BLACKLIST! Mozilla's Brendan Eich and the New American Totalitarian State (UPDATED)

Sally Zelikovsky  "Imagine going to work one day only to be, in effect, fired -- not because of anything you did or didn’t do at your job, but because of something you did in your personal life.  Something religious.  Or maybe, something political.

 

"Imagine if you were denied a promotion at work because a co-worker found out you had made a personal donation to a conservative candidate.  Imagine if your environmentally-correct boss discovered that, in your free time at home, you supported an organization that exposed the fallacies of man-made global warming and asked you for your resignation.  Imagine if you were the successful CEO of Widget Corp, lauded and respected for your accomplishments, but clients or customers found out you were a tea partier and demanded you be forced out."

"That’s exactly what happened to Brendan Eich, a highly-respected tech guru in Silicon Valley and co-founder of Mozilla Corporation, after he was appointed CEO in late March.  In less than a week, he was forced out of this position for no reason other than that he had a made a $1000 contribution to the Prop 8 initiative in 2008.  His own money.  On his own time.  In his private capacity.  Mozilla had nothing to do with it.  Nor did he discuss gay marriage at work." .....

"Knowledge is indeed power, and when those in power can use their knowledge of what you do outside of work to determine your professional fate, we have indeed stepped behind the Iron Curtain.

 

"This is simply chilling.   

 

"Mr. Eich: you were right to stand up for yourself and to fight hard not to be bullied out of your position as CEO.  There are legions who are watching, who are disgusted and who support you.  We will not stand by and allow this kind of persecution to go unaddressed.  Nor should you.  You were terminated for no reason other than your personal religious, moral or political beliefs.  And the evidence is irrefutable.

 

"Sue ‘em.  Sue their brains out."   

All emphases added, TD

Liberals' new tactic: Blacklist your enemies!  

"That was the point behind blacklisting, too. The idea was to force people out of the public square, either by silencing them through economic penalties or by attempting to shame them out of it. The same people who used to lecture us on diversity and tolerance are attempting to impose another blacklist to shut down those they see as their enemies in politics.

 

"At least when this one ends, we won't have Hollywood producing tedious dreck about the era, since they'd have to cast themselves as the villains. That's a relief for anyone who had to sit through Citizen Cohn." 

UPDATE: Dating Site OkCupid Says They Are “Pleased” They Bullied Mozilla CEO Out of His Job…  

On Monday, OkCupid greeted Firefox users trying to visit its site with a message encouraging them to try other browsers like Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Safari. The pop-up did not specifically call for Eich's resignation, but it certainly didn't mince words, either. The message said: "Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure."

 “ 'We are pleased that OkCupid’s boycott has brought tremendous awareness to the critical matter of equal rights for all individuals and partnerships; today’s decision reaffirms Mozilla’s commitment to that cause. We are satisfied that Mozilla will be taking a number of further affirmative steps to support the equality of all relationships.' ”

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich (right) resigned on Thursday.

Gender Confusion and the Complicity of Public Schools

American Thinker  "Last week, the national press reported on a 56-year-old high school biology teacher in California who plans to undergo a sex-change operation (i.e. cosmetic surgery) and to return to the classroom appearing as a woman. “To have a teacher be authentic ultimately is good for students and for the community,” said Jennifer Levi of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, or GLAAD, an advocacy group in Boston.

 

"Sadly, the situation is far more complicated and confusing than advocates of gender confusion or their allies in the media will admit."

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"A society that promotes such confusion under the ruse of education is lost. Wishful thinking does not maintain childhood innocence any more than pretending wrong is right. Alice in Wonderland should have taught us that.

"When Alice asked the Cat, “How do you know I’m mad?” The Cat responded, “You must be, or you wouldn’t have come here.” 

"Who knew that the Cat’s response would apply to Little Johnny’s public education today?"

'Before you turn on the charm, Philip, that's Nigel my new bodyguard'
UK Daily Mail
 

Related: Google Executive Resigns from World Vision Board over Decision to Affirm Traditional Marriage  "Last week, World Vision U.S., a Christian international relief organization, had announced that it would hire employees in same-sex marriages. In response to this decision, the charity received severe criticism from some prominent evangelical leaders and, in addition, several thousand donors cancelled their child sponsorships.

"Within two days, World Vision reversed its decision, but it began to hear complaints from evangelicals and others who supported recognition for same-sex married employees."  

It isn't Islamophobia if they really do want to kill you.

