It's all a result of Republican bigotry.

That is certainly a new twist on reality. never mind the disrespect to the nation of Israel that this man has repeatedly demonstrated over the course of his administration. Disregard the fact that he has repeatedly snubbed their prime minister Netanyahu. Never mind that he has scraped and bowed to ever militant and subversive element in the middle east.

Barack Obama knows more about Jews because he has read about them and therefore, he knows more than all of his predecessors. Really?

'Obama ... Stressed He Probably Knows About Judaism More than Any Other President'

"[A]ll his friends in Chicago were Jewish."

12:36 PM, May 30, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

       

President Obama met yesterday with "about 20 Conservative Jewish community leaders, thanking them for the work they do to improve communities around the country and discussed their shared commitment to rebuilding the U.S. economy," Haaretz reports.

In the meeting, Obama reportedly boasted about his knowledge of Judaism, telling the leaders that he thinks he knows more "about Judaism" than all past presidents. He said he gained this knowledge of Judaism from reading.
"Obama ... stressed he probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it," Haaretz reports. "[He] wondered how come no one asks Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner or Senate minority leader Mitch McConnel [sic] about their support to Israel."
Similarly, he said to the group, "I [am] not going to tell you again how I even feel about Israel, but why [are] we still talking about it?"
He then suggested that he should not be questioned about his commitment to the Jewish state because "all his friends in Chicago were Jewish - and at the beginning of his political career he was accused of  being a puppet of the Israel lobby," Haaretz reports.
According to Ynet's account of the meeting, President Obama insisted that the perception that he's not a friend of Israel is the work of Republican bigotry:

US Troops in North Korea?

Apparently the US has been conducting military operations in Nth Korea for some time according to the brigadier general being quoted. Two points to be made. Why is this information being released and by a relatively low level general rank officer. Secondly, I would imagine that they will be waiting on us the next time we decide to send special operations troops into the north.'

 

US special forces 'parachuted into North Korea'

Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of US special forces in South Korea, told a conference held in Florida last week that Pyongyang had built thousands of tunnels since the Korean war, The Diplomat reported.

"The entire tunnel infrastructure is hidden from our satellites," Gen Tolley said. "So we send (South Korean) soldiers and US soldiers to the North to do special reconnaissance."

"After 50 years, we still don't know much about the capability and full extent" of the underground facilities," he said, in comments reported by the National Defense Industrial Association's magazine on its website.

68 Years Later

On this Memorial Day, 68 years later, these three men remember.

Heroism is Rhetorically Proximate?

On Memorial Day weekend we get the latest from the lieral left in the form of this disrespectful commentary. this is what these people think of our military and our honored dead. I would love the opportunity to tell this worthless piece of bovine bull squeeze exactly what I think of him and I would love to air mail the message on the end of my foot.

This Memorial Day Remember

Consider your children's futures.

Listen and remember the words of our greatest president, our greatest leader, our best example of duty, honor, country as an elected president of these United States. The man who presently darkens the doorways and hallways of the White House and sells our secrets and access to our most secret to our enemies and Hollywood celebrities knows nothing of these values.

His is a mission to see everything that Ronald Reagan warned us of brought to full reality and this nation destroyed. The pain and suffering of this nation has only begun. If this man is allowed another four years in office he will destroy this nation totally and completely. I hope that we do not allow that to happen. Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country. America needs us to stand up and defend her.

Defend her heritage and history. Defend your heritage and history, or as Ronald Reagan warned, we are on the cusp of sentencing our children to a thousand years of darkness and slavery. The choice is ours. Now is the time to make a difference. Make a difference with your hard earned dollars. Don't spend them with businesses or individuals who have no moral values outside of their egalitarian political correctness and socialist dogma.

Come November, vote this interloping Fabian socialist out of office and as many of his kind as we can send packing with our votes. Time is short, there isn't but a hair's breath of window of opportunity to save ourselves. Your fate is up to you and your neighbors, either seize the time and contribute to the effort to save ourselves, or suffer the damnation to follow if Barack Obama is re-elected to another four years.

Half of US on Government dole

Ever wonder why America is going down the tubes and there is no turning back? Look at these latest numbers. Half the country is getting benefits and this same half pays no taxes. As they say, do the math and then see if you can figure out what is wrong with this picture. 

Number of the Week: Half of U.S. Lives in Household Getting Benefits

49.1%: Percent of the population that lives in a household where at least one member received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2011.
Cutting government spending is no easy task, and it’s made more complicated by recent Census Bureau data showing that nearly half of the people in the U.S. live in a household that receives at least one government benefit, and many likely received more than one.

The 49.1% of the population in a household that gets benefits is up from 30% in the early 1980s and 44.4% as recently as the third quarter of 2008.
The increase in recent years is likely due in large part to the lingering effects of the recession. As of early 2011, 15% of people lived in a household that received food stamps, 26% had someone enrolled in Medicaid and 2% had a member receiving unemployment benefits. Families doubling up to save money or pool expenses also is likely leading to more multigenerational households. But even without the effects of the recession, there would be a larger reliance on government.
The Census data show that 16% of the population lives in a household where at least one member receives Social Security and 15% receive or live with someone who gets Medicare. There is likely a lot of overlap, since Social Security and Medicare tend to go hand in hand, but those percentages also are likely to increase as the Baby Boom generation ages.

Obama's Sons?

Obama refers to his sons in two different speeches about his health care mandate. This will skip right past the mainstream media.

 "Malcolm X Elementary Principal J. Harrison Coleman says that she hopes the lesson will help reduce the needless violence and bullying in the community."

Really? So you really believe that is what is truly being accomplished by this action? Here we have a public school principle diving head first into an already racially charged and racially dividing issue and her aim and intent is to only address needless violence and bullying?

Please..........

The woman is clearly pandering to the racial politics of the moment and attempting to further solidify her position in the black community that her school serves.

