tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49277320270706271362024-02-21T00:53:02.663-05:00Politik DittoFighting Liberal TerrorismMr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-91470850984768452822015-01-28T20:30:00.002-05:002015-01-28T20:30:59.973-05:00Hollyweird Liberal Actress Julianne Moore Doesn't Believe In God<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/julianne-moore-the-hollywood-reporter-cover-2015281">USmagazine.com</a>:<br />
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<em>In therapy she trusts. <strong><a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/julianne-moore" target="_blank">Julianne Moore</a></strong> told <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julianne-moore-believes-therapy-not-767484" target="_blank">The Hollywood Reporter</a> in its new issue that she doesn't believe in God. Instead, she's placed her faith in her therapist and herself.</em><br />
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<em>The Still Alice actress, 54, explained how she's developed
her spiritual outlook, much of it stemming from her childhood. "The idea
that you're the center of your own narrative and that you can create
your life is a great idea," Moore told THR. "I totally believe it. I've been really lucky, but I feel I've completely created my own life."</em><br />
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<i>It's this innate sense of personal control that's made Moore believe —
at least in her personal life — the absence of a supreme higher power.
"I learned when my mother died five years ago that there is no 'there'
there," Moore told the mag. "Structure, it's all imposed. We impose
order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise,
there's nothing but chaos."</i><br />
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<i>Moore opened up about her mom <strong>Anne Smith</strong>'s 2009
death at age 68 from septic shock. "We don't know why it happened," the
actress revealed. "She went to bed, and it turned out she had a huge
bacterial infection."</i></blockquote>
I've been saying for years that most social liberals are morally bankrupt because they don't believe God. As for this one, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's followed her career and the kind of roles she takes on: ones mostly filled with debauchery including <a href="http://www.afterellen.com/movies/75185-an-interview-with-julianne-moore">playing a lesbian at least twice</a>. So stupid when people use tragedy as a reason not to believe in God, yeah keep listening to your therapist instead of the Word of the Lord you conceited nitwit.<br />
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<a href="http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2015/01/22/veronica-partridge-anti-leggings-blog/">People.com</a>:<br />
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<i>While the debate continues on whether or not leggings are pants, one
woman has made a choice to not wear the popular spandex bottoms in
public for a very specific reason. Veronica Partridge, a Christian wife,
mother, farmer and homemaker based in Oregon, posted on her <a class="tracklink3" href="http://veronicapartridge.com/why-i-chose-to-no-longer-wear-leggings/" target="_blank">personal blog</a> about why she has made the decision to no longer wear leggings.</i><br />
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<i>“Was it possible my wearing leggings could cause a man, other than my
husband, to think lustfully about my body?” she wrote in a <a class="tracklink3" href="http://veronicapartridge.com/why-i-chose-to-no-longer-wear-leggings/" target="_blank">post</a>
that has now been shared over 50,000 times on Facebook. “Sure, if a man
wants to look, they are going to look, but why entice them?”</i><br />
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<i>She made the decision to stop wearing yoga pants and similar bottoms
out in public after having her beliefs about the temptation associated
with leggings confirmed by her friends and her husband.</i><br />
<br />
<i>“It had been something that was on my mind for quite some time,” she
tells PEOPLE. “I didn’t want to possibly cause another man, especially a
married man, to look at me in a way I believe he should only look at
his wife.”</i><br />
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<i>Partridge makes it clear, however, that these are her own beliefs, and she has no intentions of pushing them onto others.</i><br />
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<i>“I was never trying to start a movement or try to tell women how to
dress,” she says. “I was just sharing my personal decision on my
personal blog.”</i><br />
<br />
<i>The lifestyle blogger says she was surprised by how much attention — mostly negative — this particular post received.</i><br />
<br />
<i>“Never did I expect it to go so viral,” Partridge says. “If I knew it was going to, I would have never posted it.”</i></blockquote>
Mind you, this is her choice. A decision she posted on her OWN blog. Some Godless social liberal must've seen it, ran with it and got with a bunch of their friends to spread her testimony, while intent on smearing her at the same time. Of course she doesn't have to apologize for anything and of course, no remowned feminist will come out to publicly defend her because of her conservatives views. It's <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/05/24/nikki_haley_and_s_e_cupp_prove_that_the_left_is_ok_with_misogyny.html">how they do</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/01/17/dunham-regrets-cosby-holocaust-analogy.html">TheDailyBeast.com</a>:<br />
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<em>After comparing Bill Cosby’s rape allegations to the Holocaust in a recent Time Out New York interview, Lena Dunham published an Instagram post clarifying her comments. </em><br />
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<em>In the original TimeOut
interview, Dunham said, “It’s sort of like saying someone’s obsessed
with the Holocaust. It’s not, ‘I’m so angry about Hulk Hogan’s sex
tape.’ This is a huge issue, and it speaks to the way that we abuse
power and the way that celebrity allows for injustice.” </em><br />
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<i>In the Instagram
post, Dunham says she’s “already aware comparing Bill Cosby to the
Holocaust wasn’t my best analogy.” Dunham recently hired crisis manager
Judy Smith, the inspiration for Olivia Pope’s character on Scandal.</i></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/16/gay-marriage-likely-back-in-the-hands-of-one-supreme-court-justice.html">TheDailyBeast.com</a>:<br />
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<i>The other shoe has dropped for same-sex marriage.</i><br />
<br />
<i>The first hit the floor last November, when the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/07/the-courts-shameful-day-on-gay-marriage-in-deboer-v-snyder.html">Sixth Circuit upheld</a> the “traditional marriage” restrictions in four states, thus creating a split among the federal circuits.</i><br />
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<i>This was exactly what was not present a month earlier, when the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/06/supreme-court-tells-anti-gay-marriage-states-to-get-lost.html">Supreme Court let stand</a> lower courts’ rulings on the same issue. Back then, Justice Ginsberg said, “there is no need to rush.”</i><br />
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<i>But once the Sixth Circuit diverged from the opinions of the 4<sup>th</sup>, 7<sup>th</sup>, 9<sup>th</sup>, and 10<sup>th</sup>, such a need arose—if not to rush, then at least to decide the matter, perhaps once and for all.</i><br />
<br />
<i>That
need was answered today, as the Supreme Court agreed to take up four
cases (now consolidated into one) challenging state marriage bans. Oral
argument will be in April and May, and the decision likely rendered in
June.</i><br />
<br />
<i>For now, let the tea-leaf-reading begin.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>On the one hand, same sex marriage has been described as “inevitable” by many august legal pundits (<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/20/pennsylvania-oregon-is-gay-marriage-unstoppable.html">including this one</a>).
It is legal in 35 states plus the District of Columbia, with nine more
states in the appeals process, and four now at the Supreme Court Bar.
That’s just about everywhere.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Heck, even conservatives have
grudgingly come around. Several of the recent judicial opinions
upholding marriage equality have been <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/20/pennsylvania-oregon-is-gay-marriage-unstoppable.html">written by conservative judges</a>.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Republicans including <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/185584-9-prominent-republicans-who-support-gay-marriage/" target="_blank">George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Laura Bush are on board</a>. Even Christian Right poster boy <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/28/kirk-cameron-changes-his-tune-on-same-sex-marriage.html">Kirk Cameron said</a> Christians should blame themselves, not others, for the “decay” in marriage—an analysis <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/25/the-real-enemy-of-marital-bliss-are-those-most-opposed-to-marriage-equality.html">borne out by economic data</a>.</i><br />
<br />
<i>On
the other hand, there are several signs that indicate this may turn
into yet another partisan battle, with Justice Kennedy deciding once
again.</i><br />
<br />
<i>First, Justice Thomas said in an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/13/supreme-court-gay-marriage_n_6154834.html" target="_blank">official statement</a>
that he would’ve liked the Court to take up the marriage cases last
fall. “For reasons that escape me,” he said, “we have not done so.” No
matter how inevitable same-sex marriage may seem, ultimately the
decision will come down to these nine judges.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Second, the Court
has bifurcated the current appeal into two distinct questions: first,
“Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to license a marriage
between two people of the same sex?” and second, “Does the Fourteenth
Amendment require a state to recognize a marriage between two people of
the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed
out-of-state?”</i><br />
<br />
<i>These are legitimately distinct legal questions. Yet if we are
looking for signs and portents, the fact that the Court has so clearly
teased them apart indicates that it might rule one way on the former
question, another way on the latter. That kind of “split the baby”
reasoning would be of a piece with the current court’s judicial
conservatism—especially that of Justice Kennedy himself.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Third, and most importantly, the actual holding in Windsor—the case that invalidated the Defense of Marriage Act and got the ball rolling on same sex marriage—was actually <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/20/pennsylvania-oregon-is-gay-marriage-unstoppable.html">far more narrowly written</a>
than the way it has been construed by lower courts. Although the
precise connection between the two arguments of Justice Kennedy’s
majority opinion was not entirely clear—indeed, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-michaelson/arglebargle-what-justice-_b_3558396.html">Justice Scalia called it “argle bargle”</a>—the
fact is that federalism (and the traditional role of the states in
defining the ambit of marriage) had as much to do with the result as did
the Fourteenth Amendment.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Subsequent judicial opinions have largely ignored this point,
focusing instead on Justice Kennedy’s holding that there was no rational
basis for DOMA’s discriminatory measures. And if there’s no rational
basis for DOMA, there’s no rational basis for state laws either.</i><br />
<br />
<i>To be sure, the Sixth Circuit, now under review, provided not one but a <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/07/the-courts-shameful-day-on-gay-marriage-in-deboer-v-snyder.html">half dozen such bases</a>.
