A 45 year old Chicagoan's observations and commentary on top news, pop culture and an accounting of the Obama Regime and their 'statist' power grab from my unabashed, right leaning/conservative point of view..
This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back. –Tom Tancredo
"Obama will turn the entire US into the south side of Chicago" - Chicago Ray
God Bless America...
Coming from Buffalo Grove IL, 20 miles NW of King Richard Daley's
Fiefdom AKA Chicago,Illinois,USA the land of the free because of the brave..
Here's one of my first posts and observations on a then potential Obama presidency in Feb 07/ I'm no prophet believe you me..... it was all common sense far too many today simply 'lack',
George Mason explained, “(T)o disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” Noah Webster elaborated: “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed
These people have incredible video of illegals, Armed terrorists, you name it invading the country each second of every day..
I had to look at this twice to make sure it wasn't a joke, not that she can't do it, and won't be great at it, seems it might cheapen her credibility she's trying to build up by becoming a news contributor at Fox, which will drive the loons loonier. That's for sure.
She was actually an Alaskan sportscaster early on in her career, which is yet another thing the woman from Alaska has accomplished already in her high achiever lifetime that the jealous and mope magnet left will try to shred as best they can manage.
And for that reason only, I'm glad to see it, hoping to see more of it and especially her if it makes them more miserable..which it does. I can feel the loon temperature rising now.
Mike Allen - POLITICO.com: "After spending five months pondering a fat stack of TV offers, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a multiyear deal with Fox News to serve as a contributor across all Fox News platforms.
“I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News,” Palin said in the Fox announcement. “It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news.”
Palin, often described as having the hottest brand in American politics after President Barack Obama, was eagerly courted by both cable and broadcast networks, starting the day she announced she was leaving the Alaska governorship.
Bill Shine, Fox News’ executive vice president of programming, “Gov. Palin has captivated everyone on both sides of the political spectrum and we are excited to add her dynamic voice to the Fox News lineup.”"
Sarah Palin Joining Fox News As a Contributor Across The Board
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
This drives me absolutely crazy and I can't believe New Yorkers for starters even allowed this thing to be built, yet meanwhile we still wait, 8 years later to see something rise from the ashes as this is what that site of the 911 massacre by Muslims looks like this afternoon while an Islamic Mosque is completed in it's footsteps.
In-freakin-credible as "this is not different than allowing the Nazis to establish their headquarters and propaganda office in NYC in 1938. How come people could tell right from wrong then and not now?" I agree wholeheartedly with that statement made in a forum at WorldNetDaily today.
Wreckage from plane that hit the twin towers fell on the same building that may serve as an Islamic cultural center.
"A new Islamic mosque will open its doors just steps from Ground Zero where Muslim terrorists murdered 2,751 people in the name of Allah on Sept. 11, 2001 – and its leading imam, who conducts sensitivity training sessions for the FBI, has reportedly blamed Christians for starting mass attacks on civilians.
The five-story building at Park Place, just two blocks north of the former World Trade Center site, was the site of a Burlington Coat Factory. But a plane's landing-gear assembly crashed through the roof on the day 19 Muslim terrorists hijacked the airliners and flew them into the Twin Towers in 2001.
Now Muslim worshipers currently occupy the building, and they plan to turn it into a major Islamic cultural center.
'The men and women stand up, raise their hands on either side of their head, murmur 'Allahu akhbar,' bow and kneel again,' reports Spiegel Online.
'Only in New York City is this possible,' Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, or ASMA, told the magazine. Khan is the wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder of ASMA.
They have leased the new prayer space as an overflow building for another mosque, Masjid al-Farah, at 245 West Broadway in TriBeCa, where Rauf is the spiritual leader." continued
Islamic mosque built at Ground Zero From 911 Attacks
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
They celebrate deficits on the same day Obama claims the country will go bankrupt if this ObamaCare Scamorama isn't passed...that's featured in this post below this one by the way.
