From our good friend Alec Rawls.
As Obama’s solicitor general, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan urged the Court to dismiss the suit that our 9/11 families have been pressing against the Saudi government and several Saudi princes for their extensive funding of al Qaeda. The families sued under the domestic tort exception to sovereign immunity, which according to Kagan’s Supreme Court brief (at p. 14):
requires not merely that the foreign state’s extraterritorial conduct have some causal connection to tortious injury in the United States, but that “the tortious act or omission of that foreign state or of any official or employee” be committed within the United States. 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(5).
The “tortious act or omission” is the wrongful act (the tort) that leads to the injury. Thus she is claiming that for Saudi funding of al Qaeda to be actionable, the funding itself has to have been transacted within the United States. Compare this with the actual wording of 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(5):
(a) A foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction of courts of the United States or of the States in any case – … (5) … in which money damages are sought against a foreign state for personal injury or death, or damage to or loss of property, occurring in the United States and caused by the tortious act or omission of that foreign state or of any official or employee of that foreign state while acting within the scope of his office or employment…”
Contrary to Kagan’s assertion, the law only specifies that the injury has to have occurred within the United States. Not a word about the wrongful act that leads to domestic injury also having to have taken place within the United. Kagan flat lied about the clear wording of a law that goes to the very heart of our ability to use the courts to combat Islamic terrorism, and thanks to the Court’s failure to review this crucial case, the simple wording and intent of Congress—that foreign states whose actions do injury in the United States can be sued for those injuries—has now been undone, as if the law had never been passed.
“Oops!… I did it again”
Kagan proves that her lie was self conscious by also lying about the relevant Supreme Court precedent, claiming (again at p. 14):
In Amerada Hess the Court considered and rejected the argument that domestic effects of a foreign state’s conduct abroad satisfy the exception. 488 U.S. at 441.
In fact, the Court in Amerada never considered “the domestic effects of a foreign state’s conduct abroad” at all, for the simple reason that there were no domestic injuries in that case. The injuries occurred outside of U.S. territory, which is why the domestic tort exception was held not to apply. Here are the simple facts, as recounted in Justice Rehnquist’s majority opinion (joined by Brennan, White, Stevens, O’Connor, Scalia and Kennedy):
… the injury to respondents’ ship occurred on the high seas some 5,000 miles off the nearest shores of the United States. Despite these telling facts, respondents nonetheless claim that the tortious attack on the Hercules occurred “in the United States.” [At p. 440.]
The Amerada Company ship was attacked at sea. Since the tortious act and the damages from it both occurred “5,000 miles off the nearest shores,” the Court did not bother to distinguish between the wrongful act and the injuries from it. Kagan uses this to claim that the Court found Amerada’s domestic injuries to be unrecoverable, when in fact the Supremes agreed with the district court that there were no domestic injuries (p. 439-441).
Has any solicitor general ever flat lied to the Supreme Court before? Isn’t any lawyer who unambiguously lies to the Court about the simple facts of a cited holding subject to disbarment for unethical behavior? And she did it for an unethical purpose: to help the financiers of 9/11 escape justice. Any moral person would either resign in the face of such a job assignment, or would limit himself to making what honest arguments could be mustered. This moral pervert chose to lie and ought to be busted out of the profession for it, not promoted to the highest court in the land.
Obama favors a legal response to terror while working to pull the law’s teeth
Obama has long been a proponent of shifting from a military response to Islamic terrorism to a civilian/criminal law response. Putting the terrorists in jail is supposedly more effective shooting them on the battlefield. This is why Attorney General Eric Holder decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in New York City. There is supposedly nothing Mohammad wants less than a public platform for crowing that America must submit or die, while credibly demanding that we must either reveal our intelligence secrets or let him go free.
It is an insane idea, seeking to move the fight against Islamic terror to an arena that disarms us and empowers them, but even that isn’t enough for Obama. He has to have his solicitor general lie to the Supreme Court for him in a way that guts what laws Congress has already passed for fighting terror in the courts. First he moves the fight to our relatively toothless courts, then he pulls what teeth the courts have.
If Obama’s gutting of the legal fight against terror is intentional it means that he prefers America to have NO effective defense against Islamic terrorists (perhaps because they are his co-religionists). Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court is a clear indication of this intent. Obama is ratifying, in the strongest possible way, her gutting of the law, and like Kagan, he also proves intent by repetition, nominating Kagan’s partner in crime, James Cole, to be his Deputy Attorney General.
Oops!… Obama does it again: DAG nominee also favors a legal response to terror while working to pull the law’s teeth
Shortly after 9/11, Cole wrote that, since the targets were primarily civilian, the 9/11 attacks should not be viewed as acts of war, but as violations of civilian law, to be combated through our civilian court system. If Cole really wanted to make the civilian courts our main line of defense against Islamic terrorism he would be for aggressive use of the courts in this fight, but in practice, he comes down on the other side, arguing as the lawyer for one of the implicated Saudi princes that the family suit to recover damages from the 9/11 attacks is invalid.
Cole’s service to the Saudis creates “a direct conflict of interest” writes Debra Burlingame:
In light of this history, it is impossible to fathom how Mr. Cole can ethically carry out his duties and responsibilities as the de facto head of the Justice Department while U.S. troops are fighting terrorists who receive funding and support from organizations associated with the Saudi government and their proxies. This is a direct conflict of interest. Given Saudi NGOs’ continued involvement in terrorist facilitation world-wide and their connection to the Saudi royal family, this conflict of interest will cripple Mr. Cole’s ability to ethically perform his duties as head of a department charged with investigating and prosecuting terrorist facilitators associated with or working for the Saudi government.
Yes well, to Obama, that’s a feature, not a bug. Like Obama, Cole is against a military response to Islamic terror and he is against a civilian court response. In sum, neither of them want the United States to fight on any front, but want us instead to appease and submit to Islamic terror.
