All Los Angeles public schools closed due to bomb threat to 'many' schools

They got us running like rabbits!

This could be a prank. If not it's almost a certainty Muslims are involved.

 A few more incidents like this and people are not going to be so "outraged" and "disturbed" over Trump banning Muslims. 

Thank God we only have a small handful of Muslims to worry about.

Update: It's a hoax. 

But don't think this wasn't a lesson learned by terrorists.

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All Los Angeles Unified School District schools have been ordered closed Tuesday due to an unspecified "credible threat" of violence to students at numerous schools in the sprawling district, and a schools official confirmed that it was a bomb threat to the school district.

Los Angeles Unified is the nation's second-largest school district, with more than 900 campuses and more than 640,000 students. Ramon Cortines, the school system's superintendent, said the threat was against students at multiple schools. LAUSD spokeswoman Monica Carazo confirmed that it was a bomb threat.

"It was not to one school, two schools or three schools, it was many schools, not specifically identified, but there were many schools," Cortines said. "That's the reason that I took the action that I did."

Teachers and support personnel also have been ordered to stay away from schools on Tuesday. Cortines said he intends to have every one of the district's schools searched. He said that while it is not unusual for schools to receive threats, this one was "rare" and comes at a time of heightened concern about safety.

Los Angeles is an hour's drive from San Bernardino, where less than two weeks ago, 14 people were killed by two alleged terrorists. A community college in San Bernardino was also closed on Tuesday due to a bomb threat received on Monday night.

"I as superintendent am not going to take a chance with the life of a student," Cortines said.

Officials offered few details about the nature of the threat, calling it only an "electronic threat" that came in the form of a "message." Cortines said the school district plans to release more information later Tuesday and declined to comment on whether schools would reopen on Wednesday.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said that the FBI's Los Angeles office and the Los Angeles Police Department are assisting with the threat investigation. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department also is assisting with the search because some of the schools are outside the city limits, said deputy Jeff Gordon. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also are involved in the investigation.

A law enforcement official in Los Angeles said that all of the Los Angeles Unified School District schools were closed after a "credible threat" of violence was received. The threat involved backpacks and packages at the schools, the official said.

Though schools were not yet open for the day when they were ordered closed, some students had already been dropped off, officials said. LAUSD Board of Education President Steve Zimmer asked parents to pick up their children as soon as possible.

"I want to be very clear we need the cooperation of the whole of Los Angeles today," Zimmer said. "We need families and neighbors to work together with our schools and with our employees to make sure that our kids are safe throughout the day. We need employers to show the flexibility that a situation like this demands."

All Los Angeles public schools closed due to bomb threat to 'many' schools

Finally someone grew a pair

 A woman no less!

Update: School Nixes Principal's Ban on Pledge of Allegiance, Santa, and Thanksgiving

Update Dec. 15, 2015

After the New York Post's coverage of Principal Eujin Jaela Kim's ban on the Pledge of Allegiance, Santa, and Thanksgiving at PS 169 went viral, District 15 Superintendent Anita Skop stormed into the school Monday morning and had two fifth-grade boys lead the recital of the Pledge of Allegiance over the public address system, teachers said. 

The pledge hadn’t been said over the loudspeakers since the beginning of the school year, but the Department of Education officials said on Monday that it will be recited over the PA system every morning from now on. Santa has also been reinstated.

“It never would have happened if The Post didn’t do the story. That’s the only way we got our voices heard,” PTA president Mimi Ferrer told the New York Post.

The Short of It

A New York City school principal seems to have gone to extreme measures to create a PC learning environment at PS 169, banning everything from the Pledge of Allegiance to Santa.

The Lowdown

Eujin Jaela Kim, 33, has made some major changes to one Brooklyn school. Instead of Thanksgiving and Christmas parties, students now celebrate with harvest and winter celebrations. Even the Pledge of Allegiance, which was previously recited in the school, was banned.

