Blog Smith

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, September 10, 2012

LAFFER CURVE: ECONOMICS

UCLA professor and author of “Left Turn” Dr. Tim Groseclose makes the case for Prager University. The educator explains the revered Laffer Curve (an economic chart and theory created by famed economist Arthur Laffer).

SEAL BEHIND THE BIN LADEN TELL-ALL

‘60 MINUTES’ INTERVIEW

VIDEO SHOT BY F-15 FIGHTER PILOTS USING GOPRO CAMERAS

2012 Raytheon Award Video from Jersey on Vimeo.

How To Get to Mars: American Exceptionalism

A lawsuit implicates the Obama administration and some of the world’s largest banks in the largest international money laundering case in history

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Mainstream medicine's deadliest conspiracy

Video

Ian Hunter, 07 Sep 2012 Catanzaro, Italy – Settembre Al Parco Festival

Italian Promo over clip of "When I'm President"

"I Wish I Was Your Mother"

first song from the sound check.

The Rant Band: bit of

"Black Tears"

and

"When I'm President"

from Catanzaro (ITA) pre-soundcheck

Prior to the soundcheck at the "September in the Park" festival in Catanzaro (ITA) on Sept. 07 2012, members of the Rant Band did some tracks without their Boss and M.C. Bosch.

"Black Tears"

last song from the sound check.

Set List

Memphis

All American Alien Boy

Black Tears

Just Another Night

Cleveland Rocks

Isolation

Comfortable

OBTS

Fatally Flawed

Flowers When I'm President

Crazy Horse

Wish I was your Mother

Wash Us Away

SweetJane

Sweet Jane

Roll Away The Stone

Saturday Gigs

Life

All The Young Dudes

"Roll Away the Stone"

"Saturday Gigs"

"Life"

"All The Young Dudes"

#3563 - CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, Interviewed From Inside Democratic Convention: US Democratic Party's Political Platform on Middle East Is Developing Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) - September 5, 2012 - 00:01:30

Art of the Western World - Episodes 1 & 2

Episode 1: The Legacy of Greece

Episode 2: Imperial Stone - The Art of Rome

TSA Kicks Woman Off Flight For Bad Attitude

“Let me get this straight, this is retaliatory for my attitude, this is not making the airways safer it’s retaliatory.” “It pretty much definitely is,” the TSA screener responds. The incident began when the woman refused to allow TSA agents to carry out a controversial policy where they test drinks for explosives that are purchased by passengers after they have already passed through security. “This was inside the terminal at the Houston airport,” the woman writes on her You Tube channel.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Venezuela Holds U.S. Vessel And Crew

Venezuela Holds U.S. Vessel And Crew On Suspicion Of Arms Trafficking

Political Math: Job Gains Since 1948

TODDLERS’ POTTY TRAINING IN THE MIDDLE OF A RESTAURANT

Peter Schiff PRANKS DNC DELEGATES WITH QUESTION ABOUT BANNING CORPORATE PROFITS

JON STEWART FINDS ‘TOLERANCE’ AT THE DNC

Islamist Influence: Anti-Semitic Arabs in DNC

ARABS OBJECT TO ISRAEL PLATFORM CHANGE

Islamic Spring, or Western Naivete

ISLAMIC SPRING: "WESTERN MEDIA HAVE IN FACT RECENTLY BEGUN TO BINGE ON A FEAST OF APOLOGETICS"

Ontario High School, 467 Shelby-Ontario Road Ontario, OH 44906 Phone: 419-529-3969 Fax: 419-529-5649: Islamic Indoctrination in American Public School


Subject: The Islam Project for ninth graders in the Ontario High School

TO: Mary Bennett, President, Ontario Board of Education
      Mrs. Shelly Fisher, Vice President, Ontario Board of Education
      Mr. Andy Chalk, Member, Ontario Board of Education
      Mr. Tom Beck, Member, Board of Education
      Mr Sam VanCura, Member, Board of Education

I appreciate the Ontario School system and recognize that it is one of the better school systems around. Your leadership is evident in the buildings, financial management and quality of education provided to our children. It is obvious you each take your responsibility seriously. I also appreciate your accessibility. It was very easy to find your web site, read the board minutes, and acquaint myself with who you are.

Now allow me to introduce myself. I am the grandmother of new ninth grader, C xxxxx. C, her sister, and her parents live with my husband and myself. I am very involved in the lives of my grandchildren and we regularly discuss educational topics. These girls do not play video games and spend their time texting. We play board games and work together on projects and interact a lot. My husband and I both work full time and invest the rest of our lives in our family.  It is Connie who brought this book to my attention and asked if I would read it to get my opinion.

