July 03, 2009
Happy Independence Day! & G-d Bless America
As regular readers know, I'm out on Independence Day/the Fourth of July in observance of the Jewish Sabbath, but I thank G-d*, every day, that I am an American and that our country is still free. Tomorrow marks America's 233rd birthday and 233 years of freedom and independence from tyranny and the rule of a monarchy. But it also marks decades of letting those who want to take this all away from us, particularly Muslims, impose their wills on our laws, our culture, and our general lifestyle. We cannot allow this to stand or we will fall.
As I wrote, last year:
We hope for an endless, infinite number of repeats and an endless supply of freedom and liberty. The more we keep kissing the rears of those who would destroy us (you know, from a certain "Religion of Peace"), the less likely that will be.
We must be vigilant in protecting our freedom and the American way of life from interlopers who come here--and a growing number of those who are born here--without the love of those things that are innate to being an American.
Below is a great, moving rendition of "G-d Bless America," from a recent edition of NBC's "America's Got Talent." Try to forget that you are also watching the show's judges, Piers Morgan--who deliberately endangered the lives of American and British troops in Iraq--and alcoholic David Hasselhoff--who blamed his girlie-man crying at the end of an "American Idol" show on President Bush and the war in Iraq.
G-d Bless America!
My friend, talented writer and U.S. Army Captain James Key, who served as a soldier in Iraq and is now chaplain at Arlington National Cemetery, wrote this in, "A Holiday Message on Hope and Freedom," a column in USA Today:
When I was growing up in southwest Los Angeles . . . there were times when I wondered whether this was the best that life would offer me. But my family's and the community's faith for a better future sustained us. And then I began to think about the happy times. National holidays, such as the Fourth of July, brought my family together to celebrate with "good to the bone" barbecue, sweet potato pie, music and dancing. All this made the adversities bearable.This July Fourth, as our nation struggles to recover from a slumping economy - and as our troops continue to fight and die in Iraq and Afghanistan - I pray that the forlorn spirit of America will be rejuvenated.
On this holiday . . . may we live in the moment marked with fireworks, parades, barbecues and picnics. But we must also watch the day's ceremonies with a keen awareness of those Americans who laid down their lives for our independence.It is in their honor that we should never lose hope in tomorrow and always be thankful for the joy of freedom - indeed, the smiles - that each day brings.
Amen.
Happy Birthday America. We are independent today, as we've been for 233 years. Let's stay that way.
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These videos and photo are from last year's Independence Day fireworks at Mount Rushmore.
Remember, this is what Independence Day/the Fourth of July is all about:
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
-- John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew ThorntonMassachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge GerryRhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William ElleryConnecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver WolcottNew York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis MorrisNew Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham ClarkPennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George RossDelaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKeanMaryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of CarrolltonVirginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter BraxtonNorth Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John PennSouth Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur MiddletonGeorgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
All brave men whose courage (along with G-d's grace) is the reason why our country exists and is still here today, well more than two centuries later. Let's never forget their sacrifices and protect our freedom tirelessly.
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Check out some of my favorite July 4th/Independence Day memories and how I've celebrated. What are some of yours? How do you celebrate our freedom and America's birthday?
* I do not write out the full name of G-d, as this is against the Jewish religion and is considered using the name in vain.
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Free Chocolate Friday
Since it's Friday, it's Free Chocolate Friday. As regular readers know, every Friday through the end of September is Free Chocolate Friday, meaning that under Mars' "Real Chocolate Relief Act" promotion, you can get a coupon for a free Mars chocolate candy bar.
Go here for the details and link to free chocolate.
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Weekend Box Office: Excellent "Moon," Horrid "Whatever Works" Mocks Conservatives, Southerners
You've already read my review of "Public Enemies," which arrived in theaters, Wednesday. Here are the other new offerings I screened.
* "Moon": This movie was meant to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1969 landing on the moon. But the storyline has little to do with that, though it does take place on the moon.
This futuristic thriller is sort of like an extended episode of "The Twilight Zone" or "The Outer Limits." While it's a little slow, I enjoyed it very much. The modern sets and cinematography of the moon are cool. I also liked its campy use of the 1991 Chesney Hawkes hit song, "(I Am) The One And Only," as the repeated alarm clock tune in this flick. And the plot is engaging.
Sam Rockwell plays Sam Bell, an astronaut working on the moon in the future. We've learned how to harvest the moon for energy back on earth. Rockwell is just two weeks shy of his three year contract to serve on the moon. He's about to return to Earth to be reunited with his wife and young daughter. But he feels like he's starting to see things, beginning to crack up. It's tough to spend three years in solitary existence on another planet, with a clever robot who makes smiley (and other) faces as your only friend and talking partner. Will he make it back or are things not exactly as they seem?
If you like sci-fi and modern, futuristic movies, this is for you. An interesting aside: Trudie Styler, Sting's wife, is one of the producers of this. It's good and the ending keeps you wondering. Not all the questions are answered. I like movies like that because they make you think.
Fun, enjoyable, entertaining, escapist--the way movies are meant to be.
