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But only if you’re Moslem:

SCOTLAND YARD has bowed to Islamic sensitivities and accepted that Muslims are entitled to throw shoes in ritual protest — which could have the unintended consequence of politicians or the police being hit.

News of the concession by the Metropolitan police has come to light amid a series of trials of more than 70 mostly Muslim demonstrators who were charged with violent disorder after last year’s Gaza protests outside the Israeli embassy in London.

Miserable, gutless cowards. Churchill is spinning in his grave.

Things are just booming out there, let me tell ya:

Perhaps the best remedy for sky-high office vacancy in Las Vegas should come in the form of a steel wrecking ball.

Like the residential and retail markets, the office market is overbuilt, with nearly 50 million square feet of inventory and a vacancy rate of 23.4 percent in the first quarter, compared with 19.6 percent vacancy a year ago, Las Vegas-based business advisory firm Applied Analysis reported…

…”In the coming months, we expect commercial real estate prices to decline further and we’re not seeing any true recovery until the end of the year to early next year,” Hillis said…

One of the things I get to see in my daily commute is a sign – one of those “putting America to work” signs with the thinly disguised Obama campaign logo. Been there for the better part of a year – still haven’t seen the work we’re supposed to be put to. Maybe Barry can have us all working at imploding building and plowing Las Vegas under? Last one in town take down the Obama sign?

On a more serious note, do read in to the stories on the economy – you’ll find the common thing being not so much gain, as not losing quite as fast as we were before. This is what is driving things like the stock market – cleverly written stories which seem to report good news and thus fool the gullible. The gullible seeming to be heavily represented by stock market investors, these days. Can’t really blame them – its all they know. They don’t know how to create wealth and if the stock market doesn’t work, they’re sunk.

Victor Davis Hanson has an interesting article over at Pajamas Media – a tour, as it were, through recession-plagued California. Rich, poor and middle class areas are surveyed. The strongest impression I took away from it is of a weak people kept afloat by massive government spending – but, now, the government is broke. Eventually, they checks will stop coming – and, what then?

Then, boys and girls, we’re going to find out who the real Americans are. Who has retained the spirit which founded and built this nation, and who we’ll be ashamed to call our fellow countrymen.

So much for people liking it after its passed:

Three weeks after Congress passed its new national health care plan, support for repeal of the measure has risen four points to 58%. That includes 50% of U.S. voters who strongly favor repeal.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters nationwide finds 38% still oppose repeal, including 32% who strongly oppose it.

We are not, of course, a nation governed by polls. The people get to make their statement every other year in national politics and the results of November, 2008 will hold true until this November, regardless of how much change there is in the national political dynamic. That said, it is clear that Democrats have made an error – a big error. The only question remaining: is it a fatal error?

Only time can really answer that question, but we can see the outline of things. Clearly, the Obama theory that people would fall in love with it once passed has proven false. Far from fading away, the outrage over the manner in which ObamaCare was passed continue to fuel anti-liberal enthusiasm. Republicans get ever more white-hot in their passion, Independents swing ever more strongly towards the GOP and the TEA Party continues to grow and capture the imagination of the American people.

All the ingredients exist for a political tsunami to sweep away the old ways of doing things. We’ll just have to see if the GOP comes up with the leaders and the plans to make it happen.

This example from Los Angeles:

…(LA Mayor) Villaraigosa’s City Hall operations spend nearly $8 million a year — $1.8 million more than predecessor Jim Hahn, and $1.4 million more than Mayor Richard Riordan before him. In early February Villaraigosa seemed quick to make a dubious order to cut 1,000 workers from the city’s payroll, a move he might not have authority to make. But his own budget has been somewhat of a sacred cow.

Alvarado used California Public Records Act requests to find out that the mayor spent a whopping $9 million on his office, staff and salaries in 2008-2009 fiscal year. The mayor’s office, according to the report, employs 173 workers. Hahn had 121. Riordan had 114.

