Eagle Freedom Links - Christmas Movies Edition: 11-29-11

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This week was a very interesting week.  I had a wonderful Thanksgiving and hope everyone else did too. There was some Black Friday mayhem across the country.  The past few weeks I had started to feel better but that didn't last for long.  Thankfully, my dizziness is down to a minimum. But sometimes it really hurts me to breathe along with some other abdominal pain which as increased at times. I know the Lord is watching out for me. Hopefully, when I have some procedures done on Dec. 7 the doctor will figure out what is going on.  Oh, then, I had an Islamofascist nutjob who threatened to kill me since I support Pamela Geller.  In some ironic twist of logic he claimed Pamela and I are hateful, bigots while he's not, even though he threatened me.  These dhimmis and Islamofascists  are certainly pieces of work.  On the political front my top three choices from the candidates for President are: Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul. 

*American Perspective* - Will Student debt cancel a generation of future home buyers? 

_It Don't Make Sense_ - From the people who really know how to occupy 

A Catholic View - Gingrich takes heat for immigration stance 

A Conservative Teacher - Teaching and brain-dead liberal students 

A Pissed Off Irishmen - Thomas Sowell on socialists and occupy wall street occupiers 

A Western Heart - Should the rich be condemned? 

Acts Of Apostasy - Welcome to my new home 



Adrienne's Corner - Righteous rant on reality...

Always On Watch - The Worm Turns 

American Power Blog - The Rolling Stones at 50 

Amusing Bunni's Musings - Cats say thank you!

ARRA News Service - Potential surrender of American liberty in defense authorization bill...

Atlas Shrugs - Hamas-linked Cair's war on freedom of speech, demands FBI target anti-jihad blogs and commenters - WordPress caves, suspends BNI 

Barking Spider - Islamofascism - Ignore it at your peril 

Barracuda Brigade - Tatyana Limanova, Russian newsreader fired after Obama middle finger insult!!!



Battle Beads Blog - How do you spell *M-A-R-T-I-A-L *** L-A-W* ????

BBCW - The history of Romneycare (Obamacare) Mitt Romney doesn't want you to know 

Beer, Bicycles and the VRWC - More class warfare 

Big Blue Wave - Quebec to ban prayer in home-based daycares 

Black Or White Is A Choice - Better days are coming!!! 

Blog de King Shamus - Herman Cain, David Axelrod, and the Chicago Way 

Blowing San #1 - Why yes, I do have one 

Bluegrass Pundit - Video: Linus' Thanksgiving prayer 



Bunkerville - Obama won't "redistribute" to his brother George

Catholic Once Again - Book Sale: young adult fantasy 

Common Cents - 2nd Scott Walker Ad; "I'm not big on recalls"

Conservative Girl With A Voice - Putting the swagger back into the step of American politics: my choice for 2012

Conservative Hideout - Occupy Berkeley: " if they wanted to clear the path, they would have to go through us..."

DeanO - Jetsons, meet the Jetsons 

Don't Tread On Us - In search of cheap amusement: listening to Air America 

Eye Of Polyphemus - Anya Monzikova 



Faith Of The Fathers - From the Vatican website 

Fuzzy Logic - Dude "predatory black sexuality." Seriously? 

Generational Dysfunction - An impossible question to answer.... 

Give Me Liberty - Colin Powell blames media and tea party for divisive tone in Washington 

Greg Mankiw's Blog - What Milton Friedman might say to the Occupy Movement 

HolyCoast.com - Newt wins New Hampshire union leader endorsement

I Know The Words I Need To Say ... - Some Thoughts... 

Innominatus - Screwt Newt 



Just A Conservative Girl - Quote of the day - Matthew Staver Edition 

Left Coast Rebel - Martin Luther King Jr. On Communism 

Let The Truth Be Known - Breaking news headlines Nov. 19, 2011 

Legal Insurrection - So do I 

Libertarian Republican - Austrian Freedom Party poised for big win! 

Lone Star Parson - Black Friday 

Lonely Is The Nights - Baptized Yet? 

