Obama and the Arab Winter

by Sam Huntington

The very last thing we need at this stage is a president who demonstrates an astonishing lack of understanding about terrorism and the so-called “Arab Spring.” Very close to the last thing is a CIA Director who is an admitted convert to Islam, which was part of a campaign by foreign agents to infiltrate the U. S. government.

But, that’s where we are … thanks to a grossly uninformed voting public.

Consider This

With a hat tip to Leticia of My Daily Trek:


What makes people act in such a cruel manner?

Does such cruel treatment of others make a statement about our society?

Another Cartoonifada?

(information about a previous cartoonifada HERE)

Hat tip to Weasel Zippers, citing this source:

...The preacher at the centre of the controversy, Kamil Al Awhadi, said he did not come to Tunisia to change its society or impose religious choices.

Al Awadhi is known across the Middle East and North Africa thanks to his ability to use television to broadcast his ideas.

He is also well known for issuing a fatwa against cartoon character Sponge Bob accused of 'homosexuality' and of 'inducing children to pervert behaviour'....

Islam is often proclaimed as "one of the world's greatest religions." Hmmmm....

Additional reading: Egypt: Court upholds death sentences for seven Christians involved in Muhammad video

Quotation Of The Day

Actually a series of quotations (hat tip to Mike's America):

“Obama’s been virtually absent from the legislative process” of replacing his sequester, reports Politico. After getting the $600 billion in tax hikes he wanted last month (with no spending cuts), “there has been no discernible effort by the White House to work on a bill that might pass.”

“The Obama administration seems to be spending far more time warning of the consequences of the sequester — and blaming Republicans for it — than engaging in actual negotiations that would prevent it,” says ABC News.

“The president hasn’t actually come up with a proposal to avert sequestration,” says David Brooks in the New York Times, “let alone one that is politically plausible.”

“Tuesday's event had the feeling of a campaign commercial that went too far to be believed,” says the Los Angeles Times.

Politico says calls to GOP leaders were “perfunctory,” meant to “inoculate” the president from criticism that he’s campaigning instead of urging Senate Democrats to follow the House and pass legislation replacing his sequester. Their headline asks, “Is President Obama overplaying sequester hand?”

Meanwhile, this morning the mainstream media are so thrilled that Michelle Obama appeared at yesterday's Oscar Awards and, a day or so earlier, danced with Jimmy Fallon.

Sequestration Reality Check

With a hat tip to Randy's Roundtable for the graphic below:

From Bob Woodward's February 22, 2013 essay about sequestration:

Inside The Dar-Al Hijrah Mosque

(with a hat tip to Atlas Shrugs)

The imam at the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Northern Virginia calls for armed jihad:

Nincompoopery

(Weekend roundup post.   For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

Nancy Pelosi – We Don’t Have A Spending Problem

DC Comics Turns the Occupy Movement Into a Superhero Title

Obama Administration Says All Americans Must Have 'Healthy Housing'

CNN Anchor Think Approaching Asteroid May Be Result Of . . . Global Warming?

George Orwell's Final Warning

With a hat tip to Bunkerville:


More warnings can be found in Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451.

Racist Democrats

Here’s what happens when you disarm the American people. Chicago, Illinois has one of the toughest gun control laws of any American city. In spite of this, 446 children were murdered in Chicago in 2012. Ninety-eight percent of them were black.

Let’s review: Since the 1930s, Democrats have enslaved blacks to government benefits, promising them a utopian life style at someone else's expense. "Trust us," proclaims the government, "we’ll take care of everything. We'll take away guns and you'll be safe."  Progressives prefer that we ignore the fact that while black males comprise only 3% of New York City's population, 33% of male murder victims are black or that 36% of black unwed fathers have a prison record.  Of course, the communists do appreciate the black vote.

Let us speak plainly: taking guns away from law abiding citizens increases murder statistics.  If anyone is to blame for the wanton murder of 446 Chicago children, it is the un-American, unconstitutional behavior among the neo-communists.  The fact that the liberal media ignores the massacre of 446 black children in Chicago while giving extensive coverage to the loss of twenty mostly white children at Sandy Hook demonstrates that Democrats and their media enablers are pure racist.

Our children are a precious resource, no matter what the color of their skin.  So why is there no outrage in Chicago?

As one final note, recall that Mr. Otis McDonald, a black American, wanted to keep a gun in his Chicago for protection; Chicago's law banning McDonald's right to keep and bear arms led to the Supreme Court decision which upheld incorporation of the Second Amendment.  

There is but one adequate description for the American Communist (Democratic) Party: despicable.

The End Of Dreams

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From the 2012 novel The Good Father by Noah Hawley:

I had always wanted to learn to surf. I had nurtured a fantasy of a middle-alged surf adventure, an escape to Mexico, a diet of fish tacos, sleeping on the beach. Now I knew it would never happen. None of these shallow balloons of idle daydreaming would ever come true. The world was a desert now, a wasteland to be survived, not enjoyed. In less that twenty-foud hours all my fantasies had been destroyed. (page 66)

See THIS INFORMATION, including reviews of the book, at Amazon.

I highly recommend this book!

Jargon

Terms to know in education today: self-regulation, play-based learning, scaffolding, authentic assessment, DIBELS, positive behavioral interventions and supports, inclusion, Kagan structures, and differentiated instruction.

Definitions below the fold.

Obamacare Fail

(Two posts today. Please scroll down)


Forget the hope of those high-risk pools for health insurance:

Cutural Sensitivity Training At The USDA

On our tax dime, of course.

