Political Cowardice

It’s not enough to sue McDonalds’s, now they want to ban Circumcisions.

“If Lloyd Schofield is successful, a circumcision ban could end up on the ballot next November. Schofield, who argues that it is genital mutilation, would like to make it illegal to “circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate” the genitals of anyone under the age of 18. While some parents are outraged at the proposition, claiming that it is a personal choice, Schofield contends that it is a personal choice — the personal choice of the person whose body it is. Schofield needs 7,100 signatures in order to get his proposal on the ballot next November.”

The issue is if this should be a law, as opposed to personal choice.  Forget about the argument if this is good or bad, the issue is how many new laws do we need?

Read about it here: Circumcision?

and here:  Male Circumcision?

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Reprinted from the Patriot Ledger Blog

According to the Patriot Ledger, Milton residents claim ‘no concern’ in: No alarm in Milton about killings in nearby Mattapan.

Read the original story about the shootings: 4 dead, 1 hurt in Boston shooting.

Update: Cops question man in Mattapan Shootings.

Residents of Milton may not be concerned about the type of crime where four people including a two-year-old were murdered in their home Tuesday, about a mile away from Milton Village, but I’m wondering if they know about the City of Boston’s unofficial policy of ‘containment’? And if that ‘containment’ should fail to contain?

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It seems like everything was so much simpler back then.  Where is Sargent Friday (Jack Webb) when we really need him?  If he was around today I’d bet he’d clean his clock.

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By Mike Truman

Family Violence Protection Fund offensive ads created under the direction of the Ad Council

I registered a complaint with Ellyn Fisher of the Ad Council (EFisher@AdCouncil.org) who is responsible for this offensive ad campaign for the Family Violence Protection Fund using pre-teen boys wearing “Awaiting Instructions” on their shirts.  Under the words “Respect Girls” the hidden message is girls are victims and boys represent abusers.

Let’s get ‘em while they are young and train them right.

To see the ads, see this post here:  http://www.politicalcowardice.com/2010/08/pre-teen-boys-denatured-by-radical-feminists-family-violence-prevention-fund-endabuse-org/

See press release for the campaign, if not this exact one a similar one.

Their website says it is no longer a campaign, however, the ads still appear on some websites.  Furthermore the press release contains misleading information concerning domestic violence.

Ms Fisher has not responded.

To voice your complaints, please contact Ellyn Fisher by email at: EFisher@AdCouncil.org or

Ellyn Fisher
The Ad Council
212-984-1964

Email: EFisher@AdCouncil.org

You can also complain to:
Doniece Sandoval
Family Violence Prevention Fund
415-252-8900, ext. 41
doniece@endabuse.org

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The “men bad, women good” mantra fed to us by domestic violence prevention advocates, women’s shelter organizations and other well meaning “women’s rights” organizers, feminist groups, and politicians are just plain wrong.  They are relying on incorrect data.

- by Mike Truman

The domestic violence claims, mostly by feminist groups, is turning out to be a fraud based upon faulty data, closed minds, blacklisting and retaliation very similar to the global warming hoax.

After seeing the disturbing ads in the post below from the Family Violence Prevention Fund, I have begun doing some research and have found some alarming data.

It turns out that women are more likely to 1) assault first; 2) use a weapon; 3)  to abuse children.

Women are as least as likely to be the perpetrator of violence as they are the victim.

According to FAMILY VIOLENCE A report from:  Family Resources & Research

“Abuse shelter advocates have severely distorted the picture and deliberately produce fraudulent statistics and dis-information. Even when they quote well-grounded statistics, they misuse the information. Here is an example: One of the favorite statistics quoted by abuse shelter advocates is that a woman is the victim of spousal violence every 15 seconds. This statistic is deduced from a well conducted piece of research which was published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, a respected professional journal for marriage and family therapists. The Abuse Shelter advocates arrived at this figure by using one of the conclusions of the study, i.e.; 1.8 million women suffer an assault from a husband or boyfriend per year. What abuse shelter advocates always fail to report is another finding of the same study, i.e.; 2 million men are assaulted by a wife or girl friend per year, which translates as, a man is the victim of spousal violence every 14 seconds.”

