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What the Obama family heard in church today, from the minister at St. John's Episcopal, according to the pool report:
"It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back ... for blacks to be back in the back of the bus ... for women to be back in the kitchen ... for immigrants to be back on their side of the border."
He later went on to say that "the message of Easter is about the power of love." (See Doublethink)
Now what would Cesar Chavez do?
... [Rand] Paul asked Clinton: “Is the U. S. involved with any procuring of weapons, transfer of weapons, buying, selling, anyhow transferring weapons to Turkey out of Libya?”
“To Turkey?” Clinton asked. “I will have to take that question for the record. Nobody has ever raised that with me.”
Continued Paul: “It’s been in news reports that ships have been leaving from Libya and that may have weapons, and what I’d like to know is the annex that was close by, were they involved with procuring, buying, selling, obtaining weapons, and were any of these weapons being transferred to other countries, any countries, Turkey included?”
Clinton replied, “Well, Senator, you’ll have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex. I will see what information is available.”
“You’re saying you don’t know?” asked Paul.
“I do not know,” Clinton said. “I don’t have any information on that.”
Clinton’s claims seem to now be unraveling.
Confirming WND’s exclusive reporting for over a year, the New York Times earlier this week reported that since early 2012, the CIA has been aiding Arab governments and Turkey in obtaining and shipping weapons to the Syrian rebels.
Middle Eastern security officials speaking to WND have said U.S.-aided weapons shipments go back more than a year...
Aaron Klein at WND: Did Hillary Commit Perjury?
Next question. What difference will it make?
Obama Trying To"Nationalize" Elections
... If they get this, then no one will be elected of whom they do not approve.
I keep thinking that one of these "straws" is bound to be the "last straw," the one that breaks the camel's nose back.
A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
-- from the Declaration of Independence
Tony Lee has the full story at Breitbart:
President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order Thursday establishing a Presidential Commission to deal with "election administration" ...
The Executive Order states the Commission "shall identify best practices and otherwise make recommendations to promote the efficient administration of elections in order to ensure that all eligible voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots without undue delay..."
"... and to improve the experience of voters ...
such as members of the military, overseas voters, voters with disabilities, and voters with limited English proficiency [links added].
In doing so, the Commission shall consider as appropriate:
(i) the number, location, management, operation, and design of polling places;
(ii) the training, recruitment, and number of poll workers;
(iii) voting accessibility for uniformed and overseas voters;
(iv) the efficient management of voter rolls and poll books;
(v) voting machine capacity and technology;
(vi) ballot simplicity and voter education;
(vii) voting accessibility for individuals with disabilities, limited English proficiency, and other special needs;
(viii) management of issuing and processing provisional ballots in the polling place on Election Day;
(ix) the issues presented by the administration of absentee ballot programs;
(x) the adequacy of contingency plans for natural disasters and other emergencies that may disrupt elections; and
(xi) other issues related to the efficient administration of elections that the Co-Chairs agree are necessary and appropriate to the Commission's work.
Since 2010, the oficina del Secretario de Prensa en la Casa Blanca has released una proclamacion firmada por el Presidente en el dia de hoy sobre el Dia de Cesar Chavez every year, and this year is no exception.
. . . I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31 of each year as Cesar Chavez Day.
I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate service, community, and educational programs to honor Cesar Chavez's enduring legacy."
I have no doubt there is some "appropriate service, community and educational" objective being met by the Obama Daughters on Spring Break, as they segue from the beach in the Bahamas to the ski slopes of Sun Valley, Idaho. After all, we are constantly being told what great parents they have.
Meanwhile, this year's conflux - or collision - of 'Cesar Chavez Day' with Easter Sunday produced a quite the jaw-dropper, as the Obamatons at Google chose to elevate a dead community organizer over Christianity's risen savior:
Never mind the implied insult to the 79.5 percent of Americans who are Christian. And we can only wonder -until someone takes a poll- about Hispanic Catholics, three-fourths of whom voted to re-elect este presidente.
Unless you are an anti-religious leftist who exults in this kind of divisive hopenchange, you might want to join me at bing.com -- all day today.
Doublethink
is "to repudiate morality while laying claim to it"
You wouldn't think it's possible to CHANGE THE DEFINITION of an age-old institution like marriage, but it's happening right before our eyes. See for example, Dictionary.com --
mar·riage
noun
1. a. the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc.
b. a similar institution involving partners of the same gender
Even Rush Limbaugh has given up; White House Dossier quotes him as follows:
.... I maintain to you that we lost the issue when we started allowing the word “marriage” to be bastardized and redefined by simply adding words to it, because marriage is one thing, and it was not established on the basis of discrimination. It wasn’t established on the basis of denying people anything. “Marriage” is not a tradition that a bunch of people concocted to be mean to other people with. But we allowed the left to have people believe that it was structured that way . . .