What a bunch of mindless morons.
WOOOOWEEEEEE!!!! DEFICITS AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE!!! YEEE HAAA!!!!!
These people are Treasury Thieves and should all be featured on Wanted Posters.
Perhaps if they feel this way about spending the money of others, (which in unconstitutional for starters) they can stop aborting 50 million of their out of wedlock and inbred children, and start paying their gosh damn taxes like the rest of us out here. Then THOSE LITTLE LIBERAL MONGRELS can pay for all this lazy assed, nanny state shit they just allocated 154 billion dollars to last night, while still on their "drunken whore" spending spree.
Extending unemployment AGAIN? What's that now, 4 times? Why get a job when they know they have these dipwads running the country? Either welfare or unemployment, to most workers, that's two government supplied reasons NOT to get a job.
We just spent a trillion dollars on a so called "stimulus package" that created about 2000 piddly jobs across the country, and 1000 of them were bl*w jobs for Tiger Woods we've now discovered, so what the hell do we need a jobs program for? Put the people on welfare to work figuring out how to get jobs on their own, instead of us subsidizing more government growth.
In the first place, no one out there is hiring because no one's gonna start a business in this freaked out ObamaLoon climate, except for the opening crack houses, whore houses and weed dispensaries, not to mention Obama Bumper Sticker removal.
Those are the only jobs this government is capable of stimulating..
Oh wait, I do hear that green category industry is really picking up with "ObamaGear Removal" franchises popping up everywhere, and what better way to green the planet than removing all the gosh damn Obama paraphernalia and propaganda all over the freaking world now.
That story by the way has 4000 plus freaking comments on it already.. There's some people working hard at the office this morning..my ass they are.
Huffington Post and Readers Cheer Trillion Dollar Deficits In Headline
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
A little slow on the uptake with this late post.....you know what Obama says, better late than never...
Funny thing as Sarah Palin actually grows on the media which should be used to that since it's so full of fungi everywhere we turn....this was a continuation of her being mocked I guess my Captain "Quirky" as I call him on his new show whatever it is, where he's been mocking her book I believe.
Reading excerpts of it like Masterpiece Theatre would be my guess, because I tend to boycott all the loony lib comedians and Hollywood dorks who beat her up constantly for no reason when they have a half black communist to mock all day and don't, so I haven't seen it but this is kinda mocking that tongue in cheek/
Initially, William Shatner read a few excerpts from Palin's Going Rogue, holding steady as Amazon.com's #1 best-selling book as of this writing -- growing with nearly 600 comments from commentators.
Sarah Palin on Conan O'Brien Surprise Appearance With William Shatner
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Time for all the "old guard" to be purged, as most of the oldies from the right were banished from the last election, and now that Old Guard category exclusively belongs to the democrats as every single top level democrat has made "being a politician" a lifetime endeavor, against every idea and principle our founders had intended.
Think about this: Senator Byrd is about half as Old as America and has been in Washington for a half century!! Admirable if he were a regular "blue collar" working man but he's not and has never held a real job in 50 years, longer than many live as he's been telling the rest of us how to live that life.
The only way we could get rid of these criminal leeches on the left is when they finally die, like Kennedy just did after 40 years of screwing the nation and any lush that would be crazy enough to even get near him, much less drive in a car with him anywhere.
A child of a rum runner and a killer himself essentially was a US senator for half a century and another, once a Ku Klux Klan LEADER, not a peeon but a "Head Honcho" known as a "Grand Kleagle", is now the senior senator for democrats, is 90 and too sick to even show up for work unless they need his vote.After all, he's 90. Time to retire. Seriously, does anyone really think he's still managing all his faculties in such a job?
I just don't think that's what the founders had in mind. In fact we know it wasn't.
Tragic.