Maggie's Notebook - ESPN Bernie Fine: ESPN hides Bobby Davis sex abuse audio for 9 years



Milton Wolf - Judge Napolitano: what if? 

Mind Numbed Robot - #OccupyWallStreet thugs encouraging violence - audio compilations via Glenn Beck 

Motivation Truth - Summoning Palin's endorsement 

My Daily Trek - Panetta to Israel: don't touch Iran 

Nikon Sniper - Sunset at the Oak 

Nonsensible Shoes - Insolvent nations should leave EU? 

NoOneOfAnyImport - We are here from the Federal Government 

Obama Cartoons - Keystone Pipeline, shove that plug somewhere else Barack 



Patriot's Corner - Persecution Update November 27 

Pedaling Fast - Gratitude 

Political Realities - The principles of Ron Paul 

Proof Positive - #Occupy L.A. about to become an endangered feces 

QUICKWIT - Talking about turkey! 

Randy's Roundtable - More bad news for global warming fanatics 

Rational Nation USA - Facts about Romneycare 

Reaganite Republican - Obama/Cameron/Sarko's 'New Libya' descending into violent, medieval chaos 



Right Klik - Worst recovery since the Depression, $1T down the drain 

Robbing America - The mother of all conservative endorsements: Sarah Palin's

Saberpoint - The real meaning of Thanksgiving: the triumph of capitalism over communism 

Sancte Pater - Robert Downey Jr. asks Hollywood to forgive Mel Gibson 

Sentry Journal - Friday Ramblings: Should we be trading our principles for electability? 

STOP MARXISM - God Bless The United States Military 

The Audacity Of Logic - Barney Frank quits! 

The Blog - Tuna takers 

The Camp Of The Saints - The spot-on quote of the day... 



The Conservative Lady - So easy, a game show host can do it 

The Conservative Pup - Socialism is for the people, not the socialists

The Country Thinker - Letter from Ron Paul 

The Daley Gator - New Jersey nurses charge religious discrimination over hospital abortion policy 

The Libertarian Patriot - "Jumpers and Dumpers" gaming Romneycare in Massachusetts 

The Malcontent - Is Occupy Wall Street - just like the Tea Party? I don't think so! 

The Observatorium - Newt hearts amnesty 

The Other McCain - Exploring 'explaining postmodernism' by Stephen Hicks 2: Counter-Enlightenment 



The Right Guy - Not on Fox or GBTV 

The Scottcarp Dream - Obama demoralizes our military 

The Wyblog - All your children are belong to the nanny state 

They Say/We Say - As the debates continue, the questions are more direct. Here is the video of the debate....

TOTUS: Conservative Commentary - Two Obama voters 

Virtual Mirage - The sin of ingratitude 

Warning Signs - The threat of a global financial collapse 

We The People... - Gun news 



Western Hero - Are Teachers overpaid? 

What Does The Prayer Really Say? - SERIOUS Occupy Wall Street Commentary. No, Really

Woman Honor Thyself - Black Friday! 

Woodsterman - Did you plant any willy peppers? 

Zilla Of The Resistance - "We no longer have creeping sharia; it's a damn stampede" 

EAGLE FREEDOM LINKS -- The Beatles Edition - 11-9-11

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American Perspective - Businessman nails OWS protesters 

Atlas Shrugs - Ya Don't Say?! 

It Don't Make Sense - In uncertain times, size does matter 

A Conservative Teacher - Tea Party and conservatives are the counter-culture today - Occupy Wall Street simply fights for the establishment? 

A Pissed Off Irishman - Woman charged with pimping teen at Obama-endorsed Occupy New Hampshire Rally 


Acts of the Apostasy - Sister Patrica: On Seven Quick-Takes Friday

Adrienne's Corner - Rudy Giuliani... 



Always Catholic - Be "Always Catholic"... invite all to our "family reunion" - Catholics Come Home announces ad campaign on major networks 

Always On Watch - Footage that the Mainstream Media Will Not Air 

Amusing Bunni's Musings - Mentals ratchet up the mayhem!

