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So much for free speech huh? If someone ripped signs out of a tea baggers hands like this you know Fox would be calling for their heads and Palin would be tweeting so much she’d break her thumbs.

Last night, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer got down to debatin’ with her opponent, Democratic Attorney General Terry Goddard, and Ben Smith has video of Brewer’s opening statement which could charitably be called a “complete and utter disaster.” Brewer’s inability to, you know — introduce herself, thank the debate sponsors, and welcome viewers at home — hit a snag when her train of thought derailed, leaving dead-air gaps that rival any of the ones on the Arizona-Mexico border.

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Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the “first round of applicants accepted into the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program,” a $5 billion program established by the new health care law to help employers and states “maintain coverage for early retirees age 55 and older who are not yet eligible for Medicare.” According to the agency, “nearly 2,000 employers, representing large and small businesses, State and local governments, educational institutions, non-profits, and unions” applied and have been accepted into the program and “will begin to receive reimbursements for employee claims this fall.”

Ironically, one of those employers is the oil, chemicals, and manufacturing conglomerate Koch Industries, which as Lee Fang has reported, has also spent millions of dollars opposing reform:

The contradictory practice of opposing the health care law while applying for its funding has been a common practice among states. For instance, at least 19 of the 22 states that are suing the federal government over health care reform have applied for the law’s rate review grants and some — like Utah — are actively working with HHS to ensure that the law meets their needs. Still, Koch’s efforts to cash in from a law they’re so vehemently opposing may be the most stark example thus far.

On 8.28.2010, Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally was held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The purpose of the rally, which Beck claimed to be “non-political” despite featuring Tea Party-favorite Sarah Palin as a speaker and its being attended entirely by conservatives, was unclear. The participants spoke abstractly about the need to restore “honor” and “pride” to a country that had lost it. When pressed for when our country had lost its honor, most cited the election of Barack Obama.

8.28.2010 also represented the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and Glenn Beck has been criticized for by civil rights groups for trying to misappropriate the occasion.

Last year, Beck referred to Barack Obama—our country’s first African-American President–as a “racist… who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” When offered the chance to respond to Beck’s statements, his fans either agreed with him or simply refused to believe that he had ever made them.

While the speaker list was diverse, the overwhelmingly white crowd expressed paranoid and conspiratorial fears of multiculturalism—that atheists or black liberation theologists or radical Muslims or “free-loading” Latinos were going to ruin our country. There was the constant suggestion that white Christians and their way of life are somehow under assault, and that the attendees of this rally were here to put an end to it and return the country to what it used to be.

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Crazy huh? Velvet Revolution sent a camera man into the crowd at Glenn Beck’s 8-28 March on Washington/book promotion to speak to tea baggers and were met with your typical derp.

Despite the city’s fire protection ordinances, the poorly-named Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, FL is committed to hosting “International Burn a Quran Day” on September 11. The radical church, which boasts an “Islam Is Of The Devil” message on a sign outside the church and as the title of its pastor’s book, insists “we will still burn Korans” on the church grounds despite being denied a permit. While the church may be fined for openly burning the holy texts, one “armed Christian conservative group” aptly named Right Wing Extreme vowed Sunday to protect the church from any other harassment during the burning:

The Christian conservative organization Right Wing Extreme has offered its support and protection for the International Burn a Quran day.

Right Wing Extreme was founded in April of 2009 after the Department of Homeland Security’s report titled Right Wing Extremism.[...]

“We fully support Dove World Outreach Center and its efforts to put an end to the notion that Islam is a peaceful religion. Islam is a violent cult with the goal of world domination.” Says Right Wing Extreme founder Shannon Carson.

Right Wing Extreme insists that “President Obama is a Muslim who is intentionally destroying America’s economy, constitution, and has a socialist agenda aimed at bringing about a New World Order.” The group measures its “state of alert” through a “Defcon system.” Currently set at level 3, the “Defcon system” warns that the group’s “moral and ethical code are under moderate attack” and that the U.S. Constitution is only “partially intact.” According to their ethical code, members swear to defend the Constitution and recognize “that freedom comes by the shedding of blood and sacrifice.”

