A Palestinian State In The United Nations By September?

BIG PEACE:
So, in summary, the plan being pursued by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas appears to be the following:
Pursue a unity government with Hamas, despite opposition from Israel and potentially from the U.S., and then go the United Nations in September and demand that they fulfill their commitment to create a Palestinian state on pre-1967 borders, and make it a member of the United Nations.
It sounds like a straightforward plan, but from the point of view of Generational Dynamics, the Mideast is headed for a new war between Arabs and Jews, re-fighting the genocidal war that followed the 1948 partitioning of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.

With the entire Mideast in turmoil with “Arab Revolutions,” any plan that stretches out to September is sure to have to deal with many unexpected complications. As the old saying goes, planning is what you do when life happens.

(Note: For simplicity, this report did not attempt to make any distinction between the following organizations: Fatah, the Palestinian Authority, the PA, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the PLO.
Read the whole thing...

Where have all the robots gone?

For now, Tepco's alternatives to continuing to expose workers to radiation are few. The power company could resort to using “jumpers,” which Reuters describes as “people who rush into a highly radioactive area, do one job, and then jump out within minutes. Some in the industry even refer to them as ‘gamma sponges' or ‘glow boys' because they can absorb a year's worth of radiation in those few minutes.” In an arguably stranger twist, both Germany and the U.S. have also offered to lend Japan radiation-proof robots to take some of the burden off the flesh-and-blood workforce.

Come again? Is it really possible, given the nation's famous obsession with artificial intelligence, that Japan doesn't have its own? Japanese robots can shred the violin, play baseball, build cars and strut down the catwalk. In fact, when I was in Japan reporting on the disasters earlier this month, I saw a humanoid robot directing traffic away from a closed lane on the highway late at night. Sure, the bot robs somebody of a salary, but it also probably saves human lives. Get that traffic safety person — with the vision to apply Japan's technological proclivity to real life — over to disaster preparedness. Stat.
What's in Store for Japan's Embattled Nuclear Workers?

[I don't think that the 'glow boys' are shiny happy people though...]

Japanese: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone"


A nation of afterthoughts

S.E. Cupp
Despite the efforts of a few courageous women like Schlafly and Bachmann to celebrate the family, one of the consequences of second- and third-wave feminism has been that motherhood has become an afterthought, the thing you do you after you've done everything else, if at all.
The folly of feminism: For all too many women, the joys of motherhood are gone...

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Birther buzz...

[UPDATED]

Drudge Report posted these two links today:

Colorado Springs Gazette: Springs man's claim to have Obama records starts buzz

Denver Channel 7 News: Springs Man Claims To Have Obama's Draft Records

Most of us here are familiar with the lawsuit filed by Retired Air Force Col. Gregory Hollister and, of course, with this (good news finally!)...but the real question is why aren't more people enraged over the fact that the current occupant of the White House is not in legal possession of the office of President?

Not to mention the fact that Sandy Berger is still a free man!

It is a story the news media should be desperate to explore, not desperate to avoid.

But just watch them go after Col. Hollister instead of the biggest fraud in American History!

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s latest mindboggling foray into Middle East analysis

...and other howlers...
If we expect the successors of Mubarak and Qaddafi to be freedom-loving democrats, we will be dangerously disappointed.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

What the world needs now...

...is POLE DANCING FOR JESUS!

"It's the only thing that there's just too little of..." as "Traincha" (Trijntje Oosterhuis) from the Netherlands just sung so beautifully!


Names from Holland seem to be spelled way differently than they are pronounced...reminds me of an artist friend I knew named Marijke back when I was still a musician and songwriter in Hollywood!

Maybe Veena Malik should do some "pole dancing for Pakistanis" before Mufti Abdul Qavi and the vile, evil Sharia police stone her to death!

People are voting with their feet against places where the liberal, welfare-state policies favored by the intelligentsia are most deeply entrenched

Thomas Sowell: Voting With Their Feet

The American Interest: Blacks Flee Blue States in Droves

Hey, this ain't a race issue--all races are equally intelligent enough to be getting the hell out of the most liberal states that are doing their best to squeeze the lifeblood out of them!

And THAT's what the Tea Party is all about.

Hungry, hurt and separated from owners who are either dead or in evacuation centres, hundreds of family pets are struggling to survive in the desolation of Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeast coast.

In Sendai, tsunami warden Mr Kamata tried to return for his dog -- a large pedigree Akita -- after warning neighbours about the incoming wave, but found his way blocked by the churning water.

"I thought there was no way he could have survived. It was terribly sad," Kamata said.

But later that night, as he sheltered in a refuge with hundreds of other residents, Kamata heard that a dog had been found outside.

"It was him. He'd swum and found me. He'd ingested a lot of sea water and kept throwing up and I thought I was going to lose him anyway, but he pulled through," Kamata said.
Japan's pet survivors face post-tsunami struggle

They are coming

We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again! The day will come when we will rule America! The day will come when we will rule Britain and the entire world! Allah commanded us to spread this religion worldwide...

[spoken in a Dutch mosque] They should denounce political parties...and worldly concepts like liberalism, democracy...socialism and everything associated with it and originated from the human brain...

We do not agree with freedom of speech, because we denounce democracy...Islam is our alternative.

STOP ISLAMIZATION...DEFEND OUR FREEDOM!!!



Fitna the Movie (New Version 4-4-2008)


Beldar's back!

HAT TIP: Patterico

I used to follow Beldar back during the 2004 presidential election...you know, that shady stuff with Kerry and Carter and the medals and all...it was great!

And this is great, too, and so right on:

Watching the melt-down — no, not in Japan, in the Oval Office
It is absolutely alarming to watch President Obama flail about in increasingly desperate efforts to hand off or hand over the Libyan intervention.

It is like watching someone else having that dream — the one about going to high school and suddenly realizing that you forgot to put on any clothes that day, and you're in the middle of geometry, stark naked.
A tale of two Teddys

From Krauthammer:
This confusion is purely the result of Obama's decision to get America into the war and then immediately relinquish American command. Never modest about himself, Obama is supremely modest about his country.
From Beldar:
I am astonished and appalled at the stunning naïveté and sheer incompetence of the Obama Administration as it stumbles through this. This is like watching a very badly run junior high school student council trying to pretend like they're world leaders.

Are you in?

The Minnesota firebrand gave the best-received speech of the potential 2012 hopefuls appearance at Rep. Steve King's conference and the crowd wildly applauded her brand of populism.
2012

Iran, Syria Benefit From U.N. Nuclear Assistance Program, Which the State Dep’t Insists on Funding in Full

The Government Accountability Office has for years recommended that the U.S. government, as a result of those proliferation concerns, withhold a proportion of its funding to the program, but the State Department strongly opposes the move, arguing among other things that the U.S. must set a good example to other countries “by paying its contribution in full and on time.”
CNSNEWS.com

Re: TEA PARTY PATRIOTS

TPP (TEA PARTY PATRIOTS) has flatly rejected every offer to rent, borrow or use Tea Party Patriots' email list. We will continue to do so.

