Why is it that when Mohammad Abdulazeez kills five military members, the feds, as well as the media, emphasize how he was a "lone wolf?" The government spends a week trying to find something, anything besides Islamic extremism, to explain the attack. He was depressed, he used drugs, anything to deflect from the fact that he was from the religion of pieces. I'm so damn sick and tired of political correctness and the media's (and Obama's) hesitation to acknowledge Islamic extremism.
Contrast the "lone wolf" Islamic extremist with Dylan Roof, the Charleston shooter. The media, South Carolina legislators, and the black community at large continue the attitude, if not outright statements, about how he represents all white southerners. He can't be a "lone wolf." Rather, he represents all whites. All whites are racist. He couldn't be depressed, a drug user, or plain crazy since that's reserved for Islamic extremists. And since Roof represents all whites, and had a Confederate flag, then we have to ban Confederate flags. To hell with the first amendment. That's our federal government for you...shredding the constitution since 2007. The same picture that shows him with the flag shows him wearing a Gold's Gym shirt. How about we ban those shirts? They inspire hate too because when I see a Gold's Gym shirt I think Dylan Roof and how I hate him. See how absurd that sounds? Yet that is the same absurdity that conservatives face daily in the hypocritical, upside-down world of liberalism in which we live.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
The Twisted Values of Pop-Culture America
So Bruce Jenner gets the Arthur Ashe Courage Award
and pop-culture America fawns over him. I choose not to be part of pop-culture
America because it is generally the lowest common denominator for the
unsophisticated, ignorant, and those with a weak moral compass (or “liberals”
for short). Yet, the media and those who support this twisted crap have to shove it in our face again.
Liberal ESPN and pop-culture overlooks so many
more deserving recipients of this award.
Take the case of Devon Still, defensive tackle for the Bengals. His daughter has been battling cancer for
years and through it all he has, by all reports, been a devoted and loving
father going through something no parent (or child) deserves. Research his story yourself. Other more deserving recipients would be
Lauren Hill (the high school/college basketball player who died of brain cancer
at 19), But no, ESPN (with pop-culture support) gives the award to someone who’s
greatest hardship has been having to decide what breast size to order. Its not right, and anyone who supports this
choice of recipients should be ashamed of themselves. But this is the entertainment world we’re talking
about, a bastion of twisted values and no moral compass.And for those who prefer the meme method of communication, these are for you:
Monday, May 4, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The Big Lie behind ‘Black Lives Matter’
The Big Lie behind ‘Black Lives Matter’
by Dennis Prager April 21, 2015 12:00 AM
The “Black Lives Matter” campaign is based on as big a lie as the “campus rape culture” lie, the Rolling Stone magazine gang rape at the University of Virginia fraternity lie, the gang rape by the Duke University lacrosse team lie, the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” Ferguson lie, and all the other lies that animate leftist hysterias.
Building hysterias based on falsehoods is a primary modus operandi on the left. One can even say that without hysteria there is no Left.
First a lie or exaggeration is manufactured. Then it is repeated over and over by the mainstream media and myriad left-wing groups; academics hold conferences and write thoughtful-sounding op-ed pieces about the fake issue; meanwhile activists on its behalf demonstrate, taking over public buildings and highways, sometimes violently.
The latest left-wing hysteria is “Black Lives Matter,” based on the lie that black lives don’t matter because white police kill blacks wantonly.
Two weeks ago the cover of Time featured the words “Black Lives Matter” in stark white letters on a black background. The cover also featured photos of what appears to be the morally inexcusable fatal police shooting of Walter Scott, a black man, as he ran away from a routine police stop. Credit the Left with never giving up. In North Charleston, South Carolina, the Left finally found its seemingly perfect example of a wholly unjustified police killing of a black man. Hence the Time cover.
The problem with the mantra and the hysteria is not that no blacks are ever killed unjustifiably by police. The problem is that it is so rare as to constitute a libel.
In 2013, of America’s 6,261 black homicide victims, more than 6,000 of them — 97 percent — were killed by people other than police. About 3 percent of black homicide victims were killed by police. And of that 3 percent, nearly every one was armed and dangerous. To label that an epidemic of police racism is a libel.
