America Only Ranks 3rd in Liking America

Japan and Kenya actually like us better than we do. And the US just barely beats out France - France!?

Whatever happened to good ole fashioned American self-love?

But not to worry - the world still loves Obama. In fact he leads Romney by 65% to 8% in most of Europe. The only country where Romney is ahead is Pockistan - go figure.

And on a completely unrelated note how come Obama donors have so much trouble getting their zip codes right?

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Baseball, it's dead to me now. So this is for you morons who care.

I hate the Giants, so I'm pullin for the team that swept the Yankees.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 04:10 PM | Comments (264)
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Apparently no one ever told him that illegal voting was illegal.

Since Pat Moran was never told illegal voting was illegal, and fraudulent voting was fraudulent, has Jim Moran now so instructed the other workers in the office he shares with Obama's OFA and Kaine for Senate?

Oh, Jonah Goldberg just pointed out: Pat Moran is/was his dad's Field Director. The guy in charge of getting out the vote.

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Not that, on balance, it was up in the air whether it was a planned attack or a "spontaneous" protest over a "YouTube video" that got "out of control"

That there was no evidence, at all, suggesting that.

In fact, all the intelligence and evidence suggested a planned attack -- to this day, the White House has not produced a single scrap of data suggesting anything other than what it was, a planned terrorist attack, announced in advance (!!!) as vengeance for the death of a terrorist in Libya, scheduled for the 9/11 anniversary.

Blackfive: Obama Has Announced His Attention To Do Nothing When Embassies Are Attacked. Yes, he has.

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The monthly visitor, a "study" claims, tends to make women... more extreme, depending on their relationship status.

Actually it's not the menstruation, it's the peak fertility part of their cycle. But "menses" sounds funnier.

It looks like single women become diehard liberal partisans when they're fertile, and women in committed relationships become more... well, Republican.

I have no idea if this is true. I suppose there might be some biochemical mechanism that causes women to think more about their future when ovulating. Maybe there's a biochemical impulse to start thinking about future security. If so, I imagine that would mean single, liberal-leaning women might start thinking about Daddy Government, and married women might start thinking about pro-family policies.

But supposin' don't make it true, and "studies" are, by and large, a non-scientific enterprise chiefly occupied with extracting money from taxpayers to produce junk women's-health pop "science" for slick-covered magazines like Cosmo, and, once upon a time, Newsweek.

Still, whatever, I suppose it's possible. Hormones are powerful things.

This guy proposes a dumb theory to put down married women:

Here’s how Durante explains this: When women are ovulating, they “feel sexier,” and therefore lean more toward liberal attitudes on abortion and marriage equality. Married women have the same hormones firing, but tend to take the opposite viewpoint on these issues, she says.

“I think they’re overcompensating for the increase of the hormones motivating them to have sex with other men,” she said. It’s a way of convincing themselves that they’re not the type to give in to such sexual urges, she said.

Wow. How about a more obvious answer -- if an ovulating single woman is thinking about the natural consequence of sex, childbirth, and therefore becomes more interested in abortion, how about married women are viewing that same natural consequence and thinking about pro-family policies?

But no, it's a defense mechanism to keep them from humping the gardener.

By the way, I have no idea why a primordial hormonal brain impulse, connected intimately to possible childbirth, would result in women thinking about "marriage equality."

Call me crazy, but when I think about primordial hormonal brain impulses, I'm thinking they tend to be pretty simple, and directly related to the biological imperatives of a living animal, such as survival, reproduction, and some very basic things like social status within the herd.

And not abstract questions of higher-level rationalization like "Shouldn't gays, who have relatively little to do with childbirth and nothing at all to do with the rush of hormones preparing me for bearing children, also have the right to marry in a socially-advanced industrial Western nation?"

Hey, Researchers: Maybe women's ovulation is also triggering a revulsion to Mitt Romney's $5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy. You never know what might have evolved in lower hominids' brains 1 million years ago.

Maybe the early hominids had some kind of prophecy about Mitt Romney's Vampire Capitalism.

Maybe that warning's been magically hard-coded into women's brains in order to make sure Barack Obama wins an election a million years later.

Science

Any insufficiently skeptical "science" is indistinguishable from Magic. more...

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If you're going to shake your cup at friendly politicians and beg for handouts, then you're going to have to stop with the Masculine Pride type ad campaigns.

If you need a Sugar Daddy, you're not the sort of tall-standing American Ideal Man GM likes to pitch its commercials around. more...

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First, a several-days-old story from the New York Times. The chief suspect -- the "ringleader" -- in the attack is in fact the head of Ansar al-Sharia.

