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Monday, April 23, 2007

No Wonder Lefties Are Always Mad!

Sheryl "Stinky" Crow has mused the following in her blog:

Crow (4/19), Springfield, Tenn.: I have spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming. Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating. One of my favorites is in the area of forest conservation which we heavily rely on for oxygen. I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.
Source

Hat Tip: Drudge Report


This is totally absurd. How are you gonna enforce that little law? Not everybody makes rabbit pellets like you!

This is another prime example where the true objective of the Environmentalist Movement is the suppression, and oppression of the common people. What, pray tell, is more oppressive than having the government peaking in that stall to make sure you only use one or two squares?

Be very careful Ms Crow, you might find that some of us would take a page (or square) out of our friend the monkey's play book, and fling poo at you at your next concert stop!



GLOBAL WARMING FUN FACT:

"The World's Climatologist's are agreed....Once the freeze starts, it will be too late." Douglas Colligan, Science Digest 1975

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Democrats Wage War Against US Forces

Doug Ross has an excellent post about the insidious Informational Warfare they are engaging in against our soldiers in Iraq, and on the homefront.


Hate Crime, or Enforcement of Sharia Law?

LEWISTON - One student has been suspended and more disciplinary action could follow a possible hate crime at Lewiston Middle School, Superintendent Leon Levesque said Wednesday.

On April 11, a white student placed a ham steak in a bag on a lunch table where Somali students were eating. Muslims consider pork unclean and offensive.

The act reminded students of a man who threw a pig's head into a Lewiston mosque last summer.

The school incident is being treated seriously as "a hate incident," Levesque said. Lewiston police are investigating, and the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence is working with the school to create a response plan.

"We've got some work to do to turn this around and bring the school community back together again," Levesque said.

Placing ham where Muslim students were eating was "an awful thing," said Stephen Wessler, executive director of the Center for Prevention of Hate Violence. "It's extraordinarily hurtful and degrading" to Muslims, whose religion prohibits them from being around ham. It's important to respond swiftly, Wessler said.


Dhinni Watch

The people of Lewiston, Maine should be careful they don't end up looking like Dearborn, Michigan, with loudspeakers announcing the call to prayer five times a day.

Friday, April 20, 2007

I've Been Thinking

About where things are headed...

CULTURAL TOLERANCE, MORALITY & THE DEATH OF ISLAM by WNCCB2

Guest Commentary

CULTURAL TOLERANCE, MORALITY & THE DEATH OF ISLAM by WNCCB2
I would like to thank the liberal institutions of this world and their self-deluded efforts to bring cultural tolerance (multiculturalism) to the fore to promote greater understanding of Islam. The result of their identifying with cultural differences between the West and Islam will ultimately lead to the death of
Islam. For that, I thank them. Allow me to elaborate.

With so many projects approached by the socialist/communist left in this world, the result is often the opposite of their desire. Their current push to bring about a blending of didactically opposed cultures (Islam equals the state/the West has a separation of religion and state) will actually prove again why intellectual pursuits should be left to the realm of theory, for we often learn in the real world experiment that we do not achieve that which is sought.

The liberals pushed for great social change and an end to poverty with the Great Society and ended up instead with babies having babies. Now the vast majority of children born in this nation have no father to speak of, and the mothers are so young as to never break the cycle in which they were born. In fact, new impoverished families are created daily due to the immoral, but culturally tolerant views, of the liberal establishment. This extends into many other facets of our lives.

In regards to world events and specifically the global war on terror let me state that it is my fervent desire we end the war in a manner which allows the civilian (trapped) population of Islamic lands to be set free in democratic societies, with rights to choose many things: to speak, to gather, to publish, to choose beliefs, to think, to be free of fear, to love their neighbors, to progress, to achieve, to be culturally and religiously tolerant, to love and be loved without regard for who they are or what they desire in life so long as it does not infringe on others’ rights. Your rights end where mine begin. And nobody is hanged or has their throat slit for possessing different ideas. Simple enough.

Here is where the left is leading to the destruction of Islam and I can’t say they aren’t admirable for doing so.

Liberals want us to be culturally tolerant, to identify with, adapt, adopt and otherwise become knowledgeable of Islam, of Muslims, of their beliefs and make accommodations for their system of beliefs within our everyday society. This will require a substantial change in attitude on the part of conservatives, Christians, Jews and others who are not familiar with the core morality of Islam. Not the surface preaching of peace and the wearing of a hijab or burka. Those are
surface characteristics. It is like saying you understand Italian culture and morality by eating pizza or dancing the Tarantella at a street festival. You tolerate men wearing skirts because you went to a Greek restaurant and they wore traditional garments. These events bring you no closer to understanding or identifying with the underlying passion and morality of either Italy nor Greece, nor their history, traditions nor their mindset.

But because the vast majority of both cultures have a common bond with ours, with America, they are basically Christian, with either Catholic or Byzantine basis for their belief systems, they are actually fairly easily absorbed into the multicultural cloth of America. Hindus, Buddhists, Shinto, Bahá’í and other Eastern cultures also mesh well because their basic belief structures contain articles which are either very similar to Western Judeo-Christian beliefs or
are the same. Sikhs, for example, wish to harm no one, no living creature. We were made more aware of this by hosting a foreign exchange student who was a strict vegetarian and approached the world from a vegan standpoint. In his society, not only is it not unusual, it is typical, respected, admired perhaps by Westerners, but within their culture, their moral structure, it is normal and unnoticed.

The point liberals miss is that they have created moral equivalence to the detriment of all societies. Not just our own. To be culturally aware, identity and tolerate another is not the same as adopting the morality of a group, a nation or a religion. But the liberal left has made this error and now will enjoy the benefits they created. In fact, I believe in future, they will become more like that which they claim to despise out of sheer necessity - survival. And they will have created the moral basis for their new found beliefs. Ones that bring them closer to acting like the Gestapo of Hitler’s regime. Here is the logic behind the argument:

Christians and others with strong spiritual temperament in the U.S., apart from Muslims, have a basic moral code which precludes non-
surgical strikes against others in warfare. Our national fabric does not support the wholesale slaughter of civilians, children, use of human shields, or winning at all costs, when the costs are weighed in human life. Most hold life to be sacred, therefore the very act of warfare grates on the belief system. To the extent we are allowed to defend ourselves and our vital interests we do pursue the enemy, but in a limited manner which will not sacrifice our core beings.

Atheists have no such moral constraints. We witness this in their support for many immoral ideas. The most recent ban on partial birth abortion was not met with joy from both sides, those who choose life and those who desire choice. It should have been a very clear cut moral decision for the liberal left to say, on this we agree. While we wish to guarantee a woman’s right to choose, there are limits we will not transgress. The one major acknowledgement we make is that if the child is in the process of birthing, we will not continue to abort, but will make the moral judgment that the lives have become equivalent at that point, and further action would be tantamount to murder. But they didn’t say this. They screamed how awful it was we would not allow the murder of a child being born. Even if you accept their moral argument that a child does not have a soul until birth (or at all to some of them), it would seem that even they have to admit that the line has been crossed. But they won’t. They have the same view of Islam and its moral code.

