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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

FOREX TEMPLATE FOR GRAB

I am thinking of uploading my system to the internet so that it will be available for everyone. It will only be the basic system. The rest you have to figure out yourself.

Can anyone tell me where is the best place to upload and share files. I intend to upload a MT4 template and a text document explaining how it works.

FOREX

Have you ever been lost in Forex? Some of you might be thinking, how do i get lost in forex?? Let me ask another question. Have you ever open a trade in one direction, after some time open a trade in the opposite direction?

Im sure that happens to all of us, myself included :). That is lost in Forex, where we are unsure of direction of trade. Some people even hedge in the situation.

I have a few tips when you are lost in Forex.

1. If you are lost and dont know which direction to trade, the most important thing is to stop trading and do something else. Go plant a tree or play games. Dont even look at the charts anymore to avoid confusion.

2. Is to take a trading system and put it on multiple time frame. I trade using the same system on 3 timeframe. 15m, 1h, daily. When all three is pointing at the same direction then I trade. If 2 timeframe is pointing at the same direction then i scalp.

3. After sometime, your brain will start to imprint patterns of Forex. Forex has the same pattern over and over again. In our mind, that pattern has been imprinted and it influence our decision making subconsciously. Once you reach that state you will rarely get lost in Forex. You will know the exact time to trade or to get lost (do something else).

I will try to update this blog. Been so long and so busy with new place. As for Forex, USD pairs are going nowhere at the moment with a high probability to go down further. Good luck on your hunt for pi

ITS NOT PIPS BUT PROFIT IN FOREX

You can actually tell if someone is new in Forex by the way they count their pips or profit. When people starts forex they count pips. They can have hundreds of pips a day and yet their profit is low. This is due to the low risk reward ratio they have taken.

Once you are older in Forex, you will see the ratio. No point of taking hundreds of pips when the profit is low. So you start to take high risk high return trade. These trades do not give you high pips but the profit margin is high.

That is how money is to be made in Forex. You actually manage your risk and take profit from it. For today as of now, I already taken 3 trades. 2 profit trades and 1 lost trade. My account grows 37%. Not bad for a slow Monday.

For the answer to Forex, once you know it you will feel helpless. No matter how smart or brilliant you are it counts for absolutely nothing here. I have Banking and IT qualification. Did that help me? 2 different qualification did not help me one bit here. Made me want to cry when I found it out.

THE ENDING IS NEAR

1,447 days ago I started to step in the world of Forex. 6th May 2006 is the day I registered my 1st demo account and its a Saturday. Through out my journey in Forex, there are no actual manual, text or books that I can really refer to. Its like an unexplored land with no maps what so ever. There are only guides available online with no one giving specific answer.

Though hard it may be I started to develop my own system and continue to improve on that system. No matter how I try to improve it, there is still something missing. After a long and hard work I finally got the answer. It is an answer that I wasn't willing to accept. So I disappeared for almost 1 year though my part of moving places only took 1 month to settle.

Now I am back trading with the answer in my head thus a new direction in my sight. Turns out it is really easy once you have the right answer. You know the question as well as I do. "WHAT IS FOREX".

I believe my learning period in Forex is almost over. I can now see direction clearly. I know which pair to trade with the highest probability of profit. I know when to exit and I know when to turn off the computer while still holding positions. I have mastered the basic of Forex. The only thing now is discipline and Money Management.

What I am not willing to do is to write in this blog about trading ideas. I may blow out the answer. After almost 4 years, its not something I am willing to give easily. There are no notes, no records, nothing written anywhere on my trading ideas. Its all in my head. My system now is so simple, it consist of only 2 main indicators which I can trade without. Find the answer and its all smooth sailing from there. I just wish I have found it earlier.

For those of you who show interest in my new trading system, thank you for the attention. I have stopped giving out my system due to limited time I have to teach. I dont teach, I dont sell my system, I dont ask for your money and I dont give signals.

You can come and visit this blog. I will give chart analysis from time to time. Dont expect too much coz there is not much in Forex anyway.

Good luck to all of you. Thank you for visiting my blog. For today, do sell GJ coz its going down. You just need to figure out where to enter. Its not an easy task, I know coz Ive been ther

FOREX 4TH ANNIVERSARY

Today marks the end of 4th year I am in Forex and I am still here. Most of the friends that I know trade has already stop. It must mean something to stay here for so long when most people quit. Its either I am really stubborn or I am not losing money. Which one you think?

After 3 days of demo trading I got over 25k of profit from 10k max lot trading. Its over 250pip net profit. Not bad for a part time trader and a 7th place so far. I dont think I can be number 1 coz of limited time I trade. Its a good progress, it shows where I am after 4 years. How about you?

FOREX 4TH ANNIVERSARY

OVERCOMPLICATED TRADING

Human tends to over-complicate things. It is in our nature to try and improve what we have but most of the time we overcomplicated things and forget about the simple solution.

In my previous post, I posted a chart of a basic system. It consist of candle stick chart, moving average and macd. Only 3 indicators and it is a very simple system rite?

The answer is, it is not so simple actually. Candle stick alone tell you 4 things that is, open, close, high and low price. MA tells you direction of trend, entry point, start and end of trend. Macd tell you trend, entry point, reversal point.

From only 3 indicators there are actually 11 information cramp into that small chart. Too much info and decision making is a hard job. Though i filter comments, no one has actually ask about the amount of information on chart. It seems people can accept 11 information at once. Can you manage 11 input at once and make a decision out of it??

Trading is actually much simpler. It is actually possible to make profit with only 1 information. Believe it or not??

FOREX IS AN ART

When you say trading, people will say trading is an art. Look at all the books that has been published on the subject. They will say the art of trading forex.

In that sense, we must take forex as an art and not a science. I know, some people may not agree with me and all the post that is in this blog. I don't blame them coz I was actually in the same place as they were when I started trading. Trying to find the answer to forex using every logical explanation.

