(Via WFB)  A judge ordered one of Chicago’s most politically powerful labor unions to suspend picketing against 16 funeral homes last week after receiving reports that striking Teamsters had, among other things, disturbed a child’s funeral.
SCI Illinois Services, Inc., one of the nation’s largest funeral home chains, asked a district court to intervene after striking funeral directors and drivers with Teamsters Local 727 allegedly harassed grieving families.
“We are grateful that the court agreed to issue this temporary restraining order, and we are hopeful that it will help protect grieving families who are experiencing the most difficult times of their lives,” Larry Michael, managing director for SCI Illinois Services, Inc., said in a release. “While we recognize and respect the Teamsters’ right to lawfully picket, we have been shocked and saddened by their attempts to make grieving families the target of the cruel and outrageous attacks.” (more…)

MOSCOW — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left transit zone of a Moscow airport and entered Russia after authorities granted him temporary asylum, his lawyer said Thursday.
Anatoly Kucherena said that Snowden’s whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons. The former NSA systems analyst was stuck at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23.
The U.S. has demanded that Russia send Snowden home to face prosecution for espionage, but President Vladimir Putin dismissed the request. (more…)

The discussions around the internet are quite extensive around the latest article from the “Snowden files” (my name). XKeyscore is the research/cyber search tool recently disclosed by The Guardian newspaper who have access to the Snowden whistleblower information.
The primary discussions around the article are framed around how the NSA can essentially, without warrant, snoop on any Facebook, email, or cyber chat room, based on a general sub-set of query data. In essence, data strip-mining.
We are still fully digesting the information and working out the “what if’s” that follow from such details being revealed. However, the immediate question pops to mind about “who” actually owns, or controls, such sleuthing cyber software. Is it only the NSA, or is it also used domestically by the FBI?
One can really, really, see how the dynamic of the entire conversation would immediately change if it were discovered the FBI also had use and access of this type of data search capability…. I wonder if anyone is looking into that?
(Here’s The Guardian Story) A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its “widest-reaching” system for developing intelligence from the internet. (more…)

Just a quick heads up.  We received a tip that Glenn Beck will be doing a segment on his GBTV show today (Thursday 5pm) about “The Real Racists”.

We know quite a few folks subscribe to the show, and we just wanted to give you advanced notice of its airing.   From what we can determine it might follow in close alignment with the information we have previously outlined.

(Via NewsBusters) It seems that when there’s a good liberal narrative to be advanced, facts and  actual history don’t matter.
That was apparently the case when Oprah Winfrey claimed that the “n-word” was  the last thing heard by “millions” who were lynched. The implication is clear —  millions of blacks have been lynched because of their race.  Worse yet, Parade Magazine let Winfrey get away with her “fact”  unchallenged.
Winfrey  made her comments in an interview discussing Lee Daniels’ “The Butler,” a movie  that chronicles one black man’s years of service in the White House. Winfrey  plays the role of Gloria Gaines, the wife of Cecil Gaines, who served from  Eisenhower through Reagan. (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 †

No, we will not be writing discussion threads around the latest George Zimmerman sighting in Missouri and North Dakota.  Think about it.
Instead focus on the bigger picture.   Yesterday President Obama met with Eric Holder and Al Sharpton in the White House.

Gee, do you wonder why?  

Do you wonder why the Urban League summit in Philadelphia was filled with talk of eliminating punishment for school behavior, or criminal behavior, or violent behavior?
Did you wonder why, last year in July/August 2012 President Obama signed an executive order to assist “Blacks Only” in getting rid of school punishments, suspensions, et al.

Do you wonder why criminal background checks for employment are now considered racist?   ….And the EEO labor department is facilitating changes to EEO regulations?
Do you wonder why Tom Perez, former DOJ-CRS, Community Relations Service, (Black rights only) head is now in the president’s cabinet as Labor Secretary?
Do you wonder why black former CRS head Ondray Harris quit working for the Administration in DC after he was told to specifically punish white people, and to only hire black people.
Do you wonder why the Obama/DOJ planted, and yes they are planted, left-wing student Marxists are making noise in Tallahassee Florida to get rid of self-defense laws like Stand Your Ground?
Do you wonder why?
Really?
(more…)

Looks like 2J’s is climbing back aboard the race-baiting express.   The comparison to former Alabama Governor, George Wallace, had to come with full DOJ/Eric Holder approval.   Vivian Malone-Jones (the young black lady who was the center of the George Wallace issue) is Eric Holder’s sister-in-law.
The entire fiasco set up in Tallahassee Florida is race-baiting ridiculous in the extreme.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday demanded an apology from longtime civil rights activist Jesse Jackson for comparing the state’s struggle with the Trayvon Martin case to the civil rights clashes with police during the 1960s in Selma, Ala.

Jackson spent the night with protesters upset that George Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Martin. They’ve refused to leave the Capitol until Scott calls a special session to have legislators overhaul the state’s self-defense laws.
Jackson called Florida the “Selma of our time” and even compared Scott to former Alabama Gov. George Wallace. While he was governor, Wallace famously stood in the door at the University of Alabama to try to block the entry of two black students. (more…)

Earlier in the week we nominated Pam Geller and BigFurHat for pass-a-long recognition.

They have both responded, and also Passed It Forward:

Here’s Pam (Click Here) and Here’s Biggie (Click Here and also Here)