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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

 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:

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"....

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.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 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

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.

Last time I checked it had 216,662 views 233,119 views.

 Initial Story:

Just days after the NAACP attached allegations of racism to Tea Party members, a video from a NAACP Freedom Fund banquet was posted at BigGovernment.com. The video shows an Agriculture Department official named Shirley Sherrod, entertaining her NAACP audience with a personal story of how she withheld help from a white farmer, who faced bankruptcy. The March 27th video has forced her resignation.

In the clip, Sherrod (Georgia’s Director of Rural Development) claims the white farmer took a long time showing he was "superior" to her:

"He had to come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him. I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land -- so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough."

Her NAACP audience laughed and applauded as she described how she decided the white farmer’s future. You can see it here at Partizane and draw your own conclusions:

After Barack Obama was elected US Senator from Illinois, one of his first political acts on the world stage was to get on a plane to Kenya and campaign for his cousin Raila Odinga in that country’s 2007 presidential election. (The photo on the left shows the POTUS with Odinga.)

Obama mounted political platforms with Odinga throughout Kenya and spoke on his cousin’s behalf. For his part, Raila Odinga promised to implement strict Islamic Sharia law within a new Constitution, if he received the Muslim vote in the predominantly Christian country. Despite Obama’s efforts, Raila Odinga did not win that election.

As a result of that loss, Odinga’s supporters followed Alinsky methods, and violent unrest broke out in the country. They shocked the civilized world when they locked Christians in a church, torched it, and allowed their victims (mostly women and children) to burn to death. The marauders killed hundreds and many Kenyans left their homes to escape the violence. Kenyan women and children as young as two were raped by gangs of thugs that hoped their savage acts would disgrace their victims' families.

HT Cassy Fiano 

I found this at http://www.cassyfiano.com/2010/07/racism-test

 Do You Like Him Any Better Now?

There was evidence that the New Black Panther Party intimidated voters on Election Day in November, 2008. Many Americans can still remember the video of the two NBPP members, dressed in military style para uniforms outside a polling place near downtown Philadelphia.

Former civil rights lawyer Bartle Bull, who is publisher of the Village Voice, calls the NBBP intimidation in Philly "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen." Mr. Bull happened to be there that day, along with others who witnessed the two Black Panthers intimidate voters. One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters. They say both men made racial threats. Bull says he heard one yell: "You are about to be ruled by the black man, Cracker!" 

Pakistani police officer Jamshed Masih was transferred about 30 miles from his home district to Jhelum in Islamabad. The poor officer’s life will never be the same after that simple move. His loving wife, two daughters, and two young sons were murdered shortly after moving into their rented home. (Area police refuse to file a murder complaint, because they fear the religious leader at the center of the crime.)

According to locals, religious leader Maulana Mahfooz Khan was made aware of the new neighbors by members of his mosque, who supported religious custom as it was taught to them:

“We cannot allow these non-Muslims to live here; they will be a bad influence on our children.”

So, according to the officer, Khan called him to the local mosque and told him to pack up and leave:

“You must leave with your family, no non-Muslim has ever been allowed to live in this colony – we want to keep our colony safe from scum.”

I’ve been trolling, and one site led to another, and then to many others last night, until I ended up at the Americans for Tax Reform website. (Yikes! It was full of bad news.)

You and I will be paying more in taxes next year, despite Obama’s promise not to raise them on the middle class or families making less than $250,000. (As a reminder that he promised not to increase our taxes, I will refer to the tax hikes in this post as NObamataxes.) The ATR website has a great graphic of the Socialist in the White House and his empty promise, so I’ve imported it and posted it below for a memory bump:

According to ATR, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect in less than six months. The tax hikes will hit young singles, families, small businesses, and the elderly. In short, if you are a breathing American in 2011, chances are you will be impacted by NObamataxes in three great waves, starting on January 1, 2011. 

What is jihad? We saw the results of it on 9/11, and we hear the term all the time. As we near the 9th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center, can you clearly define what jihad is? Or, has the political correctness of the current inhabitant of the Oval Office confused you?

Since those who fight jihad seek to annihilate us and our way of life, it’s important that all of us, who live in America's free democratic society, understand what jihad is. If that means kicking PC to the curb, so be it. (In the final analysis, multiculturalism only works when everyone is on the same page and wants to get along.)

