Obama embarrasses himself, US in Cuba (Updated)

Update: Obama is on his way to Argentina where we can assume he will apologize for our support we gave to Britain in the Falklands war. TD

Rick Moran   "President Obama stood next to Raúl Castro at a press conference in Cuba yesterday and was browbeaten by the Communist dictator in a humiliating spectacle that no president – no American – should have taken so meekly." . . .

. . . And the president of the United States just stood there and took it. Virtually the only resistance he offered came at the end, when Castro, a man whom we may presume is accustomed to getting what he wants, grabbed Obama’s wrist and tried to hoist it into the air for some sort of victory photo op. "Obama responded by letting his wrist go limp as Castro weirdly waved his arm around in the air."

"A real president – a real American – would have walked off that stage and left the country immediately.  But the president just stood there with a silly grin on his face, wallowing in the "historic" nature of the event.

. . . 

And Obama allows Castro to castigate the U.S. while standing there meekly like a student taking a dressing down from a teacher.  He is cheered on the left for this, who love the way Obama never allows the chance for an American humiliation to escape.  As for the rest of us, all we can do is hang our heads in shame that anyone such as this achieved the highest office in the land."
The text of Obama's speech referred to above

President Obama’s Che Moment  . . . "Che is, of course, ubiquitous on dorm-room walls and T-shirts in the United States, and a hero of the Cuban revolution. He also was a cold-blooded killer who set up the Cuban gulag and presided over summary executions of political prisoners (trials were, per Che, “an archaic bourgeois detail”)." . . .

". . . Che said that in the event of a U.S. attack, “if the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression.' ” 

Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review.

But wait! There's more!
Obama Attends Baseball Game With Leader Of Colombian Terrorist Group…

Some significant points from Obama's visit to Cuba

Obama Says He Has Not Handed Over Dissidents' List to Castro

. . . "In the joint news conference, Obama and Castro clashed on the issue of human rights in Cuba, with the Cuban leader denying knowledge of any political prisoners in the island nation.

" 'What political prisoners? Give me a name, or names, or after this meeting is over you can give me a list of political prisoners and if we have those political prisoners they will be released before tonight ends," Castro said." . . .

OK then; here is a list of names for Mr. Castro  Full list at the link.

Obama’s Assistant Ben Rhodes: “Cuba Views Political Prisoners As Having Broken Laws”

'Change is going to happen'  . . . "On Tuesday, Obama will deliver a speech on live Cuban television and attend an exhibition game between Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays and Cuba's national team." . . . Here come the groveling apologies for America.

Obama to America's enemies:

Obama to fellow Americans who oppose him:

Undercover Video: Life Inside The Islamic State’s Capital, Raqqa…

No such thing here as  "promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity". 
And to think that there are influential groups on college campuses that support these very people. TD

Weasel Zippers  "Looks like a fun place… no, not really."

Maundy Thursday: The Missing Holiday UPDATED

UPDATE: Tenebrae: A Service of Shadows; Another term for the Maundy Thursday service
"The service of Tenebrae, meaning “darkness” or “shadows,” has been practiced by the church since medieval times. Once a service for the monastic community, Tenebrae later became an important part of the worship of the common folk during Holy Week." . . .

The Missing Holiday  

"During Sunday School a question was asked, “Of all the holidays during the year, what’s your favorite?”  This being the third week in March several answered, “Easter”, while Christmas, Thanksgiving and the 4th of July were also in the running.  Then the instructor asked if anyone celebrated this coming Thursday; something I hadn’t considered as a ‘holiday’.

"As Easter weekend comes around perhaps this Thursday should be celebrated; if not as a holiday then surely it falls into the category of important and significant.

"It was on a Thursday that Jesus and a few of his chosen disciples retired to the Garden of Gethsemane where the Lord could finish out his mortal ministry.   During those long lonely hours the Lord prayed to his Father and took upon himself the sins of the world, sweating, as it were, drops of blood from every pore." . . .

 . . .39 Then Jesus came out and went, as he usually did, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. 40 When he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not fall into temptation.” 41 Then he went away from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down and prayed, 42 “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will but yours be done.” 43 An angel from heaven appeared to him to strengthen him. 44 And remaining in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. 45 When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, worn out by grief, 46 so he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not fall into temptation!” 47 While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him (Luke 22:39-47).  Also at Bible.org; The Gospel of John, Chapter 17

Many believers in Christ do not know about this occasion. It is meant to be dark and mournful and often worshippers are asked not to visit with others on the way out afterward. The mood is meant to be similar to Jesus' followers after they laid him in the tomb and walked away. It is such a preamble to the joyous atmosphere of Easter Sunday when we can exclaim,

"HE IS RISEN!"
"He is Risen INDEED!"