There is no point to this action other than one of demonstrating racial solidarity and furthering the racial divide that the race baiting race hustlers prefer over any true progress on race in America.

Trayvon Martin Day declared at D.C. elementary school

In an effort to better educate students and their parents about race relations and social injustice, a D.C. elementary school has declared Friday “Trayvon Martin Day.”

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Teachers at Malcolm X Elementary in Southeast are using the unfolding case and the story surrounding Martin as part of their "Let's Keep Our Children Safe" seminar.

Malcolm X Elementary Principal J. Harrison Coleman says that she hopes the lesson will help reduce the needless violence and bullying in the community.
"The children at Malcolm X know the name Trayvon Martin," Coleman said. "They know the incident. They know because of what they see in the news and what they experience every day."
Coleman said that every adult who attended the seminar would receive an Arizona Iced Tea and each student would get a bag of Skittles.
"We want to send a message to stop the bullying and bring about a happy spirit," Coleman said. "A sense of bonding within the community and within the school."

Chris Matthews blasts 'horse's ass right-wingers'

 So....who is really the horse's ass? I know who has my vote.

Chris Matthews blasts 'horse's ass right-wingers'

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Chris Matthews: Jackasses, Stop Asking About Obama Speech from National Cable and Telecommunications Association on FORA.tv

Yes. Chris Matthews is sick of people making fun of him for declaring on national television that he got a "thrill up his leg" after listening to President Obama.
Fishbowl DC notes that Matthews unleashed on CSPAN’s Steve Scully, after asking about the "thrill up his leg" comment during a media panel at a convention in Boston.

"Is the thrill still there?" asked Scully.

Matthews wasn't thrilled with the question.

"I hope that you feel satisfied that you've used the most obvious question that is raised by every horse's ass right-winger I ever bump into," Matthews responded, after defending the comment.

Matthews said that he made the comment because he has "traditional values" and loves his country. "I do have physical reactions when people are talking about my country," he added, noting that a news anchor like Tom Brokaw wouldn't have said it.

"Perhaps I shouldn't have said so because I've given a lot of jackasses the chance to talk about it," Matthews continued.
"And usually they say 'tingle' which says something about their orientation, but that's alright," he added. Later he interjected, "Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. I have to throw that in."

Big Brother's RFID's are arriving

A few years ago when I and many others first began warning people about this technology and where it was headed, most Americans were still too immersed in their own tiny worlds to care about something that sounded like science fiction. Well once again the fiction is becoming the fact and the question is justifiably asked, 'how long before the rest of us?'

RFID's are simple little devices that with the proper monitoring system, can track everything from billions of items of merchandise, to billions of people. The numbering combinations for unique RFIDS is literally infinite. Enough one expert claimed to place an RFID on every grain of sand on the planet and then track those grains of sand.

Still don't see the problem? Then think about this. A system is implemented to track RFID's via the use of existing Cell towers which are already in place all over the world. Once you have the tracking system in place, all you need are the RFID's your want to track. A physical impossibility for the average super intelligent person, but just a couple of mouse clicks for the average present day super computer.






And just how big are these things? Not too big at all. Trust the government. You won't feel a thing. But in the interim? They will be embedding them in your debit cards. Not to worry though, they already have a similar tracking system for currency. And you thought that embedded strip in your money was to prevent counterfeiting? Don't be silly........

Northside Independent School District plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of its schools and all of its nearly 100,000 students.
District officials said the Radio Frequency Identification System (RFID) tags would improve safety by allowing them to locate students — and count them more accurately at the beginning of the school day to help offset cuts in state funding, which is partly based on attendance.
Northside, the largest school district in Bexar County, plans to modify the ID cards next year for all students attending John Jay High School, Anson Jones Middle School and all special education students who ride district buses. That will add up to about 6,290 students.

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Obama's own Cowpie of distortion

 This would e funny if it weren't deadly serious. the president wants to make fun of his opponent and create analogies of steaming piles of cow manure as representative of the oppositions ideas. I wonder if the man and his campaign have had a look lately at their own stinking piles.

Great analogy mr. president. The problem is visual is more appropriate to what your administration has done to this country, than anything being proposed by Romney. How many people have to hold their noses just to listen to you lies before the mainstream media and the majority of Americans turn away from your deceptions. I sincerely hope that tide is turning.

Obama pokes fun at Romney in Iowa

Mitt Romney gave Iowans a “cowpie of distortion” when he said he knows how to douse the nation’s “prairie fire of debt,” President Barack Obama said in his first campaign event in Iowa of this election cycle.
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Obama offered a no-holds-barred thumping of Romney on Thursday night, ridiculing his GOP rival’s profit-maximizing philosophy as inadequate for the White House, blasting Romney’s plan for big tax cuts for almost every millionaire in the country, and poking fun at the Republican’s speech in Des Moines 10 days ago.
“You know, he left out some facts. His speech was more like a cowpie of distortion,” Obama said to hoots of laughter from a crowd of 2,500 inside the Knapp Center at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
Obama said Romney wants a budget-busting tax cut skewed to the wealthiest Americans that only will compound the debt.
“Five trillion in new tax cuts? That is like trying to put out a prairie fire with some gasoline,” the president said.

White house on BS

I wonder. Anyone think that Jay Carney has similar reactions to democrat BS? Just saying. Oh! Snap! Wait a minute! The democrats don't BS! Right. Someone please get Joe Biden on the phone quick. this is another BFD (Do the math on BFD) Meanwhile in other news? It appears that last year's deficit alone may have been five TRILLION! Say it ain't so! Say we ain't been lied to! Where is my hope? Where is my change? Where the hell is my country?

Carney Rips WH Press Corps For Not Challenging 'Republican' 'BS'

"I simply make the point, as an editor might say, to check it out; do not buy into the BS that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint with regard to this administration. I think doing so is a sign of sloth and laziness."

