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"On Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not, in some ways, differ significantly from the country that existed some 50 years ago. This is truly sad." -- AG Eric Holder

 

NEW YORK (AFP) –

US President Barack Obama swept First Lady Michelle Obama off to a Broadway show -- to honor a promise made in the heat of his gruelling 2008 campaign.

The Obamas flew to New York, not on the iconic presidential jet, but aboard a small military plane -- still dubbed Air Force One with the president aboard -- for a meal in Manhattan's West Village and a night at the theater.

Republicans however immediately seized on the trip, accusing Obama of enjoying himself at taxpayers expense, as ordinary Americans battle the economic crisis and another iconic US firm, GM, struggles for survival.

Obama, in a statement issued through a spokesman, said: "I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished."

The epitome of glamour, the Obamas earlier left the White House aboard his Marine One helicopter.

At Andrews Air Force base outside Washington, they boarded the plane, the president in a smart dark suit with no tie, and the First Lady in a black cocktail dress and heels.

After landing in New York, they helicoptered into Manhattan and motorcaded to the Blue Hill restaurant, before heading to the Belasco Theater and the Broadway revival of the August Wilson play "Joe Turner's Come And Gone."

Obama's Republican foes however tried to make political hay out of the president's date night.

"As President Obama prepares to wing into Manhattan's theater district on Air Force One to take in a Broadway show, GM is preparing to file bankruptcy and families across America continue to struggle to pay their bills," the Republican National Committee said in a statement.

 

The White House could not immediately put a price tag on the president's trip.

According to the still-free-speaking-not-yet-politically-correct Chinese news service, Xinhua, "The play is about black America in the early 1900s..."    

Post-racial president, my a--.  If the First Black President and the First Black First Lady want see a play about "Black America" and thus remain "voluntarily socially segregated" (within this nation of cowards) ...

I don't see why typical white people should have to pay for it.

 

Ordinarily, I wouldn't even conceive of making such a statement, but don't forget, the First Black Attorney General has "urged"

... Americans of all races ... to have a forthright national conversation ... to discuss aspects of race which are ignored because they are uncomfortable....

"It's a question of being honest with ourselves and racial issues that divide us," Holder told reporters...

"It's not easy to talk about it. We have to have the guts to be honest with each other, accept criticism, accept new proposals."

 

Obama promises Jerusalem to the Arabs

I can't even summon up a clear sentence. Go read it for yourself. The 78% of Jews that voted for someone whose name is Hussein and who was mentored by Jeremiah Wright, and still managed somehow to presume that if president, Obama  wouldn't throw Israel under the bus... you guys are especially invited.

Obama promises Arabs Jerusalem will be theirs

Official: President said Palestinian state with holy city capital 'in American interest'

 

Shavuot Sameach 5769

 

An ultra-Orthodox Jew prays on Mount Gerizim overlooking Joseph's Tomb, one of Judaism's holiest sites, in the West Bank city of Nablus. The men received a special permit from the Israeli army to celebrate in the restricted area.(AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Is it good for the Jews?

ABC's Jake Tapper at Political Punch:  Sitting Alongside President Abbas, President Obama Pushes Israel...

Abbas suggested that if “the Israelis will withdraw from all occupied Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese land, the Arab world will be really have normal relationships with the state of Israel.”

 

Sitting in the Oval Office with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Thursday afternoon, President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to a “two-state solution” and seemed to indicate his administration is more frustrated with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu than with his Palestinian counterpart.

 

I get the feeling these people are not telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

____________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                      May 27, 2009

PRESS BRIEFING BY
PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

1:24 P.M. EDT

[....]

Q    That plan that you just laid out of the Judge herself talking to senators, obviously that happens in a private setting. Meanwhile the debate is happening that the American people are going to be hearing about -- so does the White House have a role in that debate?

MR. GIBBS:  Look, I think we'll probably find a way to make it easier on you to find legal experts and her colleagues that share the President's enthusiasm about the pick.  I don't doubt that we won't do that.  I mean, I think it's -- I think that we'll certainly play a role in that.  I think, again, our strong belief is that she has a record that speaks highly of who she is as a judge.

 

 

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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                         May 27, 2009

ADVISORY: Conference Call with Legal Experts to Discuss the Nomination of Judge Sotomayor

WASHINGTON -- Today at 2:30PM EDT the White House will hold a conference call with legal experts to discuss the nomination of Judge Sotomayor.

