Why I heckled Bill Maher

Ron Futrell

iowntheworld.com  "I have a special-needs son named Troy. He’s 27. Every day, I drop him off at Las Vegas’s Opportunity Village, a workplace for adults with special needs. Helping people with special needs is something I’m passionate about.
"As you may recall, Sarah Palin has a special-needs son, too. During his performance, Maher chose to make a joke about Palin’s five-year-old son, Trig, who he described as a “retard.” The audience of supposedly compassionate liberals roared with laughter. The crowd’s reaction was even more disturbing than the joke itself."
The compassionate left.

The incident was covered in the Las Vegas paper: Ex-sports anchor chides Bill Maher  "“I went there to be enlightened,” he said. “I like hearing from both sides.”
"He added, “I have found out one thing. The left doesn’t like to be confronted.”
"The Review-Journal sought comment from Maher but didn’t receive a response by deadline."

http://obamacartoon.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html

Mediaite has more on this  "Ron Futrell, a former sportscaster and contributor for Breitbart, says Maher referred to Palin’s youngest child Trig as “retarded.” Futrell has a special needs child himself, and has interviewed Palin in the past about their shared challenges. He was appalled, not only at Maher’s word choice, but the audience’s uproarious reaction."

Sarah Palin pounds Bill Maher for attacking special-needs son Trig as 'retarded'  
"Futrell has no regrets heckling Maher, and said he would "always be glad" to stand up for those who have no voice.
"It's not the first time liberals have attacked Palin's youngest son, who was diagnosed with Down's Syndrome.
"In April 2011, we reported that the liberal site Wonkette posted a vile attack against Trig on his third birthday."

 Another example of this man's outlook:

Need to challenge dangerous cluelessness about Iran

Iran votes for new president, Khamenei slams U.S. doubts  "The 50 million eligible voters had a choice between six candidates to replace incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Having been vetted by Iran's electoral authorities, none is seen a challenge to the Islamic Republic's 34-year-old system of clerical rule."

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Jennifer Rubin  "To their credit, a trio of Republicans spoke out about the fraudulent election in Iran. On the Senate floor, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) declared, “On Friday, the people of Iran head to the polls to make a false choice. They will be forced to select not the candidate of their choice, but from those chosen for them by the Supreme Ali Khamenei, who are guaranteed to continue the Supreme Leader’s policies of political and religious oppression and pursuit of nuclear capability at all costs.” The speech is worth listening to in full."

Rick Moran; Iranians in sham presidential election   "Better to have a close aide who will do as he's told in order for the Supreme Leader to maintain his iron grip on the government and country."

Lets laugh WITH the administration, not AT it.

http://www.comicallyincorrect.com/2013/06/12/obama-data-mining-us/

 

Big Politically Correct Brother; The bozo leviathan sees everything . . . and nothing.

Mark Steyn  "....you might wish Boston had been a little tougher on Tamerlan and spent less time chasing the phantoms of “Free America Citizens.” But, in fact, it would have been extremely difficult to track the Tsarnaevs at, say, the mosque they attended. Your Granny’s phone calls, your teenager’s Flickr stream, and your Telecharge tickets for two on the aisle at Mamma Mia! for your wife’s birthday, and the MasterCard bill for dinner with your mistress three days later are all fair game, but since October 2011 mosques have been off-limits to the security state. If the FBI guy who got the tip-off from Moscow about young Tamerlan had been sufficiently intrigued to want to visit the Boston mosque where he is said to have made pro-terrorism statements during worship, the agent would have been unable to do so without seeking approval from something called the Sensitive Operations Review Committee high up in Eric Holder’s Department of Justice.

washingtonpost.com

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"We’re told that universal surveillance has prevented all kinds of atrocities we can never hear about — an answer straight out of Orwell. Yet oddly, in the ones we do hear about, the perps are hiding in plain sight (Major Hasan with “Soldier of Allah” on his business card), the intelligence services do nothing (the Pantybomber known to the CIA but still permitted to board the plane), and the digital superstate is useless (the Tsarnaev photo rang no bells with the facial-recognition software, but was identified by friends who saw it on TV)."

