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Selected News For Jun 27 – Jul 3

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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Saturday, June 27th, 2009 at 12:00 am. You can leave a response.

34 Responses to “Selected News For Jun 27 – Jul 3”

  1. texaspsue
    June 27, 2009 at 2:08 am

    June 26th 2009 – The Day of filibusters.

    Congressman Boehner had a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” moment on the floor of the House today. It was riveting to watch and made you feel proud that some of our Congressmen are fighting the good fight.

    Video of the protest against Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax: http://bit.ly/UxuET & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnYMxDYpCSA(short version)

    A similar filibuster was going on in Iran. This is also a show of Patriotism, I believe Persian Patriotism? Ayatollah Alikhani appeared to be having a blast while it is apparent that “those in control” were really getting upset/uncomfortable.

    Ayatollah Alikhani Shouting in Iran’s Parliament for People’s Rights and support of Mousavi! http://tinyurl.com/r837ct

    Score two points today for the Freedom fighters! :-)

  2. Petronius
    June 27, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Daily Mail Online

    Nurse ’shouted at elderly woman and stripped her naked in full view of other patients because she’d wet herself’

    25 June 2009

    A hospital nurse shouted at an elderly woman and stripped her naked in front of other patients, a hearing has been told.

    Memory Musekiwa is accused of pushing the pensioner, who had wet herself, onto a commode in full view and then refusing to wash her. . . .

    The patient, who was in her late seventies, ‘cried and cried’  following the incident at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) heard. . . .

    Musekiwa … shouted, removed the woman’s nightdress and then left her with no curtain around her, said Salim Hafejee for the NMC.

    ‘She then pushed Patient A on to a commode and told her to stay there while she went to get a mop,’ he told the panel.

    ‘When Patient A asked to be washed, she refused and put a clean nightdress on her.’ . . .
     
    Fellow patient Julie Owen sobbed as she told the misconduct panel that she had been woken by the elderly woman asking for help that night, before hearing the nurse telling the patient off.

    ‘Then she took Patient A’s nightdress and underwear off and left her standing there while she went to fetch a mop and bucket,’ she said.

    ‘At no point were the curtains put around her. Her dignity was completely stripped. There was no delicacy. No bowl was brought to wash Patient A with.
     
    ‘There was no cleanliness. She had wet herself and the nurse was putting clean clothes on an unclean body. I clearly heard Patient A say to her “don’t be so brutal”.
    ‘After the nurse had gone Patient A just sat on her bed and cried and cried.’ . . .

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-view.html

    Here is a glimpse of your future under Nerobama’s nationalized health care. This particular case comes from the British NHS, Worestershire Royal Hospital. But it is the kind of compassion that Americans can expect to find, once the American medical industry has been enslaved by the Liberals.

    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    • catie
      July 2, 2009 at 4:26 pm

      What a sad story. It’s bad enough now if you’re elderly and sick (as I saw what happened to my mother after her bilateral knee replacement) but it’s going to be worse when that boy king gets his way.

  3. bronzeprofessor
    June 27, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    This article bundles together a bunch of different facts about Israel’s increasingly uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the G-8, Iran, and the US.

    From Haaretz, Israel’s center-liberal publication:

    Blair: Peace within reach if Israel compromises

    Blair added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election could prove a blessing, since his right-leaning government could have the domestic support to make concessions.

    “I hope and believe Prime Minister Netanyahu is sincere about wanting a Palestine state and wanting to help create one. If he is, he could be in a strong position to deliver it,” Blair said.

    Netanyahu’s assumption of power in March sparked concerns that the Middle East peace process would stall in light of his reluctance to back Palestinian statehood.

    But world leaders have recently voiced optimism over the chances of peace following a speech the premier delivered two weeks ago, in which he declared support for a demilitarized Palestinian state.

    Notice how deftly Blair and others are trying to corner Netanyahu. After demonizing him as a right-wing nutcake, now they are trying to force him to play Nixon traveling to China. But the big question is, why is the G-8 forcing itself on the Israeli government? They haven’t done much with Iran other than chat and send unrequited signs of good will. But wait, later on, the G-8 has this to say about Iran:

    “We deplore post-electoral violence which led to the loss of lives of Iranian civilians and urge Iran to respect fundamental human rights including freedom of expression…,” G8 foreign ministers said in the statement.

    The G8 called on all parties to “re-enter direct negotiations on all standing issues consistent with the roadmap” and it called for a freeze in settlement construction in the West Bank.

    They “deplore” Iran even though their own tactic of friendly negotiations is arguably responsible for the mullahs’ incorrigible behavior. And their solution is to neutralize Israel, thereby enabling the mullahs even more.

    Sigh. Crickets chirp in the background. Let’s all take a nap!

    URL: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1095913.html

  4. canary
    June 28, 2009 at 1:25 am

    Maine Fines Group for ‘Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Message’
    The Christian Action Network runs afoul of bureaucratic political correctness.

    June 25, 2009 – by Patrick Poole
    An organization in the national spotlight recently for producing a documentary identifying several dozen potential terrorist training compounds in the U.S. has offended the sensibilities of Maine bureaucrats, who have fined the organization $4,000, alleging among other things that the group sent out mailings containing an “inflammatory anti-Muslim message.”

    The group in question, the Christian Action Network (CAN), received notice of the fines and the fundraising ban in a May 6 letter from Elaine Thibodeau of the State of Maine’s Department of Professional and Financial Regulation.

    “These bogus charges and fines the State of Maine has imposed are nothing but an attempt to stifle our free speech and silence our organization from speaking out about the steady creep of radical Islam in America,” CAN president Martin Mawyer told Pajamas Media.

    CAN was in the news earlier this year following the release of their documentary, Homegrown Jihad, which details dozens of compounds across the U.S. operated by Pakistani Sheikh Mubarak Gilani, who has previously been identified in State Department reports as a terrorist leader, and his group, Jamaat al-Fuqra. .

