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Rahm Emanuel Clarifies Chick-Fil-A Stance: I Still Believe “Their Values Are Not Chicago Values” But We Won’t Block Them From Opening StoreIF CHICAGO - (THE MURDER AND GUN-CONTROL CAPITAL OF AMERICA, AND HOME OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICAL MACHINE IN THE NATION - IN A VERY CORRUPT STATE) - HAD VALUES, THEN IT WOULD BE CALLED CINCINNATI!
The United States upended a major international treaty negotiation, telling foreign delegates at the final session today that they needed more time to consider the pact. Some diplomats said that Washington is seeking another six months, pushing off any decision on the politically sensitive treaty until after the U.S. election. Russia, Indonesia, and India also asked for more time.I WAS ABLE TO LOCATE A PHOTO OF OBAMA'S MEETING WITH BAN KI MOON - TAKEN JUST BEFORE THE DECISION MEANT TO AVOID EXPOSING OBAMA AS ANTI-2ND AMENDMENT JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION:
DREA EBONY was clearly feeling it. Who wouldn’t marvel at the way she flipped her hair in a circle and kicked her leg out like a Rockette as she sauntered up and down that runway in her shiny gold pants and white tank top, as cheers from the crowd grew louder and louder.Time and time again, young kids on the transgender spectrum had graced stages almost identical to this one and been sent packing. But Drea Ebony, 18 and visiting from Pittsburgh, was different. She was a star. And she was going to prove it.With the lights dimmed and the music blaring, Ms. Ebony flipped back in a handspring-like maneuver that ended with her landing on her back like a breakdancer. She then sprang back up, striking a pose or two or three.“Ten. Ten. Ten. Ten. Tens across the board,” the M.C. Dashaun Wesley boomed as judges held up their scores.Moments later, Ms. Ebony had her trophy in hand, the victor in the category of Female Figure Vogue, beating a host of other contestants from houses like LaBeija, Mugler and Evisu. “I’ve never been at an event this big,” Ms. Ebony said. “I think this is definitely the biggest one.”Back in the 1980s, voguing and drag balls flourished in gay New York, with a brief surge in the early ’90s brought on by Madonna, Malcolm McLaren and the film “Paris Is Burning,” which chronicled the lives of several of the subculture’s most colorful inhabitants. But first came AIDS and then came hedge funds. And so the scene receded to the shadows, returning to smaller venues in Harlem and the South Bronx.But then last month, e-mail began circulating with the news that the Xtravas (as they are known in drag ball parlance) were bringing the party to XL, a slicker-than-vinyl gay club near Times Square, in an attempt to widen the audience again.And judging by the turnout last Sunday at the House of Xtravaganza’s 30th anniversary celebration, the effort has worked.
AT first glance the opening and dinner at the Allegra LaViola Gallery on the Lower East Side on Wednesday night looked like any other New York art event. There were stylish people from Brooklyn and Manhattan, in dark clothing and notable shoes. Photographs lined the walls. Thematically appropriate mood music — in this case, live drums — came from a corner of the gallery. Laura Ginn, the artist being celebrated, wore a one-shoulder, one-of-a-kind dress.
There was a bit of a stench coming off it, though. Ms. Ginn’s gown was made of rat pelts, 300 of them, that she had tanned and sewn together. Their tails encircled her abdomen; two rat faces met on her right shoulder. “I thought that was cute,” she said, and laughed. “They’re kind of kissing. I do anthropomorphize them sometimes.”
Ms. Ginn, 28, has made working with animals her métier since she graduated with an M.F.A. in photography from Cranbrook Academy in Michigan in 2010.
...Twenty people, mostly friends of Ms. Ginn or the gallery owner, Ms. LaViola, nibbled on goat cheese bruschetta topped with rat leg tenderloin, and rat-pork terrine encircled with beef fat, prepared by a chef after much trial and error with his proteins.
The rats were shipped from a United States Department of Agriculture-approved West Coast processor that supplies pet owners with humanely killed, individually flash-frozen rodents, in classifications ranging from “jumbo” to “fuzzy.”
Seventy five rats were skinned and cooked — and broiled and smoked and grilled — for the dinner, and most guests paid $100 each to attend, signing a liability waiver, some not entirely willingly.