In addition, more than nine out of every ten blacks murdered were murdered by another black person. Now that is an epidemic — an epidemic of black murderers. (In response, it is pointed out that about 83 percent of whites are murdered by whites. But there is no equivalency here. Blacks murder at nearly eight times the rate whites do — 34.4 per 100,000 versus 4.5 per 100,000.)
In the eyes of Americans who value truth, the black and white leftists who blamed the Ferguson, Mo., police officer for Michael Brown’s death despite knowing absolutely nothing about what actually happened look like demagogues now that the truth has come out. That’s why so many police officers turned their backs on New York’s left-wing mayor, Bill de Blasio, when he attended the funerals of the two New York City policemen murdered by a black man angry about Ferguson and the Staten Island death of Eric Garner (another black man who died at the hands of police who, as in Ferguson, were not indicted). They were repulsed by de Blasio’s generalizations about police racism.
So here is a truth. The Left is not only engaging in demagoguery and creating hysteria when it claims that “Blacks Lives Matter” in reference to police killings of blacks. It is also not telling the truth. Black lives don’t really interest the Left. If they did, the Left would focus on all the black murderers taking black lives.
The Left’s overriding interest lies elsewhere: in defaming America, with its “legacy of slavery,” “institutional racism,” and “white privilege,” and in depicting white police as racists. To understand the Left one must first understand that it hates conservatives more than it loves almost anything.
Because if it really believed that “Black Lives Matter,” its message would be “Black Murderers Matter.”
— Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His book, The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code, was published recently by Regnery. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com
by Dennis Prager April 21, 2015 12:00 AM
The “Black Lives Matter” campaign is based on as big a lie as the “campus rape culture” lie, the Rolling Stone magazine gang rape at the University of Virginia fraternity lie, the gang rape by the Duke University lacrosse team lie, the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” Ferguson lie, and all the other lies that animate leftist hysterias.
Building hysterias based on falsehoods is a primary modus operandi on the left. One can even say that without hysteria there is no Left.
First a lie or exaggeration is manufactured. Then it is repeated over and over by the mainstream media and myriad left-wing groups; academics hold conferences and write thoughtful-sounding op-ed pieces about the fake issue; meanwhile activists on its behalf demonstrate, taking over public buildings and highways, sometimes violently.
The latest left-wing hysteria is “Black Lives Matter,” based on the lie that black lives don’t matter because white police kill blacks wantonly.
Two weeks ago the cover of Time featured the words “Black Lives Matter” in stark white letters on a black background. The cover also featured photos of what appears to be the morally inexcusable fatal police shooting of Walter Scott, a black man, as he ran away from a routine police stop. Credit the Left with never giving up. In North Charleston, South Carolina, the Left finally found its seemingly perfect example of a wholly unjustified police killing of a black man. Hence the Time cover.
The problem with the mantra and the hysteria is not that no blacks are ever killed unjustifiably by police. The problem is that it is so rare as to constitute a libel.
In 2013, of America’s 6,261 black homicide victims, more than 6,000 of them — 97 percent — were killed by people other than police. About 3 percent of black homicide victims were killed by police. And of that 3 percent, nearly every one was armed and dangerous. To label that an epidemic of police racism is a libel.
In addition, more than nine out of every ten blacks murdered were murdered by another black person. Now that is an epidemic — an epidemic of black murderers. (In response, it is pointed out that about 83 percent of whites are murdered by whites. But there is no equivalency here. Blacks murder at nearly eight times the rate whites do — 34.4 per 100,000 versus 4.5 per 100,000.)
In the eyes of Americans who value truth, the black and white leftists who blamed the Ferguson, Mo., police officer for Michael Brown’s death despite knowing absolutely nothing about what actually happened look like demagogues now that the truth has come out. That’s why so many police officers turned their backs on New York’s left-wing mayor, Bill de Blasio, when he attended the funerals of the two New York City policemen murdered by a black man angry about Ferguson and the Staten Island death of Eric Garner (another black man who died at the hands of police who, as in Ferguson, were not indicted). They were repulsed by de Blasio’s generalizations about police racism.
