"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, August 24, 2013

OBAMA AND SHARPTON SELFISHLY EXPLOITED TRAYVON


OBAMA NEVER SAID THAT ANY ONE OF THOSE 10,000 VICTIMS LOOKED LIKE HIM OR ANYONE ELSE IN HIS FAMILY.

OBAMA HAS NEVER SAID A SINGLE MEMBER OF OUR MILITARY - OR ANY OF OUR UNIFORMED SERVICES - WHO DIED IN SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY LOOKED LIKE HIM OR ANYONE IN HIS FAMILY.

THE ONLY REASON OBAMA AND HOLDER AND SHARPTON AND JACKSON AND THE MEDIA SINGLED OUT THE TRAYVON CASE WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF LOSING FLORIDA AND NEEDED TO STIMULATE BLACK TURNOUT AND FELT THE WAY TO DO THAT WAS BY PLAYING THE RACE CARD.

SCARING THEIR FACTIONS IS THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN GET VOTERS TO TURNOUT.

FLUKE TOLD WOMEN THAT REPUBLICANS WOULD TAKE AWAY THEIR BIRTH CONTROL AND MAKE THEM HAVE BABIES.

THE TRAYVON CASE TOLD BLACK THAT REPUBLICANS WOULD GUN THEM DOWN IN THE STREETS.

THE MEDIA PLAYS ALONG.

AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY FACTIONS FALL IN LINE.

IT'S ALL SO VERY PAVLOVIAN.



NIDAL HASAN CONVICTED FOR JIHAD MURDERS

The jihad murderer at Fort Hood, who was able to go that far because of political cowardice in the army, has been convicted for his crimes:
A jury of military officers found U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan guilty of multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in connection with a shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 that killed 13 people and injured more than 30 others.

The verdict was widely expected given that Maj. Hasan admitted at the start of the court-martial he had shot soldiers who were preparing to deploy to Afghanistan, saying he was trying to defend fellow Muslims who he believed had been unfairly targeted by U.S. forces.

In total, the Army psychiatrist was convicted of all 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder against him.

"This day has been a long time coming" said Lovickie Byrd, a Killeen resident who worked as a civilian finance specialist at the building where the shooting spree occurred on November 5, 2009—one of the worst incidents of soldier-on-soldier violence in U.S. military history.

Ms. Byrd wasn't wounded but said she continues to suffer post-traumatic stress from living through the event. "I'm very happy," she said. "This verdict is one step closer to closure."

A sentencing hearing will begin Monday to decide whether Maj. Hasan receives a sentence of life in prison or death. The hearing will be held by the same panel of jurors.
Let's hope he gets the latter sentence. Another trial to be faced in the depths of hell would do him quite a lot of good. He deserves to have his head sliced off the same way the jihadists in whose name he acted are behaving. A very repulsive man he is, and deserves to be punished with a taste of his own poison.

Update: the National Post says that death is something both relatives of the victims and the culprit seek. Again, no matter what Hasan wants, that should not deter justice from handing him the death sentence he fully deserves. All they need to do is execute him in a way he might not quite expect, one that would be very, very painful.

There also appears to be a misleading view presented in here by an Islamist:
Martyrdom manifests itself in the Islamic holy book, the Qur’an, in two ways, said Emran El-Badawi, director of the Arab studies program at the University of Houston.

The shahid — or martyr — is adopted in one sense from Christianity and other early religions as someone who dies for the faith and goes to paradise alongside prophets and saints. Martyrs also appear in the Qur’an as fallen soldiers or those who died in battle, he said.

Later, in the 9th and 10th centuries, the idea of martyrdom evolved to include people who died accidentally, such as in a fire. But only in the past century have some Muslims regarded those who die in jihad, or holy war, as martyrs, El-Badawi said.

“They feel that they are defending the faith,” he said. “And this is, I think, the most extreme interpretation of what a martyr is in Islam.”
Uh uh. Jihad with shahidism has been part and parcel of Islam since its inception in the 7th century. And Judaism and Christianity views martyrdom as someone who was murdered for his/her beliefs, not someone who dies in battle attacking civilized societies. For example, there was a woman named Hannah with 7 sons in Biblical times who were murdered for their beliefs. Houston's got one very atrocious man working at their varsity.

LIBERALS WANT TO END A POLICY THAT SAVES THE LIVES OF MINORITIES

MORE PROOF THAT LIBERALS ARE THE REAL RACISTS.

AND ANOTHER THING: COLIN POWELL IS A RACIST:
Moments after Gov. Pat McCrory left the stage, former Secretary of State Colin Powell took aim at North Carolina's new voting law Thursday, saying it hurts the Republican Party, punishes minority voters and makes it more difficult for everyone to vote.
"I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote," said Powell, a Republican, at the CEO Forum in Raleigh.
ANYONE WHO ARGUES THAT VOTER ID LAWS ARE RACIST IS PROJECTING:

MINORITIES ARE EVERY BIT AS ABLE TO GET AND SHOW ID AS ANYONE ELSE.

WE ALL KNOW THAT THE LAW IS AIMED AT ENDING DEMOCRAT PARTY FRAUD, AND THAT'S WHY THE LEFT IS UPSET.

POWELL IS DUTIFULLY CARRYING WATER FOR OBAMA ON THE VOTER ID ISSUE FOR THE SAME REASON HE VOTED FOR HIM:

BECAUSE OBAMA HAS A LOT OF PIGMENT IN HIS SKIN.

LIBERALS PLAY THE RACE CARD BECAUSE THEY REALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE LEFT.


IN 2002, KRUGMAN SUGGESTED THE FED CREATE THE HOUSING BUBBLE (WHICH BURST IN 2008 AND UTTERLY WRECKED OUR ECONOMY)

THE LEFT IS FOND OF BLAMING OUR DISMAL ECONOMY ON BUSH AND THE GOP AND THE GREED OF THE 1%.

