…the Muzak, of course, to be a potential by-product of the restoration of the most far-left, welfare-statist Liberals to power.

Folks, we are looking at a solid Democratic lockdown of Washington DC. The ultra-liberal MSM once again enshrined as the Most Holy Arbiter of all TRVTH and Doctrine. And a whole great big nasty slime-crusted, graft-riddled raft of “populist” policy to drive our nation to, and very likely over, the brink of destruction.

With all that, I’m nearly convinced that Comrade Obama will easily sail right into the Presidency, provided he can keep his Gaffe-tastic running mate locked in a closet somewhere. Barring a sudden revelation that he’s gotten caught with three male hookers in a stolen sportscar with a dozen eight-balls of coke, there is simply nothing that can prevent him from sweeping the election in a moderate landslide.

All right, enough of my whining/polemic over the likely outcome of this atrocity of an election year. I’m predicting (unscientifically) that Obama will win (approx) 324-214 … that’s a margin of 190 votes. Not a crushing landslide, but not a squeaker either. I suspect that the popular vote will be much closer, but again, nothing like the Bush-Gore closeness that caused many liberals more than a few sleepless nights eight years ago.

My conclusions are drawn from this map:

(Map taken from Real Clear Politics Electoral Maps)

I wonder how wrong - as Ohio is still very close, and may be in fact quite crucial, depending upon how that voter fraud thing with ACORN eventually works itself out.

The BEST case scenario I can think of would be close to a squeaker, and gives MO, NC, OH, and FL - all of which are still tightly contested in the polls - and most generously gives VA which seems to have been taken over by elite liberals who have carpetbagged moved on in from NY or MA… Or wealthy DC liberals who commute to from northern VA:

At this point, I’d say that the best thing that the GOP could do would be to financially cut McCain loose, and channel all remaining funds to defending GOP Senate races in jeopardy of being lost to the Blue Majority, if not aggressively funding strong contenders in any toss-up Senate seats.

If the GOP wants to put their best effort into preventing a bulletproof, filibuster-proof Senate, which would serve as a rubber-stamp body to whatever porky-garbage the House serves up… they must sacrifice McCain.

With a few notable exceptions, the House is all but a lost cause. The “Rescue/Bailout Bill” debacle has likely cost any (R) congressman who voted against the first bill, but flip-flopped on the second one (which piled on an additional $150B worth of pork and other perks to an unbelievable, outrageous theft of $700B from the taxpayers.

What effect that will have on (D) congressmen is harder to discern, but I don’t think that it will make a difference given the polls indicating an easy 280+ seat House majority, and potentially as many as 70-80 additional seats (as constituents punish R-incumbents who flipped on their votes on the Bailout) adding to that easy majority, up to a 350-360 seat majority.

Probably my last anti-Obama work until after the election, as these do take away from my verbal sniping at Kos-sacks and other “useful idiots”.

The work is heavily based upon this poster, with very much the same theme calling for young Germans to join the Hitler Youth in the 1930s.

Here is yet another conservative that is among the growing number of conservatives flipping for Obama.

I just don’t get this:

I sure hope Obama is more open, centrist, sensible—dare I say, Clintonesque—than his liberal record indicates, than his cooperation with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid portends. If not, I will be even more startled by my vote than I am now.

(source: George Packer, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2008)

Not long after Colin Powell endorsed Obama (kind of expected, given that more often than not… skin colour in America, especially among African-Americans, is much more thicker than nearly any other thing in our lives) we have Ken Adelman, a long time conservative Republican who has served since the Nixon admistration.

I could certainly understand voting third party, such as the Constitution Party’s Chuck Baldwin, an outstanding paleo-conservative candidate, who was also endorsed by the Hon. Dr. Ron Paul. Or even Bob Barr, the Libertarian. Either would be acceptable alternatives to the Rule of the NeoCons™, and certain to be more palatable choices to a conservative than the socialists like the “Axis of Taxes” promise to be (Obama-Reid-Pelosi).

But to choose a man who will lead us, along with both houses of Congress packed with a hyper-partisan, bulletproof supermajorities chomping at the bit to enact the largest raft of the most liberal, socialist, social-engineering experimentation legislation ever unloaded upon the republic…

…it is nothing but sheer madness. Even if the VP pick wasn’t suitable, in his words, for “even a mid-level post in the arms-control agency”.

This is a bit of an oldie, but still a goodie.

About a year and a half ago, in late February of 2007, Senator Obama was interviewed by columnist Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times. In this interview, Obama made a rather startling confession that rocked much of the right-wing blogosphere, which naturally lead to deeper digging into Obama’s “supposed” Islamist roots.

While his statement were never debunked as the “myth” of Obama’s “madrassah” in Jakarta, unfortunately, this still does not line up with The Official™ Narrative issued by the Department of Information Assurance™… which states emphatically that Obama is a Christian:

http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/11/12/obama_has_never_been_a_muslim_1.php

According to Mr. Kristof’s article in the New York Times on 27 February 2007, he wrote that Sen. Obama:

… recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

Note, that Mr. Kristof calls this the “Arabic Call to Prayer”, which is what most people will think of: the muzzein, or the little guy up in the tower (or some fellow using a loudspeaker mounted in a tall spire) five times a day in Muslim neighbourhoods.

