We the People – A force to turn the Democrats out and turn the Republicans inside out! Showing up for the hard work and to restore America —to the glory God!
CNBC Reporter Rick Santelli is the match that lit the fire February 19, 2009
That fire burst forth in hundreds of cities and towns across America —millions who were Taxed Enough Already focused energy on America’s direction not seen since Viet Nam. But these were not pot smoking, drugged out, good time rock and roll hippies. These were clean, responsible, productive taxpaying Americans. The TEA parties were born. They are the public face of “We the People” who, with moral purpose, are turning the Democrats out and turning the Republicans inside out. The 2010 election was the first step, the first evidence. But it will take the 2012 election to finish the job on the Democrats and the Republicans.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and the Tea Party in Washington, March 20, 2010
Paul Ryan and The Path to Prosperity will be the central force and focus as “We the People” have our National conversation and do our work leading through the 2012 election.
Ryan declares, “Every individual person is unique.”
The path to Prosperity is not through “solar shingles” and high speed trains, it is through releasing individual freedom. . . . Our debt problem is not just a fiscal challenge involving dollars and cents, it’s a moral challenge involving principle and purpose. The size of the budget is a symptom of deeper causes and it points to different ideas about government. We basically need to ask ourselves:
What should government be doing?
What sort of people do we want to be?
What kind of character do we want our children and grandchildren to have?
The answer to these questions dictates the size of government. If you believe government should be doing more to eliminate every social problem, you cannot be for limited government. Societies potential problems are unlimited. So a government that would solve problems without limit must necessarily have power without limit to do it.
Economic conservatism and social conservatism come from the same moral root. You can’t give up one to defend the other and they must never be separated.
There are some who believe that our problems have overrun our principles and we need something else. I’m not gonna question the sincerity or the good intentions but, without the American idea, there is no future for freedom.
In the long story of civilization, great empires have risen and great empires have declined. We can choose to relegate America to another chapter in the history of declining nations but, why on earth would we make that choice?
We can lift that burden.
All that stands between us today and abundance tomorrow is the burden of public debt, the government’s appetite to spend and the bureaucrat’s passion to regulate. We can lift that burden.
We owe it to the country to give them a choice for the future. . . . Our job in the House is to make sure that 2011 goes right so that 2012 goes well. We owe you the choice. Do you want that opportunity society, that limited government with a safety net based upon the founding principles of limited government and economic freedom, or do you want the European cradle to grave social welfare state? . . . that’s the choice in 2012.
We know where is headed and it’s not too late to turn it in the right direction. . . . We are in this moment. . . . where we get to choose. And, if we [Congress] do our jobs right, you’ll have a very clear choice.
What makes me excited —what makes me optimistic? If we just give the country a choice, we’ll make the right one. . . . Winston Churchill said, “Americans can be counted on to do the right thing only after they have exhausted all other possibilities.” That is where we are. This is our time.
Biggest Reduction in Government Spending in History
1.27% is mighty small. But here’s the context: This is the largest cut in Federal spending in American history. Make no mistake, while the President took credit for an action he directly opposed, Speaker John Boehner prevailed. On the Senate floor, late Friday night, Majority Leader Reid repeatedly said, “We have to cut.” He did not one time say, “extremist.”
The 2011 Budget deal:
Cuts another 38.5 Billion. This is $12.5 Billion short of the House Republicans goal and $48.5 billion more than the Democrats wanted.
Exempts our Military from any effect of a future government shutdown.
Restores language that prohibits federal funding of abortions in Washington D. C. President Obama and Congressional Democrats removed the prohibition in a previous budget.
The deal requires the Senate to record a vote on the House passed repeal of Obamacare.
The deal requires a Senate vote revoking funding for Planned Parenthood.
Those concessions for Senate votes will give us important information for the 2012 election campaigns in nearly 30 Senate races. I haven’t seen the House roll call on this yet but, Senators DeMint, Lee, and Rubio were among the Senators voting for the Budget Repair.
Only those who mistakenly thought this 2011 Budget Repair was our big fight, can be at all disappointed. We have a couple big steps in the Congress in the next two months. But we have two years before we can actually get on that Path to Prosperity. We can get there. We will get there.
I entered “racism” at Miriam Webster Online. Immediately this message popped up:
Racism is currently in the top 1% of lookups and is the 229th most popular word on Merriam-Webster.com.
A green arrow indicates a fast mover: this word increased significantly in lookups over the past seven days. [Racism had a green arrow]
Fascinating. Racism is a “top 1% lookup” and “increased significantly in lookups over the past seven days.”
The dictionary definition of Racism is: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
Wrong. The Dictionary is wrong. By that definition, racism would not be an issue in any part of society. But you are a racist. I am a racist.
Just last month I wrote, in Why You Are a Racist, “It was the reaction of the left to the Tea Parties that helped me see that the label racist has been fixed on conservatives who resist any government takeover of private wealth and resources. Along with Obamacare, the Tea party concern has been government spending and taxes. Se this must be the basis used to label them Racist. I realized it applies to you and me as well.”
I was not wrong as far as that went. But this is a much deeper. Racism is a Marxist way of showing the Declaration of Independence, Western Civilization and orthodox Christianity itself is, not only wrong, it is all irredeemable and must be destroyed. What you just read is astonishing. How can it be true? This Marxist definition has been around for awhile and is a core value of the left. So what’s the definition; the mindset?
In the new radical woridview, racism is redefined in order that it may be integrated with traditional Communist theories. Racism is no longer regarded as a social attitude or philosophical belief, but is the objective expression of an inequality of power that is pervasive and outside individual control. In this analysis, an individual does not have to be prejudiced to participate in racial oppression but merely to occupy a “privileged” position in an alleged hierarchy of groups and classes. (In Western democracies characterized by upward mobility the very concept of hierarchy is, of course, a fictional construct.)
