Obama Will Ask for Election Replay Due to Sandy?

COMMENTARY |On October 28^th, while meteorologists were warning everyone about the impending storm Sandy, I tweeted what I thought was a facetious remark:

“Wanna’ bet Obama extends voting if he doesn’t get enough (early) votes?

Right now, after the terrible storm, I’m flabbergasted to hear media pundits speculating about the possibility, as does Indiana’s WSBT-TV.   So far the conversation about a delayed election hasn’t moved beyond the chattering classes. 

Mainstream news outlets like ABC and USA Today cite historical and legal precedent that infers there would be no electoral delays. 

However, the November 6 election is balanced on a knife edge, and you have to think campaign managers, especially on the Democratic side, are searching for reasons not to talk about the economy or Benghazi or the “fiscal cliff.”

Don’t think for a minute that raising the issue would be extensively ridiculed.    We live in an era of reality TV, an era where TV news organizations openly flaunt their partisanship and routinely blend news into a potpourri of questionable “facts” and biased opinion. 

Who hasn’t heard some version of the question asked by PolicyMic:  “Can Hurricane Sandy Help Obama Win Election 2012?”   It’s only a short leap to an apoplectic New Jersey voter shrieking into a CNN camera:

“How could I vote when my iPhone battery is still dead?”

Stormwise, the political tectonics are shifting toward the president.  President Obama has ready photo ops as he tours inundated New Jersey with Governor Chris Christie.

Even Fox News, not noted for liberal editorial opinion, found it necessary to harmonize with liberal media in underscoring Christie’s praise of President Obama’s response to Hurricane Sandy. 

The hard facts of the matter are that the storm will cut down on voting in two states President Obama is presumed to have in the bag.  In New York State, President Obama leads Romney by 26 points, according to Real Clear Politics.  The vote in blue state New Jersey also heavily favors the president.

Yet, a diminished voting turnout due to Hurricane Sandy would be a convenient political red herring for the hard core Democratic base.   But only if President Obama loses the election in 2012 and Romney becomes America’s new president.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benghazi Will Speak for Itself in Tonight’s Debate - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Benghazi Will Speak for Itself in Tonight’s Debate - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

After weeks of listening to Obama administration officials blame an anti-Islamic video, Americans find out there were no protests, little security, and no escape for the victims of the attacks. Perhaps the most damning of yesterday's accounts came from Time Magazine's Steven Sotloff, who interviewed the guards present when swarms of Islamic fighters blasted through the compound.

Foreign Policy Reduced to Bumper Sticker Wars - Yahoo! News

Foreign Policy Reduced to Bumper Sticker Wars - Yahoo! News

The next president will be able to claim a foreign policy "mess we inherited," a fact that hasn't gone unnoticed by experts in the foreign policy world. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Stanford University senior fellow Fouad Adjami scathingly criticizes President Obama as a man with an "affectation of worldliness" beneath which lies "a calculating politician with a superficial knowledge."

Hollywood Launches Enviro-Missile Against Natural Gas Drilling - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Hollywood Launches Enviro-Missile Against Natural Gas Drilling - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

The ideal intellectual target of the anti-fracking campaigns is the wealthy urbanite or celebrity who worries neither about transportation nor home heating bills. Think Yoko Ono or actor Matt Damon, roughly equal in wealth and privilege, and determined to convince "the masses" of the evils of energy beneath the surface.

Last week, we sold our house in a down market, moving from Pennsylvania to New York. There were not enough silver linings to make up for the asset loss but one of them was a tremendous savings in home heating costs.

Our Pennsylvania house was heated with oil, and even with our energy-efficient boiler, our winter energy costs were four times higher than the average monthly cost for natural gas heating of our New York house. Our annual energy use cost average on our new house was provided by National Grid, which serves this New York area.
According to the environmental evangelicals of Hollywood, I'm supposed to militate against my own self-interest to further the media interests of Hollywood types who expiate their energy guilt in money-making political activist films.
Damon portrays a gas company environmental criminal in a new anti-fracking film called "Promised Land," set for a January release, according to IMDb. Damon's environmentally sinful character solicits drilling rights in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale and later experiences a spiritual transformation into an angel of "green" pietism.

