer." "His love affair with Louis Farrakhan and his Jewish xenophobia are also unforgivable," Kennedy continued.

www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/09/09/Jeffrey-Babbitt-Dead-From-Attack-By-Man-Who-Hated-White-People

As has been widely reported, 31 year-old black male Lashawn Marten shouted that he “hated white people” before punching 62 year-old Jeffrey Babbitt - "who is white"- in the face, after which Babbitt fell and struck his head. Tragically, Babbitt has now succumbed to his injuries.

Marten also “made statements to the effect that I’m going to punch the first white man that I see,” according to New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

The incident is being investigated as a potential hate crime. Per FBI statistics, just over 15% of race-related hate crimes were aimed at white people in 2012.

Babbitt was a longtime resident of the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, where neighbors and friends were shocked by news of the assault. “Everybody’s broken up about this,” neighbor Audrey Feifer, 75, told Newsday. “If you had to go to the doctor or anywhere, he would take you.”

Though currently charged with second and third degree assault, Marten's charges could be upgraded when he goes before the grand jury on Tuesday.

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324094704579065432802151184.html

More on Fracking and the Poor

The U.S. oil and gas boom added $1,200 to disposable income in 2012.

Lower costs for raw materials were passed on to consumers via lower home heating and electricity bills and lower prices for other goods and services. Wages also increased from a surge in industrial activity. On present trend, IHS predicts that unconventional oil and gas will contribute more than $2,000 a year by 2015 and $3,500 by 2025.

Overall the industry lifted economic growth by $283 billion last year—$533 billion in 2025—and was responsible, ahem, for $74 billion in federal and state tax payments. The politicians should be doing cartwheels that the figure will rise to $138 billion in 2025...The irony Washington will never appreciate is that fracking has done more for the less fortunate in the Obama years that all of its ministrations combined.

[Tails82]

*supports abortion because "they aren't human"*

*wants lazy adults to be parasites*

[kode54]

I think we should totally stay the fuck out of Syria, because we totally don't have the military force to spend on yet another failed invasion.

[kode54]

I never said I support abortion. I support abstinence or contraceptives, or the day after pill just in case. I also support abortion in the event that the woman's life is threatened. I don't really care that much if some woman wants to abort a baby because she was too dumb to use contraceptives.

I happen to be among the mentally damaged parasites, so of course I support the idea of the strong propping up the weak.

[Tails82]

There's an easy way to test that.

[Tails82]

No one should want to grow up hoping to become a "parasite."

There is a difference between voluntary help which is localized and effective, vs coerced taxation which is inefficient, often goes to the wrong problems, and often makes problems of its own.

[Chromeo]

If voluntary donations actually worked then why is there so much poverty in the world? Why can super-rich not even voluntarily provide for their own nation's citizens let alone those abroad?

[Tails82]

If big government worked why is there always large-scale poverty?

[Chromeo]

...because people like you fight tooth and nail to try to lower taxes and limit the scope of government so that the oligarchs can have the world as they like it. Whereas nobody is stopping the ultrarich from donating enough to save the world, they just don't want to because they're greedy slime that should be rubbed out.

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www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/10/putin-is-one-who-really-deserves-that-nobel-peace-prize/

In one of the most deft diplomatic maneuvers of all time, Russia’s President Putin has saved the world from near-certain disaster. He did so without the egoistical but incompetent American president, or his earnest but clueless Secretary of State, even realizing they had been offered a way out of the mess they’d created.

Secretary Kerry made an off-hand comment that the only way an American attack would be called off is if the Syrians turn over all their chemical weapons to an international body. Then he added, “but that isn’t going to happen.”

The words were hardly out of his mouth when Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov essentially said, "we can live with that," and the Syrian Foreign Minister chimed in with "we can, too."

Meanwhile, the State Department dismissed it, saying Kerry didn’t really mean what he said, it was just a "rhetorical" answer to a hypothetical question.

It was as if Team Obama couldn’t take "yes" for an answer.