So here is a truth. The Left is not only engaging in demagoguery and creating hysteria when it claims that “Blacks Lives Matter” in reference to police killings of blacks. It is also not telling the truth. Black lives don’t really interest the Left. If they did, the Left would focus on all the black murderers taking black lives.
The Left’s overriding interest lies elsewhere: in defaming America, with its “legacy of slavery,” “institutional racism,” and “white privilege,” and in depicting white police as racists. To understand the Left one must first understand that it hates conservatives more than it loves almost anything.
Because if it really believed that “Black Lives Matter,” its message would be “Black Murderers Matter.”
— Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His book, The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code, was published recently by Regnery. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com
Monday, March 23, 2015
A Complete Timeline of Obama’s Anti-Israel Hatred
by Ben Shapiro
20 Mar 2015
breitbart.com
On Thursday, the press announced that the Obama administration would fully consider abandoning Israel in international bodies like the United Nations. According to reports, President Obama finally called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to congratulate him – but the “congratulations” was actually a lecture directed at forcing Netanyahu to surrender to the terrorist Palestinian regime.
For some odd reason, many in the media and Congress reacted with surprise to Obama’s supposedly sudden turn on Israel. The media, in an attempt to defend Obama’s radicalism, pretend that Netanyahu’s comments in the late stages of his campaign prompted Obama’s anti-Israel action.
But, in truth, this is the culmination of a longtime Obama policy of destroying the US-Israel relationship; Obama has spent his entire life surrounded by haters of Israel, from former Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman Rashid Khalidi to former Jimmy Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, pro-Hamas negotiator Robert Malley to UN Ambassador Samantha Power (who once suggested using American troops to guard Palestinians from Israelis), Jeremiah Wright (who said “Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me”) to Professor Derrick Bell (“Jewish neoconservative racists…are undermining blacks in every way they can”). Here is a concise timeline, with credit to Dan Senor and the editors of Commentary:
February 2008: Obama says while campaigning, ‘There is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re anti-Israel.” At the time, as Dan Senor pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, Israel was run by the Kadima government run by Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni, and Shimon Peres, and was attempting desperately to bring the Palestinians to the table. Instead, the Palestinians launch war, as always.
June 2008: Obama tells the American Israel Public Affairs Conference that Jerusalem ought to remain undivided, attempting to woo Jewish votes. He then walks that back the next day, saying only that the capital shouldn’t be divided by barbed wire.
March 2009: The Obama administration reverses the Bush era policy of not joining the United Nations Human Rights Council. Secretary of State Clinton said, “Human rights are an essential element of American global foreign policy,” completely neglecting the UNHRC’s abysmally anti-Semitic record. The Washington Post reported that the administration joined the Human Rights Council even though they conceded that it “has devoted excessive attention to alleged abuses by Israel and too little to abuses in places such as Darfur, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.”
May 2009: Obama tells Netanyahu that “settlements have to be stopped in order for us to move forward.” Netanyahu announces a settlement freeze to comply. The Palestinians refuse to negotiate. Obama then slams Israel: “they still found it very hard to move with any bold gestures.”
June 2009: Obama tells the world in his infamous Cairo speech that Israel was only created based on Jewish suffering in the Holocaust. He then says that Palestinians have been similarly victimized by the Jews: “They endure the daily humiliations – large and small – that come with occupation. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.”
July 2009: Obama threatens to put “daylight” between the United States and Israel. He tells Jewish leaders, “Look at the past eight years. During those eight years, there was no space between us and Israel, and what did we get from that?” Except for Israel forcibly removing thousands of Jews from the Gaza Strip, the election of Hamas, and the launch of war by the Palestinians and Hezbollah, nothing happened. Obama then lectures the Jews about the need for Israeli “self-reflection.” The same month, Obama tells CNN that the United States would “absolutely not” give Israel permission to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
September 2009: Obama tells the United Nations that “America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.” Obama’s definition of Israeli settlements, as the world soon learned, included building bathrooms in a home already owned by Jews in East Jerusalem. Obama offers no serious criticism of the Palestinians.
