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MY SAY: YOM KIPPUR 2012 AND 1973

In observance of Yom Kippur there will be no postings tomorrow.

At sunset this evening Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) will commence. We the Jewish people pray and repent and reflect on who will be written in the “Book of Life” and who in the “Book of Death”, as well as “who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried … who will be degraded and who will be exalted.”

We should also reflect on Yom Kippur of 1973:

As Jews throughout the world were fasting and praying The combined forces of Arab/Moslem Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Tunisia launched a surprise attack against Israel. Over one million troops against a nation whose sole crime was that it is a Jewish nation.

After terrible losses, 3,000 dead and an equal number injured, Israel regained its footing and won the war, which is when all the harpies in the United Nations and in our State Department shrieked for a cease fire. They are forever condemned to eternal degradation.

To all Israel’s friends and supporters who buck the prevailing political correctness and stand with Israel and the Jewish people, we will pray that you be inscribed in The Book of Life….may you rest and live in harmony.

RSK

24/7 NEWS AND BUZZ

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EDITORIAL: Mr. Obama, stop praising Islam
EDITORIAL: Mr. Obama, stop praising Islam
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China’s first aircraft carrier makes debut
Associated Press
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
News
China’s first aircraft carrier makes debut
China formally entered its first aircraft carrier into service on Tuesday, underscoring its ambitions to be a leading Asian naval power, although the ship is not expected to carry a full complement of planes or be ready for combat for some time. Read more…

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Hillary needs to take blame for Libya debacle
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Monday, September 24, 2012
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Remember that Hillary Clinton ad in the 2008 presidential campaign, about who we would want answering that phone call to the Oval Office at 3 a.m.? Now we can assume she would answer the same way she’s handled this Libyan debacle: with weakness, prevarication, and stunning misjudgment. Read more…

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France bans ‘father’ and ‘mother’ from documents
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JAMES DELINGPOLE: THE QUEEN ASKS “WHY COULDN’T WE ARREST ABU HAMZA?” *****

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100182499/the-queen-why-couldnt-we-arrest-abu-hamza/

Like many razor-sharp 86-year-olds, the Queen must spend an awful lot of time wondering what the hell became of the Britain she knew in her youth, and of all those commonsense values and that basic decency which saw us through trials like the Second World War.

Unlike the rest of her generation, she is constitutionally prevented from saying this aloud. But just occasionally her private views slip out. And when they do, my how you wish she was actually running the country herself rather than leaving it to idiots like her useless fifth cousin Dave.

Take her views on the evil, hook-handed terrorist Abu Hamza. According to the BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner (himself a victim of the kind of Islamist violence Hamza so heartily advocates) the Queen thinks that he’s a bad thing. So much so that she once lobbied the then Home Secretary to have him put away.

Gardner told the Today programme:

“She spoke to the Home Secretary at the time and said, ‘surely this man must have broken some laws, my goodness, why is he still at large?’

“Because he was conducting these radical activities, he called Britain a toilet, he was incredibly anti-British, and yet he was sucking up money from this country for a long time. He was a huge embarrassment to Muslims, who condemned him.”

The Queen was right, of course.

DANIEL GREENFIELD….NO BIZ LIKE GOVERNMENT BIZ

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As the great anchor of the election hits bottom, plummeting past feeder fish, political plankton and eyeless creatures that lurk in the depths of MSNBC and Current TV to rise during election season to lecture us on how angry we should be, the theme of the season is that the choice between Romney and Obama is the choice between big corporations and big government.

Most people have already been primed by decades of songs and shows to pick the right answer to this one. We know that corporate boardrooms are full of menacing characters who are always laundering money, dumping toxic waste on children’s playgrounds and plotting to blot out the sun. And then they temporarily step out to work in government for a few years before returning to do their sun-blotting duties.

A choice between big corporations and big government is a choice of choices and no choice at all. There isn’t much good that can be said about corporations, just as there isn’t much good that can be said about any branch of the government. The difference is that you have a choice whether to deal with a corporation or not. Unless the government mandates that you buy health insurance from one of them; because most cases where people are forced to do business with a corporation is due to government regulations.

Imagine a big corporation. A really big corporation that monopolizes as much as it can and compels you to buy its low quality overpriced services and imprisons you if you refuse to pay for them whether you use them or not.

Now imagine a CEO who has no accountability, who cannot be put on trial for his actions while serving in that position, who picks and chooses which laws to follow, who breaks the law, causes thousands of deaths, lies repeatedly and wants to spend another four years doing it all over again.