Pushing the envelope, NSA-style

Charles Krauthammer Dr. Krauthammer has no problem with the NSA program on its face:
"Thirty-five years ago in United States v. Choate, the courts ruled that the Postal Service may record “mail cover,” i.e., what’s written on the outside of an envelope — the addresses of sender and receiver.
The National Security Agency’s recording of U.S. phone data does basically that with the telephone. It records who is calling whom — the outside of the envelope, as it were."

The programs are necessary and can be effective, but trust in our government is everything.
 "The object is not to abolish these vital programs. It’s to fix them. Not exactly easy to do amid the current state of national agitation — provoked largely because such intrusive programs require a measure of trust in government, and this administration has forfeited that trust amid an unfolding series of scandals and a basic problem with truth-telling."

And here is where the trust factor is the foundation:
"Legally this is fairly straightforward. But between intent and execution lies a shadow — the human factor, the possibility of abuse. And because of the scope and power of the NSA, any abuse would have major consequences for civil liberties.

But it is hard to trust you, Mr. Obama.
"Now it turns out that Obama’s government was simultaneously running a massive, secret anti-terror intelligence operation. But if the tide of war is receding, why this vast, ever-expanding NSA dragnet whose only justification is an outside threat — that you assure us is receding?
"Which is it, Mr. President? Tell it straight. We are a nation of grown-ups. We can make choices. Even one it took you four years to admit is not “false.” "

Private Prophetry

...."And so, the government continues to mount the largest and most expensive intelligence gathering operation in history, excluding only those people most likely to be the ones they're looking for.

"Which raises two important questions: why then is the government spying on the rest of us and why, in the bloody aftermath of Ft. Hood, does the government of Barack Hussein Obama still place a higher value on political correctness than saving American lives?"

CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer

Via Lucianne with this comment: "Just Posted: Of course CBS will be as diligent on this as Fox was on the James Rosen case."

WaPo  "The CBS News reporter was then asked whether her issue related to the experience of Fox News reporter James Rosen, who’d been the target of Justice Department snooping. She responded: “Well, I don’t know details of his — I only know what I’ve read but I think there could be some relationship between these types of things and what’s happened to me.”
"That wasn’t a loud-mouthed affirmation, but rather a suggestion that her computer troubles could be the work of an overreaching U.S. government. Attkisson later pulled back a touch, clarifying that she wasn’t ready to identify a “specific entity.” "

Obama Tells Keystone Foes He Will Unveil Climate Measures

Every day we wake up wondering what this man will do to us next.

Bloomberg   " “Keystone XL and the moral urgency of climate change will determine this president’s place in history more than anything else,” said John Sellers, executive director of The Other 98%, a non-profit that opposes the pipeline, in a conference call with reporters this week. “President Obama can be the FDR of this moment and say no to dirty fossil fuels, or he can lock us and our children into a future of climate chaos.”

"Global emissions of carbon dioxide rose 1.4 percent in 2012 to record levels, according to a report this week by the International Energy Agency.

" “A broader climate agenda is far more important in the grand scheme of things,” said Josh Freed, director of the Clean Energy Program at Third Way, a Democratic-leaning policy group in Washington, D.C. “Keystone is a battle but climate is the war.” "

No mention in the article of the counter arguments to the environmentalists.

It will be soon be known as 'The un-affordable Health Care Act'

Silvio Canto, Jr.  "All of this confusion confirms just how reckless President Obama and the Democrats were in pasing this law in 2010.
"First, no one ever held a hearing about the plan. No one asked a simple question:  what's this thing going to cost?  We had politicians rather than actuaries projecting costs!
"The law is 3 years old and we have one word for this law:  UNAFFORDABLE!" 

Anything the US does now is too little, too late; Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda

USA Today  "Al Nusra and groups like it have seen some of the most significant victories against Syrian government forces in the course of the 2-year-old uprising in which Assad's forces have killed about 80,000 people. Rebels not affiliated with al-Qaeda have pressed Washington for months to send weaponry that will allow them to match the heavy weapons of the Syrian army. They've urged the West to mount an air campaign against Assad's mechanized forces."
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 ""This illustrates the need for American leadership in the Syrian conflict, particularly with regard to helping non-Qaeda-aligned rebels contain the growth of (al Nusra) and similar groups," he said."