    *****public school curriculum used in California requiring students to pray to Allah,*****

    *****dress up as Muslims, adopt Muslim names, and learn the five pillars of Islam. *****

    Since Christians and Jews are not given similar accommodations, CAN encouraged their supporters to send a petition to Maine Gov. John Baldacci.

    But the free speech chilling effect from Maine could be enormous as their interpretation of state law could virtually outlaw any issue mentioning government officials without obtaining their prior written consent. As Mawyer observes, “Imagine not being able to criticize a public official without their express written permission or without any reference to them whatsoever.”

    “There’s little doubt that our documentary on Islamic terrorist camps operating inside the U.S. and our statements of concern about the spread of radical Islam is at the heart of the state’s actions. And we can’t help but conclude based on the available evidence that if we were ACORN, or any other group advocating some left-wing cause, they would be using a less-than-rigorous scrutiny in their interpretation of the law,” Mawyer said. “Would they ever dare consider applying these standards to CAIR [the Council on American-Islamic Relations]?”

    Patrick Poole is a regular contributor to Pajamas Media, and an anti-terrorism consultant to law enforcement and the military.
    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/m.....m-message/

  5. bronzeprofessor
    June 28, 2009 at 2:19 am

    This video comes from Italy’s La Repubblica, and it gives you a balcony view into what is happening at night in Teheran. I haven’t seen much video of the night raids, so I found this helpful to get a better picture. While we see lots of rallies on the major thoroughfares, after nightfall, people are unsafe in their homes throughout the neighborhoods of Teheran, because the militiamen come in and shake down people who were seen protesting during the day.

    In the video linked below, you can see the raiders bursting into homes of people who are chanting things on the rooftop, so they are called “i raid sui tetti” or “the raids on the rooftops”.

    I have translated the Italian paragraph as best I can:

    Irruzioni dei miliziani contro i canti anti-regime, usanza nata con la Rivoluzione Khomeinista

    [Translation: Instrusive raids by the military men against the anti-regime shouts, a practice first used with Khomeini's Revolution]

    “Mentre l’attenzione del mondo è catturata dagli scontri nelle strade durante il giorno, la milizia Basiji conduce brutali raid notturni nelle case per fermare i canti di protesta”, ha dichiarato Sarah Leah Whitson, responsabile per il Medio Oriente dell’organizzazione per i diritti umani. La milizia Basiji, “irrompe nelle case e terrorizza la gente intimando di non cantare”, raccontano alcuni testimoni.

    Translation: While the attention of the world is focused on the clashes on the street during the day, the Basiji paramilitaries conduct brutal night raids into houses to stop the protest chants”, explained Sarah Leah Whitson, head of Mideast for the organization for human rights. The Basiji raiders “break into houses and terrorize people ordering them not to sing,” some witnesses report.

    http://tv.repubblica.it/copert.....4408?video for full video

    The URL: http://tv.repubblica.it/copert.....4408?video

    The bottom line is that the violence in Iran has not stopped, and even as we were getting footage of those shocking street images, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg. Block by block, the Basiji are methodically killing and silencing democracy.

    At this point, I believe the United States’ best act would have to be military. If we could bomb or engage some military installation, and thereby force teh Basiji to retreat from Teheran to defend some other holding, that would deprive the mullahs of this nightly terror force, and would give the protestors a chance to mobilize and possibly overthrow the regime.

    But they need guns at this point, if their protests are going to carry the day. Words, even harsh condemnation, cannot save them from this methodical suppression.

  6. bronzeprofessor
    June 28, 2009 at 2:32 am

    How the French gays compare with America’s gays.

    From France’s Le Figaro:

    Des centaines de milliers de personnes à la Gay pride
    [Translation]: Hundreds of thousands of people at Gay pride

    «Il nous manque toujours le droit au mariage, à l’adoption, à la procréation médicalement assistée pour les couples de lesbiennes, et la mise en oeuvre de la dépsychiatrisation des transsexuels promise par la ministre de la Santé en mai», a souligné Philippe Castel, porte-parole de l’Inter LGBT (interassociative lesbienne, gay, bi et transsexuelle, regroupant une cinquantaine d’associations). «Après avoir axé nos efforts sur l’exigence d’égalité des droits à obtenir, et même si l’égalité juridique reste à achever, nous voulons conquérir l’égalité réelle, plus difficile à atteindre, celle du droit à être soi-même sans crainte, sans honte», explique-t-il dans le magazine Têtu, partenaire de la Marche.

    We still do not have the right for marriage, adoption, medically assisted procreation for lesbian couples, and the implementation of the depsychiatrization of transexuals, as promised by the ministry of Health in May,” underscored Philippe Castel, spokesman for the Inter LGBT (association of lesbian, gay, bi and transexuals, grouping together about 50 associations). “After having focused our efforts on the demand for equality of rights to be obtained, and even if juridical equality remains to be accomplished, we want to conquer real equality, more difficult to attain, the equality of the right to be ourselves, without fear, without shame,” he explains in the magazine Tetu, participating sponsor of the March.

    Maybe I’m just confused (I probably am) but I don’t see how the French people should be obliged to provide adoptive infants and free impregnation for lesbian couples “as promised by the ministry of Health in May.” Who was silly enough to promise so much, whether in May or any other month? How are those expensive and controversial details consonant with the more basic-sounding “real equality of the right to be ourselves without fear, without shame”? Do you need to get free sperm for you and your lesbian lover to be yourself without fear or shame?

    I dunno, after seeing the video of house raids in Iran, I am feeling kind of unimpressed by the gay leaders’ cry of injustice. J’accuse! J’ignore!

