Alamo : Davy Crockett’s defiant stand at the Alamo ‘lasted just 20 minutes’, claim historians

The legend of Davy Crockett, the buckskin-clad ‘King of the Wild Frontier,’ has been cast into doubt by new claims that his fabled last stand at the Alamo may have only lasted 20 minutes.

For 175 years, the Battle of the Alamo has been one of America’s most cherished historical events. Celebrated in song, story and cinema, the story of heroism against all the odds helped define the young nation’s pursuit of liberty.

But, according to a new book, the brave last stand depicted by Hollywood stars like John Wayne was a myth. In reality, author Phillip Thomas Tucker claimed many of the Americans who died at the Alamo were cut down as they tried to escape from the besieged garrison after a surprise pre-dawn attack.

The ‘last stand’ at the Alamo on March 6, 1836 came after a small band of Americans held out for 13 days against the army of Mexican dictator General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.

The leaders of the group included Crockett, already famous as a frontiersman, storyteller and crack shot, and James Bowie, known for his distinctive knife.

It has long been part of the Alamo legend that Crockett died fighting.

The legend was firmly established by the 1955 Disney TV show in which the hero was seen swinging an empty rifle as the hordes of Mexican soldiers closed in for the kill. But in his book, ‘Exodus from the Alamo,’ Dr Tucker painted a much less glamorous ending.

Using recently discovered Mexican accounts of the battle, the historian wrote that the defenders of the Alamo in the war for Texan independence did not die defending their garrison under brilliant sunlight.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk …

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Mikhail Gorbachev: I should have abandoned the Communist party earlier

Politicians rarely admit mistakes, but Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev always was in a different class. So it is not surprising that, as he looked back on his six tumultuous years in power at the head of the Soviet Union, he was willing to count the errors he had made.

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian he named at least five. They led not just to his own downfall 20 years ago; they also brought the collapse of the Soviet Union and the introduction of an unregulated economic free-for-all that turned a few Russians into billionaires while plunging millions of people into poverty.

Gorbachev cuts a relaxed, even cheerful figure these days, but there are still the occasional twinges of bitterness, particularly when discussing his arch-rival Boris Yeltsin, or when he described the plotters who put him under house arrest in the Crimea during their abortive coup 20 years ago .

“They wanted to provoke me into a fight and even a shootout and that could have resulted in my death,” he said.

Asked to name the things he most regretted, he replied without hesitation: “The fact that I went on too long in trying to reform the Communist party.” He should have resigned in April 1991, he said, and formed a democratic party of reform since the Communists were putting the brakes on all the necessary changes.

This judgement will be of particular interest to historians since it is Gorbachev’s first public admission that he should have left the Communist party several months before the coup of August 1991. In the memoirs he published in 1995 he did not go so far.

Things came to a head at a session of the Communist party’s central committee in April 1991.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk …

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Rick Perry will self-destruct within 30 days (Based on what he said about Bernanke today)

Rick Perry talks treason about the Federal Reserve Board. Treason is a capital offense. Is Perry suggesting the death penalty for Federal Reserve Board members?

Rick Perry says Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke will have a tough time if he goes to Texas. Is Perry threatening that violence might happen to Bernanke if he visits Texas?

This is sick stuff. I can think of several nations Rick Perry is fit to lead, but the United States of America is not one of them. With his latest comments, perhaps Rick Perry wants to be the running mate of Vladimir Putin in the coming Russian election.

Perry will self-destruct within 30 days. It has already begun.

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It’s Okay, I’m Over It Now| The Post & Email

HOW MANY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ARE CULPABLE?

by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet

Will faux Attorney General Eric Holder be brought up on charges for covering up Obama‘s ineligibility?

(Aug. 16, 2011) — The thirty Seals was my last straw. I’m beyond the edge, over the wall, through the woods, and I’m sitting on top of a Main Battle tank and I’ve got the barrel pointed at every member of Congress and at every judge in America. Now, you may rightfully say, impossible and then I say to you, “Oops! Sorry. I meant to say that I’m just one of millions of patriotic Americans who have had it, and if you don’t like it, if you want to whine about it, go somewhere where I can’t see you or hear you, because if I do, you’ll be standing side by side with the likes of our Democrat and Republican traitors who have refused to kick the sorry de facto fake lying bum Obama out of the White House. Don’t worry, all that will happen to Obama, or whatever he’s calling himself today, is life in Gitmo.”

Eric Holder is our worthless Attorney General, the person who is supposed to see that the Department of Justice does the job for which it was designed but hasn’t done anything remotely suggestive of upholding the law in any way, shape, or form. He is, even more than Janet Napolitano, the most worthless city, county, state or federal employee of them all. There is absolutely no doubt that he is the modern-day joke about the city workers all leaning on a shovel: if you want to show an example of a goldbricking government employee, it would be one of Eric Holder sitting behind a desk. Think about it: my wife and I have known that Obama has had numerous Social Security numbers even before the election and Holder hasn’t done one little thing about it. So much for doing your job, Eric. The Justice Department protecting the criminal. At least you’ll have a lot to think about while you rot away in prison for the rest of your life. No idle talk, since OPOVV doesn’t make threats.

