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DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...
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| 01-31-03
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe
At the request of members, I am restarting those "Tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast"-- the stories and issues that the press and media either ignore, won't even talk about, or will mention once and forevermore claim "it's old news..."
Naturally, some will be stories which interest me, or things I think we all need to be aware of.
I am experimenting with a minor change in presentation- when I can, I will cut to
-GoogleNewsBeta--
with a keyword or two and see what kind of links to "mainstream" stories I can find in contrast to what we see here and on other sites.
May I remind you of a couple of points to bear in mind?
Each link usually has many other links within- follow them all to get "the rest of the story."
Don't forget the "open multiple browsers" trick with control-n -- this allows you to hold your place with one, and use the others to follow links, run searches, etc.
Rather than go back and rehash old links, I'll give you links to the original posts here:
-DUBOB 10- the *best of* the Dark Underbelly Series--
-DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast..... --
DUBOB 8-- still *more* tales from the Underbelly***
DUBOB 7-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 6-- yet *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 5-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB IV- yet more Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast-
DUBOB III -- "Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast"
DUBOB 2-- more tales from The Dark Underbelly of the Beast-- thread II
-The Dark Underbelly of the Beast- Stories the Media won't Discuss...--
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Try creating your own. You'll be able to edit the TO:, FROM:, SALUTATION, MESSAGE, and the QUOTE coming out of President Bush's mouth. You'll see "El Presidente Jorge Bush" highlighted. Type in something else. Press the <TAB> key to move to next field or just press your mouse button over the various fields.
Once you're satisfied print it off along with the self addressed envelope.
Don't forget to enclose your contribution:
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posted on
06/05/2007 5:55:42 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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Crowd At [SC] Town Meeting Largely Against Immigration Law--
One man at the meeting said that allowing immigrants who entered the country illegally to stay would reward unlawful behavior. "What do we say to other illegal acts like selling drugs, not paying child support or taxes, speeding? Do we allow amnesty for those kinds of things?" he said.
Immigration bill: Go ahead--break the law! Who cares?--
Call the “Senate Immigration Reform Hotline” at 1 800 417 7666
Press 1 for your senior senator, 2 for your junior senator.
This will connect you DIRECTLY to your senator without going through the congressional switchboard.
Everyone breaks laws in the sense that many of us drive without seatbelts, exceed the speed limit, drink when we're underage, perhaps enjoy a little contraband now and then, but this is the first instance where the government, normally charged with enforcing the laws, is actually rewarding and encouraging the breaking of its own laws.
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06/05/2007 12:17:41 PM PDT
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backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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I recently cobbled this together:
Here's a sampling of Fred- enough for everyone to make up their own minds:
▲ Click to see where he stands on the issues. ▲
FredÂ’s position statements on ABC Radio:
Here's the table that shows the ratings that Thompson earned from various interest groups.
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Fred Thompson's Ratings
Conservative Organizations:- American Conservative Union: ~88
- Americans for Tax Reform: 90
- National Taxpayers Union: 84 (rated 7th best)
- National Right to Life: 77 (scored reduced due to vote for CFR)
- Eagle Forum: 75
- Conservative Index: 80
- Christian Coalition: ~85
- Family Research Council: 100
- Citizens Against Government Waste: 90
- Military Officers Association of America: 100
- NRA: "Staunch supporter of the Second Amendment"
Liberal Organizations: - Planned Parenthood rating: 0
- NARAL Pro-Choice America rating: 0
- ACLU: 14
- NAACP: ~18
- LULAC: ~20
- Human Rights Campaign: 14
- NEA: ~10 (received a 0 in 2000)
- NOW: 0
- Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence: 13
- AFL-CIO: 0
- SEIU: 0
- American Federation of Teachers: 0
Sources: Project Vote Smart and Various Internet Sources
A tilde represents an average made of scores available.
This is a work in progress. Your mileage may vary. |
table hattip:Spiff
It comes down to trust:
Thompson was quoted expressing support for abortion rights in 1994 when he first ran for the Senate from Tennessee, although once in the Senate, he consistently voted pro-life.
He not only voted for, but was a major booster of the campaign finance reform bill that many conservatives believe infringes on free speech. And although he has been a vocal opponent of the Senate's current immigration reform bill, he supported legislation in 1998 to help illegal immigrant farm workers temporarily stay in the U.S.
Abortion:
During that same year, in the July/August 1994 issue of Republican Liberty, a newsletter for libertarian Republicans, Thompson was quoted as saying: "Government should stay out of it. No public financing. The ultimate decision must be made by the woman. Government should treat its citizens as adults capable of making moral decisions on their own."
However, Thompson's voting record in the Senate was pro-life. He registered a zero rating from Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America and a rating of 100 percent from the National Right to Life Committee.
On immigration:
"“You’ve got to secure the border first, before you do anything,” said Thompson. “The members (of Congress) say it’s right here in this bill: the border. The response is, ‘We don’t care what’s on a piece of paper — secure the border.’ The piece of paper doesn’t secure the border.”
Thompson claimed the bill now being debated in the Senate is “the same deal” offered in the 1986 amnesty: legalization of aliens in exchange for border security. He said the public won’t be fooled again."
Call me a dirty old man, but I assume if a man and woman spend a lot of time together, they sleep together- it's a normal part of a man-woman relationship:
While it is not in the realm of public policy, Thompson's reputation as a lady's man between the nearly two decades he was divorced and remarried could also come up in the presidential race.
During a meeting with House Republicans in April, he reportedly said: " I was single for a long time, and, yep, I chased a lot of women ... And a lot of women chased me. And those that chased me tended to catch me."
Wright is not sure the issue will be a liability for Thompson. "I've heard a lot of people respond that at least he did it when he was single," Wright said. "He seems to have been a faithful husband when he was married."
CFR:
If you link to Youtube or whatever that video site is, they have a number of Fred interviews and speeches. In one, heÂ’s asked about McCain/Feingold and says he voted for it at the time...one reason being that he and McCain are old friends...but is now convinced itÂ’s a very bad bill and regrets voting for it. 194
Here's the bottom line, he's more conservative than George W. Bush on nearly every issue. He's more conservative than all of the current frontrunners and more electable than all of the candidates at the back of the pack. And that is good enough for me and for most FReepers. 189 posted on 06/05/2007 2:46:14 PM EDT by Spiff
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06/06/2007 12:42:15 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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Here's why I support Fred Thompson:
▲ Click to see where he stands on the issues. ▲
It comes down to trust:
Thompson was quoted expressing support for abortion rights in 1994 when he first ran for the Senate from Tennessee, although once in the Senate, he consistently voted pro-life.
He not only voted for, but was a major booster of the campaign finance reform bill that many conservatives believe infringes on free speech. And although he has been a vocal opponent of the Senate's current immigration reform bill, he supported legislation in 1998 to help illegal immigrant farm workers temporarily stay in the U.S.
Abortion:
During that same year, in the July/August 1994 issue of Republican Liberty, a newsletter for libertarian Republicans, Thompson was quoted as saying: "Government should stay out of it. No public financing. The ultimate decision must be made by the woman. Government should treat its citizens as adults capable of making moral decisions on their own."
However, Thompson's voting record in the Senate was pro-life. He registered a zero rating from Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America and a rating of 100 percent from the National Right to Life Committee.
On immigration:
"“You’ve got to secure the border first, before you do anything,” said Thompson. “The members (of Congress) say it’s right here in this bill: the border. The response is, ‘We don’t care what’s on a piece of paper — secure the border.’ The piece of paper doesn’t secure the border.”
Thompson claimed the bill now being debated in the Senate is “the same deal” offered in the 1986 amnesty: legalization of aliens in exchange for border security. He said the public won’t be fooled again."
Call me a dirty old man, but I assume if a man and woman spend a lot of time together, they sleep together- it's a normal part of a man-woman relationship:
While it is not in the realm of public policy, Thompson's reputation as a lady's man between the nearly two decades he was divorced and remarried could also come up in the presidential race.
During a meeting with House Republicans in April, he reportedly said: " I was single for a long time, and, yep, I chased a lot of women ... And a lot of women chased me. And those that chased me tended to catch me."
Wright is not sure the issue will be a liability for Thompson. "I've heard a lot of people respond that at least he did it when he was single," Wright said. "He seems to have been a faithful husband when he was married."
CFR:
If you link to Youtube or whatever that video site is, they have a number of Fred interviews and speeches. In one, heÂ’s asked about McCain/Feingold and says he voted for it at the time...one reason being that he and McCain are old friends...but is now convinced itÂ’s a very bad bill and regrets voting for it. 194
Here's the bottom line, he's more conservative than George W. Bush on nearly every issue. He's more conservative than all of the current frontrunners and more electable than all of the candidates at the back of the pack. And that is good enough for me and for most FReepers. 189 posted on 06/05/2007 2:46:14 PM EDT by Spiff
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06/06/2007 12:46:35 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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Fred, the Elephant in the Room--I just want a President who speaks straight. I’ve long tired of the double talk and rambling of this current administration.
Net-Savvy Fred Thompson Ready to Stir Race --Whatever his critics want to say about Fred, at least he has the gonads to say it like it is. I’m sick of candidates double speak and talking out of both sides of their mouth...
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06/06/2007 3:16:57 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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“Sandy Berger and the Clinton Cover-Up - Why It Matters”
From Ronald Cass, Chairman of the Center for the Rule of Law, Dean Emeritus of Boston University School of Law, and Author of The Rule of Law in America.writing at Real Clear Politics:
On May 17th, Sandy Berger, President Bill Clinton’s National Security Adviser, voluntarily gave up his law license and with it the right to practice law. That is a stunning move for an accomplished lawyer, one of the nation’s most influential public officials. Someone should take note. In fact, everyone should.
Berger previously entered a deal with the Department of Justice after he was caught stealing and destroying highly sensitive classified material regarding the Clinton Administration’s handling of terrorism issues. That deal allowed him to avoid jail time, pay a modest fine, and keep his law license. It also allowed him to avoid full explanation of what he had taken and why he had taken it.
-- Whereas perjury and obstruction, which could just as plausibly be tied to a faulty memory (which, for the record, doesn’t fit into one’s shoe, or into one’s pants), is ticketed with a 30-month sentence, in a case in which no one was convicted of the crime originally under investigation, after a kangaroo show trial put into motion by the faux outrage of a pair of bureaucratic liars hoping to gin up some media misdirection to take the heat off of them for their unconscionable attempts to swing a presidential election.
