From the folks at American Thinker…just amazing.
Number of lawyers: 8.
Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence now does it?
Looks as if there may be a bit more to the story than has been reported. But then, if the WH Secretary’s office would have had someone at the door, we wouldn’t be having the conversation, now would we. We also have learned that this is not the first time they were party crashers. They made it to the Congressional Black Caucus affair. Let me think… Bravo TV is owned by NBC. Bravo cameras were following the couple right up to the door.They give there first interview to NBC….Looks like a good boost for the now infamous new Bravo TV “Reality” show. Jeffery Immelt, with his hands in much of the WH brand..NBC, G.E. the pentagon, could it be? Say it isn’t so.
E-mails turned over to the Secret Service show that Tareq and Michaele Salahi had sought a top Defense Department official’s help to gain access to last week’s White House state dinner.
Several people familiar with the Jones-Salahi correspondence, including some who requested anonymity because it’s part of an ongoing investigation, said the e-mails support the Salahis’ case that they were cleared to attend Tuesday night’s gala.
The e-mails apparently do not contradict that version of events, but are described as having given the Salahis the confidence to get dressed up, mingle with some of the most powerful Washington players and post snapshots of their presence at the party on their Facebook page.
The e-mail exchange is said to include assurances from Jones that she was trying to score an official invitation, complete with seats at the dinner, for the couple. By the time they arrived in line, the couple believed that Jones had succeeded in getting them approved only for the cocktail reception and a handshake with the president, sources said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113004420.html
It is stunning how the women’s groups remain silent on the steady march of the Islamic movement to put women back into the stone age. Where is the outrage? Have we forgotton the Afghan women in their Burkas? The video of the Isalmic women receving public beatings? A woman shot in a soccer stadium?
Besides keeping women from being tempted with hellfire and damnation, the progressives in Hamas have also banned…folk dancing! Apparently, Palestinian folk dances are quite suggestive – if you’re an Islamist nutcase, that is.
The government’s Islamic Endowment Ministry has deployed Virtue Committee members to preach at public places to warn of the dangers of immodest dress, card playing and dating.
The opening of the Palestinian Heritage Museum on Oct.7 was meant to include a rendition of the dabke, a line dance performed by girls and boys. Except that no girls were allowed.
Black-shirted men from Hamas carrying AK-47s appeared at the gates of the museum, on Gaza’s waterfront, said Jamal Salem, the curator. They said girls shouldn’t dance because it wasn’t religiously proper. Nor could they share the stage for the inaugural speeches, said Salem.
And just how is Israel suppose to deal with this?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/hamas_bans_women_dancers_and_s.html
It will be interesting to see if Obama mentions once, the odious oppresion of the Afghan women. From our earlier posting:
Have we forgotten the oppression of the women? Have we no caring that we would turn back the clock and allow the Taliban once more to abuse them in the most hideous manner? Condemn them to Sharia Law? To appeal to Karzi’s conservaties during the recent election, Karzai re-instituted many of the earlier sub-human treatments of women, including forcing women to remain in their homes.
Check out our earlier post: Have we fogotton the Afghan women for a trip down memory lane.http://bunkerville.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/have-we-forgotton-the-afghan-women/
On this his birthday, let us be inspired by Sir Winston, cognizant of the threats to our freedom and of the power of a great man to lead and inspire a nation with an understanding of his nation’s history (indeed of world history) and a commitment to its traditions, values and freedom, a recognition of the enduring legacy of Western Civilization.
In 1940, upon taking the helm of the British government, he rallied a nation, fearful for its future, its survival even, after the swift defeat of its European allies as the Nazis & their allies enslaved nearly all of continental Europe.
Through it all, he never faltered, always held firm, believing that as dark as things appeared, the West would triumph, victory was on the horizon. He stood up to the naysayers of his day and stood strong against tyranny, defending Western civilization and the long English tradition of freedom under the law. He was a friend of the Jews and other then-oppressed peoples.
Today marks the 135th anniversary of the birth of the greatest man of the century.
