tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33733222024-03-13T10:08:03.535-07:00The Pajamahadin"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - PlatoMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.comBlogger14596125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-36004134750603512212018-10-12T05:35:00.003-07:002018-10-12T05:35:58.873-07:00I’m Old Enough to Remember When Democrats Celebrated Partisan Supreme Court Justices<br />
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-democrats/index.html" target="_blank">Notorious RBG</a><br />
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The face of “The Resistance.”Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-13635917735901165902018-09-13T13:25:00.006-07:002018-09-13T13:25:58.845-07:00Associated Press Fact Checks Obama<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And discovers that <a href="https://www.apnews.com/ffc60235c26c470c9047e0da6ff19f95/AP-FACT-CHECK:-Obama-doesn%2527t-always-tell-the-straight-story">he's a liar</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OBAMA: “It shouldn’t be Democratic or Republican to say that we don’t threaten the freedom of the press because they say things or publish stories we don’t like. I complained plenty about Fox News, but you never heard me threaten to shut them down or call them enemies of the people.” — rally Friday at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE FACTS: Trump may use extraordinary rhetoric to undermine trust in the press, but Obama arguably went farther — using extraordinary actions to block the flow of information to the public.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Obama administration used the 1917 Espionage Act with unprecedented vigor, prosecuting more people under that law for leaking sensitive information to the public than all previous administrations combined. Obama’s Justice Department dug into confidential communications between news organizations and their sources as part of that effort.</span></i></blockquote>
<br />Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-73506951559015827672018-09-08T12:03:00.002-07:002018-09-08T12:03:12.398-07:00"How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad?" Obama asked.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-12260617544291121172018-09-08T11:12:00.001-07:002018-09-08T11:12:09.548-07:00In 2013, The New York Times Scalded Obama for his Attacks on a Free Press<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Public Editor Margaret Sullivan pointed out that Obama didn't just criticize the press, he used the instruments of government <a href="https://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/leak-investigations-are-an-assault-on-the-press-and-on-democracy-too/">attack the press</a>. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[I]t’s turning out to be the administration of unprecedented secrecy and of unprecedented attacks on a free press. I wrote about the chilling effect of the Obama administration’s leak investigations – including the ramped-up criminal prosecution of those who provide information to the press — in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/public-editor/the-danger-of-suppressing-the-leaks.html" style="color: #326891;">Sunday column</a> in March.</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that situation, already bad, has taken a major turn for the worse with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/phone-records-of-journalists-of-the-associated-press-seized-by-us.html" style="color: #326891;">revelations</a> that the Obama Justice Department had secretly seized the phone records of a large number of journalists for The Associated Press, as part of a leak investigation.</span></i></blockquote>
Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-4115946665526082872018-09-08T10:31:00.000-07:002018-09-08T10:31:04.409-07:00Attacks on ICE Agents Increase<div class="tr_bq">
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-47955538503739240822018-09-08T10:27:00.000-07:002018-09-08T10:27:22.487-07:00Anti-Muslim Party Set to Make Big Gains in Sweden<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sweden's open borders have led to dramatically increased crime rates, especially forcible rape. The establishment <a href="https://www.apnews.com/1a21129a48924d2495165824ba6ac955/Swedes-weigh-choices-before-vote-likely-to-boost-far-right">fails to understand</a> that Muslim immigration poses a greater threat to traditional Swedish values than the so-called "far right." </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The parliamentary election being held Sunday will be Sweden’s first since the government in 2015 allowed 163,000 migrants into the country of 10 million. While far less than what Germany took in that year, it was the most per capita of any European nation.</span></blockquote>
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-31018824527888920072018-09-08T09:38:00.001-07:002018-09-08T09:38:25.270-07:00New York Times Editor Slams Barack Obama<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="amu4n" data-offset-key="86sp8-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="86sp8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">"Your DOJ also prosecuted more leak investigations than all other presidents’ combined. Come on," <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/nyt-editor-rejects-obamas-credibility-in-defense-of-media-come-on/">Fiscus wrote</a>.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="m_6968136896133388000gmail-s1" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Fiscus was referring to the then-unprecedented efforts by the Obama White House to out leakers and prosecute those helping them. Most notably, former Fox News reporter James Rosen was accused of violating anti-espionage law for what one reporter at the time <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/ticket/obama-admin-spied-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-134204299.html&source=gmail&ust=1536439371339000&usg=AFQjCNE2lu9I1dMLXCYMRQIy-5psA89yeA" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/ticket/obama-admin-spied-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-134204299.html" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #ed4a18; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span class="m_6968136896133388000gmail-s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">termed</span></a> "traditional news reporting."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></blockquote>