This is the answer that you have been looking for. I am going to give it to you straight away. Let see if your mind can accept it.

Forex is not a science. There is not a single mathematical equation that can explain it. Do not forecast, do not predict, do not anticipate. All you need to do to make profit is to follow the market. If the price is going up, you buy. If the price is going down, u sell. You may not win all the time but if you follow the market, in the end you will be in profit. Make profit and build up your capital up to a point where a few winning trades per month will bring huge profit.

Can you accept it? Can you mind admit it? Is your logical mind challenged? Do you feel helpless? Welcome to the real world :)

Posted by GreenGo at 3:58 PM 4 comments

FOREX WITH PEACE OF MIND

Hi everyone,

I hope all of you are doing fine and have lots of pips to enjoy. Just got back from a vacation. 6 days there and I got bored and get back home. Leave my wife and kids there to do their shopping. It seems that I like it better at home than to stay at hotels. Maybe I'm getting old :)

Been a while since I have updated this blog. Been thinking of deleting or selling this blog to anyone who wants it.

Met a friend while on vacation. It seems he is making 15k average per month without even knowing how to trade. Talk about forex with peace of mind. You guys wanna know how he did it? Let me tell you his story.

He wanted to learn from me how to trade but I am reluctant to teach him since this is not something I can teach. I can tell you how I did it but I cant guarantee you can do it the same way I did. Its not pure technical or skill. There are some form of mind control involve. I cant change your mind. You have to do it your self. Free your mind.

He kept asking me how to make money in forex. I gave him a way that is a bit risky but with care everyone can do it. I told him to find a trader that is looking for investors. Lots of new traders around with good skills but low capital. These traders are looking for a way to maximize their income, so they take in few accounts to manage. They trade their own account and at the same time execute the exact same trade on their managed accounts. They take profit from their own account and take commission on manage accounts.

Turns out after 1 year my friend manage to get 15k average monthly income and he knows nothing bout trading. There are few rules to follow if you want to do the exact same way.

1. Study the trader records. At least 3 months maintain profit.
2. Open a trading account with your name tied to your banking account. (dont ever hand him your money)
3. Get the trader details just in case he decide to make a run for it.
4. Ready to accept trading losses. If its a trading loss, accept it and release him from his burden. Trading is already hard enuf. Now you know why I dont manage accounts.
5. Give him your trading account details and leave him alone.
6. Take him out for dinner at the end of the months. Dont ask, let him tell you bout the trading.

Hope that is clear enuf. Those steps are minimal. Extra precaution is always welcome but dont put pressure on the trader. We dont want to send him to a mental hospital or something.

Good luck everyone and happy trading. Im not going to give any trade setup since its all based on situation. If its there, then i trade. Ifs its not there, then I just watch and play with my RC helicopter. My new hobby is RC helicopter btw, a very expensive hobby.... oou

Friday, May 27, 2011

Illinois Dems roll out congressional map that clobbers GOP

Crain's Chicago Business reports:

a state that now has 11 Republicans and eight Democrats in the House is likely to have as many as 12 Democrats under the new map

Never has been losing a House seat so much fun for the Democrat party.

Illinois Dems roll out congressional map that clobbers GOP

Crain's Chicago Business reports:

a state that now has 11 Republicans and eight Democrats in the House is likely to have as many as 12 Democrats under the new map

Never has been losing a House seat so much fun for the Democrat party.

Video: CNNs Jack Cafferty slams Obama for trip to Europe during tornadoes; WaPo blasts Obama on Israel policy

Obama's trip overseas is a total disaster. He screwed up a toast to the Queen of England, screwed up relations with Israel, and looked like a buffoon in both instances. Which he is. The timing of his trip wasn't so good either. CNN's Jack Cafferty on Obama's trip:

And then there is the Washington Post, no bastion of conservatism to say the least. In this piece by Jennifer Rubin (HT: memeorandum), she all but calls Obama a complete moron: In Britain Obama repeats his error on Israel

President Obama is in Europe, supposedly trying to dissuade the Europeans from participating in the Palestinians’ attempt to gain statehood without offering peace to Israel. At his press conference he, no surprise to his critics, revealed he really doesn’t have a clue how to proceed when he described the major issues between the parties...
Alan Dershowitz points out the key error that Obama made on the Middle East policy, one so fundamental one can only imagine it was his idea rather than anyone with a modicum of experience in the Middle East. Dershowitz explains:
There is no way that Israel can agree to borders without the Palestinians also agreeing to give up any claim to a “right of return.” As Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad Salaam once told me: each side has a major card to play and a major compromise to make; for Israel, that card is the West Bank, and the compromise is returning to the 1967 lines with agreed-upon adjustments and land swaps; for the Palestinians, that card is “the right of return,” and the compromise is an agreement that the Palestinian refugees will be settled in Palestine and not in Israel; in other words, that there will be no right to “return” to Israel.

President Obama’s formulation requires Israel to give up its card and to make a “wrenching compromise” by dismantling most of the West Bank settlements and ending its occupation of the West Bank. But it does not require the Palestinians to give up their card and to compromise on the right of return. That “extraordinarily emotional” issue is to be left to further negotiations only after the borders have been agreed to.
That is what has gotten sophisticated observers, including Democrats, on Capitol Hill so riled up...