Which is nothing new. Obama’s entire Department of Justice is of the same stripe:
Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in. [Byron York February 2010.]
Which is worse, the DOJ lawyers who defended terrorists pro bono on the basis of shared contempt for America, or the DAG nominee who defends the financiers of terror for a share of their filthy lucre? “Why decide?” says Obama: “Hire ‘em all!” So long as they are defenders of al Qaeda, its all good.
Why isn’t Congress fighting back?
While Obama’s terror-defending lawyers are determined to secure rights and civilian court appearances for Islamic terrorists who should be treated as criminal combatants under military justice, they are equally determined to prevent our 9/11 families from getting their day in court, despite the clear intent of Congress that they should. It is time for Congress to start fighting back. The Supreme Court shamefully failed to review a blatant subversion of congressional intent on a crucial front of the war against terror, but Congress doesn’t have to take it lying down.
How about passing a clarification to the domestic tort exception that explicitly renounces Kagan’s attempt to gut the clear intent of the law? Just use the Senate hearings on Kagan’s nomination (commencing this week) to expose her devastating lies to the Supreme Court and to agitate for a clarification of the law that would allow the families’ suit to proceed. Kagan would be routed, and the destruction she has wreaked on our terror war efforts would be repaired, killing two dirty birds with one stone.
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Dhimmitude?
Got this from arch at GCP. It’s an email that NEEDS TO BE OUT THERE!
Need something to get your blood boiling???? The knot in the pit of my stomach is huge and growing.
Has anyone heard of this new word? Dhimmitude?
Amish and other religious groups may be exempt from forced purchase of healthcare policies under ObamaCare. You know what other groups this could include??? Muslims and Christian Scientists may be exempt from having to have government healthcare.Word of the Day: Dhimmitude
Unbelievable. I had my doubts so I checked with Snopes. There is an exemption for “certain religious groups” in the Health Care Bill. Obama supporters check it out yourself.
Had never heard the word until now. Type it into Google and start reading. Pretty interesting. Note that Muslims and certain other religions are exempt from the Obamacare penalties and it is supported by law. We are surrendering from within! The prez is leading us right down the path to Muslim control and you don’t care! Maybe you voted for him but now the truth comes out. Maybe you should rethink what you have done.
Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-muslim populations conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to islam.
The ObamaCare bill is the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia muslim diktat in the United States. Muslims may be specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be “gambling”, “risk-taking” and “usury” and is thus banned. Muslims may be specifically granted exemption based on this. How convenient. So I John Smith, as a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets, including real estate, cattle, cars etc. and even accounts receivables, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax.. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his health needs paid for by the de facto government insurance at our expence. Non-muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize muslims. Period. This is Dhimmitude.
Dhimmitude serves two purposes: it enriches the muslim masters AND serves to drive conversions to Islam. In this case, the incentive to convert to Islam will be taken up by those in the inner-cities as well as the godless Generation X, Y and Z types who have no moral anchor or belief in God. If you don’t believe in Christ to begin with, it is no problem whatsoever to sell Him for 30 pieces of silver. “Sure, I’ll be a muslim if it means free health insurance and no taxes. Where do I sign, brother?” Now all you Obama voters get in line for your free stuff!…However, I suggest you don’t hold your breath!
I recommend sending this email to all your contacts. This is desperately important and people need to know about it and what the past election has done to all of us!
Have you heard about the summit Obama is holding this month in DC for the future Muslim business leaders in the US? He wants to increase their ability to begin businesses in the US for the Muslim community! Better start looking for a country that doesn’t cater to the Muslims ~ Australia doesn’t but the US is, and we’ll be overrun by Muslims like Europe currently is.
And I thought the big problem was illegal aliens..
Nothing surprises me any more.
Sorry but this thread is going to take me about 30 minutes to get through.
@ 1389AD:
Nope I copied that email and I’m sending it around. Islam is a disease on humanity. Your ancestors (Serbs) and mine (Spaniards) both know what Islam’s evil nature is about!
@ Speranza:
I read it ahead of time. It’s really messed up. We have a regime openly aiding our enemy.
I’m not a lawyer, but I know he is wrong on that one. That doesn’t make them civillian crimes, that makes them war crimes. By that insane logic, the Holocaust would have been a civilian crime of murder (whole lot of counts, but just murder). The man isn’t qualified for his office.
@ Iron Fist:
Or he’s openly supporting our enemies.
Didn’t sotomayer say she would support the 2nd Amendment in her hearing and then turn around and be a 4 in the 5-4 recent ruling? Did we not ask her the question correctly. Or does she hold a special left wing interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. Kagan needs to be put to a more rigorous grilling. It should be assumed that she speaks out of the side of her mouth.
Unbelievable. Never heard of Dhimmitude? Where have you guys been living for the past 20 years? If you fail to understand the threat then you are going to be continually surprised and will have the initiative pulled from your arms.
Bat Ye’or’s books on Dhiummitude are legend. Please take a look and get educated so that you can if not directly oppose this evil then at least understand where the Islamists are coming from. Her three major books translated from French are: The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam (1985), The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude (1996), Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilisations Collide (2002).
Kagan also lied to the supreme court in order to get the Nebraska partial birth abortion law overturned. She intentionally added language to a ACOG report that basically said there’s no reason to perform a partial birth abortion to save the live of the mother.
Kagan added this to the ACOG report – which the court relied upon to base their decision:
“An intact D&X [the medical term for the procedure], however, may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life or preserve the health of a woman.”
She did this at the direction of then President Clinton.
This woman is a lying hack. She also denied that she banned the military from the nHarvard campus. This birch went to court to fight to keep them off campus. She’s just like Obama – if her lips are moving she lying!
There are a lot of leftist idiots walking around trying to make rules.
If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat..
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
(Unless it’s a foreign religion, of course!)
