BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

It was eight years ago, and it was yesterday, and it is today, and it will be tomorrow. The planet has turned once more on the sky-blue day of horror, the day everything changed. So we stop in recognition of that which we remember quietly every day, that which we will go on remembering. For remembering is our forever unfinished business. First, there are the people. Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, family and friends. And many strangers with whom we are bonded, whose names ring in love and fury, whose names make the printed page a field of tombstones. They are murder victims, almost 3,000 strong, killed by 19 foot soldiers of evil, dispatched by fanatics who burned with the desire to attack America. And burn to come again. Our business in that regard, too, is unfinished. That Osama Bin Laden remains at large is an affront. We take comfort in faith that he will get his. So, also, we can only await the end of his Al Qaeda henchmen imprisoned at Guantanamo, most notab...

by Ira Sharkansky The drama of Barack Obama's personality and his campaign of 'Change' have come under assault on several fronts. Reality is at least as tough as rhetoric. The skills that get a politician to office may not be those that enhance government. On the other hand, they might be. The man is smart, and he has good advisers. The test is ongoing. The jury will not decide for a while. Americans elected Obama, but he must lead the world. On his plate are not only existing commitments to bad wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the pirates of Somalia as well as the lingering issue of conventional troublemaking and nuclear weapons in Iran. Closer to home, the stock market has shown some promise that it may be coming back from its bottom, but there are other signs that the economic crisis has a way to go. Afghanistan strikes me as the most worrying issue on the president's agenda. It is a sink hole that cost the British dearly in the 19th century, and contributed to the ...

We all have our bad habits. I have one that I have never been able to shake. Me? I don't suffer fools gladly. Stupidity really makes my teeth hurt. And stupidity combined with arrogance? Well, just be sure you're not close to the curb when speeding bus comes by and I am behind you. Closer, Barry -- just get closer to the curb. From the great DEADENDERS: Don’t Know Much About History, Don’t Know Much About…. In Obama’s never ending quest to trash America telling the rest of the world you’re right were wrong, HE just keeps getting it wrong. Speaking in Turkey he said this: Compared to Turkey and how old this civilization is, America is still very new. Turkey was founded in 1923 just after America saved Europe’s ass in WWI. Barry should have spent more time in History class. CLICK HERE FOR ONE MORE OF DE'S 'GOTCHAS' ON OyBAMA's STOOPIDITY

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'Speak English' signs allowed at Philly shop Geno's postings do not discriminate The owner of a famous cheesesteak shop did not discriminate when he posted signs asking customers to speak English, a city panel ruled Wednesday. In a 2-1 vote, a Commission on Human Relations panel found that two signs at Geno's Steaks telling customers, "This is America: WHEN ORDERING 'PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH,'" do not violate the city's Fair Practices Ordinance. Shop owner Joe Vento has said he posted the signs in October 2005 because of concerns over immigration reform and an increasing number of people in the area who could not order in English. Vento has said he never refused service to anyone because they couldn't speak English. But critics argued that the signs discourage customers of certain backgrounds from eating at the shop. Commissioners Roxanne E. Covington and Burt Siegel voted to dismiss the complaint, finding that the sign does not communicate that bu...

JEW-HATING PBS IS ABOUT TO STRIKE... AGAIN Remember Christiane Amanpour's GOD'S WARRIORS ? On Monday's MSNBC Live with Dan Abrams, host and MSNBC General Manager Abrams attacked CNN's God's Warriors series for "a defense of Islamic fundamentalism and the worst type of moral relativism," and as "shameful advocacy masked as journalism," quipping that series host Christiane Amanpour "avoided getting bogged down in objectivity." Abrams further took exception with Amanpour for comparing those who support Israel's defense strategy to Muslim terrorists: "Christians and Jews, for example, who support Israel's strategy for self-defense are just as much God's warriors, according to Amanpour, as the Islamic radicals who blow themselves and others up in an effort to destroy the world as we know it." SOURCE Well, now get ready for this: "The Jewish Americans" airs in three 2-hour segments on PBS on Wednesday, Jan. 16...

