August 31, 2011 Headlines

Obama requests joint session of Congress to introduce ‘jobs plan’ on same day as GOP presidential debate 

Rush: Boehner should deny Obama’s request for congressional speech during GOP debate 

Carney: Obama’s obviously deliberate conflict with GOP debate is “coincidental” 

Boehner requests that Obama delay jobs speech 

Boehner to Obama: Pick another night, please. 

If only our GOP were really this tough! Hat tip Kevin Jackson at The Black Sphere.

Judgment and discrimination, which by the way are genuine functions of intelligence, have gone quite out of style. In fact they are demonized regularly. The most fashionable stance, the one that insures a person of being included and if not actually liked then at least tolerated, is amiable agreement with whatever nonsense is flowing from the current speaker’s spigot.

Bigotry is the term the left uses to try and convince you that you don’t know what you actually know through experience. Good judgment comes from experience. Experience is the result of bad judgment. Nature’s School of Hard Knocks makes sure the message is understandable, though it must be said that not everyone graduates. Why bother? Flunkies will in all likelihood qualify for a government program.

via Dorrie O’Brien | August 27, 2011 | Opinion

ICNA, CAIR-NY, Bloomberg’s “9/11″ New York Disaster Interfaith Services (NYDIS) rely on Rockefeller

The InterChurch Center (TIC), which houses the Muslim Consultative Network (MCN), is a member of the Morningside Area Alliance created by David Rockefeller in 1947. David Rockefeller founded the Downtown Lower Manhattan Association in 1958 to “advance Rockefeller’s vision of Lower Manhattan as a global model for a modern central business district.”

In addition to Union Theological Seminary — home to Black Liberation Theology founder James Cone  — member institutions include Riverside Church.

Interfaith Program Vision and Mission

The Muslim Consultative Network (MCN) is a nonprofit network of New York area based Muslim American organizations and individuals, working to strengthen and unify our community for love of God and to serve the needs of Humanity.
Since its first meeting as a group of volunteers at the Interchurch Center in 2003, MCN has promoted Muslim engagement in American pluralism and in the dialogue of faiths. Every year, our members engage in scores of Interfaith debates and discussions, prayers and advocacy for policy change. MCN has been a leader in such initiatives and a consistent and loyal partner.

One such leader of interfaith dialogue has been current MCN Chair Debbie Almontaser, who despite deep involvement with dialogue and conflict programs was unfairly smeared by right wing extremists, resulting in job loss and lawsuits and a 2010 determination of Discrimination against New York City by the EEOC. Many leaders were shocked that high level contacts in the faith community could not shield her from defamation, Nevertheless Ms Almontaser remains as committed as ever. . . .

Dorrie:  Read it all. Lots of pictures and more bias-spreading words slipped in.

“Interfaith dialogue” is a waste of time in my opinion. It’s based on the premise that there’s one God we all believe in, and we’re all basically good and decent people who can get along quite well if we all just understand one another. It’s socialism/liberalism/multiculti-diversity foolishness to the nth degree.

Seyyid Qutb, the father of the modern Muslim Brotherhood, said very clearly in his book, Milestones, that a bridge was NOT to be built for non-Muslims and Muslims to mix, but to come over to Islam ONLY. I have no idea what is hard to understand about that. Which probably isn’t the problem; the problem is that the people running these places don’t look deep enough to learn such things.

There are also numerous Do Not Mingle with the Kuffar Qur’anic verses (except to advance the cause of Islam). My guess is the people running these things don’t know about those, either.

Related: The “Ground Zero” Mosque Will Never be Built–For Totally Non-Political Reasons - Barry Rubin

by Ken Brewer | August 30, 2011 | Opinion

In listening to the news on the radio this morning, two cases of civil injustice were reported and discussed. One was in Colorado, where the owner of a car sales lot shot and killed a teenager who scaled the fence and entered the property to burglarize.  A grand jury refused to indict him, but a civil jury awarded his illegitimate daughter a huge sum of money in a suit brought by the dead criminal’s mother. The little girl’s grandmother, of course, will be responsible for spending that money. Any bets as to how closely the court will monitor how it is spent? My bets are that they will monitor it no more closely than they do how child support payments are spent. As far as the courts are concerned, the mother can spend it on dope and let the kid starve, as long as CPS doesn’t bring charges. What is going On?

