Sunday, April 27, 2014

University Takes Action Against Students, Free Speech Endangered

University Takes Action Against Students, Free Speech Endangered:
"Another day, another outrageous report to emerge from the sad state of liberal academia…
 The University of Hawaii at Hilo has prohibited students from passing out forbidden literature on school grounds.
What was this forbidden literature? Was it radical propaganda? Was it hate-filled tirades of madmen?
 No- it was the U.S. Constitution.
 In typical fashion more in-line with a despotic dictatorship than something that could occur in America, UH-Hilo prohibited students from handing out our nation’s laws that enumerate our rights as citizens.


Obama been boss for almost 5 1/2 years. How's it workin' out for ya?-------Great divide: Low-priced home sales sink; high-priced ones rise

Great divide: Low-priced home sales sink; high-priced ones rise | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Tuesday’s report on existing home sales last month highlights how tough the market is for buyers of lower-priced homes, especially in parts of the high-priced West.
March sales of previously owned homes fell to their slowest annual pace in 20 months, down 0.2% from February to 4.59 million, the National Association of Realtors reported. It was the third straight monthly decline.
Year over year, the sharpest drop-offs are at the low end of the housing market, continuing a trend visible for two years.
Sales of homes under $100,000 fell nearly 18% from March 2013 and those in the $100,000-$250,000 range fell about 10%.
But sales of homes over $1 million rose almost 8%......"

At Dartmouth Word Fiesta Is Racist White People Can't Use It

At Dartmouth Word Fiesta Is Racist White People Can't Use It | The Daily Caller
Another ridiculous politically-correct brouhaha has broken out at Dartmouth College, America’s most hopelessly and disturbingly fragile Ivy League school.
This time, the fracas is over a fundraiser for cardiac care that the Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and the Alpha Phi sorority had planned to jointly sponsor, reports Campus Reform.
Problems arose because a single student, junior Daniela Hernandez, was offended by the party’s theme of “Phiesta.”
As a result, the soiree, which was scheduled for Saturday, has been canceled by the presidents of the respective Greek organizations.
Had the party happened, it would have included a live band as well as virgin piƱa coladas and strawberry daiquiris. There would also have been burritos, chips and salsa, and guacamole.
The cash raised at the event would have gone to benefit cardiac treatments.
However, Hernandez’s deep offense about racial insensitivity was enough to call it off.
The self-proclaimed “Mexican-born, United-States-raised, first-generation woman of color” declared in an angry email that “there are various problematic structures and ideologies regarding a Cinco de Mayo-inspired event,” according to Campus Reform.

Superintelligent AI Could Wipe Out Humanity, If We're Not Ready for It

Superintelligent AI Could Wipe Out Humanity, If We're Not Ready for It | Motherboard:
"There’s a danger that sci-fi pulp like Transcendence is watering down the real risks of artificial intelligence in public discourse.
But these threats are being taken very seriously by researchers who are studying the existential threat of AI on the human race.
Dismissing hyper-intelligent machines as mere science fiction “would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake ever,” wrote Stephen Hawking "


Still Don’t Believe Barack Obama Lies A Lot? WATCH This

Still Don’t Believe Barack Obama Lies A Lot? WATCH This:
"Here is video proof that Republican Rep. Joe Wilson (SC-2) was right. Wilson came under tremendous fire for two words that he uttered during Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address in September 2009.  During that speech, Obama said, “There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”



Tax increases coming cuz we're not giving government enough-----Tax cut plans dim as focus shifts to Michigan's potholes

Tax cut plans dim as focus shifts to Michigan's potholes | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Now plans for a tax reduction are waning and shifting instead to addressing pothole-ridden roads.
 Snyder, who said he's open to dropping his tax plan to set aside more money for transportation, attributes the shrinking interest in tax relief to drivers who voiced their frustration.
"Much of it came about because of how serious the pothole season's been," he said. 
"I appreciate the general public speaking up more and more — they see a need to solve this problem in terms of transportation.""

