SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS LIKE CHUCK HAGEL

Jan. 31, 2013

Caroline Glick continues to wake up the useful idiots who believe that Barack Obama is a friend of Israel, which remains the last best hope for Western Civilization in the Middle East.

I think it is pretty amazing that AIPAC is keeping mum on the fact that Obama has nominated a Jew hater and Israel basher to serve as the next Defense Secretary. As I've said before, Hagel's appointment is a far greater threat to the US military than it is to Israel. But still, it is pretty obscene that Obama is getting away with appointing this character to serve as the Pentagon chief.

Today, the estimable Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon reported another classic Hagelian anti-Israel slur and libel. Back in 2003 he gave an interview to his hometown paper saying that Israel "keep[s] the Palestinians caged up like animals."

And of course, this is only one of countless examples of Hagel's animus towards the Jewish state and its Jewish supporters in the US... Israel is better off expanding its own defense industries than depending on Hagel for spare parts.

As to the US military, ...the movement to assign women to frontline combat unit is not about advancing women. It is about destroying the US military. The fact that Obama didn't even need for Hagel to enter office before taking his first swipe at the military shows just how grandiose his plans for gutting US military capabilities in his second term are.

To be clear, as a woman who served as an officer in the IDF for 5 and a half years, and worked as an embedded reporter with an all male US infantry unit in Iraq, I have to say that I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with women serving in combat. But the purpose of last week's decision wasn't about permitting women to fight on the battlefield. They already do. It was about social engineering and weakening the esprit d'corps of the US military. As Saul Alinsky taught his followers the goal is never what you say it is. The goal is always the revolution.

Delegitimizing and weakening Israel is only one part of the "revolution." Israel will survive Obama and Hagel and Kerry and Brennan.

But that doesn't mean we and our supporters in the US should keep silent about their hostility just because we know we can't block their appointments. By pointing out their radicalism, we are at a minimum sending out the necessary warning about what their future plans will likely involve. And that is important, because the more they are criticized the weaker they will feel.

As historian Trevor Loudon has proven through exhaustive research, Barack Obama's real goal is to strip the United States military bare. Hagel's appointment simply confirms that ugly reality.



Source: Director blue

Ronald Reagan’s Childhood Home Set To Be Turned Into A Parking Lot For Possible Obama’s Presidential Library

Jan. 30, 2013

If you thought the radicals in charge were pieces of shit before this should confirm your suspicions.

The Chicago home where the late President Ronald Reagan grew up is slated to be demolished and potentially turned into a parking lot for President Obama's Library, it was revealed today.
The home, at 832 E. 57th Street, was where Reagan survived a near-fatal bout of pneumonia in 1915 and he has written fondly of playing in the Hyde Park neighborhood with his brother and others.
But the University of Chicago has recently purchased the apartment building and they have announced plans to raze it and make it a parking lot.

Some have said that the liberal Chicago establishment does not want a reminder that Reagan, a conservative icon, once lived in the city.
Its current mayor, Rahm Emmanuel, was the White House Chief of Staff during Obama's first term.
Hyde Park Historical Society board member Jack Spicer said, 'Whatever you think of Reagan — once the building’s gone, it’s gone forever.'

The elite university has begun aggressively lobbying to become the site for President Obama's future Presidential Library, leaving some to wonder if the parking spaces are being built to accommodate future visitors, the Washington Times reported.
Obama taught Constitutional law at Chicago's law school and his wife, Michelle, and one of his closest advisers, Valerie Jarrett, are former executives at the university as well.
And the site is near Obama's current Chicago residence.

Reagan wrote in 1988 how he remembers looking out the first-floor window of his family's apartment and seeing the horse-drawn firefighters 'come down the street at full gallop . . . the sight made me decide I wanted to be a fireman.'
He also described playing with his neighbors' toys, seeing his brother struck by a beer wagon and how he and his brother ran from the home in a panic after their parents left them home alone to go food shopping, the Chicago Sun-Times reported


Last year, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks denied Reagan’s home landmark status.
University officials have said a plaque alone could suffice in commemorating Reagan's former residence.
Earlier this month, the residence was granted a temporary stay from demolition but as of now construction may begin in about 90 days.
Frank Grabowski, who sold the building to the university, said the official he dealt with knew Reagan had lived there, but 'wasn’t concerned and wanted to pull it down.'

State Rep. Jerry Mitchell, who chairs the Illinois Reagan Centenary Commission, said destroying the home would be 'a big mistake — if they renovated and advertised it, the university might make more money than they expect.'
Besides potentially using the parking lot for Obama's library, the university is also slated this year to open $700 million, 10-story Hospital Pavilion just a few blocks from the Reagan home.

Source: Daily Mail UK

Breaking: Porn Legend Ron Jeremy Hospitalized with Heart Aneurysm

Jan. 30, 2013

The star of over 2,000 adult films will undergo surgery at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai.

Adult film star Ron Jeremy has been hospitalized and is in critical condition after suffering a heart aneurysm, a rep for the actor has confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

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The performer, 59, drove himself to Cedars-Sinai on Tuesday after experiencing severe chest pains, according to manager Mike Esterman.

According to TMZ, who broke the story, Jeremy's condition deteriorated and he was transferred to the intensive care unit, where was prepped for surgery.

Named the "top porn star of all time" by industry publication AVN, the man whose nickname is "the Hedgehog" has long been considered the public face of pornography.

Jeremy has appeared in mover 2,000 adult films since 1978, and has had some crossover success, too, in films like Orgazmo (1998), The Boondock Saints (2000) and The Rules of Attraction (2002).


source: hollywood reporter

15 Year Old Girl who performed for Obama Inauguration Shot Dead in Chicago

Jan. 30, 2013

(News Ninja) - A teenage girl–an honor student who had just performed at President Obama’s inaugural–was gunned down Tuesday afternoon in the Kenwood neighborhood, just blocks from the high school she attended.

CBS 2’s Mike Parker reports the victim, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, was taking shelter from the rain with a group of 10 to 12 teenagers under a canopy in Vivian Gordon Harsh Park on the 4500 block of South Oakenwald Avenue around 2:30 p.m., when someone jumped a fence, ran up to them, and opened fire.

Just days before, Hadiya performed with her high school band at President Obama’s inauguration.

The park is near King College Prep High School — where Pendleton was an honor student, volleyball player, and majorette.

Woah! UN Report: Global Warming Scientists Lied for the last 20 Years

Jan. 30, 2013

January 29, 2013 - A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming.

The report -- which is not scheduled for publication until 2014 -- was leaked by someone involved in the IPCC’s review process, and is available for download online. Bloggers combing through the report discovered a chart comparing the four temperature models the group has published since 1990. Each has overstated the rise in temperature that Earth actually experienced.

“Temperatures have not risen nearly as much as almost all of the climate models predicted,” Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, told FoxNews.com.

“Their predictions have largely failed, four times in a row... what that means is that it's time for them to re-evaluate,” Spencer said.

The IPCC graph shows that the midpoints of the various models predicted that the world would warm by between about 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit and 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit between 1990 and 2012. Actual warming was much less than that: 0.28 F, according the data the IPCC cites.

'It is evidence that CO2 is not nearly as strong a climate driver as the IPCC has been assuming.'- Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville

But that doesn’t mean the IPCC models are wrong, others argue.

