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.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Solyndra Not Dealing With Toxic Waste At Milpitas Facility
Solyndra Not Dealing With Toxic Waste At Milpitas Facility
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE INTRODUCES ‘LIL POUNDCAKE,’ THE HPV VACCINE DOLL
Saturday Night Live used the recent controversy over Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s executive order mandating HPV vaccinations to introduce Lil Poundcake…the vaccine-administering doll for girls.
She looks so cool with her clothing and cell phone, but just wait for her syringes to extend and shoot you up when you least expect it! You could be playing outside, having a tea party or even fast asleep. With Lil Poundcake, you’ll never have to worry about HPV again — just remember to dispose of her in a medical waste container at your local hospital when you’re done playing.
“Lil Poundcake…the only thing you’re going to get infected with — is fun!”
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Obummer Slows Down Natural Gas Production by Executive Fiat
Natural gas gets 80 miles a gallon at .66 cents a gallon.
The Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, has done everything bureaucratically possible to stymie increased oil production. In addition, more regulations are forthcoming when the Apr. 17, 2012, EPA Issued the First Ever Clean Air Rules for Natural Gas Produced by Fracking.
9/11 Commission Report
9/11 Commission Report
"Recommendation: At this time of increased and consolidated government authority, there should be a board within the executive branch to oversee adherence to the guidelines we recommend and the commitment the government makes to defend our civil liberties.
We must find ways of reconciling security with liberty, since the success of one helps protect the other. The choice between security and liberty is a false choice, as nothing is more likely to endanger America's liberties than the success of a terrorist attack at home. Our history has shown us that insecurity threatens liberty. Yet, if our liberties are curtailed, we lose the values that we are struggling to defend" (p. 395).
ISLAMIC CENTER OF AMERICA, DEARBORN: PRO-HONOR KILLING IMAM INCITES AGAINST ACTIVISTS AT FRIDAY PRAYER
ISLAMIC CENTER OF AMERICA, DEARBORN: PRO-HONOR KILLING IMAM INCITES AGAINST ACTIVISTS AT FRIDAY PRAYER
Starting at about 24:00 to about 39:00, by name, the Imam's sermon incites the congregation against activists who are are denouncing honor killings. He calls people out by name, describing them as a "bigot," etc. Thereafter, he equates "white, Christian, male" murderers as the same type as honor killings. He claims Islam has nothing to do with honor killings. Obama is credited with defending Islam against the military schools and the NYPD who are rightly attributing Islamism as the cause of terrorism. The Imam seeks to equate the Norway incident, that of Anders Behring Breivik, as the act of a Christian, and asks why the nineteen Islamists who attacked on 9/11 should be considered Muslims. This is simple. The Norway incident was not inspired by Christ; the 9/11 attackers killed for Islamism. They should not be equated.
Video streaming by Ustream
According to sharia, Islamic law, honor killings are acceptable.
The scanned text is from one of the most important English-language sources for the content of Islamic law: Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law. It is certified by Al-Azhar University as a translation that "corresponds to the Arabic original and conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni Community..."
In Book O, titled "Justice," in section 1, "Who is Subject to Retaliation for Injurious Crimes," section o1.1 reads, "Retaliation is obligatory ... against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right..."
However, o1.2 clarifies (above) that "The following are not subject to retaliation" and then lists — after the lovely, egalitarian "Muslim for killing a non-Muslim" and "Jewish or Christian subject ... for killing an apostate" — "(4) a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring."
Christianity for the Norway incident does not apply.
Starting at about 24:00 to about 39:00, by name, the Imam's sermon incites the congregation against activists who are are denouncing honor killings. He calls people out by name, describing them as a "bigot," etc. Thereafter, he equates "white, Christian, male" murderers as the same type as honor killings. He claims Islam has nothing to do with honor killings. Obama is credited with defending Islam against the military schools and the NYPD who are rightly attributing Islamism as the cause of terrorism. The Imam seeks to equate the Norway incident, that of Anders Behring Breivik, as the act of a Christian, and asks why the nineteen Islamists who attacked on 9/11 should be considered Muslims. This is simple. The Norway incident was not inspired by Christ; the 9/11 attackers killed for Islamism. They should not be equated.
Video streaming by Ustream
According to sharia, Islamic law, honor killings are acceptable.
The scanned text is from one of the most important English-language sources for the content of Islamic law: Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law. It is certified by Al-Azhar University as a translation that "corresponds to the Arabic original and conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni Community..."