Iran's Final Solution for Israel    ... "Khomeini faced a weak US President back in the late 1970s in Jimmy Carter. His successors face an equally weak US President in Barack Hussein Obama today, plus many appeasing European powers, too. The difference is that this time, the Islamic regime in Iran has a substantial nuclear program as well. [Andrew G.] Bostom doesn’t criticize merely the Obama Administration, but also the Bush Administration, for failing to deal properly with the Iranian threat. The mullahs of Iran arguably constitute a greater threat than the cruel but largely secular dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq ever did." ...

Ethel Fenig; Muslim clerics: Women should cease to exist  "After declaring women to be un-Islamic, Shirani explained that there were actually two kinds of women – haraam and makrooh. “We can divide all women in the world into two distinct categories: those who are haraam and those who are makrooh. Now the difference between haraam and makrooh is that the former is categorically forbidden while the latter is really really disliked,” Shirani said."

AUSTRIA: Muslim asylum seeker smashes statues in six churches, saying: “Down with your statues, you are all unbelievers”

"Diversity Macht Frei  The man indicated that ‘Allah had ordered him’,” explained police spokesman Roman Hahslinger on Tuesday evening. The 37-year-old said that in his view human beings were not allowed to create holy images."

Fish Instead of People, Ideologies without Consequences; "If only people had to live in the world that they dreamed of for others."

The water disaster is not shared by everyone in quite the same way. In a rare irony, the Hetch Hetchy aqueducts cross the San Joaquin River on their way to the Bay Area. Surely such Bay Area-owned waters might have been diverted to increase the San Joaquin River’s flow to the sea? Could not the Apple executives and the UC professors have showered once a week to save the smelt or to let the poor salmon at least make it to the Tuolumne River?

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2014/02/18/thirsty-in-california/

 

Victor Davis Hanson  ... "At some fateful moment in the 1970s, the other California on the coast, drunk with the globalized wealth that poured into Napa Valley, the Silicon Valley, the great coastal university nexuses at Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA and Caltech, the entertainment industry, the defense industry, and the financial industry decided that they had transcended the old warnings of more Californians needing far more water to survive more droughts. When you are rich, you can afford for the first time in your life to favor a newt with spots on his toes over someone else that lacks your money, clout, and sensitivities.

"The once envisioned reservoirs on the Klamath were cancelled. The supplemental lakes on the Sacramento and American were as well. There was to be no twin wet-year storage lake south of the San Luis Reservoir. No Temperance Flat was to augment Millerton Lake. Such construction was considered far too 19^th century in it unnatural building and damming and canaling." ...Full article

 

The Race-Hacks Defend Their Industry

Bruce S. Thornton

... That narrative is simple: white racism explains the epidemic of black-on-black murder, children without fathers, lack of education, and dependence on the government dole. Since Klan-style racist violence and Jim Crow legal racism have disappeared, “racism” has to be redefined in ever more subtle manifestations like “institutional racism.” The best example of this scam is the “disparate impact” standard for identifying racism, a favorite of the current Department of Justice. By this metric, a mere statistical imbalance in minority participation in car loans or home mortgages is a sign of racism even if no intent can be proven or even identified. This kind of thinking led to the federal regulations pressuring lenders to lower qualifying standards for home loans, which was a major factor in the housing bubble and the ensuing Great Recession of 2008. The hysteria over “profiling” is another example of this racialist voodoo. Even if a group is overrepresented among perpetrators of a crime, identifying suspects from that group when such a crime occurs is automatically racist." ...

Obama Munches on Pricey Reuben Over GOP’s ‘Stinkburger’ (Updated)

WSJ  "For lunch Wednesday, President Barack Obama munched on a reuben sandwich that would require shelling out the equivalent of two hours of work at the federal minimum wage of $7.25.

"The president used the stop at the Zingerman’s Delicatessen in Ann Arbor, Mich., to stump for raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. At that increased rate, a minimum wage worker could buy the same reuben — the “Nosher,” or “small eater” size – with 88 minutes worth of earnings.

"The sandwich, which the president noted was still huge, costs $13.99. With sales tax, that comes to $14.83. It is served with a pickle."

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UPDATE from FreedomWorks Facebook

Is it called Obamacare or isn't it?

 

 

 

Mother Of Five: Obamacare Jeopardizing My Family’s Financial Future   "Wendt initially decided to discuss her plight in an ad produced by the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, which has chronicled the negative impact of Obamacare on American families across the nation."  Video

ABC 6: Policy Critics Dispute ’7.1 Million’ Enrolled in ObamaCare 



4 dead, 14 injured in Fort Hood Shooting

Pamela Geller

"Shooter identified:  Spc. Ivan Lopez, 1st Battalion, Warrior Transition Brigade, ties a fly during an instructional class Nov. 3, 2010 at Fort Hood."

