So. What Are We Going To Do About It?

(Image:  "Hans Brix" in Team America)

A plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the US was uncovered the other day and all indications point to Iran.  An operative was caught attempting to gain material support from a Mexican drug cartell, according to Yahoo News.  It looks like Iran is upping the ante, according to FOX News.

And why not?  America hasn't had such a wimpy president since Carter, says James Jay Carafano in this article in the NY Post.

Despite State & Justice Department officials promising Iran will face our righteous wrath, this also harkens back to another wimpy administration.  One friend pointed this out and sparked the following discussion...

The timing of this is pretty suspicious. Same day as the subpoena for Holder to go before the House to testify about fast and furious. Very reminiscent of President Clinton's bombing runs on Serbia the same day as eventful days during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

You read my mind.

[My wife] had a great observation tying this to the Iranian assassination plot in the US -- she asked if the Mexican drug cartel to be hired by the Iranian agents would use Fast and Furious weapons to pull it off.  I did like how Holder ran away from the mic when asked about Fast and Furry-us...

We're going to do the same effective response we always do: Call on the International Community to register their disapproval of Iran's actions. Unfortunately, we don't have diplomatic relations with Iran and so can't use our preferred method of response which is to sent a strongly worded letter to their government.

The Criticial Difference...

Occuppy Wallstreet: Brought to You By...

(I found the above image online from one of the Tea Party sites)

It looks like this Occupy (Insert City Name Here), has has corporate ties, whether they acknowledge it or not. 

So if these folks want to take down the system, who's going to make all the cool gadgets and clothes?

Mark Steyn rolls-in with his Anarchists for Big Government article in the OC Register.

Hoping for Change in '13

First Morgan Freeman, Now Samuel Jackson...

...view the Tea Party as racists.  It has nothing to do with Obama's scandal-riddled administration, or the administration's dismal failures and plunging approval ratings. 

Fox News and Hot Air have the details.

Lefty Teapartiers?

Can you guess which group of people are the Occupy Wall Street protesters and those who work for a living?

With the protest movement morphing into "Occupy (Insert Name of City Here), the lame-stream media is now drooling over the idea this could be "the Left's Tea Party."  Both MSNBC and CNN wonder if this is an "American Spring."

If this does morph into a Lefty Tea Party, then the protesters should learn to pick up after themselves and refrain from impeding business and commerce.

Meanwhile, here in the Pacific Northwest, the moonbats left their belfry and descended on Seattle.  Linda Thomas, aka "The News Chick," reports on their activity on her blog.

Amanda Knox Back in Seattle

Yesterday, Amanda Knox, who was accused of killing her roommate in Italy, returned home after an appeals court overturned the conviction.  This story of a local girl made international headlines.  However, I must admit I haven't been following the case at all, so I can't say whether she was wrongly accused, or got off on an OJ Simpson-esque technicality.  Her story has been running all day on the local news stations.  Here's a snippet from The Seattle Times.

When Diplomacy Fails...

A friend of mine posted this on line and I had to hijack it.  I'm sure someone's made a military-style patch out of this.

Wall Street Occupiers Make Demands.

The gals above got a dose of pepper spray couresy of NYC's finest.  Fox News invited folks to read the 13 demands of the Wall St protesters with the caveat of trying not to laugh.

I certainly got a chuckle out of most of them, but here are the noteworthy ones that caught my attention:

--Demand 3: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.  Translation:  They want paychecks as opposed to working for a living.

--Demand 4:  Free college.  But who's going to pay the tenured salary of the professors?

--Demand 9:  Open borders.  This contradicted their first demand, which is to impose trad tariffs.  So goods can't cross borders, but unemployed people can?

--Demand 11:  World-wide debt forgiveness for everyone and every nation.  Yeah, this will instill financial trust when loaning money.

--Demand 12:  Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.  So they can continue their spending spree and stick others with the tab.

If it weren't for Rosanne Barr's comments about re-education camps and public beheadings, this manifesto of adolescent irresponsibility would be very amusing indeed. 

Mark Steyn, a commentator I do find amusing, rolled-in with some observations about the Wall Street Revolutionaries.

Madame De Farge of Occupy Wallstreet

The Occupy Wall Street protest has been brewing for a couple weeks now.  Long enough to have it's own Wikipedia entry.  But if you want the scoop, straight from the lefty protestor's mouth, here's a link to the official Occupy Wall Street website.

I happened to catch the Bill O'Reilly episode mentioned in the Wikipeidia entry and thought this comment was spot-on:   "if you put every single left-wing cause into a blender, this is the sludge you’d get."

However, a lot of Americans are facing true economic hardships.  Unfortunately, the truly needy get lost in the belfry of the moonbats.   Dan Gainor, of FOX News, illustrates this better than I can.

The has now spread to several cities across the US, but even that didn't get my attention until Rosanne Barr made her guillotine comment. 

In case you're wondering, the photo above is of Robespierre.  Or rather, Robespierre's head.  He thought it was pretty cool to guillotine enemies of the state--until he found himself lying, face-up underneath the blade.

(Lack of) Due Dilligence

Right now there's two scandals brewing:  Solyndra and Fast & Furious.  But it seems like only FOX News and conservative websites are concerned about them.  The rest of the lame-stream media/Ministry of Truth choose not to report these issues.

However, some of Obama's media groupies are waking up and realizing our Teleprompter-in-Chief isn't what he was cracked-up to be back in '08.  Mark Steyn rolls-in on their lack of due dilligence in this OC Register article.

Meanwhile, here's some good advice to any up & coming would-be "journalist:"