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		<title>The Twisted Mirror Image of California: Mayor Bloomberg’s 9/11 New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Moriarty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bloomberg terms for this year’s 9/11 Memorial are not only wrong, they are spiritually, metaphysically and, even in Karl Marx’s terms, dialectically “unbalanced”. Bloomberg is courting an even worse disaster than 9/11.
To bear false witness against God, of all defendants, to blame Him for 9/11, branding Him and his representatives as persona non grata [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Bloomberg terms for <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/26/bloomberg-stands-by-decision-to-leave-out-clergy-at-11-ceremony/">this year’s 9/11 Memorial</a> are not only wrong, they are spiritually, metaphysically and, even in Karl Marx’s terms, dialectically “unbalanced”. Bloomberg is courting an even worse disaster than 9/11.</p>
<p><strong>To bear false witness against God, of all defendants, to blame Him for 9/11, branding Him and his representatives as <em>persona non grata</em> without a full trial is literally <span style="text-decoration: underline;">demanding</span> God’s complete abandonment of New York City. </strong></p>
<p>Is preventing clergy from participating in the 9/11 Memorial excluding God Himself?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>Why?</p>
<p><strong>Try excluding a single State’s representative, Senator and/or House member, from a Congressional Ceremony Honoring Abraham Lincoln.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Try it, and may God have mercy on you.</strong></p>
<p>The Almighty, if you haven’t noticed, runs a Democracy as well or better than Washington does.</p>
<p>God has also been known to take sides in American Wars.</p>
<p>Particularly the domestic wars of her Revolution and the nightmares of 1860-65.</p>
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<p>God’s senators and diplomats, from varying points of view, from priest to rabbi to mullah, are indeed and undeniably representative of something in the human spirit if not in the Universe.</p>
<p>Bloomberg’s decision is beyond courting disaster. The Bloomberg policy, a la Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is exploiting a crisis, “not letting it go to waste”, for the savage political ends of a Progressive New World Order.</p>
<p>And, of course, “brownie points” with a radically Marxist President of the United States.</p>
<p>The Progressive New World Order being advertised by four consecutive American Presidents, from George H. W. Bush through Clinton, Bush Jr. and The Barack Hussein Obama Nation grows increasingly insensitive and insanely dismissive of more than American religious congregations.</p>
<p>They have dismissed America.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>They have considered the New World Order a <em>fait accompli</em>. A done-deal!</p>
<p>Is the 9/11 Memorial Ceremony’s protocol being set by Mayor Bloomberg or by its star guest, President Barack Obama?</p>
<p><strong>Since when should known apologists for Islam, Bloomberg and Obama, set the rules for an event that honors the victims of Radical Islam? This is well beyond salt in the wounds of survivors. It’s an impudence that not even a sane atheist could endure let alone God.</strong></p>
<p>Ever since an ostensibly “Independent”, New York City Mayor Bloomberg decided that his decisions must obey the Obama Spin Doctors, the greatest city in the world has increasingly become the world’s most self-deluded mad-house.</p>
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<p>I left New York when that city treated me and my battle with Attorney General Janet Reno as if I were the crazy one. There were not in the least interested in the unconstitutional behavior of their highest ranking law enforcement officer.</p>
<p>Now Gotham has a Mayor Bloomberg so out of touch with decent, common sense that I can justifiably diagnose New York as psychiatrically beyond “borderline”.</p>
<p>New York is literally suicidal, addicted to a drug called The Progressive New World Order.</p>
<p>The Progressive New World Order, I am certain, will never, ever become a major reality of any kind within this continent. The illusions and delusions of a New World Order may inhabit most of the five boroughs of New York and much of California. The rest of the North American continent, including Canada, however, is not only in visible disagreement but grows increasingly belligerent about North American Sovereignty.</p>
<p><strong>New York has now become the twisted mirror image of California.</strong></p>
<p><strong>If you want a glimpse of the New World Order, try California and New York.</strong></p>
<p>The economic situation of that real estate is merely openers to the bloody soap opera that will ensue. As the major watering holes for not only the Mainstream Media but American entertainment, New York and California happily re-indoctrinate each other in the worst of French <em>ego a deux</em>, or psychotic couplings such as <em>Bonnie and Clyde.</em></p>
<p><strong>The <em>Bonnie and Clyde</em> of Hollywood and New York City take their television joy rides through American living rooms 24 hours a day. Yet America said, “The thrill is gone” with the 2010 elections.</strong></p>
<p>Oh, as for the title of this piece: <strong><em>The Twisted Mirror Image of California</em></strong>?</p>
<p><strong>Rethink an image of the Twin Towers, just before they went down and the twisting bodies falling into the cement pavement. </strong></p>
<p><strong>That twisted destiny was God’s fault?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Who could possibly buy that accusation?</strong></p>
<p><strong>A New Yorker and a Californian.</strong></p>
<p><strong>May God have mercy on them both.</strong></p>
