Natick, MA Gentleman Speaks For 1.6 billion Muslims, Makes Psychiatric Diagnosis

Does this guest columnist speak for all Muslims in this country or the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world? Do ISIS Muslims share his beliefs? Saying "while a link between the current act of terror and ISIS has so far not been established," indicates propaganda. The shooter himself said he supports ISIS, which urges its supporters to commit lone wolf terror attacks. The Muslim terrorist Orlando shooter is described by his first wife and guests at the Pulse nightclub to be homosexual. How could he hate homosexuals? How was this an anti homosexual attack? The guest columnist joins Cambridge City Councilor Mazen making psychiatric diagnoses, without interviewing the patient. He would make a great television psychiatrist. How does he know the shooter is a psychopath? Is he suggesting that all crazy people are dangerous and violent. Expressing outrage(?) the columnist says, "It would appear that ISIS is directly trying to determine the outcome of the presidential campaign." Is that all this is? Political activity? He adds, "the 'Muslim world' that has the greatest vested interest in eradication of this scourge from within its midst." What are the vested interested Muslims doing to address the non Muslim ISIS terrorists? Does this alleged human rights activist include people with disabilities in his notion of diversity unlike human rights advocates in Cambridge? Yet he remains silent about the murders of a Paris policeman and his wife by another Muslim terrorist. 

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20160615/guest-column-beyond-orlando-terror

Guest column: Beyond the Orlando terror
By Abdul Cader Asmal
Posted Jun. 15, 2016 at 4:28 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Father of Orlando Terrorist Hosted Anti American Television Show

Seddique Mateen

Photo: YouTube

[From article]
Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen’s father is an Afghan immigrant who hosted an anti-American TV show and once called the Taliban “our warrior brothers.”
Seddique Mateen appears in scores of online videos, including one he posted to Facebook right around the time of his son’s rampage. In it, he wears combat fatigues and salutes the camera.
The elder Mateen speaks the Dari language in his often-rambling videos, and it wasn’t immediately clear what he says in that clip, posted on Facebook around 2 a.m. Sunday, just when Omar was opening fire on innocent victims at the Pulse nightclub.
An automated translation of remarks posted over the video says: “To the people revolution in Afghanistan, migration is in danger 2016-11-6.”

http://nyp.st/24KuCUS

In a video posted last year on YouTube, Seddique Mateen declared his candidacy for the Afghan presidency — despite the fact that the election took place a year earlier,according to the Washington Post.
Dozens of YouTube videos show him hosting the “Durand Jirga Show” on a TV channel broadcast from California. The name of the show refers to the “Durand Line,” the long-disputed border that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The show is known for “its anti-US tirades” and “pro-Taliban” remarks, a former Afghan official told the Associated Press.
In one video, Mateen denounces the Pakistani government and speaks favorably about the Taliban, the Washington Post said.
“Our brothers in Waziristan, our warrior brothers in [the] Taliban movement and national Afghan Taliban are rising up,” he says.
http://nypost.com/2016/06/12/nightclub-shooters-dad-hosted-anti-american-talk-show/

Nightclub shooter’s dad hosted anti-American talk show
By Bruce Golding
New York Post
June 12, 2016 | 11:59pm

https://youtu.be/WAqERW4ip3g

Turn Toward Camera and Smile (Politicians Instructions at Press Conference)

[From article]
Rahm Emanuel is a close friend of Hillary (and Bill) Clinton, and as obsessed both political power and personal vengeance on his enemies. Having obtained the post of Mayor of Chicago, he is now presiding over an impossible fiscal crisis, required to raise taxes to unrealistic levels in order to pay off the bribes pension obligations exchanged with labor unions in return for voting support.
Like his pal Hillary, Rahm believes in scripting his responses to questions. Mark Konkol of DNAinfo exposes the degree to which this process is carried out, via a public records request that yielded gold:
The “Daily Press Guidance” prepared for Emanuel’s Dec. 30 news conference on a new police “use of force” policy was complete with “Today’s sound bites,” “In The News Today” topics and scripted responses to expected questions that read like a stage play.
For instance, if a reporter were to ask if the new policy is meant to tell police officers to “stand down? Not to do their jobs? Run from trouble?” the script calls for the mayor to say, “Absolutely not.”
Then the mayor’s “press guidance” includes this stage direction: “TURN TO JOHN,” a reference to then-acting police Supt. John Escalante, whose lines are also included in the script.
Half of the projected questions included in the script called for Emanuel to say a line or two and then “TURN TO JOHN.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/public_records_request_yields_hilarious_level_of_scripting_used_by_rahm_emanuel_for_a_news_conference.html

