1) Tell all your friends so they know Atlas is coming!
2) Send info on movie theaters that would be good candidates to show Atlas Shrugged to this email: theaters@atlas-shrugged-movie.com
(Universities, Indie Movie Houses, etc would be good candidates as well as any commercial theater owners who you think are open to it) Perfect opportuinty for a TEA PARTY movie night!!!
3) Go to the Atlas Shrugged Part 1 website and get more info on the movie, sign up for their newsletter and spread the word!!
Travelling again today through a different airport than yesterday, and
was patted down going thru the x ray machine. TSA agents were patting
down every couple of people going through. No profiling or behavior
pattern alerts. Just hoping for a stupid, random chance to catch a
jihadist. Ridiculous.
We still can’t face the reality that it’s middle eastern young men who
are the greatest risk. Not a 90 year old grandpa from Minnesota. Yes
I saw him get frisked.
Since its the end of the year, I thought I would share the quote that most inspired or impressed me:
#1) “Two More, two more!!”
What Fort Hood survivors shouted at Sgt. Kimberly Munley and Sgt. Mark Todd. Todd thought they meant two more shooters, but the soldiers wanted to make sure that Jihadist Major Hasan was DEAD. Our servicemen and women know the Jihadist danger that we are up against.
#2) “George Washington is rolling over in his grave right now!”
Katy Abram trashing Arlen Specter at a town hall meeting this summer.
#3) “As a small business owner, I could use competition (in insurance choices) …Competition Makes Me Better!”
Catherine Bragg owning California Rep Lynn Woolsey at a town hall meeting
PS: I will not bother repeating the lists of gaffes and other “stupidly” statement – no sense giving the opposition free press.
The new movie rebutting global warming hysteria and enviornmental Gestapo tactics, “not evil, just wrong” is availble for a free viewing tonite at 8pm eastern. Link info is at the bottom of this post.
You must REGISTER at the link below with only your name,email,and zip code for your ticket and you should Pre-register prior to the online airing. Once you click the link, the site will also automatically check to make sure your computer has the correct Adobe Flash Player version installed.
Now thats weird - can’t say I saw that one coming! Reported in the AFP:
The Pope yesterday condemned the “grave deviations and failures” of capitalism that have been exposed by the financial crisis, calling on the eve of a summit of rich nations for a “true world political authority” to oversee a return to ethical values.
Pope Benedict’s emphasis on the need for “forms of redistribution of wealth” is likely to stir debate at the summit, which will be attended by 39 heads of government and international institutions, over the failure of rich nations to honour their aid commitments.
Sadly, the Pontiff rails heavily against capitalism, denouncing Globalization, Outsourcing and Short term Profits as all very bad things. The reality is globalization has helped lift up poor countries by introducing trade that they did not have, and lowers consumer costs in the countries importing the goods. A Win/Win.
The Guardian has a brief summary of other topics from the Encyclical HERE
Notably, he also calls out a number of tyrannical regimes especially China in issues including Sex (no government should be forcing mandatory contraception) and Secularism (governmental promotion of atheism or repression of religion)
Initially, I was not entirely clear how a conversation between Obama and Pope Benedict XVI will go since Obama is pushing abortion, stem cell research and contraception, all of which are not pro-church topics. But the socialistic topics in the new Encyclic should provide stirring conversation between the two of them.
Obama leaves the country and Biden’s mouth is running - no idea if this is for real or just another Joe Biden “moment?”
On a deeper conspiratorial level, having Biden give the ok, leaves Obama’s hands clean, and lets Israel do the world’s dirty work, after which the Obama and the other Arab Countries will most certainly condem their unilateral action.
George Stephanopoulos, the program’s host, asked: “But just to be clear here, if the Israelis decide Iran is an existential threat, they have to take out the nuclear program, militarily the United States will not stand in the way?”
And Mr. Biden replied: “Look, we cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do when they make a determination — if they make a determination — that they’re existentially threatened and their survival is threatened by another country.”
A statement by the group, the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qum, represents a significant, if so far symbolic, setback for the government and especially the authority of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose word is supposed to be final. The government has tried to paint the opposition and its top presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, as criminals and traitors, a strategy that now becomes more difficult.
“This crack in the clerical establishment, and the fact they are siding with the people and Moussavi, in my view is the most historic crack in the 30 years of the Islamic republic,” said Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. “Remember, they are going against an election verified and sanctified by Khamenei.”
Perhaps more threatening to the supreme leader, the committee called on other clerics to join the fight against the government’s refusal to adequately reconsider the charges of voter fraud. The committee invoked powerful imagery, comparing the 20 protesters killed during demonstrations with the martyrs who died in the early days of the revolution and the war with Iraq, asking other clerics to save what it called “the dignity that was earned with the blood of tens of thousands of martyrs.”
AP News: Zelaya tries to fly home today with the UN General Assembly President, and a left wing Nicaraguan Priest.
The government of Honduras has directed the military to ensure the plane does not land.
“The government of President (Roberto) Micheletti has ordered the armed forces and the police not to allow the entrance of any plane bringing the former leader,” the foreign minister of the interim government, Enrique Ortez, told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Brave Journalists fand other Latin American Presidents followed in a second plane flown under United States colors.
Several other planes were leaving Washington separately to avoid a direct confrontation, trailing Zelaya to see what happens in the skies over Honduras before deciding where to land. They include two planeloads of journalists and a group of Latin American presidents flying with the secretary-general of the Organization of American States.