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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shoot1st who wrote (4838)	8/16/2013 6:43:39 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Obama-Funded Terrorists Execute Teenage Boys ................................................................................................................. august 15, 2013 Obama, with all the heft of the United States behind him, stood by helplessly and haplessly as Syria drifted in a civil war of almost unspeakable savagery. Only then, when it became beast versus beast, did Obama commit America to one side in the battle: America is now backing al Qaeda fighters in Syria. That means that our tax dollars and weapons are going to people who behead priests, rape women, and murder children. Just today, yet another video emerged showing the type of people Obama has committed us to help. The video shows Obama-supported militants presiding over the execution of two very young-looking teenage boys whom the militants accuse of supporting the Assad regime. The execution took place in northern Syria. The executioners were an al-Qaeda affiliated group that calls itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The murdered boys were from Nubul and Zahra, in the Shiite-majority region of Aleppo. (Excerpt) Read more at mrconservative.com ... [/url] A masked man forces two blindfolded teenage boys to kneel on the floor. According to Arabic-language translators, the man then reads a statement accusing the boys of being Assad-regime gunmen. He ends by announcing that “It is our duty to execute them.” (Read More: Obama Arms Allies of Al-Qaeda In Syria.) The man then walks away as a crowd screams “Allahu Akbar!” while the two boys are shot to death. If the Nazis had video cameras, precisely the same footage would have emerged from all over Europe.

To: Shoot1st who wrote (4838)	8/17/2013 10:50:51 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Honey_Bee Respond to of 16547

Obama's muslim brotherhood burning Christian churches in Egypt You can destroy our churches, but not our faith! Catholic school burned in Egypt. The irony is that most leaders of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Palestine and Syria studied at Catholic schools and now they are burning them down.

To: Shoot1st who wrote (4838)	8/17/2013 11:29:10 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

5 Ways Lee Daniels’ The Butler Rewrites History to Suit Liberals .................................................................................................................... 5. It overstates its case. Whitaker’s Butler is a tortured soul (largely the creation of screenwriter Danny Strong, who also wrote the Sarah Palin hatefest Game Change) who has known all kinds of heartbreak, but the Washington Post article about a real long-serving White House butler that was the original basis for the movie is free of the anguish or anger with which the movie is loaded. In the first two or three minutes there are references to two lynchings, a rape (of the butler’s mother) and a racist murder (of his father). None of these things happened to the actual butler, who also didn’t have an activist son or another son who died in the Vietnam War. 4. Everything happens to one person. In the movie, which is billed as “inspired by” a true story, the character based on actual White House butler Eugene Allen is called Cecil Gaines and while he’s in Washington his son, played by British actor David Oyelowo, goes off to college just as the Civil Rights era is heating up. This son, Louis, is present at one of the famous lunch-counter protests against segregation, takes part in the Freedom Riders plan to integrate the bus system, and is even by Martin Luther King Jr.’s side in Memphis when King is about to be assassinated (but first takes time to tell young Louis that his father’s profession is an honorable one). The Jim Crow era was horrific, but to make it look like one person endured so many nightmare moments is a stretch — it’s like making a World War II movie in which one soldier is shown being present at Pearl Harbor and Normandy and the Bataan Death March. 3. It says Ronald Reagan was an enemy of civil rights…. Though Dwight Eisenhower (played by Robin Williams) is favorably portrayed in The Butler, fellow Republicans Richard Nixon (John Cusack) and Ronald Reagan (Alan Rickman) are thrown under the bus because the modern Left is obsessed with the fiction that Republicans are enemies to black people. Reagan, in fact, is denounced as having damaged or dismantled all Civil Rights policies in the country — an absurd claim that the movie doesn’t even attempt to justify. The only Reagan-related racial issue that The Butler can muster is his veto of sanctions against apartheid-era South Africa, which wasn’t even a U.S. Civil Rights issue and which Reagan believed would worsen conditions for blacks in that country. The movie portrays this entirely understandable decision (which was overridden by Congress) as simple heartlessness toward black people. 2. …but the Black Panthers were great guys. After Louis goes away to college and becomes a peaceful protester, he becomes increasingly interested in the more radical tactics of the Black Panther Party, which in the movie is described as an organization primarily concerned with providing self-defense, free meals for kids and free health care. References to the party’s actual, horrifying agenda — which was notoriously violent, racist and Maoist — are held to a bare minimum. 1. It casts the term “house slave” as something to be ashamed of. “House slave,” “house negro,” or sometimes the even more vile term “House n—-r” has become a widely used insult deployed by blacks against other blacks for supposedly being too willing to go along with an unjust system (as opposed to “keeping it real” by participating in riots or going to prison). Channeling Malcolm X, self-styled radicals like Spike Lee throw the term at, for instance, Samuel L. Jackson, whom Lee once called a “House negro defending Massa” for working with the far more talented filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. Whitaker’s butler character is portrayed as the ultimate house negro, and is denounced as such several times. Though the butler is the hero of the film and is given excellent reasons in his back story for not wishing to be a troublemaker, The Butler isn’t subtle about pushing the audience to think there is something pathetic about a man who simply kept his head down and did his job for many years instead of agitating for change. In fact, distaste for being lumped in with such so-called house slaves can be a destructive idea for youngsters just starting out on the economic ladder. Everyone who isn’t born rich has to take orders when they’re just starting out. John Boot is the pen name of a conservative writer operating under deep cover in the liberal media.

