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Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Al-Alwaki Elimination

Where is the evidence laid out and presented to the American people? Communication is key. Anecdotes include contact with three of the 9/11 hijackers, alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, and alleged "Christmas Day bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. In each of these Islamist attacks though the Obama regime downplayed them or de-emphasized the Islamist roots.

Now, however, al-Awlaki is presented in the media as essentially tried, convicted, and eliminated. Do we actually know the details or care? We should. Alive and pumped for information in Gitmo he may have been even more valuable and revealed essential information on both the Islamist side and about operations within the U.S. government.

How high were his contacts and what did he know? Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Awlaki was sought as a media source for questions about Islam and the attacks who could speak English well. He was interviewed by National Geographic, The New York Times and other media. He condemned the attacks, stating "There is no way that the people who did this could be Muslim, and if they claim to be Muslim, then they have perverted their religion." He presented an image as a moderate who could bridge the gap between the United States and the worldwide community of Muslims.

Writing on the IslamOnline.net website six days after the 9/11 attacks, al-Awlaki suggested that Israeli intelligence agents might have been responsible for the attacks, and that the FBI "went into the roster of the airplanes, and whoever has a Muslim or Arab name became the hijacker by default".

Months after the 9/11 attacks, as the U.S. Secretary of the Army was eager to have a presentation from a moderate Muslim as part of an outreach effort to ease tensions with Muslim-Americans, a Pentagon employee invited al-Awlaki to a luncheon in the Secretary's Office of General Counsel.

Al-Awlaki was the Congressional Muslim Staffer Association's first imam to conduct a prayer service at the U.S. Capitol in 2002. The prayers were for Muslim congressional staffers and officials for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Although now convicted in the media as a terrorist, at one time he was circulating in some highly placed positions within the U.S. government as well as maintaining contact with Islamists.

Al-Awlaki appears as more of a Lee Harvey Oswald type with the ability to play both sides of the fence easily. I wonder why. Who allowed him to play in such high levels? And now, I wonder why without much evidence, or due process, an American citizen is killed.

I have no sympathy for any ideology that runs counter to American values but he was a citizen and the precedent for a sitting president to order the death of any American without due process should give us pause. Al-Awlaki today, and which of us could be tomorrow? What constitutes grounds for elimination? Those steps should be outlined definitively and communicated clearly.

There is a profound Constitutional question operating here.

The question is that al-Awlaki is an American citizen; liberty is at risk. I have no problem with American firepower eliminating enemy combatants but we need a clearly defined Fifth Amendment due process in place when we do so. The Obama regime has not delineated a due process procedure for post 9/11 home grown terrorists; the lack of proper documentation, judicial review, and setting forth of evidence places us liberty loving citizens at risk of being labeled enemies of the state and eliminated by executive order.

Obama Grammar

“Great Obama Grammar Face-Off.” From Inkslingers Press, the ebook is available for $10 on Kindle, via Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Cain's "Brainwashed" Remark Was "Racist, Bigoted:" Cain Must Be a Bigot Against Himself

Cornell Belcher: Cain's "Brainwashed" Remark Was "Racist, Bigoted"

‘Braindead’ West wants Jihadists to rule Libya: Michael Scheuer


Jul 28, 2011

A suicide attack on a government compound in southern Afghanistan has left at least 19 dead and over 35 injured. It follows a string attacks and the killing of President Karzai's half-brother and comes as the U.S. withdraws its forces. RT talks to Michael Scheuer, a former CIA intelligence officer and historian in Washington DC.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Can You Say Desperate? New Climate Change ‘Shock Ad’ Features Polar Bears Falling to Bloody Deaths


Guardian: The effect is shocking; the message brutal: every short haul flight you take emits four hundred kilogrammes of carbon dioxide – the equivalent weight of an adult polar bear.

The ad is in horrible taste. On 9/11 human beings were leaping to their deaths. Now, polar bears, who can not jump, are depicted as falling out of the sky.

As Predicted, Obamacare Exporting Jobs to China

Boston Scientific disclosed it was investing $150 million and hiring 1,000 people in China.

During the Obamacare debates, one business leader stated: "This will make us one of the highest-taxed regions in the world, and that's going to have an impact on the appetite for people to invest in medical innovation," said Bill Hawkins, chief executive of Medtronic Inc., which makes medical devices.

Teacher Docks Grades for students for saying "bless you"


However, the teacher says he will just find another way to discipline students for saying "bless you" in class.

Unemployment Up

KNX radio in L.A. reports on an astounding number of unemployed in Los Angeles. This comes amid reports that the real unemployment number is 17.5%, and, when seen in relief with the Great Depression based on how the figures are generated, we find a similar unemployment rate.

Jim Cramer: The REAL Unemployment Rate Is 18%

The Labor Department said the unemployment rate was the highest since June 1983

The Labor Department said the unemployment rate was the highest since June 1983.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Herman Cain: Blacks Have Been "Brainwashed"

Herman Cain: Blacks Have Been "Brainwashed"

"African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open minded, pure and simple," presidential candidate Herman Cain (R-GA) said on CNN.

IRAQI POET IN ST. LOUIS

STAR OF DAVID CARVED INTO HIS BACK DURING ATTACK

New audio: NC governor struck serious tone on suspending congressional elections Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/28/new-audio-nc-governor-struck-serious-tone-on-suspending-congressional-elections/#ixzz1ZHZ86JFe


If it was a joke, North Carolina Democratic Governor Bev Perdue needs to polish her delivery.

Newly released audio contradicts the claims of Perdue’s press team that her call Tuesday for suspending Congressional elections was a joke or hyperbole. In the recording, her tone is matter-of-fact and her comments are part of a serious speech.

“Listen to the Governor’s words: She wasn’t joking at all,” North Carolina GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood told The Daily Caller. “The congressional Democrats are wildly unpopular in North Carolina, so she may have been trying to invent a solution to save their jobs from public accountability.”

“If it was a joke, what was the set-up?,” Lockwood adds. “What was the punch-line? Where was the pause for laughter? It took them three hours to say it was a ‘joke,’ but when that flopped it became ‘hyperbole.’ We’ll just call it an unconstitutionally bad idea.”

LISTEN:


Perdue faced almost instant national criticism on Tuesday after she recommended suspending elections until the economy recovers.

“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,” Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, N.C., according to the Raleigh News & Observer. “I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.”

Shortly after the controversial comments made national headlines, Perdue’s press team began claiming it was a joke. Until the audio of her comments was released, though, there was no way to know if she was serious.

Perdue spokeswoman Chris Mackey, who originally told TheDC that it was a joke and “hyperbole,” told TheDC the Governor and her press team are sticking to their statement, even after this new audio came out.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/28/new-audio-nc-governor-struck-serious-tone-on-suspending-congressional-elections/#ixzz1ZHZBRPNI

Ron Paul Beats Obama

Paul 51 percent to 49 percent for Obama in a general election race.

POLL SHOCK: OBAMA 39%, CAIN 34%

Obama 39% Cain 34%

Mick Ronson - 1974 interview, Joining Mott The Hoople


From the Old Grey Whistle Test. Apparently this was never broadcast. Bob Harris interviewed.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL OBAMACARE AN ‘UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY’

CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL OBAMACARE AN ‘UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY’

The group is accusing the government of religious discrimination.

