Planck's Constanttag:plancksconstant.org,2012://12012-05-16T15:34:03ZMovable Type 3.21Yes That's Clooney and Obama on the Cover of Time Magazinetag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51922012-05-16T15:20:53Z2012-05-16T15:34:03ZObama showed us how much he and his supporters are Limousine Socialists last week when the President made headlines at George Clooney's house for a fundraiser 1 that sucked in a staggering $15 million for his reelection efforts.
Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/There are two kinds of socialists:
The poor, unsuccessful, unhappy types who blame the rich for their miserable lives,
and
The rich successful, unhappy types who blame the right-wing rich for the miserable lives of the first type.
The latter are called Limousine Socialists.
Obama showed us how much he and his supporters are Limousine Socialists last week when the President made headlines at George Clooney's house for a fundraiser 1 that sucked in a staggering $15 million for his reelection efforts. The star-studded backyard party brought in a campaign haul believed to be the largest ever in one night.
The relationship between Hollywood's left and Obama is perfectly illustrated by this parody of last week's Time Magazine cover:
On the heels of the President’s historic backing of gay marriage, Thursday night was very good to his reelection coffers: a George Clooney-hosted fundraiser managed to rake in a cool $15 million for Barack Obama’s campaign fund — reportedly a record for a single presidential election event. But that was just the business side of things.
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Should We Obey the Laws of Man or the Laws of God?tag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51912012-05-16T03:47:21Z2012-05-16T04:43:46ZMuslims are commanded to fight unbelievers until they are either dead, converted to Islam, or in a permanent state of subjugation under Muslim domination.
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Following Gadaffi's death, Libya’s interim government has announced that “Sharia law” will govern the country. Photo Credit: The Ahmadiyya Post
Last year I wrote a favorable article about Professor Mahfooz A. Kanwar, a rare Muslim who believes one should have loyalty to one's adopted country above loyalty to Islam. Of course this position is blasphemy and in Shariah compliant countries would subject the offender, unless he recants, to death.
I agree with the Professor, however his beliefs contradict Islamic law - the Hadiths are quite clear - Muslims are to obey the laws of the land unless they conflict with the laws of God:
The ‘Prophet said, “It is obligatory for one to listen to and obey (the ruler’s orders) unless these orders involve one disobedience (to Allah); but if an act of disobedience (to Allah) is imposed, he should not listen to or obey it.”
But how should the pious Muslim be obedient to Allah? Muslims are commanded to fight unbelievers until they are either dead 1, converted to Islam 2, or in a permanent state of subjugation under Muslim domination3. Non-observant Muslims who are unaware of these commands have no problem being loyal to their adopted country.
However, devout Muslims cannot be loyal to God if they do not engage in jihad to make Islam the dominant religion in the land. This is the dilemma observant Muslims face living in non-Muslim countries. As I wrote in Is there anything wrong with Muslims in Our Government? "Those who take their Islam seriously know that the end purpose of their lives is to turn Dar al-Harb (non-Muslim countries) into Dar al-Islam."
Before any reader complains that Christianity and Judaism also require that their members not obey temporal authority if it is in conflict with God's commands, let me point out there is a big difference. The God of Christians and Jews does not command their faithful to strive in the path of God to kill, convert, or subjugate non-believers.
I have written before that I find a problem with any religious group that holds God's Law as more important than the laws of our land, specifically Catholics should not run hospitals because Catholic doctrine is in conflict with many medical procedure and US laws. God's law has no place in medicine.
Likewise I ridiculed pious Jews who endanger the lives of others merely to foolishly comply with Jewish law.
But devout Christians and Jews will not try to subvert our government or change our Constitution or attempt to destroy our culture in order to comply with the commands of their faith. That cannot be said about devout Muslims.
That is the difference between devout Muslims who obey God's Law and devout infidels who obey God's Law.
Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.
And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world ].
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
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My Toddler Gets Hysterical When He Has His Hair Cut. What Can I Do?tag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51882012-05-14T12:45:15Z2012-05-14T20:50:47ZThe question "My Toddler Gets Hysterical When He Has His Hair Cut. What Can I Do?" is wrong. Here is the right question: "When is the right age for my baby's first haircut?"
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There is a Jewish answer to the question: "My toddler gets hysterical when he has his hair cut. What can I do?" The answer is another question: "If your child gets hysterical when he has his haircut, why are you persisting in trying to get his hair cut?"
Unless it is an absolute emergency, why traumatize a child? The only situation when it is appropriate to restrain a child while he or she is terrified, is for vaccines or other medical reason.
Before we continue, let me say that the question "What can I do?" is wrong. Here is the right question: "When is the right age for my baby's first haircut?"
The quick answer: When your child is no longer afraid to get one.
My sons didn't have their first haircut until they were three or four. No fuss, no crying, no trauma, no drama, no restraint, no child abuse.
