DARK SKIES BLOG

Not only does Obama bring a Presidential Podium to a tiny Edision, NJ sub shop, he has microphones installed on the podium.

Does he think folks over by the Coke machine (approximately 8-10 feet away) might be unable to hear his speech?

The title of this post is a quote from this great video (the trailer for the upcoming full length film) by Pastor C.L. Bryant about the slavery of American Blacks by Liberalism. And it includes an honest discussion by and about black conservatives in America today.

Along these same lines, we wrote a short article back in December 2009 (‘Obama’s New Amerikan Plantation’) in which we said…

[Socialism is] the destruction of freedom so that those who fear it are no longer threatened or tempted by it (freedom, that is). Socialism creates a zoo for us to live in. It rids humanity of all the excellence and invention and creativity that free men are capable of…and replaces it with a vast, inescapable plantation of shared mediocrity and hopelessness.

Here’s the trailer to Pastor Bryant’s upcoming film (to be released in 2011)…

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As we all know, yesterday Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign over a video released by Breitbart which showed her making racist statements to the enthusiastic applause of the NAACP.

Upon her resignation the NAACP released a statement concurring “with US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack in accepting the resignation of Shirley Sherrod for her remarks at a local NAACP Freedom Fund banquet.”

Later, after a review of the situation, the NAACP released another statement reversing the first (here is an excerpt)…

With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of USDA Official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias.

Having reviewed the full tape, spoken to Ms. Sherrod, and most importantly heard the testimony of the white farmers mentioned in this story, we now believe the organization that edited the documents did so with the intention of deceiving millions of Americans.   Source

As reported by Brett Baier on last night’s Special Report (Fox), Fox had only reported the story after the resignation of Sherrod and played no role in “snookering” the NAACP.

Breitbart, on the other hand, appeared to swing in the wind until last night when he told John King of CNN that the video was not about Shirley Sherrod but about the NAACP’s enthusiasm for what appeared to be her racist statements. Breitbart went on so tell King “that the real context of the Shirley Sherrod videos at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner begins with last week’s resolution by the NAACP labeling the Tea Party movement as racist.”

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Ralph Peters often tackles issues that other commentators avoid. And he often reveals a story that is in direct opposition to what is reported in the media and, in doing so, exposes the truth.

In this case, he tells the truth about Islam in Africa.

In today’s NYPost (The Coming Crusade–Ralph Peters), he shines the light on Islam’s losing battle to dominate the lives of the poor peoples of East Africa. And he speaks of how the gains of Christianity in Africa will eventually (probably sooner rather than later) bring it in into direct conflict with increasingly moribund, but deeply angry, Islam

Here’s are a few excerpts…

A few years back, during one of four major research trips to sub-Saharan Africa, I visited the traditionally Muslim city of Mombassa on the old Swahili (Arab-slaver’s) coast in Kenya. What I found was one of the sharpest religious juxtapositions I’ve seen in global travels.

Thanks to Saudi funding folly, there were far too many mosques for the congregants, so few hit critical mass. Islam in Mombassa felt sleepy, dusty and dull.

Kenya’s Muslims were backward and listless. Condemned to poverty by poor educations (the Saudis pay Muslims to send their children to madrassahs, instead of to state schools), their culture seemed out of steam.

But Christianity blazed. Mega-churches couldn’t contain all those who’d accepted Jesus as their Savior: City parks were packed with ecstatic worshippers every Sunday.

All along east Africa’s Swahili Coast — once a necklace of gems on the body of Islam — the faith of Mohammed seemed like a museum exhibit in a neglected side room. The Christians — from tribes Muslims had enslaved — were the rising power.

As far as converts go, Muslims are being baptized (at great personal risk), but Christians aren’t converting to Islam. Wahhabi Islam’s rejection of joy just doesn’t speak to Africans — who even in misfortune seem incomparably alive.

Yet, however much Christianity is ascendant, Islam isn’t just going to give up without a battle.  After all, despite its obfuscations to the contrary, Islam is a religion of war!  And as such, its adherents in African regularly butcher Christians for their faith.

But in the end, as Peters points out, African Christians can and will take only so much.