"We definitely can't say Christmas, nothing with Christmas on it, nothing with Santa. No angels. We can't even have a star because it can represent a religious system, like the Star of David," PTA president Mimi Ferrer told the New York Post.

Kim's goal? According to a letter written by assistant principal Jose Chaparro, administrators want to "be sensitive of the diversity of our families. Not all children celebrate the same holidays."

It's worth noting 95 percent of the student body at the school is either Asian or Hispanic.

Incidentally, Kim's directives differ from the New York City Department of Education's, which allows holiday symbols in schools, including Christmas trees, Hanukkah menorahs, the Islamic star-and-crescent, and kinaras (candleholders for Kwanzaa). A picture of an actual deity, like Jesus, would be banned. The DOE allows Santa as a , but Kim doesn't want him anywhere near her school either.

If you do nothing else today please go here. 

http://americanhumanist.org

Liberal proselytizing at its finest!

The Upshot 

Kim's ban on anything having to do with religion, even the mere mention of the word "God," is just one aspect of her overhaul of the school. She has also made changes to the curriculum and painted over historic murals in the auditorium to make room for giant flat-screen TVs. According to Ferrer, the expensive technology has never been used.

Finally someone grew a pair

Botched ransom? Rep presses for answers on FBI role in 'payment' for Bergdahl

Lets suppose this story is true. The FBI paid, I'll throw in a figure of $1 million, to secure Bergdahl's release and got stiffed. Does Duncan Hunter really believe he is going to get any assistance from the DOJ to prove his case? 

Step back a minute. Forget the bullshit hype, "no one left behind" Barry espoused. Barry never gave a damn about Bergdahl. He was simply a convenience. A tool to be used achieving his goal of closing down Gitmo. 

Think about it. Who got all the attention Bergdahl or Tamarossi? Barry couldn't be bothered to pick up the phone for decorated vet Tamarossi yet he sold the farm to get Bergdahl back! BTW...The day of reckoning for this decision will soon be upon us.

No Mr. Hunter don't expect any help from the DOJ or FBI. It's more likely Lois Lerner would join the TeaParty then for that to happen. You have to remember who appointed the head of each agency. But you can take some solace in this. Bergdahl was originally scheduled for a "slap on the wrist" hearing (probably initiated by Barry)  that could impose  only a maximum penalty of a year in confinement. That was until Army General Robert Abrams stepped in not following the original recommendation  and now Bergdahl will face a full-blown court-martial with a potential life sentence.

They deserve it:

Looks like the end is near for Jason Bourne. 

Bowe Bergdahl: I wanted to be Jason Bourne

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AUSTIN, Texas, Dec 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and became a Taliban prisoner for five years, will face court-martial with a potential life sentence, the Army said on Monday.

Bergdahl, 29, was charged earlier this year with desertion and endangering U.S. troops and could face the life sentence if convicted of the latter, more serious offense's

In ordering the court martial on Monday, Army General Robert Abrams did not follow the recommendation of a preliminary hearing which, according to Bergdahl's lawyer, called for Bergdahl to face a proceeding that could impose a potential maximum penalty of a year in confinement.

The FBI played a central role in making a botched “payment” meant to help secure Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release last year, according to the office of a House Republican now seeking answers on why the bureau was involved at all in the apparent rescue attempt. 

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. -- who has long questioned whether a ransom of some kind was offered for Bergdahl’s release -- claimed in a recent letter to the Justice Department inspector general that he has learned “non-DoD organizations, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), undertook the recovery mission.”

As part of this effort, Hunter told DOJ IG Michael Horowitz, the FBI even went to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and “awaited Bergdahl’s arrival following some form of discussion about facilitating a payment.”

Bergdahl didn’t show – and ultimately was not released until May when he was traded for five Taliban leaders. Hunter’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, told FoxNews.com the unsuccessful FBI border visit came after this operation paid an Afghan intermediary, who then ran off with the money.

“The FBI was leading the op,” Kasper said. 

Hunter now wants the DOJ IG to look into the alleged payment, including the amount and whether it was made in violation of the law. 