March 2010: Obama follows up on his threatening language about settlements by deploying Vice President Joe Biden to Israel, where Biden rips into the Israelis for building bathrooms in Jerusalem, the eternal Jewish capital. Hillary Clinton then yells at Netanyahu for nearly an hour on the phone, telling him he had “harmed the bilateral relationship.” David Axelrod calls the building plans an “insult” to the United States. When Netanyahu visits the White House a week and a half later, Obama makes him leave via a side door.
April 2010: Obama refuses to prevent the Washington summit on nuclear proliferation from becoming an Arab referendum on the evils of Israel’s nukes.
June 2010: An anonymous “US defense source” leaks to the Times of London that Israel had cut a deal with the Saudis to use their airspace to strike Iran. The deal is scuttled.
May 2011: The State Department labeled Jerusalem not a part of Israel. The same month, Obama demanded that Israel make concessions to the Palestinians based on the pre-1967 borders, which Israelis call the “Auschwitz borders” thanks to their indefensibility.
November 2011: Obama and French president Nicolas Sarkozy are caught on open mic ripping Netanyahu, with Sarkozy stating, “I can’t stand him, he’s a liar,” and Obama replying, “You’re tired of him? What about me? I have to deal with him every day.”
December 2011: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rips into the State of Israel, stating that it is moving in the “opposite direction” of democracy. She said that Israel reminded her of Rosa Parks, and that religious people not listening to women sing – a millennia-long policy among some segments of the Orthodox – reminds her of extremist regimes, adding that it seemed “more suited to Iran than Israel.“
February 2012: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta tells David Ignatius at the Washington Post that the possibility he worried about most was that Israel would strike Iran.The Post then adds, “Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June – before Iran enters what Israelis described as a ‘zone of immunity’ to commence building a nuclear bomb.” The goal: to delay any potential Israeli strike.
March 2012: NBC News somehow gains information from “senior Obama administration officials” that Israel had financed and trained the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq, and adds that the Obama administration had nothing to do with hits on Iranian nuclear scientists. More daylight. More leaks. The same month, Foreign Policy receives information from “four senior diplomats and military intelligence officers” that the “United States has recently been granted access to Iran’s northern border.”Foreign Policy also reports that a “senior administration official” has told them, “The Israelis have bought an airfield, and the airfield is Azerbaijan.” Again, a potential Israeli strike is scuttled. The same day as the Foreign Policy report, Bloomberg reports a Congressional Research Service report stating that Israel can’t stop Iran’s nuclear program in any case. Columnist Ron Ben-Yishai of Yidioth Ahronoth writes that the Obama administration wants to “erode the IDF’s capacity to launch such strike with minimal casualties.”
June 2012: In an attempt to shore up the Jewish vote, top members of the Obama administration, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and then-CIA director Leon Panetta were quoted by David Sanger of The New York Times talking about the President’s supposedly deep involvement in the Stuxnet plan to take out Iran’s nuclear reactors via computer virus. Until that point, it had been suspected but not confirmed that Stuxnet was an Israeli project. The Obama administration denied leaking the information. A year later, the State Department released emails showing that Sanger had corresponded regularly with all the top Obama officials, including correspondence on Stuxnet.
December 2012: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the Saban Forum on US-Israel Relations, where she says that Israelis have a “lack of empathy” for Palestinians, and that the Israelis need to “demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people in their minds.”
March 2013: Obama forces Netanyahu to call Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to apologize for Israel’s actions to stop a terrorist-arming flotilla from entering the Gaza Strip to aid Hamas. Erdogan had recently labeled Zionism racism.
May 2013: Members of the Obama Pentagon leak information that Israel attacked the Damascus airport to stop a shipment of weapons to terrorist groups. Obama officials actually had to apologize for this leak, since it endangered American lives. They blamed “low-level” employees.
June 2013: The Obama administration leaks specific information regarding Israeli Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile sites. Weeks later, US sources tell CNN that Israel attacked a Syrian installation full of Russian-provided missiles. The same month, “American intelligence analysts” tell the New York Times that Israeli strikes had not been effective. All that information was classified.
