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This week reminds me of the 1966 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles & the LA Dodgers.

The Dodgers had made the trip to the post season in those pre-playoff days regularly 1947 & featured one of the greatest 1-2 punches in Baseball history with Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale.

The Orioles on the other hand had never played in a world series. Their one trip as the St. Louis Browns was at the height of World War 2 when the best players were absent.

Conventional wisdom was the Dodgers would take the Orioles apart and when journeyman Moe Draboskey came in to relieve Dave McNally with the bases loaded and nobody out in the 3^rd things looked grim.

Six innings later Draboskey & the O’s won Game 1 on their way to a sweep of the vaunted Dodgers but were about to start their period as one of the dominant teams of the American League.

The GOP must be feeling like the 66 O’s right now. Last week at this time President Obama was riding high, Kelly Ayotte was under constant attack for her vote on Manchin/Toomey, Mark Sanford had just won election on sc-1 ensuring a flock of stories hurting the GOP and talk of the immigration bill was not IF one would pass, but what type of bill would finally make it through congress and how much it would hurt the GOP when it did.

Meanwhile the press was uninterested in Benghazi, the IRS scandal was considered the paranoid ravings of tea party fanatics, and the press knew that their love for Obama was returned.

A lot of things can happen in a week, and there is every chance the media will pivot to something else if they can find an excuse to do so.

One of the things people forget about the IRS scandal is the multiplier effect. How many people didn’t join the tea party, or give , or talk to other people about the tea party because of fear of audits? This is the real scandal, the intimidation of those opposed to this administration.

I wonder if the press that is upset about the chilling effect of the AP being tapped understands this, or are they thinking: Serves you right.

The outrage of the press and congress on the targeting of the right is rather amusing to me. For the last three years they have called the tea party every name in the book, implied they were violent astroturf (unlike occupy everwhere that was supposedly a wholly organic peaceful movement that never did a violent thing in their lives). Let’s not forget the moment the Bombs went off in Boston the media was speculating that it was the fault of right wing extremists.

If the press wants to blame someone over this they should look in the mirror.

BTW do you think for one minute the IRS scandal happens if the people involved thought for one moment the press would report on it before the election?

Speaking of the Boston Bomber also known as the young heartthrob of thousands of women. Jahar apparently left a note behind in the Boat where he was taken detailing his grievances against the United States for its crimes against islam and calling the innocents killed “collateral damage”

I’d be angrier about those girls in denial over Jahar, if the MSM wasn’t so much in denial about Islam.

Oh and speaking of another odd coincidence:

Massachusetts state police say they and the FBI are investigating a trespassing incident at the Quabbin Reservoir but have no evidence of terrorism.

The central Massachusetts reservoir supplies drinking water to Boston.

Why would Terrorism even be suspected?

Procopio said they are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Singapore with addresses in Amherst, Cambridge, Sunderland and Northampton, and New York City.

And the explanation for being there at 12:30 AM?

The men told police they are recently graduated chemical engineers curious about the reservoir.

Oh I’m sure there is absolutely nothing going on that has anything to do with any religion that doesn’t have anything to do with terrorism, or even Cigarette Smuggling.

Bob Woodward was on Morning Joe this week. We haven’t seen much of him lately since his last clash with the administration. When asked about Benghazi Woodward went off the reservation again:

“You were talking earlier about kind of dismissing the Benghazi issue as one that’s just political and the president recently said it’s a sideshow,” said Woodward. “But if you read through all these e-mails, you see that everyone in the government is saying, ‘Oh, let’s not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let’s not tell the public that there were warnings.’ I hate to show, this is one of the documents with the editing that one of the people in the state department said, ‘Oh, let’s not let these things out.’ And I have to go back 40 years to Watergate when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he personally went through them and said, ‘Oh, let’s not tell this, let’s not show this.’ I would not dismiss Benghazi. It’s a very serious issue. As people keep saying, four people were killed. You look at the hydraulic pressure that was in the system to not tell the truth, and, you know, we use this term and the government uses this term, talking points. Talking points, as we know, are like legal briefs. They’re an argument on one side. What we need to get rid of talking point and they need to put out statements or papers that are truth documents. Okay, this is all we know.”

Woodward got a lot of grief over hitting this administration earlier this year. I wonder how much payback was involved there.

Last week we had Dr. Paul Byrne on DaTechGuy on DaRadio talking about Brain Death & Organ donation. If you only listen to one of my shows. Listen to this one.

A little more sports, How bad are the Houston Astros? As of May 16^th just 41 games into the season they are 4 ½ games behind the LA Angels.

That doesn’t sound so bad, until you realize the Angels are 11 ½ games out of first. Teams all over the American League are just dying for the Astros to come to town, they’re a winning streak just waiting to happen.

The same thing must be going on in the NL when Miami comes to town.

The Boston Bruins made an almost impossible comeback against the Toronto Maple Leafs to finish the first round of the NHL Stanly cup playoffs. Down 4-1 in the 3^rd period they managed three goals to tie, two of them while playing with an empty net , then eventually win in overtime.

Paying with an empty net when you are down is usually an act of desperation. It’s rare that it works to score once, it’s almost unheard of to have it work twice in one game.

That photo spread of Emma Watson made me feel VERY old.

Some Doctor Who news. According to reports the season finale was accidentally leaked to fans in America when Blu Ray sets of 7^th season were shipped early.

I tend to disbelieve it as during the week not a single spoiler managed to make it on the net. In this internet age that’s practically unheard of.

Me If I was a hacker wanting to take control of computers I’d have had an infected torrent with the preview spliced into it as soon as the news came out. I’d have control of half of England’s internet by now.

See you next week.