By Tuesday night’s speech President Obama will surely be taking full credit, saying the Syrians and Russians caved only because Obama drew the "red line" a year ago, and threatened military action against Syria...The Washington press corps will no doubt believe him, as usual, and lavish their usual praise.

Why wait?

washingtonexaminer.com/nancy-pelosi-russias-syria-proposal-a-victory-for-obama/article/2535535

Nancy Pelosi: Russia's Syria proposal a 'victory' for Obama

"You didn't build that, Russia!"

You know that whole "red line" business Obama never said? Everyone in the world but him said it. Who is Putin? Glorious Leader Obama brought about peace in our time! Bow to your black superman!

www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/09/10/shouldn_t_putin_address_us_tonight

Shouldn't Putin Address Us Tonight?

Putin, again, has beaten Obama. There's no two ways about that. Putin comes out the big winner. Putin gets credit for getting the weapons out of Syria if they're out.

Putin gets credit for holding the weapons, so Putin gets credit for being trustworthy in all this. Putin gets credit for there being no US military attack, and it's being portrayed here as Putin saves Obama.

Here's a pull quote: "The president's supporters and publicists in the press know how to package Obama's weakness. The fear that everyone else in the world smells emanating from him like a wounded animal is really just humility and modesty -- fitting attributes for the leader of a superpower that needs to make amends for having meddled so long in the affairs of others. And besides, this talk of strength and weakness is juvenile -- the world is not a schoolyard. And so Obama ignored Putin’s slights and held his head high.

"This revealed to Putin Obama's real liability, his vanity. Obama always needs to look good," and that's the key. That's how you own Obama. You engineer it so he can make it look like he's the good guy, that he looks like the smartest guy in the room so the press can position it. You can get whatever you want out of Obama if you allow him to look like the smartest guy in the room, and that's what Putin has done here and that's where Putin is the winner.

Obama "will embrace defeat so long as he can still imagine himself a handsome princeling. After pushing Obama around for five years, now Putin escorts him out of the Middle East. Here, friend, take my hand. Let me help you to the sidelines. ... Putin’s goal is to replace the United States as the regional power broker" in the Middle East, and he's just done it. That's why everybody is chuckling over this. This is US weakness on display. This John Kerry gaffe, all of a sudden, turned into a brilliant bit of foreign policy.

They're laughing themselves silly in Moscow.

Bashar Assad stays in power and is free to resume conventional bombing of the rebels whose side I thought we were on in all this...Now the guy's back to, with impunity, bombing the rebels -- and we're claiming victories and brilliance on the part of our own regime's leaders! This is unreal. The rebels are back to getting bombed with conventional weapons, and that's apparently fine. We've cast 'em aside.

www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/10/Israel-Laughs-at-Obama-s-Face-Saving-Syria-Deal

Israeli leaders openly scorned the idea of trusting Syria to obey international monitors given that the regime has flouted similar measures on arming Hezbollah.

President Shimon Peres, a staunch supporter of President Obama, reacted to the proposal by warning that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is "not trustworthy," and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said that Syria merely would use any such deal to "buy time," according to the AP. They seemed to agree with skeptics in the U.S. such as conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer, who noted that the deal cements Assad's efforts to stay in power and effectively guarantees him victory in Syria's civil war.

Last month, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) noted in a blog post that Syria had violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War and mandated that Hezbollah would disarm and leave southern Lebanon. (France, which will introduce a new resolution formalizing the Kerry gaffe, was involved in drafting Resolution 1701 as well). Since then, the IDF said, Syria has helped re-arm and strengthen Hezbollah, with help from Iran, openly violating the cease-fire...In 2010, Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates commented that Hezbollah “has more missiles than most governments in the world.”

