By Larry JohnsoncloseAuthor: Larry JohnsonName: Larry Johnson Email: lcjohnson1@me.com Site:http://NoQuarterUSA.net About: Larry C. Johnson is a former analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who moved subsequently in 1989 to the U.S. Department of State, where he served four years as the deputy director for transportation security, antiterrorism assistance training, and special operations in the State Department's Office of Counterterrorism. He left government service in October 1993 and set up a consulting business. He currently is the co-owner and CEO of BERG Associates, LLC (Business Exposure Reduction Group) and is an expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, and crisis and risk management, and money laundering investigations. Johnson is the founder and main author of No Quarter, a weblog that addresses issues of terrorism and intelligence and politics. NoQuarterUSA was nominated as Best Political Blog of 2008.See Authors Posts (1836) on September 7, 2008 at 2:33 PM in Current Affairs
The folks at The Nose on Your Face are doing some very funny stuff. Here is part II of their Messiah Chronicles.
I know Jesus. Jesus is a friend of mine. And Barack Obama is no Jesus. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulFVillarreal Paul F. Villarreal
I love those guys’ videos. Thanks, LJ!
I just made a remix of the “my Muslim faith” Obama statement from this morning. Check it out, and pass it on:
paul- enjoyed your video too and i am passing it on. thanks for all the great videos you make.
I am Backtrack Oblahblah and approved this message
If Oblahblah is the Messiah does that make us the Pharisees?
Grail Guardian
I’d prefer to think of us as the Romans…
tillthen
…dontcha mean ‘garlic-nose Eyetalians?’
http://www.theindependentview.com Matthew Weaver
Yes, humor is a good thing.
texaslatina
oh i am laughing me head off! thank you grail guardian for that info and link. you just made me a happy girl. too too funny! i am laughing so hard!!
Grail Guardian
Always happy to share something pleasant!
I am Backtrack Oblahblah and approved this message
Where are the moronic trolls today? Oblahblah can’t afford to pay their overtime? Is there a twofer sale over at Walmart on cheetos?
Diana
They’ve all fainted and are at the hospital because after all these months of throwing polls in our faces McCain is now ahead.(In reality we know these polls really don’t mean a thing right now. Just a general view. They’ve been proven wrong on more than one occasion, which is why we never worried about it. But,we won’t let them in on that. Show me the polls about the end of Sept/mid Oct when all the normal bounces have ended.)
PewL
Obama wants to allow illegal immigrants with health care.wow,no wonder he intends to raise taxes..
I thought illegals meant illegals…Now he wants to give them health care..He’s way out of reach.imo
Hey guys I am a Muslim-American supporter of Hillary and now McCain. I understand you want to criticize Obama for not being truthful, but please don’t diminsh my faith in the process. Islam is a religion of peace. Criticize Obama’s dishonesty, not the faith itself. Thank you
Grail Guardian
ANON –
Please don’t mistake the comments as bashing Islam. They are not intended as such (at least by most here). We are bashing Obama’s lies, and laughing that he has been caught in his own web of deceit (again).
I am Backtrack Oblahblah and approved this message
Best thing to do is respond to individual prejudice comments rather than make a blanket indictment of NQ.
Concerned Independent
Agreed. Anonymous – which comment was it that you found offensive towards Muslims in a post showing Obama as Christ?
ANONYMOUS
Not in this post, but in some of the past ones. Don’t worry, I didn’t mean to chracterize NQ as anti-Islam or anything. I know Larry and most of the people on this blog are fair-minded. I just wanted to pre-empt posts that might result as a result of this gaffe by Obama. I don’t wat to have to leave this blog because it’s the best place for poeple like me who feel like Obama is a fake, especially after the 180 turn of Taylor Marsh
I am Backtrack Oblahblah and approved this message
Not in this post, but in some of the past ones.
Thanks for the clarification. I think you can see why we were concerned.
stodghie
well yes muslims need to be respected. i think most of us are concerned with his hiding it. also the people like farakhan etc with whom he associates. it is his lies and cronies that pose the problem.
bemused
I’d say, we are more indignant at BO/BS bashing Islam by denying it. Really, that was insulting when he made the young ladies in their hajibs go off camera. We don’t care if he is Muslim, just that he might lie about it.
Iapprovethismessage
They put together great videos. I just went to their site and suggested that they make a video about Obama’s stammering when he’s nervous in an interview. If they slow down the interview, say at the parts he says “ah,ah,ah, ah, ah ….,” it would highlight how badly Obama stammers. Here’s a link to one of his stammering interviews. http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/07/video-no-obama-didnt-admit-to-being-a-muslim-on-abc/
calli not your sweeti
Why doens’t Obamamessiah just go on a 57 state tour of the 57 states of the Organization of Islam? That would bolster his foreign experience creds! Who was it that compared Obama to Joseph blowing his horn and crumbling the walls of Jericho, and bye, bye Israel? Wright or Farrakhan maybe? The great leader of the universe can’t remember what planet he is on!
Grail Guardian
It was Joshua that felled the walls of Jericho.
Linda
omg rofl
kinthenorthwest
I am still Laughing TY for the video.
baby_puppy
Bad taste Larry. Very bad taste. When will so-called “liberals” realize all Democrats and PUMAs are not anti-religion and may be offended by this picture and title?
I am Backtrack Oblahblah and approved this message
That video is not anti-religion at all. It merely uses religion to poke fun at the iconic messianic status of Oblahblah. If anyone takes offense they should avoid the threads delving into this area. We must not thwart free speech even if some may find something offense. I would hope people of faith with a strong faith are not deterred by this type of humor.
