News You Don’t Want To Miss (aka, You Won’t Believe This) *OPEN THREAD*

Well, hell, R3 Amy, I usually thank you for your posts educating, informing and enlightening us all on such a regular basis.  So, as I grit my teeth, may I say thank you again.

Dang nab it, these ignorant, trash talking blankety-blanks need to go live in one of the Stone Age regimes for a while–say, 10 years–and then see if the American founders had the right idea about governing a country. 

Fauntroy attempted to explain the comparison to white supremacists by saying that organizers behind the “Restoring Honor” rally are the same people who cut audio cables from a sound system the night before the historic March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Same people, huh? How old would that make them?

Nice try, but not a word about the Ed “incident” is true. Typical – and a perfect example of how people just make shit up. 

Nice try, but not a word about the Ed “incident” is true. Typical workplace gossip – and a perfect example of how people just make shit up.

“Special Ed” needs to be careful when taking his meds.

And how would you know? You could be relying on gossip from the apologists for that buffoon.

Loved your use of citations to back up your contention that this incident is not true, donjo.

Try this one.  Oh, sorry.  That’s video of the incident under discussion here.  Guess you’ll have to find your own evidence that this is “workplace gossip”.

Ed Schultz is no stranger to meltdowns.

Seems the Dems are officially MELTDOWN.

And they can’t handle the fact that they can’t ride MLK’s coattails any longer.

In their last ditch effort to freak out with the last Ace in their Race Card stack, MLK’s own niece, is coming out against the Democrats’s race card playing against Beck and his speech, as she wrote an oped as to why she will speaking at Beck’s speech today.

She has been supporting Beck, telling others to stop listening to the false attacks ad listen to what Beck actually says.  Has appeard on his show and now doing the big speech today.

Glenn Beck 8/28 rally: It’s a matter of honor

Dr. Alveda King – the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., – explains why she’s speaking at the Glenn Beck 8/28 rally in Washington this Saturday.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0826/Glenn-Beck-8-28-rally-It-s-a-matter-of-honor

Yea, in this “New Obama World”  being born white is a huge disadvantage these days!

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Obama, Democrats got 88 percent      
of 2008 contributions by TV      
network execs, writers, reporters      
     
Washington Examiner,      
by Mark Tapscott         
     
Original Article      
     
8/27/2010      
     
Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Democratic total of $1,020,816 was given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks, with an average contribution of $880. By contrast, only 193 of the employees contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees, for a total of $142,863.

I thought ministers were not supposed to lie!

If we all did that, what kind of world would we have?  Oh right.  We see.

Like the last time I was beaten up in High School in Miami.  When I went to pick up my little sister (ed of school year) to make sure she was safe, some young kids recognized me as to the one jumped the week prior.

They said “because of what you did to us years ago”.

Uh hello, “it wasn’t ME who did it to you and it wasn’t YOU that had it done to…..all those many years ago”.

If we all did that, what kind of world would we have? Oh right. We see.

I always forget, it’s only White people that are racists.

From the above link:
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“The Evidence to Refute the Whopper”
“Unfortunately for the Passport Office, Phil Jacobsen requested and received his mother’s passport application  from 1953 – a routine application which would have been destroyed along with Dunham’s if the records from those dates had actually been destroyed as claimed in the memo.”

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NRA declines to endorse
Reid in Nevada Senate race
 
Associated Press,
by KEVIN FREKING   

Original Article

8/27/2010

Sen. Harry’s Reid’s support for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominees has cost him the endorsement of the National Rifle Association in his re-election bid. The NRA is a force in rural states like Nevada where many voters own guns and hunt. The absence of the NRA’s blessing represents a setback that Reid’s campaign was quick to address Friday by noting that NRA executive Wayne LaPierre once called him a “true champion of the Second Amendment.” Christopher W. Cox, chairman of the NRA’s Political Victory Fund, said Friday that the organization strongly opposed the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court….

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Casualties heavy at hospitals
 
Washington Times,
by James A. Bacon   

Original Article

8/27/2010

An Associated Press story sparked a small furor recently when it reported that the Obama administration’s ban on deep-water drilling would cost an estimated 23,000 jobs. With unemployment stuck near 10 percent, consternation over the avoidable job destruction was understandable. But that’s hardly the only example of how Mr. Obama’s policies are devastating the economy. A little-noticed provision of the Affordable Care Act will wipe out an estimated 25,000 jobs that physician-owned hospitals were expecting to create within the next year or so. To keep the big hospitals on the sidelines of the health care debate….

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Politicking Justice
 
Investor’s Business Daily,
by Staff   

Original Article

8/27/2010 

War On Terror: A decade after the USS Cole bombing, the Obama administration has halted prosecution of the al-Qaida operative believed to have planned the attack. What an insult to the sailors who lost their lives. As the Cole’s crew lined up for chow in the ship’s galley during a refueling stop in a Yemeni harbor on Oct. 12, 2000, al-Qaida suicide bombers used a small craft to detonate over 1,000 pounds of explosives, tear a 40-by-40-foot hole in the ship’s side, slaughter 17 U.S. sailors and injure 39 more. It’s bad enough that our rules of engagement dictated….

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Follow the Money: Could Mayor
Bloomberg’s Media Business
Interests in the Middle East Have
Anything to Do with His Support
of the Ground Zero Mosque?
 
Big Journalism,
by Mondo Frazier   

Original Article

8/27/2010 

Call us cynical but we wonder whether Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s passionate backing of the building of a controversial mosque near Ground Zero stems as much from Bloomberg’s belief in America’s “freedom of faith” as it might from the Mayor’s belief in the “virtues of Islamic finance?” Does the Mayor’s unshakable support have anything to do with The Bloomberg (company) becoming a ‘single provider of information that caters to the Islamic business market’? A Bloomberg five-year business plan for an Islamic finance portal via a Bloomberg hub at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is already a reality….

“But what is wrong with white folks having “dreams”?”

Nothing at all.  It’s nighttime, and I always see this train going into this long dark tunnel . . . 

And when it comes out, it squashes this little guy with a “hope and change” sign, who thought it was the brightening light at the end of the tunnel showing the way to the promised land . . .

That is pretty telling. The left wants to “own” MLK. They want to be able to pick and choose from what he said and did. They want to put him in a box and use his memory for convenience sake. In other words… MLK has been enslaved by modern leftists. How ironic is that?

No, unlike you talking right wing parrots, I heard it from the buffoon himself.

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IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED, AT GETFITNOW’S REQUEST, I TRACKED DOWN

THE MEMO FROM THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN THAT IS THE PLAN TO SMEAR

THE CLINTONS.  IT IS A VERY LONG READ AND I INTENTIONALLY POSTED

IT HERE IN CASE IT GETS ‘LOST’….

