March 7, 2008
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From Radarsite: A Happy Retraction - March 7, 2008
From Radarsite: The Outrage of Patriotism - March 4, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
From Other Sites on the Line: 6 Mar 08
Obama's Afro-Centric Church: A Non-Negotiable Commitment to Africa
An update:
From an original article on Faultline USA:
http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2008/02/obamas-afro-centric-church-non.html
[Note from Radarsite: For anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of Barrack Hussein Obama and his questionable background, the following commentary is a must read. In responding to this anonymous commenter, Faultline USA has provided us with a treasure trove of Obamamania. Once again we are indebted to Faultline USA for her diligent research and always lucid observations.]
Comments transposted from Faultline USA:
Sat Feb 09, 11:15:00 AM 2008
Anonymous said...
Obama's mother is white!
Just a simple fact to keep in mind.
Tue Mar 04, 12:09:00 PM 2008
Faultline USA said...
Dear Anonymous. Correction. Obama’s mother,
Stanley Ann Dunham, WAS white. She died of cancer in 1995.
Here’s some of her religious background from today’s Chicago Tribune “Obama's mom: Not just a girl from Kansas”
"She touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she'd read about and could argue," said Maxine Box, who was Dunham's best friend in high school. "She was always challenging and arguing and comparing. She was already thinking about things that the rest of us hadn't. . .
The education of Obama the would-be politician didn't begin, of course, until after his birth in 1961, in Honolulu. But the parental traits that would mold him -- a contrarian worldview, an initial rejection of organized religion, a questioning nature -- were already taking shape years earlier in the nomadic and sometimes tempestuous Dunham family, where the only child was a curious and precocious daughter of a father who wanted a boy so badly that he named her Stanley -- after himself. . .
. . .interviews with their friends from Kansas, now in their mid-to-late 80s, and interviews with their daughter's former classmates and teachers, now in their mid-60s or older, paint a vivid portrait of Barack Obama's mother as a self-assured, iconoclastic young teen seemingly hell-bent to resist Eisenhower-era conformity. . .
. . ." The candidate who vows to help bridge America's racial, religious and cultural
divides has shed his mother's rejection of organized religion, calling his embrace "a vessel for my beliefs. . .
. . . In a recent interview, Obama called his mother "the dominant figure in my formative years. . . .
The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go
about the world of politics."
His mother’s background:
“At Mercer High School, two teachers -- Val Foubert and Jim Wichterman -- generated regular parental thunderstorms by teaching their students to challenge societal norms and question all manner of authority. Foubert, who died recently, taught English. His texts were cutting edge: "Atlas Shrugged," "The Organization Man," "The Hidden Persuaders," "1984" and the acerbic writings of H.L. Mencken.
Wichterman taught philosophy. The hallway between the two classes was known as "anarchy alley," and students pondered the challenging notions of Wichterman's teachings, including such philosophers as Sartre and Kierkegaard. He also touched the societal third rail of the 1950s: He questioned the existence of God. And he didn't stop there.
"I had them read 'The Communist Manifesto,' and the parents went nuts," said Wichterman, adding that parents also didn't want any discussions about "anything to do with sex," religion and theology. The parental protests were known as "mothers' marches."
"The kids started questioning things that their folks thought shouldn't be questioned -- religion, politics, parental authority," said John Hunt, a classmate. "And a lot of parents didn't like that, and they tried to get them [Wichterman and Foubert] fired. . .
The Dunhams did not join the uproar. Madelyn and Stanley shed their Methodist and Baptist upbringing and began attending Sunday services at the East Shore Unitarian Church in nearby Bellevue. . .
There’s also very interesting information in this article about Obama’s father and how his paternal grandfather was angry at the thought of his son’s relationship with a white woman.
