She was born under Hitler, raised under the USSR's sovereignty in East Germany, and came to America as a young adult. LISTEN to her.
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.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
PREPARES FOR "NATIONAL EMERGENCY": NATIONALIZE EVERYTHING (EVEN YOU) W/O CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT
Executive Order: National Defense Resources Preparedness
It calls for a draft, but not just a draft. A civilian draft, of “persons of outstanding experience or ability” without compensation. If they think they need you, they can compel you to work for the government for nothing.
They can, under this order, restrict civilian travel by any mode, including (probably) foot travel. They can ration food. They can restrict water usage, even from private wells. They can ration any and all drugs, including OTC and vitamins. They can collectivize farms. They can take over all energy production, including home solar units.
It also allows for drafting civilians. If they have need of your skills, they can compel you to work for no compensation.
All this not in a time of war, but in time of “National Emergency” (several EO national emergency states already in place) or even in Peacetime.
A more restrained interpretation exists; my basic point is that the language is there and has always been there for martial law and complete control over civilians. If you still feel fine about that then there is nothing to worry about.
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’: GORDON CHANG OF FORBES DISCUSSES CHINA’S POLITICAL FUTURE
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’: GORDON CHANG OF FORBES DISCUSSES CHINA’S POLITICAL FUTURE
Alexandra Pelosi makes DEMOCRATS LOOK BAD ( New York City Voters )
Full Episode: http://tinyurl.com/completeRealTime
Alexandra Pelosi appeared on Real Time tonight with two purposes: to defend the video she filmed of voters in Mississippi. and to air a brand-new video that Bill Maher admitted would probably anger liberals. So What do you think?
Friday, March 16, 2012
The Battle of Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law
The Battle of Athens was an armed rebellion led by WWII veterans and citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the tyrannical local government in August 1946.
Specific materials in this video are copyrighted and fall into 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, The Fair Use of a Copyrighted Work.
Konybator: Kony
Filmmaker, co-founder of 'Invisible Children' arrested for public masturbation...
JASON RUSSELL
THE NAKED MELTDOWN
Caught on Tape
YET MORE VIDEO RELEASED OF ‘KONY 2012’ FILMMAKER’S NUDE TIRADE
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Egyptian Clerics Repeat Franklin Prophecy Myth, Call the Jews "Donkeys" and "Apes and Pigs," and Say: Making Our Children Loathe the Jews Is a Form of Worship of Allah Al-Rahma TV
#3359 - Egyptian Clerics Repeat Franklin Prophecy Myth, Call the Jews "Donkeys" and "Apes and Pigs," and Say: Making Our Children Loathe the Jews Is a Form of Worship of Allah Al-Rahma TV (Egypt) - March 6, 2012 - 07:07
AFTER INVESTING $400M IN PEUGEOT, GM MIGHT CLOSE EURO PLANTS
AFTER INVESTING $400M IN PEUGEOT, GM MIGHT CLOSE EURO PLANTS
Given the fact that even the CEO admits there are “profitability” concerns in Europe, why did the Detroit automaker, which still owes U.S. taxpayers approximately $25 billion, invest $400 million in France’s fledgling Peugeot?
http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/03/12/ctd_gm_europe_akerson.fortune/
Mayor Bans outdoor homeless feeding.
What is your reaction to Mayor Nutter's decision?
Nutter Moves To Ban Feeding Homeless In Parks: MyFoxPHILLY.com
‘FAITH ISSUES’: MA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALLEGEDLY REMOVES ‘ST. PATRICK‘S DAY’ NAME FROM CELEBRATION
‘FAITH ISSUES’: MA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALLEGEDLY REMOVES ‘ST. PATRICK‘S DAY’ NAME FROM CELEBRATION
Should St. Patrick's Day be changed to ”O’Green Day/Tasting’ of the Green”? Why or why not?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ma-elementary-school-removes-st-patricks-day-name-to-remedy-faith-issues/
MEGYN KELLY: ASKING MARINES TO DISARM IS LIKE SAYING ‘WE DON’T TRUST YOU NOT TO SHOOT DEFENSE SECRETARY’
MEGYN KELLY: ASKING MARINES TO DISARM IS LIKE SAYING ‘WE DON’T TRUST YOU NOT TO SHOOT DEFENSE SECRETARY’
Does this incident raise “troubling questions about whether our leaders trust our troops”? Do you think a message was being sent that they are not even trusted “not to shoot” Leon Panetta?
WASHINGTON, March 7—Under question from Sen. Sessions at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey indicated that "international permission," rather than Congressional approval, provided a 'legal basis' for military action by the United States.
TAKING LIBERTIES: WI PET ORDINANCE FORCES HOMEOWNERS TO CHOOSE — YOUR PET OR YOUR HOUSE
TAKING LIBERTIES: WI PET ORDINANCE FORCES HOMEOWNERS TO CHOOSE — YOUR PET OR YOUR HOUSE
Is it just too bad for Fido or is this an example of over-regulation?
Americans, War, Presidents, and 9/11
American war presidents engage in ruthless and merciless warfare that is devastating and complete, resulting in total annihilation, and, if possible, short: from the American Revolution through World War II this was the case. As a matter of fact, the American war tradition is in line with the Western manner of warfare.
Cf. The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece, Victor Davis Hanson, University of California Press (2009):
http://www.librarything.com/work/1755303/53908828
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power, Victor Hanson, Anchor (2002):
http://www.librarything.com/work/25331
However, during the Korean War Eisenhower accepted a truce but this agreement can be understood to his credit. It shortened the conflict and resulted in an enduring peace. Once a Republican president made peace in Korea, not one American serviceman was killed in action during the remaining seven and a half years of his presidency. No American president since Ike can make that claim.
Something significant must have occurred during the Eisenhower years. In fact, Eisenhower himself warned about the change: the military-industrial complex. In 1961, Eisenhower warned the Americans about a permanent armament establishment which is unique and new in American history.
Cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY&feature=player_embedded
Eisenhower warned against "unwarranted influence" in the world and the "disastrous rise of misplaced power" (Eisenhower, 17 January 1961, Farewell Address to the Nation). Americans did not heed the warning.
There is plenty of blame to go around for both parties but Democratic presidents have been particularly prone to re-make the world in their image. Both John F. Kennedy but particularly Lyndon Baines Johnson escalated the war in Vietnam while deceiving Americans about the real costs and ultimate number of casualties in the war.
