60 Minutes Admits Unemployment is Actually 17%, 22% in California

not_shocking at all.
figured it was more
via
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com

Archbishop Cyril Bustros says Israel nullified by Christ

According to this report, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop Cyril Bustros “then escalated the situation by declaring that the original promises made by God to the children of Israel ‘were nullified by Christ. There is no longer a chosen people.’”

Yigal Palmor said it was absurd that the Jewish state had been condemned since Israel is the only country in the region where Christians are actually thriving. According to statistics he provided, there were some 151,700 Christians in Israel last year, compared with 132,000 in 1999 and 107,000 two decades ago.”

Yet the bishops in their synod this week single out only Israel for particular criticism, and was relatively silent about the jihad doctrine, the Arab states’ support for it, and its cardinal role in sabotaging any peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. It is shameful, and indeed, makes me ashamed today to be a Melkite Greek Catholic.

via sheikyermami.com
  ...this guy wasn't born again

no more money for Obama's Muslim friends if the GOP take Congress says Cantor

U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, the Republican whip and the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives, told JTA that a GOP-led House would seek to defund nations that do not share U.S. interests, even if it meant rejecting the president's foreign operations budget.

via jta.org

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NPR fires Juan Williams for telling the truth

Your tax dollars also fund the Department of Justice,
where prosecutors named CAIR as an
unindicted
co-conspirator in the
Holy Land Foundation trial,
the largest terrorism
finance trial in history,
and where another team of prosecutors
apparently are conducting a
Grand Jury investigation of CAIR.
Your tax dollars also pay for the
U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia,
where the judge just gave the
greenlight to a fraud case brought against
CAIR by African-American and
Pakistani-American families,
in spite of CAIR’s losing efforts
to get it dismissed.

So you have an investment here, as a taxpayer and as a citizen. If you’re a member of Congress, you also have a duty to uphold your oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” And since that Constitution has a First Amendment protecting free speech, here’s a question to add to your list for the hearings on the 2012 appropriations budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS and NPR:
Is it U.S. policy to fund organizations like CPB and PBS, whose employee trains Muslim-Brotherhood, Hamas-associated groups like CAIR to improve their “leadership” abilities to impose shariah defamation laws in America? Because that is what happened on October 9, 2010. And then less than two weeks later, PBS’s sister organization NPR fired Juan Williams after CAIR called for them to “address” Williams’ “irresponsible and inflammatory” comments with “professional consequences.” Yet another example of a federally-funded agency enforcing the OIC’s shariah defamation laws in the U.S., augmenting the OIC’s $325,000 payments already given to CAIR.

via bigjournalism.com

National Public Radios's attack on Williams
is a leftist attack designed to demonize,
destroy, and silence a certified liberal for Islam

This is not mainly a liberals versus conservatives battle, it is a struggle between the far left--sometimes allied but always soft regarding radical anti-American forces abroad--against both real liberals and non-extremist conservatives. If radical forces abroad are going to be countered and defeated, this battle is going to have to be fought, too. The Williams' case defines the issues precisely.

via rubinreports.blogspot.com

looks like NPR tried to pull a CNN.
Juan Williams is no Rick Sanchez

Your tax dollars at work:

NPR fires Juan Williams for telling the truth

NPR Ends Williams’ Contract After Muslim Remarks

(h/t: Nevergiveup and gulfloafer)

by David Folkenflik
October 21, 2010 NPR News has terminated the contract of longtime news analyst Juan Williams after remarks he made on the Fox News Channel about Muslims.
Williams appeared Monday on The O’Reilly Factor, and host Bill O’Reilly asked him to comment on the idea that the U.S. is facing a dilemma with Muslims.
O’Reilly has been looking for support for his own remarks on a recent episode of ABC’s The View in which he directly blamed Muslims for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set in the middle of his appearance.
Williams responded: “Look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
Williams also warned O’Reilly against blaming all Muslims for “extremists,” saying Christians shouldn’t be blamed for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Read the rest.