However, TheTeaParty.net (same as JointheTeaParty.us) actually does sell your name to advertisers! Here is an investigative journalism piece done by a local station in Arizona where this organization is headquartered:

www.kpho.com/news/25556851/detail.html

So that you can judge for yourself, we want you to see the email received from Newsmax.com announcing the availability of the list they have acquired from TheTeaParty.net (same as JointheTeaParty.us).



[see more below]

STATEMENT ON TheTeaParty.net

Potassium Iodide (chemical symbol: KI): WARNING

Americans should treat KI with caution. While normally inert, it can hurt those who are allergic to iodine or shellfish and those who suffer some skin ailments, renal disease, and thyroid conditions. KI can induce nausea, rashes, swollen salivary glands, and other allergic responses. . .
Keep Potassium Iodide Handy for Nuclear Emergencies

Iran website recruits ‘jihadists’ for Bahrain ‘war’

DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)
Iranian authorities have licensed a website calling for “war,” including the use of volunteer suicide militants, against what its founders see as the “invasion” of Bahrain by troops from countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Raheel, Arabic for “departure,” seeks to mobilize public opinion against the intervention of the GCC joint Peninsula Shield Force in Bahrain.

The website features Quranic verses that call for Jihad, or holy war, and backs those calls with photos and videos showing alleged human rights violations by the GCC troops. The website, however, does not show any GCC troops cracking down on civilians in the streets.

The website claims that a “redeemer” would wage war against Arab Gulf countries, Israel, and the United states, pointing out that this so-called “redeemer” has played a role in the popular uprisings of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.

According to the website, the divine promise of the redeemer’s advent is materializing.

The website calls upon volunteers to engage in “martyrdom” attacks in Bahrain and reassures them that their data will be kept confidential and that they will be notified by email of the missions they are to carry.

According to the website, 1,858 have so far volunteered, 60% of them are from Iran, 18% from Bahrain, and the others from several countries in the region including Kuwait.

The domain of Raheel is the Iranian “ir” which shows that it is supported by the government.
(Translated from the Arabic by Sonia Farid)

"All my life I have witnessed a strain of anti-Semitism in the black community. It has been fueled by the rise of the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan, but it predates that organization..."

Like Barack Hussein Obama II, I am a graduate of Harvard Law School. I too have Muslims in my family. I am black, and I was once a leftist Democrat. Since our backgrounds are somewhat similar, I perceive something in Obama's policy toward Israel which people without that background may not see. All my life I have witnessed a strain of anti-Semitism in the black community. It has been fueled by the rise of the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan, but it predates that organization.

We heard it in Jesse Jackson's “HYMIE town” remark years ago during his presidential campaign. We heard it most recently in Jeremiah Wright's remark about “them Jews” not allowing Obama to speak with him. I hear it from my own Muslim family members who see the problem in the Middle East as a “Jew” problem. . .
A BLACK AMERICAN CLERGYMAN POINTS TO THE SOURCE OF THE PRESIDENT'S ANTI-ISRAELISM

E. W. Jackson is Bishop of Exodus Faith Ministries, an author and retired attorney

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Shocking new evidence: Obama spent over a year in Pakistan under the rule of ruthless radical Muslim leader, general Zia Ul Hac...and only nine months at Columbia!

...Further records from the Student Clearing House show even more shocking evidence. In his memoirs and multiple speeches Obama wrote that he studied for two years at Columbia University September 1981-May 1983. He admitted that in summer of 1981 he traveled to Pakistan to visit his friends, but repeatedly claimed that from September 1981 until May of 1983 he resided in New York and studied at Columbia University. Taitz ran a check of his years of attendance at Columbia university and found out that Columbia official records show him attending Columbia university only for nine months September 1982-till May 1983 (Exhibit 3), which means that the President of the United States lied to the whole nation about his whereabouts for a whole year September 1981 until September 1982. One year absence is the best case scenario, as he could get his university credit by reciprocity or through extern studies.

28. As there is no record of Obama residing anywhere else in the United States from September 1981-September 1982, or attending any other university, by way of simple deduction it becomes clear that his visit to Pakistan lasted not a month or two, as he claims, but over a year.

29. In 1981-1982 Pakistan was ruled by a ruthless radical Muslim leader general Zia Ul Hac, who came to power as a result of a military coup, announced himself as a Chief Martial Law Administrator and ruled the country via the system of iron fist terror. Supreme court of Pakistan, apparently afraid for their lives found such rule to be acceptable due to a “necessity” doctrine. Based on verification of Columbia university records, Taitz found that Obama spent at least a year within the regime of general Zia Ul Hac. This revelation adds urgency in processing this complaint, as it shows that we have today an individual usurping the position of the President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the whole US military, while using a stolen social security number, not possessing a valid long form U.S. birth certificate and defrauding the nation and concealing a whole year of his whereabouts.
First Amended Complaint submitted today in DC. Newly uncovered documents show that Obama was defrauding the nation re his Columbia university records, he was there only 9 months, more evidence of Social Security fraud by Obama

Cameron's poodle: War is better the second time around?

Andy Williams, Barbra Streisand, Dustry Springfield and, of course, Frank Sinatra, convinced us all that love is better the second time around but...war? Ergo: "kinetic military action!"
For years American liberals accused George W. Bush of being dumb and unserious-- only to elect a man who actually is dumb and unserious. Who announces a war in between his NCAA picks and a trip to Rio. Who has spent more time playing golf, than directing the war effort. Who spends more time in front of the mirror and the camera, than on policy.

They accused Bush of running an imperial presidency-- and that is exactly what they got the second time around. A war without even the thinnest facade of congressional involvement. Without Dick Cheney being anywhere in sight. They accused Bush of having a Nazi collaborating grandfather, and their own grass roots efforts to elect an Un-Bush were funded by a philanthropic Nazi collaborating billionaire.

They falsely insisted that Bush went to war for oil. And now their Great Hope has actually gone to war for oil. For BP's 900 million dollar Libyan oil deal, which Prime Minister Cameron endangered when he precipitously rushed to back the Libyan rebels who seemed on their way to victory, only to crumble at Gaddafi's pushback. After all those years of calling Blair, Bush's poodle-- Obama turned out to be Cameron's poodle. They're no doubt laughing about it in London.
The Second Time as Farce

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Proverbs 22:3: "A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."

WHAT TO DO IF A NUCLEAR DISASTER IS IMMINENT!

From Pamela Geller:
Here again is a guide on what to do in the event of a nuclear diasater. With Obama in the White House, you are going to need to keep this close at home. Print it out. Give it to your friends and neighbors.

