This and That...

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Warph,
That's Oprah ? Hell I thought it was Aunt Jemima !! Carry on Fly Boy

[Warph]

Jihadist leader to U.S.: 'Islam is coming'
Warns foreign fighting in Syria could battle America next

http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/jihadist-leader-to-u-s-islam-is-coming/

(If he could name a single Muslim army that could fight its way
out of a wet paper bag then maybe I'd be nervous)

During a radio interview Sunday, a representative of al-Qaida in the Gaza Strip sent a message to the United States: "Islam is coming and there is no other choice."

That sentiment was expressed by Abu Saqer, leader of Jihadiya Salafiya in the Gaza Strip, speaking on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on New York's WABC Radio.

Jihadiya Salafiya represents al-Qaida in the Gaza Strip.

Saqer further stated that after battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the thousands of foreign  jihadists currently in Syria could turn their ire on what he called the many other "enemies of Islam," including Israel and the United States.

Saqer did not say the spread of Islam in the U.S. will come through violence.

"Islam is coming and there is no other choice," he told Klein about America and Europe.

"Because we think Islam will come and this is something that no one can prevent," he stated.

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Warph,
That's Oprah ? Hell I thought it was Aunt Jemima !! Carry on Fly Boy

Okay, Grunt... and I say that with deep respect of the Grunts of the good ol' US of A.:

now, Grunt... let me tell you the story of Aunt Jemima. Most of us may think of Aunt Jemima as a round-faced black woman with red bandana, smiling invitingly behind a stack of hot cakes.

But the original Aunt Jemima was a Welsh woman.

Her unwillingness to be indifferent to the threat of danger, and her courage in organizing private defenses for the Welsh coast when government proved to be incapable, may have prevented the expansion of the French Empire when Bonaparte was on the march in the latter years of the 18th century.

The Welsh people who inhabit the county of Pembrokeshire are noted for their independence. They are suspicious of all tidings, good or evil, until they've checked the source. They are dubious of government, and question what it does for them that is of any value. They have an inherent love of liberty, and observers who know the people best say that this spirit of independence is as strong and vital today as it was 200 years ago.

Pembrokeshire is the southwestern portion of Wales and thrusts out into the Atlantic Ocean, forming the eastern boundary of Saint George's Channel. One Day, in February, 1797, on that bleak and forbidding coast, part of Bonaparte's French fleet landed to make a raid. There were 3 ships and a lugger blown off-course from a French expedition, which Napoleon had dispatched to aid the united Irishmen in their rebellion and in their seeking separation from England. The Irish loved freedom and were angry with government generally. Napoleon was eager to ensure that Irish anger would be directed against the British king.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the ships sailed up the coast of southwest Wales, past the Strumblehead Lighthouse and hove to, within sight of the town of Fishguard. Apparently no one on shore was unduly alarmed at the sight of the French vessels. Three months earlier, Spain had declared war against George III, and evidently the British had had many problems of larger concern. With his glass, the French commodore could detect no unusual activity in the streets of Fishguard. There were no milling crowds, no British Redcoats. There was no reason why the French ships, all carrying troops to assist in the Irish rebellion, couldn't assist that rebellion right here in Fishguard, and by staging a quick raid upon the Welsh coast, they could seize stores and munitions, and possibly even a few prisoners.

The commodore snapped his glass shut and gave the order. French troops, together with arms and munitions, were rowed ashore in preparation for an inland thrust. The French had correctly analyzed the military situation. The Welsh were militarily unprepared. But the invaders had made a monstrous miscalculation. They had failed to consider the Welshman's love of liberty and his refusal to be too dependent on his government. (And then, too, they had never heard of Aunt Jemima.)

Thomas Williams, of Treleddyn, Saint Davids, a county magistrate who had been a sailor, noticed the French as they hove to. Although the ships were flying English colors, he immediately recognized them for what they were and immediately sent runners to warn the people of Saint Davids and Fishguard to be on the lookout for enemy movements along the coast. In a few hours, the entire countryside was aroused. A message was sent to Lord Carter for a troop of Castlemartin yeomanry to drive the French invader from Welsh soil, but their leader Colonel Davis was nowhere to be found. Rumor was that the colonel had been tippling, and it appeared that the Welsh were at the mercy of Napoleon's troops — and so they might have been had they depended on their government for their protection.

