Instead of just handing out the money for free like a cowering dhimmi why don't we try to get something in exchange for it? Like...uh...I don't know...OIL!!!
But then it wouldn't be jizya, would it?
Via JW.
The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world.
The White House said the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) had issued a call for proposals for the fund, which will provide financing of between 25 and 150 million dollars for selected projects and funds.
The Global Technology and Innovation Fund will "catalyze and facilitate private sector investments" throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa, the White House said in a statement.
Eligible projects would advance economic opportunity and create jobs in areas like technology, education, telecoms, media, business services and clean technology, the White House said.
OPIC said sample projects could help foster the development of new computer technology or telecommunications businesses, or widen access to broadband Internet services....
Yep, that's the problem with the Middle East, they can't afford broadband. The poor things.
Gee, I can't afford a hotel like that, maybe Obama will bow to me?
On almost a daily basis, Obama turns out to be even worse than I feared. It's one thing to reach out to the enemy, but Obama's administration is becoming a smorgasbord of dhimmitude and incompetence.
Hat tip, JW. Emphasis not mine.
Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.
President Obama has nominated Koh -- until last week the dean of Yale Law School -- to be the State Department's legal adviser. In that job, Koh would forge a wide range of international agreements on issues from trade to arms control, and help represent our country in such places as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.
It's a job where you want a strong defender of America's sovereignty. But that's not Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.
The primacy of international legal "norms" applies even to treaties we reject. For example, Koh believes that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- a problematic document that we haven't ratified -- should dictate the age at which individual US states can execute criminals. Got that? On issues ranging from affirmative action to the interrogation of terrorists, what the rest of the world says, goes.
Including, apparently, the world of radical imams. A New York lawyer, Steven Stein, says that, in addressing the Yale Club of Greenwich in 2007, Koh claimed that "in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States."
A spokeswoman for Koh said she couldn't confirm the incident, responding: "I had heard that some guy . . . had asked a question about sharia law, and that Dean Koh had said something about that while there are obvious differences among the many different legal systems, they also share some common legal concepts."
Score one for America's enemies and hostile international bureaucrats, zero for American democracy.
Koh has called America's focus on the War on Terror "obsessive." In 2004, he listed countries that flagrantly disregard international law -- "most prominently, North Korea, Iraq, and our own country, the United States of America," which he branded "the axis of disobedience.[...]
Even though he's up for a State Department job, Koh is a key test case in the "judicial wars." If he makes it through (which he will if he gets even a single GOP vote) the message to the Obama team will be: You can pick 'em as radical as you like. Full article.
Koh is against capital punishment and in favor of gay marriage, but he thinks that sharia can used in the United States? This idiot doesn't even make any sense.
From Daniel Pipes.
David Limbaugh adds some information to Clyne's research at "Another Day, Another Scary Nomination":
It turns out that on March 21, 2007, Carol Iannone, on Phi Beta Cons blog, published a letter from Stein to Dean Koh about his Yale Club remarks. Stein wrote, in part, "In your discussion of 'global law' I recall at least one favorable reference to 'Sharia', among other foreign laws that could, in an appropriate instance (according to you) govern a controversy in a federal or state court in the US."
Limbaugh goes on to comment: "Whether or not Koh ever responded to Stein's letter, Stein's representations of Koh's remarks are certainly consistent with Koh's writings that I reviewed."
Also read, A Dream Team to Tear Down the United States.
I really thought Obama was a Carter redux, but I was giving him way too much credit. Even Jimmy the Dhimmi isn't this stupid.
The Pentagon's senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama's order to freeze military tribunals there.
The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case.
The legal move by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, brings all cases into compliance with Obama's Jan. 22 executive order to halt terrorist court proceedings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
What a slap in the face to these fine sailors.
 Electronics Technician Chief Petty Officer Richard Costelow Morrisville, Pennsylvania |  Signalman Seaman Recruit Cherone Louis Gunn, Rex, Georgia |
 Seaman James Rodrick McDaniels, Norfolk, Virginia |  Seaman Recruit Lakiba Nicole Palmer, San Diego, California |
 Operations Specialist Second Class Timothy Lamont Saunders, Ringgold, Virgina |  Ensign Andrew Triplett, Macon, Mississippi |
 Seaman Apprentice Craig Bryan Wibberley, Williamsport, Maryland |  Hull Maintenance Technician Third Class Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter, Mechanicsville, Virginia |
 Mess Management Specialist Seaman Lakeina Monique Francis, Woodleaf, North Carolina |  Information Systems Technician Seaman Timothy Lee Gauna, Rice, Texas |
 Engineman Second Class Marc Ian Nieto, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin |  Electronics Warfare Technician Second Class Ronald Scott Owens, Vero Beach, Florida |
 Engineman Fireman Joshua Langdon Parlett, Churchville, Maryland |  Fireman Apprentice Patrick Howard Roy, Keedysville, Maryland |
 Electronics Warfare Technician First Class Kevin Shawn Rux, Portland, North Dakota |  Mess Management Specialist Third Class Ronchester Mananga Santiago, Kingsville, Texas |
 Firecontrolman Gary Graham Swenchonis, Jr., Rockport, Texas |  WE WILL REMEMBER YOU... |
They gave their all, we need a President who has the courage to stand up for them. But those who are forever trapped in a September 10th mentality will have already forgotten that the ten suspects captured in Yemen somehow managed to escape prison. Yes, ten of them on the same day, from the same Yemeni prison.
The same Yemen government who has an official who said "Yemen is like a bus station — we stop some terrorists, and we send others on to fight elsewhere ... We appease our partners in the West, but we are not really helping."
Or that released Gitmo detainees have already surfaced on al Qaeda videos.
Obama has sent a clear signal to jihadists that while they wage war on us, we will do nothing.
Also read Michelle Malkin, Gitmo gall: Charges dropped against Cole bombing jihadist.
9/11 Families: American Muslim Teenager Killed in Bombing by Ex-Gitmo Detainee: the Untold Story of Jihad Hitting Home
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Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama.
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing calls to drop out. SourceHillary has positioned herself as a primary suspect if something does happen to Obama.
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