May 28, 2016
Public records request yields hilarious level of scripting used by Rahm Emanuel for a news conference
By Thomas Lifson

Sarah Palin Producing Court TV Show, Visits Injured Husband in Hospital

Sarah with Todd's dad, Todd (behind the snowmobile mask) and daughter Willow.

[From article]
Sarah Palin was seen for the first time visiting her husband Todd in hospital after he was seriously injured in a snowmobile crash - just as it was revealed the former Alaska governor will give Judge Judy a run for her money and host a new reality courtroom show.
In pictures obtained exclusively by Daily Mail Online, Palin appeared tired and tense as she left Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Alaska last Friday after flying home from Florida where she had been campaigning for Donald Trump.
Indeed, Palin will have her hands full as she supports her husband, who faces a long recovery after undergoing surgery to repair 14 fractured ribs and a collapsed lung, and work on her new syndicated TV show.
[. . .]
The former governor of Alaska, 52, made her way unaccompanied to her SUV after spending many hours with Todd who remains on a ventilator in intensive care.
[. . .]
The daytime show would launch in 2017 if everything goes to plan.
[. . .]
The former governor of Alaska, 52, made her way unaccompanied to her SUV after spending many hours with Todd who remains on a ventilator in intensive care.
[. . .]
She left around ten minutes later and stopped to clean her truck at a car wash before returning to the family’s lakeside compound several miles away in Wasilla.
The mother-of-five has been updating concerned well-wishers on Todd’s condition via social media.
She revealed that her husband, 51, has a long road to recovery and is still on a breathing machine after having a six-hour surgery to repair 14 fractured ribs and a collapsed lung.
She wrote on Facebook: ‘Thank you for lifting Todd up in prayer. He's still in ICU under care of a superbly skilled staff.
'A long surgery repaired numerous breaks in Todd's upper body, docs essentially lifted and secured every rib with steel bands, anchored the broken clavicle with plates and rods, set aside repair of a broken shoulder for later (also later are more minor things like ACL/MCL knee injuries), still mechanically inflating one collapsed lung while other bruised lung, liver, etc., are watched; chest drain is working overtime to keep things clear.'
Sarah shared a picture of daughters Willow and Piper laughing while seated on a hospital bed in the March 17 post with the Irish proverb: ‘A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.’
She went on to say: 'Requiring a bit more than our usual fix-all up here - Duct tape - some gnarly incisions to enter his innards will be reminders of how life can change in the blink of an eye. (And skating through TSA detectors with bionic parts will now be anything but the blink of an eye!)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3505023/Here-comes-judge-Frazzled-Sarah-Palin-leaves-hospital-visiting-husband-Todd-signs-deal-host-reality-courtroom-show.html

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES: Here comes the judge! Frazzled Sarah Palin leaves hospital after visiting husband Todd as she signs deal to host her own reality courtroom show
Sarah Palin was seen for the first time visiting Todd at the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Alaska after his horrific snowmobile accident
Today it was revealed the former Alaska governor will give Judge Judy a run for her money and host a new reality courtroom show
She flew home from Florida where she was campaigning for Donald Trump after her husband was seriously injured in a snowmobile crash
Palin's daughter Piper and son Trig were also pictured with leaving the hospital where she was carrying Todd's snowmobile boots
The former governor of Alaska made her way unaccompanied to her SUV after spending many hours with Todd
Todd has a long road to recovery after having a six-hour surgery to repair 14 fractured ribs and a collapsed lung
By LOUISE BOYLE IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:59 EST, 22 March 2016 | UPDATED: 16:33 EST, 22 March 2016