Cf. Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam, H. R. McMaster, Harper Perennial (1998):
http://www.librarything.com/work/13326/42305403
Since 1980 there has been a dramatic increase in United States military operations which is in direct contrast with the pre-1960 period. Both political parties and subsequent administrations have engaged in military operations with abandon in an attempt to engage in nation building and creating the world in our image. For those Americans born after 1960 and 1980 or for those who operate from an ahistorical perspective it must be particularly difficult for them to grasp that this new normal is out of step with the American war tradition in our history.
The normative U.S. war-making machine is now fully engaged and we are paying a hefty human and economic price for our folly. The folly of our ways is not obvious with a vibrant economy but it certainly should be by now. As Max Boot states:"In the emerging global division of labor, the richest economies have prospered based not on the possession of natural resources or vast populations, as in the past, but by creating a favorable climate for innovation and investment – for the exploitation of human, not physical, capital" (Cf. War Made New: Weapons, Warriors, and the Making of the Modern World, Max Boot, Gotham [2007], p.214:
http://www.librarything.com/work/1397318/summary/48789047 ). Formerly, America could rely on our natural resources or growing population but neither are enough any more and we are no longer the world's leader of innovation and private capital investment.
"Fewer [Americans] still drew any correlation between economic distress at home and the predicament into which the United States had worked itself abroad. As far as Washington was concerned (either George W. Bush's or Barack Obama's), domestic and foreign policies continued to occupy two different, largely unrelated spheres. Nothing that had occurred during the eight years of the second Bush era, it seemed, had overturned that conviction. . . . If President Obama remains similarly oblivious to any correlation between the nation's economic woes and the flawed national security policies he inherited, that will be far more puzzling, however. After all, the moment you acknowledge the linkage between Bush's ill-advised global war and our current economic disarray, whole new avenues of analysis open up. Getting to root causes suddenly becomes a possibility. It's akin to recognizing that smoking causes cancer or that prolonged alcohol abuse can produce liver damage: to make the connection is to redefine the problem. New strategies of prevention present themselves. The chief one: avoid patently self-destructive behavior. . . . Only then will it become possible to avoid the patently self-destructive behavior that today finds America facing the prospect of perpetual conflict that neither our army nor our economy can sustain" (Cf. The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Andrew Bacevich, Metropolitan Books [2008], pp. 184-186):
http://www.librarything.com/work/5654532/43172030
Obama has enthusiastically promoted the military-industrial complex and no significant improvement in United States foreign policy has occurred. Although Obama inherited a largely pacified Iraq, he has no reliable and safe exit strategy from the region, a situation that to Bush's credit, he had largely mollified before Obama's inauguration. Moreover, Obama dramatically escalated the war in Afghanistan, and involved us in Libya which presented no vital national security threat. On several fronts Obama has weakened our national security which we will be paying for in the years to come (Cf. How The Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security, Victor Davis Hanson, Encounter Books (2009): http://www.librarything.com/work/9556105/59090613).
I'll confine myself to Libya for the sake of space but Obama lied as Johnson misled the American people about boots on the ground (Cf. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/12/us-boots-on-ground-in-libya-pentagon-confirms/ ), lost around 20,000 surface-to-air missiles (Cf. http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2281782&spid= ), and has not prevented sharia law and its
Islamist proponents from gaining power in a post-Gadaffi Libya (Cf. http://www.scribd.com/doc/62823350/Libya-Draft-Constitutional-Charter-for-the-Transitional-Stage ). An almost identical set of conditions led to the escalation of placing American troops in harm's way in Afghanistan. Obama has committed the same mistakes of history in Libya.
We are committed now in perpetual, global warfare that makes us not a twit safer or secure. An adult American conversation that distinguishes between military adventurism as engaged in by both Obama and Bush needs to take place. We have an incredibly talented and totally competent American military which is being squandered in global fiascoes that have little hope of return on our investment of blood and treasure.
Is 9/11 a fight worth fighting? Absolutely. Do I hear any of the eight Republican candidates question that that fight is not worth fighting? No, I don't hear that.
To our advantage we have a trained and fit military that, despite the lack of leadership by subsequent Commanders-in-Chief, is expert in interdicting high-value targets, stopping drug-running, discovering caches of weapons, rooting out false identities, securing borders and protecting civilians. And, where are these wonders of virtue, commitment, and teamwork? It is the incredible American military that is squandered by placing them in Libya, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in places where their efforts are not appreciated nor welcomed.
Imagine for just a moment if these troops were deployed along the Southern border and you can begin to imagine an America where our borders are secure; the military is used to best advantage, protecting American citizens, and our investments pay off in technological innovation and expertise because it directly benefits an enlightened and aware America that desperately needs jobs and economic growth.
If you can imagine American troops being deployed for America, and on behalf of Americans, you begin to appreciate what the Founders envisioned for their descendents: "We the People of the United States, in Order to . . . insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Cf. The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece, Victor Davis Hanson, University of California Press (2009):
http://www.librarything.com/work/1755303/53908828
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power, Victor Hanson, Anchor (2002):
http://www.librarything.com/work/25331
However, during the Korean War Eisenhower accepted a truce but this agreement can be understood to his credit. It shortened the conflict and resulted in an enduring peace. Once a Republican president made peace in Korea, not one American serviceman was killed in action during the remaining seven and a half years of his presidency. No American president since Ike can make that claim.
Something significant must have occurred during the Eisenhower years. In fact, Eisenhower himself warned about the change: the military-industrial complex. In 1961, Eisenhower warned the Americans about a permanent armament establishment which is unique and new in American history.
Cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY&feature=player_embedded
Eisenhower warned against "unwarranted influence" in the world and the "disastrous rise of misplaced power" (Eisenhower, 17 January 1961, Farewell Address to the Nation). Americans did not heed the warning.
There is plenty of blame to go around for both parties but Democratic presidents have been particularly prone to re-make the world in their image. Both John F. Kennedy but particularly Lyndon Baines Johnson escalated the war in Vietnam while deceiving Americans about the real costs and ultimate number of casualties in the war.
Cf. Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam, H. R. McMaster, Harper Perennial (1998):
http://www.librarything.com/work/13326/42305403
Since 1980 there has been a dramatic increase in United States military operations which is in direct contrast with the pre-1960 period. Both political parties and subsequent administrations have engaged in military operations with abandon in an attempt to engage in nation building and creating the world in our image. For those Americans born after 1960 and 1980 or for those who operate from an ahistorical perspective it must be particularly difficult for them to grasp that this new normal is out of step with the American war tradition in our history.