It’s not some misunderstanding about Obama’s position on the 1967 lines, unfortunately. No, this is the same pattern that has driven American Jewish leaders and pro-Israel congressmen to distraction for over two years, as Dershowitz notes:
Once again, President Obama, by giving the Palestinians more than they asked for, has made it difficult, if not impossible, for the Palestinians to compromise. Earlier in his administration, Obama insisted that Israel freeze all settlement building, despite the fact that the Palestinians had not demanded such action as a precondition to negotiating. He forced the Palestinians to impose that as a precondition, because no Palestinian leader could be seen as less pro-Palestinian than the American President. Now he’s done it again, by not demanding that the Palestinians give up their right of return as a quid for Israel’s quo of returning to the 1967 borders with agreed-upon land swaps.
Democrats are loath to admit the president doesn’t know what he is doing, so they are left trying to convince themselves and others that this is a fuss about nothing. The most honest defense I heard from a pro-Israel Democratic staffer was to acknowledge that Obama had made mincemeat out of the “peace process” but to remind me that talks aren’t going anywhere anyway. In essence, “no harm, no foul” and look at all the hardware and military support we’ve given Israel

So at best, Obama is incompetent and doesn't know what eth heck he's doing. At worst, he does know and is doing it anyway. In either case, it's bad.

Video: CNNs Jack Cafferty slams Obama for trip to Europe during tornadoes; WaPo blasts Obama on Israel policy

President Obama is in Europe, supposedly trying to dissuade the Europeans from participating in the Palestinians’ attempt to gain statehood without offering peace to Israel. At his press conference he, no surprise to his critics, revealed he really doesn’t have a clue how to proceed when he described the major issues between the parties...
Alan Dershowitz points out the key error that Obama made on the Middle East policy, one so fundamental one can only imagine it was his idea rather than anyone with a modicum of experience in the Middle East. Dershowitz explains:
There is no way that Israel can agree to borders without the Palestinians also agreeing to give up any claim to a “right of return.” As Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad Salaam once told me: each side has a major card to play and a major compromise to make; for Israel, that card is the West Bank, and the compromise is returning to the 1967 lines with agreed-upon adjustments and land swaps; for the Palestinians, that card is “the right of return,” and the compromise is an agreement that the Palestinian refugees will be settled in Palestine and not in Israel; in other words, that there will be no right to “return” to Israel.

President Obama’s formulation requires Israel to give up its card and to make a “wrenching compromise” by dismantling most of the West Bank settlements and ending its occupation of the West Bank. But it does not require the Palestinians to give up their card and to compromise on the right of return. That “extraordinarily emotional” issue is to be left to further negotiations only after the borders have been agreed to.
That is what has gotten sophisticated observers, including Democrats, on Capitol Hill so riled up...

It’s not some misunderstanding about Obama’s position on the 1967 lines, unfortunately. No, this is the same pattern that has driven American Jewish leaders and pro-Israel congressmen to distraction for over two years, as Dershowitz notes:
Once again, President Obama, by giving the Palestinians more than they asked for, has made it difficult, if not impossible, for the Palestinians to compromise. Earlier in his administration, Obama insisted that Israel freeze all settlement building, despite the fact that the Palestinians had not demanded such action as a precondition to negotiating. He forced the Palestinians to impose that as a precondition, because no Palestinian leader could be seen as less pro-Palestinian than the American President. Now he’s done it again, by not demanding that the Palestinians give up their right of return as a quid for Israel’s quo of returning to the 1967 borders with agreed-upon land swaps.
Democrats are loath to admit the president doesn’t know what he is doing, so they are left trying to convince themselves and others that this is a fuss about nothing. The most honest defense I heard from a pro-Israel Democratic staffer was to acknowledge that Obama had made mincemeat out of the “peace process” but to remind me that talks aren’t going anywhere anyway. In essence, “no harm, no foul” and look at all the hardware and military support we’ve given Israel

So at best, Obama is incompetent and doesn't know what eth heck he's doing. At worst, he does know and is doing it anyway. In either case, it's bad.

Taxpayers Pay For This Big Doubledipper (Video)

Illinois Review

Taxpayers Pay For This Big Doubledipper (Video)

Illinois Review

Video: DC Liberals Sign Petition to Ban Conservative Websites

Via the Media Research Center on YouTube:

After hearing news the other day that the Obama administration had appointed a new position to monitor and push back against negative online press we thought some liberals in DC might think it wasn't enough. So we sent Joe Schoffstall out to see just how far liberals would go to silence conservative speech. Joe went around Georgetown in DC with a petition to "Ban Conservative Hate Sites". Here is what went down.

You can see what's to come from a mile away, even if you're blind:

So much for that whole 1st amendment thing, eh? That is just so... progressive of them, no?

Video: DC Liberals Sign Petition to Ban Conservative Websites

Via the Media Research Center on YouTube:

After hearing news the other day that the Obama administration had appointed a new position to monitor and push back against negative online press we thought some liberals in DC might think it wasn't enough. So we sent Joe Schoffstall out to see just how far liberals would go to silence conservative speech. Joe went around Georgetown in DC with a petition to "Ban Conservative Hate Sites". Here is what went down.

You can see what's to come from a mile away, even if you're blind:

So much for that whole 1st amendment thing, eh? That is just so... progressive of them, no?

WP Reporter Harold Meyerson Explains His Commitment to Socialism (Video)

Harold Meyerson, who's a columnist at the Washington Post, and a leader of the Democratic Socialists of America explains his commitment to socialism. Just a reminder, Harold Meyerson is a leader of an extremist group that clearly wants to get rid of private property:

We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit

So, don't be fooled by Meyerson's misleading statements on socialism. You can't have private property without a private profits.

WP Reporter Harold Meyerson Explains His Commitment to Socialism (Video)

We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit

So, don't be fooled by Meyerson's misleading statements on socialism. You can't have private property without a private profits.

Mayor Bloomberg releases redacted taxes, details gifting

The New York Post

Mayor Bloomberg releases redacted taxes, details gifting

The New York Post

Coming To You Soon: Your Own Online Music Locker, Courtesy of Apple

TPM

Coming To You Soon: Your Own Online Music Locker, Courtesy of Apple

TPM

Good news: Top tax rate to jump to 62%

The Founding Fathers set up a system where we live under the law, rather than the whims of man. In that regard, teh federal government was supposed to be by design limited. And it was until the 1930s when entitlements came into being despite their being unconstitutional. We no longer live under a limited government, and I'd like to see someone claim we do when that government steals 62% of the fruits of your labor: A 62% Top Tax Rate?