And here are those bases: Allowing the democratic process to proceed,
that state marriage laws are not a federal question at all,
constitutional originalism, natural law, multiple motivations for
anti-gay laws, gay people are not a ‘discrete and insular’ class, and
that the meaning of marriage only evolves when the majority says it
does.</i><br />
<br />
<i>But with concerns of federalism cutting the other way—that is, in favor of allowing state definitions to stand—perhaps a more important question is whether that’s the right standard of review at all.</i></blockquote>
I mean, let's be honest...it's really going to come down to what one guy thinks. <br />
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<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-wrongly-accused-frat-at-uva-is-owed-a-lot-of-apologies/384463/">TheAtlantic.com</a>:<br />
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<i>This week, the University of Virginia announced that it is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/us/uva-fraternity-reinstated-after-rolling-stone-article-on-rape.html">reinstating the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity</a>. The chapter was suspended when <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-20141119"><em>Rolling Stone</em></a> published allegations that an undergraduate named Jackie was brutally gang-raped at one of its parties.</i><br />
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<em>Rolling Stone's feature has since been discredited by commentators and news organizations including The Washington Post, which <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/u-va-fraternity-to-rebut-claims-of-gang-rape-in-rolling-stone/2014/12/05/5fa5f7d2-7c91-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html">rigorously</a> debunked <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/u-va-students-challenge-rolling-stone-account-of-attack/2014/12/10/ef345e42-7fcb-11e4-81fd-8c4814dfa9d7_story.html">its reporting</a>. The debunking is consistent with the findings of police in Charlottesville, who've <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/phi-kappa-psi-fraternity-reinstated-at-university-of-virginia/2015/01/12/1b6ddd50-9a69-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html">concluded</a> that while Jackie may or may not have been raped or assaulted on the night in question, she was not attacked at Phi Kappa Psi.</em><br />
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<i>Fortunately, no individual members of Phi Kappa Psi were named in the
false allegations. It is nevertheless worth reflecting on the
collective ordeal that they suffered when it was widely believed that
many of them engaged in premeditated evil.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<em>Prior to these allegations, the collegians were living in their frat house. After the publication of the Rolling Stone
story, the young men began to receive hate emails, voicemails, and
threats of violence. Angry protestors massed outside their house and
shouted as if at gang-rapists. That alone must've seemed surreal and
difficult to face, especially for a group of 18-to-22-year-olds. Then in
the wee hours of one morning, vandals broke several frat house windows
with chunks of cinder block and bottles and tagged the outside of the
house. "This situation is just beginning," the perpetrators soon
threatened in <a href="http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/11/letter-claiming-responsibility-for-phi-kappa-psi-vandalism-lists-anonymous-demands">an anonymous letter</a>.
"We will escalate and we will provoke until justice is achieved for the
countless victims of rampant sexual violence at this University and
around the nation." Needless to say, the vandals achieved no justice for
rape victims by victimizing these young men.</em><br />
<br />
<i>The college students living in the frat house ultimately fled to
different living quarters, even as they were trying to wind up their
academic work for the semester. "Our brothers are obviously concerned
with their personal safety and the safety of the house,” fraternity
president Stephen Scipione <a href="http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/11/phi-kappa-psi-members-university-offices-face-unspecified-threats">told the student newspaper</a>. Meanwhile, people were <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/boozing-hazing-and-sexual-assault-allegations-have-u-vas-entrenched-fraternity-culture-at-tipping-point/2014/11/29/e6b5a8ee-75a2-11e4-bd1b-03009bd3e984_story.html">shouting "rapist"</a>
at fraternity members on campus. Men in Phi Kappa Psi were presumably
questioned by police in the course of their investigation. Alumni from
the frat asked themselves if the institution to which they once belonged
had morphed into a venue for gang rape and felt stigma for their bygone
association. Parents of members were stressed and upset too, whether
because they felt their sons were being unfairly maligned or worried
that they'd joined a fraternity that conducts gang rapes as a matter of
course.</i><br />
<br />
<i>The fact that Phi Kappa Psi's membership was falsely accused of this crime does not mean that most rape accusations are false–<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2009/10/how_often_do_women_falsely_cry_rape.html">the opposite is true</a>–or
that there isn't a need to reduce the number of rapes and sexual
assaults that happen on college campuses, even granting that some
activists <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/12/college_rape_campus_sexual_assault_is_a_serious_problem_but_the_efforts.html">overstate the number of victims</a>.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>It should be possible to push for reforms that <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/11/nudging-college-students-to-help-stop-rape-and-sexual-assault/383151/">would reduce the too-high number of rape victims</a> while <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/against-universal-responses-to-rape-allegations/383552/">advocating against rushes to judgment</a>
in individual cases. All credible rape accusations should be
investigated. Before the results are in the accuser should have the
private support of friends and various resources. But nothing is gained
when angry mobs with no particular knowledge of a case gather en masse
to shout epithets at people who weren't even accused as individuals.</i></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/hbos-girls-sees-smallest-premiere-on-record-despite-hype-dunhams-pr-disasters-to-blame/">Mediaite.com</a>:<br />
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<em>In what some might think is the best news of the day: The numbers are now out for the much-hyped fourth season of HBO’s Girls… and they’re ugly.</em><br />
<br />
<em>In the lush timeslot that is Sunday at 9:00 p.m., the program drew just 680,000 viewers, which is down 40 percent from last year’s premiere (which also aired during the Golden Globes). In the key ages 18-49 demo, Girls raked in only 390,000 viewers, a drop of 35%. Context is everything, so it should be noted that the late Sex and the City averaged three million viewers in its fourth season. Needless to say, Sunday night’s viewership total was the lowest ever for a Girls‘ season premiere. </em><br />
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<em>Of course, its ubiquitous star, <strong>Lena Dunham</strong> — coming off of appearances last week on The Howard Stern Show to the Today Show (where <strong>Savannah Guthrie</strong> awkwardly offered up herself for a role on the show) to The Tonight Show — will likely find a way to blame <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/girls-star-lena-dunham-likens-republicans-to-%E2%80%9Cnazis%E2%80%9D-allow-me-to-retort%E2%80%A6/" target="_blank">Republicans</a>/<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lena-dunham-avoiding-twitter-because-of-deranged-neocons/" target="_blank">neocons</a>/<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/lena-dunham-i-dont-care-what-conservative-white-men-think-about-me/" target="_blank">conservative white men</a> for this ratings humiliation, as apparently the star is responsible for exactly nothing. </em><br />
<br />
<em>Doesn’t matter which disturbing or debunked story you want to choose from, Dunham has turned off more than a few people who aren’t conservative or politically active or male, <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/concha-lena-dunhams-disturbing-passage-deserves-all-the-scorn-its-getting/" target="_blank">particularly with these accounts</a> of her unsettling interactions with her younger sister growing up: </em><br />
<blockquote>
<i>As she grew, I took to bribing her for her time and
affection: one dollar in quarters if I could do her makeup like a
“motorcycle chick.” Three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the
lips for five seconds. Whatever she wanted to watch on TV if she would
just “relax on me.” Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to
woo a small suburban girl I was trying.
</i></blockquote>
<i>And:</i><br />
<blockquote>
<i>I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was
seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin
asking me around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I
put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and
sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body
thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of
SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure
some stuff out.</i></blockquote>
<em>Once those anecdotes set off some public fury, Dunham went underground for a bit after her own self-described <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/lena-dunham-goes-into-rage-spiral-over-right-wing-accusations-of-sexual-abuse/" target="_blank">rage spiral</a>.
But once you thought she would be out of the spotlight — at least until
the media came running to promote her new season premiere — along came a
past sexual assault allegation she shared in the same book that somehow
makes Rolling Stone’s <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/rolling-stone-retracts-uva-campus-rape-story/" target="_blank">UVA frat house rape “exclusive” look like</a> Pulitzer-winning material. </em><br />
<br />
<em>If you recall, Dunham claims she got high on Xanax and cocaine one
evening in college and decided to bring “the resident campus
conservative” named Barry home. From there, she claims he assaulted her.
