Palestine House Teaches Hate

If you check the Palestine House website, you'll see this welcome to "immigrants":

Members of the Palestine House Board of Directors offer counseling on immigration, family problems, citizenship, legal matters and housing, in addition to referrals to specialized professionals and institutions. We also maintain lists of people looking to volunteer in community organizations and coordinate volunteer activities.

And all of that's sponsored by Canada's "Citizenship and Immigration Bureau." In turn, the community organzations at Palestine House publish stuff like this, so you can see why some good folks protest on the streets like this:

Gateway Pundit has more on the hate at Palestine House (at the bottom of the post).

Tea Party Clones of the George Wallace Fan Club!

In the words of Democrat Representative Steve Cohen:

Also, from WHNT-TV Huntsville, "Memphis Rep. Steve Cohen Decries Tea Party in Radio Interview":

U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen is drawing national attention for remarks he made about the tea party movement in a recent radio interview.

The Commercial Appeal reports that the two-term Democrat said the tea party — "without hoods and robes" — has shown an angry, hardcore side of America that's against diversity.

He made the comments Thursday night on The Young Turks, an Internet and satellite radio talk show.

Cohen went on to say tea party members have shown hostility toward anybody who isn't "a clone of George Wallace's fan club," and that he has seen no Republican standing up to appeal for reason.

Memphis Tea Party founder and chairman Mark A. Skoda calls Cohen's remarks "hate speech."

Yep, hate speech.

Pretty standard on the left. See, "When It Comes To Hate-Speech And Violence, Liberals Rule."

Plus, at Hot Air, "House Democrat: All That’s Missing From the Tea Party Are the Robes and Hoods" (via Memeorandum).

I Guess I'm an Honorary Member of the Canadian Anti-Jihad Alliance!

Hey, this is a huge hat tip to my awesome anti-jihad blog buddies up in Canada. Give it up for Blazing Cat Fur, Kathy Shaidle, and Josephine:

I'm proud to be in the company of those of such unmatched moral integrity and power. It's makes a difference and is always appreciated.

Thank you!

Adam Sharp on Representative Phil Hare: 'Not Worried About the Constitution'

I posted previously on Georgia's Representative Hank Wilson, who's "Guam will tilt" gaffe is pure laughingstock material. That was funny. But when teh Democratic stupid extends to congressmen who not only dismiss the founding documents, but don't even understand them, then our government's in worse shape than we'd thought.

Via Glenn Reynolds at Memeorandum:

See Also: Sharp Elbows.

Racist Jews? Toronto Star 'Reporter' Trivializes Islamist Jihad Genocide Chants at JDL Protest

Part of the fight against leftist totalitarianism, and the alliance of socialism and Islam, deals with the media's disgraceful terror-enabling "objectivity."

Blazing Cat Fur's got another piece up this morning on Denise Balkissoon, the ignorant Toronto Star "reporter" who didn't know that the "money-changer" slur is the hate language of the Holocaust. Ms. Balkissoon also tweeted that the Islamist hate slurs were nothing more than "petty" taunts. Mark Steyn noted yesterday how the West is giving up the game to the PC-jihadi industry:

Palestine House officials were caught on tape telling Jewish protesters "You need another Holocaust" and "We love jihad ... We love killing dogs ... your bitches with you". As a notorious "Islamophobe", I certainly don't begrudge anybody his Judeophobia. What I don't understand is why Canadian taxpayers should subsidize it.

Yet any attempt to roll back funding for such organizations would be met by howls of protest that the government was attacking "immigrant groups" and "human rights". Lenin famously said the west would "sell us the rope by which we will hang them". He was underestimating our suicidal stupidity: We're happy to give it away.

Unreal.

This is what were fighting, "A View From Toronto – A Hub of “Israel Delegitimization”."

