December 31, 2011

Marine Sgt. Says War Policy Misguided

[From article]
"The clear evidence only suggests groups as defined by those who willingly strap on bombs and those who do not. Unfortunately, we know that from within the second group comes the financial and spiritual support for the first.
Suggesting you can parse these two and do harm to one while garnering support for said harm from the “moderates” simply misses the truth about religion – all religion!
Case in point: there has been a healthy division between the Catholic Church and the so-called Reformed Church movement since the 16th century. There are understandings of certain doctrines in the New Testament which both adhere to that are, in some cases, radically different. Bridging these differences with the hope of bringing these two groups of worshipers together has proven to be an insurmountable task with both sides declaring the other is filled with the lost. However, if you bring in a piece of legislation that appears to attack Christianity or core understandings of the beginning of life or freedom of religion issues, these two seemingly polar opposite, doctrinally divided groups, come together as brothers."

http://bigpeace.com/jbernard/2011/12/29/the-united-states-government-is-being-willfuly-ignorant-in-the-current-middle-eastern-war/

The United States Government’s Willful Ignorance Is Costing Soldiers’ Lives
Posted by John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),
Dec 29th 2011 at 5:23 pm

December 30, 2011

Financial Problems Lurk As They Did In 1932

[From article]
"the European elite have installed compliant technocratic governments in Greece and Italy, and with the markets now putting pressure on France, few observers can be optimistic that the Continent can avoid a total meltdown.
[. . .]
For in many ways, the 12 months between the end of 1931 and the beginning of 1933 were the tipping point between democracy and tyranny, the moment when the world plunged from an uneasy peace towards hatred and bloodshed.
[. . .]
In the Soviet Union in 1932, meanwhile, Stalin’s reign of terror was intensifying. With dissent crushed by the all-powerful Communist Party, his state-sponsored collectivisation of the Ukrainian farms saw a staggering 6 million die in one of the worst famines in history.
By these standards, the autocratic Vladimir Putin looks almost cuddly.
[. . .]
it would be easy to sit back and reassure ourselves that the worst could never happen again. But that, of course, was what people told each other in 1932, too."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080534/Will-2012-new-Dark-Age.html

The spectre of 1932: How a loss of faith in politicians and democracy could make 2012 the most frightening year in living memory
By Dominic Sandbrook
Daily Mail (UK)
Last updated at 11:13 PM on 30th December 2011

Ban On Gifts to Doctors By Drug Cos. Debated

This article does not discuss the practice of influencing academic researchers who develop drugs for the industry. Some researchers accepted millions while promising to make their research favorable to the industry. Some universities adopted requirements that researchers reveal any moneys received from industry resources. But that does not ensure integrity in their findings. More sunlight is needed on the drug industry. Just as the manufacturers of generic drugs are unable to compete with the major drug companies advertisements, the consumer of those drugs have no advocate at the State House. The alleged advocates mentioned here work for the medical industry.

http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20111228pharma-doctor_gift_ban_generated_lots_of_talk_no_final_action_in_2011/

Pharma-doctor gift ban generated lots of talk, no final action in 2011
By Kyle Cheney /
State House News Service
Boston Herald
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Woman Florist Breaks In To Newspaper Editor's Home

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20111230northampton_florist_charged_in_christmas_break-in_waives_hearing/

Northampton florist charged in Christmas break-in waives hearing
By Associated Press
Boston Herald
Friday, December 30, 2011

December 29, 2011

Police Impersonators Get Equipment Easily

[From article]
"Several weeks ago, a group of men in police raid jackets stormed a series of illegal game rooms to collect more than $20,000. Early reports suggested the raid was organized by the Zetas drug cartel from Mexico. HPD officials neither confirmed nor denied cartel investigations."

http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/12-29-11-police-impresonators-crime-wave-shines-a-spotlight-on-law-enforcement/

Police impersonators crime wave shines spotlight on murky world of law enforcement supply stores
By Tyler Rudick
12.29.11 | 12:28 pm

New York Times Dissembles on Erroneous Emails

So who taught who? Did the Times mentor Anthony Weiner or did they imitate his disclaimers? I got an email and I am not a subscriber.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/times_they_are_lyin_DUf3tVNxmeBeHO1YOnAhbK

New York Times caught in lie over 'spam' subscription-cancellation e-mails
By KEITH J. KELLY and ANDY SOLTIS
New York Post
Last Updated: 11:49 AM, December 29, 2011
Posted: 1:16 AM, December 29, 2011

Mindless Liberals and Gun Laws

If Bloomberg and the five DAs crusade against illegal guns why is this law abiding woman being held? This is a legal gun. She was not in New York to sell it, or to commit a crime. More examples of the idiocracy of mindless liberals on gun control. Bloomberg should thank her for bringing her gun to New York where she might even prevent some street crime.

[From article]
"Mayor Bloomberg, with the help of the five district attorneys, has crusaded against the flow of illegal guns, especially from the South."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/pistol_whipped_at_wtc_1x32hgT52UNhxkP36ZYAgJ

Tennessee tourist arrested for bringing pistol into 9/11 Memorial
By JAMIE SCHRAM, C.J. SULLIVAN and DAREH GREGORIAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:01 AM, December 29, 2011
Posted: 1:43 AM, December 29, 2011

Palestinian Group Publishes Lies to Stir Up Hatred

[BDS is a Palestinian group calling for boycotts, divestment and sanctions of Israel.] Here is an extreme example of lies broadcast as pure propaganda misleading civilians stirring up hatred based on false assertions. It is a pattern pervasive in the US media too, but not as extreme as this.


http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=240&x_article=2166

December 26, 2011
by Tamar Sternthal
CAMERA Media Watch
UPDATED: BDS Supporter Kills Off Living Palestinian Girl

Obama OKs $29 B Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia

Selling arms to Saudi Arabia creates jobs, says Obama. But building a pipeline for oil from Canada also creates jobs. Why is Obama opposed? Is he really a deep cover Muslim agent?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/white_house_announces_weapons_sale_nMIQqU159ntmmgwZXyA14H

White House announces $29.4B weapons sale to Saudi Arabia
NEWSCORE
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:27 PM, December 29, 2011
Posted: 12:11 PM, December 29, 2011

It's Never Too Late

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8982958/99-year-old-divorces-wife-after-he-discovered-1940s-affair.html

99-year-old divorces wife after he discovered 1940s affair
An Italian couple are to become the world's oldest divorcees, after the 99-year-old husband found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s.
By Nick Squires in Rome
3:39PM GMT 29 Dec 2011

Samoa Skips Day to Leap Over Dateline

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2011/1229/Samoa-to-skip-Friday-lose-December-30th-2011-forever

Samoa to skip Friday, lose December 30th 2011 forever
As China’s influence in the Pacific rises, Samoa is planning to cancel Friday, going directly from Thursday to Saturday, to synchronize trade with China.
By Peter Ford, Staff writer
December 29, 2011

US Tries to Take Property by Civil Action

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20111229mass_budget_motel_fights_forfeiture_by_feds/

Mass. budget motel fights forfeiture by feds
By Associated Press
Boston Herald
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Nothing to See Here Folks, Move Along

http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/12/28/the_year_in_obama_scandals__and_scandal_deniers

The Year in Obama Scandals -- and Scandal Deniers
Michelle Malkin
December 28, 2011
TownHall.com

