January 27, 2012
'Progressive-speak for "Fair Share"
Want to know what Progressives really mean with all the yack about "paying your fair share"? Da Tool Guy puts it in a nutshell:
"Fair" means "if you make more money than I do, have something I want or have a cuter girlfriend I can take any or all of the above because you’re obviously a member of the Bourgeoisie and I"m a member of the proletariat and you therefore stole it from me."Learn more about what Progressives mean by "fairness" and "equality" in Da Tool Guy's 'Conservatism 101' topic this week which uses Mitt Romney as an example. "How much is fair?"
Related:
Why Romney's Tax Rate Is Unfair, To Romney
Alarming Thoughts On The SOTU from Clark Judge
Posted by Hyscience at 11:27 AM| Comments
Now is the Time!
The gloves are off. The false fronts have been discarded, and we have come face-to-face with the ultimate goal of the Progressive agenda.Sarah Palin was just about to drag the Progressive John McCain over the finish line. Then the economy collapsed and Senator McCain suspended his campaign to fly back to Washington and add his, "Me too" as President Bush said, "I'e abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system." An economic downturn, a weak contender, and unpopular never-ending wars let Barak Obama win the presidency with vague promises of hope and change.
I personally met people who voted for Mr. Obama because they thought he was for lower taxes. Ones who thought he was pro-business. I even met people who voted for him because they thought he was pro-life. His blank slate promises were interpreted by many to be whatever they thought they wanted. He was the "Anyone would be better than what we have now" candidate. Combine that with some of the best political theater in American History, slick advertising, a complicit media and a community organizer from the most corrupt community in the country becomes the most powerful man in the world.
The information about who Mr. Obama is, where he comes from, and what he stands for was readily available before the election to anyone interested enough to look. Instead of researching, a majority of voters relying on television ads and sound bites, disgusted with the way the country was going under Bush the Younger, decided to give the unknown and untried man from Chicago a chance.
Flash forward three years and many of those who thought they could vote for anyone and the country would survive realize they may have placed that bet once too often. It is now obvious for all to see Barack Obama is a strident left wing ideologue who applies the political strategies of the late Chicago communist Saul Alinsky, strategies he used to teach his followers in Chicago. He uses the Bully Pulpit to advance a radical agenda of class warfare. He is at war with capitalism and dedicated to spreading the wealth around. Our President is no longer hiding behind vague platitudes. He is no longer trying to sell us a pig-in-a-poke. Instead he is now trying to sell us a societal bridge to nowhere as he campaigns openly on transforming America into a country based on centrally-planed redistribution and social planning as he channels the grandfather of Progressivism: Teddy Roosevelt.
The gloves are off. The false fronts have been discarded, and we have come face-to-face with the ultimate goal of the Progressive agenda: an America that has evolved past the Constitution leaving limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom as mere memories. A new America confined by regulations and intimidated by an ever more intrusive security apparatus. A new America hostile to Christianity where being successful invites attack.
If President Obama wins re-election with this blatant appeal to class warfare and interest group divisions with no need to worry about re-election and having already said he will impose his agenda without Congress, there will be no check and no balance. He will claim a mandate to complete his vision for a completely transformed America.
Congress has already shown that it will not stand up to President Obama's naked power grabs. When he initiated an illegal war against Libya without even consulting Congress the perpetually re-elected did nothing. When he made recess appointments while Congress was still in session the parties of power were silent. Congress has legislated away their own power for years, passing vague laws and allowing bureaucrats to fill them in with legally binding regulations. They have made themselves irrelevant, and we now have a President who is ready to rule without them.
The biggest question left concerning America's ever accelerating slide into Progressivism's version of socialism's version of communism is whether or not there will be a real choice this November. Will the Republican wing of the Party of Power nominate another Progressive: an Obama Lite? Or will the rank and file break through and nominate a candidate who stands for a return to Constitutional government?
The Media wing of the party of Power is working 24/7 to frame the debate and manage the primaries. Every broadcast, every cable show builds up the candidates they favor and ignores or demeans the ones they find unacceptable. Will the voters follow like sheep or will they think for themselves? Will they affirm the choice of the big government social engineers or will they see the blinders used to focus their attention on the anointed candidates?
If there is no choice there will be no chance. If there is a choice America may yet pull itself out of the decline we see all around us. A return to limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom would once again release the energy and creativity that made America the greatest nation in the History of the world. A renunciation of collectivism, class warfare, and social engineering will once again open the door for a return to morning in America. The re-election of President Obama will mean a solidification of his transformed America and a shabby darkness will settle over the land.
We who seek a return to limited government must look at the candidates, discern which one has a consistent record of supporting constitutional government, and then we must use every opportunity to influence others to unite behind that candidate. If we don't this may be our last chance to stop the Progressive transformation of America before they lead us into the dreary dead end of their collectivist dystopia. Now is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of the country, or as Ronald Reagan once said, "If not us ... who?" If not now ... when?"
