Obama Wants $500 Million for Syrian Rebels??

"You see, Stanley, it's all very simple. We don't like Assad, so we help the good guys in Syria who are against Assad, but we don't help the bad guys in Syria who are against Assad.  Second, we help the good guys in Iraq who are being threatened by the bad guys in Syria who crossed over into Iraq. Third, in Syria we are on the opposite side from the Iranians because they are helping Assad , but we are on the same side as the Iranians in Iraq because they are helping our guys in the Iraqi government. To sum up, we are supporting the rebels in Syria but fighting the rebels in Iraq even though they came from Syria. Just remember if it gets confusing, the key word is vetted." 



This has got to be the most convoluted foreign policy I have ever seen. Remember those Syrian rebels who are carrying out all those atrocities? Remember how they morphed into the ISIS guys who are taking over Iraq? It was bad enough that we are on the side of the Iraqi conflict as Iran, but now we still want to spend $500 million to train and equip the rebels in Syria, but we may bomb them if they cross into Iraq.

Do I have this correct?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/26/obama-seeks-500m-to-train-equip-syrian-rebels/

I guess I overlooked the key word here (vetted). You see we will only spend the $500 million on those rebels in Syria who are vetted and we can trust.

This sounds like all those times we trained the "new breed" of federal cops in Mexico. I participated in 3 of those training seminars myself in the 1990s, twice at the National Police Academy in Mexico City and once in Washington. They were vetted; background checks, polygraphs, you name it. The results were still the same.

If only the US could train the whole world.

Forgive my cynicism, but I wouldn't trust the most competent of administrations to get this one right let alone this bunch in Washington. You talk about threading the needle. We are going to support a select bunch of rebels in Syria, who are supposed to be good guys, but if they show up in Iraq they are the bad guys.

Look for that equipment, whatever it is, to show up in Iraq.

Malaysians Reportedly Find Incriminating Evidence Against Missing Flight's Pilot

Hat tip Atlas Shrugs


The NY Daily News article below reports that Malaysian authorities have retrieved deleted information from MAS 370 pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home flight simulator that shows a programmed flight far out into the Indian Ocean and a landing on a short runway at an unspecified island.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pilot-chief-suspect-plane-disappearance-cops-article-1.1839375#ixzz35ibZcPmT

If accurate, this puts the focus squarely on Shah. As to possible motive, Atlas Shrugs takes us back to Shah's support for Islamist Malaysian opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim, a man with a real suspicious background. Remember that on the day prior to the jet's disappearance, Shah attended a court hearing for Ibrahim and wore a t-shirt that read, "Democracy is dead".

http://pamelageller.com/2014/03/fanatical-pilot-hijacked-airplane-democracy-dead.html/

We still don't know with certainty what happened or why, but if Shah is the guilty party, the question is motive. The answer to that may lie with Ibrahim. We are left with the possibility, maybe the likelihood, that this was an act of jihad.

Will Obama Grant Amnesty by Executive Order?

Hat tip Breitbart

It seems President Obama is not satisfied that his policies have given the green light to thousands of Central American families to send their children heading north with or without their parents. He is not satisfied that thousands of these children are now being shuttled around the country by Border Patrol agents longing for the implementation of private contractors to take over diaper-changing duties. Now he seemingly wants to by-pass Congress using his ever-complaint new head of DHS, Jeh Johnson.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/26/Obama-Working-With-DHS-For-Executive-Action-On-Illegal-Immigration

You think we have a flood now? Wait until amnesty is enacted. We have chaos on our border, and Obama just wants to make it worse.

SFSU President Defends Professor's Trip to Middle East to Meet With Terror-linked Palestinians-on Official Funds

"A-OK!"


San Francisco State University President Les Wong has reacted to complaints about one of his professors using official funds to travel to the Middle East to meet with people linked to terrorism by justifying the trip.

As previously reported here, Professor Rabab Abdulhadi traveled to the West Bank, Jordan and Israel  on official funds which were granted for her to attend an event at a  Middle Eastern university-an event that was cancelled. She traveled anyway and met with convicted sky-jacker Leila Khaled and another person linked to Hamas. Abdulhadi herself reportedly called the trip a "political solidarity tour".

In a reaction to complaints by the AMCHA Initiative, Wong justified the travel. Now the AMCHA Initiative has written to California State Controller John Chiang.

