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Saturday, May 18, 2013
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- ALL YOU LOUD-MOUTHED FEMINISTS: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU! WHY ARE YOU NOT PROTESTING A WOMAN GANG-RAPED BY MUSLIMS AND THEN JAILED UNDER SHARIA LAW
- BLINDNESS ON BENGHAZI AND THE ISLAMIC THREAT: HILLARY CLINTON TO RECEIVE THE "HELEN KELLER" AWARD
- CRAZY PROGRESSIVE POLITICS -- DHS: MORE AFRAID OF RIGHT-WING "EXTREMISTS" WHO VOTE THAN MUSLIM TERRORISTS WHO KILL?
Posted: 17 May 2013 09:21 PM PDT Have you all noticed that the loud-mouthed militant feminists refuse to go to their aid of their sisters when it comes to protesting the abhorrent civil rights of women under sharia law? This is the march and protest crowd that refuses to march and protest in Muslim countries where women are routinely and ritualistically killed, mutilated, tortured, and rapes as part of a corrupt legal system that denies that women have basic civil rights.
Bottom line … All you harpies that talk the talk: STFU until you start walking the walk. No wonder Rush Limbaugh refers to them as the Feminazis at NAG.
-- steve  |
BLINDNESS ON BENGHAZI AND THE ISLAMIC THREAT: HILLARY CLINTON TO RECEIVE THE "HELEN KELLER" AWARD Posted: 17 May 2013 09:07 PM PDT You cannot make this stuff up. Hillary Clinton will be honored with the Helen Keller Humanitarian Award in recognition of her tireless dedication to improving food and nutrition security, enhancing the health of tens of millions of women and children around the world … The Spirit of Helen Keller Gala will take place onWednesday, May 22, 2013 at Christie’s in New York City. The evening will begin at 6:00pm with cocktails, followed by a seated dinner and dynamic live auction. We are thrilled to announce that Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will accept the Helen Keller Humanitarian Award in recognition of her tireless dedication to improving food and nutrition security, enhancing the health of tens of millions of women and children around the world. This year, we will also present longtime Trustee and devoted HKI advocate Kate Ganz with the Spirit of Helen Keller Award and generous HKI supporter Lions Clubs International with the Helen Keller Visionary Award. Christopher Burge, Honorary Chair of Christie’s, will serve as our Gala Honorary Chair. Source:Spirit of Helen Keller Gala - Helen Keller Int'l To connect Hillary Clinton’s name with that of Helen Keller is a travesty …
Bottom line … Hillary Clinton will receive a prestigious award for doing NOTHING. It was the American taxpayer’s money that was spent by elected officials acting in the name of “We the People.” It really pisses me off that blowhard ideologues like Hillary Clinton collect acclaim and awards for doing their damn job – and, in Hillary Clinton’s case – a piss-poor effort at that. So, if anything, I will continue to hold Helen Keller in high esteem and be politically incorrect and say that the only reason that Hillary Clinton should get this award is because she has been blind and deaf on so many critical issues of international importance. In essence, enjoying a worldwide tour of foreign dignitaries to feather her future political nest or possible to drum-up business for Clinton’s various enterprises. Especially since it was revealed that her constant traveling companion, Huma Abedin, was engaged in undisclosed commercial activities while working for Hillary Clinton and the Department of State. Perhaps it is time for our elected officials to accept all awards in the name of the United States of America Citizens who pay the freight for the apparent generosity of elected officials. -- steve  |
Posted: 17 May 2013 07:53 PM PDT It seems logical that the progressives would be more worried about conservatives who can expose their wrongdoing and vote them out of office than they would real terrorists who are likely to kill a relatively few number of people in the United States. Therefore, one must ask what political influences have coerced our Department of Homeland Security to show great deference to Muslim activists who want to implement Sharia law in the United States over those who are demanding that politicians and the government uphold their oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the United States Constitution? Could it be that the progressives are willing to abide a pro-Muslim president and his fellow travels just so long as the progressives can use the “useful idiot” in office to advance their own socialist agenda? It seems the most likely explanation for what we are seeing. Pro-Muslim groups being given a pass – even when there are demonstrable links to terrorism and foreign sovereign states – while conservative groups are being persecuted and prosecuted. Extremism and Radicalization Branch? It is apparent from an examination of the present administration and the activities of the Congressional Black Caucus, that there are any number of overt race-baiters who owe their positions and professional lives to racial discord – much of it generated internally by those who continue to view everything through their self-serving prism of race. Creating racial discord when none exists in order to continue their pattern and practice of profiting off their race-baiting behavior. So it does not surprise me when the government appears to have an “extremism and radicalization branch” with a radical and racial viewpoint. The real drivers of racial discord are dividers, not uniters, for the sole purpose of gaining and maintaining political power through the use of disaffected coalitions of segmentable classes who are promised that “their grievances” shall be addressed in return for their votes and financial support.