Factbox: ‘itsoknoproblembro’ Toolkit Could Be Big Problem for Iranian Hackers - Yahoo! News

Factbox: ‘itsoknoproblembro’ Toolkit Could Be Big Problem for Iranian Hackers - Yahoo! News

Today, the Wall Street journal reported new Iranian attacks on Capital One Financial Corporation and BB&T Corporation. The latest hack attacks on American banking followed last month's intrusions into PNC, Wells-Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America, reported in Mail Online. This silent war­­­ could turn into a shooting war if Iran's government is proven to be behind continuing and damaging attacks. Yet, "plausible deniability" is characteristic of computer warfare. Where does a government draw the line between malicious mischief and open warfare? Consider some relevant facts:

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has frequently warned of a "cyber Pearl Harbor." Stars and Stripes also detailed a litany of known intrusions into "chemical, water and electrical plants, as well as public transportation control software."

Prolexic Technologies identified the latest attacks as stemming from the sophisticated "itsoknoproblembro" toolkit. The ironically named hacking method could indeed pose special problems for version 1.0 security systems, according to Softpedia's Eduard Kovacs.

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Not Too Late To Turn Back Now

President Obama's latest trope is hilarious, borrowed from a 70s pop song about a guy who has lost his love and can't return to her.  Obama has borrowed the phrase without regard for copyright, and holds it out as if it were an original stroke of brilliance, then he tried to spin his election as some sort of inevitability.  Under Obama's misguided "leadership," we've gone so far over the borderline that we cannot "turn back now" as we approach:

• the fiscal cliff
• conflagration in the Middle East
• massive debt and the ensuing threat of further credit rating decline
• a gutted military
• a national welfare state
• abrogations of the U.S. Constitution
• lies, deceptions, coverups

The list goes on.  But the fact is we DO have time to turn back now, and the moment is propitious.    It's important to seize the day.  Romney's counter-slogan should be Carpe Diem, in the way he snatched the first debate, exposing Obama as the bumbling little wretch he is without a teleprompter & and compliant media.

We have only a month to go before we get the chance to oust the Great Deceivers who lied about the terrorist attacks and the murders of our embassy personnel, who covered up donor scandals, fast & furious revelations, and who know what else, and in their latest incantation doctored the unemployment figures retroactively to benefit Obama & the DNC. 

The time to act is now.  Romney is an incredibly brilliant man of integrity, a man of the center-right who can lead this country out of its economic miasma and back to its core values.  Let's do it.  We're on the verge, staring down into the abyss, and with courage we will prevail.

School Vouchers Would Resolve Chicago’s Teacher Strike Issues - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Great timing on the Chicago teacher's strike!




With many parents longing for the first weeks of school so as to enjoy a few uninterrupted hours, the Chicago Teacher's Union knew precisely when to strike the blow that would put the most pressure on Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the school administration to cave in.





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Israel Evacuates West Bank Outpost - WSJ.com

Israel Evacuates West Bank Outpost - WSJ.com

The link above is to an article in the Wall Street Journal.  I didn't write that (ha-ha) and I didn't write the following challenge to the removal of Orthodox Israelis from the town of Migron.  Not only did I learn a new word (Fakensteins), but the writer also forced me to remember Ariel Sharon, a man much vilified by the left but admired by all those who consider that today's "Fakenstinians" were not around in 1967, nor very much in evidence 2500 years ago in Judea and Samaria.  Anyway, here's what one guy thought: 

1. It has never been proven that the land on which Migron was built is owned by an Fakenstinians. No one has proven or even offered to prove that the land is owned by anyone. The so called legal experts in the Israeli government base their opinion of the Supreme Court decision that any land not owned by individual Israelis or by the State is considered to be owned by Fakenstinians.

