Glee Star Slams Obama
Glee’s Jane Lynch has branded President Obama “a huge disappointment” for not legalizing gay marriage across America. She believes that Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California, should not have taken place because the majority does not have the right to vote on the lives of the minority. Lynch said: “Shouldn’t there be safeguards [...]
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Glee Star Slams Obama
Obama Exalts Foreign Agencies While Criminalizing American Ones
Another play from Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform America.”
Obama gives Interpol free hand in U.S.
Examiner Editorial
December 30, 2009
No presidential statement or White House press briefing was held on it. In fact, all that can be found about it on the official White House Web site is the Dec. 17 announcement and one-paragraph text of President Obama’s Executive Order 12425, with this innocuous headline: “Amending Executive Order 12425 Designating Interpol as a public international organization entitled to enjoy certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities.” In fact, this new directive from Obama may be the most destructive blow ever struck against American constitutional civil liberties. No wonder the White House said as little as possible about it.
There are multiple reasons why this Obama decision is so deeply disturbing. First, the Obama order reverses a 1983 Reagan administration decision in order to grant Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, two key privileges. First, Obama has granted Interpol the ability to operate within the territorial limits of the United States without being subject to the same constitutional restraints that apply to all domestic law enforcement agencies such as the FBI. Second, Obama has exempted Interpol’s domestic facilities — including its office within the U.S. Department of Justice — from search and seizure by U.S. authorities and from disclosure of archived documents in response to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by U.S. citizens. Think very carefully about what you just read: Obama has given an international law enforcement organization that is accountable to no other national authority the ability to operate as it pleases within our own borders, and he has freed it from the most basic measure of official transparency and accountability, the FOIA.
The Examiner has asked for but not yet received from the White House press office an explanation of why the president signed this executive order and who among his advisers was involved in the process leading to his doing so. Unless the White House can provide credible reasons to think otherwise, it seems clear that Executive Order 12425’s consequences could be far-reaching and disastrous. To cite only the most obvious example, giving Interpol free rein to act within this country could subject U.S. military, diplomatic, and intelligence personnel to the prospect of being taken into custody and hauled before the International Criminal Court as “war criminals.”
As National Review Online’s Andy McCarthy put it, the White House must answer these questions: Why should we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies? Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files that will be beyond the scrutiny of Congress, American law enforcement, the media, and the American people?
As a note of clarity, I supplied the link to McCarthy’s National Review article.
A few months ago, Obama was not only demonizing the CIA, but openly threatening to criminalize it over its role in the Bush White House’s policy of enhanced interrogations.
The left showed their true colors in almost immediately demonizing and attacking the CIA.
A Newseek article had this to say about the angry, bitter, defensive mentality of the CIA following Obama’s attacks:
[T]he CIA better change their mission to “CYA,” because our government is not going to stand behind you.”
Those concerns were echoed by a retired undercover operative who still works under contract for the agency (and asked to remain anonymous when discussing internal agency politics). Clandestine Service officers are both demoralized and angry at Obama’s decisions to release the memos and ban future agency use of aggressive interrogation tactics, the former operative said. “It embarrasses our families. You just can’t keep hitting us. Sooner or later we’re going to stop going out and working.” The official added that “a lot of offense was taken” among some Clandestine Service veterans when Obama declared that the interrogation practices the agency employed under Bush were wrong, even though the new Administration would not prosecute operatives for carrying them out.
An AtlasShrugs article described the morale of the CIA following Obama’s demonization crusade as “depressed, sullen, and enraged.”
And you wonder why Newsmax back on April 27 of last year said that Obama had paralyzed the CIA.
Obama now has a system in which we treat Seals like terrorists and terrorists like citizens. Which means our most important military assets are now paralyzed, too.
But not Interpol. Oh, no. They’re an empowered bunch. And as a matter of fact, they are going to now have a free hand launching secret investigations against the few CIA, FBI and military personnel who would “overly aggressively” pursue those nice terrorists who only attack us because we’re so evil.