Where is our Winston, America??
http://www.gaypatriot.net/2006/11/30/remembering-winston-churchill-on-his-132nd-birthday/
http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/11/30/happy-birthday-winston-churchill/
The Catholic Church – states firmly no abortion funding. It has drawn the line in the sand — society can go to Hell if it wishes, but the Church will not aid and abet in the process.
As they’ve said in the past, if hospitals end up required to perform abortions on demand, they will shut down every single Catholic hospital in the country.
Now that is a bluff we dare not call — Catholic hospitals represent 12.7% of all hospitals in the United States and 15% of all hospital beds. And the Church clarifies that threat — they simply won’t sell them off, but shut them down and, if necessary, tear them down. They will be morally obliged to make certain those hospitals are never used to perform abortions.
“So what?” you say. Think about it – almost 13% of all hospital beds in the country? This does not include Catholic nursing homes, elder care, hospice care, assisted-living, etc. Financially the Catholic Church is already in trouble paying out their lawsuits. Matrix believes this just gives them an excuse to shut doors and not have to cite the ‘unsightly incidences of their past’.
Surely there is one person in either the mis-administration or the Congress that is aware of this?
When was the last time you heard of a war that claimed to have a date for “when it will end? Looking forward to how “The One” will spin this on Tuesday night. Let me think. WWII. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt stated that on Dec 7, 1943 we will have an exit plan to leave the pacific. So, Japan, hang tight, we will be leaving. What a signal, what a statement.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/30/obama-af-pak-policy-looking-for-exit-signs/
From the Huckleberry PAC comment on the horrendous kiling of four police officers. Sorry. Hucklebery, it just doesn’t cut it. 
Note the passive language and blame-shifting to prosecutors with no explicit mention of Huckabee’s role in granting clemency over the objections of prosecutors:
…Should he be found to be responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State. He was recommended for and received a commutation of his original sentence from 1990, making him parole eligible and was paroled by the parole board once they determined he met the conditions at that time. He was arrested later for parole violation and taken back to prison to serve his full term, but prosecutors dropped the charges that would have held him. It appears that he has continued to have a string of criminal and psychotic behavior but was not kept incarcerated by either state.
The Fallen
Nothing like a good dumpster dive. A rose by any other name? Then we hear how Eric Holder will not do any investigation. How many more days??
ACORN, the troubled community service organization, recently considered changing its name in a bid to rehabilitate its image, 
according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO.
The document, which will be released Tuesday as part of a Republican congressional forum on ACORN, illustrates the internal deliberation the group has undergone after a year of embarrassing scandals.
The document was found in Dumpster outside of an ACORN office in San Diego, a House Republican aide said. Derrick Roach, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for statehouse in California, took thousands of documents last week from the trash outside the office. An ACORN spokesman confirmed the veracity of the document.
In the “now I can sleep at night” silo. Glad to know we are in full defense mode at the Whitehouse. Meanwhile, Airplanes can fly around the skies in silence for over an hour, with no one letting NORAD know. I know my Medical Records now will be perfectly safe as well. It’s a Whitehouse that just keep giving. It would be funny if it wasn’t so scary
Excuse me, would you have any Grey Poupon?
The White House staff member whose job was to supervise the guest list for state dinners and clear invitees into the events says she was stripped of most of her responsibilities earlier this year, prompting her to resign last June.
The account of Cathy Hargraves, who formerly served as White House “assistant for arrangements,” raises new questions about whether changes that she says were made by President Obama’s social secretary, Desiree Rogers, may have contributed to the security lapses that permitted Virginia socialites Michele and Tareq Salahi to crash the state dinner for India’s prime minister last week and get themselves photographed with the president.
Her job duties included overseeing the invitations for guests at state dinners and keeping track of RSVPs, she says. On the evening of state dinners, she says, she physically stood at the East Gate portico entrance and greeted each of the guests as they arrived, checking their names off a computerized printout of those who had been invited.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/11/your-medical-records-are-absolutely.html
