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What does the Saudi King think he's doing? After Obama bowed to him and licked his feet, this is the thanks he gets ?

Gulf nations split with West to back Egyptian military
By Jamie Dettmer

Published August 20, 2013
FoxNews.com
Saudi King Abdullah, (l.), has pledged to make up for any foreign aid Egypt loses from the West. (AP) (AP)

Efforts by the West to pressure Egypt's new government to end its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood could be moot thanks to Saudi Arabia's oil money – and whole-hearted backing of the military.

While the West calls for peace in Cairo, the Saudis are supporting Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who led the ouster of Mohammed Morsi. The Kingdom has pledged to make up for any loss in foreign aid resulting from the military's brutal crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.

On Monday, the country's foreign minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal issued a hard-hitting statement via the Saudi Press Agency pushing back on the West.


"To those who have announced they are cutting their aid to Egypt, or threatening to do that, (we say that) Arab and Muslim nations are rich and will not hesitate to help Egypt."
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"To those who have announced they are cutting their aid to Egypt, or threatening to do that, (we say that) Arab and Muslim nations are rich and will not hesitate to help Egypt," said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency. "Arab states will never accept manipulation of their fates or tampering with their security and stability by the international community."



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/20/gulf-nations-split-with-west-to-back-egyptian-military/#ixzz2cXdTurBp

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Flying Pig Alert: Leftist Icon Noam Chomsky
Says Sarah Palin Was Right About Obuma

(Whoa... Chomsky???  The end of the world can't be far away)

Noam Chomsky Shocker: Sarah Palin was right!

Via The Inquisitr:
http://www.inquisitr.com/913416/noam-chomsky-sarah-palin-was-right/

First Howard Dean and now Noam Chomsky agreeing with Sarah Palin?

In an interview with Democracy Now, the influential MIT linguistics professor, author, and prominent left-wing political activist admitted that Sarah Palin was right about Barack Obama in that there was no substance to his presidential campaign.

Palin also recently received validation from former Gov. Howard Dean, a prominent liberal Democrat, about what she termed Obamacare death panels, otherwise known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

In these latest comments about the president, Chomsky said that "I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right; there was nothing there. And it was understood by the people who run the political system, and so it's no great secret that the US electoral system is mainly a public relations extravaganza... it's sort of a marketing affair."

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ACLU: Oklahoma Ten Commandments monument too sacred for public space

Oklahoma Places Ten Commandments Monument In State Capitol... ACLU Freaks Out

(Right on cue... the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve}

Via Raw Story:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/20/aclu-oklahoma-ten-commandments-monument-too-sacred-for-public-space/

The American Civil Liberties Union is taking on the state of Oklahoma over a monument featuring the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament of the Judeo-Christian Bible, which is prominently placed in the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City.According to a statement released by the ACLU and the ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation on Tuesday, the lawsuit "seeks to have the monument removed" on the grounds that it violates constitutional provisions against use of government property to promote a particular sect or religion.

According to the rights group, the monument "trivializes" the religious meaning of the commandments by placing them in "a political and secular context." The Ten Commandments are sacred to both Jewish and Christian believers, and as such, the ACLU is arguing, belong in a sacred space like a church or synagogue rather than a state capitol.

In addition, "(t)he monument's placement at the Capitol has created a more divisive and hostile state for many Oklahomans," said Ryan Kiesel of the ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation. "When the government literally puts one faith on a pedestal, it sends a strong message to Oklahomans of other faiths that they are less than equal."

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What does the Saudi King think he's doing? After Obama bowed to him and licked his feet, this is the thanks he gets ?

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Who Knew?  Simple Al Sharpton Says Ted Cruz
"Was A U.S. Senator From Birth"

(It's a shame stupidity isn't painful)

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CRS Report:
White House's Implementation of Dodd-Frank Going Even Worse Than Obumacare,
61% of Deadlines Have Been Missed

(Makes one wonder who is running this golf course)

   


Via NRO:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/356262/obama-admin-has-missed-over-60-percent-dodd-frank-deadlines-patrick-brennan

A Congressional Research Service report this week revealed that the Obama administration has missed precisely 50 percent of its deadlines in implementing Obamacare — and with the Dodd-Frank financial-reform law, they're doing even worse. More than half of the law's 279 deadlines so far — 61.6 percent — have been missed by July 15, according to a new report.

The law firm DavisPolk has been publishing reports on Dodd-Frank's progress for a while now, and they explain "the pace of rulemaking has been remarkably consistent over the past three years" — but it's been consistently far behind the pace actually set by the law. Since the deadlines are dispersed, some months have been particularly rough — April 2011 saw regulators hit a serious cold streak, missing 26 deadlines that month. Dodd-Frank requires a variety of federal agencies — the SEC, the Fed, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, etc. — to actually write the new financial-market rules that Congress merely outlined in the 2010 law.

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Late Night Has a New Highest-Paid Host

($25-30 million per year for a fake news program?)

Via Mediaite:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/late-night-has-a-new-highest-paid-host/

With TV Guide's annual survey of star salaries comes news of a new "king of late night." For the first time, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart tops the list of highest-paid late night hosts, making an estimated $25-30 million per year.

