The Change of a Few Words Tells the Story of Day One at the Democratic National Convention

Members of Hamas Enjoying a Rally

The story of the first day of the Democratic National Convention was made before Michelle Obama ever took the stage last night. The story was the removal of a few words and phrases from the party platform. These specific choices made by the Obama administration tells the average American how much the Democratic Party has changed in just four short years. The choices made by Democrats were simply remarkable. The inluence of Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farakhan could be seen everywhere.

For starters, the Democrats removed three sentences identifying Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The language below was chosen for removal:

"Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel. The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths."

The Democrats also simply removed without further comment the following language designed to call attention to the danger of the notorious terrorist group Hamas: "The United States and its Quartet partners should continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel’s right to exist, and abides by past agreements."

Considering the DNC has devoted two hours to an event Friday that is tabbed as a "call to prayer for Muslims," an event in which a Catholic Cardinal was denied the right to also say a prayer, ties together and provides continuity to each of these platform actions by the DNC.

Also gone from the Democratic Party platform is a previous reference to “God.” Democrats chose this phrase for modification:
"We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential." In this year's platform the Obama administration decided the words "God-given" should simply be removed. The changes can be summarized as follows: References to God are to be diminished except of course for the DNC's sponsorship of the Muslim call to prayer event. Condemnation to a radical Muslim terrorist organization has been driopped and Israel's capital city was put up for grabs. Interesting.

The Change of a Few Words Tells the Story of Day One at the Democratic National Convention

Judge Orders Taxpayers to Pay for Convicted Murderer's Sex Change Operation

Boston Globe- A federal court judge has ordered state officials to provide a sex-reassignment surgery for a transsexual prison inmate, convicted of murdering his wife, after finding that the treatment is the only adequate care for his serious mental illness, gender identity disorder.

US District Court Chief Judge Mark Wolf also noted that the treatment for Michelle Kosilek had been prescribed by Department of Correction doctors, and that the only justifications for denying the treatment were based on public opinion.
“This fact that sex reassignment surgery is for some people medically necessary has recently become more widely recognized,” Wolf wrote in a landmark, 129-page ruling issued today.
Kosilek strangled his wife, Cheryl, in Mansfield in 1990 and dumped her body in a car at the Emerald Square Mall at North Attleborough. Kosilek then fled to New York State before being arrested.
Kosilek was convicted of first degree-murder in January 1993 and is serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Judge Orders Taxpayers to Pay for Convicted Murderer's Sex Change Operation

Castro: ‘Mitt Romney says NO’

San Antonio mayor Julian Castro

From NBC News.com - San Antonio mayor Julian Castro touts the Democratic education platform and President Barack Obama’s record while portraying GOP nominee Mitt Romney as a danger to the American Dream. “It’s a choice between a country where the middle class pays more so that millionaires can pay less—or a country where everybody pays their fair share,” says Castro. See video of speech here.

Castro: ‘Mitt Romney says NO’

Michelle Obama's message: The president is just like you

First Lady Michelle Obama

From the Alamogordo Daily News - AP - CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Michelle Obama's message: President Barack Obama is just like you.  "Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it," the first lady told the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday in an address intended to reassure voters that her husband share their values - hard work, perseverance and optimism - while also drawing a contrast between him and Mitt Romney.  Mrs. Obama never mentioned the president's Republican challenger, who grew up in a world of privilege and wealth.  But the point was clear as she weaved a tapestry of their early years together, when money was tight and times were tough, when they were "so in love, and so in debt." She reminisced about the man who now occupies the Oval Office pulling his favorite coffee table out of the trash and wearing dress shoes that were a size too small. And she told stories about a president who still takes time to eat dinner with his daughters nearly every night, answering their questions about the news and strategizing about middle-school friendships.  With a mix of personal anecdotes and policy talk, Mrs. Obama's speech was by far her most political yet.  "Today, after so many struggles and triumphs and moments that have tested my husband in ways I never could have imagined, I have seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are - it reveals who you are," she said.  Read more

Michelle Obama's message: The president is just like you

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Bear found downtown near Santa Fe River

NewsNM Swickard - sorry to ruin the fantasy, but wherever they drop the bear will already be a bear and those two will fight to the death according to Rink Summerday, a wildlife expert. Take the bear to a zoo or put it down. From the Santa Fe New Mexican - There must have been moments on Monday when Guadalupe the bear felt she was the star of a reality-television show. And yet all the the roughly 200-pound, adult female black bear did was mostly nap on the rocky riverbed of the Santa Fe River from about 10 a.m. to about 1:30 p.m. — which is when game wardens from the state’s Department of Game and Fish tranquilized her to ensure that neither she nor any nearby humans got hurt. And there were a lot of nearby humans, many of whom lined up to catch a glimpse of the downtown bear as early as 10 a.m. — about 15 minutes after Santa Fe police Lt. Louis Carlos first spotted “Guadalupe,” as some were calling her, in the river near the Santuario de Guadalupe. “Hey, Boo Boo!” one man said, referring to the cartoon-character sidekick of Yogi Bear. Sure enough, not long afterward a nearby woman said, “Yogi’s sleeping.”Just past 1 p.m., Game and Fish area assistant chief Robert Livingston arrived. He dropped a rock in the brush above Guadalupe to check her reflexes. She lifted her head and her ears sprung to attention as she reacted to the rolling rock. “Don’t hurt the bear! Don’t hurt the bear!” one concerned woman pleaded. At 1:20 p.m., Livingston fired a tranquilizer dart into Guadalupe’s hind quarters. Around 1:35 p.m., a collective of officers from Game and Fish, Animal Control, the Santa Fe Police Department and the Santa Fe Fire Department descended the slope, rolled Guadalupe onto a tarp, and carefully carried her up the hill to the approving applause of the audience surrounding the spectacle. Within a few minutes they loaded Guadalupe into the nearby bear cage. The crowd began to thin. Castell said Game and Fish will first check the bear out to make sure she is not ill or hurt. If she is healthy, the officers plan to release her into an undisclosed region of the wilderness. Read more