IN FACT, IT'S THE RESULT IF POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS AND THE LIBERAL INTELLIGENTSIA.

PROOF:

Dubya's Double Dip?
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 02, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip.html
The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn't a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back down again. This was a prewar-style recession, a morning after brought on by irrational exuberance. To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.
GEORGE BUSH TRIED TO REIN IN THE HOUSING BUBBLE BUT WAS PREVENTED FROM DOING SO BY THE DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE. HERE'S PROOF - FROM THE NYTIMES:

NYTIMES IN 2003: BUSH PROPOSED TIGHTENING OVERSIGHT OF FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC - THE DEMOCRATS OF CONGRESS BLOCKED IT

SEEING IS BELIEVING:

September 11, 2003
New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.
Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.
The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.
The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt -- is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and critics have said Fannie Mae does not adequately hedge against rising interest rates.
... Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.
''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
''I don't see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,'' Mr. Watt said.
THE ENTIRE CRISIS IS THE FAULT OF THE DEMOCRATS OF CONGRESS.

AND LIBERALS LIKE KRUGMAN.

MORE PROOF HERE AND HERE AND HERE AND HERE.

AND GET THE GRETCHEN MORGENSON BOOK!

Friday, August 23, 2013

BARACK HUSSEIN NICKLAUS



GREAT VIDEO/AUDIO: JFK DEFENDING TAX CUTS

VIA FL:

"NETWORKING" VERSUS "DISCRIMINATION"


  • Gays hiring gays = networking.
  • Blacks hiring blacks = networking.
  • Whites hiring whites = racism and discrimination.

There is a Black Congressional Caucus - and people feel this is fine; membership is limited to people of a certain race.

Yet, if some Congressmen wanted to start a "Straight White Men's Caucus" Michelle Obama would declare war and Chris Matthews head would explode.

I think most people are sick and tired of this bullshit.

And we don't want the remedy to be a "Straight White Men/s Caucus".

We want affirmative action and quotas and set-asides and racial caucuses - and the like - to end.

We want applications for schools and jobs to stop asking what race you are and what gender, too.

We want us all to be happy with who and what we are in private, and when we're with family and in our neighborhoods and places of worship. Then, be any hyphenate you want.

And we want us all to be happy with who we are in the public, civil, secular arena - AMERICANS.

Just saying...


OBAMA IS THE RING-MASTER OF THE RACE-BAITING 3-RING CIRCUS...

... AND SHARPTON IS JUST THE CLOWN...


AND UNFORTUNATELY FOR AMERICA, TOO MANY AFRICAN-AMERICANS ARE FALLING FOR THIS FREAK-SHOW.

I IMPLORE MY BLACK FELLOW AMERICANS:

DON'T BE DUPES. LOOK AT THE NUMBERS:

SINCE WW2, NO PRESIDENT HAS BEEN WORSE FOR BLACKS.


ROCKETS FIRED FROM LEBANON

An al-Qaeda cell operating in Lebanon fired rockets at Israel:
Four rockets were fired on Israel Thursday, the army said, adding that two hit civilian areas causing no casualties while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed retaliation.

Lebanese security sources said unknown gunmen fired the rockets from the southern port of Tyre into northern Israel while an Al-Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for the attack.

"A barrage of four rockets was fired at the civilian communities of northern Israel," the army said in a statement.

The army said its Iron Dome missile defence system "successfully intercepted" one of the rockets between the coastal towns of Acre and Nahariya.

"Two other rockets landed in populated areas causing damage, but no injuries," the statement added, while the fourth may have fallen into the sea or elsewhere.

A security source in Lebanon said four rockets were fired at Israel from locations "south and east of Tyre," in southern Lebanon and residents in the area said they heard four blasts.
The IAF shot back, and here's the disturbing part:
The Israeli military and a Palestinian official say the Jewish state's air force struck a target south of Beirut.

Friday's air raid came a day after militants fired four rockets from Lebanon into Israel. Three hit Israel and the fourth was intercepted.

No one was injured by the rockets, and the Israeli military dismissed the attack as an "isolated incident."
Just what's that supposed to mean? This actually strikes me as offensive, because it could happen again, and it's most definitely a serious case whenever a terrorist gang fires rockets at people. I think the army owes an apology.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

THE BUZZ BUILDS: VIDEO: OBAMA IMPEACHMENT LOOKING MORE LIKE A REAL POSSIBILITY

VIDEO HERE OF THREE TOWN-HALLS IN WHICH THE IMPEACHMENT TALK - HITHERTO IN WHISPERED WISHFUL THINKING - WAS OUT LOUD AND ON THE TABLE.


THE SIMPLE TRUTH ABOUT MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE AKA: IRRITABLE CLIMATE SYNDROME OR "WEATHER, NOW WITH TAXES"

MAN-MADE CO2 CAUSES SUMMERS TO BE WARMER/COOLER/WETTER/DRIER.

AND IT CAUSES WINTERS TO BE COLDER/WARMER/SNOWIER/DRYER.

GOT THAT?

(HAT TIP CNBC'S JOE KERNEN)



HUH!?!?: OPRAH'S PENIS DRESS???


ALL THREE ARE RIDICULOUS. ONLY ONE IS REAL.

ORCA???:




WHAT KILLED CHRIS LANE?


CHRIS LANE IS NOT THE WHITE TRAYVON MARTIN.


EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: HAGEL'S VOICEMAILS FOR GENERAL AL SISSI

HILARIOUS!

