Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Re: Four More Officers Are Shot in Brooklyn; all with illegal guns that came from out of state

False NRA GOP twisted pretzel logic.

On Apr 9, 9:12 am, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> as you see ... criminals will get guns and use them ... that's why we
> have to arm honest citizens and make criminals know that we can and
> will kill them if necessary
>
> if even one of the movers had a gun he would have been justified in
> shooting this thug ... even in the back if necessary
>
> On Apr 9, 8:34 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Four Officers Are Shot in Brooklyn;
> > Assailant Is Critically Wounded
> > By JOSEPH GOLDSTEINNYTimes Published: April 8, 2012
>
> > The dispute began as a simple argument on the sidewalk: a couple with
> > a baby stroller found the entrance to their home blocked by some
> > movers. Words were exchanged. A gun was brandished.
>
> > "We have now had eight — that's correct, eight — members of the
> > department shot in the last four months," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
> > said on Sunday at a news conference at Lutheran Medical Center, where
> > the officers were being treated. "And this is the second time in the
> > last 24 hours police have been fired upon by armed assailants."
>
> > "All the shootings have a disgraceful fact in common: all were
> > committed with illegal guns that came from out of state," he added.
> > "And that is the case with nearly every shooting in our city."
>
> > New York Police Department
> > Detective Michael Keenan
>
> > New York Police Department
> > Detective Kenneth Ayala
>
> > New York Police Department
> > Officer Matthew Granahan
>
> > New York Police Department
> > Capt. Al Pizzano
>
> > "You just got out of jail; you're going to go back to jail," a
> > witness, Jusuf Koci, recalled hearing the mother tell her companion,
> > who held the gun.
>
> > Hours later, the man identified as the gunman, Nakwon Foxworth,
> > engaged the police in a pitched close-range gun battle early Sunday in
> > Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, the police said. Four police officers were
> > shot; all were expected to fully recover. Mr. Foxworth was in critical
> > condition with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
>
> > The shootings underscored the Bloomberg administration's continuing
> > campaign for Congress to enact tougher gun laws.
>
> > "We have now had eight — that's correct, eight — members of the
> > department shot in the last four months," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
> > said on Sunday at a news conference at Lutheran Medical Center, where
> > the officers were being treated. "And this is the second time in the
> > last 24 hours police have been fired upon by armed assailants."
>
> > "All the shootings have a disgraceful fact in common: all were
> > committed with illegal guns that came from out of state," he added.
> > "And that is the case with nearly every shooting in our city."
>
> > Mr. Foxworth, 33, fired his 9-millimeter Browning semiautomatic
> > handgun 12 times at the officers, the police commissioner, Raymond W.
> > Kelly, said at the hospital. In the couple's apartment, the police
> > said, they also found a sawed-off, military-style assault rifle
> > equipped with a scope, and a defaced 22-caliber revolver.
>
> > Mr. Foxworth was charged with several crimes, including attempted
> > murder and assault on a police officer.
>
> > About 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Mr. Foxworth and his pregnant girlfriend
> > returned to her apartment building on Nostrand Avenue with their
> > 4-month-old son, only to find the entrance blocked. Movers were in the
> > way, assisting another resident, and there was not enough room for the
> > stroller to pass.
>
> > Mr. Foxworth's response was extreme: he waved a handgun at the movers
> > and ordered them out of his way and back into their moving van, the
> > police said. One of the movers called 911.
>
> > Anti-crime officers from the 61st Precinct tracked the gunman to the
> > couple's apartment, 6-K, and saw through a peephole the couple and the
> > infant. Nobody came to the door in response to the officers' knocking,
> > and they grew concerned about the possibility of a hostage situation.
> > Officers from the Emergency Service Unit and a hostage negotiation
> > team were called to the scene.
>
> > Not long after, the woman burst out of the apartment holding her baby,
> > Mr. Kelly said. She told the officers that Mr. Foxworth was armed and
> > had been holding them hostage.
>
> > As the officers streamed through the door, Mr. Foxworth emerged from a
> > bedroom and began shooting at the six-member Emergency Service team,
> > Mr. Kelly said. He apparently aimed low, trying to shoot below the
> > hand-held ballistic shield that the lead officer carried, according to
> > the Police Department's chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne.
>
> > Detective Michael Keenan, 52, was struck in his left calf; Detective
> > Kenneth Ayala, 49, was hit in the thigh and foot; and Police Officer
> > Matthew Granahan, 35, was wounded in his left calf. Capt. Al Pizzano,
> > 45, also sustained a graze wound to his face, Mr. Kelly said. Three
> > officers, including Detective Ayala and Officer Granahan, returned
> > fire, Mr. Kelly said.
>
> > "It was like strobe lights, maybe 15 flashes in a matter of seconds,"
> > said a woman who lives nearby and said she saw the shots while she was
> > smoking a cigarette on her porch across the street.
>
> > The handgun Mr. Foxworth fired was originally bought in Wilmington,
> > N.C., Mr. Kelly said. The sawed-off rifle had been stolen in Florida.
>
> > Mr. Foxworth was released from prison in 2009 after serving a 10-year
> > term that began with a shorter sentence for a weapons conviction but
> > was extended after he was discovered selling drugs in prison,
> > according to Mr. Browne and prison records. Previously he had served a
> > sentence of nearly two years for attempted murder.
>
> > In an unrelated event, officers patrolling in Red Hook, Brooklyn, were
> > fired on early Saturday after approaching two men, one of whom
> > appeared to be drinking alcohol in public. One of the men fled, and
> > after falling down, turned toward the police officers and fired at
> > them, the authorities said.
>
> > The officers returned fire and chased the man until they lost him in a
> > building on Columbia Street. Detectives later tracked the man to a
> > livery cab in the Rockaways and arrested him, Mr. Browne said, adding
> > that the suspect was found to have a wound to his shoulder, probably
> > from a police bullet.
>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
> > --
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Re: Two White Men Arrested For Randomly Shooting Five Black Folks While Walking, Three Dead in Tulsa