In Williamson County, a Cedar Park teenager died of alcohol poisoning and her mother sued the liquor store owner and was awarded over a quarter of a million dollars – even though she was found to be more at fault than he was! The liquor store owner was not found guilty of any criminal charges. Accusations were made about 85 phone calls, but no criminal culpability on the part of the store owner was even charged! What is going on?

Decades ago, a drunk was running from the police in Harlingen and ran a stop sign in front of an 18 wheel milk hauler which had just left the plant (where my father also worked driving such a rig). The drunk was squashed, to say the least. His widow filed suit and paraded 10 children in front of the jury. She was awarded one million dollars due to the company being found to be less that 10% at fault. What happened to the other 9+ million dollars? What is going on?

I have been called all kinds of villainous names for shouting that civil law in domestic violence and divorce is totally out of control and beyond the constitution. The three cases above demonstrate what can be done to anyone by civil law even though they have committed no criminal act. It is time to propose another constitutional amendment eliminating civil law and placing all offenses under criminal law, with the protections and proof of guilt that it requires. Civil law no longer has anything to do with justice. It is a system of wealth redistribution, even predetermining winning and losing classes of people. That is what is going on!

UPDATE ***

Estate of Denial weighs in on the subject here.

Dear Tea Party members: You want to team up with the RonPauligans? Think twice. One well-intentioned mistake can ruin your credibility for a long time. (And NO, the guy in the picture is not a solitary loon.)

Update: Curiously, the video has since been scrubbed from Youtube but it did exist.

Related: 

David Horowitz and a Guided Tour of the “Ron Paul Revolutionary” Mind

The story is here. And here is genius Jonathan Martin with the headline, Is Rick Perry Dumb? Compared to who? Bam Bam? Joe Bite-me? Baghdad Bob Gibbs?

Michelle Malkin takes up the argument here at The Right Scoop.

by Paul G. | August 29, 2011 | Independent Activist Report

In case you didn’t hear about this, liberals and pro-gay agenda activists have been trying to ruin a business owned by a woman who refused to sell a wedding dress to a lesbian planning to “marry” a woman.

The forum for their attack is the business review site Yelp.com.

The liberal haters have been placing fake or unrelated comments on the shop’s Yelp page and submitting low votes to pull her rating down.  Some conservatives, myself included, posted supporting comments and submitted high votes to counter the low votes.  When San Francisco based Yelp found out they removed the supportive comments but left the hateful comments.  To top it off, my Yelp account was quietly closed without even an email announcement.

When my post was removed they did send an email:

Apparently the liberal media is coming to Yelp’s aid by spreading stories that Yelp has removed all of the posts unrelated to personal experience, but a review of the remaining posts shows this to be a lie.

So, what have we learned?  Liberal media bias and liberal corporate activism are alive and well.

UPDATE ***

Most of the posts have been removed, though a few well disguised fake posts remain.  Also, my account has been restored.  I continue ‘flagging’ posts and uploaded photos with pro-gay messages as inappropriate.  I think this is why so may posts have been removed – I flag them with a comment explaining why they are extreme, and the posts get removed.  ‘not sure they’re reacting to my comments, but they are getting removed for whatever reason.

So, at the moment, Yelp is acting reasonably responsibly.  Still, you might like to write a post that puts Yelp on notice – let the San Francisco corporate crowd know they’re being watched.

Also, I sent an email to the shop owner letting her know what I’m doing, so she doesn’t just give up and assume the hostile posts remain – it would be enough to make someone depressed.

I’ll keep readers posted on this story.

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Update: Looks like Pokey knows his stuff: Islamic Spring… Anti-Aircraft Missiles Flow Into Gaza From Rebel-Held Areas in Libya via @gatewaypundit ~ SW

by John “Slow Pokey” Ritter | August 26, 2011 | Trailer Park Show

Pokey and Gov Perry.

As Libya is in the news I would like to mention a few things.