We are all shareholders of the corporation of government. A corporation whose board and CEO we can vote for, but the corporation also has a variety of undemocratic governing mechanisms that make those votes much less meaningful. And the biggest problem is that many of the shareholders are part of blocs that make money from the current unsustainable practices of the corporation and vote in bad boards that rob us blind so they can make more money.

WATCH THE GLAZOV GANG: PERSECUTION OF A FILMMAKER

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On this week’s Glazov Gang, Josh Brewster, Leon Weinstein and Dwight Schultz gathered to discuss The Persecution of a Filmmaker. The discussion focused on why U.S. law enforcement dragged the supposed filmmaker of the supposed film “Innocence of Muslims” out of his home shortly after midnight on Saturday, Sept. 15, on national television in front of the whole world. Is America, with Obama at the helm, now carrying out Islamic blasphemy laws? Below is Part II of a two part series. To see Part I, which dealt with To Release a Blind Sheik, click here.

HUMBERTO FONTOVA: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CELEBRATES TERRORIST CHE GUEVARA

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/humberto-fontova/u-s-government-celebrates-terrorist-che-guevara/print/ Just recently, the Environmental Protection Agency kicked-off its celebration of “Hispanic Heritage Month” with an e-mail message featuring Che Guevara along with his famous slogan, “Hasta la Victoria Siempre.” Let’s hope these U.S. civil servants were innocently unaware of some of Che Guevara’s other slogans: “The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!” “Against […]

P. DAVID HORNIK: OBAMA’S DANGEROUS STANCE ON ISRAEL’S SECURITY

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/obama%e2%80%99s-ominous-stance-on-israel%e2%80%99s-territorial-security/print/ In this election year President Obama has been quiet about the Palestinian issue. Rough treatment of Israel has continued, but mainly on the Iranian front—with a drumbeat of hollow promises as Iran keeps making nuclear progress, a series of security leaks harmful to Israel, disparaging remarks about Israel’s military capabilities from top administration officials, […]

THE WEEKLY JIHAD

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2012.09.24 (Hit, Iraq) – Four schoolchildren are disassembled by a Holy Warrior with a car full of explosives.
2012.09.23 (Bauchi, Nigeria) – A woman and a child at a church service are murdered by a Shahid suicide car bomber.
2012.09.23 (Baghdad, Iraq) – Terrorists bomb a mini-bus, killing three passengers.
2012.09.21 (Rada, Yemen) – Shiites storm a Sunni mosque and murder a cleric.
2012.09.21 (Nawa, Afghanistan) – Woman and children are among five people exterminated by Taliban bombers.
2012.09.21 (Sinai, Israel) – Terrorists shoot fire at a group of IDFsoldiers providing water to migrants, killing one.

DEROY MURDOCK: CITIZENS OR SUBJECTS? ****

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/328316/citizens-or-subjects-deroy-murdock

Citizens or subjects? That is the question.

Dueling videotapes of Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama suddenly have gripped the fall campaign. In broad strokes, they outline the candidates’ divergent worldviews.

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what,” Romney said of those who pay no income tax. Mother Jones magazine released Romney’s off-the-record comments, captured by a hidden camera at a Florida fundraiser last May. “There are 47 percent who are with him [Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.”

Romney wishes that he had answered more delicately a donor’s question on who would and would not support his candidacy. But Romney did highlight the 76.1 million Americans whose income tax is $0.00. Many of them also consider Big Government their great provider. Some feel squashed by a flat-tire economy that thumps along at 1.7 percent GDP growth. Others have become seduced by an ever-expanding state that caters to their every craving.

“Economic freedom is the only force that has consistently succeeded in creating sustained prosperity,” Romney wrote in Tuesday’s USA Today. “The dreamers and the entrepreneurs, not government, built this economy, and they can once again make it strong. My course for the American economy will encourage private investment and personal freedom. Instead of creating a web of dependency, I will pursue policies that grow our economy and lift Americans out of poverty.”

Romney envisions an enterprise model that would revitalize a nation of thriving, independent citizens.

Conversely, Obama sees government as the transmission that propels society. It sucks funds from the pocketbooks of the affluent, pumps them through the omniscient state, and injects them into the pockets of all sorts of people.