A few problems arose, however, once several publications ranging from Breitbart to Gawker (later) decided to look more closely into her account. You probably know the rest by now: The <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/concha-lena-dunhams-republican-raped-me-story-crumbles-as-legal-action-looms/" target="_blank">story was so full of holes that Dunham’s own book publisher</a>
(Random House) was forced to alter future printings of the book while
offering to pay for “Barry’s” legal expenses that he amassed while
attempting to clear his name. </em><br />
<br />
<i>The media, of course, still adores her. ESPN’s <strong>Bill Simmons</strong> — my favorite writer — <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/lena-dunham-i-dont-care-what-conservative-white-men-think-about-me/" target="_blank">interviewed her today</a>
for Grantland and declared Dunham was a victim of a “smear campaign”
despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Pains me to say it but
the Sports Guy embarrassed himself today, allowing his subject to say
this about the allegations against her for fabricating the campus rape
story:</i><br />
<br />
<em>“That article [from Breitbart, debunking her claims] came
out on the day after I launched a Planned Parenthood campaign and the
day before the midterm elections,” she explained, once again turning
another topic into a partisan issue. “One thing I’ll never say about
right-wing websites–they’re good at what they do.” Simmons didn’t bother
to bring up Gawker or Random House or even remotely challenge her.
Again, amateur interviewing from a big-time writer.</em></blockquote>
<b>RELATED: </b> <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/lena-dunham-i-dont-care-what-conservative-white-men-think-about-me/">Lena Dunham: ‘I Don’t Care What Conservative White Men Think About Me’</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-47386529095796445012015-01-12T19:49:00.001-05:002015-01-12T19:49:49.090-05:00Charlie Hebdo Magazine Will Continue To Go Out Of Its Way To Offend Muslims and All Religions In General<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-magazine-attack/doubling-down-charlie-hebdos-next-cover-another-muhammad-cartoon-n284781">NBCNews.com</a>:<br />
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<i>Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical
magazine that was attacked by Islamic militants last week, will publish a
cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on the cover of its next issue,
according to Liberation, a newspaper that is helping the magazine
continue operations. </i></div>
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<i>The picture, drawn by
the staff cartoonist known as Luz, and published online Monday by
Liberation, of course risks further enraging fundamentalist Muslims. </i></div>
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<i>It depicts a bug-eyed
Muhammad holding a sign that says "Je Suis Charlie," the now-popular
phrase that connotes solidarity with the magazine, and with the
principles of free speech that its brand of humor represents. </i></div>
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<i>Under the figure of
Mohammed are the words, "All is forgiven." The normal run for Charlie
Hebdo magazine was previously about 50,000 copies, only in French — but
the new issue will have a 3 million-copy run, in 16 languages. </i></div>
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There's a big difference between "brave" and sheer stupidity. </div>
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<b>RELATED:</b> <a href="http://time.com/3663233/charlie-hebdo-cartoon-reprint-hamburger-morgenpost/">A German Paper That Reprinted <i>Charlie Hebdo</i> Cartoons Was Firebombed</a></div>
Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-89516760204718772672015-01-09T18:27:00.000-05:002015-01-09T18:28:35.683-05:00Mitt Romney Tells Donors He’s Actively Considering Running Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2015/01/09/report-romney-more-open-to-running-in-2016-than-ever-before/">HotAir.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Some children want to be cowboys, astronauts, or pro athletes. I
wanted to be conservative America’s premiere “Romney 2016?”
trollblogger.</i><br />
<br />
<i><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396031/establishment-vs-establishment-eliana-johnson">Live your dreams</a>, my friends.</i><br />
<blockquote>
<i>It may not be only the right flank of the Republican
party that’s crowded in 2016. Mitt Romney is more open to a third
presidential bid than ever before, according to friends and top donors
of the former Massachusetts governor, which means there might be a
bloody battle on the establishment side of the field as well. </i></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<i>“The governor is preserving his options — that’s the message I’ve
gotten from Boston,” says Robert O’Brien, a Los Angeles lawyer who
served as a foreign-policy adviser on Romney’s 2012 campaign. When I
spoke with O’Brien in December, he told me that Romney was not
considering a 2016 run but that “circumstances could change.” </i></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<i>In Romney world, the thinking about a 2016 bid has ratcheted up, and
his top donors, most of whom remain quite loyal, have gotten the signal.
O’Brien tells me that the shift in his own language reflects what he’s
hearing from Romney and his team in Boston, which right now consists
only of Spencer Zwick, who served as finance director on both of
Romney’s presidential campaigns, and Zwick’s deputy, Matt Waldrip. Both
Zwick and Waldrip work with Romney’s eldest son, Tagg, at the
Boston-based private-equity firm Solamere Capital. O’Brien has spoken
with a number of key donors who have relayed their hope the governor
will run; they are sending him the message, either directly or through
former staffers, that they want him in the race.</i></blockquote>
<i>It’s not gonna happen. Even if, against all odds, Christie sobers up from his <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2015/01/05/video-ill-timed-hug-of-unsavory-character-ends-chris-christies-presidential-hopes/">football-induced euphoria</a> and realizes that he’s <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2015/01/07/nate-silver-chris-christie-is-unlikely-to-be-the-gops-2016-nominee/">going nowhere in the primaries</a>,
especially now that Bush is in the race, there’s no way Romney will get
in and risk splitting the establishment/centrist vote with Jeb. For him
to do it, you’d need first to eliminate that risk by having the entire
right side of the field implode — Rubio falters because of amnesty, Rand
Paul falters because of foreign policy, Cruz falters because of his
role in the shutdown, etc etc etc. Even then, someone like Jindal or
Walker would probably pick up the disaffected conservative votes, not
Jeb. Why would Romney sabotage a fellow establishmentarian like Bush and
risk handing the nomination to a more right-wing candidate like Jindal
or Walker by jumping in at that point and dividing the center? Even if every
candidate on the right faded and Jeb raced out to an enormous,
seemingly prohibitive lead, paint me a picture where the donor class
would encourage Romney to disrupt Bush’s momentum by joining the race
himself. The people who bankrolled Mitt three years ago and who’ll be
bankrolling Jeb now may have mild preferences for one or the other of
them, but ultimately they don’t much care which gets the nomination so
long as a conservative doesn’t. Give me a scenario in which that
calculus changes and suddenly there’s support in the monied center of
the party for the idea that Jeb Bush himself must be stopped and there’s
only one man to do it.</i><br />
<br />
<i>It’s not happening. But Bush, prudently, is <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-01-09/bush-team-sets-bold-fundraising-goal-100-million-in-three-months">taking no chances</a>. Even before I encountered the phrase in the excerpt below, my thought upon reading the opening was “shock and awe.”</i><br />
<br />
<i>Jeb Bush’s allies are setting a fundraising goal of <b>$100 million in the first three months</b>
of this year—including a whopping $25 million haul in Florida—in an
effort to winnow the potential Republican presidential primary field
with an audacious display of financial strength.</i></blockquote>
<b>RELATED:</b> <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/mitt-romney-who-swore-he-isnt-considering-2016-run-is-now-considering-it/">Mitt Romney, Who Swore He Isn’t Considering 2016 Run, Is Now Considering It</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-13111479467152041342015-01-08T18:38:00.000-05:002015-01-09T18:38:46.418-05:00Nate Silver: Chris Christie Is Too Moderate To Win GOP Nomination <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2015/01/07/pollster-chris-christie-is-too-moderate-to-win-gop-nomination-n1940029">Townhall.com</a>:<br />
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<em>For all you Christie detractors, you will probably enjoy the news
from pollster/data cruncher Nate Silver, who suggested that the New
Jersey Republican is too moderate to win the GOP nomination. Jeb Bush is
more conservative than Christie, and Silver is skeptical that Mr.