Jim DeMint Looking For "A Few 'New' Republicans"
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Look at the meltdown that Rush is railing on and the conservative internet is making viral which is why I'm adding it on this blog. What a nutcase as the left becomes apoplectic as the visions of their "Naked Adam Lamberts Dancing In Their heads" Utopia within their grasp for once has thank the lord come crashing down all in one week!!
Stuart Varney from Fox, who's singularly more intelligent than collective Hollywood, takes the fake dr and whatever he's pretending to be now apart on Climate Scamorama
Someone wanna tell me where exactly this clip from a few days back which I found on Media Matters swerves from the truth, as they claim on this post of the below video in which Charles Krauthammer hammers the Hawaaiin born (Kenyan born) Indonesian raised Obama for giving himself the goofy moniker of "First Pacific President"
And then goes on to read a veritable laundry list of "full term" some "double term" US president's far more befitting the moniker had someone besides themselves (as Obama has done) had deemed them as such.
However, first and foremost they were ALL American President's, unlike this wannabe, UN loving and hoping to be world leading Muslim born Kenyan parading around as a Christian for anyone stupid enough to believe it.
And no matter how much I hate his policies and everything he stands for, he's supposed to be the president of the nation here, not some Asian Pacific islanders or whoever he's trying to impress at the moment, otherwise he should resign, pack his freakin bags and create himself a whole new life narrative for about the 30th time, change his name for the 10th time and go run for office there, damn UN loving, closet Muslim nimrod.
Krauthammer Demonstrates What Seperates Liberals From Conservatives
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
This is freakin unbelievable and certain confirmation Jimmy Carter has crossed over to the world of senility, so pending further psych evaluations he should be prevented from speaking on behalf of Americans any longer ..... and another thing he better get used to is being the second suckiest president ever because the Kenyan guy is coming on strong....
This was of course his signature handiwork and for that we suffer today because those who don't know, that's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad second from the right although he denies it....fkn Holocaust denier among other things. And we're still dicking around with him 35 years later, thanks Jimmah./
Carter Defends His Handling of Iran Hostage Crisis - ABC News: "Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday he was pressed by his advisers to attack Iran during the hostage crisis there more than 30 years ago but resisted because he feared 20,000 Iranians could have died.
Islamist militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, and seized its occupants. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days.
Carter said one proposed option was a military strike on Iran, but he chose to stick with negotiations to prevent bloodshed and bring the hostages home safely."
"My main advisers insisted that I should attack Iran," he told reporters in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, where he was helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity. "I could have destroyed Iran with my weaponry. But I felt in the process it was likely the hostages' lives would be lost, and I didn't want to kill 20,000 Iranians. So I didn't attack." more
Today's Daily Humor...."Carter Defends His Handling of Iran Hostage Crisis"
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
I thought she was great on this interview and this was THE first time I turned on this show in YEARS and that's the honest truth...She does this for the next couple years and she'll say "screw politics" and cash in on a talk show of some type which Orca even asked her about among everything else...who would blame her?
"She's Not Retreating, She's Reloading"Palin's father
..She coulda used a few friendlies like this before the election ORCA instead of pushing her buddy Obama only because of his skin color, because it sure wasn't his experience that got him the job ..
In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 and released Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 by Harpo Productions, Inc., seen is talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, second from right, with former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her daughters, Willow, right, and Piper, left, during the taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in Chicago.
This is an apology issued for using the lame Sarah Palin in a bikin with an assault weapon photoshop that some a hole out there like me except liberal made for amusement which ended up on what's supposed to be a serious news channel (well it was at one time at least)
That's why I mark mine, not so much to lay claim but to signify it's been altered by the way....
Sarah Palin Interview With Oprah / Video
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Interesting news for the far left mentally disturbed Palin haters out there...I mean I can understand to some point why the leftward loons hate her so much.
Just imagine being stuck in an ideology that produced our first and hopefully last Muslim born and bred president, if that disappointment alone wasn't enough, but you'd be pissed off too if you had to keep looking and hearing this beautiful woman's stock and popularity still soaring and growing each week...See the Rassmussen report below my rants....Can you say "One Termer"? I knew you could......
