Misery Index

So quick question to think about while watching the below video from 2000 first before we get to 2009.  The man in the middle, when the spread asks “Who here supports Hezbollah” does it not seem that the man in the middle raises his hands, not once, not twice, not three times, not four times, not five times, but six times to show his support for Hezbollah in this October 2000 video?  And also, what do you hear from the crowd?  Do you hear support or laughter?

The rally in 2000 was to mark the second Palestinian Intifada.  The man speaking is Islamist leader Abdurraham Alamoudi who was the founder and executive director of the American Muslim Council, who at this rally announced his support for Hezbollah.  He was convicted in 2007 as a “major player in the financial support of terrorist” and was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

And remember ladies, gentlemen and kiddies, I’m not Jewish, I’m not Muslim, and I’m not Christian.  I don’t look at a person by their sex, their race or their religion.  I look at a person by their actions.  And all I see are anti-Israeli hypocrites in these protests.  It was okay when Hamas was sending rockets across the border and killing civilians and children in Israel.  It was okay when bombs were set off near schools and school buses in Israel.  But now, the tables turned, and the bullied becomes the bully.  An eye for an eye.

Ya know, I have to take a recent quote from the mayor of Baltimore MD here about this family.  “…we have some very mentally disturbed individuals in the city.”  There’s a joke somewhere in here about a “master race” family and needing some bleach in the gene pool of this specific family, but I’m not going to go there.. oh wait… I just did.

And there is another joke, which some may think tasteless that Nazis have invaded Holland Township.  But hey, I never said I was politically correct, now did I?

Holland Township man names son after Adolf Hitler

In a living room decorated with war books, German combat knives and swastikas, a 2-year-old boy, blond and blue-eyed, played with a plastic dinner set.

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“Say Adolf,” said Campbell, a Holocaust denier who has three children named for Nazism.

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Adolf Hitler Campbell – it’s indeed the name on his birth certificate – turns 3 today, and the Campbell family believes the boy has been mistreated.  A local supermarket refused to make a birthday cake with “Adolf Hitler” on it.

The ShopRite in Greenwhich Township has also refused to make a cake bearing the name of Campbell’s daughter, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who turns 2 in February.

Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, a girl named for Schutzstaffel head Heinrich Himmler, turns 1 in April, who can be seen to the left here, held by her father.

“ShopRite can’t even make a cake for a 3-year-old,” said Deborah Campbell, 25, who is Heath’s wife of three years and the mother of the children.  “That’s sad.”

Karen Meleta, a ShopRite spokeswoman, said the grocer tries to meet customer requests but rejects those deemed inappropriate.  “We believe the request to inscribe a birthday wish to Adolf Hitler is inappropriate,” she said.

The grocer offered to make a cake with enough room for the Campbells to write their own inscription.  But the Campbells refused, saying they would have a cake made at the Wal-Mart in Lower Nazareth Township.  The Campbells say Wal-Mart made cakes for Adolf’s first two birthdays.

A spokeswoman for Wal-Mart said the store won’t put anything illegal or profane on a cake but thinks it’s important to respect the views of customers and employees.

“Our No.1 priority in decorating cakes is to serve the customer to the best of our ability,” Anna Taylor, the spokeswoman, said from Bentonville, Ark.

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 The Campbells have swastikas in each room of their home, the rented half of a one-story duplex just outside Milford, a borough in Hunterdon County.  They say they aren’t racists but believe races shouldn’t mix.

The Campbells said they wanted their children to have unique names and didn’t expect the names to cause problems.  Despite the cake refusal, the Campbells said they don’t expect the names to cause problems later, such as when the children start school.

“I just figured that they’re just names,” Deborah Campbell said.  “They’re just kids.  They’re not going to hurt anybody.”

Heath Campbell said some people like the names but others are shocked to hear them.  “They say, ‘He [Hitler] killed all those people.’  I say, ‘You’re living in the wrong decade.  That Hitler’s gone,’” he said.

“They’re just names, you know,” he said.  “Yeah, they [Nazis] were bad people back then.  But my kids are little.  They’re not going to grow up like that.”

“Other kids get their cake.  I get a hard time,” he said.  “It’s not fair to my children.”

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The Campbell home is kept neat aside from scattered toys and other evidence three small children live there.  It’s small, but it’s what the Campbells can afford.

Disabilities, the couple says, have left both out of work:  Heath Campbell can’t landscape or pump gas because he has emphysema, and Deborah can’t waitress because she has a bad back.  They live on Social Security payments.

In the foyer, Heath Campbell, who said he has German ancestry and a relative who fought for the SS, took off boots he said were worn by a Nazi soldier named Daniel.

He laid them next to a skull with a swastika on its forehead, the first of dozens of swastikas seen by the Campbells’ rare guests.