`Jesus is Lord' Heckler Hauled Off at "The Antichrist" Fundraiser

Heckler Calls Obama "The Antichrist" At LA Fundraiser

The heckler was booed by the crowd when he began his rant with "The Christian God is the only and only true living God. The creator of heaven and the universe."

"Jesus Christ is God! Jesus Christ is God! Jesus Christ is God! Jesus Christ is the son of God!" the man continued.

"You're the antichrist!" the man said. The crowd responded with an enthusiastic cheer of "four more years" afterward.

"First of all, I agree Jesus Christ is the Lord. I believe in that," Obama said to tepid applause.

CIA, Pentagon fight to keep Osama bin Laden death photos secret

52 videos and/or still shots exist.

Update: Libya, 20,000 Surface-to-Air Missiles Missing

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U.S. officials had once thought there was little chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of the portable surface-to-air missiles that can bring down a commercial jet liner.

But now that calculation is out the window, with officials at a recent secret White House meeting reporting that thousands of them have gone missing in Libya.

"Matching up a terrorist with a shoulder-fired missile, that's our worst nightmare," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D.-California, a member of the Senate's Commerce, Energy and Transportation Committee.

The nightmare has been made real with the discovery in Libya that an estimated 20,000 portable, heat-seeking missiles have gone missing from unguarded Army weapons warehouses.

The missiles, four to six-feet long and Russian-made, can weigh just 55 pounds with launcher. They lock on to the heat generated by the engines of aircraft, can be fired from a vehicle or from a combatant's shoulder, and are accurate and deadly at a range of more than two miles.

Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch first warned about the problem after a trip to Libya six months ago. He took pictures of pickup truckloads of the missiles being carted off during another trip just a few weeks ago.

"I myself could have removed several hundred if I wanted to, and people can literally drive up with pickup trucks or even 18 wheelers and take away whatever they want," said Bouckaert, HRW's emergencies director. "Every time I arrive at one of these weapons facilities, the first thing we notice going missing is the surface-to-air missiles."

The ease with which rebels and other unknown parties have snatched thousands of the missiles has raised alarms that the weapons could end up in the hands of al Qaeda, which is active in Libya.

"There certainly are dangerous groups operating in the region, and we're very concerned that some of these weapons could end up in the wrong hands," said Bouckaert.

"I think the probability of al Qaeda being able to smuggle some of the stinger-like missiles out of Libya is probably pretty high," said Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism advisor and now a consultant to ABC News.

Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council, which advises President Obama, says that a State Department expert "is on the ground in Libya working with the [Transitional National Council]," the rebels' interim government, to develop a "control and destruction program" for the missiles. Vietor also said the administration has sent five specialists to help the TNC "secure, recover and destroy" weapons, including surface-to-air missiles. Said Vietor, "Since the beginning of the crisis, we have been actively engaged with our allies and partners to support Libya's efforts to secure all conventional weapons stockpiles, including recover, control, and disposal of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles."

Boxer: U.S. Passenger Jets at Risk

Adding to the urgency is the fact that America's passenger jets, like those of most countries, are sitting ducks, despite years of warning about the missile threat. Since the 1970s, according to the U.S. State Department, more than 40 civilian planes around the world have been hit by surface-to-air missiles. In 2003, Iraqi insurgents hit a DHL cargo plane with a missile in Baghdad. Though on fire, the plane was able to land safely. Four years later, militants knocked a Russian-built cargo plane out of the sky over Somalia, killing all 11 crew members.

Now there are calls in Congress to give jets that fly overseas the same protection military aircraft have.

"I think we should ensure that the wide-bodied planes all have this protection," said Sen. Boxer, who first spoke to ABC News about the surface-to-air security threat in 2006. "And that's a little more than 500 of these planes."

According to Boxer, it would cost about a million dollars a plane for a system that has been installed and successfully tested over the last few years, directing a laser beam into the incoming missile.

"For us to sit idly by and not do anything when we could protect 2 billion passengers over the next 20 years [with] a relatively small amount of money [from] the Department of Defense, I think that's malfeasance," said Boxer. "I think that's wrong."

And it could be more practical than trying to round up all the missing Libyan missiles. "Once these missiles walk away from these facilities, they're very difficult to get back, as the CIA realized in Afghanistan," said Bouckaert. When the Afghan mujahideen were fighting the Soviets more than two decades ago, the CIA supplied the Afghans with 1,000 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, which had a devastating effect on Soviet military aircraft. After the Soviets had retreated, however, the CIA spent millions of dollars trying to buy back the remaining missiles from the Afghan fighters. According to Bouckaert, the CIA spent up to $100,000 a piece to reacquire the Stingers.

Let Us Just End Democracy: No More Voting

NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs.

Police inquiry reveals violations in arrest


beating of videographer

Monday, September 26, 2011

Psychologists: Questioning 9/11 Is the Sane Thing To Do

Alleged "Conspiracy Theorists" are not Mentally Insane Crackpots.

Forcing People to Buy Health Care Rationing is Unconstitutional: Hatch

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said that he does not know if White House lawyers have reviewed whether it is constitutional for the federal government to order individuals to buy health insurance and said that the White House is not seriously considering the concerns of people such as Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) who believe the mandate is not constitutionally justified.


Hatch told CNSNews.com in November 2009 that forcing people to buy health insurance cannot be justified under the Constitution’s Commerce Clause.

“But here would be the first time where our government would demand that people buy something that they may or may not want,” Hatch told CNSNews.com. “And, you know, if that’s the case, then we didn’t need a ‘Cash for Clunkers,’ all we had to do is have the federal government say you all got to buy new cars, no matter how tough it is on you. You know, they could require you to buy anything. And that isn’t America. That’s not freedom. That’s not constitutionally sound. Now, there may be some gimmicky way that they can do this, but I can’t think of a gimmicky way that would be constitutionally justified.”



Private, International Police Force Patrolling in Montana


A private, international police force is patrolling Hardin, Montana. As a private entity, they are not subject to the Constitution.

Obama: Ineligible in 49 of 50 States

As the week ended, we found out that the Democratic National Committee did not certify Obama as eligible under Article II – Section I of the Constitution, in 49 of 50 states. The DNC had only filed such certification in the state of Hawaii, Obama’s alleged birth place. The other 49 states received a Certification of Nomination which did not certify Obama as constitutionally eligible for office. We are all on hold to see if any Judges are willing to stand by the Constitution.

No Title from any King, Prince, or Foreign State

The Constitution states:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.


Yet, Obama will be “Chairman of the United Nations Security Council” which clearly meets the Constitutional definition of both an Office and a Title bestowed by not only a foreign State but by a huge collection of foreign States. Since Congress has not given its consent and Obama has already announced his intentions it is clear Obama should resign since he is not defending the Constitution.

Ian Hunter, 25 Sep 2011 (Acoustic) Old Town School of Folk, Chicago IL

"When the Daylight Comes"/"Sweet Jane"


"All the Way to Memphis"


"Roll Away the Stone"/"All The Young Dudes"/"Goodnight Irene"


Guest Nick Tremulis, the opening act, is on vocals on "All The Young Dudes."