Tribute To Justice Antonin Scalia, by Dinesh D'Souza

Dinesh D'Souza

Published on Feb 14, 2016
D'Souza joined Judge Jeanine Pirro February 13 on "Justice with Judge Jeanine" to discuss the death of intellectual giant Antonin Scalia.
"Scalia had a very elastic mind and was able to look at different ways in which we read a text, not just in terms of what the author intended, but also in terms of what the text actually says."
"Scalia was the intellectual giant on the Court, and perhaps the most eloquent Supreme Court Justice going back all the way to the early part of the 20th century. History will see him as a luminous figure."
"Scalia’s originalism was different than, for example, the originalism of Judge Bork. Bork would talk about reading the Constitution in the light of the Framers. And one of the things that Scalia would point out is that the intention of the Framers is sometimes opaque or contradictory. When you’re reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, you may not know what Shakespeare intended to say, but what you do have is the sonnet itself. And by looking at the poem, you can excavate what it actually means."
"When I got the news of Scalia’s death, I felt a sense of deep sorrow, and also a chill of fear down my spine. The Supreme Court has been so precariously balanced. It’s been very frustrating for us as conservatives that the Democrats can depend, almost with euclidean certitude, on their guys."
"We have a president who has shown a willingness to skirt the law with immigration, with the Defense of Marriage Act, and with Obamacare. We need a Supreme Court that is going to stand up for constitutionalism at this point in our history."
"I think it’s important for the Republican Congress to signal very clearly to Obama that any nominee that he puts forward on the left is essentially dead on arrival. That forces upon Obama the choice of either pushing forward and going up in flames, or trying to come up with a unifying nominee that would actually help to bring the country together."

https://youtu.be/1LmqOzrCe80

Wasting Wisdom and Youth

James Spader as Raymond Reddington, in NBC feature, The Blacklist. Drexel (No. 113). February 18, 2016

"People say youth is wasted on the young. I disagree. I believe wisdom is wasted on the old. All you can do is part with it. But very few will take it. Least of all people closest to you. They want no part of it."

Ann Coulter On Unifying Americans

[From article]
Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow was agog at the fact that IN THIS COUNTRY, 66 PERCENT OF GOP VOTERS ARE COMFORTABLE WITH BANNING MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS.
Her neurotic repetition of the popularity of Trump’s Muslim ban should be considered an in-kind donation to his campaign. Most people heard it, and thought: “Is that true? Then I’m definitely switching to Trump.”
Even Muslim immigrants were saying, “I probably won’t commit jihad myself, but I know some of the Muslims coming definitely will.”
It’s like importing immigrants with Ebola. We feel bad for them, we know it’s not their fault, but we just can’t let them in. For every 100,000 Muslims we admit, we know that at least a few hundred either plan to engage in terrorism right away or can be persuaded to engage in terrorism later. Another 10,000 will send them money or help them hide.
Trump could probably help himself by saying: “Fine. You don’t want a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants? How about we temporarily suspend all immigration?” Let’s take a breather while we watch what happens to Europe.
[. . .]
There isn’t a lot the entire country agrees on, anymore. A few generations ago, there was so much that brought Americans together. Everyone read LIFE magazine, listened to Jack Benny on the radio, and then later watched Ed Sullivan together, every single Sunday night. All Americans watched the moon landing, were traumatized when Kennedy was shot and supported the troops.
But today, with a billion cable channels, and specialty magazines on everything from bridal gowns to automatic rifles, and a wildly heterogeneous population, there’s not a whole lot that brings us together.

http://humanevents.com/2016/02/10/new-jersey-man-slays-child/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

New Jersey Man Slays Child

Ann Coulter

Wednesday Feb 10, 2016 5:39 PM

Television Feature About The Kennedy Cult

An 18-year-old Kick was considered the debutante of the year in London, she was “a sunflower among pale English roses.”

Photo: Courtesy Smithsonian Channel

Was she more cursed than Rosemary, who the master of the Kennedy Cult had lobotomized?


Kick with her mother Rose, and sister Rosemary, before being presented at court in London in 1938. Kick’s brother Joe Jr. died in August, 1944, with Billy killed in action less than a month later.