Given the fact that Syria has violated the cease-fire so blatantly without any consequences, it is no surprise that both Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin embraced the deal floated by Kerry's rhetorical "goof." And given the looming failure of a congressional vote to authorize force, given the collapse in public support for Obama's proposed "limited" strike against Syria, it is no surprise that Obama rushed to embrace the new proposal, claiming credit for it...

www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/10/Russian-parliament-Gloats-as-Putin-Checkmates-Obama-Over-Syria

Kerry's flub played right into the Russians hands; and by breaking weak, stepping back from his own red line, and embracing Kerry's hypothetical proposal during a round-robin of network interviews Monday night, President Obama chose to repeat Kerry's mistake. Russian President Vladmir Putin now looks like the world's peacemaker and Syria can dig in and drag this out forever as the West tries to figure out how to secure and destroy a thousand tons of chemicals weapons without putting "boots on the ground" in the middle of a civil war.

The real win for Syria and Russia, though, is that when this diplomatic quagmire is all over, Assad remains in power. This, after Obama said he must go.

As I write this, Assad is already taking advantage of the Putin/Kerry monkey wrench. For the first time since the talk of America military action began, today Syria resumed its bombing attacks against the rebels.

www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/09/10/fake_syria_war_hysteria_distracts_from_obamacare_news

I hate to do this to you here, folks, but I've got Obamacare news. Here we go. First up from Fox Business, the headline: "Business Owners May Face $100-Per-Day Penalty Under ObamaCare -- Small business owners who thought they were off the hook for Obamacare regulations until 2015 may be in for an expensive wake-up call next month. Beginning Oct. 1, any business with at least one employee and $500,000 in annual revenue must notify all employees by letter about the Affordable Care Act’s health-care exchanges, or face up to a $100-per-day fine."...So it's just one more aspect of Obamacare that nobody knows anything about and has been unfortunately overlooked until now.

Now, why would this be the case? 'Cause they want everybody on these exchanges as quick as they can. That's how they're gonna get the tentacles of this thing deep into our culture and society, cementing the idea of an entailment, making it harder to repeal it. That's what this is about. There's a steep fine if you don't send the letter. You may have heard that IBM and other employees are pulling out of coverage for their retired employees.

From the LA Times: "Consumers Could be Surprised at Tax Time Due to Federal Health Law." Here's another one. While the fake war and the fake hysteria has been going on for a couple of days in Syria, "Some families may end up owing Uncle Sam a sizable refund if they accept government help on buying health insurance next year under" Obamacare. You heard right. "Some families may end up owing Uncle Sam a sizable refund if they accept government help on buying health insurance...

"A study published Monday in Health Affairs estimates that 38% of families that qualify for federal premium subsidies might have to repay some portion if changes in their household income aren't reported to the government." How many people are gonna even know this? " You gotta report change in your household income? That will happen on my taxes?" No, no. It's a separate form.

If you don't do that, you might have your subsidy taken away, and at which point you will owe the government a refund after they've helped you get health insurance. I am not making this up, folks. This is what's been going on out there during the hysteria about the fake war in Syria, recently averted by a gaffe uttered by John Kerry. It's Time Warner and IBM. Time Warner said they were going to cancel health insurance for some of their employees. It turns out, it's retired employees.

How about we require businesses to hand out free posters of Obama? For use as dart boards. The stress relief can be pitched as preventative medicine.

www.politico.com/story/2013/09/lawrence-odonnell-anthony-weiner-96527.html?hp=r3

Lawrence O'Donnell to Anthony Weiner: 'What is wrong with you?'

In his final appearance before the polls open in New York City, the former congressman and mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner had a tense interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.

“What is wrong with you that you cannot seem to imagine a life without elective office?” O’Donnell asked, kicking off the eight-minute interview on his program “The Last Word” on Monday...O’Donnell continued to hit Weiner on his immediate return to politics.

“What I find strange about your campaign is what seems to be your absolute desperate need for elective office and what seems to be your inability to live outside of it,” O’Donnell said.

Weiner, who has been polling near the bottom of his Democratic primary opponents, argued that he has “devoted almost my entire adult life serving the constituents who elected me,” but O’Donnell quickly hit him on offering “his services” to lobbyists.

