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Take Five

Taking the night off ........... a moment to take five, sit back, pour yourself a smooth one.
Love! Music! Art! Hey, it's why I do what I do.

Vincent Van Gogh, Still Life with a Plate of Onions, 1889. Oil on canvas, 49.6 x 64.4 cm.

LONDON.- In January 2010, the Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition of the work of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). The focus of the exhibition will be the artist’s remarkable correspondence. Over 35 original letters, rarely exhibited to the public due to their fragility, will be on display in the main galleries of Burlington House, together with around 65 paintings and 30 drawings that express the principal themes to be found within the correspondence. Thus the exhibition will offer a unique opportunity to gain an ... More

Iran Revolution Day 28: "Did you say Goodbye to Your Mother?"

5:15 pm: The Huffington Post has given Iran the shaft. On day 28 of the historical Iranian revolution, the Puff Ho casts the Iranian freedom protests to the dustbin of blog history. Iran and Nico Pitney, the best leftwing blogger on Iran, are off the main page of the Huffington Post. And this story put Nico front and center at a White House press conference and got his leftist girlfriends all in a huff (watch the catfight video here).

5:35 pm: I guess the Puff Ho is taking its orders from dear leader. It shows how inhumane and ugly those are on the left are. Huffington Post knows what was and is still going on there. But doing Obama's bidding and shilling is more important. Their headline - Obama Asks For Patience - is merely propaganda for a new stimulus to further sink the nation.

Think of all those Iranians who sent Huff Po their desperate stories and trusted them.

"Did you say goodbye to your mother?" Iranian blogger tells of interrogation to ID friends via FB

Freedom for Iran .............

 

July 9th - on the street (hat tip twitpic)

Satellites are illegal now

Confiscating Satellites

Sharia Finance: Javelin Goes Jihad

If you have money with a broker, bank, investment house, and you haven't done this already - tell your money manager not to invest your good, hard earned dough in sharia finance - NO ISLAMIC FINANCE. These funds are halal - so whole American businesses will be destroyed - tobacco, alcohol, pork, and some entertainment. And your money will fund "zakat" - Islamic charity, jihad funding. Think Holy Land Foundation.

Sharia finance will destroy whole sectors of the American economy. Why would you finance the ideology that wants to slit your throat - not to mention their plan for your daughters?

If your money is in Javelin, get it out.

Firm launches first U.S. Shariah-compliant ETF
Javelin Investment offering adheres to Islamic principles

The latest iteration of social and religious investment screens hit the market on the last trading day of June with the launch of the JETS Dow Jones Islamic Market International Index Fund (JVS). The exchange traded fund is not only the first product offering from Princeton, N.J.-based Javelin Investment Management LLC, but it is also the first American ETF to adhere to Islamic beliefs about investing and finance. " The total population of Muslims in the United States is estimated to be 2.35 million, according to a 2007 report released by the Pew Research Center in Washington.

Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Obama Grovels to Russia

Check out my oped piece in the American Thinker: Obama Grovels to Russia

HOLDER LEANING TOWARDS APPOINTING TORTURE PROSECUTOR

In a sick, puppy dog puff piece over at the Puff Ho and Newsweek on Attorney General Eric Holder, there is continued movement in left wing media circles to promote Obama's idea of criminalizing those who defended this country from the bloody madness of the war declared on the U.S. on 911.

This is who and what Holder wants to protect? ***GRAPHIC*** video

They are laying the groundwork. Stop them.

It is obvious that Obama wants very much to take the American eye off of his failed policies. He wants us to ignore his foreign policy realignment with despots and mullahs. He wants to distract us from his abandonment of our allies and his promotion of jihad. Obama turns a blind eye to the worst brutal crackdown imaginable in Iran, but is shocked and dismayed that we may have been too tough on the jihadis who planned to overthrow and defeat America. get it?

His economic rout is destroying the American economy. Unemployment is hitting 10%, the highest in 26 years, and a Michigan Congressman said the jobless rate could could hit 20% thanks to Obama. And BO wants another stimulus - like giving John Belushi another speed ball.

Here's the Newsweek piece. Their spin is to puke from. Holder is trying to convince BO. Puhleeze, stop insulting our intelligence. This is all Obama.

It was soon clear to Holder that he might have to launch an investigation to determine whether crimes were committed under the Bush administration and prosecutions warranted. The obstacles were obvious. For a new administration to reach back and investigate its predecessor is rare, if not unprecedented. After having been deeply involved in the decision to authorize Ken Starr to investigate Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, Holder well knew how politicized things could get. He worried about the impact on the CIA, whose operatives would be at the center of any probe. And he could clearly read the signals coming out of the White House. President Obama had already deflected the left wing of his party and human-rights organizations by saying, "We should be looking forward and not backwards" when it came to Bush-era abuses.

On April 15 the attorney general traveled to West Point, where he had been invited to give a speech dedicating the military academy's new Center for the Rule of Law. As he mingled with cadets before his speech, Holder's aides furiously worked their BlackBerrys, trying to find out what was happening back in Washington. For weeks Holder had participated in a contentious internal debate over whether the Obama administration should release the Bush-era legal opinions that had authorized waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods. He had argued to administration officials that "if you don't release the memos, you'll own the policy." CIA Director Leon Panetta, a shrewd political operator, countered that full disclosure would damage the government's ability to recruit spies and harm national security; he pushed to release only heavily redacted versions.

Holder and his aides thought they'd been losing the internal battle. What they didn't know was that, at that very moment, Obama was staging a mock debate in Emanuel's office in order to come to a final decision. In his address to the cadets, Holder cited George Washington's admonition at the Battle of Trenton, Christmas 1776, that "captive British soldiers were to be treated with humanity, regardless of how Colonial soldiers captured in battle might be treated." As Holder flew back to Washington on the FBI's Cessna Citation, Obama reached his decision. The memos would be released in full.

