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Fox News: Where you can bash Islam with impunity
In the wake of NPR's decision to terminate Juan Williams' contract following controversial remarks he made about Muslims on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Media Matters provides a retrospective of the many anti-Muslim statements made on Fox News or by Fox News personalities.
Recent anti-Muslim remarks follow long history of intolerance on Fox and from Fox personalities
O'Reilly: "Muslims killed us on 9-11." During an appearance [1] on the October 14 edition of ABC's The View, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was asked by co-host Whoopi Goldberg why building an Islamic cultural center near ground zero was "inappropriate." O'Reilly responded: "Because Muslims killed us on 9-11." The remark prompted Goldberg and co-host Joy Behar to walk off the set. O'Reilly later said, "If anybody felt I was demeaning all Muslims, I apologize." Appearing on Fox News' Glenn Beck later that day, O'Reilly claimed [2] that "every opinion poll in the Muslim world" shows that "most Muslims don't believe 9-11 was even committed by Al Qaeda." Following the controversy over O'Reilly's View remarks, Fox News hosts and commentators rushed to his defense [3].
Brian Kilmeade: "[A]ll terrorists are Muslims." On the October 15 edition [4] of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade defended O'Reilly's View comments [1] by claiming the show's hosts "were outraged that somebody was saying there's a reason -- there was a certain group of people that attacked us on 9-11. It wasn't just one person. It was one religion. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims." Kilmeade later repeated the false claim [5] that "every terrorist is a Muslim" on his radio show. He also asked [6] if "Americans have a right to look at moderate Muslims and say, 'Show me you're not one of them,' " referring to terrorists. On October 18, Kilmeade said [7]: "I misspoke. I don't believe all terrorists are Muslims. I'm sorry about that, if I offended ... or hurt anybody's feelings. But that's it." He also revised [8] his remarks on the October 18 edition of his radio show.
O'Reilly: "[T]here is a Muslim problem in the world." On the October 18 edition of his Fox News program, O'Reilly stated [9] that "folks are fed up with politically correct nonsense. There's no question there is a Muslim problem in the world" and "most Americans well understand the danger coming out of the Muslim world." His on-screen text read: "The Muslim Dilemma." The next day, O'Reilly repeated [10] the claim that there is "a Muslim problem in the world."
O'Reilly: "Our liberal media" are "buying into the genteel Islam." On the October 5 edition of his Fox News show, O'Reilly said [11] that "our liberal media ... now are buying into the genteel Islam. You saw that with the mosque controversy. See, they now are taking the European media approach -- 'Oh, wait a minute. You have to give peace a chance. You can't be stirring up trouble because they're Muslim people. You have to give them what they want.' "
Fox News figures baselessly claimed Islamic center would be a "command center for terrorism." On the September 7 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, co-host Bill Hemmer said [12] of the Park51 Islamic center, "It could also be the first stop for a radical jihadist who comes to America who wants to go pray." On the August 18 edition [13] of The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News contributor Dick Morris said of Park51: "These Sharia mosques ... have become the command centers for terrorism," adding, "So this one would be, too." The next day, Morris made similar remarks [14] on Fox & Friends; during the show, Fox Business host Eric Bolling also claimed [15] that Park51 "may be a meeting place for some of the scariest minds -- some of the biggest terrorist minds." Kilmeade later said of Park51: "The next Hamburg cell could be right downtown."
Peter Johnson Jr.: New York Muslims should "give up their rights" in order to be "good neighbors." Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. stated [16] on the August 20 edition of Fox & Friends that the issue of the Park51 Islamic center is "about neighbors becoming good neighbors." He added: "Any American can assert a right. Great Americans give up their rights to help those they share nothing else with but a love of this country." On September 3, Johnson repeated [17] that those building the Islamic center should "give up their First Amendment rights."
Beck asked: "[A]fter you've killed 3,000 people, you're going to now build your mosque?" On his August 18 radio show, Glenn Beck said [18] of Park51: "You look for things that are uniting, and I'm sorry, but the Cordoba Project is not uniting. If you wanted to unite people, you don't spit in their face. You don't spit in their face. On the 10th anniversary, after you've killed 3,000 people, you're going to now build your mosque on -- there, really?" Beck has repeatedly falsely [19] claimed [20] that Park51 was scheduled to open on September 11, 2011. He has also referred [21] to the Islamic center as "the 9-11 mosque" and has wondered [22] if it is "a possibility" that Park51's location is about "inoculation."
Fox hosted Walid Shoebat, who previously called Islam "the devil." On August 18, Fox & Friends hosted Walid Shoebat, a born-again Christian who dubiously [23] claims to be a former PLO militant and who has reportedly [24] called Islam "the devil." Shoebat has also asked [25]: "If Islam is not playing the major role in Antichrist spirit, why do you think the devil wants to appoint somebody connected to Islam in the White House?" During his Fox appearance, Shoebat claimed [23] Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim leader spearheading the Park51 project, expresses his "support for terrorism" in the Arabic press but pretends to support peace when speaking to Americans. Two Islamic studies experts [26] told Media Matters that Shoebat's claim was false. Fox News also hosted Shoebat to attack the Islamic center on August 23 and August 27, according to Nexis.
Gingrich compared Islamic center to "Nazis" putting a "sign next to the Holocaust museum." On the August 16 edition of Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich said [27]: "Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center."
Fox News guests opposing Islamic center outnumber supporters 35 to 11. An August 13 Media Matters review [28] of Fox News' evening coverage of the planned building of an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero found that, since May, the shows have hosted at least 47 guests to discuss the project, nearly 75 percent of whom opposed the center.
Fox repeatedly hosted anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Pam Geller. Fox News [29] repeatedly [30] hosted [31] Atlas Shrugs blogger Pam Geller to discuss the controversy over Park51 despite the fact that she has made outrageous statements [29] about President Obama and Islam and has pushed false conspiracy theories. On the August 11 [32] edition of Fox & Friends, Geller compared building the Islamic cultural center near ground zero to building a Ku Klux Klan "shrine" near a black church in Alabama.
Kilmeade asked if the "Islamic community" is "gloating" by building Park51 near Ground Zero. On May 26, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade said [33]: "Six-hundred feet from World Tower 1, World Trade Center 1 stood -- is this gloating on the part of the Islamic community?" Guest Andrew McCarthy said that this was "Islamist supremacism" and that "well-meaning people would understand that this is an affront to common sense." Kilmeade had previously described [34] the Islamic center plans as "an outrage" and accused Muslims of "taunting" 9-11 victims. Geller has a long history [29] of making outrageous accusations and getting the facts wrong.
Fox News figures defended Franklin Graham after Pentagon rescinded invitation due to his anti-Muslim rhetoric. Following the 9-11 attacks, evangelist Franklin Graham said [35]: "We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. ... The God of Islam is not the same God. He's not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It's a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion." During an interview [36] with The Washington Post's Sally Quinn, Graham said that he "never backed down from" his controversial comments that Islam is a "very evil and wicked religion." He added: "True Islam cannot be practiced in this country, OK? It cannot. If you were my wife, I can beat you, OK, because you didn't want to have sex with me or whatever."
When the Pentagon rescinded [37] Graham's invitation to speak on the National Day of Prayer, numerous Fox News figures came to his defense [38], and Fox & Friends hosted Graham to respond. During the show, Graham urged Muslims to convert to Christianity and said [39]: "I want them to know that they don't have to die in a car bomb; they don't have to die in some kind of holy war to be accepted by God, but it's through faith in Jesus Christ and Christ alone."
Fox News' Crowder: "The truth is that Muslims tend to be more violent than Christians." In discussing the Army's decision to rescind Graham's invitation to speak on the National Day of Prayer, Fox News contributor Steven Crowder declared [40]: "The truth is that Muslims tend to be more violent than Christians."
