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SEIU Terror, Latin American Anti-Semitism, CNN Lies About Bible Burning

Hmmmm:

Last week the F.B.I. targeted terror suspects in Illinois and Minnesota. In Illinois one of the suspects was a Wright College teacher and the other an SEIU leader.

Joseph Iosbaker is an SEIU Leader. The sheepish Chicago Media went weak in the knees when Mr. Iosbaker and SEIU used the closing of the Republic Windows factory several years ago as a forum for disgraced Governor Blagojevich. Now, Iosbake [sic] is being investigated in a terrorist plot.

The Chicago media is following the lead of what they are told and tasked. SEIU is disappearing from the news reports on Iosbaker and his wife Wright College instructor Stephanie Weiner. They may be linked to anti-Israeli and Columbian FARC terrorism and that is what the Federal Bureau of Investigation is . . .investigating.

Later in the post, this email received by the author is reproduced:

This is interesting. I teach on a part-time basis at Wright and the divide between the full-time and adjunct faculty is a wide one. As such, I do not know Weiner.

What I can attest to is that:

1. Bill Ayers has been invited to address the students within the past four years as an extracurricular exercise.

2. One of the handful of student groups on campus is "Students for Peace and Justice" which promotes LBQT issues, hatred of Israel and a homeland of Palestine.

3. In recent months, various maps posted on campus have been defaced by pro-Arab students. The state of Israel was scratched off of the maps.

The FBI doesn't anticipate any arrests at this time, but the operation is part of an investigation into material support of terrorism. Specifically, the allegations concern Latin American and Middle Eastern terror organizations.

It's nice to know that the FBI are making that connection. At Pajamas, Stefan Frank has a terrific piece about state-sponsored anti-Semitism in Venezuela. Venezuela is largely dependent on oil revenues and part of the OPEC cartel. It has cultivated relations with some of the most despicable Middle Eastern regimes, and as the article demonstrates, has become the supportive habitation of every kind of conspiracy theory crank. Recent intelligence suggests that Chavez, who can't keep the lights on, despite the oil revenues, and whose leadership is so effective that Caracas is now the most dangerous city in the world, beating out contenders like Karachi by a country mile, has been shopping around for fissionable material. Fidel Castro's recent bombshell rant against anti-Semitism must be understood to have been directed in part at his continental admirer, who has simply gone too far. The sabre rattling at Colombia is part and parcel of the usual fascist strategy, as is Chavez' transparent attempt to rig elections and cow the opposition by threat of violence.

In Brazil, a brave artist is speaking violence to power by representing himself murdering, among others, the Pope, George W. Bush, and the Queen of England. Not, apparently, among his targets of world malefactors whom he longs to bring to justice are any of the Middle Eastern monsters who continue to imprison, torture and wantonly slaughter their own. Naturally, burning of Korans is verboten, but excitable Muslims in Karachi found it fit to burn Bibles, musical instruments, and other religious texts at a Pentecostal church a day or two ago.

CNN:

The Quran teaches Muslims to respect the sacred books of Christians and Jews as well, says Chris van Gorder, a religion professor at Baylor University in Texas.

“To burn a holy Quran for a Muslim is to throw down a gauntlet,” he says. “Those who deface any holy book, including the Bible, in many Muslim countries today, will be executed.

“How many Bibles have been burned in the Muslim world in the last nine years? None.”

A Google search of Pakistan+Bible+burned shows that the good professor is misinformed. In fact, it brings up examples of Bible burning from quite a broad swath of Dar al-Salam. On the other hand, if you relied entirely on CNN for your news, you might find that believable.

I know that they weren't books, but I'm certain that the destroyers of the Bamyan Buddhas were harshly dealt with. You'll find this same variety of academic emotionally denounce the burning of Mayan codicils by 16th century monks.

But then again, some lies must be nurtured, because they are so instructive.

Related: Lefty activist apparently source of Boehner affair rumor

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Feminization and Taking Offense

This comes via The JamesonLewis3rd Daily, who got it from @allahpundit on Twitter:

Researchers analyzed the number of self-reported offences and apologies made by 66 subjects over a 12-day period. And yes, they confirmed women consistently apologized more times than men did. But they also found that women report more offenses than men. So the issue is not female over-apology. Instead, there may be a gender difference in what is considered offensive in the first place. The research appears in the September online issue of Psychological Science.

In a second study, three separate offences were rated by 120 subjects on a 7 point scale. And women consistently rated the three offences as more severe than men did. Turns out that men are just as likely as women to apologize for a given offense. But their threshold for thinking they have committed an offense is higher.

As a corollary it might be said that teaching people to be aggrieved is a form of feminization, to go with all the other forms of feminization that are at the core of the (public) educational mission these days.

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Belated Post: Soros Funds J-Street [UPDATED]

Naturally.

No surprise, there. But what's interesting is that these religiously affiliated organizations that receive Soros funds seem reluctant to admit the connection, as was the case with Lyin' Jim Wallis and his SOjouRnOrS (yeah, I know that should be an "e") outfit and the Eleison Group.

