Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.
Despite boasting religious freedom and protection of all holy sites, Israel falls short in tolerance toward minorities, equal treatment of ethnic groups, openness toward various streams within society, and respect for holy and other sites. ...
...The report makes it clear that practices that have become routine in Israel are considered unacceptable in enlightened countries and should be corrected…
We live in the least tolerant country in the world. Full of racists and bigots and discrimination and are guilty of all sorts of horrible human rights abuses…
Our government has no right to criticize anyone.
WE TORTURE PEOPLE FOR GAWDSSAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Federal charges have been filed against a former contractor for the county Department of Public Works who is accused of failing to inspect landfill gas emissions and then entering false data as though he did the work, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday.
Atticus Gee, 33, of Oceanside, was employed as a technician from 2004 to 2007 and was responsible for tracking gas emissions of closed landfills around the county, including ones in San Marcos, Carlsbad, Bonsall and Encinitas.
Prosecutors say instead of doing the inspections, Gee prepared false reports by copying data already in his computer database into the new reports…
...Methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together. Methane is 21 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2. While atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have risen by about 31% since pre-industrial times, methane concentrations have more than doubled....With methane emissions causing nearly half of the planet’s human-induced warming, methane reduction must be a priority....
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President Obama vs. The Rest of the World Greeting The Emperor of Japan (Photos)
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...the King of Morocco...the President of South Korea...the Prime Minister of India......
it is so refreshing to have a president that pays proper respect to different cultures and leaders. i am glad mr. obama bows before other world leaders, it shows he is humble and that we are no longer an arrogant, cowboy-like nation as so many viewed us the previous 8 years.
and breakfast....and snack....
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
* 1 cup canned pumpkin (I used fresh)
* 1 cup white sugar
* 1/2 cup vegetable oil
* 1 egg
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon milk
* 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
* 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
* 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)Directions
1. Combine pumpkin, sugar, vegetable oil, and egg. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, ground cinnamon, and salt. Dissolve the baking soda with the milk and stir in. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and mix well.
2. Add vanilla, chocolate chips and nuts.
3. Drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for approximately 10 minutes or until lightly brown and firm.
know the origins of thy enemy
Barbara Curtis is blogging Rules for Radicals
More to come…
Saul Alinsky was the founding father of community organizing. And Obama’s team of Alinskyite cronies are doing what they’ve been doing for years — only now they are community organizing at a national level. This involves “empowering” the poor by crushing the middle class (though as we will see, Obama-style empowerment is an illusion). It involves obliterating traditions and symbols with which patriotic Americans identify (see Obama and iconography). It involves fomenting fear, uncertainty, and racial division. It means — because in an Alinsky world, the end justifies the means — that moral constraints like truth and honesty are off the table.
Grab a cuppa joe and go cringe read.
11/14 at 01:12 PM •
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DougHeeeeeeeee
three letters...
Emerson Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer David Farr ...“Washington is doing everything in their manpower, capability, to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” Farr said [11/11/09] in Chicago at a Baird Industrial Outlook conference. “Cap and trade, medical reform, labor rules.” ...
Emerson… will keep expanding in emerging markets, which represented 32 percent of revenue in 2009. About 36 percent of manufacturing is now in “best-cost countries” up from 21 percent in 2003, according to slides accompanying his speech.
Companies will create jobs in India and China, “places where people want the products and where the governments welcome you to actually do something,” Farr said.
...“What do you think I am going to do?” Farr asked. “I’m not going to hire anybody in the United States. I’m moving. They are doing everything possible to destroy jobs.”
11/14 at 12:31 PM •
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THE PATRIOT MICRO CHIP is intended to be implanted in terrorists.
The implant is specifically designed to be installed in the forehead.
When properly installed, it will allow the one implanted, to speak to God…
Vice President Joe Biden will appear on Comedy Central’s satiric “The Daily Show” next week, the network announced Friday.
In Japan, being thin isn’t just the price you pay for fashion or social acceptance. It’s the law.