The Islamofascists Would Kill Me First Last holiday season, my ex and the kids all asked me what I wanted, since I rarely ask for anything. I told them one thing. A Sirius Radio and a 1 year subscription. I love it. While sitting in the car waiting for my kids outside my lessons or their schools I can turn on a variety of targeted music or talk. As a talk-radio addict for years, it has to be one of the best gifts I have ever gotten. Feeding my head. And it was on Sirius that I first hear Cenk Uygur. This article of his is well worth a read, so I repost it here: By Cenk Uygur I am a Muslim who has renounced Islam. I am an apostate. I have had very unflattering things to say about the Prophet Mohamed [1](number one no-no of all time in the eyes of radical Islam). If an Islamic theocracy were to take over, I would be the first one strung up. Islamic radicals are not known for their patience for Muslims who denounce Islam and the Prophet Mohamed. They're known for killing them. N...

Why Those Who Love America Are Feeling Brokenhearted by Andrew Greeley I am ashamed for America. Note carefully that I do not say I am ashamed of America. Despite all its inherent flaws and all its tragic mistakes, the United States stands, however incompletely and with whatever imperfections, for the highest standards of freedom and democracy that the world has yet known. I am ashamed for America because all the evil done in the nation’s name in recent years is turning off the light on the mountaintop. 1. The president urges Congress in effect to accept the Turkish protest against the attribution of Armenian genocide because it might interfere with Turkish logistic cooperation in the ill-starred and foolish Iraq war. That’s like silencing all congressional action on the Holocaust because we need Germany on our side. If Turks expect to become part of Europe and the West, they must acknowledge what their ancestors did. They could pass a resolution of their own accusing us of genocide ...

WHO NEEDS TERRORISTS? As a big fan of Richard Belzer, I proudly re-post his short article here! Who needs terrorists? We can scare the shit out of ourselves, thank you very much. We have Bush's wet dream of an End Times scenario where he would like to usher in World War III before, according to him, the Persians, start some trouble in a few years. We have Rudy Kazootie telling us that untold hoards of dark skinned demons are out to kill us all and we better elect him so he can incinerate them over the next eight years. We have Michele Malkin, who prefers going house to house to threaten and scare the sneaky wretches who need assistance with exorbitant medical costs. How dare they! We have the banks and credit card companies that make it easy to borrow and spend and allow people to obtain suspicious loans to buy houses only to discover to their horror that they are in over their heads and will lose everything and be indebted for forever. Most people are afraid the country is going i...

AMERICA'S BATTERED WIFE SYNDROME The first time I read this, it took my breath away - reading it again in light of the last few years of political & social changes in the U.S., it still does. Dear America As a friend of the family I can’t sit back and watch you do this to yourself without saying something. Consider this a long distance intervention. Your man is no good. He treats you like crap, lies to you, abuses you, bullies you, exploits you, takes your money. As a friend I want to tell you that you deserve better. You deserve a person that treats you with respect, cares about your welfare, and your children’s welfare, but that’s not George and it never will be. Do you tell yourself that he’ll stop, or that it won’t get worse? He won’t ever stop, every insult, injury and death he has caused are a line that once crossed will never be uncrossed. Forget the dream. You will never have the American dream with George. You have to forget about what might have been, what George migh...

MY AMERICA & WHY I STAND UP FOR HER In the small town of Oxford, Mass. if you proceed East through town and take a left up a lonely road at a sign that points to the local golf course, there's a small little cemetary on the left. If you get out you will see a lot of grave stones that have my last name on it (those of you who know my last name). Families going back to the 1600s. Revolutionary War times. A ship's captain who sailed for the Colonial Navy, families with babies who died after just a few weeks of life. Farmers. Wives who waited years for their soldier husbands to come home. Mayflower descendants. And I am one of them. It's my genetic duty, in a way, to speak up for democracy. I believe in family, despite all the problems my family had. My mother's ancestors ran from the Pogroms in Poland, my father's ran from the oppression of the British against the Puritans. We have yet another election coming soon. My children will be the inheritors o...