Bruce Cunningham has an informative post over at American Thinker. In "Department of Justice Ditches Red, White, and Blue Stars and Stripes", Cunningham highlights some changes at the Department of Justice’s website:

                                                                                                                                                                                        

Well, how interesting! It seems the U.S. Department of Justice has changed its website. Gone are the colorful red, white and blue U.S. flag decorations on the page,

 

 

 

replaced by stark black and white.

 

 

And at the top of the page, is a rather interesting quote: "The common law is the will of mankind, issuing from the life of the people."

 

Catchy, huh? Just one tiny little (too small to be relevant obviously) point -- the quote is from     C. Wilfred Jenks, who in the 1930's was a leading proponent of the "international law" movement, which had as its goal to impose a global common law and which backed ‘global workers' rights.'

 

Call it Marxism, call it Progressivism, call it Socialism -- under any of those names it definitely makes the DOJ look corrupt in their sleek, new black website with Marxist accessories to match.

 

See for yourself: http://www.justice.gov/

 

How very interesting that 'they' couldn't find a nice quote from one of our Founders. People, we have lost our Republic. We need to get it back ASAP.

 

Opponents of the Ground Zero mega-mosque have been branded racists and bigots and you name it. Now, news is coming out about the executive developing the property, who was a waiter from 1997-2001. (The old adage about people, who live in glass houses, holds true.)

In 2002, Sharif El-Gamal (Photo, R) changed his occupation and became a commercial real estate broker. The waiter-turned-developer started his own company, Soho Properties, in 2003.  A few more years passed, and then in 2007, he began acquiring apartment buildings in Harlem and Washington Heights.

Still, don’t get the idea that El-Gamal is a nose to the grindstone kind of guy. In fact, the Cardoba House- renamed- Park51 developer has a history with law enforcement. James Fanelli told that interesting story in the New York Daily News.

 The x-ray image shown on the left was what initially caught my attention. It appeared next to a Reuters story. The hand belongs to 49 year-old L.T. Ariyawathi, who just returned to Sri Lanka after working for five months as a maid in Saudi Arabia. In her sworn testimony, she has alleged that a Saudi couple tortured her after she complained about having too heavy a workload. The former Saudi maid says her Arab employers hammered 24 nails into her hands, legs and forehead. (If you look close at the x-ray of her hand, you can see two of them.)

The Reuters story points out that nearly 2 million Sri Lankans sought employment overseas last year and around 1.4 million (mostly maids) were employed in the Middle East. Many of them have complained of physical abuse or harassment. You can read the Reuter’s story here: http://www.reuters.com/article/comments/idUSTRE67P17420100826

The Empire State Bldg still declined to celebrate my birthday by honoring a woman and likewise, there was little made of our historic moment in time when we won [not given] the right to vote.

I found the excerpt below, on Echidne: a rather short and sad remembrance, but the one comment chilled me.  Jennifer wrote," Yes.  What feels natural to us is not so because it is biologically correct, or good in the eyes of a god.  What feels natural is just that which we have become used to.  So it is with women's oppression."

What a fertile field we have for Sharia laws to take root in.

Women's equality day [excerpt]

...I'm rolling on the floor, laughing aloud with the silliness of that title. Because it IS a silly one. Yes, I know all about the propaganda value of Special Days For Important Events and so on.

On the fourth hand, This opinion piece about how the vote was won reminds us of the struggle that went on.

On the eve of former president Bill Clinton’s 64th birthday, Bill and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rocked-it-baby-all-night long under the tent at the annual “Summer” party hosted by Brooke and Dan Neidich at their estate in East Hampton’s private Georgica Association. The community was once the summer retreat of New England ministers, academics, and their families — and is still the last, best (albeit unaffordable) relic of the small township that once was East Hampton.

Before dancing with his wife, the former president, still as passionate about saving the world as a Yale undergrad, engaged in a spirited conversation about the need for focus on “micro-economics — not macro economics. Rahm is great on micro,” he said, referring to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, “But he’s tied up on politics.”

“Forgive me for saying so,” one styleite-ish party-goer interjected, “but in spite of your reputation, I notice there are more men waiting to talk to you than women.”

 H/T Dana Loesch

Last Sunday, there was a counter protest to the protest against the Mega Mosque at Ground Zero, and there was an ugly episode. The episode begs the question: Is something racist and bigoted only when Far-Left Progressives and their lapdog media say so? I guess that’s the case, because I didn’t see this video in the MSM:

By Robert Kuttner over at Huffington Post

On Friday, the government moved to seize and temporarily shutter one of the truly heroic banking institutions of this dismal era for American finance -- ShoreBank of Chicago. More precisely, ShoreBank of Barack Obama's old neighborhood.