GALLUP: Half think govt 'immediate threat to rights and freedoms'...

Americans Express Historic Negativity Toward U.S. Government

Obama confuses Jews with janitors

If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor. I have no problem with that.

Obama Flub Health Rationing Lawsuit

Headed to Supreme Court.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter T. King (R-NY) Hearing on Islamists in America

Round 3: House Homeland Security Committee Hearing “Al Shabaab: Recruitment and Radicalization within the Muslim American Community and the Threat to the Homeland”

Sunday, September 25, 2011

The American Dream Film-Full Length


The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day?

THE AMERICAN DREAM takes an entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America today. You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation, and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track.

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Vatican Jesuit-Rule CFR

The first of two Co-Chairmen of the CFR is Carla A. Hills, who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Gerald Ford (Knight of Malta, 33rd Degree Freemason, Vatican-controlled Bohemian Club) and as Trade Representative under George H. W. Bush (Knight of Malta, 33rd Degree Freemason, Vatican-controlled Bohemian Club, Vatican-controlled Skull & Bones, aka Papal Knights of Eulogia, CFR).

She was an assistant to Attorney General Elliot Richardson, whose son, Henry S. Richardson, is a professor of philosophy at Jesuit Georgetown University. She is part of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission, and one of the three chairmen of the Trilateral Commission (Peter Sutherland) was Jesuit-trained at Gonzaga College. She is an advisory board member of the Partnership for a Secure America (PSA), which is chaired by brother CFR members Warren B. Rudman and Lee H. Hamilton. Rudman was Jesuit-trained at Boston College Law School and Lee Hamilton has close ties to the Jesuit Order's Knight of Malta-directed Central Intelligence Agency. Hills is also on the board of American International Group (AIG), which CFR corporate member is run by Edward Liddy (its CEO), who was trained at the Catholic University of America.

Since 1993, Hills has been on the board of Chevron, along with brother CFR member Donald S. Rice, who was trained at the Roman Catholic University of Notre Dame, its President Emeritus being long time CFR member, Roman Priest Theodore Hesburgh, one of the Vatican's foremost leaders of Pope Benedict XVI's 14th Amendment American Empire.
The other Co-Chairman of the CFR is Jewish Freemason Robert E. Rubin, who served under President Bill Clinton as Treasury Secretary and headed Clinton's National Economic Council. He was a Clinton crony.

Rubin's ties to Clinton are interesting, since Bill Clinton was Jesuit-trained at Georgetown University, where he was close to the Jesuit faculty (became Class President in his junior year). Rubin has served on the board of the Center for National Policy (CNP), which is led by it's President, Roman Catholic Tim Roemer (another graduate of the Roman Catholic University of Notre Dame as is CFR member and past Secretary of State Condolezza Rice).

TONS MORE VATICAN INFO AT THIS LINK
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/2009/08/jesuit-ruled-cfr/
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'Occupy Wall Street' - Professor Paul Sheldon Foote: 'New Yorkers angry about US economy'

Department of Accounting California State University, Fullerton

9/11 Blueprint for Truth presented by Architect Richard Gage, AIA


9/11 Blueprint for Truth: The Architecture of Destruction Commercial architect Richard Gage (founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth) presents a watertight case for controlled demolition of the three steel-building collapses at the World Trade Center, New York on 9/11/01. Includes physicist Steven Jones' updated evidence of thermite. Gage's website, www.ae911truth.org, is rapidly drawing building and engineering professionals to the 9/11 movement. --- Part I - WTC Building #7 1 Symmetrical Collapse 2 Explosions 3 Fire 4 FEMA Report 5 Free Fall 6 Expert Corroboration 7 Squib Explosions 8 Molten Metal 9 Foreknowledge 10 Bldg 7 Conclusions Part II - WTC Twin Towers 1 WTC History 2 Twin Towers' Structure 3 FEMA Deception 4 Explosions 5 Columns Cut 6 Rapid Onset 7 Demolition Waves 8 Free Fall Speed 9 Explosive Squibs 10 Symmetrical Collapse 11 Skeleton Broken Up 12 Molten Iron 13 Dust Clouds 14 Destruction by Fire 15 NIST Deceptions 16 Foreknowledge 17 Expert Corroboration 18 Conclusion --- If you appreciated this documentary and/or would like to view the high quality DVD, please consider supporting the makers by purchasing and/or donating at the below link. http://www.ae911truth.org/ Only the TRUTH will set US free. Thanks to http://www.stoplying.ca/ for producing this fine DVD. Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Website : http://www.ae911truth.org/ --- Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice Website : http://www.stj911.org/ --- Pilots For 9/11 Truth Website : http://pilotsfor911truth.org/ --- General 9/11 Links, News and Events - http://www.911blogger.com/ - http://www.911truth.org/ - http://www.truthaction.org/

Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe

The Open Chemical Physics Journal, 2009, 2, 7-31

Saudi Women Join the 20th Century, Vote in Local Elections


Saudi King Abdullah announced Sunday that the nation’s women will gain the right to vote and run as candidates in local elections to be held in 2015 in a major advancement for the rights of women in the deeply reactionary Muslim kingdom.

In an annual speech before his advisory assembly, or Shura Council, the Saudi monarch said he ordered the step after consulting with the nation’s top religious clerics, whose advice carries great weight in the kingdom.

“We refuse to marginalize the role of women in Saudi society and in every aspect, within the rules of Sharia,” Abdullah said, referring to the Islamic law that governs many aspects of life in the kingdom.

The right to vote is by far the biggest change introduced by Abdullah, considered a reformer, since he became the country’s de facto ruler in 1995 during the illness of King Fahd. Abdullah formally ascended to the throne upon Fahd’s death in August 2005.

The kingdom’s great oil wealth and generous handouts to citizens have largely insulated it from the unrest sweeping the Arab world. But the king has taken steps to quiet rumblings of discontent that largely centered on the eastern oil-producing region populated by the country’s Shiite Muslim minority.

Mindful of the unrest, which reached Saudi Arabia’s doorstep with street protests and a deadly crackdown in neighboring Bahrain, King Abdullah pledged roughly $93 billion in financial support to boost jobs and services for Saudis in March.

Seizing on the season of protest in the Arab world, Saudi women‘s groups have also staged public defiance of the kingdom’s ban on female driving. Saudi authorities went relatively easy on the women, who took to the roads earlier this year and gained worldwide attention through social media.

Abdullah said the changes announced Sunday would also allow women to be appointed to the Shura Council, the advisory body selected by the king that is currently all-male.

The council, established in 1993, offers opinions on general policies in the kingdom and debates economic and social development plans and agreements signed between the kingdom and other nations.

Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, follows deeply misogynist and reactionary social traditions and adheres closely to a standard version of Islamism. Despite Abdullah’s attempts to push through some social reforms, women still cannot drive and the sexes are segregated in public.

Saudi Arabia held its first-ever municipal elections in 2005.

The kingdom will hold its next municipal elections on Thursday, but women will not be able to vote or run in those contests.