NPR leaps to do the bidding of Hamas-linked CAIR, fires Juan Williams for “anti-Muslim” remarks
It turns out that NPR fired Williams after CAIR sent out a national press release in which CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said this about Williams’ statements: “Such irresponsible and inflammatory comments would not be tolerated if they targeted any other racial, ethnic or religious minority, and they should not pass without action by NPR.”
And NPR hurried to appease this thuggish Hamas-linked group.
Everyone’s favorite stomach-stapled beekeeper, Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper of CAIR, was just on Fox, defending his takedown of Williams (while denying that CAIR demanded that he be fired), playing the victim card and hectoring Meghan Kelly, demanding to know if she agreed with Williams. (Kelly stood her ground magnificently.) In the course of things he said, “Everyone is accountable for what they say.”
Is that so, Ibe? So I guess you’re accountable for saying this, eh? “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”
Anyway, it’s bad enough that NPR would with such alacrity do the bidding of a group like CAIR, but it’s even worse that Williams’ rather commonplace remarks are being represented as some terrible “demonizing” of all Muslims. He said that he gets nervous on a plane when he sees people in Muslim garb. Even though the 9/11 hijackers and others did not wear Muslim garb, there are many other Islamic jihadists who have worn it, and all of the jihadists have explained and justified their actions by reference to Islamic texts and teachings. No Islamic sect or school of jurisprudence worldwide, meanwhile, has renounced the jihad against unbelievers or the imperative to impose Sharia upon them.
Are there Muslims who are not waging jihad against unbelievers? Of course. But the unwillingness of the Islamic community in the U.S. and Europe to back up its protestations of condemnation of terror with real action to root out the jihad ideology from its ranks makes it impossible to determine whether or not any given Muslim is an Islamic supremacist, or a jihadist.
Is this to “demonize” all Muslims? Of course not. But if Honest Ibe Hooper and his ilk are really not wanting Muslims to be demonized, instead of inviting that “demonization” so they can use it to claim victim status and wring more concessions out of a compliant politically correct media establishment, they could have reacted to Juan Williams’ by recognizing that if anyone gets nervous when seeing people in Muslim garb, it is the fault of the Muslims who have committed acts of violence in the name of Islam. And they could begin honest, genuine efforts to root out the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism from their communities.
But they don’t. Now, why is that?
“NPR Fires Analyst Over Comments on Muslims,” by Brian Stelter for the New York Times, October 20 (thanks to all who sent this in):

NPR has terminated its contract with Juan Williams, one of its senior news analysts, after he made comments about Muslims on the Fox News Channel….The move came after Mr. Williams, who is also a Fox News political analyst, appeared on the “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday. On the show, the host, Bill O’Reilly, asked him to respond to the notion that the United States was facing a “Muslim dilemma.” Mr. O’Reilly said, “The cold truth is that in the world today jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet.”
Mr. Williams said he concurred with Mr. O’Reilly.
He continued: “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
Mr. Williams also made reference to the Pakistani immigrant who pleaded guilty this month to trying to plant a car bomb in Times Square. “He said the war with Muslims, America’s war is just beginning, first drop of blood. I don’t think there’s any way to get away from these facts,” Mr. Williams said.
NPR said in its statement that the remarks “were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR.”…

via sheikyermami.com

Yahoo News has more:

…Williams often appears on Fox as the liberal counterpart to one of the network’s conservative hosts or guests. But some NPR listeners — an audience certainly more left-leaning than Fox’s conservative one — don’t see Williams as an advocate for progressive politics when he appears on the cable news network.
Last year, NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard wrote that Williams had become a “lightning rod” among NPR’s staff and noted many complaints from listeners after an appearance on O’Reilly’s show.
Williams had described First Lady Michelle Obama as having a “Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress thing going,” a reference to the militant African-American activist. After those comments, NPR executives asked that NPR’s logo be removed when he appears on Fox News.
It can be expected that Fox hosts, especially O’Reilly, will have something to say about NPR’s decision.
[...]
Bernie Goldberg, a Fox News contributor and author of several books on what he describes as liberal media bias, offered his take Thursday morning in an email to The Upshot.
“So Juan Williams is fired for saying something the liberals at NPR find controversial?” Goldberg said. “One more piece of evidence that liberals have forgotten how to be liberal.”
Goldberg continued: “These are the kind of people who brag about how open-minded they are — as long as you agree with them. And here’s the dirty little secret: lots and lots of liberals feel the same way Juan does when they get on an airplane. And a lot of those liberals work at NPR. Juan’s ‘crime’ was saying it out loud.”
Weekly Standard Editor and Fox contributor Bill Kristol also had some choice words for NPR, which he dubbed “National Politically-correct Radio.” Kristol concluded a post about the firing by saying: “NPR — unfair, unbalanced … and afraid.”…

Yahoo News points out that NPR is being pressured by CAIR:
(h/t mjazz for pointing this out)

…The Council for American-Islamic Relations sent out a press release Wednesday afternoon calling on NPR to address the matter. Nihad Awad, the organization’s national executive director, called the comments “irresponsible and inflammatory” and said they “should not pass without action by NPR.”
They certainly didn’t. NPR took action Wednesday night and put out a statement regarding the severing of Williams’ contract: “His remarks on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR.”…
Read it all, and view Juan Williams’ remarks.

Why does NPR hate Black People?

By doriangrey

…Now truth be told, as a conservative I find it distasteful to stand up for Juan Williams, because make no mistake about it, Juan is a liberal. However that said, as a conservative I find injustice even more disgusting than standing up for a liberal who has been unfairly treated and maligned. I usually disagree with Juan, however unlike most liberals I do find Juan to be an honest man with integrity, something quite rare in liberals.
To see one of the few genuinely honest intelligent and forthright liberals in America treated with such disrespect is more than I can bare and sit quietly by and watch. I have no choice but to rise in Juan’s defense and denounce in the harshest terms possible the politically correct demagoguery which led National Propaganda Radio to dismiss him. The management at NPR should be fired immediately and NPR defuned by congress and forced to become a regular for profit company having to defend it’s agenda in the commercial arena of idea’s alongside the conservative talk radio and radio news outlets.
The time has come for NPR to sink or swim in accordance to their merits in the market place of ideas.
Read it all.

It’s long past time to stop all taxpayer funding for the grotesquely biased NPR. If American members of the leftist/jihadist contingent still want to watch and listen, let them pay for it themselves through the infamous NPR subscription drives, a/k/a “beg-a-thons.” The rest of us should not be taxed for what amounts to enemy propaganda.
Oh, and by the way, the main telephone number for NPR is (202) 513-2000 and their fax number is (202) 513-3329. A contact form is here.

Hard-Left George Soros Front Organization Funds NPR

With Grant, NPR to Step Up State Government Reporting
(h/t: Michelle Malkin; thanks to eaglesoars for letting us know)

NPR has received a $1.8 million grant from the Open Society Foundations to begin a project called Impact of Government that is intended to add at least 100 journalists at NPR member radio stations in all 50 states over the next three years…

As eaglesoars points out: “The Open Society Foundation is, of course, George Soros.”

Vote in the Poll at HuffPo

Click here to vote so that we can “add some balance to that bad boy.”
(h/t: m)

via 1389blog.com

Pope blames Christian exodus of the Middle East on Jews

The Pope is making efforts to address
the fortunes of Christians in the Muslim world

Islam couldn't have anything to do with it?

via bbc.co.uk

"The Pope was never in the Hitler Youth, never, never, never,'' Father
Federico Lombardi, chief spokesman for the Pope, told a press conference in
Jerusalem.