• The American of today, in fact, probably enjoys less personal liberty than any other man of Christendom, and even his political liberty is fast succumbing to the new dogma that certain theories of government are virtuous and lawful, and others abhorrent and felonious. Laws limiting the radius of his free activity multiply year by year: It is now practically impossible for him to exhibit anything describable as genuine individuality, either in action or in thought, without running afoul of some harsh and unintelligible penalty. It would surprise no impartial observer if the motto “In God we trust” were one day expunged from the coins of the republic by the Junkers at Washington, and the far more appropriate word, “verboten,” substituted. Nor would it astound any save the most romantic if, at the same time, the goddess of liberty were taken off the silver dollars to make room for a bas-relief of a policeman in a spiked helmet. Moreover, this gradual (and, of late, rapidly progressive) decay of freedom goes almost without challenge; the American has grown so accustomed to the denial of his constitutional rights and to the minute regulation of his conduct by swarms of spies, letter-openers, informers and agents provocateurs that he no longer makes any serious protest.
  • The American Credo: A Contribution toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (1920)

A government that uses it’s resources against the very people that must rely on those resources, is a government that no longer serves the people, but instead treats the people as if they are the servants to it. We have become slaves of our government! If agencies that are supposed to be independent and outside of politics, no longer even attempt to have the face of impartiality, tyranny has succeeded and the Republic has already fallen.

Any fair and intelligent look at the machinations of our current government, show us that it is being used as a tool to inhibit free speech, to restrict thought, and to hinder justice. Whether it is the IRS, the EPA, the DOE, or the DOJ, we see very little of service for the people, and often harassment of disagreeing opinions, and failure to have the slightest amount of impartiality.

H. L. Mencken

• Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle — a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.
  It is the aim of the Bill of Rights, if it has any remaining aim at all, to curb such prehensile gentry. Its function is to set a limitation upon their power to harry and oppress us to their own private profit. The Fathers, in framing it, did not have powerful minorities in mind; what they sought to hobble was simply the majority. But that is a detail. The important thing is that the Bill of Rights sets forth, in the plainest of plain language, the limits beyond which even legislatures may not go. The Supreme Court, in Marbury v. Madison, decided that it was bound to execute that intent, and for a hundred years that doctrine remained the corner-stone of American constitutional law.
  • The American Mercury (May 1930)

How does one get to tyranny? Democracy according to Plato and others, is the best way to get there. But we don’t have a Democracy, we have a Republic. Yes, but it seems that the majority of the people of this country have forgotten that, or been convinced by those who are in power that we have a Democracy. Sometimes the perception is as viable as the reality.

How could a democracy, even an initially liberal one, develop into a totalitarian tyranny? As we said in the beginning, there are three avenues of approach, and in each case the evolution would be of an “organic” nature. The tyranny would evolve from the very character of even a liberal democracy because there is, from the beginning on, a worm in the apple: freedom and equality do not mix, they practically exclude each other. Equality doesn’t exist in nature and therefore can be established only by force. He who wants geographic equality has to dynamite mountains and fill up the valleys. To get a hedge of even height one has to apply pruning shears. To achieve equal scholastic levels in a school one would have to pressure certain students into extra hard work while holding back others.

Read more: http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/democracys-road-to-tyranny/#ixzz2TOWESyr6

Our Founders understood the danger of Democracy, in fact they were quite outspoken against it:

Samuel Adams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, championed the new Constitution in his state precisely because it would not create a democracy. “Democracy never lasts long,” he noted. “It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.” He insisted, “There was never a democracy that ‘did not commit suicide.’”

James Madison, who is rightly known as the “Father of the

Constitution,” wrote in The Federalist, No. 10: “… democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.” The Federalist Papers, recall, were written during the time of the ratification debate to encourage the citizens of New York to support the new Constitution.

Read more at

“A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT”

Tyranny in it’s beginnings relies upon paying off of supporters and enticing those who would otherwise oppose it with gifts. How often have we seen this administration give money in the guise of supporting certain projects, and yet those projects seem to fail in almost every case with the people of the country who pay the taxes, lose the money and the people who support the President, gain financially even though the business which they are responsible for, and it’s employees, fail.

‘And I think that you too would call it propaganda when people are enticed into a change of opinion by promises of pleasure, or terrified into it by threats?’
‘Yes, propaganda and deceit always go together.’ (Plato, Republic)

We are in the place where we are being threatened by our government on the one hand and enticed on the other. How is it any different that the way that Mao led his people into one of the worst periods of human history? How many people died because they let a monster like this come into power? According to Necrometrics the answer is People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong’s regime (1949-1975):40,000,000

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside. (Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind)

How dumb does the American Citizen be in order for tyranny to succeed? The thing is that it is not a matter of intelligence. It is more a lack of the desire to question. When a citizenry gets to the point that it simply accepts the answers that the government provides, it is a citizenry that is so apatheic that it cares nothing but for what is in front of him. It is worse when we don’t even have a press that is willing to question authority, but instead spends it’s time covering for and cheerleading an abusive and tyrannical government.

The only way to stave off tyranny is for a well informed public to be aware of the possibilities and have the means to prevent it.

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” — Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” — Jefferson’s “Commonplace Book,” 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764

– Thomas Jefferson

What is tyranny? The best explanation that I have found is this:

Concerning tyrants by practice, it is not so easy to describe them as true kings. For reason rules the one, and selfwill the other: the first prescribes bounds to his affections, the second confines his desires within no limits. What is the proper rights of kings may be easily declared, but the outrageous insolences of tyrants cannot without much difficulty be expressed. And as a right angle is uniform, and like to itself one and the same, so an oblique diversifies itself into various and sundry species. In like manner is justice and equity simple, and may be deciphered in few words: but injustice and injury are divers, and for their sundry accidents not to be so easily defined; but that more will be omitted than expressed. Now, although there be certain rules by which these tyrants may be represented (though not absolutely to the life), yet, notwithstanding, there is not any more certain rule than by conferring and comparing a tyrant’s fraudulent slights with a king’s virtuous actions.