Christie could be successful in the invisible primary; “a tumultuous
time of speechmaking, fundraising, coalition-building and constant
travel, as they seek to boost their name recognition, stand out from the
field, and secure the GOP nomination once the voting begins,” <a href="http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/how_to_understand_the_invisibl.php?page=all">according</a> to the Columbia Journalism Review. </em><br />
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<i>
</i><i><b>Which GOP Candidate is right for you? <a href="http://townhall.com/2016quiz" target="_blank">Take the quiz!</a></b></i><br />
<i>
</i><i>With other big names, like Rick Perry, Scott Walker, and Jeb Bush
mulling presidential runs of their own, it seems hard for Christie to
stand out. He survived the insanely ludicrous media circus over the
so-called “bridgegate,” but his national approval ratings have dipped;
he’s pretty much where every other possible GOP candidate is in the
polls concerning a theoretical head-to-head match-up with Clinton. </i><br />
<br />
<i>
</i><i>While Silver mentions that Christie isn’t totally damaged goods, he
also noted that the governor’s dip in his favorability ratings undercuts
the electability narrative he could use to sell to voters, who might
otherwise reject him for his moderate stripes (via <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/chris-christie-2016-president-republican-primary-overrated/">FiveThirtyEight</a>):</i><br />
<br />
<i>
Christie, however, ranks to the left of Bush by the statistical systems that measure candidate ideology.</i> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>
</i><i>Indeed, Christie takes moderate positions on the very issues where Bush notoriously deviates from the party base — <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-christie-immigration-reform-2016-dream-act-2014-1">such as immigration</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=christie+common+core&oq=christie+common+core&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l5.2898j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8">education</a> — along with others where Bush lands in the GOP mainstream, like on gun control. (Christie has a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131009050621/http://www.nrapvf.org/grades-endorsements/2013/new-jersey.aspx">C grade from the National Rifle Association</a>.) Any voter who opposes Bush for ideological reasons probably won’t find a lot to like in Christie either.</i><br />
<br />
<i>
</i><i>He probably lacks the discipline to win the “invisible primary.” The
candidates who survive the early stage of the invisible primary tend to
be those who avoid making news when they don’t need to. Donors and other
influential Republicans won’t want to nominate a candidate who will
risk blowing a general election because of a gaffe or scandal that hits
at the wrong time.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Christie’s transgressions against Republican orthodoxy and tendency to
make the wrong kind of news can amplify one another. If Christie were
seen as a staunch conservative, Republicans might be more inclined to
rally around him and critique the “liberal media” for persecuting him.
But Christie has not always been a team player for the GOP. His speech
at the 2012 Republican National Convention seemed to go out of its way
to avoid praising Romney. And Christie’s embrace of President Obama as
the two toured seaside communities hit hard by Hurricane Sandy in 2012
also rankled many in the GOP. </i></blockquote>
<b>RELATED: </b> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-cost-of-chris-christies-devotion-to-dallas/">The cost of Chris Christie's devotion to Dallas</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-35311887613195919682015-01-07T20:39:00.000-05:002015-01-07T20:39:14.289-05:00Financial Times Calls Charlie Hebdo ‘Stupid’ for ‘Provoking Muslims’<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/financial-times-calls-charlie-hebdo-stupid-for-provoking-muslims/">Mediaite.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<em>Hours after 12 editors and cartoonists at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were executed by Islamic extremists, the Financial Times‘s editorial board published a strongly-worded editorial criticizing the magazine for their “editorial foolishness.”</em><br />
<br />
<em>“If the magazine stops just short of outright insults, it is
nevertheless not the most convincing champion of the principle of
freedom of speech,” <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9f90f482-9672-11e4-a40b-00144feabdc0.html" target="_blank">the London paper wrote (subscription only)</a>, noting Charlie Hebdo‘s
long history of needling Muslims, Catholics, Jews, and pretty much
everyone in existence. But they added: “France is the land of Voltaire,
but too often editorial foolishness has prevailed at Charlie Hebdo.”</em><br />
<br />
<i>They continued:</i><br />
<blockquote>
<i>This is not in the slightest to condone the murderers,
who must be caught and punished, or to suggest that freedom of
expression should not extend to satirical portrayals of religion. It is
merely to say that some common sense would be useful at publications
such as Charlie Hebdo, and Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, which purport to
strike a blow for freedom when they provoke Muslims, but are actually
just being stupid.
</i></blockquote>
<em>The Financial Times added that their actions, and the
resulting terrorist attack, would only serve to stoke anti-Islamic
sentiment in France. “Anti-Islamism forms part of the electoral appeal
of a party that topped the polls in May in France’s European Parliament
elections,” they noted.</em><br />
<br />
<em>Charlie Hebdo‘s offices were firebombed in 2011 for
publishing an image of the Prophet Muhammad as its “guest editor” on its
cover, right around the time that Innocence of Muslims sparked mass protests for its offensive portrayal of Muslims.</em></blockquote>
I agree. As a black man, sure I have the <i>right</i> to walk back-n-forth around a town loaded with Klu Klux Klanmen in the middle of the day, but is that a good idea? No it isn't. These radical fundamentalists have recently shown that they no problem killing <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/16/world/asia/pakistan-peshawar-school-attack/"><i>children</i></a> in the name of whatever deity they<i> </i>claim to serve. You think risking your life to go out of your way to continually make fun of Allah is ever a good idea? You're <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/murdered-charlie-hebdo-editor-i-prefer-to-die-standing-up-than-live-on-my-knees/">stupid enough</a> to think there won't be any repercussions esp. after they already <i>warned</i> you not to do it again. Not to condone this atrocity in any, way shape or form...but common f-cking sense people.<br />
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<b>RELATED:</b> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/07/terrorist-commandos-paris-gunmen-likely-highly-trained-say-experts/">French police identify gunmen in attack on Paris magazine that killed 12</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-67811549391313231562015-01-06T20:44:00.000-05:002015-01-07T20:46:54.907-05:00Newt Gingrich Fires Back at Bob Schieffer over Steve Scalise - "Being in the Klan is OK If You Are a Democrat" <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gT9rrxkkzU0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
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<b>RELATED:</b> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/6/michael-taub-the-smearing-of-steve-scalise/">The smearing of Steve Scalise</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-13758914579552623122015-01-05T20:18:00.000-05:002015-01-05T20:18:42.572-05:00Why Mike Huckabee Matters - A Lot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/05/why-mike-huckabee-matters-a-lot/">WashingtonPost.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Almost nobody is giving Mike Huckabee a chance in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>But the former Arkansas governor, who <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/01/03/huckabee-to-depart-fox-news-to-consider-2016-presidential-run/">stepped down from his Fox News hosting gig on Saturday</a> as he weighs another run, still matters. A lot.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>That's
because, arguably more than any other potential candidate, Huckabee has
an extremely niche and devoted base of support: evangelical Christians.
The ordained Southern Baptist minister is a natural fit for this group,
and it's a major reason he did as well as he did in 2008.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>What
some people forget about Huckabee's 2008 run was that he didn't just win
Iowa; he also won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana,
Tennessee and West Virginia. His eight wins, in fact, were not far
behind second-place Mitt Romney's 11, and Huckabee won more than 20
percent of all votes cast, despite dropping out with more than a dozen
states yet to vote.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>And just about every state that Huckabee won
was among the most heavily evangelical in the country. Here's a recap of
the 31 states that held regular primaries or caucuses by Feb. 9, with
Huckabee's showing compared to the evangelical population of the state.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>In all but eight of these states, Huckabee's showing was within single digits of the evangelical population -- or better.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>Now,
does that mean Huckabee has a chance to win or will carry these states
in 2016? Not necessarily. His devoted base is both a ticket to the dance
and the reason he'll struggle to win the nomination. There quite simply
aren't enough evangelicals out there. In fact, there is no state
outside the South and the lower Midwest that is more than one-quarter
evangelical.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>(Huckabee also struggles on the financial side of
things, which was a big reason he couldn't sustain his post-Iowa
momentum in 2008.)</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>But while Huckabee monopolized this
demographic in 2008, these same evangelical voters are key to plenty
of candidates who are considered as formidable in 2016, up to and
including Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.</i></blockquote>
<b>RELATED </b> <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/mike-huckabee-is-leaving-fox-news-as-2016-rumors-swirl/">Mike Huckabee Is Leaving Fox News</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-50778624931908418902015-01-04T20:50:00.000-05:002015-01-05T20:52:48.840-05:00Sharyl Attkisson Sues Obama Administration For Violating Her Rights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2015/01/05/sharyl-attkisson-sues-federal-government-violating-her-rights">NewsBusters.org</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Fox News's Howard Kurtz <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/05/sharyl-attkisson-sues-administration-over-computer-hacking/" target="_blank">reported on Monday</a>
that former CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson filed a lawsuit against
the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Service over the hacking of
her computers. Kurtz noted that Attkisson "alleges that three separate
computer forensic exams showed that hackers used sophisticated methods
to surreptitiously monitor her work between 2011 and 2013." The
journalist seeks $35 million in damages against the federal agencies.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>The Fox News host later pointed out that Attkisson and her lawyers claim to "<b>have 'pretty good evidence' that these efforts were 'connected' to the Justice Department</b>."