Father Lombardi tried to draw a distinction between pro-Nazi Germans who
volunteered for the Hitler Youth and young men, like the pontiff, who were
forced to join the anti-aircraft unit but who, he claimed, were not
necessarily in the Hitler Youth.

But Father Lombardi’s comments contradicted statements the Pope himself has
made.

In the 1996 book “Salt of the Earth”, the Pope told Peter Seewald, a German
journalist: “At first we weren’t, but when the compulsory Hitler Youth was
introduced in 1941, my brother was obliged to join. I was still too young,
but later, as a seminarian, I was registered in the HY. As soon as I was out
of the seminary I never went back.”

Late yesterday Father Lombardi withdrew his earlier comments, saying that
Benedict had, indeed, been forced to join the Hitler Youth.

via telegraph.co.uk

Maine Voting to let Illegal Voters

Portland residents will vote Nov. 2 on a proposal to give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections, joining places like San Francisco and Chicago that have already loosened the rules or are considering it.

via msnbc.msn.com

Pollard Swap for Jew Freeze?

Pollard should be freed because the man is a hero. end of story. I could care less about what Obama's hateful little heart considers pragmatic to enable his Jew free visions. 

The center-piece of this video is a speech by Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi, brother-in-law of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Hagai speaks with passion about Jonathan Pollard and his devotion to the Land and People of Israel and of his selflessness and principled unwillingness to be freed in any deal that might put Jewish lives at stake by the release of murderers and terrorist or the uprooting of Jews from their homes. Ben-Artzi's words are heart-rending as he calls upon his brother-in-law PM Netanyahu not to abandon a soldier in the field, to finish the job and bring Pollard home now!

Worthy of Note: Video includes interesting foootage of the recent 9000-Day

Vigil for Jonathan Pollard that was recently held in a 3 day marathon at

Gesher HaMeitarim in Jerusalem.

Website: http://www.JonathanPollard.org via calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com

Is A Pollard-Settlement Freeze Swap Still On The Table? If Not--Why Not?
That's the impression you get from an LA Times editorial, which opposes a Pollard-Settlement Freeze swap:

There may be good reasons for granting clemency to Jonathan Pollard, the former Navy intelligence analyst who was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for providing U.S. military documents to Israel. But Pollard's usefulness as a diplomatic bargaining chip isn't one of them.

via daledamos.blogspot.com

the Whitehouse is so cruel. the guy was trying to get information on Saddam's chemical capabilities that was promised to Israel and we were still in bed with the Arabs. Some things dont change. They will say the Jews have so much influence. Obviously not. Obama sabotages Jews for fun. He doesn't give a damn about peace

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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange walks out of CNN interview when asked about rape charges

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange overshadowed his whistleblower website once again this week, storming out of an interview when the questioning turned personal.

The controversial Australian ignited another worldwide controversy by posting a massive and unprecedented leak of 391,832 military files from the Iraq war on his website Friday, revealing previously unknown figures on civilian casualties and atrocities committed by the Iraqi military.

But he quickly became a headline himself when he turned combative and petulant in an interview with CNN’s Atika Shubert -- walking out when asked about rape allegations that still loom against him in Sweden.

Assange, 39, is the subject of an ongoing investigation into molestation and rape charges involving two Swedish women. He is reportedly accused of refusing to wear a condom during sex and being tested for STDs.

Prosecutors re-opened the case in September, shortly after WikiLeaks posted a cache of 76,000 secret documents from the war in Afghanistan.

At the time, Assange called the charges "a smear campaign" and maintained his innocence.

Shubert confronted the WikiLeaks chief about criticism that his personal scandals as well as reports of internal disputes within the organization harmed the website’s mission, and asked how he feels when people say "the story around you is eclipsing the work of WikiLeaks."

