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Herman Cain to tea party rally: ‘Stupid people are ruining this country’
You want a businessman for the GOP? Forget Trump--here's the guy. ~Bob. Excerpt: Georgia Republican Herman Cain said today that one of the nation’s most pressing national security threats is China, whose economy is outpacing the United States’ partly because taxes are too high here. Herman Cain, a probable presidential candidate, speaks with the media Saturday, April 16, 2011, during an Iowa China
Eurosceptic Populism Invades Finnish Election
Excerpt: The Finnish general election is on Sunday 17 April. The election results are expected to be announced around midnight. These two items are about the only thing that can be said with certainty before this election. The advance of the anti-immigrant and eurosceptic populist True Finns Party, along with the crisis in the euro countries, has shaken up the country's political patterns. As a rule, the difference in the traditional parties' electoral support has been a few percentage points at the most. Now the opinion polls are showing something quite different. Until now the True Finns have always been classed as a small party with the support of a few percent (about four in the last election). In the run-up to the coming election support for the party is almost as much as 20 percent. The state of affairs between the opinion polls and reality is still a great mystery, but it seems certain that the True Finns will win a large victory of some kind. And that means, above all, that electoral support for the three traditional largest parties - the Centre Party, the National Coalition Party and the Social Democrats - will decrease. In the run-up to Sunday's election it seems like there will be four parties in Finland
Finns Vote as Nationalist Right Poised to Surge
Excerpt: The populist, anti-immigration, right-wing party has largely shaped the campaign debate with its calls to flatly reject EU bailouts to debt-ridden member states and to abandon the euro, a message which resonated with many people from other parties as well. Hari Nordling, a 58-year-old salesman, said he would vote for the Swedish People's Party but largely supported the True Finns' stance on the EU. "All we have here is more and more expenses. We pay more than we get (from the EU). Those countries ... use the money of our taxpayers to help other people," he told AFP shortly after polls opened at 9:00 am (0600 GMT) in a sunny Helsinki Finland
Excerpt: Moscow
Excerpt: Face to face with a Taliban bomber after a high-speed desert chase, Private Lee Stephens acted on instinct and adrenalin. With no time to consider his own safety, he leapt unarmed from his Warrior armoured vehicle, dragged the insurgent from his motorcycle and laid into him with his fists. Gunner Pte Stephens, 30, from Solihull , did not have time to get his gun. He said: ‘I jumped out and I grabbed the geezer. ‘It was mark one left, mark two right fists. That was it. No weapons, just my hands.’ It was only afterwards that the full significance of his heroics became clear. His prey turned out to be the highest-ranking Taliban captured by regular British forces in Afghanistan
Excerpt: How did we end up with a school in the East Midlands where the door opens to release the children into the spring sunshine and out flaps a flock of crows? Young girls my daughter’s age clad from head to toe in inky black, a sight both alien and intimidating. “It’s their own choice,” runs the argument, so it must be tolerated by our liberal society. Exactly what choice does an 11-year-old girl have when her designated school uniform is a magician’s black cloth that conceals her from the world and never brings her back? Think of the paranoia that shroud breeds not just in the child who wears it but also in those who look upon her and turn away in dislike. At what point does tolerating the intolerant become intolerable? Well, the French have had enough. This week, they banned the burka, imposing a fine of £130 [$230] on any woman who appears veiled in public. I like President Sarkozy’s bracing assertion of France
Excerpt: Father Codling caught out one couple because when he asked the bride to repeat the vows, he began reading out train station names and she repeated them. He said: ‘I was asking the bride to repeat the vows and I just knew something wasn’t right. ‘So I started calling out the names of stations on the c2c rail line – Pitsea, Benfleet and Leigh-on-Sea – and the bride started saying them back to me. ‘She clearly couldn’t understand anything I was saying – I don’t think she even knew why she was in the church.’ He said fraudsters were targeting his church because of its growing ethnic diversity and good train links with London
Excerpt: This TV news story from Skokie, Illinois is unusual for an MSM production — it discusses Pakistani marriage practices fairly honestly, and even refers to the possibility that the missing girl may be at risk of — or presumably already dead from — an “honor killing”. If a Pakistani-American family were to do away with a reluctant teenage bride — one who has the temerity to resist marrying one of her cousins in Pakistan — it’s quite plausible that a younger sister would be delegated the task of covering for the family by issuing a public “appeal” … According to Ron Synovitz with the Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, there are reports of more than 4,000 honor killings across Pakistan since 1998. (4,000 dead girls and women in just one country. And a defining silence from feminists. ~Bob.)
