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Monday, June 4, 2007

War on the Christians

LONDON — An MI6 report reveals for the first time that an estimated 200 million Christians in 60 countries are now facing persecution orchestrated, in part, by al-Qaida.

The report has been sent to the pope and church leaders. It is the first time the secret intelligence service has shared its information with religious leaders.
“We do so because we believe the situation is extremely serious,” said an MI6 source.
The report is based on details from MI6 agents stationed in those countries. North Korea is identified as the world’s worst country. Over 50,000 Christians are currently incarcerated in work camps because they refuse to submit to the extreme views rigorously enforced by the country’s dictator, Kim Jong-il. An estimated 40,000 Christians are imprisoned in China for their beliefs.

Source: Stop Islamiseringen af Danmark

Lebanese 9-11 Style Attack Foiled

Hmmm....more Radical Muslims planning on killing people? Seems like a theme to me. A theme that has been playing through history from Mohamet to this very day.

An excerpt form Beirut Spring (which you should add to your favorites, BTW):

يما ارتفعت وتيرة حملات الدهم في طرابلس، توافرت لـ”النهار” معلومات مستقاة من نتائج التحقيقات مع موقوفين من التنظيم “ان المخطط الامني لعناصر فتح الاسلام اشبه بسيناريو “11 ايلول لبناني” من حيث الضخامة. اذ هو يتضمن تدمير احد الفنادق الكبرى في بيروت وتفجير نفقي شكا القديم والجديد. وقد وصلت المواد التفجيرية التي كانت ستستخدم في هذه العمليات من سوريا وقد ضبطت في مستودع بطرابلس.

Translation (mine):

As the rounding up of suspects in Tripoli intensified, Annahar obtained insider information from the investigations. “The Fateh Al Islam scheme was comparable to a ‘Lebanese September 11′ in its scope. It involves destroying a large hotel in Beirut in addition to bombing Shikka tunnels.”





**Note** I have altered the post by adding the modifier Radical in front of Muslim in my first sentence. Thanks to Mustapha for pointing out my error. [Thunder Pig]

Ron Paul's IDIOT Supporters Captured on You Tube


These people are idiots.

Hat Tip: LGF (read the comments!)

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Another Blogger Locked Out by Blogger




Here is the body of the e-mail I received:

OK… just so you readers, and fellow bloggers, know:
I have been "locked out" of my blogsite "INSIGHT on Freedom" because one (or more) of Blogger's Spam seeking robots got it into it's head that "INSIGHT on Freedom" was/is a "Spam Blog". I have not been able to do anything other than save articles I have written since Blogger locked it. It will not allow me to publish anything until they decide it is NOT a SPAM Blog! I mean… come on! I've only been blogging, on this same site, for 2-1/2 years!

Here's what they are saying:

"This blog has been locked by Blogger's Spam-prevention robots. You will not be able to publish your posts, but you will be able to save them as drafts.

Save your post as a draft or Click Here for more about what's going on and how to get your blog unlocked."

I did that. I requested my blog be unlocked on June 1 st. So now it has been two days and I am unable to update the posts on "INSIGHT on Freedom". I have no idea when they will unlock it… or… even IF they will unlock it. (They say they will after they take a look at it and determine it is NOT a Spam Blog!)

So, in the meantime, I have opened an account at Word Press. The website address to my Blog there is: http://dixican.wordpress.com/

The Title of the NEW blog is "Hurricane Alley by Longstreet". Until Blogger decides to allow me access to "INSIGHT on Freedom", I'll be over there blogging as usual.

So, consider yourself invited to "Hurricane Alley" at http://dixican.wordpress.com ... and wish me luck getting my site back!

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Plot to explode fuel tanks at JFK Airport disrupted - Four Islamic terrorists arrrested

2 June 2007: At least 3 of 4 Muslim terrorists, one who is a former airport worker at JFK, have been arrested for plotting to blow-up fueling areas at JFK Airport in New York, potentially setting off a massive explosion at the airport and potentially crippling air travel for some time and causing a conflagration of unprecedented proportions. Although considered a "domestic terror cell" it has international dimensions as two cell members were arrested in Trinidad, one was arrested in the New York area, and one suspect is believed to be a former member of parliament or government official from Guyana.

Source: Northeast Intelligence Network

For a "Religion of Peace," they sure do try to commit a lot of violent acts, unlike the Knights of Columbus or the local Choir Group.