Barking Spider - EU referendum: new e-petition 

Barracuda Brigade - U.N. report to show evidence of Iran's nuclear weapons program advancing 

Battle Beads Blog - What's Really Important? ..... The Eucharist, rosary, and confession 

BBCW - Mike Church's excellent description of an article 5 constitutional convention 



Black Or White Is A Choice - A real life experience expressed to the miscreants that judge bank folks as miscreants 

Blog de King Shamus - The enduring genius of occupy wall street, part deux

Bread Upon The Waters - If these were global warming graphs, we'd all be vaporized 

Can We Keep Our Republic? - Obama DOJ response to fast and furious 

Catholic Once Again - All Saints Day Nov. 1 

Commentarama - So much for shovel ready projects 

Common Cents - RIP: Andy Rooney passed away last night 



Conservative Hideout 2.0 - Occupy Portland protester charged with pushing cop in front of bus - their media head threatens more of the same 

Conservative Perspective - 2011 election watch: Ohio 

Creative Minority Report - The abortionist signed her birth certificate 

Don't Tread On Us - Mormonism & Socialism 

Down Under On The Right Side - Maybe now western leftists will get it

Eye Of Polyphemus - Us House reaffirms "In God We Trust" as US motto 

Fuzzy Logic - "All he has to do..."



Global Domination Through Applied Inactivity - Political divorce decree

Hack Wilson - Video: Wall Street protester says "pay my college tuition for me" 

HolyCoast.com - One year from today can be the end of an error 

Innominatus - Time for another one of *those* posts 

Jo-Joe Politico - link to a good interview by Thomas Sowell 

Just a Conservative Girl - Don't look now, but Newt is gaining in the polls 

Laughing Conservative - Hissy McFit arrested 



Left Coast Rebel - (Video) South Park take on #OccupyWallstreet Protests

Let The Truth Be Known - A Moment with Our Father Our Lady of Fatima - An Orthodox Catholic version 

Legal Insurrection - Tin soldiers and Trumpka coming 

Libertarian Republican - Now they're censoring "Iranian terrorist" our of 80's movies 

Lisa Graas - Santorum: "Obama's naive Iran policy has put Americans in grave danger" 

Lone Star Parson - All Saints, All Souls 

Maggie's Notebook - Bill Clinton wants 3 terms for presidents - after time off after second term 



Milton Wolf.com - My Washington Times latest: Save America: Repeal Obamacare 

Mind Numbed Robot - How to steal power - Bill Whittle (video) 

My Daily Trek - Girl Scouts open to everyone - even boys 

Nonsensible Shoes - Can the GOP compromise on taxes? 

NoOneOfAnyImport - It came from Nashville 

Obama Cartoons - Worst president 

Pedaling Fast & Trying To Keep Up - Hey Occupy wall street... I am the 53% 



Political Realities - Freddie Mac loses billions, requests billions from treasury

Proof Positive - Ron Paul, apologist for dictators 

QUICKWIT - Another Country's government that will soon run out of other people's money 

Random Musings by Cliff - Tea Party vs. OWS graphics 

Randy's Roundtable - General should be promoted, not fired 

Rational Nation USA - Real conservatism and classical liberalism... on the same page 

Reaganite Republican - Second veteran injured at occupy Oakland: violence and mayhem reign 



Right Klik - The race card: to play or not to play? 

Robbing America - The essence of a good debate: leave the press out 

Sancte Pater - Abortionist pleads guilty to murder after killing dozens of newborns at "House of Horrors" clinic 

Sentry Journal - Friday Ramblings late edition: Liberty is about the power of choice

Solid Rock Or Sinking Sand - Crossdressing 7-year old boy allowed to join girl scouts 

Standing On My Head - What I love about the Catholic Church - 8 

STOP MARXISM - Why do the left wingers hate babies 



The Audacity of Logic - How did Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' predict an America spinning out of control? 

The Blog - Cat Blog Friday 

The Catholic Knight - Tea Parties versus OWS Protests - What the establishment doesn't want us to know 

 The Camp Of The Saints - Can't you smell that smell? 

