“Its appropriate to fly the Hamas flag … but I don’t think it’s appropriate to fly the Israeli flag anywhere in America … that flag represents a terrorist state.”
When asked if he thought Hamas was a terrorist organization, his answer is “Absolutely not, that’s right wing spin. That’s pro-Israel spin.”
When asked if Hamas targets civilians, his answer is “No.”
How typical for San Francisco and for California. Forget the red, white and blue, green is the new color of San Francisco,and I don’t mean “green” as in environment friendly.
Discover new foods, tastes, and ideas along with opened boxes of food with $10,000 inside at Whole Foods in Tustin, CA!
A woman bought a box of crackers from a grocery store in Irvine, California. Upon “opening” the box of crackers, what was found was cracker jack and an envelope with $10,000 in it. [I wonder if there was a green “value” sign for the product?]
As the story goes, the woman called the police to report the money. Later store managers at Whole Foods in Tustin called to reported an elderly woman had come in a few days earlier, hysterical because she had mistakenly returned a box of crackers with her life savings inside. In a “mix-up the store restocked the box rather than composting it.”
The woman returned the box to the store, and never heard from the elderly woman, not even an offering of a reward. This however, is not the point of my post.
So, the moral of the story is that a box of what was suppose to be crackers, was opened, emptied, and refilled with cracker jack and an envelope, mistakenly returned to the store, and placed back on the shelf, to which, someone else purchased said box, thinking it was an unopened box of crackers.
How can a grocery store “mix up” an unopened box of crackers with an opened box of crackers filled with cracker jack? If I were a resident of Tustin, I’d be very leery of purchasing ANYTHING from Whole Foods Market at 2847 Park Avenue.
First no more Christmas, its Happy Holidays. Now taking out Native Americans in Thanksgiving. What’s next? Calling Thanksgiving “Food Day” or “National Harvest Day”? Or maybe just rename all holidays to “Holiday 1”, “Holiday 2”, “Holiday 3”….
Setting: Claremont, CA. A college town in eastern LA County. Known as the “City of Trees” and “PhDs”.
Claremont kindergartners have celebrated Thanksgiving day by dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans while sharing a feast for 40 years, until this year. Children from Mountain View would have dressed as Native Americans and walked to Condit, whose students would have dressed as Pilgrims.
Parents in this town seem to think that having their child dress as a Native American at the first Thanksgiving is offensive. Michelle Raheja, whose mother is a Seneca, wrote a letter to the school district upon hearing of the 40-year tradition.
“It’s demeaning,” Michelle Raheja, the mother of a kindergartner at Condit Elementary School, wrote to her daughter’s teacher. “I’m sure you can appreciate the inappropriateness of asking children to dress up like slaves (and kind slave masters), or Jews (and friendly Nazis), or members of any other racial minority group who has struggled in our nation’s history.”
Raheja, an English professor at UC Riverside who specializes in Native American literature, said she met with teachers and administrators in hopes that the district could hold a public forum to discuss alternatives that celebrate thankfulness without “dehumanizing” her daughter’s ancestry.
“There is nothing to be served by dressing up as a racist stereotype,” she said.
Another parent feels completely different.
“She’s not going to tell us what we can and cannot wear,” said Dena Murphy, whose 5-year-old son attends Mountain View. “We’re tired of [district officials] cowing down to people. It’s just not right.”
Ya know, I had to check something about Indians and vests, head dresses and bonnets and stereotypes. Because my memories are that they did wear such clothing…
And one thought to ponder. The very first Thanksgiving was a celebration of “plenty” and “thanks” to the Native Americans from the Pilgrims. The Native Americans had taught the Pilgrims about planting and growing crops here in America as the Pilgrims were from England, and had never seen such food as corn before. It is a symbol of thanks to the Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims survive.
Yes, over time, the Native Americans were treated very unfairly, their lands stolen, their people killed, starved and used as slaves however, that was at a much later date, not at the first Thanksgiving. And I am not trying to minimize the brutality of which was used against the Native Americans.
The first Thanksgiving was a symbol of peace and friendship between the two groups. Two groups from different continents, different social structures, different beliefs, different ethnic groups, who sat down together for three days in celebration.
Why is it so wrong to celebrate peace between two different ethnic cultures? How is it disrespectful? Why do some people see this action as disrespectful? A symbol of peace is something that we all should wish for between all ethnic groups. But with attitudes like this, who wish to bring up digressions of the past (and some who forget that innocent whites were also killed by Native Americans) and never let them go. We can not change the past. We can not change who we are. But we can change our attitudes to shape the future.