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		<title>In Which I Say Goodbye to Los Angeles and Tell Paul Haggis to Go to Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Nolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If all goes as planned, as you read this the wife and I will be loading a moving van full of everything we own in advance of a cross-country move back to our home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Eight years ago we did the reverse. Left our beloved home for what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If all goes as planned, as you read this the wife and I will be loading a moving van full of everything we own in advance of a cross-country move back to our home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Eight years ago we did the reverse. Left our beloved home for what was supposed to be a three-year adventure in Hollywood. Much happened over those years &#8212; most of it wonderful. But we&#8217;ve been terribly homesick every minute we&#8217;ve been away and simply can&#8217;t wait to pick up our small town lives where they left off.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2011/06/Crash-04.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-489464" title="Crash-04" src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2011/06/Crash-04.jpg" alt="" width="410" height="308" /></a><br />
Crying out in anguished pretension</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">To say we&#8217;ve enjoyed our time in Los Angeles would be an understatement. Adventure we sought and adventure we received. Though I eventually failed out, I loved the few years I (barely) scraped out a living in the independent film world and that it led to eventually being a part of Andrew Breitbart&#8217;s BIG empire feels something like providence. There is very little, however, my wife and I will miss about the city itself. We learned pretty quickly that all the cliches are true about the crime, traffic, smog, tremors, and artificiality of it all. Simply put, this city is a dump with a 10% sales tax where light bulbs are contraband the seasons change from hot to scalding and throwing your garbage in the wrong bin ranks as something close to a capital crime. No offense, but I see Los Angeles as nothing more than a big, fascist, one-story ghetto and those of you who love it are welcome to it.  </p>
<p>One cliche that is a total lie, though, is the unbelievably phony narrative created by the Leftist media and Hollywood about the people who live here. Throughout my misspent life, I&#8217;ve lived in Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, and now California &#8212; and I have never met nicer people than the people of Los Angeles. That&#8217;s not hyperbole or rose-colored glasses or sentiment. It&#8217;s a fact. Over the years, I&#8217;ve been all over this city and have met and worked with folks from every possible background and income group; from movie stars, producers, journalists and politicians to cops, public school teachers, and factory workers. The people who live and work and make this city run are almost without exception uncommonly decent and kind.</p>
<p>Which brings me to the Paul Haggis film &#8220;Crash.&#8221;</p>
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<p>What city does that man live in? Or does he just look down on the &#8220;little people&#8221; hustling out a living in the valley and seize every opportunity available to lord his progressive superiority over us? Because the Oscar-winning moral obscenity known as &#8220;Crash&#8221; would have you believe that the marvelous American melting pot known as Los Angeles is filled with racists and racial strife and racial tension and race, race race, race race. Well, that&#8217;s a damned lie. My hand to God, in eight years I have personally never seen, been involved in, or known anyone involved in any kind of racial incident.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2011/06/vfiles29821.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-489492" title="vfiles2982" src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2011/06/vfiles29821.jpg" alt="" width="453" height="332" /></a><br />
Monterey Park, California</p>
<p>Sure, we&#8217;ve been through droughts, fires, mud slides, and three murders on our block. Yes, my wife&#8217;s been robbed at gunpoint, we&#8217;ve been awaken by our house shaking like pre-Army Elvis, and have sweltered with no air conditioning due to hours-long power outages in 105 degree heat. But never once have we felt a moment of stress or tension with anyone over race.</p>
<p>Not ever.</p>
<p>Furthermore, I don&#8217;t live in the Hollywood Hills or Santa Monica or Beverly Hills. I live on the border of (the unfairly maligned by Hollywood) East Los Angeles in a city called <a href="http://www.google.com/search?um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;rlz=1T4GGHP_enUS433&amp;biw=1275&amp;bih=776&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;q=monterey+park+ca&amp;oq=monterey+park&amp;aq=1&amp;aqi=g10&amp;aql=undefined&amp;gs_sm=c&amp;gs_upl=5619l11266l0l13l12l0l3l3l0l236l1382l2.3.4l9">Monterey Park</a> &#8230; where I&#8217;m the minority. My neighborhood is 80% Asian and Hispanic, and I have never once been made to feel like any kind of outsider. Not to sound corny, but we&#8217;re all Americans here. This is a neighborhood where the excitement and celebration surrounding the Chinese New Year is only topped by the 4th of July.  </p>
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Boone, North Carolina</p>
<p>&#8220;Crash&#8221; came out in 2005 and I didn&#8217;t much care for it then. It was smug and pretentious and proud of itself. But it took a while for me to realize just what a defamatory attack it was on the people of this city. I remember the moment it struck me. I was sitting in church one Sunday just a year or so ago, when I looked over and saw a white guy sitting in the pew next to me. At first I was surprised and then I was surprised I was surprised and then I figured out why. You simply don&#8217;t see many white guys in my church. In fact, sometimes I&#8217;m the only one. And that&#8217;s when it struck me that I was part of a small racial minority in my community. But because race had never been any kind of an issue with my neighbors, I had never once given the difference in skin color or ethnicity or whatever any kind of thought.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know what life is like in the upper echelons of the Hollywood Paul Haggis and his ilk reside in, but down here in the San Gabriel Valley we Americans live together just fine.  </p>
<p>E pluribus unum.</p>
<p>So goodbye, Los Angeles. And please don&#8217;t take those Julie and John-shaped roadrunner clouds you&#8217;ll see tonight personally. Hate the city, already miss the people, and Paul Haggis can go to Hell.</p>
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		<title>Trailer: Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s &#8216;The Governator&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hollywoodland</dc:creator>
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At least he&#8217;s not, you know, saving the planet&#8230;.