"It is my role to be the lightning rod to attract the attacks against the organization for our work," he said. "Anyone involved in our sort of activity can expect to be attacked across the full spectrum...we have to move on and do the work that we are committed to do."

Yet Assange repeatedly dodged the issue of the charges against him during the televised interview, threatening to walk out "if you're going to contaminate this extremely serious interview with questions about my personal life."

"But it does affect WikiLeaks," Shubert countered.

Assange then abruptly cut short the interview, removing his microphone and storming out of the room.

A stunned Shubert said simply, "I have to ask that question."

WikiLeaks has positioned itself as a modern-day version of the Pentagon Papers, leaking military documents to expose the truths of the Iraq and Afghan wars.

The site’s work seems to have taken a toll on its founder, who reportedly now goes to paranoid lengths to avoid being followed, such as checking into hotels under assumed names, dying his hair, and only using cash so his movements can not be traced through credit cards.

"When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book,” Assange told the New York Times, "the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like."

BY Meena Hartenstein
via nydailynews.com

I wish I could call up the White House and use the Samuel L Jackson Soundboard

Op-ed: US president’s policy focuses on boosting Israel’s international isolation

Muslim Congressman: Juan Williams Is "Un-American"

"Juan Williams contributes to profiling and harassing Americans," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said.

via realclearpolitics.com

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misleading the audience... the clothes is not Juan's exact point. the point is he is scared.... and honest enough to say it.

Juan for President. We need someone honest.
I don't care what his fiscal slant is anymore. you wanna spend? fine... at least spend it on good things. don't arm Muslim terrorists...

mmmmm'kay?

Friend of my Family playing Piano in Tehran?

via youtube.com

an obviously sad situation. friend of my family playing piano in Tehran. he's there with his German girl friend.

"A compelling recitalist. Consistently interesting... consistently thoughtful... a vivid imagination.
Filled with character... fresh ideas...
a magnificent technique.
He put the music first without fail,
the sign of a genuinely valuable artist."
-The New York Times
"Intense... stylish... warm, elegant, unaffected musicianship. A fine technique and an inquisitive spirit."

- The New Yorker

via soheilnasseri.com

...here he is at the Simon's a few months ago
http://video.seesmic.com/videos/bjc7R7tNrM

and here he is playing my mother's piano 
http://video.seesmic.com/videos/aPsjyhgBFy

I warned the guy not to go and said it was an insane idea. he said he had relatives and family still there. it was my mother who first posted this, so I do not have to feel responsible for identifying him online as a friend of Jews.  He is an atheist, but I really don't feel he gets it... and how did the Iranian government let this guy into the country?

Randy Quaid, wife seek asylum in Canada

Actor Randy Quaid told Canada's immigration board Friday that he and his wife are seeking asylum from "the murderers of Hollywood" and will therefore apply for refugee status in Canada, after they were arrested on U.S. warrants related to vandalism charges. The pair were arrested on Thursday in a shopping area of an affluent Vancouver neighborhood and were jailed on outstanding U.S. warrants. The Quaids are wanted in Santa Barbara, where they missed a court hearing Monday on felony vandalism charges. The Quaids were ordered released from custody Friday, but must each post $9,750 bail and fulfill their promise to appear for their next hearing Thursday. Santa Barbara County Senior Deputy District Attorney Lee Carter said Friday that Mr. Quaid and his wife Evi's bail increased to $500,000 apiece. Their attorney, Robert Sanger, said he hoped the situation could be resolved but declined comment citing the pending case. The couple told the immigration adjudicator they are being persecuted in the United States. Evi Quaid begged a Canadian immigration adjudicator not to force them to return, saying on Friday that friends, such as actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger, have been "murdered" under mysterious circumstances and she worried something would happen to her husband next. "We feel our lives are in danger," she said. "Randy has known eight close friends murdered in odd, strange manners ... We feel that we're next." via post-gazette.com

Randy Quaid fits in perfectly with Charlie Sheen and the rest of Hollywood.