The normative U.S. war-making machine is now fully engaged and we are paying a hefty human and economic price for our folly. The folly of our ways is not obvious with a vibrant economy but it certainly should be by now. As Max Boot states:"In the emerging global division of labor, the richest economies have prospered based not on the possession of natural resources or vast populations, as in the past, but by creating a favorable climate for innovation and investment – for the exploitation of human, not physical, capital" (Cf. War Made New: Weapons, Warriors, and the Making of the Modern World, Max Boot, Gotham [2007], p.214:
http://www.librarything.com/work/1397318/summary/48789047 ). Formerly, America could rely on our natural resources or growing population but neither are enough any more and we are no longer the world's leader of innovation and private capital investment.
"Fewer [Americans] still drew any correlation between economic distress at home and the predicament into which the United States had worked itself abroad. As far as Washington was concerned (either George W. Bush's or Barack Obama's), domestic and foreign policies continued to occupy two different, largely unrelated spheres. Nothing that had occurred during the eight years of the second Bush era, it seemed, had overturned that conviction. . . . If President Obama remains similarly oblivious to any correlation between the nation's economic woes and the flawed national security policies he inherited, that will be far more puzzling, however. After all, the moment you acknowledge the linkage between Bush's ill-advised global war and our current economic disarray, whole new avenues of analysis open up. Getting to root causes suddenly becomes a possibility. It's akin to recognizing that smoking causes cancer or that prolonged alcohol abuse can produce liver damage: to make the connection is to redefine the problem. New strategies of prevention present themselves. The chief one: avoid patently self-destructive behavior. . . . Only then will it become possible to avoid the patently self-destructive behavior that today finds America facing the prospect of perpetual conflict that neither our army nor our economy can sustain" (Cf. The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Andrew Bacevich, Metropolitan Books [2008], pp. 184-186):
http://www.librarything.com/work/5654532/43172030
Obama has enthusiastically promoted the military-industrial complex and no significant improvement in United States foreign policy has occurred. Although Obama inherited a largely pacified Iraq, he has no reliable and safe exit strategy from the region, a situation that to Bush's credit, he had largely mollified before Obama's inauguration. Moreover, Obama dramatically escalated the war in Afghanistan, and involved us in Libya which presented no vital national security threat. On several fronts Obama has weakened our national security which we will be paying for in the years to come (Cf. How The Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security, Victor Davis Hanson, Encounter Books (2009): http://www.librarything.com/work/9556105/59090613).
I'll confine myself to Libya for the sake of space but Obama lied as Johnson misled the American people about boots on the ground (Cf. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/12/us-boots-on-ground-in-libya-pentagon-confirms/ ), lost around 20,000 surface-to-air missiles (Cf. http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2281782&spid= ), and has not prevented sharia law and its
Islamist proponents from gaining power in a post-Gadaffi Libya (Cf. http://www.scribd.com/doc/62823350/Libya-Draft-Constitutional-Charter-for-the-Transitional-Stage ). An almost identical set of conditions led to the escalation of placing American troops in harm's way in Afghanistan. Obama has committed the same mistakes of history in Libya.
We are committed now in perpetual, global warfare that makes us not a twit safer or secure. An adult American conversation that distinguishes between military adventurism as engaged in by both Obama and Bush needs to take place. We have an incredibly talented and totally competent American military which is being squandered in global fiascoes that have little hope of return on our investment of blood and treasure.
Is 9/11 a fight worth fighting? Absolutely. Do I hear any of the eight Republican candidates question that that fight is not worth fighting? No, I don't hear that.
To our advantage we have a trained and fit military that, despite the lack of leadership by subsequent Commanders-in-Chief, is expert in interdicting high-value targets, stopping drug-running, discovering caches of weapons, rooting out false identities, securing borders and protecting civilians. And, where are these wonders of virtue, commitment, and teamwork? It is the incredible American military that is squandered by placing them in Libya, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in places where their efforts are not appreciated nor welcomed.
Imagine for just a moment if these troops were deployed along the Southern border and you can begin to imagine an America where our borders are secure; the military is used to best advantage, protecting American citizens, and our investments pay off in technological innovation and expertise because it directly benefits an enlightened and aware America that desperately needs jobs and economic growth.
If you can imagine American troops being deployed for America, and on behalf of Americans, you begin to appreciate what the Founders envisioned for their descendents: "We the People of the United States, in Order to . . . insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
IRS faces federal lawsuit for ‘unlawful power grab’
For more visit http://www.ij.org/IRS
Congress never gave the IRS the authority to license tax preparers, and the IRS can't give itself that power.
But last year the IRS imposed a sweeping new licensing scheme that forces tax preparers to get IRS permission before they can work. This is an unlawful power grab that exceeds the authority granted to the IRS by Congress.
The burden of compliance will fall most heavily on independent tax return preparers and small businesses. Unsurprisingly, big firms such as H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt support the licensing scheme. As The Wall Street Journal explained: "Cheering the new regulations are big tax preparers like H&R Block, who are only too happy to see the feds swoop in to put their mom-and-pop seasonal competitors out of business."
These regulations are typical government protectionism. They benefit powerful industry insiders and at the expense of entrepreneurs and consumers, who will likely have fewer options and face higher prices. But tax preparers have a right to earn an honest living without getting permission from the IRS. And taxpayers—not the IRS—should be the ones who decide who prepares their taxes.
That is why on March 13, 2012, three independent tax preparers joined the Institute for Justice in filing suit against the IRS in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. This lawsuit challenges the IRS's statutory authority to impose this licensing scheme, and seeks to overturn regulations that would affect an estimated 350,000 tax return preparers, forcing many of them to stop working in the occupation of their choice.
U.S. AND OTHERS BALK AS CHINA FURTHERS MONOPOLY ON MATERIALS NECESSARY TO POWER YOUR SMARTPHONE
U.S. AND OTHERS BALK AS CHINA FURTHERS MONOPOLY ON MATERIALS NECESSARY TO POWER YOUR SMARTPHONE
Here MSNBC discusses how the issue with Chinese exports will remain a “political football” during the election year:
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
CNN covers China’s position on its rare earth exports and why it has such a strong hold on the market for these elements:
Ian Hunter and the Rant Band, Music of the Rolling Stones (Hot Rocks 1964-1971) - Carnegie Hall, NYC - 3/13/12
Ian Hunter performs "19th Nervous Breakdown" at The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks Tribute. Carnegie Hall NYC March 13, 2012.
Never heard about the rehearsal show or I would have crashed it.