What information was worth risking his reputation, his career, and his freedom to keep hidden? And who was he risking that for?
Recently, the Board of the DC Bar, which had granted Berger his license, began asking those questions. There was only one way to stop that investigation, to keep from answering questions about what he did and why he did it, to keep the Bar from questioning his colleagues in the Clinton Administration about what had been in the documents Berger destroyed.
Berger took that step, surrendering his license, and stopping the investigation.
Where is the outrage from the left over this, I wonder?
For months and months now we’ve been hearing that the Libby trial was about the dangers of the “powerful” covering up their secrets—that Plame’s “outing” could actually jeopardize national security, and other self-righteous, hyperbolic, and patently absurd justifications for pushing forward in the hope of grabbing a Republican scalp.
Meanwhile, right here in front of us, we have a case where Sandy Berger, a former National Security Advisor, has voluntarily surrendered his law license rather than come clean about what documents he destroyed, why he destroyed them, and who he was trying to protect in doing so.
When I begin to hear the same people who’ve been braying for Libby’s blood take similar aim at Berger—and by all rights, their animus should be even more concentrated, given Berger’s position and power, and given the nature of his crime, which involved the pilfering and destruction of classified documents—I’ll take their defenses of the Libby show trial more seriously.
Because now, there is no reason to believe there was anything innocent about Berger’s actions—as Cass makes quite clear:
President Clinton designated Berger as his representative to the 9/11 Commission and related hearings, which gave Berger special access to highly classified documents in the National Archives relating to the Clinton Administration’s handling of al-Qaeda and similar terror threats. Berger got around rules requiring that the documents only be reviewed with Archives’ employees present, purposefully stole documents, destroyed them, and lied about it all. When caught, he first blamed Archives employees for misplacing the documents, then admitted having taken them inadvertently (this is the point at which he cut the plea deal), and finally acknowledged what was obvious from the facts that were emerging - he intentionally removed and destroyed documents.
Justice Department officials who investigated the missing documents initially were persuaded that Berger must, as he claimed, have taken documents by mistake and then destroyed them to avoid having sensitive material in his possession. The plea agreement was based on the assumption that Berger was mishandling classified material - not manhandling it.
Now, however, it is clear that there was nothing innocent or inadvertent in Berger’s conduct. He has something to hide and, whatever it is, he was terrified that at least some part of it would come out of a non-criminal hearing before the Bar. With no possible criminal charges to face, he could not have claimed a right against self-incrimination. He could no longer get away with saying that he took documents accidentally, took them only to prepare for up-coming hearings (why, then, take five copies of one memo?), or didn’t intend to destroy them. He would, in other words, have had to say more than he has so far.
We don’t know with any certainty what is missing, which papers exactly are gone, or what notes - and whose notes - may have been on them. Berger’s lawyer asserted that the 9/11 Commission had copies of all the material Berger stole and destroyed. But if that is so, why would Berger risk so much to destroy it and be so keen today on avoiding any real inquiry into what he did?
Berger had access to Archives documents that could be critical to understanding what information the Clinton Administration had, what options it considered, and what decisions it took on these sensitive subjects. In addition to primary documents, Berger had access to copies, and the only plausible reason for taking five copies of a single memo is that some had original notes on them from key officials, maybe from Berger or President Clinton.
For Berger to risk jail and disgrace, to then give up the right to practice his profession merely in order to avoid having to answer questions, he must be hiding something important. And if it is that important to him, it is also important to us.
The most likely explanation is that the material Berger destroyed points to a terrible mistake by Berger himself, by President Clinton, or by both. In dealing with al-Qaeda, did they overlook a critical piece of information or miss a chance to stop 9/11? Did the Administration’s failure to take a more aggressive posture encourage al-Qaeda’s later attacks?
When Fox News’ Chris Wallace raised the possibility that Clinton’s Administration might have done something more to prevent 9/11, Bill Clinton went into an inexplicable rage on national television. Wallace touched a nerve. So did the DC Bar.
Knowing what information Berger destroyed also might alter views of the current Bush Administration. Was the early support from both Bill and Hillary Clinton for going to war against Saddam based on something we don’t know yet that was available to insiders in the Clinton Administration? Was it something that could come back to haunt Hillary and ruin her chances of winning Bill’s third term?
Whatever it was, it’s likely that what Berger destroyed could have helped us understand what led to the most tragic terror attack in our nation’s history and perhaps also help us decide what course - and what Chief Executive - will best to protect our future. The fact that Berger has been able to avoid revealing that information is a scandal of its own.
Sure. Just not as big a scandal as the memory battle between Libby and Russert, et al.
Which, frankly, is the most damning indictment of the press—and the contemporary “liberal” Democrat—to come down a pike absolutely larded with such indictments.
Concludes Cass:
Maybe some day someone will step back and wonder why a successful lawyer like Berger would take so drastic a step as surrendering his law license just to evade questions. Someone will ask what could have been so terrible that it was worth that price to keep it hidden. Someone will decide that it’s important to know what Mr. Berger is hiding.
Because, in truth, it could affect us all.
The optimist in me would like to think that so.
But having watched in astonishment, over the last half-decade, as recent history is massaged, finessed, spun, and airbrushed before my very eyes, I have no confidence that “truth” is what many political activists are after.
It has become all about power—and whatever narrative helps those seeking it obtain it is the narrative that will be adopted, certified as authentic, and passed on as “historical.”
Manufactured consent, I believe that’s called. A naked emperor that is clothed by way of a collective phantasm.
It’s like the left learned to play politics by getting stoned and pretending the Ouija board pointer was actually moving on its own.
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related: The “Sandy Berger’s Lament” Poem
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posted on
06/06/2007 6:26:05 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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First link in my files:
Age:
A majority of people in their sixties and seventies report being healthy and in control of their lives -- and as happy as many respondents in their 40s, according to a survey conducted for HSBC of 21,000 people in 21 countries and spanning four age groups, each decade from age 40 to age 80.
Questions about Fred Thompson--Most of your questions have been asked and answered numerous times. Nevertheless, I'll provide some links for you to research.
FRED THOMPSON: "Some people think that power should exist only at the top, and everybody else should rely on 'the authorities' for protection. . . . Whenever I've seen one of those 'Gun-free Zone' signs, especially outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable citizens, I've always wondered exactly who these signs are directed at. Obviously, they don't mean much to the sort of man who murdered 32 people just a few days ago."
Definition of Political Courage (Fred Thompson Alert!)--" Anyone who has taken the time to read all of Fred’s pieces will realize Fred says out loud what regular politicians won’t. "
That's because being a career politician is not the most important thing to Fred Thompson.
He does not have the desire to become a career politician, nor crave, nor lust for power to be the President of the USA, all he wants is to serve and to do what is right and good for our country, so Fred has nothing to lose if he speaks his mind.... which is refreshing.
I think that his attitude and message will resonate with most of the average American people, and once he enters the race, he will leave the rest of the pack behind him in the dust.
Fred Thompson Quotes
"Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks."
"You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you."
"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
"Is it really in our country’s best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesn’t such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'?"
"I think Roe vs. Wade was bad law and bad medical science. And the way to address that is through good judges."
"I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody."
"You know, marriage is between a man and a woman, and I don't believe judges ought to come along and change that."
"I'm against gun control generally. You know, you check my record. You'll find I'm pretty consistent on that issue."
"The court [by overturning the D.C. gun ban] basically said the Constitution means what it says, and I agree with that."
"We've got a situation where people could give politicians huge sums of money, which is the soft money situation at that time, and then come before those same politicians and ask them to pass legislation for them. I mean, you get thrown in jail for stuff like that in the real world."
"I'm concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million [illegal immigrants]. So that's why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary."
"If Saddam Hussein was still around today with his sons looking at Iran developing a nuclear capability, he undoubtedly would have reconstituted his nuclear capability. Things would be worse than what they are today."
"Wars are full of mistakes. You rectify things. I think we're doing that now."
"I'd do it [pardon Scooter Libby] now. This is a trial that never would have been brought in any other part of the world. This is a miscarriage of justice."
"We've got an entitlement program that's bankrupting us. We've got things going on in Thailand, in Indonesia, in places that nobody ever talks about anymore that could impact on us."
"They're [the Red Chinese] still a totalitarian government that is building up their military tremendously and has 200 missiles pointed toward Taiwan."
Impeacnment:
I support FDT's analysis on why he voted to acquit Clinton on perjury and that would launch such a poster in to hyperdrive hysteria. And then I would ask did you even bother to read the analysis of this great legal intellect in the person of Senator Fred Thompson?
http://www.australianpolitics.com/usa/clinton/trial/statements/thompson.shtml
Fred on illegal aliens:
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The best endorsements:
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posted on
06/06/2007 9:36:27 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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AMNESTY BILL UPDATE - 6 June 2007--“This blanket amnesty will destroy this republic and send a clear message: go ahead and invade America, steal jobs, murder and rape America’s children, kill them while driving drunk and by all means, terrorists welcome!”
My Letter to President Bush--Good letter, but it stops short on one issue.
The current amnesty bill (let’s call it what it is) not only falls short on border enforcement and illegal immigrant law enforcement, but it opens a floodgate for immigrant citizenship. As it’s currently conceived, this bill could result in as many as 60 MILLION mainly Latino new American citizens within only a few decades.
Let me make something very clear, because a large segment of our population is eager to apply the label of ‘racism’ with a broad brush. I am not a racist. When I deal with any individual, I do it purely on the individual merits (or lack thereof) of that individual. However, what we’re dealing with here is a mass importation of poorly educated people with a completely different culture from mainstream America. One must ask oneself these questions:
1) Will the immigration plan increase or decrease America’s global competitiveness?
2) Will it result in increased or decreased government costs through entitlements? (Just as we’re approaching Social Security and Medicare crises...)
3) Will it make the electorate better able to vote on important issues affecting America’s future?
4) Will it increase or decrease our national security?
5) Finally, and really most importantly, will it forever alter America’s national character in a negative way?
My view is that the American people deserve far better than they’ve gotten on the illegal immigration issue. I saw my home town go steeply downhill in Southern California because of mass migration from south of the border. I live in South Carolina now, and the situation here reminds me of California about 30 years ago.
