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Blagojevich retrial, Rezko Levine et al waiting sentencing, Citizen Wells open thread, August 23, 2010
Posted on August 23, 2010 | 113 Comments
Blagojevich retrial, Rezko Levine et al waiting sentencing
From the Chicago tribune, a list of Blagojevich trial potential witnesses waiting on sentencing.
"–Antoin "Tony" Rezko: Former fundraiser for Blagojevich and Barack Obama and key adviser to Blagojevich, convicted in June 2008 of fraud, money laundering and bribery for scheming to make millions of dollars by squeezing campaign contributions or kickbacks from firms seeking business with the Teachers Retirement System and Health Facilities Planning Board. On the witness list for Blagojevich's trial, but did not testify, and is awaiting sentencing. Still faces charges of fraudulently obtaining a $10.5 million business loan.
–Stuart Levine: Millionaire attorney and longtime Republican donor. Pleaded guilty in October 2006 to fraud and money laundering in the Rezko schemes and was the government's top witness against Rezko. Member of both the TRS and health planning boards, reappointed by Blagojevich to both. Testified that Blagojevich told him, "Stick with us and you will do very well for yourself." Awaiting sentencing. Faced life in prison but could get 5 1/2 years for cooperating.
–William Cellini: Longtime Republican fundraiser in Springfield who did business with TRS. Was indicted with Blagojevich on charges of fraud and extortion conspiracy and attempted extortion in connection with a plan to block a Hollywood producer's real estate investment company from getting $220 million in teachers pension money to invest unless the producer contributed to Blagojevich. Pleaded not guilty in November 2008, got his case separated from Blagojevich's last fall and has not had a trial date set.
–Alonzo "Lon" Monk: Blagojevich's law school roommate, gave up a career as a sports agent to join Blagojevich and was the governor's first chief of staff and campaign manager. Pleaded guilty in October 2009 to one count of wire fraud for attempting to squeeze a racetrack owner for a $100,000 campaign contribution. Testified at Blagojevich's trial that the two of them, Kelly and Rezko discussed ways to make money through state government connections. Has yet to be sentenced. He faced 37 to 46 months in prison but could get 24 months because he cooperated.
–John Harris: Blagojevich's chief of staff from late 2005 until his arrest in December 2008, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. Testified that Blagojevich sent word to the Obama administration that he would appoint one of the president-elect's close friends to Obama's vacated Senate seat if Blagojevich got a cabinet post in Washington. Has yet to be sentenced, but prosecutors have promised to urge a maximum 35-month term.
–Ali Ata: Rezko associate who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about Rezko's role in getting him his job as executive director of the Illinois Finance Authority. Testified he was at a meeting in 2003 when Ata gave Rezko a $25,000 contribution for Blagojevich and the governor asked Rezko whether he'd spoken to Ata about a state job. He gave another $25,000 the following summer and Blagojevich told him the job he got should allow him to "make some money." Awaiting sentencing. Faced 18 months in prison, but cooperation could mean even less than the 12-month minimum.
–Joseph Cari: Former Democratic National Committee finance chairman. Pleaded guilty in September 2005 to attempted extortion after telling a company seeking TRS business it had to send $750,000 to a consultant of his choice. Testified that Rezko and Kelly tried to recruit him to raise money for a Blagojevich presidential run and that the ex-governor told him governors are in a better position than senators to seek the presidency because they can hand out legal work and other contracts to contributors."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-blagojevichscorec,0,4123288.story
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113 responses to "Blagojevich retrial, Rezko Levine et al waiting sentencing, Citizen Wells open thread, August 23, 2010"
68Truthseeker | August 23, 2010 at 7:48 am |
Maj Gen Jerry R Curry(Ret.) : Obama- America Is Too Important To Be Played With By Anybody
Jeff Kuhner Interviews Joseph Farah Of World Net Daily
LM | August 23, 2010 at 8:02 am |
It's all about Eligibility! Meroni V Illinois Board of Elections
Free Speech | August 23, 2010 at 8:29 am |
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/08/23/lsu-research-finds-dispersants-speed-bioaccumlation-bp-gulf-oil-spill-toxins-food-chain-3418/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/08/23/new-report-shows-bp-gulf-oil-spill-fishing-waters-opened-to-soon-3411/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/08/22/bp-gulf-oil-spill-bop-leaking-drill-pipe-removed-3387/
Justice Lewis Powell ruled:" Such an (Grand Jury) investigation may be triggered by tips, rumors… or the personal knowledge of the grand jurors."
For information on forming a Secret Grand Jury to investigate crimes go here:
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-start-and-lead-citizens-grand.html
For information on Crimes committed by the BHO regime:
https://citizenwells.wordpress.com/category/nashville
Alex Jones calls for Indictment of BHO/BP
Israeli Leader warns of War with iran and says bo needs to get real.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1305215/Brad-Pitt-willing-look-death-penalty-bizarre-rant-BP.html
Margie | August 23, 2010 at 9:40 am |
What happened to investigating the job Michelle was given at 300 k at a hospital, then suddenly that job was no longer needed. Pay to Play? Keep fighting the good fight, stay safe, God Bless!!
Jonah | August 23, 2010 at 9:44 am |
In regard to the ground zero mosque, did you ever read Bin Ladins's Fatwa that was issued three years before 9/11? This is chilling!
Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
World Islamic Front Statement
"The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military — is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it……………. We — with Allah's help — call on every Muslim who believes in Allah and wishes to be rewarded to comply with Allah's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it …….."
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Usama Bin Ladin has been calling for Muslims to kill Americans since February, 1998. Do I believe all Muslims want to kill Americans? Absolutely not! But how are we supposed to know which Muslims want to live in peace and which Muslims want to see us dead?
RMinNC | August 23, 2010 at 9:44 am |
and in all of this mess….we Americans are supposed to believe that Obama was CLEAN?
come on Holder/Fitzpatrick give us a break…we may look dumb, but we are not that dumb!
You can hide the truth for a while but eventually it will be told. Then all hell will break loose against those who have suppressed the facts in this case.
Bill Cutting | August 23, 2010 at 9:46 am |
"Five law firms were among the top 20 businesses contributing to Obama: WilmerHale, $383,024; Sidley Austin, $370,916; Skadden Arps, $360,409; Latham & Watkins, $328,879; and Jones Day, $309,960."
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202425466551
Jones Day representing the Soetero "regime" in the Chrysler / UAW ripoff of the US Taxpayer.
Video of bo/bp boat spraying corexit.
PS: including Fitzpatrick !!!
Free Speech | August 23, 2010 at 10:04 am |
Document bo/bp Disaster
Dauphin Island sand black with Oil
http://bpoilslick.blogspot.com/2010/08/dauphin-island-residents-say-theyve.html
loaves&fishes | August 23, 2010 at 10:50 am |
repost: from <
Michelle | August 21, 2010 at 11:37 pm |
I still wonder what Obama found so offensive about Jesus (to the point of covering up all references to Jesus) , that Jesus is the Messiah or that Jesus is Jewish.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/04/obama-notre-dame-georgetown.html
Surprising word today that President Barack Obama's White House asked Georgetown University to cover all religious symbols at the scene of the president's economic speech at the Roman Catholic institution Wednesday.
and the prestigious Jesuit university agreed.
The decision, unnoticed at the time, seems likely to add further fuel to the ongoing controversy over Obama's upcoming graduation speech at the University of Notre Dame, where the Jesuit Indiana campus is plastered with numerous religious symbols.
This includes a mosaic of Jesus Christ covering the entire 14-story southern wall of the Hesburgh Library next door to the speech site in the Joyce Center, primarily used for athletic-related events such as basketball, hockey and raucous pre-game pep rallies.
Very gutless Jebbies.——————————————————————
My question precisley and why did Georgetown go along with it – what the
–LL is this about – fool me once – Wake up – oh I pray the waking is happening – which will prove how deep the divide is between good vs evil –
where are we in this world – how bad does bad have to get – living in but not being a part of this world is all we can do ? the only way to coexist with such evil is thorough hope and faith in God above ! <
why is the Georgetown issue just now being questioned – I wondered then what
was this nation doing ignoring such a blatant in your face request / ???
This isn't an I told you so moment its Stop the maddness !!!! <
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/08/23/alabama-reopens-coastal-waters-crabbing-massive-oil-dispersant-contanimation-indepdendant-scientists-3451/
Mia | August 23, 2010 at 11:24 am |
Old Salt —
I left a message for you on the last thread.
LDacar | August 23, 2010 at 11:35 am |
Take a look at this global incidents site. You can click on several different maps. I found the map of threats on the president interesting. I had no idea there have been so many threats on his life.
http://globalincidentmap.com/map.php
Citizen Carlyle (FUBO) | August 23, 2010 at 11:40 am |
This will be extreme PC Heresy to a lot of people – but hear me out.