  A book of historical fiction called "A stone in my hand" was assigned to the class as mandatory reading prior to the first day of school.  It is written in the first person voice of a Muslim Arab child living in the Gaza during the intifada years of 1987 - 1993. I was more than stunned and appalled at this agenda for English and Social studies assigned to ninth graders this year. I have no problem with historically accurate studies, studies of other cultures and religions. But I do have a problem with a slanted presentation that is clearly anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and pro-Islam. Not only am I offended at the book, but today I had a chance to review the the worksheets sent home as homework for this 9 week course. The worksheet's title is "Islam Project - Growth of Islam". Islam is a very specific religion. So this, in my opinion, is religious indoctrination masked as Social Studies and English. This is not an elective class on world religions.  How in the world did this happen?
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I want to know at what level the decision was made to choose this book and this agenda and why there was not also offered an alternative to students whose families may be Jewish or Messianic gentile believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? I instructed my granddaughter not to read out loud the prayer to allah on page 8 of this book. It is a violation of our religion to speak a prayer to another god. I regret she even had to read it in order to comply with this assignment. I certainly hope there are not any children of Jewish origin in the ninth grade there. This course of study is the height of insult to them. The very first page of this book contains a translated "nursery" rhyme, written by a young girl living in the Gaza:

"I am the child of Palestine
I have my cause and I have my rights
When I see my older brother
Taken up into outlaws' hands
I cry out the international cry
That if they shoot me to my death
I'll clutch a stone in my right hand
And never forget the martyrs' cause."

Understand that the "outlaw" is any Jewish person and the "martyr" is an Islamic Arab child who was taught that suicide bombing is a righteous thing to do.
 
The "Islam Project" worksheet directs our children to a Muslim web site (www.zawaj.com). I consider that unwise and dangerous. Islam is not a religious system to be laid out before our children lightly, and certainly not one they should explore on line without serious informed parental supervision.  Surely you must know of the incredibly abusive treatment of women that is rampant in the fundamentalist Islamic cultures - the Jihad suicide attacks that mothers are encouraged to send their sons and daughters on with promises of financial reward - the rockets being fired every day - NOW - from Gaza into Israel by the hundreds of thousands. This is not a nice pretty "let's all just get along" religion. Will there also be a "Judeo / Christian project" in which the birth of the Jewish state of Israel is presented and the holocaust explained? How about the attack on infant Israel by the highly organized armies of the surrounding Arab nations a few days after it became a state? How about the 6 day war and the Yom Kippur war? Will all of that be explained also?  Will the Twin Towers attack be included as part of the full understanding of Islam? Will these children be told that, to a fundamentalist Muslim, it is a "divine" act to murder all infidels - non-Muslims  - and every one of these children would be included in that group? I doubt it.

I fully understand the principles of diversity and learning other cultures and religions. I am an RN in a management position and have created diversity curriculum and taught it to my staff. I have a college degree and have studied most of the religions of the world, to some degree. I have worked in Alabama, Massachusetts, Haiti and  Russia and spent time in Israel. I personally subscribe to Messianic Judaism. So I have more diversity in my experience than most people. To make Islam appear to be just another happy - go - lucky religion that we just need to understand better to get along, would not have prevented the twin towers from being attacked nor would that "tolerance" stop men, women and children from strapping bombs to their bodies and riding buses into crowded places in Israel. I have been to Israel twice. I was there during the Hebron Massacre and had to be escorted out of Jericho with the Israeli army. I personally saw Muslim Arab men lined up along the road to Jericho, hurling huge boulders into passing Israeli cars in protest over the Hebron incident. Will that side of this religion and culture also be taught?

What this agenda is doing is so dangerous, so offensive that I cannot believe it got anywhere near a school curriculum. Are not other parents outraged?

I read through all of your bylaws and Board meeting minutes looking for someplace that addressed who is responsible for choosing your curriculum but I could not find that information. I would certainly like to know. Who reviews this before our children do? Did any of you read this book? Were you aware of this 9 week agenda? How did this happen?

Thank you for your time. I hope this generates some concern and investigation.

Sincerely,

A concerned grandmother

STOSSEL PLAYS SPOOF OF PUFF DADDY‘S ’MISSING YOU’ IN MEMORY OF INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB

STOSSEL PLAYS SPOOF OF PUFF DADDY‘S ’MISSING YOU’ IN MEMORY OF INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB


On Thursday, December 1, 2011, Fox Business' Stossel debuted the new video "Missing You: The Incandescent Light Bulb Ban" by internet sensation Remy. Reason's Nick Gillespie discussed the federal ban on conventional light bulbs, which starts in 2012.

About 5 minutes.

"Missing You - The Incandescent Light Bulb Song" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO5lGpFGcJY

Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notifications when new material goes live.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

DEATH THREAT FROM DNC DELEGATE: ‘MITT ROMNEY… I WOULD LIKE TO KILL HIM!’

Teacher's Union Scam

‘WORDS MATTER’: AMATEUR COMPILATION REEL PITS OBAMA

THE TOP 5 RESPONSES FROM DNC ATTENDEES WHEN ASKED: ‘HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BELONG TO THE GOVERNMENT?’


Revealing Politics conducted a simple survey of several DNC attendees, asking one question: “How does it feel to belong to the government?”

Here are the top 5 responses:

  • “It feels like one big happy family to belong to the government, because if we feel that way, we are more safer [sic], um, we should feel the government should be able to help us and be able to take care of us.”
  • “Who knows, I haven’t never had another feeling, so I can’t tell you how it feels not to belong to the government.”
  • “Regardless of where you live, you are going to be owned by someone at some point.”
  • “I believe that, but unfortunately the Republicans don’t.”
  • “Feels great, I support that.”

Best of the Rest:

  • “We all do belong to the government as U.S. citizens.”
  • “We are all part of our community, a national community as Americans.”
  • “It makes you feel united.”