LETTER PAGE FROM X-FACTOR 81

Here's a letter page I scanned from an old issue of X-Factor 81 from March 1992, featuring at least 3 replies pertaining to the 76th issue, which was part of a story told in that series and the Incredible Hulk written by Peter David as a metaphor for the Iraq war, and the 76th issue had a storyline that alluded to Islamic honor killings:
The story, whose synopsis you can find on Leader's Lair (and which is compiled in X-Factor Visionaries - Peter David Vol. 2, which I own a copy of), was set in a fictionalized country called Trans-Sabal, and in this particular issue, Wolfsbane had been struck across some distance by an explosion. She was found by a brother and sister named Jolel and Sandah who were loyalists to the dictator named Farnaq Dahn. They drive her back in their car to their home in one of the country's slums, where the brother tells Wolfsbane what he thinks of America. Later, when Quicksilver comes around to find her, as the brother is thinking of stabbing Rahne Sinclair with a knife, the sister, who's inclined to help her, stuns him with a bottle, then cuts her loose from the ropes she was tied with. But then, Sandah gets stabbed to death by her brother, in the allusion to Muslim honor murders, which enrages Wolfsbane so much she unleashes all hell upon the brother and mauls him to death for his crime. The story also gives an idea what some Islamists think of the USA.

In the subsequent reader correspondence, we see two different takes given. Interestingly, the first one does acknowledge that Jolel "was also influenced by a religious leader" (and in the issue, when Rahne tells him she's a God-fearing Christian, he says, "Even if you were what you say, well...here's proof of our superiority: where do you go to worship your pathetic little Judeo-Christian god?"), but seems to fall back on an argument of "let's not fall into the destructive trap of stereotyping whole races because of the actions of a few". I don't think David was doing that, but it would still be a lot easier to make an argument like that if it weren't for the fact that in regimes where the population is raised under socialist-like mindsets - religious or otherwise - they can follow a very destructive thinking path. The sad truth is, it's not easy to expect them to take a more positive view of life and outsiders when totalitarian ideologies are all they know, or want to. Only if we figure out what they've been raised on and how to offer them some new food for thought can we change it for the better.

The second letter also alludes to Islamic honor murders, and how in Michigan, the problem has surfaced too, as he alludes to a case where "a young man turned himself in to the police after killing his sister because she had attended a party at late hours." And, "the issue of cultural norms was raised; he was from a society where brothers or fathers can dictate how the women of the family should behave."

But the disappointing part is that neither of these letters explicitly mentions Islam as the motivating belief system. We can only wonder: did the writers chicken out? Or, did the company editors omit and alter the letters so they wouldn't mention anything thought-provoking? If the latter is the answer, it highlights the cowardice of the editors for not having the courage even then to identify certain belief systems. Even prior to 2001, it's not like Hollywood and other mediums didn't shy away from serious focus on Islamofascism, or paint false, superficial and misleading pictures.

The X-Factor/Hulk tale by David is a pretty good one, but too bad there was political correctness lurking in the background in some way or other. It's also, lest I forget, the kind of story you may not see being written today.

UPDATED: PERFECT SYMBOL FOR THE POSTMODERN LEFT: BRADLEY MANNING WANTS TO TRANSFORM HIMSELF INTO A GIRL

Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman. 
“I am Chelsea Manning. I am female,” the Army private wrote in a statement read on TODAY Thursday. “Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition.” 
Manning, 25, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday after having been found guilty of 20 charges ranging from espionage to theft for leaking more than 700,000 documents to the WikiLeaks website while working in Iraq in 2010.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY THE PERFECT METAPHOR FOR THE POSTMODERN LEFT, WHICH HATES AMERICA AND THE WEST.

HE STOLE NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS AND EXPOSED THEM TO HURT THE USA AND THE WEST.


NOW - TO BE HAPPY AND FULFILLED -  HE WANTS TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO A FEMALE AND HAVE HIS PENIS CUT OFF.


AND THE LEFT SEES NOTHING WRONG HERE.


WHY DOES THE POSTMODERN LEFT HATE THE USA AND THE WEST?

SIMPLE:

IN THE TWISTED LITTLE PROPAGANDIZED MIND OF THE POSTMODERN LEFTIST, AMERICA - AND THE WEST THAT WOULD FALL WITHOUT AMERICA'S SUPPORT - IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

  1. MOST OF THE WORLD'S GENOCIDE - ESPECIALLY RACIAL GENOCIDE; 
  2. SEXUAL REPRESSION;
  3. CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING;
  4. AND POVERTY - ESPECIALLY THIRD WORLD POVERTY.
ALL OF THESE ARE DEMONSTRABLY, FACTUALLY FALSE - PROOF HERE.

POSTMODERNISTS WILL ARGUE THAT THEY LOVE AMERICA. BUT THEY REALLY ONLY LOVE AMERICA THE WAY A NAGGING BITCHY WIFE "LOVES" THE HUSBAND SHE CAN'T STAND AND TRIES TO TRANSFORM.

THEY DON'T LOVE AMERICA FOR WHAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED UPON, HAS ACCOMPLISHED OR REPRESENTS. 

THEY HATE THOSE THINGS ABOUT AMERICA. 

THEY LOVE THE BOUNTY AMERICA LABORED TO BRING FORTH AND THEY WANT TO GET THEIR FILTHY STINKIN' PAWS ON IT SO THEY CAN DOLE IT OUT TO THEIR FACTIONS.

