Picture Worth a Thousand Distortions

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

Romney’s ‘Shoe Shine’

By Brian Bolduc

January 13, 2012 3:44 P.M.

In the anti-Bain Capital film “When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” a picture of Mitt Romney supposedly getting his shoes shined flashes across the screen. Nonetheless, as NPR’s Frank James points out, he isn’t getting his shoes shined. He’s getting wanded by the TSA.

Bloomberg Slanders Law Abiding Woman Tourist

[From article]
"Meredith Graves, the Tennessee nurse who, upon visiting the 9/11 memorial in New York and seeing the signs forbidding firearms, asked the staff if she could check her pistol (lawful and licensed in her home state). She was handcuffed, arrested, and now faces three and a half years in jail for firearms possession – for the crime of being unaware that the Second Amendment does not apply in New York City.
Asked about the case, New York’s thuggish mayor decided to add insult to injury:
Let’s assume that she didn’t get arrested for carrying a gun. She probably would have gotten arrested for the cocaine that was in her pocket.
There was no cocaine."

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

Bloomberg’s Law
By Mark Steyn
January 13, 2012 9:15 P.M

Criminals Rewarded by Obama, Law Abiding Punished

Under the Obama administration illegal aliens get taxpayers funds to purchase homes. But after the FBI used me to fight organized crime for 15 years, a vigorous multi millionaire supporter of Obama and her husband (protected by US Marshals and the FBI) told everyone I met for 25 years that I was a retired drug dealer, and that they were my friends. The Obama supporters prevented me from working, and ignored 30 years of police and crime families' surveillance, harassment and provocations in three states. Is this a great country for illegal aliens, and criminal politicians or what? Only a fool would help the police or the FBI solve crimes where they were not the victims.

[From article]
"Before joining Team Obama, Munoz spent two decades as chief registered lobbyist for the National Council of La Raza (“The Race”).
[. . .]
Thanks to strategic partnerships” with Wachovia and Bank of America, La Raza has succeeded in lowering mortgage-application requirements and documentation standards. Illegals have secured many federal and private-home loans over the last decade thanks to the lending industry’s version of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The group also collected a $1 million Democratic earmark that funded “community-development” projects."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_prez_promotes_his_pet_razist_FFH4qM9ZPSt6CcQ7ynFEDK

The Prez promotes his pet 'Razist'
Michelle Malkin
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:50 AM, January 14, 2012
Posted: 9:57 PM, January 13, 2012

List of High Profile Killings, Rapes By Police Officers

[Some of the included links no longer work]


This link works: How to report a judge who allows people to be killed.
http://www.killerjudges.com/Contact_Us.html

The person who complied this list focuses on criminal abuses by police officers of women -- rape and homicide. But seldom are police abuses of persons with disabilities compiled. The FBI relies on police reports of hate crimes. But frequently when persons with disabilities report crimes the police ignore them. In some cases police do not respond to complaints about crimes against them, just as they do when women complain. In Massachusetts the few taxpayer funded agencies whose mission is to protect disabled persons, join in discriminating by creating impediments to the actual filing of complaints against the police or others for bias, no less for crime. Nonetheless this list indicates how much criminal abuse is tolerated by government and elected officials of criminal police activities. These are serious crimes. What can be said about lesser crimes by police and the FBI -- theft, harassment, abuse of power e.g.?

http://www.familylawcourts.com/bad_cop.html

FamilyLawCourts.com
No one over eleven believes it's working.

