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22 June 2009
NEDA R.I.P.
This girl was murdered for watching the protests in Tehran. Share this video. Download it. Do not let her death be in vain! There is text at the end of the video from a witness / doctor and cameraman. Tell the world!
This video is graphic and contains strong adult material.
21 June 2009
Iranian election debacle 2009
After the election debacle we had in 2000, where the Supreme Court decided who won the election, the United States has NO business schooling other countries on how to operate an election cycle. I hope the situation gets worked out. I think the results should be thrown out and a new election called for if the The Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei can prove the election was rigged to favor Ahmadinejad.
The Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared the unprecedented voter turnout and coinciding religious holidays as a "divine assessment", and urged the nation to unite, and later ordered an investigation into the claims of vote fraud. Referring to Mousavi's appeal letter about the irregularities, Khamenei said that "the Guardian Council has been emphasized to carry out investigation into this letter carefully," and probe allegations of electoral fraud. Mousavi is not optimistic about his appeal, saying that many of the group's members "during the election were not impartial".
Ahmadinejad called the election "completely free" and the outcome "a great victory" for Iran, dismissing the protests as little more than "passions after a soccer match".
According to a scientific analysis by Professor Walter R. Mebane, Jr., from Department of Statistics of University of Michigan, considering data from the first stage of the 2005 presidential election produces results that "give moderately strong support for a diagnosis that the 2009 election was affected by significant fraud." This notion is also supported by the NGO UK-based thinktank Chatham House for a number of reasons:
* In two Conservative provinces, Mazandaran and Yazd, a turnout of more than 100% was recorded.
* At a provincial level, there is no correlation between the increased turnout, and the swing to Ahmadinejad. This challenges the notion that his victory was due to the massive participation of a previously silent Conservative majority.
* In a third of all provinces, the official results would require that Ahmadinejad took not only all former conservative voters, and all former centrist voters, and all new voters, but also up to 44% of former Reformist voters, despite a decade of conflict between these two groups.
* In 2005, as in 2001 and 1997, conservative candidates, and Ahmadinejad in particular, were markedly unpopular in rural areas. That the countryside always votes conservative is a myth. The claim that this year Ahmadinejad swept the board in more rural provinces flies in the face of these trends.
The Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared the unprecedented voter turnout and coinciding religious holidays as a "divine assessment", and urged the nation to unite, and later ordered an investigation into the claims of vote fraud. Referring to Mousavi's appeal letter about the irregularities, Khamenei said that "the Guardian Council has been emphasized to carry out investigation into this letter carefully," and probe allegations of electoral fraud. Mousavi is not optimistic about his appeal, saying that many of the group's members "during the election were not impartial".
Ahmadinejad called the election "completely free" and the outcome "a great victory" for Iran, dismissing the protests as little more than "passions after a soccer match".
According to a scientific analysis by Professor Walter R. Mebane, Jr., from Department of Statistics of University of Michigan, considering data from the first stage of the 2005 presidential election produces results that "give moderately strong support for a diagnosis that the 2009 election was affected by significant fraud." This notion is also supported by the NGO UK-based thinktank Chatham House for a number of reasons:
* In two Conservative provinces, Mazandaran and Yazd, a turnout of more than 100% was recorded.
* At a provincial level, there is no correlation between the increased turnout, and the swing to Ahmadinejad. This challenges the notion that his victory was due to the massive participation of a previously silent Conservative majority.
* In a third of all provinces, the official results would require that Ahmadinejad took not only all former conservative voters, and all former centrist voters, and all new voters, but also up to 44% of former Reformist voters, despite a decade of conflict between these two groups.
* In 2005, as in 2001 and 1997, conservative candidates, and Ahmadinejad in particular, were markedly unpopular in rural areas. That the countryside always votes conservative is a myth. The claim that this year Ahmadinejad swept the board in more rural provinces flies in the face of these trends.
10 June 2009
Carrie Prejean Stripped Of Miss California Title
I'm waiting for another press conference where she will claim that she is being punished!
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Carrie Prejean has been stripped of her Miss California title.
"The Miss California USA Organization, in conjunction with the Miss Universe Organization and with the blessing of its owner, Mr. Donald J. Trump, announced today the termination of Carrie Prejean as Miss California USA 2009, citing continued breach of contract issues," the Miss California Organization said in a statement to Access Hollywood.