Photo: Getty Images

[From article]

She was rich and reckless, and so free-spirited that everyone called her Kick. She defied her family to marry the man she loved — only to soon lose him and a brother to war. By 28, she too was gone, dying in a plane crash alongside her married lover.
But as far as Kathleen Kennedy’s mother was concerned, she’d already gone to hell.
The brief, largely unpublicized life of John F. Kennedy’s favorite sister is the stuff of Shakespeare, rife with wealth, fractured loyalties and tragic death. And now it’s on TV:Airing tonight at 8 on the Smithsonian Channel, “Million Dollar American Princesses”tells a haunting story, narrated in part by Kick’s namesake — the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/jfks-forgotten-free-spirited-sister-was-the-most-cursed-of-them-all/

JFK’s forgotten free-spirited sister was the most cursed of them all
By Barbara Hoffman
New York Post
January 16, 2016 | 12:53pm

PBS Broadcasts Feature Showing Persons With Disabilties as Human Beings

This couple appears in the film to be healthy, handsome and normal. 

After a few years of pestering, with retaliatory threats because of my repeated questions, why persons with disabilities were never portrayed on taxpayer funded PBS stations in Boston, the stations actually (will wonders never cease?) broadcast a few full length features by independent videographers. The one being broadcast in January 2016 on WGBH-TV Boston and other PBS stations shows five people diagnosed with autism and their thoughts on love. They appear to be no different than thoughts expressed by poets and philosophers through the ages, and ordinary people alive today. The definitions expressed are pretty good. Two of the persons shown do not appear to have any serious illness. Nonetheless it is curious that the producer focused on love. Human services industry professionals assist people they declare disabled. Do they ever encourage them to enjoy love and romantic relationships as other people do?


Then there are three (of six) cable access television stations, CCTV, in Cambridge, MA (which receives about $1 million each year from the City). The executive director with a straight face explained to me that they could not find any features showing persons with disabilities to broadcast, as the reason why persons with disabilities seldom appeared on that station. That is Cambridge, MA the host city of Harvard University, MIT and Lesley University. The morally superior city which has a misguided self image as holier than thou.


Permanent host of PBS Greater Boston James Braude, former Cambridge, MA City Councilor omits persons with disabilities from appearing as guests on his show. He continues the tradition of Emily Rooney his predecessor.

Banning persons with disabilities is bad enough. The same show invites black people, women, homosexuals and Muslims to speak about how they experience discrimination. In Braude's mind everybody loves people with disabilities. Not so. They just don't think about them. For Braude every time there is a mass shooting he expresses a bigoted view, stereotyping people with disabilities as dangerous, violent and likely to take up arms and shoot up a theater or school. Braude objects vigorously to stereotyping black people, women, homosexuals and Muslims. But not so much for persons with disabilities, who he continues to insult on his taxpayer funded television show.

The same with CBS News' prestigous commentator, Andy Rooney's daughter, Emily Rooney. She was news director at WCVB-TV, Boston before she moved to public television. She now hosts a weekly show called Beat The Press, where her guests attack and ridicule conservative media errors, but ignore liberal bias. It is humorous to watch them make fools of themselves. Rooney refused to invite persons with disabilities on Greater Boston when she was the host. On Beat The Press she has a regular black lesbian, who hosts the Basic Black show, a few homosexuals, other black Harvard University elitists, but never, never anyone with a disability. For Rooney people with disabilities have no ability to repeat the liberal mantra and are unable to criticize, to listen to, or to read what is written, broadcast, published and posted online.

Taxpayer funded WGBH-TV, Boston's PBS station has a weekly show called Basic Black. Only upper class professional black people, e.g., professors, celebrities, journalists, are permitted on the show, which focuses on how black people can get more power and more money. They discuss how racist white people are, and how they enjoy privileges, which black people do not. People with disabilities are never seen on Basic Black or on WGBH, except as noted herein in recent days on independent shows. Not even black people with disabilities. That too is remarkable.

