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Only the Lonely Frank Sinatra

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.

If you don't own it, get it. Trust Atlas on this. Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

Democrat Senator Feinstein Calls Cops On Seniors, Retirees, ages 55-87

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 called on retirees at senator's LA office San Francisco Gate (hat tip Laura)

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!

Democrat Cretins in DC Vote Down Blunt Resolution for Obamacare for Congress

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.

UPDATE: Welcome to embarrass your congressman.

Shot of the day

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY... Radio Patriot

This picture truly is worth at least a thousand words. Thomas Lifson has the full story at American Thinker.

POTUS or POS?

I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing.

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.

Obama's Stimulus $$ Funds Horror Porn, Naked Dancing, Underground Pornography - four men, three women and a gorilla

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.

Stimulus Bill Funds Go to Art Houses Showing Horror Porn, As Well As Naked Dancing, Underground Pornography Fox News

Talk about a stimulus package.

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.

Click here for a full list of all of the NEA's Recovery Act grants.

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.

Photoshop: the People's Cube.

The Gift of the Jews and The Hatred of the Jews for being ......... the Jews

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

Read it all ...........

The struggle between good and evil.

Day 49 Iranian Revolution: What Really Happened at Tehran University

Check it out. One of the soldiers has an axe. (hat tip Hanif)

Good ole Germany: German company in Iran bans employees from taking part in protests

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):

All previous Atlas archives and liveblogging here: Iran: The Revolution

Streets of Tehran Yesterday

"Ethicsgate" Video back up! Obama Operatives Behind Palin Legal Harassment and "Ethics" Charges

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. 

It's amazing how thin-skinned these jackals are.

I first posted the video here: VIDEO: Obama Operatives Behind Palin Legal Harassment and "Ethics" Charges

And it has been removed 5 or 6 times since. 

My thoughts of Palin: Palin's Commencement Address (The American Thinker)

UPDATE: Vote for Sarah here

Transcript of The Bolton Interview

Much thanks to our favorite blogger in Finland, KGS over at Tundra Tabloids who has transcribed my interview with John Bolton. Go here.

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.

Obama, Keepin' it classy

$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.

White House makes CEOs pay for lunch  (hat tip Van)

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.”

I wonder who picked up the beer yesterday.

US State Department: Jerusalem for Islam UPDATED: It's "the de-facto “embassy” to the Palestinians in the West bank and Gaza"

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.

Does this bother you? If so, tell Secretary of State Clinton in an email, through her site here, and also tell everyone you know. (hat tip Lori Marcus, Z Street)

Devastating. Read the "about section" here,  it's as if Israel  never existed. (hat tip Dave)

Today on the Jewish calendar

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

Bama's Beer Buffer Biden

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 had real 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.

The Gates affair: Obama's Race Baiting Must End  Newsmax

UPDATE: Professor Gates held fundraiser for Obama
More connections to 'radical' Harvard man at center of race row

Obama Unmasked: 40 Czars later, Obama fails to Name Anti-Semitism envoy (whom he removed 6 months ago)

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.

Obama has, in a stunning act of sponsoring terror, invited the propaganda television station of Hamas, Al-quds TV, to film propaganda here in the United States on the dime of US taxpayer dollars.

Today he honored an enemy of Israel. 

Obama has instituted the 'US Muslim engagement" -- the blueprint for our dhimmitude in America.

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.

Obama fails to name anti-Semitism envoy hat tip D'Vorah

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.”

Bishop E W Jackson Sr, Bishop of Exodus Faith Ministries, writes of the source of Obama's anti-semitism:

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!

"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 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":

UPDATE: Like I said the natives are restless:

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 stimulus package, 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.

Muslim Clerics Say Jews Are Offspring of Snakes and Vipers, Call For Reading 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion', State: Our Hatred of The Jews is Purely on Religious Grounds – While Warning Against the Jewish-Zionist Starbucks, Domino's, Burger King etc.

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.

To download a PDF of the report, visit http://www.memri.org/downloads/2466_Al-Rahma_SD.pdf

To view MEMRI TV's page for Al-Rahma TV, visithttp://www.memritv.org/content/en/tv_channel_indiv.htm?id=197.

*Egyptian Cleric Teaches a Child to Memorize Antisemitic Messages on Al-Rahma TV and Explains: The Understanding of What He Said Will Come

Following are excerpts from an Islamist children's program, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on March 6, 2009.

To view this MEMRI TV clip, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2093.htm :

"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.

To view this MEMRI TV clip, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2066.htm.

"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.

[...]

It's 1984: Do not question dear leader! Two Cops off the force for Obama Background Check

And this is a bad thing. The cops were only doing the media's job. Somebody has to!
Big brother is watching, kids.

Officers Run Background Check On Obama; Placed On Leave CBS News (hat tip Kitten)

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.

It's clear to me.

Islamic bombers in Jakarta Targeted Football Team, American Chamber of Commerce: “We want to destroy their strength in this country"

Islam at war on the West: ISLAM IN ACTION: JAKARTA ATTACKED, 8 Dead - RItz Hotel and Marriott Bombed

Manchester United targeted by Jakarta hotel bombers Times Online

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

Read the whole thing.

Jihad in jakarta

Obama's Down 12 points and Plummeting

Despite an utterly corrupt and politically activist media .....

Just 23% believe health care costs will go down if health care reform is passed. Most (53%) expect prices would rise and 50% expect the quality of care would decline.

Republicans retain a slight edge on the Generic Congressional Ballot and most voters still have an unfavorable opinion of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Fifty-four percent (54%) now say interest rates will be higher in a year. That’s a 20-point jump since April.

Roseanne Barr Dressed as Hitler Bakes Burnt 'Jew Cookies'

She actually looks right at home in her genocidal garb. It is my fervent prayer that this slopsucker is the first one in the ovens he/she clumsily mocks.

What a pig. I am sure Tom Arnold still wakes up screaming. Or maybe he's into bestiality.

Roseanne Barr Dressed as Hitler Bakes Burnt 'Jew Cookies'

By Noel Sheppard | hat tip Tom

As NewsBusters has chronicled over the years, Roseanne Barr has a history of doing and saying some truly disgraceful things, but this one really takes the cake...or the cookie in this case.

Her most-recent tailspin into the gutter involved a photo shoot with Heeb magazine wherein she is seen wearing an Adolf Hitler moustache and swastika as she takes burnt gingerbread "Jew Cookies" out of an oven (pictured right).

In another, in same costume, she is shown about to take a bite out of one of these burnt cookies ..

 

The article associated with these disgusting pictures claimed:

As the “Domestic Goddess” dons the famous moustache, transforming into “Domestic Goddess Hitler,” I notice that she’s beginning to have fun. She nails the Fuehrer’s facial expressions with twisted glee, and as she takes the burnt gingerbread “Jew Cookies” out of the oven it occurs to me that Barr may be the last celebrity utterly incapable of giving a f**k—a quality theoretically easy to embody until it’s time to face the practical repercussions. “Franklin Ajae, Paul Mooney, Mort Sahl and Dick Gregory’s passings will tear my kishkas out,” Barr laments. “They gave everything they had to just tell the truth, and they couldn’t make a decent living because of the choice they made—not selling out to Hollywood.”

Would she dare do this on a black genocidal issue or Muslim?
Total c word.

DAY 48 Iran Revolution: IRANIAN POLICE BEAT PROTESTERS AT NEDA GRAVESIDE MEMORIAL, "Neda is alive, Ahmadinejad is dead"

Today is the 40-day anniversary of the death of Neda Agha Soltan by the mullahs in Iran.

NEW VIDEO TODAY

Protests updates at Tehran bureau

IRANIAN POLICE BEAT PROTESTERS AT NEDA GRAVESIDE MEMORIAL

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian police fired tear gas and beat anti-government protesters with batons to disperse thousands at a graveside memorial Thursday for victims of post-election violence, witnesses and state television said.

Demonstrations that drew thousands more later spread to other parts of the capital Tehran and more clashes with security forces erupted. Witnesses said police fired tear gas at dozens of demonstrators on Valiasr Street who set tires and trash cans ablaze in response.

Police barred opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi from joining the crowd around the grave of Neda Agha Soltan, a young woman was shot to death at a June 20 to protest the disputed presidential election. The 27-year-old music student's dying moments on the pavement were filmed and circulated widely on the Web, and her name became a rallying cry for the opposition.

"Neda is alive, Ahmadinejad is dead," some of those at the ceremony chanted, referring to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who the opposition claims won the June 12 election by fraud. Witnesses said plainclothes forces charged at them with batons and tear gas, some of them chanting, "Death to those who are against the supreme leader." State television also reported that police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.

Obama, shame on you.

The Target is Israel Now: Defense Analyst in Spy Case was FBI Double Agent, Motive "Anti-Semitism"

It's open season on Israel. Israpundit observed:

We believe that the FBI cabal was lead by former Associate Director David Szady who had let it be known that the national law enforcement agency was intent on finding an Israeli mole inside the US government, based erroneously, as it turned out in the disastrous AIPAC case. Federal Prosecutors relied heavily on the thin reed of a 90 year Sedition law, questionable evidentiary standards in filed court motions and sought a ‘closed court’ proceeding, which ultimately was quashed by the Richmond Federal Appellate court dismissal rulings. Messrs. Weissman and Rosen were simply doing what Washington journalists, including Gertz, have done which is revealing ex parte conversations with official sources, who don’t want to go on record; i.e., ‘leaking’. However, the Federal judiciary saw through this blatant attempt by the FBI and federal prosecutors effectively stopped the failed AIPAC case in its tracks, relieving former AIPAC seniors officials Weissman and Rosen from standing trial, and reduced Franklin’s prior sentence under a plea bargain.