The group kicked the controversial beauty queen from her post due to "contract violations including Ms. Prejean's unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization," the pageant's Executive Director, Keith Lewis, said in a statement.
Last month, Trump decided that Prejean would be allowed to keep her crown despite racy photos of the 22-year-old surfacing on the Internet. But Lewis claims that in the weeks that followed, the beauty queen did not step up to the plate.
"Since that time it has become abundantly clear that Carrie is unwilling to fulfill her obligations under our contract and work together," Lewis' statement continued.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Carrie Prejean has been stripped of her Miss California title.
"The Miss California USA Organization, in conjunction with the Miss Universe Organization and with the blessing of its owner, Mr. Donald J. Trump, announced today the termination of Carrie Prejean as Miss California USA 2009, citing continued breach of contract issues," the Miss California Organization said in a statement to Access Hollywood.
The group kicked the controversial beauty queen from her post due to "contract violations including Ms. Prejean's unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization," the pageant's Executive Director, Keith Lewis, said in a statement.
Last month, Trump decided that Prejean would be allowed to keep her crown despite racy photos of the 22-year-old surfacing on the Internet. But Lewis claims that in the weeks that followed, the beauty queen did not step up to the plate.
"Since that time it has become abundantly clear that Carrie is unwilling to fulfill her obligations under our contract and work together," Lewis' statement continued.
03 June 2009
anti-abortion advocate threaten's the presidents life!
I wonder why he hasn't been arrested by the Secret Service? I was under the impression that threatening any presidents life was illegal? They advocate the death of abortion doctors someone always steps forward to carry out these acts of domestic terrorism.
If you don't like the law, work to elect those politicians who are like minded and get the law changed. Picking up a weapon and killing doctors who provide a legal medical service is terrorism.
Dan Holman believes in saving the unborn, but thinks it acceptable to kill doctors!
Holman: I don't advocate Tiller's murder, but I don't condemn it
(CNN) -- CNN's Drew Griffin interviewed Dan Holman of Missionaries to the Preborn Iowa about the recent murder of Dr. George Tiller, whose women's clinic frequently took center stage in the debate over abortion.
Tiller was shot and killed while serving as an usher at his Wichita, Kansas, church Sunday morning, according to police.
Below is a transcript of Holman's interview.
Drew Griffin: Dan, first off -- tell me about your group, and what you guys do and the name of it.
Dan Holman: OK. We are Missionaries for the Preborn Iowa. There [are] a number of Missionaries of Preborn. The group in Milwaukee is our judiciary of preborn. And we speak up for preborn child in different venues including the abortion rallies and on the street, political venues. And media types and venues like we are doing right now.
Drew Griffin: When you heard the news over the weekend about the abortion doctor -- that I'm sure you are well aware of -- was shot and killed, what was your reaction?
Dan Holman: I was cheered by it because I knew that he wouldn't be killing any more babies. And I expect that would happen when all legal and moral -- legal ways of trying to stop it has been exhausted, as they have tried to prosecute him for giving abortions to people in violation of Kansas law.
Drew Griffin: When you say you were cheered by it, is there any inconsistency in your thought in that you are trying to protect life and at the same time here's this doctor who was shot and killed and in your own words you are cheered by that?
Dan Holman: No, because I'm protecting innocent life. I'm not -- and the doctor or the abortionist is guilty of murder as far as I'm concerned. It's no different for him to be killing a preborn child or a post-born child. The preborn child is entitled to the same rights, privileges and protections as a post-born child.
Drew Griffin: So, you support this killing?
Dan Holman: I don't advocate it, I don't support it. But I don't condemn it, and I believe that what he did was justifiable.
Drew Griffin: You told me earlier that he -- meaning the shooter -- he did what the law should have done?
Dan Holman: Right, exactly. The law should have protected the preborn child; and the law is supposed to execute vengeance, you know, in protecting the child. But what the man did was not execute vengeance, as far as I'm concerned. He was protecting preborn children, ones that are slated for abortion today and the future. I don't feel that what he did is vengeance.
Drew Griffin: Do you seek this fate on all doctors performing abortions out there?
Dan Holman: I believe that all abortionists are deserving of death, and they are not the only ones. There are politicians and judges and others who support this murder that are also deserving of death.
Drew Griffin: Would you care to name names, Dan?
Dan Holman: George Bush, Barack Obama. Any politician that gives our tax money to Planned Parenthood and organizations that kill babies are participating in the killing of innocent children deserve the same penalty.