Cruise Ship Crashes in Italy

[Updated January 15, 2012 8:15 PM]
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/people_survivor_rescued_from_stricken_vfsY3b8gtXFDXDs8tGRDAJ/0

Cruise captain's conduct blasted as death toll rises; 'showing off' before crash
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:53 PM, January 15, 2012
Posted: 9:29 AM, January 15, 2012

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/three_coast_several_missing_after_Ztwzh4pOyI28VzooFByOnM/0

At least 3 dead as cruise ship runs aground; captain arrested
New York POST STAFF and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Last Updated: 3:50 PM, January 14, 2012
Posted: 6:42 AM, January 14, 2012

Study: UN Troops Brought Cholera To Haiti

[From article]
"But ABC News has interviewed several top scientists involved in researching the origins of the cholera outbreak, and each expressed little doubt that the UN troop was responsible. The reason: A genetic analysis of the strain found in Haiti matches identically the one involved in an outbreak in Nepal in August and September of 2010; The Nepalese peacekeeping troops deployed for Haiti at precisely that time; Two weeks before the outbreak, Haitians had reported sanitary breakdowns at the Nepalese encampment set along a tributary to the Artibonite River, about 60 miles north of the capital Port Au Prince. The next month, the earliest cases of cholera surfaced in the same remote area, from Haitians who had been drinking and bathing in the river."

http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-un-soldiers-brought-deadly-superbug-americas-194141189--abc-news.html

Scientists: UN Soldiers Brought Deadly Superbug to Americas
ABC NewsBy MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS and RYM MOMTAZ
ABC News
Thu, Jan 12, 2012

Bulger Crime Family and FBI Criminals Still Operating in MA

Wahlberg said, "I really feel and my heart goes out to the victims [. . .] But you know, if there’s a story to be told there, [. . .] it’s certainly something that we would explore.” So he feels but not that much. How many journalists are FBI informants who promote FBI propaganda? How many associates of the Bulger crime family still work in the MA bureaucracy and police agencies? There is no will to clean up institutionalized corruption. Hear any candidates or the President speaking about this problem?

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1395779&srvc=news&position=3

Victims’ kin blast Mark Wahlberg over Whitey Bulger sit-down
By O’Ryan Johnson
Boston Herald
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Wake Forest University Hires Muslim Chapliain Linked to Muslim Brotherhood