It ain't over till the fat lady sings

So all we have to do is wait and see which fat lady ultimately prevails.Right?  I remember the time when Oprah Winfrey was thought to be the richest woman in America, or the world for that matter. I forgot about the Walton clan. Now it looks like an Aussie broad will claim the title. One thing is for sure, all of these women have sizable fortunes and sizable waistlines.  Sad that we now have a new category of loss column for America.

Americans no longer hold claim to the world’s richest people.

First, Bill Gates lost the "world’s richest man" crown to Carlos Slim, the Mexican businessman. Now, according to Australia’s BRW magazine, Gina Rinehart – the Australian mining magnate – has become the world’s richest woman. She takes the crown from Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton, who held the title of world’s richest woman for seven years.

According to BRW’s 2012 Rich 200 List, Ms. Rinehart’s net worth is now $29.7 billion. That tops Ms. Walton’s $26 billion pile. Ms. Rinehart’s fortune has nearly tripled over the past year – at the rate of more than $1 million per hour – due to the mining boom in Australia and strong commodity prices.

Of course, guessing people’s wealth is usually a guess. And the Bloomberg Billionaire Index lists Ms. Rinehart's current wealth at a mere $18 billion, putting her well below Christy. So there is room for disagreement.

Absolutely amazing: Leopard changes his spots.

Someone once said, "give them enough rope and they will hang themselves." I wonder....does Bill Clinton have an endless supply of silk ropes that stretch into infinity?  You would think right? But once again the master showman demonstrates his ability to do as he pleases while the mainstream media continues to wink and nod and pretend there is nothing of interest to report. 

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Bill Clinton just out-Clinton'd himself -- posing with two famous porn stars in Monaco moments ago ... and one of them's a real up-and-comer.

Clinton's in a Monte Carlo casino right now for a special "Nights in Monaco" gala event -- and several celebrities are in attendance ... including Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson ... and a BUNCH OF PORN STARS.

The two porn stars on Bill's arms are Tasha Reign (left) and Brooklyn Lee -- AVN's "Best New Starlet" in porn.

Brooklyn -- who just posted the pic on her Twitter account -- also just won the award for "Best Sex Scene" in "Mission Asspossible." As for Tasha's film credits ... those include "Baby Got Boobs 8" and "Farm Girls Gone Bad."

Our guess -- Bill did not have sexual relations with these women.

Look! In the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!

No....it ain't Superman, but it may be one of the latest micro remote controlled unmanned and soon to be armed aerial spy machines that may already be in operation in your state or city.  This type of machine literally comes from the minds of previous science fiction, but many in today's world are making them present day realities. They are no longer fiction.

The use remote controlled drones is nothing new. Americans have been watching the progress of the technology for the past twenty years during our middle east wars, but what we are seeing now is their proposed and implemented use against Americans domestically.

So if you thought the day would never come when your government could send an unmanned drone to your home to spy on you or worse? Well that day is here. They have the technology and the capability and they fully intend to use it.

Against you.

Domestic Drones

With the use of domestic drones increasing, concern has not just come up over privacy issues, but also over the potential use of lethal force by the unmanned aircraft.
Drones have been used overseas to target and kill high-level terror leaders and are also being used along the U.S.-Mexico border in the battle against illegal immigration. But now, these drones are starting to be used domestically at an increasing rate.
The Federal Aviation Administration has allowed several police departments to use drones across the U.S. They are controlled from a remote location and use infrared sensors and high-resolution cameras.
Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in Texas told The Daily that his department is considering using rubber bullets and tear gas on its drone.
“Those are things that law enforcement utilizes day in and day out and in certain situations it might be advantageous to have this type of system on the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle),” McDaniel told The Daily.

The re-set utton isn't working

Remember when Hillary Clinton went to Russia to talk to the Russians and she gave them a prop re-set button? Something that was supposed to be symbolic of the new direction of American Russian diplomacy? Apparently it ain't working anymore. As if it ever did. Now that Putin is back in office, I expect relations with Russia to continue to deteriorate. Putin has a life long history in the communist party and the KGB. The man is not interested in any relationship with America that isn't adversarial.

Russia tests new missile, in warning over U.S. shield

By Steve Gutterman

MOSCOW | Wed May 23, 2012 4:39pm EDT

(Reuters) - Russia tested a new long-range missile on Wednesday that should improve its ability to penetrate missile defense systems, the military said, in Moscow's latest warning to Washington over deployment of a missile shield in Europe.
The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was successfully launched from the Plesetsk facility in northwestern Russia and its dummy warhead landed on target on the Kamchatka peninsula on the Pacific coast, the Defense Ministry said.
The new missile is expected to improve Russia's offensive arsenal, "including by increasing the capability to overcome missile defense systems that are being created", the ministry said in a statement.
Russia opposes a missile shield the United States and NATO are deploying in Europe, saying it will be able to intercept Russian warheads by about 2018, weakening Moscow's nuclear arsenal and upsetting the post-Cold War balance of power.
The United States says the system is intended to counter a potential threat from Iran and poses no risk to Russia, but the Kremlin has rejected those assurances and stepped up criticism of the system, to be deployed in four phases by about 2020.

Views on Abortion Shifting

 Look for battles to attempt to force more government involvement and more approval of federal funding of abortions, as the pro abortion proponents attempt to shore up their weakening position in the minds of Americans. We may have finally been given light at the end of the tunnel as it concerns turning around America's perceptions and beliefs as it concerns abortion..

Even so, the adamant and rabidly left feminists will never concede either defeat or a demand by the public to end abortions.  But it is heartening to see a point where the trend has been reversed and as a result, fewer abortions will be performed. 

"Pro-Choice" Americans at Record-Low 41%

The 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as "pro-choice" is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009. Fifty percent now call themselves "pro-life," one point shy of the record high, also from May 2009.