A Pajama’s Media article serves to demonstrate why this move by Obama is yet another reason that Israel should know that Obama couldn’t care less about them.
Interpol is on the verge of becoming the United Nation’s supercop, to investigate and criminalize any who might stand in the way of the UN’s radically politically correct socialist-redistributionist agenda. And Obama wants to help them succeed in that role by giving them a free hand in the United States.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Gender-flex
[Many thanks to Philo for inviting me to be a contributor to The View- Beeb]
Alternative title: Why “Eeuw” is the Appropriate Response.
The instances of gender-bending fawning by the media over the president are too numerous to count at this point. During the campaign, we had to deal with thrills going up legs, Tim Geithner’s reportedly mutual presidential man-crush, and an erstwhile sports writer gushing about the First Pecs. Endless virtual ink spilled about “cool” has become paradoxically commonplace. Maureen Dowd, in what has to be a serious bout of chemical imbalance (too much Scotch is my diagnosis) blurs-blends-bends the professional-sexual lines further by conflating Obama’s relationship with his Secretary of State with her relationship with her husband. Ugh, a thousand times, ugh.
Finally, or unfortunately, not finally, today we read in NYT that Obama jokes “lovingly” about Peter Orszag, who seems to have enough problems with romantic entanglements and wayward sperm without adding the gooey, inappropriate affections of Ripped Chest-in-Chief to the mix.
All of this is creepy first and foremost because it is indicative of the MSM’s headlong swan-dive into unprofessional and nonobjective coverage of the president and politics. Yes, they are in the tank for Obama: that is not news. What is truly unnerving, however, is the normalization, the cool-ization of inappropriate confluence of professional and personal affections, and the easy transference of language that would normally characterize romantic relationships to relationships that have to be professional.
To understand what is at work here is the under-publicized yearning of the Left to erase boundaries across the sexual spectrum. In Barack Obama they see someone who skirts the edge of metrosexuality, who can be the object of masculine fantasy, even among putative heterosexuals. Among those familiar with the sexual agenda of the Left, Obama sports some interesting bona fides: as an adolescent, his Marxist-Leninist mentor, “Frank,” was Frank Marshall Davis, a prodigious sexual “experimenter” whose autobiography is even described as “hard-core pornographic.” For normal people, exposing a youngster to such a man is a repulsive idea; to the agendized Left, steeped in the doctrine of Freud and Lenin, it is a service, if you’ll pardon the expression. In Obama’s case, the evidence of his autobiography suggests that the motivation of his grandfather, Stanley, to encourage a relationship (platonic, one assumes and hopes) was entirely naive and based on race. Nevertheless, among radicals, Marshall’s name carries considerable caché. Obama makes no bones about the political initiation he received from “Frank.”
Unfortunately, in this administration, one doesn’t have to dig deep to see this agenda at work. The ridiculous “man crush” vocabulary of the mainstream media would be a laughable parody if it weren’t at the service of an agenda to break down social norms and harm children. Ultimately, of course, the whole reason for “sexual liberation” isn’t to rid us of neuroses and usher in a world of obedience to unfettered urges, it’s to erode our strongest interpersonal bonds and the family, the relationship that more than any other, reduces dependency on the state and ensures personal freedom.
More immediately, it should be disturbing if indeed various relationships between the president and his advisors are tinged with emotions more appropriate to hormone-addled teenaged girls. That the press and “insiders” thinks it’s cute or appropriate or attractive to paint this picture is yet another sign of misplaced and unserious priorities.
2010 will bring........
Since 2009 brought me so many wonderful surprises, obstacles, downs and ups, I come into 2010 with open arms for anything and everything that comes to me.
I began working on my new album and I am hoping for even more people to be part of my team. As expected, I faced a lot of naysayers when receiving the R&B Act of the Year award at the Boston Music Awards but I appreciate it in every form. (say what?) Yes I truly mean that I appreciate people who test me…It motivated me to work even harder this year. I am not looking for acceptance from everyone but I WILL gain respect from those who are unsure of the talent I possess.
