The Saturday Claw, 1-10-09

Welcome to another edition of The Saturday Claw, where the news of the week is folded, spindled, mutilated, and shredded.

Hat tip to blogger Jevica for this little article from, of all places, The Huffington Post, calling for an apology from The Prophet Algoracle for his manmade Glo-Bull Warming fraud. There’s some good, solid science in here.

Is it just me, or is Dear Leader doing everything he can to strip our nation’s defenses? First, he names heterophobe, Mr William White, to be the first openly gay Secretary of the Navy. Then he picks someone with ZERO intelligence experience to be the top dog at CIA. Leon Panetta gets the nod because all of the intelligence PROFESSIONALS were either involved in the intel work before the Iraq invasion of 2003, support coercive interrogations, or both. Panetta’s such a good spy that he actually issued this statement when Monica’s blue dress was made public, “I am personally not aware of any improper relationship, sexual or otherwise, by this president with any of the White House interns or anyone else for that matter.” Opposition to active interrogation, thus appeasing the terrorist nations of the world, is so much more important than protecting the USA.

Of course, his appointment of William White as SecNav is only a small part of his attempt to force the heterophobe agenda upon America and our armed forces.

Anybody who thought that The Chosen One and Red Nanny were serious when they promised bipartisanship and fairness was delusional to begin with. Anyway, those promises are being proven to be lies with Queen Nan’s actions as the 111th Congress opens. She’s rewriting the House rules to make sure that the minority party has exactly NO power to influence legislation.

Harry Reid is promising that no earmarks will be included in the stimulus packages. Of course, some pork requested by Las Vegas isn’t considered an earmark. A museum of the influence of the mafia in Las Vegas is considered a really necessary expense for the US taxpayers.

VP-select Biden says that ”we’re at war” in regards to the economic crisis. Does that mean that Bawney Fwank, Chris Dodd, and Jamie Gorelick are gonna be charged with treason?

Well, at least one mostly-muslim nation seems to be taking the radical Islamist threat seriously. Bravo to the Turks!

You know it is a crrappy day when…something like this happens to you, and the pictures are published worldwide! How would you like for this to be the way you become famous?

By now, most of y’all have heard of the Israeli actions that supposedly caused the deaths of 30+ people at a “school” in Gaza. Michelle (***sigh***) Malkin has the rest of the story as Paul Harvey says. Hamas, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, has used schools, hospitals, and mosques for years as places to store weapons and to launch attacks from, so that any return fire will cause “atrocities” that draw the attention of the world’s anti-Israel press.

Is there really any doubt as to which side the mainstream press is taking in the Israel vs terrorists fight? I didn’t think so.

Just to prove that judicial stoooopidity isn’t limited to federal courts…

This story comes to us from Virginia, but The Crawfish, who is in Pennsylvania, got it from the website of a Texas newspaper. Go figger.

Going by the latest polling data, it appears that 62% of Americans believe that Congress will handle serious issues this year. The Crawfish says that 62% of Americans are delusional if they believe that Congress will do anything except act in purely partisan ways to implement a radical socialist agenda. Just refer to the story near the top of this column about the new House rules.

According to the Florida head of International ANSWER (a left-wing anti-war, anti-America, pro-terrorism group), “Zionism in general is a barbaric, racist movement that really is the cause of the situation in the entire Middle East.” His organization proved that they really are anti-war by protesting in a heavily Jewish area of Florida in support of terrorists and those who indiscriminately launch rockets into civilian areas. They also called for the Jews and Israel to be exterminated and said Jews need to go “back in the oven.” Yep, quite the Religion of Peace.  Oh, shucky darn.  I hope the makers of CAIR’s watchlist weren’t paying attention to me again.  (snicker, snicker)

Of course, being anti-Jew is quite popular among the liberal elite across the globe. Did you really think that academia would be any different? Well, academia in Canada is joining the anti-Jew bandwagon. How would this go over if it was anti-muslim? Would the international media have kittens? You betcha!

In Britainistan, the country that was known as England before they surrendered to Islam, the muslims are drawing up lists of Jews to target for murder. The Crawfish had to go to a foreign source to find this story, of course, because the American press still refuses to acknowledge that muslims are ever hateful, and besides, the Jews need to be killed. Again, if Jews were targeting muslims to be killed in Europe or America, the media would be going ape.

