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Who Is Doing The Hating?
‘Gay hate list’: Farah, Perkins, Colson, more
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has created an enemies list of 36 commentators – including pastors, authors, radio talk-show hosts, pro-family activists and researchers – in an effort to limit the effectiveness of their media outreach.
Hmmm… Anyone who holds a view different from this group is on a ‘hate list’? I don’t hold the same view. I know a lot of folks who don’t, but none of our names are on said ‘list’. 
The formulation of the list is the work of GLAAD’s “Commentator Accountability Project” that aims to “educate the media about the extreme rhetoric of over three dozen activists who are often given a platform to speak in opposition to LGBT people and the issues that affect their lives.”
What do they consider ‘extreme rhetoric’? I know several people on that ‘list’ who base their views on the Bible, pretty much like I do. Is God’s Word ‘rhetoric’? I’m not aware that any of these people hate. I’m not familiar with all those on the list, but those I am familiar with have never said anything about hating, at least not to my knowledge. I don’t hate. Too much work, and that’s not what I’m instructed to do.
“Hate is not an expert opinion,” said GLAAD’s Herndon Graddick. “In most cases, news outlets invite reputable experts to speak on the subject at hand, but when talking about LGBT issues, open hostility and anti-LGBT bias seems to be all the credibility required. This project holds these so-called ‘pundits’ accountable for the extreme anti-LGBT rhetoric they continue to spread.”
So, if someone is invited to speak with an opposing view, based on their Biblical faith, it’s considered hostile and biased? Well, looks to me like the same could be said for this organization. They appear to be openly hostile and biased towards anyone who holds a view in opposition to the GLAAD agenda.
“The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation should more accurately be called the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Criticism,” said Farah. “These people actually believe that if you have a different viewpoint and a different value system from them you are a hate-filled, bigoted monster. Here’s a group that claims in its own name that it is ‘against defamation,’ but actively defames those with whom it has disagreements. Not one example of hateful or defamatory language is offered as evidence against any of those listed in this report.”
Looking at the site linked above, I saw no evidence, no specific comments attributed to any of those on the target list, which leads me to believe that those men and women speak the truth that was shared in the Bible. Apparently, gay activists don’t like God’s rules, so anyone who shares those rules is ‘hateful’. I’m real sorry they feel that way. I’d like for them to know the love I have grown to feel from my Savior, but no one can make someone accept love, especially if they are so filled with hatred for those who disagree. Pretty much sums up the left as a whole, don’t ya think?
McCullough, a nationally syndicated radio host and one of the 36 commentators, said it is ironic that GLAAD’s goal of “shutting people’s voices down … will somehow make their arguments more sound.”
He said, “I’ve never appeared as someone who claimed to even represent much less serve as an ‘expert’ on the private lives of the LGBT community. … When I am asked to speak on a public forum it is as a person who speaks with and interacts with millions of people daily through a media company that myself and actor Stephen Baldwin began four years ago. Because we have a platform that engages people in conversation about these things and every other cultural issue imaginable we have a good idea of how OUR constituents think.”
I’ve never heard, or read, anything from Kevin McCullough that would indicate he harbors any hatred for these people. Their lifestyle is contrary to everything that we are taught by God’s rules, in both the Old and New Testament. It doesn’t mean we hate them, as people, we just are not allowed to accept their lifestyle as ‘natural’. It’s not hate, it’s disapproval due to our belief in God’s Word.
Does DHS Have Me Bookmarked?
So, the Department of Homeland Security has paid me another visit.
HI! HOW YA DOIN’?
I was kind of curious what kind of brower Rippers is, cuz I’ve never heard of it and I’m plain nosy, just like they are. 
Hmmm… apparently, it is some kind of “ripper & converting” software.
The Rippers & Encoders category contains software programs developed mainly for two purposes: to extract digital audio files from external media like CDs; and to convert digital audio between file formats, such as MP3, WMV, AAC, OGG, and WAV.
Now, I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not exactly techno savvy, but it seems to me that if they want to find CDs and audio files, they are looking in the wrong place. Oh, granted, I do post videos on a regular basis, but shoot, they could just go to the source to get those….they don’t need to come here for ‘em.