I have assembled a group of musicians that have become my “band of brothers” and I would do anything for them. They are my family and each and every show is like a reunion. I cant remember a time where Ive had more fun than when I am on stage with them………Three days into the new year I recorded a theme song for JAMN 94.5 for the morning JAM SCAM……Its a small feat some may say but I believe it foreshadowed the year that I will have. I cant wait to share the succeses that may come my way with the family and friends that have been there since day one.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Avatar - StoryLine
In 2154, the RDA corporation is mining Pandora, a lush, Earth-like moon of the planet Polyphemus. Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) heads the mining operation, and it employs former marines for security. The corporation intends to exploit Pandora’s reserves of a valuable mineral called unobtanium. Pandora is inhabited by the Na’vi, a blue-skinned neolithic species of sapient humanoids with feline characteristics. Physically stronger and taller than humans, the Na’vi live in harmony with Nature, worshiping a mother goddess called Eywa.
Humans cannot survive exposure to Pandora’s atmosphere for very long and use oxygen masks. In an attempt to improve relations with the natives, scientists create human-Na’vi hybrids called avatars, controlled by genetically-matched human operators. The scientists also lead schools for the Na’vi to learn English and to interact with the humans. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic former marine, becomes a last-minute replacement for his identical twin brother, a recently-murdered scientist trained to be an avatar operator. Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), the head of the Avatar Program, considers Sully an inadequate replacement for his brother, and relegates him to a bodyguard role.
Jake escorts Augustine and biologist Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore) on an exploratory mission in their avatar forms to make contact with the Na’vi, in order to help establish diplomatic relations to solve the problem of resources and end the constant threat of violence. The group is attacked by a large predator, and Jake becomes separated and lost. Attempting to survive the night in Pandora’s dangerous jungles, he is rescued by Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), a female Na’vi. Neytiri brings Jake to Hometree, which is inhabited by Neytiri’s clan, the Omaticaya. Mo’at (C. C. H. Pounder), the Na’vi shaman and Neytiri’s mother, shows interest in the warrior “Dream-walker” (their term for the Avatars), and instructs her daughter to teach Jake their ways. Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), leader of the security forces for RDA, promises Jake his “real legs” back in exchange for intelligence about the natives and what it will take for them to abandon Hometree, which rests above a large deposit of unobtanium.
Over three months, Jake grows close to Neytiri and the Omaticaya and begins preferring the life he lives through the avatar. Jake’s attachment erodes his loyalty toward RDA’s agenda. He is initiated into the Omaticaya, and he and Neytiri choose each other as mates. Jake’s change of loyalty is revealed when he disables a bulldozer’s cameras as it destroys the tribe’s ‘Tree of Voices’. Col. Quaritch disconnects Jake from his avatar and presents Selfridge and Dr. Augustine with a vlog in which Jake admits that his mission is fruitless; the humans have nothing the Omaticaya desire, and they will never abandon Hometree. Selfridge is convinced that negotiations will fail and orders Hometree’s destruction.
Augustine argues that the destruction of Hometree could affect the vast bio-botanical neural network that all Pandoran organisms are connected to, and Selfridge gives Jake one hour to convince the Na’vi to leave Hometree. When he reveals his mission to the Omaticaya, Neytiri accuses him of betraying them, resulting in Jake and Augustine’s imprisonment. Jake’s time runs out and Quaritch’s forces destroy Hometree, killing Eytucan (Wes Studi), Neytiri’s father and clan chief, and many others. Jake and Augustine are disconnected from their avatars and detained for treason along with Norm. Trudy Chacón (Michelle Rodriguez), a security force pilot who is disgusted by the violence, breaks them out. During their escape Quaritch shoots Augustine. With Augustine dying, Jake turns to the Omaticaya for help. To regain their trust he tames the Toruk, a powerful flying beast that only five Na’vi have ever tamed. Jake flies to the Omaticaya, who have gathered at the sacred Tree of Souls, and pleads with Mo’at to heal Augustine. They attempt to transplant her “soul” into her avatar, but her injuries are too severe.
