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Noble Americans,
Were we not faced with the activities of the US administration in this part of the world and the negative ramifications of those activities on the daily lives of our peoples, coupled with the many wars and calamities caused by the US administration as well as the tragic consequences of US interference in other countries;
Were the American people not God-fearing, truth-loving, and justice-seeking, while the US administration actively conceals the truth and impedes any objective portrayal of current realities;
And if we did not share a common responsibility to promote and protect freedom and human dignity and integrity;
Then, there would have been little urgency to have a dialogue with you.
No, Dinner-jacket, if you didn’t believe that a large chunk of the U.S. was stupid enough to listen to your bullshit and you didn’t think someone soon will do something about your quest for nukes you would not have felt that “urgency” to “dialogue” with the citizens of the U.S. About that crack regarding “the many wars and calamities caused by the U.S.?” Of all of the trouble spots around the world there is ONE unifying and common factor between all of them and guess what? It is NOT the U.S. Military. It is the muslims. People like you. People that believe islam has some “divine mandate” to take over the world. If you are going to write us a letter PLEASE keep it FACTUAL.
Throughout history one of the main dynamics that has influenced relationships between men and women is what can be called the \”vagina monopoly.\” Men want them and only women have them. In fact, the world\’s oldest profession was one that was originally only capable of being performed by women. That profession was the \”renting\” of women to men for sex. Most of the pathological aspects in male-female relationships revolve around the objectification of women as objects of sexual gratification.
Originally, feminism was about changing attitudes, particularly that women are of equal dignity as men. Women can be just as capable to become doctors, lawyers, CEOs or politicians. Far from being merely sperm receptacles, they are people entitled to the full balance of human dignity. The rallying call of these feminists was \”love me for my mind, not just my body.\”
Those days are long gone. Enter groups such as the Feminist Majority at the University of Illinois. The motto of this group and those like it can be described as \”love me for my body … PLEASE!\” The slogans they chose to put on their T-shirts revolve around sex toys and genitalia. In psychology this would be called a \”fixation.\”
Women traditionally have been looked upon as sexual objects. So what do these neofeminists do? Celebrate and proclaim liberation in being a sex object, of course. Frat boys on campus look at these poor girls as a vagina on two legs and they want to slap that idea on a T-shirt and sell it. They\’ve gone one step further from the prostitution of women to preaching harlotry. The difference between a prostitute and a harlot is that the prostitute at least has enough self respect to demand payment for services rendered.
What the \”patriarchy\” has tried to establish for centuries is whole-heartedly embraced and celebrated, ironically, by self-styled icons of feminism. The results of such puerile notions have been nothing short of tragic.
Every study on the subject has shown that women who buy into the inner-slut mentality of neofeminism are devastated. They suffer from depression, low self-esteem, STDs, single motherhood and they generally feel rejected in life. They grow into jaded women who think that the path to fulfillment is in imitating the worst men among us.
College-aged women can entertain notions of promiscuity-as-fulfillment because society has always lusted after the young woman. However, as they age they find fewer and fewer partners. They\’ve become \”cold product\” and are discarded in favor of \”younger models.\”
It has lead to the rejection of the biggest trait distinctive of women - motherhood. The senseless slaughter of children for the sake of sexual convenience (about 99 percent of all abortions according to the Guttmacher Institute) ranks first among the horrors in the history of humanity. More children have been murdered through abortion than any other genocide in human history. Abortion makes the Holocaust look like a petty crime in comparison.
It is time for a thorough re-evaluation of neofeminism in the light of the human wreckage strewn in its wake. Luckily there are women out there who are discovering that the path to fulfillment does not lie in the inner-slut myth.
Books such as Dawn Eden\’s \”Thrill of the Chaste,\” Wendy Shalit\’s \”A Return to Modesty,\” and others are reexamining the role of sexuality in a woman\’s life and are finding that a sequence of unfulfilling anonymous sexual encounters are not at all empowering.