Gallup began asking Americans to define themselves as pro-choice or pro-life on abortion in 1995, and since then, identification with the labels has shifted from a wide lead for the pro-choice position in the mid-1990s, to a generally narrower lead for "pro-choice" -- from 1998 through 2008 -- to a close division between the two positions since 2009. However, in the last period, Gallup has found the pro-life position significantly ahead on two occasions, once in May 2009 and again today. It remains to be seen whether the pro-life spike found this month proves temporary, as it did in 2009, or is sustained for some period.
Decline in "Pro-Choice" Views Seen Across Partisan Groups
The decline in Americans' self-identification as "pro-choice" is seen across the three U.S. political groups.
Since 2001, the majority of Republicans have consistently taken the pro-life position, but by a gradually increasing margin over "pro-choice." That gap expanded further this year, with the percentage of Republicans identifying as pro-life increasing to 72% from 68% last May, and those identifying as pro-choice dropping to 22% from 28%. Still, Republicans' current views are similar to those found in 2009.

The percentage of political independents identifying as pro-choice is 10 points lower today than in May 2011, while the percentage pro-life is up by six points. As a result, pro-lifers now outnumber pro-choicers among this important swing political group for only the second time since 2001, with the first occurring in 2009.
More broadly, since 2009, independents have been fairly closely divided between the two abortion positions, whereas for most of the 2001-2008 period, significantly more independents were pro-choice than pro-life.

Democrats' views on abortion have changed the least over the past 12 years, with roughly 60% calling themselves pro-choice and about a third pro-life. Democrats' identification as pro-choice was above this range in May 2011, but has returned to about 60% in the current poll.

The shift in abortion views over the past year is not due to a change in the political composition of the samples. In the May 2-6, 2012, Values and Beliefs poll, 47% of respondents are Democrats or lean Democratic, while 41% are Republican or lean Republican. This is similar to the partisan composition of the May and July 2011 surveys, which showed a close division between pro-life and pro-choice Americans.
Views About Morality and Legality of Abortion Hold Steady

Batman a homosexual?

So.....is this just another example of the ongoing evolution of heterosexual minds into homosexual realities? I don't think so. I believe that this is just another example of the depth and reach of egalitarian tentacles into every aspect  and level of our society.

Nothing shocks any more. Everything is relevant regardless of the subject matter. We now have America's first gay president according to Newsweek and subsequent to Obama's evolution on homosexual marriage, the NAACP has decide to join the bandwagon. Now it looks like DC Comics is in the swing of things.

I don't read comics. I haven't read comics for fifty years, but I know that kids still do and that is what troubles me. the direct influences and the subliminal influences that our society now allows under the banner of egalitarian fairness.

So get ready. Batman or Superman are about to evolve.

Is Batman gay? Major DC Comics character to come out of the closet

DC Comics plans to reintroduce a character as gay in a future issue, it has been revealed.
Co-publisher Dan DiDio previously said that the company would not change the sexual orientation of an existing superhero and would bring in a new one altogether.
But at Kapow Comic Convention in London on Sunday, he revealed that an existing character - who was previously assumed to be straight - will become ‘one of our most prominent gay characters’, according to comic blog BleedingCool.com.

Who is it? An existing DC Comics character - who was previously assumed to be straight - will become openly-gay

Senior VP Sales Bob Wayne said DiDio’s view ‘had evolved’, comparing the shift to Barack Obama’s recent endorsement of same-sex marriage.
DiDio did not specify which character would ‘come out’ or in which issue it would be featured.

 

But Courtney Simmons, DC Entertainment’s senior vice president of publicity, told ABC News that it would be soon.
'One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June,' Simmons told the network.

Speculation: Some Twitter users assume Batman will come out as gay

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The "Crazy One" Arrested

So....they have arrested the lunatic responsible for killing dozens in the on going Mexican drug war massacres. Does anyone else find it interesting that this vermin has the nickname of "El Loco?" Really? The crazy one? How about the murdering bastard? And what has the Obama administration done to address or curb this violence right across our border? Well....let's see now. There was that Fast & Furious episode involving ATF and Eric Holder at the Justice Department. They decided it would be a good idea to funnel hundreds if not thousands of weapons to the Mexican drug cartels, so they could use the data produced to attack American gun rights.

'El Loco' Arrested After 49 Beheaded Bodies Found

Authorities have arrested an alleged Zetas drug cartel leader nicknamed "El Loco," AKA the Fool or the Crazy One, on charges that he dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway outside Monterrey, Mexico.

When the Mexican Army came to arrest Daniel Elizondo Jesus Ramirez, say authorities, Ramirez attempted to elude capture by shooting at troops and throwing a fragmentation grenade. Zetas commanders nicknamed The Shrimp and The Speaker have also been linked to the body dump, but officials have not yet apprehended them.

The mutilated bodies of 43 men and six women were found near Cadereyta, Mexico on May 13. Though the condition of the bodies made it difficult to identify any of them, some physical features and tattoos indicated that they may have been migrants from southern Mexico and Central America.

A graphic seven-minute video posted on the web last week allegedly showed gunmen dumping the bodies, and then flourishing a "narcobanner" "signed" by El Loco and two other alleged Zetas commanders.
The banner warned that the same fate would befall members of rival cartels, the police and the military. The video is still available on-line, though a version that was posted on YouTube has been removed. The first version that appeared on YouTube was posted by someone who claimed to be a Zeta.

After the bodies were discovered in Cadereyta, the Zetas posted new "narcobanners" throughout Northern Mexico condemning the murders, but Mexican officials claimed they had only done so to create confusion about responsibility for the deaths.

The Zetas, who dominate much of eastern and northern Mexico, are battling the Gulf cartel and the Sinaloa cartel for dominance in Nuevo Leon and other Mexican states. Founded by former members of the Mexican military, the Zetas have a reputation for violence.

"He was indeed born in Hawaii"

Problem is? He told his publicist twenty years ago that he was born in Kenya and he went to American universities as a foreign student receiving foreign aid for foreign students studying in America. So which is it mr. president? When exactly were you lying and when exactly were you telling the truth? Can't have it both ways.