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for Southside Virginia Community College. He is the author of the History of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com View the trailer for Dr. Owens' latest book @ YouTube, Robert R. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens.
Posted by Robert Owens at 10:44 AM| Comments
"Semper Romney"?
Anyone here believes in predestination? All throughout the primaries, Republicans, seeking to nominate anyone other than wimpy flip-flopping RINO Romney, seem almost to have been chasing after an elusive conservative 'Red Pimpernel': "They seek him here, they seek him there. Those Republicans seek him everywhere..."
Yet, it seems that no matter how much Republicans rebel against their fate, how much they wriggle and frantically squirm against it, in the end, their fate will inexorably be "semper Romney"; much as the fate of the Cuban people for the last half-century has been "semper Fidelis" - and no, I am not talking about Marines!
Going over a recent article: "Fractured US Conservatives Seek A 'Not-Romney'" that appeared on Zimbio.com last January 5th, the writer very perceptively points this out, quoting Political Scientist Matt Dickinson of Middlebury College, in Vermont, as observing:
"'There's still a possibility that conservatives will rally around a 'Not-Mitt' candidate, but time may soon start running short...'""'And that person will have to make the case, in a credible manner, that they can win this election. I don't think that this is a case where Republicans are willing to go down, flags waving, for the cause,' he added."
The article stresses:
"Some Republican insiders worry about a 'circular firing squad, that bloodies the eventual nominee to take on the otherwise highly vulnerable President Barack Obama in the November 6 election."
Want any more bloodied a "circular firing squad" than those damn Republican presidential debates that have served as nothing but an amusement, and fodder, for the Democrats and the left, all but too happy to see all these Republican presidential wanna-be's shooting themselves and each other repeatedly in the foot while they sat and watched?
It goes on to point out that:
"...Romney suffers from lingering doubts about his conservative convictions -- stoked by a largely centrist record as governor of Massachusetts -- and has never broken past 30 percent support among Republicans nationwide."
observing that:
"And conservatives, or at least voters not prepared to rally behind the candidate who clearly has the backing of the party's Washington establishment, have in fact been rallying behind a 'not-Mitt' for a year, giving different candidates brief surges to the top of the back before falling back."
the article poignantly quotes Newt Gingrich as remarking:
"'I find it amazing the news media continues to say he's the most electable Republican when he can't even break out in his own party,' former House speaker Newt Gingrich, one of those candidates, said Wednesday.""'The fact is Governor Romney in the end has very limited appeal in a conservative party,' said Gingrich, whose support crumbled under a barrage of attack advertisements, much of it from a group allied with Romney."
Unfortunately the article's assessment is spot-on. I have no particular love-lost for Newt Gingrich and all his baggage, but it was so invigorating to finally see some conservative on national television not mince words and have the "cojones" to tell CNN and John King, to their faces, that they are nothing but a leftist propaganda machine for the Democrats, and but yet another mainstream media Obama lapdog, with a political agenda and an axe to grind - not the impartial and professional journalistic institution and journalists they fancy themselves to be in their liberal "Elitism", and that indeed they are "despicable"! It was indeed a breath of fresh air - away from all the stagnant Romney-styled politically correct timidity and cowering!
As we see the Republican field narrow to "Moe, Larry, and Curly" (not to mention Ron Paul - "Shemp"), it almost makes you hanker for the "Good Ole' Days" of colorful (no pun intended) Herman Cain with his "Pizza Diplomacy", and his "9,9,9," plan with which he would have addressed all the ills, and solved all the problems, of the world! Though many times not representative of reality "simplicity" has such an allure, it is so appealing...
If only Papa John would enter the race! Then, even though it would be $11.00, instead of "9,9,9", maybe he could appeal to fickle independent voters and to Democrats by offering an environment-friendly "Green" pizza, for eleven bucks, made with "recycled ingredients", and guaranteed to produce lower "greenhouse gases" emissions after eating it! The Democrats would just love it - especially Sheryl Crow!
At this rate, it seems that the "Prince of Bel Air"...err, I mean, Washington, and his lovely wife Michelle 'Antoinette' ("Let them eat cake" - of course, bought with food stamps) will be "Movin' On Up" for yet another four years, and as a result, not only "there goes the neighborhood" on Pennsylvania Avenue, but the country will wind up looking more like Sanford & Son's junkyard in the end!
Oh, well! "Que sera, sera..." Apparently there must be something to fate and predestination, because it seems Republicans cannot escape Romney and their fate, and neither America four more disastrous years of Obama...
Posted by Althor at 8:12 AM| Comments
January 26, 2012
Re: Headline of the Week: 'Consumer Chief Richard Cordray Promises Not to Abuse His Power'
Oh, okay. Now we can all rest easy, nothing to worry about, right?