In the radical view, racism is alleged to be “systemic,” or “institutional that is, built into the very structure of capitalist societies. In its most vulgar form this idea is expressed in the proposition that “only whites can be racist? This is because whites are allegedly a cohesive group that monopolizes power. Since America and Europe can be said to include the most prosperous and powerful societies, radicals allege that the same hierarchy of class and race exists globally. Hence the global system and the “globalization” process that express this hierarchy are also “racist.”
Like traditional Marxism, this new radical paradigm is a totalitarian perspective in which no individual escapes the control of a system that is described as “institutionally racist” and is targeted for destruction. Because the hierarchy and “oppression” are alleged to be systemic, no escape from racism is possible without a systemic remedy, which is the politically enforced creation of a Communist economic and social order.59 This radical view is now the academic doctrine of American university faculties, where race—gender-class hierarchies are a staple of the academic curriculum. [emphasis mine] A typical formulation can be found in Racist America, written by Joe Faegin, a former president of the American Sociological Association and author of forty academic texts: “Systemic racism includes the complex array of anti-black practices, the unjustly gained political-economic power of whites, the continuing economic and other resource inequalities along racial lines. . . Like a hologram, each major part of U.S. society—the economy, politics, education, religion, the family—reflects the fundamental reality of systemic racism,”6° In sum: “One can accurately describe the United States as a ‘total racist society’ in which every major aspect of life is shaped to some degree by racist realities.”61
Viewed through this totalitarian lens, the racist attitudes manifested by minorities themselves or among Third World elites can be dismissed as mere by-products of the “divide and conquer” strategies of the dominant white race, whose position of privilege and power is secured by the global “system.” This is why anti-black racism in Sudan—a Third World dependency ruled by people of color and victims of “Islamophobia”—can be ignored, while discrimination In America is a “crime against humanity.”
With this ideological framework in place, in the hands of the Left racism becomes a morally powerful code for condemning the capitalist democracies of the West and their international influence, or “globalization.” In a typical declaration at the U.N. proceedings in Tehran, the Asian delegations of NGO radicals explained:
Globalization describes the ever-increasing integration of human society at economic, social, cultural and political levels. It historically derives from the process of colonial integration of the world. Globalization is therefore an iniquitous structure, one that is based on unequal power relations. It has promoted an institutional racism at both the national and the international level.62
In other parts of this U.N. document, racism is defined not as race hatred or prejudice but as “an ideological construct that assigns a certain global power over others on the basis of a notion of superiority, dominance and purity” The source of this ideological construct is the hegemony of the “metropolitan” powers. (The term “metropolitan” itself is of Marxist origin and refers to the assumption that the world is an integrated system in which the success of the industrial centers comes at the expense of the impoverished “colonial” periphery.)
This global hegemony by the metropolitan powers has resulted in the continuing domination of the European-originated cultures and the marginalization of other world civilizations. The current strategies of the global big powers contribute to create a pervasive culture of racism, one example being Islamophobia. Xenophobia and intolerance is sharply reflected in the global mass media for example, in its racist bias in the reporting of the Palestinian problem and its coverage of the aggression against Iraq.
Thus the familiar themes of the Communist Left are resurrected under the banner of racial “tolerance” to defend Islamic jihad, Palestinian terrorism, and the fascist regime of Saddam Hussein. In this ideological framework, opposition to Marxist radicalism and its anti-Western agendas becomes by definition a form of racism, while the Western democracies are assaulted in the name of the very ideals —racial tolerance and equality— that they first invented and then established as civil rights.
Did you get that?
Clarence Thomas is a racist and Michael Moore is not.
If you believe in the three ideas on American coins, Liberty, In God We trust and e Pluribus Unum, you are a racist.
If you believe “All Men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these rights are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, you are a racist.
If you believe there is a Judeo-Christian foundation for Western Civilization, you are a racist.
And if you simply believe taxes should not be raised, you are a racist.
Therefore, as Horowitz asserts, “Arab regimes that oppress women and rule tyrannically over impoverished multitudes can be excused by progressives because they occupy a low rung of the international hierarchy and are not white.”
And Republicans are responsible for any government shutdown.
We can expect if, Justice Prosser prevails in his Wisconsin election, the voters in Wisconsin are racists.
UPDATES: Two New Hairpin Turns At Sound Barrier Speed Below
Of Course The Obamedia Are Silent
There are charges in other Wisconsin locations but, Dane County is enough. There is a rich history of unprosecuted fraud in Madison, the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere in Dane County. There were more than 10,000 votes in Dane County (all for Kloppenburg) cast only in the judicial race. There was a hotly contested Madison mayoral contest on the same ballot. If those were cast by real voters, nearly all of them would have cast a vote for mayor.
There will be a recount with very possible court challenges. History shows Democrats excel at this and nearly always prevail. Republicans generally believe in the “rule of law” and that fairness will prevail. The Democrat operating principle is to win at any cost. This is so universal, Hugh Hewitt wrote a book about it, “If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat.”
The notable exception was the 2000 Bush-Gore in Florida battle. Bush immediately put former Secretary of State, etc. James Baker, in charge of his Florida recount team. The team was brilliant under Baker. Never-the-less, the Florida Supreme Court would have stolen the election for Gore. If not for a brilliantly handled appeal before the United States Supreme Court, where Ted Olsen successfully argued against judicial misconduct, even in this case, Gore —the Democrat— would have prevailed.
The Wisconsin Republican party must see that Justice Prosser find a tough legal team.
Absent the Obamedia, the word about the theft and fraud is getting out. I wrote a heads-up early today in my DAILY CALL (email) about it. Those getting email sources such as Newsmax or The Daily Caller will know the dead fish are spoiling. Matthew Boyle writing today in The Daily Caller raised my point:
Wisconsin citizens and election experts are questioning the veracity of the state’s Supreme Court race, which the Associated Press reports left-wing legal activist JoAnne Kloppenburg won by 204 votes over Justice David Prosser, out of the more than 1.4 million votes.
On an estimated more than 10,000 ballots in Dane County, Wisconsin, where the state capital Madison is, voters selected only a pick in the Supreme Court race, while leaving even the hotly contested mayoral and county executive choices blank. That raises red flags for election experts like Scott St. Clair of the Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank.