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-58245150880208049852018-09-08T09:20:00.002-07:002018-09-08T09:20:53.564-07:00New York Times Vindicates Donald Trump. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The New York Times has indulged in a week-long orgy of self-adulation for publishing an op-ed supposedly penned by a "senior White House official." And while I don't doubt a word of what the Times published, the fact remains that the letter <a href="https://spectator.us/2018/09/deep-state-throat-swallowed/">verified</a> everything that Trump has been saying about the incestuous relationship between the mainstream press and the deep state. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Donald Trump was elected because he promised to do something about business as usual in Washington. He has a long way to go to cleanse those Augean Stables, but he has made a tremendous start, which is precisely why the occupants of those stables are so alarmed. Here is someone, not of their tribe, who is succeeding beyond their wildest dreams. But he pays them no heed and patently could not care less that they disapprove of him.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This latest bulletin from the engine room of fake news barely rises above the level of name calling. It has the acrid smell of desperation. With every week that passes, Donald Trump ticks off another campaign promise fulfilled. It was what he was elected to do. Those who elected him like winning. And more and more people who were anti-Trump at the outset are looking around and liking what they see. The former newspaper that Donald Trump calls the ‘failing <i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New York Times’</i> is a monument to impotent irrelevance. This latest prank unfolds just as Brett Kavanaugh is about to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. The dogs are barking, but the caravan moves on.</span></blockquote>
Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-28496698173214657812018-09-08T08:56:00.000-07:002018-09-08T08:56:20.398-07:00Global Warming is Real. It's not New. It's Not Bad. It's Saving us From an Ice Age<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not New. It's Not Bad. <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-09-ancient-farmers-glaciers-profoundly-earth.html">It's Saving us From an Ice Age.</a></span><br />
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<i>A study published in the journal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Scientific Reports</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>provides new evidence that ancient farming practices led to a rise in the atmospheric emission of the heat-trapping gases carbon dioxide and methane—a rise that has continued since, unlike the trend at any other time in Earth's geologic history.</i> </blockquote>
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<i></i><i>It also shows that without this human influence, by the start of the Industrial Revolution, the planet would have likely been headed for another ice age.</i> </blockquote>
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<i></i><i>"Had it not been for early agriculture, Earth's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="textTag" href="https://phys.org/tags/climate/" rel="tag" style="color: #313d57; outline: none 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">climate</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>would be significantly cooler today," says lead author, Stephen Vavrus, a senior scientist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Climatic Research in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. "The ancient roots of farming produced enough carbon dioxide and methane to influence the environment."</i></blockquote>
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<li><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem;">There were only a couple of problems: The email in question was already cleared for public release (and Booker knew it), and the substance of the email revealed that the Monster Kavanaugh<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">opposed</span>racial profiling. It was as if Cory Booker — once a famous, if choreographed, good Samaritan — saw a mugging, leapt out of his car, tire-iron in hand, to save the day only to stop 20 feet from the assailant in front of some TV cameras, and proceed to smash the makeshift weapon into his own crotch. “I am Spartacus! Ow! I am Spartacus — Ooof!”</i></li>
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</aside>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-29996763858554024802015-12-02T17:51:00.000-08:002015-12-02T17:51:00.527-08:00Charles Hurt Calls for the Removal of Barack Obama from Office<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/1/charles-hurt-obama-loses-gift-of-speech-in-paris-t/">He no longer even attempts to do his job</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Has our president officially lost his ability to discharge the powers and duties of his office? </span></blockquote>
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in Paris on Tuesday would reasonably conclude it is high time to start
drawing up the papers to transmit to Congress for his removal. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you are one of the millions and millions of literate Americans out
there who have simply tuned this president out the past three or four
years, that is certainly understandable. But if you tuned in to the
long, rambling, empty press conference, you would have been truly
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as “halting.” It was impossible to count the number of times he seized
up, able to deaden the silence with only a drawn-out “uh,” “um” or
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The White House dutifully scrubbed all the halts and stutters from
the official transcript, and it was impossible to count them in real
time. But a sample of his incoherent word salad found him stuttering
about every 15 words, which comes to more than 330 “uh-um-ahhs” in a
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is not the same soaring speaker who inspired so many in 2008.