The Truther morons have settled on Rudy Giuliani as a very visible target, and will now apparently harass him at every public appearance. Last night it was one of the nitwits from InfoWars.com. link: 93 comments
June 6th, 2007
From the Washington Times:
Foundations bankrolling advocates for aliens
By Sean Lengell
June 6, 2007
Wealthy philanthropic foundations are helping bankroll the pro-immigration movement, while groups advocating for tighter control of U.S. borders say they take a more grass-roots approach to raising money.
The Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and Democratic activist George Soros are among the liberal funders that have donated millions of dollars to pro-immigration groups, as the Senate continues its debate on a contentious bill that would overhaul the nation’s immigration policy.
Three of the nation’s biggest and most influential pro-immigration groups — the National Immigration Forum, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) — collectively received more than $3.25 million from Ford Foundation since 2005.
The three advocacy groups generally support the proposed Senate bill which would give many of the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S. a path to citizenship. The bill also would allow aliens here to bring close family members into the country…
But groups supporting stronger immigration policy and tighter border control say they rely more on small donations from individuals than large foundations.
NumbersUSA, which says it has 366,000 members, saw its membership grow 50 percent since Jan. 1 and 18 percent in May, spokeswoman Caroline Espinosa said. Two-thirds of the group’s financial support comes from private people, with the average donation being $40.
“Contrary to what might be popular belief is that the grass-roots aspect is more on our side than the [pro-immigration] side,” Mrs. Espinosa said. “They have more of these organized, established types of groups funding them and driving their activism.” …
A complete list of funders isn’t available, as these lobby groups are not legally required to report their funding sources. But many major philanthropic institutions make at least part of their donor lists public, showing a strong pro-immigration bias in their donating.
The Open Society Institute, run by Mr. Soros, has given $825,000 from 2002 to 2004 to the National Immigration Forum.
Mr. Soros, who donated large sums of money in a failed effort to defeat President Bush’s bid for re-election in 2004, also has donated $525,000 to NCLR and $325,000 to MALDEF during the same period.
The Ford Foundation, with assets of more than $9 billion, is known to favor liberal causes. The foundation was significantly criticized in 2003 after it gave millions of dollars worth of grants to Palestinian nonprofit groups that later were accused of conducting terrorist activities.
The Carnegie Corporation has contributed almost $7 million collectively to the National Immigration Forum, MALDEF and NCLR since 1994.
NCLR also collected almost $2.2 million from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation from 2003 to 2005 and $425,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation since 2004.
The Rockefeller Foundation since 2004 also have given more than $1 million to MALDEF and $300,000 to the National Immigration Law Center.
About one-third of NCLR’s budget comes from foundations, NCLR spokeswoman Lisa Navarrete said, noting, however, that her group cannot use money from tax-exempt foundations for political purposes, but rather uses it to support its other functions.
“Foundation money is used strictly for policy purposes and research work,” she said. “We keep a strict line on that.”
Less than 2 percent of NCLR’s budget is used to promote its immigration agenda, she added.
“We’re a Latino advocacy group. What we do is much broader than just immigration,” Ms. Navarrete said…
Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg of the funding the illegal alien advocates receive.
Just look at who supplies the signage, transportation, lunches and walking around money for the next illegal alien rally.
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Hues Of The News: Burman On The Hot Seat
Politics Watch
The head of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News faced questioning from Conservative MPs on Parliament Hill Tuesday about what they called a "doctored photo" that appeared in April on CBC's news website.
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The public broadcaster's news web site carried an altered stock photo of the Toronto skyline that was noticeably darkened and made the smog and atmospheric haze appear much worse than in the original photo.
The altered picture of the skyline accompanied a story about the Kyoto accord and was first noticed by a Canadian conservative blogger.
During a meeting at the Commons heritage committee, Conservative MP Chris Warkentin accused the CBC of publishing a "doctored photo" that misled the public.
The CBC official was appearing before the committee as part of its study of the role of the public broadcaster in the 21st century.
"It was a complete misrepresentation," he said. "It speaks to the sensitivity that you have to engage in at CBC. Of course it wasn't intended, you ensure us, to mislead Canadians but in fact it did mislead people because it was there to support an opinion that was being brought forward with the article that it was published along with."
Tony Burman, editor in chief of CBC News, Current Affairs and Newsworld, CBC Radio and Television, said the use of the darker photo of the Toronto skyline was the result of a "process error" and not indicative of any editorial bias at CBC.
"What happened then is that a photo was retouched," he said. "It wasn't retouched for use on air . . . It got misfiled . . . It was inadvertently pulled out and used."
"It was a very subtle difference. In fact it looked very similar. We did check it. It was immediately pulled when we were aware of it. It was an inadvertent error."
Of course it was. "Inadvertent error" is the usual manner in which an original stock photo is first cropped, run through a "warming filter" to achieve the desired tone, saved with a new file name, and then uploaded to the CBC web server, before being randomly selected to illustrate a "news" item featuring a report on the economic impact of meeting the Kyoto protocols.
Someone's finger slipped.
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backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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I support Fred Thompson:
( Read on, and see if he is close enough to your beliefs for you to support- I ask no more than that )
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It comes down to trust:
Thompson was quoted expressing support for abortion rights in 1994 when he first ran for the Senate from Tennessee, although once in the Senate, he consistently voted pro-life.
He not only voted for, but was a major booster of the campaign finance reform bill that many conservatives believe infringes on free speech. And although he has been a vocal opponent of the Senate's current immigration reform bill, he supported legislation in 1998 to help illegal immigrant farm workers temporarily stay in the U.S.
Abortion:
During that same year, in the July/August 1994 issue of Republican Liberty, a newsletter for libertarian Republicans, Thompson was quoted as saying: "Government should stay out of it. No public financing. The ultimate decision must be made by the woman. Government should treat its citizens as adults capable of making moral decisions on their own."
However, Thompson's voting record in the Senate was pro-life. He registered a zero rating from Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America and a rating of 100 percent from the National Right to Life Committee.
On immigration:
"“You’ve got to secure the border first, before you do anything,” said Thompson. “The members (of Congress) say it’s right here in this bill: the border. The response is, ‘We don’t care what’s on a piece of paper — secure the border.’ The piece of paper doesn’t secure the border.”
Thompson claimed the bill now being debated in the Senate is “the same deal” offered in the 1986 amnesty: legalization of aliens in exchange for border security. He said the public won’t be fooled again."
Call me a dirty old man, but I assume if a man and woman spend a lot of time together, they sleep together- it's a normal part of a man-woman relationship:
While it is not in the realm of public policy, Thompson's reputation as a lady's man between the nearly two decades he was divorced and remarried could also come up in the presidential race.
During a meeting with House Republicans in April, he reportedly said: " I was single for a long time, and, yep, I chased a lot of women ... And a lot of women chased me. And those that chased me tended to catch me."
Wright is not sure the issue will be a liability for Thompson. "I've heard a lot of people respond that at least he did it when he was single," Wright said. "He seems to have been a faithful husband when he was married."
CFR:
If you link to Youtube or whatever that video site is, they have a number of Fred interviews and speeches. In one, heÂ’s asked about McCain/Feingold and says he voted for it at the time...one reason being that he and McCain are old friends...but is now convinced itÂ’s a very bad bill and regrets voting for it. 194
Here's the bottom line, he's more conservative than George W. Bush on nearly every issue. He's more conservative than all of the current frontrunners and more electable than all of the candidates at the back of the pack. And that is good enough for me and for most FReepers. 189 posted on 06/05/2007 2:46:14 PM EDT by Spiff
A little more "Freducation" here:
First link in my files:
Age:
Is 70 the New 50?A majority of people in their sixties and seventies report being healthy and in control of their lives -- and as happy as many respondents in their 40s, according to a survey conducted for HSBC of 21,000 people in 21 countries and spanning four age groups, each decade from age 40 to age 80.
Questions about Fred Thompson--Most of your questions have been asked and answered numerous times. Nevertheless, I'll provide some links for you to research.
FRED THOMPSON: "Some people think that power should exist only at the top, and everybody else should rely on 'the authorities' for protection. . . . Whenever I've seen one of those 'Gun-free Zone' signs, especially outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable citizens, I've always wondered exactly who these signs are directed at. Obviously, they don't mean much to the sort of man who murdered 32 people just a few days ago."
Definition of Political Courage (Fred Thompson Alert!)--" Anyone who has taken the time to read all of FredÂ’s pieces will realize Fred says out loud what regular politicians wonÂ’t. "
That's because being a career politician is not the most important thing to Fred Thompson.
He does not have the desire to become a career politician, nor crave, nor lust for power to be the President of the USA, all he wants is to serve and to do what is right and good for our country, so Fred has nothing to lose if he speaks his mind.... which is refreshing.
I think that his attitude and message will resonate with most of the average American people, and once he enters the race, he will leave the rest of the pack behind him in the dust.
Thompson: 'charisma out of his ears'
Fred Thompson Quotes
"Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks."
"You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you."
"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
"Is it really in our countryÂ’s best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? DoesnÂ’t such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'?"
"I think Roe vs. Wade was bad law and bad medical science. And the way to address that is through good judges."
"I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody."
"You know, marriage is between a man and a woman, and I don't believe judges ought to come along and change that."
"I'm against gun control generally. You know, you check my record. You'll find I'm pretty consistent on that issue."
"The court [by overturning the D.C. gun ban] basically said the Constitution means what it says, and I agree with that."
"We've got a situation where people could give politicians huge sums of money, which is the soft money situation at that time, and then come before those same politicians and ask them to pass legislation for them. I mean, you get thrown in jail for stuff like that in the real world."
"I'm concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million [illegal immigrants]. So that's why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary."
"If Saddam Hussein was still around today with his sons looking at Iran developing a nuclear capability, he undoubtedly would have reconstituted his nuclear capability. Things would be worse than what they are today."
"Wars are full of mistakes. You rectify things. I think we're doing that now."
"I'd do it [pardon Scooter Libby] now. This is a trial that never would have been brought in any other part of the world. This is a miscarriage of justice."
"We've got an entitlement program that's bankrupting us. We've got things going on in Thailand, in Indonesia, in places that nobody ever talks about anymore that could impact on us."