To start with: there is no question about the fact that all kinds of unpleasant people and groups are well established everywhere in Latin America.  So I won’t dwell too long on it other than to say there are several sources I consider quite good, one of which is  Vanessa Neumann in Foreign Policy Research Institute. Scroll down to the notes there for some very good info. Others perhaps not so good like Jane Jamison at Uncoverage.net all give good information which taken together begin to shed light on the picture.

Second thing I’d like to point out: It is common knowledge that if you smell cocaine in Europe, Hezbollah brought it. Again nothing new. From last year,  a reputable source. And my favorite of all reputable sources, Small Wars Journal, here is a piece called Hezbollah in the Tri-Border Area of South America by Cyrus Miryekta  I highly recommend you down load this and take the time to read the entire thing. While somewhat dated I’ll also recommend this from Military Review by Lieutenant Colonel Philip K. Abbott, U.S. Army.

Third: Drugs go from Latin America to Africa to Europe and it’s a two way street. Have you ever heard of MALI?  And what does Mali, a some what friendly country, have to do with Hezbollah and Latin America? Drugs. Lots of drugs and this story doesn’t  stop.

And if that isn’t enough there’s more from Ejike Okpa ii [Dallas Texas] in The African Executive. It’s not anything new from our friends at The UN in 2008.  I could go on and on – but you get the idea.

Fourth — I promise, I’m getting to my point: Libya is collapsing and we all know they have some really neat stuff. I’m not too worried about the really nasty stuff. Here are two from a moderately reliable source [Associated Press]. First the nasty stuff and then the lesser nasty. Like I said those two stories don’t overly alarm me, I’m looking at this from a Border/Drug smuggling/TCO [Transnational Criminal Organizations] aspect. Chemical weapons just don’t fit. Chemical weapons are really bad for business, they are hard to handle. If one were to be used all kinds of hell would come down on cartel members’ heads. Let’s face it, it’s just bad for business. In my opinion, there is just no use for them.

Fifth: What ties together Libya and the Texas/Mexican border and what worries me: SA-7s. These are nasty little things, and Libya has lot’s of them, or did. According to Reuters News some may already be in Mali, from this past April . I find no reason to doubt this story.  Not a great record against Fighter Jets but BETTER against helicopters and civilian jet liners. For TCO’s or terrorist  SA-7s are much easier and safer to handle than chemical weapons.

In conclusion, for Mexican drug people, SA-7s could be just what the doctor ordered for those pesky Army helicopters. And as for terrorists, again much easier to handle and transport than chemical weapons. Contrary to popular belief, it would be very difficult for a terrorist group to enlist the aid of a Mexican drug smuggling group in their efforts to get chemical weapons or SA-7s into this country. Smugglers have no love for America but they know what would happen to themselves when the smoke cleared. Very bad for business.

There may be evidence that certain terrorist groups may not need Mexican help in smuggling stuff into this country. I just haven’t seen anything credible that they have such capability.

I’m not too worried about seeing these missiles here. As Stratfor says they’re not likely to do anything too stupid.

But if I was a Mexican Army helicopter pilot I might be a little nervous.

Related: The Bloody Aftermath of NATO’s Libya War 

Libyan Weapons are Disappearing - IPT

More from Arizona’s controversial immigration bill drafter Kris Kobach. His criticism of Chairman Lamar Smith’s E-verify bill coming up for a vote is here. Take the time to be informed, and to enjoy this.

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Image hat tip @JWPetersNYT

by Ken Brewer | August 26. 2011 | Opinion

Kirsten Powers has written a post on “The Daily Beast” which characterizes the blunder by the Vice President of the most powerful nation in the history of mankind, Joseph P. Biden, in a way that the MSM has completely ignored, in the same way that it has ignored the slaughter of baby girls (gendercide) in China. For anyone who believes that this is merely an issue of abortion, I have the deed on a certain bridge in Brooklyn that I will sell you cheap!

Vice President Biden stated in an address at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China,

“Your policy has been one which I fully understand (I’m not second guessing) of one child per family.

Image hat tip Under the Golden Gnome.

Joe Biden, long before he became President B. Hussein Obama’s running mate, has been known as Crazy Joe, with his stupid and/or ignorant gaffe’s being laughed off. If this is a gaffe, and I don’t believe that it is, it is not funny. Coming from the Vice President of the United States on an official visit it has the strength of being a policy statement, and is the policy of this country unless repudiated by President B. Hussein Obama.