June 2014: Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped, including an American, and murdered by Hamas. The Obama administration immediately calls on Israel for restraint, and says it will continue to work with a Palestinian unity government including Hamas. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says that the Obama administration wants “the Israelis and the Palestinians continue to work with one another on that, and we certainly would continue to urge that… in spite of, obviously, the tragedy and the enormous pain on the ground.” Throughout the ensuing Gaza War, in which Hamas fired rockets at Israeli civilians and tunnels were uncovered demonstrating Hamas’ intent to kidnap Israeli children, the Obama administration criticized Israel’s prosecution of the war.
August 2014: In the middle of a shooting war, Obama stopped weapons shipment to Israel. According to the Wall Street Journal, Obama found out that Israel asked the Defense Department for shipments of Hellfire missiles. Obama personally stepped in and blocked the shipments.
October 2014: Jeffrey Goldberg, court Jew for the Obama administration, releases an article in The Atlantic quoting Obama officials calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “ chickenshit.” Goldberg, naturally, blames Netanyahu (of course, he also wrote in 2008 that any Jew who feared Obama on Israel was an “ obvious racist”).
January 2015: Obama deploys his campaign team to defeat Netanyahu in Israel. A group titled “One Voice,” funded by American donors, pays for the Obama campaign team, led by Obama 2012 field director Jeremy Bird. The announcement comes days after Speaker of the House John Boehner’s invite to Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress. Obama quickly announced he would not meet with Netanyahu, making the excuse that the meeting would come too close to the election.
March 2015: Netanyahu wins. Obama refuses to call him to congratulate him for two days. When he does, he threatens to remove American support in the international community, even as he moves to loosen sanctions and weapons embargoes on Iran.
Nothing has changed. Obama is who he always was. The mask has simply been removed.
20 Mar 2015
breitbart.com
On Thursday, the press announced that the Obama administration would fully consider abandoning Israel in international bodies like the United Nations. According to reports, President Obama finally called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to congratulate him – but the “congratulations” was actually a lecture directed at forcing Netanyahu to surrender to the terrorist Palestinian regime.
For some odd reason, many in the media and Congress reacted with surprise to Obama’s supposedly sudden turn on Israel. The media, in an attempt to defend Obama’s radicalism, pretend that Netanyahu’s comments in the late stages of his campaign prompted Obama’s anti-Israel action.
But, in truth, this is the culmination of a longtime Obama policy of destroying the US-Israel relationship; Obama has spent his entire life surrounded by haters of Israel, from former Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman Rashid Khalidi to former Jimmy Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, pro-Hamas negotiator Robert Malley to UN Ambassador Samantha Power (who once suggested using American troops to guard Palestinians from Israelis), Jeremiah Wright (who said “Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me”) to Professor Derrick Bell (“Jewish neoconservative racists…are undermining blacks in every way they can”). Here is a concise timeline, with credit to Dan Senor and the editors of Commentary:
February 2008: Obama says while campaigning, ‘There is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re anti-Israel.” At the time, as Dan Senor pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, Israel was run by the Kadima government run by Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni, and Shimon Peres, and was attempting desperately to bring the Palestinians to the table. Instead, the Palestinians launch war, as always.
June 2008: Obama tells the American Israel Public Affairs Conference that Jerusalem ought to remain undivided, attempting to woo Jewish votes. He then walks that back the next day, saying only that the capital shouldn’t be divided by barbed wire.
March 2009: The Obama administration reverses the Bush era policy of not joining the United Nations Human Rights Council. Secretary of State Clinton said, “Human rights are an essential element of American global foreign policy,” completely neglecting the UNHRC’s abysmally anti-Semitic record. The Washington Post reported that the administration joined the Human Rights Council even though they conceded that it “has devoted excessive attention to alleged abuses by Israel and too little to abuses in places such as Darfur, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.”
May 2009: Obama tells Netanyahu that “settlements have to be stopped in order for us to move forward.” Netanyahu announces a settlement freeze to comply. The Palestinians refuse to negotiate. Obama then slams Israel: “they still found it very hard to move with any bold gestures.”
June 2009: Obama tells the world in his infamous Cairo speech that Israel was only created based on Jewish suffering in the Holocaust. He then says that Palestinians have been similarly victimized by the Jews: “They endure the daily humiliations – large and small – that come with occupation. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.”