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
@ orangecrush:
They won’t do it. Just get used to hearing about Justice Kagen.
@ Aussie Infidel:
We know about it now – 9 years ago? Not so much.
As an American we demand equal protection under the law and they are subverting the law for “protected” classes of people. That’s unConstitutional! They subvert the Constitution at every turn – it’s infuriating! Once they control the court we have nothing! Nada! Zip! No recourse whatsoever!
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’ve heard of dhimmitude for 2 decades actually.
The whole edifice of Progressivism supports the principle of dhimmitude for crying out loud! The Euro elites , led by deGaulle and the French, made their pact with the Islamists in 1970 in Rome and it’s been all down hill since for the West. It’s all documented there for all to see. The whole rotten system of underrmining the West. The large scale importation of Muslims. The reasons why. It’s all on the public record. I figured that this place of all places had citizens who were at the very least well briefed if not well read. You’re all grown adults guys. It’s in your and your families best interests to educate yourself about what is going on. Almost half a century of machinations by the political elite and various Progressive groups and you guys STILL don’t understand what’s happening and more to the point WHY it’s happening.
Sheeeeesh! Excuse my frustration but i thought better of you .
Please educate yourself. IOt’s ALL there. You just need the discipline to look and understand.
vapig wrote:
Kagan, of course, claims that she worked to keep the military on campus, by working through the veteran’s group, because she had to work around the Harvard policy against discriminatory hirers, and DA/DT put the military in that category.
Which is all a crock of shit.
First, the DA/DT policy was mandated by law; it was not something the military did because it was just being a bunch of big meanies, it was passed by the Congress and signed into law by the President she herself was working for when the law was passed.
Second, she was the Dean at Harvard Law, which meant that if she had wanted to make an exception to the policy, she could have.
Third, she fought the government when it said that unless Harvard stopped the anti-military stance, it would lose all its federal money. And lost, of course.
orangecrush wrote:
Liberals always lie, it’s part and parcel of their ideology. I keep linking to this post on my blog in the hopes that people her will read it and understand exactly what America is facing.
The greatest evil ever invented.
The absolute adherence to this basic and fundamental ideology is why liberals always devolve into totalitarians. It is as inescapable as cause and affect and until Americas conservatives face reality and both accept and understand this about those who embrace liberalism the liberals will always win.
Kirly wrote:
Well done Kirly. I would hazard a guess to say that 90% of your fellow citizens couldn’t spell it let alone describe to one what it meant!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It’s a piece imported from elsewhere; look at the heading. I don’t think you’re going to find a lot of people here who have not been aware of dhimmitude for a very long time.
@ Aussie Infidel:
relax. we’re with you. well, i am anyway. i can only speak for myself, of course.
@ Aussie Infidel:
We know about this – now. Again, 9 years ago, not so much (I’m speaking for myself). What to do about it is another matter. Our media – who in our western civilization were given a sacred trust and sold it for Judas silver – have been one of our greatest foes. Since the internet they lost a lot of their power. It’s getting the rest of the country to wake up that’s been the issue.
I’d say with the Tea Parties that folks have pretty much stopped hitting the snooze button.
@ vapig:
That’s why I’ve been blogging secession for so long.
It’ll happen, and soon. The only question is how much of a mess we will have to go through before the dust all settles.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
thanks. i think you may be right. how i came to know about it is a combination of two things. for years, working with a few moslems who seemed to be nice folks but there was always something unusual about them so i tried to learn about their beliefs. and, for years being too ill to do much other than read. it worked out well for me, i guess. but, far more people know about it now than they did 10 years ago. far too few still though.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Memory is different for everyone and bacon makes it fade over time. However your point is taken. Everyone has a responsibility to roll back Islam in some personal manner every day.
I do a lot of information sharing. Not from memory but from cut and past. It is surprising as to the number of people close to me that have zero conception of a muslim threat.
I don’t go to church but I seem to have a knack for pointing out to people how a church attendance might be good for them and the church.
I ask lefties to try and use logic and live by it. This is a quixotic task.
We need more of a viral internet presence out there that points out the failings of islam.
I would like to see the muslim immigratins statistics to the US I have looked several times but can’t find them. I would like to know the number of Imans in the US and their 6 degrees of closeness to known terrorists.
Kirly wrote:
You learned about dhimmitude roughly 9 years before I did. Hope your health is better now than mine is these days…
the imagery behind this idiot on FNC right now debating the burqa is quite interesting. dark, gloomy clouds behind him. mount doom. brigitte gabrielle is in front of a red and blue sylized capital building. don’t even need the words, just the pictures. heh.
@ doriangrey:
They’ve been at this for close to 100 years here. Their greatest achievement was indoctrinating the f@cknozzles that currently hold power when they were in college back in the 60′s. They went out and became educators, lawyers and politicians. They’ve been pretty successful in making their slavery mainstream. We’ve been at a loss in how to fight this.
It could eventually still come to blows. I don’t want to live in their world and neither do a lot of people.
1389AD wrote:
thank you, yes it is. may you also see a similar turn around to better health and happiness.
i forgot. another fact of my life which helped push me to learning about islam a bit earlier was that my adopted mother is Jewish and i’m Christian. support for Israel follows quite naturally. and the effort to learn why all the Jew hate follows from that.
Pre 9/11 I was pro islam, having visited several muslim countries. And having an affinity for sufism. Post 9/11 my eyes were opened a lot. Especially in the blogs. I lost my attraction for anything Islamic and would prefer to scourge it from the earth.
I’ll never have the time to read the koran and quote vileness out of it. I depend on Spencer et all for that. What i’ll need is the Islamic critics guide for dummies with the essential practical facts that the moderates islamists like to ignore or overlook.
@ orangecrush:
Shoot! I can at least tell you about the radical madrassa we have here in Virginia that has had at least 2 dozen arrests of it’s graduates. We begged and threatened our city council to close it down and the damned progs WILL. NOT. DO. IT!!!!!