Media reports in recent weeks say that Senate Democrats are considering a 3% surtax on income over $1 million to raise federal revenues. This would come on top of the higher income tax rates that President Obama has already proposed through the cancellation of the Bush era tax-rate reductions.

If the Democrats' millionaire surtax were to happen—and were added to other tax increases already enacted last year and other leading tax hike ideas on the table this year—this could leave the U.S. with a combined federal and state top tax rate on earnings of 62%. That's more than double the highest federal marginal rate of 28% when President Reagan left office in 1989. Welcome back to the 1970s.

Here's the math behind that depressing calculation. Today's top federal income tax rate is 35%. Almost all Democrats in Washington want to repeal the Bush tax cuts on those who make more than $250,000 and phase out certain deductions, so the effective income tax rate would rise to about 41.5%. The 3% millionaire surtax raises that rate to 44.5%.

But payroll taxes, which are income taxes on wages and salaries, must also be included in the equation. So we have to add about 2.5 percentage points for the payroll tax for Medicare (employee and employer share after business deductions), which was applied to all income without a ceiling in 1993 as part of the Clinton tax hike. I am including in this analysis the employer share of all payroll taxes because it is a direct tax on a worker's salary and most economists agree that though employers are responsible for collecting this tax, it is ultimately borne by the employee. That brings the tax rate to 47%.

Then last year, as part of the down payment for ObamaCare, Congress snuck in an extra 0.9% Medicare surtax on "high-income earners," meaning any individual earning more than $200,000 or couples earning more than $250,000. This brings the total tax rate to 47.9%.

But that's not all. Several weeks ago, Mr. Obama raised the possibility of eliminating the income ceiling on the Social Security tax, now capped at $106,800 of earnings a year. (Never mind that the program was designed to operate as an insurance system, with each individual's payment tied to the benefits paid out at retirement.) Subjecting all wage and salary income to Social Security taxes would add roughly 10.1 percentage points to the top tax rate. This takes the grand total tax rate on each additional dollar earned in America to about 58%.

Then we have to factor in state income taxes, which on average add after the deductions from the federal income tax roughly another four percentage points to the tax burden. So now on average we are at a tax rate of close to 62%.

More from The Lonely Conservative and Wake up America. A video report:

Right back to the 1970's. So perhaps Chris Matthews really is the prophet that he fancies himself as being:Video: Chris Matthews Calls Obama ‘President Carter’

Good news: Top tax rate to jump to 62%

Media reports in recent weeks say that Senate Democrats are considering a 3% surtax on income over $1 million to raise federal revenues. This would come on top of the higher income tax rates that President Obama has already proposed through the cancellation of the Bush era tax-rate reductions.

If the Democrats' millionaire surtax were to happen—and were added to other tax increases already enacted last year and other leading tax hike ideas on the table this year—this could leave the U.S. with a combined federal and state top tax rate on earnings of 62%. That's more than double the highest federal marginal rate of 28% when President Reagan left office in 1989. Welcome back to the 1970s.

Here's the math behind that depressing calculation. Today's top federal income tax rate is 35%. Almost all Democrats in Washington want to repeal the Bush tax cuts on those who make more than $250,000 and phase out certain deductions, so the effective income tax rate would rise to about 41.5%. The 3% millionaire surtax raises that rate to 44.5%.

But payroll taxes, which are income taxes on wages and salaries, must also be included in the equation. So we have to add about 2.5 percentage points for the payroll tax for Medicare (employee and employer share after business deductions), which was applied to all income without a ceiling in 1993 as part of the Clinton tax hike. I am including in this analysis the employer share of all payroll taxes because it is a direct tax on a worker's salary and most economists agree that though employers are responsible for collecting this tax, it is ultimately borne by the employee. That brings the tax rate to 47%.

Then last year, as part of the down payment for ObamaCare, Congress snuck in an extra 0.9% Medicare surtax on "high-income earners," meaning any individual earning more than $200,000 or couples earning more than $250,000. This brings the total tax rate to 47.9%.

But that's not all. Several weeks ago, Mr. Obama raised the possibility of eliminating the income ceiling on the Social Security tax, now capped at $106,800 of earnings a year. (Never mind that the program was designed to operate as an insurance system, with each individual's payment tied to the benefits paid out at retirement.) Subjecting all wage and salary income to Social Security taxes would add roughly 10.1 percentage points to the top tax rate. This takes the grand total tax rate on each additional dollar earned in America to about 58%.

Then we have to factor in state income taxes, which on average add after the deductions from the federal income tax roughly another four percentage points to the tax burden. So now on average we are at a tax rate of close to 62%.

More from The Lonely Conservative and Wake up America. A video report:

Right back to the 1970's. So perhaps Chris Matthews really is the prophet that he fancies himself as being:Video: Chris Matthews Calls Obama ‘President Carter’

Blagojevich judge dismisses some defense arguments in 'an ironic and jocular tone of voice'

The Chicago Sun-Times

Blagojevich judge dismisses some defense arguments in 'an ironic and jocular tone of voice'

The Chicago Sun-Times

State Tax Collections Increase by 9.1% in the First Quarter, Largest Annual Gain in Almost Five Years

Carp Diem

State Tax Collections Increase by 9.1% in the First Quarter, Largest Annual Gain in Almost Five Years

Carp Diem

The Art of The Steal - Official Trailer

YouTube. Please watch the trailer down below. This is a disturbing story.

The Art of The Steal - Official Trailer

YouTube. Please watch the trailer down below. This is a disturbing story.