Injustice: Book Review

Injustice
Exposing the racial agenda of the Obama Justice Department.
By J. Christian Adams
Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Washington DC
2011

[Updated January 4, 2012 5:50 AM]
http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2012/01/03/holder-math-part-2-doj-lays-trap-to-misrepresent-south-carolina-voter-data/

Holder Math Part 2: DOJ Lays Trap to Misrepresent South Carolina Voter Data
by Lee Stranahan
January 3, 2012
* * *
[From article]
"The 20% figure had to be manufactured for some reason and the obvious assumption is that the DOJ is trying to hide the fact that the real difference is so small. They know public opinion is against them so they used a semi-clever trick to fool the state of South Carolina.
This intentional gaming of the statistics by a legal branch of the Federal government should be deeply troubling. The fact that ‘respected’ media like Charles Savage in The New York Times, ABC News and Talking Points Memo went along for the ride is very disturbing. And the fact that this ruse was done in order to protect the Obama administration is downright frightening."

http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2012/01/02/holder-math-how-the-obama-doj-the-media-tricked-south-carolina-and-protected-voter-fraud/

Holder Math: How the Obama DOJ & the Media Tricked South Carolina And Protected Voter Fraud
by Lee Stranahan

[Updated January 1, 2012 4:50 AM]

More explanations of the effects of Holder's political abuses of power.

http://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2011/12/31/holders_racebaiting_is_about_obamas_reelection_not_voting_rights

Holder's Race-Baiting is about Obama's Re-Election, Not Voting Rights
TownHall.com
Ken Blackwell
December 31, 2011

* * *
[Updated December 29, 2011 3:45 AM]

Here's an example of what Holder is doing. Adams explains that the states often fear opposing a determination by the DOJ voting rights section. But when they stand up to the DOJ they often find the courts stop the racist abuses.

http://news.investors.com/Article/596128/201112281903/eric-holder-blocks-voter-id-in-south-carolina.htm

Voter ID: Holder Looks Through Race-Colored Glasses
Editorial
Investor's Business Daily
December 28, 2011 Posted 07:03 PM ET


Adams was an attorney for five years in the Voting Section of the US Department of Justice. This book is about the hijacking of the Voting Rights section at DOJ by a group of extremist left-wing racists who refuse to apply the laws equally. They practice selective enforcement laws picking and choosing which laws to enforce. The barrier to remedying this perverted situation are the highest levels of the DOJ and the White House, which support such corruption of the Attorney General's office.

The author describes in detail extreme criminal abuses in Mississippi by Black Supremacists. In each case when the minority White population protested the DOJ refused to help them. The left-wing lawyers said they came to DC to stop abuses of Blacks by Whites. They said the laws were written to protect Blacks from discrimination. Their reasoning is hollow on two levels. There are many political subdivisions where the majority of citizens are Black e.g., Atlanta GA, Newark NJ. Whites are unable to get the attention of the media or the politicians. Adams explained that even in academia where scholars are supposed to be rational, they are in denial about Black racists and abuses of White minorities. But globally Whites are a minority, making up 16 percent of the world population.

The criminal abuse explained in detail at the voting section of the DOJ is repeated in other areas of contemporary society. In view of the lack of will of local citizens to stand up for the rights of others, it is unlikely that this book will have the desired effect and wake up people to the blatant destruction of the Constitutional protections for all citizens. If Cambridge MA and Harvard University are any indication, White elitists will maintain their position of power and permit Black racists to abuse lower class and working class White people to be the scapegoats for historical abuses by the upper class, generations ago.

Adams stated that many of the attorneys at the highest levels of the DOJ are using the government for "pay back" for historical wrongdoing. They target White citizens who did no wrong but who are being punished for the sins of their ancestors.

This book reveals much of the ongoing deception by the current Attorney General who also has to explain his role in the Fast and Furious gun scandal and the Pigford farming grant scandal. He needs to explain why he refuses to enforce Section 8 of the Motor Voter law which requires states to remove dead and ineligible voters from the state rolls. He needs to explain why he prioritizes minor offenses against some voters while ignoring unlawful institutionalized voting abuses against White voters. Does the Obama administration plan to steal the 2012 election with fraudulent votes from ineligible voters?

December 28, 2011

Major Media Propaganda Opposed by Individuals

http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/12/28/the-breitbart-ambiguous-entity-of-the-year-the-tent-of-the-unknown-rapist/


The Breitbart ‘Ambiguous Entity of the Year’: The Tent of the Unknown Rapist
by Andrew Breitbart
December 28, 2011

Doctors Sued For Creating Addicts

Maybe some mental patients will begin to sue psychiatrists for their negligence.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/doctors-sued-for-creating-valium-addicts-6282542.html

Doctors sued for creating 'Valium addicts'
Patients take legal action after being damaged by over-prescription of drugs
Nina Lakhani
Independenr (UK)
December 29, 2011

Marine Lt. Col. Shot in Florida

[From article]
"He said the confrontation with the robbers took place after his girlfriend Tanta Siaz advertised a gold chain for sale on Craigslist."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079107/Marine-Karl-Trenker-shot-Craigslist-sale-turned-heist-plugged-holes-fingers-told-kids-hed-fine.html#ixzz1hn5Nt1aE

In hospital: Lieutenant Colonel Karl Trenker, 29, of Miramar, Florida, was shot three times as he confronted two men who had stolen a gold chain from him

In hospital: Lieutenant Colonel Karl Trenker, 29, of Miramar, Florida, was shot three times as he confronted two men who had stolen a gold chain from him


James Flounory pictured here
Jeff Steele pictured here

Suspects: Officers responding to the shooting found 20-year-olds James Flournoy, left, and Jeff Steele, right, close to the scene

'Don't worry kids, I'll be fine': Marine shot three times in street robbery survives... by plugging bullet holes with his fingers
Karl Trenker confronted two men; was shot three times
Used battlefield training to stem blood from his wounds
He was never hurt while serving in Afghanistan and Iraq
By Paul Thompson and Mark Duell
Last updated at 8:02 PM on 27th December 2011

TX Man Who Killed Family ands Self Was Muslim

[From article]
"the family was Muslim but celebrated Christmas as a cultural holiday. The parents were originally from Iran."

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/12/27/3619671/dads-text-message-referred-to.html

Dad's "weird" text message referred to death in Grapevine, recipient says
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011
Star-Telegram Arlington (Fort Worth) TX

Silicone Implants Dangerous

US raised concerns in 2000. It took France ten years more to notice.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.4e4702fabf3f2b684a3a7bcddb45299f.551&show_article=1

French breast implant tycoon hits back as scandal grows
Dec 28 07:12 AM US/Eastern
AFP

Man Shoots Himself to Get Pain Meds

http://news.yahoo.com/police-mont-man-denied-painkillers-shoots-self-144503696.html

Police: Mont. man denied painkillers, shoots self
Associated Press

US CDC, and DOE Collecting Personal Data About Students

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_the_feds_are_tracking_your_kid_xC6wecT8ZidCAzfqegB6hL?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=

How the feds are tracking your kid
By EMMETT MCGROARTY & JANE ROBBINS
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:13 AM, December 28, 2011
Posted: 11:01 PM, December 27, 2011

Some Airlines Ignoring Disabilities

In September 2010 I flew on Jet Blue about ten times. On each flight there were some people in wheelchairs. One of the employees explained that they ask passengers if they want or need a wheelchair. Some passengers use a wheelchair to get special services and early entry to the plane. They are like the criminals who exploit the ADA to mitigate their criminal acts depriving persons with disabilities of the protections intended by Congress.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/228583/250/Complaints-against-airlines-by-disabled-passengers-rise