THREE REAGANS
* "Whatever Works": This is typical Woody Allen stuff, though it's among his worst. The title of this awful cinematic tripe refers to the ending sexual choices of the characters--a religious Christian southerner becomes half of a gay couple, after his wife becomes an artist living with two men in a menage a trois. Yup, Southern, middle-American Christian conservative red-staters becoming gays and sexually experimental in Manhattan, and they all live happily ever after--isn't that great!
That's not to mention the extremely snooty, one-dimensional, snobbish way this movie presents and looks down upon Southerners. From beginning to end, the message is that Southerners--actually, all middle Americans--are stupid and backward, that their values are inferior to Manhattan intellectuals.
Larry David plays a much older snobby, genius scientist who falls for a young Southern girl runaway (Evan Rachel Wood) in Manhattan. The girl's mother soon follows, after her husband leaves her for another woman. The mother becomes an artist (whose work consists of naked photos) and is living and sleeping with two men. Soon, her father (Ed Begley, Jr.) comes to Manhattan and comes out as gay. And, hey, "Whatever Works," right?
That's the sad message of this highly unentertaining movie. "Whatever Works"? Isn't that the philosophy South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford practiced? And, um, it's not working for him. Ditto for former New Jersey Governor, James McGreevey. A lot of sad victims are left in their wake.
So, to sum up this movie: New York intellectuals--good, very good; Southern middle American conservatives--bad, very bad (and stupid hicks) . . . until they become gays and "artists" in menages-a-trois.
FOUR MARXES
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July 02, 2009
"Dr. Butt Will See You Now": Muslim UK Dentist Is What We'll Get w/ ObamaCare
Wanna be forced to go to an Al-Qaeda-linked dentist, where Islam is first, dentistry is, at most, second, and your teeth could be harmed as a result? Here's a little slice of Great Britain's version of ObamaCare.
I guess it's redundant to say that Dr. Butt is a real ass.
But the Muslim dentist--whose brother was the spokesman of an Al-Qaeda splinter group--has a last name that definitely fits.
Omer Butt, 32, whose brother Hassan used to be spokesman for the banned radical Muslim group Al Muhajiroun, ordered female patients to wear headscarves and forced men to take off gold jewellery before allowing them into the dentists' chair.
He even kept a box full of hijabs at his practice so he could lend them to women before checking their teeth. Butt enforced his religious dress code despite previously being warned by the General Dental Council for the same offence. . . .Butt was also found to have confrontations with two patients known as Ms B and Mr C and their families during that period. . . .
"Your evidence was that you regard yourself as a Muslim first and a dentist second and it is clear you were using your position as a dentist to seek to influence patients as to non-clinical issues," committee chairwoman Gill Brown told the dentist. . . .
During treatment Butt asked the mother if her son prayed and when she said "yes" he gave the boy composite fillings rather than silver ones. Using the precious metal for fillings is frowned upon in Islam.
He admits he was a Muslim first, dentist second, even while practicing as a dentist. Folks, not only is this the real Islam, it's also what'll happen if we have socialized medicine a/k/a ObamaCare, under which Dr. Butt isn't just a butt-hole, he's a government employee in Britain's National Health Service. And you might be forced to accept "services" from him under a nationalized plan.
Thanks to Rodrigo Veleda for the tip.
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More Jackson Circus: Jermaine Jackson - "Michael is a Gift From Allah"
Jackson said in the morning television show interview that he wishes he had died instead of his younger brother, and that Michael was "a gift from Allah."
Hmmm . . . but, Jermaine, if "Michael is a gift from Allah," why did he have to get like 50 plastic surgeries to correct the "gift"?
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"Gift From Allah" Waves the Israeli Flag . . .
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It's Official: "The JOOOOOS Killed Michael Jackson!"
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One of our readers predicted this, wondering how long it would take until the Jews were blamed for the death of pill-popping drug addict Michael Jackson.
The answer: Not very long.
Some guy has already bought the URL/domain name JewsKilledMichaelJackson.com. Yup, it's disgusting. Here's the info of the site owner, who snapped up the online address before rigor mortis even set in:
Registrant: Christopher Anderson 5334 Ridge Ave Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19128 United StatesRegistered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: JEWSKILLEDMICHAELJACKSON.COM
Created on: 25-Jun-09
Expires on: 25-Jun-11
Last Updated on: 25-Jun-09Administrative Contact:
Anderson, Christopher canderson@arcadia.edu
5334 Ridge Ave
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19128
United States
(410) 830-9776
I contacted Mr. Anderson, who claims he bought it for his friend and that they're not anti-Semitic. Uh-huh.
And I've been a target of the "Jews Killed Michael Jackson" rage. Ever since I wrote about Michael Jackson's Ministers of Hate--Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan--all of whom he embraced in life and who are pimping him in death, I've been getting a ton of e-mails from angry Nation of Islam members who are the paragon of tolerance. And--shocker!--they all have the last name Muhammad (as do most members of NoI). Wow, quelle coincidence.
And they all want me to know one thing: their belief that the "Zionist bloodsuckers" killed Michael Jackson--or perpetrated some other horror close enough to it--and that now Jackson is getting his revenge by cutting them out.
