The whole album is a masterpiece and, IMAO, Sinatra's finest. His voice was never smoother, richer, deeper, more pained. This is my most favorite and deeply personal Sinatra album.
At the time of the recording, Sinatra's break-up and divorce from Ava Gardner had been finalized. He was so crazy for her. If you don't know about that love affair, read up on it. It was one of the great loves of the era.
The arranger of the album, Nelson Riddle, had recently suffered the deaths of his mother and daughter. Riddle remarked at the time, "If I can attach events like that to music...perhaps Only the Lonely was the result."
Sinatra was asked at a party in the mid-1970s if he had a favorite album of his, he said straight away, Only the Lonely.
Calling the cops on Grandma. Unbelievable. Aside from the fact that it is an anathema to our very breathing as a nation, worse yet, the corrupt media keeps all this evil from the American people. Imagine the horror if this happened under a Bush administration, which of course, it wouldn't have. But this shows the true face of the left. Ugly.
Ages 55-87-seniors refused to leave Feinstein's office until she talked to them -- police were called and locked them out. I am surprised Feinstein didn't call the National Guard.
Police were called on a group of retirees who refused to leave Sen.
Dianne Feinstein's West Los Angeles office until she talked to them
about health care reform.
Los Angeles police Sergeant Rich Brunson said Thursday that police
lured the group of seven outside somehow, then locked the building's
doors behind them.
Brunson had said earlier that eight people were being taken into
custody, but corrected himself after getting new details from officers
on the scene.
A spokeswoman for the 55- to 87-year-old activists said they arrived
at Feinstein's office around noon and remained in her conference room
more than six hours.
UPDATE: And this schemer Schumer. Dump Schumer 2010!
The majority on the House Energy and Commerce Committee refused to consider an
amendment by Health Care Solutions Group Chairman Roy Blunt to require all
federal elected officials, including the president, vice-president, and the
Congress, to join the government health care plan. It was voted down --of course. Blunt has my vote (hat tip Laura).
Blunt says,
“If the majority is really so confident that their plan will provide the very best health care for the people we represent, we ought to demonstrate that confidence by enrolling ourselves,” Blunt said. “I’m surprised, given that other committees in both the House and Senate have considered similar efforts in the last several weeks.”
“I, for one, don’t believe that a government-run health care plan will be the best for the people we represent,” Blunt continued, “But clearly the majority has discovered how potent this issue is. After all, if we are going to force this government takeover on the American people, let’s put our money where our mouths are and enroll ourselves.”
If it's good enough for us, why not for the pigs at the trough? Bloodsuckers. America should be outraged. OUTRAGED.
Welcome to the new America: special privilege for special classes.
Sergeant
Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates
down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling,
strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved
and arrogant that he is oblivious?
In my own
dealings with the wealthy and powerful, I have always found that the way to
quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those
who are less powerful. Do they understand that the others are also human beings
with feelings? Especially when they think nobody is
looking.
Like
this...
Obama shows his manners THIS way...
More poisonous fruit from a racist president:
Black cop at Gates home regrets 'Uncle Tom' label (AP) – 10 hours
ago CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A black sergeant who was at the home of Harvard
scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. when he was arrested says he's been maligned as an
"Uncle Tom" for supporting the actions of the white arresting
officer.
Cambridge Sgt. Leon Lashley gave a letter to Sgt. James Crowley to
give to President Barack Obama during their so-called beer summit with Gates on
Thursday night at the White House. In the letter, which was also sent to CNN,
Lashley says Gates "may have caused grave and potentially irreparable harm to
the struggle for racial harmony."
Lashley says he has become known as a
traitor to his heritage by some because he "spoke the truth" about the
arrest. Gates was charged with disorderly conduct by police investigating a
burglary. The charge was later dropped.
This is sickening on so many levels. They are awash in our hard earned dollars, throwing them away on their leftist cultural sewer. There is no accountability. They've lost track of a trillion dollars and still they tell us government is the answer. The disconnect is incomprehensible.