http://www.radicalislam.org/analysis/wake-forest-universitys-radical-imam

Wake Forest University's Radical Imam
by: Clare M. Lopez

Radical Islam Alert

Issue 58 01.05.12 In This Issue: Wake Forest University's Radical Imam Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad Islam Commands Individual Jihad Featured Videos U-Report Recommended Reading The President of Wake Forest University in North Carolina, Nathan O. Hatch, has praised his recently appointed Assistant Chaplain, Khalid Griggs, as a “well-respected individual, both on campus and throughout the Winston-Salem community.” What President Hatch does not acknowledge however is Imam Griggs’ other, less publicized activities, such a being a senior ranking official of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an organization with strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. He is also a member of the Shura Council for the Muslim Alliance of North America (MANA), an organization co-founded and led by Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. So how is someone like Khalid Griggs able to work in an environment where he has access to thousands of young, impressionable minds, and more importantly – why is no one protesting? Clarion Fund Senior Fellow Clare Lopez investigates. [Special thanks to Donald Woodsmall who brought this story to our attention]. Wake Forest University's Radical Imam - A UReport Special Investigative Feature by Clare M. Lopez When Wake Forest University hired Khalid Griggs in February 2010 to be its first Muslim Assistant Chaplain, President Nathan O. Hatch hailed the "broader dialogue among people of different faith traditions" and the "greater awareness of differing beliefs" that he apparently supposed would flow naturally from the appointment. Hatch might have been excused for his ignorance at the time, because the Center for Security Policy (CSP, a Washington, D.C. think tank, had not yet published its seminal study on Islamic law (shariah) and the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). "Shariah: The Threat to America." Once that work came out in October 2010, though, it is difficult to understand how the president of such a respected American university could have remained so oblivious to the serious implications of allowing an individual like Griggs with openly-publicized links to the Muslim Brotherhood access to Wake Forest students. [MORE] Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad by Clare M. Lopez ‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’ -- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them. This obligation is compulsory because it is written in the Qur’an as a divine order. [MORE] Did You Know� Islam Commands Individual Jihad? by Clare M. Lopez According to Islamic law, Jihad is warfare to spread the religion and is obligatory for all Muslims everywhere until such time as �there is no more Fitna [resistance to Islam] and the religion will all be for Allah alone.� (Quran 8:39) Jihad against the infidel (kuffar) is of two types: offensive and defensive. The offensive kind, called �Fard Kifaya,� is conducted under the leadership of the Caliph and is for the purpose of defending the borders of Islam and sending out the armies of Islam at least once a year to terrorize the enemies of Allah. Offensive Jihad is a collective duty and when enough Muslim fighters respond to the call of the Caliph, the remainder of the Muslim population is relieved of this duty. Defensive jihad is a compulsory duty upon all Muslims primarily when the kuffar enter Muslim lands. It is considered so critical to repulse the invader that Ibn Taymia even asserted it took precedence over making the hajj. [MORE] Featured Videos: Islam Was Not For Me – watch former Iranian and apostate to Christianity, Amil Imani’s impassioned video essay about his decision to leave Islam. [WATCH VIDEO] First Shariah-Controlled Zone in Australia– Muslim leader moves to enforce Shariah law in Lakemba neighborhood in Sidney [WATCH VIDEO] News & Blogs Ugandan Pastor Blinded in Muslim Acid Attack Afghan Child Bride Tortured by In-Laws [BLOG] How a Taliban Ringtone Could Save Your Life RadicalIslam.org invites you to report to us about issues concerning Radical Islam in your area. Let us know about attempts by Muslims to impose Islamic laws in your community, report about radical Muslim demonstrations or activities on your college campus or in your neighborhood. Send us all the details and after being reviewed your story may be published on RadicalIslam.org Write to us and help us spread awareness about the threat of Radical Islam in the United States. Recommended Reading In Radical State: How Jihad Is Winning Over Democracy in the West, author Abigail R. Esman argues that in large measure, it is actually jihad which has emerged victorious over democracy, not only because of the actions of Muslim terrorists, but because of our own response to extremist Islam in the West. With the best of intentions, Western (European) countries have permitted antidemocratic, ultraconservative Islamic beliefs and traditions to flourish in their societies as they've responded to the influx of Muslim immigrants to their shores, largely as a result of the guest-worker programs which began in the 1960s and 1970s across Europe. But this multicultural approach has only backfired, creating cultural wars in which even the most intolerant and undemocratic of belief systems and values have been permitted...

Political Discourse 2012

Woman in Hot Air Balloon

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her
altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him,

"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an
hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air
balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet
above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude
and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude."

She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican."

"I am," replied the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is
technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your
information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."

The man smiled and responded, "You must be an Obama-Democrat."

"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"

"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are -- or where you
are going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of
hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you
expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position
you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault."

Celebrity Comments: Groucho and Madonna

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today." - Groucho Marx

Madonna: "The FBI is notorious for lying." Nightline, ABC News, January 13, 2012

Parasite May Be Reason Bees Disappear

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jOndcTM-RZAUwi3KzzO2_siMhS5Q?docId=ff8d78b731304309a475b87fc5d13aca

Study: Parasitic fly could explain bee die-off
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA,
Associated Press –
Jan 4, 2012

Peeing Marines Minor Offense Among Series of Taliban Atrocities

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/the_real_tale_of_the_tapes_Om6PzDobxyhc7cYEJWJiqK

The real tale of the tapes
Editorial
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:21 AM, January 13, 2012
Posted: January 13, 2012

NYU Student Challenges Assignment to Study OWS

http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2012/01/06/nyu-student-weaves-elaborate-email-drama-beefs-with-administration-over-ows-and-student-ethics/

NYU Student Weaves Elaborate Email-Drama, Beefs With Administration Over OWS And Student Ethics
By Myles Tanzer on January 6th, 2012
NYU Local

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/loony_versities_occupy_gall_st_ijN40Z48rd4vBf1kXUQCrM

