DOZENS OF LEV TAHOR MEMBERS MOVING TO GUATEMALA

It looks like Lev Tahor is clearing out of Canada, and moving along with a few other cultists to Guatemala, where they may be more welcome. The brother of a woman belonging to the cult traveled there to find her, but so far, he hasn't convinced her to leave:

The children’s uncle recently travelled from Israel to see the family in the village of San Juan de Laguna, a two-hour-trip east of Guatemala City. He said he counted about 30 adults living in a two- or three-room shack.

The man — referred to as K, because a youth court has ordered the identities of the children to be protected — spent a month in Guatemala from March 27 to April 30 tracking down the whereabouts of his sister.

He made several visits to the shack before he was finally permitted to speak with her.

“Armed with a metal bar for protection, I told her that if she did not come out, I would break in. So she finally agreed to come outside and talk with me,” the man said through a Hebrew interpreter Friday.

Speaking from Israel, K said he was distraught by his sister’s psychological state.

“It seemed like she had no emotions,” he said. “I hadn’t seen her in more than three years, but to her the visit seemed normal, like nothing special.”

He said he also saw his nephew who appeared dirty, hungry and covered in bug bites.

Speaking to some members of the local Jewish community in the village, K found out that the children were sleeping on the dirt floor of the shack, and that there is no plumbing; they receive barrels of fresh water once a week.

K said he saw community leaders Yoil Weingarten, Mayer Rosner and Uriel Goldman there, and believes they also now live in the Central American country.

[...] K’s sister had been contacting the family regularly when she was living in Canada, but her cellphone was taken away by the sect’s leadership when she left the country, he said.

She was given a phone about a week ago, and used it to call her parents in Israel to ask for money.

K said he wanted to remove his sister and her children from the sect, but she refused to go with him, saying the situation “wasn’t simple.”

It's terrible this poor woman is so indoctrinated with such Muslim-style mishmash, she refuses her brother's help to go live in better conditions, and forces her own children to live in such misery too. And who knows if the local authorities will avail? For all we know, they'll probably let this futile charade continue, unless more international sources can be convinced to help out.

BILL MAHER AGREES ISLAM IS A PROBLEM

The leftist TV host is willing to admit Islam is a serious problem:

Bill Maher went after Islam Friday night on his HBO show “Real Time.”

With the Nigerian Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapping hundreds of teenage girls to sell into slavery, the Sultan of Brunei establishing the repressive Sharia law in his country and Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s honorary degree being rescinded by Brandeis University, Bill Maher pointed his finger at Islam as a major problem in the world today.

“Islam is the problem, correct. All religions are the problem, but especially this one,” the ardent atheist Maher told some of his liberal guests who were offended by his attacks on the faith.

If those guests of his are offended, they can leave the studio, and make sure the door doesn't hit their asses on the way out. Such leftards are not people anybody sane needs to please. Maher's done right to make clear Islam is far more a problem than any other religion in the modern world.

GUILTY MICHAEL MORRELL PREPARES THE BATTLEFIELD

THE HILL:

A former top CIA official on Wednesday accused Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), recently tapped to lead a House select committee on the Benghazi terror attack, of having "a number of his facts wrong" on the case. 

"I was hopeful that the House investigative committee would come to its task with an open mind and with a desire to find the truth, but it appears that at least Mr. Gowdy has already made up his mind on certain points," former acting CIA Deputy Michael Morell told CNN. 

During an interview with the same network earlier Wednesday, Gowdy said he wanted Morrell to explain why he had made certain edits to a set of talking points used by then-U.N. ambassador Susan Rice to explain the 2012 attack, which left four Americans dead. In her interviews, Rice said preliminary intelligence indicated that the violence grew spontaneously from protests over an anti-Islam YouTube video; the administration later acknowledged the attack was preplanned. 

Gowdy said Morell had not explained why he edited those talking points to change the word "terrorist" to "extremist" or the word "attack" to "demonstration." 

"Every single change that Mike Morell made was calculated to cast the administration in a more favorable light," Gowdy said.

MORRELL IS GUILTY AS HELL AND IS PREPARING THE BATTLEFIELD.