Fox hosted Michael Graham, who previously called Islam "a terrorist organization." To comment on Franklin Graham and the controversy over his attacks on Islam, America's Newsroom hosted [41] conservative radio host Michael Graham despite the fact that he was reportedly fired by WMAL-AM "after he refused to soften his description of Islam as 'a terrorist organization' on the air." The Washington Post reported [42] on August 23, 2005: "According to WMAL, Graham said 'Islam is a terrorist organization' 23 times on his July 25 program. On the same show, he also said repeatedly that 'moderate Muslims are those who only want to kill Jews' and that 'the problem is not extremism. The problem is Islam.' "
Fox & Friends baselessly suggested two Muslim scholars are "terrorists." On March 30, Fox & Friends baselessly suggested [43] that Muslim scholars Tariq Ramadan and Adam Habib -- who were both denied entry into the United States under the Bush administration but had the ban lifted by the Obama administration -- are "terrorists." However, both have denied engaging in terrorist activity, neither was ever charged with any crime, and media accounts have noted that they "were denied admittance after making statements counter to U.S. foreign policy." Co-host Steve Doocy said: "President Bush banned these two guys from the United States because of alleged ties to terror, but Hillary Clinton invited them back and now they're speaking to college kids about their life story. What's that about?" An on-screen graphic included the text: "Terrorist to Lecture?"
Coulter: "If all Muslims would boycott airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether." On the March 25 edition [44] of The O'Reilly Factor, frequent Fox News guest Ann Coulter claimed that "if all Muslims would boycott airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether." Coulter defended her position on racial profiling by saying "it's insane, when you have limited resources, to be searching every single person at airport security."
McInerney: "If you are an 18- to 28-year-old Muslim man, then you should be strip-searched." On the January 2 edition of America's News HQ, Fox News contributor retired Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney said [45] that "we have to use profiling. And I mean be very serious and harsh about the profiling. If you are an 18- to 28-year-old Muslim man, then you should be strip-searched. And if we don't do that, there's a very high probability we're going to lose an airliner." After host Julie Banderas noted that profiling would be "essentially singling out people because of a religious group," McInerney responded, "If that age group doesn't like it, then what are they doing to stop this jihad against the West?"
Kilmeade: Muslims "have to understand" being profiled because of "the war that was declared on us." On the November 10, 2009, edition [46] of Fox & Friends, Kilmeade said to Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham: "You get a chance to talk to a lot of Islamic experts, and Muslim experts, and people who understand the Quran, and I asked him one time, off camera, I said, 'How do you feel about the extra scrutiny, clearly, you're getting at the airports?' And he said, 'I'm all for it, because I want to get home to my family, too.' And that's really got to be the attitude. So, if you're Islamic, or you're Muslim and you're in the military, you have to understand."
Peters: "I am sick of hearing that Islam is a religion of peace. ... I haven't seen a lot of Southern Baptist suicide bombers." On the September 10, 2009, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly claimed [46] that "the elite liberal media in America does not want to continue to whip up anti-Islamic fascism sentiment." Fox News contributor Ralph Peters responded: "No, they'd rather whip up anti-Israeli sentiment." Peters added: "I am sick of hearing that Islam -- well, Islam is a religion of peace. Well, if Islam is a religion of peace, fine, start acting peacefully. But I haven't seen a lot of Southern Baptist suicide bombers lately, and I will not stand for moral relativism. 9-11 wasn't our fault -- it was fanatics who attacked our country because they hate what we stand for."
Peters on Fort Hood shooting: "It's clear that the problem is Islam." On the November 10, 2009, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Peters criticized [47] Obama's remarks [48] on the Fort Hood shooting, in which Obama called the act "incomprehensible," saying: "No, it wasn't hard to comprehend and it's not now. It was the act of an Islamist terrorist" who "believed he was doing the will of Allah in accordance with the Quran. Not hard to understand -- the evidence is there." Peters concluded: "It's clear that the problem is Islam." Peters also alleged [49] that the shooter [50] was a "protected species" who was "running around in his little Islamist suit."
Fox hosts, guest blame Fort Hood shooting on "political correctness," call for "special debriefings" of American Muslims. Right-wing media figures used [51] the shooting at Fort Hood as an excuse to attack Islam and American Muslims, in particular. Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin blamed the shooting on "political correctness"; Gretchen Carlson asked: "Could it be that our own military is so politically correct right now ... to be careful about treatment of Muslims that they would have allowed this to go by?" and Kilmeade suggested that "it's time for the military to have special debriefings" for Muslim American soldiers to prevent future attacks.
Doocy: "All of the people who try to blow airliners out of the sky pretty much look alike." On the February 16, 2009, edition [52] of Fox & Friends, former Homeland Security research analyst Michael Hoffman claimed that "if you want to prevent another airline being blown up, you're gonna have to do full-body imaging or full-body patdowns, coupled with profiling. Otherwise, we're going to blow another airline up." Doocy responded: "Every time we go through, my wife and I, go through airport, she gets a full-body patdown ... even though she does not look like what we have presumed the people who want to blow up airlines look like." He added: "Critics argue, when you think about it, for the most part, all the people who try to blow airliners out of the sky pretty much look alike."
Bo Dietl: We have to profile "guys that look like Aba Daba Doo and Aba Daba Dah." On the August 7, 2007, edition of Fox News' Your World, Fox News contributor Richard "Bo" Dietl asserted [53]: "We know there's a war by fundamentalists and terrorists to kill us. So we have to be able to profile. And I'm sorry, if I see two guys that look like Aba Daba Doo and Aba Daba Dah, I'm gonna pull 'em over, and I wanna find out what you're doing." Dietl had previously said [54] that if a Muslim detonated a nuclear bomb in the United States "you think the president of the United States would make a statement if there's another nuclear bomb, we're going to bomb Mecca, we're gonna bomb the most religious places. This is a holy war." He has also said on Fox News that "Muslim Turks" are trying to "overpopulize" Germany.
Hannity suggested Rep. Ellison's use of Quran for swearing-in was like using "Nazi bible" Mein Kampf. On the November 30, 2006, edition of Hannity & Colmes, host Sean Hannity claimed [55] that Rep. Keith Ellison's reported intention to use a copy of the Quran during the ceremonial photo op on the day he was to be sworn in "will embolden Islamic extremists and make new ones." He also suggested that using the Quran for a swearing-in is comparable to using "Hitler's Mein Kampf, which is the Nazi bible."
Doocy: "Islam turned violent" and "proved the pope's point" about "Islam and violence." On November 28, 2006, Doocy asserted that when "Islam turned violent" following controversial comments [56] by Pope Benedict XVI's about the religion, it "essentially proved the pope's point." In a speech, Pope Benedict quoted [57] "the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus," as the pope described him, saying, "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Pope Benedict later apologized [58], saying "he was 'very sorry' about the reaction to his remarks," adding: "In no way did I wish to make my own, the words of the medieval emperor. ... I wished to explain that not religion and violence, but religion and reason, go together."
Beck to Rep. Ellison: "[W]hat I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.' " On the November 14, 2006, edition [59] of his then-CNN Headline News program, Beck interviewed then-Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, who became the first Muslim ever elected to Congress on November 7, and asked Ellison if he could "have five minutes here where we're just politically incorrect and I play the cards up on the table." After Ellison agreed, Beck said: "I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.' " Beck added: "I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way."
O'Reilly advocated profiling of all "Muslims between the ages of 16 and 45," but not "racial profiling." On the August 16, 2006, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly argued [60] extensively for "profiling of Muslims" at airports, saying that detaining all "Muslims between the ages of 16 and 45" for questioning "isn't racial profiling," but "criminal profiling."
