Oh My … It’s Burkha Barbie! No, This is Not from The Onion, It is Real … Barbie gets a Burkha Makeover

Hey Barbie … You’ve Come a Long Way Baby, or Not!

Define irony … a charity action to save the children by promoting a doll that displays the subjugation that female children should be saved from.

“I think this is really important for girls, wherever they are from they should have the opportunity to play with a Barbie that they feel represents them.”

What a message this sends little girls

Burkha Barbie, exactly what kind of a message does this send to young girls? What next, barefoot and pregnant Barbie, with a ball & chain attached to the kitchen stove? Playing with a Burkha Barbie that represents submissive behavior? NICE! How exactly does this represent them, remind them that they live in a male dominated society under subjugation? This is what Barbie gets as a 50th Anniversary make over? Some how I hardly thing that is what Stacy London from ‘What Not to Wear’ would have suggested for Barbie.

One of the world’s most famous children’s toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover  - wearing a burkha.

Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby’s for Save The Children.

More than 500 Barbies went on show yesterday at the Salone dei Cinquecento, in Florence, Italy.

What on earth are these people thinking and once again we see the dangers of a PC world and not calling a spade a spade. FOLKS, Think of the sick irony involved with this! A Save the Children charity auction with a Burkha Barbie, WTF! As Jammie Wearing Fool states, apparently these pin heads have not given a thought to saving young girls from the subjugation of wearing a hefty bag over their head and body. EXACTLY!!! What’s the matter, “child bride” Barbie did not make the cut?

Great message guys, Good Grief!

 Top Muslim cleric saying that it’s OK for girls as young as 10 to wed

Makers Mattel are backing the exhibition which is the work of Italian designer Eliana Lorena.

The auction is part of Barbie celebrations for her 50th anniversary this year. The UK’s biggest Barbie fan Angela Ellis, 35, has a collection of more than 250 dolls.

The company director of Laird Assessors from The Wirral, Cheshire, said: ‘Bring it on Burkha Barbie, I think this is a great idea.

‘I think this is really important for girls, wherever they are from they should have the opportunity to play with a Barbie that they feel represents them.

Weasel Zippers adds the obligatory question … Do they come in sets of four with one Ken doll for the husband?

UK: Guilty Until Proved not a Pedophile … Parents Being Banned from Watching their Children in Play Grounds

So you think government is the answer to all your problems, eh?

Wow, in Great Britain you are a pedophile until proved innocent. Can you imagine not being allowed to watch your children at a park or playground until you were vetted by police and given the proper papers? Think there is not a slippery slope to giving away your right to the government? You might want to rethink that.

Sorry Johnny, you can see your parents after their back ground check clears

In Great Britain we have a perfect example of an over-reaching government interjecting them self in to simple common every day life like going to the play ground. Obviously child predators are an issue and keeping children safe; however, this is hardly the answer. Go after the PERVS, not the parents!

Parents are being banned from playing with their children in council recreation areas because they have not been vetted by police.

Mothers and fathers are being forced to watch their children from outside perimeter fences because of fears they could be paedophiles.

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The 9/12 Washington, DC Tea Party Rally … What was the Attendance & Why the MSM is Downplaying the Numbers

It was Tea Party Shock and Awe at the 9/12 DC Tea Party. A picture is worth a million Tea Party go’ers. GRID LOCK courtesy of democracy in action and the DC Tea Party.

One thing is for certain … “We the People” made our voice and presence known to Congress and to President Obama as to how we feel about the economy, taxes, deficit and Obamacare. You can no longer avoid the fact that there is a great deal of dissent against your policies … DO YOU HERE US NOW!!! If you don’t Democrats, Republicans, Blue Dogs, Rino’s and Obama … you will receive a pink slip soon.

Does this look like tens of thousands?

In typical fashion the liberal MSM as down played the numbers of actual protesters that descended upon Washington, DC for the 9/12 Washington, DC Tea Party. ABC News is claiming that they never said that there were million, they are stating that there were 60 to 70 thousand. CBS News is reporting a vague tens of thousands. As pointed out by Stop the ACLU, CNN’s report has no number of protesters what so ever. The Washington Post reports tens of thousands as well. Folks, they shut DC down. What does that tell you as to how many people showed?

Sadly the liberal MSM would have you believe that the 9/12 Tax Payer protesters that showed in DC was some how comparable to an Obama rally in MN where The One ran off to instead of facing the music. Would it really kill the MSM to accurately report the dissent against the President that they carry the water for … Yes it obviously would.

H/T: Michelle Malkin: Does this look like tens of thousands?

Once again, just tens of thousands

However the Daily Mail is quoting 2 million.

Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.

The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.

H/T: Frank Strategies

Michelle Malkin has numerous pics and time saved photos to counteract the nutroot moonbats that claim the pics were doctored. What’s the matter LEFT, afraid of the truth? You should be!

Hot Air asks how big was the crowd with time lapse video. One thing is for certain, the crowd took DC authorities by surprise as the “freedom fighters” descending upon DC caused complete gridlock.