The Conservative Lady - Air Force Academy accused of religious intolerance - they choose to back away from charity 

The Country Thinker - Ohio overwhelmingly rejects Obamacare mandate: a huge grassroots victory 

The Daley Gator - Governor Walker calls a Christmas Tree a Christmas Tree; Leftists appalled 



The Last Tradition - Soldier home early from Iraq surprises fiance by running to her on Kansas Chiefs football field 

The Libertarian Patriot - Steve Kroft catches Nancy Pelosi with her hand in the cookie jar 

The Malcontent - Proving once again that Barack Hussein is a anti-semitic product of his mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright 

The Observatorium - Hypocrisy 

The Other McCain - Karen Kraushaar, serial victim 



The Republican Mother - Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Cliff notes 

The Sci-Fi Catholic - Now if we can just make people understand that the whole field of social psychology is a fraud, we'll be in good shape

The scottcarp Dream - Reagan statue vandalized 

The Wyblog - Joe Biden, Penn State, and Glee

TOTUS: Conservative Political Commentary - Israel is Alone!  

Tu Ne Cede Malis - Biblical Deck of Cards 

Virtual Mirage - Just FARCing around 

Warning Signs - The Third Party Jinx

We The People... - Pics of the day  

Western Hero - Bonfire of the insanities 

Woman Honor Thyself - MMA experts foil robbery 

Woodsterman - Top 12 Reasons 

Zilla Of The Resistance - The Resistance Benevolence Society 

Dismantling America

Thomas Sowell on Shredding the Constitution and thus dismantling America:

"We the people" are the familiar opening words of the Constitution of the United States-- the framework for a self-governing people, free from the arbitrary edicts of rulers. It was the blueprint for America, and the success of America made that blueprint something that other nations sought to follow.

At the time when it was written, however, the Constitution was a radical departure from the autocratic governments of the 18th century. Since it was something so new and different, the reasons for the Constitution's provisions were spelled out in "The Federalist," a book written by three of the writers of the Constitution, as a sort of instruction guide to a new product.

The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, it has been a continuing challenge-- to this day-- to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters, whether an elite of blood, or of books or of whatever else gives people a puffed-up sense of importance.

While the kings of old have faded into the mists of history, the principle of the divine rights of kings to impose whatever they wish on the masses lives on today in the rampaging presumptions of those who consider themselves anointed to impose their notions on others.  CONTINUED