"They're [the Red Chinese] still a totalitarian government that is building up their military tremendously and has 200 missiles pointed toward Taiwan."
Impeachment:
I support FDT's analysis on why he voted to acquit Clinton on perjury and that would launch such a poster in to hyperdrive hysteria. And then I would ask did you even bother to read the analysis of this great legal intellect in the person of Senator Fred Thompson?
http://www.australianpolitics.com/usa/clinton/trial/statements/thompson.shtml
Fred on illegal aliens:
Fred's voting record is strongly pro-life.
http://postpolitical.com/ppblog/2007/03/19/fred-thompsons-voting-record-by-issue-category/
Also found this article from a more credible source than the blog source on this thread:
http://www.nationalreview.com/daily/nr070600.html
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The best endorsement:
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06/06/2007 1:37:57 PM PDT
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backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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The arrogance is stunning! Not give it to you? It's our money bee - otch, not yours!
Bush will not be Invited to Speak at Republican Convention [Heard on Hardball] [Vanity]--Speculation, rumor, and troublemaking... But it may well turn out to be true. Nobody cares that the Democrats hate Bush, but the way things are going at the moment
the base no longer likes him much either... Immigration is the problem, but it also makes people more resentful about some of the other things. This isn’t the first time Bush has gotten together with Teddy Kennedy
to push something over on the American people. There was No Child Left Behind, there was the medicare drug bill, there have been a ton of expensive spending bills, there was Harriet Miers, there’s Gonzalez and the broken Justice Department...He has betrayed America by failing to enforce the law
and rewarding lawlessness.
Like so...
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06/06/2007 4:24:19 PM PDT
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backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
To: All
I support Fred Thompson:
( Read on, and see if he is close enough to your beliefs for you to support- I ask no more than that )
▲ Click to see where he stands on the issues. ▲
Last trade:
Thompson: 26.3
Giuliani: 24.0
Romney: 21.5
McCain: 15.6
America's Insidious Descent Towards the Third World
Group That Helped Defeat Senator Abraham Vows to Defeat GOP Amnesty Supporters
Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation estimates that the net cost of amnesty over the next four decades will be approximately $2.5 trillion. Keep that in mind when you hear proponents of the legislation citing the misleading CBO figures they contrived to manufacture.
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Amnesty Bill Reflects Two Americas --Those of us who see this issue as a clear case of amnesty for as many as 20 million illegal aliens are viewed by the elites as rubes, bigots, extremists, liars and now “nativists.”
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The History Of Gun Control Part I (Sandy Froman On The Origins Of The Gun Control Fraud Alert) ***In the 1960s, gun control came back with a vengeance. Modern liberalism became the dominant political philosophy in this country. And after the deaths of JFK, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., an all-out national push for gun control was launched. ****
Ah yes. I remember it well.
1961. Thomas Dodd and Emanual Cellar said “We don’t want to take your guns away. We only want to register handguns! Long guns will not be affected.”
1963. All guns now must be registered and five shot bolt action Army surplus rifle imports banned.
1968. Today we make America safe by taking the guns out of the hands of criminals.... Syndon Johnson signing the 1968 Gun Control Act. (The Nazi weapons law rewritten).
1972 “All ‘Saturday Night Specials’ must be banned!”
1976 “All handguns must be banned!”
1981. “The NRA is a rifle organization! They should give up their handguns and they can keep their long guns.”...Actress Lee Grant on GMA.
1988. All military style Assault rifles ahd handguns must be banned!
2001. All >50 Cal rifles must be banned!
When they say they donÂ’t want to take away your guns remember this.
They lied to us in 1961.
They lied to us iin1963.
They lied to us in 1968.
They lied to us in 1972, 76, 81 and they are lying to you now!
The Kingdom Made Her Slouch
Megan Stack writes a fascinating account of her experiences as a woman in Saudi Arabia, stationed there for the last four years by the Los Angeles Times. If anyone wonders what being a woman in Saudi Arabia means, Stack gives a firsthand account of the demeaning and oppressive existence that all women -- Western or otherwise -- endure in the Kingdom. For Stack, the abaya that Saudi law required her to wear not only symbolized her oppression, but actually seeped into her psyche:
As I roamed in and out of Saudi Arabia, the abaya, or Islamic robe, eventually became the symbol of those shifting rules. I always delayed until the last minute. When I felt the plane dip low over Riyadh, I'd reach furtively into my computer bag to fish out the black robe and scarf crumpled inside. I'd slip my arms into the sleeves without standing up. If I caught the eyes of any male passengers as my fingers fumbled with the snaps, I'd glare. Was I imagining the smug looks on their faces?
The sleeves, the length of it, always felt foreign, at first. But it never took long to work its alchemy, to plant the insecurity. After a day or two, the notion of appearing without the robe felt shocking. Stripped of the layers of curve-smothering cloth, my ordinary clothes suddenly felt revealing, even garish. To me, the abaya implied that a woman's body is a distraction and an interruption, a thing that must be hidden from view lest it haul the society into vice and disarray. The simple act of wearing the robe implanted that self-consciousness by osmosis.
In the depths of the robe, my posture suffered. I'd draw myself in and bumble along like those adolescent girls who seem to think they can roll their breasts back into their bodies if they curve their spines far enough. That was why, it hit me one day, I always seemed to come back from Saudi Arabia with a backache.
The kingdom made me slouch.
Like most people, I find the experiences of Westerners in foreign lands intriguing, and not just for the supposedly odd behaviors of the natives. It's interesting to see how Westerners bring their own assumptions and values to their travels, and how they mesh or clash with reality. After all, one hardly can have studied Saudi Arabia at all without knowing of the impulse to cover and hide women that the Saudis have, but knowing it is far from living it, as Stack discovered.
Just the act of covering herself created a cognitive dissonance for Stack. She had little awareness of exposing herself before traveling to Saudi Arabia, but when she was able to finally shed the abaya in public -- on the plane out of Riyadh -- she felt strangely immodest. Wearing the abaya on some level made her buy into the male fear of the feminine in Saudi Arabia, which might explain why so many Saudi women see nothing wrong with the tribal customs of total submission to males. They've lived an entire life under the abaya.
One passage struck me in particular as revealing. Stack met a couple who had traveled abroad and educated themselves in the West. When they lived outside of Saudi Arabia, the wife was independent, outgoing, and able to take care of herself. When they moved to Saudi Arabia, she could not do any of those things -- and the husband realized that she had become a dependent, an added burden. The system traps everyone, but no one seems ready to change it, and certainly not the religious police that Stack narrowly avoided on one occasion.
This also points out the dangers of moral relativism and multiculturalism. Obviously Stack objects strongly to the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia, and rightly so. However, a multiculturalist would probably criticize that objection as a result of Western projection -- especially since it was Stack who went to Saudi Arabia. She could find herself accused of American cultural imperialism, and in fact had that experience when talking with some of the women. Yet, Stack was expected to abide by that culture while in Saudi Arabia, while some Muslims who emigrate to the West demand that we respect that culture when they arrive here, arguing for multiculturalism that doesn't exist in their homelands (and that's not limited to Muslims, either).
Be sure to read the entire article. I doubt the Los Angeles Times will want to send another woman to Saudi Arabia for a lengthy assignment after reading this -- but would that conflict with our own cultural norms and legal requirements?
LA Times staff writer Megan K. Stack has a must-read piece about gender apartheid in the Saudi Arabian theocracy: In Saudi Arabia, a view from behind the veil.
(You can bypass the registration by following the link from this Google News search page.) link: 175 comments
Naked. Brutal. Cale Hahn, an American Gentile living in Texas, pens the most powerful straight painful glimpse of the low state of the world. I had to run the whole thing. I had to.
The War's Upon Us
by Cale Hahn
We have come to the end of the road.
"We hoped for peace, but no good has come. A time of healing, but there was only terror." (Yirmiyahu 8:15)
We have come to the end of the road. No more initiatives. No more recycling under different names the same failed formula for Middle East peace. The end of the road is conflagration, not coexistence.
The peace process is dead. The time of wars has begun. Israel has been sufficiently weakened for the Muslim world to once again attempt annihilation of the Jewish state. The facade of Muslim desires for peace is lowered, and behind the curtain looms a violent and murderous religion that brooks no opposition.
The peace process is dead. The time of wars has begun.
Islamic peace is: no god on earth but Allah. Islamic honor may only be restored by the destruction of the Jewish nation. Hence, their nakba is the "catastrophe" of Israel's birth.
The Muslim nations are actively preparing for war; to declare there is hope for peace given the mountains of evidence to the contrary is manic delusion. Unfortunately, those who say these things are currently running the country.
This is precisely the reason the Muslims will soon attack. Israel is led by a coalition of political hacks who exhibit colossal incompetence and cinematic buffoonery. They possess no will to fight beyond a staged photo op. They are hollow men, empty shells without convictions and without courage beyond self-preservation.
As Ehud Olmert confessed, "We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies."
In previous wars, Israel was armed with superior US weapons systems, while the Muslim armies fielded inferior Soviet-bloc material. Though significantly outnumbered, Israel possessed enough of a qualitative advantage to overcome significant quantitative disparities.
Not so anymore. The Muslim nations are armed with the latest Western weapons platforms and, for the first time, possess not only numerical superiority, but qualitative parity with Israel in many areas. Under the auspices of enlisting Muslim support in participating in its "War on Terror," the US has armed Israel's enemies with its latest weapons systems. Examples include Harpoon anti-ship missiles, F-16 fighters, Apache helicopters, Abrams main battle tanks, JDAM bombs, AWACS radar planes and Avenger Air Defense Systems.
Israel has voiced deep alarm to Washington at Muslim weapons parity vis-a-vis the Jewish state, but to no avail. Washington continues arming Israel's enemies, knowing these systems may soon be employed against the Jewish state.
Along with Western weapons, the Muslim armies possess advanced Russian, Chinese, Iranian and North Korean rockets. These will target Israel from the Golan to Eilat, employing the successful strategies garnered from the Second Lebanon War. Utilization of chemical, biological or nuclear munitions cannot be ruled out.
The most likely casus belli is an Iranian terror proxy launching attacks against Israel's borders, forcing Israel to respond in kind. The situation will quickly deteriorate to include rocketing from Syria, Lebanon, Hizbullah, Iran, Gaza and other Palestinian enclaves. These attacks will dwarf the Second Lebanon War in terms of intensity and accuracy.
