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July 2012

MY SAY: NEED A GOOD LAUGH?

When I needed a laugh I used to go to the “funnies” or watch an Inspector Clouseau movie. Now I just check on the antics of the formerly prestigious Chautauqua Institution.

Exhibit A: ‘
The Ethics of Cheating

Who regulates behavior? To whose ethical standards should society be held? Lectures this week will examine cheating as an ethical wrong, but also challenge the assumption that cheating is always wrong. What are the motivations for cheating — psychological, evolutionary — and do we see it in nature? Do we make a distinction between cheating and “finding a loophole” or “bending the rules”? We will explore the history of cheating and its effect on business, sports, politics, technology, relationships and society. How can we maintain a culture of honor and integrity?

JUST PLAIN “PEOPLE” HUMA AND ANTHONY AND ADORABLE LITTLE JORDAN…..

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20612678,00.html
What’s next for former New York congressman Anthony Weiner? Baby’s first steps, of course.

“I’m very happy in my present life,” Weiner, 47, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview. “The only next dramatic steps I’m planning on are Jordan’s first,” he says, referring to his 6-month-old son and remaining noncommital on whether he will run for office again.

In his first joint interview with wife Huma Abedin, who is deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the couple address how they survived Weiner’s lewd text and photo scandal that led to his resignation, as well as who has diaper duty.

“It took a lot of work to get to where are are today, but I want people to know we’re a normal family,” says Abedin, 37.

“Anthony has spent every day since [the scandal] trying to be the best dad and husband he can be,” she says of her husband, who does all the laundry. “I’m proud to be married to him.”

For more on the couple’s life now and exclusive at-home photos, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday

“AVUNCULAR” FONDLING LANDS EGYPTIAN M.P. IN JAIL

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4258431,00.html

Egyptian sheikh gets jail after fondling report

Former lawmaker gets year in prison after found touching, caressing fully-veiled woman on his lap in parked car

An Egyptian court sentenced an ultraconservative former lawmaker and cleric to a year in prison for public indecency on Saturday, after police said they found him fondling a woman on his lap in a parked car at night.

Police have said in a report that the man was touching and caressing the fully-veiled woman when they approached him while parked alongside an agricultural road outside Cairo last month.

Ali Wanees has denied the charges. He claimed that he pulled the car over to assist his ill niece, but police say he is not her uncle.

The court also sentenced him to six months prison for contempt of police. The police report claims Wanees called the officers “sons of dogs” when they knocked on his window asking to see his license and registration.

The ultraconservative cleric’s whereabouts are unknown. He was tried in absentia and is allowed a retrial. The court sentenced the woman he was with – who has been in custody for about a month – to six months in jail. She also has the right to appeal.

Known as a sheikh for his role as a religious scholar, Wanees once sat in parliament as part of a Salafi-led coalition headed by the Nour Party, which won 25 percent of seats in the lower house before it was dissolved late last month.

The case against him is especially embarrassing for Salafis, who advocate the segregation of unrelated men and women. Salafis are known for a no-compromise, literal interpretation of the faith and typically grow long, moustache-less beards.

Earlier in the year, the Nour Party was forced to issue an embarrassing and apologetic statement after one of their lawmakers was reported to have lied to cover up a nose job, claiming that he sustained injuries to his heavily bandaged face from a carjacking and beating. He was kicked out of the party and resigned from parliament.

JIHAD’S WEEKLY TOLL

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
2012.07.21 (Orakzai, Pakistan) – Four young children are among nine people disassembled by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2012.07.21 (Gadap, Pakistan) – A medical worker is assassinated by the Taliban for assisting an anti-polio drive.
2012.07.21 (Dir Bala, Pakistan) – Fundamentalists bomb a peace committee bus, killing three riders.
2012.07.20 (Shalozan, Pakistan) – Islamic militants fire a rocket into a populated area, killing a 16-year-old girl and injuring her brother.

2012.07.19 (Karachi, Pakistan) – A 52-year-old leader of the Ahamdi minority is shot in the head by defenders of mainstream Islam.
2012.07.19 (Maiduguri, Nigeria) – Two traders at a market are murdered in cold blood by Boko Haram gunmen.

