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Egyptian Human Rights Activist: ‘Your Support For Muslim Brotherhood Has Led to Gang Rape, Torture & Murder’

From Bahieddin Hassan’s (Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies) open letter to Barack Obama as published in Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram:

To President Barack Obama:

 "Three years ago, I had the honour of meeting you in the White House as part of a delegation of some 50 human rights defenders from around the world. I was one of three rights defenders who were asked to speak during the 40 minutes out of the 90-minute meeting during which you and your advisors were present.

When it was my turn to address those gathered, I urged you to consider the gulf between the content of your speech to the Arab and Islamic worlds in Cairo in June 2009 and the reality of American policy in February 2010, noting that they seemed separated by much more than simply a few months. In Cairo, you promised to stand by peoples of the region and engage with them, but eight months later your administration's policy was to turn its back on the people and work instead with local regimes.  

Rape, which is recognized internationally as a weapon of war, is now used in Egypt as a political weapon to deter opponents from gathering in Tahrir Square. According to multiple testimonies in recent weeks, the assaults differ radically from the forms of sexual harassment prevalent in Egypt in previous years. According to victims and video footage, female protesters are separated from the demonstrations, taken to other locations, and raped, in what appear to be organised, previously planned attacks. The faces of the assailants show no signs of emotion or sexual excitement. The objective appears to be to break the political will of the victims through profound degradation, whether they are raped, sexually mauled, or stripped entirely of their clothes — if they manage to escape the mob. In more than one case, a knife was used to penetrate the victims’ vaginas, and multiple women underwent hysterectomies after being assaulted. In this context, we can understand the attempted rape of a 70-year-old woman known for her political affiliation as well as the sexual assault of a number of men.

Mr President, when I spoke with you in 2010, I asked why the US administration condemns repressive practices in Iran while remaining silent when Arab regimes engage in the same violations. Over recent months, statements by your administration have similarly failed to address violations and have even blamed protesters and victims for violence committed in the context of demonstrations. Indeed, the stances of your administration have given political cover to the current authoritarian regime in Egypt and allowed it to fearlessly implement undemocratic policies and commit numerous acts of repression.

Is it a coincidence that the statements issued by your administration reflect the same political rhetoric used by the new authoritarian regime in Egypt? But when these statements come from the world’s superpower — the one most able to have a positive or negative impact on policies in Egypt and the region, not to mention the biggest donor and material supporter of the Egyptian regime for the past 35 years — they become lethal ammunition, offering political protection to perpetrators of murder, torture, brutality and rape.

Please, ask officials with your administration to stop talking about Egypt for a while, at least until we can bury our dead, comfort their grieving families, treat the victims of rape and torture, find the disappeared, and read the wills of a new generation of young people who plan not for their weddings but for their funerals."

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The Man Who Scares The Hell Out of the Left

Yid with Lid
Repost from 2/27/12

The song may say you only hurt the one you love, but in politics you hurt the one who gives you nightmares and Marco Rubio makes democrats wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat screaming at the top of their progressive lungs. Anybody who articulates conservatism as well as Rubio, who ties it to the American dream and presents it as the best hope for the average Joe in this country would frighten the Democrats. Rubio however, has two other significant and fear inducing things going for him.

First of all he is of Cuban decent, and being Hispanic means (to liberals) he is supposed to be on the their side. Progressives like to place people in groups, it makes it easier for them to take away their humanity and individualism. By destroying their neat and pretty picture of an Hispanic, Rubio scares the progressives.

 Rubio's other threat is that he lives in a swing state with 29 electoral votes, 11% of the total needed to become president (270). Obviously that is a major chunk of electoral college votes (that went to Obama in 08 & 2012).

Put it all together and one realizes that the progressives are "scream for mommy in the middle of the night" frightened about the Florida Senator, which is way beginning with last October rumors began to spread about him that he wasn't really a "natural born US citizen."

It is the contention of these nut-jobs that because Rubio's parents were not yet Citizens of the US when the future politician was born, he is not a natural born US Citizen.

 Now the Democratic smear machine is making hay about the fact that Marco Rubio used to be a Mormon. Rubio was baptized into the Mormon church when he was 8 and “remained active in the faith for a number of years,” attending LDS youth groups and walking to church most Sundays. Rubio left Mormonism to become a Catholic “a few years later,” and he got his first Communion when he was 13, in 1984.