The tyrant advances above and in opposition to the ancient and worthy nobility, mean and unworthy persons; to the end that these base fellows, being absolutely his creatures, might applaud and apply themselves to the fulfilling of all his loose and unruly desires.

The tyrant hates and suspects discreet and wise men, and fears no opposition more than virtue, as being conscious of his own vicious courses, and esteeming his own security to consist principally in a general corruption of all estates, introduces multiplicity of taverns, gaming houses, masks, stage plays, brothel houses, and all other licentious superfluities that might effeminate and bastardise noble spirits, as Cyrus did, to weaken and subdue the Sardiens.

A tyrant as much as in him lies, prohibits or avoids all public assemblies, fears parliaments, diets and meetings of the general estates, flies the light, affecting (like the bat) to converse only in darkness; yea, he is jealous of the very gesture, countenance, and discourse of his subjects.

A tyrant nourishes and feeds factions and dissentions amongst his subjects, ruins one by the help of another, that he may the easier vanquish the remainder, advantaging himself by this division, like those dishonest surgeons who lengthen out their cures. Briefly, after the manner of that abominable Vitellius, he is not ashamed to say that the carcass of a dead enemy, especially a subject’s, yields a good savour.

A tyrant fills his garrisons with strange soldiers, builds citadels against his subjects, disarms the people, throws down their forts, makes himself formidable with guards of strangers, or men only fit for pillage and spoil, gives pensions out of the public treasury to spies and calumniating informers, dispersed through all cities and provinces.

A tyrant leaves no design unattempted by which he may fleece his subjects of their substance, and turn it to his proper benefit, that being continually troubled in gaining means to live, they may have no leisure, no hope, how to regain their liberty.

For a tyrant, as says Cicero, “is culpable in effect of the greatest injustice that may be imagined, and yet he carries it so cunningly, that when he most deceives, it is then that he makes greatest appearance to deal sincerely.” And therefore does he artificially counterfeit religion and devotion, wherein saith Aristotle, “he expresses one of the most absolute subtleties that tyrants can possibly practise: he does so compose his countenance to piety, by that means to terrify the people from conspiring against him; who they may well imagine to be especially favoured of God, expressing in all appearance so reverently to serve Him.” He feigns also to be exceedingly affected to the public good; not so much for the love of it, as for fear of his own safety.

Furthermore, he desires much to be esteemed just and loyal in some affairs, purposely to deceive and betray more easily in matters of greater consequence: much like those thieves who maintain themselves by thefts and robberies, yet cannot long subsist in their trade without exercising some parcel of justice in their proceedings. He also counterfeits the merciful, but it is in pardoning of such malefactors, in punishing whereof he might more truly gain the reputation of a pitiful prince.http://www.constitution.org/vct/vind.htm

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DEFENCE OF LIBERTY AGAINST TYRANTS

A TRANSLATION OF THE

VINDICIAE CONTRA TYRANNOS

BY

JUNIUS BRUTUS

WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION BY

HAROLD J. LASKI

Reader in Political Science in the University of London

 

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The United States is the most violent country that has ever been created, Ayers said.

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., committed daily war crimes in Vietnam “and I get asked about violence when what I did was some destruction of property to issue a scream and cry against an illegal war in which 6,000 people a week are being killed,” Ayers said. “Six thousand a week being killed and I destroyed some property. Show me the equivalence. You should ask John McCain that question … I’m against violence.”

Only a generation as ignorant as ours could fall for someone like this.

Ever wonder how Anthony Weiner manages to finance his comeback? Wonder no more

Weiner touted Parabel as one of his clients in a recent news article outlining his success as a business consultant. Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, reported earning $496,000 last year, mostly from his earnings.

What Weiner failed to mention was that on Jan. 13, Parabel transferred nearly all of its assets to a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands — on the same day a United Arab Emirates firm pumped $15 million into Parabel, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission document.

It really comes in handy to have a wife involved in the Female side of the Muslim Brotherhood. They tend to support their own.

I wonder if any of that money found its way to any of Weiner’s defenders online?

I saw a story at the Orange County Register that really appealed to me:

Of course, some immigrants still come for venerable reasons, such as the freedom to worship. Christians, who make up some 42 percent of Asian-Americans, face surveillance and repression, particularly, in China, where religion is tightly regulated, and dissent from the party line can land adherents in jail. Over half of Asian immigrants, Pew notes, cite freedom of religion as a key advantage of living in America. New faith-based migration could also be seen soon among Christians fleeing increasingly Islamic regimes in Egypt, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries.

This was a primary reason for many of the first settlers of the Americas from Europe. Some things never change over time.

I was surprised to see the Washington Post make an argument that I made weeks ago concerning Mark Sanford in SC-1:

A Sanford victory puts that guy in the House Republican Conference. That means that not only do the late-night jokes start again but, more importantly, every GOPer in the House and Senate will be asked whether they support Sanford and what they think of serving with him.

That reality is why the National Republican Congressional Committee essentially washed its collective hands of Sanford once the trespassing revelations went public. The party establishment wanted (and wants) to make clear that they have nothing to do with Sanford. It won’t matter. The narrative that Republicans have a woman problem will have new life — with little the GOP leadership can do about it.