Businessmen, the motor of the economy that funds this depravity and degenerate spending, have to pay for their lunch at the White House, but there is cash for bestiality. Is it any wonder that good Americans have been shouting out at the Democrats at town hall meetings?
You wanna give this morally government your health care? Give Obamacare to Christopher Dodd, who announced today he has prostate cancer (early stage). Give Obamacare to every registered Democrat. Let the Republicans keep what they have.
Your tax dollars are funding gay movie theaters, horror porn, and naked dancers in San Francisco, thanks to the much-heralded stimulus bill. The bill.
The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night "pervert" revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.
[....]
But some of the NEA's grants are spicing up more than the economy. A few of their more risque choices have some taxpayer advocates hot under the collar, including a $50,000 infusion for the Frameline film house, which recently screened Thundercrack, "the world's only underground kinky art porno horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla."
"When you spend so much money in a short amount of time ... you're going to have nonsense like this, and that's why the stimulus should never have been done in the first place," said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste.
Williams said such support for the arts is a luxury at a time when the
president and Congress have been telling the public to make sacrifices to manage
the recession.
"When taxpayers see this, they realize that's just a bunch of hot air," he
said.
[...]
We can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary," Obama
said at the time.
But he presumably
didn't intend to have stimulus money help fund the weekly production of
"Perverts Put Out" at San Francisco's
CounterPULSE, whose "long-running pansexual performance series" invites guests
to "join your fellow pervs for some explicit, twisted fun."
CounterPULSE received a $25,000 grant in the "Dance" category; a staffer
there said they were pleased to receive the grant, "which over the next year
will be used to preserve jobs at our small non-profit."
Similarly, the director of Frameline, the gay and lesbian film house, said
that their $50,000 grant was not to support any program in particular.
"The grant is not intended for a specific program; it's to be used for the
preservation of jobs at our media arts nonprofit organization over the next year during the economic downturn,"
wrote K.C. Price, who listed four other NEA grants his organization has
received.
An NEA spokeswoman defended the agency's choices and said its grants would
help "preserve jobs in danger of going away or that had gone away because of the
economic downturn."
"Our review process is very comprehensive — we take great care with
applicants and with grantees," said NEA spokeswoman Victoria Hutter. "It's a
thorough, rigorous process that they all go through, and we're proud of the
projects that we've been able to support."
[...]
One project that has received past NEA funding and stands to get an additional
boost from a $25,000
stimulus grant is "The
Symmetry Project," a dance piece by
choreographer Jess Curtis. The show depicts "the sharing of a central axis, [as]
spine, mouth, genitals, face, and anus reveal their interconnectedness and
centrality in embodied experience," according to a description offered on
Curtis' Web site.
In the flesh — and there's a lot of it — it amounts to two people
writhing naked on the floor, a government-funded tango in the
altogether.
Curtis said that diminished support from regular funders like San Francisco
Grants for the Arts "would mean lots less work and less ability to organize ...
to get the work out in front of people." He said the NEA funding will help keep
his art afloat.
Not surprising, considering the culture the left subjects decent folks to. "Organizational culture" is an idea in the field of Organizational studies and management which describes the psychology, attitudes, experiences, beliefs and values (personal and cultural values) of an organization. It has been defined as "the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders outside the organization."
Obama's family values. So it would only stand to reason.
That the Jews incite such unmatched historical and modern day hate is a testament to evil and how boundless is its influence.
The Israel Test: A guide for capitalism
George Gilder asserts that Israelis now form "the vanguard of human achievement" -- in commerce, in science, in technology and in military strength, Israel has forged one of the most creative societies on Earth
2:54 pm: On Fox news now, live video of protests. Basiji very violent. Shows protesters being peaceful
2:45 pm: Video posted 14 minutes ago. Fire in the night time streets.
Death to Khamenei on a bus in Iran (hat tip Madayar)
Despite the media's refusal to cover the actual events in Iran, here is a video of what really happened in University Dorms of Tehran University, Iran (hat tip Jan):
Exposed "Ethicsgate" Obama and the Democrats' multiple direct links to the political effort to destroy Sarah Palin.