In Islam, the land of peace is referred to as dar-al-Islam, the land of submission actually. The land of war is dar-al-Haarb, or everywhere else. In the land of war it is perfectly acceptable and expected that every Muslim convert or kill every non-believer, and use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal of creating a one world government under the rule of Sharia law in Islam. I refuse to judge the rightness or wrongness of this belief. It is simply a facet of Islam. You can choose to accept it exists or not, but it is true and factual and correct. It no longer creates fear in many because we have come to understand what it truly means.

The liberal left wants us to allow Islam to infect our society with its rules, laws and accommodations so Islam itself is not insulted. The penalty for insulting Islam within Islamic land is death. Most penalties for anything countering Islam are death penalties. This conveniently abrogates any person from becoming an apostate, or leaving the belief system. This will be a hard pill for the liberals
to swallow, and indeed they will not. They will not have to do so. They will alter themselves in the mold of Islam, to the detriment of Islam.

We have all been worrying about what effect Islam will have on the U.S. and Western culture in general when we should not. We witness the ridiculous antics of liberals trying to appease these invaders who think nothing of blowing themselves up, who love the idea of martyrdom to spread their gospel, who each children that suicide and murder are not only acceptable, but a method by which to get closer to God. I have no problem with the liberals inviting Islam into our
midst and learning from it now.

Liberals will delve beyond the surface features and after they witness the true nature of the moral structure (or truly immoral) of Islam they will try to identify with it and fail. They will necessarily attempt to communicate with the beast and will fail. They will note its most violent features and using their concept of moral
equivalence, where blowing up children or civilians is acceptable, they will adopt those features. Since their moral grounding is questionable at best, liberals will state that they can identify with the desires of Islam and even the methods by which it attempts to achieve the desires.

Liberals will become more like that which they claim to revile. They will live in and among Muslims learning from them. Eventually, the Muslims will seek their conversion. Liberals will reject Islam. It is at this point of tolerance, understanding and appeasement that liberals will change. They will note that they have done everything reasonable and even irrational to keep from insulting Islam, short of adopting it as their own belief system. But it will be too late. The liberals will also realize that they have become so desensitized to the violence, hatred and the death cult that they will actually parallel their brothers in belief. When America is the subject of bombings as in Baghdad, liberals will bristle, they will examine themselves and when they finally find no fault, they will attach it to Islam. Why are you trying to kill us? They will ask. And Islam will answer because we must do so. Liberals will feel fully justified adopting the same belief. After all, liberals preach that if its okay for the goose, it is okay for the gander. They preach that all should be allowed to do whatever they feel they must in their heart.

It will be the Judeo-Christian foundation of the nation that does not identify nor accept Islam in any way, but will be so swayed by liberals as to also change. Laws will be written as now to make it a hate crime to insult Islam. The vast majority of this nation could shift radically towards a brand of Fascism which mirrors Islamic Fascism today. They will have taught us very well how to act in order to survive. Americans may well be accepting of the idea that civilian deaths are allowable. That children can and should be indoctrinated and used as human shields, that annihilation of entire cities using weapons of mass destruction is also acceptable.

Islam may have shot itself in the foot in its current wailings about religious intolerance. Once the West adopts the same moral views as those contained within Islam for its unabashed growth, the West will no longer feel compelled to constrain itself either. When the ultimate threat to our sovereignty occurs as the mullahs insist on taking over the government a backlash will also occur against Islam. Most likely lead by the very liberals who sought cultural identification and tolerance, they will begin preaching to Islam the same values, but now with a different moral code. With a code that more closely aligns with Islamic tradition and culture and morality. A culture of death, of destruction and a morality which allows unrestrained warfare.

The code which states we will turn your cities into molten glass and not blink an eye. We will sacrifice your children, your future and even part of ourselves to destroy you and your intrusion. And Islam, being the weaker of the two parties, will be destroyed, figuratively and literally. At that point, if oil is our only objective, then we will by the Islamic moral code, secure it and commit genocide against those who stand in our way. This, unlike what we are being told by the liberal media, is not what is happening now, nor has it been the America hegemonic invasive method. We have stayed true to our current morality and not committed genocide although the task would be fairly simple. Even without nuclear arms we could wipe many of the cities and their entire populations off the globe with little fear of reprisal. But we don’t. We don’t have their moral attitude towards life. Yet. But the liberals are working towards that day, God bless them.

We will continue down this road in Iraq and Afghanistan for the time being, until Congress pulls the plug or we lose interest or we win. But it will not change the worldwide infection occurring with the push of Islamic values on the West. Their religion also states that it is unacceptable for a Muslim to attach another Muslim, but we see the results of such unrestrained immorality towards us, continuing
unabated within Islam itself. After the death of their prophet and the internal schism, Shiites and Sunnis have been battling each other for as long as they’ve battled the outside world. This will not end nor change.

The only difference in future will be whether the United States allows enough spread of Islamic culture to open the eyes of our citizens. Not to the surface but to the substrata. We are witnessing the end of Western Europe. As Britain declares no further teaching of the holocaust to students in school, Islam has claimed a small victory. It does not believe in the holocaust as a historic event.
For the Jews anyway. Islam has blinded itself to the possibilities and they are clear - once you decide to deny the truth within man, within history, within God, within the soul, within spirit, within faith, within nations, within culture, within beauty and life itself, you doom yourself and your kind.

When rigid inflexibility and death become the centerpiece of your belief system as they have with Islam, they parallel Nazism, Fascism, and it is undeniable. It is only a matter of time before the liberals turn into that which they despise. It was the very liberal Germans who became the most willing thralls of Hitler. The intelligent Germans who saw the need for economic parity, for justification of
immorality. The conservative Germans, like many pastors, were sent to the gas chambers with the Jews. The traditionalist Germans resisted, as Christians in America resist today. It was the liberals who were lead easily down the path of destruction. Because they were monumental thinkers they could see a good deal of what Hitler said was right.

The liberals here will adopt Fascist positions, they will become intolerant on that day of forced conversion, and the true danger to life and the world will once again rise to epic proportions. We will witness the death of Islam and possibly many Muslims and others. The world war that has been waged thus far has been on the surface. It has not touched the world outside. It will.

And when that day comes, Christians will be motivated not to turn the other cheek. Nor will other Americans, nor South Americans, nor Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asian non-believers, and the final battle will be joined. The very means Islam hopes to use against the West and its neighbors, our ability to absorb, to tolerate, to blend, to associate, to find common ground, and even accommodate will not be our own undoing, but will backfire against the aggressor. Islam has signed its death warrant and rightfully so. Given its history, its actions, its continuous forced submission and genocide, the time is
fast approaching when it reaches its end. It will not be glorious nor beautiful to God, but a lamentation such as the world has never seen.

I do not fear it. I do not welcome it. I do not enjoy the idea. I only feel pity, for I have logically deduced the future from studying the past. I hold out no hope for reform, for a belief system so ingrained with a desire for death can only lead to death. The world will be afire, but in the end the noble faiths will endure. The core morality will be restored. And God will once again find way into the hearts of those who deny faith, loving faith, for their whole lives, should they survive the coming holocausts.