Obama said as much on October 14, 2008, when he told Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

It turns out that Obama was echoing his words from almost exactly ten years earlier. In a recently discovered recording of an October 19, 1998, speech at Loyola University, in Chicago, state senator Barack Obama said: “I think that what we’re going to have to do is somehow resuscitate the notion that government action can be effective at all. There has been a systematic, uh, I don’t think it’s too strong to call it propaganda campaign, uh, against the possibility of government action and its efficacy.”

He points to inefficiencies in Chicago’s housing authority and government schools. But then Obama adds: “I think the trick is figuring out ‘how do we structure government systems that pool resources and, hence, facilitate some redistribution?’ Because I actually believe in redistribution — at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody’s got a shot.”

Judging by President Obama’s policies, “a shot” did not mean the limited but reliable safety net that virtually every American favors, to care for the infirm and temporarily assist the distressed. Rather, “a shot” is a lifelong relationship between subjects and a government that satisfies their every need, like a feudal lord minding his vassals.

The Obama-Biden campaign website describes Julia, an imaginary woman whom government nurtures from infancy to retirement. At age 3, Julia is on Head Start. At 17, her high school consumes federal Race to the Top funds. At 18, the American Opportunity Tax Credit helps Julia finance college. At 22, Obamacare helps her remain on her parents’ health plan. At 25, Julia enjoys federal controls on student-loan interest rates. At 42, she scores a Small Business Administration Loan. At 65, she joins Medicare. And at 67, Julia collects Social Security and volunteers at a community garden.

For Obama, “a shot” does not mean a rifle delivering targeted assistance to, say, a penniless Harlem teenager requiring prenatal care. Instead, it’s a blunderbuss through which 31-year-old Georgetown Law School graduate Sandra Fluke can get free birth-control pills via her medical plan. So can every health-insured American female, regardless of income.

For Obama, “a shot” does not mean offering federal school lunches to relatively few needy students, but to every government-school pupil in Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. — and every state in 2014. Why? If all students eat subsidized lunches, poor ones will not feel stigmatized.

For Obama, “a shot” does not mean tailoring Food Stamps to people at or near the poverty level. He has not reversed previous rules that expanded eligibility from those at 130 percent of the poverty level to 200 percent. Some 46.7 million Americans now receive Food Stamps, up from 27.8 million in fiscal year 2008, a 68 percent hike.

“It’s also an economic stimulus,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told MSNBC. He also bragged that the Obama administration boosted Food Stamp enrollment by “getting the word out about this program.”

Obama’s $833 billion stimulus allowed states to suspend the requirement that “able-bodied adults” (ages 18 to 39, without dependents) must work or receive training for at least 20 hours per week to keep receiving Food Stamps after three months. With that work rule placed on hold between April 2009 and October 2010, this particular segment of Food Stamp recipients shot up from 1.9 million in 2008 to 3.87 million in fiscal year 2010, a 103.7 percent increase.

For Obama, Washington should spend $447 billion on the Jobs for America Act to create, according to Moody’s Analytics, 1.9 million positions at $235,000 each. This is cheap compared to the $34.7 billion that the Department of Energy has committed to generate some 60,000 jobs at $578,000 each. A typical private-sector job consumes $62,757 in wages and benefits.

With the unemployment rate lodged above 8 percent for 43 months, Americans increasingly rely on Social Security disability. Its population has grown 16.1 percent, from 9.3 million in 2008 to 10.8 million last August.

And to underwrite this spending, Obama demands higher taxes on “millionaires and billionaires” who earn as little as $200,000. He borrows from China to finance his $5.4 trillion, 50.8 percent increase in the national debt. And Ben Bernanke greases the presses to print another $40 billion per month.

This pageant of big-government dependency and profligacy is largely but not entirely Obama’s doing. Many of these programs started decades ago, under Democratic and Republican rule. America is suffering largely due to twelve years of democratic socialism, under former President George W. Bush and now Obama. As the chart below shows (for a larger version, click here), in terms of real annual average growth in outlays, Bush — as big a socialist as the Republican Party ever has spawned — outspent his shamefully profligate father as well as Democrats Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Lyndon Baines Johnson outpaces Baby Bush, but not by very much (5.7 percent such growth for LBJ versus 4.9 percent for GWB).

JERRY GORDON: ON AHMADINEJAD… THERE HE GOES AGAIN…PERHAPS FOR THE LAST TIME

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/44056 A tip of the hat to Jack de Lowe Diminutive President Ahmadinejad held forth at a speech at UN General Assembly Rule of Law forum and in a press conference on Monday in Manhattan. The Israeli delegation walked out, while the US delegation stayed put – perhaps another display of the Obama’s engagement, label […]