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[Valin]

Liberal Mob Claims Another Scalp

Jon Gabriel

April 3, 2014

 

Brendan Eich, a successful developer and tech legend, was recently named the CEO for Mozilla Corporation. The for-profit venture is most closely associated with their open-source Firefox web browser.

 

But after his appointment, a dark secret emerged about Eichs past. Was it embezzlement or child endangerment? Terrorism or even murder? Even worse. Six years ago, he donated $1,000 to Californias Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriages in the state.

 

This personal view, which in 2008 was supported by the majority of California voters and President Obama himself, is now a firing offense in the U.S. Under intense pressure from Silicon Valley activists, Eich has stepped down as CEO and also from the board of the nonprofit foundation which wholly owns it.

 

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[WestVirginiaRebel]

Skydiver almost hit by meteorite

[SrWoodchuck]

 

So much for feedom of thought (if it's not leftist that is...)

 

The "summary statemen" in the headline peaked my curiosity about Mozilla/Firefox.

 

ZDNET

 

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigns amid controversy

 

Summary: "We didnt act like youd expect Mozilla to act," said the software company's executive chairwoman in a memo on Thursday.

 

Following a whirlwind of controversy and a few weeks in the headlines, Brendan Eich is resigning as Mozilla's chief executive officer.

Mozilla announced the decision in a blog post on Thursday.

 

Eich had only been chief of the company behind popular web browser Firefox for a very brief term. Mozilla had been searching for a new CEO since Gary Kovacs, who came on-board in 2010, departed almost a year ago.

 

But it soon came to light, or rather resurfaced, that Eich had made a $1,000 donation to the campaign supporting Proposition 8 amid the 2008 Presidential election.

Prop. 8 sought to ban same-sex marriage in California.

 

Although he initially rebuffed criticism about his donations and politics, Eich soon expressed sorrow "at having caused pain" to Firefox users offended by his donation.

Those sentiments weren't nearly enough for Internet users and even Mozilla's board members alike -- three of whom were initially reported to have jumped ship over Eich's appointment.

 

Score one for the Brownshirts.

 

 

Brown, @Valin? Not from the Pink Mafia.....

[SrWoodchuck]

Vodka Diplomacy....it "Bears" some examination.

 

 

Via iOTW

[SrWoodchuck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTeVbHeQJl8&feature=player_embedded

 

Via iOTW

[Valin]

 

Score one for the Brownshirts.

Brown, @Valin? Not from the Pink Mafia.....

 

They do remind me of the SA.

 

Eric @eriContrarian

 

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It's not a win for gay rights. It's a win for mobs looking to silence those who might disagree. A loss for freedom. Not a win.

 

 

3:42 PM - 3 Apr 2014

 

 

 

 

H/T The Gay Patriot

[Valin]

Andrew Sullivan @sullydish Follow

The hounding and firing of @BrendanEich disgusts me – as it should anyone interested in a tolerant & diverse society: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich/ …

4:15 PM - 3 Apr 2014

The Hounding Of A Heretic

The guy who had the gall to express his First Amendment rights and favor Prop 8 in California by donating $1,000 has just been scalped by some gay activists. After an OKCupid decision to boycott Mo...

The Dish @dishfeed

 

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Give an idiot a shovel, let him keep digging:

“One of my highest honors as a lawyer was being invited to the home of my clients to share a meal. It was no different than putting up hay all day in Poweshiek County and sitting down to dinner at noon with the farm family I was helping that day.”

[Valin]

Net energy imports in 2013 lowest in more than 20 years

 

 

No Doubt His Obamaness will claim credit for this.

 

 

H/T The Feed

[Valin]

Legal pot in Colorado hasn't stopped black market

SADIE GURMAN

Apr. 4, 2014

 

DENVER (AP) A 25-year-old is shot dead trying to sell marijuana the old-fashioned, illegal way. Two men from Texas set up a warehouse to grow more than they would ever need. And three people buying pot in a grocery store parking lot are robbed at gunpoint.

 

While no one expected the state's first-in-the-nation recreational sales would eliminate the need for dangerous und....I could really use some Oreo's Man

[righteousmomma]

 

 

So much for feedom of thought (if it's not leftist that is...)

 

The "summary statemen" in the headline peaked my curiosity about Mozilla/Firefox.