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Air Force staff sergeant AWOL over ‘forged’ Obama document

Staff Sgt. Daryn John Moran (Photo BirtherReport.com)

A Germany-based staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force has challenged the eligibility of President Obama, announcing in an email posted on the BirtherReport.com website, “Arrest B. Obama or arrest me.”

In a case that recalls the months-long challenge to Obama’s eligibility by Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, the noncommissioned officer, Daryn J. Moran, said he had stopped reporting for duty at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

He reported he would return when Obama “provides a birth certificate which stands up to professional examination.”

“I’ve read the reports about President Obama. His birth certificate has been proven, to my satisfaction, proven false, fraudulent and a forgery,” Moran wrote.

Lakin ultimately was sentenced at a court-martial to six months in prison for his decision not to follow deployment orders because Obama had failed to document his eligibility to be commander in chief of the armed services. Lakin has been released from Ft. Leavenworth.

Jerome Corsi‘s new book, “Where’s the Birth Certificate?”, is now available for immediate shipping, autographed by the author, only from the WND Superstore

Moran previously told WND that he was in danger of losing his career because he could not endorse the congressionally approved addition of open homosexuality to the U.S. military. He told WND in an email early in his decision-making process that he was concerned about what he was doing but felt he had no option.

“The mainstream media cannot gloss over the situation any further. Money does not solve the problem of B. Obama’s false birth certificate,” he said.

(Story continues below)

“That is what I mean when I say it’s time to fix this. I’ll do my part, God willing, but you and all others must do [yours] too.”

In the followup email posted on BirtherReport.com, he said, “In essence, I have placed myself squarely against B. Obama, and will continue to do so under the present circumstances. If B. Obama will reach out to me, help me, talk to me, be honest with me, seek the Lord with me, hear other Americans with me, correct his lies, and allow the blessings of God on himself and this country, I would be happy. I’m in no position to prevent God’s blessings on B. Obama, but currently B. Obama is preventing that himself.”

He said, “I am speaking directly for myself. I have shouted ‘Arrest B. Obama or arrest me.’ This was my heart. And still is. But I don’t want to be arrested by the Air Force or by the president. Even if B. Obama is an illegal president, God still allows him to sit in the Oval Office, and both the Air Force and B. Obama may yet arrest me at any day. I submit to my God in these matters.”

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Did Ron Paul’s presidential bid just get a big boost from Jon Stewart? { The left pushes Paul ]

Did Ron Paul‘s presidential bid just get a big boost from Jon Stewart? { The left pushes Paul ]:

“Libertarian Ron Paul narrowly lost the Iowa straw poll to Michele Bachmann, yet has been cut out of media postmortems on the GOP‘s top tier. Does he deserve more coverage? Jon Stewart thinks so.

When did Ron Paul become the GOP presidential candidate-who-must-not-be-named?

‘Daily Show‘ host Jon Stewart asked that question on his show Monday night and in doing so he sparked a discussion among the media hordes that has produced more than a few mea culpas and could perhaps – perhaps – lead to more coverage of the libertarian Texas congressmen in the future.

In particular, Mr. Stewart took aim at the fact that Mr. Paul narrowly lost the Ames, Iowa, straw poll to Michele Bachmann yet was almost entirely left out of the journalistic political postmortem.

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POPULATION EXTERMINATION How It Will Be Done By: Alan Stang (via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL))

POPULATION EXTERMINATION How It Will Be Done By: Alan Stang POPULATION EXTERMINATION How It Will Be Done By: Alan Stang Regular readers of these diatribes are aware that one of the conspiracy for world government’s persistent goals is a massive reduction of the earth’s population. There are just too many people out there for the conspirators to control, so they want to eliminate some of them. The “ideal society” that results would include the few … Read More

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Ron Paul Explodes In Popularity Despite Smears

Prison Planet.com � Ron Paul Explodes In Popularity Despite Smears:

“The establishment media’s attempt to ignore Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign for president has become so blatant following his close-second finish in the Iowa straw poll, that even mainstream reporters cannot ignore the biased attempt to drown out his message. Despite their best efforts, Ron Paul continues to explode in popularity, surfacing repeatedly at the top of major polls as his message transcends the political gatekeepers.

Dr. Paul is reaching a tipping point which no one can ignore– emerging as the frontrunner in the GOP 2012 primary, despite attempts to feed the populace more empty suit, pro-war, big government candidates.

RELATED: Establishment Media Admits Conspiracy To Ignore Ron Paul

RELATED: Jon Stewart on the Media Ignoring Ron Paul”

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Air Force Staff Sergeant Refusing to Follow Orders Speaks with The Post & Email| The Post & Email

Air Force Staff Sergeant Refusing to Follow Orders Speaks with The Post & Email| The Post & Email

Air Force Staff Sergeant Refusing to Follow Orders Speaks with The Post & Email| The Post & Email:

“On Friday, August 12, 2011, Sergeant Daryn Moran had called in to The Manning Report hosted by Dr. James David Manning and discussed his Christian upbringing, attendance at a Christian high school, and his service in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years.

Moran stated that in 2002, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and has been serving since that time.

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Obama Loses Beer Buddy

Obama Loses Beer Buddy:

“The webzine edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. has published an article suggesting that blacks not be so emotionally invested in President Obama.