IT IS HERE AND BEGINS @5.51AM

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2010/08/25/youre-either-down-or-youre-not/

Could anyone here explain to me why the White House has “frozen” the prosecution of the Al Qaeda operative, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was about to be tried for the bombing of the USS Cole and the murder of 17 American sailors? What’s with that?
 
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/cole_killer_confusion_qlmIncXfkGQL4jUtI8uf6L

not a word about the Ed “incident” is true?… 

The caption on that picture should read… reporting for duty.

HE said HE didn’t do that and said it to you. How convenient. And I’m not a right-wing parrot, asshat. Try another line of work as you don’t want to fuck with me, goober.

“Screw the Middle Class” – No… eliminate the middle class is what team Obama wants. Team Obama is friends to the uber wealthy and to global corporations… the rest of us are all the same to them… chattering class… peons… serfs… waifs… black, white, brown, yellow… same thing. You are “privileged” meaning wealthy born “in” or “in” at a global corporation because of where you went to college or you are a damn peon-serf-waif. Reagan actually helped the middle class. There will always be rich people. There will always be poor people. There will not always be a middle class. The middle class is what made America great. This was the real stuff of dreams. Team Obama are dream killers. They have taken our children’s dreams and traded them for their own personal stock in the globalists new world.

Just what is in That One’s closet that he is paying a lot of money to keep hush-hush? If I were a cynic (and I am), I’d say that his COLB/BC is the least of our worries. No friends from the past, no schoolmates, no written record to speak of, no transcripts–a big, fat zero for a history. How long was he groomed for squatting the WH?

Because it introduced a discordant subplot into the Obama script, which is mainly about “let’s all get along with the Muslims, and they’ll be our friends.”

Holy cow, IADK3SLT, that is terrible.  I am so sorry to hear you had that experience…

Ferd you obviously are living on another planet;  Here’s another opinion backed with links and a few facts, which, more often than not, are missing on this site.  (PS, I don’t watch MSNBC, Fox, or CNN; I figured any media source that promotes an obviously insane person like Beck is not worth the electricity.)

Glenn Beck’s Messiah Complex
Rupert Murdoch’s community organizer says that God speaks through him. Does Beck think he’s the Second Coming? (His followers just may think so.) August 28, 2010  |  
  

The record for self-appointed messiahs isn’t good. (Kool-Aid anyone?) But that appears to be the path Glenn Beck is headed down — not that he’d ask his followers to die for him; he just wants them, for a handful of self-righteous feel-good, to sell their grandchildren’s future well-being into the coffers of billionaires David Koch and Rupert Murdoch.

In the months since his February appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Beck has added a new element to his customary line of wild-eyed, secular political conspiracy theories: his implied anointment as God’s messenger, ordained to save the country and “restore honor” to its culture.

This month, he added a morning prayer segment to his daily radio program, and has described as “divine providence” his purportedly accidental selection of the date for the rally he will lead tomorrow on both the anniversary of and at the same site as Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. He has told his followers to expect a “miracle” on the day of the rally. And tonight, Beck’s production company, Mercury Radio Arts, will produce a pre-game event at the (cough) Kennedy Center, modestly titled “Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny” (until it was apparently renamed “America’s Divine Destiny” this morning, per the flyers handed ticket-seekers who were turned away).

However tempting it may be to dismiss Beck’s faith-based grandiosity as delusional derangement, there’s likely more than a bit of strategy involved in the revamped Beck formula, which is ultimately designed to marshal resentful white people to the anti-regulatory agenda of Rupert Murdoch, CEO of the parent company of Beck’s employer, Fox News.

(more…) 

 http://www.alternet.org/news/148005/glenn_beck%27s_messiah_complex/

I watched every second of the Restoring Honor rally. I am drained emotionally, but it is well worth it!
The Special Operations Warriors Foundation raised five and a half million dollars, and donations are still coming in! Well done, patriots!
Glenn joked in the beginning that the media reported there were 1000 people in attendance. LOL! Later, he said there were 2 to 5 million!
Shame on those who slander Americans in the manner they do. I could not sleep last night after Matthews, at the end of his program, said they were desecrating the Lincoln Memorial!

I can’t believe the opinions I read here.  Reagan helped the middle class?   Give me ONE instance.  His policies and tax cuts for the wealthy been the major reason for the collapse of our economy and death of the middle class.   And frankly, I agree that the present administration isn’t much better.

Yes, we remember his own telling words at that big fundraiser in Cali when he told his purple shirts, “you will never be able to afford a place like this”.

Hmmm, not the inspiring words you would expect from a true leader.  And that says it all.,

“Have you ever seen such a systematic dissembling of simple childhood details for anyone else in history? We may have a motto, “Where’s the birth certificate?”, but virtually everything about this White House occupant’s childhood has two or three conflicting stories about it. This pattern doesn’t appear to have begun with his adulthood.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=195953

Armymom: culled?  Is that what you call it?  I call it murdering beautiful intelligent beings.  We’re not going to agree on this one, EVER . . .

Cynic: n. A blackguard who sees things as they are rather than as they ought to be.
    Ambrose Bierce

Wow, Sassy – that is amazing.  Thanks for the update.  I know we had 6 buses from the Charleston areas head up there yesterday.  How many people did they estimate attended?

That’s infuriating. Sorry to hear that happened to you by ignorant thugs  Linda. They knew the truth but played their own PC thug card to abuse you. Unbelievable….glad you escaped that ****

“he’s a red head”

Oh, donjo honey…I hate to break it to you but we require a little more substantiation for our arguments around here than “he’s a red head”.

You’d better be careful labeling people by the color of their tresses.  That’s hairist, you know.  Your bigotry is showing.

Just for future reference… just in case we all wind up in the same re-education camp together… or whatever… just kidding… I hope.  If I am starving and freezing to death and going to die anyway… just shoot me. Even from a plane. It would beat freezing and starving to death anytime.

anyone notice that at becks rally not a word was  spoken that could be considered racist while sharptons rally  was all racist.    sorry to disappoint you Al, but beck didnt give you any reason to claim  racism.  .i know you were hoping to be able to make a big stink.but im sure you’ll find something to criticize.

Well, after today and hearing a Lib on the days talk shows say we should grant amnensty to stimulate the housing industry.  Hubby and I screamed and said, if being that stupid means being a Democrat and if we oppose such unsafe and ridiculous governing means you’re a right wing, We’re OK with you calling us that.

I guess Bill Clinton and Al Gore, who reinvented gov’t and cut welfare are White Sheet and Hood dressers too!

Interesting thought.  Well, Doc, if those were my choices, I’d choose freezing, or even starving.  I would prefer to be killed by Nature’s indifference than some fascist’s self-righteous malice . . .