Vodka Pundit has an interesting take on the Euro’s trouble and what will be it’s eventual failure:

In America, our regional differences are surprisingly enduring, given our labor mobility. But, let’s face it, our differences are cute and quaint and, in the end, not very important. A Californian can make himself into a Texan just fine. In the end, we’re all Americans. There are plenty of Yankees in the South and lots of Southerners in the West and Westerners are heading back East. It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up country — but it works.

But a Greek can’t become a German can’t become and Irishman can’t become a Spaniard can’t become a Finn. There’s no such thing as “a European.” Regional differences matter in Europe, in ways they never mattered here, not even during the Civil War.

Whenever I think of Germany and the Euro I think of the Doctor Who episode The Sunmakers and the line from the Collector to the Doctor when he complains about economic imperialism:

We’ve tried war but the use of economic power is far more effective.

I’ve never stopped thinking the Euro was Germany’s way of conquering Europe without all the earth shattering KaBooms. The real question to ask is, given the Germans are busting their butts to support everyone else, why would they want it?

Bishop McManus of Worcester is having a bad year, first there was the Robert Spencer issue and now he’s been picked up for DUI:

McManus was arrested at 10:32 p.m. Saturday on charges of drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident, and refusing a chemical test, Narragansett Police Captain Sean Coorigan said. McManus is to be arraigned Tuesday in district court in Wakefield, R.I.

“I made a terrible error in judgment by driving after having consumed alcohol with dinner,” McManus said in the statement. “There is no excuse for the mistake I made, only a commitment to make amends and accept the consequences of my action.”

Robert is a big man and I doubt he is taking glee from the Bishops troubles but I suspect he is taking immense satisfaction from this story concerning a blogger who had hit him and Pam very hard over some of their Rick Perry stuff:

And then we saw Texas public schoolchildren made to dress in burqas and declare that “Allah is the Almighty God.” Yet no retractions, no apologies came from any of the Perry cult members who denounced us in 2011. And they won’t come after this, either:

“Hollywood conservative unmasked as notorious Holocaust revisionist,” by Rory Carroll in The Guardian, May 3 (thanks to all who sent this in):

You don’t get a story like that every day

Pamela Geller weighs in here; Big Fur Hat has a terrific takedown of Ace and Weasel here, and Zilla has another here. Big Fur Hat gets right to the heart of the matter: “Ace and Zip pointed and laughed at Pamela’s vetting of Perry while heavily relying on the work of a guy they never vetted. The work of some closeted neo-nazi jerkwad was ‘good enough’ in order to smear Geller.”

Pam also takes a victory lap

After I wrote extensively on the Islamic Texas curriculum, the right wing blogos went nuts. Vicious and unhinged, they attacked me for exposing their dream candidate, Rick Perry. Their sole source for refutation was David Stein. This man from out of nowhere — with no history or blog cred or anything was the club they attempted to use. David Stein, who today was exposed as Holocaust Denier David Cole (more here).

And Zilla notes something I’ve seen a lot of:

I’ve noticed a pattern with the attacks against Geller and Spencer over the years that others would do well to remember next time they think they have some big ‘gotcha’ that’s going to take my friends down: while those attacks may inflict some damage and be a temporary needless hassle to Pamela, Robert, and others in the counterjihad, time has a funny way of bringing out the truth and that truth is invariably on the side of the truth tellers. Over and over again the attackers implode and their enablers are left with egg on their faces and a steaming hot plate of crow to eat – and they can choke on it, along with their lies.

Speaking of Confessing things I confess I don’t understand why people continue to doubt Pam Geller and Robert Spencer. A supporter of the pair once told me he could never do what they do as he couldn’t deal with the death threats & the need for security. People forget Pam & Robert could have a much easier life and be able to lose the bodyguards if they only shut up and I’m sure the Saudi’s would make them rich if they did.

If you want to know why I don’t give a lot of weight to psychics here is one reason:

She wants answers. “Can you tell me…Is she out there?” Berry’s mother Louwana Miller asked. “I hate when they’re in the water,” Browne said. “She’s not alive honey.” It was bad news from the world-renowned psychic. It’s what Miller didn’t want to hear. “So you don’t think I’ll ever see her again,” Miller said. “Yeah in Heaven on the other side,” Browne responded. “I’m sorry.”

I’ll believe in Psychics when people walk through their door and they instantly say something like: “Yes he’s cheating on you $20 please.”

Some sports, If you took my advice and took a bunch of bets on the Red Sox at 100-1 odd in Boston in March, you’re sweating a bit now aren’t you?

This Article on Tim Tebow inability to find a team caught my attention

Since playing in a pair of playoff games 16 months ago, Tebow, whose only off-the-field baggage comes in the form of his cult-like following and the media frenzy it provokes, hasn’t been afforded the opportunity to show that he sucks.

It’s certainly possible that he’s simply not up to NFL standards, and never will be, but wouldn’t it be nice to get some conclusive proof before this story comes to a meek and unfulfilling close?

If you’re a franchise like the Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers or Carolina Panthers — teams with young, athletic quarterbacks who should absolutely feel secure in their starting roles — wouldn’t you think about bringing in Tebow as a similarly mobile backup?

The article suggests the reason temas are passing is the “circus” Tebow would bring. That never seemed to stop teams from signing all kinds of miscreants before.

I’m running pretty long this week so I’ll close with a quick Doctor Who remark.

This week’s episode the Crimson Horror may be the best of this season and easily make the top 10 episodes of the revived series. Along with great writing and the usual fine performance of Matt Smith this episode featurs Diana Rigg & her Daughter was a joy. Both were superb and the characters of Madame Vastra, Jenny, and Strax were never better used then they were in this episode.

