Michael Posner APOLOGIZES to CHINA Over Arizona's "Human Rights Abuses"!

Just when you think this administration can't get any more moronic.... comes Michael H. Posner a Chicago-born lawyer and the founding executive director of Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights), and currently an Asst. Secretary of State in the Obama administration. Here he is announcing his own apologizing to China over Arizona's alleged "human rights abuses."

Arizona's law EXACTLY MIRRORS existing federal law that's been on the books (and enforced) for over 70 years!

Eric Holder Refuses To Say "Radical Islam"

THIS says it ALL about Eric Holder's, and by extension, this administration's views on both the threat posed by radical Islam and "appropriate anti-terror policies." - To paraphrase a line from the flick Billy Madison; "What you've just said (Mr. Holder) is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

The Greek Bailout May Well Trigger an Avalanche of Similar Defaults...

Ever wonder if ANY in the political class know ANYTHING about what they often pontificate about?

When politicians talk sports, it often becomes very obvious they don’t, as with Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) consistently referring to Rafeal Palmeiro (pal-mare-oh) as Mr. Pal-mary, or former Illinois Governor George Ryan introducing MIKE DITKA as “the Hall of the Famer, the legend, DICK BUTKA.”

But it IS almost certainly the case in many other instances and areas, as well.

Certainly very few in the political class know much, if anything about economics and how economies work. That’s almost certainly behind the fact that despite the ever-growing mountain of evidence AGAINST Keynesian economic policies, the political class stubbornly refuses to abandon the one economic theory that sees more government intervention in the economy as a good thing.

THAT as much as anything else is why we’re nowhere near done with the ongoing economic meltdown that began with Keynesian policies and is growing toward a quick implosion because of more Keynesian policies.

Yesterday the EU announced that the Greek debt crisis would be solved...by a staggering $1 TRILLION (USD) bailout!

Only a dolt (or a member of the political class...same thing, I guess) wouldn’t wonder, “How does that “FIX” anything?! It’s like GM’s recent announcement that it had paid off its TARP loans without mentioning that it was paid back with....other TARP funds!

GM, like Greece is still in deep, DEEP, even critical debt.

Consider that Greece’s economy is about the size of current day Michigan’s economy and that $1 TRILLION  bailout is even more astounding! Moreover, to pay back that staggering loan, Greece will have to embark on a series of draconian austerity programs. Odds are that they’ll default and ultimately bring on even deeper problems not far down the road.

But Greece’s $1 TRILLION bailout is not the only reason that bailout was a bad idea.

For what the Greek bailout does is to send a very clear signal to Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain (the other “PIIGS”) that “profligacy pays off...and BIG!” Expect the other PIIGS to default and look for their bailouts as well, triggering an avalanche of debt and default that may well trigger a global Depression down the road.

Where are all the funds going to come from for all those other bailouts?....And at what cost to global financial stability?

The primary lesson from Greece is all too clear - the government directed economy does not work. More than 25% of Greeks work for the government, of the remaining 4 million “workers,” five hundred thousand are unemployed and eight hundred thousand are heavily subsidized EU farmers of very low productivity. Without taking into account all of those of the private sector who make all or some of their living indirectly from the state, it falls on around 2.7 million Greeks to support a million public employees, 800 thousand farmers, 500 thousand unemployed and 1.7 million retirees. Since it would be impossible for Greece’s tiny private sector to support such a heavy burden, that’s why Greece is so dependent on continuous and high levels of borrowing no matter how good or bad the times are. In short, Greece doesn’t have the productive output to sustain that gargantuan public sector...in truth NO economy does! Ergo, the government-directed economy or “Euro-socialism” does not work.

The entitlement culture that Euro-socialism and Keynesianism inculcate is a cancer. In most, if not all cases, it’s best to let those who make bad decisions deal with the consequences.

Ultimately no one and no thing is too big to fail.

A Letter to the Editor That Makes the Folly of ILLEGL Immigration ALL to Clear....