BOEHNER'S 7 PICKS FOR GOWDY ARE GREAT

NYTIMES:

 In addition to Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who is chairman of the committee, the speaker appointed 

• Representatives Susan W. Brooks of Indiana [FORMER US ATTORNEY]; 
• Jim Jordan of Ohio ["Jordan has been a critic of Speaker John Boehner's plan to raise the debt ceiling"]; 
• Mike Pompeo of Kansas [WEST POINT / HARVARD LAW]; 
• Martha Roby of Alabama [B.A. NYU / ALABAMA LAW DEGREE / STAUNCH CONSERVATIVE]; 
• Peter Roskam of Illinois ["was named "Best Oral Advocate" by the American College of Trial Lawyers"], 
• and Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia.

GOWDY IS THE KEY, OF COURSE.

AND MOST INTERESTINGLY:

HE HAS SAID MOST OF THE COMMITTEE'S WORK WILL BE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS TAKING DEPOSITIONS UNDER OATH.

YUP: HE'S GONNA RUN THIS LIKE A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.

BENEDICT HUSSEIN OBAMA: IS IMPEACHMENT TOO GOOD FOR THIS MAN?

IF A TREE FALLS IN A FOREST, AND IT ISN'T REORTED IN THE NYTIMES, THEN WILL A LIBERAL BELIEVE IT HAS FALLEN?

NOPE.

SCHWEIZER EXPOSES THE LINK BETWEEN WELFARE AND CORPORATE WELFARE

AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE:

JP Morgan’s Food Stamp Empire

How the welfare state became a profit center. 

In 2010, President Obama signed into law the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. The bill added $4.5 billion to child-nutrition programs over the next decade, put in place nutrition standards for school lunch programs and vending machines, and implemented training for the cafeteria workers who feed 31 million students a day through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs. 

It received bipartisan support, and was hailed as a compassionate victory for America’s poorest children. 

The bill was also, however, a potentially good development for mega bank JP Morgan Chase. Why, you may be wondering, would one of the nation’s biggest banks benefit from a bill meant to feed poor children? A closer look at the legislation reveals the answer. 

The bill mandates that “all state agencies implement Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) systems by October 1, 2020” for those receiving money through the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. And which company administers nearly half of all states’ EBT programs? You guessed it: JP Morgan Chase. 

We seldom think of poverty programs as profit centers, preferring to discuss them as matters of ideology. Liberals view programs like WIC—which provides food to both pregnant mothers and mothers of young children—as the mark of a compassionate nation. 

Conservatives see them as a gateway to government dependency. 

Arguably, they may fit either of those descriptions. But as with so many other government programs in Washington, both WIC and its close cousin, the federal food stamp program, have morphed into something else: cash cows for powerful corporate interests.

RTWT!

BRUNEI'S SULTAN MIGHT NOT PRACTICE AS HE PREACHES

A former stripper told Intl. Business Times why she believes the sultan of Brunei will spend time with all sorts of personal enjoyments even as he forces the rest of the population to adhere to sharia:

An American Jewish woman has claimed she was hired to be the mistress of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the playboy brother of the Sultan of Brunei.

Her revelation came just days after Brunei implemented sharia law, which allows residents to be stoned to death for "transgressions" such as homosexuality and adultery.

In her book Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Jillian Lauren, 36, explained how she was picked to be Jefri's mistress.

Before turning 17, Lauren had dropped out of school to become a stripper. During her career, she was offered $20,000 (£11,785) to perform for a Singaporean businessman.

She soon understood that the man she had to entertain was not a Singaporean, but the Brunei prince.

"[The job] was an invitation to be the personal guest of the notorious playboy prince Jefri Bolkiah, the youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei," Lauren told the Daily Beast.

"The prince threw lavish parties every night. At these parties there was drinking (which was not legal in public), dancing, some fairly hilarious karaoke, and, most important, women—about 30 or 40 beauties from all over the world, comprising a harem of sorts.

"I spent the next year and some change as his girlfriend." [...]

Lauren, who has returned to her hometown, suggested that the prince and sultan might not be willing to observe the laws they have implemented.

"It is the privilege of the prince and the sultan to misbehave," she said. "As the citizens of Brunei face the erosion of their rights, I imagine the man I once knew, holed up in a posh hotel suite somewhere, maybe with another American teenager in his lap, making laws that legislate morality."