Amen Docelder. As an ex dem who goes to a dem accountant, she’ll say just what you said, that saying the “tax cuts” were for the rich is an out and out lie. Donjo, you’re just too partisan and have drank too much of the kool-aid to really see what went on. I lived well under Reagan, lived well under Bush, and am being crushed to death under this jack-ass. I’ve made t-shirts, want one. On the front…..Yes, Obama inherited this mess……..On the back…..and their names were Pelosi, Reid, Frank and Dodd”. It has pictures of them with the word “mess” under their picture. The dems took control since 2006 and we’ve been screwed every since.

I was so surprised to see Dave Roever (sp) say the last prayer. I actually got to meet him about 10 years ago. What a man and I also must say that his face actually looks better than it did back then. He spoke at a conference that I attended and we got to go up to him afterwards and speak with him. What a wonderful guy and he’s really funny too.

Oh, just wait, another resident troll, DBB will come to this thread and say there were only a few thousand and that we’re all nuts.

Hahahahahaha

Sounds like the Democrat’s playbook.

call me crazy, but its beginning to look as if obama knows exactly what hes doing.   bringing down america.  this was his plan from the beginning. he just didnt expect people to catch on to him so quickly. he thought he’d have 8 years to do it so we wouldnt notice.  luckily for us many caught on to him quickly and now that he realizes he’s only going to get 4 years , he has stepped it up. he has done more damage in 1 1/2 years than any other president in history.he shows his disdain for us everytime he swings a golf club while america is burning. he’s so “in your face” about it too. no need to use that finger he gave to hillary when his golf club works so much better.

heard barry called bloomberg for advice on the economy.  kind of like when he called  james cameron for advice on the oil spill. who is he going to call next for advice?  mickey mouse? or is that racist since mickey is mostly black. he’s already got most of the disney characters in his administration.

you either cull or they over hunt their prey and if there isnt enough natural prey then they start on ajoining land with domestic heards and you pup and kitty just like coyotes.

lol I do understand oowawa, I really do, but if you’ve seen some of the deer that I’ve seen, you would agree that they’ve been put out of their misery. Some of them are so bad with mange, half their fur gone, sores on them. It’s sad really. And he’s right about the coyotes, we have those here to now where we didn’t have them before. I have to really watch over my grandkids being outside. And packs of dogs. I decided long ago, it’s either me and my family or the critters and I won’t let the critters win against my grandbabies.

Well the Bible of Liberalness, The Huffington Post reported the Schultz breakdown so it must be true.  They’d NEVER tell a lie or spread gossip.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/26/ed-schultzs-msnbc-meltdow_n_695288.html

Speaking of Huffpoo, I loved John Mayers rant against them for supposedly making up shit about him and Jennifer Aniston being back togather:

http://www.celebitchy.com/114403/john_mayer_to_huffington_post_go_f-ck_yourself/

Now I think Mayer can be a bit douchebag, but he’s witty and smart and I loved his remarks about HuffPoo.

 im sure they were hoping for a reason, any reason to call the rally racist so they could protest but then im sure they will find something. 
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That Beck is white is reason enough for Sharpton to call him and his rally racist. At one time I thought Sharpton had some moxie. After the incident with the LaCrosse players at Duke, I changed my mind in a hurry when he didn’t apologize for his headlong rush to judgment.

oowawa, I hear you.  But man has already altered the balance of nature to the point where we have no choice but to cull.  If we don’t, one species will overrun others to the point of extinction.

Our shop property is a good example.  It’s out in the country.  For years there were game birds galore out there.  Then they started to disappear, at the same time a population of coyotes moved in.  By the time mr. creeper could find someone to trap the coyotes the turkeys, quail and other birds were gone.  The trapper’s been working for ten years and the birds are just now starting to come back.

As for deer, a couple of years ago one hit us.  Yes, that’s right.  HE ran into US.  When the highway patrolman came to take the report he told us that there are an average of 60,000 deer strikes every year in Wisconsin alone.

I bow to no one in my love of animals.  It’s taken me fifty years to understand the necessity for culling.  I still hate it but I know why it has to be done.

I just want to thank you all upstream from this (armymom and oowawa and Creeper and others) for agreeing to disagree in a thoughtful, polite, and respectful way — you are “my America” – the place where people can disagree about all sorts of things and still genuinely like and interact with each other.  This is the America I’ve come to miss so much …..

Boy Ferd. you are one tough hombre.  I’m shaking in my boots; whatever happened to the call to treat people here with at least a semblance of respect? 
Oh, I forgot, that doesn’t apply to people who are legends in their own mind. 

“But Palin shoots some wolves as a part of a wildlife management controlled and planned hunt and she’s some kind of a blood thirsty butcher of furry critters.”

And other governors in states surrounding Yellowstone also do controlled hunts from helicopters as a way to manage the wolf population. I read about it in Smithsonian magazine last year.  It pissed me off to no end how Ashley Judd, on her animal rights high horse, slammed Palin for it but couldn’t find the time to publicly condemn any of the other US Governors who did the same thing the past 5 years. 

If you let mother nature do her thing no matter the outcome, then there is a lot more animal suffering due to over population and starvation or under population and watching a species disapear due to over hunting an area by natural predators.  I think it’s much kinder to shoot wolves when they over populate then let them slowly starve to death.  Likewise when any animal population gets out of control.

Get serious, I wasn’t. I’ve got true redheaders in the family.  I guess it’s true that right wingers have absolutely no sense of humor. 

It wasn’t difficult to disagree with oowawa respectfully.  That’s just responding in kind.  And I’m more in sympathy here than you would think.  I still get tears in my eyes when we pass a raccoon dead on the road. 

I hate killing anything.  I don’t even kill the nightcrawlers when I go fishing.  It take the tails off, leaving the viable head end, and turn them loose in my herb bed after everyone has contributed to the cause.  Killing any critter is a terrible thing.  That it sometimes has to be done doesn’t make it one whit easier to stomach.

Lemme tell you something about the wildlife in Yellowstone.  I went through there twice this summer.  If they don’t get a handle on those road-blocking bison, one of these days some frustrated driver is going to start shooting them.

Seriously, it was a challenge getting from one end to the other without hitting a buffalo.  But the mandatory fifteen-minute stops were kinda fun.

Yes, man has altered the balance of nature . . . you broke it, now you fix it.  But do we trust government to “fix it”?  Look how well they’ve managed the economy!  Well, whatever we do, we need to take the suffering of animals into account–even predators.  Obviously, the nuances of this get very complicated . . .

And yes, creeper, I recognize that this crew at NQ is populated by people who respect and care for animals.  No doubt!

I did my own taxes for years. It hurts my tiny liberal heart to say this but the Bush tax cuts saved me money and allowed me to become a landowner. 

I think, during the dumbing down of America, people have forgotten the difference between “truisms” and “slogans”.