I encourage Atlas readers to DOWNLOAD THIS VIDEO. Post it everywhere. Post it offshore. The left fascists will keep writing their emails to take it down -- "they are using my mug!" -- and we will keep putting it up.
If I tried to have removed every image and video the left has ripped off of me, I would employ a small nation. Believe me, it pains us to look at those momzers -- it's an ugly part of the job.
Atlas Shrugs:
We’re here with Ambassador Bolton in the continuing master work series,
Atlas V-logs, where we get to the serious stuff, we leave the ‘puff and
the stuff’ to the networks and the cables.
I’m going to cut
right to the chase because we only have a certain amount of time on You
Tube, we have to work within the confines of the new technology. I want
to go back to recent history, but really sort of ancient history now,
in comparing the two administrations, Bush’s first and Bush’s second.
The
second is so different in tone, if it could have another name on it,
you would be believable. There was this thinking from the outsiders,
that, there were two warring factions in the Bush administration, there
was the Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bolton faction, and there was, lets say,
Colin Powell, Armitage, Kritell, Catlin and subsequently Condi Rice.
Now
at some point, it pains me to say, that the former lost out in the
intellectual argument, or was defeated or what have you. The Condi
State Department nearly took over in the second administration. I sort
of saw it as a defining line, historically, in the summer of 2006 when
Israel didn’t hold up its end in the strategic battle on the war on
Jihad. You sort have had, Bush allowing…I’ll let you talk, I promise,
because that is really why they’re watching, Bush allowing Israel to
eradicate Hezbollah, and Olmert hesitated, lets be frank.
So
that was crushing I thought, and then of course losing the Congress,
then it was really over and ‘Bush Shrugged’. Could you tell me where I
have it wrong and your perception from the inside, because it sure
don’t matter now.
John Bolton: Yeah. Well there
are a lot of issues there and I do think that there was disagreement
within the Bush administration, I don’t think it necessarily followed
fixed lines, I think that different people took different positions. In
the first Bush term on many foreign policy issues, not Iraq, but on
many other foreign policy issues, the disagreements within the
administration often led to policies that were, if not internally
contradictory, at least not entirely consistent, and I think
specifically of Iran and North Korea, and our efforts to stop their
nuclear weapons program.
The debates within the administration
were not resolved within the highest level, and I believe one reason
for that was the national security decision making process run by Condi
Rice was not functioning as effectively as it might. It didn’t bring
crisp disagreements to the president for decisions. The second term was
very different, with a number of people departing for other positions
and leaving the administration…
Atlas: You included.
Bolton:
I didn’t leave until a little bit later, but Secretary Rice then became
Secretary of State, and she, from basically the beginning of the second
term, was the dominant voice in national security advice to the
president. Eclipsing others, many left like Secretary Rumsfeld,
eclipsing the Vice President for reasons only President Bush best
knows. But, I think the, therefore the process in the second term was
different, and the outcome was very different. Condi, in too many
instances in my view, channelled the view of the State Department. She
spoke directly to Bush obviously, and he listened almost exclusively to
her.
So the net, net, at the end of Bush’s second term was that
we followed policies in many respects, on the Middle East, on Iran and
North Korea, that functionally were not all that different were Barack
Obama was when he came into office.
Atlas: Now
the first time I saw you speak, it was 2005 and you were talking about
the Mehlis investigation where the UN had investigated the
assassinations in Lebanon, it was triumphant, he basically indicted the
Assad administration so to speak, Syria at the highest levels, and it
really was a component, a major component I would think in getting
Syria out of Lebanon.
And now you see him, I’m sure you saw the
ban that was lifted yesterday by President Obama, there’s talk of him
going to Damascus, and you saw him being invited on the tarmac by
Assad, um, oh my G-d, how far, how fast? Can you tell me the
implications of the Cedar Revolution, is it dead, I mean what happened,
what’s your perception of it going forward?