“It’s important to keep in mind that there are natural short-term variations in global temperature that happen right alongside human-induced warming,” Aaron Huertas, of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

“For instance, it would have been impossible for the IPCC to predict if a volcanic eruption might temporarily cool the Earth, as the Mount Pinatubo eruption did in 1991.”

The IPCC’s climate report draft also notes that “the model projections ... do not fully account for natural variability.”

Other types of natural anomalies include solar variability and weather patterns such as the El Niño southern oscillation.

Scientists include a “margin of error” in their models to account for unpredictable variations like volcanoes and weather patterns. Yet one of the IPCC’s models missed the actual warming trend entirely -- in other words, the actual temperatures were outside its “margin of error.” In the other three models, the actual warming trend fell within the very lower bounds of what they predicted would happen.

At least that’s what the IPCC’s chart shows. One scientist who recently published a study that found that the IPCC predictions were very accurate argues that it is likely wrong.

“The IPCC graph you refer to is just a draft version which still has a number of problems that will be ironed out,” Potsdam University physics professor Stefan Rahmstorf.

IPCC AR5 draft figure 1-4 with animated central Global Warming predictions from FAR (1990),
SAR (1996), TAR (2001), and AR5 (2007).

Sources and more information:

• Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming, skeptics warn

By Maxim Lott , Charles Couger How Green Published January 28, 2013 FoxNews.com The predicted temperature changes (darker red indicating greater change) due to global warming, based on data that scientists, policymakers and the public are now questioning. The colored areas show temperature predictions, the black dots are actual observed...

• Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming, skeptics warn: Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: 'Their predictions have largely failed, 4 times in a row'

• Leaked UN climate report slammed for citing WWF

• Good News for Gaia?

The Gun Ban Lobby and its Funders

Jan. 30, 2013

Since 2008, when James Simpson pulled the curtain back, to expose the Cloward-Piven sabotage behind “Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis,” we have closely followed his revelations. Please see and pass along these key facts and connected dots of the network behind gun control – and always “follow the money.” – AW

By: James Simpson, Foundation Watch, February 2013 (PDF here)
Capital Research Center

Summary: The gun ban lobby includes not just a few groups like the Brady Center but also the mainstream media as a whole. Its preferred tactics are to use misleading terms and to ignore the actual facts of gun control’s failure.

The massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, this past December hit home like few other tragedies. Yet again a lunatic commits mass murder, this time slaughtering our most vulnerable and most cherished: our children. Words cannot express the bottomless grief one feels at the mere thought of such loss. Sandy Hook rightfully shook our sensibilities and forced us to reassess what we believe about ourselves and America. Why is this happening? we ask.

As usual, before police cordoned off the crime scene, the Left had its answer ready: not enough gun control. Left-wingers repeated their old refrain: America can no longer defend its “gun culture,” which is responsible for this tragedy, and we must have a national “dialogue” on guns.

In fact, we have been having a “dialogue” about guns for decades, and it has been very one-sided. The Left has often received what it asked for, starting with the 1968 Gun Control Act, the 1993 Brady Law (until the courts found parts of it unconstitutional), and a so-called federal “assault weapons” ban on semi-automatic rifles and high capacity magazines from 1994 to 2004. Yet none of this has affected gun crime or prevented any massacres. The Centers for Disease Control, a federal agency widely seen as favoring gun control, produced a major study in 2003 that admitted, “The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes.”

Prior to the 1968 Gun Control Act, few controls existed on privately owned firearms, with the exception of machine guns—that is, guns that keep firing as long as you hold the trigger—which have been strictly regulated since 1934 under the National Firearms Act. Even children could order rifles through the mail with parental permission. Yet firearms crimes were less frequent, as were the mass shootings that seem to be a regular feature in the news these days.

Activists on the Left don’t really want a dialogue. They want a total ban on guns in private hands, but they rarely admit that. Instead, they mask the issue with misleading language, selective statistics, and a campaign to vilify their political opponents.

Major Players

On the gun control issue, only a few small activist groups dedicate their work to banning guns. Here is the list, with the most recent available annual revenues shown on their IRS tax returns:

American Hunters and Shooters Association (2011 revenues $5,000)

Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence (2010 revenues $3 million) and its 501(c)(4) affiliate, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (2010 revenues $2.9 million)

Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence (2010 revenues $309,000)

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (2010 revenues $249,000)

Legal Community Against Violence (a.k.a Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence; 2010 revenues $978,000)

Mayors Against Illegal Guns Action Fund (2010 revenues $2.7 million)

Stop Handgun Violence (co-founded the American Hunters and Shooters Association in 2005; 2012 revenues $143,000)

Third Way (formerly Americans for Gun Safety Foundation; 2010 revenues $7.5 million)

Violence Policy Center (2010 revenues $832,000)

United Against Illegal Guns Support Fund (affiliated with Mayors Against Illegal Guns; 2010 revenues $1.3 million)

The best known gun control groups are the Brady Center and the Violence Policy Center (VPC). VPC receives most of its funding from the Joyce Foundation ($6.3 million since 1998) on whose board Obama used to serve; George Soros’ Open Society Institute ($800,000 since 1999); and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ($575,000 since 1999). The Brady Center receives much of its funding from small donors. FoundationSearch only reveals modest payments from foundations. From 2008 to 2011 the largest donation, $34,000, came from the Ladner Family Foundation. By contrast, the Brady Center’s last tax return says $2.7 million of its $3 million revenues were raised with the help of a professional consultant that specializes in online and direct mail fundraising (the Brady Center paid the consultant $96,000). In the same year, the group’s (c)(4) affiliate, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, paid the same consultant $99,000 to bring in $2.8 million of its $2.9 million revenues.

Altogether these 10 groups provided less than $20 million to the gun control cause in 2010, a trifle compared with the National Rifle Association (NRA), which lists 2010 revenues of $228 million. To the uninformed this appears to be a David versus Goliath struggle, the little good guys versus the big, bad old NRA, and that’s the way the Left likes it. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Conservative groups often focus on one or a few issues like abortion, taxes, excessive regulations, immigration, or guns, and rarely unite behind other causes. Conversely, the Left should be understood as a single amorphous organism. Like a giant amoeba, one segment may move one way and a second another, but the whole organism moves slowly forward as one. While leftist groups may identify themselves with one issue, most work together on all leftist agendas.

Thus the gun ban lobby actually includes the ACLU, Women Strike for Peace, People for the American Way, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Physicians for Social Responsibility, National Council of La Raza, as well as labor, women’s, and medical groups. (Yes, the gun control Left has captured the national leadership of such groups as the American Academy of Pediatrics, which has stated, “The most effective way to prevent firearm-related injury to children is to keep guns out of homes and communities.”)

The NRA published a list of 141 organizations, 237 actors, and 26 national figures who have lent their resources and/or names to the anti-gun agenda. The list also includes 37 journalists and cartoonists who editorialize against guns. Practically all mass media outlets, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the publicly funded PBS, most major daily newspapers, and many magazines overtly push an anti-gun agenda. The earned media alone from this unified public voice is worth billions of dollars.

In addition, Soros’s philanthropic network purchases media to promote its founder’s radical agenda, granting annual awards to “Soros Justice Fellows.” In at least one case, this involves subsidizing a working journalist. Amanda Crawford, who works for Bloomberg and Newsweek, received $47,000 in 2010 “To illustrate the failure of the drug war through a blog [crawfordondrugs.com]) and series of targeted magazine articles….” Not surprisingly, she also writes about guns. This seems to be a clear case of Soros actually buying media to promote his agenda. In the past month, President Obama has asked Soros and other wealthy leftists to open their checkbooks to challenge the Second Amendment.

