Time to Retire Obama's Halo, No?

He's only human, after all. And after the O-Care screw up, no one could possibly mistake him for Jesus. So why are they still photographing him with his halo in place?

"Hope You'll Visit Yad Vashem II, the Iranian Holocaust Museum"

If Iran gets to nuke the Jews as a prelude to the return of the Shia messiah (the raison d'etre of the Shia nuclear program, which, Barry's claims to the contrary, continues apace), there won't be a Yad Vashem II. For that matter, there won't be a Yad Vashem I (because there won't be an Israel).

NSA Monitors Porn-Watching Habits of Radical Muslims

Dear NSA: quel massive breach of civil liberties and major waste of time. Do you numbskulls seriously believe that watching stroke flicks and waging jihad are mutually exclusive, or that you can shame jihadis into eschewing holy war by doing a "gotcha" re their porno proclivities? If so, you are seriously out to lunch, not to mention pathologically clueless.

Man, who's in charge there--Cheech and Chong?

Barry's Boychik, Ehud the Stooge

How low can the weaselly appeaser go? This low:

How can you tell when the White House is in a panic? When they recruit a disgraced has-been Israeli politician to go after Netanyahu’s Iran message. It means they were unable to get President Shimon Peres to carry that bucket of water for them, which says a lot. After revelations that the U.S. has been misleading two of its most loyal friends in the region, Israel and Saudi Arabia, and conducting secret talks with Iran even before the latter picked “moderate” Hassan Rouhani – it’s not easy to find A-list Israelis to make fun of Bibi’s “hysteria.” 

So Olmert agreed to do the deed, and told a conference of security experts on Sunday that Netanyahu’s public criticism of the American nuclear deal with Iran was provocative and counterproductive. 

Netanyahu, you’ll recall, said the deal with Iran was an “historic mistake” and Israel is not bound by it. 

This means that no matter how much good will Rouhani is getting from Obama and the EU gang – Israel could up and bomb the plants overnight, any night. And, considering the Saudis’ mood about Obama these days – the IAF could fly through Saudi airspace unmolested. Why, the royal band would be playing Hatikva as the Israelis fly above (you don’t want them to play the Saudi anthem, because it could interfere with the mission). 

Olmert said he, too, had disagreements with Obama, but always made sure to voice them in private. 

Bibi’s response was that in contrast to “others,” when it came to the security of Israeli citizens “I will not be silent.”...

If that's "hysteria" then so is the cry "Never Again!"

Ain't That a Kitt in the Head: An O-Care "Santa Baby"

I've updated Mark Steyn's Song of the Week to reflect the current predicament of untold millions of Americans:

Barry, baby,
Just slip some health care under the tree
For me.
They say the website is "fixed,"
Barry, baby,
So hurry and insure me today.

Barry, baby,
I hear it's very easy to do
At 2
Or even at 3 a.m.
Barry, baby, just hurry and insure me today.

Think of all the mess you've made.
Couldn't keep my health care, didn't make the grade.
Also lost my fav'rite doc.
I guess your words were empty talk.
(Boo doo bee doo)
 
Barry, baby, want what I had
And, really, that's not bad.
Why did you take it away?
Barry, honey, please give me back my health care today.

Barry, cutie,
Remember that "Yes We Can"?
Oh, man.
I didn't quite understand.
Barry, cutie, so hurry and insure me today.

Barry, baby, I would have voted for Mitt, a bit.
You lied to us the whole time.
Barry, baby, you fooled 'em so you'd rule 'em today.

Come on and exempt me, please.
You've done it for unions and the Pelosis.
You sure can do it if you try.
If they don't pay then why should I?
(Boo doo bee doo)

Barry, baby, forgot to tell you how it all goes--it blows.
I don't mean like a horn.
Barry, baby, and hurry and insure me today.

Hurry and insure me today.
Hurry...today.

Artie Erdogan Goes From Bad to Verse

Who says you can't be a sensitive soul and adore the sharia?:

Turkey’s prime minister has a poetry obsession. Barely a speech of his goes by without him quoting some. 

