Volcker Says Time Is Running Out for U.S. to Tackle Fiscal Woes (This is one of Obama’s top advisers. He says politicians don’t seem to have a “sense of urgency".)

Biden says Brussels is the new capital of the free world (Oh yeah, because when the world thinks of individual liberty and economic dynamism, the first place that comes to mind is Belgium.)

Democrats are unlikely to pass a federal budget (It’s an election year, and they don’t want to be on the record for passing new tax increases or voting for a budget with another $2 trillion deficit. This is what moral and intellectual bankruptcy looks like.)

Bill Clinton blames economic inequality and the financial crisis on the US leaving the gold standard (Wow. He’s able to identify a major part of the problem, which is impressive. But he then attempts to justify it anyway. Wouldn’t want some wacky Rothschild-spawn coming at his junk with a hunting knife or anything. Lulz.)

Gibbsie, you’re doing a heck of a job.

"There’s nothing that we think can and should be done that isn’t being done. Nothing," Gibbs said Friday during a lengthy, often testy exchange with reporters about the response to the oil disaster.

There are no powers of intervention that the federal government has available but has opted not to use, Gibbs said.

I actually believe him. I believe that the combined resources of BP and the United States Government are being wielded in every possible way to stop the spill.

I also believe that we’re completely fucked.

American Academy of Pediatrics wants to permit "ritual nick" procedures on girls

In a controversial change to a longstanding policy concerning the practice of female circumcision in some African and Asian cultures, the American Academy of Pediatrics is suggesting that American doctors be given permission to perform a ceremonial pinprick or “nick” on girls from these cultures if it would keep their families from sending them overseas for the full circumcision.
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The academy’s committee on bioethics, in a policy statement last week, said some pediatricians had suggested that current federal law, which “makes criminal any nonmedical procedure performed on the genitals” of a girl in the United States, has had the unintended consequence of driving some families to take their daughters to other countries to undergo mutilation.

“It might be more effective if federal and state laws enabled pediatricians to reach out to families by offering a ritual nick as a possible compromise to avoid greater harm,” the group said.

But some opponents of female genital mutilation, or F.G.M., denounced the statement.

“I am sure the academy had only good intentions, but what their recommendation has done is only create confusion about whether F.G.M. is acceptable in any form, and it is the wrong step forward on how best to protect young women and girls,” said Representative Joseph Crowley, Democrat of New York, who recently introduced a bill to toughen federal law by making it a crime to take a girl overseas to be circumcised. “F.G.M. serves no medical purpose, and it is rightfully banned in the U.S.”

Georganne Chapin, executive director of an advocacy group called Intact America, said she was “astonished that a group of intelligent people did not see the utter slippery slope that we put physicians on” with the new policy statement. “How much blood will parents be satisfied with?”

She added: “There are countries in the world that allow wife beating, slavery and child abuse, but we don’t allow people to practice those customs in this country. We don’t let people have slavery a little bit because they’re going to do it anyway, or beat their wives a little bit because they’re going to do it anyway.”

OK, two things:

First, can’t wait for female circumcision to be covered under Obamacare. FANTASTIC!

Second, no mention of Islam. Just vague references to “African and Asian cultures.” The fear that Western institutions have toward offending the evil motherfuckers who do this stuff is sickening. Tell the truth, assholes.

David Horowitz versus a pleasant young member of the Muslim Students Association at the University of California at San Diego.