What of the Barack Obama-Bill Ayres relationship?

Snopes comments on the rumors of their relationship; "Partly true"

FactCheck.org:  McCain cranks out some false and misleading attacks on Obama's connection to a 1960s radical.    ... "We wrote back then that Clinton had gone too far by suggesting that "people died" as a result of Ayers’ actions. And nothing Obama said then has since been shown to be false. It is true that he did not bring up his work with Ayers on a second project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama was board chairman and Ayers was an early organizer, and where the two were together for half a dozen or so meetings. But neither Clinton nor Stephanopoulos asked him about that project. McCain could fairly accuse Obama of not volunteering the information, but it is false to claim he "lied.' "

WND

Ayers dishes details on relationship with Obama   ... "Ayers did not discuss the role he and his Weather Underground wife, Bernardine Dohrn, played in launching Obama’s public career. In 1995, Ayers and Dohrn held in the living room of their Hyde Park home the first fundraiser for Obama in his effort to win a seat in the Illinois state Senate.
"In 1985, the Woods Foundation gave a $25,000 grant to the Developing Communities Project in Chicago that allowed the DCP to hire Obama, then 24 years old.
"It was the job offer that allowed Obama to move from New York City to Chicago.
"Ayers was a director of the Woods Foundation for nine years, from December 1999 to December 2008, overlapping with Obama for three years, with Obama serving on the board from December 1999 to December 2002." ..

Truth or Fiction;  Controversy Over Senator Obama's Relationship With William Ayers-Truth!   ... "Critics said a special investigations unit composed of Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston from CNN looked into the Ayers story and concluded that "the relationship between Obama and Ayers went deeper, ran longer and was more political than Obama -- and his surrogates."   

The CNN story said that:       A review of board minutes and records by CNN show Obama, crossed paths repeatedly with Ayers at board meetings of the Annenberg Challenge Project in Chicago. For seven years, Ayers and Obama -- among many others -- worked on funding for education projects, including some projects advocated by Ayers. While working on the Annenberg project, Obama and Ayers also served together on a second charitable foundation, the Woods Fund, and that among the Woods Fund recipients was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church where Obama had his church membership. Obama praised Ayers' book on the subject of juvenile justice in a 1997 Chicago Tribune review, calling it "a searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.    Stanley Kurtz in the WSJ: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools   "The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming "guilt by association." Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago."   Breitbart; Ayers and Obama: What the Media Hid   ... "Ayers methods have certainly changed since the 60s, but his commitment to bringing down the American system has been a constant throughout his life. Therefore, it's fair to ask what Obama saw in Ayers, the committed anti-capitalist radical. It's also fair to ask why the NY Times (and the rest of the media) were so quick to dismiss the import of the connection. No one is saying Obama and Ayers were part of a secret cabal, but they do seem to have been friends over a period of years, so presumably they had something in common. Given Ayers' consistently extreme views on America and government, isn't that worth exploring?"

Obama is so Mad About All of His Scandals

American Glob   "No one is madder than Obama about the VA scandal. And the IRS. And Fast and Furious. Etc. Etc.
"Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…
 

 

Jay Carney: Obama Learned About VA Scandal From News Reports    "Of course."

 

"Consoling phone call placed to Sandra Fluke within minutes of her mention on the Rush Limbaugh show. Congratulatory phone call placed to gay athlete the instant he comes out.

"VA scandal? Saw it on the news. Still no public statement. Speaks volumes.
"Video via Hot Air.
 

ABC, NBC Ignore Report Showing Obama Administration Knew About Ongoing VA Problems
"Of the big three networks, only the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley covered the new revelations in the VA scandal. CBS News host Scott Pelley noted that “The Bush White House was so concerned about this back in 2008 that it warned the incoming Obama Administration.' ”

Ron Fournier: Quiz: How Dumb Does Obama Think We Are?   "The Veterans Affairs policy fiasco is magnified by an insulting-public relations strategy."
"It's harder to BS the public these days. White House press secretary Jay Carney still tries. On Monday, he repeatedly suggested that the American Legion had praised the move.

"The American Legion said that the group looks at Petzel's resignation as a, quote, step towards addressing the leadership problem at the VA. So I think that undercuts the assertion that that is not a meaningful development."

"Carney cited the American Legion nine times during the briefing.
Unfortunately for Carney and his boss, ABC's intrepid White House correspondent Jonathan Karl has access to the Internet. "It turns out, however, the American Legion had issued a statement dismissing the resignation as 'business as usual,' " Karl wrote." ...

Dingy Harry*; Lost In Space

Legal Insurrection
"How long will it take Harry Reid to blame the growing VA scandal on the Koch brothers?"  American Glob

*Harry Reid’s Koch Brothers Dementia – The Rush Limbaugh Show  “Reid also rejected concerns from many Democrats that his focus on the Kochs has done nothing to help the party. ‘The Koch Brothers, I’m not walking away from them. I’m going to be on their tail for the whole campaign because if they think Romney was watched closely by me, that’s nothing compared to what it’s going to be like with the Koch Brothers...' "

 

The Origins of Political Correctness

An Accuracy in Academia Address by Bill Lind  "Where does all this stuff that you’ve heard about this morning – the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it – where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.