Posted by Hyscience at 3:45 PM| Comments
Communist Marching with #OccupyChicago Identified as OFA Organizer for President Obama
So here we have, surely to no one's surprise given that they're all radically left-wing, anti-capitalism, socialist proponents ... OFA (Obama for America) - that partners with the Democratic National Committee, marching (essentially partnering) with the communist party and #OccupyChicago.
Rebel Pundit writes at Big Government:
Yesterday we released a video of John Bachtell, a national board member from the Communist Party U.S.A., addressing the bongo-banging, spoiled, suburban run-aways at the #OccupyChicago tent city and an interview with a few of his "fellow travelers" in the march.There's much more, and it gets downright scary. And if it sounds here like I'm equating Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, OFA, and the Occupy Movement with Marxists ... you're right.Thanks to a reader tip, we have identified the three individuals in the march who we interviewed. In the photo below starting on the left is James Raines, a University of Memphis teacher (from reader tip), next to his right is Jordan Farrar (Young Communist League & Organizing for America), and next to him is Gabe Niechcial, another young communist.
According to the P/oed Patriot, Farrar, seen in the white C.P. USA shirt, is not only a Young Communist League leader, but he is also a member of Barack Obama's Organizing for America and he organized a rally in 2009 for OFA to support President Obama's health care bill. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) was featured guest at Farrar's event as well.
Notice the host name on the screenshot of the event invitation.
Jordan is a self-described "militant anti-racist anti-fascist Marxist-Leninist skinhead."
Related:
Barack Obama and Democratic Socialists of America (... essentially a Marxist organization)
US Communist Leader: "The Occupy Wall Street Movement Should Serve as a Wake Up Call to All Who Remain Committed to a Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist Direction" (To them "Occupy" signifies the beginning of the end of capitalism.)
Posted by Hyscience at 2:44 PM| Comments
Democrat Senator Puts U.S. Nuclear Arsenal in Doubt
Here's yet another reason for making sure that Democrats are voted out of control in November of not only the presidency but also the House and the Senate:
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee today questioned the value of the nation's nuclear arsenal, putting in motion efforts to cut the numbers and costs of missiles and bombs that are part of the Pentagon's "nuclear triad."Meanwhile, besides North Korea, there are other potential adversaries with nuclear arsenals such as China, Russia, and Pakistan, and soon Iran that are certain to be unimpressed by our unilateral disarmament and pose great risk to our national security.Previewing today's Pentagon announcement on what weapon systems will be cut, delayed or eliminated in the upcoming budget, Sen. Carl Levin said the nation needs to rethink its nuclear force created during the Cold War.
"The Cold War is over. I just think there's a way over-reliance and cost that goes into our nuclear weapon system," he said at a media breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
Later, he went further, suggesting that the arsenal is useless. When talking about an arcane Senate procedure, he raised nuclear weapons again. "It's like the nuclear weapon, it's totally useless. It can't be used except to accomplish some other goal, then it's used, used to deter."
I'm not certain which parallel universe Senator Levin's mind resides in, but he needs to, for the sake of our nation's survival, bring it back to the cold reality of planet earth.
Posted by Hyscience at 2:20 PM| Comments
Is Fox News Drifting Leftward?
Clearly, I'm not the only one that's noticed Fox News' leftward drift. I've been seeing comments on other blogs about it, and now James Simpson gets down to the details that suggest that Fox's much-needed deviation from the uniformly extreme-left bias of other cable and network news outlets may be coming to an end.
And we can place the blame squarely on George Soros, whom, alarmingly, Simpson suggests Fox is now working with:
Cliff Kincaid at America's Survival has launched a call for Fox News to bring back Glenn Beck.Take the time to read the rest. As Simpson goes on to note, the already unfavorable media environment for conservatives looks like it's just gotten even worse ... and it's headed south from here.This announcement comes on the heels of troubling revelations about Beck's firing and other disturbing trends at Fox. It quickly got front-page coverage at the Huffington Post, presumably to launch a campaign of ridicule and smears before Kincaid's idea builds momentum. No matter how much they sneer, the left is terrified of Beck.
Beck's firing was the work of George Soros, Kincaid has revealed. Soros funded Color of Change, the organization founded by Van Jones that launched a boycott against Fox after Beck (really Trevor Loudon) outed Jones as a communist. But Soros is also behind the groups Jewish Funds for Justice and Media Matters, both of which attacked Beck as an anti-Semite for his reporting about Soros' activities during WWII. Soros admitted in a 1998 CBS 60 Minutes interview that as a teenager in Hungary, he had participated in the confiscation of Jewish properties but felt no guilt about it.