In regards social policy, one of the most noticeable items for all of my life has been "lessons learned from what we did to the Japanese in California in WWII". It is extremely relevant to the present Muslim situation and how we are supposed to tell "good" Muslims from "bad" Muslims. The lesson we are supposed to have learned from WWII is to treat everybody as a friendly until it is proven (not even highly suspected) that they are enemy.
Now, here comes the heresy. That sounds like a great path to national suicide.
In order to achieve a true Learned Lesson, you have to put yourself AT THE TIME, and UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, and ask yourself if you could or should have done something different. Not monday morning quaterbacking. You can't look back with what you know after the fact and make any sense of the actual occurrence.
Here is how you need to think. Here is how you should deal with the Muslim infiltration. Especially since we do not know enough to make a full and accurate decision.
Consider the Japanese in California. Most less than a generation as citizens. Most with many relatives and heritage in Japan. Many, if not most, still sending a lot of earnings back to homeland every week. Also Japanese culture well known for instilling multi-generational loyalty.
As long as there is no hostility between America and Japan, there is no particular downside to accepting Japanese immigrants, allowing them citizenship, and treating them as "normal" Americans.
However, as soon as hostilities break out – especially under the shadow of a SURPRISE ATTACK – what should the California authorities do with the local Japanese? What is a minimum that any rational person would do? What is the maximum you could or should do? What is the most prudent thing to do?
It is clear what the most Politically Correct thing to do is. But PC did not even then exist as a concept. The US was already in a scary European war. They were just now blindsided into another. Contrary to today when we know that US can always win wars if we have the political will, the outcome of either war front in WWII was uncertain.
Now – what is the proper lesson to learn?
Even worse, this is another Sacred Cow we are not allowed to question. The treatment of the California Japanese in WWII stands high on the pedestal of American Self-Shame.
At 9:00 in MS Gov. called out for "cutting the throats of commericial fisherman" on the Gulf.
Free Speech | August 23, 2010 at 12:07 pm |
MS Gov speechless after hearing the plight of Gulf Coast Fishermen. 9:30 in.
Old Salt 79
http://www.livestrong.com/article/74853-natural-treatments-neuropathy/
D.C. Jarvis's popular book "Folk Medicine", this book is from the 50's it is Old Vermont Folk Medicine, from when people were really poor and had very little access to doctors etc. It really is about trace vitamins-apple cider packs the punch of bushels of apples. Good for a lot of things that ail folks.
Hope your foot settled down some, maybe soak it in apple cider vinegar. I had to use it on sunburns and it really kills the pain immediately and you don't peel-I don't know how it works, it just does.
Philo-Publius | August 23, 2010 at 12:13 pm |
Barack Obama Elementary Opens in Maryland
http://tinyurl.com/2eouvgh
RMinNC | August 23, 2010 at 12:15 pm |
Citizen Carlyle…do I detect a little bit of sympathy in your last post for the people of Islam who are going around the world killing people in the name of Islam?
Your thoughts of comparing the Japanese situation in WWII to the present worldwide Islamic terrorist situation does not compute. That was then…now is now!
Anyone who cannot see the objective of Islam just don't have their eyes and ears open. The word Islam means to "submit". My question is: submit to who and for what?
Islam is a religion born in violence and is the cause of a much of the world problems today because people are objecting to the causes of Islam, and rightfully so.
It would be well worth everyones time to read and study how Islam came into existence and what is spreading it today. Then, the true purpose of Islam will be seem for what it really is. It is a world wide political movement hiding behind a religious face. Nothing more, nothing less.
Personally I do not care to live under the Islamic flag, I'm quite happy with the stars and strips we have now.
Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL) told constituents this past weekend at an event in Springfield, Illinois that questions about the US Constitution were, "Silly stuff."
http://tinyurl.com/2fo3xrv
Your thoughts of comparing the Japanese situation in WWII to the present worldwide Islamic terrorist situation does not compute
Agree 100 %
Let Me Translate: We Don't Believe Him — or You.
Memo to the ruling class media: We are not ignorant or stupid. We've not forgotten Jeremiah Wright. It's not that we don't "know" what faith Obama subscribes to — it's more that we don't believe him. Or you. Sorry. Not buying..
http://tinyurl.com/2cuzmwz
Starla | August 23, 2010 at 12:45 pm |
Michelle At 12:09 am, & OldSalt79,
I have a copy of D. C. Jarvis' M.D.'s Folk Medicine book. I have used it in college for one of my classes in my medical research. If CW will give my email address to OldSalt79, I can email information out of this book & some other helpful information out of other books I have that can help OldSalt79 with his diabetic neuropathy in his feet.
OldSalt79 please ask CW for my email address & then please email me.
I want to help you and to give to you the information I have. Let me know here that you asked CW for my email address and I'll be looking for your email. I don't read all of my emails because I receive so many, and I don't have the time, so please put oldsalt79 in the subject line!.
CW, can you please forward my email address to OldSalt79 if he asks you for it? I have medical and prayerful information for him. I have read about how insulin dependent diabetics can safely stop needing to use insulin. Insulin dependent diabetics can acquire diabetic neuropathy.
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Cabby - AZ | August 23, 2010 at 12:55 pm |
RMinNC – 12:15 PM
Your take on Citizen Carlyle's comments (11:40 AM) about treatment of Japanese in WWII and the present Islamic situation was just the opposite of mine. He can clarify them for us; however, these words from his comments tell me that he considers the PC approach to our present problem is bad:
"The lesson we are supposed to have learned from WWII is to treat everybody as a friendly until it is proven (not even highly suspected) that they are enemy.
The key words here IMO are "great path to national suicide."
I remember the days when Japanese were put in camps. Germans in America were also watched carefully. The threat of sabotage was great during those times. Hindsight is always great but can be misleading. As CC said we were at war on two fronts and the security of the free world was seriously threatened. Since that time our treatment of the Japanese has been set forth as one of the excesses and wrongdoings by the U.S.
If we follow down the path of complete leniency with Islam we are doomed. That is not to say we must intern them, but, for pity sakes, why are we letting them have training camps to produce jihadists who have pledged to destroy us? They are using the freedom our country affords to destroy that very freedom.
I'm talking about Islamic training camps right here on American soil.
oldsalt79 | August 23, 2010 at 12:59 pm |
MIA………………….OT
Thanx for the insight. I have been reading up on the Lipoic acid as such. Seems to have some promise. Of course we have to recognise that what works for someone else may not work for me. But this is certainly not going to stop me from TRYING. When we stop trying we are beaten. This logic also applies to our common dillema which is really messing up our country. We must NEVER give up!
Dean M. | August 23, 2010 at 1:09 pm |
Citizen Carlyle, the interment of Japanese in California is only shameful to the politically correct of today.
My aging aunt lived then in California. I am a native Californian. It was not seen as shameful to Americans then, nor is it now to those who lived through it. It was a healthy response to a real threat, as my 84 year old aunt would explain.
The problem of today is we don't have the same suvival instincts that guided the people in our country who prevailed in WWII and the Great Depression. Who would have thought after 911 that in 2008 we would elect a man with a Muslim name and upbringing, who will not verify he is a natural born citizen–and be discussing the right to build a mosque at Ground Zero!!! Is this not national insanity borderline to the intent to commit national suicide?
I appreciate your intent to be fair, Carlyle, but I disagree strongly. Bring back the spirit of our WWII leaders and fighters who did not fear to put potential enemies in holding camps until there was victory! The slogan "Better safe than sorry" applies when you are at war–and do not doubt we are at war.
oldsalt79 | August 23, 2010 at 1:17 pm |
One of the mistakes we made in the months prior to the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor, our leadership had become totally complacent because they thought that they were the "Badasses" of the world and NOBODY would dare to attack the US. Well history now shows us that COMPLACENCY in the face of a clear threat is the absolute LAST thing NEEDED. And in later action it was proven that the best defense is a CRUSHING OFFENSE. For those who do not have the stomach for a fight need to get the hell out of the way so that the MEN of our country can defeat our attackers. That is the way McArthur,Wainright,Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, and later on Swartzkopf all felt about opposing the enemy. Hit the sworn enemy first, and before he can organise any meaningful counteroffensive.
ARMY D.A.V. | August 23, 2010 at 1:21 pm |
Citizen Carlyle (FUBO)
The treatment of the California Japanese in WWII stands high on the pedestal of American Self-Shame.
Bad analogy to Islam . Your argument is from the the left made by someone who has no knowledge war , never saw combat , knows nothing of American history or American exceptionalism.
Free Speech | August 23, 2010 at 1:23 pm |
I have been following the duplicitous posts of cc fubo and his head cheerleader for s everal months now.