As the death cult of Islam inflicts itself on the religion of joy, it would do well to remember that the excitable religious fervor of Christians, when pushed beyond its breaking point, could quickly become transformed into an overwhelming and devastating army of crusaders.

For fans of Lieutenant Colonel Peters, his latest book is “Endless War.”

The Obama administration is either inept in its response to the Gulf oil spill…or it’s actually eager for those deepwater rigs to be deployed elsewhere (like to Soros’ Petrobras in Brazil–read Soros Oil Spill Payoff for details).

HT to HotAir!.

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This film seemed so prescient at the time (1967)…and still does in retrospect. I just finished watching it again and it never seems to lose its appeal. Hope you enjoy it as much as I always do!

Here it is (if video fails to load, click here to see it at Google Video)…

This confirms it! Our nation has slipped into a parallel universe!

Here’s the exact statement by NASA administrator Charles Bolden in his interview with Al Jazeera in Cairo (and here’s the entire youtube video–the “foremost” comment occurs at the 1 min 20 sec mark):

“One, he [Obama] wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering — science, math and engineering.”

By the way, Bolden was quick to point out that this is NOT a diplomatic outreach but instead an effort to attract more scientific contributors to our space “partnership.” Bolden didn’t explain why Obama wants NASA to invite the participation of those who at present feel rather poorly about their scientific and engineering achievements…but surely he (or the administration) will issue another statement of clarification shortly.

We at this blog are uncharacteristically speechless by this turn of events. Luckily, for us, there are those who can still find their voice.

Here’s what some sensible commentators have to say…

Michael Griffin, NASA administrator under the Bush:

It is a perversion of NASA’s purpose to conduct activities in order to make the Muslim world feel good about its contributions to science and mathematics.”

Byron York (regarding Michael Griffin’s comment):

For all his unhappiness with the new policy, Griffin says blame for the situation does not belong with NASA administrator Charles Bolden, whom Griffin calls “one of the best human beings you will find.” “When I see reports in the media excoriating Charlie for this position, that blame is misplaced,” Griffin says. “It belongs with the administration. That is where policy for NASA is set. The NASA administrator does not set policy for NASA, the administrator carries it out.”

“This is not about personalities,” Griffin concludes. “It is about the intellectual content of the policy, which I find to be bankrupt.”

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air…

Hey, maybe that’s why Obama hasn’t taken the Iranian effort to build a nuclear bomb all that seriously until now. He just wanted Iran to make the Muslim world feel good about their achievements in science! And it’s hard to do to that unless you talk a lot about outstretched open hands — and ignore a freedom movement that wants to depose the brutal tyrants who are trying to give the Muslim world a new “historic contribution.”

Actually, Muslim nations should be insulted by the idea that the US pays NASA to provide them with paternalistic and patronizing validation and self-esteem boosts. And they probably will be.

Victor Davis Hanson at NRO…

[I]s it really the business of a government scientific agency to produce historical and scientific narratives for political purposes? And do we really wish to return to the embarrassment of last June’s Cairo mythmaking? In that address, the president misled his audience on nearly every “fact” he presented, from the absurdity of Muslims in Cordoba supposedly serving as beacons of tolerance during the Inquisition (there were essentially no Muslims in Cordoba at the time) to the assertion that Muslims helped to jumpstart the Renaissance and the Enlightenment (when, in fact, flight from or reaction against Islam in the eastern Mediterranean had far more to do with both European intellectual awakenings).

Bolden, like so many Obama appointees, has impressive dossier and yet seems to say some very strange things that put ideology above all else — e.g., Eric Holder (“nation of cowards”), Hilda Solis (“documented or not”), Janet Napolitano (“man-caused disasters”), Ken Salazar (“boot on their neck”), or Steven Chu (“no more agriculture in California”).

Krauthammer (video of Fox’s Special Report with Brett Baier) had this to say…

This is a new height in fatuousness!

This idea to feel good about past scientific achievements is the worst combination of group therapy psychobabble, imperial condescension, and adolescent diplomacy! If I didn’t know that Obama had told this, I’d demand a firing of Charles Bolden the way I would Michael Steele…this is unbelievable!