John Bolton:
Well I think that Lebanon remains on a knife’s edge. I think that the
recent election obviously strengthened the democratic forces, somewhat
surprisingly Hezbollah was set back within the Lebanese political
context. But Hezbollah has been completely rearmed, resupplied and
restocked since the 2006 war, and it still has the capacity to take
control of Lebanon at its will.
The main problem with the Obama
approach with Syria, is that it rests on the same false understanding
of what it takes to make progress with a regime like Syria or Iran or
others in the region. Obama believes that the simple fact of his
election and that he’s not George Bush and that he’s willing to talk
with adversaries, will cause regimes like Syria’s to change their basic
substantive position that underline their national interest, and that
is completely wrong, it is a way of getting the United States into
negotiations that legitimizes the Assad regime in Syria and provide
them space and time so that they can further their objectives, which
remain taking over Lebanon, getting back the Golan Heights from Israel
and a variety of others within the region.
$100 kobe steaks, 20 million vacation home rental on Martha's Vineyard, $100,000 dinner dates with Michelle ............ and then this. Highly symbolic. More proof.
Four of the most powerful business leaders in America arrived at the White House one day last month for lunch with President Barack Obama, sitting down in his private dining room just steps from the Oval Office.
But even for powerful CEOs, there’s no such thing as a free lunch: White House staffers collected credit card numbers for each executive and carefully billed them for the cost of the meal with the president.
The White House defended the
unusual move as a way to avoid conflicts of interest. But the Bush
administration didn’t charge presidential guests for meals, one former official said, and at least one etiquette
expert found the whole thing unseemly – suggesting it was a serious breach of
protocol.
“I’m sure they have their
political reasons for doing that, but I think it’s not what quote, hospitality,
unquote is all about,” said Letitia Baldrige, who headed Jacqueline Kennedy’s
White House staff in the early 1960s. “We’ve got to relax about this. To have
people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.”
You must go immediately to the website of the US Consulate in Jerusalem. Let me know whether you can find ANYTHING about Israel. As of 11:00 p.m. EST, every single entry/article/announcement is about the "Palestinians" or the "West Bank." NOTHING about Israel. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. In addition, there is an option to link to an Arabic version of the site but not one for Hebrew.
UPDATE: A response Atlas reader received from Gil Elan,
Executive Director,
Southwest Jewish Congress
Dear Gail,
Actually…since 1967 the US Consulate in Jerusalem has been, with full agreement between the Israeli and US governments, the de-facto “embassy” to the Palestinians in the West bank and Gaza. As far as I know the Consul General in Jerusalem and his staff have no direct connection to the US embassy in Tel-Aviv, are not subordinate to the US ambassador to Israel and report directly to Washington. In fact – there are frequent stories of opposing reports or analysis coming to DC from Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. Israelis do not normally (except in emergencies) receive services at the consulate in Jerusalem. There is a separate consulate office in Tel-Aviv. American citizens can get service in either.
So for all intents and purposes, the US Consulate General in West Jerusalem is officially a separate State Dept delegation representing US interests in another Arab entity (though I think that the Marines who guard both buildings rotate between them). And no – as far as I know there is no other place in the world were this kind of “arrangement” exists.
Logical…no. But this is the Middle East – don’t look for logic!
In my opinion your question, Gail, should not be about the Consulate General, but about why the US has not yet moved its embassy from Tel-Aviv to the Capital of Israel – Jerusalem...despite Congress’s overwhelming and ongoing support for it.
Thanks,
Gil
Gil Elan
Executive Director
Southwest Jewish Congress
It seems Obama couldn't handle the thought of sitting down with a fine, upstanding member of law enforcement, all by his lonesome. He had Biden there. lol. Biden, mr. regular Joe, who has hadreal issues with racism.
BTW, the black policeman that made the arrest of Gates with Crowley wrote a nasty letter to Obama standing by Crowley.
I feel sorry for Crowley. Besieged, besmirched, beleaguered by BO's demagoguery. In this bogus beer op, he was ill-used. And he knows it. he knew it going in, I suspecy.
