We have lost one of the most talented singer/actresses America has ever produced. Lena Horne passed away today at 92 years of age.

Legendary Singer Lena Horne Dies

A scene with Lena in one of my favorite movies, 1943’s Cabin The Sky.

Rest in Peace, Lena, your velvety voice will be with us forever.

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If you think all the so-called “Immigrant Rights” rallies are simply calls for equality, this Hispanic Teacher at UCLA should put that notion to rest.

Were Tea Partiers making such claims, would it be so easily overlooked?

It should also be noted, if this anti-capitalsim teacher from an LA High School only has regular credentials, he is earning somewhere between $45,637 to $67,079 a year, M-I-N-I-M-U-M.

Not bad pay from something so oppressive and hateful.

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Rees Lloyd draws my attention to the latest story about women’s rights in Iran on this Mother’s Day.
Via Newsmax:

US Fails to Thwart Iran’s ‘Serious Threat’ to Women’s Rights

Just days after Iranian clerics attacked “immodest dress” by women and threatened suntanned women with arrest, Iran won a seat on a United Nations women’s rights commission.

The American delegation could easily have thwarted the move by raising an objection. But U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice was not on hand for the vote. In fact, she wasn’t even at the U.N.

“Wouldn’t you think that a female American ambassador would understand the importance of standing up against a country that has some of the world’s most hostile laws toward women?” Richard Grenell, who served as spokesman for four U.S. ambassadors to the U.N., wrote in National Review. “Shouldn’t Rice want to use the opportunity to highlight the regime’s record on women’s rights?”

Iran has become infamous for its treatment of women. On April 19, Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi, a leading cleric in Tehran, said that immodest dress and behavior by women disturbed young men and was to blame for an increase in earthquakes.

Shortly thereafter, Tehran’s police chief, Hossein Sajedinia, warned that suntanned women will be arrested as part of a new drive to enforce the Islamic dress code, The Telegraph in Britain reported.

Then at an April 28 meeting of the U.N.’s 54-member Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Iran was nominated for a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). If the United States or any other Western country in the ECOSOC protested, a secret ballot would have been required and Iran might well have not received a majority of 28 votes.

But the United States, Canada, Australia, and 10 European nations raised no objection, and Iran was therefore given the seat “by acclamation,” according to CNS News.

Beginning in 2011, Iran will help set U.N. policy on gender equality and women’s rights.

Iranian women’s rights activists sent a letter to the U.N. saying that Iranian membership in the CSW would pose a “serious threat” to the body’s “goals and mission,” and warned that the Iranian government would use it “to curtail progress and the advancement of women.”

A U.S. State Department report released in March stated that “provisions in the Islamic civil and penal codes, particularly sections dealing with family and property law, discriminate against women.” And CNS reported that members of the National Iranian American Council charged that the Iranian government “has taken every conceivable step to deter women’s progress and institute a regressive regime against gender equality.”

According to Grenell, Rice’s failure to act is not surprising. “For Rice, this silence is becoming a pattern,” he wrote. “Rice has been routinely unavailable to reporters, absent from daily U.N. meetings, and all too often silent when the American people needed a strong voice to speak out on an important issue. From Iran to Zimbabwe to Sudan to Cuba, Rice consistently stays silent.

“It’s no wonder other countries at the U.N. think the Obama administration is so easy to work with. And it also explains why we haven’t had one single Security Council resolution on Iran since Rice arrived.”

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The absolute lunacy from the left continues. A news report from WSB-TV out of Atlanta, Georgia tells us that staff from Senior Citizens Inc., who supplies meals to Senior Homes and is partially funded with Federal Dollars, “recently visited the center and noticed people praying shortly before lunch was served.”

Company officials say meals are “mostly covered with federal money, which ushers in the burden of separating church and state.” Tim Rutherford, Senior Citizens Inc. vice president, said, “We can’t scoff at their rules. It’s a part of the operational guidelines.”

Seniors there are told to “have a moment of silence” before their meals instead of a audible prayer. Mayor Glenn “Pig” Jones is outraged and with City Attorneys is seeking a resolution.