The long answer: Unless your child is stepping and then tripping on his hair, why bother cutting it at all? Many mothers cut their son's hair because they are annoyed that people mistake their boy for a girl. But so what? Other moms do it for no reason at all. There are mothers who even cut their child's hair every single month, no matter how much the child is tortured or traumatized.
But, you may ask, what about hair that gets in the way of your child's vision? Well, just snip off the offending strands while your child is asleep. It's not brain surgery.
Some mothers only cut their child's hair so that they can style it in a manner that impresses their female friends (Oh isn't he cute with that mohawk haircut?).
For these mothers, the child is merely fodder to bolster their own distorted notion of self-esteem or to satisfy the sick urges prompted by their Münchausen syndrome by proxy disease. It is not the child's needs that are important, it's whatever makes the mother look good to those around her. Mothers who cannot wow their friends with a fancy car or expensive jewelry use their children as just another plaything to make her look successful or happy or a good mother.
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A mother's job is difficult enough without making it unbearable. Why make your child wail in terror? This is why some mothers have postpartum depression, they lack sleep and they worry about their ability as a mother. They lack sleep because their child wakes up in the middle of the night from terror-dreams. The child wakes in the middle of the night because the mother has unknowingly abused her child.
The mother rightly worries about her ability as a mother because her child is always crying. Want to have a peaceful and restful motherhood? Stop abusing your child. The first step in solving the problem is admitting that you, not the child, is the problem.
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Sexy Weather Girl Sugey Abregotag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51872012-05-11T23:59:48Z2012-05-12T02:09:18ZHere for Noticieros Televisa is weather presenter Sugey Abrego.
Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/
While gringos are stuck with television weather presenters such as Al Roker (nothing personal, I'm sure he's very talented), television weather shows in Mexico are smart enough to make the production more interesting with sexy female presenters.
Here for Noticieros Televisa is weather presenter Sugey Abrego. Click on any panel for larger view.
Sugey will appear in a future article entitled 13 Hottest Weather Girls of the Western World.
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I Practiced Attachment Parenting Decades Before Jamie Lynne Grumettag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51862012-05-11T15:24:50Z2012-05-11T16:21:45ZI practiced attachment parenting starting in 1976 with the birth of my first child. Both of my sons are the envy of every parent who knows them. No smoking, no drinking, no bad friends, no carousing, no drugs, both hard-working, non-violent, sensible, responsible parents themselves. Attachment parenting - it works.
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Jamie Lynne Grumet Breast-feeding Photo Credit: Time Magazine
In the provocative new cover story of its May 21 issue, TIME Magazine taps into a two-decade-long parenting conversation that has boiled over in recent months. Journalist Kate Pickert reports on the rise of attachment parenting, a set of techniques popularized by Dr. William (Bill) Sears in "The Baby Book," his 767-page treatise published in 1992.
In the article, Pickert explores who Sears is and why controversy surrounds his theories -- the biggies are baby-wearing, extended breastfeeding and co-sleeping -- but it's TIME's photographs of real mothers breastfeeding their toddlers that has everyone talking...
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For my readers' convenience here are just a few links to my articles:
I practiced attachment parenting starting in 1976 with the birth of my first child. Both of my sons are the envy of every parent who knows them. No smoking, no drinking, no bad friends, no carousing, no drugs, both hard-working, non-violent, sensible, healthy, loving, responsible parents themselves. Attachment parenting - it works.
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Fifty Shades of Grey Has Muslims Upset about Spankingtag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51852012-05-11T03:26:11Z2012-05-11T04:45:04ZThe Quran instructs Muslim men to beat their wives if they become disobedient and also not to emulate infidels, so what are Muslim men to do if spanking one's wife becomes popular in the Western world?
Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/
Muslims are instructed not to emulate the infidels lest it lead to love and friendship, which is forbidden 1.
The Quran instructs Muslim men to beat their wives 2 if they become disobedient, so what are Muslim men to do if spanking one's wife becomes popular in the Western world?
From the steamy bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey to HBO's Girls, sexual domination is in vogue. Katie Roiphe on why women's power at work may be fueling the craze...
Why does this particular, watered-down, skinny-vanilla-latte version of sadomasochism have such cachet right now? Why have masses of women brought the book to the top of the New York Times bestseller list before it even hit the stores? Most likely it’s the happy convergence of the superficial transgression with comfortable archetypes, the blushing virgin and the whips. To a certain, I guess, rather large, population, it has a semipornographic glamour, a dangerous frisson of boundary crossing, but at the same time is delivering reassuringly safe, old-fashioned romantic roles. Reading Fifty Shades of Grey is no more risqué or rebellious or disturbing than, say, shopping for a pair of black boots or an arty asymmetrical dress at Barneys.
Here is a spoof on the book by Saturday Night Live:
Next Thursday, for the benefit of my Muslim readers, I will publish 13 Ways to Spank Your Wife.