The case for sexual fidelity has never been stronger. Women are finding that sexual fulfillment isn\’t found in anonymous sexual encounters or relationships that generate only from physically satisfying sexual escapades, but is found from the lifelong, permanent and complete union of marriage.
Being free from the Friday-night quests to the local syphilis buffet for Mr. Right Now means that women are free to pursue being doctors, lawyers, and being all-around great women. You know … all those opportunities that feminism was supposed to create.
John Bambenek is the Assistant Politics Editor for Blogcritics and is an academic professional for the University of Illinois. He is a freelance columnist who blogs at Part-Time Pundit and the executive director of The Tumaini Foundation which helps AIDS orphans in Tanzania with education.
He is the current owner of BlogSoldiers, a blog-only traffic exchange.
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The Pope has been under incredibly heavy security during his visit to Turkey, protected by more than 3,000 police and sharp-shooters. 3,000!
Police monitored the highway leading to Ankara from the airport, where Turkish and Vatican flags waved in a light breeze. Snipers climbed atop buildings and hilltops. In wooded areas along the route, soldiers in camouflage fatigues set up observation points and sniffer dogs passed along bridges.
Though in fear of his life, the Pope has managed to share his message that Islam is ‘peaceful and affectionate‘.
Yes. Affectionate.
Meanwhile, Turkey’s top Muslim official informs the Pope that insulting the religion of peace breeds violence. Amazingly, calling Muslims violent makes them…violent. So that’s a no-no.
Wow. Who knew?
Homeland Security released a little known report earlier this year titled “Detention and Removal of Illegal Aliens”. The report said that terrorist organizations “believe illegal entry into the U.S. is more advantageous than legal entry for operations reasons.” Well, sure, that makes perfect sense. Which is why the following revelation in the Homeland Security report is so disturbing:
Half of the 91,516 illegal aliens from terror-sponsoring countries and those of “special interest” apprehended at the border between 2001 and 2005 were released into the U.S. population…about 85 percent of those aliens – potentially the most dangerous – would abscond and likely never be seen by authorities again.
That’s right. We won’t know where they are until people get blown up. Meanwhile, they get to wander freely among us.
Here’s the kicker: the reason why 45,000 potential terrorists were released into our communities? Budget crunches. Thanks, Washington.
From The Gathering Storm
A recent post at IBA, “The Thud Heard Round the World” by Atlas Shrugs brings up a worrisome idea. Do the Islamists smell blood in the water? Look at the recent aggressive actions by Islamists over the last few weeks and the think about how the aggressiveness has increased logarithmically over the last few decades.
Muslims, driven on by the Islamist agenda are flexing their muscles and intimidating the non-Muslim world more and more to accommodate to them. At the same time declaring that non-Muslims are intolerant when they react negatively to the intimidation here and here, while smiling when non-Muslims resign themselves to dhimmitude.
It seems tolerance goes only one way. How tolerant of the fears of passengers where the six imams who were removed from the flight because they stood up and made a very public display of their nightly prayers? Where was the sensitivity to those on the plan who saw a Muslim praying and feared it was in preparation to kill himself – and everyone around him? And how tolerant was the Muslim lawmaker who ranted and raved at a waiter in Manila and had him fired?
The apologists for this rude and intolerant behavior hope that moderate Muslims can rein in their errant brothers and sisters and that a reformation of Islam is the answer. Many on the right also see this reformation as necessary and, if an when it ever happens, we may have peace between Islam and the non-Muslim world. I and others have written about the need for an Islamic Reformation.
But what if it already happened?
Militant jihad is just one of tactics used by the Islamists to advance their agenda. Islamic Ideological Jihad in the form of cultural jihad is a potent weapon against the non-Muslim world.