In Book O, titled "Justice," in section 1, "Who is Subject to Retaliation for Injurious Crimes," section o1.1 reads, "Retaliation is obligatory ... against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right..."
However, o1.2 clarifies (above) that "The following are not subject to retaliation" and then lists — after the lovely, egalitarian "Muslim for killing a non-Muslim" and "Jewish or Christian subject ... for killing an apostate" — "(4) a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring."
Christianity (cf. Wikipedia)
In 2009, Anders Behring Breivik wrote "Today's Protestant church is a joke. Priests in jeans who march for Palestine and churches that look like minimalist shopping centres. I am a supporter of an indirect collective conversion of the Protestant church back to the Catholic."[168] On his Facebook profile, Breivik described himself as a Christian,[32] though he is critical of the Catholic and Protestant churches, objecting to their "current suicidal path". Before the attacks, he stated an intention to attend Frogner Church in a final "Martyr's mass".[169]
The manifesto states its author is "100 percent Christian",[3] but he is not "excessively religious"[3] and considers himself a "cultural Christian" and a "modern-day crusader".[2][3] His manifesto states "I'm not going to pretend I'm a very religious person, as that would be a lie", calls religion a crutch and a source for drawing mental strength, and says "I've always been very pragmatic and influenced by my secular surroundings and environment"; regarding the term "cultural Christian" which he says means preserving European culture, he notes "It is enough that you are a Christian-agnostic or a Christian-atheist (an atheist who wants to preserve at least the basics of the European Christian cultural legacy...)"[160][2] Furthermore, Breivik stated that "myself and many more like me do not necessarily have a personal relationship with Jesus Christand God."[2][170] Nevertheless, he stated that he planned to pray to God seeking for his help during his attacks.[171]
Breivik condemns Pope Benedict XVI for his dialogue with Islam: "Pope Benedict has abandoned Christianity and all Christian Europeans and is to be considered a cowardly, incompetent, corrupt and illegitimate Pope." It will thus be necessary, writes Breivik, to overthrow the Protestant and Catholic hierarchies, after which a "Great Christian Congress" would set up a new European Church.[172] He has also condemned Christian missionary activity in India as it would lead to the "total destruction of theHindu faith and culture", and he expresses support for the Hindutva movement against Indian Communist movements.[173]
American Christian press has also highlighted that Breivik appears to have addressed followers of the Neopagan religion of Odinism in his writ. In regards to them, he says, "even Odinists can fight with us or by our side as brothers" in the Knights Templar organization of which Breivik claims to be a founding member. He later says to reject Odinism, saying that the Thor's Hammer cannot unify the people of Europe, but that the Christian cross will.[174]
Deputy police chief Roger Andresen initially told reporters that information on Breivik's websites was "so to speak, Christian fundamentalist".[68][175][176][177] Subsequently, others have disputed Andresen's characterisation of Breivik as a Christian fundamentalist.[172][178] Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, head of the World Council of Churches and himself Norwegian, accused Breivik of blasphemy for citing Christianity as a justification in his murderous attack.[2][179]
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Art Professor of Student, Accused Of Desecrating Pro-Life Cross Display For Project, Speaks Up
Art Professor of Student, Accused Of Desecrating Pro-Life Cross Display For Project, Speaks Up
What do you think of this incident? Is this desecration, or free speech? Why?
What do you think of this incident? Is this desecration, or free speech? Why?
http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/Art_Professor_of_Student_Accused_Of_Desecrating_Pro-Life_Cross_Display_For_Project_Speaks_Up__148775885.html?ref=885
CHILDREN OF PARALYZED AFGHAN VETERAN PUNISHED FOR WEARING PRO-MILITARY T-SHIRTS TO SCHOOL
CHILDREN OF PARALYZED AFGHAN VETERAN PUNISHED FOR WEARING PRO-MILITARY T-SHIRTS TO SCHOOL
Do you think the girls should have been permitted to wear the shirts in honor of their father and the organization? Or, does the standardized dress code by the school outweigh individual liberties to be consistent across the board when it comes to following the dress code?
Rick Santelli Converts a Truck to Natural Gas
For about $1500.00, a vehicle can be converted to run on natural gas, and you can still burn gasoline if need be, at 80 miles a gallon, for .66 cents per gallon.