Christians and Jews are denounced as infidels. Moreover, Christians and Jews are presented as enemies of Islam and of Muslims. Therefore, Muslims may not befriend them, nor emulate them in any way, lest that lead to love and friendship, which is forbidden.
There are in the world today those who profess Judaism and Christianity, out of imitation of their ancestors, [and out] of arrogance and renunciation of the truth, in spite of the appearance of the religion of Islam which replaced the former religions that had preceded it.
Geography of the Muslim World, Grade 8, (1994) p. 18
Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other ... As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them.
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Was Paul McCartney of the Beatles Responsible for the Murders Committed by Charles Manson?tag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51842012-05-10T03:50:43Z2012-05-10T04:41:27ZOn the 9th of September 1968 at EMI Studios in London, the Beatles recorded Helter Skelter, a song written by Paul McCartney. Less than a year later, in August 1969, Charles Manson orchestrated the Tate-LaBianca murders which were inspired by Helter Skelter. "
Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/On the 9th of September 1968 at EMI Studios in London, the Beatles recorded Helter Skelter, a song written by Paul McCartney. Less than a year later, in August 1969, Charles Manson orchestrated the Tate-LaBianca murders which were inspired by Helter Skelter. "Manson believed that the Beatles spoke to him through their lyrics" 1.
Of course just because Manson idolized the Beatles does not mean that the Beatles are evil nor does it mean that other people who also idolize the Beatles are in any way similar to the psycho murderer.
Likewise, just because Anders Behring Breivik, the psycho who slaughtered all those poor young people in Norway, admires right wing and anti-Muslim writers does not mean that those writers are evil nor that other people who also happen to admire right wing and anti-Muslim writers are in any way similar to the psycho murderer.
A reader from Germany, calling himself JustInCase, left this comment in response to my article 13 Beautiful Muslim Women:
Hey Bernie and his supporters. Here a link to someone who would completly find his ideas reflected into your blog: Anders Behring Breivik
Please also look at his political ideology and idols (Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Radovan Karadžić, Srđa Trifković, and Dutch politician Geert Wilders etc...). I found a fervent followers of your ideas man! You must be happy and proud of him and ... also so grateful to me to find you such a nice soulmate...
Sorry guy, but just because Anders idolizes Geert Wilders does not mean that Geert Wilders promotes the idea that its a moral thing to go out and slaughter young people any more than Paul McCartney's song promotes the idea that its a moral thing to go out and kill innocent people.
If you want to make a connection between Anders' murderous rampage and those who encouraged him to do that then please give me a quote where those he idolizes actually say "Go and murder!"
As for your assertion that Anders is a fervent follower of my ideas, please give me a link to any of my more than 2600 articles where I write anything that can be even remotely stretched or interpreted to encourage the slaughter of innocent people. You leftists are really funny. Stupid, but funny.
In a related matter, remember when the media used a bogus photo of an innocent-looking 12 year-old boy in the Trayvon Martin case instead of the real photo of a thuggish-looking 17-year-old? Well, Moonbattery suggests that If Charles Manson committed his crimes today, This is the photo the media would use:
One of the two great influences on the thinking of Charles Manson, along with the Book of Revelation, was the musical group the Beatles. According to Family members, Manson would most often quote "the Beatles and the Bible." The two influences were linked, in that Manson saw the four Beatles members as being the "four angels" referred to in Revelation 9. Revelation 9 also tells of "locusts"--the Beatles, of course--coming out upon the earth.
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Manson believed that the Beatles spoke to him through their lyrics, especially those included in the White Album, released in December 1968. Several songs from the White Album crystalized Manson's thinking about a coming revolt by blacks against the white Establishment. He interpreted many of the songs idiosyncratically, believing, for example, that "Rocky Raccoon" meant black people and "Happiness is a Warm Gun" was a song about getting firearms to carry on the revolution rather than--more obviously--a song about sex.
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One out of Six Visitors To My Site Uses a Mobile Browsertag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51832012-05-09T02:42:42Z2012-05-10T01:48:29ZToday I decided to make my site more mobile-friendly. So now, my mobile visitors will see something like this:
Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/The number of visitors to my blog using a mobile phone browser has been steadily increasing over the past few years. As of yesterday, almost 16% of my visitors (500 out of 3,000 per day) were accessing my website from iPods, Androids, iPhones, Blackberry phones, and other mobile devices 1.
So today I decided to check out the following sites to see if they could help make my blog more mobile friendly: GinWiz, DudaMobile, and bMobilized.
I will be testing out all three for the next 30 days to decide which one best displays my blog.