OBAMA DOESN'T SUPPORT THE AMERICAN DREAM:
BUT OBAMA SUPORTS THE DREAMS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS:
WHY WOULD OBAMA SUPPORT THESE ANTI-AMERICAN POLICIES?
BECAUSE DESTROYING AMERICA IS A DREAM OBAMA GOT FROM HIS LIFELONG MENTORS:
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY.
- COMMUNIST FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS,
- SAUL ALINKSYITE JERRY KELLMAN,
- REVEREND JEREMIAH GODDAMN AMEREICA WRIGHT,
- RACIST AND ANTISEMITE LOUIS FARRAKHAN,
- TERRORIST BILL AYERS,
- ANTI-WEST LIAR THE LATE EDWARD SAID,
- AND ARAFAT AIDE RASHID KHALIDI.
OBAMA 2008:
OBAMA'S WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN JAY CARNEY - JULY 2012:
OBAMA'S STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN MAY 2012:
ANY JEW WHO VOTES FOR OBAMA IS A TRAITOR TO JUDAISM AND SERVING ANTIZIONIST INTERESTS.
SHAME ON YOU!OBAMA IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED:
MARK LEVIN WEIGHS IN HERE.
The Lebanese judo team at the 2012 London Olympics refused to practice next to the Israeli one on Friday afternoon, and a makeshift barrier was erected to split their gym into two halves.
According to several Hebrew sports sites, the two teams were scheduled to use the same gym and mats at London’s new ExCeL center for their final preparations. However, the delegation from Lebanon would not train in view of the Israeli team, and insisted some sort of barrier be placed between them.
Organizers accepted the Lebanese coach’s demand to separate the teams, erecting a barrier so that the Lebanese team wouldn’t see the Israeli one.
The country's unemployment rate rose to 24.6% during the April to June quarter, up from 24.4% during the previous quarter. ... Spain's third largest bank reported an 80% fall in net profits. ... Spain's borrowing costs jumped above 7% on worries that the debt problems being faced by several of the country's regional governments would push Spain towards seeking a full bailout. Bond costs above 7% are generally considered to be unsustainable in the long runTHE EURO CRISIS IS FAR FROM OVER - AND IT WILL NOT END WITH THE EURO INTACT.
And so the muck flies -- at Michele Bachmann. She has the audacity, in their eyes, of asking for information that the American people have every right to know. Her character-assassins in the media, in her own party, committ the very crime they falsely accuse her of: slandering without facts. House Speaker John Boehner actually admitted he hadn't read Bachmann's query letter but saw fit to denounce Bachmann anyway for "throwing around" accusations that were "pretty dangerous." John McCain, the man who last year called AQ-linked Libyan forces his "heroes," erroneously stated on the Senate floor that Bachmann's concerns -- "sinister accusations," he luridly called them -- “rest solely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of Huma’s family.” (Again, as Andy McCarthy lays out here, "the ties of Ms. Abedin’s father, mother, and brother to the Muslim Brotherhood are both specific and substantiated.")Boehner owes Bachmann an apology for implying that any and all discussions of legitimate concerns like these is forbidden, and so does McCain. This is a sad problem with even so-called conservative leaders that they're apparently not willing to face the serious realities about Islam, and that even included, sadly enough, Ronald Reagan. As Caroline Glick reminded almost 2 weeks ago:
Back in the 1980s, the Reagan administration happily cooperated with the precursors of al-Qaida in America's covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. It never occurred to the Americans then that the same people working with them to overthrow the Soviets would one day follow the lead of the blind sheikh and attack America.And it never occurred to Jimmy Carter, the originator of these cooperations, either, I guess. This sends an important message that conservatives who recognize the dangers of Islamofascism could not have expected Reagan to take a proper approach to dealing with it in his time. After all, he never called upon Egypt's Mubarak to shape up the country for real and abandon Islam, did he?