UPDATE: 

Addendum: SEX CHANGE SURGERY AND THE GRAMSCIAN AGENDA
Like Lysenkoist science, the postmodern assertion that the choice of male or female sexual partners is rigidly fixed at a genetic level, but that gender is infinitely transformative, that gay men cannot turn back to straight, but that men can become women and women can become men, makes no logical sense. It makes even less scientific sense.  
But it makes perfect political sense. 
The left’s version of the old racist “one-drop rule” that treated anyone with even one drop of black blood as black is to treat anyone with even the loosest claim to minority status as a minority and to mandate the irrevocable nature of that minority status.  
That is why Obama is black, rather than half- white, why Elizabeth Warren can be a Cherokee and why a straight man can become gay, but a gay man cannot become straight. [AND WHY GOV. CHRISTIE FELT HE HAD TO OUTLAW "GAY CONVERSION THERAPY".]
It is why a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man and gain an entirely new transgender minority status. 
The scientific principle at work here is the conservation of minority status.  
The left’s policies are meant to diminish the size of the majority and enlarge the size and number of minorities. 
Political diversity when applied to science logically leads to immutable homosexuality and mutable gender. It leads to a construct of race governed by a politically correct version of the one-drop rule in which racial identification always trends toward minority status, rather than majority status.  
The science is bad, but the political calculation is impeccable.  
Biology is just as irrelevant in 2013 America as it was in 1923 Russia.  
How the human body works doesn’t matter. How the body politic ought to work is of obsessive importance.  
The individual is a metaphor for the collective. 
The power of the state to transform the individual from male to female is a metaphor for its power to transform the entire nation through the transformation of language. 
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it,” George Orwell wrote in 1984. “It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.
WHAT'S THE POLITICAL MOTIVATION OF THE POSTMODERN LEFT'S EMBRACE OF TRANSGENDERISM? Simple:

By dividing the majority into a series of tiny minorities, they diminish the ability to oppose them, AND BECAUSE - AS FAVORED MINORITIES THEY BECOME PART OF THE LEFTIST COALITION QUALIFYING FOR THE PLETHORA OF DOLED-OUT GOODIES AND SPECIAL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES THE LEFT HAS MADE AVAILABLE AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE. 

"Gay marriage" actually has a similarly POLITICAL goal: 

 "Homosexual Activist Admits True Purpose of Battle is to Destroy Marriage"
And then there's this:
Children’s Television Network Launches Transsexual Superhero Show…
The postmodernist's Gramscian Agenda doesn't stop there, either: 
Gov’t-Run School Curriculum… Children Forced to Kiss Same Gender In Simulated Homosexuality (Video)
This is tantamount to the enforcement of perversion and goes beyond even the nightmarish world Antony Burgess imagined in "The Wanting Seed."

BOTTOM-LINE - ALSO FROM DAN GREENFIELD:

... why stop at gender when you can also do species? There are people who believe that their true identity is that of an animal. And who is to say that species isn’t in the mind, just like gender is in the mind?
This isn’t just a thought-experimentor satire. It’s reality.
Species dysphoria is the equivalent of Gender dysphoria. Mentally ill persons with gender dysphoria are fashionably diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder. There is as of yet no Species Identity Disorder, but that is no doubt coming.
Like Trannies, Transpecies Americans create special pronouns for themselves and insist that refusing to pretend that they’re cats or wolves is a hate crime.
Like most newly minted civil rights groups, Trannies are intolerant of Transpecies Americans accusing them of only pretending to think that they’re cats and playing the old, “How dare you compare your pain to my pain and your imaginary identity to my imaginary identity” game.
Men who claim that they were really born women based on their personality insist that the idea of men who claim they were born cats is just nuts.
“Trying to legitimize your “species dysphoria” is despicable and insensitive to people with gender dysphoria,” one site says. “Denial of a biological link to sexuality/gender-identity is harmful to all queer (LGBTQI) people.”
Identity is apparently only in the mind, until you encounter people whose identity is also in the mind and make your mind identity look stupid.
ADDITIONAL READING:
WHY THE LEFT WANTS TO DESTROY THE FAMILY
 EXCERPT:

 As the Gramsci biography puts it:
Gramsci stated that, in the West, bourgeois cultural values were tied toChristianity, and therefore much of his polemic against hegemonic culture is aimed at religious norms and values [umph added - Relipaundit]. He was impressed by the power Roman Catholicism had over men's minds and the care the Church had taken to prevent an excessive gap developing between the religion of the learned and that of the less educated. Gramsci believed that it was Marxism's task to marry the purely intellectual critique of religion found inRenaissance humanism to the elements of the Reformation that had appealed to the masses. For Gramsci, Marxism could supersede religion only if it met people's spiritual needs, and to do so people would have to recognise it as an expression of their own experience.
The destruction of the family will condemn millions of children to dysfunctional outcomes. The left would sacrifice those children - future drop-outs, wards of the State, prisoners, runaways, and suicides - in order to create a society in which everyone is essentially institutionalized from birth to the grave, and in which every decision affecting everyone's daily life is made by a bureaucratic elite and enforced by violence.

For further details, see The Road to Serfdom, the must-read and re-read book by the economist F. A. Hayek.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

CRONUT BACON CHEESEBURGER TOPPED WITH MAPLE-BACON JAM? TASTE TEST AND MEDICAL REPORTS


The result???
Here:
Chris Parnell had one thing to eat Tuesday — a cronut burger at the CNE. 
Within a few hours, his stomach pains escalated to vomiting and an ambulance trip to the hospital. A day later, he learned he was one of 34 people reporting symptoms of food-borne illness after eating at the CNE, prompting a Toronto Public Health (TPH) investigation. 
On Tuesday evening, the CNE voluntarily shut down food vendor Epic Burgers and Waffles, which sells the much-hyped croissant-donut-cheeseburger hybrid. 
“At this point in our investigation we cannot confirm the food source,” said Dr. Lisa Berger, TPH’s associate medical officer of health. “We are investigating the cronut burger, we are investigating various other food items, and we can’t confirm right now.” 
The cronut burger - a beef patty on a deep-fried croissant - was the star weird food of this year's CNE, until reports of food-borne illness brought an abrupt end to sales Tuesday evening.