"We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this has been the case. And we have always regarded them with a mixture of pity, and to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as so strange that people would allow a situation to develop where they would be afraid of what words they used. But we now have this situation in this country. We have it primarily on college campuses, but it is spreading throughout the whole society. Were does it come from? What is it?
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Mainstream Media Incest

Always on Watch

 

"The Newspeak noose continues to tighten so as to control the information that WE THE PEOPLE receive (links below the fold):

1. FEC chair warns that conservative media like Drudge Report and Sean Hannity face regulation --- like PACs

2.  FCC’s grab for new regulatory power could go beyond broadband providers

This 3200 Year Old Tree Is So Huge It’s Never Been Captured In A Single Image. Until Now.

Funky Pickens  “ 'The President” is one of those trees. The giant sequoia stands 247 feet tall, measures 45,000 cubic feet in volume, and is an estimated 3,200 years old."

....
"Absolutely incredible. To see how it was done, check out this video:"
 

 

Hat tip to Bill Smith; Rainier, Oregon

You had to know this was coming: White House says Obama only learned of VA wait-list scandal on TV

UK Daily Mail  "White House Press Secretary Jay Carney wound up with egg on his face Monday as he told reporters that President Barack Obama first learned from a TV news report that his Veterans Administration was denying medical care to vets with secret off-the-books-waiting lists.

 

"But new evidence emerged this morning that his transition team was notified five years ago about how VA medical centers' official wait-list times bore little resemblance to reality and risked denying military heroes critical health care." More...

 

Lessons of the VA Scandal; Lengthy wait times, bureaucratic abuse, rationed care: par for the course in government-run health care. 

... "According to VA figures for 2012, as reported by the Washington Post, “a veteran who takes an appeal through all available administrative steps faces an average wait of 1,598 days.” That’s more than four years of waiting.

"Obamacare will dramatically expand access to the health-care system at the same time that many surveys show doctors are likely to retire or cut back their hours. It is almost inevitable that we’ll see more waiting-list scandals as the need to ration care grows.
This is the record of many single-payer health-care systems, and both Obama and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, have said that establishing a single-payer system is their long-term goal." ...

Alan Caruba; Too Much Gay Everything

Warning Signs

 

"I like to think of myself as a tolerant person. I have, however, one prejudice that is based on biology and history.

"Michael Sam, the first openly gay professional football prospect, made history when he was filmed by an ESPN crew giving his lover, Vito Cammisano, a long, lugubrious kiss to celebrate being selected in the National Football League draft on May 10^th.  The sight of two men kissing passionately was not something I and a lot of other folks wanted to see.

"A spokesman for GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination, called the kiss “a significant milestone”, describing it as “touching.” No it wasn’t. It was nauseating to any heterosexual having to witness it or explain it to their children. " ... More...

Operation Tiger: D-Day's Disastrous Rehearsal



NPR   ... "When the whole affair was over, close to a thousand American troops were dead.

" 'It's a staggering figure," Milton says. "All the more staggering when you realize that more people were killed in the rehearsal for the landing at Utah Beach than were killed in the actual landing at Utah Beach." Utah Beach was one of the beaches in Normandy that Allied troops charged on D-Day." ...

April, 1944; 'Slapton Sands: The Cover-up That Never Was'   ... "For anybody who took even a short time to investigate, there clearly had been no cover-up other than the brief veil of secrecy raised to avoid compromise of D-Day. Yet, in at least one case -- WJLA-TV in Washington -- the news staff pursued its accusations of cover-up even after being informed by the Army's Public Affairs Office well before the first program aired about the various publications including the official histories that had told of the tragedy.

"Yet why, a long 43 years after the event, the sudden spate of news stories and accusations?
That had its beginnings in 1968 when a former British policeman, Kenneth Small, moved to a village just off Slapton Sands and bought and operated a small guest house. Recovering from a nervous breakdown, Mr. Small took long walks along the beach and began to find relics of war: unexpended cartridges, buttons and fragments" ...

Exercise Tiger Remembrance Service at Sea

Exercise Tiger was underway off the South Devon Coast ENGLAND on Friday 28th April 1944,The practice was in preparation of D-Day and being conducted in complete ...

 Exercise Tiger Remembered

Sonar cameras capture first high-res images of two American ships sunk in Operation Tiger D-Day attack that claimed 749 lives lying in pieces at bottom of English Channel

Video; LST 531 & Exercise Tiger practice for D Day (part 2)    "The stern section of the LST, all done on the same dive. Also included are the remains of the DUKW scattered across the seabed."

 

 

 

AFA: 7 common careers Christians may no longer hold in America

FSU Linebacker: Y’all praise Michael Sam for being gay but y’all mocked Tim Tebow for being a Christian.