Over the years, since its founding in 1973, ShoreBank had enabled thousands of moderate income residents to become homeowners, and thousands of small businesses to get credit, without ever playing the subprime game or making a single predatory loan. It was a model bank that earned a modest profit by delivering on a social mission.

In the end, ShoreBank succumbed to the aftermath of a financial crisis made on Wall Street. Yet while the Treasury Department found hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue giant Wall Street institutions, it refused to come up with the $75 million for which ShoreBank qualified under the TARP program.

Our Progressive “Journolist”  types  haven’t the grace to  disappear, despite the scandal that they conspired to shove Obama down our throats by refusing to tell the truth as they plotted their false narrative to ensure his presidency.  While  Obama works to unseat Jimmy Carter as the worst President evah after only 19 months in office, our media is currently pushing the meme that all Muslims are beautiful, honest, faithful and true, while Americans are racist and xenophobic and blah, blah, blah, blahblah. Our media types obviously don’t read the real news, because they are too busy making it up to fit their elitist worldview. 

                                               I found this video on YouTube that's very disturbing....

                         The video upset her, so we investigated. There's "Rules"....

An extension of unemployment benefits for millions of jobless Americans overcame a Republican filibuster within the Senate on July 20th. Since this has been stalled since May, around 2 million Americans no longer had their job benefits. The U.S. unemployment rate has been at 9.5 percent for a long time now. There are five times more people looking for work than there are accessible jobs. Longer unemployment benefits could stimulate the economy according Democrats. If you ask republicans, they say nobody will want to search for work with the benefits.

Unemployment benefits to help the economy

$ 310 a week is, as outlined by the Congressional Budget Office, is the average jobless benefit and will help the economy. Unemployment benefits will end up going towards things like rent where it is a basic necessity. The CBO reports that 70 cent sis put into $ 1.90 for every dollar spent on benefits to help the economy.

Divide in politics stronger than ever

I was thinking of my mother's 90th birthday today.  She was born the day after.  Two days before, she would not have had the vote.

The 19th Amendment

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

H/T to Sharon ABC News

Employers appear to be laying off workers again as the economic recovery weakens. The number of people applying for unemployment benefits reached the half-million mark last week for the first time since November.

It was the third straight week that first-time jobless claims rose. The upward trend suggests the private sector may report a net loss of jobs in August for the first time this year.

Initial claims rose by 12,000 last week to 500,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.  More..

I'm not sure at all.  I do know I can't log in most of the time and by the lack of activity I have to assume others are having the same issues.  One user also pointed out problems with the comment editor not showing a text area.

So, this all started with an upgrade I applied to Drupal which fixed a backend issue I was having.  So much for upgrades.

Time is short in the hampster cage, due to work and fun obligations, but I will try my dangdest to move the site backwards over the next few days.  If that doesn't work, I just may abandon Drupal and move back to Wordpress.

any Drupal experts out there?

In the meantime;  enjoy summer.

News Corp. gave $1 Million to the Republican Governor's Association.

From Politico

News Corp., which owns Fox News and the New York Post, gave $1 million to Haley Barbour's Republican Governors Association this year, according to the RGA's most recent filing.

The company's media outlets play politics more openly than most, but the huge contribution to a party committee is a new step toward an open identification between Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and the GOP. The company's highest-ranking Democratic executive, Peter Chernin, recently departed.

The $1 million contribution this June 24 was first reported by Bloomberg and appears on the RGA's July 15 filing with the Internal Revenue Service.

The group's other seven-figure donor is the libertarian billionaire David Koch.

UPDATE: News Corp. Spokesman Jack Horner emails, "News Corporation believes in the power of free markets, and the RGA’s pro-business agenda supports our priorities at this most critical time for our economy."

Tthe giant check to the RGA dwarfs low four-figure checks from Fox's PAC to Democrats including Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer.

The POTUS needs to stop rewriting American history and stick to the truth. In his recent Ramadan Message, President Obama said Ramadan rituals:

 "remind us of the principles that we hold in common and Islam's role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. And here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country."

Some people, who remember his bow to the Saudi king, are saying that President Obama took another deep bow to Islam with the above comment. They have a point. (It's too bad he said it in the White House.)

Obama’s statement is an example of a deeply flawed, revisionist view of American history. More to the point, it is also an untrue depiction of Islam, as this segment from a Washington Times editorial so clearly points out:

That Islam has had a major role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings may come as a surprise to Muslim women. Young Afghan girls who are having acid thrown in their faces on the way to school might want to offer their perspectives. That Islam is "known" for diversity and racial equality is also a bit of a reach. This certainly does not refer to religious diversity, which is nonexistent in many Muslim-majority states. This is a plaudit better reserved for a speech at the opening of a synagogue in Mecca.

 

Recent research shows that just having women around, makes men healthier.

(These researchers could have saved themselves the trouble by just asking any woman, since most of us figure out their "finding" at an early age.)

