CULTURE: Cancer Down, Unfaithful Wives Up

Culture Watch Vol. 43
Nancy Morgan
RightBias.com
December 1, 2008

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GOOD NEWS:

[RIGHT: The smiling, satisfied face of one of the Mumbai terrorists.]

In yet another sign of success in Iraq, 18 female suicide bombers associated with al-Qaeda have turned themselves in to coalition forces.

In the U.S., deportations of illegal immigrants have increased, with nearly 350,000 illegals sent packing through Sept., 2008, compared to 174,000 in the same period in 2004.

Cancer rates have dropped for the first time in the U.S. and previous declines are accelerating.

With the economy in shambles, fewer and fewer people are exhibiting concern for 'global warming'. Efforts by the global warming crowd continue, however - with the United Nations issuing yet another report warning that the cost to fight this 'crisis' may be 170% higher than 2007 estimates. Oops. Lawyers are getting into the game, demanding an international court for the environment to punish states that fail to protect wildlife and prevent 'climate change'.
Translation: They want to regulate air.

United America Committee has erected a giant billboard, warning of the very real danger of Sharia creep. (Islamic law)

CULTURE:

Planned Parenthood is offering Christmas gift certificates. Now you can give an abortion for Christmas. Or maybe you could give Atlas Sports Genetic's $149 test that promises to predict a child's natural athletic strengths. Scary stuff, all.

Between 1991 and 2006, the numbers of unfaithful wives under 30 increased by 20% and husbands by a whopping 45%. Thank-you, secular progressives.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ruled that a man who infected his ex-wife with HIV while they were married must pay her $12.5 million.

Swiss voters on Sunday appeared to be giving overwhelming support to a pioneering program providing government-authorized heroin to hardened addicts.

In Florida, a strict law banning adoption of children by gay people was found unconstitutional by a state judge who declared there was no legal or scientific reason for sexual orientation alone to prohibit anyone from adopting.

South Korea is trying to jail an actress - for adultery.

In California, the PC police object to having kindergarten students dress up as pilgrims and Native Americans, saying it is 'demeaning.'

In Florida, Gulf Coast University has banned all holiday decorations from common spaces on campus and canceled a popular greeting card design contest, which is being replaced by an ugly sweater competition.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 68% of American adults prefer stores to show signs saying “Merry Christmas” rather than "Happy Holidays."

From the 'I've Got Rights!' file, A Deltona woman has sued the Volusia County supervisor of elections, contending that, as a Puerto Rican, she should have been able to cast her vote in Spanish.

Plans are underway for a movie depicting the life of Prophet Muhammad. Producer Oscar Zoghbi hopes his film will clear up misconceptions about Muslims, including what he says is "the understanding that all Muslims are terrorists." Critics say it is yet another attempt to humanize terrorists.

Virulent atheist Michael Newdow is at it again, seeking to remove 'In God We Trust' from U.S. coins and dollar bills, claiming in a new federal lawsuit that the motto is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.

TOP IDIOTS OF THE WEEK:

Top Idiot Awards this week include the students at Ottowa's Carlton University who cancelled a cystic fibrosis fundraiser after finding out the disease wasn't 'inclusive' enough. Duh

So many idiots, so little space. Check out the latest RightBias Idiots Awards here.

Until next Monday, keep smiling,


by Nancy Morgan
Right Bias.com

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Obama and Cousin Raila Odinga: Obama's Odinga Problem

Raila Odinga:
"No Raila, No Peace"
Obama Campaigned for Cousin



Obama Foreign Policy Advisor, "Friends of Obama":
Gave Nearly $1 Million to Odinga

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Odinga Supporters Burned Christians Alive in Kenya

Barack Obama has an Odinga problem, and it could be his Achille's heel, proving that Obama's only foreign policy achievement to date resulted in massive Muslim-led ethnic cleansing that murdered hundreds of Christians in Western Kenya in the post-election violence of his cousin Raila Odinga's failed 2007 bid for the Kenyan presidency.



Raila Odinga is the current Prime Minister of Kenya, and Barack Obama's first cousin.
Odinga's mother was the sister of Barak Obama, Sr, who was also a member of Odinga's Luo (or Jalou) tribe.