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=0beb330b057061522bbe22a7f&id=7979499c19&e=b6eadb6292

How does a political solidarity tour merit use of official funds?

Here is a comment on the issue by Abraham Miller, professor at the University of Cincinnati, which appears in Campus Watch and The Blaze.

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/13775

Nonie Darwish on Islamic Values in the West

Hat tip Frontpage Magazine


Nonie Darwish is an Egyptian-American apostate from Islam. In this piece for Frontpage Magazine she analyzes the conflict between Islamic values in the West.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/nonie-darwish/islamic-values-vs-judeo-christian-values/

I have also noted this convoluted argument by stealth jihadists in the US that says that sharia law is compatible with the US Constitution and that the best environment for Islam is in America. In a word, it doesn't make sense. It is Judeo-Christian values that have helped shape what America has become and Islamic values are in conflict. How can America be the best environment for an ideology that does not recognize a separation between religion and the State? How can a pluralistic society based on freedom of religion be the best environment for an ideology that preaches war against other faiths? How can America be the best environment for an ideology that does not recognize women as equals?

I could go on and on about apostasy blasphemy and homosexuality under Islam and how that is supposed to exists in harmony with American freedoms. None of it makes any sense unless Muslim immigrants were leaving the religion in droves as soon as they arrived, which they are not. The only explanation that makes sense is that the stealth jihadists here are engaging in taquiyya in an effort to gradually eliminate our freedoms that conflict with Islamic teachings. The ultimate-albeit very long range- goal is to make Islam dominant in the West.

Random Shots in the Dark (48)

Hat tip John Speedie for audio

We begin this RSD with who else but Hillary Clinton. She's been making headlines almost every day with her lollapalooza book tour. In one interview, she claimed that she and her erstwhile husband Bill were "dead broke" when they left the White House. Of course, charging hundreds of thousands of dollars per speaking appearance will fix that in a jiffy. "Po Folks" Bill and Hillary are now worth hundreds of millions.

Then Bill makes things worse by trying to stick up for his erstwhile missus by talking about how they go to the neighborhood market together on the weekends.

Speaking of the Clintons, my sources tell me that if Hillary becomes president, she plans to send Bill to Paris as US ambassador.

And you know what that means

I heard on the news today that explorers think they have found the remains of a ship called the Griffin, which purportedly sank in Lake Michigan in the 17th century. That sounds fishy enough (no pun intended), but then they said that the ship was commanded by a captain named La Salle who was searching for the northwest passage to China!

China! On Lake Michigan!

You talk about a fool's errand, that sounds like John Kerry searching for peace in the Middle East.

This week, Kerry sailed into Baghdad and told the Iraqi president that he had to step down and let a "unity government" take over. And you know where that will lead....

Have you seen those Johnny Bench Blu Emu commercials? Time hasn't been good to Johnny.

I mean times are bad when you go from Hall of Fame catcher to Danny De Vito look-a-like.

I don't know about this Blu-Emu stuff, but maybe the Cubs can advertise it next year on that new jumbo-tron they plan to build in left field.

In closing, that stuff about Bill going to Paris as ambassador? I made that up. It was the only way I could fit that Can-Can bit in.

Justice for Shaima Alawadi- The Sentence

Shaima Alawadi-Victim of an honor killing


Kassim Alhimidi has been sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for the beating death of his wife, Shaima Alawadi in El Cajon, California.

http://www.10news.com/news/iraqi-man-could-get-life-in-prison-in-wifes-beating-death

This was the case that CAIR initially exploited to begin a "hijad and hoodie" campaign to protest alleged attacks against Muslims due to the fact that Alhimidi had tried to mask his crime by staging it as a hate crime against Muslims.

I note that the son, who had objected with profanities in court at the verdict, has apologized to the judge. Yet what strikes me is that he has not deserted his father for killing their mother. When the verdict was announced, the son yelled that it was "BS". Now he forgives his father. Unless he learned something between the verdict and now, something doesn't jive. The daughter's reaction to the verdict had been mild. She expressed sadness at the act that "they now believed their father committed" ( I am paraphrasing.) The statement read at the sentencing was stronger. Yet I vividly recall her after the murder being interviewed by the media behind big sunglasses and lecturing us about Islamophobia. Indeed, it seems only Alawadi's blood relatives have expressed satisfaction at the father's conviction.