Thomas Sowell On Elitist Radicals & America's Collapse

Sonia Sotomayor in Context by Thomas Sowell

Here is an article by Thomas Sowell wriitten on the website IBD Editorials. I thought my viewers would like to see this.
Sonia Sotomayor In Context
By THOMAS SOWELL Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:20 PM PT
In Washington, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a "clarification" when people realize what was said.
The clearly racist comments made by Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Berkeley campus in 2001 have forced the spinmasters to resort to their last-ditch excuse, that it was "taken out of context."
If that line is used during Judge Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings, someone should ask her to explain just what those words mean when taken in context.
What could such statements possibly mean — in any context — other than the new and fashionable racism of our time, rather than the old-fashioned racism of earlier times? Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.
Looked at in the context of Judge Sotomayor's voting to dismiss the appeal of white firefighters who were denied the promotions they had earned by passing an exam, because not enough minorities passed that exam to create "diversity," her words in Berkeley seem to match her actions on the judicial bench in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals all too well.
The Supreme Court of the United States thought that case was important enough to hear it, even though the three-judge panel on which Judge Sotomayor served gave it short shrift in less than a page. Apparently the famous "empathy" that President Obama says a judge should have does not apply to white males in Judge Sotomayor's court.
The very idea that a judge's "life experiences" should influence judicial decisions is as absurd as it is dangerous.
It is dangerous because citizens are supposed to obey the law, which means they must know what the law is in advance — and nobody can know in advance what the "life experiences" of whatever judge they might appear before will happen to be.
It is absurd because it flies in the face of the facts. It was a fellow Puerto Rican judge on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals — Jose Cabranes — who rebuked his judicial colleagues for the cavalier way they dismissed the white firefighters' case.
On the Supreme Court, the justice whose life story is most like that of Sonia Sotomayor — Clarence Thomas — has a very different judicial philosophy from hers.
The clever people in the media and elsewhere are saying that "inevitably" one's background influences how one feels about issues. Even if that were true, judges are not supposed to decide cases based on their personal feelings.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that he "loathed" many of the people in whose favor he voted on the Supreme Court. Obviously, he had feelings. But he also had the good sense and integrity to rule on the basis of the law, not his feelings.
Laws are made for the benefit of the citizens, not for the self-indulgences of judges. Making excuses for such self-indulgences and calling them "inevitable" is part of the cleverness that has eroded the rule of law and undermined respect for the law.
Something else is said to be "inevitable" by the clever people. That is the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. But it was only a year and a half ago that Hillary Clinton's winning the Democratic Party's nomination for president was considered "inevitable."
The Republicans certainly do not have the votes to stop Judge Sotomayor from being confirmed — if all the Democrats vote for her. But that depends on what the people say. It looked like a done deal a couple of years ago when an amnesty bill for illegal aliens was sailing through the Senate with bipartisan support. But public outrage brought that political steamroller to a screeching halt.
Nothing is inevitable in a democracy unless the public lets the political spinmasters and media talking heads lead them around by the nose.
The real question is whether the Republican Senators have the guts to alert the public to the dangers of putting this kind of judge on the highest court in the land, so that they will at least have some chance of stopping the next one that comes along.
It would be considered a disgrace if an umpire in a baseball game let his "empathy" determine whether a pitch was called a ball or strike. Surely we should accept nothing less from a judge.
* * *
As the mainstream media circles the wagons around Judge Sonia Sotomayor, to protect her from the consequences of her own words and deeds, its main arguments are distractions from the issue at hand. A CNN reporter, for example, got all worked up because Rush Limbaugh had used the word "racist" to describe the judge's words.
Since it has been repeated like a mantra that Judge Sotomayor's words have been "taken out of context," let us look at Rush Limbaugh in context. The cold fact is that Rush Limbaugh has not been nominated to sit on the highest court in the land, with a lifetime appointment, to have the lives and liberties of 300 million Americans in his hands.
Whatever you may think about his choice of words, those words and the ideas behind them do not change the law of the land. The words and actions of Supreme Court justices do. Anyone who doesn't like what Rush Limbaugh says can simply turn off the radio or change the station. But you cannot escape the consequences of Supreme Court decisions. Nor will your children or grandchildren.
What does it say about a nominee to the Supreme Court that the most that her defenders can say in her defense is that her critics used words that her defenders don't like?
What does it say about her qualifications to be on the Supreme Court when her supporters' biggest talking points are that she had to struggle to rise in the world?
Bonnie and Clyde had to struggle. Al Capone had to struggle. The only President of the United States who was forced to resign for his misdeeds—Richard Nixon—had to struggle. For that matter, Adolf Hitler had to struggle! There is no evidence that struggle automatically makes you a better person.
Sometimes, instead of making you appreciative of a society in which someone born at the bottom can rise to the top, it leaves you embittered that you had to spend years struggling, and resentful of those who were born into circumstances where the easy way to the top was open to them.
