America The Beautiful

Palestinians campaigning for Obama from Gaza

But don't dare suggest he might be a Muslim.



Hat Tip: Weasel Zippers

They're just trying to help!

This video is a bit old, but it's always important to have it bookmarked so you can have it handy whenever you need a little slap in the face upon feeling the urge to believe your government actually cares about you.

ESPN anchorwoman:
'F--- Jesus'
TV host taken to task for outburst at public event

Read the story at: WorldNetDaily.com


Please contact ESPN here and let them know what you think!

Mexican residents crossing U.S. border daily; to attend school

It’s not just illegal aliens attending our schools on taxpayer money. Apparently, some border towns have Mexican citizens crossing back and forth on a daily basis to receive their American taxpayer funded free education.

In Calexico, California, American citizens are being bused across town because of overcrowding by Mexican citizens.

Via the Associated Press and Breitbart.com:

Every day along the 1,952-mile border, children from Mexico cross into the United States and attend public schools. No one keeps statistics on how many.

In response to citizen complaints, the school district has actually hired a photographer to take photos of kids crossing the border, in an attempt to identify those who don’t belong. As usual, not all of those who’s job it is to serve American citizens agree:

Jesus Gandara, superintendent of the Sweetwater district, with 44,000 students along San Diego's border with Mexico, said tracking children at the border goes too far. "If you do that, you're playing immigration agent," he said.
Somebody should find out if Jesus Gandara is crossing the border along with the students.

Click here to read the entire story.

U.S. Census: Migration is expected to add one person every 30 seconds.
Via US Census Bureau News

(Emphasis added)

As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2008, population will be 303,146,284 -- up 2,842,103 or 0.9 percent from New Year’s Day 2007.

In January, the United States is expected to register one birth every eight seconds and one death every 11 seconds.

Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person every 30 seconds. The result is an increase in the total U.S. population of one person every 13 seconds.

Democrats vote AGAINST Christmas, while voting in FAVOR of Ramadan

In case you might have missed our post earlier in the week, nine democrats voted against H. Res. 847; the Bill intended to recognize the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith.

What makes this so pathetic, is that the same nine Democrats had earlier voted IN FAVOR of a similar bill intended to recognize Ramadan and Islam.



Michelle Malkin points out: "None of the nine voted against resolutions honoring the Islamic holiday of Ramadan and the Hindu holiday of Diwali.”

Full text of the bill can be found HERE.

The Gratitude Campaign



Watch the long version HERE.

Illegal Lebanese Immigrant Worked for FBI, CIA
BY STEVE



Here's a little update on the bang up job being done by the FBI and CIA in the war on global jihad. Nada Nadim Prouty, an illegal from Lebanon, pleaded guilty recently to faking a marriage in order to gain U.S. citizenship. This paved the way for her to get jobs with both the FBI and CIA, where she stole classified information pertaining to her brother in-law and his ties to the terrorist organization Hezbollah and passed the information off to him.
(Source: CBS News)

AFP Fauxtography
BY STEVE

Notice anything odd about this AFP photo?

The caption claims the bullets were fired at an elderly woman's house by U.S. troops during a raid after yesterday's devastating suicide bombings. The only problem is, the bullets appear to be in perfect condition. They even apparently still have their shell casings on them, meaning they couldn't possibly have been fired at anybody or anything. So what happened? Did those evil imperialist U.S. soldiers run out of rifles and decide to throw them at her?

Agence France Presse was apparently so eager to publish this photo and label U.S. soldiers as monsters that they didn't even bother to make certain the bullets had actually been discharged from a weapon first.

(Thanks to Protest Warrior for bringing this to our attention)

Arrested for flushing the Koran
BY STEVE

You can burn the American flag, paint swastikas on the star of David, place Christian symbols in jars of urine and piles of dung, but apparently, if you flush a copy of the Koran, you've gone too far, because a man at Pace University has been arrested and charged with a "hate crime" for doing just that. When will we finally stand up for ourselves and say enough is enough? We're becoming dhimmis by choice and we must put a stop to it.

Original story from the AP:

Hate-crime arrests in Quran desecrations at Pace University

July 27, 2007, 8:33 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) _ A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions, police said.

Stanislav Shmulevich of Brooklyn was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and aggravated harassment, both hate crimes, police said. It was unclear if he was a student at the school. A message left at the Shmulevich home was not immediately returned.

The Islamic holy book was found in a toilet at Pace's lower Manhattan campus by a teacher on Oct. 13. A student discovered another book in a toilet on Nov. 21, police said.

Muslim activists had called on Pace University to crack down on hate crimes after the incidents. As a result, the university said it would offer sensitivity training to its students.

The school was accused by Muslim students of not taking the incident seriously enough at first. Pace classified the first desecration of the holy book as an act of vandalism, but university officials later reversed themselves and referred the incident to the New York Police Department's hate crimes unit.

The incidents came amid a spate of vandalism cases with religious or racial overtones at the school. In an earlier incident on Sept. 21, the school reported another copy of the Quran was found in a library toilet, and in October someone scrawled racial slurs on a student's car at the Westchester County satellite campus and on a bathroom wall at the campus in lower Manhattan. Police did not connect Shmulevich to those incidents.

Treatment of the Quran is a sensitive issue for Muslims, who view the book as a sacred object and mistreating it as an offense against God. The religion teaches that the Quran is the direct word of God.