The Muslim nations will then follow the rocket blitz with conventional forces to rid the Jews from Palestine. Dar-Al-Islaam, at last.
Indeed, this is precisely the reason the US has restrained Israel from responding to the rocket barrages on its southern border. The US is deeply concerned an Israeli invasion of Gaza will trigger a regional war or possibly World War III.
Knock one domino down and it is connected by a tripwire to others, which will blow from Gaza to Afghanistan in a quick succession of cataclysmic explosions. Islamic war planners deliberately engineered the structure as such.
America is feverishly working to keep this from happening. US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack cautioned, "We've urged them [Israel] to consider the consequences of defending themselves."
But global war is precisely the goal of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It is the prerequisite for the Islamic Messiah (the Mahdi) coming upon the world stage to lead the Islamic ummah ("nation") to global victory. Ahmadinejad believes he is the one chosen to usher the Mahdi's coming.
The whole of the Middle East is a mountain of munitions atop a rumbling, ash-belching volcano. Late summer or fall appears to be the intended point of detonation. When it erupts, it will blow the US from the Middle East and propel Israel to the brink of destruction.
These are heady days for the ummah. They are drunk on the power their oil wealth brings. They sense a moment of historic tectonic shift is soon to occur, an imminent glorious triumph over the infidel.
Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons and is restoring Islamic honor by standing up to America. Every Muslim nation is undertaking a massive armament campaign, ironically provided in large measure by America. The US fatally misidentified their enemy as terrorism, when in actuality the enemy is Islam, from which terror springs.
The Muslim nations haven't made the same mistake. They know America's veneration of its economy, and they intend to bring it down in a ruinous, smoldering heap. They intend to drive the US from the region and shut the oil taps to its markets. The OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s is returning, only this time it will be utilized to a much greater effect, intended to destroy the US economy.
America should prepare for numerous terror attacks using conventional and non-conventional munitions. A Department of Homeland Security agent said Al-Qaeda has several South American training camps to instruct terrorists in Spanish and the Hispanic culture and infiltrate them across the US-Mexico border as illegal immigrants. He stated there are several thousands of terrorists who have successfully infiltrated the US and who are awaiting orders to strike.
The coming conflagration in the Middle East may be the trigger to activate these cells; almost certainly, should a shooting war develop between America and either Syria or Iran.
Since the Rabin-Arafat handshake fourteen years ago, 2,000 Israelis have been killed, 14,000 wounded and unnumbered hundreds of thousands psychologically scarred. Israel was willing to pay the price for peace. Time and again, Israel gave faith. Time and again, faith was violated. Time and again, Israel hoped. Time and again, Israel was targeted.
Israel will learn its lessons. After the war, all of Jerusalem will be free from Islamic domination. No area will be off-limits to Jewish worship.
After the war, all of Jerusalem will be free from Islamic domination.
Israel will not fall. He who keeps her will neither slumber nor sleep. HaShem is faithful to His promises and His people: "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge." (Psalms 46:10-11)
In a break with protocol, I would like to make a personal appeal. I would like to bring my wife and little girl to Israel to live and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel during this difficult period. I'll need work, and a place to live until we get situated. I lived a year in Israel in 1999 and am well acquainted with the difficulties of living there. But what an amazing country! If there is a place for us, we would come. Please e-mail Texaswatcher@yahoo.com with any suggestions in this regard.
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FYI, FWIW:
Skull n Bones History
Once Upon A Life
The Jewish state fought a Six Day War;
The source for all of the following is a 1967 issue of Life Magazine entitled “Israel’s Swift Victory.” It’s a 100 page special edition, so I won’t attempt to retype all of it here. Instead, I’ve cherry-picked those articles that resonate most strongly insofar as they contrast with today’s view of Israel and her role in the Middle East. Unlike today’s media, both at home and abroad, the Life editors admired Israel tremendously for standing up to the overwhelming odds the Arab nations presented, and triumphing. The very first story identifies Israel as a beleaguered haven for refugees, surrounded by an ocean of hostile Arab nations. [...]
After admiringly describing the IsraelisÂ’ offensive strike against the Arab air-forces, which gave Israel the decisive advantage in the War, Life addresses IsraelÂ’s first incursion into Gaza. IÂ’m sure youÂ’ll appreciate how the Gaza area is depicted:
"Minutes after the first air strike, a full division of Israeli armor and mechanized infantry . . . was slashing into the Egyptian-held Gaza Strip. A tiny wasteland, the strip had been given up by Israel in the 1956 settlement and was now a festering splinter — the barren harbor for 315,000 refugees bent on returning to their Palestinian homes and the base for Arab saboteurs."
[...]
With the elan and precision of a practiced drill team, Israel’s largely civilian army — 71,000 regulars and 205,000 reservists — began its swift mobilization to face, if necessary, 14 Arab nations and their 110 million people. As Premier Levi Eshkol was to put it, “The Jewish people has had to fight unceasingly to keep itself alive…. We acted from an instinct to save the soul of a people.
Again, can you imagine a modern publication pointing out the vast disparity in landmass and population between Israel and the Arabs, or even acknowledging in the opening paragraph of any article that Israel has a right to exist?
No, I can't actually. I wonder why that is?
IT'S NOT JUST CAPE WIND, but a far more general problem:
Al Gore has been hectoring Americans to pare back their lifestyles to fight global warming. But if Mr. Gore wants us to rethink our priorities in the face of this mother of all environmental threats, surely he has convinced his fellow greens to rethink theirs, right?
Wrong. If their opposition to the Klamath hydroelectric dams in the Pacific Northwest is any indication, the greens, it appears, are just as unwilling to sacrifice their pet causes as a Texas rancher is to sacrifice his pickup truck. If anything, the radicalization of the environmental movement is the bigger obstacle to addressing global warming than the allegedly gluttonous American way of life. . . .
These dams provide cheap, renewable energy to 70,000 homes in Oregon and California. Replacing this energy with natural gas -- the cleanest fossil-fuel source -- would still pump 473,000 tons of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. This is roughly equal to the annual emissions of 102,000 cars.
Given this alternative, one would think that environmentalists would form a human shield around the dams to protect them. Instead, they have been fighting tooth-and-nail to tear them down because the dams stand in the way of migrating salmon. Environmentalists don't even let many states, including California, count hydro as renewable. . . .
Their opposition to nuclear energy is well known. Wind power? Two years ago the Center for Biological Diversity sued California's Altamont Pass Wind Farm for obstructing and shredding migrating birds. ("Cuisinarts of the sky" is what many greens call wind farms.) Solar? Worldwatch Institute's Christopher Flavin has been decidedly lukewarm about solar farms because they involve placing acres of mirrors in pristine desert habitat. The Sierra Club and Wilderness Society once testified before Congress to keep California's Mojave Desert -- one of the prime solar sites in the country -- off limits to all development. Geothermal energy? They are unlikely to get enviro blessings, because some of the best sites are located on protected federal lands.
Kind of makes you doubt their sincerity. If global warming is the crisis they say, then all the other stuff is secondary. If all the other stuff isn't secondary, then do they really believe it's the crisis they say? It's just a Laurie David of a different color.
MORE ON L'AFFAIRE BRITTNEY, here, and here. Also here, and a poll, here.
UPDATE: Beware the bloggers' bile! "The smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere. Anyone who doesn't move in lockstep with the most extreme voices is savaged and ridiculed." Even when, as in Brittney's case, the ridiculers are confused.
ANOTHER UPDATE: More here. And here.
Because nothing says “serious anti-globalism activist” like clown makeup, a big rubber nose, and a bright blue wig: Protesters reach G-8 security fence.
HINTER BOLLHAGEN, Germany - A motley band of more than 800 protesters — some sporting fluorescent wigs and clown noses — scampered through woods and across fields to evade police patrols Wednesday and reach the barbed-wire fence sealing off the Group of Eight summit.
Protest organizers claimed victory for getting as far as the barrier, despite being doused by water cannons, struck with tear gas and tackled as they blocked several roads — including the route from the airport as world leaders flew in for the summit. “We have successfully taken over all roads leading to Heiligendamm,” said Christoph Kleine of the Block G-8 group. “We are very happy with that.”
About 150 members of a group calling themselves the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army — dressed in wigs, clown makeup and noses, and occasionally in drag — blocked one of two road entrances to the summit site for several hours near the town of Hinter Bollhagen, about two miles away. Dozens of police officers in riot gear moved the protesters out of the way, then marched them miles along a dirt road back to Kuehlungsborn. The protesters playfully waved at helicopters shuttling dignitaries into the summit site.
“The Clown Army — we kicked!” said one of the group’s leaders, a Welshman carrying a frilly white umbrella who identified himself only as “Sgt. Sideshow Bob.”
The demonstration began with some 3,000 protesters setting out from an encampment on a winding march of several hours, during which they scattered to evade police. By late afternoon, some 800 of them had reached the fence, while 10,000 others had gathered at other areas where demonstrations had been banned, police said.
At one section of the fence, protesters chanted “Peace” and “Free G-8! Free G-8!” while riot police with helmets and transparent shields massed inside. Some then pelted police with stones before authorities turned the water cannons on them, police spokesman Manfred Luetjann said.
Wed, Jun 6, 2007 at 3:37:00 pm PDT | link: 100 comments Some of these so called 'clowns' have been merrily spraying acid into the faces of riot police.
Disharmony: The New Tolerance (Left Wants To Force Heterosexuals To Accept Gays Alert)
PSC bars coal-fired plant (Florida)--Well, Floridians will just use oranges for energy I guess. And tourists.
Could Your Kids' Toys Be Poison?
Five-Fold Increase In Drug Fakes Over 2006 (Europe)
Dobbs: Does Congress really need a Swaziland caucus?
Genes behind serious illnesses discovered
New tuberculosis vaccine is developed--Just in time for 20-60 million formerly illegal aliens!
Censoring Of Internet Is 'Spreading Like Virus'
Vietnamese Consumers Looking at Chinese Goods with Wariness
Dog Food Sold At Wal-Mart Being Recalled
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Yeah. sure. My neighborhood once was one of the most prestigious in the DFW metroplex, but thanks to GWB and his “protection of the borders” it has become riddled with crime and my daughter’s high school is comprised of one-third illegals.