Audio of Rosie O'Donnell: Global Warming Causing Deadly Tornadoes

Well, that didn't take long. The authorities barely had time to release the names of the missing people in Missouri after the killer tornado, dead people's bodies were still warm, and Rosie O'Donnell jumped onto the scene to claim that that particular tornado was caused by... global warming!

Too much snow was blamed on global warming after the same alarmists claimed there would be less. No matter what the weather does, it's due to global warming. Via The Radio Equalizer.

Audio of Rosie O'Donnell: Global Warming Causing Deadly Tornadoes

Too much snow was blamed on global warming after the same alarmists claimed there would be less. No matter what the weather does, it's due to global warming. Via The Radio Equalizer.

MA solves education problem: iPads for kindergartners

Deficit? What deficit? Taxechusetts has solved the crisis of education costs skyrocketing while test scores are simultaneously plummeting: buy iPads for 5 year olds. Uh - what? The heck is a 5-year old going to do with an iPad exactly? Watch episodes of Dora?

Keep you kids home. Homeschool. You'll be happy, your kids will be happy.

MA solves education problem: iPads for kindergartners

Keep you kids home. Homeschool. You'll be happy, your kids will be happy.

How Democrat Michelle Rhee Went From School Voucher Opponent to Advocate

Breitbart T.V.

How Democrat Michelle Rhee Went From School Voucher Opponent to Advocate

Breitbart T.V.

Court: Dearborn violated free speech rights of Christians it arrested

An update from last year's post on this issue: 4 arrested for being Christians on public street in Dearborn arraigned on charges of "disturbing the peace". In Dearborn - aka Dearbornistan - it is considered 'disturbing the peace' to be standing on a public street proclaiming that you are a Christian. Here's the description from Dearborn authorities via The Detroit News last year:

...the four "chose to escalate their behavior, which appeared well-orchestrated and deliberate"

Of what behavior do they speak? Here's the video for some background:

Watch the above video again. They were outside the festival. And their camera equipment was confiscated when they were arrested. Yesterday, a federal appeals court smacked Dearborn something fierce for the gastopo tactics: Dearborn violated free speech rights, Appeals Court rules

A federal appeals court today invalidated a leafleting ban in Dearborn, ruling the city violated a man's free-speech rights when he was blocked from trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.

The 2-1 decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sends the case back to federal court in Detroit, where the city and Police Chief Ronald Haddad could be held liable for damages.

George Saieg, a Christian Arab American from California, sued Dearborn for being prevented in 2009 from handing out literature at the annual Arab International Festival on Warren Avenue. The festival will be held again next month.

The appeals court today said the city's ban is not reasonable and that the city and Haddad violated Saieg's First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

"Absent an injunction, Saieg will continue to suffer irreparable injury for which there is no adequate remedy at law," the court concluded.

Hopefully, the City will pay and furthermore will stop persecuting Christians. More from Answering Muslims: Free Speech Victory in Dearborn, Michigan!

Maybe I shouldn't say "in" Dearborn, since the city only sought to suppress free speech in this case. An outside court (the United States Court of Appeals) had to impose Constitutional law on the city.

Dearborn hosts an annual Arab Festival on Warren Avenue. During the festival, the street is reserved, but the adjacent sidewalks are not reserved and therefore remain public property. Hence, prior to 2009, many people would distribute pamphlets, DVDs, CDs, etc., on the public sidewalks. However, when Ronald Haddad took over as Chief of Police, he announced that no one would be allowed to distribute materials on the public sidewalks. Indeed, he insisted that no one would be allowed to distribute materials within five blocks of the festival. (He justified his decision by claiming that he needed to keep the area clear for pedestrian traffic.)

From a Constitutional perspective, this was quite disturbing, as the government was officially limiting free speech on public sidewalks. Moreover, those of us who attended the festival noticed that security only enforced the policy on Christians. Muslims remained free to distribute their materials.

...Lower courts had ruled in favor of Dearborn (i.e. that Dearborn police could stop people from exercising their freedom of speech on the public sidewalks adjacent to the festival). The appeals court reversed the decision on Constitutional grounds.

In 2009 these same people were attacked at the Muslim festival:

Court: Dearborn violated free speech rights of Christians it arrested

...the four "chose to escalate their behavior, which appeared well-orchestrated and deliberate"

Of what behavior do they speak? Here's the video for some background:

A federal appeals court today invalidated a leafleting ban in Dearborn, ruling the city violated a man's free-speech rights when he was blocked from trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.

The 2-1 decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sends the case back to federal court in Detroit, where the city and Police Chief Ronald Haddad could be held liable for damages.

George Saieg, a Christian Arab American from California, sued Dearborn for being prevented in 2009 from handing out literature at the annual Arab International Festival on Warren Avenue. The festival will be held again next month.

The appeals court today said the city's ban is not reasonable and that the city and Haddad violated Saieg's First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

"Absent an injunction, Saieg will continue to suffer irreparable injury for which there is no adequate remedy at law," the court concluded.

Hopefully, the City will pay and furthermore will stop persecuting Christians. More from Answering Muslims: Free Speech Victory in Dearborn, Michigan!

Maybe I shouldn't say "in" Dearborn, since the city only sought to suppress free speech in this case. An outside court (the United States Court of Appeals) had to impose Constitutional law on the city.

Dearborn hosts an annual Arab Festival on Warren Avenue. During the festival, the street is reserved, but the adjacent sidewalks are not reserved and therefore remain public property. Hence, prior to 2009, many people would distribute pamphlets, DVDs, CDs, etc., on the public sidewalks. However, when Ronald Haddad took over as Chief of Police, he announced that no one would be allowed to distribute materials on the public sidewalks. Indeed, he insisted that no one would be allowed to distribute materials within five blocks of the festival. (He justified his decision by claiming that he needed to keep the area clear for pedestrian traffic.)