First and foremost, a majority of Israelis (usually around the 60 percent mark, sometimes higher) consistently support the two-state solution, even at a time when that proposal is clearly at a post-Oslo low point. So Dayan need not appeal to readers of the New York Times; he is far from convincing his own countrymen to join him. It is much easier to understand why the Times chose to publish the op-ed: the American left would like to frame the debate as consisting of two points of view–Dayan’s and J Street’s. Both are outside the mainstream consensus on this issue, and it is only up against Dayan’s arguments that the hard-left can appear reasonable. With regard to Dayan, there are three questions he should be asked after writing this op-ed.Has Mandel parchance ever read this Angus-Reid polling research that shows many Israelis actually oppose a 2-state "solution"? This is the same magazine that 7 years ago would not even oppose the damage Ariel Sharon led to, and has rarely even spoken about anything Pamela Geller's had to say. Mandel also perpetuates the lie of a "palestinian people", and might I add that so long as they continue to embrace Islam, that's a reason why they're not deserving of voting rights if they intend to exploit that for purposes that could help undermine Israel's safety in their favor. Mandel then caps his junk with the following:
First, the obvious: What about the Palestinians? Dayan doesn’t say Israel should give the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria voting rights. If he would, is he not concerned about the demographics at play? If he would not, is he suggesting that the Palestinians should be a permanently stateless people and that Israel would be permanently without clear national borders? He writes that Israeli security should be paramount, but the Judea and Samaria he envisions would be a long-term security nightmare for Israel.
...it would be more constructive if Dayan made these critiques of Mideast policy as part of an effort to reform the current structure of the two-state solution in ways that might make it more workable, not less.One of the people in the comments said:
Very disappointing to see Commentary become an advocate for the two-state final solution, which not only will lead to placing a dagger pointed at the Tel Aviv - Jerusalem heartland, but more importantly legitimizes redentist fantasies that the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria are really Arab lands over which Jews have no claim to whatsoever. The resulting delegitimation that has flowed from accepting the Arab myth that Judea and Samaria is theirs is most manifest in the massive erosion of support Israel has suffered in the western media ever since it signed the Oslo Accords. Now I am starting to understand why Newt Gingrich's most accurate statement about the Palestinians being an invented people provoked such hostility among Contention commentators. However I have yet to comprehend why those who hold high the neoconservative banner embrace policies that objectively undermine Israel and only further Islamic jihadism.Whenever Commentary publishes degrading opinions like Mandel's, that's exactly what makes me wonder if they're even a truly reliable source to begin with, if they cannot bring themselves to shun an otherwise damaging belief and policy. This is just why a magazine like them requires considerable caution and much of what they say has to be taken with big bags of salt.
WHATEVER word you use to describe Israel’s 1967 acquisition of Judea and Samaria — commonly referred to as the West Bank in these pages — will not change the historical facts. Arabs called for Israel’s annihilation in 1967, and Israel legitimately seized the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria in self-defense. Israel’s moral claim to these territories, and the right of Israelis to call them home today, is therefore unassailable. Giving up this land in the name of a hallowed two-state solution would mean rewarding those who’ve historically sought to destroy Israel, a manifestly immoral outcome.Read the rest. He deserves many congratulations for this. But one more reminder: that land we had to go into during 1967 was handed over by the British to the Arab/Muslim entity. And that's just one more reason why we have the right to live there.
Of course, just because a policy is morally justified doesn’t mean it’s wise. However, our four-decade-long settlement endeavor is both. The insertion of an independent Palestinian state between Israel and Jordan would be a recipe for disaster.
The influx of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and elsewhere would convert the new state into a hotbed of extremism. And any peace agreement would collapse the moment Hamas inevitably took power by ballot or by gun. Israel would then be forced to recapture the area, only to find a much larger Arab population living there.
Moreover, the Palestinians have repeatedly refused to implement a negotiated two-state solution. The American government and its European allies should abandon this failed formula once and for all and accept that the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria are not going anywhere.
Nevada:
THESE MAY END UP BEING THE GREATEST SERIES OF POLITICAL ADS OF ALL TIME!
Discussing his economic policies at a fundraiser in Oakland, California, last night, President Obama, told supporters that “we tried our plan — and it worked.”