But Richard L. Hasen, visiting professor (from Loyola), University of California, Irvine, School of Law writing April 6 at The Politico, is astonished at Republicans and saddened by totally unwarranted charges of fraud:
“A recount in this race, which some view as a referendum on Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union policies, seems inevitable, and it is not clear who will ultimately take the seat on the Wisconsin bench. But if this expensive and nasty race ends up in protracted litigation, it could undermine public confidence in both the judiciary and Wisconsin’s electoral process, especially if, as I expect, supporters of Prosser raise ugly allegations of voter fraud. . . .
I have never met Professor Hasen; this is the first time I’ve heard of him. Already, I do not like him. Just examine this telling thought, “. . . if, as I expect, supporters of Prosser raise ugly allegations of voter fraud . . .” Get it? “Voter fraud” is not the ugly thing, “allegations” are what is ugly. For the sake of the sensibilities of Hasen and his ilk, we must all turn away from Democrat fraud.
“If Kloppenburg can eke out a victory, I wouldn’t be surprised if Prosser supporters play the fraud card. Professor Ann Althouse already raised the specter of fraud in her final post on election results last night. I am sure that others will trumpet now-discredited allegations of voter fraud in Wisconsin, especially about alleged fraud in heavily Democratic and minority communities. . . .
See —it’s not Democrat fraud that is wrong. It is “playing the fraud card.” Then a transgressor, Ann Althouse, is named. Hasen is sure “others will trumpet” should be read “Patriots will Trumpet.” That would be you and me. These leftists are so predictable —here comes the race card. Notice how “Democratic” is tied right to the always offended “minority communities.”
“So… because past claims of fraud have been “methodically debunked” — have they? — we should stop even looking for fraud? We’ll only suffer if we keep checking for cheaters? This sounds way too preemptive to me. I’ve spent the last 2 months in a vortex of political ugliness and saw it grafted onto the judicial election. I saw frantically impassioned protesters grasping at the symbolism of this election and building an intense shared feeling of entitlement to shift the politics of this state. I heard the phrase “by any means necessary” more than once.
“In this context, Prosser proponents have every right to drag us through the search for fraud one more time. I hope they don’t find it, and Professor Hasen can add this new example to his next there-is-no-fraud column. But there’s a 204 vote margin in this crazy election. We need to feel confident that the outcome is correct.”
Althouse clearly meant she hopes there is no fraud, not that she wants it missed. I hope they do find it. If Kloppenburg prevails, the outcome is tainted by Organizing for America and SEIU Banana Republic interference. Finally, Hasen is factually accurate, as he closes, observing allegations of fraud are “often from the Republican side.” Democrats commit fraud; Republicans often make allegations.
“. . . close elections bring out intense partisan fighting and, often from the Republican side, allegations of fraud or voting irregularities.” (emphasis mine)
Update: Votes not reported to AP. Apperantly Prosser won. And, yes, I got it from Ann Althouse. Here is her entire post on this development:
Winnebago [sic] County’s numbers say Prosser received 20,701 votes to Kloppenburg’s 18,887. The AP has 19,991 for Prosser to Kloppenburg’s 18,421.
The new numbers would give Prosser 244 more votes, or a 40-vote lead statewide.
ADDED: I wonder if the concept of fraud is suddenly much more appealing to certain people.
Posted by Ann Althouse at 3:19 PM
UPDATE II: Correctable Mistakes Mightier Than Fraud
It turns out the first report from Waukesha County was from one of several (at least 3) early leaks. The change report by Althouse above was submerged in a landslide of votes not previously reported. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel with what appear to be final Waukesha County facts:
In one explosive stroke Thursday, the clerk in a Republican stronghold tilted the tight Supreme Court race in favor of Justice David Prosser by recovering thousands of untallied votes for the incumbent.
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Thursday that she failed to save on her computer and then report 14,315 votes in the city of Brookfield, omitting them entirely in an unofficial total she released after Tuesday’s election. With other smaller errors in Waukesha County, Prosser gained 7,582 votes over his challenger, JoAnne Kloppenburg, leaving the sitting justice significantly ahead for now amid ongoing official counting.
“I’m thankful that this error was caught early in the process. This is not a case of extra ballots being found. This is human error which I apologize for,” Nickolaus said, her voice wavering as she spoke to reporters.
The figures are still far from final in a race that had previously seemed almost certain to see a statewide recount. Around the state, elections officials Thursday were tweaking unofficial results from the day before that had put Kloppenburg, an assistant attorney general, ahead of Prosser by a razor-thin 204 votes.
But nothing compared to Brookfield, where the new totals give 10,859 more votes to Prosser and 3,456 more to Kloppenburg.
“I’m encouraged by the various reports from the county canvasses,” Prosser said in a statement. “We’ve always maintained faith in the voters and trust the election officials involved in the canvassing will reaffirm the lead we’ve taken.”
But Kloppenburg supporters reacted with alarm, pointing out that Nickolaus had worked in the Assembly Republican caucus during the time that Prosser, a former Republican lawmaker, served as the Assembly speaker and that Nickolaus also had faced questions about her handling of elections as clerk.
“Wisconsin voters as well as the Kloppenburg (campaign) deserve a full explanation of how and why these 14,000 votes from an entire city were missed. To that end, we will be filing open records requests for all relevant documentation related to the reporting of election results in Waukesha County, as well as to the discovery and reporting of the errors announced by the county,” Kloppenburg campaign manager Melissa Mulliken said in a statement.
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) raised the possibility of an independent investigation over the recovery of the votes.
“This is a serious breach of election procedure,” he said. “We’re going to look further. She waited 24 hours to work this. And she waited until after she verified the results, making it that much more difficult to challenge and verify the results.”
‘We went over everything’
But at the news conference with Nickolaus, Ramona Kitzinger, the Democrat on the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers, said: “We went over everything and made sure all the numbers jibed up and they did. Those numbers jibed up, and we’re satisfied they’re correct.”
