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"There is but one straight
course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington
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Robbery
Victims Shooting Attackers Called ‘Alarming Trend’
There’s an alarming
trend in Detroit that have some people worried. In the span of a week, two
separate robberies were thwarted when the victims, who both had conceal carry
permits and a gun, managed to defend themselves by shooting their attackers.
In the first incidence, two teenagers thought it would be a good idea to rob
the 70 year old coach of a girl’s high school basketball team at Martin Luther
King Jr. Senior High School. The coach was escorting two of the girls to their
cars in the school parking lot when the teens, 15 and 16 years of age,
confronted the coach, grabbing him by a chain necklace he wore and sticking
something in his chest that he assumed was a gun. The girls ran away as the
coach was being attacked. The boys failed to realize that the coach is a
reserve police officer who was armed at the time. He managed to get his gun and
shoot both teens. The 16 year old died from his wounds and the 15 year old was
taken to the hospital in serious condition. The police are still reviewing the
shootings, but all indications say that it was a clear case of self-defense. Some
people in Detroit, including the one news person, are referring to the two
incidences of self-defense as an alarming trend. Alarming for who?
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Wisconsin
University Joins Campaign Saying It’s ‘Unfair’ to be White By Andrew Johnson
The University of Wisconsin–Superior became
the latest school to join the Unfair Campaign, which looks to bring
attention to the “unfairness” of being white. The campaign’s slogan is “It’s
hard to see racism when you’re white” and claims that “society was set up for
us.” The PSA ad. A UWS
spokeswoman told Campus Reform that the university is sponsoring the campaign
because it is an “opportunity on our campus to talk about all privilege and to
create conversation” as well as to “learn and to grow together.” The university
is planning to hold events with the Unfair Campaign and have professors discuss
the project. Last year, the University of Minnesota Duluth, which is less
than ten miles away from UWS, dropped its sponsorship of the Unfair Campaign,
saying that it was “divisive” and “alienating” to the student body. Interestingly,
other institutions in the Duluth/Superior metro area are also involved with the
Unfair Campaign, including Lake Superior College, the City of Duluth mayor’s
office Human Rights Commission and American Indian Commission, St. Louis County
Public Health and Human Services, and several area churches. Notice how the extreme groups us words to
distort and confuse. Whites are not
longer prejudiced, they are "privileged"; if one is white, in poverty, no education with no hope of
having more try to tell this person they are privileged! Support U.M Duluth.
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American
Crossroads: "Mystery Logic Theater
Hilarious rerun of the SOTU speech watch
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Belafonte
Blasts ‘White America’ for Black Gun Crimes
Harry Belafonte, entertainer, long-time
left-wing activist and admirer of Third World dictators, inserted himself
into the national debate on gun control when he claimed “white Americans” who
agitate for gun rights are ignoring the black “river of blood that washes the
streets of our nation.” The actor was on hand to be honored at the 2013
NAACP Image Awards when he asserted in his acceptance speech that the “group
most devastated by America’s obsession with the gun is African Americans.” “Although
making comparisons can be dangerous, there are times when they must be noted,”
he said. ‘America has the largest prison population in the world. And of the
over 2 million men, women and children who make up the incarcerated, the overwhelming
majority is black. We are the most unemployed, the most caught in the unjust
systems of justice, and in the gun game, we are the most hunted.” What?????
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“Freed
Slave” Sheila Jackson Lee: Spending Cuts Will Enslave America
Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat Representative
from Texas’s 18th district, said that if Congress doesn’t “come
together” to stop the sequester, they won’t be able to “free America” from
slavery:
“[Y]esterday was
the official birthday of President Lincoln, February 12th, and
although it was a tragic time in our history, I can assure you that it showed the
greatest promise of America when people could come together and do something
great. I stand here as a freed slave because this congress came together.
Are we going to be able to do it today to free America?”
There we have it, a freed slave serving
in the House. How old is she, she must
be at least 110 years old! Obama read
from his teleprompter during the SOTU address and said that the upcoming sequestration
cuts were “sudden, harsh and arbitrary.” He stated that the cuts would
devastate important government functions and destroy hundreds of thousands of
jobs. If
the sequestration cuts do occur, they would total about $44 billion, which is
1.2% of 2013 spending, according to a CBO report. That’s less than pocket change to
a government that spends on the order of $9.7 billion per day. That $44 billion
would be eaten up in less than 1 business week. Four and a half days to be
exact. Back to Sheila
Jackson Lee. What political theater,
claiming she is a freed slave. Doing so
to trigger a strong emotional response from the low information voter. She is talking about TAX CUTS. Actually, she wants more tax payer money
to keep African American's enslaved to the government! One could say she is FOR slavery!
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Obama made
no phone calls on night of Benghazi attack
President Obama didn’t make any phone calls the night of the Sept. 11
attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the White House said in a letter to
Congress released Thursday.
“During the entire attack, the president
of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office
in the mix,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, who had held
up Mr. Obama’s defense secretary nominee to force the information to be
released. Mr. Graham said that if Mr. Obama had picked up the phone, at
least two of the Americans killed in the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi,
Libya, might still be alive because he might have been able to push U.S. aid to
get to the scene faster.