Up until a couple of weeks ago cc fubo said he was a "scientist" and his pro-b0 posts were the gospel. Before that he professed to have some secret legal knowledge that proved bo could never be brought to justice. A few days ago, cc fubo and his head cheerleader, claimed that all bo had to do was escape to kenya and he could never be brought to justice.
Reality is that bo in on an island off the coast of mass. surrounded by poop of his crimes.
Michelle | August 23, 2010 at 1:32 pm |
I think history shows more than one lesson, in the Japanese SNEAK attack one of the lessons was the Ambassador in DC at the time was the Japanese ambassador giving assurances that war was not forth coming, meanwhile many time zones away Pearl Harbor was getting pounded. Hindsight is still 20/20 you can't be an enemy and a friend at the same time and it behooves the United States to pay attention all the time.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1649.html
Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, was attacked by Japanese torpedo and bomber planes on December 7, 1941, at 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time. The sneak attack sparked outrage in the American populace, news media, government and the world
Indeed, on the morning of December 7, the Japanese ambassador in Washington, D.C., had been ordered by his government to destroy all official documents and deliver a 14-page document to Secretary of State Cordell Hull at a specific time that day. After laborious manual decoding and translation, the document was delivered later than the Japanese government had intended. The news of the attack on Pearl Harbor had already reached the White House before the Japanese ambassador arrived at the White House. The world was stunned by the news.
While there were veiled warnings and isolated events of Japanese hostilities in the weeks, days and hours ahead of the attack, no one in command at Pearl Harbor or in Washington, D.C., expected a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, especially before war was formally declared. Effective cryptography and successful cryptanalysis were in their infancy at the time. Under-funded, under-manned and under-equipped, cryptanalysts had been ordered to concentrate on Japanese diplomatic traffic, rather than naval messages. The nation would have had a much clearer picture of the Japanese military buildup and, with the warning provided by those messages, might have prevented the disaster of Pearl Harbor.
Citizen Carlyle (FUBO) | August 23, 2010 at 1:37 pm |
I don't know how you read that into what I wrote. I meant almost exactly the opposite of what you think I said. I have said here many times before that there are no moderate Muslims, just Muslims. They are all the same. Furthermore, if it turns out I am wrong and there are some good ones, I don't know how to tell the difference.
The situation is almost exactly the same as early in the Pacific Front of WWII. You are being attacked by an identifiable enemy. Some people look and act just like the enemy, regardless of their inner beliefs. There is every reason to suspect they are all the same. And besides, how can you tell them apart?
Perhaps you were confused by what I said was a collective American Guilt. I believe the guilt is misplaced and I do not share that guilt. I'm just saying it is so pervasive, and so deeply ingrained, that it is essentially impossible to make any headway against it.
But, then – how more clear could I have been? "This way lies the road to national suicide". Do you understand that statement???
RMinNC | August 23, 2010 at 1:41 pm |
hello free speech….
Thanks for your comments…there are always those who try to explain reality in terms the average American can neither understand, or cares to understand…
The reality is simply that Islam wants to destroy the world-wide Christian civilization as we know it, and they don't want to wait another 500 more years to do it …
The problem with their way of thinking is there are still a "few good men" who openly disagree with the way they try to accomplish their goal. I being one of those numbered among the few. From your writings I would say you are too.
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE???
My intro statement says "here comes some heresy". Heresy means "off center to the accepted opinions".
I said "national suicide".
I said, "what's worse, we are not allowed to question the PC wisdom".
If I were in a cranky mood today, I would say – YOU PEOPLE ARE MORONS!
Pete | August 23, 2010 at 1:44 pm |
One of the mistakes we made in the months prior to the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor, our leadership had become totally complacent because they thought that they were the "Badasses" of the world and NOBODY would dare to attack the US.
Oldsalt,
I don't disagree with you very often, but I disagree on this. FDR was looking for an incident to propel the US into WWII. He had US forces depth charging U-boats, and escorting British merchantment, hoping that they would make a mistake. The United States was reading the Japanese mail before the Japanese could even decipher it. The military was informed of the sailing of a massive carrier fleet, and it's loss in the pacific. I firmly believe that FDR KNEW that Pearl Harbor was coming, even the date, and used the 'inevitable' attack to propel the US into the war. I'm not saying that FDR was wrong for doing so, if had not mobilized the US into the war we may have eventually lost, but he knew.
You are getting so hostile you don't even read what people write. You just look at the author and lash out. That is the MO of a scoundrel.
Starla | August 23, 2010 at 1:48 pm |
"KILLING MISSIONARIES, FELLOW MUSLIMS, AND CIVILIZATION"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/08/killing-missionaries-fellow-muslims-and.html
"The latest news out of Afghanistan is the brutal murder of missionaries who were part of a Christian medical team. Among the many excuses for Islamic barbarism is that the West is at war with Islam. No, Islam is at war with civilization.
In early August, after having hiked for more than ten hours to bring medical aid to isolated Afghan villagers, a team composed of six Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton, doctors, nurses, and logistical personnel, were gunned down by Taliban in the remote Parun valley of Nuristan province about 160 miles north of Kabul.
Their crime, according to Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, was that they were "spying for the Americans" and "preaching Christianity." They were members of International Assistance Mission (IAM), one of the longest serving non-governmental organizations operating in Afghanistan.
The team leader was Tom Little, an optometrist from Delmar, New York. He and his family had been in Afghanistan for thirty years with a break during the Afghan-Soviet conflict. He and his wife had raised their three daughters there. AIM receives private donations.
None of this made any difference to the Taliban that killed him and the others. Elsewhere in Afghanistan that day, a child was murdered by Sunni bombers and a bomb hidden in a wheelbarrow left five others dead. In Pattani, Thailand, a Buddhist husband and wife were murdered by Muslim gunmen in their bicycle shop and their 4-year-old nephew was wounded. In Kirkuk, Iraq Muslims shot a woman to death and in Baghdad two civilians were blown to bits by bombers.
Islam is an equal opportunity "religion of peace." It kills Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and anyone else in the name of Allah. All this killing is rooted in the Koran, justified by the view that unbelievers have no right to life unless they convert. Even then, the schism between Sunni and Shiite Muslims is sufficient reason to kill each other.
There are well over a billion Muslims in a world of some six billion people and, while most undoubtedly want peace, their religion requires that the world be divided between Dar al Islam and Dar al Harb, the world of Islam and the world of war.
It can be argued that Christianity has blood on its hands and, historically, that is true, but what is most true about Islam in the last century and this one is that it represents a war on civilization itself.
In a Europe that has seen an influx of Muslims, nations there are struggling with them wherever they have gained large enough numbers to demand submission to Sharia law and other imported customs inconsistent with modernity.
Americans paid little attention to Islam until 9/11 destroyed the Twin Towers and a portion of the Pentagon. Up to then, Islam seemed far away despite a series of embassy bombings and other events.
Now Americans struggle with an Islam that wants to build a mosque within steps of Ground Zero in New York City. This has come as a shock to many, but Islam has a long tradition of building mosques over the sacred ground of others.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was built over the site of the Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount, sacred to Jews. In Constantinople, now Istanbul, the Hagia Sophia Cathedral was converted to a mosque. Throughout India, an estimated 2,000 mosques were built on the sites of Hindu temples.
Wherever Islam gained a foothold and became the state religion—in Islam there is no separation between church and state—the backwardness, the oppression of women, the refusal to accept another religion unless its practitioners accept a second-class position in society, are all endemic to Islam.
Islam is mired in the seventh century mentality of its founder and charged with a hostility, not just to other faiths, but to modernity itself, to the advances of civilization that seeks to reduce tensions between nations and peoples.
We are not dealing with people devoid of contact with modern civilization. Al Qaeda recruits via the Internet. They show how they behead "infidels" and urge more attacks everywhere against them.
For those who leave Islam, the punishment prescribed in the Koran is death. For those who "insult" Islam, the punishment prescribed is death. And for those who bring free medical care to villagers is death.
The proposed New York mosque should be built only when a synagogue or church can be built anywhere in Saudi Arabia where Islam began and where the harshest form of Islam, Wahhabi, is practiced.
If Islam calls the world of unbelievers Dar al Harb, the world of war, why can't the world understand that Islam is at war with it?
trencherbone said…
Everything you need to know about Islam in one single webpage:
http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/everything-you-need-to-know-about-islam.html
Eddy said…
Of course Christianity has "blood on its hands". BUT each time there was murder, rape, killing or hostage taking, it was a violation of Christ's teaching. There was always Christ's rule to fall back on and correct the behavior of these sinners. Sinners, outside and inside the Church. But that is exactly the difference with Islam: murder, rape, killing or hostage taking is the RULE, not the exception. And it is the RULE because the FOUNDER of Islam and its cohorts murdered, raped and pillaged. See the difference? Mohammed married a nine year old! This religion is of the devil himself.