 

ZDNET

 

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigns amid controversy

 

Summary: "We didnt act like youd expect Mozilla to act," said the software company's executive chairwoman in a memo on Thursday.

 

Following a whirlwind of controversy and a few weeks in the headlines, Brendan Eich is resigning as Mozilla's chief executive officer.

Mozilla announced the decision in a blog post on Thursday.

 

Eich had only been chief of the company behind popular web browser Firefox for a very brief term. Mozilla had been searching for a new CEO since Gary Kovacs, who came on-board in 2010, departed almost a year ago.

 

But it soon came to light, or rather resurfaced, that Eich had made a $1,000 donation to the campaign supporting Proposition 8 amid the 2008 Presidential election.

Prop. 8 sought to ban same-sex marriage in California.

 

Although he initially rebuffed criticism about his donations and politics, Eich soon expressed sorrow "at having caused pain" to Firefox users offended by his donation.

Those sentiments weren't nearly enough for Internet users and even Mozilla's board members alike -- three of whom were initially reported to have jumped ship over Eich's appointment.

 

Score one for the Brownshirts.

 

 

Brown, @Valin? Not from the Pink Mafia.....

 

 

or the rainbow /equal mafia?

[righteousmomma]

According to Newsmax:

 

The White House asked major TV networks for a prime-time slot for President Barack Obama's Tuesday speech proclaiming Obamacare had reached its 7.1 million enrollment milestone, but network officials rebuffed the request.

Citing three sources familiar with the request, Buzzfeed reports that the broadcasters refused to make any accommodation, leaving Obama to host his address in the Rose Garden during the day while daytime talk shows were airing.

People familiar with the request declined to reveal which networks had been approached, according to Buzzfeed.

The Obama administration rarely asks for prime-time broadcast TV slots outside the traditional State of the Union Address, according to Buzzfeed.

Networks are traditionally reluctant to provide evening air time, but a prime-time address is a unique privilege reserved only for a sitting president to deliver breaking news, as was the case with the announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed.

The White House had been hoping to use the opportunity to elevate the importance of the achievement in an effort to boost the new healthcare law, Buzzfeed said.

Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/networks-prime-time-request-denied/2014/04/04/id/563695#ixzz2xx1h92hB
Urgent: Should Obamacare Be Repealed? Vote Here Now!

 

---------heeheeheeeheeheee - if true.

[Valin]

 

 

 

So much for feedom of thought (if it's not leftist that is...)

 

The "summary statemen" in the headline peaked my curiosity about Mozilla/Firefox.

 

ZDNET

 

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigns amid controversy

 

Summary: "We didnt act like youd expect Mozilla to act," said the software company's executive chairwoman in a memo on Thursday.

 

Following a whirlwind of controversy and a few weeks in the headlines, Brendan Eich is resigning as Mozilla's chief executive officer.

Mozilla announced the decision in a blog post on Thursday.

 

Eich had only been chief of the company behind popular web browser Firefox for a very brief term. Mozilla had been searching for a new CEO since Gary Kovacs, who came on-board in 2010, departed almost a year ago.

 

But it soon came to light, or rather resurfaced, that Eich had made a $1,000 donation to the campaign supporting Proposition 8 amid the 2008 Presidential election.

Prop. 8 sought to ban same-sex marriage in California.

 

Although he initially rebuffed criticism about his donations and politics, Eich soon expressed sorrow "at having caused pain" to Firefox users offended by his donation.

Those sentiments weren't nearly enough for Internet users and even Mozilla's board members alike -- three of whom were initially reported to have jumped ship over Eich's appointment.

 

Score one for the Brownshirts.

 

Brown, @Valin? Not from the Pink Mafia.....

 

or the rainbow /equal mafia?

 

At the risk of violating Godwins Law they are reminding me more and more of the Brown shirts.

 

http://youtu.be/pFDlW-POKSE

Any disagreement with them means you must be cast out of society!

 

 

Tammy Bruce ✔ @HeyTammyBruce Follow

Gay civil rights movement began to make sure people weren't punished for who they were. Now look what you've become #gaygestapo @mozilla

4:27 PM - 3 Apr 2014

 

 

[Valin]

Arizona State Prof Sends Vile Hateful Email to Americans for Prosperity

Aleister

Friday, April 4, 2014

 

As you read the excerpt from The Blaze below, bear in mind that Professor Joe Skulan of Arizona State University is paid to teach college students.