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Teen boys wearing sweats with “Awaiting Instructions” emblazoned on the front?  What is all this crap from something called the  Family Violence Prevention Fund about?

“Respect Girls”?  what do you think of this horrible ad de-balling innocent teen and pre-teen looking boys?  Why should young teens wear t-shirts or sweats with the words: “Awaiting Instructions” pasted across the front?

Ad for "Family Violence Prevention Fund"

Since when are young boys abusing anyone?  Do these children look like abusers?  This gives new meaning to child abuse!

“Awaiting Instructions”?  From whom?  For What? Where did this come from?  What did this poor kid do to be branded an abuser and told to await instructions?

Looks like the folks at the  Family Violence Prevention Fund, (endabuse.org) want to turn our young boys into feminized Zombies, ball-less geldings, waiting to be awoken by a superior race and given some type of instructions.

The ad rotates with different pictures of young boys, with the bold text “RESPECT GIRLS”  and the boys, all about ten years old or less, wearing the words: “Awaiting Instructions” on their shirts or sweats.

“Respect Girls”?  What girls?   Why?  What did boys do to deserve this insult?  Why denigrate an entire  gender based upon some perceived  wrong?

Why do girls need to be respected more than boys?  Why not “respect boys”?   Why not “Respect each other”?  This is just another absurd example of feminism and political correctness gone berserk.

Myth: Women are abused more than men.  Fact: It is about 50/50, but men are less likely to report abuse.  See National Coalition for Men

"Respect Girls"?

Why cast young boys and male teens as some kind of villains and abusers?

Don’t listen to or give any of your money to these creeps!

This just re-enforces the feminist’s view and mantra that all men are abusers, all men are evil, all men are brutal.  The new twist?  Now they have added young pre-teen boys to their list of villains!

According to the folks at Family Violence Prevention Fund (endabuse.org) teen boys should be taking instructions from girls.  Why should girls not be taking instructions from boys?  Where is this written?

Why is it that the male is always assumed to be the abuser? No one is promoting abuse by anyone, but why demonize young boys who most likely are just thinking about baseball, not abuse.  This falsehood only unfairly and unduly stigmatizes boys and only makes the situation worse.

Are you kidding?

Look at some of the crap they at Family Violence Prevention Fund proclaim:

“Men by nature have this thing of always using force. When we were children, we would play with cars and figurines, such as superman and Spiderman, of physically strong men who used force to conquer the bad guys.”

Oh really?

Well, of course ALL boys do this, this is NATURAL. What do you expect boys to play with, dolls?  Well of course if you are the “Family Violence Protection Fund” you do!

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Here we go again…

As I explained before, people who grow up without strong male leadership, (a father) develop serious personality disorders, e.g. narcissism, etc. and are defective. Two of these many defects are present in Obama, lack of conviction and a need to please, we witness in Obama’s recent flip-flop on the 9/11 mosque debate.

President Barack Obama and daughter Sasha swim at Alligator Point in Panama City Beach, Fla. The President traveled to Panama City Beach with First Lady Michelle Obama and Sasha to meet with local business owners and officials and to encourage Americans to travel to the Gulf Coast beaches. August 14, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) www. whitehouse.gov Note, whitehouse.gov had NO photos of the end of Ramadan dinner, I wonder why?

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/us/politics/15mosque.html?src=me

First, vowing to stay out of the debate and repeatedly saying it was a “local decision” he gave in to his need to be loved by all at a recent white house dinner for Muslims, (that in it self is another story, I wonder why there are hardy any photos on www.whitehouse.gov?) came out in favor of building the controversial mosque citing freedom of religion and American values.

“This is America.  And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable.  The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country and that they will not be treated differently by their government is essential to who we are.  The writ of the Founders must endure.”
Now, less than 24 hours later, two of his defects kick in, one, his lack of conviction and two, his need to be loved by whoever is seeking it, he backtracks on his first change of his position to create a third position statement. Incredible.

Obama and those who are in favor of building a mosque at ground zero are wrong on many fronts; they often site “freedom of religion” and “American values” as their main reasons.