Obama's Perfect Record: U.S. FALLS IN COMPETITIVE RANKING FOR FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW

DEM DELEGATES & SUPPORTERS ON VIDEO: WE’RE REALLY PRO-CHOICE…UNLESS IT INVOLVES FOOD, SCHOOL, OR UNION CHOICE

QUADROCOPTER DRONE SWARM

DNC DELEGATES CAN’T NAME ANY BUSINESS OBAMA WORKED FOR

ACORN Whistleblower

Part I: http://www.youtube.com/embed/3CmkbShVqNA?feature=player_embedded

Part II: http://www.youtube.com/embed/gy6odnqyLeU?feature=player_embedded

Dems Boo God and Jerusalem at Convention

Democrats change platform to add God, Jerusalem

Libor Halik: Nun Teresa: The Flu Vaccination

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

DEMS AGAINST GOD AND JERUSALEM

Host Bret Baier confronted Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in Charlotte about the Democratic Party’s decision to remove all mentions of the word “God” from their official 2012 platform.

#3554 - Egyptian Cleric Abd Al-Rahman Mansour Gives Guidelines for Wife Beating in Islam Al-Nas TV (Egypt) - August 17-18, 2012 - 02:06

#3554 - Egyptian Cleric Abd Al-Rahman Mansour Gives Guidelines for Wife Beating in Islam Al-Nas TV (Egypt) - August 17-18, 2012 - 02:06

Occupy the DNC

The Settlers of Catan

Catan link

Ian Hunter, 02 Sep 2012 - Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle WA

All American Alien Boy

"When I'm President"

When I'm President

All The Young Dudes (clip)

All The Young Dudes

My Vantage Point 1.2

Jing Pic from YouTube

Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

Pic 4

Set List

All The Way From Memphis

All American Alien Boy

Black Tears

Cleveland Rocks

Isolation (John Lennon)

Once Bitten Twice Shy

Fatally Flawed

Flowers

When I'm President

Sweet Jane (Lou Reed)

Encore:

Roll Away the Stone

Saturday Gigs

Life

Encore 2:

All The Young Dudes (David Bowie)

Ian Hunter, 01 Sep 2012 - Aladdin Theater, Portland OR

Pictures from the show


All the Way to Memphis
All American Alien Boy
Black Tears
Just Another Night
Cleveland Rocks
Isolation
Comfortable
Once Bitten Twice Shy
Fatally Flawed
Flowers
When I'm President
Wash Us Away
Crazy Horse
Sweet Jane
Angeline
Moon Upstairs
ATYD
Life
Saturday Gigs

TSA Harassing People for their Drinks Past Security

Democrats Drop "God" From Party Platform

God Dropped

Dems Promote Abortion on Demand Paid for by Taxpayers

Democratic Platform Endorses Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

Monday, September 3, 2012

#3217 - Egyptian Child Preacher Assem Al-Askari: We Must Thwart the Civil Strife which the Jews and Americans Are Constantly Plotting and Elect a Just Ruler
Al-Rahma TV (Egypt) - November 25, 2011 - 03:32

Education Summit

http://youtu.be/dE2nrkZClX0

“Islam: The Untold Story,” Tom Holland

Science and Islam

Obama Ripped Off African-Americans with subprime loans

With landmark lawsuit, Barack Obama pushed banks to give subprime loans to Chicago’s African-Americans

Sunday, September 2, 2012

BRAWL BREAKS OUT ON LIVE ARAB TELEVISION

Are Jews, Americans, and other Westeners likely to dialogue successfully with the Arab world? Why do you think they can, or not? Can everyone just sit down and calmly discuss heated, political issues?

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3223.htm


MEMRI: Jordanian TV Debate on the Syrian Crisis Degenerates into a Brawl

#3223 - Jordanian TV Debate on the Syrian Crisis Degenerates into a Brawl
The Internet, JoSat TV (Jordan) - November 29, 2011 - 05:10

The debate, which focused on the crisis in Syria, featured Muhammad As’ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi, a Palestinian-Jordanian politician of the Umma movement, and Mahmoud Al-Bastanjani, a member of the Jordanian Ba’th Party, hurling insults and eventually leaping out of their chairs to physically attack one another.

GINGRICH TANGLES WITH ‘MEET THE PRESS’ PANEL OVER ‘EXTREME’ PRESIDENTIAL PLATFORMS

Mia Love Reacts To Racist Attacks After RNC Appearance

Fallen Navy SEAL's mother issues rebuke of Obama

Ted Nugent Warns: Feds Arresting Innocent Citizens Without Warrants

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Riches for Studying Rap Jay-Z

Is studying rap a useful subject to learn when preparing for the work world? Will the subject help you get a job after graduation? Why or why not? Is this a good subject for a Roman Catholic University to offer?

1885, Growth of Our National Flag, School Textbook


REPORT DOCUMENTS FREEDOM OF RELIGION REPLACED BY FREEDOM OF 'WORSHIP'


A new report recently released by the Family Research Council and Liberty Institute confirms that anti-Christian hostility is rising across the nation’s public square, in schools and in government.
“America today would be unrecognizable to our founders. Our first freedom is facing a relentless onslaught from well-funded and aggressive groups and individuals who are using the courts, Congress, and the vast federal bureaucracy to suppress and limit religious freedom,” said a summary of the report from Tony Perkins, president of the FRC, and Kelly Shackelford, president of Liberty Institute.

In fact, “The Obama administration no longer even speaks of freedom of religion; now it is only ‘freedom of worship.’ This radical departure is one that threatens to make true religious liberty vulnerable, conditional, and limited.