TPH is focusing on people who ate at the CNE since opening day last Friday, and expects lab results from Epic Burger and Waffles food samples later this week. “We are continuing our investigation to interview these persons and identify the cause of illness.” 
Paramedics assessed 12 patients who experienced gastrointestinal problems, including vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain, at the CNE on Tuesday, said Emergency Medical Services spokesman Jamie Rodgers. 
Five were taken to hospital.
I THINK IT WAS THE EXECUTION NOT THE CONCEPT.


IRAQ SHOULDN'T GET THE IRAQI JEWISH ARCHIVES

Here's a petition against the potential transfer of Jewish archives from Iraq to back to the Iraqi government. The history:
Ten years after the US military found a trove of Jewish books, records and religious artefacts in the flooded basement of Saddam's secret police headquarters in Baghdad, the US government is preparing to ship it back following restoration.

The archive contains holy books, including a rare Bible from 1568, Torah scrolls seized from synagogues, and personal and community documents and records.
And that's why it must not go back, because:
*The archive does not belong to Iraq, but was stolen from private homes, schools and synagogues in the 1970s. It is the cultural property of the Iraqi-Jewish community. [...]

*When there were Jews in Iraq, the modern Iraqi state showed only contempt for them and their heritage. It did its utmost to persecute and destroy its ancient, pre-Islamic Jewish community. From 140,000, the community has dwindled to five people. To return the archive to Iraq will be to compound a crime: returning stolen property to those who stole it.

*Iraq itself does not have the resources to conserve and store the archive safely.

*Iraq's Jews and their descendants, 90 percent of whom are in Israel, will be debarred from access to original documents and history if the archive returns to Iraq.
So please sign on to this petition. History is a serious business, and it can't be allowed to reside in irresponsible, hateful hands.

JUST WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AND PLO NOW?

Naftali Bennett says the Oslo killing machine is dead:
The diplomatic agreement Israel reached with the Palestinians in Oslo 20 years ago Tuesday and the concept of creating a Palestinian state is dead, Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett wrote on his Facebook page late Tuesday night.

Bennett recalled his shock when he heard as a soldier that then-Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin had shaken hands with then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. He said that the past two decades had proven that Rabin made a grave mistake.

"I'm aware that the Israeli government is conducting negotiations with Abu Mazen," Bennett wrote in reference to Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "I do not believe anything will come of [the talks] and that is why I remain in this government. That being said, it is my duty to present the nation of Israel with the truth. I will do everything in my power to prevent this disaster."

Bennett said that although his party's votes against releasing Palestinian murderers from Israeli jails did not prevent the prisoner release, there was still work that can be done to prevent future steps.

"We need to truly convince the nation of Israel," Bennett wrote. "The truth is that the idea of a Palestinian state within the state of Israel is dead. The idea that most Israeli citizens took a chance on during the 1990s has been proven as killing machine. Contrary to what people say, there are quite a few alternatives to a Palestinian state."

Bennett posted the statement against the Oslo Accords the same day that Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who heads Israel's negotiating team, said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should replace Bayit Yehudi in the coalition with Labor in order to aide the peace process.
Even if this is his perception, that doesn't mean we should be naive and ignore what is being discussed now. Because whatever's going on behind the scenes could be dangerous. A sharp eye needs to be kept open and alert at all times.

RECEP ERDOGAN IS THE MODERN SUCCESSOR OF GOEBBELS

Avigdor Lieberman's made an astute comparison for the Turkish tyrant:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is following in the path of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, MK Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday. Lieberman spoke a day after the Turkish premier accused Israel of being behind the ouster of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.

"He [Erdogan] has continued Goebbels' ways," Lieberman, a former foreign minister and the leader of Yisrael Beytenu, told Army Radio.

"Those who apologized before Turkey [over the deadly Turkish-led Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010] should do some soul-searching; so should those who attacked me and Yisrael Beytenu for our criticism over Israel's apology."

On Tuesday, Erdogan said he had "evidence" of Israel's involvement in the Egyptian coup last month, citing a statement by a French Jewish intellectual during a meeting with an Israeli official.

The Egyptian cabinet rejected Erdogan's statement as baseless and "bewildering," saying its patience was running low with Turkey, one of the biggest critics of the July 3 military coup.

Israel said Erdogan's claim was not worthy of comment.
It's good that Egypt's current rulers aren't going along with this either. Turkey still remains a serious affront to civilization so long as Erdogan is reigning supreme, and he must be brought down one way or another.

BELGIUM WON'T ALLOW COUPLE TO NAME THEIR NEW CHILD "JERUSALEM"

An Israeli couple living in Belgium has run into angering red tape at the local municipality:
City Hall in Brussels, Belgium has refused to register the local birth of an Israeli baby because her parents named the child "Jerusalem." The name does not appear on an approved list of monikers for children born in the European country.

Alma Jerusalem was born to Alinadav and Hagar Hyman, Israelis who have lived and worked in Brussels for the past three years. Hagar is a security agent with Israel's El Al Airlines, and Alinadav works for the Israel lobby in the European Parliament.

"We are both Jerusalemites, we grew up in Jerusalem, we met in Jerusalem and we very much miss the city, so we decided to call our first child 'Jerusalem,'" said the new father. "We actually argued over whether Jerusalem would be the first or middle name, and in the end decided it would be our daughter's middle name."

When Alinadav went into the municipal offices in Brussels to get a birth certificate, he was shocked. "The clerk asked for the baby's name, so I said 'Alma Jerusalem,'" recalled the father. "After checking the computer, the clerk said Alma was OK, but that Jerusalem did not appear on the list of approved names, so could not be used for the baby's name."

[...] the clerk agreed to a compromise - the family could obtain an official letter from the Israeli embassy confirming that "Jerusalem" is a valid name for a child, and then the Belgian's would provide a birth certificate. The only problem - the Israeli embassy is not providing consular services due to a Foreign Ministry strike at home.