Big increase in complaints against airlines by disabled passengers
4:19 PM, Dec 28, 2011
WTSP Tampa FL
Written by
Adam Freeman

39-year-old Man Baby Sitter Kills 9-year-old Girl With Disabilities

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/missing_ind_girl_found_dead_babysitter_uKvApbWbDudZj7fV9KOwLJ

Suspect says he beat, dismembered Indiana girl
NEWSCORE
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:10 PM, December 27, 2011
Posted: 9:23 AM, December 27, 2011

December 27, 2011

Congressional Bill To Censor Internet

[From article]
"blogger Erick Erickson said that he would encourage a primary for any Republican who supports the bill.
“I love Marsha Blackburn. She is a delightful lady and a solidly conservative member of Congress. And I am pledging right now that I will do everything in my power to defeat her in her 2012 reelection bid” due to her co-sponsorship for SOPA, Erickson wrote at RedState. “Congress has proven it does not understand the Internet. Perhaps they will understand brute strength against them at the ballot box. If members of Congress do not pull their name from co-sponsorship of SOPA, the left and right should pledge to defeat each and every one of them.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70878.html

SOPA is the end of us, say bloggers
Politico
By TIM MAK |
12/27/11 12:37 PM EST

Casinos Will Cost More Than They Bring In Taxes and Jobs

No mention of the numerous Atlantic City officials who went to jail. Or the many strip joints that now operate in Atlantic City. Or the rampant poverty and crime where there are no casino hotels. Gambling did not bring utopia to the failing ocean resort city. Why would it be any different in urban Boston or posh New Bedford or Foxboro?

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1391350&position=0

If you build it, corruption may come
Review of out-of-state casinos finds...
By Dave Wedge And Chris Cassidy
Boston Herald
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

New Book Reveals Where Jimmy Hoffa Was Buried

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/is_this_the_final_resting_place_gefhIOE7XciKiR2EZaWtfJ



Getty Images
James Hoffa

Is this the final resting place of Jimmy Hoffa?
By BRAD HAMILTON
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:57 AM, December 25, 2011
Posted: 12:14 AM, December 25, 2011

Muslim Woman in Georgia Shot By Police

[From related story]
"A woman who said she was Barnette told WXXA-TV that she had sent the package because she was upset with Ball and believed he was being racist toward her Muslim faith.
A spokesperson for the FBI in Atlanta said that Barnette was arrested and indicted on federal charges last month for what they said was her role in mailing a hoax weapons of mass destruction package.
The US District Court judge allowed her to be released on her own recognizance."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/ny_pols_harasser_slain_by_ga_police_amcvCFFj8Z36xW9riGAzEM

NY pols’ harasser slain by Ga. police
By LEONARD GREENE
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:36 AM, December 27, 2011
Posted: 12:36 AM, December 27, 2011

Landlord and Super Took Sex For Rent

One comment posted under this story says it sounds like Obama's jobs program.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/new_dirt_on_pervy_uws_super_6CifEcaUS4fkyfpxjERxGP

New dirt on pervy UWS super
By DAN MANGAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:03 AM, December 27, 2011
Posted: 12:53 AM, December 27, 2011

Romney Fought Corruption in Massachusetts

While Gov of MA Romney demanded that the former state Senate President, Wm. Bulger then President of the U of MA, resign. Wm. Bulger's brother is now on trial for 19 homicides while an FBI informant. At Congressional hearings Wm. Bulger said he did not know where his brother James was, a fugitive for 16 years living in Santa Monica. State Gov't in MA and US agencies are thoroughly corrupt. Romney threatened to apppoint a radio talk show host Howie Carr to the Board of Trustees of the University to get rid of Wm. Bulger, who said to Romney "You wouldn't dare." Bulger resigned and gets a $200,000/year state pension. That was a large event in this one party state. Romney vetoed 300 bills one year. The legislature over rode 299 of them. It is awful here. That he got elected once is a miracle.

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2011/12/27/7_reasons_why_mitt_romneys_electability_is_a_myth

7 Reasons Why Mitt Romney's Electability Is A Myth
John Hawkins
TownHall.com
December 27, 2011

Pelosi Joins Obama in Hawaii

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/while-president-obama-arrives-in-hawaii-amidst-security-and-fanfare-former-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-slips-quietly-into-big-island-resort/123

While President Obama Arrives in Hawaii Amidst Security and Fanfare, Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Slips Quietly into Big Island Resort
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN
December 26, 2011
Hawaii Reporter

December 26, 2011

Swastika Found on Harvard Building on Dunster Street


A visit to the Massachusetts State House will reveal that in the floor tiles of the fourth floor are the very same swastikas. Do these swastikas carry the same anti semitic meaning as the one on Dunster Street?

Not a Rhodes Scholar knows how Chanukkah is spelled in English. Common sense not credentials asks why the swastikas at the State House are not objectionable to the "faith leaders?" Not vandalism placed the swastikas at the State House. No crime there. Without a crime is the symbol still hate?

Your personal attacks undermine your argument. It diminishes any rational debate you claim to own. Accusing trollishness shows your ignorance again. In Hull MA in 1990 some claimed that the town hall floor tiles with swastikas were anti semitic. I raised the same question then. Maybe you were too young to read. It was met with silence which makes more sense than personal attacks. A brief search shows that many older public US buildings have swastikas on them. So again the question is does vandalism make the use of the swastika evil? From Bertrand Russell (1872-1970
) "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are
always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

So, "not a Rhodes Scholar," "trollish nature questions," "idiot," "dumb," and "trollish" again. They all make for perfectly good personal attacks. Is that how Harvard scholars argue? It is rule number one of Communist propaganda, to discredit the person when you have no rational argument. In the case of Hull Town Hall you make my point. Jewish residents found the swastikas offensive and they were covered up. There was no crime so it was not hate speech, anti semitism. But spray painting on a building is a crime, which becomes hate speech. Without the crime is there no hate? was my question. Regarding police abuses is the Crimson now remedying police abuses of power? When the courts don't work is the Crimson the alternative? How many Harvard affiliates have any clashes with police? Harvard long ago gave up freedom for security. For the multi-millionaire tenured professor at Harvard arrested in the most famous disorderly conduct arrest in the history of the world, the Mayor, the Governor and the President said "the Cambridge police acted stupidly." It was an abuse of power, a violation of the Hatch Act for all three officials. But there was and is silence from the media and the allegedly concerned citizens at Harvard. For the comatose at Harvard, police never do wrong. The concern about political corruption should raise questions about the corruption of the FBI and the local police who tolerate criminal political abuses. Have you heard of James Bulger now on trial in Boston US District Court for 19 homicides while an FBI informant? Did you hear of the Boston FBI frame-up of four white men for murder? Two died in prison. Two were released after 30 years. Or the resulting $101 million US court judgement which the DOJ refused to pay? Clueless is as clueless does when it comes to how thoroughly polluted the local, state and US government is today. Harvard has an interest in keeping it that way with their FBI, Defense Dept., Human Services grants, informants and employees at the Law School and at the Kennedy School. Harvard enjoys access to the highest levels of power. Corruption makes their access easier. Try reading e.g., J. Christian Adams new book, "Injustice," about corruption of the DOJ at the highest levels. That's in addition to the Fast and Furious scandal, the Pigford Scandal. Academics usually have their heads up their behinds when it comes to police abuses. Living in their ivy covered fantasy world they attack those who live in the real world as defects. Sorry but your personal attacks do not work among the non comatose.

