Drew Edmondson is at it again

From Oklahomans for Responsible Government:

Drew Edmondson, a man who wants to be the leader of Oklahoma, is once again using his powers as Attorney General to confuse voters by changing language of ballot initiatives set to be up for a vote in 2010. You may remember that Edmondson changed the language of the term limits ballot measure making it sound like it did not allow any re-elections. Well, he’s done it again with two other measures.

Senate Joint Resolution 13 passed overwhelmingly in the Senate (42-2) and the House (78-17) and is now known as State Question 750. It changes the calculation for the number of signatures needed to put a measure on the ballot, basing it on the last race for Governor in stead of alternating between the last presidential election and the last gubernatorial election. Here’s what lawmakers wanted you to see on the ballot…Continue reading on OFRG.org >>

 

Al-Qaeda Threatens France Over Burqa

Today, al-Qaeda threatened France over the ostensible issue of the burqa. Tommorrow, America will be in their gun sights on this same issue.

The burqa, niqab–even hijab–are being used as pawns in the power struggle between jihadic Islam and the West. These dress codes are primarily political in nature.

For those people who really and truly believe that the burqa is a religious and not a political/jihadic issue–consider this:

According to the United States monitoring service SITE Intelligence, Al-Qaeda, has just announced that it plans to “take revenge on France for its opposition to the burka, calling on Muslims to retaliate against the country.” Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, head of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

 

Lies of AE911Truth Exposed 2

More research at this site exposes yet more lies by the Architects and Engineers for 911Truth ( AE911Truth):

Go about three-quarters of the way down the page here,  and you’ll see the claims made by David Chandler, who is a high school physics teacher, NOT an architect or engineer.

This site provides this quote from David Chandler from here: “NIST has now officially accepted that WTC7 came down with the acceleration of gravity, but they still couch it as a phase in a 5.4 second interval they claim matches the 5.4 seconds required for their model to collapse 18 floors.”

However, like most CT’s, Chandler is being dishonest. 

As we see here, WTC 7 did NOT come down with the acceleration of gravity ( i.e., freefall)-  in point of fact it took 40% longer to collapse than it would have at freefall speed.

Furthermore, NIST went into more- and better- detail as they have more precise equipment than Chandler, and , yes, they did find a period of 2.25 seconds where WTC 7 fell at freefall speeds ( Hint: 2.25 seconds does not the entire event make). However, what Chandler and the rest of the “truthers” won’t tell you is that in those 5.4 seconds of the roofline’s collapse, there is a period both before and after the 2.25 seconds where there is a period of SIGNIFICANT resistance-  and Chandlers OWN MEASUREMENTS show EXACTLY THE SAME THING ( reference) Hint: If, as Chandler and other “truthers” claim, the NIST is lying, and Chandlers own numbers match the NIST, then, logically, Chandler would have to be lying as well.

As for the controlled demolition theory, Richard Gage, founder of AE911Truth often quotes Danny Jowenko, a Dutch expert on controlled demolition to “prove” controlled demolition ( source).

While it is true that Jowenko says WTC 7 was a controlled demolition,  and Gage is not misquoting Jowenko on WTC 7, there is one tiny little detail Gage doesn’t want you to know: Jowenko believes, correctly, that the Twin Towers came down on their own ( source).

Furthermore, as we see here, Jowenko is first shown a video of Silversteins “pull it” statement, which, of course, would logically affect his view of the WTC 7 collapse, then this site provides the interview with Jowenko in 3 videos.

Of course, if you go to the 4^th video here, you’ll see the TRUTH about Silversteins “pull it” quote.

At about 25 seconds into the 4^th video ( the one that Gage did NOT show Jowenko and is actually the SAME PBS Special “Truthers” like to use when misquoting Silverstein), you here Silverstein saying he got a call from the FIRE DEPARTMENT COMMANDER ( source ).

At about 46 seconds, we see the details “truthers” leave out- pull it in demolition means pulling the building away from another one with cables, and this video ( which also happens to be the same one Alex Jones uses) shows the heavy construction equipment getting ready to pull WTC 6 down with cables ( source).

Scroll down a little farther here, and you’ll see that Jowenko is only given select information.

This quote from here tells the truth: “Jowenko is then shown a video of the building falling. There is no indication whether he is shown the complete collapse or a video starting at the favorite cut-in spot favored by Gage and similar conspiracy theorists.

