What Is This World Coming To?

Iran’s state TV reported Monday that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered an investigation into claims of fraud in last week’s presidential election.

Khamenei ordered the powerful Guardian Council to examine the allegations by pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims widespread vote rigging in Friday’s election. The government declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner in a landslide victory.

It is a stunning turnaround for Iran’s most powerful figure, who previously welcomed the results.

Meanwhile, the Iranian Embassy in Moscow announced Monday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had put off a visit to Russia, and it was unclear whether he will come at all.

Ahmadinejad had been expected to travel to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg and meet on Monday with President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in which Iran was to attend as an observer.

The change in plans came amid street protests in Iran following Ahmadinejad’s re-election in a bitterly disputed vote Friday.

On Sunday, Mousavi wrote an appeal to the Guardian Council, a powerful 12-member body that’s a pillar of Iran’s theocracy. Mousavi also met Sunday with Khamenei.

Mousavi’s backers have waged three days of street protests in Teheran.

The Obama Press Corps (which evidently includes every mainstream media outlet except Fox News and the blogosphere) has evidently gone as far as it can go in its efforts to justify President Obama’s America-Bashing Tour.  After all,  there’s not much the President can say to bash the country that the mainstream media hasn’t said already. Read the rest of this entry »

Obama’s entire campaign was centered around the need for change in Washington.   A vote for Obama was a vote for a fresh, new approach to government — one run by the people, not by the professional politicians. 

Obama is different — that’s what got him elected.  It couldn’t have been his character — we don’t know anything about it — or his background — what we DO know would have sunk any normal candidate — if Obama wasn’t telling us outright how different he was, he was reminding us that he didn’t look like the presidents that grace US currency.

(Of course, neither did George Bush.  Or Ronald Reagan.  Or Richard Nixon.  Even Alexander Hamiliton’s picture doesn’t look like Abe Lincoln’s or Ulysses S Grant’s - but Obama voters have short attention spans.  (That’s how you can tell — they are Obama voters).

Notes Politico about the new Agents of Change that are going to fix Washington:

Obama’s first major appointments have been Democrats who worked for President Clinton and did not endorse him in the primary: Transition chief John Podesta and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who will be White House chief of staff, stayed neutral, and Ron Klain, who will be Joe Biden’s chief of staff, backed Biden.

Obama, advisers told Politico, may even be weighing offering Hillary Rodham Clinton herself the Cabinet plum of Secretary of State. “Obama is showing great good sense in making use of their experience,” said William Galston, a former Clinton domestic policy adviser who’s now at the Brookings Institution.

“You have an entire cadre of people in their 30s and 40s and early 50s who were either in senior jobs or second- and third-tier jobs in the Clinton administration, who really earned their spurs and know their way around — and know something about how the institutions in which they served actually function.”

So much for Obama’s claim that William Ayers, the founder of the Weather Underground, an unrepentant terrorist who wishes he’d done more to bring down America,  was just a guy in the neighborhood he barely knew.

Independent scientific analysis by a number of leading experts supports the literary detective work of WND columnist Jack Cashill that has led him to conclude unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers was the primary author of important sections of Barack Obama’s highly acclaimed memoir and editor of the book as a whole.

Obama claims little more than a passing acquaintance with Ayers, yet one of the experts told Cashill:

“The Ayers-Obama matching shows a measurable and substantial effect. It is easily and objectively distinguishable from comparison to a third document. These results achieved through good methodology should readily stimulate scientists skilled in the particular relevant fields to construct their own tests, place objective metrics on the correlation between the Ayers-Obama documents and publish results.”

What does it mean?  At minimum, the leading candidate for the presidency is both a liar and a fraud.  That’s not a good place to begin exploring his character from.

Last year it was revealed that Al Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for climate change (I thought climate change was ’science’) was among the nation’s worst energy hogs. Al’s carbon footprint was twenty times that of the average American household.

Gore countered by claiming that he buys ‘carbon offset credits’ (which is really nothing more than buying stock in ‘green’ companies. Even after it was revealed that Gore has a majority stake in Global Management, which sells the ‘offsets’. So in essence, Al Gore offsets his carbon footprints by buying stock from himself.)

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

This year, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research conducted another study of Al Gore’s domestic carbon footprint. Although Gore claimed to have invested a little cash since to make his home more energy efficient, it seems that the problem isn’t that his home is an energy hog. It’s the people who live in it.

Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month –1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations – at a cost of $16,533. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

By contrast, President Bush has been criticized harshly by environmentalists for his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol and its mandatory cuts on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming.

An April 2001 article in USA Today described the president’s 4,000-square-foot single-story limestone house in Crawford as an “eco-friendly haven.”

“Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into purifying tanks underground — one tank for water from showers and bathroom sinks, which is so-called ‘gray water,’ and one tank for ‘black water’ from the kitchen sink and toilets,” it said. “The purified water is funneled to the cistern with the rainwater.”

In addition, “the Bushes installed a geothermal heating and cooling system, which uses about 25 percent of the electricity that traditional heating and air-conditioning systems consume.”