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

Saturday, September 01, 2012

NASTINESS CONTINUES

As more Haredim desecrate the Torah/Bible by harrassing a woman on an Egged bus:
The controversy over the exclusion of women in Israel resurfaced on Thursday when Dolev Karazi, a young woman who boarded an Egged bus in Ramat Gan, claimed that ultra-Orthodox men told her to sit at the back of the bus and proceeded to curse and spit at her.

Karazi said she was considering filing a criminal complaint against those behind the assault. In a conversation about the incident with Israel Hayom, she said that she got on the 319 bus after a day at college to head home to Nes Ziona. She sat in one of the front rows near the driver and during the course of the ride, several ultra-Orthodox men boarded the bus as well. According to Karazi, at one of the stops an elderly haredi man got on the bus, noticed her and demanded that the driver force her to move to the back of the bus.

"I was reading a newspaper and the man, a very old man with white hair, began ordering me to go to the back," Karazi said. "He said that according to the Halacha [Jewish law] women must sit at the back and called me a 'shiksa' [a derogatory term for non-Jewish women], 'holera' [literally 'cholera,' or vile] and 'dirty.'"

Karazi updated her Facebook page as the incident unfolded. "An old haredi man ordered me to move to the back," she wrote. "When I replied that I wasn't interested in doing that, I was shouted, cursed and spat at. I said to myself 'dear God, it's Israel in 2012, is this what you meant in your Torah?'"
Which they obviously didn't even bother to provide any verses from to back up their horrific attitudes. She should file criminal complaints against them, if that's what it takes to send a message, and the driver should be scowled upon for being such a wimp.
According to a report by the Israel Religious Action Center released in late Dec. 2011, exclusion of women from the public sphere was dramatically on the rise in Israel during that month. The report cited a 66 percent increase in reported incidents in which women were excluded or discriminated against, where most of the incidents occurred in places such as buses, cemeteries and medical centers.

In the same month, a ministerial committee on the status of women, headed by Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat (Likud), held deliberations to discuss the marked increase in the exclusion of women. The committee voted to create an inter-ministerial panel that would submit recommendations for combating the phenomenon.
They've still got a lot of work to do.

IS THE TERM "SOCIALIST" AN EPITHET?

EPITHET: 
a disparaging or abusive word or phrase 
THE TERM "SOCIALIST" IS ONLY CONSIDERED A DISPARAGING AND ABUSIVE EPITHET IN THE USA - BY LIBERALS AND LEFTISTS, FOLKS WHO CALL THEMSELVES "PROGRESSIVES".

IN EUROPE, SOCIALISTS CALL THEMSELVES SOCIALISTS, PROUDLY... HONESTLY - AND THEY GET ELECTED AS SUCH.
  •  FRANCE JUST ELECTED A SOCIALIST.
  • SPAIN HAD A SOCIALIST PM FOR A DECADE, 
  • UNTIL JUST THIS YEAR. GERMANY HAD SOCIALIST CHANCELLORS, TOO. 
  • AND BRITAIN'S LABOUR PARTY WAS A SOCIALIST PARTY UNTIL BLAIR.
BUT IN THE USA, MOST SOCIALISTS PRETEND TO BE MERE LIBERALS.

WHY THE DISHONESTY?

BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT MOST AMERICANS BY FAR ARE ANTI-SOCIALISTS, AND THAT IF THEY WERE HONEST ABOUT THEIR GOALS THAT THEY'D NEVER EVER WIN AN ELECTION.
  • THAT'S WHY THEY FEIGN ANGER WHEN WE CALL THEM WHAT THEY REALLY ARE.
  • THAT'S WHY THEY SAY WE'RE RED-BAITING WHEN WE CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE.
  • THAT'S WHY THEY RUN AS "PROGRESSIVES" AND AS "THIRD WAY" POLITICIANS AS THEY PROMOTE STEALTH SOCIALISM.
NO AMERICAN "PROGRESSIVE" POLITICIAN HAS EVER BEEN A BIGGER LIAR OR PROMOTED A MORE RADICAL AGENDA THAN OBAMA.

YUP: JOE THE PLUMBER WAS RIGHT - AND THE LAST FOUR YEARS PROVE IT, AS DOES THE STATE OF THE US ECONOMY - WHICH IS SUFFERING AS ALL ECONOMIES SUFFER UNDER SUFFOCATING SOCIALIST POLICIES.

THE ECONOMIES OF GREECE AND SPAIN AND ITALY AND FRANCE AND THE EU ARE TEETERING BECAUSE OF THEIR SOCIALIST POLICIES AND PROGRAMS.
  • THEY DIDN'T HAVE "BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH". 
  • THEY DIDN'T HAVE "TWO UNFUNDED WARS". 
  • THEY DIDN'T HAVE "RUNAWAY WALL STREET GREED" THAT WAS ALLOWED TO RUN RAMPANT BECAUSE OF "REPUBLICAN DEREGULATION" AND "TRICKLE DOWN POLICIES OF THE RIGHT-WING".
  • AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY REAL AUSTERITY, EITHER.
IT'S THE SOCIALISM, STUPID.