From Dewayne Muhammad, who has e-mailed me several times and calls me "Caucasian She Devil"--a name we could almost have called Michael Jackson at the time of his death:
From: riseup7 riseup7@yahoo.comDate: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Subject: Michael wasn't as crazy as you all trying to make him out to be, HUH?
To: writedebbie@gmail.com
Michael wasn't as crazy as you all trying to make him out to be, HUH? He was smart enough to keep yall blood sucking Zionist out of his pocket.
I would say Blood sucking Jews, but most you are not a jew. Yall are just claiming to be. Real Jews don't act like you all.
Jackson's will cuts out ex-wife Debbie Rowe
Yes, Michael Jackson's ex-wife, the mother of his older two kids, is Jewish. The natural father/sperm donor of these kids--Michael's dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, is a Jew, too. Funny how Jackson neither picked Nation of Islam members nor Black people to have his kids.
Mr. Muhammad doesn't seem to notice that part.
As for the "bloodsucking" part, I think we know who charged Michael Jackson double the rent on the house he rented in his last months. In case you didn't, it's the Nation of Islam. We know who forced him to agree to do the fifty dates in London and who "ran" his affairs . . . into the ground. The Nation of Islam and Jackson's chief of business affairs, Leonard Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan's son-in-law and chief of staff. Click here and here for a brief refresher course.
Jews, on the other hand, helped Michael Jackson throughout his life and helped him make a ton of money. They fathered and gave birth to his adopted kids, they were his lawyers, his managers, etc. When he should have been forced into involuntary bankruptcy and had amassed hundreds of millions of dollars in debts, Jews were the ones who kept him afloat with credit lines and massive loans, despite his horrible financial track record of repayment. Regardless of his anti-Semitic lyrics and a taped phone conversation, if he felt the Jews were "bloodsuckers," why did he repeatedly hire and do business with them? Because they were the only ones who gave him good advice and counsel.
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From: riseup7 riseup7@yahoo.comDate: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Subject: This is a Love bond that can not be broken!
To: writedebbie@gmail.com, online.editor@timesonline.co.uk
This is a love bond that can not be broken! This was our brother. You blood suckers are angry because we ran you all out of his life and out of his pocket.
Dewayne Muhammad
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From: riseup7 riseup7@yahoo.comDate: Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Subject: The love has already been established.
To: writedebbie@gmail.com
Hey Caucasian She devil,
since you like to spread hate, spread this! The love has already been established. You devils are too late. By the way, how is Ariel Sharon doing? Is he still hooked up to that generator? I hope he suffered. . . . The brain dead bastard.
Minister Farrakhan Predicted how the Media Would Treat Michael Jackson
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On Twitter (follow me on Twitter), Eric Muhammad (who has a green symbol on his icon, in solidarity with the faux-democracy protestors in Iran--that should be a huge hint to the rest of you greeniacs) also sends me anti-Semitic, pro-Nation of Islam tweets about Michael Jackson, the Jews, and Israel, including these:
@DebbieSchlussel . . . u wicked jew
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@DebbieSchlussel The Criminal Rothschilds
Both Eric Muhammad and DeWayne Muhammad repeatedly send me a link to a hoax--a fake confession by Michael Jackson's first alleged victim, a Jewish kid--and urge me to "report" it. But it's a fake, a fraud. While I've always said, I didn't believe his allegations, the kid never recanted. And, of course, this is all coupled with their repeated anti-Semitic jibes.
Like I said, look at the track record of Jews who helped Michael Jackson throughout his life. Then, look at the track record of how his "brothers" in the Nation of Islam sucked him dry up until his last breath.
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UPDATE: I'm no fan of his, but Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says Jackson met with Ariel Sharon, against the wishes of his advisors:
"We used to have him over for Shabbat dinners," recalled Boteach. . . . "At one point, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was visiting and I wanted Michael to meet him."Jackson's entourage urged him not to meet with Sharon for fear of offending some of his fans, but the music icon ignored the advice and met with him, Boteach said.
*** UPDATE #2: Since I noted that only "JewsKilledMichaelJackson.com" has been bought, I've just bought "THEJewsKilledMichaelJackson.com" to prevent any anti-Semite from buying it and using it to promote this absurd conspiracy theory.
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But Wait, American Muslims Are Supposed to be "Moderates": 20 Minnesota Muslims Indicted for Al-Qaeda Terrorism (J-No Says "No Threat")
For years, we've been fed the canard that American Muslims are different from their fellow co-religionists who flew the planes into buildings and murdered 3,000 Americans. We were told that American Muslims are "moderate," that these Hezbollah/HAMAS-supporting U.S. citizens and residents were different because they are "educated," "have better economic opportunities," blah, blah, blah.
Those of us in the know always knew and have been saying for years that this is utter BS. And the latest "achievement" of our moderate fellow Americans from the "Religion of Peace" is that 20 of them have been indicted for Al-Qaeda activity.
