People United Means Action

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”
– Barack Obama, 9/25/2012 in address to the general assembly of the United Nations.

This comes two weeks to the day after those goat-fuckers assassinated and brutalized the body of our ambassador to Libya along with three of his staff.

Fuck YOU, obama. I’ll  slander the prophet of goat-fuckistan all fucking day long you fucking fuck. What the fucking hell? Everyone should post a picture like the one at the top on their FB page, twitter, blog, and so forth until those terrorist, woman-hating freaks get the goddamned picture.

Here is a pretty picture that makes me want to punch the pedophile prophet mohammed in the face less (a little).

This one is good too.

They may be wearing head scarves, but don't think they won't blow your fucking heads off.

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Girls beat up Iran cleric over dress code
By Ben Brumfield and Shirzad Bozorgmehr

Tehran, Iran (CNN) — They may be a far cry from their Western counterparts fighting for the acceptance to breast-feed — or go topless — in public, but two girls clobbered a cleric recently in a small town in Iran when he admonished one of them to cover herself more completely.
The cleric said he asked “politely,” but the girl’s angry reaction and some pugilistic double-teaming with her friend landed the holy man in the hospital, according to an account Monday in the semiofficial Mehr News Agency.
Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the girls on his way to the mosque in the village of Shahmirzad for noon prayers in late August.
Women’s bodies: The public perception of private parts
He told one of the girls to cover up, the report said.
“She responded by telling me to cover my eyes, which was very insulting to me,” Beheshti said. So he asked her a second time to cover up and also to put a lid on what he felt was verbal abuse.
She hit the man of the cloth, and he hit the ground.
“I don’t remember what happened after that,” he said. “I just felt her kicks and heard her insults.”
Beheshti, who emerged from the infirmary three days later, said he did not file a complaint against the girls.
But he doesn’t mind the local prosecutor’s investigation into the matter either “as long as the case helps the cause of Islamic hijab.”
The girls may have put the “jab” into “hijab,” but fighting with morality police or private individuals telling women to cover up is rare in small towns. It’s more common in larger cities, where women are more likely to take a stand.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/20/world/meast/iran-hijab-fisticuffs/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

and HERE h/t TexasTigress

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In the United States of America, we don’t apologize for our freedom of speech. Ever.

Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

A man waves his rifle as buildings burn during protests at the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi late Tuesday. (source CNN, Getty image. Click on image for info)

Apologizing for the freedom of speech of American citizens constitutes an assault on our Constitutionally enshrined freedoms. On a more visceral level, it also makes it look like the US government has some sympathy for the maniacs in the pictures above. And it cheapens the horrific deaths of brave public servants like Ambassador Stevens, by betraying either deep ignorance or deep misunderstanding of bedrock American values. Or both.

At least Jimmy Carter didn’t friggin apologize to the Ayatollah. Damn but obama is a jackass.

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Excerpted from HillaryIs44:
“The August jobs report and the American economy under Obama are so bad they make Barack Obama’s public masturbations last night appear tolerable. Not that last night went well for the clown prince. Even Big Media acolytes had to admit they need higher dosages of Hopium delivered by syringe:

“CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “A Lot Of Stuff We’ve Heard Before.” [snip] (CNN, 9/6/12)

CBS’ Bob Schieffer: “It Just Didn’t Have That Spark.” SCHIEFFER: “But this as not the kind of speech that Bill Clinton made last night. It just didn’t have that spark.” (CBS, 9/6/12)

NBC’s Savannah Guthrie: “An Excitement Gap Between The President’s Speech And Bill Clinton’s Last Night.” [snip] (NBC’s “NBC News Live,” 9/6/12)

CNN’s Brianna Keilar: “Don’t Think I’m Going Out On A Limb To Say Clinton Was Wayyyyyyy Better Than Obama.” (Twitter.com, 9/6/12)

Miami Herald’s Marc Caputo: “Lacked Clinton’s Magic.” [snip] (Twitter.com, 9/6/12)

NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell: “Wasn’t A Whole Lot Of New Policy…” [snip] (NBC, 9/6/12)

CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “A State Of The Union, Almost, In Terms Of Kind Of Going Down A Checklist…” [snip] (CNN, 9/6/12)

ABC News’ Rick Klein: “Strange Silence Prevailing In The Arena.” [snip] (Twitter.com, 9/6/12)

The Washington Post: “A Mixed First-Term Record … Rhetoric Has Not Been Enough To Overcome The Problems The President Faces.” [snip] (The Washington Post, 9/6/12)

Politico: “Obama And Vice President Joe Biden All But Ignored The Affordable Care Act.” [snip] (Joanne Kenen, “Obama’s DNC Speech All But Ignores ‘Obamacare’,” Politico, 9/6/12)

The Washington Post’s “The Fix”: “Certainly Not Among The Best He Has Ever Delivered…” [snip] —”

To read HillaryIs44′s article click HERE

Excerpted from pie2012 blog:

WE Are the Ones We’re STILL Waiting For….