Harvard University when confronted with its bias against disability, marches out the few black disabled students they allow to matriculate. Never are white people with disabilities recognized at Harvard University. That is a fact. Over the past 20 years I am a tenant at a building owned and operated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Harvard University campus police employees and building superintendents conducted and conduct a brutal criminal harassment campaign every day and every night. They disturb my sleep every one or two hours. They provoke, insult, ridicule, and humiliate me saying "He's crazy." But when I seek assistance from state and local taxpayer funded human services agencies they tell me, "There's nothing wrong with you." Their students tamper with my home computer, accessing it remotely to sabotage my use. For the elite at Harvard University and on public TV, disabled people are preferred targets for criminal abuse and bullying. No one listens to them and no one gives them a platform to petition for equal treatment by the four major approved victim groups.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/autism-in-love/

link to full video until April 10, 2016 9 [one hour, 13 minutes
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/autism-in-love/

Autism in Love
Independent Lens Production
Broadcast on WGBH-TV
Monday January 11, 2016

More broadcasts in  January 2016 see web page link above

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Filmmaker Sophie and her son Ben

Sophie and Ben
Short about disabled child, raised by alternative family.

Aunt Dona and Grandmother Mimi

Film maker Sophie recognized she was unable to be so unselfish to take care of her aunt as her grandmother took care of her aunt.

Her son Ben, was diagnosed as having autism, as she had a history of autism. Aunt Dona asked to leave public schools in second grade. Ben entered school in second grade.

Ben: "Differences are what makes us human. I mean, imagine if we were all the exact same person. The world would be a boring place! And now since, and since we have differences that makes the, that makes the world an entertaining, that makes the world unique. And I feel like autism and Asperger's Syndrome are just a difference, where your brain is built a different way, and it's completely fine to be different because it's what makes us human."

Sarah Palin Stars in Video Comedy Spoofing Tina Fey's TV Show

Palin spoofs Fey. 

(Independent Journal)

[From article]
Two days after Tina Fey reprised her impersonation of Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night ” the former Republican vice-presidential candidate turned the tables, spoofing the “30 Rock” star in a Web video titled “31 Rock.”
In it, Palin portrays Liz Lemon’s character, sporting a hoodie and demanding a Big Gulp. “30 Rock” cast member Kevin Brown, who played the character Dot Com on the NBC sitcom, is also featured.
The sketch includes a plug for the tea party firebrand’s new book, “Sweet Freedom,” which Brown calls “a great reminder of the pressures of PC culture.”
“The only PC I need is right here,” Palin replies, raking her hand across her laptop.
[. . .]
On the eve of last week’s GOP debate in Las Vegas, Palin weighed in on the 2016 presidential field, defending Donald Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States — and blaming the “liberal media” for not allowing the Republican frontrunner to “finish his thought.”
“I think that Trump was trying to finish the conversation that would lead to a pause on immigration in general,” Palin told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I think that’s where he was going.”
Palin says she hasn’t endorsed anyone yet but is leaning toward either Trump or Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
“I’m not going to pick one right now, but what a nice problem to have if it came down to Cruz and Trump,” Palin said. “That’s a good problem for voters to have, because we know that, as you say, they are both strong and very decisive and someone who would take the initiative. That is what we need today, and both of those candidates would fit that bill.”

http://news.yahoo.com/palin-spoofs-tina-few-30-rock-video-133337245.html

Sarah Palin spoofs Tina Fey in ‘30 Rock’ parody
‘Where’s my Big Gulp?’

By Dylan Stableford

December 22, 2015 8:33 AM

Yahoo News

https://youtu.be/VSvSDEQY3D8

"31 Rock" Season 1 Trailer, Featuring Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin stars in Independent Journal's new comedy about a small-town TV writer who moves to NYC in hopes of creating a hit variety show. Also starring Kevin Brown (Dot Com), Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator John McCain

Credits:
Director/writer: Kenny Wassus
Director of Photography: Rob Groulx Phil Wolf
Sound: Max Futterman
Producer: Andrew Clark
Executive Producers: Bubba Atkinson Colin Chocola Benny Johnson
Production Assistant: Dave Jorgenson