In announcing the reforms, Abdullah sought to ground his decision in religion.

“Muslim women in our Islamic history have demonstrated positions that expressed correct opinions and advice,” he said, citing examples from the era of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century.

He said the members of Saudi Arabia’s clerical council, or Ulema, praised and supported his decision.

He also acknowledged the yearning for greater social freedoms in the kingdom.

“Balanced modernization, which falls within our Islamic values, is an important demand in an era where there is no place for defeatist or hesitant people,” he said.

In January, a group of female activists launched a campaign on social networking websites to push the kingdom to allow women to vote and run in the municipal elections.

1997 Prediction, Euro May Lead to War

"EMU and International Conflict, Martin Feldstein, Foreign Affairs, November/December 1997, "war is also a distinct possibility."

Black Middle Class Eroding Under Obama

African-American Middle Class Eroding As Unemployment Rate Soars

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Happy 99th Birthday, Milton Friedman! A tribute to the late, great economist


There's no way to appreciate fully the contributions of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006), who would have turned 99 years old this weekend, to the growth of libertarian ideas and a free society.

This is the man, after all, who introduced the concept of school vouchers, documented the role of government monopolies on money in creating inflation, provided the intellectual arguments that ended the military draft in America, co-founded the Mont Pelerin Society, and so much more. In popular books such as Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose, written with his wife and longtime collaborator Rose, he masterfully drew a through-line between economic freedom and political and cultural freedom.

Yet his ultimate contribution to freedom and liberty is found less in any of the specific argument he made and more in the ways he made them. Friedman provided an all-too-rare example of a public intellectual who was scrupulously honest, forthright, and fair in every debate he entered. Whether he was duking it out with fellow Nobel Prize winners and other high-profile economists or making the case for the morality of capitalism with TV hosts such as Phil Donahue and angry students, he always argued in good faith, admitted when he was wrong, and enlarged the circle of debate.

Long after some of his technical points and social insights have been superseded, that commitment to relentless inquiry and search for truth wherever it takes us will survive.

Milton Friedman gave us something much better than revealed truth: He showed us the process by which we might continue to indefinitely learn about our world and the human condition. In this sense, the Friedman Century is far from over; indeed, it's just getting started.

Written and narrated by Nick Gillespie. Produced and edited by Jim Epstein, with help from Jack Gillespie.

About 2.30 minutes.

For Reason's coverage of and interviews with Milton Friedman over the years, go here now.

Go to http://reason.tv for downloadable versions, and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live.

Pastors in the Pulpit

PASTORS UNITE AGAINST IRS TAX CODE RESTRICTIONS ON POLITICAL SPEECH IN THE PULPIT

Islamist Curriculum of Georgia

Saudi Arabian propaganda in American public schools.

The actual school district web site is here: http://schoolwires.henry.k12.ga.us/henry/site/default.asp

Is it any wonder that parents protested?

The Senator's contact information:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?State=GA

The Governor's office:

http://gov.georgia.gov/00/gov/contact_us/0,2657,165937316_166563415,00.html

The Superintendent's office:

http://schoolwires.henry.k12.ga.us/151610116114253173/site/default.asp

Story regarding parent protest:

http://schoolwires.henry.k12.ga.us/151610116114253173/site/default.asp

Friday, September 23, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Gov't Orders Home Owner to Take Down Yard Cross, 1st Amendment Issue


News story linked here.

The United Nations: Iran, Middle East

The Five-09-22-11

Bad News for Islamists In U.S.

Likely American Voters Are Islamo-Realistic

HIGH SCHOOL PUNISHES STUDENT FOR SAYING HOMOSEXUALITY IS WRONG

Student Suspended for Saying Gay Is Wrong: MyFoxDFW.com

Dakota Ary, an honors student at Western Hills High School in Fort Worth, Texas, was in for a surprise after being sent to the principal’s office and punished for sharing his opinion.

After telling another student that he believes homosexuality is wrong, Dakota was reprimanded and given in-school suspension. The incident purportedly unfolded during a German class at the school. He explains:

“We were talking about religions in Germany. I said, ‘I’m a Christian. I think being a homosexual is wrong.
It wasn’t directed to anyone except my friend who was sitting behind me. I guess [the teacher] heard me. He started yelling. He told me he was going to write me an infraction and send me to the office.”
Following the incident his mother, Holly Pope, received a call from an assistant principal at the school informing her of the punishment. In an interview with Fox News Radio, she says was “absolutely stunned“:

“Dakota is a very well-grounded 14-year-old. He’s been in church his whole life and he’s been taught to stand up for what he believes.
He was stating an opinion. He has a right to do that. They punished him for it.”

Dakota Ary
After hearing the student’s explanation, the assistant principal reduced the punishment from two days to one, but Dakota and his mother aren’t satisfied, as they believe his free speech has been infringed upon.

While the district isn’t speaking out about the incident, on Wednesday, Dakota, his mother and attorney Matt Krause met with the school’s principal. Pope hopes that the school will remove the disciplinary blemish from the child’s record, while pledging that there won’t be any further retaliation.

In commenting on the incident, Krause said, “Students don’t lose their first amendment rights just because they go in the schoolhouse door.”

Even if the issue is dismissed, Dakota will still be in the same classroom, with the same teacher — a concern that the family will still have to contend with should he opt to continue taking German.

Solyndra, Never Heard of It


A few readers are probably quite familiar with the ins and outs of the disgraced solar company Solyndra — the firm that declared bankruptcy after receiving nearly half a billion dollars in government loan guarantees. For some average Americans, however, especially those claiming to get their news from sources such as CNN, NBC and Jon Stewart, the name “Solyndra” signifies anything from artificial sweeteners to a drug company.

While the debacle has garnered intense scrutiny from a few news outlets it seems to have been all but swept under the carpet by much of mainstream media.

Watch as MRCTV’s Dan Joseph and Joe Schoffstall interview random, every day people in Washington D.C. to find out their thoughts on Solyndra. For the most part, no one had ever even heard the word before.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

EAT THE RICH!


Is America really broke? Michael Moore (and others) tells us that there are oceans of cash being hoarded by the wealthy. But Iowahawk (iowahawk.typepad.com) did a little addition, and armed with these statistics Bill and the 'Hawk blow a hole in the "hoarding" lie big enough to fit a documentary filmmaker through.

MTA BANS PRO-ISRAEL SUBWAY ADS, APPROVES ANTI-SEMITIC ADS, 2:23

The Five-09-20-11-B, 6:24 Palestine

Couple Threatened With $500-Per-Meeting Fines For Home Bible Study


Cf. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6274672

An Orange County couple has been ordered to stop holding a Bible study in their home on the grounds that the meeting violates a city ordinance as a “church” and not as a private gathering.

Homeowners Chuck and Stephanie Fromm, of San Juan Capistrano, were fined $300 earlier this month for holding what city officials called “a regular gathering of more than three people”.

That type of meeting would require a conditional use permit as defined by the city, according to Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), the couple’s legal representation.

The Fromms also reportedly face subsequent fines of $500 per meeting for any further “religious gatherings” in their home, according to PJI.