“He wrote the Dunhams "this long, nasty letter saying that he didn't approve of the marriage," Obama recounted his mother telling him in "Dreams." "He didn't want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman. "
Thu Mar 06, 10:01:00 AM 2008
Original Radarsite posting:
http://radarsite.blogspot.com/2008/02/from-other-sites-on-line.html
A Candle for the Darkness
A Candle for the Darkness An essay in stolen photographs
by
Roger W. Gardner
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Blips on the Screen: 4 Mar 08
Sooner rather than later
Iran must be confronted
So Ahmadinejad thumbs his nose at the world and continues down the road to Armageddon. Despite these latest and tougher UN sanctions, and near-unanimous international condemnation, Iran is fast becoming the single most dangerous threat to world peace. However, rather than showing any signs of toning down his inflammatory rhetoric, Ahmadinejad just ratchets it up another notch and calls our collective bluff. Not only are we confronted with the looming specter of a soon-to-be nuclear armed terror state, but the mounting evidence has now become irrefutable that Iran has been actively involved in attempting to destabilize and weaken the fledgling democracy in Iraq. Furthermore, it has been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that Iran has been funneling sophisticated weaponry into that country, which has been shown to have been directly responsible for the deaths and maiming of innumerable US soldiers and their Iraqi brothers-in-arms. Additionally, they are responsible for funding terrorist groups not only in Iraq and in Gaza, but throughout the Middle East.
What more must they do before we respond in earnest?
Rather than making yet another WWII analogy, equating Ahmadinejad's escalating and maniacal maneuvers to that of Adolf Hitler's naked aggressions of the 1930s, let us just agree on this: Diplomacy is not working. It didn't work then, and it's not going to work now.
Can there be any serious doubt as to what has to be done? How much longer can we afford to procrastinate before the inevitable showdown? Is there any question that confrontation -- military confrontation -- is the only thing that will stop this madman, and the mad mullahs who are pulling his strings. Was there some other way that we could have stopped Hitler? Can we continue comforting ourselves with the delusional rationalization that the fear of Armageddon in any way deters these apocalyptic maniacs?
Surely, even the most Bush-hating pacifistic liberal must admit to this imminent threat and our lack of viable options. Surely, here at least, unlike that highly -- and mostly retrospective -- controversy over our admittedly unpopular war in Iraq, our country will forget its bitter partisan politics and, as we have done before, pull together in the face of this common peril. Surely, when the time comes -- and it is rapidly approaching -- we will gather 'round the flag and support our country's right to defend itself against our enemies.
Surely, one half of this great nation of ours has not become so cynical and so distrustful of the motives of their own government that they will once again accuse our elected leaders of lying to us just to get us into another war for their own evil purposes. Surely, they will not take to the streets once again in loud dissent, and march under those resurrected placards, accusing our wonderful nation of bullying Imperialism, or calling our courageous soldiers rapists and murderers. Surely, this time, in the face of this growing and undeniably ominous threat to our very existence we will not turn against each other and tear ourselves apart.
We haven't gone that far yet --
have we?
Suggested reading for those who still have doubts:
Iran may be biggest threat to Iraq: U.S. general
Cross posted from Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0450503120080304?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
By Andrew Gray
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran may pose the greatest long-term threat to Iraq's stability, a U.S. general said on Tuesday, the day after Iran's president wrapped up a visit to Baghdad.
Army Lt. Gen Ray Odierno, who recently ended a 15-month assignment as the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, said Iran continued to train extremist militia groups in Iraq.
Odierno also said he was not surprised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was able to move around without security problems during his two-dayvisit to Baghdad as the groups that often target high-profile visitors are Iranian-backed.
"Over the last 12 months, every time a visitor would come from the United States, we'd either foil a rocket attack or the rocket attack happened. And guess what? That's because it was being done by Iranian surrogates," Odierno said.
"And when the government of Iraq holds a meeting, there tends to be rocket attacks. Why's that? Because it's done by Iranian surrogates," he told reporters at the Pentagon.
The U.S. military has repeatedly accused Iran of training, supplying and funding Shi'ite militias in Iraq. Iran has denied the accusations.
