Exclusive Photos: Iranian Revolutionary Guards' terrifying new weapons

Undercover operative Deep Spackle emails us these pictures from an unknown location in Iran.

His Mullah's Ship (HMS) Jihad of Love, Iran's first nuclear aircraft carrier, embarks on a test voyage in the Strait of Hormuz.

HMS Martyred Teddy Bear, a guided missile cruiser, docks in a special slip at the military port of Bander-e Lengeh.

A squadron of Mahdi-15 Fighter-Bombers flies over Tehran.

High-powered Nuclear Suicide-belt cargo planes carry advanced weapons to a secret location.

A top secret photograph of the much-feared, experimental Ayatollah of Rockenrollah battle tank.

Revolutionary Guards Special Operations Commando Ranger demonstrates the Donkey of Doom Personal Killing Tank.

Terrifying!

Linked by: Grouchy Old Cripple and Fausta. Thanks! Hat tips: Task Force 72, MSW, Gizmology, Brickshelf, TrekEarth.

Line o' the Day: Spray some Bactin on that, Sen. Obama!

John McCain on the opponents of victory:

We rejected the audacity of hopelessness.

Fausta adds:

In spite of Obama’s grand tour efforts, 300 foreign advisors, and hundreds of reporters in tow, there’s no Europe Effect in the polls.

Deafeatism may sell in Europe, but it doesn’t sell in America.

Someone hand Obama an ice-pack. That's gonna leave a bruise.

Why I don't read the newspaper much any more

Finally! Justice is served!

And John Stossel says government can't do things better than free enterprise!

I won't hold my breath awaiting the results of this hunt.

That's a damn good paint job!

Followed by the meeting on new lighting that's held in the dark.

I'm more upset about NEPA's EIS on BNFL's RAPPI before DRUADs.

Go figure.

That's a brother for you.

It's a partisan issue, I'm sure.

I'll try to remember. I guess it was a slow day at the Poison Control Center.

Please call immediately if you've seen this... man... woman... insect...

Right after finding corpses in the mausoleum.

This is taking the principle of "More Guns, Less Crime" a bit too far.

I'd wager these guys took federal grant money to come up with this conclusion.

Ouch!

Hat tip: Sean E

Olympic Officials: Beijing smog is 'mist' akin to Atlanta or LA

International Olympic Committee officials are trying to prepare athletes for the brutal Beijing smog with their own brand of psyops.

...Schamasch said the IOC was monitoring Beijing's air. He said particulate matter on Sunday "was a little bit higher than what's expected but nothing dramatic."

He said readings for ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide fell within 2005 guidelines set by the World Health Organization... He did not disclose the exact levels, saying it was not the IOC's practice.

"Today there is nothing critical preventing an athlete from running, except the visibility," he said. "I can tell you it's mist more than smog."

Schamasch said conditions were "not worse" than in other cities that hosted the games, mentioning Los Angeles, Atlanta and Athens.

Just 12 days before the games open, the AP reported that China's capital city was "shrouded in thick gray smog".

Despite traffic restrictions put in place to reduce pollution, the city's air combined with warm temperatures and high humidity could create "a soupy mix of harmful chemicals, particulate matter and water vapor."

The following are some recent pictures taken in and around Beijing. Judge for yourself whether they look like Atlanta or Los Angeles.




















Before we start eviscerating the U.S. economy with carbon trading, perhaps we could get China on board some sort of cleanup program since it has 16 of the top 20 polluted cities in the world.

Hat tips: Marramark, Pompous Vegan, LA Times, TreeHugger and EarthFirst.

The Daley Show: The Power Behind Barack Obama

Today's Chicago Tribune features a lengthy press release from the Chicago Democratic machine that heaps non-stop praise on "'The other side of Obama's brain." That phrase refers to Valerie Jarrett, one of the Obama campaign's key advisers.

Valerie Jarrett is known as the other side of Barack Obama's brain. Can this tough-minded adviser, who is guided by aphorisms and gut instinct, help him reach the White House?

...Technically her title is "senior adviser.'' But Jarrett, the soft-spoken, steely willed, longtime Chicago powerbroker, has also been called the other side of Obama's brain. At the very least, he says, she is his eyes and ears in meetings that he cannot attend.

...Yet even as her role in Obama's campaign has expanded over the past year, Jarrett has kept her day job as president and CEO of the Habitat Company, a major real-estate firm and court-appointed receiver of Chicago public housing, overseeing the beleaguered agency's long, painful struggle to desegregate by building new mixed-income developments. She travels with Obama or his wife, Michelle, as often as she can-usually on weekends or in times of crisis.

The American Thinker's Thomas Lifson deconstructs the puff piece by injecting a heavy dose of reality:

Jarrett is an old hand in the Daley Machine. It was a search for a city job that brought her first into contact with the Obamas. In fact, she offered Michelle a job in the same Machine her father had worked in, as a precinct worker/city employee...