Beck: Muslims who have not "lin[ed] up to shoot the bad Muslims in the head" will face dire consequences. On the August 10, 2006, broadcast of his radio program, Beck warned [61] that "[t]he world is on the brink of World War III" and that "Muslims who have sat on your frickin' hands the whole time and have not been marching in the streets" will face dire consequences. Beck directed his comments toward Muslims who he claimed "have not been saying, 'Hey, you know what? There are good Muslims and bad Muslims. We need to be the first ones in the recruitment office lining up to shoot the bad Muslims in the head.' "
Beck presented segment mocking Egyptian students' names. On the August 9, 2006, edition of his CNN Headline News program, Beck aired [62] a segment mocking the names of several missing Egyptian students in which the announcer said that one "may or may not be accompanied by his camel." The segment showed pictures of crowds and pointed to random, unidentifiable people as the missing Egyptians. It ended with a reading of the students' names in quick succession followed by the announcer pretending to gag as he struggled to pronounce them. The announcer then said: "If you know the whereabouts of these men, please call the FBI immediately. If you know how to correctly pronounce their names, well, call us."
Coulter: Islam is "a car-burning cult." In a column commenting on the recent violence linked to the Danish cartoons that satirized the Prophet Muhammad, Coulter suggested [63] that Islam is "a car-burning cult" and wrote that Muslims have "a predilection for violence."
O'Reilly: Closing public schools for Muslim holiday "absurd in a Judeo-Christian country." On the October 27, 2005, edition [64] of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly called the idea of closing public schools for the observance of Muslim holidays "absurd in a Judeo-Christian country." O'Reilly was discussing the decision by the Hillsborough County, Florida, school board to keep public schools open on Yom Kippur and Good Friday during the 2006-2007 school year following a request by Hillsborough County Muslims to close schools on the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Fitr. Instead of giving students the day off on Eid Al-Fitr, however, the school board voted to keep schools open on Yom Kippur and Good Friday during the 2006-2007 school year.
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Lavaca Bay Restoration Credited to Government-Industry Partnership
AUSTIN, Texas — Federal, state, local community and industry leaders on March 28 celebrated a successful cooperative effort to clean up and restore the Point Comfort/Lavaca Bay Superfund site, located midway between Houston and Corpus Christi.
Mercury contamination released from Alcoa Inc.'s Point Comfort manufacturing facility in the late 1960's contaminated areas of Lavaca Bay near the facility and caused ecological injury. A discrete portion of Lavaca Bay was closed to the taking of finfish and crabs for consumption in April 1988 (Fishing Closure) after mercury levels in these resources were found to exceed levels considered safe for human consumption. The size of the closed area was reduced in 2000.
March 28, federal and state leaders presented Alcoa with an award for its active and cooperative role in resolving the site's contamination problems and in restoring Lavaca Bay.
"This is a great example of government and a responsible company working together to investigate and plan for clean up and restoration of the environment simultaneously," said William Corso, deputy assistant administrator for NOAA's National Ocean Service. "We consider this to be a national model for achieving full and efficient restoration of our nation's coastal resources."
"Over the last decade, developing and implementing sound environmental solutions for Lavaca Bay has been the focus for many in Calhoun County," said Ron Weddell, Alcoa remediation manager. "Through cooperative relationships, Alcoa employees, local citizens, state and federal agencies and scientists have worked together to determine the best cleanup solutions and recreational uses for the bay."
Alcoa has spent approximately $110 million to undertake a suite of projects in and around the bay to affect clean-up and compensate for natural resource losses resulting from the site contamination. The implementation of these projects represent the culmination of 15 years of cooperative work, under the auspices of several agreements, focused on cleaning up the site as well as restoring resources and enhancing recreational fishing opportunities to offset the impacts of the contamination in the Bay.
Alcoa's agreement to implement the restoration projects is embodied in a settlement of its natural resource damages liability for the site approved in 2005. Alcoa also paid costs incurred by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas General Land Office, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in evaluating the site and in determining appropriate restoration actions.
"It's important to seize every opportunity to restore and enhance fish and wildlife habitat whenever and wherever we get the chance, since so much of it has been lost or damaged in Texas, and parties on all sides have worked hard to see that the settlement did the best possible job on that score," said Larry McKinney, Ph.D., TPWD coastal fisheries director. "In this case, we were able to provide new recreational facilities and opportunities for anglers and boaters in Lavaca Bay, as well as restored marshes and oyster reefs that are important for fish, shellfish, birds and other wildlife."
To restore ecological losses, Alcoa will transfer 729 acres of land to be preserved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, created 70 acres of inter-tidal salt marsh within the Refuge, and created 11 acres of new oyster reef habitat in Lavaca Bay. To offset recreational fishing losses, Alcoa constructed new fishing piers at Six Mile Park, Point Comfort Park and the bay-front peninsula in Port Lavaca. It also replaced an existing auxiliary boat ramp, built docks and modified an existing jetty to improve access to and enhance recreational fishing opportunities in the bay. Although the bulk of restoration activities are completed, there are still continuing efforts to restore the bay.
"The benefits of collaborating parties are most apparent and have resulted in the creation and restoration of saltwater marsh habitats that are important to all of the resident species at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. Everyone involved worked diligently towards a common goal insuring a successful resolution of the ecological impacts. As a result, Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, its wild inhabitants and the public have all benefited. I commend everyone involved for their efforts to derive a solution that will benefit wildlife and people," said Benjamin N. Tuggle, Ph.D., USFWS southwest regional director.
For several years spanning the late 1960s to early 1970s Alcoa operated a chlorine-alkali processing unit at its Point Comfort plant that resulted in discharges of mercury into Lavaca Bay via pathways such as wastewater streams, groundwater and runoff. Other areas around the facility were contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as a result of processing coal tar at the facility.
"Texans expect us to work together and get things done, and that's just what we did here in Lavaca Bay," said Jerry Patterson, commissioner of the Texas GLO. "The results of this effort speak for themselves."
The restoration projects undertaken by Alcoa were identified through a natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) process for the site that was undertaken cooperatively with Alcoa. That cooperative assessment process permitted comprehensive coverage of all NRDA issues associated with the site and led to good working relationships between federal/state partners, Alcoa, and the local community.
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well i might not be altogether right but swap out Todd for Aaron and make it F4 of James, Amanda, Todd, and Courtney. Thats my call im sticking to it. Probst said "In the end there will be some people we like (James, Amanda) and some people we dont like (Todd, Courtney). If I honestly had to pick F3 would be Amanda, Todd, Courtney and Todd takes the Mill if you ask me.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks rallied Friday, buoyed by encouraging economic data from Germany and China, as American consumers headed to retail stores to take advantage of Black Friday promotions.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.49% climbed 172.79 points, or 1.4%, to end at 13,009.68, with all 30 of its components in positive territory for the day. For the week, the Dow rose 3.4% — its best week since the week ending June 8.
The technology components in the Dow outperformed on Friday. Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ, +0.16% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -1.52% were the top gainers, rising 4.2% and 2.8%, respectively. Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, -2.68% and Intel Corp. INTC, +0.82% also posted strong gains.
The S&P 500 index SPX, -1.51% gained 18.12 points, or 1.3%, to 1,409.15, with information technology the top gainer and utilities the sole decliner among 10 major industry groups.
For the week, the S&P 500 gained 3.6% — its largest weekly percentage gain since June 8.
The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.86% advanced 40.30 points, or 1.4%, to end at 2,966.85, leaving it up 4% for the week.
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Trading volume was light Friday. More than 328 million shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Composite volume topped 1.4 billion.
"It's traditional you get on Thanksgiving week a positive bias three-quarters of the time," said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott. "With an absence of actors, it doesn't take much to push prices around."
The stock market closed at 1 p.m. on Friday, earlier than usual, after trading was shut on Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday.
"The August effect is in play in that a lot of players are out of town on the shortened day, so I wouldn't read too much into today's action," said Marty Leclerc, principal at Barrack Yard Advisors.
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Shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, -0.71% gained 1.9% and those of Target Corp. TGT, +2.27% rose 1.2%. Read: Black Friday gives retailers holiday hope.
In the absence of U.S. economic data on Friday, global economic reports buoyed the mood on Wall Street. Germany's Ifo business-climate index rose to 101.4 in November from 100 in October, beating expectations for a decline. The rise in November came after six successive declines and showed the German economy is holding up in the face of the euro-zone debt crisis, the Ifo Institute said on Friday.
