Hamas rejects compromise, peace with Israel

Count Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar among those who are opposed to any form of compromise or even peace with Israel. The Palestinian strongman, in a Jerusalem Post story, said this:

“Today marks the start of direct negotiations between someone who has no right to represent the Palestinian people and the brutal occupier, to provide a cover for Judaizing Jerusalem and stealing the land,” Zahar said.

While refrigerator filters may be rare in Israel, straight talk is even rarer, so let me ask the Obama Administration a straight question: Do you STILL think Israel’s the roadblock to peace, here?

Give me a break…

When is the world gonna learn: Mel’s no good

When is the world gonna learn that Mel Gibson’s “no good, he’s no good, baby, he’s no good,” huh?

Just because a guy makes a movie about Jesus doesn’t make him a saint; Gibson got in trouble a few years ago for an anti-Semitic rant, and now Gibson’s proving his heart’s still in the same place: unrepentant.

The latest target of his hate-speech are blacks, as Gibson was recorded using the N-word frequently. I wonder if Danny Glover’s been told? After four Lethal Weapon movies, you’d think he might have something to say on the matter.

Anyway, even the best weight loss pills in the world won’t make Gibson attractive around Hollywood after this; William Morris Agency has dropped him as a client, and it’s all downhill from there, Mel.

Limbaugh joins LeBron

Radio host Rush Limbaugh had joined LeBron James in spurning New York and its escalating taxes for the more taxpayer-friendly environs of Florida; Limbaugh recently closed on the sale of his Manhattan apartment, selling it for about $11.5 million after paying around $5 million for it in 1994. That’s a decent capital gain for El Rushbo.

And it essentially completes Limbaugh’s move to Florida, breaking ties with the state that launched him to national stardom. Limbaugh has spent most of his time in Florida for the past several years, but the sale of his Manhattan apartment completes the severing of his Big Apple ties.

NBA superstar LeBron James chose Miami over New York when he decided to move from Cleveland in free agency, and the choice is estimated to keep an additional $12-$20 million in James’ pockets over the next five seasons. That’s not chump change, even for LeBron. It could even pay for a lot of much-needed adult acne treatments.

When will New York learn that raising taxes pushes people away and lowering them draws people in, creating a larger tax base pool to draw from?

Well, probably never; the state’s eternally Blue…

Thomas’ “deep regret?”

Since uttering the most anti-Semitic statements since, well, the last time Iranian president Mahmoud Achmadinijad last took a breath, the phentermine-spouting Helen Thomas has issued a by-rote, boilerplate statement saying she “deeply regrets” her comments about how the Jewish people should “get the hell out of Palestine” and go “home to Germany and Poland.”

One can only assume Thomas has never so much as even cracked a Gideon’s Bible in all her decades in journalism, but be that as it may, there’s something a bit hollow about her call for the religious cleansing of the Holy Land of its first and most native people.

Can Thomas honestly regret such comments, or is it far more believable to say that she regrets getting caught on tape spouting them? Furthermore, can anyone expect her to report in a fair and unbiased manner on the White House at this point, especially on US-Israeli issues, after stating such a clear pro-Palestinian bias?

Thomas should be forced to sit in the next year’s worth of public addresses by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Not report on them. Just listen.

She should also be forced into retirement by Hearst Newspapers. Immediately.

Euro media rallies behind Clegg

Call it “A Big, Slobbery Love Affair, Part 2″ if you’re Bernard Goldberg, but Britain’s Liberal Democrat party leader, Nick Clegg, is now being touted as “more popular than Winston Churchill” by the liberal Euro media. Call it the Obama Effect, Euro style.

The Lib-Dems are still tracking third in Great Britain and other than perform well in a single debate, Clegg’s done nothing of note to warrant his alleged popularity. Churchill came by his popularity under the weight of a lifetime of public service and tough, wartime decisions. Guess whose popularity is more impressive? But that’s the lib media for you; promote the guy you want, not the guy in the lead.

Sure, the race has tightened; that always happens. But the conservative Torrie party is on track to gain 40-50 seats and the Times UK, for one, is determined to make that sound like a disappointment.

Whatever. Give the Euro media the best fat burner you can find and they’ll still be as bloated by their political agenda as the New York Times. Gotta hate it.

Netanyahu forced to deny aide’s comment

I can’t imagine why he would need to, since the statement is pretty much true whether his aide said it or not, but to do some damage control, Israel President Binyamin Netanyahu had to deny one of his aides described President Barak Obama as “Israel’s greatest disaster” in the wake of Israel’s latest meeting with the Obama administration.

Rather than being any kind of friend to Israel, the Obama White House has chosen to treat as an enemy the only stable democracy in the Middle East. (Sure, Iraq and Afghanistan may get there one day, but they’re not there yet.)