First of all Islam is more about a political movement and conquest than it is about a religion, and should not be considered on equal footing with other main-stream religions.

That can be a whole subject for another debate, however, even if you did conclude it is a valid religion there are additional issues.

One, a mosque is not equivalent to a church in the Western meaning. Second, “freedom of religion” and “separation of church and state” have had their original meanings twisted so much as to make the present-day understandings incorrect.

The first amendment, below, does not explicitly grant the right to build a mosque any where you please and to have the government rush in and support you if you wanted to build a mosque say on an airport runway.

Since we have established that you can’t build a mosque, or anything else for that matter, ANY where you want, we still have the issue of how not building a mosque at ground zero, but some blocks away amounts to restricting the “free exercise thereof”.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Obama says the debate is about American values, good, because Islam is the antitheses of American values.   And most Americans know it.

Read more about the Mosque at 9/11

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Great Communicator: Obama hides his double talk within his rhetoric

President Barack Obama gestures as he addresses the White House Forum on Health Reform, Thursday, March 5, 2009, in the East Room.

We all love to hear what we want to hear and it has never been easier than now with our silver tongued president.

When Obama says: “We have to look at offshore drilling”, the conservatives hear “Why of course we will have to open up these areas” and the liberal environmentalists hear “Why of course we will have to eliminate offshore drilling”.

In an era where we need to provide certainty and confidence to the markets, Obama and his real plans still remain an enigma to those listening to him talk.

On top of that investors are seeing a divide between what Obama says and what he does. Most obvious are the thousands of earmarks contained in the budget bill signed today. During the campaign Obama promised to eliminate earmarks if elected, however, his budget contains about 9,000 earmarks. Obama recently claimed that earmarks were taken care of when he was in the senate.

On top of all this, we still have a media that won’t allow anyone to challenge Obama, much less they themselves. The gullible press covering Obama are more like cheerleaders rather than hard-nosed reporters. I predict it will be said of the press that they let the country down at a time when they were needed the most.

Look at what happened to Limbaugh when he said he hoped Obama would fail and compare that to the reaction when James Carville said basically the same thing during a press conference in 2001 that he hoped George Bush would not succeed.

Barack Obama is a great pretender. He constantly says he’s doing things that he isn’t, and he relies on his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference. He has made “responsibility” a personal theme, and the budget’s cover line is “A New Era of Responsibility.” He claims that the budget begins “making the tough choices necessary to restore fiscal discipline.” It doesn’t. –Presidential Double-Talk Robert J. Samuelson

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Lacking small business stimulus, the stimulus bill will fail

Small business is the backbone of the economy, responsible for more jobs overall than big business. Without helping small businesses no stimulus effort will succeed.

In addition to ignoring small businesses, which are the nation’s top job creators in the stimulus bill, President Obama has refused to stop rampant fraud and abuse in existing federal economic stimulus programs for small businesses. — PR Neswire

Read full article: Obama Economic Policy Falters Without Small Business Stimulus

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Conservative MP’s furious

‘wholly inappropriate’

Senator Ted Kennedy 'Lion of the Senate'

According to the Daily Mail: Lord Tebbit, the ex-Tory Cabinet minister whose wife was confined to a wheelchair after suffering terrible injuries when IRA terrorists bombed the party’s conference hotel in Brighton in 1984, said the honorary knighthood was ‘wholly inappropriate’.

Read Full Article: MPs’ fury as U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy gets honorary knighthood for Northern Ireland role

Kennedy, a suspected IRA sympathizer, is a radical left wing U.S. Senator who favors amnesty for illegal aliens and a whole host of far-left liberal socialist objectives.

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But my guess is that Obama is a political coward.

Rush Limbaugh

Wednesday, March 4, On his daily radio show, radio talkmaster Rush Limbaugh issued a challenge to President Obama to a debate. As of now the White House has not responded. Rush is right, Obama should debate, but my guess is Obama won’t. Why? Political Cowardice

The liberals would rather put Limbaugh on an “enemy list” or use the “Fairness Doctrine” to silence him, according to Michal Savage. I agree.

