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Congress’ Travel On Taxpayer’s Dime Rises Tenfold

by WrathofG-d ( 13 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Politics, Republican Party, World at July 2nd, 2009 - 1:15 pm

While our Congress lectures us about how often we can use our thermostats, what cars we can drive, how we need to tighten our belts for the sake of the Country, how we are in a horrible recession and financial constraints, and regulating the salaries of Corporations,  they are gallivanting around the world with their families and friends on our dime.

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http://www.drudgereport.com/pss.jpgWASHINGTON — Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.

The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.

The cost of so-called congressional delegations, known among lawmakers as “codels,” has risen nearly 70% since 2005, when an influence-peddling scandal led to a ban on travel funded by lobbyists, according to the data.

In mid-June, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii) led a group of a half-dozen senators and their spouses on a four-day trip to France for the biennial Paris Air Show. An itinerary for the event shows that lawmakers flew on the Air Force’s version of the Boeing 737, which costs $5,700 an hour to operate. They stayed at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand Hotel, which advertises rooms from $460 a night.

The lawmakers were invited to a dinner party at the U.S. Embassy and had cocktails at a private party at the Eiffel Tower. Mr. Inouye attended a dinner sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association, a U.S. trade group. Another senator on the trip, Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, took a cruise on the River Seine with defense-industry executives and elected officials from Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.

In February, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a delegation of Democratic lawmakers to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan for a day. Before landing in Kabul, the eight lawmakers and their entourage of spouses and aides spent eight days in Italy, spending $57,697 on hotels and meals.

Documents obtained by the Journal show that the cost of flying a small group of lawmakers to the Middle East is about $150,000. Larger trips on the Air Force’s version of the Boeing 757 cost about $12,000 an hour. Two federal agencies pay for most of the travel — the Defense Department and the State Department.

{It only gets worse: – The Rest of The Article}

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DON’T JUST SIT THERE…..DO SOMETHING!

This has got to stop immediately! Help this Thread go viral by forwarding it to everyone you can think of, and contact Congress.

“Moderate” P.A.: Death Penalty For Those Who Sell Land To Jews

by WrathofG-d ( 12 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Barack Obama, Gaza, Hamas, Islamic hypocrisy, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Israel, Judaism, Media, Middle East, Palestinians, Religion, United Nations, World at April 2nd, 2009 - 3:41 pm

Once again, the “moderate” P.A. issues another death threat to their people against selling land to Jews.  This isn’t the first time either, this is a long standing P.A. policy.  Notice that this Fatwa and law is against all Jews; not “Zionists”, or “Israelis”, or IDF, blah,blah, blah….nope…..it is against ALL Jews!  Where are the condemnations for such blatant Anti-semitism, and actions against harmony from the usual “peace” groups, and “civil-Rights” Organizations on this?

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/static/blogs/20080323104334.jpgThe Palestinian Authority has issued yet another warning to Palestinians against selling their homes or properties to Jews, saying those who violate the order would be accused of “high treason” – a charge that carries the death penalty.

The latest warning was issued on Wednesday by the Chief [Islamic] Judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, who reminded the Palestinians of an existing fatwa [religious decree] than bans them from selling property to Jews.

Sheikh Tamimi’s warning came in response to reports that Jewish businessmen from the US had purchased 20 dunams of land from Palestinians on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

Warning the Palestinians against engaging in “suspicious real estate deeds,” the religious leader said that according to Islamic teachings it was a “grave sin” to sell houses and lands to Jews.

He said that the ban also applies to real estate agents or middlemen who are involved in such transactions.

He warned that anyone who ignores the warning would be punished in accordance with Islamic teachings and would also be ostracized by his community and family.

Sheikh Tamimi also issued a ban on renting out property to Jewish individuals and organizations under the pretext that they would spread moral, political and security corruption there.

“The city of Jerusalem is the religious, political and spiritual capital of the Palestinians,” he said.  “The Jews have no rights in Jerusalem. This is an occupied city like the rest of the territories that were occupied in 1967.”

Scores of Palestinians have been murdered over the past three decades for allegedly selling their property to Jews or for acting as intermediaries in real estate deeds involving Jews.

Several fatwas issued by PA Islamic clerics have ruled that any Palestinian who sells his property to Jews would face the death sentence.

Fatah legislator Hatem Abdel Kader, who also serves as PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayad’s adviser on Jerusalem affairs, told The Jerusalem Post that the new-old ban was needed to thwart attempts by the new right-wing government in Israel to take control over more lands in the Arab neighborhoods of the city.

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I ask you then….who exactly in this Conflict are the “racist”, “ultra-nationalists”?  Funny, (not!) how they don’t use those terms when describing the Phakestinians, or other Arabs, even when their behavior is worse!

Per Carl In Jerusalem:

“By the way, unfortunately, these threats are not a joke. Recall the case of Muhammed Abu al-Hawa (three links), who was murdered in April 2006 for selling land to Jews in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Tor.  And of course that explains why when they are discovered selling land to Jews, ‘Palestinians’ will inevitably deny it (in collaboration with Israeli ‘peace groups’ of course) as was the case with Shalom House in Hebron from which the Jewish residents were ultimately expelled in December 2008.

Let’s go to the videotaped evidence of that sale.”

Ahhh….the religion of peace!  These are the guys that the U.N, and Obama are forcing Israel to surrender to.

In other ROP news:

Phakestinians Teaching Their Youth “Death Is Honor For Kids

Children Memorize and Recite Antisemitic Messages on an Egyptian T.V.