THR:
Ex-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his return to movies Monday, saying a film version of his much-publicized cartoon project The Governator is in the works.
“First will come (The Governator) comic books, then a (cartoon) TV series and after that we will develop the games and then a movie,” Schwarzenegger [...]]]></description>
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<p>At least he&#8217;s not, you know, saving the planet&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-announces-governator-film-174327">THR</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ex-California governor <strong>Arnold Schwarzenegger </strong>announced his return to movies Monday, saying a film version of his much-publicized cartoon project <em>The Governator </em>is in the works.</p>
<p>“First will come (<em>The Governator</em>) comic books, then a (cartoon) TV series and after that we will develop the games and then a movie,” Schwarzenegger told a packed room of international journalists at global TV market MipTV in Cannes. “Maybe then we&#8217;ll be back in Cannes for that.”</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>Schwarzenegger unspooled a short trailer for the <em>Governator </em>cartoon – which comicbook legend <strong>Stan Lee </strong>is developing together with <strong>Andy </strong>and <strong>Amy Heyward </strong>of A Squared Entertainment. German sales group Your Family Entertainment has picked up world sales rights to the project.</p>
<p>The traditional 2-D actioner kicks off with a cartoon Schwarzenegger stepping down as governor of California to spend more time with his family. In reality, he begins a new career as a crime fighter.</p></blockquote>
<p>Full story<a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-announces-governator-film-174327"> here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Layoffs Hit Renowned L.A. Music Magnet, Times Reporter Blames Republicans</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alexander Marlow</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About three miles south of Beverly Hills in the upper-middle class neighborhood of Beverlywood is Hamilton High School.  An otherwise ordinary Los Angeles Unified School District-sponsored juvenile detention center, Hamilton is home to a couple of well regarded magnet programs, particularly the Academy of Music Magnet.  The Music Magnet is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton_High_School_%28Los_Angeles%29">the old stomping grounds</a> of pop stars, Broadway talent, and even Hollywood A-listers who were drawn to a public school program that has a focus on the arts.  Yet, even this rare LAUSD high school that students actually want to attend has become a casualty of the horrendous budget crises in the state of California.</p>
<p>Reporter Steve Lopez was dispatched to the scene to <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-la-0316-lopez-savinghamilton-20110315,1,5035946.column?page=1">write up</a> the various cutbacks for the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>.  Lopez is known for being the journalist whose <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-columnist-slopez,1,6563358,bio.columnist">articles on a schizophrenic musician inspired</a> the Robert Downey Jr./Jaime Foxx film <em>The Soloist</em>.  Then all of a sudden, what had the makings of a compelling human interest piece on one of the handful of quintessentially Hollywood high schools quickly devolved into a sob story about how these poor teachers and students have been victimized by the dastardly Republicans and their resistance to tax hikes.</p>
<p>How did he do this?</p>
<p>First, Lopez paints a rosy picture of the school by glowingly describing a performance by the jazz band and cherry-picking quotes raving about teachers; his portrayal of Hamilton is a lot like Sean Penn’s depiction of Iraq in <em>Team America</em>:</p>
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<p>As it happens, Hamilton is my local high school and I have family and friends who have graduated from the Music Magnet in recent years.  To put it bluntly, many of their experiences didn’t resemble the mythical land of incredible teachers and students anxious to learn that Lopez describes.  An anonymous Hamilton graduate told me she recalls students doing cocaine in the state-of the art auditorium (which was overhauled with a<a href="http://www.hamiltonmusic.org/about/history.jsp"> lavish grant</a> to the Music Magnet)—in fact, the source recalled students showing up to class on an assortment of drugs.  Faculty members were seen “celebrating” with students at cast parties after plays.</p>
<p>And I thought programs like these were meant to keep kids off drugs.<span id="more-461384"></span></p>
<p>The better students still spent a large portion of class time listening to their ipods.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly for an arts magnet&#8211;or any school, for that matter&#8211;there have been allegations of political propagandizing by the Music Magnet teachers, both within and out of the context of the course material. Among other examples, one of the choral teachers indtroduced the class to an ode to George W. Bush called “<a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2005/11/the_doofus_marches_on.html">THE DOOFUS MARCHES ON: Battle Hymn of the Republicans.</a>” The chorus:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Glory! Glory! How he&#8217;ll Screw Ya!</em></p>
<p><em>Glory! Glory! What&#8217;s It To Ya!</em></p>
<p><em>Glory! Glory! How he&#8217;ll Screw Ya! T</em></p>
<p><em>This Doofus marches on.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure what’s more on the nose: the indoctrination or the humor.</p>