Make sure you see it.

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Remember when Pamela wrote the story about Aga Khan, the Muslim who courted Rick Perry and convinced him to include an Islamic curriculum in Texas schools that taught a revisionist whitewashed history of Islam?

Remember how Ace channeled Little Green Footballs and urged his morons to call Pamela all sorts of vile names because he was going to destroy anyone that dared vet his chosen candidate Rick Perry, and remember when Zip fell in line and told Robert Spencer that he would no longer link to him if he continued to link to Atlas Shrugs?

Remember how the stories of concerned Texas parents came pouring through the news cycle as their kids were asked to don burqas when the Islamist push began appearing in the schools? Remember how Ace and Zip ate a bit of crow and wrote their mea culpa articles about how Pamela was right? (Ya, I don’t remember that one either.)

Well, David Stein was their go-to boy that they linked and quoted in order to refute Pamela’s claim that Perry was approving a white-washed Islamist soul kiss that was going to be included in our children’s teachings.

Well, Stein was wrong.

But, who the hell is Stein?

I remember at the time Pamela asking, “who is this guy that these two are holding up as this authority? Who the hell is David Stein?”

Well, this weekend we found out.    READ IT ALL HERE

“David Stein” of the Counter Contempt blog (no, I won’t link it) that was cited all over the Conservative Blogosphere by Rick Perry’s fanatical supporters to slander Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer is actually a “man” named David Cole who made his bones in the 1990s traveling around the TV talk show circuit as a Holocaust denier before he adopted a new phony identity and got himself all cozy with celebrity conservatives and a group known as the Republican Party Animals.

More from Big Fur Hat on how this creep was sooooo important to those who gleefully attacked Pamela and Robert (and that crapweasel Cole-Stein was also cited by people who attacked Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, and even attacks against little ole me as well, BTW):

Isn’t that nice?

Ace of Spades, and Weasel Zippers, continually relied on the work of this despicable cretin to justify their attempt to marginalize and excommunicate Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Roll that one around in your heads for awhile.

Ace and Zip pointed and laughed at Pamela’s vetting of Perry while heavily relying on the work of a guy they never vetted.

The work of some closeted neo-nazi jerkwad was “good enough” in order to smear Geller.   MORE HERE

Pamela Geller is, again, vindicated:

Atlas readers will remember when the nasty misogynist over at Ace of Spades and the appropriately named weasel [zippers] viciously attacked me for exposing the Islamic curriculum Rick Perry had helped institute in the Texas schools.

Back in August 2011,   I did my first post on the controversial Aga Khan/Rick Perry school curriculum on Islam for Texas public schools, I published the links (URLs) to the Muslim Histories and Cultures Program (MHC). The MHC page said proudly: “In April 2004, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and UT-Austin finalized a grant proposal that created the partnership that became known as the Muslim Histories and Cultures Program (MHC)…. Governor Perry was instrumental in getting this program off the ground.”

There was no Christian program or Jewish program, no Hindu program, etc.

After I wrote extensively on the Islamic Texas curriculum, the right wing blogos went nuts. Vicious and unhinged, they attacked me for exposing their dream candidate, Rick Perry. Their sole source for refutation was David Stein. This man from out of nowhere – with no history or blog cred or anything was the club they attempted to use.     GO READ THE REST HERE!

I have some old notes in my files related to this that I’d meant to put in a blog post long ago, before my health derailed me, and I think they are pertinent to this subject, so here they are:

From No Quarter:

Ten years after September 11, 2001, when islamic jihadis murdered nearly 3000 innocent people, it is appalling how little Americans have learned about the ideology that fueled those attacks and the nearly EIGHTEEN THOUSAND deadly islamic jihad terrorist attacks that have transpired since then.
Immediately after islamic terrorists came and murdered us by the thousands on our own soil, our “leaders”, including President George W. Bush, disgracefully went out of their way to proselytize for the people who KILLED US, repeating the mantra “islam is a religion of peace” as if saying it enough times would make it so. George W. Bush appears to have been doing it out of naivete or wishful thinking, but the results were disastrous. MORE HERE

Obama has consistently sided with the purveyors of the very same evil which has inflicted so much death and destruction upon Americans (and millions of other innocent people all over the world), but unfortunately, islamocoddling is not just a rampant on the left – “Conservative” Dhimmitude is also very serious problem in this country as even many Republicans remain afraid to speak the true name of what has declared itself at war against us: islam.

The greatest threat to the safety and well being of the United States and the entire free world are islamic supremacists who wish to establish dominion over the entire world by any means necessary. Leftists have gotten into bed with them because they admire the totalitarian nature of islam, despite the fact that the useful idiot enablers of islamic supremacism are the same people who claim to care about women’s and gay people’s rights (women are treated horribly under sharia law and homosexuality is a crime punishable by death in islam). Conservatism is opposed to totalitarian tyranny, and yet it has been thoroughly infiltrated by stealth jihadis and islamist apologists. MORE HERE

The Muslim Brotherhood is a genocidal islamic supremacist terrorist organization which is quickly gaining power all over the Middle East thanks, in large part, to the enabling of the anti-American and anti-Israeli “islam first” policies of Barack Hussein Obama. The Muslim Brotherhood does not seek to limit islamic domination over all people just to the Middle East, though, they also have intentions for the West, including the United States of America, here is what they have to say about that, in their own words:

The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion [islam] is made victorious over all other religions.

Here is the official Muslim brotherhood motto (in their own words):

Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.