NEW AND BUZZ 24/7

The myth of Obama’s rhetorical genius
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Bachmann may be right about Muslim infiltration
National Review
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Commentary
John McCain took to the Senate floor this week to lambaste conservative members of the House who, unlike McCain, are serious about addressing threats the Muslim Brotherhood poses to American interests. Michele Bachmann and four other representatives have concluded that the Brotherhood needs to be regarded as the serious anti-American business that it is. That includes pointing out that State Department aide Huma Abedin has Brotherhood connections. Read more…

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27 states smacked with higher unemployment
USA Today
Friday, July 20, 2012
News
Unemployment rates rose in 27 states last month, the most in almost a year. Nevada recorded the highest unemployment rate, at 11.6%, same as the previous month. It was followed by Rhode Island at 10.9% and California at 10.7%. Read more…

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DHS hits the kill button on border success stories
The Washington Times
Saturday, July 21, 2012
News
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is not a fan of a key provision of the federal program that allows state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws — but until Thursday her department’s website hadn’t gotten the message. Now the Web page dedicated to success stories from the program is gone. Read more…

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DAVID SINGER: PALESTINE: UNITED NATIONS PERFIDY EXPOSED ****

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ “Palestine – United Nations’ Perfidy Exposed,” is the latest article, via the antipodean J-Wire service, by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer Writes David Singer: ‘The canard – supported by countless United Nations General Assembly Resolutions – that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal in international law – has been […]

PATRICK POOLE: KEITH ELLISON REWRITES HISTORY ON HIS OWN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TIES…..MUST READ

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/21/rep-keith-ellison-rewrites-history-on-his-muslim-brotherhood-cair-ties/
Rep. Keith Ellison Rewrites History on his Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR Ties

“One final note to the establishment media: you’re not going to be able to run and hide from these statements by the FBI and Justice Department about Keith Ellison’s Muslim Brotherhood front friends for much longer. Drop the witchhunt hysterics and let’s have a real debate about the facts. (This is me not holding my breath.)”

The most recent salvo in the kerfuffle between Minnesota congressmen Michele Bachmann and Keith Ellison finds Ellison attacking Bachmann for her statements made on Glenn Beck’s radio program on Thursday, where she said:

GLENN: Okay. So when you wrote this letter, then Keith Ellison comes out. And Keith Ellison is ‑‑ he has a record of being the Mafia hitman.

CONGRESSWOMAN BACHMANN: Well, he has a long record of being associated with CAIR and with the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR is an unindicted co‑conspirator, as stated in the large terrorist financing case that we’ve had in the United States of America and so he came out and essentially wanted to shut down the inspectors general from even looking into any of the questions that we were asking. So he wanted to shut it down. In response I wrote another letter back to Keith Ellison, a 16‑page letter which I would encourage all of your listeners to go and read this letter. It’s what I call a bulletproof letter. I have 59 footnotes with one example after another of the penetration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the federal government…

In response, Ellison told the Huffington Post:

“I am not now, nor have I ever been, associated with the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said with a laugh.

In fact, it is his denial that is laughable.

But this weekend Ellison doubled-down on his denial, telling Politico:

I support American institutions. I don’t know enough about [the Muslim Brotherhood]. What I know about them is that in Egypt, one of their candidates has ascended to the presidency. I’ve never met that person. But I do think the United States should have a foreign policy where we talk to foreign leaders of all kinds. But no, I don’t have any, I don’t have any Muslim Brotherhood connections that she’s talking about.

According to Ellison’s impeccable logic, since he hasn’t met Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader and new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, therefore he has no knowledge of the Muslim Brotherhood.

But a mountain of evidence of his contacts with and support of Muslim Brotherhood front groups – identified as such by the U.S. Government – shows that the Muslim Brotherhood definitely knows who he is.

Rewind to 2008 when Keith Ellison went on a 16-day hajj trip to Saudi Arabia paid for by the Muslim American Society (MAS) to the tune of $13,500.