As readers know, I've written a ton about Minneapolis- and Seattle-area Muslims of Somalian descent, their involvement in violence against Americans and terrorism back in Somalia. Most notable is the case I've repeatedly written about--that of Shirwa Ahmed (more here), who left Minneapolis to become a homicide bomber terrorist. But there are also cases of kidnapping, forced prostitution, gang rape and shootings, and Americans are the victims of those crimes.
A federal grand jury has indicted a group of Somali-Americans on terror-related charges after more than 20 young men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, according to two law enforcement sources.The indictments have yet to be unsealed, but an announcement is expected in the next few weeks. . . . The grand jury already has handed up indictments against at least three people.
Among those charged is a man from Minneapolis who went to war-torn Somalia and then, about four months ago, relocated to Seattle, according to the two sources and a leader in the Minneapolis Somali community. The man was then arrested in a Seattle airport and transferred to a jail in Minneapolis, where he is currently being detained, according to the law enforcement sources.
The law enforcement sources said the man, described as in his 20s, has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist group, in this case al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006.
Omar Jamal, the executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, Minn., identified the man as 21-year-old Abdifatah Ise. . . .
For much of the past year the FBI has been looking into how dozens of young, Somali-American men were recruited to train and possibly fight alongside al-Shabaab in anarchy-stricken Somalia. The investigation has centered around Minneapolis, where a grand jury has been hearing testimony from witnesses for several months, but the investigation has also been active in Seattle; Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati; Boston; and San Diego. . . .
"Several" recruits had returned to the United States, but counterterrorism officials have repeatedly said there is no intelligence indicating that any such recruits are planning attacks within the country
Terrific. They know these murderous terrorists are here, but it's A-OK because "there's no indication they'd attack Americans." Incredible. They could have said the same thing about Mohammed Atta ten years ago. And don't forget that these Somalian Muslims have already been involved in multiple cases of rape, kidnapping, and forced prostitution, as well as killings on our soil, against Americans.
And, of course, The Lesbionic Woman takes this same absurd view.
"[Their] primary focus obviously is not on the homeland, it's abroad," Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said during a briefing with reporters last week.
And she knows this because . . . ? I repeat, these Somalian Muslims have already been involved in multiple cases of rape, kidnapping, and forced prostitution, as well as shootings on our soil, against Americans.
According to Osman Ahmed, whose 17-year-old nephew was one of those to go to Somalia late last year, at least a dozen people have testified before the Minneapolis grand jury in the past few weeks alone, including officials from the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in St. Paul.One law enforcement source said that shows "major progress" in the investigation, since the Abubakar mosque has been a focal point for investigators from the beginning.
Many of the men recruited to join al-Shabaab attended the Abubakar mosque, and several mosque officials, including director Farhan Hurre, could face indictment, one source said.
Ah, the same mosque that faux-moderate Muslim Dr. Mohammed Zuhdi Jasser, star of "The Third Jihad," claimed is not responsible for a gazillion boys being recruited for terrorism there, and shouldn't be blamed. The imam of the mosque is on the no fly list "just 'cuz"?
Bill Warner has more on the indicted American Muslims, including names, pictures, and details.
Like I said, more "peaceful," "moderate" activity from American Muslims. Ah, the "Religion of Peace."
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July 01, 2009
Sacha Baron Cohen's Selective Sympathy: Pity on La Toya Jackson, But Not Alan Keyes or Ron Paul
As longtime readers know, I was not a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat" movie (read my review). It mostly made fun of well-meaning, good Americans and mocked them. And it was a mockery of America in general . . . by a European whom America has made very wealthy. On the other hand, "Bruno" looks--at least to me--to be slightly better. We'll see. I'll be screening it soon and posting my review on July 10th, when the movie debuts.
In the meantime, I can't help but notice Cohen's selective sympathy for subjects of his mockery. Cohen had no qualms about punking and p3wning Alan Keyes and Bob Barr in "Borat." And he does the same to Ron Paul in "Bruno," the trailers show.
And "Bruno" also included a segment in which LaToya Jackson--arguably weirder than her late brother, Michael Jackson--was the target of Cohen's jokes and trickery. But that scene has been cut, out of sympathy for the Jackson sister in the wake of the death of her estranged brother.
I find that interesting, given that La Toya Jackson was, in 1993, among those who attacked her brother while he was alive and insisted he was a child molester. I also find it interesting because I doubt Cohen would have any such sympathy for Ron Paul, Alan Keyes, or Bob Barr (and I'm no fan of Islamic terrorist enabler Barr), if they had a death in the family, even a death of a family member whom they publicly denounced and from whom they were long estranged. I doubt he'd change the movie for any of them or show them any lenience.
But, hey, they're only conservative politicians on the right. Therefore, they don't deserve any sympathy. And a weirdo hanger-on sister of a dead pop star, well she deserves every sympathy and bit of compassion in the world.
Ah, the selective standards and sympathy of the Hollywood crowd.
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New Catch-22 of the Current Recession: Employers Who Are Hiring Prefer the Already Employed
I feel for the unemployed in this bad economy. As we know, many who've lost their jobs have been laid off or terminated not because they were incompetent or bad employees, but because the economy is just rotten.
