Video - House Finds Holder in Contempt Over 'Fast and Furious' Investigation.

The GOP-led House voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to provide key information pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, making Holder the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt. The vote was 255 to 67. Seventeen Democrats joined the majority of Republicans in voting yes. GOP Rep. Dan Lipinski voted not present, and 65 Democrats left the floor before the vote.
 “Today’s vote is the regrettable culmination of what became a misguided -- and politically motivated -- investigation during an election year,” Holder said after the vote. “By advancing it over the past year and a half, Congressman Issa and others have focused on politics over public safety.”

Overnight Music Video - Lee Marvin - Wandering Star

Smoking Guns: Why Rush Limbaugh was Right about Hillary and Huma.

Smoking Guns: Why Rush Limbaugh was Right about Hillary and Huma.(Shoebat).Was Rush Limbaugh right when he discussed Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, criticizing the Secretary of State for her Deputy Chief of Staff’s familial ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and the close relationship between Huma’s mother and Egypt’s new first lady? Think Progress refers to Limbaugh’s claims as ‘baseless’.
First, here is Rush’s commentary on the subject on June 26th (via Think Progress):

The first sign that Rush’s claim is not baseless is that Think Progress says it is.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, Saleha and her now-deceased husband, Syed Z. Abedin, co-founded the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), established in both Great Britain and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It is a group that once had close ties with a Saudi group known as the Muslim World League (MWL) through that group’s General Secretary, Omar Abdullah Naseef.Read the rest of this amazing story full of deceit and coverup here.

Hillary Clinton to be first foreign official to visit Egypt’s new President.

Hillary Clinton to be first foreign official to visit Egypt’s new President.(Shoebat).(BarrackNow).Looks like Hillary Clinton will be the first foreign official to visit Mohammed Mursi. In light of current discoveries and events, the question that needs to be asked is, why?
Via TheHill.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be the first foreign official to visit Egypt’s President-elect Mohamed Morsi, sources at Cairo International Airport told the Al-Ahram Arabic language news website Wednesday.
The sources said Clinton, along with other US officials, would discuss the future of US-Egyptian relations, the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and urge respect for the socio-religious rights of Coptic Christians under Islamist rule.
Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi beat Mubarak’s last premier Ahmed Shafiq in the election runoff on 16-17 June to become Egypt’s first democratically elected president.
President Barack Obama on Sunday called Morsi to congratulate him on his victory and offer continued US support for Egypt’s transition to democracy. 

The revelation that Saleha Abedin – the mother of Hillary Clinton’s closest aide (Huma Abedin) – is a close colleague of Egypt’s new first lady makes this a little more interesting than it otherwise would be.
On June 26th, Rush Limbaugh spent a couple of minutes reporting on the story Shoebat broke on June 24th, that further exposes the familial ties of Huma Abedin - Hillary Clinton's closest advisor - to the Muslim Brotherhood. 
Specifically, the point of interest for Rush is the news that Huma's mother and Egypt's new first lady are close colleagues as leaders of the Muslim Sisterhood.
Keep checking Shoebat.com because they have an explosive follow-up piece to this story coming that you will not want to miss.Read the full story here and here.

Russia rejects 'external solution' for Syria, 'mistake to exclude Iran from the Geneva talk'.(HD).

Russia rejects 'external solution' for Syria, 'mistake to exclude Iran from the Geneva talk'.(HD).Russia Thursday dampened hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough in efforts to end the Syria conflict, saying it opposed solutions from the outside and Syrians should decide the fate of President Bashar al-Assad. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said world powers had yet to agree any final resolution based on new proposals from UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan for an international conference on Saturday in Geneva. He did not say if Moscow supported the new proposals laid out by Annan, which diplomats said involved setting up a Syrian transitional government that could include followers of Assad and opposition members. Lavrov also said it was a mistake to exclude Syria's ally Iran from Saturday's crunch meeting of world and regional powers aimed at ending violence that has now left over 15,000 dead. Assad's fate "must be decided within the framework of a Syrian dialogue by the Syrian people themselves," Lavrov told a news conference with his Tunisian counterpart. "Foreign players should not be dictating their solutions to the Syrians. We do not and cannot support any intervention or solutions dictated from abroad," he said.
Diplomats at the United Nations in New York had said that world powers generally back Annan's plan to set up a Syrian transitional government in a bid to end the country's 16-month conflict But Lavrov was more cautious: "There are no agreed drafts. Work on a possible final document continues," he said. Adding to the existing tensions with the West, Lavrov said it was a mistake to exclude Iran from the Geneva talks and accused the United States of "double standards" in opposing Tehran's attendance. "Iran is an influential player in this situation and to leave it out of the Geneva meeting, I believe, is a mistake," Lavrov said, noting that Washington had agreed in the past to Iran joining talks on Iraq and Afghanistan. "When the Americans needed to decide certain issues involving the security of their contingents in Iraq and Afghanistan, they initiated contact with Iran without wavering and agreed to something," Lavrov said.Lavrov, who earlier this week had said he would still go Geneva even if Iran was not invited, confirmed that Russia would still be attending the conference despite Moscow's irritation. "In contrast to some of our partners, we are not capricious people," Lavrov said. "We will go to the Geneva meeting, irrespective of what the final list of participants is." Read the full story here.