False, False, and False.

Annointed Liar!

On Apr 9, 11:17 am, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, Tommytomtom reports no Black on Black or Black on Hispanic or
> Black on Oriental or or or Black on anything/anyone crime.... Just
> race baits with Anyone/anything on/against Black crime.
>
> Tommytomtom you are a race baiter and hypocrite
>
> On Apr 9, 8:19 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Actually I think zimmerman was his step dad and he is all hispanic
>
> > On Monday, April 9, 2012, plainolamerican wrote:
> > > hell ... you can even be half-hispanic
>
> > > this was a revenge killing
>
> > > On Apr 9, 8:57 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> > > wrote:
> > > > So if you are Hispanic you can shoot black people, but if you are white
> > > you
> > > > cannot.
>
> > > > Clearly our country is far from racial equality.
>
> > > > Is that your message today Tammy?
>
> > > > On Monday, April 9, 2012, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Two White Men Arrested For Randomly Shooting Five Black Folks While
> > > > > Walking, Three Dead
>
> > > > > Two arrested in north Tulsa shootings that claimed three lives
>
> > > > > The shootings were a day after 2-year anniversary of slaying of
> > > > > suspect's fatherBy ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
> > > > > Published: 4/8/2012  4:37 AM
> > > > > Last Modified: 4/8/2012  8:14 PM
>
> > > > > Tulsa police have arrested two white men who are accused of killing
> > > > > three black residents and injuring two others in a shooting spree that
> > > > > authorities deemed "unprecedented."
>
> > > > > Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, were arrested at 1:47 a.m.
> > > > > Sunday, about 48 hours after police began discovering gunshot victims
> > > > > in a three-mile area of north Tulsa.
>
> > > > > The pair were found together in a neighborhood near where the
> > > > > shootings occurred after police received several anonymous tips that
> > > > > England was the shooter, according to arrest reports.
>
> > > > > "It is way too early to call this a hate crime," Federal Bureau of
> > > > > Investigation agent James Finch said at a Sunday afternoon news
> > > > > conference. "We have yet to analyze all the information to understand
> > > > > the motivations in this case.
>
> > > > > "This is where the really tough work starts in the investigation. This
> > > > > is where we can't afford to make mistakes," he said.
>
> > > > > The FBI was called to assist with the case.
>
> > > > > Finch asked that people keep in mind the victims. "No family should be
> > > > > subjected to this," he said.
>
> > > > > "Hopefully … this (arrests) adds some degree of closure for the
> > > families.
>
> > > > > Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54 and William Allen, 31, were
> > > > > identified as those who died after three separate shootings Friday.
>
> > > > > Two other men were wounded in a fourth shooting but were expected to
> > > > > survive. They have not been identified.
>
> > > > > The arrests came less than 12 hours after authorities formed a task
> > > > > force called Operation Random Shooter, which consisted of 30
> > > > > investigators from the Tulsa Police Department, the Tulsa County
> > > > > Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI.
>
> > > > > At a press conference Saturday, Tulsa police Chief Chuck Jordan called
> > > > > the attacks vicious and cowardly and said his agency was going to do
> > > > > whatever it takes to apprehend anyone involved.
>
> > > > > "Our sympathy goes out to the families of the victims and we hope that
> > > > > our efforts can bring some resolution and closure to these heinous
> > > > > acts," police said in a news release Sunday.
>
> > > > > Community leaders in north Tulsa and a representative of the National
> > > > > Association for the Advancement of Colored People said Friday that it
> > > > > seemed as though the shootings were racially-motivated.
>
> > > > > Jordan said Saturday that there was no evidence for that, but that it
> > > > > was a logical explanation. Police did not address the motivation for
> > > > > the shootings early Sunday.
>
> > > > > A man who is identified on Jake England's Facebook page as his father,
> > > > > Carl England, was fatally shot April 5, 2010, at Comanche Park
> > > > > Apartments, 3608 N. Quaker Ave. Carl England's death was about a
> > > > > quarter-mile east of where Allen's body was found early Friday,
> > > > > according to the Tulsa World archives.
>
> > > > > The man arrested in Carl England's death, Pernell Demond Jefferson,
> > > > > was charged with pointing a firearm and is serving a prison sentence
> > > > > through October 2014, according to Department of Corrections records.
>
> > > > > Jefferson is black.
>
> > > > > Jake England makes several references to the two-year anniversary of
> > > > > his father's death on his Facebook page, including a post 3:04 p.m.
> > > > > Thursday that says, "Today is two years that my dad has been gone shot
> > > > > by a f------ n----- it's hard not to go off between that and sheran
> > > > > I'm gone in the head."
>
> > > > > England's Facebook page indicates that his girlfriend, Sheran Hart
> > > > > Wilde, recently died. Her death notice was published Jan. 12 in the
> > > > > Tulsa World.
>
> > > >http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20...
>
> > > > > --
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> > > > > Have a great day,
> > > > > Tommy
>
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> > > > > Have a great day,
> > > > > Tommy
>
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Re: Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Citizens United