 

... "Attached is the Official Tyndall AFB Plan called “How to Survive an Active Shooter.” This is in response to the Fort Hood jihadi’s wholesale  slaughter of US soldiers, the largest attack on a US army base in American history. This report/response is a pathetic and embarrassing surrender to barbarians. Read it and weep.
"As you know, service members are not allowed to carry firearms on base. So what is the remedy? Our precious servicemen and women are instructed to dial 911 while playing dead (p. 18), and to attack the shooter with a three-ring binder or paper cutter (p. 19). Think I am kidding? Read the report — Download Military"

 

 

BareNakedIslam  "Possible photo of shooter, Ivan Lopez.  Lopez reportedly went from building to building looking for victims.

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Mediaite Lib Smears U.S. Marines As “Generally Violent” Goons…

Weasel Zippers   "Apparently Luke O’Neil has taken over for Tommy Christopher as most obnoxious lib on Mediaite.
"Brave Marine Steals Upside-Down American Flag from Scooter-Riding Hippie Protester — Mediaite" 

 

...This sort of contradictory militarized mindset of the contemporary conservative is perfectly illustrated in the video. In it two brave men, one of whom identifies himself as a member of the marines in both his words, t-shirt, and generally violent comportment, chase down two hippies on a scooter who are carrying an upside down American flag and probably on their way to to enact some insidious terroristic plot. When approached by what looks like a crustpunk Cheech to ask what they’re up to, IRL Marine Todd here yells: “I don’t give a s--t what the symbol is. We serve our f---ing country.”

"In other words, the brave men and women of the American military put their lives on the line every day so lib pukes like this can spout their freedom-hating nonsense. Except when they actually see them doing it, in which case they use their physical power to stop it. For liberty, or something."

"Most people thank our Marines for their service not smear them as violent thugs, not so much with this clown."

Remember the promises that made this nation vote for Barack Obama?

A list of some of the most egregious lies and broken promises by this President. Produced by The East County Underground at MY 1079 FM.

Obama voters  A nation gets the leaders it deserves.

Millionaires Need Your Help!

Ann Coulter

... "Here's another idea: How about a federal law mandating that employers of illegal aliens take responsibility for the people they hire? Why is the taxpayer on the hook for illegal aliens' food, housing and medical care, when Chuck Herrin got 100 percent of the profit from their cheap labor?
 ...
  " 'We" got hospital emergency rooms jammed with illegal aliens when we came in with heart attacks. "We" got the crime, drunk-driving and drug trafficking associated with illegal aliens. "We" got the overcrowded schools filled with kids whose illegal alien parents don't pay property taxes. "We" got to press "one" for English."
....
"I care more about my fellow Americans who can't get well-paying jobs than I do about multimillionaire farmers, demanding that the rest of us pay to support an industry that claims it can't compete without taxpayer-subsidized illegal alien labor."

Obamacare: what parts of it are here to stay?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Krauthammer’s Take: 7.1 Million Enrollees a ‘Phony Number’    

“ 'If it turns out that the overwhelming majority of the so-called 7.1 were people who had health insurance, liked their health insurance, were renewing their health insurance, and got kicked off their health insurance, whose lives are disrupted, premiums are raised, deductibles are raised, and lost their doctors are now among the 7.1 . . . it’s a net negative,” Krauthammer said."

 

Why Believe 7 Million ObamaCare Sign Ups When ObamaCare Was Sold on a Lie?  

 

The Website Is only a Symptom  "Daily Beast columnist and CNN contributor Sally Kohn took to Twitter on Monday with a triumphant message to Republicans.  “Once again, Republicans,” she tweeted, “if you’re [sic] biggest attack against Obamacare is the website,that’s a sign you’re losing the larger debate.”

"Kohn’s tweet echoes a common theme among ObamaCare’s myriad media bulwarks like her-- a suggestion that criticism focusing on the technical issues experienced by the online ObamaCare exchanges is a sign of weakness in the public debate over healthcare."

 

Jennifer Rubin; Obamacare is not forever   "It will behoove the House to pass its alternative. It will be necessary for every 2016 contender for president to lay out his or her own ideas. If Republican reformers are serious, they will present a whole slew of GOP proposals to make life better for middle-class and poor voters, starting with a better health-care system, school choice, a pro-growth economic plan and a domestic energy initiative.

 

"The president has it exactly wrong. The debate hasn’t ended; it’s just begun."