And the other thing for Ms. Raheja to remember is that the Pilgrims were the minority at the time, not the Native Americans. It is an attitude like hers that perpetuates hate, continued racism, and causes endless wars.
And ya know, I’d say just let the kids dress up as cranberries and yams, but the people at “Vegetable Cruelty” would probably raise a fuss. Of course, you could let the kids dress up as turkeys and oysters, but then PETA would have a field day…..
EDIT:
According to Wednesday and Pugsly Adams, there’s a way to handle administrators and teachers who push their personal Thanksgiving agendas. Borrowed via Fark.
Chris Croker is back again… NOTE: People who are easily offended should not take a “gander” at this post.
If you don’t know who Chris Crocker is well.. first your not missing much. But he’s a big fan of Britney Spears. Shortly after Spear’s did her infamous “comeback” if you will, on MTV, which was noted to have been absolutely horrible, which it was, he made a rather dramatic little video titled “Leave Britney Alone” to defend her against all the negative comments and publicity against her And he tearfully expressed fears about his fellow southerner, Britney ending up like Anna Nicole Smith.
In case you missed it….. here’s the drama queen in all “his” glory a year ago, when he was living in Tennessee.
While in TN, the kid shot quite a few self-directed “monologues about his life” shot from his Pentecostal grandparent’s home. He’s been pretty openly "gay” since he was very young, bringing Barbie dolls to kindergarten for show and tell, which because of “death threats, bullying and glares at his clothes and makeup” made him become a homeschooled boy. According to Crocker, when his grandmother found out he was gay, she initially “said that [he] needed an exorcism”.
[BTW, if you are sensitive, and have gotten this far, you really don’t want to go any further….. and it’s not because of me.]
Now, according to his private MySpace profile, he lives in LA. And he’s speaking out about Prop. 8 in California in a video titled “MORMONS, I WILL get MARRIED!” addressed to “all these Christians, and all these mormons and all these people who voted yes on Prop. 8”. And he… she… umm… well.. lemme put it to you this way. He’s letting us know that those who voted yes on Prop.8 forgot about the transgendered people. That he’s going to get married and we can’t stop him, no matter what. And just to prove a point, he’s going to cut a certain body part off, seduce a man, walk down the aisle, and when the preacher starts talking about a man and a woman, he’s going to tell the preacher “I was born a man bitch, now get back to readin’ that Bible, old preacher.”
Needless to say… he’s become quite the drama queen. And fair warning. If you are easily offended to strong language, don’t watch it. Rant after the video.
Ya know, I don’t care what people do when it comes to their sexual lifestyle. I really don’t care, as long as it’s legal and consensual. That’s between two sane adults. And that’s their business and no one else’s however……. this Prop 8 “thang” has just gone way too far.
No one is stopping anyone from getting married, just don’t expect it to be recognized by a court. No one is stopping anyone from loving anyone. To me, a marriage license, well, it’s just a piece of paper that says your legally married. Just because I don’t have one, doesn’t stop me from caring about someone. It doesn’t stop that other person from caring about me. And as for legal issues. There’s that little thing called “beneficiary” if all you worry about is money.
And yes, I am in a traditional relationship, and if you will “straight” as an arrow. But what people do with their relationship is their business and no one else’s. The problem arises when people who act like the stereotype (ahem…. CC) who want to push their lifestyle on everyone else while they can’t accept traditional lifestyles pushed on them. And its people like this that make it difficult for others, such as the elderly woman who was attacked by gays during a demonstration.
And as for cutting body parts off? Well, that’s one’s choice. But all I have to say on the matter is CC can cut, tuck, bleach and implant all he wants, but as he says, he was “born a man, boy”…. lemme see him have a child, the one thing that a woman can do, that a man can’t. He might be able to do makeup better than the average woman. He might be able to walk in stiletto heels. But lemme see him have a child and breast feed that child. Hello! Welcome to reality! Cause “bitch please”, being a drama queen will get you nowhere.
Oh, and he needs to clean his room like a good little “girl”.
A case has been filed in California, yes another lawsuit however this one I think has the legs to go the distance, for Obama to prove that he is a natural born citizen.
The only thing I have to say about all this is that it would be just so simple for Obama to earn trust in those of us who do have doubts as to whether he is natural born, and to believe his claims that he is natural born, by simply showing a stupid piece of paper. It’s that simple. What Obama does not seem to understand, or believe is that so far there have been at least 8 lawsuits against him, wanting to prove his is natural born, with two still active at this point and now a new suit, and that until he produces the document asked of him, chances are, it’s not going to stop. Or does he wish to keep dividing the masses of us versus them? Those that follow him versus those that do not trust him. Trust is earned over time and actions, it is not automatically given. There is NO substitute for time and actions. Did many of you trust Bush when he first went into office? Did many of you automatically trust Clinton when he went into office? And for a President-Delegate to not want the trust of the United States citizens, then that alone says quite a lot about the man’s personality and mentality.
