Ron Paul Wins San Francisco

Hey look, yet another straw poll that Ron Paul wins. Oh wait — he didn’t win this one because the GOP establishment decided to cancel the straw poll — when they saw all the Ron Paul Supporters. I’m thinking these national polls are really, really getting this one wrong. I could be incorrect — obviously there’s a lot of Republican Party “Leadership” that clearly does not like Ron Paul. They’re obviously actively hostile to him. I just don’t know how many votes these “leadership” elements represent vs. the mass of people who keep showing up all over the country in support of Ron Paul.

From the video author:

I paid my $33 for the dinner and vote. A $5 option was also offered to vote after the festivities. We patiently listened to the guest speaker support Fred Thompson and talk on the issues of water and budget problems in California. They then held a raffle, while all the “cheap” voters waited in the lobby. When they finally let them in, the room was flooded with Ron Paul supporters and the organizer notified us the poll was cancelled. I started the video after the initial announcement and pandemonium broke out. The sudden cancellation and an attempt to change the rules, understandably, upset quite a few people.

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst

TBogg deleted evidence of cover up at the Flight 93 MemorialTBogg has edited a comment thread to remove an important piece of evidence about the Memorial Project’s cover up of Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in the planned Flight 93 memorial. A historically important comment left by a consultant to the Memorial Project has been deleted.

In January 2006, Alec Rawls baited the TBogg leftists for insisting that it is perfectly okay to plant a giant Mecca oriented crescent on the Flight 93 crash site. TBogg’s comment thread swelled to epic proportions and eventually yielded something more than the usual litany of moonbat excuses for not thinking straight. At the end of the thread, posted sometime in March or April of 2006, there appeared an extended comment, about 600 words long, posted anonymously, and written as a semi-formal evaluation of Rawls’ January 2006 report to the Memorial Project.

Mr. Rawls would later find out that this anonymous comment was the sole piece of written feedback on which the Memorial Project was basing its denial of Islamic features in the winning design. (Crescent of Betrayal, download 3, pp. 149-50.)

The Project only communicated snippets of the TBogg comment, so the fact that the whole thing had been posted online caught them by surprise, undermining their ability to control the story. In particular, the TBogg comment did not deny the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent. On the contrary, it acknowledged that the crescent at the center of the memorial is geometrically similar to a traditional mihrab (the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built), and offered a variety of excuses for why people should not be concerned about this similarity. (e.g. “[J]ust because something is ’similar to’ something else, does not make it the ’same’.”)

Dr. Kevin Jaques

Only in the last couple of weeks has the identity of the anonymous scholar who wrote the TBogg comment been learned. Last week’s blogburst about the Park Service’s fraudlent internal investigation discusses a Memorial Project “White Paper” that identifies the TBogg commentator as Dr. Kevin Jaques, an Islamicist (a scholar of Islam), at the University of Indiana.

One of Dr. Jaques excuses for not being concerned about the half-mile wide Mecca-oriented crescent is that it is so much bigger than any other mihrab:

Thirdly, most mihrabs are small, rarely larger than the figure of a man, although some of the more ornamental ones can be larger, but nothing as large at the crescent found in the site design. It is unlikely that most Muslims would walk into the area of the circle/crescent and see a mihrab because it is well beyond their limit of experience. Again, just because it is similar does not make it the same.

You might recognize it as a giant crescent from an airplane like Flight 93 flying over head, but from the ground? Pshaw.

It’s too big to recognize!

TBogg deleted the Kevin Jaques comment from his comment thread

For most of 2007, the original TBogg comment thread has not been available, but TBogg now has it reposted, with one glaring omission: Dr. Jaques comment has been removed.

If you want to see what TBogg is posting now, the url for his 2006 “Lunacy abounds” post is http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2006/01/lunacy-abounds-nuts.html.For posterity, here are copies of the original comment thread, as of 5/29/2006, with Dr. Jaques’ comment intact at the end, and the comment thread repost, as of 12/3/2007, with Dr. Jaques’ comment deleted.