Muslim Council: women cannot debate wearing veil
See, it's all about a woman's "choice." ~Bob. Excerpt: The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said that not covering the face is a "shortcoming" and suggested that any Muslims who advocate being uncovered could be guilty of rejecting Islam. In a statement published on its website the MCB, warns: "We advise all Muslims to exercise extreme caution on this issue, since denying any part of Islam may lead to disbelief. "Not practising something enjoined by Allah and his Messenger… is a shortcoming. Denying it is much more serious."
When is a Hate Crime Not a Hate Crime?
Excerpt: Tennesseans may remember the resulting hysteria when a defaced Koran was foundon a doorstep by a Somali Muslim on June 24th, 2005 in Nashville
Coverage of Pew Prison Study Stinks
Excerpt: The Pew study does not suggest saving money on prisons by cutting back on illegal immigration. It proposes cutting back on prisons, period. However, its rationale is questionable. It says, “This high price [spending on prisons and corrections] would be more than defensible had it yielded proportionate improvements in public safety.” This seems to suggest that the money has somehow been wasted. But it then goes on to say, “In fact, the crime rate has been falling since the early 1990s, and is now at its lowest level since 1968. Prison expansion certainly contributed to this trend.” So building more prisons and putting criminals in them has worked. But Pew seems determined to avoid this conclusion by then commenting, “The most sophisticated research gives prison growth credit for one-quarter to one-third of the crime drop during the 1990s.” (emphasis added).
Inshallah
Interesting column from October. ~Bob. Excerpt: Sitting in the lobby of a hotel in Cairo Britain
Excerpt: Over 15,000 domestic workers leave their families to come to Britain
Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue
Gung ho video. ~Bob.
Thank you, soldiers
A thank you to veterans from the third graders of Tussing Elementary, Colonial Heights , Virginia
Fuqing fuel contract
Excerpt: China Jianzhong Nuclear Fuel Co (CJNF), a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC), has recently signed a contract with Fuqing Nuclear Power Co to supply 420 fuel assemblies for the Fuqing nuclear power plant currently under construction in Fujian
VIDEO: "We Will Conquer The Netherlands
Excerpt: On April 4, 2011, Sharia4Holland and Sharia4Belgium posted two videos threatening Geert Wilders. Or rather, according to the mujahid who gave the lecture, his statements were “warnings”. Even so, the example of Theo Van Gogh was invoked repeatedly as one that Mr. Wilders should remember. You’ll notice the striking resemblance between the unnamed Muslim in this video and the infamous Anjem Choudary. Since Sharia4Holland is a franchise of one of Mr. Choudary’s groups — now banned in the UK
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Punjab,-Muslims-attack-a-Christian-village-21324.html
Excerpt: Hundreds of Muslims attacked the Christian village of Khokarki this morning a few miles from the city of Gujranwala (Punjab ), forcing its inhabitants to flee. According to AsiaNews sources, anonymous for security reasons, the attack took place following a dispute between Christian Mushtag gill and some local Muslims, who had accused the man and his son of blasphemy. Mushtaq, 60, and his son, are accused of having desecrated the Koran. The police arrested them yesterday, after complaints of some Muslims who claim to have found torn pages of the Qu’ran in a bag hidden near the home of two Christians. ... According to data from the National Commission for Justice and Peace of the Catholic Church (NCJP), between 1986 to August 2009 at least 964 people were charged with desecrating the Qur’an or defaming the Prophet Muhammad. Among these, 479 were Muslims, 119 Christians, 340 Ahmadis, 14 Hindus and 10 from other religions. It also provides a pretext for attacks, personal vendettas or extra-judicial killings: 33 in all, carried out by individuals or angry crowds.