 

EXCLUSIVE: Defense analyst in spy case was FBI double agent - Washington Times

Larry Franklin, the former Pentagon analyst convicted of revealing classified information, says he worked undercover as an FBI double agent to gather information on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States before the bureau turned on him and pressured him to plead guilty to spying for Israel.

Talking to a U.S. newspaper for the first time since his arrest five years ago, Franklin told The Washington Times that he wore a portable recording device for the FBI to capture conversations between Keith Weissman, a lobbyist for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and Israeli Embassy official Naor Gilon and that he cooperated on other matters during a 10-week period in 2004.

He said he never sought to spy for Israel and felt betrayed when the same FBI agents whom he had assisted suddenly told him to get an attorney and threatened to send him to prison for disclosing classified information to AIPAC officials and the Israeli Embassy.

Read it all. Stunning.

It is a disturbing story, a web of intrigue with anti-semitic bias at its base. Today there is more:

EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Israel lobby probe linked to anti-Semitism Ex-informant points to FBI

A long-running FBI espionage probe of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington appears to have been motivated in part by anti-Semitism, says a former Pentagon official who revealed this week he had cooperated for 10 weeks with federal agents conducting the probe.

Larry Franklin, a former Pentagon analyst who pleaded guilty in 2005 to revealing classified information to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), made the charge in an interview with The Washington Times, his first conversation with an American newspaper since his arrest five years ago.

Franklin said in that interview that he became disturbed by several apparently anti-Semitic remarks by his FBI handlers. His cooperation with the agency, which involved taping his conversations with officials of AIPAC and the Israeli Embassy, was first reported by the Times on Wednesday.

"One agent said to me, 'How can an Irish Catholic from the Bronx get mixed up with all these ...,' and I finished the sentence for him: 'Jews?' And I proceeded to tell him that Christ and all the Apostles and even his mom were Jewish," Franklin said in the interview.

"So it was that sort of thing. And just sarcastic turns of the phrase from time to time. You know, I felt dirty sometimes," he said.

FBI Assistant Director John Miller declined to address the charges of anti-Semitism.

"We have no way to respond to thirdhand characterizations of partial statements allegedly made by unnamed FBI employees several years ago," Mr. Miller said. "If Mr. Franklin would like to make a formal complaint about the conduct of any FBI employee, there is a process to do."

Franklin, a prominent Iran analyst with the Defense Department before his arrest, said he did not want to tarnish the FBI, and noted that he had come to know many valorous FBI agents in the process of working with the agency on Iran issues and other matters.

"But that [anti-Semitism] dimension was part of this investigation and may have been an initial incitement of this investigation," he said.

Obamacare: Killing me softly with his words, killing me softly

I heard he had a good song, I heard he had a style .............

Page 326 of the Obamacare opus.

EUTHANASIA AND HEALTH CARE REFORM hat tip Daryl

Catholic League president Bill Donohue discusses Section 1233 of H.R. 3200, the health care reform bill that was introduced in the House:

There is language in this section of the bill that implies that the federal government may become involved in euthanasia. So over the past two days, July 27-28, Catholic League staff contacted the following persons, committees or offices looking for clarification:

Rep. Nancy Pelosi; Rep. John Dingell; Rep. Rob Andrews; Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr.; Rep. Charles Rangel; Rep. Pete Stark; Rep. Henry Waxman; Rep. George Miller; Rep. Dale Kildee; Rep. Carolyn Maloney; Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; HHS Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives; HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Aging; HHS Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation for Discretionary Health Programs; HHS Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation for Mandatory Health Programs; HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; HHS Congressional Liaison Office; HHS Office of Human Services Policy; HHS Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy; HHS Office of Planning and Policy Support; HHS Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation for Human Services; Ways and Means Committee; Education and Labor Committee; Energy and Commerce Committee; Oversight and Government Reform Committee; Budget Committee; White House Health Reform Office.

No one with whom we spoke said the government is entering the business of euthanasia. But this is not enough. We need to know exactly what is meant by the following: “An explanation by the practitioner of the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available….” We also need to know exactly what is meant by “The Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register proposed quality measures on end of life care and advanced care planning….” The public has a right to know exactly what is meant by terms like “end-of-life services” and “quality measures.” Now is the time to settle this issue.

Contact healthreform@hhs.gov

Sieg Heil!

UPDATE: White House using class warfare to sell health reform plan

Publicly Funded Islamic Charter School Counter Sues the ACLU for "Defamation"

First let me say that I cheered when the ACLU finally filed a lawsuit in January against a publicly funded Islamic school. The suit "argues the school violates the First Amendment by sharing space with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, promoting prayer in school and endorsing Muslim clothing rules and dietary practices". It was a "when pigs fly" moment. I hadn't cheered the ACLU in................ decades. They are notorious for suing Christian organizations in the petty exploitation of the separation of church and state (i.e., suing to remove nativity scenes on public ground, removal of a cross that was first erected in 1934 by a group of veterans, opposing family festival day events and displays containing religious and nonreligious artifacts, including a menorah, a red sleigh, Kwanza symbols, the list goes on and on) while remaining conspicuously silent on the egregious acts of advancement of Islamic supremacism in almost every aspect of American life.

So what did the Islamic school do? Sued, of course. Litigation jihad.

 Teacher breaks wall of silence at state's Muslim public school

Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food - permissible under Islamic law -- and "Islamic Studies" is offered at the end of the school day.

[...]

"teachers led the kids into the gym, where a man dressed in white with a white cap, who had been at the school all day," was preparing to lead prayer. Beside him, another man "was prostrating himself in prayer on a carpet as the students entered."

"The prayer I saw was not voluntary," Getz said. "The kids were corralled by adults and required to go to the assembly where prayer occurred."

Islamic publicly funded charter school. Got it? Your taxpayer dollars at work.

BTW, Why are children covered up? Are they sexual objects?

TiZA charter school in Inver Grove Heights countersues state's ACLU chapter, claims defamation
Twin Cities hat tip Marbles

  

A student holds up her answer during a third-grade math exercise Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy. (Pioneer Press: Nathan Berndt, file)

 

 

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy claims the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota has defamed the Inver Grove Heights charter school and is trying to damage its relationships with parents and prospective employees.

In a countersuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, lawyers for TiZA argue the ACLU has made maliciously false and defamatory statements that have injured "the good name of TiZA" and its reputation.

The statements also have sparked threats of violence against TiZA staff members, the suit contends.

TiZA's suit is in response to an ACLU lawsuit filed in January, which argues the school violates the First Amendment by sharing space with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, promoting prayer in school and endorsing Muslim clothing rules and dietary practices.

"The ACLU's claims are meritless, as TiZA has followed state and federal regulations," said TiZA legal counsel Erick Kaardal. "TiZA hopes the court will prevent the ACLU from inflicting further interference and defamation with a permanent injunction."

Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the ACLU-MN, declined to comment Tuesday night because the organization's lawyers were still wading through the new legal filings.

The countersuit by TiZA also claims that the ACLU has unlawfully interfered with contracts the school has with its sponsor, families and employees.

The ACLU knowingly made public statements that were untrue about the school, and those "false statements and innuendo has caused potential employees to rescind their respective employment applications with TiZA," school officials contend in the suit.

Since the January ACLU lawsuit, TiZA officials claim, at least 10 prospective educators withdrew applications in the middle of the hiring process. As a result, the school has several open positions.

TiZA, founded in 2003, has about 480 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The school has campuses in Inver Grove Heights and Blaine. It received about $4.7 million in state funding this past school year.

Tuesday's filing is the latest twist in the school's legal battles. TiZA also sued state education officials July 16 in Ramsey County District Court over allegations that some of its teachers lack proper licenses.

Read it all. Chutzpah. 

Related: Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison, who is currently working on ensuring missing Somali terrorists' safe return to US,  had been very cagey about who paid for his pilgrimage to the haj and why. The cost of his Mecca trip was covered by a group that got taxpayer funds in a rental arrangement for TiZA school. (Islamic nonprofit paid for Rep. Ellison's pilgrimage to Mecca)  - reported here at Atlas.

Rep. Mindy Greiling, DFL-Roseville, who chairs the K-12 Education Finance Division Committee, said the state funds were intended to help charter schools rent space.

She said she is troubled by the large grants to the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whether or not the money can be tied directly to Ellison's trip.

"It calls into question the sensibility of the people who lead the school," Greiling said. "And to send Keith Ellison off to Mecca just compounds it."

State officials say the arrangement illustrates long-standing concerns about the relationship between charter schools and the affiliated groups who hold their leases.

Chas Anderson, deputy commissioner for the state education department, said that state law does not regulate how lease dollars are spent by such property-holding corporations.

"While this type of relationship is legal, it is nonetheless concerning," she said of the TiZA payments.

TiZA, which also has a campus in Blaine, received an estimated $4.7 million in state aid this year, including more than $520,000 in annual lease aid. The school also got more than $873,000 in federal charter school grants last year.

Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the Minnesota ACLU, said the flow of any public funds to a sectarian group that funded a public official's trip to a religious site heightens the questions Samuelson's group has raised about the separation of church and state.

Day 47 Iranian Revolution: Iraqi Forces Storm Iranian Opposition Camp

WTF? For this we expended all that blood and treasure? They are backing the mad mullahs? "Hope 'n' Change" comes to Iraq: (hat tip Choi)

Iranian exiles in Iraq report more clashes - Yahoo! News

BAGHDAD – Iraqi forces clashed with an Iranian opposition group for a second day Wednesday after storming a camp north of Baghdad despite U.S. appeals not to use force against exiles protected for years by American troops.

Tehran cheered the operation, raising worrying questions about how Iraq can balance relations with its two closest allies, Iran and the U.S.