"Now we're trapped. We cannot take the baby to Israel because she has no passport, and without Israeli consular approval, the Belgians won't register the birth," explained the father. "I cannot say if the refusal to call the baby Jerusalem is political, but the speed with which the clerk refused us compared to how quickly the [unpronounceable] Finnish name was approved raised suspicions."
Boy, has the Belgian city hall really sunk to a deep low. Obviously, this stems from the same kind of mindset that refuses to recognize the Israeli capital as such. But I have an idea: they can just name her Alma for now, and then take her to Israel with a passport where they can proceed to legally add to her established name. That's not so difficult in itself.

GROWING CONSENSUS THAT THE EMERGING ECONOMIES ARE ABOUT TO COLLAPSE

NYTIMES: Currency Volatility Is Unnerving Investors
Lawmakers and central bankers in India, Indonesia, Turkey and several emerging-market economies are scrambling to contain the damage from falling currencies and to keep foreign investors from heading for the exits. Money has poured out of those economies over the last few weeks, pushing down the prices of a wide array of assets, including stocks, bonds and currencies. On Tuesday, the Indian rupee fell to a record low against the dollar, while the Indonesian rupiah dropped to its lowest level against the dollar since 2009. 
In an effort to slow the exodus of foreign money from Turkey, the country’s central bank raised a key interest rate on Tuesday. That came as the Reserve Bank of India announced that it would start buying Indian government bonds later this week to “address the risks to macroeconomic stability. At this point in time I personally see the current government is completely in panic,” said Arvind Singhal, the chairman of Technopak Advisors, a consulting firm in Delhi. The strengthening of the American economy appears to be one of the catalysts for the problems in the emerging economies. 
A booming United States stock market has been a magnet for investors who might have otherwise invested in overseas stocks. 
More important, the American economic recovery is causing the Federal Reserve to reconsider the need for the stimulus measures that have fueled the boom in places like India and Turkey. 
Many of these nations fueled their economic growth with an unprecedented flow of money from foreign investors. Those investors, in turn, were encouraged by the low-interest-rate policies of the Fed, which made it easy to borrow money and send it abroad. Last year, $1.2 trillion poured into emerging economies from around the world, nearly six times the amount going in just a decade ago, according to a report out Tuesday from HSBC.
As the Fed is taking the first steps toward letting rates rise in the United States, investors are pulling back their money. As they do, the local economies worsen, setting off a self-perpetuating cycle of market drops. 
THE COLLAPSE IS COMING.... BETTER BRACE YOURSELVES...

GREAT: PRICES OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ABOUT TO SOAR - THANKS TO OBAMACARE!

NYTIMES REPORTS:
Farm labor contractors across California, the nation’s biggest agricultural engine, are increasingly nervous about a provision of the Affordable Care Act that will require hundreds of thousands of field workers to be covered by health insurance. 
... “That cost is going to be borne by us at the end of the day,” said Scott Deardorff, a partner at Oxnard-based Deardorff Family Farms, which grows strawberries, cauliflower and chard, among other salad bar staples, all of which are likely to be more expensive for consumers down the line. 
... The effects of the law could be profound. Insurance brokers and health providers familiar with California’s $43.5 billion agricultural industry estimate that meeting the law’s minimum health plan requirement will cost about $1 per hour per employee worked in the field.
MORE INFLATION - ON A STAPLE.

THIS HURTS POOR WORKING PEOPLE TO MOST.

THANKS OBAMA!


Drudgetopositioning: hands of Hamas, Oprah and Ryan

THEY RAISE THEIR HANDS AND ARE ALL EXPOSED:










Tuesday, August 20, 2013

HMMM... NBC NEWS SAYS SNOWDEN STOLE A LOT MORE THAN THE NSA PRISM PROGRAM - (LIKE WE SAID IN JUNE)

NBC NEWS:
More than two months after documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden first began appearing in the news media, the National Security Agency still doesn’t know the full extent of what he took, according to intelligence community sources, and is “overwhelmed” trying to assess the damage. Officials, including NSA Director Keith Alexander, have assured the public that the government knows the scope of the damage, but two separate sources briefed on the matter told NBC News that the NSA has been unable to determine how many documents he took and what they are.
RTWT.

THIS JIBES WITH WHAT TAB HAS MAINTAINED FROM THE START:

  • SNOWDEN IS PROBABLY A SPY AND NOT A WHISTLE-BLOWER
  • THE NSA "LEAK" WAS A RUSE TO GAIN HIM POLITICAL ASYLUM
  • HE WAS REALLY AFTER, GOT,  AND SOLD OTHER SECRETS MORE USEGUL TO OUR ENEMIES - CHINA AND RUSSIA --- COINCIDENTALLY THE TWO PLACES HE WENT TO AFTER THE THEFT.
  • HE PROBABLY HAD HELP

STAY TUNED...

GREAT VIDEO: AFRICANS-AMERICANS SHOULD COME HOME TO THE GOP

BECAUSE: "LIBERALISM HAS NEARLY DESTROYED BLACK AMERICA."

UPDATED: The struggling global economy is addicted to the FED's QE pumping and . . . ‏

... and as the pusher cuts the supply the emerging economies - even India - verge on collapse:

Even optimists are growing nervous over the rapid accumulation of dollar-denominated debt in emerging economies, as the Federal Reserve weighs whether to begin to tighten its monetary spigot.