A representative with the FBI did not comment on Hunter’s claims when asked by FoxNews.com. 

Hunter previously has said such a botched payment was made and initially pointed the finger at Joint Special Operations Command, but has not discussed the extent of the FBI’s alleged role until now. Hunter’s claims were first reported in The Daily Beast. 

The letter to Horowitz comes after the House Armed Services Committee released a detailed report saying the Defense Department inspector general could not confirm that any payment was made in an effort to recover Bergdahl, whose desertion case was referred Monday to a general court-martial. All the DOD IG could confirm was that “small payments were made to individuals in return for information” on Bergdahl’s captors, whereabouts and condition. The Pentagon last year also denied that a ransom was paid.

But Hunter’s letter shifts the focus to the DOJ and FBI.

It asks the Justice Department inspector general to look at whether a payment was made from within that department, if one was not made by the DOD.

Hunter, in the letter, called for a “thorough and substantive review” of the FBI’s alleged involvement. He also questioned what authority the FBI had to pursue Bergdahl’s release since he was a uniformed service member and not a civilian.

“We’re going to try to get to the bottom of it,” Kasper said Monday.

He said a chief concern is that the FBI is not necessarily equipped to recover Americans held captive in hostile areas.

“They don’t have the assets. They don’t have the resources,” he said.

The U.S. government as a matter of policy does not pay ransom for terror hostages, and Kasper acknowledged the administration will never confirm a “ransom” was paid in this case. But he suggested the government could have offered a payment of some kind – without calling it a ransom.

You know:

terrorist attack<>workplace violence

Botched ransom? Rep presses for answers on FBI role in 'payment' for Bergdahl

The Rijksmusem has come under fire for removing words such as 'negro', 'Indian' and 'dwarf' from their roster

When is this crap going to come to an end?

Here's another "fine" example and a crying shame:

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." - Ernest Hemingway 

So what happens:

Huck Finn Expelled From Middle School

When I was a kid Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were mandatory reading!

A leading museum has decided to rename any artworks that have titles which are deemed to be offensive. 

In a move which is designed to get rid of the words given by non-whites to others, pictures in the digitised gallery of more than 220,000 will be targeted in the Adjustment of Colonial Terminology.

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has announced the project , which involves all 12 curators, and will replace words used with less 'racially charged' teminology, reports the New York Times . 

For example, the 1900 painting 'Young Negro-Girl' will now be called 'Young Girl Holding a Fan'.

This artwork by Simon Maris (c.1900) features

in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

and has been renamed

'Young Girl Holding a Fan' from 'Young Negro Girl'

Who gave them the authority to do this? If any distant relatives of Simon Maris are still living they should take this to court. When a painter produces a work of art they have the right to call it whatever the hell they want. If you don't like it don't look at it. You just can't arbitrarily change history because it doesn't suit your taste!

Remember this?

GROUND ZERO: A MEMORIAL: Firefighters Block a Plan for Statue in Brooklyn

Martine Gosselink, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum, said: "We Dutch are called kaas kops, or cheeseheads, sometimes, and we wouldn't like it if we went to a museum in another country and saw descriptions of images of us as 'kaas kop woman with kaas kop child,' and that's exactly the same as what's happening here."

.@Rijksmuseum removes racially charged terms from artworks' titles (via @nytimes): http://nyti.ms/1QhCkDo 

— Artsy (@artsy) 3:50 PM - 10 Dec 2015

Since the project started a month ago, about 200 descriptions have been identified and altered.

Other words which will be eradicated include 'Hottentot' - a name given by Dutch people to the Khoi people in South Africa meaning 'stutterer' - and 'Mohammedan' - an old word for Muslim once used by the West.

Since the story was carried in Dutch newspaper Het Parool, there has been critcism, but Gosselink says it's essential.

"In the Netherlands alone, there are a million people deriving from colonial roots, from Suriname, from the Antilles, from Indonesia, and so on that basis alone it's important to change this."