Then, I did a bit more snooping, and found:
Anyone can change their useragent to say whatever they want. Chances are that it’s some no-name browser, from the name it sounds like a site ripping tool that makes copies of whole sites, ripping graphics, html, etc.
Seriously? Y’all want a whole copy? Don’t y’all have something better to do, like say…I dunno….CATCH BAD GUYS? You know the types….bringing drugs across the border, wanting to shoot Americans, or perhaps a group that would like to see buildings with lots of people in them blown up. Just a thought.
A little more snooping:
After an extensive research I found it to be one of two options. The percentage of 50/50 indicates that first it is a Browser Ripper Software that downloads your complete website for whatever purpose but states that it is for offline viewing. It would be something like this software http://www.tensons.com/products/websiterippercopier/ which can really copy and download a complete website in its structure of files, folders, images, just as you have created, makes it easy to upload to a different server and just change a few bits around, this is a link for this reference http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=2b0f61e3a5 57372f&hl=en.
Also considered to be a Scraper, according to some users it’s completely harmless and just scrapes the content of your page, for mobile viewing and have it in other friendly viewing format but does not copy any content from your website. But either way, users are more likely to simply want to block any traffic that comes from such User Agents, as most of the locations of those hits mean to come from places where the threat level is high among web users with nothing but bad intent to perform illegal activities of some kind. You can get some information on how to block using the .htaccess file in this link http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/block-bots-with-htaccess.shtml and this link as well http://www.photopost.com/forum/general-discussion/134015-how-block-off line-browsers-k-site-rippers.html one great article I came across was http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=20185 you probably have heard about it, but I just wanted to share. Good luck to you.
Oh, fer the love of pete. I’m lil’ ol’ lady, living in Podunk Tennessee, with an opinion. And? What’s your problem? Seriously, y’all need to get that stick out’cher hind ends and actually start doing your job! You know…like keeping people like me, safe! So far, y’all pretty much suck at it, but hopefully, after 20 January 2013, that will change, and we Americans will actually feel safer…with NEW folks in that office who KNOW what’s what, and who’s who! Hey…maybe we’ll even get an Attorney General that knows what’s in the U.S. Constitution. Now, wouldn’t THAT be a novel concept.
Nothing To Celebrate
Up To Twelve Now
After Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut last week, an uproar spread by leftist all over the internet, has encouraged Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers to leave the behemoth radio show’s ad schedule. So far, Rush has lost 12 advertisers.
- Sleep Number
- The Sleep Train
- Quicken Loans
- Legal Zoom
- Citrix
- Carbonite
- ProFlowers
- Tax Resolution
- AOL
- Bonobos
- Sears
- Allstate Insurance
Well, they are free to cease advertising on Rush’s show. You know, that show, that has MILLIONS of listeners on a regular basis. And those MILLIONS are free NOT to spend their money at those companies. Does AOL still exist? Hmm…. Anyway, I have informed ProFlowers they need to remove my name from their data base because I will no longer do business with them, or any of their associate businesses. So far, I haven’t gotten any more emails from ‘em.
We know that the left glorifies anyone who slams a conservative, especially conservative women. Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a c***. Ed Schlutz called Laura Ingraham a s***. Do any of the companies listed above still advertise on MSNBC? Do they support HBO, and their decision to air a foul mouthed troglodyte? This type of hypocrisy is what we’ve come to expect from the left, but why do we put up with it? I mean, seriously, we lose any credibility if we allow this to continue.
NOW has poked their heads out of the sand, and have decided that Rush Limbaugh should be fired. Really? Where were those feminazis when Paula Jones needed the aid of her fellow females? Where were they on Sarah Palin, Laura Ingraham? Where are they when we hear of women being slaughtered in Muslim countries? Are they going to stand up for all women, or just radical feminist activist grad students?
Yup….the hypocrisy is thick!
Got A Question….