SOCIALISM HAS NEVER WORKED - NOT ANYWHERE, NOT ANY TIME.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: 
  • THE NEW DEAL FAILED. 
  • AND THE GREAT SOCIETY FAILED, TOO.
  • AND OBAMA'S SO-CALLED STIMULUS FAILED TOO - MISERABLY. AT LEAST IN ACHIEVING ITS PUBLICLY STATED GOALS. IT DID ENRICH THE MACHINE THOUGH.
SOCIALISTS LIKE OBAMA AND REID AND PELOSI - ARE SOCIALISTS LIKE BREZHNEV WAS A SOCIALIST:

BREZHNEV WAS A CORRUPT STATIST WHO TOOK CARE OF HIMSELF AND HIS CRONIES AND HIS PARTY - AND WHOSE POLICIES DESTROYED RUSSIA AND ITS SATELLITES ECONOMICALLY BECAUSE IT SHACKLED THE PEOPLE MAKING THEM LESS FREE, LESS RICH AND LESS HEALTHY.

THE SOCIALIST TRIFECTA:
  1. LESS FREE; 
  2. LESS RICH; 
  3. AND LESS HEALTHY.
IF WE RE-ELECT OBAMA, THEN HE AND HIS COMRADES WILL DO TO AMERICA WHAT THE COMMUNISTS DID TO RUSSIA AND WHAT THE LABOUR PARTY UNDER ATTLEE DID TO BRITAIN:

THEY WILL DESTROY US.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

QUOTE OF THE DAY (RNC 2012)

Clint Eastwood, who has a new film due for release on September 21:

You, we — we own this country. We — we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours. And — so — they are just going to come around and beg for votes every few years. It is the same old deal. But I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.



Clint Eastwood RNC 2012 bumper stickers ARE now available for purchase HERE.

Some reading from Human Events: "Three reasons Clint Eastwood worked for Republicans."

Friday, August 31, 2012

OBAMA AND THE NANNY-STATE LEFT AND HUBBY-STATE SINGLE WOMEN

WITHOUT THE NANNY-STATE LOVING POSTMODERN LEFT AND HUBBY-STATE LOVING SINGLE WOMEN OBAMA WOULD ONLY HAVE ABOUT 25%-30% SUPPORT.

THEY'D ONLY HAVE SUPPORT FROM FOLKS WHO ARE HARD PARTY-LINE VOTERS - FOLKS WHO FEEL AS STRONGLY ABOUT THEIR PARTY AFFILIATION AS JIHADISTS FEEL ABOUT THE KORAN.

POSTMODERN LEFTISTS DESIRE A NANNY-STATE THAT WILL PAY FOR THEIR EDUCATION - EVEN IF THEY CHOOSE TO STUDY SOMETHING AS USELESS AS THE STRUCTURAL MATERIALISM OF POST-LACANIAN LESBIAN POTTERY -

AND PAY FOR THEIR HEALTHCARE AND RETIREMENT -

AND GUARANTEE THAT THEY GET A "LIVING WAGE" NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO OR HOW WELL THEY DO IT --- AND LET THEM BE SEXUAL LIBERTINES.

SINGLE WOMEN WHO LIKE OBAMA SIMPLY WANT THE STATE TO BE THE HUSBAND THEY DON'T HAVE.

CROOKED MACHINE POLITICIANS LIKE OBAMA AND PELOSI AND REID EXPLOIT THESE PEOPLE FOR THEIR OWN GAIN AND THE GAIN OF THEIR FRIENDS AND OF THE MACHINE THEY WORK FOR.

POSTMODERN LEFTISTS AND LEFT-LEANING SINGLE WOMEN REGARD RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM AND THE FREE-MARKETPLACE SKEPTICALLY OR WORSE, THEY REGARD THEM AS EXCUSES FOR SELFISHNESS AND GREED.

THEY ARE WRONG. THEY'VE BEEN BAMBOOZLED BY THE MACHINE.

IN FACT, THE FREE-MARKET HAS LIFTED MORE PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY AND EXTENDED LIFE-SPANS AND IMPROVED LIVING STANDARDS MORE THAN ALL THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS COMBINED.

WHEN THEY SEE THIS TRUTH, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS THROUGH.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY BIG SHOTS KNOW THIS AND THAT'S WHY THEY DEMONIZE FOX AND THE GOP WITH OUTRAGEOUS ATTACKS OF RACISM AND SEXISM AND GREED: IT'S ALL THEY GOT LEFT.

WITHOUT LIES AND HATE... THE LEFT HAS NOTHING.

2 DECADES AFTER ROSTOCK-LICHTENHAGEN, GERMANY STILL HAS HORRIFIC PEOPLE DWELLING THERE

Kevin Zdiara's written about how Germany's "backwoods" society is still quite repellant some 20 years after the horror at Rostock-Lichtenhagen:
It has been exactly 20 years now, but the images just won’t go away. I remember August 23, 1992, as if it was yesterday. I was 11 years old and on TV I saw houses burning, people applauding, cheering and shouting, “We’ll get all of you!” Those words were directed toward the over 100 people trapped inside the houses. It was in Rostock-Lichtenhagen, a huge housing complex in East Germany, where several thousand asylum seekers and immigrants were living among some 10,000 Germans.

Just days before German authorities planned to evacuate the asylum shelters, the local population decided to take matters into their own hands.

On August 22, they began to gather in front of the houses where the foreigners were living and began to throw stones and fire-bombs towards the building. The police were obviously unable and unwilling to interfere, and fire-fighters couldn’t reach the burning buildings without police protection. For three straight days the mob was allowed to attack the houses. Only at the end of the second day, with massive reinforcement, could the police evacuate the shelters.

It was simply luck that the people trapped inside one of the buildings were not lynched or burned alive. Only moments before some of the neo-Nazis who had broken into the housing complex could reach them, they were able to break through a door and escape to a neighboring house. This was not Germany in 1933, but a country where one part had just toppled its socialist dictatorship through peaceful demonstrations.