So now, my mobile visitors, instead of seeing something like this:
will now see something more mobile-friendly:
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Notes
(1): Here is the breakdown of visitors to Planck's Constant by browser over the past three days:
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Real Life Barbie Doll Valeria Lukyanova In Bikinitag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51822012-05-07T21:39:25Z2012-05-08T21:55:57ZA few weeks ago, ABC News reported on a teeny-waisted, huge-breasted, icy-blue-eyed, platinum-blonde-haired 21-year-old Ukrainian girl named Valeria Lukyanova who claimed to have used cosmetic surgery to turn herself into a living Barbie doll.
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A few weeks ago, ABC News reported on a teeny-waisted, huge-breasted, icy-blue-eyed, platinum-blonde-haired 21-year-old Ukrainian girl named Valeria Lukyanova who claimed to have used cosmetic surgery to turn herself into a living Barbie doll.
Although she isn't sized proportionately to Mattel's Barbie doll, her measurements are visually disturbing enough that the ABC report expressed concerns that she was either an elaborate photo-shop hoax or didn't exist at all 1.
However, a quick perusal of videos on Ms. Lukyanova's YouTube channel Amatue reveals that she is indeed a real person.
Lukyanova claims to be the "the most famous Russian woman on the Russian-language Internet." The following photos were taken from her Facebook page:
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If you're wondering what Valeria looked like before going under the knife:
We have somehow managed to unearth photos of "Human Barbie", Valeria Lukyanova, before her plastic surgery transformation - and needless to say we are speechless.
She definitely has had more work done then any of us imagined, and it is unbelievable to think that this girl is just 21-years-old.
Some bloggers have written that seeing her body leaves them breathless. Actually I believe Valeria should be breathless - looking at her waist I don't understand how she can breath at all.
With a teeny waist, disproportionately large breasts and wide, icy-blue eyes, 21-year-old Valeria Lukyanova says she is the real natural deal. A real-life Barbie, that is.
That’s what she claims anyway. Many are crying foul to her claims of her au natural Mattel-branded looks. Whether she underwent plastic surgery or uses photoshop to carve out that waist remains unclear. On her blog, the model notes that she is the most famous woman on the Russian Internet because of her doll-like appeal.
Hundreds of photos on her Facebook page show a wide-eyed, nearly fake-looking Lukyanova posing in a variety of scanty outfits. But with nearly 8,000 subscribers to her Facebook page, it’s unclear whether Lukyanova exists at all, or whether it’s all a hoax thanks to the world of photo editing.
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Why Companies Should Not Advertise on Muslim-Friendly Programstag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51742012-05-06T21:06:17Z2012-05-07T03:49:42ZIf All-American Muslim want to show what Muslim family life is really like, then they should be discussing what would happen to female members who go to clubs or wear immodest clothing or marry infidels. All-American Muslim hides this fact. Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/
The Florida Family Association has been pushing advertisers to drop TLC's "All-American Muslim." Photo Credit: CNN
In a previous article of mine, Do Not Hire Muslims, I warned companies not to hire Muslims because if the companies later find out that the newly hired Muslims cannot or will not do the work they were hired for, then the companies will not be able to fire those employees because Muslims will bring up religious discrimination.
Likewise, companies are advised not to advertise on reality TV shows that are "Muslim-themed." If companies later decide that the show does not promote values consistent with their brand image, they will find themselves thrust into a religious discrimination imbroglio:
Lowe's has pulled its advertising from the reality TV show "All-American Muslim," which the retail store called a "lightning rod."
"All-American Muslim" is an eight-part series that follows five Muslim families living in Dearborn, Michigan.
"Lowe's has received a significant amount of communication on this program, from every perspective possible. Individuals and groups have strong political and societal views on this topic, and this program became a lightning rod for many of those views. As a result we did pull our advertising on this program," the company said in a statement Saturday.
It is safer to avoid being accused of bigotry and hatred later on by not advertising in the first place. Advertisers do not need controversy. Companies routinely drop sponsorship of programs on radio and TV when those shows become problematic from a public relations standpoint. However, even if a company dropped a "Muslim-themed" program because of budgetary considerations they would still get accused of religious discrimination and perhaps boycotted by Muslims and Muslim-sympathizers.
Companies may find that the show does not result in improved sales of their product. Again, they would still get accused of religious discrimination.
Sadly because Islam is a political system, our laws protect Muslims for their political views as if they were religious accommodations. I watched one episode where an infidel male was forced to convert to Islam before he could marry a Muslim woman. The show's producers did not have the decency to warn viewers not to allow children to view this episode.
Children should not be shown that this kind of conversion is a moral thing. Or at the least, a running caption should have been displayed warning readers that the Quran demands submission from infidels and that the woman, if she had actually married an unconverted infidel, would likely be honor-killed for shaming her family.
And that's one of the problems with the show: it excludes those parts of Islam that Muslims feel would show Americans how truly antithetical Muslim values are to our way of life.
Imagine the "Sopranos" without the f-word or whacking or hijacking or extortion and so pretending Mafia life is only about Tony Soprano getting his newspaper from the driveway in the morning and having a normal breakfast with his family. This would be a lie.