Back in his conservative democratic days, his favorite political slogan was a line of medieval Sufi verse: “Yaradılanı severim, Yaradan’dan ötürü” (“I love the created out of love for the Creator”). It was Islamic mystical love dressed up in modern secular clothes. Today he prefers the more belligerent stance of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, a mid-twentieth century poet and ideologist of a Turkish Islamic revival who dreamed of a generation of youngsters who would fight for “their religion . . . their hatred and their revenge.”  

But we’re not just talking about snippets of poetry here: the prime minister quotes much longer passages, too. At his party conference last autumn, he regaled tens of thousands of onlookers with several stanzas of a very long poem by a contemporary poet. And on his return from a tour of North Africa this summer, met at the airport by supporters as police in cities across the country tear-gassed youngsters protesting his government, he recited a lengthy excerpt from a poem by the author of Turkey’s national anthem.  

Why does he do it? One simple answer would be that it is just a sign of the high esteem in which poetry is held in Turkey. Ordinary Turks probably know more poetry than most Western arts graduates do. Turkey’s last prime minister, Bülent Ecevit, didn’t just quote poetry; he wrote it, too, as well as translating T.S. Eliot and Rabindranath Tagore into Turkish...

Hey, I can quote old T.S., too:

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. 

Senator Diane Feinstein Dares to Tell the Truth About the Threat Yet Posed by Al Qaeda

Unlike the denizens of the Obama White House, who have long claimed that Al Qaeda has been defanged and is no longer a threat, the Democratic senator begs to differ--a lot.

"Diversity" Enforcer Insp. Ricky Veerappan (The Cop Who Strong-Armed a Local Rabbi Into Giving the Boot to Anti-Jihad Activist Pam Geller) Gets a Big Deal "Peace" Tchotchke

Because that's how it rolls in these "diversity"-crazed precincts:

A Richmond Hill police officer was awarded a peace medallion last week.  

The YMCA of Greater Toronto awarded their highest honour of the year to York Regional Police Inspector Ricky Veerappan for building peace in the community and inspiring the lives of others.  

Since December 2004, the police inspector has volunteered hundreds of hours to York Regional Police’s Adopt a Mission Jamaican Project, a Missionaries of the Poor orphanage in Kingston, Jamaica. 

Insp. Veerappan has led fundraisers, food, toy and clothing drives to provide the necessities of life to children in the orphanage. His volunteerism, perseverance and dedication has received support from local and international community organizations...

Clearly the inspector, who heads up what is euphemistically known as an "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Bureau" (shudder; in Saudi Arabia, the EDI Bureau is called the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice), does a lot of good. But that doesn't mitigate the bad he does by acting as the muscle for those who understand "peace" in the sharia and/or Islamist sense of the word. Which is to say the peace and quiet that will be in place once everyone (especially uppity, mouthy Jewish broads like Pamela Geller) expunges "alien" notions about free speech being pivotal to a free society and no longer complains about control freaks who demonize our most crucial freedom because it supposedly encourages "hate" and/or "blasphemy." (BTW, whatever happened to the complaint Geller launched against Little Ricky? Has it gone anywhere? Or, more likely, has it been buried forever?)

Good job, Inspector Ricky! Because of your stalwart efforts, the peace the "diversity" busybodies seek can be seen, tantalizingly, just over the horizon.

FYI

Sorry for the recent silence. My beloved retriever--he turned nine the other week--is extremely ill, and likely won't make it (it's his heart). It was all very sudden. One minute he was his normal happy, hyper-energetic self; the next he was down on the floor and unable to move. I'm too upset right now to be coherent, so I hope you'll understand if I take a little break.

He's the best dog in the world, and we're all reeling over this dreadful and unexpected turn of events.

Bad Move

After an 18 month absence, Israel is set to rejoin what is laughingly known as the UN "Human Rights" Council. At the moment, such paragons of liberty as China, Cuba and Saudi Arabia are at the fore of the body, acting as official arbiters of "human rights" in this world. That fact alone tells you practically everything you need to know about this farcical body. Add to that its endemic Zionhass and Israel's move to rejoin the jackals makes no sense whatsoever.

Easily, Cunningly, Purposefully

How the Muslim Brotherhood Dupes the West