So, my leftist readers, with whom do you stand? I'll be on this side of the street:

Jihadi Thugs at Palestine House -- 'You Need Another Holocaust'

From Blazing Cat Fur, "Palestine House Thugs Screams 'You need another Holocaust'":

And this is from Grumpy, "'We Love Jihad. We Love Killing You ... We Love Killing Dogs'":

Part II's here, "'You F*ckers Need Another Holocaust'":

Of course, the "objective" press is on the job, at the Toronto Star: "Each group accused the other of hate, shouting “go home.” JDL members hurled overt racist slurs, while Palestine House men threw pennies on the ground, calling the JDL “thieves”."

That's Orwellian, man!

Also, at Powerline, "More Proof That Canada is Slipping Over the Edge":

From Mark Steyn we learn that the the Palestine House in Toronto is hosting Abd al-Bari Atwan, editor of the London newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Atwan is, in Steyn's words, "a celebrity eliminationist" who declared on TV that "if the Iranian missiles strike Israel, by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square and dance with delight."

Plus, Pamela nails it:

Any Jew who ever asks again, "how did it happen?," needs a swift kick in the head. Go over to the left wing sites (Puff Ho, KOS) -- they are preparing the ovens, asshats.

But JBW, Comrade Repsac3, and Tim will continue bleating and slobbering, "but, b ... but both sides do it, Alluha Akbar!!!"

Desperation! Octobama to Campaign for Babs Boxer!

With Octobama polling at 44 percent today, it's intriguing that Barbara Boxer's still excited about getting the "Expropriator" out to California for an event (Democratic incumbents are keeping Octo at arms length). April 19th is a Monday, so it'll be rough, but I'd sure love to get an impromptu tea party going that night. Man, I would love to be out front of the hotel with an "Obama-Crypto-Marxist" tea party sign. God, that'd make my day!

TNLib at The Swash Zone: Prototypical Leftist Hatemonger

Readers will recall that The Swash Zone's a hate site. The proprietor, genuinely evil, has waged a personal jihad against this blog, which culminated recently in an unsuccessful campaign of workplace harassment and intimidation. It's a group blog and one of those who writes there is TNLib, which is a pseudonym for a woman out of Nashville, Tennessee.

Anyway, TNLib's left a comment at JBW's amateurism of the day (to which I responded earlier):

As you know, I share your revulsion to people like DD. I don't visit his blog - not only because he's an ignorant vicious prick but because of his commenters who are just as vile.

I have several conservatives on my blog - not because I agree with them but because they themselves write what they perceive to be well-reasoned arguments and they do so civilly. They do not rant the SOS, they are quite civil and do not make personal attacks or use racial slurs.

I visit their blogs, read their posts but never leave a comment. It is their followers who are less than human. I don't look upon these dog fights as sport and I guess there are more rewarding places to be.

People like DD are a waste of my time and energy. It's like walking into a biker joint where the beer drinkers are course, mean and where their brains are fried from too much beer and drugs. These people can not be reasoned with.

I believe in academic freedom but I can only imagine what kind of professor he is.

I can be a vicious prick (especially when deflecting neo-communist nimrods such as this), so I'll give her that. But ignorant? Not so much. Like libel blogger David Hillman, TNLib's a seething toxic dump of leftist hatred. And note that part about "can not be reasoned with." Actually, that should probably read, "he's too sharp for me to win a debate, so I'll just demonize him as a vicious prick and avoid his blog like the plague."

Folks like this aren't good people. That comment above pretty much constitutes hate mail, only let's say it was published at a screaming communist message board.

And that's the first time I've seen the "what kind of professor dig" in a while, although I'll confess: I'm a good one.

RELATED: "You're a Professor, Really?"

'Father, Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit'

I just finished "Passion of the Christ."

From Luke 23:46, "'And speaking in a loud voice, Jesus said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit'. Having said this, he breathed His last breath."

And the image, from Wikipedia, "Cross-section diagram of the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, in relation to the site believed to be Golgotha."

And from this morning, with video from "The Passion," "Thousands of Christian Pilgrims Flock to Jerusalem for Good Friday."