AND THIS:

Fear of Fed Retreat Roils India

Economic Weakness in Developing Nations Is Laid Bare as Easy Money Dries Up
The U.S. Federal Reserve's plan to reduce monthly bond purchases is exposing the deep-seated fragility of India's economy, unnerving investors and underscoring the risks to emerging markets at a time of rising global interest rates.
India's stock market closed slightly lower Tuesday, after two days of steep declines. The rupee hit yet another fresh low against the dollar.The malaise in India is the latest global ripple effect from a shift being considered at the U.S. central bank, following nearly five years of exceptional policy support for the American economy and financial markets.
During the era of low rates that followed the global recession, developing nations such as India, Indonesia and Thailand had no trouble attracting capital to boost growth. Imports soared as Asian consumers ran up debt to fuel purchases.
But as their export engines have sputtered, because of China's slowing growth and uneven demand in the U.S. and Europe, these economies have started to run large current-account deficits, which occur when imports outweigh exports. As investors begin demanding higher returns for taking on risk, nations with large economic imbalances are getting punished.
"These economies definitely look suddenly a lot less impressive," said Frederic Neumann, an economist with HSBC in Hong Kong. "Investors have woken up to the fact the Fed is serious about tapering," or reducing bond purchases.
BERNANKE'S QUANTITATIVE EASING WAS A MISTAKE AND IT WILL SOON CAUSE THE GLOBAL ESS TO HIT THE GLOBAL EFF.

Better brace yourselves....

UPDATE: THE USA IS ADDICTED TO THE FED, TOO.



2ND CLASS CITIZENSHIP: COMING TO A COUNTRY NEAR YOU


THEY HAVE A PLAN AND THEY ARE CARRYING IT OUT. [SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH]

UH-OH: India's economic troubles may lead to a global "correction"

REUTERS: The Indian rupee dropped to a record low of 62.03 per dollar on Friday, sparking late intervention from the central bank as its measures to tighten capital outflows raised concerns they could spook foreign investors. The Reserve Bank of India late on Wednesday unveiled rules to restrict how much its citizens and companies can invest abroad and announced additional curbs on gold imports.
 NYTIMES:
“There is a growing sense of desperation out there, particularly among the young,” said Ramachandra Guha, one of India’s leading historians.
Three events last week crystallized those new worries. On Wednesday, one of India’s most advanced submarines, the Sindhurakshak, exploded and sank at its berth in Mumbai, almost certainly killing 18 of the 21 sailors on its night watch. On Friday, a top Indian general announced that India had killed 28 people in recent weeks in and around the Line of Control in Kashmir as part of the worst fighting between India and Pakistan since a 2003 cease-fire. Also Friday, the Sensex, the Indian stock index, plunged nearly 4 percent, while the value of the rupee continued to fall, reaching just under 62 rupees per dollar, a record low. The rupee and stocks fell again on Monday. Each event was unrelated to the others, but together they paint a picture of a country that is rapidly losing its swagger. India’s growing economic worries are perhaps its most challenging. 
“India is now the sick man of Asia,” said Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific chief economist at the financial information provider IHS Global Insight. “They are in a crisis.”
EPN-DK: India is on the verge of financial crisis

THE GUARDIAN: 
India on the brink of its own financial crisis 
In a reprise of the 1997-98 Asian crisis, India's stock market is plunging, bond yields are nudging 10% and capital is flooding out of the country
India's financial woes are rapidly approaching the critical stage. The rupee has depreciated by 44% in the past two years and hit a record low against the US dollar on Monday. The stock market is plunging, bond yields are nudging 10% and capital is flooding out of the country.
THIS COULD DRAG DOWN WORLD MARKETS... STAY TUNED...

IN TYPICAL/PREDICTABLE LIBERAL FASHION, NYTIMES BLAMES MUBARAK AND "PRE-OBAMA AMERICA" FOR EGYPT'S CURRENT WOES

For decades, since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Middle East has been caught in this crippling vise. All the ousted strongmen, from Hosni Mubarak in Egypt to Tunisia’s Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, were insistent that only they stood between their nations and jihadist takeover. This was the currency of their argument to the West. From Washington to Paris, the appeal worked. Money and backing flowed.
WHEN THE STRONGMEN ARGUED THAT THEY PREVENTED THE RISE OF ISLAMISM  IT WAS NOT A RUSE - IT WAS THE TRUTH. IRAN AND THE OTHER NATIONS PROVE IT'S TRUE!
... In fact the violent splits nurtured over decades under Mubarak — Westernized liberals against backward Islamists — proved insurmountable. 
SPLITS NURTURED BY MUBARAK; (ERGO BEFORE OBAMA!) !?!?!?!

BS.

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ASSASSINATED SADAT AND SPAWNED AL QAEDA - AND THESE ACTIONS SPRUNG FROM THEIR ADHERENCE TO ISLAM, NOT ACTIONS OF MUBARAK OR THE WEST.
... It was not for nothing that Al-Qaeda flourished in the incubator of Arab despotisms, nor that Mohamed Atta, a leader of the 9/11 attack, issued from Mubarak’s Egypt. 
IS THERE ANY OTHER KIND OF ARAB/MUSLIM NATION!?!? SHEESH!
For the United States and Europe, this amounts to a colossal strategic failure. Nothing — and certainly not the outcome in Afghanistan or Iraq — was more important than getting Egypt right. President Obama, who began his presidency with an attempt to build bridges to the Arab and Muslim world through a speech in Cairo, has seen his greatest failure in that very city. Post-Tahrir Egypt stands now as a monument to America’s declining influence in the world, even in a nation receiving $1.5 billion in annual aid.
ALL THIS IS OBAMA'S FAULT AND TRACKS BACK TO THE POLICIES OBAMA INITIATED.

INTERESTINGLY, COHEN/NYTIMES CAN'T AVOID GETTING CLOSER  TO THE TRUTH AT THE END OF THE COLUMN:

What now? A knee-jerk reaction would be to cut off U.S. military aid. That, however, would only increase the possibility of internal and regional mayhem. It is tempting, given the Egyptian military’s unconscionable attack on its own citizens, but should be resisted. The real lesson in Egypt is of America’s dwindling power under a wavering president whose hesitancy reflects that of most Americans after a decade of interventions. The price Egypt will pay has only just begun to be reckoned.
OBAMA HAS BEEN A TOTAL DISASTER: EGYPT IS A MESS; IRAQ IS SLIPPING BACK INTO CIVIL WAR; AFGHANISTAN IS SLIPPING BACK INTO THE HANDS OF THE TALIBAN... IT'S BEEN A DISASTER.

