Monthly Archives: June 2009
Magicman Obama makes 2 million Muslims disappear
Wow, he is magic!
Not long ago, we noted in this feature the ridiculous mathematics of Barack Obama in both his assessment of the number of Muslims in America and where that would put the US in a ranking of Muslim nations. Reuters reports that Obama is at it again, in an interview with Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper — but Obama apparently killed off two million Muslim Americans since his speech in Cairo:
Almost two million people have inexplicably disappeared from the estimates of the U.S. Muslim population that President Barack Obama has given recently. In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on June 4, he spoke about “nearly seven million American Muslims in our country today.” On Sunday, the Karachi daily Dawn published an interview with him where he said “we have five million Muslims.”
More updates on Neda Agha Soltan
The N Y Times has a good piece on her, she loved to sing, and was forced, by Iranian law, to do so underground.
Only scraps of information are known about Ms. Agha-Soltan. Her friends and relatives were mostly afraid to speak, and the government broke up public attempts to mourn her. She studied philosophy and took underground singing lessons — women are barred from singing publicly in Iran. Her name means voice in Persian, and many are now calling her the voice of Iran.
Her fiancé, Caspian Makan, contributed to a Persian Wikipedia entry. He said she never supported any particular presidential candidate. “She wanted freedom, freedom for everybody,” the entry read.
Her singing instructor, Hamid Panahi, offered a glimpse of her last moments.
He said the two of them decided to head home after being caught in a clash with club-wielding forces in central Tehran. They stepped out of the car. “We heard one gunshot, and the bullet came and hit Neda right in the chest,” he said. The shot was fired from the rooftop of a private house across the street, perhaps by a sniper, he said. On a Facebook posting along with the video, an anonymous doctor said he tried to save her but failed because the bullet hit her heart.
“She was so full of life,” said a relative who spoke on condition of anonymity. “She sang pop music.”
The relative said the government had ordered the family to bury Ms. Agha-Soltan immediately and barred family members from holding a memorial service.
The paramilitary forces were quick to stop memorial services elsewhere, too. More than a dozen bearded men on motorcycles dispersed nearly 70 people gathered outside Niloofar mosque on Monday. Authorities ordered the mosques not to hold services for any victims of the demonstrations over the past few days.
HotAir has some more, including a links a story of how memorials for Neda are being broken up by government thugs.
Protesters, defying Iranian government warnings, converged on Tehran’s Haft-e Tir Square, greeted by hundreds of Basij militia and riot police, witnesses said.
Internet postings on social network sites Twitter and Facebook said the gathering was a vigil for a female protester identified as Neda, whose death was caught on camera during violence Saturday and has become a rallying point for protesters.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Monday warned protesters who “disturb the peace and stand up to security forces” will be considered a threat to the regime,” Iran’s state-run news agency Islamic Republic News Agency reported. “The guardians of the Islamic revolution and the courageous Basiji … are determined to act strongly to return peace and tranquility to society … and to clean the country of these plotters and hooligans.”
Rule 5 break Janine Turner
A sligt pause from serious news to think of the incredible beauty of Janine Turner!
Iran to try protesters
In kangaroo courts no doubt
Iran’s judiciary will set up a special court to try protesters arrested in the surge of civil unrest since the disputed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a judiciary official said on state television, as the government continues its crackdown aimed at crushing its greatest domestic challenge in 30 years.
Meanwhile, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who suffered a landslide defeat to Ahmadinejad in the marred elections, defied authorities and called on his supporters to continue peaceful protests, sharpening his conflict with the government.
H/T Hot Air headlines
Michelle Malkin sees scary people at the airport
Obamabots! Pushing Socialized Medicine!
I’m at Denver International Airport waiting to pick up family.
In Terminal East, I was accosted by two young people from an outfit called “Progressive Future.” They are standing with clipboards and propaganda pimping Obamacare.
Don’t have time right now to look them up, but I asked one of the young Obama-bots who funded his group.
He didn’t know.
Wouldn’t be surprised if stimulus dollars or AmeriCorps funding was subsidizing this.
The young man handed me a flyer using “right-wing Republicans in Congress,” “Rush Limbaugh and Fox News” to scare the sheeple into support the government health care takeover.
Perez Hilton gets punched in his fat face
By another Liberal Douchebag!
Perez Hilton and Black Eyed Peas singer Will.I.Am have posted video statements giving two very different accounts of an alleged assault of the gossip blogger outside a nightclub early Monday morning.Perez Hilton Twittered that he was bleeding after being assaulted by a member of the Black Eyed Peas outside a party at the club Cobra following the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto, Canada on Sunday night.
“I was assaulted by Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards,” the gossip blogger wrote on his Twitter account. “I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke.”
Somehow, I cannot feel sorry for him
Obama to Iran” You are killing your own people, threatening Israel, stifling Democracy and freedom, but hey, have a hot dog!
Leadership? Not in my book
The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters. President Barack Obama’s administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
“There’s no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.
“We have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran,” Kelly said. “We tried many years of isolation, and we’re pursuing a different path now.”
A different path? Or the same type of path that Jimmy Carter took?