Well, now, they have another problem, something of a Catch-22--a double whammy. They can't win for losing.
With unemployment at 9.4% and rising, it's a buyer's market for employers that are hiring. But many employers are bypassing the jobless to target those still working, reasoning that these survivors are the top performers.
"If they're employed in today's economy, they have to be first string," says Ryan Ross, a partner with Kaye/Bassman International Corp., an executive recruiting firm in Dallas. Mr. Ross says more clients recently have indicated that they would prefer to fill positions with "passive candidates" who are working elsewhere and not actively seeking a job.The bias extends from front-line workers to senior managers. Charlie Wilgus, managing partner of executive search for Lucas Group, based in Atlanta, says a manufacturing client looking for a division president recently refused to consider a former divisional president at Newell Rubbermaid Inc. whose department had been eliminated. The client doesn't want candidates who have been laid off, Mr. Wilgus says.
Bobby Fitzgerald prefers to hire the already employed even though he gets two dozen or more unsolicited resumes each day at his White Chocolate Grill.
Employers' preference for the employed adds another hurdle for those who have been laid off. Job seekers frequently are competing with dozens of other applicants for the few available positions.
Bobby Fitzgerald, a partner in five restaurants in three states. . . . He currently has 50 openings across his five restaurants and has told recruiters to bring in only people who are working. Mr. Fitzgerald's preference for the employed can be time-consuming and expensive. . . .
"We are always looking for the very best of the industry, which happens to be people who are still employed," he says. . . .
Many employers consider the employed more valuable and worth the extra effort.
So, what do you do to overcome this prejudice? Well, I think it's only going to encourage job seekers to lie and fabricate phony current employers. Hungry, destitute people do what they have to, to get a job.
The Wall Street Journal gives this advice:
Calm an employer's biggest worry about out-of-work applicants: that your termination was the result of poor performance.Arming yourself with strong letters of recommendation from your previous employer, stating that you were laid off for economic reasons. . . . If you can't obtain formal letters, get references from senior-level employees at your prior company. . . .
And if you lost your job when your department was eliminated, make sure to tell prospective employers; that will be considered more benign than selective layoffs
Yes, you wouldn't want a serial terminee or otherwise undesirable person running your business or working there. Chances are that employee will end up in the same position with you. Just as you wouldn't want a person who went to six different colleges in six years and barely graduated to be the country's Vice President. It shows a pattern of incompetence and lack of commitment or direction.
But if someone is laid off in this economy, it's not necessarily a sign they aren't a hard worker. And, sadly, many employers take it that way. Frankly, many of the unemployed will work that much harder because they don't want to be back in such a desperate position again.
And I'll bet some of these employers who won't hire an unemployed worker are the same people who voted for a President named Obama who didn't stay very long in a single job of late. Yes, he was always "employed"--including as the nebulously described "community organizer." But he didn't stay anywhere very long. And that's a better sign of trouble than whether someone is out of a job in a sour economy.
And yet, they didn't have the same kind of qualms, despite the stark signs.
It's a free country and business are free--and should remain free--to hire whomever they want to hire for whatever reasons. But they're missing out on some of the best job candidates if they take this tack.
I'm not usually a fan of zero tolerance policies. Sometimes, people remain employed because of whom they're sleeping with or related to, not because they were the most qualified candidates and thus avoided the chopping block.
And, if I were an employer, I'd rather have an experienced employee who might have been temporarily down on his luck than a hot chick who simply doesn't know the biz but is pleasant to look at or a slacker guy who is a frat brother of the right guy at work.
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Vocal Tracks: Jacksons Unplugged
In the past, I've posted video and unenhanced voice sound tracks for David Lee Roth and Britney Spears. And while Roth's was funny, Spears' was just downright awful. Girl can't sing.
And, even though we're all Michael Jacksoned out and have had enough non-stop coverage to last five Michael Jackson lifetimes, I gotta note this. A friend sent me links to several vocal tracks of Michael Jackson, alone, and when he sang with the Jackson Five. And the guy is the real deal. Even without his voice enhanced, the guy could sing. The first one, of Michael Jackson as a kid, is sooooo cute and reminds you how young he was (sadly, some jerk raps over his voice at about 1:40 into it). Too bad, he weirded out. Take a listen:
And check out the acapella track of Michael Jackson singing "Rock With You."
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Democrat Consultant: Dems Gave Me $50K to Shut Up About Dem Gov, FBI Asked Me About Her
In the wake of the Monica Conyers bribery scandal in Detroit, several parties connected to Congressman Conyers' convicted felon wife are under the microscope.
One of those is Sam Riddle, whom I know. Riddle, a political consultant, is a clever and colorful person. And he's a very likable guy, who, as a Black political advisor, was one of the few with the guts to speak out against the Williams sisters when they gave sanction to the United Arab Emirates' anti-Semitic apartheid policy during the recent Dubai Open tennis tournament.
But, now, Riddle is embroiled in the federal investigations that are going on. And some of the things he's saying are very, very interesting. He says the Michigan Democratic Party paid him off to keep quiet about Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as she sought re-election.