There are swastikas on walls, on jackets, on the freezer and on a pillow.  The family car had swastikas, Heath Campbell said, until New Jersey’s Department of Children and Families told him they could endanger the children.

The swastikas, Heath Campbell said, are symbols of peace and balance.  He considers them art.

“It doesn’t mean hatred to me,” he said.  Deborah Campbell said a swastika “doesn’t really have a meaning.  It’s just a symbol.”

Umm yea…  two parents in their 20s, living on social security with three children is the master race who says that the names are just names and mean nothing, and live in a house of swastikas while their social security and food stamps pay for a cake. 

If the names are “meaningless” and the swastikas have no significance, they why are they associated together for Nazism?  Obviously, Children’s Services have already been involved since the family was told the swastikas on the cars could endanger the children.  And these “people” seem to think that the names they gave their children won’t endanger the kids?  That kids are harmless?  Where the hell have these people been?  One day their eldest child will come home, in tears saying “Why do all the kids make fun of me daddy?  Why do they hate me?”  These idiot “parents” have chosen to make these kids lives a living hell by their “free right” and self political expression.  If you have a political message to send, don’t use your children.

So let’s recap, shall we?  Twenty-something parents, who live on disability, which would have been a death sentence under Hitler, and use said disability money to purchase swastikas and Nazi memorabilia to fill their home, name their kids after Nazis.  Remember “arbeit macht frei” or “work brings freedom” not “beihilfe macht frei” or “subsidy brings freedom”.  So a local supermarket refuses to make a “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler” cake, but Wal-mart is just fine with it.  And the parents are considering suing……  Clearly a perfect example of the “master race”…..  Only in America.

ADDITIONAL SOURCES:

• “Holland Township family angry that supermarket won’t personalize cake for their son”, Express-Times, 14DEC08
• “Gallery:  Adolf Hitler Campbell”, Express Times, 14DEC08

Horowitz published an article today titled “Obama Derangement Syndrome” with a by-line of “Shut up about the birth certificate.”  [Also found on his blog.]

“What difference does it make to the future of this country whether Obama was born on U.S. soil?  Advocates of this destructive campaign will argue that the constitutional principle regarding the qualifications for president trumps all others.  But how viable will out Constitution be if five Supreme Court justices should decide to void 64 million ballots?”

Well Mr. Horowitz, this is what I have to say to you.  First on the point of the Supreme Court.  It would not be the Supreme Court that would void 64 million ballots, it would be the fact that Obama can or can not prove via a “Certificate of Live Birth” vs a “Certification of Live Birth”, which are two totally different documents in Hawaii that he is a natural born citizen of the United States.  Yes, yes, go ahead and quote “Fact Check”, but also remember that previously “Fact Check” had posted that Obama was a British Citizen…..  I’ll be more than happy to pull up a cap of the page when it stated that. 

Secondly, as to constitutional principle, lets take a look at the First Amendment, which allows you the right to freedom of speech and freedom of press to show your stupidity and Socialism.  If you don’t want to follow the Constitution regarding the next President of the United States, this also include abolishing the First Amendment soooo… say bye, bye to that right.  In other words….

SHUT UP ABOUT THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE HOROWITZ. And if you want to pick and choose which Constitutional rights and laws you want to follow, why don’t you EXERCISE YOUR FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT?

Its not sore “loserism”, because I neither voted Republican nor Democrat.  In fact, I hated them both equally.  And it’s not “radical” to want to follow the Constitution of the United States.  Anyone who does not support the Constitution is un-American, is that what you are trying to say about yourself?

Since when is protecting the Constitution radical, unless your a Socialist.  Oh wait.. you were once a supporter of Marxism as well as a member of the New Left in the 1960s, and are the son of two life-long members of the Communist Party.. what was I thinking….

Oh and yes, you once stated in an interview that, “I grew up in a community that was part of a vast international conspiracy, just as the anti-Communists said it was.  It was orchestrated from Moscow, funded by the Kremlin and it had treason in its heart.”  --- Ummm.. okay.. who’s wearing a tin foil hat now?

And let’s not forget about your friend Huey P. Newton of the Blank Panthers to whom you provided legal and financial assistance to.

The fact is that according to you, the birth certificate is a factual question, not a constitutional question.  Well, sweetie, lemme inform you of something.  If the birth certificate is void, null, bogus (choose your word here), and Obama can not produce a valid, certified (choose your word here) birth certificate, then it does become a Constitutional issue.

And the last time I checked, the Supreme Court, by history, has interpreted the Constitution of the United States, and interpreted Federal laws, as does ANY judge in the United States and jury in the United States.  Interpret the law as you understand it, and then judge on your interpretation and understanding of that law.

It would not undermine the unity of the country, it would show serious lapses in how one can legally become President of the United States.  There are NO checks and balances for this process.