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New York
Citizens Vow to Disobey Laws Violating 2nd Amendment
The protesters dwarfed a rally held by One
Million Moms for Gun Control who were allowed to hold their event inside the
capitol. “If you read the Federalist Papers, the founders of the
Constitution very clearly expressed their reasoning on why the Second Amendment
was important,” Myles McKeone told the New York Daily News. “It was put in
place to protect us from tyrannical government… It was very clear that this was
the teeth of the Constitution.” “Our governor has seen fit to try and restrict
the rights we get by our Constitution,” Tracy Brundege “We’re just not going to
stand for it anymore.”
Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers traveled to the
state. “This is the first place where they’ve had a law that’s actually passed
in the wake of the shooting in Newtown, and so what happens here is going to
happen all over the country if we don’t stop it,” he said.
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Paleoanthropologist
Exposes Shoddiness of “Early Man” Research
Many paleoanthropologists are bent on
self-promotion, and the field lacks ability to regulate itself, a
veteran researcher complains.
Tim White of UC Berkeley took the occasion of
the Leakey team’s promotion of a new juvenile hominid jaw to point out troubles
in the field. Writing in Current
Biology with palpable sarcasm, he made comments that should cause
concern among those trusting proclamations about human evolution made by
researchers and their press agents. Here are some samples:
- Human bones are common in cemeteries, but remains of our more ancient ancestors and relatives are fewer, further between and notoriously difficult to recover. This is particularly true for fossils that are millions of years old. Bio-molecules are geologically short-lived and thus unavailable for parsing truly ancient species lineages.
- Disagreements are common, and the configuration of the hominid twig on the tree of life remains a matter of particular contention.…
- Kenyan fossils announced in Nature have historically figured prominently in paleoanthropology. In their latest paper of this genre, Leakey et al. introduce the fossilized partial maxilla of an ancient juvenile.… This new paper’s conclusions are said to confirm the authors’ earlier published conclusions.…
- The authors take an unusual approach to constructing, in 3-D digital space, what they think the dental arcade of the new fossil maxilla should have looked like. They accomplish this feat by filling the fossil’s empty and broken tooth sockets with digital models of modern human teeth. Why modern human teeth were better suited than available contemporary fossil teeth is left unexplained.
- The unilineal depiction of human evolution popularized by the familiar iconography of an evolutionary ‘march to modern man’ has been proven wrong for more than 60 years. However, the cartoon continues to provide a popular straw man for scientists, writers and editors alike.
- Do most of these species labels reflect real, biologically distinct lineages? Or have the alleged species proliferated merely as a result of taxonomic exuberance misapplied to within-species variation (idiosyncratic, geographic, sexual, and/or ontogenetic)?
- The sequence of prominent paleoanthropological publications across the last decades reveals a pattern of diversity promotion.
- Paleoanthropology’s ecosystem of publishing, access, fundraising, career advancement, media promotion and celebrity seems squarely aligned against the field’s ability to self regulate, a condition exacerbated by the limited fossil resources available. There is ample and obvious motivation for authors to generate ‘new’ species names in this environment. Readers should, therefore, beware of attendant species diversity claims. Illegitimate names have become part and parcel of the symbiosis itself. Furthermore, ‘chronospecies’ are merely artificial segments of evolving species lineages, rather than truly separate species. Such assertions of biological species diversity via taxonomic hyperbole are questionable representations of the real paleobiology of our ancestors and their few close, now extinct biological relatives. Despite the branch waving, our family tree still resembles a saguaro cactus more than a creosote bush.
So is there a credible story growing out of
research into human origins in spite of the personality conflicts and pet
theories? White ended by complaining that funding agencies are strangling
long-term field research in favor of expensive lab equipment. “More
fossils will be needed” to resolve the current conflicts, he
complained. “Until a better balance
is achieved — and better biological understanding
applied — the origins of our genus will remain shrouded
by a paucity of paleobiological data.”
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Students
Told USA Chant Has Racial Overtones
A
group of students at a California high school basketball game were told to
remove patriotic bandanas and stop chanting “USA, USA” because school
administrators wanted to be sensitive to other spectators. The incident occurred
during a basketball last week between Camarillo High School and Rio Mesa High
School in Ventura County. A school administrator pulled aside four boys and
told them to either remove their American flag bandanas or leave the game.
The boys complied but
returned to lead the crowd in a chant of “USA, USA.” Camarillo High School principal Glenn Lipman
told the Ventura County Star that the students were told to remove the bandanas
as a “precaution” – because the two schools have “diverse student bodies.” Both
schools have a large Hispanic student population. That
also was racist. So, the 4 boys were all suspended for 5 days. Both
the Camarillo High School principal Glenn Lipman and the school district
Superintendent Gabe Soumakian believed there were underlying “racist” overtones
in the boys’ actions:
“There was symbolism there with the bandana
and the chant. …It has nothing to do with being patriotic or unpatriotic,”
Soumakian said. “it has to do with the fact that they are making a chant
regarding that we are from the USA and you’re not. Whether that’s the
implied intent, that’s the way it comes across. …They have to respect everyone.