I’ve been perfectly aware of this since spending time with our muslim “brothers” and working posts with them. I had the dubious fortune of hearing it from the horses’ mouth.
@ orangecrush:
I’ve learned that there is no such thing as a moderate muslim. If they are not trying to saw your head off they are an apostate.
You all have read this, have you not?
Kagan Demanded Sex-Change Operations and Transvestite Bathroom Access as ‘Equal Rights’ at Harvard…
Things sure have changed since I was in law school. I don’t remember any transvestites or transgenders among the student body.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I would gather that if you plotted the number of American citizens that are aware of the concept of dhimmitude on a graph of numbers vs time it would take a very sharp jump up after 9/11/2001.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
weren’t any when i was in engineering school either. nor at any of my professional employers except one. there was a person who was undergoing the transformation from male to female. they actually set up a separate, private bathroom for this person. keyed entry and everything. didn’t make sense to me. the person had already transitioned to living as a woman and could have used the stalls in the womens restroom and started practicing sitting down to pee. no one would have known. by making a huge deal of it, everyone knew. this person made the unfortunate choice of the female name “Amanda”. you can imagine. say it slowly. A man….DUH!
vapig wrote:
Would that happen to be the Islamic Saudi Academy? Or is it Saudi Islamic Academy?
Kirly wrote:
ROFLMAO! To paraphrase Austin Powers…”That a man DUH, baby!”
Basically I’ve come to believe that the only thing that will save us is if we, as a nation, repent and return to our Judeo-Christian roots. The attacks are too well orchastrated and coming from too many directions not to be devil driven.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
@ vapig:
Amen.
9:29
@ Kirly:
Wow! Same EXACT thing happened at my job years ago. They even had him do a video to show to everyone to explain his reasons for doing it. He had his own bathroom too! Went from Grant to Gina.
@ Kirly:
Gays are a small minority. Transvestites, a minority within a minority—and they don’t need to cross-dress constantly. Transgenders, an extremely tiny minority—if there actually were any in the Harvard Law School, I’d be curious to know how many. If there were, they could be accommodated quietly, rather than as part of a “campaign for gender equality.”
That this thing, if necessary—I am not convinced it was—was handled as a “justice campaign” rather than by accommodating, quietly, these few “special needs” students, argues extraordinarily badly for Kagan’s basic good sense, and extraordinarily badly for her ideological agenda.
The Osprey wrote:
Yes – one of those. Can’t recall the exact name but that’s the gist of it. It’s right here in Alexandria and the whole community wants it razed to the ground.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
absolutely right you are, as usual. she’s an activist and would be an activist judge in the last place there should be one… SCOTUS.
@ Kirly:
@ vapig:
If somebody declares themself to be Napoleon, they are regarded as deranged, and rightly so.
Yet is somebody declares themself to be of the opposite gender, instead of regarding them as deranged they are encouraged to engage in postmodern flesh sculpture and their decision to self-mutilate is applauded.
Kirly wrote:
and since it isn’t going to happen…. we’re DOOOOOOOOMED!
vapig wrote:
We have been at a loss because we don’t want to believe that our neighbors would betray us or our country. We prefer to believe that they are just misguided or just overly emotional or have different social values.
The simple fact is that our neighbors have sided with a political ideology that demands the destruction of the US Constitution. Our neighbors and most of our current crop of politicians have committed and are committing treason.
They rationalize to themselves that what they are doing is correcting the fallacies and flaws of the US Constitution which they see as a seriously if not fatally flawed document.
Our neighbors are Joesph Stalin’s useful idiots and our politicians are the children of Benedict Arnold. Like Benedict Arnold they genuinely believe that their (in their minds) minor compromises will save lives.
Will it eventually come to blows? Part of me very seriously doubts it, not because I think we are mature enough to work out a peaceful solution, but because I seriously doubt we have the strength required to hold on to and save this republic from our neighbors who have already betrayed us.
The problem is, Republicans don’t have any spine. Kagan will be a cancer on the Supreme Court for 30-40 years.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
i say they are deranged as are the encouragers.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The way I’m reading your comment, you’re actually addressing the American Public at large, and you’re right…a lot of them certainly are ignorant of the true double threat of Islamofascism and Progressivism. Rodan leads the latter battle…and y’all know how I feel about the first.
Amanda Love?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Idiots in Maryland did the same thing. The council had a whole room of screaming people fighting them on it (they changed the law so that men could who merely “felt pretty” on a given day could use women’s bathrooms and gym changing rooms. They didn’t even have to be cross dressers. They basically just gave access to women for any man to invade their basic privacy) and they pointedly ignore the people, wouldn’t take any questions or statements and voted unanamously to approve it. Then they got up without even acknowledging the people and filed out of the chamber. It was surreal. That’s what we all have to look forward to with these progs in control.
Maybe if you actually read my brief and the supporting case law you ignorant bigoted rednecks might learn something.
Kirly wrote:
Know who else says we’re dooooooomed?
Fred Phelps.
Kirly wrote:
Last name HugNkiss?
My sister in-law’s “husband” Luke, was initially introduced to me when “he” was named Lisa.
I am a bit on the outs with the family on that. They told me she had
“the operation” topside, but not downside, so I quipped “how can she say she is a guy without having the addadicktome?
@ mfhorn:
And no, Chuckles or any of your little sycophants, I’m not advocating violence against her.
“Transgender” points up, first, the failure of the psychiatric profession; by encouraging postmodern flesh sculpture as the treatment for this mental condition, they are admitting they are helpless to address it.
“Transgender” is also antithetical to the concept of “gay and proud”—ironic, in that “transgender” seems to currently be the jewel in the crown of the gay-rights lobbying effort. If one is biologically male and is attracted to others of the same sex, castrating yourself and resculpturing your parts to appear to be female is the opposite of “accepting your homosexuality.” Yet “transgender” is welcomed by the gay-rights lobby, because it is the farthest-out form of forcing acceptance of nontraditional behavior; next to it, everything else seems tame.