This guide is for families preparing for imminent terrorist or strategic nuclear attacks with expected severe destruction followed by widespread radioactive fallout downwind.
IF ONLY A 'Dirty Bomb' Attack (Not the vastly more devastating nuclear weapon blasts with fallout discussed below.)
You can expect localized and downwind contamination from the explosion and dispersed radioactive materials. If you are near enough to see or hear any local bomb blast, assume that it includes radiological or chemical agents. You should move away from the blast area as quickly as possible. If the wind is blowing toward you from the direction of the blast, travel in a direction that is crosswise or perpendicular to the wind as you move away from the blast area. If possible cover your face with a dust mask or cloth to avoid inhaling potentially radioactive dust. Upon reaching a safe location, remove your outer clothing outside and shower as soon as possible. Refer to local news sources for additional instructions about sheltering or evacuation. The government is better prepared to direct and assist the public in a 'dirty bomb' incident, unlike an actual nuclear weapon attack discussed below.
In a national crisis of imminent nuclear weapon attacks, read all the way through this guide first, THEN TAKE EFFECTIVE PROTECTIVE ACTION WITH CONFIDENCE... FAST!

It seems reasonable to conclude from his long-term relationship with [Samantha] Power that Obama shares her interest in making humanitarian military interventions more common...

Yet the president has said little about this, and the obvious policy implications of his ties with Power are rarely drawn. In his biography of Obama, David Remnick describes the beginnings of the Power-Obama relationship thus: “Obama did not strike Power as a liberal interventionist or a Kissingerian realist or any other kind of ideological ‘ist’ except maybe a ‘consequentialist.’ In foreign policy, Obama said, he was for what worked.”

Here we have the classic protective presentation of Obama. The future president reads a book by a passionately ideological humanitarian interventionist and quickly hires her as his key foreign policy advisor. Yet the obvious ideological implications of this are left entirely unexplored. Instead we are quickly reassured that Obama is nothing but a pragmatist.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The unsheathed penis...

A beautiful discourse about God and us from one of the most spiritually thrilling bloggers, The Anchoress: The Male, the Female, the People, the God

Federal Reserve official: US Approaching Insolvency

Fix To Be 'Painful'

Who do you believe: Michael Moore and other leftists who say there's plenty of money for them to steal...or a Fed official?

Monday, March 21, 2011

I'm here and you're not :-)

Check out the natural hot springs grotto at Two Bunch Palms!

Here on business all week, so I may slip a little from my usual blogging habits...just so you all know :-)

Ahhhh...nice to get away, but sure miss the cat!!!

Fulfilled Prophecy

For those of us intereted in the "end times"!

Be sure to read: Our New Position Statement and Future Plans for FP
Our Position:

We, at Fulfilled Prophecy, believe that the end-time study should not be just for kooks or extremists – as it is so often portrayed. It should be seen as a worthwhile pursuit for level-headed Christians who love God, are serious about the things of God, and long for Christ’s return – without neglecting their duties here and now.

Our goal for Fulfilled Prophecy is not only that it will address a neglected topic, but also that it will raise the level of discussion about the end times – by presenting a more biblically sound and thoughtful approach to the study than is often seen today.

We realize that focusing on the end times is frowned upon by a number of evangelical leaders and seminaries today. Their concerns are due, in part, to the mistakes made by prophecy teachers who have promoted overly sensational, strange and unbiblical teachings as well as conspiracy theories.

Yet, the fact that mistakes have been made in the study of the end times is not good reason to throw out the study entirely. Jesus and the apostles spoke a lot about the last days – warning God’s people to watch for their arrival and be ready for Christ’s return. Many of the books of the Old Testament have a great deal to say about the final days. And the book of Revelation focuses almost entirely on the end times – and promises a special blessing to those who heed its words (Revelation 1:3).

Since Scripture devotes attention to the end times, we believe Christians should follow suit.

In order to raise the level of discussion about the end times, we will:

• Seek to develop sound understandings of the prophecies by studying them within their historical and literary contexts before looking for fulfillments of the prophecies. In other words, we will not start with current events and try to force-fit them into the prophecies.

• Build a solid theological framework where “eschatology” — the study of the end times – finds its proper place without neglecting other important theological truths.

• Watch for the major, concrete signs God has given us – like a strengthened covenant and the appearance of the abomination of desolation – rather than more nebulous and speculative signs, like an increase in the frequency of earthquakes or famines.

• Challenge popular teachings about the end times that are not found in Scripture.

• Encourage healthy discussion and debate on our discussion board among people with different perspectives on prophecy.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Obama's new health reform mandate could eventually force hundreds of badly needed U.S. hospitals to shut their doors!

Over the last few months, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has exempted a long list of unions and employers from an Affordable Care Act provision that would have made it too costly for them to continue some of their health care insurance plans. But, in sharp contrast, HHS apparently doesn't intend to do anything at all about a new health reform mandate that could eventually force hundreds of badly needed U.S. hospitals to shut their doors.
Obama's health care reform is unhealthy for hospitals

No Fry Zone

Michelle Obama, promoting healthy foods for children, has proposed a federal law declaring a radius of 1,000 feet around any school a "No Fry Zone."

It will involve 127 bureaucratic offices to enforce--for "the children."

What it would take to climb over a fence, climb in a window, and cut off that child's head?

Ricochet: Writing in Cold Blood About Itamar
We went yesterday to Itamar, the West Bank settlement where Udi and Ruth Fogel, and their children--Yoav, age 11, Elad, age 4, and Hadas, their 3-month-old daughter--were murdered. A detail that wasn't widely reported, or reported anywhere that I've seen, is that their newborn baby was decapitated.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Boob Poem

For years and years they told me,
Be careful of your breasts.
Don't ever squeeze or bruise them.
And give them monthly tests.

So I heeded all their warnings,
And protected them by law.
Guarded them very carefully,
And I always wore my bra.

After 30 years of astute care,
My gyno, Dr. Pruitt,
Said I should get a Mammogram.
"O.K," I said, "let's do it."

"Stand up here real close" she said,
(She got my boob in line),
"And tell me when it hurts," she said,
"Ah yes! Right there, that's fine."

She stepped upon a pedal,
I could not believe my eyes!
A plastic plate came slamming down,
My hooter's in a vise!

My skin was stretched and mangled,
From underneath my chin.
My poor boob was being squashed,
To Swedish Pancake thin.

Excruciating pain I felt,
Within it's vise-like grip.
A prisoner in this vicious thing,
My poor defenseless tit!

"Take a deep breath" she said to me,
Who does she think she's kidding?!?
My chest is mashed in her machine,
And woozy I am getting.

"There, that's good," I heard her say,
(The room was slowly swaying.)
"Now, let's have a go at the other one."
Have mercy, I was praying.