Everyone who has been paying attention to the progression of Islamic ideological jihad being waged against the West over the last two decades should not be surprised at the response by CAIR, Islamic leaders, and of course, the media to this event. Mark my words: the plight of the Muslim leaders aboard U.S. Air Flight 300 will be a defining moment in the asymmetrical war in which we are engaged – a water shed event for the tactic of the insidiously effective tool known as Islamic ideological jihad. Expect the fallout from this event to be wide and deep, with the liberally biased media carrying the torch of “Islamophobia” to new heights…….. The tactic here, whether intentional or as a consequence of the “outrage,” will serve to shift the focus away from the threat posed by Islamic terrorism to the unfair treatment of Muslims. In wartime, (and we are at war, whether you believe it or not) this shift of focus will provide those having evil intentions against the United States to operate in a less constricted manner. Whether you believe that this is the intention by those registering objections and outrage, it will nonetheless be the result.
This ideological jihad has its roots in the Muslim Brotherhood and the “project’ that they have been pursuing for almost 100 years. Could this be the reason for the regression of Islam over that few generations? Could it be that this was the Islamic reformation? As Mark Steyn said in his new book America Alone, “We… talk airily about ‘reforming’ Islam. But what if the reform has already taken place, and jihadism is it?”
The Catholic Church had it reformation and it produced Protestant-ism. The Islamic reformation started by the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters produced Islam-ism.
Crossposted from Stop The ACLU Its that time of the year again. The time when the intolerant grinches like the ACLU start trying to fill their stockings with your tax dollars in their attempts to secularize Christmas. The ACLU try their best to deny their attacks on Christmas. They call those defending Christmas the well organized extremists out to make a buck in the guise of defending Christmas. This is of course false. The Alliance Defense Fund, just like last year, are offering their services to defend Christmas completely FREE! However, the lies continue again this year as the ACLU denies their attacks on Christmas. However, their actions speak louder than their words. Already the ACLU have began their attacks. They have already been successful in bullying the Berkley City Council into moving their Christmas nativity scene off public property. This, despite the fact that the display also included other religious and secular elements including a Star of David, Christmas trees, a Santa Claus figure, a Santa’s Mailbox, and a “Seasons Greetings” sign. In their latest attempt to censor Christmas they have sued the Wilson County School System outside of Nashville, TN. because their Christmas program includes “Christian themes and songs.”
The plaintiffs and the ACLU allege that several kindergarten students role-played a nativity scene of the birth of Jesus—and had the audacity to sing “Away in the Manger” and “Joy to the World.” According to the ACLU, these songs are exclusively Christian in nature because they celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and are, therefore, inappropriate.
The ACLJ is defending the school in this case. The ADF has a long list of attacks on Christmas from the ACLU and its allies dating back from 2002 to the present. Yes, its that time of the year again. The season that I get bombarded with emails encouraging people to waste their money on a stamp for a Christmas card wishing the ACLU a merry Christmas. Don’t get me wrong. I understand the sentitment behind the whole thing. I was all on board last year. If you really want them to have a Merry Christmas, or just feel like throwing your money away I won’t discourage it. It will be about as effective as barking at the moon. Your Christmas cheer will be tossed in the mail room shredder and never reach any those you intended to send a message to. I propose that your money could be spent in a much more efficient manner. Save the money you would throw away on the stamp for a message destined to fall on deaf ears. There are many organizations out there fighting to protect Christmas and the expression of its true meaning. Why not take the money you would be throwing away on a noble yet ineffective gesture, and put it to real use as a gift to the organization of your choice that is out there fighting the ACLU? Sign the ACLJ’s Petition here. Contribute Here. See the Alliance Defense Fund’s educational on your rights here. Contribute Here. See the Liberty Counsel’s free legal memorandum here (pdf). Contribute Here. Contribute to Thomas More Law Center here. Buy from the Bulldoze the ACLU store for great Christmas gifts. Contribute to Stop The ACLU’s efforts with the donation button below.
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I am so excited (maybe slightly in a sexual way also), The Passionate America Show will be on the air today live at 4pm Central Time. Wide Awakes Radio has been updating software and expanding the radio stations capabilities over the last two weeks to bring you bigger and better shows. I have been going crazy the last two weeks not being able to do the live show and I have tons of stuff to talk about today.