The Tunnel Dweller

Pat Condell on Feminist Whores For Islam

Iron Burka

Cartoonist Glenn Foden's last cartoon, drawn shortly before his death

IN MEMORIUM: GLENN FODEN

"Sad news: the very talented and funny conservative cartoonist Glenn Foden passed away Sunday from an aneurysm. He posted the cartoon above just the day before we lost him.

"I only knew Glenn through his cartoons and a casual Facebook friendship [as did I,TD] , but am stunned by his sudden and unexpected loss. His wife Teresa posted: "Whether you tended to agree with him or fought against him with the fierce tenacity that politics engenders, keep up the efforts to be involved in the future of this country."

"R.I.P. Glenn - you'll be missed. "

Bill Clinton Trashes Obama: 'Awful Legacy of the Last Eight Years'

Weekly Standard   "At an event today in Spokane, Washington, Bill Clinton called for putting "the awful legacy of the last 8 years behind us and the 7 years before that where we were practicing trickle down economics.' "

". . .  Because she's the only person who basically has good ideas, will tell you how she's going to pay for them, can be commander-in-chief, and is a proven change maker with Republicans and Democrats and Independents alike."  

"Of course, Barack Obama has been president for the last seven years. And Bill Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton, served in the Obama administration."   Via Lucianne

Castro wants Obama to give him Gitmo!

Do you suppose they want a really state of the art prison to lock up the anti-Castro protestors that Obama will not visit with on this trip? As I said before, Mr. Obama is a third-world president, elected by third-world voters.

"What Castro Just Said While Standing Feet From Obama Is Jaw Dropping"

Western Journalism   "Cuban President Raul Castro called on the United States to hand over the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base at the joint press conference in Havana with President Obama on Monday.

""Castro said that the Guantanamo Bay is being “illegally occupied,” though the territory was granted to the U.S. as part of Cuban-American Treaty of Relations in 1903.

"The United States won Cuba its independence during the Spanish-American War: the island was a colony of Spain prior to that time. The U.S. and Cuba affirmed America’s right to the facility in another treaty signed in 1934, which granted the land as part of a perpetual lease.

"In addition to returning Guantanamo Bay, Castro called on the United States to lift its trade embargo against his nation. “The blockade stands as the most important obstacle to our economic development and the well-being of the Cuban people. That’s why its removal will be of the essence,” the Cuban leader said, Politico reported.' "

Former Reagan Official: 'Really Distasteful' Obama Welcomed Castro's Criticism
Somehow I do not think this trip will end well for the US. Knowing there is limited time to get concessions from this president who has a built-in guilt complex, America's adversaries are moving fast. 2016 is going to last forever.
. . . "Obama said. "I actually welcome President Castro commenting on some of the areas where he feels where we're falling short because I think we should not be immune or afraid of criticism or discussion as well.No record of Obama bowing to Castro yet.

America's Commander-in-Chief posed for an ironic photo that wasn’t lost on many conservatives, who took it as another spit in the face from our corrupt leader.

So these 2008 Obama supporters knew all along what was coming.

Activism U and the End of Education

Sultan Knish   "The campus wars aren’t really about race. Race and the rest of the identity politics roster are the engine for transforming an academic environment into an activist environment.

"Think of it as the Post-Educational University. Or Activism U."The average campus already skews left, but maintains the pretense of serving an educational purpose. The demands put forward on campuses begin with racial privileges, but do not end there. These demands call for politicizing every department, the mandatory political indoctrination of all students and faculty, and the submission of non-political academic departments to activist political ones. "

. . . 

"Safe space culture would silence dissent among faculty and students while creating activist student-faculty organizations empowered to conduct endless purges and protests. College would be free and utterly useless for anything except turning out the next generation of community organizers. It is not only the ideas themselves that are endangered, but the entire mechanism for exchanging them. 

"The activist model would not only eliminate intellectual diversity, it would eliminate education. 

"The campus wars are about political correctness as a way of life. And we are only beginning to discover what that truly means."

