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

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/23/2014 11:54:10 AM
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To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/24/2014 9:50:00 AM
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A QUICK HISTORY LESSON ...................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... credit brumar

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/24/2014 10:46:24 AM
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Eric Holder: US still a nation of cowards on race ........................................................................................... The Daily Caller ^ \| 24 Jan 2014 \| Neil Munro Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated his 2009 claim that Americans are a “nation of cowards” on racial issues on Thursday. Holder’s effort to profile the entire nation as cowards came during a friendly interview with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, where was asked if he would take back his 2009 remarks. “I would not take that back,” he replied. As usual, Holder did not brave questions from the audience or from other reporters in the room. In 2009, Holder claimed that “though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been and we — I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.” “Certain subjects are off-limits and that to explore them risks at best embarrassment, and at worst, the questioning of one’s character,” he told his agency employees at an event celebrating Black History Month. In the Miller Center interview, Holder acknowledged that there is less racism now that half a century ago. “We’re certainly do a lot better than we did,” he said, but then outlined his agenda of using his legal clout to equalize outcomes for selected racial groups in the U.S. “There are disproportionately negative impacts that we see on people of color, on women,” he said. During his tenure, Holder has greatly expanded the range of race-related lawsuits filed against companies, schools and governments. For example, his department recently threatened to sue schools where African Americans are disciplined differently than Asian or white students. His agency has extracted billions of dollars in payments from banks after unintentional racial differences were detected in their lending patterns. He has also rolled back drug penalties imposed on African Americans. Holder’s boss, President Barack Obama, recently told The New Yorker that he supported a reform of marijuana laws, partly because many Africans Americans have been jailed for violating those laws. During the interview, Holder also threatened to sue states if his deputies see a racial purpose behind voter-identification laws that have already been approved by the Supreme Court. Holder also hinted at a wave of new lawsuits amid the growing diversity caused by immigration. “We have demographic changes in this nation the likes of which we have never seen before,” he said. “That could be a very divisive thing… on the other hand, if we do accept the new nation that we are about to become, that could be a very positive force.” Holder’s office has not publicly pushed back against the president’s decision to reduce enforcement of immigration laws. The looser enforcement has boosted Obama’s support among Latinos, but has also increased job-competition for young African Americans. Only about half of young black men who have not completed high school have full-time jobs. Throughout the Miller Center interview, Holder described his legal decisions as based on his political vision. When he took the job as the nation’s penultimate law enforcement official in 2009, Holder said, he “wanted to do consequential things… to effect positive change, to raise questions, to correct unfairness, to make our society more just.” “I understood it would run counter to some of the ideological norms that we have,” he admitted. Some goals could not be accomplished during the first term, he said. “You can’t come in on day one and do the kinds of things we’re doing at year five… you have to build support for the kinds of things that we need to do,” he said. The needed support includes “empirical studies,” he said. For example, Holder’s push to federalize school discipline policies at the Justice Department is based on several studies that report African American studies are being unfairly disciplined. “Ten, 15 years from now, people will look at back… and say, more often than not, we got it right,” Holder claimed at the end of the interview. In June, a poll by NBC and the Wall Street Journal reported that only 52 percent of whites and 38 percent of blacks have a favorable opinion of race relations in the country. That’s a sharp drop from the beginning of Obama’s first term, when 79 percent of whites and 63 percent of blacks held a favorable view of American race relations. Read more: dailycaller.com

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/25/2014 12:16:38 PM
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Hillary's Benghazi Testimony: A Year Later .......................................................................... Breitbart ^ \| 25 Jan 2014, 6:37 \| David Bossie

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/27/2014 11:02:33 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Honey_Bee Respond to of 16547

Lefty: I Look Down On Young Women With Husbands And Kids And I’m Not Sorry Jan. 15, 2014 By Amy Glass thoughtcatalog.com Shutterstock Every time I hear someone say that feminism is about validating every choice a woman makes I have to fight back vomit. Do people really think that a stay at home mom is really on equal footing with a woman who works and takes care of herself? There’s no way those two things are the same. It’s hard for me to believe it’s not just verbally placating these people so they don’t get in trouble with the mommy bloggers. Having kids and getting married are considered life milestones. We have baby showers and wedding parties as if it’s a huge accomplishment and cause for celebration to be able to get knocked up or find someone to walk down the aisle with. These aren’t accomplishments, they are actually super easy tasks, literally anyone can do them. They are the most common thing, ever, in the history of the world. They are, by definition, average. And here’s the thing, why on earth are we settling for average? If women can do anything, why are we still content with applauding them for doing nothing? I want to have a shower for a woman when she backpacks on her own through Asia, gets a promotion, or lands a dream job not when she stays inside the box and does the house and kids thing which is the path of least resistance. The dominate cultural voice will tell you these are things you can do with a husband and kids, but as I’ve written before, that’s a lie. It’s just not reality. You will never have the time, energy, freedom or mobility to be exceptional if you have a husband and kids. I hear women talk about how “hard” it is to raise kids and manage a household all the time. I never hear men talk about this. It’s because women secretly like to talk about how hard managing a household is so they don’t have to explain their lack of real accomplishments. Men don’t care to “manage a household.” They aren’t conditioned to think stupid things like that are “important.” Women will be equal with men when we stop demanding that it be considered equally important to do housework and real work. They are not equal. Doing laundry will never be as important as being a doctor or an engineer or building a business. This word play is holding us back.