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From The Gathering Storm
“It is a matter of deep regret that the Government, all political parties and the mass media in Britain are now engaged in a relentless campaign to reduce Muslim citizens of this country to the status of a disparaged and oppressed minority. We have no alternative but to resist this invidious campaign.”
This quote is from the Muslim Manifesto: A Strategy for Survival used to create the Council of British Muslims to act as “a Muslim parliament” in the very same nation that gave us the Magna Carta, detailing the rules of property rights and individual freedoms.
From NewsByUs.
Britain’s Muslim Manifesto made it clear that “Political and cultural subservience goes against their grain” because “at its inception Islam created a political platform from which Muslims were to launch themselves on a global role as founders of great states, empires and a world civilization and culture.” According to the UK’s Muslim Manifesto, “The fact is that a Muslim woman cannot be a western woman.” The problem for Muslims in Great Britain was that “There are laws on the British Statute Book that are in direct conflict with the laws of Allah.”
Can it be made any clearer?
“We are Muslims first and last.” “Jihad is a basic requirement of Islam and living in Britain or having British nationality by birth or naturalization does not absolve the Muslim from his or her duty to participate in jihad: this participation can be active service in armed struggle abroad and/or the provision of material and moral support to those engaged in such struggle anywhere in the world.” “Islam is our guide in all situations.”
Assimilation, according to the Manifesto, wasn’t even an option. Why need it be? By the early 1990s, there were already about 1,000 mosques in Great Britain, many of them former Anglican churches that had been abandoned and sold to Muslims.
As is the case of France today, the Manifesto recommended that “The Muslim community may have to define ‘no go’ areas where the exercise of ‘freedom of speech’ against Islam will not be tolerated.”
We’ve been warned.
“He rode a Blazing Saddle, He wore a shining star, His job to offer battle …”
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“C’mon boys. The way you’s lollygaggin’ ’round here with them picks and them shovels … you’d think it was a hunnert and twenny degrees…”
“Cain’t be more’n a hunnert ‘n fourteen!”
“Ohhh!”
“Dock that Asian-American a day’s pay for nappin’ on the job.”
“How come I don’t hear no singin’? When you wuz bein’ oppressed during an error for which you should be entitled to reparations … you sung like birds…”
“How ’bout a good ol’ African-American work song.”
“Ebony and Ivory, live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my piano keyboard, Oh! Lord! Why don’t we…”
From The Gathering Storm
A leading children’s publisher has dumped a novel because of political sensitivity over Islamic issues.
Scholastic Australia pulled the plug on the Army of the Pure after booksellers and librarians said they would not stock the adventure thriller for younger readers because the “baddie” was a Muslim terrorist. A prominent literary agent has slammed the move as “gutless”, while the book’s author, award-winning novelist John Dale, said the decision was “disturbing because it’s the book’s content they are censoring”. “There are no guns, no bad language, no sex, no drugs, no violence that is seen or on the page,” Dale said, but because two characters are Arabic-speaking and the plot involves a mujaheddin extremist group, Scholastic’s decision is based “100 per cent (on) the Muslim issue”.
Now contrast that with this. Hold your cookies. Derranged mind at work.
This decision is at odds with the recent publication of Richard Flanagan’s bestselling The Unknown Terrorist and Andrew McGahan’s Underground in which terrorists are portrayed as victims driven to extreme acts by the failings of the West. The Unknown Terrorist is dedicated to David Hicks and describes Jesus Christ as “history’s first … suicide bomber”.
Who are these people?! What are they thinking?
Maybe someone like this. Hat tip to American Israeli Patriot.
In a shocking interview with the Jerusalem Post, UN High Commissioner for Human (Arab) Rights Louise Arbour implies that Israel is more culpable than Hezbollah for civilian deaths during the Lebanon war. This despite the fact that Hezbollah intentionally targeted civilians while Israel did not. This despite the fact that Hezbollah used human shields while Israel did not. Asked by the Post if there was a distinction under human rights law between missile attacks aimed at killing civilians and military strikes in which civilians are unintentionally killed, Arbour said the two could not be equated.