[updated December 27, 2011 8:30 PM]
Excuse me. You make the personal attacks, not I. Changing the subject does not improve your argument. Glenn Beck, a strong conservative supporter of Israel against liberal anti semitic bashers is irrelevant here. You want to know what you don't know, but speak as if you know it all. I am reminded of Mark Twain's observation: "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you think you know for sure that just ain't so." In his recent book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow," Daniel Kahneman of Harvard reveals that most humans act on their system 1 mind which is always working. It thinks that WYSIATI (what you see is all there is). Often this type of thinking results in making wrong decisions. Politicians and salesmen enjoy this situation. Unlike system 1, system 2 is lazy and only works when provoked into action. Your comments obviously result from your system 1 mind. You exhibit a superficial view of HUPD. Your requirement for evidence, "One that is mentioned in the Boston Globe." is laughable. Do you really believe what you read in the Globe? Or that the Globe publishes a complete view of all that happens? If it's not in The Globe it did not happen? Hahaha. As for the President (a Harvard and Columbia media creation), aside from being irrelevant here, he is irrelevant to any search for truth. Hehe. As for revealing any evidence of HUPD wrongdoing, criminal abuse of power, in the Crimson, to what end? So you will say, "I didn't know that?" HUPD is authorized by the sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk to make traffic stops while traveling between the Boston and Cambridge campuses. They are not empowered to make traffic stops anywhere, any time. But that too is irrelevant to the issue of what is the meaning of a swastika. Have you ever heard the term mens rea?



Swastika Graffiti Prompts Condemnation from Faith Leaders
By HANA N. ROUSE,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Tuesday, December 20, 2011


Two swastikas were found on the side of a Harvard-owned building located at 69 Dunster Street on Sunday, prompting religious leaders to condemn the act of vandalism and the hateful message commonly associated with the image. The swastikas were spray-painted side-by-side in bright red on the wall of the building, which is located behind the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter and the University Lutheran Church.
Jayms Battaglia, parish administrator at the church, said that she was “deeply saddened” by the swastikas. Battaglia had noticed the swastikas Sunday morning, and said that she spoke with someone from 69 Dunster Street who told her the occupants were “aware” of the graffiti. She added she had also brought the incident to the attention of the University.
According to Deputy Superintendent Jack Albert, no one has filed a report on the swastika with the Cambridge Police Department. Harvard University Police Department did not return requests for comment.
The building’s administrators and Harvard Yard Operations could not be reached for comment Monday evening.
Rabbi Jonah C. Steinberg, executive director of Harvard Hillel, condemned the act of vandalism, calling it inconsistent with “the spirit of respect that generally prevails at Harvard.”
Steinberg, who said that he did not know of the incident until The Crimson reached out to him for comment, said that he was not sure what could have compelled a person to graffiti a building with a symbol so often associated with racial bigotry.
“One can only feel pity for someone who is compelled to express hatred in such a way,” Steinberg said.
He added that he plans to bring the incident to the attention of the College chaplains, who he expects will collectively issue a response to the incident.
Like Steinberg, Emily S. Unger ’13, incoming chair of the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance, said that she was not aware of the incident until informed by The Crimson.
“This is the first instance of anti-Semitism that I think I’ve seen while at Harvard,” Unger said. “I just hope that the Harvard community will come together in response to this and make it clear to the world that this is not acceptable in our eyes. It is not something that we will tolerate.”
Unger said that she thought the College should release a statement condemning the act of vandalism and the implicit meaning behind such a symbol.
“There’s nothing more strongly anti-Semitic than a swastika,” Unger said.
—Staff writer Hana N. Rouse can be reached at hrouse@college.harvard.edu
  • A visit to the Massachusetts State House will reveal that in the floor tiles of the fourth floor are the very same swastikas. Do these swastikas carry the same anti semitic meaning as the one on Dunster Street?
  • HappyChannkahToYouToo Moderator
  • Not a Rhodes Scholar knows how Chanukah is spelled in English. Common sense not credentials asks why the swastikas at the State House are not objectionable to the "faith leaders?" Not vandalism placed the swastikas at the State House. No crime there. Without a crime is the symbol still hate?
  • HappyChannkahToYouToo Moderator
    Channukah is spelled in various ways, depending on which style guide you are using. (Also, you can't technically spell a foreign word with non-English characters in English--as you claim--you simply adopt a consistent spelling. It is understood that there are three common spellings.) Now that we are done with today's spelling lesson:

    You must be aware that meanings can change over time. Your question is one of a "trollish" nature, one meant to stir trouble. Of course, there was no anti-semitic nature when construction was undertaken at the Massachusetts State House. Incidentally, can you provide proof of the architecture? It would be nice if you could substantiate your assertion. Over time, words and symbols evolve and connotations change. Think of the "N word," for example. There is a variation of the word (which I won't type here) which is technically not offensive and does not even refer to African Americans [it's the adverb form of the word]. However, because of cultural tensions and sensitivities surrounding what the noun version of the word has become, we no longer use it.

    Get my point? Meanings change over time. In this instance, it is very clear that hatred was spewed on a Harvard building around the time of a Jewish holiday. You'd have to be an idiot not to see what was going on here. And either way, vandalism is an illegal act. Do you understand that?

    "Beauty fades. Dumb is forever." -- Judge Judy.
  • Your personal attacks undermine your argument. It diminishes any rational debate you claim to own. Accusing trollishness shows your ignorance again. In Hull MA in 1990 some claimed that the town hall floor tiles with swastikas were anti semitic. I raised the same question then. Maybe you were too young to read. It was met with silence which makes more sense than personal attacks. A brief search shows that many older public US buildings have swastikas on them. So again the question is does vandalism make the use of the swastika evil? From Bertrand Russell (1872-1970
    ) "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are
    always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
  • moosestuff Moderator
    I guess a more pertinent accusation would be that the decision to keep swastika tiles on display in a public government center in the United States, understanding the brutality, antisemitism, and staggering death toll that have come to be associated with the swastika, can be understood as a hostile or antisemitic position. Meanings of words and symbols change. Flexibility in our usage -- and defense -- of those that have come to be understood as offensive is not a bad trait.
  • Dr. Mantis Tobogan Moderator
    I agree with the poster above - you are rather trollish by nature.

    For what it is worth... Hull Town Hall, with the Police station below it (FYI...Chief Brooker is Jewish - long retired but he was the Chief of Police at the time you cite), also covered up the floor because a great many of the town residents are of the Jewish faith and the town government recognized that it may be offensive... even though it was not offensive in nature to its town residents when the town hall was erected in 1890.

    Commonsense should prevail: spray painting a swastika on a brick wall is, generally, not to celebrate Hindu good luck.

    You, continually, present yourself as having an axe to grind with governmental authority and law enforcement... as though you have a lot of inside information, yet never sharing or citing any. What you call wise, others would call say it is cowardly.

  • Dr. Mantis Tobogan Moderator
    Provide legitimacy instead of vitriol conjecture, Meckenlite.