The report documents cases, for example:


  • Of a federal judge who threatened “incarceration” for a high school valedictorian unless she censored references to Jesus in her graduation speech
  • A city prohibition to seniors who wanted to pray before meals
  • A judge’s opinion that prayers before a state legislative meeting could reference Allah, but not Jesus
  • A state attempt to regulate what religious seminaries could teach
  • The Obama administration argument before the Supreme Court that the federal government can tell churches which pastors it can hire or fire
  • A ban from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to references to Jesus in veterans’ funeral ceremonies 


The Survey of Religious Hostility in America

Feds Drop Persecution of Sheriff Joe

Feds end probe of 'America's toughest sheriff' Joe Arpaio; no charges

Friday, August 31, 2012

BLACK COLLEGE STUDENT WINS FIGHT TO DISPLAY CONFEDERATE FLAG IN DORM ROOM

Is flying the Confederate flag protected by the First Amendment? Should a 19-year old college student be forced to take down his flag? Does the Confederate flag mean racism?

The University of South Carolina Beaufort told 19-year-old Byron Thomas on Thursday he could keep the flag up, after the freshman was told two weeks ago to remove it because of student complaints. University spokeswoman Candace Brasseur told the Beaufort Gazette Thomas was initially asked to remove the flag because it violates a student code of conduct discouraging bigotry, but the school’s legal counsel ultimately advised the university to allow him to display the flag. When he was first told in November to take the flag down, Thomas posted a four-minute video on YouTube saying he views the Confederate flag as a sign of Southern pride, not of racism, and was not going to remove it. The video was re-posted on CNN’s iReport, where it has been viewed more than 70,000 times. “It’s not racist for me,” Thomas, a Georgia native, said in the video. “All it is is a symbol that I see as a sign of respect, and people don’t want to see it that way.” Before the school relented, Thomas said he felt his First Amendment rights were being violated, and said he considered legal action if he was not allowed to display the flag. Byron Thomas uploaded a video about his decision not to remove the flag, which was viewed more than 70,000 times. (Image source: YouTube) A class project made him come to the realization that the flag’s real meaning has been hijacked, he told the Associated Press in an interview. He said he wants people to carefully consider issues of race and not just have knee-jerk reactions to symbols. “When I look at this flag, I don’t see racism. I see respect, Southern pride,” he told the AP. “This flag was seen as a communication symbol” during the Civil War. Thomas said he also dislikes the term “African American” because it makes him feel like a half-citizen. “I was not born in Africa, I was born in Augusta, Georgia,” he said in the video. Thomas said he’s received a huge outpouring of support since the ordeal began. “I’ve been getting a lot of support from people. My generation is interested in freedom of speech,” Thomas said. He said he talked to his parents — who grew up amid the Civil Rights movement — once the uproar started and said they weren’t happy about his decision to display it, though that probably won’t keep him from putting it up again. “I don’t want to make my parents mad,” he said. “I may wait until Monday to put it up.”

BLACK COLLEGE STUDENT WINS FIGHT TO DISPLAY CONFEDERATE FLAG IN DORM ROOM

More Than Zero: YOUNG BLACK ROMNEY-SUPPORTERS PROVE NBC-WSJ POLL WRONG

Crossroads Generation: The Poster

Obama, the incredibly shrinking man, Bill Whittle

Scott Walker, auto bailout, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Al Sharpton

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10 BEST OBAMA ZINGERS FROM PAUL RYAN

Ban Free Speech About Obama?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/anti-obama-signs-ignite-controversy-somewhere-in-kenya-a-village-is-missing-its-idiot/

Signs in Hanson, Massachusetts are inflammatory, one is right outside of Sullivans, Inc., a motorcycle accessories distributor in Hanson.

Verden Allen - Mott The Hoople, Honest John Plain-Never Listen to Rumours- Official Video, and The making of 'Never Listen To Rumours'

The list of musicians in the promotional video are Michael Monroe and Sami Yaffa (Hanoi Rocks/New York Dolls) Martin Chambers (The Pretenders), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), Casino Steel (The Boys, Johnny Cash, Carlene Carter), Darrell Bath (The Crybabys and Dogs D'Amour) and Verden Allen (Mott The Hoople. Ian Hunter).

Video directed by renowned film director Tony Klinger (Get Carter, Shout At The Devil, Deep Purple Over Japan, The Kids are Alright - The Who).

Obama Butchers The Truth for the Muslim Brotherhood!

Jon McNaughton interactive painting with 60 symbols that detail the “Obamanation”

Interactive painting

Make the End of Obama's Day

Using the simplest of stagecraft, an empty chair, Clint demolished Obama.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clint-eastwood-speaks-at-the-2012-republican-national-convention/2012/08/30/39108924-f314-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_video.html

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Mr. Scam Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tE0M9R1YXH0

ARE RISING GUN SALES RESPONSIBLE FOR DECLINING CRIME?

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

RADIO HOST DENNIS PRAGER HAS A NEW ONLINE ‘COLLEGE’

COMBAT LIBERAL BIAS AND TEACH JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES: Prager University

Alternate Defense Budget Scenarios: Weak, or Romney

Bachmann in Iowa with High School Students


A town hall meeting with Michele Bachmann at the Waverly Pizza Ranch in Iowa took a twist Wednesday when a student questioned the GOP presidential contender’s views on same-sex marriage and of what she would do for the gay and lesbian community as president.