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From Today's (May 9th, 2010) NY Daily News:

Woodside (Queens): "Now that "Los Suns" of Phoenix have come out against the new Arizona (illegal) immigration law, I have an idea. At the start of the next home game, everyone should rush through the door and take any seat they like. When the authorities (aka ushers) request papers (tickets) the people should refuse because it is blatant discrimination against undocumented fans."

Bill Olsen

The Times Square Bomber Wasn’t an Amateur...

News reports that paint Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad (photo above) as an incompetent amateur are probably not very accurate.

What the jihadists have run into is how modern urban logistics make such attacks very difficult in such areas.

Shahzad did combine a number of easily obtainable “household” items to create what could have been a devastating incendiary. He had a number of propane tanks and gasoline (both fuels), fertilizer (an oxidizer), although he seemed to be unaware that the fertilizer purchased in urban areas is generally “pearled” – you’d have to pulverize the solid beads of fertilizer for it to be useful as an oxidizer for an explosive device and was going to use fireworks as the triggering device for the incindiary. He even did a dry run (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7685922/Times-Square-car-bomb-suspect-carried-out-dry-run.html) before the event to figure out the best place to leave the vehicle.

This is a challenge for jihadists and other terrorists, as they’re unable to get many of the components more easily purchased and used in more rural areas. Terrorists in more rural locales are able to actually purchase premixed ANFO, as people in such areas use that to blow tree stumps out of the ground.

What Shahzad was apparently trying to do was to set up a device that could generate enough heat to quickly BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding vapor Explosion) the propane tanks. Those tanks could have very easily done tremendous damage on a city street. A single 5-gallon propane B-B-Q tank can take out the wall of an apartment building or warehouse.

The expansion ratio for liquefied propane is 270 to 1, which means when a gas it occupies 270X as much space as it does as a liquid, which gives you an idea of its explosive power.

Propane is a gas above -44 degrees Fahrenheit, that is, it BOILS at NEGATIVE forty-four degrees Fahrenheit. Propane is a compressed natural gas (C3H8) and is a member of the single bonded alkane family of hydrocarbons. It is stored under pressure as a liquid.

Because of its low boiling point, propane tanks are set up with spring loaded pressure relief valves that can allow some of the product to escape whenever pressure builds.

What Shahzad was faced with was either disabling that device, which would’ve made those tanks bombs as he transported them, trying to disable them on-scene, which would’ve ate up a lot of time and perhaps drawn even more unwanted attention, or generating enough heat quickly enough to overwhelm the pressure relief devices and BLEVE the tanks via heat transfer.

He apparently chose the latter...and failed.

But that failure doesn’t make him “an incompetent.”

He was able to put together a potentially damaging incendiary device out of products readily available and usable in an urban setting, bring it into the city and actually attempt to set it off.

How many ways did our system fail us this time?

Faisal Shahzad was on a “No Fly List” but the airline used an outdated list and missed him.

The U.S. granted him citizenship a year ago.

He’d attended a terror training camp in Pakistan THREE years ago.

Feeling any safer?

The False Controversy Surrounding Arizona’s ILLEGAL Immigration Law....

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According to both the mainstream media (MSM) AND the current President of the U.S., the new law in Arizona dealing with ILLEGAL Immigration is designed to allow the police to stop people for no reason other than to determine their legal status as citizens or resident aliens!

Why it’s not only draconian, but Hitlerian as well!

The FACT is, Arizona’s state law mirrors EXACTLY existing FEDERAL law, which has been on the books for almost 70 years! Since the 1940s, federal law has required non-citizens in this country to carry, on their person, the documentation proving they are here legally — green card, work visa, etc. and that has NEVER changed.
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Yes, EVERY TIME a resident alien (a legal immigrant with a Green Card) interfaces with government, that documentation must be shown.

Moreover, the police can demand ID from ANYONE (citizen or NOT) when being questioned in relation to a criminal act.

Failure to produce ID when being questioned in relation to any criminal act (felony OR misdemeanor) results in that person being “taken in” (taken to the police station) until their identification is sorted out.