Corporations are businesses ... owned by .... Individuals.

Regard$,
--MJ

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." -- Alyssa Rosenbaum




At 02:51 PM 4/10/2012, you wrote:
Let's see...
Corporations are people too? NOT!

On Apr 10, 9:19 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> Let's see ... HERE is the Constitution: http://www.constitution.org/cons/constitu.txtNOWHERE will you find a Power enumerated for the Feds to regulate, restrict, ban, orchestrate, manipulate or otherwise dictate (save for a uniform date) *anything* to do with Elections. In fact, there is no such thing as a 'Federal' election -- Individuals in States elect their Representative, Two Senators AND (provided the State Legislature desires such) a slate of Electors who choose President.
> In addition, Amendment I clearly and plainly states that CONGRESS shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ...
> What we AGAIN see is that the Constitution itself is meaningless ... epitomized by "[the case] will give the Court an opportunity to consider whether,in light of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates' allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway."
> According to the Montana Constitution ( http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/mca_toc/Constition.htm):AII, Section 3. Inalienable rights.All persons are born free and have certain inalienable rights. They include the right to a clean and healthful environment and the rights of pursuing life's basic necessities, enjoying and defending their lives and liberties, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and seeking their safety, health and happiness in all lawful ways. In enjoying these rights, all persons recognize corresponding responsibilities.AII, Section 7. Freedom of speech, expression, and press.No law shall be passed impairing the freedom of speech or expression. Every person shall be free to speak or publish whatever he will on any subject, being responsible for all abuse of that liberty. In all suits and prosecutions for libel or slander the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and the jury, under the direction of the court, shall determine the law and the facts.The Montana Supreme Court's ruling is in violation of the Montana Constitution.
> The REAL problem with elections and campaigns stems from Government performing illegitimate tasks it has no business participating. Legitimate Government secures (natural) rights <period>. Anything done contrary serves only to provide advantage to some at the expense of others. Vying for that advantage (which is then given) is the real problem.
> Regard$,
> --MJ
> You should see what the law professors on the H-LAW mailing list are saying about yesterday's Supreme Court First Amendment decision. Allowing people to purchase political ads and make political films without government regulation is, it seems, the end of the world. -- Kevin Gutzman on Citizens United v. Federal Election CommissionAt 10:01 AM 4/10/2012, you wrote:Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Citizens United
> Ginsburg, Breyer think Montana ruling will be a chance to reverse decision
> Newser) The Supreme Court has agreed to take a case that justices
> Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer say will give it a chance to
> rethink its infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision. The court is
> being asked to look into a Montana Supreme Court decision stating that
> its law restricting corporate election spending in state elections is
> fine, because it "arises from Montana history," UPI reports.
> Essentially, Montana is arguing that Citizens United only applies to
> federal laws and elections, not state ones.
> Two Montana corporations are asking the court to make a summary
> judgment to the contrary; their lead counsel argues that otherwise,
> "free speech will be seriously harmed," because states anywhere could
> "ban core political speech." But Ginsburg and Breyer earlier wrote
> that the case "will give the Court an opportunity to consider whether,
> in light of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates'
> allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway."
> More: http://www.newser.com/story/143671/supreme-court-agrees-to-reconsider-citizens-united.html
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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Re: Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Citizens United

Let's see...
Corporations are people too? NOT!