Meanwhile they're stuck with these retreads they have to look at listen to most of the time.
I guess I'd be pissed off too if I were limited to barnyard animals as well like many of those above, but not to the mental degree that these lunatic people are obsessed with Sarah Palin's complete destruction....Here's a News flash, you hater's gotta come through us first to get rid of her...Good luck on that one , as your people in DC are going down starting Jan 1 2010, so get ready because payback is a bitch and we keep track.
Reminds me of this segment of O'Reilly last week when he and Dennis Miller came to the same conclusion I just did ..... correctly of course....I was rolling on this one.
Rasmussen Reports™: "Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Republican voters say former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin shares the values of most GOP voters throughout the nation.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 21% of Republican voters disagree and think the 2008 vice presidential candidate does not share their values. Twenty percent (20%) are undecided.
By contrast, 74% of Republicans say their party’s representatives in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters nationwide over the past several years. Only 18% of Republican voters believe their elected officials have done a good job representing the base." continued
59% majority of GOP Voters Say Palin Shares Their Values
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
This so called professor at Columbia University of African American heritage pictured here and covered below by the New York Post actually punched a white woman right in the face during an argument in a bar, (a colleague of his if you can believe that in this day and age)..and was charged with only simple assault instead of the enhanced hate crime, even though he obviously hates whites as you'll see when the reason for the argument is revealed in the full story and the assault was entirely based on race... TOTALLY.
And believe you me, if this situation was reversed, and a white man like myself punched a black woman for any reason whatsoever, it wouldn't be a simple article and a few blog rants about it like in this case..... the damn globe would be spinning of it's freaking axis with liberals and the usual race baiting bastards we've tolerated for far too long leading the opportunistic charge.
I'll tell you this much, this son of a slug should be not only fired from Columbia for good but taken out in the street by the woman's husband or other male in her life if single and administered an ass kicking he'll never forget, and I'll assure you were it my wife, mother, sister or girlfriend I'd be hard pressed not to blow his freakin' head off for even thinking about it.much less doing it ..........no matter what race, and if he was a white woman beater, I'd do the same damn thing rest assured..
A woman beater is a woman beater and deserves no sympathy from any man.
Prof busted in Columbia gal 'punch': "A prominent Columbia architecture professor punched a female university employee in the face at a Harlem bar during a heated argument about race relations, cops said yesterday.
Police busted Lionel McIntyre, 59, for assault yesterday after his bruised victim, Camille Davis, filed charges.
McIntyre and Davis, who works as a production manager in the school's theater department, are both regulars at Toast, a popular university bar on Broadway and 125th Street, sources said.
The professor, who is black, had been engaged in a fiery discussion about 'white privilege' with Davis, who is white, and another male regular, who is also white, Friday night at 10:30 when fists started flying, patrons said." continued
P.O.S. Male Prof busted at Columbia for punching female colleague in the face!!
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Of course it was an accident as we know the two Muslim's names are almost identical as are much of their Islamic based ideas and ideology..
Anyhow, If a conservative happened to utter this by accident or otherwise the freaking planet would spin off it's axis for such a faux pas with a blaring headline on Media matters and the left blogosphere....it's around the 2 minute mark of this video......
The first public figure to do this was another lefty strangely enough and was none other than the dead as a doornail Ted The Swimmer Kennedy, who drunkenly bumbled his way through this little press conference when Obama hit the scene couple years back I'm sure most of you will remember...
What If A Conservative Did This?...Geraldo Rivera Calls Obama Osama During Fox and Friends
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
This is how dumb and absolutely STUPID these democrats led by San Fran Nan Pelosi and Dingy Harry Reid think Americans are, that all they have to do to get everyone on board with Obamacare is to simply change the f*(&^ name!
Pelosi: Health care 'public option' needs new name
Can you believe that?
