Monday, September 5, 2011
Their Goal is Fundamental Transformation of the US - They're All in This Together
The American Spectator : They're All in This TogetherBy Alfred S. Regnery from the September 2011 issue
excerpt - read on at the above link-
What, then, is the relationship between these two hard-core leftist revolutionaries and the president of the United States, and why is it important?
It is important, first, because Obama, along with Ayers and Dohrn, went to great lengths to mislead voters during the fall of 2008. They "just lived in the same neighborhood" and had little contact, they pretended. On the contrary, The American Spectator's investigation has concluded that Obama and his campaign staff, with the help of the mainstream media, lied outright about his relationship with Ayers. It has also concluded that Ayers lied about it as well. The Ayers-Obama association is far deeper, longer, and more significant than was ever acknowledged during the campaign.
The relationship is important, second, because Ayers and Dohrn are not reformed former radicals who have abandoned their old habits. Indeed, they are unrepentant, violent radicals who may have adopted new tactics to upend the United States and what it stands for, but whose goals remain just what they were in 1970.
It was our fault, we don't understand - The Universities’ 9/11
What use is a liberal arts college education today? There are few cocktail parties and fewer game shows. At least that was the former use for that type of education. Latin and Greek were even part of the mandatory curricula.
Universities really did teach information that had some use at one time (although it tended to be more fitting for the 19th Century), with a bit of limited political discourse. Today that instruction is inverted to be almost exclusively political or yo be in the name of diversity (which is also political).
Prepare for a season of intellectual posturing and Islamic outreach.
SEP 12, 2011, VOL. 16, NO. 48 • BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN
Unlike the commemorations in most of the rest of America, however, the academic commemorations for the most part won’t focus on, say, the 403 New York firefighters, paramedics, and police officers who died in rescue efforts at the World Trade Center towers hit by hijacked planes. Nor upon the numerous acts of courage and selflessness that marked that day, not least those of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93, the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, whose rallying cry “Let’s roll!” led by 32-year-old passenger Todd Beamer accompanied an effort to fight back against the terrorists. Nor upon the approximately 3,000 children who lost parents in the massacre, including dozens of babies born after their fathers perished. Least of all will there be much emphasis on what America did or should have done by way of reprisal for a brazen act of war that killed more people in the collapse of the World Trade towers alone (2,753) than perished in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 (2,402). ...
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
The Post Gets it, the Gov't Doesn't, how ironic.
Media Blog - National Review Online
In another retrenchment, after closing its domestic bureaus in 2009, the Washington Post is eliminating even more offices – almost all of the bureaus it has to cover local news. While conservatives may have little love for the work of the Post, it is yet another disturbing sign for one of the nation’s most prominent papers.
The Post will maintain just two offices for local affairs, in Richmond and Annapolis. Local editor Vernon Loeb has promised “never” to close those offices, but time will tell.
Nice Work! City worker jailed for stealing $10M from fund to identify 9/11 remains still holding on to cash
Has everything gone to hell? Just a different form of grave robbing.
BY TINA MOORE September 4th 2011,
en years after the Sept. 11 attacks, ex-city worker Natarajan Venkataram says he’s sorry he stole millions of dollars meant for identifying the remains of trade center victims.
He’s just not sorry enough to turn over $400,000 sitting in his bank account in India.
The city has recovered $7 million of the $10 million he and an accomplice stole, but he went to court to hold onto this final portion of his ill-gotten gains.
In a phone interview from the federal prison camp at Fort Dix, N.J., Venkataram, 46, whined about jail conditions and apologized repeatedly for his crime....
He’s just not sorry enough to turn over $400,000 sitting in his bank account in India.
The city has recovered $7 million of the $10 million he and an accomplice stole, but he went to court to hold onto this final portion of his ill-gotten gains.
In a phone interview from the federal prison camp at Fort Dix, N.J., Venkataram, 46, whined about jail conditions and apologized repeatedly for his crime....
The city medical examiner’s office got millions of dollars from the feds to help identify the remains of nearly 3,000 victims.
Venkataram, then a manager dealing with the medical examiner’s computer system, and his girlfriend, Rosa Abreu, siphoned off millions via shell companies and fake contract bids.
When Venkataram learned probers were on to him, he transferred $1 million to his Indian bank accounts, prosecutors say.
Arrested in 2005, Venkataram pleaded guilty to embezzlement and money laundering. He got 15 years in jail; Abreu got six.
Venkataram also was ordered to pay $2.9 million in restitution. Hoping to retrieve even more, the city sued him and won an $8 million judgment in 2009.