ANDREW KLAVAN: How Money Works, The Facts of Life for Liberals
http://pumabydesign001.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/andrew-klavan-the-facts-of-life-for-liberals/
ROYAL SOCIETY REPORT RECOMMENDS BIRTH CONTROL, ‘WEALTH MEASURES’ TO ACHIEVE AN ‘EQUITABLE FUTURE FOR HUMANITY’
ROYAL SOCIETY REPORT RECOMMENDS BIRTH CONTROL, ‘WEALTH MEASURES’ TO ACHIEVE AN ‘EQUITABLE FUTURE FOR HUMANITY’
Scientists recommend social goals. Should the West consume less? Should poor people have fewer children? Why or why not? What are the right results, who decides, and who enforces policy?
‘YOU HAVEN’T EVEN THOUGHT THIS OUT’: O‘REILLY CONFRONTS ’DROP THE I-WORD‘ SPOKESWOMAN IN SIZZLING ’FACTOR’ SEGMENT
‘YOU HAVEN’T EVEN THOUGHT THIS OUT’: O‘REILLY CONFRONTS ’DROP THE I-WORD‘ SPOKESWOMAN IN SIZZLING ’FACTOR’ SEGMENT
Is “the I-word” racist? Do you believe we should have open borders here, that anyone who comes to the United States should be able to come? Pretend you are the hypothetical “Czar” of immigration, what are your immigration policies?
Friday, April 27, 2012
Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Live Free or Die
Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Live Free or Die
After the tragic airplane crash at the Reno Air Races, a chorus of protests arose to calling for an end to the air races. But was the pilot to blame or faulty equipment? Bill Whittle breaks down the mainstream media narrative of the crash on this episode of Afterburner.
For more from Bill Whittle go to http://pjtv.com
Thursday, April 26, 2012
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’ DISCUSSES U.S. MILITARY EXPUNGING ‘ANTI-ISLAM’ REFERENCES FROM TRAINING MANUALS
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’ DISCUSSES U.S. MILITARY EXPUNGING ‘ANTI-ISLAM’ REFERENCES FROM TRAINING MANUALS
WANT TO KNOW JUST HOW CLOSE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IS TO THE OBAMA ADMIN?
Arif Alikahn, Former Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Policy Development: Now a Distinguished Visiting Professor of DHS and Counterterrorism at the National Defense University, Alikahn also served as Deputy Mayor for Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles where he reportedly derailed the LAPD’s efforts to monitor the city’s Muslim community — particularly its radical mosques and madrassas where certain 9/11 hijackers were said to have received support. He is affiliated with MPAC, which has called the terrorist group Hezbollah a “liberation movement.”
Salam al-Marayati, Founder and Executive Director of Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
Mohamed Elibiary, Homeland Security Advisory Committee Member
Other Brotherhood sympathizers involved in the administration but who tend to travel beneath the radar include:
Imam Mohamed Magid, Homeland Security Countering Violent Extremism Working Group Member : He is a Sudanese-born president for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) with alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. ISNA’s parent is the Muslim Student Association. ISNA completed a $21 million headquarters in Indianapolis using funds raised in part from Muslim Brotherhood.
Eboo Patel, Obama Administration Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships: Patel spoke at a Muslim Students Association and ISNA convention, appearing on a panel alongside Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder, and Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and has defended the convicted WTC bombers. Wahhaj allegedly advocates the Islamic takeover of America.
Huma Abedin, Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Perhaps most famous for being wife of the disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin appears to have family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. In an interview with FrontPageMag, anti-Islamist author Walid Shoebat explained that Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin, is involved with the Muslim Brotherhood and that Huma’s brother, Hassan, sits in on the board of the Oxford Centre For Islamic Studies (OCIS) where he is a fellow and partners with other board members including “Al-Qaeda associate, Omar Naseef and the notorious Muslim Brotherhood leader Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi; both have been listed as OCIS Trustees.”
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
In a hard-hitting interview with DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Tuesday evening, Fox News host Bret Baier pressed the Florida congresswoman to explain why Senate Democrats haven’t passed a budget resolution in over 1,000 days.
In a hard-hitting interview with DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Tuesday evening, Fox News host Bret Baier pressed the Florida congresswoman to explain why Senate Democrats haven’t passed a budget resolution in over 1,000 days.
