NCAS Report on Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial

Raining nice outside. Been raining at a nice steady pace since early this morning. Did this rain stop us from going to the gym? Heck no! We went at our regular time, and did our workout, then came home at our regular time. Though I at the time had a bad crick or pinched nerve or something on my left shoulder. The workout seemed to have taken care of that though. I am feeling good! Tomorrow though, no gym time! Dammit. Not really dammit, it is our weekly trip to Des Moines to visit with our Aunt Louise. Then stop somewhere to get more some more work out clothes. And lunch, got to have lunch!

Funny wife I have! Yesterday I said real sweetly “honey, want to go somewhere for dinner? pick a place, any place. And you can pay using some of your winnings from the casino the other day”. Geesh! You would of thought I poked her with a cattle prod! She looked at me (and if looks could kill?) and said no way! You won more than me, so you pay! We did not go out for dinner…hahahahhahaa

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The Gehry Towers Over Eisenhower:

The National Civic Art Society Report on Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial

By Justin Shubow

Executive Summary

• The Eisenhower family opposes Frank Gehry’s design for the Memorial.  The president’s grandson, the family’s sole representative on the Memorial Commission, has resigned from the Commission.
• The Memorial competition was secretive, exclusive, elitist, and undemocratic—if it was a true competition at all.  Only 44 entries were solicited.  This is hundreds fewer than the number of entries submitted in previous national memorial competitions, which were open to all.
• An unknown, unconnected designer could not have won, let alone even entered, the competition.  It was thanks to America’s openness to talent that Eisenhower was able to rise to the presidency from a humble background.  The Memorial competition should have been equally open.
• The Memorial’s only statue of Eisenhower depicts him as a life-size barefoot young boy, a shrinky-dink tikey Ikey.  It is a travesty that cuts a great man down to size.  Giving Eisenhower the boy treatment would be unthinkable were Eisenhower around to defend himself.
• The design of the boy Eisenhower statue is being advised by Charles Ray, an artist whose work sexualizes children and is obscene.
• The statue of Ike as a Kansas farmer-boy is sentimental kitsch.    This Happy McMonument does not befit a statesman who defeated the Nazis and who preserved America’s peace and prosperity.  Leadership is not child’s play.
• The Memorial design has contained benches spelling out “IXXI,” the Roman numerals for 9 and 11.  Whether this reference to the 9/11 attacks was intentional or negligent, the Memorial’s architect, Frank Gehry, can no longer be trusted with its design.
• In 2003, Gehry refused to help design a replacement for the Twin Towers since he was not offered enough money.  That alone makes Gehry unworthy of Eisenhower, who exemplified selfless public service.
• The void at the heart of the Memorial makes it a temple to nothingness.  It is a hollow temple, not a hallowed one.
• The Memorial’s crooked-appearing “columns” and tangled “tapestries” do not befit Eisenhower’s upright virtue.
• The Memorial’s titanic “columns” tower over the puny Ike statute.  The result is a Leviathan Memorial swallowing a small-fry Eisenhower.  The behemoth commemorates Gehry’s ego, not Eisenhower’s greatness and humility.
• Eisenhower would be disgusted at the planning and design of his Memorial.  As he lamented in 1962, “What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?”

More HERE

(one of the greatest men ever and his legacy is treated this way?)

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(NY Daily News) — This Occupy Wall Street protester is definitely not among the 1% — of brightest Americans.

John Scott DeKuyper arrived for a Wednesday court hearing at the wrong building while carrying a Colt .45 pistol in his leather backpack, police and court officials said.

DeKuyper, 53, was also toting cartridges for the unloaded handgun in his bag when he was handcuffed at the weapon screening area inside 100 Centre St. around 11:30 a.m.

The Lewes, Del., resident said he was licensed to carry the weapon in another state before adding this was “the stupidest thing he’d ever done,” said Lt. Pete Dolan.

Or maybe it was in the top two.

DeKuyper was first arrested last Oct. 15 while trying to yank the badge off the shirt of NYPD Chief of Department Joseph Esposito during a Times Square rally, according to a criminal complaint.

DeKuyper was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and attempted grand larceny. He was supposed to be at 346 Broadway for that hearing.

He was held on $50,000 cash bail Wednesday on the gun charge.

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The Mayor of a major US City has an army at his disposal (his words), which includes the ability to bring down a suspect airliner (the words of his police chief).

This Mayor has fielded an Intelligence apparatus that probably rivals the capabilities of most nation-states.

This Mayor is hostile toward most of the ideals embodied in the DoI, Constitution and Bill of Rights. He gives them lip service, but his actions reveal the Tyrant.

Very little was made of recent reports about this Mayor using the intelligence capability of his army beyond the borders of his city, indeed, beyond his State. MSM made little of it. The Right made even less of it. And our own community didn’t choose to address it much.

Of course I am talking about Mayor Bloomberg of New York City.

Do you think, for a moment, that his Intel gathering is limited to Muslims? Do you think the point-man for MAIG probably has already GPS’d the homes of every gun owner, Republican and Patriot in the same region?

