MORNING INTELL: November 25 2008

MORNING INTELL:
November 25 2008



* Israel vs. Iran
* Natalie Holloway
* Obama Birth Certificate, Citizenship Issues Continue
* RCP Censoring Reader-submitted Content?
* PC Nazis Kill Kindergarten Thanksgiving Celebration

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1. Whither Blogrolling 2.0? If you have a blogroll and want to edit it, the site is still down for repairs. Blogrolls still work, though.
   
2. Kill the baddies, rescue the girl: Former Israeli Chief of Staff: Confront Iran Regime, Assassinate Ahmadinejad
3. TV Time: Jack is Back. As in Jack Bauer, 24-in-chief.
4. Mars Needs Women; NYC Needs Jack--as in $$$$: New York Comptroller Hints at Bailout
5. Is Real Clear Politics still censoring reader-submitted anti-Obama articles? The Truth Hurts - RCP Censorship Is Alive and Well!
6. Financial advice of the Day-- Treasury Secretary Paulson: What This Economy Needs Is More Loans

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MORNINGMANIA

• Did the Left elect Obama or inherit him? Jilted neoprogs hatch “secret plan” dreams
• I always thought it was the Indians: Capitalism Saved the Pilgrims
• The bastards: California Political Correctness Kills Kindergartener’s Thanksgiving Celebration
• If you have 45 minutes of quiet time, you might watch this fascinating video. It's 2000 years of history condensed: Armageddon it on... in Hebrew
  
• CAIR no longer exists as a corporate entity?

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OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE NEWS

1. The Kenyan Ambassador to the USA says that Obama's Kenyan birthplace is already a tourist attraction: Kenyan Ambassidor confirms Obama was born in Kenya. Next question to Ambassador Ogego was: Will they put up a marker at Obama’s birthplace there? Ogego affirmed: “it’s already well known!”
   
2. From yesterday's Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto: Q Good. The CEO of WorldNetDaily has called on the President-elect to release a birth certificate listing the hospital and names of parents. The White House believes that this would fully satisfy the constitutional requirement, don't you? MR. FRATTO: I don't think I have anything to say on that, Lester, and I think we're going to end it right there....
3. WorldNetDaily has an Obama birth certificate petition--Petitioners: If you're eligible, show us the proof!
4. Will three other SCOTUS Justices join Clarence Thomas to ask for a hearing? Obama Birth Certificate, Citizenship: SCOTUS Conference Scheduled for Dec 5
5. African Press International UPDATE: There will be news from API about the broadcasting of the Michelle Obama audiotapes this week. Obama supporters have worked especially hard to shut these guys down: Twice on WordPress, once on Tripod. API is back on WP and has their own www site now.
6. Various odds/ends we missed on the Obama BC: Obama’s Birth Certificate Story Hits The WH Press Room…
7. White House Deputy Press Secretary Punts Obama Birth Certificate Question Will the Messiah need to throw a Hail Mary in the coming weeks?

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• Anything that you read at Change.org is grist for the mill--until it's taken down, deleted, scrubbed or modified. Change.org truly is the "Home of Change".
• Israel getting ready for an Iranian CageMatch? Israel v. Iran (Take Israel -6 and the Under 12/15/8)
• Greta VS's On the Record put J. Van Der Sloot, the person of interest in the Natalie Holloway disappearance in Aruba on camera last night. He said he sold her into slavery. Then he phoned GVS after the interview to say he was kidding? Was he? Or was he warned off by the man he says gave him almost $20,000, including $10,000 in hush money? More on Tuesday's ON THE RECORD

by Mondo Frazier
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Q: What do you Call a Person Who Asks for Your Help after They Threaten You?

A: Hugo Chavez



If Hugo Chavez were working on a tree farm somewhere in Vermont, he would be a candidate for psycho-therapy.

The Venezuelan strongman, who only last week threatened to "cut off the oil supplies to the United States", said yesterday he was only kidding.

Chavez said U.S. motorists "shouldn't worry" about Venezuela cutting off oil supplies.

"We don't have plans to stop sending oil to the United States," Chavez said on Sunday during a visit to heavy-oil projects in Venezuela's petroleum-rich Orinoco River basin that were nationalized last year.

Elsewhere, it's been reported that Chavez sent his ambassador to the U.S. to beg the U.S. to beg Exxon Mobil Corporation not to freeze Venezuelan assets.

Venezuela's ambassador to the U.S. has asked Sen. Richard Lugar to press Exxon Mobil Corp. to drop legal measures that have frozen $12 billion in assets worldwide.

"Through tactics that can only be compared with the very discredited strategy of pre-emptive war, Exxon Mobil has clearly violated the terms of the arbitration process," Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela's ambassador to the U.S., said in a letter to the Indiana Republican that was released by the embassy Friday. Lugar is the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Of course, if Exxon Mobil were a Venezuelan corporation, there'd be no begging. Chavez would just arrest the officers of the company, throw them in jail and then spend the accumulated wealth from their work on trying to prop up his government.

As Anna said:

Of course Venezuela would not be over a barrel and begging the war-mongering gringos of the United States if they had abided by the contract they had with Exxon.

Instead Hugo Chavez thought, since he was in charge, that he could merely violate a written contract between the country of Venezuela and Exxon to fully exploit an oil field in the name of social justice.

Exxon has merely acted in the interest of its shareholders, who's money is invested in this oil field, to protect its investments, to keep sacred such contracts in the future, and to prevent anyone else from trying this trick.

We'll agree with all that.

Maybe the U.S. should send Anna to Venezuela to be the ambassador.

Or perhaps Chavez should hire Anna to advise him on the perils of nationalizing a foreign company's assets in the first place.

Of course, if Hugo Chavez were working on a tree farm somewhere in Vermont, he wouldn't need an adviser or help with the consequences of his nationalization actions.

But one suspects, he'd still be a candidate for the psycho-therapy.

by Mondoreb
image: spokanetogo
Source:
* Hugo Goes Begging
* Chavez: US Motorists shouldn't worry about Oil



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Iran Tells Canadian Ambassador To Take A Hike

A tale of countries, two embassies, and no Ambassadors. The Iranians ordered the Canadian Ambassador to pack his bags and catch the red-eye back home. Even though Iran has expelled the Canadian ambassador the Canadian Embassy will remain open, run by the charge d'affair.

OTTAWA – Canada's ambassador to Iran has been ordered to leave the country, Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier said in a statement late Monday.

Bernier says the decision is entirely unjustifiable.

The statement says Ottawa will continue to monitor the well-being of the other embassy staff in Tehran. [1]

Canada has refused to "accept" the candidates that Iran has proposed.

What was missing from the Star article was the reason behind the "cold shoulder" given to Iran from Canada. From the BBC:

Relations between the two countries have been strained since a Canadian-Iranian journalist died in police custody in Iran in 2003.

In November, the UN passed a Canadian-sponsored resolution condemning Iran's "systematic violations of human rights". [2]

No word yet from Iran as to why they chose to expel the Canadian Ambassador. At this juncture it's become an 'Ambasssadorial Impasse.'

Source - 1 - Toronto Star - Canadian ambassador to Iran expelled: Foreign Affairs
Source - 2- BBC - Iran 'expels Canadian ambassador'

By LBG
Image 1 - [media.canada.com]
Image 2 - [iranair.ru]

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