You can imagine that if police were not able to verify the identifications of those suspected of being involved in criminal act(s), there’d be no way to solve any crimes. A person or persons could simply refuse to show ID, give a phony name and be on their way.

That does NOT happen. It’s NEVER happened.

Right now Arizona’s state budget is being overwhelmed by the strain put on it by millions of illegal immigrants, most of whom do not pay into the system, they benefit from. Hospitals, schools and emergency rooms have all been swamped due to that state’s huge illegal immigrant population.

For the Feds to rail against Arizona taking on a Federal power, is inane, since the Feds, who are charged to deal with that issue (SECURING OUR BORDERS) has failed to do so...and has apparently failed DELIBERATELY.

So why has the MSM and President Obama deliberately mischaracterized this law?

Obviously because they CANNOT make any affirmative argument for the federal government’s ongoing failure , nor against a state requiring exactly what the federal government requires – valid ID when one interfaces with government.

I Hate to Say "I Live for This"....But....I Really DO Live for THIS!!!....

I've been visiting beautiful Charleston, S.C. for the past few days (actually Friday morning through Monday night) I worked Tuesday morning until Wednesday morning and had a bunch of errands to do today... 

But leave it to the New York Post to make my day!

Yes, with yet another tale of liberal rage, liberal bigotry...and liberal hypocrisy.

God I just LOVE this kind of "human interest story."

Apparently, Wayne Mahlke (the male pictured above) was having a bad day, when he decided to yell out to police officer Denise McDonald, in what is often termed (at least in New York) "the overly familiar."

To quote Mr. Mahlke (the former Chief-of-Staff of the equally EX State Senator Hiram Monserrate, D-Queens - of "girlfriend-beating" fame) "Why don't you do your job, you fat bitch?"


Ironically enough, that bit of the "overly familiar" did indeed get Officer Denise McDonald to "do her job" and collar (a/k/a ARREST) Mr. Mahlke on, as they say, "a variety of charges."

According to the NY Post; "Mahlke allegedly tried to pull away, but McDonald stepped in front of the car, forcing him to stop.

"He then pulled out a New York State Senate "official business" placard, along with a phony, laminated photocopy of an NYPD parking placard, authorities said.

"You don't know who I am - I'm higher-ranking than you!" Mahlke said to McDonald, a 19-year police veteran, according to the criminal complaint.

"He also told the female cop that he worked for Mayor Bloomberg, said Queens DA Richard Brown.

"He doesn't, nor has he ever."

Oh that Wayne Mahlke certainly is a card! Apparently he's as adept at impersonating a politician as he is impersonating "a high ranking police official."

Isn't that allegedly a serious crime?


I'm pretty sure it is!

The NY Post reports that, "Mahlke lost his legislative job in March, after his boss, Monserrate, was tossed from the Senate for assaulting his girlfriend.

"A former vice president of the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens, Mahlke also had once been chief of staff to former state Sen. Ada Smith in 2003.

"Mahlke was charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument, obstructing governmental administration, disorderly conduct, failing to obey directions of a police officer, and not producing a valid license.

"He faces up to seven years in prison."

Hmmmm, I didn't notice "impersonating a police officer among those charges. Somehow, I believe if the average Joe or Jane pulled out a police placard and claimed to outrank a police officer they'd be so charged, but I digress.


Did you notice that among Mr. Mahlke's bio was the "former Vice President of the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens?"


I mean that's rich isn't it?


A liberal member of one "protected group" jumping ugly on a member of another "protected group" for merely doing her job!


For those of you who are liberal enough not to see the liberal hypocrisy in any of this, I offer up Mr. Mahlke's photo; Come on! Does THAT GUY have any business calling anyone else"fat?!" I mean, are ALL the mirrors in this guy's house of the "Fun House" variety, or what?


For the full article go to: 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/do_your_job_you_slap_at_cop_SmnOsNSRLKlk5FVSpYbJRI