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LA Times Article on Mosul: Dewey Defeats Truman

That's pretty much the tone of this article in the LA Times on the ISIS takeover in Mosul. They are liberators, Folks and all is well (except for those few hundred people who were executed in mass graves and the 35,000 Christians who had to flee for their lives).

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-mosul-20140624-story.html#page=1


"ISIS did act quickly and ruthlessly in certain circumstances. It's accused of looting the city's central bank of $420 million, of abducting the 49-member staff of the Turkish Consulate and of executing hundreds of mostly Shiite government security forces, reportedly by firing machine guns at them in a ditch or slitting their throats.
Residents said the militants also destroyed monuments to several local cultural icons."

(In certain circumstances) They mention this as an afterthought. Hundreds executed!

What about the Christians? What about the heads of beheaded captives being used as soccer balls?

Springtime in Germany!

Video of 2011 Protest in Anaheim: Muzammil Siddiqi Gets Award

In May 2011 Muzammil Siddiqi, ex-president of the Islamic Society of North America, was given a community leader award by the Orange County Human Relations Commission, a useless drain on the Orange County budget led by Rusty Kennedy. The event drew a protest (in which I participated).

A friend has sent me this video which was made at the time by a group called Islam and Liberty.com. I had not previously seen it.

So here it is. It features interviews of protesters and Siddiqi himself, as well as CAIR's Southern California director, Hussam Ayloush. Around the 3-minute mark you will see the moderator trying to interview counter protesters across the street from us. At that point, local Muslim activist Shakeel Syed enters the picture and tells the person being interviewed not to talk to anybody at which point the interview is terminated. (Ironic since Syed made it his practice to show up at the "Irvine 11" trial with masking tape over his mouth to make the case that Muslims were being "silenced".) In the next shot, Syed walks across the street to where Ayloush is trying to start a scene with us and leads him back across the street. Ayloush had walked over to where we were standing, started taking pictures of us with his cell phone, and tried to start an argument with us. One of our fellow protesters started to engage him in a debate and told him that he (Ayloush) represented " a despicable organization" (CAIR) That was when Syed led Ayloush away as you can see in the video. Near the end of the video, Ayloush tells the moderator/interviewer that Islam is by definition moderate and any deviation from moderation is a deviation from Islam

Someone should ask Ayloush why he supports the rebels in Syria if they are deviating from Islam.

John Kerry's Howler in Baghdad

Yesterday, John Kerry was in Baghdad making a boffo statement that US aid to Iraq will be "intensive" and "sustained". (That statement will live on late night shows if Iraq falls.)

But there is a condition to all this. Iraq's government must become more "inclusive". That means a new government made up of Shia, Sunni and Kurds.

Isn't it a little late for that? I mean do you really think ISIS is going to stop their advance, link arms with the nearest Shia they can find, and lay down their arms in the hope of a coalition government?

My advice to Kerry: Get out of town while you still have your head.

Marie Harf Spins on Fox Re: Iraq and Bergdahl

I am writing this from hotel computer in Las Vegas, so it won't be as detailed as usual. I just finished watching Fox's Megyn Kelly take Deputy DOS bubblehead spokesperson Marie Harf apart.

Harf was asked about the Obama administration's failure to predict or prevent the collapse we are seeing in Iraq. Harf began by spinning the tale that the administration had been warning about ISIS since last November then went into her talking point that they were now focused on assisting Iraq, a point she kept coming back to. She was cut off by Kelly who pointed out that Obama had referred to the fighters in Iraq as the jayvees back in January and said just because they put on Laker uniforms doesn't make them Kobe Bryant. To that Harf retreated back to her talking points. They then went back and forth on who wanted the US out of Iraq-Obama or Iraq. It was Harf's position that Iraq wanted us out and that they would not agree to a status of forces agreement. (Yeah, for 3,000 soldiers which was all Obama wanted to give.)

At any rate, Kelly had her facts together as a good lawyer does, and Harf was left with nothing but spin and her standard talking points.

Kelly then gave Harf a chance to clean up her earlier comment during a briefing that dismissed the idea that Bowe Bergdahl's platoon mates were in the best position to know the circumstances of how he left his unit. She gave the standard line about how much she respects the military, but said that the DOD will have to get to the bottom of what happened and that Bergdahl should not be tried in the press.

Marie Harf handled herself as best one could when all you can do is spin and give the administration's talking points. Before she goes up against Megyn Kelly, however, she needs a lot more seasoning.

I don't have the video available, but it is worth one's while to go to Fox and watch it.