 Just like the "natural born citizen" questions raised ,the real issue is the thought of a conservative, Cuban-American from Florida on a GOP ticket gives the progressives nightmares. Just as they tried to do with Sarah Palin four years ago, the progressives are going to do their best to destroy Marco Rubio. The question is, will we let them!

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Jamie Foxx goes Full Biden

After recently calling Barack Obama "Our Lord and Savior" portraying a ruthless killer of white people and saying publicly  with all the glee of a Klansman at a cross burning  “I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?”, Foxx spews this little gem at the NAACP Image awards  last week: "Black people are the most talented people in the world." 

Mr. Foxx, are we talking about real talent like Westley Snipes and Samuel L. Jackson and Eddie Murphy who constantly put out dogs no one sees, or the state of black music full of talented rap musicians that can not sing or play an instrument. Or maybe you mean a foul mouthed idiots like Chris Rock, who also comes off a bit of a bigot like yourself.  Don't confuse popularity and wealth for talent. Academy Awards and Grammys  aren't given for talent, Mr. Foxx.  If you don't believe me, look back at the last few years for the proof.   Same goes for the Nobels, know what I'm sayin'? 

It's real hard to sometime tell if you're a graduate of the "Louis Farrakhan School of Public Relations" or the "Joe Biden School of Public Speaking." 

It must be a real job shaving that over inflated head of yours every morning, eh?

h/t News Busters

Fishnet Friday

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So, My Lefty Friends......

Talk Straight

"If George Bush committed ‘War Crimes” because he authorized waterboarding when he was in office….

what does Obama face for authorizing killing Americans without any legitimate proof of their being a terrorist?

And why are you all so strangely silent on the position suddenly?

We couldn’t shut you up five years ago!"

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Can The Earl of Ketchup cut it as Secretary of State?

 Kerry has 'big heels to fill' at State Dept

I Dunno.....I’m pretty sure Hillary wears flats.

image via sweasel.com 

Obama to Hold Shooting Exhibition

Plans To Shoot Apple Off Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s Head

Amid all the fervor over a staged photo of the President firing a shotgun at Camp David, and all the photoshop fun that followed despite the warn to the contrary, the White House has arranged for a publicized skeet shoot where the President will attempt to shoot an apple off the head of DNC Chairwomen,  Debbie Wasserman-Schultz,  using his own personal Benelli 12 gauge shotgun and number 6 shot. According to press secretary Jay Carney, “This will prove once and for all that the President loves guns and hates Jews!"  

Wasserman-Schultz

Displaying confidence in her President's ability to knock an apple off her head with just one shotgun blast,  Mrs. Wasserman-Schultz has been combing supermarkets in Ft. Lauderdale Florida to find the largest apple she can buy. “I want a big one so the photo-op will be more dramatic.” According to various rumors, Wasserman-Schultz has told one of her aides to paint a rather large watermelon and disguise it as an apple! 

“I know. Using a watermelon is sorta racist, but I really want my President to look good when the cameras roll,” said Wasserman-Schultz when confronted about the apple substitution.

Sources say the President will attempt to knock the apple off at about 35 yards using his own 12 gauge shotgun equipped with a modified choke and number six turkey shot. Part of the viewing public that will witness the first ever shooting exhibition by a sitting US President are the ambassadors from Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon who openly are rooting for a missed shot.

A non-deterred Wasserman-Schultz proudly beamed about being the center of attention once more since the elections in November and shared with those around her how it reminded her of college days at NYU…”Gosh! I can fondly recall being the center for Delta Ki frat boys for their skeet shoot. Now, those boys could really shoot!”

 Obama mused that using turkey shot would be appropriate.

Forgot to Read the Small Print......

"This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House."

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The Women Who Single-handedly Brought Peace to the World

"....... traditional alliances fraying, our diplomatic standing damaged, and around the world, people questioning America’s commitment to core values and our ability to maintain our global leadership. That was my inbox on day one as your Secretary of State." - Hillary Clinton 

[snip] 

Yes, Mrs. Clinton, that's pretty much the same Legacy you leave with.

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