God bless America, but more importantly, God bless the American spirit. For it is the combination of faith, morality, and common cultural truth which gives us the strength to live together in freedom, accept each other, love each other and succeed in spite of any surface difference. Content of character will win in the end. The American experiment will continue. And will spread throughout the world because American and Americans are the world. We have come together. And we will come together again.

-WNCCB2
Authority is granted to reproduce this article at will provided the
notice is given that the contents are copyright 2007 WNCCB2.
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{Editorial Note: The author of this piece is being stalked online and has requested that I remove their name from this post. I have done so.

Note to the stalker...Stalk Me, and see what you get.]

You Want Some of This, Senator Reed?

An Open Letter to Senator Harry Reid [Copperhead Dhimmicrat]



Dear Senator Reed:

In my opinion, you have crossed the line with your
declaration that we have lost.

Shame on you Senator, you have betrayed your nation, your oath of office, and history will spit on your memory.

Should you decide to act like a man, I have a video for you, which I found posted on
Free Republic:



Thursday, April 19, 2007

Whither Ismail Ax?

I don't quite know what to think of the weird inked inscription on Cho's arm. I have been reading about the speculations on and off, and am still unsure.

Why would the murderer remain silent, and only give vague hints?

Could the young man have been a weapon found, forged, and directed to keep blame off the conspirators? [A 5GW Tactic]

I don't know.

Read more at Webloggin, where some more thinking, and linking has been done. I am ill, and just don't have the energy to do original research just now.

Fearing Fox News and Media Manipulation



I was going to do a write-up on the Nut Root Jihad against Fox News, then I saw this cartoon over at Ogre's Politics & Views, and could not resist swiping it because it said basically what I had in mind, only more effectively.

I am 100% certain that who ever gets the Democrat nomination, will appear on Fox News, because without the Number One News Network, they cannot win the White House.

The candidates are fearful of a shrill minority in their party, who pull all the strings of the Legacy Media, as detailed in the following video:




Parting Shot...

NC House Backs Armed Judges because fat deputies can't draw fast enough when mayhem breaks loose.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

NC-10 Congressman to receive Spirit of Enterprise Award

WASHINGTON, DC-The United States Chamber of Commerce today presented Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC-10) with its annual “Spirit of Enterprise” award for his strong voting record on critical business issues in the second session of the 109th Congress.

“Rep. McHenry proved to be a valuable ally to the business community last year, supporting measures to stimulate job creation and spur economic growth,” said Tom Donohue, Chamber president and CEO. “The business community appreciates Patrick’s dedication to a pro-growth agenda and we are proud to present him with this award.”

The Chamber’s prestigious “Spirit of Enterprise” award is given annually to members of Congress based on rankings it gives for key business votes outlined in its yearly publication, “How They Voted.” Rep. McHenry compiled a 93% score with the Chamber last year and holds a cumulative 91% ranking during his tenure in Congress.

Hat Tip: NC Rumors

US Chamber of Commerce



I also note that our former Congressman Charles Taylor also was recognized with the same award, and I would like to acknowledge that achievement.

It seems unlikely that our current Congressman will be so recognized due to denying the right to a secret ballot by workers faced with union thuggery. I have faced these thugs before, and met their violence with violence. [Reminder to self: tell story after statute of limitations is past.]

Brave Horatio

Professor Liviu Librescu recognized that Evil was coming to his classroom. He had seen evil before, when many of his family were swallowed by the Holocaust. He survived, and went on to have a family of his own and pursue a successful career in aeronautical engineering.

This time, when evil came, he stood at the door and instructed his students to flee. Then evil took him. He fell. He gave them the time to flee
as the bullets pierced his body. He purchased, with his life, the lives and futures of his students.

He will be laid to rest in Israel on Thursday.

Places you may read more about Professor Liviu Librescu:

Gates of Vienna

Red State

Update: 7.45am

I just heard on the Quinn and Rose Show a suggestion by Jim Quinn that I believe an excellent one. [I listen on XM 165, you can listen online by googling WPGB or looking on my left sidebar for the listen live link.]

He proposes to memorialize Professor Librescu by bronzing the door he held his body against, and placing it on a pedestal in front of the Engineering Building on the Virginia Tech Campus, and a life-size bronze statuteof the professor buying his students the time to escape with his life. Then, they should rename the building in his honor.

Amen, Quinn, Amen.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Shooter Photos an Internet Hoax

I got bit by an Internet Hoax last night while combing through the Virginia Tech Blog Community looking for students blogging about their experiences yesterday.

Gateway Pundit has the story.


Makes me remember the old adage about having more than one source.

Monday, April 16, 2007

WCU to Observe Moment of Silence

Western Carolina University will observe a Moment of Silence in front of the Bell Tower on Wednesday, April 18th, at 5.30 pm.
Anyone is welcome to attend the event, which is organized by the SGA and Student Affairs.

The event may be visible from this webcam.



Blogging the Virginia Tech Shootings

Ive searched out blogs by Virginia tech students, and have found a few, and some accounts are in the following places, and some are comprehensive linkings to other sites:

Suspected Shooter's Facebook page

Suspected Shooter's Livejournal Page

Collegiate Times

The Paper Chase

Blacksburg Beacon

Tough Sledding

Cybersoc

Virginia Tech Main page

Bugle 2007 Yearbook

MTV acknowledges Bloggers

Gateway Pundit

Drudge Report

The Liberal Position on Virginia Tech

This just in...

The Democrats are advising that we pull all students out of Virginia Tech by a certain date, and that Bush, Cheney, and/or Halliburton had something to do with it.

But seriously, when you hear the phrase "Gun-Free Zone" think "Death Trap."

And the only way they can be certain there are no weapons on any campus is to thoroughly search every last vehicle that enters and to throw up a perimeter that they are willing to patrol and enforce with deadly force.

More websites for info...

Northeast Intelligence Network


I am also doing more research...more later, perhaps a scoop.

Virginia Tech Shootings

Terrible News...

Here are some quick places to go for info:

Gateway Pundit

Drudge Report

Gates of Vienna

Governor of Virginia Page


I'll have more later...

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Junk Science Produces Junk Law by John Armor

Guest Commentary


Junk Justice Produces Junk Law

by John Armor

[BB 541, 7 April 2007, 713 words]

On 2 April, 2007, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in Massachusetts v. EPA. The Court ruled 5-4, over two Dissents, that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant in order to reduce global warming.

There are only two problems with this decision. It is based on junk science. And it is based on junk law.

First, the science: the Opinion by Justice Stevens spends its opening section on a review of mostly international reports which conclude that the Earth is warming up in recent decades, and that this is due (primarily) to human activity. Only a few of those reports are honest enough in obscure footnotes to reveal that there have been at least ten warming periods since the last Glacial Era. The most recent of these ended in 1,300 AD when there was a shocking lack of either cars on the road or coal-fired generating plants.

Somehow, Justice Stevens missed the point that global warming has happened before. That it has been warmer than it is now. And that this happened mostly when humans were living in caves, or were non-existent. But that is not the worst error in this opinion.