From a Constitutional perspective, this was quite disturbing, as the government was officially limiting free speech on public sidewalks. Moreover, those of us who attended the festival noticed that security only enforced the policy on Christians. Muslims remained free to distribute their materials.

...Lower courts had ruled in favor of Dearborn (i.e. that Dearborn police could stop people from exercising their freedom of speech on the public sidewalks adjacent to the festival). The appeals court reversed the decision on Constitutional grounds.

In 2009 these same people were attacked at the Muslim festival:

Federal judge rules corporate donation bans unconstitutional

Hot Air

Federal judge rules corporate donation bans unconstitutional

Hot Air

Rick Perry Says He Will Consider White House Run

The Statesman reports:

Gov. Rick Perry today gave his strongest indication yet that he may run for president.
“I’m going to think about it” after the legislative session ends Monday, Perry said. He added, “But I think about a lot of things.”
For years, Perry has said that he would not run for president and that he had no interest in the job. He has often said that he has said no to the presidential question in as many ways as he could.
But he and his advisers have inched closer to saying he may run all week, following the announcement that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels would not enter the GOP field. A couple of days ago, he told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News that a run was tempting.

The GOP's strongest potential candidate , right now.

Rick Perry Says He Will Consider White House Run

The Statesman reports:

Gov. Rick Perry today gave his strongest indication yet that he may run for president.
“I’m going to think about it” after the legislative session ends Monday, Perry said. He added, “But I think about a lot of things.”
For years, Perry has said that he would not run for president and that he had no interest in the job. He has often said that he has said no to the presidential question in as many ways as he could.
But he and his advisers have inched closer to saying he may run all week, following the announcement that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels would not enter the GOP field. A couple of days ago, he told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News that a run was tempting.

The GOP's strongest potential candidate , right now.

We knew that: Barney Frank admits to helping gay lover land job at Fannie Mae ’91

Barney Frank isn't just any run of the mill Democrat hypocrite. This the the alpha hypocrite. From the memory hole: Barney Frank 2003: "Fannie, Freddie not in crisis." Barney Frank 2010: I never said that and YouTube doesn't exist. Barney Frank was by the way having a gay affair with a Fannie Mae executive while he and the Democrats attacked the regulator of the giant GSEs when they were trying to regulate them, squelched all 17 warnings coming from Bush. The rest, as they say, is history. An amoral one at that. Speaking of, more on that Fannie Mae/gay lover angle from The Boston Herald: Barney Frank knocked on his Fannie

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank admitted he helped his ex-lover land a lucrative post with Fannie Mae in the early 1990s while the Newton Democrat was on a committee that regulated the lending giant — but he called questions of a potential ethical conflict “nonsense.”

Imagine that...

“If it is (a conflict of interest), then much of Washington is involved (in conflicts),” Frank told the Herald last night. “It is a common thing in Washington for members of Congress to have spouses work for the federal government. There is no rule against it at all.”

...Asked if he should have disclosed his efforts to help Moses land the job at Fannie Mae, Frank said: “It was widely known. It was out there in the public. It’s nonsense.”

The GOP wasted no time, nor should they have:

“Just when you think you’ve heard the worst, Democrats in Massachusetts take shameless politics to a new low,” said Tory Mazzola, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “The fact that Barney Frank didn’t see this as a conflict of interest is alarming by itself, but it’s so deceitful that it really shows voters that he’s not looking out for them in Washington.”

Recently there was this case of projection involving Frank: Barney Frank Calls Republicans Morally Stupid Bigots. Frank himself was at the top of the list of those that caused the mortgage meltdown:

Barney Frank - always looking out for his own Fannie.

UPDATE: Via Instapundit:

NOW IT’S BARNEY FRANK’S MOM who — well, whose group — turns out to have gotten Fannie Mae money.

We knew that: Barney Frank admits to helping gay lover land job at Fannie Mae ’91

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank admitted he helped his ex-lover land a lucrative post with Fannie Mae in the early 1990s while the Newton Democrat was on a committee that regulated the lending giant — but he called questions of a potential ethical conflict “nonsense.”

Imagine that...

“If it is (a conflict of interest), then much of Washington is involved (in conflicts),” Frank told the Herald last night. “It is a common thing in Washington for members of Congress to have spouses work for the federal government. There is no rule against it at all.”

...Asked if he should have disclosed his efforts to help Moses land the job at Fannie Mae, Frank said: “It was widely known. It was out there in the public. It’s nonsense.”

The GOP wasted no time, nor should they have:

“Just when you think you’ve heard the worst, Democrats in Massachusetts take shameless politics to a new low,” said Tory Mazzola, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “The fact that Barney Frank didn’t see this as a conflict of interest is alarming by itself, but it’s so deceitful that it really shows voters that he’s not looking out for them in Washington.”

Recently there was this case of projection involving Frank: Barney Frank Calls Republicans Morally Stupid Bigots. Frank himself was at the top of the list of those that caused the mortgage meltdown:

Barney Frank - always looking out for his own Fannie.

UPDATE: Via Instapundit:

NOW IT’S BARNEY FRANK’S MOM who — well, whose group — turns out to have gotten Fannie Mae money.

Houston Overtakes Chicago as United's Number 1 Hub

USA Today reports:

It may surprise many travelers to learn that, after 80 years of supreme reign, Chicago is no longer United Airlines' biggest hub. According to Chicago ABC affiliate television station WLS, with Continental and United Airlines joining forces, Houston now claims the distinction of being the new, combined United Airlines' largest hub.

Not only has Houston outgunned Chicago for the No. 1 spot, United's management and Houston's mayor announced a $1 billion expansion and terminal renovation project this week, according to WLS.

"Chicago's hometown airline is still headquartered here with 3,000 jobs," says WLS, but "Chicago O'Hare operates 607 United flights per day, edged out by Houston's 630 each day, giving it the honor of biggest hub."

Another sign of Chicago's decline.