If in fact, Obama’s twenty years at a race-baiting, black majority church (Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, IL) pastored by the now particularly infamous, radical left wing black-liberation theologian, the very Left Reverend Jeremiah Wright … if this can be characterized as being anywhere near the mainstream of Christianity (much less evangelical or Fundamentalist Christianity)… then he simply *must* be a Christian, right?

But the Master warned us:

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:15-16a, KJV)

Much has been said about Obama’s religious heritage: born of a “Christian” mother turned to atheism/socialist agnosticism and a father who was born a Muslim turned and committed to outright African communism… and exposed to Islam as a young boy when he lived with his Muslim stepfather in Jakarta, and ultimately lost in a world of secularism and hedonism in the 1970s as a student at various elite leftist universities… finally coming to a rest at the Left Rev. Wright’s church.

Although in the great majority of Islamic cultures, a son born to a Muslim father is automatically considered a Muslim, with the expectation that the father will raise up the son according to the teachings of Islam. However, the true litmus test for any Muslim, (or true, Bible-believing Christians, for that matter - one of the very few things Islam and Christianity share in common) is the profession of faith.

For a Christian, it is as simple as confessing the Lord Jesus Christ as one’s Lord and Saviour:

8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(Romans 10:8-12, KJV)

Of course, this confession is also made by faith, and by the testimony and the sealing of the believer by the Holy Spirit. (Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 John 5:7-8, 12, 20; KJV)

In deceptively like manner, Islam sets no great bar upon those wishing to identify themselves to the Ummah as fellow believers, requiring only that they say a prayer/affirmation known as the Shahadah.

Now listen very carefully to the audio of the following YouTube video - particularly between the time marker from 0:28 to 1:01, and compare it to this transcription of the Shahadah prayer:

Or this one - with subtitles (about the first 30sec of the video:

Romanised Version:
ašhadu ʾan lā ilāha illā-llāh, wa ʾašhadu ʾanna muḥammadan rasūlu-llāh

Arabic Version:
أشهد أن لا إله إلاَّ الله و أشهد أن محمد رسول الله

Another audio format that is much shorter - cutting out the theatrical singing - is here:
http://www.livinghalal.com/audio/release/released_shahada_arabic_basic.mp3

It transliterates (according to Wikipedia - the usual standard disclaimers apply) as:
“There is no god but [Allah], Muhammad is the Messenger of [Allah]”

The longer format as referenced by Grand Old Partisan comes out as:

“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet… “

As I said, the recitation of this prayer is very much a proof to any Muslims hearing it, that the reciter thereof is identifying himself as a fellow traveller - a citizen in the Islamic Ummah.

Can there be doubt then Senator Obama is a self-professed Muslim…?

More tweaking of old WW2-style posters. This one should be less obviously ripped off of the “This is the Enemy…” series, but the inspiration is there all the same.

Feel free to use this where-ever… e-mails, your blogs, Myspace, etc.

Socialist, Islamist DOPE by seekeronos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at seekeronos.blogsome.com.

Dear RightwingProf:

Since you’ve disabled comments for this particular blog post, I’m going to post here with a trackback on the off chance you’ll actually care to read my reply.

As a supporter of Ron Paul’s ideas of liberty and adherence to the Constitution as the final law of the land… I’d like to say that most of us aren’t too concerned with who is or isn’t a Jew.

Sadly, there are a few nutjobs in any political movement who do it great disservice by not setting a guard over the trapdoor that is their mouth: whether it be the handful of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists or some crazed idiots at McCain rallies calling Obama an “Arab” and a terrorist, or worse, putting themselves in dire legal jeopardy by making threats against his person.

To be accurate, Obama is a non-dual-citizen half-Kenyan, and he is _friends_ with domestic terrorists.

I am friends with people who have garages, but that doesn’t make me a car… although I might have parked my car in their garage at some point in time. And I’ll be the first to admit that the antics of some of my fellow “Ronulans” really put me off of Dr. Paul during the first two thirds of the primaries — though I came to appreciate his message of non-interventionism far too late in the game.

We “Paul-Bots” are concerned with the creeping socialism on the so-called right, and the rocketsled-pace flight to socialism on the left. We are concerned about horrendous levels of government interventionism foreign and domestic, and the seemingly deliberate destruction of our republic via poor economic policies.

Please feel free to peruse the pages at http://www.campaignforliberty.com for more about what Dr. Paul is talking about, or read his book, The Revolution: An American Manifesto to learn more.