By their fruits we shall know them, and so we know him.
The Obama administration has created and appointed upwards of 40 czars.
He has instructed the State department to create a new appointment, U.S. Special
Representative for Muslim (Ummah) Outreach, who reports directly to the Secretary of State. This was at the urging of the head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, who, while at the White House, "urged the U.S. to quickly appoint an envoy to the Islamic bloc" --
which prompted BHO to create the "new office that is responsible for outreach with Muslims around the
world".
His sent his #2 woman at the White House,
Valerie Jarrett, to speak at the un-indicted co-conspirator ISNA's
racist hatefest. Pure hate speech, Islamic antisemitism was promoted, and the Obama
administration was there. Imam Warith Deen Umar spoke about his books, Jews for Salaam: The
Straight Path to Global Peace, and Judaiology. Umar, the former head of
New York prisons' Muslim chaplain program, repeatedly described Jewish
conspiracies to control the world, as he does in this excerpt. Here's the audio: Download ISNA hate
Obama's homeland security department named to its official advisory council the head of an Arab American organization
whose officials have labeled deadly anti-U.S. jihadists as "heroes" and
opposed referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization. This is a continuing trend, as indicated by the appointment of Arif Ali Khan to the DHS -- an appointment that is troubling, considering his ties to MPAC.
But what Obama has failed to do is replace the envoy on anti-Semitism whom he removed when he took office six months ago.
Obama sat in Reverend Wright's pew for 20 years. 20 years and he disingenuously claims that he didn't hear that devil over the state of the art sound system in that church? He heard every word. And agreed with it. Heartily.
The Obama administration has failed to name an
envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism around the world as
mandated by US law since the previous ambassador was relieved of his
duties at the start of the president's term more than six months ago,
officials said Thursday.
Anti-Semitic graffiti found on the walls of Jewish community buildings in Vilnius, Lithuania. Illustrative.
The
failure to name a new envoy for the post raises questions about the
importance the new administration attaches to the fight against
anti-Semitism, said Rafael Medoff, director of the Washington DC-based
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
"Foot-dragging on the selection sends a message that
anti-Semitism is not of great importance to the United States," Medoff
wrote in a monograph to be published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs titled "The Politics of the American Response to Global Anti-Semitism."
According to Medoff, "At a time when anti-Semitism remains a
staple of government propaganda in the Middle East, when violent
anti-Semitic incidents are reported almost daily throughout Europe, and
when even the streets of Washington are not untouched by
anti-Semitism's violent potential, that is the wrong message to send."
The State Department's Office of the Special Envoy
to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, which was established by a
Congressional initiative in 2004, advocates American policy on
anti-Semitism both in the US and internationally
In a reference to the“nine days” which culminate in
Tisha B’Av, the rabbis tell Obama that
“during these days, in which the
Jewish people mourn the destruction of Jerusalem and mark the
disgraceful memory of its destroyers, we are certain that you, Mr.
Barack Obama, do not want to enter that disreputable list of those who
raise their hand to strike Jerusalem and those who live in it.”
Like Obama, I am a graduate of Harvard Law School. I too have Muslims in my family. I am black, and I was once a leftist Democrat. Since our backgrounds are somewhat similar, I perceive something in Obama’s policy toward Israel which people without that background may not see. All my life I have witnessed a strain of anti-Semitism in the black community. It has been fueled by the rise of the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan, but it predates that organization.
We heard it in Jesse Jackson’s “HYMIE town” remark years ago during his presidential campaign. We heard it most recently in Jeremiah Wright’s remark about “them Jews” not allowing Obama to speak with him. I hear it from my own Muslim family members who see the problem in the Middle East as a “Jew” problem.
Growing up in a small, predominantly black urban community in Pennsylvania, I heard the comments about Jewish shop owners. They were “greedy cheaters” who could not be trusted, according to my family and others in the neighborhood. I was too young to understand what it means to be Jewish, or know that I was hearing anti-Semitism. These people seemed nice enough to me, but others said they were “evil”. Sadly, this bigotry has yet to be eradicated from the black community.