Obama's Favorite 'Ally' Turkey: "Finally we can pray at the opera".

                        I wonder what Kemal Ataturk would have said of this 'performance'?


Obama's Favorite 'Ally' Turkey: "Finally we can pray at the opera".(AM).Ankara - The "quasi-war" with Syria is not the only development keeping commentators and analysts busy in Turkey. The new "prayer war at the opera" has put the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist Islamist AKP party on a collision course with intellectuals and supporters of the secular state. A leading article by the author Ahmet Altan in the progressive daily newspaper Taraf lit the blue touch-paper. "Finally we can pray at the opera," he rejoiced sarcastically. "What a relief, we will be able to pray in the interval of Don Giovanni!". In the firing line is a law bill pushed through by the Ministry of the Environment and Urban Planning, which, according to Hurriyet, rules that a "masjid", a small mosque or prayer room, will need to be built in shopping centres, wedding halls, cinemas, theatres, museums, schools, hospitals, public buildings, ports, airports, hotels, university residences, underground stations and even at the opera. 
The battle against prayers at the opera has become a symbol of the resistance against the "hidden agenda" of "re-Islamisation" of the country that is attributed to Erdogan by the left and by "Kemalists" - defenders of the secular nature of the state, towards which the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, dedicated his efforts. "Have you ever heard a devout Muslim say that he would not be able to practice his religion if a prayer room were not built at the opera?" asks Altan, attacking the AKP government's latest manifestation of overzealousness.
"Has Muslim history seen any heated debates on the importance of prayer rooms in lyric theatres? Will audiences think about their prayers as they are watching the ballerinas in Swan Lake?" The war on prayers at the opera is just the latest episode in a long battle by secular forces that began when Erdogan became the AKP leader in 2002.
While the last ten years have brought Turkey an unprecedented economic boom, the Islamist government has lifted the ban on girls attending university wearing the Islamic veil, launched an education reform that allows youngsters to enter "imam hatip" (schools for preachers) as they leave primary school and has built new mosques across the country.
Censorship is growing, according to the Association of Publishers. In the Turkey of the "neo-Sultan" Erdogan, who has said that he wants to create new generations that live in fear of God, other signs are worrying western diplomats, such as the 100 jailed journalists or the recent accusations against the world-famous pianist Fazil Say, whose ironic comments on Twitter about muezzins and Islamic paradise mean that he is at risk of an 18-month prison sentence for "offending the religious values of part of the population".Read the full story here.

Scotus blog will begin liveblogging at 845am EDT.

Scotus blog will begin liveblogging at 845am EDT.

The Term ends today, with the decision in the health care case and two others. We will begin liveblogging at 845am EDT; please join us. The Court will issue opinions starting at 10am EDT, with the health care ruling probably starting around 10:15. You can access the liveblog here at www.scotusblog.com. But if you run into trouble loading the site, you can visit the backup at scotusblog.wpengine.com. At 4pm on Thursday, we will also be doing a live webcast with Kaiser Health News.

Lyle's summary of the issues in the health care cases is here.

Lyle's guide to how to read the health care opinion is here.

Full story here.

Update: RULING OBAMACARE CONSTITUTIONAL.

Amy Howe: 

In Plain English: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce between the states to require everyone to buy health insurance. However, five Justices agreed that the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax that Congress can impose using its taxing power. That is all that matters. Because the mandate survives, the Court did not need to decide what other parts of the statute were constitutional, except for a provision that required states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their funding. On that question, the Court held that the provision is constitutional as long as states would only lose new funds if they didn't comply with the new requirements, rather than all of their funding.