On Apr 10, 9:19 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> Let's see ... HERE is the Constitution:http://www.constitution.org/cons/constitu.txtNOWHERE will you find a Power enumerated for the Feds to regulate, restrict, ban, orchestrate, manipulate or otherwise dictate (save for a uniform date) *anything* to do with Elections. In fact, there is no such thing as a 'Federal' election -- Individuals in States elect their Representative, Two Senators AND (provided the State Legislature desires such) a slate of Electors who choose President.
> In addition, Amendment I clearly and plainly states that CONGRESS shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ...
> What we AGAIN see is that the Constitution itself is meaningless ... epitomized by "[the case] will give the Court an opportunity to consider whether,in light of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates' allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway."
> According to the Montana Constitution (http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/mca_toc/Constition.htm):AII, Section 3. Inalienable rights.All persons are born free and have certain inalienable rights. They include the right to a clean and healthful environment and the rights of pursuing life's basic necessities, enjoying and defending their lives and liberties, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and seeking their safety, health and happiness in all lawful ways. In enjoying these rights, all persons recognize corresponding responsibilities.AII, Section 7. Freedom of speech, expression, and press.No law shall be passed impairing the freedom of speech or expression. Every person shall be free to speak or publish whatever he will on any subject, being responsible for all abuse of that liberty. In all suits and prosecutions for libel or slander the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and the jury, under the direction of the court, shall determine the law and the facts.The Montana Supreme Court's ruling is in violation of the Montana Constitution.
> The REAL problem with elections and campaigns stems from Government performing illegitimate tasks it has no business participating. Legitimate Government secures (natural) rights <period>. Anything done contrary serves only to provide advantage to some at the expense of others. Vying for that advantage (which is then given) is the real problem.
> Regard$,
> --MJ
> You should see what the law professors on the H-LAW mailing list are saying about yesterday's Supreme Court First Amendment decision. Allowing people to purchase political ads and make political films without government regulation is, it seems, the end of the world. -- Kevin Gutzman on Citizens United v. Federal Election CommissionAt 10:01 AM 4/10/2012, you wrote:Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Citizens United
> Ginsburg, Breyer think Montana ruling will be a chance to reverse decision
> Newser) The Supreme Court has agreed to take a case that justices
> Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer say will give it a chance to
> rethink its infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision. The court is
> being asked to look into a Montana Supreme Court decision stating that
> its law restricting corporate election spending in state elections is
> fine, because it "arises from Montana history," UPI reports.
> Essentially, Montana is arguing that Citizens United only applies to
> federal laws and elections, not state ones.
> Two Montana corporations are asking the court to make a summary
> judgment to the contrary; their lead counsel argues that otherwise,
> "free speech will be seriously harmed," because states anywhere could
> "ban core political speech." But Ginsburg and Breyer earlier wrote
> that the case "will give the Court an opportunity to consider whether,
> in light of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates'
> allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway."
> More:http://www.newser.com/story/143671/supreme-court-agrees-to-reconsider-citizens-united.html
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
> --
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> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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Bipartisan bills hit a brick wall in election-year GOP Obstructionist gridlock

Bipartisan bills hit a brick wall in election-year gridlock
By Megan R. Wilson - 04/07/12 09:40 AM ET


A slew of bills that have attracted bipartisan support are stalled in
Congress and face an uncertain future this election year.

Bills ranging from aviation reform to charitable vehicle donations to
pancreatic cancer have hit a legislative brick wall.


Authors of the bills have focused on building bipartisan co-sponsor
support, seeking political leverage to get their measures passed.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) unveiled the Pilot's Bill of Rights last
summer. Inspired by a run-in with the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) following a shaky landing on a Texas runway, the bill would turn
around the FAA's disciplinary stance of "guilty until proven
innocent," Inhofe said. The senator landed on a closed runway in late
2010, triggering an FAA probe.

The legislation has 62 co-sponsors and been endorsed by actor Harrison
Ford, who is also a pilot.