Tax cuts for the wealthy is a slogan. 

There is nothing new under the Sun is a truism.  Why?  Because it’s been shown to be true over a long period of time like I dunno….centuries.

Sarah Palin Speech at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally – Part 2

oowawa, you are GOOD!  So clever!  I’m ROFL!

I am a redhead too, but in all my years on this earth, I have never threatend to torch anything.  That is the dumbest excuse I have ever heard!

Wow–not a false note . . . Thanks so much for getting this “hot off the press” JustMe!  Gee whiz, Katie Couric, this makes your question about Sarah’s reading sound so relevant . . .

Just what is in That One’s closet that he is paying a lot of money to keep hush-hush?

What if somewhere in that document it states his real name, real father, and in the space for race–caucasian?

Therefore it must be too difficult for you to understand? 
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Well, there you go again, troll. Don’t you have some billy goats gruff to bother over at HuffyPoo? Go bother them and leave.

Therefore it must be too difficult for you to understand? 
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Well, there you go again, troll. Don’t you have a bridge to haunt and 3 billy goats to bother? Oh, they’re your in-laws. Never mind.

Well, gee, there’s only a few thousand there. The rest are cardboard cut-outs. Oh, wait, carboard cut-outs populate this administration so those must be real people.

Where’s DBB? I want to get its count.

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Obama’s Arabic Teleprompter – Imam Rauf!  
   
American Thinker,  
by Eileen F. Toplansky     
 
Original Article  
 
8/26/2010  
 
In a stunning revelation, it appears that the controversial Imam Rauf has been quite instrumental in the crafting of the speech that Obama gave in Cairo. This report comes from Walid Shoebat who speaks fluent Arabic. It is a shocking audio recording of Rauf’s own voice boasting in Arabic that Obama’s historic speech in Cairo was provided by the Imam’s work with the Cordova Initiative. Once a terrorist, Walid Shoebat is now an American citizen and lives in the USA under this assumed name. He has a unique insight into the world of terror from…..

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Enforcement On ICE  
   
Investor’s Business Daily,  
by Staff     
 
Original Article  
 
8/27/2010  
 
Politics: If there’s one agency that’s been made useless by its leaders, it’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If, under a new policy, being here illegally is no longer reason enough for deportation, why does it still exist? The Obama administration has effectively declared open borders to millions of would-be illegal immigrants — not through legislation, but with a sneaky policy move. On Aug. 20, its man at ICE, John Morton, wrote a memo stating that being in the U.S. illegally is no longer sufficient reason to send someone home. An illegal immigrant now has to be a security threat or else….

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New Immigration Policy  
to Halt Some Illegal  
Immigrant Deportations  
   
Fox News,  
by Staff     
 
Original Article  
 
8/27/2010  
 
Federal authorities have issued a new policy aimed at stopping deportation proceedings for some illegal immigrants, according to a memo issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The memo, which ICE released on Aug. 20, could affect up to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who are married or related to a U.S. citizen or a legal resident who has filed a petition on their behalf. Illegal immigrants with criminal convictions will not qualify under the plan. ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton wrote the memo to Peter Vincent, principal legal adviser and head of the agency’s removal operations.

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Justice Department Gives  
Second Ultimatum in Sheriff  
Arpaio Investigation  
 
ABC News,  
by Devin Dwyer     
 
Original Article  
 
8/27/2010  
 
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County, Arizona, man who calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff,” has until Sept. 10 to comply with a Justice Department request to explain his office’s “operations, policies and procedures” involving the arrest and detention of Hispanics, according to a letter obtained by ABC News. The Department has been investigating the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for alleged civil rights violations. Officials set the deadline following a meeting Tuesday with Arpaio’s attorneys in Washington.

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Mosque raises 10G toward $100M tab
 
New York Post,
by Carl Campanile
& Geoff Earl   

Original Article

8/28/2010

New York/ DC – Plans for the mosque near Ground Zero took a big step forward yesterday. With controversy over the project still raging, the developer kicked off fund-raising for the Islamic center and mosque two blocks from the World Trade Center by raising $10,000 from a congregation of Muslim worshippers. Sharif El-Gamal announced the start of the fund-raising drive at yesterday’s prayer sessions (Snip) Meanwhile, records show Rauf has called for a “one state” solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem — an outcome some say could lead to Israel’s disappearance.

Ferd has earned our respect, unlike you, donjo.  He contributes quite a bit more than you do in advancing the dialogue.  Most of us agree with his impatience at your attempts to successfully troll here.  Success, meaning that you convince people of your points of view. 
Not a chance, sonny.  You’re a broken record and the only reason you’re here is to annoy us.  You’re too boring to actually accomplish that.

Obama`s respose to Beck rally….

One of Sharpton`s supporters got a good seat for the proceedings.

I am 65 years old, I don’t remember race relations being any worse than they are right now  I guess the one didn’t do anything to help !  Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Lord Fauntroy, etc are doing their best to set race relations back 50 years.  The race baiting never stops, it just keeps these morons in the headlines.

left-leaning source.
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An oxymoron. If it is left-leaning, it is no source and if it is a source, it can’t be left-leaning.

The left is much worse than the right because they say one thing and do another. While I don’t always agree with them, I’ll give the right credit–they do what they say they’re going to do.

Trouble is with the spin doctors who will try to make this racist all the way…it is amazing the lengths some will go to just to look like they are on the correct side of an issue.  Isn’t there some way to bottle common sense to make it available to everyone??? 

“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

http://www.saywhatyouwill.proboards.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-glen-beck-rally-pg,0,4839736.photogallery

Made me feel so proud , to see so much pride
and yes, it brought tears to my eyes.

VERY COOL- GLENN
 

………..and Democrats

thanks for the support Harp.   I don’t hink I’ll ever get that image out of mind.   It would have been worse if had been Sharpton

MEDAL OF MERIT ALBERT PUJOLS
GLENN BECK RALLY

I watched all of the restoring honor rally this morning it was a moving and inspirational three hours of tv. The thing that stuck out to me was all of it was postive, the message was that we are in trouble as a country, but with hard work and understanding and respect and love for each other the America we all want will still be here for our children, but if the country does not change direction we will become, I don’t know what. Myself I have high hopes for us all still, because of people like Beck, my wife and all of the patriots at NQ. I am sure there will be a post on the rally coming soon from my wife, as she was there today with over 600,000 concerned americans who don’t like the direction boo and others have been leading us for years. Pray for our troops and our wounded warriors, its the least we can do for the ones who keep us free and Americans. 

Well said.