“You did the classic hack thing and you know it,” O’Donnell said.

“Lawrence, chillax, buddy, just dial it down a second,” Weiner said.

But O’Donnell, who said he meant it from a “psychiatric level” and added later “you are being driven by some kind of demons.”

Someone in the press criticizing a Democrat? That's newsworthy. Maybe they'll get their ratings back if they did it more often.

[Tails82]

East Germany vs West, which was better?
North Korea vs South, which is better?

[Chromeo]

Cuba vs Haiti which is better?
South Africa vs Somalia?
Norway vs Italy? And so on?

ps: strawman totalitarian states =/= the only expression of state power

[Tails82]

No strawmen, actual states. Real failures.

[Tails82]

www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/09/10/Never-Forget-Bush-Speech-Ground-Zero

Lessons in leadership

www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/11/1-year-later-families-have-few-answers-on-benghazi-attack/

On the one-year anniversary of the brutal terror attacks in Benghazi, the families of the four murdered Americans are still no closer to the truth about what happened to their loved ones than they were 12 months ago.

Five House panels and an internal investigation later, no one has been arrested, no one has been fired or held accountable, and the communication between the families of the victims and the State Department and White House has become almost non-existent.

“When I was there in Washington, when this first started, the FBI had me in a room to tell me what they were doing,” Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, one of the Americans killed in the terror attacks, told Fox News.

Smith says President Obama, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the FBI promised her that finding out who killed her son Sean, an information specialist working in Benghazi, would be a top priority.

But it’s a commitment Smith says the president hasn’t kept.

“The government is not doing what they should do,” she said. “Everybody knows this. They lie to you. They tell you what they want you to know. It may or may not be correct. And in my case, it’s always been lies.”

In August, Secretary of State John Kerry reassigned four State officials who had been put on paid administrative leave following criticism of their conduct during and following the deadly attack...Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, called Kerry’s actions “a charade that included false reports of firings and resignations and now ends in a game of musical chairs where no one misses a single day on the State Department payroll.”

Last month, federal prosecutors filed the first criminal charges related to the Benghazi attacks against Libyan leader Ahmed Abu Khattalah, but no arrests have been made.

The White House, State Department, CIA and FBI have been repeatedly pressed on why they haven’t been able to catch Khattalah, who has given multiple media interviews, including some that took place in open-air markets and coffee shops.

When asked on “Fox News Sunday” why authorities haven’t been able to catch a man who doesn’t really seem to be in hiding, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough seemed to be caught off guard.

www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/10/Obama-s-Syria-Speech-Speak-Loudly-and-Carry-an-Unbelievably-Small-Stick

Obama's Syria Speech: Speak Loudly, and Carry an 'Unbelievably Small' Stick

There was nothing more to say, and indeed President Barack Obama said nothing new to the nation on Syria on Tuesday night. What had once been billed as the closing argument for war on the eve of congressional votes to authorize the use of force became Obama's rationalization for endorsing a phony diplomatic solution.

Obama referred to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Another Roosevelt, Theodore, said, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick." Obama's foreign policy inverts that maxim. The Syria speech evoked the satire of Douglas Adams: "...like a man saying 'And another thing' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument."

washingtonexaminer.com/syrian-dictator-resumes-attacks-on-rebels-after-obama-speech/article/2535592

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad resumed air strikes on the rebels attempting to overthrow his regime this morning after President Obama's speech last night postponing the vote on a military response to Assad's use of chemical weapons.

"Bashar Assad's air [force] started flying and attacking the rebels again today," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday. "There's nothing that will drive Syrians more into the hands of the extremists than to feel that they have been abandoned by the west, and that impression, I'm sure, has been made on them today."

This must be a secret conspiracy with the right wing, just like Reagan and the hostage crisis. Norway, Australia conservatives win around the same time, is this just a coincidence? Can't be because Carter was weak and Obama is weak. Why, Carter was so nice, he was the nicest president the Soviets ever had. And Obama's the magic negro black superman who can be clean and articulate, for a black, when he wants to be. Can't be them.