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Kylie Minogue honored Queen Elizabeth II with a special medley of hits on Monday (June 4), at the Diamond Jubilee concert in London, England, celebrating Her Majesty's 60-year reign.
The 44-year-old pop star paid tribute to the Queen at the star-studded celebration, held outside Britain's Buckingham Palace. The stage was surrounded by thousands of onlookers, as Minogue, who was dressed in a short leather-and-pearl outfit, treated fans to a robust performance of four heralded songs.
Joined by a team of dancers, the Australian star sang a medley of 'Spinning Around,' 'Can't Get You Out of My Head,' 'Step Back in Time' and 'All the Lovers' on the sprawling stage built around the Queen Victoria Memorial. Minogue's satisfying performance clocked in just under nine minutes, and excited the massive crowd.
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1 dead after crash on Lincoln Avenue
A 60-year-old German man was killed Tuesday after a Jeep Liberty drove into his lane and hit his motorcycle head-on just west of the Steamboat Springs Community Center on Lincoln Avenue.
The crash occurred at about 1:45 p.m., and traffic was rerouted onto 13th Street for about 90 minutes while police investigated the crash.
Routt County Coroner Rob Ryg said Tuesday evening that he was withholding the name of the man who died because his family had not yet been notified.
Steamboat Springs Police Capt. Jerry Stabile said the Jeep was being driven west by Steamboat resident Scott Penfold, 57, when he swerved into the eastbound lane and hit two motorcycles, which then were dragged for about 30 feet. Penfold told police that the crash occurred because of a medical situation.
The man who died was on the motorcycle that went under the front of the Jeep. Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue firefighters gave the man CPR, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man driving the other motorcycle along with the driver of the Jeep went to Yampa Valley Medical Center with minor injuries.
The other three motorcyclists traveling in the group were able to avoid the crash.
Steamboat Springs Police Chief Joel Rae said it is thought that all the motorcycle drivers were visiting the United States from Germany. They were riding on rented Harley-Davidsons with American and German flags displayed on the front.
Officers were using an interpreter over the phone to talk with the German men.
A Colorado State Patrol trooper who specializes in accident reconstruction investigated the crash. Once Lincoln Avenue was reopened, traffic was diverted along the crash until the investigation was done.
Stabile said Penfold was going to be tested to see if something besides a medical condition might have contributed to the crash. Penfold was upset after the crash but was being very cooperative with investigators, Stabile said.
Stabile said they are waiting for the crash investigation and test results before deciding to pursue charges against Penfold.
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As the United States honors the many individuals who have made the ultimate sacrifice this Memorial Day, multiple ceremonies in Moffat County will pay tribute as part of the holiday.


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By Jessika Morgan / Staff Writer
Published: Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 23:12 PM.
Dorian Edwards said if you see a problem, you run from it, ignore it or try to fix it.
The 22-year-old has chosen to become a part of the solution.
The problem, according to many people Edwards' age, is Kinston. It lacks the social scene, shopping, jobs and future they see in a bigger city — or even in neighboring towns like Greenville and Goldsboro. Its population, now about 22,000, is actually shrinking — down about 15 percent in the last 20 years.
Yet Edwards plans to return to Kinston when he graduates from Livingstone College in May to help resolve those issues.
"You can't sit around and wait on something to happen," he said about Kinstonian's grumbles. "We should put the same effort into trying to get away from Kinston into trying to make Kinston a better place for every single person."
'It's home'
That work is under way — and is bearing fruit. Community members are striving to bring more businesses and people into town. Some young people who grew up in the city are returning, bringing with them their outer-Kinston experiences.
"It's home," said Troyshika Shaw, a Kinston High School graduate who travels around the country in her fashion design career. "I don't want to live here permanently for the rest of my life, but it's a place I like to come back and visit."
Shaw, 21, said Kinston isn't ideal for a younger crowd since the lack of activities and events pushes them into other communities.
"If we had more programs to draw their attention, it would make them stay," she said. "We don't have a lot of activities to keep (youth) focused, busy and that will occupy them in a positive way."
Her attitude about Kinston isn't completely negative, though. She realizes the city is just like any other place — it has its good points.
Some residents, especially of the younger age demographic, seem to overlook those points and only see what's missing from Kinston.
"People are a lot quicker to say they don't like something than to say they like it," said Greg Hannibal, who manages the LCC Small Business Center downtown. "Very few people are totally satisfied with their circumstances."
He said communal issues begin with everyone's individual problems coming together. The community has to work together to fix issues, including collectively finding ways to make Kinston larger.
"You have to attract more people," he said. "Telling people you don't like (Kinston) and you live here is not going to attract more people."
Hannibal believes that before people decide to settle into Kinston, the lack of resources — such as public transportation and less-than-modern apartments — and social amenities have to be confronted.
Developmental strategies
Adrian King, executive director of Pride of Kinston, worries about downtown, which he sees as both an indicator and driver of Kinston's growth.
The scheduled replacement of two bridges on South Queen, the main entrance into the business district, will take a toll on commercial activity for at least the two years of the project, to begin next year.
More long range bypasses and other highway construction plans could take travelers farther away from Kinston's center
"If those bypasses materialize, it's going to have a material effect on the customer base in downtown stores," King said.
"We need to double our efforts to get people coming in town," he added. "We've got a lot of things going. Slowly but surely, our town is evolving right before our very eyes."
Pride is working with local businesses, entrepreneurs and community organizations to open more shops, restaurants and cultural sites downtown.
Recent business openings, such as Chef and the Farmer restaurant, Mother Earth Brewery, the Woodman Community Center and the new Red Room nightspot are just part of the beginning of Kinston's growth.
However, many people in Kinston don't know about major developmental plans.
"It's not enough around here for young, successful or educated people," said Miguel Starkey, a Kinston native and Woodmen Community Center employee who returned home after graduating from UNC-Pembrokein May. "I feel like they can do a lot on Queen Street as far as businesses and night life, possibly."
He said that would keep a younger crowd around and attract visitors.
Changes are happening slowly as businesses bloom in the area.
"I'd say five or six years from now, it's going to be a totally different town," King predicted.
Keeping them here
A local organization, Young Professionals of Lenoir County, tries to make an impact with the city's youth to influence those that want to leave to return to Kinston after they venture off to college or join the workforce.
"I think every high school kid wants to be a doctor, lawyer or teacher," said former YPLC chair Justin Hill, who returned to Kinston after graduating from UNC Chapel Hill and teaching in South Korea for a year. "There are just a lot more specific things out there."
The group is taking about 12 high school juniors to Lenoir Memorial Hospital this week and exposing them to different career choices.
"(It will) give them a reason to come back to Kinston," said Hill, an LCC employee and former Free Press staff writer. "There are a lot of things going on that might not be apparent at first glance, but when you do a little bit of looking, there's a lot of great stuff going on here."
Annually, The Free Press honors 20 residents under 40 years old who have made an impact in the area. Last year, Ashley Manning was among those honored and part of the 75 percent in that group who was born here and chose to live here.
"I came back to be with family," said Manning, a social worker for Lenoir County Department of Social Services. "There are a lot of family-owned businesses here. … I feel it's important to local families to carry on traditions to continue to make Kinston a good place to live."
Inaugural 20 Under 40 winner and Rochelle Middle School Principal Nicholas Harvey II said he wishes more people would come back to Kinston.
He grew up in the city, went away to North Carolina A&T and initially moved to Greensboro as an educator.
"When I started teaching in Greensboro and saw how effective teachers could be, I wanted to come back home and do what I was doing in Greensboro in my own community," he said.
Harvey said while he understands the importance of natives coming back to Kinston, he knows it's sometimes not the most attractive place for teenagers.
"I always try to push our students to be prepared academically so they can go to college," Harvey said. "I think going to college, getting that college experience and bringing stuff back to Kinston, is the only way that we improve Kinston. That's why I'm back here."
Even if it's not college, he thinks simply having an experience outside what Kinston has to offer will "continue to head us in the right direction."
The Answer
Patience is not only a virtue, it's an imperative when the goal is to transform a town.