History for April 27

History for April 27 - On-This-Day.com:
Birth anniversary of 18th president of the US, Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85).











Birth anniversary of Coretta Scott King (1927-2006).

Happy Birthday! Sheena Easton, Sally Hawkins, Casey Kasem

1521 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines. 


1861 - U.S. President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. 


1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid. 


1965 - "Pampers" were patented by R.C. Duncan. 


1967 - In Montreal, Prime Minister Lester Pearson lighted a flame to open Expo 67. 


1975 - Saigon was encircled by North Vietnamese troops. 


1978 - Pro-Soviet Marxists seized control of Afghanistan. 





1982 - The trial of John W. Hinckley Jr. began in Washington. Hinckley was later acquitted by reason of insanity for the shooting of U.S. President Reagan and three others. 


1989 - Student protestors took over Tiananmen Square in Beijing. 


1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. 





2005 - The A380, the world's largest jetliner, completed its maiden flight. The passenger capability was 840.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

What Do This Supreme Court Decision And Obama's BLM Land Grabs Have In Common?

What Do This Supreme Court Decision And Obama's BLM Land Grabs Have In Common?:
"What stops the federal government from merely deeding private lands to foreign governments “because they can”? Actually, nothing stops the government from doing anything, certainly not the Kelo Decision.
Without a doubt, the Supreme Court’s Kelo Decision is one of the most potentially destructive weapons a tyrant like Barack Obama has at his disposal."



New York ‘Liberal’ Opens Up About What CNN and MSNBC Haven’t Invited Her on to Say | TheBlaze.com

New York ‘Liberal’ Opens Up About What CNN and MSNBC Haven’t Invited Her on to Say | TheBlaze.com:
"Brighton said the biggest difference between Islam and Sharia-ism is the latter is a “political movement to control,” not unlike communism or fascism, and added that the only reason the ideology has been able to survive in the United States this long is because it has has the “cover of religion,” and an enormous number of “petrodollars.”
Brighton admitted many of her friends automatically disagree with her, afraid of offending Islam, but added: “If you actually get them to look at the facts and read some of it, they’ll say, ‘Oh I didn’t know that!"




Wayne LaPierre Issues Blistering Takedown of Journalists Right to Their Faces: ‘An Abomination’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Wayne LaPierre Issues Blistering Takedown of Journalists Right to Their Faces: ‘An Abomination’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"With journalists from across the country sitting in the audience, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre blasted members of the national media during the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on Friday. He argued “media dishonesty” and government misinformation have joined forces in America, and neither group has a right to tell citizens how to defend themselves."




She's spent more time in jail than ALL the Benghazi murderers. Combined!-------ALLEGED HILLARY CLINTON SHOE THROWER ARRAIGNED

News from The Associated Press:
"LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton during a speech in Las Vegas remains in federal custody after pleading not guilty to two criminal charges.
Alison Ernst, 36, entered the pleas to misdemeanor counts of trespassing and violence against a person during her arraignment late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach then granted the government's request to keep Ernst in federal custody, saying she was a flight risk and danger to the community. She is being held at a jail operated by a federal contractor in Pahrump, 63 miles west of Las Vegas.
Ferenbach raised concerns about Ernst's residency status and mental health condition, Natalie Collins, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Nevada, told The Associated Press."

Conservative Radio Host Mark Levin Goes Off on GOP at NRA Convention…Moments After Republican He Routinely Slams Got Done Speaking | TheBlaze.com

Conservative Radio Host Mark Levin Goes Off on GOP at NRA Convention…Moments After Republican He Routinely Slams Got Done Speaking | TheBlaze.com:
"He advised the Republicans, which he described as confused, to look no further than the Constitution and the Bill of Rights when trying to figure out how to win over the nation.
To that point, Levin actually described each amendment found in the Bill of Rights, putting extra emphasis on the First and Second Amendments. He joked that the Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment in such simple terms that even liberals could understand it.
“A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” Levin read."