I liked MLK Jr. and I like the Tea Party message of limited government.  I can see Sharpton’s point that we needed federal troops to go into Alabama and Mississippi to help integrate the schools, ergo this “down with the federal government” mantra is overblown.  But I really don’t think the average Tea Partier would have any problem with sending in federal troops to help integrate the schools.  I can’t be the only person in the country who sees a difference between the necessary and brief intrusiveness of troops in Alabama, and the unnecessary and endless intrusion of Obama and the modern day Democratic Congress into our lives.  Am I?

“America today begins to turn back to God . . . ”

I applaud Beck for this entire production, and think it’s a big Win.  However, I have been “put off” in the past by his emphasis on “God” in a political context, and I think this is a mistake.  I am a Buddhist-Christian, and I have no problem reconciling those beliefs.  I also have no problem with atheists.  Beck is something of a loose cannon on deck, and if he pushes the “God” stuff too far, I think he is going to lose an important part of his audience.  Of course, this is all IMHO.

No you aren’t – which is why I am eagerly looking forward to November ……………………………………………………..

Agreed.  I’m a lifelong atheist and I have to hold my nose about the “God” stuff with Beck.  But I do what I always have done – I tell myself that what he calls God is something that perhaps I call by another name, but it is not meant to exclude me.

Great comment, Lou.  “by another name”–exactly.

Thanks for posting the Alveda King speech.  I took some time to listen to it all the way through, and I must say that apart from a couple of references to prayer in school and pro-life principles, her speech didn’t have much to do with the purpose of the rally.  Oddly, the only parts of Beck’s philosophy she seems to support are the same parts I tend to either disagree with or at least downplay.   It takes all kinds.  Oh, but being a white male, I don’t give the movement any street cred and she does.  That’s important…

Well, oowawa, I can forgive Beck the wearing of his religion on his shirtsleeves if only because he has awakened something else in many who are disaffected. But he does need to be careful with it.

to comply with a Justice Department request to explain his office’s “operations, policies and procedures”
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The answer: He catches criminals and if/when they are convicted, he jails them, Simple enough even for a Washington bureaucrat to get their head around. Jail should not be a vacation getaway for criminals. I’m quite happy that he makes them sleep in tents. If these bozos can’t do the time, they should stay away from crime.

 Meanwhile, records show Rauf has called for a “one state” solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem — an outcome some say could lead to Israel’s disappearance.
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Some moderate you have there, obamabots, in this Rauf. If this is moderate, what would an extremist be? Wow.

Sassy, I got chills when I read how much the Special Operations Warriors Foundatiion took in, FANTASTIC! =-X  Hopefully I will be able to catch the rlly online or in loop sometime tonight, I sure it will be played again. So glad you got to watch it.

all white and racist…

That’s how we roll! Nice comment Required Reading, and a good change from being beaten over the head on a thread, by those who want to cause upset at NQ, no the regulars and most timers, thats for sure. Again, that was nice for you to point out, we needed it.

Down in Rye, NY, they have to keep their children out of the front or back yards. Not long ago, two small children out playing were attacked by coyotes and had to have rabies shots.

I had to keep the channel changer ready when I was watching my Merrkats (spelling intentional), because I don’t do the death scenes. 

Traitors, bastards, cowards. Did I leave anything out. Sickening. I better stop.

I think Sharpton is just jealous he couldn’t get the same crowds, the same action and reaction and the same fantastic speakers. And, since when did it become racist for a white man or any white person to honor MLK? Is his birhday not a national holiday. Ridiculous. Wow, how long will it take for the people who scream racism and point their nasty little fingers at everyone else to see the real racist in the room is themselves. What exactly are they really trying to do? They are individuals, who should and will be held accountable for their actions and if they think we are so stupid as to include all people of any race and label them as they have done so, they are quite mad. Yes I group politicians, pedoaphiles, rapists and terrorists, it is in my best interest to do so, for self protectiion, beyond that, I don’t care. It is one on one, and how I am treated..

“I tell you, Ferd, many of the same people who claim to supprot MLK’s legacy are the same ones who haven’t a clue abt it.”
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Yes, our POTUS is one. There was a little glitch in his (Parents in Selma) “fairytale.”

Is he still on the radio? A few months back I checked to see if the bay area still had a “progressive” talk station since Air America died. It’s still there, but I noticed Ed isn’t on schedule.

I can’t bear to listen to them anymore. Even after the historic wins-congress and POTUS, they are all whining, whining, whining. Did they ever really enjoy the unprecedented moment in history they wanted so badly?

“I tell you, Ferd, many of the same people who claim to supprot MLK’s legacy are the same ones who haven’t a clue abt it.” 
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Yes, our POTUS is one. There was a little glitch in his (Parents in Selma) “fairytale.”
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That is so true, getfitnow. King was a man of great courage, honor and integrity. Those who invoke his name, such as Al Sharpton, should remember that character was of prime import to King. Perhaps on this day, everyone should reread his I Have a Dream speech.

For those who missed the Restoring Honor Rally this morning.
Full C- Span coverage

Wow, wow, and WOW. That is wonderful. Wish I could have.

I know it’s kind of a silly question but don’t you wonder why we would want to be friends with the people that attacked one of our ships and murdurded 17 sailors?

I can’t speak for anyone else but it tends to make me feel less than “friendly”. In fact, nasty old woman that I am, I am feeling down right “discordant”.

Direct link down thread!

Wasn’t MLK a Republican?
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He was, indeed, wodiej cracker dawg.

There’s that slash across his head.
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Does he have bolts on either side of his neck?

And what about the landlord of this bldg. Have you heard anything about him? apparently a local FOX reporter tracked him down and he was =-X . He was a waiter 5 years ago. Now owns several building in NY. Paid CASH for the perspective mosque building. something is not right.

There is no more blank slate. Citizens can make a comparison now. And as Ben Quayle said–BO is the worst president evah!

I don’t watch or listen to Beck, so I have no opinion of him, except today he organized a wonderful event. I watched some and it was a sight to behold.

Indeed.

All The Brothers coming together!!!

All  The Brothers chipping in together!!!

Because it introduced a discordant subplot into the Obama script
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LMAO, oowawa. I can just imagine a soliloquy with That One talking to TOTUS about how unfair everything is.

Howdy right back atcha! Have a nice glass of Chablis, relax, and watch the sunset.

“In “Dreams..,” there are two references to scars.  Only one applies to Obama, and that resulted from a large cut on his arm he received as a child in Indonesia (page 49).
 
Obama also tells of a wound he received on his head (page 36), also in Indonesia, when struck by a rock, thrown by another child.  In the book, Lolo Soetoro describes the wound — “it’s not bleeding.”
 