Did you ever think you’d read an article by Maureen Dowd that you agreed with??? MoDo wasn’t much impressed with the president’s speech. Apparently The One didn’t really mean The Only One. Actually, he meant Not Me – You! He’s not blaming Bush anymore….he’s blaming US!

Read Pie2012′s post here.

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Choose your spool and go for it!

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Shulamith Firestone

Dates: born 1945, died August 2012
Occupation: writer
Known for: radical feminist theory

Background

Shulamith (Shulie) Firestone is was a feminist theorist known for her book The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, published when she was only 25 years old.

Born in Canada in 1945 to an Orthodox Jewish family, Shulamith Firestone moved to the United States as a child and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. She was the subject of a short 1967 documentary called Shulie, part of a series of films made by Chicago art students. The film followed a typical day in her life with scenes of commuting, working, and making art. Although never released, the film was revisited in a shot-by-shot simulacrum remake in 1997, also calledShulie. The original scenes were faithfully recreated but she was played by an actress.

Feminist Groups

Shulamith Firestone helped create several radical feminist groups. With Jo Freeman she started The Westside Group, an early consciousness-raising group in Chicago. In 1967, Firestone was one of the founding members of New York Radical Women. When NYRW split into factions amid disagreement about what direction the group should take, she launched Redstockings with Ellen Willis.

The members of Redstockings rejected the existing political left. They accused other feminist groups of still being part of a society that oppressed women. Redstockings drew attention when its members disrupted a 1970 abortion hearing in New York City at which the scheduled speakers were a dozen men and a nun. Redstockings later held its own hearing, allowing women to testify about abortion.

Shulamith Firestone’s Published Works

In her 1968 essay “The Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S.A: New View,” Shulamith Firestone asserted that women’s rights movements have always been radical, and have always been strongly opposed and stamped out.  She pointed out that it was extremely difficult for 19th-century women to take on the church, the entrenched law of white male power, and the “traditional” family structure that ably served the industrial revolution. Portraying suffragists as old ladies gently persuading men to allow them to vote was an effort to minimize both the women’s struggle and the oppression against which they fought. Firestone insisted the same thing was happening to 20th-century feminists.

Shulamith Firestone’s best-known work is the 1970 book The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. In it, Firestone says that a culture of sex discrimination can be traced back to the biological structure of life itself. She claims that society may have evolved to a point with advanced reproductive technology where women could be liberated from “barbaric” pregnancy and painful childbirth. By eliminating this fundamental difference between the sexes, sex discrimination could finally be eliminated.

The book became an influential text of feminist theory and is often remembered for the notion that women could seize the means of reproduction.  Kathleen Hanna and Naomi Wolf, among others, have noted the book’s importance as a part of feminist theory.  

Shulamith Firestone disappeared from the public eye after the early 1970s. After struggling with mental illness, in 1998 she published Airless Spaces, a collection of short stories about characters in New York City who drift in and out of mental hospitals. The Dialectic of Sex was reissued in a new edition in 2003.
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Shulamith Firestone
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON

 Shulamith Firestone, a pioneering feminist who shot to fame at age 25 with her best-selling book, “The Dialectic of Sex,” was found dead in her East Village apartment on Tuesday. She was 67.

Alerted by neighbors, who had smelled a strong odor from her apartment, her superintendent peered in through a window from the fire escape and saw her body on the floor. Her landlord, Bob Perl, said she had probably been dead about a week. He said her one-bedroom unit included rows of books, including Greek classics.

Suffering from mental illness, she had shut herself off from contact with other people. Perl said the cause of death is unclear at this point — police said it wasn’t starvation — and that the coroner’s report should provide an answer.

Perl purchased the building, 213 E. 10th St., in 1993, and figures Firestone lived there, on the fifth floor, for about 30 years.

“She was not well for many years,” Perl said, noting that her family members and “strangers” would pay her rent when she was unable to. “She was a prodigy. But she had been ill for so many years, she lost contact with the outside world.”

Firestone grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Ottawa, Canada. According to Perl, she leaves at least two sisters, one of whom, Tirzah Firestone, is a rabbi in Boulder, Colorado.

Published in 1970, her “The Dialectic of Sex” was a key feminist work that presaged today’s issues surrounding birth and science. The book influenced her feminist contemporaries as well as those who followed behind her.

“No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory, second-wave landmark,” said Naomi Wolf.

