Barack Obama, Bill Ayers: The Obama Bunch

Barack and Friends
Red Planet Cartoons on Obama's Buddies
The Relationship Between the Man Who Bombed the Pentagon
And the Man who Wants to Run it

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“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.”
–Obama friend William Ayers


The many questionable associations of Barack Obama is the subject of the latest Red Planet Cartoon.

Front and center among those is Obama's "good friend", Bill Ayers. Ayers went from being a leader of the Weather Underground into writing grants for Barack Obama, community organizer.

This is the first time in American history that a man (Ayers) has parlayed bombing the Pentagon into having a presidential candidate announce from his home.

Millions of voters are unaware of this connection between Obama and Bill Ayers because the Mainstream Media, as usual, is more intent on "protecting" rather than "reporting" the news.

RPC helps correct this situation and starts things rolling with the quote and cartoon above and then follows up with this great quote from Stanley Kurtz, National Review: A Cover-Up in the Making?

The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive when a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally exploded in a New York townhouse. Prior to that, Ayers and his cohorts succeeded in bombing the Pentagon. Ayers and Dohrn remain unrepentant for their terrorist past. Ayers was pictured in a 2001 article for Chicago magazine, stomping on an American flag, and told The New York Times just before 9/11 that the notion of the United States as a just and fair and decent place “makes me want to puke.” Although Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayers’s and Dohrn’s home, Obama has dismissed Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship with Obama.

Red Planet then adds a McCain video on Ayers and Obama and its fine collection of info links, including one to DBKP's The ‘Tangential’ Bill Ayers. All the links are chocked full of info on the topic, but Bob Owens: The Ayers-Weatherman Terrorist Attack as It Might Have Happened is particularly good.

Will the media investigate the years-long connection between a man who bombed the Pentagon and the man who wants to run it?

Our prediction: Inside the tank for Obama is a hard place to begin an investigation.

Emailing RPC's Barack and Friends to someone you know might be considered an act of public service.


by Mondo
image: Red Planet Cartoons
Source: Barack and Friends

Obama Campaign: From 'Juggernaut' to 'Meltdown' in 4 Months

Headed for the Exits
Obama in May: "JUGGERNAUT"
Obama in September: "MELTDOWN"




“We’re witnessing nothing less than a full-on meltdown..”
–Rush Limbaugh


Barack Obama's campaign--described as a 'juggernaut' less than four months ago, is now facing renewed questions, scrutiny and fund-raising challenges--and one commentator calls it a "meltdown".

Barack Obama knows it. The election he had in the bag is slipping away…

Democrats know something, and desperation is setting in. They have a novice campaigner who wanders off message. With every advantage in the primaries, Obama couldn’t win the big states — New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania — against Hillary Clinton, even when he got to define the rules for running against him. She could never risk alienating the base she’ll need in 2012; John McCain and Sarah Palin have no such constraints — hence the panic.

Panic Sets In For Obama, Democrats, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Less than four months ago, Joe Trippi, the string-puller for Howard Dean and John Edwards, said, "“Obama has been battered, beaten, screamed at, yelled at, kicked and - nothing, totally unflappable, his staff’s unflappable, no schisms. McCain has imploded twice. So you have to have more confidence in Obama’s ability to put a team together and keep it together.”

Joe Trippi, a Democratic consultant who pioneered some of the successful grassroots and internet techniques when he ran Howard Dean’s campaign in 2004, said that John McCain is already in “deep, deep trouble” because of a poor organisation and an anaemic fundraising total of about a fifth of the $500 million raised by Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton.

“Obama’s got the strongest organisation in history because of what he’s done with the internet and plugging volunteers into the paid organisers operation. McCain’s team is in a shambles. He has no organisation and no grassroots fundraising operation.”

If the election were only held among Democrat strategists and Mainstream Media pundits, they could have turned out the lights in May. However, there's the little matter of an election that involves millions upon millions of voters whom turn off politics until the last eight weeks before the election.