When you go to a game – you cheer for your team and you don’t make any
derogatory comments or make inappropriate comments toward the other
team.”
They’re in America. We haven’t joined Mexico in a North American
Union…yet. We’re still the United States of America. And people come here from
all over the world, because they still view this country as the land of the
free. It’s OK to be happy that you’re an American. Even if you’re Hispanic. Ironically,
two of the boys that were suspended were Hispanic. One was Austin Medeiros, and
the other was Stefan Valenzuela. Are
we to assume the principle knows something we don't know? Hispanics are not patriots and do not love
the USA? Is he the racist? Hmm?
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Lower-Income
Americans Want Opportunity for All
During the 2012 election, Republicans
developed a makers vs. takers theme epitomized by Mitt Romney’s infamous
comments about the so-called 47%. New polling data suggests one of the reasons
the line backfired is that lower-income voters are primarily interested in
opportunities. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey
shows that 67% of lower-income voters think it’s Very Important for our
economic system to provide everybody with an opportunity to succeed. For this
analysis, “lower-income” is defined as less than $30,000 a year.
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56% Think Harder, Smarter Workers Make More Money
Just half (50%) of American Adults believe that someone who works
hard and meets their responsibilities generally gets ahead in the United
States today. But slightly more think those who work like that make more money. A
new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 35% do not believe
that those who work hard and meet their responsibilities get ahead. Fifteen
percent (15%) are not sure.
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Obama’s
Ongoing Project: Stay Above Responsibility and Appeal to Low-Info Voters - anonymous
It’s not as easy as it sounds. For example,
there’s not a Republican who can pull this off because to pull this off, as
Obama is, you need a totally compliant and slavish media, totally on your side
and willing to carry your water and your message and your talking points each
and every day. Then you need no conscience. You cannot possibly have a
conscience and pull off something like this. And I think this is why, when
Obama says the sweetest thing you can do to get revenge, is to vote. We all
said, “Revenge against who?” Well, now, we know. All of us. The people who
are working. The people who are not suffering. The people who are perceived not
to be suffering. Revenge against us. Obama’s
leading the charge of the vengeful, and he’s seeking to address their
grievances. He’s their leader in this regard. But it’s a fascinating thing. You
are president of the United States, but you are never perceived as governing.
You are not seen as in charge. Your agenda has no relationship whatsoever to
what’s happening in the country. This is how you can get polling data
that shows a vast majority of people disagree with every Obama policy, but they
don’t blame him for the policy. They don’t associate him with the
policy. They still reelect him. They do not connect Obama and his
policies to what is happening in the country. And he pulls this off because
he is in constant campaign mode.
He’s always running against whoever and whatever these powerful forces
are that are creating all of this misery and havoc, and it’s been going on for
a long time. Bush, even before that, Reagan. Even the Founding Fathers. So the
fact that the debt is skyrocketing and that his policies are causing it, is not
seen. That connection isn’t made because Obama is never seen as in charge. He
holds the office, and he gets the perks, and he’s a celebrity, but he’s not in
charge. He’s not accountable. He’s not responsible.
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Obama on Immigration: President Obama took
part Thursday in what the White House called a “Fireside Hangout — our 21st
century take on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats.” During the event,
which was broadcast on the White House’s official YouTube channel and Google+,
the president was asked about the administration’s deportation of 1.5 million
illegal immigrants. When asked specifically what he would do to make sure more
families weren’t deported, Mr. Obama responded: “This is something I’ve
struggled with throughout my presidency. The problem is that I’m the president
of the United States, I’m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to
execute laws that are passed.”
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Pelosi: Pay
Cut Would Diminish the Dignity of Her Job
Speaking in the context of the sequester cuts
that would have a measly effect on Congressional pay, Nancy Pelosi said that
even though a pay cut wouldn’t effect her as much as it would others, she is
still opposed to the idea:
”I don’t think we
should do it; I think we should respect the work we do. I think it’s necessary
for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded.”
Politicians talk an awful lot about shared
sacrifice and “fair share.” But they don’t want to be the ones sharing any
sacrifice or giving up their fair share. Pelosi’s opposed to doing the same
thing to herself that she is in favor of doing to every American citizen. She
thinks a congressional pay cut would make her office less “dignified.” I
suppose she would argue that a citizen pay cut in the form of higher taxes
would accentuate the dignity of those jobs. She would talk
about how wonderful our jobs were and how great it was that we were all willing
to sacrifice our income for the betterment of society later.
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More Than 30
States Rebuke Obamacare Exchanges By Lisa Barron
There are less than two days to go before
states have to decide whether they will go it alone or partner with the White
House to set up Obamacare health insurance exchanges. Half of the states have
already decided to let the federal government build the new online insurance
marketplace for them, while a handful will work with the Department of Health
and Human Services and handle limited parts of the exchanges, according to Politico. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a
Republican, announced on Wednesday that he would be pushing more people into a
federally run exchange. Fewer than 20
state governments, most of them led by Democrats, have decided to establish
their own exchanges.
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