While Right Wing Extreme is supporting the church’s “protest” of Islam by militaristic means, one non-profit Muslim group, the Book of Signs, is countering the protest by “distributing 50 free Qurans for every Quran burned” and by urging bookstores to refuse to sell Qurans to those involved.

Via KOLO-TV in Reno, NV: Parents are scared that a new curriculum at their school will lead to indoctrination of their children and will help the UN’s plan for world domination.

Incline Village schools are launching a new program aimed at improving student achievement. Some residents fear it has another agenda.

A number of Incline residents showed up at the Washoe County school board meeting in Reno late Tuesday afternoon with a petition and a message. They are saying no to a program called International Baccalaureate or IB.

Talk to an educator about International Baccalaureate and they will tell you about a curriculum and teaching method that encourages analytical thinking. It’s detractors say it’s a step backward, worry that it will cost too much and see other agendas at work.

Actually, you’ll find a variety of opinion about the program in this north Tahoe community. Many support the program and are raising funds to pay for it. Others worry it is replacing an alternate college preparation program, Advanced Placement or AP.

Local realtor John Eppolito, who’s been spearheading the opposition, says if it replaces AP college bound students will be the losers,

“We have the best AP high school in the district now. It’s a downgrade. We’re going from college level to college preparation.”

Incline High’s new principal says that’s not true. She points out the AP program remains in place and, in fact, has seen an increase in enrollment. “There’s a waiting list for both,” says Stacey Cooper.

And, she says, no is being forced into either program. In fact, both are just one of the tools being used to help students.

“They get a choice. It’s just a part of the tool kit.”

While there’s concern about funding and and apparent misinformation about whether or not it’s replacing another program, there’s also an ideological undercurrent to the controversy. Eppolito fears it will indoctrinate students in a philosophy born in the United Nations or its educational arm, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO.

“I read an article yesterday that talked about a global government. That’s UNESCO’s mission. the way UNESCO is trying to get to that global government is through IB.”

“I don’t think I’m going to win that argument,” says Cooper. “It’s not a religion. It’s not an ideology. It’s just a piece of best practice that I’m trying to enable my teachers, train them so they can best use to to help our kids.”

Incline High teacher Aaron Parsons was among those who was skeptical of the program when he first heard about it. It was just one more change in a list of changes the school’s faculty was facing and he says the announcement wasn’t handled well.

“We were basically told we could get on board or leave” Parson says.

He stayed and says he’s changed his mind.

“Once I learned more about it and found out it wasn’t replacing anything, I’m no longer skeptical.”

The Incline schools are easing their way into IB, asking teachers in the lower grades to use its less traditional, student involvement approach in at least one of their lessons each day.

It won’t be in place in the high school until next year.

Opponents vow to continue to fight it.

So by now you’ve heard about the “Ground Zero Mosque” right? Will if you haven’t you’re one of the lucky ones. The biggest reason people don’t want a religious cultural center built 2 blocks from ground zero is because it’s too close (so they say). So there shouldn’t be a problem with a proposed mosque located 965 miles away right? That should be far enough from ground zero right? Well, according to this Paducah Sun article, about 250 residents cheered when the city rejected the paperwork for a new mosque where previous permits had been granted for houses of worship for other faiths.

The current obsession with the building of mosques in America, the opposition, Newt Gingrich and Fox News’s horribly bigoted embrace of the “Anti-Islamization” meme, is dangerous. Dangerous for American Muslims, dangerous to American minorities in general, and dangerous to America herself, for what we are and what we could become.

*A Satirical look at the Lower Manhattan Community Center Debate.*

PLANS to build a state-of-the-art library next to Republican catastrophe Sarah Palin are causing outrage across mainstream America.

Campaigners have described the project as insensitive and a deliberate act of provocation by people with brains.

The issue is forming a dividing line in advance of November’s mid-term congressional elections with candidates being forced to declare whether they have ever been to a library or spoken to someone who has books in their home.

Meanwhile President Obama has caused unease within his own Democratic party by endorsing the library and claiming that not everyone who reads books is responsible for calling Mrs Palin a fuckwit nutjob nightmare of a human being.

But Bill McKay, a leading member of the right-wing Teapot movement, said: “Sarah Palin is a hallowed place for Americans who can’t read.