Lying About Their Beliefs

Gun control is not a winning issue. Talking amongst themselves or trolling for votes from their base, leftists will say what they think, but most moderate or hide their views to appeal to rational voters. The best example is our president. While he denies it today, President Obama has been overtly anti-gun for most of his political career:

He served on the board of the anti-gun Joyce Foundation from 1994 to 2002, and considered becoming the foundation’s president.

As a U.S. Senate candidate in 2004, he favored federal legislation to ban all concealed-carry laws for private citizens.

While teaching at the University of Chicago, he told another professor, “I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.”

He supported Washington, D.C.’s draconian gun laws, struck down by the Supreme Court in D.C. v. Heller (2008).

Presidential candidate Obama made the infamous comment about “bitter” people who “cling to guns or religion.”

Not all on the left, however, are so deceptive. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), author of the 1994 gun ban and the current Senate proposal, said in 1994, “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America turn ’em all in, I would have done it.”

Misleading Language

The Left deliberately uses incorrect and misleading definitions to elicit emotional responses and sway voters. We must, therefore, correctly define the more important terms:

Machine Gun: A fully automatic weapon that fires a rifle cartridge. Strictly controlled under the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA), these require an extensive, months-long background check and payment of a $200 tax. Any such weapon manufactured after 1986 cannot be purchased by civilians. Only two criminal uses of legally owned machine guns have occurred since the law was passed.

Assault Weapon: Assault weapons, as understood by the military, are military-issue small arms capable of fully automatic fire, that is, continuous firing while the trigger is pulled; a.k.a., machine guns. Civilian versions of these kinds of guns, for instance, the popular AR-15 rifle, are only capable of semi-automatic fire; that is, you must pull the trigger each time to shoot one bullet. The Left deliberately conflates these two types of weapons—fully automatic military guns vs. semi-automatic civilian guns—to exaggerate the lethality of the civilian versions and generate an emotional response to the scary-sounding phrase “assault weapon.” The “assault weapons ban” now being contemplated is for semi-automatic firearms, not true assault weapons.

Submachine Gun: A fully automatic weapon that fires a pistol cartridge; it falls under the same NFA restrictions as machine guns. The Left deliberately confuses machine guns with civilian semi-automatic firearms, for the same reason they mislabel semi-automatics as “assault weapons.”

Gun Safety: Proper care and safe, responsible use of firearms. The NRA conducts gun safety courses nationwide for thousands of adults and children, for which it rarely receives credit from the anti-gun press. In the Left’s lexicon, “gun safety” means gun control. Not a single leftist “gun safety” group offers any training or information on the responsible, safe ownership and use of firearms, nor do they even advocate for it. They simply use the term “gun safety” because “gun control” does not win votes.

One extreme left organization, Third Way, even dedicated itself specifically to creating a positive “messaging strategy” about gun control. Founded in 2005, it absorbed the former Americans for Gun Safety Foundation. AGS was a project of the far-left Tides Center. Its creator, Andrew McKelvey, was also a prominent board member of Handgun Control Inc.

Using poll data to develop their “message,” Third Way believes “progressives” can “take back the Second Amendment”—as if they ever owned it—by convincing voters that “reasonable” gun laws don’t undermine the individual right to keep and bear arms.

The group emphasizes “gun safety” because “gun control has become a loaded term that leads voters to believe that the candidate supports the most restrictive laws.…” According to Third Way, “reasonable” gun laws include an “assault” weapons ban, closing the “gun show loophole,” and registration of all guns.

The flagship anti-gun group, National Council to Control Handguns, founded in 1974, was later known as Handgun Control Inc. Its most prominent leader has been Sarah Brady, wife of Jim Brady, the White House press secretary wounded in the 1981 attempt to assassinate President Reagan. When the term “gun control” became politically radioactive, the outfit was rechristened the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. In the group’s most recent tax returns, Sarah Brady is now listed as “chair of the organization,” with compensation of $135,000 for an average of five hours work a week (i.e., $519 an hour).

Gun Show Loophole: Another invention of the Left that implies gun show purchases can be made without a background check. This is false. All licensed federal firearms dealers must conduct background checks on all prospective purchasers, and all gun show exhibitors that sell firearms hold federal firearms licenses (FFLs). Private sales between individuals, however, are not regulated in most states. This is what the gun controllers really seek to stop, and because such sales sometimes occur at gun shows, gun ban extremists demonize show promoters and hope to shut them down. They have had some success. Meanwhile, the scholar John Lott explains that the now-common claim that “40 percent of all gun sales today are private” is nonsense. It’s based on one small, flawed survey from two decades ago which mostly surveyed sales that occurred before mandatory federal background checks became law in 1994. Lott speculates that the true figure is in the single digits.

Sporting Purposes: Gun ban advocates try to delegitimize ownership of firearms that do not appear to serve a “sporting purpose.” They question, for example, the “sporting purpose” for semi-automatic firearms, especially those with large capacity magazines. But the Second Amendment was not intended for sportsmen: it was intended for defense, personal and national.

That is exactly why Sir William Blackstone, in his 1765 Commentaries on the Laws of England, a seminal work that profoundly influenced America’s founders, said that having arms for defense is a “natural right of resistance and self-preservation.”

It is precisely because the antebellum Supreme Court accepted Blackstone’s rights-based defense of firearms that it handed down its notorious Dred Scott decision in 1857. In that ruling, which helped to precipitate the Civil War, the high court tried to make sure black people would never be American citizens and therefore never be able to acquire the right “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”

Similarly, when the Ku Klux Klan was trying to enforce Jim Crow restrictions against blacks, gun control was high on its list of goals. Liberal black Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy recently praised the way blacks responded to the Klan by forming private groups like “the legendary Deacons for Defense and Justice—an organization of black men in Louisiana who used shotguns and rifles to repel attacks by white vigilantes during the 1960s.”

The same phenomenon occurred during the Rodney King riots in 1992, when many Korean business owners stood guard over their property with their firearms prominently displayed. Korean businesses suffered a large proportion of the losses during the riots, and those firearms proved critical to their survival when police abandoned the area and left them to face the rioters alone.

Selective Statistics

The Left trots out Britain and Australia as model gun control utopias, basking in peace and security. Handguns have been controlled in the U.K. since 1920, and other firearms also have been heavily regulated. That didn’t prevent horrific mass killings in Hungerford, England (1987), and Dunblane, Scotland (1996), which claimed a total of 33 victims, including 17 school children, and spurred successively more restrictive gun laws.

The Firearms Act of 1998 effectively banned automatic weapons and handguns. The penalty for possession of a handgun in Britain is up to 10 years in prison. After the handgun ban, gun crime, including handgun crime, skyrocketed. In 1997/98, there were 2,636 crimes committed with handguns in England and Wales. By 2001/02, handgun crimes had increased to 5,871. Overall, firearms were used in 9,974 crimes. (“Gun crime soars by 35%,” Daily Mail, Jan. 9, 2003).

Firearms crime in the U.K. peaked in 2005/06 and has declined since. In 2010/11, firearms were used in 7,024 crimes, and 3,105 of these were handgun crimes, down from the earlier peak, but still well above its 1997/98 level. In 2010/11, 9.3 percent of all homicides were committed with a firearm. U.K. firearms crime and violent crime in general remain well below U.S. levels, but both have increased dramatically despite a century of gun control. (Press release, Home Office, Jan. 19, 2012)

Despite harsh laws regulating what few firearms are still allowed in the U.K., in June 2010, a taxi driver in Cumbria, England, killed 12 and injured 11 during another murderous spree.