Certainly it's possible. This has got to be commonplace among many overlords, to keep personal pleasure options solely for themselves while their subjects are denied the same.

EUROVISION?

The Eurovision Song Contest is a huge, annual, transnational, media event that was originally created to foster popular European music culture and industry.  In the beginning, competing nations had to sing in their native tongue and entrants often offered music with an indigenous flavour.  As the years have passed, the music has become more homogeneous, and the language of choice, for the singers, and the on-air hosts, has become english. As far as being a bulwark against english language pop culture is concerned Eurovision  is a failure.

What it has become is its own kitsch universe, that exists in a bubble, and is only fully understood by the Captains of Camp - the gay community.  This fact is clearly understood by DR, whose TV Hosts play up to gay sensibilities:

The most interesting aspect of the show is observing the Regional Voting habits of Europe, as citizens who are unable to vote for their own country inevitably reveal cultural alliances in the voting statistics.

And the most important thing we can learn from Eurovision is that government subsidized Culture (in the case of Eurovision, to the tune of $100 million per year) is a complete fiasco.  Very few acts from Eurovision have made any impact on the music scene. If Eurovision was a private enterprise it would have gone bankrupt years ago...

WHAT CULTURE RANKS FRANK MILLER'S PRODUCTS

And the UK magazine predictably decided to put Holy Terror at the bottom of the list of 19 or so stories he's written, in an obvious failure to appreciate the idea, any more than the finished product. They say that:

...the writing of Holy Terror descends into something more akin to a bigoted rant than an actual story.

Oh yeah, it's just like them to blurt straight off the bat that it's nothing more than some "bigoted" rant. Is that also what they think 9-11 Families who openly condemn Islamofascism are doing? Their weird little diatribe gets worse with the following paragraph:

It may not be as bad as seeing Batman punch out insurgents, but whatever the book amounts to is undeniably infuriating. Comics legends like Alan Moore and Grant Morrison – who had by turns lauded and cited as influence to earlier works by Miller – responded with outrage at the mere notion of Holy Terror, an outrage – not a polite disagreement between professionals, but actual anger – and it’s all something like the series could hope to fuel.

All those twosome managed to do was make it sound like they're against fighting crime and defeating violent criminals, and to lose my respect in the process. I guess if it's wrong for Batman to whack out "insurgents" then it's wrong for him to give the Joker - along with plenty of other violent thugs in Gotham - a smash to the face too, huh?

If they think the story itself isn't well crafted, that's one thing, but to say the idea of battling savages is reprehensible is only to deliver a whole slap in the face to what superhero comics are all about - fighting evil. If they don't like that, then maybe they shouldn't read any more superhero, fantasy or crime comics.

Guaranteed photoshopped: Michelle Obama's hashtags

SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN F. PALPATINE?

KERRY'S FACE GET'S CREEPIER AND CREEPIER.

IS IT BAD COSMETIC SURGERY?

TOO MUCH BOTOX?

OR IS THIS JUST WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DESCEND DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE?

ULTRA-LEFTISTS WHO DON'T STAND STILL FOR THE MEMORIAL SIRENS

A writer for leftist Haaretz, of all places, wrote about the subsections in Israel who won't respect the special siren sounded on Holocaust & War Memorial Day, such as Haredis, and amazingly enough, also cites Arabic citizens and ultra-leftists who won't do so either:

These moments of standing and remembering during Yom Hazikaron’s two nationwide sirens, the one that ushers Yom Hazikaron in at night and a second one the following morning, are deeply ingrained in mainstream Israeli culture. But several subgroups – ultra-Orthodox Jews, Arab Palestinian citizens, and, perhaps increasingly, some Israeli ultra-leftists – choose not to participate in the ritual. Haredim in particular have a complicated relationship to Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s equivalent to Memorial Day, and to Yom Haatzma’ut, Independence Day, which began Monday night and runs through Tuesday.

I'm surprised somebody at that otherwise filthy paper - which has a lot of items you need to take with a grain of salt - cares about this, and the editors were willing to greenlight it. I was already aware some Haredis and certainly Muslims wouldn't respect the custom, but maybe the real eyebrow raiser here is the ultra-leftists in Israel who're following suit. This is definitely disturbing, and needs to be dealt with under an improved education system.