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"THE GLOBAL WARMING FLEECING OF AMERICAN TAXPAYERS"
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"OBAMA, BLACK [RACIST] LIBERATION THEOLOGY, AND KARL MARX….REVISITED"
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/obama_black_liberation_theolog_1.html
Cabby - AZ | August 23, 2010 at 1:53 pm |
It seems that there was quite a misunderstanding of Citizen Carlyle's 11:40 AM comments by some. Is this because we don't read more carefully? Or jump to conclusions too quickly? I think his piece was quite clear and he has reinforced it just now. This rush to judgment made by some rather troubles me. We are all prone to read too quickly, but we should, perhaps, slow down in order to get the full essence of a post before we come to conclusions. Just a thought……..from someone who has been around the block a few times. (wink)
PS – Do you people even understand English and simple idioms? What do you think Sacred Cow means? It is a pejorative for something stupidly sacred or ridiculously taboo. GEEZ!
I try to write something provocative. Something to get us to all stand back and be critical of "accepted wisdom". Something to help undo the bad education that has been foisted on us and our children.
And what happens? You all soil your pants!
This is critical folks. People are already widely using the Japanese Gambit in their defense of Mosques and for not profiling Muslims. We have to question this Gambit. We can't let them railroad us with wrong wisdom and bad lessons learned.
The situation of the Japanese and the Muslims is indeed almost identical. We are infiltrated with identifiable people with unknown or questionable loyalties to a known enemy who attacked us – a surprise attack.
Help me out here. Try to meet me at least half way!
speedy | August 23, 2010 at 1:55 pm |
People in California, make sure this republican guy gets re-elected. He is behind the American people, the tea party and for presidential candidates to show their birth certificate as proof of being natural-born.
These democrats try to make republicans look bad while what they are saying about them is what people want. They are insulting millions of Americans who are for the tea party.
Cabby AZ………………………….
In the months prior, and soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, our intelligence services had identified a large number of both Japanese and German Americans who MIGHT be swayed into doing acts of sabotage, and or spying against the US. There was a sizeable Japanese American community which showed up on the "RADAR" if you will. There was so many potential saboteurs that the US Government decided that it would be necessary to round ALL of the "COMMUNITY" up and interr them into a place where they could be watched. While I agree that this may have been a shameful thing for our government to do it was at the same time something that was the ONLY logical answer in those days.We were ATTACKED by the Japanese. When the blood of the enemy is mixed in with our society, there was no other option that could be utilised as quickly as internment camps, to SEPARATE our respectiive citizens. Some of the people who were interred in the West Coast camps have been on TV over the years telling about their ordeal. There is one commonality which ALL who spoke candidly agree upon. All stated that they were rarely if ever MISTREATED while they were interred. They also stated that they had good food.and dry places to stay. While the structures left something to be desired they were not UNINHABITABLE. Some of the people said that the internment camp was a better place than where they HAD been living. While I do not necessarily agree with the internment,it was the ONLY OPTION that existed in those early dark days. FDR done what he felt was necessary to adequately defend the US. There was also a number of GERMAN Americans interred as well,but not anywhere near as many as the Japanese. I shudder to think that if push ever came to shove and it became necessary to round up ALL of the MUSLIMS in the US. First off I am very doubtful that it would ever happen, but that is NOT TO SAY THAT IT CAN'T HAPPEN. GIVEN THE RIGHT SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES INTERNMENT CAN BE UTILISED AGAINST ANY OF US. (FOOD FOR THOUGHT)!
PPS – It does not matter if some in high places knew or suspected of Japanese attack. The point is that ALL the regular people thought it was a surprise. You had what were previously thought of as "somewhat odd people living way over there" minding their own business and immigrants who were no different than people from Ireland or Armenia or wherever. A little strange, but becoming Americans and assimilating.
Then you had a surprise attack. You could no longer trust people of a certain ethnicity or culture. You had no way to tell if there were good ones or bad ones.
Put yourself in their shoes. How afraid would you be of the Japanese family that recently moved into your neighborhood?
Exactly my point. You have to put yourself AT THE TIME and UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES (highlighted in the original) to make any sense of this. Monday morning quaterbacking (also in the original) is not helpful or informative.
Citizen Carlyle…
I'm sure glad you aren't in a cranky mood today..I would hate to think you consider all these old veterans (including myself) in this blog are MORONS just because we can't follow your line of thought.
I for one feel like old salt…"if you can't lead or follow", then get the hell out of the way and let those who can have wheel.
If I misunderstood what you were trying to say, it was simply because I couldn't follow your logic. Was that my fault or your fault for not being clearer in your presentation?
I'm a 75 year old retired army officer with 27 years of service to my country to include three combat tours in Vietnam. I am well aware of how the "ism's" can creep into a nation and destroy it from within.
I have a BS degree + with honors from a well known university…some may consider me a MORON, but I do not claim that honor for myself.
"THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE GOVERNMENT"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
"THE "NEW" CULTURE OF CORRUPTION"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-culture-of-corruption.html
"OBAMA, THE NATION KILLER"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/obama-nation-killer.html
"IGNORING REALITY WHILE KILLING THE ECONOMY"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/ignoring-reality-while-killing-economy.html
"CAP AND TRADE IS A NATION KILLER"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/cap-and-trade-is-nation-killer.html
"TALK OF IMPEACHMENT"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/talk-of-impeachment.html
Free Speech – You, of all people, someone schooled in law, shouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions. Your assessment of some topics that we discuss here is rather appalling. I often agree with you on issues, as you know, but
it would be nice if you could find it in your heart to ease up a bit when you don't agree with a post! We do often appreciate your legal perspective.
BTW, I found an interesting comment on an article by Ben Stein, American Spectator, re. Israel with a nuclear Iran and I don't doubt that it is true:
james wilson| 8.23.10 @ 11:36AM
"I suspect Israel does indeed have something up its sleeve, and that it is quite unforeseen.
Nothing would surprise me more than for Israel to do what is now commonly expected of it"
Those statements rather parallel what I am beginning to think the last several days. Israel is too smart to "fall into line" with what the world is expecting from her, i.e., take action against Iran right now in the way she is being portrayed in the news. Any thoughts?
Here is a little snippet from Huffington Post a couple days ago. We can't let them heap this cr-p on us:
What the GOP and the "ground zero mosque" detractors want you to believe is that the Americans at the Muslim cultural center are not Americans. They are Muslims. And, if they are Muslims, they must be terrorists.
Remember the Japanese internment camps? The same rationale can be found behind them: they are Japanese, so they must be our enemies. We interned our own fellow citizens. We interned them for no other reason than they were Japanese Americans. Now we are poised to persecute Muslims for no other reasons than for their religious freedom guaranteed by the Constitution.
The conservative wing, which has allowed itself to be hijacked by the shrill noisemakers of the Tea Party movement for political gain of the election year, has fanned the flame of bigotry and ignorance through catchy slogans: "death panels," "Ground Zero Mosque." What next?
Read the first comment in this article. I just about fallen out of my seat when I read that "obama is standing up for the constitution". How can that usurper be standing up for the constitution when all he does is walk all over it. How stupid can some people be? The irony is the name of the person. The usurper picks and chooses what is in the bill of rights or constitution whatever is convenient for him. If he really was standing up for the constitution, then he would step down immediately.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/544592/201008201902/Hard-Hats-No-Mosque-No-Mosque.aspx
From a commenter on Breitbart:
If people whom vehemently oppose the given constitutional right in freedom of religion for followers of this mosque to build , regardless of the fact that they have been in the city over 20 years before 911…
Then they will be repeating history just as the internment camps here in the states for Japanese American citizens witnessed during WWII- & the hatred & vileness they had to endure~
Their only crime was being in the wrong place, at the wrong time~
Citizen Carlyle – 1:54 PM
Oh, I did – 100%. Did you see my 12:55 PM post? Do I get to go to the head of the class? (just kidding!!)
Wow! What a topic to get us off our duffs, and we had better awaken to the Islamic subtleties before we have gone beyond the point of no return. This PC will kill us literally if we succumb.
From cnn.com:
If the President did not do the responsible thing, and remind us of the Constitutional rights of Muslims in America, we would have continued to slide down that slippery slope that led us to internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
We cannot condemn a group of innocent people because our emotions got the better of us.
Philo-Publius | August 23, 2010 at 2:23 pm |
More Americans than ever are opposed to the Ground Zero Victory Mosque now that President Obama weighed in on the controversy. 77% of mainstream voters are opposed to the mosque while 68% of the political class are in favor of building the victory mosque.
http://tinyurl.com/25zgwwt
No wonder I couldn't follow you , Carlyle buddy , LOL , your dragging leftist propaganda over that socialist blog
You can't argue with Marxists.
Sorry if I misunderstood your posts.
Yes, although it was a sad time in the history of our country, internment was the only way to go in that tragic day and under those circumstances. We didn't have the time to construct better housing – we had just sustained a terrible attack at Pearl Harbor and were already engaged in Europe against Hitler.
