Press “1” for English

On May 12, 2010May 12, 2010 By kingsjesterIn Politics8 Comments

I’ve written about the Arizona Immigration Law in the blog “For Mr. Krentz”. I’ve written about the situation at Morgan Hill High School in the blog “OUR Flag is Offensive?”.

My opinions are certainly not the only ones out there.

From the Who Asked You? Department: Six U.N. human rights experts opined Tuesday that Arizona’s new law on illegal immigration could violate international standards that are binding in the United States .

These professional bureaucrats said the basic human rights regulations, signed by the U.S. and many other nations, relate to issues such as discrimination and the terms under which a person can be detained:

A disturbing pattern of legislative activity hostile to ethnic minorities and immigrants has been established with the adoption of an immigration law that may allow for police action targeting individuals on the basis of their perceived ethnic origin.

Hey geniuses, that means the Federal Law, on which the Arizona Law is based, is flawed, too. Why don’t you get the log (of corruption) out of your own eye first before you talk about the perceived cinder in America’s?

And, lame duck Governor of California, Ahhhnold Schwarzenegger, tried to make a funny while speaking to graduates at Emory University in Atlanta on Monday:

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

Very droll, Governor. It’s a shame your day job is being terminated. Maybe you could try out a stand-up routine at The Improv.

Meanwhile, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona is focused on her job. She has signed a bill aimed at an ethnic studies program in a Tucson school district.

According to State schools chief Tom Horne , the district’s ethnic studies program promotes “ethnic chauvinism” and racial resentment toward whites.

The measure prohibits classes that advocate ethnic solidarity, that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group. The Tucson Unified School District denies its program promotes resentment. (Of couse.)

Out in Morgan hill, California, The School Board held a late night meeting to allow citizens to speak their minds about the incident at Live Oaks High School. In the interest of fairness, they cut the citizens’ speaking times down from 3 minutes each to 2 minutes per speaker.

About 200 people packed the auditorium since it was their first chance to voice their opinions to district leaders.

It’s always been Hispanics versus Caucasians. It’s been like that in our history, we cannot sugarcoat this, said student Teresa Rita Corona.

You guys made this segregated by stupidity and ignorance, said parent Teresa Casillas.

I want to see the principal and vice principal fired or you will face legal action, said Gilroy resident Mark Zappa.

I personally am getting very, very tired of disrespect to that flag and what this nation actually stands for, said Morgan Hill resident Lavonne Atnit.

We want an apology for our boys, disciplinary action to be taken to a certain extent, and we want to prevent the same thing from happening all over again, said one of the mothers of a student wearing an American flag t-shirt, Julie Fagerstrom.

These situations have brought a simmering issue to a roiling boil. These two stories have galvanized the feelings Americans have about people who are in our country illegally.

Here are some American opinions per RasmussenReports.com:

70% of Arizona Voters Favor New State Measure Cracking Down On Illegal Immigration

67% Say Illegal Immigrants Are Major Strain on U.S. Budget

68% Oppose Cities That Give ‘Sanctuary’ To Illegal Immigrants

68% Say Those Who Employ Illegal Immigrants Should Be Punished

A while back, the following allegorical story went viral. You may have seen this already, but it explains illegal immigration as succinctly as anything I’ve come across:

Let’s pretend I broke into your house. When you discover me there, you insist I leave. But I say, “I’ve made all the beds, washed the dishes, did the laundry, and cleaned the floors; I’ve done all the work you don’t like to do. I’m hardworking and honest (except for breaking into your house). Not only must you let me stay, you must also add me to your insurance plan, educate my kids, and provide these benefits to my husband, too (he will do your yardwork, he’s honest and hardworking too–except for that breaking in part). If you try to force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house and proclaim my right to be there! It’s only fair, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I’m trying to better myself. I’m hardworking and honest…except for, well, you know. I will live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of selfishness and prejudice.

Oh yeah, I want you to learn my language so you can communicate with me.

Good plan..don’t you think?

Speaking of language, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey released yesterday finds that 87% of Adults favor making English the nation’s official language. This is the highest level of support yet but in line with what voters have been saying for several years. Just nine percent (9%) disagree.

So, please tell me why I have to press “1” for English?

Sources: rasmussenreports.com, yahoo.com, azcentral.com, cbsnews.com,startribune.com, abclocal.go.com

Kagan: Deja Vu…All Over Again

On May 11, 2010May 11, 2010 By kingsjesterIn Politics6 Comments

In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness. Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?

Who said that? Karl Marx? Vladimir Lenin? Danny Glover? George Clooney? Barak Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm)? Nope. It was Obama’s latest nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan. The quote was a part of her senior thesis, written almost thirty years ago while an undergraduate at Princeton. The title of the thesis: “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933”.