This is not so much about Obama being president, as it is that someone is possibly hiding the fact they are not natural born, and thus are not entitled to be President of the United States according to our Nation’s Constitution. Or is the Constitution, something that is suppose to be the supreme law of the land, nothing more than just a piece of paper anymore?
What is increasingly more interesting about this case, is that the major news outlets, or the MSM, have not picked up on it, yet it seems to be spreading on the “Internez”, like wildfire.
CALIFORNIA LAWSUIT
A petition has been filed in California by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation on behalf of Alan Keyes (left), the presidential candidate of the American Independent Party, along with Wiley S. Drake and Markham Robinson, both California electors on Thursday, Nov. 13. Named as defendants in the action are California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, President Delegate Barack Obama, Vice-President Delegate Joe Biden, and a list of California party electors.
The “Hawaii Revised Statute 338-178 allows registration of birth in Hawaii for a child that was born outside of Hawaii to parents who, for a year preceding the child’s birth, claimed Hawaii as their place of residence. The only way to know where Senator Obama was actually born is to view Senator Obama’s original birth certificate from 1961 that shows the name of the hospital and the name and signature of the doctor that delivered him.”
The State of Hawaii considers a “Certificate of Live Birth” a secondary source of identification for the purpose of establishing Hawaiian ancestry. This is the document that can be seen on the “Fight the Smears'” website. It is not a “Birth Certificate.” Thus, the claim alleges that the “Certificate of Live Birth” posted by the Obama campaign cannot be viewed as authoritative, the case alleges since it does not show the hospital of birth, or a doctor’s signature. [NOTE: A high resolution scan of the document can be found here and here.
The case also raises the circumstances of Obama’s time during his youth in Indonesia, where he was listed as having Indonesian citizenship. Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship, raising the possibility of Obama’s mother having given up his U.S. citizenship. Any subsequent U.S. citizenship then, the case claims, would be “naturalized",” not “natural-born.”
The petition is a request for the Superior Court of California in Sacramento County to issue a peremptory writ barring Secretary of State Debra Bowen “from both certifying to the governor the names of the California Electors, and from transmitting to each presidential Elector a Certificate of Election, until such documentary proof is produced and verified showing that Senator Obama is a ‘natural born’ citizen of the United States and does not hold citizenship of Indonesia, Kenya or Great Britain.”
The petition states that the California secretary of state should refuse to allow the state’s 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until President-elect Barack Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office, and issue a writ barring California’s electors from signing the Certificate of Vote until documentary proof is produced.
“Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void, Petitioners, as well as other Americans, will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal,” the action challenges.
Citing the constitutional requirement that a president be a “natural born” citizen, the case discusses other state and federal court cases regarding “aspects of lost or dual citizenship concerning Senator Obama. Those challenges, in and of themselves, demonstrate Petitioners’ argument that reasonable doubt exists as to the eligibility of the Democratic Party’s nominee for President,” the case said.
“There is a reasonable and common expectation by the voters that to qualify for the ballot, the individuals running for office must meet minimum qualifications as outlined in the federal and state Constitutions and statutes, and that compliance with those minimum qualifications has been confirmed by the officials overseeing the election process.”
“Since [the Secretary of State, SOS] has, as its core, the mission of certifying and establishing the validity of the election process, this writ seeks a Court Order barring SOS from certifying the California Electors until documentary proof that Senator Obama is a ‘natural born’ citizen of the United State of American is received by her.”
“This proof could include items such as his original birth certificate, showing the name of the hospital and the name and the signature of the doctor, all of his passports with immigration stamps, and verification from the governments where the candidate has resided, verifying that he did not, and does not, hold citizenship of these countries, and any other documents that certify an individual’s citizenship and/or qualification for office.
“To this date, in this regard, SOS has not carried out that fundamental duty.”
In response to questions about why the suit was being filed, Keys commented:
“I and others are concerned that this issue be properly investigated and decided before Senator Obama takes office. Otherwise there will be a serious doubt as to the legitimacy of his tenure. This doubt would also affect the respect people have for the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. I hope the issue can be quickly clarified so that the new President can take office under no shadow of doubt. This will be good for him and for the nation.”
INTERESTING FIND
On the “Fight The Smears” website, that was designed to set the “record straight” about Obama. However, FactCheck.org left a note stating:
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.’s children.
Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4, 1982.”
If this is true, then Obama is not a natural-born citizen.
But yet later, FactCheck.org stated that the “certificate of live birth” to be valid. The thing to remember here is that yes, the “certificate of live birth” may be valid however, under Hawaii Revised Statute 338-178, Obama could have been born in Kenya, and been brought back to Hawaii and received this document. Additionally at that time in Hawaii, if a child was born outside a hospital, the family would have 30 days to apply for a birth certificate.
What makes this important is Obama’s grandmother in Kenya who has stated, and can be heard in the video below during a phone call from the Bishop of Anabaptists Churches of North America, Ron McRae, that Obama was born in Kenya.
Ron McRae: … I would like to see his actual birthplace when I, when I come to Kenya in December. Uh, was she present when he was, was she present when he was born in Kenya?
Translator to Sarah Obama: Alikuma zalima Obama (unintelligible)
Kewli Shuhubia: He is asking her, he wants to know something was ah she present when he was born?
Translator: Yes. She says “Yes she was! She was present when Obama was born.”
Ron McRae: Okay.
OTHER THOUGHTS
In Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope, pg. 204, Obama states he lived in Indonesia for five years.
“During the five years that we would live with my stepfather in Indonesia…….”
At that time, only Indonesian citizens were allowed to enroll in public school. If Obama’s citizenship was switched to Indonesian, and later switched back, he would then be referenced as a “naturalized” citizen, and not an “natural born” and thus, is not eligible for president.
THOUGHTS TO PONDER
I believe all the above facts themselves warrant an investigation into whether Obama is infact a natural born citizen. It’s a simple thing. Produce the original “Birth Certificate” and all is done instead of fueling the fires of doubt against him and wasting taxpayers money in courts. How can one believe in anyone, if they won’t be truthful, or attempt to gain trust? Or again, is that what he wants, to divide this nation into believers and non-believers? Just thoughts to ponder……
I am so tired of some people whining in California. And I want to address those of you in the "alternative" lifestyle that voted "No" on Prop 8. I want you to read something very very closely. CA Prop 8 was PASSED in a vote of 52.3% to 47.7%. If you missed that, let me summarize....
YOU LOST
Now get over it! The vote was put up, and Prop. 8 was passed, which means that a marriage is known only as a man and a woman. Not a man and a man. Not a woman and a woman. But no, you want it YOUR way, totally ignoring what the population wants, and how our Constitution is set up for elections.
See the little graphic to the left? The areas that are in green are those who voted that a marriage is only between a man and a woman. That means the citizens of CA voted, and determined that a marriage is NOT a man and a man, or a woman and a woman.
How many different ways can I say it before you get it through your thick skulls and let it sink into your brains? YOU LOST. But no, you want to be sore losers and whine and cry and moan and groan that you are being picked on. Umm, vote. Hello? How can it not be fair? Everyone has the freedom to vote, and obviously a larger percentage feels differently than you do. GET OVER IT.
Last time I checked, the Bible said that a man lying with another man was a sin. Last time I checked it said a marriage was between a man and a woman. The last time I checked, there was noting in our Constitution about same sex marriages as a right. So, it was up to the citizens of CA to decide and they did, and you still think your rights are being discriminated against, and want to go against our Nations' and CA's Constitution, and let a court decide, wasting more and more money on the issue.
It's been 10 days since Election Day, and you are STILL whining and acting like a crazy mob, attacking people, boycotting businesses, and acting just plain stupid. So obviously you don't believe in our Nation's Constitution, and you don't believe in the CA Constitution, and obviously think that what the majority wants isn't important, and all that matters, is what you want. Well too damn bad. Didn't your parents always tell you that life isn't fair and you don't always get what you want?
At least two Spanish-language ballots were pre-marked for Obama at a rural Oakdale precinct Tuesday morning, causing election officials to confiscate and inspect all the blank ballots.
Hector Parra, who doesn't speak English, was handed a Spanish-language ballot, which he took to the voting station. A moment later, he went to the precinct workers seeking help. Since there was no designated translator working at the time, the precinct's staff asked if anyone in the crowded room could speak Spanish.
Sylvia Moreno volunteered to translate, and she said Parra didn't understand why the ballot he was given had been marked.
"It was an ink pen," Sesser said of the mark. "It was a little shocking. You don't expect ballots to come from the elections office like that."
Lundrigan said she didn't believe the ballots could have been tampered with at the county's election office.
"They're sealed when they leave us," said Lundrigan, nothing how the ballots are printed and processed en masse. "We don't allow black pens anywhere near us. We only have red pens."
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