So, the left is all up in arms about insurance companies, and religious organizations paying for ‘women’s health care’, right? Of course, it really isn’t about ‘women’s health care’, it all about contraception, abortions, and morning after pills. What that has to do with health care is beyond me. Seems to me if women were concerned, they do a bit less…..umm…. bed time. But that’s my opinion, so we’ll leave it at that!
So, my question is this….what about ‘men’s health care’? Will insurance companies and employers be forced to buy condoms for men? Will they pay for vasectomies? Or vasectomy reversal? Isn’t that ‘health care’ dealing with reproductive issues? Why are males left out of the argument? Don’t they count?
Just sayin’.
The Left Hates The 1st Amendment
Apparently, there has been quite a stir over the comments made by Rush Limbaugh concerning the behavior of a 30 years old feminazi law student. Welp, if the behavior fits…. Evidently, we’re suppose to have to pay for her sex habits, and those of her friends. Really? I don’t think we should be forced to pay for diddly! We pay for our own health care, and can barely afford that, much less foot the bill for females who can’t keep their legs closed. Slut is the word I’d use, as well. So, Limbaugh apologized…..why? Maybe he could have come up with different words, but so what? Personally, I have been called names I wouldn’t use on my worst enemy! We’ve been called a whole lot worse, with NO evidence I would point out, than Fluke was called, and I’ve yet to hear an apology coming from ANYONE!
Limbaugh is losing advertisers, thanks to a campaign from the left. Why? Those on the left are just peachy keen when the 1st Amendment applies to them, but let anyone on the right say anything, even if it’s the truth, and all hell breaks loose! Freakin’ hypocrites! Has anyone canceled their ads on MSNBC for the horrible things they’ve said about those on the right? How about Schultz? That foul mouthed idiot? What about before Bathtub Boy got canned? Was there any yanked ads? What about Tingles and his lies? Not that I’m aware of, and have found no evidence any of the advertisers pulled their ads. Yet, here we are, looking at six different companies who have caved to the left. I wonder how many of these companies would still be in business if it weren’t for listeners of a variety of talk radio hosts, including Rush Limbaugh? You see, those on the right are typically employed, and are able to spend their hard earned dollars to purchase items from said advertisers. So far, there are six companies that will be losing the business of those on the right.
Here are the screen shots I snagged of off that bastion of liberal idiocy, Think Progress, and one from Facebook. ( I won’t link to them.)
A Voice Silenced
Andrew Breitbart dies of ‘natural causes’
Widely read conservative Internet publisher Andrew Breitbart has died, his attorney confirms.
The websites he founded ran a statement Thursday morning announcing that Breitbart, 43, died “unexpectedly from natural causes” in Los Angeles shortly after midnight.
“We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior,” the article on the site said. “Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.”
Breitbart was a prolific commentator who founded several websites devoted to covering politics, entertainment and everything in between. Earlier in his career, he worked for the Drudge Report before breaking off to start his own outlets — including Big Government, Big Hollywood and Breitbart.tv.
The statement on his sites quoted the concluding passage from his book, Righteous Indignation.
“I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and-famously-I enjoy making enemies. Three years ago, I was mostly a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a very popular website. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I’ve lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I’ve gained hundreds, thousands — who knows? — of allies. At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep very well at night.”
The statement said: “Andrew is at rest, yet the happy warrior lives on, in each of us.”
Natural causes? At 43? I keep hoping this is some kind of really sick joke.
I don’t actually admire many people these days…he is one of the few. It takes a lot of courage to do what he does….did. Facing an onslaught of attacks from the left for doing nothing more than telling the truth, standing up for us, because we really don’t have a voice anymore. He became our voice.
Rest in peace good sir. May God Bless you, your family, your friends, and those of us who will sincerely mourn the loss of a true American patriot.
The Sweet Land Of Liberty Is Gone
Two Centuries of Religious Freedom Rolled Back
The Foundry
Since 1791, when the Bill of Rights was formally adopted, America has enjoyed the legal protection of religious freedom, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Today, 221 years later, centuries of progress in the protection of religious and other liberties is at risk of being rolled back in one fell swoop. The culprit: Obamacare.