WHO:

Professor Stephen L. Carter, Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Paul M. Smith, Law Partner at Jenner & Block, LLP
Professor William P. Marshall, Professor of Law at University of North Carolina School of Law 
Professor Martha L. Minow, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Kevin K. Russell, Law Partner at Howe & Russell, LLP
Dean Evan H. Caminker, Dean of the University of Michigan Law School and Professor of Law

WHEN:

TODAY, Wednesday, May 27, 2009
2:30PM EDT

 

 

Hate Now

I just got home from a hugely inspiring short trip, don't see anything happening with Abu Mazen at the White House yet, and it's very nearly Shavuos-then-Shabbes.  Having just seen an AP article that asserts "So I thought the best thing I could do here would be to  re-run part of this post from January about Jews -and the roofs over their heads- as "obstacles to peace."  Hey, it got me on the radio back then (thanks to Lori Lowenthal Marcus) so it must be good, right?

"tiny encampments" loom large

         MIGRON, West Bank- Israeli left-wing activists demonstrate against unauthorized outposts, outside the unauthorized Jewish outpost of Migron near Jerusalem, Monday Jan. 7, 2008. Israel will tell U.S. President George W. Bush during his visit to the region this week that it is committed to acting 'expeditiously' to dismantle unauthorized West Bank settlement outposts, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday. (AP Photo / Sebastian Scheiner)

.... Most of the outposts consist of a few trailers on West Bank hilltops, put up by hard-line Israeli settlers to prevent creation of a Palestinian state. The Israeli Peace Now movement counts more than 100 such outposts, but the "road map" peace plan commits Israel to removing only the two dozen established after March 2002.

The first phase of the plan, which was never implemented, requires Israel to stop all settlement construction and remove outposts, while the Palestinians dismantle groups that attack Israelis. In later phases, the sides are supposed to tackle core issues like final borders, a solution for Palestinian refugees and sovereignty in Jerusalem.

 

I simply do not understand the objections to these "outposts." Why does Dhimmedia never ask [the Palestinians, the leftist Israelis or U.S. State Department officials] exactly how "a few trailers" impede peace efforts? Is the problem that Arabs might have to breathe the same air as Jews? Or is it only the land they cannot share? What exactly is it about Jewish life they cannot live with, or even near?

Could they share water with us? The shade of a tree? Would it be okay if Jews prayed under the same sun and clouds, or slept under the same stars as Arab Muslims? What's the radius? How close to a Jew are they willing to live, or rather, how far away do we have to be in order for them to call it peace?

It seems to me that any "peace agreement" would imply some level of coexistence. I'd like to ask the Palestinian "negotiators" about the extent of their willingness to coexist with Jews. What would it look like? If Jews shouldn't live in the house next door, could they live on the same street? And if Arabs can't tolerate Jews on their street, could Jews live on the next street over? In the next town? How about in a few trailers on a hilltop here and there?

MSNBC photo: "settlement outpost" of Ashael

Then again maybe it's not space, but numbers. I'd like to ask those Israeli leftists that if 40 families should not live in Migron, could 30 families live there? How about four couples with no children? Two Jews and a goat? No, I know, there is an unquestioned and unquestionable idea that it has to be no Jews whatsoever. None. Not one.

The sun comes up in the east and Arabs require any territory under their control to be totally Jew-free. It is a given. The Sinai had to be rendered Jew-free before Egypt would accept it in the late 70s, and Gaza had to be Jew-free before the Palestinians would accept it in 2005. Is not that the most abhorrent sort of bigotry?

I can't think of any places on earth, other than Arab countries, that are necessarily off-limits to anyone. There are no Black-free zones, no Pole-free zones, no square foot on the earth where a Canadian or a Parisian or a Bangladeshi or a Catholic cannot go based on who they are. So why does everyone think it's so okay, even so great, that a place... any place... would be officially Jew-free?

It sure doesn't feel like peace now, knowing that I would be arrested by Israelis -or lynched by Palestinians- if I were to simply walk into the Gaza strip. And I highly doubt that Condi Rice thought it was "peace" when in the segregated American south there were places she wasn't allowed to enter, water fountains she couldn't use, and hotels that wouldn't rent her family a room.

This Peace business is the biggest lie of our times. If we could all just call it what it really is... Sheer Hatred ... it would be a lot more honest. Then we could have the hate process, a hate deal, hate activists (from Hate Now), teams of officials negotiating the hate, and even concessions for hate. It would make so much more sense.

And if I could get answers to some of my questions about peace hate, that would be good too.

Obama and Congress Sending Your Tax Dollars to HAMAS to fund what, exactly? Gd forbid our money should go to killing our fellow Jews. We will have our own blood on our hands. Do you understand that?

Do you remember the big deal last week about how Congress hadn't appropriated the monies for the release of detainees from Gitmo because Obama had no plan?

Well, in that very same Supplemental Appropriations bill (H.R. 2346 / S. 1054), Congress gave almost a billion dollars to the Palestinians, with about a third of it specified for Gaza (=HAMAS).

You can read about it at creepingsharia: Obama’s Supplemental Bill Passes, Gives Billions to Enemies?