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’: SOCIAL SECURITY ‘DROP DEAD’ DATE LOOMS
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’: SOCIAL SECURITY ‘DROP DEAD’ DATE LOOMS
Bernanke Points to 'Increased Possibility of a Sudden Fiscal Crisis'
Bernanke Points to 'Increased Possibility of a Sudden Fiscal Crisis'
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
ALLEN WEST: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD & OTHER EXTREMIST GROUPS ARE INFLUENCING U.S. STRATEGY
ALLEN WEST: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD & OTHER EXTREMIST GROUPS ARE INFLUENCING U.S. STRATEGY
“Rumors of War III”
Sunday, April 22, 2012
CALIPHATE IN AMERICA, West
Khilafah Conference (USA) 2011 - Revolution in the Muslim World: From Tyranny to Triumph
Khilafah Conference (USA) 2011
Revolution in the Muslim World: From Tyranny to Triumph
Date: Sunday, June 26th 2011
Time: 2:00pm -- 5:00pm
Venue:
DoubleTree - Oak Brook, IL
1909 Spring Rd. Oak Brook, IL 60521
Hizb ut-Tahrir America
http://hizb-america.org/khilafah-conference-2011
Trailer for the Khilafah Conference in the UK 9th July 2011
Trailer for the Khilafah Conference to be held in the UK on the 9th July 2011 which will present the Islamic Vision for the Ummah against the backdrop of the unfolding events in the Arab world.
AZ Citizens Put Arizona’s Sovereignty on Ballot
AZ Citizens Put Arizona’s Sovereignty on Ballot
Should states be sovereign and reject unconstitutional federal mandates? Why or why not?
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Courting Disaster
As President George W. Bush's top speechwriter, Marc Thiessen was provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM).
Now, his riveting new book, "Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery), has been published.
Here is an excerpt from "Courting Disaster":
"Just before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi . A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house. It read: "I am withKSM."
Bursting in, they find the disheveled mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in his bedroom. He is taken into custody. In the safe house, they find a treasure trove of computers, documents, cell phones and other valuable "pocket litter."
Once in custody, KSM is defiant. He refuses to answer questions, informing his captors that he will tell them everything when he gets to America and sees his lawyer. But KSM is not taken to America to see a lawyer Instead he is taken to a secret CIA "black site" in an undisclosed location.
Upon arrival, KSM finds himself in the complete control of Americans. He does not know where he is, how long he will be there, or what his fate will be.
Despite his circumstances, KSM still refuses to talk. He spews contempt at his interrogators, telling them Americans are weak, lack resilience, and are unable to do what is necessary to prevent the terrorists from succeeding in their goals. He has trained to resist interrogation. When he is asked for information about future attacks, he tells his questioners scornfully: "Soon, you will know."
It becomes clear he will not reveal the information using traditional interrogation techniques. So he undergoes a series of "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved for use only on the most high-value detainees. The techniques include waterboarding.
His resistance is described by one senior American official as "superhuman." Eventually, however, the techniques work, and KSM becomes cooperative-for reasons that will be described later in this book.
He begins telling his CIA de-briefers about active al Qaeda plots to launch attacks against the United States and other Western targets. He holds classes for CIA officials, using a chalkboard to draw a picture of al Qaeda's operating structure, financing, communications, and logistics. He identifies al Qaeda travel routes and safe havens, and helps intelligence officers make sense of documents and computer records seized in terrorist raids. He identifies voices in intercepted telephone calls, and helps officials understand the meaning of coded terrorist communications. He provides information that helps our intelligence community capture other high-ranking terrorists, KSM's questioning, and that of other captured terrorists, produces more than 6,000 intelligence reports, which are shared across the intelligence community, as well as with our allies across the world.
In one of these reports, KSM describes in detail the revisions he made to his failed 1994-1995 plan known as the "Bojinka plot" to blow up a dozen airplanes carrying some 4,000 passengers over the Pacific Ocean.
Years later, an observant CIA officer notices the activities of a cell being followed by British authorities appear to match KSM's description of his plans for aBojinka-style attack.
In an operation that involves unprecedented intelligence cooperation between our countries, British officials proceed to unravel the plot.
On the night of Aug. 9, 2006 they launch a series of raids in a northeast London suburb that lead to the arrest of two dozen al Qaeda terrorist suspects. They find a USB thumb-drive in the pocket of one of the men with security details for Heathrow airport, and information on seven trans-Atlantic flights that were scheduled to take off within hours of each other:
* United Airlines Flight 931 to San Francisco departing at 2:15 p.m.;
* Air Canada Flight 849 to Toronto departing at 3:00 p.m.;
* Air Canada Flight 865 to Montreal departing at 3:15 p.m.;
* United Airlines Flight 959 to Chicago departing at 3:40 p.m.;
* United Airlines Flight 925 to Washington departing at 4:20 p.m.;
* American Airlines Flight 131 to New York departing at 4:35 p.m.;
* American Airlines Flight 91 to Chicago departing at 4:50 p.m.
