It’s a topsy-turvy world when CNN has a segment not only with Stanley Kurtz participating but where they actually do some good reporting on a…gasp….Democrat:
They shoot down as a lie the Obama statement that he only “briefly” served on a board with Ayers, they talk about the fact that most of the grants that came from that board went to radical causes, and then Drew Griffin tells the anchor, Anderson Cooper, how he had spoken to two people who attended the political coming out party for Obama held in the livingroom of Ayers and they both said Obama lied about the party being arranged by Alice Palmer instead of Ayers. Read the rest of this entry »
Barabbas was a thief, and Barabbas was a murderer. This they knew, yet they still shouted, “Give us Barabbas!” That the man they were condemning in his stead was completely innocent never entered their minds. Yes it is true that Jesus Christ was a great spiritual leader, but Barabbas was a man of action, and that is what they wanted. Someone who would fight to restore their independence from Rome. So what if he was a murderer and a thief?, as long as the Romans were the ones he was murdering or stealing from.
Barabbas was an insurrectionist; he was their Che Guevara, ready to fight the oppressors using any and all means. Some say he was Sicari, and Sicari were dangerous folk. They hated Rome and everything associated with it. Zealots they were called because zealots they were, filled with righteous indignation and carrying long, sharp daggers concealed beneath their clothes. The Sicari were assasins, not to be messed with. For them, the righteousness of their ends justified the brutality of their means. Read the rest of this entry »
My first instinct, I’m ashamed to say, was to laugh. It’s wrong to laugh at other people’s suffering-PERIOD, and it’s even more wrong to do so when people are suffering because they’ve been misled about simple ideas. I mean, if someone loses a family member you don’t laugh at em (even if it was during a freak dynamite fishing incident gone bad or something similarly stupid). We’re supposed to feel empathy for each other. We’re supposed to take care of each other. So it is that I’m trying hard to feel sympathy for those who have been SO SO SO misled about McCain/Palin that they’re losing sleep, can’t think, can’t eat, and are actually seeking therapy over their fears; their misled paranoia.
Remember, these people are Americans. They are our brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers. They are our friends. They are Americans, and they are in pain. As funny as it might be to laugh at someone for being afraid of Sarah Palin, it is wrong to laugh at their pain. A more appropriate response is to try and comfort them, and that can only be done by informing them that their fears, paranoia, panic, and obsession is based on political propaganda rather than reality. link
Never before in the course of American history, has a pair of high heels caused so much terror.
NBC has pulled the video off the internet and is deleting comments on its message boards asking about it. Seems as if the players over at Saturday Night live might read American Thinker. This weekend they ran a skit that mentioned the fall of Wachovia, the finance crisis and the roles of Herb and Marion Sandler and George Soros (who they identified as the owner of the Democratic Party).
Michelle Malkin has a theory as to why the video was pulled.
The skit is funny because there’s some actual underlying truth to the humor:
No? Then why would you vote for a candidate whose political career he helped to launch?
Obama patron William Ayers trods on the American flag.
On September 11th, 2001, as jets hijacked by terrorists slammed into the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and that field in Pennsylvania, the New York Times published an article citing William Ayers (above) saying “I Don’t Regret Setting Bombs … I Feel We Didn’t Do Enough.” Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970’s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.” (Dinitia Smith, “No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives,” The New York Times, 9/11/01)
At the time that article came out Barack Hussein Obama was serving on the Board of the Woods Fund with William Ayers. They are neighbors in the fancy Chicago neighborhood where the Rev. Louis Farrakhan also lives. Birds of a feather flock together!
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was supposed to be all about educational reform. The original funds from Annenberg were $50-60 mil. With ensuing fundraising efforts, that tally ended at approx $160 mil. However over $100 mil of that went to political purposes via community organizing and campaigns for LSC friendly candidates that Ayers/Obama supported for educational reform in Chicago schools.
Since Ayers and Obama teamed up for educational reform, just what kind of “reform” (which ended in failure) was Obama helping Ayers attempt to achieve?
For that we dig back to a 2006 interview between William Ayers, and Venezuelan socialist Luis Bonilla-Molina, founder of the Centro Internacional Miranda (CIM). HotAir’s Ed Morrissey posted one of the 12 Ayers videos included in this collection back in August of this year. He also noted the interview took place with the Che portrait hanging in the background… oddly appropriate.
In Ed’s piece, he chose the one where Ayers discussed how the Weather Underground was a “great teaching moment”. You can read Ed’s thoughts at the link above.
I, however, found the last two videos of Ayers’ interview far more revealing about Ayers’ vision of the future for US public schools. Since Ayers and Obama share a common vision, and Obama minces his words about his educational reform to cater to a nation who doesn’t cotton to outright socialist/Marxist ideals, perhaps Ayers can verbalize what Obama dances around.
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for a new trial for death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer.