Egging him one, Rush continued: “I, Mr. President, will send my jet, EIB One, to pick you up and bring you here and take you back to wherever you want to go. You’d love it. It’s not as big and luxurious as your jet, but it’s got enough seats for your Secret Service detail. . . .

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The fawning Nancy Pelosi out-claps Joe Biden.

“We haven’t seen someone so into clapping since that mother at the second-grade Flutophone concert.” – Top of the Ticket

Should we tell Michelle?

Nancy Pelosi Botox withdrawal?

Looks like Obama has an incestuous relationship with another branch of government, that Pelosi woman. It was a “love-in” during that “speech” the other night, all we missed was seeing her drool.

I don’t know if it was those fawning eyes, too much Mountain Dew, or Botox but she looked like she wanted to plant a warm wet one right on his head.

Not to mention she was on her feet so fast and so often her chair never warmed.

You have got to see this:

Reminds me of that game: “Whack-a-Mole”

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The liberals and the press love to compare Lincoln with Obama, however, nothing can be further from the truth.

President Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was a man of God, conviction and principles. That means he stood for something, he did not waiver or compromise in the face of political pressure, in a word, he had political courage. Lincoln rose to power after years of toil and struggle with failure and challenge; as president he gave us a day of fasting, humility and prayer.

Lincoln admonished the nation in his proclamation: “[we have become] Intoxicated with unbroken success…” Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day

“…heal their land..”

I wonder if Lincoln was thinking of : 2 Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (Source: TBS ) when he wrote his proclamation.

Lincoln asked: “…that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.”

Obama rose almost magically, practically effortlessly, unchallenged in the greater sense, growing up in a protective bubble, untested, with dubious devotion to anything meaningful, lack of conviction, lies and deceit. In other words, a political coward. Obama gives us excess, weakness of character and promises that cannot be fulfilled.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. — Lincoln.

Political Cowardice:

Weakness of conviction should be the death knell in politics, but, today, it is worn as a badge of honor by the liberals who extol the virtues of compromise. In compromise, no one wins.

Obama, trying to please everyone, equivocates on the same-sex marriage issue in the face of the California Supreme Court’s decision. Both sides of the issue feel betrayed. – Salon

Huh?

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’ — Obama

Obama like Lincoln is very smart, but, it’s not enough to be very smart; you have to stand for something.

“A compromise is like kissing your sister”. — PC

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Change we don’t need:

Obama’s scheme to save our economy with massive federal spending, much of it for questionable earmarks and for programs advancing his hidden social agenda will plunge the world economy and our nation into deep financial trouble many experts say.

Contemplation? A trillion here, a trillion there... President Barack Obama reflects on the data presented during a meeting on the budget Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. -- whitehouse.gov

More details emerged this past week about Obama’s real goals as his budget percolates in the press and the muted, disorganized Republican opposition begins to grow louder and find its ground. The election after-glow is turning to gloom as the details begin to sink in, so say many polls.

After all, the evidence was there all along; but nobody listened. Remember Joe the Plumber and “spreading the wealth”? Don’t we really have a modern-day Robin Hood? The idea sounded great in the movies, except now that Obama is Robin’ from us, (tax burden shifts to wealthy) well perhaps not so great an idea. Maybe there is something to what the Right Wing commentators were saying.

As usual Obama has it backwards, we need to save, not spend. Our national debt is out of control and we are being held hostage by debt to foreign nations, many not our friends. Some predict under Obama, we will be paying more than $1 Billion A DAY in interest on the debt.

The national debt – the sum of all annual budget deficits – stands at $10.7 trillion. Or about $36,000 for every man, woman and child in the U.S.

Interest payments alone on the national debt will near $500 billion this year. It’s already the fourth-largest federal expenditure, after Medicare-Medicaid, Social Security and defense. — Obama’s economic stimulus bill and the national debt?

What is really scary is Obama is marching us like lemmings to a Marxist style socialism where government knows best and is looked upon as the ultimate “nanny”.