 

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More tolerance and open mindedness from our betters.

[SrWoodchuck]

One of the people I really like....Tammy Bruce. I accept her as a person....and as a gay person...I approve of & applaud her conservative politics. I'm not required....nor does she insist that I approve of her lifestyle.....because it's none of my business.

 

Here's the pic she has for her radio show.....along with one of the reasons I like her. Girls with guns.

 

 

Edited to add: Really bad trigger discipline....even if it is a double action.

Edited April 4, 2014 by SrWoodchuck

[clearvision]

Working from iPad today so just a link.

North Korea named their space agency ..... NADA

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-koreas-new-space-agency-dubbed-nada/

[Valin]

The Week in Pictures: April Fools Edition
Steven Hayward
4/5/14

We’re several days past April Fools Day, of course, but April 1 of this year marked the beginning of what might be called the April Fools Era, being the day after the Obamacare enrollment deadline. With the typical aplomb of parlor Progressivism, the Obamanauts proclaimed the 7.1 million enrollees made it all a huge success! Pay no attention to those 6 million who found their policies unkeepable. Or to the remaining millions of uninsured who were the object of the whole enterprise in the first place.

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Too bad you can’t make out the “safe handling instructions.”

 

And finally, and a slight departure from the usual format because it is upsetting people (not to worry—Power Line is not going to take up golf; soccer is quite enough):

 

[Valin]

Rashida Jones and the Pornification of Pop

Lizzie Crocker

 

When actress Rashida Jones admonished female pop stars for acting like whores, she set off a firestorm of criticismand started a conversation about the pornification of everything.

 

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Its a topic Jones will expand upon during a panel at the Women in the World Summit on April 5, alongside Colorado psychologist Tomi-Ann Roberts and 16-year-old Winnifred BonJean-Alpart, who was featured in Sexy Baby, a documentary about how the digital age is changing our cultures sexual landscape.

 

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What in the......Heck does a 16 year old old about...well anything, let alone sex? And Why am I supposed to care about what a 16 year old says about....Well anything...especially sex?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Scarborough: Reid, Dems “too stupid to be in politics”

 

Trial lawyers mobilize for Democrats

[NCTexan]

 

 

 

 

So much for feedom of thought (if it's not leftist that is...)

 

The "summary statemen" in the headline peaked my curiosity about Mozilla/Firefox.

 

ZDNET

 

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigns amid controversy

 

Summary: "We didnt act like youd expect Mozilla to act," said the software company's executive chairwoman in a memo on Thursday.

 

Following a whirlwind of controversy and a few weeks in the headlines, Brendan Eich is resigning as Mozilla's chief executive officer.

Mozilla announced the decision in a blog post on Thursday.

 

Eich had only been chief of the company behind popular web browser Firefox for a very brief term. Mozilla had been searching for a new CEO since Gary Kovacs, who came on-board in 2010, departed almost a year ago.

 

But it soon came to light, or rather resurfaced, that Eich had made a $1,000 donation to the campaign supporting Proposition 8 amid the 2008 Presidential election.

Prop. 8 sought to ban same-sex marriage in California.

 

Although he initially rebuffed criticism about his donations and politics, Eich soon expressed sorrow "at having caused pain" to Firefox users offended by his donation.

Those sentiments weren't nearly enough for Internet users and even Mozilla's board members alike -- three of whom were initially reported to have jumped ship over Eich's appointment.

 

Score one for the Brownshirts.

 

Brown, @Valin? Not from the Pink Mafia.....

 

or the rainbow /equal mafia?

 

At the risk of violating Godwins Law they are reminding me more and more of the Brown shirts.

 

http://youtu.be/pFDlW-POKSE

Any disagreement with them means you must be cast out of society!

 

 

Tammy Bruce ✔ @HeyTammyBruce Follow

Gay civil rights movement began to make sure people weren't punished for who they were. Now look what you've become #gaygestapo @mozilla

4:27 PM - 3 Apr 2014

 

 

 

@Valin - Your Brownshirt reference is more on target in this situation than is generally understood.

