LINKFEST 06-09-2010

OBAMA CATCH-ALL

It's working flawlessly: President Obama's outreach to Muslim countries

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/06/tolerance-willingness-to-recognize-and.html

+How's that whole "Hope and change" thing working, Your Awesomeness?

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No worse friend, no better enemy

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gaffney060210.php3

+This HAS to be deliberate.

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Who Does President Obama Really Hate?

http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2010/06/09/who_does_president_obama_really_hate

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Joe Biden's Prediction About To Come True

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/06/joe-bidens-prediction-about-to-come.html

+This wouldn't have happened if McCain had been President.

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The Alien in the White House

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703302604575294231631318728.html

+He may be a citizen, he is the President... but I do not think he sees himself as AMERICAN. For he certainly is not putting America's interests first...



LAMESTREAM MEDIA

Iranian Caught Smuggling Arms Over Canadian Border

http://minx.cc/?post=302350

+Media reports? Crickets. Now, if it had been a white male conservative...

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Max Blumenthal Swings Big at IDF, Misses Bigger

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/06/max-blumenthal-swings-big-at-idf-misses.html

+Lying piece of kapo vermin.

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Of course: Reuters cropping flotilla passengers’ weapons out of photos; Update: LGF broke the story

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/07/of-course-reuters-cropping-flotilla-passengers-weapons-out-of-photos/

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Reuters won't admit its unethical behavior

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/reuters_wont_admit_its_unethic.html

+No wonder its nickname is "Al Reuters"

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No Country For Old Hens

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/06/08/no-country-for-old-hens/

+Quote: "We’re not interested in gatekeepers and packaged narratives any more. We believe in the importance of an honest media that simply reports the news and allows us to make up our own minds. We’re out of patience with blackouts anddoctored photographs." Amen.

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The Consequences of Media Failure: Demopaths Setting the Global Agenda

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-consequences-of-media-failure-demopaths-setting-the-global-agenda/?singlepage=true

+How much longer can we afford such useful idiots being so utterly blind and gullible?



CLIMATE CHANGE / GREEN

Climate Alarmism Takes Off in a New Direction

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/climate_alarmism_takes_off_in.html

Quote: "The simple (historical) answer, of course, is that catastrophes sell newspapers. William Randolph Hearst may have given formal birth to 'yellow journalism,' but he wasn't its only practitioner."

and embedded link:

159 Years of Climate Alarmism at The New York Times

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/01/24/159-years-of-climate-alarmism-at-the-new-york-times/



OBAMACARE / MEDICOUP

Health care rationing Obama believes in begins!

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff060910.php3



IMMIGRATION

El cirujano pulls out his scalpel

http://babalublog.com/2010/06/el-cirujano-pulls-out-his-scalpel/

+Perhaps we should ask the left how their fellow travelers in Cuba handle illegals.



NATIONAL SECURITY

Satellite Photos Support Testimony That Iraqi WMD Went to Syria

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/satellite-photos-support-testimony-that-iraqi-wmd-went-to-syria/?singlepage=true

+It won't matter. The narrative has been written. We could have notarized confessions from Saddam and others, and the left wouldn't buy it.

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Nuking Our Defense: America Exposed

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/nuking_our_defense_america_exp.html

+I believe Obama is deliberately setting us up.

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Goo-Goo Genocidaires: The Blood Is Dripping From Their Hands

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/06/08/goo-goo-genocidaires-the-blood-is-dripping-from-their-hands/

+I'm also posting this as a standalone, must-read item. I think it's that important. Change a name here and there, a couple of years, and we could be reading about today.



TEA PARTY / CONSTITUTION / REAL CONSERVATISM / FOUNDERS

Repeal the 17th Amendment?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Repeal-the-17th-Amendment_-95804129.html

+Quote: "Repealing the 17th is a noble but quixotic goal. However, by focusing on the damage that amendment did, the Tea Partiers have drawn much-needed attention toward the problems that plague us."

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Free to Choose

http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/06/09/free_to_choose



ECONOMY

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282190930932412.html

+Liberals economic illiterates? Shocker....

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The Road To Serfdom, Condensed

http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/007190.php



THOSE PEACEFUL, ON THE UP-AND-UP, HONEST, ETHICAL, PATRIOTIC LIBERALS

Brave New Scams

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/brave_new_scams.html

+In the service of "the cause" there is nothing that is disallowed.

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Another Going-Away Party

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjI3ZmNlMDVjOTNkNWRkYzAzMGU2NWExNDI4NTBjZDc=

+Corruption in democrat-land? Say it ain't so, Joe!



ISRAEL & MIDDLE EAST

Alice Walker: Stop Telling Lies About Israel

http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/06/06/alice-walker-my-heart-is-breaking-too-stop-the-lies-about-israel/?singlepage=true

+And these people were peace activists??

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Can Israel Survive A Second Obama Term?

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/06/can-israel-survive-second-obama-term.html

+Probably not. He's already all but giving the green light to attack Israel...

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An irrational, obscene hatred

http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=177768

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Indispensable

http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/35688/indispensable/

+Israel cannot win in the world's opinion, no matter what. Hamas hides weapons in hospitals? Who cares. And Michael Oren raises the legitimate point: If Israel gets damned no matter what, why care what the world thinks and just do what is necessary.

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Jews in Oz: How Did We Get Here, Dorothy?

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/08/jews-in-oz-how-did-we-get-here-dorothy/

+Had a conversation with a woman at work yesterday; she's being "pushed to become a Republican" because of what's happening.



CULTURE WARS (VERY BROAD CATCH-ALL)

Yet Another Stalin Sighting

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/yet_another_stalin_sighting.html

+I repeat the plaint: What has happened to our country?

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Bolton!

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTcwNzg0NTExNGY3NDY1NWQ2MzQ1NTUwMjkxMGYzYzQ=

+Bolton / Palin 2012. I like it.



VDH, BOLTON, WILLIAMS, SOWELL, ELDER, ETC. - A CLASS BY THEMSELVES

Bolton: Letting Israel hang

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/letting_israel_hang_F5zJfknQYINIa2q0tBMC1K

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Sowell: Random Thoughts

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell060810.php3

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VDH: Should Jews Apologize to Turkey or Go Back to Poland and Germany?

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/should-jews-apologize-to-turkey/?singlepage=true

+No mention of Turkey; no mention of North Korea's sinking a boat; no mention of Russia setting pirates adrift, or China slaughtering Muslim Uighirs... why? Because the response would be to "kiss our asses".

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Can Black Americans Afford Obama?

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/06/09/can_black_americans_afford_obama