They seize bomb-making equipment and hydrogen peroxide to make liquid explosives. And they find the chilling martyrdom videos the suicide bombers had prepared."
Today, if you asked an average person on the street what they know about the 2006 airlines plot, most would not be able to tell you much.
Few Americans are aware of the fact al Qaeda had planned to mark the fifth anniversary of 9/11 with an attack of similar scope and magnitude.
And still fewer realize the terrorists' true intentions in this plot were uncovered thanks to critical information obtained through the interrogation of the man who conceived it: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
This is only one of the many attacks stopped with the help of the CIA interrogation program established by the Bush Administration in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Editor's Note: For other foiled terrorist plots, see page 9 of "Courting Disaster."
In addition to helping break up these specific terrorist cells and plots, CIA questioning provided our intelligence community with an unparalleled body of information about al Qaeda Until the program was temporarily suspended in 2006, intelligence officials say, well over half of the information our government had about al Qaeda-how it operates, how it moves money, how it communicates, how it recruits operatives, how it picks targets, how it plans and carries out attacks-came from the interrogation of terrorists in CIA custody.
Former CIA Director George Tenet has declared: "I know this program has saved lives. I know we've disrupted plots. I know this program alone is worth more than what the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us."
Former CIA Director Mike Hayden has said: "The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.."
Even Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, has acknowledged: "High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country."
Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Director, has said: "Important information was gathered from these detainees. It provided information that was acted upon."
And John Brennan, Obama's Homeland Security Advisor, when asked in an interview if enhanced-interrogation techniques were necessary to keep America safe, replied : "Would the U.S. be handicapped if the CIA was not, in fact, able to carry out these types of detention and debriefing activities? I would say yes."
On Jan. 22, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13491, closing the CIA program and directing that, henceforth, all interrogations by U.S. personnel must follow the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual.
The morning of the announcement, Mike Hayden was still in his post as CIA Director, He called White House Counsel Greg Craig and told him bluntly: "You didn't ask, but this is the CIA officially nonconcurring". The president went ahead anyway, over ruling the objections of the agency.
A few months later, on April 16, 2009, President Obama ordered the release of four Justice Department memos that described in detail the techniques used to interrogate KSM and other high-value terrorists. This time, not just Hayden (who was now retired) but five CIA directors -including Obama's own director, Leon Panetta -- objected. George Tenet called to urge against the memos' release. So did Porter Goss. So did John Deutch. Hayden says: "You had CIA directors in a continuous unbroken stream to 1995 calling saying, 'Don't do this.'"
In addition to objections from the men who led the agency for a collective 14 years, the President also heard objections from the agency's covert field operatives. A few weeks earlier, Panetta had arranged for the eight top officials of the Clandestine Service to meet with the President. It was highly unusual for these clandestine officers to visit the Oval Office, and they used the opportunity to warn the President that releasing the memos would put agency operatives at risk. The President reportedly listened respectfully-and then ignored their advice.
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’ DISCUSSES JOBS, JOBS AND …….JOBS
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’ DISCUSSES JOBS, JOBS AND …….JOBS
Mott The Hoople - Interview - 1971
Mott The Hoople - Interview - 1971
That footage was for Ozzy tv and went along with filming them did at Big Brother Club which was associated with the Oldfield Tavern at Greenford west London. The interviewer mentions the small stage. Before they came on the dj bloke said that Ian Hunter was undecided about going onstage because of the small stage size - about half hour later they came on regardless and played a slightly chaotic blinder with Overend being passed over the shoulders/hands of the crowd near the end.
Obama: "Dog Eater," the Music Video
DOGEATER Music: Hall/Oates Lyrics: Made possible by a grant from the Lolo D. and Catherine T. Soetoro Foundation He only comes out at night To find a tasty bite Nothing is new, I've seen his gaze before Watching and waiting He's sitting with you but eyeing some Basset Hounds So many to taste and see Chihuahua fricasse Dear Leader is wild, but he's tamed by the taste of a puppy's tail Served up on a platter The school lunches are sure gonna get bizarre Oh here he comes Watch out Bo he'll chew you up Oh here he comes He's a dogeater Oh here he comes Watch out Bo he'll chew you up Oh here he comes He's a dogeater I wonder if Michelle approves Fried puppy just won't do Poached poodle flan, the One will really rip their fur apart Mind over matter TelePrompTer glaze but a beast is in his heart Oh here he comes Watch out Bo he'll chew you up Oh here he comes He's a dogeater Oh here he comes Watch out Bo he'll chew you up Oh here he comes He's a dogeater
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Metrosexual, Retrosexual Men
Where have you been?