 

Everyone knows about the German SS.... but most don't know about the German SA who are then genesis of the Brownshirt concept.

 

wikipedia

 

The Sturmabteilung (SA) ; Storm Detachment or Assault Division, or Brownshirts functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Their main assignments were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of the opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties and intimidating Slavic and Romani citizens, unionists and Jews.

 

However it is not well known that the leadership of the SA... and many (if not most) of the the leadership were openly homosexual.

 

 

The homosexuality of Ernst Röhm (Top SA Officer) and other SA leaders was made public to add "shock value"[21] even though the sexuality of Röhm and other named SA leaders had actually been known by Hitler and other Nazi leaders for years.

 

One American journalist would later write, "[Röhm's] chiefs, men of the rank of Gruppenfuehrer or Obergruppenfuehrer, commanding units of several hundred thousand Storm Troopers, were almost without exception homosexuals. Indeed, unless a Storm Troop officer were homosexual, he had no chance of advancement."

[Valin]

@NCTexan

 

The Good News is apparently Mozilla is getting hammered....and not just by us evil ultra radical extremist right wight tea bagging homophobes.

 

And sometimes you do have to violate Godwins Law.

[Valin]

 

 

 

 

[Valin]

Rev. Jesse Jackson

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.-- Mark Twain

[NCTexan]

CNN Breaking News Wind

 

I just read that a Malaysia Airlines plane is missing!

 

This could be a great fig leaf for the administration's many misteps, ObamaCouldn'tCareLess, the Ukrane, Syria, Iran, and the failing economy for a quite while.

[SrWoodchuck]

 

 

 

 

 

 

@Valin!

 

In Bridget's defense......part of the problem with gold is that.....it's been "over-sold".....meaning that unless you have it in your hand.....all you have is a "promise-to-pay" you your gold....from the "entity" that is"holding it for you." Sounds like the dollar, doesn't it?

 

Gold being a finite quantity....the people selling it have to make money, and if they can sell it a couple of times, without having to actually give it up....they can keep adding zeroes to their bank accounts. Several large governments {Germany especially} have requested it's stored gold back from US vaults.....only to be told, "Gee, where did we put your 54,000 gold bars?"

 

http://moneymorning.com/2013/01/29/why-germany-wants-its-gold-back/

 

So why does Germany want its gold back, and why now?

 

Part of it has to do with pressure from a grassroots group led by a group of economists, business executives, and lawyers, along with the German Precious Metals Association, who have put together a "Repatriate our Gold!" campaign.

 

But that's only part of the story...

 

Official pressure began last October when the German Federal Court of Auditors requested an inspection of the gold Germany stores in foreign central banks.

 

That sparked something of a political controversy since these gold reserves have never been thoroughly inspected and audited.

 

What's more, the U.S. Federal Reserve had already refused to allow the Germans to verify their gold despite several attempts.

 

According to Der Spiegel:

 

"Finally, in 2007, "following numerous enquiries," Bundesbank staff members were allowed to see the facility, but they reportedly only made it to the anteroom of the German reserves.

 

In fact, auditors from the Bundesbank made a second visit in May 2011. This time one of the nine compartments was also opened, in which the German gold bars are densely stacked. A few were pulled out and weighed. But this part of the report has been blacked out - out of consideration for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

 

So why would the Federal Reserve deny the Bundesbank a full inspection and audit?

A list of unanswered questions.

 

The first is obvious: Is the gold really there? If so, why would it take seven years for Germany to get its gold back? Would you take the risk of collecting it slowly, or would you want it much faster? Some say the gold's there, yet others disagree.

 

Steve Scacalossi, vice president and director, global precious metals at TD Securities, says Germany's gold is allocated, and therefore can't be lent out, so it will not affect gold lease rates.

 

Meanwhile, Keith Barron, a geologist and consultant responsible for one of the largest gold discoveries in 25 years, recently told King World News:

 

"I believe that most of the Western world's gold, which is supposed to be in central bank vaults, has been leased out. Much of it is now in private hands in India, and what remains continues going East to China and other Asian vaults. So most of the Western gold has vanished from the vaults and it's now just a book entry. These various Western countries and bullion banks simply roll these leases over when they come due, and the gold never gets returned back to the countries. So it's very interesting to see what's going on. Obviously the trust is breaking down in the system."