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if there has been any recent questions about the lean and tilt of the supreme court, then this is just one more example of the reality below the surface with at least one of the justices.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will officiate at a same-sex
wedding this weekend in what is believed to be a first for a member of
the nation's highest court.
Ginsburg will officiate Saturday at the marriage of Kennedy Center
President Michael Kaiser and John Roberts, a government economist.
"Michael Kaiser is a friend and someone I much admire," Ginsburg said in
a written statement Friday. "That is why I am officiating at his
wedding."
The private ceremony will take place at the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts, a national memorial to President John F. Kennedy. The
80-year-old Ginsburg, an opera lover, is a frequent guest at the center.
Just one more example of the reality behind the Obama rhetoric. This administration is systematically dismantling and weakening this nation to the point that by the time they are finished, there will be no saving it. We are already there in my opinion.
The Obama administration
issued a new policy Friday that says immigration agents should try
not to arrest and deport illegal immigrant parents of minor children.
The move adds to the categories of people the administration is trying not to deport.
In
a nine-page memo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said agents
should use “prosecutorial discretion” to try to avoid detaining
parents and, if parents are detained, agents should make sure they
have the ability to visit with their children or participate in family
court proceedings.
The move won praise from immigrant-rights
groups who said it’s a step toward a less harsh detention policy. But a
top Republican blasted the memo as another effort by the Obama administration to circumvent the law.
“President
Obama has once again abused his authority and unilaterally refused to
enforce our current immigration laws by directing U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement agents to stop removing broad categories of
unlawful immigrants,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte, Virginia Republican.
Thirty years ago Americans would have scoffed at such things being published by their government. Not any more. The true extremists of egalitarianism have gained all but absolute control of government and media in America and in another generation, this nation will be no more than a bad memory to those who survive to serve the tyranny of social dictatorship that is approaching and already here.
Manual lists people concerned with “individual
liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place” as
potential extremists Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
August 24, 2013
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch recently obtained a Department of Defense training manual
which lists people who embrace “individual liberties” and honor
“states’ rights,” among other characteristics, as potential “extremists”
who are likely to be members of “hate groups.” Marked
“for training purposes only,” the documents, obtained Thursday through a
Freedom of Information Act request submitted in April, include
PowerPoint slides and lesson plans, among which is a January 2013 Air
Force “student guide” distributed by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute simply entitled “Extremism.”
Judicial Watch’s FOIA request asked for “Any and all records
concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of
training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by
the Air Force.”
As the group notes, “The document defines
extremists as ‘a person who advocates the use of force or violence;
advocates supremacist causes based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender,
or national origin; or otherwise engages to illegally deprive
individuals or groups of their civil rights.’”
The manual goes on to bar military personnel from “active
participation” in such extremist organization activities as “publicly
demonstrating,” “rallying,” “fundraising” and “organizing,” basically
denying active-duty military from exercising the rights they so ardently
fight to defend.
It begins its introduction of a section titled, “Extremist ideologies,” by describing the American colonists who sought independence from British rule as a historical example of extremism.
“In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and
movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British
rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern
states are just two examples,” according to the training guide.
In a section drawing inspiration from a 1992 book titled “Nazis,
Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in
America,”the manual also lists “Doomsday thinking” under “traits or behaviors that tend to represent the extremist style.”
Extremists often predict dire or catastrophic
consequences from a situation or from a failure to follow a specific
course, and they tend to exhibit a kind of crisis-mindedness. It can be a
Communist takeover, a Nazi revival, nuclear war, earthquakes, floods,
or the wrath of God. Whatever it is, it is just around the corner unless
we follow their program and listen to their special insight and wisdom,
to which only the truly enlightened have access. For extremists, any
setback or defeat is the beginning of the end.
“Nowadays,” the manual explains, “instead of dressing in sheets or
publicly espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of
individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better
place.”
Judicial Watch also acknowledges the Southern Poverty Law Center “is
listed as a resource for information on hate groups and referenced
several times throughout the guide,” even though the group itself was directly responsible for a “hate crime” perpetrated on the Family Research Council after it was listed on the SPLC’s “hate map.”
Infowars readers will find much of the training guide’s contents
unsurprising as they merely reinforce what we have exhaustively
documented in the past.
In 2009, Infowars obtained the “law enforcement sensitive” contents of a Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC)
report entitled “The Modern Militia Movement” which listed supporters
of presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as
potential “militia” influenced terrorists.
A United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) employee scans a package while making a delivery.
Carla Caldwell, Morning Edition Editor
United Parcel Service Inc.
plans to remove thousands of spouses from its medical plan because they
are eligible for coverage elsewhere. The Atlanta-based logistics
company points to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as a big reason
for the decision, reports Kaiser Health News.
The decision comes as many analysts are downplaying the Affordable
Care Act's effect on companies such as UPS, noting that the move
reflects a long-term trend of shrinking corporate medical benefits,
Kaiser Health News reports. But UPS repeatedly cites Obamacare to
explain the decision, adding fuel to the debate over whether it erodes
traditional employer coverage, Kaiser says.