Metrosexual is a neologism derived from metropolitan and heterosexual coined in 1994 describing a man (especially one living in an urban, post-industrial, capitalist culture) who spends a lot of time and money on shopping for his appearance.
The term retrosexual was first used to describe a particular sort of man in 2003 by Mark Simpson.
Do you understand popular culture? Would James Brown, Percy Sledge, and Muddy Waters sit around wondering about this topic?
These are examples of real men who precede--1950s and 1960s popular culture--these terms describing current, superficial obsessions. If you are man you have no need of these terms.
These are examples of men who have a concern for their appearance but they are real men and not the dandies of today. It pertains because some of the gals like these feminized dandies but they are an embarrassment to the ideals of my era.
Men should be gentlemen and women should be ladies.
Metrosexual is a neologism derived from metropolitan and heterosexual coined in 1994 describing a man (especially one living in an urban, post-industrial, capitalist culture) who spends a lot of time and money on shopping for his appearance.
The term retrosexual was first used to describe a particular sort of man in 2003 by Mark Simpson.
Do you understand popular culture? Would James Brown, Percy Sledge, and Muddy Waters sit around wondering about this topic?
These are examples of real men who precede--1950s and 1960s popular culture--these terms describing current, superficial obsessions. If you are man you have no need of these terms.
These are examples of men who have a concern for their appearance but they are real men and not the dandies of today. It pertains because some of the gals like these feminized dandies but they are an embarrassment to the ideals of my era.
Men should be gentlemen and women should be ladies.
I suppose people find an argument more convincing if text is bolded; or, you can always tug at the heart strings in an age when being a ‘wise Latina’ can get you appointed to the Supreme Court.
On the other hand, Genesis 5:2 is clear and straightforward, so I applied it in my own life. I taught in an environment where fashion was an valued academic discipline, and my sense of it was duly noted. Yet, I don't subscribe to the current cultural value of moral relativism and seeing how cheeky it is to play with gender-identity. Theological accommodation is not attractive and spiritually perilous.
Intellectuals are a convenient scapegoat for all and often mocked but for Christians our religious mission is to be a light to the world. If you place your ideas out in the public marketplace don't be surprised if people disagree.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tiger Meat? Dog meat? Snake meat? Roasted grasshopper?
The smartest dog in the universe.
Tiger Meat? Dog meat? Snake meat? Roasted grasshopper?
What is your reaction to eating a dog?
DOGEATER Music: Hall/Oates Lyrics: Made possible by a grant from the Lolo D. and Catherine T. Soetoro Foundation He only comes out at night To find a tasty bite Nothing is new, I've seen his gaze before Watching and waiting He's sitting with you but eyeing some Basset Hounds So many to taste and see Chihuahua fricasse Dear Leader is wild, but he's tamed by the taste of a puppy's tail Served up on a platter The school lunches are sure gonna get bizarre Oh here he comes Watch out Bo he'll chew you up Oh here he comes He's a dogeater Oh here he comes Watch out Bo he'll chew you up Oh here he comes He's a dogeater I wonder if Michelle approves Fried puppy just won't do Poached poodle flan, the One will really rip their fur apart Mind over matter TelePrompTer glaze but a beast is in his heart Oh here he comes Watch out Bo he'll chew you up Oh here he comes He's a dogeater Oh here he comes Watch out Bo he'll chew you up Oh here he comes He's a dogeater
ISLAMIC APARTHEID CONFERENCE APRIL 23, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY GELLER, SPENCER, DARWISH, DENG
Muslim thug states: "The Muslims are coming" to intimidate speakers on Islam.
Robert Spencer on "Islamic Apartheid" at Temple University
Pamela Geller and "Islamic Apartheid" at Temple University
David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. In spite of a couple of hecklers, Ms Geller declared her dedication to individual human rights and to women's rights. The next speaker was Nonie Darwish.
Nonie Darwish and "Islamic Apartheid" at Temple University
Ms Darwish spoke of her upbringing as a Muslim In Egypt, of leaving Islam and the Islamic Apartheid against Former Muslim, Christians and Jews. The next speaker: Simon Deng.