I was just a kid but back then I learned that Germany was not alright, and maybe never really would be. Since then Germany has tried everything to make those images disappear. At every occasion you will hear how open-minded and tolerant a country today’s Germany is.

The millions of tourists visiting Berlin, Munich, Hamburg or Frankfurt will confirm this impression; and in some parts of the country it’s true. In many towns and cities you will find Turkish snack places, Italian pizzerias and people with all kinds of different backgrounds, getting along pretty good.

But beneath that there is the Germany of Rostock- Lichtenhagen; people that still cling to a concept of “Volk,” who see everything foreign as a threat to something called “Germany.” Even 20 years after Rostock-Lichtenhagen, many parts of East Germany are still very dangerous for non-whites, people with liberal political opinions or who are just dressed differently.

When German NGOs and politicians warned in 2006 that certain regions in East Germany basically constitute “no-go-areas” for non-whites, the reaction was outrage. Not about the truth of the statement but about the international image of Germany that such a statement would create.

Only this year a Jewish restaurant in Chemnitz had to move because it was attacked on a regular basis and the local police were not willing to provide the protection necessary. In 2011 federal authorities listed almost 11,000 criminal offenses committed by neo-Nazis, among them 537 acts of violence.
And even some conservative press sources say nothing about this still prevalent mindset in Germany. Realizing just what kind of demonic brains are on the loose even in east Germany, it makes me feel all the more disturbed if this is being ignored by say, the US media on the right.

Speaking of which, I must take issue with Zdiara's claim that "liberal" opinions are what paint a target on the carrier. Never mind that east Germany was infested with communism years before, even nazism/fascism is otherwise leftist ideology, and I've got a feeling it's more likely that conservative opinions are what make it dangerous to be around that area. It's possible to estimate that even after the Berlin Wall came down, not all leftist sentiments fell with it. Consider that, even people supposedly detesting communism could still have maintained certain other negative sentiments, and for all we know, they might still condone certain aspects of socialism.

In that case, why is Zdiara insisting on pegging the culprits here as rightists? He does this again with the following:
The police reacted reluctantly, and lawmakers were more concerned with the picture that Germany presented to the outside world, than with the people being harmed or killed. Particularly telling was the reaction of the German parliament. Immediately in the aftermath of Rostock- Lichtenhagen, the German parliament changed the Asylum legislation in 1992, severely restricting the granting of political asylum in Germany.

By this move German lawmakers basically adopted the positions of right-wing hooligans, blaming the victims and thereby rewarding the perpetrators.
Oh good grief. For someone who says he's got a problem with blaming victims, he's severely undermining his positions by invoking a classic stereotype leftists like to use by claiming that "right-wing/conservatives" are the cause of all evil in this world, and a liberal could never in any way, shape or form be guilty of anything.

And what "innocence" does he think Germany could ever have had if this mindset existed at the time Germany was split in two? A shame that for someone who supposedly cares about racism in Germany, he's taking the easy way out by blaming conservatives as the sole problem that led to that horrifying attack in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in the early 90s.

Update: he's not the only one. Even Deutche-Welles used the term "right-wing extremism" to describe this. I'll admit that in Europe, even righties can have questionable character, but even so, they're taking the easy way out. So is the AP Wire/San Francisco Chronicle, their willingness to acknowledge that one of the gangs running rabid in Germany uses the full name of the nazis when they call themselves the "National Socialist Underground". And it's the same situation with Der Spiegel.

Clint Eastwood's Speech At The RNC Set Exactly The Right Tone - He is One Citizen Stepping Up To Help Us Move Into A Better Direction

WE OWN THIS COUNTRY!



Wow. I am really surprised.

This is good stuff.

The media is saying Clint Eastwood was incoherent, addled, and confused.

The man spoke without notes, without a teleprompter, off the cuff. And he introduced himself at the beginning of the speech telling you he doesn't believe in razzle-dazzle, saying, "Conservative people, by the very nature of the word, play it close to the vest. They don't go around hot-dogging it."

Got it? He's not going to put on a fucking show for you. How hard is that to understand.

The problems we have are much more serious than that. As Eastwood notes, we have 23 million people out of work. That is serious enough to make Eastwood cry.

Unlike our celebrity President, Clint Eastwood does not believe he, or his celebrity ought to be the center of attention. He thinks the American People ought to be the Center of Attention.

This is a great speech, by an American concerned with the direction of the country, stepping up, and doing what he can to help us move into a better direction.



UPDATE - 

Here's what the article I read said of Eastwood and his speech,"Eastwood seemed to speak without notes, without a Tele-Prom-Ter and without a clue of what he wanted to say. ... He rambled about how America needed a businessman in charge. He came very close to using the f-word, making several feints at it. And he ran some ongoing gag about how he'd talk as long as he wanted to. The weirdness seemed to discomfit the audience... He may have been incoherent. But live TV is set up exactly for the Good, the Bad and the Spacey."
After reading that, I thought, "Oh no, one of the men I admire the most, for having remained intensely creative into his 80's - indeed some people have even said he has done his best work of late - is finally losing it. I don't want to watch this."

And then I watch is, and as I am, I'm looking for some disjointed sentences, or addled thoughts, something that resembled the man described in the article linked above. But, I find none. All the thoughts flow from one to the next.

Here's what I think may have confused people. People who watch TV are used to watching TV actors and anchormen and other people who have mastered the art of television.