There’s no mention of Obama’s wound in the single-page “doctor’s note” he released during the campaign (by comparison, John McCain released 1,173 pages of his medical records to the press).  So where did that nasty “hockey stick-shaped” scar on Obama’s head come from? — an accident? — a mugging? — an operation?  You know he remembers.”
http://www.theobamafile.com/_oddsnends/ObamasScar.htm

It was a moving event. I am especially proud of what they raised for Wounded Warriors. My son, army one, didn’t know what to get us for this past Christmas and since he’s special ops, we told him to make a donation in our name to his favorite military charity. It was Special Op Wounded Warriors. What time does C-span replay it?

I Have a Dream speech.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I think a get together would be fun. I would really enjoy meeting all the regulars and the writers.

Evening Katmoon, for me, I think it’s time for some Wild Turkey and relax. Got enough for you and Ferd.

What a great gift idea ArmyMom, you rock. How doin?

Wild Turkey, huh? Pretty strong stuff that’ll sure get one in a relaxed state in a hurry. Enjoy, AC.

Wild Turkey, huh? Pretty strong stuff that’ll sure get one in a relaxed state in a hurry. Enjoy, AC.

“Why does Indonesian Soetoro look nothing like Hawaiian Obama as a child with just a few months difference in the same photos?”
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2010/03/obama-1971-it-was-british-indonesian.html

Could it be? =-X Listen at minute 3:07.

I heard an interesting point on the radio the other day. Apparently, Rauf was very vocal with his indignation over the European Mohammed comics. It seems he found them to be extremely “insensitive” to his fellow Muslims. Hmmmm, for a guy who’s so attuned to insensitivity, it is quite remarkable that he wants to build a massive mosque 600 feet from ground zero. 

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Another ‘Moderate’ GZ Mosque  
Supporter Can’t Bring Himself to  
Call Hamas a Terrorist Organization  
   
National Review Online,  
by Andrew C. McCarthy     
 
Original Article  
 
8/26/2010  
 
Last night, I was on David Asman’s Fox Business Channel show, Scoreboard, debating Imam Dawoud Kringle of the New York State prison system, a GZ mosque supporter. Imam Kringle, who seems like a nice enough fellow, reeled off the usual talking points about how Islam forbids terrorism and, therefore, if someone commits an act of terrorism that act is, by definition, un-Islamic. Then came the moment of truth: the very simple question, “Is Hamas a terrorist organization?” Have a look at the YouTube clip below. Like his friend Imam Feisal Rauf, Imam Kringle won’t answer the question.

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FROM HILLBUZZ:  
 
 
CatieR Says:  
August 27, 2010 at 11:07 am  
 
A German View of Islam — The author is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.  
 
 
A German’s View on Islam  
 
 
A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many Germans were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. ‘Very few were true Nazis,’ he said, ‘but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.’  
 
 
We are told again and again by ‘experts’ and ‘talking heads’ that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to  
somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.  
 
 
 
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.  
 
It is the fanatics who march.  
 
It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 wars worldwide.  
 
It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave.  
 
It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, and honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque.  
 
It is the fanatics who zealously spread the doctrine of stoning and hanging rape victims and homosexuals.  
 
It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.  
 
 
 
The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ‘silent majority,’ is cowed and extraneous.  
 
 
CONTINUED BELOW

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The Sources of American Anger
 
National Review Online,
by Victor Davis Hanson   

Original Article

8/28/2010

Behind the anger over the Arizona immigration mess, the Ground Zero mosque, the economy, and the new directions in foreign policy are some recurring general themes that reverberate in each particular new controversy. In sum, they explain everything from the tea parties to the wholly negative perception of Congress to the slide in presidential popularity. 1. Two sets of rules. The public senses there are two standards in America — one for elite overseers, quite another for the supposedly not-to-be-trusted public….

Yep, it is hard to run against Bush when your record is worse than Bush. I don’t think most people believe in hope and change anymore. Change maybe… certainly not hope. These people have taken hope from all of America. If somebody can restore our hope and faith in America, then they will be a slam dunk for POTUS in 2012. Here’s a hint… it won’t be Obama. I hope it won’t be Jeb Bush or Hillary either. We deserve better. I wish it could be from a third party. But, I think time is probably too short to pull that off. I think maybe Gingrich-Palin 2012. Gingrich because he can channel Reagan. Palin because she could actually be a female version of Reagan herself given time and the chance.

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Black ‘Restoring Honor’ Attendee:
Glenn Beck More Legitimate Leader
Than Al Sharpton, Ben Jealous
 
Mediaite,
by Frances Martel   

Original Article

8/28/2010

One of the most frequent criticisms of today’s “Restoring Honor” event is that, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, gathering thousands of Americans to listen to Glenn Beck is disrespectful to the Civil Rights Movement. Not all African-Americans are offended, however, and CNN found one attendee, Lloyd Marcus, who actually believes Beck’s views are closer to Dr. King’s than many modern black civil rights leaders. Donning a charming hat and enthusiastically defending Beck, Marcus argued that the rally had “nothing to do with race”

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Surprise:

More hate crimes against Christians than against Muslims

By: Mark Hemingway  
Commentary Staff Writer  
08/25/10 2:15 PM EDT  
 
This morning there was a report that a cab driver in New York was stabbed because he was Muslim. While the facts are still emerging, all reasonable people can agree this is a shameful and un-American act if this proves to be true.  
 
This incident will undoubtedly be used by the media to further push the narrative that the controversy over the Mosque near Ground Zero in New York shows how Americans are bigoted against Muslims. So here’s some clarifying info from the FBI. According to the latest hate crime statistics available, there were 1,606 hate crime offenses motivated by religious bias in 2008. A closer look: 65.7 percent of them were committed against Jews. Against Muslims? 7.7 percent.  
 
Depending on which population estimates you accept for Muslims (anywhere between 4 and 7 million), hate crimes are committed against Jews at a rate three to eight times greater than against Muslims. Yet something tells me that despite all these hard numbers — as opposed to Time’s “anecdotal evidence” –  that magazine is not going to run a cover anytime soon asking, “Is America Anti-Semitic?”  
 
After 9/11, there was a quick spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes — there were 28 in 2000, then 155 in 2002. In 2008, there were 123. Even one hate crime is too many, but consider: Between 2 and 4 of every 100,000 Muslims was a hate crime victim in 2008. The murder rate in D.C. last year was about 24 for every 100,000 residents.  
 
Another interesting data point: 4.7 percent of hate crimes in 2008 were motivated by anti-Catholic bias. Another 3.7 percent were anti-Protestant. So from a raw numbers perspective, there were more hate crimes against Christians in America in 2008 than there were against Muslims. Given our large Christian population, it’s true that each Christian is far less likely to be victimized, but the numbers still show that religious haters have not been singling out Muslims  
 
 
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/surprise-more-hate-crimes-against-christians-than-against-muslims-101489994.html#ixzz0xkAe7UC5

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A quarter of Katrina  
aid money still unspent  
 
McClatchy Newspapers,  
by Geoff Pender     
 
Original Article  
 
8/27/2010  
 
BILOXI, Miss. — More than a quarter of the $20 billion in Housing and Urban Development relief funds that were earmarked for Gulf Coast states after Hurricane Katrina remains unspent five years after the storm, a fact noticed by at least one congressional leader who’s eager to spend it elsewhere. In June, U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ordered data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development on how much remains unspent from the Community Development Block Grants that were earmarked in hurricane relief funds….