<p>One of these <em>spectacular</em> teachers Lopez mentions in the article taught an acting class; an anonymous source sums up the class experience this way: “She taught me nothing about acting but a lot about AIDS.”  Another teacher mentioned in the article, according to an alum, “pushed an anti-Bush agenda” and openly discussed his alcohol abuse with the students during class time.</p>
<p>These examples are from the highly touted Music Magnet; I have even more frightening anecdotes from the main school.</p>
<p>But the stuff that doesn’t make Hamilton High seem awesomely awesome didn&#8217;t make it into Lopez’s piece.  What did slip past the editors, however, was a four paragraph tirade against Republicans:</p>
<blockquote><p>But during tough times, even <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/parties-movements/republican-party-ORGOV0000004.topic">GOP</a> hero <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/presidents-of-the-united-states/ronald-reagan-PEPLT005429.topic">Ronald Reagan</a> and rock-solid conservative Gov. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/pete-wilson-PEHST002128.topic">Pete Wilson</a> temporarily raised taxes along with making tough cuts. Today, California&#8217;s Republican legislators have so far refused to support Gov. Brown&#8217;s plan to let voters decide whether they want to go that same route: to balance the budget half with cuts and half by temporarily extending tax increases.</p>
<p>Nor have the Republicans explained how they&#8217;d whack $26 billion without putting more teachers out of work and destroying schools in their own districts. And where, by the way, are the parents in those districts? Are they going to watch in silence as their kids get hammered?</p>
<p>At Hamilton, booster club president Chris Kenemuth told me she&#8217;s a Republican who doesn&#8217;t mind paying taxes to save great programs. She&#8217;s been trying to contact Republican legislators to let them know how she feels, but they&#8217;re not responding.</p>
<p>Of course not. What can they say that doesn&#8217;t shame them further? And how would they explain who wins when you fire teachers and demoralize students; when you take something that works and destroy it?</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">If this is Mr. Lopez&#8217;s honest analysis of what ails L.A. city schools, maybe he&#8217;s been spending too much time in the auditorium partaking in the aforementioned extracurricular activities with the jazz band&#8230; and various faculty members.</p>
<p>One of reasons we&#8217;re in this mess is because tax rates are already so damn high in this state (not to mention in the city of Los Angeles) that businesses are leaving in droves and taking their jobs, and potential tax revenue, with them.  So what should we do?  According to Lopez, raise &#8216;em up some more so that LAUSD, which boasts about <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/27/2852029/dan-walters-high-school-graduation.html#mi_rss=Dan%20Walters">a 40% graduation</a> rate, can continue to phone it in for our kids.  What&#8217;s incredible about this number is that LAUSD <em>wants</em> to move students along; show up and complete most of the course work, and they&#8217;re good to go.  This is apparently a tall order for most families.  To be fair, the Hamilton Music Magnet has an exceptional graduation rate, but doesn&#8217;t that say more about the already motivated students and parents than it does about the effectiveness of the program?</p>
<p>The CATO Institute <a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa662.pdf">published a report</a> last years estimating that each student in Los Angeles Unified cost tax payers over $25,000 per year for fiscal year 2008.  You read that right.  Given the graduation rate, that&#8217;s over $62,500 per year per graduate.  LAUSD itself only cops to shelling out about $10k, but even that&#8217;s still more than the average private school tuition for the L.A. area (here&#8217;s <a href="http://articles.ocregister.com/2010-07-28/opinion/24634274_1_spending-public-education-school-districts">an article</a> that explains the discrepancy between the reported and actual cost).  But again, if you&#8217;re a liberal, there is no price too high for our kids to have a public school environment to <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">do drugs</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">hate Bush</span> learn jazz trumpet.</p>
<p>Lopez asks, &#8220;and as for those teachers who remain, will their class sizes shoot past the 40s and into the 50s?&#8221;  He should be asking, given all the money spent, why are they already in the 40s?</p>
<p>In the eyes of Lopez, the liberals and Democrats who have run California and the City of Angels for the last generation are free from blame, and same goes for the unions that have put America&#8217;s public school-going children at the mercy of a system without incentives that&#8217;s designed to protect the bad teachers at the expense of the students and good teacher&#8230; I mean <em>teachers</em>.</p>
<p>If any public school could be exemplary in Los Angeles, it&#8217;d be Hamilton, but not even the most talented kids, the &#8220;magnet&#8221; status, or the occasional generous donation could make this program a clear success.</p>
<p>Of the Hamilton High School alumni I know, many seemed to have a rich and educational experience, others had their time and your money wasted, and most fell somewhere in between.  Personally, I took music every year of school starting from sixth grade up until I received a minor in music from UC Berekely, so I am all for including music as part of formal education and Hamilton may well be the best we can do at this point in time. Still, many who have taken that journey through Hamilton High School Music Magnet and the people close to them know that it&#8217;s not at all the picture of perfection described in Steve Lopez&#8217;s one-sided report. And the GOP okaying a mid-recession tax hike isn&#8217;t going to change that.</p>
