File this under: Conservatives Uninvited

BANNED OR DIS-INVITED OR RESCINDED OR SOMETHING…..

“After barring Coulter from speaking on campus, the Fordham University extended a warm greeting to Peter Singer. Serving as a tenured Princeton bioethics professor, Singer is also a well-known animal-rights advocate who has even promoted the extinction of the human race for the benefit of the rest of the planet. When advertising for Singers speaking engagement, the university promised that it would provoke Christians to think about other animals in new ways.”

AND

“Spanish River Community High School’s American Club, a student-initiated, student-led club, hosted radio host Bradlee Dean at an after-school meeting of the club, while Sons of Liberty Radio (SOLR) covered the event. Despite being arranged with the school, which had notified students of its occurrence for three weeks on PA system announcements, as well as through social media and posters, the school officials shut down Dean halfway through the event. School officials, acting at the command of the principal, cited “controversial statements” and the “anti-homosexuality” of the group, “The Sons of Liberty,” as the rationale for why they were not allowed to continue the program.

One school official stated that the Constitution doesn't apply to school property and that neither the club nor the speakers had any First Amendment rights”

AND

After three weeks of preparation, research and numerous rewrites, Gerald Molen –a motivational speaker, former U.S. Marine, and Oscar-winning film producer – drove ninety minutes from his home to Ronan High School in Montana last month to deliver a graduation speech. He was shocked upon his arrival to find that Principal Tom Stack had decided to disinvite him and cancel the speech. He was further stunned to learn the reason that he wouldn’t be allowed to address the students – it was because he is “a right-wing conservative.”
Molen has an impressive 25-year Hollywood résumé. He is the producer of such films as Rain Man, Days of Thunder, Stephen Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, the first two Jurassic Park films, Twister, and Minority Report. He has spoken at dozens of schools but doesn’t accept a fee. When one is offered, he asks that it be donated to the Shoah Foundation, the nonprofit organization founded by Spielberg and dedicated to Holocaust remembrance.”


NOT BANNED:

Domestic terrorist Bill Ayers was a keynote speaker at teachers conference in Atlanta Georgia that ran Feb. 15 – 19 2013….. He was a member of the Weather Underground during the Vietnam War. He was involved in the "Days of Rage" in Chicago in 1969 and became a fugitive after an accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three Underground members in 1970 as they attempted to manufacture a bomb and it exploded prematurely. He has not renounced his activities with the Underground. He simply redirected his approach to his radicalism. He was eventually arrested but was released on a technicality. He commented on his release; "Guilty as hell, free as a bird. Is this a great country or what?" He is also pictured standing on an American flag.

Pearls of Wisdom from Bill Ayers:

“Kill all the rich people. … Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.”

AND FINALLY

The Sun Sentinel newspaper in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is attempting to ban former Congressman Allen West from speaking about inner city education. Said the activist by way of the "reporter":

"This is somebody who has no problem maligning and marginalizing and showing intolerance toward others," said activist Michael Rajner. "I just don't see Allen West being the kind of person and the character to be invited in. It's just outright offensive." So Rajner is the key decided of who is the “right kind of person" , is he?

No, this activist and the “reporter” decided that they have the right to define for you who the “right” type of person should be and they decided to arrange a modern day” lynch mob”. Pretty nasty, since the man they would like to “lynch” is an African American speaking about urban education. You never know the motivation of some souls, perhaps the “reporter” and the activist resent minorities receiving education. Easier to control that way…. and they have done it before.

Regardless, of their motivation, the “reporter” is able to use his bully pulpit ---- the a fairly large city paper to gather the marginal to their cause, by running a voting poll…. or gathering a mob..... or something......

How’s that for a major paper, university and high schools to conduct their business?

Talk to me people!!!

Are We There Yet? Barreling Towards our Orwellian Future

 
“Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel by George Orwell published in 1949. It is a dystopian and satirical novel set in Oceania, where society is tyrannized by the Party and its totalitarian ideology.

The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as thought crimes.

Their tyranny is headed by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their rule in the name of a supposed greater good.

The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to re-write past newspaper articles so that the historical record always supports the current party line. Smith is a diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother.”
(Wikipedia synopsis)

I originally wrote my own synopsis of this book but I decided that it was far too long and by the end of such synopsis from my own hand, you might be too bored to make the analogies, if you are not already teetering on such a predicament.

This is perhaps the greatest novel of all time and it could be looked at as a foretelling of our society as it almost exists today…….

