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  1. I guess Wall Street is going to be a major focal point tomorrow.
    This sort of reminds me of when I was a kid and people worried alot in those days about nuclear war destroying the world.

  4. Drove from Seattle to Northern California today. Spoke with lots of Americans. People ARE paying attention to what’s happening. Have a particularly poignant story to share about a restaurant owner in Southern Oregon.

  5. Drove from Seattle to Northern California today. Spoke with lots of Americans. People ARE paying attention to what’s happening. Have a particularly poignant story to share about a restaurant owner in Southern Oregon.

  7. O’narcissist’s “sole legacy”:
    “*This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    “of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived,”.
    …-
    “Liberals buzz over brutal takedown of Obama”
    “In a new sign of President Obama’s troubles with his Democratic base, liberal bloggers and activists are buzzing over a new essay that is profoundly critical of Obama’s supposed betrayal of liberal ideals.
    The article is “What Happened to Obama?” by Emory University psychology professor Drew Westen. Writing in Sunday’s New York Times, Westen argues that Obama’s “deep-seated aversion to conflict and his profound failure to understand bully dynamics” — by that, Westen means the political tactics of the Republican party — have resulted not just in Obama’s failing to achieve economic recovery and significant reforms but in his setting back the cause of recovery and reform for “at least a generation.”
    Like many liberals, Westen wants Obama to fight every moment of every day against what Westen views as the evils of the modern Republican party. For Westen, disillusionment began on Inauguration Day, when Westen hoped Obama would use his first speech as president to “tell [Americans] a story that made sense of what they had just been through.” Westen wanted to hear Obama attack the “greed” and “recklessness” of “conservative extremists” and “Wall Street gamblers” who nearly destroyed the economy. Westen wanted Obama to declare war on the bad guys. Instead, Obama’s inaugural address was entirely unremarkable; he didn’t say much of anything. “There was no story,” Westen writes, “and there has been none since.”
    Worse was to come. Westen wanted Obama, once in office, to kick Republican butt all over Washington. He longed to hear Obama say that voters had elected Democrats “to fix the mess the Republicans and Wall Street had made of the country, and that this would not be a power-sharing arrangement.” But instead of keeping Republicans under his heel, Obama negotiated with them. The “truly decisive move” that showed Obama to be a failure, Westen writes, was the president’s decision to settle for an $800 billion economic stimulus bill that was far smaller than many liberals wanted.”
    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/liberals-buzz-over-brutal-takedown-obama
    …-
    “*Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?
    Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. – 8/13/2008”
    “The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  8. “Barack Obama will go down in history as President Downgrade.”
    http://www.strangepolitics.com/images/content/144135.jpg
    “Obama: Time for an Apology”
    “Pajamas Media ^ | 8/7/2011 | Roger Kimball”
    “What should the president do Monday? I think Amilya Antonetti, chairman & CEO of AMA Productions, has it right. In a not-to-be-missed interview with Neil Cavuto (h/t Instapundit), she boiled it down to one word: “Apologize.” He should say he’s sorry for his failure of leadership. Sorry for his utopian economic illiteracy. Sorry for putting ideology above political wisdom.
    That would be the manly, the honorable thing to do. Admit he was wrong about what needed to be done to fix the U.S. economy.
    What will he do? He will blame Standard & Poor’s. Or George W. Bush. Or the Tea Party. Or all three.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2760308/posts

  9. Appropriate. Imagine the endless gov’t commissions it would take to determine what the problem was…

  11. I listen to the classical music programs on CBC Radio 2. So, I also listen to the abysmal CBC News once and hour. I’ve just emailed the following to the CBC about the dreadful new news reader: [Begin quote.]
    The new reader, Nancy (Walsh?) is quite unfit for this gig: no gravitas at all.
    Her perky uptalk would be suitable for announcing McDonald’s latest meal or a summer swim suit sale. Her intonation and pitch are quite unsuitable for communicating the serious issues in the news. It’s embarrassing to hear Nancy chirp on about disasters of one kind or another.
    Please suggest that she modify her voice, see that she does—or get another announcer. [End quote.]
    Valley Girl talk is SO annoying—any time, but in the news too, and I’m paying for it? Help!