Ahmadinejad's visit was the first to Iraq by an Iranian president since the two countries fought an eight-year war in the 1980s in which 1 million people were killed.
Iraq's Shi'ite-led government has sought good relations with Iran, another Shi'ite majority country.
But Odierno said he believed Iran wanted Iraq to have only a weak government.
Despite a substantial drop in violence since last summer, U.S. forces in Iraq still face many challenges, including the threat from Sunni insurgent group al Qaeda in Iraq.
Odierno singled out Iran as a factor of particular concern.
Asked if he saw Iran as the greatest long-term threat to Iraq's stability, he said: "If you ask me what I worry about most, I do. I do worry about that as a long-term threat."
Odierno said he had mentioned Iran in discussions with President George W. Bush at the White House on Monday.
He said the United States had "pretty clear" evidence that Iran was still training Shi'ite "special groups."
He also said U.S. forces in Iraq continued to find many deadly armor-piercing munitions which the U.S. military says come from Iran, but he could not tell whether Iran had slowed the flow of those weapons.
Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East, said the United States expected Iraqi leaders to convey to Ahmadinejad "the necessity of stopping this lethal flow of equipment".
"We are working with our commanders to try to cut off this Iranian influence," Fallon told the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services.
(Additional reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Eric Walsh)
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Blinded by Hope, abandoned by Reason
"This Is A War Of Destiny
Between Infidelity And Islam."
(Text Of Bin Laden's Audio Message To Muslims In Iraq, Posted On Jihadist Websites, 12/28/04)
"Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all!"
Islam Is Not a Religion of Pacifists (1942)-- Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini
In 1996 and then again in 1998 Osama bin Laden issued two fatawa -- that Muslims should "kill civilians and military personnel from the United States and allied countries until they withdraw military forces from Islamic countries and withdraw support from Israel.
Bin Laden: "The Whole World Is Watching This War And The Two Adversaries; The Islamic Nation, On The One Hand, And The United States And Its Allies On The Other.
What is there, my friends, in these simple, direct and unequivocal messages that remains obscure? What is there here that lends itself to misinterpretation? Could these undeniable experts be any less ambiguous in their pronouncements? This is, they tell us quite plainly, "a war between Infidelity and Islam", a war between "the Islamic Nation and the United States and its Allies." And, even more clearly, "Islam is not a religion of pacifists".
Yet we will not listen. We will not heed their warnings. We refuse to acknowledge the weight of their solemn words. Blinded by Hope, abandoned by Reason, we steadfastly refuse to understand their meaning.
It has been six and one half years now since the catastrophe, and incredibly we have not yet found the political or moral courage to identify our true enemies. We distort and obfuscate the overwhelming evidence to support our insupportable optimism. Confronted by Naked Evil, we refuse to recognize its presence and retreat into the temporary comfort of our pitiful rationalizations and our misleading euphemisms. We cling desperately to our hopelessly outdated discredited theories and our wishful thinking. We continue to denigrate the power and the determination of our adversaries -- not because we know it to be true, but rather because we will it to be true and because it makes us feel better. Our old familiar list of comforting illusions still somehow sustains us:
All religions are basically the same.
All religions are centered on the search for Peace and Love.
All people are basically the same; they are all searching for Peace and Love.
If violence comes from a particular religion, then it necessarily follows that the basic tenets of that particular religion have been perverted: the religion itself cannot be faulted, it is merely the work of a few misguided fanatics, who can be found in any religion -- even Christianity.
These are the falsehoods we cling to even as the enemy approaches. Yes, we tell ourselves, our enemies are troublesome, but they are merely a fanatical minority. Islam itself is a peaceful religion. It has been hijacked by a few crazy people. But our war is not with Islam. Definitely not with Islam...
"This is a war of destiny between Infidelity and Islam"
There is nothing here, my friends, but crystal clarity. There are no disclaimers or qualifications. No possibilities here for misinterpretation. Yet -- incredibly, and disastrously -- we persist in our denial. We are drunk with denial. While our enemies are cold sober with hatred.