As you read this, keep in mind that Michigan Republican Attorney General and all-around sleazebag candidate for Governor, Mike Cox, was also an ally and political crony of Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and deposed Detroit ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's father, Bernard, when they worked together for another sleazy Detroit political figure.
Riddle said the Democrats paid him not to say negative things about Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who faced a challenge from Republican businessman Dick DeVos in the November election that year.FBI agents also questioned Riddle about connections between Granholm and business consultant Bernard N. Kilpatrick, the father of then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, said Riddle, the former chief of staff to Councilwoman Monica Conyers.
Granholm and Bernard Kilpatrick worked together in the administration of the late Wayne County Executive Edward H. McNamara in the 1990s. Federal agents have been investigating payments made to Bernard Kilpatrick's consulting firm, Maestro Associates LLC, by companies seeking contracts with the city of Detroit while his son was mayor.
Mark Brewer, chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, said the $50,000 contract with Riddle's Meridian Management Systems of Flint was for media consulting and was not specifically related to the gubernatorial campaign.
Uh-huh. Sure.
Liz Boyd, a spokeswoman for Granholm, said the governor had no comment on what Riddle said. . . .As for the FBI asking questions about ties between Granholm and Bernard Kilpatrick, "it is not unreasonable to assume that if the FBI is investigating someone, they might ask questions about someone they might have once worked with or known," Boyd said.
Federal Election Commission records show the Democrats paid Riddle's company the money in five $10,000 installments on July 15, July 29, Sept. 6, Oct. 10 and Nov. 5. The election was Nov. 7.
Granholm's links to Bernard Kilpatrick were also an issue last July, when . . . Granholm spoke to a top official in the U.S. Attorney's Office about whether it was possible to have a joint resolution of the ongoing federal investigation of Detroit City Hall-- in which Bernard Kilpatrick was a major focus-- and her review of then-Mayor Kilpatrick's conduct in office, which was then pending.
Shhhh . . . Sam. Be quiet. And, by the way, here's $50K for a "media consulting contract." Nod, nod, wink, wink.
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Small Favors: Unlike Star Depp, Slow, Boring "Public Enemies" Doesn't Glorify Dillinger
If you're planning on seeing "Public Enemies," in theaters today, make sure you ingest a lot of caffeine. It's slow and boring and seemed like it went on forever.
Last week, I told you about how "Public Enemies" star Johnny Depp said, "I'm a big fan" of John Dillinger, the cop-killing bank-robber he plays in the movie's lead role. He also said, "I actually hope people root for him, too."
Although I originally looked forward to the movie, I was worried that "Public Enemies" would glorify Dillinger, the way Depp did in press interviews. Fortunately, that did not come to pass. It shows Johnny Depp as violent and the crowd with which he ran as equally violent and murderous.
It does, however, show FBI agents as women-beaters and far less humane toward women than law enforcement. FBI agents are shown beating Dillinger's girlfriend and denying bathroom privileges to her, causing her to urinate in the chair to which she's chained. (The girlfriend, played by 9/11 Truther Marion Cotillard with a horrible attempt at an American accent--her real French accent rears its head at every turn. Cotillard took lessons to drop her French accent. She needs to sue the teacher for malpractice.) Dillinger, on the other hand, is shown as loyal to a fault when it comes to women, even the hookers.
Could have done without the indignant scene of Agent Purvis' secretary lecturing him, "Mr. Purvis, they cannot treat a woman this way." I thought I was hearing the ACLU lecture us on how to treat Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the rest of his Islamic terrorist buds.
Moreover, the movie shouldn't have been called, "Public Enemies," which fools you into thinking that the movie provides equal time to both Dillinger and FBI Agent Melvin Purvis (played by Christian Bale), the lead agent on his case. It doesn't. Clearly, this movie is about Dillinger, with Depp as the star and Bale as a co-star, much like the Heath Ledger's Joker was the real star of "The Dark Knight," and Bale's Batman was the co-star of that one. Insofar as that goes, the villain is elevated, the hero diminished.
The movie is very slow-moving and boring. There's no excitement, little suspense. It's rare that you see such an action-packed film--complete with lots of bank robbery and shoot 'em up scenes--that is so unexciting and slow. But this movie was exactly that. A silly love story, with cheesy lines and dialogue doesn't help, but it's quite obvious that was thrown in to give something to women who go to see it. I wasn't buying, including when Dillinger cries over his girl, although I can't say I didn't smile seeing America-hating Depp shed tears.
The love story gives rise to one of the most gratuitous lines in the flick, in which Depp suggests he join his girlfriend in a tub:
Me and my friend, Prince Albert, will join you.
Um, is this a major motion picture or a bad Ron Jeremy porno?
My favorite scene in the movie is when a young J. Edgar Hoover testifies before a Congressional committee, seeking more money for his interstate manhunt of Dillinger and other criminals. He's repeatedly asked by a Congressman to reveal the number of times he has personally ever made an actual arrest. He finally answers, "None," and repeatedly decleared, "But I am an administrator." The Congressman tells him that makes him completely unqualified to head the FBI or any law enforcement agency.