"As in any community, I think that the constituents really need to invest in their community," Greg Hannibal said. "Nothing is a quick fix when you're talking about community and how to solve problems."
He said everyone — community, small and big businesses and the government — has put forth equal, collective efforts.
"Yes, we have problems, but they're all solvable problems … and universal issues," Hannibal said.
Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy said people in the city need to be more involved in their communities and with the youth.
"There is continuous, negative conversation without any constructive cause," he said. "Engaging in our youth, engaging in the business enterprise in the community and engaging in the civic lives of our community is important to have a healthy and vital (one)."
Adrian King said entrepreneurs are talking to Pride about façade grants to improve buildings on Queen Street, even turning some into living spaces.
"We've got big business and small businesses in that area perking along together," he said. "The economy is beginning to perk along again and people are beginning to invest more.
"People are having dreams again, and we do have a reason to believe that things will get better."
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I'm going to "sticky" this note here for a little while, hoping to get more comments over a bit of time ...
If you don't want to read me explain ad nauseam about the whys of my favor, just skip to the bottom.
Here it goes. After many empty declarations on my part to start reading blogs again, I have failed to do it. WHY? It's because of the one thing that would seem like THE most helpful aspect of picking up where I left off ... My Reader.
My reader has, let's see, 325 blogs waiting for me. Everytime I try, I not only get overwhelmed, but I don't feel "at home" with the blogs. It takes forever minutes of back reading to determine what the blogger is blogging about. And that's if I even remember the blogger. I was adding so many blogs at the end, I just don't recollect who everyone even is anymore.
And that sucks.
I ~loved~ when I was able to share in the joys and be there for the not-so-joys. And I want to do that again. The best place I can see to start is deleting ~all~ of the blogs within my reader. Start reading blogs based upon your input, and THEN start adding new blogs as I can.
What I obviously need YOU to do is if you would allow ME to read YOUR blog, I would love if you would comment. If your profile (from comments) lists your blog (a single one), you don't need anything to do besides just leaving a comment about anything at all. Tell me your favorite flavor of soup or something. But please, comment. If you have a profile that lists multiple blogs OR it's not available in your profile, list it for me in the comments section? (If you want your comment deleted after I get the blog url, just let me know).
I really want to start reading the blogs of those who I am lucky enough to have swing by my blog to start with. Then, I'll get more blogs like I used to - just by reading reading comments on my friend's blogs and liking their word style. This is so I can add a title comment in my reader as to who I "met" this person from.
PLEASE! Leave me a comment with your blog URL so I can add you to my reader!
Thank you.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Springtime for Islam
There is a peculiar tragedy to a religion which cannot escape its own destructive nature, each time it reaches for some form of redemption, its hands come up dripping with blood and it all ends in more bodies and petty tyrannies.
The film Groundhog Day showed us a man who was doomed to repeat the same day over and over again until he learned to use his time to become a better person. Islam has been stuck in its own form of that cycle, repeating the same few decades over and over again, moving from religious ecstasy to holy war, seeking redemption through religious tyranny and Jihad, and finding that there was no escaping the internal decay and instability in the veins of the religion.
Islam's only redemption is in establishing a theocracy. Its commitment to power and the indulgence of the earthly and heavenly paradise of loot, slaves and violence, led to its own degeneration over and over again. Having no other spiritual form than the exercise of power, it has corrupted itself each time, and then attempted to exorcise the corruption through more of the same.
The Islamic leaders of one generation endorse the tyrants whom the Islamic leaders of another generation strive to overthrow. Hardly had Mohammed kicked the bucket than his nearest and dearest were fighting a civil war over supreme rulership. The origins of the Shiite-Sunni split lay not in theology, but in a vulgar power play between Mohammed's son in law and his father in law's clan. That greedy infighting has hardened into theological variations, but the real split is what Muslim wars are always really about, money and power.
Over a thousand years later the Muslim world is still dedicating all its energies to civil wars and external conflicts whose only true goal is to put money and power into the hands of its leaders. The confrontations between the prominent Persian Shiite families running Iran and the Arab Sunni families running the Arabian gulf states are not theological, though they take place under the guise of theology. They are ethnic and economic conflicts dressed up as religious conflicts.
The ugliest elements of Islam, its bigotry toward Jews and Christians, its endless Razzia raids, its need to remove the faintest doubt about the parentage of the children of its women, are pure tribal pettiness distilled into religion by warlords and clan leaders whose understanding of theology did not extend beyond personal power.
Islam was a predecessor of power movements like Communism and Nazism, its leader worship grimly real, as any cartoonist who has tried to draw a picture of Mohammed knows, or anyone who has seen Shiites cut their children bloody while crying out in mourning for Caliph Ali. Its theology incapable of embracing anything higher than its own will to power. Its objects of worship are its warleaders, its soldiers and its atrocities.
Not only is the Islamic imagination incapable of envisioning a better way, it is also obsessed with the destruction of anyone or anything that can. Like the dumb violent kid in the back of the class, it not only refuses to learn, it is driven to harm anyone who does learn and tries to become a better person. The reflexive Islamic hostility toward the modern and the humane is fear transformed into hate. Fear of inferiority and fear that modern sensibilities will end the tribal reign of power and usher in a new order that will no longer incline its head to bearded old men and their dreams of conquest.
Islamic fanaticism is most pronounced among those who have the most to lose. Not the poor and the downtrodden, but the sons of the upper class and the upper middle class make the most eager terrorists. The families who are now on top have the most to lose from the arrival of spring and are the most determined to retain their feudal powers, their oligarchies and tyrannies.
Apologists for Islamism like to portray those groups as liberation movements, but there is nothing liberating about terrorist groups run by millionaires and billionaires, doctors and other degree holders, and funded by the ruling clans of Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. These ruling families have the most to lose from modernization, and though they build skyscrapers in their cities, they also helped orchestrate the Arab Spring to topple more modern governments and replace them with parties affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Arab Spring is a misnomer because Islam exists in opposition to the spring, to the renewal of human energies and creative capacities. Its natural season is the wasteland, the scorching hot desert or the bitterly cold tundra, a place where life has no capacity for growth.
Islamic law is aimed at freezing human moral capacity in the seventh century deserts of Arabia where women are property, outsiders are fair game, and power is the only morality that matters. Anything that subverts this order, whether it is domestic minorities or the existence of free people an ocean away must be attacked and destroyed.
Islam has no capacity for debate. Its blasphemy laws wall off dissent and prevent anyone from questioning the moral absolute of its power. It has, as the Ayatollah Khomeini said, no sense of humor. To be able to laugh is to be able to laugh at oneself and such laughter comes too close to doubt. There is no room for doubt in Islam or for any human expression. Accordingly there is no thaw, only the eternal winter.
The Muslim Middle East is indeed changing, but it is changing back to what it once was, casting off the last remains of modernity imported from the West, and bringing back the reign of the Burqa, the sword and the prophet. In the West time moves forward, in the East it only moves backward. And so the spring will never come for Islam. Instead it will act out the same bloody rituals of Jihad, the killing of infidels and the civil wars, the slaves building civilizations, the masters molesting young girls and then beating them to death out of fear that the children might not be theirs.
This is the terrible cycle that repeats itself without hope of redemption. This is the rite of winter that is at the heart of Islam. It is a dark and bloody rite that has not changed in a thousand years. What we are witnessing in Islamic oppression and terror is the ancient ceremony of death, the ritual sacrifices of Ayatollahs and Mullahs over deserts and dusty fields, that holds back the coming of the spring.
26 comments:
- lemon lime moon said...
Some historians believe that militant islam brought on the dark ages.
- 6/2/13
- IgorR said...
At this point anyone who doesn't understand the nature of Islam doesn't want to understand. What I find more interesting than hearing its bloody history for the umpteens time, simply because that history is relived without interruption every single day a la the Groundhog movie, is why it keeps penetrating new territories and populations so effortlessly. Is it the Saudi money? Is it their earnestness that is contagious? Is it that everyone's scared to criticize them (I don't literally mean everyone of course, given the above example and a few others)? Is it that the damn Europeans killed so many people that they've castrated themselves and now can't hurt a fly? Is is that the commies made common cause with them to destroy the civilized world?