It squeezed me from both up and down,
It squeezed me from both sides.
I'll bet SHE'S never had this done,
To HER tender little hide.

Next time that they make me do this,
I will request a blindfold.
I have no wish to see again,
My knockers getting steamrolled.

If I had no problem when I came in,
I surely have one now.
If there had been a cyst in there,
It would have gone "ker-pow!"

This machine was created by a man,
Of this, I have no doubt.
I'd like to stick his balls in there,
And see how THEY come out!!

From Susun Weed

The Change

My Native American teachers tell me that we are in the midst of earth changes that will culminate around the year 2013. They say the earth changes will bring heat, and floods, and upheaval on an enormous scale. I am struck by the fact that 50 million women will have achieved menopause by 2013. Since we, as women, are one with the earth, is our massive, collective Change Her Change as well? Can we moderate her hot flashes? Give her ease from flooding? Soothe her emotional uproar? Emerge transformed together after our changes? How will we do it? With drugs, against the problems? With nature, blessed by all we are given? Will it matter to the Earth, Gaia, what choices I make in my menopause? What stories I tell myself? What I tell other women?
Susun Weed



The United Nations is obsessed with censuring Israel

The UN's discrimination against Israel is not a minor infraction, nor a parochial nuisance of interest solely to those concerned with equal rights of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. Instead, the world body's obsession with censuring Israel at every turn directly affects all citizens of the world, for it constitutes (a) a severe violation of the equality principles guaranteed by the UN Charter and underlying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and (b) a significant obstacle to the UN's ability to carry out its proper mandate.

None of this means Israel should be above the law. Every country, including every democracy, commits human rights violations, and states should be held to account accordingly, both domestically and internationally. Yet Israel does have the right to be treated equally under the law. The UN Charter and the rules of natural justice demand no less. It is legitimate for UN bodies to criticize Israel, but not when they do do so unfairly, selectively, massively, sometimes exclusively, and always obsessively.

Likewise, it is perfectly legitimate to call attention to the rights of the Palestinian people and their often difficult conditions. But it is something else entirely to abuse their cause for the sole objective of scapegoating Israel and the Jewish people.
UN WATCH

TAKE ACTION: Fight discrimination against Israel in the UN's regional group system!

Professor Matt

Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report is teaching a little lesson here on the top left column:

MARCH 19, 2011
OBAMA: 'Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world'...

MARCH 19, 2003
BUSH: 'American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger...

SHARIA BECOMES LAW IN FLORIDA

Jihadwatch:
Florida circuit court judge allows case to proceed under Islamic law
Despite our dire warnings and the precedents set in Europe, Islamic supremacists reached a milestone in their malevolent goal to eliminate and destroy America.

Atlas readers, AFDI/SIOA will continue to fight this subversion and step up our efforts in states we are working with that are trying desperately to pass anti-sharia (foreign law) legislation. Contact me if you need help.
More at ATLAS SHRUGS

Friday, March 18, 2011

MANDATE FOR PALESTINE: THE LEGAL ASPECT OF JEWISH RIGHTS - UPDATED

An important document from Myths and Facts.org:

Melanie Phillips:
This document [LINK UPDATED] should be distributed to all media outlets and parliamentarians. The facts as laid out here knock the ground clean from under all deniers.

Celebrities never die...

...for you, anyway.

From a WWII veteran (and friend) Bill Zelenka:

Lindsay Lohan is 24 and her story is all over the news because she's a
celebrity drug addict and allegedly, a thief...

Charlie Sheen is 45 and you would have been under a rock all week if you hadn't heard about his antics...

While

Justin Allen 23,
Brett Linley 29,
Matthew Weikert 29,
Justus Bartett 27,
Dave Santos 21,
Jesse Reed 26,
Matthew Johnson 21,
Zachary Fisher 24,
Brandon King 23,
Christopher Goeke 23, and
Sheldon Tate 27

are all Marines that gave their lives this week for you. There is no media for them; not even a mention of their names.

Honor THEM by sending this on!

Milton Friedman Puts A Young Michael Moore In His Place

Why haven't I seen this before?

The preceding is from a 15-part lecture series delivered by Milton Friedman from 1977 - 1978. The lectures were originally intended to be the core content of what became the Free to Choose television programs and subsequently the best selling book of the same title.

For more information visit www.freetochoose.com

Two Democratic Party leaders in Michigan face nine felony counts after prosecutors allege that they forged documents to put fake Tea Party candidates on the ballot.

Unlike other schemes where Democrats allegedly recruited candidates to run on ersatz Tea Party organization identities, these “candidates” had no idea they were on the ballot at all, some of them only discovering it after receiving delinquency notices on filings...
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Gee, I wonder why they think they can't win without cheating???

Thursday, March 17, 2011

How IRLI (Immigration Reform Law Institute) is tricking the U.S. Supreme Court

Leo Donofrio accidentally finds out about a serious issue for our country:
Something is very shady about this situation. The misquote combined with the compact emits a dangerous radiation. This radiation is covering our nation and it’s a symptom of disease. The country is dying. It is being killed from within. If IRLI is not part of the disease, they should come forward and make both issues right.

If we accept that a person born with dual allegiance can be President, we are opening the White House to the potential children of despots who hate this nation. Preventing this kind of foreign influence was the “strong check” John Jay warned George Washington of all those years ago when he introduced the “natural born citizen” requirement for POTUS.
Read the whole thing

MILITARY PROSECUTORS WITHHOLD EVIDENCE; ARMY RANGER GOES TO PRISON FOR 25 YEARS FOR SHOOTING AL QAEDA OPERATIVE

On March 20th, 2009, Army Ranger 1st Lieutenant Michael Behenna was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing Ali Mansur, a known Al Qaeda operative while serving in Iraq. Mansur was known to be a member of an Al Qaeda cell operating in the lieutenant’s area of operation and Army intelligence believed he organized an attack on Lt. Behenna’s platoon in April 2008 which killed two U.S. soldiers and injured two more. Army intelligence ordered the release of Mansur and Lt. Behenna was ordered to return the terrorist to his home.

During the return of Mansur, Lt. Behenna again questioned the Al Qaeda member for information about other members of the terrorist cell, and financial supporters. During this interrogation, Mansur attacked Lt. Behenna, who killed the terrorist in self-defense. The government subsequently prosecuted Lt. Behenna for premeditated murder.

Not only is this a miscarriage of justice on the behalf of Lt. Behenna, who was acting to prevent further loss of life in his platoon, it is demoralizing to the U.S. troops who continue to fight on behalf of the freedom and security of our nation.
Please: send him a letter, sign the petition, and donate -- Defend Michael because he defended us!

We are all Japanese

“The central government has a big debt, no money, so we can’t rely on it,” said Noriko Kikuchi, 71, in Ofunato’s gym.