As a Democrat, she said, “I’m not going to stand here and tell you something that’s not true.”
Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas, who sat in on Nickolaus’ news conference, said voters can be confident in the results because “all the votes are in that office. If anyone wants to look at them and verify, they can.”
Kristine Schmidt, the clerk in the city of Brookfield, said in a separate interview that she shared the results with the news media on election night.
She said she also sent the results twice to the county. After the first results were sent she said the county requested a second set of data because they wanted results tabulated in a certain format with fewer columns.
“We sent it to the county and called the county to make sure they got it,” Schmidt said.
Nickolaus explained that when she got Brookfield’s results the second time in the correct format, she failed to save it. So when she totaled the results for the unofficial final report Tuesday, Brookfield’s total was not included and she didn’t realize it.
She discovered the error Wednesday when she transferred her data to a state computer program for the canvassers’ review. Brookfield’s results showed a zero. The Board of Canvassers started its work at noon Wednesday, but Nickolaus said she didn’t report the major blunder because everything had to be verified first.
Nickolaus said the problem had nothing to do with her election system, which has been criticized as outdated. Her election operation was the subject of a county audit last year after complaints were leveled that she was not cooperative with information technology specialists who wanted to check the system’s integrity and backup.
The audit concluded that while the clerk’s system generally complies with state and federal guidelines and accuracy of election totals was not at issue, Nickolaus should improve security and backup procedures.
Although it was not among the audit recommendations, Nickolaus’ decision to no longer report municipal election results separately on election night, as many other county clerks do, has raised questions. Nor does she show in the running totals throughout election night what proportion of the voting units are included in the tallies.
Could the error have been spotted sooner had municipal results also been on her website? Nickolaus would not make herself available after the news conference to answer questions.
Schmidt, the Brookfield clerk, said she watched the news conference. Does she buy Nickolaus’ explanation?
“Yeah, I do. I understand those kinds of things can happen,” she said, adding, “I was disappointed I was not informed. I should not have been informed through the news agencies, kind as you people all are.”
She said her lack of information left her and the city open to unwarranted criticism.
She said if the municipal results had been individually shown on the county clerk’s website, the error may have been spotted.
The state’s top elections administrator said he was surprised that such a large mistake had been made but also said it was not entirely unprecedented.
“This emphasizes the need when counties are releasing information to the press on election night that they double check their data,” said Kevin Kennedy, director of the state Government Accountability Board.
Kennedy said the state would review Nickolaus’s figures but that no ballots from the county would be examined unless and until there is a recount.
“We will go back and check her numbers and all of the numbers she made in our system,” he said.
He recalled an incident in 1982 when state elections officials had also made a huge error in adding vote totals, but said that mistake was also caught before official figures were compiled.
Recount rules
Once the final official numbers are in, either candidate – but no one else – can request a recount. If the margin between the candidates is less than 0.5%, the state charges nothing to conduct the recount.
But the added votes from Waukesha County could push the total far enough toward Prosser that a free recount would no longer be available to Kloppenburg, who on Wednesday had an unofficial 204-vote lead out of nearly 1.5 million votes cast.
If the final margin of victory is between 0.5% and 2% of the vote, the candidate asking for the recount must pay $5 per ward.
Mike Maistelman, an election attorney who often does work for Democrats, said he expected a recount would still happen despite Prosser’s large vote gain.
“Nobody knows what’s up or what’s down,” he said. “One day we win and the next day we lost by 10,000 votes? How do we know they did it right this time?”
Nickolaus has had a long career in Republican politics.
For 13 years, she worked as a staffer for the Assembly Republican caucus, one of four GOP and Democratic legislative groups that were shut down following a criminal investigation into state staffers doing campaign work on state time.
Prosser led Assembly Republicans as minority leader in that House from 1989 to 1994 and than as speaker in 1995 and 1996, giving him oversight of the GOP caucus in that House.
“To my knowledge (Prosser) has not had any contact with Kathy since she left the caucus,” Prosser campaign manager Brian Nemoir said.
The caucus investigation eventually led to the resignations and criminal convictions of leaders in the Senate and Assembly for directing caucus and staff employees to engage in illegal political activity during their state employment.
Nickolaus, who earned $54,000 a year as a data analyst and computer specialist for Assembly Republicans, was granted immunity in 2001 by authorities conducting the investigation.
In a criminal complaint issued in 2002 against then-Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen and others, prosecutors claimed Nickolaus developed a computer software program that was used by state officials to track donations. According to a Journal Sentinel report, Nickolaus said she developed the software on her own time because she wanted to sell it to the state elections agency for use in automating state-required campaign reports. She left the caucus around that time. . . .
Paper Trail
The respected Stephen Hayes, writing at the Weekly Standard, confident in his Wisconsin source, added this, “Wisconsin sources say that the paper trail on the votes will be obvious and difficult for anyone to dispute. Either votes from Brookfield were counted in the initial tally or they weren’t.”
Great Example of a Secular Fundamentalist Siding With Insanity and the Darkness That Causes It.
TIME Editor Bobby Ghosh explained to F. chuck Todd at MSNBC how these insane Afghani rioters must be understood as ones that God actually spoke to unlike Christians who merely wrote down stories such as the story of Jesus. It’s all on video but Rush did such a great job Monday, let’s go with our Permanent MVP, Rush.
RUSH: The protests in Afghanistan about the burning of the Koran in Florida… These protests are now entering their fourth day. Never mind that nobody even knew about the burning of the Koran — it happened more than two weeks ago — until these devout Muslims brought it up. And never mind that the Koran gets burned all the time when Muslims blow each other up in their mosques. And never mind that the US burned Bibles in Afghanistan back in 2009. Do you remember that, Dawn? Well, you should, because we talked about it on this program. The US burned Bibles in Afghanistan in 2009 so as not to offend the locals.
