Item: Michael Jackson and his sister, pop princess Janet, spent more than $10 million on the music video for “Scream”.
Pop queen Madonna holds spots two, three and four in the top five list. She spent more than $20 million on the three videos, including $9.4 million for “Express Yourself.”
Obama’s spending on Music Videos for Obamacare? 340 million and rising.
Never heard any of them? You are not missing anything of staggering intellect. Here is a sample:
We fly with our own wings. Care about the same things. We stand strong together. So let me hear you say. We fly with our own wings. Dreamin’ all the big dreams. Long live Oregonians; we’re free to be healthy. Long live Oregonians; we’re free to be healthy.
I would have added the u-tube video of the song here, it is up on u-tube, but in the best traditions of transparency of this administration, this tax-payer funded video’s activity has been set to “private’.
Which bring us to verse 33 of the Obama Impeachment song.
Hillary Rodham Clinton June 20 2007 accused then President Bush of disregarding the Constitution and promised to bring a new progressive vision to the White House.
Bush’s government has “a stunning record of secrecy and corruption, of cronyism run amok,” she said in one of the more partisan speeches of her campaign. “It is everything our founders were afraid of, everything our Constitution was designed to prevent.”
The picture on the right has Hillary Clinton on her way to Libya. Interesting enough there are no released e-mails from her from that trip.
The Queen of the lawlessness pack.
Her e-mails for Russians to hack.
It is Hillary’s shame
She is always the same
The Clinton Foundation; a PAC?
Not much has changed since got fired from her short stint as a staff lawyer for the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation. Her supervisor, lifelong Democrat Jerry Zeifman said in an interview she was fired “because she was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer, she conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the Committee, and the rules of confidentiality. In a 2008 column Zeifman wrote, “My own reaction was of regret, when I terminated her employment on the Nixon impeachment staff, I had not reported her unethical practices to the appropriate bar associations.”
But she learned one lifelong lesson from the Watergate investigation: Don’t leave a trail.
WASHINGTON, – The United States has laid out a battle plan to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul in an April-to-May time frame, using some 20,000 to 25,000 Iraqi troops who currently are being trained, a highly unusual disclosure that one intelligence source told is “pure lunacy.”
In a teleconference with reporters at the Pentagon, a U.S. Central Command official said brigades of Iraqis along with Kurdish peshmerga forces and Sunni militia will seek to take back Iraq’s second largest city from ISIS, which has held it since June.
Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, recently made a devastating admission… the goal of environmental activism is not to save the world from terrifying environmental calamity, but to end capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
This brings us to verse 25 of the Obama Impeachment song (as if sung by President Barack Hussein Obama to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)
The White House on Feb 17 began hosting a three-day summit to examine ways to counter violent extremism.
The meeting put a special emphasis on domestic and international efforts to prevent extremists and their backers from radicalizing young people.
The conference, which has been in the works for months, came just days after fighters with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) executed 21 Egyptians and terrorist attacks in Copenhagen left three people dead including the radicalized Islamic terrorist.
President Obama addressed the summit twice, which included representatives from more than 60 countries, during events at the White House and at the State Department. There were delegates from the most repressive authoritarian regimes, representatives from Russian counterpart to FBI, but not our own FBI
I am paraphrasing and consolidating his remarks with this (admittedly incomplete) version in verse 24 of the Obama Impeachment song:
Gunfire in Copenhagen art debate featuring the theme “Blasphemy and freedom of speech”. The featured speaker was to be the Swedish Cartoonist Lars Vilks, famous for his Muhammad Cartoons. The gunfire started before he was to speak.