He is also shown a simple drawing of the building’s placement of core columns. He is given no information about the cantilevered section to the north, or the crucial transfer trusses in the area of column 79.

Other bits of information are given to him here and there, and the interviewer appears to have pages of the FEMA report on WTC 7 on the table. Close to the end, he’s shown the FEMA estimate of column damage. But Jowenko basically refers to the video, the Silverstein quote, and the column drawing during the interview. He certainly has never seen the Final Report from NIST on WTC 7.

Experts who have examined much more evidence than that presented to Jowenko have concluded that 7 World Trade fell due to damage to its unusual structure by thermal expansion of structural elements.”

In short, despite it’s name, The Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth are about as interested in the truth as OJ is in finding the real killers.

Lies of AE911Truth Exposed 1

It is time to bring the lies of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 “Truth” (AE911Truth) to light.

First, as we see, here, AE911Truth claims that over 24,000 Architects and engineers came face to face with the truth.  However, as this site points out, if you go to AE911Truth’s own site, you’ll see they only added 50 new petitioners, and if you watch the videos from AE911Truth’s own Web site, you’ll see that only 4 of those 50 were architects or engineers.

As we see here, that means the actual percentage of Architects and Engineers that are members of AE911Truth is a whopping 0.000166%.

In addition, if you go a little further down the Web site here, you will see even more evidence of Ae911Truth’s deception.  The owner of this Web site (who I might add is, as we see here, by his OWN ADMISSION, a LIBERAL who, again, by his OWN ADMISSION, is more than willing to believe the worst of the Bush Administration.  However, unlike AE911Truth, the “Scholars” for 9/11 “Truth,” etc, he is, at least, an honest researcher) points out that a little further research shows that there’s a problem with the Architects and Engineers for 911Truth’s claim to have 640 architects and engineers asking for a new investigation.  In point of fact, that total of 640 includes architect and engineering students, as well as other people who work  in those offices ( Hint: People who work in those offices aren’t necessarily architects or engineers- they could be secretaries). In point of fact, when everyone except those with licenses and degrees is excluded, there are only 284 names, and that’s with a broad definition of engineer- there are landscape and electrical engineers on that list (source). Scroll further down this site, and you will see that AE911Truth is again using the Beijing skyscraper fire just last February to “prove” their point.        

AE911Truth states’ that the Beijing skyscraper was comparable in size to WTC 7, which is technically true, but this site points out some details that AE911Truth leaves out: 1) The skyscraper in question was REINFORCED CONCRETE and steel, much like the new WTC 7 will be- and concrete is far more resistant to fire than steel.  This site also makes an aside that the “truthers” who support a controlled demolition of the WTC use the Madrid Windsor fire and make a big deal out of the fact that it didn’t collapse, while ignoring the fact that the steel in the Madrid Windsor fire DID melt, and it’s the reinforced concrete that survived, 2) The Beijing skyscraper was built  by Arup AFTER conducting an EXTENSIVE study of the WTC collapses, and 3) The Beijing skyscraper was built to withstand major earthquakes.  If it’s built to withstand the huge earthquakes that often occur China ( and the Pacific Rim ( aka, the “Ring of Fire”) in general, how is fire going to bother it?

Oh, and one other detail: As I pointed out in a previous article, there are two other differences as well: 1) The Beijing fire was fought, and 2) Unlike WTC 1,2, and &, the Beijing skyscraper did NOT suffer SEVERE structural damage before catching fires.

When it comes to honesty, AE911Truth makes Bill Clinton look like a Boy Scout.

‘Web Site Story’ from College Humor

This is priceless. The kids at College Humor have put portrayed our e-Lives in showtunes. Enjoy. (H/T TechCrunch)

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

 

Michelle Bachmann (R-MN): Now we have moved into the realm of gangster-government.

An incredulous U.S. Rep from Minnesota calls it the way she sees it.

 

Stop- the Land You Save May Be Your Own

No, I’m not upset over losing Michael Jackson! I’m upset over losing America.

For more fun, visit www.DiversityLane.com

 

Guns Come to Church

A few minutes before New Bethel Church’s highly publicized “open-carry service” began Saturday evening, Lynne Smith walked into the sanctuary with her husband and two friends and took a seat in the front row.