  12. Please knock three times on the ceiling* if you wan the link to Brown & O’narcissist.
    …-
    “Jesse Jackson on Obama
    ‘Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone’
    In an interview with SPIEGEL, civil rights activist and Baptist minister Jesse Jackson discusses Black America’s frustration with Barack Obama and the president’s failure to anticipate the Republicans’ tenacious will to ‘destroy’ him. more…”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/
    …-
    *”Oh, my darling,
    Knock three times
    On the ceiling if you want me.
    Mmm-hmm, twice on the pipe
    If the answer is no.”
    http://www.elyrics.net/read/d/dawn-lyrics/knock-three-times-lyrics.html

  14. Re the Tottenham riots and the rot of the Met Police Force in London, the inimitable Melanie Phillips strikes again!
    8 August 2011
    Why shouldn’t America’s top police officer run the British Met?
    “ . . . He is Bill Bratton, the genius American police chief who transformed policing when he halved New York’s murder rate and cut violent crime by half in Los Angeles. . . .
    “With their own professional training bamboozling them into political correctness, they [London police] seemed rather keener to feel people’s collars over ‘hate crime’ than catch the burglars who had trashed their homes. [’Sounds like Canada!]
    “Retreating from the streets, the police abandoned the public to the scourge of anti-social behaviour and criminality. . . .
    “Throughout all this calamitous decline in policing standards, more and more senior officers were being promoted not because of ‘boots on the ground’ experience, but because they had university degrees – which often merely qualified them in political correctness. . . . [’Same with education administrators.]
    “Given the depth and extent of this professional collapse, the idea that any British officer can be relied upon to cleanse the Augean stables of the Metropolitan Police seems distinctly unlikely.
    “If there is anyone who can perform this Herculean task, it is surely Bill Bratton. It was he who pioneered the ‘zero tolerance’ approach to policing, under which no crime was considered too small to be dealt with. . . .”
    The political class is, apparently, subverting PM Cameron’s plans to hire Bratton.
    Read all of it at:
    http://melaniephillips.com/ or
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2023596/Tottenham-riot-Why-shouldnt-David-Cameron-ask-Bill-Bratton-run-Met.html

  15. Of Mohammedans and left-liberal political correctness.
    …-
    “Fjordman Going Underground”
    “Everyone knows by now that Fjordman has revealed his identity and will be keeping a low profile indefinitely. In other words, he will go into hiding for his own safety. He will therefore join the ranks of Robert Redeker, Udo Ulfkotte, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Geert Wilders, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff and others who have spoken out against Islam and who either had to go underground or who are living under constant police protection, deprived of their basic freedom of movement.
    It is forbidden to criticize Islam because Islam is violent, intolerant and world-conquering. Islam demands submission, and the West, decultured, indoctrinated, terrified, deluded, de-Christianized and in moral limbo, submits… because it cannot conceive of fighting back and saving its own civilization.
    “How can it save a civilization that it hates, that it never really knew, and that is a constant reminder of the qualitative differences that inevitably exist between people, nations, ethnic groups, religions and races?
    Peder Jensen, once known as Fjordman, gave an interview to Verdans Gang (VG). According to Andrew Bostom, this interview was granted “reluctantly” and it was this interview that impelled Jensen to reveal his identity. In the interview he said:”.
    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4802
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    “Six Treated After Pepper Spray Discharged at Religious Event
    A 23-year-old man is in custody after pepper spray was discharged during a religious event for Muslims in Ottawa’s west-end.
    Six people were treated at the scene by Ottawa Paramedics after the incident on Grenon Avenue around 10:30 last night.
    Ottawa Police will only say the event was affiliated with the Muslim Association of Canada and there were no other “threats or associated risks” to the event.
    Police say Investigators are trying to determine if charges will be laid.”
    http://www.cfra.com/

  16. Navy Seal 6 team killed in helicopter.
    Question.
    1 – Why so many Seals on one helicopter?
    2 – Same team or not, that killed Bin Laden, I sure hope this isn’t, a, um, cover up of something.
    A current and a former U.S. official said the Americans included 22 SEALs, three Air Force members and a dog handler and his dog. The two spoke on condition of anonymity because military officials were still notifying the families of the dead.
    All but two of the SEALs were from SEAL Team 6, the unit that killed Usama bin Laden in Pakistan last May, officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information. None of the SEALs killed in the crash took part in the bin Laden mission.
    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/08/nato-probe-continues-at-site-military-helicopter-crash/#ixzz1USS460Xc

  18. Socialism: a religion of the stomach vs Mohammedanism.
    Both ‘isms in competition for the stomach.
    H/T O and Moh.
    …-
    “US set to announce $100M in Somalia famine funding”
    “State eliminates food benefits for 30,000 college students”
    “Record 45.8 million receiving food stamps (Totally Unsustainable)”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index