Help!

What is the missing number?

1 – 8 – 27 – ? – 125 – 216

99

45

46

36

81

64

64

lmao ….this guy knows Shultz!

http://www.youtube.com/user/johnnydollar01
This is a must see interview with Pat Caddell about a tidal wave coming in Nov

This is a must see interview with Pat Caddell about a tidal wave coming in Nov

Excellent video

Vanity Fair article;
Todd S. Purdum Asks, Can Washington Be Fixed?

Emanuel calls it “Fucknutsville,” and Valerie Jarrett says she looks back wistfully to a time when credible people could put a stamp of reliability on information and opinion: “Walter Cronkite would get on and say the truth, and people believed the media,” she says.

It got so bad last December that President Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii. It would face the ocean and sell only one color and one size. “We didn’t want to make another decision, or choice, or judgment,” Emanuel tells Purdum. They took to beginning staff meetings with Obama smiling at Emanuel and simply saying “White,” and Emanuel nodding back and replying “Medium.”
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Still at it.

Funny as hell….

Shoot snakes?  That’s awful!  We need snakes.  They eat mice and other vermin.  They’re really nice creatures once you get past the scales and fangs.  One of the nicest animals I ever met was a boa constrictor.  He just wanted to drape himself across your shoulders and be petted.

My concern was that perhaps she and Beck weren’t finding common ground for the greater good, but that they were perhaps using each other for their own advancement without really caring much for each other’s agenda.  I don’t know either of the two individuals in question well enough to reach a conclusion here, I’m just speculating.

I like snakes. Now spiders…

Look at Mickey’s face. He’s half black.

Hope it means you had a wonderful day!

Lou Filliger, I have seen Dr. Alveta King on Beck several times.  They have a huge mutual admiration of each other.  Alveta King encountered stiff opposition to appearing at the “Restoring Honor” Rally from the NAACP.  She was very angry about being told not to appear.  After all today was the anniversary of the “I Have a Dream Speech”.  She was doing several things in her remarks – Honoring  her uncle enough to prove to the black leaders that she could be part of the Beck event and honor MLK as well, not that she is ‘managed’ by them.

In her remarks she was drawing comparisons between the two things.  Beck is an unabashed admirer of MLK.

Actually, it was for the Clark County Parks and Rec Department’s Shooting Sports Park, a facility open to all, NOT a private club.

It’s by Nellis AFB, and the best/biggest thing Pinky did was to arrange for the Federal land.

EVERYTHING around Las Vegas is owned by the Federal gov’t (along with 85.2% of all the land in the state) and usage thereof requires dealing with The Evil Empire.

http://www.accessclarkcounty.com/shootlasvegas

http://www.accessclarkcounty.com/depts/parks/locations/Pages/shootingpark-firearms-training-education-clubs.aspx

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Obama’s August Surprise: Turning AZ
and 22 other States over to the UN

Canada Free Press,
by Sher Zieve   

Original Article

8/29/2010

After turning NYC over to the Islamists and leftist sympathizers, via endorsing their 9/11 Victory Mosque (any Muslim project called “The Cordoba Initiative” has to be just that), Dictator-in-Chief Obama believes that he has found the way to both destroy opposition to his Orwellian plans for the former United States of America and introduce OUR country’s final demise. (Snip) Didn’t Hugo Chavez affect something similar in Venezuela?  But, let’s face the truth, folks.  Even Chavez didn’t try to destroy his OWN country.  But, considering his true birth place, neither did Obama…..

After listening to a good deal of the rally yesterday, I can only conclude that a lot of black ‘leaders’ are very frightened by this huge turnout.  It tells them something that it is not in their interest to know:  that America is tired of being divided and that the people are the ones who will lead the way in restoring balance to this country.  The politicians and far too many of the black leaders are all in for causing dissention and unrest.  It helps their cause, which, in itself, does not help America.Their cause, just as it originally may have been, has been perverted by those leaders into something akin to a mass demand for retribution and handouts.
Sharpton’s envy and hatred were hard to hide and he was falling all over himself to attempt to demean the significance of yesterday.  He’s in danger of going the way of Jesse Jackson (when was the last time you saw him in the forefront of the news?), becoming irrelevant.
Truth is, he always was, just not in his own mind.  He’s also not looking so good these days, physically. 

Why is his hairline different in the two pictues?  Possible reasons for it????

Please don’t stop Katmoon. Any invective, any expletive you can use isn’t enough to protest this disgrace. That’s my word for this issue, disgraceful.

 Will there come a day when the men and women that fight and die to keep us free and safe will simply say enough? Will they say

“You cowards that don’t care about us try protecting your sorry asses from now on. However you may find that the enemy can’t be stopped by a lot of hot air and ideology. They back theirs up with guns and bombs. And they don’t much care who they blow up.”

 Will these cowardly traitors still be talking to those that want to kill us when something else blows up and more people die? I suspect so. In fact, I’d bet on it!

I don’t need to ask why Katmoon, I know why. The media, as well as this administration, uses the military as props and talking points but really has no respect for or concern about them.

When a Republican was in the White House every death in the military was trumpeted as a catastrophe caused by Dubya and leaving him with blood on his hands.

The catastrophe was real, the concern was not.

The catastrophe was for all those that lost someone they loved and the loss of courage and commitment that our country sadly needs in these difficult times.

There are some Democrats that honestly, sincerely care about our fighting men and women. They need to get off their dead asses and make their voices heard about this issue. Until they do, they are just politicians that put their party before their country.

Where is Jim Webb on this? Where is Joe Sestak? Where is John McCain? Where are these people? http://veterans.house.gov/links/vetsinthehouse.htm

I know Creeper, snakes have their job to do, but my phobic self is unreasonable. One of our cats decided to bring a live one in the house as a gifty for Mom. My grown soldier son and myself screamed for all we were worth standing on the couch like a couple of crazy people. In Washington state I had a goofy neighbor who would bring snakes into his property, thing was they always ended up in my back yard. One big one got too close to the back door, and so I had to do what I had to do. I will never get to know how nice they are, the phobia is so bad I cannot even touch a picture of a snake. I don’t go out of my way to find them, and do just fine, we can coexistence as long as I don’t have to be near them. It relates back to being raised where rattlesnakes are the most common, and were seen as either lethal or food. Sorry. =-O  

Lou Filliger, without any evidence to support your speculation why would you voice it?