Now, our buddies over at Mediaite have an analysis piece. Apparently, Chris Matthews on his Sunday syndicated show, there was a discussion — I think it was his Sunday syndicated show, I forget which, but one of his shows — and some guest (or maybe it’s the writer of this piece) says, “Well, you know, there’s a difference. There’s a difference in burning the Koran and burning the Bible.”
And F. Chuck Todd said, “Well, what is it?”
“Well, Muslims believe the Koran is the direct Word of God from Allah to Mohammed to the page. The Bible isn’t. The Bible is just put together by a bunch of people. But the Koran is the direct Word of God.”
And F. Chuck Todd: “Oh, yeah. Makes sense to me — direct Word of God.”
Now, whoever wrote this obviously hasn’t ever gone to Sunday school. Like, the Ten Commandments in the Old Testament are the Word of God. And somehow this guy: “Eh, the Bible, just a bunch of different people wrote the Bible. It’s not the Word of God. The Koran is. So when you start burning the Koran, it’s a far greater insult than when you burned the Bible.” And, of course, then the Mediaite people take this up as though it’s a legitimate intellectual question that must be analyzed in the most profound and deep manner possible. A glittering example of the sophistry that you find in the pseudo-intellectual class/ruling class people.
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RUSH: No, we did, we burned Bibles in Afghanistan in 2009, and we did this so as not to offend the locals. You know, our soldiers brought Bibles with them, and okay, we don’t want to offend the local Muslims. We’re not here to conquer, we’re here to liberate, so we burned Bibles. Nobody had any problem. It was cool. And never mind if that wasn’t the excuse, it would be some other excuse, cartoon or whatever, these protests in Afghanistan about the burning of the Koran in Florida entering their fourth day. I want you to listen to this because this is the exchange that happened on the Chris Matthews, Chuck Todd piece I was just talking about, and it’s a TIME Magazine reporter named Ghosh or Ghosh. His name is spelled G-h-o-s-h. I’m guessing he’s pronouncing it Ghosh because gauche means extremely bad taste or what have you.
But here’s what he said, “The thing to keep in mind that’s very important here is that the Koran to Muslims, it is not — it is not the same as the Bible to Christians. The Bible is a book written by men. It is acknowledged by Christians that it is written by men. It’s the story of Jesus.” F. Chuck Todd said, “Yes,” Oh, yeah, yeah, it’s exactly right. The Bible is the story of Jesus, TIME Magazine reporter, F. Chuck Todd, “Yes.” Ghosh: “But the Koran, if you are a believer, if you’re a Muslim, the Koran is directly the Word of God, not written by man. It is transcribed, is directly the Word of God. That makes it sacred in a way that it’s hard to understand if you’re not Muslim. So the act of burning a Koran is much more — potentially much, much more inflammatory than –” And F. Chuck Todd reverentially saying: “Directly attacking — directly attacking God.” As though a revelation has occurred, F. Chuck has never thought of that before. He is in awed breathless silence, practically, over his realization.
Now, Ghosh, just so you know, is the reporter from TIME Magazine who invented the Haditha massacre story, made it up. The Marines at Haditha, the rapes, made it up. John Murtha picked up on the story as did many other Democrats picked up on the story, ran with it about what a bunch of rotten creeps US soldiers were. It was made up. This is the guy, Bobby Ghosh is his name, who invented the Haditha massacre story. That story was hoped by TIME Magazine to stir up the populace and cause murder and mayhem. It turned out to be a lie but it was one of the many efforts that the press engaged in to get us out of Iraq in defeat. And Ghosh is from India. Burning a Koran is terrible, don’t misunderstand, but making up an atrocity at the same time? So here’s Obama. Remember Obama and the put-down of Christians, this whole bitter clinger business. Do you think Obama would ever say of Muslims, who are now in their fourth day of protests in Afghanistan over this, over this preacher up in Florida burning the Koran, do you think Obama would ever say, “Well, you know, it’s not surprising these Muslims, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Do you think he would ever say that? Would we ever hear that from Obama about Muslims? Well, it flowed from his oral cavity with ease at a fundraiser in San Francisco talking about Christians.
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RUSH: Okay, I got a question here, because this Mr. Ghosh fellow tells us that the Koran is the direct Word of God, right? And yet we’re told that Islam is in the midst of reformation. There’s a number of reformers out there. Well, who’s gonna tell God that they’re reforming Islam? I mean how can they do that?
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RUSH: I want you to listen, however, before we get to all the rest of today’s program, the sound bite that I quoted in the last hour of the program. It was a Hardball episode, Chris Matthews. The fill-in host was F. Chuck Todd and he was speaking with TIME Magazine Deputy International Editor Bobby Ghosh about a Florida pastor burning the Koran and Afghan Muslim protests and killings as a result. F. Chuck Todd said, “Basically, we have two sets of extremists here. We got this extremist in Florida and a couple of extremists that took advantage of the moment to stir people up in Afghanistan. How much has this spread around the Muslim world?”
GHOSH: The thing to keep in mind that’s very important here is that the Koran for Muslims, it’s not — it’s not the same as — as the Bible to Christians. The Bible is a book written by men. It’s acknowledged by Christians that it is written by men. It’s the story of — of Jesus. But the Koran, if you’re a believer, if you’re — if you’re Muslim, the Koran is directly the Word of God, not written by man, it’s transcribed directly the Word of God. That makes it sacred in a way that is hard to understand if you’re not Muslim. So the act of burning a Koran is — is much more potentially —
TODD: Directly attacking —
GHOSH: — much, much more inflammatory —
TODD: Directly attacking God.
GHOSH: — than if you were to burn — burn a Bible.
RUSH: Directly attacking God. And the Bible, Jesus, written by men and so forth. Well, you can do your own analysis and fill in the blanks yourself. My own observation is that we keep hearing that Islam is reforming. Well, you sit in there, Snerdley, and you laugh, but you know we keep hearing about this. We need to be patient, understand that there’s a reform movement within that understands that killing people because of cartoons is a little bit over the top. There is a reform movement in Islam. Well, I would just ask Mr. Ghosh, who, as a reminder wrote the phony story on the Haditha massacre. The guy you just heard made up that story about Marines raping women and children in Iraq, that’s the source authority for this Chuck Todd sitting in for Chris Matthews. So if the Koran is the direct Word of God transcribed, and yet there’s a reform movement within it, who’s gonna tell God that they’re messing around here with it?