PLO PLANNED LONG BEFORE TO WRECK PSEUDO-PEACE TALKS

Breitbart London found unsurprising news that the PLO had every intention of trashing their pseudo-negotiations:

Israel's national security chief sent a letter to the White House, the EU and numerous ambassadors including hard proof that Palestinian Authority officials were devising measures to thwart the peace process even before Israel refused to release a fourth round of Palestinian prisoners at the end of March, Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported.

In his letter dated April 22, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's national security adviser, Yossi Cohen, included a policy paper written by chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat in preparation for a Palestinian rejection of American mediation efforts and Israeli overtures. The paper was written in March, nearly a month before Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made a unilateral move to sign 15 international conventions, ostensibly in response to Israel’s refusal to honor its commitment to release the final round of prisoners.

As Erekat had planned the maneuver weeks before Israel announced its refusal to release the prisoners, Cohen argues, the Palestinian leadership never intended to follow through with peace talks in good faith.

It all figures. These filthy excrementals were evil all along, and had every intention to keep it up. No one with sanity should have anything to do with them.

INFLATION AND THE AWFUL JOBS SITUATION - AND NOT "THE 1%" - ARE WHAT HURT THE POOR AND THE WORKING CLASS THE MOST

INFLATION AND THE AWFUL JOBS SITUATION - AND NOT "THE 1%" - ARE WHAT HURT THE POOR AND THE WORKING CLASS THE MOST.

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE:

REGARDLESS OF WHAT OBAMA'S BLS TELLS US, THERE IS INFLATION.

IF IT WAS MEASURED THE WAY WE MEASURED IT IN THE 1990'S, THEN IT WOULD BE 9%!

THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO THINK THERE IS NO INFLATION ARE THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T BUY FOOD OR GAS!

WE NEED ECONOMIC GROWTH, NOT MORE TAXES OR MORE REGULATIONS!

WE CAN PUT THE COUNTRY ON THE RIGHT PATH THIS NOVEMBER.

IN FACT, IT'S NOVEMBER OR NEVER!

GOHMERT EXPOSES THE EXTRAORDINARY CONNECTIONS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS WITH THE SUPPOSEDLY "UNBIASED/OBJECTIVE" MEDIA

ROCKING MrE VIDEO: "How Cultural Marxism is Implemented"

THE ONLY THINGS PREVENTING OBAMATOPIA ARE THE TEABAGGERS, THE KOCH BROTHERS AND THE GOP

SADLY, THIS APPROACH WORKS ON A THIRD OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC...

SIGH...

ONLY SIX DEMS VOTED WITH GOP TO HOLD LERNER IN CONTEMPT

The House voted to hold former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner in contempt on a 231-187 vote Wednesday, as Republicans work to uncover the depth of Lerner's involvement in the agency's targeting of conservative groups from 2010 to May 2013. 

Six Democrats broke with their party to support the contempt vote: Ron Barber of Arizona, John Barrow of Georgia, Collin Peterson of Minnesota, Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, Nick Rahall of West Virginia, and Patrick Murphy of Florida. All are facing Republican challengers in tough districts for Democrats in November

DEMS WITHOUT STRONG CHALLENGES WERE ABLE TO SKIRT THEIR MORAL DUTY.

SHAME ON THEM.

THE ULTIMATE REGRESSION?

ADAPTED FROM SOMETHING SEEN ON FACEBOOK:

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SIDES WITH ISLAMOFASCISM

Earl Cox brought up the terrible case of the Presbytarian Church selling out to Islamofascism:

The US government and universities have been infiltrated and influenced by Islamists. Why should we believe mainstream Christian churches in America are exempt? What is surprising is the disturbing depth of deception being proliferated by the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America (PCUSA) via their published study guide “Zionism Unsettled.” Some Jewish groups have called its distorted facts and a historical narrative so extreme that they label it “hate” speech. Think on this: hate speech coming out of a Christian church in America--the Presbyterian Church.