The Rijksmusem has come under fire for removing words such as 'negro', 'Indian' and 'dwarf' from their roster

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Look who's talking about "endangering national security”

John Kerry says Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims 'endangers national security'

Secretary of State John Kerry says that Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from the United States "endanger national security.”

"It exhibits an attitude by one American who is running for the highest office of our land about a willingness to discriminate against a religion," he said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

"It seems to me that Mr Trump's statement is wholly and totally without recognition of the true American spirit and values and certainly tolerance."

Secretary Kerry also said the proposal was a “very dangerous foreign policy."



His legacy.

"It says to those in Islam who are trying to exploit people and recruit foreign fighters and otherwise, it says look, look at America. Here they've got a guy running for president who is waging war against Islam," Secretary Kerry said on CBS News' "Face the Nation.”

"It's exploitable, whether he intended it or not. And it allows for recruitment. It allows for America to seem like it is indeed discriminatory against Islam, against Muslims."

They also said Gitmo was a recruiting tool for terrorists so they released them a dime a dozen.

And it paid off. Here and abroad terrorism is down to zero!

He also chided Republicans for opposing the climate change agreement that was signed by nearly 200 nations around the world.

"I don't believe you can be elected president of the United States if you don't understand climate change or you're not committed to this kind of a plan," he told ABC, predicting that the American public would not elect a presidential candidate who denies the science of man made climate change.

"I don't think they're going to accept as a genuine leader someone who doesn't understand the science of climate change and isn't willing to do something about it."

Look who's talking about "endangering national security”

THROUGH THE ROOF Calif. gun sales soar after San Bernardino massacre

CEO and Executive Vice President of the NRA

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Gun sales in California spiked in the days after the deadly Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, in spite of having some of the strictest gun laws in the country – with as many as 6,000 guns being sold a day in the days after two jihadists massacred 14 people.

Figures provided by the California Department of Justice to FoxNews.com show that in the four days after the massacre, there were 20,664 sales, compared to only 12,649 from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2.

In November, with the exception of a typical surge around Thanksgiving, there were few days that saw more than 3,000 sales a day, and no days that saw 4,000+ sales. However, after the shooting, there were 6,108 sales on Dec. 4, 6,558 on Dec. 5, 4,500 on Dec. 7 and 5,763 on Dec. 8.

The California Attorney General’s office told FoxNews.com that the numbers do reflect gun sales, although roughly 1-2 percent of all sales are later denied for reasons such as criminal histories.

While the AG’s office noted that they frequently see an increase in sales at the end of November and throughout December, the numbers are still significantly higher than in December 2014, which saw 16,443 sales in the same time period.

The increase in sales is part of a wider trend across the nation, with gun groups and store owners saying that gun sales surge after mass shootings, both out of a desire for self-protection from shooters, and fears of politicians infringing on their Second Amendment Rights.

Numbers from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which can be used as an indicator of sales, and show that there were significant spikes in background checks after the December 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, the July 2012 movie theatre shooting in Aurora Colorado, and the November 2009 Fort Hood massacre. There have been 19.8 million checks through November this year, and 2015 is on pace to break the record.

The White House has said it is looking at how President Obama could use executive orders to reduce gun violence, and Obama himself has called for legislatures to do more to tackle the issue.

“Americans know that President Obama’s foreign policy has made us less safe and they are taking personal responsibility for protecting themselves and their families,” Jennifer Baker, director of NRA Public Affairs, told FoxNews.com.

“It is unfortunate that the President continues to exploit a terrorist attack on US soil to push a gun-control agenda that will only make it harder for law-aiding citizens to exercise their constitutional right to self-protection and do nothing to stop criminals or terrorists," Baker said.

Toni Wellen, chair and founder of the Coalition against Gun Violence in Santa Barbara, California, told FoxNews.com that stocking up on guns won’t make households safer.

“If more guns made this country safe we would not be having over 30,000 gun deaths a year, and most of those gun deaths are not mass shootings that people are responding to, but most gun deaths occur within homes and among families,” Wellen said.