1,200 Signatures for Petition to Reinstate DePaul Professor, 800 More Needed   . . . "In an interview with Walking Eagle Productions, a documentary film company covering the DePaul controvers y, Klocek said that he was suspended by DePaul administration and ultimately lost his position and teaching benefits after engaging in an out-of-class argument with pro-Palestinian students at a student activities fair on campus." . . .

PRweb

What happened when Merrick Garland wrote for himself

"This would likely make a Justice Garland closer to Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Stephen Breyer or even Justice Samuel Alito in criminal cases than to Scalia."

Volokh Conspiracy
. . . "Garland’s opinions urging more deference to federal regulatory agencies suggest that a Justice Garland would likely be more deferential to agency decisions than was the justice he would replace. Justice Antonin Scalia was far more likely to reject an agency’s statutory interpretation than Garland appears to have been on the D.C. Circuit. Scalia, unlike Garland, was also sympathetic to underlying claims about the need to limit federal regulatory authority. In two federalism-related cases in which Garland’s majority prompted separate opinions from one or more colleagues — one concerning the application of the Commerce Clause (Rancho Viejo LLC v. Norton), another concerning the spending power (Barbour v. Washington Metro Area Transit Auth.) — Garland interpreted the relevant precedents narrowly and showed relatively little concern for the need to limit federal power." . . .
(Emphasis mine, TD)

Iranians defying the Mullahs by celebrating Nowruz, the pre-Islamic Persian New Year

If the Iranian people want freedom from the mullahs, they know -now- not to expect help from Barack Obama or anyone who thinks like him.

Obama To Iran Green Revolution Dissidents: Drop Dead   "During their brutally suppressed protests in 2009, Iranian freedom fighters sent the White House an urgent memo calling for help. Under Obama, America ignored it.

. . . "President Obama made his choice, and like so often before it was to vote “present*.' ".  * Just to prove a point, this link is from the strongly leftist 2007 "Mother Jones".

All that said, here is the featured post:
Shokooh Mirzadegi  ". . . In order to survive, Iranians have had no choice but to resort to the essence and fabric of their culture of joy, beauty and kindness. Iranians have discovered that culture can be the best antidote to a government’s inhumanity that has brought them nothing but despair, sorrow and anger.

"This year, on the eve of yet another spring and at the dawn of the thirty-eighth year of civil disobedience, we, the lovers of Iranian culture, will once again renew our struggle with this current culturecidal government of Iran. A struggle for our natural rights of freedom and our rights to be happy and inevitably bring down this sullen army of anti-liberty and anti-happiness, ultimately to their knees."

Shokooh Mirzadegi began her literary work, both as a novelist and a poet with Ferdowsi magazine and Kayhān daily in the late 1960s in Iran. Over the past four decades, she has been one of the most active figures in the Iranian literary community, both inside and outside Iran. She is currently residing with her husband in the US.

Remember when young Iranians made this video and were later arrested by the Iran authorities? There was once joy in Iran; Obama could have helped to restore it but chose the Mullahs instead. As was his wont, Obama voted "present".

Oh, how'd that all work out for them?
Iran's 'Happy' Dancers Sentenced to 91 Lashes "The seven young Iranians who were arrested for creating a dancing video response to Pharrell's "Happy" have been sentenced to jail time (ranging from six months to one year) and 91 lashes each, according to Associated Press.
 . . .. "After their May arrest, the seven Iranians were humiliated and forced to repent for their actions on state television. But they found support from a dumbfounded Pharrell, who tweeted that month, "It's beyond sad these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness." Meanwhile, Iranian police chief Hossein Sajedinia called their "Happy" send-up "vulgar," saying it "hurt public chastity." 

Donald Trump Re-ignites Feud with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Big Government  "GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is once again urging his supporters to turn against Fox News with a Tweet calling for a boycott of Megyn Kelly’s highly rated TV-show.

“Everybody should boycott the @megynkelly show,” the real estate mogul tweeted on Friday evening. “Never worth watching. [It is] always a hit on Trump. She is sick [and] the most overrated person on TV,” the tweet concluded.

. . . "The Trump campaign renewed its attack in reply to the Fox statement.

“Megyn Kelly is a highly overrated reporter and anchor that constantly disparages Mr. Trump with negative and inaccurate reports. Despite the fact he wants nothing to do with her and will not appear on her show due to her extremely biased reporting, much of the program is about him anyway on a nightly basis,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said.
"Trump has repeatedly called Megyn Kelly “crazy Megyn” and accused her of being biased against him. But the feud goes back almost since Trump first announced his campaign for president."