As we all know, President Obama’s health care law will mandate that religious hospitals, charities, and schools abandon the tenets of their faiths and provide their employees insurance coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization. This anti-conscience mandate is but the latest assault on liberty Obamacare has ushered in. Its shock waves are reverberating across the country, waking Americans to the fact that our first freedom — religious liberty — will be the first to fall now that the federal government has unfettered control over the country’s health care system.
Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.
The Justice Department will defend against any legal challenge to the new Obama administration mandate to force employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception, even if it goes against their conscience, Attorney General Eric Holder told a House subcommittee Tuesday.
The Department of Health and Human Services rule, part of Obamacare, violates the freedom of conscience for Catholics and other religious groups that expressed their objections to the mandate, opponents say. Already there is litigation asserting that the rule violates the First Amendment’s guarantee to free exercise of religion.
And may the REAL Force be with them! Isn’t it odd that Holder refused to prosecute what was clearly voter intimidation, but can’t be concerned that his boss’ plan murders children, and forces those who find such a practice abhorrent to pay for it? This is NOT about ‘women’s health’.
“I think I would respectfully disagree in the sense that I don’t think the rule that HHS promulgated was one that ran counter to the religious prohibitions that are contained in the First Amendment,” Holder said.
“That’s especially true looking at the compromise the president and Secretary [Kathleen] Sebelius put in place,” Holder told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies.
Wouldn’t you think that a lawyer would understand the U.S. Constitution better? You see, that document was written FOR the people, limiting what government can, and cannot do! The government cannot force a religion on the people, and they cannot force religions to go against their faith. Forcing religious organizations to violate their faith is violating their 1st Amendment RIGHT! The RIGHT that is God given. Forcing people to commit a sin? No…they do NOT have that power, as stated BY, not just the Constitution, but in a Book that was written long before they were a “gleam”, with the inspiration of the Hand of God. HE trumps Obama, Sebelius, Holder, and the other tools of evil.
President Barack Obama announced a change to the original rule that would have technically allowed religious institutions such as Catholic hospitals or schools to get an exemption from paying for these drugs, but instead require insurance to provide it for “free.” That so-called compromise would still require religious institutions to pay for insurance that provides the “free” services.
They really do think we’re all stupid. Apparently, it totally confounds them when they find out we are not! There is no such thing as “free”!
Law Suit For Freedom
7 states sue to block contraception mandate
Seven states filed a lawsuit Thursday to block the federal government’s requirement that religious organizations offer health insurance coverage that includes free access to contraception for women.
The attorney generals of Texas, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina jointly filed the lawsuit in a Nebraska US District Court.
Two private citizens, two religious non-profit organizations and a Catholic school also joined the lawsuit against the contraception mandate, which is part of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care law.
The lawsuit asks a federal judge to declare the law unconstitutional and enjoin the government from enforcing the requirement.
I’d really like to know why Tennessee isn’t part of this lawsuit. Come to think of it, I’d like to know why ALL states aren’t part of it! It is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment. Ok, maybe I can understand why states like California, or New York, for instance, aren’t part of it, but the states run by rational people?
It was the intent of the Founders to keep government OUT of our religious organizations, not the other way around. Mandating an religious organization to do something that is abhorrent to their faith is unconscionable. Perhaps if there were more faithful people in the government, this would never have happened. But we can see that there are way too many who have turned away from our founding, and feel themselves above God’s law.
Facts VS Feelings
A Troubling Trend in the Courts
The Foundry
Should judges act based upon reasoned legal arguments, or based upon their personal feelings and media coverage? A controversial recent “statement” made by Justices Ginsburg and Breyer in a case that was the legal equivalent of a slam dunk raises serious questions about what really guides some judges.
In the case, American Tradition Partnership v. Bullock, the Court was asked to address a Montana Supreme Court opinion upholding a Montana ban on independent expenditures by corporations. This should be an easy case—after all, the Court ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that bans on independent political expenditures by corporations and unions violate the First Amendment.
But Justices Ginsburg and Breyer, who dissented from Citizens United, want another crack at Citizens United. They issued a separate “statement” advocating that the Court take the “opportunity to consider whether, in light of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates’ allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway.”