Your claim to be a conservative, yet you do not wish to uphold the Constitution is an embarrassment to all conservatives.

Here’s the bottom line:

■  The point about Obama and his birth certificate is the fact that he has spent nearly $800,000 or $80,000 (I’ve seen both) on lawyers to NOT show the document.

■  Obama claims, in one of his books, Dreams I believe, that he found his original birth certificate in a book that belonged to his mother after her death.  It to stand to reason that he would still be in possession of it, since he was considering running for office when she died. 

■  The fact that his Grandmother in Kenya stated she was present at his birth in Kenya.

■  The facts that his sister stated he was born at two different hospitals in Hawaii.

■  The fact that you don’t have to be born in Hawaii, or even the US to have a “Certification of Live Birth” from Hawaii, but you DO have to be born in Hawaii to have a “Certificate of Live Birth”.  The two documents are totally different.

■  The fact that the man simply won’t show the document is the bottom line.  What is the problem with showing the document if you have nothing to hide?  Why fight showing it to end the debate and earn trust in those who don’t believe him?  What is there too loose, other than being shown as a fraud and loosing the eligibility as the next President of the United States?  Oh wait…..

■  It is not those who want to see the birth certificate that are keeping this alive.  It is Obama himself by not doing a simple task that everyone else in the United States has to do to prove citizenship.

And oh yea, I’ve been compared to Michael Savage (although I originally had no idea who the guy was, and as of this moment, I’ve never listened to him) and told I make Rush Limbaugh look like a Democrat (whom I hated very much in the early 90s and haven’t listened to him since).  And no, I have no problem with unseating ANY PERSON, who has used bogus documents, no matter what position they held, to fraudulently obtain a position.  If that is radical and un-American, I guess it’s time for me to find a new country to live in.

Oh an you know I had to post the cartoon on the right, since Horowitz just LOVES it.  And it’s also protected by the First Amendment.

Every year it seems that  people seem to forget that they are humans and turn into something else.  And it seems that just about every year, someone gets killed at a store during opening.

This year was no different.  I think I read that 21 people died on Black Friday due to shopping frenzy.  And one store always stands out in the crowd for injury and/or death on Black Fridays.  That would be WalMart.   (And yes, I am fully expecting a letter from their lawyers on this post.)

In Long Island, a Walmart worker was trampled to death upon opening the store’s doors.  Currently, police were reviewing video from  surveillance cameras to identify who trampled to death the Walmart worker.  Detective Fleming, a Nassau Co police spokesman said criminal charges were possible.

“Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.

At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation and minor injuries. […]

Police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the Wal-Mart doors before its 5 a.m. opening at a mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan. […]

“This crowd was out of control,” Fleming said.  He described the scene as “utter chaos,” and said the store didn’t have enough security.

Is it just me, or should not Walmart also be held accountable for injury and/or death on Black Friday due to the way they handle their sales?

It would seem to me that Walmart, as large of a store as they are, would be able to come up with a way to manage this madness.  Target doesn’t seem to have this problem.  KMart doesn’t seem to have this problem.  Best Buy doesn’t seem to have this problem.  So why does Walmart?  With scenes as depicted below in various Walmarts around the nation, if I were injured on a Black Friday at Walmart, I would sue.  It is the retailers responsibility to not create an environment that creates a mob and environment that is hazardous to its shoppers well being and health.  Would not one think that Walmart not only has a legal responsibility to its customers and employees to create a safe shopping and working environment, but that they would also have a ethical responsibility to the same.  Obviously they don’t, since the below scenes unfold every year at Walmarts around the nation.

And due to this fact, it seems that Walmart encourages and incites a riot mob type environment every year on Black Friday, by not adopting store opening procedures that ensure the safety of customers and employees. 

But just to show that the Long Island death was no localized incident of stupidity on behalf of not only consumers, but also Walmart, with the admission of Nassau Co police saying “the store didn’t have enough security”,  I took a quick cruise around YouTube for Black Friday stupidity at Walmart just to show that it is not a localized and unique incident.

Have a look at just this year alone in 11 Walmart videos from Black Friday, 2008.

Diatha Harris remains on the job teaching in Cumberland County Schools in North Carolina while a second teacher in the same school district has been accused of preaching their political beliefs to school children.

If you remember Diatha Harris is the teacher in the Cumberland County Schools in North Carolina who belittled and embarrassed a student on camera about her being a supporter of Obama.  The portion of the video, which was filmed by a Swedish film company ended up on YouTube.

In the video, as an example of Harris victimizing a McCain student, the teacher tells the young girl that the person she is picking for president has said that US troops will be staying in Iraq, a "senseless war", for another hundred years if need be.  She then tells the student "So that means your daddy is going to be in the military for another hundred years."  In the video the student can be seen biting her lip and nearly in tears.