Most monotheistic religions (and probably others) regard lying as a bad thing, so I suspect that they must have reasons for obfuscating their connections with Soros. I wonder what those might be. If you have any ideas, please express them in comments. Thanks.

Related: Article on lies told to students by teachers, and why they should or should not be corrected. A more pristine example of proggthink would be hard to come by. And the NYT's massively hyped hit piece on Boehner is a giant yawn.

UPDATE: Yid with Lid has much, much more on this scandal.

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Russ Feingold Running Behind, As Independent

Not on the ballot, mind you, but in commercials. Hot Air has the story.

In other words, Feingold is taking to heart the advice of Democracy Corpse, which amounts to dissimulate however you can! Clearly, Wisconsin isn't California, where the voters either were savvy enough to realize that the press' representation of Obama as a moderate was a ruse all along, or dumb enough to believe that the administration's policies are good, or cynical enough to believe that the only way Greece on the Pacific is going to be bailed out is if they keep their ninnies in power, because "empathy."

Feingold is stunned, of course. Two years ago, it seemed that the far left had won. He could not possibly have anticipated that today the star of Wisconsin's Congressional Delegation would be . . . Paul Ryan.

The problem, according to Long John Kerry, is that in the past two years voters have become stupidly susceptible to slogans that are not "Hope!" or "Change!" Obviously, it couldn't have anything to do with voters realizing that they've been lied to and bamboozled by those in power.

“The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.”

In case you missed yesterday's WI gubernatorial Q&A, Steve Egg drunkblogged it.

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The Brutality of the Unvarnished Truth

The latest polling shows Barbara Boxer up 51% to 43% against Carly Fiorina, but that doesn't stop Chris Matthews from lamenting the tone of the Fiorina campaign, describing it as "brutal."

The brutality? Using a clip of Boxer insisting that she be addressed as "Senator," rather than "Ma'am." In other words, the brutality consists in showing Boxer as she is.

Brutal.

Politico: "The gay right is thriving at a moment that the mainstream gay rights movement faces a profound crisis." As I did, Stacy determined the lasting damage to Jesse Jackson, Jr. to arise from the fact that his imported paramour is a white woman with blond hair. One of Obama's problems with his gay supporters is that he has to be blacker than black to maintain the approval of his most stalwart constituency, and that means intolerance towards gays relative to to other racial designations. I'm sure that Progressives will point to the prevalence of Christian fundamentalism among black Americans, but I think that if anyone bothered to poll, they'd find less correlation than the Proggs would like.

Oh, and this Malik Shabazz is not the one who went to the White House just before the NBP case got dismissed. It was one of those other Malik Shabazznits. How do we know? That's what the White House says, wigger!

The most interesting aspect of Susie Madrak's contretemps with Axelrod was what it revealed about how one Proggie, at least, regards herself. Naturally, she's a victim. She and those who think like her are the ugly girl that the administration has sex with under the bleachers, but won't be seen with in the light of day. I won't go as far as Dan Riehl and say that what is implied is date rape, but it does then cast the Obama faction in the role of popular jock/frat boy who is willing to use someone who just wants to be loved---the kind of person who would punch a hippie for sport. Free love comes with strings attached, in other words.

The most interesting and important story of the week, though, was Christopher Coates' testimony before the Civil Rights Commission. Career lawyers with the DoJ were told not to bring any charges against non-whites for voting violations. Numerous states have flouted the law by deliberately refusing to scrub the voting rolls of dead persons. Robin Carnahan, running for Senator from MO, was held up as one of those who absolutely refused. I'll add, since I'm not aware that it came up in his testimony, that there are nine states that seem to find it inconvenient to present absentee ballots to military in time for them to vote.

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) member Steve Caddle of Houston, Texas has been caught registering 23,207 fake voters in Harris County alone due to the hard detective work of Catherine Engelbrecht and her “True the Vote” project.

I, for one, remember the leftist cant that persisted through the last election that vote fraud was a conservative fiction meant to undermine the validity of Democratic victories in tight elections. This time around, I'm not seeing it, but do let me know if you stumble upon any. Anybody like Steve Caddle ought to be thrown in jail for civil rights violations. We know that he's an SEIU member, but is he directly employed by the SEIU on leave from some other position, in order to pursue fraud full time? If so, that's an in-kind contribution, and must be reported as such.

Not that that sort of thing has anything at all to do with the administration's attempts to exempt unions from the same transparency standards as other institutions.

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Saturday Morning Links Dump, Featuring Moe Lane

Our favorite Evil Giraffe has the hilarious skinny on Democracy Corpse's recommendations to candidates, including run as an Independent and distance yourself from any Progg policies.

Deroy Murdock unpacks the DoJ's abettal of voter rolls swollen with zombies. Christopher Coates' testimony yesterday regarding Robin Carnahan's refusal to scrub the rolls was pretty devastating.

The always interesting Archbishop Chaput has words for prejudiced journalists, even as CNN prepares to air a hit piece on Benedict.

The H2 are going all out for Sean Bielat in his campaign against Barney Frank, and would like you to do so as well.

Plenty more news over at The JamesonLewis3rd Daily, which see.

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