The People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran claimed seven people had been killed and scores wounded, saying the standoff continued at the camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday. A police officer at the scene, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information, confirmed the casualties.

[...]

Iran, meanwhile, thanked the Iraqi government for moving into the camp.

"Yesterday, we heard of the Iraqi government raid on Camp Ashraf," said parliament speaker Ali Larijani. "This is appreciated, that the Iraqi government decided to clean Iraq from the dirty presence of terrorists. However, it was a late move," he told the Iranian legislature Wednesday.

Is America confused, or what?

List of killed, arrested and released

 

hat tip Madayar

All previous Atlas archives and liveblogging here: Iran: The Revolution

Jewish Warfare

Only the Jews ............... would the Muslims ever conceivably do the same? They would look at you as if you had two heads. What would be the point of warning infidels?

Israeli Defense Force to Give More Detailed Warnings to Civilians Before Attacks - Hanan Greenberg
The IDF will give more details in warnings issued to Palestinians before aerial strikes, such as more accurate timetables and suggested escape routes, to help residents not involved in terror activity to flee, the military prosecution's international law department said. During the Gaza operation, over 200,000 phone calls were made to Palestinian homes in Gaza and thousands of fliers were distributed in order to warn civilians. (Ynet News)

UPDATE: And then there's this pathos: (hat tip Kenneth)

 (IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Ehud Barak has authorized the transfer of several hundred tons of cement, metal pipes, and other construction materials to Gaza for the first time since the conclusion of Operation Cast Lead in January. In addition, Barak authorized the monthly transfer of 104 million shekels ($26 million) to Gaza, to pay the salaries of Palestinian Authority loyalists.

Muslim Airplane bomber, aka the "Shoe Bomber," sues to resume his jihad from prison -- Obama caves in.

This is breathtaking. Whom, in G-d's name,was Obama elected to protect? An Islamic terrorist who endeavored to blow up a plane? If Obama campaigned on all of his disastrous, un-American, seditious moves he would not have been elected dog catcher.

BTW, the author of the piece, Debra Burlingame, is a former attorney and a director of the National September 11 Memorial Foundation. She is the sister of Charles F. “Chic” Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

This is scary. Really sick stuff by the Radical in chief.

Revenge of the ‘Shoe Bomber’ Debra Burlingame
The terrorist sues to resume his jihad from prison. The Obama administration caves in.

Reid was arrested in 2001 for attempting to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with 197 passengers and crew on board. Why had Attorney General Eric Holder decided not to renew his security measures, kept in place since 2002?

According to court documents filed in a 2007 civil lawsuit against the government, Reid claimed that SAMs violated his First Amendment right of free speech and free exercise of religion. In a hand-written complaint, he asserted that he was being illegally prevented from performing daily “group prayers in a manner prescribed by my religion.” Yet the list of Reid’s potential fellow congregants at ADX Florence reads like a Who’s Who of al Qaeda’s most dangerous members: Ramzi Yousef and his three co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; “Millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam; “Dirty bomber” Jose Padilla; Wadih el-Hage, Osama Bin Laden’s personal secretary, convicted in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing that killed 247 people.

In December 2008, the Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss Reid’s lawsuit. It cited the example of ADX inmate Ahmed Ajaj as an illustration of “the dangers inherent in permitting a group of inmates, of like mind in their opposition to the United States, to congregate for a prayer service conducted in a language not understood by most correctional officers.”

While imprisoned for passport fraud in 1992, Ajaj assisted in the plans to destroy the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, making phone calls to Ramzi Yousef and speaking in code to elude law enforcement monitoring. Ajaj tried to get his “training kit” to Yousef, which included videotapes and notes he had taken on bomb-making while attending a terrorist camp on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Reid’s own SAMs on correspondence had been tightened in 2006 after the shocking discovery that three of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers at ADX, not subject to security directives, had sent 90 letters to overseas terrorist networks, including those associated with the Madrid train bombing. The letters, exhorting jihad and praising Osama bin Laden as “my hero of this generation,” were printed in Arabic newspapers and brandished like trophies to recruit new members.

When setting restrictions on inmate religious practice, the Bureau of Prisons need only meet a reasonableness standard, a very low bar in the case of Muslim terrorists. Justice would easily have prevailed against Reid’s lawsuit; nevertheless it dropped the security measures on Reid after he missed 58 meals in a hunger strike that required medical intervention and forced feeding in April.

On July 6, Justice Department lawyers informed the court that Reid will be given a “new placement” in a “post-SAMs setting.” Whether that entails stepped down security in a different unit or transfer to a less secure facility, the Bureau of Prisons won’t say, and Justice refuses to comment.

Mr. Obama likes to observe that “no one has escaped from supermax,” but if Reid is moved from ADX Florence, he will be the first convicted terrorist to use the First Amendment to sue his way out.

What drove the Obama administration’s decision to cave in to Reid’s demands? The president after all has repeatedly pitched supermax and the federal prison system as a secure alternative to Guantanamo, citing the fact that it handles “all manner of violent and dangerous criminals.” Yet the last thing he needs, as his administration engages in its hasty effort to shut Gitmo down by a fast-approaching deadline, is for lawyers and human-rights activists to use a hunger-striking, near-death prisoner to launch a propaganda campaign fashioned right out of the Gitmo detainees’ playbook. Lawyers who shamelessly compared Gitmo to Nazi concentration camps would think nothing of casting supermax as the next “symbol of America’s shame” and a “rallying cry for our enemies.”

CAIR Challenges FBI Tactic on Violent Jihad Terror Arrest

You knew this was coming. But the audacity of Islamic supremacism is galling. Apparently the violent jihad terror plot was incidental; what was really important was the trick played on the terror family by the FBI.

Yesterday, I reported on an explosive news story that the media gave cursory coverage to: Terror Bust in NC: "This was a homegrown cell based in rural America. 2) It was led by a white convert to Islam named Daniel Patrick Boyd. 3) The cell had plotted against Israel, which means they could very well have targeted Jewish sites on U.S. soil"

Daniel Patrick Boyd, 39, led a U.S. group that plotted international terrorism attacks, authorities said Monday. Boyd, a North Carolina drywall contractor, got military-style training while in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992 and recruited his two sons and four other men to wage a "violent jihad," the indictment said.

Now CAIR is questioning the constitutionality of the FBI arrest. Isn't that rich? CAIR invoking the Constitution? Oh, the irony. Ibrahim Hooper, (formerly Doug Hooper), like Daniel Boyd, is a white American convert to Islam and one of the founders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

• Wants “government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future”
• Downplays threat of Islamic extremism and declined to condemn Islamic terrorist groups

Islamic law trumps the Constitution, so this is all the more disgusting.

CAIR Questions Legality of FBI’s ‘Cruel Trick’ on Suspect’s Family
Family was told father and sons injured in crash, fake doctor arrests wife at hospital

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/29/2009) - A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today questioned the constitutionality of what it termed a “cruel trick” played by the FBI on the family of a terrorism suspect arrested earlier this week in North Carolina.

Family members told the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that the FBI allegedly sent an informant in the case to the family’s home falsely claiming that the father and three sons had been injured in a car accident and then had a fake “doctor” arrest the wife at the hospital.

As reported by the Raleigh News & Observer: 

Boyd summoned her daughter and pregnant daughter-in-law. They wrapped their heads in scarves, grabbed their Qurans and flew out the door.

Related: Intimidation CAIR style.

CAIR's Congressional Stooges by Steven Emerson House Dems Carry Islamists' Water

Day 46 Iranian Revolution: "Beaten to death by guards in overcrowded, stinking holding pens. Others say they had their fingernails ripped off or were forced to lick filthy toilet bowls."

From, of all places, The NY Times. And Obama works on isolating ......Honduras.

Reports of Prison Abuse and Deaths Anger Iranians  NY Times

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Some prisoners say they watched fellow detainees being beaten to death by guards in overcrowded, stinking holding pens. Others say they had their fingernails ripped off or were forced to lick filthy toilet bowls.

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A man was detained by an officer during riots in Tehran on June 14. Officials say about 150 of those jailed remain in prison.

The accounts of prison abuse in Iran’s postelection crackdown — relayed by relatives and on opposition Web sites — have set off growing outrage among Iranians, including some prominent conservatives. More bruised corpses have been returned to families in recent days, and some hospital officials have told human rights workers that they have seen evidence that well over 100 protesters have died since the vote.

Read it all. If the Times is reporting and actually taking time away from bashing the Jewish people in their homeland, then you know it is unimaginable.

Good roundup here of day 46

All previous Atlas archives and liveblogging here: Iran: The Revolution

What About Allen West?

Nuts! Lt. Colonel Allen West best represents the future of Republican leadership.

NRCC picks top challengers as Young Guns The Hill (hat tip S)

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Wednesday unveiled the first 13 candidates in its new Young Guns program, which aims to help non-incumbents win in top races around the country.

The new list includes two former members of Congress — ex-Reps. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) — as well as top challengers from Hawaii to New Hampshire.

Islam in Action: 4,000 Displaced as Soldiers Battle Islamists in Nigeria

The global jihad on the march. Where is Obama, the 'freedom loving son' (ugh) of that continent?

‘Taliban’ of Nigeria: Who Are They? hat tip Armaros

In addition to numerous national problems of fuel scarcity, poverty, banditry, unemployment and ecological dangers, the people of the north-eastern region and indeed the entire nation were last week stunned by the eruption of a new form of civil insurrection by a group of youths who style themselves the ‘Taliban.’ The violent clash between security agents and the youths who reportedly sought to establish an independent Muslim state close to Nigeria’s boarder with Niger Republic have sent chills of fear across the nation of a new era of religious and social insurgence.

