I’ve been looking for a way to aptly describe all the recent events in Egypt.   Then I saw this recent picture courtesy of Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit.   It appropriately describes what the U.S. media is desperate to avoid:

The average Egyptian is not an Islamist.   To the contrary they are moderates – having lived with ‘westernized freedom principles’ amid the presidency of Hosni Mubarak.   Sure, there were elements the average citizen did not like about Mubarak – and the absence of technological investment in their economy was a source of constant irritation.
However, they did not want to devolve into an Islamist State.   Initially the Muslim Brotherhood promised not to run for election – but they reversed their position and being the only organized political group in Egypt they quickly moved to manipulate the election and the electorate.   The outcome was President Morsi. (more…)

(Via Breitbart)  Buried within an article on Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s run for U.S. Senate, Edward-Isaac Dovere of Politico admits “the irony that in the age of Obama, Republicans have done a better job than Democrats of bringing diversity through their ranks.”
That is a reality ignored all too often by the mainstream media in its rush to declare Republicans, and especially those from the Tea Party movement, as racist, white, male, and old.


In fact, the emergence of the Tea Party helped bring black and female candidates to the forefront of the GOP, as political newcomers seized (and created) political opportunities–often in opposition to the Republican establishment. (more…)

A black lady, Mona Nelson, kidnapped a 12 year old white boy, Jonathan Foster, from his home on Christmas eve 2010.   She tied him up with twine and then burned him to death with a blowtorch.   When she was finished she took his burned lifeless body out to the woods and threw him in a ditch.    Her trial began this week.  
The national media continues ignores the story….  We share it because no-one else will.
HOUSTON (KTRK) — On Wednesday, the  mother of a little boy who was allegedly kidnapped and later turned up dead had to relive that day in court.  On Thursday, Jonathan Foster’s grandmother had to do the same.
In tears, Mary Gifford testified about Foster, her grandson, coming home to Texas after living with relatives in Mississippi and Missouri in 2010. (more…)

[…]  we all sought refuge in the Treehouse, in our darkest, most isolated hours.   Sometimes feeling guilty for doing so. Sometimes feeling shunned because we were seen as a liability, […]  for our association with the Treehouse.
But you guys were the only ones who truly cared about […]  and saw things as they were.   It was difficult not being able to tell the other Treepers, […], what was really happening.

Dear xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx, it’s not about right or wrong.
I’m not right, and you are not wrong.
You are asking for that which we cannot deliver. Because, you are asking for ‘forgiveness’….. where there is nothing to forgive.
First, forgive yourself – I think that will give you the key to what I am about to share.
Have you heard the phrase:

“to err is human, to forgive – divine” ?

Think about that, because it is correct. To trespass is human, the forgiveness for such a trespass is “divine”…. meaning from ‘That Who is divine’ – that’s not us. (more…)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Bill O’Reilly exposes that Al Sharpton for taking him out of context on his MSNBC show the other day to portray him as a brutalizer of the poor. After O’Reilly plays the clip of Sharpton blatantly lying about what he said, he then reveals kicker.

O’Reilly said that he donated $25,000 to Sharpton’s Harlem charity after Sharpton came to him and told him they were out of money and were not able to buy Christmas presents and dinners for hundreds of poor people.

O’Reilly says he never mentioned it because it wasn’t necessary. “But now it is,” he adds, “to prove exactly what kind of person Al Sharpton really is.”

Additionally the FISA court admits today it has to rely on the information presented to it when it determines legal authority. Also, the court has no mechanism to check the claims brought to it by the NSA or Justice Dept. One example is outlined in the Washington Post article.
(WASHINGTON POST)  The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. e-mails and telephone calls.
The documents, provided earlier this summer to The Washington Post by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, include a level of detail and analysis that is not routinely shared with Congress or the special court that oversees surveillance. In one of the documents, agency personnel are instructed to remove details and substitute more generic language in reports to the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. (more…)

Gloria Allred is on the case….

• Peggy Shannon, 67, [pictured above] works part-time at the Senior Citizens Service Desk in the lobby of the City Administration Building…
• Shannon claimed in a press conference Thursday that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner once grabbed her and kissed her…
• She says he also once told her he could ‘go eight hours’ in an apparent reference to sex…
• Shannon is the 16th woman to make sexual harassment claims against Filner, 70, in the last month…
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ROSE CITY, Mich. – When Rose City middle school teacher Neal Erickson pleaded guilty to molesting one of his students a while back, most observers expected an open-and-shut case with the school community rallying around the teenage victim.

And in some ways it was. Erickson was sentenced to 15-30 years in prison for carrying on a sexual relationship with a boy in his young teens between 2006 and 2009. That should have been the end of the horrific tale.
But seven teachers kept the controversy alive by rallying behind the rapist, going so far as to write letters to the sentencing judge, seeking leniency on his behalf. The letters were posted on a local blog, WBRC Teachers.
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