    Will you please provide a legitimate example of HUPD abusing their police powers; cite any news source beyond academia and the hobo/commie rags from the Square. Just one example! Of course, that would not include dirty looks, tough guy stances, or collaring dopes for speeding on public ways where YOU believe HUPD should not be enforcing Chapter 90.

    Just one example; one that has gone to court. One that is mentioned in the Boston Globe. One where a HUPD officer was fired for mis/malfeaseance or imprisoned for committing a crime (and please do not drop the "blue line all cops are corrupt" nonsense).

    Even the President realized his comments about CPD were wrong, off base, and he was ill-informed... what's your excuse?

  • Excuse me. You make the personal attacks, not I. Glenn Beck, a strong conservative supporter of Israel against liberal anti semitic bashers is irrelevant here. You want to know what you don't know but speak as if you know it all. I am reminded of Mark Twain's observation: "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you think you know for sure that just ain't so." In his recent book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow," Daniel Kahneman of Harvard reveals that most humans act on their system 1 mind which is always working. It thinks that WYSIATI, (what you see is all there is.) Often this type of thinking results in making wrong decisions. Politicians and salesmen enjoy this situation. Unlike system 1, system 2 is lazy and only works when provoked into action. Your comments obviously result from your system 1 mind. You exhibit a superficial view of HUPD. Your requirement for evidence, "One that is mentioned in the Boston Globe." is laughable. Do you really believe what you read in the Globe? Or that the Globe publishes a complete view of all that happens? If it's not in The Globe it did not happen? Hahaha. As for the President (a Harvard and Columbia media creation), aside from being irrelevant here, he is irrelevant to any search for truth. Hehe. As for revealing any evidence of HUPD wrongdoing, criminal abuse of power, in the Crimson, to what end? So you will say, "I didn't know that?" HUPD is authorized by the sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk to make traffic stops while traveling between the Boston and Cambridge campuses. They are not empowered to make traffic stops anywhere, any time. But that too is irrelevant to the issue of what is the meaning of a swastika. Have you ever heard the term mens rea?
  • Dr. Mantis Tobogan Moderator
    I had dinner last night with HBO's Bill Maher. While we were chatting I showed him your diatribe, using my Android, and even he thinks you're a screw ball.
  • ModeratorDr. Mantis Tobogan
    Oh, by the way, I said your earlier post is like Glenn Beck because you sound a like an unhinged conspiracy theorist... like Glenn Beck.

    Merry Christmas, Meckenlite!


  • Not impressed with more personal attacks. Maher is a specialist in personal attacks.
  • Dr. Mantis Tobogan Moderator
    You are probably impressed with only yourself; like other habitual posters here, only you are right and can know-it-all.

    You better watch out, Meckenlite... the police, FBI, and DOJ are watching YOU! They are on to you. Send me your address, so I can send you some tin foil for a new chapeau!



Israel Air Force Strikes in Sudan

http://bigpeace.com/jpollak/2011/12/26/israeli-air-force-strikes-convoys-in-sudan/

Israeli Air Force Strikes Convoys in Sudan
Posted by Joel B. Pollak
Dec 26th 2011 at 5:01 am
BigPeace.com

Independent Media in Norway Disappearing

http://bigpeace.com/nmay/2011/12/26/norways-media-slipping-towards-state-control/

Norway’s Media Slipping Towards State Control
Posted by Ned May
Dec 26th 2011 at 12:30 pm
BigPeace.com

Mexican Drug Cartels Know Police Plans and Moves

Why did it take the Mexican cartels so long to catch up to the American crime families? For many years US crime families know the timing of police movements and strategies. It is why they were able to take control of several levels of local, state and US government mechanisms.

http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2011/12/26/mexican-cartels-thwart-law-enforcement-with-private-national-radio-system/

Mexican Cartels Thwart Law Enforcement with Private National Radio System
Posted by Sun Tzu
Dec 26th 2011 at 2:28 pm
BigPeace.com

Walmart Shopper Punches 70-year-old Greeter

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/woman-slugs-70-year-old-walmart-greeter-asks-receipt-article-1.996942

Mugshot of Jacquetta Simmons, 26, accused of punching Walmart worker Grace Suozzi, 70, in the face after being asked for a receipt for the items in her bag.
State Police
Mugshot of Jacquetta Simmons, 26, accused of punching Walmart worker Grace Suozzi, 70, in the face after being asked for a receipt for the items in her bag.

Woman slugs 70-year-old Walmart greeter after she asks to see receipt: Police
Elderly worker suffered fractures to the side of her face in attack
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Daily News
Monday, December 26 2011, 1:53 PM

Shaw's Market Omits Chanukkah, Kwanzaa Wishes Instead

The current advertisment (December 23-29, 2011) for Shaw's (Star) Markets has on its upper right corner "Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa." No mention of Chanukkah.

The "effective" area (Massachusetts stores) is: Cambridge, Porter Square, Brookline, Brighton, Beacon Street, Fenway, Allston.

Brief Biography of founder, creator of Kwanzaa at this link

http://www.nathanielturner.com/karenga2.htm


Drug Companies Develop More Powerful Pain Drug

Sounds like the model for psychiatric drugs. If you stop taking them you don't just get sick, you become violent.

[From article]
"Hydrocodone belongs to family of drugs known as opiates or opioids because they are chemically similar to opium. They include morphine, heroin, oxycodone, codeine, methadone and hydromorphone.

Opiates block pain but also unleash intense feelings of well-being and can create physical dependence. The withdrawal symptoms are also intense, with users complaining of cramps, diarrhea, muddled thinking, nausea and vomiting.

[. . .]

"You've got a person on your product for life, and a doctor's got a patient who's never going to miss an appointment, because if they did and they didn't get their prescription, they would feel very sick," said Andrew Kolodny, president of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing. "It's a terrific business model, and that's what these companies want to get in on."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111226/D9RSBNF01.html

New powerful painkiller has abuse experts worried
AP
Dec 26, 1:23 PM (ET)
By CHRIS HAWLEY

Lead News Item Day After Christmas

This was the lead news item on Monday December 26, 2011, the day after Christmas, on a Boston radio station during the Rush Limbaugh show. Do you think that the guy who sent that story to the station and the guy who chose to read it have a drinking problem? Or do they work for the alcoholic beverage industry?

Monday, December 26, 2011

The Federal Christmas Holiday Today



Government offices are closed, package stores are not.

READ

Read more: http://www.talk1200.com/cc-common/news/sections/#.Tvi_fvDW9vw.email#ixzz1hfT52dJj

Freakonomics, Film Review

This 2010 film is one of several plus a book about facts that contradict popular wisdom, and dominant paradigms. It is a collaboration by economist Steven Levitt and author Stephen Dubner. They say that if you can figure out a person's incentive you can determine how they will act. Showing his honesty Levitt describes a failed experiment with his own daughter.

Freakonomics Poster


One observation is "People who are being corrupt are always actively trying to cover their trail."
One segment is about rigging Sumo wrestling matches in Japan, called "Yaocho." Their comment that "illusion of purity can not only hide corruption but help to make it possible" applies to the Obama adminstration especially to the misadventures of Eric Holder the misguided US Attorney General. This pattern of corruption is exposed in J. Christian Adams' new book, Injustice.

Expelled, Film About Academic Censorship: Review

This 2008 film by Ben Stein and Kevin Miller focuses on censorship of the subject of "intelligent design" among academics. It is one of several areas where academic freedom is under attack.
There is no discussion of what the term God means. Similarly scientific terms are seldom defined. Some of the scholars interviewed recognized that terms need definition, e.g. what is a species? Even the most intense atheists interviewed recognized that scientists do not know where life and came from. They know it came from a cell, a molecule. But today there is so much known about these units that there are more questions than before.