Actually, some people turn off politics and talking heads until the day before the election. Whatever the case, the spirits don't seem to be as high in the Obama organization these days.

Red Planet Cartoons has a generous helping of links to back up the cartoon at the top of the page. Among them are:

FoxNews: McCain Gains 16 Points Among Independent Voters.

HotAir: Obama’s Fundraising Drying Up.

ABC11: McCain leads by 20 in North Carolina.

Rasmussen: Obama’s Lead Down to 2… in Washington.

For the complete listing of the polls that have tightened up or changed in the last week, check out "Heading for the Exits" at RPC.

Why the sudden and swift reassessments?

Readers will make their own judgments.

Obama may or may not be in a 'meltdown', but he's certainly not a 'juggernaut' anymore.

by Mondoreb
image: Red Planet Cartoons

Palin Derangement Syndrome for Dummies

Newest MSM Affliction:
Palin Derangement Syndrome
Red Planet Cartoons

“There’s something about this lady that scares the left senseless. As if the left wasn’t already senseless.”
–Neal Boortz

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Red Planet Cartoons has already spotted the latest mental affliction to strike the financially-ailing MSM: Palin Derangement Syndrome. The Cartoon above is spot on.


RPC starts off with a little question from Thomas Sowell: Is the MSM 24/7 Palin attack frenzy a knock or a boost?

“The public’s right to know” is often invoked by the mainstream media, when what they are really talking about is the media’s right to smear those that they disagree with politically.

It is doubtful whether the public is half as obsessed with Sarah Palin’s daughter as CNN obviously is. Even before this particular story was hyped, CNN was among those in the media who had become something of a laughingstock for how they had gone overboard in favor of Barack Obama.

Increasingly, over the years, CNN has become less of a news reporting organization and more of a propaganda machine for liberal-left politics. Unfortunately, CNN is not alone.

It was not the newsworthiness of young Bristol Palin’s pregnancy that put it on the front page of the New York Times or interminably on the bottom of the screen at CNN. It was an opportunity for them to try to damage the political career of someone they disagreed with politically.

Red Planet add some clarifying links by Rich Lowry, Stephen Hayes and Michelle Malkin: The Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse.

And there you have it: PDS boiled down into one easy-to-read post.

Even for pundits and the MSM.

I wonder if any of them will take the opportunity to read it?

by Mondoreb
image: Red Planet Cartoons
Source: Palin Derangement Syndrome

Russia, Georgia: Dems, Voters Reminded World is Dangerous

There Is A Bear In The Woods
Russia Bombs Civilians in Georgia
Americans Reminded World is a Dangerous Place





Red Planet Cartoons reminds readers: There's a Bear in the Woods and the world is a dangerous place

From McClatchy: Civilians Were Only Targets Left As Russia Kept Bombing:

Miles away, at one of Tbilisi’s main hospitals, doctors struggled to care for the wounded, who arrived in waves throughout the day. Many were elderly. None was a soldier.

“Just now, we admitted eight patients,” said Tamara Saria, a doctor. “The age of all of them was no less than 80.”

“Do you see any military people here?” asked Nikoloz Kvachatze, another doctor. “These are all civilians.”

He was walking past an 80-year-old woman who had shrapnel wounds across the right side of her face. The woman, frail with thin white hair, was gasping and wheezing into an oxygen mask

“They are punishing us,” Kvachatze said of the Russians. “They are punishing us for trying to be independent.”

RPC also has a collection of background and informational links listed in the post.

In the rush of a busy day, voters sometimes forget how dangerous the world can be.

Barack Obama sometimes forgets it, too.

Russia's invasion of Georgia reminded everyone just how dangerous it is.

by Mondoreb
image: Red Planet Cartoons

Minimum Wage Hike: Who Does it Really Benefit?