In Islam, the relationship of Muslims to non-Muslims is set in the context of a war. Thus, jihad is an Islamic war of Muslims against non-Muslims. There are verses in the Qur'an and in the Islamic hadiths (the written traditions of Muhammad in the books of Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, and others) that deal with clarifying the concept of jihad. Since the term is explained in Islamic religious books, some contend that a theological base underlies jihad; it is for that reason that they call jihad a “holy war.”

Such a response is only half an answer, because the purpose of jihad is not directly to spread the Islamic religion. Jihad is meant to extend sovereign Muslim power; once a country is conquered than the faith follows the flag. Jihad is about Muslim conquest. Jihad is the compulsory, communal effort to expand the territories ruled by Muslims at the expense of territories ruled by non-Muslims.

If you look at jihad in terms of conquest, you can understand why many people argue Islam is a socio-political movement that is not confined to religion. They argue that it seeks to control all aspects of society. They argue that it seeks to control all aspects of an individual’s life. Those arguments have merit.

 The Globe has a new issue with an interesting cover:

According to an article in the recent issue of The Globe:

“A former Hawaii records official is sending shock waves through Washington, D.C., by revealing there is absolutely no birth certificate for Barack Obama.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Millions of barrels of oil have leaked into our Gulf waters for over seventy days, wrecking havoc on natural habitats and the coastal ecosystem, especially the beautiful living creatures who call it home. For all his bravo and big talk, POTUS #44 is showing himself to be even less effective than POTUS #43, in meeting the challenges of a national disaster. Despite Katrina, GW will always have his iconic image at Ground Zero engraved in our collective memories. Obama, on the other hand, has nothing in his entire history to make us believe he feels our pain.

God help us. (What terrible trick of fortune took us from bad to worse?)

Under Obama’s control, our Federal Government is too bloated; it is stuck in the mire of bureaucracy. Oil skimmers that were sent to the Gulf were sidelined, because they didn’t meet EPA standards, or union hiring rules, or the Jones Act. It seems the government is looking for any excuse not to do its job.

The State Department was quick to make a definitive comment, deriding Israel during the Turkish Terrorist Flotilla incident. Yet, to save the Gulf, it can’t get its act together to work with foreign governments that have volunteered to help us. The Dems rammed TARP, Obamacare, and their collective pay raise through Congress, but they can’t seem to come up with a strategy to “plug the damn hole.”

 During his 17 months in office, Barack Obama has morphed from an upbeat candidate into a POTUS who delivers little of value, at the expense of both our fiscal solvency and our American way of life. Even more disconcerting, Obama has become a President, who treats foreign nationals and their interests with more respect than he treats American citizens and issues directly related to the future viability of this country. We cannot forget his bow in front of the Saudi King and his embrace of Hugo Chavez.

We compare it to his offensive lack of attention to Governor Bobby Jindal’s requests for Louisiana during the current environmental disaster. His stance on illegal immigration in Arizona and his treatment of Janet Brewer is just more of the same. When he disses them, he disses those who voted for them, and by extension all the rest of us living in this democracy. The man, who touted his early Indonesian education, doesn’t seem to have an iota of respect for representative government and by extension the citizens he leads. 

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (shown left, closest to story) is on trial in Chicago. Blagojevich has pleaded not guilty to scheming to sell or trade the appointment to Obama's old US Senate seat. He has also pleaded not guilty to plotting to launch a racketeering scheme. If convicted, he could face up to $6 million in fines and a sentence of 415 years in prison.

John Harris (Far-left photo)  was Blagojevich’s former chief of staff. Harris testified last week in the former governor’s corruption trial. What he said does not reflect well on the President of the United States.

Harris testified that three days after the Nov. 4, 2008 Presidential Election, Blagojevich told him that he felt confident Obama knew he wanted to swap perks. Harris said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich’s plot to win himself a presidential Cabinet post, in exchange for appointing Valerie Jarrett to the U.S. Senate. According to an article in the Chicago Sun Times, Harris had much to share during his testimony:

If you're like me, you liked it much better when the only time you thought about a double dip was during a trip to an ice cream parlor. Unfortunately, if you google “double dip” nowadays, you’ll find too many stories about a two-pronged recession. (Yikes! Wasn’t one dip enough?) 

The Obama administration has decided to ignore that the jobless rate is stuck in the 10% range and that weekly jobless claims are rising, even though consumer prices are falling. Our POTUS even sent G20 leaders a letter recently, informing them that a double dip recession is out of the question.

While Obama is busy writing letters, some of us are remembering his hard stance toward the Horizon oil rig disaster. (The oil keeps leaking, and nobody has plugged the “damn hole” as I write.) With that in mind, it seems like a good idea to look at what someone with a different economic message is saying.