Holder and his team celebrated quietly, and waited for national outrage to build. . But they'd miscalculated. The memos had already received such public notoriety that the new details in them did not shock many people. (Even the revelation, a few days later, that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and another detainee had been waterboarded hundreds of times did not drastically alter the contours of the story.)

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But in late June Holder asked an aide for a copy of the CIA inspector general's thick classified report on interrogation abuses. He cleared his schedule and, over two days, holed up alone in his Justice Depart ment office, immersed himself in what Dick Cheney once referred to as "the dark side." He read the report twice, the first time as a lawyer, looking for evidence and instances of transgressions that might call for prosecution. The second time, he started to absorb what he was reading at a more emotional level. He was "shocked and saddened," he told a friend, by what government servants were alleged to have done in America's name. When he was done he stood at his window for a long time, staring at Constitution Avenue.

Invoking the "Constitution". Get it? Our founding fathers are weeping.

***GRAPHIC WARNING***

Atlas Vlogs Sarah Palin - Oorah!

Atlas Vlogs Sarah!

Here is what I said the day she resigned the Governorship to join the fight.

UPDATE 11:15 am: Palin Talks to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

UPDATE: July 11 3:59 pm: Master List of Governor Palin's 2009 Accomplishments

UPDATE: Governor Palin on the Michael Dukes Show pt 5 July 10, 2009 (Listen to it)

Islam in Action: AT LEAST 12 HINDUS KILLED BY MUSLIMS IN INDIA ON JULY 10TH

In every country, on every continent, in cities and quiet towns and enclaves, no one is safe. It is everywhere. It's what they do.

"Murshidabad district (Bengali: মুর্শিদাবাদ জেলা) is a district of West Bengal in eastern India. Situated on the left bank of the river Ganges, the district is very fertile. Covering an area of 5,341 km² (2,062 sq mi) and having a population 5.863m (according to 2001 census) it is a densely populated district[1]. The Baharampur town is the headquarters of the district."

MAJOR COMMUNAL RIOT IN MURSHIDABAD, 12 HINDU DEAD, HUNDREDS INJURED INCLUDING ONE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE
(hat tip ab)

Today, 10th July, a major communal riot broke in Murshidabad district. Till now 12 persons dead, most of them Hindus, hundreds injured including 10 policemen and one D.S.P. rank police officer. Two village markets and hundreds of Hindu houses were looted and burnt. Firing between police and Muslim rioters still going on at 11.30 night. Curfew imposed in the whole area. BSF and CRPF deployed to help police and RAF.

Perhaps the whole incident planned to welcome the proposed Aligarh Muslim University Campus in this district.

Jhaubona High School is a big higher secondary school in Jhaubona village under Nawda police station in Beldanga sub division in Murshidabad district. Among total 1000 students of this school, about 50% are Muslim students. For long they were demanding to offer Friday Namaz inside the school. But school management and the Hindu students resisted it apprehending that it will create a virtual mosque inside the school. So, the furious Muslim students made objection against Saraswati Puja in the school and the school management has been compelled to stop Saraswati puja last year in the school. In spite of that, the Muslim students were not satisfied. So they planned to offer Friday Namaz today (10 July) by force inside the school without any permission from Head Master or School Management. Hindu students protested and altercation started at 12 noon between two groups of students. Muslims were prepared. Through cell phone they spread the false message that Hindu students attacked Muslim students in the school. Within 10-15 minutes, thousands of Muslims led by the students of nearby Trimohini Madrasa rushed to the school. They attacked the school students, the big village market of Trimohini, and two Hindu villages Jhaubona and Trimohini. Many Hindu shops in the Trimohini market were burnt and looted. Many Hindu houses were burnt and looted in the villages Jhaubona and Garapara. In one house 4 Hindus died in the fire including one father and his daughter were burnt alive.

Till now, according to our sources, 12 Hindus are dead, more than one hundred injured, though the district administration will surely give a lesser number.

Many are missing. Nobody knows how many of the missing persons are already dead.

Police and RAF could not control the situation. So, BSF and CRPF are called in. Till evening, police fired 250 rounds. 10 policemen were injured, among them condition of 4 are very serious. One D.S.P. is seriously injured. He has been admitted in a private nursing home to avoid media scrutiny. On the road at Begunbari village, Muslims burnt 2 buses and one matador. One Tata Sumo car and its passengers were attacked. The broken car and its passengers have been brought to Beldanga Bharat Sevashram Sangha for their safety.

The injured persons have been admitted to Baharampur and Amtala hospitals. Till mid night, firing was going on between Muslim rioters and security forces at Trimohini bazaar.

As usual, the electronic media/ TV channels are silent and totally blacked out this major incident.

Murshidabad district is a Muslim majority distrct. All the 3 police stations in Beldanga sub division – Beldanga, Nawda and Hariharpara – are Muslim majority. This is a border sub division. All the Hindu villages under Nawda and Hariharpara p.s. are awake tonight. They are scared of possible Muslim attack upon their villages.

In sub divisional town Beldanga, in evening Muslims gathered in front of Congress office. Hindus are fearing that the famous Bharat Sevashram Sangha, whose President highly revered Swami Pradiptanandaji (Kartik Maharaj) may be attacked by communal Muslims. Swamiji is now away from Ashram. He went pilgrimage to Mansarovar-Kailas. He is expected to return in 5-6 days.

India’s Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has been elected from this Murshidabad district. As a gratitude to the Muslims of this district, he announced in his finance Budget in parliament that he would allocate a huge sum of money to establish a campus of Aligarh Muslim University in this district. This Aligarh Muslim University spearheaded the separatist movement for creation of Pakistan in pre 1947 years.