Venkataram, then a manager dealing with the medical examiner’s computer system, and his girlfriend, Rosa Abreu, siphoned off millions via shell companies and fake contract bids.
When Venkataram learned probers were on to him, he transferred $1 million to his Indian bank accounts, prosecutors say.
Arrested in 2005, Venkataram pleaded guilty to embezzlement and money laundering. He got 15 years in jail; Abreu got six.
Venkataram also was ordered to pay $2.9 million in restitution. Hoping to retrieve even more, the city sued him and won an $8 million judgment in 2009.
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Do Not Let Facts Get in the Way! Paper and Plastic: When Political Ideology Trumps Sound Science
Paper and Plastic: When Political Ideology Trumps Sound Science — The American Magazine
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Scientific institutions around the world reject bans on BPA. So why are politicians imposing them?
Well-meaning laws sometimes backfire. That’s especially true when they are passed in reaction to media frenzies driven by ideology rather than science. And that’s what’s happening in the United States and Europe, where advocacy groups are raising new alarms about bisphenol A (aka BPA), a controversial plastic component used to prevent spoilage in myriad products, including containers, dental sealants, and epoxy linings.
On Tuesday, the California State Senate approved a ban on baby bottles and sippy cups that contain BPA, with the measure now going to the Assembly for a final vote. Set to take effect next July, the ban was approved despite the fact that no governmental science-based advisory board in the world has concluded that BPA is harmful.
But political systems often operate with limited information and short time horizons, while much of science is complex and evolving. Bowing to relentless campaigns, restrictions on BPA used in baby bottles have been imposed politically in 11 states and in a few countries, such as France and Canada.
In a sidestep around the science, activists are aggressively turning up the heat on legislators around the world. The latest uproar involves the presence of miniscule amounts of BPA on thermal paper receipts printed at supermarkets or ATMs, and on the money that comes in contact with them. The brouhaha has touched off a swirl of recent media coverage, much of it just plain wrong.
Thermal paper has a chemical coating, usually made in part with BPA, which colors when heated during the development process. Greenpeace Germany just released an analysis of receipts collected from eight European supermarket chains—that’s right, just eight. There was not even a façade of scientific controls. Seven had traces of BPA or a related chemical, bisphenol S (BPS). The European press exploded with stories of the alleged harm faced by consumers, and a prominent French legislatorcalled on stores to abandon paper containing either chemical, or face a legislative ban.
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It is a matter of Honor as I see it! - Five NASCAR Drivers Decline President Obama's White House Invitation
I had the opportunity to meet Clinton, I declined. He was a dishonorable man, let alone president. ♘
Jeff Gluck • Sep 1, 2011
NASCAR said Thursday that five drivers – Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart – will not be attending the White House visit due to "schedule conflicts."
They must be very busy people. Regardless of one's political views, the president is still the president – and an opportunity to speak with the leader of the free world is a rare and special one.
You'd think whatever photo shoots or sponsor appearances these drivers have lined up on Wednesday afternoon – if that's indeed the reason – could be rescheduled. After all, this is thePresident of the United States we're talking about here.
For a sport that prides itself on patriotism, having so many drivers turn down the president's invitation simply seems strange.
NO IT IS NOT! IS JEFF GLUCK A REPORTER OR COMMENTATOR? EITHER WAY HE IS WRONG.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Blame George W. Bush, right?
But it is not Anthropogenic "Global Warming" since all of these weather and geological extremes happened long before man industrialized and populated the world. The climate has always been changeable in spite of our fat egos and Al Gores fatter ego. Nature's constant is change, not man. ♘
Disasters in US: An extreme and exhausting year
By Sep 3, 2011WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes.
Unprecedented triple-digit heat and devastating drought. Deadly tornadoes leveling towns. Massive rivers overflowing. A billion-dollar blizzard. And now, unusual hurricane-caused flooding in Vermont.
If what's falling from the sky isn't enough, the ground shook in places that normally seem stable: Colorado and the entire East Coast. On Friday, a strong quake triggered brief tsunami warnings in Alaska. Arizona and New Mexico have broken records for wildfires.
Total weather losses top $35 billion, and that's not counting Hurricane Irene, according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. There have been more than 700 U.S. disaster and weather deaths, most from the tornado outbreaks this spring.
The U.S. has had a record 10 weather catastrophes costing more than a billion dollars: five separate tornado outbreaks, two different major river floods in the Upper Midwest and the Mississippi River, drought in the Southwest and a blizzard that crippled the Midwest and Northeast, and Irene.=read on at above link=
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