This is a broken-down man who has lost the only gift he ever had.</span></blockquote>
Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-76342201729661857582015-12-02T17:31:00.000-08:002015-12-02T17:31:00.219-08:00Another Fake Racist Incident<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2015/12/arrest_made_in_kean_twitter_threat.html">Fabricated by a professional racial activist.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>A recent Kean graduate has been charged with being responsible for a
series of tweets threatening black students at the school two weeks
ago, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced Tuesday.
</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Kayla-Simone McKelvey, 24, of Union – a black alum who graduated in
May – was charged by summons with third-degree creating a false public
alarm.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Park said an investigation by the Union County Prosecutor's Office's
Special Prosecutions Unit and Kean University police found that
McKelvey, a self-proclaimed activist, participated in a student rally to
raise awareness of racism on college campuses on Nov. 17, but left
midway through and walked to a computer station in a university library.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Once there, McKelvey allegedly created an anonymous Twitter account – <a data-scribe="element:user_link" href="https://twitter.com/keanuagainstblk">@keanuagainstblk</a> – and began posting threats of violence against black Kean students.</i></span><br />
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-22910492847777487332015-09-22T17:33:00.000-07:002015-09-22T17:33:01.142-07:00A Wave of Rape Follows the Tide of Muslim Immigrants<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm seeing a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/22/gatestone-institute-germanys-migrant-rape-epidemic">pattern</a>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<h2>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A growing number of women and young girls housed in refugee shelters in Germany are being raped, sexually assaulted and even forced into prostitution by male asylum seekers, according to German social work organizations with first-hand knowledge of the situation.</span></span></span></h2>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although the rape took place in June, police kept silent about it for nearly three months, until local media published a story about the crime. According to an editorial comment in the newspaper <i>Westfalen-Blatt</i>, police are refusing to go public about crimes involving refugees and migrants because they do not want to give legitimacy to critics of mass migration.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A 13-year-old Muslim girl was raped by another asylum seeker at a refugee facility in Detmold, a city in west-central Germany. The girl and her mother reportedly fled their homeland to escape a culture of sexual violence.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Approximately 80% of the refugees/migrants at the shelter in Munich are male… the price for sex with female asylum seekers is ten euros. — Bavarian Broadcasting (<i>Bayerischer Rundfunk</i>).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Police in the Bavarian town of Mering, where a 16-year-old-girl was raped on September 11, have issued a warning to parents not to allow their children to go outside unaccompanied. In the Bavarian town of Pocking, administrators of the Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium have warned parents not to let their daughter’s wear revealing clothing in order to avoid “misunderstandings.”</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“When Muslim teenage boys go to open air swimming pools, they are overwhelmed when they see girls in bikinis. These boys, who come from a culture where for women it is frowned upon to show naked skin, will follow girls and bother them without their realizing it. Naturally, this generates fear.” — Bavarian politician, quoted in <i>Die Welt.</i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A police raid on the Munich refugee facility found that guards hired to provide security at the site were trafficking drugs and weapons and were turning a blind eye to the prostitution.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the raping of German women by asylum seekers is becoming commonplace.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-71963465707045349752015-05-11T05:31:00.002-07:002015-05-11T05:31:52.742-07:00Mark Halperin's Racist Interview With Ted Cruz<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, we all remember when Mark Halperin asked Barack Obama to speak Swahili and perform Kenyan tribal dances.</span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3zCXuxrBulI" width="560"></iframe>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-1400747904303719602015-05-11T05:19:00.001-07:002015-05-11T05:19:07.173-07:00Tony Rodham, A Parasite on a Parasite<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sleaze just runs in the <a href="http://nyti.ms/1EuGEUu">Clinton family.</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the youngest of three children, Tony Rodham has lived in the shadow of his sister. He never finished college, and he worked at a variety of jobs — as a prison guard, private detective and at the Democratic National Committee — until after the Clintons were in the White House, when he became a consultant and deal broker. </span></i></span></blockquote>
Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-53092218397405927282015-05-08T14:45:00.004-07:002015-05-08T14:45:55.960-07:00Obama Regime Buries its Head in the Sand - In Plain Sight<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Okay, so let me get this right: There was an </em></span><a href="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/memorandum_of_understanding_clinton.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>MOU insisted upon by the State Department (and White House) to ensure that, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, there was full transparency of any foreign donations</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> to the Clinton Foundation, to protect against the possibility that foreign donors to the Foundation might be giving their money in exchange for favorable treatment by Secretary of State Clinton. And that MOU was violated repeatedly. Now, the Obama Administration is refusing to even investigate whether Clinton’s violation of the MOU may have actually caused the sort of bribery problems the MOU was designed to prevent?</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Okay, so why have an MOU in the first place, if violations of it were not going to ever be investigated, or the agreement otherwise enforced? Was it all just a dog and pony show, to allow Clinton to become Secretary of State and deflect possible criticism of her taking the post, given the potential for conflicts of interest? The questions answer themselves, of course, but the fact that the Obama Administration is so blatantly and flippantly disregarding this nation’s interest in preventing corruption (at the highest level) is breathtaking– and telling.</em></span><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Read it all <a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/state-department-sticks-its-head-in-the-sand-and-refuses-to-review-the-propriety-of-hillary/">here</a>.</span>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-68174736943546191232015-05-08T14:07:00.003-07:002015-05-08T14:07:47.477-07:00Progressives Love Blasphemous Art, as Long as it's Anti-Christian<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wanna dunk a crucifix into a jar of urine? According to liberals, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418083/progressives-love-anti-religious-art-long-its-anti-christian-jonah-goldberg">you should get a federal grant.</a></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px;">Which brings us to Pamela Geller. I’m consistent: I didn’t like “Piss Christ,” and I don’t like insulting drawings of Mohammed. If Geller wanted an NEA grant to dunk Mohammed in beautifully illuminated urine, I would disagree quite strongly. </span></i> </span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px;">But that’s not what she’s doing. She’s contending that in America, people are allowed to say offensive things without risking execution. I am at a loss as to why anyone would disagree with that. But I am utterly baffled how people who think it’s censorship to withdraw funding for anti-Christian “hate speech” can argue that private individuals have no right to express anti-Muslim views.</span></span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; outline: 0px;" /></span>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-5315996791334322682015-05-08T13:44:00.003-07:002015-05-08T13:44:54.294-07:00Pamela Geller Exposes Democrats, Muslims and Journalism<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man.” – Thomas Paine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As CNN reported the news of a terrorist attack on Pamela
Geller’s Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, any depiction of the
Muslim prophet was blurred out. I did not bother tuning into other network
broadcasts, but I have no doubt that all respectable news outlets similarly
behaved in a similarly cowardly manner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You won’t find the Mohammed cartoons in any newspapers
either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And they call the critics of Islam, “Islamophobes?” Please
remind me: Who is it that‘s afraid of Islam? As Inigo Montoya remarked: “You
keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What’s more amazing is that the very same people who will
argue that Islam is a “religion of peace,” will also claim that the attack on
Pamela Geller’s art exhibit was “predictable.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what happens when one ideology has a near monopoly
on mass media. They get intellectually complacent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the 1990’s, a controversy erupted after the National
Endowment for the Arts funded several blasphemous, anti-Christian art
exhibitions. After North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms vowed to strip funding
from the NEA budget, the New York Times childishly called Helms “Senator
Know-Nothing” and argued that offensive art was so essential to free speech
that government should subsidize it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when it’s Pamela Geller defending the First Amendment,
elite opinion has no use for her efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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subsidize art that offends Christians but will not provide security for Pamela
