The American Patriot Blog: June 2011

Friday, June 10, 2011

TX Theater Turns Profanity-Laced Voicemail Into Anti-Texting PSA | The Blaze

What do you do when a disgruntled customer leaves an angry rant on your voicemail? Turn it into a PSA, naturally.

The Alamo Drafthouse, a unique theater chain in Texas, came up with a hilarious video to inspire moviegoers not to send text messages during movies. The end result is comedy gold. ABC news has more:

About a month ago, Tim League [Alamo House owner] says, a woman was thrown out of one of the chain’s 10 theaters for sending text messages — and retaliated by leaving an angry voice mail on the box office phone line. League said he thought it was so over-the-top that it was funny. They used it as the public service announcement they play before films to encourage people to keep quiet.
“The reaction has been huge,” League said in a telephone interview with ABC News. “People love it in the theater.”

My favorite part is when she says she’s going to go to a “regular theater” from now on where “people are polite.” Watch below:

Dalai Lama to Chinese Students: ‘I’m a Marxist’ | The Blaze

In speaking to a group of students in Minnesota last week, the Dalai Lama cleared up any uncertainty regarding his political views. “…As far as socio-political beliefs are concerned, I consider myself a Marxist,” he told the audience.

According to Religion Dispatches, one student questioned this statement, asking if this view of the world contradict the Dalai Lama’s philosophy:

The Tibetan leader answered that the Marx was not against religion or religious philosophy per se but against religious institutions that were allied, during Marx’s time, with the European ruling class.

Interestingly, the Chinese government as it currently stands is dominated partially by Karl Marx’s theoretical constructs. This isn’t the first time the Dalai Lama has professed his belief in Marxism. Below, watch a video of the spiritual leader discuss a variety of issues pertaining to China, his political views, and the like:

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Obama’s Radical Energy Secretary Stephen Chu Implements Program to Indoctrinate School Children on Global Warming (Video) | The Gateway Pundit

It used to be that the mission of the Department of Energy is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges. But that was before Obama. Now it’s all about indoctrination and junk science.

Barack Obama’s radical (green) Energy Secretary Steven Chu said he didn’t think average folks had the know-how or will to to change their behavior enough to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. So, like a good socialist, Chu proposed indoctrinating the nation’s youth on global warming junk science. And he’s not shy about it.

It looks like his indoctrination program is in place.
P/Oed Patriot reported on Chu’s new indoctrination program complete with instructions and lesson plans and quizzes:

PROCEDURE
1.Distribute the Energy Awareness Quiz.
2.Have students take the quiz and discuss the correct answers given below. Ask them what answers they disagree with and what answers surprise them.
3.Tell students that the environmental problem that gets the most attention these days is global warming and the green house effect. Ask students to list ways that everyone contributes to the amount of carbon dioxide and other green house gases entering the atmosphere.
4.Have students complete How Much CO2 Do You Spew? Debrief with the following questions:
a.What changes, if any, would students consider making in their consumption habits after doing this activity?
b.What statements can students make about our consumption and GHG production as compared with other countries? (It is much higher than most countries’.)
c.Which energy topics would students like to find out more about?”
(This quiz goes as far as to say that Global Warming is a “fact” and goes on to use scare tactics to get kids to fall in line with the idea of reducing their Co2 output.)
“Global warming has been a source of controversy within the scientific community for many years. After many investigations, it is now well-documented and accepted as fact….
Sometimes things like the greenhouse effect seem far away—the same as troubles in the oil-rich countries of the Middle East (they presently, but not always, sell us all the oil we can pay for).
Just like waste dumped at sea, these problems eventually come home—proving one of Murphy’s laws, that “What goes around, comes around.” Eventually we all must pay the costs.
So how much CO2 do you contribute to the greenhouse effect? This is your “CO2 Quotient.”
Here’s how to figure it out.
Your answer may shock you, but it should help you to see that lowering your CO2 quotient is necessary to your very survival. It seems with this problem, only two outcomes are possible: a big win or an even bigger loss.”

And, you wondered why gas prices have doubled under Obama?

20 Hottest Conservative Women in New Media 2011 | The Gateway Pundit

Here’s the list of this year’s winners.
Congratulations to all of the winners and to the beautiful women who did not make this year’s list.

White Sox Manager Sends Advice to Marxist Supporting Idiot Sean Penn | The Gateway Pundit

Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen sent out this tweet to Marxist supporting idiot Sean Penn yesterday.

On Sunday, he wrote another fluff piece for the Huffington Post praising Marxist leader Hugo Chavez while urging America to withdraw its recently imposed economic sanctions on Venezuela.

Ozzie Guillen is from Venezuela and knows better.
We’re all hoping Penn will take Guillen’s advice.