"It's the culture, stupid"-------Kid Pretends to Order From Wendy’s Employee, Then Slaps Her as Part of Violent ‘Smack Cam’ Game

Kid Pretends to Order From Wendy’s Employee, Then Slaps Her as Part of Violent ‘Smack Cam’ Game | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Perhaps a spinoff of the disturbing “knockout game,” a Texas teen working in a fast food restaurant was the recent victim of a violent fad dubbed “smack cam.”
“Two young kids came in. 
They pretended like they were going to order. 
The first kid, he went out and came back. 
And I couldn’t hear what he was saying so I leaned in and the next thing I know, I got hit,” Calaybra Jones told KTBC-TV of the incident, which occurred Tuesday while she was working at a Wendy’s in Austin, Texas."

9 Crazy Ways the Left Tried to Make Obamacare Cool

9 Crazy Ways the Left Tried to Make Obamacare Cool
3. “Bros” and “Hos”
A controversial ad campaign depicted young men as primarily interested in keg stands, while young women were interested in getting birth control to hook up with guys. http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/uv5azw/brosurance


Two Maps, Maybe You Will See A Pattern, Terrorists and Mosques in America

Two Maps, Maybe You Will See A Pattern, Terrorists and Mosques in America | Conservative Infidel Conservative Infidel:


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Wisconsin Sheriff Reveals the Seven Words He Would Use to Change the Second Amendment | Video | TheBlaze.com

Wisconsin Sheriff Reveals the Seven Words He Would Use to Change the Second Amendment | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Sheriff David Clarke Jr. may not be a household name…yet. But he’s well on his way after his rousing speech at the 2014 NRA convention. Consider the standing ovation he received after revealing the seven words he would add to the Second Amendment: “Keep your hands off our guns, dammit.”"




Parent to Obama: Let me tell you about the Common Core test Malia and Sasha don’t have to take but Eva does

Parent to Obama: Let me tell you about the Common Core test Malia and Sasha don’t have to take but Eva does:
"Dear President Obama,

We have something very important in common: daughters in the seventh grade.
Since your family walked onto the national stage in 2007, I’ve had a feeling that our younger daughters have a lot in common, too.

Like my daughter Eva, Sasha appears to be a funny, smart, loving girl, who has no problem speaking her mind, showing her feelings, or tormenting her older sister.

There is, however, one important difference between them: Sasha attends private school, while Eva goes to public school.

Don’t get me wrong, I fully support your decision to send Malia and Sasha to private school, where it is easier to keep them safe and sheltered.
I would have done the same.
But because she is in private school, Sasha does not have to take Washington’s standardized test, the D.C. CAS, which means you don’t get a parent’s-eye view of the annual high-stakes tests taken by most of America’s children."


Iran Wins Seat on UN Women's Rights Commission

Iran Wins Seat on UN Women's Rights Commission:
Iran made significant strides in gaining power in the United Nations Economic and Social Council this week,confirming their place on five sub-committees
Most controversial among these is their appointment to the Commission on the Status of Women, which would give the nation influence over global women's rights.
In a press release announcing a new term for the committees under the Economic and Social Council-- whose theme this term will be “the future of humanitarian affairs: towards greater inclusiveness, coordination, interoperability and effectiveness”-- the UN announced that Iran will serve on the Commissions on Population and Development, Science and Technology for Development, the Committee for Programme Coordination and on Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Commission on the Status of Women.
The United States has objected to Iran's election to these positions. 