Contrary to early reports that it was a "Maitatsine" group, the Taliban, otherwise known as the Hijrah movement composed of young graduates and post-graduates most of whom were from highly placed and influential families with an understanding of the Islamic religion that completely denounces sin, corruption and immorality.

The society, to them, is so mired in moral and political poverty that the best thing for a devout Muslim was to migrate out of the sins and the corruption to a place or society where Islamic justice, lawful means of livelihood obtain. Hence, their name the Hijrah group.

4,000 displaced as troops battle Nigeria militants Yahoo hat tip Alan

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Soldiers in tanks and armored cars besieged the shelled compound of a radical Islamist sect and sporadic gunfire exploded as hundreds of innocents fled Wednesday, the third day of fighting in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri.

Relief official Apollus Jediel said about 1,000 people had abandoned their homes Wednesday, joining 3,000 displaced this week in four states caught up in the violence.

It is not known how many scores of people have been killed. Police say most of the dead are militants, from a group that wants to impose Taliban-style rule across this multi-religious country of 140 million. Dozens of people have been arrested.

Reporters on the ground say the trouble started with militants attacking a police station in Bauchi state Sunday. Then they attacked police in Kano, Yobe and Borno, of which Maiduguri is the capital.

But President Umaru Yar'Adua disputed that, saying troops struck first.

"I want to emphasize that this is not an inter-religious crisis and it is not the Taliban group that attacked the security agents first, no. It was as a result of a security information gathered on their intention ... to launch a major attack," the Nigerian leader told journalists before he left Tuesday night for a state visit to Brazil.

Obama Strikes Again: East European Leaders Fear US ties with Russia

America's allies are flailing. Those who are fighting, yearning to be free and stay free, are being abandoned. Armaros opines, "Yes, Obama wants to pull a Yalta again, this time splitting up Europe between Islam and Russia".

"Abandoning the program entirely or involving Russia too deeply in it without consulting Poland or the Czech Republic can undermine the credibility of the United States across the whole region."

East European leaders uneasy over US ties with Russia

Prague - Former leaders and officials from ex-communist eastern Europe have appealed to U.S. President Barack Obama to boost American involvement in European security and to resist what they call Russia's "creeping intimidation."

In an open letter published on websites on Thursday, a week after a U.S.-Russia summit in Moscow, they urged Obama to show greater commitment to NATO's regional role, to missile defense and to efforts to reduce Europe's reliance on Russian energy.

"Twenty years after the end of the Cold War, we see central and eastern European countries are no longer at the heart of American foreign policy... (But) all is not well either in our region or in the transatlantic relationship," the letter said.

"Russia is back as a revisionist power pursuing a 19th century agenda with 21st century tactics and methods... It uses overt and covert means of economic warfare, ranging from economic blockades... to bribery and media manipulation."

East European governments, especially in Poland and the Baltic states, were alarmed by Russia's brief war with Georgia last summer over the rebel Georgian territory of South Ossetia and also by Russia's disputes with Ukraine over gas supplies.

The letter's more than 20 signatories, including Poland's Lech Walesa, the Czech Republic's Vaclav Havel and ex-presidents of Romania, Latvia and Lithuania, said they welcomed Obama's decision to "reset" U.S.-Russian relations but urged him not to be naive.

"The danger is that Russia's creeping intimidation and influence-peddling in the region could over time lead to a de facto neutralization of the region," they said.

The letter urged Obama to work closely with the European Union on security issues and to back the Nabucco gas pipeline and other projects aimed at lessening Russia's energy dominance.

It also said Obama should not be swayed by Russia's opposition to U.S. plans to deploy elements of a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

"Abandoning the program entirely or involving Russia too deeply in it without consulting Poland or the Czech Republic can undermine the credibility of the United States across the whole region," the letter said.

Atlas VLOG Interview Series: Ambassador John Bolton

Spend a riveting half hour with da man, the great American statesman. His observations on Bush, Obama, Iran, Palin, America 's future and a White House run. Juicy.

You can view it in its entirety (no interruptions, one video) on Picasa here. The audio is much better on this complete video.

Part I: What caused the crushing capitulation between the first Bush term and the Bush second term.

Part II here (where the Republicans went wrong, the White House run 2012, etc).

Part III

Other interviews in the Atlas series:

Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs Interview Geert Wilders

 

 Pamela Atlas Shrugs Interviews Bat Ye'or

UPDATE: In case you missed Bolton's oped in today's Wall Street Journal: It’s Crunch Time for Israel on Iran

Sowell Must Read: Disaster in the Making .... "generations yet unborn....may yet curse us all for leaving them hostages to nuclear terror"

My favorite American thinker, Sowell, nails it in a nailbiter. Read it.

Disaster in the Making Thomas Sowell, NRO

After many a disappointment with someone, and especially after a disaster, we may be able to look back at numerous clues that should have warned us that the person we trusted did not deserve our trust.

When that person is the president of the United States, the potential for disaster is virtually unlimited.

Many people are rightly worried about what this administration’s reckless spending will do to the economy in our time and to our children and grandchildren, to whom a staggering national debt will be passed on. But if the worst that Barack Obama does is ruin the economy, I will breathe a sigh of relief.

He is heading this country toward disaster on many fronts, including a nuclear Iran, which has every prospect of being an irretrievable disaster of almost unimaginable magnitude. We cannot put that genie back in the bottle — and neither can generations yet unborn. They may yet curse us all for leaving them hostages to nuclear terror.

Conceivably, Israel can spare us that fate by taking out the Iranian nuclear facilities, instead of relying on Obama’s ability to talk the Iranians out of going nuclear.

What the Israelis cannot spare us, however, are our own internal problems, of which the current flap over President Obama’s injecting himself into a local police issue is just a small sign of a very big danger.

The rest here.

Female In Islam: Ibrahim Farhat Flees, His Victim of Sexual Abuse said that in her family and culture, she was "just a girl," had female relatives look at her in disgust..."not because I had been abused, but because I spoke it"

“The victim added that in her family and culture, she was “just a girl,” and had since had female relatives look at her in disgust and refuse to shake her hand, “not because I had been abused, but because I spoke it.” Neither her mother nor her father attended the sentencing hearing.

Women/girls in Islam have no standing. Chattel. Sub class status that is  seeping into Western culture.

As for the judge that let this pig go after his conviction, perhaps one of her daughters will be sexually molested and childhood destroyed, and she'll be less "understanding".

Convicted sex offender Ibrahim Farhat of Ottawa has gone missing as he awaits sentencing for assaulting children.

‘He broke the law and walked away’ Ottawa Sun hat tip Jane

Man who sexually assaulted sisters sentenced in absentia after fleeing following conviction

OTTAWA-A man who convinced a judge not to send him to jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two children has been sentenced in absentia to three years in prison after disappearing.

Ibrahim Farhat, 34, received the sentence Tuesday after being found guilty by a jury in March of sexual assault and sexual interference for repeated incidents of sexual touching on two sisters between 1998 and 2003.

Crown prosecutors had been seeking to have him put in jail immediately following his conviction, but Farhat was released after his lawyer convinced Ontario Superior Court Justice Heidi Polowin that he was not a flight risk.

Farhat was “a man who had broken the law and walked away with it,” one of the sisters told the court in her victim impact statement.

“What were once my memories of childhood and adolescence are now his. What should have been some of the happiest, most freeing memories, he holds hostage,” said the now 23-year-old victim, who can’t be identified due to a publication ban.

“He has robbed me of them and turned them into his own. And now he is free. He may be running, but he is still running with freedom … his, mine and my sister’s,” she said.

“This man preyed on the innocence of children, on their weaknesses, their fears, and when he could not stop or help himself, he was brought to you to do so for him. And now we find ourselves lost,” she said, breaking down in tears.

Before passing sentence, the judge said Farhat’s flight “disturbed her greatly.” Polowin described how she accepted his lawyer’s arguments that he had never missed a court date, had a wife and three young children, was gainfully employed and had surrendered his passports.

Blah, blah blah. She should be thrown off the bench. If a man could do this to little girls, he can do anything. He was given the benefit of honor.

Polowin said what most convinced her Farhat should be released was his promise to voluntarily attend a sexual behaviours assessment at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. Court heard he never even showed up for the initial appointment.

“This court put its trust in Mr. Farhat. His failure to attend for the sexual behaviours assessment, the pre-sentence report and his absconding is a breach of that trust,” said Polowin, who called his actions following his conviction “reprehensible.”

Why would the court put its trust in a pedophile?

[...]

Polowin said there were several aggravating factors in the case, including Farhat’s serious breach of trust as someone close to the family of the victims. In several instances, Polowin said the sexual touching occurred when the father or other family members of the victims were in the next room. At the time of the incidents, the victims were between eight and 15 years old.

Assistant Crown attorney Moiz Karimjee asked Polowin to sentence Farhat to seven years in prison, a lengthy sentence he argued was justified given the nature of the crimes and the fact Farhat fled even though he knew prosecutors had concerns he would fail to show up for sentencing.

Karimjee said Farhat was “denying the victims the satisfaction of seeing that justice is done.

“They participated in a justice system, attended a preliminary hearing, testified at trial and now they are faced with Ibrahim Farhat not being present at sentencing,” said Karimjee.

However, Polowin found a seven-year sentence was too long considering case law from similar crimes and sentenced him to three years in prison instead.

How many years were these girls robbed of? Their whole lives were robbed. Seven years would have been too light. This judge is a degenerate.

Whether Farhat ever serves a day of that sentence is still in question. Ottawa police Det. Allison Cookson testified that the last contact anyone had with Farhat was in April.

Farhat’s wife and children have since left Canada for Lebanon, she said. Farhat, who was not represented during the hearing, is now being sought on an arrest warrant.

[...]

Before handing down her decision, Polowin told the two victims their “extremely” articulate and moving victim impact statements would help her be a better judge for years to come.

