BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

WHEREAS, the freedom to read is essential to our democracy, and reading is among our greatest freedoms; and WHEREAS, privacy is essential to the exercise of that freedom, and the right to privacy is the right to open inquiry without having the subject of one's interest examined or scrutinized by others; and WHEREAS, the freedom to read is protected by our Constitution; and WHEREAS some individuals, groups, and public authorities work to remove or limit access to reading materials, to censor content in schools, to label "controversial" views, to distribute lists of "objectionable" books or authors, and to purge libraries of materials reflecting the diversity of society; and WHEREAS, both governmental intimidation and the fear of censorship cause authors who seek to avoid controversy to practice self-censorship, thus limiting our access to new ideas; and WHEREAS, every silencing of a heresy, every enforcement of an orthodoxy, diminishes the toughness and resilienc...

My handful of readers are, I'm sure, tired of me comparing terrorists to abusers. For everyone else - I have to put these articles out there. One after the other. Yes, I do see abuse around every corner. Especially when it comes to these animals. You'll get it. Honest, you will. Now if people like Obama & Biden would just answer the clue phone. TWO LOOKS AT THE CRITERIA FOR THOUGHT REFORM Dr. Robert J. Lifton's 8 Criteria for Thought Reform 1. Environmental Control - The purposeful limitation of all forms of communication with the outside world. 2. Mystical Manipulation - Extensive personal manipulation is used to provoke specific patterns of behavior and emotion in such a way that they will appear to have arisen spontaneously. 3. The Demand for Purity - The world is sharply divided between pure and impure with the group in the role of ultimate judge. Normal urges and tendencies become sins, and shame is used to control. 4. Confession - Carried beyo...

FROM THE REAL BARACK OBAMA Klein: Eligibility issue sparks ‘edit war’. Wikipedia blocks users from posting criticism of Obama In a follow-up to his March 8 post, Wikipedia scrubs Obama eligibility. Mention of citizenship issues deleted within minutes, ‘offending’ users banned from website, Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, wrote last evening, March 9: A WND article reporting yesterday that Wikipedia had been scrubbing President Obama’s biography of criticism has resulted in an “edit war” on the website in which a large number of users were barred from posting on key issues, including any mention of challenges to Obama’s eligibility. Ultimately, administrators at Wikipedia, the online “free encyclopedia” mega-site written and edited by its users, entirely locked Obama’s page so that only top editors could make changes to the entry – and only if a change is supported by a consensus of editors. A perusal through Obama’s Wikipedia entry yesterday found a heavily guar...

by Ben Smith Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate. The campaign has apologized to the women, both Obama supporters who said they felt betrayed by their treatment at the rally. “This is of course not the policy of the campaign. It is offensive and counter to Obama’s commitment to bring Americans together and simply not the kind of campaign we run,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. “We sincerely apologize for the behavior of these volunteers.” Building a human backdrop to a political candidate, a set of faces to appear on television and in photographs, is always a delicate exercise in demographics and political correctness. Advance staffers typically pick supporters out of a crowd to reflect the candidate’s message. When Obama won the North Carolina primary amid questions about his ability ...

DAMN YOU, OLMERT! You friggin' suck! Losing my temper isn't something I do often. And when I do it doesn't last long. I almost always... (and knowing the word ALWAYS is an absolute) give someone the benefit of the doubt. No matter how bad they hurt or how angry they have made me. But there are a very few people who I just give up on. I'm really p*ssed off. And one of those I have given up on is you, Olmert. I prayed for you, Olmert and your Government as well. That you would hear your fellow Jews and answer the clue phone. But you, your Government and appeasers like Avi Dichter are two-faced slime. I may not be the most informed about Israeli politics but I know when I see vipers. You're all pieces of worthless camel dung. Get out of dodge and let's put someone like Aryeh Eldad in there. I hope you all burn in hell someday for what you are doing to your people, Israel and Jerusalem. You're a sick bunch that needs to be run out of Israel. Go live i...