I wanted to shout out to the theater, "Where is this Congressman when we need him?" None of the people heading our law enforcement agencies have this qualification, and they're all completely unqualified. Janet Napolitano, Robert Mueller, etc. None of 'em have ever made a single arrest in their lives. The same went for former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chieftess Julie L. Myers a/k/a "The ICE Princess," and her Obama replacement John Morton.
The male stars in this movie are nice to look at, as are their suave clothes--sharp, dapper suits from the days when men's sartorial splendor was all that. And the sets and cars from the 1930's are also beautiful. If only the script and the storyline had such exquisite attention paid to them.
But they did not.
In fact, we barely see much of some of the other crooks with whom Dillinger hung. Pretty Boy Floyd (Channing Tatum) is killed off in the first five minutes, and we don't know why. The movie is basically this: Dillinger in prison, Dillinger broken out of prison, Dillinger lives openly among the public who support and protect him, Dillinger falls in love, Dillinger robs banks, Dillinger in with the mob, Dillinger out with the mob, Dillinger tracked down, set up, and shot, the end.
I like a good gangster movie or crime thriller. But "Public Enemies" is only mildly entertaining, and not entertaining enough to make it worthy of your $10 bucks. I'm glad it's not the pan-criminal revisionist propaganda I feared.
But it's just not a great movie. Not even good. It's just eh.
HALF A REAGAN
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June 30, 2009
Nazi Hunter Beate Klarsfeld: Farrah Fawcett's Best--& Most Forgotten--Role
Right now, I'm watching "This TV," the digital TV channel, which airs in most cities (and you don't need cable to watch it). Tonight's prime time movie is the 1986 TV flick, "Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story," starring Farrah Fawcett. It's based on the book of the same name by Frederic Hunter.
Amidst all the Michael Jackson death hype and the "Charlie's Angels"-focused coverage of Fawcett's death, I'd forgotten this role--Farrah's best--in which the late star played the brave daughter of a Wehrmacht officer who demands justice against Nazi war criminals, on behalf of Holocaust survivors.
While Farrah's European accent isn't the greatest, she plays the role quite well, and it's pretty good . . . especially for a TV movie. Actor Tom Conti plays husband Serge Klarsfeld, a Holocaust survivor and her partner in Nazi hunting. I recall that, at the time the movie aired on TV (I was a freshman in college), Fawcett wasn't taken seriously and came under attack as "too glamorous" and "beautiful" to play Klarsfeld. This was an utter insult to Klarsfeld, one of history's great women. She may not have posed in a red bathing suit poster, but hunting down Nazis is very sexy. And frankly, watching it now, I think Farrah handled the role masterfully.
For those not in the know, Beate Klarsfeld dedicated her life to tracking down and demanding trial and punishment for Nazis, including Klaus Barbie. She travelled from Germany to France to Bolivia to do so. She suffered numerous arrests, jailings, beatings and torture, and death and bomb threats.
I can't find it on DVD, but if you ever get a chance to see it on TV, it's entertaining and worthwhile.
And, like I said, it's the late Farrah Fawcett's best work . . . and sadly most unsung and forgotten.
The death of Farrah Fawcett is a stark reminder of another death: the death of great made-for-TV movies on important subjects worth reliving on the small screen. I'd take Farrah as Beate Klarsfeld any day--especially over reality TV and "The Bachelorette."
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What Did John Conyers Know & When?: Far-Left Congressman Illegally Intervened for Wife's Secret Business Interest
Last week, I told you about the guilty plea of Monica Conyers--now ex-Detroit City Councilwoman and wife of far-left Democrat Congressman John Conyers. In Federal Court, Conyers pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, and yesterday, she resigned from the Detroit City Council.
But in the last couple of days, details are coming out regarding many deals in which she secretly had a hand. And at least one of those deals involves her husband, Congressman Conyers. Conyers sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of a company owned by a man from whom she furtively obtained $10,000 cash for no work. Previously, Conyers had opposed the same project when a different company wanted the contract. But suddenly, he did a 180.
Now Conyers' staff claims he didn't know of his wife's secret cash receipt from the man involved. But if he didn't know, then why did he suddenly change his position on the matter and write a letter supporting it to the EPA?
I think he knew far more than he admits. It's against the rules governing U.S. Congressmen for them to get involved in matters in which they or a close relative have an interest.
So, what did John Conyers know, and when did he know it? And why did he do a 180 on the matter, once his wife got a little cha-ching action for her secret involvement in it?
I'm sure we'll be hearing far more in the days ahead. But for now, it's important to note that for a guy who claims he's so in the know, his sudden "I didn't know" isn't very credible.
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HOprah Watch: Brings Porn Star/Lap Dancer to S. Africa to Teach Girls "Leadership" @ Oprah School
I told you how, recently, how Oprah Winfrey brought a ten-year-old girl on her daytime talk show to give her a very graphic discussion of sex and sexual positions and urge her mother to buy her a vibrator (and all mothers to buy vibrators for their young daughters). I also told you how Oprah rewarded the girl for being subjected to this, by making her a "co-host" of an Oprah episode on kids with talent and giving her a gig as a "correspondent" covering her favorite pop music star.