Geller.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While most of the media are criticizing Pamela Geller for hosting a Mohammed drawing contest, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/05/07/the-week-that-cable-news-failed-free-expression/?hpid=z2">Erick Wemple</a> points out that Geller is one of the few defending the First Amendment from Islamofascim. Most of the media lack the courage to stand up for free speech.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cable news personalities are hired to ask tough questions, and so these folks were doing their jobs in pressing Geller. Yet the unspoken message they send with this line of inquiry is one of suppression — that what Geller and her invitees were doing was wrong, provocative, naughty, stupid and downright unnecessary. Some pundits used those very words or a mixture of them.</span> </i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This strain of thought speaks to the power of precedent. In January, terrorists carried out a massacre of the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, a publication that had compiled a record of depicting Muhammad in satirical ways. The attack, per force, elevated the newsworthiness of those cartoons: There was no way to fully understand the alleged motivations of the attackers without sampling the drawings that had placed a target on the magazine.</span> </i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet the American media folded into a crouch of cowardice and rationalization. The Associated Press’s statement said it would “refrain from moving deliberately provocative images.” The major networks stayed away from the pictures, and the cable networks followed suit, for the most part, with <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/01/07/fox-news-has-no-plans-to-air-charlie-hebdo-cartoons/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #2e6d9d; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;">Fox News showing glimpses here and there</a>. CNN said it was withholding the images as a measure to protect its personnel in overseas hotspots. (In the immediate aftermath of the attack, The Washington Post’s news side didn’t traffic in the images, though the editorial side published one on its op-ed page.)</span></i></blockquote>
Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-59413880798212156422015-04-23T13:03:00.000-07:002015-04-23T13:03:19.281-07:00When Hillary Clinton was Against Gay Marriage<iframe frameborder="0" height="390" scrollable="no" src="http://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c4535174" width="512"></iframe><br />Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-75594402902196275332015-03-09T17:50:00.000-07:002015-03-09T17:50:00.206-07:00What Decades of Democrat Rule Delivers<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://madefrom.com/history/america/the-decline-of-detroit-in-pictures/">The decline and fall of Detroit</a>. The ruins of a formerly great American city. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn’t watch that video of Islamic State butchers
beheading twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians on Libya’s Mediterranean coast.
The still photos of the terrorists leading the Christians to their doom told me
all I wanted to know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just finished a book on the Nazi’s death camp Auschwitz authored
by Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew who served as Dr. Josef Mengele’s
pathologist for nine months in 1944. The book presents a jarring narrative of Mengele’s
cruelty, Nazi psychopathy and the appalling industrialization of murder from
the viewpoint of a man who spent most of a year staring into the Auschwitz maw.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nyiszli served with Auschwitz’s 12<sup>th</sup>
Sonderkommando. The Sonderkommando was a group of about 800 inmates who helped
shepherd the Jews into the gas chambers and then stacked the dead bodies into
the crematoriums. In exchange for this grizzly work, the Sonderkommando were
well fed, well clothed and provided with comfortable quarters. Each
Sonderkommando served four months and was then executed. Their successors’
first task was to load the previous Sonderkommando’s remains into the
crematoriums for disposal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every Sonderkommando knew its fate and could predict the
approximate date of its annihilation. And yet all but one marched meekly to
their deaths. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A remarkable part of Nyiszli’s book is the scathing forward,
written by Bruno Bettelheim. Bettelheim savaged the book’s author and the Jewish
submission to the Nazis. Stories of Jews marching obediently to their deaths
remain one of the enduring mysteries of the holocaust. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But as those Coptic Christians demonstrated, such submission
is not unique to Jews. And I’m beginning to think that those Coptics’ acceptance
of their fate serves as a metaphor for the entire civilized world’s submission
to ISIS savagery. We’re not putting up serious opposition and it’s our
government’s official position that we’re not actually at war with these
barbarians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This last Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder denied that
we were at a war. One of Obama’s first priorities as president was to treat
terrorism as a law enforcement problem. And the nation’s top law enforcement
officer says, “What war?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that same day, at a conference on “violent extremism,”
Vice President Joe Biden, who was selected to give Obama “gravitas” in foreign
policy, declared himself an expert on Somalia because he had taken so many
rides from Somali taxi cab drivers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to top it all off, the previous evening, during an
interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf
insisted that, to fight terrorism, we need to create jobs in Islamic countries.