As for Ms. Palin, she seems like a very sincere, thoughtful woman - and I think she makes an excellent state governor. Unfortunately, she was woefully under prepared to be on the national stage, and makes little sense to pick a running mate from an arguably strong red state as opposed to someone like Tom Ridge from a key battleground state

I strongly detest the Mr. Ridge’s politics vis-a-vis his pro-choice stand, and his selection as VP would have been a bit of a deal-breaker for me even if I wasn’t already set against McCain for being such a liberal … I’m just sayin’, ya’ know?

I take an extended holiday leave, and look what happens…

… the market more than bounced back from Friday’s horrific decline: The Dow recovers upwards of 10% (900+ish points) and the Nikkei posting a staggering single day gain of over 14%.

Is this a dead cat bounce, or the beginning of general hyper-volatility exacerbated in no small way by the market’s lack of confidence in either party or in either party’s candidate?

I think this is one big dead kitty with several more bounces left to it before it settles to the pavement… and though I regret not having been in with my “truck” to load up on value stocks, patience and forebearance may make better watchwords for these days.

Parsing through my wife’s copy of Dr. Takahiko SOEJIMA’s 【副島・隆彦】　latest book, 恐慌前夜　アメリカと心中する日本経済 or Romanised as Kikyō Zenya Amerika Shinjyū Nihon Keizai (I would roughly transliterate this title in English as “The Panic Before the Nightfall: The Double Suicide of the American and Japanese Economies”) ¹ provides an interesting outside perspective.

Granted, Dr. Soejima is a bit of a doomer, and seems to think that the market will crumple significantly after the New Year… but given his track record of predictions regarding the economy (being markedly wrong only once during his long career) he might bear some listening to. In his latest book, he indicates that the Dow could crater as low as the 3,000s, and that the dollar will undergo a near-Weimar hyperinflation and devaluation to around 30 yen per dollar (the yen has traded around the 105-115 yen to the dollar average range over the past decade).

That’s pretty drastic… even in my worst case scenarios, I find it somewhat incredible that the market would break through the 1998 level supports (I believe that we will fall below the 2003 support for certain by the new year).

However, following the near-double digit volatility in the markets and the certainly double-digit swings in the Nikkei and Hang Seng indices, this gives me great pause… and leaves me wondering how or if these wonky markets will stabilise.

Considering that this bear market is just getting warmed up, and with volatility like this, the next 18-24 months could prove to be one heckuva rollercoaster ride.

[1] Published in Sept. of 2008 by Shōdensha. ISBN: 978-4396613143 in Japanese language only. This title does not seem to be circulated on either Amazon.com or its Japanese-language site as of October.

The Dow closed at a new low today, at 8,579.19 or about -7.33% (-678.91 points) from the previous day’s trading.

Taken over the course of the week (don’t stop panicking yet: there is Friday yet to come, as well as seeing how this will affect the already beaten-down Asian markets) that is a market drop of over 14% from Monday’s opening of ~10,136.

It will be interesting and informative to see how low this goes: will we break through the supports of 14 March 2003 of 7,859, or will we retrace further back to the 7,701 seen on 27 September 2002?

The really bad scenario calls for a bottoming out south of 7,640, last seen on 4 September 1998.

That would have been nearly unimaginable a year or two ago, but it could well be within the next month or two, that we could see more than 10 years of (arguably, much of it false) growth destroyed in the course of a month.

We are only a wee 10% of the market away from that, and after watching today’s precipitous drop of nearly 7%, and nearly 10% in the Nikkei on Tuesday… anything is possible.

Sometimes, it’s good to be bearish: I’m just awaiting the signals to back the truck on up to the loading dock of value yet-to-be.

Rumour-mongering and the culture of fear knows no bounds, especially in the Den of Thieves (a.k.a. the US Congress)

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA27) has this to say:

… the abject, stomach-turning, vomit-inducing rage I have at the utter and complete cowardice of the feckless members of Congress who both supported that first attempted financial rape of the American Taxpayer on Monday, and even more so for those who betrayed our trust by changing their vote on the second bailout bill yesterday. And I am apparently not the only one who feels this way, as the markets tumbled below Monday’s close (the -777 point drop following the failure of the first pork-rescue bill) :

Reaction on Wall Street turned increasingly negative after the vote. The S&P 500 – which rose as much as 3.6 per cent ahead of the decision – fell 1.4 per cent, closing below its level on Monday after the House voted against the bill. It was the worst week for US stocks since markets re-opened after the September 11 2001 terrorists attacks.

Source: Daniel Dombey, James Politi, Krishna Guha, et al. for the Financial Times, 3 October 2008

 

The sun has truly set on the American Republic, and nightfall shall come to the American Empire as well.

We had a good run for 230+ years, may history remember the Republic and not repeat her mistakes at the fourth quarter of her existence.

May a pox be on the Representatives in the House that voted to pass this bill, and a rash of itchy, festering boils be on the bottoms of those Senators who pushed this unconscionable, $700,000,000,000+ tanker-ship load pork upon the taxpayers.

May they pass from this earth in due course marked with the infamy and ignominy of their treasonous votes.

Update: The list of filthy rats and those who stood up to them … (more…)