    Full URL: http://www.lefigaro.fr/actuali.....lutte-.php

  7. proreason
    June 28, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    Warren Buffet – ObamyBus roadkill. From abc infomercialnews news:

    Transcript: David Axelrod and Sen. Charles Grassley

    …WARREN BUFFETT, CEO, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY: I think if you get into the way it was written, it’s a huge tax and there’s no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax. So it — and it’s a fairly regressive tax. …

    http://www.abcnews.go.com/This.....amp;page=1

    Apparently, their’s a video clip of Mr. Buffets’ comments.

    Poor Warren, he so loves little Obamy.

    And he is so toast.

    Frankly, I don’t give him a year to live.

    The death, of course, will be from natural causes.

  8. bronzeprofessor
    June 28, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    From Jake Tapper at ABC News:

    White House Threatens to Veto Defense Bill

    Congress and the White House appear headed for a collision. The White House this week threatened to veto a defense bill if it includes military spending that Defense Secretary Gates outlined as wasteful and unnecessary. The House passed the $680 billion bill with those provisions Thursday, by a vote of 389-22.

    Specifically, President Obama opposes the inclusion of $369 million in the bill for more F-22 fighter jets and $603 million for development and procurement of the alternative engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program.

    If the final bill presented to the president contains either of those provision, a White House statement released Wednesday threatened, “the president’s senior advisors would recommend a veto.”

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/polit.....-bill.html

    How fascinating that he is going to veto hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending, over two controversial items comprising less than 1/500th of the total. Is this his budget hawk cred?

  9. bronzeprofessor
    June 29, 2009 at 10:16 pm

    An article by John Hawkins about cultural diversity and the GOP. A lot to debate here:

    From the Pajamas Media: Full URL: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/i.....-politics/

    It’s Time for the Republican Party to Embrace Identity Politics

    We should not forget that conservatives have done more than a little bit of dabbling with identity politics over the last few years. Haven’t conservatives spoken with pride about Clarence Thomas being the only black Supreme Court justice or Bush having appointed the first black secretary of state? Let’s be honest — would Sarah Palin have been selected as VP in 2008 if she weren’t female? Would Michael Steele be the RNC chairman today if he were a white man? Of course not. Yet Sarah Palin was the best thing to happen to John McCain’s campaign, and Michael Steele has done a better job than most people acknowledge.

    On top of that, there are already rightward leaning groups that are designed to appeal to minority groups of some sort or another. Among them are: the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, the Hispanic Alliance for Progress, the Latino Coalition, GOProud, Project 21, Bond, the National Black Republican Association, and the Independent Women’s Forum.

    True, these groups haven’t managed to reach the prominence of their liberal counterparts like NOW, La Raza, CAIR, or the NAACP. Why? Because they don’t get the funding or the support from conservatives who hold the purse strings. This cannot continue. These groups, and groups like them, need money, attention, and backing if they are to become our ambassadors in minority communities and in the public arena.

    When a Hispanic radio show is debating immigration, someone representing a conservative version of La Raza should be on the air.

    When Democrats say Sarah Palin can’t be an effective leader because she has five children, we need the conservative version of NOW hammering them as sexists on TV.

    When black ministers speak out against gay marriage, the National Association for the Advancement of Conservative Colored People needs to be alongside them, vocal and active in the heart of the fight.

    I am curious what other people think. I was shocked to read this, because I didn’t expect it from John Hawkins. But I have to give it to Hawkins — his article caught my eye and I visited the links to those Hispanic conservative websites. They look like they are doing good work. I joined one.

    By the way, if anyone out in the blogosphere cares, it appears I will be sworn into the US Army on Wednesday, and I may have to crawl into a punditry hole in the sand, lest I give the appearance of undermining the Commander in Chief and others at the top of our great country’s leadership ladder. Never fear, however, I’ll always be reading — and whatever I post, just pretend it’s 10 times as critical as it seems on the surface. :)

    • catie
      July 2, 2009 at 4:33 pm

      Well Bobby, I was wondering how things were going with the Army. Glad everything got settled and I am sure you will do well and hope your family is pleased with your decision. Keep reading and posting what you can when you can. I guess OCS is the next stop?
      I know a number of minorities who are conservative but voted for The One due to “the historic nature of the election”. It is something I hope they get over before 2012. All of them claim to regret their decision but it’s very hollow to those of us who knew what would happen.

    • Liberals Make Great Speedbumps
      July 4, 2009 at 3:18 am

      BP,

      Congrats on getting sworn in, I’m proud of you. I enjoy reading your posts here at S&L and understand that your time will be severely constrained and the fear of appearing subordinate. Please post when you can and keep us informed on how things are going for you.

  10. bronzeprofessor
    June 29, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    Media says nothing about gay Duke official offering his adopted black toddler for sex to undercover cop:

    From the folks at Newsbusters. Full URL: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/z.....-out-lunch

    Gay Duke U. Official Attempts to Sell Black 5-Year-Old Son for Sex: MSM Out to Lunch. by Zoe Ortiz

    The detective’s affidavit charges Lombard identified himself online as “perv dad for fun,” and says that in an online chat with the detective, Lombard said he had sexually molested his son, whom he adopted as an infant.

    The court papers say Lombard also invited the undercover detective to North Carolina to have sex with the young boy, and even suggested which hotel he should use.”

    In response to the AP report, which most of the newspapers used almost verbatim, Mike Adams of Townhall made the observation that “The Associate Press (AP) did not mention the fact that the five-year old offered up for molestation was black. Bringing that fact to light might be damaging to the political coalition that exists between blacks and gays. Nor did the AP mention that the adopted child is being raised by a homosexual couple. Bringing that fact to light might harm the gay adoption movement.”

    With this shocking lack of coverage of an even more shocking story, many are asking why this did not make the front pages and top headlines like the Duke lacrosse team scandal did.

    This is the same Duke University involving the black woman who accused the lacrosse team of rape.

