Surprising Study On Terrorism
Al-Qaida Kills Eight Times More Muslims Than Non-Muslims

I say it must have recently been “peer reviewed” because, didn’t we all know this earlier? Haven’t we known this all along? Isn’t that why there was an “awakening” in Anbar?
Scientists can be slow to get around to the truth….perhaps because they avoid it so well when it doesn’t fit narrative.

There you have it. 111 to 14. Congress, Honduras’ Congress has decided that Zelaya is not to be reinstated.

The crisis is over unless you are Zelaya and he needs to determine whether or not its safe to step out of the Brazilian embassy.
The crisis is over unless you are Brazil and aren’t sure what to do with your own government decree that it will not recognize any new president of Honduras from now until forever I suppose since Zelaya did not get to be president again.
The crisis is over unless you just want to prove your leftie bonofides and continue to not know what to do with a tiny little poor country who has said….We will follow our own laws. If you don’t want to recognize us, ….ok. Good luck with that.

LaGringa now requests that Honduras “be allowed” to return to how their own laws of the land work. It’s time for Micheletti to return until its time for Lobo to step up.

The people have spoken. The congressmen elected by the people have spoken (current vote is 74 to 10). We are ready to have our president back. We need Micheletti. He makes us feel safe against the outside forces who continue to menace Honduras.

We need for the US to quit interfering in the sovereign country of Honduras. The Honduran people are tired of the interference, the lack of respect, and the ridiculous demands which you should have been making to Zelaya instead. Basta ya!

Amen.

Sorry – I was busy last night and will need to watch the speech sometime today (or do I need to?).

However, I thought you might like a few links:
From Der Spiegel

Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America’s new strategy for Afghanistan. …….One didn’t have to be a cadet on Tuesday to feel a bit of nausea upon hearing Obama’s speech. It was the least truthful address that he has ever held. He spoke of responsibility, but almost every sentence smelled of party tactics. He demanded sacrifice, but he was unable to say what it was for exactly.

An additional 30,000 US soldiers are to march into Afghanistan — and then they will march right back out again. America is going to war — and from there it will continue ahead to peace. It was the speech of a Nobel War Prize laureate………………The American president doesn’t need any opponents at the moment. He’s already got himself.

From Rich Lowry

Now, no matter what Obama’s inner conflicts, McChrystal gets his chance to regain the initiative in the war. If he succeeds, the domestic politics of the war will begin to look different and at least one cause of Obama’s psychic anguish will be alleviated.
Yes, it would’ve been better if Obama hadn’t sounded at times like a premature Nobel Peace Prize winner shoved uncomfortably into a role of wartime leader. But, as Don Rumsfeld might say, you go to war with the president you have.

(the bold is mine)

From Ralph Peters

Mr. President, how can you send our troops to war without backing them all the way? How could you pull the strategic rug out from under them in advance? Why did you reassure the Taliban that we’ve already fixed a sell-by date? What’s the bloody point?
At West Point last night, President Obama’s delivery was superb. But what he was delivering was a funeral oration for his promised strategy.

It sounded like a horrible speech to me and not a speech made by a strong leader. I was listening to an analysis on the radio and a General Keene (ret) said 3 times, 3 times that it was “decisively decisive”. What the hell??!!
When some retired general has to describe your speech in such a way, I can not imagine that it was a goodun.
Nor can I imagine how surging the troops for 12 months (6 months to arrive) is going to help force the government of Afghanistan to clean up their act so that they can then handle their own country.

Seriously. If you had this information and you were corrupt to start with and governments before you have also always been corrupt and the tribal leaders around you have always been corrupt and frankly that’s just how your country rolls, what about a short term 30,000 troop “surge” directed at others is going to make you want to clean up your act?

We’ll see how it goes, and I continue to pray for our men and women over there along with the Afghans themselves, in particular the women. IF Obama, NATO and the US military can get that country onto it’s own two feet there will be joy here.

The U.S. State Department says Sunday’s presidential election in Honduras was a significant, but insufficient step, to end to political crisis that began there in June with the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. U.S. officials are stopping short of recognizing opposition candidate Porfirio Lobo as the country’s next president.

???!!!!!

What does the US State dept want?
“”It must follow a process of national reconciliation through a government of national unity,” um…done. By Micheletti withOUT the cooperation of Zelaya.

What else?
“Valenzuela said the Obama administration seeks implementation of an OAS-backed settlement plan, including the creation of a truth commission on the circumstances of the coup and a congressional vote set for Wednesday on whether Mr. Zelaya will be returned to office to complete his term, which was to end in late-January.”

done also. The vote is happening tomorrow. Zelaya said he won’t return EVEN if congress votes him back in, which they probably won’t as the Supreme Court has said, “don’t do it”.

What the hell else does this government of mine need from Honduras that it isn’t getting???
What the hell reason does it have for NOT recognizing this overwhelming and fair election, yet congratulating Ahmadinejaad and his completely contested election??
How is it possible for Obama the saint to continue to need to stroke the egos of the lefties when he’s the one with all the information and could easily make a solid decision and stick to the damn thing??

There is something seriously fishy going on with our government right now as it affects Honduras.
Honduras…..strap yourselves in because you are being taken for a ride. Do whatever you can to become completely independent. You need to. Venezuela threatens and the US is apparently no longer on your side.

Unbelievable.

Ht Gateway Pundit

The election is done, Porfirio Lobo won and Mary O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal has an excellent re-cap of the whole affair.

I’ve been asked by numerous people, “So what is it that’s going on in Honduras?”
Go read O’Grady. It will take you 2 minutes.