On the legal side, the Opinion notes that Congress has passed two statutes on global warming, asking for studies and reports, but declined to give the EPA jurisdiction to act on the subject. Finally, the EPA itself opened the subject, received 50,000 comments, held hearings, and concluded that it lacked jurisdiction. Even if it did have jurisdiction, the EPA decided it was wise to follow the lead of Congress.

In the face of a no from Congress and a no from the EPA, the Court then orders the opposite result. In answer to the EPA's objection that wrenching policy judgments that could alter the entire economy of the US should be made by Congress, the Court says only, "Although we have neither the expertise nor the authority to evaluate these policy judgments, it is evident they have nothing to do with whether greenhouse gas emissions contribute to climate change." Yet in the decision itself, the Court claims
both the expertise and the authority.

What do the two Dissents say about this legislation from the bench?

Chief Justice Robert's Dissent, joined by Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito, states early on, "I would reject these challenges as nonjusticiable. Such a conclusion involves no judgment on whether global warming exists, what causes it, or the extent of the problem.... [R]edress of grievances of the sort at issue here is the function of Congress and the Chief Executive."

This Dissent attacks the majority for disobeying the Court's own prior cases in order to conclude that Massachusetts even has a claim that can stand up in court, under the existing rules for damages and redress. It refers to the "Court's sleight-of-hand" in finding possible damages which are less than the margin of error in the very maps that counsel presented in evidence.

Roberts concludes that in this case the Court has transgressed "the proper-and properly limited-role of the courts in a democratic society."

Justice Scalia's Dissent, joined by the Chief Justice and the other two dissenters, addresses the merits of the case. EPA, like every other federal agency, was created to exercise its judgment in its area of assigned expertise. "EPA's interpretation of ... its judgment is not only reasonable, it is the most natural reading of the text. The Court nowhere explains why this interpretation is incorrect."

He also attacks the Court's reading of the EPA statute, concluding that "Evidently, the Court defers only to those reasonable interpretations [by the EPA] that it favors." This is the crux of the bad law in this decision. It is not the sworn purpose of the Court to reverse what Congress, or its
agencies, have done, simply because the Court disagrees with the outcome from the other branches of government. Nowhere does the Constitution give that kind of power to unelected judges, who do not answer to the public for any errors in their decisions.

This is emphasized in the final sentence of this Dissent: "No matter how important the underlying policy issues at stake, this Court has no business substituting its own desired outcome for the reasoned judgment of the responsible agency."

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About the Author: John Armor practiced in the US Supreme Court for 33 years.
John_Armor@aya. yale.edu He lives in the 11th District of North Carolina.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Hat Tip to Jeffrey Imm of United States Action for reminding what today is.

Being educated in government schools, i.e. public schools, I did not learn much about the Holocaust at school, only that Nazis were very bad people who killed a lot of people in their attempt to bring about a European Union under the aegis of German National Socialism.

I was, however, a very voracious reader, and learned of the horrors that had taken place in Europe during the period of the 20's, 30's and 40's. I wept as I read of the people being led off to slaughter like cattle while the world watched, with very few possessing the quiet courage necessary to do something.

I wished for a Time Machine to go back, and save the world this abomination, but the fact that it had not been stopped was proof enough to me that time travel was impossible, or limited to mere voyeurism.

I also knew that the Spirit of the Nazi was Alive and Well, because of the continued persecution of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world. One of the ways I always judge a person's worth as a human is their position on Israel. If they hated Israel, I could not have them as friend. The same applies to religions and nations as well. My duty as a human is to oppose, and actively work against, those who are against Israel in any way.

I say, "Never Again!" with the full knowledge that it will happen again, on a far greater scale than Hitler achieved because it is foretold in the Bible. If I am still alive, I will do everything in my power to help Israel and the Jewish people. I also know that there is One that will come, and make rivers of blood flow from the enemies of Israel.

A first-grade class at a Jewish school. Cologne, Germany, 1929-1930

Photo Courtesy USHMM


Taken from the Imms email and the Holocaust website: [Links below this section]

Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah, is celebrated on April 15th this year.
Once again this year, around the world efforts are made to fight against ignorance with education and against disbelief with proof, so that we NEVER FORGET on this Yom Hashoah, tha those that suffered, those that fought, and those that died. And to NEVER FORGET that 6 million Jews were murdered.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has set aside April 15 - April 22, 2007 as Days of Remembrance. This year's focus is on "Children in Crisis: Voices from the Holocaust".

From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum this year:

"When World War II ended in 1945, six million European Jews were dead, including more than one million Jewish children. All Jews were targeted for death, but children were among the most vulnerable victims of the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The very young, like the very old, were often the first victims in the ghettos of German-occupied eastern Europe. Many children died from lack of food, clothing, and shelter, as well as from diseases that flourished in the unsanitary and overcrowded conditions imposed in the ghettos."

"As part of the "Final Solution," the Nazis targeted children for death as so-called "useless eaters," incapable of exploitation as forced laborers. In some cases, adults sacrificed their lives to give comfort to children as long as possible. Janusz Korczak, director of an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto, courageously refused to abandon children chosen for deportation. He accompanied them on the transport to the Treblinka killing center where he was killed along with nearly 200 children in his charge."

"Children were frequently among the first to be murdered when the Germans and their collaborators sought to destroy a Jewish community. Upon arrival at Auschwitz and other killing centers, most children were sent straight to their deaths in the gas chambers. Jewish children also perished attempting to evade or resist the Germans and their allies. Paula Wajcman was murdered at age fourteen when her hiding place was discovered during the destruction of the Kielce ghetto in Poland. Seven-year-old Franco Cesana was killed while fighting as a partisan in Northern Italy in 1943. In 1942, twelve-year- old Shulamit Perlmutter fled the destruction of the ghetto in Horochow, Poland. She spent the next eighteen months hiding alone in the nearby forests until she was discovered near death by Soviet troops."

"Only a small fraction of European Jewish children survived the Holocaust, many because they were hidden. With identities disguised, and often physically concealed from the outside world, these young people faced constant fear and danger. Theirs was a life in shadows, where a careless remark, the murmurings of inquisitive neighbors, or a denunciation could lead to discovery and death. Most of these 'hidden' children survived the Holocaust because they were protected by people and institutions of other faiths. In France, almost the entire Protestant Huguenot population in the village of Le Chambon-sur- Lignon hid Jewish children. Some children, like Augusta Feldhorn in Belgium, quickly learned to master Christian prayers and rituals in order to keep their Jewish identity concealed from even their closest friends. Other non-Jews provided hiding places for both Jewish children and their family members. Seven-year-old Gavra Mandil and his five-year-old sister Irena, as well as their parents, were saved by their Muslim neighbors in Albania."

"During the Holocaust, Jewish children channeled their suffering into creative expression. Some wrote letters and drew pictures about life under extreme circumstances, while others like teenagers Dawid Sierakowiak and Anne Frank kept diaries of their experiences. Neither of these diarists lived to see the end of the war. Their voices are evidence of their lives and tragically premature deaths, of hope and of cruelty. And their drawings and words are evidence that testifies to what they experienced. "

"Liberation from Nazi tyranny brought no end to the suffering of the girls and boys who remained alive. Many had no homes to which they could return; no place where they felt truly safe. Thousands would face the future with no parents, grandparents, or siblings."