    • pdsand
      July 2, 2009 at 3:33 pm

      I think the constitution liberals read technically prevents the media from violating this man and his son’s privacy rights.

    • catie
      July 2, 2009 at 4:36 pm

      This is sick but of course he’s one of the “elites” of Duke.

  11. canary
    June 30, 2009 at 6:28 am

    New York Times On Gay Issues, Obama Asks to Be Judged on Vows Kept
    By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG June 30 2009

    WASHINGTON — President Obama defended his policies on gay rights on Monday, telling an audience of gay men and lesbians that he remained committed to overturning the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule and that he expected to be judged “not by promises I’ve made but by the promises that my administration keeps.”

    Mr. Obama made his remarks at a reception in the East Room of the White House to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, the 1969 uprising that gave rise to the modern gay rights movement. Joined by his wife, Michelle, the president directly addressed criticism from gay and lesbian leaders that he had not been a forceful advocate for them.

    “I know that many in this room don’t believe progress has come fast enough, and I understand that,” Mr. Obama said. “It’s not for me to tell you to be patient any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African-Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half-century ago.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06.....obama.html
    what a comparison

  12. canary
    July 1, 2009 at 5:47 am

    AP: Interim Honduran leader vows Zelaya won’t return
    By Associated Press Writer Will Weissert July 1 2009

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduras’ interim leader warned that the only way his predecessor will return to office is through a foreign invasion, setting up a dramatic showdown with the ousted president who is preparing to come home accompanied by world leaders.

    … defying the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Obama administration and other leaders that have condemned the military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

    Micheletti vowed Zelaya would be arrested if he followed through with plans to return to Honduras on Thursday, even though the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador have signed on to accompany him along with the heads of the Organization of American States and the U.N. General Assembly.

    Zelaya “has already committed crimes against the constitution and the law,” said Micheletti, who belongs to Zelaya’s Liberal Party and was named interim leader by Congress following the coup.

    One of several clauses that cannot be legally altered in the Honduran constitution limits presidents to a single, 4-year term, and Congress claims Zelaya, whose term ends in January, modified the ballot question at the last minute to help him eventually try to seek re-election.

    His foreign minister, Enrique Ortez, threw a wild card onto the table, telling CNN en Espanol that Zelaya had been letting drug traffickers ship U.S.-bound cocaine from Venezuela through Honduras. Ortez said the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was aware of Zelaya’s ties to organized crime…DEA spokesman Rusty Payne could neither confirm nor deny a DEA investigation.

    The U.S. government stood firmly by Zelaya, however, with State Department spokesman Ian Kelly saying Washington saw no acceptable solution other than Zelaya’s return to power.

    Micheletti, who promised he would step down in January and had no plans to ever run for president, said a key goal of his short term in office would be fixing the nation’s finances. Zelaya never submitted a budget to Congress last September, raising questions about what he was spending state money on.

    .., Micheletti said that “it’s not about sympathy, it’s not about being a martyr, but simply that we are following the letter of the law which he did not respect.”

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....kdQ–

    • canary
      July 1, 2009 at 5:55 am

      ..”Zelaya had been letting drug traffickers ship U.S.-bound cocaine from Venezuela through Honduras…”
      Add Obama’s new law for soldiers not to destroy poppy fields so heroin can prosper, Letting Mexican drug cartel in. Obama’s U.S. Attorney General’s trying to lower penalty for crack cocaine.

  13. texaspsue
    July 1, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    Federal agents hunt for guns, one house at a time

    By DANE SCHILLER

    In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a critical question: How can the woman living here buy four high-end handguns in one day?

    The house is worth $35,000. A screen dangles by a wall-unit air conditioner. Porch swing slats are smashed, the smattering of grass is flattened by cars and burned yellow by sun.

    “I’ll do the talking on this one,” agent Tim Sloan, of South Carolina, told partner Brian Tumiel, of New York.

    Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. Dozens of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — sent here from around the country — are needed to follow what ATF acting director Kenneth Melson described as a “massive number of investigative leads.”

    All told, Mexican officials in 2008 asked federal agents to trace the origins of more than 7,500 firearms recovered at crime scenes in Mexico. Most of them were traced back to Texas, California and Arizona.

    Among other things, the agents are combing neighborhoods and asking people about suspicious purchases as well as seeking explanations as to how their guns ended up used in murders, kidnappings and other crimes in Mexico.

    “Ever turning up the heat on cartels, our law enforcement and military partners in the government of Mexico have been working more closely with the ATF by sharing information and intelligence,” Melson said Tuesday during a firearms-trafficking summit in New Mexico.

    Firearms dealers visited
    The ATF recently dispatched 100 veteran agents to its Houston division, which reaches to the border.

    The mission is especially challenging because, officials say, that while Houston is the number one point of origin for weapons traced back to the United States from Mexico, the government can’t compile databases on gun owners under federal law.

    Agents instead review firearms dealers’ records in person.

    http://www.chron.com/disp/stor.....05651.html

    And so it begins. Judging by the comments in the Chronicle, Texans aren’t taking too kindly to this and see it as the beginning of gun control for all Texans/Americans? One comment , “Next they will visit people with computers”.

    File this under, “Never let a good crisis go to waste” or “Houston, we have a problem”. sigh.

  14. proreason
    July 1, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    GENIUS PRESIDENT SLOWS MONTHLY JOB LOSS RATE BY 12,000. CRISIS OVER. From the Financial Times:

    US private sector sheds 473,000 jobs

    US companies cut nearly a half million jobs last month as the recession continued to cut into the labour market in spite of other recent signs of hope in the economy.

    Private companies cut 473,000 jobs from their payrolls in June, according to a survey by ADP employer services on Wednesday. The figure was slightly lower than the revised 485,000 jobs slashed in May, but was worse than economists expected and raised fears that the unemployment rate would continue to climb.

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/efa04e.....Fhome%2Fus

    We’re in the good hands now. The 12,000 people whose jobs he saved vs the prior month are eternally thankful.