A full discussion of what TBogg properly calls “the infamous comment thread” can be found in Chapter Eight of Alec’s Crescent of Betrayal book (download 3, pp 131-).

The question now for Mr. TBogg is why he deleted Kevin Jaques’ comment. Did he do it on his own, or did he do it at someone’s request? Did Dr. Jaques ask him to delete the comment? Did architect Paul Murdoch ask? Did someone in the Park Service ask?

Whether TBogg acted on his own or was prompted, it is obvious that he understood that he was deleting an important piece of evidence. Just the fact that he singled it out for deletion shows a conscious act of cover-up. Maybe he did not realize the full import of having the comment remain publicly available via an original source, but he certainly knew he was covering up something important. What kind of blogger deletes a piece of evidence that he knows to be central to a high profile controversy? (Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo (R-CO) sent the Park Service a letter last month asking that crescent design be scrapped entirely.) This is very bad behavior.

Was TBogg’s comment thread originally removed in order to hide Jaques comment?

It was odd enough when the “infamous comment thread” first disappeared from TBogg’s blog. What blogger removes anything famous from their blog? But at that time, there was no publicly available information that could have alerted TBogg to the significance of that last anonymous comment. The most likely explanation for the disappearance of the comment thread seemed to be that TBogg simply had a coding glitch, or maybe he is cheap enough to have been worried about bandwidth.

Now that the comment thread has been restored without the Jaques comment, it seems likely that the reason the comment thread came down in the first place was to hide the Jaques comment. The interesting thing about this scenario is that at the time the comment thread was removed (sometime between June 2006 and June 2007) the only way TBogg could have learned the importance of that last anonymous comment would have been through the internal investigation conducted by the Park Service in the spring and summer of 2006. No one else knew that the comment came from an advisor to the Memorial Project until July 2007 when Alec Rawls released the downloadable “Director’s Cut” version of his Crescent of Betrayal book. (Given the urgent public need to know, World Ahead Publishing graciously allowed Alec to make his then final draft available for free download until the print edition—still being updated—comes out in the first quarter of 2008.)

The TBogg comment thread was removed before the Director’s Cut release. (Noted in Crescent of Betrayal, download 3, at p. 131.) Chief Ranger Jill Hawk, who was conducting the investigation, would not tell Alec who wrote the anonymous TBogg comment, but Alec warned her to be suspicious. Given the overtly dishonest nature of its excuse making, he urged her to double check its provenance. She answered back that she had been able to get email confirmation of authorship.

This email communication with Jaques might well have alerted him to the faux pas he committed by posting his comment on the TBogg thread. Did he then contact TBogg and ask for the comment to be removed?

That would seem to be the most likely scenario. Others who were privy to the internal investigation could have also contacted TBogg, but there is no evidence for any other such route of transmission.

It is disturbing to think that TBogg would have acceded to any request to remove evidence about a possible enemy plot. He is fully aware of what Rawls is claiming: that an al Qaeda sympathizing architect entered our open design competition with a plan to build a terrorist memorial mosque and won. Kevin Jaques’ TBogg comment is crucial for understanding how such a plot could succeed, revealing the utter fraudulence of the internal investigation that should have detected any such plot. As the lone consultant to the Memorial Project on the crescent design, Jaques engaged in overtly dishonest excuse-making. And TBogg is willing to help him cover it up?

If TBogg has some other explanation for his deletions, the rest of us would sure like to hear it.

The fraudulent internal investigation

For more of Kevin Jaques’ dishonest excuse-making, see last week’s blogburst on the fraudulent internal investigation. Before the Park Service was done, it managed to round up two more academic frauds in addition to Kevin Jaques. There is Dr. Daniel Griffith, who claims there is no such thing as the direction to Mecca, and a third Mosqueteer still to be discussed. (Saving the worst for last.)

But Jaques is the central fraud, being the Project’s sole source of feedback during a crucial period when its dismissive posture was set in stone. In addition to being an expert on sharia law, Jaques has also proved to be an expert at taqiyya.