Dr. Marcij Giertych says that there is more freedom in Poland regarding this question than in the United States. Dr. Alister E. McGrath of Oxford University, said, "Some people are so deeply entrenched in their own world view, that they will simply not countenance alternatives." That problem extends far beyond this question. The difficulty of rational debate applies to Global Warming too.

Stein shows a connection between the eugenics movement which was adopted by the Nazis and rejection of religion by scientists. There's a phrase in German which means "It always began that way. How to get rid of useless people."

Dr. Richard Weikart said, "Evil can be rationalized as science. Hitler thought he was doing good." Today in America research scientists who conduct involuntary experiments using humans without consent defend their work the same way the Nazi doctors did. They say the benefit to society outweighs the harm to individuals.
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Poster

Dr. David Berlinsky said, "There is academic freedom as long as you're on the correct side of the wall. But if you're on the wrong side of the wall you lose tenure." In December 2001 the faculty at Harvard University voted to remove the course listings of a young professor. The faculty said he uttered hate speech but provided no evidence. This is a thought provoking film whether you believe in religion or not. It shows a pattern affecting free speech but also freedom in the United States. There is a book by the same name on which this film was based.

expelledthemovie.com

December 25, 2011

Muslims Kill 39 Catholics In Nigeria

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111225/D9RRLP480.html

Christmas attacks in Nigeria by sect kill 39
Dec 25, 12:25 PM (ET)
AP
By JON GAMBRELL

December 24, 2011

Youth Violence Targets Random People

[From article]
"Knockout King" or simply "Knock Out," a so-called game of unprovoked violence that targets random victims.

Scattered reports of the game have come from around the country including Massachusetts, New Jersey and Chicago."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_THRILL_ASSAULTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-12-24-10-28-42

Dec 24, 11:20 AM EST
Unprovoked attacks at heart of 'Knockout King'
By JIM SALTER
Associated Press

I. F. Stone




http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/I.+F.+Stone

I. F. Stone
Isidor Feinstein
December 24, 1907(1907-12-24)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.ifstone.org
Isidor Feinstein Stone (December 24, 1907 – June 18, 1989; born Isidor Feinstein, better known as I. F. Stone and Izzy Stone)

December 23, 2011

Not Enough People To Run a Country

[From article]
"If the problem with socialism is, as Mrs. Thatcher says, that eventually you run out of other people's money, much of the West has advanced to the next stage: it's run out of other people, period.
[. . .]
For most of human history, functioning societies have honored the long run: It's why millions of people have children, build houses, plant trees, start businesses, make wills, put up beautiful churches in ordinary villages, fight and, if necessary, die for your country. A nation, a society, a community is a compact between past, present and future, in which the citizens, in Tom Wolfe's words at the dawn of the "Me Decade," "conceive of themselves, however unconsciously, as part of a great biological stream."
Much of the developed world climbed out of the stream. You don't need to make material sacrifices: The state takes care of all that. You don't need to have children. And you certainly don't need to die for king and country. But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for: It's no longer a stream, but a stagnant pool."

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/people-332895-women-percent.html

Published: Dec. 23, 2011 Updated: 2:52 p.m.
Orange County Register
Mark Steyn
An upside-down family tree

Obama Appointee Opposes Curbing Voting Abuses

In his new book, "Injustice," J. Christian Adams, former lawyer in the Civil Rights Division explains what is going on in the Department of Justice. It is a war between the extreme leftist activists who focus on using government to pay back white racists and to promote the racialist agenda. They are not committed to the constitution or to law, but to their agenda. That is bad enough with Civil Rights attorneys. But for Judges to assist these extra legal abuses shows how badly Obama's crew has corrupted the government.

http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2011/12/23/media-forgets-to-mention-judge-who-blocked-s-c-immigration-law-is-obama-appointee/

Media Forgets To Mention Judge Who Blocked S. C. Immigration Law Is Obama Appointee
Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Dec 23rd 2011 at 1:44 pm

* * *

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203893404577100313135266898.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

Wall Street Journal
DECEMBER 23, 2011
Holder's Voter ID Fraud
The AG invents fears of ballot suppression.

Beware Those Who Do Not Drink Alcohol

Please, take care of yourself. A recent joint study conducted by the
Department of Health and the Department of Motor Vehicles indicates that 23% of
traffic accidents are alcohol related.

This means that the remaining 77% are caused by assholes who drink bottled
water, Starbucks coffee, soda, juice, energy drinks and stuff like that.
Therefore, beware of those who do not drink alcohol. They cause three
times as many accidents.

This message is sent to you by someone who is an occasional alcohol
drinker and worries about your safety.

December 22, 2011

TSA Wastes Time Money

[From article]
"the ease with which people can pass through airport security with fake boarding passes. First, scan an old boarding pass, he said—more loudly than necessary, it seemed to me. Alter it with Photoshop, then print the result with a laser printer. In his hand was an example, complete with the little squiggle the T.S.A. agent had drawn on it to indicate that it had been checked. “Feeling safer?” he asked.
[. . .]
Since 9/11, the U.S. has spent more than $1.1 trillion on homeland security.
[. . .]
“The only useful airport security measures since 9/11,” he says, “were locking and reinforcing the cockpit doors, so terrorists can’t break in, positive baggage matching”—ensuring that people can’t put luggage on planes, and then not board them —“and teaching the passengers to fight back. The rest is security theater.”
[. . .]
Taking off your shoes is next to useless. “It’s like saying, Last time the terrorists wore red shirts, so now we’re going to ban red shirts,” Schneier says. If the T.S.A. focuses on shoes, terrorists will put their explosives elsewhere. “Focusing on specific threats like shoe bombs or snow-globe bombs simply induces the bad guys to do something else. You end up spending a lot on the screening and you haven’t reduced the total threat.”
[. . .]
The security bottlenecks are regularly bypassed by large numbers of people—airport workers, concession-stand employees, airline personnel, and T.S.A. agents themselves
[. . .] “Almost all of those jobs are crappy, low-paid jobs,” Schneier says. “They have high turnover. If you’re a serious plotter, don’t you think you could get one of those jobs?”
[. . .]
Even if the T.S.A. were somehow to make airports impregnable, this would simply divert terrorists to other, less heavily defended targets—shopping malls, movie theaters, churches, stadiums, museums. The terrorist’s goal isn’t to attack an airplane specifically; it’s to sow terror generally. “You spend billions of dollars on the airports and force the terrorists to spend an extra $30 on gas to drive to a hotel or casino and attack it,” Schneier says. “Congratulations!”

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/tsa-insanity-201112#

Smoke Screening
By Charles C. Mann
Vanity Fair
December 20, 2011

December 21, 2011

Motion Detector By Email Catches Burglar

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/thief_cam_eo_v27oyAZPjTw6FxD5f65RaO

IT geek’s apt. gizmo catches burglar in act
By WILLIAM FARRINGTON and SABRINA FORD
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:26 AM, December 21, 2011
Posted: 1:21 AM, December 21, 2011

Man Arrested For Rape of 13-year-old

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=18586564&title=man-shoots-at-mouse-hits-roommate-another-roommate-arrested-for-rape

Man shoots at mouse, hits roommate; another roommate arrested for rape
By Pat Reavy
December 21st, 2011 @ 12:48pm

IBM Predicts Machines to Read Minds

The IBM spokesman suggests learning about the brain will enable doctors to heal damaged brains. What will stop the criminal control freaks from using the same knowledge to control human thought, emotions and behavior?