Look how this scrunt acts like a patriotic conservative to deceive her way onto the court.
She is lying abt. everything she believes in because she knows if she tells the truth she would NOT get confirmed. That shows you how she is well aware that her anti-American commie agenda is NOT acceptable to most people in this country. If she was an honest person and proud and confident of her beliefs she would not hide them.
This candidate needs to be filibustered out of town. She has no intention of honoring the Constitution.
She will try to crush it.
@ snork:
I don’t even want to think about that loon. Ever notice how he looks like the guy from Poltergeist, Rev. Kane?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Well said. Years ago the radical gays got the psychological board to reverse their stand that homosexuality was a mental illness – not by reasoned arguments, but by physical intimidation and the threat of violence. When they caved it’s all been down hill since. Now they are indoctrinating very young children and parents now have next to no rights to stop it. It’s a truly sick society the progs are foisting upon us. Everything that is depraved is celebrated and wverything wholesome, good and Godly is ridiculed, mocked or scorned. It’s truly frightening to me.
Elena Kegen wrote:
You got some big briefs there, Elena. That would be quite a read.
So glad this is finally coming to light for many people … I have been trying to get people I know to be aware of this Sharia crap coming to America … they are trying so hard to creep it in and I knew it would come first through finance … I believe Canada has some of the first Sharia financing in their banks coming about now … I don’t have a link right now to it as I just got in but I read something last week about it …
@ doriangrey:
Right on brother!
@ JacksonTn:
Several banks doing Sharia financing, but I can’t think of the names. AIG is one of them I’m pretty sure.
doriangrey wrote:
Fight every way you can. For instance a business partner who just happens to be Jewish and speaks perfect street Arabic has 3 borders living in his house. He discovered that they were Omani Special Forces. They had 2 mates in an apartment downtown as well another three in Christchurch. They had no clue that my business partner understood every word they uttered. I potted the whole lot to the security services here.
There were a lot of Syriac Christians who were being terrorized by Islamists living in Sydney Australia. Threats were being made against the Syriac’s families back in Iraq. The Islamists got their collars felt and one of the Syriac Christians now acts as a translator for the army intelligence corps after i introduced her to the right folks. So far they have ‘rescued’ 3 Muslims living here and the three have converted to Christianity.
It’s the little things that make all the difference! There Islamists are not 9 foot tall. Mostly they are nasty pieces of shit that needs sweeping aside and neutralizing so that they are no longer a threat.
YOU can make a difference. It just takes some ‘cajolies’ and a bit of application and carefully directed action.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
When I was attending University back in the late 1970′s there were a few TVs/TGs attending, not that they went out of their way to have any undue attention focused on them, unlike now.
A couple of them were damn fine looking women that just happened to have an Adam’s apple.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Johns Hopkins – who pioneered the surgery – no longer performs it because they’ve come to the conclusion that whatever their problem, psychologically, disfiguring them surgically does nothing fix their problems.
Elena Kegen wrote:
Hey. I’m NOT a redneck, and I’ll bet you I’m less of a bigot than you are. However, after a few decades on this planet, I just may be better off ignorant at this point. What credentials are YOU bringing to the discussion. So far we have established that you are rude.
Masculine Women/Feminine Men
A song from 1926.
Macker wrote:
That I was mate.
I know that I’m preaching mostly to the choir in here.
It still astounds me when someone looks blank when I say something about Islamists and the threat they pose.
Rodan should be cloned and let loose on the whole country!
yenta-fada wrote:
I don’t think that’s a real troll. I think that’s one of our fellow bloogers just yankin our crank.
@ JacksonTn:
Shoot, you don’t even need the link. I believe you. We have idjits here who want to do the same thing. It
s already repulsive that our media won’t report on all the honor killings we’ve had in this country. It’s so unacceptible I can’t believe they cover this crap up.
Also, years ago it was unacceptible to mutilate a baby girl according to their muzzie law. Now we actually have hospitals that performs this mutilation. Sick!
Elena Kegen wrote:
Racing stripe briefs are something I can do without seeing, let alone attempting to “read” them.
@ chickadee:
Actually, with this congress I bet this hag could be completely honest and she’d still get confirmed. The gop has no backbone!
vapig wrote:
And very few votes.
vapig wrote:
And no
ballsintegrity.@ Elena Kegen:
You’re white. Where’s does the bigotted part come in?
////////
‘Nite.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
They have enough for a indefinite filibuster…
vapig wrote:
Bigoted because she can’t marry her wife.
Here is one link about Sharia credit card in Calgary … say U.S. Sharia credit cards coming soon … this is from April but I know I read another one the other day …
http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Sharia+credit+card+coming+this+month/2904527/story.html
Elena Kegen wrote:
SpaceJesus alert.
doriangrey wrote:
You may be making an unwarranted assumption that there won’t be any mavericks or turncoats.
Defeat the left,start the war on terror (for real) end the war on terror(decisively) celebrate the Fourth of July. Then we can live free and prosper the way we were meant to.
Elena Kegen wrote:
SpaceJesus alert…
@ doriangrey:
But their kind always devolves into genocide. If we know that they would kill us all in a heartbeat perhaps we would be strong enough to defend ourselves.
On the other hand, we might be too civilized. We may need to wander in the wilderness for 40 years to weed us civilized folks out and let a newer, stronger generation take it back again.
Here is one from today …
Stability during financial crisis lends momentum to Islamic banks
Despite past failures said Islamic finance has strong potential to become more prominent in the Canadian market
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
http://www.investmentexecutive.com/client/en/News/DetailNews.asp?Id=54172&cat=147&IdSection=147&PageMem=&nbNews=&IdPub=
The Osprey wrote:
Very true. Alas there are about 30% of most Western societies who are in the Progressive Camp and who hold to the tenant that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Hence the alliance between the Socialist/ Progressive fascist left axis and the fascist Islamist movement. Both want the West as it has been understood to fail and be relegated to the trashcan of history.
