Afternoon Posting.
- U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet.Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.The bill, which the Obama administration plans to submit to lawmakers next year, raises fresh questions about how to balance security needs with protecting privacy and fostering innovation. And because security services around the world face the same problem, it could set an example that is copied globally.James X. Dempsey, vice president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet policy group, said the proposal had “huge implications” and challenged “fundamental elements of the Internet revolution” — including its decentralized design.“They are really asking for the authority to redesign services that take advantage of the unique, and now pervasive, architecture of the Internet,” he said. “They basically want to turn back the clock and make Internet services function the way that the telephone system used to function.” Providers that failed to comply would face fines or some other penalty. Read the full story here and our earlier post in the morning.Click here for comments.
- Chef told by Gordon Ramsay that his business was about to 'swim down the Hudson' is found dead after jump into river.It was the prediction that has now come back to haunt Gordon Ramsay.In 2007, while filming an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, the celebrity chef had harsh words for New Jersey restaurateur Joseph Cerniglia: his business was about to 'swim down the Hudson'.This week it was revealed that Cerniglia, a 39-year-old father of three, is believed to have leapt to his death into the Hudson from the George Washington Bridge.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- 10 Hateful Anti-Woman Acts By Leftist “Feminists,” Part 1.The Burqa is Sexy and Other Celebrations of the Islamic Veil.Earlier this year NewsReal Blog debuted the Naomi Wolf Award, also known as The Howler, to recognize "the failure of feminist commentators to identify Muslim veils, particularly the burqa and the niqab, as powerful symbols of extremist ideology and instruments of subjugation." Naomi Wolf, of course, is among the worst offenders when it comes to justifying the entombment of women in these dehumanizing fabric crypts.After a delightful jaunt through a Moroccan bazaar in a headscarf she wore by choice, Wolf wrote, “I felt a novel sense of calm and serenity. I felt, yes, in certain ways, free.” Never mind the medical problems related to burqa-induced vitamin D deficiency. Disregard the fact that in parts of the world, the alternative to donning the veil is death. Naomi Wolf had a gay ol' time obscuring her femininity from the nasty male gaze, so the veil should be celebrated!Other so-called feminists defended the burqa from conservative racists and painted the full veil as a delightful mobile playground for Muslim children.Way to strike a blow against the patriarchy, ladies. Maureen Dowd Excuses Sharia Law In Order to Mock Catholicism.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- HT:AmericanThinker.Countering Islamic Indoctrination in Public Schools.The fight against Islamic indoctrination in the schools won a victory in Texas last week. But the forces pushing to obfuscate the nature of Islam's jihad imperative hold the high ground in the education industry, forcing parents and realists to continue to fight.As parents, we have a moral obligation to our children and our Western heritage to combat the corrosive indoctrination on Islam that currently passes for "Islamic education" in public school curricula. That effort must begin by providing our children ready home access to objective, unapologetic Western scholarship on Islam. The faulty textbooks which cover Islam as a benign force in world history while short-changing the Judeo-Christian tradition do not come cheap. In comparison, the Concise Encyclopedia is quite a bargain for schools that always plead poverty. A Global Mosaic, published by Prentice Hall, costs schools $106.63. The Human Experience by Farah, Mounir A. and Andrea Berens Karls sets back schools $106.94. Parents who want to counter this propaganda that anesthetizes our children to the dangers of Islamic jihad doctrine have to insist that their schools balance the propaganda with objective, un-politicized scholarship. Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- HT:HIDF.Islamic misguided case Example .Do read it to understand the misguided cases of Islam.From the Comment section..of Jihadwatch. Thought worth sharing with the world…Christians are Child Abusing, Demon Possessed, Devil-Worshipping, Cannibalized Vampires.What is the difference between a monkey, a Jew and a pig? There is no difference according to the Qur’an, which reveals Allah transformed some Jews into monkeys and swine and Genetic/DNA testing will confirm this. The Qur’an also reveals Christians will go to the Hell-fire for their worshipping Allah’s Messenger slave, whom they devour in their pagan rituals. I advise all Christians to read the Qur’an and discover what your evil, fire-species, greedy, Muslim-murdering, maniacal, monkey masters have kept concealed from you. Do not read the Koran, as the Koran is a crazy book, written by crazed Jew’s to hide their satanic origins; the Children of Satan aka the Children of Israel. Clinically insane Jews also wrote the Koran in an attempt to portray Muslims to be the murdering lunatics the world knows the Jews to be; yet Christians continue to serve and worship the war criminal, occupying, hostile fire species as Allah’s Chosen People. Christian’s arrogance is only exceeded by their brutal stupidity, as Muslims and Jews know the following Commandments invalidate Christianity; yet Christians continue to disobey Allah and perform uncivilized and depraved acts of cannibalism and vampirism on a dead Jew’s corpse and call it “religion”. Christians are being willfully ignorant, as they all know it was Allah and NOT Jesus who parted the Red Sea to allow the Jews to escape the pursuing Egyptians and the vampires also know that it was Allah and NOT Jesus who spoke to Moses on Mt. Sinai; yet the low-life, racist, cannibalized vampires continue to worship a murdered, Jew Messenger, “SLAVE” as their god.A prime example of "Inter faith dialog" at work?