Much in the past of Sonia Sotomayor, and of the president who nominated her, suggests such resentments. Both have a history of connections with people who promoted resentments against American society. La Raza ("the race") was Judge Sotomayor's Jeremiah Wright. If context is important, then look at that context.
Sonia Sotomayor has, in both her words and in her decision as a judge to dismiss out of hand the appeal of white firefighters who had been discriminated against, betrayed a racism that is no less racism because it is directed against different people than the old racism of the past.
The code word for the new racism is "diversity." The Constitution of the United States says nothing about diversity and the Constitution is what a judge is supposed to pay attention to, not the prevailing buzzwords of the times.
What the Constitution says is "equal protection of the laws" for all Americans—and that is not taken out of context. People have put their lives on the line to make those words a reality. Now all of that is to be made to vanish into thin air by saying the magic word "diversity."
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, like the Constitution, proclaimed equal rights for all, not special rights for those for whom judges have "empathy."
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was being debated in Congress, its opponents claimed that it would lead to discrimination against white people. Its supporters declared that it meant no such thing and added new provisions to make sure that it meant no such thing. That was the law that was passed.
It was not the law, but the judges, who changed equal rights into special rights and thereby set the stage for the new mantra of "diversity" that trumps equal rights. Diversity was Judge Sotomayor's rationale for going along with the denial of equal rights for white firefighters in Connecticut.
When all else fails, supporters of Judge Sotomayor say that she is Hispanic and a woman, and that it would be politically dangerous to deny her a place on the Supreme Court. This is as much an insult to the intelligence of Hispanic and female voters as it is to the Constitution of the United States and to those who put their lives on the line for equal rights.
* * *
As part of the biographical preoccupation with Judge Sonia Sotomayor's past, the New York Times of May 31st had a feature story on the various New York housing projects in which she and other well-known people grew up—including Whoopi Goldberg, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Thelonious Monk and Mike Tyson.
There was a map of New York City and dots pin-pointing the location of the project in which each celebrity grew up. As an old New Yorker, I was struck by the fact that not one of the 20 celebrities shown grew up in a housing project in Harlem!
The housing projects in which they grew up were different in another and more fundamental way. As the New York Times put it: "These were not the projects of idle, stinky elevators, of gang-controlled stairwells where drug deals go down." In other words, these were public housing projects of an earlier era, when such places were very different from what we associate with the words "housing project" today.
Just the reference to unlocked doors on the apartments there, so that children could more easily visit playmates in nearby apartments on Saturday mornings to watch television, creates an image that must seem like something out of another world to those familiar only with the housing projects of today.
There were standards for getting into the projects of those days and, if you didn't live up to those standards, they put you out. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was quoted as saying, "When kids played on the grass, their parent would get a warning." That seems almost quaint when you think of what has gone on in the housing projects of a later era.
Since there has been so much talk of putting some of Sonia Sotomayor's inflammatory words "in context," perhaps we should put her personal life in context, if the media insist on making her personal life a factor in her nomination to the Supreme Court. While she grew up in a public housing project, the words "housing project" in that era did not mean anything like the housing projects of today.
A relative of mine lived in one of the housing projects back then—and we were proud of him, as well as glad for him, because such places were for upright citizens in those days—working class people with steady jobs and good behavior. Clever intellectuals had not yet taught us to be "non-judgmental" about misbehavior or to make excuses for vandalism and crime.
While Sonia Sotomayor was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, let's not make her someone who rose from such depths as those conjured up by the words "housing projects" today. It is bad enough that biographical considerations carry such weight in considerations of nominees for the Supreme Court. But, if biography must be elaborated, let it at least be done "in context."
It has always made me a little uneasy when generous well-wishers have discussed my educational background as if it was something almost miraculous that I came out of the schools in Harlem and went on to Ivy League institutions. But any number of other people did exactly the same thing.
The Harlem schools of that era were no more like the Harlem schools of today than the housing projects of that era were like today's housing projects. They had classes grouped by ability and, if you were serious about getting a good education, you could get into one of the classes for kids who were serious and receive an education that would prepare you to go on in life.
There is a lot to ponder about why both the schools and the housing projects degenerated so much after the bright ideas of the 1960s intelligentsia spread throughout society, leaving social havoc in their wake.
Too many people who rose to where they are today because of a foundation of traditional values have become enthralled by the very different ideas prevalent in the elite intellectual circles to which they moved. Judge Sotomayor seems to be one of those, with her ideas about race and the policy-making role of judges.
It is bad enough that so many of those "advanced" ideas have undermined for others the foundation that Sonia Sotomayor had as she grew up, despite being raised in a home with a modest income. There is no need to let her use the Supreme Court to destroy more of those traditional American values.
Copyright 2008 Creators Syndicate, Inc