“All of us as Americans have the same rights, we have the same civil rights,” Bachmann told 16-year-old Jane Schmidt, who identified herself as a member of the school’s GSA, the alliance advocating for the rights of gay and straight students.

“There shouldn’t be any special rights or any special set of criteria,” Bachmann continued. “We all have the same civil rights. ”

But that didn’t sit well with the student, who said that members of the gay and lesbian community do not have the same rights because they can’t get married.

In response, Bachmann said, “There are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices.”

“There’s no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You’re an American citizen first and foremost and that’s it.”

Bachmann reiterated that marriage is between a “man and a woman” and that it is still “the law of the land.”

Iowa Caucuses provides a partial transcript of the exchange below:

JANE SCHMIDT: One of my main concerns is government support for the LGBT community. So my question is what would you do to protect GSAs in high school and support the LGBT community.

BACHMANN: Well, number one, all of us as Americans have the same rights. The same civil rights. And so that’s really what government’s role is, to protect our civil rights. There shouldn’t be any special rights or special set of criteria based upon people’s preferences. We all have the same civil rights.

JANE SCHMIDT: Then, why can’t same-sex couples get married?
BACHMANN: They can get married, but they abide by the same law as everyone else. They can marry a man if they’re a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they’re a man.

JANE SCHMIDT: Why can’t a man marry a man?

BACHMANN: Because that’s not the law of the land.

JANE SCHMIDT: So heterosexual couples have a privilege.

BACHMANN: No, they have the same opportunity under the law. There is no right to same-sex marriage.

JANE SCHMIDT: So you won’t support the LGBT community?

BACHMANN: No, I said that there are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices. There’s no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You’re an American citizen first and foremost and that’s it.

ELLA NEWELL, a junior at Waverly High School: Wouldn’t heterosexual couples, if they were given a privilege then, that gay couples aren’t, like given that privilege to get married, but heterosexual couples are given a privilege to get married?

BACHMANN: Remember every American citizen has the right to avail themselves to marriage but they have to follow what the laws are. And the laws are you marry a person of the opposite sex.

Families in SEALs deadliest single loss of U.S. forces in the Afghanistan sent form letters by Obama

Form letter

Race baiting by Lamestream media, Reporter: Romney's 'Happy to Have a Party With Black People Drowning'

News media bias by the lamestream outlets include this gem on a hot mic where reporter David Chalian of Yahoo News said that Ann and Mitt Romney are "happy to have a party with black people drowning."

Media Coordination On Race Baiting

#3550 - Sheik Bassam Al-Kayed, Head of the Islamic Scholars Association in Lebanon: The Jews Are Behind Almost All Civil Strife in the World Al-Iman TV (Lebanon) - August 10, 2012 - 00:43

#3550 - Sheik Bassam Al-Kayed, Head of the Islamic Scholars Association in Lebanon: The Jews Are Behind Almost All Civil Strife in the World Al-Iman TV (Lebanon) - August 10, 2012 - 00:43

Egyptian Professor of Political Science Gamal Zahran: 'By Next Year, Allah Willing, Israel Will Be Annihilated'

Egyptian Professor of Political Science Gamal Zahran: 'By Next Year, Allah Willing, Israel Will Be Annihilated'

Cf. http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6631.htm

First Hand SEAL Raid Account Contradicts Odumbo's Version

SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden’s death

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

World War II Poster: The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On

The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On


To find out more about Barter Books visit http://www.barterbooks.co.uk to download the 'Keep Calm' iphone app visit http://bit.ly/keepcalmapp

A short film that tells the story behind the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster. Its origins at the beginning of WWII and its rediscovery in a bookshop in England in 2000, becoming one of the iconic images of the 21st century. Film, music, script and narration by Temujin Doran. http://www.studiocanoe.com/index.php?/profile/ Concept and production by Nation. http://www.wearenation.co.uk/

Niall Ferguson, Civilization

Niall Ferguson explains that the U.S. economy has been the biggest in the world, since 1872, but will be overtaken by China in 2016.

GOP HOUSE CANDIDATE MIA LOVE GIVES IMPASSIONED BREAKOUT SPEECH AT RNC

Ads against Obama on abortion

Melissa Ohden is alive in spite of an abortion procedure. Abortion opponents have long decried Obama’s record in the Illinois legislature on regulating late-term abortions, when he was in the state Senate, Obama voted to deny basic constitutional protections for babies born alive from an abortion – not once, but four times.

Chinese Support Obama, Attack Romney

Chinese media slams Romney as convention begins

Update: Catholics Invited Now to Give Closing DNC Prayer

DESPITE OBAMA ADMIN RIFT, CARDINAL DOLAN ANNOUNCES HE’LL NOW BE GIVING CLOSING PRAYER AT THE DNC

LOUISIANA TEACHER FIGHTS FOR HIS JOB AFTER DISPLAYING STUDENTS’ ANTI-OBAMA CARTOONS

Louisiana teacher Robert Duncan is fighting for his job at Boyet Junior High School after displaying his students’ pictures of Obama in the hallway outside his classroom. Several were deemed racist and offensive.