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/ibm-predicts-mind-reading-machines-20111221-ncx

[5 minute video embedded]
IBM Predicts Mind-Reading Machines
Fox News New York
Updated: Wednesday, 21 Dec 2011, 8:48 AM EST
Published : Tuesday, 20 Dec 2011, 9:11 AM EST

Police Using Taxpayer Funds For Military Weapons

Not certain that I agree with this comment from the ACLU spokesman. Police do stop crimes in progress. But the amount of heavy duty firepower is problematic. What is troubling is that this article omits any mention of less than lethal weapons, including but not limited to electrical weapons and microwave weapons (beyond TASERs) which can be used to torment and to kill civilians. Only three states (MA, ME and MI) have laws regulating use of these weapons. The lack of awareness by journalists, ACLU lawyers, and politicians is of great concern to the thousands of victims of this high tech abuse. These newest weapons are used by police criminals and private criminals. When the victims complain they are treated as if they are mentally ill, due to the ignorance of the rest of the population.

[From article]
“With local law enforcement, their mission is to solve crimes after they’ve happened, and to ensure that people’s constitutional rights are protected in the process,” says Jesselyn McCurdy, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. “The military obviously has a mission where they are fighting an enemy. When you use military tactics in the context of law enforcement, the missions don’t match, and that’s when you see trouble with the overmilitarization of police.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/20/local-cops-ready-for-war-with-homeland-security-funded-military-weapons.html

Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons
Dec 21, 2011 4:45 AM EST
Andrew Becker
Daily Beast

Victim's Family Barred From Learning if Convicted Miurderer Is Illegal Alien

[From article]
"Hassan, 31, was thrown out of the Deslandes family’s pub – the Newton Arms in Croydon, South London – on New Year’s Eve 2009 after threatening a customer.
Minutes later he returned with a semi-automatic weapon, firing at Darren, 34, and his younger brother Junior, who had evicted him.
Darren was shot in the head and died instantly. Junior, 26, was hit three times in the head, neck and shoulder. He was left critically ill but survived.
What the law is meant to do
Mr Deslandes – who bought the pub in 1999 after working as an insurance underwriter in the City of London for 25 years – was hit over the head with the butt of the gun.
Last year Hassan was found guilty of murder and attempted murder at the Old Bailey and jailed"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076804/Killer-shielded-Home-Office-Familys-fury-officials-say-law-reveal-sons-murderer-illegal-migrant.html

The killer shielded by the Home Office: Family's fury as officials say it is against law to reveal if son's murderer is an illegal migrant
Daily Mail (UK)
By Jack Doyle and Neil Sears
Last updated at 3:47 AM on 21st December 2011

December 20, 2011

Wasteful Spending of Taxpayer Funds

http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/6946d43b-bccf-4579-990e-15a763532b40.html

Dec 20 2011
Dr. Coburn Releases New Report on Wasteful Government Spending in 2011: "Wastebook 2011"

December 19, 2011

Ron Paul Warns of Martial Law in US

http://www.infowars.com/presidential-frontrunner-warns-martial-law-being-established-in-america/

Presidential Frontrunner Warns Martial Law Being Established in America
Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
December 18, 2011

Holder Claims Racism Behind Criticism of Him And Obama

Holder whose ancestry is from Trinidad and Tobago claims he is African American.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/19/justice-dept-silent-as-holder-charges-critics-with-racism/

By Matthew Boyle -
The Daily Caller
December 19, 2011
Daily Caller

High Paid Mayor Wants You to Work Without Pay

Altruistic Cambridge MA Mayor wants others tp work for free. Will he donate all of his salary and benefits to make his work volunteer also? Isn't it typical that Obama and Edward Kennedy both multi millionaires living lives of privilege call on others to work for free.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x2105826036/Cambridge-mayor-City-takes-pledge-to-be-city-of-service#axzz1h14peLze

Cambridge mayor: City takes pledge to be 'city of service'
City Press release
Wicked Local Cambridge
Posted Dec 19, 2011 @ 09:42 AM

Legal Services Money Perhaps Wasted

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1658263198/Audit-Missing-docs-raise-questions-over-millions-in-free-legal-services#axzz1h14peLze

Audit: Missing docs raise questions over millions in free legal services
By Kyle Cheney
State House News Service
Posted Dec 19, 2011 @ 02:06 PM

Activist Berenson Can Leave Peru

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111219/D9RNQ2CG0.html

Father: paroled activist Berenson can leave Peru
Dec 19, 3:40 PM (ET)
AP
MyWayNews
By FRANK BAJAK

December 18, 2011

Notre Dame's "Rudy" Fined $382,000

No wonder white collar thieves and politicians steal. For a $682,000 fine he is free to use $11 million in stolen funds. And that is only because he got caught.

[From article]
"The scheme generated more than $11 million in illicit profits, the SEC said.
[. . .]
Ruettiger agreed to pay $382,866 to settle the case.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/rudy_tackled_by_feds_aQKtIXBiHG8p27cZhzgPEL

‘Rudy!’ tackled by feds
Reuters
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:25 AM, December 17, 2011
Posted: 1:23 AM, December 17, 2011

Fiend Burns Woman to Death In Elevator

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/police_custody_police_suspect_could_F3MVKIYxloo9soYHFYGn6M

Family: Maniac who burned woman to death in elevator had grudge over firing
By JAMIE SCHRAM, LAUREL BABCOCK, JOE WALKER and TIM PERONE
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:38 PM, December 18, 2011
Posted: 9:08 AM, December 18, 2011

Court Officer Charged With 3 Rapes

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_1217bailiff_charged_in_3_rapes_accused_of_sexually_assaulting_female_prisoners/

Bailiff charged in 3 rapes
Accused of sexually assaulting female prisoners
By Richard Weir
Boston Herald
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Vaclav Havel Dies

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2075699/Vaclav-Havel-Czech-Republics-elected-president-dies-aged-75.html

Czech playwright Vaclav Havel who became his country's first elected president dies at 75
Former president was a key figure in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution
Playwright oversaw country's transition into Czech Republic and Slovakia
Iconic figure previously described by George Bush as 'one of liberty's great heroes'
Former leader died in his sleep after battling a long illness
Havel famously declared: 'Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred'
By Chris Parsons
Daily Mail (UK)
Last updated at 12:57 PM on 18th December 2011

December 17, 2011

Newt Gingrich Gets $20 million

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/vegas_big_puts_on_newt_YmEyydbhhidmxJnhIgpD8J

Vegas big puts $20M on Newt
By GEOFF EARLE
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:09 AM, December 16, 2011
Posted: 3:25 AM, December 16, 2011

December 16, 2011

Detailed History of Newt Gingrich

Lengthy list of comments with links and videos embedded of Newt Gingrich's history.

http://www.thecaseagainstnewt.com/

Newt Gingrich Can't Beat Barack Obama
Submitted by John Ziegler
Tue, 12/13/2011 - 13:38