However big it was, it was bigger than expected. From the NYT: “Many came on their own and were not part of an organization or group. But the magnitude of the rally took the authorities by surprise, with throngs of people streaming from the White House to Capitol Hill for more than three hours.”

Tea party Shock and Awe … Washington, DC Tea Party … WOW!!! We the People March on Washington …

You cannot silence “WE THE PEOPLE”

This is about that little document that our Government has forgotten about called the US Constitution.

The Constitution of the United States of America

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

WOW!!!, h/t Instapundit

THEY’RE HERE!!! … WOW

Welcome to “We the People”

Check out the numerous Tea Party pics here at Prismine.

The Tax Payers March on Washington … we are tired and we are not going to take it any more. If any of you have watched TV coverage of the 9–12 Tea Party in Washington, DC, can I just say wow! God bless the folks that showed up to voice their opinion. They comer from all across America … hey Pelosi and the Dems, still think this is astroturf?

It appears that 100’s of thousands may have ascended upon Washington, DC.

BTW, President Obama escaped to Minnesota. What’s the matter Mr. President, sis you not want to witness the shock and awe of the Tea Party go’ers? Just like the many coward Democrat politicians that were too scared to have town hall meetings to face their constituents, Barack Obama hightailed it out of town so not to witness the beauty of Democracy in action.

You can watch the Tea Party Live on the Internet HERE from 1 to 4.

Make sure you watch on Fox News from 1 – 3 pm ET Saturday, September 12, 2009. Watch here also Fox online, Talk Live HERE.

Traffic DC cams 

Thank you to the 9–12 Project and Glen Beck

Ephesians 6:12 – One of the protesters had a sign that appropriately stated the following:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].

Michelle Malkin with a phenomenal roundup.

UPDATE I: Don’t forget Quincy, IL Tea Party will be covered by Fox News

Do not miss Internet brethren Andrew Breitbart (BigGovernment.com), Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and Jim Hoft (The Gateway Pundit) from the Quincy Tea Party. Also Dana Loesch (Danaradio.com) who has done a great Tea Party job.

12,000 PATRIOTS IN QUINCY, ILLINOIS!

UPDATE II: ABC News Reporting 1.5 Million People in Washington, DC

h/t: Protein Wisdom

From Michelle Malkin: 12:34pm Eastern: Police estimate 1.2 million in attendance. ABC News reporting crowd at 2 million. It was not thousands that showed in DC, it was millions!

Jim Demint, SC Senator spoke the the unpaid, non-astroturfed, friendly mob:

“I am not here to speak to you, I am here to stand with you.”

“If you continue to stand up and speak out, we will defend freedom in America”

More coverage and pics from Weasil Zippers.

Speakers from the DC Tax Payers March on Washington:

Betsy McCaughey, the Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York

“our Founding Fathers gave us a government in 18 pages.”

Mason Weaver: author and Metivaticanal speaker.

“I thought you wanted to hear a black man speak to you without of teleprompter … ropes and change.:

“We don’t need you to apologize for us. We are proud to be Americans.”

“We want our freedom back.”

Mike Pence, Indiana Congressman

This President and Congress are getting a history lesson. The Government is run by the consent of the people.

We want another health care plan that is based upon freedom.

They should be required to read this, the Constitution of the United States of America

No where is the Constitution can you find the word CZAR!

Doc Thompson, WRVA Radio Talk Show Host, Richmond, VA

To those that work in this building, Your soul belongs to the lord, but your career belongs to me.

The parting shot FROM 9–12 March on Washington Tea Party … CONGRESS CAN YOU HEAR US NOW, PRESIDENT OBAMA CAN YOU HEAR US NOW!!!

UPDATE III: Check out the pics massive crowds posted at WIZBANG

UPDATE IV: Does this look like Tens of Thousands as reported by MSM?

Now Obama and his Socialists (Sen. Jay Rockefeller) Look to Control the Internet … What Happened to the First Amendment … Freedom of Speech?

GOVERNMENT CONTROL YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!!!

America, wake up and take a good look at what Obama is doing. Do you care about your civil liberties and Constitutional Rights?

This is not CHANGE … it’s a government takeover. CONTROL … IT’S ALL ABOUT CONTROL!!!

Now Obama and his minions are coming after the control of the Internet. So much for free speech. This bill would allow a President who has already shown a propensity to use the Internet to have Americans nark on fellow Americans with the flag@whitehouse.gov snitch site. And who will say that there is a “so-called” cyber emergency, Barack Obama? How convenient. Just what we need, more federal bureaucracies in charge of the Internet.

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

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Harry Reid Call Obamacare Town Hall Protesters ‘Evil’ … Gee Why are Americans Turning Against Democrats?

From the Dems, Axis of Evil not Evil, but American Obamacare protesters are EVIL?

When former President George W. Bush used the term, “the Axis of Evil” to characterize the alliance of North Korea, Iran and Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein in 2002, Democrats went mental and warned that such comments were counterproductive and dangerous. Democrats actually came out against calling the trio “evil.” You mean that terrorists are provided greater deference that “We the People”?

Flash forward seven years and my how things have changed. Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid now calls town hall protesters exercising their Constitutional Rights of Free Speech against Obamacare as EVIL. What is evil is any politician trying to defraud the American people and not represent them as they were duly elected.