“We’re just gathering and enjoying each other’s company and fellowship. And we enjoy studying God’s word.” Stephanie Fromm told CBS2.


After city officials rejected the Fromms’ appeal, PJI, which represents other Bible study participants, will appeal the decision to the California Superior Court in Orange County.

“This is also about a city trying to get a family to pay fees – to pay fees and pay money to them – just to be able to have friends over to read the Bible,” attorney Brad Dacus of PJI told CBS2.

Neighbors have written letters to the city in support of the Fromms, whom they said have not caused any disturbances with the meetings, according to PJI.

“The Fromm case further involves regular meetings on Sunday mornings and Thursday afternoons with up to 50 people, with impacts on the residential neighborhood on street access and parking,” City Attorney Omar Sandoval said.

The city of San Juan Capistrano was founded as a mission in the late 1700s by Catholic priest Junipero Serra, who established a local chapel that remains the oldest standing building in California.

Officials with San Juan Capistrano did not respond to requests for comment.

Muslim Arrested for Obama Death Threats

Uzbek Man Indicted for Threatening to Assassinate Obama, Obtaining Explosives, Machine Gun

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

NO OFFENSE: POLL SHOWS MANY YOUNG PEOPLE

DON’T MIND DIGITAL SLURS

Congressman Quigley Apologizes for America on Muslim Discrimination in Chicago


Quigley addresses American Islamic College Conference. Apologizes on behalf of America for discrimination Islamists. Last Saturday morning, Illinois Democrat Congressman Mike Quigley made a surprise visit to the American Islamic College Conference in Chicago. The unaccredited college is the first of its kind in the United States.

Back in September 2010, the American Islamic College was the site of of the first conference in the US by the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation), a subversive supremacist world summit conference. The OIC, the modern day "universal caliphate," exercises enormous Islamic power in the United Nations and the EU, and seeks to impose the sharia across the world.

Illinois Congressmen Mike "Quisling" Quigley practically got down on his belly and apologized to the Muslim world for our response to the 911 mass slaughter in the name of Islam. This is the moral sickness of the Democ rat party. Who elects these dangerous clowns?

Rebel pundit was there: "He rambled on about the typical racism and discrimination that the liberal left is so convinced America is rampantly infected with.”

The apology comes around the 2:15 mark in the above video:
Quigley gave remarks to the primarily muslim audience. He rambled on about the typical racism and discrimination that the liberal left is so convinced America is rampantly infected with. As you can see in the video below, he proceeded in his congressional capacity to apologize on behalf of the country for discrimination against muslims’ faith.

Such asshattery is without equal. Perhaps he can persuade a few Jews to join him and they can apologize to the Germans, too.

We all should be fighting and defeating jihad. We should all be denouncing the sharia and the most extreme ideology on the face of the earth (that goes for Muslims, too). Apologizing after 911, 7/7, 3/11, Times Square, Fort Hood, Christmas tree lighting bomb plan, etc., is submission.

The college where this sick act took place is a hotbed for Islamic extremism. I posted the following on its opening back in May 2009, when a group of American Muslims led by two jihadist sought to establish the first four-year accredited Islamic college in the United States, calling it a "Muslim Georgetown."

Advisers to the project have scheduled a June vote to decide whether the proposed Zaytuna College can open in the fall of next year, a major step toward developing the faith in America.

Imam Zaid Shakir and Sheik Hamza Yusuf of California have spent years planning the school, which will offer a liberal arts education and training in Islamic scholarship.

Panetta: 12 more U.S. troops sent to Libya

PA Islamist Indicted


Pennsylvania Muslim Indicted for Soliciting Jihadists to Kill Americans

Monday, September 19, 2011

REPORT: SECRET RECORDINGS UNCOVERED IN ‘FAST AND FURIOUS’ CASE

CBS News has posted what it claims is a secret recording between a senior ATF Agent and an Arizona gun store owner at the heart of the botched operation “Fast and Furious” weapons sting. The tape could be proof that the ATF tried to suppress evidence found at the crime scene of murdered U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry.

Recorded around March 2011, the tape is the work of Andre Howard, owner of Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Arizona– which was the primary gun dealer cooperating with ATF in “Operation Fast and Furious.” On the tape, Howard is talking with the lead case ATF Case Agent Hope MacAllister, according to CBS.

Listen to their conversation below:


Note the discussion included the admission of three weapons found.

This is significant because it means the ATF might have known months ago that there were three Fast and Furious-linked guns, not two, found near U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry after he was killed in a shootout with cartel criminals.

Originally, court records only showed two “AK-47-style” weapons linked to Fast and Furious were part of the investigation. And a ballistics report turned over to Congress months ago also only indicated two Fast and Furious associated weapons.

If a new ballistics test shows the missing third gun was in fact the one used to gun down the U.S. Border Agent, it would be hard to argue that evidence was not intentionally suppressed to avoid scandal.

Apparently, the Justice Department’s Inspector General obtained the audio tape discussing the number of weapons several months ago, and for some yet-to-be-determined reason, handed them over to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona — a primary subject itself of the Fast and Furious investigation.

CBS has asked the pertinent question: ”It’s unclear why the Inspector General, who is supposed to investigate independently, would turn over evidence to an entity that is itself under investigation.”

Increasingly, the answer appears to be a cover-up that stretches widely across the government and reaches up into the highest echelons of power.

In a national election year, a cabinet-level resignation due to scandal would be very politically damaging. For Operation “Fast and Furious,” it appears robust Congressional oversight measures will be required to get anywhere near the truth.

Washington Could Learn A Lot From a Drug Addict


America could learn a lot…from a drug addict.

Even though this country’s $14 trillion in debt – Washington raised the debt ceiling 10 times in the last 10 years.

Each time – it’s like another hit – another spending hit.

But you’re the junkies.

41 cents out of every dollar you spend is borrowed – from places like China.

So – China is like your dealer…

And your addiction and your dealer control your life.

To borrow less – You need to spend less.

Yeah – Washington could learn a lot from a drug addict.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Fox vs. White House Round 2

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Ian Hunter, Colonial Theater, Phoenixville, PA, 17 September 2011

All American Alien Boy

"When the Daylight Comes/Sweet Jane"


"Wash Us Away"


"Michael Picasso"


"It Ain't Easy When You Fall"/"All The Way From Memphis"


It Ain't Easy When You Fall,

sideways snippet


"Alice"


"Wash Us Away"


"Man Overboard"


"Standin' In My Light"


"Once Bitten, Twice Shy"


Once Bitten, Twice Shy

sideways


"Michael Picasso"


"Saturday Gigs"/"All The Young Dudes"/"Goodnight Irene"

: version 1


"Saturday Gigs"/"All The Young Dudes"/"Goodnight Irene"

: version 2


After the show, Ian was personable enough to stick around and to autograph anything that people wanted signed. He asked while signing, "I'm not going to see any of this for sale on Ebay am I?" People chuckled. I got his autograph on "Workin' On the Railroad," and "I Can't Drive," with the 1958 Rock 'n' Roll Show. While he was signing some old Mott The Hoople vinyl Ian said there is a lot of old vinyl out tonight.