Bear found downtown near Santa Fe River

Martinez Plans Economic Summit

Susana Martinez at RNC Last Week

KOB - Gov. Susana Martinez's administration plans a summit in October to gather recommendations for boosting New Mexico's economy. The Economic Development Department is organizing the "New Century Economic Summit" in Albuquerque on Oct. 2 to hear from community and business leaders and educators.
Economic Development Secretary Jon Barela said policy recommendations may be incorporated into legislative proposals and the agency's long-term strategic plan for expanding the economy. Barela said the summit needs to consider New Mexico's tax system, infrastructure, economic development incentives and educational programs for preparing a competitive workforce. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Martinez Plans Economic Summit

Gingrich: Media Replete with "Racially Fixated Minds"

Newt Gingrich

Commentary by Newt Gingrich - The Washington media reached new levels of absurdity in its coverage of the Republican convention in Tampa this past week. That's how we know it was a success.Completely at a loss for truthful or substantive criticism yet determined to derail the Romney-Ryan ticket, they resorted to accusations of imagined racism. To listen to some TV commentators, you'd think that conservatives oppose President Obama out of prejudice. Indeed, the charge that Republicans were using their convention to race-bait was leveled again and again and again through the week.
I doubt these attacks will work with voters, since no reasonable person watching the convention could possibly have seen what these media personalities claimed to perceive.
But the charges were all the more outrageous when you looked at the figures appearing on stage.
Now, the media commentators could be forgiven for having missed former Representative and former Democrat Artur Davis--the African American Congressman who submitted Barack Obama's name in nomination four years ago--since MSNBC didn't even air his amazing speech (undoubtedly afraid it would embarrass their commentators and their candidate). 

Artur Davis - Nominated Barack Obama in 2008

But these highly nuanced and racially-fixated minds surely must have noticed that, beside Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, the faces of the party they were accusing of race-baiting were Marco Rubio, Condoleezza Rice, Ted Cruz, Susana Martinez, and Luis Fortuño. 

These people are the stars of the Republican Party. And they're stars not because of their race or their gender, but because they're some of the best, most intelligent, most innovative, most persuasive leaders anywhere in the country.

It must drive the elite media nuts, since they're intent on fabricating racial excuses for the nation's disappointment in its president. In some cases, it literally did drive them nuts.

When I appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews earlier in the week, he was eager to discuss a litany of conjured-up charges of racism.

Each was more absurd than the last.

I was race-baiting because I've pointed out that more Americans have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than under any president in American history.

Mitt Romney was race-baiting because he denounced the President's gutting of the welfare work requirement.

Ronald Reagan was race-baiting because he spoke

Chris was not exactly feeling a thrill with my response.

pointed out to him his own prejudiced thinking: the vast majority of people on food stamps and welfare are white. To assume that anyone talking about those services is speaking in racial code is to hold a racial stereotype of those groups yourself, not the other way around.

Ronald Reagan's welfare queen was *committing fraud against the taxpayers*. He never said she was African American. But rather than acknowledging that Reagan was offering an example of welfare fraud which we know was *in fact a real problem*, Matthews tries to excuse the behavior just as he excuses President Obama's failure: by trumping up charges of racism to distract from the important issues at hand.

Gingrich: Media Replete with "Racially Fixated Minds"

Housing Bubble Blood Soiled Obama's Litigation Hands

Daily Caller - President Barack Obama was a pioneering contributor to the national subprime real estate bubble, and roughly half of the 186 African-American clients in his landmark 1995 mortgage discrimination lawsuit against Citibank have since gone bankrupt or received foreclosure notices.
As few as 19 of those 186 clients still own homes with clean credit ratings, following a decade in which Obama and other progressives pushed banks to provide mortgages to poor African Americans.

The startling failure rate among Obama’s private sector clients was discovered during The Daily Caller’s review of previously unpublished court information from the lawsuit that a young Obama helmed as the lead plaintiff’s attorney. [RELATED: Learn about the 186 class action plaintiffs]

Since the mortgage bubble burst, some of his former clients are calling for a policy reversal.

“If you see some people don’t make enough money to afford the mortgage, why would you give them a loan?” asked Obama client John Buchanan. “There should be some type of regulation against giving people loans they can’t afford.”

Banks “were too eager to lend to many who didn’t qualify,” said Don Byas, another client who saw banks lurch from caution to bubble-inflating recklessness. [RELATED: Obama's Citibank plaintiffs hit hard when housing bubble burst] “I don’t care what race you are. … You need to keep financial wisdom [separate] from trying to help your people,” said Byas, an autoworker. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Housing Bubble Blood Soiled Obama's Litigation Hands

Muslim Brotherhood Government in Egypt To Get Debt Foregiveness From Obama Administration

New York Times - Nearly 16 months after first pledging to help Egypt’s failing economy, the Obama administration is nearing an agreement with the country’s new government to relieve $1 billion of its debt as part of an American and international assistance package intended to bolster its transition to democracy, administration officials said.

The administration’s efforts, delayed by Egypt’s political turmoil and by wariness in Washington about new leaders emerging from its first free elections, gained new urgency in recent weeks, even as the United States risks losing influence and investment opportunities to countries like China. President Mohamed Morsi chose China for his first official visit outside of the Middle East. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Muslim Brotherhood Government in Egypt To Get Debt Foregiveness From Obama Administration