  19. O’s coattails downgraded.
    Buffett, aka Sage of Omaha, slides down the slippery slope.
    …-
    “S&P: Berkshire outlook to negative amid broad move”
    “Standard & Poor’s cut its ratings outlook on Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway to “negative” from “stable” on Monday, part of a broad action on 10 insurers linked to last Friday’s downgrade of the United States credit rating.
    S&P downgraded five insurers to “AA+” from “AAA,” as it had warned it would do: Knights of Columbus, New York Life, Northwestern Mutual, TIAA and USAA.
    But it also unexpectedly revised the ratings outlook on five insurers already rated “AA+” to “negative” from “stable,” among them Berkshire and bond insurer Assured Guaranty.
    The agency made clear that the move was wholly linked to last Friday’s action, and it warned that if the United States were downgraded again, the insurers likely would be as well.
    “Our view of these companies’ fundamental credit characteristics has not changed,” S&P said. “Rather, the rating actions reflect the application of criteria and our view that the link between the ratings on these entities and the sovereign credit ratings on the U.S. could lead to a decline in the insurers’ financial strength.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2760503/posts

  21. So I went in to work today..in a Prov.Gov’t office..and my Supervisor is wearing a Che t-shirt! What am I to make of this?

  22. From the lips of a union leader:
    “QMI Agency asked Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada president Gary Corbett about NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel holding a party membership when she was also the president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada.
    ‘
    The professional institute is non-partisan and, when you become partisan — I am not going to speak about Ms. Turmel per se — but when you display partisanship, it impacts on your credibility,’ Corbett said Monday. ‘It is an issue for Ms. Turmel.’ ”

  25. “S&P Lowers Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Credit Ratings” …
    “Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — Standard & Poor’s lowered credit ratings for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and other lenders backed by the federal government. The U.S.-spon…”
    urlm.in/itec

  26. Over at Brian Lilley’s blog, I’ve just watched the arrest of Linda Gibbons, a 60 + grandmother, who quietly walks and prays outside a government paid for abortion clinic in Toronto, with a sign that says, “WHY MOM? I’ve got so much love to give.” The sign has the picture of a Gerber-type baby on it. Watching her quiet courage, while she was surrounded by seven cops and then hand-cuffed, made me cry.
    http://blogs.canoe.ca/lilleyspad/
    Yes, what she’s doing is technically against the (altogether politically motivated: Bob Rae, NDP) “temporary” injunction, and she knows she’ll be arrested. Where the heck is Amnesty International for Canada’s very own prisoner of conscience?
    The seven police officers stood around and questioned her. She stood still and silent—as always. Then they handcuffed her and took her away. These are the cops who stand down and let thugs loot and burn. I phoned the Division where the arrest took place to lodge a complaint and to let the police know that this double standard re the rule of law is very damaging to their image/reputation.
    I was put through to a sergeant, who did not identify himself. After he said “Hello,” I politely said, “Hello. Could I please have your badge number?” As a citizen, one always has the right to that information when interacting with a police officer. This officer was immediately abusive. “WHO ARE YOU? How rude of you to talk to me like that . . .” I replied, again, politely, that I was a citizen of Toronto and that in my job, I was required, when answering the phone in my professional capacity, to identify myself off the top. I politely pointed out that his badge number is information I have a right to know. I can’t remember his response, but it was aggressive and most unpleasant: a real put-down. I then said calmly, “It’s pretty clear that you’re not going to give me an objective hearing, so I think there’s not much point in my continuing with my concern.” He snapped back, “I guess not! Good-bye.” And he abruptly hung up.
    Who’s the rude, unprofessional one here? This is exactly the unprofessional, rather sinister feeling run-around I got when I phoned the police about their stand-down at the G-20. And I am (or used to be) pro-police. This cop is obviously one of the entitled (now unionized) brats our schools are now churning out. Too bad there aren’t any hills to run to anymore!
    Will I lodge a complaint against this bully officer? No. Why put myself in a position to be abused again? Officers like him are scary: lots of power, aggressive, and rude with the ordinary citizenry, as we saw at the G20, but they stand down with criminals. The deterioration of this society is happening pretty fast.
    Good for Brian Lilley for reporting and commenting on the law and order double standard re Linda Gibbons. Her persecution continues and it’s clear that the police will intimidate anyone, except real criminals, who dare to even talk back. (And Linda doesn’t even do that!)

  28. Black Mamba:
    The lefties are looking for a scapegoat so that they don’t end up like Mussolini.
    It’s going to get ugly – real ugly.