The Capitol Hill Tea Party Smear

Weasel Zippers has the lengthy title, "Black Dem Rep. Who Was Reportedly Spit on by Tea Party Protester: I Never Claimed to Have Been Spit on Intentionally, Others Are Making the Claim on My Behalf, Refuses to Confirm it Happened ... (Update) He's Full of Shit..." (via Memeorandum).

But see, Jack Cashill, "How Quickly Spread the Tea Party Smear":

To make the racial smear of the Tea Party protestors at the Capitol clear to anyone with eyes to see, I have assembled this four-minute video ...

Obama Falls on Camera But Plays It Off Like Nothing Happened!

Via AOSHQ:

RELATED: From Doc Zero, "The Principle of Repeal" (c/o Cold Fury).

March Employment Numbers Padded by Obama's Census Bureau 'Cultural Facilitators'

Everyone's making a big deal out of the job numbers up today. Excitable Steve Benen titles his post, "BREAKTHROUGH MONTH FOR U.S. JOB MARKET...."

But fully one-half of the increase comes from the addition of dead-end "cultural faciliator" census jobs that the administration is promoting as part of its $14.8 billion head-count pork-barrel vote-stuffing project. From LAT, "Census Project Adds to the Job Picture When it Counts":

When March employment figures are released Friday by the Department of Labor, analysts are expecting to see the biggest U.S. job gains in more than two years.

But perhaps half the 200,000 or so positions expected to be added to payrolls may be the byproduct of a government effort that has turned into a fortuitous job generator: the U.S. census.

The constitutionally mandated nationwide head count arrives this year at a crucial time -- after the start of the country's economic recovery, but before private-sector employers have created many jobs. That's a stroke of luck for the Obama administration, which has been criticized for failing to revive the labor market. And it's a windfall for the 700,000 temporary employees the census expects to hire, although most of the jobs will last only two to six weeks.

This year's census isn't just about counting heads, it's helping create jobs in an economy that needs them badly ...

Despite the exuberance of the enumerators, some observers worry that the census hiring will do little but temporarily mask ongoing weakness in the labor market. Some analysts said it's unlikely that other parts of the economy would begin generating significant numbers of new jobs to take up the slack by the time census hiring winds down. And the stimulus generated by all those new paychecks will be modest.

"It's helpful, it's in the right direction, but the amount of income being created is small compared to the overall size of a $14-trillion economy," said Dana Johnson, a chief economist with Comerica Bank.

Still, something is better than nothing, said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's.

"We'd rather they were real jobs as opposed to temporary jobs," he said. "But $10 an hour beats zero dollars an hour."

Michael Steel, the spokesman for House Republican Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio, was harsher in his criticism.

"The U.S. economy has lost more than 3 million jobs since President Obama signed the trillion-dollar 'stimulus' into law amid promises it would create jobs 'immediately,' " he said. "Everyone understands that temporary census hiring may inflate the statistics released on Friday, but the American people will rightly continue to ask, 'Where are the jobs?' "

The government is spending $14.8 billion on the latest census to count the population, Census Bureau spokeswoman Shelly Lowe said. Training has begun across the country, but most enumerators will begin hitting the streets in early May to conduct head counts.

Image Credit: NYT, "A Wall in East Harlem Speaks: Stand Up and Be Counted."

JBW Polling 'Analysis': NEW. MORE. DESPERATE. FAIL.

ROTLMFAO!!

It worked! My post this morning caused JBW to shoot his twaddle-wad like the adolescent dork he is. See, "I Don't Think Donald Douglas Likes Me..."