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- The Top 10 Ways Conservatives See Obama – And the 1 That’s Most Accurate.The question has perplexed the Right since Barack Obama first emerged on the scene. How are we to understand Barack Obama?I’ve assembled 10 of these approaches today and am counting them down from least accurate and flat-out wrong to the more useful to the ultimate key to understanding them all. When it comes down to it there is a single label which can give conservatives a grasp of who Obama is and what values he actually holds.But first let’s start with a few Obama formulations made by some of the least educated of conservatives…Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- UNHRC abuses human rights.Once again, a report has blamed an event almost solely on Israel while refusing to assign responsibility or even suitably investigate any other party.While its name would seem to indicate a worthy body, the UNHRC has two sole functions: to defend serial human-rights abusing nations from reproach, and to revile and attack Israel.General Assembly President Joseph Deisss warned recently against the marginalization of the UN itself by stating the need for urgent reforms, like reviewing the UNHRC. At stake is the plight of millions of victims of human-rights violations around the world.It is high time for democracies to reassess their participation in a council that places political calculations over the protection of human rights while providing cover to some of the world’s most brutal regimes.We must give a voice to the oppressed, justice to the abused and equity for all of humanity. None of this will be achieved by always attacking and condemning Israel while allowing totalitarian nations to hijack the international human-rights agenda.It seems the UN has outlived his usefullness?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- President Obama: Fire failing teachers.President Barack Obama took aim at the nation’s failing schools Monday, saying bad teachers should be fired if they’re not cutting it and that students should stay in school longer each year.Obama also leveled a critique of the Washington, D.C., public schools, saying his daughters wouldn’t get as good an education there as at their private school. "I'll be blunt with you,” Obama answered. “The answer is 'no' right now.”But Obama laid part of the blame squarely on teachers and said bad teachers should be fired if they can’t train kids to succeed.“You’ve got to have radical change, and radical change is something that’s in the interest of students.” he said. “We’ve got to be able to identify teachers who are doing well. ... And, ultimately, if some teachers aren’t doing a good job, they’ve got to go.”Obama did praise unions in the interview, pointing out that many are cooperating with states on education reforms."I'm a strong supporter of the notion a union can protect its members and be a part of the solution instead of the problem," he said.Fire teachers who don't view it my way?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- Truth about Obamanomics — from Canada.While President Obama gets a Hallelujah Choir from columnists Robert Samuelson and Paul Krugman, a Canadian is will ing to tell the truth: You don’t borrow money in a debt crisis.“Obama did exactly the opposite of what should have been done,” Taleb said yesterday in Montreal in a speech as part of Canada’s Salon Speakers series. “He surrounded himself with people who exacerbated the problem. You have a person who has cancer and instead of removing the cancer, you give him tranquilizers. When you give tranquilizers to a cancer patient, they feel better but the cancer gets worse.”Today, Taleb said, “total debt is higher than it was in 2008 and unemployment is worse.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- HT:JIDF.Racist Messages Pose Quandary for Mainstream Sites.Interesting article in the AP today - a shame they neglected to tell the story of the Jew hatred online which is increasing at alarming rates, but still, interesting nonetheless: Although you rarely hear racial insults on Main Street these days, there's a place where unashamed bigotry is all too easy to find: tossed off in the comments sections of some of the Internet's most popular websites, today's virtual Main Street.However it is wrong when it claims: "Internet anonymity has removed one of the strongest barriers to the type of language that can ruin reputations and end careers. Racist messages are a small percentage of the wild and woolly web, but they stick out since they are rare in person — and they raise a host of questions."Internet anonymity has very little to do with the problem. Most of the people we have encountered have no issues spewing out their hate in their own names. They are emboldened by their friends, who do the same.Or is AP advocating Obama's plans to Wiretap the Internet?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
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