Misery and Uncertainty Fill Up Shelters

End Gov't. Subsidy of 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgages

Bottom Line: It's not that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is inherently bad, but it's the government support and subsidy of those mortgages that has had distorted mortgage and housing markets, and contributed to two serious banking and financial crises. We shouldn't end the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, but we should end the government support and subsidy of those mortgages.
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FYI: This is one of Mark Levin's favorite bloggers...

American heroes:
Leslie C. Dutton and Richard I. Fine


These are the kind of heroes that will be the only reason our great Republic survives--if it does.

The degree of personal sacrifice in this situation, in order to root out the worst kind of political-judicial corruption, goes WAY beyond the call of duty...well, not really beyond the call of duty but certainly beyond the willingness of many of us to endure what appeared to be a permanent sentence of solitary confinement (and denial of medical treatment) for a 70-year-old Ph.D. of International Law and practicing attorney.

FULL DISCLOSURE:
Full Disclosure covered attorney Richard I. Fine's arrest on March 4, 2009 for Civil contempt of Court. He attempted to disqualify the Judge for accepting illegal payments from a party to the case. He claims Senate Bill SBX2 11 acknowledged the payments as criminal by giving Judges and officials retroactive immunity from prosecution. Fine remains in solitary "coercive confinement" in County jail.
Since this was first published, Dr. Fine has been released. Without protracted sacrifice from Leslie C. Dutton and volunteers, he would have remained in custody.

This is an AMAZING story of corruption that goes way beyond what we all imagine might be going on in California--and as it turns out, around our country! It is in the process of becoming a book and, most probably, a movie. You can find out more here:

Leslie C. Dutton
FULL DISCOLSURE NETWORK
A non-profit tax exempt educational production
337 Washington Blvd., #1
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
(310) 822-4449
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/

I heard Leslie speak at a Women's Federated meeting today in Chatsworth. It was very difficult to hear how an educated man with a distinguished law practice would be put in solitary confinement by a crooked judge and denied medical treatment at 70 years of age and, as retaliation for exposing corruption, be disbarred and lose his Beverly Hills law practice--and almost his home--just because a bunch of judges are getting millions in kickbacks from local politians! This is what you hear goes on in China and other countries that are serial abusers of human rights--IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

For history buffoons who should know better

Arab violence against Jews is often alleged to have begun with the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 or as a result of Israel's capture in 1967 of territories occupied by Jordan. But even before the Mandate for Palestine was assigned to Great Britain by the Allies at the San Remo Conference (April 1920) and endorsed by the League of Nations (July 1922), Palestinian Arabs were carrying out organized attacks against Jewish communities in Palestine. Systematic violence began in early 1920 with murderous assaults by groups of local Arabs against settlements in the north and by Muslim pilgrims against Jerusalem's Jews. Again in 1921, Arab rioters attacked Jews in Jaffa and its environs. The primary agitator behind these attacks was Haj Amin al Husseini, who marshalled Arab discontent over Jewish immigration into violent riots...
Anti-Jewish Violence in Pre-State Palestine/1929 Massacres

Potassium Iodide: Minimizing Down Wind Radiation Exposure from Japan

TheDocIsIn has done our homework for us (I live less than 20 miles from the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles):
Living on the west coast of the United States and concerned about potential down wind effect of Japan’s nuclear reactors “melting down”, we were prompted to call a number of local stores (within a 30 mile radius) seeking potassium iodide tablets. None were available. Several online sources were “sold out”. This prompted an Internet search on the topic and the information copied below was most helpful...
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UPDATE RE: Potassium Iodide for Prevention of Internal Uptake of Radioactive Iodine

Issue:

Questions about use of potassium iodide during current crisis in Japan

Details:

Health care providers, call center staff etc, are being inundated with questions and requests about purchasing potassium iodide products in the wake of Japan's current nuclear power plant crisis.

Directives:

In the mean time, to assist clinicians who are being pummeled with requests for potassium iodide and/or questions about the use of potassium iodide during the current crisis, please refer to the FAQs posted by the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control. These FAQs should assist in educating both yourself and your patients about this issue.

California Dept. of Public Health FAQ:
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/RadiationFAQS2011.aspx

CDC Info about Potassium Iodide:
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/ki.asp#howmuchki

Monday, March 14, 2011

The end of THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG

Here's what it was:
THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG

Welcome to the Counterterrorism Blog, a unique, multi-expert blog dedicated to providing a one-stop gateway to the counterterrorism community. To our knowledge, there was no such blog on the internet prior to our opening on January 5, 2005. We envision the blog’s audience to be the policymakers in the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch, as well as serious students elsewhere, who want to visit a single site to access (1) overnight and breaking news, with realtime intel and commentary by operational experts ("Contributing Experts"); (2) discussions of long-term trends in counterterrorism; (3) summaries of and discussions about US and international law; and (4) a calendar of upcoming events, hearings, and seminars featuring the Contributing Experts. We want to highlight those experts who are or have been deeply involved in counterterrorism cases, and thus enable them to expand their opportunities to bring their expertise to the attention of policymakers.

The site is intended to provide fresh information and various perspectives (sometimes opposing), as presented by the Contributing Experts and in the news articles, columns, and website links posted on the blog. Contributing Experts are responsible only for the content of their posts and links. The editor is responsible for sidebar content and design.
And, sadly, here's what it is now:

The End of The Counterterrorism Blog

Many of you probably know one of the contributors - Steven Emerson - for his books such as Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the US and American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us.

You may also know Walid Phares, a Fox News constributor since 2007.

The Editor, Douglas Farah (not Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily.com) posted this on 3/11/11:
The End of The Counterterrorism Blog

By Douglas Farah

To Our Readers:

Thank you for your faithful readership through the past five years. Over its short run, the Counterterrorism Blog served an important role both as a leading terrorism news and information aggregator and as a site where noted practitioner-experts presented commentary and analysis. This combined to make the site a regular “one-stop” bookmark for the interested public, media and policy community at a crucial time. CTB has had a remarkable run, and a tremendous impact – in addition to being visited over 8.2 million times, the CTB spurred news stories, held Congressional briefings, embedded reporters in war zones, and informed the policy debate – even earning a negative review from Al Qaeda!

As the world has changed and the terrorism community has evolved so has the ability of the volunteer contributing experts on the Counterterrorism Blog to dedicate their time and energy to this enterprise. In light of this, the Board has made the decision to discontinue publishing here. In addition to their other policy, professional, publishing, teaching and research responsibilities, many of the CTB’s former contributing experts will be posting on other blogs and can continue to be read.

Thanks again for all the support through the years in making the CTB a leading voice in the Counterterrorism community and for your support and interest.