Beck's demise apparently came some time after an article, published by Jewish Funds for Justice President Simon Greer, criticized Beck for his expose' on Soros. It was followed by a letter signed by hundreds of rabbis that was published in the Wall Street Journal demanding that Fox sanction Beck. Writing in the Jerusalem Post about Beck's departure, Caroline Glick blamed "the liberal American Jewish establishment," who, she said:
... rejected [Beck's] 'outspoken attacks on George Soros,' the 'extremist leftist anti-American and anti-Zionist global financier who has given more than $100 million to radical leftist groups.'Fox now appears to be working with Soros. The network recently hired the radical-left, openly lesbian Sally Kohn, formerly of the Soros-funded Center for Community Change. The Center for Community Change received $5.8 million from Soros' Open Society Institute between 2004 and 2010. Its former Board Chair is Cecilia Munoz, now President Obama's White House director for intergovernmental affairs. Munoz is also a former National Council of La Raza vice president and former board member of the illegal immigrant advocacy group CASA de Maryland. She has been pushing housing grants to illegals in her White House position.
By the way, I'm not a big fan of the whinny, weepy Beck ... but if Soros is indeed behind his dismissal from Fox, I find that terribly alarming and see it as a scary sign that the radical left has succeeded in making an already highly unfavorable media environment for truth to be told ... much more so.
Oh, by the way ... liberal bias isn't limited to just the network and cablenews media - it's heavily in the science news media as well.
Posted by Hyscience at 9:58 AM| Comments
Jobless Claims Spike
After a nearly four-year low the previous week, the number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose by 7,000 to a more than expected 377,000. On the bright side, orders for durable goods rose 3 percent last month ... the second straight monthly gain offered more evidence that the economy has begun the new year with some momentum.
This isn't a real surprise. Last month's rosy jobless number included a lot of part time workers hired for the holidays.
Of course, that "momentum" could go south in a heartbeat if Barack Obama has his way with his "Buffet rule".
Posted by Hyscience at 9:00 AM| Comments
Obama's 'Buffett Ruse,' What It Means To The Economy And What's Obama's Real Purpose For Pushing It?
The Wall Street Journal is on to the ruse of Barack Obama's "Buffett Rule" that translates into the highest capital gains tax rate since 1978, a worsening economy, and a major decrease in revenues ... and spells the real reason behind it (all emphasis mine):
Remember the moment in 2008 when Charlie Gibson of ABC News asked Senator Barack Obama why he would support raising the capital gains tax even though "revenues from the tax increased" when the rate fell? Mr. Obama's famous reply: "I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness." Well, we were warned.The emphasized points make it clear that not only is Obama's "Buffett Rule" a ruse ... it's pure folly, a job killer, and it's destructive to the economy. Read the whole thing here.Here we are four years later, and President Obama on Tuesday night linked the term "fair" to U.S. tax and economic policy seven times. The U.S. economy is still hobbling out of recession, real family incomes are falling and 14 million Americans are unemployed, but Mr. Obama declared that his top priority is not to reform the tax code to promote growth and job creation. His overriding goal is redistributing income.
Mr. Obama endorsed the political ruse he calls the Buffett rule, which asserts as a matter of moral principle that millionaires should not pay a lower tax rate than middle-class wage earners. Specifically, Mr. Obama is proposing that anyone earning more than $1 million pay at least 30% of that income to Uncle Barack.
The White House says that if a millionaire household's effective tax rate falls below 30%, it would have to pay a surcharge -- in essence a new Super Alternative Minimum Tax -- to bring the tax liability to 30%. For those facing this new Super AMT, all deductions and exemptions would be eliminated except for charity.
The Buffett rule is rooted in the fairy tale that taxes on the wealthy are lower than on the middle class. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office notes that the effective income tax rate of the richest 1% is about 29.5% when including all federal taxes such as the distribution of corporate taxes, or about twice the 15.1% paid by middle-class families. (See "How Much the Rich Pay," January 23, 2012.)
This is because wealthy tax filers make most of their income from investments. Such income is taxed once at the corporate rate of 35% and again when it is passed through to the individual as a capital gain or dividend at 15%, for a highest marginal tax rate of about 44.75%.
This double taxation is one reason the U.S. has long had a differential tax rate for capital gains. Another reason is because while taxpayers must pay taxes on their gains, they aren't allowed to deduct capital losses (beyond $3,000 a year) except against gains in the current year. Capital gains also aren't indexed for inflation, so a lower rate is intended to offset the effect of inflated gains.
One implication of the Buffett rule is that all millionaire investment income would be taxed at the shareholder level at a minimum rate of 30%, up from 15% today. The tax rate on investment income from corporations would rise to 54.5% from 44.75%, a punitive tax on start-up or expanding businesses.
The new 30% capital gains rate would be the developed world's third highest behind only Denmark and Chile, according to the American Council for Capital Formation. This is on top of the 35% corporate rate that is already the second highest rate in the world after Japan. That giant sucking sound you hear come January 2013 would be hundreds of billions of investment dollars fleeing to China, India, Korea and other U.S. competitors. Lower capital investment in the U.S. means less wage growth, and so the people hurt most by this tax hike would be workers, according to a study by the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation.