2. Migron was authorized by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and built with the approval of the Israeli government

3. Although most nations consider Israeli town built in Judea and Samaria to be illegal, there are many well written legal opinions that conclude just the opposite including a recent report by the Levy Commission that grants Israel the right all of the land it won in the defensive war of 1967. This is land captured from Jordan who illegally occupied the land after the 1947 war until 1967. An excellent book entitled “The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel under International Law” by Howard Grief a noted international law expert, gives ample reason why Judea and Samaria belong to the State of Israel.

4. Although Israel agreed under pressure from the Obama Administration to a ten month moratorium on building in Judea and Samaria to facilitate a return to peace talks, Fakenstinian President Mahmoud Abbas, refused to negotiate during that time.



This forced evacuation of Jewish people from our own land is a disgrace, and points out how spineless our current Prime Minster is. He worries more about the opinion of the rest of the world than he does about the people who voted his government into office.



The Prime Minister recently blocked legislation that would have annexed all of Judea and Samaria to the State of Israel rather than leaving under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense. He chose to table the bill with threats that any of his party members who supported it would lose their ministerial appointments. Had the legislation passed, which it surely would have done, had it come to a vote, then evacuations of towns like Migron would never happen.



The Prime Minster has also decided to ignore the aforementioned Levy Report, which gives legal credence to Israel's right to the land it won in the 1967 Six Day War.



In spite of the failures of this government the people of Israel, and particularly the people who have the gumption and tenacity to live in Judea and Samaria will prevail in Jewish people occupying our land. This will happen only because the birth rate of the people who live in Judea and Samaria is several times greater than those who would give away our land in a nanosecond.



Never forget that G-d made a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that this land belongs to the Jewish people, and in spite of the fact that we were banished from our land for almost 2,000 years, we, the Jewish people are occupying our land, and we will continue to do so. The G-d that I believe in is good on His promises, and no matter what our Prime Minister and the other nations of the world think or do, we will prevail, and we will move toward the coming of Mosiach (Messiah), and humanity finally realizing that G-d is the only power that runs the world.

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Factbox: Freight Cars Ride to the Rescue of Oil Companies - Yahoo! News

Factbox: Freight Cars Ride to the Rescue of Oil Companies - Yahoo! News

The latest Daily Fuel Gauge Report shows an average price of mid-octane fuel of $3.97 per gallon. Things aren't looking good for the 16-wheelers, either, with diesel at $4.08 per gallon. The problem, we are told, is not an insufficient supply of crude, but bottlenecks at the refineries. Projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline would have helped, but oil companies are turning to old-fashioned methods in bringing crude to the refineries on the east, west, and southern coasts.






Norway's Statoil ASA is the latest company to lease rail cars for crude oil transport, according to a company press release. The race to get oil to the refineries gets added impetus by Hurricane Isaac, which caused shutdowns and pullbacks at Gulf Coast refineries. Here are a number of important facts about U.S. refinery operation in the current environment:

‘2016 – Obama’s America’ and the Ostrich Syndrome - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

‘2016 – Obama’s America’ and the Ostrich Syndrome - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com


Referring to the documentary's number eight position, the AP quotes box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian who says it's "extremely rare for a documentary to break into the top 10."




Among the clips offered by Dinesh D'Souza and co-director John Sullivan is a screen graphic wherein the upheaval in the Middle East results in a "United States of Islam," presumably led by an Iran seeking nuclear weapons.



The idea of a caliphate stretching across country borders is not a far stretch.

Do NOT steal this woman¿s towel! Heavily armed and bikini-clad female Israeli soldiers ¿mingle¿ with Tel Aviv beachgoers | Mail Online

Do NOT steal this woman¿s towel! Heavily armed and bikini-clad female Israeli soldiers ¿mingle¿ with Tel Aviv beachgoers | Mail Online

De rigeur beachware in Israel...  I like it just fine.  It's an accessory.