Houston Overtakes Chicago as United's Number 1 Hub

USA Today reports:

It may surprise many travelers to learn that, after 80 years of supreme reign, Chicago is no longer United Airlines' biggest hub. According to Chicago ABC affiliate television station WLS, with Continental and United Airlines joining forces, Houston now claims the distinction of being the new, combined United Airlines' largest hub.

Not only has Houston outgunned Chicago for the No. 1 spot, United's management and Houston's mayor announced a $1 billion expansion and terminal renovation project this week, according to WLS.

"Chicago's hometown airline is still headquartered here with 3,000 jobs," says WLS, but "Chicago O'Hare operates 607 United flights per day, edged out by Houston's 630 each day, giving it the honor of biggest hub."

Another sign of Chicago's decline.

Rand Paul’s Passionate Speech Against the Patriot Act

The Blaze

Rand Paul’s Passionate Speech Against the Patriot Act

The Blaze

Flashback: Rockefeller- Bush-Eugenics Connection

Exploring Bush

Flashback: Rockefeller- Bush-Eugenics Connection

Exploring Bush

Fannie, Freddie regulator criticizes FOIA bill

Marketwatch reports:

The regulator for government seized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Wednesday afternoon took issue with a Republican bill that would subject the two firms to new Freedom of Information Act transparency.

Fannie, Freddie regulator criticizes FOIA bill

Marketwatch reports:

The regulator for government seized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Wednesday afternoon took issue with a Republican bill that would subject the two firms to new Freedom of Information Act transparency.

CA elementary school castrates Nemo the Clownfish, indoctrinates kids about being transgendered

Dude - what's my gender???

Folks - keep your kids home. Homeschool has not only been rewarding for my wife and I, but our kids have blossomed. And neither of us have any formal training whatsoever in elementary education, which says a lot about where elementary ed is at this point in time. Gone are the days when teachers used to drill kids in math, writing and reading. Welcome to the days when actual useful ed is replaced by "gender diversity."Via memeorandum: Transgender Clownfish? Gender Diversity Lesson at California School Riles Critics

A gender diversity lesson at a California elementary school that featured single-sex geckos and transgender clownfish has angered conservative critics, who question its appropriateness for in-class instruction.

Students in all grades at Oakland's Redwood Heights Elementary School got an introductory lesson on the topic on Monday. Fox News was allowed to sit in on the lessons, which included teachings to kindergartners and fourth-graders.

The lessons were presented by an outside anti-bullying educational group called Gender Spectrum, paid for with a $1,500 grant from the California Teachers Union.

Shocker that the teachers union was involved in indoctrinating children into deviancy, no? Instead of math, the kids are being subjected to inculcation including that there are different ways to be a boy:

CA elementary school castrates Nemo the Clownfish, indoctrinates kids about being transgendered

Dude - what's my gender???

A gender diversity lesson at a California elementary school that featured single-sex geckos and transgender clownfish has angered conservative critics, who question its appropriateness for in-class instruction.

Students in all grades at Oakland's Redwood Heights Elementary School got an introductory lesson on the topic on Monday. Fox News was allowed to sit in on the lessons, which included teachings to kindergartners and fourth-graders.

The lessons were presented by an outside anti-bullying educational group called Gender Spectrum, paid for with a $1,500 grant from the California Teachers Union.

The Government's War on Cameras

Reason T.V.

The Government's War on Cameras

Reason T.V.

Obama's Millions for Fannie, Freddie Executives

The Daily Beast reports:

Over the last two years, the Obama administration has approved a whopping $34.4 million in compensation to the top six executives of the financially troubled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage giants, and lacks the necessary protections to ensure such compensation is even warranted.

The largesse flowed to the six executives even though the two companies they run struggle to staunch billions of dollars in losses, remain in government conservatorship, and must compensate taxpayers for assuming the companies’ liabilities during the mortgage crisis. To compensate taxpayers, Fannie and Freddie are tapping Treasury Department funds to pay required 10 percent dividends each quarter to the U.S. government.

Barack Obama believes in subsidizing the inefficient: in style.

Obama's Millions for Fannie, Freddie Executives

The Daily Beast reports:

Over the last two years, the Obama administration has approved a whopping $34.4 million in compensation to the top six executives of the financially troubled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage giants, and lacks the necessary protections to ensure such compensation is even warranted.

The largesse flowed to the six executives even though the two companies they run struggle to staunch billions of dollars in losses, remain in government conservatorship, and must compensate taxpayers for assuming the companies’ liabilities during the mortgage crisis. To compensate taxpayers, Fannie and Freddie are tapping Treasury Department funds to pay required 10 percent dividends each quarter to the U.S. government.

Barack Obama believes in subsidizing the inefficient: in style.

Blagojevich Was Not Alone in Illinois Political Corruption

The Chicago Daily Observer reports:

Today, many of Blagojevich’s former friends and playmates deny knowing him or they are keeping their distance. Erstwhile friends such De Leo, Saviano, Quinn and so many others have vanished or suffered selective forms of political amnesia. Another former member of the Illinois State Senate, Barack H. Obama, used to count Blagojevich and the political wheeler dealer Antonin “Tony” Rezko as his friends and allies. President Obama, US Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-9th) and the newly elected Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel used to actively court Blagojevich when they were attempting to climb the rungs of the political ladder or seeking favors. Emanuel and his family members actually contributed to Blagojevich’s campaign fund on a reliable basis. Schakowsky, herself, sought to be named to the US Senate vacancy.