Democrats Fleeing Obama Healthcare Plan
A Republican senator seeking a bipartisan health deal spoke Sunday of “dialing down” expectations while one of President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies questioned whether the White House had the votes necessary for a such a costly and comprehensive plan during a recession.
Obama’s proposal to provide health insurance for some 50 million Americans who lack it has become a contentious point for a Democratic-controlled House and Senate struggling to reach a consensus Obama desperately wants.
Much of the concern came after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the plan would cost $1 trillion over 10 years but cover only about one-third of those now lacking health insurance.
Democrats protested that the estimate overlooked important money-savers to be added later. But Republicans seized on the costly projection and the bill’s half-finished nature, throwing Democratic leaders on the defensive.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said officials would have to rethink their best-case scenario for providing a sweeping overhaul of the health care system at a relatively low price.
“So we’re in the position of dialing down some of our expectations to get the costs down so that it’s affordable and, most importantly, so that it’s paid for because we can’t go to the point where we are now of not paying for something when we have trillions of dollars of debt,” said Grassley, R-Iowa.
“And we anticipate paying for it through some savings and Medicare, and from some increases in revenue,” he said.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she wasn’t certain there are enough votes in the president’s own party to support the proposal.
“I think there’s a lot of concern in the Democratic caucus,” she said.
The overhaul’s chief proponent in the Senate, Chris Dodd of Connecticut, urged patience as lawmakers continued working on the bill. However, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the bill’s cost was problematic.
“You do the math,” McCain said. “It comes up to $3 trillion. And so far, we have no proposal for having to pay for it.”
The CBO estimates “were a death blow to a government-run health care plan,” Graham said. “The Finance Committee has abandoned that. We do need to deal with inflation in health care, private and public inflation, but we’re not going to go down to the government-owning-health-care road in America and I think that’s the story of this week. There’s been a bipartisan rejection of that.”
Congress Does What Obama Should Have Done
Congress one-upped President Obama with a tough response to Iran’s elections Friday as both chambers voted overwhelmingly to decry Tehran’s clampdown on protesters challenging the victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Republicans pushed the resolution after criticizing Mr. Obama’s comments on the situation as tepid, arguing that the U.S. should express solidarity for supporters of Mr. Ahmadinejad’s challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who is accusing the hard-line government of rigging the election.
The resolution expresses “support for all Iranian citizens who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of law,” said Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican and bill sponsor. “The cause of America is freedom, and in this cause, the American people will not be silent.”
Obama’s Approval Index Hits Negative Digits For First Time
For the first time in his administration, according to the Rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll, more people strongly disapprove of the job President Barack Obama is doing than strongly approve, giving Obama a presidential approval index of -2, the lowest rating to date and the first time the index has fallen below zero.
According to Rasmussen’s telephone surveys, 32 percent of the nation’s voters now strongly approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president, while 34 percent strongly disapprove.
This follows a report earlier in the week that President Obama’s job approval rating fell to 58 percent in the Gallup poll daily tracking for June 16-18, a new low for Obama in Gallup tracking and a sharp decline from the 69 percent approval Obama enjoyed immediately after his inauguration.
Tens Of Thousands Of Chinese Fight The Police In Shishou
It was a dramatic weekend in the relatively small city of Shishou in Hubei province.
Tens of thousands of rioters torched a hotel and overturned police cars, after the authorities allegedly tried to cover up the murder of a 24-year-old man as a suicide.
The deceased, Tu Yuangao, was the chef of the Yong Long hotel. According to the cops, he committed suicide by jumping off the roof of the building and left a note.
Witnesses said there was no blood on the scene and Tu’s body was already cold just after it hit the ground. His parents were surprised at the suicide note, since he was allegedly illiterate.
There are plenty of rumours flying around – that two other employees at the hotel had died in the same way, that the boss of the hotel is related to the mayor of Shishou, that the hotel was a centre for the local drug business and Yu was killed for threatening to expose what was going on. There’s also a rumour that three further bodies have been found at the hotel.
It’s a strange story, and it gets stranger. A huge mob, of anywhere between a few thousand to 70,000 people, depending on which report you read, quickly gathered outside the building.
A list of imprisoned Iranian journalists and politicians
Via Jake Tapper on Twitter comes this
Since June 13, the start of nationwide demonstrations and protests against Iran’s rigged presidential elections began, a clampdown on many of the leading reformist politicians, as well as journalists and bloggers, has been under way. Many have been arrested and imprisoned.
There are strong rumors that some of them, including Messrs Tajzadeh, Ramazanpour, and Aminzadeh are under strong pressure to “confess” to planning the demonstrations well in advance of the elections, and having “connections” with foreign powers. The following is a list of those whose arrests and imprisonments have been confirmed, together with a brief background for each.
Once again, the ways dictatorial regimes treat those they dissaprove of in displated for the world to see. Those whjo take they liberties for granted should think long and hard about what they have, and about supporting those trying to gain those liberties.
Iranian woman killed in video ID’d?