Like Obama’s first Supreme Court pick, Sonia Sotomayor, Kagan is a New Yorker and a Princeton graduate. She grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side – a neighborhood where, she wrote in her college newspaper, “nobody ever admits to voting Republican.” Her father was a tenants’ rights lawyer; her mother was a grade school teacher.

Kagan received her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton in 1981. She attended Worcester College, Oxford, as Princeton’s Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow, and received an M. Phil. in 1983. She then attended Harvard Law School, where she was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude in 1986.

Kagan clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1986 to 1987. In 1988, she clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. After that, she worked as an associate in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly from 1989 to 1991.

Kagan began her academic career at the University of Chicago Law School. There, she became an assistant professor in 1991 and a tenured professor of law in 1995. While there, she met a young, part-time instructor named Barry Obama, who was getting his start in the local political scene. Kagan received the graduating students’ award for teaching excellence in 1993.

From 1995 to 1999, Kagan served in the White House, first as Associate Counsel to the President (1995-96) and then as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (1997-99).

There, Kagan gave her opinion on a wide number of complicated issues. Clinton senior adviser Rahm Emanuel reportedly ended numerous conversations each day with:

Well, Elena better come up with some policy!

She helped defend Clinton from the Travelgate scandal and worked on issues including welfare, hate crimes, race and tobacco regulation.

Her stances were reflected in memos and other written documents.

The first of those memos emerged late Monday when the Associated Press unearthed a memo written by Kagan in 1997 advising Bubba to ban late-term abortions.

Monday, Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Committee did not divulge how they’ll approach the memos. Recent history indicates they will have to fight hard to get to see the memos in question.

Funny, when Dubya nominated John Roberts to the court in 2005, then-Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter threatened the White House saying that he would issue subpoenas for Roberts’s memos from his time in the Reagan White House and in the Justice Department if they were not produced. The White House caved in and produced them.

On Monday, only one Senate Republican openly called for the Kagan memos to be released.

Girlie-men.

The White House said Monday it will not immediately release the memos.

I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Kagan came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. She was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2003. While there, she argued in favor of banning the ROTC from campus. (What a patriot.) She was confirmed as the 45th Solicitor General of the United States in March 2009.

A much-discussed question about this new Supreme Court Nominee concerns her sexuality.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, asked whether Elena Kagan’s sexuality will become an issue in her confirmation hearings, replied:

It’s not anything I’m going to get into.

Gibbs was asked a handful of times about rumors that Kagan is gay, and gave short, seemingly-aggravated responses each time.

Asked why the White House pushed back so aggressively when CBS News published a piece on its website (CBS appears to have pulled the piece) that said Kagan would be the country’s “first openly gay justice,” Gibbs said it was not an issue to the president.

We are going to defend the nominee that the president has chosen.

When asked what the White House was defending Kagan from, Gibbs said:

That’s just a broad answer.

I’m just not going to get into somebody who is doing what that person was doing on CBS’s website. This is about who she is going to be as a justice.

Ron Klain, chief counsel to the vice president and a key figure in the White House legal team, said:

Elena went through the same vet that everyone else goes through for the Supreme Court is all I’ll say.

So, someone who came of age immersed in the Chicago Liberal Elitist Academic Political scene, who has immeasurable ties to Harvard and its’ Law Review, becomes a candidate for a very powerful position while possessing no practical experience for the position they’ve been nominated for.

I think we’ve experienced this nightmare before.

Sources: weeklystandard.org, dailycaller.com, usatoday.com, wsj.com, suntimes.com, cbsnews.com

This is Smart Power?

On May 10, 2010May 10, 2010 By kingsjesterIn Politics6 Comments

In a very coordinated message on the Sunday talk shows, senior White House officials admitted that the Pakistani Taliban were behind the failed Times Square bombing.

This was that group’s first attempt at launching an attack on U.S. soil. The malfunctioning bomb in Times Square and Christmas Day airline bomber indicate growing strength by overseas terrorist groups linked to al-Qaida. At the same time, the CIA says their operations are seriously degraded.

By putting forth this new message, the Administration is admitting that the U.S. relationship with Pakistan, which is widely known to have al-Qaida and other terrorist groups operating within its borders, isn’t so hot.

Attorney General Eric Holder said concerning the Pakistani Taliban:

We know that they helped facilitate it; we know that they helped direct it. And I suspect that we are going to come up with evidence which shows that they helped to finance it. They were intimately involved in this plot.

The president’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, made similar remarks, also admitting that the bomber was linked to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. He also said:

They now are relegated to trying to do these unsophisticated attacks, showing that they have inept capabilities in training.

They got a car bomb parked in the middle of Times Square, didn’t they?

There are a number of terrorist and militant groups operating in Pakistan. And we need to make sure there’s no support being given to them by the Pakistani government.