Superintendent William Harrison of the Cumberland County Schools stated that he was “shocked when I saw the clip of an interaction between a Cumberland County Schools teacher and her students as posted on YouTube.”  In an interview with WTVD, Harrison stated, “I was particularly uncomfortable with the level of uneasiness felt by our students depicted in this video.”

Karel was fired yesterday afternoon, a week after he stated on-air he wanted "Joe the Plumber MFking dead."  However, Karel is trying to portray himself as a victim.

In his defense, Karel says that he was told by the engineer, who left the studio to use the bathroom, that his microphone was off.  The engineer was also told, he says, to make sure it is off during breaks because Karel talks to his chat room during the breaks, saying things not appropriate for air.

"Weekends are cheap and they were using a cheap engineer for my show," he said.  "My show shouldn't have had an inexperienced engineer for my show, which is done remotely, and in which the host doesn't have an on/off switch on his mic.  They put an inexperienced driver in the seat and the show crashed."

Obviously Karel is an inexperienced and unprofessional radio show host, as the number one rule of broadcasting is to assume the mic/camera is always "hot" or "on" while in the studio.  And obviously if you think the engineer was inexperienced, and there are more experienced engineers at the studio and you didn't have one, that should tell you a lot about your show and it's importance to the station.

And BTW, this is the same guy who wrote an editorial on the Huffington Post titled "I'm Afraid..." regarding death threats stating "Yes, I'm afraid that John McCain and Sarah Palin through their hateful, spiteful and untrue rhetoric are, no matter how inadvertent, trying to get Barack Obama out of the race, literally, as in, taken out.  [...]  What you are doing is criminal and wrong and very, very dangerous."

Here's audio of the show:

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• Karel, Obama Supporter Calls for Joe the Plumber's Death On Radio, But Blogs That The McCain Campaign Is Trying To Get Obama Out"... literally, as in, taken out." [Define Psychotic Irony]

Everyone seems to be wondering about Obama's departed grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who died two days before the Nov. 4th presidential election, and why Obama's hasn't gone back to Hawaii for the ceremony, especially Debbie Schlussel who states "It's now been over nine full days since Madelyn Payne Dunham - Barack Obama's thrown-under-the-bus "typical White" grandmother who raised him -- died. Yet, still no funeral.  That's a pretty odd -- not to mention, disrespectful -- way to treat a grandmother you claim you love and who raised you... Regardless of whether you told the worlds she was a "typical White" racist. [...]  That's a pretty long time to keep a body on ice -- especially the body of someone you claim to have loved, someone who raised you.  But, then again, it's not like he didn't commit other offenses against her, like throwing her under the bus and calling her a racist. [...]  Hail to the Chief, Saint Obamessiah.  This guy is cold."

Now while I may not like Obama's style or his agenda, I find Schlussel's statements insulting and showing of her intelligence and mentality, especially since it seems that she didn't take the time to run her little fingers across a keyboard to do a bit of research, and find some answers why, but instead choose to run her little fingers over her keyboard to show her lack of intelligence.  So lets go on with the show.....

Here's an update on Diatha Harris, the teacher from North Carolina who belittled a young  girl who is a McCain supporter.  Diatha Harris of Fayetteville teaches fifth grade at Mary McArthur A+ Elementary School in Cumberland County near Fort Bragg, an Army base.  The teacher, states that the video is edited to show her as a person she is not, stating now that she has received "nasty" phone calls to her home, and implies that she is the victim in all of this.  And testifies to her personality with "I give them whatever I have, 100% every day", while in tears.

EDIT:  This post was edited to correctly spell Harris’ first name.  The Swedish film company misspelled her name as Diantha.  The correct spelling is Diatha.

Am update on Diatha Harris, the teacher in North Carolina who belittles and embarrasses a white fifth grade girl who's father is in the military, when the girl states she supports McCain.  Harris stated to the little girl that "...the person you are picking for president said that our troops will stay in Iraq for another hundred years if they need to.  So that means your daddy is going to be in the military for another hundred years."

The superintendent of the school where Diatha Harris works, has made an official announcement regarding Harris' actions on the CCS Web site.

Teaching is a tremendous responsibility.  How a child is treated in school forms much of their personality for the rest of their lives.  Unfortunately a teacher in North Carolina showed the children in her class that it's acceptable to abuse someone over their beliefs.

Diantha Harris of Fayetteville teaches fifth grade  at Mary McArthur A+ Elementary School in Cumberland County near Fort Bragg, an Army base.  Many of the students that go to the school have parents in the military. 

A Swedish-language Finnish documentary included a visit to Harris' classroom.  In the video, Harris takes it upon her self to victimize, belittle, and embarrass a white female student who states that she and her parents support McCain, while black children are praised when they say they support Obama.  If nothing else that has happened thanks to Obama has outraged you, this should.