There are a lot of apologists that tell us Islam will reform, and that it will start embracing freedom of conscience, equality, the reform movement, there will be no more jihad. Well, how’s it gonna do that, if their scriptures are not like ours, but written by Allah himself, what are the reformers gonna say? That God got things wrong? Uh, God, Allah, got a couple things in here we’re gonna fix. Is that how they’re gonna do this? Somebody’s gonna have to tell God they’re gonna reform it.
Rush importantly revisited an old fraud at the hands of Bobby Ghosh:
Now, Ghosh, just so you know, is the reporter from TIME Magazine who invented the Haditha massacre story, made it up. The Marines at Haditha, the rapes, made it up. John Murtha picked up on the story as did many other Democrats picked up on the story, ran with it about what a bunch of rotten creeps US soldiers were. It was made up. This is the guy, Bobby Ghosh is his name, who invented the Haditha massacre story. That story was hoped by TIME Magazine to stir up the populace and cause murder and mayhem. It turned out to be a lie but it was one of the many efforts that the press engaged in to get us out of Iraq in defeat.
This is a perfect example of what these people will do to destroy America. You would think Bobby Ghosh could not find a job this side of Al Jazeera let alone continue in one of the most seniior positions at TIME.
These People Are Insane. Islam Drives People to Insanity.
“What about that nutty Florida Christian guy? Isn’t he insane?”
No. Based on the evidence at hand, Pastor Terry Jones is perfectly sane. He is just not very smart.
“So, you say focus on Afghani Moslems, Not a Florida Nut?”
No, focus on the United States Army.
You see, more than a year before Terry Jones showed up to burn one Quran, The United States Army burned hundreds of Holy Bibles. Terry Jones, wrong as you may feel he is, has an American Constitutional right to burn a Quran. The United States Army has no right to burn a Holy Bible or a Quran but burn the Holy Bibles they did.
Did General David Patreus Object?
No. he did not.
Did President Barak Obama object?
No, although his condemnation of Jones was more evenhanded than others.
Did Senator Lindsey Graham, occasional Republican, SC, object to the United States Army burning Holy Bibles?
Of course not.
Let’s put this together in chronological order starting with the army.
The unsolicited Bibles sent by a church in the United States were confiscated about a year ago at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan because military rules forbid troops of any religion from proselytizing while deployed there, Lt. Col. Mark Wright said.
Such religious outreach can endanger American troops and civilians in the devoutly Muslim nation, Wright said.
“The decision was made that it was a ‘force protection’ measure to throw them away, because, if they did get out, it could be perceived by Afghans that the U.S. government or the U.S. military was trying to convert Muslims,” Wright told CNN on Tuesday.
Troops at posts in war zones are required to burn their trash, Wright said.
The Bibles were written in the languages Pashto and Dari.
This decision came to light recently, after the Al Jazeera English network aired video of a group prayer service and chapel sermon that a reporter said suggested U.S. troops were being encouraged to spread Christianity.
The military denied that earlier this month, saying much in the video was taken out of context.
“This was irresponsible and dangerous journalism sensationalizing year-old footage of a religious service for U.S. soldiers on a U.S. base and inferring that troops are evangelizing to Afghans,” Col. Gregory Julian said.
The military says a soldier at Bagram received the Bibles and didn’t realize he wasn’t allowed to hand them out. In the Al Jazeera video, which shows the Bibles at the prayer service, an unnamed soldier says members of his church raised money for them.
The chaplain later corrected the soldier and confiscated the Bibles, Wright said.
Military officers considered sending the Bibles back to the church, he said, but they worried the church would turn around and send them to another organization in Afghanistan — giving the impression that they had been distributed by the U.S. government.
That could lead to violence against troops or U.S. civilians, Wright said.
Al Jazeera English, a Qatar-based international news service, said its reporters tried to get a response from military officials for its story but were unable to do so.
The U.S. military air base at Bagram is home to thousands of troops from all branches of the U.S. military. The vast majority of the troops do not leave the base and are in various support roles for U.S. troops across Afghanistan.
It was August, 2010 when Pastor Terry Jones showed up. In an ill conceived effort to refocus America on the war than has been brought to us and the force behind the war, Jones announced he would burn a Quran on 9/11/2010. He got “his 15 minutes of Fame,” according Muslim Brotherhood created, Hamas backing CAIR. Jones rescheduled the burning twice before calling it off.
But, March 22, 2011, with zealotry, Jones acted; put the Quran on trial; found the Quran guilty, sentenced it to burning and carried out the sentence. CAIR (smartly) and the CAIR loving media were silent. The Houston Chronicle did report the Jones action:
The controversial Florida pastor who halted plans to burn a Quran on the 9/11 anniversary last year oversaw the burning of the Islamic holy book on Sunday after it was found “guilty” during a “trial” at his church.
“We had a court process,” said Pastor Terry Jones, who denied breaking earlier promises not to burn a Quran. “We tried to set it up as fair as possible, which you can imagine, of course, is very difficult.”
Jones said about 30 people attended the mock trial at his Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville.
If the jury had reached a different conclusion, Jones said he would have issued an apology for his accusations that the Quran promotes violence.
He said the punishment was determined from four choices — burning, shredding, drowning and facing a firing squad – on his organization’s Facebook page.
Jones considered the burning – which was conducted by another pastor since Jones was serving as the judge – a one-time event.
Jones has launched a new organization, Stand Up America, and plans to protest the Quran, Shariah law and “radical Islam,” and has scheduled an April event in front of an Islamic center in Dearborn, Mich.
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, declined to comment at length about Jones’ trial. “Terry Jones had his 15 minutes of fame and we’re not going to help him get another few minutes,” he said.