The correspondent asserted that she was "caught in a 'Catch-22,'
forcing her to use the lawsuit and an administrative complaint to
discover more about the surveillance through the discovery process and
to learn the identities of the 'John Does' named in the complaints."</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>On her own website, <a href="http://sharylattkisson.com/journalist-computer-intrusion-lawsuit-filed-against-u-s-government/" target="_blank">Attkisson outlined</a>
that she filed "administrative claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act
against the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Service, and
certain unnamed employees and/or agents of the federal government." She
added that she had "filed a lawsuit in the District of Columbia <b>alleging
certain violations of her constitutional rights based on information
implicating the federal government in illegal electronic monitoring and
surveillance of her home and business computers and phones from 2011 to
2013</b>."</i><br />
<br />
<i>Back in May 2013, the then-CBS <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/05/21/politico-tough-cbs-reporter-sharyl-attkissons-computers-compromised" target="_blank">journalist revealed</a> that her personal and work computers had been hacked, and indicated during <a href="http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/05/21/cbs-news-reporter-sharyl-attkisson-says-her-computers-may-have-been-tampered-with/" target="_blank">an interview</a> with a radio station in Philadelphia that "<b>there could be some relationship between these things and what's happened to James</b>
[Rosen]," who also had been investigated by the Department of Justice
for his reporting about the CIA's intelligence on North Korea. Three
weeks later, <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2013/06/14/cbss-sharyl-attkisson-evidence-confirms-my-computer-was-hacked" target="_blank">CBS News confirmed</a>, via an investigation by an outside cyber security firm, that "<b>Attkisson's computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions in late 2012</b>. Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson's accounts."</i></blockquote>
<b>RELATED: </b> <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/concha-chris-hayes-attkisson-interview-sums-up-msnbcs-issues-in-one-question/">Concha: Chris Hayes’ Attkisson Interview Sums Up MSNBC’s Issues in One Question</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-30978622436164414902015-01-03T18:34:00.002-05:002015-01-03T18:34:45.368-05:00Actress Kaley Cuoco Asked If She Is A Feminist, Her Response Made Feminists Angry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://dcgazette.com/big-bang-theory-actress-asked-feminist-response-made-feminists-furious/">DCGazette.com</a>:<br />
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<i>You will seldom hear a Hollywood
actress speaking out against the craziness of feminism these days.
That’s why it was so refreshing to read the views of actress Actress
Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting on the issue. She stars in the popular sitcom, “The
Big Bang Theory”, and she is making quite an impact of her own. When
asked in a Redbook interview if she was a feminist, she responded with,</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i><strong>“Is it bad if I say no? It’s not really something I think about.</strong></i><br />
<br />
<i><strong>Things are different now, and I know a lot of the work that
paved the way for women happened before I was around… I was never that
feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that’s because I’ve never
really faced inequality.</strong></i><br />
<i><span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><strong>I cook for Ryan five nights a
week: It makes me feel like a housewife; I love that. I know it sounds
old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
I’m so in control of my work that I like coming home and serving him. My
mom was like that, so I think it kind of rubbed off.”</strong></i><br />
<br />
<i>My goodness, did a Hollywood actress just say that she LIKED serving
her husband? That poor naive woman! Doesn’t she know that taking care of
your husband makes you weak? Hasn’t anyone told her that in order to be
equal you have to participate in vile acts, like dressing up in vagina
costumes or writing demands on your naked body? I mean, how else do you
expect to be taken seriously?</i><br />
<br />
<i>Liberals have already started attacking Kaley on Twitter for her comments about feminism. One user tweeted,</i><br />
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<i>“How can someone who is reaping the benefits of the feminist movement (via her large paycheck) not be a “feminist”?</i><br />
<i><br />
Another offended liberal wrote, “Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting’s thoughts on feminism are as tragic as her haircut. Barf.”</i><br />
<br />
<i>Kaley responded on twitter by saying ” I apologize if I offended
anyone. Anyone who knows me, knows my heart, and knows what I really
meant. ”</i></blockquote>
<span><b>RELATED:</b> </span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/01/02/kaley-cuoco-sweeting-apologizes-for-feminism-comment/21200379/">Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting apologizes for saying she's not a feminist</a></div>
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Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-73701459552728313182015-01-02T18:48:00.000-05:002015-01-03T18:49:23.221-05:00Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Stepping on Dog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2015/01/sarah_palin_draws_criticism_af.html">OregonLive.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>A Facebook photo of Sarah Palin's 6-year-old son, Trig, standing on
the family dog has sparked criticism and animal abuse accusations
against the one-time Republican vice presidential nominee. </i><br />
<br />
<i>Nearly 67,000 people liked the post, and 11,000 have shared it. But
many of the 22,000-plus Facebook comments were sharply critical of the
former Alaska governor after her New Year's Day post: </i><br />
<br />
<i>"May 2015 see every stumbling block turned into a stepping stone on
the path forward. Trig just reminded me. He, determined to help wash
dishes with an oblivious mama not acknowledging his signs for "up!",
found me and a lazy dog blocking his way. He made his stepping stone." </i><br />
<br />
<i>MeLinda Johnson wrote, "Poor dog! I AM NOT A LIBERAL, thank you! Common sense here?"</i><br />
<br />
<i>No child should be allowed to stand on a dog, Loreine
Fitzgerald-Webber wrote, but to post it as though it was cute is
infuriating. "I'm posting (as) a dog lover and mother who also had
cared for children with (Down) syndrome. She is sending him the wrong
message," she wrote.</i><br />
<br />
<i>"Just because the dog is good enough not to react doesn't mean it
doesn't still hurt him... would you lay on the floor and let your son
use YOU as a stepping stool?" Catanya Nelson wrote. "Animals are family
members too and they should be treated as such. Just because you can
does not mean you should. Poor puppy."</i><br />
<br />
<i>Others stood up for Palin, saying the dog could move if it wanted to. </i><br />
<br />
<i>"My kids climb all over our big dogs and they don't mind at all,"
Julie Leatherberry wrote. "If they don't like something they get up and
walk away and jump over the baby gate to have some time alone."</i> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?fref=nf">Palin responded to the criticism</a> Saturday afternoon on Facebook:</i><br />
<br />
<i>"Dear PETA,</i><br />
<br />
<i>Chill. At least Trig didn't eat the dog."</i><br />
<br />
<i>After taking shots at Ellen DeGeneres and Barack Obama, she blasted
the group as "double-standard radicals" who are "always opposing
Alaska's Iditarod – the Last Great Race honoring dogs who are born to
run in wide open spaces, while some of your pets "thrive" in a concrete
jungle where they're allowed outdoors to breathe and pee maybe once a
day?" </i><br />
<br />
<i>"Our pets, including Trig's best buddy Jill Hadassah, are loved,
spoiled and cared for more than some people care for their fellow man
whose politics may not mesh with nonsensical liberally failed ways or
don't fit your flighty standards," she continued. "Jill is a precious
part of our world. So is Trig."</i></blockquote>
This is just wrong. Of course, the predictable right-wing extremists and Palin defenders will call this nothing but a liberal reach, but allowing your kid to use a pet dog as a step stool is just stupid and lacks parental responsibility, much less common sense.<br />
<br />
<b>RELATED: </b><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/sarah-palin-peta-criticism-113928.html">Animal rights groups slam Sarah Palin</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-47284784473775021252015-01-01T21:14:00.000-05:002015-01-01T21:14:01.493-05:00Paul Krugman Must Be Joking: Readers 'Have No Idea Which Party I Favor In General Elections'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2015/01/01/paul-krugman-must-be-joking-readers-have-no-idea-which-party-i-favor">NewsBusters.org</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, the hero of liberals everywhere, did a year-end interview posted Monday with<a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/12/29/7458807/paul-krugman-economist"> Ezra Klein of Vox.</a>
Clearly, he must have been in a slyly silly mood as he told Klein that
Times readers would have "no idea with party I favor in general
elections."</i></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<i>EZRA KLEIN: What do you think about the argument that’s playing out
on the left between the vision of the Democratic Party represented by
Hillary Clinton and the vision represented by Elizabeth Warren? Do you
think they’re that different? </i></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<i>PAUL KRUGMAN: I would say at this point it looks mostly like
symbolism. Among liberals in America, there’s actually fairly widespread
dismay over actually what I think of as Clinton-Blairism; the kind of
‘90s liberalism that is not really taking on economic inequality, not
really taking on Wall Street. And there’s a sense that Hillary Clinton
might be a return to that.</i> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<i>But I don’t think Hillary Clinton is going to try and make it 1999 again. I remember in 2008 —<b> as a Times columnist, I can't do endorsements, so you have no idea which party I favor in general elections</b>
— but I was skeptical of Obama at a time when a lot of people on the
Left were very, very high on him. I heard a number of people saying, oh,
god, if Hillary is elected, she's going to bring in the old Rubin
crowd, people like Larry Summers, to run the economy. And then Obama got
elected and did exactly that. I think, if anything, he was more
conventional on economics than she was. </i></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<i>I think at this point, Elizabeth Warren is now the visible
embodiment of the wing of the Democratic Party that’s determined not to
return to Clinton-Blairism. That makes her useful even if she doesn’t
run, as — I don't know — a ghost or something looming over Hillary.</i></blockquote>
<b>RELATED:</b> <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/paul-krugman-actually-thinks-his-readers-cant-tell-which-party-he-favors/">Paul Krugman Actually Thinks His Readers Can’t Tell Which Party He Favors</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-62698250706859879042014-12-30T20:30:00.000-05:002014-12-30T20:30:00.431-05:00Bisexual Hollyweirdo Actress Angelina Jolie’s Daughter is “Gender Assigned” at 8 Years Old<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/12/26/brangelina-praises-their-8-year-old-girls-decision-to-be-a-boy/?singlepage=true">PJMedia.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>According to <a href="http://www.refinery29.com/2014/12/79896/shiloh-john-jolie-pitt-name-change" target="_blank">Refinery 29</a>,
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s oldest biological child, Shiloh, has
decided to identify as a male at the tender age of 8. The painfully
politically correct story attempts to paint a picture of the child, who
now refers to herself as “John” although born a girl, as gender-confused
at an early age:</i><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Jolie told <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/angelina-jolie-on-marriage-kids-and-retirement" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vanity Fair</a> in
a 2010 interview that John has been exploring their identity since the
age of three. ”She wants to be a boy,” Jolie said. “So we had to cut her
hair. She likes to wear boys’ everything. She thinks she’s one of the
brothers.” </i></blockquote>
<i>Here’s the actual quote <a href="http://archive.news.softpedia.com/news/Shiloh-Wants-to-Be-a-Boy-Angelina-Jolie-Tells-Vanity-Fair-145663.shtml" target="_blank">in context</a>:</i><br />
<blockquote>
<i>“She wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She
likes to wear boys’ everything. She thinks she’s one of the brothers.