For more updates:

West Carolina Report

Drudge Report

Jihad Watch

Little Green Footballs

Gateway Pundit [He was at JFK while this broke.]

There others, but these are the ones I check first before adding data to West Carolina Report.

My big fear is that these groups will figure out that an attack against hardened targets in bigger cities offer little chance of success, and that targets in smaller cities and rural communities offer limitless possibilities, especially in schools, Rec Fields, Churches, Offices, Restaurants, and Rush Hour Traffic. Of course, many citizens in the more rural areas carry firearms, and can limit their success in areas that are not Gun-Free Zones.

U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton Locks Up Another Border Agent

This is disgusting. I thought our greatest enemies were the Commies v2.0 and the neo-Stalinists. I was wrong. President George W. Bush jumped the shark just like his father. The same U.S. Attorney who locked up Compeon and Ramos has notched another victory on his gunbelt, and that notch has a name, Noe Aleman.

Here is an excerpt of a blog post I found:


Border Agent Noe Aleman lost his appeal today as reported to me by him in a phone call between him and I. He will be reporting to prison Yazoo City (the same prison where Border Agent Ramos is at) on June 11Th. It seems that its open season on Border Agents. Our country has got to demand of our President that enough is enough. When drug dealers get off and our Border agents are set up and attempts on their lifes take place courtesy of our Government there is a serious problem. To back up this statement I remind you the reader that when agent Ramos was attacked in prison he was denied medical attention for 48 hours this is a documented fact not a rumor.
Now it has been reported to me by Border Agent Aleman that the Federal prosecutors stated to his attorney that she hope he dies in prison cause she hates him.
He will be in jail 6 months and he's already in dept cause of these bogus charges too.His wife does work but they will lose their home if we don't help.
Source: Freedom Fighter Radio


He also has an internet radio show that I listen to, and you can, too.


Friday, June 1, 2007

An Open Letter to President George W. Bush

Mr. President:

Build the Fence First!

Before there can be any consideration of "Immigration Reform," the Southern Border must be completely sealed off with a proper double row fence with vehicle access in the middle, and Border Crossings properly manned.

This Bill is Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, plain and simple, despite that bald-faced lie you told the other day. These aliens have crossed the border illegally (that means they broke at least one law), and many have Social Security Numbers (a felony, I believe), and work for cash under the table (also against the law if they make more than $600 in a year)...this brings the Business Community into the Equation, where they are aiding and abetting the commission of felonies, not to mention committing felonies themselves.

Eventually, America will become as corrupt as Mexico is...and America will cease to exist as put forth in the Declaration of Artms, the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. Constitution.

Reconsider your position on this criminal piece of legislation. If you sign this bill into law, you will have done more to destroy this nation than any other person, or nation of persons has ever done. Your legacy will be the disintegration of America, preceded by a mass exodus from the Republican Party.

Jimmy Carter will then be known as the second worst President in our history.

P.S. Free the Political Prisoners Compeon, Hernandez, and Ramos!

{editor's Note--This letter has been electronically transmitted to the President.]

W Stabs Base in Back

OK, I'm through. I will no longer defend the President in public or private conversations. I have already quit sending the NRC and NRSC money, and haven't yet written off the NRCC...their reaction to this "Immigration Reform" will be The Litmus Test for me.

Reactions from around the internet:


WASHINGTON (Map, News) - President Bush wants Congress
to approve an immigration compromise bill that will be supported mainly by Democrats. He’s no longer worried about getting re-elected, so in his pushing for the bill’s passage, Bush has now told millions of voters to get lost. These are the people who have been his most loyal supporters on virtually every other issue.

Yet Bush now condemns them as unwilling to do “what’s right for
America” and accuses their allies in Congress of using “empty rhetoric” to misrepresent the bill as a form of amnesty for illegal aliens. Bush appealed for “a chance to fix the problems in a comprehensive way that enforces our border and treats people with decency and respect.”

We don’t see how it is either decent or respectful to label critics of the immigration bill as unpatriotic and intellectually dishonest.
In the most fundamental sense, the debate is not about whether people from foreign countries should be allowed to come here and
become American citizens. In a post-9/11 world, the critical debate is about securing our borders; everything else is secondary.



Source: Washington DC Examiner

Blogs of War has excellent coverage. Check it out.


Update: MJ, of Freedom Folks, has let loose with a rant:



Yet Another Update: --===Conservative Quotes On This Bill===--

The Temple Is Now Open (Get Thee Hence)

The Goracle now has an Official Temple from Which to Dispense Blessings, Cursings, and Forgiveness.