Mr. Obama conceded on Tuesday that the high U.S. corporate tax is an economic loser. Yet he misses the crucial point that business owners assess the combined corporate and capital gains tax on those business profits. Lowering the corporate tax rate makes the U.S. more competitive, but the tax change is self-defeating if it is combined with an even larger rise in investment income taxes on capital gains and dividends.
As the WSJ goes on to point out, the real purpose of Obama's "Buffett Ruse" has nothing to do with Obama thinking higher rates will raise revenue, because it most certainly will not - it has been proven that the exact opposite will occur. His disgusting sole purpose is to score political points against Mitt Romney and stick it to the successful. In other words, In his warped little Marxist mind, his far-left, liberal-progressive ideology and political agenda takes precedence over the economic security of the nation.
And he wants four more years? American's had better hope and pray that enough voters pay attention to his record of debt, high unemployment, decline of our freedoms and liberties - as well as the decline of our nation, and disappointment ... so that he's kicked out of office in 2012 - else we just might not have another chance to turn around what he's already done to our country.
Related:
Why Romney's Tax Rate Is Unfair, To Romney
Alarming Thoughts On The SOTU from Clark Judge
Buffet Secretary Is Rich By Obama Standard
Posted by Hyscience at 7:44 AM| Comments
White House/DOJ Working with ACORN, Coordinating Massive Voter Registration Fraud
Apparently, Barack Obama and Eric Holder are continuing the politicization of the DOJ, this time
they're coordinating with the ACORN-connected group Project Vote (an Obama campaign ally) to undermine the integrity of the 2012 elections. Both Project Vote and ACORN have been linked to massive voter registration fraud.
[...] With the 2012 elections just months away, the ACORN-connected group Project Vote (and Obama campaign ally) is redoubling its efforts to undermine the integrity of the 2012 elections - and they are evidently doing it with the participation of the Obama White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ).Keep reading ... there's a lot more.In January, Judicial Watch obtained additional documents about meetings held between Estelle Rogers, Director of Advocacy for the ACORN organization Project Vote, and officials from the Obama White House and the DOJ.
Judicial Watch is investigating the extent to which Project Vote, which once employed Barack Obama, has been working with the Obama administration to use voter registration laws to register greater numbers of low-income voters, widely considered to be an important voting demographic for the Obama presidential campaign.
Judicial Watch was already well aware that the DOJ was heavily involved in this scheme based on documents previously obtained, but the latest batch of records implicates the Obama White House directly!
According to the records, obtained by Judicial Watch in response to a FOIA lawsuit filed on August 19, 2011:
Related:
Probe reveals Obama, Holder, ACORN connection to voting "enforcement"
ACORN's Project Vote Affiliate Uses Consent Agreements to Block Vote Fraud Investigations, Former Employee Says
Politicized DOJ Plays Race Card Nixes S.C. Voter ID Law
Eric Holder and the politicized Justice Department (Numerous links that show that Eric Holder's job appears to be to preserve, protect and defend other black people, to the exclusion of all others.)
Posted by Hyscience at 7:11 AM| Comments
Our "Thin-Skinned," "Prissy, Man-Child" Of A President Gets Pissy With Az Gov. Brewer
As Curt aptly puts it over at Flopping Aces, our whiny, prissy man-child of a President is getting all bent out of shape once again. This time the whiny, prissy, man-child got his panties all-in-a-bunch in a conversation with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer over an 'excerpt' he read from her book:
"He was a little disturbed about my book, Scorpions for Breakfast. I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt. So."Here's Brewer on Fox News: "I don't know why he was surprised by my book and he's very thin skinned in regards to it." ... "I want our border secure ... he wants amnesty":Asked what aspect of the book disturbed him, Brewer said: "That he didn't feel that I had treated him cordially. I said I was sorry he felt that way but I didn't get my sentence finished. Anyway, we're glad he's here. I'll regroup." ...
She said the president brought up the book.
"I thought we probably would've talked about the things that were important to him and important to me, helping one another. Our country is upside down. Arizona was upside down. But we have turned it around. I know again that he loves this country and I love this country."...
He appeared to walk away from her while they were still talking, and she confirmed that by saying she didn't finish her sentence.
Posted by Hyscience at 6:34 AM| Comments
January 25, 2012
'Moochelle Shows Up at Class Warfare Rally Wearing $2,400 Cocktail Dress
Love the title so much I just had to copy it from Rush .. who has the transcript of the story.
Posted by Hyscience at 5:15 PM| Comments
(Arab Spring Update) Egyptian Salafi Leader: "Infidel" Christians Can't Hold Power In Egypt, "They Can Be Dealt With Like The Jews Of Medina" ...
Well, so much for that Arab Spring thingy Obama's so proudly supported and was so naively believed that Islamists were capable of developing a peaceful and tolerant democracy ...
What does this 'peaceful and tolerant' Salafi leader mean in his reference to Medina? The Jews of Medina were slaughtered by the 'peaceful' "prophet" Mohammed.
