Iran’s top military commander, Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi says
“The Iranian nation is standing for its cause and that is the full annihilation of Israel,”
… and not one major paper, television or cable news channel sees fit to note it.
Hell, the right kind of Jew will vote for Obama, regardless. So why sweat the reduction of the wrong sort?
This newer, more modern Jew-hate emanating from Iran is no less peculiar (and to the extent it exists in the Arab nations as well, so also with them is it peculiar) — which is to say ultimately unintelligible — than the Jew-hate which emanated from Nazi Germany, outside perhaps that it provides a certain usefulness to a dictatorship to be able to hold up a tiny “external” enemy as a sufficient diversion from the emptiness of the regime’s central ideological stance, the hollowness of its aims and the consequent impoverishment and enslavement of its people.
Still and all, may Israel take Iran’s bluster as the serious challenge it is, certainly. It’s only too bad — or to say another way, is such a shame — for the Obama regime that they produce no sign that they grasp the problem for itself, yet even so, venture to make political play of it. One could hardly expect to find a more poorly prepared gathering of political imbeciles to conduct a rational foreign policy than this lot, and shocking to find the American people so stupid as to place such fools in power at such a time.
Howie Kurtz shakes his head at another non-story
The world is in a fantasy land ignoring the big problems to focus on whether kids might be thinking mean illegal thoughts about the president in social studies class. The Armenian Genoide, the Greek genocide, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, Ethiopia, Rawanda, Sudan, Afghanistan, all happened while everyone was trying to wish them away and focus on other stuff. Why should Iran be any different? We don’t ever stop this shit until it’s carved its scars in histories face. Then we sober up a little and get drunk on trivial crap again as soon as we think it’s over. Rinse. Repeat.
“This newer, more modern Jew-hate emanating from Iran ”
The funny (not ha ha )thing is that Iran wants to wipe out/forcibly convert the Sunis and the Christians too. This is a state run by a Doomsday cult. This isn’t a ruthless “will to power” make a better world through exteme actions that create an ecstatic national unity out of conflict” project like Hitler envisioned.
This is a “break the world so bad that God has to come and fix it as was prophesied” thing. This isn’t cynical or personal hiding behind a myth. This is lunatic PIETY. There is no sane motive for this. It will not make Iran rich or prosperous. Their aim is to break the world so God will come and fix it though his Mahdi who is hidden but will come and fix the world when no one else can.
This.
Look, I know how our esteemed host feels about voting for Romney, and most of the time I agree with him. I would be all set to write in Sarah Palin, if not for this. (And maybe for the Supreme Court.) It is for this reason that under no circumstances can Barack Obama still be President by the end of January 2013. It’s too late for protest votes. Anything that can keep our fingers grasping at the top of the cliff, we have to do, just to buy enough time to find a rope. I know damn well that Romney won’t solve all – or even any – of our problems, but if he does get elected and manages to keep us from getting incinerated, I’ll have considered his term in office a success.
Speaking of things that will not make the Lamestream news, the prevalence of Twelvers in Iranian leadership is another. Better that the world have no idea how thoroughly deranged these people are.
Speaking of things that will not make the Lamestream news, the prevalence of Twelvers in Iranian leadership is another. Better that the world have no idea how thoroughly deranged these people are.
Never have we been worse prepared, or worse led, for what is facing us on the world scene. For all of his numerous (and usually unacknowledged or quickly papered-over) faults, FDR at least had the measure of the beast in Berlin and the fanatics in Tokyo.
One could hardly expect to find a more poorly prepared gathering of political imbeciles to conduct a rational foreign policy than this lot, and shocking to find the American people so stupid as to place such fools in power at such a time.
The perils of government by ward heelers and hard-left academics were never more evident.
If he can’t be, he won’t, regardless of how Jeff or I or anyone else refusing to support Romney vote. And if there are enough of us that Romney loses, that’s Romney’s fault, not ours.
More non-news via Hot Air
How will the evening news shows handle the coming USSC decision possibly striking down the entirety of ObamaCare? Or if not the entirety, certainly fatally crippling whatever remnant they see fit to leave “intact”?
It should be quite some contortionistic circus spectacle I reckon.
Or as I’ve been putting it, if Romney needs my one vote to win Georgia, winning Georgia won’t help him anyway.