MSM’s Phony News
Violating The 1st Amendment
Barack Hussein Obama has blatantly violated his oath of office: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. He has neither preserved, nor protected!
Religious Liberty Under Attack
The Foundry
Today is Ash Wednesday — the first day of Lent — the beginning of 40 days of prayer and fasting observed by Christians across the country, culminating in the Easter feast. Likewise in April, Jews will gather to celebrate Passover, one of many traditions observed under the religious freedom that the U.S. Constitution was designed to preserve. Now, though, that freedom is under direct attack by the very government that purports to represent the people, and that is but the first step in Obamacare’s re-writing of America’s blueprint.
This week, two more Christian colleges joined other religious institutions in fighting back against that attack when they filed lawsuits against the Obama Administration for imposing an anti-conscience mandate under Obamacare. The controversial regulation forces almost all employers to provide health insurance coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization, without a co-pay.
Do They Actually Have Viewers?
While reading this piece by Pat Buchanan, I got to thinking…..Does MSNBC even have any viewers? Having never watched it myself, intentionally, I couldn’t really say what their claim to fame might be, other than having commentators whose cheese done slid off the cracker! YouTube is a wondrous tool, and that is the only exposure I’ve had to, as Rush calls it, PMSNBC. Those YouTubes are quite informative, giving a person a large taste of what is available on their broadcasts. Thanks, but no thanks! I prefer a bit more balance, not to mention sanity, in my news watching. Although, it is getting more and more difficult to find such on the ‘dial’.
When I first heard about Mr Buchanan’s dilemma, I was extremely curious as to why MSNBC would rid themselves of the one almost sane voice of reason.
A group called Color of Change, whose mission statement says that it “exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice,” claimed that my book espouses a “white supremacist ideology.” Color of Change took particular umbrage at the title of Chapter 4, “The End of White America.”
Hmm… Color of Change… Where have I heard that name before??? Oh yeah… Isn’t that the racist bunch founded by communist, Van Jones?
Media Matters parroted the party line: He has blasphemed!
And we all know how unbiased Media Matters is, considering they are a front group for billionaire George Soros, doing their darnedest to silence the one almost ‘fair and balanced’ cable new network, and several other conservative organizations. Notice I said almost. Even they seem to be listing to the left these days. The 1st Amendment right of free speech only applies to them, and only those who agree with the left. *shakes head* It doesn’t seem to occur to the leftards that if one group can be silenced, ALL can be silenced.
Read the entire piece by Mr Buchanan. It is quite disturbing that any news organization would allow groups with an agenda, ANY agenda, to be used in such a manner. But then, MSNBC isn’t really a “news” organization, and it, too, has an agenda….as a mouthpiece for all things to the left of sanity….aka the Democrat Party, and Obama & Co.
Training Against Terror
I’ve no doubt you’ve heard all about the uproar caused by CAIR concerning the training of the New York Police Department using a little film called “The Third Jihad“. They are even going so far as to demand the resignation of the Police Commissioner. I’d really like to know….who gave this Hamas linked terror group so much power over what we do, or do not do, in the training of police officers? If the jihad fits…….
What you may not have heard about is the training session in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Unfortunately, Tennessee has been the recipient of a large number of muslims, and for our law enforcement officers NOT to be trained in how to counter any terror threat brought by said ‘immigrants’ would be pure negligence! CAIR, of course, has its nose all up in the LEO’s business. Perhaps, if CAIR, and other such muslim groups, weren’t consistently violating OUR 1st Amendment rights, if they would denounce the war on innocents, refrain from destroying our Constitution and trying to replace it with Sharia, we might be inclined to listen. However, instead of acclimating themselves to the country in which they live, the goal is to force the majority into following the minority. If they don’t like it here, they are quite free to return to their place of origin, where they hang homosexuals, stone women for being raped, murder their children for their ‘honor’ and cut off the heads of the heads of anyone who disagrees with them. But please, don’t expect us to fall into line with your teachings of the murderous pedophile and his fake god.
And just who is running the other ‘training session‘, and why is it so secret? Are they bringing the fox into the chicken coup? Enquiring minds want to know!