On the night of the Hot Rocks show I passed M.C. and his lady friend walking towards the stage entrance on the street when parking my car; the entire Rant Band backed Ian on "19th Nervous Breakdown." I don't think it is my imagination but Ian got a respectable applause and recognition factor when he was introduced. Ian and the band were in fine form especially as one of the few to provide an entire band for a Stones song. The picture on the Rolling Stone magazine web site is what Ian wore that night.
"With the Rant Band, Mr. Hunter’s take on “19th Nervous Breakdown” laid bare some rockabilly twang."
Screen shot from video
2nd screen shot from video
Shot from Rolling Stone magazine
"Tumbling Dice" finale
"Tumbling Dice"
The Music of the Rolling Stones at Carnegie Hall ENCORE
And, another review was posted.
Andy Burton is on backing vocals, Steve Holley plays the drums, also, former Rant bassist Tony Shannahan is up there. 'Jack The Mechanic' Petruzzelli (2001 Rant Band guitarist) was present as well as Christine Oldham who sang back up on the last two Hunter releases.
Jovanotti, TV on the Radio, Ronnie Spector, Peaches, Rich Robinson, Juliette Lewis, Marianne Faithful, David Johansen, Steve Earle, Ian Hunter, Mountain Goats, Glen Hansard, Art Garfunkel, Jackson Browne, Gomez, Angelique Kidjo, Rickie Lee Jones, Taj Mahal, Deva Mahal, Rosanne Cash, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jackie Greene, Marc Cohn, John Sebastian, Christine Ohlman, Lenny Kaye, Shanahan, Jay Dee Daugherty, Jack Petruzzelli, Glen Burtnik,
It does look like an autograph hound caught Ian and M.C. leaving the stage door of Carnegie Hall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjSpJscRcCg
EXCLUSIVE: O'KEEFE VIDEO EXPOSES VOTER FRAUD-FRIENDLY POLICIES IN VERMONT
Caught on Tape: Dead People and Clones Offered Ballots in Vermont Primary
On Super Tuesday in Vermont, Poll workers caught on tape handing out Ballots in names of dead people and giving out ballots in living people's names to anyone who walked in. Bars, hotels and city clerk issuing civil union all required ID.
They handed the ballots out to people under the following names:
Adam Berger
Cooper Fellows
Roger Audette DEAD
John E. Adams
Lucas Hertweck
Mahamud Somo DEAD
Travis Houle
Evan R Bean
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
New study finds Obama's regulations cost $46B a year...
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/03/regulation-nation-new-study-finds-obama%E2%80%99s-regs-cost-46-billion
Monday, March 12, 2012
VIDEO REPORTEDLY SHOWS DEM. REP. RECEIVING AWARD FROM COMMUNIST MEDIA ARM
VIDEO SHOWS REP. RECEIVING AWARD FROM COMMUNIST MEDIA ARM
In the video, taken on February 26, Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) can be seen accepting Peoplesworld.org’s Rudy Lozano-Chris Hani Social Justice award at the Unity Center in Chicago. Peoplesworld.org is a website that enjoys a “special relationship with the Communist Party USA.” And according to the video — and an introduction given by someone in it — the Unity Center is home to the Communist Party USA in Chicago and People’s World.
Should Americans feel comfortable knowing elected officials have Communist support? Is Communism consistent with American values? Why or why not?
One Nation Under Surveillance
Are the drones invasive and threaten the privacy and civil liberties of Americans, or, are these effective tools for fighting crime? Why?
Below is the video with some explanation of the drone’s implications for the U.S. Homeland:
Here is a video clip of the Shadowhawk police drone in action, courtesy of Vanguard Industries:
Abu Dhabi Gallup Center Poll Under Dalia Mogahed is Suspect and Why
The poll has been taken but what is the Muslim opinion about Shariah law in the United States, and just exactly what do they think the Quran says about "infidels?" And why does a "poll" tell the U.S. government and its citizens what they should be doing? The new poll was done by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center under the direction of center director Dalia Mogahed. Mogahed has been identified by Muslim reformer Tarek Fatah during a recent speech in Toronto as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in a position to influence Obama's policy.
Mogahed is problematic herself. Tarek Fatah, the Canadian Muslim reformer, identifies Mogahed as one of the problematic Obama appointees in the U.S. government. In 2009, Obama nominated Mogahed to sit on his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. According to DiscovertheNetworks.org, she co-authored the book “Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think” with the dhimmi apologist Esposito. Here, though, is where much of the controversy surrounding her stems from:
In early October 2009, Mogahed was interviewed on a British television program hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party, which seeks to facilitate the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state governed by Sharia law. Bsis and another guest (also a member of Hizb ut Tahrir) stated that Sharia should be “the source of legislation” for all nations in the world; they also repeatedly condemned the “man-made law” and the “lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism” that existed in Western societies. Mogahed did not dispute any of their assertions.
Critics were upset over Mogahed’s refusal to take a stand against these claims. But, even more bizarre was her discussion during the interview of the West’s take on Sharia law (and her defense of it). DiscovertheNetworks.org notes:
Instead, Mogahed stated that the Western view of Sharia was “oversimplified,“ and that the majority of Muslim women around the world associate Islamic Law with ”gender justice.“ ”I think the reason so many women support Sharia is because they have a very different understanding of Sharia than the common perception in Western media,” she said.
Who Speaks for Islam—What Do a Billion Muslims Really Think?
Levantine Cultural Center and OneNation present an evening with Dalia Mogahed, co-author of the Gallup book "Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think," and Obama appointee on Muslim affairs. She is joined by "24" showrunner/writer Howard Gordon in a conversation moderated by KPFK radio host Dr. Nile El Wardani.
In early 2010, Tablet Magazine called Mogahed, “The most important person shaping the Obama Administration’s Middle East message.” In the article, concern over her potential inability to distinguish between radicals and moderates is cited. The Investigative Project on Journalism has documented Mogahed's comments as well, claiming that she has been a staunch defender of both the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
She has claimed that it would not be fair be unfair to see these groups become “disenfranchised” because of “misinformation” that is perpetuated. She has been quoted claiming that “there is a concerted effort to silence, you know, institution building among Muslims. And the way to do it is [to] malign these groups. And it’s kind of a witch hunt.”