In all these circumstances, victims were completely at the killer’s mercy, and local police, also unarmed, were powerless to stop the rampages. In the U.K., only specially trained police carry firearms. In the Hungerford case, the nearest armed police unit was 40 miles away. The killers all ended their sprees by committing suicide.

In 1996, shortly after Dunblane, a man with a violent history killed 35 people and wounded 21 using two semi-automatic rifles at a tourist site in Port Arthur, Tasmania. Australia’s gun laws were stricter than Britain’s at the time, and after Port Arthur the Australian government banned all semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and certain other firearms and instituted a forced buyback program, destroying 631,000 firearms at a cost of $500 million. The result? According to the Wall Street Journal:

Peter Reuter and Jenny Mouzos, in a 2003 study published by the Brookings Institution, found homicides “continued a modest decline” since 1997. They concluded that the impact of the National Firearms Agreement was “relatively small,” with the daily rate of firearms homicides declining 3.2%.

The United States has a rate of firearms crime higher than many other developed countries. For example, 3.5 per 100,000 are murdered by firearms in the U.S., while in most Western European countries the rate is less than 1 per 100,000. The U.K. is often cited due to its very low firearms homicide rate of 0.03 per 100,000. Many but not all Western European countries have restrictive gun laws. Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland, for example are less restrictive; all allow open carry, and their firearms murder rates are no higher than the others. Germany’s rate is roughly equivalent to the U.K.

The U.S. rate is radically lower than most Central and South American countries, despite stringent controls in many of them. Venezuela, for example, bans all semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns, yet Venezuela’s firearms murder rate is 11 times higher than ours. Brazil and Honduras require extensive background checks and registration, but Brazil’s firearms murder rate is 5 times higher than the U.S., and Honduras’ rate is almost 20 times higher. Conversely, Chile has few restrictions and licensed owners can carry handguns openly, yet Chile’s firearms murder rate is much lower than the U.S.

What does this say about gun laws? Obviously, other factors are at work in these different countries, and they have a much greater impact than gun laws. Just about the only thing consistent about gun laws is the inconsistency of their results.

But let’s engage in a thought experiment. Let’s imagine that somehow the Left got its wish and all civilian-owned firearms were confiscated and banned. Would Adam Lanza, the Newtown shooter, have attacked Sandy Hook if such a ban existed? It’s impossible to know; he was mentally disturbed. But even assuming Lanza had no access to firearms, would that have stopped him from murder? He could wait until school got out and attack the kids with a car as they waited for busses to arrive. He may have killed more that way.

In 2009, a 20-year-old man attacked a daycare center in Belgium with a knife. He killed two babies and a daycare worker and seriously injured 12 others, 10 of them children. He was also implicated in another knife murder and had plans to attack two other daycare centers, according to police. (WKRG website, Jan. 27, 2009)

This young man, Kim De Gelder, had a history of mental health issues. His parents had tried to have him committed, but medical authorities declined because was already receiving treatment for depression. Interestingly, he applied make-up before the attack, using white face and black eye-liner, and like last summer’s Aurora, Colorado killer, who attacked theater goers watching the Batman sequel, Dark Knight Rises, De Gelder dyed his hair red, earning himself the nickname, “Joker Killer.” (“Belgium’s ‘joker killer’ Kim De Gelder admits guilt,” Telegraph (U.K.), Jan. 27, 2009)

For the 1999 Columbine, Colorado high school attack, the perpetrators manufactured a total of 99 explosive devices. This included two diversionary bombs set elsewhere in town that exploded before the attack, 30 bombs that exploded at the school, 46 more that did not explode, 13 in their cars, and 8 more at their residences. Police determined that the two unexploded propane bombs left in the cafeteria could have killed up to 488 students, all of whom were at the cafeteria when the bombs were set to detonate.

Following the Australian gun ban, suicides by firearms did decline. Firearms are naturally a preferred vehicle for those intent on suicide because they are quick and effective. Following the ban, firearms were more difficult to obtain for most non-criminals. But people intent on suicide have serious problems. They are not going to be dissuaded simply because one of many methods is denied them. And indeed, the overall suicide rate remained essentially unchanged. People simply chose other methods. (Time.com, May 1, 2008; TheTruthAboutGuns.com, Dec. 16, 2012) Gun bans only guarantee that law-abiding citizens will be unarmed. One cannot argue that they would prevent criminals and terrorists in the U.S. from obtaining guns. A robust international trade exists in small arms, much of it illegal, and much of that illegal activity backed by governments hostile to ours. The world market is awash in weapons from past wars and defunct governments. Many weapons used by Mexican drug cartels are genuine assault weapons, i.e., capable of fully automatic fire. They did not come from U.S. dealers as alleged by the gun control crowd, because they are much more difficult and expensive to obtain in the U.S. (Stratfor.com, July 9, 2009)

In 1996, U.S. Customs seized a shipment of 2,000 AK-47s from a merchant marine ship of Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). It was the largest seizure of its kind in U.S. history, and the guns were allegedly to be used by street gangs. (Baltimore Sun, Nov. 8, 1998) At least 35 Jamaat-ul Fuqra terrorist training camps operate within the United States. These are privately owned compounds, complete with gun ranges and underground bunkers. Two have been shut down by police; one in California and another in Colorado. A storage facility used by the Colorado compound was raided by police in 1989. It contained handguns, silencers, explosives, bombs, and other materials plainly meant for terrorist acts. (Colorado Attorney General, statement, Feb. 9, 2005) Will Jamaat-ul Fuqru comply with an “assault” weapons ban? Will American street gangs? The notion is laughable. Every criminal or terrorist who has a gun will keep it, and the illegal firearms market will thrive.

Vilification and Smears

Here is where the extremist media comes to the fore. Journalists constantly vilify guns and gun owners. After any headline-grabbing event, activists then pick up the narrative, which journalists in turn amplify, creating a feedback loop of propaganda. Meanwhile, the facts about gun control and the role guns play in deterring violent crime are suppressed by the media and ridiculed by leftists. The Newtown fallout was especially ugly.

Des Moines Register columnist Donald Kaul suggested (Dec. 29, 2012) that the NRA be branded a terrorist organization and people who refused to turn in their guns be killed: we should “tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner … to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control.”

Westchester County, New York’s Journal News published names and addresses of every concealed-carry permit holder in Westchester and Rockland Counties, along with an interactive Google map showing their addresses. After widespread public outrage over this action, which put retired police, prison guards, and many others at risk, the Journal News hired armed guards to protect themselves. They also sheepishly admitted that a staff member held a concealed-carry permit, but they did not publish his information. Putnam County officials refused the Journal News’ request for their permit holder records, calling it “stupid and dangerous.”

In 1995, Eric Holder, then U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (but now Obama’s attorney general), said we need to change attitudes about guns as we did with cigarettes. He advocated a relentless campaign of brainwashing in schools: “We have to be repetitive about this,” he declared. “We need to do this every day of the week, and just really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.” Some critics have claimed Holder conceived the “Fast and Furious” gun-running scam to create the appearance that U.S. gun shops were supplying Mexico’s drug cartels. At least one American and hundreds of Mexicans have died at the hands of drug dealers using those same weapons.