    • Rusty Shackleford
      July 1, 2009 at 5:00 pm

      Ya gotta laugh, PR, at the imaginary mathematics that the media uses. It becomes clear that because “math is hard” why so many dipshits end up as news copy-writing pukes as a career choice.

      With the liberals essentially running most everything, or at least being ten to a hundred times more vocal than every before, the critical thinkers are going Whhhhaaaaaaa? And Rush made an especially revealing point today about the “chickification” of the news media…specifically pointing out LIBERAL chicks in the media. Starting with Oprah, and Ellen and and Tyra…that’s one thing but with the liberal chicks in the NEWS all talking about how everything makes people FEEL.

      After all, isn’t it FEELINGS that ended WWII? Wasn’t it FEELINGS that got the space program going? And it was FEELINGS that kept our shores terror free since the end of 2001, right?

      So it’s finally official…the “news” is no longer an objective laying out of the days’ events. Nope. For a very long time and now it’s expected, the news tells us how to FEEL about today’s events…especially those about injustice, racism, bias, victimization of everything from children to small animals, or even bugs, the unjust school system, and on and on and on.

      Well, I know what I’m FEELING right now, and I can’t say it in mixed company.

  15. canary
    July 2, 2009 at 6:09 am

    SENATE COMMITTEE COMPLETES DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION BILL
    Modernization and Overall Security Victims of Budget
    June 26, 2009

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a Senior Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, welcomed the completion of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010.

    “This is the first step in a long legislative process. Timely funding is critical to the readiness of our forces stationed around the world,” Inhofe said. “If the majority makes passage of this bill a priority, we could get the bill to the President before the next fiscal year. This bill will help improve care and support provided to our military members, veterans and their families in Oklahoma and around the world.”

    Inhofe continued, “In addition to the $1.2 billion cut made to the Missile Defense budget, one of the biggest disappointments is this bill’s termination of the manned ground vehicle portion of the Future Combat System (FCS). For eight years, the requirement for the program was validated by both Army and Joint Requirements Oversight Council, with the Department of Defense providing oversight.

    Unfortunately, modernization and overall security have fallen victim to budget constraints placed on the military by President Obama.

    I am committed to working with the Pentagon and the Army so that knowledge and corporate expertise from the FCS is used in the development, testing and fielding of the Army’s next-generation self-propelled howitzer program within 5-7 years. However, I am pleased that the committee agreed to increased funding for the Paladin Integrated Management program that will occur in Elgin.”

    $5.0M for Airborne Infrared Surveillance System (AIRS) – (L3 Com/Aeromet in Tulsa, OK). To develop a land-based airborne infrared capability providing a precision tracking system that supports the Missile Defense Agency’s Ballistic Missile Defense System in defending against rogue missile threats against the United States and its allies.

    This infrared capability could be integrated with either manned or unmanned airborne anti-missile platforms to provide for a layered missile defense plan.

    $5.0M for Call for Fire Trainer II/Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System (JFETS) .

    $7.5M for Ground Warfare Acoustical Combat Systems of netted sensors (GWACS) (GWACS Defense Inc. in Tulsa, OK). Funds the continued development of a Soldier or vehicle mounted acoustical sensor system that detects hostile fire and locates the origin of enemy fire. The system is designed to provide U.S. combat troops with immediate battlefield situational awareness.

    $7.0M for FIDO Explosive Detector (ICX Nomadics in Stillwater, OK). Provides funding for handheld and mounted detection equipment to detect and deter Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as individuals responsible for the manufacture of IEDs.

    $8.0 M for Rehabilitation Technology Transition Center (RTTC) (OrthoCare Innovations in Oklahoma City, OK): Transitions prosthetic and other medical technology for amputees, initially developed for military use, for clinical use. Newly available technology will improve quality of life for veteran and civilian amputees.

    $4.0M for Technology Applications for Security Enhancement (TASE) (Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK): Will fund an effort to develop a comprehensive National Bio-Security Plan through the Center for the Mitigation of Evolving Threats (CMET). Will enhance national chemical/biological threat preparedness.

    for more on the list of military defense improvements see in full
    http://inhofe.senate.gov/publi.....8f53a5a4e7

    God Bless our Troops. God Bless America, One Nation Under God, with Liberty and Justice for All.

  16. canary
    July 2, 2009 at 6:40 am

    This is extremely important issue. Rumors are that Kol wants Shariah courts like UK. Watch the Senator’s speech to the pres by clicking the link below.
    Sorry so long, but not often we hear a Republican these days.

    INHOFE STATEMENT ON NOMINATION OF HAROLD KOH TO STATE DEPARTMENT June 23, 2009

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) spoke on the Senate floor in regards to the nomination of Harold Koh, President Obama’s nominee to the position of legal advisor at the State Department.

    MR. INHOFE. Mr. President, I understand that cloture has been filed on Harold Koh, President Obama’s nominee to the position of legal advisor at the State Department. I wanted to come and register my strong opposition and assure the American people that their representatives in Congress are not going to let this nominee sail through unopposed, and to let them know that there are some of us here in the Senate who will require full and extensive debate before this nominee receives a vote.

    As legal advisor at the State Department, Koh would be advising the Secretary of State on the legality of U.S. action in the international forum, and interpreting and advocating for international law and treaties. The significance of this position and its effect on our sovereignty and security should not be underestimated.

    Koh is a self proclaimed “transnationalist.” Adherents to this school of thought believe that international law is equal to or should take precedence over domestic law, and international court rulings have equal authority to the decisions of a representative government. Koh’s transnational principles could have serious implications on U.S. sovereignty, especially regarding the authorization of the use of force, the prosecution of the War on Terror, gun rights, and abortion. Koh believes a nation who goes to war must have UN Security Council authorization, going as far as writing that the U.S. was part of an “axis of disobedience” by invading Iraq. In October 2002, Koh wrote, “I believe…that it would be a mistake for our country to attack Iraq without explicit U.N. authorization, because such an attack would violate international law.” Additionally, he supports ratification of the International Criminal Court, which could subject our troops to prosecution in a foreign court.