That’s easy sdferr, it will certainly aid Obama, by ending the divisive fight over Obama’s singular accomplishment, while also making healthcare reform The Issue of the election, at the same time
I’ve heard just such stuff before Ernst, even from the mouths of such as will perhaps produce that sort of nonsense one day (like A.B. Stoddard, for example, whose daddy toiled in the bowels of a network, I think I recall) though still I wonder whether that will be the decision when crunch-time comes? To be sure, they don’t mind looking imbecilic and stamping themselves with the stupid brand for all men to see, so long as men care to look, but I do wonder whether they’ll have assured themselves that this is the best approach to gain their aims? I rest content that Dave Axlerod is working the problem even as we speak.
“Now you have to re-elect Obama so he can do it right!”
That’s a re-election slogan for the ages. It worked so well for John Adams, and for his son, and for Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, William Taft, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush.
You never know, McGehee. “I told you you had to re-elect [him/me] if you wanted it done right!” worked once.
Once!
The sample size isn’t enough to draw any reasonable conclusions.
That said, frak all of them.
Romney is at 60+% here. I can stay home unless we have congresscritters up to bat, as well.
I’ve got a congressman I generally approve of, and an open legislative seat I have to help fill as well as a bunch of county offices at issue (and some issues too for that matter), so I can’t stay home on November 6.
I merely insist on my right not to be ordered how to vote by a political party that no longer even tries to pretend to be trustworthy.
I have a Congresscritter what needs a stern talking too.
Unfortunately, the Sec State disqualified all of her primary challengers.
The difference between a Republican banana republic and a Democrat banana republic is that the Republicans are smart enough to not cut down all the banana trees.
But will the banana pickers stay complacent?
Heh. You need to boil that down to 140 characters and tweet it so I can retweet it.
Or I could just tweet it anyway, with attribution.
Tweet away.
He is still very angry…
uncommitted didn’t run any ads in ky
14 of 120 Counties Reporting
Barack OBAMA (DEM)
57.59% 14,240
‘UNCOMMITTED’
42.41% 10,486
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/38672/82503/en/summary.html
Don’t stay home on Romney’s account. Undervote or write somebody deserving in.
To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi, we had to elect Obama to see what he would do as president.
Now, is it really necessary to re-elect him to see what he would do next?
PJM Capacity Auction Secures Record Amounts Of New Generation, Demand Response, Energy Efficiency
With an unprecedented amount of electric generation retiring within the next three years, PJM Interconnection’s capacity market secured record amounts of new generation, demand resources and energy efficiency to keep the grid reliable.
PJM has announced the results of its capacity market, the annual Reliability Pricing Model (RPM) auction, for resources to meet power supply needs between June 1, 2015, and May 31, 2016. The RPM auction procured a record amount of new generation in one year, 4,900 megawatts (MW). In addition, capacity imported from west of PJM increased about 8 percent from last year to 4,335 MW.
The RPM establishes contracts with power producers who commit to make their facilities available to provide electricity for the PJM system for a year. Prices are established through competitive bidding. PJM’s auction also includes demand response and energy efficiency providers.
This year, the auction procured 164,561 MW of capacity resources at a base price of $136 per MW. A megawatt is enough electricity to power 800 to 1,000 homes. PJM’s all-time peak demand is 158,448 MW. Prices were higher in northern Ohio and the Mid-Atlantic region.
“PJM is effectively, efficiently and reliably handling a massive shift in generation from coal to natural gas,” said Andy Ott, PJM senior vice president – Markets. “The RPM auction is addressing, in a quick and orderly manner, what could have been a prolonged and uncertain process to identify replacement resources. Simply put, RPM was put to the test and performed well.”
Ott added, “Nevertheless, much work needs to be done, including transmission upgrades required by plant retirements in order to deliver power supplies to population centers.”
In addition to new generation, most of it natural gas-fired, the capacity auction also procured 14,833 MW of demand response, a 5 percent increase over last year, and energy efficiency, a 12 percent increase. The amount of demand response was also a record for PJM, as well as for renewable generation. Solar increased to 56 MW of solar — a 22 percent increase over last year – and wind increased to 796 MW – a 15 percent increase.
“Capacity prices were higher than last year’s because of retirements of existing coal-fired generation resulting largely from environmental regulations which go into effect in 2015,” Ott said.
Read more: http://tdworld.com/business/pjm-aapacity-auction-0512/#ixzz1veC1XsMR
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