According to Amazon.com, “The book synthesizes the work of Freud, Marx, de Beauvoir and Engels to create a cogent argument for feminist revolution. Identifying women as a caste, she declares that they must seize the means of reproduction — for as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as inferior.”

According to Wikipedia, “She advocated the use of cybernetics to carry out human reproduction in laboratories as well as the proliferation of contraception, abortion and state support for child-rearing; enabling [women] to escape their biologically determined positions in society. Firestone described pregnancy as ‘barbaric’… . Among the reproductive technologies she predicted were sex selection and in vitro fertilization.”

Firestone wrote in “The Dialectic of Sex”: “…[J]ust as to assure elimination of economic classes requires the revolt of the underclass (the proletariat) and, in a temporary dictatorship, their seizure of the means of production, so…the elimination of sexual classes requires the revolt of the underclass (women) and the seizure of control of reproduction… . The reproduction of the species by one sex for the benefit of both would be replaced by (at least the option of) artificial reproduction: … [T]he dependence of the child on the mother (and vice versa) would give way to a greatly shortened dependence on a small group of others in general… . The division of labour would be ended by the elimination of labour altogether (through cybernetics). The tyranny of the biological family would be broken.”

One of her few friends in her later years was Lourdes Lopez, who met her about 10 years ago through a mutual friend. Lopez, a Lower East Side native, is a human resources administrator at Columbia. She said she enjoyed going to movies and museums with Firestone.

“She was very down to earth,” she said, noting that Firestone painted people who were close to her.

“She was isolated at the end and had changed her locks,” Lopez said. “We tried to get Mobile Crisis in there. She pretty much, because of her illness, cut off people. I was really pretty much the only person she trusted at the end as her illness took over. Between hospital stays, we would hang out for a few months until she went off her medication,” and then the process would repeat, Lopez said.

She said Firestone was paranoid-schizophrenic, as far as she knew, and had been hospitalized many times over the years.

Nevertheless, “She did write two other books and continued to paint,” she said.

Lopez is openly lesbian. As for Firestone, she said, “Honestly, she was never really tied to anyone,” and never spoke of her own sexual orientation.

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Blamer in Chief Obama

Obama Email to Supporters: If I Lose, It’s Your Fault
by Ben Shapiro 26 Aug 2012

Today, President Obama sent out a campaign email essentially blaming his supporters if he loses. See, he’s supposedly being outspent. And because he’s supposedly being outspent, he’s losing. And he can’t spend more money unless his supporters fork it over.
This is the campaign version of Obama’s entire economic argument: he can’t fix the economy unless he spends more money. And unless we give him more money, he can’t spend it. So if the economy fails, it’s our fault.
Here’s the perverse logic:
Last week, when I was in Iowa, voters told me they were feeling it. The numbers back it up: Our side is getting outspent 2-to-1 on the air there.
But the folks asking me about this don’t want an explanation — they want to know what I’m going to do about it.
And the fact is that solving this problem is up to you ….
We’re losing this air war right now.
I don’t have as much time to campaign this time as I did in 2008, so this whole thing is riding on you making it happen.

Perhaps the most laughable aspect of this latest desperate missive is Obama’s assertion that he doesn’t have “as much time to campaign this time as I did in 2008.” He’s done nothing but campaign since the beginning of the year. From January to mid-June, Obama held more than 160 fundraisers. During that same period in 2004, President George W. Bush had held just 79 fundraisers.
Here’s the sad fact for Obama: nobody’s enamored with him anymore. His spendthrift ways haven’t just bankrupted the country – they’ve bankrupted his campaign. And he still blames everyone else.
h/t wbboei

Methinks that unless Obama’s tenure in the WH was a mega FAIL, he could just run on his record. /snark
I’m sure he would spend millions to seal his record as President if he could, but he can’t so he’s all wee wee’d up and blaming everyone else.

It burns my oatmeal every time I hear a Democrat proclaim their pro-women creds. We remember all too vividly their attacks on women in general and two women in particular: Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.
And we will never forget. I sincerely believe the primary reason fauxgressive boiz support women’s reproductive rights, specifically abortion, is because they would be involved and held responsible for their unplanned progeny. The secondary reason is to win support for Teh Once. If they actually supported women they would be campaigning for the ERA; equal pay for women, equal access to all levels of power and governance, etc.