Then again, I guess they would think that we're all idiots since this after all this is the country that just elected a no executive experience, ACORN community organizing lawyer who barely argued any cases and won't show the world his freakin birth certfiicate the president of the United States..
Taking that into consideration, maybe there are about 51% of the country that are stupid enough to buy this same old stinkin' pig with new lipstick, as Nancy, Barry and the dems pull a few of their favorite tricks next to the old tried and true "Bait and Switch"....that would be if the field goal is too far, then move the goal posts and if the idea sucks then change the name......
Pelosi: Health care 'public option' needs new name: "SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - A government-sponsored 'public option' for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.
In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as 'the consumer option.' Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi's side and used the term 'competitive option.'
Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public—or consumers or competitors." continued
Pelosi: Health care 'public option' needs new name
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Why anyone continues to fill this man's coffers by purchasing his filmworks with all the patriots out there making movies is beyond me, and his fixation with Cuba should earn him a permanent Visa there so he can spend the rest of his days living on one of Castro's state owned sugar plantations somewhere.
Breitbart News: "Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn flew to Cuba hoping to interview its revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, entertainment news website TMZ reported Sunday.
'Sean (Penn) is going to the land of Fidel as a journalist, writing a story for Vanity Fair (magazine) about how the (Barack) Obama administration has affected Cuba,' TMZ reported.
Penn was traveling with Diana Jenkins: 'Actually ... it's her plane ... she's married to the head honcho at Barclays bank,' TMZ added, noting the pair set out from Las Vegas on Saturday.
'Barclays sources say Sean and Diana are going to meet (Fidel) Castro -- presumably because that's what Diana told them,' the website reported. Penn's representative also told TMZ a meeting was possible.
Since taking office in January, US President Barack Obama has moved to ease a half-century of tension with Cuba, with small steps such as relaxing rules on visits and money transfers to the island." more
Of course he's (obama) moved to be closer to Cuba, Fidel is one of his political heroes, why wouldn't he cozy up as much as he possibly can.
Borderline Traitor Sean Spicoli Penn Meeting with Fidel For Vanity Fair
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
What a moron..and liberals spent 7 years slamming Tony Blair for anything and everything he and Bush did to free 50 million Muslims from tyranny instead of Nuking Mecca after 911 like I would have preferred (after a warning to flee the city of course)
What has this guy accomplished since coming into office other than becoming Obama's Poodle? NADA. Zilch
And, come to think of it Obama's in the same empty boat, and as far as it goes for anyone who believes these blowhards are going to save us all from a non existent crisis and catastrophic weather changes I feel sorry for them, and hope they can get medical help soon without us having to pay for it....
BBC NEWS | UK | PM warns of climate 'catastrophe': "The UK faces a 'catastrophe' of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change, the prime minister has warned.
Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the 'impasse'." continued
Can you believe these people can actually get up before the world and spew this chicken little climate change formerly known as global warming with a straight face and get maybe a quarter of the world's population to believe them? ( a number I'm sure closely parallels the world illiteracy rate I'd be willing to bet)
NutJob Gordon Brown warns of climate catastrophe, "Only 50 days to save the world"
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
This guy has been being chased down by the Associated Press for heisting a photo they claim ownership of in order to develop the annoying Hope and Change Logo many of us have come to despise the sight of and the source of much mocking.
Like this little web app many lefties loved more than life itself upon it's creation until people like me started making these instead with it.......(me by the way for new folks here)
Well, now the man who rode the wave of fame from creating that logo, Shepard Fairey believe it or not, again from an alleged AP photo has landed him in all kind of a mess, particularly since he lied and tried to cover his tracks in the creation of the logo in the aftermath. This guy is a well known leftist rabblerouser as this statement confirms from the report below.
Fairey, a Los Angeles-based street artist with a long, often proud history of breaking rules, has said that he first designed the image in early 2008, after he was encouraged by the Obama campaign to come up with some kind of artwork.