SCATHING NEW SEAL AD BLASTS OBAMA FOR LITERALLY ‘BOWING’ TO FOREIGN LEADERS

A new ad titled, “Bow to Nobody,” takes aim at Obama and deferring to America’s enemies. The video, released by “Special Operations for America” (SOFA), a super PAC led by former Navy SEALs, will be unveiled Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. The ad culminates in the display of a now-infamous photo of the president bowing to the Saudi king. The ad will be featured at an event titled, “Defending Our Defenders: A Salute to the United States Military.”

NEWT GINGRICH GRILLS CHRIS MATTHEWS ABOUT HIS ‘RACIST THINKING’

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Catholics Dissed, Islamists Embraced at the DNC

DNC PROCEEDS WITH 2-HOUR ISLAMIC ‘JUMAH’ PRAYERS AFTER REJECTING CARDINAL’S BLESSING (AND YOU WON‘T BELIEVE WHO’S INVITED)

Jibril Hough and Imam Siraj Wahhaj are leaders in the separatist American Islamist movement. The mosque of Hough is owned by the North American Islamic Trust, which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial as one of the entities “who are and/or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.” Wahhaj, the “Grand Imam” for Jumah at the DNC, has a number of troubling ties to dangerous radicals. In the early 1990′s he sponsored talks by “the Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman in New York and New Jersey mosques, and told his followers that the United States will fall unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda.” Wahhaj says it his duty and our duty as Muslims to replace the US Constitution with the Quran.

Catholics To Vote 3 To 1 Against Obama

According to a poll commissioned by the American Life League (ALL) between August 15 and 19, 900 self-identified Catholic registered voters are to vote against Obama.

This is a 27 point fall from 2008. Seventy four percent (74%) of Catholic men over 50 refuse to support Obama. This explains why Cardinal Dolan the leader of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops was told he is not welcome to attend the Democrats’ convention.

Independence, self-sufficiency, and creativity is diagnosed as a disease

Oppositional defiance disorder (ODD) is:


described as a mental disease wherein free thinkers, non-conformists, civil disobedience supporters, those who question authority and are perceived as being hostile toward the government are labeled mentally ill.
Psychiatrics claim that sufferers have “a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that persists for at least 6 months” which includes:

• Persistent stubbornness
• Resistance to directions
• Unwillingness to go along with the crowd
• Deliberately annoying others
• Testing limits by ignoring orders

Black Hawks to Train Americans

Minneapolis as a Black Hawk Helicopter Training Zone

This footage uploaded by the user syreeves was shot from the 28th floor of the Wells Fargo Building on 90 S. and 7th St. “Yep, that’s the view outside my window,” he says:

Syreeves described the activity as three helicopters in single file that “climbed to a hover over the building, held it for about 10 seconds apiece and then took off down Marquette Ave.” This video shows the helicopters flying around the Hennepin Avenue Bridge:

Here’s a video from the same location uploaded by the same YouTube user — G20Detainee — that shows the helicopters flying more in formation:

Monday, August 27, 2012

Learn to Play Chess in 12 Minutes - The Basics (part 1)

Learn to Play Chess in 12 Minutes - The Basics (part 1)


Make sure the white square is always on the right - I'm sorry I forgot to put that in the video

Link to second part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9bXZuTmHjU