No doubt raising the minimum wage would help too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What all these people need to do is read an exhaustively
researched essay by Graeme Wood in the March issue of Atlantic Monthly titled: “What
ISIS Really Wants.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wood interviewed Islamic State recruiters and spokesmen in
western countries, as well as the world’s leading Islamic scholars. Because he
prefers his head on his shoulders, he declined to visit the Islamic State. What
he found was that, for the true believer, the Islamic State is the purest
manifestation of Islam since the 7<sup>th</sup> century. The allure of the
Islamic State for fundamentalist Muslims is attributable to its strict
adherence to the Koran. Muslims who have been taught all their lives to pray
for the restoration of a caliphate have their first legitimate caliph in a
millennium. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ISIS slave markets, ISIS crucifixion of children, ISIS rape
of women, and ISIS burning and beheading of non-Muslims and Muslims who exhibit
insufficient purity are not just permitted by the Koran, but required by
Mohammed’s teaching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They don’t want jobs. They want Paradise. Theirs is an
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it is the official policy of the Obama administration
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manning phones in call centers, Muslims and Christians could live together in
perfect harmony. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here we are, marching ourselves into oblivion like the
Jews of Auschwitz with our own government operating the crematoriums. There was
nothing unique about the European Jews submission to Hitler’s domination. Their
civilized minds simply could not intellectually process the Nazis’ depravity.
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Islamic State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there are even those who seem to think we have it
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Crusades justify terrorism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-3911202427881263062015-02-14T00:30:00.000-08:002015-02-14T00:30:00.051-08:00Liberals, Whole Foods and Anti-Vaccine Idiocy<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm old enough to remember the visceral fear that once attended news reports of polio outbreaks. I remember seeing photographs of entire hospital wards dedicated to maintaining paralyzed people in iron lungs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very often, the most indelible memories of our youth are of our greatest fears. If my memory serves, it was on the first Monday of each month, at 11:00 AM, when the air raid sirens were tested. These horns were meant to give us enough time to duck and cover under our school desks in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack. In our schools were posters that decoded the various signal patterns that would give us specific warnings. But we all knew that the sirens simply signaled our imminent incineration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost every month though we kids were caught unawares when the siren tests sounded, and for a few moments, until we recalled what day it was and what time it was, we expected the warhead’s arrival. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other great fear was polio. Whenever news of an outbreak reached us, we shuddered in dread. We had seen what polio did to people. And when polio struck a town within our county, the sensation was of a monster plodding over the landscape, as irresistible as Godzilla, toward us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the advent of the Salk vaccine the relief was palpable. We stood in lines that stretched down the street and around the corner to get our shots or sugar cubes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the availability of chicken pox and mumps vaccines, parents of young children formed networks that would alert all families that someone’s child had contracted one of those diseases. That kid suddenly had playmates all day long, as parents intentionally exposed their children because those diseases were considered inevitable and take a much greater toll with age. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People have gotten too complacent and fail to understand how recently in our history we have emerged from epidemics and plagues. And they don't appreciate how easy it would be for us to backslide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two recent events have brought this almost forgotten legacy of humankind back to the front pages. First of all was the outbreak of measles at Disneyland in California. There have been numerous smaller outbreaks, but this one made headlines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secondly, there were the awkward answers to questions about mandatory vaccinations given by Republican presidential candidates Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Both expressed unease over mandatory vaccinations. And of course the mainstream news media both exaggerated and distorted what they said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CNN’s Chris Cuomo accused all Republicans of being anti-science. And others somehow placed responsibility for the myth that vaccines cause autism on Republicans. This second falsehood descends from 2008 presidential candidate John McCain’s brief flirtation with the anti-vaccine activists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to journalist Seth Mnookin, author of the new book, “The Panic Virus: The True Story of Medicine, Science and Fear,” the antivirus movement is deeply rooted in America’s most anti-conservative communities. “I talked to a public health official and asked him what's the best way to anticipate where there might be higher than normal rates of vaccine noncompliance, and he said take a map and put a pin wherever there's a Whole Foods. I sort of laughed, and he said, ‘No, really, I'm not joking.’ It's those communities with the Prius driving, composting, organic food-eating people.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fashionable, rich, liberal neighborhoods around Los Angeles have vaccination rates lower than South Sudan. Overall, the US vaccination rate ranks 114th in the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The man most responsible for anti-vaccine hysteria is far-left Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and HBO’s Bill Maher helped him promote his agenda. Bubble-headed Hollywood leftists anointed themselves as Kennedy’s proselytizers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maher and Stewart now ridicule anyone who doubts vaccine mandates. But all liberals think they can get away with historical revisions because they control the media. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How’s that working out for Brian Williams?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the fact remains that conservatives and libertarians distrust government mandates. And they need to get over this one. Adult parents who fail to vaccinate their children are not exercising autonomy over their own bodies, they’re endangering their children’s lives. Parents should have no more authority to deny their child a vaccination than they should have the authority to lower their own child’s age of sexual consent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conservatives who seek to protect children’s lives in the wombs should show equal concern for those same children after birth.</span><br />
<br />Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600654309482979580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373322.post-91671546792445715902015-02-07T00:30:00.000-08:002015-02-09T11:25:57.498-08:00Get Ready to Endure Seattle's Scarlet Letter of Shame<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="first-paragraph"><span class="paragraph-0"></span></span></span><br />
Seattle's leftists
have unleashed their Garbagestappo. Henceforth, Seattleistas who fail to
sort their trash up to the high standards of the garbage man who serves
their street will have a red flag attached to their rubbish bin. This
scarlet letter of shame is meant to alert all of the neighbors that here
lives a scallywag, a desperado and a ne'er-do-well. The owner of that
garbage will be known in all the land as an environmental despoiler of
the worst order. It's a bit like circulating those notices that warn
that a sex offender has moved into the area. Although in some Seattle
neighborhoods, the sex offender would probably be more welcome.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span class="paragraph-1">"I'm sure neighbors
are going to see these on their other neighbors' cans," says Rodney
Watkins, one of the moral enforcers who drives a garbage truck for one
of Seattle's waste contractors, Recology Clean<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scapes. They don't slut shame in
Seattle. They scrap shame. If you throw into your trash bin leftover
food that the garbage man deems better suited to the compost heap, he
can hang the red tag on you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All your neighbors will start
whispering: "Did you hear? John and Jane were caught tossing out an old
Jello salad in their trash. And with a perfectly good compost bin nearby
too!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Suddenly, those invitations to
backyard barbecues that you used to take for granted will dry up. Your
social standing will suffer. Your kids will get laughed at on the
playground. You'll lose your country club membership. You'll probably
have to move somewhere else, change your name and start over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But that's just the warning phase
of the new law. In a few months, the garbage man can write you a ticket
that comes with a fine. The fine's not much, only $1 per offense. But
you know about camels that manage to sneak their nose under the tent
flap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have often wondered how the
left reconciles its hatred of the police with its love of the police
state. In a police state, there are government enforcers for just about
everything. In Washington, not even cake decorators or florists are left
alone. And in Seattle, the police state has gained a new division - the
refuse technician. If you offend his environmentalist sensibilities,
then he has the authority to mete out punishment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Right now, I'm tagging probably
every fifth can," Watkins told Seattle public radio station KUOW. "I
don't know if that's just the holidays, or the fact that I'm actually
paying a lot more attention."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After raising the lid on one
garbage can, he lamented to the reporter, "You can see all the oranges
and coffee grounds. All that makes great compost. You can put that in
your compost bin and buy it back next year in a bag and put it in your
garden."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For some reason, I'm reminded of a
classic scene from the movie, "Fight Club." Brad Pitt rummages through
dumpsters behind liposuction clinics to retrieve plastic bags filled
with discarded human blubber that he processes into boutique soaps. He
then markets those soaps to high-priced bath stores for $20 per bar and
marvels at what the customer must be paying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"We were selling rich women their own fat [rear ends] back to them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Watkins was especially offended
when he found an entire red velvet cake in one waste container. KUOW
described him as "disheartened" at the discovery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh the heartbreak of the professional environmental moral exhibitionist!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Frankly, I'd be a little
disheartened myself if it were my job to inspect everyone's garbage can
for half-eaten hamburgers, banana peels and that forgotten pizza slice
that shuffled its way to the back of the refrigerator where it remained
for weeks until it molded over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pressuring citizens to sort their
garbage is nothing new in the Meccas of liberalism. San Francisco has
been mulling over similar laws for years. Last year, Massachusetts
banned unsorted garbage from large institutions from its landfills.
Henceforth, cafeterias, hospitals and grocery stores must divert their
food waste to composting facilities, animal feed or, if it is still
wholesome, to human consumption.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Americans do throw away an awful
lot of food. In fact, of all the food harvested in this country, only
about 60 percent is actually consumed. The rest is discarded or spoils.
And we should look for a solution.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But leftists never let an opportunity to expand the police state go to waste.</span><br />
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