Former slave from Sudan and leader of the Freedom movement, Sinom Deng, speaks.
Question and Answer, Part I
Part II
Part III
Narrow minded bigots leave
Islamist Thugs walk out
The official fears US and Britain shared
Dated September 1, 1959, it says: ‘I have discussed with the State Department. They are as disturbed about these developments as we are. They point out that Kenya students have a bad reputation over here for falling into the wrong hands and for becoming both anti-American and anti-white.’
Dog Eater Obama
“With Lolo [Obama's step-father], I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy),” Obama wrote. “Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”
“Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” Obama recalls being fed dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.
After his mother married Soetoro, Obama lived in Indonesia from 1967 until 1971, from roughly the age of 6 through 10.
Bishop Says Obama on Hitlerian Path
Excerpt from speech
Bishop Jenky: Obama like Hitler, Stalin
Obama is an “extreme secularist.”
“The Church will survive the entrenched corruption and sheer incompetence of our Illinois state government, and even the calculated disdain of the President of the United States, his appointed bureaucrats in HHS [Health and Human Services], and of the current majority of the federal Senate.”
“Remember that in past history other governments have tried to force Christians to huddle and hide only within the confines of their churches like the first disciples locked up in the Upper Room.
“In the late 19th century, Bismarck waged his ‘Kulturkampf,’ a Culture War, against the Roman Catholic Church, closing down every Catholic school and hospital, convent and monastery in Imperial Germany.
“Clemenceau, nicknamed ‘the priest eater,’ tried the same thing in France in the first decade of the 20th Century.
“Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care.
“In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, President Obama—with his radical, pro-abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path.”
“This fall,” said Bishop Jenky, “every practicing Catholic must vote, and must vote their Catholic consciences, or by the following fall our Catholic schools, our Catholic hospitals, our Catholic Newman Centers, all our public ministries—only excepting our church buildings—could easily be shut down. Because no Catholic institution, under any circumstance, can ever cooperate with the instrinsic [sic] evil of killing innocent human life in the womb.”
April 16, 2012, Men's March Homily
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Schoolchildren Sing Obama's Praises -- ObamaNation
Schoolchildren Sing Obama's Praises -- ObamaNation
Welcome to the ObamaNation...circa September 9, 2009. According to a White House press release, El Presidente will assemble the nation's "schoochildren" (sic) on September 8, for the nation's first historic instance of what might be called "drive-by indoctrination." We're not sure whether to laugh or cry. The 20-minute address will urge tots from 5 to 11 to avoid dropping out of school. A controversial lesson plan is included, prompting the nation's educators to help kids reach for those special words to express how The Prez "inspires" them. Since our kids are always reading ahead, we are able to offer you a glimpse into the chilling future...the ObamaNation, in all its revolutionary glory. Got plans for September 12?
MOTHER WANTS TO EUTHANIZE ‘SEVERELY DISABLED’ CHILDREN — AND ‘90%’ OF DR. PHIL’S AUDIENCE AGREES
MOTHER WANTS TO EUTHANIZE ‘SEVERELY DISABLED’ CHILDREN — AND ‘90%’ OF DR. PHIL’S AUDIENCE AGREES
Should severely disabled children be euthanized? Why or why not?
On August 3, 1941, a Catholic Bishop, Clemens von Galen, delivered a sermon attacking the Nazi euthanasia program calling it "plain murder." The sermon urged German Catholics to "withdraw ourselves and our faithful from their (Nazi) influence so that we may not be contaminated by their thinking and their ungodly behavior."
The Nazis retaliated against the Bishop by beheading three parish priests who had distributed his sermon, but left the Bishop unharmed to avoid making him into a martyr.
Former Discovery Astronaut Talks After Shuttle Lands In DC
When asked for advice Tuesday by a WUSA9 reporter, former Discovery astronaut Dr. Anna Fisher told a boy watching the shuttle, “Study Russian.”
Monday, April 16, 2012
WALSH SKEWERS FORMER GSA OFFICIALS
WASHINGTON DC - Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh (IL-8) strongly chastised former General Services Administration officials Monday during a Congressional hearing. The GSA is a government agency found to have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on recreational use and an especially extravagant Las Vegas conference.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
The Tragedy of Urban Renewal: The destruction and survival of a New York City neighborhood
In 1949, President Harry Truman signed the Housing Act, which gave federal, state, and local governments unprecedented power to shape residential life. One of the Housing Act's main initiatives - "urban renewal" - destroyed about 2,000 communities in the 1950s and '60s and forced more than 300,000 families from their homes. Overall, about half of urban renewal's victims were black, a reality that led to James Baldwin's famous quip that "urban renewal means Negro removal."