Article at WSB-TV.com

This continued push of Separation of Church and State leaves me asking, when do we begin practicing Separation of Mosque and State with the same fervor?

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If you think all the so-called “Immigrant Rights” rallies are simply calls for equality, this Hispanic Teacher at UCLA should put that notion to rest.

Were Tea Partiers making such claims, would it be so easily overlooked?

It should also be noted, if this anti-capitalsim teacher from an LA High School only has regular credentials, he is earning somewhere between $45,637 to $67,079 a year, M-I-N-I-M-U-M.

Not bad pay from something so oppressive and hateful.

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Rees Lloyd draws my attention to the latest story about women’s rights in Iran on this Mother’s Day.
Via Newsmax:

US Fails to Thwart Iran’s ‘Serious Threat’ to Women’s Rights

Just days after Iranian clerics attacked “immodest dress” by women and threatened suntanned women with arrest, Iran won a seat on a United Nations women’s rights commission.

The American delegation could easily have thwarted the move by raising an objection. But U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice was not on hand for the vote. In fact, she wasn’t even at the U.N.

“Wouldn’t you think that a female American ambassador would understand the importance of standing up against a country that has some of the world’s most hostile laws toward women?” Richard Grenell, who served as spokesman for four U.S. ambassadors to the U.N., wrote in National Review. “Shouldn’t Rice want to use the opportunity to highlight the regime’s record on women’s rights?”

Iran has become infamous for its treatment of women. On April 19, Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi, a leading cleric in Tehran, said that immodest dress and behavior by women disturbed young men and was to blame for an increase in earthquakes.

Shortly thereafter, Tehran’s police chief, Hossein Sajedinia, warned that suntanned women will be arrested as part of a new drive to enforce the Islamic dress code, The Telegraph in Britain reported.

Then at an April 28 meeting of the U.N.’s 54-member Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Iran was nominated for a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). If the United States or any other Western country in the ECOSOC protested, a secret ballot would have been required and Iran might well have not received a majority of 28 votes.

But the United States, Canada, Australia, and 10 European nations raised no objection, and Iran was therefore given the seat “by acclamation,” according to CNS News.

Beginning in 2011, Iran will help set U.N. policy on gender equality and women’s rights.

Iranian women’s rights activists sent a letter to the U.N. saying that Iranian membership in the CSW would pose a “serious threat” to the body’s “goals and mission,” and warned that the Iranian government would use it “to curtail progress and the advancement of women.”

A U.S. State Department report released in March stated that “provisions in the Islamic civil and penal codes, particularly sections dealing with family and property law, discriminate against women.” And CNS reported that members of the National Iranian American Council charged that the Iranian government “has taken every conceivable step to deter women’s progress and institute a regressive regime against gender equality.”

According to Grenell, Rice’s failure to act is not surprising. “For Rice, this silence is becoming a pattern,” he wrote. “Rice has been routinely unavailable to reporters, absent from daily U.N. meetings, and all too often silent when the American people needed a strong voice to speak out on an important issue. From Iran to Zimbabwe to Sudan to Cuba, Rice consistently stays silent.

“It’s no wonder other countries at the U.N. think the Obama administration is so easy to work with. And it also explains why we haven’t had one single Security Council resolution on Iran since Rice arrived.”

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The absolute lunacy from the left continues. A news report from WSB-TV out of Atlanta, Georgia tells us that staff from Senior Citizens Inc., who supplies meals to Senior Homes and is partially funded with Federal Dollars, “recently visited the center and noticed people praying shortly before lunch was served.”

Company officials say meals are “mostly covered with federal money, which ushers in the burden of separating church and state.” Tim Rutherford, Senior Citizens Inc. vice president, said, “We can’t scoff at their rules. It’s a part of the operational guidelines.”

Seniors there are told to “have a moment of silence” before their meals instead of a audible prayer. Mayor Glenn “Pig” Jones is outraged and with City Attorneys is seeking a resolution.

Article at WSB-TV.com

This continued push of Separation of Church and State leaves me asking, when do we begin practicing Separation of Mosque and State with the same fervor?

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A video message from Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer to Barack Obama

H/T Breibart TV

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