Saturday, September 21, 2013

Many, many bikers roar into DC to compete with the Muslim demonstration

Why do I say "compete"? Because the Muslim rally was organized, I suppose, for Muslims to protest their poor image in American society and to ask that they be respected, which is fine enough as far as it goes. But I heard not one word of anger from Muslims over the murder and destruction around the world done by Muslims in the name of Islam.

WND  "It was originally billed as “The Million Muslim March,” though organizers later revised it to the “Million American March Against Fear.”
"But at noon Wednesday in the nation’s capital, there weren’t a million Muslims or Americans to be found anywhere – not even close.
....
The Weekly Standard had reported Tuesday that police were expecting “the size of the March will be somewhere in the hundreds, not thousands, of participants.”
Mark Segraves of the NBC affiliate in Washington reported that only “about 25 people,” including activist Cornel West, were at the Muslim march as of 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, with a group of Christians about the same size nearby.
....
"The name of the “Million Muslim March” was changed to the “Million American March Against Fear” because organizers said the original name proved too “scary.”
"In fact, The American Muslim Political Action Committee was criticized for scheduling the march on the anniversary of 9/11.
"But organizers insist the name was changed because, “Many non-Muslim Americans are terrified of Muslims, who are portrayed by Hollywood and the US media as fanatical terrorists.”"

"Portrayed by Hollywood"? The last few times I saw terrorism films, it was usually extreme right-wingers or violent Christians committing the acts.
Perhaps that is just as well; if Hollywood does make a movie with Islamic terrorists, we'd have to endure more episodes of this president and his cabinet groveling before the Muslim world. TD

However, the counter-protest by bikers was in evidence everywhere.
Driving in from Canada and from all over the United States, the bikers, who were denied a permit for their demonstration, were flooding the capital.
At approximately 1 p.m., “2 Million Bikers to DC” Facebook page co-founder Belinda Bee posted that police have counted nearly 1 million bikers are on the streets of Washington.

Meanwhile, Canadian and American bikers came to DC for 9-11:
 

One of a kind photo from Hollywood in 1943

Brings  back memories of the old days when movies were something for the family. It is a 1943 promotional photo of many of the actors under contract with MGM at the studio's 20th birthday party.
This is an amazing picture, made during World War 2, and features some actors in uniform. It is one you will never see the like of again.
Front Row: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Katharine Hepburn, Louis B Mayer, Greer Garson, Irene Dunne, Susan Peters, Ginny Simms, Lionel Barrymore

Second Row: Harry James, Brian Donlevy, Red Skelton, Mickey Rooney, William Powell, Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Taylor, Pierre Aumont, Lewis Stone, Gene Kelly, Jackie Jenkins

Third Row: Tommy Dorsey, George Murphy, Jean Rogers, James Craig, Donna Reed, Van Johnson, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main, Robert Benchley

Fourth Row: Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Keenan Wynn, Diana Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Esther Williams, Ann Richards, Marta Linden, Lee Bowman, Richard Carlson, Mary Astor

Fifth Row: Blanche Ring, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Bert Lahr, Frances Gifford, June Allyson, Richard Whorf, Frances Rafferty, Spring Byington, Connie Gilchrist, Gladys Cooper

Sixth Row: Ben Blue, Chill Wills, Keye Luke, Barry Nelson, Desi Arnaz, Henry O'Neill, Bob Crosby, Rags Ragland
Other sources for this:
http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/11/a-1943-group-photo-of-65-movie-stars/
http://www.katharinehepburntheater.org/blog/katharine-hepburn/katharine-hepburn-among-the-mgm-stars/

And then today we have:  
Hat tip to Val Brose, Santa Maria, CA 

Free speech on our college campuses?



Which brings us to this:  California College Forbids Passing Out Constitutions...On Constitution Day   "In a stunning illustration of the attitude taken towards free speech by too many colleges across the United States, Modesto Junior College in California told a student that he could not pass out copies of the United States Constitution outside the student center on September 17, 2013—Constitution Day. Captured on video, college police and administrators demanded that Robert Van Tuinen stop passing out Constitution pamphlets and told him that he would only be allowed to pass them out in the college’s tiny free speech zone, and only after scheduling it several days or weeks ahead of time." 

This Sketch Is Dead-On

From Chicks on the Right comes this portrayal of American media that is, unfortunately, too close to the truth.
"This sketch from the BS of A is awesome and I love it, because 1. It's funny, and 2. We've interviewed Buck Sexton on our radio show, and he's not only just a wee bit accomplished and genuinely nice, but obviously has a wicked sense of humor, too.  
...
"It's just too bad that while this sketch is indeed funny, it's also a completely accurate depiction of our lamestream liberal American media.  Which is equally pathetic and frightening."

Have liberals turned America into a "banana republic"?

American Banana Republic    Mark Steyn: The decay of a free society doesn’t happen overnight, but we’re getting there.
 


“ 'Banana republic” is an American coinage — by O. Henry, a century ago, for a series of stories set in the fictional tropical polity of Anchuria. But a banana republic doesn’t happen overnight; it’s a sensibility, and it’s difficult to mark the precise point at which a free society decays into something less respectable. Pace Obama, ever swelling debt, contracts for cronies, a self-enriching bureaucracy, a shrinking middle class preyed on by corrupt tax collectors, and thuggish threats against anyone who disagrees with you put you pretty far down the banana-strewn path."
Thomas Lifson; Obama claims, 'We're not some banana republic' and Mark Steyn examines the evidence  " Obama has been behaving like a caudillo in ways beyond those enumerated by Steyn. Laughter may still be effective in persuading low information types about the fundamental transformation Obama is implementing." 
 
Dictator's job: Promise them everything and give them nothing.

The MSM will have a field day over this, especially Chris Matthews

White nationalists aim to take over tiny North Dakota town   "Paul Craig Cobb wants to transform the town 70 miles southwest of Bismarck into a community that mirrors his white supremacist views. He did so quietly at first, asking residents whether their land was for sale. But recent reports from The New York Times and the Southern Poverty Law Center exposed his mission and turned it into a national story." 

 
Remember when militant gays wanted to take over Alpine, CA in 1970?  ...."Tough mountaineers, woodsmen and fishermen all, they have preserved the pioneer purity of their independent existence. Now that existence stands threatened, and by as unlikely a force as could be imagined—the militant homosexuals of the Gay Liberation Front."  More.

And, of course, the Nation of Islam wanted entire states turned over to them .
I refer you to item four in their website.  And item ten at this same site is pretty much what Paul Craig Cobb (three names again!) wants for his white supremacists.
"10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught without hindrance or suppression."
Great minds think alike; "American Nazi Party Commander George Lincoln Rockwell (center) at a Nation of Islam (NOI) rally, Uline Arena, Washington, DC, June 25, 1961."
 
At least this nation's history has given African Americans cause for anger -which so very many have risen above- but what did these Nazis want?
Hmmm. Blacks and white supremacists might clash, but Muslims and Nazis are a match made in Heaven.