The records now reflect that you were representing yourself as Kenyan born when it suited your purposes of defrauding a publisher to publish a book and you were lying to the American people and taking their money as a foreign student if you were in fact born in Hawaii.
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Don't argue. Dont question. Obey! Or Else!

What should be happening is this. The people of  North Carolina should be in the streets marching on the state house demanding that egalitarianism and it's socialist/communist foundations be permanently removed from the halls of government and education in America.

But that won't happen. It is too far entrenched now to be reversed. Revolution or civil war are all that are left as remedies. And one or both of those are on the horizon.

A North Carolina high school teacher was captured on video shouting at a student who questioned President Obama and suggesting he could be arrested for criticizing a sitting president.
The Salisbury Post, which first reported on the YouTube video, did not identify the teacher in question, who is reportedly on staff at North Rowan High School. The video does not show faces, but the heated argument in the classroom can clearly be heard.
"Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush?" the teacher said toward the end of the argument, telling the student, "you are not supposed to slander the president."
The student told the teacher that one can't be arrested "unless you threaten the president."
The argument started when the classroom began discussing news reports that Mitt Romney bullied a fellow student when he was in high school. At the time, The Washington Post had recently published a lengthy article alleging that Romney, as a teenager, had cut off another student's hair.
"Didn't Obama bully somebody though?" a student in the North Carolina classroom asked when the report was brought up, referring to an incident Obama described in his memoir "Dreams From My Father." In the book, Obama wrote that, as a child, he once pushed a female classmate after other students taunted them -- the only two black students in their grade -- and called Obama her boyfriend.

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Biden thinks voters just scared and angry.

Ya think Joe? Wonder why.... Go have another jug of the Kool Aid partner, it will hopefully all be over soon .

Two Down, One to Go

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Europe: Don't crash it all before my re-election

Obama's warning to Europe at the G-8 meeting this week, "Don't crash the global economy before my re-election. There will be plenty of time for that once I am re-elected."

Europe's economic woes dominate G8 gathering

U.S. President Barack Obama will press European leaders to ease up on fiscal austerity and focus on economic growth at a summit on Saturday that will discuss ways to stem turmoil in the euro zone and head off the risk of global contagion. At the wooded Camp David retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, Obama and leaders from other large economic powers will try to forge a common approach to tackling a crisis that threatens the future of Europe (Chicago Options: ^REURUSD - news) 's 17-nation single currency. Though no major policy decisions are expected from the Group of Eight summit, leaders hope they can bridge enough of their differences to soothe rattled financial markets after worries about the risk of a Greek exit from the euro zone sent European stock prices to their lowest level since December. "Hopefully we'll get some stuff done," Obama told Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti as he and other summit participants arrived for Friday evening dinner at a lodge at the secluded presidential retreat. Obama earlier in the day aligned himself with Monti and new French President Francois Hollande by urging a solution to the euro zone crisis that combines fiscal belt-tightening measures with a "strong growth agenda." On the other side of the debate is German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has pushed fiscal austerity as a means of bringing down huge debt levels that are burdening European economies. Voters in euro zone countries have shown frustration with that approach, ejecting governments such as that of Nicolas Sarkozy, who was defeated by Hollande, a socialist, in the May 6 French presidential election. A draft of the summit communiqué shown to Reuters will stress an "imperative to create growth and jobs." Also on the summit agenda are concerns about oil and food prices as well as Afghanistan, Iran, Syria and North Korea. Speculation has grown that Obama will use an energy session at the G8 to seek support to tap emergency oil reserves before a European Union embargo of Iranian crude takes effect in July. But with oil prices already sliding, a move by Obama to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve - alone or along with other countries - could expose him to criticism that the emergency supply should only be touched in a supply crisis.

Obama's Published Bio UPDATED

Since this report first appeared earlier today, the plot seems to have thickened considerably. How much more silence will there be from the mainstream media on this. Talk about complicit. 
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According to archive.org, a website that caches websites on a regular basis, the Dystel.com website – the official website for Dystel & Goderich, Obama’s literary agents – was using the Barack Obama “born in Kenya” language until April 2007, just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency.

Archive.org shows that the Dystel website used the following biography for Obama as of April 3, 2007:

BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.

Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007.


By April 21, 2007, the Obama bio had been changed to state that Obama was born in Hawaii:

BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Hawaii to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.

Obama had already been a national figure for three years, since the Democratic National Convention in 2004, by the time the biography was changed; he had been a sitting Senator for over two years.

Hillary Paid Black Preachers to Attack Me

The vetting of Obama. Four years too late

Even when they have the evidence, the smoking gun in their hand, they still can't bring themselves to address what the facts are demonstrating to them. Hence the caveat about Andrew Briebart never being a birther. Hello folks! Birthers are those people who have been demonized for having the audacity to question inarticulate facts and representations of Obama's background.

Birthers are those who had the audacity to ask reasonable questions concerning his upbringing and college years. Birthers are those who have been demonized for four years now for simply asking for records and transcripts to clear up the glaring discrepancies and absence of a personal history. And now some of  what many have suspected and known to exist has finally appeared and even the segment of the media that prides itself in uncovering the truth and exposing mainstream media's complicitness is absolutely terrified to touch it.

How can this publication be explained away. Why would the man allow his own agent to market him with facts that are not accurate? He didn't. These are the facts as they were known then and have subsequently been hidden away and buried for the past four years. 

Now maybe if someone can finally get their hands on his Columbia and Harvard transcripts, the truth will finally prevail. Too late for a country that has suffered and endured four years of this fraud, but maybe it will prevent him from gaining another four years to terrorize and destroy this country further.

The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii'

Note from Senior Management:

Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.

Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama's ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him.

It is for that reason that we launched "The Vetting," an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)--not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences.

It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below--one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review. 
It is evidence--not of the President's foreign origin, but that Barack Obama's public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.