In Chicago, the anti-Jewish sentiment among black people is even more pronounced because of the direct influence of Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Most African Americans are not followers of “The Nation”, but many have a quiet respect for its leader because, they say, “he speaks the truth” and “stands up for the black man”. What they mean of course is that he viciously attacks the perceived “enemies” of the black community white people and Jews. Even some self-described Christians buy into his demagoguery.
The question is whether Obama, given his Muslim roots and experience in Farrakhan’s Chicago, shares this antipathy for Israel and Jewish people. Is there any evidence that he does. First, the President was taught for twenty years by a virulent anti-Semite, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. In the black community it is called “sitting under”. You don’t merely attend a church, you “sit under” a Pastor to be taught and mentored by him. Obama “sat under” Wright for a very long time. He was comfortable enough with Farrakhan Wright’s friend to attend and help organize his “Million Man March”. I was on C-Span the morning of the march arguing that we must never legitimize a racist and anti-Semite, no matter what “good” he claims to be doing. Yet a future President was in the crowd giving Farrakhan his enthusiastic support.
The classic left wing view is that Israel is the oppressive occupier, and the Palestinians are Israel’s victims. Obama is clearly sympathetic to this view. In speaking to the “Muslim World,” he did not address the widespread Islamic hatred of Jews. Instead he attacked Israel over the growth of West Bank settlements. Surely he knows that settlements are not the crux of the problem. The absolute refusal of the Palestinians to accept Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state is the insurmountable obstacle. That’s where the pressure needs to be placed, but this President sees it differently. He also made the preposterous comparison of the Holocaust to Palestinian “dislocation”.
Obama clearly has Muslim sensibilities. He sees the world and Israel from a Muslim perspective. His construct of “The Muslim World” is unique in modern diplomacy. It is said that only The Muslim Brotherhood and other radical elements of the religion use that concept. It is a call to unify Muslims around the world. It is rather odd to hear an American President use it. In doing so he reveals more about his thinking than he intends. The dramatic policy reversal of joining the unrelentingly ant-Semitic, anti-Israel and pro-Islamic UN Human Rights Council is in keeping with the President’s truest albeit undeclared sensibilities.
Those who are paying attention and thinking about these issues do not find it unreasonable to consider that President Obama is influenced by a strain of anti-Semitism picked up from the black community, his leftist friends and colleagues, his Muslim associations and his long period of mentorship under Jeremiah Wright. If this conclusion is accurate, Israel has some dark days ahead. For the first time in her history, she may find the President of the United States siding with her enemies. Those who believe as I do that Israel must be protected had better be ready for the fight. We are.
NEVER AGAIN!
This was posted to my facebook page. It sums up the fix we are in. The writer, Lisa, describes what ordinary Americans are confronting. These folks must encouraged to push back, to be unafraid against the left bots. It is a full frontal assault on all Americans. It's not Obama's Deathcare, it's everything.
"For the first time in my life, I'm afraid of my government. My mom is 73. I have four kids. We've been looking at this legislation. I'm disabled and uninsured but tthis is insane. Tonight, four different people came at me at once on Twitter. I think they were with http://www.facebook.com/l/;MoveOn.org. They act like just "regular people" asking "innocent questions" about health care, but there were four people. I mean, Chinese water torture is not so bad compared to this. They are not just "regular people" asking "innocent questions". They wouldn't stop. Wouldn't let up. What bothers me is that so many people in America have never been involved in politics before and now want to be involved but they aren't tough enough to handle these tactics. It's getting serious in America. I can take it,,,, but what about all the newbies to politics?? That's why I fear my gov't......because I don't know if the people are awake enough to do what needs to be done.....and that is to start shouting from rooftops."
This is the protest that Obama received when he went to Raleigh yesterday. It was blocks long. The natives are restless.
