This story will soon be forgotten, so I'm blogging about it now. There's a certain cretin out there, a senator who goes by the name David Vitter (R-La.), a first-time senator from the great state of Louisiana.
Sadly, this guy demeaned his state and his office by engaging in gay bashing recently. Here's the radio conversation, as reported on The Plum Line (link):
MALE HOST: I wonder if Senator Vitter is ever going to post, like, maybe the video of the first time he was on the floor of the Senate. If I have to show the way I looked the first time I was on TV, you should do that too.
VITTER: We should go further back than that, how about high school yearbook?
MALE HOST: Oh yeah.
VITTER: De La Salle marching band.
MALE HOST: That'd be cool. Well you know, with Rachel Maddow they had that picture of her...
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"I firmly believe this...[t]hat the greatest threat to the United States today, the greatest threat to our liberty, the greatest threat to the Constitution of the United States, the greatest threat to our way of life - everything we believe in, the greatest threat to the country that was put together by the founding fathers, is the guy who is in the White House today."
Sharron Angle has resorted to an unusual maneuver to counter Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's attacks on her past quotes and positions, the Reid campaign has announced: A cease-and-desist letter, demanding that Reid no longer republish Angle's previous campaign website.
A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod; But execute a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of G-d; And from its force, nor doors, nor locks Can shield you; 'tis the ballot box..
Pierpont, A Word from a Petitioner
We love peace as we abhore pusillanimity; but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets.
Douglas Jerrold, Specimens of Jerrold's Wit. Peace.
All quotes taken from: The Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations by J.K. Hoyt and Anna L Ward. 12th Edition. Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1894.
In the Muslim-majority nation of Maldives, a man stunned an audience during questions and answers period in a lecture given by an Islamic cleric, by stating that he had chosen freedom of conscience not to follow Islam. The man, Mohamed Nazim, was promptly attacked, taken into custody, and has been threatened with death and beheading, or other punishments
At the worst here, if a Christian leaves his or her flock, he/she may be abandoned by the congregation (very Jesus-like, of course) but threatened with death?
Islam in the hands of fanatics is the kiss of death.
Israel is the 100th smallest country, and has about 1/1000th of the world's population. It is only 62 years old,
Only 62 years old, 7 million people strong (less than Virginia), and smaller in size than New Jersey, surrounded by enemies, under constant threat and possessing almost no natural resources, and yet…
Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. It has absorbed 350% of its population in 60 years.1
Israel is the only country in history to have revived an unspoken language.
Since the founding of the state, Israel has more Nobel Prices per capita than any other country. It has more laureates in real numbers than China, Mexico and Spain.2
Israel has the 8th longest life expectancy (80.7 years), longer than the UK, US, and Germany3
Israeli films were nominated three years in a row for the Academy Award's Best Foreign Film4
Environment
Israel is the only country that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, even more remarkable -- in an area that's mainly desert.5
Over 90% of Israeli homes use solar energy for hot water, the highest percentage in the world.6, 7
Israel will be the first country to host a national electric car network.8
Israel is ranked in the top five Cleantech countries of the world, and operates the world’s largest desalinization plant.9
Israeli companies are producing the largest solar energy production facility in the world.
Science & Technology
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, 63% more than the U.S. It also has the most physicians and engineers per capita.10
Israel's scientific research institutions are ranked 3rd in the world.11
Israel produces the 3rd most scientific papers per capita, and the most in stem cell science.13
More Israeli patents are registered in the United States than from Russia, India and China combined (combined population 2.5 billion). It leads the world in patents for medical equipment.11, 14, 15
Israeli companies invented the drip irrigation system, discovered the world’s most used drug for multiple sclerosis, designed the Pentium NMX Chip technology and the Pentium 4 and Centrium microprocessors, created Instant Messenger (ICQ), and Israeli cows produce more milk per cow than any other in the world!
Business
Israel has the 3rd highest rate of entrepreneurship among women in the world.16
Israel has attracted the most venture capital investment per capita in the world, 30 times more than Europe17
Israel has more NASDAQ-listed companies than any country besides the US -- more than all of Europe, India, China and Japan combined.18
In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute numbers, Israel has more startups than any country other than the U.S.19
Defying the Odds
Israel is the only country whose indigenous population returned to its native land after 2,000 years of forced exile.
There are 26 official Muslim states in the world, and 18 official Christian states, but there is only one Jewish state.20
Canada: Canada's Immigration Program (October 2004), Library of Parliament, URL accessed 13 July 2006. The level of immigration peaked in 1993 in the last year of the Progressive Conservative government and was maintained by Liberal Party of Canada. Ambitious targets of an annual 1% per capita immigration rate were hampered by financial constraints. On a compounded basis, the immigration rate represents 8.7% population growth over 10 years, or 23.1% over 25 years (or 6.9 million people)
The official website of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in 2007, 2008, 2009
48th Session, United Nations Forum on Forests, 20 April 2009. During the past 50 years, Israel planted over 260 million trees, covering over 1000 square kilometers.