The Counterterrorism Foundation Board, publishers

Wisconsin "Black List" threatens citizens and business owners

Just in from a friend:

A cousin in Madison, WI sent the following. Please join me in praying for her and her husband, all the people in Wisconsin and the USA.
It is almost scary to go anywhere near the Capitol here. The mayor even asked for the police to stand down so forget it if you don't support the union. There is a black list out also if you are a business and you might have even given any money to Scott Walker's campaign. People are getting calls on who they support and if they don't say the union something happens to your house or your business is boycotted. All sorts of laws are being broken, but as long as it is in support of the union....well then it's ok. The paper and all the local tv news stations are left winged. Thank goodness for channel 1310, which is our conservative channel here.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

They are all dead, and a Harvey Weinstein lives on to smirk another day...

So it is with perpetrators and victims. The innocent children and the fat ugly men who profit from trafficking in the narrative of their killers.

Harvey Weinstein denounces Peter King and urges him to go watch Miral. But perhaps it is Harvey Weinstein who should drive to a small town lost in the Samarian Mountains and retrace the steps of the murderers in the name of the nationalistic mythology that movies like Miral glamorize. To fit himself through the living room window where the two terrorists entered, moving quietly in the dark, not seeing the six year old boy sleeping peacefully on the couch. That six year old boy who survived because like so many other little boys during the Holocaust, the men who were coming to murder him went right past him without seeing him. The six year old boy who was being orphaned around the same time that Harvey Weinstein and his PR people were conferring on a final draft for their Miral puff piece.

Come along Harvey, into the bedroom where a father and his three month old daughter, Hadas, were fast asleep. It can be hard to get a 3 month old baby to fall asleep. Her father must had quite a time of it that night. Babies may not have language, but they do have fears. They are afraid of the strange new world they were born into. And they need parents to comfort them and assure them that everything will be alright. That they are loved and protected. When Rabbi Fogel finally got his little baby daughter to sleep, she must have felt safe with her father there. The man who would have taught her about life. Who would have done his best to protect her. And the man whose throat was slashed in his sleep along with his child's.

Tell me Harvey, do you know what goes through a three month old baby's mind when her throat is being slashed?
You must read the rest of Daniel Greenfield's Open Letter to Harvey Weinstein.

(And be sure to read the first two comments...)

Japan: Is the worst still to come?

The Drudge Report headlines this story from the UK Daily Mail as I'm writing: And the aftershocks go on: 275 new tremors hit quake-torn Japan as fears grow for missing 10,000 in flattened port town...

The Daily Mail has incredible coverage of the disaster in Japan.

All this brought to mind a prediction I'd heard about years ago from the modest and startlingly accurate psychic Edgar Cayce:

Edgar Cayce, Clairvoyant (1877-1945)
Edgar Cayce made his name in the first half of this century in America as a psychic healer; perhaps the greatest that the United States ever produced. During his lifetime he was credited with assisting thousands of people suffering from all manner of ailments. But there was also a lesser known aspect to Cayce's psychic revelations. Occasionally while in a self-induced trance, Cayce would speak of events to come. He predicted the First and Second World War, the independence of India and the 1929 stockmarket crash. He also predicted, fifteen years before the event, the creation of the State of Israel. His most disturbing predictions, however, concern vast geographical upheavals which by the year 1998 will result in the destruction of New York, the disappearance of most of Japan, and a cataclysmic change in Northern Europe.

Yes, the date isn't accurate, but please read on:

Edgar Cayce on the Future
Cayce predicted changes to the Earth surface to begin some time between 1958 and 1998. The cause of these dramatic Earth changes will be the shift in the world's magnetic poles around the year 2000. Cayce predicted that when this pole shift occurs it would begin reversals in the world's climate so that:
"..where there has been a frigid or semi-tropical climate, there will be a more tropical one, and moss and fern will grow."
Cayce's prediction of a pole shift occurred in 1998. According to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in 1998 something changed the Earth's gravitational field which moved the magnetic poles closer together. The NASA article explained that as the ice on the poles melted, ocean currents moved water toward the equator, which factors researchers believe to be partly responsible, in conjunction with shifts in atmospheric patterns, for this ongoing shift in the Earth's magnetic field. This NASA finding affirms Cayce's prediction of a pole shift.
Earth Changes: Cyclones, Quakes, and Tsunamis
Since Edgar Cayce stopped giving readings (August 1944) and passed over to the other realms of life (January 3, 1945), many significant Earth-changing events have occurred, as he predicted. Let’s take an updated look at recent disasters...
Many are listed and this one in Japan occured in 1995:
• A 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, resulted in nearly 6,500 deaths and property damage of $150 billion...
If you are interested in these type of things, you may find this site to be a very good resource for prophecies and predictions!

Obama goes to Israel...

Obama goes on a State visit to Israel. While he is on a tour of Jerusalem, he has a fatal heart attack.

The undertaker tells the US diplomats: "You can have him shipped home for $1 million or you can bury him here in the Holy Land for $100". The US diplomats go into a huddle and come back to the undertaker and tell him they still want Obama flown home.

The undertaker is puzzled and asks: "Why would you spend $1 million to get him home when it would be wonderful to be buried here in this religious country and you would only spend $100?".

One diplomat replied: "More than 2000 years ago a man died here, was buried here, and just 3 days later he rose from the dead. We simply can't take that risk".

March Mega Quake Warning Issued For United States!

A new report released today in the Kremlin prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Institute of Physics of the Earth, in Moscow, is warning that the America’s are in danger of suffering a mega-quake of catastrophic proportions during the next fortnight (14 days) with a specific emphasis being placed on the United States, Mexico, Central America and South American west coast regions along with the New Madrid Fault Zone region.

This report further warns that catastrophic earthquakes in Asia and the sub-continent are, also, “more than likely to occur” with the 7.3 magnitude quake in Japan today being “one of at least 4 of this intensity” to occur during this same time period.

Raising the concerns of a mega-quake occurring, this report says, are the increasing subtle electromagnetic signals that are being detected in the Earth’s upper atmosphere over many regions of the World, with the most intense being over the US Western coastal and Midwest regions.

Important to note are that Russian and British scientists are at the forefront of predicting earthquakes based on these subtle electromagnetic signals and have joined in an effort to put satellites in space to detect more of them.

More ominously in this report are Russian scientists confirming the independent analysis of New Zealand mathematician and long-range weather forecaster, Ken Ring [photo], who predicted the deadly Christchurch quake and this week issued another warning of a quake to hit on or about March 20th.

Ring explains his methodology for predicting earthquakes as follows:
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A lesson

Please read the following - this is from a member of a 912 group in Westerville , Ohio.
I was in my neighborhood restaurant this morning and was seated behind a group of jubilant individuals celebrating the successful passing of the recent health care bill. I could not finish my breakfast. This is what ensued:

They were a diverse group of several races and both sexes. I heard the young man exclaim, "Isn't Obama like Jesus Christ? I mean, after all, he is healing the sick." The young woman enthusiastically proclaimed, "Yeah, and he does it for free. I cannot believe anyone would think that a free market would work for health care. They are all crooks and thieves and don't deserve all of that money." Another said, 'The stupid Republicans want us all to starve to death so they can inherit all of the power. Obama should be made a Saint for what he did for those of us less fortunate." At this, I had had enough.