“She claims that accidental deaths caused by Israel are more criminal that the intentional deaths caused by Hezbollah.”
In her never ending quest to vilify Israel, Arbour knows no boundaries. She visits the relatives of dead terrorists while refusing to meet the relatives of kidnapped Israelis. She is willing to hang the victims and exonerate the criminals. Louise Arbour is truly a shining star of the UN.
Another victory for the First Amendment brought to you by the ACLU.
The Associated Press is reporting that the City of Chicago has threatened the organizers of an annual German festival, Christkindlmarket, over one of their sponsors. This sponsor, according to the City of Chicago, would be \”insensitive to the many people of different faiths… [and] contrary to acceptable advertising standards…\”
Was this sponsor the KKK? The World Church of the Creator? No. The sponsor was a movie studio, New Line Cinema. New Line Cinema sponsored the event (until their money was turned down because of the threats of the City of Chicago) with advertisements of the movie, \”The Nativity Story\”.
Predictably, the City tried to hide behind the \”separation of church and state\” doctrine. Skipping past the fact that the First Amendment requires institutional separation, not the purging of all things religious, the characterization of New Line Cinema as a religious institution is somewhat contrived.
Some of the movies New Line has put out include such religious classics as \”The Texas Chainsaw Massacre\”, \”Snakes on a Plane\”, the Austin Powers series, and \”Blow.\” New Line is a thoroughly secular company that produces movies that range from the pornographic, to the flippant gore, to children\’s movies. They\’ve decided to make a movie about the Nativity, an event that is indisputably consequential in the history of mankind no matter what you believe.
The City of Chicago could have had a problem sponsoring a festival called \”Christkindlmarket\” but they don\’t. They could have a problem with the nativity scenes that take place in this festival, but they don\’t because they include celebrations of other faiths. They had a problem that the included a small ad from New Line, who paid for it, for the movie \”The Nativity Story\”.
There is no outright religious imagery at all in that ad. No crosses, no mention of religion, only the name of a film the references the same event celebrated by Christkindlmarket.
There is no War on Christmas, the War is on Christians. Organizations such as the ACLU and the City of Chicago hold that they do not have the right to exist, to live their lives as they see fit, nor speak their mind in anyway where someone might overhear them. As was put on Captain\’s Quarters blog, \”they reject on culture in order to keep from offending others.\” Diversity and multiculturalism means a certain culture needs to be purged from public view in the City of Chicago.
Even when Christians choose to create their own cities and live by their own rules, the ACLU brings out the big guns to stop it. If one in a hundred thousand pharmacists want to live by their conscience and not dispense pills to murder babies, Illinois issues \”emergency laws\” to stop them. It isn\’t enough that 99,999 of 100,000 pharmacists would fill the script, it\’s that there is one pharmacist out there who has values that need to be excised from society as if it were a cancer.
The City of Chicago\’s decision has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with separation of Church and State or multiculturalism. It is censorship, pure and simple. It\’s yet another declaration of war on Christianity\’s right to exist.
John Bambenek is the Assistant Politics Editor for Blogcritics and is an academic professional for the University of Illinois. He is a freelance columnist who blogs at Part-Time Pundit and the executive director of The Tumaini Foundation which helps AIDS orphans in Tanzania with education.
He is the current owner of BlogSoldiers, a blog-only traffic exchange.