<p>But this is Hollywood and it&#8217;s the <em>L.A. Times</em>, and I do love a good fantasy.</p>
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		<title>James Cameron: King of All Hollywood Environmental Hypocrites Tells Us How to Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hollywoodland</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s the forced hilarity between James Cameron and Governor Schwarzenegger at the very end of the video that ultimately changed our minds about how we&#8217;ll vote on Prop. 23, that swung us over to the dark-side of over-regulation and middle-class job destruction.
How could anyone resist that Rat Packy ring-a-ding-ding rapport?
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<p>It&#8217;s the forced hilarity between James Cameron and Governor Schwarzenegger at the very end of the video that ultimately changed our minds about how we&#8217;ll vote on Prop. 23, that swung us over to the dark-side of <a href="http://suspendab32.org/">over-regulation and middle-class job destruction</a>.</p>
<p>How could anyone resist that Rat Packy ring-a-ding-ding rapport?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/251350/foreign-interference-our-elections-mark-krikorian">Over at NRO</a>, however, Mark Krikorian wasn&#8217;t as awed as we were:</p>
<blockquote><p>I don’t know anything about the substance of the issue, though my inclination would be to assume Cameron’s full of it. But what’s interesting is that Cameron is a <em>foreigner</em>, a Canadian citizen, who withdrew his application for U.S. citizenship after Bush won reelection in 2004. So what business does he have telling Americans how to vote on anything? Do Americans appear in Canadian political ads?</p></blockquote>
<p>James Cameron, <em>full of it?</em>  Mark, please stop believing <a href="http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/blog/general/501">your lying eyes</a>.</p>
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		<title>Join Me and Sarah Palin For the VICTORY 2010 RALLY In Anaheim this Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Breitbart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Barack Obama&#8217;s historic victory in 2008, many in the Democratic Party and on the political left argued that the GOP and the conservative movement were finished and that Democrats were destined to control, in perpetuity, the presidency, Congress, and culture, writ large. But then something unexpected happened&#8211;millions of sleepwalking, mall-shopping Americans finally woke up.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After Barack Obama&#8217;s historic victory in 2008, many in the Democratic Party and on the political left argued that the GOP and the conservative movement were finished and that Democrats were destined to control, in perpetuity, the presidency, Congress, and culture, writ large. But then something unexpected happened&#8211;millions of sleepwalking, mall-shopping Americans finally woke up.</p>
<p>The activist left, which denigrated the previous president in a merciless fashion, took the reins of power with reckless abandon and shoved its brand of poisonous hope and change down the throats of the American people. So we the people, the reawakening silent majority, responded in the form of a grassroots movement that is turning into a juggernaut set to roll past November 2nd and become something transcendent and long-lasting. Our Founding Fathers would be proud that we have rediscovered the spirit and the essence of their ideas.</p>
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<p>While the Tea Party has not been specifically partisan&#8211;many Republican carcasses lie in its rubble&#8211;this conservative and constitutional checks and balances has created a rejuvenated GOP, chastened and wiser.</p>
<p>This weekend I have the honor of sharing the stage with one of the Tea Party&#8217;s and Republican Party&#8217;s fearless leaders, Sarah Palin. Since her arrival on the national stage, the Democratic Party has recognized her potential as a political powerhouse and has worked in tandem with its partners in crime, the mainstream media, to wage an unprecedented personal campaign against her and her family. The Tea Party can relate.</p>
<p>But the power of Alinsky and the politics of personal destruction vis a vis the Democrat Media Complex has reverse effects when the object of the hate bravely stands up to the bullies and thugs. The Tea Party and Sarah Palin have given America a great lesson in standing up to the bullies who have co-opted the Democratic Party and the American media.<span id="more-405109"></span></p>
<p>As we head into the home stretch, Sarah Palin will be in California to draw attention to a state in economic shambles. After a generation of nanny-state and Ponzi scheme policies, Californians and Americans want a radical change. This is the Republican Party&#8217;s chance to win back one of the bluest states, and what better way to usher in that change than with a dynamic female leader like Sarah Palin cheering on fellow free market, limited government feminist success stories Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina.</p>
<p>Michael Steele, &#8220;American Heart&#8221; singer/songwriter Jon David, other California GOP candidates and I will join Palin on stage to cheer on a new era of hope and change in the pursuit of helping California avert economic disaster.</p>
<p>I invite all of our readers to come down to have a rollicking and patriotic time. I&#8217;ll be hanging out to meet and greet one and all well after the bunting has been taken down.</p>
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		<title>California: A State of (Troubled) Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Gutfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So a new survey reports that one in five Californians need help for a mental or emotional issue.