Obama's motorcade going to Raleigh Town Hall Meeting, hundreds of protesters 4 blocks long. Atlas reader Erik took some snaps, "I made the posters and my sister went to Kinko’s to get them printed and took her kids to a good old fashioned protest":
Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen
fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the
once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of
Congress.
On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have
gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive
behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town
hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control.
“I had felt they would be pointless,” Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) told POLITICO, referring to his recent
decision to suspend the events in his Long Island district. “There is no point in meeting
with my constituents and [to] listen to them and have them listen to you if what
is basically an unruly mob prevents you from having an intelligent
conversation.”
In Bishop’s case, his decision came
on the heels of a June 22 event he held in Setauket, N.Y., in which protesters
dominated the meeting by shouting criticisms at the congressman for his
positions on energy policy, health care and the bailout of the auto industry.
Within an hour of the disruption, police were called in to escort the
59-year-old Democrat — who has held more than 100 town
hall meetings since he was elected in 2002 — to his car safely.
“I have no problem with someone disagreeing with positions I hold,” Bishop
said, noting that, for the time being, he was using other platforms to
communicate with his constituents. “But I also believe no one is served if you
can’t talk through differences.”
Bishop isn’t the only one confronted by boiling anger and rising incivility.
At a health care town hall event in Syracuse, N.Y., earlier this month, police
were called in to restore order, and at least one heckler was taken away by
local police. Close to 100 sign-carrying protesters greeted Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) at a late
June community college small-business development forum in Panama
City, Fla. Last week, Danville, Va., anti-tax tea party activists claimed they were “refused an
opportunity” to ask Rep. Thomas Perriello (D-Va.) a
question at a town hall event and instructed by a plainclothes police officer to
leave the property after they attempted to hold up protest signs.
The targets in most cases are House Democrats, who over the past few months
have tackled controversial legislation including a $787 billion economic stimuluspackage, a landmark
energy proposal and an overhaul of the nation’s health care system.
The American people voicing their opposition, so what do the Democrats do? Stop having town hall meetings. That says it all.
Do the left wing Jewicidals ever read this shiz? The deniers of Islamic anti-semitism are as dangerous as these murderers. The disinformation manufactured by Islamic apologists will be the death of us all. If you don't know who and what the enemy is, how can you fight back effectively? MEMRI translates. (hat tip Terri)
Antisemitism On Egypt's Al-Rahma TV – Children
Memorize, Recite Antisemitic Slogans; Clerics Say Jews Are Offspring of Snakes
and Vipers, Call For Reading 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion', And State: Our
Hatred of The Jews is Purely on Religious Grounds – While Warning Against the
Jewish-Zionist Starbucks, Domino's, Burger King & Others
The following are transcripts from programs that aired on the Egyptian
television channel Al-Rahma. They include segments from children's shows, and of
speeches and discussions with numerous sheikhs.
"Oh Allah, Completely Destroy and Shatter the Jews"
Child: "Oh Allah, completely destroy and shatter the Jews. Oh Allah,
torment them with a disease that has no cure or remedy. Send a thunderbolt down
upon them from Heaven. Oh Allah, torment them with every kind of torment. Oh
Allah, send upon them flocks of ababil birds [1] that will pelt them with stones of baked clay, and turn
them into straw that has been eaten. Oh Allah, turn their women into widows -
just like Muslim women were widowed. Allah, turn their children into orphans -
just like Muslim children were orphaned. Oh Allah, bless the efforts of the
mujahideen. Oh Allah, bring victory upon us soon. Amen, amen. Peace and
blessings upon you."
"The Understanding Will Come... This Is One Stage in Becoming a Future
Preacher"
TV host: "Well done. Well done. I let him end the program on purpose.
Of course, he memorized this, and the understanding will come, Allah willing.
But this is one stage in becoming a future preacher."
*Children Memorize and Recite Antisemitic Messages on Al-Rahma TV
Children's Show
Following are excerpts from two Egyptian children's TV shows which aired
on Al-Rahma TV on January 30 and February 13, 2009.