Greek Theater

The Greek theatre grew out of Dionysian worship. Dionysus, also called Bacchus, was a nature god of fruitfulness and vegetation, especially known as a god of wine and ecstasy. He was the son of Zeus and Semele. Dionysus was the patron god of the important international society of actors, and their reunions were celebrated in the mode of Dionysiac Mysteries. The meetings of the mystery clubs evolved into the Greek theatre.
[From reference.com]

December 15, 2011

Anti Semitism Think Tank Pervasive

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/simon-wiesenthal-center-time-to-clean-up-the-discourse/2011/12/13/gIQAThG6rO_blog.html

Posted at 01:14 PM ET, 12/13/2011
Simon Wiesenthal Center: Time to clean up the discourse
By Jennifer Rubin
Washington Post

December 13, 2011

Frankfurt School

[From history]
"As the growing influence of National Socialism became ever more threatening, its founders decided to prepare to move the Institute out of the country.[11] Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the Institute left Germany for Geneva, before moving to New York City in 1935, where it became affiliated with Columbia University. Its journal Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung was accordingly renamed Studies in Philosophy and Social Science. It was at this moment that much of its important work began to emerge, having gained a favorable reception within American and English academia.
[. . .]
Critique, in this Marxian sense, meant taking the ideology of a society – e.g. the belief in individual freedom or free market under capitalism – and critiquing it by comparing it with the social reality of that very society – e.g. social inequality and exploitation.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Frankfurt+School

Laws Are Not Meant For Me

Crudele says, "Paulson has already admitted to everything Bloomberg Magazine and I are alleging. But apparently he saw nothing wrong with what he was doing." Paulson joins Eric Holder and Obama who also say they did nothing wrong. The trouble with these predators in government is that they do not see breaking laws as a problem. Laws are inconvenient and optional for them. Obama said what Wall Street goniffs did is not illegal. If there is any will to clean up government the focus must begin with the FBI, and judges who refuse to hold public officials accountable for their wrongdoing.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/let_seal_dc_loose_lips_S9gPA7mJnmNcZe0FuRDsRL

Let’s seal DC’s loose lips
John Crudele
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:02 AM, December 13, 2011
Posted: 12:59 AM, December 13, 2011

Officer Shot Dead While Police Harass Harmless Civilians

If this report is true, the accused cop killer was not under surveillance. Even though there was a formal criminal charge and warrants against him. The court released him on his "own recognizance." While a veteran police officer is now dead, criminals roam freely while police resources are wasted keeping people like me under 24/7 surveillance, but also intense harassment and provocations. Who sets the priorities of local, state and often campus police resources?

[From article]
"Pride was most recently busted just last month, when authorities armed with a warrant found 10 bags of crack and pot in an apartment in Gravesend, Brooklyn, and arrested him for possession, sources said.
Two kids were in the filthy home at the time, garnering Pride an additional rap: child endangerment, the sources said.
At his Nov. 4 arraignment in Brooklyn, prosecutors set bail at $2,500, but Judge Evelyn LaPorte released him on his own recognizance, according to court records."

TRAGIC: Officer Peter Figoski, slain yesterday, had been with the NYPD for 22 years.
TRAGIC: Officer Peter Figoski, slain yesterday, had been with the NYPD for 22 years.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/four_more_arrested_nypd_burglary_UOoltyGzopOTtleJIxb0KK

Four more arrested for robbery that killed veteran NYPD officer
By JAMIE SCHRAM and WILLIAM J. GORTA
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:16 PM, December 13, 2011
Posted: 8:22 AM, December 13, 2011

Conflict Theory

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Conflict+theory

Conflict theories are perspectives in social science which emphasize the social, political or material inequality of a social group, which critique the broad socio-political system, or which otherwise detract from structural functionalism and ideological conservativism. Conflict theories draw attention to power differentials, such as class conflict, and generally contrast historically dominant ideologies.

Expressive Symbolism

http://www.helium.com/items/1627578-what-is-expressive-symbolism

What is expressive symbolism?
by Elizabeth M Young
Created on: October 24, 2009

Behavioral Science

A scientific discipline, such as sociology, anthropology, or psychology, in which the actions and reactions of humans and animals are studied through observational and experimental methods.

December 12, 2011

Politicians Lament Private Censorship of Ad Promoting Muslim Families

These two elected officials oppose the decision by Lowes retail stores pulling its ad promoting Muslim families. But they remain silent when the Harvard University faculty punished one of its professor's public discourse.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/12/7/faculty-final-meeting/

In the former case Lowes is a private corporation where the First Amendment does not apply. The clueless public official does not know this. In the latter case Harvard too is a private corporation, but professors are allegedly protected by academic freedom from expressing their opinions. Why is Lowes a target but not Harvard?


[From article]
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) also said Lowe's is choosing to disregard the First Amendment.
[. . .]
Calling the Lowe's decision "un-American" and "naked religious bigotry," Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, told The Associated Press he would also consider legislative action if Lowe's doesn't apologize to Muslims and reinstate its ads. The senator sent a letter outlining his complaints to Lowe's Chief Executive Officer Robert A. Niblock.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/11/california-senator-threatens-boycott-after-lowes-pulls-ads-from-muslim-american/?intcmp=obnetwork

Lawmakers Slam Lowe's For Pulling Ads from Muslim-American Reality Show
Published December 11, 2011
FoxNews.com

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Not Just Lowes Pulling Out of Sponsorship

The following list below is the companies who pulled their advertising and sponsorship from TLC airing "All American Muslims"
3M (Command, Scotchbrand tape),
Airborne Vitamin,
Amway, (says it has been misrepresented)
Anheuser Busch Inbev (Select55),
Art Instruction Schools,
Bamboozles,
Bank of America (Cash Rewards),
Bare Escentuals,
Brother International (Ptouch),
Campbell’s Soup,
Capital One,
Church & Dwight (Oxi Clean, Arm & Hammer),
City Furniture,
Conagra (Hunt’s Diced Tomatoes),
Corinthian Colleges (Everst411),
Cotton, Inc.,
Cumberland Packing (Sweet’N Low), (says it has been misrepresented)
Dell computers,
Diamond Foods (Kettlebrand Chips),
Estee Lauder (Clinique),
ET Browe (Palmer’s Cocoa butter),
Gap,
General Motors (Chevy Runs Deep),
Good Year,
Green Mountain Coffee,
Guthy Renker (Proactiv),
Hershey kisses,
Home Depot, (says it has been misrepresented)
Honda North America,
HTC Phones,
Ikea,
JC Penney,
JP Morgan Chase (Chase Sapphire),
Kayak.com, Kellogg (Special K),
Koa Brands (John Frieda),
Leapfrog Enterprise (Leapster Explorer),
Lowe’s (admits to cancelling ads) ***
Mars (Dove Chocolate),
McDonald’s,
Nationwide Insurance,
News Corp (We bought a zoo movie),
Nintendo (Mariokartz.com),
Novartis (Theraflu),
Old Navy,
Pernod Ricard (Kahlua),
Petsmart,
Pier One,
Pfizer (Centrum vitamin),
Procter & Gamble (Align Probiotic, Crest, Febreze, Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, Pur, Tide),
Progressive Insurance,
Prudential Financial,
Radio Shack,
Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse,
SC Johnson (Drano, Glade, Scrubbing Bubbles),
Sears ,
Signet (Kay Jewelers),
Sonic Drive-ins,
Subaru, T
HQ (uDraw),
T-Mobil,
Toyota (Camry),
Volkswagen,
Vtech (Mobi Go, V Reader),
Wal-Mart
Whirlpool (Maytag)