Seems low, if you ask me. I mean &#8211; this is California, home to Sean Penn, Mel Gibson and the Oakland Raiders.

But more important, you can reduce this report to a cavalcade of cliches.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So a new survey reports that one in five Californians need help for a mental or emotional issue.</p>
<p>Seems low, if you ask me. I mean &#8211; this is California, home to Sean Penn, Mel Gibson and the Oakland Raiders.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-379722   aligncenter" title="insane" src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2010/07/insane.jpg" alt="insane" width="383" height="303" /></p>
<p>But more important, you can reduce this report to a cavalcade of cliches.</p>
<p>So, did they group all emotional and mental &#8220;issues&#8221; together &#8211; so we get millions of sufferers?</p>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p>Did they expand the distress to include things like &#8220;feeling sad, anxious or nervous?&#8221;</p>
<p>You bet. (In the old days we called that &#8220;life,&#8221; but now it&#8217;s an injustice if you aren&#8217;t snorting rainbows 24/7.)<span id="more-379714"></span></p>
<p>Also: are these problems worse for women?</p>
<p>Yes, the problems are worse for women!</p>
<p>What about old people?</p>
<p>Yeah, it sucks for old people!</p>
<p>Are the poor hit hardest by all this?</p>
<p>Yes! They&#8217;re hit harder by everything!</p>
<p>What about immigrants? Surely, there must be a stigma attached to seeking help!</p>
<p>Yes! A stigma &#8220;may pose a significant barrier to care,&#8221; even in Cali, where pets have chiropractors.</p>
<p>Could the recession make these problems worse?</p>
<p>Sure, but the recession makes everything worse! (Except, for some reason, my pecs.)</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s see. They&#8217;re combining mental and emotional problems into mass numbers. Immigrants, the poor, the aged, and females are hit hardest. What&#8217;s the point?</p>
<p>See this last sentence on the L.A. Times blog:</p>
<p>&#8220;Given the number of people in pain&#8230; it may be time for Californians to overcome the perceived stigma and demand expanded public funding and insurance coverage of mental health care.&#8221;</p>
<p>And so, your sadness must be soothed by a burdened state whose financial ruin has already caused enough emotional distress.</p>
<p>I think I&#8217;m gunna cry. I demand you pay for my Kleenex.</p>
<p>And if you disagree with me, you&#8217;re a racist, homophobic Justin Bieber fan.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.dailygut.com/">Tonight:</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>the hilarious Michelle Collins!</strong></p>
<p><strong>the delightful Juliet Huddy!</strong></p>
<p><strong>the hirsute Steven Kruiser!</strong></p>
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		<title>Elton John: Artists Who Boycott Arizona Are &#8216;(Expletive) Twits&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Nolte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opposes same-sex marriage, plays Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s wedding, refuses to boycott Israel, and now this. Does Elton John&#8217;s free-thinking apostasy know no bounds? 
Today&#8217;s Arizona Daily Star:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Opposes same-sex marriage, <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2010/06/08/memo-to-msm-rush-elton-john-agree-on-same-sex-marriage/">plays Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s wedding,</a> refuses to <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2010/06/18/pop-culture-hero-of-the-week-elton-john-goes-to-israel/">boycott Israel</a>, and now this. Does Elton John&#8217;s free-thinking apostasy know no bounds? </p>
<p><strong>Today&#8217;s </strong><a href="http://azstarnet.com/article_f13019c4-9692-11df-a25d-001cc4c002e0.html"><strong>Arizona Daily Star</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p>
<p>Elton John didn&#8217;t mince words in slamming his fellow musicians for boycotting Arizona over the controversial SB 1070 immigration law. From the stage at his sold-out Tucson Arena concert Thursday night, John savored a few choice, not-so-family-friendly words:</p>
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<p>&#8220;We are all very pleased to be playing in Arizona. I have read that some of the artists won&#8217;t come here. They are (expletive)wits! Let&#8217;s face it: I still play in California, and as a gay man I have no legal rights whatsoever. So what&#8217;s the (expletive) with these people?&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Full story is <a href="http://azstarnet.com/article_f13019c4-9692-11df-a25d-001cc4c002e0.html">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>If Elton were to ever club a baby seal while smoking a cigarette and twirling an unregistered handgun, I might just marry him.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s more rock and roll? Bono, Bruce and Sting&#8217;s sanctimony or the Rocket Man&#8217;s rebellious middle finger to liberal lock-step conformity?</p>
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		<title>Desecrating Old Glory: ‘Educators’ Failing Our American Flag</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 18:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Baldwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Wesley Smith, Superintendent of California’s Morgan Hill Unified School District and ‘self-proclaimed expert’ gave a petulant and incoherent performance on behalf of his administration and School Board for the now infamous anti-American Flag discrimination against Live Oak High School students by their Principal Nick Boden and his Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez on May 5th.