FDR government did the best they could with respect to the Japanese issue at the time. This was one of the unintended calamities of war. Wasn't it Gen.
Sherman who said, "War is hell"?
"REFUSING TO REPORT THE TRUTH"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/refusing-to-report-truth.html
"RIDDING OURSELVES OF OBAMA"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/ridding-ourselves-of-obama.html
'ISLAMIC WAR FOR THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/islamic-war-for-future-of-world.html
"GOD AND GOVERNANCE IN THE USA"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/god-and-governance-in-usa.html
"IS BARACK OBAMA THE ULTIMATE SLEEPER AGENT?"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-barack-obama-ultimate-sleeper-agent.html
"OBAMA'S LAND GRAB NIGHTMARE"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/obamas-land-grab-nightmare.html
"NASA'S MISSION TO THE MUSLIMS"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/nasas-mission-to-muslims.html
"TO HELL WITH FREE TRADE"
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-hell-with-free-trade.html
Cabby – AZ | August 23, 2010 at 2:21 pm |
Yes, that is why you are one of the most valuable posters here. Not because you agree with me (because sometimes you don't), but because you actually READ and actually THINK. You also try to provide some stabilization to the more volatile posters. Thanks for everything you do.
Cloward-Piven Blueprint Continues to Unfold
http://rightwingnews.com/#post17668
Hey everybody, maybe if I ask a question, you will all understand better and can help with the discussion.
How do we get the message out that Islam is NOT a religion. And that things like the GZ Mosque have nothing to do with religious freedom or the constitution – or even American values of tolerance?
This is a CRITICAL question. If we cannot solve this problem, we will be ruined. Because of our American values, we are particularly vulnerable to this sort of rot from within. We want to be inclusive and good world citizens, but you cannot carry this to the extreme of encouraging enemy infiltration.
Sam Sewell | August 23, 2010 at 2:40 pm |
Greatest Threat to America – WOW! –
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2010/08/greatest-threat-to-america-wow.html
"Ground Zero Victory Mosque"
That is exactly what it is.
You can also add the words CELEBRATE and GLOAT.
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Citizen Carlyle (FUBO) | August 23, 2010 at 2:23 pm | & 2:34 pm
You're welcome. What is with the media all of a sudden? Is Journolist at work? I consider myself to stay up reasonably with the news, but all of a sudden there seems to be an explosion of linking the mosque issue with WWII
Japanese internment. It seems to be the latest talking point everywhere! Who got THAT started? Or have I missed something?
We've all observed the way things work these days, so apparently someone has pushed a button for all the talking heads to follow .
Thanks for that reference to the Dennis Prager video. This is a must see.
Imo, he is one of the most reasoned voices out there. If people would only heed his words!
Whee! Give us a little time on that poser. There's lots of evidence it is NOT a religion by its actions, but……… to produce a compelling argument that will hold up will command some heavy thinking, starting now. OK.
bo and the obots are getting desperate now, the race card is not working for him because the minorities have been hurt most by his economic failures. gays and other fringe groups are turning against him because he has failed to deliver on his promises. people of the gulf and atlantic coasts despise him because he has destroyed the environment.
bo is now down to playing the "religion" card, but only 1% of population is muslim, so that will play out worse for bo than the failed race card play.
tennbrock | August 23, 2010 at 3:17 pm |
Pam Gellar has an great article out….I got this video from her article…..
Citizen Carlyle…all you have to do is tell the people to read the history of Islam…..it clearly shows Islam as a political tool of conquest.
Any "religion" that tells it's you how to act, what you can read, what they may eat, and spites hate for those who do not believe, when and where to pray is not a religion. It's a system of total "controlling" a persons life from the cradle to the grave with drastic end results to those who step out of line, or do not agree with the Koran.
I for one do not buy Islam as a religion.
Sorry if I misunderstood your post, but I have seen our country get on this slippery PC slope and it's really pissing me off !
tennbrock @ 3:17 pm |
Good for Pamela Geller, she calls mass murders out, whether they are using the name Islamic terrorists, Kamikazi pilots, Hitlers SS (Schutzstaffel ), the objective is still the same-murder as many people as possible using the excuse it is for the greater good of the state. Obama and Iman Rauf is the were in a lying contest they would both win-two very slippery individuals.
Ground Zero Imam Says U.S. Worse than al-Qaeda
"We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non Muslims,"
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38673
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2010/08/23/certain-sections-of-new-york/#more-49407
POTUS seems weakened by his discovery of the First Amendment in All Things.
Victor Hanson, Hoover, remarks that this is not about tolerance, it is about taste. Smile. Remind the outsiders (Tourists), of the wonderful line in "Casablanca," when the Nazi villain taunts Rick (Bogart) about a Nazi conquest of New York:
Major Strasser: "How about New York?"
Rick: "Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."
So far, Manhattans are winning by 2 to 1 in the national polls as well as the local polls. Peace-mongering may want to call a time-out, or even to concede the game; however for now the Manhattans will continue the airland battle against the White House, POTUS, the Democrats, the usual suspects in the Middle East and the useful cable co-dependents of CNN and MSNBC.
Mia | August 23, 2010 at 4:03 pm |
Old Salt — You're very welcome. I hope it does work for you… or something else. But as long as you're still looking and trying, I know you'll find something 🙂
I have seen our country get on this slippery PC slope and it's really pissing me off !
Yeah, me too. I use to laugh at PC because it was so funny. A ridiculous, bizarre kind of funny. But no more. I now know it is SERIOUS STUFF and likely to be the downfall of this great nation if we cannot stab it in the heart. SOON.
Mr. Clean | August 23, 2010 at 5:42 pm |
FIRE / SEN. CASEY
The Next Bailout: $165B for Unions Pensions
A Democratic senator is introducing legislation for a bailout of troubled union pension funds. If passed, the bill could put another $165 billion in liabilities on the shoulders of American taxpayers.
The bill, which would put the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation behind struggling pensions for union workers, is being introduced by Senator Bob Casey, (D-Pa.), who says it will save jobs and help people.
As FOX Business Network's Gerri Willis reported Monday, these pensions are in bad shape; as of 2006, well before the market dropped and recession began, only 6% of these funds were doing well.
Although right now taxpayers could possibly be on the hook for $165 billion, the liability could essentially be unlimited because these pensions have to be paid out until the workers die.
It's hard to say at the moment what the chances are that the bill will pass. A hearing is scheduled Thursday, which will give the public a sense of where political leaders sit on the topic, said Willis.
Just last week President Obama said there would be no more bailouts.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/08/dispersants-cause-gulf-fish-to-absorb.html
By adding dispersants to the water to break up the oil, surfactants in the dispersants not only increase access of the non-remediated oil to the fish, but also could cause select toxic compounds in the oil to be absorbed more rapidly and make it harder for the fish to excrete those compounds.
So not only do the dispersants used in the Gulf directly pose health risks to people and sealife (see this, this, this and this) and cause the oil to sink so that oil-eating bacteria will break it down much more slowly, but it increases harm to the fish from the oil itself.
Like bo UR true false flag colors are showing.
You are indeed a MORON. Even after I explained all the false starts you and others embarked on – you still don't "get it".
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=13030737
CHALMETTE, LA (AP) – Thousands of dead fish have been found floating at the mouth of a shipping channel that connects the Port of New Orleans with the Gulf of Mexico.
Taffaro said Monday that the species found dead included crabs, sting rays, eel, drum, speckled trout and red fish.
"It is extremely relevant to the present Muslim situation and how we are supposed to tell "good" Muslims from "bad" Muslims, The lesson we are supposed to have learned from WWII is to treat everybody as a friendly until it is proven (not even highly suspected) that they are enemy.
Like bo, cc fubo, your anti-American words show U for what U are.
Mr. Clean 5:42 PM
I bet you don't believe that anymore than the rest of us!
"Like bo UR true false flag colors are showing ."
You've got to be kidding, FS!! Don't you read – READ – the intervening posts before you start typing a post? Evidently the answer is, "No", because your above comment is still stuck on your misunderstanding of Citizen Carlyle's first post. He has fully explained himself but you don't seem to get it. You can do better, I know it.
cabby, cc fubo's words, like bo, show him for what he is.
We cannot condemn a group of innocent people because our emotions got the better of us. "
ANGRY REP. RON PAUL SUPPORTS MOSQUE
(in contradiction to his son, Rand)
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/ronpaulgroundzero/2010/08/23/id/368179?s=al&promo_code=A951-1
Bill Cutting | August 23, 2010 at 7:11 pm |
I am sure this has been noticed by others.
Red Star on Soetero's forehead, how fitting.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/08/17/2010-08-17_white_house_offers_glimpse_of_president_obamas_passport_document_shows_birthplac.html
Then they will be repeating history just as the internment camps here in the states for Japanese American citizens witnessed during WWII- & the hatred & vileness they had to endure.