Reports are that her full name was Neda Agha Soltan and was only 27. Hot Air has more on her life. Here is a picture, it is believed of her. She was a very pretty girl. And now, she has become a martyr to many. Neda, in her tragic death, may have become the spark for freedom in Iran.
I found some more information here regarding her funeral, which it seems the regime wants her funeral to be “discreet” I bet those sorry bastards do.
The girl in the video below is called Neda Agha Soltan. born 1982, she was a philosophy student. Neda’s body has been given back to her family by the police under the condition that there is a quick and disrete / secret / low profile funeral. The Mosques in Tehran are under pressure not to accept the funeral proceedings for Neda. Already the original ceremony at Masjed Al-Reza Mosque located on Niloufar Square was cancelled. It was scheduled for 4.30pm tomorrow. The man with the striped shirt is her father.
UPDATE!! According to this Huffington Post writer Neda was killed by a basiji riding a motorcycle and was buried today
A blogger apparently in touch with Neda’s family members offers some new details (translated by reader Nima): she was born in 1982, apparently her full name was Neda Agha-Soltan, and she was at the protest with one her professors and several other students. She was, they said, shot by a basiji riding by on a motorcycle. Also, she was apparently buried today at a large cemetery in the south of Tehran. ABC News’ Lara Setrakian writes, “Hearing reports Neda was buried in Behesht Zahra cemetery earlier today, memorial service cancelled on orders from authorities.”
UPDATE!! According to Lara Setrakian of ABC News Neda was buried and the regime forbade a memorial service. The sorry bastards!
Here is a video showing Neda moments befire she was shot. It shows her simply watching the protests, and nothing more. Just an innocent woman, harming no one. From reports I take it the man in the striped shirt, the same man in the video after she is shot, is her profressor?
Ah, yes! The obligatory “Southerners are racists” BS raises it’s head
All it takes is for one Southerner to say something offensive, and bigots like Kathleen Parker go off on a rant about how raaaaacist the South is. You can read her bilge at the link, but it is nothing but recycled anti-Southern BS you have heard before.
Sad fact is bigots like Parker could live in the South, never hear anything racist for a decade or more, yet still “know” that the racism is just “there”. Then, one moron says something shameful, and they are ready to bash those “racist Southerners”
While bemoaning stereotypes, Parker, and her ilk, are only too willing to stereotype Southerners. It is pathetic!
Is there stil some bigotry and hate in the South? Yes, I mean look no farther than Kathleen Parker!
More updates from Iran
Yesterday, I blogged about the Iranian girl whose death was caught on video. Her name was Neda, which means “voice” in Farsi. May God bless her and keep her for eternity. Please pray for Iran to emerge from these trials with a new freedom.
Mihelle Malkin also reports that the Iranian photographer for Life Magazine has gone missing
Life magazine reports in a special online feature gallery of Iran protest photos:
A NOTE TO OUR READERS: We are saddened to report that the Iranian photojournalist, whose pictures appear in this gallery, is missing. He has not been in contact with us; this morning we received the following email from one of his relatives. We will update this space when we have more details.
THE EMAIL: Hi im [photographer’s relative], when he go outside yesterday for he never came back home and also his friend and a lot of our young brave people, government arrested them [. . .] don’t let them suffer in those bloody hands. With thanks.
Hopeless Hack: Everything good is because of Obama!
Good freaking grief! Is Andy Sullivan delusional, oh wait, what am I saying? This is a guy who is still obsessing over Trig Palin, of course he is delusional. Commenting on Obama’s long-delayed substantive statement on Iran, Sullivan launches into full worship mode!
I wrote a couple weeks back that something is happening in Iran. But it is not the only place where something is happening. The rejection of al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan; the ground-up election of Obama in America; and now the rising up of Iranians for freedom and civility with their neighbors: these are the green shoots of recovery from 9/11 and its wake. Empowered by new information technology, chastened by the apocalyptic conflicts of the last few years, determined to shift course away from civilizational warfare, the people of many countries are grasping for a new order and a new peace. It will not be easy; and it will not be short. But it is the only path worth taking.
See, it is ALL Obama’s doing! The surge in Iraq? ALL Obama! Oh wait, Obama was not president, and in fact opposed the surge, even after he admitted it worked. And, those Iraqi people, that helped the surge by turning against al-Qaeda? NOPE Zero credit for them! But, nevermind the facts! It is all Obama!
And now, Sullivan wants to credit Obama fir the protests in Iran? Unbelievable! DanRiehl takes the delusional one to task over his “sirupy concoction”
What Obama displayed through this was an American leader lacking any courage or serious commitment to genuine freedom. If he had such a thing, it would have compelled him to greet their earliest pleas for freedom and support with the strong and resolute voice for freedom nearly every previous American president would have had the strength and wisdom to immediately offer up in response.
But no, not Obama. He just went out for ice cream and that was all he did, or has done to help the people of Iran gain their freedom. He even reached out to the oppressive regime, not the people, when they first gathered to start to march
Arrogance, Liberals, and Iran
Great, GREAT post by Pat Austin, I am not posting a sample, or a taste, because you need to read the whole thing! TRust me, you will thank me for it!
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