It’s written by Michael Arceneaux and entitled ‘Breaking Up With Boyfriend Barack’. It appears in today’s (Aug. 16) edition of The Root.

Arceneaux notes that (official) unemployment for African-Americans is double that of whites at 15.9 percent.

He points out that Obama’s approval rate among blacks is down to 85 percent.

Gates was the famous participant at the ‘beer summit‘ held in July 24, 2009 which came after Obama made uninformed comments in defense of Gates who had been charged with disorderly conduct after police found him trying to break into his Cambridge, Mass. home from which he locked himself out, and he threw a fit upon being asked to identify himself.

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Gibbs Scolds Perry, Raises Issue of Texas Secession Comments — with Video

Gibbs Scolds Perry, Raises Issue of Texas Secession Comments — with Video:

“Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs lashed out against Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday, saying it was a “remarkable turnaround” for the Republican presidential candidate to say he was passionate about America just a few years after he was talking about the possibility of Texas seceding from the U.S. The current White House spokesman, Jay Carney, also took issue with comments Perry made on Monday, warning that political candidates have to be careful about what they say.

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White House Warns Perry Should Watch What He Says ,

White House Warns Perry Should Watch What He Says ,:

“White House press secretary Jay Carney chastised Texas Gov. Rick Perry for suggesting on the campaign trail that some economic policy decisions the Federal Reserve is considering border on “treasonous.”

Speaking at a campaign stop in Iowa on Monday, the Texas governor didn’t name Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, but he said that printing more money–or quantitative easing–amounted to playing politics and he considered such a move as “almost treacherous—or treasonous in my opinion.”

Quantitative easing is an effort to lower borrowing costs and keep banks lending.

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Devvy Kidd — Military brass eat their own for political expediency

Each time I do a column against the actions of military brass (or criticize the illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan), my email box loads up with cranky comments like “you’re a commie pinko” or “people like you who hate the military….”. My husband is a retired U.S. Army Colonel who served 27 years of honorable service including a tour in Viet Nam. He was also stationed at the Pentagon. There, that takes care of that.

Those who depend on the old, useless media like ABC, CBS, NBC and wholly biased “news” networks like MSNBC and CNN, likely know nothing about the railroading of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin.[1]

FOX anchors did nothing to help get the truth out about Lakin because it was “all about the birther nonsense”. It’s easy for many to betray when you’re paycheck is in the double digit millions per year. In 2008, Hannity signed a new contract with the king of pornography, Rupert Murdoch, for $20 million a year. Glenn Beck‘s contract with FOX was $50 million for five years. The constantly fact challenged, Bill O’Reilly, signed a new contract with FOX in 2008 for $12 million a year. All three of them have mocked the issue of what natural born citizen means regarding the legitimacy of the putative president’s eligibility.

Every single officer up the chain of command should hang their head in shame for being part of the lynching of such an honorable man because that’s the equivalent of what happened to Lakin. I interviewed him a few months ago on radio while hosting for a friend. It was difficult because he was kicked under the bus by his own to protect one of the worst liars and frauds ever foisted upon this country: Barry Dunham aka Barack Hussein Obama aka Barry Soetoro aka Barry Obama aka Barack Dunham.

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Rick Perry’s Campaign Strategy: Become Ron Paul

Prison Planet.com � Rick Perry’s Campaign Strategy: Become Ron Paul:

“Texas Governor Rick Perry has shown his hand immediately. His presidential campaign strategy consists of attempting to steal away Ron Paul supporters while the mainstream media aids him by refusing to even acknowledge Paul exists.

Perry entered the presidential race on Friday and was instantly hailed by the corporate controlled media as a “top tier” candidate. Meanwhile, Ron Paul was busy romping home to a historic vote total in the Iowa straw poll, coming second only to a phony tea party wannabe in Michelle Bachmann, who could only beat Paul by buying 4000 votes.”

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Re Germ Warfare, BioWar, etc. (via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL))

Re The Army’s Germ Warfare Against Civilians…. “Pentagon To Gas Crystal City Residents Substance is harmless, assures newspaper, but terror paranoia fearmongering is contagious” The above quote is from the article next, below. It rang a bell for me of something 60 Minutes ran maybe some 20 years or so ago about the mlitary gassing experiments in San Francisco; and that it was both unannounced and unexplained afterwrards. I recall that they report … Read More

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Breaking: Fox News ignores and pulls post debate poll that Ron Paul WINS | TheSwash.com

Breaking: Fox News ignores and pulls post debate poll that Ron Paul WINS | TheSwash.com:

“Breaking: Fox News ignores and pulls post debate poll that Ron Paul WINS

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Admin| 29 Comments

*Taken from Wake Up 1776.

The Fox News commentator tells everyone who just got done watching the Republican Presidential debate in Iowa to go on FoxNews.com and vote.

So then Hannity comes on and brings his hired propagandist Frank Luntz and then interviews several candidates except Ron Paul. I don’t even remember Hannity showing a video clip of Ron Paul during the entire show.

The announcement of the poll results was supposed to be done during the hour long Hannity post-debate show. The entire show was a propaganda piece saying nice things about everyone but Ron Paul.