Drew Griffin: Huh. And you, again, stage a weekly protest at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Iowa City. Your wife has been banned from doing that?
Dan Holman: Right. She has a -- they -- she's received an injunction from being there.
Drew Griffin: But you will be there this Wednesday?
Dan Holman: I will be there this Wednesday.
Drew Griffin: And you were at Notre Dame?
Dan Holman: Yes, and we were at [unintelligible] before that.
Drew Griffin: Right. All right. Well, Dan, thank you so much for the interview.
If you don't like the law, work to elect those politicians who are like minded and get the law changed. Picking up a weapon and killing doctors who provide a legal medical service is terrorism.
Dan Holman believes in saving the unborn, but thinks it acceptable to kill doctors!
Holman: I don't advocate Tiller's murder, but I don't condemn it
(CNN) -- CNN's Drew Griffin interviewed Dan Holman of Missionaries to the Preborn Iowa about the recent murder of Dr. George Tiller, whose women's clinic frequently took center stage in the debate over abortion.
Tiller was shot and killed while serving as an usher at his Wichita, Kansas, church Sunday morning, according to police.
Below is a transcript of Holman's interview.
Drew Griffin: Dan, first off -- tell me about your group, and what you guys do and the name of it.
Dan Holman: OK. We are Missionaries for the Preborn Iowa. There [are] a number of Missionaries of Preborn. The group in Milwaukee is our judiciary of preborn. And we speak up for preborn child in different venues including the abortion rallies and on the street, political venues. And media types and venues like we are doing right now.
Drew Griffin: When you heard the news over the weekend about the abortion doctor -- that I'm sure you are well aware of -- was shot and killed, what was your reaction?
Dan Holman: I was cheered by it because I knew that he wouldn't be killing any more babies. And I expect that would happen when all legal and moral -- legal ways of trying to stop it has been exhausted, as they have tried to prosecute him for giving abortions to people in violation of Kansas law.
Drew Griffin: When you say you were cheered by it, is there any inconsistency in your thought in that you are trying to protect life and at the same time here's this doctor who was shot and killed and in your own words you are cheered by that?
Dan Holman: No, because I'm protecting innocent life. I'm not -- and the doctor or the abortionist is guilty of murder as far as I'm concerned. It's no different for him to be killing a preborn child or a post-born child. The preborn child is entitled to the same rights, privileges and protections as a post-born child.
Drew Griffin: So, you support this killing?
Dan Holman: I don't advocate it, I don't support it. But I don't condemn it, and I believe that what he did was justifiable.
Drew Griffin: You told me earlier that he -- meaning the shooter -- he did what the law should have done?
Dan Holman: Right, exactly. The law should have protected the preborn child; and the law is supposed to execute vengeance, you know, in protecting the child. But what the man did was not execute vengeance, as far as I'm concerned. He was protecting preborn children, ones that are slated for abortion today and the future. I don't feel that what he did is vengeance.
Drew Griffin: Do you seek this fate on all doctors performing abortions out there?
Dan Holman: I believe that all abortionists are deserving of death, and they are not the only ones. There are politicians and judges and others who support this murder that are also deserving of death.
Drew Griffin: Would you care to name names, Dan?
Dan Holman: George Bush, Barack Obama. Any politician that gives our tax money to Planned Parenthood and organizations that kill babies are participating in the killing of innocent children deserve the same penalty.
Drew Griffin: Huh. And you, again, stage a weekly protest at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Iowa City. Your wife has been banned from doing that?
Dan Holman: Right. She has a -- they -- she's received an injunction from being there.
Drew Griffin: But you will be there this Wednesday?
Dan Holman: I will be there this Wednesday.
Drew Griffin: And you were at Notre Dame?
Dan Holman: Yes, and we were at [unintelligible] before that.
Drew Griffin: Right. All right. Well, Dan, thank you so much for the interview.
02 June 2009
An act of domestic terrorism?
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An act of domestic terrorism?
June 1: MSNBC's Richard Wolffe discusses the acts of violence committed against abortion doctor George Tiller before his murder this past weekend.
Repercussions of right wing hate talk?
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Olbermann: Fox News' killer complicity
June 1: Countdown's Keith Olbermann asks people to "quarantine" Fox News Channel and its hateful incitements against abortion which he feels contributed to the death of Dr. George Tiller.
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Repercussions of right wing hate talk?
June 1: The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan talks about whether the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller can be attributed to hate philosophies from the right.
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