A Harvard research team has found that men who reach sexual maturity in an environment with few available women are at risk of dying sooner. The Harvard study points out that its finding may have important public health implications in countries where sex ratios are skewed against women.

(Better send a copy to China and India, telling both emerging economies that the “stronger sex” can't do it alone.) 

The Economist tells the story of the Harvard research led by Nicholas Christakes in its August Issue:

The mere presence of women seems to bring health benefits to men.  

Jackie is only 10, but her voice makes people stop in their tracks. She sings opera & her video currently has 231,699  4,496,331 hits on YouTube.  

                                                                     HAVE YOU HEARD JACKIE EVANCHO?

If ever there was a group that thrives on the misogyny in Islamic Sharia Law, it is the Taliban. Evidence of this is everywhere, when people bother to look for it.

If you come to Partizane regularly, you have read New Hampster's recent story of the young Afghan woman, married off by her father at the age of 10 to a pedophile. The love story ended with the girl losing her nose and part of her ears, because she dared to save herself from her constant state of torturous domestic abuse.

As disturbing as Bibi Aisha’s story is to any rational human being, there are many more horrific examples of the Taliban’s inhumane treatment of women. Its hatred of females has spurred sinister pathological behavior that has made the lives of Afghan women a living hell. (The Taliban says it’s simply following Islam.)

From Huffington Post

One more glass ceiling appears to have been broken as Long becomes the first woman to lead one of our intelligence agencies.

"Letitia A. Long is being elevated Monday to director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in a ceremony at the agency's half-built, high-tech campus in Springfield, Va.

Women represent 38 percent of total intelligence work force, according to Wendy Morigi, spokeswoman for the Director of National Intelligence. In six most prominent agencies, 27 percent of senior intelligence positions are held by women."

More here From Huffington Post

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Chicago Tribune readers received some great news concerning a current story. The focus is on Bill Ayers (co-founder of the Weather Underground, responsible during the late 60s and early 70s for a number of bombings, including one in a Pentagon bathroom).

              Ayers set to retire from UIC by Duaa Eldeib, Tribune reporter

For leaders at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the planned retirement from teaching of former Vietnam War-era radical William Ayers will be a great loss.

 

Never mind that, in hopes of quelling a political storm two years ago, UIC was compelled to release more than 1,000 files detailing the activities of an education reform group that brought together Ayers and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.

 

Or that the university was inundated with questions in 2001 after the release of Ayers' memoir, "Fugitive Days," where he wrote about helping with bombings of the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and other government sites.

 

While controversial and even hated by some, Ayers, who has served as an education professor at UIC since 1987, is celebrated on campus for his academic contributions, particularly in the area of school reforms, said UIC education Dean Vicki Chou. 

You can read the rest of this story, including what Chou has to say about her fellow Progressive by following this link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-bill-ayers-retiring-20100805,0,157594.story

Just the formality of the swearing in, but she is confirmed.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/05/kagan.supreme.court/index.html?hp...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-05/kagan-is-confirmed-by-senate-as...

I do believe it's true. 

Watch this great video, and in the words of Uppity, "...go to youtube and tell TEAMHILLARY what a great job they did on this video."  

 www.youtube.com/watch

Then visit here and take the Should Hillary Run poll.

teamhillaryclinton.com/

Someone told me
It's all happening at the zoo.
I do believe it,
I do believe it's true.

Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Whoooa. Mmmmm.

It's a light and tumble journey
From the East Side to the park;
Just a fine and fancy ramble
To the zoo.

But you can take the crosstown bus
If it's raining or it's cold,
And the animals will love it
If you do.
If you do.

Something tells me
It's all happening at the zoo.
I do believe it,
I do believe it's true.

Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Whoooa. Mmmmm.

The monkeys stand for honesty,
Giraffes are insincere,
And the elephants are kindly but
They're dumb.
Orangutans are skeptical
Of changes in their cages,
And the zookeeper is very fond of rum.

Like many of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson was an eloquent man. A keen intellect and a voracious reader, he didn’t need others to clarify his thoughts. Two of his better known comments deal with the subject of government intrusion into the private lives of citizens, and they leave no doubt of where he stood on the matter:

“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. “

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." 

 Jefferson had a fear of big government, because he valued his freedom. Therefore, he worked with other patriots to ensure the limitations of our Federal Government with a system of checks and balance. Unfortunately, too many members of our current  Congress (sitting on both sides of the aisle) have a less than Jeffersonian understanding of their role.

I'd like to wish the happy couple a long and peaceful love affair.  A love affair that continues into their elder years.

May they experience the love my parents still feel to this day as they kiss goodnight, twice, every night of their lives.  93 and 90 they are yet their love is no less than at 20.

Good luck Chelsea and Marc.