July 2009: Obama threatens to put “daylight” between the United States and Israel. He tells Jewish leaders, “Look at the past eight years. During those eight years, there was no space between us and Israel, and what did we get from that?” Except for Israel forcibly removing thousands of Jews from the Gaza Strip, the election of Hamas, and the launch of war by the Palestinians and Hezbollah, nothing happened. Obama then lectures the Jews about the need for Israeli “self-reflection.” The same month, Obama tells CNN that the United States would “absolutely not” give Israel permission to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
September 2009: Obama tells the United Nations that “America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.” Obama’s definition of Israeli settlements, as the world soon learned, included building bathrooms in a home already owned by Jews in East Jerusalem. Obama offers no serious criticism of the Palestinians.
March 2010: Obama follows up on his threatening language about settlements by deploying Vice President Joe Biden to Israel, where Biden rips into the Israelis for building bathrooms in Jerusalem, the eternal Jewish capital. Hillary Clinton then yells at Netanyahu for nearly an hour on the phone, telling him he had “harmed the bilateral relationship.” David Axelrod calls the building plans an “insult” to the United States. When Netanyahu visits the White House a week and a half later, Obama makes him leave via a side door.
April 2010: Obama refuses to prevent the Washington summit on nuclear proliferation from becoming an Arab referendum on the evils of Israel’s nukes.
June 2010: An anonymous “US defense source” leaks to the Times of London that Israel had cut a deal with the Saudis to use their airspace to strike Iran. The deal is scuttled.
May 2011: The State Department labeled Jerusalem not a part of Israel. The same month, Obama demanded that Israel make concessions to the Palestinians based on the pre-1967 borders, which Israelis call the “Auschwitz borders” thanks to their indefensibility.
November 2011: Obama and French president Nicolas Sarkozy are caught on open mic ripping Netanyahu, with Sarkozy stating, “I can’t stand him, he’s a liar,” and Obama replying, “You’re tired of him? What about me? I have to deal with him every day.”
December 2011: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rips into the State of Israel, stating that it is moving in the “opposite direction” of democracy. She said that Israel reminded her of Rosa Parks, and that religious people not listening to women sing – a millennia-long policy among some segments of the Orthodox – reminds her of extremist regimes, adding that it seemed “more suited to Iran than Israel.“
February 2012: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta tells David Ignatius at the Washington Post that the possibility he worried about most was that Israel would strike Iran.The Post then adds, “Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June – before Iran enters what Israelis described as a ‘zone of immunity’ to commence building a nuclear bomb.” The goal: to delay any potential Israeli strike.
March 2012: NBC News somehow gains information from “senior Obama administration officials” that Israel had financed and trained the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq, and adds that the Obama administration had nothing to do with hits on Iranian nuclear scientists. More daylight. More leaks. The same month, Foreign Policy receives information from “four senior diplomats and military intelligence officers” that the “United States has recently been granted access to Iran’s northern border.”Foreign Policy also reports that a “senior administration official” has told them, “The Israelis have bought an airfield, and the airfield is Azerbaijan.” Again, a potential Israeli strike is scuttled. The same day as the Foreign Policy report, Bloomberg reports a Congressional Research Service report stating that Israel can’t stop Iran’s nuclear program in any case. Columnist Ron Ben-Yishai of Yidioth Ahronoth writes that the Obama administration wants to “erode the IDF’s capacity to launch such strike with minimal casualties.”
June 2012: In an attempt to shore up the Jewish vote, top members of the Obama administration, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and then-CIA director Leon Panetta were quoted by David Sanger of The New York Times talking about the President’s supposedly deep involvement in the Stuxnet plan to take out Iran’s nuclear reactors via computer virus. Until that point, it had been suspected but not confirmed that Stuxnet was an Israeli project. The Obama administration denied leaking the information. A year later, the State Department released emails showing that Sanger had corresponded regularly with all the top Obama officials, including correspondence on Stuxnet.
December 2012: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the Saban Forum on US-Israel Relations, where she says that Israelis have a “lack of empathy” for Palestinians, and that the Israelis need to “demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people in their minds.”