Also see this mild-mannered press release from the website of Rep. Dave Obey (D-WI), Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, dated the same day that the House voted and passed the appropriations to HAMAS in GAZA.

Did they read the bill this time? They must have, because they were able to stop the bit for Gitmo.  About HAMAS, though, they have no problem.  Sending money, money earned by Jewish and Christian Zionists (and others of course), to Gaza, to HAMAS. It is repulsive beyond words.

And like everything else with this president, it's rahmmed through Congress so fast it makes your head spin. And then you find out what was in the bill, once it's  already law - or as in this case, spent - and your head explodes.

To me, this is beyond ruinous.  I'm fairly certain it's illegal for the Omerican government to fund HAMAS, but that doesn't matter anymore because - in case you haven't noticed - we aren't a nation of laws anymore.  We have descended into hell. 

And if HAMAS uses that money to kill our brothers and sisters in Israel, Gd forbid, then you and I will have their blood on our hands because we let it happen.  We should have known what was going on and we should have raised some opposition... We should have stopped it.  That sounds lame - because it is lame.

So... Abu Mazen - a lifetime professional PLO Fatah terrorist, sidekick to Arafat, holocaust denier and financier of the Munich massacre, not entitled to represent anyone (his term of office in the PA ended in January) and not even coming from a real country... we should call him the Anti-Zionist Entity... So this Anti-Zionist-Jew-Hating-Jew-Killing-Terrorist Entity, from a totally made up non-country,  will arrive at the White House tomorrow to pick up a Big FAT American check for almost a BILLION AMERICAN TAXYPAYER DOLLARS from his bud, Abu Hussein Obama, which he will take back and share with his "brothers" in HAMAS.

Just think, this time tomorrow night, you can see the pictures.

It's all too grotesque for words.

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I think I gave you all these same links above, but here are my sputterings... at twitter just in case I forgot something.

 BokerTov  SENATE VOTED TO PAY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS TO GAZA=HAMAS http://bit.ly/WHyR2

 BokerTov  HOUSE of REPS VOTED to PAY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS TO GAZA=HAMAS http://bit.ly/wGJQv

 

BokerTov  Enjoy: http://bit.ly/w09q1

 

 BokerTov  ISN'T IT ILLEGAL FOR THE U.S. TO FUND HAMAS TERRORISTS? Legal/illegal is now moot. Welcome to Obama's CHANGE. Damn you if you voted for

him.

 

 BokerTov  cont'd: This passed the House May 14, the Senate May 21. http://tiny.cc/OXOF5 Almost a BILLION TO PA +SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION TO GAZA=HAMAS

 

 BokerTov  OMERICA FUNDS HAMAS! But no one cares, because no one knows. Our govt sucks, there is no press, we are sunk. Kol hakavod to @creepingsharia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obama thinks he can squash "natural growth" in Israel? WTF?!

         Jewish community in Gush Katif, before the state of Israel ethnically cleansed the Gaza strip of all Jewish life and surrendered the territory to Islamist Arabs (August 2005). The Jew-free Gaza strip is controlled by HAMAS terrorists.

 

Press Availability With Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State in Siberia

Benjamin Franklin Room

Washington, DC

May 27, 2009

 

[....] MR. KELLY: Next question, Kirit from ABC.

QUESTION: A question, Madame Secretary, about settlements. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that he is going to freeze settlement expansion – new settlement expansion, excuse me – but he’s not made any commitment towards freezing existing settlement growth. Do you think that’s enough? ....

 

This would be Kirit Radia, who, "before entering the world of journalism," was a researcher at the United States Institute of Peace in DC.

[.....]

SECRETARY CLINTON: ... With respect to settlements, the President was very clear when Prime Minister Netanyahu was here. He wants to see a stop to settlements – not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions. We think it is in the best interests of the effort that we are engaged in that settlement expansion cease. That is our position. That is what we have communicated very clearly, not only to the Israelis but to the Palestinians and others. And we intend to press that point.

 

And just think, this arrogant and unfriendly rhetoric will likely be repeated, even increased, tomorrow when Fatah's head liar, cheater, thief and murderous terrorist, Abu Mazen, meets with Abu Obama at the White House.  Then more saber rattling, no doubt, as Obama takes off on his International Antisemitism Tour through the Muslim countries of Germany, France, Egypt and "The Land of the Two Holy Mosques." 

Will he bow to The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques... again?

Will he go to Apartheid Mecca? Stay tuned.

 

your morning dose of cognitive dissonance

Andisheh Nouraee - Creative Loafing's Readers' Pick for Best Columnist in Atlanta -writes about Barack Obama at, well, Creative Loafing:

 

He’s been in office for only four months, but President Obama’s already pretty much solved all of America’s problems.