The Voters, Blame It On Bush

Sunday, August 26, 2012

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  • ACM Queue: Architecting Tomorrow's Computing;
  • Adkins, Lesley and Roy A. Adkins, Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome;
  • Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations;
  • Ali, Tariq, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity;
  • Allawi, Ali A., The Crisis of Islamic Civilization;
  • Alperovitz, Gar, The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb;
  • American School & University: Shaping Facilities & Business Decisions;
  • Angelich, Jane, What's a Mother (in-Law) to Do?: 5 Essential Steps to Building a Loving Relationship with Your Son's New Wife;
  • Arad, Yitzchak, In the Shadow of the Red Banner: Soviet Jews in the War Against Nazi Germany;
  • Aristotle, Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices. (Loeb Classical Library No. 285);
  • Aristotle, Metaphysics: Books X-XIV, Oeconomica, Magna Moralia (The Loeb classical library);
  • Armstrong, Karen, A History of God;
  • Arrian: Anabasis of Alexander, Books I-IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 236);
  • Atkinson, Rick, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy);
  • Auletta, Ken, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It;
  • Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice;
  • Bacevich, Andrew, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism;
  • Baker, James A. III, and Lee H. Hamilton, The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach;
  • Barber, Benjamin R., Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy;
  • Barnett, Thomas P.M., Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating;
  • Barnett, Thomas P.M., The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century;
  • Barron, Robert, Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith;
  • Baseline: Where Leadership Meets Technology;
  • Baur, Michael, Bauer, Stephen, eds., The Beatles and Philosophy;
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  • Bergen, Peter, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader;
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  • Berman, Paul, The Flight of the Intellectuals: The Controversy Over Islamism and the Press;
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  • Bradley, James, with Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers;
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  • Brown, Ashley, War in Peace Volume 10 1974-1984: The Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of Postwar Conflict;
  • Brown, Ashley, War in Peace Volume 8 The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of Postwar Conflict;
  • Brown, Nathan J., When Victory Is Not an Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics;
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  • Cahill, Thomas, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter;
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  • Certification: Tools and Techniques for the IT Professional;
  • Channel Advisor: Business Insights for Solution Providers;
  • Chariton, Callirhoe (Loeb Classical Library);
  • Chief Learning Officer: Solutions for Enterprise Productivity;
  • Christ, Karl, The Romans: An Introduction to Their History and Civilization;
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  • Cicero, The Republic, The Laws;
  • Cicero, The Verrine Orations I: Against Caecilius. Against Verres, Part I; Part II, Book 1 (Loeb Classical Library);
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  • CIO Decisions: Aligning I.T. and Business in the MidMarket Enterprise;
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  • Collins, Francis S., The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief ;
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  • Compliance & Technology;
  • Computerworld: The Voice of IT Management;
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  • Conti, Greg, Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?;
  • Converge: Strategy and Leadership for Technology in Education;
  • Cowan, Ross, Roman Legionary 58 BC - AD 69;
  • Cowell, F. R., Life in Ancient Rome;
  • Creel, Richard, Religion and Doubt: Toward a Faith of Your Own;
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  • D'Amato, Raffaele, Imperial Roman Naval Forces 31 BC-AD 500;
  • Dallek, Robert, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963;
  • Daly, Dennis, Sophocles' Ajax;
  • Dando-Collins, Stephen, Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome;
  • Darwish, Nonie, Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror;
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  • Electronic Engineering Times: The Industry Newsweekly for the Creators of Technology;
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  • Everitt, Anthony, Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor;
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  • Federal Computer Week: Powering the Business of Government;
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  • Finkel, Caroline, Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire;
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  • Forstchen, William R., One Second After;
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  • Frazer, James George, The Golden Bough (Volume 3): A Study in Magic and Religion (Sony eReader);
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  • Freeman, Charles, The Greek Achievement: The Foundations of the Western World;
  • Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Further Updated and Expanded/Release 3.0;
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  • Frontinus: Stratagems. Aqueducts of Rome. (Loeb Classical Library No. 174);
  • Fuller Focus: Fuller Theological Seminary;
  • Fuller, Graham E., A World Without Islam;
  • Gaubatz, P. David and Paul Sperry, Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America;
  • Ghattas, Kim, The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power;
  • Gibson, William, Neuromancer;
  • Gilmour, Michael J., Gods and Guitars: Seeking the Sacred in Post-1960s Popular Music;
  • Global Services: Strategies for Sourcing People, Processes, and Technologies;
  • Glucklich, Ariel, Dying for Heaven: Holy Pleasure and Suicide Bombers-Why the Best Qualities of Religion Are Also It's Most Dangerous;
  • Goldberg, Jonah, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning;
  • Goldin, Shmuel, Unlocking the Torah Text Vayikra (Leviticus);
  • Goldsworthy, Adrian, Caesar: Life of a Colossus;
  • Goldsworthy, Adrian, How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower;
  • Goodman, Lenn E., Creation and Evolution;
  • Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln;
  • Gopp, Amy, et.al., Split Ticket: Independent Faith in a Time of Partisan Politics (WTF: Where's the Faith?);
  • Gordon, Michael R., and Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq;
  • Government Health IT: The Magazine of Public/private Health Care Convergence;
  • Government Technology's Emergency Management: Strategy & Leadership in Critical Times;
  • Government Technology: Solutions for State and Local Government in the Information Age;
  • Grant , Michael, The Climax of Rome: The Final Achievements of the Ancient World, AD 161 - 337;
  • Grant, Michael, The Classical Greeks;
  • Grumberg, Orna, and Helmut Veith, 25 Years of Model Checking: History, Achievements, Perspectives;
  • Halberstam, David, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals;
  • Hammer, Reuven, Entering Torah Prefaces to the Weekly Torah Portion;
  • Hanson, Victor Davis, An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism;
  • Hanson, Victor Davis, Between War and Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq;
  • Hanson, Victor Davis, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power;
  • Hanson, Victor Davis, How The Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security (Encounter Broadsides);
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  • Hanson, Victor Davis, Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think;
  • Hanson, Victor Davis, The End of Sparta: A Novel;
  • Hanson, Victor Davis, The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny;
  • Hanson, Victor Davis, Wars of the Ancient Greeks;
  • Harnack, Adolf Von, History of Dogma, Volume 3 (Sony Reader);
  • Harris, Alex, Reputation At Risk: Reputation Report;
  • Harris, Sam, Letter to a Christian Nation;
  • Harris, Sam, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason;
  • Hayek, F. A., The Road to Serfdom;
  • Heilbroner, Robert L., and Lester Thurow, Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going;
  • Hempel, Sandra, The Strange Case of The Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera;