In 2005, Newsweek magazine published and later retracted a story claiming U.S. interrogators at a prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, flushed a copy of the holy book down a toilet. The report sparked deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan and protests throughout the Middle East.

Pace University has 14,000 students on its campuses in New York City and Westchester County.

Messages left for school administrators and for officials with the New York and national chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations were not immediately returned Friday evening.

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the national CAIR office in Washington, D.C., has said the organization receives frequent reports of Quran desecrations in the United States, especially postings on Internet sites, but seldom makes them public.

He said CAIR decided to speak out about the Pace incidents because Muslim students are impacted by the creation of what could be viewed as a hostile campus environment.

National Anthem Prohibited
BY STEVE

Talk radio personality, Rusty Humphries reads a letter from a choir leader who brought her students to the Lincoln memorial. Foreign guards who could barely speak any English were asked if the choir singing the national anthem would be all right. The guards originally said yes and then interrupted the performance half-way through.

It's a sad day in America when our own freaking anthem is prohibited by foreign guards working at our own memorials.

Just how far will anti-Christian bigots go to brainwash our children?

Via HotAir.com and reported by PhillyBurbs.com:

New Jersey high school stages mock terror attack — by right-wing “Crusaders”

The purpose of the drill was to test the reactions of police, faculty and administration. The mock terror attack involved two irate men armed with handguns who invaded the high school through the front door. They pretended to shoot several students in the hallway and then barricaded themselves in the media center with 10 student hostages.

Here's the interesting part (bold face and underline mine) ...

Two Burlington Township police detectives portrayed the gunmen. Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the “New Crusaders” who don’t believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.

Nothing like teaching them to be bigots at an early age.

Oakland Tribune activity sponsors and organizes anti-Bush protests

Starting in February, 2006, the Oakland Tribune appears to have made the decision to stop reporting the news, and instead … to be a part of it, or even create it. On February 13th the Tribune ran an editorial giving instructions to readers on how to participate in an anti-Bush protest. This protest was apparently officially organized, sponsored, publicized, and physically conducted by the Editorial Board of the Oakland Tribune.

Here is the announcement as it appeared on one website:

Mail or bring your copies of '1984' to the Oakland Tribune -- they will send them to Congress!! 23 Dec 2005 "We think it's time for Congress to heed the warning of George Orwell. To that end, we're asking for your help: Mail us or drop off your tattered copies of '1984.' When we get 537 of them, we'll send them to every member of the House of Representatives and Senate and to President [sic] Bush and Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney. Feel free to inscribe the book with a note, reminding these fine people that we Americans take the threat to our liberties seriously... Bring or mail your books to the Oakland Tribune, 401 13th St., Oakland CA 94612. Doors are open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m."

And here is the link to the actual editorial which appeared on the pages of the Oakland Tribune on 02/13/06:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/oped/ci_3337465

I just received a call back from Josh Richman of the Oakland Tribune - Politics & Criminal Justice.

Mr. Richman completely admitted that the newspaper editorial board organized, publicized, and activity participated in this protest of the sitting President of the United States. This is unbelievable!

He did inform me that this protest is already completed and started over a year ago, but the most interesting information he gave me was that there were employees of the newspaper actually sitting in an office, stuffing these books into envelopes, addressing them to members of Congress, and then mailing them. This is absurd!

I asked Mr. Richman if the Oakland Tribune had given up their newspaper status and now become a political action committee.

I've been told that I will also be getting a call from the Editor soon, as they seem to be concerned with where this might lead, and if this does happen I will post updates as they come in.

Here’s an ironic moment. While speaking with Mr. Richman, he asked me what blogs or outlets might be writing about this story and I informed him that I believe it might hit all the main blogs as well as Fox News. When I mentioned FoxNews, he laughed. Now, a public newspaper organizing an anti-Bush protest doesn’t get any more biased than that, so I find this reaction the ultimate hypocrisy, but amazingly it’s the normal response we see from any of the most biased of liberal news sources. After something like this, just how does the Oakland Tribune complain about any news organization being biased?

Please spread this story as far as possible. Email it to friends, blog it, and definitely contact the Oakland Tribune, as well as Fox News. There's no way this should be kept secret, even if it's already completed.

Contact the Oakland Tribune here:

Pete Wevurski - Editor
(510) 208-6301
pwevurski@angnewspapers.com

Josh Richman - Politics & Criminal Justice
(510) 208-6428
jrichman@angnewspapers.com

France moves to silence bloggers

So France had a little problem with some Islamic car burning and various acts of Jihad, which they had been trying desperately to hide from the world. Unfortunately, the “celebrating” by the “youths” who all happened to belong to the “religion of peace” just happened to be caught on tape by many amateur videographers and journalists and then broadcast throughout the internet for the whole world to see.

We simply can’t have that. It’s tough work keeping reality a secret from the masses of sheep, so we must pass some sort of law that prevents this sort of thing. So, according to Peter Sayer of IDG News Service and reported by Macworld.com:

The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.

But wait. You think that’s bad?

The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information if they adhere to certain rules

Click here to read the entire story.

This is the sort of thing all of us are used to seeing from the French, but this would never happen in the U.S., right? Wrong.

Apparently - as this story shows - photojournalist Carlos Miller found out that Miami seems to be really sweet on the idea.