Wellen also rejected the idea that Americans Second Amendment rights were at risk.

“I think that it is a method that the NRA uses because they want to push gun sales,” she said. “The concept that is being sold is that you’d better get your gun or they’re coming to take your gun away. Gun violence prevention is about gun violence prevention, not about gun control. No-ones taking away people’s guns.”

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked about the recent national spike in gun sales Thursday, and while he wouldn’t speculate as to why Americans across the country were buying more guns, he called the surge in sales “tragically ironic.”

“There are a variety of reasons why people might do that. I guess I’m just pointing out that there are already an astonishing number of guns on the streets of America, and far too many innocent Americans who are being killed by them,” Earnest said. “So the idea that our reaction to innocent Americans being killed by guns is to dump 185,000 more guns onto the streets of America is tragically ironic.”

THROUGH THE ROOF Calif. gun sales soar after San Bernardino massacre

I Think More Muslims live in Minnesota then Syria

 In Minnesota barely a month goes by without hearing about some sort of Muslim uprising. 

Maybe they should change their license plate from "10,000 lakes" to "10,000 mosques".

MN even has a Muslim in Congress.

 No not the abortion loving Catholic on the left. He's the one on the right swearing in on the Quran.

Keith Ellison staying true to form.

Receiving the  >Sowing The Seeds Of Islam Award< for getting most of the 5.5 million morons who live in Minnesota to vote for a Muslim Democrat over a Republican.

Allah Akbar!

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Minnesota man accused of threatening FBI agents on social media

A Minnesota man was charged Friday with threatening FBI agents on social media after the arrest of a friend on charges of conspiring to help ISIS, and authorities say the man had hopes himself of traveling to Syria.

Khaalid Adam Abdulkadir, 19, posted two separate threats on Twitter after the arrest of his friend, Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 20, of Eagan, according to a criminal complaint. He was charged with one felony count of impending and retaliating against a federal law enforcement officer. FBI agents arrested Abdulkadir on Friday.

Khalif Adam Abdulkadir, 19, who has been charged with retaliating against a federal officer after threatening to kill FBI agents over Twitter. Abdulkadir is the eleventh person to be arrested in connection with an alleged extremist recruitment pipeline in Minnesota.

Abdulkadir, of Minneapolis, wrote messages that included the words “kill them FBI” and “I’m kill them FEDS for take my brothers,” according to court documents. Investigators were able to take screen shots of the tweets before they were eventually deleted. 

Makes you wonder. Were they born here? 

“I’m kill them FEDS for take my brothers” indicates they were not... or went to school in Chicago.

Abdulkadir is being held without bail until his next hearing on Wednesday. Judge Becky Thorson granted his request for a federal defender after he said his income is just $1,200 a month and only has about $56 in the bank. It was unclear what his job was.

"While there are many legitimate means in the United States to voice dissent and difference of opinion with our government, threatening violent retaliation against federal agents is both illegal and outrageous," U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said in a statement.

The 19-year-old has been on authorities’ radar, according to an affidavit from an FBI agent. The document claims Abdulkadir was in contact via Twitter with a Minnesota man, Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, also known as “Miski,” who left in 2008 to join the extremist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia and was known for tweeting jihadist comments. The messages they exchanged in January indicated Abdulkadir was interested in getting to Syria, the affidavit says. The State Department said Monday that Hassan had turned himself in to authorities in Somalia on Nov. 6; Hassan has claimed he was captured.

In January, the affidavit says, Abdulkadir also "liked" an old tweet posted by Hanad Mohallim, a former Minnesotan who the affidavit says was reportedly killed in November 2014 while fighting for ISIS in Syria. And it says he exchanged messages via Facebook in May 2015 with Abdi Nur, a Minnesota man who traveled to Syria a year earlier to fight for the group, showing "an aspiration" by Abdulkadir to travel to Syria to be with him.