First a background on Denmark and its people:
The Danes, a friendly people are hard to impress and hard to scare. Lately, they too have had to take in their fair share, (as defined by EU) of Muslim refugees and immigrants. The Danes decided to distribute them evenly across the country and thus they would be absorbed into Danish culture in no time. After all, they had successfully assimilated even the Gypsy. However in mid 2000 they experienced a few honor killings in their peaceful country, since some young women sought to assimilate into Danish Culture. The Danish judicial system decided to apply Danish law on the perpetrators and everyone associated with one honor killing got long prison terms, including the taxi driver who provided the getaway car. The Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten gave it maximum publicity. This didn’t sit well with the Muslim Imams, so they complained and threatened them, telling them to stop writing evil of our sense of honor or else. The newspaper editors responded with a competition who could produce the best Muhammad cartoons, and so in 2007, slowly at first, but the religion of peace activists grew angrier and angrier and a total of about 93 people were killed worldwide. The results linger as we saw in Paris lately.
Now back to the Cultural center “Krudttønden” (The Powder Keg) in Copenhagen.
One person is dead, a 55-year-old male, film director Finn Norgaard. 3 policemen wounded, none life threatening.
Two armed gunmen opened fire at the attendees of the debate, one gaining entrance through the kitchen, and the other shooting from the outside through the windows.
About 30 shots were fired from automatic weapons, more powerful than the police weapons
The getaway car, a stolen VW Polo was found a few blocks away but the gunmen, described as “Of Mideastern Descent” are still at large.
Update:
There is since 2007 a Fatwa on Lars Vilks, and a $100000 reward for his death.
There were 40 shots at the Culture Center.
They now think there was only one gunman at the culture center, not two as first reported
The first shooting at around 4:p.m. local time.
There has been a second shooting outside the Jewish Synagogue on Krystalgade in Central Copenhagen about 12:45 a.m. Monday, three people wounded, including 2 policemen, one shot in his head, the policemen with flesh wounds.
There also may be a shooting at the Norreport Metro Station, two blocks from the Synagogue.
The person killed outside the synagogue, 37 year old Dan Uzan was standing guard safeguarding a Bat Mitzvah (coming of age for 12 year old Jewish girls). He was a member of the Synagogue.
After a shootout the perpetrator, 22-year-old Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein,a person on the police watch-list was killed by the police.
Jan 20: U.S. officials told NBC News late Monday that they don’t plan to evacuate the American embassy in Yemen’s capital, where government soldiers and Shiite rebels fought near the presidential palace and a military before agreeing to a cease-fire.
The rebels seized Yemen state television and its official SABA news agency, Information Minister Nadia Sakkaf told The Associated Press. Nine people were killed and 67 injured in the fighting in Sanaa.
“This is a step toward a coup and it is targeting the state’s legitimacy,” Sakkaf told AP.
But the two sides agreed to a cease-fire after holding day-long negotiations, on Monday.
The strife comes as the U.S. and its allies fight al Qaeda’s Yemeni operation, which said it was responsible for the Jan. 7 attack on a Paris-based satirical magazine in which 13 people were killed.
There was no imminent threat to Americans inside the embassy, U.S. military officials said. It would be “more likely and safer” for any Americans to leave the capital of Sana’a on a commercial flight, said one senior U.S. official, who noted that the military had not stepped up its alert level.
Feb 11: Yemen the model of American Diplomacy took over the Embassy as the State Dept evacuated all US personnel – including the US MARINE GUARDS who were ordered by State Dept to destroy any and all weapons – including personal weapons before being allowed to leave the country – on a commercial flight .
So individuals had to abandon the Marine Code of NEVER GIVE UP YOUR WEAPON – under orders from State Dept –
Obama seems to have a far reaching hand in the demoralization of the US – with this being the latest .
The rebel group who ordered the US out of the embassy says they will respect the US property now under their control including 20 vehicles left behind with their engines running – which they are only borrowing to use “temporarily.”
Verse 23 of the Obama Impeachment song: (as if sung by Obama to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)
Yemen loss was a surprise, And my successes were but lies. This will lead to my demise, I never was worth my Nobel Prize.
Despite pressure to cancel his speech before a joint session of Congress March 3, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sticking to his decision, because Israel’s very existence is at stake.
This reminds the world of another Munich agreement. Charles Krauthammer claims this deal is much worse than the Munich agreement of 1938.
Breitbart.com published this picture of the negotiations.