These individuals appear sympathetic to the causes and goals that Islamism embraces. Still, Fatah’s warning to Canadians and recent history do expose the potential for unsettling connections within the Obama regime. Earlier this year, Robert Spencer reiterated the Obama
administration’s connections with the Muslim Brotherhood:
Obama first reached out to the Brotherhood when he chose the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group that had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case to give a prayer during his inauguration ceremonies. Ingrid Mattson, then-president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), offered this prayer at the National Cathedral on Obama’s Inauguration Day—despite the fact that the ISNA has admitted its ties to the Brotherhood…
Obama didn’t ask Mattson to explain the ISNA’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. On the contrary: He sent his senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, to be the keynote speaker at the ISNA’s national convention in 2009.
This appointee and the highly placed nature their appointments are troubling according to Fatah.
Mogahed's poll asked questions Muslims are sure to understand what they need to give as the answer to present the best front possible. But they don't get to the heart of the matter on whether they want Shariah in the United States ultimately. That's not to say they would get honest answers if they did ask those questions but its a start.
The motivation for most Muslims answering the call to Islamism is what they believe. They engage in jihad based on their ideology, their belief system. Because the center behind this poll can't face that ideology or belief system, they swallow this line that not only has it never been proven, but repeatedly disproven that poverty causes terrorism. The study trumpets the relative affluence of the Muslim community in America as if it tells us something about terrorism when it actually tells us exactly nothing. In any case, they're not asking the right questions to start with. They're asking questions that are tailored to give the picture of a Muslim community that is much more moderate than it really is.
Further, the "poll" tells the government of the U.S. it should "expand its report on anti-Semitism to include Islamophobia," and "track reports of discrimination against U.S. Muslims in a similar manner to reports of discrimination based on anti-Semitism."
The Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice also should "raise awareness, particularly within Muslim-American communities, of the procedures required to file a complaint," and "local and state police as well as the FBI should launch a national strategy to address the challenges in community-law enforcement relations."
The "recommendations" from the "poll" also note that the government should "engage and leverage Muslim Americans' expertise in the nation's foreign policy."
"As the most culturally diverse religious community in America, significant minorities of the Muslim-American community may not only speak multiple languages but may have also traveled, worked, and conducted research and business globally," the poll instructs. "Such experiences and expertise should be more widely drawn upon in forming global policy."
Counter-terrorism expert Robert Spencer has weighed in on the report:
Sunday, March 11, 2012
All the Above Energy Policy of Obama
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/real-news-from-the-blaze-panel-debates-obamas-all-of-the-above-energy-agenda/
NASA Mayan, Not the End of the World
Are you worried about the end of the Mayan calender? According to NASA, should you be worried? Why or why not? Do you think the video presents enough evidence that rebuffs any end of the world?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/worried-about-the-world-ending-in-2012-nasa-releases-video-saying-dont/
Pink Slime
USDA BUYS 7 MILLION POUNDS OF ‘PINK SLIME’ FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES
Michelle Obama leads a very public campaign to announce that healthier foods would be coming to school cafeterias and military mess halls.
Nonetheless, the Federal government-controlled school lunch program includes the USDA seven million pounds of “pink slime.”
What is pink slime? Do you think the Federal government should feed it to American children? Would you eat it and want it fed to your children? Why or why not?
On the Season Premiere of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution filmed in Los Angeles and aired on April 12, 2011, Jamie demonstrates how 70% of America's ground beef contains leftover cow parts (a.k.a. "pink slime") containing e.coli and salmonella that has been treated with ammonia. Ammonia treated meat can be found in virtually all conventional grocery stores, fast food restaurants, many national restaurant chains, and school cafeterias. The saddest part is that the USDA allows this ammonia treated meat to enter the marketplace and with no labeling requirement on the packaging to inform the consumer that the meat their about to buy contains ammonia, thus hiding the truth and pulling a wool over the consumer's eye. This is certainly a rude awakening to the majority of Americans that don't know where the meat in their fridge, the meat in their conventional local grocery store, the meat in their fast food hamburger, and the meat in their restaurant made hamburger comes from. How do you avoid this poison? Buy beef that has come from grass fed cows, which can be found at natural and organic grocery stores and your local farmers market. No matter the size of your town or city, grass fed beef (real beef) is not out of reach. Unlike ammonia treated beef, grass fed beef is clearly labeled and contains no ammonia.
Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/usda-buys-7-million-pounds-of-pink-slime-for-school-lunches/
Military Heat Weapon
Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial System (V-MADS)
The Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal, directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military. It is a strong millimeter-wave transmitter primarily used for crowd control (the "goodbye effect"). Some ADS systems such as HPEM ADS are also used to disable vehicles.[3] Informally, the weapon is also called pain ray. Raytheon is currently marketing a reduced-range version of this technology. The ADS is currently being considered for deployment in the Iraq War.
Fox News’ Peter Doocy
Derrick Bell: ‘I Live to Harass White Folks’ & Barack Obama: ‘White Folks Greed Runs a World in Need’
Obama Says--White Folk's Greed Runs a World In Need
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
Islam's grand vision about women, Koran
Koran 4:34 "Allah has made men superior to women because men spend their wealth to support them. Therefore, virtuous women are obedient, and they are to guard their unseen parts as Allah has guarded them. As for women whom you fear will rebel, admonish them first, and then send them to a separate bed, and then beat them. But if they are obedient after that, then do nothing further; surely Allah is exalted and great!"
Thus, according to the Koran, men are superior, women may be admonished, shunned, and then a man can "beat them."
Thus, according to the Koran, men are superior, women may be admonished, shunned, and then a man can "beat them."
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Battle of Big Ideas, Part 1: CONSTRAINED vs. UNCONSTRAINED
The Battle of Big Ideas, Part 1: CONSTRAINED vs. UNCONSTRAINED
To keep these messages coming go to http://www.declarationentertainment.com
Before you can build a political house, you have to know what materials you have on hand. In Part 1 of The Battle of Big Ideas, Bill looks at the two visions of Mankind that Thomas Sowell has labeled "Constrained" and "Unconstrained," and the examples of their twin Revolutions: the Constrained American Revolution and the Unconstrained French Revolution.
‘REAL NEWS’ PANELIST BUCK SEXTON BREAKS DOWN THE IMPLICATIONS OF MCCAIN’S NEW CYBER SECURITY BILL
‘REAL NEWS’ PANELIST BUCK SEXTON BREAKS DOWN THE IMPLICATIONS OF MCCAIN’S NEW CYBER SECURITY BILL
Should your social media information alert homeland security?
DEFENSE SEC. PANETTA STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF ‘LEGAL BASIS’ & ‘INTERNATIONAL PERMISSION’ FOR MILITARY ACTION
DEFENSE SEC. PANETTA STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF ‘LEGAL BASIS’ & ‘INTERNATIONAL PERMISSION’ FOR MILITARY ACTION
Should the U.S. seek a “legal basis” and “international permission” for military action? Why or why not?