If the Welshmen had believed that the French arrival was none of their business, and that government has an exclusive monopoly in the field of protection, the history of the Napoleonic Wars might have had a different ending. The French in fact were so confident of success that they made no attempts to exploit their original advantage of surprise, putting off until the following day the landing of their main forces and the raids upon farms and nearby communities. They left only a token force to guard their stores and spent the night aboard ship.

When Aunt Jemima Nicholas heard the news of the landing of the Frenchmen, she was not surprised. She knew of the trouble between the French and the British, and any stranger in Wales — be he French, Spanish, or English — was not to be trusted. And she was concerned about the protection of her home and her country.

Late that day, when word came to the worried and excited townspeople, that the troops of Castlemartin could not find their leader, Aunt Jemima decided to take events into her own hands. Picking up a pitchfork, she sauntered to Goodwick Sands, where the French had established a temporary beach camp. History gives no details of how she completed her daring exploit, but armed with nothing but that pitchfork, Jemima single-handedly captured 12 Frenchmen and marched them back to her shoemaker shop. She extracted from her captives the full story of the intended raid. Then leaving her victims trussed up like fowl, she went about the town of Fishguard, and with the help of a Mr. Whitesides, the builder of the lighthouse at Strumblehead, she aroused the people.

A great military strategist was born in Aunt Jemima Nicholas that night. Of course she had no authority to do these things. She was acting quite unofficially and without precedent. But she refused to let the initiative go over to the enemy. She organized and worked until dawn flooded the rocky coast with light. And then she acted. Just above a spot on the beach, where the landing was being made in force, and within clear view of the French warships anchored in the channel, Jemima and the women of Fishguard circled proudly about the hill.

Over the shoulders of each flamed the bright red shawl characteristic of Welsh women. As they passed round a little ridge, they would quickly run back, hidden from sight in the little valley, and then once more march across the face of the hill. Jemima Nicholas and her fellow citizens from Fishguard continued this action all morning. And to the eyes of the watching Admiral, it appeared that the hills were crowded with innumerable British soldiers all marching to intercept his troops.

At a distance, the bright red shawl, the scarlet mantel wrapped around the shoulders of the women, appeared like the red coats of the British regulars. The French Admiral cursed under his breath. He'd been led to believe that the Welsh people would not be aided by King George. He'd also understood that the Welsh were a discontented lot and would be ready and eager to join with Napoleon as the Irish had done. Too late he realized that he had been trapped.

The Welsh hills were swarming with British regulars. He would not have sent his troops ashore. He realized now that all was lost, and without as much as a parting au revoir to his compatriots who had recently landed, he upped anchor, and the three men o'war with their lugger headed out for the open sea, abandoning Napoleon's troops upon the Welsh coast.

Now the women of Fishguard, together with what menfolk were available, stripped the lead from the roof of the Cathedral, mounted signs on long poles, took pitchforks, pistols, guns or poll axes, anything that came to hand, and descended upon the beach, not as a troop of disciplined military, but as an aroused community who knew the meaning of private protection.

The French took one look at the motley horde descending upon their camp and ran up the white flag. Who can blame them?

A truce was quickly arranged. A meeting took place next day at the Royal Oak Inn in Fishguard. The French formally surrendered without having fired a shot. And finally, after all was over, Colonel Davis and Lord Carter's troop of Castlemartin yeomen arrived to lead the prisoners away.

And there you have the story of how men and women who knew they were free and who didn't depend on the government to save them defended their liberty against an invading army. Today if you go to County Pembrokeshire, in Wales, and make your way to the town of Fishguard, there in the Royal Oak Inn, you will see a plaque, which bears an inscription telling of the surrender and treaty that occurred on that famous day back in 1797.

There's another point which also could be made. All wars are created by government. And the principle reason why the Welsh populous felt a necessity to protect their homes was because of the politically inspired war, which their king had helped to cause. Had there been no King George — had there been no war between the British government and the Irish or the French, a French expedition off the Strumblehead Lighthouse could have negotiated peacefully with the private merchants in Fishguard in order to reprovision their ships. Trade is a far less costly practice than war, with few of the attendant risks.

Certainly the French people would not have thought to invade the Welsh coast, nor would the Irish. Governments invade. Governments make war. Given a condition in which the rules of liberty pertain, there would be scant reason either for invasion or the necessity of the defense of a coastal village.