Well, it turns out Ron Paul won the FoxNews.com poll handily. He won it by several thousand votes. Here is a screenshot and a breakdown of the poll results shortly after 12 am ET (after Hannity’s show concluded).”

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AMERICA GETS A SECOND CHANCE…

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TO RETURN TO ITS ROOTS!

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Obama Attacks GOP Candidates–On Tax-Funded Bus Trip Through Battleground States

President Barack Obama attacked the Republican presidential candidates Monday as part of a taxpayer-funded bus tour that the White House insists is not campaign-related.

The president’s three-day bus tour through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois is supposed to focus on jobs. But during a town hall meeting in Cannon Falls, Minn., Obama mentioned last Thursday’s Republican debate in Ames, Iowa, and he criticized the candidates for saying they would not accept any deficit-reduction deal that includes tax increases.

“I know it’s not election season yet,” Obama said two days after the GOP’s Ames straw poll, “but I just have to mention, the debate the other party candidates were having the other day — when they were asked to reduce our deficit, reduce our debt, would you be willing to take a deal where it was $5 of spending cuts for every $1 of increased revenues, who would take it? Everybody said no.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com …

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Media: Candidate Ron Paul Doesn’t Exist…If We Pretend He Doesn’t (Hilarious Daily Show)

Media: Candidate Ron Paul Doesn’t Exist…If We Pretend He Doesn’t (Hilarious Daily Show)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/jon-stewart-ron-paul-media-blackout ^

Posted on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:51:43 PM by quesney

Over the weekend, following the Iowa straw poll result, we posed a simple question: why does the media continue to ignore Ron Paul (on both the left and right)? We followed up with none other than Paul’s own response to this curious status quo.

A few days later, it appears that the media itself has finally caught on to this ironic ‘house of mirrors‘ effect, and while Paul is still not a household name, the self-effacing sarcasm this topic has garnered, has been captured best by none other than Jon Stewart in this entertaining clip that mocks the established mindset of the legacy media to not dare disturb the status quo, confirming that everyone, left and right, are really all just the same. For those who have not seen it yet, this is a hilarious must watch.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/jon-stewart-ron-paul-media-blackout

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“They are self-appointed overseers of the D.C. tax-slave plantation and sworn enemies of free speech.” ~ What a ‘Hate Group’ Hates: A Counterintelligence Report by Thomas DiLorenzo « ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

Reading most of the postings on the League of the South Web site has clarified in my mind what the real purpose of the Southern Poverty Law Center (which does not practice poverty law, by the way) is: to defame, libel, smear, and slander any and all Jeffersonian critics of the highly centralized, dictatorial, welfare/warfare state empire that so many Americans slave under today. They are self-appointed overseers of the D.C. tax-slave plantation and sworn enemies of free speech.

It would be politically risky for Congress to attempt to pass another Sedition Act to outlaw free speech, but congress critters like William Lacy Clay are more than happy to be assisted by the SPLC with its persistent attacks on speech that is critical of Big Government, all under the phony guise of “fighting hate.”

If Thomas Jefferson were alive today and repeating his speeches about how the tree of liberty must be drenched in the blood of patriots and tyrants; how a revolution every twenty years or so is a healthful medicine for a free society; or how secession should be welcomed and all secessionists treated as “our children,” Americans one and all, he would most certainly be on the top of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of haters and “hate group” instigators.

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Only National Collapse Will End America’s Spending Problem

While many are complaining about the recent debt-ceiling deal, is it really the issue? Sure, statists say that the Republicans steered us toward crisis with their initial unwillingness to compromise, while traditionalists complain that the GOP folded and “let us down again.” Our problems, however, lie not in our politicians but in ourselves.

Just so you know, my solution to our spending woes would be to once again limit the central government to only that which our Constitution dictates it may do, which would cause its budget to immediately shrink by at least two-thirds — and probably far more. Of course, this would involve eliminating bureaucracies such as the Department of Education, Environmental Protection Agency, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and programs such as Social Security and federally provided food stamps. There would be nothing to fear, either, as there is much duplication here; for example, states have their own environmental and education agencies and other bureaucracies/programs that render the feds’ corresponding ones redundant. And why are we paying for two different levels of government to do the same thing? As for third-rail program Social Security, it could be devolved to the states, whose residents could then decide what its future would be.

Oh, this is unrealistic and will never happen, you say?

You’re right.

And it was just as unrealistic to think that Republicans, who control only one-half of one-third of the government — and very little of the media, which shapes public opinion — would deliver a Tea Party plan in a spending-party culture.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com …

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Will Comcast Reveal Ties to MSNBC Anchorman-in-Waiting Al Sharpton?

“Al Sharpton, anchorman” – the phrase has an undeniably odd ring. Yet on MSNBC it’s already a part-time reality. And his close relationship to MSNBC’s parent, Comcast Corp., may enable him to become full-time permanent host of the cable network‘s 6 P.M. news slot. If Sharpton gets promoted – the announcement could come any day – it would be the ultimate coup in his ongoing campaign to obtain respectability to cover a long history of racial incitement. It also might be a conflict of interest. Comcast, the nation’s largest cable owner-operator, this January completed a $30 billion purchase of a 51 percent stake in NBCUniversal, which owns MSNBC. Of more than passing significance, Comcast also is a key donor to Sharpton’s main nonprofit conduit, National Action Network (NAN). So why isn’t Comcast more open about its relationship with “the Rev?” It’s a question that Comcast top brass aren’t answering……………….