On CBS’ 60 minutes, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Washington expects more cooperation from Pakistan in fighting terrorism and warned of “severe consequences” if an attack on U.S. soil were successful and traced back to the South Asian country.

Oooooh, Hil. I know they’re scared. This is Smart Power?

What a difference a week makes. Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, told NBC News::

At this point I have no information that it’s anything other than a one-off.

Gen. David Petraeus told The Associated Press that Shahzad apparently operated as a “lone wolf.”

Back to this week. Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder said that he and Congress are talking about possible modifications to the reading of Miranda rights. The administration has been criticized for reading Miranda rights to the suspect in the Times Square bombing attempt and to the suspect in the Christmas Day failed attempt to blow up an airplane over Detroit.

Sunday on ABC’s This Week, the Attorney General said both suspects (Thank the Lord) continued to talk to law enforcement after they received their Miranda rights.

But he said the administration needs to consider at least modifying the public safety exception for reading a suspect his rights to ensure law enforcement can act with flexibility and within constitutional bounds.

What has changed? Why this shift in Smart Power? Americans have been screaming about this Adminstration’s idiotic position on Terrorism since Major Nidal Malik Hassan killed 13 people, including a baby in its’ mother’s womb, and wounded 31 others at Ft. Hood, TX on that fateful first Thursday in November, 2009.

I believe that there are at least two reasons. First, the mid-term elections are coming up. Democrats and Vichy Republicans are set to experience the worst massacre since General George Custer said:

Would you look at all those Indians?

If Scooter and his Administration can convince the gullible among us that they have some degree of competency in Foreign Affairs, the political slaughter in November and, the way it looks now, 2012, might not be as bad.

Secondly, President Pantywaist is an American joke that the entire world is in on. Could it be that, when the EunuchBomber and Faisal started singing in two-part harmony, the Administration found out that all the apologizing and bowing that Scooter has been doing to despots, Islamic and otherwise, around the world has done nothing but embolden them in their quest to wipe us of the face of the Earth?

Barak Hussein Obama. Mm mmm mmmm. Could be.

Sources: dailycaller.com, cnn.com

OUR Country’s Flag is Offensive?

On May 9, 2010May 9, 2010 By kingsjesterIn Politics10 Comments

It is the night of September 13, 1814. The British fleet are bombarding Fort McHenry in the harbor at Baltimore, Maryland. Francis Scott Key, a 34-year old lawyer-poet, is watching the attack from the deck of a British prisoner-exchange ship. Key had gone seeking the release of a friend. They were told that they had to remain aboard the vessel until the end of the attack. When the battle was over, the following morning, Key had his telescope on the fort and saw the American flag was still waving. The sight of the tattered Stars and Stripes was so moving that he pulled a letter from his pocket and began to write the poem. This poem eventually became the national anthem of the United States – “The Star Spangled Banner.”

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight’
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 – On a day celebrating a manufactured Mexican Holiday, designed to increase revenue for beer distilleries and Mexican Restaurants, administrators at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California send five students home after they refuse to remove their American flag T-shirts and bandannas — garments the school officials deemed “incendiary” on the artificial observance called Cinco de Mayo.

The Assistant Principal, Miguel Rodriguez, asked two of them to remove their American flag bandannas. The boys did as they were told and were then asked to accompany Rodriguez to the principal’s office.

The five students: Daniel Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano, Dominic Maciel and Clayton Howard, were then told to turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home, but, it would not be considered a suspension. Rodriguez told them he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags.

Dariano’s mother, Diana, told FoxNews.com she and parents of the other four students want an apology from officials and are thinking about filing a lawsuit.

We want an apology, Diana Dariano said Thursday. Who in the United States of America would have an issue with that? It’s a sad, sad day.

Who, indeed.

More than 200 Hispanic students reportedly skipped class on Thursday and marched to school district headquarters while chanting “we want respect” and “si se puede” — “yes we can,” the Morgan Hill Times reported. You may have seen the video of these brave young people berating and antagonizing a man in a motorized wheelchair.

The noble nature of their protest is underwhelming.

Morgan Hill Police Department Commander Joe Sampson said two officers were stationed at Live Oak High School school midday Friday to give a “visual presence” in order to thwart any potential acts of violence.

Assistant Principal Rodriguez has apologized for telling the young Americans that they couldn’t wear U.S. flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo, the local superintendent said Friday.

Superintendent Wesley Smith described freedom of expression as “a sacred American value” and said the lesson learned is that it should be celebrated “thoughtfully and fairly.”

I repeat: OUR country’s flag is offensive?

Smith said, noting the national media attention on the school:

It is unfortunate that some people want to leverage their personal agendas off of this incident.

Translation: We got caught being stupid Liberals who care more about another country than we do our own.