Both fascist factions think they can use the other to get their way before turning on their partner in crime.
Both are wrong.
We know how this turns out already and it’s not good for the fascists of either stripe.
snork wrote:
that bastard!!!!
@ 69 Aussie Infidel: Rodan cloned made me laugh.
Aussie Infidel, your compatriot Tim Blair is taking another whack at Chuckles…
OLD YELLOWSTAIN
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Good night, Buzz and God Bless!
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Not true! She lives in MA – they were the first to legalize gay marriage.
Is something wrong with wordpress? I’ve posted this comment three times: Elena Kegen wrote:
SpaceJesus alert…
Test
@ citizen_q:
oh my!
mfhorn wrote:
pretty sure it’s all the biggies.
Xeon wrote:
FIFY
Elena Kegen wrote:
SpaceJesus alert
@ 88 The Osprey: We all know Charles fabricates the emails people sends him after they leave. If they actually sent him some vitriol he would post it. He posted NY Nana’s note.
he does this to leverage the minds of his posters and assert a measure of control over them. And it works.
huckfunn wrote:
Well, you know the group better than I do.
Is it in the phrasing?
In the bad spelling of “Kagan”? I thought the people here could spell better.
@ JacksonTn:
Yeah, it’s horrifying that it’s creeping into a lot of our financial institutions up here.
The Infamous Elena Kagan Sex Tape!
Kirly wrote:
Just did some checking, Wells Fargo offers a wide range of Sharia compliant financial services.
@ Aussie Infidel:
We have about 20% prog infestation. Europe (and Australia?) having disarmedn their populace has a big problem in from of them. In case you hadn’t heard, we here in the US won a major victory over the progs in our right to keep and bare arms.
Test 2
vapig wrote:
Actually that is the very best reason why ordinary citizens should man up and take some responsibility for their nation. The GOP is vulnerable in their primaries. Take a leaf out of the Tea-party. Attack the fellow travelers in the GOP through the primaries. There are great potential traditional conservatives out there. They need YOUR support to get SELECTED. If you are cunning and determined enough you CAN organize to de-select sitting RINOs. This is where they are vulnerable. Mostly they get selected because they are the incumbent and there is little or no opposition to their re-nomination.
Go ahead and MAKE THEIR DAY for these a**holes. They will be so surprised as their egos will blind them to the challenge until it’s too late for them to do anything about it.
@ Elena Kegen:
Hi Space Jesus!
@ Kirly:
Remind me to avoid AIG, Wells Fargo and other big name banks.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Hello there in the land down under
PaladinPhil wrote:
Evidently in ours, as well.
Sharia-compliant investments experience explosive growth.
Business is booming for sharia compliant investments.
Elena Kagan is John Lovitz!
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Since islam is against interest rates (usary) that means they are getting interest free loans and that pisses me off no end. That is not equality under lending law in no sense of the term!
Rodan wrote:
I tried to post that 4 times and all the posts were eaten.
kagan will breeze through.
the GOP/Rino’s dont have the guts for a fight. yet another slouching step toward Gomorrah.
@ vapig:
after the collapse of interest rates, oil, and the stock market today, even us infidels might get some interest free loans.
@ vapig:
Actually they pay “fees” instead. Nobody is going to lend money for free. But sharia compliant means “approved” and a certain percentage going for the “zakat” – islamic charities.
@ coldwarrior:
You ever read that book by Bork, I think it was?
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
How much mileage does a Sharia get? Bunkarina is gonna need a car soon.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Oh – we’ve learned. We now know there is no such thing as a local election and we send money to conservative candidates all over the country – not just to our local races. The GOP is still our best bet and we have to wrest it away from the progs who are just into a slower tryanny. We’ve come a long way in the last 18 months. We’ve had to!
@ coldwarrior:
Jeff Sessions has really distinguished himself here.
vapig … that is what will lure people to Sharia finance … I believe in one of the articles it said that most getting involved were not muslim … this will be a way for them to be exposed to Sharia and it will make it seem like it is a good thing … people just don’t understand what the end game is …
@ MrPaulRevere:
Hahaha! I just let them out of spam.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
the spam filter ate them…they are approved/up now.
Rodan wrote:
Is that who it is? You’d know…..
@ mfhorn:
yep…bork
m wrote:
And often these “charities” support jihad.
JacksonTn wrote:
bingo.
(well, bingo isnt the end game, its an expression of, oh forget it
)
vapig wrote:
20% infestation means that as you walk down the street every fifth individual may be a Tranziprog. Now THAT is unsettling!
These a**holes have been planning this for 40+ years so they are well entrenched. That’s a given but it doesn’t mean that we can’t winkle them out one Prog at a time. 20% prog means that society is a ‘target rich environment.’
There are plenty of Progs to go around folks.
I’m sure you know plenty.
They need to be faced and opposed. Every time they turn around be there in their face. Use their tactics against them. Stack meetings and vote out sitting progressives where ever you find them. Attack them where they feel most vulnerable. Recruit their kids to traditional values. Be rational and persuasive. Nothing hurts more than having your progeny turn on you politically. Young Progressives who have yet to complete their formation are suggestible and may yet be persuaded to follow history and logic .
The main thing is to PLAN. Recruit in help because you can’t do it all yourself and most importantly keep listening & learning
@ m:
@ coldwarrior:
Thanks, I’m not a complainer by nature…
m wrote:
Oh – gee! That makes me feel SO much better! Since islam also doesn’t believe in charities (we all know their charities are front groups to finance terrorism) our financial institutes are ALL financing terrorism.