World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Yearbook 2006-2007
"Stem cell density highest in Israel". The Scientist. 2009-03-21. Thomson Reuters agency: "Top countries in space sciences". The Times Higher Education supplemmentary. 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
Robert M. May, head of Britain's Office of Science & Technology in London in Science News, based on data from the Philadelphia-based Institute for Scientific Information
Central Library of the Research Center Julich, Germany, for the years 2000-2004, Israel publishes 113 ste cell articles per every 1 million citizens
Donald Sneider, Fox Business, Israel’s Technology Creates an Investment Goliath, Mar 14th 2008
WEF Global Competitiveness Report, 2008-2009 and separately an independent study by research company BDI in partnership with foreign-trade risk insurer Coface revealed that Israel had 2.04 patents granted per 10,000 inhabitants. Japan had the highest, with 2.98, and Taiwan was second with 2.96. Published by: Jerusalem Post Avi Krawitz 12/08/2004
OECD's Compendium of Patent Statistics 2006 recently releasedIsrael is above the OECD average in both ratios. Indeed, Israelhas 2.3 patents for every billiondollars of GDP, and 53.1 patentsfor every million inhabitants.
Kansas City-based Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and Tel Aviv Universitys Faculty of Management revealed that for every 100 Israeli men who start new businesses, 64 Israeli women also begin a new economic enterprise. This compares to 60 in the U.S. and 51 in Canada. October, 2000
SJP LEADERSHIP = Husam Zakharia, leader of the Students for Justice in Palestine
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WHAT HAPPENED?
On Friday, March 5, 2010:
University of California at Berkeley was again the site of a clash involving pro-Israel and anti-Israel activists last Friday when Husam Zakharia, leader of the Students for Justice in Palestine, assaulted Jessica Felber of the pro-Israel Tikvah group with a shopping cart.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT:
Felber told Israel National News that she responded to the incident by immediately placing her attacker under citizens’ arrest. Police arrested him later that day and Felber expressed hope that the District Attorney will see the case through and file charges against Zakharia.
HAVE TIKVAH STUDENTS BEEN HARASSED BEFORE?
Felber said that Friday’s incident was not the first time Zakharia used violence against pro-Israel advocates. According to her, physical intimidation has frequently been employed as a tool by SJP to silence students opposing their anti-Zionist activities on campus. SJP students have been terrorizing us for three years with intimidation, accusations and threats. This incident is simply the culmination of it all and we are not going to tolerate it anymore.
The Problem with (San Francisco) Bay Area (left-wing) Jews:
JVP = JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ISM = INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT BAWIB = BAY AREA WOMEN IN BLACK
All groups are comprised of far-left cretins, outright communists, anti-zionists, anti-semites, and anarchists. A fair number of them are also Jewish, hence the tragedy of it all. The ISM is particularly vile, given that the Northern California leader, Paul Larudee is also an unabashed supporter of the Jew murdering terrorist group, Hamas.
Given the nature of the SF Bay Area, it is common for the more liberal Jewish community to turn the other cheek and outright ignore the bigotry perpetuated against them. Local activism is generally frowned upon and seen as offensive to sensibilities. As such, pro-Israel groups tend to be on their own because to accept funding from the professional Jewish community would come with strings attached. Sadly, the idea is to just turn away from the prejudice so it doesn't have to be seen, heard, or even acknowledged. Heaven forbid the 'other side' takes offense!!
James Michael Biela, a 27-year-old ex-Marine, pled not guilty to five charges on Wednesday related to the murder of University of Nevada student Brianna Denison and the sexual assaults of two other college women.
Law enforcement officials will meet to decide whether they will be seeking the death penalty.
In addition to Denison's murder, Biela is charged with raping a woman at gunpoint on the University of Nevada at Reno campus in October 2008, and with kidnapping and sexually assaulting another woman walking to her apartment near campus.
Denison disappeared on Jan. 20, 2008. She was last seen sleeping ona friend's couch near campus. Her body was discovered in a south Reno field in February, weeks after she went missing.
DNA links Biela to Denison's rape and murder, as well as the other two sexual assault case. The woman raped at gunpoint in October identified Biela as her attacker during a November preliminary hearing.
The DNA sample was obtained based upon a tip from a friend of Biela's girlfriend, who was the mother of Biela's 4-year-old son. DNA from Biela's son linked Biela to the murder and sexual assaults.
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