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Gangster culture [An element of rap music has shifted from the ghetto to mainstream]

What was the cause of the riots in the United Kingdom?

This wasn’t a political riot. There wasn’t anything political about it. It wasn’t even race-on-race rioting. It was races rioting together — rioting against the state, and for themselves.

Last week, renowned British historian David Starkey made this point to the BBC: The rioting was just shopping with violence. People sensed a moment of lawlessness and impunity.

But Starkey’s point was an observation, not an explanation. How did thousands of people in the land of the Magna Carta, the land of liberty and law, simply decide to become petty little gangsters?

Starkey referred to a speech made in 1968 by a politician named Enoch Powell, who had warned about unlimited immigration to the U.K., using the phrase “rivers of blood.” Starkey said the violence predicted by Powell had come true — but it wasn’t race versus race.

It was various races together. “The whites have become black,” he said. “A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion.” Uh-oh.

Hundreds of people immediately filed censorship complaints against Starkey and the BBC, and he was widely condemned as a racist.

Perhaps Starkey could have been more careful; he said white had become black — and then immediately became more precise, meaning they had accepted a particular segment of black culture, namely gangsta rap. But his meaning was perfectly clear — to anyone who has listened to rap music, with its glorification of violence and material excess, and who has seen the glamourization of that lifestyle move from ghettos into the cultural mainstream.

What grown men wear hoodies in public? Or their underwear up high and their pants down low? Those aren’t crimes, of course — maybe fashion crimes. But far more serious is the set of values that has been swallowed along with the cultural touchstones of fashion and diction.

Gangsta culture calls women “hos” and “bitches,” a crude misogyny with an undercurrent of a threat of violence. It glamourizes fighting, shooting and even dying in gangland warfare. It holds that the point of wealth is to squander it on bling and champagne.

For some folks, it’s a joke. Take Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comic who created a character called Ali G — a twenty-something white kid trying so hard to be a gangsta.

It was a laugh riot, so over the top it was hilarious. Except that thousands of British kids decided that’s who they wanted to be when they grew up.

As U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday, this isn’t just about mimicking some questionable role models. It has become a substitute moral code. Starkey accurately pointed out where it came from, and where it has gone.

When thousands of British thugs decide it’s not a fantasy anymore, but rather a code for living, that’s the time to blow the whistle.

Cameron’s right. This is a slow-motion moral collapse. And the solution is surely not banning rough music or comedy. But being free to talk about it openly, like David Starkey did, is part of the solution, not part of the problem.

via Gangster culture [An element of rap music has shifted from the ghetto to mainstream].

Ron Paul Ad – THE ONE – YouTube

Ron Paul Ad – THE ONE – YouTube

Ron Paul Ad – THE ONE – YouTube:

“Ron Paul Ad – THE ONE”

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Rick Perry and Islam

Some questions have been raised about Rick Perry‘s views on Islam. Islamic infiltration into American politics means that every candidate deserves close scrutiny. My purpose is not to attack Perry, but to conduct a preliminary discussion of the subject. Pamela Geller and Debbie Schlussel have written their own articles, which add more pieces to the puzzle. As with every candidate, the discussion will go on as more materials are brought forward.

Perry at the signing of the Texas Halal Law First of all it’s important to recognize that the Rick Perry question, is also the Chris Christie question, it’s the question that comes with every governor from a state with a large and politically active Muslim population. This question will have more serious implications as the size of the Muslim population expands even further.

The multicultural pandering that used to be associated with the Tammany Hall political machine has become second nature in American politics. There is hardly a governor who does not pay lip service to diversity or do roundups of all the religious groups in America. That’s an unfortunate reality.

The initial good news is that Rick Perry did not try to influence the judicial system on behalf of a member of a terrorist organization, or appoint a terrorist Imam’s political affiliate to a superior court judgeship the way that Christie did.

The worst thing he seems to have done is played footsie with the Aga Khan and appointed one of his people to the State Health Council. He also seems to have met with a group of black clergy, which included a Nation of Islam minister, and made the usual trips to Dubai to talk up trade and academic exchanges.

Then there’s the Texas Halal Law, which makes it a criminal offense to sell Halal and non-Halal meat in the same store, without specifically labeling the two, and of misrepresenting non-Halal meat as being Halal. In theory that’s not such a big deal. Similar laws are on the books for Kosher meat. But the problem comes with the definition of what Halal is.

“Halal,” as applied to food, means food………………

 

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Obama’s ineligibility: Prepare to defend America – Total leadership failure

“In every sense of the term, we have a rogue government which is no longer constrained by the rule of law and has declared war on the American people.

The faux-leaders in Congress will continue to posture, position themselves, cut secret deals, nod and wink at each other. It is political incest, incompetence and gross negligence.

If the cover-up continues and Obama is permitted to run in 2012, his forces will unleash the most racial, polarizing and potentially violent campaign in US history. Expect to see organized flash mobs used as a method of political intimidation.

We are now perched on the edge of an abyss. The survival of our republic is at stake. We must join together and stand against those who will destroy our country.

