Gryffn Musings

Look at that bastard. He enjoys the privileges of the country he lives in and yet spews hatred against it.

On this day of remembrance today when we give honor to all who have serve and still do today….
Britons must defend their brave soldiers from the hatred of the Muslims that have invaded their country. Yes, invaded. Their chants of “British soldiers burn in hell” and banners saying “Islam will dominate” and “Our dead are in paradise, your dead are in hell.”

They call themselves Muslims Against Crusades. What year are we in? OK, if they want to go there, let us  recall real history here. The Crusades were a reaction to previous and continuous 600 years of Muslim invasions of Europe. It was Charles Martel (Charlemagne's grandfather) who is remembered for finally throwing them out of France. Spain was not so lucky and had to endure a 700-year occupation.

They should be deported and the borders closed!

As September 15 wore on, George Soros’s confidence that Britain would pull the pound out of the ERM was growing. It had been Stanley Druckenmiller who had thought the time ripe for making a bet against the sterling. He talked to Soros about doing something. Soros gave him the green light but urged his head trader to bet an even larger sum than Druckenmiller had in mind. And so Druckenmiller, acting for Soros, sold $10 billion worth of sterling… The next morning at 7:00, the phone rang at Soros’s home. It was Stan Druckenmiller with news… While George Soros had slept, he racked a profit $958 million. When Soros’s gains from other positions he took during the ERM crisis were tallied, he racked up close to $2 billion… It was this bet, this single act of placing $10 billion on the fact that Britain would have to devalue the pound, that made George Soros world famous,” (SOROS THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY, pgs 5-6).

He famously shorted the British pound in 1992, wagering $10 billion on a drop in its value. In a desperate bid to keep its currency afloat, the Bank of England tried to buy up pounds as fast as Soros could dump them. However, as more and more investors followed Soros’ lead and joined his efforts, the Bank of England eventually gave up. The British pound was devalued, launching a tsunami of financial turmoil from Tokyo to Rome. When it was over, millions of hardworking Britons confronted their diminished savings, while Soros counted his gains. He had personally made nearly $2 billion on the catastrophe,” (The Shadow Party, pg. 4).

Soros has said of this event: “I had no platform, so I deliberately [did] the sterling thing to create a platform. Obviously people care about the man who made a lot of money…my influence has continued to grow and I do have access to,”(Time Magazine, Sept 1, 1997)

In 1997, during the Asian financial crisis, the then Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir bin Mohamad, accused him of bringing down the Malaysian currency, the ringgit, through his trading activities. In Thailand he was branded an “economic war criminal” who “sucks the blood from the people”.

The Uncivility of Barack Obama

"We don't mind the Republicans joining us," Obama taunted a few weeks ago. "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."

"They're counting on young people staying home and union members staying home and black folks staying home," the fear-mongering agent of hope and change jeered on the campaign trail last month.

"You would think they'd be saying thank you," he sneered last April, when millions turned out for the nationwide Tax Day tea party protests.

"I want them just to get out of the way" and "don't do a lot of talking," he scoffed in response to prescient critics of the federal trillion-dollar stimulus boondoggle.

In addition to labeling GOP opponents of his open-borders policies "enemies" who needed to be "punished" by Latino voters, Obama accused them — that is, us — of lacking patriotism. "Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values," he told viewers of the Spanish-language network Univision.

And So It Multiplies

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called regular folks who voiced an opinion regarding the federal health care takeover in the town halls of 2009 "un-American," too. "Astroturf, jinned up". Remember? "Drowning out [voicing] opposing views is simply un-American," Pelosi and Hoyer blasted.

This from the woman who called for a vengeful government investigation of grassroots opponents of the Ground Zero mosque. "Abuse of Power" is what I call it.

Obama's pal Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida, whom the president hailed as an "outstanding" member of Congress, accused Republicans of wanting elderly people to "die quickly" and of presiding over a "holocaust in America." Vice President Joe Biden hailed Grayson as a "guy who doesn't back away from a fight, and doesn't back down from what he believes in" and told him at a fundraiser: "We owe you one, buddy." No mention of Grayson's smear of a female Federal Reserve adviser as a "K Street whore."

In California, entrenched incumbent jerk Pete Stark derided immigration enforcement activists at a town hall by asking: "Who are you going to kill today?" To an elderly constituent who opposed the health care bill, Stark retorted: "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn't be worth wasting the urine."