To: Shoot1st who wrote (4838)	8/17/2013 4:04:59 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Four Orwellian Word Usages in Gun Control .................................................................................... Gun Watch ^ \| 18 August, 2013 \| Dean Weingarten "Killed by a gun" places volition and responsibility on the gun In the novel 1984, Eric Blair, writing under the pseudonym George Orwell, wrote of how unscrupulous people redefine and misuse words and language to enhance political power. Here are four examples of Orwellian misuse of language used to promote more restrictions on firearms ownership and usage. 1. The first usage is very simple, very powerful, and extremely common. It is simply to substitute "by" for the correct word "with" when describing the use of a firearm. Here is a headline from Slate: "How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?" Consider the absurdity of the question for a moment. It is literally attributing volition to inanimate objects. It is grammatically incorrect. The correct use would be: "How Many People Have Been Killed with Guns Since Newtown. This is a very important distinction. By substitution of the word "by" for the correct word "with", the author removes human volition from the discussion, and frames the debate to be about guns rather than human actions. The superstitious idea that objects have volition has been rejected in most of Western Civilization for centuries, but this usage seems intent on resurrecting it. 2. The second usage is the term "gun violence". It is so commonly used I do not think an example is necessary. It is Orwellian in two ways. First is the false, and highly successful conflation of violence as evil. Violence is neutral like gravity. Violence can be used for good or evil, but this clear truth has been so eroded by the continued conflation of violence and evil that most people do not even see the switch that has been done. "Gun violence" separates and makes violence done with guns more evil and more important than violence done without guns. It creates a false category to be exploited for political purposes. It does not matter to a victim if they are killed with a bomb or poison or a machete or a gun. They are still dead. If more legal restrictions on firearms increase overall unjustified violence, then it is counter productive rather than positive for a society, even under the limited world view of pragmatism. The term "gun violence" eliminates that debate from the argument by limiting the discussion to actions accomplished with guns. The unstated assumption is that "gun violence" occurs in a vacuum, and that any reduction in "gun violence" automatically results in a reduction of all violence, which is one of the main points of contention in the debate. As stated above, the entire idea that violence is always evil is another unstated assumption. 3. The third usage is of the term "buy back" for gun turn in events where guns are turned in for money or some other valuable item. There can be no "buy back" of something that the entity doing the "buy back" never owned before. Yet, the term is almost universally used for these events. The terminology creates the assumption that all guns are owned by the government, and only allowed to be possessed by individuals at the sufferance of the state. 4. The fourth usage is of the term "recovery" in the context of guns that are confiscated, impounded, or seized by the government. Here is a recent example from abcnews: "Officials Recover 67 Guns at Ga. Airport in 2013". No guns were actually recovered that I could tell. 67 guns were confiscated, seized, or impounded. If the guns had been stolen, they could be recovered. But they had not been stolen. They allegedly had been placed in baggage or carried in a way that violated a regulation or law. Again, the implication is that guns are all owned by the government, so when the government confiscates, seizes, or impounds guns, they are "recovering" them. The gun control debate is full of Owellian word usages. The four above are some of the more common. Control of the language is a powerful means of manipulating people, because many casual readers will not recognize how they are being deceived.

