Posted by: Quickjustice in Untagged on
Aug 11, 2010
From
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/08/confirmed-ge-chief-immelt-scolded-nbc-reporters-for-reporting-negatively-on-obama/
"This is criminal…
FOX Business Channel’s Charles Gasparino told Bill O’Reilly tonight that GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt gathered the CNBC reporters together in early 2009 and scolded them for reporting negatively on Barack Obama. GE owns 80% of NBC Universal."
Posted by: Quickjustice in Untagged on
Aug 10, 2010
The Obama Administration is working out the details of its $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the BP oil spill with BP. BP, of course, already had contributed heavily to the Obama election campaign, and they are "Friends of Barack". So the compensation fund, which end runs the U.S. legal system, has to be viewed with extreme concern. I believe Ken Feinberg to be a person of integrity, but I don't believe he's a replacement for the U.S. legal system. After all, Article III and the Seventh Amendment still are in the U.S. Constitution.
Of course, the trial lawyers who have been enthusiastic supporters of the Obama Administration have to be apoplectic with rage. To put it bluntly, President Obama has cut them out.
Posted by: Herb London in Untagged on
Aug 9, 2010
September 11 lives for downtown residents of New York. The World Trade Center site is a constant reminder of human malevolence. It also speaks to political incompetence, of politicians compromised by double dealing and arrogance.
While the site shows signs of rebirth and a tribute will be built to remind Americans of the 2800 innocent people who lost their lives one crystal clear morning in September, an insult deep and penetrating is being launched two blocks away on Park Place with the building of a mosque that will overlook the World Trade Center site.
Mayor Bloomberg and the Downtown Community Board (by a vote of 29 to 1) approved of this religious center citing freedom of religion arguments. What they overlook, however, is far more persuasive then First Amendment defenses.
Freedom of religion like any freedom is not absolute; freedom is defined by limitations. Indians are not free to use peyote indiscriminately in religious services since drug use violates the law of the land. And religion that promotes hate or is an incitement to violence should be and can be curbed.
In the case of the downtown mosque several questions remain unanswered. If a mosque can be built anywhere, why is it being constructed adjacent to the former World Trade Center? Although denials abound, the title of the mosque, Cordoba House reveals a great deal. In Cordoba, Muslims built a mosque on a Catholic church as a symbol of their triumph in Spain. That symbolism may be evident at the New York site as well.
Posted by: Quickjustice in Untagged on
Aug 9, 2010
From
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/09/muslim-columnists-yes-the-ground-zero-mosque-is-a-deliberate-provocation/
Posted by: Quickjustice in Untagged on
Aug 9, 2010
Given the news that the Muslim organization that has been soliciting approvals for construction of a mosque at Ground Zero doesn't own the land upon which the mosque is to be located, is this proposal that has provoked national controversy a Muslim hoax?
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Posted by: Harold Paez in Untagged on
Aug 8, 2010
Paez For Assembly Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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POLITICS AS USUAL: PART DEUX, WHEREIN ASSEMBLYWOMAN AUDREY PHEFFER DONS THE MANTLE OF THE "INDEPENDENCE" PARTY CANDIDATE.
Dr. Harold Paez, Republican/Conservative candidate for State Assembly District 23 releases announcement on learning of the Independence Party's intention to support Audrey Pheffer this year despite having endorsed her Republican/Conservative opponents in the 2006 and 2008 Assembly races. He makes an appeal to the Independence party membership to see through the political ploys and vote their conscience...
Posted by: GOPNYC in Untagged on
Aug 7, 2010
In a statement that can only be deemed "despicable", given its source, the Chair of the Democratic Caucus Immigration Task Force today called challenges to birthright citizenship "an attack on the unborn." This from a leader of the party that champions abortion on demand at any point up to the end of the second trimester, irrespective of the viability of the child.
We have truly stepped through the looking glass. We are now in a land where words and phrases mean whatever the speaker intends them to mean, irrespective of their plain meaning. And some have left the realm of common human decency to advance their cause.