America Takes A Pay Cut
Red Planet Cartoons



Red Planet Cartoons takes a look at the increase in minimum wage in their latest.

From The Wall Street Journal: Bad Law, Worse Timing.

Most are not family heads making the minimum wage full-time all year. They are young single adults, teenagers living at home or spouses providing a second income. The average family income of a minimum-wage earner is $44,636, and 42% of these workers live with a parent or other relative. Only 15% of employees making the minimum wage are single earners with dependents. “A minimum wage increase today is a middle-class family entitlement,” says EPI Executive Director Rick Berman, “because that’s who’s working at the minimum wage in second and third jobs.”

Repeated studies have shown that minimum-wage increases are more likely to slow job creation than reduce poverty. A large share of the costs of these mandates are borne by the same low-income families the wage hike is supposed to help. Employers inevitably pass wage increases onto consumers as higher prices for goods and services, which erodes the spending power of all consumers but especially the poor. Employers also respond by hiring fewer unskilled workers, a disproportionate number of whom are teenagers and minorities.

Why would politicians vote for a minimum wage increase when it's been demonstrated, time-and-again that it hurts the very people it's supposed to help?

It's the ultimate liberal politician's wet dream.

It allows the liberal to proclaim that (s)he's helping the poor. It also fulfills the political need of "doing something"--whether that "something" is beneficial or not. Finally, it allows the liberal to feel good about themselves for being such a fine, outstanding person.

The facts be damned.

As a personal note: eons ago, while managing a fast food restaurant, the minimum wage was increased. That raised labor costs as well. Labor costs at our store were fixed as a percentage of sales the store did. The usual amount of money we had to work with for labor costs at that time, was roughly (if memory serves), $280 per week.

Though the minimum wage went up, the budget for labor costs did not. If the labor costs budget increased, then our prices had to increase, also. The upshot: we had to let one of our eight workers go and cut the hours of two others.

That is the real-life consequences of a rise in the minimum wage.

Red Planet also includes supporting links, for reference and convenience.

Raising the minimum wage: who does it really help?

Ask the politicians.

by Mondoreb
Source: America Takes a Pay Cut

Drilling in ANWR: Like A Postage Stamp on a Tennis Court

Postal Crazy
Red Planet Cartoons



The dysfunctional energy policy of the US Congress is the subject of today lesson by Red Planet Cartoons, and RPC zeros in like a laser beam.

Anyone wondering why U.S. energy policy is so dysfunctional need only review Congress’s recent antics. Members have debated ideas ranging from suing OPEC to the Senate’s carbon tax-and-regulation monstrosity, to a windfall profits tax on oil companies, to new punishments for “price gouging” – everything except expanding domestic energy supplies.

Amid $135 oil, it ought to be an easy, bipartisan victory to lift the political restrictions on energy exploration and production. Record-high fuel costs are hitting consumers and business like a huge tax increase. Yet the U.S. remains one of the only countries in the world that chooses as a matter of policy to lock up its natural resources. The Chinese think we’re insane and self-destructive, while the Saudis laugh all the way to the bank…
--from The Wall Street Journal: $4 Gasbags

Our only comment is that "gasbags" is too nice a term for the economically-illiterate buffoons in Congress who restrict supply and castigate oil companies who won't give their products away.

Red Planet also links to an assortment of interesting info:

* McCain Backs Incentives to Boost Offshore Oil.

* Top 10 Reasons to Support ANWR Development.

* The Only Domestic Drilling Democrats Support…

Other links are just as attention-grabbing, including "U.S. Has Enough Reserves to Be the #1 Oil Producer in the World."--something we've been speculating on for some time. Gateway Pundit moves the subject out of the realm of speculation.

Drilling in ANWR "won't produce any oil for ten years" is the Democrat mantra. Ten years ago, a little foresight would have helped ease gas prices right about now. What will it be like ten years into the future?