Behind him with $20 million per year a piece are the former late night leaders the Tonight Show's Jay Leno and the Late Show's David Letterman. Their third network rival Jimmy Kimmel is a distant fourth with $10 million per year.

Just last year, TV Guide published a similar list that showed Letterman in the lead with $28 million, Leno second with $25 million and Stewart third with $16 million. If anything, the dynamic shift proves the ascendance of cable over broadcast, with Comedy Central able to outspend NBC and CBS to keep Stewart as host of The Daily Show through 2015. And as if being the highest-paid late night star wasn't powerful enough, the host just took the whole summer off.

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"Gutted Christian Church"

Obuma Admin On Church Attacks In Egypt: "We Have Seen Zero Indication The Muslim Brotherhood Is Organizing These Attacks"

I'd bet my purple-dotted drawers the "high-ranking Western official" cited by the WaPo is someone in the Obama administration, mainly because we're the ONLY western country giving its full support to the Muslim Brotherhood, hence the reason I added it to the headline)

BENI MAZAR, Egypt — The fire burned all night long. It was only after desperate town residents borrowed the keys to a firetruck that they were able to quell the blaze. By then, the evangelical church was all but destroyed.

It was one of more than 60 churches that have been attacked, vandalized and in many cases set aflame across Egypt in a surge of violence against Christians that has followed the bloody Aug. 14 raid by Egyptian security forces on two Islamist protest camps in Cairo.

The attacks, most of them in Egypt's Nile Valley, have lent legitimacy to the military-backed government's claims that it is fighting a war against terrorism.

But one week after the attacks, the Egyptian government has yet to investigate any of the incidents or provide any additional security to most churches, Christian activists and church officials said.

Visits to flame-ravaged churches and interviews with activists and Western officials also cast doubt on whether the Muslim Brotherhood, blamed by the government for carrying out the violence, was actively involved.

"We have seen zero indication that the Muslim Brotherhood as an organization is organizing these attacks," said a high-ranking Western official who was not authorized to speak on the record. The official said the blame more likely rested with Islamist vigilantes rather than Brotherhood members acting on orders.

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Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff Admits Syrian Rebels Obuma Is Arming Are Not Our Friends

(Neither were the Drug Cartels & the MB... the General would have looked like a fool to argue otherwise)

WASHINGTON (AP) —
http://news.yahoo.com/dempsey-syrian-rebels-wouldnt-back-us-interests-070802647.html

The Obama administration is opposed to even limited U.S. military intervention in Syria because it believes rebels fighting the Assad regime wouldn't support American interests if they were to seize power right now, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote to a congressman in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

Effectively ruling out U.S. cruise missile attacks and other options that wouldn't require U.S. troops on the ground, Dempsey said the military is clearly capable of taking out Syrian President Bashar Assad's air force and shifting the balance of the Arab country's 2½-year war back toward the armed opposition. But he said such an approach would plunge the United States deep into another war in the Arab world and offer no strategy for peace in a nation plagued by ethnic rivalries.

"Syria today is not about choosing between two sides but rather about choosing one among many sides," Dempsey said in the letter Aug. 19 to Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y. "It is my belief that the side we choose must be ready to promote their interests and ours when the balance shifts in their favor. Today, they are not."

Dempsey's pessimistic assessment will hardly please members of the fractured Syrian opposition leadership and some members of the administration who have championed greater support to help the rebellion end Assad's four-decade family dynasty. Despite almost incessant bickering and internal disputes, some opposition groups have worked with the United States and other European and Arab supporters to try to form a cohesive, inclusive movement dedicated to a democratic and multiethnic state.

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Hundreds of Coptic Christians Rally Against Muslim Brotherhood In Nashville, Chant "Obuma, Obuma, Don't You Care?  Christian Blood Is Everywhere"

(The answer to their question is... NO, he doesn't give a sh!t)

Via The Tennessean:
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130819/NEWS06/308190047/Coptic-Christian-rally-downtown-Nashville-noon-protest-church-burnings-Egypt?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

More than 200 Coptic Christians demonstrated in downtown Nashville, calling for an end to the violence in Egypt.

Many chanted "Obama, Obama, don't you care? Christian blood is everywhere," and "Pray for Egypt" while waiving Egyptian flags.

Others, like Anour Fares, held homemade signs with messages like "We are against Muslim Brotherhood."

Amany Shahata, who has lived in the United States for 16 years, said she feared for Christians living in Egypt, whose churches had been burned down in recent days. She and other protesters blamed the Muslim Brotherhood.

"What is terrorism, but being afraid to go out of your house because someone will attack you," she said. "... We can build churches anywhere but in our own country."

At one point demonstrators lined both sides of First Avenue and called out slogans as cars went by. They shouted "eid wahda," an Egyptian phrase that translates as "one hand," meaning that the Egyptian people, both Christians and Muslims, were united with the army against terrorism, which they blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood.

Abram Thabet said that he hopes the Obama administration will stand by the Egyptian government. He said that he fled Cairo two years ago with his family because he feared persecution.