The Violent Oppression Of Women In Islam

Last week, YouTube made headlines and agitated many when it banned the short film: The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam, which is produced by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 

The film, rated “X” for such extreme graphic content, gives an accurate and eye-opening account of how women are treated under Islam. This film shows actual beheadings, hangings, and and other ways in which women are beaten, mutilated, and otherwise tortured under Islam. If there was ever a doubt in your mind that severe (understatement) oppression occurs, watch this film:

Film: The Violent Oppression of Women In Islam

Plame Continues To Flame

Yawn. Nobody cares anymore… 

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. –Outed spy Valerie Plame says she isn’t going away, no matter what the folks at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue want.

Touring in support of a new memoir, the former CIA operative said in a speech Sunday that she and husband Joseph Wilson have left Washington behind but have no intention of keeping quiet about the way they say they were retaliated against by the White House and others.

“They would like nothing more for us to than be silent and go away. We are not going to give them the satisfaction,” said Plame.

But she also said that neither she nor her husband — whose 2003 op-ed column in the New York Times questioned the Bush administration’s rationale for the war with Iraq — want their lives defined by it.

Plame, 44, went from an undercover CIA operative to household name after syndicated columnist Robert Novak revealed her identity in a column in a 2003 story about Wilson’s CIA-sponsored trip to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq was trying to buy uranium.

The disclosure triggered an investigation that led to the conviction of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the only person charged in the case. He was not convicted of leaking but of lying and obstructing the probe, and President Bush commuted his 2 1/2-year prison sentence.

On Sunday, about 900 people turned out for Plame’s $28-a-ticket appearance at a Vermont Woman newspaper lecture series at a Sheraton hotel ballroom, six days after the release of “Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House.”

Plame got a $1 million advance for the book. Her speaking fee Sunday wasn’t disclosed; neither Plame nor Vermont Woman publisher Suzanne Gillis would say what it was.

In a 52-minute speech and a question-and-answer session that followed, Plame recounted some details about her CIA training, her marriage to Wilson — a veteran diplomat — and the “wild and woolly” fallout they endured after her name was published.

“I felt like someone sucker punched me in the gut,” she said.

The revelation compromised some of her former CIA contacts, put her family at the center of a “media maelstrom” and effectively ended her career as a spy, she said.

The book, which had to be cleared for publication by the CIA as part of a secrecy agreement she signed when she joined, was dramatically redacted for what she said were reasons more related to the White House’s political agenda than to national security.

Publisher Simon & Schuster — which lost a court fight over the deletions — opted to print the book using gray blackout over the parts the CIA objected to, for effect. Most of the deletions had to do with the dates of her CIA service, according to Plame.

“The vast majority of what’s underneath those black lines has nothing to do with national security information,” she said.

“Although this is only a piece of the story, I think it’s an important piece, because it shows a much broader pattern of activity and behavior by this administration to silence its critics and to use national security and fear as a bludgeon so that they can perpetuate their own political agenda,” Plame said.

Plame, who is also suing Vice President Cheney, former White House political strategist Karl Rove, Libby and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, said she hopes the civil suit will lead to more revelations about her case.

Until the book’s publication, Plame and her husband had faded from the limelight in recent months. Six months ago, they moved to Santa Fe, N.M.

“We have every desire to move beyond this,” she said. “We do not want to be defined by this. This is an important story, it has to be told. But I want to be able to move on.”

Source: Boston.com - Outed Spy: I’m not going away

Michael Mooreon

Michael Moore’s latest doucheumentary Sicko was released in United Kingdom cinemas last week. As Minette Marrin reports in this Times Online article, the NHS socialized healthcare system which Michael Moore has evangelized has serious shortcomings and has been inaccuratedly portrayed in his latest film:

Unfortunately Sicko is a dishonest film. That is not only my opinion. It is the opinion of Professor Lord Robert Winston, the consultant and advocate of the NHS. When asked on BBC Radio 4 whether he recognised the NHS as portrayed in this film, Winston replied: “No, I didn’t. Most of it was filmed at my hospital [the Hammersmith in west London], which is a very good hospital but doesn’t represent what the NHS is like.”

I didn’t recognise it either, from years of visiting NHS hospitals. Moore painted a rose-tinted vision of spotless wards, impeccable treatment, happy patients who laugh away any suggestion of waiting in casualty, and a glamorous young GP who combines his devotion to his patients with a salary of £100,000, a house worth £1m and two cars. All this, and for free.