Loony-versities occupy Gall St.
Andrea Peyser
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:39 AM, January 12, 2012
Posted: 1:36 AM, January 12, 2012

Psychiatry, Anything You Want It To Be and More

The delightful characteristic of psychiatry is that if you don't like a diagnosis, you can always get another with a different or opposite finding. The awful thing about psychiatry is that it is used to avoid accountability for one's actions. What difference does it make if the man is paranoid schizophrenic whatever that means? If he knew what he did is illegal, wrong, criminal he must be held accountable for his egregious acts. How many more years will psychiatrists be allowed to thwart the values of western civilization because they believe they are morally and intellectually superior to ordinary humans? Have the genes of psychiatrists been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism?

[From article]
"In November, prosecutors declared Breivik to be criminally insane. The 243-page psychiatric assessment -- based on 13 interviews with Breivik, an interview with his mother and an examination of his medical history -- found that the 32 year old had developed "paranoid schizophrenia."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/norwegian_court_orders_behring_psychiatric_SCl8mHrRt50HSu0Zjo2ZSI

Norwegian court orders new psychiatric review of confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik
NEWSCORE
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:47 AM, January 13, 2012
Posted: 7:22 AM, January 13, 2012

Are You Sure?

In a related story a majority of Harvard University faculty declared that ice is usually cold. "You can bet on it," asserted Divinity School Professor Diane Eck.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/1/12/romney-south-carolina-new-hampshire/

Professors See Romney As Most Likely Nominee
By Jose A. DelReal,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Thursday, January 12, 2012

Accused Rapist Permitted to Stay in Church Shelter

http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2012/01/12/wall-street-journal-confirms-accused-occupier-rapist-allowed-to-sleep-at-occupied-church/

Accused OWS Rapist Tonye Iketubosin


Wall Street Journal Confirms Accused Occupier Rapist Allowed to Sleep at Occupied Church
by Lee Stranahan
January 12, 2012
BigGovernment.com

Ohio Sign "Whites Only" Prohibited

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/12/us-ohio-discrimination-pool-idUSTRE80B24120120112

Ohio woman loses appeal on "White Only" pool sign
By Kim Palmer
Reuters
Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:08pm EST

Phildelphia Mayor Blames Parents for Teen Violence

After a generation celebrating single parenthood, this clueless politician blames the victims. Many single parents fear their children more than they do strangers. Liberal public policy created problems. The politicians condemn the unintended consequences.

[From article]
"The outraged mayor also had strong words for the parents of Philadelphia’s youth, telling them “not to act like idiots and a–holes.”
[. . .]
he is fuming that the victims were out on Tuesday night apparently looking for trouble. And he blames their parents.
“Seven young people,[. . .] are out in a car going to somewhere to have a fight with some other teenager. That is completely insane, it is irresponsible. Parents have to know where their children are and what they are doing,” the mayor said.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/01/12/nutter-fumes-after-3-philadelphia-teens-killed-in-apparent-reprisal-shooting/

Nutter Fumes After 3 Philadelphia Teens Killed In Apparent Reprisal Shooting
January 12, 2012 12:41 PM
CBS News Philadelphia PA
By Mike Dunn

Connecticut Researcher Falsified Data 140 times

[From article]
"As a result of the investigation, all externally funded research in Das’ lab has been stopped and the university has declined $890,000 in research grants.
[. . .]
Das earns a salary of $184,396. UConn spokesman Chris DeFrancesco said he "remains employed by the UConn Health Center pending dismissal proceedings per university bylaws."

http://bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view.bg?articleid=1395431

Photo by AP file

UConn researcher Dipak Das was known for his work on red wine’s benefits to cardiovascular health, but university officials now say an internal review found 145 instances over seven years in which Das fabricated, falsified and manipulated data.

UConn researcher fabricated data, investigation finds
By William Weir /
The Hartford Courant
Boston Herald
Thursday, January 12, 2012