The justices did not comment on their action Monday, which leaves in place a state Supreme Court ruling upholding Abu-Jamal’s murder conviction.
Separately, a federal appeals court also has upheld the conviction, but ordered a new sentencing hearing.
Officer Daniel Faulkner was shot to death after pulling over Abu-Jamal’s brother in an overnight traffic stop.
When you have time check out the newly redesigned website Justice For Police Officer Daniel Faulkner which has tons of information, documents and evidence to support the conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
In 1981, Ayatollah Khomeini explained the meaning of a Mecca-direction indicator (called a mihrab), like the one now being planted on the Flight 93 crash site:
Mehrab means the place of war, the place of fighting. Out of the mehrabs, wars should proceed, just as all the wars of Islam used to proceeded out of the mehrabs. [Hat tip Yoel Natan, Moon-o-theism, p. 30]
The I-ah-told-you-so wasn’t just speaking allegorically either. The University of Chicago’s Francis Joseph Seinglass Comprehensive Persian-English dictionary lists amongst its definitions for mihrab: “warlike,” and “a field of battle.” (Hat tip Czechmade.)
Anyone who thinks it is okay to build the world’s largest mihrab on the Flight 93 crash site really should read Khomeini’s whole speech (his tribute to Muhammad). It’s only two pages, but psychopathic hellspawn like Khomeini can pack an awful lot of murder-lust into a short space, when every stinking sentence is a plea for wanton slaughter. Read the rest of this entry »
At the completion of my investigation, I filed my report with the committee. I recommended that no further action be taken against Senators McCain and Glenn principally because once they learned that there was a criminal referral, they stopped aggressively doing Keating’s bidding with the regulators.
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After reviewing my report, the committee voted on October 23, 1990, to hold a public adjudicatory fact-finding hearing in the matter as to all five senators. This was perhaps the first time the recommendation of a special counsel not to charge a senator was rejected. This was pure politics as the Democrats on the committee did not want to cut McCain loose so that only Democrats would remain in the proceedings. If Senator McCain was not going to be cut loose, in retaliation the Republicans were going to keep Senator Glenn in the proceedings. McCain was the victim of politics, and poor Glenn was held captive to the decision on McCain. So much for nonpartisanship.
The committee ruled that Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, Donald Riegle of Michigan, and Alan Cranston of California “had acted improperly in interfering with the Federal Home Loan Banking Board’s investigation.” Read the rest of this entry »
The Obama campaign is out in force trying to walk the Ayers story backwards by now….get this….saying that Obama didn’t know about Ayers past.
DAVID AXELROD: Well I mean, when he went, he certainly — he didn’t know the history.
But Erik Erickson points out that Obama would have had to been inside a cocoon in Chicago to not know about Ayers and his past. As the city got ready for the 1996 convention newspapers would reminisce about the violent convention as this 1994 article did: Read the rest of this entry »
…Palin had remarked ruefully almost a week ago that her son Track had been, since his recent deployment to Iraq, in touch with his girlfriend but not his mother, I asked whether she had subsequently heard from him.
Palin told me she had. “He called the day of the debate, and it was so wonderful because it was the first call since they were deployed over there, and it was like a burden lifted even when I heard his voice.” Palin said that she told him that she had a debate that night. “And he says, ‘Yeah, I heard, Mom,’ and he says, ‘Have you been studying?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I have,’ and he goes, ‘O.K., well I’ll be praying.’ I’m like — total role reversal here, that’s what I’ve been telling him for 19 years.”
Dave doug1: McCain, “due to his absence on several key votes”, got a D. Obama “missed four of the key votes” and got a B. Biden “missed three” and...
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Mike's America David: How can you trust a man to address the important issues you stress if we don’t even know WHO the man really is? Character is important. If a man has good...
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ThomNJ Oh yeah, and they could add that obama SOUGHT and RECEIVED the political backing from the avowed Marxist “New Party” in Chicago back in 1995. This group was...
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David Howard, Let me ask you something. What do these storys have to do with our curent Economic crisis. What does Rev. Write and Bill ayers have to do with 159,000 jobs lost this...
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Bob There was no skit, go about your business. His Excellency Lord Barack is watching over you.
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ThomNJ Anderson Cooper tries his best to discount the story, doesn’t he? The other part missing is that the reporter says that Ayers held a decidedly different view of America...
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Curt @Marion Valentine: Just caught up as well….my prayers are with you Marion
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MataHarley Wow… I just caught up with this thread, and I’m very saddened to hear your news, Marion. You shall not only be missed here on FA, and on this earth. But you...
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Mike's America H.L. Since we don’t know much of anything about Obama except what he has been whiling to tell us it is imperative that the American people take a closer look at...
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Aye Chihuahua Theresa, Here is the story about the house that was bombed with the children in it. The author, John Murtaugh, was one of the children. He was 9. During the April 16...