These opportunistic relationships soured when Obama’s career eclipsed that of Blagojevich and when the governor was impeached and removed from office. Nevertheless, there are numerous examples of both Emanuel and Obama trying to elbow their way into photographs in order to stand in close proximity to Blagojevich when they were absolute beginners and he was the established careerist. Emanuel actually succeeded Blagojevich in Congress in 2002 when the Elvis impersonator vacated the seat to run for the Governor’s Mansion. During that campaign and in the early stages of his Congressional career, Emanuel was all over Blagojevich like white on rice. Both men lived within one mile of each other in Chicago, an easy jog for Blago, until Emanuel foolishly made an estimated $80,000.00 legal mistake and rented his principal residence to tenants in 2009. In any event, it was not an accident that Emanuel was chosen to serve as the President-elect’s emissary when suggestions were made as to suitable appointees to the vacant US Senate seat. Blago and Rahm were political allies at one time and their relationship was viewed as the closest to being salvageable before the US Attorney came a calling.

Who could forget the video of Obama endorsing Blago down below?

Blagojevich Was Not Alone in Illinois Political Corruption

The Chicago Daily Observer reports:

Today, many of Blagojevich’s former friends and playmates deny knowing him or they are keeping their distance. Erstwhile friends such De Leo, Saviano, Quinn and so many others have vanished or suffered selective forms of political amnesia. Another former member of the Illinois State Senate, Barack H. Obama, used to count Blagojevich and the political wheeler dealer Antonin “Tony” Rezko as his friends and allies. President Obama, US Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-9th) and the newly elected Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel used to actively court Blagojevich when they were attempting to climb the rungs of the political ladder or seeking favors. Emanuel and his family members actually contributed to Blagojevich’s campaign fund on a reliable basis. Schakowsky, herself, sought to be named to the US Senate vacancy.

These opportunistic relationships soured when Obama’s career eclipsed that of Blagojevich and when the governor was impeached and removed from office. Nevertheless, there are numerous examples of both Emanuel and Obama trying to elbow their way into photographs in order to stand in close proximity to Blagojevich when they were absolute beginners and he was the established careerist. Emanuel actually succeeded Blagojevich in Congress in 2002 when the Elvis impersonator vacated the seat to run for the Governor’s Mansion. During that campaign and in the early stages of his Congressional career, Emanuel was all over Blagojevich like white on rice. Both men lived within one mile of each other in Chicago, an easy jog for Blago, until Emanuel foolishly made an estimated $80,000.00 legal mistake and rented his principal residence to tenants in 2009. In any event, it was not an accident that Emanuel was chosen to serve as the President-elect’s emissary when suggestions were made as to suitable appointees to the vacant US Senate seat. Blago and Rahm were political allies at one time and their relationship was viewed as the closest to being salvageable before the US Attorney came a calling.

Who could forget the video of Obama endorsing Blago down below?

Berkeley Unified School District was ranked among the worst in California for serving African American, Hispanic and low-income students, according to a recent study by Education Trust-West

The Daily Californian reports:

The Berkeley Unified School District was ranked among the worst in California for serving African American, Hispanic and low-income students, according to a recent study by Education Trust-West, an advocacy group based in Oakland.

The study, released April 27, gathered Academic Performance Index scores of students from 146 California school districts across the state. The districts were then ranked based on a combination of college-readiness, improvement of scores over time and gaps in achievement between white and minority students.

The school district was given a “D” overall, along with several other East Bay districts, and received an “F” for a wide achievement gap — coming in at 125 out of 126 schools measured in that category.

Doesn't Berkeley care about educating minorities? A truly great moment in Blue America.

Berkeley Unified School District was ranked among the worst in California for serving African American, Hispanic and low-income students, according to a recent study by Education Trust-West

The Daily Californian reports:

The Berkeley Unified School District was ranked among the worst in California for serving African American, Hispanic and low-income students, according to a recent study by Education Trust-West, an advocacy group based in Oakland.

The study, released April 27, gathered Academic Performance Index scores of students from 146 California school districts across the state. The districts were then ranked based on a combination of college-readiness, improvement of scores over time and gaps in achievement between white and minority students.

The school district was given a “D” overall, along with several other East Bay districts, and received an “F” for a wide achievement gap — coming in at 125 out of 126 schools measured in that category.

Doesn't Berkeley care about educating minorities? A truly great moment in Blue America.

Ed Schultz was right about one thing before being suspended without pay for calling Laura Ingraham a slut - DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is an utter joke. Apparently she can't see past the current political attack, even though she does what she accuses the other side of doing. Via memeorandum: DNC chairwoman doesn't drive American

The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) appears to drive a foreign car, despite criticizing Republican presidential candidates for supposedly favoring foreign auto manufacturers.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the DNC, ripped into Republican presidential contenders who opposed President Obama's 2009 bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler.

"If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars; they would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes," she said at a breakfast for reporters organized by The Christian Science Monitor.

But according to Florida motor vehicle records, the Wasserman Schultz household owns a 2010 Infiniti FX35, a Japanese car whose parent company is Nissan, another Japanese company. The car appears to be hers, since its license plate includes her initials.

For her part, Wasserman-Schultz is a contradiction in and of herself: Idiotic: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) OK with "Bush Tax Cuts", but wants term "ObamaCare" banned from House floor. More from Weasel Zippers and RedState

UPDATE: DNC chief attacks GOP field on American ‘exceptionalism’. And how's this for irony from a pro-abort (statistically, half of aborted babies are female): DNC Chair: Republicans Are Waging a ‘War on Women’. More from Nice Deb, Gateway Pundit and American Spectator

Irony: DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz Blasts GOP For Favoring Foreign Car Makers, Herself Drives Foreign Car

The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) appears to drive a foreign car, despite criticizing Republican presidential candidates for supposedly favoring foreign auto manufacturers.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the DNC, ripped into Republican presidential contenders who opposed President Obama's 2009 bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler.

"If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars; they would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes," she said at a breakfast for reporters organized by The Christian Science Monitor.

But according to Florida motor vehicle records, the Wasserman Schultz household owns a 2010 Infiniti FX35, a Japanese car whose parent company is Nissan, another Japanese company. The car appears to be hers, since its license plate includes her initials.