Show the world that you have NOT FORGOTTEN - wear something to show that these Days of Remembrance - will be part of something that you will publicly stand up defend. US Holocaust Memorial Museum has stickers that you can download and share at this location.
Direct Download of pdf. (It is recommended that you print the stickers out on Avery 5294 or equivalent 2-1/2" round labels)


Let us also not forget that the threat to children and to the Jewish people has not yet ended. Today, in parts of the United Kingdom, many teachers in schools are afraid to teach the lessons of the Holocaust. Today, in the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Canada, antisemitic hate crimes have increased dramatically. Today, in Israel and around the world, Jewish people are still threatened by those who seek to continue to kill Jews, as Hamas' recent Arabic broadcast calls for the destruction of Israel, as does Iran and other nations of hate.

Also let us never forget that the adherents of Nazism still remain among us, that the Holocaust-deniers still have an active and loud voice in the world, and that the enemies of civilization still seek to convince the world that the terrible crimes against humanity never happened.

Moreover, let us not forget the mosaic of the others who suffered under Hitler's mad regime in the Holocaust - the Gypsies, the Handicapped, and any who did not fit Hitler's insane view of his "master race".


Places to visit:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Classification System in Concentration Camps

Yom Hashoah History at About.com

Dress Warm to Protest Global Warming!

I wonder if these people realize how silly they look, protesting Global Warming in the snow? It's almost as if the weather actually gets colder when they gather, I think they'd be better off choosing late July and August to gather, and let the headlines report on the numbers that succomb to the heat bolster their claim, rather than what we are getting now. [See my headline for an idea]

With the sun having reached it's peak in the current solar cycle, we can expect the temperatures to start coming down in the next few years [the sooner the better!] as it follows the sunspot cycle to a new minimum. Will the Global Warmists still protest in waist-deep snow a decade from now? Or will they start to abandon the bankrupt Global Warming Theory to emphasize Pollution Control as the New Mantra despite the fact that the air is cleaner now than it has been since the Industrial Age got started?

I must remind the dear reader that most enivronmentalists are what is called Watermelon...green on the outside, red on the inside. They are using Environmental concerns to push forth a socialist agenda that will destroy the very goose that laid the golden egg of our advanced civilization, and keeps us free from the tyrannies and socialist disasters abroad.

But, I digress...The Gateway Pundit has a delightful roundup of this weekend's global warming protests, and a video these idiots actually posted on the internet of them in the snow!

Somebody should advise these activists to not eat the yellow snow!

Friday, April 13, 2007

NANCY GOES TO IRAN by Richard Rivette

Guest Commentary

Dear Ms. Pelosi;

Please go to Iran immediately. We are sure your brand of shuttle diplomacy will have an equally stunning effect as it has with the terrorist activities that emanate from Syria. We can hardly wait to see what wonderful concessions you bring about in Iran’s nuclear program. We also hope you are able to bring about a warming of relations between our two nations so that Iran can once again enjoy all the benefits of being a world partner. Thank you so much for acting as the alternate President (as the Saudis call you) and showing the world the two-faced, I mean, two faces of America.
They’ve seen the sovereign face in George Bush. It is now time they see the diminutive, cowering face you hope to present to the President of Iran and the mullahs who hold power. Thank you for making this historic trip.

Dear President Achmedinjad;

Forget anything negative I’ve said about you in the past. PLEASE take Nancy Pelosi hostage when she arrives in Iran. The United States, as you know, has a Constitutional requirement that makes her THIRD in line to the President. Since you can’t get your hands on George Bush
or Dick Cheney, what better present can the American people give you to hold over us than Speaker Pelosi? She is willing to convert to Islam as you’ve seen and do just about anything and say anything you tell her to. You could keep her hostage as long as you like and never
have to worry about an attack on your country. If you have to rough her up and violate her in any way, please do what you must so she makes a good, compliant hostage like the Americans you held for 444 days back in 1979. I am sure she will be a wonderful puppet addition
to your stable. Honestly, she has gotten so big for her britches it would serve her right to be abused, er, cared for in the Islamic manner you wish to bring to the world.

Dear U.S. Armed Forces;

When Nancy Pelosi is taken hostage in Iran please do not bother to try to rescue her. She has made it very clear by her defunding attempts that not only does she not want any U.S. military presence in the Middle East, but she wishes to also give up any ability on the part of the U.S. to defend itself against terrorism. Since she will be cooperating fully with the Iranians and will be treated well while she is being held, there really is no cause for concern. Besides, she is the last person that wants American blood spilled at her expense.
Thank God she is willing to forfeit her life as she knows it so none of our brave soldiers have to risk their lives to protect or defend her. She knows what she’s doing. She is the alternate President, so that kind of makes her your boss in a “I-want-you-to-do-your-job-but- not-so-well-and-to-make-sure-I’m-going-to-see-you-are-not-paid-nor-equipped” sort of way. Anyway, thanks for all you do, but just leave Nancy to her own devices. We are sure she will find a way to gnaw out of her constraints and get herself over the border to Iraq or Afghanistan where she will be warmly greeted with flower petals.

Dear Ms. Pelosi’s staff;

We are not sure where this places you but apparently you should get used to reciting the Koran and wearing Burkas (for the women). Also please be aware you may be beaten, raped, branded, or otherwise mutilated but it’s all for a good cause. Nancy assures us she is going to be the Chamberlain of our time and smooth everything over with the Iranians. Sorry, but you love and devoted yourselves to her so now you have to follow her into hell, er, the pit, er, Iran and put up with the consequences.

Dear President Bush;

Sometimes you have to let something go if you truly love it. Nancy Pelosi is that kind of free spirit. You should consider dedicating a small monument to her inside the Capitol rotunda after she has an “accident” in Iranian custody. Perhaps a small marble slab with an inscription lauding her brilliant tenure as the first female Speaker of the House. Something tasteful. You could call for a national day of mourning. I know you are a decent man so I will leave the memorial
up to you.

Dear Pelosi hotel/resort employees;

As you may be aware you will have a new employer soon. We wish you continued success in all your endeavors and ask you to keep Nancy in your hearts while she saves the world from itself in the coming years. Her captivity will be a beacon of hope to all those Americans who also wish to become slaves under Islam. Peace be with you.

Good luck with your trip Ms. Pelosi. You are a strong person. Somehow you will get through everything. And thanks for conducting your own, independent foreign policy. You know what they say: Shofar, so good.


-Richard Rivette
blog.360.yahoo.com/rarivette
www.rivettegroup.com
Authority is granted to reproduce this article at will provided the
notice is given that the contents are copyright 2007 Richard Rivette.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Duke Lacrosse Victory--Complete Innocence!

I've blogged little about this typical Railroading of innocent men by North Carolina Prosecutors because others have handled it so well, all I could do was read, and link every once in a while.