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324094704579066774128762480.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

What a fiasco. Secretary of State John Kerry, of all people, first floated this escape route for Assad on Monday in Europe where he was supposed to be rallying diplomatic support for a strike.

The White House should have rebuffed the offer given Russia's long protection of Assad at the United Nations—a fact noted with scorn on Monday by Mr. Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice. Instead Mr. Obama endorsed the Russian gambit as what "could potentially be a significant breakthrough." The Senate immediately called off its Wednesday vote on the military resolution. By Tuesday Assad had accepted the offer that he hopes will spare him from a military strike.

France will press for a U.N. Security Council resolution supposedly for U.N. inspectors to supervise the dismantling of Syria's stockpiles, though Russia will no doubt try to put itself in the lead inspecting role. On Tuesday Russia was even objecting to a French draft that would blame the Syrian government for using chemical weapons. Mr. Putin also insisted the U.S. must first disavow any military action in Syria, even as he and Iran make no such pledge.

On second thought, fiasco is too kind for this spectacle. Russia has publicly supported Assad's denials that he used sarin gas, but we are now supposed to believe it will thoroughly scrub Syria of those weapons. We are also supposed to believe Assad will come clean about the weapons he has long denied having and still denies using.

Oh, and we can be confident of this because U.N. or Russian inspectors or someone will be able to locate the entire chemical arsenal, pack up arms that require enormous care in transport, and then monitor future compliance in the continuing war zone that is Syria.

Even if you believe this will happen, or is even possible, Assad will emerge without punishment for having used chemical weapons. He can also be confident that there will be no future Western military action against him. Mr. Obama won't risk another ramp-up to war given the opposition at home and abroad to this effort.

Assad will also know he can unleash his conventional forces anew against the rebels, and Iran and Russia will know they can arm him with impunity. The rebels had better brace themselves for a renewed assault. At the very least, Mr. Obama should compensate for his diplomatic surrender by finally following through on his June promise to arm and train the moderate Free Syrian Army. Otherwise he runs the risk of facilitating an Assad-Iran-Russian triumph.

The alacrity with which Mr. Obama embraced Russia's offer suggests a President who was looking for his own political escape route. His campaign to win congressional support has lost ground in the week since he needlessly blundered into proposing it. His effort to rally international support foundered last week at the G-20, where Mr. Putin looked dominant, and Mr. Obama's approval rating has been falling at home...the Telegraph on Monday called this "the worst day for U.S. and wider Western diplomacy since records began," and that's only a mild exaggeration. A weak and inconstant U.S. President has been maneuvered by America's enemies into claiming that a defeat for his Syria policy is really a triumph.

The Iranians will take it as a signal that they can similarly trap Mr. Obama in a diplomatic morass that claims to have stopped their nuclear program. Israel will conclude the same and will now have to decide if it must risk a solo strike on Tehran. America's friends and foes around the world will recalculate the risks ahead in the 40 dangerous months left of this unserious Presidency.

www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/10/Remember-That-Time-Bloomberg-Spent-350-000-And-He-Got-Was-A-Lousy-T-Shirt

Bloomberg Wasted $350,000 on Colorado Recall

When the gun control measures were passed, and then signed into law by Governor John Hickenlooper (D) on March 20, Coloradans in Giron and Morse's districts felt hoodwinked. El Paso County Sherrif Terry Maketa said, "The two senators dismissed [their constituents'] opinions, literally said they did not want to hear from them," thus setting the recall effort in motion.

And even though more Coloradans from Morse's district signed the recall petition than had voted for him in the last election, he continued to dismiss their opinions. He went on television not only to admit he had ignored them in order to pass gun control but that he was actually "proud" he had done so.

Giron was not sorry for supporting gun control either, and stood by her claims that the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999 justified the passage of draconian gun control in 2013: gun control which included "high capacity" magazine bans, universal background checks, and a new tax on all gun sales under the guise of a service fee put in place to pay for all the new background checks.