Read the rest of this article by Kerodin here at III Percent Patriots

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This is where Obama and his regime are sending America:

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Santorum: Obama ‘Was Ready to Jump in Bed with the Muslim Brotherhood’

Top Sunni Cleric Yusuf Al-Qardawi: The Head of a Muslim State Must Be a Muslim

MSNBC’s Touré: Singer Chris Brown Pummeling Girlfriend Rihanna “One Little Mistake” Geesh…

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KABUL (BHN) Thousand of Muslims in Afghanistan continue to riot after Afghan laborers found charred copies of the Koran while collecting rubbish at Bagram Airbase.

In an effort to prevent this type of situation from happening again, non-Muslims are asked to observe the following Islamic rules for proper Koran disposal:

• Never burn the Koran on the ground – this is considered an insult to the Islamic faith. Always burn the Koran on a plate or in a receptacle.
• Always burn the Koran by itself or with the Hadith – never with other rubbish.
• When disposing of the Koran in a toilet be careful to not defecate on the sacred book as it is forbidden. Urinating on the Koran is acceptable, but only if you have not been drinking alcohol.
• When using a discarded Koran as an absorbent in a cat box, the above rules don’t apply, as the sacred text has no meaning for cats, and they have little control over where they poop.

More at Big Hairy News

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WFB:

Children born today will inherent a per capita share of the national debt exceeding $1.5 million, a new study reveals.

Republican analysts on the Senate Budget Committee used figures from the Congressional Budget Office to calculate the relative share of the national debt–currently $16 trillion and counting–among different age groups.

(damn! now would be a good time to not have kids)

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Just our PATHETIC president kissing islamic ass yet again!

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Afghan president’s office says it has received a letter from President Obama formally apologizing for the burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.

The statement from President Hamid Karzai’s office says the U.S. ambassador delivered the letter on Thursday.

In the letter, which is quoted in the statement, Obama expresses his “deep regret for the reported incident” and offers his “sincere apologies.”

According to the statement, Obama wrote: “The error was inadvertent; I assure you that we will take the appropriate steps to avoid any recurrence, to include holding accountable those responsible.”

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But will WE get an apology from the afghan president?

(CBS News) — Two U.S. troops have been shot to death and four more wounded by an Afghan solider who turned his gun on his allies in apparent anger over the burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, an Afghan official tells CBS News.

A statement from the International Security Assistance Force – Afghanistan, the international coalition in the country, confirmed that two troops were killed in Eastern Afghanistan on Thursday by “an individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform.”

ISAF does not typically give the nationality of casualties until family members have been notified, but the CBS News source in the Afghan government said those killed and injured in the attack in the Khogyani district of the eastern Ningarhar province along the border with Pakistan were Americans.

The source also said the shooting appeared to be motivated by the burning of Qurans at the sprawling U.S. Bagram air base, north of Kabul, but he did not provide additional details as to what led him to that conclusion.

(either we wipe that country clean of islamic assholes, or we get out. NOW)

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Obama “graced” San Francisco with yet another million dollar fund raiser on February 16, 2012. About two hundred San Francisco Tea Partiers and several liberal groups were there to greet him! Some serious moments and some fun ones too.

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(CBS News) — Prosecutors recently sentenced a Texas man, Manuel Barba, for trafficking a weapon connected to the murder of Immigration and Customs (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata. Nobody was more astonished to learn of the case than Zapata’s parents, who didn’t know that Barba had been arrested or linked to their son’s murder.

“The family was obviously surprised to learn that there was a case involving a weapon linked to the Zapata incident,” attorney Trey Martinez told CBS News. Martinez represents Zapata’s parents and the surviving ICE agent in the assault, Victor Avila. “They were surprised they had never been contacted in the capacity as victims so they could give a response or some kind of reaction at the time of sentencing.”

Barba was sentenced to 100 months in prison on January 30th. When we asked why the Zapatas weren’t contacted, prosecutors in Houston told CBS News they only handled the weapons charges: conspiracy, false statements and exportation/receipt of firearms. Zapata’s actual murder “is being handled by another US Attorney’s office and… is separate and apart from the firearms case that was handled by our district,” said a spokeswoman. She added the firearms offenses “are crimes that do not involve victims in the legal sense of the word and therefore, notifications are not part of the legal process.”

In a related development, CBS News has obtained documents showing that Barba was under ATF surveillance for at least six months before a rifle he trafficked was used in Zapata’s murder. Zapata’s government vehicle was ambushed by suspected cartel thugs in Mexico Feb. 15, 2011.

Documents indicate ATF opened its case against Barba, entitled “Baytown Crew,” in June of 2010. During the investigation, court records state Barba recruited straw purchasers and “facilitated the purchase and exportation of at least 44 firearms” including assault rifles. On August 20, 2010 Barba took delivery of the WASR-10 semi-automatic rifle later used in Zapata’s murder, obliterated its serial number, and sent it to Mexico with nine others just like it. Nearly two months later, on Oct. 8, 2010, ATF agents recorded a phone call in which Barba “spoke about the final disposition of … firearms to Mexico and also about the obliterating of the serial numbers before they were trafficked.” Barba told straw purchasers the guns were destined for the Zeta drug cartel.

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