Exercise and Diet Discipline May Be Painful but Not as Painful as Heart Attack and Stroke - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Exercise and Diet Discipline May Be Painful but Not as Painful as Heart Attack and Stroke - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Obama Administration Appeasers Struck Dumb as Morsi Calls for Release of Blind Sheikh

You've heard, haven't you?  The new Egyptian president-elect Mohammed Morsi wants the United States to release the "Blind Sheikh" from prison.  Or maybe you were too young to have heard of the Islamist potentate Omar Abdel-Rahman who spearheaded the World Trade Center bombing.

No!  Not the one that murdered and incinerated 3,000 Americans, the one before that, where only six people were killed, but a hundred injured.  Did I say only 6 people?  It goes to show you how numb and how accepting we have become to Islamic violence. 

As if it were a mere trifle.   But the 1993 attack was apparently not enough of a wake-up call for President Clinton, who refused to take Osama Bin Laden into custody when the Sudanese offered him up on a platter.

Sheikh Omar-Rahman, you may know, had family connections with bin Laden and was the mastermind of the 1993 attacks, among other accomplishments.  The BBC quoted Bruce Pomper, a broker in the World Trade Center, after the attack.

"It felt like an airplane hit the building," said Pomper.

Hello!  Airplane!  Anyone home?   Aside from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, I mean.  But don't be angry, the new Islamic Muslim Brotherhood, headed by Mohammed Morsi, last week announced to the world it has moderated its views in an inaugural message of tolerance to women and Coptic Christians in Egypt.

Morsi forgot to send a message of tolerance to Israel.  Nor did he make any statement in reference to the decades old peace treaty signed by Anwar Sadat.  You do remember Sadat?    The Egyptian leader who courageously  broke with fellow Arabs to sign a peace treaty with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin? 

 Of course,  Egypt's Anwar Sadat was assassinated shortly thereafter but what better way to show moderation and tolerance by the Muslim Brotherhood and affiliated Islamo-Nazis than to murder and infidel president?

There is good reason to think the Obama administration is buying into the idea of a moderated Muslim Brotherhood.   An administration that loudly called for Mubarak to step down is suddenly cowed into silence at Morsi's insulting and offensive call for Abdel-Rahman's release.


It's not as if Morsi's call for the release of the Blind Sheikh came as a surprise.  A pro Blind Sheikh demonstration at the U.S. Embassy in March of this year provided a clue, but the Obama administration is so anxious to curry favor with Islamic militants that it has looked the other way and tolerated the humiliation in silence.

Hillary Clinton's State Department hasn't yet told Morsi to shut his face, and that is a statement in itself.  There is an election coming in November and the whole lot of appeasers need to be booted out of office:  Hillary, Valerie, Barack and Joe;  Eric, Tim, and Benedict Bernanke, too.

Obama-Holder: The Odor of Fast & Furious Corruption Hangs Over White House

Obama has intervened in the Fast and Furious investigation to protect Attorney General Holder who will protect him when the 2012 election explodes into deception, illegal activity, and some level of violence.




A president with integrity would have fired Holder, or at least ordered him to release the documents that Chairman Issa wants. We are not talking about national security secrets here.



As time goes by, it becomes clearer to everyone that President Obama has a particular kind of closed-end mentality. Key people may leave the administration but they are never fired.



The only person ever to have been "fired" is Samantha Powers, the Obama foreign policy advisor and architect of R2P, who called Hillary Clinton a "monster." That was plainly embarrassing, but Powers' position was unpaid, and who gave a damn about a female aide at that early point in the administration?



The Obama administration is all about image, not reality or truthfulness, for the stonewalling associated with Fast and Furious is precisely an attempt to present a view of the administration which is precisely opposite of what it really is.