Most of the kids on our campus have said, ‘Enough is enough.’ they want to get back to normal.

Translation: Move along, nothing to see here. Please, move along.

Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Yes, it does, Mr. Key, sir. But, just like that fateful night so long ago, it is under attack. Only this time, it is under attack from enemies foreign and domestic.

Sources: usembassy.de, usflag.org, foxnews.com

Black Thursday…Almost

On May 8, 2010May 8, 2010 By kingsjesterIn Politics7 Comments

About 2.40pm on Thursday, the S&P 500 index, the US equity market’s benchmark, fell from 1,120. Within six minutes, it bottomed out at 1,065.79, a Kamikaze-like dive of nearly 5 per cent. By 3.00pm, the index was moving above 1,120, although still down 4 per cent on the day before, settling 3.2 per cent lower by the close.

The immediate explanation circulating through the Main Street Media was that an incorrectly typed sell order – one that confused “billions” for “millions”, for example – was the likely culprit.

However, despite the tedious pushing by the Main Stream Media of this story, officials still could not identify a specific cause.

We still don’t know what was the initiating signal for the trading activity we saw on Thursday, said Jeff Wecker, chief executive officer at Lime Brokerage. The verdict is still out.

Since other people are volunteering theories about this almost-disastrous stock market dive, I would like to throw one out there, too. At the risk of being accused of wearing a tin foil hat, here it is. It involves a close friend and benefactor of the President of the United States of America:

George Soros set up the now famous Quantum Fund as one of the world’s first Hedge Funds. It took money from the wealthy and invested in risky but potentially highly profitable international deals.

It did very well out of the collapse of fixed exchange rates in the 1970s and the deregulation of global capital markets. By 1980, George Soros was worth more than £16.5 million and his fund £67 million. The stage was set for his intervention in the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a system established in 1979 for controlling exchange rates within the European Monetary System of the European Union (EU) that was intended to prepare the way for a single currency.

Around spring 1992, Soros had decided that the pound would have to be devalued because it had been pushed into the Exchange Rate Mechanism at too high a rate.

He knew that the Bundesbank was in favor of a devaluation of both sterling and the Italian lira and believed it would have to happen because of the disastrous impact that high British interest rates were having on asset prices.

Soros spent the next few months in preparation to profit from that devaluation. He borrowed sterling heavily, reportedly to the tune of £6.5 billion, and converted that into a mixture of Deutschmarks and French francs.

On Black Wednesday, September 16, 1992, Soros won his bet. The UK Conservative government was forced to withdraw the Pound from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) due to pressure by currency speculators, most notably Soros himself.

In the following days, he took care of business, paying back what he borrowed and ending with a profit of around £1 billion. At the same time, Soros bought as much as £350 million of British shares, gambling that equities often rise after a currency devalues.

He later admitted that his actions had benefited no one but himself.

There are several culprits in the American Stock Market Crash of 2008 that helped cost John McCain the Presidency, but one key source of the problem escaped almost everyone’s attention: an economic index that can be easily manipulated by Hedge Funds and whose erratic movements have shaken the foundation of Wall Street: the ABX index, launched in 2007 by the Markit Group, a London-based company that specializes in credit derivative pricing and that administers the index.

The heart of the mortgage mess we are still recovering from was uncertainty regarding the value of subprime securities. The ABX Index is used to determine the value of these securities: it is a benchmark of the market for all the home loans issued to borrowers with weak credit . A collapse of this index led to home loans being marked down in value.

Looking back, it’s pretty clear that the ABX was manipulated by Hedge Funds. As the ABX subprime mortgage index crashed, so did much of our economy.

Some investors made out like bandits. George Soros for one. Soros had become a political powerbroker of unrivaled influence within the Democratic Party (see The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party) and, even now, has an empire of politically active 527 groups, of which he is the number one donor, by far, in America.

There is a now infamous lunch whispered about between Soros and John Paulson, a Hedge Fund Manager who made millions during the collapse. Soros invited Paulson for lunch, “asking for details of how he laid his bets, with instruments that didn’t exist a few years ago”.

Soros’s Hedge Fund, like most Hedge Funds, is based overseas and escapes much scrutiny and regulation.

George Soros was a very early and influential backer of Barack Obama and remains so to this day.

Speaking of the present…

White House press secretary Robert (Baghdad Bob) Gibbs yesterday said Obama’s economic team was jolted by Thursday’s near disaster and met with Obama shortly after the market plunged.

Gibbs said Obama thinks:

the circumstances around this is something that should be watched or should be reviewed and looked at.

No kiddin’, Scooter. May I suggest someone you should talk to first?

Sources: ft.com, telegraph.uk.co, farlex.com, american thinker.com, the hill.com

Why Haven’t I Heard of Khalid al-Monsour?