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Crescent of betrayal/surrender Blogburst Blogroll

1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech
A Defending Crusader
A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever
And Rightly So
Big Dog’s Weblog
Big Sibling
Cao’s Blog
Chaotic Synaptic Activity
Error Theory
Faultline USA
Flanders Fields
Four Pointer
Freedom’s Enemies
Ft. Hard Knox
GM’s Corner
Ironic Surrealism II
Jack Lewis
Kender’s Musings
My Own Thoughts
Nice Deb
Ogre’s Politics and Views
Part-Time Pundit
Right on the Right
Right Truth
Stix Blog
Stop the ACLU
The Renaissance Biologist
The View From the Turret
The Wide Awakes
Thunder Run

City of Philadelphia Continues Hatred

It appears that the City of Philadelphia, site of lots of violence and unrest, is going forward with plans to remove one of the very few organizations that has been teaching children how to avoid violence and unrest for almost 80 years — because the city hates them. Apparently the city is actively working to increase violence there. Nice job, Philadelphia.

But as long as there’s openly gay members of the city council who actively despise and hate people who do not approve of them and their sexual acts, even with young boys under age 12, the Boy Scouts are apparently not welcome. So, if you’re considering living in, moving to, or even just visiting Philadelphia, realize that you are welcome if you actively participate in sex with young boys, but you are not welcome there if you think that’s wrong. And they wonder why there’s so much violence in Philadelphia. Maybe it’s because so many city council members are so full of hate.

$11,000 for NC Bureacrats?

Oh, and that’s $11,000 from EACH family, EACH year to pay for government bureaucrats to do, quite literally, nothing.

tax dollars pay 100 percent of premium costs for current state employees and retirees to enroll in the state health plan. This group includes employees of state agencies and universities, local public schools and local community colleges.

people could work for the state for five years, then work in private industry the rest of their career and still enroll in the state health plan fully financed with taxpayer dollars upon retiring.

Gee, how much do you think that’s going to cost? It doesn’t matter, of course, to the Democrats who run the state of North Carolina, because they just demand more money to pay for whatever they like. They honestly LOVE government and government bureaucrats. But go ahead and read the whole article to see how much it’s going to cost to continue this insane policy — even if the Democrats don’t care.

Merry Tossmas!

Have a Merry Tossmas! That’s hilarious!

Hat tip to Kat.

Vote for Change

So there’s a lot of people supporting lots of candidates for president. More than a few people are already sick of the campaigning — and even more haven’t even starting thinking about selecting one. Here in North Carolina, primaries are so late in the year that the presidential primary vote very seldom matters to anyone. But if you’re interested, no matter your party, think about what the different presidential candidates will do. Picture what America would be like in, say, 2010 or 2011 as compared to now…

President Giuliani: Guns might be restricted a little more. Amnesty will be pushed. Iraq/Afghanistan will be about the same. Government spending will increase. Taxes may increase. If Democrats control Congress, I’m thinking there would be almost no difference between Giuliani and Bush.

President Romney: Not buying health insurance might be illegal. Amnesty is likely. Iraq/Afghanistan will be about the same. Government spending will increase. Taxes may increase. If Democrats control Congress, I don’t see a difference between now and then.

President McCain: Freedom of speech may be limited more. Amnesty will be pushed. Iraq/Afghanistan may have more troops. Government spending will increase. Taxes may increase. If Democrats control Congress, yes, about the same.

President Huckabee: Education spending will increase. Amnesty is likely. Iraq/Afghanistan will be about the same. Government spending will increase massively. Taxes will be raised — a lot. If Democrats control Congress, much more of the same, but with even more spending.

President Thompson: There will be more laughs in news conferences. Amnesty may be pushed. Iraq/Afghanistan will be about the same. Government spending is likely to increase. Taxes may increase. If Democrats Control Congress, what’s the difference?