Are we moving towards a one-party society? Daily, you will find the Republican party vilified to the point of destruction. Individuals are identified, ridiculed and vilified to the point of personal destruction, often by those who are guilty of far more.

The major newspapers have become op-eds except in the face of natural disaster, and then you even have to verify the content if it is a political year. Does anyone remember the 10,000 people reported dead in a Kansas tornado during the 2007 election campaign for Barack Obama ----- the real number was closer to 10.

And what about the euphemisms such as “outspoken”, “blunt”, “fiery” ---- doublespeak for individualism and independent thinking.

Finally, the banning of contrary thought. The latest being a high school in Boca Raton which banned the appearance of one Bradlee Dean, founder of the Minnesota-based youth ministry group, You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, to speak after school at a meeting.

The examples can go on and on, however, the purpose of this article is to make you think and take stock of how much freedom you are willing to set aside in order to “not make waves”.

Talk to me people!!!!

Black History Month Moment:

Have you ever noticed that when someone disagrees with the position of a Black Conservative, the name calling that ensues starts with Uncle Tom, then "sell out", then Uncle Ruckus, then on and on and on ----- and this is just from other Black people!

So, I wanted to find out, who was this guy "Uncle Tom" and I found the following article:


Who's an Uncle Tom?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/post_11.html

 “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
― Erma Bombeck

Do something today that will be the building block for something greater!

---Angela

File this under: Oh Those Nasty GOP (whatever)

The G.O.P.’s Nasty Newcomer
 
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/opinion/sunday/ted-cruz-the-gops-nasty-newcomer.html?_r=0

What about those who evolve over time?

Brain Scans Can Predict Your Political Ideology

 http://news.discovery.com/human/brain-scans-can-predict-your-political-ideology-130219.htm

He Said What? The Best of Revrun Al

 
Comments on Jews

During the Crown Heights Riot, Sharpton (who arranged a rally in Crown Heights after Cato's death has been seen by some commentators as inflaming tensions by making remarks that included "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house".

Comments on Gays

Sharpton was quoted as saying to an audience at Kean College in 1994 that, "White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires.... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." Sharpton defended his comments by noting that the term "homo" was not homophobic but added that he no longer uses the term. Sharpton has since called for an end to homophobia in the African-American community.

Comments on Mormons

During 2007 Sharpton was accused of bigotry for comments he made on May 7, 2007, concerning presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his religion, Mormonism:
"As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don't worry about that; that's a temporary situation."
In response, a representative for Romney told reporters that "bigotry toward anyone because of their beliefs is unacceptable." The Catholic League compared Sharpton to Don Imus, and said that his remarks "should finish his career.”

What is the difference between this cameo of his greatest hits and the excoriation received by Republicans for much, much less.............

Talk to me!
 

File this under the heading: "Told ya so"

What do you think?

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-na-insurance-costs-20130218

 

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announce conditional federal approval of the state's plan for a health insurance exchange under the new healthcare law. Even states that back the law are worried about an initial rate jump in some premiums. (Scott Olson / Getty Images / February 18, 2013) 

Let's Begin our Discussion on Media Bias

http://www.smackbooks.com/yellow.jpg

The following passages are not my words but truly express my sentiment. Never be afraid to question what you see in the media..... So much of it is written or spoken from the point of view of the author/presenter (read, not news, not the truth).


“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“When we read the newspapers, watch the broadcasts, soak up the stories, we find ourselves repressed, depressed and confused. We find ourselves envious, anxious, angry and fearful. If we believe all that is circulated by the media we become loyal supporters of the oppressors, passionate haters of the innocents, faithful believers of bullshit and puppets of evil.
Mind management is greater than necessary. I believe it is wise to question all that we are told.
If we give our time to all that is spoon fed to us, we allow our minds to be hooked, hot wired, taken from us, remotely controlled...

I look around and everywhere I see stewing or stewed, fermented, tormented souls and marinated morons... and then I see you, precious few... You, who reconsiders... You, who questions the credibility of a story, you, who never forgets that there are always at least two sides... You, who feels before you think and thinks before you speak. Beautiful you, who wonders, who looks with wide open eyes, an open heart, an open mind. You, who wanders from the crowd and who seeks something which FEELS true.
I love you! I can't get enough of you and the world needs hundreds of thousands more people like you.”
― Evette Carter

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
– Groucho Marx