“It will help me as a judge to always remember the effect on the victim as we move through this process,” she said.

In her victim impact statement, the younger of the two sisters wrote about how the justice system goes to great lengths to remove “all that is humanistic” from the legal process.

“The emphasis is put on facts, litigation and reason,” the now 19-year-old woman said, leaving very little place for emotion.

“What I was depicting was not something I had seen. I was subjected to it. I felt it. I lived it,” the woman said, describing how it was easy to forget she was a victim. “In light of decisions made along the way, I find myself wondering if others in the court had too forgotten.”

The victim added that in her family and culture, she was “just a girl,” and had since had female relatives look at her in disgust and refuse to shake her hand, “not because I had been abused, but because I spoke it.” Neither her mother nor her father attended the sentencing hearing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Ottawa police sexual assault/child abuse unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5944, or Crime Stoppers at 613-233-8477.

Uh, he's in Lebanon with his zombie wife and kids.

UPDATE: Related: Honour killing is not 'domestic' violence Barbara Kay (hat tip Jane)

Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Sarah Palin's Commencement Address

A nice complement to last night:

Palin's Commencement Address
Pamela Geller
Sarah Palin's Farewell Address as Governor of Alaska Sunday was no farewell address at all. It was just the beginning; it was a commencement address. More

 

Excerpt:

Her speech embodied what a great American sounds like, and what a President ought to sound like. Palin made no apologies. She said nothing like Obama's inane drone of "America's best days are behind us." No tearing down of our nation. Obama ranks on us; Palin raises us up and speaks of national pride.

First and foremost, she thanked our brave men and women defending this great nation and ripped the media, warning:

"You represent what could and should be a respected, honest profession that could and should be a cornerstone of our democracy. Democracy depends on you, and that is why, that's why our troops are willing to die for you. So, how about, in honor of the American soldier, you quit makin' things up?"

She briefly outlined her plans for real energy independence -- American resources for Americans -- speaking of commercializing our clean natural gas (AGIA) as the first private sector energy project in the history of America. Palin believes (and rightly so) that the pressing issue of our time is energy independence. "There is," she said, "an inherent link between energy and prosperity...We will prove you can be pro-development and pro-environment because no one loves their clean air, and their land, and their wildlife more than an Alaskan. We will protect it!"

She invoked America's pioneering spirit. She urged us to resist enslavement to big central government: "Be wary of accepting government largess."

Sarah Palin embodies what an American is. She is what Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin envisioned when they carved out the American idea.

Anyone who wants write her off, proceed at your own risk.

The more evil succeeds and overwhelms our foreign and domestic policy, our culture, our discourse and the very social fabric of our lives, the clearer it becomes that Palin is the antidote, the answer to fighting this morally bankrupt sewer in which we find ourselves during the Obama Administration.

The low state of the world is a fact, but so are great Americans who will fight tooth and nail to stop what Obama is doing to America. Clear thinking Americans see what is happening. America is being tested in a way she never has been before. The President has in every decision reinforced the impression that he is a radical, even a communist/Islamist: the usurpation of the Constitution, the bankrupting of our nation, the illegal grab of private wealth, the infiltration of Islamic supremacism, the abandonment of our allies, the weakening of our military. It's stunning.

Sarah Palin sees it, too. Smart, sharp, patriotic, she best represents the majority of Americans. Not Obama's shills in the press, not the chattering elites and the Beltway insiders, but Americans.

Read it all and feel good.

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Atlaska Radio: Atlas on The Eddie Burke Radio Show

Davod gifted Atlas readers with a podcast of my appearance on The Eddie Burke Show on WBYR - the best news and talk in Alaska, talking about Sarah Palin.

You can download it from here to your computer or ipod. Or listen by clicking here: Download Atlaska on KBYR 28July09

Tim over at Conservatives4Palin uploaded it to youtube. I love those guys! Put it on your must read blog watch.

Part II is here.

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Dump Schumer Rally: NO to Obamacare!

I had to do a drive by in the drizzling rain so that I could go on live with the The Eddie Burke Show on WBYR - the best news and talk in Alaska to talk about Sarah Palin at 3:30pm Alaska time, 7:30pm Eastern time.
Small rally, big heart :)
Here's a look see. New York is in a coma, but there were plenty of thumbs up from the non-pods.

 

 

UPDATE: The fabulous Pamela Hall was there (above in baseball cap) - she sent this. Atlas on the yob!

Gathering of Eagles was there. Love those guys :)

Check out Pamela's post here.

Muslim Professor Charged with Deadly French Synagogue Bombing Returns to Teaching Post at University UPDATED: UNIVERSITY REVERSES, PROFESSOR WILL NOT RETURN

UPDATE TUESDAY 7:24 AM: UNIVERSITY SAYS "PROFESSOR" WILL NOT BE RETURNING

But in a terse statement released Tuesday afternoon, the university said that a full-time faculty member "will immediately replace the current instructor, Hassan Diab."

The move was being made to provide students "with a stable, productive academic environment that is conducive to learning," according to the statement.

The release went on to say there would be no further comment on the matter by the university.

A university education for your children indeed. What are they learning? This depraved savage should be facing a jury in France (!) and a firing squad when found guilty.

PHOTO: A file photo taken 06 October 1980 shows then Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac (R) looking at the damage after a bomb attack at a Paris synagogue rue Copernic killed four people.

Ottawa prof charged in deadly bombing to return to university Vancouver Sun (hat tip Ken)

OTTAWA — An Ottawa university professor charged in the deadly terrorist bombing of a French synagogue nearly 30 years ago is expected to resume teaching this week.

Hassan Diab, who is charged with murdering four people in the 1980 bombing, will begin teaching a part-time introductory sociology course at Carleton University two days a week until the middle of August.

Diab, whose strict bail conditions prevent him from leaving the house alone, will be required to travel to and from the university with his common-law spouse Rania Tfaily, an Ottawa court heard Monday.

But once at the university, Diab will no longer need an escort.

Diab's lawyer, Rod Sellar, told an Ottawa court Monday Diab will be at Carleton teaching and meeting with students between 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but the course may require him to go to the university almost daily.

Lin Moody, a spokeswoman for Carleton University, confirmed Monday that the school has hired Diab to teach for few weeks this summer. He was given a contract, she said, because of "an unforeseen leave" taken by the instructor who had originally been hired to teach the introductory sociology course.

Diab had taught a similar course before at Carleton, Moody said.

The 55-year-old Lebanese native, who became a Canadian citizen in 1993, has been under virtual house arrest since he was arrested late last year. Conditions of his bail require him to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, obey a curfew, report to the RCMP regularly and not own a cellphone.

Diab and Tfaily were in court Monday to determine what items seized during RCMP raids of Tfaily's condominium and her Carleton University office can be sent to French officials as potential evidence in their case against Diab.

Diab and Tfaily intend to argue that the RCMP searches were unlawful and the seized items should not be sent to France.

Federal prosecutors are hoping Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger will grant an order sending some of the items, specifically computer hard drives and USB sticks, to France as soon as possible.

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR HASSAN DIAB BOMBED FRENCH SYNAGOGUE

Palestinian Muslim - Synagogue Bomb Suspect - Arrested Canadian Officials
Arrest Man for Paris Attack 25 years Ago

Twenty-five years after a terror attack at a Paris synagogue, a Canadian professor was arrested today on charges that he was involved in the Oct. 3, 1980 bombing that killed four people and wounded at least 20 others, Canadian authorities told ABC News.

The professor, Hassan Diab, 54, was arrested with the assistance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on a provisional arrest warrant and a request for extradition granted to French authorities by a Canadian court, authorities said.

That all changed a year ago when reports in French and Canadian newspapers said French authorities suspected Diab was the leader of the group that launched the commando-style attack on the rue Copernic synagogue.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Operations group was blamed for the strike, according to authorities.

Diab, who holds dual Canadian and Lebanese citizenship, is a part-time instructor at two prominent Canadian colleges, the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.

While French authorities called the arrest a final chapter in a long manhunt, Canadian authorities braced for possible public backlash over their willingness to assist in the arrest.

Obama Forms 'Shadow Government' for Crises

Diabolical. Seriously. And have you noticed that every time Obama does something outrageous and dangerous, he says, Bush started it!

Obama Forms 'Shadow Gov't' for Crises  Newsmax hat tip Jonathan Galt

The White House has taken on a wider role in forming a backup government in case a crisis forces officials to leave Washington.

Government officials familiar with the plans tell The New York Times that the initiative began during the final months of the Bush administration, and the Obama administration decided to leave it in place.

The White House Military Office will now lead the way in installing a “shadow government” should officials have to leave the capital because of a terrorist strike or some other catastrophe. The contingency plans include moving those officials to Mount Weather, Va. and running backup computer systems.

Previously, civilian agencies, led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, had many of these responsibilities.

But White House officials in the Bush administration were disappointed with civilian management of the response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The involvement of multiple agencies slowed things down, they found.

The civilian agencies, of course, weren’t too happy to see their power curtailed. They argued that the change gave too much authority to a small group inside the administration, and they expressed concern that Bush was concentrating too much power in the White House, The Times reports.

Those complaints came despite the fact that the White House Military Office employs a staff of 2,300, many of whom are uniformed soldiers, and that it has often been led by a military officer.

Read it all and worry.

Gaza: Woman Killed to "Maintain Family Honor" - "signs of torture throughout the victim's body, as well as a fracture in her skull due to her [being] hit by an iron chain"

Ugh. Note "the refugee camp" from the year of the flood.

Woman Killed in Jabalya to "Maintain Family Honor"

On Thursday, 23 July 2009, Fadia Jawdat al-Najjar, 27, from Jabalya refugee camp was killed allegedly "to maintain family honor."