March 2013: Obama forces Netanyahu to call Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to apologize for Israel’s actions to stop a terrorist-arming flotilla from entering the Gaza Strip to aid Hamas. Erdogan had recently labeled Zionism racism.
May 2013: Members of the Obama Pentagon leak information that Israel attacked the Damascus airport to stop a shipment of weapons to terrorist groups. Obama officials actually had to apologize for this leak, since it endangered American lives. They blamed “low-level” employees.
June 2013: The Obama administration leaks specific information regarding Israeli Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile sites. Weeks later, US sources tell CNN that Israel attacked a Syrian installation full of Russian-provided missiles. The same month, “American intelligence analysts” tell the New York Times that Israeli strikes had not been effective. All that information was classified.
June 2014: Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped, including an American, and murdered by Hamas. The Obama administration immediately calls on Israel for restraint, and says it will continue to work with a Palestinian unity government including Hamas. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says that the Obama administration wants “the Israelis and the Palestinians continue to work with one another on that, and we certainly would continue to urge that… in spite of, obviously, the tragedy and the enormous pain on the ground.” Throughout the ensuing Gaza War, in which Hamas fired rockets at Israeli civilians and tunnels were uncovered demonstrating Hamas’ intent to kidnap Israeli children, the Obama administration criticized Israel’s prosecution of the war.
August 2014: In the middle of a shooting war, Obama stopped weapons shipment to Israel. According to the Wall Street Journal, Obama found out that Israel asked the Defense Department for shipments of Hellfire missiles. Obama personally stepped in and blocked the shipments.
October 2014: Jeffrey Goldberg, court Jew for the Obama administration, releases an article in The Atlantic quoting Obama officials calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “ chickenshit.” Goldberg, naturally, blames Netanyahu (of course, he also wrote in 2008 that any Jew who feared Obama on Israel was an “ obvious racist”).
January 2015: Obama deploys his campaign team to defeat Netanyahu in Israel. A group titled “One Voice,” funded by American donors, pays for the Obama campaign team, led by Obama 2012 field director Jeremy Bird. The announcement comes days after Speaker of the House John Boehner’s invite to Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress. Obama quickly announced he would not meet with Netanyahu, making the excuse that the meeting would come too close to the election.
March 2015: Netanyahu wins. Obama refuses to call him to congratulate him for two days. When he does, he threatens to remove American support in the international community, even as he moves to loosen sanctions and weapons embargoes on Iran.
Nothing has changed. Obama is who he always was. The mask has simply been removed.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
What A Real Leader Sounds Like
Too bad we have that sad excuse of a president here in the U.S. Here's the type of leader we desperately need. This historical speech is one for the ages. We have Neville Chamberlain while the Israelis have Winston Churchill.
He starts talking at 4:30, so skip ahead.
He starts talking at 4:30, so skip ahead.
Saturday, February 7, 2015
A Special Kind of Hate
Its been quite awhile since I've posted anything from this commentator. Here he speaks about Jews in Europe.
Link if you can not see video above:
Monday, January 19, 2015
Trans-Siberian Orchestra Concert Review
GREATNESS AWAITS
Famous rock operas by groups such as The Who (“Tommy,” Quadraphenia”), Queensryche (“Operation Mindcrime”) and Pink Floyd (“The Wall”) often fade in our memories, getting relegated to the “oh, I remember that” part of the brain when we hear these songs, which are rarely played on the radio anyway. However, for the past 16 years, Trans-Siberian Orchestra has remained timeless, somehow finding a way to live forever in fans’ hearts and minds. Unlike other rock operas, TSO's are immortal.
Part one of their Christmas trilogy, “Christmas Eve and Other Stories” has been performed for 15 years to sellout audiences across the country. Such success goes against the formula of consistently having to have new material to stay relevant in today’s entertainment world, and proves that the story (performed by an all-star band who has never been an opening act, nor has had anyone open for them) is a timeless masterpiece that is handed down through generations of fans. For their 2014 tour (and their 16th year of touring), TSO is debuting “The Christmas Attic,” part two of the trilogy.
For those who don’t know, TSO is broken into two touring groups, East and West. That’s why their touring schedule might show two shows on the same date in different cities.
LASERS, SPARKS, AND FIRE, OH MY!