For some time now, we have been hearing about how horrible it is the Michael Richards used the “n-word”, and now is instantly a racist, yet no one talks about all of the black comics, singers, other-performers who use that word and many other racially charged words DAILY! You see, we have gotten to a point where now, it is actually accepted that only white people can be racist, and are whether they want to be or not. You read that right, it would not matter what I did or did not do, to listen to the likes of the “reverend” Jesse Jackson, the “reverend” Al Sharpton, and the rest of the talking heads, just the simple act of my going to school is a racist act, because I am white. Well, I am SICK AND TIRED of being told that unless I completely and totally support anything “the left” is for, that I am either intolerant, a bigot, a racist, a nazi, or worse. It began with abortion, which is seen as a right that cannot be taken away, despite the fact that even IF the Supreme Court reversed Roe V Wade TODAY, abortion would not be “criminalized”, the decision would simply revert to the states, WHERE IT BELONGS! But, beyond that, I am called a sexist pig for speaking out against PARTIAL BIRTH abortions. You see, in that procedure, the “fetus” (but to use the logic of the pro-murderchoice crowd, since there is no need for the womb, it is a CHILD) is allowed to crown. At that point, the CHILD’S skull is punctured and their brain is vacuumed out. Simple non-invasive procedure, unless you consider the CHILD who IS viable outside the womb! I actually had someone say that they could not believe I would argue harder for the rights of someone who had not even been born yet over a “poor child who did not plan to get pregnant” (not a rape victim, not a victim of other sexual abuse, she just “didn’t plan on getting pregnant”), to which I have and will always reply, she is old enough and able to argue on her own behalf, the child is not, therefore I will never cease to fight for the child. You see, abortion is no longer for those women who are raped, assaulted otherwise, or a pregnancy where the child will not survive no matter what, but the mother can be save. Abortion is now seen as birth control, and thanks to the aclu(natics) and planned parenthood (evasion), it is almost impossible to stop someone from taking a MINOR across state lines WITHOUT her parents knowing for a VERY INVASIVE medical procedure (and don’t start on the loophole, I know about the judicial loop hole, and I support it).
Charlie “Draft ‘Em” Rangel showed up on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and did what he does best: ate his foot. Chris Wallace had just gotten done going over the stats that show that US military recruits are less likely to be black, or come from poorer backgrounds, or be high school dropouts. Then Wallace asked Rangel, “Isn’t the volunteer Army better educated and more well to do than the general population?” Now, that’s a beautifully lobbed softball if I ever saw one, because Wallace had just fed Rangel ALL THE FACTS.
So like the unthinking dumbass he truly is, Rangel answered:
I want to make it abundantly clear: if there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.
WRONG! That’s been proven wrong on so many different levels, I don’t know how Rangel can sit there with a pious face and spout such nonsense! But guess what - that’s exactly what the Democrat leadership believes. Kerry’s “botched joke” a few weeks ago? Well, it was no joke - it’s the official Democratic party line.
HotAir has the video.
I’d like to point you to a statistical report issued by the Heritage Foundation: Who Bears the Burden? Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Recruits Before and After 9/11. It shatters ALL of the current myths, as perpetuated by the Democrats, of exactly WHO is serving in our armed forces during this long war. The report analyzes the demographics of enlisted recruits vis-à-vis the general population by looking at the following characteristics: household income, level of education, race/ethnicity, and region/rural origin. Here are some interesting highlights:
In summary, we found that, on average, 1999 recruits were more highly educated than the equivalent general population, more rural and less urban in origin, and of similar income status. We did not find evidence of minority racial exploitation (by race or by race-weighted ZIP code areas). We did find evidence of a “Southern military tradition” in that some states, notably in the South and West, provide a much higher proportion of enlisted troops by population.
The household income of recruits generally matches the income distribution of the American population. There are slightly higher proportions of recruits from the middle class and slightly lower proportions from low-income brackets. However, the proportion of high-income recruits rose to a disproportionately high level after the war on terrorism began, as did the proportion of highly educated enlistees.
Household Income: We found that recruits tend to come from middle-class areas, with disproportionately fewer from low-income areas. Education Levels of Recruits: We find that, on average, recruits tend to be much more highly educated than the general public and that this education disparity increased after the war on terrorism began. Racial Representation Among Recruits: We found that whites are one of the most proportionally represented groups—making up 77.4 percent of the population and 75.8 percent of all recruits—whereas other racial categories are often represented in noticeably higher and lower proportions than the general population. The demographic data on race reveal that military enlistees are not, in fact, more heavily recruited from black neighborhoods. The data also reveal that minorities serve in different proportions, but not because fewer whites are serving.