FBI Counter-Terror Official: Al Qaeda 'Thrives' After Dictators Fall
With the support of NATO. ~Bob. Excerpt: On the same day reports emerged of a new al Qaeda video that praised the revolutions sweeping the Arab world, one the U.S. Tunisia , Egypt , Libya and Yemen
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Tashkent,-punishes-those-who-lend-or-gift-Bibles-to-children-21326.html
Excerpt: Beatings and a strong penalty for the Christian Baptist Galina Shemetova from Tashkent
Cut quickly to stop tax increase http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/cut_quickly_to_stop_tax_increase_RRKU3D7rx17NRByCO8o9EJ
Excerpt: This week President Barack Obama is offering his plan to solve America US
Stupid person helping Obama. ~Bob. Excerpt: An Orange County Republican Party official is under fire after sending an email with an altered photo depicting President Barack Obama as an ape. The email, sent Friday afternoon by party central committee member Marilyn Davenport, depicts a family portrait-style image of apes with Obama's face superimposed on one of them. The photo is accompanied by text that reads, "Now you know why no birth certificate."
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The governing philosophy that leads our President to these sorts of proposals has been identified by many different names. Statism, Marxism, Socialism – the Obama agenda arguably contains elements of all of these philosophies, and more. But rather than trying to connect President Barack Obama to somebody else’s pre-established political philosophy, it’s useful to examine what appear to be the philosophical assumptions with which the President operates. Here are just a couple of the assumptions that currently seem to have engulfed the President:
Also well worth reading: The Anti-Reagan
Excerpt: He campaigns with poetry, he flounders and fails with remarkable frequency in prose. And in his most recent speech regarding the budget, Obama showed that he is — in every way — the opposite of Reagan, and showed why he is so dangerous for America America
The Insurrection Is On, But the Masochists are Running the Government
Excerpt: You can barely see it in the popular press, but the global insurrection is going great guns, despite the fecklessness of the so-called Western world. And it’s going great guns in our enemies’ countries, not just in those of our (at least erstwhile) friends. In Syria Iran , there are ongoing strikes, violent anti-regime demonstrations in the oil regions in the west, adjoining Iraq (think Basra Damascus and Tehran tyrannies are closely linked, which is why the Iranians have been sending some of their top experts to Syria Damascus Middle East . What he reports about our administration’s response should be sickening—but, instead is merely par for the course—to anyone who values individual freedom. Ron P. This might be a good time to buy stock in a company that makes guillotines. ~Bob.)
How a Blog Post Caused the Trial Against Geert Wilders to Be Dismissed & What it Reveals About the Left’s Pathology
Excerpt: The testimony as I found out later was needed because the court, to my opinion, could not imagine that the things Geert Wilders claimed to be in the Koran, were actually in the Koran. It’s hard to say ‘no’ to an old friend who you know for already nearly 40 years. Therefore I said ‘yes’. Indoors it is still allowed to think freely and say many things. I am always a little early, or rather right on time. It’s an old boorish habit of mine born from insecurity. The second guest who arrived was no body less than a man named MR. Tom Schalken. He greets me friendly and starts a conversation about Islam. Where do I know this man from? Suddenly I knew. He was one of the members of the Amsterdam
Top 9 Reasons California
Excerpt: You add up all the riches mentioned above, and you should have a thriving, prosperous heaven-on-earth. But if you add in one more ingredient – a preponderance of leftists – somehow the recipe falls flat. Disastrously flat. Anybody-with-a-brain-in-their-head-is-getting-the-heck-out flat. And that is exactly where we find ourselves today. California is like the most beautiful and gifted girl in the class (of 50 students!), who took up with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks (the Left) and ended up in a dilapidated trailer park puffing on a cigarette and chugging cheap whiskey.