An undercover survey of more than 100 mosques and Islamic schools in America has exposed widespread radicalism, including the alarming finding that 3 in 4 Islamic centers are hotbeds of anti-Western extremism. "We have too many mosques in this country," said Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y. "There are too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully."
Sunday, February 24, 2008
HOMELAND INSECURITY
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=5714
Voted by Fox News at GOP Hub
Blips on the Screen: 2 Mar 08
Keeping an eye of Russia
From Reuters March 2, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Russia/idUSL2883523820080302?pageNumber=3&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true
Russia's Medvedev set for presidency
By Christian Lowe
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev was elected as Russia's next president, early results showed on Sunday, after a vote that will preserve the power of his mentor President Vladimir Putin but which opponents said was unfair.
Medvedev, a 42-year-old former lawyer who has worked at Putin's side since the 1990s, will take over the trappings of the presidency from his patron in May but it was still unclear which of the two men would really be in charge.
Two hours after voting finished, a smiling Medvedev walked out of the Kremlin gates alongside Putin and the two men took to the stage at a celebratory concert on Red Square.
"The elections have taken place and our candidate, Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, has a confident lead," the Russian leader said to chants of "Putin! Putin!" from the crowd. "The elections were in strict accordance with the constitution."
Medvedev, dressed in a black leather jacket and blue jeans, promised to stay true to his mentor's policies.
"We are choosing our path of development for a long time ahead and we have a chance to ... cement stability and carry on down the path we have been traveling down for the past few years," he said.
Defeated Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov expressed concern about irregularities, though he did not challenge the overall result. Western monitors were preparing to issue a tough verdict on a vote they say offered people little real choice.
But Russia voters are enjoying the biggest economic boom in a generation and most see Medvedev as the best hope of prolonging their new prosperity.
He has asked the 55-year-old Putin to be his prime minister and promised to continue his mentor's policies.
"I think that he (Putin) will, at least at the beginning, be the key figure," said Sergei Markov, a Kremlin-linked political analyst and member of parliament.
Updated results from an exit poll by state-run pollster VTsIOM gave Medvedev 70.1 percent of the vote. Zyuganov was in second with 16.8 percent.
In the official count, Medvedev was leading with 66.50 percent after ballots from 30 percent of polling stations had been counted.
The outgoing president, barred by term limits from running in this election, will step down in May and move the short distance down the Moskva river to the prime minister's office in the government headquarters, known here as the White House.
The handover has been smooth for now but observers question how Putin and Medvedev will make their double act work in a country which is used to having a single, strong ruler.
Analysts warn a post-election honeymoon could soon run into problems over the economy too, with inflation rising and the budget dangerously vulnerable to a fall in the price for oil, Russia's main export.
ONE-SIDED
Medvedev's victory follows a one-sided campaign in which the former corporate lawyer refused to take part in televised debates and enjoyed lavish coverage on state television.
Election officials said they had no evidence of violations that would cast doubt over the result.
"This is a secret service KGB operation to transfer power from one person to another," ex-premier Mikhail Kasyanov, who was disqualified from the ballot, told Reuters. "It has nothing to do with elections".
Medvedev's victory has been seen as a foregone conclusion since the popular Putin -- credited at home with restoring Russia's might on the world stage and stamping out the chaos of the 1990s -- endorsed him for the Kremlin top job last year.
Investors are watching closely to see who will be in Medvedev's government, with the focus on whether Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, seen as the architect of financial stability, will keep his job.
Russian gas giant Gazprom, of which Medvedev is chairman, was preparing to reduce supplies to pro-Western neighbor Ukraine over a debt dispute at 0700 GMT on Monday, in what some observers see as a show of strength.
Some observers believe the choice of Medevedev could be part of a plan by Putin for a shift in emphasis after 8 years in which the Kremlin has single-mindedly consolidated its power over the media, politics and strategic sectors of the economy.