Reporting for TIME Magazine, Cary G. Stemle said that when asked what weapon she had with her, Smith had to stop and think about which gun she’d brought but finally said it was a Beretta .25 automatic. Her husband, Michael Houston, wore a Browning .380 in a holster. Their friends, Ted and Barbara Grant, were also carrying weapons.

Barbara, wearing a NYPD baseball cap, had a Ruger .38 revolver, while Ted, who wore a ball cap with the National Rifle Association logo on the side and “Silver Bullet Brigade” on the front, had a Taurus .40 caliber automatic.

TIME said that the unusual gathering was entirely legal and acceptable to the leaders of New Bethel, an Assemblies of God church in Louisville, Kentucky, that invited people to bring their unloaded guns to this first-ever event. Neither of the two couples in the front row are New Bethel members.

A statement on the church’s web site about the event said that gun ownership is not part of the gospel message, which is Jesus Christ, His life, death, burial and resurrection.

The statement continued, “Gun ownership falls under the scope of Christian liberty. One may either choose to own or not own a firearm. But as soon as someone yells ‘foul,’ or that this event or activity is not something that one may do as a Christian, the matter now becomes inextricably linked with the gospel.”

The web site continued, “We recognize that some will disagree with us about this event, and we respect their right to do so. Yet, in the words of one of the greatest theologians ever to come from the Christian faith, ‘To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.’ (St. Thomas Aquinas).

A disclaimer on the web page referring to the event said, “All visitors to New Bethel Church Property enter at their own risk. New Bethel Church will not be held responsible for injuries to you or damage to your personal property.”

Smith told TIME she read about the service in the Louisville Courier-Journal and came “to see what was going on.”

All four are longtime NRA members, she said, and all are deeply worried that the federal government will mount an effort to take away the right to bear arms they believe is enshrined in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

TIME said that generalized concern was expressed in various ways by various people at the service, which became an international media sensation when it hit Louisville’s mainstream press early this month. Pastor Ken Pagano, a former Marine and a volunteer chaplain with the Louisville Metro Police Department, suggested the idea more than a year ago when the church board was brainstorming ways to expand its outreach.

Just after five o’clock, Pastor Ken Pagano stepped to the microphone, welcomed the crowd of about 175 and summarized the ground rules.

“All arms are to be holstered,” TIME reported he said. “It’s a cold-range carry as a show of support for the Second Amendment and First Amendment.”

TIME said Pagano focused on a number of issues he has dealt with before while being interviewed by journalists from Australia to Ireland.

They are that pacifism is optional for Christians; society faces more risks from texting and Twittering drivers on the highway than from guns; and “we’re not doing anything illegal, immoral or unconstitutional, so why apologize?”

TIME said he promised to keep the event (it was not a worship service) to about an hour, though it lasted 90 minutes.

The relaxed program was built largely around music and talking points interspersed with a series of videos downloaded from YouTube.

TIME said the audience sang a verse each of “America, the Beautiful,” “My Country ’tis of Thee,” and “God Bless America.”

They then watched a watched a video clip from the late comedian Red Skelton in which he invokes one of his former teachers who broke down the Pledge of Allegiance word by word. Pagano then asked the crowd to stand and led them in reciting the Pledge.

TIME said two videos featured the magicians Penn and Teller, who support gun rights. In one, they stuff a folded American flag inside a rolled-up copy of the Bill of Rights before seemingly setting it (and only it) on fire; the magicians then challenge the audience to embrace the ambiguity of the illusion and to understand that, regardless, the Bill of Rights remains.

Later, on another video, they parsed the language of the Second Amendment and quibble with those who quibble over punctuation around the word “people” and their right to bear arms.

TIME reported that Pagano related how the church’s insurance carrier refused to cover the event and his efforts to find a one-day rider. Only one agent in the country was willing to underwrite the event, he said – for $2,600. That, he said, illustrates how insurance companies have too much control over regular people. Those remarks, and others from Pagano, drew spontaneous bursts of “that’s right” and “amen.” The church eventually found coverage for $700.

After more videos there was a raffle with prizes of a free NRA membership, gun range time and a pistol.

There was also another video, this time of Lee Greenwood singing “God Bless the USA,” and an invitation to hang out for hot dogs, chips and bottled water.
Afterward, Kevin Terrell, who was among a group of attendees dressed in camouflage, told TIME that his militia group, the Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters, is closely watching various gun legislation in Congress.