The video:


Hat Tip: The Johnsville News

Others to read:

John in Carolina

Lie Stoppers

The Johnsville News (Everything is here---everything.)

These bloggers have covered the Rape Hoax far and above the efforts of the Legacy Media, whether in print, TV, or radio.

Addenda

I would say that the tax payers of North Carolina owe these young men and their families every dime of their legal fees times seven, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 to 30 million dollars.

I'd also say that D.A. Mike Nifong should be charged for this heinous miscarriage of justice.

Cryatel Gail Mangum should be charged for starting this whole thing.

And these people should issue a public apology, and face civil liability:

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Malik Shabazz [The New Black Panthers], and The Duke 88 Faculty. Will they? Not very likely.

Now, just think about the young men in North Carolina who are sent to prison every year because they don't have the resources to fight back, and only have 'plead and leave' public defenders. I would like to see bloggers in every courtroom in North Carolina to monitor these prosecutors, and keep them in line because the 'good ol' boy' network of reporters never will.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Elizabeth Edwards--Just Another Intolerant Lefty?

CHAPEL HILL - Monty Johnson was heading home Monday with a cooler full of catfish when he learned his new neighbor had turned him into a minor celebrity.

The first calls on his cell phone came from two lawyers asking to represent him in a slander case. Elizabeth Edwards, they told him, had called him a "rabid, rabid Republican." That wasn't all. The Democratic presidential candidate's wife also told The Associated Press she didn't want her children near Johnson because, she said, he once pulled a gun on workers investigating a right of way on his property.

Johnson, a 55-year-old retired landscaper with arthritic knees, said he's not interested in suing.

"I'd just like to know why she has such hard feelings to me," he said. "They say they're for poor people."

But apparently, you're nobody until Elizabeth Edwards dislikes you.


Raleigh News & Observer

Commentary

Heaven forbid someone tries to protect their private property with a firearm!

I would just love to have Elizabeth Edwards in a place of business with me the next time I have to draw a weapon to stop a robbery [Odds are, it'll only be a matter of time], then we'll see how she feels! The only piece of advice I have for the Edwards' neighbor is to upgrade from a 9mm to a real weapon...a .45 caliber.

The article goes on to reveal that Mrs. Edwards called her neighbors' property 'slummy'. I guess that means she is a Lefty Property Zoning Freak. Show me a Republican that is for properrty zoning, and I will show you a RINO.

Again with the lack of respect for private property rights from the left. A man can't defend his property, and then they want to tell him what he can or can't do with his property! Maybe she would like a 'public park' to be located in that spot.

They Edwards' also parked on his property when looking to buy the property, again with disrespect for other people.
I always, always, ask before I step on someone else's property, let alone park on it. I spend a lot of time at work running hikers and 4-wheeler operators off the subdivision I am helping to build, and these morons think they have the right to tear up private property just because "it isn't being used for anything." Then get upset when I tell them that a subdivision is being built because they won't be able to enjoy the woods. I always make sure to tell them that it was never theirs to enjoy to begin with.

Monty Johnson has put his 42-acres on the market for $1.6 million.

You know, if I had the money, that would be a perfect spot for a shooting range and a destination for massive paintball games.


Anyone want to start raising money?




Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Bacon--The New Hate Crime



According to the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, two hours before the 1 p.m. Friday service, the Koran was found on the front steps of the Islamic Center. Someone had written “Mohammad pedophile” on the front, and an (unnamed) expletive was on the inside, smeared under two strips of bacon. Not only did the local police report it as a hate crime, but they said they would contact the FBI. Mosque representatives are meeting with the City Mayor Johnny Piper to see what he can do as well.

This is a clear example of how hate crime laws are being used to impose sharia law, in the guise of religious special accomodations, and in place of U.S. federal or state laws. I’m not a lawyer, so correct me if I’m wrong - that’s why we have a comments section - but under the current laws in Tennessee and the U.S., these are facts of the case:

910 Group Blog

Hat Tip: Christine

Commentary

If we start calling the above a hate crime...that means the state will be enforcing religious law. Sounds like a Theocratic Government by way of the back door. Be sure to click on the link above and read the whole thing to find out what's headed our way.

Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst 2007 0410

It's that time again, so click and watch here, then go over to The Freedom Folks to read the accompanying post.



Freedom Folks

Petition To Ban DHMO

Watch this video to find out more about this chemical:


Email Your Name, Address, Phone Number, and an email address to verify your information
Hat Tip: Bill F.

More on InfoWarfare from John Robb

On Global Guerrillas, John Robb discusses the use of the internet by jihadis and narcoterrorists:



Popular Infowar

Historically, information warfare was restricted to elites (government, media, parties, etc.). The onrush of Jihadi videos, political pro-war/anti-war blogs, and narcocorrido videos have categorically demonstrated that this state of affairs has changed. We now live in a world where infowarfare is accomplished by individual practitioners through an open source framework. Over time, the gap between those in the open source framework and the elites will widen in the favor of the former -- we have only scratched the surface of where this empowering technology can go.

Monday, April 9, 2007

The Conservative Constitutionalist

Check out this blog I just found called The Conservative Constitutionalist.

There may come a time soon when real Conservatives will have to decamp from the GOP if it continues the way it is going, and a party like this may be an option worth considering.

Modern Leftism: No There, There

Al Fin says:


A generous commenter might say that the modern left is living off its seed
corn. But the sad truth is that the seed corn was eaten over a decade ago.


I think the cracks are becoming obvious to all, and very soon it will be evident to even lefties [the ones who are genuine thinkers, not the believers] that the Democratic Party has been, and is being hijacked.

Evidence:

Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming exposed as a Lie
Revolutionary Defeatism [
One] [Two]


Undermining the Executive Branch [
Pelosi] [Hoyer]

I believe the Democratics [OK, just the moonbats] are actually hoping we lose in Iraq, and are praying for terrorism to follow a retreat to America, this next link is for the minority of thinking Democratics.

Warfare has undergone a shift from what we easily recognize as warfare. In fact, according to how I understand it, I am engaged in warfare just by typing these words. Warfare has moved from the conventional battlefield, and has moved into our living rooms, our blogs, our schools, and even into each individuals mind. Many people have been fooled into thinking they are supporting, or fighting for what is just by a [relatively] new type of warfare.

My understanding of war has always been shaped by Frank Herbert's Saga of Dune that spanned many thousands of years, with the primary Battlespace always being in the mind, and altering perception of events. If you haven't read the books, you won't understand what I'm babbling on about in this post.

You can gain a better perspective by reading a blog post entitled:

Go Deep (OODA and the Rainbow of Generational Warfare), which is perhaps the best place to begin, and follow the copious links in the articles and comments that were posted soon after the article was posted.

Only after you read that, read Dreaming 5GW.
The people who contribute to the ongoing conversation are worth learning from in an attempt to learn more about what is going on around us. A lot of this stuff blows my mind, and I am understanding a little better, but I still fall off the surfboard more than I'd like.


Sunday, April 8, 2007

What's Up With The Dhimmicrats?!?

Lately the Democrats have been schlepping off to foreign lands, meeting with leaders of terrorist states, even with leaders of terrorist organizations.

