The story made world wide headlines, Lin Hao China's littlest Sichuan Earthquake Hero so captivated the world at Beijing 2008 when it was told that after freeing himself from the rubble, he went back in to his collapsed school building to help rescue his friends.It turns out the entire story was all made up.
Sad but while China and the world mourned the tremendous loss of life from the devastating 8.0 Sichuan Earthquake, which I have written numerous posts about here here and here during the last twelve months, with links incorporated to other posts. At the time, people in China were searching for something, anything good, decent and wholesome to grasp on to.
While I am not condoning the lie, I can understand why it occurred, during a time of great peril, Lin Hao's story, no matter how fictional
it turns out to be, was in some small way, therapeutic to so many.
It is a miracle from God that Lin Hao survived, he remains a little boy with all of the many opportunities so many of his peers, will no longer realize.
Despite being used by some Chinese Propagandist, none of it was his fault and hopefully he may grow up learning a valuable lesson just the same---better to be honest, ones lies will surely be found out.
More here from The Epoch Times
The Obama's at Andrews Air Force Base before departing for NYC, who is it that Barry is talking too in his arm sleeve?
A Presidential Limo outside of Belasco Theater today in NYC---the Obama's will be attending the Broadway Show "Joe Turner's Come and Gone."
So how much did this Date Night cost the taxpayers?
While Tax Day Tea Party Protesters were gathering around the country on April 15, "Hope-n-Change" said, "...we know that tax relief must be joined with fiscal discipline. Americans are making hard choices in their budgets and we've got to tighten our belts in Washington as well."
He didn't mean it.
More here from Politico
Update: White House Refuses To Disclose Trip Costs Transparency?
Riiiight !
Via Washington Times
William Donohue, President of the Catholic League for Religious
& Civil Rights, claims that Judge Sonia Sotomayor's record has more bright spots than Conservative Catholics, can reasonably expect to get from an appointee of President Obama.
Really?
Yesterday I wrote here that Obama has been mum on details about Judge Sotomayor and her record as an Appellate Ct. Jurist.
William Donohue has been accused of anti-Semitism by Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach following a statement which he made during a 08 December, 2004 appearance on Scarborough Country. Donohue claimed, "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular."
In 2004 National Review Publisher Wm. F. Buckley, Jr criticized the Catholic League saying, "...is essentially one man, its president William Donohue."
Even though William Donohue may not be relevant, nor does he speak for all Catholics, the controversies surrounding Judge Sotomayor are very real and must not be so easily dismissed for political expediency.
Why did Sonia Sotomayor use a quote from Socialist Norman Thomas in her Yearbook? Does America really want an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court who admires a Socialist?
More here from The Harrington Report
What a deal, a chance to buy into Government Motors at the bargain basement, fire sale price of less than a buck a share, a price unseen since pre-World War Two.
Obama to the rescue?
It wasn't but a few months ago that Democrat-Socialists in Congress were beating the drum "too big to fail" giving away $20 Billion Dollars of the taxpayers money to GM, followed by a spending spree, the likes of which never had been seen before calling it economic stimulus.
Federal budget deficit soars to $63.8 Trillion During Obama's Watch
"Hope-n-Change" doing for America, what he has done for GM
& Chrysler.
God help us !
More here GM's Second Great Crisis from Harvard Business Review
Government Motors reported on Thursday that they had reached a tentative deal with some Bondholders which represents about 20%
of its debt.
Under the proposed deal, the Bondholders would be offered 10% in
a newly reorganized GM and would also receive warrants, entitling them purchase another 15% equity in a reorganized company.
The taxpayers will own 72.5% of the reorganized nationalized automaker and the UAW would own 17.5% which GM reported in securities filings.
Government Motors has taken nearly $20 Billion Dollars of taxpayers money, much of it, will never never be repaid. GM is expected to file for Bankruptcy Protection next week.
During Bankruptcy, analysts say that the taxpayers will spend
at least another $50 Billion Dollars to get the ailing auto company through bankruptcy, the true costs are unknown and may even be much higher?