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Biden was Right, They would Fail … Hot Dog Diplomacy: Barack Obama Still Inviting Iranian Diplomats to July 4 Celebrations at White House as Iranian Protesters are Killed in the Streets

Barack Obama … How Dare You!!!

More Obama Change You can Believe In … Providing cover for a brutal and tyrannical regime, while “freedom fighters” and “patriots” are beaten and killed in the streets of Iran. I thought July 4th meant the celebration of Independence and Freedom.

Judgment to lead … hardly

Barack Obama makes a mockery out of the Iranian protesters who are dying for their cause and  Independence Day in the United States. Dear Mr. Obama, do you have any concept what the 4th of July even represents? On the very day that the United States celebrates it’s Independence, you would dare have diplomats from a thug regime like Iran over for lunch. How out of touch are you? We are rewarding Iran’s government for their action against their people? Oh, but I guess as Hot Air has stated, our two countries must have so much in common.

Via Weasel Zippers, a gesture of solidarity per our two nations’ shared interest in life, liberty, and shooting women in the heart on the street, I guess.

Not even a disinvitation to the barbecue on America’s birthday as punishment for killing protesters, huh, Barry? Absolutely the lowest moment of his presidency thus far.

As Iranian protesters are beaten and killed in the streets in protest of an illegitimate election, President Barack Obama continues with his cherade of weak and ineffective “hot dog” diplomacy that some how passes as foreign policy.

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Some Thoughts From a SM Reader … Iran: What if the people were armed?? Shouldn’t All People have Simple Freedoms?

The following is a guest post by a Scared Monkeys reader who was been moved and inspired by the people of Iran and their desire and quest for freedom. Simple freedoms that many of us in the United States sometimes take for granted. Imagine if the Iranian people had freedom of speech, the right to bear arms and assemble. The Iranian people just want their vote to count. That should be something that all Americans should respect, understand and support. How many times have we hear politician espouse and exaggerate the fact that voters were disenfranchised?

We have witnessed over the weekend the atrocities brought on those that would dare question their government over what is obvious to any thinking person a corrupt election. Why shouldn’t Iranians have freedoms similar to what you and I experience every day. Now imagine if your freedoms granted by the US Constitution were taken away.

Iran: What if the people were armed?

We hear from the anti-gun lobby now and again that America is the most violent society in the western modern world, and that the reason we are so violent is because of our liberal gun laws.  One can’t argue with statistics and we do have more deaths at the hand of guns than our counterparts (ie: Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Israel).  But that doesn’t tell the whole story.

When the great framers of our Constitution were debating this very issue in tap rooms and taverns from New York to Philadelphia, there were those that spoke out for strict laws about ‘the people’ (meaning the common folk, We the People) being allowed to own weapons. The arguments against guaranteeing this right ranged from the idea that the ‘common man’ could not be trusted with such weapons of destruction to the notion that if we have a just and free society, there would be no need for anyone to own arms except for our free society’s army.  Proponents of this right to own guns argued that there was not going to be a ‘standing’ militia so that in order to be ready to fight those who would try to conquer us, the citizens of this country must be armed.  Debate was vigorous. 

Wise minds prevailed and inserted the Second Amendment into our Bill of Rights of the Constitution.

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North Korean Court Sentenced two U.S. journalists, Laura Ling & Euna Lee to 12 Years in a Labor Camp

North Korean Kin Jong Il dictator continues to play a game of chicken with the United States and the Obama Administration. A North Korean court has sentenced two US journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, to 12 years in a labor camp. The trail of Laura Ling and Euna Lee lasted 5 days where outside observers were not allowed to attend. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were accused of “grave crime” committed against the Korean nation and their illegal border crossing.

Euna Lee and Laura Ling

A North Korean court sentenced two U.S. journalists to 12 years in a labor camp Monday, as the government of Kim Jong Il continued to ratchet up tension with the United States and its neighbors.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, television reporters detained in March along North Korea’s border with China, received harsher sentences than many outsiders had expected. But several experts in South Korea predicted that talks will begin soon to negotiate their release.

The U.S. government said it was “deeply concerned.”

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13 Year Old Minnesota Cancer Patient Daniel Hauser and Mother Colleen Hauser Still Missing … Believed to be in Mexico

The case of missing Daniel Hauser has also turned into one of ethics. Is it right for parents to withhold medical treatment from their son because of religious beliefs. Is it right for a state to force medical treatment?

13 year old cancer patient Daniel Hauser and his mother Colleen Hauser continue to be missing as an arrest warrant was issued last Thursday for the mother who fled with her son to avoid chemotherapy treatments. The new warrant for the mother is for deprivation of parental rights. It is thought that the two are on their way to Mexico for alternative cancer treatment. It is widely held that Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a highly curable form of cancer when treated with chemo and radiation.

Colleen Hauser’s son, Daniel, has Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The two from Minnesota were seen in Southern California on Tuesday morning and authorities have said they could be in Mexico.

“Hopefully we’ll find Daniel, for Daniel’s sake,” Brown County Sheriff Rich Hoffmann said Thursday

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