It’s hard to argue that this represents some unprecedented leap toward socialism… — Cathy Young writing in ‘Real Clear Politics‘

Slowly the bailout of institutions is really becoming de facto “nationalization”. Giving more power to the never-audited “National Bank” — the Federal Reserve and its chairman Bernake is a step towards that, however, Mr. Bernake likes to call it ‘partnership’. I wonder what George Orwell would call it?

Read: ‘Orwellian Doublethink… Nationalize the Banks… The language of deception‘ by Prof. Michael Hudson wringing in GlobalResearch.ca

Federal involvement in the US banking industry has moved into a new phase.

In a deal announced Friday, the giant bank Citigroup agreed to a plan in which the government intends to take as much as a 36 percent ownership stake in the ailing bank.

Call it partial nationalization if you want. Or, since many Americans don’t like the word nationalization, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke floated “partnership” as an alternative word this week. — Mark Trumbull writing ‘Uncle Sam takes a greater role in US Banking‘ in the Cristian Science Monitor.

The warnings from the right about Obama’s support of loony left wing radical and perhaps criminal organizations now rings true when you learn that the stimulus bill contains earmarks for such groups as ACORN and the brown supremacist, racist organization “La Raza”.

After initially refusing to release his 2005-2006 Senate earmarks requests, the campaign has finally released a HUGE list of earmarks from that period containing many questionable expenditure requests. Examining the earmarks in Obama’s federal budget request and the stimulus bill may provide some insight into what a utopian society would be under Obama.

Obama’s New Spending Bill Has 9,000 Earmarks.

The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks – loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress – were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees. — William Douglas and David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers

Unless the Republicans can organize a strong opposition, which seems unlikely with Obamamainia in full force, we are destined for crushing debt, growing liberal radicalism, further nationalization and radicalization of our institutions and firmly on the path to ultimate socialization.

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Need we say more?

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“…in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards”

Attorney General Eric Holder at the Department of Justice African American History Month Program gave an address in which he stated:

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. Though race related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race. It is an issue we have never been at ease

with and given our nation’s history this is in some ways understandable. And yet, if we are to make progress in this area we must feel comfortable enough with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us. But we must do more- and we in this room bear a special responsibility. Through its work and through its example this Department of Justice, as long as I am here, must – and will – lead the nation to the “new birth of freedom” so long ago promised by our greatest President. This is our duty and our solemn obligation.” — Read Full Text

Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General - Source: Official portrait Department of justice.

Yes, I agree, we have cowards in our nation, however, the cowards are the Al Sharptons, Jessie Jacksons and the Jeremiah Wrights of our country.

Let us not overlook the coward in chief President Obambi who did everything to avoid talking about race, unless of course, he was forced into discussing it, say by Jeremiah Wright? Oops… isn’t Holder’s boss one of those ‘cowards’ that avoids discussing race?

Anyone who plays the race card to gain advantage including non-merit based advantages like affirmative action are real cowards. Oh and the white liberals who wear their black friends on their sleeves and try to out-do each other with their bleeding heart liberal deeds. But would they marry one?

Yes, we can do with more discussion and debate, but let us have the truth first. You have to ask yourself can the Eric Holders of the world handle the truth?

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Or End of the Beginning?

On Tuesday, President Obambi signed the $787 billion stimulus bill into law in Denver with words that appeared to me to be draw from Winston Churchill’s November 1942 World War II ‘end of the beginning’ speech.

But of course he was not quite as clever as Churchill who said:

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

Obambi, who’s comments were perhaps prophetic, said:

“I don’t want to pretend that today marks the end of our economic problems. Nor does it constitute all of what we’re going to have to do to turn our economy around.

“But today does mark the beginning of the end: the beginning of what we need to do to create jobs for Americans scrambling in the wake of layoffs, the beginning of what we need to do to provide relief for families worried they won’t be able to pay next month’s bills, the beginning of the first steps to set our economy on a firmer foundation, paving the way to long-term growth and prosperity.”

Many economists claim the bill will do little to improve the economy and is laden with spending for his socialist projects.

Did Obambi get Churchill wrong and let slip the thruth? Perhaps it really is the ‘beginning of the end’.

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