Anti-gun hysteria whipped up by politicians has another unintended consequence. It spurs panic-buying among current and prospective gun owners when new gun restrictions are proposed. As Clayton E. Cramer noted at National Review Online, after the 1994 federal “assault” rifle ban was passed, people who lacked experience with guns bought firearms “while they still could.” Some misused the weapons, resulting in deaths.

With the saturation coverage that tragedies like Newtown receive, the media may actually be encouraging more killings. David Kopel argued in a recent Wall Street Journal article that:

Cable TV in the 1990s, and the Internet today, greatly magnify the instant celebrity that a mass killer can achieve. We know that many would-be mass killers obsessively study their predecessors … the copycat effect is as old as the media itself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1774 classic “The Sorrows of Young Werther” triggered a spate of copycat suicides all over Europe. But today the velocity and pervasiveness of the media make the problem much worse.

If Kopel is correct, we will likely see more of this appalling violence, which only makes it more urgent to ensure that people in schools and elsewhere are free to defend themselves and those they are responsible for.

Mental Illness

Finally, while the Left hyperventilates over guns, we overlook the elephant in the tent in stories like the Newtown killings: mental illness.

David Kopel observed that deinstitutionalization of the violently mentally ill may be credited to an earlier left-wing campaign, the 1970s deinstitutionalization movement:

A second explanation is the deinstitutionalization of the violently mentally ill. A 2000 New York Times study of 100 rampage murderers found that 47 were mentally ill. In the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry Law (2008), Jason C. Matejkowski and his co-authors reported that 16% of state prisoners who had perpetrated murders were mentally ill … today, while government at most every level has bloated over the past half-century, mental-health treatment has been decimated.

Moreover, a 2011 paper by Steven P. Segal at the University of California, Berkeley, … found that a third of the state-to-state variation in homicide rates was attributable to the strength or weakness of involuntary civil-commitment laws.

According to Rasmussen and Gallup polls taken shortly after Newtown, most Americans believe treating mental illness is the most important factor in preventing these mass crimes.

Conclusion

So should we deny private citizens the right to self-defense on the off-chance that a few lunatics may be prevented from using firearms as their method to commit mass murder, even though we know, with certainty, that terrorists, street gangs, and other criminals will remain heavily armed and able to attack citizens they know are defenseless?

Isn’t it a better idea to let law-abiding citizens remain armed, promote firearms safety and responsible gun ownership, while relaxing counterproductive constraints that now prevent law-abiding citizens from using firearms in defense of themselves and others in emergencies like Sandy Hook?

Isn’t it a better idea to confront the problem of mental illness in our society head on? Aren’t our dollars better spent treating these people, rather than risking more children’s lives by attempting to fix the problem on the cheap with feel-good non-answers like gun control? Would we not be risking many more lives by disarming the public while letting criminals go free?

James Simpson is an economist, businessman, and freelance writer. His writings have been published in Accuracy in Media, American Thinker, Big Government, Washington Times, WorldNetDaily, FrontPage Magazine, and elsewhere.

Obvious Racist Retard Hater (who just happens to be right) Lou Barletta: GOP Can't 'Win Over' Uneducated, Government-Dependent Latinos

Jan. 30, 2013

(Huffington Post) - Avowed immigration hardliner Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) announced his immediate opposition on Monday to a bipartisan Senate framework on comprehensive immigration reform, suggesting that it could be serving as an ill-advised Republican olive branch to Latino voters.

Barletta went on to say that the GOP should have no interest in providing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, claiming that most are uneducated, government-dependent individuals who wouldn't support the party.

"I hope politics is not at the root of why we're rushing to pass a bill. Anyone who believes that they're going to win over the Latino vote is grossly mistaken," Barletta said, according to the Morning Call. "The majority that are here illegally are low-skilled or may not even have a high school diploma. The Republican Party is not going to compete over who can give more social programs out. They will become Democrats because of the social programs they’ll depend on."

The Senate "gang of eight" includes four Republican lawmakers, who in their crafting of the plan have undertaken an effort acknowledged by the GOP following the party's losses in the 2012 elections. Many Republicans have noted their past failures to resonate with Latino voters, and have sought to shift policies and messaging in hopes of improving the party's outreach.

But Barletta, a former mayor with a controversial past of supporting strict immigration enforcement measures, appears to believe that the latest campaign for immigration reform can be boiled down to "amnesty."  ("controversial" an anti-democrat view)

"It's amnesty that America can't afford," Barletta said. "We have to stop people from coming in illegally. This will be a green light for anyone who wants to come to America illegally and then be granted citizenship one day."

(Read more on the comprehensive Senate immigration reform framework here)

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama will deliver his own speech in Las Vegas, outlining his own priorities for immigration reform.

Kirsten Powers Rips Obama and His Administration For Its ‘Strategy to Delegitimize’ Fox News

Jan. 30, 2013
Bizzy Blog

In a column which went up this morning, Fox News Political Analyst Kirsten Powers, whose political positions certainly lean left and is a self-described liberal, ripped into President Obama and his administration for what she correctly characterizes as their “strategy to delegitimize a news organization” — hers.

Her column is about far more than Obama’s recent complaint to the New Republic’s Chris Hughes (covered by Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters) that “If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it.” What she recounts is a strategy first employed in 2009 and apparently being revived, now that Obama no longer has to answer to America’s voters, to marginalize the only network which still tries to be fair and balanced (bolds are mine):

… This latest volley from the president is just one in a long line of comments from his White House as part of their campaign to silence any dissent they detect in the press corps.

Recently, the White House has kept Fox News off of conference calls dealing with the Benghazi attack, despite Fox News being the only outlet that was regularly reporting on it and despite Fox having top notch foreign policy reporters.

They have left Chris Wallace’s “Fox News Sunday” out of a round of interviews that included CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS for not being part of a “legitimate” news network. In October 2009, as part of an Obama administration onslaught against Fox News,White House senior adviser David Axelrod said on ABC’s “This Week” that the Fox News Channel is “not really a news station” and that much of the programming is “not really news.”

… That more liberals aren’t calling out the White House for this outrageous behavior tells you something about the state of liberalism in America today.

… During the initial launch of the war on Fox News in October 2009, then-White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told the New York Times of Fox News, “[W]e don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.” On CNN, she declared that Fox was a “wing of the Republican Party.” Then: “let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.”

Gosh, this sounds so familiar. In fact, it’s exactly the line that Media Matters used in a 2010 memo to donors: “Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”

In fact, this is the signature line of Media Matters in discussing Fox News, which they say they exist to destroy.

… When Anita Dunn was informing America – as a senior government official – which news organizations were “legitimate,” she conveniently deemed CNN, which rarely challenges the White House, as a “real” network. Presumably she believes MSNBC is “legitimate” also, despite their undisguised disgust of the GOP and hagiography of the president, not to mention more opinion programming than any cable outlet.

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume she thinks CBS is “legitimate” after they just ran what amounted to a 2016 ad for Hillary Clinton on “60 Minutes.” CBS is the same place that has a political director who also writes for one of the most liberal outlets in the country, Slate. Who also just wrote in that publication that the president should “pulverize” the GOP. Imagine a political director at CBS hired away from the Weekly Standard who then wrote an article about “pulverizing” Democrats. I know, I lost you at the part where CBS hired a political director from a conservative outlet.