I was about the last person to have things signed and I said `Here's an old vinyl for you; what story or anecdote can you tell me about it that no one knows?' At first he couldn't really see it because the light was bad so I told him what the 45 single was and he said this is a really old one. He said well you know it was written by Freddie "Fingers" Lee and he didn't make any money on it but it was recorded by Tom Jones and he had a big hit with it, he made money.

I asked him if he had actually recorded anything with the Apex Group and he said I don't think so but they did some recordings. Colin York was the real driver of that effort and they recorded in the John Lever Record store. York and Ian exchange Christmas cards and that sort of thing but they parted a long time ago was his point.

He said the early days were interesting because they toured all over and he said the French couldn't play their records and they didn't really care for Mott anyway. He said that's probably why they tried so hard and were really into playing to stir up the French crowd. Someone else had "Diary of a Rock and Roll Star" and he was relating that it has been translated into 16 languages including French. His point was that the French don't like us and they don't play other nation's music. Ian gave the example of Johnny Halladay who just recorded rock hits by other artists and made a great deal of money doing so. I agreed with the point, the French, the Canadians and others limit music from other countries in their nation.

Mott The Hoople - Rock 'n' Roll Queen, Taverne de l'Olympia, Paris on 29th September 1971

Cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRWQIIkCndg

The Moon Upstairs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNZWu0UED4E

Walking With A Mountain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di95j26cgQ0

Keep A Knockin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB4T7NLcRqA

I asked if he planned to play bass like he did on "Workin'" and "Drive" and he reminded me that he did play a bit of bass at the reunion gig in 2009.

Then, Ian said something unexpected. He said it was a great deal of fun in those days, "more fun than Mott The Hoople." I thought the more fun early days was because Ian was under a great deal of pressure to write hits and it was a grind during the Mott tours.

I told him when I first saw them, at the Hollywood Palladium, in September 1973, just after Ariel Bender (actually Luther Grosvenor) had joined the band two days previously. Mick Ralphs didn't really give them any warning and he said Luther was right there and ready to go. He jumped right in and he was good on stage. It got him thinking about the maniacal types in rock.

He said lots of rockers were like that. Keith Moon rang him up in L.A. and Ian said he was mortified. He didn't know what to say, it was Moonie after all. Ian said he didn't say a word because he was too intimidated. I said it was probably like meeting Bob Dylan after all and he said, yeah, it was like that. He continued that there are many figures like that in rock like Moonie. He was reserved until the lights went on or if there were cameras on. He said, another guy like that was Sly Stone, a really reserved guy unless the cameras went on and he just went crazy.

I asked him if he'd like to know some local rock and pop trivia and he said sure. I told him that Jim Croce was buried nearby because he's from this area. Ian reminisced that now there's a guy who died and sold a lot of records. That's not the way to do it.

I asked him which type is he. Is he a crazy type or is he the more laid back kind? He said he'll keep playing and writing as long as he can. I certainly hope so; there is no one like him around.

I had a pleasant chat with the keyboard player, Andy Burton, and Paul Page, on bass (Dion), from the Rant Band before the show. I ran into them across the street from the Colonial just finishing their pizza. Both have side projects going on but talk highly of Ian and working with him. Recently, on "All-American Alien Boy," the bass player has been coming out towards the front of stage which he has not done previously. He told me how he worked hard at honoring the memory of a great player, Jaco Pastorious, but he has also added his own parts and bass playing to the piece. He struggled with forming his approach which is a a balance of playing like Paco but also adding his own personality to it. He waited anxiously to hear Ian's reaction once he worked out his bit and said it was just right. Ian had ideas for each of the band members and how to play what he had in mind. It is how the band has a basic repertoire but they keep adding things to keep it fresh.

He had come off working with John Cale, as James Mastro had as well, but he and Steve Holley go way back and Steve was instrumental in getting him into the band.

These are really down-to-earth people and both Paul and Andy consider themselves fans as well. Paul came out after the show and he remembered my name and asked if I enjoyed the show, I replied that the audience was better than at the City Winery in NYC.

Days of Rage Preparations

Video

Ian Hunter, City Winery, 15 September 2011

"Sweet Jane"

McCain Supports His Fellow Progressive Obama, Mocks The TEA Party

Friday, September 16, 2011

FBI SCRAPS CURRICULUM THAT CLAIMS ‘MAINSTREAM’ MUSLIMS ARE VIOLENT

No evidence, just cowardice at work. Nothing to see here folks, just move along.

Ian Hunter, City Winery, 16 September 2011

"Standin' In My Light"/"It Ain't Easy When You Fall"


"Standin' In My Light"

"Central Park & West"


"Once Bitten, Twice Shy,"

version 1


"Once Bitten, Twice Shy,"

version 2


"All The Way From Memphis"

Chairman King at 3rd radicalization hearing on al Shabaab


King Opens Third Committee on Homeland Security Hearing on Radicalization, Focusing on al Shabaab

Washington, D.C. (Wednesday, July 27, 2011) – This morning, U.S. Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, convenes the hearing entitled “Al Shabaab: Recruitment and Radicalization within the Muslim American Community and the Threat to the Homeland.” The prepared opening statement of Chairman King follows:


“Good morning. Today, we hold the third in a series of hearings on radicalization in the Muslim-American community.

Our focus is the result of a lengthy investigation the Committee has conducted into the threat the U.S. homeland faces from al-Shabaab, the Somalia affiliate of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda and Anwar al-Aulaqi’s al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

The Committee has been briefed by intelligence agencies and we have interviewed dozens of experts on al-Shabaab.

I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. They have some of the most extensive insights into the problems uncovered by our Committee’s investigation and we are grateful they are sharing their knowledge.

You will hear how al-Shabaab, who bin Laden called “One of the most important armies” of Islam, is engaged in an ongoing, successful effort to recruit and radicalize dozens of Muslim-American jihadis, who pose a direct threat to the U.S.

Some argue that al-Shabaab is only a Somali problem, and that the group will never strike outside of the Horn of Africa region.

That kind of thinking is a glaring example of what the 9/11 Commission called a failure of imagination.

With al-Shabaab’s large cadre of American jihadis and unquestionable ties to al-Qaeda, particularly its alliance with AQAP, we must face the reality that al-Shabaab is a growing threat to our homeland.

Our investigation into this threat has led to alarming findings: Notably, that al-Shabaab has successfully recruited and radicalized more than 40 Muslim-Americans and 20 Canadians, who have joined the terror group inside Somalia.

Of those, at least 15 Americans and 3 Canadians are believed to have been killed fighting with al-Shabaab, the Committee has learned.

Not al-Qaeda, nor any of its other affiliates, have come close to drawing so many Muslim-Americans and Westerners to jihad.

Three Muslim-Americans became suicide bombers, such as Shirwa Ahmed from Minneapolis -- the first confirmed American suicide bomber in our history.

There also are radicalized converts like al-Shabaab commander Omar Hammami who was raised a Baptist in Alabama, and who has repeatedly threatened the U.S. homeland.

Three American al-Shabaab fighters have been arrested after returning home and one was collared in the Netherlands.

Other radicalized Muslims have been arrested in the U.S. and Canada before they reached Somalia, which is now much easier to get to for jihad than Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan or Yemen.