On May 7, 2010May 7, 2010 By kingsjesterIn Politics8 Comments

Did you ever wonder how Barak Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) got the money to get into Harvard law School? Well, according to the late, long-time Manhattan Borough Chairman Percy Sutton, Scooter got the money from Khalid al-Monsour.

Who’s that guy? Glad you asked. According to Newsmax:

Although many Americans have never heard of Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (his full name), he is well known within the black community as a lawyer, an orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist, an author, an international deal-maker, an educator, and an outspoken enemy of Israel. A graduate of Howard University with a law degree from the University of California, al-Mansour sits on numerous corporate boards, including the Saudi African Bank and Chicago-based LaGray Chemical Co. LaGray, which was formed to do business in Africa, counts former Nigerian President General Abdusalam Abubakar on its advisory board.

Mansour’s journey to notoriety and lots of Benjamins began with an introduction to the Saudi king in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1977. He was asked by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a student down in Newport (Calif.) to go home with him to Riyadh. His buddy planned to ask the king for money to help with his studies in the United States. But the king refused. Per al-Monsour:

He was mad. And then my friend told me that the basis of his anger was that OPEC was being sued, al-Mansour said. This was a very nasty conspiracy that involved some of the biggest respected political names in America. The king didn’t know all of that, but he knew he wasn’t happy.

Al-Mansour’s buddy told the Saudi king that he was an attorney.

The King didn’t know if I was a good lawyer or bad lawyer, but said, Will you do it? I said, I’d have to study it. He said, Just take it, and get out!

The king wanted only one lawyer to represent the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Al-Monsour explained:

So you win or you lose, based on the outcome because no one’s going to listen to any excuses. You’re either a loser for life, or a winner for life.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

Regarding his relationship with Obama and the Percy Sutton revelations, al-Monsour dodged every question he was asked:

In respect to Mr. Obama, I have told him, because so many people are running after him, and when stories get printed they usually get distorted and then he has to spend a lot of time trying to unravel them – and then after the experience of Rev. (Jeremiah) Wright whom I’ve never met, but I’ve followed the media coverage – I was determined that I was never going to be in that situation. I never discuss Barack Obama.

Al-Mansour had heard of Percy Sutton’s revelations that identified him as raising money for Obama’s law school education when the presidential candidate was 25.

But I’ve never confirmed it. What you have since I’ve been out of the country is bloggers saying this is the new Rev. Wright — in drag! and he is a nationalist, racist, and worse than Rev. Wright. I’m not getting into that. Any statement that I make would only further the activity which is not in the interest of Barack, not in the interest of Percy, not in the interest of anyone. For the bloggers to not even have the courtesy to call me to ask what’s happening is a clear sign to me. There’s no need. There’s no benefit. So why do it?

When asked whether he had identified Barack Obama while he was an undergraduate at Columbia as a promising student he wanted to help get into Harvard Law School, al-Mansour developed a sudden case of partial amnesia.

I give a lot of speeches on college campuses, in the US and abroad. So I meet people all the time…. But I can’t say that I remember that.

Nor would he confirm or deny that he had called Sutton to ask him to help Obama get into Harvard.

I’m not going to say that. That lends itself regardless of the answer and regardless of the truth to the type of sensationalism that I don’t consider productive to the goals that I have. I don’t see how this will promote education. I don’t see how this will promote a global respect. I don’t see how it deals with the basic issues we’re faced with in the country. I try to limit my comments to those kinds of issues, to avoid the tendency of the press to sensationalize both positive and negative.

By now, I’m sure most of you are asking yourselves the same thing I did:

Why haven’t I heard of Khalid al-Monsour?

Pundits like Ben Smith of politico.com reported that Mr. Sutton was old and clearly off his rocker. Others, like Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times reported during the late part of Obama’s Presidential Campaign that:

The Obama’s were complaining about college debt. Obama took out $42,753 in loans to pay for Harvard tuition.

President Obama attend Harvard Law School from 1988 – 1991. The average tuition during that time was $25,000 per year. It would have cost $75,000 to attend there for 3 years. As president of the Harvard Law Review, he received no stipend from the school, according to Harvard spokesman Mike Armini in a interview with Newsmax.

If numbers cited by the Obama Presidential Campaign for Scooter”s student loans are accurate, that means that Obama came up with more than $32,000 over three years from sources other than loans to pay for tuition, room and board. Hmmmmm.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. There is a bunch of shady stuff floating around out there regarding the President of the United State’s past that has rarely seen the light of day. It is being zealously guarded by The Magnificent One’s acolytes, like a mouse would guard a piece of cheese. How did Obama become President? Ask the Main Stream Media. All the information in this blog from Newsmax, including Al-Monsour’s interview, was published in early September of 2008.