The Obama criminal conspiracy must be exposed and taken down now.

There will be no second chance.”

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Obama’s ineligibility: Prepare to defend America – Total leadership failure

Obama’s ineligibility: Prepare to defend America – Total leadership failure

Obama’s ineligibility: Prepare to defend America – Total leadership failure:

“Just how many felonies does Barack Hussein Obama need to commit before anyone in the US Government speaks out?

Millions of Americans are asking that question.

We now learn that the Cook County Assessor’s Office confirms that Obama has likely committed real estate and tax fraud in a deal with

Tony Rezko in Chicago.

Add to that Presidential eligibility fraud, birth certificate fraud, Social Security Number fraud and Selective Service registration fraud.

When will Congress launch an investigation into the criminal and usurper in the Oval Office? When will senior members of the military or the federal law enforcement agencies stand by their oaths to support and defend the Constitution?

The answer is “never.” There has been a colossal failure of leadership. We have a government littered with careerists, sycophants, cowards, liars and the greedy. As they see it, ordinary Americans only exist to serve their interests.

Senior members of the US Government are part of a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice and hide the truth about Obama from the American people.

The mainstream media are actively colluding with these corrupt officials through a campaign of disinformation and psychological operations to denigrate and discredit anyone who demands the truth about Obama.”

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Today’s Toons 8/16/11

Today’s Toons 8/16/11

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Ron Paul and Liberty by Walter Block

If Ron Paul had won the Ames Iowa poll, the mainstream media would have dismissed the entire exercise as unimportant. If he had come in at, oh, 6th place, they would have used this as evidence that he is incompetent, not in the first rank of Republican candidates, can’t get out the vote, the American people had rejected his candidacy, etc. So, when Congressman Paul took a magnificent second place, only 1% behind the winner, I said to myself, Hot diggity dog; the MSM can’t ignore him now. They cannot dismiss this entire result since if they did so, they would have to also deprecate Michele Bachmann’s win, and that they will not do. They now MUST give Dr. Paul his due credit, since he finished in close second place to her. They will be forced to discuss his ideas: bring the troops home, get rid of the Fed, drastically reduce taxes, eliminate a slew of illicit Federal departments, legalize drugs and other victimless crimes, stop foreign “aid,” save the American dollar via 100% gold backing, etc.

Silly me. That shows how much I know. Instead, the talking heads are now tooting this line: “The three front runners are Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann.” In their view, these are the major candidates, and all the others are also-rans. Why Mitt Romney? Well, he looks presidential, and he has a good chance with the tea partiers despite his Romney-car health policy in Massachusetts, oh so similar to Obama-care. Why Rick Perry? Well, he’s the governor of Texas, the second biggest state, isn’t he? And this despite the fact that he has not yet won anything in the presidential sweepstakes. Why Michele Bachmann? This is because, of course, she just won the Ames Iowa poll. Notice any name missing from all of this? I………………………..

 

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via Ron Paul and Liberty by Walter Block.

Another Big Lincoln Lie Exposed by Thomas DiLorenzo

These are the words of the real Lincoln, who was as much a white supremacist as any man of his time. In fact, he was a much more extreme white supremacist than most, for he advocated “colonization” or the deportation of black people from America for his entire adult life. As soon as he entered politics in the early 1830s he became a “manager” of the Illinois Colonization Society which sought to use state tax funds to deport the small number of free blacks living in Illinois out of the state (the state amended its constitution in 1848 to prohibit the immigration of black people into the state, an amendment that Lincoln supported).

Lincoln followed in the footsteps of his idol, Henry Clay, who was the president of the American Colonization Society, and quoted Clay often on the subject. During his presidency he established a colonization office in the Department of Interior and funded it with $600,000, while working diligently to plan on deporting black people to Liberia, Haiti, Jamaica, Central America, the West Indies – anywhere but the U.S.

These historical facts have long presented a problem for the purveyors of the comic book/fairy tale history of Lincoln that has been taught to Americans for generations. For they suggest that, rather than being a racial saint, as the comic book/fairy tale version of history contends, the exact opposite is true. The Lincoln cult has mostly covered up these truths by seeing to it that they rarely, if ever, make it into the public school textbooks. But just in case the truth does seep out, the Cult has concocted several excuses, “justifications,” and rationales for Lincoln’s extreme racist language and actions.

via Another Big Lincoln Lie Exposed by Thomas DiLorenzo.

The TSA: Bringing ‘Common Sense’ and ‘Intelligence’ to Slavery by Becky Akers

Terms so antithetical one never expects to encounter them in the same article — “common sense,” “intelligence” and “Transportation Security Administration (TSA)” – have been popping up together in the corporate media the last few weeks. Its propagandists praise the TSA’s chief pervert, John Pistole, for “introduc[ing] just the slightest bit of intelligence and flexibility into his agency’s system.”

Several scams at the TSA inspired this allegation. First, the bureaucracy is once again experimenting with a “Trusted Traveler Program.” Yep, I laugh every time I type it, too. What we need is a “Trusted Tyrant Program” given that the sociopaths in office have bankrupted the country, beggared homeowners with imprudent mortgages, invaded much of the world, and bombed those countries refusing to thank them for it. Yet idiots nationwide fear passengers, not politicians.