In Mafia life if a person snitches to the cops he is marked for death. The Sopranos does not hide this fact.
If All-American Muslim wants to show what Muslim family life is really like, then they should be discussing what would happen to female members who go to clubs or wear immodest clothing or marry infidels. All-American Muslim hides this fact.
Some bloggers feel that not showing true Muslim life is no reason to drop advertising support for the show:
Lowe's, which is headquartered in Mooresville and is the second-largest hardware store chain in the country (behind The Home Depot), continues to come under fire, with prominent people calling for boycotts of its stores. Music and fashion mogul Russell Simmons and his GlobalGrind site have been among the most vocal. Miss USA 2010, Rima Fakih, who is Muslim, has recently gotten on board as well. There were protests held in front of Lowe's Home Improvement stores around the country over the weekend, and a website, LowesBoycott.com, has been set up.
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On or around December 6, Lowe's made the decision to stop advertising on All-American Muslim, after being contacted by the Florida Family Association (click here to see original email of Lowe's response to the group). FFA had contacted several advertisers claiming: "The Learning Channel's new show All-American Muslim is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law. The show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish."
Somehow, Lowe's didn't seem to see for itself that, perhaps for the first time in TV history, a show was being denounced for what it didn't include. Companies have been known to pull their advertising when TV shows feature too much violence, nudity, sex, profanity, or hate speech, for example. But FFA believes All-American Muslim is unfit for companies to be associated with it because "the show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks..."
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If the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wants to support these immoral, disgusting reality shows, then they themselves should sponsor them. The show promotes Muslim values and any company that later realizes they made a mistake should be allowed to do so without bringing religion into it when it's clearly a political matter.]]>
Thank You to the American Shlubs from Moochelle Obamatag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51812012-05-05T02:14:24Z2012-05-05T03:53:38ZThe Obama Philosophy: Milk the country for as much as you can while you can.Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/
Photo Credit: Conservative Examiner
Here's an email that has been making the rounds and while Moochelle Obama didn't write the exact words, and despite the fact that some events are described inaccurately, the sentiments expressed by the First Lady are 100% accurate and true 1. I have noted the corrections where appropriate:
For only the second time in my adult life, I am not ashamed of my country. I want to thank the hard working American people for paying $242 thousand dollars for my vacation in Spain [actual cost $467,585 2 - bernie] .
My daughter Sasha, several long-time family friends, my personal staff and various guests had a wonderful time.
Honestly, you just haven't lived until you have stayed in a $2,500.00 per night private 3-story villa at a 5-Star luxury hotel.
Thank you also for the use of Air Force Two and the 70 Secret Service personnel who tagged along to be sure we were safe and cared for at all times. By the way, if you happen to be visiting the Costa del Sol, I highly recommend the Buenaventura Plaza restaurant in Marbella ; great lobster with rice and oysters! I'm ashamed to admit the lobsters we ate in Martha's Vineyard were not quite as tasty, but what can you do if you're not in Europe , you have to just grin and bear it?
Air Force Two (which costs ONLY $11,351 per hour to operate according to Government Accounting Office reports) ONLY used 47,500 gallons of jet fuel for this trip and carbon emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of CO2.
These are only rough estimates, but they are close. That's quite a carbon footprint as my good friend Al Gore would say, so we must ask the American citizens to drive smaller, more fuel efficient cars and drive less too, so we can lessen our combined carbon footprint.
I know times are hard and millions of you are struggling to put food on the table and trying to make ends meet. So I do appreciate your sacrifices and do hope you find work soon.
I was really exhausted after Barack took our family on a luxury vacation in Maine a few weeks ago. I just had to get away for a few days.
Cordially,
Moochelle Obama
P.S. Thank you as well for the $2 BILLION dollar trip to India from which we just returned! [to be fair, this is an overly exaggerated trip cost and it was not really a vacation 3 - bernie]
P.SS. Thank you, too, for that vacation trip to Martha's Vineyard; it was fabulous.
And thanks for that second smaller jet that took our dog Bo to Martha's Vineyard so we and the children could have him with us while we were away from the White House for eleven days. After all, we couldn't take him on Air Force One because he might pee on some wires or something. [Actually it was the trip to Maine, not Massachusetts and although Bo did fly on a separate plane he did not fly alone 4 - bernie]
P.SSS. Oh, I almost forgot to say thanks also for our two-week trip to Hawaii at Christmas. That 7,000 square foot house was great! [trip cost between $1 and $4 million - bernie]
P.SSSs don't forget my ski trip to Vail this winter and now the girls and I are in Africa with my mom. All this while Barack golf’s and campaigns to keep my trips coming for the next 4 years !
Love Ya! Remember, we all have to share the pain of these economic times equally!