Salon Editor Joan Walsh Admits She’s as Immoral As She Is Stupid (Video) | The Gateway Pundit

Liberal crank and Salon editor Joan Walsh admitted on MSNBC that she “looked stupid” (an understatement) for believing Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) but that we should overlook his many lies because he’s not a principled rightwinger.
Via Breitbart TV:

From the video: In a bizarre segment on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” host Ed Schultz tries to implore his left-wing demagogue panelists Joan Walsh and Bill Press to face reality and own up to what Rep. Anthony Weiner is guilty of. During the conversation Ms. Walsh and Mr. Press spend the entire time arguing about “not letting the other side win” and Ed Schultz yells “you people are in denial!”

Good rule of thumb: When Ed Schultz sounds like the most reasonable person in your group, you have a problem.

African-American Soldier Claims Noose Was Hung Outside His Barracks | The Gateway Pundit

Another noose sighting – This time in Afghanistan.

Specialist Adam Jarrell (News One)

An African-American soldier from New Mexico says he was mistreated and that a noose was hung outside his barracks in Afghanistan.
Reuters reported:

Racial slurs and a noose strung up outside his barracks were among the alleged harassment an African American war veteran said he was subjected to while serving in Afghanistan, according to a complaint filed this week.
Specialist Adam Jarrell, the only African American in a unit of 216 soldiers of the New Mexico Army National Guard, told Reuters on Tuesday that his complaints to superiors were not only ignored, but resulted in increased harassment.
“It’s dangerous when the only people you can count on are the people hanging nooses outside your room, telling you they hate you because you’re black,” said Jarrell, 23, a Sheriff’s deputy in Hobbs, New Mexico, who has been with the National Guard since 2006. He arrived home in New Mexico a year ago.
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico filed the racial discrimination complaint with the federal Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice asking for an investigation.
“No one should suffer the kind of racial hatred Specialist Jarrell experienced, least of all someone who is on the front lines of battle,” said ACLU-NM Executive Director Peter Simonson. “Our military is supposed to maintain a professional, disciplined fighting force. People’s lives depend on it. Racism and racially motivated threats have no place in our state’s National Guard units.”

Hmm.

RADICAL IN CHIEF… Only 24% Say They Share Obama’s Political Beliefs | The Gateway Pundit

Uh-Oh… The Radical in Chief won’t like this one bit.

Only 24% of American voters say they share Barack Obama’s far left political beliefs.
Rasmussen reported:

Most voters still believe President Obama is more liberal than they are, while just one-out-of-four say they share the same ideological views as the president.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 54% of Likely U.S. Voters think Obama is more ideologically liberal than they are, while only 13% view him as more conservative. Twenty-four percent (24%) say their political views are about the same as the president’s. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The number who see the president as more liberal than they are stayed at 57% in three-out-of-four previous surveys conducted since August of last year. That number climbed to 61% in late February. The number who view the president as more conservative ranged from nine percent (9%) to 12% in that same period.

HuffPo Nutcase Alec Baldwin May Run for NYC Mayor Now That Weiner Is Cooked | The Gateway Pundit

“Resign Pervert Weiner,” read the sign taped on the window of his Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, office. (New York Daily News)

Far left nutcase and Huffington Post contributor Alec Baldwin is reportedly considering a run for mayor of New York City now that Rep. Anthony Weiner’s image has been tarnished.

Baldwin would be a perfect fit.
The far left democrat is arrogant enough to believe that Americans have forgotten about his own troubled past including his abusive remarks to his young daughter.

He’d be the perfect democrat for the job.

Yahoo reporterd, via Free Republic:

30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin, a new contributor to the Twitterverse, is reportedly considering a run for mayor of New York City now that Congressman Anthony Weiner has a tarnished political image.
The “It’s Complicated” funnyman, who said earlier this year that he’s “very, very interested” in seeking office, says Weiner’s Twitter scandal might enhance his own chance at getting elected for the mayor position.
“Alec said, ‘Hey, maybe this changes the race. The dynamics have shifted,’” Baldwin’s buddy told The Daily. “The Democrats need a high-profile candidate, and Alec can fill that bill.”
Baldwin, a staunch Democrat from Long Island, has been a Huffington Post blogger for more than five years and contributed a voice-over for one of PETA’s “Meet Your Meat” public service announcements.

Obama Pledges US Financial Support to Bail Out Greece | The Gateway Pundit

Now Obama wants us to bail out Greece.

Protesters from a communist-backed union protest near the Greek Parliament seen in the background during an anti-austerity protest in Athens, that several thousands people took part in on Friday, June 3, 2011. Greece is poised to receive the next installment of its bailout facility, and will likely get further rescue loans to prevent it from defaulting on its massive debts, European officials said Friday. The banner reads ‘general strike.’ (AP/Petros Giannakouris)

After tripling the US deficit and with unemployment at 9.1% President Obama pledged US financial support to bail out Greece yesterday.
CNBC reported:

President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged European countries and bondholders to prevent a “disastrous” default by Greece and pledged U.S. support to help tackle the country’s debt crisis.
Obama, whose political prospects have suffered from persistently high unemployment and ballooning U.S. debt, has pinpointed the euro zone crisis as one foreign “headwind” hitting the U.S. economy.
After a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he stressed the importance of German “leadership” on the issue – a hint that he expects Berlin to help – while expressing sympathy for the political difficulties European Union countries face in helping a struggling member state.
“I’m confident that Germany’s leadership, along with other key actors in Europe, will help us arrive at a path for Greece to return to growth, for this debt to become more manageable,” Obama said.
“But it’s going to require some patience and some time. And we have pledged to cooperate fully in working through these issues, both on a bilateral basis but also through international and financial institutions like the IMF.”