Bloomberg kept giving money--giving $350,000 as the recall effort hit its home stretch--all in hopes of keeping Giron and Morse in a place where they could support an anti-gun agenda with which he agreed. And Obama's Organizing For Action (OFA) operatives began showing up in Pueblo to help Giron run her senate office and to help get out the vote.

But it was not enough. And in the end, the raw, grassroots passion of Coloradans trumped the cumulative millions of dollars from people like Bloomberg, as well as the influence of the Democrat machine, and the presence of OFA.

www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/11/anthony-weiner-caps-failed-comeback-bid-with-obscene-gesture/

Anthony Weiner, after losing badly in the New York mayoral primary Tuesday night, bid farewell to the campaign in a manner befitting the foul-mouthed candidate -- by flipping the bird after delivering his concession speech.

His ill-fated campaign had two final embarrassments in its last minutes: One of his online paramours, Sydney Leathers, tried to crash his primary night rally and then Weiner was caught making the obscene gesture at reporters as he was driven away.

NBC affiliate reporter Shimon Prokupecz tweeted that he was the target of the gesture. "Just had the pleasure of getting the middle finger from Anthony Weiner after his security staff pushed us out of the way," he wrote. He later added: "He drove away smirking."

Sometimes things work out.

You'd think they'd be fine with him after Rangel's ethics violations got a pass. Oh, right, "because he's black" probably.

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Putin is calling the shots. Assad is setting a red line and telling Barack Obama what to do now. What an embarrassment. What a disgrace.

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324576304579071000750747312.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad insisted that the U.S. give up its "policy of threats" and halt arms shipments to rebels before his government turns over its chemical weapons, as U.S. and Russian delegations began talks in Geneva aimed at forging a road map for the shutdown of the weapons program.

Mr. Assad, in an interview on Russian state television, said it wasn't U.S. pressure, but Russian diplomacy that convinced his regime to discuss giving up the weapons.

"Without the Russian initiative we would not have discussed this matter at all with any other country," he said.

The Syrian leader said Damascus wouldn't fulfill the agreement "unilaterally," but would require reciprocal steps from the U.S. to stop threats against his government and halt arms supplies to "terrorists," the Assad regime's term for the rebels who are backed by the U.S. and its allies.

"There is no trust between us and the Americans and no contacts between us, Russia is the only state capable of performing this role," Mr. Assad said...Since Monday, the Syrian regime has sought to portray the Russian initiative as a diplomatic coup and tactical victory for Damascus and Moscow.

www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/09/12/an_explanation_of_american_exceptionalism_for_vladimir_putin_and_barack_obama

So on Tuesday I was right here behind the Golden EIB Microphone, and I said, "What is Obama doing addressing the people? It ought to be Putin addressing the people of the United States." It's Putin that came up with the deal. It's Putin who accepted John Kerry's insincere suggestion that ended up being a gaffe.

Lo and behold, Putin has done it. Putin has addressed the American people...Vladimir Putin in his op-ed in the New York Times basically said we're not exceptional. You shouldn't talk about being exceptional and there's no such thing as exceptional and you're bad people when you start talking about that...it's also scary, because Vladimir Putin basically echoes our own president on the concept of American exceptionalism.

The American left doesn't disagree with much of what Putin said. In fact, the White House is happily accepting that Putin wrote this. Obama and the White House today are happily dumping Syria into Putin's lap, and now they're running around saying, "Hey, he owns it."

Folks, those of you of a certain age will understand my grave concern here. Vladimir Putin has just asserted that he has a moral superiority to the president of the United States, and the president of the United States apparently is willing to allow that perception because the White House is out saying, "Well, Putin, he owns it, it's his policy," and Obama's happy to dump this, he thinks. I thought it was a brilliant plan. I thought he and Putin talked about it last week. If it's such a great plan, why didn't Obama want credit for it? Why is he happily dumping it off on Putin? And the better question than that, why does Putin want it? And there are answers to these, and they're not good.