At least our Congressman, who I disagree with on a number of issues, was speaking with the voters, not cold-blooded killers.

The leadership our the Democrat Party seems bound and determined to to undermine our President every chance they get, even to the point of giving our enemies comfort, giving them the illusion that we are a paper tiger.

I wonder how many more jihadis will be ordered across the Syrian and Iranian borders because Nancy Pelosi has made them believe we are ready to retreat? How many Americans will those jihadis kill? How much blood is Nancy Pelosi willing to have on her hands to tear down our President?

How many suicide bombers will the Muslim Brotherhood encourage to cross into Israel because Steny Hoyer made them think the Dhimmicrats will abandon our Allies in Israel? How much Jewish blood does the Dhimmicrat Majority Leader need to accomplish his fell plan?

Never since the democrats forced our hand with the Boland Amendment, have I felt so enraged at the Democrat leadership, who seem determined to bring about the downfall of America as never before.

Nancy Pelosi (202) 225-0100

Steny Hoyer (202) 225-4131

Leave a brief comment with the receptionist to let them know what you think of Pelosi and Hoyer snuggling up to terrorists.

Shuler Reception in Macon County Part Two

Part One is Here, and Part Two is on my photoblog, because it is mostly in picutres and video. There was very little to comment upon.

Update: 04-10-007

I am unhappy with the video quality from photobucket, so I have uploaded the Shuler Video to You Tube.



Friday, April 6, 2007

The Latest Iranian Kidnappings

Would we have responded any better than the Brits to the latest in a long line of morally reprehensible behavior by the Iranians, and their co-religionist ancestors?

I really don't know, and suspect we would respond in the same manner. I am also afraid our 'secret war' inside Iran is too little too late, but I can rest assured knowing that at least the SAS boys will now be exacting some amount of payback.

I have had long experience in dealing with thugs, and the only language they understand is that of power wielded far above their own capacity to respond. I am growing weary of western governments who apparently are unwilling to respond appropriately to these situations.

Our leaders are only aware of short-term solutions, pushing back the day of reckoning beyong their current term, not thinking about the proper way to get in the harness, and do the necessary work that Churchill and Roosevelt committed to, and Truman finished.

The Lightning Baron addresses the situation more eloquently than I, and has the added bonus of being in the Watchtower some us have gathered alongside.
[Inside joke for BSG Fans. I never heard the song until Crossroads, Pt 2, and wouldn't recognize the singer if he was standing beside me.]

More Local Podcasting--Universal Healthcare Debated

Here are two more podcasts for you to listen to, this time on Universal Healthcare.

The Asheville Citizen-Times has a Letter to the Editor from Vivian Langohr entitled, "U.S. could learn more about health care from Canada."

Tim Peck, a local blogger who is running for City Council, has posted a response entitled "Canadian Healthcare."

I like his response, short, sweet, and to the point.




No Apologies Radio is a Podcast, For now.

Brandon Randolph has returned with a tentative weekly schedule for podcasting, so why don't you check it out, and give him a warm welcome.

No Apologies Radio

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Shuler Reception in Macon County Part One

I went to the Reception held for Congressman Heath Shuler tonight at The Iotla Airport in Macon County, and took many pictures, and two videos, one of Heath's Opening remarks, and another of a plane taking off into the sunset. The videos and larger pictures will have to wait until I find a fast connect to the internet this weekend, or Monday morning, I'll stop by WCU and upload them.



Cake!!!



Congressman Heath Shuler listens to a constituent.


FLAG BURNING DISGRACE IN CONNECTICUT by Richard Rivette

Guest Commentary


The news about three Yale students burning an American flag does not
seem to have most people excited or angry. In fact, when interviewing
another student, he could only call the actions of the three students
suspect, because they didn’t seem to have a political purpose
attached to their heinous action.

Let’s clear up a few points for the flag burners of America.

Left wing liberals and others take note: We have a right to protect
our homes from you and can use whatever force necessary to stop you
from committing arson on our property and endangering our lives.

Why can we do this? Simple.
1. The three students trespassed on private property to get to the
flag.
2. It was not their flag. It was owned by a private homeowner.
3. The arson act could have destroyed the home and the other row
homes attached to it.
4. They endangered every living being inside the dwellings, who may
have been caught unaware, unable to move quickly enough, been a pet,
or a young child/baby.

They could be facing mass murder charges if the burning had continued
unabated.

This arson was a personal, physical attack on someone’s home. Forget
that they lit the flag on fire. It could have been lawn furniture
for all that matters. The luck that had two policemen view the
burning is probably what saved the house and perhaps the whole
neighborhood from going up in flames.

Activists should be aware that these illegal activities have nothing
to do with free speech.

Those students arrested could have been on the grounds of the college
campus or other public venue. They were not. They could have used
their own flag. They did not. They did not have to risk the home,
lives, property, pets and other items in the home or adjoining homes
to make their statement. And they certainly did risk lives and
property through their actions. They should be locked up for their
anti-social behavior. They crossed the line.

The case should be clear and the ACLU and other groups like
MoveOn.org should shun these students. The students do nothing to
preserve free speech when they attack privately owned flags on
private property for no other purpose than to show they can.

This case is about assault on a private citizen. It is no different
than if these thugs arrived at your home and set your car on fire in
the driveway, or your pet, or shrubs, and threw a lit Molotov
cocktail through your windows to set your house on fire. Don’t let
the media confuse this issue this time. The fact a flag was involved
somehow makes their actions less deadly in some peoples’ views. Those
people are idiots and deserve to have the same thing done to their
homes while they are away. Then they can speak to us about rights and
freedom and free speech! Let’s see how they feel when some lunatic
burns their homes to the ground!

The press should be very aware of these differences and be very clear
about them. They should think deeply about how they would feel if
they came home and found their every possession burned to cinders and
their family dead from such arsonous acts.

NOBODY has the right to burn you out of your home or burn your
possessions. I don’t care what point they were making. They are
criminals. Treat them as such and teach activists there is a line
they cannot cross.

If the police are not present to act in such circumstances it is up
to the private homeowner to stop the act if caught in progress, to
protect their own lives. If the “students” attempting to burn your
home do not stop on command then use whatever force necessary to stop
them. It’s your life. You have a right to protect yourselves from
such deadly attacks as if they were holding a gun to your head.

-Richard Rivette
blog.360.yahoo.com/rarivette
www.rivettegroup.com
Authority is granted to reproduce this article at will provided the
notice is given that the contents are copyright 2007 Richard Rivette.
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Blogs for Borders Video Bogburst 04-03-007

The Freedom Folks have another blogburst up, so enjoy, and link over!




See their post.

ABC NEWS Says Surge Working

I guess the Retreat, Pork, and Raise Taxes Democrats were too late in their effort to kill millions of Iraqis and other Freedom Loving Middle Easterners.
At first, I was upset that Congress took one of their many vacations [this one two weeks long], but hey, when Congress is not in session, they can't screw us over with new legislation.
One of the Big Seven, ABC NEWS, has finally reported what the blogosphere has known for many weeks: The Surge is Working!