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Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."
The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama's anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White--which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below):

Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.  The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation.   He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.

The booklet, which is thirty-six pages long, is printed in blue ink (and, on the cover, silver/grey ink), using offset lithography. It purports to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Acton & Dystel, which was founded in 1976.

The color of the sky in their world?

Ever ask yourself what color the sky is in the liberal world? I'd say that it is a cross between green with envy and blood red mad over what they see others having that they can't tax or haven't taxed yet. So what is the democratic response to the Patriot Act? It's the "Ex-Patriots Act" of course.

I wonder, how many of those like Chucky Shumer are in reality long ago ex-patriots. Long ago abandoning any allegiance to this country and opting for the anti American, anti capitalist meme. All you have to do is watch their actions to see where their allegiances fall. . And what of their friends and buddies who regularly skate out and avoid their taxes? Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner comes to mind. Couldn't seem to pay his. Rep. Charlie Rangle comes tomind, another tax avoider. And what about Sen, John Kerry who dodged taxes in his home state by parking his luxury yacht in another state to avoid taxes. Not to mention his wife's wealth and her tax avoiding.

But here we go again, the liberals don't simply want this guy to pay taxes, they want him to pay a punishing level of taxes. Perhaps? Perhaps that is precisely why so many of the wealthy seek to abandon America and take their money elsewhere. They flee to places that are less offended by their wealth and not obsessed with bleeding the rich. You decide.

Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook’s Saverin’s Tax ‘Scheme’

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.

In September 2011, Saverin relinquished his U.S. citizenship before the company announced its planned initial public offering of stock, which will debut this week. The move was likely a financial one, as he owns an estimated 4 percent of Facebook and stands to make $4 billion when the company goes public. Saverin would reap the benefit of tax savings by becoming a permanent resident of Singapore, which levies no capital gains taxes.
At a news conference this morning, Sens. Schumer and Bob Casey, D-Pa., will unveil the “Ex-PATRIOT” – “Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy” – Act to respond directly to Saverin’s move, which they dub a “scheme” that would “help him duck up to $67 million in taxes.”
The senators will call Saverin’s move an “outrage” and will outline their plan to re-impose taxes on expatriates like Saverin even after they flee the United States and take up residence in a foreign country. Their proposal would also impose a mandatory 30 percent tax on the capital gains of anybody who renounces their U.S. citizenship.

The Eyes in Our Skies

The reported use of these drones across America has been being reported almost matter of fact by the media  of late in my opinion. As if almost a preparatory notice of what the media has been told to expect and to prepare the people for. 

I remember when ten years ago there were those warning of blacked out aircraft and military civilian re-training camps being prepared under the auspices of FEMA disaster relief plans. Now comes this repeated bombardment of drone stories and color pieces on how they can be used to 'enhance our security.' The bottom line, freedoms surrendered are never restored willingly by governments. Those freedoms must be re-bought and paid for in blood. If history has taught us anything it has taught us that.

In my opinion, Judge Napolitano just put a target on his head in my opinion. 

Judge Napolitano: First Patriot To Shoot Down A Government Spy Drone Will Be A Hero

Blasts illegal use of “plastic drones” to spy on Americans in their backyards
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
May 16, 2012

Judge Andrew Napolitano has warned Congress not to act “like potted plants” regarding the increased use of unmanned surveillance drones without warrants over US skies by military, government, and law enforcement agencies.
Echoing the recent comments of his Fox News colleague Charles Krauthammer, Napolitano also said that “The first American patriot that shoots down one of these drones that comes too close to his children in his backyard will be an American hero.”
The federal government is rolling out new rules on the use of the unmanned drones this week, with the Federal Aviation Administration announcing procedures will “streamline” the process through which government agencies, including local law enforcement, receive licenses to operate the aircraft.

The Kennedy Curse Continues

The most recent chapter in the ongoing curse of the Kennedy family. It seems like every time you turn around one of them is either dying or being associated with someone else's death.  What a completely tragic family.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s estranged wife, Mary, who battled her husband’s rumored philandering by turning to alcohol and prescription drugs, hanged herself in a barn on their Westchester estate yesterday, sources told The Post.
The 52-year-old mother of four — the latest victim of a family dynasty cursed with tragedies — may have taken her own life because she was haunted by her broken marriage, her friends lamented.
“She was deeply troubled, abusing alcohol and prescription meds,” a close family friend said. “She had cause. She was used up and tossed away by Bobby. That was awful.”

SAD SPIRAL: Mary Richardson Kennedy (above, in the home where she died) was found at this Mount Kisco estate. Her ups and downs included time with her family in 2008 and an appearance at a Westchester court in 2010 after a DWI arrest.

Officials refused to elaborate on her death and said it would be investigated with the Westchester Medical Examiner’s Office.
Bedford police responded at 1:36 p.m. to a report of a “possible unattended death” — meaning there were no witnesses — at the estate.
PHOTOS: OTHER KENNEDY FAMILY LOSSES
After authorities arrived, they cut her down and tried to revive her. She was found by a housekeeper, ABC News reported.
Mary was found “inside an out-building on that property,” police said in a statement.
She left behind a note, and none of her children were home at the time, sources said.
There are several sheds behind the home — some hold garden tools and another is a falcon house — on a slope leading to a lake.
The Kennedy family dealt stoically with the latest in the long line of shocking deaths.
“We deeply regret the death of our beloved sister Mary, whose radiant and creative spirit will be sorely missed by those who loved her,” the family said in a statement.

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The Orly Crash of 1962. Lessons learned?

 
As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of this tragedy, I believe that it is good to look back an reflect of the good that came out of it, but also we must take note of the evil that existed even then.

The following is excerpted from the Wikipedia post on the crash, which is wholly an accurate representation of the facts and the history. The reflection on the remarks of Malcom X stuck in the mind as an example of the hatred and racism that existed fifty years ago, but I am forced to ask myself this question. "What has really changed?"