We’re still in a recession, but Obama’s stimulus program, as well as his CPR on the nation’s financial system, has largely abated economists’ worries that we’re entering Great Depression 2: Even More Depressing.

He has extended health care coverage to millions of needy children, kick-started cutting-edge medical research by lifting Bush’s hypocritical restrictions on stem cell research, and mandated the production of more fuel-efficient cars.

And any day now, he’s going to nominate a pro-choice U.S. Supreme Court justice, as well as sign legislation allowing me to carry concealed firearms in national parks. My lifelong dream of operating a combination pistol range/abortion clinic next to Old Faithful is one step closer!

He’s getting so good at this president stuff that he’s now turning his attention to helping other countries.

On May 18, Obama had Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over to the White House for a chat.

The meeting was a milestone for two reasons.

It was the first tête-à-tête between two pioneering historical figures. Obama, the first black president of the United States, hosting Netanyahu, only the ninth Jewish prime minister of Israel. I mean, wow.

Secondly, the meeting marks the symbolic restarting of U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process after eight years of harmful neglect....

And you thought the New York Times was bad. Well, this last bit will surely do you in; this guy's all over the place.

The Palestinian right of return must be dealt with. International law allows for the return of war refugees and their descendents to their original homes. However, because the Palestinian refugee community now totals at least 4 million people, a mass return would render Jews a minority in Israel. Being majority Jewish is the whole point of Israel.

 

At least he got something right.

Obama is speaking in Egypt. On the eve of June 5th.

Lucky for you, I read China View. Otherwise you wouldn't know that Omerican "teams" are already in Egypt (since last Friday) to prepare for The Won's Major Address to the Muslim World on June 4th.

 

CAIRO, May 23 (Xinhua) -- An American team arrived in Egypt Friday to prepare for Obama's visit to Cairo on June 4, local newspapers reported on Saturday.

The team includes 4 senior White House employees and in the next few days more teams will arrive seriatim in the country, the papers added.

According to the schedule, U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Egypt and to make address to the Muslim world on June 4.

Anybody else see significance in the time and place?

SIX DAYS REMEMBERED

Nasser gloats: "The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation."

An Arab force of some 465,000 troops, nearly 3,000 tanks and more than 800 aircraft now stands arrayed near Israel's borders.

Samuel Katz would later write in Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine -- 

Certain of victory, both the Arab leaders and their peoples threw off all restraint. Between the middle of May and fifth of June ... people throughout the world watched and waited in growing anxiety - or in some cases, in hopeful expectation - for the overwhelming forces of at least Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq to bear down from three sides to crush tiny Israel and slaughter her people.

June 3: The UN Security Council meets again, but at 3:00 in the afternoon votes to reconvene on the afternoon of June 5.

June 4: The Israeli Cabinet authorizes the prime minister and the minister of defense to decide what actions are needed to defend the State of Israel. Moshe Dayan gives his final briefing: Israeli forces would advance as rapidly as possible, never pausing. There would be no action against Jordan unless the Jordanians attacked first, no war on the northern front with Syria if its army did not attack.

June 5: Israel launches a pre-emptive strike against Egypt. The operation consists of a far-reaching air attack to shatter the Arab air forces while their aircraft are still on the ground. Air Force Commander Motti Hod issues these orders: "The spirit of Israel's heroes accompany us to battle... From Joshua Bin-Nun, King David, the Maccabees and the fighters of 1948 and 1956, we shall draw the strength and courage to strike the Egyptians who threaten our safety, our independence and our future. Fly, soar at the enemy, destroy him and scatter him throughout the desert so that Israel may live, secure in its land, for generations."

At 7:10 a.m., all but 12 of Israel's jets are launched in the attack. In 100 minutes, the IAF destroys much of Egypt's combat aircraft, most still on the ground.

At 7:50, Israeli ground forces on the Egyptian border are ordered to move out. They are reminded: "If we do not win, we will have nowhere to come back to."

 

SIX DAYS, REVISED 

.... Peters, a retired intelligence officer, castigated "revisionist historians [for] re-inventing the Six-Day War as the source of Israel's problems."

Reading the revisionists, he wrote, one would think that "prior to June 1967, Israelis had lived in an Age of Aquarius, eating lotus blossoms amid friendly Bedouin neighbors who tucked them in at night. The critics also imply that, by some unexplained magic, Israel might have avoided war and its consequences."

Noting the inclination in certain circles to denigrate the idea of history being determined by the actions of individuals, Will wrote that it was "invigorating to revisit in memory the Six-Day War, a clear case of enormous consequences assignable to the decisions of particular people - Nasser, Hussein and some young Israeli pilots and tankers who reminded the world of the good that can come from a just war."

 

George Will and Ralph Peters - two non-Jews with more intellectual honesty and moral clarity than all of Israel's post-Zionists and their American Jewish fellow travelers put together.