Joseph Goebbels used his media in the same manner------Media Matters, New York Times Deceptively Edit Bundy Video To Smear Him as a Racist

Media Matters, New York Times Deceptively Edit Bundy Video To Smear Him as a Racist:
George Soros-funded Media Matters and the fledgling New York Times are taking a page from the MSNBC playbook of editing video in order to fit their narrative and twist the actual occurrence of an event. (watch video below)
This is done in an effort not as journalists, but as propagandist activists.
After all, with Soros’ buddy Barack Obama in the White House constantly fanning the flames of racial, gender, and economic divide, they must give the rabid progressive base some fuel for the fire.
MSNBC has been caught deceptively editing video to help drive the progressive false and slanderous narrative that those in the Tea Party movement and also other conservatives are hate-filled racists.
They deceptively edited a video from a Million Vet March in October 2013 to make it appear as if the protestor was the instigator in an altercation with police when he was not.
They deceptively edited a clip of testimony given by one of the fathers of a Sandy Hookvictim to make it appear as though pro-gun rights advocates heckled the dad for no reason.
MSNBC deceptively edited statements by a Republican congressman to make it sound like he referred to food stamp recipients as rapists, pedophiles, and murderers.
The list goes on and on.

Here is how the far-left, George Soros funded propagandists at Media Matters edited Bundy’s speech:
"Let me tell, talk to you about the Mexicans, and these are just things I know about the negroes. I want to tell you one more thing I know about the negro. When I go, went, go to Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and I would see these little government houses, and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there’s always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch. They didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.
And because they were basically on government subsidy — so now what do they do? They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never, they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered are they were better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things? Or are they better off under government subsidy?
You know they didn’t get more freedom, they got less freedom — they got less family life, and their happiness — you could see it in their faces — they wasn’t happy sitting on that concrete sidewalk. Down there they was probably growing their turnips — so that’s all government, that’s not freedom". 

What is quoted above is the middle of Bundy’s speech.
The narrative being pushed based upon this edited video is that Bundy is an outright racist.
However, looking at what the propagandists at Media Matters edited out of the video puts what Bundy said in a completely different context and perspective."

Here is what Bundy said in the beginning.
"… and so what I’ve testified to you — I was in the Watts riot, I seen the beginning fire and I seen that last fire. What I seen is civil disturbance. People are not happy, people are thinking they don’t have their freedoms, they didn’t have these things, and they didn’t have them. We’ve progressed quite a bit from that day until now, and we sure don’t want to go back. We sure don’t want the colored people to go back to that point. We sure don’t want these Mexican people to go back to that point. And we can make a difference right now by taking care of some of these bureaucracies, and do it in a peaceful way." 

Now, here is what Bundy said at the end of the actual clip.
"Now, let me talk about the Spanish people. You know, I understand that they come over here against our Constitution and cross our borders. But they’re here and they’re people — and I’ve worked side by side a lot of them. Don’t tell me they don’t work, and don’t tell me they don’t pay taxes. And don’t tell me they don’t have better family structures than most of us white people. When you see those Mexican families, they’re together, they picnic together, they’re spending their time together, and I’ll tell you in my way of thinking they’re awful nice people. And we need to have those people join us and be with us not, not come to our party."

.......But, this is what the left does when they see that they are losing an argument or losing at an issue.
They pick a target, freeze it, polarize it, and personalize it.
They do what they have to do to incite fear, anger, and resentment so that they can bring more people into the controlling arms of big government.
They go after people, not institutions, just as Saul Alinsky instructed. It makes it personal.


Media Matters edited Bundy speech:



Actual Bundy speech:

Cop Out

Article | Cop Out
New York pays more police in retirement than to patrol our streets — yet pols do nothing to address our skyrocketing pension costs
......The mayor is right — but there’s another threat to the NYPD’s crime-fighting success, too. We now have more retired cops than active police officers, and the multibillion-dollar bill for their pension and health benefits harms our ability to hire new ones.
In December 2001, a month before Bloomberg took office, New York had 39,297 cops. Today, the city has 34,510 to protect us — and by the time the mayor leaves office in eight months, we’ll have 34,483 — a cut of nearly 5,000 pairs of eyes.
Yet spending has increased. 
During Bloomberg’s final year, city will spend $8.7 billion on the police department, nearly double the 2002 figure and more than three times the rate of inflation.
How’s that possible?
It’s mostly because pension and health benefits cost ever more.
The $4.3 billion taxpayers will spend on salaries and wages for police officers (and a contingent of administrative staff) this year has only just kept up with inflation over the Bloomberg years. By contrast, the pension budget has quadrupled — from $1.1 to $4.4 billion.
We’ll spend more on cops’ benefits this year than on salaries. 