Cambridge, MA Fireman Wins $1 million on TV Show Survivor

Jeremy Collins, Cambridge, MA Fireman, with his wife and children 

[From article]
Christmas came early this year for Jeremy Collins, a Cambridge firefighter who won the $1-million-dollar prize on the television game show, “Survivor, Second Chance” on Dec. 16.
This was the second go-around for Collins, who previously competed on the 29th season of “Survivor: San Juan Del Sur—Blood vs. Water” in 2014. Collins competed with his wife of 10 years, Val, but both were eliminated and didn’t reach the finals that year.
But that wasn’t the case this time around, as Collins made it all the way with fellow finalists Tasha Fox and Spencer Bledsoe.
In the final episode the trio went before a jury of 10 contestants who were previously voted off during the game. In the end, all 10 jury members voted for Collins, according to show host Jeff Probst.
[. . .]



"As many in America witnessed, he carries himself with grace and dignity,” said Cambridge Fire Chief Gerald Reardon in a written statement. “He is focused on the task at hand and that's what we are used to seeing in the Fire Department. All of us in the Cambridge Fire Department couldn't be happier for Jeremy, his wife, Val, and their beautiful family.”

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151222/NEWS/151228868

Cambridge firefighter wins $1M on 'Survivor'
By Heather Gillis Harris and Natalie Handy
Cambridge (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Dec. 22, 2015 at 9:03 AM
Updated Dec 22, 2015 at 10:23 AM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

New Television Show Reveals Disabled People Are Human

Footage from The new A&E Docu-Series "“Born This Way." 

Photo: Adam Taylor

[From article]
It seems bizarre that someone capable of formulating a sentence thinks it’s necessary to defend his own humanity, but sadly, John was speaking for himself and millions of others like him who, based on a prenatal genetic test, were recommended for abortion.
John survived. Most don’t.
The statistics are hard to pin down, but experts estimate 90 percent of babies with Down syndrome are never born. Think about the last time you saw a child with the telltale facial features indicative of the genetic condition. It’s far more likely you’ll see them in an adult, who was born before prenatal testing became routine. That doesn’t mean Down syndrome is becoming less prevalent; it means that parents are less and less likely to carry these pregnancies to term.
During the closing credits, John’s mother explains that her family is participating in the program in order to give hope to other families who might be facing the same prenatal diagnosis she did. The show aims to change the perception of individuals with the condition — which Steven, another star, calls “Up Syndrome” because he refuses to be depressed or sad.
[. . .]



Medical science has made it possible to learn about a Down diagnosis via a prenatal test. Parents can learn about the challenges babies, children and adults might face with the condition — but all that focuses on the negatives, not the joy children with Down bring their parents.
Weeding out genetic diseases like Down, whose sufferers can and still d [ o lead full and healthy lives, is eugenics, pure and simple. The most extreme version of which comes from the barbaric terrorists of ISIS, who reportedly issued a decree to execute babies born with Down and other genetic diseases.
In the West, most Down babies don’t make it to birth. There are genetic screening tests for preconception for excruciating and deadly diseases like Tay-Sachs. The difference with testing for Down is two-fold: The test is only possible after conception, and the only prenatal “treatment” is termination.
The fact that we need a TV show to humanize individuals with Down syndrome is deeply troubling to begin with.
[. . .]



When John’s mother was told she was pregnant with a child with Down, she was told by doctors, “Don’t expect a lot . . . He will never be a productive member of society.”
With more and more babies with Down aborted, it has become vital to show the world just how wonderful and, yes, normal, life with a Down syndrome family member can be.

http://nypost.com/2015/12/14/the-people-that-so-many-of-us
 -dont-consider-people/

The people that so many of us don’t consider people
By Bethany Mandel
New York Post
December 14, 2015 | 8:00pm

Judge Judy Awards Damages To Man Whose Confederate Flag Was Vandalized By Three Teens

[From article]

The plaintiff, Jesse Huggins, said he was at a party when he received a phone call telling him his truck and flag were vandalized outside.
When he reached the truck he found the flag, defaced, on the hood with a large scratch on the vehicle’s tailgate.
The teenage defendants, Nicholas Nolan, Christopher Easley and Bailey Forsten, claimed to have found the flag on the ground before they drove around with it, urinated on it and returned it to the scene.
Judy didn’t buy the story as the disrespectful defendants acted foolishly, laughing and avoiding her questions, throughout the hearing.
She awarded Huggins the $2,500 in damages he was seeking as she admonished the defendants.