According to police sources in Jabalya, at approximately 09:30 on Friday mourning, 24 July 2009, Jawdat al-Najar, from Jabalya, gave himself up to the police station in Jabalya. He confessed that he killed his daughter, Fadia, inside his home in a late hour on Thursday. He claimed that he found a mobile phone with his daughter and she was talking with someone, which he suspected as an illegitimate relation. As soon as the police have received this confession, the police moved towards the scene of the crime and examined the victim's body.  They found signs of torture on her body. The police transferred her the victim's body to Kamal 'Edwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, and from there to the forensic medicine department at Shifa Hospital in Gaza city.

Sources of the forensic medicine department at Shifa Hospital reported that there were signs of torture throughout the victim's body, as well as a fracture in her skull due to her was hit by an iron chain.

According to PCHR's documentation, the number of people killed allegedly "to maintain family honor" since the beginning of 2009 has amounted to 9 (6 women, two men and a child) in 7 crimes. One of these crimes was committed in the West Bank, whereas the rest of the crimes were committed in the Gaza Strip.

PCHR strongly condemns this latest crime, and:

1)      Expresses concern over the recurrence of murders against women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory allegedly "to maintain family honor." Such recurrence may be attributed to the relative impunity granted to murderers, who are often sentenced to less than 3 civil years of imprisonment, equivalent to 24 months of effective imprisonment.

2)      Calls for suitable deterrent penalties to be applied to "family honor" murders.  These murders must be dealt with in the same manner as other crimes of willful killing, taking into consideration international human rights standards. Many murderers use the claim of maintaining family honor as a justification for the crimes they commit in order to benefit from more lenient sentences.

Obama's Hideous Honduran Hijinks: Zelaya in the White House

Zelaya is Chavez with a big ol' ugly sombrero and Obama is polishing it. Fausta has it all here:

Zelaya today in the White House? UPDATED (hat tip Larwyn)

I was reading the Washington Examiner’s editorial when I came across this statement:

So, it is nothing less than astonishing that President Obama today welcomes Zelaya to the White House.

The White House schedule doesn’t show any appointment for Zelaya’s visit, and I couldn’t find any other articles confirming it. For now at least, I’ll assume it’s a rumor; time will tell.

He is scheduled to be in Washington today:

He will surely be wearing his hat.

Zelaya’s been criticizing the US

for not doing enough, in his view, to condemn the government which replaced him.

He’s also not happy that Hillary has stopped using the term “coup” to describe his removal from power by the military last month.

White House or not, Zelaya has plans: Zelaya dice que “incursionará” en las montañas entre Honduras y Nicaragua (Zelaya will “make an incursion” in the mountains between Honduras and Nicaragua). He didn’t specify the purpose of his “incursions”, nor the location or the timing, but apparently he’s set up camp by the border… when he’s not flying in private jets all over the place, that is.

Update
This AP article, Time may be running out for ousted Honduran leader, has more details on the encampments by the border:

Many of those who did make it to Nicaragua wondered how long they could hold out away from their work and families, waiting for Zelaya to come up with a plan. Zelaya has vowed to remain on the border for at least a week, but hasn’t announced any concrete strategy since he walked a few meters into Honduras and then retreated Friday.

The crowd, housed in two shelters in Ocotal, spent Monday in disarray. They boarded buses for a drive to the frontier line, only to turn back when they realized Zelaya didn’t plan to join them. The ousted president showed up at one of the camps to address his supporters, only to find they had left for the border.

But hot meals arrived in the afternoon as Zelaya gave supporters an hours-long pep-talk, and a tractor trailer delivered hundreds of floor mattresses Monday evening for Hondurans sleeping at a municipal gymnasium.

“We’re waiting for Mel Zelaya to give the order, and we’ll go with him,” said Tomas Lopez, 57, an athletics teacher who traveled 375 miles (600 kilometers) to Nicaragua, leaving his family in Honduras. “I’m the head of the family, and they depend on me. We have food here and a place to sleep, but the problem is our children. Who is going to support them?”

The interim government that ousted Zelaya said Monday it had seized a series of what appear to be receipts from a key Zelaya organizer, indicating payments of between $3,000 and $20,000 to several protest leaders. None of the Zelaya supporters were immediately available to comment on the alleged payments or what they were for.

The Honduran government claims that the “key Zelaya organizer” was getting FARC money.

UPDATE
US revokes visas for Honduran officials

The State Department says it has revoked the diplomatic visas for four Honduran officials working in its interim government.

The announcement comes as the United States has been pressing for Honduras to allow the return of exiled President Manuel Zelaya.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly did not specify Tuesday the names of the four officials, who he said are not in the United States. Kelly said that the department is reviewing the visas of all members of the interim government.

He said the revocations was in keeping with the U.S. policy of not recognizing the interim government.

I’m trying to get more (verified) information on who the visas belong to.

UPDATE 2
Via Babalu,

Zelaya wrote to Obama urging him to impose sanctions directly against the coup leaders and members of Micheletti’s government, including the cancellation of their U.S. visas and a ban on their bank transactions.

This is an outrage.

Prior posts on Zelaya here.

Previous Honduras coverage at Atlas here.

A Convention of Killers: J Street, the J is for jihad

Harsh headline? The truth hurts and these abettors to a "final solution" for the Jewish people are worse than the kapos of the Nazi era. Kapos were forced to sell out the Jews in order to live. This "J" street is a voluntary "Jewish" organization created to facilitate the dismantling of Israel and support jihad.  J Street - the J is for jihad.

J-Street is going to have a convention in Washington. Here is a list of speakers:

Jonathan Chait, Senior Editor, The New Republic
Rep. Donna Edwards, Congresswoman from Maryland
Rep. Bob Filner, Congressman from California
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation
Ambassador Martin Indyk, Acting VP and Director, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution; Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
Senator John Kerry, Massachusetts *
Ezra Klein, The Washington Post
Eli Pariser, Former Director, MoveOn.org *
His Royal Highness Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Ambassador of Jordan
Daniel Sokatch, Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
Yuli Tamir, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (Labor) and Former Minister of Immigrant Absorption
Matt Yglesias, Center for American Progress
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President, Union for Reform Judaism 

Yoffie is particularly despicable. Jewicidal.

Obama Administration Cancels Shovel Ready Projects: Thousands of Jobs Lost

A shovel ready project canceled? Can you believe this? These democrats are poison!! How many jobs lost? Where is the accountability? They are tearing through our hard earned money, destroying our economy - for what? Paying off Obama's operatives? This is nuts!

Where does this idiot think we get our energy from??

Obama is destroying this country. FACT.

Company suspends work on Ohio uranium plant (hat tip Anthony)

Company says it suspends work on Ohio uranium plant because US govt. denied loan guarantee

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A company says it's suspending construction on a uranium enrichment plant in southern Ohio because the federal government would not grant a $2 billion loan guarantee.

In a statement, USEC Inc. CEO John Welch said Tuesday that the Bethesda, Md.-based company was advised of the U.S. Department of Energy's decision, which he described as shocking and disappointing.

USEC has been developing the American Centrifuge project in Piketon, about 65 miles south of Columbus, at the site of a former gaseous diffusion plant that enriched uranium during the Cold War. The company says the project would have created thousands of jobs.

USEC spokeswoman Elizabeth Stuckle said Tuesday that the company would try to find other financing, though she said that's tough in the current economy .

USEC Shares Plunge After Loan Guarantee Application Rejected ...

July 28 (Bloomberg) -- USEC Inc. fell as much as 39 percent in early trading after the U.S. Department of Energy denied a loan guarantee to complete construction of the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio.

Symbol is USU

USEC dropped $2.38, or 38 percent, to $3.81 at 7:46 a.m. in trading before the New York Stock Exchange opened.

“We are shocked and disappointed by DOE’s decision,’’ Chief Executive Officer John K. Welch said in a statement. “The American Centrifuge met the original intent of the loan guarantee program in that it would have used an innovative, but proven, technology, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and created thousands of immediate jobs across the United States.”

Last Updated: July 28, 2009 07:50 EDT

FLASHBACK! 2005 -- Makes you wonder if there will be any anti-destroy-the-economy protests at the Obamas' 20 million house rental on Martha's Vineyard next week, as there were when the Bushes went to Crawford.

Crawford: First Impressions (hat tip Anthony)

I arrived last night in Waco, Texas. I’m staying about half an hour outside Crawford, where anti-war protesters have gathered and remain even in absence of Cindy Sheehan. I made the drive out to the first protest site, where Sheehan’s old tent remains in a ditch, as did several dozen protesters.

What surprised me, and what has received almost no coverage, where the counter-protesters gathered across the street in support of U.S. troops and President Bush.

I continued down the dusty road several miles before arriving at the new, main protest site. What I saw there was a sight to behold. The protesters have erected giant tents that stand several stories high. Inside were hundreds of protesters gathered around a stage where organizers were preparing to give a speech and a band off-stage was preparing to play music:


Alongside the road, dozens of cars were lined-up making the already narrow path more difficult to traverse. It was obvious anti-Bush protesters had truly come from across the nation to attend. I saw plates from New York, Florida, Washington State, Indiana, Colorado, New Mexico, Maine, Maryland, California and others.


As I drove slowly along the roadside taking pictures, one protester beckoned, “Why don’t you come inside, we have food?” Even as they walked past several hundred miniature erected gravesites for fallen soldiers, most protesters seemed in a jovial mood. Their campsite is erected quite literally next to the secret service checkpoint that leads up a road approximately one mile from President Bush’s ranch.

[ 08/22/2005 09:30 AM]

Atlas on Alaska Radio

In addition to my regular gig on the Jaz McKay show today at 4pm Eastern time, 1560 KNZR, I will be appearing on the The Eddie Burke Show on WBYR - the best news and talk in Alaska to talk about Sarah Palin at 3:30pm Alaska time, 7:30pm Eastern time. I very much look forward to it.