The reader is free to make his or her own guesses.

by Mondoreb
Source: Postal Crazy
Image: Red Planet Cartoons

The Baby Bust and Falling Fertility: Europe on Life-Support

People Power

Family Feud

"When [Rocco] Falivena took office in 2002 for his second stint as mayor [of Laviano, Italy], two numbers caught his attention. Four: that was how many babies were born in the town the year before. And five: the number of children enrolled in first grade at the school, never mind that the school served two additional communities as well. “I knew what was my first job, to try to save the school,” Falivena told me. “Because a village that does not have a school is a dead village.” He racked his brain and came up with a desperate idea: pay women to have babies…"
--NY Times: No Babies?

Red Planet Cartoons' latest theme is one that will surprise Eco-Weenies: Western Civilization's baby bust.

While eco-warriors are preaching the many ill-effects that humans have on Mother Earth, RPC demonstrates that Earth Firsters might have too many trees in front of them to see a barren, Western Civ forest.

Around the time that President Kennedy went to Germany and gave his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, Europe represented 12.5 percent of the world’s population. Today it is 7.2 percent, and if current trends continue, by 2050 only 5 percent of the world will be European.

As Mark Steyn, the Paul Revere of Western Demographic Decline, points out in recent Wall Street Journal article, It's the Demography, Stupid, "In 1970, the developed world had twice as big a share of the global population as the Muslim world: 30% to 15%. By 2000, they were the same: each had about 20%."

Can these trends continue for another 30 years without having consequences? Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb: The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone. We are living through a remarkable period: the self-extinction of the races who, for good or ill, shaped the modern world.

Though Steyn is best-known for his chronicling the abysmally-low fertility rates of Western Europe in 2005's best-seller, America Alone, he was not the first.

Phillip Longman's 2004 article for Foreign Affairs, The Global Baby Bust, put the problem in front of many readers for the first time. In it, Longman documents falling fertility, not only in Europe, but also other countries traditionally associated with high birth rates.

By some estimates, the world's fertility will fall below replacement levels by 2050, if present trends continue.

Which ought to send Al Gore into a fit of ecstasy: with less drivers, there will be less pollution from less cars.

And less people to notice any difference.

by Mondoreb
image: Red Planet Cartoons
Source:
* People Power

Academic Jihad: Subverting with Subterfuge

"If you can't beat 'em, subvert 'em with subterfuge."
--RE Bierce

With fatal terrorist attacks on the decline worldwide and al Qaeda apparently in disarray, it would seem a time for optimism in the global war on terrorism. But the war has simply shifted to a different arena. Islamists, or those who believe that Islam is a political and religious system that must dominate all others, are focusing less on the military and more on the ideological.
--Cinnamon Stillwell, San Francisco Chronicle: Islam in America’s Public Schools, Education or Indoctrination?

If you're an Islamist, it's time for Plan B.

Islamists aren't dummies: even as al-Qaida is destroyed on the battlefield, those determined to rule the world using Islam as their vehicle, prove to be adaptive adepts.

Those who kill in the name of Allah are stealthily using their enemies' system of freedom against them. In Canada, it's filing charges against best-selling author, Mark Steyn with the Human Rights Tribunal. In the U.K., radical Islamists, allied with the multicultural/PC-for-lunch-bunch is slowly grinding down a thousand years of English law and tradition.

In America, a healthy Islamist grievance industry--headed by CAIR--and gaming the victimization bureaucracy are two prongs of a three-tined fork of attack. What's the third?

That would be the academic jihad: using a mushy multicultural education establishment and the means of academia to further cultural ends.

Red Planet Cartoons is all over this in "The Academic Jihad".

It turns out that Western liberal democracies can be subverted without firing a shot.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the educational realm. Islamists have taken what’s come to be known as the “soft jihad” into America’s classrooms and children in K-12 are the first casualties. Whether it is textbooks, curriculum, classroom exercises, film screenings, speakers or teacher training, public education in America is under assault…

The Chronicle's Stillwell goes on to list a representative sample:

* Last month, students at Friendswood Junior High in Houston were required to attend an “Islamic Awareness” presentation during class time allotted for physical education. The presentation involved two representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization with a record of Islamist statements and terrorism convictions. According to students, they were taught that “there is one God, his name is Allah” and that “Adam, Noah and Jesus are prophets.”