Villaraigosa’s operations employ 12 deputy mayors (who have once assistant each), 10 financial advisers, eight communication advisers, seven energy-and-environment advisers, six transportation advisers and three international-trade advisers. The biggest divisions inside the office include neighborhood community services, with 25 employees, executive services, with 23, and legislative and intergovernmental relations, with 19.

And do keep in mind that Los Angeles is broke. Bankrupt. Hasn’t got a pot to p*** in. Turn out the lights and close the door – the liberal show is over. But there goes the liberal Mayor, with 12 deputy mayors, each with an assistant.

This is how liberalism works in practice – just pile it on and spend, spend, spend. It doesn’t matter – money is magical and there will never be an end to it. You can always tax “the rich”, to make up any shortfall – but don’t tax the actual rich, because then they’ll get mad and might not invite you to the cool parties in Beverly Hills and Malibu. Doing that could also jeopardize your ability to get a high paid job once you leave office.

Los Angeles is relatively small scale – DC is massive scale. But its all of a piece – its all the same. Make Villaraigosa President and Obama Mayor of Los Angeles, and there wouldn’t be anything different happening in either place. Obama’s staff is also quite bloated – heck, so is the First Lady’s.

Once again, its all just magic play money and you’ve got to find jobs for all these people – you can’t expect liberal-arts graduates from elite universities to work in the private sector, you know? Who would want them? But they’ve got to be employed – and where better than in high paid, low-work government jobs where they can mouth liberal jargon and burnish each others resumes?

It is this that we fight against. No, liberals, I’m afraid its not because we’re a bunch of knuckle-dragging, toothless, racist gun- and Bible-clingers. Its because you freaking idiots are ruining the nation – and we have to rescue this Great Republic, from you. We don’t hate you – we pity your asinine worldview and wonder how in heaven’s name you managed to become so out of touch with reality – and yet still call yourselves the “reality-based community”?

And we’re going to clear you out – starting in November.

The headline:

Unified by hatred of Obama, GOP still searches for challenger

Not a chance that we may be unified by love of country? How about us being unified by our opposition to Obama’s liberal policies?

Nope. Not in MSM-land – there, the only reason to oppose Obama is because you hate him, which also implies, of course, that you’re a racist who just can’t stand the thought of a black man as President.

This is what we mean by “media bias” – in the way stories are selected and presented, rather than in any direct attacks on our side. Just glance at the headline over the morning cup of coffee and you’ll get an impression of the world which is at variance with the facts – and that is just what the MSM wants: people not tuned in to reality, but tuned in to the MSM narrative.

Why? Because that is what helps liberal Democrats and that is all the MSM exists for, as far as politics goes.

From Rasmussen:

When thinking about all the services provided by federal, state and local governments, 75% of voters nationwide say the average American should pay no more than 20% of their income in taxes. However, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters (55%) believe the average American actually pays 30% or more of their income in taxes.

Sixty-six percent (66%) believe that America is overtaxed. Only 25% disagree.

Lower income voters are more likely than others to believe the nation is overtaxed. (emphasis added)

Seems that the class warfare nonsense just isn’t working as well as it used to.

It does make sense, though, that low income people would feel the tax bite hard – what rolls off the back of a rich man might be the difference between success and failure for a poor man. This is especially true in that the very rich are hardly taxed at all – and are largely of a liberal mindset, as well. Why? Because they don’t make a lot of income – they have a lot of money and a lot of assets, but not a lot of income. No income, no income taxes, ya dig?

The dirty, little secret of liberalism is that it is a soak-the-poor scheme. A means whereby the poor are to be kept poor and dependent and the rich are to be kept rich and in charge. A rational tax code would put no burden on working, but lots of burden on just having a pile of money – our insane system punishes work and leaves alone piles of money. As to why that is – when super rich people have piles of money, they can use it to fund liberal causes (George Soros ring any bells?) and thus liberals will never bite the hand that feeds them.

The revolution advances, however; the tax man may cometh, but this April 15th is the last time he’ll be unchallenged.

This from New York:

New York state faces a $1 billion cash shortage in June, budget director Robert Megna told reporters today.

The state is considering all options to deal with the shortage, including borrowing, Megna said.