To: Shoot1st who wrote (4838)	8/18/2013 10:54:28 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

The 'clown controversy' is further evidence that the left is freaking out Silvio Canto, Jr. By any political "humor standard," the clown incident was rather lame. It wouldn't make any Top 10 list. I remember David Frye doing Nixon, Chevy Chase mocking Ford, the SNL bits on Reagan, Bush, Bush & Romney. What about Palin? Political humor is a good thing. The clown with the Obama mask doesn't come close to any of that humor. So why is the left so whiny? What's the big deal about "a clown being clownish" by wearing the president's mask? The answer is this: 1) The left loves to attack but gets whiny when you give them a taste of their own medicine. Michelle Malkin has a post today full of vicious pictures about President GW Bush. She also reminded us of books and movies made about the assassination of the president.Frankly, I don't remember anyone calling out these people who attacked President Bush. It was all treated as 'part of the territory" or the way it is when you are president of the US. Remember the comedians with Cheney's shooting accident in Texas? What about the "booing" and name calling of President Bush on his inauguration or when he walked down to turn over the presidency to Barrack Obama? The "Obama mask" is nothing compared to that. 2) The left is getting it that President Obama is failing and failing big. The economy is not good, specially for young people, blacks and Hispanics. ObamaCare is off to a bad start and full implementation is in real doubt. "No insurance and a pay cut" is what NBC is calling it now! The president cannot govern. We are reminded that the only thing that has brought Democrats and Republicans together recently is voting against gun control and ObamaCare's selective waivers. And Senate Democrats just voted to kill "the medical device tax" in ObamaCare. 3) The left knows that 2014 will be very tough. They also know that a lot of Democrats will be running away from the administration. The RCP "job approval" numbers are in the 40s, and Reuters is 40%. Gallup reports that "economic approval" is 35%. You are not going to get a lot of campaign invitations with numbers like that. 4) The Obama foreign policy is a mess, and that's being charitable. The speeches of 2009 did not make us more respected or popular. They projected weakness and you see it with Putin, Egypt and elsewhere. So that's why the left is beating up on some poor clown in Missouri. The left is freaking out over a clown and that speaks volumes about their fears that "hope and change" is falling apart. americanthinker.com at August 18, 2013 credit fubho

To: Shoot1st who wrote (4838)	8/18/2013 5:16:37 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Teen Summit in Tampa discusses Zimmerman trial ..................................................................................... Bay News 9 ^ \| August 17, 2013 \| Saundra Weathers, Reporter On Saturday about 300 teens got the chance to voice their opinion of the George Zimmerman trial at the first annual 'Teen Summit' at the Beulah Baptist Institutional Church in Tampa. On Saturday about 300 teens got the chance to voice their opinion of the George Zimmerman trial at the first annual 'Teen Summit' at the Beulah Baptist Institutional Church in Tampa. They discussed everything from clarification on the law to what self-defense means. Many of the young people at the summit said they came out to the event because what happened to Trayvon Martin could’ve happened to them. One teen said he wanted to find out more about Zimmerman’s acquittal. “At first I didn’t get it. I didn’t understand the concept of it. And then once I looked into the case I saw that some things did make it seem not guilty and some things make it look like wow it looks like he’s guilty," said 16-year-old Bryan Walker. Trayvon Martin family attorney, Natalie Jackson and other legal experts were on hand to answer many of the teens questions. “It’s hurtful to a lot of black and brown children who are like what do we do. What did he do wrong. And I’m here to tell them he didn’t do anything wrong and you didn’t do anything wrong it is the perception we have to change with people,” Jackson said.... (Excerpt) Read more at baynews9.com ...

To: Shoot1st who wrote (4838)	8/20/2013 12:04:11 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16547

Retailer Dick's Sporting Goods misses estimates, shares fall (stopped carrying AR's) . . . due to cooler and wetter weather and weakness in consumer spending.How about due to pssng on their customer base who are mostly strong second amendment supporters? I note that a new FIELD AND STREAM store (Cranberry Township) which just opened in Dick's backyard is doing very well. As is the Gander Mountain in my hometown and the Cabela's just a few miles west over the state line. Same weather. Same neighborhood. Same economic conditions. But only Dick's has nosedived. Now, why could that possibly be? 10 posted on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 11:53:34 AM by Vigilanteman