So before the fat police could throw her in pudgy purgatory, Miki Yabe, 39, a manager at a major transportation corporation, went on a crash diet last month. In the week before her company’s annual health check-up, Yabe ate 21 consecutive meals of vegetable soup and hit the gym for 30 minutes a day of running and swimming.
“It’s scary,” said Yabe, who is 5 feet 3 inches and 133 pounds. “I gained 2 kilos [4.5 pounds] this year.”
In Japan, already the slimmest industrialized nation, people are fighting fat to ward off dreaded metabolic syndrome and comply with a government-imposed waistline standard. Metabolic syndrome, known here simply as “metabo,” is a combination of health risks, including stomach flab, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, that can lead to cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Concerned about rising rates of both in a graying nation, Japanese lawmakers last year set a maximum waistline size for anyone age 40 and older: 85 centimeters (33.5 inches) for men and 90 centimeters (35.4 inches) for women.
In the United States, the Senate and House health care reform bills have included the so-called “Safeway Amendment,” which would offer reductions in insurance premiums to people who lead fitter lives. The experience of the Japanese offers lessons in how complicated it is to legislate good health....
plenty, Pilgrim
I enJOY the hell outta Vanderleun and recommend him to you, in both formats.
In case ya missed it, he has a response to the age-old question, “The invaders are taking over and we are just chewing the fat?” Read the entire list here, or fail to at your own peril. I’ll include a coupla appetite-whetters here:
-- Develop a tough and resilient attitude.
--Stay far away from places where most people are government serfs.
-- Learn to track and hunt and fish.
-- Make friends and look for common ground with everyone who loves freedom.
Here’s one we can work on right here on the Porch: “Figure out at least one conversational “hook” that can help a misguided Obama believer at least start to see a tiny bit of light.”
I got plans for a dinner party to explore with my pals arming ourselves for those inevitable Holiday Party Political Conversations. So much better to think out one’s strategy ahead of time than to land on the fall back tactic of screaming “Are you out of your freaking mind?!?!?” at Grandma.
11/14 at 08:05 AM •
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if ya can’t hide it, paint it red
Andrew C. McCarthy, former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a series of planned attacks on NYC landmarks and citizens.
I believe the explanation lies in the Obama administration’s fondness for transnationalism, a doctrine of post-sovereign globalism in which America is seen as owing its principal allegiance to the international legal order rather than to our own Constitution and national interests.
[1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions] potentially converts traditional combat operations into war crimes [by extending] protections to terrorists and imposes an exacting legal regime on combat operations, relying on such concepts as “proportional” use of force and rigorous distinction between military and civilian targets.
The U. S. did not agree to Protocol I, but the concept of ”customary international law holds that once new legal principles gain broad acceptance among nations and international organizations, they somehow transmogrify into binding law, even for nations that haven’t agreed to them.” Nevermind your little “Constitution” or democracy or whatever you call it.
Today’s announcement that KSM and other top al-Qaeda terrorists will be transferred to Manhattan federal court for civilian trials neatly fits this hidden agenda. Nothing results in more disclosures of government intelligence than civilian trials. They are a banquet of information, not just at the discovery stage but in the trial process itself, where witnesses — intelligence sources — must expose themselves and their secrets.
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We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for their own actions, there is only one thing for their lawyers to do: put the government on trial in hopes of getting the jury (and the media) spun up over government errors, abuses and incompetence. That is what is going to happen in the trial of KSM et al. It will be a soapbox for al-Qaeda’s case against America. Since that will be their “defense,” the defendants will demand every bit of information they can get about interrogations, renditions, secret prisons, undercover operations targeting Muslims and mosques, etc., and — depending on what judge catches the case — they are likely to be given a lot of it. The administration will be able to claim that the judge, not the administration, is responsible for the exposure of our defense secrets. And the circus will be played out for all to see — in the middle of the war. It will provide endless fodder for the transnational Left to press its case that actions taken in America’s defense are violations of international law that must be addressed by foreign courts. And the intelligence bounty will make our enemies more efficient at killing us.
11/14 at 07:28 AM •
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I larfed....hard.