"It is very high on our priorities for this legislative session,"
Inhofe told The Hill. "I individually began getting co-sponsors on
this months ago with the idea of getting up to 60."

Inhofe began chatting with Republicans first, he said, because he can
"communicate better with them." But in order to secure the support of
a majority of the Senate, he had to engage the other party. Inhofe
praised Democratic Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of
Arkansas, who worked on getting signatures from the Democratic side of
the aisle.

Inhofe claims that Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are in favor of moving the
measure, but cannot officially sign on because of their leadership
positions.

The Oklahoma senator is looking to attach his bill to another larger
measure moving through Congress: "We may fold [the bill] as an
amendment to another piece of legislation."

Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-Vt.), bill, a renewal of the Violence Against
Women Act — which must be reauthorized every four years as part of a
stipulation in the original legislation from 1994 — is set to hit the
Senate floor after the Easter/Passover recess, Leahy's press secretary
David Carle said in an email.

On March 22, the bill had just gained its 61st co-signer, which
Leahy's office hopes will "help it overcome the general obstruction
that faces just about every major bill in this Congress."

California Rep. Anna Eshoo (D) has expressed confusion on why her bill
had not moved.

The Pancreatic Cancer Research and Education Act has 225 co-sponsors
and aims to provide a grant and research program for pancreatic
cancer, as well as other forms of the deadly disease.

"I asked my friend [who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer] why
there was not the amount of support from more people, as there are for
other cancers," the congresswoman recalled during a telephone
interview, "He said, 'Because they don't survive, Anna.'"

Pancreatic cancer has a six percent 5-year survival rate, more than
one-tenth the survival rate for other forms of cancer.

Eshoo said she has tried to stay in contact with the chairmen of the
panel chairmen that have jurisdiction of her bill — Rep. Fred Upton
(R-Mich.) and Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) — by phone or by reaching out to
them on the floor.

She called Upton after speaking to The Hill, according to an Eshoo aide.

Upton, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, confirmed that
Eshoo called him during a brief interview on Capitol Hill.

"A very close friend lost his wife to pancreatic cancer," Upton said.
He mentioned, "running some traps" to make the legislation a priority.

"I have it right in the middle of my desk," he said, before ducking
into a meeting.

House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson's (D-Conn.) bill, which
would incentivize charitable vehicle donations, has 242 co-sponsors.
A drop in donations has caused the more than 5,000 non-profits
nationwide — that rely on the donations to operate — to cut back on
community services, according to Larson's office.

More:
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/220409-bipartisan-bills-hit-brick-wall-in-gridlocked-congress
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Where in the World is Ron Paul?


 

New Black Panther Party – Kill a Cracker for Trayvon



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Rick Santorum Suspends His Campaign, Drops out of GOP Race

That leaves us with Etch-A-Sketch Romney and Bedhopper Richfrog. OBAMA 2012! -T

Santorum Suspends His Campaign, 2 Advisers Say

Rick Santorum is suspending his campaign for the Republican
presidential nomination on Tuesday, according to two people with
knowledge of his plans.
Mr. Santorum is due to make the announcement at a stop in his home
state of Pennsylvania after a weekend in which he tended to his
three-year-old daughter, Bella, who had been hospitalized with
pneumonia.
The decision abruptly ends his quest for the Republican presidential
nomination after weeks in which he has struggled to compete with Mitt
Romney's well-financed, highly-organized campaign apparatus.

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17 Year Old Paints “Controversial” Mural at School



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17 Year Old Paints "Controversial" Mural at School

by sage_brush

A seventeen year old girl from Pilgrim High School in Warwick, Rhode Island has come under  fire for a mural she painted in the school.  Not to be outdone by Crucifixes immersed in urine, or the Virgin Mary covered in feces - this girl has really pushed the standard for controversy.

See the shocking image for yourself!

Brace yourself for this disturbing close-up!

Grown up, married, with a child.  Oh - and they are smiling!  Evil incarnate!

The mural was meant to depict the life of a man and it ended with the scene with the man, woman and a child. The student artist, 17-year-old Liz Bierendy, said that she depicted the man and woman has married with wedding rings. According to Horoshack's press release the scene was painted over because "some of the members of the Pilgrim High Schoolcommunity suggested that the depiction of a young man's development from boyhood through adulthood as displayed may not represent the life experiences of many of the students at Pilgrim High School."

 

According to the release, the assistant principal approached the Bierendy after the concern was raised from the school and "asked her to look at other ways to show the outcome of the subject's progression to adulthood."