Their only crime was being in the wrong place, at the wrong time."
cc fubo, U have really shown UR false flag colors today.
It is clear that the obot tactic today is to try and distract and disrupt and divide by raising the Red Herring false issue of comparing muslim terrorists to Japanese Americans during WWII.
U failed again, fubo!
FREE SPEECH, somehow you seem hopeless at times. GO BACK AND READ
CC's 2:23 pm post AGAIN and AGAIN!! He was not giving his own opinion;
he was giving that of CNN broadcasting company. Put your glasses on, please! Do you have a problem that we are not aware of? If so, I am sorry.
Just don't be so quick to jump to conclusions. In fact, CC gave several references to what the media is saying, all along the same line. Please try a little harder. Sigh.
Free Speech – Actually it was CNN.com. (on-line rather than TV)
I'm not falling for the bait, cabby. The issue of WWII Japanese Americans
is simply not relevant regarding muslim terrorists.
There are a couple of other stars (black) on his left cheek also. It this some sort of paper to prevent counterfeiting? (Just an uneducated guess).
However, that article is really revealing! The way the media is attempting to use this latest "document" to prove his place of birth, just because it says U.S.A. Don't they give anyone any credit for having brains in this country?
We all know enough not to be fooled by some passport that has parts blacked out. It does show that some are getting a bit desperate in high places.
Free Speech 7:28 pm
That's your prerogative, but don't ascribe those statements to CC.
Thanks for being respectful in your reply.
CW,
Can you please release my comments that are held in "moderation" at
1:48 pm & 2:06 pm? I sent some links at those times to some excellent articles here. I truly have no idea why they would go into moderation, since they are almost 95% links only, unless traffic at your site was heavy while I sent them in, which happens quite a lot…….
CW, thank you for your beautiful & geat kindness & for your assistance.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-08-20-spikelee20_ST_N.htm
Actor Brad Pitt, whose Make it Right project has spearheaded efforts to build 150 affordable and sustainable homes in the Big Easy's hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward, is prominently featured. Reflecting on those responsible for the oil spill, Pitt can barely contain his contempt.
"I was never for the death penalty before," he says. "I am willing to look at it again."
Lee also nabbed a rare on-camera interview with Michael Brown, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director praised by President George W. Bush ("Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job") but later lambasted for the government's slow Katrina response.
Brown, now a motivational speaker and emergency response consultant, blames former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff. He tells Lee he winced when Bush praised him during a TV appearance a week after Katrina hit. Behind closed doors, "I had been describing to the president how bad things were, telling him what I needed (and) why things weren't working," Brown says. "Then we walk out and he makes that comment, and I'm like, 'What the hell.' "
"Brown was the scapegoat as the face of FEMA," Lee says.
In the wake of the spill's long-running fallout, another political target of criticism, President Obama, doesn't come off unscathed, either
bo's destruction of American economy
Thank you for your Beautiful & GREAT Kindness, & for your wonderful assistance. I am working on a dropped on the floor & damaged keyboard on my laptop. I will correct & change out the laptop…. God Willing.
Cabby,
This has to be the dumbest crew to have occupied the WH.
Couldn't agree more with that assessment!!
(They think WE are the dumb ones – LOL)
Sorry to hear about the accident with you laptop. Hopefully you can get a replacement, as you said before that it would cost so much to get yours repaired. I can appreciate how you feel.
Last year I bought a two-year old Mac laptop but didn't start to use it until Nov. There were so many problems with staying connected to the internet, and everyone thought that it was the fault of the wireless service. After several months of trying, I was told by a supposed expert that it was the logic board, a major component. Fortunately that was not the problem (would have been about $800), but rather a faulty airport card, a much less expensive item, cost of which was shared by the company from which I bought the Mac. So, I pray you will be able to get the one you need soon.
Citizen Carlyle (FUBO) | August 23, 2010 at 10:20 pm |
Free Speech –
I don't know if you will read this as we have moved on to a new thread. But let me spoon feed you.
From the very beginning I was contrasting a "proper way to think about the WWII Japanese situation" against what the Politically Correct dumbnuts want us to think. From the very beginning I was MAKING FUN OF THE PREVAILING OPINION.
I brought all this up because the media and several of the Flying Monkeys have said "did we learn nothing from the WWII Japanese situation?" And I then gave several examples of people using this argument to prove my point. (It is odd that you used to pillory me for not citing sources, and then when I do, you soil your pants!)
Yes, like they do, I believe that the situations are exactly analogous. And if you thought about it so would you! My point is that the prevailing (leftist BS) wisdom is that we did the wrong thing then and that we should not repeat that mistake. The whole thesis of my "heresy" post was to put forward the idea that the prevailing wisdom is wrong. Based on the knowledge we had at the time, we probably did the only thing we could reasonably be expected to do.
NOW – LISTEN CAREFULLY – the situation is the same because we have been infiltrated and attacked by a recognizable enemy. Many of us think they are ALL the same – all Muslims are the enemy. In which case we dare not give them another inch anywhere. Better yet, deport them all. There are others who believe there are good Muslims and bad Muslims. I don't know. But I do know that I can't tell them apart. So it is imperative to treat them all as the enemy until we get it sorted out. That is what we did with the California Japanese in WWII.
I brought all this up because the media and several of the Flying Minkeys have said "did we learn nothing from the WWII Japanese situation?" And I then gave several examples of people using this argument to prove my point. (It is odd that you used to pillory me for not citing sources, and then when I do, you soil your pants!)


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Breakfast at Hillcrest is an important part of the day. Students receive nutrition from our catered meal service to energize them for their day of studies.
The breakfast meal involves traditional cereals, fruit, bread, and a main course such as oatmeal, waffles, eggs, or the like.
Hillcrest students go through 8 45-minute class periods in their school day. They will study core subjects in mathematics, language, history, science, and Bible. Elective courses in computer drafting, engineering, art composition, pottery, photography, writing, and choir are available for students to enroll in.
Hillcrest's focus on mentorship provides many one-to-one teacher to student interactions in the course of the school day. Progress is efficient and students are supported through Hillcrest's student services program.
Lunch is a time for students to refuel at Hillcrest. Students receive ample time for a light lunch enroute to further studies in the afternoon.
Hillcrest's catered lunch program ensures student satisfaction and nutrition as they further their studies at Hillcrest Academy.
With a laser tag course, beach volleyball, broomball rink, a full gymnasium, and weight and exercise room, evening and weekend activities are a welcomed way for students to exercise and find enjoyment in building relationships.
The evening activities are an important aspect of the Danielsen + Hillcrest experience. Students learn some of the cultural games played in the United States, while interacting with friends from around the world in athletic, social, and small group events.
The evening time at Hillcrest is an enjoyable experience. Students will use evenings to communicate to parents through Skype, visit with friends, and build relationships with mentors.
As students wind-down for the day, rest is an important practice as we aim to keep students attentive and healthy during their Hillcrest experience. An organized and well-communicated lights out and bedtime routine helps students prepare for rest. Students will turn all technology off during this time, ensuring that they are able to focus on recharging during their sleeping time over night.
All students will have an international or American roommate, which means that you will inevitably share some special conversations with each other as you wind down and recap from the day. These special times are a hallmark of the Hillcrest experience.
Hillcrest Academy is training students with a 100 year history. In the summer of 1912, the Church of the Lutheran Brethren saw the need for a high school, and certain individuals of the church voiced strong demands for it at the annual national conventions. The public schools educated all students only through the eighth grade in that era, and if a young person desired to get a high school diploma, he or she would have to enroll at a town that was larger and posed greater distractions in education.
In 1915, the church authorized the addition of freshman and sophomore high school classes, and these classes began in the fall of 1916, marking the official beginning of what later became known as Hillcrest Lutheran Academy.
In 1917 Bible School President E.M Broen recommended to the annual church convention that a full four year high school be offered as soon as possible. Further, he recommended that moral young people who might not have come to a conscious conviction in belief of Jesus Christ be accepted into the high school department.
In 1935 the school moved to a building made of red brick and had been built on a hilltop in the southeastern portion of Fergus Falls. Four-and-one-half stories in height, with roof spires reaching even higher in the sky, the brick structure had been an architectural landmark in the area since its construction in 1901. The peak of the pencil-point spire on top of the building's belfry measured about seventy feet off the ground, soaring far higher than any other building in the city.
Since 1935, the "Castle on the Hill," as it is lovingly referred to, has undergone many renovations to make it a safe and modern learning & living environment. However, preservation of the classic aesthetic of the original architecture has remained a priority.
One of the first Norwegian classes from the Danielsen School in Bergen, Norway.