At any rate, the TSA has resurrected an idea it killed a few years ago when its “private-sector [yeah, right] partner” would have split the profits with it: if passengers will divulge even more information than unconstitutional laws already require to an agency in the habit of losing hard drives bursting with just such data, why, they can go to the head of the checkpoint’s line for – yes! – faster molestation. And guess what? Your expedited assault will cost you another $150 on top of the taxes and fees you already pay to finance the TSA’s annual budget of $8.2 billion. No matter: “some [trusted] travelers may keep their shoes on; others may not have to remove their laptops from their cases.” Ah, the land of the free: you and your computer will henceforth be shod while government goons gate-rape you.

via The TSA: Bringing ‘Common Sense’ and ‘Intelligence’ to Slavery by Becky Akers.

Jesse Ventura on Government Cover-Ups . . . 9/11, the Reality of HAARP and Making Government Better by Anthony Wile

The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Jesse Ventura.

Introduction: Jesse Ventura is the former Independent Governor of Minnesota. He is also a former U.S. Navy SEAL, professional wrestler, movie actor, a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the New York Times bestselling author of five books. He is currently the host and executive producer of TruTV’s Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. He has a reputation as the ultimate non-partisan truth-seeker; he has no qualms about questioning authority.

Daily Bell: Thanks for sitting down with us. You’ve written another very interesting book, 63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You To Read. Tell us about it.

Jesse Ventura: This is a book I collaborated on with Dick Russell, and I would like to give him the credit for doing all the research. That’s why we make a good team. I just don’t have the patience to do the research he does. It was our publisher, SkyHorse – it was their idea to do this book. Dick and I started searching for these documents, which are all documents released by the US government. WikiLeaks started releasing information right before we started, so naturally we used some of their stuff too. We started by going back to World War II, and we picked out 63 documents that we thought were very important. We choose 63 because that was the same year that President John F. Kennedy was murdered. That was when everything went bad. If you can murder the president and get away with it, you can do anything.

Daily Bell: Do you use original sources?

Jesse Ventura: Absolutely. The documents are original, not opinion. We reprinted the documents, so the reader has the ability to read all of them.

via Jesse Ventura on Government Cover-Ups . . . 9/11, the Reality of HAARP and Making Government Better by Anthony Wile.

Ron Paul Won in Iowa by David Franke

The winners in Iowa were (1) Ron Paul, (2) Rick Perry, and (3) Michele Bachmann, in that order.

Michele Bachmann is the winner of record, and will always be listed that way in the history books. But in terms of the dynamism and impact of the race, she has been hurt by the Iowa Straw Poll results. Behind closed doors, she and her campaign managers cannot be happy tonight.

She had the home turf advantage and she had the media for and against her in just the right ways. She supposedly had momentum on her side. Given all that, the fact that she beat Ron Paul by a mere 152 votes (1% of the total votes cast) is an embarrassment and a sign of long-term weakness.

Let me explain two kinds of media bias, and their pivotal role in the voting at the Iowa Straw Poll.

The mainstream/liberal media detests Michele Bachmann, no doubt about it. She’s not the kind of person they invite to their cocktail parties. But the important point is, they treat her as a serious candidate. When they acknowledge that she can win in Iowa, and perhaps win the Republican nomination, they legitimize her. And when they are nasty to her, as with the Newsweek cover, that helps her too. Nothing earns you votes in a Republican primary or other grassroots event like a nasty attack by the liberal media.

The media attacks on Ron Paul are of an entirely different nature. They seek to de-legitimize him as a serious candidate. And the intention is to depress the vote for Ron Paul. Outside of his hard core supporters – who are ostracized as crazed political groupies, mostly college students high on ideology – who wants to “throw away” their vote for someone who “cannot win”?

The Iowa straw poll raised a couple of problems for the media. They couldn’t complain that he brought in supporters from all over the nation, because only registered Iowa voters can vote in the straw poll. And they couldn’t complain that he was buying votes because all the candidates do that. That’s the idea, in fact – the Iowa Straw Poll is a fundraiser for the Iowa Republican Party.

via Ron Paul Won in Iowa by David Franke.

Obama compares woes to Lincoln

At his campaign-style town hall meeting in Decorah, Iowa, President Obama compared the criticism he has received from Republicans and other political opponents to the troubles faced by President Abraham Lincoln during the civil war. “Lincoln,” the president said, “they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me.”

The president’s remarks came in response to a question from a woman who said that congressional Republicans are refusing to be a “good partner” to work with the president. “What happens to our democracy?” the woman asked. “We are in a very divided country right now. What can you say to help us with democracy itself?”

Obama told the woman that “democracy is always a messy business in a big country like this.” In addition, he said, “We kind of romanticize sometimes what democracy used to be like.”

“When you listen to what the Federalists said about the Anti-Federalists, and the names that Jefferson called Hamilton and back and forth — I mean those guys were tough,” Obama said. “Lincoln — they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.”