Palestinians: No Negotiations Unless Israel Accepts Obama’s Suicide Plan | The Gateway Pundit

In May Barack Obama proposed handing over half of Jerusalem, the Wailing Wall, The Temple Mount, Old Jerusalem, and the tomb of Jesus Christ to the Hamas-Fatah terrorist alliance.

Of course, this radical position is very unpopular with a most Americans.

Today the Palestinians announced that they will not hold negotiations with Israel unless they accept Barack Obama’s plan and turn over the Holy Land.
The Jerusalem Post reported, via Legal Insurrection:

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the Palestinians were ready to restart peace negotiations if based around the principles US President Barack Obama laid out in his State Department dress on the Middle East, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
According to the report, Erekat, who met Monday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other senior White House officials, said that if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu accepted Obama’s platform of a return to pre-1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, then he would have a partner for negotiations.
He also said that according to what the prime minister said at the US Congress during his Washington visit, “he’s not a partner for peace.”
Netanyahu had rejected Obama’s 1967-lines formulation, saying that any borders based on the pre-Six Day War lines would be “indefensible.”
Speaking from a luncheon meeting with Middle East experts sponsored by the Saban Center of the Brookings Institution, the Palestinian negotiator said that “[If Netanyahu] wants to be a partner, he has to say it: Two states on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.”

FOX News: Andrew Breitbart Is “Mortified” After Opie and Anthony Snag & Post Weiner Shot (Video) | The Gateway Pundit

FOX News reported this afternoon that Andrew Breitbart is “mortified” after talk radio hosts Opie and Anthony snagged a photo of Rep. Weiner’s “junk” and posted it onlinetoday. Breitbart told FOX News it was a breach of contract. Breitbart said Opie Hughes secretly took the picture when he was on the show this morning.

“It was a complete violation of trust.”

Eric Shawn at FOX News reported:

Mr. Breitbart said he’s been holding it back and did not want to make it public. Breitbart broke this scandalous story as you know and he told me that Opie Hughes from the Opie and Anthony radio program secretly snapped a picture of the completely explicit photo while Breitbart was on their show and then Opie posted it on the internet. Breitbart told me he never wanted the photo to be released. That it was released without his permission. He said quote, “I’m mortified. This is the first time that someone surreptitiously grabbed a photo of it. This is a complete breach of our arrangement that the photo would not be made public. It was a complete violation of trust.”

China Overtakes US as Top Energy Consumer | The Blaze

LONDON (AP) — A new report says that China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest consumer of energy.

Oil company BP said Wednesday that China moved to the top in 2010 with 20.3 percent of global demand, ahead of the United States at 19 percent.

The report says China’s consumption rose by 11.2 percent last year compared with 3.7 percent in the United States. China’s surge led a 5.6 percent increase in global energy demand, the biggest one-year jump since 1973.

China was by far the world’s largest consumer of coal, taking 48 percent. The United States remained the largest consumer of oil with 21 percent of global demand, double China’s consumption.

Oil Surges as OPEC Unexpectedly Refuses to Increase Production | The Blaze

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices are surging above $100 per barrel after OPEC unexpectedly announced that it will keep production levels where they are.

Analysts thought the 12-member group would boost production in an effort to cool off oil prices and take some pressure off the world economy. Increased global demand combined with violent uprisings in oil-rich countries of North Africa and the Middle East forced crude prices 25 percent higher from January to April.

Benchmark crude for July delivery rose $1.25 to $100.34 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In London, Brent crude added $1.22 at $118 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

Meanwhile, retail gasoline prices dropped another 1.3 cents overnight to a new national average of $3.748 per gallon.

Hollywood Writer Describes ‘Coming Out’ As a Conservative | The Blaze

A-list director and writer David Mamet is an Oscar and a Tony Award-nominee and a Pulitzer-Prize winner. A true rarity, this successful Hollywood screenwriter has “come out” (as Fox put it) as a political conservative. This, of course, can be tough in a world that is dominated by left-leaning minds.

In an interview with FOX News, Mamet discusses why he stopped embracing liberalism. He chats about Hollywood’s “herd mentality” and says that “…the essence of liberalism as I understand it, in its aspect of being a religion, is that you have to protect the lie.”

Mamet has a new book out entitled, “The Secret Knowledge” in which he discusses his conservative views. Watch the interview below:

Mamet also appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio show today to discuss these same issues:

This post has been updated with new video.