* Earlier this year at Lake Brantley High School in Seminole County, Fla., speakers from the Academy for Learning Islam gave a presentation to students about “cultural diversity” that extended to a detailed discussion of the Quran and Islam. The school neither screened the ALI speakers nor notified parents.

If the speakers in the examples above had been fundamentalist Christians, the ACLU would have set a new land-speed record for filing a lawsuit over separation of church and state.



Stillwell continues:

* As reported by the Cabinet Press, a school project last year at Amherst Middle School transformed “the quaint colonial town of Amherst, N.H., into a Saudi Arabian Bedouin tent community.” Male and female students were segregated, with the girls hosting “hijab and veil stations” and handing out the oppressive head-to-toe black garment known as the abaya to female guests. Meanwhile, the boys hosted food and Arabic dancing stations because, as explained in the article, “the traditions of Saudi Arabia at this time prevent women from participating in these public roles.”

* Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, a charter school in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., came under recent scrutiny after Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten brought to light concerns about public funding for its overtly religious curriculum. The school is housed in the Muslim American Society’s (the American branch of the Egyptian Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood) Minnesota building, alongside a mosque, and the daily routine includes prayer, ritual washing, halal food preparation and an after-school “Islamic studies” program.

RPC follows up this meaty excerpt (there's more at Red Planet Cartoons) with a list of links to similar stories of indoctrination masquerading as education. A few samples:

* Little Green Footballs: Troubling Passages in Textbooks at Virginia School.

* Jawa Report: Valedictorian of Saudi-Run Virginia School Joins al Qaeda.

* World Net Daily: History Textbooks Promoting Islam

Sadly, there's more, including articles by PowerLine and Stanley Kurtz.

The educational establishment in America has a recent history of indoctrinating students in cultural ideology, and now theology, contrary to parents' wishes. Protesting parents are usually made out to be benighted primitives, standing in the way of their children's education by their enlightened betters.

The National Educational Association, the largest teachers' union, has long been a hotbed of Leftist cant. Apparently, many of their members have joined hands with Islamists, bent on changing the cultural landscape of America through educational indoctrination.

The Islamists couldn't have picked better tools for their subversive mission.

Locally-controlled school boards and parents who are aware are two roadblocks in this process, though the federalization of education continues to strip power away from both.

Individuals sounding the alarm are another.

One of those alarms was sounded by Red Planet Cartoons.

by Mondoreb
Source/image: The Academic Jihad

The House of War



"Islam divides the world into two parts. The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar al-Islam, or House of Submission. Everything else is the Dar al-Harb, or House of War, so called because it will take war—holy war, jihad—to bring it into the House of Submission."
-- Bruce Bawer: An Anatomy of Surrender

Mark Steyn's America Alone puts it in stark terms: Europe is going out of business.

Due to low fertility rates which no country or civilization has previously recovered from, the continent of Europe, where Christianity was nourished and flowered will become Eurabia--with a majority Muslim population--by the end of this century.

Steyn's conclusion?

Watch for the coming of civil war or worse to most of Europe; as early as the middle of the next decade. The beginnings of this prediction have already begun taking shape: nightly burning and rioting in Muslim-controlled sections of France and the formation and reactions of nativist political parties are only the start.

Red Planet Cartoons confirms this bleak appraisal with links, quotes and the above apt illustration.

For the historically-minded, if it's impressive Gothic cathedrals that ring your bell, it might be wise to book that European trip in the near future.

Unless you're willing to settle for converted Gothic mosques.

by Mondoreb
image: Red Planet Cartoons
source: House of War


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