Since the establishment of Hillcrest in 1916, International students have attended the school. Covering nearly every continent, Hillcrest alumni have walked the halls and called the dormitory home. Hillcrest's comprehensive program, training the mind, body and soul to understand the world, is second to none in the boarding school community.
In the 1980's Hillcrest developed a strategic partnership with the Danielsen School in Bergen, Norway. The partnership has created a unique classroom environment for American and Norwegian students alike. Nearly 600 Norwegian students received training at Hillcrest through the Danielsen + Hillcrest program, creating a small army of students with an American experience to couple with their college preparatory education.
International students integrate into Hillcrest's school environment seamlessly.
Shortly after the partnership with the Danielsen school, Hillcrest developed relationships with schools and faith-based groups in South Korea, China, Japan, and Vietnam. These partnerships have created a new influx of students and perspectives into the classrooms. With instructors trained in cross-cultural communication and intercultural studies, students feel supported and gain a holistic understanding of material as instructors note differences in interpretation from America, to Europe, to Asia.
Hillcrest's newest education commitment is to students seeking a rigorous college preparatory education through summer preparation. Targeting International students, Hillcrest understands this new program to retain the original vision of the school, providing a holistic education opportunity for students who may not have education options in their area, while providing students with social, emotional, and spiritual training.
Hillcrest considers each applicant as a potential member of our family. That said, we are take special consideration of how each applicant might strengthen or challenge the community at Hillcrest. As a distinctly Christian school, holding recognition as a premiere worldview and discipleship training program, our student body is made of predominately famiies who take faith in Jesus Christ and faith-formation seriously. We do, on occasion, accept a student who may not have a faith background, but who displays interest in understanding more about a Biblically-based perspective of the world. Hillcrest is a school for students who have faith in Jesus Christ, and we do accept a small percentage of students (under 9% of our total student body) who may not have a faith tradition, but who display interest in learning about a Biblical perspective.
Wayne Stender will walk you through the inquiry and application processes. If you have any questions, concerns, or difficulties, please email Wayne at: wstender@ffhillcrest.org.
Create a profile and complete the application online by clicking the red box titled "Apply to Hillcrest Online" above.
In selecting the application type, make sure you select the Danielsen Application option. Complete the application accordingly.
Hillcrest will review the application and references provided by the Danielsen School. Our decision on admittance will be communicated through the Danielsen School.


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Chandigarh is set at the foothills of the Himalayas, a 40-minute flight from Delhi, with the distant Shivalik Hills looming in the distance, home to the Chandi Mandir temple from which it got its name. The city was built post-Independence as the new joint capital of the Punjab and Haryana states (former capital Lahore fell within the confines of new Pakistan after partition).
It was designed in the 1950s by socialist Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and holds the distinction of being India's first and only planned city. It has grown to be the commercial hub of North India and is fast emerging as an ITES centre. This young-at-heart, fast-growing and progressive city is striking due to its urban planning, impressive buildings and well-organised sectors including geometrical residential quarters.
Its famous Le Corbusier-designed Capitol Complex (made up of the Legislative Assembly, Secretariat and High Court) and the intriguing sculptures of the Rock Garden are the main sites for visitors on an architectural pilgrimage. A major force in 20th century architecture, Le Corbusier's radical urban designs can be seen worldwide from Paris to Brasilia to New York, and it is fascinating to see the contrast of Modern Brutalist architecture in this Indian city setting. Chandigarh gives you the feeling of walking through a living and breathing social experiment.
Chandigarh is a wealthy, happy city with plenty of green spaces and an egalitarian feel. It is a very pleasant place to visit, perhaps best suited to visitors with an interest in architecture or those who have explored India before and will appreciate how remarkably different Chandigarh is to all other Indian cities.
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Today, more people than ever before are working from home, working part time, or working in gigantic office buildings with gorgeous yet impractical open floor plans. All of these unusual working conditions often makes it hard to get anything done. Maybe you work better with other people around, but you work remotely most of the time, or maybe you're stuck in a trendy office desperately wishing for walls around your desk.
There are ways that you can maximize your productivity and focus your attention on the task at hand. All it takes is a little bit of effort in finding what works for you. Here are some tips that we think will help maximize your productivity. Try a few out and see how they work for you.
There's a reason why fidget spinners had such a moment in 2017 — it's because they can actually work. Sometimes, people find it helpful to focus on listening when their hands are occupied. Don't worry, we're not telling you to go out and buy one of those insanely annoying light up ones, or even one that's shaped like a traditional fidget spinner at all.
If you want to practice this in front of other people, find something discrete, like a paper clip, or even a little metal puzzle, and fidget with it away from your co-worker's eye line. Chances are, if your hands are busy, you'll find it easier to focus.
The Pomodoro Method is a method of structuring your work day. You spend 25 minutes solidly working on one task, then take a five-minute break. Every three cycles, you take a longer break. It's simple, but it's the repeated usage that makes it effective. You can even find special timers on the App Store that will keep time as well as track how many focus cycles you've done in a day. Tracking your productivity will encourage you to set goals for good habits, and the apps makes it easy to see whether you're on track.
While making a to-do list is important and is a great first step in making sure that you achieve all your goals for the day, many people find that if their list gets too long, things start to seem overwhelming, and they can get off track. One of the best ways that you can start your day is by making an overall to-do list, then separating off three tasks that you can get done right away. Put your larger to-do list aside, and just focus on getting those three tasks done. Then, once you achieve those, take another three off your list, and go from there.
Many people, especially those with families or people who work in busy offices, put a priority on helpfulness over productivity. There are always people wanting to ask you questions, claiming that they'll "only take two minutes," but what people don't realize is that two minutes is long enough to derail even the most productive person.
The next time someone tries to grab your attention, kindly but firmly tell them that you'll get back to them as soon as you're finish the task at hand. As long as you follow up, you'll be forgiven.
It may be tempting to put off small tasks if you're tired and just want to sit down at the end of a long day but try to always do that task in the moment if you think it can be done in two minutes or less. It'll take longer for you to write it on a list than to just buckle down and do it, plus it'll help clear your brain space to focus on larger tasks.
Many people find working with music beneficial, but if you're listening to the radio or a playlist and a good song comes on, it can be really distracting. Aim to limit distractions by listening to music without lyrics, like classical or ambient music. There are even apps and services like Focus@Will, which curate different channels of ambient music designed around certain moods. There's a monthly fee, but they claim that they help people focus four times more than usual with their specially designed playlists for every type of thinker and situation, so it may be worth trying out.
If you're always distracted and continually get sidetracked checking social media or the news whenever you're supposed to be working, it might be helpful to consider blocking some websites from your browser during work hours. There are certain browser extensions or apps that you can download that block websites like Facebook and Reddit from your devices while you're working, or set limits on how long you can browse at a time. If you don't let yourself get sucked in to what's going on outside of your work space, you may find that you're much more focused.
Another way to help increase productivity and minimize distractions is to work near natural light. Natural sunlight regulates your body's internal clock, helps promote a better sleep cycle, and helps us maintain a better quality of life. Once that's removed, it only takes a week or two of working in a windowless room for people to feel irritable and foggy. Try and mitigate this by working near natural light at all times, or if you can't, take regular breaks to stretch your legs and enjoy the sun outdoors.
Another thing that eats up our time and is completely unnecessary is memorizing passwords. It seems like nowadays every website requires a log-in, and they can get complex to try and remember. Instead of struggling to remember all of your different passwords, download an app or program like Keeper Password Manager or 1Password, which will do the work for you. Most of them offer a browser extension that will automatically insert the correct username and password whenever they come across a login page.
Sometimes you'll get on a roll, crossing off items from your to-do list left and right, when you get to a new item and it completely stumps you. Even if you eventually get it done, the blip in productivity can be disheartening, and it's easy to give up after that.
Next time try grouping similar tasks together and accomplish them all at once. Folding laundry and cleaning out your closet are mutually compatible, as are tasks like tidying up and dusting. Once you're on a roll with one, it's easy to segue right into the next one, and you'll finish in no time.
This is more beneficial for a workplace setting, but the next time you find yourself bogged down in endless meetings that seem to be much more drawn out than they need to be, suggest that you do your next meeting or team check in standing up. If you discourage people from sitting down and getting cozy, chances are they'll get to the point much faster.
Another way that you can make your life easier and more productive is to use templates for paperwork and documents that you reproduce again and again. Instead of building it from scratch every time, take a few minutes after you finish a version to erase everything but the bones of it, and save it to your computer as a template. This is a useful trick for everything from work documents to sick notes for your children. Just open, customize, and print!
While multi-tasking has been consistently praised in the past as a fantastic way to get a lot done in a short amount of time, more recently people have been taking a look at this habit and realizing that while we may get a lot done, often our work is incomplete, unfocused, and sloppy.
