Obama Sent Planes to Mexico to Fight Fires, But Wouldn't Help Texas

Military C-130s were sent to stop Mexico's fires in April, as reported here, but Texans didn't get a federal declaration of disaster for their recent fires, as reported here. 

Obviously, Mexico provides Obama with more votes than Texas.

Showing no favor to worthy people: one of the marks of a tyranny. And another is like it, from Aristotle: "The guards of a tyrant are foreigners."

Leftist FDL Slams Obama for Kicking Housing Can Down the Road

And rightly so:

The design of HAMP simply kicked the can down the road. It was never designed to be a durable solution for the housing market. And we’re seeing the results: four years after the housing crash, prices keep dropping, distressed properties keep popping up on the market, and people keep losing their homes.

It also shows how the homebuyer’s tax credit was a useless giveaway to people wealthy enough to buy homes, which did nothing to alter the fundamentals of the housing market.

The rest is worth reading, too, here.

Deb Saunders Thinks Obama and Maureen Dowd Sound Just Like W

Phonies all.

Column here.

Help Arizona Build The Fence! Donate At The Link!

The link (here) will take you to the page above.

AP Files FOIA for Bin Laden Photos from Most Transparent Administration in History

Hahahahaha.

Story here.

Five Radiation Monitoring Posts in Fukushima Prefecture Still Above 10 MicroSv/hr

Post #32: 20.1 microsieverts/hour

Post #33: 15.3

Post #79: 10.2/10.7

Post #81: 18.4

Post #83: 43.8/43.4

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Radiation at Iitate, Japan, Down to 3.22 MicroSieverts/Hour

As reported here.

Lou Costello's Been a Baaaaaaaaaaaaad Boy!

See it here.

Radiation Conditions at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Still 154-3700 Times Normal

On May 7th, 2100 hours, Japan time:

408 microSv/h at the south side of the office building; 

45 microSv/h at the Main gate; 

17 microSv/h at the West gate.

More here.

These numbers are down slightly from a week ago. See here.

Two months out from the accident, conditions are in no wise close to normal, which would be roughly 0.11 microSv/hour.

How We Punish Determines Who We Are

A concept I have not found discussed anywhere in the wake of the "bin Laden" execution, except here at Salon by Glenn Greenwald.

The reason? Only about 14 percent of you give a damn.

If the US Navy Seals were sent to take no prisoners, how are we any different than bin Laden?

"Narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it."

Is SITE Monitoring Service Credible in Report of Al Qaeda Confirming Death of Osama?

There's at least one person who doesn't think so:

SITE is a US military-industrial complex front and has been caught red-handed releasing fake Al-Qaeda tapes on numerous occasions.

The SITE organization is nothing more than a contractor for the US government, receiving some $500,000 a year annually from Uncle Sam, the majority of which is paid for by US taxpayers. The group was founded by Rita Katz, the daughter of an executed Israeli spy. Katz has worked closely with the Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Bin Laden Waited Until The Very Last Moment To Lunge For a Weapon?

That's what you have to believe if you accept your government's explanation, which seems even more incredible now that we have this from a morally challenged US Senator:

US commandos missed with their first shot a[s] the world’s most wanted man poked his head out of a third-floor room in his fortress, according to US Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Bin Laden ducked back in, and the Navy SEALS quickly followed and finished the job, Chambliss said in a telephone interview this afternoon.

The job? Try execution.

Much more here.

"A murder committed by uninvited American troops on foreign soil, illegally"

Bob Ellis rips us a new one:

"And Osama Bin Laden was buried at sea. Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Imagine Hitler, buried at sea. Or Trotsky. How stupid can they be?"

"Al Qaeda Confirms bin Laden Death." Unless, of course, That's an NSA Operation.

One lie is as good as the next one.

"Al Qaeda confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden Friday in an Internet message that vowed revenge on the United States and its allies, including Pakistan, according to the SITE monitoring service."

As reported here via Reuters.

My Favorite Made Up Story About the Abbottabad Assault

Hence:

As soon as they realised what was happening, Bin Laden’s guards opened fire from the rooftop with rocket-propelled grenades and apparently managed to shoot down one of the Black Hawks.

New UK Daily Mail Kill Operation Graphic Replaces Earlier Fantasy

Here's the new one, hoping we'll forget the old one:

Univ. of Michigan Ph.D. Doesn't Know His Principles From The Principal

Honestly, I don't go looking for these mistakes, I just happen to find them somehow! That I find them so broadly distributed and at the supposedly highest levels is a bad sign of an accelerating cultural decline.

". . . Bell’s principle concern in the chapter is to correct some popular misconceptions . . .." 

It is a popular misconception that there is mastery of knowledge apart from mastery of the language with which one expresses it.

Go to the principal's office at once!

(source)

A Lovely Grammatical Error, By a So-Called Associate Professor

". . . including one recently convened by my colleagues and I from Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion . . .."

Seen here, by I.

Savage Asks: Why Now? Why Get "bin Laden" on Sunday?

To wipe the royal wedding off the news cycle, because Obama wasn't invited. The I-Me-My-Narcissist excuse.

Sorry, nice dig, but too short-sighted, and it underestimates the size of that narcissistic ego, whose fortunes all hinge on race. If Obama suddenly appeared white, it would all be over in an instant.

Re-election is the goal. Ending the war in Afghanistan is the one obstacle he can still affect. The end of "bin Laden," who may well have died long ago, leads easily to closure of that debacle. Alexander the Great might have concluded as much, who got bogged down and fought until he was tired, and needed to move on.

So find a victory, declare it, and get the hell out.

The original plan had called for the first withdrawals, after the ramp-up, "the surge," to begin this summer. The "bin Laden" victory in May provides the necessary praeparatio to start them. Ending America's longest war "successfully" will make Obama popular with the troops and with the people, who all are weary.

[Secretary of State Hillary] Clinton said US plans to begin drawing down American forces in Afghanistan in July will continue even as she acknowledged that the battle against terrorism was far from over.

"Bin Laden" Had Plenty of Time to Arm Himself as Others Were "Eliminated"

The "lunge" for a weapon when faced with a US Navy Seal in the doorway is pure fantasy. He had plenty of time to prepare with a weapon as the systematic assault unfolded.

How about a lunge for cover instead, and a bullet in the back of the head as he went?

And in a revelation which appears to lend weight to the claims in Pakistan, a senior US defence official told reporters that only one of the five people killed in the raid that took down Osama Bin Laden was armed and ever fired a shot.

And the official said the shooter was killed in the early minutes of the commando assault, in an account that differs greatly from the original reports which  portrayed a chaotic, prolonged firefight amid stiff resistance.

The new details emerged after officials debriefed the Navy Seals who pulled off the raid in Pakistan.

He said the operation was a precision, floor-by-floor mission through Bin Laden's compound where all of the others encountered were not carrying weapons and were quickly eliminated.

This was a kill mission, pure and simple.

More here.