So far as I’m concerned, once we started talking about “gay marriage,” “traditional marriage,” “opposite-sex marriage,” “same-sex marriage,” “hetero-marriage,” we lost. It was over. It was just a matter of time.
The Age of Obama has become literally "Orwellian" --
.... Since 1949 (when Nineteen Eighty-Four was published) the word doublethink has become synonymous with relieving cognitive dissonance by ignoring the contradiction between two world views – or even of deliberately seeking to relieve cognitive dissonance.....
Orwell's "doublethink" is also credited with having inspired the commonly used "Doublespeak" which itself does not appear in the book. Comparisons have been made between Doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essays Politics and the English Language in which "unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other doublespeakers of whatever stripe continue to abuse language for manipulative purposes".
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According to the novel, doublethink is:
“ To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy ... ”
“ The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.
"Over the last year, 170,000 babies were born in Israel and 17,000 olim [immigrants] arrived, but naturally, one has to account for those who passed away as well, and Israel's population at the start of 2013 amounted to 7.993 million, crossing the 8 million mark only now" (at Passover).
New Arrivals: An olah chadasha -new immigrant- with the new little Israeli-born daughter of friends. Copyright: Thorney Lieberman.
Not only is this new population figure intensely symbolic in terms of the Holocaust, but it means that - B"H - for the first time in thousands of years more Jews live in Israel than anywhere else in the world (including the U.S., at 5.5 million).
We are taught that the Messianic Era will commence with the return of prophecy, in Israel, when more than half the Jewish people live in our land. We are not there yet, but we're close. The family of Jews is said to number 13.8 million.
.... Understanding that people will continue to transgress, the Talmud tries to analyze the paradoxical situation in which many people find themselves: Man's desire to do good and his constant encounter with his/her evil inclination. Realizing that this inclination is difficult to overcome, it suggests that human beings and especially Jews should make the following declaration whenever they try to obey the laws of the Torah but fail to do so:
"Lord of the Universe, It is well known to You that it is our desire to do Your will. But what prevents us? The yeast in the dough."
.... Bread, chametz, is blown up matza. It is matza that went overboard and became "wild".
What is, after all, the essential difference between [the two]? They are made from exactly the same ingredients. It is only the speed that makes the difference between the two. If the dough is baked quickly you get matza. However, if the dough is left for a while, it will rise and after being baked turns into bread.
The only real difference between the two is therefore hot air. An ingredient of no real substance!
And it is this ... which makes bread look powerful in comparison to matza. It rises, becoming haughty, making the impression that it consists of a great amount of substance and abundance while in reality it mainly consists of hot air.
Bread, then, is an arrogant matza.... it symbolizes the evil inclination since it is the attitude of haughtiness, blowing oneself up beyond one's real self which leads to undesirable acts that causes man to go astray. It is the source of all transgressions. Would a human being be humble, he or she would not contemplate doing anything wrong. Only arrogance leads man to undesirable deeds.
The matza ... is humble, there is no attempt to make more of itself than what it really contains: plain dough.
BtB wishes all the family of Jews, in Israel and around the world, a kosher and joyous Pesach. You should live and be well, in FREEDOM.
Next year in Jerusalem! Amen.
PETRA, Jordan (AP) — President Barack Obama set aside the Middle East's tricky politics Saturday to marvel at the beauty of one of the region's most stunning sites, the fabled ancient city of Petra. "This is pretty spectacular," he said....
Mark Steyn gets it absolutely right: Geopolitical ADHD
.... As Goh Chok Tong, the prime minister of Singapore, said on a visit to Washington in 2004, “The key issue is no longer WMD or even the role of the U.N. The central issue is America’s credibility and will to prevail.” Just so.
If you live in Tikrit or Fallujah, the Iraq War was about Iraq. If you live anywhere else on the planet, the Iraq War was about America, and the unceasing drumbeat of “quagmire” and “exit strategy” communicated to the world an emptiness at the heart of American power — like the toppled statue of Saddam that proved to be hollow. On the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, mobs trashed U.S. embassies across the region with impunity. A rather more motivated crowd showed up in Benghazi, killed four Americans, including the ambassador, and correctly calculated they would face no retribution. Like the Taliban in Afghanistan, these guys have reached their own judgment about American “credibility” and “will” — as have more potent forces yet biding their time, from Moscow to Beijing.
See also Stephen Harner at Forbes:
The Xi-Putin Summit, China-Russian Strategic Partnership
And The Folly Of Obama's 'Asian Pivot'