    Implementation of this interpretation of international law raises a number of alarming questions. If the U.S. is required to gain U.N. authorization for military action, what punitive actions might the U.S. be subject to if it unilaterally uses pre-emptive force? Would our Navy Seals have had to wait for authorization from an international body before rescuing the American being held hostage off the Horn of Africa?

    In 1992, George Will said, “There may come a time when the United States will be held hostage to…the idea that the legitimacy of U.S. force is directly proportional to the number of nations condoning it.” I hope that day never comes. The decisions made to protect our great nation should not be made by members of an international body but by men and women who were elected by the people.

    Equally concerning is Koh’s treatment towards the Department of Defense’s recruiting efforts. In October 2003, Koh led a team of Yale Law faculty in filing an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, claiming the Solomon Amendment was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court rejected Koh’s arguments unanimously. Writing for the Court, Chief Justice Roberts stated: “Nothing about recruiting suggests that law schools agree with any speech by recruiters, and nothing in the Solomon Amendment restricts what the law schools may say about the military’s policies.”

    Further, Koh supports accession to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOST), the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Inter-American Convention Against Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms (CIFTA). All of these treaties will greatly impact the lives of everyday Americans, and will require the United States to alter its domestic law to meet their respective parameters.

    In 2002, Koh spoke at Fordham University Law School on “A World Drowning in Guns.” His speech was published in the Fordham Law Review. Koh’s topic was the international arms trade, but as usual his analysis had serious domestic implications. Koh wrote that “American legal scholars” should pursue “the analysis and development of legal and policy arguments regarding international gun controls” through “constitutional research on the Second Amendment.” Restated, Koh believes that the best way to regulate guns in America is through international law, through a global gun control regime.

    As legal adviser, Koh would be in a position to pass judgment on whether a proposed treaty would raise legal issues for the United States, including issues related to the Second Amendment. He would therefore be able to endorse treaties that could be used by the courts to restrict the individual right to bear arms, an idea that he is clearly and openly in favor of.

    It is simply not true to say that his beliefs about gun control, or the Second Amendment, don’t matter because he’ll be in the State Department advising on international law. On the contrary, he wants to use international law to restrict Constitutional freedoms in this country. In his position, he will have the power to advise the administration and to testify before the Senate about what reservations might be needed when ratifying a treaty to protect Constitutional freedoms. However, he has a history of advocating for treaties without conditions, and cannot be trusted to express reservations with treaties that I believe will negatively impact everyday Americans. The fact that he’s in the State Department doesn’t make him safe, it makes him dangerous. It is exactly where, with the possible exception of the Supreme Court, he wants to be.

    This is not an accident. It is his strategy. He realizes he cannot achieve his goals through legislation, so he has turned to international law. If he can establish that international law is binding on the U.S., regardless of whether the Senate has ratified the treaty in question, activists can avoid Congress and work the issue through the courts. If you believe that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to bear arms up on the American people, then I urge you to reaffirm that principle by voting against Harold Koh. And if you believe that our nation should be subjected by a variety of treaties that threaten our national sovereignty and American way of life, then I urge you to reaffirm those values by voting against this nominee.

    http://inhofe.senate.gov/publi.....;Issue_id=

  17. pdsand
    July 2, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    In more “Up is down, down is up” news, from the Washington Post:

    “Obama Favors Strong ‘Right to Refuse’ Protections for Health-Care Workers
    President Voices Support for ‘Conscience Clauses’ Ahead of Plans to Scale Back Bush-Era Policies

    By Jacqueline L. Salmon
    Washington Post Staff Writer
    Thursday, July 2, 2009; 2:25 PM

    President Barack Obama said today that he still favors a “robust” federal policy protecting health-care workers who have moral objections to performing some procedures, even though he plans to roll back a Bush administration rule that expanded such protection.

    Speaking to eight religion reporters at the White House before his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on July 10, Obama sought to reassure Catholic health-care workers that they would not be forced to perform abortions. Obama said he is a “believer in conscience clauses” and that a new policy would “certainly not be weaker” than what existed before Bush expanded it late in his administration.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....02451.html

    Err..what? How can the headline be that Obama is in favor of a policy that even he admits he is eliminating?

    And given Obama’s earlier statement to the gays that he would prefer that they forget all the empty promises he made during the campaign, and instead just focus on what little good he actually does for them now…what faith should a religious healthcare worker put in Obama’s vague promise that his replacement will “certainly not be weaker” than the old policy?

    How can any sane person write this crap with a straight face?

    • proreason
      July 2, 2009 at 3:55 pm

      “How can the headline be that Obama is in favor of a policy that even he admits he is eliminating?”

      It’s one of his primary strategies. He regularly says things that are totally contradictory.

      Later, he can point to the one, knowing that his audience won’t check around to see that he has said the exact opposite at another time.

      That’s one of the reasons Rush says that you can’t pay any attention at all to what he says.

      He is everything to all people all the time.

      Just like God.

  18. pdsand
    July 2, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    Obama must have no interest in making supreme court decisions either, from the Washington Post:

    “Obama says court still allows for racial diversity

    By MARK SHERMAN
    The Associated Press
    Thursday, July 2, 2009; 3:25 PM

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama cast this week’s Supreme Court decision in favor of white firefighters as a narrow case that nevertheless allows employers and educators to take race into account in hiring, promotions and admissions.

    Obama, a former constitutional law professor, said the court was “moving the ball” on affirmative action by telling public and private employers they could not easily discard promotion exams just because the results left no African-Americans likely to be promoted.