Hat Tip: Wizbang

Note to Nancy Pelosi and others in the Legislative Branch:

Foreign Policy is a Prerogative of the Executive Branch, and Please Read The Logan Act.


Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Video--Charlie Rangel on Buying Votes



If that is so bad, I have audio of Congressman Shuler admitting that the pork was used to buy votes as well.
I'll try to get it uploaded in the morning..the internet connection here at home is only 42K at best.

Nancy Pelosi Signifies to the World That She is a Dhimmi



Photo Courtesy: Hussein Malla, Associated Press

[Note--Update below--TP]

The photo above may seem insignificant to us, but to a Musilm, it is very significant. Muslim women are instructed to wear the hijab to avoid being annoyed by Muslim men. To whit:

"O Prophet, tell your wives and daughters and the believing women to draw their outer garments around them (when they go out or are among men). That is better in order that they may be known (to be Muslims) and not annoyed..." (Qur'an 33:59).
Commentary

I have a bad feeling about this, and where it will lead. This is an act of dhimmitude, and appeasement almost as bad as when Neville Chamberlein went calling upon 'Herr Hitler' so many years ago, and if she should get something from these thugs, what will she promise them in return? Hands off in protecting our ally Israel? Give them Iraq?


Update 04-04 7.30pm

In the comments, Screwy asked why I did not call the First Lady on practicing Dhimmitude when she wore the hijab on her visit to the Middle East. I did not that she had, and he pointed me to a post, and I verified that the photo wasn't a photoshop.

I will state for the record that First lady Laura Bush did practice Dhimmitude whether she realized it or not.
Laura Bush, Nancy Pelosi, and any non-Muslim female need to realize that wearing the hijab is part of Islam, and encouraged in the Qu'ran. This is an act of submission, and identification of a female as Muslim.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

A Guide to Good Citizenship

Conservative Voters, It's Time to Give In to Your Inner Rebel

I think it is high time the conservatives in the Republican party stood up, speak with a loud and clear voice for conservatism.

We need to face off against those in our party who want to be thought of as 'nice guys' by the Legacy Media, and the Far Left. We need to tell our leadership that we want people who will induce seizures and foaming at the mouth by the Far Left.

Here is an excerpt from an article at The Politico:


In life, there are times to make a safe choice. Should you go to the gym in the morning or pour yourself a bowl of Miller Lite Cheerios? Should you take the car rental insurance or chance it? Decisions, decisions.

Similarly tough choices inevitably seep into our politics. For Republican voters, it has been: Should you vote for Ross Perot or Pat Buchanan, or go with the Republican standard-bearer? (You probably made the "adult" decision, sucked it up and punched your ticket for George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole, even if they were squishy Republicans who were dull as can be.)

For 2008, the safe thing means backing one of the "big three" Republicans, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney or former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Here's the problem with always doing the safe thing: Voting is supposed to be a bit rebellious. There are times to throw caution to the wind and go for what you really want. (This often happens after a few drinks.) Depending on your lifestyle, that might include buying a motorcycle, following the Grateful Dead, getting a tattoo or just ordering another helping of that sinfully rich chocolate cake.

This brings me to Newt Gingrich. The former House speaker from Georgia might be the only Republican presidential candidate, declared or otherwise, who has the potential to be romantic. Other people give speeches; when Newt speaks, the words have music. He's poetic. He's quixotic. He's … dangerous.

Where can I get one of these shirts?


Now, this is funny! Guaranteed to drive Gun Grabbing Commies wild, and manages to hit another target or two at the same time!

Monday, April 2, 2007

John Locke Foundation Luncheon in Asheville next week

The John Locke Foundation
Cordially invites you to
Headliner Luncheon in Asheville, NC

with our special guest
Marlo Lewis, Jr., P.H. D.
Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute

A Skeptical Tour of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth

Newsletter Image Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 12:00 Noon
Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Avenue, Asheville, NC 28894 - View Map
Price: $20.00 (includes lunch) - Purchase tickets online.

In “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore claims that catastrophic global warming is a reality. More importantly, Gore argues that global warming is largely human-caused. But are the claims made in the movie supported by the evidence?

Join us for lunch with Dr. Marlo Lewis, a renowned expert on the science, economics, and politics of global warming policy,
as he exposes claim after claim contained in “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, will discuss the fallacies of the global warming arguments and describe the detrimental economic effects that the Kyoto treaty poses, not only for the United States of America, but for all countries.

I won't be going, because some of us have to make a living, and can't take a day off every few weeks to attend one of these events. Maybe if they held 'em at 7pm or so, but not at lunch. Besides, IU don't do dress up!
If any of you go, I'd welcome a report and a few photos for the blog, and the news site.

Argentina Senses Weakness, Renews Claim on Falklands

No, this is NOT an April's Fool Post. I already did one this year, thank you very much.
I just read about it on the BBC Website:

Argentina has renewed its claim over the Falkland Islands on the 25th anniversary of invading them - and losing a subsequent war with Britain.

"The Malvinas are Argentine, they always were, they always will be," said Argentine Vice-President Daniel Scioli, using the Spanish name for the islands.

Mr Scioli was speaking in the southern city of Ushuaia - one of a series of events marking the start of the war.

He urged the UK to resume talks on the sovereignty of the islands.


I was sitting in my truck this afternoon, and heard a story about this being the 25th Anniversary of The Falklands War on XM124 in Franklin. I think it was Winston Churchill III on Sean Hannity, and it was brought up in the discussion that the Royal Navy had been seriously down-sized since Tony Blair took office.
The first thought that came into my head was, "Oh No, I hope the Argetines don't decide to bite off a chunk right about now." The Argentinians would probably lose again, but who knows, they might just get lucky.

Borrowed Time

America, and Western Civilization, are Living on Borrowed Time.

We must begin to stop the Tide of Destruction that is making a mockery of our Constitution.

American Citizens must begin to take back what our Government is giving away.

We must overwhelm our elected officials with our complaints, and make them understand that the Second Amendment is the Reset Button on our Constitution, and we are very close to having to resort to that option to protect Private Property Rights, our Rights as Citizens, and the new taxes being levied on us with out representation.

I have spoken with people who are revealing to me how bad the problem is, and I am preparing to take steps to change the entire dynamic on Public Discourse.

I am also committing to raise up ten locally like me, who may not agree on every issue of philosophy, but agree that our Constitutional Republic is slipping through our fingers, and those peoiple will be charged with raising ten each after a time.

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Obama Tops Hillary with $66.6 million!

This just in, Barack Obama tops Hillary with $66.6 million...

Hillary comes in with $26 million, plus $10 million from her Senate War Chest

John Edwards has $14 million, and

Bill Richardson with $6 million, and

Christopher Dodd rakes in $4million, and

Joe Biden slides in with $3 million.

All this money just in the First Quarter of the Democrat Primary!

This is gonna be some ride!!!

How to Bring the British Hostages Back Home


Ahhhh, if we only had a President, or a candidate for President talk like this. I can't wait for Newt to get in the race!

A Soldier's Video For Democrats... A Marine's Letter For Pelosi



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