With all the focus on Sarah Palin, and thwe relentless attacks on her - I think what they’ve been trying to do is to get her off kilter for this debate.

Washington University - Gwen Ifil in St. Louis - who should have been fired because of her upcoming book and her support of Obama…

2 minute discussion after question–

Domestic and Foreign Policy matters

5 minute segments,each candidate will have 90 seconds and 2 minute rebuttal.

No untoward outbursts except as they welcome Biden and Palin onto the stage.

House passed a bailout bill - Senate decided to pass, House is still wrestling with it. Was this the worst of Washington or the best?

Biden: The past economic policies have been the worst that we’ve ever had. The excess of deregulation, Wallstreet run wild - Barack Obama laid out 4 basic criteria for a rescue plan - there has to be oversight; you have to focus on homeowners and mainstreet - taxpayers - and lastly the CEOs shouldn’t benefit - people could make money off this rescue plan. A fundamental disagreement - we’re going to fundamentally change the focus on economic policy. When the middle class is growing…

Palin - A good barometer is it a good time or a bad time ? Go to a kid’s soccer game - turn to the kids parents - you’re going to hear fear - did we just take a major hit in those investments? Small business, ? Our economy is hurting and the federal government hasn’t provided reform…McCain provided reform - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - colleagues wouldn’t listen to him, the alarm has been heard, and there will be reform due to McCain’s bipartisan efforts - McCain put the country first and politics aside.

Biden: McCain is out of touch

Palin: the American workforce is the greatest in this world. What I’ve done as governor - and as mayor - we are know to put the partisan politics aside - and we’re known for reform - Obama votes along party lines. Let’s get the business done for the America people - Americans are craving something new and different - reform -

Subprime lending meltdown; was it the greedy lenders risky home buyers?

Palin: It was the predator lenders - it was smart to buy a $300K house when you could only afford a $100k house. We’re going to get rid of that corruption. Let’s commit ourselves - every day people - band together and say never again. Never again will we be taken advantage of. We demand from the federal government strict oversight. Let’s do what our parents told us before we got that first credit card - don’t live outside our means. let’s take personal responsibility. It’s not the American peoples’ fault. Never again will we be taken advantage of.

Biden: Two years ago Obama warned about the mortgage problem McCain was surprised. Obama said he was always for cutting regulations. McCain is a good man, but he thought the answer was deregulate. We had overwhelming deregulation - where Wallstreet could regulate itself. John wrote an article - he wants to do deregulate it - the health care system - like he did for Wallstreet. I asked a guy at the gas station - how much does it cost to fill your tank? I don’t know, Joe, I never have enough money to do it.

Palin: Tax increases - we can speak in agreement here - we need tax relief - Obama and Biden oted for the largest tax increase in history. 94 times he voted to not support a tax reduction. That’s not what we need to bolster our economy. We need to keep more of what we produce - government is going to have to learn to be more efficient. Obama supported increase in taxes - for $42k a year - that’s middle America.

Biden: The vote she’s referring to - McCain voted the same way. mcCain voted 477 times to raise taxes - it’s a bogus standard. The government didn’t answer the question about deregulation…letting Wallstreet run wild. He supported deregulation across the board.

Palin: I’m still on taxes. As mayor every year I did reduce taxes. i eliminated personal property taxes, suspended our state fuel tax. As for John McCain’s adherence to rules and regulations and pushing for tougher regulations - tobacco industry, campaign finance reform–

Taxes for people over $250k a year - why is that not class warfare? You’ve proposed health benefits - why isn’t that taking things out on the poor?

Biden: The middle class is struggling. 100 million middle class families - they’ve got not a single break in taxes. No one making less than 250k will see one single penny of their tax raised, (boy this is a bunch of hot air) - that seems to be simple fairness. The economic engine of America - is the middle class. John wants to add 300 billion in tax cuts per year for corporate America and the wealthy. The midddle class deserves the tax breaks, not the super wealthy. They don’t need more

Palin; that redistribution of wealth principle you espouse there I take issue with. You’re forgetting millions of small businesses and less productivity. It’s patriotic to pay higher taxes? Government, you’re not always the solution, lessen the tax burden people - a trillion dollars in new spending is the backwards way to grow the economy. McCain has a $5k tax credit for families so they can purchase their own health care. Obama’s is universal government run program. It’s not going to be pleasing for health care –considering how government rusn things. McCain wants competition. Affordability and assassibility - tax credit.

Biden - redistribution - to say that not giving Exxon mobil another tax cut - we don’t call that redistribution - we call that fairness.

(ha)

They would not get one single solitary increase (small businesses)

Biden looks pissed here

$5k tax cut - he taxes - he raises 3.6 trillion to give you a $5k plan that will go straight to the insurance company - a $12k plan will have to be replaced - 20 million will be dropped. A $12k plan with a $5k plan that’s the ultimate bridge to nowhere.

What promises - have you and your campaigns made to the American people that you’re not going to be able to keep?

Biden: Foreign commitments. We don’t go through with John McCain’s tax cut proposals - $130 billion alone, the $300 billion tax cut for corporate america and the wealthy - and for Exxon mobil - providing incentives policy - we can’t slow up on education - that will give us the competitiveness that we need. Affordable health care - we can’t slow up on. The bottom line here is that we’re going to eliminate the wasteful spending - the light is blinking - $100 billion tax dodge that allows people to go offshore to avoid taxes.