More here @ Fox.

Here is the opinion in the health care cases: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf

New Disability Regs Require Businesses to Admit Mini Horses as Guide Animals.....even in Restaurants.

New Disability Regs Require Businesses to Admit Mini Horses as Guide Animals.....even in Restaurants.(CNSNews).Although the Justice Department has extended the deadline for America’s hotels to comply with regulations regarding handicap access to swimming pools, new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines are already being applied at miniature golf courses, driving ranges, amusement parks, shooting ranges and saunas. Among the provisions in the "Revised ADA Standards for Accessible Design," which went into effect on March 15, is one requiring businesses to allow miniature horses on their premises as guide animals for the disabled. Another limits the height of slopes on miniature golf holes. “The new standards, for the first time, include requirements for judicial facilities, detention and correctional facilities, and recreational facilities,” Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez said during a conference in Baltimore on June 7. “We expect the implementation of these accessibility standards to open up doors for full participation in both the responsibilities, such as jury duty, and the benefits, such as playing at city parks, of civic life for people with disabilities,” he said.
A section of the guidelines regulating commercial facilities states that, “a public accommodation shall make reasonable modifications in policies, practices, or procedures to permit the use of a miniature horse by an individual with a disability if the miniature horse has been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of the individual with a disability.”
A public accommodation is defined as “a private entity that owns, leases (or leases to), or operates a place of public accommodation.”
“Miniature horses were suggested by some commenters as viable alternatives to dogs for individuals with allergies, or for those whose religious beliefs preclude the use of dogs,” the rules state. Also mentioned as a reason to include the animals is the longer life span of miniature horses – providing approximately 25 years of service as opposed to seven years for dogs.
“Some individuals with disabilities have traveled by train and have flown commercially with their miniature horses,” the Justice Department notes.“Similar to dogs, miniature horses can be trained through behavioral reinforcement to be ‘housebroken,’” it adds.However, “Ponies and full-size horses are not covered.”
A business owner can deny admission to a miniature horse that is not housebroken, whose handler does not have sufficient control of the animal, or if the horse’s presence compromises “legitimate safety requirements.”
The miniature horse addition has come under the scrutiny of at least one member of Congress, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who offered an amendment that passed the House, banning funding to implement the provision. Chaffetz penned an editorial last month in opposition to the rule entitled, “Horses in the Dining Room?”Hmmmm.......As i said before "Has ANYONE ever SEEN a 'miniature guide horse' in an ISLAMIC COUNTRY?Any picture of this 'unicorn' in it's 'natural habitat' will be posted right away!Read the full story here.

Syrian 'NATO' Supported Rebels Ransack Christian Churches.

Syrian 'NATO' Supported Rebels Ransack Christian Churches.(PP).By Paul Joseph Watson.Shocking images have emerged which show the aftermath of Christian churches ransacked by NATO-backed Syrian rebels, illustrating once again how western powers are supporting Muslim extremists in their bid to achieve regime change in the middle east.A photograph provided to us by a Christian woman in Homs, scene of some of the bloodiest clashes of the conflict, shows a member of the Free Syrian Army posing with a looted Catholic cross in one hand and a gun in the other while wearing a priest’s robe. “Everyone knows simply removing these garments from the church is a sin. 
The priest is the only one who wears them too. They even pray before putting them on. Him posing in front of the funeral car as well is disgusting to the max,” our source told us. “They destroyed the church and went in to film it. I know this for a fact.” “The Robes can only be worn by Deacons or Priests or Sub-Deacons, and they a Christian man wouldn’t hold a Cross in one hand and a gun in another,” the woman adds Another image shows a ransacked church in Bustan al-Diwan (Old Homs). While Syrian rebels busy themselves ransacking Christian churches, they also rallying around the Al-Qaeda flag just as their counterparts did in Libya.Hmmmmm.....Obama: "“We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.”Read and see the full story here.

“Violence does not build up the kingdom of God, the kingdom of humanity. On the contrary, it is a favorite instrument of the Antichrist, however idealistic its religious motivation may be,” ~ Pope Benedict XVI . 




FlashBack - June 5, 2012 MFS : French Greek-Catholic Melkite Archimandrite : Syrian Soldiers Face Foreign Fighters, Mercenaries, Militants and the Muslim Brotherhood .

                   - May 16, 2012 MFS: Christians are under pressure in Syria, the patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church Gregorios III denounces the silence of the Western Press.