WASHINGTON, March 7—Under question from Sen. Sessions at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey indicated that "international permission," rather than Congressional approval, provided a 'legal basis' for military action by the United States.
IS SEIU USING UNIONIZATION TO EXTORT MEDICAID MONEY FROM HOME CAREGIVERS?
Robert and Patricia Haynes of Macomb Township take care of their adult children — Melissa, 34, and Kevin, 30 — who suffer from hypertonic cerebral palsy and function at the level of six-month-olds. Now, some of the Medicaid assistance that is supposed to go to the Haynes family is being diverted to the coffers of the Service Employee International Union.
The Hayneses are not alone. Under this arrangement, the SEIU has skimmed nearly $29 million from 56,000 Michigan home health care providers, most of whom are self-employed or family members caring for loved ones. In 2005, the SEIU held a virtually unpublicized election that roped these providers into the union — even though more than 80 percent of them did not vote.
In June 2011, the Michigan House passed legislation that would prevent people from being designated government employees simply because they receive a subsidy. Michigan's Senate Republicans, who hold a supermajority, have not considered the bill, allowing the SEIU to collect $4 million more over the intervening eight months.
Obama Takes on the LRA
Why Washington Sent Troops to Central Africa, November 15, 2011
"Obama claimed that he decided to act because it "furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy." Yet it is not entirely clear how that could be true, since Kony and the LRA have not targeted Americans or American interests and are not capable of overthrowing an allied government."
"The U.S. mission might be viewed as a kind of payback for Uganda's cooperation in the war on terror. In addition, geologists recently discovered oil in and around Lake Albert -- another reason for closer cooperation and for stabilizing the area."
"The administration estimated that potential U.S. losses would be minimal, and that Kony would be a good addition to the list of international thugs removed during Obama's time in office."
"So domestic political agendas, which at least did not conflict with broad U.S. strategic interests, are the most probable explanations for Obama's decision."
"A superficial focus on the activities of one man and a few of his commanders largely sidesteps the point. Kony and his colleagues lead a dreadful but relatively small organization that punches above its weight. If achieving stability and relative prosperity in this blighted region of Africa is the real objective, devoting the month of November to the LRA will obviously not be anything like enough."
Guardian, Kony 2012: what's the real story?
Michael Wilkerson, a journalist who has worked extensively in Uganda, starts busting some of the myths around Kony and the situation in Uganda. He writes:
It would be great to get rid of Kony. He and his forces have left abductions and mass murder in their wake for over 20 years.
But let's get two things straight:
1) Joseph Kony is not in Uganda and hasn't been for six years;
2) The LRA now numbers at most in the hundreds, and while it is still causing immense suffering, it is unclear how millions of well-meaning but misinformed people are going to help deal with the more complicated reality.
• In October last year, Obama authorised the deployment of 100 US army advisers to help the Ugandan military track down Kony, with no results disclosed to date.
• The LRA is much smaller than previously thought. It does not have have 30,000 or 60,000 child soldiers. The figure of 30,000 refers to the total number of children abducted by the LRA over nearly 30 years.
It also makes the point that there is currently no threat to remove the US advisers who are working with the Uganda government to track down the army – Invisible Children's key aim is to force the US government to keep them there.
Arthur Larok, Action Aid's, a relief organization, director in Uganda who states:
Six or 10 years ago, this would have been a really effective campaign strategy to get international campaigning. But today, years after Kony has moved away from Uganda, I think campaigning that appeals to these emotions … I'm not sure that's effective for now. The circumstances in the north have changed.
Ugandan journalist Angelo Opi-aiya Izama has written about "One salient issue the film totally misses is that the actual geography of today's LRA operations is related to a potentially troubling `resource war'".
"Since 2006, Uganda discovered world class oil fields along its border with DRC. The location of the oil fields has raised the stakes for the Ugandan military and its regional partners, including the US."
John Vidal of the Guardian, a British newspaper, stated: "They call themselves `a movement' seeking to end the conflict in Uganda and stop the abduction of children for use as child soldiers, but behind the slick website and the touchy-feely talk about `changing the course of human history', there's a hard-nosed money-making operation led by US filmmakers and accountants, communication experts, lobbyists and salespeople."
"The organisation's accounts show it's a cash rich operation, which more than tripled its income in 2011, with more than two thirds of its money coming from `general donations'.
The accounts suggest nearly 25% of its $8.8m income last year was spent on travel and film-making with only around 30% going toward programes on the ground. The great majority of the money raised has been spent in the US. $1.7 million went on US employee salaries, $357,000 in film costs, $850,000 in film production costs, $244,000 in `professional services' - thought to be Washington lobbyists - and $1.07 million in travel expenses."
Wolfgang Zeller of the Centre of African Studies in Edinburgh published on northern Uganda in the highly respected journal Foreign Affairs:
"While the extreme atrocities committed by the LRA cannot be justified by any 'political cause', the LRA did originally emerge as a direct reaction to extreme atrocities committed since the late 1980s by the government and armed forces of Uganda against the Acholi people in northern Uganda. The person in charge since 1986 until today is Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, who is himself a former rebel army leader and came to power by force."
Update: Florida Honor Killing, Fatimah Abdallah
Tampa Police Detective Sonja Wise hand wrote on August 18, 2009 the word “Homicide” as the Type Of Offense on page 3 of 34 of the Tampa PD General Offense report. Please note the heading at the top of the page which states "Death-Accidental" was posted at a later date. Detective Wise wrote the day before on August 17, 2009 the words “Unexplained Death” for the Type Of Offense on page 2 of 34. Two days after the offense Detective Wise went from calling Fatimah’s death “Unexplained” to “Homicide.”
Fox News tells Florida Family Association that not enough people are willing to talk on camera about the death of Fatimah Abdallah to make a one hour special report.
Unfortunately, the silence and cover up of the Tampa honor killing will typify similar cases in the future. Thus, the Islamist violent crimes committed in America will likely grow.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
We Hold These Truths, Priest Spoken Word
We Hold These Truths || Spoken Word
Are you troubled by issues of religious liberty? Are you concerned about the direction this country is headed? Why or why not?