¿Qué? GOP en español por favor.
I have made a promise to myself that if any of the Repubs vote for this thing (amnesty) I will not vote for them next time around. That is the only thing they pay any attention to.
June 7th, 2007
From ABC News:
Helping or Hurting Hillary?
The New York Times Ran a Review Trashing Its Own Reporters’ Biography of Clinton...Of course we had already reported on this peculiar phenomenon from the Washington Post, when they trashed their star reporter Carl Bernstein’s epic on Mrs. Bill Clinton.
I know it doesn't matter because it was never the real motive of the Democrats' anti-war propaganda campaign. It was never about WMD, it was never about 9/11, it was never about national security - it was the Democrats getting back into power. That's a fact and still is.
- Katharine Harris contributed to this report.
Resources:
-- "I found Saddam’s WMD bunkers," The Spectator, April 20, 2007
-- "I found Saddam's WMD bunkers," full article, MelaniePhillips.com
-- "Ex-Officer Spurned on WMD Claim," New York Sun, Feb. 8, 2006
-- United Nations Security Council Report, May 28, 2004
-- "UN inspectors: Saddam shipped out WMD before war and after," WorldTribune.com, June 11, 2004
-- "Report: U.S suspects Iraqi WMD in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley," WorldTribune.com, Aug. 26, 2003
-- "Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms," The Washington Times, Oct. 28, 2004
-- "Photos point to removal of weapons," The Washington Times, Oct. 29, 2004
-- "2 Russian generals given awards in Iraq on war eve," The Washington Times, Oct. 30, 2004
-- "Pentagon ousts official who tied Russia, Iraq arms," The Washington Times, Dec. 30, 2004
A helluva way to score some extra frequent flier points
"It really appears that that plane of sheep were really lucky they had two old sheepdogs aboard."
From the Boston Globe, via Blackfive:
Shortly before landing, Bob Hayden and a flight attendant had agreed on a signal: When she waved the plastic handcuffs, he would discreetly leave his seat and restrain an unruly passenger who had frightened some of the 150 people on board a Minneapolis-to-Boston flight Saturday night with erratic behavior. Hayden, a 65-year-old former police commander, had enlisted a gray-haired gentleman sitting next to him to assist. The man turned out to be a former US Marine.
"I had looked around the plane for help, and all the younger guys had averted their eyes. When I asked the guy next to me if he was up to it, all he said was, 'Retired captain. USMC.' I said, 'You'll do,' " Hayden recalled. "So, basically, a couple of grandfathers took care of the situation."
I'm with Blackfive on this, Hayden's wife's comments at the end of the piece are perfect.
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Comments (2)"The woman sitting in front of us was very upset and asked me how I could just sit there reading," Katie Hayden said. "Bob's been shot at. He's been stabbed. He's taken knives away. He knows how to handle those situations. I figured he would go up there and step on somebody's neck, and that would be the end of it. I knew how that situation would end. I didn't know how the book would end."
IRS Updates National Research Program for Individuals [Super-Audits]--There is always a line between enforcing the law and abusing the citizenry.
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06/07/2007 4:35:28 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
To: All
Senate Bill Flushed--The worst part is, the idiots in congress who fought for this bill will get re-elected. I keep getting bombarded with solicitations from the RNC. I really hope they’re hurting for money. Not a penny from us till they do what we want about securing the border. I, for one, am damn sick and tired of being called either crazy or evil or bigoted for wanting our borders secured and illegal aliens brought under control.
9 Comments » here. "...rejoicing over the stinging rebuke this undoubtedly sent to President Bush... I’d like to see them expend just half the effort on border security they’ve invested on this nonsense..."
Hugh Hewitt has posted Senator Lott's hilarious oration in support of the immigration bill cramdown. It's unbelievable, but you gotta believe -- once you listen to the audio clip Hugh has posted with the transcript. So Trent Lott looks to Ted Kennedy for intellectual guidance? My God. To comment on this post, go here. Posted by Scott at 06:04 PM | Permalink
What a collection of doofusses.
If I can’t trust them to protect our borders, protect my money from being re-distributed to others and don’t know the real definition of amnesty - how can I count on them for anything ?
“I don’t want to live in Mexico, Quebec or Brazil. But now I guess I have no choice, since ‘open borders’ means I can never leave.”
www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56054
I am so dissapointed. I have backed President Bush since 2000. I backed him through the invasion of Iraq and voted for him in the 2004 Presidential election. I was disapointed with his selection of Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court. I was disappointed that he asked for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld AFTER the Republican loss of both the House and Senate. Immigration drew the line. I can’t believe he would support and even encourage such a disasterous measure. We’ve gotten the best we’re going to get from him. Now we’ve just gotta hang on and ride his term out.
why it failed.
It’ll be back again but the genie’s out of the bottle. It’s radioactive now.
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I guess those 300 emails and calls I made weren't a waste of time... those postal letters to my congresscritters and phone calls seemed to have worked.
George Arbusto got a big one, too. Guy violated oath of office for backing this pile of steaming sh*twagon trying to turn America into a third world craphole.
I like it, I like it, yes I do. I wonder what Glick thinks of this? Eldad is the real thing. Want to know more? Check out my interview and frank discussion with Arieh Eldad and a couple of other bloggers here. Ted Belman writes here;
MK Arieh Elded: A Knight Amongst Israel’s Ruling Class
By Out-Of-The Box Thinker
[..] MK Eldad is forming a new party with a clear vision and a clean record. He hopes that this party will draw the other right to center leaning parties into its fold in order to reduce the excessive number of parties operating in the government. In a new party, all settlements will return to be under the Israeli laws rather than, as at present, under the defense ministry, which will not allow as much as building a new dog’s kennel.
[..] Another pressing issue is the disappearing of Jewish identity and a lack of Jewish education. Faulty moral and spiritual clarity is what permits some Jews to continue believing that sacrificing what G-d mandated to the Jewish people will placate the Arabs and Muslims. Post Zionism was a basis for the formation of Kadima. But leaders that are not Zionists have no ideology. Their lack of Zionist ideology has stripped the country of an essential historic, religious, and cultural imperative. “Ariel Sharon took the backpack of Jewish history off the nation’s back,” says Eldad.
Kids in Israel grow up with a sense of patriotism, but they lack a basic understanding of history and of their roots. As a result, they are ill prepared for their military service. They cannot comprehend why Israel must struggle to fight to hold Hebron, Rachel’s tomb, Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, Shchem, Har Eival (here Joshua built the alter to renew the nation’s covenant with G-d).
“Half of the IDF soldiers have never been to Jerusalem,“ Eldad mutters, “There is a need to begin afresh, almost like going back to grade one, almost like starting Israel all over again. We do not need to tell anything new, only amplify what we know already.”
Where post Zionism and corruption are existential threats, Jewish spirit is the cure. Eldad is working to fuel the youth of Israel for the nation’s future wellbeing. He had formed AmiChai, a youth movement whose motto is “Our Hope, Our Youth, Our Future.” Where Israeli youths have shield away from rabbis and religious leaders wanting to force religion on them, Eldad is not a threat. He has recognized his own quality and the value of Israel’s youth and is reaching out to foster their roots. Without establishing roots and investing in the youth who are the future, the nation will not survive.
On other issues, MK Eldad stated that the issue of Iran has been mishandled like so many others. The government has claimed that Iran is an international problem not an Israeli one. Israel should not have ceded responsibility in the matter. By peddling Iran onto the rest of the world, Israel has essentially permitted Iran to become no one’s problem. Israel should have declared Iran to be an imminent, genocidal, nuclear threat. Because Israel cannot contend with Iran with conventional weapons alone, like the US can, it should have threatened to use any other means available to minimize the Iranian threat. The world would have been much more responsive in dealing with Iran had Israel taken this course.
Eldad, like many others, believe the world has found a new way to express Antisemitism less overtly. Now, antisemites are using the “anti-Israel” catchphrase instead. In England, for instance, the strong winds of Antisemitism are blowing in Israel’s direction. The British are cultured, educated, and they love animals just like the Germans did. The Holocaust compelled the world to view the practice of Antisemitism as heinous. Antisemitism, however, is a long embedded and deep seeded. Not even a catastrophic manifestation of Antsemitism, like the Holocaust, can suppress this warped belief system indefinitely. When it eventually bubbles back to the surface, it must find a new outlet of expression. England’s long history of Antisemitism is wearing a new coat these days. British political correctness deems bias against Israel to be perfectly acceptable. The British are rapidly approaching the point of no return.
Israel is not only accountable to Israelis but also to all Jews. The future of Israel’s Jewish character will be determined by the Knesset. If Israelis and Jews do not give Israel the ultimate push it needs to move forward, the situation will worsen until Israel is no more. MK Arieh Eldad is seeking to reverse this tide is. Not supporting his efforts is like abandoning Israel altogether.
They have NO RIGHT to build "Muslim" wash stations in public places on the taxpayers' dime (well a bit more than that.) But it's just that simple, they have no right.
You can't say Merry Christmas or have Easter bunnies bouncing about but we have to be subjected to body washing in public places? Yech.The University of Michigan-Dearborn plans to spend $25,000 for foot-washing stations, making it easier for Muslim students to practice their religion but sparking questions about the separation of church and state.
Trent Lott, Unplugged: "Are We Men Or Mice?--Trent Lott—it was bad enough he sold out America on Feb. 12,
1999, during impeachment when you rigged the trial of Bill Clinton.Now you tried to sell out America once again, on June 7, 2007,
Unsecure security at the FBI (Appalling incompetence at FBI, DoE)
MEPs call for ban on fast cars
Stupid Men--The guy’s first mistake was not taking charge when she gives him the talk and moves out. Get a lawyer immediately, file for divorce, wish her the best, and start dating better women.
...and when the Femherroids make that charge on you, the shoe fits.
'Give Genetic Test Secrets To Insurers'
ANOTHER MYTH
BUSTED? "He’s the ultimate symbol of radical chic but was Che Guevara really a homophobic, racist square who personally ordered the jailing and executions of innocent men, women and children?"
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06/08/2007 4:07:54 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
To: All
A nice pick-up for Fred
Jon Henke, who did excellent work during his stint as new media advisor to the Senate Republicans, has moved on to join New Media Strategies where he will work with the Fred Thompson campaign. Henke urges his readers at the QandO blog to take a look at Fred. Not that we need much encouragement -- nearly every Republican I know plans to do just that.