“How is she going to feel knowing that every day there are people going inside a building to find things out for themselves and have thoughts, right in the very shadow of her amazing nipples.”

He added: “Our founding fathers intended for every building in this country to be a church containing one book, written by Jesus, that would be read out in a strange voice by an orange man in a shiny suit who would also tell you who you were allowed to kill.

“Building a library next to Mrs Palin is like Pearl Harbour. Or 9/11.”

And Wayne Hayes, a pig masseur from Coontree, Virginia, said: “I is so angry right now.

“It’s like something is on fire right in the middle of my head. Like I’ve eaten a real hot chilli, but it’s gone up my nose tubes rather than down my ass tubes.”

He added: “Would these library lovers allow me to set up a stall next to the Smithsonian Museum and start selling DVDs of bible cartoons as long as it was in accordance with local regulations?

“Oh they would? I see. So is that why they’re better than me?”

Hm. Wonder how long before this planned domestic-terrorism attack on a police headquarters in McKinney, Texas, is labeled “just another isolated incident”:

A man apparently bent on destroying the police headquarters in McKinney was shot and killed this morning after spraying the building with bullets.

Parick Gray_d9af1.JPG Police say 29-year-old Patrick Gray Sharp drove a Ford F150 pickup pulling a trailer to the station and set it on fire in an apparent attempt to draw people out of the building. Inside the trailer, police said, were wood chips, roadside flares, gasoline, and ammonium nitrate fertilizer, the type used in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.

“He had a plan. He was executing his plan,” McKinney Police Chief Doug Kowalski said at an afternoon news conference at which he confirmed Sharp’s identity and talked about the unusual nature of the attack.

Kowalski said more than 100 shell casings were found in the area, and 23 windows were broken in the building. Officers returned fire, and Sharp was killed 50 to 200 yards south of the police station. It was unclear whether he was shot by police or died from a self-inflicted wound.

No one else was injured in the incident, which began about 9 a.m. and according to Kowalski lasted less than five minutes.

“We know the who, what, when, where. “We don’t know the why,” Kowalski said.

He said Sharp, who lived in Anna, did not have a criminal record.

“We’re delving more into his background,” the chief said.

CBS-11 has more details:

Police say Sharp may have been trying to draw people out of the building and blow up a trailer loaded with explosives. Kowalski says Sharp fired more than 100 rounds before he died.

During a morning news conference McKinney Police Deputy Chief Scott Brewer confirmed that around 9 a.m. a man driving a Ford F-150 truck drove up on south side of the Public Safety Building, pulling a trailer. The building houses both the McKinney Police and Fire Departments.

Immediately after Sharp exited the vehicle it became engulfed in flames. Police believed there was ammunition inside the pickup. “Subsequently the fire itself set off that ammunition, causing rounds to be dispersed in immediate area,” explained Brewer.

Sharp began yelling something toward the building and opened fire. Officers in and outside the building began searching for the shooter. The suspect was located and there was an exchange of gunfire.

The Dallas Morning News went out and talked to his neighbors. Apparently Sharp had a roomie named Eric McClellan who was nowhere near the scene:

McClellan was vacationing in Philadelphia when the shooting occurred, according to his mother. Police said Tuesday afternoon that they had reached him, and he was surprised by the news.

McClellan and Sharp, 29, “were cool guys,” Mullins said. “They stuck to themselves.”

Both neighbors said they had no idea what could have been behind Sharp’s actions Tuesday.

Police say Sharp had no criminal record, but had been a witness in court cases.

He had been working at Encore Wire Corp. in McKinney, according to the company, which said he resigned a few days ago.

Cheryl Cox, McClellan’s mother, said Sharp and her son both worked in security at Encore.

Eventually we’ll find out more about why Sharp targeted his local police station, though it’s worth noting that his strategy was not entirely different from the Hutaree Militia’s. Moreover, certain other aspects — particularly the presence of an ammonium-nitrate bomb — indicate a well-established modus operandi.

But of course, it will all be written off as just another “lone wolf” indulging in an “isolated incident.” Funny how we keep having all these “isolated incidents”, isn’t it?