 

American Family Association     "Many Christians choose self-employed careers because they want to be able to run their business according to the dictates of their faith and conscience.

"That list is quickly shrinking as homosexuals pro-actively seek opportunities to wreck the personal business and career of any Christian who declines to support the gay lifestyle.

"Don't be fooled. This is a focused effort to ostracize and humiliate faith-based businesses and their owners. Here are a few recent examples:

• Photography - A Christian photographer in New Mexico was fined $6700 for politely declining to photograph a lesbian commitment ceremony. The Supreme Court allowed this fine to stand.
• Baker - A Christian baker in Oregon is facing both civil and criminal penalties, including jail time, for politely declining to bake a cake for a gay wedding ceremony. Her business has closed.
• Florist - Baronelle Stutzman, a Christian florist in Washington, is being sued by the state attorney general for politely declining to prepare an arrangement for a gay wedding ceremony.
• Broadcasting - Craig James was fired by Fox Sports Southwest after only one day on the job for expressing his support for natural marriage while he was a candidate for the United States Senate.
• Counseling - Jennifer Keeton was dismissed from the counseling program at Augusta State University for her religious reservations about the homosexual lifestyle.
• Innkeeping - The Wildflower Inn in Vermont was fined $30,000 and forced to shut down its wedding reception business after politely declining to host a lesbian ceremony.
• Teaching - Ms. Gillian John-Charles was kicked out of a doctoral program in education at Roosevelt University for expressing in class her belief that homosexuals aren't born gay.

Hat tip to Terry Lowry.com

The Huffington Post took note of this article   "Wildmon's remarks echo those of his American Family Association co-hort Bryan Fischer, who recently claimed that Christians should "reclaim discrimination" against the LGBT community.
" 'There are times when discrimination is the right thing to do," Fischer, who compared the gay community to shoplifters, said at the time. "It is right to discriminate against people who engage in aberrant sexual behavior. We should discriminate against people like that."

In taking note of the AFA article, the HuffPo makes no attempt to address each of the examples given nor does it discuss each point made by the AFA.

This administration and the voters who elected them - TWICE -are an embarrassment to so many of us

Adolescent president shows his stuff   "Barack Obama shimmied across the Shake Shack counter following lunch with Joe Biden on Friday. Whitehouse.gov posted an official picture of the impromptu show on its website. Check out his adoring fans in the front row.

 

"After six years, we know Mr. and Mrs. Obama love sticking it to the United States of America. While Barack was sliding his backside all over the counter, Michelle was in Kansas delivering another race speech to 1,200 graduating high school seniors. According to the first African-American First Lady, the nation is as racist as ever. “Today, by some measures, our schools are as segregated as they were back when Dr. King gave his final speech,” she said.

 

"Could we have a more immature and pandering first couple than these two?"

 

 

For Michelle Obama, world is black and white — but skin deep  "She talks about it often, incessantly, even, injecting race and racism into speeches and events in which they have no business. And she did so again on Friday, when she traveled to Topeka, Kansas, to deliver a speech to graduating high school seniors."  More...

“ 'It’s our first African-American president, something that many people involved in Brown didn’t think they would live to see,” Cheryl Brown Henderson said in an interview with The New York Times, calling the visit “a manifestation of what they worked for.' ”

True, but how sad that of so many African-Americans in this country with governing abilities, we had to elect a couple who will leave a path of destruction in their wake. 
Case in point:

President Obama and US Embassies ignore Armed Forces Day, but honored 'International Day Against Homophobia Or Transphobia' yesterday

Transphobia?*

"My friends said it was a day commemorating gay pride day, but none of the other embassies were flying the gay flag with their own country’s flags, just the American Embassy did"

The Soviet president vs. the Petulant Juvenile president   ... "Clearly, Vladimir Putin and his comrades want a resurgent Russia restored to power, prestige, and influence.  They want to be supreme in their sphere and to play a superpower role in the world.

" 'Against them we have a secretary of state, John Kerry, who fecklessly bleats about the Russians being on “the wrong side of history.”  And we have other high administration officials who scold the Russians, saying their seizure of Crimea is not in keeping with the enlightened standards of the twenty-first century. " ... 

I do recall pictures of the Soviet flag at pro-Obama rallies, don't you?

*I'm more concerned over Christophobia  

He KNEW! Obama told of Veterans Affairs health care debacle as far back as 2008

"And the President is madder than hell."   "The President is madder than hell about something, but from the tone that McDonogh is taking, it sounds like it’s because he’s being distracted from golfing his many other important duties."

Washington Times   "How exhausting. That means he's been mad as hell all this time". says Lucianne

President Barack Obama autographs a banner while visiting a wounded service member at Walter

 Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., June 28, 2012.

 (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

"The Obama administration received clear notice more than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny veterans timely health care — problems that have turned into a growing scandal.

"Veterans Affairs officials warned the Obama-Biden transition team in the weeks after the 2008 presidential election that the department shouldn’t trust the wait times that its facilities were reporting."  More...