Actually, I don't even know JBW, although I don't particularly care for atheist online-troll sex-predators who harass attractive women across the web. And besides, what I really don't like is noodle-headed analysis like this ... JBW misspecifies my essay as predicated on polling data, and then he even gets that wrong:

He ... quotes two polls concerning Obama's approval ratings that seem to definitively prove that the president is also subject to this bout of "epic fail", except of course that they don't. The most recent RealClearPolitics accumulation of polling data shows the Rasmussen poll to be a statistical outlier (there is a consistent right-leaning bias in Rasmussen's methodology; pay attention to how often the right points solely to this organization's polling data to back up their talking points) while every other major polling firm shows Obama's approval rating to be either positive or within the margin of error (he's +2 overall)

Actually, RCP's "accumulated" polling averages have been dismissed by experts as wildly inappropriate indicators of public opinion. I wrote about that here, "Mixed Poll Averages Risky as Handicapping Tool" (in political science lingo, the pooled findings are flawed due to "incommensurability"). Moreover, leftists call Rasmussen an "outlier" not because of methodological errors, but because they disagree with the results. Or, as JBW puts it, "pay attention to how often the right points solely to this organization's polling data to back up their talking points) ..."

I hate to be hard on the boy, but JBW's proven badly wrong by this morning's CBS poll, "Obama's Approval Rating Hits New Low." (hardly a "wingnut" outlet):

Last week, President Obama signed historic health care reform legislation into law -- but his legislative success doesn't seem to have helped his image with the American public.

The latest CBS News Poll, conducted between March 29 and April 1, found Americans unhappier than ever with Mr. Obama's handling of health care - and still worried about the state of the economy.

That's after ObamaCare passed. So yes, JBW. EPIC. FAIL.

Not only that, I actually added this poll to my previous JBW decimation, so the only reason he would have omitted it from his entry is denialism, especially since JBW sits lapping his tongue across the keyboard all day waiting for blog updates at American Power so he can create yet another photoshop that's somehow supposed to convince people that he's got skills (although to his credit the latest iteration isn't racist).

And one more thing: JBW, being the small-penis prick he is, tries to act big nevertheless, by throwing down some kind of challenge that's supposed to, er, put me in my place on predictive analysis? Too bad I've never predicted that the GOP will take control of Congress in November:

If however Don is so certain about Obama's dismal approval ratings translating into epic failure then I'll offer him this meager yet serious wager: $100 says that the Republicans fail to gain a majority in either house of congress this November. I'm making the offer publicly so that every one reading this will be privy to it. I think Obama's a chess master of the highest caliber Don, and he's moved his pieces into position to retain his party's majorities through the remainder of his first term. Care to put your money where your mouth is, Fat Boy Slim?

No, I don't want that bet, JBW FAIL. Simply because it's still way too early to predict what will happen in November. But also because congressional elections aren't generally national referendums. The president almost always loses seats in the midterms. And this year will be no different. But we're talking individual House and Senate races around the country, and the GOP's defending even more open seats than the Dems. It's a tough political environment for both parties, which is something the tea parties frequently remind stupid RINOs.

Anyway, Obama's epic fail no matter what. He and the Pelosi-Reid Dems rammed through an unpopular bill while ignoring the economic crisis. The reckoning will come in November, and I hope it'll be the 40 or so seats needed in the House and the 8 or so in the Senate. But it'd be foolhardy to put money on something like that so soon, and without enough critical indicators. That said, Stanley Greenberg, who was President Bill Clinton's pollster in the 1990s, suggests that 2010 is shaping up to be a 1994-style election. See, "Clinton Pollster: If Election Were Today, It Would Be Like '94."

If JBW wasn't so stupid, he'd at least catch up on the latest analysis before throwing down the gauntlet.

Typical though.

EPIC. JBW. FAIL.

Heads Explode! Doctor Tells ObamaCare Supporters 'Changes to Your Healthcare Begin Right Now..."

At the Orlando Sentinel, "Mount Dora Doctor Tells Obama Supporters: Go Elsewhere." (Via Memeorandum.)

Small Dead Animals calls this "The Dirty Little Secret of Universal Health Care." And Ed Morrissey commentary.

Photo via Deidre Lewis

*****

But heads are exploding on the left. Shakesville wants this guy to STFU:

Doctors are entitled to their right of free speech and free association, just like anyone else. But I would also call into question his judgment and maturity as a person and as a practitioner if he is so petulant about his politics that he has to post them on his office door.