But, Eastwood is a movie actor. In fact, he is a movie actor who is specifically known for mumbling and growling most of his lines. He doesn't do the comedic rhythm of sitcoms. His specialty is speech that sounds natural, as it explodes off the big screen.

Here we find him acting the part of a man who gets to "have a chat" (his words) with the President. He is speaking the way such a man would. He is not yukking it up. The man he is playing here (the part he is acting) is not confused. He is stammering because he is attempting to interrupt the self-important bloviations of the man from whom we have come to expect no answers as he sits in his empty chair, filling his empty suit; Barack Obama.

It was actually very well-acted stagecraft.

The fact that the other person had to be imagined sitting there, may have made it even harder for Libs, who are used to getting the entirety of their reality spoonfed to them with the glib comedic timing off the TV-heads of the MSM.

AXE-WIELDING MUSLIM ATTACKS JEWISH PROTESTOR

Here's another example of something the vile MSM like the NYT and Wash. Post are bound to ignore (via Atlas Shrugs):
An axe-wielding Palestinian on Tuesday attacked and lightly injured an Israeli man who was part of a group protesting and documenting illegal Palestinian construction in Samaria (the so-called "West Bank").

The incident occurred after a group of Israeli settlers showed up and began taking video footage of Palestinian construction on land near the Jewish village of Maaleh Levona. The protesters noted the construction is being carried out without permits on land not owned by the Palestinians in question.

A verbal confrontation between the two sides soon erupted at the conclusion of which a Palestinian man picked up an axe and struck a young Jewish protester. The attack was caught on film, and shown on Israeli television.

The victim was evacuated to a hospital in Jerusalem with light injuries.

While Israeli courts and the international community regularly crack down on Jewish construction in the West Bank, unauthorized Palestinian construction in the disputed region rarely if ever elicits a response.

In other violence, Palestinian assailants hurled a firebomb at an Israeli bus traveling between Jerusalem and Hebron on Tuesday. The firebomb failed to ignite the bus, and resulted in no injuries or serious damage.
And this will undoubtably receive zero attention from sources like the NYT, or even the London Times, for that matter.

ISRAEL'S LEGAL SYSTEM NEEDS AN OVERHAUL VERY BADLY

Caroline Glick's written about just how the legal system in this country, headed by vile, disrespecful men like attorney general Yehuda Weinstein, are what's led to the casualty in Migron:
Ahead of the court hearing last month, the government's Ministerial Committee on Settlement convened to determine the government's position on the new Migron petition. Led by Netanyahu, the ministers decided that the government's position was to ask for a continuance in order to enable the lower courts to adjudicate the claims of ownership of the land.

Rather than follow the law and represent that position to the court, Weinstein instructed attorney Osnat Mandel from the State Prosecution to inform the court he did not accept the government's decision, and ask for a continuance in order to give him time to force the government to change its position.

Addressing the court, Mandel said, "The attorney- general believes that the ministerial committee's position will raise legal difficulties. And since we're requesting a continuance for undertaking the evacuation anyway [for unrelated reasons], he requests [time] to hold meetings with the elected leadership."

On the face of it, Weinstein's defiance of a legally binding government decision was unlawful. Certainly it would appear to be grounds for his immediate firing. But while shocking, Weinstein's rank insubordination was not unique.

As relates to Israel's legal rights in Judea and Samaria, Weinstein is guided not by the law but by the ideology of the far Left. This ideology received formal expression in a 2005 report on unauthorized Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria authored by former assistant state attorney Talia Sasson. The Sasson Report represented a wholesale renunciation of all Israeli claims to legal rights over Judea and Samaria. It was unhinged from both Israeli and international law.

And it was embraced by the legal fraternity. [...]

Weinstein is only able to behave as he does because he operates in an environment where the Supreme Court has usurped the power of Israel's elected governments to determine state policy. [...]

Netanyahu has come under sharp criticism, particularly from his voters, for his refusal to stand up to Weinstein and his band of legal despots. And this makes sense. Netanyahu should have stood up to Weinstein in defense of Galant. And he should have denounced Weinstein last month for his unlawful defiance of the government on Migron. He should also stand up to Weinstein on the Levy Commission report, and just as a matter of policy, adopt its findings as the formal position of Israel's government.

But even if he does these things, all they would serve to do is temporarily mitigate the frustration of his voters. They wouldn't change the basic calculus of power. The fact is that today Netanyahu lacks the means to curb the legal fraternity's abuse of power.

The media staunchly defend every move the legal fraternity takes to usurp the powers of the government and the Knesset. Indeed, the media represents the legal brotherhood's unlawful moves as supreme acts of selflessness on behalf of Israeli democracy and the rule of law. [...]

The dispossessed residents of Migron are just the latest casualties of the legal fraternity's campaign to force its radical agenda on an unwilling electorate. If we wish to save Israel's democratic system, the people of this country must stand up and demand that our representatives protect our right to be governed by those whom we elect and not by self-appointed clerks.
She's right that Netanyahu's failure to stand up to Weinstein and his minions is another very serious foible of his, and for all we know, it could even serve to become his undoing. Anyone who recognizes just how destructive the legal system's operatives are being to Israel must get to work immediately to work on how to put an end to their atrocious behavior for good.

THERE IS PLENTY OF WORK TO BE DONE!



 
HOPE
 
 
 
 
 
HOPE & CHANGE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FORWARD?
 
  FORE!
 