Please Visit the Temple.

NC Senate Budget Reflects Republican Initiatives by RL Clark

Guest Commentary


As a Christian Conservative Republican and former member of the N C State Senate who many, many times stood alone and cast the lone NO vote on the Democrat budget, I am dismayed and in disbelief that all but 2 Senate republicans voted for a democrat slanted Marxist style budget bill.

It to me is truly sad for the State of N C and the Republican Party which is supposed to be the party of smaller government, less taxes and regulations, And less government in the lives of citizens they took a sworn oath to serve.

This vote is the reason I’m hearing from the hundreds of people I come In contact on a daily and weekly basis, THERE’S NO DIFFERENCE IN DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS!!

Apparently the majority of the republican senators are content with receiving the few “crumbs” falling to the floor from the royal Democrat banquet table, Which they appear to lap up with glee!

After all most are in safe “seats” given to them by their Democrat “masters.



Respectfully,



R L Clark

N C State Senator

1995-1996

1997-1998

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Why Fred Thompson is Possible

I have watched this earliest of Presidential Election Cycles with interest, and with growing dismay as the Media has focused almost exclusively on the "Big Three: GOP candidates, none of whom can claim they are conservative without eliciting a belly laugh from me.

Arizona Senator John McCain may have been a conservative at one time, before I started paying attention to politics, but he is not now. My biggest beef with him is the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform. That criminal piece of legislation has Congress restricting the First Amendment, and so far, the Supreme Court has provided an amen chorus. My second biggest beef with him are his incessant attempts at collaborating with Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy on "Comprehensive Immigration Reform," a piece of legislation that seeks to "legalize" illegal behavior, and would, if passed, cause vastly more harm to this country than McCain-Feingold.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has never been a conservative. Some of his views may coincide with conservatism, and other views have undergone the playdough oven treatment to dress them up for the Primary.

My biggest beef with Rudy is his support for Abortion. The Playdough Oven Treatment has transformed this into, "I support a woman's Right to Choose; but I will appoint Justices that will limit that Right to Choose." The Cognitive Dissonance on that one issue is enough to threaten a rip in the space-time continuum.

His position on the Second Amendment is similar. He supports the Right to Keep and Bear Arms; but not in a "Big City" like New York City, where the rules of normal space-time do not apply. As someone who has possessed, and used, firearms in a major city, I can assure you that group of armed citizens can, and will, do a better job of policing their neighborhood than the police ever will.

Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney is not a conservative. Many in his faith are, he is not, unless he has experienced a genuine change of heart.

My biggest beef with him is his support of the Mandatory Universal Health Insurance signed into law by him while Governor.


I am one of the "43 million" uninsured Americans. I am uninsured by choice. I do not play lotteries, nor subscribe to the reverse lottery of Health Insurance that only pays if you lose, and then pays someone else from a common pool. No.
I have used money that would have gone toward premiums, and have invested that money, along with money for my retirement since 1986. When big expenses come, I trade some of my investment for money, then pay for my own care.


That one issue is enough to remove the governor from my short list.

There is one conservative running for the GOP nod, and that is California Representative Duncan Hunter. If he were given the same coverage as the Three Princesses of the GOP, there would be no contest, and no need for Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson to be "drafted."

I am told he is charismatic, and "of the Reagan Mold." He also has played a character on Law & Order. I am probably one of twelve people in America who has never seen a complete episode of that show. I dislike lawyers, and "courtroom dramas" even more. I also believe that people who watch Court TV of their own free will should be shot as a service to humankind.

The Media have overplayed the candidates that are not palatable to the rank and file of the Republican Party. A candidate like Fred Thompson cannot be ignored by the media, and the charisma factor is necessary to make up for the biased media coverage. The Media played along, and vastly underestimated the man who became the 40th President of the United States, and may fall for it again.

My personal Preference is for Duncan Hunter, with a big possible for Newt Gingrich, who has been playing coy with getting in the race. If Fred gets in the pool with the others, Newt will have zero chance. I'll have to support Duncan Hunter in the hopes that a strong showing will get him the Veep slot beside a Presidential Fred Thompson. I guess I should order those Thompson/Duncan bumper stickers now.

Like it or not, I'll have to start covering the 2008 Race as more than something of a diversion.