I arose from my seat, mustering all the restraint I could find, and approached their table. "Please excuse me; may I impose upon you for one moment?" They smiled and welcomed me to the conversation. I stood at the end of their table, smiled as best I could and began an experiment.

"I would like to give one of you my house. It will cost you no money and I will pay all of the expenses and taxes for as long as you live there. Anyone interested?" They looked at each other in astonishment. "Why would you do something like that?" asked a young man, "There isn't anything for free in this world." They began to laugh at me, as they did not realize this man had just made my point. "I am serious, I will give you my house for free, no money what so ever. Anyone interested?" In unison, a resounding "Hell Yeah" fills the room.

"Since there are too many of you, I will have to make a choice as to who receives this money free bargain." I noticed an elderly couple was paying attention to the spectacle unfolding before their eyes, the old man shaking his head in apparent disgust. "I tell you what; I will give it to the one of you most willing to obey my rules." Again, they looked at one another, an expression of bewilderment on their faces. The perky young woman asked, "What are the rules?" I smiled and said, "I don't know. I have not yet defined them. However, it is a free home that I offer you." They giggled amongst themselves, the youngest of which said, "What an old coot. He must be crazy to give away his home. Go take your meds, old man." I smiled and leaned into the table a bit further. "I am serious, this is a legitimate offer." They gaped at me for a moment.

"Hell, I'll take it you old fool. Where are the keys?" boasted the youngest among them. "Then I presume you accept ALL of my terms then?" I asked. The elderly couple seemed amused and entertained as they watched from the privacy of their table. "Oh hell yeah! Where do I sign up?" I took a napkin and wrote, "I give this man my home, without the burden of financial obligation, so long as he accepts and abides by the terms that I shall set forth upon consummation of this transaction." I signed it and handed it to the young man who eagerly scratched out his signature. "Where are the keys to my new house?" he asked in a mocking tone of voice. All eyes were upon us as I stepped back from the table, pulling the keys from pocket and dangling them before the excited new homeowner.

"Now that we have entered into this binding contract, witnessed by all of your friends, I have decided upon the conditions you are obligated to adhere from this point forward. You may only live in the house for one hour a day. You will not use anything inside of the home. You will obey me without question or resistance. I expect complete loyalty and admiration for this gift I bestow upon you. You will accept my commands and wishes with enthusiasm, no matter the nature. Your morals and principles shall be as mine. You will vote as I do, think as I do and do it with blind faith. These are my terms. Here are your keys." I reached the keys forward and the young man looked at me dumb founded.

"Are you out of your freaking mind? Who would ever agree to those ridiculous terms?" the young man appeared irritated. "You did when you signed this contract before reading it, understanding it and with the full knowledge that I would provide my conditions only after you committed to the agreement." Was all I said. The elderly man chuckled as his wife tried to restrain him. I was looking at a now silenced and bewildered group of people. "You can shove that stupid deal up you're a** old man, I want no part of it" exclaimed the now infuriated young man. "You have committed to the contract, as witnessed by all of your friends; you cannot get out of the deal unless I agree to it. I do not intend to let you free now that I have you ensnared. I am the power you agreed to. I am the one you blindly and without thought chose to enslave yourself to. In short, I am your Master." At this, the table of celebrating individuals became a unified group against the unfairness of the deal.

After a few moments of unrepeatable comments and slurs, I revealed my true intent. "What I did to you is what this administration and congress did to you with the health care legislation. I easily suckered you in and then revealed the real cost of the bargain. Your folly was in the belief that you can have something you did not earn; that you are entitled to that which you did not earn; that you willingly allowed someone else to think for you. Your failure to research, study and inform yourself permitted reason to escape you. You have entered into a trap from which you cannot flee. Your only chance of freedom is if your new Master gives it unto you. A freedom that is given can also be taken away; therefore, it is not freedom." With that, I tore up the napkin and placed it before the astonished young man. "This is the nature of your new health care legislation."

I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation and was surprised by applause. The elderly gentleman, who was clearly entertained, shook my hand enthusiastically and said, "Thank you Sir, these kids don't understand Liberty these days." He refused to allow me to pay my bill as he said, "You earned this one, it is an honor to pickup the tab." I shook his hand in thanks, leaving the restaurant somewhat humbled, and sensing a glimmer of hope for my beloved country.

Use reason, it is the closest you are going to get to Godly conduct.

Clifford A. Wright

-- Live your life so that when your feet hit the floor in the morning Satan shudders and says "Oh No, he's awake!"

Own Your Own Internet Membership Website

If you'd like to have your own membership website and make recurring income with it, this is a new course that will walk you through and get you around the pitfalls to the finish line:

Click Here

Good luck!

PS: Ian del Carmen's been around for a long time and is well established in this business.

What Muslims really say in their own language

Devotion to Jihad for the sake of Allah, and the desire to shed blood, to smash skulls, and to sever limbs for the sake of Allah and in defense of His religion, is, undoubtedly, an honor for the believer. . .

The Koranic verses that deal with fighting the infidels and conquering their countries say that they should convert to Islam, pay the jizya poll tax or be killed.
Why don't you believe them???

10 reasons why this 228-point slump in the Dow makes me sit up and take notice

On Thursday, the day before the Japanese earthquake, the Dow Jones Industrial Average saw its biggest drop since August. Markets tumbled while fears surged -- about jobs, Spain and Saudi Arabia.

But what does this mean for you, the investor?

Was this just a one-day wonder, a buying opportunity, a small but passing cloud on an otherwise sunny horizon? Or was it something more ominous?
The Dow's Plunge: Should You Be Worried?

Proof that HAMAS is evil

UPDATE: The media is aligned with the jihad force. May they rot in hell - the whole lot of leftist leeches and Jew haters. Congratulations as they are outted as this century's nazi enablers...

Five members of the Fogel family in Itamar Udi (father age 36) Ruth (mother age 35), Yoav (age 11), Elad (age 4) and Hadas (age 3 months) were murdered in their home in Itamar in Shomron by terrorists who infiltrated the Jewish community by jumping over the town's security fence. The five were stabbed to death.


Professor William Jacobson: But the thought of the person or people who stood over her, and what was going through their minds as they cut her, is just unimaginable...

UPDATE: I had second thoughts about publishing the pictures...but then, so many liberals think HAMAS is so great...