 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Wesley Smith, Superintendent of California’s Morgan Hill Unified School District and ‘self-proclaimed expert’ gave a petulant and <a href="http://bit.ly/aH2Gi8">incoherent performance</a> on behalf of his administration and School Board for the now infamous anti-American Flag discrimination against Live Oak High School students by their Principal Nick Boden and his Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez on May 5th.</p>
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<p>Supt. Smith claims the incident was “not about whether our students can wear patriotic clothing,” but was “about ensuring that our campus was orderly and safe.”</p>
<p>Any school superintendent, staff or school board that determines its students wearing patriotic American clothing should ever be deemed ‘disorderly’, or ‘unsafe’ is an incompetent superintendent, staff and board.</p>
<p>Bad acting as <em>Special Champion</em> during his “apology,” Supt. Smith repeatedly exploited his High School student-body-at-large as somehow the <em>victim</em> of evil unnamed straw men, i.e., politically motivated “bloggers, talk shows and social networks [e.g., Twitter].”<span id="more-345914"></span></p>
<p>Ignoring the American Flag behind him, he scolded in PC-mode about “race, relationships, how to get along, solidarity and peace,” and demeaned the free speech of citizens that cast the light of truth and justice upon his administration’s own injustice.</p>
<p>Supt. Smith failed, or refused to mention even once the importance of American patriotism education. He failed to commend the students that spoke truth to unjust government power.</p>
<p>In so doing, his mismanagement keeps the District’s students, parents, teachers, community members and School Board in the national spotlight. He failed to man up and provide a simple, honest apology that accepts full responsibility, without equivocation and offensive blame-shifting.</p>
<p>The lesson here is not, as Dr. Smith stated, “to turn down the rhetoric and turn up the listening.” The lesson is that American patriotism and inculcating patriotic values in students are both good things and should be strongly encouraged &#8212; not undermined &#8212; in public schools on a daily basis.</p>
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<p>All too many educators (not to be confused with teachers) have abandoned professionalism and the business of actually educating students, instead they kowtow to groupthink, and the viewpoint discrimination veiled in Orwellian linguistic deceits such as “Tolerance,” “Diversity,” “Multiculturalism/Global Citizenship” (a.k.a., “America=racist/sexist/bigot/oppressor, etc.”).</p>
<p>Presumably, some MHUSD school board members such as Board Trustee President <a href="http://bit.ly/9H2eJb">Bart Fisher et al</a>. and District legal counsel collaborated and approved of Dr. Smith’s public statement. They should be held accountable at any disciplinary reviews and election time.</p>
<p>Supt. Smith has a dubious history with the education system’s modern culture of discrimination. According to the <a href="http://bit.ly/aK4jed">Anderson Valley Post</a>, Dr. Smith resigned in disgrace last November from Cascade Union Elementary School District in Anderson, California for, among other things, a Special Education discrimination lawsuit.</p>
<p>Regarding Dr. Smith’s scolding of bloggers, talk-shows and social networks (to which upwards of 90% of his community belong, including Board <a href="http://twitter.com/bartfish">President Fisher</a>: he seemed like a John Edwards would in complaining about the National Enquirer; or a Bill Clinton lamenting the lost journalistic discretion in the JFK/Marilyn Monroe era; or even how some Fourth Estate watchdogs puzzle and decry the clichéd biases of the so-called ‘state-controlled’ media; or President Obama’s recent odd criticism,  “information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-345942 aligncenter" title="Mexican boy" src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2010/05/mexican-flag1.jpg" alt="Mexican boy" width="362" height="240" /></p>
<p>Welcome to a wonderful 21st century teachable moment Dr. Smith, wherein your incompetence &#8212; for which you’re receiving a <a href="http://bit.ly/cmcI0r">$190,000 payment package</a> &#8212;  your patriotism (or lack thereof) and personal agenda are now on full display for the entire world.</p>
<p>In Spring, Texas &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/b0euh7">Klein Collins High School</a> Associate Principals Shellie Dick and Steven Matheson suspended student Nick Morris for <a href="http://bit.ly/9yBVFE">three days</a> because he removed and disposed of an unlawfully displayed Mexican flag from a walkway railing in the school’s main hall. </p>
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<li>Title 4 United States Code, § 7 [Flag Code] states:  </li>
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<blockquote><p>(c) No person shall display the flag of the United Nations or any other national or international flag equal, above, or in a position of superior prominence or honor to or in place of the flag of the United States. </p></blockquote>