Day 45 Iran Revolution: "Don't let them kill my father"

5:41 pm: "What's Farsi for Titanic?" The London Times offers an excellent overview of the ongoing crack-up of the Iranian regime. It's too good to pull out an excerpt, so just go read the whole thing. (hat tip Robert Tracinski)

5:04 pm: From Inside Iran Front Page magazine (hat tip Gary) Check out the interview with Roozbeh Farahanipour, an Iranian journalist, democracy activist, former political prisoner in Iran and head of Marze Por Gohar Party (MPG), an Iranian opposition party seeking the establishment of a secular republic in Iran. He was a student leader in the 1999 uprising, just one year after creating MPG.

Frontpage: What now? What should we expect in the future?

Farahanipour: Certainly this popular movement is deeply rooted but we shall see it evolve in lows and highs. People cannot demonstrate in the streets for weeks on end. The shapes and forms of protest will differ according to the situation. Mass rallies, mobile demonstrations, strikes, passive resistance, education and propaganda will continue because the fundamental conflicts have not been resolved.

The energy of the people has not been depleted and their humiliation has been ongoing by the Supreme Leader and his gang. The internal and factional conflict within the regime is deepening as their statements and activities gets nastier by the day, focusing on the removal of the Supreme Leader himself which is far ahead of contesting the elections fraud, just several weeks ago.

Finally the international scope of this conflict, such as major issues between the US and Iran (Nuclear, Israel-Palestine , Terrorism, Iraq …) has not changed; if anything has become more difficult to approach since even President Obama cannot approach Ahmadinejad and his Supreme Leader for quite a while, after the whole world has witnessed the protests and the crackdowns in Iran.

July 30th will be the fortieth day of the killing of the international heroine of the Iranian revolution Neda and several others that were killed on or about the same day. Neda, who according to her family, was neither a Moussavi supporter nor had she voted in the show elections of June 22nd, has by her tragic death at the hands of regime assassins, been able to rally the support of all who oppose the Ahmadinejad-Khamenei camp and her fortieth day (traditional Muslim mourning period) will be a potential mass event, as the families have called the people to rally around the grave sites at the Beheshteh Zahrah cemetery which with its millions of graves has become a gruesome symbol to the murderous and incompetent legacy of the Islamic Republic.

Early in August, Ahmadinejad, whose domestic image has been terribly destroyed by the elections fraud and whose new second term is a humiliating reminder of all the events of June and July, will be inaugurated by the Supreme Leader as the new president. Quite possibly this will be a day and more likely a week of massive uprising with unpredictable scope. Everyone is organizing and preparing for these two events which may well be fused into one.

The MPG party is endorsing Neda’s fortieth day rally and is hoping that the July 9th seeds will bear fruit in early August in another massive strike against the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic.

4:02 pm: Artful resistance

Name: Hossein Bagherzadeh
Job: Allegedly notorious Evin prisoner interrogator and torturer
(hat tip Banafsheh)

Another regime thug revolutionary guard identified: 
Rank: General in the IRGC
Name: Seyyed Abbass Rasooli
Has been one of the area commanders of the IRGC who has allegedly killed and injured many Iranians during the last 6 weeks. (hat tip Banafsheh)

As Obama rewards Iranian proxies like Syria and ignores the desperate pleas from the people of Iran in their fatal bid for their basic unalienable rights, the slaughter goes on unabated:

Obama released senior Iranian Qods Force commander

Israel on Iran: Anything it takes to stop nukes

Hajjarian’s Daughter Tells Rooz: Don’t Let Them Kill My Father hat tip Jan Poller

Saeed Hajjarian, a prominent reformist cleric and thinker detained since the June 12 controversial presidential elections in Iran, is under intense psychological and physical pressure to give fake confessions and is under extremely dangerous

Iran releases 140 demonstrators Raye Man Kojast

According to BBC News, Iran has released 140 detainees from Evin prison today. Meanwhile, about 150 others, who are accused of more serious crimes, remain in prison.

Source

We Are Summoned and Threatened Every Day

Fereshteh Ghazi

While a large number of prominent Iranian journalists have been arrested since the June 12 presidential election, other journalists and independent newspapers are under heavy pressure as well and are constantly summoned by various security and military agencies.

Mohammad Kamrani, another Casualty of the Election Violence

How Many Died During Recent Unrest? 

Leila Tayyeri

Eighteen-year old Mohammad Kamrani who was hit with a bullet during a peaceful protest march against the electoral coup in Tehran, died on July 16, 2009 and his body was buried last Saturday at Tehran’s Behesht Zahra cemetery. (Rooz Online)

Amir Javadi, killed in Evin prison. He was 24 years old.

Good round-up here.

All previous Atlas archives and liveblogging here: Iran: The Revolution

GO ISRAEL! Obama called a Racist in Jerusalem Rally "Let My People Grow"

We should take notes from halfway around the world. It's time we started rallies like this one here in the US. We are the ones who will suffer immeasurably from an un-American, racist President. Look, they did it to Bush for years, and he was a true patriot who loved America.

OBAMA CALLED A RACIST IN JERUSALEM

(IsraelNN.com) An estimated 1,500 people crowded a Jerusalem square on Monday evening, holding the first of what is likely to become a series of anti-Obama rallies and protests against American pressure upon the Israeli government.

No fewer than four top US government officials are in Israel this week – “just a coincidence,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said – to bring a message of “Stop building in Judea, Samaria and northern and eastern Jerusalem” to the Israeli government.  Among them is special Obama envoy George Mitchell. The slogan of the rally, on the other hand, was, “Yes to Israeli independence, no to American dictates!”
"Yes, there is a new Middle East, and there is change: G-d Almighty has taken His people out of exile and brought them back home to its land! And woe unto those who would interfere in this process!

Among the speakers were rabbis, Knesset Members, and other public officials. First to address the crowd was Rabbi Eliezer Waldman, Dean of Yeshivat Nir Kiryat Arba and a former Knesset Member. Acknowledging that Obama promised to bring “change,” and that President Shimon Peres has long spoken of a “New Middle East,” the rabbi said, “Yes, there is a new Middle East – G-d Almighty has taken His people out of exile and brought them back home to its land!  He has brought them to independence, to settlement, to life in its land that has now come to life once again! This is the ‘change’!  And woe unto those who would interfere in this process of change!”  

Addressing U.S. President Barack Obama directly, Rabbi Waldman said, “You are a racist! How dare you tell Jews that they can’t live in this place or in that location? We’re finished with such periods in our history!”

Expressing opposition to the blatant American intervention in Israeli policies, the many home-made signs at the protest declared messages such as:

• The Land of the Bible belongs to the People of the Bible
• Obama: No You Can’t!
• Yes We Can Build Settlements
• Warning: American Jews are in Danger
• Obama, deal with Iran – Israel belongs to the Jews
• Jordan is Palestine
• Israel Won’t Fold
• Let My People Grow

Chanan Ben-Ari, 21, told the crowd, “Good evening to you, heroes of the Land of Israel… and good evening to you, as well, Mr. Prime Minister. I have just completed my army service, and I was married eight months ago, and to our great sorrow – we are unable to find a caravan in which to live in the very town in which I grew up, Karnei Shomron!  And it’s not just me – an estimated 1,400 young couples are estimated to be leaving Yesha every year because there are no homes to be had!  Not only in Karnei Shomron, but also in Ariel, and in Beit El, and in Kedumim, and Ofrah – this is the quiet expulsion that is going on!  And it’s certainly not that I don’t have the right connections, as my father Herzl is the mayor of Karnei Shomron, and my uncle Michael is a talented Knesset Member, but the simple truth is that there are no homes to be had! I call on you to rebuff the American pressure and allow Jewish families to build once again.”

Go. Read it all.

Nine months ago ..............

UPDATE: Candidly Speaking: American Jews: Stand up and be counted Isi Liebler

Terror Bust in NC: "This was a homegrown cell based in rural America. 2) It was led by a white convert to Islam named Daniel Patrick Boyd. 3) The cell had plotted against Israel, which means they could very well have targeted Jewish sites on U.S. soil"

UPDATE: Authorities still seeking eighth suspect in alleged "violent jihad" terror plot.

The question is, how many other terror cells exist in the US that we don't know about? The Muslim Society of America has already made a statement standing up for the terrorists' families.

Compelling back story on the terror plot bust yesterday here. For political elites, particularly the Muhammadan president, who insist that the jihad is over, the price will be high. And it is us, Americans, who are standing in the crosshairs of this fallacious fantasy.

As for Islam's exceptional wrath for the Jewish people, the Jews won't talk about Islamic Anti-semitism - some go so far as to pretend it does not exist. Thank goodness for Erick Stakelbeck over at the Christian Broadcasting Network.

And let me say yet again, it is Christian Evangelicals who get it. It is Christian zionists whom proud Jews must align themselves with and support fiercely. Jewish organizations in America are selling out the Jewish people. It is time we looked reality in the face and recognized who our friends are. Stop giving Jewicidal organizations your support and your money -- it's blood money. Support those who understand the threat to the West and their favorite target, the Jewish homeland.

First Thoughts on NC Terror Arrests CBN

The terror arrests outside Raleigh, North Carolina are big for a few reasons. 1) This was a homegrown cell based in rural America. 2) It was led by a white convert to Islam named Daniel Patrick Boyd. 3) The cell had plotted against Israel, which means they could very well have targeted Jewish sites on U.S. soil as well. We still don't have all the details on that front. But a common thread in many recent terror arrests on U.S. soil is a desire among the suspects to hit Jewish targets, either here or abroad.