Obama can leak when it comes to Stuxnet or the use of drones or the Seal Team attack on Bin Laden, but the lid is iron-tight on a routine investigation of Eric Holder's justice bureaucracy.



Don't we need to know the degree to which America's top cop suborned the important mission of the national criminal enforcement agencies?



Don't we have sons like Brian Terry who are motivated to serve the interests of national security and must not be sacrificed to the giant egos and hidden agendas of politically motivated and appointed bureacrats?



Fast and Furious stonewalling has all the appearance of a rat's nest. The contemptible Holder is most interested in covering up the facts of the Fast and Furious operation with its 140,000 pages of documents.



There's something horribly rotten there, something dark. The stink of it hangs over the White House like a noxious gas.

Blog: Issa drops 'bombshell' wiretap applications letter that makes Holder out to be a liar#.T-8Z7TSA3dc.twitter

Blog: Issa drops 'bombshell' wiretap applications letter that makes Holder out to be a liar#.T-8Z7TSA3dc.twitter

Obama has intervened in the Fast and Furious investigation to protect Attorney General Holder who will protect him when the 2012 election explodes into deception, illegal activity, and some level of violence. 

A president with integrity would have fired Holder, or at least ordered him to release the documents that Chairman Issa wants.  We are not talking about national security secrets here.

As time goes by, it becomes clearer to everyone that President Obama has a particular kind of closed-end mentality.    Key people may leave the administration but they are never fired.  

The only person ever to have been "fired" is Samantha Powers, the Obama foreign policy  advisor  and architect of R2P, who called Hillary Clinton a "monster."   That was plainly embarrassing, but Powers' position was unpaid, and who gave a damn about a  female aide at that early point in the administration? 

The Obama administration is all about image, not reality or truthfulness, for the stonewalling associated with Fast and Furious is precisely  an attempt to present a view of the administration which is precisely opposite of what it really is.

Obama can leak when it comes to Stuxnet or the use of drones or the Seal Team attack on Bin Laden, but the lid is iron-tight on a routine investigation of Eric Holder's justice bureacracy.

 Don't we need to know the degree to which America's top cop suborned the important mission of the national criminal enforcement agencies?

 Don't we have sons like Brian Terry who are motivated to serve the interests of national security and must not be sacrificed to the giant egos and hidden agendas of politically motivated and appointed bureacrats?

Fast and Furious stonewalling has all the appearance of a rat's nest.  The contemptible Holder is most interested in covering up the facts of the Fast and Furious operation with its 140,000 pages of documents.

There's something horribly rotten there, something dark and unholy.  The stink of it, as it wafts across the White House lawn, can be measured by a gas chromatograph but it will continue to stink.

Will Obama’ Lapdogs in Liberal Media Bail Him Out on Fast & Furious?

Our local newspaper, the Pocono Record, is a dead issue. A resurrection will not be forthcoming, as the managers of the news in it are guilty of assistive suicide. There’s plenty of news in the Pocono area, but instead of reporting it the local rag is more concerned with buttressing President Obama’s campaign chances.


Case in point is the clumsy daily political cartoon which today features a guy with a squirt gun squirting water at an Obama figure with deeply furrowed brow. The squirt gun label says “Fast and Furious Investigation.”

The not-too-clever caption reads: “Why aren’t you melting down?” Get it? Tough president, weak prosecution of an unimportant issue, thy think.

Yet, Border Patrol agent Brian Terry bought the farm with bullets fired from one of the big burners Eric Holder walked across the Mexican border to the Zetas. Coinciding with this view is another Obama-Holder viewpoint that Brian Terry’s family do not exist, and have no right to find out who gave the orders which led to their son’s death.

It’s offensive; it offends all of us who can see how this reckless and pathetic administration operates.

So if you’re retarded and need further translation, you have only to look at the editorial beside it on the “opinion” page. The editorial is a reprint from the LA Times.