  29. Tea-Party Terrorism and The Tea-Party Recession; that’s the new meme.

  30. Melanie Phillips again. Scary . . .
    8 August 2011
    London descends into anarchy
    “As London descends into anarchy this evening, with disturbances, arson, looting and other criminality breaking out in one borough after another for the third night running, it is clear that this is organised disorder, with thugs being dispatched to provoke and escalate hooliganism and rioting from area to area through use of social media and apparently now, the more secure BlackBerries. . . .”

  33. Did George Soros bet on the U.S.A. getting a credit rating downgrade?
    “The latest bet was made on July 21 on trades of 5,370 ten-year Treasury futures and 3,100 Treasury bond futures, reported ETF Daily News.
    Now the investor’s gamble seems to have paid off after Standard and Poor’s issued a credit rating downgrade from AAA to AA+ last Friday.
    Whoever it is stands to earn a 1,000 per cent return on their money, with the expectation that interest rates will be going up after the downgrade.”
    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023809/Did-George-Soros-win-10-1-return-S-Ps-US-credit-rating-downgrade.html#ixzz1UTxK855i
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023809/Did-George-Soros-win-10-1-return-S-Ps-US-credit-rating-downgrade.html

  34. chutzpahticular,that would be the Dipper-run Manitoba! I happen to work in the Soc.Services area,and was stunned when I saw the shirt..I noticed a few co-workers did a double-take as well.This loon was hired under the stupid equal-opportunities program..and oh yeah,he’s an immigrant,just moved here from BC.

  35. Bit players
    By David Warren
    We are in Ramadan again, and yesterday was the first Friday in the Muslim holy season of fasting. As a priestly friend points out, it was also the feast of the dedication of St. Mary Major in Rome, but the purpose of this column is not to supply calendar notes. Instead, even when considering religion, we are looking at the public and political implications of religious faith. And I doubt that Roman feast has any political implications.
    http://davidwarrenonline.com/

  36. Who’s on first?
    Not O. Not on third. Not on second. Not shortstop. Not on the mound. Not behind the plate.
    O’s in left field where it gets dark early out there*.
    …-
    “Which Rating Agency Downgraded the U.S. First? Not S&P”
    “The S&P downgrade of U.S. credit has understandably dominated headlines, but S&P was by no means the first mover. At least three other rating agencies had already downgraded the United States.
    Egan-Jones was the first Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO) to downgrade. It lowered the U.S. rating from AAA to AA+ in mid-July. NRSROs are the companies that the SEC officially recognizes as credit rating agencies. They number ten in total, with Fitch, Moody’s, and Standard & Poors the most famous (or, in some circles, infamous).
    Weiss Ratings was the first U.S.-based rating agency to rate the U.S. below AAA. It initiated official coverage in April at the equivalent of BBB and lowered to the equivalent of BBB- in mid-July, just one notch above junk. Back in May 2010, Weiss challenged the three major agencies to downgrade the United States, but hadn’t yet rated the U.S. itself. Weiss is not an NRSRO.
    And then there’s Dagong, the Chinese rating agency. It initiated coverage with a AA rating in July 2010. It then cut the U.S. to A+ in November and to A last week.
    So who was first?
    Weiss if you count its May 2010 announcement that the U.S. ought to be downgraded. Dagong if you go by the first published rating below AAA. And Egan-Jones if you focus on the NRSROs.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2760709/posts
    *H/T Yogi Berra.

  37. “Which Rating Agency Downgraded the U.S. First? Not S&P”
    “The S&P downgrade of U.S. credit has understandably dominated headlines, but S&P was by no means the first mover. At least three other rating agencies had already downgraded the United States.
    Egan-Jones was the first Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO) to downgrade. It lowered the U.S. rating from AAA to AA+ in mid-July. NRSROs are the companies that the SEC officially recognizes as credit rating agencies. They number ten in total, with Fitch, Moody’s, and Standard & Poors the most famous (or, in some circles, infamous).
    Weiss Ratings was the first U.S.-based rating agency to rate the U.S. below AAA. It initiated official coverage in April at the equivalent of BBB and lowered to the equivalent of BBB- in mid-July, just one notch above junk. Back in May 2010, Weiss challenged the three major agencies to downgrade the United States, but hadn’t yet rated the U.S. itself. Weiss is not an NRSRO.
    And then there’s Dagong, the Chinese rating agency. It initiated coverage with a AA rating in July 2010. It then cut the U.S. to A+ in November and to A last week.
    So who was first?
    Weiss if you count its May 2010 announcement that the U.S. ought to be downgraded. Dagong if you go by the first published rating below AAA. And Egan-Jones if you focus on the NRSROs.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2760709/posts
    *H/T Yogi Berra.

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