...In 1991, Jarrett was the deputy chief of staff for Mayor Daley when a tall, striking-looking African-American lawyer named Michelle Robinson walked into her office for a job interview. The young woman had the whole package: Princeton University undergrad, Harvard Law School, two years at a prestigious corporate law firm... It was a match mad in heaven, and soon Michelle was a city employee. Coincidentally or not, Jarrett is also vice chair of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago, according to the article, which would have made her in a sense a supervisor of Michelle Obama before she went on leave from her jobs as a community outreach manager (what Mr. Terry discreetly calls "an executive") for the University Medical Center. Presumably Jarrett may have had a voice in the decision of the Medical Center to nearly triple Michelle's salary once her husband was elected to the United States Senate.

...Evidently Tony Rezko is not the sole Obama associate to earn a good living in the realm of publicly-subsidized housing in Chicago. But unlike Rezko, she has not been indicted or convicted of any crimes. That's a mark of distinction in those circles... Jarrett is a Daley Machine Chicago power player, and a vital link between Obama and the Machine.

In the Tribune's discussion area, commenter Percy Jones translates for the lay-person:

This... article is an almost endless paean to a poor, struggling, humble but valiant and intelligent black woman who is the man of light’s brain. We are so moved... Of course the real story reads like this:

Old Val, is a Daley operative, and political hack, who made her fortune churning run down, foreclosed public housing real estate while doing “public service”. Daley appoints old Val to be Obama’s handler and groom him for his place in the machine. She gives Obama a job working the public housing equivalent of three card monty. In a typical Chicago back door pay off she arranges a series of high paying sinecures for Michelle first in Daley’s office and then at the University of Chicago. The University of Chicago being in the habit of hiring various and sundry clout heavy cretans so as to buy said clout and easy access to state and federal funds. No one is quite clear about just what Michelle does for them or how she got those jobs. No one is asking. No one will. Val’s job now is to keep wonderman on track and to remind just who is really running things. Daley.

Which version of this article do you believe? Do you remember, like I do, when the Tribune was a real newspaper?

My eyes are getting all misty from the nostalgia.

One need only read the Tony Rezko & Barack Obama Comic Book to relive the glory years of the Democratic machine's stunning urban renewal program. The power couple -- Barack and Michelle -- were enmeshed in this utterly corrupt nonsense that has failed the Chicago populace for decades.

Two photos from Obama's visit to Germany

Don B. at Gather:

I wonder if the rock concert and free beer and pizza had anything to do with the large crowd. Of course the media portrayed it as being due to Obama's presence. He used the same gimmick in Oregon. Yet the media gave it a spin for the Kool-Aid king.

While Obama did not have time to visit the troops during his trip to Germany, he was able to take time and pose for photos at the local gym after his workout.

De Bild: "He curled 32 Kilo dumbbells next to me!"

Related: Pajamas Media (Jennifer Rubin): "Media Misses Big Story of Obama Trip"

UBL's driver: Clinton administration 'emboldened' Bin Laden

McClatchy's Carol Rosenberg notes testimony from an Al Qaeda operative that highlights the Clinton administration's lackadaisical approach to fighting terrorism as a direct contributor to 9/11.

...Osama bin Laden's driver told a pair of FBI agents that it was America's fault that the al Qaida leader was alive...

The United States could have killed bin Laden in Khartoum, Sudan, before he moved to Afghanistan in 1996, Hamdan told his interrogators. They could have killed him after al Qaida's 1998 twin bombings at the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Or after the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, at the port of Aden in Yemen, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead.

Instead, ''Bin Laden was emboldened.'' So he struck with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, leaving nearly 3,000 dead.

Richard Miniter already demonstrated -- beyond a shadow of a doubt -- that the Clinton administration's inaction led directly to 9/11.

This testimony is simply further damning evidence that Miniter was spot on in his conclusions.

We can thank Bill Clinton and Sandy Berger (he of the immense cover-up that the conspiracy nuts known as 9/11 "Truthers" curiously choose to ignore... go figure: they won't investigate the only confirmed conspiracy!) for 9/11.

Word to the wise when voting in 2008: we tried the Democratic approach to fighting terrorism prior to 9/11. The results were thousands of innocents dead on American soil.

In an age in which Iran will likely equip its terrorist proxies with nuclear devices, another Democratic administration could very well be catastrophic.

Update: Gateway Pundit:

Osama Bin Laden had previously exposed the weak leadership of Bill Clinton during an interview one month before 9-11:

We experienced the Americans through our brothers who went into combat against them in Somalia, for example. We found they had no power worthy of mention. There was a huge aura over America -- the United States -- that terrified people even before they entered combat. Our brothers who were here in Afghanistan tested them, and together with some of the mujahedeen in Somalia, God granted them victory. America exited dragging its tails in failure, defeat, and ruin, caring for nothing.

And, just think... Barack Obama is even weaker than Clinton's wife on national security!

That's a comforting thought, isn't it?