And from the comments at Think Progress:

Sorry, little repiggies, but Sarah Palin has already picked her Wasilla witch doctor to serve as Surgeon General in a Palin administration, which thankfully will not occur.

Speaking of the delightfully stupid Sarah:

Who is Trigg’s real mommie?

Who is Trigg’s real daddie?

And at the same thread, this comment has been voted down:

No matter how hard the left in this country tries, they will never be able to totally squash FREEDOM.

And further down, we find this:

Dear Teabagging Hick Terrorists,

Now is your time to step up to the plate, or shut the f**k up. Here is your anti-socialist teabagging pledge. Sign it.

I,________________, as a member of the Tea Party, take an oath that I will not use “socialist” programs such as SS, Medicare, other medical coverage provided by the Feds, take out loans from the Feds, use the Fed highways, roads, fire departments, use 911 emergency system, the police departments, the Armed Forces will not protect me, will not use libraries, schools, use cell phones, land phones since the [sic] use Fed money, over the air television or radio stations, use the internet, use Fed workers to guide my plane to an airport, public transportation, etc.

Anything that uses Fed money, included free wood from national forest, hunting land, fishing resources, camp grounds. I will ... take a chance on the food I eat, the water I use, since I will have to test it myself along with the waste water leaving my property.

If I am using or benefiting from any Fed program, I will immediately stop and return said money.

Sincerely, __________________ Date___________

Wow. Just. Wow.

Get Your Own 'Anti-Obama' Billboard!

Left Coast Rebel's got the video, and more commentary at Lonely Conservative.

And at 11Alive Atlanta, "Anti-Obama Billboards Appear on Metro Highways" (via Memeorandum):

Thousands of Christian Pilgrims Flock to Jerusalem for Good Friday

At the Montreal Gazette, "Christian Pilgrims Flock to Holy City for Good Friday":

Thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world thronged the narrow cobblestone alleys of Jerusalem’s Old City to pray along the route tradition holds Jesus took to his crucifixion on Good Friday.

"For me this is a very special visit, this is the first time for me here," said Andrea Schroetter, a pilgrim from Germany. "We prayed in all the places where Jesus marched, it is very moving," she said.

As part of the Good Friday ceremonies, the faithful descend onto the Old City to walk the Via Dolorosa, or Way of Suffering, the route tradition says Jesus carried the cross on which he was to be crucified by the Romans.

The procession begins at the Monastery of Flagellation, where Jesus was beaten, mocked and crowned with thorns.

It follows the narrow often climbing street and the 14 stations of the cross along its way, including where Jesus met his mother, fell several times, was helped in carrying the cross, and met the lamenting women of Jerusalem.

The procession ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the sites where Christians believe Christ was crucified and buried.

As bells tolled across the city, black-robed priests and nuns mingled with pilgrims and tourists. Many carried crosses while some, including a group from California smeared in fake blood, re-enacted the crucifixion.

BONUS: Go here for a virtual tour of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Church of the Resurrection).

Founding Bloggers!

See, "Founding Bloggers on The Daily Show":

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
You're Not Helping - Harry Reid Supporters
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform

Nancy Pelosi Historically Unpopular After Health Vote

At Gallup, "Views of Pelosi Not Fundamentally Changed After Health Vote" (via):

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Nancy Pelosi - 2008
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform

Americans' views of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are not fundamentally changed after the passage of healthcare reform. Though more Americans now have an opinion of her, both her favorable and her unfavorable ratings are up from the last reading, to 36% and 54%, respectively.

The currently net-negative view of Pelosi from the March 26-28 USA Today/Gallup poll stands in stark contrast to opinions of her as she became speaker of the House in January 2007. At that time, twice as many Americans viewed her favorably (44%) as unfavorably (22%).

Opinions of Pelosi grew more negative over the course of her first two years as speaker, such that about as many Americans viewed her favorably as unfavorably. During the last year, Americans' views have become much more negative than positive.

April Fools: Fail Blogger James B. Webb on Fail President Barack Obama

From fail blogger James B. Webb, November 2008 ...