Behind-the-Scenes: We Hold These Truths
This video was filmed at St. Thomas More parish on the south side of Chicago. For those that know Church history and the role of St. Thomas More as a defender of the Church it may seem as if this was done deliberately to make a point. We can honestly say that if it was done deliberately it was not by us, but by God. We were looking for a visually stunning church to frame this important message and this is the one that opened up for us. In fact the other plans we had fell threw for various reasons to our surprise. We filmed for four and a half hours and then took a break to celebrate mass. Afterwards we filmed for another hour and then called it quits to go eat some great Chinese food.
The partnership between Spirit Juice Studios and Fr. Pontifex has truly been a divinely inspired arrangement and we look forward to making more videos in the future. The hard work and sacrifice was well worth it. The issue of religious liberty for Catholics and all Americans is an important issue that we all need to speak up about. Join the movement at http://phatmass.com/action
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spiritjuicestudios
Twitter: https://twitter.com/spiritjuice
Video website: http://www.spiritjuicestudios.com/
Fr. Pontifex: http://frpontifex.com/
Music by Tony Anderson (used with permission): http://www.soundcloud.com/23violins
Behind-the-Scenes Photography:
Directed, Shot & Edited: Rob Kaczmark
Lyricist: Fr. Claude (Dusty) Burns aka Fr. Pontifex
Producers: dUSt, Danny Hidalgo, Kyle Escamilla, Rob Kaczmark
Re-Recording Mixer: Manuel Lopez III
Special thank to St. Thomas More and Rev. Charles Fanelli, Pastor for allowing us to film in the church. http://www.stthomasmorechicago.org
YOU HAVE TO HEAR THIS MICH. $1M LOTTERY WINNER DEFEND WHY SHE’S STILL ON FOOD STAMPS
YOU HAVE TO HEAR THIS MICH. $1M LOTTERY WINNER DEFEND WHY SHE’S STILL ON FOOD STAMPS
Lottery winner still using Michigan Bridge card
Islamic misogyny
Islamic misogyny, see Ibn Warraq's "Lifting the veil of tears," and Reza Afshari's"Egalitarian Islam and Misogynist Islamic Tradition: A Critique of the Feminist Reinterpretation of Islamic History and Heritage."
THE VETTING: OBAMA EMBRACES RACIALIST HARVARD PROF
Obama embraces Derrick Bell.
Obama Protesting at Harvard in 1991
REVEALED: THE RADICAL RACIAL IDEAS OF THE PROF. OBAMA RAVES ABOUT IN NEW HARVARD VIDEO
YouTube Restricts Video Of Engineer Proving How Useless TSA Scanners Are
How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners
What is your reaction?
Transcript on Official Blog: http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/
Media / Official Inquiries: See Below for Contact
This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe (radiation what?) and non-invasive (nude pictures who?). This video is not intended to teach anyone how to commit criminal acts, nor is intended to help "the terrorists" -- if I could figure this out, I'm sure they've long figured it out, and by exposing it to the public, we now have an opportunity to correct it. The scanners are now effectively worthless, as anyone can beat them with virtually no effort. The TSA has been provided this video in advance of it being made public to give them an opportunity to turn off the scanners and revert to the metal detectors. I personally believe they now have no choice but to turn them off.
Please share this video with your family, friends, and most importantly, elected officials in federal government. Make sure they understand that your vote is contingent on them fixing the abuse that 200,000 passengers face from the TSA on a daily basis.
I'd like to thank:
Travel Underground - http://www.travelunderground.org/
Freedom to Travel USA - http://fttusa.org/
Legislators who have stood up to the TSA - especially Dr. Ron Paul & Sen. Rand Paul
...and all those who have both publicly and privately stood up to the TSA.
My legal battle against the TSA's nude body scanner and pat-down molestation program continues in court, soon with a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. If you'd like to donate to this effort, send PayPal to: jon [at] fourtentech.com
Copyright (C) 2012 Jonathan Corbett. All rights released for any non-commercial purpose.
Produced using Windows Live Movie Maker (Premiere kept crashing my computer!) on a PC. :) Video recorded using an HP TrueVision HD Web cam, except for "hidden camera" sections using an iPod 4G. Audio using an audio-technica mic (that really wasn't intended to be used this way) mixed with Ableton Live.
Contacts:
Media & Official - jon [at] fourtentech.com -- please no phone calls, I will respond to all e-mail inquiries very quickly.
All others - please leave a note on my blog (link above). I do read them all and generally reply if your post needs a response.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111417/TSA-nude-body-scanners-Jonathan-Corbett-video-exposes-loophole.html
YouTube Restricts Video Of Engineer Proving How Useless TSA Scanners Are
http://www.infowars.com/man-demonstrates-why-tsa-body-scanners-are-worthless-for-security-purposes/
Court Rules Police Can Search Cell Phones Without Warrant...
The ruling is an invasion of privacy that far outweighs the needs of law enforcement.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/03/06/police-given-direct-line-to-cell-phone-searches/
High school's chant of 'USA! USA!' deemed racist...
Racial incident mars high school game
"USA, USA, USA," they chanted.
San Antonio Independent School District officials took the chant as a racial insult to a school with all minority players from a school with mostly white ones.
Is chanting `USA, USA!' racist? Is it racist in this situation? Should we assume Americans are racist? Why or why not?
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
SPOTTED: Contraceptives near Georgetown law school
SPOTTED: Contraceptives near Georgetown law school
Are contraceptives readily available, and inexpensive or free, adjacent to Georgetown University, without a government mandate compromising religious liberty?
VIDEO: LIBYAN JIHADISTS BRUTALIZE BLACK AFRICANS, FORCE THEM TO EAT FLAGS IN CAGE
The term for black in Arabic, abid, means slave.
Boston Dynamics Robot
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/darpa-cheetah-robot-can-run-faster-than-you-dpgoha-20120306
http://www.bostondynamics.com/bd_contact.html
Victory Mosque, Sacrificed Survivors, Allen West
A film, produced by Christian Action Network and entitled, “Sacrified Survivors,” focuses upon the contentious so-called Ground Zero mosque that has created intense debate across America. According to Politico, the film prominently features 9/11 victims’ family members and their opposition to the planned house of worship and community center. Adding to the controversy, Republican Rep. Allen West invited some of these families to attend the event.
In a press release on Tuesday, West’s office described the film — and the event — as follows:
As plans for a mosque move forward at Ground Zero, just steps away from the twin towers site, 9/11 survivors and family members are experiencing yet another type of Islamic jihad. PRB Films tells their poignant and shocking stories in this new film, “SACRIFICED SURVIVORS: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Mega Mosque.”