The sharia (brutal, oppressive and misogynistic islamic law) pushing, terror tied, jihad enabling, anti-free speech CAIR (Council on Islamic-American Relations) is one of numerous Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the United States, and for some reason, CAIR is seen by many politicians and the mainstream media as the “go-to” spokespeople for the illusory “moderate muslim view”. CAIR it bills itself as a “civil rights organization”, although the only “rights” it stands for are for muslims to be given rights and privileges that are denied to everybody else and/or that muslims be exempted from rules and laws which everybody else in this country must adhere to. CAIR’s true intentions for the United States of America are never brought up by those who bow and scrape before them out of fear that they be stigmatized with the fictitious Orwellian label “islamophobe” but their intentions for us must not be ignored. Here is what CAIR intends for the United States of America, again, in their own words:

“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
– Omar Ahmad, chairman and co-founder of CAIR – 1998

Islamic supremacists are at war with the United States, and they wage this war even within our own borders, aided and abetted by the treasonous Obama administration.

When people on the right refuse to speak out against this treason, or worse, vilify the handful of Conservatives who do, they help to further enable the jihad and islamization; they act as if pretending there is not a dire threat will somehow make it go away, perhaps they think that if they feed the crocodile it will eat them last, and they could not possibly be more wrong.

I’ve noticed a pattern with the attacks against Geller and Spencer over the years that others would do well to remember next time they think they have some big ‘gotcha’ that’s going to take my friends down: while those attacks may inflict some damage and be a temporary needless hassle to Pamela, Robert, and others in the counterjihad, time has a funny way of bringing out the truth and that truth is invariably on the side of the truth tellers. Over and over again the attackers implode and their enablers are left with egg on their faces and a steaming hot plate of crow to eat – and they can choke on it, along with their lies.
 

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Does anyone actually believe that seeing their friend on TV prompted three kids to go to his dorm and suddenly decide, “let’s take laptops & explosives from his apartment because we had nothing to do with it and no knowledge of it?”

Hitler’s last remaining food taster has outed herself at 95.

Imagine being offered that job, how quickly would you be shot if you said:   “No!”?

Pundit & Pundette  names names:

Attorneys Mark Greenwald, Charles Hartwell, David Grubb, Andrew Kramer, William Newport, Juan Ruiz, and Kerry Maloney were confronted with a growing pile of disquieting facts about Gosnell, including a detailed, inside account from a former employee, and a 22-year-old dead woman. Every time, though, they managed to dismiss the evidence as immaterial. Every time, that is, until the facts hit the fan.

And asks the question

Have they been held accountable in any way? Have they at least lost their jobs? Let me know if you have any information.

Don’t hold your breath.

Hezbollah says they aren’t going to sit back and let Assad fall Their statement is here

So we have the potential of Hezbollah terrorists, fighting Al Qaeda Terrorists, fighting the Syrian Government and killing each other?

As a Catholic I say it’s a shame, but the American at war with terror says: “Pass the popcorn”

It’s May and as I type this the oil truck came down to my house and made a delivery costing $492

My weekly pay  from writing is $300 and that’s totally dependent on readers.  Two thoughts:

This same oil bill was half the price when George Bush was president.

Global warming my ***

I found an interesting quote at Viral Read concerning yet another liberal fake hate crime:

Even after the threat was exposed as a hoax, a University of Wyoming spokesman cited the “progress” resulting from the “discussion” Lanker-Simons’s fraud had provoked.

 

“This episode has sparked an important discussion reaffirming that the UW community has no tolerance for sexual violence or violence of any type,” university spokesman Chad Baldwin said in a statement. “The fact that the Facebook post apparently was a fabrication does not change the necessity for continued vigilance in reassuring that we have a campus where everyone feels safe. It’s important that this event does not undermine the progress that has been made in this area.”

Remember this is a university spokesman.  I wonder if a Gay Group, or a Black Group or a Muslim Group had been implicated in a criminal hoax if the university would say the reaction “sparked an important discussion”

Maybe they can give a list of who we can accuse falsely to advance our agenda?

This story has gotten a lot of play this week (except in the MSM)

So President Barack Obama’s civilian appointees who lead the Pentagon are confirming that the military will make it a crime–possibly resulting in imprisonment–for those in uniform to share their faith. This would include chaplains—military officers who are ordained clergymen of their faith (mostly Christian pastors or priests, or Jewish rabbis)–whose duty since the founding of the U.S. military under George Washington is to teach their faith and minister to the spiritual needs of troops who come to them for counsel, instruction, or comfort.

Remember the quote from Cardinal Francis George :

I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.

Still doubt it?

Was there anything more disingenuous than the stacked town hall with MSNBC there to bring the Newtown girl to hit Kelly Ayotte?

There is a term for the threat of half the staff of the LA Times threatening to quit if the Koch brothers buy the paper, it’s called “incentive”.

Grief does things to people I would like to think she is being used, instead of using her mother’s murder to advance her agenda.

There was a funny post at YouTango giving advice to women on how they lose men.  It wasn’t the post that was so funny as was the description of the author as a “certified sex coach”?

What does a sex coach do.  Do she sit and watch and then stop you in the midst of intimacy saying:  No you do it THIS way?

Is it like a baseball manager, if you just don’t have it do they call to the bullpen for a replacement?

And what about Certification?  Who certifies such a person?

How do they DO the certification?  Do you have a board of 5 people in a room, have the coach sit down, bring in a couple of porn stars to work for 10 minutes and have the coach list what they did wrong?

Unless your state has crime, budgets and a first rate education system I don’t think It should be spending money on certifying Sex Coaches.

Jason Collins the 34 year unsigned backup center late of the Washington wizards is still getting all kinds of Accolades for coming out as gay.  I think it’s pretty wise financial move,  he doesn’t want to be thenancial move,  he doesn’ there is no next Larry Doby after all.