Powers’s citiation of Media Matters is far from peripheral. A Dailly Caller series last September detailed how that Media Matters has collaborated with the Obama Department of Justice “to attack the president’s critics.”

Such moves, if attempted by a Republican or conservative administration against another news organization, would be properly denounced by the press as censorship. But I expect that most of the press, as they did in 2009, will stand by, watch Fox fight the good fight mostly on its own, and secretly (sometimes not so secretly) root against a competitor whose ratings have consistently left them in the dust for over a decade.

Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org
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More proof: The UN is not a Friend of the West

Jan. 30, 2013

Israel in transfer of frozen Palestinian funds

Palestinians celebrate their successful bid for UN 
non-member observer state status in the West Bank
city of Ramallah on December 2, 2012. Israel said on
Wednesday it had released $100 million of the tariffs
and tax monies it collects on behalf of the Palestinian
Authority, which were frozen last year as punishment
for the UN bid.

Israel said on Wednesday it had released $100 million of the tariffs and tax monies it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, which were frozen last year as punishment for the UN bid.

But an Israeli official said it was a one-off measure to ease the financial crisis faced by the Palestinians and was not a sign that the transfers would be renewed.
"This decision was taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because of the Palestinian Authority's very difficult financial situation," an official at the premier's office told AFP.

"But this transfer is temporary and affects only funds owed for one month," he added, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"The prime minister did not commit to continue these transfers."

Israel in early December announced it would not transfer tax and tariff funds it collects for the Palestinians in response to their successful bid for upgraded UN membership, a move the Jewish state had fiercely opposed.

Every month, Israel transfers tens of millions of dollars in customs duties which are levied on goods destined for Palestinian markets that transit through Israeli ports, and which constitute a large percentage of the Palestinian budget.

The transfers are governed by the 1994 Paris Protocols which governs economic agreements between Israel and the Palestinians.

But Israel often freezes the transfer of funds as a punitive measure in response to diplomatic or political developments viewed as harmful.

The measure has deepened an already dire financial crisis faced by the Palestinian Authority, which has frequently been unable to make payroll for its employees over the last year.

In response to Israel's freezing of the funds, the Palestinians have urged Arab nations to activate a promised "safety net" of $100 million a month to make up the shortfall.

But despite pledging to deliver the money, funds have yet to materialise, leaving the PA unable to pay its thousands of government employees, who are still owed half their salaries from November and all their salaries from December.


source: afp

Update: America's Secret War

Jan. 30, 2013

Mexico probes band massacre as 17 bodies found

Members of the Federal Police stand guard at the main entrance of an undertaker's during the wake of one of the musicians of the Kombo Kolombia group in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon state on January 29, 2013. Mexican authorities are investigating why a band that performed love songs was kidnapped and killed by gunmen, who dumped their bodies in a well in the drug cartel-infested north.

Mexican authorities are investigating why a band that performed love songs was kidnapped and killed by gunmen, who dumped their bodies in a well in the drug cartel-infested north.

The killings underscored yet again the pervasiveness of Mexico's grisly drug violence, which has claimed more than 70,000 lives since the launch of a military crackdown on the powerful, feuding cartels in 2006.

Authorities said late Tuesday they had pulled 17 corpses from a desert well in the northern state of Nuevo Leon since Sunday, with 14 confirmed so far as members of Kombo Kolombia.

The band's 14 musicians and four roadies were snatched in the middle of a party early Friday in the town of Hidalgo. One member managed to escape his captors and led police to the gruesome site in the nearby town of Mina.

Musicians have fallen victim to Mexico's relentless drug war before, but those killed in the past usually performed songs that glorify the exploits of drug lords, a popular style known as "narcocorridos."

This latest slaying is unusual because Kombo Kolombia specialized in vallenato, fast-paced folk music from Colombia, and performed romantic songs with lyrics unrelated to the drug trade.

Jorge Domene, the spokesman for Nuevo Leon state security, said Tuesday that investigators were "still gathering information that can guide us to the real cause" of the murders.

A source close to the investigation said the prosecutor's office was looking into any links the musicians may have had with the Zetas, an ultra-violent drug cartel founded by former special forces soldiers.

The Zetas control some of the sites where Kombo Kolombia played, according to the source, who said the killers might have been members of the rival Sinaloa cartel.

Relatives of band members denied that the group had any criminal links.

"My son was a good boy, a percussionist. He had nothing to do with anything illegal," Maria Saenz, the mother of one victim, told reporters.

Kombo Kolombia had performed in a building rented out for parties when they were kidnapped. There were some 50 people present when the gunmen barged in and hustled the band members into waiting vehicles.

All of the Kombo Kolombia members were Mexican aside from the Colombian-born keyboardist, Heiner Cuellar, whose body police retrieved from the well.

The bullet-riddled bodies showed signs of torture. The captives' pants had been pulled down to the knees, presumably to keep them from escaping.

The northern border state of Nuevo Leon is one of the states hardest hit by the wave of murders, kidnappings and extortion in Mexico's drug war.

Some 50 "narcocorrido" performers have been killed in the past six years, said Edmundo Perez, author of the book "Let Me Be Buried With Narcocorridos."

Like the American gangsta rappers of the 1990s, such performers often live in close proximity to drug lords who patronize them, and can occasionally get caught up in gang turf battles.

One of the most famous victims was Valentin Elizalde, a popular singer who counted drug traffickers among his fans and was shot dead in November 2006 in the northeastern city of Reynosa, the turf of the Gulf cartel.

Drug lords can pay a singer $5,000 to $10,000 to write a song in their honor, Perez said, but then he can become a target for rivals.

"When they become famous, they start inviting them to parties, and the artist knows that he can't say no," he said.

source: afp

Britain's Tesco scraps supplier over horse meat scare

Jan. 30, 2013

A horse eats grass in front of a traveller's caravan with snowmen built next to it after heavy snow near Malton, northern England, on January 15, 2013. British retail giant Tesco said Wednesday it has axed an Irish beef supplier which sparked a food scare after horse DNA was found in beefburgers in Britain and Ireland, where horse meat consumption is taboo.

British retail giant Tesco said Wednesday it has axed an Irish beef supplier which sparked a food scare after horse DNA was found in beefburgers in Britain and Ireland, where horse meat consumption is taboo.

Tesco said in a statement that it has decided to stop using Silvercrest after uncovering evidence that it used meat from non-approved suppliers, mirroring a move by US fast-food chain Burger King last week.

Two weeks ago, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) had revealed that up to 29 percent of the meat content of some beefburgers was in fact horse, while they also found pig DNA.

The frozen burgers were on sale in high-street supermarket chains Tesco and Iceland in both Britain and Ireland, and in Irish branches of Lidl, Aldi and Dunnes Stores.

The FSAI had said burgers had been made at two processing plants in Ireland and one in northern England.

Following the news, Britain's biggest retailer Tesco issued an immediate apology and pledged to investigate the matter.

It said Silvercrest apparently used suppliers that Tesco had not authorised, as well as using meat from outside Britain and Ireland.

"Consequently we have decided not to take products from that supplier in future. We took that decision with regret but the breach of trust is simply too great," Tesco technical director Tim Smith said in Wednesday's statement.

The supermarket group added that it would also implement DNA testing across its meat products to prevent such an incident happening again.

"Ultimately Tesco is responsible for the food we sell, so it is not enough just to stop using the supplier."

"We want to leave customers in no doubt that we will do whatever it takes to ensure the quality of their food and that the food they buy is exactly what the label says it is," added Smith.