Do you people in the White House not know what's happened here? Vladimir Putin has positioned himself as a mature adult who stopped your immature child from messing around in somebody else's sandbox that he had no right being in and didn't know what he was doing.

What do you think the left's reaction to Putin's piece is?

Oh, no. They're not mad. They're not mad. They're saying, "We had this coming, and now we know what it's like to live in other countries and be lectured to by the United States." This is the theme running on MSNBC. We had it coming. This is what happens when we get too big for the world's britches, and now we know what it's like to be in other Podunk countries being lectured to.

They're loving it. They don't look at it as a diss on Obama. On the politics side, they think it's deft politics, that Obama has moved a very no-win situation off to Putin. They think Obama's pulled a masterful political stroke here by moving this off to Putin.

And then, on the other side of it, they're out there going, "Nah-nah-nah-nah. How's it feel? How's it feel? This is what it's like to be in other countries when the US comes around. This is what it's like to be lectured to by United States in other parts of the world." I don't know that senior Democrats understand that he's been -- well, let's go to the audio sound bites. I think they do. I think there are pockets of Democrats and media people who understand Obama's been totally played here. And he has been, Obama and John Kerry have been toyed with. I don't think they know it, but I think other Democrats do, because they have been. It's embarrassing.

For Vladimir Putin to be asserting worldwide moral authority over the United States and our president, it's unprecedented. He's doing it with credibility, by the way. That's what makes it unprecedented. You've had a lot of foreign leaders in the past huff and puff about the US, but Putin, just take yourself out of it in any emotional sense, and it's a masterful Putin play. He took a John Kerry gaffe. He has made policy out of it. He now has control of the chemical weapons in Syria. He's determining how they're gonna be inspected or not. He's determining whether there's gonna be a use-of-force authorization in the United States Congress, Vladimir Putin is!

www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/11/Poll-Majority-of-Palestinian-Authority-Muslims-Support-Suicide-Bombings

Majority of Palestinian Authority Muslims Support Suicide Bombings

62% of those from the "Palestinian Territories" (the areas of Palestinian Authority-controlled Judea and Samaria, and the area of Gaza) said suicide bombings were “sometimes” justifiable. The next largest group approving was from Lebanon, with 33% approving. Of those who said the suicide bombings were “often” justifiable, 37% of Palestinians approved. The second highest group was from Senegal, at 11%.

Interestingly, the group most opposed to suicide bombings was from Pakistan, where Al Qaeda and the Taliban have almost exclusively focused the bombings on other Muslims.

Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), said:

"The Palestinian Authority, through its religious establishments, has been presenting the killing of Jews as an Islamic imperative for many years. Just last year the [Palestinian Authority-appointed] Mufti of Jerusalem quoted the Hadith [Islamic teaching] which was quoted throughout the intifada period, saying that the end of days will only come when the Muslims kill the Jews."

I dunno about you but that sounds like a perfectly reasonable response to those dirty Jews daring to exist and setting up a few settlements on their own land.

www.foxnews.com/science/2013/09/12/climate-models-wildly-overestimated-global-warming-study-finds/?intcmp=latestnews

Climate models wildly overestimated global warming, study finds

Out of 117 predictions, the study’s author told FoxNews.com, three were roughly accurate and 114 overestimated the amount of warming. On average, the predictions forecasted two times more global warming than actually occurred.

Some scientists say the study shows that climate modelers need to go back to the drawing board.

"It's a real problem ... it shows that there really is something that needs to be fixed in the climate models," climate scientist John Christy, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, told FoxNews.com.

John Christy says that climate models have had this problem going back 35 years, to 1979, the first year for which reliable satellite temperature data exists to compare the predictions to.

"I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world," Christy said.

Many of the overestimations also made their way into the popular press. In 1989, the Associate Press reported: "Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide 2 degrees by 2010."