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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

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Re: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words

And since Obama is darker you could use pictures of all the little brown Arab children he has blown up with predator drones

On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, MARK CARPENTER wrote:
I like this picture:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4405/1199/1600/War_President-AmericanJoe.jpg

It's a picture of George Bush created from pictures of members of the U.S. Armed Services who were killed in Bush's War Against Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction/War to Free Iraq From That Awful Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein (But Leaving Other Despotic Dictators in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Azerbijan, etc. Alone, Especially When Their Countries Have Resources the U.S. Needs)/War To Create Democracy In The Middle East (Except If It Causes Our Gasoline Prices to Spike)/War For Iraqi Oil.

Pretty good likeness of George Bush, isn't it Keith and Paul?  That's YOUR Bush!

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Re: Study Ties Conservative Beliefs To 'Low-Effort Thinking' ?????????

Conservatives are clearly dumb

They give money to the poor and charities

Liberals use the government to steal other people's money, claim they are helping the poor, and then spend all the money on 6 figure salaries for themselves to work in bureaucracies and go on junkets to Las Vegas and abroad

On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, wrote:
 
Don't put much faith in anything the left leaning Huffington Post says.  I take it with a grain of salt.
 
They are left wing biased organization.   I always Consider the Source.
 
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In a message dated 4/10/2012 8:29:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, carpbear@global.net   writes:
Study Ties Conservative Beliefs To 'Low-Effort Thinking'

Conservative Politics, 'Low-Effort' Thinking Linked In New Study
The Huffington Post | By David Freeman Posted: 04/ 9/2012 10:44 am Updated: 04/ 9/2012 2:16 pm

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Narcissist-in-Chief Has Own Image on Basketballs



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Narcissist-in-Chief Has Own Image on Basketballs

by Scotty Starnes

Obama loves himself and loves any chance to use his face for his propaganda campaign.

From ABC News:

Using a special basketball festooned with his own image, President Obama shot some hoop today with former NBA players, Harlem Globetrotters and kids attending the White House Easter Egg Hunt. The balls with the presidential face were brought for by the NBA  players who came to the event, White House officials said.

The "Shoot for Strength" activity took place on the White House basketball court, where Daryll "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins and legendary shooting guard Mitch Richmond joined Globetrotters' Herb Lang, Fatima Maddox, Jacob Tucker and Wun Versher to conduct drills with kids. The drill consisted of the kids doing pushups every time the professional players or President Obama scored.

In his first three shots he went 0 for 3. He missed seven shots before sinking his first.

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Scotty Starnes | April 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM | Tags: basketball, narcissist, President Obama, propaganda | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-6Uc

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Fidel's not a fan of Harper.

Is it even possible that Castro is getting nuttier as he gets older? Didn't Cuba refuse to join the OAS because it was dominated by the U.S.?


Castro bashes Canada



By ,Parliamentary Bureau

OTTAWA - Fidel Castro, Cuba's ailing former dictator, has written an article in which he blasts Canada and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

In an article published Sunday by a Cuban news agency, the 85-year-old calls out Harper and Canada for not taking sides in the "thorny issue" of the Falklands Islands dispute. Castro also takes issue with Canadian mining activities in Latin America.

But he's not just critical of mining in the southern hemisphere.

He singles out the "yankees" for having "forced" Canada to extract bitumen from Alberta's oilsands, "causing irreparable damage to the environment of this beautiful and vast country."

Castro also raised concerns over Canada's membership in the Organization of American States, noting Queen Elizabeth is our head of state and it's not clear whether Canada is "a colony, a republic or a monarchy."

Castro did have kind words for "brilliant and courageous" late prime minister Pierre Trudeau, who visited Cuba in the 1970s.

The prime minister's office had no comment on Castro's rambling rant.

Castro also appeared to be smarting over the fact the communist state is excluded from the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Colombia.

In the meandering essay, he mocks the fact U.S. President Barack Obama could wear a guayabera - a men's shirt worn in Latin America that Cuba claims as its own - to the summit.

"The curious thing about this, dear readers, is that Cuba has been forbidden to attend that meeting, but not the guayaberas," Castro wrote. "Who could hold back from laughing?"



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The One-Percent Revolution: National We-Won’t-Pay Day


The One-Percent Revolution: National We-Won't-Pay Day
by Bill Sardi

What if the 1-percent holdback their quarterly tax payments?

God, I can hear it now, how dare the rich do a thing like that! Yes, I'm talking about a planned date to holdback on quarterly tax payments to the Internal Revenue Service.

It is easy to see that America has an onerous tax system where the masses vote themselves pay increases from the classes. There can never be meaningful tax reform or tax revolt when only a small number of out-voted wage earners pay most of the taxes. The Federal government gets away with all of its over-spending shenanigans by pitting the poor against the rich.