Obambi has already appointed a sharia compliant expert as a “house fellow” (wtf is that?)
http://www.thejidf.org/2010/06/obama-appoints-shariah-compliant.html
@ m:
Sharia banking should be banned.
Rodan wrote:
G’day mate!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
Rates are about as low as they’ve ever been but I don’t think that will last much longer. With all of the funny money being printed, the inflation critter is lurking out there somewhere.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Exactly they have been doing this for decades and this is on a global scale.
@ m:
m– check your inbox.
Rodan wrote:
A no-brainer if there ever was one.
@ Aussie Infidel:
In my case its evening!
Good night all.
JacksonTn wrote:
I’ve already heard the progs in Berkeley say that maybe living under sharia wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Same a$$holes that said better red than dead.
huckfunn wrote:
as long as everyone and their brother are buybing up bonds, the rate stays down.
we are in very strange economic times.
@ Bunk X:
Hey Bunk how are you tonight!
Zombie did a piece for Pajamas Media on Sharia Compliant Finance advisor picked by Obama … good article … I always loved Zombies pieces when she/he was still at the other place … cannot believe what was done to Zombie …
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/06/25/shariah-compliant-finance-advisor/
@ vapig:
I didn’t think it would make you feel better. Just pointing out their hypocrisy- they pay interest they just call it something else and say they don’t.
But they’re full of shit if they think average Americans would be ok with having their loans “approved” by a cleric or whoever? And that a percentage is funneled directly to islamic charities? Oh hell no.
@ vapig:
Better deceased than praying to the East
@ vapig:
It’s the same crew that protested Reagan’s deployment of Minute Men missile. Instead of Soviet funding, it’s now Saudi funding.
@ coldwarrior:
Right. Expect whatever happens.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The following sahih hadith, recorded by venerated mufassir Jalaluddin Al-Suyuti in his venerated tafsir, remains one of the most chilling in regards to embellishing the apartheid status of the dhimma (which Professor Jadunath Sarkar aptly called “modified slavery”)…
Ismail ibn Kathir records the fundamental discriminatory prohibitions of Umar bin al-Khattab’s Dhimma pact with the vanquished and subjugated indigenous peoples of the Near East…
Mushrikun are to be humiliated everywhere with the jizya and dhimma as a chastisement for their unrepentant shirk and kufr; mu’minin will succeed them as rulers of the earth, being endowed with power and strength over the disgraced unbelievers (again according to Ismail ibn Kathir)…
Jihad al-talab wa’l-ibtida’ does not entirely cease with futuhat, but continues against the subjected semi-slave moharebin in the form of the dhimma (or, as the Turks called it, kanun-i-rayah).
orangecrush wrote:
This is one sorry-ass excuse for a human being who would feel compelled to do something like that.
Speaking of creeping sharia, has anyone noticed that almost all of the hotels and motels are almost 100% owned by Pakis and Indians? I’ve actually been noticing it for about 20 years now. I’m currently camped out in a brand new, large chain motel north of Amarillo. I just noticed that all of the artwork is geometric shapes and designs. Not one depiction of a living creature or landscape. Hmmmm…..
@ vapig:
I know . We’ve ALL been on a steep learning curve.
By the way. Oz WASN’T disarmed.
The stupid government just purchased a massive heap (~10% of the total arms in the country) for BIG money. The money was used to purchase NEW shotguns and the rest of the 90% just went underground or partially underground.
The whole amnesty thing was just a sop to the Green left axis. Nobody really believed that Oz was going to hand in its arms.
Oz remains a fully armed nation state.
Well done by the way with your vote in Chicago.
Score one for the white hats!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Progs don’t reproduce – so that’s not a problem. They abort their babies so we are out breeding them. Also, they are entrenched in every aspect of our lives – they are the MAN! The POWER! Kids have a natural tendancy to rebel against the establishment. And thirdly, most indoctrinated prog kid turns conservative real fast when they start working and they get their first paycheck and can SEE what the government takes out of their checks.
Considering the disingenuousness of Sotomayor in her hearing and her subsequent vote against gun rights the first time it counted, I would hope the GOP grows a spine and filibusters this nominee. Nothing in Kagen’s background, writings (what we’ve seen anyway) or performance as Solicitor General indicates she has any bona fides for serving on the Supreme Court.
The difference between her and Harriet Meyers is that the REPUBLICANS went to President Bush themselves and said she was a bad choice. DEMOCRATS have no such altruism.
citizen_q wrote:
Good night and God Bless!
@ huckfunn:
Not around here, but I heard in some states especially in rural areas yeah. Indians if they are Hindu, Sikh or Christian are cool!
If it’s Pakis watch your back.
mfhorn wrote:
Oh I like that! We’ll have to use that!
huckfunn wrote:
Oh, come on! Maybe they’re just Piet Mondrian fans or something!
/sarcasm tag off
coldwarrior wrote:
Strange days indeed! It’ll get stranger when the peeps stop buying bonds.
1389AD wrote:
Also helps to perpetuate the myth that there’s anyone out there on the interwebz that cares about the Swamp other than for its value as a source of derision.
@ Carolina Girl:
Arizona Senator John Kyl has issued this statement on Kagan:
“In addition to my general concern about whether Ms. Kagan could decide cases impartially and without bias for or against certain parties, a surprising number of things in her relatively thin body of work raise substantive concerns about her views on federalism issues, free speech, national security, Second Amendment rights, gay marriage, the death penalty, religion, and abortion.
“To take just one example, I’m deeply troubled by her decision as Solicitor General to urge the Supreme Court to review and strike down an Arizona law designed to prevent employers from hiring illegal aliens. The Ninth Circuit unanimously upheld the law because federal immigration law explicitly allows states to sanction employers through their business licensing regimes. I think there are legitimate questions about whether the brief authorized by Ms. Kagan – which flies in the face of the plain language of the law and urges the Supreme Court to strike these enforcement provisions down—was motivated by political influence at the White House and within the Department of Justice.