New York City's Manhattantown (1951) was one of the first projects authorized under urban renewal and it set the model not only for hundreds of urban renewal projects but for the next 60 years of eminent domain abuse at places such as Poletown, New London, and Atlantic Yards. The Manhattantown project destroyed six blocks on New York City's Upper West Side, including an African-American community that dated to the turn of the century. The city sold the land for a token sum to a group of well-connected Democratic pols to build a middle-class housing development. Then came the often repeated bulldoze-and-abandon phenomenon: With little financial skin in the game, the developers let the demolished land sit vacant for years.
The community destroyed at Manhattantown was a model for the tight-knit, interconnected neighborhoods later celebrated by Jane Jacobs and other critics of top-down redevelopment. In the early 20th century, Manhattantown was briefly the center of New York's black music scene. A startling roster of musicians, writers, and artists resided there: the composer Will Marion Cook, vaudeville star Bert Williams, opera singer Abbie Mitchell, James Weldon Johnson and his brother Rosemond, muralist Charles Alston, writer and historian Arturo Schomburg, Billie Holiday (whose mother also owned a restaurant on 99th Street), Butterfly McQueen of "Gone with the Wind" fame, and the actor Robert Earl Jones.
Designating West 99th and 98th Streets a "slum" was bitterly ironic. The community was founded when the great black real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton Jr. broke the color line on 99th Street in 1905. Payton, also credited with first bringing African Americans to Harlem, wanted to make it possible for a black man to rent an apartment, in his words, "wherever his means will permit him to live."
A couple years after Payton moved his first tenants into West 99th and 98th Streets, the black orator Roscoe Conkling Simmon marveled that African Americans for the first time were living in "the most beautiful and cultured neighborhood in New York City...because back of them stands organized and sympathetic capital."
Fifty years later, the federal bulldozer tore that neighborhood apart.
Written, produced, shot, and edited by Jim Epstein. Narrated by Nick Gillespie.
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Cultural Marxism: Understanding the Origins of Political Correctness
Cultural Marxism: Understanding the Origins of Political Correctness
Cultural Marxism: Understanding the Origins of Political Correctness
The origins of "political correctness" or "cultural Marxism" can be found in the early parts of the 20th century from the Frankfurt School, which was the headquarters for the Communists scheming in Germany. Max Horkheimer, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Lowenthal, and Erich Fromm were all there. "The role of the Frankfurt School is creating the victim groups that constitutes the politically correct coalition." Made by the Free Congress Foundation and narrated by William Lind. Who Stole Our Culture? http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55833 Erich Fromm, Judaism, and the Frankfurt School http://obama.gbppr.org/erichfrommjudaism.html The Frankfurt School of Social Research - Review by Jett and Jahn http://www.jettandjahn.com/2010/10/frankfurt-school-of-social-research How a Handful of Marxist Jews Turned Western and U.S. Culture Upside Down http://www.davidduke.com/general/how-a-handfull-of-marxist-jews-turned-wester... The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to Corrupt http://incogman.net/05/2009/the-frankfurt-school-conspiracy-to-corrupt
The origins of "political correctness" or "cultural Marxism" can be found in the early parts of the 20th century from the Frankfurt School, which was the headquarters for the Communists scheming in Germany. Max Horkheimer, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Lowenthal, and Erich Fromm were all there.
"The role of the Frankfurt School is creating the victim groups that constitutes the politically correct coalition."
Made by the Free Congress Foundation and narrated by William Lind.
Who Stole Our Culture?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55833
Erich Fromm, Judaism, and the Frankfurt School
http://obama.gbppr.org/erichfrommjudaism.html
The Frankfurt School of Social Research - Review by Jett and Jahn
http://www.jettandjahn.com/2010/10/frankfurt-school-of-social-research
How a Handful of Marxist Jews Turned Western and U.S. Culture Upside Down
http://www.davidduke.com/general/how-a-handfull-of-marxist-jews-turned-wester...
The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to Corrupt
http://incogman.net/05/2009/the-frankfurt-school-conspiracy-to-corrupt
Bill Whittle on The Narrative: The origins of Political Correctness