P.SSSS. Thanks too for the $1 million from my youngest and her 25 school pals for their 2012 Spring Break trip to Mexico. We knew it might be dangerous and that is why we sent 50 secret service agents with her and spent a bundle with the Mexicans to provide security so the kids could have some well deserved and hard earned fun. Our efforts to suppress information about this trip were for security purposes, not to prevent you from knowing about it. The problem was we sent her to a place that is a near drug war zone and wanted her to be secure – we were sure you would not mind helping out. Hope you can go there sometime. We heard it was a lot of fun for the little ones. [Actually it was only 25 Secret Service men - bernie]
Loving our share of the redistributed wealth!!! You should get some too!
The Obama Philosophy: Milk the country for as much as you can while you can.
Critics and even some in his own party say the vacations present a bad image at a time when many Americans are struggling to get by during the recession...
The Obama Vacation List
-- President’s Day 2012, Michelle and the first daughters in Aspen, Colorado to ski.
-- Christmas 2011, the first family in Hawaii for an extended vacation.
-- Summer 2011, in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., for the annual beach break.
-- June 2011, the first lady, her mother and daughters traveled to South Africa and Botswana.
-- President’s Day 2011, the first lady and first daughters travel to Vail to ski.
-- Christmas 2010, in Hawaii.
-- August 2010, the first family traveled to Panama City Beach, Fla., for some sun and fun at the beach.
-- August 2010, Obama spent the weekend alone in Chicago for his 49th birthday bash.
-- August 2010, the first lady and daughter Sasha traveled to Spain for a mother-daughter vacation.
-- August 2010, summer vacation again at Martha’s Vineyard.
-- July 2010, the first family went to Mount Desert Island, Maine.
-- May 2010, the first family had a four-day trip to Chicago.
-- March 2010, first lady and daughter spend Spring Break in New York City.
-- Christmas 2009, Hawaii again for the annual break.
-- August 2009, at Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon for a short vacation.
-- August 2009, their first summer vacation as first family at Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
Now that the pricy bills have been reported by Judicial Watch via the Freedom of Information Act, the Spain trip is back in the news.
At the time of the trip, there was negativity because the national unemployment rate was at its peak and the economy was much like it is now – in the basement. But, in time, the story died down. Now that it is learned that the trip cost nearly half-a-million dollars, FLOTUS’ trip to Spain is back in the headlines – and the White House isn’t talking about it.
While the exact cost of Obama's 10-day trip to Asia is not known to the public, an examination of similar presidential excursions in the past support the likelihood that the $200 million-a-day figure is exaggerated.
For example, an 11-day trip by then-President Bill Clinton to Africa in 1998 involving about 1,300 people cost $5.2 million a day, according to the federal Government Accountability Office, which adjusted for inflation.
Q: Did President Obama have his dog, Bo, flown to Maine in his own private jet for the family vacation?
A: No. The family and staff took two small jets because the airport couldn’t accommodate the usual presidential plane. Bo flew with several staffers.
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The 13 Hottest Photos of Scarlett Johanssontag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51772012-05-04T03:14:42Z2012-05-04T04:35:53ZThe Avengers will hit theaters tomorrow and my favorite female actress will be playing Natasha Romanoff. To celebrate this event, I present to my dear readers my picks for the 13 hottest photos of Scarlett Johansson.
Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/It is has been 7 months since my last post in my series of articles on Scarlett Johansson. The Avengers will hit theaters tomorrow and my favorite female actress will be playing Natasha Romanoff (see center photo). To celebrate this event, I present to my dear readers my picks for the 13 hottest photos of Scarlett Johansson.
Click on any panel for larger view:
Six and a half years ago, in the second day I started blogging, I wrote my first article on Scarlett Johansson (Scarlett Johansson`s Golden Globes). I noted "Is there anyone so young with so many different faces than this tremendously photogenic Hollywood beauty?"
She still has so many different faces.
This has been a Thursday 13 post [# 73] and is updated on some Thursdays.
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Obama: Recipes From My Father - A Story of Canine Cuisinetag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51792012-05-03T14:27:05Z2012-05-03T18:10:14ZThis type of spiteful article would be totally uncalled for, after all, Obama ate dog long ago,; but if they're going to attack Romney for his treatment of his dog long ago, then all is fair regarding dogs and Presidential contenders.Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/
I'm astonished that our President has taken time off his re-election campaign to write another book Recipes From My Father - A Story of Canine Cuisine. I am told that it was inspired by his previous bestseller Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, specifically chapter two:
“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”
In light of Obama's new cookbook I suggest that the facebook page of Pet Lovers for Obama change their graphic, Obama is looking at his dog Bo just a little too deliciously. David Axelrod over at the Daily Caller suggests we go there to check out their recipes.
Creepy Politics found this menu for an upcoming White House event:
Normally this type of spiteful article would be totally uncalled for, after all, Obama ate dog long ago, in a culture much different than ours. But if they're going to attack Romney for his treatment of his dog 1 long ago, then all is fair regarding dogs and Presidential contenders.