Is this really a good expenditure of taxpayers money? What would have happened had Democrat-Socialists been in charge of Congress and the Presidency, during the start of the industrial revolution, would they have bailed out Buggy Companies?
More here from Yahoo Finance
Via The Hill's Pundits Blog by Dick Morris"When the Japanese military invaded Manchuria in the early 1930's, Hitler, Mussolini and Japan's own government watched nervously to see what the League of Nations and the Western Powers would do. Now its North Korea and Iran who are watching and wondering."
North Korea has renounced the 1953 Truce with Allied Forces that halted the Korean War. What is Obama & the United Nations going to do?
Nothing, except to send another strongly worded letter to Kim Jong Il
CIA Chief Leon Panetta, recently took time out of his day (feuding with Nancy Pelosi) to travel to Israel to "read the riot act" to the government, warning against an attack on Iran.
More ominously that the Obama Administration has all but accepted as irreversible and unavoidable fact that Iran will soon develop nuclear weapons.
Caroline Glick, Deputy Editor of the Jerusalem Post has written, "we have learned that the Obama Administration has made its peace with Iran's nuclear aspirations. Senior Administration officials acknowledge as much in off-record briefings. It is true, they say, that Iran may exploit its future talks with the U.S. to run down the clock before they test a nuclear weapon...if that happens, the U.S. will simply have to live with a nuclear armed mullocracy."
Rest here from Newsmax.com---The Death of Israel
Related: Israel and the Axis of Evil by Caroline Glick
Iranian Fascist Ahmadinejad: Holocaust Is West's Achilles Heel
A couple in California claim that they were interrogated by local Police, who threatened them with escalating fines if they did not stop holding home bible studies.
San Diego County Authorities notified the Pastor and his wife, that their home bible studies violated a county regulation, a few days later, the couple received a written warning that claimed they were in violation of "the unlawful use of land" and were ordered to stop holding religious meetings without first obtaining a permit from the government.
Is San Diego still in the USA or have they recently become a new Province of China?
More here from KGTV San Diego
Barack Obama has left out some important details about his nominee to fill the vacancy of Justice David Souter and the MSM have yet to fill in the gaps.
First it is not true that Judge Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic American to sit on the nations highest Court. The first Hispanic was
Justice Benjamin Cardozo who served on the Court from 1932-1938
Senator's may want to consider Appellate Jurist Sotomayor's track record of reversals by the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor
has been reversed 60% of the time likewise, some former Law Clerks, have also expressed their concerns about her command for technical legal details.
In August, 2007 Judge Sotomayor sat on a panel and ruled against a high school Blogger, in an important 1st Amendment Case saying that a student's off-campus blog, created a "foreseeable risk of substantial disruption" at the student's high school and the student was not entitled to a preliminary injunction reversing a school disciplinary against her.
Judge Sotomayor rejected the reverse discrimination claims made by 19 white firefighters, one whom is Hispanic. The Appellant's argued that the City of New Haven, CT. violated their rights by throwing out the results of an Officers' promotion exam in which minority candidates received disproportionately low scores. Currently the case under the caption of Ricci v. DeStefano is being reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Judge Sotomayor, has also showed her racism when she said, that Hispanic Women are better equipped, due to inherent "physiological or cultural differences" to make better decisions than white men.
Related: Sotomayor pick not based on merit by Ilya Shapiro
Sotomayor: "Policy made at" Appeals Court
A Catholic African-American Journalist with Press Credentials was forcibly evicted by U.S. Secret Service Agents from LAX today, shortly before "Hope-n-Change" arrived at the airport to depart California.
The Female Reporter was later identified as Brenda Lee, for the Georgia Informer, in Macon, GA
Ms. Lee, said later in a telephone interview with the AP that she only had wanted to give Obama a letter, urging him "to take a stand for traditional marriage."