Regional Analysis: Recruits are disproportionately rural, not urban, and as rural concentration[8] rises, so does military enlistment…The constant increase in the recruit/population ratio contradicts the assertion that military recruiting targets youth in inner cities. In fact, entirely urban areas are the area most underrepresented among recruits. Both suburban and rural areas are overrepresented. The Southern Military Tradition: The South is overrepresented among military recruits. It provided 42.2 percent of 1999 recruits and 41.0 percent of 2003 recruits but contained just 35.6 percent of the population ages 18–24. However, other regions also provide a higher proportion of enlistees. The states with the highest enlistment proportional ratings by far are Montana, Alaska, Wyoming, and Maine.
I’m sure these FACTS are quite similar to what Wallace fed Rangel, but Rangel won’t let FACTS get in the way of his rhetoric. He has a draft to impose!
I thought I had sorted everything out until 4am this morning, when the phone started to chant again. There must be some kind of code buried deep in the phone’s firmware which means it is destined to be the call-to-prayer in our lives. With a very loud and lambasting muezzin a few metres away from our house (its less a call-to-prayer, and more a We’re keeping this loudspeaker on as long as we like) its all a bit much for we Buddhist infidels. Now there’s a thought - what would a Buddhist phone do?
America is caught in a time of great crisis. Never before has she faced such a menacing threat to the freedoms she upholds. Terrorists swarm around her on all sides, threatening with their evil plans. And yet there are many, inside America as well as out, who are actually rooting for the terrorists to win.
Perhaps you are one of these terrorist sympathizers. Or maybe you are a true American patriot. There is only one way to find out for sure, and that is to take this quiz. Answer HONESTLY, no deceiving, and at the end you will find out how much of a traitor you are. Good luck.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
THE END
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THE U.K. VERSION
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press conference and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are cold and starving.
The BBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper; with cuts to a video of the squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food.
The British press informs people that they should be ashamed that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so, while others have plenty.
The Labour Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and The Grasshopper Council of GB demonstrate in front of the squirrel’s house.
The BBC, interrupting a cultural festival special from Notting Hill with breaking news, broadcasts a multi cultural choir singing “We Shall Overcome”.
Ken Livingstone rants in an interview with Trevor McDonald that the squirrel got rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his “fair share” and increases the charge for squirrels to enter inner London.
In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The squirrel’s taxes are reassessed.
He is taken to court and fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as builders for the work he was doing on his home and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the grasshopper did not want to work.
The grasshopper is provided with a council house, financial aid to furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be socially mobile. The squirrel’s food is seized and re distributed to the more needy members of society, in this case the grasshopper.
Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start building a new home.
The local authority takes over his old home and utilizes it as a temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get to Britain as they had to share their country of origin with mice. On arrival they tried to blow up the airport because of Britain’s apparent love of dogs.
The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking and attempted bombing but were immediately released because the police fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody.
Initial moves to then return them to their own country were abandoned because it was feared they would face death by the mice. The cats devise and start a scam to obtain money from people’s credit cards.
A Panorama special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the squirrel’s food, though spring is still months away, while the council house he is in, crumbles around him because he hasn’t bothered to maintain the house.
He is shown to be taking drugs. Inadequate government funding is blamed for the grasshopper’s drug ‘illness’.
The cats seek recompense in the British courts for their treatment since arrival in UK.
The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks.
He is placed in the care of the probation service to monitor and supervise him. Within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.
A commission of enquiry, that will eventually cost £10,000,000 and state the obvious, is set up.
Additional money is put into funding a drug rehabilitation scheme for grasshoppers and legal aid for lawyers representing asylum seekers is increased.