As Scott Johnson at Powerline noted at the time that Ellison had conflicting stories about who paid for the trip:

The Star Tribune first reported on Ellison’s hajj in two puff pieces by Mitch Anderson this past December. Anderson first reported the statement of Ellison spokesman Rick Jauert that Ellison had paid for the trip himself. When Anderson returned to the story, he got such deep stuff from Ellison as this: “This is just me trying to be the best person I can be.” In the second story Anderson also reported that the MAS Minnesota paid for Ellison’s trip to Mecca, though Anderson didn’t pause to note the discrepancy between his two stories on this point.

As Fox News reported on the MAS sponsorship of Ellison’s trip, Ellison returned the favor to his benefactors by speaking at the 2007 and 2008 MAS-Minnesota conventions.

But who is MAS?

Fortunately, federal prosecutors cleared up the matter back in December 2007 when they said in a court filing in the federal appeal of convicted terror operative Sabri Benkahla (page 58, footnote 13):

MAS was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.

DAVID GOLDMAN: THE PROBLEM IS OBAMA NOT HUMA ABEDIN

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/07/21/the-problem-is-obama-not-huma-abedin/?print=1 Why should anyone worry about agents of the Muslim Brotherhood creeping in the back windows of the State Department, when President Obama has invited them to the front door of the White House? This is a time to unify the Republican Party, not split it, and Rep. Michele Bachmann’s misstep in the Huma Abedin […]

THOMAS LIFSON: OBAMA’S CREEPY FUNDRAISING

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/07/latest_embarrassing_obama_fundraising_gimmick_is_downright_creepy.html
Latest embarrassing Obama fundraising gimmick is downright creepy

Thomas Lifson
The Obama campaign has a serious disconnect when it comes to understand the boundaries between a political candidate and people’s real lives. Apparently the vast campaign organization in Chicago that was burning through money faster than they could raise it last month is full of acolytes who really buy into the whole lightworker, messiah illusion.

Late in June, as the cash deficit must have seemed awfully scary, the campaign came up with the Bridal Registry, which presumed brides would ask guests to give to the campaign rather than a gravy boat or chafing dish. It has been an embarrassing flop. The New York Post reports:

So far, “the Event Registry” has been all but ignored on social-media sites – even though Facebook, Twitter and other networks have been a strong suit for the Obama campaign.

“The number of links and stories about the announcement is very low since the news went live on June 22,” said Meredith Klee, a spokeswoman for the social-media tracking firm Topsy.

Her site’s latest data show 1,137 posts on Twitter about the registry.

And only a few hundred links to the registry have been shared on Facebook – even though Obama has more than 27 million fans on the site, according to Topsy.

But the campaign has outdone itself. Now they have announced a raffle to have Barack Obama appear in a family picture with the lucky winning family. Seriously. See:

DANIEL GREENFIELD: OBAMA FOR SALE

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

Summer is traditionally a weak shopping season, but lately the bargains just keep on coming. First there was an offer to have dinner with Obama and now a chance to have him there in your family photo. You can bid on an opportunity to wish Obama a happy birthday in person with the present that he likes best… money.
The prices are reasonable, and there are so many ways to buy Obama. You can play the dinner lottery or ask your wedding guests to gift to Obama. The Barack Obama website accepts all payments, Visa, Discover, Master Card, foreign donations and stolen credit cards.

The opportunities are endless. Birthdays, wedding anniversaries, major disasters; everything is just another reminder to give till it hurts. All you have to do is click one of the many buttons beneath the color-tuned hues of Instagram photos of Obama or his worse half smiling while the country slides deeper into poverty and debt.

There’s a reason that they call America, “The Land of Opportunity”. Sure it’s gotten a lot harder to come here and make a fortune with your own business, but buying time with the man at the top has just gotten a lot more affordable. You may not have the big wallet of a Warren Buffett or a George Soros and you won’t cash in to the tune of a few billion dollars like they did; but for 25 bucks you might end up briefly exchanging pleasantries with the man who is slowly sending you to the poorhouse.

The designers are working overtime digging up retro fonts that summon up the image of a more prosperous America. There are so many Obama portrait shirts that they will be filling up landfills for generations. More likely, they’ll be shipped over to the Third World, along with all the other surplus clothes that people donate once the trend has passed or they no longer fit, and, somewhere in an African village, children in the year 2021 will run around playing in “Obama 2012” t-shirts and Islamic terrorists in the Sahara will execute rebellious women while wearing “Forward” shirts.