5 Best and 5 Worst Places for Conservatives to Live
Excerpt: Here in the totally Democrat-run state of Illinois
Excerpt: But his bosses at publicly funded Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) in West Yorkshire – the fifth-biggest housing organisation in England
Fellowes, American Stationery Giant, Brought to its Knees in China
Excerpt: There are few paper shredders in the world that can rip an A4 piece of paper into 2,000 pieces, and come with functions like SilentShred, SafeSense, and “100% Jam Proof”—and most that do have the name “Fellowes” printed on top. But consumers may soon be able to buy, say, the deluxe Powershred C-480Cx, without the Fellowes brand, because the company’s entire business in China China
Paul Ryan's America
Excerpt: The budget numbers, the spending numbers, the deficit numbers do not lie. There’s no longer a one-party media quasi-monopoly that makes it as easy to cover up reality as might have been the case 25 years ago. And Paul Ryan will defend himself in a way Robert Bork [at the time of his 1987 Supreme Court nomination] could not. Today’s conservatives will counterpunch in a way the late Reagan administration was unable to. It’s going to be a heck of a battle over the next year and a half. There will be twists and turns, progress and setbacks, differences in strategy and arguments over tactics among conservatives and Republicans. But we are confident in the outcome. Paul Ryan, the leader for now—and perhaps not just for now—of those arrayed against the forces of liberal distortion and slander, was 17 years old when Bork was denied a seat on the Supreme Court. The issues, the people, and the circumstances of the two eras are different. But perhaps those of us who are old enough to have seen close up the character assassination of Bork, and are still young enough to want to help fight those who are attempting to repeat the exercise against Paul Ryan and others, may be allowed to express with a sense of urgency the imperative: not again. No more victories for liberal demagoguery and fear-mongering. This is no longer Edward Kennedy’s America
Mean streak: Obama is not as nice as he looks
Spare us the hypocrisy, Mr. President
Excerpt: If the president is so appalled at the rich and their ability to hire accountants to take advantage of each and every deduction, why doesn't he simply take the standard deduction on his tax return, like most Americans? In 2009, he could have claimed an $11,400 standard deduction for married couples, as well as an additional $7,300 for his two daughters. Admittedly, that's a loss of more than $650,000 in deductions -- but at least he could avoid looking like a hypocrite by advocating one thing for everyone else and doing quite another himself.
Obama: despite law, I can do what I want on czars
Excerpt: In marked contrast to vows as a candidate not to use presidential signing statements as “an end run around Congress,” President Obama released a statement on the just-signed spending bill saying despite the law’s restrictions on “czars,” he will “construe” the law not to interfere with “presidential prerogatives.” The move is an aggressive power play by Obama to gain an added advantage from the deal struck a week ago between the president, Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to narrowly avert government shutdown.
Voice of a Conservative Populist
Excerpt: [President of the Federal Reserve's regional bank in Kansis City , MO Midwest , for several reasons. One is that food prices are increasing rapidly because the Chinese, Indians, Brazilians and others in emerging markets are eating more calories and more of them in meat produced by turning cereals into animal feed. But another reason is that extremely low interest rates and the rapid expansion of the money supply have caused lots of money to slosh around, seeking assets that will produce higher returns. The Fed's policy seems designed to pursue a very elastic interpretation of its mandate -- to manipulate the stock market. Since Bernanke's speech at Jackson Hole , Wyo.
D.C. Voting Rights Proponents' Faith in Obama Sinks
Excerpt: Yet what distinguished Obama from his predecessors was the anticipation his arrival generated. In the past week, the same people who saw hope in Obama’s jaunts across the city just before his inauguration — remember that half-smoke he ate at Ben’s Chili Bowl? — have excoriated him for relegating the District to the status of bargaining chip in a broader budget game with House leaders. “John, I’ll give you D.C. abortion,” Obama reportedly told House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) before reaching a deal, effectively trading away the city’s right to fund abortions for low income women. The District’s political leadership was infuriated.
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you have some great resources here. it is funny to see the political climate is as hostile as here in the uk. it is a depressing time to be in business but even worse if you are young. but it will pass.
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