(MEMRI) -- Yassir Al-Burhami: Appointing infidels to positions of authority over Muslims is prohibited. Allah said: "Never will Allah grant the infidels a way [to triumph] over the Believers."Earth to Barrack Obama: There are lots of problems with Muslim Democracy that you should have known about before you through our nation's support behind the 'Arab Spring' fiasco.We are not afraid of losing the elections or of not getting votes. We are not trying to ingratiate ourselves before the people.
Can the Christians of Egypt be compared to the Jews of Al-Medina? The case of the Jews of Al-Medina is one example of the relations between the Muslims and the infidels. The Muslims can implement any form of conduct used by the Prophet Muhammad. When the Prophet Muhammad was still in Mecca, he dealt with the infidels in a certain way, and when the Muslims are weak, they should deal with the infidels this way. "Refrain from action, pray, and pay the zakkat."
In many infidel countries, such as occupied Palestine, we instruct Muslims to do just that. We are not telling the Muslims in Gaza to launch rockets every day, which would lead to the destruction of the entire country. We tell them to adhere to the truce.
When the Prophet Muhammad first arrived in Al-Medina, he signed a treaty with the Jews without forcing them to pay the jizya poll tax. This was necessary at the time, but when they breached the treaty, he fought them, and eventually, he imposed the jizya upon the People of the Book.
The Christians [of Egypt] can be dealt with like the Jews of Al-Medina. This is possible.
And by the way, taxpayers, despite the continued and growing persecution of Christians ... Obama is set to accelerate pace of US aid to Egypt.
Hat tip - Weazel Zippers
Posted by Hyscience at 4:19 PM| Comments
Video: Obama's MIS-State-MENTS of the Union
Here's just a few of Obama's errors, lies and mistakes during his 2012 Presidential State of the Union Address:
Posted by Hyscience at 4:11 PM| Comments
WSJ: Gingrich Pulls Ad Attacking Romney After Marco Rubio Criticizes It
Clearly, Team Newt is not scoring many points with Florida's highly popular Cuban-American senator:
Newt Gingrich's campaign said Wednesday it will pull a Spanish-language radio ad running here and edit another -- both attacking GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney as "anti-immigrant." The move comes at the request of Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), a Cuban-American who is popular among Florida's Hispanics. It marks the second time in two days that Mr. Rubio, a tea party favorite who is remaining neutral in his state's GOP primary ...
Posted by Hyscience at 11:10 AM| Comments
Obama's SOTU Registers At 8th Grade Reading Level
According to Politico - Obama's SOTU is the third lowest score of any State of the Union address since 1934:
... The University of Minnesota's Smart Politics conducted an analysis on the last 70 State of the Union addresses and found that President Obama's three addresses have the lowest grade average of any modern president. "Obama's average grade-level score of 8.4 is more than two grades lower than the 10.7 grade average for the other 67 addresses written by his 12 predecessors," they conclude.
Posted by Hyscience at 10:52 AM| Comments
"Ultimate Factories" - America Is Proudly Being Built Overseas While Millions Of Americans Are Unemployed And On Food Stamps!
Whether Obama and his liberal acolytes blame it on Bush, those "Evil Millionaires and Billionaires", "Greedy Wall Street", or the "Boogey Man", the hallmark of this disastrous Obama presidency - one of the blackest in our nation's history (no pun intended) - has been an unprecedented economic stagnation and record unemployment, not seen since the Great Depression!
American jobs have fled overseas under Obama in unprecedented numbers, while millions of unemployed Americans, who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own - other than voting this Marxist community organizer into Office in 2008 to our nation's detriment; because he was going to be our first "black president", he was "cute" (remember all the inbred white women drooling over him, a la Eugene O'Neill?), and spoke proper English and not in "Ebonics" like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (thanks to his "White Devil" grandparents who raised him and offered him an education while Obama's mother was whoring around the world and mating with all sorts of other primates) - have to rely on inadequate and measly unemployment benefits, extended for an again unprecedented two years, and on food stamps for their very survival, in yet again unprecedented numbers, ironically greater than anything under the 60's welfare "Great Society"! And then some people get offended when Newt Gingrich accurately describes Obama as the "food stamp president"! He is.
But I digress. The other day while watching the National Geographic channel, I came upon a program about Chrysler's new resurrection of the "Challenger" - the legendary Hemi-powered muscle car from the 60's, which sales is about the only thing keeping Chrysler afloat nowadays - bailouts not withstanding (so much for trashy Bronx's Jennifer Lopez and her Fiats!).
Now, let me clarify, to the chagrin of Chevy lovers everywhere, that I am a MOPAR guy - there is nothing like the 425 H.P. sound of a 426 C.I. Hemi engine breathing with two four-barrel Holley carburetors (made in America) as it accelerates. It is unmistakable! So, I watched the program enthralled by the come-back of this great muscle car from the 60's of my youth, that can, out of the factory do the quarter mile in less than 14 seconds (quite a feat for a stock car), and reminiscing about the great legendary Chryslers of my younger years (anyone remembers the Hemi-powered "Road Runner" of 68' ?).