Russia's new Middle Eastern role  " Russia may enjoy the paralysis of the West in the region and seek to embarrass the United States and its allies, but that is a secondary matter. It also may want to demonstrate to the world that it doesn't abandon allies the way that the United States abandoned former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Again, that is a minor matter. Russia's interest in the outcome of the Syrian civil war stems from two critical interests."....

Sort of how the West abandoned Czechoslovakia in 1938 and millions died as a result of our cowardice. Just to point out that it is unwise not to learn from history.

2013 Air Force Academy graduation minus the Obama administration

This was relayed to the Tunnel Wall by former high school classmates. It is the account as written to them, unedited. TD

Good friends of ours from here in Elizabethtown, KY just got back home from a visit to the Air Force Academy,  in Colorado Springs where they attended the commencement exercises of the graduating class of 2013.  In fact John's grandson was one of the graduates and John, being a retired US Army officer was able to swear in his grandson as a brand spanking new US Air Force 2Lt.  

What an honor that must have been for John and his family, but that's not the real story nor is it the historic significance of the 2013 commencement celebration.  You see 2013 is the first Air Force graduation on record that has occurred under a Sequester created by a non functioning Congress and an unyielding Obama Administration.  Due to operating under this Sequester the ceremonies proceeded as follows:
 

President Obama regretfully declined the kind invitation of the Commandant of the Air Force Academy to be speak to the graduates and their families on the occasion of their graduation saying he was committed to addressing the graduates at West Point.  Instead it was established that Vice President Biden was free and he would come to Colorado Springs.  And, as to the request for the usual fly-over by the US Air Force Thunderbirds that was declined again due to the Sequester.


 After consultation with his chain of command the Commandant of the Air Force Academy notified the White House that due to the Sequester cancelling the traditional fly-over of the Thunderbirds that he was confident that the nation didn't need the added $1 million + expense to fly Air Force 2, of any configuration or model, and the added expense of the Secret Service and their entourage required when the Vice President traveled.  So just cancel the initial request for a speaker from the White House for the commencement.

So the commencement went off as planned sans representation from the Obama Administration.  It looked like this:


 The featured speaker was an Under Secretary of the Air Force, who is a decorated Viet Nam veteran.  The Secretary flew back and forth from Andrews AFB to Peterson AFB In Colorado Springs on routine training flight conducted by the Air Force thus costing the American tax payers nothing. 

 

John tells me that there were nearly as many Air Force General Officers in attendance as there were family members.  He thinks a dozen or more 4 Star General, three or four times as many 2 and 3 Stars an untold number of 1 Star Generals.  And, of course countless Colonels and below.

 Most of these officers were themselves alumni of the Air Force Academy and wanted nothing less than to present a perfect program for the graduating class.  Since the Congress and the Obama Administration could not see fit to allow for a fly-over by the Thunderbirds, a number of the senior generals took matters into their own hands.  And so, when the speeches, the hats were all thrown into the air, and all the family hugs were all made and it became time for the fly-over a roar of engines was detected from the West of the air strip and parade grounds there at the facility and everyone was treated to a fly-over by the Confederate Air Force.  Looking up they saw all kinds of vintage aircraft from B-17s B-24s, B-25s, P-38s, P-51s and others all represented by manufactures such Corsairs, Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing who still provide parts availability for these aircraft, and flown by our hero's from prior conflicts that still see fit to stay active for services such as this.  It was a wonderful experience for all who were there.

 I am sure you will join me in offering a salute to these serving officers who saw fit not to rob the 2013 graduating class of their day of celebration, and to our hero's who flew the planes for this worthy occasion and oh yes to the many private donors who pitched in and covered the expenses involved in bringing these aircraft in to Colorado Springs from various locations across the country.

  LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE SALUTE YOU

 
More photos of the ceremony
Hat tip to Ron and Gail Downie, Oregon