“We tried that and it didn’t work,” Obama said of Mitt Romney’s proposed tax cuts and spending cuts, which he dismissed as a Bush-style “top down” economic policy. “Just like we’ve tried their plan, we tried our plan — and it worked,” he added later in the speech. “That’s the difference. That’s the choice in this election. That’s why I’m running for a second term.”HERE ARE OBAMA VIDEOS:
AND THIS:
IN FACT, THE POLICIES OF THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS HAVE NOT WORKED; THEY HAVE HOLLOWED OUT THE CORE OF AMERICA'S ECONOMY AND OUR ECONOMIC AND MILITARY POWER.
I just want to point out that we tried their theory for almost 10 years, and here’s what it got us: We got the slowest job growth in decades. We got deficits as far as the eye can see. Your incomes and your wages didn’t go up. And it culminated in a crisis because there weren’t enough regulations on Wall Street and they could make reckless bets with other people’s money that resulted in this financial crisis, and you had to foot the bill. So that’s where their theory turned out.THIS A BIG LIE.
MORE PROOF THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS NOT A TRUE ALLY OF ISRAEL:
OR JUST EFFIN' DUPES!
JEWS WHO VOTE FOR OBAMA ARE TRAITORS TO THEIR FAITH AND ANTI-ZIONISTS.
A foretaste of what might occur in London when the Olympic games open on Friday, July 27, occurred on July 20 when a Muslim youth shouting in Arabic, “God is great”, attempted to seize the Olympic torch as it was being carried through Maidstone toward Redhill.This is hardly at all a way to celebrate an event like the Olympic games by having union strikes take place. It's very good that Israeli security sources are set up at the games, but even so, in a country that's already sold its soul, there's no telling what could happen.
I was reminded of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich when members of the Israeli team were targeted and killed by Islamists. Then I thought of other terrorist attacks in London and in Manchester in the recent past.
Wikipedia offers some sobering information about Islam and England. There were more than 1,500 mosques in England as of 2007. Muslims have been part of the English population as early as 1707 and today it is the second largest religion in the country. As of 2011 the Muslim population was estimated to be 2.869 million. It is the fastest growing religion in the UK. [...]
The opening day ceremonies will be further disrupted by planned strikes by transportation unions and the main access to the venue will be via subway, a prime target for bombs. The British have mobilized elements of their armed forces to provide security, but it is my view that, like most acts of terrorism, it will be virtually impossible to deter bombings and other mayhem.
The 2012 Olympic Games hold the prospect of becoming a bloodbath for participants and attendees.
Jerusalem police chief Nisso Shaham took a forced administrative leave starting on Thursday morning, following reports of sexual assault against a policewoman. The Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department said Shaham was questioned yesterday on suspicion of sexual harassment, indecent assault, and illicit sexual relations after an undercover investigation.There's more about this vile, disgusting man over here:
Dept. Commander Nissim Edri, the head of the Zion precinct, was also placed on administrative leave on the suspicion that he was aware of Shaham’s actions and did not take appropriate action as required by law.
The contents of the investigation are still under a partial media gag order. [...]
Shaham captured headlines in 2005 when he was the Negev District Chief during the disengagement from Gaza. Shaham was filmed saying that the settlers in Kfar Maimon “should all burn, those [expletive] settlers.”
Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino has decided to suspend from office the Jerusalem District Major General Nisso Shacham until further notice, due to an ongoing investigation against him and another senior officer in the district for sexual assault, harassment and misconduct. Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch has been briefed on the case.And still a bit more in this article, which provides clearer info on the charges:
Now to the poetic justice business: Nisso Shacham has become the face of the Gush Katif evacuation with this highly watched video, shot by Channel 10 photographer Yisrael Rosner, in which he is depicted giving instructions to his men using the most vile and violent language (don’t watch in a room with Hebrew speaking children).
Shacham is seen telling his troops: “No problem whatsoever – batons, lower body if necessary. – OK,” and a line we can’t quote here in which he says he isn’t some lady of the night and then adds a sordid description which included himself and a proverbial mother of the demonstrators.
The ranking officer’s vulgar language and obvious violent attitude towards the “Haredim” as he refers to the settlers (“I’m an expert on Haredim,” he tells his men in the video), peppered with gutter sexual imageries, brought before the Israeli public an image of Israel’s police force as they all had known from personal encounters – and remains to this day an extreme symbol of the way the establishment felt at the time about the vermin-like settlers that stood in its way.