By the way, he's able to sip tea openly at a cafe, without fear. No one's even questioned him about his role in the attack yet.

Witnesses and the authorities have called Ahmed Abu Khattala one of the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 attack on the American diplomatic mission here. But just days after President Obama reasserted his vow to bring those responsible to justice, Mr. Abu Khattala spent two leisurely hours on Thursday evening at a crowded luxury hotel, sipping a strawberry frappe on a patio and scoffing at the threats coming from the American and Libyan governments.

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A few, like the militia group Ansar al-Shariah that is linked to Mr. Abu Khattala and that officials in Washington and Tripoli agree was behind the attack, have embraced an extremist ideology hostile to the West and nursed ambitions to extend it over Libya.

By the way, that article has this guy claiming that the attack was due to a protest -- but his account is plainly dishonest and self-serving. He claims there was a peaceful protest, then US consulate personnel began randomly firing into the crowd, so then of course they got out their pre-sighted mortars and began firing.

They just happened to have a few of those around.

Plus, no one has talked to this guy until a New York Times reporter met him at a cafe. So this isn't the "intelligence" relied upon. This is cooked up after the fact, to make the terrorists sound like the aggrieved party, as usual.

So later evidence does in fact point to Ansar al-Sharia. And so did earlier evidence -- within two hours of the attack, the embassy in Tripoli was reporting that Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility for the attack.

And the White House claims: just because Ansar al-Shariah claimed responsibility for the attack, and in fact was responsible for the attack, doesn't make them responsible for the attack.

The White House's position is preposterous. Their early intelligence was correct, and is vindicated by later intelligence. They're claiming, basically, that in the "middle period," right around Susan Rice's press blitz, suddenly they had intelligence casting doubt on the early intel and so, for a couple of weeks, had it wrong, but blamelessly so.

So: The early intel said planned terrorist attack, and the final intel said planned intelligence attack, but somewhere in the middle there they were misled by intelligence that disagreed with the first reports and the later reports.

One problem: We see lots of leaked cables (not leaked by Obama, by the way, but by whistleblowers) demonstrating that intelligence pointed to a planned terrorist attack, and none at all supporting this claim of a "fog of war" where suddenly there was intelligence strongly indicating this was a "sponatenous attack" over a "YouTube video" that got "out of hand."

Where is this intelligence? Because as the actual intelligence stands, there seems to be no "fog of war." There seems instead to be a bright stab of light, constant throughout the entire affair, pointing at one and only one conclusion.

Dedicated 10ther has been pounding this issue and reviewing all of the documents released so far, in a ten part series.

One of his later posts, the ninth, documents an unending list of violent and threatening crimes in Benghazi.

Stevens had been begging for more security for months.

He also notes there that only the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, could sign off on -- waive -- the Department's protocols for security, which were obviously waived here.

Posted by: Ace at 11:36 AM | Comments (228)
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Flexibility.

Media outlets in Latin America are reporting that the United States is likely to release two convicted Colombian terrorists, but only after the November 6th Presidential Election.

Colombian newspaper El Espectador (The Spectator) reported on October 19 that the United States and Colombia are in “advanced” talks about releasing Ricardo Palmera and Nayibe Rojas Cabrera to Colombia where they would likely be freed. yet.

And who is FARC?

Ricardo Palmera, who is best known by his nomme de guerre “Simón Trinidad” is a high-ranking rebel leader and former finance director of the leftist Colombian insurgent terrorist organization FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forced of Colombia), which is responsible for thousands of kidnappings and murders in Colombia, including businessmen, politicians, women, children, and even a female presidential candidate.

On February 13, 2003 the FARC extended its terrorist activities to America when its guerrillas shot down an unarmed single-engine plane carrying American Vietnam Veteran and Bronze Star recipient Thomas Janis, three other Americans, and a Colombian official over a remote, FARC-controlled region of Colombia.

It gets worse. "Trinidad" then ordered the survivors held as hostages for five years.

Thomas Janis and the Columbian official also survived -- but they were executed.

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A brief history of some (only some) of Obama's flip-flops.

This list doesn't include broken promises he abandoned for political reasons, like his vow to shutter Guantanamo, his promise to reform entitlements, or his promise to propose some kind of amnesty plan in his first year as president.

Nor his promise -- via a chart prepared for the press and public advocacy by senior economic adviser Christina Romer -- to reduce unemployment to 5.4% by now.

Nor his promise to cut Bush's $480 billion deficit in half, to $240 billion. Instead, he increased it to $1.4 trillion.

And on. And on. And on.

A Biden Flip-Flop... or senior moment. He says "Here in Iowa" while there in Ohio.

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