Forbes estimates that only about two percent of the population are effective multi-taskers. The rest of us aren't able to refocus our brain that quickly, and thus produce sub-par work. Instead, focus on improving your time management.


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Top Ten Famous Mountains Rich in Animal and Plant Resources in China
The mountains show incomparable beauty due to the rich animal and plant resources. These living creatures make your trip to the mountains colorful.
1 Emei Mountain
Emei Mountain, which is evergreen all year long, is known as "the ancient plant kingdom". The vegetation is luxuriant, and the types of plant reach 3700.These plants make Emei Mountain colorful and create a natural paradise for each kind of animal. Emei Mountain has 2300 many kinds of wild animals, including the rare and precious pandas, black storks, lesser pandas, stump-tailed macaques, Baixianji, withered leaf butterflies and so on.
2 Tai Mountain
Tai Mountain has 2926 kinds of animals and plants altogether, including such ecosystems as forests, brushwood, shrub-meadows, meadows and wetlands. Moreover, there are multitudinous old trees and famous woods. The extant famous woods with over 100-year-old history reach 18,195, in which the trees with over 300-year-old history reach 1,821 and 24 have been included in the world inheritage list.
3 Song Mountain
Song Mountain is rich not only in cultural and natural landscapes, but also in plant and animal species. The wild plants reach more than 2,750 kinds. In the Songyang academy the General Bai aged 4,500 has become the state-level key protection cultural relic. Among wild animal resources, there are 7 kinds of beasts and 30 kinds of birds.
4 Changbai Mountain
Changbai Mountain Nature Protection Area contains various kinds of plants. Untill now there are 2277 kinds of known wild plants, respectly belong to 73 items and 246 branches, including 430 kinds of eumycetes plants; 200 kinds of lichen plants; 311 kinds of mess plants and 80 kinds of ferns.
5 Baiyun Mountain
The Baiyun Mountain, covering a total area of 168 square kilometers, is situated at the transition region of warm temperate zone to the subtropical zone, and crosses Yangtze River, Yellow River and Huaihe River. In summer the highest temperature does not surpass 26℃. The animal and plant resources here are extremely rich. According to the investigation, there are 204 kinds of animals, 1991 kinds of plants and the forest coverage reaches above 95%, which was reputed as "the natural history museum" by the experts.
6 Yellow Mountain
Located in south Anhui Province, Yellow Mountain Scenic Spot has abundant rainfall and rich plant resources, thus, it is reputed as "the natural botanical garden". There are 1,807 kinds of higher plants, belonging to 826 genera 222 families, in which wild rare and precious plants cover 26 kinds, belonging to 23 genera 19 families. In these rare and precious plants there are 10 kinds of national 2-grade protected plants and 16 kinds of national 3-grade protected plants.
7 Jiuhua Mountain
The forest coverage of Jiuhua Mountain Lotus Scenic Area reaches 75%, and the animal and plant resources is unusually rich, in which there are over 200 kinds of woody plants; The characteristic landscape of red leaves and Chinese hawthorn and even the "the fruits of virtue" can be seen here, in which there are more than 10 kinds of national two-level protected plants gingko, thick plain, golden larch, Eucommia and so on.
8 Small Wutai Mountain
Located Hebei, Small Wutai Mountain owns rich wild animals and plants resources. 1350 kinds of higher plants and 137 kinds of animals have been discovered here, in which there are 20 kinds of national one and two-level protected wild animals. In the natural needle juniper pure crop, which is rare in North China, there are 1500 kinds of insects and 92 kinds of birds.
9 Daxinganling
Daxinganling covers a forest area of 7,300,000 male leans. In the forest over 400 kinds of wild animals and over 1000 kinds of wild plants live and increase. It has become a rare paradise for wild animals and plants in China's high latitude area.
10 Heng Mountain
Heng Mountain is particularly rich in wild animal and plant resources. There are 807 kinds of higher plants, belonging to 380 genera 86 families. Many rare animals and plants live and increase here. Only in the prominent peak area had several thousand ancient pines living in before Ming Dynasty preserved, in which there are 30 over millennium ancient pines, in addition, there are other 8 kinds of national protected rare animals such as black storks and leopards.


What is a dual purpose assistance dog?
A dual purpose assistance dog is therefore trained to perform more than one role, whether as a hearing dog, providing disability support, or otherwise.
To do this, Guide Dogs works collaboratively with other Assistance Dog UK charities.
Once dual purpose dogs complete their training, they must learn how to work with their new owner over the course of several weeks.
Those who have trained with a dual purpose dog say that the training process requires a lot of commitment and patience, but if you succeed, it can make a real difference to your life.
The first dual purpose partnership in the UK was established in 2003 between Guide Dogs and Hearing Dogs. Angela, who has dual sensory sight and hearing loss, was trained with her first dual purpose dog Roddy. In 2011 Roddy retired and Angela is now working with her second dual trained dog, Mel.
As well as assisting with her mobility and helping her to get out and about, Mel alerts Angela to sounds in her home such as the smoke alarm, doorbell, oven timer and alarm clock. Despite the challenges she faced, Angela is now able to live independently, and it's all thanks to Roddy and Mel.
If you are interested in our dual purpose dogs service, we can arrange a no-obligation visit to explain the service in more detail, answer any questions and see if a dual purpose dog would be right for you and your lifestyle.
We want to communicate with you in the best way possible and can do this alongside your preferred interpreter, communication support worker or other language service professional. Alternatively, we can arrange for a suitably qualified interpreter to support during any visits.
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Get ready for another fun-filled weekend in Lincoln Park! Check out some blues music, dine on delicious food, laugh out loud at one of our legendary comedy venues, or check out a movie.
Emerald City Theater brings the critically-acclaimed book series by Mary Pope Osborne to life. Join daring sibling duo, Jack and Annie, as they climb into a musical time machine to travel back to Shakespearean England to save the famed bard's show.
Journey to the exotic world of New Guinea with Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution, a new exhibition featuring the extravagant plumage, crazy courtship dances and bizarre behaviors of the extraordinary birds.
Enjoy an educational outing with the family this weekend at Chicago History Museum. Race is the first national exhibition to dive into the concept of race from the biological, cultural and historical points of view and offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the United States.
Enjoy an exclusive viewing of the Golden Globe winning movie "In The Fade" playing at ArcLight Cinemas this weekend only along with the national release of "Maze Runner: The Death Cure".
Three friends. One messed up night. A whole lot of growing pains.
Chicago Restaurant Week is back for its 11th year! With 370 restaurants participating, 25 from the Lincoln Park area, enjoy Chicago's boisterous food scene with special prix fixe menus starting at $22 for brunch or lunch, and $33 and/or $44 for dinner.
Click here to view full schedule, participating restaurants, and more.
Don't miss out on your chance to dine on a 3-course prix fixe tasting menu this weekend for $39 per person at White Oak Tavern & Inn for customer appreciation week!
Writer, host, and executive producer of the Emmy nominated game show "Idiotest" and hailed by TBS as "one of the funniest comedians working today", Ben Gleib will be stopping through Chicago as apart of his Laugh it Off Tour.
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The best little boutique festival in Ireland is here for another year of gypsy jazz, scintillating swing, Irish craft beers, great atmosphere here in the very heart of Ireland.
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Tipperary North Family Research Centre.
Cloughjordan & Irelands Eco Village.


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For more than a year, Dade Behring has been wading through a financial morass that is likely to lead to bankruptcy, a sale of assets, or a reorganization of capital structure. As concerns mount about its long-term prospects, Dade Behring and its lenders are seeking to restructure the company's burdensome long-term debt. While stubborn lenders have been unwilling to accept less than a near-to-full return on their investment, several events this spring seem to be motivating them to be more flexible.


A smoked, spicy sausage, andouille (pronounced an-doo-ee) is used in many Cajun dishes. For a milder chili, substitute smoked kielbasa.
Brown the meat and vegetables: In a large Dutch oven, add oil and heat over medium-high heat. Once oil is hot but not smoking, add sausage and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned -- 5 to 7 minutes. Pour off excess fat. Add onions and pepper and cook until onions are golden brown -- 5 to 6 minutes.
Make the chili: Add bay leaf, broth, and black-eyed peas, stirring well. Add chili powder, cumin, and thyme. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to low. Simmer uncovered for 25 minutes.
To serve: Add parsley and salt, stirring well. Serve hot over cooked rice.


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Mortgage bonds are slowly edging their way back up after some holiday volatility. Watch for dropping mortgage interest rates. For potential mortgage market movers, check back tomorrow for more ISM data, Wednesday for international trade, ADP employment and FOMC meeting minutes, Thursday for jobless claims, and Friday for non-farm payrolls and unemployment.
30 year (FRM) rates at 3.80 (-0.06).
15 year (FRM) rates at 3.09 (-0.04).
Jumbo 30 year Fixed rates at 3.70% (-0.04).