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/27/2014 3:49:13 PM
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Michelle O wants $10 donations 'to help protect Obamacare'...

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/27/2014 10:02:45 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Honey_Bee Respond to of 16547

What is he watching?

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/28/2014 1:50:58 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

$60,000 Fine for Small Talk In totalitarian regimes, it is best not to be too garrulous. Anything you say — no matter how innocuous — can and might be used against you. An example from the repressive dystopia known as Taxachusetts: The seemingly innocent question posed by a Boston rental agent to Gladys Linder when they were searching for an apartment was “Where are you from?” “Venezuela,” she answered. Gladys and her husband went on to find an apartment a month later without further incident. But she found the question about her national origin insulting and upsetting. This is Massachusetts, and you know what came next. Stokel filed a complaint with the Boston Fair Housing Commission, claiming that rental agent’s question was discriminatory and caused her to suffer fear, anxiety and sleeplessness over a three-year period. Seriously? Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 151B and the Boston Fair Housing Commission Regulations make it illegal for any licensed real estate broker “to cause to be made any written or oral inquiry or record concerning . . . national origin.” Although this was the agent’s first discrimination complaint and there was no discriminatory impact on the tenants at all, the Commission found that the question itself was unlawful and issued one of the largest penalties I have seen in recent years — $10,000 in emotional distress damages, plus $44,000 in attorney’s fees and costs and a $7,500 civil penalty against the broker — a whopping $61,500 in total liability for this single question, not to mention the tens of thousands the agent had to pay for defense legal fees. The ruling can be found here: ]Linder v. Boston Fair Housing Commission, Mass. Appeals Court (Dec. 17, 2013). Like Islam, Nazism, and Soviet communism, political correctness is a lunatic ideology that allows zero tolerance for what it defines as thought crimes. Given that we live in a society run by adherents to this malignant creed, it is best when talking to those you don’t know well enough to trust to keep all communication down to single syllables, or if possible, grunts. moonbattery.com

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/28/2014 3:11:18 PM
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Common Core advocates beg Obama not to mention them in State of the Union address Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:53:30 AM · by don-o · 27 replies The Washington Examiner ^ \| January 28, 2014 \| Sean Higgins

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/29/2014 10:10:11 AM
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Vladimir Lenin : "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." "The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/29/2014 5:34:47 PM
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George Washington statue concealed The annual MLK observance at the state house in Columbia SC had an interesting twist this year. The event is held on the north side steps of the statehouse. Prominent at that location is a large bronze statue of George Washington. This year, a box was constructed to conceal the father of our country from view. This rally was sponsored by the NAACP and they said that they covered the statue because they "didn't want to offend anyone". credit bill

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/30/2014 2:10:37 PM
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Dem Casualty List Grows .......................................................................................................... Breitbart ^ \| 30 Jan 2014, 8:39 \| Mike Flynn

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/31/2014 6:37:26 PM
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Nancy Pelosi Will Receive Planned Parenthood’s Top Margaret Sanger Award ..................................................................................... Life News ^ \| January 31, 2014 \| Steven Ertelt

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/31/2014 7:11:29 PM
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How about when Obama instructs a whole arm of the govt not to enforce immigration laws, and fights states that do?