  • Hinnells, John R., A Handbook of Ancient Religions;
  • Hitchens, Christopher, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything;
  • Hogg, Ian V., The Encyclopedia of Weaponry: The Development of Weaponry from Prehistory to 21st Century Warfare;
  • Hugo, Victor, The Hunchback of Notre Dame;
  • Humphrey, Caroline & Vitebsky, Piers, Sacred Architecture;
  • Huntington, Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order;
  • Info World: Information Technology News, Computer Networking & Security;
  • Information Week: Business Innovation Powered by Technology:
  • Infostor: The Leading Source for Enterprise Storage Professionals;
  • Infrastructure Insite: Bringing IT Together;
  • Insurance Technology: Business Innovation Powered by Technology;
  • Integrated Solutions: For Enterprise Content Management;
  • Intel Premier IT: Sharing Best Practices with the Information Technology Community;
  • Irwin, Robert, Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents;
  • Jeffrey, Grant R., The Global-Warming Deception: How a Secret Elite Plans to Bankrupt America and Steal Your Freedom;
  • Jewkes, Yvonne, and Majid Yar, Handbook of Internet Crime;
  • Johnson, Chalmers, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire;
  • Journal, The: Transforming Education Through Technology;
  • Judd, Denis, The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947;
  • Kagan, Donald, The Peloponnesian War;
  • Kansas, Dave, The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street as We Know It: What You Need to Know About the Greatest Financial Crisis of Our Time--and How to Survive It;
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  • Kepel, Gilles, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam;
  • Kiplinger's: Personal Finance;
  • Klein, Naomi, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism;
  • KM World: Content, Document, and Knowledge Management;
  • Koestler, Arthur, Darkness at Noon: A Novel;
  • Kostova, Elizabeth, The Historian;
  • Kuttner, Robert, The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity;
  • Lake, Kirsopp, The Text of the New Testament, Sony Reader;
  • Laur, Timothy M., Encyclopedia of Modern US Military Weapons ;
  • Leffler, Melvyn P., and Jeffrey W. Legro, To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine;
  • Lendon, J. E., Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity;
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  • Limberis, Vasiliki M., Architects of Piety: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Cult of the Martyrs;
  • Lipsett, B. Diane, Desiring Conversion: Hermas, Thecla, Aseneth;
  • Livingston, Jessica, Founders At Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days;
  • Livy, Rome and the Mediterranean: Books XXXI-XLV of the History of Rome from its Foundation (Penguin Classics);
  • Louis J., Freeh, My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror;
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  • Majno, Guido, The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World;
  • Marcus, Greil,Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes;
  • Marshall-Cornwall, James, Napoleon as Military Commander;
  • Maughm, W. Somerset, Of Human Bondage;
  • McCluskey, Neal P., Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education;
  • McCullough, David, 1776;
  • McCullough, David, John Adams;
  • McCullough, David, Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt;
  • McLynn, Frank, Marcus Aurelius: A Life;
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  • McNamara, Patrick, Science and the World's Religions Volume 2: Persons and Groups (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution);
  • McNamara, Patrick, Science and the World's Religions Volume 3: Religions and Controversies (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution);
  • Meacham, Jon, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House;
  • Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy;
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  • Muller, F. Max, Chips From A German Workshop: Volume III: Essays On Language And Literature;
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  • Murray, Williamson, War in the Air 1914-45;
  • Müller, F. Max, Chips From A German Workshop;
  • Nader, Ralph, Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender;
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  • Napoleoni, Loretta, Terrorism and the Economy: How the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World;
  • Nature: The International Weekly Journal of Science;
  • Negus, Christopher, Fedora 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux;
  • Network Computing: For IT by IT:
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  • Network-centric Security: Where Physical Security & IT Worlds Converge;
  • Newman, Paul B., Travel and Trade in the Middle Ages;
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence;
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  • O'Brien, Johnny, Day of the Assassins: A Jack Christie Novel;
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  • Optimize: Business Strategy & Execution for CIOs;
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  • Pausanius, Guide to Greece 1: Central Greece;
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  • Peters, Ralph, New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy;
  • Phillips, Kevin, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush;
  • Pick, Bernhard; Paralipomena; Remains of Gospels and Sayings of Christ (Sony Reader);
  • Pimlott, John, The Elite: The Special Forces of the World Volume 1;
  • Pitre, Brant, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper;
  • Plutarch's Lives, X: Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flamininus (Loeb Classical Library®);
  • Podhoretz, Norman, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism;
  • Posner, Gerald, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK;
  • Potter, Wendell, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans;
  • Pouesi, Daniel, Akua;
  • Premier IT Magazine: Sharing Best Practices with the Information Technology Community;
  • Price, Monroe E. & Daniel Dayan, eds., Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China;
  • Profit: The Executive's Guide to Oracle Applications;
  • Public CIO: Technology Leadership in the Public Sector;
  • Putnam, Robert D., Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community;
  • Quintus of Smyrna, The Fall of Troy;
  • Rawles, James Wesley, Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse;
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  • Redmond Magazine: The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community;
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  • Roberts, Ian, The Energy Glut: Climate Change and the Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World;
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  • SC Magazine: For IT Security Professionals;
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  • Scheuer, Michael, Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War On Terror;
  • Scheuer, Michael, Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq;
  • Scheuer, Michael, Osama Bin Laden;
  • Scheuer, Michael, Through Our Enemies Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America;
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  • Security Technology & Design: The Security Executive's Resource for Systems Integration and Convergence;
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  • Seneca: Naturales Quaestiones, Books II (Loeb Classical Library No. 450);
  • Sewall, Sarah, The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual;
  • Sheppard, Ruth, Alexander the Great at War: His Army - His Battles - His Enemies;
  • Shinder, Jason, ed., The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later;
  • Sidebottom, Harry, Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction;
  • Sides, Hampton, Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West;
  • Simkins, Michael, The Roman Army from Caesar to Trajan;
  • Sinchak, Steve, Hacking Windows Vista;
  • Smith, RJ, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown;
  • Software Development Times: The Industry Newspaper for Software Development Managers;
  • Software Test Performance;
  • Solomon, Norman, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death;
  • Song, Lolan, Innovation Together: Microsoft Research Asia Academic Research Collaboration;
  • Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays, tr. Robert Fagles;
  • Sound & Vision: The Consumer Electronics Authority;
  • Southern, Pat, The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History;
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