American “Zionism” dates back to 1890 and in general is a national movement for returning Jews to their homeland and a resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. After the State of Israel was formed in 1948, Zionism grew to include development of the Jewish state and its protection by supporting Israel’s Defense Forces. Instead of standing with the 70% of Americans polling in support of Jews and Israel, Presbyterians are attacking Zionism, which in turn attacks Israel and puts us all at risk at the hands of Islamic extremists.

Palestinian terrorists fired thousands of rockets towards Israeli homes, schools and businesses over the last decade. The Presbyterian study guide blatantly ignores this fact. The PCUSA vilifies Israel and Zionism, calls for the annihilation of the Jewish State and turns a blind eye away from the culpability of Arab leaders’ responsibility for the adverse plight of their own people. The guide calls for a rethinking of the Holocaust with the mindset of including the plight of the Palestinians and the idea that Zionism equals racism. According to the Presbyterians, Zionism is to Palestinians as centuries of Christian anti-Semitism were to the Jews. These ideas place Presbyterians sitting in pews every Sunday in the camp with radical positions on serious issues that could bring about disastrous outcomes.

This is truly awful, and explains perfectly why so many Christians in the Muslim world have been imperiled. When a church movement like the Presbytarians cares more about furthering blood libels and less about the lives of the true victims, that's why Christianity is perishing at the hands of Islam.

WHAT TO SAY TO SOMEONE THE NEXT TIME THEY DEMAND REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY:

"DUDE, THAT WAS LIKE... OVER 100 YEARS AGO!"

FGM BECOMES A CELEBRATION BY MUSLIMS IN UK

The UK Guardian (via Breitbart London) says that female genital mutilation's been turned into partying by Muslims in Britain:

The cutting of girls at female genital mutilation "parties" is still going on in Britain and not just taking place abroad, healthcare experts have told MPs.

The Commons home affairs select committee has heard that "cutters" – often older women – are flown into Britain for the events, at which as many as a dozen girls may be operated on.

Janet Fyle, of the Royal College of Midwives, said that by the time the authorities could be alerted, the cutter would have left. "By the time the girls are cut, the woman 'cutter' is on her flight back to the country she came from. We can't go after the cutter. We don't know who she or he is. The parents have to be held responsible," she said.

Professor Janice Rymer, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, shared Fyle's belief that FGM was happening in Britain. Asked about its scale, she said: "We have no idea. We have no data but I am sure it is happening in this country."

The MPs also heard evidence that 75 to 80 women were undergoing FGM reversal operations in Britain each year.

Filthy in the extreme. So now, in a way, this sadism's been turned into a form of celebration. It's definitely run like a cultish ritual. Yet the UK authorities operate weakly and it all manages to continue unabated.

CSBG WRITER GUSHES OVER THE MUSLIM MS. MARVEL

I really ought to be more careful when I say Comics Should Be Good is the only part of CBR that impresses me, because the following, sensationalized review of Marvel's Muslim propaganda puts a big stain on that section too, and the worst part is that a woman is the one doing the fawning here:

The biggest surprise of the group, for me, is Ms. Marvel, which is a book that has lit people on absolute fire, and with good reason. Obviously as the story of a young woman of color—and with the especially underrepresented Muslim faith (not to mention Pakistani American background) – this books helps fill a huge gap in our current superhero comics. But filling a gap doesn’t matter if you’re not actually good. Fortunately for all of us, Ms. Marvel is all caps GOOD. It’s smart and appropriately sweet, gloriously superheroic and inspiring. It’s also a wonderfully organic origin story (and I DO get sick of origin stories especially when they’re rehashes or retcons of characters we already know) but Kamala’s tale is both perfectly universal and relatable and also unique to her.

Oh yes, we all know how "organic" it is by now, don't we? As the news involving the Original Sin crossover's noted, they're tying the character's would-be origin in with the Inhumans. And while Pakistani background itself is fine and welcome, the Muslim background is not, and I say this for the same reasons I would frown if they decided to conceive a protagonist who's a Scientologist or sympathetic to the Ku Klux Klan mentality.

One of the commentors to this article said the series would eventually be cancelled because it stars a character nobody's ever heard of. No, that's not why it'll be cancelled in time. It's because it forces the Religion of Peace onto the main star as her belief system, and down the readers' throats. If they'd avoided ideology, it'd be much easier to accept the book on its own terms.