The Philadelphia show on 12/23/14 was an incredible experience. Having attended a Christmas Eve and Other Stories show at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. many years ago, the expectations were high. And in true TSO fashion, all expectations were met or surpassed. Led by Chris Caffery (ex-Savatage), TSO-East includes a large cast of consummate musicians, led also by the guitar shredding of Joel Hoekstra (Whitesnake, ex-Night Ranger). Large classical orchestra and vocal sections work in perfect harmony with narrator Bryan Hicks, whose performance was impeccable. Roddy Chong goes crazy on violin in a way that reminds us that Skillet isn’t the only band with an uber-talented Asian violinist. Drummer Jeff Plate (who played with Caffery in Savatage and some other of the same bands), while an impressive talent, plays in a way that lets him stay out of the limelight and not call attention to himself. This lets the audience focus on the story and the overall performance and environment.
The current show features a giant opening toy box with all but the guitarists and vocal section rising out amidst the pyrotechnics. As the story unfolds, the box opens and closes as appropriate, lending a characteristic magic to the show that no attendee will ever forget. Following the completion of the Christmas Attic set, they played another hour of various selections from other albums.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra continues to be in my top 3 favorite bands of all time. They are a blend of contradictions that make them special, and like no other band in history. Contradictions such as a spiritual yet very human story, a stadium-style show of the past while maintaining an intimate environment, and hard rocking while staying family-friendly combine with unrivaled musicianship and impressive production to make a TSO show something to remember for a lifetime.
Famous rock operas by groups such as The Who (“Tommy,” Quadraphenia”), Queensryche (“Operation Mindcrime”) and Pink Floyd (“The Wall”) often fade in our memories, getting relegated to the “oh, I remember that” part of the brain when we hear these songs, which are rarely played on the radio anyway. However, for the past 16 years, Trans-Siberian Orchestra has remained timeless, somehow finding a way to live forever in fans’ hearts and minds. Unlike other rock operas, TSO's are immortal.
Part one of their Christmas trilogy, “Christmas Eve and Other Stories” has been performed for 15 years to sellout audiences across the country. Such success goes against the formula of consistently having to have new material to stay relevant in today’s entertainment world, and proves that the story (performed by an all-star band who has never been an opening act, nor has had anyone open for them) is a timeless masterpiece that is handed down through generations of fans. For their 2014 tour (and their 16th year of touring), TSO is debuting “The Christmas Attic,” part two of the trilogy.
For those who don’t know, TSO is broken into two touring groups, East and West. That’s why their touring schedule might show two shows on the same date in different cities.
LASERS, SPARKS, AND FIRE, OH MY!
The Philadelphia show on 12/23/14 was an incredible experience. Having attended a Christmas Eve and Other Stories show at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. many years ago, the expectations were high. And in true TSO fashion, all expectations were met or surpassed. Led by Chris Caffery (ex-Savatage), TSO-East includes a large cast of consummate musicians, led also by the guitar shredding of Joel Hoekstra (Whitesnake, ex-Night Ranger). Large classical orchestra and vocal sections work in perfect harmony with narrator Bryan Hicks, whose performance was impeccable. Roddy Chong goes crazy on violin in a way that reminds us that Skillet isn’t the only band with an uber-talented Asian violinist. Drummer Jeff Plate (who played with Caffery in Savatage and some other of the same bands), while an impressive talent, plays in a way that lets him stay out of the limelight and not call attention to himself. This lets the audience focus on the story and the overall performance and environment.
The current show features a giant opening toy box with all but the guitarists and vocal section rising out amidst the pyrotechnics. As the story unfolds, the box opens and closes as appropriate, lending a characteristic magic to the show that no attendee will ever forget. Following the completion of the Christmas Attic set, they played another hour of various selections from other albums.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra continues to be in my top 3 favorite bands of all time. They are a blend of contradictions that make them special, and like no other band in history. Contradictions such as a spiritual yet very human story, a stadium-style show of the past while maintaining an intimate environment, and hard rocking while staying family-friendly combine with unrivaled musicianship and impressive production to make a TSO show something to remember for a lifetime.
Monday, January 12, 2015
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