    “This was a very narrow case, so it’s hard to gauge where they will take it,” Obama said in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press. He did not criticize the court’s ruling, even though the justices voted 5-4 to reverse a decision that his own high court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, endorsed as an appeals court judge.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01864.html

    Mr. Obama has criticized Mr. Bush for issuing a signing statement to interpret bills that he signs into law. Regardless of that criticism he does the same thing, as we all knew he would. But on what authority is he interpreting a supreme court ruling and defining its scope as very narrow?

    And of course as night follows day, since this supreme court ruling is of a conservative nature it is to be interpreted narrowly and applied sparingly if at all. But if it were a liberal ruling it would warrant the broadest possible interpretation and the widest possible application.

    • pdsand
      July 2, 2009 at 4:20 pm

      Nobody said that this ruling would not “allow for diversity”, just that it would ban reverse discrimination…or as I like to call it, discrimination.

  19. BillK
    July 3, 2009 at 2:45 am

    A judge will decide next week whether this idiot gets his job back, but apparently that’s a qualification for many jobs these days, like Senator from Minnesota.

    From the Boulder (CO) Daily Camera:

    Churchill, CU have last go-around

    By John Aguilar

    DENVER — The lead attorney for ousted professor Ward Churchill came out swinging during his client’s reinstatement hearing Wednesday, pushing a high-level University of Colorado administrator into admitting under oath that he is employed by a group of “constitutional law violators.”

    “Point to the party that has ignored and trampled on the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,” Churchill attorney David Lane said in his cross-examination of Todd Gleeson, dean of CU’s College of Arts and Sciences.

    The dean stammered haltingly, responding that “the university was found to have violated Churchill’s rights” at a jury trial earlier this year.

    “The jury said your bosses are First Amendment violators, didn’t they?” Lane pressed.

    Gleeson hesitatingly agreed.

    The exchange, which elicited chuckles and guffaws from the gallery of a Denver courtroom filled with Churchill supporters, capped a day’s worth of testimony designed to help Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves decide if the former ethnic studies professor should get his job back at the university.

    Naves said he would issue a ruling in the matter early next week.

    Wednesday’s hearing represented the culmination of a controversy that erupted nearly 4½ years ago, when an incendiary essay that Churchill wrote about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks came to light.

    CU launched an investigation into whether Churchill had overstepped the bounds of free speech by a public employee with his essay, in which he compared some 9/11 victims to Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann.

    During the tumult over his essay, separate allegations that Churchill had engaged in research misconduct arose. After a two-year investigation, the regents fired Churchill for what they claimed was widespread academic fraud.

    Churchill sued the university for wrongful termination, claiming CU really dumped him for the 9/11 essay. He won his claim at a civil trial earlier this year, when a jury decided the school had illegally sacked the tenured professor for expressing his political beliefs.

    The jury awarded Churchill a nominal $1 in damages.

    Lane repeatedly asked Gleeson on Wednesday if he accepted the jury’s April 2 verdict.

    The dean responded that he didn’t agree with it but respected it.

    “You haven’t accepted that your employer violated the supreme law of the land, have you?” the lawyer asked.

    Under questioning from CU attorney Patrick O’Rourke, Gleeson said Churchill’s presence back on campus would erode the institution’s reputation and detract from CU’s ability to hire quality faculty members. He predicted that many junior faculty members would leave CU if Churchill returned.

    “If professor Churchill is reinstated, it essentially signals to him and our national audience that that behavior is acceptable, and I predict it would persist,” Gleeson testified.

    The dean also said reinstatement would have a “chilling effect” on the faculty’s willingness to bring forth any potential future allegations of misconduct against Churchill.

    “Are you afraid it would expose you to another lawsuit?” O’Rourke asked.

    “Yes,” Gleeson responded. …

    http://www.dailycamera.com/new.....t-lawsuit/

    It’s truly amazing watching college administrators cower in fear of lawyers and judges.

    Of course CU has also violated the Second Amendment for years now, making it illegal to bring a firearm on campus, but no one of import disagrees with that.

    But here’s what it’s really all about as the chairwoman of Churchill’s department admits what her sham of a department is really all about:

    Emma Perez, chairwoman of CU’s ethnic studies department and Churchill’s would-be boss if he regains his job, called the idea that her department’s reputation would suffer if Churchill is reinstated a “ridiculous notion.”

    “It doesn’t make sense that anyone would think it would tarnish our department,” she testified by phone link-up. “He is a fellowship scholar and has published prolifically, and he is cited across the nation and internationally.”

    She said Churchill’s classes would quickly fill with students and “give us the numbers we need.”

    Note that to graduate from CU, either Churchill;s class or a Women’s Studies class (Men Are All Rapists 101) are required.

    No indoctrination there – none at all.

  20. canary
    July 3, 2009 at 5:28 am

    The Obamacare horror story you won’t hear by Michelle Malkin June 22, 2009
    Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009

    “I blogged about Michelle Obama’s role in creating a patient-dumping scheme for the University of Chicago Medical Center back in March….my syndicated column today revisits the kind of “reform” the Obamas and their Chicago cronies champion — and who benefits.

    Here’s a challenge to the ABC News Obamacare infomercial producers. I dare you to ask President Obama this question: What have you done for Dontae Adams, lately?

    The White House, Democrats, and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But there’s one health care policy nightmare you won’t hear the Obamas hyping. It’s a tale of poor, minority patient-dumping in Chicago — with First Lady Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over it.

    Both Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Democrat Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago have raised red flags about the outsourcing program, run by the University of Chicago Medical Center. The hospital has non-profit status and receives lucrative tax breaks in exchange for providing charity care. Yet, it spent a measly $10 million on charity care for the poor in fiscal 2007 when Mrs. Obama was employed there—1.3 percent of its total hospital expenses, according to an analysis performed for The Washington Post by the non-partisan Center for Tax and Budget Accountability.