What the Chinese policy means is that if a woman has a female child in the Chinese culture, it is most often murdered. If it is determined to be a female child before birth, it is most often aborted.

The objections to China’s policy are not an anti- or pro-abortion issue, as much of our media has framed it. It is a women’s rights issue in the extreme!  It has been characterized as causing more violence against women and girls than any official policy in the history of mankind.

Writer Mara Hvistendahl, a supporter of abortion rights, stated, “The total number of missing females in Asia is 160 million” — that’s more than the entire female population of the United States! This is the policy which Vice President Biden and the Obama administration have endorsed!

A bit of fun with the 2nd Amendment. Kathleen McKinley, aka Texas Sparkle, brought this to my attention. She starts out:

For some reason my buddy Melissa never told me she had this video of Gov. Rick Perry teaching me to shoot his Ruger last year (the one he shot the coyote with!). This is just too cool.

I’ll say it is! The story is here.

Governor Perry has made himself very accessible to alternative media in Texas. My story of meeting him on such an outing is here. Try an internet search for “shooting with Governor Perry” — you’d be surprised at all the stuff that comes up.

So Thursday Aug 25 I saw this in my twitter mention feed from my buddy Eliza:

What?! You mean I made the cut? Wow.

During the 82nd #TxLege I was on twitter like a rat on cheese, circulating information every day as much as possible to keep people updated about what was going on under and around the Texas Capitol dome. Weirdly, I was also getting spambots (unwanted impersonal links to God-knows-what) at an unprecedented rate, too. I have to say getting some acknowledgment for my trouble is an unintended consequence of a more preferable sort. Here’s the mention from iando.com.

If a twitter handle shouts, does anyone at the Capitol hear it?

In politics, influence is everything. As everyone spends more time online, social media’s role (or lack of a role) in political influence is a common source of debate here at I&O.

At one point this summer we wondered how a measure of a political influencer’s social media influence might stack up against other influence rankings we’re accustomed to seeing, like “Best and Worst” lists.

To illustrate the concept, we decided to look at how Radian6 (a popular online media monitoring tool that uses algorithms and other factors to assess influence) ranked media publications, legislators and other influencers active on the Twitter hashtag #TxLege during the last two months of the regular session and during the special session. Once we had the Radian6 lists, we compared them to the other rankings.

This post neither is an endorsement nor criticism of Radian6; we chose Radian6 because it consistently appears in the top lists of social media monitoring tools organizations use. We omitted other influence indicators (e.g, Klout) because none of them focused specifically on influence on a Twitter hashtag. Radian6 influence score on a Twitter hashtag takes into account on-topic posts, followers, following, total updates and other factors.

[...]

Top 10 other influencers on Twitter #TxLege:

Eliza Vielma, Americans for Prosperity Legislative Affairs and New Media; @MissLizaFace; Radian6 Influence Score: 73

Sibyl West, Independent Blogger and Supporter of Americans for Prosperity; @Ramparts360; Radian6 Influence Score: 69

Michael Quinn Sullivan, CEO of Empower Texans; @mqsullivan; Radian6 Influence Score: 64

Jasie Boyd, Policy Analyst at the Texas Legislative Study Group; @jasieboyd; Radian6 Influence Score: 60

Texas Impact; @tximpact; Radian6 Influence Score: 61

Michele Samuelson, Blogger for Empower Texans; @MjSamuelson; Radian6 Influence Score: 59

Bee Moorhead, Executive Director at Texas Impact; @BeeMoorhead; Radian6 Influence Score: 57

Sean Hennigan, Communications Director at Texas Impact; @thebackstageguy; Radian6 Influence Score: 56

Phillp Martin, Policy Director at Texas Legislative Study Group; @PhillipMartin; Radian6 Influence Score: 56

Empower Texans; @EmpowerTexans; Radian6 Influence Score: 55

Go and have a look at who else made a difference through new media. Oh, and I intend to be at it again during the next legislative session, too. It’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it.

Care to guess which Presidents have the utmost respect for their SS Agents? And which Presidents have the utmost disdain?

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