The president has had historical analogies on his mind lately. At a high-dollar fundraiser in New York City last Thursday, he discussed the difficulties he has faced recently and included a meditation on Martin Luther King, Jr. “I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times,” the president said. “There was a decade that followed the great successes of Birmingham and Selma in which he was just struggling, fighting the good fight, and scorned, and many folks angry. But what he understood, what kept him going, was that the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. But it doesn’t bend on its own. It bends because all of us are putting our hand on the arc and we are bending it in that direction. And it takes time. And it’s hard work. And there are frustrations.”

via Obama compares woes to Lincoln.

OBAMA: I’M JUST LIKE LINCOLN!

Byron York is chronicling the outrages committed by President Obama on his taxpayer-funded campaign swing through Iowa and the Midwest. I was in the midst of a post on Obama’s whine that he is the victim of “bad luck,” as reported by Byron, when his latest dispatch landed in my inbox: “Obama compares woes to Lincoln.”

At his campaign-style town hall meeting in Decorah, Iowa, President Obama compared the criticism he has received from Republicans and other political opponents to the troubles faced by President Abraham Lincoln during the civil war. “Lincoln,” the president said, “they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me.”

Almost as bad! Lincoln was “the original gorilla,” a sub-human, to the Democrats. It is impossible to imagine the hysteria that would result from any such depiction of Obama. But that was the least of it: the Southern states, in the grip of the Democratic Party, seceded rather than be governed by an anti-slavery President Lincoln. In the North, treasonous Copperhead Democrats bedeviled Lincoln’s administration throughout the Civil War. And a group of rabid Democrat/secessionists eventually assassinated him.

We have remarked before on Obama’s striking ignorance of history, but even he must understand that his claim to be more abused than Lincoln is disgraceful. If a narcissist like Obama were capable of shame, this would be an appropriate time to show it.

via OBAMA: I’M JUST LIKE LINCOLN!.

Obama has been like Reagan, now Lincoln, next Washington & then Jesus!

White House Commie complains,“Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me.”

Barry, you will be remembered less than the dog feces on the White House lawn!

via Obama has been like Reagan, now Lincoln, next Washington & then Jesus!.

The Silence that Shatters America

Why do we take it as gospel that Barack Hussein Obama gets to fundamentally transform America just because he makes the bold claim that’s what he’s going to do?

Why do decent, rational, American-loving people let Obama get away with saying he will “fundamentally transform America”?

The first time he arrogantly uttered these words, the response should have been: “It should go without saying that no one, not even a president or a king will ever be allowed to fundamentally transform America.”

…In order to stop D.C.’s Marxist Commander in Chief in his tracks, he must be forced back to reality and told “No One is going to fundamentally transform America.” It’s eons apart from “Dreams From My Father”.

How did the promise to fundamentally transform America ever go unchallenged in Obama’s long narrative?

It must be treason to want to fundamentally transform America against the wishes of the majority.

The West, which counts on the freedom of the United States of America, needs this burning question answered: Who is Obama to come along, trash the Constitution, ridicule America from foreign shores, and put into hateful, spiteful words his insane vision for the fundamental transformation of America?

Some call Obama a Marxist on a take-down America mission. Talking heads define him as stupid, incompetent, even as a man child. Yet aside from two books, many claims of which were never proven, all personal details of Obama’s life before his Second Coming to the Oval Office are locked away from public view.

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com …

via The Silence that Shatters America.

Donald Trump Demands Obama Campaign Pay For Bus Tour: ‘It’s A Fundraising Tour’

Add Donald Trump to the list of people that seem to have doubts about President Obama’s national tour. Speaking from his office with Greta van Susteren today, Trump argued that the President takes “more vacations than any human being I’ve ever seen” and that his “fundraising tour” should not fall into the hands of taxpayers, citing a lack of leadership on his part. Trump and Van Susteren went through a long list of topics– from China and OPEC to Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann– but began with the President’s tour. The August vacation, separately, Trump argued “sends a very, very bad message,” but shrugged that President Obama “likes vacation” and won’t be stopped from taking one. He then turned to the actual tour, which he believed was part of his campaigning and not something the President was doing in his executive capacity. “Why isn’t his campaign paying for this, he argued,” noting that he was traveling on a bus and “the most expensive airplane you can fly” on the Taxpayers’ dime. He gave President Obama one compliment: “he’s a good campaigner– not a great campaigner, but a good campaigner.”

Van Susteren then turned to foreign policy, where Trump railed that the United States “were like patsies… the world is taking advantage of the United States” and cited the worst abuser as China, though added Colombia and a number of other countries to that list. He also had some words about Palin and Rep. Bachmann; asked to compare the two, he declined, but argued they were similar in the challenges they faced as conservative women. He also said he liked them both very much, had no idea whether Palin was running (the “famous pizza incident” did nothing to help him figure that out, he explained), and had yet to pick a candidate in the Republican race.

The segment via Fox News below:

(VIDEO AT LINK)

via Donald Trump Demands Obama Campaign Pay For Bus Tour: ‘It’s A Fundraising Tour’.

Casey Anthony’s Legal Team: We’re Taking on the Judge She Should NOT Be On Probation

Casey Anthony‘s legal team tells TMZ they will fight the judge who just rejected their claim that Casey served her probation for check fraud while she sat in jail during her murder trial … and if they lose Casey will have to return to Florida in 11 days.

via Casey Anthony’s Legal Team: We’re Taking on the Judge She Should NOT Be On Probation.