Sources: newsmax.com, canadafreefress.com, politico.com, chicagosuntimes.com, google.com, bing.com

A Nation Standing in the Need of Prayer

On May 6, 2010 By kingsjesterIn Christianity, Politics4 Comments

The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held on the first Thursday of May, inviting people of all faiths to pray for the nation. It was created in 1952 by a joint resolution of the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman.

On Thursday April 15, 2010 U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb (a Clinton appointee), ruled that the National Day of Prayer, scheduled for today, was unconstitutional. Crabb wrote in her ruling (excerpt):

It goes beyond mere “acknowledgment” of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience

One might argue that the National Day of Prayer does not violate the establishment clause because it does not endorse any one religion. Unfortunately, that does not cure the problem. Although adherents of many religions “turn to God in prayer,” not all of them do.

Further, the statute seems to contemplate a specifically Christian form of prayer with its reference to “churches” but no other places of worship and the limitation in the 1952 version of the statute that the National Day of Prayer may not be on a Sunday.

Judge Crabb apparently does not understand the meaning of the word voluntary.

Exactly one week after the ruling, our fearless Commander-in-Chief came courageously to the defense of this national voluntary observance. Per CNN.com:

The Obama administration will fight to preserve the law establishing an annual National Day of Prayer, the Justice Department confirmed Thursday (April 22nd).

The Justice Department’s official filing of a “notice to appeal” Thursday came as no surprise, after White House spokesman Matt Lehrich said following the ruling that President Obama intends to recognize this year’s National Day of Prayer, which is May 6.

The injunction against the National Day of Prayer would not take effect until the appeals have been exhausted.

This was remarkable, considering that the President refuses to allow the Federal Government to participate in this observance. However, realizing that 75 % of Americans identify themselves as Christian and, as Fox and Friends informed us yesterday morning, 83 % of Americans believe that God answers prayer, what choice did President Obama have? Maybe he actually learned something in those 20 years under the most honorable Reverend Wright, besides how to spell America with three K’s in front of it.

Our Founding Fathers recognized the need of prayer:

Benjamin Franklin at the Congressional Congress, 1787

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth–that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that “except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

I therefore beg leave to move–that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.

Presidents have always realized the power of praying to their Creator. As Michael Barone wrote on January 19th, 2005 for wsj.com about George W. Bush’s Second Inauguration:

George W. Bush has been criticized for his religious references. But he has only been following tradition. Every Second Inaugural since Washington’s brief statement has included some reference to God, from Jefferson’s “that Being,” Madison’s “Heaven” and Monroe’s “Supreme Author of All Good” to Reagan’s “God bless you” and Clinton’s “May God strengthen our hands for the good work ahead–and always, always bless our America.” Four years ago Mr. Bush referred, in Founder’s language, to the “author” of “our nation’s grand story.” Expect something similar from him tomorrow.

Today, our nation stands at the precipice, looking over into future’s abyss of unknown possibilities. Will we remain true to our founders, who began a new nation based on Judeo-Christian values and beliefs? Or will we be destroyed at the hands of our enemies, foreign and domestic? Please join millions in observing the purpose of this day. We are a nation standing in the need of prayer.

Sources: The Dangers of Prayer and Eye Black (this blog), cnn.com, wsj.com, chuckbaldwinlive.com

I’m an Extremist?

On May 5, 2010May 5, 2010 By kingsjesterIn Christianity, Politics8 Comments

In the 24 hour news cycle yesterday, the majority of time (and rightfully so) was taken up by the capture of and subsequent revelations about the Times Square Bomber, Faisal Shahzad. It was revealed that he was a naturalized citizen who left to return to Pakistan for additional (ahem)technical training 3 months before going through his citizenship ceremony. He returned here without his American wife and two children to complete his mission.

There was all sorts of speculation among the Main Stream Media and Liberal Politicians as to his motivation for trying to blow up a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder Saturday night in the heart of one of the busiest entertainment meccas in America. Some speculated that he was angry over the foreclosure of his house. Some claimed it was Boooosh’s fault. New York City Mayor Bloomberg told perky Katie Couric that he thought the Bomber was:

Homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.

And some in the Main Stream Media were just downright disappointed:

Amongst all the angst by our self-appointed arbitrators of appropriateness, there was one term that I never heard yesterday until I was watching Monica Crowley (God bless her) sitting there with Alan (Skelator) Colmes last night on the O’Reilly Factor. That term was (shoo away the small children) Muslim Extremist. (gasp!).

Along with Barak Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) and his Administration, the sycophantic MSM has determined that calling a Muslim Terrorist a Muslim Extremist is so offensive, that just speaking those dreaded words might do irreparable harm to the wonderful relationship that the Greatest President of All Time has forged with the Middle East. (Just ask Bibi Netanyahu about our POTUS.)