The consumption of horse meat is a common sight in central Asia, China, Latin America and parts of Europe.


source: afp

Finance Minister: Zimbabwe has $217 in the bank

Jan. 30, 2013

Zimbabwe's finance minister Tendai Biti pictured during a press conference in Harare on January 25, 2012. After paying public workers' salaries last week, the balance in cash-strapped Zimbabwe's government public account stood at just $217, Biti said Tuesday. - Copyright : AFP/File

HARARE - After paying public workers’ salaries last week, the balance in cash-strapped Zimbabwe’s government public account stood at just $217, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said Tuesday.

“Last week when we paid civil servants there was $217 (left) in government coffers,” Biti told journalists in the capital Harare, claiming some of them had healthier bank balances than the state.

“The government finances are in paralysis state at the present moment. We are failing to meet our targets.”

Zimbabwe’s economy went into free-fall at the turn of the millennium, after President Robert Mugabe began seizing white-owned farms.

The move demolished investor confidence in the country, paralysed production, prompted international sanctions and scared off tourists.

After more than a decade — in which the country suffered hyper-inflation of 231 million percent and infrastructure that crumbled as quickly as prices went up — the situation is now more stable.

But public finances remain a mess and local business battles against unstable electricity supplies, lack of liquidity and high labour costs.

Zimbabwe’s government has warned it does not have enough money to fund a constitutional referendum and elections expected this year.

Biti said that left no choice but to ask the donors for cash.

“We will be approaching the international community,” he said.

The country’s elections agency said it requires $104 million to organise the vote.

Government’s national budget for this year stands at $3.8 billion and the economy is projected to grow 5.0 percent.

The mineral rich country is now using the US dollar and the South African rand.


 Source: AFP

NAACP president: Black people worse off under Obama

Jan. 30, 2013

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous (AP Photo/Reinhold Matay)

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous said Sunday, perhaps unwittingly, that black Americans “are doing far worse” than when President Obama first took office.

“The country’s back to pretty much where it was when this president started,” Mr. Jealous told MSNBC host David Gregory on “Meet the Press.” “White people in this country are doing a bit better. Black people are doing far worse.”

The black unemployment rate was 12.7 percent when Mr. Obama took office. While the unemployment rate in the U.S. as a whole is below 8 percent, the Labor Department reported the black jobless rate was up from 12.9 percent to 14 percent for December.

The worst during Mr Obama’s first term was in September 2011, with 16.7 percent unemployment for blacks — the highest since 1983, the Department of Labor reports. The black teen jobless rate hit a staggering 39.3 percent in July 2012.

The NAACP, the National Urban League and the National Action Network, among others, met for the second time on Friday to discuss a “black agenda” for the president, Politic365 reports. The coalition stated it will urge Mr. Obama to mention an urban jobs plan in his State of the Union speech on Feb. 12.

source: Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Meet the Future of the NFL...

Jan. 30, 2013

As you likely know, Obama and the government media complex have declared war on the game of football, with an goal of replacing it with that spectacle the rest of the world calls football. But meanwhile as America morphs that direction here is the interim version to keep us from realizing the end goal..

Forget Lingerie Football, we’ve got Bikini Basketball

In case you haven't gotten over the loss of the Lingerie Football league, maybe this will cheer you up. The Philadelphia Diamonds will be a team in the upcoming Bikini Basketball Association. Yeah, it's a thing.

The league, dubbing itself the BBA, starts this summer on June 1, 2013. Here is the description from the web site:

The Bikini Basketball Association (BBA) is an exciting new innovative women’s sports association. The BBA is a United States based women’s basketball association for beautiful athletic women. The association will begin play this summer on June 1, 2013. There are six teams in the BBA, the Atlanta Peaches, Miami Spice, Orlando Lady Cats, Minnesota Mist, Illinois Heart, and Philadelphia Diamonds. Women were selected based on athleticism, personality, as well as beauty. The combination of these traits will help the BBA athletes stand out in their respective communities. Each team will feature between 14 to 21 talented female athletes on their rosters. Prepare for one of the sexiest and most exciting new associations to "TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM", get ready for the Bikini Basketball Association (BBA).

The team even has a Twitter account and a Facebook page.

And if that doesn't get you excited, watch the tryout videos for the Miami Spice below.





source: philly.com

Between the Lines: Obama's Inaugural Speech, a political expert's interpetation

January 29, 2013


What he really meant to say, explained..



Vice President Biden "Mac" McMurphy, Mr. Chief Justice Dude I blackmailed into making Obamacare law, Members Slackers of the United States Congress, distinguished guests wealthy socialists donors, and fellow citizen peons: 

Each time For the last time we gather to inaugurate a president, as we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the confirm my promise of our my democracy. We've recall erased from history that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional - what makes us American - is our allegiance to an ideas such as Occupy Wall Street, articulated in a declaration Karl Marx made more than two centuries nearly 150 years ago:

 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, except the 1%, that they our rights to their wealth are endowed by their Creator with certain is an unalienable rights, that guarantees our among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

 Today we continue a never-ending journey, to bridge alter the meaning of  those words with the realities entitlement mentalities of our time. For history now tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been always self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God government, it must be secured by His my people here on Earth One World Government. The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few like now or the rule of a flash mob. They gave to  Marx wanted for us a banana Republic, a government of, and by, and for the people's government, entrusting entitling each generation me to keep safe control of our socialism's founding creed constant greed. 

For more than two hundred years, we have.

Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free. We are making made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together toward total slavery. 

Together, we determined that a modern oppressed economy requires government owned railroads and highways to speed travel by creating heavily taxed oil dependency and government-burdened commerce; government run schools and colleges agendas to train our workers.

Together, we has yet to discovered that a free market only thrives dwindles away when there are excessive rules, regulations and big unions to ensure competition and competetive fair play is impossible. 

Together, we resolved confused the understanding that a great nation must care for the vulnerable  laziest among us, also sue and over-regulate businesses into bankruptcy to "protect" its people from life's worst hazards like spilling hot coffee and misfortune like being punished with a baby.

Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism goal of a central authoritian government, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society's ills and class warfare can be cured accomplished through by government entitlements alone. Our celebration of initiative conquer and enterprise divide; our insistence on hard work rights to your money and personal responsibility property, are constants consistent in with our character.

But we have always understood that when times ruling classes change, so must we you; that fidelity to our my founding tyrannical principles requires no responses to new challenges rules; that preserving such as forfeiting your individual freedoms ultimately requires for collective actions. For the American people can will no more meet the demands of today's world wide Communist movement by acting alone through free enterprise than American soldiers could have citizens will have meeting the my forces of fascism or and communism with their muskets and petty militias. No single person can train all the New World Order-endorsed math and science teachers we'll need to equip indoctrinate your children for the future, or chain gangs to build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new government-run jobs and businesses to our shores new world. Now, more than ever, we you must agree to do these things together, as one nation world, and one people. 

This generation of Americans has been tested hoodwinked by manufactured crises and distractions that steeled baffled our resolve and proved our resilience incompetence. A decade of war is now ending at least for our side. An economic recovery has begun  thanks to my new calculation formula. America's Communism's possibilities are will be limitless, for once we possess all the qualities valuables that this world government without boundaries demands: youth and drive, not the aged or lame; diversity and openness tolerance though thought policing; an endless capacity for risk safety net and a gift for reinvention the ability to follow direct commands. My fellow Americans pawns, we were this administration was made for this moment, and we my personal army will seize it - so long as you comply, we seize it together. 