"Heroes of Gaza... You Were Victorious, You Were Not
Defeated, When You Refused to Surrender to the Accursed Jews"
Boy 1: "Omar [Ibn Al-Khattab] said: 'Our dead go to Paradise, while
their dead go to the Hellfire.'
[...]
"Heroes of Gaza, you were victorious, you were not defeated, when you forced
the enemy to withdraw in humiliation. You were victorious, you were not
defeated, when you refused to surrender to the accursed Jews.
[...]
"'Judgment Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the
Muslims will kill them, and the Jews will hide behind stones and trees, and the
stones and the trees will say: Oh Muslims, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew
behind me, come and kill him' - except for the gharqad tree, which is the
tree of the Jews." [...]
"The Zionist Aggression... Will Continue Until the Day Comes When the
Stones and the Trees Say: 'Oh Muslims, There Is a Jew Behind Me, Come and Kill
Him"
Boy 2: "The Zionist aggression continues its attacks on Gaza with
warplanes. This war will never be over. It will continue until the day comes
when the stones and the trees say: 'Oh Muslims, there is a Jew behind me, come
and kill him.'
[...]
Boy 3 [in English]: "In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most
merciful. Actually what is happening in our days to Muslims of the blockade -
murder and displacement is not a new thing, and it is not the end. This is a
good omen I give you to restore hope again - that Allah's victory is near and
his promise is going to be fulfilled, no matter what the circumstances are.
Allah has answered the supplication of the Prophet, peace be upon him, for the
Muslims' nation to be protected from being completely wiped out. However, some
of the nation may face difficulties, but the [Islamic] nation will never pass
away. If what is happening now in the Gaza Strip makes us really have great
sympathy for the present [unintelligible], we should know that Muslims suffered
more than that in the past.
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga.
-- Two DeKalb County police officers have been placed on paid
administrative leave after an investigation revealed they ran a background check
on President Barack Obama.
A representative for the DeKalb County CEO’s office identified the
officers as Ryan White and C.M. Route.
Officials said Obama’s name was typed into a computer inside a DeKalb
County police car on July 20 and ran through the National Crime Information
Center.
The secret service was immediately notified and contacted the DeKalb
County Police Department.
A representative said both officers have been with the department less
than five years.
A representative said one of the officers denied involvement.
An official investigation is being conducted by the DeKalb County Police
Department’s Internal Affairs division.
It is unclear why the officers ran a check on the president.
The suicide bombers who attacked two luxury hotels in Indonesia this month
were aiming to kill members of the Manchester United football team, according to
an internet message allegedly written by the fugitive leader of an al-Qaeda
faction.
The message, posted on a blog in the name of Noordin Mohammed Top,
self-styled leader of al-Qaeda Organisation Indonesia, has not been
authenticated by police investigating the bombings two weeks ago. If it is
genuine, then it represents an alarming threat to the security of sports teams
across the world.
Mr Noordin was immediately named as the chief suspect in the bombings, and is
wanted in connection with four earlier attacks going back six years which have
killed 240 people. The statement in his name celebrates the double suicide
bombings which killed six foreigners and one Indonesian at the Ritz Carlton and
JW Marriott hotels in Jakarta.
“The [Manchester United] club consists of players who are Crusaders
[Christians] and therefore they did not deserve to play in a Muslim country,”
the message reads. If true, the bombers struck hopelessly early — the team was
not due to check in to the Ritz Carlton until the week after the bombing for a
friendly fixture against a local Indonesian team. The trip was immediately
cancelled.
Four of those who died were attending a breakfast business meeting in the
Marriott, and the author of the message states that foreign businessmen,
especially the American Chamber of Commerce and Industry were a specific target,
as “intelligence agents” of the United States.
“We know the hotels were used as a meeting point for Western businessmen to
create more wicked strategies that in the end would only create misery for our
Muslim brothers and sisters,” it said. “We want to destroy their strength in
this country, those who steal the valuables belonging to Muslims in this
country.”
“It is retribution for all the acts by the United States and its lackeys
against Muslims and Muslim holy warriors
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