The LA Times urges Congress to compromise with the Obama administration to avoid an Eric Holder contempt citation from the entire House. Stupid, you are thinking. The “compromise” has no meaning because you either produce the documents or you don’t.

How do you “compromise?” Do you give Issa’s committee half a sheet of paper? Eric Holder has already done that, after months of lying that the Fast and Furious Operation even existed.

Why the LA Times? One reason is that the paper is losing money so fast they can’t afford to hire a real political columnist. Therefore, the Pocono Record must copy from the most liberal newspaper in the nation, one that is published straight from the heartland of the California Social Republic.

It’s somehow fitting that a lame liberal left newspaper which tells lies would back a lame liberal left political administration which tells lies.

Will Obama Administration Aid Eurozone Bailout? - Yahoo! News

Will Obama Administration Aid Eurozone Bailout? - Yahoo! News ........Discover Yahoo! With Your Friends Explore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control. ..To get started, firstLogin with Facebook. ..YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY1-0 of nullprev next ... ....This story comes from the Yahoo! Contributor Network, where individuals publish their unique perspectives on some of the world’s most popular websites. Do you have a story to tell? Become a Yahoo! contributor....Will Obama Administration Aid Eurozone Bailout? ..By Anthony Ventre .PostsWebsite .By Anthony Ventre | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Tue, Jun 5, 2012....Email Share3Print...... COMMENTARY | Diverse cultures with different political and social appetites cannot be made to dance to the same economic tune. For more than two years, eurozone officials have been dithering, holding meetings, giving speeches, intimations, observations and obfuscations. Yet, the financial crisis has gotten steadily worse. Zacks reports the G-7 finance ministers and central bank officials are holding a remedial teleconference today, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke worries about the drag on the U.S. economy. Markets might move a little as confidence is again temporarily bulwarked, but the sun will rise next day on the same failed empire of promises. Let's face facts. Greece has spent itself into a coma with debt last year at 165 percent of GDP and voted for more debt and abrogation of contracts this year in the form of Alexis Ysipras, leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left.

The ‘Road to Damascus’ Is Not Road to Peace - Yahoo! News

The ‘Road to Damascus’ Is Not Road to Peace - Yahoo! News:

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COMMENTARY | "I think we may be beginning to see the wheels coming off this bus," said U.N Ambassador Susan Rice after a Security Council Meeting yesterday.

In Syria, months of queasy diplomacy among Arab League, European Union, and U.N. emissaries had come to nothing. Rice's dire warning appeared today in the Wall Street Journal.

Responsibility to Protect or "R2P" is the U.N. policy invoked as justification for the NATO bombing of Libya, where there were no large-scale massacres of civilians, as there are today in Syria. R2P assumes a moral dimension that is perhaps lacking in the Syrian crisis.

Ambassador Rice's bleak outlook followed days after an Associated Press report that there were 32 children "under the age of ten" among the 90 persons massacred last week in Houla.

To excuse failure of Syria policy, we emphasize the well-publicized diplomatic factors that argue for inertia. Syria could implement the peace deal it abrogated last month. The U.N. Security Council could impose sanctions, with nasty letters to follow.

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Obama’s Economic Attacks on Romney Were Badly Timed - Yahoo! Search Results

Obama’s Economic Attacks on Romney Were Badly Timed - Yahoo! Search Results:

COMMENTARY | President Obama may have a chance at a second term, but it won't be because of his economic record. So why would he focus on Mitt Romney's record as governor of Massachusettsone day before the release of a disappointing May jobs report?

Surely, the White House had some indication of the May unemployment figures in advance. The image of Obama as a deft politician seems to be overshadowed by bad timing and poor strategic advice.

President Obama's assertion yesterday that Massachusetts ranked 47 out of 50 states in job creation when Romney was governor was carried by several media outlets, including Reuters. Appearing at the bankrupt Solyndra plant, Romney countered that the Massachusetts unemployment rate tumbled under his governorship from 5.6 percent to 4.7 percent, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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