According to Judicial Watch, dated February 14, 2013:

Videos Reveal Indoctrination Program Requiring USDA Staffers to Bang on Tables, Chant, “The pilgrims were illegal aliens”

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released previously unseen USDA videos revealing a compulsory “Cultural Sensitivity Training” program requiring USDA employees to bang on tables, chanting in unison “The pilgrims were illegal aliens” while being instructed to no longer use the word “minorities,” but to replace it with “emerging majorities.”...

The sensitivity training sessions, described as “a huge expense” by diversity awareness trainer and self-described “citizen of the world” Samuel Betances, were held on USDA premises. The diversity event is apparently part of what USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack described in a memo sent to all agency employees as a “new era of Civil Rights” and “a broader effort towards cultural transformation at USDA.” In 2011 and 2012, the USDA paid Betances and his firm nearly $200,000 for their part in the “cultural transformation” program.

Video clip below the fold.

Musical Interlude

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The tone poem "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughn Williams — music to soothe the soul in these contentious days of the second decade of the Twenty-first Century:


The above piece, which has an interesting history, is based on these lines from the "The Lark Ascending" by George Meredith:

Nincompoopery

(Weekend roundup post.   For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

University Of Wisconsin Teaching Students It’s “Unfair” To Be White

State Dept. Publicized Names, Photos of Stevens' Benghazi Security Detail Before 9/11/12; Suppressed Their Identities Afterward

IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family

Outlaw everything!

Texas 6th graders design flags for a new socialist nation

So God Made A Liberal

Happy Valentine's Day

Enjoy this Oscar-nominated animated short, perfect for Valentine's Day (with a hat tip to FJ):


More information about Paperman

Mark Levin

(Two posts today. Please scroll down)

Listen to Mark Levin HERE (about 13 minutes).

How To Read A Book

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Applies not only to students and worth 10 minutes of your time:

How to read a book you don't want to read from Jim Trelease on Vimeo.

State Of The Union Address 2013

(For other material, please scroll down)

At 9:00 P.M. EST on Tuesday, February 12.

Discuss the speech in the comments section below.

Love Your Library Day

The Scottish version:

Does Your Dwelling Comply? (With Addendum)

(With a hat tip to Finntann of Western Hero for the article linked below)

Obama Administration Says All Americans Must Have 'Healthy Housing':

(CNSNews.com) - Under the broad banner of "health," the federal government not only is telling Americans what to eat, it's also telling us to make our homes safer.

This week, the Obama administration released a "bold new vision for addressing the nation's health and economic burdens caused by preventable hazards associated with the home."

The project has a name: "Advancing Healthy Housing: A Strategy for Action."

"People in the United States spend about 70% of their time in a home," the announcement said.

"Currently, millions of U.S. homes have moderate to severe physical housing problems, including dilapidated structure; roofing problems; heating, plumbing, and electrical deficiencies; water leaks and intrusion; pests; damaged paint; and high radon gas levels. These conditions are associated with a wide range of health issues, including unintentional injuries, respiratory illnesses like asthma and radon-induced lung cancer, lead poisoning, result in lost school days for children, as well as lost productivity in the labor force."...

Read the rest HERE.

About so-called electrical deficiencies....

Sunday Break From Politics

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Ferocious!



Less ferocious:


(hat tip to Amusing Bunni for the above videos)

Nincompoopery

(Weekend roundup post.   For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

Homeland Security has advice for confronting mass murders: scissors

U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan: Taliban can be part of Afghanistan's future

The EPA tried to mandate the use of nonexistent biofuels

VIDEO: How Can Anybody Run A Business With This Going On Outside?

Grandson of Hasan al-Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood Tariq Ramadan says, "Tea Party is Dangerous"

Recommended Reading And Watching

See Doctor [Benjamin] Carson's Obama-Spanking Prescription for America over at The Conservative Lady.  Worth your time to note what the world-famous neurosurgeon has said.

The Inept State Department

by Sam Huntington

By reelecting Barack Obama to a second term, the American people have set into motion more foreign policy disaster. Mr. Obama has decided to replace the incompetent Hillary Clinton with the inept John Kerry. Nowhere was this ineptness more evident than during Kerry’s confirmation hearings, but I suppose to be fair … John Kerry is what we’ve come to expect from Massachusetts politicians. Here’s an example:

Remembering Ronald Reagan On His Birthday

February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004:

Sadly, we shall not see his like again.

Federal Jobs Training

That sucking sound: your taxpayer dollars swirling down the drain.

From the Washington Guardian on January 24, 2013:

The Other September 11th

The Siege of Vienna in 1683:


Some reading HERE at Gates of Vienna.

Meanwhile, dated January 26, 2013, Saharan caravans of cocaine help to fund al-Qaeda in terrorists' North African domain

Retro Break From Politics

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Mary Tyler Moore at the May 2012 SAG awards:


My personal favorite from The Mary Tyler Moore Show:

Nincompoopery

(Weekend roundup post.   For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

Hamas-CAIR: Prosecution of US Muslim Christmas Tree Lighting Bomber 'Alienates Muslims'

Meet the New York teacher thrown out of class for sexually harassing students who's been paid $1 million for doing NOTHING [worked as a full-teacher for only one year]

Reporter: Press Corps Following Obama So Overcome In His Presence They "Lose Their Minds"

Hillary: “Not Enough Money For Security in Benghazi”. But Plenty For Kindles, Art, Mosque Building, Etc.

Speaking Of Dubai...

Previously, I posted the video Slaves of Dubai.

Now comes this bizarre information about Dubai (hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance):