Osama Taunts Obama...

(Via Gateway Pundit)

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden releases a new audio message in which he asks if America is still capable of fighting after the Bush administration. He also calls for jihad against Israel and concludes with a challenge to the incoming Obama administration. 

Osama Bin Laden quoted Joe Biden and looks excitedly past the Bush Administration in a message released today on Islamist websites.

Guantanam-uh-oh...

Barack Obama plans to order the Guantanamo Bay "war on terror" detention camp closed on his first full day in office, the New York Times reported Tuesday, citing people briefed by Obama transition officials.

If this is true, it will bite him in the a** big time and this country will pay a heavy price for it.

Just sayin'.

UPDATE:  Just a little while after I posted the above, THIS comes across the wires:

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former detainees are confirmed and 43 suspected of "returning to the fight."

He said the figures, updated at the end of December, showed a higher rate of recidivism than seen in a previous report showing 37 former detainees as active militants.

Blago, Hsu, Richardson, Panetta & The Obomination...

Michelle Malkin has a post with updates on the Blago fiasco.

Gateway Pundit has a post on Obama's connection to Norman Hsu.

Flopping Aces has a post on Obama's connection to Richardson's "pay to play" fiasco.

Then we have Hot Air posting on the insane appointment of Panetta to head the CIA.

Change-ish!

Day By Day - Sunday Funnies

Blago and the Obama/Palin MSM Double-Standard...

Ace points to a video of Joe Scarborough (via Hot Air, via Newsbusters) who poses the question as to why the MSM doesn't know if The One was involved in any way with Blago's 2002 campaign, and why the MSM were vociferously digging up any scrap of dirt on Palin in Alaska but weren't doing a fraction of the same journalistic due-diligence in Chicago.

Change-ish!

Did Fitz Delay The Blago Arrest?

Flopping Aces links a story by one source who seems to think this might have been the case, in order to help The One win the election.

More Blagobamamania...

Hmmm... seems that The One's administration did indeed meet with Gov. Blagobribery.

And even the Chicago tribune admits that The One is part of the infamous "Chicago Machine".

Change-ish!

The Obligatory Blago Post...

Hmmmmmm... It seems as though The Obomination has some connections to the corrupt and recently arrested Democrat governor of Illinois. Seems also that The One did in fact meet with Blago on November 5 to discuss The One's soon-to-be vacant Senate seat.

Change-ish!


UPDATE: This is getting juicy! A 2-hour conference call with lots of details. And Michelle is now in the mix. (heh-heh-heh)

UPDATE #2: Looks like Rezko is not finished singing, yet. (heh-heh-heh... break out the popcorn, this is gonna be funnnnnnnnnnnnn)

A few good links...

CMR posted his "Conservative Manifesto".

And RWN has a post about people who are every bit conservative, but just don't know it.

The Zo chimes in with his own thoughts about conservatism:


Fred Thompson speaks on the state of the economy:


Fox News journalist Chris Wallace lays into those who compare GW Bush with Nixon (re: the new "Frost/Nixon" film).

And, finally, Michelle Malkin has a post (with video) of The Obomination admitting that he was just a "random quote generator" during the campaign. (Change-ish!)

Oil Prices Back to Normal...

The markets closed today with a barrel of crude oil going for $40.81 and the national average for gas @ $1.77/gallon. This is back to December 2004 levels (which is right before things starting going a little fishy with the market manipulations in January of '05).

But we all know that that market can fluctuate again, and OPEC nations like Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, plus the market speculators, as well as the Russia/Georgia/Ukraine situation could very easily bring oil and gas prices back up to obscene highs. Which makes this bit of information about the Democrat-controlled congress and the Obomination Administration very troubling.

FOCA, The Bishops and The Obomination...

Capt. Ed posted on the U.S. Catholic bishops intending to fight the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) which The Obomination intends to sign into law once he's sworn in as President. RedState also posts on the subject.

Eric just wants the bishops to "just say it"... just be bold and speak their minds in this issue. Well, it looks like Cardinal Stafford has decided to speak his mind about The Obomination and his future administration. The full text is here.

The Four Canonical Choices are spelled out here. (This is a MUST READ.)

Hugh gives us The Obamessiah Baseline...

Hugh Hewitt posts a rundown of the economic baseline for The One. These are the numbers on election day, and are to be the gauge on which to judge the effectiveness of the Obomination Administration form this point forward:

The inflation rate was 3.7%
Unemployment was 6.5%
The prime was at 4%
The Dow closed at 9,625
The NASDAQ closed at 1,780
The S&P closed at 1,005
Oil was $60 a barrel.
U.S. monthly domestic oil production: appx 155 million barrels
U.S. proven oil reserves: 21.3 billion barrels
U.S. offshore proven reserves: 3.9 billion barrels

CHANGE (GWOT Division)

AP Headline - "Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet". In a just released and recently made Al Qaida recording which referred to a Nov. 5 U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan:

Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house negroes."

Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."

The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.

It continues...

Al-Zawahri did not threaten specific attacks, but warned Obama that he was "facing a Jihadi (holy war) awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Islamic world; and this is the fact which you and your government and country refuse to recognize and pretend not to see."... He said Obama's victory... was an "admission of defeat in Iraq."

Change!

Obamessiah Warned of ‘Huge Threat’ from al-Qaeda

From the UK Times Online:

Barack Obama is being given ominous advice from leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to brace himself for an early assault from terrorists.

General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, this week acknowledged that there were dangers during a presidential transition when new officials were coming in and getting accustomed to the challenges. But he added that no “real or artificial spike” in intercepted transmissions from terror suspects had been detected.

President Bush has repeatedly described the acute vulnerability of the US during a transition. The Bush Administration has been defined largely by the 9/11 attacks, which came within a year of his taking office.

His aides have pointed to al-Qaeda’s first assault on the World Trade Centre, which occurred little more than a month after Bill Clinton became President in 1993. There was an alleged attempt to bomb Glasgow airport in Gordon Brown’s first days in Downing Street and a London nightclub attack was narrowly thwarted.

Read the full article here.


I wish no harm to this country or its leaders... I repeat, I wish absolutely no harm to this country or its leaders. I pray that something like this never happens. But, if I was a bettin' man (which I'm not), there's reason for serious concern for the evening of The Obamessiah's first State of the Union address before the joint session of Congress.

Markets Tank & Oil Continues Drop...

First, the good news... oil ended the week @ $57.04/barrel with the national average price of gas @ $2.15/gallon. The more OPEC hurts, then better I feel. When oil's under $40/barrel and gas is under $2.00/gallon in the area where I live (it's currently $2.40-ish/gallon), things will be back to normal.


BUT........


The stock market continues to crash under the reality of a soon-coming Obomination Administration. Since election day's closing of 9625.48 the Dow has dropped 1127 points, the NASDAQ dropped from 1726.33 to 1516.85, and the S&P dropped from 966.30 to 873.29 (that's a drop of 11.5% for Dow, 12% for Nasdaq, 9% for S&P).

And how's that Paulson/Bernanke/Bush/McCain/Obama/Voted-on-by-mostly-Democrats-in-Congress bailout coming along???