In February 2009, he was arrested when he came to Boston for an event kicking off his solo exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art, among the most popular in the museum's more than 70-year history.
He faced dozens of vandalism charges, but nearly all were dropped. He pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges last summer and was sentenced to two years probation.
Something of which he's now admitted to, and will now have to face some music for his lack of knowledge of the copyright infringement rules and regs which you can always view at the bottom of this blog by the way....
"In an attempt to conceal my mistake, I submitted false images and deleted other images," said Fairey,
All that fame and adulation sometimes makes some peoples judgment become clouded, and this appears to be that kind of a case..as in Watergate any many other cases of wrongdoing, it is his cover up that's become the real albatross and his ultimate undoing leading to this apology and admittance of wrongdoing on his part.
Obama 'HOPE' Poster Artist Admits Photo Error FOXNews.com: "NEW YORK — Artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the famous Barack Obama 'HOPE' poster, admitted Friday that he didn't use the Associated Press photo he originally claimed his work was based on but instead used a picture the news organization had claimed was his source.
Fairey, 39, said in a statement that he was wrong which photo he used and that he tried to hide his error.
'In an attempt to conceal my mistake, I submitted false images and deleted other images,' said Fairey, who has been involved in countersuits with the AP, which has alleged copyright infringement.
'I sincerely apologize for my lapse in judgment and I take full responsibility for my actions which were mine alone. I am taking every step to correct the information and I regret I did not come forward sooner.'
Fairey had claimed he based his 'HOPE' drawing on a photo of then-Sen. Barack Obama, seated next to actor George Clooney. The photo was taken in April 2006 by Mannie Garcia, on assignment for the AP, at the National Press Club in Washington." read more
Fraud A Common Theme In Obama Era, Logo Designer A Fraud As Well
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
I wonder how all the Obama voters who fell for all that dem populist bull in last couple elections feel about that little switcheroo, as the liberals learn to love those Lear Jets and Limos with the best and richest of them.
I made this a long time ago so it's nothing new to many of us out here who aren't fooled by their hyperbole and rhetoric
USATODAY.com: "Democratic members of the House of Representatives now represent most of the nation's wealthiest people, a sharp turnaround from the long-standing dominance that Republicans have held over affluent districts.
A USA TODAY analysis of new Census data found that Democrats represent a far different constituency today than they did in 2005, when they were the minority in the House, or in 1990, when they were the majority.
The Democratic-controlled House is now an unusual combination of the richest and poorest districts, the best and least educated, and the best and the worst insured. The analysis found that Democrats have attracted educated, affluent whites who had tended previously to vote Republican.
Democrats now represent 57% of the 4.8 million households that had incomes of $200,000 or more in 2008. In 2005, Republicans represented 55% of those affluent households." more
Let me know when you stop laughing......
Hypocrite Alert: "In major flip, House Dems now represent richest regions"
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
I certainly don't think her cluelessness stops with her being supposedly in the dark about the ACORN Cash Cutoff thanks to our citizen journo's of the year, Hanna Giles and filmmaker O'Keefe,
she's been clueless since day one (pic from Yid with Lid :)
Pelosi: I'm clueless about cash cut-off: "WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable.
'I don't even know what they passed,' Pelosi told The Post yesterday. 'What did they do? They defunded it?'
The amendment to suspend housing grants was a stunning blow to the community-activist group -- and came as some Democrats and the White House have been backing away from the group."
Pelosi: I'm clueless about cash cut-off...(Is That All?)
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
There's 5000 c0mments on this story and thread as of 10 am cst......think #2376 is getting read often? Half of em I read were all accusing conservatives of being racists of course.....read this comment
Liberals Even Mad The Circus is Back In DC for The Winter
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
The left is reverting to pre 911 thinking faster than the Twin Towers took to fall down on September 11th 2001 as they seek out more Bush administration people who kept their liberal asses alive for 8 years than they do crazy, rabid Muslims plotting to kill us all with their next attack.......... which is due any day now under the so called leadership of these peacenick morons
They just can't help but want to extend our constitutional rights to people that neither deserve them nor have earned them and this ninth circuit of appeals is the most dangerous group of activist judges in the land.