Medvedev has emphasized the importance of using Russia's oil wealth to improve peoples' living standards, and said he wants to loosen the state's control over big corporations.
(Additional reporting by Chris Baldwin, Tanya Mosolova, Gleb Bryanski and Dmitry Solovyov in Moscow; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
Hat tip to Helena Handbasket
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Let the Games Begin
"He scares all of you doesn't he? Good!"
Radarsite's rules of the game: If you post a comment here on Radarsite be prepared for a reply. If you respond to this reply with an intelligent argument, one which actually addresses the issues involved in the original articles Radarsite will be more than happy to post your responses. rg
Here is the first response to our anti-Obama campaign from a "Barack Fan":
"He scares all of you doesn't he? Good! This November will REALLY be frightening to all of you racists/anti-gay/anti-Americans. I can't wait! LOL "
March 1,2008 4:27
-- "all of you racists/anti-gay/anti-Americans..."
This, my friends, is how they hope to frame the debate -- if you are against Barack Hussein Obama for President this is what you are, racist, anti-gay, and (incredibly) anti-American. Notice, if you will, that our "Barack Fan" doesn't address a single issue brought up in any of the previous articles about the dangers inherent in an Obama presidency. This is, as we all know, typical liberal obfuscation; this is the way they are going to be playing the game.
Obama is -- a least partially -- black. So, it follows that if you are against Obama you are against blacks. Believe it or not, this blatant ruse actually works on some unfortunate people. Some people are so terrified of being labeled a racist that they will support a black candidate just to disprove this accusation. To those of us who oppose BHO, this type of subterfuge is so glaringly transparent that it's hardly worth the effort of argument. In our many articles here and elsewhere we have carefully innumerated all of the many reasons for our anti-Obama stance, and provided appropriate sources where nesessary; none of which have anything whatsoever to do with Barack's particular coloring; but all of which have everything to do with his deftly hidden agendas.
On the second point, I don't recall ever mentioning gays, or stating that I was anti-gay in any of my pieces, but don't let any of these little facts get in the way of your little self-righteous and uninformed rant.
Thirdly, on being anti-American if one is anti-Obama; this is so preposterous on the face of it that it is almost comical. The liberals in Congress and in our leftist media have done more to harm this country, and to render it more vulnerable to our enemies than any fifth-column muslims here could ever have done. To call us anti-American for opposing more of the same -- or worse -- is nothing less than ludicrous.
However, the truly worrisome thing here to me, is not in dealing with people like our commenter, whose mind is already made up and closed; no, the troubling thing now is finding a way to reach all of those people out there who, for whatever reasons, were totally unimpressed by 9/11, and who in their oblivious ignorance honestly believe that the trouble we are in in this world is all because of our inherent racism and intolerance. It has nothing to do with islamism, or jihadists, or the qur'an. Somehow, Osama bin Laden's clear and unequivocal Declaration of War against us carries no weight with them. They just ignore him and all of those other islamist threats. They ignore bin Laden's statements because they know better. They know that what this whole conflict is about is about our American imperialist bullying and our national racism and xenophobia and our fear of a foreign religion, a peaceful foreign religion that has been hijacked by a few radicals -- similar to how our Christianity has been hijacked by our KKK. They instinctively know that the cure for this disease is DIALOGUE (such as that which we experienced recently at Columbia University). Reaching out to our enemies and embracing them with the soft warm arms of reason. That's the answer.
Not offensive wars. Not defensive measures; but LOVE and UNDERSTANDING.
That's what they'll be voting for. They have been molded in our universities and in our media by those aging Children of the Sixties, and they are in love with LOVE. And Barack Hussein Obama is the incarnation of Love.
This, then, is our challenge. If we are to avoid the imminent destruction of our precious democracy and the steady erosion of our common values, these are the people we somehow have to reach; our self-important commenter above is unfortunately already lost.
Once again -- God help us in our efforts, or God help us all.
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