Let’s review: One, speaking about economic downturns, poverty, and the lack of opportunities – one might want to take a look at the inner cities, controlled by democrats for decades, where there are few decent opportunities, gang violence and drugs are prevalent, and there is a high proportion of individuals who may have been exposed to radicalization in the prison population; affiliating with violent prison gangs as a matter of everyday survival. Two, speaking about undemocratic ideas, one must note that Black Liberation Theology, as taught by radical activists like President Barack Obama’s mentor, Jeremiah Wright, have their roots in international socialism/communism and are often linked with anti-America, anti-White, anti-Jew sentiments. Providing the same type of precursor conditions to radicalization on the left as on the right. And, three, if the government were about governing ALL the people, we would not be seeing a document concentrating on one side of the political spectrum, but a even-handed, fair-minded document concentrating on the problems of radicalization wherever and whenever it is found.
You would have to be blind not to see the clear and present danger our flawed immigration system has produced. Whereby foreign nationals, both legal and illegal, have changed the demographics of California by mass immigration without mass assimilation. One need only look to Europe to see the same pattern being played out with Muslim immigration patterns. Forming dense communities which then demand political representation and their own cultural norms be obeyed. Sometimes yielding to a rise in cultural thugocracy and the exclusion of duly constituted law enforcement agencies. It appears that some groups are more equal than others …
Disliking your government is suspicious if you are on the right, but perfectly normal and acceptable if you are an Islamic extremist. The Constitution is not a suicide pact and political correctness is not a solution to combatting terror … Enough! No more of this hyper-partisan bullshit. I don’t care if they are white supremacists, Black Muslims, or green Martians – they need to abide by the Constitution of the United States and sanctioned should they decide to overthrow the government by violent means. Bottom line … There will always be someone who is more disadvantaged than their neighbor. Unfortunately, today’s politicians believe that they can gain or maintain power more easily by managing scarcity (as per socialistic practices) and pitting the classes against each other than growing the economy and watching a rising tide lift all boats. The real problem in America is not the right-wing nor the left-wing, it is the corrupt politicians who use whatever grievances are at hand, whether real or imagined, to pursue their own political agenda. Left by themselves, most people embrace their neighbors and neighborhoods – forming a sense of community. Until political agitators appear to convince certain segments of the population that they are disadvantaged by “the man.” If one wants to see the process of radicalization and alienation in real time, one needs to look at Barack Obama’s mentor, to see the hate pouring out of his system and infecting his flock. It doesn’t matter much to DHS that this man is every bit as dangerous as the local Imam preaching jihad. The real bottom line is that we need to hold our politicians and government to account. To call them on their own overt racism and prejudices when they attempt to tell us that the threat exists mainly on the right – and totally ignore the threat of radical Islam or the potential violence from a large influx of foreign influences. This is not being xenophobic, but understanding the risks posed by those who do not embrace the American “melting pot” culture and who demand that there be city markers saying designating ethnic enclaves within a much larger and impersonal city. No more corruption. There are threats on the right and the left … but be honest enough to address all of the threats to America and her citizens. Or resign your job and move to the country of your choice. -- steve  |
Strassel: The IRS Scandal Started at the Top
The bureaucrats at the Internal Revenue Service did exactly what the president said was the right and honorable thing to do.