Nothing more or less than a bunch of moronic Loons.
latimes.com"A 9th Circuit panel says the ex-attorney general violated the rights of citizens held as material witnesses without cause after 9/11. Rights advocates praise the ruling in Abdullah Kidd's case."Then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft violated the rights of U.S. citizens in the fevered wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by ordering arrests on material witness warrants when the government lacked probable cause, a federal appeals court said in a scathing opinion Friday.
In a ruling that said Ashcroft could be sued for prosecutorial abuses, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the former attorney general immunity from liability for how he used the material witness warrants in national security investigations. Members of the panel, all appointees of Republican presidents, characterized Ashcroft's detention policy as "repugnant to the Constitution, and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history."
Civil liberties advocates cheered the ruling in the case brought by Kansas-born Muslim convert Abdullah Kidd, saying it spotlighted excesses committed by the Bush administration in the post-9/11 scramble to thwart terrorist plots.
"The court made it very clear today that . . . Ashcroft's use of the federal material witness law circumvented the Constitution," said Lee Gelernt, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who argued Kidd's case. "Regardless of your rank or title, you can't escape liability if you personally created and oversaw a policy that deliberately violates the law."
The ruling could allow Kidd's suit for damages to proceed to trial if the government doesn't appeal to a larger 9th Circuit panel or seek Supreme Court review.
A spokesman for Ashcroft, Mark Corallo, didn't return phone calls.
Department of Justice spokesman Charles Miller said: "We will review the court's decision and make a determination in the future as to what the government's next step will be."
Although the ruling denied immunity to Ashcroft, the government would probably be responsible for covering any successful damage claims brought by those found to have been wrongly arrested.
Kidd, a former University of Idaho running back whose birth name was Lavoni T. Kidd, sued Ashcroft after he was arrested at Washington Dulles International Airport en route to a Saudi scholarship program in March 2003.
He was handcuffed, strip-searched and shuttled among interrogations in Virginia, Oklahoma and Idaho before being released 16 days later and ordered to surrender his passport and live with his wife and in-laws in Nevada.
The arrest led to Kidd being denied a security clearance and losing his job with a government contractor.
In his 2005 complaint, Kidd noted that then-FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, in an appearance before a congressional subcommittee during Kidd's detention, had pointed to his arrest and that of confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as evidence of government progress in reining in terrorists.
"To this day, the government has never explained why the director of the FBI would tell the United States Congress that the arrest of Mr. al Kidd -- supposedly a witness -- represented one of the government's noteworthy recent successes in the war on terrorism," the complaint stated.
It is unclear how many U.S. citizens were picked up on material witness warrants in the sweep conducted by national security forces after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Like the preventive detention abroad of foreign terrorism suspects and the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program, in which suspected enemies were whisked from foreign locales to interrogation "black sites," the material witness arrests were conducted in secret.
At least two other prominent Muslim converts are known to have been arrested as supposed material witnesses.
Alleged would-be "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla was detained at Chicago O'Hare International Airport and held for 3 1/2 years without charges before his 2007 conviction in an unrelated terrorism case in Florida.
Brandon Mayfield, an Oregon attorney erroneously connected to the 2004 Madrid train bombings, was also arrested as a material witness and held for two weeks. He was never charged, and has received an apology from the U.S. government as well as a $2-million settlement.
Constitutional law scholars applauded the 9th Circuit decision as affirmation of citizens' rights to be free from illegal detention.
"This is really important," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Irvine School of Law. "This is a federal court of appeals saying that what was done here under the material witness statute was clearly a violation of the Constitution -- that it was not protected by prosecutorial absolute immunity."
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