Survivors fear after this week, the country will again become complacent and 9/11 will become a distant memory. They believe they must work to keep people vigilant and fighting against the march of radical Islam through attempts like the Ground Zero mosque. As retired New York City firefighter Tim Brown says, “If this mosque is built, it will be like 9/11 all over again for the families who lost loved ones.”
In a press release on Tuesday, West’s office described the film — and the event — as follows:
As plans for a mosque move forward at Ground Zero, just steps away from the twin towers site, 9/11 survivors and family members are experiencing yet another type of Islamic jihad. PRB Films tells their poignant and shocking stories in this new film, “SACRIFICED SURVIVORS: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Mega Mosque.”
Survivors fear after this week, the country will again become complacent and 9/11 will become a distant memory. They believe they must work to keep people vigilant and fighting against the march of radical Islam through attempts like the Ground Zero mosque. As retired New York City firefighter Tim Brown says, “If this mosque is built, it will be like 9/11 all over again for the families who lost loved ones.”
One of the attending family members, Jack McDermot, who lost a son on 9/11, stood his ground in opposing the construction of the community center and mosque:
“I think it’s a tragedy that people are attempting to do something which is very distasteful to me, and I will support anyone or anything that’s done to put a stop to it.”
In addressing the crowd, West explained what may very well be his reasoning for hosting the event in the first place:
“my fear is that maybe we could end up forgetting what happened on 9/11 because of certain things such as political correctness or this desire to be a multicultural America. But in being a multicultural America we must never forget the fundamental principles and value that make us great.”
He continued, discussing his views about faith and religion. In a pointed notation, he explained his belief that Islam must go through the “reform process” just as other world religions have been forced to do:
“I think we have to understand that the major religions of this world—Judaism and Christianity—did go through reformations. Now we look at this next major religion…they need to go through a reform process as well.”
Of course, this comment will be looked at by some as an effort to tie together the radical actions of a small subset of Islamic adherents with the wider pool of believers.
Below, watch these comments, among others, in a video:
Allen West Hosts Anti-Mosque Event On Capitol Hill
But for those claiming that West is trying to legally restrict individuals from the right to build at Ground Zero, it‘s important to note that he drew a distinction between what’s legal and what is, in his view, morally acceptable:
“Nobody is saying you cannot build a mosque in New York City. That’s not the question. The question is will you honor and hold in reverence what we just heard today? This is a sacred site for some people, this is a site that really is a burial ground. Do we really want this to happen? It’s not about the constitution, it’s about what’s morally right.”
In an article posted on Wednesday, Death and Taxes’ Andrew Belonsky wrote, “Representative Allen West has quite the record of inflammatory rhetoric.” In the title of the piece, Belonsky essentially calls West “anti-Islam.” ThinkProgress shared these views, writing:
There’s room for a healthy debate about how to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the worst terrorist attacks on the United States, but Sacrificed Survivors, with its distorted version of events and bigoted attacks on Islam, poisons that debate rather than contributing to it. The only thing it proves is how marginal Rep. West’s views — and sense of what constitute a dignified, respectful, and productive conversation about religion and national security — continue to be.
Green Firms Get Fed Cash, Give Execs Bonuses, Fail
Green Firms Get Fed Cash, Give Execs Bonuses, Fail
Monday, March 5, 2012
Bibi with Obozo: Israel, Iran
The body language is revealing. Bibi's head bobs up and down in agreement with Obama but once Obama tries the we are still employing sanctions and continuing diplomatic efforts Bibi just listens. Then, Obama gets lectured, looks annoyed, and smirks with the "Satan" references but without any genuine smile or positive feeling.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
All-American Barry Soetoro and the Indonesian Transgender Nanny
"Several longtime residents of Obama's old Menteng neighborhood confirmed that Turdi had worked there as his nanny for two years, also caring for his baby sister Maya. When asked about the nanny, the White House had no comment. . . . at a cocktail party in 1969, that she met Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother, who had arrived in the country two years earlier after marrying her second husband, Indonesian Lolo Soetoro. . . . Dunham was so impressed by Evie's beef steak and fried rice that she offered her a job in the family home. It didn't take long before Evie also was 8-year-old Barry's caretaker, playing with him and bringing him to and from school."
"Neighbors recalled that they often saw Evie leave the house in the evening fully made up and dressed in drag. But she says it's doubtful Barry ever knew."
"He was so young," says Evie. "And I never let him see me wearing women's clothes. But he did see me trying on his mother's lipstick, sometimes. That used to really crack him up.""
"Many neighbors would remember Turdi ... she was popular here at that time," says Rudy Yara, who still lives across the street from Obama's former house. "She was a nice person and was always patient and caring in keeping young Barry."
"Evie hopes her former charge will use his power to fight for people like her. Obama named Amanda Simpson, the first openly transgender appointee, as a senior technical adviser in the Commerce Department in 2010."
"For Evie, who's now just trying to earn enough to survive each day on Jakarta's streets, the election victory itself was enough to give her a reason — for the first time in a long time — to feel proud."
"Now when people call me scum," she says, "I can just say: 'But I was the nanny for the President of the United States!'"
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ap-exclusive-obamas-transgender-nanny-outcast-15847122#.T1VUfvG5xrp
Previous reports have documented Barry Soeotoro's Nanny before.
KATT WILLIAMS SPEAKS ON CNN ABOUT MEXICAN RANT!
KATT WILLIAMS SPEAKS ON CNN ABOUT MEXICAN RANT!
Cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ8mIEJSFZU&feature=player_embedded
Sep 3, 2011
"Comedian Katt Williams on Saturday partly walked back an apology for making insensitive remarks to a Mexican member of his audience, telling CNN that he is not sorry for what he said, but apologizes to anyone who thought he was being hateful. "I meant what I said and I said what I meant," Williams said, referring to his back-and-forth with a heckler during a performance a week ago. A written statement apologizing for the remarks had been released by his publicist on his behalf this week, but the comedian said that it didn't come from him. Video of the exchange, delivered during a performance at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, was posted online. Williams singled out a man seated near the stage and asked him if he was Mexican." - CNN
Sunday, March 4, 2012
#3347 - Hamas Preacher from Khan Yunis, Gaza: Al-Aqsa Cannot Remain under the Control of "Apes and Pigs," "Asses Carrying Books," and "Panting Dogs" Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) - February 24, 2012 - 01:36
#3347 - Hamas Preacher from Khan Yunis, Gaza: Al-Aqsa Cannot Remain under the Control of "Apes and Pigs," "Asses Carrying Books," and "Panting Dogs"
Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) - February 24, 2012 - 01:36
Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) - February 24, 2012 - 01:36
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