Hey, it’s worked great so far, hasn’t it? While Iranian President Ahmedinejad is fervently rushing to build a nuclear arsenal in order to blow the U.S. off the face of the Earth, Scooter breached Protocol and torqued off one of our staunchest allies, Israel, at a White House Conference, and then he held a Summit Conference for Muslim Entrepreneurs.

So, while President Pantywaist’s Administration and the MSM are pussy-footin’ around, the Muslim Extremists (Yeah, I said it.) have become emboldened to the point that they are now embedding themselves in our culture, like the old Russian Sleeper Cells during the Cold War, just waiting to kill as many Americans as they can and claim their 72 virgins. Thanks to the naive at best, treasonous at worst, policies of this President and his Administration, America is having to fight the War on Terror on the streets of our own cities.

But, Scooter is waaaay smarter than we are. He speaks about Islam from personal experience, as in his Cairo Speech on June 4, 2009:

Now part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. I’m a Christian (Is that why you said that we were no longer a Christian nation?), but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia (in a Madrassa) and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and at the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith (like Calypso Louie Farrakhan?). As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment (nothing like Revisionist History). It was innovation in Muslim communities — (applause) — it was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation (and beheadings). And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds (like jihad) the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. (Applause.)

Y’know, I was called an Extremist yesterday. It happened on a very popular Conservative Website by a Liberal poster, after I dared asked why the MSM was not referring to Faisal Shahzad as a Muslim Extremist. I replied:

Yep. I’m an Extremist. I’m extreme in my love for God, my family, and my country and the freedom it affords which gives you the right to be a total jerk on the Internet.

He did not have a snappy comeback for that.

By the way, on Fox and Friends this morning, it was announced that 83 % of Americans believe that God answers prayers. That means that, according to the Administration and the Main Street Media, 83 % of you are Extremists, too.

Sources: foxnews.com, drudgereport.com, youtube.com

Wishin’ and Hopin’ and Thinkin’ and Prayin’

On May 4, 2010May 4, 2010 By kingsjesterIn Politics10 Comments

There are some very upset people in the White House this morning. The New York City Times Square Bomber was arrested at 12:05 a.m. Eastern today. He was taken off an airplane leaving for Dubai, along with two others, trying to get the heck out of Dodge.

By now, you’re saying:

Hold on , KJ. Obama and the rest of the Administration should be happy, shouldn’t they? They caught the Bomber, and he wasn’t Bill Ayers.

Unfortunately, though, for the White House and the Liberal base they represent, the suspect is not Billy Bob Redneck from Hot Coffee, Mississippi, Deacon in the Southern Baptist Church there. Nope. To quote the lead on FoxNews.com:

Faisal Shahzad arrested in connection to failed Times Square attack as he was departing on flight to Dubai

Faisal is from Pakistan. He is a 30 year old naturalized American citizen. Police are now searching his home in Bridgeport, Connecticut. And, horrors, he is a Muslim.

He had gone home to Pakistan for several months recently. He returned to America without his wife and two children.

After Faisal’s 1993 Nissan Pathfinder failed to explode in a crowded Times Square Saturday night, New York City Mayor Bloomberg said when the perky Katie Couric asked who he thought the Bomber might be:

Homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.

“Big Sis” Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary said on CNN:

It’s somewhat similar, but again I caution that the last thing we want to do is draw premature conclusions which may obscure the actual leads we may be following,…

There had also been theories that because the SUV was parked near the headquarters of Viacom, the attack might have been related to a controversial “South Park” episode that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad dressed in a bear costume. Viacom, of course, owns Comedy Central.

“I’m not going to speculate on speculation. It’s out there as one theory. There may be others,” Napolitano told CNN. “What we do know is that some person or persons parked a vehicle … (and) tried to blow it up.”

Let us travel back in time to a couple of weeks ago. Again, from FoxNews.com April 16, 2010:

Former President Bill Clinton warned Friday that the anger some members of the Tea Party movement express about higher taxes and the size of government could feed the same right-wing extremism that led to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.

“Before the bombing occurred, there was a sort of fever in America,” Clinton said at a symposium commemorating the 15th anniversary of the bombing. “Meanwhile, the fabric of American life had been unraveling. More and more people who had a hard time figuring out where they fit in, it is true that we see some of that today.”

April 17, 2010:

Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, the specter of domestic terrorism has returned to haunt the Obama administration, with a warning from the FBI that “home-grown and lone-wolf extremists” now represent as serious a threat as Al Qaeda and its affiliates, The Times reported on Saturday.

The warning, from the FBI Director, Robert Mueller, came as the former President Clinton drew parallels between the Oklahoma City tragedy and a recent upsurge in anti-government rhetoric, while American television audiences heard Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, describe the “absolute rage” that drove him to plan an attack that killed 168 men, women and children.