Imagine all the medical advances that have occurred since 1973 when the Supreme Court decided to arbitrarily set the term for "viability" of an unborn child at the end of the second trimester. Yet Democrats hold to this arbitrary date as though set in stone; as though a day before or after makes one wit of difference in viability in a genuine "attack on the unborn"....
Posted by: Mark Alesse in Untagged on
Aug 7, 2010
Why is Mayor Bloomberg so wrong about building a mosque in the shadow of the WTC? I'm convinced it is because at the top echelons of the Manhattan elite, conformity to certain opinions shackles the mind every bit as much as rank ignorance does.
As a consequence of his immense wealth he is sometimes independent and can surprise you, but not as often as one would wish and this is a perfect example of where he is a rank disappointment. In this case, Bloomberg's acting every bit the part of the limousine-Liberal and his independence has left him far from the views of the right-thinking majority of the people of NY and the nation.
In one sense, you have to be impressed with the critics of the mosque for their composure during this episode. Even they have been scrupulous about their rhetoric concerning the matter, which is probably to the good in this case, it being Manhattan (where everyone learns what to think from the New York Times).
I only wish that they'd been able to meet with the Mayor to open his eyes to the subtler aspect of this mosque, which is its symbolic power to stir masses of muslims against us. These people think and act Biblically and see every small victory in terms of the eschaton, which they firmly (if idiotically) believe is immanent and can even be accelerated by their acts of terror.
Bloomberg might have been impressed by such an argument, had he been presented it, instead he sees all opposition as a simple matter of bigotry (in part because he is an elitist, and also because in all probability he is not much acquainted with religious history). He should, by all rights, be sufficiently well-read to understand these things, but even our best politicians are intellectually pretty pedestrian, and when you get down to it he's just a businessman-billionaire, -- and not a thinker.
I know that this mosque will attract many of the worst elements in the Islamic community who will revel in being in the shadow of the towers they took down. It will be a thrill for them to be at the heart of ground zero as they preach hate and in all probability, plot more terror. It is this that Bloomberg should consider when he speaks out in favor of a mosque.
However, there is at least one group that could put a halt to this ill-conceived idea, and that is the construction unions. The laborers, iron workers, and building trade unions are no friends of the mosque, you can be sure, and they are fully capable of slowing progress on the building to a standstill, and there isn't a damn thing anyone could do about it.
They can't be "ordered" to work faster, or to deliver better concrete, or to stop the "mishaps" from happening on the job. If they get it in their minds that this Mosque isn't going up in the shadow of the WTC, I guarantee you that it won't go up. I'm one who thinks they would be doing the City and the nation a great service if they made stopping this project a priority.
Posted by: The Editors in Untagged on
Aug 6, 2010
From an email sent yesterday...
Dear Friends,
Senator Craig Johnson must loathe Long Island commuters. How else do you explain his raising fares and eliminating your trains and buses — at your expense!
The Craig Johnson MTA Payroll Tax was just the start
On Long Island, we've become accustomed to the MTA picking our pockets, increasing our fares and cutting our service.
But this year, Craig Johnson added insult to injury as he cast the deciding vote to impose an onerous MTA payroll tax on all Nassau County businesses, schools and charities. Together, we cough up another $100 million to keep the dysfunctional and gluttonous MTA afloat — whether we ride or not. The plan was so outrageous that people from around the state have joined Nassau in suing the MTA!
Now, Johnson has the nerve to stand idly by as the MTA announces plans to:...
Posted by: Daniel Peterson in Untagged on
Aug 6, 2010
The media loves a story, especially when it involves politicians being bad. The standard, though, is that if it's a Democrat you write up a story while conveniently omitting the political party of who is involved, but when it is a Republican, you make sure your readers see "REPUBLICAN" by the name being mentioned.
With the wave or reality TV and the degrading of society, reporters and journalists go out of their way to find dirt on anyone. There was a time when certain matters were just left unsaid. Many reporters knew full well that President Kennedy was sneaking some side action from his wife, but it was not something you would write about. Sports players who would be seen with someone other than their lawful wedded wife would just look at a reporter and the reporter would turn away as if nothing was seen.
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