But as many as two-dozen Muslim-Americans with al-Shabaab -- who in many cases were trained by top al-Qaeda leaders -- remain unaccounted for.

The Committee found that al-Shabaab-related federal prosecutions for funding, recruiting and attempting to join al-Shabaab are the largest number and most significant upward trend in homegrown terror cases filed by the Justice Department over the past two years.

At least 38 cases have been unsealed since 2009 in Minnesota, Ohio, California, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Virginia and Texas.

Al-Shabaab is recruiting inside American mosques in Somali communities like Minneapolis and San Diego, according to the Justice Department.

This month, an al-Shabaab recruiter pleaded guilty to recruiting a large group of Muslims in Minneapolis, “At mosques,” and without any known protest by mosque leaders. A top al-Shabaab leader in Somalia supervised this recruiting.

One Minnesotan recruited was suicide bomber Shirwa Ahmed whose 2008 attack in northern Somalia sent a shockwave of alarm through U.S. homeland security agencies, because of its implications.

Another would-be bomber from Minneapolis was shot and killed in Mogadishu by peacekeeping troops on May 30, moments before detonating his suicide vest.

When one cleric spoke out against al-Shabaab inside the Minneapolis mosque where many of the missing young Somali-American men had once worshipped, he was physically assaulted, according to police.

For those still skeptical that there are still jihadi sympathizers inside that community, it’s worth mentioning that the Committee learned of the mosque assault when an audiotape of the incident was posted on overseas jihadi Internet forums before authorities in Minneapolis even knew about the incident.

There is an enormous amount of travel by Somali-Americans between U.S. cities and East Africa. While most of this travel is legitimate senior U.S. counterterror officials have told the Committee they are very concerned about individuals they have not identified who have fallen in with al-Shabaab during trips to Somalia, who could return to the U.S. undetected.

They fear an al-Shabaab fighter operating under law enforcement’s radar – someone like a Zazi, a Shahzad, an Abdulmutallab – may attempt an attack here.

It is deeply troubling that from the very beginning, the Muslim-Americans in Somalia were trained by top al-Qaeda operatives, including several who were tied to Yemen’s al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which is now generally considered our biggest homeland threat.

Al-Shabaab operative Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was charged this month for doing weapons deals and explosives training with AQAP in Yemen, and to, “Provide AQAP with material support including... personnel.”

Al-Shabaab has long harbored top al-Qaeda leaders, such as the mastermind of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, who was gunned down this month in Somalia after a 13-year manhunt.

Al-Shabaab has paraded in Somalia in support of AQAP and sent fighters to battle the weakened Yemeni government this year -- as well as flying the battle flag of al-Qaeda-in-IRAQ.

Finally, an al-Shabaab bombing in neighboring Uganda one year ago that targeted Westerners killed 74 people including one American.

President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has said the Administration remains, quote, “Vigilant that al-Shabaab may expand its focus from fighting to control Somalia to plotting to attack the U.S. homeland.”

That convinced me of the necessity to launch a careful examination of that threat.

Dozens of experts the Committee interviewed agreed this threat is real, and that al-Shabaab leaders’ public calls for attacks against America -- including in retaliation for killing bin Laden -- must be taken seriously.

With a large group of Muslim-Americans willing to die as “martyrs,” and a strong operational partnership with al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and in Yemen, al-Shabaab now has more capability than ever to strike the U.S. homeland.

We look forwarding to hearing more about the rising al-Shabaab threat from our exceptional witnesses, as well as the Minority’s distinguished witness.

Finally, I note that certain elements of the politically correct media—most egregiously the vacuous ideologues at the New York Times—are shamelessly attempting to exploit the horrific tragedy in Norway to cause me to refocus these hearings away from Muslim-American radicalization.

If they had even a semblance of intellectual honesty the Times and the others would know and admit that there is no equivalency in the threat to our homeland from a deranged gunman and the international terror apparatus of al-Qaeda and its affiliates who are recruiting people in this country and have murdered thousands of Americans in their jihad attacks.

Let me make this clear to the New York Times and their acolytes in the politically correct, moral equivalency media--I will not back down from holding these hearings. I will continue to hold these hearings so long as I am the Chairman of this Committee.

Apart from all the strategic and moral reasons why these hearings are vital to our security, they are liberating and empowering to the many Muslim-Americans who have been intimidated by leaders in their own communities and are now able to come forward.

I also owe it to all the friends, neighbors, and constituents I lost on September 11th. I will not back down.”

Chairman King questions witnesses at 3rd radicalization hearing on al Shabaab

Ian Hunter, The City Winery, 15 September 2011

"Standin' in My Light

Senator Breaks With Obummer Over Jobs Bill

"You’ve got too many people here that spend their whole day trying to score political points instead of working together,” stated U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA).

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Mosque Makeovers With Your Tax Dollars


SIOA IN ACTION: PARENTS SPEAK OUT AGAINST CAIR SCHOOL LESSON ON ISLAM, DEMAND EQUAL TIME

At the town hall parents did not want religion being taught to their children.

The Council of America Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it presented
the Puyallup School District with a request to teach young students about Islam and the Muslim religion as a way to ease fears and educate students. However, the district says they have not received such a request.

At a town hall meeting on Tuesday night, the parents' message was clear: they don't want religion being taught in public schools.

"Muslims are welcome here, but if you're going to be here, you get in line and become American first," said parent Lisa Hedger.

Hedger said as a parent, she doesn't want any part of the Muslim religion taught in her daughter's public school.

"And I actually told her teacher she was not going to write this," she said.

The mother said religion has a time and place, and school is not it.

"How did you feel Sunday, on 9/11? I spent the whole day in tears, and its been 10 years. And I didn't think I'd feel that way," she said.

CAIR made a request to the Puyallup School District for special accommodations for Muslim children during Ramadan and other holidays. The group also wants to come into schools and speak to children and teach them about Islam.

"We've seen a rise in bullying against Muslim students, and so our goal (is) with some education, with the right accommodation, students will be safer in their schools," said Gennifer Gist of CAIR.

More victimhood propaganda nonsense. This is absolute hooey.

But that safety is being questioned by many, including members of Pierce County ACT! For America, an organization dedicated to concerned citizens and parents who feel CAIR has ulterior motives.

"For America's sake, we don't think that it's fair that Islam gets a pass and the other religions don't, but also because CAIR is a front for the Muslim brotherhood," said group member Kerry Hooks. "We have a real problem with organizations with ties to terrorism that come into the public schools."

Most of the parents who attended the town hall meeting agreed on keeping religion out of school and want classrooms focused on education.

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming

Giaever was cooled to the statement on warming theory by a line claiming that "the evidence is incontrovertible."