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (7423)	1/31/2014 8:25:40 PM
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Junior jihad: Spraying bullets from an AK-47, the four-year-old Al Qaeda fighter in Syria who should be in infants’ school Video shows youngster opening fire twice to shouts of 'Allahu Akbar' He is so small the gun barrel was supported by a section of road block Alarming footage was released by a jihadist group fighting Syrian civil war Other images show children aged nine to 15 training in black ski masks UN peace talks collapsed last night and Assad government may not return By STEPHEN WRIGHT 31 January 2014 He is barely old enough to go to infant school, let alone fight in a savage civil war. Yet this youngster, believed to be just four years old, is one of the latest ‘cub jihadists’ recruited for bloody battle in Syria. He can be seen firing rounds from an automatic assault rifle in a shocking video that has emerged from the war-torn country. Alarming footage appears to show a child, believed to be four years old, shooting an AK-47 as the reliance on children on the Syrian bloodbath continues. The footage was posted online by a jihadist group Children of war: The boy will have lived almost his whole life through the Syrian conflict, though with his high voice and chubby cheeks, he belongs more in infants' school than on a battlefield FOUR-YEAR-OLD firing an assault rifle in Syria Counter-terrorism officials say it is further evidence of how jihadists are grooming children to become fighters, as Al Qaeda factions strive to establish a Taliban-like Islamic state in Syria. The disturbing footage was posted on YouTube and is believed to be that of a son of a jihadist from Albania who is one of thousands of foreigners fighting with Al Qaeda in Syria. The youngster, who wears a black ski mask, can be seen firing shots from a black AK-47-style automatic assault rifle with a folding stock. He is so small that the barrel of the gun has to be supported by a section of road block so that he can cope with its weight. The child opens fire to shouts of Allahu Akbar – Arabic for ‘God is Greater’ – before an arm reaches down and retrieves the weapon. Warfare: The footage comes amid warnings that up to 700 young British extremists are fighting in Syria War games: The video shows the child smiling and talking in his native language with the adults filming him CRISIS AS UN PEACE TALKS FAIL Week-long peace talks collapsed last night amid a stand-off between rebels and the Syrian government. The delegation of President Bashar Assad (right) refused to commit to return to UN negotiations in 10 days, as the opposition accused them of posturing and prolonging the bloodbath. More than 130,000 people have been killed in Syria since March 2011 and activists claim 1,900 died during the peace talks alone. Opposition chief Ahmad al-Jarba said Assad was pressed by his Russian backers to take part in the talks but could not engage toward finding a real solution because 'he knows that would be his end.' He added: 'For us, [Assad's] family is finished from the memory of the Syrians, all that is left is blood, fire and terrorism. We will not accept for this man or anyone from his family to rule the country again.' Earlier, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said: 'We are here to find a political solution. We were unable to achieve that.' UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said progress was 'very slow indeed'. He added: 'Nevertheless, during our discussions, I observed a little bit of common ground - perhaps more than the two sides realise or recognise.' The video emerged as French President Francois Hollande yesterday claimed as many as 700 Britons are among extremists fighting in the Syrian civil war. Speaking at a press conference after talks with David Cameron, the president said: ‘We have young people who live in our respective countries who are being manipulated, and they are going off to the combat areas. ‘Today we were exchanging figures – 600 to 700 young people are involved in each of our countries.’ That is almost double the most recent estimate by experts and comes amid ‘huge concern’ from security chiefs that the young jihadists will target Britain when they return from fighting in Syria. The video of the four-year-old first emerged on January 21 on a YouTube channel operated by a jihadist who claimed to be based in northern Syria. It was entitled in Arabic: ‘A message from one of the cubs of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.’ The footage was removed after it was exposed by an American-based ‘anti-jihad’ activist who claimed it was evidence of child abuse. Copies of the video, however, remained in circulation on other online channels. Suspected British Al Qaeda fighters in Syria have been circulating other images showing children being trained to use deadly weapons in a jihad training camp. The pictures showed children aged between nine and 15 in full battle dress and wearing black ski masks bearing the distinctive logo of Al Qaeda. Many were seen holding Kalashnikov automatic assault rifles, tripod-mounted heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The video of the toddler emerged just days after the European Union’s anti-terror coordinator warned that social media websites play a crucial role in recruiting foreign fighters to travel to Syria. +8 Shocking: More photos show children as young as nine at a training camp toting guns and wearing ski masks +8 Top counter-terrorism officer Sir Peter Fahy said British fighters arriving from Syria posed a threat to the UK Gilles de Kerchove told the Home Affairs Select Committee that online messages, many posted by ‘narcissistic youths posing with AK-47 rifles, had contributed to an acceleration in the number of Europeans, including Britons, travelling to Syria to fight – with many falling in with extremist groups. The issue – which has become a key focus for the security and intelligence services – was among topics discussed by Mr Hollande and Mr Cameron. Syria is proving a popular training ground for would-be jihadists. Sir Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police – who leads the Association of Chief Police Officer’s ‘Prevent’ strategy on counter-terrorism – told the BBC this week there was ‘huge concern’ that Britons arriving back after fighting in Syria posed a threat to the UK. Scotland Yard has also said its biggest concern is that some could return as terrorists. In the past month, 16 people have been arrested on suspicion of terror offences after travelling between Syria and the UK. This compares with 24 in the whole of 2013. +8 Footage: The images are released by jihadist groups to terrify enemies, but their origins are often unclear +8 Aggression: Children in combat gear pose doing the splits and raising their fists in one of the videos. UN peace talks collapsed last night as officials warned the risk of the conflict spreading across the Middle East is rising Read more: dailymail.co.uk credit monkeyman