It’s hard to play the blame game when the main target refuses to participate. I may not have liked the previous administration, but I respect GWB for stepping back from this crap. It only confuses people when each side is pulling on one arm. I appreciate it when either side takes a moment to shut up and allow the citizens to try to figure out things for themselves instead of being politically preached to about ethics, or all things moral. Not their job and it is intrusive, not to mention disingenuous.

Seymour,Ready for Omaha. Maybe we need a little private site(like a yahoo group page or something) to at least exchange information, if we want. I know people would worry about identities, etc., and keeping away from troublemakers, and maybe some folks just are not interested which is fine as well. I had a group page, long before blogs were the rage, for Army parents, and we exchanged our information there, so we could actually speak and write personally to each other. How we got around the worry over being bombarded by those who really were not part of our particular thing, was to filter membership by requiring a very real information profile, naming their soldier, was part of it, so we could verify. Just a thought as a first step. I am not a fan of the facebook thingey unless I can really insure it is private.

The Amazing True Story of Zeitoun: A Hero of Hurricane Katrina

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/11/dave-eggers-zeitoun-hurricane-katrina

 She was doing several things in her remarks – Honoring  her uncle enough to prove to the black leaders that she could be part of the Beck event and honor MLK as well, not that she is ‘managed’ by them.  
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Spot on. her Uncle worked for inclusion and not division. Sharpton has missed the entire point of MLK’s work, whether intentional  or not. MLK belongs to everyone.

For a man who is a Reverend, Sharpton sure does like to incite  the hate as a reason to not do something.

Accident victim beaten up by hospital for trying to avoid chest surgery scheduled for someone else: 
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/08/25/29858.htm
Nightmarish Hospital Visit Capped by Beating, Accident Victim SaysBy RYAN ABBOTT 

Soros is a ugly, evil horrible excuse for a human being

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Mosque big owes 224G tax

New York Post,
by Isabel Vincent
& Melissa Klein   

Original Article

8/29/2010

The mosque developers are tax deadbeats. Sharif El-Gamal, the leading organizer behind the mosque and community center near Ground Zero, owes $224,270.77 in back property tax on the site, city records show. El-Gamal’s company, 45 Park Place Partners, failed to pay its half-yearly bills in January and July, according to the city Finance Department. The delinquency is a possible violation of El-Gamal’s lease with Con Edison, which owns half of the proposed building site on Park Place. El-Gamal owns the other half but must pay taxes on the entire parcel.

I agree with the interviewee. I watched Glen Beck’s production on C-Span in full and found it a fitting, respectful and uplifting remembrance of the man and the Founding Fathers of this country.  I could only watch the Al Sharpton one,  halfway and could stand no more.  The message(s) were uncoordinated, rants against the event at the mall, and pathetic in its attempt to make exclusive claim on the legacy of King.  I felt assaulted just listening to some of the speakers.    

Good, well by May, maybe you can wake up as you and the racist meme is out of the window instead of being ramped up and thrown in our faces!

Understand that feeling completely, Katmoon.  I feel the same way about roaches.

Oh man, Creeper, they are next on the hit list, so nasty. I had never seen a real one until this year. Wigged me out big time, thought I walked into a prehistoric movie. I don’t usually mind bugs,(until they are bigger than my finger-those ugly bugs here in the south that show up my the hundreds~oogie!) and always put crickets outside if they get in the house; but if they jump on me, well its over for them. Mice, well not an issue with 10 cats and I finally got them over the lets give mom portions of the “prize”, when they caught one. They are old and lazy and are not much for hunting anymore, but a couple keep us from worrying.

Go Bellevue High!!!! Ferd, this would be a genuine hoot. The Zoo, the Henry Doorly (sic) Zoo. I still have friends there!
 

My own eyes, ears and intuition are evidence enough for me to at least raise the question.  Then somebody responded, and based on that response I then admitted that my initial conclusion was incorrect.  This is how I think intelligent debate should proceed.

So sorry for the multiple posts, tried using an older computer, somebody please delete them for me.  Thanks ….

Harmless? I’ve seen them obliterate a soccer field, boat docks, and other public plasses with their dropping.  Vile creatures, a step below the seagull on the food chain.

LOL – thanks, Seymour – you are too funny.  We all love hearing what you have to say, though, so you go right ahead!

What a wonderful compliment, and you honor me by putting me in the company of the writers you mentioned – thanks!!!

I agree – I think it would be fun.  Where should we meet, Arizona?  I have some things coming up in the next few months, but seriously – I think it would be a blast.

More than you know Rev. Amy. You are so talented to truffle out and expand on any given issue. The privilege to read and ponder your work is all mine, I assure you.  
 

Like all of those poor old ladies who gave $5 donations to the BO campaign that brought in millions a month

But he does need to be careful with it.

I do not think Beck is going to step back from what he believes to be the right message at this time….especially given yesterday’s reception

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Brian Williams Treats Obama
as Oracle of Wisdom, Wonders:
‘How Are You Thinking About
Your Job These Days?’

NewsBusters,
by Brent Baker   

Original Article

8/29/2010

Interviewing President Barack Obama in New Orleans on Sunday afternoon, Brian Williams treated Obama with a level of deference he didn’t afford to President George W. Bush as he treated Obama as a great oracle of wisdom to pluck. “Katrina was about so many things. It was about class and race and government and the environment,” Williams told Obama in the except aired on the NBC Nightly News, yearning for guidance: “Whatever happened to that national conversation we were supposed to have about it?”

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Run Like A Deere From Cap-And-Trade
 
Investor’s Business Daily,
by Staff   

Original Article

8/29/2010

Junk Science: Deere & Co., a major player in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, drops out, saying the group’s legislative strategy is no longer a foundation for moving forward. Is cap-and-trade dead? The farm equipment giant was a major player in the Climate Action Partnership, a group of large firms that advocate cap-and-trade legislation and lead the drive for reductions of so-called greenhouse gases. In announcing its withdrawal, spokesman Ken Golden said: “We came to the conclusion that Deere had other opportunities to be involved in climate change initiatives.”

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Carolinians flock to Washington
for Beck rally

Charlotte Observer (NC),
by Jim Morril   

Original Article

8/27/2010

Elena Sutton is fed up. That’s why she left her Pageland, S.C. home Friday to join Glenn Beck’s “Restoring America” rally in Washington today. “I just really believe that this county from an ethical, Christian and moral standpoint has just disintegrated,” said the 39-year-old physician. “And it’s time for the people in the trenches to stand up and say ‘enough is enough’.” Sutton is one of hundreds of Carolinians who plan to attend the rally. Organizers say they expect as many as 300,000 people to gather at the Lincoln Memorial to hear Beck, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and others.