<p>Atta boy Nick, way to speak truth to power! </p>
<p>Finally, a Santa Rita, California art teacher derided as “<a href="http://bit.ly/bmql7W">offensive</a>” a middle-school student’s drawing of an American Flag with the words ‘God Bless America’ on it, while in the same class the teacher praised another student’s portrait of President Obama. The art teacher stubbornly refused to explain when asked by the student and her parents what was “offensive” about her Flag drawing.</p>
<p>The discrimination against this child is so wrong. Just last year, in a nationally televised public school assembly to hundreds of young students, President Obama <a href="http://huff.to/nXxB6">proclaimed</a> in front of Old Glory herself, “God Bless America.”</p>
<p>Perhaps our President can now contribute to this teachable moment by proudly and publicly reinforcing the meaning, heritage and significance of what our Flag stands for, and the importance of inculcating those patriotic values upon our public school educators.</p>
<p>The students in these stories are way ahead them.</p>
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		<title>Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Psychic Predictions for 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Jena</dc:creator>
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Here it is 2010 and I still don&#8217;t have a jet-pack or flying car. Those were the kind of things that I was led to believe would be here by now when I was a little kid. The real problem is that there isn’t one on the horizon either. You know what is in the near [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here it is 2010 and I still don&#8217;t have a jet-pack or flying car. Those were the kind of things that I was led to believe would be here by now when I was a little kid. The real problem is that there isn’t one on the horizon either. You know what is in the near future for us? A remake of the Yugo or some other Euro-crap car that doesn’t burn up much dinosaur remains and tops out at a heart stopping 50 or 60 miles per hour.</p>
<p>It is that time of year for me to let my psychic self loose and gaze into the future. Yeah, I know I’m a little late but I promise not to predict anything that has already happened like a lot of your mainstream psychics tend to do. Last year Kevin Costner didn’t even have the decency to make a bad film, so I was o-fer-09. The only way for my psychic score to go is up!<span id="more-289234"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>My Predictions</strong></p>
<p>In 2010 a well-known Hollywood film maker will produce a film that by most Midwestern standards would be called “porno.” It will be hailed as a great step towards artistic freedom and rated “R.”</p>
<p>In the coming year I will not be familiar with the work of anyone who wins a Grammy.</p>
<p>This year General Motors will introduce the “Volt” as the car of the future. It will sell slightly less units than Paris Hilton’s last CD.</p>
<p>Vince Vaughn will star in a movie as an over-confident bumbler with a heart of gold who  has a wife or girlfriend that is so far out of his league the movie will be classified in the science fiction genre.</p>
<p>It will be revealed that having a supply of “non-hybrid seeds to plant an acre of nutrient dense food” for your family will do you no good in an extreme crisis unless you also have a tractor, a fuel supply, a water supply, some knowledge of farming, several high powered rifles, lots of ammo, food to last you until harvest time and at least an acre of land to plant.</p>
<p>The price of gold will drop to $450 an ounce. Obama will place the blame on the Bush Administration.</p>
<p>The State of California will go out of business and divide into three smaller states, Upper California to the far north, South California from Orange County to the Mexican border and The People’s Republic of Central California which will go broke again in 2011.</p>
<p>The Chicago Cubs will win the National League pennant and during the World Series be bought by Warren Buffet who donates the team to Haiti.</p>
<p>A record cold spell holds the Midwest and Northeast in its grip for the entire month of February. Obama blames the Bush Administration for its failed weather policy.</p>
<p>Kathy Griffin hosts New Year’s Eve celebration on the new Hustler Channel and is again fired for being too crass. She blames the Bush Administration and the Patriot Act for the “chill wind” blowing through Hollywood.</p>
<p>An Islamic fundamentalist attempts to create a “man-made disaster” by placing a bomb up his backside. The device is detected after he dines at a White Castle before going to the airport. Janet Napolitano orders “inspections” of every passenger on all flights. This job is given to the IRS which is already highly skilled in this type of work.</p>
<p>Keith Olbermann challenges Rush Limbaugh to a charity boxing match but refuses to remove his glasses in the ring and then cries foul when Rush punches a guy wearing glasses.</p>
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