The storm that erupted following the broadcast on Channel 10 (the most hated news channel by government of all stripes) forced the police brass’ hand.
On July 24, Police Chief Moshe Karadi suspended Shacham for his behavior, removing him from the senior role he had been assigned in uprooting and transferring some 8,500 Jews from their homes in Gush Katif, Gaza strip.
Then NRP MK Shaul Yahalom slammed what he termed an inadequate punishment. “The police chief’s decision sends a message of forgiveness in the face of violence, which is contradictory to democracy and the law,” he said. “The fact that Shacham was not kicked out of the police proves the police disregard the standards of democracy and maintaining the rule of law in Israel.”
Even Oslo architect, former Meretz Chairman MK Yossi Beilin was offended by the video, calling it a “serious error.”
“Sacham’s place is not in the police. The things he said have no explanation and should not be forgiven,” Beilin said.
It turns out both men, on the right and on the left, were absolutely correct.
Exactly seven years later to day (it works if you allow for two leap years), foul mouthed Jerusalem police chief Nisso Shacham was given a forced vacation again. He will be replaced by Inspector Manny Yitzhaki, who only eight days ago received an appointment as head of Lahav 433, a new Israeli crime-fighting unit with an FBI-like status regarding local police operations.
Another Jerusalem senior police officer was suspended, Brigadier General Nissim Edery, commander of the Zion police station. There is a gag order on both suspensions. Rumors suggest Shacham and his buddy concealed evidence about an ongoing investigation.
One thing is certain, if finally given the boot, the Memoir by disgraced policeman Nisso Shacham will be a local hit.
Three women have made complaints, according to Channel 10. According to Channel 2, one of the complainants claims that Shaham tried to kiss her during an interview.Given what an obscene color of character Shaham's got, it shouldn't be too surprising he could be that bigoted against those policewomen too. Now, he's on the receiving end of some more punishment, but the big question is whether he'll actually pay for his crimes with a dismissal from the police and a jail sentence for the offenses he's committed.
His subordinate, Nissim Edri, who commands the city’s Zion sub-station, is suspected of ignoring complaints about Shaham’s behavior.
SHARIA LAW COMES TO CHITOWN.
COURTESY OF OBAMA AND THE LEFT.
WHO FIGHTS TO KEEP CHICK-FIL-A OUT.
THIS REVEALS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LEFT.
The overall dynamic favors Republicans, who look poised to maintain their hold on the House. More Democrats than Republicans have retired in districts where they were endangered, and more Republicans benefited from the decennial redistricting, leaving the Democrats with too small a cushion of Teflon incumbents as they try to regain a majority in the House.
Of the 80 races viewed as most competitive by The New York Times, based on polls and interviews with independent analysts, 32 are leaning Republican, 23 are leaning Democratic and 25 are tossups.YEAH BABY!
Evidence of a community of prehistoric artists and craftspeople who “invented” ceramics during the last Ice Age – thousands of years before pottery became commonplace – has been found in modern-day Croatia.
The finds consist of 36 fragments, most of them apparently the broken-off remnants of modelled animals, and come from a site called Vela Spila on the Adriatic coast. Archaeologists believe that they were the products of an artistic culture which sprang up in the region about 17,500 years ago. Their ceramic art flourished for about 2,500 years, but then disappeared.
The study, which is published in the journal PLoS ONE, adds to a rapidly-changing set of views about when humans first developed the ability to make ceramics and pottery. Most histories of the technology begin with the more settled cultures of the Neolithic era, which began about 10,000 years ago.
Now it is becoming clear that the story was much more complex. Over thousands of years, ceramics were invented, lost, reinvented and lost again. The earliest producers did not make crockery, but seem to have had more artistic inclinations.HUMANITY HAS BEEN INVENTIVE FOR FAR LONGER THAN IS TRADITIONALLY THOUGHT OR TAUGHT.
"He's not America's first black president - he's America's first mixed-race president."SO IF YOU'RE AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN DON'T BE DUPED INTO VOTING FOR OBAMA JUST BECAUSE H'ES A DESCENDED FROM