Shiloh, we feel, has Montenegro style. She dresses like a little dude.
It’s how people dress there. She likes tracksuits, she likes [regular]
suits. Shiloh’s hysterically funny, one of the goofiest, most playful
people you’ll ever meet. Goofy and verbal, the early signs of a
performer. I used to get dressed up in costumes and jump around,” the
actress explains.</i></blockquote>
<em>tylists at the time <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-style/news/shiloh-montenegro-201027" target="_blank">balked</a>
at Jolie’s attempt to coin the term “Montenegro style” stating, “she
was trying to say something intellectual or funny, and it just sounded
dumb.” Probably about as dumb as the <a href="http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2014/12/20/brad-pitt-and-angelina-jolie-support-their-kid-wearing-suits" target="_blank"><em>Advocate</em></a> grasping
at straws via the stale tale of Shiloh Pitt, who apparently has been
dressed in boyswear and given boyishly short haircuts by her parents
since she was a toddler. Four years later, why wouldn’t an 8-year-old
girl think she ought to be called “John”? If anything she’s aiming for a
more defined gender identity than her parents have yet to give her,
either through her name, her hair, or her clothing, let alone the
gender-neutral pronouns being used to identify her in the media. As the Advocate explains:</em>
<br />
<blockquote>
<i>Editor’s note: This article uses “they” as a
gender-neutral, singular pronoun in an effort to respect the young
Jolie-Pitt’s gender identity, whatever that may end up being. </i></blockquote>
<i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Children begin to develop a sense of gender roles mere months into life. Politically correct culture, largely influenced </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">by contemporary feminism, instructs that gender roles are strictly the stuff of stereotypes. However, </span><a href="http://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/gradeschool/Pages/Gender-Identity-and-Gender-Confusion-In-Children.aspx" style="line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank">family and parenting influences</a>, not cultural stereotypes, <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">have the greatest impact in a child’s understanding of gender roles:</span></i><br />
<blockquote>
<i>…gender role behaviors, including the toys children play
with and activities, in which they engage, are influenced by how
youngsters are raised and what expectations are made of them. …Perhaps
more than any other factor, the subtleties of every child’s relationship
with his or her father and mother—and the attitudes of the parents
toward each other and toward the child—will influence his or her
gender-related behaviors.</i></blockquote>
<i>For girls like Shiloh who express the desire to be a boy and prefer to be around other boys instead of girls:</i><br />
<blockquote>
<i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These traits suggest a
conflict or confusion about gender and relationship with peers of the
same sex. The possible causes of these variations are speculative and
controversial. Research demonstrates a role for both biological factors
and social learning in gender-identity confusion. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Family and parenting influences also might contribute to gender confusion.</span></i></blockquote>
<i>What pop culture presents as quick and easy evidence to demonstrate
their trendy social theories regarding gender and stereotyping is really
an example of incredibly poor parenting that leaves a young child <a href="http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/family-life/structure-routines" target="_blank">in desperate need of structure</a> confused about themselves and their role in the world.</i> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>But who’s going to have the guts to say Brangelina are bad parents?</i></blockquote>
<b>RELATED: </b> <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/28/angelina-jolies-daughter-is-gender-assigned-at/">Angelina Jolie’s daughter is “gender assigned” at 8 years old</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-54658126477215321542014-12-29T20:42:00.001-05:002014-12-29T20:42:52.848-05:00Five Ways Barack Obama Can Mess with Republicans in 2015 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-12-29/five-ways-obama-can-mess-with-republicans-in-2015">Bloomberg.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i><span style="font-size: small;">President Barack Obama knows how to get under Republicans' skin (in
so many ways, but in this case we're talking about going around Congress
to get things done), and he ended 2014 with a bang: A climate deal with
China. Executive action on immigration. A move to normalize relations
with Cuba.</span></i> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">As he makes his New Year's resolutions, the liberated, second-term,
post-midterm president's list may well include some new maneuvers to
enrage the opposition party. Here are five ways he could do it again in
2015.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><h2>
<i><span style="font-size: small;">Keystone</span></i></h2>
<i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">You already know more than you ever thought you would about oil-sands
crude, right? TransCanada Corp. wants to complete an $8 billion,
1,179-mile pipeline starting in the Canadian province of Alberta and
running 830,000 barrels of oil per day through Nebraska into a network
to refineries in Texas and Louisiana. While Obama cares about the
Keystone XL project in the context of foreign policy and maintaining
good relations with neighbor, ally and trading partner Canada, in 2012
he blocked it because of concerns in Nebraska and kicked it to the State
Department for more study.</span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">Now, incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky
Republican, said he wants to start the new Congress by taking up a bill
by Senator John Hoeven, a North Dakota Republican, to approve Keystone
under congressional authority. Environmentalists and major Democratic
donor Tom Steyer are fighting the project, saying it will worsen global
warming and could trigger toxic spills. Republicans largely back the
project, saying it can create jobs and reduce gas prices. Opponents say
such benefits are greatly overstated or downright irrelevant, given how
low gas prices have fallen lately.</span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">Obama was coy throughout the midterms about which way he'll go,
maintaining that it was in the State Department's hands and that he
would weigh the pros and cons. But he doesn't want Congress to tell him
what to do. And in recent weeks, he's hinted strongly that he's turned
against Keystone XL. He told comedian Stephen Colbert that while it
would be good for Canada, “it's not going to push down gas prices here
in the United States,” and that any economic benefit must be weighed
against contributing to the warming of the earth, “which could be
disastrous.” In his year-end news conference, the president said that
“it’s not even going to be a nominal benefit to U.S. consumers.” Asked
whether he was issuing a veto threat, he demurred. “I'll see what they
do,” he said of Republicans in Congress. “We'll take that up in the new
year.”</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><h2>
<i><span style="font-size: small;">Campaign finance reform</span></i></h2>
<i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">So-called dark-money nonprofits, such as those affiliated with the
Koch brothers, could find it much harder to muck around in elections.
Under current practices, up to half of these groups' money can be spent
on politics. Changes to the Internal Revenue Service regulations
governing 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations could shrink the
percentage they can devote to election activities such as advertising.
Overall, the aim would be to make it more difficult for any nonprofit
group to engage in campaign politics; in practice, it would likely be
perceived as a disproportionate handicap of conservative donor-backed
organizations. These are among the <a data-web-url=" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meredith-mcgehee/campaign-finance-reform_b_5847164.html" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meredith-mcgehee/campaign-finance-reform_b_5847164.html" target="_blank">reforms</a> that the administration, regulatory groups or Congress could take on if so inclined (which Congress probably is not).</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><h2>
<i><span style="font-size: small;">Climate change</span></i></h2>
<i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">Think power plants and methane.</span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">Last year, Obama proposed power-plant standards Republicans oppose to
reduce carbon dioxide by 26 percent by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030 from
2005 levels. The standards are set to be issued in June, and then
states will have another year to adopt their own plans to carry the
standards out. McConnell will make it a top priority to try to stop
Obama, either by blocking funding to carry out the policy or by changing
provisions of the Clean Air Act, said David Doniger, director of the
Natural Resources Defense Council climate and clean air program. “It
will be fought over by the Republicans all through the year,” he said.