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Allow me to send a tip of the turban to Constant reader Leo P. for the graphic at the top of this article.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney can't even grab some pizzas without being reminded of how he treated his dog nearly 30 years ago.
As Romney exited Joe's Pizza carrying a stack of pizza boxes in New York City on Tuesday, somebody on the sidewalk shouted, "Just don't put 'em on the roof of the car," according to a tweet from Reuters reporter Sam Youngman.
In 1983, the Romneys embarked on a 12-hour drive from Massachusetts to Canada. Since there wasn't enough room in the car for the family dog, Seamus, Romney put the Irish Setter in a crate fastened to the roof of the car. Though Romney has said Seamus loved roof rides, during this particular trip the dog suffered a bout of diarrhea that forced Romney to pull over and hose off the car.
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How the Global Warming Scam All Startedtag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51762012-05-03T02:13:21Z2012-05-07T18:13:44ZIs it my imagination or is it getting very hot on this beach?
Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/
We've all seen how most apocalyptic Hollywood films begin: a single scientist accidentally discovers the spin of the magnetic core of the Earth is slowing down, or notices a small dot on a star-gazing map approaching Earth and runs to the US Government to warn the country that the world is about to end.
Likewise, many of those who have been suckered into the global warming hoax 1 believe that a scientist or group of scientists suddenly came across studies of tree rings and found proof that the world has been getting warmer over the last two centuries coinciding with the industrial revolution.
Nothing could be further from the truth. It was all politics. Here is how it started:
Crispin Tickell may sound like a name out of a Monty Python sketch, but he is a real person, a descendant of Thomas Huxley, the man known as “Darwin’s bulldog.” True to the Huxley tradition, Tickell seized on a scientific topic and became its popularizer... Tickell’s topic was man-made global warming. Though he lacked a scientific background, Tickell authored a book titled “Climate Change and World Affairs” in 1977.
Tickell might have been dismissed as yet another amusing English eccentric if not for the ascendancy of Margaret Thatcher. “The Iron Lady” [who] came to power in the wake of the “winter of discontent” in 1979, during which the unions tried to force concessions from the Labor government.
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Thatcher’s fight with the coal miners’ union was like Ronald Reagan’s fight with the air-traffic controllers, but much more serious. The air-traffic controllers never even managed to shut down the airports. The miners, by comparison, could have shut down the country and tried their best to do so on occasion.
Enter Sir Crispin.
As a prominent academic and diplomat, Tickell got Thatcher’s ear. He pointed out to her that if she were to stress the possible role of coal consumption in warming the planet, she could accomplish two goals. One was to show she was smarter than the typical male politician on scientific matters — which she was, thanks to her Oxford degree in chemistry. The other was to provide a compelling argument for nuclear power, a maneuver that would outflank the coal miners union.
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The Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia was elevated from an obscure little department at an obscure little university into the world’s leading authority on global warming.
The rest is history. By the time Al Gore authored “Earth in the Balance” in 1992, Thatcher was back in private life. Nonscientist Gore took up where nonscientist Tickell left off. With his movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore proved himself a pit bull of a popularizer.
But the real inconvenient truth here is that the idea of anthropogenic global warming was a political movement from the start. Even the most ardent of the greenhouse-gas theory would not argue that there was any sort of scientific consensus on the subject back when Tickell got Thatcher’s ear. As for the current “consensus,” it doesn’t include the physicists who argue that further experiments are needed to determine whether it is cosmic rays rather than carbon that play the primary role in climate change.
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All the fear-mongering about too much CO2 is directed at people who are ignorant of the beneficial role that carbon dioxide plays in our environment. it happens that the Earth has been warmer, much warmer, a number of times in the past ten thousand years and that we, as a species flourished most greatly precisely during those warmer periods 2.
And just as good intentions usually end up causing more harm than good, all those idiots clamoring for alternative energy to replace oil in order to reduce global warming may ironically be actually causing global warming by the deployment of ... wait for it ... wind turbines:
Wind farms can cause climate change, according to new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures.
Usually at night the air closer to the ground becomes colder when the sun goes down and the earth cools.
But on huge wind farms the motion of the turbines mixes the air higher in the atmosphere that is warmer, pushing up the overall temperature.
Satellite data over a large area in Texas, that is now covered by four of the world's largest wind farms, found that over a decade the local temperature went up by almost 1C as more turbines are built.
This could have long term effects on wildlife living in the immediate areas of larger wind farms.
It could also affect regional weather patterns as warmer areas affect the formation of cloud and even wind speeds.
As for the photo of the young girls on Ibiza Beach at the top of this article: I might be wrong about man-made climate change - I must admit I do feel a lot warmer right now.