More here from NBC News Los Angeles
During Obama's Watch, home sales were down 34% in April compared to a year ago, prices continue to tumble, falling on average 14.9%
from 2008
1 in 8 homeowners receive foreclosure notices in April, nearly 6% of homeowners with fixed rate mortgages with good credit ratings are now in the foreclosure process.
Construction companies continue to scale back their operations as
unemployment rises which may soon be double digit nationally, already over 10% in some industrial states.
When will "Hope-n-Change" begin taking responsibility for his dismal economic policy failures?
More here Democrats Must Face The Music from Pajamas Media
States hardest hit by the recession have received some of the stingiest federal contracts even though "Hope-n-Change" promised to target these states where their economic pain has been most severe.
In Michigan for example which has been hit with massive lay-offs as a result of slumping automotive sales, federal agencies have spent about $2 Million Dollars or .21 cents per person.
More here from USA Today
Queen Elizabeth meets D-Day Veterans Frank Rosier and
Eddie Wallace, next to the Overlord Embroidery while
visiting the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth, England last month.
Checking out the uniforms of World War Two Soldiers during Queen Elizabeth's visit at the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth, on April 30, 2009
On the 09 May, I wrote here that Obama, requested that France keep away the "little people away from Normandy" while he is attending the events marking the 65th Anniversary of D-Day
Queen Elizabeth snubbed, not invited to D-Day events next week in Normandy.
More here from The Star.com
Obama's Green Sage bestows unto all of us his years of deep thinking, careful thought and wisdom, reserved upon those of us without decades of scholarly academic common sense.
Dr. Steven Chu, Ph.D. Secretary of Energy said, "...if you make the roofs white and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of color...that would be the equivalent of...reducing the carbon emissions due to all the cars in the world by 11 years---just taking them off the roads by 11 years."
More here from The Telegraph U.K.
Via Heritage Foundation Out of Money? Value Added Tax Next UpEarlier this month I wrote here remember when Candidate Obama promised there would be "no new taxes on any family earning less than $250,000."
Riiight !
Hope-n-Change lies to the American people.
Someone has to pay for all of the Democrat-Socialist big ideas, massive new spending, grandiose prokulus schemes.
Columbus Cop's Jobs Saved By Federal Stimulus, May Lose Jobs
More here from Corner National Review
A Texas hospital worker has been told that she can't hang
Old Glory in her cubicle at work.
More here from CBS 11 D/FW
U.K. Govt. Advisors seek to cut high carbon foods
such as Lamb, Alcohol and them dreaded Tomato's.
How soon will this plan make it across the pond, affecting
American menu's?
More here from Times Online
The 75 year old World War One Memorial was erected for all of the hero's who made the ultimate sacrifice. Mojave Desert Cross boarded up as a result of the ACLUSave Our MemorialsMojave Desert War Memorial Cross---Don't Tear Me DownH/T: Liberty Legal Institute
Via YONHAP News
North Korea launches another short range missile Tuesday night
into the East Sea.
Are the missile tests part of a collaborative effort with the Iranians?
Obama seeks another "strongly worded letter" from the U.N.
More here from Hot Air
Giving Thanks For Those Who Made The Ultimate SacrificeToday we honor the fallen American Hero's who gave their lives in the defense of freedom---May God Bless each one.
More here from Hot Air
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dismissed calls from
"The One" for a full settlement freeze on the West Bank and limits
on building of Jewish enclaves within Jerusalem.
Good for him, definitely a breath of fresh air, a world leader
standing up to Democrat-Socialist, Islamic and Totalitarian
Appeaser B. Hussein Obama.
God Bless Israel !
In April, I wrote here that Environmental Minister Gilad Erdan said, Israel does not take orders from Obama, despite the insistence from "The One" that Israel negotiate away its freedom and democracy.
More here from Alert Net
Via NY PostAn early morning explosion shatters windows at a Starbucks
Coffee House on the Upper East Side in NYC this morning.
A bomb was set under a park bench on East 92nd Street
near Third Ave. NYC Police and FBI are investigating.