The affidavit also alleges Abdulkadir was part of a group of young men who videotaped a deputy U.S. marshal from about two feet away through a window on the ground floor of the federal courthouse in Minneapolis after the initial court appearance of one of six men arrested April 18 on charges of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State.

Roughly 22 young men have left Minnesota since 2007 to join Al-Shabaab in Somalia; about a dozen Minnesota residents have traveled to Syria to join jihadist groups there since late 2013.

Abdulkadir's case has parallels with that of another Minnesota man, Mahamed Abukar Said, who was charged with two felonies for tweeting "ima whack that us attorney general" after the arrests of the six men in April. Said pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge last month and faces a maximum of a year in jail plus supervised release and probation when he's sentenced later this month.

I Think More Muslims live in Minnesota then Syria

Iranian woman to be stoned to death as world marks UN 'Human Rights Day'

1.  If they are capable of doing this (worse than animals) does anyone truly believe they have any intension of keeping to the "Nuke Deal".

2.  Most people couldn't do this to a dog. You ever wonder where they find the depraved bastards willing to pull this off? In the world of Islam you don't have to look very far. 

3.  This is the mindset of Muslims. Women are stoned for being raped. Where is the f--king logic in that?

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For this photo, an Iranian woman symbolically dressed up as a victim of death by stoning as part of a protest by the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Brussels. (Reuters)

As the world marks International Human Rights Day on Thursday, Iran is continuing its execution spree with the announcement that a woman has been sentenced to death by stoning.

The gruesome penalty, in which the wrongdoer is buried up to their shoulders and pelted with rocks, was first reported on the Persian-language Iranian website LAHIG. The woman, who was identified only by the initials “A.Kh,” was convicted of being complicit in her husband's murder.

An Iranian criminal court in Rasht, the capital city of the northern province of Gilan, handed down the brutal sentence.

“The rate of executions in Iran has not decreased in the last few years, it has increased," Maryam Nayeb Yazdi, a prominent Canadian-Iranian human rights activist based in Toronto, told FoxNews.com. "Although stoning has become more rare in Iran, such sentences are still being issued by Iranian judges. The probability of a stoning sentence to be carried out is slim due to the international sensitivity of the issue; there is a great chance her sentence may be ‘converted’ to death by hanging.”

“The rate of executions in Iran has not decreased in the last few years, it has increased."

- Maryam Nayeb Yazdi, Iranian-Canadian activist

Iran is believed to have imposed death by stoning on at least 150 people since the Islamic Revolution in 1980, according to the International Committees against Execution and Stoning.

"We need to note that an official Iranian website released the stoning sentence news, and we should question the regime's motives for doing so," said Nayeb Yazdi, who runs the translation blog Persian2English and works with the international NGO Iran Human Rights. "The stoning sentence is an indication of the Iranian regime's continued war against women in Iran. Arbitrary executions in Iran must be on top of the agenda in any dialogue between Iran and the West.”

After a widespread public-pressure campaign in the West in 2010, Iran dropped the stoning penalty against a 43-year-old Iranian woman. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtianiwas sentenced to stoning for alleged adultery. Her case remains shrouded in judicial mystery and it is unclear if she will still be executed.

“Whether or not one supports the nuclear deal with Iran, it is astonishing that the West cultivates an ever-closer alliance with a theocratic regime widely known for its abysmal human rights record and aggressive behavior in the region," Julie Lenarz, executive director of the UK-based Human Security Center told FoxNews.com. "They hang men for the "crime" of writing poems; or engaging in peaceful protest; or loving someone of the same sex.

“Women are stoned for being raped and Iranian law even allows for juvenile executions. Iran is averaging three hangings per day at the moment and remains a pariah state with no regard for human life," she added. "In a despicable form of moral myopia, the gold rush for business, as the international sanctions regime begins to unravel, has made Western governments blind to the suffering of ordinary Iranians at the hands of the Ayatollahs.”

The UN's Human Rights Day is observed every year on Dec. 10 and commemorates the day in 1948 on which the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Iranian woman to be stoned to death as world marks UN 'Human Rights Day'