“In conclusion, there is ample reason for members of this committee to carefully scrutinize this nominee – scrutiny which she invited in her now famous Chicago Law Review article 1995. Because she has no judicial record on which we can determine whether she is a ‘results-oriented’ nominee or would approach each case as a neutral arbiter, the burden is on the nominee to show that her record demonstrates that she can be a fair and impartial justice rather than one who would have an outcome-based approach.”
Read the whole thing.
@ Philip_Daniel:
….and yet we STILL have some tosser from Berkley who thinks that he can still live like this.
Progressivism truly is a mental illness.Either that or it is truly evil in its practice and intent.
We should always remember to protect ourselves from progressives as a consequence.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
None of it looks that bad.
@ huckfunn:
Indians are ok. They are hindus and hate islam too. Pakis – ot so much! I thought they just owned all the gas stations…..?
@ The Osprey:
I have no doubt that Kagen will call Obama before any conference vote at the Supreme Court. This is Zero the Wonder Prez’s attempt to have his own personal voice on any decision vote.
@ huckfunn:
That will be a nightmare!
Rodan wrote:
I’m entirely bitchin’! You?
See you on the OOT.
huckfunn wrote:
All your motels are belong to the Patels!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Oh, but you see, people of European and non-Muslim Near-Eastern descent deserve apartheid for just existing!
Because, you know, how dare we engage in polytheism and idolatry and disbelief and rejection of Allah’s totalitarian law?! That’s oppression and sedition, you know!!!
/SARCASM TAG OFF
vapig wrote:
yeah, I know. I guess it just bothers me that an entire industry is being taken over by foreigners and it’s very obvious in the motel chains.
@ Aussie Infidel:
It’s B. They’re evil.
I used to think they were misguided, but no more. They are just plain evil.
huckfunn wrote:
Oh, but his art was deep and stuff! Such banal rigor, it’s genius, I tell ya! /
vapig wrote:
So true mate.
That’s why the progressives are so hot about amnesty for all illegals in the US.
Having effectively stopper reproducing in replacement numbers the only hope the fascist left have to survive is to import their voting fodder from abroad.
The whole edifice of fascist progressivism is fraught and non-sustainable, economically (when they run out of other folks money) spiritually (man based spirituality has the seeds of its own destruction implanted) or organizationally (they can’t replace themselves) .
It’s a dead end philosophy.
All we have to do is survive long enough to see Progressivism drop from the tree of life like a rotten apple.
Our task is to formulate a mechanism where we not only survive but prosper and grow whilst the progressives self destruct.
Carolina Girl wrote:
From what I understand of the court they don’t debate these issues. They don’t confer with one another. They pretty much all know how they stand on every issue and write their decisions. The winner of the 9 choose who will write the official decision. She’s just a shoe in on the 4 side right now.
However, in the past, adding odd language to a dissenting opinion becomes case law and precedent. That’s how Roe v Wade eventually became law due to a dissenting wording in a case from the 50′s regarding a married couple who wanted the right to have birth control.
huckfunn wrote:
They may be foreigners – or they could be new Americans. Indians assimilate pretty darn well!
vapig wrote:
A cigar for vapid!
Like you I think that are just plain evil.
In their heart of hearts they know it too.
There is a bright side to this. When a progressive can’t stand the contradictions in his / her life anymore they make GREAT conservatives.
The Islamic expert in our discussion / drinking group that meets every Friday afternoon was hard left until something finally snapped. Now he’s one of our most active supporters and activists.
@ Carolina Girl:
I read a brilliant comment the other day. It was from a leftist, but hit home.
“Republicans can’t live up to their morals, and Democrats haven’t found theirs.”
Rodan wrote:
I don’t even know what to do these days. My 401K is all cash and just sitting there. I briefly thought about getting back into some stocks last week. After today, I’m glad I didn’t.
huckfunn wrote:
Many of the Indian folks who got into the motel business in the mid 80′s were refugees from Uganda…Idi Amin drove out all the Indian business people who had settled there when it was a British colony.
The Osprey wrote:
That was an informative article and thanks for posting it. Several years ago I asked a Patel motel owner what was the deal with the name “Patel”. He told me that in Hindi the name meant “farmer”. I didn’t know whether he was woofin me or not.
vapig wrote:
Usually true. Be aware however that the current ruling party in India supported NAZI Germany during the war.
Nationalist and hard core hinduism is basically a fascist creed as well. Just understand history. It’s much easier than having to keep repeating it.
A strong India is one of the best allied the West has in its fight with Islamism. They have had plenty of practice and hold no illusions about Islam.
@ The Osprey:
If that’s true, I’m not really concerned. I’d rather have the Patels running everything, than the House of Saud.
vapig wrote:
They sure seem to. I’m pretty impressed with Bobby Jindal and the Hailey lady from SC.
@ vapig:
True. But they do have “case conference” where they vote and make the decision on who will write the opinion. It is considered a singular honor to be asked to write the opinion for the majority or even the dissent. The justices dislkied Berger because they considered him the least intellectual of all of them and yet he always took the “best” and most prestigious opinions for himself. And frankly, one page of a Scalia opinion is better reasoned and written than an entire Federal Reporter volume of Berger.
huckfunn wrote:
All that glitters IS GOLD!
Got to go and brief a client in 30 minutes.
I’ve been penetrating a US (Atlanta) based multi-national for ages now. They have been quite ‘naughty’ so i’ve been asked to get the dirt on them for a NZ based multi-national. Just the nominal monthly briefing on all the dirt I’ve found and how I might suggest that my client use that dirt to their commercial advantage.
What a way to make a buck! LOL
Stay save guys and guy-esses.
Cheers from ‘downunder’,
@ Aussie Infidel:
G’Nite matey! And God Bless.
And with that I’m out to!
Good night all! And God bless you all!
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