President Hunter: A fence might get built on the southern border. Amnesty won’t be pushed. Iraq/Afghanistan will be about the same. Government spending may increase, but only slightly. Taxes are likely to stay where they are. If Democrats control Congress, there may be a little more fighting, but not a lot of difference from now.

President Hillary: Socialized medicine will be put in full force with dissenters being jailed. Amnesty will be pushed. Iraq/Afghanistan will be about the same. Government spending will increase. Taxes will increase. More of the same.

President Obama: Democrats will be unhappy. Amnesty will be pushed. Iraq/Afghanistan will be about the same. Government spending will increase. Taxes will increase. More and more of the same.

Do you see a pattern here? Do you see why so many people aren’t “excited” about this election process? Nearly every candidate is simply more of the same with a few tiny differences. Seriously. These candidate will all just continue doing everything that’s going on now with just a few adjustments. According to polls (I know), most people are tired of more of the same. How about some real change?

President Ron Paul: The US will get out of the U.N. America won’t intervene militarily in other countries that don’t want us there. The IRS will go away. The federal department of Education will disappear! America will be a sovereign nation again. Social Security will be fixed. We will have secure borders and property rights. Government spending will decrease drastically. Taxes will be slashed. Americans will have freedom from government once again.

The more I find out about Ron Paul, the more excited I get. Join the Ron Paul Revolution now. Don’t listen to the people who claim he’s just wacko, they’re simply wrong — either that or they just think freedom is “wacko.” Vote for real change. Vote for Ron Paul.

Video Blogs for Borders

The latest video blogging for borders post is up at Freedom Folks. Go see the criminal elements trying to shut down Lou Dobbs in Chicago.

New Dangers: Working and Salt

In case you’re keeping track (and you’re probably not), there’s a new danger which government “needs” to protect us from: salt. Yes, that little white stuff that you find, well, everywhere. According to Those Who Know Better Than You, it’s killing you and should be regulated, banned, and controlled by government — much like marijuana. And word is that the government is actually considering punishing, jailing, and killing people who sell too much salt — because it’s “dangerous.”

I am still amazed at people who support such things. Why do they honestly hate freedom so much? Why do they believe that only they are smart enough to tell everyone else what to do? Why do they think that they should use the power of government to punish, and if needed, kill people in other to enforce what they, personally, believe everyone else should do? How incredibly selfish and self-centered these people must be to believe that they should determine everything for everyone. People who support actions like this are honestly evil and anti-freedom, even if they don’t believe so themselves.

But hey, as long as we’re banning things that are “bad” for you, next on the list will be working at night. You see, that apparently now causes cancer. Therefore, if we should use government to punish people who sell and eat salt because it’s bad, then we obviously NEED to use government to shut down any business that stays open or allows people to work at night. Perhaps we can have government patrols that look for lights on at night and they can shoot and arrest anyone who dares to work at night — for their own good, of course.

Oh, how I yearn for freedom.

Romney Voting: Corruption and Threats?

So, did you see the results of the recent Florida Republican Straw Poll? Romney apparently bought his win. Oh, and the machines. Check out the report and video here. It’s just astounding. Republican Party chairmen allegedly threatening Ron Paul supporters with BODILY HARM if they reveal the corruption. What corruption? How about Romney supporters voting hundreds of times and Paul supporters voting once. How about election machines where you pick Ron Paul but the confirmation page says “Mitt Romney?” Indeed, politics is filthy and perhaps this is the only way Romney can beat Paul — but this is just disgusting.

Les Merritt to Track Government Grants

Les Merritt is the North Carolina State Auditor. He has announced his plans to track state government grants to local governments. This could be interesting because over $13 billion flows from the state to local governments — and many “non-profits” are funded by local governments. Do you suppose a large portion of funding is flowing to the “non-profits” — many of which have state government politicians on their “board of directors” or employed as “consultants?” This should be a very interesting program to watch and monitor. Now if we could just get all the “non-profits” to reveal their employee lists for all to see, we might get a whole new picture of the real use of “non-profits” in North Carolina.