And in 1972, the Christian Science Monitor reported: "Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000." That also proved wrong.

Christy agrees that there has been some warming over time, but says man-made greenhouse gasses are not as big of a driver of climate change as many think -- and that many scientists are in denial about their mistakes.

"I think in one sense the climate establishment is embarrassed by this, and so they're trying to minimize the problem," he said. "The fundamental thing a climate model is supposed to predict is temperature. And yet it gets that wrong."

www.ncregister.com/daily-news/california-legislature-passes-bill-lifting-statute-of-limitations/

California's sending a message: if you want to molest people and get away with it, join your friends in the public sector. You will be protected there.

www.nomblog.com/37764

'Til Death Do Us Part, or 3 Years, Whichever Comes First

Is marriage a permanent commitment or simply a commodity to be tried out on a leasing basis, like a car or an apartment? From the deep south of all places comes the idea of the ‘marriage lease’, as Fox Memphis reports:

What if marriage was like leasing a car?

After a couple years, you could renew the relationship or just walk away, with no fuss. A Florida lawyer says now might be the time to consider short-term marriages.

In other words: a wed lease.

www.politico.com/story/2013/09/colorado-recall-election-2013-voters-96704.html?hp=r22

Angry Republican election officials in Colorado are rejecting “voter suppression” claims by Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and they charge that it was members of Schultz’s own party who put up barriers to casting ballots.

“Wasserman Schulz and the DNC have no credibility whatsoever on this — none,” Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told POLITICO.

“When you look at the results of this recall election, when more people showed up, Democrats got crushed,” he added. “So why she has any credibility whatsoever just blows me away when she says stuff that’s just completely contradicted by facts on the ground.”

Wasserman Schultz charged in a statement on Wednesday, after two Democratic state lawmakers were recalled because of their support for gun control measures, that a “vast array of obstacles that special interests threw in the way of voters for the purpose of reversing the will of the legislature and the people.”

However, Gessler’s office pushed back, saying that after the date of the special election was announced the office sought to have mail-in ballots sent out as early as possible to increase voter participation.

The RNC responded Thursday saying it was “irresponsible and shameless” to make those claims.

“What you saw in Colorado was Democrats being held accountable for voting against the will of the people. It’s irresponsible and shameless for Democrats like Debbie Wasserman Schultz to throw out very serious and unfounded claims without proof,” said RNC spokesperson, Kirsten Kukowski.

Asked specifically which “right-wing groups” Wasserman Schultz’s statement was referring to, Czin emailed: “Without a doubt the Republican Secretary of State’s efforts made voting more difficult — that hampered Democratic turnout and helped the NRA and their allies win.”

The DNC chairwoman on Thursday further accused right-wing groups of “intimidation tactics.”

“Of course you always worry about the intimidation tactics of right-wing groups like the NRA that they will suppress turn out and intimidate and make candidates as well as elected officials worry that they shouldn’t do the right thing and follow their convictions,” Wasserman Schulz said. “But I was proud of both state senators. They understood what this was really about.”

The NRA hit back Thursday on Wasserman Schulz’s claims calling them “baseless.”

“Those who lose elections often make baseless claims because they are unwilling to accept the reality that a majority of voters rejected their agenda,” said Andrew Arulanandam, the NRA’s director of public affairs.

Cole said, “To claim voter suppression, that’s a huge claim to make and it’s not something that should be thrown around lightly because it’s saying that the will of the voters was not allowed. I don’t think you can make that claim without proof, without some sort of evidence to back it up.”

It's common knowledge Republicans can never win elections, unless there's a creepy ass cracker/dirty Zionist Jew conspiracy to poison your wells, steal your babies and change the outcome.

blog.heritage.org/2013/09/11/cnn-poll-support-for-obamacare-drops-below-40/

CNN Poll: Support for Obamacare Drops Below 40%

Support has dropped in virtually all demographic categories, but it has fallen the farthest among two core Democratic groups – [unmarried] women and Americans who make less than $50,000.