Right when I was most enjoying the National Geographic's program about "Ultimate Factories" and the excellence and precision that modern technologies afford us in the manufacturing of these cars nowadays, in state-of-the-art facilities, my heart dropped when I learned that this most legendary American car is being built in Brampton, Toronto, Canada; with the legendary Hemi engines being built in Chrysler's Saltillo plant, in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico...even as the Americans who originally built those legendary Challengers in Detroit in the 60's, have to rely on much BEGRUDGED unemployment benefits, and food stamps, while they hunger for jobs nowadays, under Obama!
And this is what the taxpayers at the expense of billions of dollars of taxpayer money bailed out Chrysler for??? To have despicable Jennifer Lopez parading in a commercial driving a Fiat in the Bronx (that she so eagerly left behind at any cost with Puff Daddy) that she would not personally be caught dead driving it in Hollywood in her niggardly resented Hubris - even if her life depended on it! That an American Icon such as the "Challenger", would be built anywhere but in America??? And we did not even get back some American jobs in return for our investment and saving Chrysler's ass??? You have to be kidding, right! Those "Ultimate Factories" are being built overseas, the legendary "Challenger" American-muscle car is being built in Toronto, and its Hemi engine by burrito-eating Mexicans south of the border? Is this what America has come to???
I mean, when I recently saw a Chrysler commercial bragging that these Chrysler cars were "imported from Detroit" I thought it ironically appropriate that they would describe anything coming from Detroit as "foreign" given the liberal black politics of racial resentment and retribution that have made of Detroit but a failed African enclave in America - hey, but it is the only place where you can still buy a run-down home in America for a $1000.00 dollars, in a toxic waste dump neighborhood, plagued by drugs, crime, and black gangs, and pestered by feral dogs! Imagine if with Obama, and his mentors Alinsky, and Rev. Wright, the fate of America becomes that of once prosperous Detroit, as they wish to mold it!
You should see in the National Geographic channel documentary the Mexicans lucky enough to procure a job at the Chrysler Saltillo plant, in Mexico, using robots and hydraulics to lift parts up - lest they get a hernia! While many Americans here at home work in far more deplorable conditions! Go figure! But, hey, at least those Mexicans working at the Chrysler plant in Saltillio can now afford to buy meat - instead of the butcher's offal they used to wrap in their tortillas - and now they don't have to sneak into our country illegally to take away our jobs! Chrysler has done it for them. Isn't it wonderful!
Give me a break! Why should we condone illegal immigration and the veritable cultural and ethnological invasion of all these millions of Mexican illegal alien cockroaches invading us, if our jobs, and the products that defined us as Americans in the first place, such as the Challenger's Hemi engine, are being built in Mexico!
Call me old fashioned, but no Hemi engine built in Mexico by robots and Mexicans, will ever have the power and durability, the "Ethos", of one built by those uncouth white Americans who cling to their guns and Bibles, who in dirt and sweat forged those engine blocks, honed those cylinders back in the day, and torqued those Hemi heads to precision by hand! Pharmaceutically-styled dust free environments in Mexico indeed! That would offend NASCAR! Give me a rag to wipe the dirt off, some lube, assemble it, and the oil circulating will do the rest! But then, that was the America we all knew and loved, that built the original Dodges and Hemis in the first place - a far greater product that became legend!
We import our citizens from Mexico even as we abort our own children to maintain our population. We outsource our technologies to India and China even as the children in our schools become more incompetent, ignorant, and brutish. We even have to outsource our actors from Australia to portray our "Super Heroes" in movies because American actors are deemed too San Francisco-styled "effeminate" for the role! We export our jobs while we live on welfare and food stamps. We build the Icons of our culture - such as the Dodge Challenger and the Hemi engine - which once represented all that made America unique in the world and great, in foreign countries! Do we have any genuine "American Identity" left, other than accursed political correctness???
What will become of you, once great and proud America, beacon of the world...
Posted by Althor at 10:51 AM| Comments
Poll Watch: ARG Florida 2012 Republican Primary Survey
As compiled from ARG Florida 2012 GOP Primary Poll:
Mitt Romney 41% [42%] (19%) {28%} [15%] (26%)Not sure how these results square with this story.