Congratulations to Honduras!!

This is it!!! Election day in Honduras.

Best of luck you guys.
Now, go, read LaGringa.

Government Math or Why we should let the government run everything.

Because they are soooo efficient at it.

Check out this article on aerial shooting of predators in the US. US wildlife services spends $120 million dollars every year to kill 4.9 million animals. Those are you tax dollars at work.

And what do you get for it?

The sheep/cattle/goat industries do not suffer $125 million dollars in losses.

And that’s important to you because um, you like goat meat, right? I mean that’s important to you because most of your meat comes from the ‘open range”….? I mean, we’d be overrun with coyotes if the government didn’t kill them in the name of keeping the range safe for wool. Right??

Supposedly this is a news, straight news story out of the LA Times. Here’s the lede.

The de facto rulers of Honduras will observe more than elections Sunday: They staged the first military-backed coup in Central America in 16 years — and got away with it.

?news?

It goes on to talk about how the US government has agreed to recognize the Honduran elections tomorrow and that the earlier accord is still in affect, but get this:

Zelaya and Micheletti both agreed to the deal. Zelaya and his supporters assumed Congress would vote before the election, but no sooner was the ink dry than congressional leaders, many of whom backed the coup, announced that they would not convene until after the election.

Still, U.S. officials decided to lend support to the vote.

“This is an electoral process that follows the normal electoral calendar under the Honduran Constitution, and it had been underway for several months prior to the coup,” Arturo Valenzuela, the U.S. assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs, said this week.

“This was not an election invented by a de facto government in search of an exit strategy or as a means to whitewash a coup d’etat.”

But others say a bad precedent is being set that will undermine Washington’s ability to work in the region at a time when President Obama has pledged a “new beginning” in U.S.-Latin ties.

“The U.S. needed a way out,” said Christopher Sabatini, senior policy director for the Americas Society think tank. “But what we’ve done is allow a coup to stand. And I fear this will erode regional consensus about the defense of democracy. . . . The U.S. has lost its moral authority to push back” on other issues in the region.

Though it seems something of a moot point, the Honduran Congress plans to convene Wednesday to debate whether Zelaya should be reinstated. As expected, the Supreme Court, which earlier endorsed the coup, issued a nonbinding judgment Thursday recommending against Zelaya’s return to office because of pending criminal charges against him.

So
a) Honduras is doing exactly what it agreed to do and “yet still” the US is going to recognize the election. HUH??

b) even though the election is going on just like it was planned before Zelaya was ever removed from office somehow acknowledging this is “bad precedent” and we’ll lose our “moral authority” in Latin America because

c) we’ve “allowed a coup to stand”!

The author of this “news” piece has her head under a rock. The US was not going to invade. It’s ONLY option is to not acknowledge tomorrow’s election results. Zelaya could not have run EVEN if he was returned to the presidency. (though he tried to change that) What exactly should the US have done, Ms newspaperreporter??

She agrees Zelaya ignored a court order which is why he was “ousted”. She agrees the election were setup long ago. And they she snarks that the Honduran Congress is going to meet next week to determine if Zelaya should return to office this last month and a half before the new president is sworn in AS IF doing it two weeks ago would have been a GOOD thing, but doing it next week is not sufficient.

?? No flipping wonder the “news” is not listened to. She writes of human rights abuses in Honduras by Micheletti’s government. Who could believe her? From her first sentence she lost her credibility with me.

In the meantime, a zelayista candidate IS in the running in spite of the “news” article you may have just read.

Happy Thanksgiving to all today!

My life is so blessed and darn right lucky that pretty much every day is Thanksgiving…but today there’s all the food too! Take care.

Let’s see now,
You’ve heard of the hacked emails.

Back in September those emails were forwarded to the BBC…who ignored them.

Any chance you all remember that back in September the data that proved global warming was said to be lost? This same group in the news today, CRU, had been asked repeatedly for their original data. For years people were told they couldn’t have it for reasons x,y,z. Then they said it no longer existed:

Roger Pielke Jr., an esteemed professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, then requested the raw data from Jones. Jones responded:
Since the 1980s, we have merged the data we have received into existing series or begun new ones, so it is impossible to say if all stations within a particular country or if all of an individual record should be freely available. Data storage availability in the 1980s meant that we were not able to keep the multiple sources for some sites, only the station series after adjustment for homogeneity issues. We, therefore, do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (i.e., quality controlled and homogenized) data.
The statement about “data storage” is balderdash. They got the records from somewhere. The files went onto a computer. All of the original data could easily fit on the 9-inch tape drives common in the mid-1980s. I had all of the world’s surface barometric pressure data on one such tape in 1979.

Tangent: In my hometown of Longmont, Colorado, the old city council had a lawsuit filed against them by the newspaper because they wouldn’t release the tape of a closed door meeting that the newspaper thought should have been public. The lawsuit went forward…..the judge went to listen to the tape and there is not tape! The judge said the whole scenario is “entirely mystifying”.

And I would add…similar to, yet far, far, smaller than the latest global warming thing.

“The city had three opportunities to state that there was no audio recording,” she wrote. “Instead, it caused the expenditure of public funds for an extensive answer and brief prepared by special outside counsel and caused the expenditure of attorney fees by (the Times-Call) who were seeking something that does not exist.”

Today, Ace finds a link in New Zealand or rather more “adjusted” data in New Zealand that has been revealed to be …. not so true.
It just goes on and on…Michael Crichton should be a top selling Christmas gift this year.