Archive for August, 2009

…not to mention webcache.  But you would never know if from the way advocates for Obamacare™ act.

They beat people in front of camera.

Their advocates deny words that were recorded on tape.

They use campain workers families as props

And they put plants in audiances that we’ve seen before.

If you want to know why big media is dying it’s because they ignore this and blogs and conservative writers don’t.

How do I know the worm has turned…

Posted: August 12, 2009 by datechguy in oddities
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…because I went to Barnes and Noble in Leominster Mass today.

If you went back a couple of years or even as little as 6 months you would have a hard time finding books that supported conservatives in any quantity. I had noted time and time again that they were either in hiding or rarely in stock.

But today Dick Morris’ book Catastrophe is prominently displayed. Where only two copies of Michelle Malkin’s Culture of Corruption (my review here) once stood; a stack sits prominently. And where once Mark Levin was not to be found, there sits Liberty and Tyranny basking in the best seller section for all to see and buy.

If these books are selling in the Fitchburg/Leominster Massachusetts area then this president is in REAL trouble.

My pre-release review through the Amazon Vine program of Carlotta Walls LaNier’s Biography A Mighty long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School is available at Amazon.com here.

I think the strength of the book is as a general biography rather than simply a story of one of the key events of the civil rights era. I think it also explains the suspicion that many in the black community sometimes still have even decades after the actions of the 1950 & 60’s are anathema to nearly all. After all this is still in living memory.

What strikes me is the importance of the family structure in her coping with events that she as a young teen didn’t see coming. It is the collapse of that structure in the black community that given her sacrifice is simply criminal.

The book is due out in two weeks, it’s well worth a pre-order.

17 year old Rifqa Bary ran away from her family in Ohio in fear for her life:

Rifqa Bary pleaded with a DCF case worker to let her stay with Pastor Blake Lorenz from the Global Revolution Church. The 17-year-old girl from Ohio claims her father has threatened to kill her because she has converted to Christianity and rejected her family’s Muslim faith.

“They have to kill me, because I’m a Christian, it’s an honor. If they love me more than God then they have to kill me,” she said.

Her father has gone to Florida to try to get custody back:

Mohamed Bary came to Florida to try and bring his daughter back home and denied the allegations.

“Did you threaten to kill your daughter because she converted to Christianity?” Nguyen asked.

“No, no,” responded Mohamed Bary.

However, Rifqa Bary insists that’s not the case.

“This is not just threats this is reality. This is truth,” she said.

In one year of course this will all be moot when she turns 18. But I can’t see where she would get such a crazy idea about Islam.