Not a lot apparently. There are still Muslims who rejoice in the death of 'white people' both in the middle east and at hoe here in America. America was at odds and at war with their ideology and theology five decades ago. Four decades before they flew planes into our buildings and killed over 3000 Americans.

"Those who do not learn from history, are condemned to repeat it."

F-BHSM was the registration and callsign of a Boeing 707 named Chateau de Sully used by Air France for Flight 007, a charter flight which crashed on June 3, 1962 while attempting to depart Paris's Orly Airport en route to Atlanta, Georgia via New York City's Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport). The 707 carried 122 passengers and 10 crew, of whom 130 died.

The Atlanta Art Association had sponsored a month long tour of the art treasures of Europe and 106^[2] of the passengers were art patrons heading home to Atlanta on this charter flight. The tour group included many of Atlanta's cultural and civic leaders. Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen Jr. went to Orly to inspect the crash site where so many important Atlantans perished.^[3]
During their visit to Paris, the Atlanta arts patrons had seen Whistler's Mother at the Louvre.^[4] In late 1962, the Louvre, as a gesture of good will to the people of Atlanta, sent Whistler's Mother to Atlanta to be exhibited at the Atlanta Art Association museum on Peachtree Street.^[5]
The Woodruff Arts Center, originally called the Memorial Arts Center and one of the United States' largest, was founded in 1968 in memory of those who died in the crash. The loss to the city was a catalyst for the arts in Atlanta, helped create this memorial to the victims, and led to the creation of the Atlanta Arts Alliance. The French government donated a Rodin sculpture, The Shade, to the High Museum of Art in memory of the victims of the crash.^[6] Ann Uhry Abrams, the author of Explosion at Orly: The True Account of the Disaster that Transformed Atlanta, described the incident as "Atlanta’s version of September 11 in that the impact on the city in 1962 was comparable to New York of September 11."^[2]
The crash occurred during the civil rights movement in the United States. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and entertainer & activist Harry Belafonte announced cancellation of a sit-in in downtown Atlanta (a protest of the city's racial segregation) as a conciliatory gesture to the grieving city. However, Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, speaking in Los Angeles, expressed joy over the deaths of the all-white group from Atlanta, saying "I would like to announce a very beautiful thing that has happened...I got a wire from God today...well, all right, somebody came and told me that he really had answered our prayers over in France. He dropped an airplane out of the sky with over 120 white people on it because the Muslims believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But thanks to God, or Jehovah, or Allah, we will continue to pray, and we hope that every day another plane falls out of the sky." These remarks led Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty to denounce him as a "fiend" and Dr. King to voice disagreement with his statement. Malcolm later remarked that "The Messenger should have done more." This incident was the first in which Malcolm X gained widespread national attention.^[7]

More and more aliens in America

I love the caveat in this report that 40% of "residents" are now born abroad. That observation totally skirts the issue of illegal aliens and those crossing our borders daily unfettered to come sit at the feet of a socialist system that breeds more of the same. I once read an article about twenty years ago, that said that by 2020, all news and television in America would be broadcast bilingually and that by 2040, America would become a majority Hispanic country. I believe it. Look around. It is taking place before our eyes and no one is doing a damn thing about it.

I ponder these famous quotations at moments like these:

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

America is doing a lot of nothing of late and as such, she will reap the rewards of her failures.

Report: 13 Percent of U.S. Now Born Abroad

The number of U.S. residents born abroad has risen to its highest level since 1920, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday, with a full 13 percent of the country having been born outside the U.S.    

Forty million U.S. residents in 2010 were born abroad, according to a new report from the Census Bureau, up from 31 million in 2000. One in four of those residents live in California, the report shows: a full 27 percent of the Golden State’s population in 2010 was born abroad, up from 26 percent a decade earlier.

Lowering the bar for children once again: Welcome to Utopia

What to do when the majority of your kids can't pass a state mandated exam? Lower the bar. that is the egalitarian response to everything. In an egalitarian world, everything has to be fair and if everyone is not existing on the same level, then it must be time to re-evaluate the criteria of performance Teachers unions don't want anything implemented that might even remotely address their qualifications to teach or their failure to produce.

Passing score lowered for FCAT Writing exam

The Board of Education decided in an emergency meeting Tuesday to lower the passing grade on the writing portion of Florida's standardized test after preliminary results showed a drastic drop in student passing scores.
The results indicated only about a third of students would pass this year's tougher Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test exam, compared with a passing rate of 80 percent or more last year.
"They've asked students to do more, but that's pretty dramatic," said Florida Education Association spokesman Mark Pudlow. "We need to examine what led to this, not just paper over the problem."

The results provide another opening to critics of high-stakes testing. The statewide teachers union has opposed Florida's use of standardized tests to evaluate teachers and grade schools.
"Our students must know how to read and write, and our education system must be able to measure and benchmark their progress so we can set clear education goals," said Gov. Rick Scott in a statement Monday. "The significant contrast in this year's writing scores is an obvious indication that the Department of Education needs to review the issue and recommend an action plan so that our schools, parents, teachers and students have a clear understanding of the results."

 Note how the attackers race in this report is not even reported until the end of the report and the victim's race is never mentioned. Meanwhile, in other news today, the FBI has indicated they are looking at hate crime charges against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case.

So the bottom line is this. If you are white or Hispanic (as is the case with George Zimmerman) and you kill a black teenager who is attacking you? You have committed a hate crime. But if you are a white soldier walking home after your car has broken down and you are jumped by three black teens and a possible Hispanic teen and beaten half to death? Well that couldn't possibly be a hate crime now could it.

By the way, take no note of the suspect wearing the hooding in the video of the assault. Doesn't mean a thing.