... I plan to hold our new president's feet to the fire for the next four years; having defended him on many different levels and issues over the past few years I now fully expect him to follow through on his promise of trying to build a better tomorrow for the citizens of this country ...

Okay. Right.

JBW hypocrite fail:

JBW fail and Barack Obama fail. Separated at birth?

From April Fool's Day approval ratings at Rasmussen:

Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove ...

Fail.

And last week at CNN: "Majority Disapprove of Obama for First Time."

EPIC. JBW. FAIL.

ADDED BONUS FAIL: "Obama's Approval Rating Hits New Low" (via Memeorandum).

Gossip Blogs and Journalism's New Career Trajectory

The piece covers gossip blogs, but the career model is fairly generalizable to the new media environment. At least two of the blogs cited are political blogs. At New York Times, "The Rising Stars of Gossip Blogs":

IT had all the elements for the perfect tabloid gossip item — a clash between star financial journalists, big egos and a surprise ouster that had Wall Street buzzing: Henry Blodget, the well-known disgraced-analyst-turned-financial-pundit and co-founder of the much-read blog, The Business Insider, stunned the financial community last week by firing John Carney, the star managing editor of the site’s Clusterstock blog, reportedly because of philosophical differences over the site’s coverage.

The news, which was quickly picked up by the Reuters financial blogger Felix Salmon, who subsequently sparked an online spat of his own with Mr. Blodget, did not break in a gossip column like The New York Post’s Page Six or in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, which in a previous era might have owned this story. Rather, the scoop came from a 25-year-old Village Voice gossip blogger and University of Utah dropout named Foster Kamer.

Surfing the Web after business hours one evening, Mr. Kamer ran across speculation about Mr. Carney’s job status on a Twitter post by Gawker Media’s owner, Nick Denton. After 90 minutes of phone calls to sources within the financial journalism subculture, Mr. Kamer nailed down the item and posted it on the Voice site.

The lines between “reporter” and “blogger,” “gossip” and “news” have blurred almost beyond distinction. No longer is blogging something that marginalized editorial wannabes do from home, in a bathrobe, because they haven’t found a “real” job. Blogging now is a career path in its own right, offering visibility, influence and an actual paycheck. As more gossip action in a variety of fields moves online, young writers who might have hungrily chased an editorial assistant job at Condé Nast a few years ago now move to New York with the dream of making it as a blogger — either launching their own blog into the big time, à la Perez Hilton, or getting snapped up by a prominent blog network like Gawker Media or MediaBistro.

And although the better-known newspaper gossip columnists still churn along, among them Richard Johnson and Cindy Adams of The New York Post, and George Rush and Joanna Molloy of The New York Daily News, much of the action has moved online, with the up-and-coming players having little in common with legendary predecessors like Walter Winchell and Liz Smith. While Ms. Smith, 87 and still active, toiled in journalism for nearly 30 years before getting her own by-lined column (working first, among other things, as a typist, proofreader and radio producer), some of the newest notables in gossip are still in their 20s and only a few years removed from the days when they blogged from their college dorm rooms about fraternity hazing mishaps and the quality of the cafeteria food.

The following are profiles of nine emerging gossip bloggers, whose names came up in interviews with influential blog entrepreneurs, fellow bloggers and other journalists as potential future stars of the online world. The list, by no means exhaustive, represents a cross-section of New Yorkers covering varied beats — entertainment, fashion, real estate, finance —for a variety of prominent blog networks. Some, like Sara Polsky of Curbed and Lilit Marcus of The Gloss, are relatively new to the business, but recently installed in a position of prominence by Web star-makers like Lockhart Steele, who runs Curbed and Eater, or Elizabeth Spiers, a founder of Gawker in 2002 who has introduced a number of successful blogs since then. Others, like Fred Mwangaguhunga of MediaTakeOut.com, are popular niche players who are quickly crossing into the mainstream.

Check the link for the full list of industry-moving blogs.