Obama’s gums look sick
“Oh-blah-blah” …….. tee, hee, first time I heard this one. Great! And compared to feisty Sarah Barracuda, indeed the Chosen One is looking very blah. Buh-bye, Oblah-blah
Grail Guardian
Lighten up everyone – it’s meant as satire of the Oborg, not as anti any religion (except the Obama religion). Let’s not be as thin-skinned as Obama!
It’s amazing how easily we’re being distracted from what is perfectly obvious: Beneath all the talk of change and reform, the McCain/Palin positions are almost identical to those of George W. Bush.
You don’t find that a little scary?
a little angel
If Obama is the president of USA, Clinton and others have to put on veil during the Democratic vice presidential nomination -retrospectively…..
Really had a good laugh with this one. Thanks Larry for posting it – what a good laugh. The person who created it has a good sense of humor and makes a serious point with giggles. WEll DONE.
a little angel
obama is not only a narcissist but also a misogynist ala the Iranian mad man Ahmadinejad….
Here are the videos of Sarah on Charlie Rose, long before she was “taken out of nowhere” to be VP nominee. Can she handle the Big Time Media: you betcha:
LOL! That was the funniest thing I’ve seen since Obama’s appearance at Saddleback!
tillthen
I would love to see an O’bot lose it and go off on Obama should he get stiffed by Axelrod for his/her measly 7.50 per hour.
Stewie
In the debates, I think McCain should say he is really old and then use Larry’s “I knew Jesus ….” remarks to destroy Obama.
Stewie
Like so many, I have no problem with Obama’s Muslim childhood in Indonesia — I have problems with Barack’s lying about it.
Why can’t he just say that his Muslim upbringing for a brief time has made him better able to understand the one-fifth of the world who are Muslim?
Obama calls the true facts about his background “smears.” Yeah, right.
mrduffin
Comment by IndianDem | 2008-09-07 16:43:49
It’s amazing how easily we’re being distracted from what is perfectly obvious: Beneath all the talk of change and reform, the McCain/Palin positions are almost identical to those of George W. Bush.
You don’t find that a little scary?
What I find scary is that BO what’s to be president of the USA but refuses to tell us who he really is. I’m a bit tired of his packaged responses and his refusal to disclose the personal information that the public is asking for.
http://home.comcast.net/~vincep312 Vince P
It’s all well and good that we respect Muslims.. but we better start respecting ourselves and our traditions too. We we retreat from our traditions, other traditions will fill the void , until the two collide
A complaint by Somali workers earlier this week that they weren’t getting early enough break times to accommodate religious fasting snowballed into worker protests at the JBS Swift & Co. plant Friday.
Employees from both early and late shifts converged in the afternoon in front of the human resources office at the north Greeley plant.
About 100 employees, some of whom were supposed to be working, protested company officials accommodating Muslims by moving their break time to accommodate those fasting for Ramadan, a Muslim holy month. The company allowed Muslim workers to take their breaks about an hour earlier than normal to break their fasts.
The peaceful crowd milled about behind the plant gates signifying its frustration.
“They have no respect for the Spanish or white people,” said Brianna Castillo, a Swift employee of four years. “Many times we are forced to pull extra count… I don’t feel that is right.”
Castillo, who is white, said every race was represented in the protest with the exception of Somalis. Castillo said employees are frustrated by what they feel is a double standard when it comes to other races and Somalis.
“Somalis are running our plant,” Castillo said. “They are telling us what to do.”
Swift security guards paced the parking lot helping to break up the crowds. Joann Lopez, who finished her morning shift, said she was threatened with her job if she didn’t leave, which didn’t happen to Somalis when they protested earlier in the week.
Lopez, who is Latino and Catholic, said she is upset because the new schedule forces the second shift to work more consecutive hours after their break.
“They are working four to five hours without a break and that’s wrong,” Lopez said. “This is hard work, and to go without a break, we feel it.”
The problem began on Tuesday when Muslim workers were told they could not break their fast at 7:30 p.m., but would have to wait until their lunch break. For many that break didn’t come until about 9 p.m. On Wednesday, Muslim workers gathered outside the Swift plant to negotiate a solution with management. That night they were told they would be allowed to break at 7:30 p.m.
United Food Commercial Workers Local 7, the union that represents primarily production department workers at Swift, responded Thursday by filing a grievance as directed by its membership. The union said the company may have been in violation of its contract, which states that workers must receive lunch break at the mid-point of their shift.
Jack Shandley, head of global human resources for JBS Swift & Co., said late Friday afternoon that the grievance “is just a procedural issue, and we’ll work through it.” He said company management will talk about the matter with union officials and “it will be done as expeditiously as necessary and as the facts are available.”
Shandley said Swift plants have begun hiring Somali workers, whose religion is primarily Muslim, in the last couple of years as African refugees have sought employment in the United States. The aspects of their religion are “relatively new” to the company, which is trying to adapt.
“U.S. law requires companies to, when they can, make reasonable accommodations,” he said. “We, like any good employer, try to balance the needs of all employees in respect to their religions and, to the extent that we can do that without diminishing efficiencies. That’s what we’re trying to do.”…
Shandley said he’s confident that all the differences can be worked out between the employee groups. This week’s events have not caused notable disruption to Swift’s business operations, he said.
“We’re working with all parties to try to reach a reasonable accommodation,” he said. “We think we’re reaching that to balance the needs of everybody.”
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