This NC cell was based in a rural area outside Raleigh. Rural America is the perfect place for jihadis to lay low and train. In fact, I have been following the "jihad in rural America" angle for some time: it is real and troubling. I've reported from the backwoods compound of a radical group called Muslims of America; from sleepy Shelbyville, TN, where hundreds of Somali Muslims have flocked in recent years; from rural Virginia, again, where a terror cell trained for jihad by playing paintball; and from Tulsa, Oklahoma,  where a moderate Muslim man was threatened for speaking out against jihad. And let's not forget the attempt to establish a terror training camp in the backwoods of Bly, Oregon.

Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this North Carolina jihad cell is that it was apparently made up of mostly white converts to Islam. Indeed, Daniel Patrick Boyd looked like your typical good 'ol boy. He ran a drywall business with his family. Neighbors frequently observed him walking his dog (and here I thought that dogs were haram among jihadis) and so far have portayed him as a pretty unassuming guy. Frankly, Boyd had the perfect cover. Let's face it: a predominantly white, Christian rural area outside of Raleigh, NC is the last place you would suspect an Islamic terror cell to set up shop. And you probably wouldn't look twice at lily white Daniel Boyd if he were walking through airport security. These are all reasons why Al Qaeda continues to make strong efforts to recruit white Westerners into their fold, as I reported in December. 

A last interesting tidbit about Boyd: he was a veteran of terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan who fought against the Soviet Union during the 1980's. So this cell was not led by an amateur.

UPDATE: More here: (hat tip Pamela)

Daniel Patrick Boyd, 39, led a U.S. group that plotted international terrorism attacks, authorities said Monday. Boyd, a North Carolina drywall contractor, got military-style training while in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992 and recruited his two sons and four other men to wage a "violent jihad," the indictment said.

Authorities believe Boyd's roots in terrorism run deep. They said when he was in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1989 through 1992, he had military-style training in terrorist camps and fought the Soviets, who were ending their occupation of Afghanistan.

Prosecutors say Boyd's time in Pakistan also included terrorist training that he brought back to North Carolina, where over the past three years he recruited followers willing to die as martyrs waging jihad — the Arabic word for holy war.

Prosecutors would not detail what the group was targeting overseas. An indictment said they provided money, training, transportation and men to help terrorists. Boyd and some of the others traveled to Israel in June 2007 intending to wage "violent jihad," but returned home without success, the document said.

Sons Zakariya Boyd, 20, and Dylan Boyd, 22, were named in the indictment. Another son, Luqman, died two years ago in a car accident.

The others charged are Anes Subasic, 33; Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, 22; and Ziyad Yaghi, 21. Hysen Sherifi, 24, a native of Kosovo and a U.S. legal permanent resident was also charged in the case. He was the only person arrested who was not a U.S. citizen.

The seven men made their first court appearances in Raleigh on Monday, charged with providing material support to terrorism and "conspiracy to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons abroad." If convicted, they could face life in prison.

No attorneys for the men were listed in court records.

Boyd lived at an unassuming lakeside home in a rural area south of Raleigh, where he and his family operated a drywall business.

Jim Stephenson, a neighbor in Willow Spring, said he often saw the Boyd family walking their dog. The indictment shocked neighbors.

"We never saw anything to give any clues that something like that could be going on in their family," Stephenson said.

Obama Woos State Sponsor of Terror, Syria - Lifts Ban on Air Industry

In Obama's continuing quest to slake the bloodlust of despots and dictators:

Obama. Woos Damascus by Easing Export Ban - Jay Solomon
U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell told Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Sunday that the U.S. has decided to ease sanctions on spare aircraft parts, information-technology products and telecommunications equipment, sales of which had been restricted. The move represents the latest action in a rapidly accelerating rapprochement between Washington and Damascus. While U.S. officials said Monday that the move doesn't mark a formal lifting or easing of sanctions on Damascus, the president will use his waiver authority under congressionally mandated sanctions to aid purchases of U.S. products deemed important to the welfare of the Syrian people. (Wall Street Journal)

Will Obama Bow to Syria, too?

Over at JW:

Syria has been on the list of State Sponsors of Terror since 1979. Bush removed our ambassador in 2005 because of Syria's murderous meddling in Lebanon and its support of Hamas and Hizballah -- and what has changed since then?

Another Which-Side-Is-Obama-On Alert: "Syrian envoy: 'US lifts ban on air industry,'" from the Jerusalem Post,

What's changed? Only that their evil agenda has advanced -- an advance made possible by the sanction of the West. From March 20th: SYRIAN REACTION TO OBAMA: JIHAD CHANGED THE WORLD, NOT OBAMA

Syrian Reactions to Initial Contacts with Obama Administration: The U.S. has Capitulated to Syria and Iran; The Resistance, Not Obama, has Changed the World

• Introduction
• Syrian Reactions to Renewal of Dialogue with U.S.: Syria has No Intention of Changing Its Policy and will Continue to be Part of Resistance camp; It is the U.S. that Must Change Its Policy
• Assad's Political Advisor: "It is Time to Stop Telling Syria and Iran to Sever Their Relations with Hizbullah, Hamas, and the Other Resistance Organizations"
• Former Syrian Minister: Three Scenarios for U.S.–Syria Cooperation
• Syria's Demand for Fundamental Changes in U.S. Policy
• The U.S. has Capitulated to Syria and Iranl
• Former Syrian Minister: "We Can Not Believe that the [Obama] Administration Suddenly Discovered Moral Sentiments or Positions that Prompted the Turnaround [in Its Attitude]"
• Damascus and Tehran Are No Longer Seen as Two Separate Players
• Lebanese Columnist Writing in Teshreen: Whoever Bets on the Resistance Withdrawing from Its Decisions – Ends Up Losing Again and Again
• The Obama Administration Will Not Help Improve U.S.-Syrian Relations
• Notes

It's pathetic:

In a Teshreen article, former Syrian information minister Mahdi Dahlallah reviewed the points of agreement and controversy between Syria and the U.S., and presented several scenarios for cooperation between them:

"Syria and Washington agree on three things: on terrorism, on peace, and on weapons of mass destruction. They disagree on three things: on terrorism, on peace, and on weapons of mass destruction...

"[As for] terrorism, Syria's position is that the most significant terrorism in the region is [perpetrated by] the state of Israel, whose barbarism and brutality are beyond anything that human history has ever known. Then there is the terrorism of the groups that engage in takfir [i.e., accuse others of heresy, such as Al-Qaeda]… The foundation of [Syria's] position is a total rejection of the deliberate confusion between resistance and terrorism. The U.S., on the other hand, regards the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance as the source of terrorism, and sees anyone who supports them as responsible for terrorism. This is a fundamental difference in the positions of the two countries. However, there is agreement regarding the designation of the takfir groups – especially Al-Qaeda and its offshoots – as terrorist [organizations]…

"[Regarding the issue of] peace, Syria's position is clear. [It is in favor of a] comprehensive peace based on the [U.N. resolutions]… The U.S. must play an active and meaningful role [in this process], since Israel will not accept peace willingly, [but will agree to it] only if coerced. Washington, on the other hand, thinks that the peace agreement must be bilateral, and that its only role should be that of an impartial mediator… Washington believes that pressure must be exerted on the Arabs, but that exerting pressure on Israel is almost unthinkable…

"[Last, as for] WMDs, Syria is cognizant of Israel's dangerous nuclear arsenal, while the U.S. sees [only] Iran's so-called nuclear program. This is the greatest point of disagreement between the two sides…

"There are three practical scenarios for cooperation [between Syria and the U.S.]:

"1. Placing the bilateral relations and cooperation above the regional issues. There is no doubt that a positive atmosphere in the bilateral relations [between the U.S. and Syria] would lead to greater understanding on the regional issues. The problem is that, so far, Washington [has insisted] on linking the bilateral relations with the regional issues.(23)

"2. Agreeing that Syria should mediate between Iran and the West…

"3. A change in the U.S. position vis-à-vis the Arab-Israeli conflict (a remote possibility)."(24)

Syria's Demand for Fundamental Changes in U.S. Policy

ACTION ALERT: Protest Chuck Schumer

I think this is a great kick off to the dump Schumer campaign. Seriously. The man who equated free speech to pornography has got to go. And that's just for starters. He is the worst kind of political hack.

Gathering of Eagles:

Action Alert Say NO to Nationalized Healthcare at Sen. Chuck Schumer's Manhattan office!

Join Tea Party Patriots and concerned citizens to urge Senator Schumer to vote against Nationalized Health Care.

When: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 6:30pm
Where: 757 Third Avenue,

New York, NY Between  E47th and E48th Sts.

Dump Chuck 2010!

The Burka Squad!

In the seventies, the mod squad was iconic of the culture -- today, it's the burka police squad. Ah, how far society has progressed.

Very PC police force issues its WPCs with Muslim headscarves complete with badge for mosque visits

Women police officers are being issued with headscarves to wear when they visit a mosque.

They are expected to put the scarfs on shortly before they enter the mosque, in keeping with Islamic custom.

There are two versions - one matches the black of a police officer's uniform, while another goes with the blue uniforms worn by community support officers.

The headscarves are being given out by Avon and Somerset Police, and have the force's emblem sewn on.

They have already been given to seven officers, including Assistant Chief Constable Jackie Roberts, and eight community support officers who work with Muslim groups in the area.

Mrs Roberts said: 'It recognises and respects the cultural and religious practices of our communities. This is a very positive addition to the uniform and one which I'm sure will be a welcome item for many of our officers.'

What about respect for Western values?

There are two versions of the head covering - to match the black of a police officer's uniform and the blue of the police community support officer's uniform

'This will go a long way in encouraging a trustful relationship between the police and the Muslim community. The police have been working closely with the Muslim community for the last few years