The view from the deck

Slowing down before the 4th. Have a good holiday!

Fargo Forum Bails on Pomeroy

Say Anything.

All the bad guys are big Dem donors and flunkies

BP wrote the Cap and Trade legislation Russ Carnahan voted for. BP stands to make hundreds of billions from Cap and Trade. BP lobbyists hang out with Russ at Maryland Yacht Clubs. The stimulus bill Russ voted on but admitred he didn't read gave his brother $90 million dollars, and cap and trade would make the Carnahan family wind farms competitive in the energy market. Goldman Sachs stands to make hundreds of billions off cap and trade. And to top it off, Franklin Raines, the former disgraced CEO of Fannie Mae, owns the patent on a cap and trade system, and no one has ever explained how that is possible.

President Obama, finally coming to Missouri to campaign for Robin Carnahan, was the single biggest recipient of campaign cash from BP, Goldman Sachs, and Fannie Mae.

Read on, 24thState.

Strawberry Jam Cooling

The Wadena Tornado

Residents and friends make a slideshow to keep spirits up. Never Alone. Wadena, MN.

This Reckless Congress

MicheleBachmann

Democrats fail “the most basic responsibility of governing” http://tiny.cc/hd9vj #tcot

Missouri for Health Care Freedom

Gateway Pundit. Challenging ObamaCare.

Jindal Goes to Court

Not a formal assertion but protecting states' rights in Louisiana over the oil drilling moratorium. And so it goes in Shreveport.

10th amendment concerns on the stimulus, gun rights, cap and tax, ObamaCare, immigration and now drilling.

This is healthy pushback from the states responding to an unhealthy encroachment on our lives by Obama's Big Government.

More. Michael Barone:

Then there is Obama's decision to impose a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the gulf. This penalizes companies with better safety records than BP's and will result in many advanced drilling rigs being sent to offshore oil fields abroad.

Light and Dark

Sarah Palin, Western Conservative

More confirmation of my take on her as well.

And I agree with her direction on this issue. I made a similar journey.

crossposted at BackyardConservative

Where's the separation of party and state?

Democrats Advertising Campaign Canvass Jobs As Government Jobs 24th state

...Separation of states from feds--While The DOJ Pursues Lawsuits Against Arizona... Jammie Wearing Fool

We are with you on the Gulf

And So it Goes in Shreveport

But is our president?

More. Portrait of the Gulf

Noem surging early against Herseth Sandlin

Via South Dakota War College, the Rapid City Journal on the new post-primary Rasmussen poll 53-41%.

RCP Politics Nation:

This year, a quarter of the state's voters consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement, according to this latest poll, and Noem has the support of more than 80 percent of them. And President Obama, who took 45 percent of the vote in the state, now has an approval rating there of 40 percent.

Blue Dogs getting scarce in Red States.

The Campaign Spot: There is Noem Way You Can Ignore This Result

More. NRCC: Herseth playing Deal or No Deal

P.S. (Don't forget South Dakota, North Dakota)

Related: Conservative Women Citizen Legislators

Previous post: Take Back South Dakota!

Will the rain hurt the rhubarb?

Since I took this I did get the tomatoes and cukes in. Beans and peas and spinach, eat your spinach up next.

Pawlenty Handles the Daily Show

Pawlenty’s “big schtick” with Jon Stewart

Well done.

Take Back South Dakota!

John Hinderaker, Powerline, backs his home state candidate, Republican Kristi Moen.

There's video.

Americans are uneasy for America

Terrorism had receded as an issue in the last election cycle, but starting with Scott Brown's campaign juxtaposed with the Christmas bomber, hard on the heels of the Ft. Hood massacre, it ranks right up there now with the national debt.

Of course we've since had the Times Square attempted bombing, the arrests in the Boston suburbs, and Jew-hatred exposed by the unreasoned world condemnation of Israel defending itself from terrorists hiding behind foolish humanitarians.

Americans are uneasy because we don't know whose side the president is on.

Well, we probably do, don't we.

And that's why it ranks high.

Now some want to build a mosque at Ground Zero.

Americans are uneasy.

...but there's hope at home:) A comeback for Fargo--well, it's already here. But Omaha too.

Video. Joel Kotkin: Why America Will Still Lead the World in 2050

Blue Dog Sleeper District Wakes in MN

Could Republicans have chosen a better candidate to challenge old blue dog dinosaur Dem Collin Peterson in MN-7? I just heard him interviewed on the neighboring North Dakota's Scott Hennen radio show--an ag businessman, first-generation American who believes in the exceptionalism and the Dream--with a Norwegian accent. Meet Lee Byberg.

He made news on the show announcing the results of his poll by Public Opinion Strategies--the Dem incumbent Peterson is vulnerable with only 39% in favor of his reelection.

--crossposted at BackyardConservative

Who is Fatima Mohammadi?

She's been treated with incurious sympathy in a Tribune story yesterday. It was practically a Hamas PR piece, you know, the terrorist organization. More on this Iranian-born American from Steve Huntley (HT Pat Hickey):

The main organizer of the flotilla was Turkish-based Insani Yardim Vakfi, described as a humanitarian relief fund but which, like some other Muslim charities, has links to Islamist radicalism. The Danish Institute for International Studies found the organization provided support to al-Qaida, including for the failed millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles' airport, and to Algerian terrorists in Europe. A Chicago lawyer on the flotilla, Fatima Mohammadi, describes herself on her LinkedIn page as "national organizer" for Viva Palestina, founded by the rabid Israel-hater and Hamas sympathizer George Galloway of Britain, who is dedicated to delegitimizing the Jewish state.