But it gets worse. Now Oprah is exporting her own special brand of "Kinky for Kids" to South Africa, specifically to her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.
No worries that there have already been molestation and sexual assault cases at Oprah's eponymous school. Now, she's imported a woman most famous for stripping, "dancing" completely naked, performing lapdances, and pole-dancing in soft-core porn.
Yup, that's Elizabeth Berkley--star of "Showgirls" (NC-17 on DVD) and not much else of note--in the picture below (from the July 6th issue of People) with girls who are students at the school which Oprah claims is training South Africa's future leaders, er . . . future "exotic dancers." The movie for which she's most famous contains several scenes of rape, glorified simulated rape, and lesbianism, including this (NOT SAFE FOR WORK). Oprah brought her, along with actress Thandie Newton, to South Africa to "teach" the girls.
Wonder if she's teaching 'em this (the only videos from the movie that are slightly safe enough to post on this site):
Here is a re-enactment of some of the "Showgirls" lines she can teach the girls at the Oprah school (NOT SAFE FOR WORK).
And the movie has a great message for young girls: Sleep your way to the top to become a successful stripper. When that fails, push your competition down the stairway.
I wonder what the mothers of these poor, impoverished girls would think about this . . . if they only knew. But Oprah's rules at the almost all-Black school (there is one White student paraded around for pictures with Oprah) are strict: parents aren't allowed to have contact with the girls for most of the school year.
Instead, their contact is "carefully" regulated to a higher class of humans--ones like Elizabeth Berkley who take it all off and writhe on men's laps for the cameras.
The Oprah Stripper Academy for Girls.
Full disclosure: when I was a kid, Elizabeth Berkley and I both took tap and jazz dancing lessons at Miss Barbara's Dance Center, in the Detroit area, from where she hails. While our teach, Barbara Fink, publicly praised Berkley to People Magazine when the movie came out, privately she was embarrassed that this exhibitionist bimbo became her most famous student. But as I previously wrote about Berkley, that's where the similarities end:
Her entire family moved to Los Angeles so this spoiled princess could live out her dream as an actress. And here's something sicker than her horrid flick: her brother, who attended college in Michigan and is now a doctor, took his frat brothers to see his sister take it all off on the big screen.
Since Oprah's new friend, Ms. Berkley is teaching the kids at her school, perhaps she can instruct them on the best inflection for these lines she famously uttered:
Hi, I'm Heather. Would you like to have a "private dance" with me?
And
I like having nice t-ts.
And Oprah has the nerve to criticize Springer. PUH-LEEZE.
When Oprah announced plans to build her school in South Africa, many American parties expressed dismay that she didn't build it here.
They should thank their lucky stars that we were so fortunate she went elsewhere.
Meet the Newest Instructor @ Oprah's Leadership Academy for Girls . . .
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EXCLUSIVE - Obama's Boundless Pettiness: Has "Lt. Bush" Name Painted Over on Plane From Former Prez's Air Force Service
The pettiness and low-class behavior of the current Commander-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, apparently knows no bounds and no nadirs too low to which to aspire.
That's displayed by the Obama administration's paint-over of the name of former President George W. Bush on an airplane he flew as a pilot in the United States Air Force.
As readers know, I was not a fan of Bush, due to his endless pandering to Islam, push for illegal alien amnesty, and spending like a non-drunken Democrat. But this is an outrage, as sent to me by a good friend, last week:
When George W. Bush was in the Texas Air National Guard, he was stationed at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. At Ellington Field there are several retired aircraft on display. It has been reported that the F-102 on display at Ellington Field was the one then Lt Bush trained on when he was with the 147th Fighter Wing at Ellington Field.
For many years, the name "LT G W BUSH" was stenciled on the aircraft just below the cockpit, and I've seen it. However, after January 20, 2009, I noticed that "LT G W BUSH" had been painted over. I asked one of the senior officers of the 147th if Bush's name had been deliberately removed. I was told that it was removed temporarily while the aircraft was being repainted. I accepted that explanation. Today I was back on Ellington Field, and I noticed that "LT G W BUSH" had not been restenciled onto the aircraft. I asked a member of the 147th why and their response was a laugh and a "What do you think?" So, it seems that now that Obama is President, the 147th has become politically correct and removed indicators that President Bush had served with them. This could be because now there is talk that the 147th at Ellington Field should be shut down. So much for loyality among airmen.
Sickening. Say what you want about Bush's service in the Air Force. That was his plane, and to paint over it and cover up his name is just disgusting.
At least President Bush served, unlike a certain guy whose only Selective Service registration on file is a fraudulent, fabricated one from 2008.
And please don't tell me that there's no evidence Obama knew about this or ordered it. He's the Commander-in-Chief. The fish rots from the head down. He was the one responsible for the plane flyover debacle in Manhattan.
And he's responsible for this deliberate act of the uber-petty.
American soldiers are still being killed every week in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our country has a lot of problems domestically.
But we have to worry about the priorities: painting over a former President's name and erasing all acknowledgement of his past military service.
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