Video here from WABC, NYC
More here from Jihad Watch
Via Dick Morris
President Obama is attacking a red herring when he defends his decision to send the worst terrorists at Guantanamo to United States prisons by saying the likelihood of escape from secure federal facilities is very low.
Of course it is. No rope ladder or prison laundry truck is likely to do the trick but when it comes to federal judges, we can't be so sure.
Rest here from NY Post
China is again blocking Google and Blogspot but is not blocking
The Washington Post.
Hmmm?
On the 06 January, I wrote here that PRC vows new crack down on major websites including search engines such as Google and Baidu.
Free speech is essential in the pursuit of learning, every idea or thought is not an avenue of incitement, censorship only results
in the pursuit of finding new cracks in the Great Firewall of China.
More here from Danwei
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA "I stand by my comment..."
Really---Huh?
More here from Bidens Bunker
Related: The CYA Congress from Michelle Malkin
Disgrace: Pelosi stands by smear of CIA from Hot Air
Via Reuters
While "Hope-n-Change" continues to promise to close the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba saying that some Gitmo Detainees
may be sent to the USA, does Obama actually have that authority?
In a 02 April, 2009 letter to U.S. Atty General Eric Holder,
Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL reminded the Attorney General
of a 2005 federal law, which forbids the admission to the United States of "any alien, who has engaged in various forms of terrorist activity or training."
Will B. Hussein Obama, choose to violate existing federal law
and permit entry of Islamic Jihadist Thugs, into the USA who have engaged in terrorist activities, that endangered the lives of Americans
and our allies?
More here 2005 Law Prohibits U.S. Release of Gitmo Detainees
Via WCBS-TV
The so called Religion of Peace---Islamic Intolerant Terrorist Religious Jihadist's, continue on with their quest of conspiracy to murder Americans.
Federal Authorities have arrested four Islamic Jihadist Terrorist Thugs in NYC in connection to blow-up Jewish Centers, a Synagogue in the Bronx and U.S. Military Aircraft, using surface-to-air-missiles.
Read the full Press Release here from U.S. Atty S.D. NY
More here from NBC News NY
Treasury Secretary Tax Cheat Timmy Geitner, will give away another $7.50 Billion Dollars of the taxpayers money to GMAC---Government Motors soon may be seeking Bankruptcy Protection from its Creditors early next month?
On Tuesday I wrote here that the Obama Administration has seized
GM healthy assets depositing them into a new company owned by
the federal government, leaving the toxic assets in Bankruptcy Court, which will end up screwing their creditors.
More here from The Detroit News
Taiwan is not part of China, even though the CIA and some in the MSM have linked the countries together.
During last years Presidential Campaign, Obama was already placating his surrogates in the Chinese Communist Party promising to observe a one China policy if elected.
National Geographic has annexed Taiwan with China
CIA Links Taiwan with China
H/T: Talk Taiwan
Palestinian Terrorist Thugs, burn an effigy of Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Gaza---do they look like they want peace with Israel?
Disturbing Gaza demonstration video of Palestinians protesting the display of an Israel Flag.
H/T: Letters From Taiwan
Democrat Socialists in Congress have hired a speed reader who will supposedly skim the entire 946 page sweeping climate bill that will allegedly cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% during
the next 50 years.
What's the rush? Isn't it better to carefully read such sweeping legislation than steam roll it through the Congress?
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA said that he hopes to ram it through the House by Memorial Day.
Doesn't seem to matter if Members of Congress understand what they are being asked to support.
More here from Wall Street Journal Blogs
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver,
depart after voting at Kenter Canyon Elementary School in
Los Angeles yesterday.
California taxpayers have rejected the porkulus spending by Republican Governor Schwarzenegger. Voters turned down
5 requests for tax increases and only supported Proposition 1-F
which prohibits pay hikes to law makers and other state officials during deficit years.
Gov. Schwarzenegger Criticizes Voters from The Washington Times
More here from LA Daily News
Safety could be compromised should "Hope-n-Change" sweeping
fuel emissions standards be initiated.
More here from USA Today