Rising medical costs, “combined with the costs associated with the
Affordable Care Act, have made it increasingly difficult to continue
providing the same level of health care benefits to our employees at an
affordable cost,” UPS said in a memo to employees.
I wish people would stop publishing these truthful representations of Islam and what is actually going on in the middle east. The truth so conflicts with the popularized egalitarian memes and the truth must so severely piss off the mainstream media.
In
the familiar pattern, the Western media are focused on the military
raids against Islamic supremacists in Egypt but ignoring the latter’s
use of violence and of women and children as human shields. After all,
the “protesters” say they are “peaceful.”
When not similarly
ignored, Islamic supremacist aggression against Egypt’s Christians —
which was a prominent feature of Muslim Brotherhood governance — is
disingenuously reported. Take this AFP report
of the fact that the Brotherhood and its allies are torching
Coptic churches. The AFP endeavors to exculpate the Islamic supremacists
by editorializing, in the report, that these were “reprisal” attacks.
But the Brotherhood was not ousted by the minority Copts. To be sure,
the Copts far prefer to take their chances with a largely secular,
technocratic government backed by the armed forces than the rampant
persecution they endured while the Brotherhood was running the show. But
it is the army, not the Copts, who ejected Morsi. AFP tries to obscure
this by recounting that “the Coptic church backed Morsi’s removal, with
Patriarch [i.e., Pope] Tawadros II appearing alongside army chief
General Fattah al-Sisi as he announced the military coup.” As I observed
in writing about the coup in the August 5 edition of National Review,
however, Pope Tawadros was hardly alone — General Sisi also gathered by
his side significant Islamic supremacist leaders: Grand Mufti Ahmed
al-Tayeb of al-Azhar University and leaders of the Salafist al-Nour
party (in addition to prominent secularists).
The Brotherhood is
not “retaliating” against Christians. Islamic supremacists are
persecuting Christians . . . which is what they do in Muslim-majority
countries.
Apparently when it comes to bull and the Obama, the bull only travels one way. Obama has been shoveling bull at the American people for five years, but heaven forbid if someone attempts to shovel any in his direction. The Daily Kos and the rest will have a conniption fit if anyone makes a joke about their messiah.
Fallout continued Monday over the performance of a rodeo clown who
donned a mask resembling President Barack Obama during Saturday’s
bull-riding competition at the Missouri State Fair.
The Missouri State Fair imposed a lifetime ban on the rodeo clown
whose depiction of Obama getting charged by a bull was widely
criticized by Democratic and Republican officials alike.
The rodeo
clown won't be allowed to participate or perform at the fair again.
Fair officials say they're also reviewing whether to take any action
against the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, the contractor
responsible for Saturday's event.
A tempest over the incident erupted after the Show Me Progress website reported a Facebook account of it.
“The
announcer wanted to know if anyone would like to see Obama run down by a
bull,” the posting said. “The crowd went wild. He asked it again and
again, louder each time, whipping the audience into a lather.”
Another clown then apparently joined the performance.
“One
of the clowns ran up and started bobbling the lips on the mask and the
people went crazy,” the posting said. “Finally a bull came close enough
to him that he had to move so he jumped up and ran away to the delight
of the onlookers hooting and hollering from the stands.”
Mark
Ficken is the rodeo association president and was the rodeo announcer.
His attorney, Albert S. Watkins, said Monday that the clown was acting
unscripted. He said it was the clown, wearing a microphone, who made
comments riling up the crowd, according to the Associated Press.
Watkins says Ficken’s only comment during the routine was, “Watch out for that bull, Obama!”
The account quickly migrated to the liberal Daily Kos website.
After
hearing from reporters Sunday afternoon, fair organizers released a
statement, which did not contest the details reported on social media.
“The
performance by one of the rodeo clowns at Saturday’s event was
inappropriate and disrespectful, and does not reflect the opinions or
standards of the Missouri State Fair,” the statement read. “We strive to
be a family friendly event and regret that Saturday’s rodeo badly
missed that mark.”
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/11/4404230/clowns-obama-stunt-at-missouri.html#storylink=cpy
When President Barack Obama goes on holiday to the seaside things can get complicated.
Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents, someone has to
carry a selection of presidential basketballs, and of course the family dog
needs his own state-of-the-art aircraft.
Arriving in the idyllic coastal retreat of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts,
Mr Obama left behind him in Washington DC high profile debates over the
budget, government surveillance and his health care reforms. Instead, he
will spend the next eight days playing golf, going to the beach, and buying
books from the Bunch of Grapes bookstore.
In the air he swapped his suit and tie for khakis and a blue shirt with
rolled-up sleeves, while Mrs
Obama wore a yellow-and-white summer dress.
Bo, the president's Portuguese Water Dog, arrived separately on one of two
MV-22 Ospreys, a hybrid aircraft which takes off like a helicopter but flies
like a plane.
It was the first time the Ospreys have been taken on holiday by a US president.