Yesterday: Terror attack in Bat Ayin in Gush Etzion

Embarrassed UNRWA to Workers: “Hide Our Links To Terrorists”

LGF Blames Obama Win On Conservative Bloggers?

by WrathofG-d ( 99 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Election 2008, LGF, Politics at March 4th, 2009 - 12:54 pm

73272952Never missing an opportunity to blame all the world’s ills on Conservatives he doesn’t agree with, or those he actually has a personal grudge against, Little Green Footballs Blogger Charles Johnson stretches reality to blame Conservative Bloggers for Obama’s win.

In an opinion piece by columnist David Brooks, Brooks writes to confess that he was hoodwinked by the Obama ‘Hope & Change’ campaign into believing that Obama was a centrist.  Although Brook’s himself, in the first paragraph of the piece, states that he missed the truth about Obama because of his own personal moderate-conservatism, then Senator Obama’s stances on “investments in education, energy innovation, and health care reform that expands coverage while reducing costs”, and in the second paragraph acknowledges a change in the Obama Administration’s attitude since winning the election based on “its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once”, LGF’s Charles Johnson concludes that Brook’s hoodwinking was actually the result of Conservative Bloggers.  (but only those who didn’t stick strictly to LGF’s message, of course)

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“One unfortunate factor that exacerbated the tendency to dismiss all critics of Barack Obama as kooks: the many right wing bloggers who did act like kooks, enthusiastically and relentlessly promoting stories like the birth certificate nonsense, the “Michelle Obama ‘whitey’ tape,” the “Obama is the love child of Malcolm X” rubbish, and countless other insane and/or stupid smears. The damage they did (and are still doing, in some cases) to the center-right blogosphere was enormous; when some of the loudest voices are screaming gibberish, they drown out everyone else and tar the whole group by association.”

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Wait, so it was “right wing bloggers who did act like kooks, enthusiastically and relentlessly promoting stories like…the “Michelle Obama ‘whitey’ tape”?  Right wing bloggers?

Well that is confusing because on June 16, 2008 LGF itself lambasted the “Pro-Obama Media” for “sliming ‘Right-Wing’ Blogs” by attempting to “to divert the blame [for Bob Beckel’s “whitey tape” statement”] onto conservative bloggers.  Also, on that same day, LGF proudly criticized Beckel for having “the nerve to blame the “whitey tape” smear on right wing bloggers”, adding that “Wow. A new apex of hypocrisy has now been achieved.” (see Update 1)   That wasn’t all however.  On June 17, 2008, LGF assured its readers that Bob Beckel was a “democratic operative” who was blaming “Right-wing ‘crackers’ for his own Michelle Obama smearmongering.”

I agree Mr. Johnson, maybe a new apex of hypocrisy has now been achieved.

Hypocrisy

by Kafir ( 9 Comments › )
Filed under CAIR, Free Speech at February 24th, 2009 - 12:43 pm

indonesia_loveArizona Senator Asked to Invite Muslim Reps to Balance Anti-Islam Film

CAIR-AZ urges Sen. Kyl to recognize that there are ‘Muslims in his own state’ PHOENIX, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-AZ) today called on one of that state’s senators to invite Muslim representatives to offer a balancing perspective to a screening of an anti-Islam film he is hosting in Congress.

Wouldn’t it be nice if Muslims gave everyone else the same opportunity? Hypocrisy, thy name is Islam.

On Thursday, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) will host a closed-door screening of a 15-minute film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders. Wilders was recently denied entry to Britain because of his extreme anti-Muslim views, including urging that the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, should be banned. One of the event’s co-sponsors, the Center for Security Policy headed by Frank Gaffney, is linked to an anti-Islam group that has advocated prison terms in the U.S. for “adherence to Islam.”

“It seems that Senator Kyl is oblivious to the fact that there are Muslims in his own state who will take offense at this cheap anti-Islam publicity stunt designed to promote a person who is under indictment for inciting religious hatred,” said CAIR-AZ Executive Director Ahmad Daniels. “Geert Wilders is just one of many self-promoting Islamophobes traveling the world in search of attention for their hate-filled views. We ask that Americans of all faiths ignore Mr. Wilders, thereby depriving him of the attention he so desperately seeks. Wilders has the right to spew his hate, but he does not have the right to a taxpayer-funded platform in the United States Congress.”

Daniels urged Sen. Kyl to join the ongoing efforts to end partisan politics in Congress and to reach out to the Islamic world by inviting speakers with a differing viewpoint to that of Wilders.

He added that, following a request by CAIR’s Los Angeles chapter, a California synagogue that screened a film claiming “confrontation between Islam and the Jews” agreed to invite a Muslim representative who could offer a balancing perspective of interfaith understanding.

We already have prison sentences for people who “adhere to Islam”. (certain tenets Lex, don’t have a cow – like the making war until the religion is only for allah part). Murder and hate speech to name a few are already covered. I don’t think we need any new laws. I would like to see some equal application though. Just like Geert would.

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

From Jihad Watch:

Senator John Kyl (R-AZ) is coming under pressure from stealth jihad groups and their allies and dupes for his plan to host a showing of the film Fitna in The Capitol.

Please contact Senator Kyl and declare your support for his courageous decision to show this honest and accurate but politically incorrect film. He needs expressions of support more than ever today!

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
730 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4521
Fax: (202) 224-2207
kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Thanks DJM!