By Kimberly A. Strassel
Was the White House involved in the IRS's targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was.
President Obama and Co. are in full deniability mode, noting that the IRS is an "independent" agency and that they knew nothing about its abuse. The media and Congress are sleuthing for some hint that Mr. Obama picked up the phone and sicced the tax dogs on his enemies.
But that's not how things work in post-Watergate Washington. Mr. Obama didn't need to pick up the phone. All he needed to do was exactly what he did do, in full view, for three years: Publicly suggest that conservative political groups were engaged in nefarious deeds; publicly call out by name political opponents whom he'd like to see harassed; and publicly have his party pressure the IRS to take action.
Mr. Obama now professes shock and outrage that bureaucrats at the IRS did exactly what the president of the United States said was the right and honorable thing to do. "He put a target on our backs, and he's now going to blame the people who are shooting at us?" asks Idaho businessman and longtime Republican donor Frank VanderSloot.
This was the Obama version of the phone call—put out to every government investigator (and liberal activist) in the land.
Twelve days later, a man working for a political opposition-research firm called an Idaho courthouse for Mr. VanderSloot's divorce records. In June, the IRS informed Mr. VanderSloot and his wife of an audit of two years of their taxes. In July, the Department of Labor informed him of an audit of the guest workers on his Idaho cattle ranch. In September, the IRS informed him of a second audit, of one of his businesses. Mr. VanderSloot, who had never been audited before, was subject to three in the four months after Mr. Obama teed him up for such scrutiny.
The last of these audits was only concluded in recent weeks. Not one resulted in a fine or penalty. But Mr. VanderSloot has been waiting more than 20 months for a sizable refund and estimates his legal bills are $80,000. That figure doesn't account for what the president's vilification has done to his business and reputation.
The Obama call for scrutiny wasn't a mistake; it was the president's strategy—one pursued throughout 2012. The way to limit Romney money was to intimidate donors from giving. Donate, and the president would at best tie you to Big Oil or Wall Street, at worst put your name in bold, and flag you as "less than reputable" to everyone who worked for him: the IRS, the SEC, the Justice Department. The president didn't need a telephone; he had a megaphone.
The same threat was made to conservative groups that might dare play in the election. As early as January 2010, Mr. Obama would, in his state of the union address, cast aspersions on the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, claiming that it "reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests" (read conservative groups).
The president derided "tea baggers." Vice President Joe Biden compared them to "terrorists." In more than a dozen speeches Mr. Obama raised the specter that these groups represented nefarious interests that were perverting elections. "Nobody knows who's paying for these ads," he warned. "We don't know where this money is coming from," he intoned.
In case the IRS missed his point, he raised the threat of illegality: "All around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads against Democratic candidates . . . And they don't have to say who exactly the Americans for Prosperity are. You don't know if it's a foreign-controlled corporation."
Short of directly asking federal agencies to investigate these groups, this is as close as it gets. Especially as top congressional Democrats were putting in their own versions of phone calls, sending letters to the IRS that accused it of having "failed to address" the "problem" of groups that were "improperly engaged" in campaigns. Because guess who controls that "independent" agency's budget?
The IRS is easy to demonize, but it doesn't exist in a vacuum. It got its heading from a president, and his party, who did in fact send it orders—openly, for the world to see. In his Tuesday press grilling, no question agitated White House Press Secretary Jay Carney more than the one that got to the heart of the matter: Given the president's "animosity" towardCitizens United, might he have "appreciated or wanted the IRS to be looking and scrutinizing those . . ." Mr. Carney cut off the reporter with "That's a preposterous assertion."
Preposterous because, according to Mr. Obama, he is "outraged" and "angry" that the IRS looked into the very groups and individuals that he spent years claiming were shady, undemocratic, even lawbreaking. After all, he expects the IRS to "operate with absolute integrity." Even when he does not.
Write to kim@wsj.com.
A version of this article appeared May 17, 2013, on page A13 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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