As voters who have been maligned by the ruling majority as stupid, unwashed, racist, selfish and violent headed to the polls Tuesday, Democrats released "talking points" attacking Republican leaders who "are not willing to compromise." But "no compromise" is exactly the message that un-American Americans delivered to Washington this campaign season:

No more compromising deals behind closed doors. No more compromising bailouts in times of manufactured crisis. No more compromising conservative principles for D.C. party elites. No more compromising the American economy for left-wing special interests. No more compromising transparency and ethics for bureaucratic self-preservation.

Let us be clear, in case it hasn't fully sunk into the minds of Obama and the trash-talking Democrats yet: You can take your faux olive branch and shove it. Thank you.

– Michelle Malkin
 

A shameful display endorsed and even encouraged by Obama is to take place today.

The United Nations Human Rights Council, a gang of 47 nations that includes real rights violators like China, Cuba, Libya and Saudi Arabia, meets in Geneva on Friday, with the intention of condemning the US!

When did we stone women for minor (or any) infractions (like in Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia – take your pick)? When did we endorse the beating of women if they were not totally covered up in a cocoon of black? When did we shoot down citizens just for expressing an opinion (Iran and Remember Neda)?

No, we stand accused — that the U.S. discriminates against Muslims, that its police are barbaric, and that it has been holding political prisoners behind bars for years.

It's a dog-and-pony-show of UN proportions, of Obama proportions.

Shame on you Obama for turning on your US family, against 'we the people'. When you think one of us has behaved badly (i.e. challenged your authority) you treat us like bad children who need to be "punished".

Meanwhile, you are taking your other Show on the road to India to waste $200 million to unionize India. Just what we need. More unions to destroy business.

Shame.

Guess who said the following: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work." Think back several decades — we are repeating history.

It was Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of FDR's closest advisers. He added, "after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. . . And an enormous debt to boot!"

Sound familiar?

This is just one of the remarkable and eye-opening facts in a must-read book titled "New Deal or Raw Deal?" by Professor Burton W. Folsom, Jr., of Hillsdale College.

Instead of learning from the failed policies of the 30s, Obama is hell bent on doing it all over again. The same kinds of policies that were tried– and failed– during the 1930s are being carried out in Washington today, with the advocates of such policies often invoking FDR's New Deal as a model.

Franklin D. Roosevelt blamed the country's woes on the problems he inherited from his predecessor, much as Barack Obama does today. But unemployment was 20 percent in the spring of 1939, six long years after Herbert Hoover had left the White House.

We are told that FDR got us out of the Great Depression, when in reality, he is the one who caused it!

Far from pulling the country out of the Great Depression by following Keynesian policies, FDR created policies that prolonged the depression until it was more than twice as long as any other depression in American history.

President Roosevelt's strong suit was politics, not economics. He played the political game both cleverly and ruthlessly, including using both the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service to harass and intimidate his critics and opponents.

It is not a pretty story. But we need to understand it if we want to avoid the ugly consequences of very similar policies today.

– T Sowell

In Ciudad Mexico, four US citizens have been slain according to Mexican authorities.

A 35-year-old man was shot while standing outside a house. A 26-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy were murdered after crossing an international bridge from El Paso. A 24-year-old woman was killed inside a tortilla shop.

The Mexican government cannot stop this. The US Federal government (Obama) just does not care. So that leaves us to deal with it.

More of the Same

U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley confirmed three of the killings, but nothing else.

Ciudad Juarez has become one of the world's deadliest cities amid a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels. More than 2,000 people have been killed this year in the city, which is across the border from El Paso.

So here's the thing – Mexico is responsible for the murders and mayhem on their side of the border. One huge reason we need a tight and safe border. The violence is coming here and Mexico plans nothing. They are blaming the US for the cartels!

No, Felipe Calderon. YOU get your house in order and stop blaming your criminals' actions on the US. Keep your nose out of Arizona and its business. If you had control in your own country, there would be no problems on either side!

Getting Worse

I mean, a Canadian businessman disappeared last week. And now, remains of seven people were found Sunday in a mass grave in Nogales, on the Arizona border. Mayor Jose Angel Hernandez said a family walking near the site noticed what appeared to be part of a body sticking up in a riverbed. Officers recovered six bodies and a severed head in the grave. A seventh headless body was found nearby.

This is what Arizonans have to deal with every day – and night.

So unless you live there and deal with this yourself, butt out of Arizona and its business.