This, along with an even rosier portrait of the French welfare system, is what Moore says the state can and should provide. You would never guess from Sicko that the NHS is in deep trouble, mired in scandal and incompetence, despite the injection of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money.

Interestingly enough, Sicko’s release in the United Kingdom has raised the same questions that were raised when the film was released stateside. It seems also that our neighbors to the east have arrived at the same conclusions that so many of us have reached:

One can only wonder why Sicko is so dishonestly biased. It must be partly down to Moore’s personal vainglory; he has cast himself as a high priest of righteous indignation, the people’s prophet, and he has an almost religious following. He’s a sort of docu-evangelist, dressed like a parody of the American man of the people, with jutting jaw, infantile questions and aggressively aligned baseball cap.

However, behind the pleasures of righteous indignation for him and his audience, there is something more sinister. There’s money in indignation, big money. It is just one of the many extreme sensations that are lucrative for journalists to whip up, along with prurience, disgust and envy. Michael Moore is not Mr Valiant-for-truth. He is Mr Worldly-wiseman, laughing behind his hand at all the gawping suckers in Vanity Fair. Don’t go to his show.

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If the headline doesn’t make sense… good. Neither does this:

A civil rights advocate and talk radio host — with Al Sharpton’s support — is urging Americans not to spend money on Nov. 2 to protest the federal government’s handling of hate crimes as well as its handling of other issues like health care, immigration, the mortgage crisis and the war in Iraq.

…and eggs, milk, butter, and toilet paper. It seems that within a period of 48 hours, the racial cry against the “rampant” racism in America has turned into a grocery list of reasons to protest. Health care? Immigration? The mortgage crisis? The war in Iraq? If we’re collectively to spend no money on November 2nd, what are we raging against?

Where was this in Al Sharpton’s Atlanta speech on Tuesday, where he announced:

“We feel that the federal government has failed to intervene in the cases of hate crimes — swastikas and nooses,” Sharpton said. “Since the federal government won’t come to the people, we’re going to bring the people to the federal government.”

Sharpton was joined at Tuesday’s news conference by Martin Luther King III. Both noted what appeared to be a string of copycat crimes involving nooses following the well-publicized Jena 6 episode in Louisiana.

Warren Ballantine, a radio host appearing alongside Sharpton and King on Tuesday, also called for a “blackout” on Nov. 2, asking people to not spend money on that day in hopes of sending a message to the federal government.

The “blackout” and subsequent protest against racism in America is turning out to be a demonstration on everything; Hence, it becomes a demonstration against nothing. In a matter of 48 hours, the Jena 6 hypocrisy was not enough to illicit enough fervor, anger, and angst to fuel such a demonstration in Washington — or a “blackout.”

As such, the most bloviating hypocrites of our times have blended perceived racial incidents with a short list of other modern “ailments,” making said “blackouts” or protests an even sillier proposition. It is no wonder that Sharpton, Jackson, and Ballantine have no credibility.

[ On November 2nd, one editor of the Douchebag Report will be silently protesting the rising price of Heineken. ]

So Long, Douchebag

Sources close to the Washington D.C. Commission on Selection and Tenure have reported that administrative law judge Roy L. Pearson, has not been reappointed to the bench. In other words, the relentless douchebag is getting fired. As reported in the Washington Post:

Roy L. Pearson, Jr., whose $54 million lawsuit against a Northeast Washington dry-cleaning shop was rejected in court, is about to lose his job as an administrative law judge, sources said last night.

A city commission voted yesterday against reappointing Pearson to the bench of the Office of Administrative Hearings, which hears cases involving various D.C. boards and agencies. Pearson, who was up for a 10-year term, had tried to hold on to the job.

Before we decide to soil our dry-clean-only pants with spilled champagne in celebratory fashion, the decision is not yet finalized:  

The commission’s discussions are not public. Sources familiar with the deliberations said the panel hasn’t drafted a letter formally notifying Pearson of its decision. Until that is done, the sources said, the decision is not final. The letter could be sent early next week, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case.

While this is a step in the right direction, there is certainly more that needs to be done. Foremost, Pearson must be disbarred for seeking to destroy the integrity of the legal system by introducing a frivolous lawsuit of such magnitude. A person of such character cannot serve the legal profession in any manner.