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/11/21/judge-judy-blows-up-laying-into-mouthy-confederate-flag-vandalizers-you-three-are-a-bunch-of-morons-276360

Judge Judy blows up, laying into mouthy Confederate flag vandalizers: ‘You three are a bunch of morons’
November 21, 2015

Carmine Sabia

https://youtu.be/IqXqV46mdtw

Jay Leno Comments on Contemporary Scene

Jay Leno

[From article]
"I think he's really funny and I think [Jimmy Kimmel]'s talented, I just think he has a bit of a mean streak," said Leno. "The best thing you can have in this job is kindness. That's the one thing you have to keep because this job makes you arrogant, it makes you think you're superior. Consequently, there's a tendency to nail the little guy. When I watch his thing where he takes the candy away from the kids at Halloween and they cry, I don't get that. That seems mean to me. I guess it's funny on some level. But on another level, it doesn't come from the heart. It comes from somewhere else. And I think that's maybe why he hasn't achieved the success he'd like to because I think he's just got a bit of a mean streak."
Before leaving the Beverly Hilton ballroom, Leno also touched on one hot-button issue: Bill Cosby and the critical mass of accusations of rape and sexual abuse levied against him in the last year.
"I don't know how you come out of there," said Leno. "I find it fascinating — how many accusers does he have now? 40? Well, 50 women come forward and people call them liars. And they go, 'Oh, you waited 40 years?' Men waited 50 years to say, 'A priest touched me,' and they got 7 million dollars. How come we believe them and we don't believe the women? It does seem awful sexist to me. … It does seem very unfair, and I'm surprised no one's ever made that analogy."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jay-leno-tests-trump-material-815175

AUGUST 13, 2015 10:06am PT

by Michael O'Connell, Bryn Elise Sandberg
Jay Leno Tests Trump Material, Talks Cosby, Questions Kimmel's "Mean Streak"

House of Cards Creator, Speaks At Columbia University School of The Arts Commencement

Beau Willimon, Columbia College, 1999; School of The Arts 2003

[From article]
He writes about the world we live in. . . .
[. . .]
Willimon drew inspiration for his speech in part from the documentary The Fog of War, in which Robert McNamara, the U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, talks about the Vietnam War and eleven lessons he learned from that conflict.
"I realized these eleven lessons were just as applicable to the making of art as they were to the waging of war," Willimon said. "And maybe it's because making art is a battle of sorts, because if you're not climbing Mount Olympus to spar with the gods, what's the damn point?"
Willimon shared the lessons, elaborating upon each of them:

1. Empathize with your enemy. ("The enemy is fear.")
2. Rationality alone will not save us.
3. There's something beyond oneself.
4. Maximize efficiency.
5. Proportionality should be a guideline in a war. ("I'm going to replace it with something a little more useful, which is, none of us can do this alone, folks.")
6. Get the data. ("Your data set has no boundaries. It's everything from Anna Karenina to the scribblings of a three-year-old child, from a Vermeer in the Met to the beauty of a piss stain on the sidewalk, from the kings and queens of Shakespeare's plays to the hookers and junkies and queens of an SRO on Jane Street.")
7. Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
8. Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning.
9. In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil. ("I think it's applicable if you revise it to 'In order to make something beautiful, you may have to engage in the ugly or the horrific or the uncomfortable.' ")
10. Never say never.
11. You can't change human nature.