/sarcasm

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

More Fake Photos From Pro-Terrorist News Media

I knew I should have started keeping track of all the times the Pro-Terrorist News Media runs fake and staged photos that support their agenda for anti-Zionism.

My Pet Jawa has the goods on the latest round Faux-toshopping for Terrorists.


Tuesday, May 29, 2007

A View to a Kill: The Left Supports the Thug-In-Chief Hugo Chavez

Or, How I Quit Living in Fear of Freedom of Speech, and Learned to Love Neo-Stalinism

I hope the events unfolding in Venezuela has been an awakening for people on how the Hard-Core Lefties think, and the cognitive dissonance they bathe in will lead to the horrors of tyranny every single time it is tried!

Hugo Chavez, who has been given dictatorial powers "only during the current emergency", and an extended term in office, has assumed the worship of the American Communists once only occupied by El Presidente Fidel Castro. And, like him, he will continue to find ways to remain in power far beyond his current term expires. Sort of like Darth Vader for earthlings without the twisted false messiah ending in Episode VI of Star Wars.

The Kids at Daily KKKos support and rationalize the gutting of Free Speech in Venezuela, and I promise you, they wish they could do the same thing here in America to Fox News (a breeding ground for the hated RINOS), Conservative Talk, and the Conservative Blogosphere via "Net Neutrality.'

An excerpt from a Buzzle article:


Radio Caracas Television - the country's "oldest and most popular" private channel - hosted an emotional farewell to viewers and depicted its imminent demise as a political watershed. "This marks a turn toward totalitarianism," said its director, Marcel Granier.

The government ridiculed the notion and said it was exercising its legal right not to renew the concession of a channel which had "polluted" the airwaves with anti-democratic coup-mongering as well as sleazy soap operas.
"anti-democratic coup mongering as well as sleazy soap operas," by those standards, three quarters (or more) of American Television, and virtually all of Hollywood should be at risk of being taken off the air! Most especially on the sleaze. The left have been coup-mongering, and the Democratic Duo of Pelosi & Reid backed off once they realized Americans will not stand for it. (80 million gun owners would soon correct that mistake!)

Here are some more articles on the brave souls fighting against tyranny in Venezuela, much like the Contras we helped two decades ago in Central America:

Washington Post

Venezuelanalysis


BBC


The president says the new channel that took RCTV's place at midnight on Sunday (0400 GMT Monday) will better reflect the socialist revolution he has pledged to lead.
Never forget that socialism cannot survive when there is competition from other ideologies, and must sink to using violence to remove them. That is part of what the Fairness Doctrine is intended to set into play, to force successful conservative programs to loose part of their air-time to the socialists until a way can be found to remove them from the air.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

National Taxpayers Conference 2007

The National Taxpayers Union and Iowans for Tax Relief has organized the National Taxpayers Conference 2007 for June 14-16, 2007 in Washington, DC.


Visit the Conference Webpage

Browse the Draft Agenda

Hat Tip: Bill L.


The Mission of the NTU:


NTU was established in 1969 to educate taxpayers, the media, and elected officials on a non-partisan basis on the merits of limited government and low taxes. NTU uses a variety of means to accomplish our work including direct mail, research papers, public speaking, email, advertising, the Internet, and lobbying.

NTUF was founded in 1977 to conduct extensive study and research into critical aspects of taxation, government spending, economics, and regulation. NTUF's work examines policies at the federal, state, and local levels. NTUF uses a variety of means to accomplish our work including research papers, major research programs, studies by adjunct scholars, public speaking, email, advertising, and the Internet.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Now That is a Monster Pig !!!

I was checking out Drudge, and found this story about a 1,000 plus pound wild boar killed in Alabama by an 11-year old boy. An excerpt from the article:

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.

Source: Breit Bart



Meet Monster Pig

A website has been put up to commemorate the kill, and in a move to warm the very cockles of my capitalist heart, make a little money from the accomplishment! I haven't seen the site yet, because it has lots of photos, and ten minutes later, it is still loading...I am on dial up that wavers in speed from 28K to 45K depending on how many people in my neighborhood are online.

Friday, May 25, 2007

Gunfight at Ghost Town In The Sky

I went to the re-opening of Ghost Town In The Sky today, and enjoyed myself. I took over 300 pictures, and several videos. I have posted the video of the gunfight here, and will be posting the photos here and on my photoblog as I get around to it.

I will definitely be going back when the Cliff Hnager Roller Coaster opens later this summer, and will have to figure a way to secure my camera and glasses...don't wanna see them flying down a 1,000 foot cliff!