But when word found its way to the insane Afghanis, real fire and real zeal burst forth:
At least five people have been killed in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar as violent protests over the burning of a Quran by Florida Pastor Terry Jones enter their second day, a Afghan government spokesman said on Saturday. The deaths in Kandahar bring the death toll to sixteen.
A suicide attack also targeted a NATO military base in the capital Kabul on Saturday, the day after protesters overran a UN mission in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, killing seven foreign staff in the worst ever attack on the UN in Afghanistan. Four more were killed in the Mazar-i-Sharif riot when Afghan security forces turned their rifles on the rioting crowd.
On Friday, a group of approximately 150 men took to the streets to denounce the Quran burning and set tires alight, smashed shop windows and attacked a photographer, witnesses told Reuters. The reporter was hit over the head, had his camera taken and smashed, and was seized up by protesters who discussed killing him.
Police kept other journalists from approaching the crowd, which was shouting slogans that included “death to America.”
Saturday’s attack on the NATO base in Kabul was conducted by a small group of burka-clad insurgents who only succeeded in causing light injuries to three soldiers, police and NATO spokesmen said.
The spokesman for Kandahar province said the protest was organized by the Taliban who used the Quran burning as an excuse to incite violence in a city where their reach has been curtailed by an aggressive NATO-led military campaign.
“The demonstration in Kandahar was planned by insurgents to take advantage of the situation and to create insecurity,” said Zalmay Ayoubi, spokesman for the Kandahar provincial governor. He put the toll at five and said 46 people had been wounded.”
The violence ensuing from Jone’s Koran burning was predicted by former CENTCOM commander Gen. David Patreus in 2010, “Even rhe rumor it might take place has sparked demonstrations such as the one in Kabul yesterday. Were the actual burning to take place, the safety of our soldiers and civilians would be put in jeopardy and accomplishment of the mission would be made more difficult.”
Patreus had also warned extremists would use images of the Qaran burning to incite violence.
More protests are possible across volatile and deeply religious Afghanistan, where anti-Western sentiment has been fuelled for years by civilian casualties.
Around 1,000 people protested peacefully in the northern province of Tahar, said Shah Jahan Noori, provincial police chief.
Jones: We Do Not Feel Responsible
Responding to the violence, Terry Jones said Saturday he did not feel responsible for the violent protest at the United Nations compound in Afghanistan or for the deaths that followed. Instead, he insisted the violence proved his point.
“We wanted to raise awareness of this dangerous religion and dangerous element,” Jones said. “I think [today’s attack] proves that there is a radical element of Islam.”
As for the 11 dead, which included seven U.N. staffers and guards, Jones told “Nightline” anchor Bill Weir, “We do not feel responsible, no.”
Obama Decries Both Sides
President Barack Obama said on Saturday the killings in Afghanistan after Jones’ Quran burning were “outrageous” while calling the burning itself an act of bigotry.
“The desecration of any holy text, including the Quran, is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry,” Obama said in an official White House statement. “However, to attack and kill innocent people in response is outrageous, and an affront to human decency and dignity.”
“No religion tolerates the slaughter and beheading of innocent people,” Obama insisted. “There is no justification for such a dishonorable and deplorable act. Now is a time to draw upon the common humanity that we share, and that was so exemplified by the U.N. workers who lost their lives trying to help the people of Afghanistan.”
Obama did not address the long, documented history of mass beheadings of non-Muslim captives by Muslims dating back to the prophet Mohommed, who ordered the execution by decapitation of 700 men of the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe in Medina for allegedly plotting against him (Qur. 47:3). Such en masse beheadings have been commonplace even into modern times.
Nor did Obama see fit to address the fact that key-US ally Saudi Arabia employs beheading for a variety of offenses. Over the past two decades, the Saudis have decapitated at least 1,100 for alleged crimes ranging from drug running to witchcraft and apostasy.
OUR VIEW: The limits of free speech, Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Last September, pastor [sic] Terry Jones planned to hold a public burning of the Quran, the Islamic holy book. Due to public outcry condemning the Florida pastor, he decided to forgo his book burning.
Fast forward six months later. Jones carried out his public condemnation of the Quran. To further prove his point, he even held a mock trial, which found the Quran guilty of crimes against humanity. The punishment: death by fire.
What Jones didn’t plan for was the extent Afghan protestors were willing to go to condemn the pastor’s actions. After news of Jones’ actions reached Afghanistan, mobs formed protesting the Florida pastor and his congregation. Violence broke out, killing more than 20 individuals and injuring more than 150, all because one preacher chose to burn another group’s religious text.
Despite how deplorable Jones’ actions were and how dire the consequences are for his choices, the burning of the Quran is protected by the First Amendment defining it as symbolic speech.
In 1984, Gregory Lee Johnson stood outside the Republican National Convention in Dallas and set fire to an American flag. Johnson was protesting Ronald Reagan’s platform issues and wanted to destroy a symbol of America in response. Johnson was initially convicted of desecrating “a venerated object,” which violated Texas statutes, according to court documents.
The case was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court where it ruled Johnson’s actions were protected as symbolic speech under the First Amendment. The decision includes some very pertinent language in regards to Jones’ actions: “the Government may not prohibit the verbal or nonverbal expression of an idea merely because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.”
We believe a majority of citizens would agree the burning of the Quran is offensive and disagreeable, but even this deplorable act is protected by the precedent set by Texas V. Johnson.
Even though President Barack Obama and U.S. General David Petraeus have publicly condemned Jones’ trial and execution, Congress has yet to address the issue. Meaning, until an amendment is added to the Constitution, the burning of religious texts will be protected by the United States.
As Americans we should be careful how we use our freedoms. Just because we have the ability to burn a religious text doesn’t mean we should use it. As Jones has proven, even though our government will protect our freedom of speech, it does not mean other country’s citizens will look at symbolic speech in the same way.
Instead of using our rights to free speech to push people’s buttons, we should look to extend an invitation to discuss our differences and create understanding among our global community.
While Jones should be condemned for his actions, murdering innocent bystanders only reinforces stereotypes and makes discussing the topic of religious understanding that much harder.