Cinie had the best list, including links, that I’ve read listing the vile attacks on women by Democrats in 2008. I’m unable to provide Cinie’s list because my computer bit the dust and I haven’t been able to replace it yet. But I will provide the following:
wbboei (again), recently listed some of the things Matthews spewed about Hillary:

“… what this same Obama surrogate said about Hillary in the 2008 campaign:

“I hate her. I hate her. All that she stands for.“ “She Devil“ • “Nurse Ratched•“ “Madame Defarge•“ “Witchy•“ “Anti-male•“ “[U]ppity•“ “She’s going to tell us what to •do.“ “Her scolding manner in terms of her public speaking•“ “[L]et’s talk about the troops …Will they take the orders?•“ [D]oesn’t she know she looks like a fraud?•“ Look at those eyes. Look at the cold eyes that she’s giving him. Look at that cold look.“ • [L]ike a strip-teaser saying she’s flattered by the all the attention On Sen. Clinton’s endorsers: “•“castratos in the eunuch chorus•“ “Let me tell you how short Hillary’s leash is. “•“ Is she a convincing mom? On Sen. Clinton’s laugh: “•“ What do you make of the cackle?•“ [S]he’s clapping, like she’s Chinese. I know the Chinese clap at each other, but what is she clapping at? I mean, it’s like one of these wind-up things. “•“ [S]he was giving a campaign barn-burner speech, which is harder to give for a woman; it can grate on some men when they listen to it — fingernails on a blackboard, perhaps.•“ “Is there, out there in the country or out in the Atlantic Ocean, some gigantic monster — big, green, horny-headed, all kinds of horns coming out, big, aggressive monster of anti-Hillaryism that hasn’t shown itself: it’s based upon gender …•“ “[B]eing surrounded by women, does that make a case for commander in chief — or does it make a case against it?•“ “Is she hemmed in by the fact that she’s a woman and can’t admit a mistake, or else the Republicans will say, ‘Oh, that’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind,’ or ‘another fickle woman’? Is her gender a problem in her ability to change her mind?•“ “[T]he reason she’s a U.S. senator, the reason she’s a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around.•“ “She may have gotten The Des Moines Register’s endorsement the other day, thanks to her husband’s lobbying with its female editors.”

… and that was just Matthews!

I am reading that sexist/misogynist Chris Tingles is still depending on accusations of “raaaaacism” to shut down any and all criticisms of his mancrush. I can’t help but wonder if Matthews and fauxgressives voted for Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, or Al Sharpton when each of them campaigned for the office of the Presidency. And why didnt they vote Green since the Green presidential nominee was black, and a woman, and her running mate was a woman of color.
After all, nothing else mattered but to elect an African American president in order to prove they/we weren’t raaaaacist. It didnt occur to them that they could “prove” they werent racist nor sexist with a single vote. Or it did occur to them but it just didnt matter.

I will point out that Jackson, Chisholm, and Sharpton are actually African-Americans, as we in the US understand and use the term, while Obama is actually Kenyan-American, absent a lineage tracing back to the 80 year period of slavery in the US.

Oh! and by the way:
Thanks to Judicial Watch, we no longer have to wonder whether or not the White House was directly and repeatedly involved in pressing the CIA and Department of Defense to give insider, classified details about the mission to kill Bin Laden

Meanwhile…some fresh air…

Dr. Jill Stein

Jill Stein for President

Dr. Jill Stein – 2012

Mia Love addresses the RNC Convention

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Interesting article on Hot Air about BO’s Campaign Finances
The FEC reports for the month of July will not be out until Aug 20th , so, who knows? But I can tell you the article incorrectly references BO’s total for the month of June as $71 million. It was actually $54.8 Million. It looks like the transfers are being double counted.

Obama for America got $45.9 million in contributions including $17.2 million transferred form the Obama Victory Fund 2012 . The Obama Victory Fund 2012 took in $36.1 million. 45.9 – 17.2 + 36.1 = 54.8

The DNC generally does not transfer to the OFA. The OVF transfers in and out of the DNC and OFA as the joint account.

Obama for America:
$45.9 Million, Line 20 Total Receipts
$17.2 Million, Line 18 Transfers from other Committees

Obama Victory Fund 2012:
$36.1 Million, Line 20 Total Receipts

Line 22 disbursements with $17.2 million to OFA
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Well, the FEC Reports are out, showing BO’s Boise lying again. Are these people pathological or are they really too stone stupid to do the math? The total Obama for America and Obama Victory Fund Receipts were $69.8 million. You have to double count the Obama Victory Fund transfer to get over $75 million as the campaign had claimed earlier this month for July.

OFA
Line 17.e Total Contributions $39,366,275.82

The $9,300,000 is from the OVF
So, to count their receipts towards the total, the transfer is discounted.

OVF
Line 11.d Total Contributions $30,418,128.28

That’s $39,366,275.82 + $30,418,128.28, not $75 million

Is it any wonder the country is in economic trouble?

The FEC has been dogging them on the overlimit funds and other irregularities and they just can’t seem to get their books balanced.

via Headclunker,
FECK Obama Team

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