SADLY - AS LONG AS OBAMA IS POTUS - I CAN ONLY BELIEVE THAT THE WORST IS YET TO COME.

Monday, August 19, 2013

California: Young Men Will Now Be Legally Allowed to Use Their Penises and Shower In Front of My Daughters

My wife and I have a couple of young girls. One in Elementary School, and the other in High School.

Our family lives in California.

The California Legistlature passed a bill, and it was signed by Governor Brown last week, that legally authorizes young men to whip out their weiners and urinate in the presence of my daughters.

If they are so predisposed, they may also shower with my girls once they are in Junior High School.

You see, that's the perfect time for young men to shower with pubescent girls.

As this is now the law, I guess we're all going to have to either Homeschool or teach our daughters what it means to not drop the soap.

I mean, we really have no choice in the matter.

IT'S THE FUCKING LAW:
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) - California on Monday became the first state to enshrine certain rights for transgender K-12 students in state law, requiring public schools to allow those students access to whichever restroom and locker room they want. 
Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown announced that he had signed AB1266, which also will allow transgender students to choose whether they want to play boys’ or girls’ sports. 
The new law gives students the right “to participate in sex-segregated programs, activities and facilities” based on their self-perception and regardless of their birth gender. 
 This image was actually used in the 
CBS San Francisco article covering this story
The National Center for Lesbian Rights and the ACLU of California were among the bill’s supporters. 
Detractors, including some Republican lawmakers, said allowing students of one gender to use facilities intended for the other could invade the other students’ privacy. 
Such fears are overblown, said Carlos Alcala, spokesman for the bill’s author, Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco.
From the LA Times:
But Republicans opposed AB 1266, saying it infringes on the privacy rights of students, including girls who might not want biological boys sharing their showers and changing rooms. 
Some opponents said the law might be exploited -- for instance, by boys who want a competitive advantage by joining the girls’ swim team. But supporters of the measure say the Los Angeles Unified School District has had a similar policy in place for eight years without problems. 
“The vast majority of California students who do not identify as transgender have a reasonable privacy expectation that they will not be forced to undress or share bathroom, locker room, shower and sleeping facilities with members of the opposite biological sex,” said Matthew B. McReynolds, staff attorney for the Pacific Justice Institute.

BAN-KI MOON FIRST ADMITS, THEN DENIES THE ANTI-SEMITISM AT THE UN

He may have been under pressure from the very anti-semites he's protecting, but that's still no excuse:
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon denied on Wednesday there is any bias in the UN against Israel.

At a press "encounter" at the UN Headquarters in New York on Wednesday, a reporter for Israel Radio pressed Ban about his comments last Friday while meeting with students at the UN headquarters in Jerusalem.

Ban simply said, "I don't think there is discrimination against Israel at the United Nations." [...]

The Secretary-General was in Israel on Friday where he met with students at the UN headquarters in Jerusalem, and reportedly did admit to these students that there is bias against Israel in the UN.

“Unfortunately because of the conflict, Israel has been weighed down by criticism and suffered from bias – sometimes even discrimination,” Ban said at the time, according to several media sources.

On Monday in New York, Ban retracted these comments, and emphasized that "incitement against any group of people, any religion or tradition…is unacceptable."
Not only did he bend over backwards, he obviously has no respect for the 1st Amendment's religion clause. And, he has no ability to distinguish between race and religion. IMO, that makes him a man of very poor educational background to boot.

HE WASN'T LOOKING FOR FAME, JUST GIVING FACEBOOK CHIEF A HARD TIME

An Arab living near Hebron hacked into the personal page of Facebook's head honcho Mark Zuckerberg:
After discovering a privacy bug on Facebook, unemployed Palestinian programmer Khalil Shreateh said he just wanted to collect the traditional $500 bounty the social network giant offers to those who voluntarily expose its glitches.

But when Facebook ignored his first two reports, Shreateh took his message to the top — and hacked into CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal page to prove his point.

"Sorry for breaking your privacy," he wrote the Facebook founder, "I has no other choice to make after all the reports I sent to Facebook team ... as you can see iam not in your friend list and yet i can post to your timeline."

The stunt cost the 30-year-old Palestinian the bounty, but earned him praise — and numerous job offers — for being able to get to the boss of the world's most ubiquitous social network.

Shreateh, who lives near the West Bank city of Hebron and has been unable to find a job since graduating two years ago with a degree in information technology, told Facebook that he found a way that allowed anyone to post on anyone else's wall. "I told them that you have a vulnerability and you need to close it," he told The Associated Press. "I wasn't looking to be famous. I just wanted to make a point to Mark (Zuckerberg)."
And what would that be? Let's guess: no matter what Zuckerberg's political standings, he detests a guy of Jewish descent. Or, he just has no respect for other people's businesses. And who's giving him job offerings? What if terrorist organizations are the ones? A man who hacks into other people's property is not somebody deserving of a job in electronics.
The bug — and Facebook's response to it — has become a talking point in information security circles, with many speculating that the Palestinian could have helped himself to thousands of dollars had he chosen to sell the information on the black market.
And maybe that's his real intention.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

OBAMA PLAYS HIS 140TH ROUND OF GOLF IN 5 YEARS - 116 MORE THAN DUBYA PLAYED IN 8






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"The only thing I care about is how to use every minute of the remaining 1,276 days of my term to make this country work for working Americans." —President Obama on rebuilding middle-class security.



Though actor Larry David in his foursome today, no sign Pres Obama curbed his enthusiasm for golf. Played 5 hrs today. 5th round this week.