Most galling, as mentioned before, is that a woman is the one here to gush over the book, all without doing any research about Islam and the Koran, and does a serious disservice to women as a result. This kind of propaganda only embarrasses the CSBG section, where the better items are usually history based for mainstream products.

Update: I recalled seeing a review of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by the same writer from nearly 4 years ago, and it tells another eyebrow raiser about the same person:

Godless heathen that I am, Sarah Glidden’s How To Understand Israel In 60 Days Or Less appealed greatly, because despite being an aforementioned godless heathen, I definitely WANT to understand Israel, and I think as an atheist I’m sometimes at an even bigger disadvantage than those that have a better understanding and perhaps relation to or with religion and the conflicts that sometimes come with it.

Well I'm afraid she is at a disadvantage if she relies solely on a graphic novel like that. Later on, however, an Israeli soldier came along and posted the following comment:

As a current Israeli solider I can tell you this book is merely for people starting to learn about israel but also has lots of inaccuracies and teaches you very little about israel and the conflict. In the book Sarah Glidden will make claims of things that if asked she can never ever back up.

Also These posts recently that some people have written like israeli soldiers have forced people into a house and then burned them alive is not true and a complete lie. If anyone actually believes that happened they are idiots.

Also to “Anti-Zionist” the arabs rejected the partition plan so all of your whole point is moot. Even you knew anything about israeli arabs today you would know they hope there never will be a palestinian state because they are afraid of losing their freedom and most likely breaking any laws would result in death as the PA puts anyone to death for just selling any land/home to a jew.

Forcing Women to give birth on the streets that’s a laugh, I’ve personally guarded at checkpoints and have never seen that happen. There are procedures for people who need to get by and people who need a hospital are cared to first and foremost. There is a check on ambulances because more than plenty of times in the past terrorists have tried to sneak in pretending to be injured. Have put weapons in ambulances to get through with someone injured and soforth. Even when these things are found the person who is injured and needs help is still cared to by israeli soldiers and sent to a hospital. If the arabs don’t like the checkpoint they have Hamas and the PA to blame not israel.

Also if you think hamas doesn’t abuse women than you know nothing of hamas. Hamas also puts gays to death. Will stone a woman if she is dressed “improperly” a women can be put to death for pretty much almost anything under hamas rule. I have yet to see my country every put a women to death. In fact we have used the death penalty once.

Women, arabs, blacks, christians, muslims, and so on and so forth all have the same rights as jews and israeli’s.

I’m not going to bother with alot of the other stuff because I just wanted to address the really really absurd things I read. Then again I didn’t read all the comments and just a few but enough to know that alot of americans don’t know anything about israel.

As I figured, the graphic novel was bad enough, and the panels where Glidden uses the f-bomb are just the icing on the cake. What does CSBG's contributor see in such a manure-mobile then?

WHAT TO SAY TO A LIBERAL THE NEXT TIME THEY BLAME BUSH:

"DUDE, BUSH WAS LIKE ...  6 YEARS AGO!"

TWITTER AND CHRISTIE'S HERALD THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE CURRENT BUBBLE

NYTIMES:

Shares of Twitter went into free fall on Tuesday as early investors became eligible to sell their shares on the market for the first time. The company’s shares dropped 17.8 percent, to close at $31.85, their lowest level since the company’s initial public offering of stock in November.

NYTIMES:

After all the predictions that prices were only going one way — up — the spring auction season got off to a tepid start at Christie’s on Tuesday night, where some examples of Impressionist and modern art by Picasso, Kandinsky and Dalí brought far less than expected; others barely skimmed by, and two classic works by Degas were left unsold, victims of estimates that were simply too high.

Christie’s was kicking off two weeks of sales, including the more buoyant segment of the market, postwar and contemporary art, and expectations were running high. The opening night could be seen as a reality check.

THESE "REALITY CHECKS" MIGHT HERALD THE PIN-PRICK WHICH WILL BURST THE CURRENT QE/OBAMA-DEFICIT INDUCED BUBBLE.

I THINK THE STOCK MARKETS ARE OVERDUE FOR A 15-20% CORRECTION.

