Blog Heap of Links for the day 9 November 2012

The greatest satisfaction today over the re-election of Obama… is surely being felt in Iran. With four more years of Obama in the White House, Iran can now be sure that it will be able to complete its infernal construction of a genocide bomb to use against the Jews and the west. World War Three has now come a lot closer. … Romney lost because he refused to provide an alternative to any of this for fear of being labelled a warmonger, flint-heart or social reactionary. He refused to engage with any of the issues that made this Presidential election so truly momentous. Up against the bullying of the totalitarian left, he ran for cover. He played safe, and as a result only advertised his own weakness and dishonesty. Well, voters can smell inconsistency from a mile away; they call it untrustworthiness, and they are right. Romney lost because, like Britain’s Conservative Party, the Republicans just don’t understand that America and the west are being consumed by a culture war. In their cowardice and moral confusion, they all attempt to appease the enemies within. And from without, the Islamic enemies of civilisation stand poised to occupy the void. …

We’re dealing with people that would rather be hip than smart, and “fairness” has always been an easier sell than the fable of the Little Red Hen, especially if you’re one of the hipsters who wants their bread and circuses for free.

Democrats are the party of organized hatred, and the fact that key constituent groups within the Democratic coalition openly hate each other — e.g., most black people aren’t really down for the whole “LGBT” agenda — does nothing to distract from their unifying principle: Hating Republicans as symbolic scapegoats for whatever aggrieves them.

• What's Next For The U.S. Military
• Will U.S. Foreign Policy Change After Obama Victory?
• More Foreign Policy Challenges In A Second Obama Term

“I wanted him to continue,” she said. “He was good, he loved the work, and he had a command of intelligence issues second to none.” Feinstein added that Petraeus will no longer be required to testify at hearings next week related to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya Sept. 11.

Expect more rampant unemployment; Iran will develop the bomb, China will torpedo the dollar, and the Arabs will continue to profit from Obama crony capitalism policy on green energy and red ink. And that’s the good news. All will be well, as far as Obama is concerned, because America will go to hell in a “made in Bangladesh” Obamabasket. Your assignment—if you choose to accept it—is to survive it long enough to say I told you so. And while you can, go buy enough monkey wrenches to toss at the politicians to help upset the banana cart. … The biggest enemy to conservatism is expecting either of these parties to carry their share of the water. Inherently they are both prostitutes who got us to carry the water only to screw us out of it. …

Less than 24 hours after winning re-election, President Barack Obama’s administration joined with China, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, and more than 150 other governments, in supporting renewed debate on the proposed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, confirming the worst fears of the American gun rights community.

…8. The movie “Idiocracy,” once regarded a somewhat obscure comedy, will finally be hailed as a prophetic vision of the future and the true work of genius that it is.
…2. The most famous book written on the Roman Empire is Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” Now historians of today can witness firsthand the most famous period in our history….

I went to list companies that announced latoffs-it is staggering

On November 6, as the vote in the US Presidential Elections was 52,524,449 for Obama and 52,025,784 for Romney, Mr. Romney made a gracious concession speech showing all of his strong points: poise, class, magnanimity, good manners, positive energy. Not one of the assets, however, that a Western leader must have in this day and age to even begin having a serious chance at tilting the rudder of the Titanic….

[Read the whole thing at Gates of Vienna. Links from the article:]
• Vanloads of Somalians driven to the polls in Ohio
• Ohio recount “nightmare” — 200,000 non-returned absentee ballots the verification and validation of which is shot through with possibilities of fraud and misuse.
• More voting problems in Ohio as ballot cast for Romney comes up Obama.
• Ohio: 200 people in Dayton sent 2 absentee ballots…
• Ohio: Republican Poll Watcher Threatened with Gun, Voter Punched in Detroit
• Absentee ballots sent to U.S. military serving in Afghanistan ‘destroyed in crash’…
• Thousands of ballots unlikely to reach military voters until after the elections
• Active-duty service members disfranchised by Fla. voter purge
• Florida: Obama Poster Hanging in Florida Polling Station…
• UN poll-watchers were “amazed” the US doesn’t require IDs to vote, and allows other fraud-prone practices like voting online.
• Voting machine troubles in Nevada, other swing states…
Nevada: Illegal Immigrants allowed to vote
• Thousands of dead [and assuredly Democrat] Californians remain eligible to vote.
• North Carolina: Mentally disabled exploited to vote…
North Carolina: Killer registers and votes from NC mental hospital…
• North Carolina: Poll Worker Tells People to Vote Democrat
• NAACP took over Houston Polling Station
• Philadelphia… Black Panthers… returned to intimidate at a Polling Site.
• polling station in America’s cradle city merely featured a large mural of Barack Obama.
• Obama’s army of illegal election workers and Obamoid thugs threatening violence against Romney voters
• Black pastor receives death threats after reversing support
• Obama supporters step up riot threats…
• Bill Maher to Romney Supporters: 'Black People Know Who You Are and They Will Come After You'…
• AP running a poll days before the election to argue Whites’ increased racism
• MSNBC actively telling viewers how to vote
• and ridiculing Romney for his help to Sandy Victims
• Huff-Po and Salon.com making preposterous accusations against Romney
• agitprop, with children singing that Romney will let people and polar bears "just die" and oil fill the seas.
• useful idiots of Broadway pleading "One Term More" for the Great Obama.
It’s time Americans woke up and understood they have been sold down the river.

In an election cycle in which progressive media tried to demonize the Tea Party and paint Republicans as hostile toward woman, Nebraska Senator-elect Deb Fischer will be important in Washington as a reform-minded Tea Party senator who also happens to be female. Fischer defeated former Nebraska Senator and Governor Bob Kerrey, who had lived in New York for decades and attempted to carpetbag the state, with 58% of the vote to Kerrey’s 41.8%.

The testimony of a Mexican hitman turned government witness has revealed some astonishing details of life inside Mexico’s criminal underworld. Most astonishing of all: claims that cartel assassins obtained guns from the U.S. Border Patrol.

Oklahoma's two newest Republican congressmen say they're optimistic they will be able to work with a Democratic president and Senate to break the partisan gridlock in Washington. [Work with them for what?]

As Republicans try to explain their Election Day losses in terms of policy, tactics, and strategy, one factor is emerging as the essential difference between the Obama and Romney campaigns on November 6: the absolute failure of Romney’s get-out-the-vote effort, which underperformed even John McCain’s lackluster 2008 turnout. One culprit appears to be “Orca,” the Romney’s massive technology effort, which failed completely. A source within the Romney campaign agreed to share his reflections on Project Orca with Breitbart News… There was, in fact, massive suppression of the Republican vote--by the Romney campaign, through the diversion of nearly 40,000 volunteers to a failing computer program. There was no Plan B; there was only confusion, and silence.

Romney was more-than-convinced he’d win on Tuesday…. “There’s nothing worse than when you think you’re going to win, and you don’t,” another adviser said. “It was like a sucker punch.” CBS News also noted that Romney purportedly “hastily composed” notes for a concession speech, adding corroboration to his claims earlier in the day that he was prepared for a decisive victory.