But we can surely admire this Welsh Aunt Jemima for recognizing that the government can do nothing useful that private persons cannot do. And her initiative and resolute action contain the elements of which freedom and independence are formed. Often we are led to believe that government protects us from danger, or that government solves our problems and permits us to lead happier, freer and more secure lives. But in fact, government never does anything for us that we cannot do for ourselves. For the very best government of all is self-government. Those of us who would be free must always remember that liberty and self-government are one.

[Warph]

The Obamas Attend Cocktail Party At NPR Host's Home

(Liberal elitists hanging with fellow liberal elitists,
or as it is commonly known, an evening in hell)

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended a cocktail party this evening at the Martha's Vineyard home of National Public Radio host and special correspondent Michele Norris, according to the White House pool report. Norris's husband, Broderick Johnson, is a lobbyist who worked on Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.

The WH pool report reads:
West Tisbury, Mass.

Motorcade was on the move again at 5:46 pm. About 10 minutes later POTUS arrived at a cocktail party at the home of Broderick Johnson, who was an adviser on the Obama 2012 campaign, and his wife, Michele Norris Johnson. FLOTUS is also at the cocktail party.

No sighting of the first couple or Bo. Pool vans pulled off on side of the road while the rest of the motorcade turned onto Nat's Farm Lane.

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Communist Group Leads "Abortion Rights Freedom Rides" Hailed By Slew of Leading Liberals

(Not that anyone is surprised by it.  As Communists, isn't it strange that they see no conflict between their own personal interests and the interests of the community?  Central planners may not want a community to become overpopulated, but they don't want it to be underpopulated either.  That would collapse even the best case scenario economic model. According to Obuma, Communism is about what's best for a community, not what men want, or what women want, or what blacks and whites want.  Think of yourselves like separate plants in a collective crop, any one of which may be asked to sacrifice themselves for the good of the whole.  The weak plants must give way so that the better producers can thrive.  Sound familiar?)

Via Life Site News:
Numerous mainstream and left-leaning media outlets have highlighted the "Abortion Rights Freedom Rides," a caravan of activists now traveling to 14 states to support "Abortion on demand and without apology." However, no media outlet has reported that the event is being conducted by the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, a cult-like Maoist sect that calls for "millions of people to rise up in mass armed revolution" against the United States "when the time is right."

The abortion freedom rides are being led by Stop Patriarchy, a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party USA (RCP).
http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/
SP's original "Call to Action" gives the RCP's web address as its own and prominently quotes RCP founder and chairman Bob Avakian.

The new "freedom rides," modeled after the civil rights campaign to register black voters in the segregated South, provide special support to states that have only one abortion facility.

Their banners proclaim, "Abortion Providers are Heroes." Another said, "A Woman is Not the Life Support System for Her Uterus."

This weekend, they are protesting in Wichita, Kansas, to back efforts to open a new abortion facility once owned by Dr. George Tiller, whom they call a "heroic abortion provider."

Troy Newman of Operation Rescue said the group protested outside his offices on Friday. Their beliefs could hardly be further apart.

"Abortion is not tragic, because fetuses are not babies and abortion is not murder," said leader Sunsara Taylor.

The freedom rides have been hailed by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and formally endorsed by Janeane Garofalo, playwright Eve Ensler, leaders of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and abortionists like Willie Parker, Diane Derzis, and Merle Hoffman.

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Obuma Picks The Man, Crapper Clapper, Who Lied To Congress About Existence of NSA's Domestic Spying To Choose His Intelligence Review Panel

(Okay... so we already know how this is going to end)

Via WaPo:
On Friday, President Barack Obama promised to appoint an "independent group" of "outside experts" to review the government's surveillance programs.

Today, the president formally ordered the formation of this group, giving us a sense forjust how independent the group would be. The announcement doesn't inspire confidence that the president is interested in truly independent scrutiny of the nation's surveillance programs.

The panel will be chosen by, and report to, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Clapper famously answered "no sir" when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked whether the NSA collects information about millions of Americans. Clapper has since conceded that this answer was "clearly erroneous."

And there are other signs that the group won't turn out quite the way the president described it on Friday. Friday's speech talked about the need for input from outside experts with independent points of view. The president made no mention of the need for outsiders or independent viewpoints in his memo to Clapper.