WTF: PARENT WHO DIDN'T WANT HIS DAUGHTER ASSIGNED TO READ PORN IN SCHOOL IS ARRESTED AT BOARD MEETING

THIS VIDEO REVEALS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LEFT'S RADICAL GRAMCIAN AGENDA TO DEMOLISH TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS LIKE THE FAMILY. 

VIDEO: GOHMERT PROVES OBAMACARE BILL WAS PASSED UNCONSTITUTIONALLY

THANKS TO MINIMUM WAGE HIKE THREATS BY THE DEMOCRATS, PANERA BREAD - LIKE MCDONALD'S - IS SWITCHING FROM HUMAN CASHIERS TO COMPUTER KIOSKS

THUS PROVING, ONCE AGAIN, THAT THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF LEFTIST POLICIES ARE ALWAYS THE SAME AND ALWAYS BAD.

ISLAMOFASCISM GROWS IN AFRICA

A former US ambassador says the government's turning a blind eye to the threat of Islam and Boko Haram in Nigeria:

Former U.S. Ambassador John Price told Fox News’ Lauren Green the U.S. is putting “blinders on” and ignoring the threat posed by the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram.

He says the militant group’s current violent streak is a result of Africa “not being on our radar screen.”

“Congressional [leaders] don’t know much about what is going on there,” Price said. “We don’t get in there and talk about the real issue which is radical Islam is growing.” [...]

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls from a school in April. Their leader is threatening to attack more schools and abduct more girls.

“There have been thousands of people killed, many attacks mostly against Christian churches and now even Muslim children are being attacked in schools,” Price said.

The U.S. announced Tuesday it will send military and law enforcement personnel to Nigeria to help rescue the kidnapped girls. Price suggests the U.S. also send drones stationed in nearby Niger for intelligence gathering.

I should hope they'll make a convincing effort to find and rescue the girls from those barbarians. The former ambassador's got a point; too long has the Islamic monster been allowed to mutate on the African continent, and this is the result.

BROOKINGS/WASH POST: OBAMANOMICS DESTROYING ENTREPRENEURIAL AMERICA

WASH POST:

The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That's the conclusion of a new study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978. 

Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study -- 2009, 2010 and 2011 -- businesses were collapsing faster than they were being formed, a first.

THIS IS MORE PROOF THAT OBAMA HAS PUT OUR ECONOMY ON THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.

WE CAN BEGIN TO MAKE A U-TURN AND RETURN TO PROSPERITY THIS NOVEMBER.

IN FACT, IT'S NOVEMBER OR NEVER.

ACCORDING TO THE LEFT, ONE DROP OF CONSERVATIVE PHILOSOPHY MAKES AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN AN UNCLE TOM

Just saying...

TRUTH:

IF YOU BELIEVE ALL BLACKS MUST VOTE DEMOCRAT AND BE LIBERALS, THEN YOU ARE THE RACIST!

GOOD NEWS BOUND TO UPSET BARACK OBAMA: AL-SISI VOWS TO ELIMINATE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

REUTERS:

Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that the Muslim Brotherhood - the group he removed from power last year - will not exist if he is elected president.
The comments in an interview with two Egyptian television stations were the clearest indication yet there was no prospect for political reconciliation with the Islamist group that propelled Mohamed Mursi to the presidency in 2012.

I WISH THIS HAPPENS.

THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY HAS BEEN ANTI-MB FROM THE GET-GO.

AND REMEMBER: THE MB ASSASSINATED SADAT.

WHAT'S SO WEIRD AND AWFUL AND TELLING IS THAT OBAMA AND HILLARY AND KERRY ND THE CURRENT CROP OF LEFTISTS DOMINATING THE DEMOCRAT PARTY ARE MORE PRO-MB THAN SADAT OR EVEN THAN NASSER!!!!!!!!!!!

HERE'S A VIDEO OF NASSER ATTACKING THE MB - AND GETTING A GREAT RESPONSE FROM THE CROWD:

FAMILIES OF JIHAD VICTIMS CONDEMN NETANYAHU FOR SPEAKING AT MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY

Today was Memorial Day. A sad day it was, and for some, it's even a day of anguish. Especially for these families outraged that Netanyahu would release jihadists:

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Bereaved families heckled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Israel’s official Memorial Day ceremony on Mount Herzl for terror victims.