This is not to condone the ill-gotten financial wealth that Wall Street types have generated by churning fast electronic trades on the stock market, or profits gained from insider trading, or the executive bonuses for reckless bankers while home owners who did business with these banksters were thrown out on the street.

But the wealthy have one advantage – their taxes aren't withheld from their paychecks. They pay quarterly estimated taxes.

Now if the top 1-percent (who pay about 37% of the Federal taxes), or maybe the top 5-percent (about 58% of collected Federal taxes), can agree upon a course of action to holdback on quarterly tax payments until proper reforms are passed to reign in spending, what would result?

There would certainly be calls to jail them all. Great, now we'd have the largest tax payers sidelined and not earning income. That would further throw the economy into a collapse.


Do secretaries really pay more taxes than their bosses?

Recall now, I didn't start this war, the Executive branch of the Federal government did by spending recklessly and then pointing a misdirected finger at the wealthy.

The chief executive errantly says secretaries shouldn't incur a higher tax rate than their bosses. It's a false argument. The wealthy are putting their money at risk to build the American economy and pay lower tax rates (called capital gains) which is an encouragement to invest to help America grow its economy. Go ahead, fix a broken economy by over-taxing when the real problem is over-spending. This strategy will surely backfire.

I'm totally against the Buffet tax, named after billionaire Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor who has complained that rich people like him pay a smaller share of their income in federal taxes than middle-class taxpayers. The President has taken up this maligned issue to again pit the masses against the classes. But a distinction should be made between tax avoiders and tax evaders. The wealthy already pay more than their fair share.


Private vs. public capital

Why is the White House denigrating private capital? Who says money in the hands of the Federal government is better used than by private enterprise?

A worker hired in the private economy is not on the back of taxpayers. But a worker hired by government will be forever on the back of American wage earners.

And why do we assume the Federal government, with all of its largesse and influence, can launch a new venture with any greater success than private enterprise?

Look at the Federal government's recent track record. The Federal government backed Chevy Volt electric cars, and only six-thousand have been sold even with a huge federal tax credit. Or how about new government-underwritten ventures like the failed Solyndra solar panel company backed by a $528 million government loan or the freshly bankrupt $2 billion solar energy plant that was supposed to be built in the California desert. Crony capitalism doesn't work.


Americans are repudiating their debts

Still, you can't stomach the rich withholding their tax payments while babies from poor families need milk and kids need their teeth fixed. But let me tell you many Americans have already started a "We Won't Pay" revolution.

Noted political and economic commentator Gary North has said Americans won't pass on their debt to the next generation. And he appears to be right. Americans are simply repudiating their personal debts.

Almost a trillion dollars of federally-back student loans are simply not being paid down. An estimated 4 million home owners are not making their monthly mortgage payments and are still living in their homes. Given the choice between making a mortgage payment or a car payment, Americans are choosing to avoid repossession of their car they need to get to their job preferentially over going into foreclosure on their home.

The banks made these imprudent loans and they should be held accountable. The banks will fail if Americans don't pay on their loans and that is the proper course. Bankers will only become more prudent if they fail instead of pushing their sins off on the public. We should as a society put a stop to privatized profits and socialized losses.

Why should the wealthy foot the entire bill to help bear the unfair load for more and more public welfare when so many others are punting on paying their debts? Only a taxpayer revolt at the top will stand a chance at reforming a derelict government. If the 1.4 million Americans who represent the 1% who pay most of the taxes can agree on any meaningful reforms, the Federal government is toast.


Don't demonize the American dream

Getting back to the topic of wealth and taxes, if there are no wealthy Americans, what is the use of living in this society and dreaming one day you can make it to the top if you can't become a millionaire?

Wealthy taxpayers earn investment income which is taxed at 15 percent capita gains rate rather than the top-bracket 35% tax rate. In this manner wealthy people are encouraged to invest their money to grow the economy by a lower tax rate on capital gains. Otherwise they can hold their money in stocks and never take profit that will generate taxes. In other words, lower capital gains taxes keep wealthy people from sitting on their money.

The President has proposed that people earning at least $1 million annually - whether in salary or investments - should pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. This presumes the nation's debt crisis is caused by free-loader millionaires who are tax evaders rather than tax avoiders.


The American economy collapsed years ago

John Mauldin, author of Endgame, says the problem is over-spending, not under-taxing. Mauldin says the private economy stopped growing over a decade ago, according to Mauldin, and then the Federal government stepped in and began to conjure up phony wars, expand the military, create more government jobs, and put more people on the backs of the wealthy. Continue in this direction and America ends up exactly where Greece is today.