 
 


Thursday, August 30, 2012

This Occupy Protester Is So Crazy/Stupid, It's Like He is Some Brilliant Conservative Plant To Satirize Lefties

But the guy is not a plant.

 Even genius political performance art guerrillas like Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe could not have come up with anything this crazy/stupid.

 

FOR THE MSM, ARAB PAIN IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN JEWISH PAIN

Leo Rennert at the American Thinker points to some double standards led by the NYT and Wash. Post, when they reported on an attack led by some Jewish teenagers against an Arab in Jerusalem, yet at the same time, they would not say a word about a Jewish student who was victim of racist assault in Michigan, and there's plenty of anti-semitic hate crimes committed by Muslims here that don't get their attention either.

The Jerusalem Post wrote about this local case and told something interesting regarding the motivations for condemning it:
Too often, politicians and leaders denounce Jewish attacks on Palestinians not because they are morally reprehensible, but because they could ignite a third intifada.
As despicable as the crime committed near Zion Square was, it's just as troubling that the only reason politicians could have for slamming the offenses is because they're so worried about mob violence ensuing. How does that help?

They're also guilty at the same time of not properly condemning Muslim attacks on Jews, as in a case like this one, which I'm not sure got the official condemnation and damnation that it should've received. In that case, there's another serious detractor they're guilty of. (The Jerusalem Post is also guilty on their part at time of writing propaganda that potentially legitimizes the lie of their ever being a "palestinian people", and some of it shows in that op-ed too.)

‘Zero Tolerance’ Policies Exist To Protect Bureaucrats, And Ridicule Is The Best Weapon Against Them

The other day we were treated to the delightful little national Fairy Tale (unfortunately, all too real) about the little deaf boy, Hunter, whose school claimed his name, when signed, looked too much like a firearm;

... thus he was asked to change his name, abandon his identity, or be banished forever into the dark woods where the politically incorrect are punished.

Well, the school has said, "Uh, never mind,", after thousands of angry emails and phone calls, and nationwide ridicule of their "policy".

Rhymes With Cars and Girls comments:
... 'zero tolerance' policies, far from existing to protect the kids or whatever their supporting propaganda says, exist only to protect those people - namely the bureaucrats who apply them. People in mid-level, white-collar, low-productivity bureaucratic jobs need such things as 'zero tolerance' and other mindlessly reality-immune policies so that their cushy existence can be hermetically-sealed from all possible criticisms and setbacks. Sweeping and uniform, such a policy requires no judgment whatsoever which means that no one can be held responsible for their failure or any damage they may cause.
Go read the whole thing. 


Wednesday, August 29, 2012

NYTIMES AIRBRUSHES SUSANA MARTINEZ OUT OF THE PICTURE

I GUESS THEY DON'T WANT LATINOS TO KNOW THAT THE MOST EXCITING LATINO POLITICIAN IN THE USA IS A REPUBLICAN AND A WOMAN.

THEY DIDN'T MENTION HER ONCE IN THE LIVE UPDATES OF THIS EVENINGS SPEECHES.

IT DOESN'T FIT THE NARRATIVE.

SHE WAS GREAT!

LOVE THE LINE ABOUT HER 357:


BY JUAN WILLIAMS' REASONING, WIVES ARE NOT ENTITLED TO 50% OF THE COUPLE'S ASSETS IF THEY DIVORCE.

JUST SAYING.

IF WIVES AND HOMEMAKERS AREN'T IMPORTANT AND AREN'T AT LEAST HALF RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE HUSBAND AND THE OF THE FAMILY, THEN EX-WIVES SHOULDN'T GET A PENNY AT DIVORCE TIME.

A WIFE AND HOMEMAKER IS EVERY BIT AS IMPORTANT AND WORKS JUST AS HARD AS THE BREADWINNER AND FOR JUAN WILLIAMS TO SAY OTHERWISE IS DISGUSTING AND SEXIST.

WHEN MITT AND ANN  MOVED TO BOSTON - INTO A BASEMENT APARTMENT WITH A LITTLE BABY - AND AS MITT WENT TO LAW SCHOOL AND BUSINESS SCHOOL AT HARVARD SIMULTANEOUSLY, ANN WAS AT LEAST AS IMPORTANT TO THAT FAMILY AS MITT --- MAYBE MORE SO.

JUAN SHOULD BE ASHAMED.

AND HE SHOULD STFU.


ZIMMERMAN WINS APPEAL FOR A NEW JUDGE

GOOD.

KENYAN INTIFADA - DAY 3


There has been fresh violence in the riot-torn Kenyan city of Mombasa, with at least one explosion and a number of casualties reported. Details of the attacks are yet to be confirmed but they follow two days of rioting that have left four people dead, including three policemen. 
The riots were sparked by the killing of radical Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo Mohammed by unknown gunmen. He was accused by the US and UN of backing Islamist fighters in Somalia.
THIS IS WHAT ISLAM DOES. IN THE MIDDLE EAT. IN ASIA. IN AFRICA.

EVERYWHERE IT REACHES CRITICAL MASS.


AND IT'S WHY WE MUST FIGHT THEM AND DEFEND CIVILIZATION.

A MARINE GENERAL TALKS ABOUT THE MELTING POT

via aoshq

TRYING TO FORCE THEM OUT OF THEIR CARAVANS BEFORE NEW HOMES EVEN BUILT

Here's another disgraceful example of the Israeli supreme court letting itself be used as a tool against "settlers", or at least coming close:
The High Court of Justice concluded a hearing on a petition filed by Migron residents asking for a delay in their eviction from the settlement outpost on Tuesday. The court was expected to announce its decision in the coming days.