In contrast to his predecessor Jimmy Carter, Reagan treated Secret Service agents, the Air Force One crew, and the maids and butlers in the White House with respect

Secret Service Says President Reagan Was Sharp

Then there's Buzz Patterson's account of his time with the Clintons:
Patterson not only had numerous opportunities to see Clinton's irresponsibility and neglect of his duties: he also witnessed Hillary's furious, profane rages and relentless shifting of blame to subordinates; the general disdain of Clinton staffers toward the military; and much more. The Clinton White House more closely resembled a college fraternity house than the seat of government of the most powerful nation on earth - and it all led, Patterson argues compellingly, to our armed forces and intelligence services falling into such a demoralized, unprepared state that a disaster was just waiting to happen. That disaster happened on September 11, 2001.
From the officer entrusted with our nation's nuclear codes: proof that Bill Clinton cared little for national security and put every American in mortal danger

What do you think the Secret Service will eventually let slip about Renegade & Renaissance???

Thursday, March 10, 2011

More proof of Obama coverup in Hawaii...

WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THE BOOK WHICH CONTAINS OBAMA’S NAME AND BIRTH DATE?
www.thepostemail.com/2011/03/10/its-a-date/

Comments are interesting and are at the original source here:
My Very Own Point Of View

PBS: an inside story

I was surprised to hear about this but, then, I hadn't watched KCET for many years either.

According to Wikipedia, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is
an American non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership.[2] Its headquarters are in Arlington, Virginia.
Funny, I just remembered someone I used to work with at Universal Studios (when I worked at MCA RECORDS which was on the lot there at the time) who told me a story about KCET...

She was explaining to me why she would NEVER consider contributing money during their very tedious fundraisers that used to do a halfway decent job of making you feel like a moocher if you didn't pay up.

Apparently, she'd worked there before she came over to MCA and she said the top dogs would take long, long martini lunches everyday--she would often go and took naps afterwards to recover--and were rolling in dough.

So, there's no way she'd give her hard-earned working girl's bucks over to them, no way!

Don't blame her a bit and, somehow, it all seems so believable after James O'Keefe posted a follow-up video as part of his undercover investigation of NPR...

Fool me once, yeah...

BATTLE FOR AMERICA: THE MOVIE

Citizens United Productions Presents:
A call to action by Dick Morris to take back our country, "Battle for America" is a searing look at the ongoing conflict between "Constitutional Conservatives" and an out-of-touch, arrogant, and ever-expanding central government. This film stars Ann Coulter, Lou Dobbs, Fred Barnes, Arthur Brooks, Newt Gingrich, Tony Blankley, Mike Flynn, Eric Singer, U.S. Representatives Thaddeus McCotter, Sue Myrick, and Dan Lungren, and U.S. Senators Christopher Bond and Tom Coburn. This controversial documentary goes beyond today's headlines to provide a comprehensive look at how the Obama Administration and the Democratic majority in Congress have failed the American people.

"Battle for America" is a no-holds-barred examination of an Administration and Congress that set out to "transform" America but ended up reenergizing grassroots Conservatives and lighting the fuse for a populist rebellion called "The Tea Party" movement. More than an indictment against the elitist governing class, this film's inspiring message is also a call-to-action for every citizen to take back our country and return it to its core principles based upon a limited federal government.

Produced in the style of "Generation Zero" and "Fire from the Heartland", this film is the third in a series to look at America at the crossroads of one of the most consequential and dangerous times in her history. "Battle for America" will leave you energized for the seminal fight to save our beloved country.
Watch the trailer!

Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, (Ret.): “THE PATRIOTIC REVOLUTION…IS HAPPENING NOW”

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

"My Dad is like the only one that I, like, practically love the most, right now..."

A soldier says goodbye to his two sons as he deploys back into Afghanistan...

You don't understand until you watch this.

From a friend in the military:
NY Times embedded a reporter with the 1st Bn 87th Infantry (10th Mountain Div.). The reporter started with them in the states, and stayed with them during much of their time deployed in Afghanistan in 2010.

The reporter covered quite a few aspects of their lives during this period, from getting ready to leave, family, actually going, doing infantry work in Afghanistan, all aspects.

The reason I have this link is that the 2nd Bn 18th IN (170 Brigade), Grafenvoehr, Germany, will be taking the place of the 1-87 IN next month.

If you want to spend a bit of valuable time learning what things are like for our deployed infantry folks, go here. It is a linked series of videos on each topic - start at the beginning (Going to War) - the series will automatically go from section to section if you let it run. There is a map of their FOB Kunduz in Afghanistan showing where they are, etc.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/battalion.html#/NYT/28
A Year at War:

Thirty thousand American soldiers are taking part in the Afghanistan surge. Here are the stories of the men and women of the First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division. Over their yearlong deployment, The New York Times follows their journey.

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Racism, straight up!


Jesse Jackson was in Sears.

He was there to protest the fact that

most of the washing machines were white.

So the clerk called the store manager,

who asked, "What's the problem here, Reverend?"

Jesse pointed at the machines and loudly

bemoaned the fact that most of them were white.

The manager replied, "Well, Reverend, it's true

that most of the washing machines are white,

but if you'll open the lids, You'll see that all

the agitators are black."


Monday, March 07, 2011

Michael Moore's John Reed Moment

By Gary Starr for the Neville Awards
March 7, 2010
Earth's second extra-terrestrial satellite, or a small planet with two legs if you will, fancies himself a latter day John Reed (the real-life Communist loser in the Warren Beatty movie 'Reds'). He has recently starred in his own version of "10 Days That Shook the World" by journeying to Madison, Wisconsin to declare that America and Wisconsin are not broke, and all of America "stands with you." He was also gassing around about the workers having "had enough." Of what we are not sure.

Maybe they want to get paid not to show up for work like their elected Democrat state senators. Oh wait, that's already happening....they are all down at the statehouse with silly pre-printed union signs and making a huge mess.

Thrill to the latest rantings of our national treasure and erstwhile post-modern Lili Riefenstahl:
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Sunday, March 06, 2011

VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945

WATCH VIDEO HERE
65 Years Ago my Dad shot this film along Kalakaua Ave. in Waikiki capturing spontaneous celebrations that broke out upon first hearing news of the Japanese surrender. Kodachrome 16mm film: God Bless Kodachrome, right? I was able to find an outfit (mymovietransfer.com) to do a much superior scan of this footage to what I had previously posted, so I re-did this film and replaced the older version There are more still images from this amazing day, in color, at discoveringhawaii.com

lgstarr: I moved to Hawaii 19 years later in the summer of 1964 and stayed through 1970 (having graduated from U of H in 1968)...a lot of the above video looks familiar...but I'll bet it's totally different today!

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Coincidence???

Not on your life. Think: "Government Schools."
A groundbreaking multi-year survey of 28,000 students attending 85 U.S. colleges and universities by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (www.isi.org) found that American institutions of higher learning are not providing students even basic instruction on American history, economics and government -- probably not even enough for them to make informed decisions at the ballot box.
Majority of American students flunk civics test