Distinguish tax avoiders from tax evaders

It was judge Learned Hand, U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit (1872-1961) in Gregory v. Helvering 69 F.2d 809, 810 (2d Cir. 1934, aff'd 293 U.S. 465, 55 S. Ct. 266, 79 L. Ed. 596 (1935) who said:

"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."


Divide and conquer

Public anger against the one-percent is misdirected and divides the nation, which insulates the government from public pressure. Division is how government keeps the pressure off of itself – rich vs. poor, black vs. white, immigrant vs. non-immigrant, union vs. non-union worker.

Furthermore, government can even violate the Constitution with impunity because it picks off dissenters one by one, breaching the rights of one, not all. It was Martin Niemoller (1892-1984), born in Lippstadt, Germany, who wrote the following:

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

Most Americans cannot distinguish tax evasion from tax avoidance. Pay your fair share of taxes, just like all the rest of us! That is the prevalent sentiment. The fact is, nearly half of all Americans don't pay Federal income taxes, but they think they do because FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) deducts for Medicare and Social Security.


Paying taxes: a mark of patriotism?

When Americans are asked if they know of any specific law which requires citizens to pay income taxes, most Americans look perplexed as to why a law would be needed in the first place. What is often heard is that every good American citizen should pay their taxes regardless of whether there is a law or not. The fact is, nearly have of American workers pay no Federal income tax and will collect over the lifetime more benefits from Social Security and Medicare than they contributed.

America has drastically changed from its earliest beginning. America started out as a tax protest -- the Boston Tea Party being the best specific example. Today, protest taxes and you are considered unpatriotic!

Recognize the White House is demonizing wealthy individuals who don't pay their fair share of taxes while its own Treasury Secretary failed to file tax forms for three years and was paid a tax allowance by his employer for taxes he didn't pay. What a two-faced elitist government.


Undesignated taxes should be abolished

Americans don't realize the Federal government receives revenues for no designated purpose, so it immediately pads budgets and dreams up spending programs that hide any surpluses that should be returned to the people in lower tax rates.

In North Dakota is there is a movement now to eradicate State property taxes. If this law passes, all new spending must be accompanied by a tax approved by the voters for a specific purpose rather than collecting surplus dollars and then finding ways to spend them as if government has a right to the money. In California during the height of the real estate bubble, the State was collecting such huge amounts of money and spending it so fast that it was borrowing against future anticipated property tax revenues. The State wanted to make sure no surpluses ever accumulated. Only Governor Ronald Reagan ever gave California tax payers a refund.

Americans don't realize they are being gamed and huge surpluses could be realized if every tax was designated for a specific purpose rather than giving government an open checkbook to spend what revenues are collected.


Over-complicated tax code

The IRS' Taxpayer Ombudsman says the U.S. tax code has become so onerous, so complex, it costs Americans about $193 billion a year to fill out tax forms, and if improperly filed, the consequences could be forfeiture of property or garnishment of wages. As recently as the year 2000 almost half of U.S. wage earners filled out their own tax forms. Today 80% of tax filers must rely upon assistance in the form of software or a tax consultant. This means the tax code is beyond the comprehension of most citizens. Has the tax code been intentionally complication-ized as a favor to cronies who own tax filing companies that make political donations? (You can locate the political donations made by a well-known tax preparer here.)

An estimated 7.6 billion hours a year are spent filling out tax forms for the IRS; and that figure does not even include millions of additional hours that taxpayers must spend when they are required to respond to an IRS notice or an audit (7.6 billion hours consume the equivalent of 3.8 million full-time workers).

The U.S. tax code is so complex that almost any tax filer could be found in violation of some rule and be subject to fines and penalties.


Tax revolts are peaceful

It doesn't take guns or street rebellion to reform America. It just takes the will to not pay. If Americans want conservative bankers who won't lend out their banked money recklessly then they are going to have to stand up the banksters who threatened to let the whole economy collapse in 2008 if the Federal government didn't bail them out. The bankers were bailed out while the people lost their homes and their jobs. It's time to make the bankers pay, not shift their dereliction on us all.

It was Winston Churchill who once said: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."

Instructions on how to play the popular board game Monopoly includes these rules (from Parker Brothers): "The Bank collects all taxes, fines, loans and interest, and the price of

all properties which it sells and auctions. The Bank never 'goes broke.' If the Bank runs out of money, the Banker may issue as much more as may be needed by writing on any ordinary paper." Isn't that the game American bankers are playing. Our paper money is becoming worthless play money. In this game of "bankers take all" it's time to revolt. Don't pay.

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