“There will be lots of lawsuits and so on. But the administration's very
committed to this.”</span></i></blockquote>
<b>RELATED: </b> <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/29/obama-readies-veto-pen-and-the-new-paradigm-of-obstructionism/">Obama readies veto pen and the new paradigm of obstructionism</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-44821792331706471682014-12-17T21:04:00.000-05:002014-12-17T21:04:29.841-05:00Jeb Bush Is Dismissing The GOP Base At His Own Peril<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/against-the-grain/jeb-bush-is-dismissing-the-gop-base-at-his-own-peril-20141216">NationalJournal.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Six months after President Obama's 2008 landslide victory swept
Democrats into power across the country, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, and Eric
Cantor sat down at a suburban Washington pizzeria to talk policy. They
spent that May weekend arguing that the GOP's best path back into power
was to improve the party's battered image by advocating reforms for
education, immigration, and the economy. Cantor saw the session as a
rebranding exercise, offering mostly platitudes about having a
conversation with the American people. Romney used the event as early
preparation for his second presidential campaign, mostly <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2009/05/pizza_party.html">sticking to talking points</a>.
But Jeb Bush came prepared with a slew of creative proposals to test
out at the town hall, like charging lower tuition to students pursuing
high-end degrees in engineering and science.</i><br />
<br />
<i>After
the event ended, several reporters (myself included) chased after Bush
to ask him the inevitable questions about his interest in running for
president. He was visibly annoyed, lamenting that Washington reporters
only ask about the political horse race and have no interest in policy.</i><br />
<br />
<i>With Bush's announcement Tuesday that he's forming an exploratory
committee for president, he'll be testing the proposition that being a
policy wonk sells politically. In discussing preparations for a run this
week, Bush confidently declared he wouldn't pander to Republican
voters, sticking to his principles on immigration and education reform.
In principle, the argument is refreshing. In practice, however, it
ignores political reality.</i><br />
<i>The
organization that Cantor launched (the National Council for America)
never got off the ground despite the hype. Republicans won back control
of Congress simply by running against an unpopular president, not by
offering a set of solutions to fix the country's struggling economy.
Despite being House majority leader, Cantor lost his primary to an
obscure opponent—in part because he overestimated the political reward
of pitching lofty reforms and ignored the day-to-day dissatisfaction
from his own constituents. In his second presidential campaign, Romney
struggled to lock up the nomination against a deeply conservative field
and was unable to capitalize on Obama's mediocre approval ratings.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Other
Republicans have talked in high-minded fashion about selling
conservative reforms to GOP voters, but found there wasn't much
political benefit in doing so. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie became
famous for his tough talk against wasteful government and teachers
unions in his first term, but has all but abandoned advocating new ideas
since campaigning for reelection. Lately, the famously outspoken
governor has avoided policy questions on <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/christie-continues-mexico-trade-mission">immigration</a> (despite traveling in Mexico!) and <a href="http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/12/chris_christie_declines_to_comment_on_cia_torture_tactics_report.html">on the Senate report on the CIA's interrogation techniques</a>.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has gotten little political traction
promoting reforms on health care, energy, education, and national
security, and he's careful to frame his ideas in opposition to Obama.
Once a supporter of the Common Core educational standards that Jeb Bush
champions, Jindal now compares them to <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/05/is_bobby_jindal_playing_presid.html">Soviet central planning</a>.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Jeb Bush acolyte who is mulling a
presidential campaign of his own, learned firsthand the political risk
in embracing change. By championing comprehensive immigration reform,
Rubio alienated much of the conservative base and got sidetracked from
other issues that could also broaden the party's appeal. Bush is an
equally enthusiastic proponent of immigration reform, but unlike Rubio,
he plans to continue pushing it in a GOP primary. Rubio responded this
year by delivering a <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/against-the-grain/why-marco-rubio-should-be-the-gop-s-presidential-front-runner-20141202">series of speeches centered on economic opportunity</a>, but now Bush's planned candidacy puts a crimp in his path to the nomination.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Candidates
want to be seen as having a detailed blueprint on how to get the
country back on track, but it's those very details that lead to
unintended consequences. Republican officials confidently promoted
comprehensive immigration reform as a surefire way to improve the
party's standing with Hispanics, but blowback from the base and
resistance from the public tempered the enthusiasm. The political
benefits of courting Hispanics was offset by the risk of alienating the
GOP's base of working-class whites.</i></blockquote>
<b>RELATED: </b><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/17/jeb-bush-im-going-to-try-to-persuade-republican-voters-to-back-immigration-reform/">Jeb Bush: I’m going to try to persuade Republican voters to back immigration reform</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-54738621599045762892014-12-16T21:53:00.001-05:002014-12-16T21:53:44.725-05:00Federal Judge: Barack Obama's Immigration Move Unconstitutional<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/16/politics/judge-obamas-immigration-move-unconstitutional/index.html?hpt=hp_t2">CNN.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that President Barack
Obama's move to halt deportations for millions of undocumented
immigrants violates the Constitution -- but it's not clear that the
ruling will have any immediate impact.</i><br />
<br />
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2">
<i>Pittsburgh-based U.S.
District Judge Arthur Schwab, a George W. Bush appointee, became the
first judge to rule on the legality of Obama's executive overhaul of
immigration rules when he issued his unusual opinion in a criminal case.</i></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2">
<br /></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3">
<i>The Justice Department
shot back that the judge was "flatly wrong" and his ruling wouldn't halt
the implementation of Obama's immigration policies.</i></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3">
<br /></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4">
<i>The decision -- which
came in a criminal case against Honduran immigrant Elionardo
Juarez-Escobar, who'd been deported before, returned to the United
States and faced charges of unlawful re-entry after a drunk driving
arrest -- was unexpected, and is unrelated to the legal challenge dozens
of states have launched against Obama's move.</i></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4">
<br /></div>
<i>Prosecutors in the case
argued that Obama's immigration policies were only meant to apply to
civil proceedings, and don't have any impact on criminal proceedings
like what Juarez-Escobar faced.</i> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7">
<i>Still, Schwab said in his
38-page ruling that Juarez-Escobar could have benefited under Obama's
action to halt deportations for some undocumented immigrants.</i></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7">
<br /></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8">
<i>Obama's action violates the Constitution's separation of powers and its "take care clause," Schwab said.</i></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8">
<br /></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9">
<i>He wrote that Obama's
action "goes beyond prosecutorial discretion because: (a) it provides
for a systematic and rigid process by which a broad group of individuals
will be treated differently than others based upon arbitrary
classifications, rather than case-by-case examination; and (b) it allows
undocumented immigrants, who fall within these broad categories, to
obtain substantive rights."</i></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9">
<br /></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10">
<i>The judge also quoted
several of Obama's statements, asserting that, prior to issuing his
executive action in November, the President personally considered such a
move beyond his authority.</i></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10">
<br /></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11">
<i>Schwab said
Juarez-Escobar didn't fall within any of the priority categories Obama
identified for deportation, so it's not clear that removing him from the
country would be a priority -- potentially blurring the lines between
civil and criminal proceedings.</i></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11">
<br /></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12">
<i>The Justice Department
blasted the opinion, with a spokesperson saying it was "unfounded and
the court had no basis to issue such an order."</i></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12">
<br /></div>
<div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13">
<i>"No party in the case
challenged the constitutionality of the immigration-related executive
actions and the department's filing made it clear that the executive
actions did not apply to the criminal matter before the court," the
spokesperson said. "Moreover, the court's analysis of the legality of
the executive actions is flatly wrong. We will respond to the court's
decision at the appropriate time."</i></div>
</blockquote>
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<b>RELATED:</b> <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/12/11/nearly-half-us-states-now-suing-president-obama-over-immigration-order/">Nearly half of U.S. states now suing President Obama over immigration order</a></div>
Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-81222879913127531972014-12-02T21:58:00.002-05:002014-12-02T21:58:58.910-05:00YouGov Poll: Plurality of Americans Oppose Barack Obama’s Executive Order on Amnesty, 38/45<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/02/yougov-poll-plurality-of-americans-oppose-obamas-executive-order-on-amnesty-3845/">HotAir.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i><a href="http://today.yougov.com/news/2014/12/02/democrats-support-obama-executive-order/">Interesting, and encouraging.</a> Now convince me that either the White House or its friends in Congress really care. Immigration for them is about pleasing <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/01/gallup-latino-approval-of-obama-soars-14-points-since-executive-amnesty-more-than-20-points-since-september/">one particular demographic group long-term</a>