He said that former President George Bush’s expansion of presidential power is a problem because he believes the current president has used it to his advantage.

“I used to think I was a right-wing Republican until Bush,” he said. “Now that absolute power has been passed to a left-winger.”

The church didn’t know what to expect from the first-time event, said member Charles Hinckley, a former pastor who carried a Smith & Wesson .380, but it went off smoothly.

TIME said that video cameras were prohibited on church grounds, forcing news crews to do stand-ups beyond the entrance to the church’s long parking lot, and still photos were restricted to one pool photographer.

TIME reported that Pagano, who said church members have a responsibility to stress safe gun usage, would like to make the open-carry service an annual event annual leading to the Fourth of July. And he said he had no problem with an alternative rally, “Bring Your Peaceful Heart … Leave Your Gun at Home,” that coincided with the gun service.

Terry Taylor, who heads Interfaith Paths to Peace, which organized the counter-rally, said there was no need to protest at the New Bethel event. “That’s not how we do things,” TIME reported he said. “We wanted to hold our own event and give something to people that we think is better.”

For more information go to New Bethel Church.

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Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and CEO of Joy Junction, New Mexico’s largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org He has a master’s degree in communication from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in intercultural education from Biola University in Los Angeles. His newest book is “The Face of Homelessness.” Additional details are available at http://www.HomelessBook.com. Reynalds’ latest book is “We All Need a Little Help.” It was released on October 3 2008. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Is the ‘Generation Gap’ Widening?

Bobby Eberle has an op-ed piece on GOPUSA’s The Loft today called The Crazy World of LOL, BRB, and :

I had an interesting conversation with my daughter on the way to one of her softball games this past weekend. We were talking about technology and all the new inventions and devices that have sprung up during my lifetime. From VCRs and CDs to cell phones and DVDs, the list goes on and on.

Technology is no longer something foreign to younger people. It is part of their lives. Where older folks may run and hide if they are asked to use a computer, the younger generation embraces technology. They also embrace a mindset that is increasingly different from older Americans. At least that is what one study is indicating. Let’s check it out…Continue reading on The Loft >>

 

A Frenzy of Honor Killings: Neda, Soraya, Bursa – and Me

The world has just watched the cold-blooded murder of Neda in Teheran. The last sentence she uttered was: “Death to the Dictator.” Many of us are now about to see the haunting film about the real-life stoning of another Iranian woman, known as Soraya M. These two tragedies took place in a Muslim country.

The blood of real (not just reel) Muslim women, murdered either by the state or by their families, continues to cry out—not only in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa but also in the West.

Two days ago, on June 24, 2009, in Germany, a Turkish father, Mehmet O, a kebab shop owner, repeatedly knifed his fifteen-year-old daughter, Bursa, while she was sleeping. Despite the fact that Bursa, her mother, and her sister all wore hijab, Mehmet O. still felt Bursa was too “westernized,” and that she did not want her “strict Muslim father to control her life.”

Bursa’s friends described her as a “fun-loving girl, (who) loved hip hop music….But that is no reason to kill someone.”

Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

 

The Honduran Mirror

Tsk, tsk, Obama is deeply concerned over the detention,  and expulsion of the leftist Honduran President. It seems the Honduran Supreme court, the people and the military objected to the Socialist President’s trying to push through even more socialist plans ala Chavez of Venezuela and his plans for dragging the Honduran people with him.

Obama is finally taking a political stand, siding with Chavez, Castro, and other social leaders from Central and South America. This really shouldn’t be much of a surprise to those who have peaked beneath the wool that Obama has been pulling over the eyes of Americans.

The Honduran Legislature grew tired of having President Zelaya imposing his will over that of the people. The lawmakers stated that the ex-President “provoked confrontations and divisions,” within the country. The Honduran army arrested and deported for what the people of Honduras saw as criminal acts.

Zelaya claimed that he was elected in a fair and honest election (unlike the 2008 election in the United States). US Diplomats are pressing for Honduras to restore constitutional law (too bad, they don’t seem to care about the unconstitutional actions of our own government).

I realize my opinion is probably in the minority at this time, but when a president acts against the will of the people, the legislature and the judiciary of a country, they have the right and the duty to remove him from office. We should not condemn their methods just because they are not ours. In the United States we have two methods to remove an elected official, impeachment and recall.