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A LOOK AT
FRED THOMPSON'S FUNDRAISING RESULTS so far...these are the results of the first 48 hours since they launched
imwithfred.com
MICKEY KAUS has a roundup on the immigration bill's failure.
June 8th, 2007
From The Hill:
Kennedy: ‘We are not giving up’
By Klaus Marre
June 08, 2007
Senators in the bipartisan coalition that tried to reach a deal on a comprehensive immigration bill vowed Friday that their fight is not over, despite Thursday night’s failed cloture vote.
“We are not giving up,”
Why are the people who are so hell-bent on destroying our country always so damned tenacious?
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From the open borders and cheap lawn care lobby, the Washington Post:
A Failure of Leadership in a Flawed Political Culture
By Dan Balz...What a pack of lies from top to bottom.
The Washington Post put everything they could behind getting amnesty for illegal aliens, only to be frustrated by these damn citizens.
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"We simply got it - whether we liked it or not"
More are questioning British immigration policy, defying the predictable reactions;
Given the scale of new arrivals here and the extent to which they are changing our society, the quality of debate over the desirability of this upheaval is miserable. And we all know why. Those who favour open borders have in effect gagged opponents by accusing them of "racism". You don't have to be against welcoming newcomers to be smeared as a Nazi sympathiser. You just have to argue that it's an important matter, with some serious downsides, that deserves proper analysis.
On that basis, I'm sure that this column will be met with abuse from the pro-immigration lobby. I'll be branded as a closet racist for reflecting the concerns of millions of decent Britons who are worried about what's happening to their country.
Cowed by human-rights campaigners, refugee groups and duplicitous politicians (mainly Labour and Lib Dem), seeking electoral advantage by demonising rivals who propose controlled immigration, we have created a monstrous democratic deficit.
In December 2004, just as the wave of arrivals from eastern Europe was becoming too big to ignore, a survey for the Economist revealed that nearly three quarters of British people believed that too many immigrants were coming here. The Government refused to listen; it didn't want to know.
Labour encouraged, in some cases by stealth, one of the most impactful challenges to British life without asking anyone for permission or approval. Unrestricted immigration did not feature in any of Tony Blair's election manifestos.
We simply got it - whether we liked it or not. Since Labour came to power 10 years ago, British citizenship has been granted to one million foreign nationals. More than 150,000 were given a passport in 2006, four times the number who were awarded the privilege in 1997. The rate of overseas settlement in Britain is running at its highest ever.
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Edwards Will Fight Islamic Terrorism with a 'Peace Corps'
You can’t make up this kind of stuff. John Edwards is trying to get to the left of Dennis Kucinich (who wants to replace the Department of Defense with a “Department of Peace”) by proposing that we “fight” a nonexistent war on imaginary terrorists by creating a peace corps.
The Outline of the Edwards "Smart, Mission-Focused" Plan to Fight Terrorism is here (includes video highlights of yesterday's speech in New York).
Follow the link to Edwards' site and read this dimwitted candycane fantasy. The plan Mr. Edwards presented yesterday — which he dubbed "A Strategy to Shut Down Terrorists and Stop Terrorism Before It Starts" — calls for a 10,000-person "Marshall Corps" to deal with issues ranging from worldwide poverty and economic development to clean drinking water and micro-lending.
"A bumper sticker solution for a bumper sticker problem."
The Nutroots love it: Daily Kos: Edwards Opens a Can of Whuppin’ on Rudy. link: 278 comments
Teen Dies From Muscle Cream Overdose (Ben Gay Alert)
We're Due (for a major terrorist attack?)
Two Heftiest Stars Found in Milky Way
On the Rocks - The Martini Girl Sold in to Sex Slavery
Global Warming Reversal: Sea Surface Temperatures Plunge to Coldest Temperatures in Six Years.
Ghost Towns Appear in Spain as Decade-Long Boom Ends (Great Read on the Housing Bubble)
Registry doesn't stop all telemarketers, so some citizens fight back--posted the company's phone number on http://www.800notes.com, a privately run database of suspected illegal telemarketers.
Liberals Need Not Fear the Right to Bear Arms
Democrats Seek Formula To Blunt AMT One Plan Would Impose Surtax Of 4.3% on Richest Households--Democrats invented the AMT so I hope it stays forever and keeps hitting all those in the middle class ...
Gangs: Small-town America's big-city battle
Vandals kill 400 minks, two dogs at farm
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posted on
06/08/2007 2:38:16 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
To: All
Rush has been hitting it - or his callers have - with these little slices of Amerislamic pie.
An elementary school sub is horrified by lesson plan which included an hour of prayer led by a Muslim woman from the community. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) hat tip Aldee
EJO writes me, "Roger Hedgecock is filling in for Rush L. today. He had another story similar to the one I told you about yesterday form Buffalo; N.Y.. This one involves Carver Elementary School in San Diego; Cal. Supposedly a school employee, not a teacher , comes in, and reads to the girls from the Koran. I'm not sure if this is an all girl school. Like the other story, it'll probably be on Rush's Website latter on today."
Anyway, the story is that this is an actual lesson plan where a Muslim woman, prays to Allah, with the children, for an hour. But there is no such lesson plan for Jew, or Christian studies.
We must stop this Islamic brainwashing and take back this country.
Yesterday (from EJO as well):
Are you listening to the Rush Limbaugh show today? A guy called in saying that his kid's school had a field-trip to a Mosque. And even though the school had scheduled the trip last April, they only gave the parents a two day notice. The field-trip occurred three days ago in New York city. The school said that they were incapable, or unable, or some- thing like that, to schedule a trip to a church, or a synagogue.
Here it is: How to deal with a trip to a mosque
CALLER: I'm trying to find out how I should deal with the education system here in New York.
RUSH: Oh.
CALLER: When they schedule a field trip to a mosque for sixth grade children under the guise of diversity and broader understanding. They gave us a two-day notice on this field trip. You get the notice on June 4th for a June 6th field trip so that we didn't react.
RUSH: Wait. The field trip was yesterday then?
CALLER: Yeah. It already happened. But I'm just trying to figure out, you know, because they want to do this every year. I'm just like, "I can't believe this is happening here. What happened to the separation of church and state?" In our school, you're not allowed to have Christmas, Easter, or Halloween acknowledged at all in the school.
RUSH: This is absurd. They'd never do a field trip to a Catholic church.
[...]
RUSH: How old is your child?
CALLER: He's in sixth grade. That's 12 years old.
RUSH: Twelve years old. Did he tell you what went on there?
CALLER: Oh, no, he didn't go. I wasn't allowing him to go to that. I absolutely thought that was wrong.
RUSH: Oh, oh, oh, oh, I misunderstood. I thought he did go, and you didn't find out early enough to stop it.
CALLER: No, that's what they tried to do. The school tried to give you a two-day notice that there's a field trip. That never happens, either, by the way. All parents get a two-week, usually three-week notice on a field trip. This one was rifled through on purpose. We looked at the sign-off sheet; it was dated April 20th, so this was scheduled April 20th. And then on June 4th they give us notice, just so we didn't say anything. This was all so intentional and very frustrating as a parent, because to me this is an indoctrination of your children.
RUSH: Yeah, this is a huge, huge problem. How many other parents did not let their kids go?
CALLER: It got on the radio here. I haven't got a count yet. They just went back to school today. So we're trying to figure that out. But there was one woman that went that talked about this, and she said she went in there, and they said they weren't going to do anything in the mosque. The leader in the Muslim community was reading from the Koran to the children in the mosque on this field trip. They actually asked the girls to wear head scarves, by the way.And again, if that happened in a church to the Muslim child, the ACLU would be here so fast, and here on this side, we've got nothing. I'm asking for your brilliant input because what can you do here? I'm absolutely floored. This is in Hillary's great land, by the way, of New York.
UPDATE: Jon has A Roundup of Western Government Enforced Dhimmitude
Kill Bill
As I'm in Texas at the moment, I guess this could be considered local content.
John Hawkins emails;
I've got a scoop from a Senate aide on the behind-the-scenes maneuvering in the Senate that killed the immigration bill yesterday. You may want to check it out to see why every conservative who opposed the bill owes a big debt of gratitude to Jim DeMint.
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TrackBack (0) "I was beginning to think that there were simply not enough people left in the USA who had the courage to defeat this bill in the face of such a humongous lobby - much of it that was based on
playing the racism card."Iowahawk did a very funny parody...
Bill Quick adds: "I have to say that the right blogosphere as a whole did an excellent job of revealing and mobilizing this sentiment. . . . Ten years ago, this bill would have been passed and signed by the president before most Americans were even aware that it existed. Those days are over...we acted as instant response teams to the lies being told about the bill by
the hacks, flacks, and whores desperate to pass it on behalf of
the special interests they fronted for.." RASMUSSEN ON
WHY THE IMMIGRATION BILL FAILED: The next thing we need to start pounding and screaming into their awareness is: close the borders, enforce our existing laws. THEN, we will pay you some attention on what to do next!
June 8th, 2007
From those beneficents at Reuters:
G8’s $60 bln AIDS and Africa pledge criticized
Fri Jun 8, 2007
By Madeline Chambers and Gernot Heller
HEILIGENDAMM, Germany (Reuters) - World powers on Friday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had offered little fresh cash for the poor.
How much do condoms and DDT cost? Besides, doesn’t “development” cause global warming?
And who are these “campaigners” who are telling us what to do with our money?
And for that matter, where does the G8 get off deciding how to spend our tax dollars?
Shouldn’t they stick to regulating the weather?
13 Comments » "Bono does such a good job of throwing other people’s money at poverty...this $60 billion is OUR money that they’re demanding."
Boo-fricken-hoo!
No doubt another ploy by the Halliburton hegemony, to keep the sheeple in a state of mindless panic so they can be manipulated into launching wars for oil while ignoring the root causes of terrorism and oppressing innocent Muslims: Official says JFK terror probe widening. link: 338 comments
Hillary and Karl Marx: Henry Lamb analyzes Clinton's words in light of freedom, 'fairness'
InfoUSA's Vinod Gupta refuses explanation to shareholders about millions spent on Clintons--according to Dick Morris’ new column, this is the same company who’s been paying Pelosi’s son $180,000 / year while not having his quit his first job. . . If this isn’t bribery, what is?