Frankly I'm not too optimistic with B. Hussein running the show, but we've got to understand the appeal, or at least the lack of public disgust (yeah they all whisper in private) before something can be done about this problem.
- 6/2/13
- Anonymous said...
- 6/2/13
- Anonymous said...
I think it's our own power hungry elites selling us out. We lose our rights and freedom, while they live it up. Until the Daniel Greenfields of the world get more influence, there is no reason to be optimistic.
- 6/2/13
- Anonymous said...
Still its seems than over 1bn people more than happy to serve bloodthirsty tyrants..
- 6/2/13
- Anonymous said...
And so the Arab Sting continues.
- 6/2/13
- mindRider said...
....why it keeps penetrating new territories and populations so effortlessly...
@IgorR in the same manner people so easily accept entitlements, so many people love to be told what to do to lead lives regulated by strickt rules imposed by stern rulers, not by one's own moral judgment, in short: self-imposed slavery and that's the meaning of the word Islam=submission.
Daniel the lack of humor part is what I always use as the litmus test to prove totalitarianism.
- 6/2/13
- Edward Cline said...
A five-star indictment of Islam. Bravo! However, I have one reservation:
"To be able to laugh is to be able to laugh at oneself and such laughter comes too close to doubt."
Well, one can laugh at oneself (I don't), but what is it that an individual is really laughing at when he's brought to the brink of doubt or bothers to entertain speculation, especially about Islam? The ludicrousness of his beliefs, of his unquestioned assumptions, and the banal evil they foster, when they are brought into the unforgiving sunlight of reason and rationality.
A Muslim who still retains a shred of repressed rationality would think: What? Why do I suspect in the darkest corner of my heart that Allah really a psychopathic, whim-worshipping deity whom I would not want for a parent? What? Was Mohammed really a brigand who founded a religion to justify his sociopathic habits, such as murder, pedophilia, rape, betrayal, dishonesty, and plunder? What? If Islam is so benevolent and peace-loving and magnanimous , why does it promise eternal hell and the most agonizing torments of apostates and non-believers? What? That man over there has his own deity, and I have mine, yet I am expected to slit his throat for not believing in mine, while he would never think to slit mine for not believing in his? What? What have these children done that they deserve to have guns put to their heads and murdered? What? If infidel women who do not cover up are filthy whores, would it not make sense to not rape them, and to avoid contracting their filth? What? If alcohol is evil, why does it make so many people happy? What? Why do I deny myself everything that seems to allow infidels and even Jews to enjoy living? What? Can Allah be so pleased with having created so many unhappy, envious, and hateful beings?
The Muslim who asks himself those questions, becomes an apostate. But there aren't very many of them running around, are there? That is because Islam is a nihilistic, totalitarian ideology, perfect for anyone who refuses to think.
- 6/2/13
- Beth said...
First, a good read again Daniel. I like the way your brain works.
While reading today's essay I couldn't help think about the Left's same repetition of old tired and recycled ideas. For the Left though, they want to turn back the clocks of modernity with "clean energy." You know like, wood or coal burning stoves. This is advancement to the Left rather than figuring out how to better and more efficiently mine and clean petroleum and coal. No return to the stone ages is their solution.
Recycle bottles and paper with no acknowledgement of the lack of cost effectiveness or whether the stuff is even being recycled. Rather than finding a better way to reduce the size and space the waste takes up or creating a method to destroy the waste that doesn't pollute the air.
Just like Islam, no matter how much time passes, the Left returns to a Neanderthal. I keep thinking G-d must feel like banging His head against the wall, so to speak. How many times can they repeat this insanity and not get it?!
- 6/2/13
- Anonymous said...
Such a powerful read.
Depressing - because of the revealed futility for those people who have no power to understand anything beyond what they're living. And hopeful because of the revelation Daniel gives us out here to get some understanding of what we're looking at with Islam.
I always come here to learn.
- BarbaCat
- 6/2/13
- Shlomo ben Shmuel said...
Very good paper, but one point is missing. Islam may never change and keep repeating the same hatred and battles, but WE, who belong to a different civilization and outlook, are constantly changing. We must make sure that we are changing in the right direction (exact definition left open) both to resist being taken over by Islam and its fallacies, but also to insure that we don't drive ourselves into a destructiveness of our own.
- 6/2/13
- Ellen Shipley said...
Scary good as always. Wish I had the guts to quote you to people.
- 6/2/13
- Anonymous said...
"The ugliest elements of Islam, its bigotry toward Jews and Christians, its endless Razzia raids, its need to remove the faintest doubt about the parentage of the children of its women, are pure tribal pettiness distilled into religion by warlords and clan leaders whose understanding of theology did not extend beyond personal power."
As bigoted as they were to Jews and Christians, they were at least granted the tolerance of the Islamic state. Other religions were not. Arab polytheists were not tolerated at all and today none exist. Initially neither were Zoroastrians or Hindus. Other religions were not even offered dhimmitude and their choice was only conversion or death. Only one Islamic school out of them all eventually extended dhimmitude to Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism. Still many other faiths today are not granted the dhimmitude option. This explains some of the brutal treatment African animists and Buddhists are given. Atheists too are not given the dhimmitude option.
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- TL Winslow said...
The U.S. is in the same stage with Islam it already went through with Hitler and Stalin, appeasing or minimizing them until it gets into the emergency stage. Of course anybody calling for immediate action is labelled as something bad.
With 1.x billion Muslims worldwide, all it takes is for the gates to come down and hundreds of millions could be on their way to the U.S. for the final Qumbaya. It's not alarmist or reactionary but wisdom and common sense to pass the Winslow Amendment to the U.S. Constitution so that Islam can finally be dealt with by Congress without the First Amendment getting in the way:
Meanwhile why not go back to school and learn about and master the entire Muslim World including key personalities and orgs. It's free anytime with the Historyscoper:
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- Anonymous said...
I just completed Eric Voegelin's New Science of Politics. Enlightening but dismal, the West has no hope of negotiating or appeasing it's way out a final confrontation with the Islamic world. In the last chapter regarding the end of modernity, I believe he correctly interprets all political elites are in the grip of the gnostic dream world. The right enjoined to it teleologically and axiomatically. The left are the activist component, they are the movers while the rest just bitch or keep saying "Stop!". The right has no means to prevent this as that would result in the destruction of its own right wing gnosticism.
So the propaganda of moral insanity continues, every terror event that penetrates the dream world serves as inducement for even more extreme magical thinking.
Since the structure of reality cannot be the framework for any negotiation, only total war is available as a means to total peace.
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- Blanca Rodrigues said...
" Wish I had the guts to quote you to people."
And this is why nothing ever changes
- 6/2/13
- jjr153 said...
Well said, as always.
- 6/2/13
- Anonymous said...
Thanks...as usual a fantastic educational help article. On time for me to share with some people who just won't search the truth themselves. We are making progress... they know we are on to the propaganda and the fact that as belligerants we'll never go to any FEMA camp; because we will be on the oval office psychopathic "kill list."
- 6/2/13
- Col. B. Bunny said...
Lemon lime moon, they are correct.
- 6/2/13
- R.T. Moore said...
Excellent piece, Daniel. Thank you.
I know a man who is convinced that there is no proble with Islam itself, just perhaps with a few fanatics. No presentation of the facts has swayed him. He claims Christianity, but also says that Islam is a legitimate alternative (!). The same man, while claiming faith, actively denies the doctrins of Christianity abd is a strong supporter of sodomy and abortion. I think he is emblamatic of so many in our society who have their heads in the sand because they do not want to know anything that rocks their universe. They overlook the fact that rocking their universe is exactly what Islam seeks to do.
- 7/2/13
- 112 said...
Your clarity give me hope that when it's do or die for Western society, we can win this. You are the best political writer whose work I've ever had the honor to study, and I believe that if you spoke at universities, you would single-handedly change my generation.