“We are significantly underfunded in the first week of June,” Megna said.

If retail sales are up – and the experts say they are – then where are the sales tax revenues? If employment is picking up, then where are the income tax revenues? If the economy is improving, then where is the decline in government expenditures as people start looking after themselves?

The only way to think this economy is ok is not just to think that employment is a lagging indicator, but that everything other than the stock market is a lagging indicator. Other than this absurd, sucker rally – which is already past it’s prime and Lord only knows what is keeping it afloat – there isn’t a single indicator out there telling us that we’ve turned the economic corner.

Over at Gay Patriot. I made a prediction last year that we’d win 25-30 seats and I’ll stick with that – don’t want anyone out there getting cocky, ya dig?

But it is a good year to be a Republican.

Interesting:

Right now, the race is close: according to a Democratic source, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has conducted an internal poll showing Case at 32%, Djou at 32%, Hanabusa at 27%, and 9% undecided.

The race is winner-take-all – so, with the Donks split, Republican Djou could win with 40% or so of the vote. Here is his website. If you live in Hawaii – get out there and help. If not, then donate.

It is not absolutely crucial that we win, but this would be quite a feather in our cap as we head forward in 2010. Democrats would tout a victory as proof that they aren’t toast – in spite of the fact that a victory would amount to holding one of their own in a very blue area of the country. A GOP win helps us to keep our fervor and momentum at a high pitch.

Victor Davis Hanson lists some possibilities:

So as the U.S. completes its metamorphosis into a much larger version of the EU, we should expect to see something of the following:

Karzai or Allawi will look more to Iran, which will soon become the regional and nuclear hegemon of the Middle East.

Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics had better mend fences with Russia.

The EU should finally start on that much-ballyhooed all-European response force.

Taiwan, the Philippines, and South Korea should strengthen ties with China.

Buffer states in South America had better make amends with a dictatorial, armed, and aggressive Chavez.

Israel should accept that the U.S. no longer will provide support for it at the UN, chide the Arab states to cool their anti-Israeli proclamations, remind the Europeans not to overdo their popular anti-Israeli rhetoric, or warn radical Palestinians not to start another intifada. (In other words, it’s open season to say or do anything one wishes with Israel.)

As for bankrupt, wannabe national defaulters, don’t worry — we are rapidly catching up, and have neither the credibility nor the desire to lecture you about artificial constructs like “debt,” “bonds,” “trust,” and other archaic financial euphemisms manipulated to protect the international capital of an overseer class.

Sowing a new crop takes a while, but the sprouting has begun and the bitter, 1979-like harvests will soon be upon us.

Which sounds about right – welcome back, Carter, indeed.

The one error we conservatives must not fall in to is to think of this as some sort of deliberate attempt by Obama to wreck the United States or run the world up on the rocks. It does risk both these things, but that doesn’t mean it is what Obama intends.

Always keep in mind just what sort of person Obama is – the product of elite, liberal education. Because of this, Obama believes that the source of conflict is not in evil men doing wicked things, but in misunderstandings – mostly on our part. If we would just reach out to our enemies – who are not really enemies, just misunderstood people – then we can usher in a new era of peace and cooperation.

Don’t get hung up on how monumentally stupid such a world view is – liberals have a way of completely insulating themselves from reality. It doesn’t matter what actually happens – to this day, Jimmy Carter doesn’t believe he was an utter failure as President. If anything was wrong, it was with us – people too stupid to see what a wonderful job he was doing. Iran could nuke Tel Aviv and Obama simply will not admit that his policies have failed – he’d blame Bush and pledge to press for Iran to not nuke Tel Aviv a second time, all the while asserting that the key to peace is nuclear disarmament and adherence to the non-proliferation treaty.

Our task – as patriots – is to back our President up in whatever firm policies he does undertake (thus our strong support for the campaign in Afghanistan) and for the rest of it, just pray that nothing really bad happens while Obama is in office. This is part of the price of defeat, fellow conservatives – we lost in 2008, and part of what we’re going to have to endure is a foreign policy completely divorced from reality.