    Rep. Rush called for a House investigation last week in response to months of patient-dumping complaints, noting: ‘Congress has a duty to expend its power to mitigate and prevent this despicable practice from continuing in centers that receive federal funds.’

    Don’t expect the president to support a probe. While a top executive at the hospital, Mrs. Obama helped engineer the plan to offload low-income patients with non-urgent health needs. Under the Orwellian banner of an ‘Urban Health Initiative,’ Mrs. Obama sold the scheme to outsource low-income care to other facilities as a way to ‘dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents.’ The program guaranteed ‘free’ shuttle rides to and from the outside clinics.

    In truth, it was old-fashioned cost-cutting and favor-trading repackaged as minority aid. Clearing out the poor freed up room for insured (i.e., more lucrative) patients….

    Joe Stephens of the Washington Post wrote: ‘To ensure community support, Michelle Obama and others in late 2006 recommended that the hospital hire the firm of David Axelrod, who a few months later became the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Axelrod’s firm recommended an aggressive promotional effort modeled on a political campaign—appoint a campaign manager, conduct focus groups, target messages to specific constituencies, then recruit religious leaders and other third-party “validators.” They, in turn, would write and submit opinion pieces to Chicago publications.’

    Some health care experts saw through Mrs. Obama and her public relations man, David Axelrod—yes, the same David Axelrod who is now Mr. Obama’s senior adviser at the White House. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired Axelrod’s public relations firm, ASK Public Strategies, to promote Mrs. Obama’s Urban Health Initiative. Axelrod had the blessing of Chicago political guru Valerie Jarrett – now White House senior adviser.

    Axelrod’s great contribution: Re-branding!…” Axelrod and the Obama campaign refused to disclose how much his firm received for its genius re-branding services.

    In February 2009, outrage in the Obamas’ community exploded after a young boy covered by Medicaid was turned away from the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dontae Adams’ mother, Angela, had sought emergency treatment for him after a pit bull tore off his upper lip. Mrs. Obama’s hospital gave the boy a tetanus shot, antibiotics, and Tylenol and shoved him out the door. The mother and son took an hour-long bus ride to another hospital for surgery.

    Following the Adams incident, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) blasted Mrs. Obama and Mr. Axelrod’s grand plan. The group released a statement expressing ‘grave concerns that the University of Chicago’s policy toward emergency patients is dangerously close to “patient dumping,” a practice made illegal by the Emergency Medical Labor and Treatment Act (EMTALA)’ – signed by President Reagan, by the way – ‘and reflected an effort to ‘cherry pick’ wealthy patients over poor.’

    http://exposingliberallies.blo.....helle.html

  21. caligirl9
    July 3, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Leave it to Disney to find a way to improve the messiah. From CNN.

    Disney adds robotic Obama to attraction

    He looks like President Barack Obama, speaks like him, and even gestures like him, but he is not exactly the president of the United States.
    This president is an audio-animatronic Obama surrounded by the 43 other U.S. presidents at Walt Disney World’s newly revamped Hall of Presidents in Orlando, Florida.
    Disney gathered a team of what it calls “Imagineers,” each trained in various disciplines such as artistry, design and engineering, to update the attraction that has been around since 1971…
    Disney calls the new President Obama figure “the most dynamic figure Disney has ever created.”
    … Imagineers traveled to the Washington, D.C., to record Obama’s voice for the show. They also worked with White House staffers to make sure his wardrobe, hair and mannerisms were portrayed as accurately as possible.
    … The retitled show is called “The Hall of Presidents: A Celebration of Liberty’s Leaders,” and it focuses on the bond between the president and the people.
    Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin consulted on the project and said people who see the show should feel a greater sense of closeness to the presidents.
    “These presidents are human beings with their own need to withstand adversity, sometimes to conquer fear,” Goodwin said. “Yet the other side of it is that mystery of leadership. The best ones are able to give confidence and hope to the American people themselves.”
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL.....index.html

    There is already a huge inaccuracy noted in this exhibit.
    Where is the TOTUS? Es muy importante.

    • jobeth
      July 3, 2009 at 1:21 pm

      “They also worked with White House staffers to make sure his wardrobe, hair and mannerisms were portrayed as accurately as possible.”

      Ha! Good luck with that! Are they planning on changing out his wig every time he wants to appear to be young and vibrant with black hair or when he wants to appear to be “mature and wise’ with graying hair?

      Hi Caligirl…haven’t heard from you for a while…Hope all is going well for you! ;-D

      BTW…I wish all my S&L family and especially Steve a blessed 4th of July! This is our day to celebrate the freedoms that we hold so dear, and will continue to work for their continuance.

    • caligirl9
      July 3, 2009 at 3:22 pm

      Hi jobeth

      I’ve been busy blogging about a nasty child molestation trial here in the Bay Area …

      http://sprocket-trials.blogspo.....am%20Ayres

      I’m gone all day. I get up, get on the train, go to the courthouse, sit there, get back on the train, go home, write, go to bed.

      But I stop by and check the news, ’cause I refuse to read or watch anything from the usual sources!

      To the patriots here at S & L: Let’s take this time to remember what the United States is all about. Independence and independent thinkers. Our nation can be what it was again … 2010 is coming quickly! Stay safe and don’t drink and drive!

  22. canary
    July 3, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    Obama worked with Disney at the White House on our time and dollar. How many hours or days, retakes, teleprompters, edits, did this take. You know darn well, Obama invited them, instead of them using his constant yakking recorded.

    “Imagineers traveled to the Washington, D.C., to record Obama’s voice for the show. They also worked with White House staffers to make sure his wardrobe, hair and mannerisms were portrayed as accurately as possible.”

    • canary
      July 3, 2009 at 5:33 pm

      Looks like they downsized president mickey mouse’s big ears, and he’s no longer skinny. They sure didn’t improve the looks of other presidents.

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