Migron outpost residents on Monday afternoon petitioned the High Court of Justice to delay the evacuation of the 50 families that live there until such time as their new homes are ready.
It's worth noting that:
On Monday, Migron residents and settler leaders focused on preparing for Tuesday’s court hearing regarding the fate of the 17 Migron families who claim to have purchased the property on which their homes are located from the Palestinian land owners. They have asked to remain in their homes until the court can validate their claim.
If they did buy the land and with their very own money, then it's atrocious that even the paper itself is willing to imply that they didn't. So in the end, do the families have the right to buy the plot of land or don't they?

Update: Michael Freund makes an excellent point about how this is trampling on private property rights, and what happens in Migron could happen in Jerusalem, Ber Sheva and Tel Aviv tomorrow.

STALINIST AIRBRUSHING IS ALIVE AND WELL AT MSNBC

MSNBC HAS A FALSE NARRATIVE THEY'RE PUSHING: THAT THE GOP IS RACIST AND ROMNEY IS A RACIST AND ANYONE WHO OPPOSES OBAMA IS A RACIST.

AND THEY DO WHAT STALIN DID TO PEOPLE WHO UNDERMINED HIS PROPAGANDA: THEY ERASE THEM FROM VIEW.

WAKE UP CENTRISTS!: MEDICAID COVERAGE SHRINKING UNDER OBAMA


NYTIMES: Illinois became the latest state to drastically cut dental benefits last month, when Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, cut $1.6 billion out of its $15 billion Medicaid budget, reducing adult dental coverage to emergency tooth extractions. The state, whose Medicaid program was considered among the most generous, also cut vision benefits, eliminated chiropractic and podiatry coverage and started requiring co-payments for drugs. 
In about half the states, Medicaid now covers dental care only for pain relief and emergencies, according to a recent report by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, a national health research group. Other states cover preventive exams and cleanings but not restorative services, like fillings and root canals. 
The federal health care law generally prohibits states from tightening eligibility for Medicaid before 2014, when a vast expansion of the program to cover people with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line is supposed to take effect. But states are still allowed to cut optional benefits, like vision, dental and drug coverage. 
THIS IS ALL HAPPENING ON OBAMA'S WATCH.

OBAMA HAS NOT STRENGTHENED MEDICAID. OR MEDICARE.

OBAMA HAS WEAKENED BOTH.

OBAMA TOOK HIS EYE OFF THE BALL - IGNORING THE ECONOMY - TO PASS OBAMACARE, WHICH HURTS MEDICARE AND MEDICAID.

IT'S TIME FOR CENTRISTS WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA IN 2008 TO FACE THE FACTS:

  • OUR ECONOMY IS WORSE OFF THAN 4 YEARS AGO. 
  • OUR FEDERAL BUDGET IS WORSE OFF THAN 4 YEARS AGO.
  • MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ARE WORSE OFF THAN 4 YEARS AGO.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

CONVENTION REVIEW: TUESDAY'S SPEAKERS

SANTORUM WAS EXCELLENT. (AND I HATED HIS CAMPAIGN.)

HALEY WAS EXCELLENT.

ANN ROMNEY WAS INCREDIBLY EXCELLENT. BEST OF THE NIGHT (TEXT).

(VIDEO OF ANN ROMNEY HERE.)

CHRISTIE WAS VERY GOOD.

ARTUR DAVIS WAS VERY VERY GOOD.

MIA LOVE WAS GREAT.

WALKER WAS VERY GOOD.

CRUZ WAS OKAY, BUT A DISAPPOINTMENT.

MCDONELL WAS JUST OKAY.

KASICH WAS JUST OKAY.

FALLIN WAS OKAY.

I HOPE MICHELLE OBAMA DOESN'T HEAR ABOUT THIS: Taiwanese environmental minister wants men to sit down when they urinate

Taiwan's environmental minister is calling on the island's men to sit down when they urinate in order to keep toilets clean, drawing a mixed reaction from the public 
Stephen Shen, head of the Environmental Protection Administration, said Monday he himself had adopted the habit, and suggested other men follow suit so toilet seats will be ready for the next user. 
An environmental official contacted by AFP Tuesday acknowledged the advice would be hard to follow in public restrooms, where urinals constitute the main facilities. 
Therefore, she said, men are encouraged to first try to develop the new habit at home.
MAYBE WOMEN SHOULD ADAPT!



I have a feeling our beta male in chief already sits when he pees.



This suggestion is surreal.



SHOULD SHE ADOPT THIS ULTIMATE NANNYSTATE POLICY, I THINK MICHELLE WILL FIND A REASON TO  EXEMPT THE OBAMA'S FROM THE POLICY.



Bombing funerals: it's what they do


Seven people were killed and scores were wounded when a car bomb exploded on Tuesday at a funeral in Damascus, witnesses said, in an attack that an activist group said had targeted supporters of President Bashar al-Assad. 
They said the bomb exploded at the entrance to a Druze cemetery in the Jaramana district of southeast Damascus, hitting the funeral procession of two men killed in bombings a day earlier.
HORRIFIC: IT'S WHAT THEY DO.

OBAMA'S GREAT GREEN FLEECING OF THE US TAXPAYER


When the Navy put a Pacific fleet through maneuvers on a $12 million cocktail of biofuels this summer, it proved that warships could actually operate on diesel from algae or chicken fat.