"You are the warriors for truth and beauty," he said. "You have to be brave, because your bravery is the only weapon that you actually have."
[. . .]
"The nefarious underlying principle of our social and economic policy — that if you can't make it on your own, somehow you don't deserve to make it — lurks as subtext for all of us, but perhaps especially for young artists," [said Theatre Program Chair Christian Parker]

http://arts.columbia.edu/soa/news/2015/graduation_roundup

'HOUSE OF CARDS' CREATOR BEAU WILLIMON ('03) GIVES SCHOOL OF THE ARTS GRADUATES ELEVEN RULES FOR ART AND WAR
28-May-15

Egyptian Conversation About American Politics

Published on May 20, 2015
For those that understand "Poe's Law" no further disclaimer is required. For those that don't.........I suggest you look it up.
Please visit Memritv.org where original unedited clip was taken from. They do invaluable work in detailing and reporting on the media in the Middle East. http://www.memritv.org/

Contrary to Spineless Network Television Talking Heads Broadcasting Propaganda

Flaherty deserves a bravery award for being able to listen to the Sunday television talk shows. They are all getting to be like PBS, one sided propaganda all the time. Watching this video clip reminded me of William F. Buckley's observation about liberals and other opinions. These pundits say they want conversations. But they just want everyone to agree with what they say.




Published on Jun 22, 2015
Fantasies of White mob violence -- Sunday Morning News:
The talking heads all agree: White racists are picking on black people all the time all over the country.
That of course is not true.
So let see why.

Trump Makes Business While Politicians Flounder

[From article]
our resident elites resolutely refuse to take Trump seriously.
They should. Not because he will be nominated, but because the Trump constituency will represent a vote of no confidence in the Beltway ruling class of politicians and press.
Votes for Trump will be votes to repudiate that class, whole and entire, and dump it onto the ash heap of history.
[. . .]
A vote for Trump is a vote to say that both parties have failed America and none of the current crop of candidates offers real hope of a better future.
The first book in Arthur Schlesinger’s trilogy about FDR’s ascent to power was “The Crisis of the Old Order.” That title is relevant to our time. For there is today a crisis of the regime in America — a crisis of confidence, a crisis of competence, a crisis of legitimacy.
[. . .]
Trump says America is becoming a “dumping ground” for mass immigration from the failed states of the Third World, that Mexico is not “sending us her best and finest,” that China is stealing American jobs, that invading Iraq was a blunder.
Politically incorrect and socially insensitive certainly, but is he entirely wrong?
[. . .]
Do Americans not have the right to decide who shall come to our country, how many, and whence they shall come?
[. . .]
As in America, dominant parties like the Tories and Labour in Britain are losing loyalists to the “a-plague-on-both-your-houses” dissident parties.
[. . .]
If Trump wants to stake his claim as a different kind of Republican, he will go to Washington and pound the Boehner-McConnell Congress until it gives up on Obamatrade and fast track.

http://buchanan.org/blog/the-anti-politician-16164

The Anti-Politician

Friday - June 19, 2015 at 12:09 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan

New York Attorney General Charges TV Comsumer Fraud

[From article]
But wait, there’s more — hidden charges!
A company that hawks “As Seen on TV” wares like the Snuggie and Perfect Bacon Bowl will fork over $8 million to settle charges that it duped customers, sources said Thursday.
Allstar Marketing Group promised “buy one, get one free” deals, but charged customers nearly twice what they expected with “deceptive” processing and handling fees, the Federal Trade Commission says.
“This agreement returns money to thousands of consumers in New York and across the nation who believed they were buying items at the price advertised on television but ended up with extra merchandise and hidden fees they didn’t bargain for,” said state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who worked with the FTC on the settlement.

http://nypost.com/2015/03/06/as-seen-on-tv-vendor-pays-8-million-for-duping-customers/

‘As Seen on TV’ vendor pays $8 million for duping customers
By Natalie O'Neill
New York Post
March 6, 2015 | 1:00am

New Television Series Married People Sleep With Strangers

[From article]
In the series, four couples “at a crossroads in their relationship” — FYI did not say if they’ve all been married seven years — get the chance to shack up with a stranger for two weeks in an “experimental marriage.”
They will eat, live and, yes, “sleep” with these total strangers, the network said.
[. . .]
Gena McCarthy, SVP Programming and Development at FYI, described it as an experiment to determine whether absence really does make the heart grow fonder, sidestepping the whole shacking-up-with-a-stranger part.

http://deadline.com/2015/04/fyi-seven-year-switch-series-spouse-swap-marriage-1201415817/

FYI Orders Spouse-Swap Series ‘The Seven Year Switch’
by Lisa de Moraes
April 24, 2015 11:13am