Some families waved red flags and yelled at Netanyahu, preventing him from beginning his speech at the Monday afternoon ceremony. Many then walked out.

The hecklers were protesting a series of releases of more than 80 Palestinian prisoners involved in terror attacks as part of the failed U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

“You are freeing the murderers of our children,” one protester shouted, according to Israeli media reports.

In response to the protesters, Netanyahu said, “The decision that has been made was difficult, it goes against the value of justice – everyone feels this way. The complicated reality in our region has created a situation in which, for the last four decades, the governments of Israel had to make decisions that were hard to bear — over and over again. I knew I would meet you here, but I viewed it as my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel. I salute your bravery and resistance.”

There's no point in speaking to them, they don't want to hear the words of a man they rightly feel betrayed them. Here's an interview with one of the angry folks:

One of the Israelis who protested Monday when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke at a memorial service for fallen soldiers and terror victims at Jerusalem's Har Herzl military cemetery, Rami Cohen, told Arutz Sheva that he was protesting Netanyahu's plan to release terrorists.

Cohen, along with about a dozen other attendees, protested as Netanyahu got up to speak at the memorial event. The group staged a highly unusual protest, standing up and leaving the site while holding up red flags. Cohen shouted at Netanyahu, criticizing his release of the terrorists.

“The Prime Minister is planning to release terrorists, and I decided to protest,” Cohen said. “We have had enough of these 'gestures,' we have had enough of concessions. Too many terrorists have been released with Israel getting nothing in return.”

Even if the last number of terrorists scheduled for release didn't go through, because of the PLO's reconnection with Hamas, their concerns are still very valid, and honestly, I have to congratulate the guy for speaking out.

While we're on the subject, here's an op-ed about the day by Ruthie Blum, and another by Eli Ben Shem, whose son died during army service.

CINCO DE MAYO ANTI-AMERICANISM

From the Daily Caller:

Students, It’s Illegal To Wear An American Flag Shirt On Cinco De Mayo

Students in a California school district will not be allowed to wear American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, due to concerns that such displays of patriotism would inflame racial tensions by offending Mexican students on their holiday.

The district’s policy concerned many free speech advocates, but was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

[...]

“They silenced a symbol of patriotism and freedom in America,” said Georgine Scott-Codiga, president of the Gillroy-Morgan Hill Patriots, in a statement to KCBS....

For some time, our courts have been Trojan Horses and determined to bring about the downfall of American principles.

Why are WE THE PEOPLE putting up with this subversion?

ZIONISM EMERGED VICTORIOUS DESPITE ALL THE OBSTACLES

Dr. Gabi Avital spoke a few days ago about how the modern state was formed, reminding us of betrayals by would-be allies too:

The days between Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israeli Independence Day tend to reveal the true faces of the many who oppose the modern era's biggest humanist endeavor: the movement to bring Jews back to Israel. The Jewish people have returned home after many years in exile, but our ship, which constantly navigates the tempestuous sea, nearly drowned forever in history's biggest massacre.

The gates of Israel were shut when the survivors came knocking, but the gates did not shut themselves. The British, and their friends, made sure those gates were locked tight. The U.S. did not lag far behind in the race to win over the hearts of the Arab states, be it out of greed for oil or a fundamental lack of understanding of the global order, and more specifically, of the Middle East. Immigration ships were ejected back into the stormy sea as they tried to enter the land of freedom and equality.

In Israel, a storm raged. The Palmach were ratting out Jews. The "saison" ("hunting season") -- the name given to the Haganah's suppression of the Irgun's insurgency against the government of the British Mandate in Palestine -- ended, barely, when the Altalena was sunk. A civil war was evaded. The underground movement was made up of three competing organizations (Irgun, Stern Gang, Haganah), but even that was too late, and for a short time. The state was established under smoke and fire, with contempt and denial, despite and in spite of everything. Even then, there were already a thousand reasons why a Jewish state should not be established. Even then there were already demographic arguments, Jewish arguments and democratic arguments against its establishment.

Despite all this, there came victory for the Jewish people. But still more needs to be done if we're to ensure that it'll remain that way, and that past damage will ever be rectified.