Either you have a golden gift, or are somehow immune to the smoke screen everyone seems to walk cluelessly in, or both, but you must increase your viewership somehow; there is no one that could better lead people to understanding of their world.
I pray that your ideas and wisdom guide someone to fight for truth in this world, if that is not your destiny, but if developed mental illnesses and ignorant-arrogant hypocrisy are the plagues of the day, you're the cure.
- 7/2/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
thank you, I'm just trying to do my part in a larger conflict
- 7/2/13
- Anonymous said...
Hello Daniel,
I hope this posts, I;m having trouble with my computer.
I thought you and your readers would appreciate this photo which illustrates your piece beautifully. It's taken on one of Islam's 'holy' sites, no less - kate5778b
- 7/2/13
- Anonymous said...
And now it's...
Springtime for Shia and Sunni
Islam is happy and gay!
They're marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the untermenschen race!
Springtime for Shia and Sunni
Dar al-Islam's a fine land once more!
Springtime for Shia and Sunni,
Watch out, Europe
We're going on tour!
Springtime for Shia and Sunni,
Look, it's springtime,
But Winter for UK, Germany and France
with apologies to Mel Brookes
- 8/2/13
- Anonymous said...
You do realize that Erdogan is a Donmeh Jew, right?
- 10/2/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
You do realize that you're a secret Jew?
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Star Trek Into Darkness helmer J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars: Episode VII for Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm, reports TheWrap. The site says that Ben Affleck was also in contention.
Back in November, Abrams commented on the possibility of him directing and it sounded like it wasn't happening:
"Look, Star Wars is one of my favorite movies of all time. I frankly feel that – I almost feel that, in a weird way, the opportunity for whomever it is to direct that movie, it comes with the burden of being that kind of iconic movie and series. I was never a big Star Trek fan growing up, so for me, working on Star Trek didn't have any of that, you know, almost fatal sacrilege, and so, I am looking forward more then anyone to the next iterations of Star Wars, but I believe I will be going as a paying moviegoer!"
TheWrap adds that Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy has been courting Abrams for the director's chair for a while.
Star Wars: Episode VII is scheduled to hit theaters in 2015. Michael Arndt is writing the script. Disney and Lucasfilm are planning a new trilogy with a new movie coming every other year.
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Wayland awards prestigious Houston scholarship to local residents
Wayland Baptist University has awarded the prestigious Mary Jones Houston Scholarship to recent local graduates Sara Gowman and Kristin Hinze.
According the Wayland's Director of Admissions Shawn Thomas, the scholarship covers the tuition expenses for eight semesters for the students, who must maintain a 3.25 grade point average every semester.
"To reward some of Plainview's best students, we give two full-tuition scholarships each year," said Thomas, adding that awards are reserved for local residents. The scholarship is funded by an endowment through the Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones/Houston Foundation.
Gowman is a 2000 graduate of Plainview High School, where she was involved in National Honor Society, Advanced Placement courses and the Texas Association of Future Educators. She also is a member of the Junior American Cancer Society and the Hale County Junior Literacy Council.
Sara plans to major in education and wants to teach on the elementary level. Her interest in education has developed over several years and was confirmed during work with a classroom at College Hill Elementary as part of a service learning class.
She is the daughter of Ron Gowman, who works in Route Sales for Little Debbie, and Paula Gowman, who works at Larsen International. She has a brother, Michael, who will be a sophomore at PHS. She attends Harvest Christian Fellowship.
Hinze is a 2000 graduate of Plainview Christian High School, where she was active in student council, cheerleading, chorale and National Honor Society and played tennis and volleyball. She advanced to regional competition for short story through the Association of Christian Schools International. She was also named Homecoming Queen her senior year.
Kristin plans to study education and teach on the elementary level. She has worked with students from her mother Pam's third-grade class at Plainview Christian Academy as a tutor and developed a love for teaching.
She is also the daughter of Mike Hinze, who has a dental practice in Hale Center. She has a sister, Michelle, who will be a senior at Wayland. She attends the First Baptist Church in Hale Center.
Both Hinze and Gowman say the scholarship was important to sealing their plans to attend Wayland. Both were planning to attend their freshman year as part of the Plainview Education Partnership program.
"I was probably going to have to go somewhere else after that, but I wanted to stay at Wayland," Gowman said. "I was really excited about the scholarship. I thought I might get something but nothing this large. It was a huge blessing."
Hinze echoed her thoughts.
"I was already interested in Wayland, because it was a smaller place and a Christian school," she said. "My sister, Michelle, had really had a great experience too and that influenced me."
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This month, Jupiter remains well placed for evening observing all winter and spring. Look for it almost overhead at dusk and high in the west later in the evening.
Mars remains in the morning sky. It continues to brighten a bit in the south at dawn. Later in March, it also begins rising in late evening (9:30 p.m. on March 5; 8:20 p.m. on March 31)
Saturn remains in the pre-dawn sky. Face south immediately before sunup to see it.
Venus has now entered the morning sky. Look southeast at dawn for the brightest point of light there; only the Sun and Moon outshine Venus. Venus remains a morning star for almost all of 2014.
Brilliant winter stars shift toward the southwest during March. Dazzling Orion is almost due south at dusk. His three-starred belt is halfway between reddish Betelgeuse and bluish Rigel. Orion's belt points up to Aldebaran in Taurus the Bull. This winter and spring, the Bull also contains Jupiter. To Orion's upper left are the twin stars Castor and Pollux, marking the heads of Gemini, the Twins. You can find Sirius, the brightest star we ever see at night, by drawing a line from Orion's belt towards the horizon. To Orion's left, about level with Betelgeuse, is Procyon, the Little Dog Star.
From Sirius, look a little bit to the right and then straight down to the horizon. If your southern horizon is clear of clouds and tall earthly obstacles, you'll see Canopus, the second brightest star ever visible at night. This star is so far south that most Americans never see it, and many star maps made in the USA omit it. (You must be south of 37 degrees north — the latitude of the USA's Four Corners — for Canopus to rise). As you view Canopus, keep in mind that the sky we see depends on our latitude as well as on time of year and time of night.
Joining the winter stars are stars of spring rising in the east. Look for Leo the Lion at dusk. Later in the evening, extend the Big Dipper's handle to "Arc to Arcturus" and then "speed on to Spica;" these stars rise at about 10 p.m. in early March, but by 9 p.m. on the March 31.
Moon Phases in March 2014:
New: March 1, 2:02 a.m.; March 30, 1:47 p.m.
1st Quarter: March 8, 7:26 a.m.
Full: March 16, 12:10 p.m.
Last Quarter: March 23, 8:47 p.m.
Sun., Mar. 9, is the second Sunday of the month. Accordingly, Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 am that morning. (The time goes from 1:59:59 to 3:00:00, with the 2 a.m. hour skipped.) Don't forget to set your clocks forward one hour!
At 11:57 am on Thurs., Mar. 20, the Sun is directly overhead at the equator. That makes this the vernal equinox, one of two days when everyone on the planet has the same amount of daylight. Many consider this the 'official' start of spring. That's because for us, days have been lengthening, with the Sun slightly higher in the sky each day, from December until now. After March 20, days continue to lengthen, making day longer than night. In the Southern Hemisphere, their long summer days have been shortening until now, with the Sun lower in the sky each day. After March 20, they continue to shorten, making day shorter than night. For them, then, this is the autumnal equinox.
On most clear Saturday nights at the George Observatory, you can hear me do live star tours on the observation deck with a green laser pointer. If you're there, listen for my announcement.
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FDA Approves Weight-Loss Pill
For the first time in 13 years, the FDA has approved a pill for weight-loss. The BBC reports the medication called, Belviq, can be used by obese or overweight adults. In studies, it helped people lose about 5% of their body weight.
The drug was rejected back in 2010 because of concerns over tumors that developed in animals that were given the drug. Arena Pharmaceutical re-submitted the application for the drug with more data. The FDA found little risk for tumors in humans who use the drug.