What you’ve never heard of Larry Doby?  That’s odd he is a member of the Baseball Hall of fame.  He played 13 seasons in the Majors with the Indians White Sox and Tigers,  led the league in runs and Home Runs in 1952, Homers & RBIs Runs in 1952, Homers & Rbi’s in 1954 slugging and in 1948 played on the last Cleveland Indian team to win a world series beating the Boston (now Atlanta) braves in 6 games.

But he was the 2^nd Black player in the Majors (Although the 1^st in the AL) and even though he won a World Series 7 years before Jackie Robinson .

There is no percentage in being #2  and being the first at a time when the entire media was simply begging for a gay player to come out is the best meal ticket a man could buy.

One more thing now that Collins has come out as gay I wonder if NBA teams will be making sure the work environment is not uncomfortable in NBA offices & locker rooms?  I don’t mean for Gays, I mean for Christians.

I wonder how things would be different if Christians started making those complaints and suing?  Could be interesting.

The 4^th Doctor special premiered last weekend and it was simply delightful.  Tom Baker, Louise Jameson and John Leeson the voice of K-9 all were interviewed.  It actually had some information I had not previously known.  It was a real pleasure.

On the minus side we now have news about 50^th Anniversary special that apparently will not be as special as we all thought.

 

After months of speculation about which, if any, previous Doctor Who actors would return for the show’s 50th anniversary episode, David Tennant alone has been confirmed.

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine, out today, states: “Although David Tennant has returned to his role of the Tenth Doctor, the other old Doctors will not be taking part.”

It’s not as if the old doctors don’t want to appear either:

“All of us want to do it, just for the fans – because that’s what they want,” he explained. “But we’ve heard nothing – Tom Baker’s heard nothing, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Paul McGann… none of us have heard anything.”

Apparently what does it matter what the old fans who kept things going for 50 years.

“I remember [former Who showrunner] Russell T Davies saying something to a fan once – the fan was saying, ‘You should bring back the Brigadier and you should bring back Leela and you should bring back all these different characters’.

“Russell said, ‘No, it’s not appropriate sometimes. It’s not always about the uber-fan… it’s about the viewer and the new audience who are watching’.”

Yeah it’s not appropriate sometimes but for the 50^th Anniversary, Yeah it’s pretty damn appropriate.  As I’ve said before, what’s the point of having a 50^th anniversary special and not have any of the living Doctor’s in it except for the new series.  That makes it a 9^th anniversary special not a 50^th big whoop.

That’s the real shame of it all, normally a multi Doctor Story with the 10^th & 11^th doctors would be a cause for celebration and excitement, instead it a cause for disappointment.

Cripes is the BBC taking lessons on disappointing the base from the GOP?

Later

God has taken our beloved friend Carol, Amusing Bunni, Home. A great many hearts are utterly broken at the news of her passing, but Bunni said she’d be watching over us from the Other Side and that she was looking forward to being with God. Bunni blessed us greatly while she was with us and we are blessed to have her forever in our hearts. Bunni is with God and His Angels now.

Opus 6 at American Perspective shared the sad news with us yesterday of Bunni’s passing, and has a beautiful post up with pictures of Bunni that Carol said could be released after her death. The one above is my favorite, because Carol looks like an angel here, and she said she wanted to be a guardian angel for us all after her passing from this world.

Adrienne found a smile through the tears in her post for Carol when something happened that would have made Bunni laugh hysterically (and probably did because I have no doubt that Carol is watching us), HERE.

MOTUS is of course heartbroken, along with all the comments section friends over there who have always dearly loved our friend Bunni.

Some of us have been leaving messages to Bunni in the comments section of her last blog post, HERE.

Barking Spider is devastated but has a wonderful tribute to Carol HERE.

The Daley Gator will miss Bunni too.

Bob Belvedere at The Camp Of The Saints has loving tribute post HERE, which I used my “lazy blogger reblog button” to share over at my Femininican blog HERE – and I added a few words of my own:

I love you, Carol, my beautiful Bunny Buddy! The world was nicer with you in it, and surely heaven can only be more heavenly now that you are there. I can’t say goodbye to you, so I’ll say I hope to see you when my own time in this place is through. May God and all his angels give you eternal peace and everlasting joy. I love you so much.

In my mind’s eye, I see Bunni’s arrival in Heaven as a joyous event, and the song below along with the big smile on the face of the singer is kinda how I think of Bunni’s Home-Going:

Godspeed, Bunni, we will love you forever.

UN Human Rights Council “expert” Richard Falk has published a statement saying Bostonians got what they deserved in last week’s terror attack. He quotes W.H. Auden to make his point: “to whom evil is done/do evil in return.”

Richard Falk is the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.” He has held the post since 2008, despite exposure as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.

Yid with lid is not surprised:

Falk is a big believer in “human rights”, who called the Ayatollah Khomeini a liberator. He blames Islamofacist terror on the fact that much of Islam “finds itself under the heels of U.S. economic, military, cultural, and diplomatic power.” (Well at least that is cleared up). Falk is also a member of a lawyers organization that the CIA once called a “front” for the Soviet Union and just like Rosie O’Donnell is a member of groups who are still waiting for the “real” story of 9/11.

Me I think if this is all the US’s fault, and the Palestinians believe this, after all their special rapporteur is saying this publicly, they certainly don’t want any of our dirty money. In fact if the UN feels the same, we should be duty bound to keep the cash so they aren’t contaminated by it.

It’s a big sacrifice but we’ll do it for them.

We are still hearing about the Poem for Dzhokhar from the once completely unknown Amander Plummer. People are outraged over empathy for the bomber.