Perhaps Obama and his blind minions in Congress are seeing visions of their future.

 

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Rush Limbaugh on the Waxman-Markey-Madoff Cap

Rush Limbaugh monologue on the Cap and Trade Tax bill.

Parts 2 – 4 are available on YouTube.

 

Impeach Congress

After watching the fiasco in the House of Representatives and seeing the final vote even after the huge negative response from the public I feel it is time to impeach Congress.

Congress is supposed to be representing the people, not following the Machiavellian plans of a pretender puppet and his shadowy overseers.

The Constitution of the United States states clearly what Congress can and can’t do yet again and again they have overstepped their mandate and screwed the American voting public.

They have yet to validate that candidate Obama is even eligible for the Office that he is currently using to destroy America. Putting aside the issue of his birth certificate (or should I say his lack of one) and the fact that so far he has spent over one million dollars to hide his college records and other documents that would establish his bonafides the  Constitution prohibits any member of any State legislature from holding any elected National office if he has engaged in an insurrection or rebellion or given aid or comfort to the enemies of the United States.

Under Amendment 14 to the Constitution Congressmen like John Kerry are also ineligible for office, yet he is there. This North Vietnamese “hero of the revolution” is allowed over and over to run for office and change the laws of this Country, even though as a reserve naval office he violated his oath and openly joined demonstrations against American policies and then both he and his relatives profited financially from trade with the communist government.

Prior to being elected Obama tried to pressure the Iraqi government into bending to his way in order to influence American voters. Then we have the great one’s interference in Kenya’s internal politics, another Logan Act violation since what he was doing was speaking in opposition to US Government policies that were in effect at that time. Then we have his famous world tour in which he identified himself as a Senator and a candidate for President then proceeded to offer rhetoric in opposition to standing policies to foreigners in an attempt to sway foreign opinion against those American policies.The political thuggery that is now be practiced by this illegal administration is staggering. The illegal firing of Inspector Generals, the shutting down of criminal investigations against ACORN and other organizations friendly to the Administration, the appointment of “Czars” in violation of the Constitution (Czar is a title of monarchy, prohibited by the Constitution). These czars are being given unlimited powers and responsible only to this poser. Obama in remarks from Jordan  admits to his violation by stating that he was trying to influence the governments of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, an influence that he was making in violation of the Logan Act. What Obama did on his World “Love Me” tour and on his recent “Apology” tour was to give aid and succor to America’s enemies.

But Congress’s failure to act on Obama’s ineligibility is but one of their egregious criminal acts. Section 4, Article IV of the Constitution says The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

So far they have done little to protect anyone against the invasion of 20 million (or more) illegals, instead members of Congress are doing all they can to get these criminals registered to vote and then buying these illegal votes with free handouts that legal citizens are footing the bill for!

Then we have this “cap and trade” bill which taxes energy. If you are asking yourself how is this illegal I refer you back to this document that so few of our elected officials seem to have read, the Constitution. Limits on Congress, Article 1, Section 9, “No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.” This bill H.R.2454 was rammed through against the wishes of the American people, the Government’s own scientists have been muzzled or fired for speaking out against the false statistics and weird science which gave credence to the lies of “greenhouse gases”.

Energy regardless of how it is produced, (coal, oil, nuclear, wind, etc) that is manufactured in one State is being taxed by the Federal Government as it is “exported” to other States under this bill. This is illegal and in violation of the Constitution.

The Constitution also precludes favoritism between States by the Federal Government yet we see that favoritism consistently in the form of “earmarks” and this newest energy bill punishes adversely States that actually produce energy, which coincidentally most of them happen to be States that voted against Obama.

It is time to put into Congress people who: #1 Obey the Constitution, #2 Will do the will of the people, #3 Will stand up to the powers of darkness, and #4 Who are not there to line their own pockets.

IMPEACH CONGRESS NOW!

THROW THE BUMS OUT!

Update: Also see Michelle Malkin – Cap-and-tax job loss chart of the day; Plus: A Senate reading assignment

 

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What if Government Ran Health Care?

As the debate over health care reform gets underway, Reason.tv asks, What if government ran health care? This is quite a telling video.

 

The Sound of Iranian Freedom

This is a video dedicated to Iran’s freedom put the the music of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”  It is quite interesting to watch.