Palin: I can assure you McCain doesn’t tell one thing to one group and something to another group. I’m going to the energy plan - Biden, you would remember - your running mate voted for that. I had to take on those oil companies in Alaska. That wasn’t going to happen in my state. What I had to do up there - break up the monopoly - we’re going to have value given to the people of Alaska - not when it adversely effects - it was Obama that voted for the energy plan that gave them the tax breaks - that I had to undo.

There is nothing that you would take off the table?

Palin: There isn’t anything that I’ve promised - in five weeks. I don’t believe McCain has made any promise that he can’t keep, either.

Biden: Let’s talk about those tax breaks. Obama voted for that bill for real support for alternative - if John really wnated to eliminate them, why is he moving for tax cuts for the Exxon mobils of the world…McCain will not support a windfall profits tax. They’ve made $600 billion - all by itself he wants to give them $400 billion tax cut. I hope the governor will encourage McCain to support the windfall profits tax like she did in Alaska.

Palin: There have been so many changes in the conditions of our economy there is more revelation about the corruption and greed on Wallstreet. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac rear the head of abuse -we have McCain to thank for bringing the bipartisan effort - to the table. To do what’s right - it’s a toxic mess and we have to be ever vigilant - credit markets don’t seize up - the main streeters like me would really feel the effects.

Mortage holders really paid the price —

Biden: Obama warned -about the crisis - McCain is surprised about the mortgage crisis. We should be allowing bankruptcy courts to adjust the interest rates, and the principal that you owe.

(what the hell?)

Palin is doing a great job of standing her ground here.

I notice that their campaign to get her off kilter hasn’t worked, and she’s making some very strong points in comparison to Biden, who you’d think after 30 years would have learned a thing or two…but then again, the Obama/Biden ticket aren’t REALLY about UNITING or working across party lines.

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What a mihrab means to the Wahhabists, the Khomeini-ists and the other Salafists

In 1981, Ayatollah Khomeini explained the meaning of a Mecca-direction indicator (called a mihrab), like the one now being planted on the Flight 93 crash site:

Mehrab means the place of war, the place of fighting. Out of the mehrabs, wars should proceed, just as all the wars of Islam used to proceeded out of the mehrabs. [Hat tip Yoel Natan, Moon-o-theism, p. 30]

The I-ah-told-you-so wasn’t just speaking allegorically either. The University of Chicago’s Francis Joseph Seinglass Comprehensive Persian-English dictionary lists amongst its definitions for mihrab: “warlike,” and “a field of battle.” (Hat tip Czechmade.)

Anyone who thinks it is okay to build the world’s largest mihrab on the Flight 93 crash site really should read Khomeini’s whole speech (his tribute to Muhammad). It’s only two pages, but psychopathic hellspawn like Khomeini can pack an awful lot of murder-lust into a short space, when every stinking sentence is a plea for wanton slaughter.

From beginning:

The real Day of God is the day that Amir al mo’menin drew his sword and slaughtered all the khavarej and killed them from the first to the last.

To end:

We believe that the accused essentially does not have to be tried. He or she must just be killed. Only their identity is to be established and then they should be killed.

“The accused,” of course, is YOU, and all the other “discontented people” who do not readily submit to the murder-cult’s endless demands.

To rid the world of who they accuse of violating God’s law, they grant themselves exemption from the Sixth Commandment. Evil stupidity. Maggots for brains. Matched only by the see-no-evil stupidity of a western world that is so defrauded by its dishonest left wing media that it is losing the capacity to fight back.

Will we really build a Salafist memorial mosque on the Flight 93 crash site? Will we really elect a president who is in bed with Islamofascists and domestic terrorists alike? Will we really let Iran get the nuclear weapons with which to wipe city after American city off the map, as they so desperately crave? Will we really turn off the energy spigot–the key to past and continuing progress–based on utterly fraudulent claims of human-caused global warming, even as the world descends into a substantial cooling phase?

None of these issues should even be in question, yet the minority of us who are trying to stem the collapse of the nation can barely battle even these gimmies to a draw, and could lose all four. If the nation survives this “moment” in history–this long war with Islamic fascism and with our own liberty hating left–it will be thanks to the relative handful of people who recognize honest reason and evidence as impenetrable armor and unbreakable sword against those who seek advantage in manipulative dishonesty.

The demagogues and their dupes are powerful in numbers, but blind. Their hostility to contrary reason and evidence divorces them from reality, leaving them ignorant of surrounding truth. That is our advantage. We know the lay of the land, and can use it to defeat them, but we still have to get up and do it.

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A follow up to Obsession, Radical Islam’s War Against the West comes The Third Jihad…

[…] a documentary whose goal is to alert, educate and mobilize Americans about the danger radical Islam poses to the United States and to Western civilization as a whole. The film spotlights radical Islam’s war against liberal ideas, its violent, anti-democratic agenda as well as its systematic human and civil rights abuses against women, blacks, homosexuals, Christians and moderate Muslims.

The Third Jihad focuses on radical Islam’s campaign to dominate America and the West, and the ramifications of such a reality on our day to day lives. It underscores the importance of the American people joining together against radical Islam, that if not defeated, will continue to threaten our lives and values until they are destroyed completely.

Narrated by Dr. Zudhi Jasser, a moderate Muslim concerned about the spread of radical Islam in America, The Third Jihad aims to achieve the following two goals:

• Educate viewers about the dangerous activities and frightening goals of radical Islamists, and their potential threat to the lives and values of millions of Americans.
• Motivate viewers to become ambassadors for freedom and democracy by taking a stance against the activities and perpetrators of radical Islamic activities, spreading knowledge and lobbying political figures to eradicate such terrorist activities.