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January 18, 2010
Exclusive: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up! (1/18/10)
Whenever you think general incompetence by those who purport to serve by the consent of the governed can’t get any worse, think again:
“DPS menu for MLK birthday hard for some to digest” (Denver Post, 1/15/10)
Denver Public Schools apologized Tuesday for what it called a "well-intentioned but highly insensitive" attempt to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Friday's DPS lunch menu, headlined "In Honor Of M.L. King," offered students "Southern Style" chicken and collard greens — a meal that some say is an offensive caricature of black culture.
In a statement issued Tuesday night and posted on the school district's website, DPS spokesman Michael Vaughn said the meal was "highly insensitive in light of certain hurtful cultural stereotypes still harbored in parts of our society."
"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the greatest leaders and civil rights heroes in our country's history," Vaughn said. "We are working with all of our schools to ensure that our students appreciate the enduring legacy of Dr. King's work and life and the extraordinary importance of his message in our community today."
In December, Jennifer Holladay, mother of a Denver kindergartner and former director of Teaching Tolerance — a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center — saw the lunch menu for the next month and noticed the menu listing for Jan. 15. Holladay said she was instantly upset.
"Denver Public Schools are great because they are so diverse, but this sort of thing undermines the positive things that kids can get in school," said Holladay, who is white but whose spouse is black.
"I am an anti-bias educator, and this is the type of thing I work with all the time," she said.
"It's a teachable moment for DPS and for people across the country. These caricatures can slip in without any malicious intent."
She said she called DPS food service to complain, left messages but never heard back from anyone in the district.
Nate Easley Jr., the school board president, who represents northeast Denver, said he thinks there are bigger problems facing DPS than what is on the lunch menu.
"I don't think people woke up in the morning and said how can we offend people," Easley said.
"As a black man, the things that offend me more is how we are doing with kids in the district," he said.
"It's not having kids graduating and doing well. The outcomes of the district are more offensive to me than someone trying to do the right thing and being offensive."
(read entire article here)
Indeed – if people are more worried about the fact that Southern fried chicken is being offered to schoolchildren in order to honor Dr. King in the lunchroom rather than, say, the fact that Berkeley High School may drop lab sciences because the average white student did better in them than blacks and Hispanics (and without questioning their own education methods, which are obviously failing those students), says more to us about discrimination than a chicken lunch. When schools would rather “level the playing field” than challenge students of all colors and creeds to succeed, everyone loses. We like to think Dr. King would agree.
“No KSM in NYC?” (Newsweek, 1/15/09)
Top administration officials are getting nervous that they may not be able to proceed with one of their most controversial national-security moves: trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 conspirators in federal court in New York City. Last November Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. portrayed the trial as a way to showcase the American justice system to the world—and to accelerate President Obama's stalled plans to shut down the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay. But because of shifting political winds in Congress, the trial is now "potentially in jeopardy," a senior official, who did not want to be named talking about a sensitive situation, tells NEWSWEEK. The chief concern: that Republicans will renew attempts to strip funding for the trial and, in the aftermath of the bombing attempt aboard Northwest Flight 253, pick up enough support from moderate Democrats to prevail. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he will force another vote on his amendment to stop the trial (which was defeated 54-45 in November) once Congress reconvenes. "With Detroit and everything else going on, we've got a pretty good chance of winning this thing," says Graham, adding that he's privately heard from a number of Democrats, saying "they're with me." GOP Rep. Frank Wolf says he plans a similar move in the House. "I'm afraid it's probably going to pass," says Democratic Rep. Jim Moran, who has strongly backed the administration on the issue.
Another big factor? The price tag. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently sent a letter to the White House budget office seeking more than $216 million to provide security for the trial this year—and more than $200 million for each year after that. The figures have prompted some critics to say that, given the years a complex conspiracy case could take, the final cost could approach $1 billion. (The U.S. Marshals Service has briefed congressional staff members on a separate request for an extra $118 million for surveillance aircraft and armored vehicles to guard against terror attacks. White House budget officials, however, knocked the figure down to $40 million.) The Justice Department has yet to indict the suspects, nor has it given Congress the required 45-day notice that it plans to bring them to New York. But spokesman Matthew Miller says the attorney general remains "committed to bringing to justice those allegedly responsible for the murder of nearly 3,000 people"—and "we can do it in trials that are safe, secure, and respected around the world." If Holder's plans are thwarted, though, one top administration official, who also didn't want to be named talking about delicate issues, notes there is a Plan B—reviving the case against the alleged 9/11 conspirators before a military tribunal, just as the Bush administration tried to do.
(original article here)
Sounds like the administration failed to do its homework.
“The Pentagon Review of Fort Hood Jihad or Why The War is Lost” (Atlas Shrugs, 1/16/10)
Mr. West, at a second Pentagon news conference with Admiral Clark, said the problem with “self-radicalization” in the military was not rooted in Islam. “Suppose it were fundamentalist-Christian-inspired,” Mr. West said. “Our concern is not with the religion. It is with the potential effect on our soldiers’ ability to do their job.”
Islam has achieved absolute intellectual dominance. They control the narrative. They control information and how it is processed at senior levels of the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, Military ..........
Christianity does not teach its adherents jihad. The objective of Christianity or Judaism is not rooted in the murder of non-believers and the absolute mandate to murder, maim and destroy until the world lives under a pax Islamica. That is Islam. That is its goal. Muslims know this. That is why you do not see blowback and protest and outrage from the Muslims against the horrible unrelenting Islamic attacks across the world. That is why you do not hear Muslims calling out for the violence prescribed in the Quran to be expunged. Mandated genocide.
If I know this, why don't our senior level officials at Pentagon, FBI, CIA, etc., know this? Because for decades the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated every agency and institution at the highest levels (i.e. MAS, CAIR, ISNA, ISNA) and they control the narrative and what can be said and how it can be said.
Did you know in the FBI's Counter Terrorism Manual the word jihad is not to be found? Not once.
The Pentagon released its review Friday on Major Muslim Hasan's Fort Hood massacre. It is described as a systemic breakdown within the military that permitted an Army psychiatrist, now charged with killing 13 people, to advance through the ranks despite concerns from his superiors about his behavior.
Nowhere does it discuss jihad and the ideology that mandates, commands jihad of good Muslims. Major Hasan's power-point presentation, which he presented to fellow doctors on grand rounds, is accurate as a description of Islamic jihad, the absolute rules of Islam by scholarly consensus. It is a perfect religious document. Read it. It is Islam's absolute law. He got nothing wrong.
There is nothing wacky or extreme or radical in Hasan's devotion to Islam. What is wacky, extreme and insane is the Pentagon's review of Hasan's jihad without mentioning or addressing Islam and the objective of our mortal enemy – Dar al Islam.
Togo D. West, former Secretary of the Army, should be brought up on charges for violating his oath to protect and defend the Constitution. He and every other officer and agent have a lawful responsible to protect and defend us from those who advocate and/or plan the overthrow of the government.
(read entire post here)
If we don’t get with it, political correctness, combined with savvy on the part of the Muslim Brotherhood, will bring us down from within. Exactly what they plan.
Brought to you by the editors and research staff of FamilySecurityMatters.org.
Reader Comments: Submit Your Comment (1)
Besides the other nonsense, one has to wonder why the DPS is offering a special meal on MLK holiday. Doesn't school let out for the federal holiday?
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