The Culture Of Corruption, Presidential Version (Alcee Hastings, Hillary's Campaign Co-Chair)
Genetic find set to transform medicine and serve millions
A snapshot of America (Bookstore Turns Down AC Because Of Global Warming. Result: Grumpy Customers)--A male voice groused, rather loudly, “Well, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard! If you’re running an a/c but still not cooling the building then you’re wasting energy. Either turn it off all together, or turn the temperature down, but don’t run a huge unit without without cooling the building down; that’s like running a car engine in a driveway. This is typical Al Gore liberal nonsense, make everyone suffer the same while they feel noble because they care so much about the environment!” “America will be a third-world country by next year if Bush has his way and keeps the Mexican border opened,” someone else said
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posted on
06/09/2007 4:35:46 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
To: All
The Zero-to-60 Thompson Run --The former senator was simply minding his business when out of nowhere there arose a powerful Draft Fred movement, the likes of which have rarely been seen in American politics.
FR's "powerful Draft Fred movement" began 12/04/2006"
WSJ: [Conservatives opposed to Bush’s immigration reform] “don’t want [’them’] here legally!”
Michelle Malkin’s new Vent takes the WSJ editorial board to task over its claim that “the National Review crowd” is engaging in “irrational fear mongering” in its resistance to the Bush Immigration Reform bill—providing the self-satisfied board yet again (for better or worse) the actual arguments against the proposed legislation compromise, arguments the WSJ editorial board pretends do not exist or have never been expressed coherently or sans froth.
Instead, they claim—in a fascinating (and quite instructive) seven minute internal editorial-meeting video—that the objection to the President’s pro-business policy is essentially “cultural”—which, let’s be honest, is merely code for “these bigoted Buchananites are trying to turn both the gordita and the roofer into endangered species.” Which is absurd; not only do I own Colors on DVD, but the truth is, some of my best friends have teardrop tattoos and El Caminos, and like to hang rags out of the back pockets of their Dickies lowriders.
So not only is such a suggestion condescending, lazy, self-serving, and dishonest—but it likewise ignores that the American people en masse have expressed a genuine concern about border security.
In fact, many of us who oppose the Reform bill are quite open to expanding guest worker programs and even expanding the number of immigrants granted citizenship each year. But what we won’t accept is this cavalier—and quite cynical, actually—dismissal both of the law (are we prepared to say that other laws can be followed just as capriciously?) and, more generally, of the actual concerns over the social ramifications that have little to do with xenophobia and more to do with a system that has increasingly marginalized assimilation in favor of the very kind of multiculturalist ethos that has poisoned much of western Europe.
Were I convinced that we were committed to scrapping the “quilt” metaphor in favor of the melting pot metaphor that has, since the epistemological paradigm shift toward a mainstreaming of postmodern philosophical assumptions, been savaged as “cultural colonialism” by academics whose careers are dependent upon maintaining cultural tensions and competing grievance narratives, I’d be more willing to consider granting broader latitude to these proposed reforms.
But as it stands now, until we either adhere to current law—or else scrap it entirely—I simply cannot support what amounts to rewarding lawbreakers and punishing those who, for following our laws and respecting our process, are still on the outside looking in.
If the WSJ editorial board is looking for people to pick fruit cheaply, then let them push for an expanded guest worker program. But pushing for a reform that doesn’t address the concerns of American citizens—concerns that are (with certain high-profile exceptions) legitimate and well-thought out, not thinly-veiled racism or nativism—before addressing the concerns of illegals, smacks of elitist social engineering, and in the process insults those conservatives who are able to balance their fidelity to the rule of law with their desire to see open markets, a larger labor force, and the commingling of ethnic traits that has made the US so culturally rich and prosperous.
Posted by Jeff Goldstein @
12:10 PM
43 Comments "What killed me about the bill was its unseriousness." 'I’m from Missouri - show me you can control the border and I’ll be happy, just like Jeff, to turn up the immigration quotas. Until then, forget it.'
Wikipedia's gay thought police
"A Boston Globe article talks about crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, specifically a stalker she’s got, and the fact that earlier, she was sleeping with the wife of an FBI agent, and the FBI agent tried to kill his wife over the affair.
"I checked out the Patricia Cornwell article at Wikipedia, and found no mentioned of the FBI agent (Eugene Bennett) who tried to kill his wife / Patricia’s lover.
I found this odd, as I’d think that a crime writer having a murder plot against her lover would be noteworthy.
"So I checked the talk page, where I found that:
“This article is within the scope of WikiProject LGBT studies [ project ], which tries to ensure comprehensive and factual coverage of all LGBT related issues on Wikipedia.”
"Wow.
"So there’s self-acknowledged, organized spin, to make sure that certain bits of information go down the memory hole.
"Fascinating..."
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Note to TIME Magazine columnist Joe Klein: suck it up, Joe. Some of us have been targets of the insane bile that pours out of the left-wing blogosphere for years. It didn’t just start recently, and it’s not unusual or rare. The left-wing haze in which you live parted for a second and you saw what the Nutroots are really like. Welcome to the reality-based real world.
And your attempt to blame it on “right-wing talk radio” is just plain dumb.
Beware the Bloggers’ Bile.
You and your magazine helped build this constituency, Joe. Own it. Be proud of it.
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Weapon of future tested at Edwards
Damned Lies And Rosie's Statistics
Nation Up in Arms at Olmert's Golan Offer
It's all about you
Welcome to the post-Kyoto era--Good bit of strategery here. Scrap Kyoto, and agree to “talk” about the “problem”. Talk, talk, talk, and do nothing. Liberals love this kind of feel-good, do-nothing crap, and it’s exactly what we need for this situation — a delaying tactic to stall until it’s thoroughly discredited.
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06/09/2007 10:06:06 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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▲ Click to see where he stands on the issues. ▲
In the "Oh, for God's sake, gimma a break" department:
Exporting jihad to South America
At Junkyard Blog See-Dubya catches the signficance of the recent arrest by the DEA of the Syrian arms dealer seeking to share his provender with South American amigos: "Exporting jihad to Colombia's FARC." Jerry Seper's Washington Times story on the arrest is here. Please check 'em out.
Al-QaedaÂ’s Shadowy Presence in India?
The Threat of Bioweapons
Joe Klein is shocked at the vitriol that spews from the left side of the blogosphere
Joe was on the receiving end of some of that vitriol and was so shocked by it he felt the need to warn everyone about it.
But the smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere. Anyone who doesn't move in lockstep with the most extreme voices is savaged and ridiculed--especially people like me who often agree with the liberal position but sometimes disagree and are therefore considered traitorously unreliable. Some of this is understandable: the left-liberals in the blogosphere are merely aping the odious, disdainful--and politically successful--tone that right-wing radio talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh pioneered. They are also justifiably furious at a Bush White House that has specialized in big lies and smear tactics.
It's Rush Limbaugh's and George Bush's fault? You can't be serious, Joe. You're trying to get back on the leftist bloggers' good side, aren't you.
Charles Johnson at LGF adds: "You and your magazine helped build this constituency, Joe. Own it. Be proud of it."
Update: Rick Moran notes that Joe is already feeling the heat from the nutroots for his criticism:
Klein is already hearing it today for daring to call the liberal blogs what they are; raving lunatics who cannot tolerate an iota of dissent from their worldview. Will Joe Klein do as most other liberals do who find themselves in the crosshairs of lefty blogs and go before them with bended knee and abjectly apologize for his heresy? Or is he enough of an independent thinker to tell them to take a hike?
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06/09/2007 4:32:02 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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Grass Roots Roared and Immigration Plan Collapsed--I have a HUGE problem with THIEVES breaking into my country, and sucking up public money, which takes food out of MY children’s mouths. I have a HUGE problem with illegals driving drunk, raping women, and marching in the streets making obscene gestures and DEMANDING things. I have a HUGE problem with illegals STEALING all the construction jobs from Americans. I want them OUT.
Come here legally- like my family did, and both sides of my wife's German family- fully support.
Scoff at our laws? Sneak in and gloat? Big Problem. No compromise. No Amesty.
Just doin' the Vote Fraud Americans are too shiftless to commit:
Doctor Debbie Frisch, Roadkill of the Information Superhighway, Internet Pestilence, and General Public Nuisance, surfaces once again....
A typical comment?
by 'Rabbit'
DEB’s pole-dancing was NOT funny!"
Closing Pandora’s Box
Why England is rotting
Retiree healthcare's soaring tab staggers public agencies [tax hikes to pay the bill?]--Government workers are a class unto themselves, which no doubt explains the increased arrogance of the public sector in general. http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/atoz/article_923538.php
The history of gun control, part 1--a total fraud, full of lies and fabrications.
Media Miss Irony of Anti-Gun Rep. William Jefferson ( Democrat, LA! ) Possessing Firearms
1968 Redux: Echoes of Vietnam in Iraq--especially from the press
The Primal Roots of Red Hair Revealed
What They Don't Tell You: Abortion and the Risk of Premature Birth-- The notion that there might be adverse consequences from abortion is anathema to devotees of the Culture of Death.
Botox Rumours Put Spite Into White House Race
Star Parker: War, lies and Hillary Clinton--I certainly look forward to having a President whose husband deceived her regularly, went behind her back to have sex with anyone but her and, time and again, made her look like a fool. On top of that, I look forward to a President who researched the classified details of why a war with Iraq was the right thing to do yet still has the chutzpah to say that she was bamboozled. With a little luck, we'll get another eight years of this hillbilly circus...
This is why people hate Toronto (AKA: 'San Francisco - North' ... go figure, eh?)
Revealed: the ad men behind the logo fiasco --Looks a little bit like my dog hunkering down to take a....well, you know.
Charlotte man converts car to veggie oil, gets fined by state_(heh tax boy)--What about those obviously commie hybrid folks? Are they filing an estimated fuel tax payment for the miles driven under battery load? After all, if the car gets 40 mpg instead of 20, ain't that a good case for them paying for the other 20? It seems like this looney state thinks so.
Beef Recall Expanded Millions of Pounds
7,000
posted on
06/10/2007 4:20:14 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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This whole "Rudy was told" lie is based on a misleadingly edited video on Prison Planet dot com. I expose the whole this on my blog after the first ambush on Rudy.