Here is a piece from The Telegraph(UK):
Britain at War: Chamberlain a hero, Churchill booed I clearly remember watching the latest Newsreel in our local cinema. It showed Chamberlain returning from Munich with the famous paper with Hitler’s signature on it. Neville Chamberlain brandishes the paper that he believed signified “peace for our time” on his return from Munich in 1938 Photo I was amazed to see most of the audience rise to their feet and start to clap and cheer. The majority of the population wanted peace and thought that Chamberlain had averted war. At the same time Churchill was booed by most of the audience. I was 15 years old at the time. G R Gorner, Bolton
President Obama tipped his hand at the Presidential prayer breakfast last Thursday.
To be fair to the President I will quote him in context:
“We see faith driving us to do right.
But we also see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge — or, worse, sometimes used as a weapon. From a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris, we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith, professed to stand up for Islam, but, in fact, are betraying it. We see ISIL, a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism — terrorizing religious minorities like the Yezidis, subjecting women to rape as a weapon of war, and claiming the mantle of religious authority for such actions.
We see sectarian war in Syria, the murder of Muslims and Christians in Nigeria, religious war in the Central African Republic, a rising tide of antisemitism and hate crimes in Europe, so often perpetrated in the name of religion.
So how do we, as people of faith, reconcile these realities — the profound good, the strength, the tenacity, the compassion and love that can flow from all of our faiths, operating alongside those who seek to hijack religious for their own murderous ends?
Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. Michelle and I returned from India — an incredible, beautiful country, full of magnificent diversity — but a place where, in past years, religious faiths of all types have, on occasion, been targeted by other Peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs — acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhi, the person who helped to liberate that nation.”
Why is that offensive?.
He says violence in the name of religion is to blame, and the only examples he can come up with are age old atrocities done in the name of Christ, but fails to give examples of atrocities done by Radical Islam. In fact he has never used that term, preferring to call it workplace violence or extremism in general.
On slavery in the U.S. it was Abraham Lincoln, a Republican that championed its abolishment.
On Jim Crow laws, it was the nearly exclusive domain of the Democrat party. The Democrat Party identified itself as the “white man’s party” and demonized the Republican Party as being “Negro dominated,” even though whites were in control. Based on Obama’s logic, he and the Democrats should never cease to apologize to the blacks and to the Republican Party.
On violence in the name of Islam is betraying it:
Number of non-Muslims killed since 602 A.D. Between 200 and 400 million. Of these are about 100 million slaves from sub-Saharan Africa that died during their march from their home to the Mediterranean.
Number of Muslims killed by Muslim Governments from 632 to 1945: About 40 million
Number of Muslims killed by Muslim Governments since 1945: About 12 million and rising (Pakistan and Sudan (Darfur) come to mind.
On the Crusades: Obama gives the ISIS propaganda line calling us “The Crusaders”. The truth is that the Crusades were largely in response to relentless Muslim aggression:
The first Crusade began in 1095 after centuries of church burnings, killings, enslavement and forced conversions of Christians…
460 years after the first Christian city was overrun by Muslim armies
457 years after Jerusalem was conquered by Muslim armies
453 years after Muslims first plundered Italy
427 years after Muslim armies first laid siege to the Christian capital of Constantinople
380 years after France was first attacked by Muslim armies
249 years after the capital of the Catholic world, Rome itself, was sacked by a Muslim army
By the time the Crusades finally began, Muslim armies had conquered two thirds of the Christian World.
On the Inquisition: Total trials: 44674. Conviction rate 1.8% or about 800. About as many convicted in absentia and never executed. Jews were expelled, not executed. Muslims were expelled. The total number of executions performed in all Inquisitions, about 2200.
Obama mentions the genocide of the Yezidis but omits the genocide of Christians, which in much larger.
On Slavery: Muhammad was a slave trader. Mauritania abolished slavery in 2007, Saudi Arabia in the 1950’s. Slaves taken under Muslim rulers, well in excess of 100 million. Slaves taken by Europeans: less than 4 million.
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