World temperatures have remained virtually unchanged in the past 10 years despite predictions of global warming and America’s mildest winter in decades, Princeton physics professor William Happer contends.
Weather patterns worldwide over the past few months were very similar to those in 1942 when the continental United States basked in a warm winter at the same time that Alaska and Asia were slammed with severe weather and “General Frost” stalled the German army’s advance into Russia, Happer wrote in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed.
And any changes that have occurred should not be attributed to a rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, Happer, a prominent opponent of climate change theory, wrote in an article headlined “Global Warming Models Are Wrong Again.”
“CO2 is not a pollutant,” he wrote. “Life on earth flourished for hundreds of millions of years at much higher CO2 levels than we see today. Increasing CO2 levels will be a net benefit because cultivated plants grow better and are more resistant to drought at higher CO2 levels, and because warming and other supposedly harmful effects of CO2 have been greatly exaggerated.”
Ironically, the audacity of their lies about CO2 are overshadowed by the most obvious part of the Hoax. The fact is that warming is good! Throughout history, man, as well as all other living creatures, has thrived during the earth's warm periods, and suffered and starved during the cold ones, a lesson that we're about to be reminded of in the coming years.
The Roman civilization arose when the earth was much warmer than it's been recently. And it's no coincidence that just as the earth was entering the 400-year-long "Little Ice Age," the Roman Empire was overrun by the Huns. The Egyptians also built the pyramids when it was much warmer than today, and the beginning of the industrial revolution coincided with the end of the Little Ice Age. If global warming is such a problem, doesn't it seem odd that mankind has always flourished during the earth's warmest periods?
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Man is a Piece of Gold - Woman is a Piece of Silktag:plancksconstant.org,2012://1.51752012-05-02T03:36:43Z2012-05-02T03:55:56ZMisogyny and enslavement, long after the supposed elimination of slavery in the West and long after the supposed arrival of equal rights for women, are apparently on the rise
Berniehttp://www.plancksconstant.org/
Allow me to make the following stipulation: female genital mutilation, honor killings, forced marriages, slavery, acid-in-face, and other savage acts predate Islam and certainly Islam did not invent them.
However:
Although the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) predates Islam, it is in Muslim countries and in Muslim communities where the practice still continues.
Although the practice of Honor Killings predates Islam, it is in Muslim countries and in Muslim communities where the practice still continues.
Although the practice of slavery predates Islam, it is in Muslim countries and in Muslim communities where the practice still continues.
And similarly for the other barbaric and misogynistic attacks against women.
But today, in the modern world, they cannot be blamed on ancient cultural practices. Yes, it is true that these same attacks are done among various cultures in Afghanistan, Iran, Arabia, Indonesia, Africa, and other places. But if Islam were truly a religion that exalted women, then among the Muslims in Afghanistan, Iran, Arabia, etc., there should be no such attacks.
Muslims take their religion seriously. They pay attention to thousands of details on how to conduct their political, economic, social, cultural, and daily way of life. There are questions to Imams on the Internet regarding every facet of life; for example and this is not a joke: should one restart prayers if one farts? Islam guides the faithful from the cradle to the grave.
So I have to ask, in all that paying attention to washing, praying, walking, sitting, sleeping, eating, and emulating the Prophet (SFB) , why is it that they are vicious savages toward their womenfolk? It has to be that they are indeed following the exact precepts of their religion.
Muslims in strict Sharia nations attack and kill other Muslims who play sports, watch movies, buy indecent magazines, become Christians or otherwise disobey the commands in the Quran; so why do they not attack and kill Muslims who treat women like dogs?
Although you would think that in the passing of time, things would get better for Muslim women; however you'd be wrong:
Misogyny and enslavement, long after the supposed elimination of slavery in the West and the long after the supposed arrival of equal rights for women, are apparently on the rise...
In the video above (at the 3:12 minute mark) we hear how Muslim men view themselves in relation to women:
Man is a piece of gold, woman is a piece of silk - if you throw a piece of gold in the mud, you can wipe it clean; but if you throw a piece of silk in the mud it is stained forever.
But you may protest, surely these primitive, backward, barbaric, savage, brutal activities are not done in civilized countries such as in Europe or the UK where it is illegal? Protest all you want, not only are they still practiced, they flourish and are encouraged.
A British Muslim leader has been caught on camera advocating female genital mutilation. Mohammed Abdul, the Imam of a Bristol mosque, was filmed urging a follower to take women and girls abroad so they can be circumcised legally."
Here's the problem: no border control would allow a person with obvious symptoms of bubonic plague to enter the country and infect the rest of the populace. Why do we allow people who have these primitive diseases of culture to enter our country? Shouldn't we determine whether or not they are devout Muslims before allowing them to infest our culture? Shouldn't those who come into our part of the world at least be civilized peoples?
to Dan Mitchell at International Liberty and reader Dick Stanley.
