Posted on 08/24/2009 11:06:56 AM PDT by kristinn
That argument is over, except to absolute fools.
Can someone please forward this information to FDNY organizations, and other organizations with a need to know....the public must be informed about the blasphemy this disgusting president has in store for the observance of 9/11 Despicable man....and Saul Alinsky would be proud!
Oh, I’m just kidding... But good grief. Isn’t there anyone in the Air Force that can torture this clown and make him resign his commission?
These people don't live in our America. They might as well be aliens.
http://thecityfix.com/sustainable-cities-and-hip-hop-creating-a-new-urban-beat/
“Yesterday, on his 48th birthday, Pres. Barack Obama announced the Green the Block campaign “to ensure that low-income communities and communities of color have the resources and platforms needed to access the benefits and opportunities of the growing clean-energy economy.”
Launched in partnership with Green For All and the Hip Hop Caucus, the nationwide campaign will rely on a coalition of organizations to educate and mobilize young people about how to take action on things like installing energy-efficient light bulbs in neighborhood homes, planting a community garden, and writing letters to local officials asking them to promote the use of more fuel efficient vehicles.
Green the Block is just one example of how youth culture — and in particular, hip hop culture — is transforming the way we advocate for sustainable cities and transportation. And it’s not just in the United States.
Take, for example, the events planned for the World Urban Forum in 2006, where artists like Curtis Clearsky and other UN-HABITAT Messengers of Truth performed at the Global Hip-Hip Mainstage to inspire young people to change their cities for the better. The United Nations recognized that “Hip-Hop is more than a genre of music or dance. It is a social movement.”
It’s about mainstreaming the idea of safer, cleaner and more accessible urban communities, and you can see it happening through what’s commonly referred to as “the five elements:” emceeing, breakdancing, deejaying, beat boxing, and the art of graffiti. Here’s a few examples from around the world:
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Obama, himself, is the quintessential emcee for America’s youth, supporting the power of hip hop as a vehicle for change:
“I love the art of hip hop; I don’t always love the message of hip hop. The thing about hip hop today is that it’s smart, it’s insightful, the way that [rappers] can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. A lot of these kids are not going to be reading The New York Times. The question, then, is, what’s the content? What’s the message?
Art can’t just be a rear view mirror; it should also have a headlight out there pointing to where we need to go.”
Barack “B-Rock” Obama meets with Ludacris. Photo via Snicka.
His decision about “where to go” was made clear through the establishment of the White House Office of Urban Affairs, which proves his commitment to “promote strong cities as the backbone of regional growth.” This summer, the Office kicked off a National Conversation on the Future of America’s Cities and Metropolitan Areas, essentially convening a whole community of urban policy “emcees” who will be talking about “ways in which Washington can be a partner and catalyst for community-based solutions, instead of a bureaucratic obstacle.”
Another public figure who comes to mind as a hip-hop-inspired voice for a new generation of sustainable city advocates is Majora Carter, who wrote a $1.25 million federal transportation planning grant to conduct a feasibility study for the South Bronx Greenway. As an African-American woman who grew up in the South Bronx, Carter understands that some people think cleaning and greening a city will “kill” hip hop because it takes away from the suffering, which often fuels the art form. But, she said in an interview, “if we have industry that employs people and communities — that are beautiful — then hip-hop can just flourish. It will just be something new. It will be happy hip-hop!” Hence her motto: “Green the Ghetto!”, which is also the title of her organization’s blog, which recently posted this pic...”
Yeah, every time you throw your beer can or twinkie wrapper or used condom on the street, it's art. But hey, let's spend millions greening and cleaning -- then we can throw all our crap on the street again -- for the suffering, bro. And the art.
this needs to make it to the MSM. it is news.the MSM did not even report on the hip hop caucus empowered with 0bama muchless this.
Always follow the power.
Always follow the control.
Use other people's money (tax dollars) to control the ones you are using and throw them the occasional bone to feed on. Example: Lennox and 9/11.
This is all a load of course. “Green the Ghetto” is another way of coming through the back down to raid the kitty all in the name of the Green Cult led by Van Jones. And like the good little Commie he is-he will attempt to re-write the history of 9/11 and make it into something of their own image and imagination “Community Service Day”. That's what Communists do well, re-write history.
At this rate, Obama could have his “just as well funded as the military” army of “community organizers” in no time.
“...And that's why as president, I will expand AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots and make that increased service a vehicle to meet national goals like providing health care and education, saving our planet and restoring our standing in the world, so that citizens see their efforts connected to a common purpose. People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve. Because when it comes to the challenges we face, the American people are not the problem — they are the answer.
So we are going to send — we're going to send more college graduates to teach and mentor our young people. We'll call on Americans to join an Energy Corps to conduct renewable energy and environmental cleanup projects in their neighborhoods all across the country. We will enlist our veterans to find jobs and support for other vets, to be there for our military families. And we're going to grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered, and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy.
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded....”
-Barack Obama, Colorado Springs, July 2, 2008
Ping. See 166 in particular as it relates to the Big Picture and “Plan”.
K, I think you probably have an interesting story! As a JAG, they gave me credit for time served (in law school and passing the bar) and made me a 1Lt for six months. After six months I hadn’t killed anybody, so they made me a captain. Really pissed off my best friend, who was a 2Lt when I was a civilian and still a 2Lt when I pinned on the railroad tracks!
Colonel, USAFR
I don’t think they’ve tried hard yet. Ve haff vays...
Colonel, USAFR
Yep,that about sizes it up.
The tree needs refreshing...BADLY.
Even better, they should go back to Adam Smith and the OTHER thinkers of the Enlightenment who provided the basis for their ideas.
Some things change with time. Human nature never does. The Founding Fathers KNEW this. That is why they established a Republic with checks and balances and a Bill of Rights. Never, in their most horrid nightmares, would they have believed that future generations of Americans, nourished on wealth, apathy and ignorance, would be willing to trade their freedom to the kind of thieving rascals who have become career criminal politicians.
America does NOT need a House of Lords.
Its PAST time Congress was cleaned out and the entrenched special interests represented by people like Pelosi, Reid, Spector, Grassley, Hatch, Snow, Durban, the Kennedy Klan, etc, were flushed down the sewer of history where they belong.
We NEED term limits!!!!!!!!!
What a great week this has been for international terrorists! First, Scotland sends the convicted Pan Am bomber home to a hero’s welcome in Libya. Then, President Obama and Attorney General Erik Holder appoint a special prosecutor to persecute the CIA agents who interrogated the mass murders, while they simultaneously do everything within their power to make it virtually impossible to successfully prosecute the 9/11 conspirators {no evidence-no case}. Now for the icing on the cake, Obama has appointed a radical, Marxist, Lennox Yearwood to lead the 9/11 observances.
The moral of the story is that elections have consequences. Americans ignored Obama’s dubious background, and this is what we get in return; an anti-American, terrorist sympathizing, disloyal, Marxists-Socialist usurper from Kenyan. Way to go America!
And this is no joke. These people are playing for real. This is a war we are in. We either win it or we lose it. As history as our guide, it's going to be very dangerous and uncomfortable to not be one of them if they win.
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