Odinga's father was the late Kenyan politician Jaramogi Odinga Oginga, and he, Barak Obama Sr, and Raila Odinga both attended the same Maseno high school in Western Kenya.


Kenyan Government: Obama an "Odinga Stooge"






Barack Obama campaigned extensively for Odinga in late 2006 while visiting Kenya on US taxpayer funded trips, and was even denounced by the sitting government as an "Odinga stooge".





Odinga was never elected Prime Minister, rather he ran as a member of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), and lost a close election to the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki by 250,000 votes.

This loss and the Odinga campaigns subsequent accusations of election fraud sparked horrible violence and ethnic cleansing between Odinga's Muslim Luo Tribe (13% of the Kenyan population) and Kibaki's Kikuyu (20 percent of Kenya's population) tribe, who vowed that without Odinga's election, there would be no peace, or "No Raila, No Peace".





The violence culminated in early January, when less than 24 hours after President Kibaki was sworn in, more than 50 Christians were burned alive in the Kenya Assemblies of God Pentecostal church in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret by orange clad ODM (Odinga) mobs, who attempted to shoot any who fled the burning church with arrows.





These pro-Odinga ODM forces referred to themselves as the Taliban, according to many sources, including John Kerry aide Alexandra Polier.

By the end of January, the disputed election directly caused the deaths of more than 1,500 people and the displacement of almost 600,000 more.

In an effort to quell the violence, an agreement was negotiated by Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annon in February 2008 where Kibaki would remain president and Odinga would be awarded the office of Prime Minister, only the second Kenya had ever had, and their cabinet would be staffed equally by both Odinga and Kibaki supporters.

After his appointment as prime minister, the press revealed a contract signed in August 2007 between Odinga and National Muslim Leaders Forum agreeing to several shocking concessions to Islam:

"Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader….The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.




It was recently revealed by the head of Odinga's campaign finance accounting section, Shakeel Shabbir that, that Raila Odinga and his Orange Democratic Movement had accepted almost a million US dollars (66 million Kenyan shillings) from a bundler who was also Barack Obama's foreign policy advisor, Mark Lippert, and the "Friends of Barack Obama" political action committee, registered in Illinois from 1995-2005.

Shabbirthat also revealed a shocking series of emails that purported Barack Obama was may have directly advised Odinga during the Muslim on Christian post-election violence in Kenya.

Barack Obama's participation in his cousin Raila Odinga's campaign has been widely reported in the European press, but uniformly ignored domestically, perhaps because Barack Obama is not just vulnerable on foreign policy, it is his Achille's heel.

His greatest foreign policy achievement to date resulted in the Muslim-led ethnic cleansing and massacre of hundreds of Christians.

by dossier
images: acc2sources; moonbattery

$90 Crude Oil: Law of Supply and Demand Trump Politics

Crude Oil Prices Dropped to $90/Barrel
Is Big Oil Less Greedy Now?



"International oil prices have dropped about 10 per cent in two days, the biggest slide since 2004, with US crude down to a seven-month low of about US$91 a barrel."

Oil dropped to around $90 per barrel yesterday.

What has caused the drop in crude oil prices--from over $140 just weeks ago?

Are oil companies suddenly less greedy? Did a collective light bulb go on in the heads of Big Oil executives--perhaps, after listening to all the Leftie talk about how cold-hearted they were?

Maybe it was the US House of Representatives passing a "Don't Drill Now!" bill?

Will economic conspiracy theorists have to find a new whipping boy?

Or maybe it was that strangest of economic mysteries: the Law of Supply and Demand.

Economic problems around the world, exacerbated by this week's turmoil on Wall Street, had depressed expectations of demand and affected the oil price.

Talking about "the law of supply and demand" is not politically sexy for liberals.

Bashing Big Oil is.

With the price of oil down--by as much as $55/barrel--does this mean that Big Oil is 1/3 less evil?

Will liberals and House Democrats change their rhetoric?

Does a bear wear a beanie?


by Mondo
images: dbkp; dkimages