U.S. Army soldier brutally beaten in South Tampa

Tampa, Florida -- Police want your help finding four men who teamed up to beat a young U.S. Army soldier in a South Tampa street.
It was an awful welcome to Tampa Bay for a young soldier. Police say the victim of a violent beating caught on camera is 24 years old and has lived in Tampa for less than a month.
Photo Gallery: Soldier beaten and robbed in South Tampa
He's a U.S. Army soldier assigned to MacDill Air Force Base and lives not far from the base at Dale Mabry Hwy. and Interbay Blvd.
Police say Sunday morning, at around 3 a.m., the soldier's car broke down a few miles from home along Westshore Blvd.
The attack came when he was walking home and using Iowa St. to get from Westshore to Dale Mabry. At the intersection of Iowa and Renellie Dr., the man came into the view of a neighbor's motion-activated security camera.

 A group of three young men is seen walking ahead of the soldier. Police say one of the men in the group doubled back and asked to soldier to borrow a dollar. When the soldier reached for his wallet, the first punch flew.

The first, tremendous sucker punch laid the victim onto the ground. The other two men joined in, punching and kicking the soldier.
A fourth man comes sprinting into view from the left edge of the video. The new attacker -- a man the soldier said he had walked past earlier -- joined in the beating.

ABC has the EXCLUSIVE!

That's right. After weeks of hammering George Zimmerman with accusations of racism and spliced audio reports attempting to portray him as such, ABC suddenly wants to tout their EXCLUSIVE on the injury report from his doctor, showing that he did in fact have lacerations to his head, a broken nose and numerous contusions to his eyes and lips.

This after ABC also ran a filtered version of the Sanford Police video of his arrival at their headquarters on the night of the shooting. In that video, ABC purposely obscures any clear view of George Zimmerman;s head via the use of graphics overlays.

And here they are weeks later now claiming to have an EXCLUSIVE. I sincerely hope that once all of this is over, George Zimmerman sues the brakes off of ABC and the lot. This case reminds me a lot of the Olympic security guard in Atlanta who was all but hounded into oblivion by false media allegations and rumors.

ABC News Exclusive: Zimmerman Medical Report Shows Broken Nose, Lacerations After Trayvon Martin Shooting

A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a "closed fracture" of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged altercation.
Zimmerman faces a second degree murder charge for the Feb. 26 shooting that left the unarmed 17-year-old high school junior dead. Zimmerman has claimed self defense in what he described as a life and death struggle that Martin initiated by accosting him, punching him in the face, then repeatedly bashing his head into the pavement.
Also today, a trove of documents are being examined by lawyers for both the defense and prosecution as part of discovery in Zimmerman's trial -- including 67 CDs worth of documents, video of Martin on the night of the shooting, his autopsy report and videos of Zimmerman's questioning by police.
Zimmerman's three-page medical report is included in those documents that the defense could use as evidence.

Muslim approval needed to honor fallen NYPD officer

In the egalitarian world of so called fairness and equality for all? "Everything changes and everything remains the same." Four decades ago an incident occurred between Nation of Islam (black Muslims) and NYPD officers and to this day, the NYPD and city leaders in New York remain absolutely petrified of even possibly offending them.  Despicable.

NYPD officer told to get Muslim leaders' blessing to honor cop killed in mosque

By Perry Chiaramonte

Published May 14, 2012

FoxNews.com

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  NYPD Officer Peter Cardillo was gunned down inside a Harlem mosque in one of the darkest episodes in the department's storied history.

A New York police officer seeking to rename a Harlem street for a cop gunned down inside a Manhattan mosque 40 years ago was told by local leaders to seek the blessing of area Muslims.
NYPD Officer Philip Cardillo was shot dead in an infamous 1972 incident in which police responded to a fake “officer down” call from Muhammad Mosque No. 7, the New York headquarters for the Nation of Islam. The accused gunman was later acquitted, and the city's perceived unwillingness to back the police has long been seen as a low point in relations between city government and the police department. After four decades, NYPD Inspector and local Precinct Commander Rodney Harrison wants a section of 123rd St. named after Cardillo.
"It's been 40 years," retired NYPD cop Randy Jurgensen, who was at the mosque when Cardillo was killed, told FoxNews.com. "It would be closure for the Cardillo family and the police officers there that day."

"I think they have to give the Inspector some sort of answer."

- Randy Jurgensen, former NYPD cop

In New York, the City Council typically approves street namings on the recommendation of local Community Boards. But members of Community Board 10, which represents the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, have effectively blocked Harrison's plan by telling him to seek the approval of local Muslim leaders.
"The biggest concern is you are opening up old wounds," one board member told Harrison, according an observer at the hearing. "This [incident] was explosive. Harlem was split down the middle," one board member said to Harrison as he was making his proposal, according an observer at the hearing.
With the proposed street renaming in limbo, the irony of requesting local mosque leaders' permission to honor a fallen cop is not lost on police.
"I think they have to give the Inspector some sort of answer," said Jurgensen, who wrote "Circle of Six," a book about the incident. "They have to answer the request."
Jurgensen said the board seems to be trying to avoid landing in the middle of a controversy. "They are understandably playing it safe," he said.
When Harrison attended the meeting with several retired NYPD officers, the board told him he should get a letter of support for the project from local imams. He said he had spoken to several and had been assured they would not object, but he did not get letters expressing their support.
“While he had letters of support, he did not have any from any imams,” said one person from CB 10 who is familiar with the matter. “The letters aren’t required for the proposal to go through, but we feel that those involved with the proposal should reach out to them.”
Harrison, who could not be reached for comment, told the board he doesn't think it is likely imams will openly back the plan.
"They are not going to come in here and say, 'thumbs up,'" Harrison said.
CB 10 Chairwoman Henrietta Lyle told FoxNews.com Harrison had not completed his application properly. But at the public meeting, she said the board needs to hear from the mosques and that it is up to the NYPD to arrange a meeting with the imams, according to an observer at the meeting.
“They seem to be making a lot of excuses not to do this for a cop who died trying to protect that community,” said a source familiar with the issue.

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