The asylum-seeking cats are praised by the government for enriching Britain’s multicultural diversity and dogs are criticized by the government for failing to befriend the cats.
The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose. The usual sections of the press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic experience of prison.
They call for the resignation of a minister.
The cats are paid a million pounds each because their rights were infringed when the government failed to inform them there were mice in the United Kingdom.
The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing, the burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on their credit cards to cover losses, their taxes are increased to pay for law and order and they are told that they will have to work beyond 65 because of a shortfall in government funds.
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The AWB finally gets its ass kicked…the Oil for Food scandal and Australia’s AWB…how our own Wheat Board lied to our government
The court heard Saddam had provided Park with a war chest of $US2.5 million to try to have the UN sanctions regime, imposed on Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, lifted. Former UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali was one of the targets, but it has never been proved that he took money.
But Park did make a $US1 million investment in a failing company controlled by Canadian businessman Maurice Strong, who at the time was a close aide to Dr Boutros-Ghali’s successor, Kofi Annan.
Mr Annan, of course, knew nothing about it.
As usual.
It now appears very obvious why Russia didn’t want the US in Iraq.
Russia, which handled about 30 per cent of the Iraqi oil traded without importing a drop, has ignored allegations made against its nationals, including extremist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
Mr Chalmers’s Houston company Bayoil allegedly paid for 28 oil vouchers held by Mr Zhirinovsky, sending $1.7 million to the account of a Liberian outfit called Plasco Shipping, a company allegedly linked with another Bayoil employee. Bank records show Plasco transferred a similar sum to a Cyprus account with the reference “in favour of Igor Lebedev”, Mr Zhirinovsky’s son.
Several key questions remain regarding Kofi Annan:
* Did the U.N. Secretary-General deliberately turn a blind eye to U.N. mismanagement and corruption in overseeing the Oil-for-Food program?
*Did he sympathize with the efforts of Saddam Hussein and key members of the Security Council to lift U.N. sanctions against Iraq?
*Were efforts made by the Hussein regime to influence the actions and decisions of the Secretary-General with regard to Iraq?
*Was Annan influenced in his decision-making regarding the program by his son’s involvement with Cotecna?
Also on this weeks show…a battle report, as the searing heat of Australia’s summer opens the bush fire season
A total fire ban has been declared across most of NSW ahead of a forecast return to hazardous conditions for the rest of the week - searing heat, low humidity and high winds.
The rapidly deteriorating conditions could maximise the threat posed by a huge bushfire raging in the Blue Mountains, which has so far burnt out more than 15,000 hectares.
12-2PM PST Saturday. See you then.
Last week, the Wife and I were honored to be invited to a graduation. My daughter, the Little Princess, was dating a cadet at the United States Military Academy. Lots simply call it West Point.
He’s no longer at West Point. He graduated. And, no, that’s not the graduation we went to.
Her Soldier Boy went to Ft. Benning for training. And he’s just completed the Infantry Basic Officer Leaders Course. And that’s the graduation to which we were invited.
We got to meet his family. Nice folks. And we all went out to eat afterwards. And it was a wonderful experience.
But the graduation was wonderful, too. We go to witness the Little Princess’ little lieutenant receive his blue cord, the symbol of the Infantry.
Then, afterwards, something happened that I didn’t expect. They invited all soldiers … and former soldiers … to participate in reciting the Soldier’s Creed. And, being a former soldier, I once again had the honor to stand and recite…
The Soldier’s Creed
I am an American Soldier.
I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values.
I will always place the mission first.
I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade.I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself.
I am an expert and I am a professional.
I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat.
I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
I am an American Soldier.
While I’m no longer wearing my country’s uniform, there are some fine young men … and women … wearing it today.
The Little Princess’ soldier boy is no longer a Cadet. He’s no longer in training. He’s an officer in the United States Army. I’m proud to know The Lieutenant … and to have met many of the new lieutenants that are serving and leading in today’s Army.
The country’s in good hands.
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