If past events serve as indicators, one can only expect that Pearson will kick his lawsuit into overdrive with all the extra free time that he will soon have. The Chung family (defendants) have already lost two of their three dry cleaning establishments resulting from this suit. Pearson has done nothing more than demonstrate that he is a vindictive, abusive, mentally ill jurist that should be removed from society.

Media Myths About The Jena 6

This one falls under the ‘must read’ category. Craig Franklin, a local Jena, Louisiana journalist intends to disspell the myths that have propagated throughout mainstream media coverage of the Jena 6.

Here is an excerpt from the full Christian Science Monitor article:

Jena, La. - By now, almost everyone in America has heard of Jena, La., because they’ve all heard the story of the “Jena 6.” White students hanging nooses barely punished, a schoolyard fight, excessive punishment for the six black attackers, racist local officials, public outrage and protests – the outside media made sure everyone knew the basics.

There’s just one problem: The media got most of the basics wrong. In fact, I have never before witnessed such a disgrace in professional journalism. Myths replaced facts, and journalists abdicated their solemn duty to investigate every claim because they were seduced by a powerfully appealing but false narrative of racial injustice.

I should know. I live in Jena. My wife has taught at Jena High School for many years. And most important, I am probably the only reporter who has covered these events from the very beginning.

The reason the Jena cases have been propelled into the world spotlight is two-fold: First, because local officials did not speak publicly early on about the true events of the past year, the media simply formed their stories based on one-side’s statements – the Jena 6. Second, the media were downright lazy in their efforts to find the truth. Often, they simply reported what they’d read on blogs, which expressed only one side of the issue.

The real story of Jena and the Jena 6 is quite different from what the national media presented. It’s time to set the record straight.

And again, here’s a link to the full article…

Here We Go Again…

It appears that the bloviating hatemonger Rev. Al Sharpton is at it again, and this time Don Imus can breathe easy (for a few minutes, at least.) As told in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sharpton is planning a march on the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, November 16th.  Sharpton is “protesting what he believes is the Justice Department’s failure to prosecute a series of recent hate crimes across the country.”

Sharpton announced:

“We feel that the federal government has failed to intervene in the case of hate crimes - swastikas and nooses. Since the federal government won’t come to the people, we’re going to bring the people to the federal government.”

In addition to the march,  Sharpton lap-dog and liberal radio host Warren Ballantine has asked for a “‘blackout’ on Nov. 2, asking people not to spend money on that day in hopes of sending a message to the federal government.”

Come on guys, don’t you have anything better to do with your time? Sharpton continues:

“We’ll continue to mobilize until there’s justice, and that has to come from the federal government.”

Great. If there’s any justice, the Jena 6 will also be tried for a hate crime. 6 on 1 beatings vs. childish symbols displayed to provoke hate? Or is there no difference?

Kucinich Phones Home

In her new book titled “Sage-Ing While Age-Ing,” Shirley MacLaine reveals that longtime friend and Democratic presidential Candidate has seen a UFO. As reported by Mark Naymik in this cleveland.com article:

“[Kucinich] had a close sighting over my home in Graham, Washington, when I lived there. Dennis found his encounter extremely moving. The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered, soundless, for ten minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn’t comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.”

Hillary Clinton and her coterie of chinese campaign donors have NOTHING on Kucinich’s contributors:

Liar, Liar

Excerpt from this Breitbart (AP) article:

NEW YORK (AP) - If elected president in 2008, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton would consider giving up some of the executive powers President Bush and Vice President Cheney have assumed since taking office.

Too bad there’s no YouTube of her nose growing during this interview:

In an interview published Tuesday in Guardian America, a Web site run by the London-based Guardian newspaper, Clinton denounced the Bush Administration’s push to concentrate more power in the White House as a “power grab” not supported by the Constitution.

Asked if she would consider giving up some of those powers if she were president, Clinton replied, “Oh, absolutely … I mean, that has to be part of the review that I undertake when I get to the White House, and I intend to do that.”

Hillary Clinton. Give up some power as president? I call bullshit.

Video Waxing In Popularity

Kevin Rudd, Australia’s Labour Party candidate for Prime Minister is ‘haunted’ by a web video that is rather disgusting. According to this news.com.au article:

“Thinking himself invisible while his colleague Anthony Albanese holds the floor at the dispatch box, Mr Rudd absent-mindedly picks his ear. Harmless enough - until [he] then sticks the same finger in his mouth.”

Of course, here’s the video:

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