For we, the people's government, understand are brainwashing you through class warfare to believe that republicans are the ones that created an economy in our country that cannot succeed when a shrinking few 1%ers excluding myself, do very well and a growing many barely make it. We believe that America's deadbeat entitlements prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of heavy taxation of the working a rising middle class. We know that America's union leader's thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their must pay dues in order to work; when the wages violent acts of honest union labor liberate intimidates families from to the brink of hardship. We are true to our creed when a little girl named Julia is born into Section 8 government housing with food stamps, free medical insurance, WIC, cable, Head Start  and free utilities the bleakest poverty knows that she'll receive has the same chance free contraception and abortion entitlements to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American victim, she everything is free, and she is equal entitled to it, not just in the eyes of God Black Liberation Theology but also in our own socialist government's. 

We understand that outworn programs government freebies are inadequate to the needs pay for the current handouts of our time. We must harness new ideas schemes and spy technology to remake our government strengthen big brother, revamp grow our tax code, reform expand our school's agenda, and empower re-educate our citizens with the skills mentality they need to work harder accept socialism, learn give more, and reach higher expect less. But while the means of survival will change, our purpose endures: a nation government that rewards the effort and determination cooperation of every single American with a place in the soup line. That is what this moment movement requires. That is what will give real meaning control to our creed ruling class. 

 We, the people's ruling class, still believe that every taxpaying citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity during the working years. But later in life, we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit with death panels. But we'll tell you that we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. For we've remember rewritten, "for the children" the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn, to now include death panels. We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky uber-wealthy donors, or and happiness for the few ruling class. We recognize that no matter how responsibly thoroughly we live our control your lives, any one of us you, at any time, may face a chaingang job loss, or a sudden death panel qualifying illness, or a home gulag swept away in a terrible storm. The commitments we make to each other you pay for - through Medicare taxes, and Medicaid taxes, and Social Security more taxes - these things do not sap our the ruler's will; they strengthen us government. They do not make us a nation of takers slaves; they free us to take further destroy the risks dreams that make this country great. 

We, the people's government, still expect you to believe that your obligations as Americans new socialist enlistees are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity lazy, worthless bastards too. We will respond pay more taxes to reduce the threat of more Chicken Little media propaganda about bullshit climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations, and likely even send us to concentration camps. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of Al Gore and Michael Mann's science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms (formerly known as unpredictible nature). The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long cold and sometimes difficult very costly. But Americans cannot shall not resist this brainwashing transition; we you must lead accept it. We cannot cede must shed to other our nations the proven technology that will has always powered new jobs and new industries - we must claim abandon its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality government control and over our national treasure - our EPA-regulated forests and fluoride tainted waterways; our IRS confiscated croplands and polar bearless snowcapped peaks. That is how we the U.N. will preserve our planet, commanded to our their care by heavily vested politicians playing God. That's what will lend distort meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.

We, the people's children, still are encouraged to believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war. Our brave men and women in uniform, tempered by the flames of battle, are unmatched in skill and courage. Our citizens, seared by the memory of those we have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty. The knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against those who would do us harm. But we are also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war, who I've turned sworn enemies, the Muslim Brotherhood into the surest of friends my bff, and we must carry those lessons over into this time Communism as well.

We will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms and rule of law (unless of course you are a useful diplomatic idiot whose outlived his predetermined purpose stationed at an embassy in Benghazi). We will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully (unless you've already been dead for years, we'll  hold a mock burial at sea) - not because we are naïve about the dangers of losing the re-election we face, but because engagement truth can more durably lift arouse suspicion and fear. America will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of the globe, except Israel of course; and we will renew endear those institutions that extend submit to our capacity wish to manage fabricated crisis' abroad, for no one has a greater stake in a peaceful world governance than its most powerful nation. We will support Muslim brotherhood-like democracy from Asia to Africa; from the Americas to the Middle East, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom and are too stupid to realize the only reason I want them to overthrow their governments is to create the opportunity for a Shariah law based government. And we must be a source of hope dependency to the poor, controller of wellness for the sick, the marginalized, source of reparation for the victims of prejudice - not out of mere non-tax deductible charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of submission to those principles that our Marx's common creed describes: tolerance (accepting our will) and opportunity (not allowing a good crisis to go to waste); human dignity and justice (divide and conquer). 

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal (in our respective class) - is the star hammer and sickle that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Nazi Germany, and Selma the Xinhai Revoltion, and Stonewall Yugoslavia; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, whose left footprints were erased along this by the great Mall Mao, to hear a preacher Rev. Wright say that we cannot walk alone Goddamn America; to hear a Me, your King proclaim that your individual freedom, as per the Constitution is inextricably bound outdated and your freedom will be equal to the freedom of every soul other peasant on Earth. 

 It is now our generation's of useful idiots' task to carry on what those pioneers of Marxism-Leninism began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts taxation that government requirements. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated donating more political like than anyone else under the future law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love moneys we commit to a one-party government another must be more equal as well. Our journey is not complete until no citizen, legal or not is forced to wait travel for hours to exercise the right to vote, repeatedly for me. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful rapist fugitive immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity for endless sex offenses; until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce centralized government rather than expelled in soup lines like the other peons from throughout our country. Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit Kenya to the hills of Appalachia Pakistan to the quiet lanes of Newtown downtown Chicago, Illinois, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm gun control. 

That is our generation's administration's task - to make distort these words, these rights, these values - of Life, and Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - real for believable to every American. Being true to our founding living documents does not require us you to agree on every contour choice we make for your of life; it does not mean we will all redefine liberty in exactly the same way, or also you'll follow the same predetermined precise path to happiness we've selected for you. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time using an old outdated piece of paper written by some dead white guys - but it does require us to act in our time and rid me of those restraints placed on government by that freakin' piece of paper! 

For now decisions (over how many different parts of  it to shread) are upon us me, your communists in charge , and we cannot afford delay, (in case our voter fraud efforts are foiled if for some reason I allow another election). We cannot mistake allow absolutism God-given rights for to nullify my principles, or substitute spectacle fact for politics emotion, or treat historically defined name-calling, like Socialist, Communist, Leninist, or Maoist as reasoned and factual debate. We must act like Socialists, Communists, Leninists and  little Maoists, knowing that our work power will be imperfect come from the barrel of a gun. We must act, knowing that today's victories tyranny will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who me standing here in four years, and forty years, and my heirs in four hundred years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall from a church pulpit in Chicago.

My fellow Americans, the oath written by old, white dead Christians I have sworn before you today, like the one recited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an oath to your God and country, not my partys' or faction mine - and we must faithfully execute destroy that pledge during the duration of our service. But the words I spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty, or an illegal immigrant or 99%er realizes her dream. My oath is not so different from the pledge we you all make to the flag that waves above and that fills your hearts with pride, while I stand defiantly with my arms folded. 

They are were the words of citizens, and they represented our greatest hope. 

You and I, as citizens of the world, have the power to set this country's oblivious course. 

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape control the debates of our time - not only with the numerous votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient sixth century values and enduring ideals. 

Let each of us now embrace, with solemn duty and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright election. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history Mohammad, and carry into an uncertain future that precious light memory of freedom. 

Thank you, God Bless you, and may He Allah forever bless these United States of America.