With the assistance of Neytiri and Tsu’Tey (Laz Alonso), the new leader of the Omaticaya, Jake assembles thousands of Na’vi from other clans. Jake prays to Eywa to intercede on behalf of the Na’vi in the coming battle. Quaritch, noting the rapid mobilization of Na’vi clans, convinces Selfridge to authorize a preemptive strike on the Tree of Souls. Because it is a center of Na’vi religion and culture, its destruction would leave the Na’vi too demoralized to resist further human encroachment.
As the humans attack, the Na’vi fight back but suffer heavy casualties, among them Tsu’Tey and Trudy. When the Na’vi are on the verge of defeat, the Pandoran wildlife suddenly attacks the humans, overwhelming them. Neytiri interprets this as Eywa answering Jake’s prayer. Jake destroys the main bomber before it can reach the Tree of Souls. Quaritch escapes in an AMP (Amplified Mobility Platform) suit, finds the avatar interface pod where Jake’s human body is located and attacks it, exposing Jake to Pandora’s atmosphere. Neytiri kills Quaritch and saves Jake, seeing his human form. With the attack repelled, Jake and Neytiri reaffirm their love.
The humans are expelled from Pandora, while Jake and his closest co-workers remain. Jake is seen wearing the insignia of the Omaticaya leader. The film ends with Jake’s consciousness being transplanted into his Na’vi avatar and his life continuing as a Na’vi.
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Homeland Security Checked Secret Terrorist Database AFTER Underpants Bomb Flight Took Off
Mark Hosenball
The Homeland Security Department unit that reviews lists of U.S.-bound airline passengers for possible terror suspects did consult a classified database that contained information on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab—but only after his plane had left the ground in Amsterdam on its Christmas Day transatlantic flight to Detroit, an Obama administration official has confirmed to NEWSWEEK.
The National Targeting Center, a Virginia-based unit of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection Bureau, consulted TIDE, a classified database maintained by intelligence agencies, after Flight 253 left Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, said the official, and did discover that the databank contained information about how Abdulmutallab’s father had warned the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria that Abdulmutallab might be involved with extremists in Yemen. After discovering the secret database entry, the National Targeting Center issued some kind of unclassified alert to border posts instructing frontline immigration officials in Detroit to put Abdulmutallab through special screening and questioning once he landed in the U.S.
The news that Homeland Security determined after his flight had left Amsterdam that he should be subjected to additional inspection was first reported Thursday in this story by the Los Angeles Times. However, the Times’s story does not disclose precise details of how and where the National Targeting Center found the information that led them to single out Abdulmutallab for additional scrutiny once his flight landed.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
The Stimulus is Working? Severe Unemployment Worsens in Cities
The stimulus is working so well that unemployment hit 10.2 % but is actually higher than reported
How can this be? How can unemployment continue to grow when Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Reid tell us that the stimulus is working? After all, they are saving and creating jobs by the millions. Yeah, the most open, most honest, most ethical group ever is lying through their liberal/progressive teeth.
CNN reports:
The number of U.S. metropolitan areas with jobless rates above 15% increased in November, according to government figures released Tuesday, despite the biggest one-month drop in the national rate in more than three years.
The Labor Department said 17 of 372 metropolitan areas surveyed suffered unemployment rates of at least 15% last month, up from 15 metro areas in October.
How can unemployment increase when the stimulus is creating and saving jobs? Hmm…
Jobless rates were higher than 10% in 125 metropolitan areas in November, up from 123 in October.
Overall, 143 cities in the Labor Department report had unemployment rates above the non-seasonally adjusted national figure of 9.4%, while 229 reported jobless rates below it.
The stimulus is working so well, unemployment was 7.6 % before the stimulus was passed and is now at 10 % after the stimulus was passed. Almost one year later and Americans haven’t seen the promised benefits of Obama’s pork-laden stimulus. However, they continue to claim that it is working as intended. Did they intend it to cause even more job loses and higher unemployment? Judging by all these numbers the answer is Yes.
That’s a good solid B+ in Obama’s mind.
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