Common Core and Communism

Common Core and Communism:
"The central theme of these “science standards” is to teach that we should be reducing our use of fossil fuels, the primary energy sources our nation and the world requires.
What these standards do in reality is repeat and reinforce federal government laws and regulations to justify its CO2 emissions regulations based on the current method of computing the Social Cost of Carbon, but these “costs” are pure fiction. 
None of the computer models that have predicted global warming over the past four decades have been accurate.
None are capable of representing the state of the Earth’s vastly complex climate.
The sooner Common Core is removed from the nation’s education system, the better.

"Responsibility" for thee but not for me---------‘420’ Revelers Leave Golden Gate Park with 10,000 Pounds of Garbage

‘420’ Revelers Leave Golden Gate Park with 10,000 Pounds of Garbage
The mellow, "peace now," countercultural, environmentally conscious “420” celebration deposited 10,000 pounds of garbage on what is known as Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park, leaving volunteers and park workers to clean up the mess.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle’s website SF Gate, this year’s celebration drew a massive amount of revelers estimated at between 10,000 and 15,000. The pot smokers' untidiness will cost the city more than $10,000 in cleanup costs.
The immense load of empty bags of chips, candy wrappers, and snack containers left behind was evidence that it was indeed the remnants of weed smokers with a case of the munchies on steroids.
The SF Gate reported that one father, Dan Kling, who had taken his 2½-year-old daughter to the park for some family time, was repulsed by the behavior of the “420” partiers. Although he didn’t mind that there was a party, he objected to the pigsty that they left behind. "If you can't be responsible for yourselves, you can't have a party," he said.

History for April 26

History for April 26 - On-This-Day.com
125th birth anniversary of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951).

100th birth anniversary of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Bernard Malamud (1914-86).

100th birth anniversary of WWII secret agent Lilian Rolfe (1914-44). Posthumous recipient of the Croix de Guerre and other honors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Rolfe

World War II[edit]

At the onset of World War II, Rolfe worked at the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro before going to London, England in 1943 to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Because of her fluency in the French language, she was recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where she was trained as a wireless operator.
On 5 April 1944, she was dropped near the city of OrlĆ©ans in occupied France, where she was deployed to work with the "Historian" network run by George Wilkinson. Her job was to transmit Maquis and other important radio messages to London. Beyond her wireless duties, that included reporting on German troop movements and organizing arms and supply drops, she actively participated in missions with members of the French Resistance against the German occupiers and was involved in a gun battle in the small town of Olivet just south of OrlĆ©ans.
Following the D-Day landings, an increasingly aggressive manhunt by the Gestapo led to the arrest of her superior officer. Nonetheless, Rolfe continued to work until her arrest at a transmitting house in Nargis on 31 July 1944. Transported to Fresnes Prison in Paris, she was interrogated repeatedly and brutally tortured until August 1944, when she was shipped to RavensbrĆ¼ck concentration camp. According to an admission made by a German officer after the war’s end, she was so ill that she could not walk. On 5 February 1945, 30-year-old Lilian Rolfe was executed by the Germans and her body disposed of in the crematorium.
Three other female members of the SOE were also executed at RavensbrĆ¼ck: Denise BlochCecily Lefort, and Violette Szabo.


Birth anniversary of “Mother of the Blues” Ma Rainey (1886-1939).

Birth anniversaries of artist John James Audubon (1785-1851) and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903).


Happy Birthday! Carol Burnett, Duane Eddy, Bobby Rydell


1514 - Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn.


1607 - The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere.



1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.



1941 - An organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago, IL.



1945 - Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France's Vichy government during World War II, was arrested.



1982 - The British announced that Argentina had surrendered on South Georgia.



1983 - Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 1,200 for first time.



1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.