Belviq is designed to block appetite signals in the brain, making patients feel fuller with smaller amounts of food. The medication is not expected to be released to the public until 2013.


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Mark, I am not far from you (am in Anderson Mill) and also have access to local courts.
Am available either during the day or the evenings during the week.
Am not concerned with your skill level and I enjoy the practice...and getting the rust off as well.
Let me know what works for you. This week is fine, if you care to pick a time.
Look forward to getting out and hitting some with you.
Thanks, Lyman
Hey Man, Sorry i have been busy... we are considering moving houses so things are kinda hectic. when i get some time i will definately get in touch so we can hit the ball around. thanks, mark
Mark, I understand, no problem. Am open for most any day / time and not hung up at all on the duration based on one anothers schedule.
Let me know when you are free and you would even just care to "hit some" to take your mind off the "moving experience" ;)
I'm thinking about going to the courts around the corner from my house... probably gonna hit against the wall. I know its short notice but let me know if you wanna hit. Mark call or text me at 512-470-7302
Hey Man,
Sorry I have been busy... we are in the process of moving so things got a little hectic. I definately want to play sometime... just not sure how much time i will have. stay in youch. thanks
My name is Paul and I live in Jonestown out FM1431 about 3 or so miles from Lago Vista. I am looking to hit some balls on Thursday evenings; 6:30 or so for a couple of hours. If you would like to hit, email me at [edit by Mod - please share private info via PM, thanks] I use to play on a regular basis, but haven't lately. The closest courts to me are at Cedar Park High school and Leander High school.
Hi Paul,
I'm looking for people to play with. I'm coming back to the game after some time away, was a 4.5 8 years ago. Just started playing again last week and am probably around a 4.0 right now. I live in Cedar Park and work by the Arboretum but I'm willing to drive a bit to get some tennis in. I can play early evenings during the week and weekend mornings (when it's hot) on weekends. Let me know if you'd like to hit.
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Dems may revive PEP, Pease rules
Tax rate increases aren't the only way in which Democrats are aiming to collect more tax dollars from the rich — they're also looking to resurrect a dormant pair of oddly named laws that targeted the wealthy for decades.
Some call them gimmicks, some call them a step toward a more progressive tax system — and now Democrats want to use them to solve $12 billion worth of the looming fiscal cliff.
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Known as PEP and Pease, they're a little bit like the original "Buffett rule."
The Personal Exemption Phase-out, or PEP, and the "Pease" deduction cap — named for the late Rep. Don Pease (D-Ohio) — were introduced in the 1990s to try to help balance the budget by getting the rich to chip in more. PEP reduced the value of exemptions for high-income earners by as much as 2 percent for every $2,500 earned over a set amount. Pease limited itemized deductions for the wealthy.
The two provisions were a persistent thorn in the side of doctors, lawyers and upper middle-class families of all stripes until they were gradually put out to pasture as part of the 2001 Bush-era tax cuts.
But Democratic budget and tax writers, and President Barack Obama, want to bring them back. And they're betting that the scramble to avoid the fiscal cliff will make it easier to bring the complicated tax provisions back into the picture.
"They will be part of the discussion," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont). "I think they should be on the table, and we'll have to figure out the degree to which they're part of the solution."
Democrats have reason to be optimistic. PEP and Pease have flown below the radar for most of the year because, unlike other proposals, they don't raise tax rates on paper. Instead, the deduction cap and cuts to exemptions, in effect, quietly drive up the marginal rates wealthy people pay.
Obama has proposed gradually reinstating both PEP and Pease for single people earning more than $200,000 and married couples earning more than $250,000. The process would begin in 2013, when the two are otherwise scheduled to come roaring back into effect at full force.


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Deniz Kurtel to Release Second Album on Wolf + Lamb plus U.S.Tour Dates
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[Press Release] Deniz Kurtel Crosses America for 'Double Exposure' Tour. Visual Artist and Producer Will Unveil Her New LED Installation 'The Introspectacular' While Previewing Tracks From Her Forthcoming Album "The Way We Live" (Wolf + Lamb)
Last year Deniz Kurtel burst into the popular consciousness with her debut album "Music Watching Over Me" on trendsetting label Crosstown Rebels, earning critical praise for her totally fresh take on house music, and bewitching live audio visual club shows. 2012 will see her once again captivating audiences with her musical productions and visual art, as her April road tour, 'Double Exposure' takes her across the US.
A two pronged tour, 'Double Exposure' will see Deniz will unveil her new LED sculpture 'The Introspectacular' while premiering her album 'The Way We Live' at 15 club shows in 12 cities around the country including Miami, Washington DC, New York, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The tour kicks off in Washington DC on April 7 and concludes in San Francisco on April 29. 'The Way We Live' will be released on Wolf + Lamb June 4th, 2012.
"Double Exposure" is the second time Kurtel has paired a piece of LED art directly with her music, but marks the first time where the audience will be able to affect the experience. 'The Introspectacular', like much of Kurtel's LED work, establishes an isolated space where the infinite reflections and layers of depth, achieved through her use of mirrors and LEDs, create a stimulus for inner-reflection and introspection. Housed in a 6×12 enclosed trailer, participants can control some of the LED lights via the keys of a midi controller, which simultaneously produces sounds, creating a visual mapping of what the participant is hearing and vice-versa.
"With the ability to generate a sound and a light with the same key, I wanted to facilitate a deeper connection with the basic senses of the participants while also engaging their sense of creativity," said Kurtel of The Introspectacular.
Kurtel will drive across America towing 'The Introspectacular". The piece will be exhibited in twelve cities she visits on her journey, outside galleries and public spaces. Kurtel will also be playing live club shows in each of the cities, where she will debut music from her new album 'The Way We Live', which will be released on Wolf + Lamb in May. The LED piece will also be exhibited outside these music venues.
When discussing her debut album Kurtel noted that she wanted to "constantly grow and evolve, and make music that excites [her], hoping it excites others too." It's clear that on 'The Way We Live' she has followed through on that philosophy. A collaborative album, she is joined on every track a selection of the Marcy All Stars, including Soul Clap, Wolf + Lamb, Tanner Ross, Thugfucker, Pillow Talk, Voices of Black and more.
Her sophomore LP builds on the soulful mystical house of her debut, taking audiences on a narrative journey through the slower tempo spectrum of electronic music. From the hip-hop front and pacing of The Way We Live and Right On, to the haunting vocal strains of Art Department's Kenny Glasgow on 'Don't Wanna Be' to the Prince like funk of 'Thunder Clap', Kurtel keeps her listeners guessing, and most definitely excited.
Tracklist for 'The Way We Live'
1. I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN with Tanner Ross feat. PillowTalk
2. YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE with Gadi Mizrahi
3. LOVE TRIANGLE (Instrumental) with Wolf + Lamb
4. THE WAY WE LIVE with Gadi Mizrahi
5. HYPOCRITE with Gadi Mizrahi
6. RIGHT ON with Gadi Mizrahi feat. Michael Franti
7. DON'T WANNA BE with Kenny Glasgow
8. SAFE WORD with Soul Clap feat. Navid Izadi
9. WAKE ME UP with PillowTalk & Thugfucker
10. BLACKNESS with PillowTalk & Thugfucker
11. THUNDER CLAP with Voices of Black
12. THE BEAT DROPS with Tanner Ross feat. Jules Born
Double Exposure US tour dates:
March 22 @ W+L Showcase, Electric Pickle, Miami
March 23 @ Bohemian Yacht Club, Miami
March 25 @ Ultra Festival, Miami
April 7 – Washington DC, venue TBA
April 8 – Philadelphia – PTY Backroom
April 14 – Marcy Hotel, New York
April 18 – Boston
April 20 – Detroit – The Works
April 21 – Chicago – Smart Bar
April 25 – Communikey Festival – Boulder, Colorado
April 27 – San Diego – Analog Bar
April 28 – Los Angeles, venue TBA
April 29 – San Francisco, venue TBA