“It works in the engines that we have, it works in the aircraft that we have, it works in the ships that we have,” said Ray Mabus, secretary of the Navy. “It is seamless.” 
The still-experimental fuels are also expensive — about $27 a gallon for the fuel used in the demonstration, compared with about $3.50 a gallon for conventional military fuels. 
... The naval demonstration — known as the Great Green Fleet — was part of a $510 million three-year, multiagency program to help the military develop alternatives to conventional fuel 
... In 2009, the Pentagon spent roughly $424 a gallon on algae oil from Solazyme. 
... The Defense Department is also running several demonstration projects on its bases, testing ways to produce and distribute electricity better. And the Army recently put out a request for proposals for $7 billion in renewable energy projects, part of reaching its goal of getting a gigawatt of its electricity — enough to power roughly 250,000 American homes — from renewable sources by 2025.

In Congress, there is little apparent opposition to the overall military push toward renewable power generation or energy efficiency. 
But the biofuel program has struck a nerve among Republicans who, ever since the government’s failed investment in the solar panel maker Solyndra, have been wasting few opportunities to hammer their message that the government should not risk taxpayer money to bolster favored technologies. 
Representative Mike Conaway, a Texas Republican who introduced House legislation that would limit biofuel purchasing and production and has been critical of the Great Green Fleet, said Democrats were using the military to pursue an environmental agenda. “We just want to require the Department of Defense to do exactly what every other American does when they buy fuel: they try to get the best price they can,” he said.

OBAMA IS WASTING MONEY  AND PERVERTING THE PURPOSE OF OUR MILITARY.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

KENYA INTIFADA


MOMBASA, Kenya: Rioters clashed with police in Kenya's port city of Mombasa for a second day Tuesday, after the killing of an extremist cleric linked to Somalia's Al-Qaeda-allied militants, witnesses said. 
Hundreds of angry youths threw stones, damaged cars and chanted slogans in support of slain preacher Aboud Rogo Mohammed, as police tried to contain them, an AFP reporter said. 
"The riots have started again," said Khalid Hussein of Muslims for Human Rights, a local organization in Mombasa, Kenya's main port and a popular tourist town. 
Staff in Mombasa's main hospital reported that at least 14 people had been injured in the clashes, while two anti-riot police were also wounded, police said. 
As the rioting stretched into a second day, Somalia's Islamist Shebab fighters called on Kenyan Muslims to "take all necessary measures" to defend their religion. 
"Muslims must take the matter into their own hands, stand united against the kuffar (unbelievers)
ISLAM: THE RELIGION OF RIOTS.

Monday, August 27, 2012

MICHAEL MOORE RELEASES PRO-OBAMA MOVIE AS COUNTER-ATTACK TO 2016:



NARRATED BY CHRIS MATTHEWS.

UPDATE: MSNBC HAS A SEQUEL:


BEN LABOLT'S VERSION:




THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MIDTOWN-MANHATTAN ELEVATOR AND AFGHANISTAN - and the difference between Romney and Obama

I took an elevator up to a client's offices today - as I do most days.

And - just like other days - the elevator was a microcosm of NYC, of America: there was me - a middle-aged Jew with 2 degrees, 2 Asian women, an African-American man, a young artist-type gal with a tattooed arm and body-piercings, a jerseyshore-type guy (or was he just a bad Elvis impersonator?), an old worn out man in an old worn out suit, a Latino bicycle messenger, and South Asian - probably Pakistani or Indian.



We probably represented every major faith: Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam  Judaism, atheism. And every generation still in the work-force.

And we were polite - even cordial: someone cracked a silly joke and we all laughed. Saying excuse me and thank you and carrying on - just going about our own business.

This would never happen in Afghanistan, or any other islamist dominated place. Islamism doesn't celebrate diversity; it demands conformity. Sh*t, if you're the wrong type of Muslim they'll kill you as fast as they would kill a Jew; (just last week dozens of Sufi shrines were destroyed by other Muslims).

And that's why we are rich and Afghanistan is poor.

It's not that our culture is better - though it is.

It's that we have FREE ENTERPRISE and CAPITALISM and they don't; they subordinate the economic pursuit of personal happiness to their esoteric creed.

In other words, whereas we can GO ABOUT OUR BUSINESS, they cannot because their business is subordinated to their religion; their economy is subordinated to their religion.

As Milton Friedman said about the pencil,
"Literally thousands of people cooperated to make this pencil, people who don’t speak the same language, who practice different religions, who might hate one another if they ever met! 
When you go down to the store and buy this pencil, you are in effect trading a few minutes of your time, for a few seconds of the time of all those thousands of people. 
What brought them together and enduced them to cooperate to make this pencil? 
There was no Comisar sending out orders from some central office. It was the magic of the price system. 
The impersonal operation of prices that brought them together and got them to cooperate to make this pencil so that you could have it for a trifling sum. 
That is why the operation of the free market is so essential, not only to promote productive efficiently but even more, to foster harmony and peace among the people of the world."
And when I walk into a crowded elevator in Midtown Manhattan, I see the truth of this. And I see it when I return to the offices I work in - with Asians and blacks and atheists and Christians and so on.

As I see it when I shop in my neighborhood grocery or deli. When I get on a bus to go home after a long day at my ethnically diverse office and in the market seeing a myriad of ethnically diverse clients and on the phone talking to even more people of different ethnicities all over the USA - Armenians, Greeks, Brit's, and so on.

And this diversity - OUR diversity - it's NOT the result of noble liberals and their utopianist policies or of central government planning.