It is outrageous and, in normal times, unbelievable that a brilliant American general would think as Patreus has. He seems not, at the least, to have read Patton or Churchill. And, what shall we conclude about Senator Graham? This would be inexplicable for most Republican Senators —even Senator Richard Lugar. If we understand Graham’s constituency is not so much South Carolina citizens, but, rather, Washington insiders, his statements make some sense. From that point of view, speech should be regulated.
President Obama, perhaps, astonished the most. As he railed against the hapless Jones, he, incredibly, indicted the insane violence that is at the very core of Islam.
“Our Bill Gets Government Out of the Way.” —Senator Orin Hatch
Senators Orrin Hatch (R –Utah) and David Vitter (R-La.) introduced a major energy bill Thursday that would build real businesses, create jobs, reduce energy costs and generate significant revenue to state and federal coffers. Senator Hatch says the Three-D
Domestic Jobs, Domestic Energy and Deficit Reduction Act of 2011 – would overturn the Obama administration’s restrictions against domestic oil and gas production, reverse its bans on key offshore federal leases off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and open ANWR in Alaska to oil production, directing some of the resulting revenues toward renewable energy production, Finally, it would reverse the Administration’s recent moves against commercial oil shale production in Western states.
The bill gets government out of the way of the real jobs that produce domestic affordable energy and increases energy security.
“There is no quicker way to jumpstart our economy and reduce our budget deficit than to simply allow private industry to access our abundant, affordable energy sources,” Hatch said. More from Hatch:
This Administration has created the most hostile atmosphere for domestic energy production our nation has ever seen. Whether it’s federal offshore leasing, leasing on federal lands, or commercial regulations for oil shale development, this President has done more to stymie energy production than any other president in history. In spite of the President’s words, federal energy leases have dropped 67 percent in the Rockies and 87 percent in Utah. That translates into an 87 percent cut in high-paying energy jobs in Utah, higher gas prices at the pump and less revenue for the state and federal government.
This is an exciting development. This “Three-D” energy bill will be a key vehicle in our National conversation in 2012. The bill, of course, will not become law. Democrats in the Senate will not pass and Obama would not sign this bill or anything likeit.
A $1 Billion —George Soros and Company— Plan For Fundamental Transformational Power
President Obama will announce his reelection campaign early this week of April 3, 2011. It is no surprise but we must be 100% prepared for this Soros-Obama juggernaut. Anything less will mean disaster. The Obama-Soros plan is to raise so much money in the second quarter, the campaigns first, the Republican hopefuls resolve will be dashed. Glenn Thrush and Mike Allen, at the POLITICO, characterize the likely 2012 outcome thus:
Obama launches with a recovering economy and a weak, fractured Republican field, but with chaos in the Middle East that adds unpredictability to an environment that points to likely reelection.
A recovering economy is a pipe-dream of the left. “What, you ask, “does ‘a weak, fractured Republican field,’ mean?” It simply describes the leftist filter in the minds of the writers. But Thrush/Allen conclude, “likely reelection.” Those last two words are the only ones we must take deadly seriously. This will be the most important election in America’s history. If we fail, don’t worry about your heirs inheritance. There won’t be any. The Great Ship America will be run into the abyss.
Perhaps as much as 90% of the media are as friendly to an Obama Reelection as Thrush/Allen. In addition, at least 60% (I think it is closer to 70%) of the internet locations will be doing their part for Obama.
Here is where the Obama crowd has us heading and do not doubt the certainty of the exponential progression. If Obama wins, this result is certain:
Remember, the Obama-led Democrats do not even have the interest to pass a budget.
Here is detail on how the three biggest (unreformed) entitlements will drive the debt. If he wins, Obama will nto reform these programs. In fact, it is certain the exponential curve will grow.
Let’s add interest and other government costs:
Do not be mistaken or misled, the Obama campaign machine is tuned up, serviced and ready for the most intense, mistake free, social media active campaign run in political history. The MSM will do their part.
No, dear reader, dear patriot, this is, indeed, NOT APRIL FOOLS.
When I wrote about THE STALKING OF ANN ALTHOUSE, I identified Professor Althouse as my Madison source on union thug activity at the Wisconsin Capitol. This UW Law professor and her cosmo-husband have been accurate, even-handed and, as a bonus, interesting. My visits to the Althouse blog quickly revealed a mind that spots hogwash wherever it’s thrown. Look what she did with the Wednesday NYT news report from Libya and the blather of the insufferable NYT commentator, Thomas Friedman.
Forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi advanced rapidly on Wednesday, seizing towns they ceded just days ago after intense allied airstrikes and hounding rebel fighters into a chaotic retreat….
There were few signs of the punishing airstrikes that reversed the loyalists’ first push.
I am proud of my president, really worried about him, and just praying that he’s lucky…
I hope Qaddafi’s regime collapses like a sand castle, that the Libyan opposition turns out to be decent and united and that they require just a bare minimum of international help to get on their feet. Then U.S. prestige will be enhanced and this humanitarian mission will have both saved lives and helped to lock another Arab state into the democratic camp.
Dear Lord, please make President Obama lucky.
“[A]nother Arab state into the democratic camp,” indicates Libya wouldn’t be the first. Gee, I wonder what Arab state that could be? Old Tom did not say. O.K., that’s the bully in me taking shots at an easy target. The cynic asks, “Did Tom just inoculated Obama against his certain failure in Libya?” It’s God’s fault.
To do all I can each day for as long as I can to help ensure that my grandchildren’s children have the same opportunity and Liberty my generation has enjoyed, to the glory of God.
From Israel National News, April 5, 2011 
Domestic Jobs, Domestic Energy and Deficit Reduction Act of 2011 – would overturn the Obama administration’s restrictions against domestic oil and gas production, reverse its bans on key offshore federal leases off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and open ANWR in Alaska to oil production, directing some of the resulting revenues toward renewable energy production, Finally, it would reverse the Administration’s recent moves against commercial oil shale production in Western states.
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