Newt Gingrich 34% [25%] (50%) {11%} [3%] (11%)
Rick Santorum 9% [9%] (1%) {1%} [1%] (1%)
Ron Paul 7% [8%] (2%) {4%} [4%] (1%)
Undecided 6% [8%] (10%) {12%} [12%] (11%)Among Men
Newt Gingrich 37% [34%]
Mitt Romney 37% [30%]
Ron Paul 10% [7%]
Rick Santorum 9% [10%]
Undecided 5% [10%]Among Women
Mitt Romney 45% [56%]
Newt Gingrich 31% [14%]
Rick Santorum 9% [8%]
Ron Paul 4% [8%]
Undecided 7% [6%]Survey of 600 likely Republican primary voters was conducted January 23-24, 2012. The margin of error is +/- 4 percentage points. Results from the poll conducted January 13-15, 2012 are in square brackets. Results from the poll conducted November 27-30, 2011 are in parentheses. Results from the poll conducted October 7-12, 2011 are in curly brackets. Results from the poll conducted July 18-24, 2011 are in square brackets. Results from the poll conducted April 27 - May 2, 2011 are in parentheses.
Posted by Hyscience at 10:13 AM| Comments
Re: Judge ignores College Park woman's final wishes (Updated)
If this story of disgustingly heartless judicial overreach and lack of common sense, fairness and justice on the part of a judge doesn't make you mad as hell ... you have no heart and no common sense.
When Barbara Carey moved back to College Park to care for her 88-year-old mother last March, she was well aware that Helen Carey did not want to spend her final days in a nursing home. Court records confirm that in 2006, Helen Carey had signed a living will and durable powers of attorney specifying that she remain in her home -- under her daughter's care -- until her death, with a family trust covering any necessary nursing or housekeeping expenses. ...But that's before a circuit court judge completely ignored her wishes, ignored her own medical expert, replaced Helen Carey's daughter with a temporary guardian, ordered Helen Carey transferred from the Lanham hospital where she had gone for observation after suffering chest pains to an Adelphi nursing home, and facilitated the draining of fees totaling $17,684 for the court appointed guardian and $22,312 for the court appointed attorney out of Helen Carey's estate this month.
And while Barbara Carey was still desperately trying to get the governor's office and the Maryland Department of Aging to intervene, Helen Carey died of cardiac arrest.
Read more on this story here. I've tried, so far unsuccessfully, to obtain the judge's email address for readers to offer the judge their views on her decision. I'll update this post later if and when I'm able to obtain it.
The phone number for Judge Krauser's office is 301-952-5285 (Please be very courteous)
Update: The email contact for Judge Krauser is Amanda Appelbaum - alappelbaum@co.pg.md.us ... please be polite,courteous, and to the point in your remarks.
Posted by Hyscience at 9:07 AM| Comments
The Muslim-American Muddle
From the very interesting and comprehensive essay on the real challenges Islam poses to America, by Boston College's Peter Skerry in National Affairs:
A decade after 9/11, America has reached a political and intellectual stalemate regarding the Muslims in its midst. Many Americans continue to fear their Muslim neighbors and fellow citizens, if not as potential terrorists then as terrorist sympathizers -- or, more generally, as the bearers of an alien culture shared by America's enemies.Take the time to read the whole extensive, interesting and highly informative essay - here.Stoking these fears are a handful of zealous investigative journalists and bloggers who recycle a body of facts about the Islamist origins of most Muslim leaders and of virtually all major American Muslim organizations. Largely taken from the federal government's successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, a Hamas front group, this evidence is incontrovertible -- yet its implications are far from clear. As critics repeat and re-examine them, the facts take on a frozen-in-time quality, like artifacts of political archeology never put into any wider context. The critics fail to acknowledge that individuals who once espoused Islamist views do not necessarily remain committed to them over time. People do mature beyond youthful folly and rage, and America causes immigrants to change.
On the other hand, our political, media, and intellectual elites routinely dismiss these findings as irrelevant ancient history. This, too, is a mistake, both substantively and politically: Though these Muslim leaders and organizations do not represent all (or even most) Muslim Americans, they do dominate the relevant political space. Moreover, their Islamist ideology has had, and continues to have, a formative influence on how Muslims think of their place in America and of America's relationship to the Islamic world. Elite opinion also systematically denies or ignores the fact that Islam is a dynamic, even aggressively proselytizing religion. This is not to suggest that Muslim-American leaders are terrorists or terrorist sympathizers; nor is it to criticize how they interpret the call to advance Islam. Like many Christians, many Muslims regard their own exemplary actions as the best way to spread their faith. Nevertheless, Muslim leaders readily acknowledge that not so long ago they dreamt of, as some have put it, "the crescent flag one day flying over the White House." For most leaders, perhaps for all, this fantasy has long since collided with reality. Yet its influence lingers.
As Skerry goes on to point out, the lessons of history are many and complicated. But surely one is that, ordinarily, questions of loyalty have been worked out over time, as immigrants and their offspring assimilate and adapt to American society. Another is that these tensions have rarely been acted upon or seen as mortal threats. However, we are not living in ordinary times, and today's threats are more immediate (and Islamists represent an entirely different level of threat). We do not have the luxury of time to allow Muslims to sort out their loyalty to America. We -- and they -- must face the challenge now.
Might I suggest that American Muslims take the first step by getting past their notion of loyalty to the ummah and start putting their country - America - first.