Energy

U.S. Has Earth’s Largest Energy Resources

US: Most energy resources in the world and most incoherent energy policy

Oil Industry Could Generate Over 1 Million Jobs by 2030, Report Says

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Robert Spencer on NBC Nightly News July 25, 2011


Robert Spencer responds to smear attacks charging him with responsibility for the Norway murders, NBC Nightly News, July 25, 2011

Court tells Hawaii officials to explain Obama's birth records

'Show cause' hearing will determine why subpoena rejected

Referendum on Obama, Here Comes 2012, Republican Defeats Wiener's Democratic Seat

The Republican repeatedly criticized Obama on Israel and defeated the Democrat in a district that is 40% Jewish. Democrat David Weprin supported the Victory mosque on the World Trade Center site. The heavily Democratic district, which spans parts of Queens and Brooklyn and is 40% Jewish, had never sent a Republican to the House. The race was supposed to be an easy win for Democrats, who have a 3-1 ratio registration advantage in the district. Bob Turner, a 70-year-old Catholic, vowed to push back on Obama's policies if elected. Weprin is an observant Jew and Orthodox Jews, who tend to be conservative on social issues, expressed anger over Weprin's vote in the state Assembly to legalize gay marriage. In July, New York became one of six states to recognize same-sex nuptials.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

E-Verify 'flags' Obama's Social Security Number

System crunches prez's data, determines 'likely fraudulent'

NSA Lawyer Questioned Over Cellphone Location Tracking of Americans

NSA Lawyer Questioned Over Cellphone Location Tracking of Americans

American Muslims Against Sharia

A push in the US to prohibit Oklahoma judges from taking Islamic law into account will go before court the day after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The weepy-eyed widow whose husband was killed by Islamists will be taken seriously.


But, is the widow accurate? If a person is still wondering what Sharia is there are people who know first-hand. Herein lies a FORA.tv discussion about the many elements in the contemporary debate surrounding Islamic law. Wafa Sultan, A God Who Hates author, Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum relate:

Here is a short version.

The debate over Sharia law in America is taking some interesting twists and turns. In Oklahoma, courts are debating whether citizens have the right to ban Sharia law. And in Michigan, a group of Muslims have actually come out in strong opposition to Islamic law in America. In the case of Oklahoma, a 2010 ballot initiative put a stop to considerations of Islamic laws in making state court decisions. The measure, which passed by a 70 percent margin, was challenged by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The group claimed that the initiative was a direct violation of the Constitution’s Establishment Clause. ABC News has more: Now, a panel of judges from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether a lower court was right to block the ballot initiative. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) joined CAIR in challenging this anti-Sharia measure. In a separate debate, the American Islamic Leadership Conference (AILC) recently announced support for a Michigan bill (HB 4679) that would prevent state judges from utilizing foreign laws. This, to the surprise of some, would include Sharia law. This group, comprised of Muslim adherents, is opposed do any state court decisions that would conflict with American law. In an official release, the group writes: As American Muslims, we believe that the law should treat people of all faiths equally, while protecting Muslims and non-Muslims alike from extremist attempts to use the legal instrument of shari‘ah (also known as Islamic jurisprudence, or fiqh) to incubate, within the West, a highly politicized and dangerous understanding of Islam that is generally known as “Islamism,” or “radical Islam.” In the statement, the group also claims that it sees no problem with the law and that it will not, as some would likely charge, hamper the rights of Muslims. Additionally, the AILC opposes the “fear mongering” it claims more radical groups are undertaking here in America, writing: As American Muslims we are conscious of the fact that Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups and other Islamists and their surrogates in the U.S. are trying their best to portray any opposition to manifestations of shari‘ah law as “racism” and “discrimination against Muslims.” According to the Huffington Post, Manda Ervin, who signed on to the release and who heads the Maryland-based Alliance of Iranian Women, explained why she’s opposed to Sharia law here in America: “Many of us fled the Muslim world to escape Shariah law…We do not wish these laws to follow us here.” But not all Muslims agree with state laws that would officially forbid Sharia compliance. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, a law professor at Emory University in Atlanta, has the following to say about initiatives like the ones currently being debated in Oklahoma and Michigan: “It‘s fearmongering and it’s reckless. It’s ridiculous that state legislatures are wasting time on a law that tells judges to do what they are already constitutionally bound to do anyway.” Michigan and Oklahoma are not alone. More than 20 states are examining laws that would ban Sharia in courtrooms. It is important, however, to understand that each of these laws have a different focus. While some explicitly point out Islamic law and solely target its tenets, other proposals — like the one in Michigan — more broadly target foreign laws. The AILC has come out in support for latter but not the former.

Obama's Depression



U.S. Poverty Climbed to 17-Year High in 2010

Number of U.S. poor hit record 46 million in 2010

22 percent of American children lived in poverty last year

Poverty rate rises as incomes decline - Census

Monday, September 12, 2011

Remy: Raise The Debt Ceiling Rap


We may not be able to address our current debt ceiling woes, but we can at least put them to a good beat.

Visit the links below for more Reason coverage on the debt, deficit and government spending:

Five Facts About the Debt
http://reason.com/archives/2011/07/25/five-facts-about-the-debt

The Facts About the Debt Ceiling
http://reason.com/archives/2011/07/18/the-facts-about-the-debt-ceili

Reason.com Topics: Government Spending
http://reason.com/topics/goverment-spending

"Raise the Debt Ceiling" is the third of a series of collaborations between Remy and Reason.tv. To watch Remy's other videos, go to http:youtube.com/goremy

Music by Remy. Video shot and produced by Meredith Bragg.

Download the mp3 and HD versions at http://reason.tv, the video channel for Reason magazine and http://reason.com

LYRICS:




Raise da debt ceiling!
Raise da debt ceiling!
Raise da debt ceiling!
Raise da debt ceiling!

14 trillion in debt
but yo we ain't got no qualms
droppin $100 bills
and million dollar bombs

spending money we don't have
that's the name of the game
they call me cumulo nimbus
because you KNOW I make it rain

bail out all kind of cars
got all kind of whips
ladies ask me how I get em
I tell em STIMULUS

Social Security surplus?
Oh, guess what? it's gone
I got my hands on everything
like Dominique Strauss Kahn

ain't got no Medicare trust fund
son, that's just absurd
spending every single penny that
we see, son, have you heard?

ain't got no moral objections
ain't got kind of complaints
ain't got no quantitative
statutory budget restraints

so...
[CHORUS]

Yo, we up in the Fed
and we living in style
Spending lots of money
while we sipping crystal

still making it rain
and yeah it be so pleasing
wait, not making it rain--
we be "Quantitative Easing!"

QE1, QE2
QE4, QE3
Dropping IOU's
in every fund that I see

printing the cash
inflating the monies
callin up China
"a-yo we straight out of 20's!"

in the club
we be louding out
while to the market, yeah
we be crowding out

on the beach getting tan
and sipping Corona
we got a monetary plan--
and it involves a lot of toner...

[CHORUS]

So if you look at the chart
and examine the trend
we borrow 40 cents of every
single dollar we spend

and non-discretionary spending
increases every day
do you have a comment for Committee?
I MAKE IT RAIN

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker
would you beam me up?
A Congressperson cutting spending?
Couldn't dream me up

We're gonna default
if we follow this road!
I should have thought of this
14 trillion dollars ago!

I'm the king of the links
I'm a menace at tennis
I'm sticking spinnaz on my rims
picking winnaz in business

if you're looking for some cash
it's about to get heavy
I got some big ol' piles of money
and guess what--they shovel ready

[CHORUS]

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