I’ve read the poem, I think the only connection to the bomber is the title. I think this woman was looking for attention and suckered a lot of people into giving it to her.

Welcome to the world of Twitter.

Yesterday the AP was hacked and a fake headline stating a bombing took place at the White House injuring the president was tweeted out. This confirms a basic lesson that is the same anywhere. Your passwords are only as secure as the most careless person who knows them.

The stock market briefly tanked before this was caught. I’ve never understood this, let’s say this was true, who calls there broker in a panic saying: The White House has been bombed! Sell 10,000 shares of Gerber baby foods!

I wonder how much of this is programmed.

Here is a story that is getting no play at all:

 

Iraq carried out its first election since the U.S. military withdrawal without major bloodshed on Saturday in a major test for Iraqi security forces as they face a reviving al-Qaida insurgency.

Granted there has been a lot of stuff in the news this last week but I’d think the first election in Iraq without us going without a hitch is a big deal.

If Iraq continues to normalize it will continue to be a non-story, after all who wants to blame George Bush for a successful state as opposed to a basket case like Egypt?

Bush is clearly the best president of the 21^st century, granted there are only two choices unless you count Bill Clinton’s 19 lame duck days. I suspect as time passes he will be harder to dislodge that people think.

In West Virginia a teen has decided to fight over an NRA T-Shirt

Marcum has said that he was arrested on charges of disrupting an educational process and obstructing an officer, though White said Monday that the Logan County prosecutor’s office is reviewing the case to decide whether to proceed.

Marcum wore the same shirt to school Monday. It displays the NRA logo and a hunting rifle.

Other students across Logan County wore similar shirts, which display the NRA logo and a hunting rifle, to school in a show of support for 14-year-old Jared Marcum, said his lawyer Ben White.

There are two sex scandal stories out there this week the first has a political angle:

According to the affidavit, from May 2012 through February 2013, Adam Paul Savader sent anonymous text messages using Google Voice numbers to 15 women stating that he had nude photographs of the women and threatening to distribute the nude photographs to the women’s friends and family members unless the women sent him more nude photographs of themselves. Savader sent some of the victims links to a photo-sharing website where nude pictures of the victims had been posted.

This guy is a former intern to Paul Ryan, personally I wouldn’t have thought people would have fallen for this but apparently this stuff is more common than you think.

Stacy McCain put it well:

There is a lesson here about the perils of the digital age: Anything you put on the Web — even uploaded to private accounts — can be accessed, if someone with enough skills really wants to get to it bad enough. And naked pictures? Yeah, don’t do those. Ever. Because that boyfriend you’re sending them to may not be your boyfriend forever.

The second comes from Lowell and involves a Buddhist Monk

The woman shown having sex with a Buddhist monk in a video recently circulated in the Cambodian community has filed a civil lawsuit against five individuals she alleges illegally distributed the tape.

Taping of the voice and actions of a private person without permission in Massachusetts and distributing them is illegal, which Maya Men highlights in her suit.

Among those Men has sued following the release of the tape of her sexually engaging with the Venerable Nhem Kimteng are another local monk and a former member of the executive committee for the $10 million Lowell temple project Men is helping lead.

Kimteng and Men were filmed in the Trairatanaram Temple in North Chelmsford.

Why do I have the feeling that if this involved a Catholic Priests instead of Buddhist monks it would be a front page headline in the Globe and all over the MSM?

Some sports? Remember before the Baseball season began everyone was picking the Redsox & Yankees to finish 4^th & 5^th in the AL East? As of this morning The Red Sox are in a 1^st place tie & the Yankees are a whole ½ game out.

As they say, that’s why they actually play the games.

I’m still not used to the Houston Astros in the AL but I’m sure the 4 other teams in the AL West currently ahead of them are happy to see them there.

This is THE best time of the year for sports, Baseball, Hockey & Basketball all being played at once. One might make the point that Nov & Dec you have three major sports played at once too but if one of them isn’t Baseball it doesn’t count.

I’ve talked about the number of Electoral votes Massachusetts has lost in my lifetime (5) if you want to get a good idea where all those votes went, check the attendance figures when the Red Sox come to town when they play in Red States.

People say: Don’t you wish New England folk would elect more conservatives, I answer New England folk DO, we just do so in the states they’ve moved to.

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Watched High Noon Yesterday it really holds up over time and the cast is simply out of this world. While Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly get top billing to me the most interesting moments are the scenes between Lloyd Bridges & Katy Jurado.

Until I looked it up I would have never known that Juardo was only 28 at the time. She carries herself much older and you would never guess Lloyd Bridges was a full 9 years older than her.

Movies are all about the art of illusion.

Shakespeare’s birthday was this week. It’s become fashionable to devalue his plays but let’s face it, how many playwrights still have their plays performed regularly 400+ years after their birth. In fact I don’t think you can find a day in the last 50 years when a play of Shakespeare was not performed in some theater somewhere in the world.

That’s immortality!

Finally This week’s is the 4^th of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary specials on BBC America. The subject is 4^th Doctor Tom Baker the Doctor Who most familiar to Americans before the revival of the series.

Tom Baker’s complete with 12’-18’ scarf is THE definitive Doctor. He held the role for 7 years got the show it’s best ratings and is regularly voted the best Doctor ever by the fans (losing only a few time in the last 30 years).

37 years ago I accidentally discovered the show and him on Channel 12 Rhode Island on a Saturday afternoon and have been hooked ever since. In 1981 I got my first credit card in college and used it to buy a VCR for $500, as much as a semester of college at the time, to tape the show regularly off of public TV. I still have the tapes and on occasion my sons & I watch them together on a $20 VCR.

If you watch only one of the specials, watch this one.

See you next week.