We haven’t mentioned the card-check bill in a while. Y’all remember that one. It is the bill that would allow union thugs to intimidate workers into voting for unionization without a secret ballot. Well, there’s something else in that bill that is almost as equally disturbing. It puts the federal gummint in charge of forcing the terms of a deal on companies if the thugs win and then won’t negotiate a deal that the company finds somewhat acceptable. I still can’t find anywhere in the Constitution where the feds have any authority to dictate to companies how they must pay their employees.

There are a few people in the world who actually understand what is going on with Islam’s takeover of much of the world. They understand the lessons of history when it comes to dictators, such as Hitler or Stalin and the other evil movements. The man who wrote this article comes from a family that LIVED through it. Hat tip to Terry of the Poll Katz.

In spite of obvious election fraud, including some precincts having far more ballots cast than there were registered voters, failed talk show host and supporter of stealing money from charitable organizations Al Franken is now officially the only person from Minnesota who Harry Reid will allow to become a Senator. It seems that Dingy Harry really does prefer fraudulent election claims over legitimate ones, just like in 2000.

Somebody needs to show this study to the people in charge on the Navy.

Ya just can’t please some people, can ya? Al-Qaida’s #2 leader evidently has his head-diaper wrapped a bit too tight. He is blaming Obama for the Israel-Hamas fight. First of all, Obama has exactly ZERO power right now, and secondly, how about blaming the folks who started this mess by launching hundreds of rockets into Israel?  (I know that I probably always spell Al-Qaida incorrectly, but I really don’t care)

Occasionally, my hometown does sumthin’ right. Again, I’m not opposed to private charity, but bums are a public nuisance.

We judge people by their experience and how they have performed in the positions that they have held in the past. Dear Leader’s choice for Education Secretary is the head of the public schools in Chicago. Do you really want to know what was going on there? The Crawfish still says the best person for that job is NOBODY, since there’s nothing in the Constitution that gives the federal gummint any authority to be involved with educating the kids of America.

When you want the job done right, put the Big Blue Team in charge of the operation. Between us and the Marine Corps, we have quite a history of causing muslim pirates to assume room temperature.

If you believe, like The Crawfish does, that The Prophet Algoracle and his Gorons are complete frauds, and that Glo-Bull Warming is a hoax, you are encouraged to contact him with this link and let him know. Hat tip to blogger Jesse “The Mind” Norman and his comments at The Weekly Claw, Townhall edition.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

2 Responses to “The Saturday Claw, 1-10-09”

  1. MarineAuntie Says:

    Yeah, I took a look at this article from the HuffPo, and it appears that the author is actually a musician who is publishing a book on British rowing and has no actual background in climate science. He wrote to Arianna Huffington and said he wanted to post a diary critical of Al Gore, which she took to be a political criticism, and when he sent it to her she forwarded it unread to an associate editor. Fact is that HuffPo often publishes articles from people on the right in order to provide balance. The associate editor then did not vet the article but posted it. Arianna Huffington has declared it a mistake here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/on-global-warming-is-it-h_b_155379.html. Turns out that Harold Ambler, the author, is a crank and skeptic who simply ignores the science which refutes his favorite points. Here’s a link to a point by point refutation of his assertions from Dave Roberts, who co-wrote the refutation with an actual climate scientist named Andrew Dressler: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/huffington-post-blows-it_b_155696.html.

    What Mr. Ambler and other climate naysayers never explain is why there would be such consensus among so many climate scientists, why every major climate science organization on the planet, why NASA and the Royal Academy of Science and dozens of other science agencies throughout the world do not agree with them. Ambler is not even a scientist. He’s a crank bent on saying no because it suits him.

  2. Ruth Ray Says:

    Panetta-that was a dumb way to refute knowledge, His words meant only that he wasn’t in the room watching!

    Polls about what congress will do-I am ardently anti-polls.
    I have never met a poll I liked. The limited number of people they talk to,how they select the people they question
    -even who asks the questions - make them all suspect to me.

    Gee-what may have been a crappy day for the skier would have
    been a good one for me. As a now single senior, seeing a naked man for 7 long minutes is an almost forgotten pleasure!
    Reminds me that I just read online there is a 107 year old woman
    who is eager to find a husband in a hurry while she’s still alive and kicking!

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