even if it ends up irritating other demographic groups short-term. They
can probably tolerate a backlash among white working-class if it’s
broad but ephemeral or durable but narrow, knowing that the gains they
make among Latinos will offset those votes.</i><br />
<br />
<i>But what if the backlash is <a href="http://today.yougov.com/news/2014/12/02/democrats-support-obama-executive-order/">broad and durable?</a></i><br />
<blockquote>
<i>This may be a nation of immigrants (and 82% of the public
agree that it is), but the President’s plan for executive action on
immigration clearly does not sit well with many Americans. Democrats
support the President’s decision to use an executive order to delay
deportation proceedings for parents of U.S. citizens, but 51% of
independents and 80% of Republicans oppose it. </i></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<i>Most independents and nearly all Republicans say the President should
have waited for Congress to act on immigration – even though majorities
think it is unlikely Congress will take action soon. </i></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<i>The President’s immigration actions has helped him at least with one
group – one that was clearly disappointed in his previous activity on
immigration – the country’s Hispanics. Two in three Hispanics
consistently have supported a pathway to citizenship for illegal
immigrants and approve of the plan President Obama put forth in his
speech last week.</i> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote>
<i>By more than two to one, they approve of the President’s executive order. </i></blockquote>
<i>Ten months ago, 55 percent of Americans favored a path to citizenship
for illegals. As of last month, that number had dropped below majority
support and landed at 47 percent. After the summer’s border crisis and O
going rogue on executive amnesty, go figure that people would be more
skittish about normalizing citizenship for lawbreakers any further.</i><br />
<br />
<i>In fact, there’s another political scenario for Democrats: What if
the backlash to O’s order is short-lived … but so is the boost they’ve
gotten for it from Latinos? Scrolling through the crosstabs, I was
surprised by how equivocal some of the reactions to various immigration
policies were among that group. For instance, when given a choice of
letting illegals stay and apply for citizenship, stay but not be
allowed to apply, and sending illegals home, just 51 percent of Latinos
favored the first option. Another 20 percent favored the second and 29
percent favored the third, meaning that even among that demographic, the
split on whether a path to citizenship should be offered is just 51/49.</i></blockquote>
<b>RELATED:</b> <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/02/white-house-when-obama-said-he-changed-the-law-on-immigration-he-was-speaking-colloquially/">White House: When Obama said he changed the law on immigration, he was speaking “colloquially”</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-16947058954716250172014-11-26T21:27:00.000-05:002014-11-26T21:27:16.949-05:00Cornel West: ‘Ferguson Signifies the End of the Age of Barack Obama’<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/KbOZ8yTxI6A" width="420"></iframe><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cornel-west-ferguson-signifies-the-end-of-the-age-of-obama/">Mediaite.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Professor <b>Cornel West</b> appeared on CNN International
this afternoon to give his take on Ferguson, and said right at the
outset, “Ferguson signifies the end of the age of Obama. It’s a very sad
end. We began with tremendous hope and we end with great despair.”</i><br />
<br />
<i>He went on to cite a “Jim Crow criminal justice system” that doesn’t
seek justice for young black and brown people, and said adamantly there
is both a race and a class war going on against that group in America
right now.</i><br />
<i><b><br /></b></i>
<i>CNNI anchor <b><a href="http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Hala+Gorani">Hala Gorani</a></b>
asked West why he’s “so harsh” on the president over these issues when,
she put forth, he’s launched initiatives to help young black men. West
said that Obama chose a “Wall Street presidency” and a “drone
presidency,” but never gave even “one speech that focuses on the Jim
Crow criminal justice system that’s been targeting poor black and brown
youth.”</i></blockquote>
Barack Obama, a man who as POTUS has gone out of his way time and time again to help the gays and illegal immigrants, while ignoring the base that continues to give him unwavering support (and assisted him the most to become Pres.)--Black people, will get a pass on the Ferguson verdict. And that's because black people in this country in this are too ignorant to understand the irony of electing a Godless, half-black, <a href="http://theblacksphere.net/2013/05/obama-v-bush-who-throws-like-a-girl/">corny</a>, narcissist, white-liberal ass kisser to be in charge on the deal that one day he might actually do them a favor one day. But instead, for black folks in America under the leadership of Obama, things have just gotten <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/07/06/how-much-worse-off-are-blacks-under-obama/">worse</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/28/naacp-president-black-people-worse-under-obama/">worse</a>...with no end in sight.<br />
<br />
<b>RELATED:</b> <a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2014/11/26/Obama-Disappoints-Black-Community-and-Country">Obama Disappoints the Black Community and the Country</a>
Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-60143714062272118022014-11-23T20:01:00.000-05:002014-11-23T20:01:00.151-05:00Despite Highest Poverty Numbers in 50 Years, Barack Obama Okays Illegals to Compete for Jobs in U.S.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/21/despite-highest-poverty-numbers-in-50-years-obama-okays-illegals-to-compete-for-jobs-in-us/">HotAir.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>It simply doesn’t make sense in any sort of context that says the job of the President of the United States is to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/j-christopher-giancarlo-now-federal-job-killers-are-coming-after-derivatives-1416442215?cb=logged0.43538898568761053">look after the welfare of the country’s citizens</a>:</i><br />
<blockquote>
<i>The official U.S. unemployment rate has indeed fallen
steadily during the past few years, but the economic recovery has
created the fewest jobs relative to the previous employment peak of any
prior recovery. The labor-force participation rate recently touched a
36-year low of 62.7%. The number of Americans not in the labor force set
a record high of 92.6 million in September. Part-time work and
long-term unemployment are still well above levels from before the
financial crisis. </i></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<i>Worse, middle-class incomes continue to fall during the recovery,
losing even more ground than during the December 2007 to June 2009
recession. The number in poverty has also continued to soar, to about 50
million Americans. That is the highest level in the more than 50 years
that the U.S. Census has been tracking poverty. Income inequality has
risen more in the past few years than at any recent time.</i></blockquote>
<i>The true indicator of the actual unemployment rate is the labor
participation rate. It is at a 36 year low. The fudged numbers used by
the US government hides the actual depth of joblessness problem. And,
frankly, it’s a “buyers market” in the labor market. Lots of labor
competition for few jobs. That’s one reason you don’t see incomes rising
and you do see underemployed Americans.</i><br />
<br />
<i>So let’s introduce about 5 million illegal workers from other
countries and enable them to compete in an already depressed labor
market and while we’re at it, let’s agitate for a raise in the minimum
wage.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Mind blown. How do you square that sort of action <a href="http://www.presidentsusa.net/oathofoffice.html">with your oath of office</a> if you’re the President of the United States?</i></blockquote>
<b>RELATED: </b> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/11/21/immigration-amnesty-will-hurt-obama-most-loyal-supporters-african-americans/">Immigration amnesty will hurt Obama's most loyal supporters: African-Americans</a>Mr. Grey Ghosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013548393463328540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4927732027070627136.post-14982685687809568842014-11-22T19:54:00.000-05:002014-11-22T19:54:08.974-05:00Marquette University Teacher to Student: 'If You Don't Support Gay Marriage, Drop My Class'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/11/22/teacher-to-student-if-dont-support-gay-marriage-drop-my-class/">FOXNews.com</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Students who oppose gay marriage are homophobic, according to an
audio recording of a Marquette University instructor who went on to say
that gay right issues cannot be discussed in class because it might
offend homosexuals.</i><br />
<br />
<i>I reached out to the 20-year-old student at the center of this
outrageous episode and the story he tells should serve as a warning to
anyone who thinks religious schools are safe havens for open discourse.</i><br />
<br />
<i>The story was first reported on a <a href="http://mu-warrior.blogspot.in/2014/11/marquette-philosophy-instructor-gay.html" target="_blank">blog run by a Marquette University professor</a> and was picked up by the good folks over at <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/20138/" target="_blank">The College Fix</a>. </i><br />
<br />
<i>The young man, who asked not to be identified, explained what
happened when his ethics instructor, Cheryl Abbate, led a conversation
in “Theory of Ethics” class about applying philosophical theories to
modern political controversies. There were a list of issues on the board
– gay rights, gun rights, and the death penalty.</i><br />
<br />
<i>“We had a discussion on all of them – except gay rights,” the student
told me. “She erased that line from the board and said, ‘We all agree
on this.’”</i><br />
<br />
<i>Well, as it so happened – the student did not agree with instructor Abbate.</i><br />
<br />
<i>So after class he approached the instructor and told her he thought
they should have discussed the issue of gay rights. He also recorded
their conversation -- without her permission.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>“Are you saying if I don’t agree with gays not being allowed to get married that I’m homophobic?” the student asked.</i><br />
<br />
<i>“I’m saying it would come off as a homophobic comment in this class,” the teacher replied.</i><br />
<br />
<i>“Regardless of why I’m against gay marriage, it’s still wrong for the
teacher of a class to completely discredit one person’s opinion when
they may have different opinions,” the student said.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Abbate disagreed.</i><br />
<br />
<i>“There are some opinions that are not appropriate – that are harmful –
such as racist opinions, sexist opinions,” she said. “And quite
honestly, do you know if anyone in the class is homosexual?”</i></blockquote>
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