If this is a peaceful group why doesn't it recognize Israel's right to exist? Fatima arrived back at Chicago's O'Hare airport the other day. Do we feel safer now? If this is a humanitarian group why did they object to their supplies reaching Gaza over land? More on Fatima. Al Jazeera has taken up her cause, naturally:

Fatima Mohammadi, another activist on board the Mavi Marmara that Israeli soldiers stormed last Monday in an attempt to stop a flotilla of aid ships from reaching Gaza, was accused of attempting to smuggle banned electronic componants into Gaza.

She told Al Jazeera through a spokesperson that she refused to dignify the accusation with a response.

What were you doing Fatima? Are we talking iPods. How undignified. Maybe it was something to do with missiles. Via Gay and Right, Jerusalem Post with more:

Also on Sunday, the IDF released a list of at least five passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara who have ties to terrorist organizations.

They were named as Fatima Mohammadi, Kenneth O’Keefe, Hassan Ansey, Hussein Orush and Ahmed Omemun. It was unclear whether they were involved in the fight with naval commandos last week.

O’Keefe, according to the IDF, is a known American-British anti-Israel activist who wanted to enter Gaza to undergo training and help establish a commando unit for Hamas.

Another passenger, identified as an Iranian-American, allegedly tried to bring illegal electronic equipment into Gaza. A French national aboard the ship was identified by the IDF as a Hamas operative.

Well, Fatima came home with a bandage and bruises. You know, 5 of the 6 ships were boarded with no incident for legitimate inspections under international law. Fatima's ship attacked. Gee, why is that.

Apparently she wasn't just standing around peaceably.

So who is Fatima Mohammadi? Such a victim. Crawling around the press deck. A real humanitarian, for sure. Fatima:

Mohammadi says the activists intended to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza, but did not expect a violent confrontation.

"We thought maybe, maybe there would be again a like an interference or an intervention, not allowing us to pull into the port. Similar to what they did with the other, but without the boarding. We didn't expect it to be boarded. We honestly did not and that's why there was a panic when they first started to try to board, and again they came loaded with heavily, like heavy, heavily armed," Mohammadi said.

Oh really? Israelis heavily armed with paintball guns? You didn't expect to be boarded? What about all those knives on your team. Gas masks. Was beating the Israelis bloody with metal bars and stabbing them with knives just a little irrational exuberance? Like the chant.

Do you know what they chanted on that boat? Fatima knows, don't you Fatima. Perhaps that's why you were smiling and looking quite pleased with your reception by gullible gum-chewing reporters at Chicago's O'Hare airport.

Whatever the humanitarian motives of the Irish party heading towards Gaza on the 'Rachel Corrie', the overall effect of this mission to Gaza has been to support Hamas.

Did you see the Arab women's headgear on Al Jazeera TV News before the assault? Did you hear what they were singing?

Passengers on the Turkish vessel chanted: "Remember Khairbar, Khaibar, O Jews. The Army of Mohammed will return." This was a reference to the prophet's seizure of a Jewish-held oasis, the last Jewish settlement in Arabia.

Most of the Jews were slaughtered and their leader, Kinana bin al-Rabi, was captured. He was tied down and a fire lit on his chest and, just before death, he was beheaded. His wife was then forcibly 'married' to Mohammed. This is the event that some of the Gaza 'peace mission' -- though obviously, not the Irish -- were celebrating in song.

And no, this doesn't justify anyone being killed. But do you really believe that the Israelis set out to murder people? If so, why did they kill so few?

I really have to wonder if you faked your bandage, Fatima. Is there one under your headscarf too?

Who is Fatima Mohammadi? Americans want to know. Chicagoans want to know.

P.S. Hey Fatima--are you a bomber buddy of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn? Living on the South Side of Chicago and all. Did you work with them on this "peaceful, activist" mission?

Ayers, Dohrn and Evans’ Code Pink have led several recent Free Gaza Movement initiatives, including attempted marches into the Gaza Strip. Dorhn was in the Middle East just last month on behalf of the movement.

Come on Fatima. Steel yourself to tell us the truth.

On Facebook she says her hometown is Tehran. How nice. Yet Fatima is an American citizen.

...Are you really working for Iran Fatima?

Related: Ayers and the Peace Activist Flotilla

More. Iran's Gaza-bound ships ready for clash with Israel - Ahmadinejad DEBKAfile

For updates, go here (scroll down)

--crossposted at BackyardConservative

Impress shuns of our president

This is What Angry Looks Like? And So it Goes in Shreveport

Video: Obama Goes Off, Per Spike Lee's Suggestion Riehl World View

That's Me DC The Brain Supreme 24th State

Obamanomics Bombs me

Last year small dead animals

...toast.

P.S. In other news: When Blue-State Zoning and Super-Cool Green Architecture Collide

OK, one more--a video:): Heh: Dreadful Obama Speech Puts Kid to Sleep Jammie Wearing Fool