Our diversity is the result of FREE ENTERPRISE. People coming here from all over the world to make a better life for themselves and their families and their descendants. People coming here - from all over the world - to fulfill their personal dreams.

Government doesn't make their dreams come true. Government doesn't create the diversity - or instill the willingness - among diverse people from different cultures and races and creeds - to get along. Government gets in the way.

It's the free market and free enterprise and capitalism and the profit system that makes this diversity possible and desirable.

Without a potential reward, no one would risk anything and nobody would venture outside their homogeneous comfort zone.

It's always been that way: Trade is what drove the first humans to venture outside their village, and trade - commerce - is what energizes and mobilizes the human energies needed to improve one's personal finances, and the economy as a whole and thereby improve all of our living standards and life spans.

No government program ANYWHERE has ever improved living standards and life-spans as much as freedom and free enterprise.

No government program ever will.

NEED AN EXAMPLE? Here: after 40 years of central planning, China went from being a starving basket-case to an economic powerhouse by merely introducing free markets.

The people didn't change. Their dreams didn't change. What changed was one thing: the government withdrew, stepped-back - AND SHRANK.

When persons are free to make and buy and sell - in a competitive marketplace - what they want, then they make and buy and sell more things - of ever improving value.

That's why the things people buy and sell are called GOODS. People only voluntarily buy things they think are good.

Making and buying and selling things is not "AMORAL CONSUMERISM" - as the left would have you believe.

Making and buying and selling things is what makes living standards and life-spans and PEACE AND PROSPERITY possible.

The businessman in a competitive free marketplace is more important source of increased living standards and life-spans, and PEACE - and more moral - than the politicians.

In this sense, Romney is not merely a better person to have as our Chief Executive because he has actually been a CEO of major enterprises - including huge businesses and not-for-profits and a large government.

Romney is also better suited because as a businessman he has actually achieved positive results and provided goods and services to a huge number of people in competitive situations - and did so by bridging ethnic and political and religious differences - EVERYDAY.

He's not merely an achiever; he's an over-achiever, and one who did so by competing - not by commanding, by risking - not by coercing, who achieved desired results by fostering COOPERATION, and one who knows you have to deliver the goods, provide the services and bridge differences and surmount challenges every dang step of the way.

That's something leftist ideologues and islamists don't want to do, don't know how to do, don't like to do and therefore don't do well.


VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.




Bonus video: the brilliant 3 minute Milton Friedman essay on The Pencil:


ROMNEY VERSUS OBAMA: MARRIED WOMEN VERSUS SINGLE WOMEN


Married women are strongly backing Mitt Romney, 55%-40%, over Barack Obama. Compare that with 2008 exit polls when Obama won married women with children, 51%-47%, while McCain won married women with no kids 53%-44%. Romney’s 15% margin soundly beats both numbers. 
... among both married and single women, Obama is doing worse than John Kerry.
AMONG WOMEN, WHY DOES OBAMA ONLY LEAD WITH UNMARRIED WOMEN?

I THINK BECAUSE UNMARRIED WOMEN WANT A NANNYSTATE MORE THAN MARRIED WOMEN -

AND THEY WANT A NANNYSTATE BECAUSE, WITHOUT A MAN TO HELP MANAGE HOME/CAREER IN THESE TROUBLED ECONOMIC TIMES, THEY LOOK TOWARD THE STATE.

TO APPEAL TO MORE SINGLE WOMEN, ROMNEY NEEDS TO SHOW HOW ENCOURAGING FREE ENTERPRISE - AND SHRINKING GOVERNMENT - WILL INCREASE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY WILL HELP SINGLE WOMEN MORE THAN UNSUSTAINABLE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS.


FRANCE PLANS TO RECLAIM THE NO-GO ZONES

There may be a positive sign turning up in France, as Soeren Kern at Gatestone Institute (via Europe News and The Jawa Report) reports on what the government of Francois Hollande is working on:
The French government has announced a plan to boost policing in 15 of the most crime-ridden parts of France in an effort to reassert state control over the country's so-called "no-go" zones: Muslim-dominated neighborhoods that are largely off limits to non-Muslims.

The crime-infested districts, which the French Interior Ministry has designated as Priority Security Zones (zones de sécurité prioritaires, or ZSP), include heavily Muslim parts of Paris, Marseilles, Strasbourg, Lille and Amiens, where Muslim youths recently went on a two-day arson rampage that caused extensive property damage and injured more than a dozen police officers.

The crackdown on lawlessness in the ZSP is set to begin in September, when French Interior Minister Manuel Valls plans to deploy riot police, detectives and intelligence agents into the selected areas. The hope is that a "North American-style" war on crime can prevent France's impoverished suburbs from descending into turmoil.
If they really do get to work on this, it'll certainly be something to credit them for, but it'll also go to show the serious problem conservatives have of inability to stand firm on a policy if they wish to do the same and not cave to leftist hostility on these issues. That's a serious weakness that the right is going to have to start working to prove they can overcome.

Prosperity is just around the corner.... well, in November!


WASH POST: ROMNEY LEADS OBAMA AMONG REGISTERED VOTERS AND IN THE "MENTION MACHINE"!


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I THINK THE "MENTION MACHINE" PROVES THAT THE UNDERCOUNT OF ROMNEY SUPPORTERS IS AT LEAST AS HIGH AS SCOTT WALKER'S UNDERCOUNT. IOW: ROMNEY IS 5-7% AHEAD.