Yet President Obama has sided with Palestinian terrorists in demanding that Israel halt all housing construction in Jerusalem in anticipation that it will be given over to Palestine at some point. It’s a childish and ridiculous suggestion, which of course made it too tempting for Obama to pass up.

Some day, America may one day again have a mature President who knows how to keep Americas allies as allies and treat terrorists like terrorists. But clearly this White House is as far from being reliable as they can possible be; they are nothing like a Titan auto insurance review. But that’s what America gets for voting on race rather than policy; what we have today is the direct consequences of white liberal guilt.

It’s Jayson Blair all over again

A New York Times reporter has resigned amid charges of plagiarism, bringing to mind the Jayson Blair incident of 2003. The reporter in question this time is Wall Street and financial reporter Zachery Kouwe, who’s sure to be needing the best under eye creams for some time to come.

The latest plagiarism allegation is only the latest black eye to the so-called “newspaper of record” for the United States and, some might say, the world. Yet considering it’s Pinch Sulzberger’s Times, there’s not much to be surprised about, here; after all, when Blair was uncovered, it was Sulzberger who blamed NYT readers, rather than taking personal responsibility for the hire and the amount of time Blair’s abuses went undiscovered.

It will be interesting to see who Sulzberger blames Kouwe on. Maybe Bill Gates?

REVIEW: Western Governor’s University

You know, more and more people are pursuing their degrees online these days, and I’ve noticed something that makes the online degree programs at Western Governor’s University unique: they are more affordable than most. Whether you’re going for your bachelors or your masters degree online makes no difference because it’s still affordable.

I was looking at their tuition rates and they do something quite unique: they charge students on a per-semester basis, not on credit hours. And at under $3,000 per six month term, that’s almost as affordable as when I went to college back in the second half of the 1980s.

In fact, I may have paid more, since I paid on a credit-hour basis. Getting a good degree is hard enough; getting one affordably these days is even more difficult. Western Governor’s University is a great solution on both scores, it seems.

Leno struggling to gain a 1.5 share

The grand experiment by NBC – moving late night king Jay Leno into prime time in order to cut back on costly dramas and save money – is now officially a failure. Sure, the network probably won’t change course this season; mainly because they would need five hours of prime time programming to take the place of Leno, and the network has very few hits waiting in the wings. This season.

But if the sale of NBC to Comcast goes through, as expected, perhaps things will change; if NBC orders an unusually high number of dramas to pilot this spring, you can bet Jay won’t be in prime time five nights a week next fall. Go, Comcast! Send this idiots who killed NBC on some permanent Orlando vacations.

Obama aide Dunn admits to White House control of media

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn admitted in a speech in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic that the Obama administration had actively worked to control the media, rather than allow reporters genuine access to the president, David Ploufe and other administration officials.

Here’s an excerpt from her speech:

“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control. One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters,” said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama’s chief campaign manager. We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it. Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying.”

Such brash arrogance can only be displayed outside of American soil, though the day is coming when that will change, too, I’m sure. For now, President Obama sits in comfortable modern furniture in the White House, but if the press is honest with itself at all… even they will eventually turn on Obama.

No protest for new Moore film

I heard about Michael Moore’s impending new file, Capitalism: A Love Story, in which he declares capitalism evil and then mislabels government-run everything (which the rest of the world calls socialism) as “democracy,” and I had this nice, insightful response all written and ready to roll.

And then I thought: Why bother? Anyone who still believes Michael Moore is anything but a complete ass is probably working in the Obama Administration and is hopelessly lost anyway.

So, screw it. I’m not going to give Moore any more of my bandwidth for his latest anti-American propaganda. The fat man has sung, and it’s you, Mikey. Now go apply your best eye cream and go to beddy-bye.

Eight traitors help climate bill pass

I can think of eight GOP congressional reps who really don’t want their jobs anymore; they made that obvious by kissing Nancy Pelosi’s ring (and rear) to help the Obama climate change bill – which includes the economically-toxic cap-n-trade legislation – pass the House vote.

Despite 44 brave Democrats crossing Pelosi to oppose the bill, eight idiot Republicans also crossed party lines to support the toxic legislation. So here’s the GOP hit-list for the next round of US Congressional elections, the eight RINOs who need to be cleansed from the system. They are:

• Rep. Mary Bono (Calif.)
• Rep. Michael Castle (Del.)
• Rep. Mark Kirk (Ill.)
• Rep. Leonard Lance (N.J.)
• Rep. Frank LoBiondo (N.J.)
• Rep. John McHugh (N.Y.)
• Rep. David Reichert (Wash.)
• Rep. Christopher Smith (N.J.)

Remember those names in November of 2010, people. If they aren’t ousted by their local GOP, vote for the Dem opponent. At least then, you’d know you’re getting a liberal, rather than a turncoat. Send all eight of them into Congressional retirement; they’d probably be better off selling Wilmington NC real estate.