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Kardashian Mom Dresses Down Obama For Criticism Of The Opulent Lifestyle Of Her Daughter And Kanye West

(As much as I find their use of sex as a business skanky, I have to give Jenner a "rah" for the basic defense of capitalism and calling Obuma out for the hypocrite he is.  Because Obama has never gone on opulent vacations in 10,000 square foot houses... oh wai... never mind.  If the criticism had been for moral failures, I might be right there with him, but it was for spending their money as they chose and not OURS!)

Via Daily Mail:

Kris Jenner fired back at President Barack Obama after he criticized her daughter Kim Kardashian and Kanye West for their opulent lifestyles.

The 57-year-old matriarch of the Kardashian clan during her Kris show on Friday said she disagreed with Obama that Kim and Kanye have been influencing the younger generation to be obsessed with wealth and money.

Obama, 52, in a recent Kindle Singles interview bemoaned the 'change in culture' that has warped the American Dream and referenced the E! network's popular Keeping Up With The Kardashians show.

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Another Obuma-Funded Green Energy Company On
Verge of Declaring Bankruptcy

(Groundhog day)

Via WFB:

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has suspended stimulus payments to a major green energy company after the company said it is having trouble finding financing and may have to declare bankruptcy.

ECOtality admitted that possibility in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week. Lackluster sales caused revenues to fall significantly short of its expenses, the company said.

"Although the company is currently exploring options for a restructuring or sale of the entire business and/or assets of the company, the company may need to file a petition commencing a case under the United States Bankruptcy Code as part of any such process or otherwise in the very near future," ECOtality said in its SEC filing.

ECOtality has received more than $100 million in federal funds, the bulk of which came in a $99.8 million stimulus award for the construction of its electric vehicle charging stations.

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California Dem (Wit) Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill Allowing Transgender Students To Play For Opposite Sex's Sports Team

(Holy Crap.... Insanity)

Via Fox News:
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a controversial bill into law Monday afternoon allowing the state's transgender public school students to choose which bathrooms they use and whether they participate in boy or girl sports.

The law would cover the state's 6.2 million elementary and high school kids in public schools.

Supporters say the law will help cut down on bullying against transgender students, The families of transgender students have been waging local battles with school districts around the country over what restrooms and locker rooms their children can use.

"Now, every transgender student in California will be able to get up in the morning knowing that when they go to school as their authentic self they will have the same fair chance at success as their classmates," Masen Davis, Executive Director of Transgender Law Center said.

While California is the first state to pass a law of this magnitude, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington and Colorado have all adopted policies designed to protect transgendered pupils.

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400 US surface-to-air missiles were 'STOLEN' from Libya during the Benghazi attack, claims whistleblower

(Is this part of the threat that closed the embassies, the fear that our own weapons would be used against us?  Joe Di Genova, who was a federal prosecutor, also notes that the President mentioned the sealed indictment to make it appear as though he was doing something, but violated a court order to reveal the sealed indictment)

Via Breitbart:

On August 12, Joe DiGenova, attorney for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told Washington D.C.'s WMAL that one of the reasons people have remained tight-lipped about Benghazi is because 400 U.S. missiles were "diverted to Libya" and ended up being stolen and falling into "the hands of some very ugly people."

DiGenova represents Benghazi whistleblower Mark Thompson. He told WMAL that he "does not know whether [the missiles] were at the annex, but it is clear the annex was somehow involved in the distribution of those missiles."

He claimed his information "comes from a former intelligence official who stayed in constant contact with people in the special ops and intelligence community." He said the biggest concern right now is finding those missiles before they can be put to use. "They are worried, specifically according to these sources, about an attempt to shoot down an airliner," he claimed.

On August 4, Breitbart News covered a report in The Telegraph that said 35 CIA operatives were working in Benghazi when the attack against the consulate took place. The Telegraph claimed these operatives were allegedly in an "annex near the consulate [working] on a project to supply missiles from Libyan armories to Syrian Rebels."

Months earlier, following then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's February 7 testimony on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi attacks, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) suggested that one of the causes behind the terrorist attack "may have been that there was a gun running operation going on in Benghazi, leaving Libya and going to Turkey and [distributing] arms to the [Syrian] rebels."