5 Dead in Crash, Driver Unlicensed and Possibly an Illegal Alien

A horrible head-on collision yesterday morning in Mitchell County, North Carolina killed five people.

An S-10, driven by Roberto Sixtos, about 20 yrs old, of Mexico and Marion, NC crossed the centerline and corrected back into his lane, where he struck the Land Rover driven by 58 yr-old Jimmie Dotts, of Mitchell County,, who had swerved into the other lane to avoid the S-10. All five were dead by the time a NC Highway Patrol Trooper arrived five minutes later. [Link to AC-T Photo Gallery]

Sixtos did not have a Drivers License, and it is currently unknown if he were in this country legally or not.

Here are some links to online coverage of this developing story:

Asheville Citizen-Times

Snapshot of page at JKN

Topix Page for comments on story


AP Wire Version from FOX Carolina


Mitchell News-Journal Breaking

The story this morning from AC-T with Topix discussion.

To give you an idea about just a portion of the cost of illegal immigration, over 2,000 Americans are murdered every year by Illegal Aliens, and that tops the number of American soldiers killed in any two years of combat in Iraq.

If we had secured our borders, then Jimmie Dotts might still be teaching classes today at Enka High School.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

New Blog: Survival Strategies

Ever wonder about what you would need to know in case the Schumer hits the fan, and our infrastructure collapses? Remember Katrina? That storm disrupted the infrastructure for a few weeks, but food and other emergency supplies were being trucked in within a week or so. Not many were prepared, and certainly very few in New Orleans were...

A new blog called Survival Strategies, has come to my attention, and I would like for you to go take a look, and maybe start preparing for the inevitable collapse [short or long term] of our infrastructure.

Supporting Forces of Freedom Abroad

There is an interesting post on the Center for Vigilant Freedom/910 Group Blog about the nature of our war with the radical elements of Islam, whom I refer to as Islamic Imperialists, and our general ignorance regarding same.



But our governments often refuse to admit that they are under an Information War siege, and they refuse to keep and defend that solid constitutional terrain they’ve received as a legacy from earlier generations. Demoralized by political correctness, they can’t believe that constitutional laws and Western values are the high ground - both moral and strategic. So, we are left to fight the war of ideas on dangerous terrain of a very different type - what Sun Tzu calls “entangling terrain”:

I suggest you read it.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

R.I.P. America

In loving memory...

The United States of America

1775-2007


It was good while it lasted. Too bad it's over.

Every great country must come to an end. In man's history, the average age of a great civilization is about 200 years. America made it a bit longer, but now it's time has come as well.

Now I don't mean to say that overnight the place will suddenly cease to exist. However, the America that was created over 200 years ago is completely gone now. It's been on a decline for some time, and this really is it. I remember well the celebrations of 1976 (though I was quite young) -- and I would be willing to be there will be no celebration in 2076. The country has died.

I do not write this lightly, nor without great thought. I do not write this with joy or sarcasm. I write this, fervently believing that it is true, despite the rejections and declarations of many.

There were brief rays of hope that paused the decline of freedom and liberty. Ronald Reagan, from 1980-1988 worked hard and tirelessly to stop oppression and really gave hope to a lot of people. He renewed faith in America and in it's people. But that was just an upward blip on the steady decline of the country. Under the leadership of Newt Gingrich, there was another upward tick for just a short time in 1994. This blip was smaller than the 80s, and shorter. But with the passage of global amnesty, the decline is complete. There is no hope for America.

Now I'm not saying I'm hopeless. I'm not feeling personally bad. But there is no hope for America today. America was built on a strong Christian work ethic. America was a great country once. It was built on rugged individualism -- people worked hard and knew hard work would be rewarded. America was truly a shining light on a hill -- a beacon of freedom around the world. America defeated Communism. America defeated Hitler and Nazi Germany when they wanted to rule the world. America had a real identity, and the whole world knew it. But that is to be no more.





Read the rest at
Ogre's Politics & Views

My personal realization that we had lost our Republic was the lack of response to the murder of dozens of Americans at Waco [by the citizenry en masse and the other branches of government]. That was when I began digging caches. Our underwhelming response to 9/11 was another alarm. Amnesty for law-breaking Alien Invaders is just another increase in the volume of the alarm.

I still have to go through the motions of fighting this slide to a democratic tyranny for a little while longer...