because being economically tied to the ChiComs and the WU has worked out so well...

(Reuters) - - The White House on Friday announced a “summit on entrepreneurship” to build economic ties with the Islamic world, part of President Barack Obama’s outreach to Muslims.

The White House said it has invited participants from more than 40 countries over five continents for the April 26-27 conference in Washington.

a step mile too far

John Patrick Bedell was a troubled man with a mental illness.  It was tragic that he did not get help—or restraint—before he endangered others and got himself killed.

But this endless questing for his motives —as though he were rational—is moronic.  Even more sickening is the rush to smear entire segments of the population with his acts, simply because of some of his statements, is becoming ludicrous.

The man was mentally ill.  Period.  That’s all we need to know about his “motivations.” That’s all we can know about his motivations.  Because that’s what ‘mentally ill’ means:  others cannot understand the internal logic of his thoughts, world view, or reasoning.

I heard a quote from Bedell over and over on the news, today.  Remember - they’re quoting “the internet rant” of a man who just tried to shoot up the Pentagon in the least well-thought-out, least effective “attack” in, well, ever.  The quote they chose was not some 911-Trooother rant, nothing about da gubbmint spying on his brain, but a quiet, reasonable discussion of how private property rights are the basis of freedom in this country.  What a nut bucket, eh?

Why choose that “fringe” quote?  Yeah.  You know as well as I do.

......a roman catholic elementary school test. kids were asked questions about the old and new testaments. the following statements about the bible were written by children. they have not been retouched or corrected. incorrect spelling has been left in…

PANNA COTTA

6 tablespoons cold milk
1.5 packets powdered unflavored gelatin [can use 2 full packets if you like it firm]

5 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup sugar
pinch salt
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

Optional:  1/4 C +/- 2T ScharffenBerger cocoa
and/or: any kind of berries or fruit

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1. Sprinkle the gelatin over the cold milk in a bowl and let stand 5 to 10 minutes.

2. Heat the heavy cream, sugar and salt in a saucepan. Do NOT allow to boil.  Once the sugar is dissolved, remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract.  [now is the time to add the cocoa, if desired.  and whayinhell not?!?  put cocoa in cup/small bowl and add about 1/8C of warm cream mixture.  stir like mad with fork to make mixture smooooth, then add to rest of cream mixture.]

3. Pour the very warm Panna Cotta mixture over the gelatin and stir until the gelatin is completely dissolved.

Let stand until barely warm.  [now is the time to add any fruit you want mixed in.  I like it best reserved for serving over top.  This is a texture treat as well as a taste treat.]

5. Divide the Panna Cotta mixture into martini glasses/wine glasses/demitasse cups/dang near anything pretty [demitasse spoons go with perfectly], then chill them until firm, which will take at least two to four hours.

Can be made the day before.

Jay-Z bragged at a show Wednesday that he’d just come from the White House, and the website Rap Radar has a photo that appears to show the rapper—who graced Obama’s campaign iPod—and friends posing around the table at what appears, from the table and the ceiling fixtures, to be the Situation Room.

Jay-Z is in the president’s seat…

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The pictures appear to have first made their appearance on Twitter, and the woman who posted them—then took them down—says she’s been told they “shouldn’t have been up"…

The White House Situation Room is a 5,000-square-foot conference room and intelligence management center in the basement of the West Wing of the White House. It is run by the National Security Council staff for the use of the President of the United States and his advisers (including Homeland Security and the White House Chief of Staff) to monitor and deal with crises at home and abroad and to conduct secure communications with outside (often overseas) persons. The Situation Room is equipped with secure, advanced communications equipment for the President to maintain command and control of U.S. forces around the world......

How to insure that you get your stolen computer back........

so proud… so confident...

David Miller, [Sen. Pat Wiggins’ [Dumbass] Santa Rosa] press aide, declined comment Thursday, but told the Sacramento Bee that it’s not “a secret that she (Wiggins) has a medical condition for which she’s being treated.”

Miller added that the condition “does not affect her ability to do her job as a senator. But it can make her irritable, and when she’s irritable, she lets it be known.”

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A California state senator [Sen. Roy Ashburn [R] Bakersfield] who reportedly has voted against every gay rights measure since he took office eight years ago was charged with driving under the influence [0.14] on Wednesday, reportedly after leaving a gay nightclub [Faces] in Sacramento.

Last summer an editor heard that a Sacramento publication with a gay audience might “out” state Sen. Roy Ashburn as being gay.

So I called Ashburn and asked him flat-out: “Are you gay?”

His response: “Why would that be anyone’s business? Including The Californian’s?

“I think there are certain subjects that are simply not relevant and this is one of them. It has no bearing on the job I do.”

...

It must be tough when just about everything anybody says about you is prefaced with the words “disgraced former assemblyman.” But that’s what Mike Duvall lives with every day. ... is benefiting from being away from the non-stop Sacramento smorgasbord provided courtesy of all those lobbyists.

..."hot mike” ... “set-up” by an aide and other assemblymen ...

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[newly appointed] Assembly Speaker John Pérez [40, a cousin of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa] ... his years as an executive with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union ... Pérez carved a lucrative exception into state law for billionaire developer Philip Anschutz. He also introduced a bill at the request of Enterprise Car Rental that would have helped boost the company’s bottom line by stripping away a significant consumer protection…

Pérez voted to give millions in government subsidies to a giant real estate firm that contributed heavily to his union’s political fund ... one step short of payola ... “In retrospect, yeah, I would have asked questions,” Pérez said ...

Pérez said there was no connection between his votes and the contributions, adding that he didn’t “know ...

[Perez’] vote in 2005 to let CIM install “supergraphic” signs on Sunset Boulevard…

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Assembly Speaker John Pérez [BMOC]

“ Amazing Grace “

Fair Budget organization push an out-of-gas Volkswagen Volvo stationwagon carrying symbolic coffin past the Legislative Building Thursday before carrying it up the Capitol steps as part of a protest…

we’re bein’ Alinskied

1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

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8. “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”

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10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.”

Tea Party = Open Source Politics

There are certainly no socialists in DC, especially in Obama’s WH.

Janet, I think it’s time to look under the other beds…

A California man killed in a shootout with Pentagon police drove cross-country and arrived at the military headquarters’ subway entrance armed with two semiautomatic weapons, authorities said Friday. The shooter apparently left behind Internet postings resentful of the government and airing suspicions about the 9/11 attacks.
John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., was named as the gunman in the Thursday evening attack. Authorities said he’d had previous run-ins with the law.

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Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was “a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.”

That same posting railed against the government’s enforcement of marijuana laws and included links to the author’s 2006 court case in Orange County, Calif., involving allegations of cultivating marijuana and resisting a police officer.

John Patrick Bedell: Did right-wing extremism lead to shooting?