An FBI spokesman said Friday that Mueller was referring to right-wing extremist groups and anti-government militias, as well as American Islamists, in his testimony to the Senate committee that must approve the FBI’s $8.3 billion budget.

Remember President Obama’s Cairo Speech on June 4, 2009?

I’ve come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles — principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

I do so recognizing that change cannot happen overnight. I know there’s been a lot of publicity about this speech, but no single speech can eradicate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have this afternoon all the complex questions that brought us to this point. But I am convinced that in order to move forward, we must say openly to each other the things we hold in our hearts and that too often are said only behind closed doors. There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground. As the Holy Koran tells us, “Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.” (Applause.) That is what I will try to do today — to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

Lovely sentiments. He must have learned that at the Madrassa, err, Private School in Indonesia he attended as a child. If Scooter and the Liberals had their way, they would have you believe that Grandma and the rest of the American Tea Party participants, of all races, are more dangerous than this failed Muslim Terrorist (Yeah, I said it.) Let’s face it. We have a President and Administration leading the best country in the world, that seem to value those who would destroy us more than they do their own fellow citizens. I guarantee that Attorney General Holder will want to try this Terrorist in New York City, too.

Sources: foxnews.com, cbsnews.com, baltimoresun.com, whitehouse.gov

Relentless

On May 3, 2010May 3, 2010 By kingsjesterIn Politics4 Comments

Saturday night, New York City street vendors saw a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder SUV turning onto West 45th Street at 6:28 Saturday evening, at the height of the Broadway dinner rush. The truck pulled over and parked, very close to the Viacom Building, home of several Cable Television Channels, including South Park.

Later, street vendors noticed the truck was still running – and filling with smoke.

A crude explosive device was set up inside the truck – barbecue style propane tanks, fireworks, alarm clocks and wires connected all of the device – although it failed to fully detonate, NYC Police Commissioner Kelly believes it was designed with one goal in mind.

It looks like it would have caused a significant fireball,” he said. “Clearly, it was the intent of whoever did this to cause mayhem – to create casualties.

The FBI released the following statement:

The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York, along with the NYPD, has responded to Times Square in response to the vehicle and device. Bomb technicians, Evidence Response Team members, and investigators are on scene and a command post has been established. All of the resources of the New York FBI office are available to assist with this ongoing investigation. Numerous initial reports will be checked and authenticated and the appropriate leads will be set.

The investigation into the Times Square bomb plot is ongoing. Mayor Bloomberg called the improvised device “amateurish”.

Amateurism aside, the New York Times has related that, a 911 call on Sunday morning warned that the bomb plot was merely a diversion for a much bigger explosion that is set to happen at Times Square. (Isn’t that reassuring?)

Yesterday, runners in the Pittsburgh Marathon were forced to take a alternate route as they approached the finish due to a suspected pipe bomb near a bus station close to the end of the course.

KDKA’s Bob Allen observed the bomb squad at the Greyhound bus station at 11th Street and Liberty Avenue.

Allen observed bomb squad personnel getting into their special made suits and a robot being moved into position.

The device was identified by one bomb squad member as a microwave with a pipe bomb inside. The microwave was in a white box near the entrance of the building.

Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper would only say that there were suspicious contents inside the microwave.

The device was detonated and Liberty Avenue and Grant Street was blocked off.

As of now, no suspects have been named, but, just like NYC, police are going to review the surveillance video from security cameras in the area.

The President’s response? Hey, no worries….yesterday he vowed to be relentless.

Wait a second. My apologies. He wasn’t talking about these two foiled (by the Grace of God) attempts at Terrorism. Here’s the full quote from mysanantonio.com:

President Barack Obama vowed Sunday that the government would “spare no resource” in a “coordinated, relentless response effort” to clean up and stop the massive oil spill bearing down on wetlands, residents and commercial fishing operations along the Gulf of Mexico.

From Saturday’s Blog, “Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise…”:

The oil slick is now more than 130 miles long and 70 miles wide and is endangering scores of species of wildlife, including birds, dolphins and the fish, shrimp, oysters and crabs that make the Gulf Coast one of the nation’s most abundant sources of seafood. Louisiana has closed some fishing grounds and oyster beds because of the possibility of oil contamination.

At least 1.6 million gallons of oil have spilled, according to the Coast Guard.

Great. Eleven days after this disaster began, as Gulf Coast residents are watching their livelihoods under seige from the oil spill and Americans are being threatened by Terrorist attacks on our soil, Scooter has vowed to be relentless.

Meanwhile, one of our most dangerous enemies, President Ahmedinejad of Iran, is speaking at the United Nations in New York City today.

Mr. President, relentless? Hardly. Oblivious? Most assuredly.

Sources: drudgereport.com,wcbstv.com, kdka.com, mysanantonio.com

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