"Fight those who do not believe in Allah, ... nor follow the religion of truth... until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection." Qur'an, Sura 9:29 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
BULL! I will neither pay nor be subjected.
"Yihiyeh beseder"
I can hear the cries of "corruption" from the Truthers already! I don't even care. When the whole world is a plot by the elites it does not make much difference anymore what the plot is. As long as I get my health benefits and a paycheck what is wrong up there? So what if the elites have a plot to control the world. Maybe it will lead to world peace.
So, 9/11 was really not a CIA plot. The dotted lines are being closed off. The Truthers are turning out to be nuts. Well, not that there was much doubt before.
About time some of these stupid waste of dollars investigations started to conclude.
I am stealing this from a friend. Who probably stole it from someplace else. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it with your CHRISTMAS fun.
How the "Left" Stole Christmas ~ ~ ~
Twas the month before Christmas When all through our land, Not a Christian was praying nor taking a stand. See the PC Police had taken away, The reason for Christmas - no one could say. The children were told by their schools not to sing, About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things. It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say December 25th is just a " Holiday ". Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it! CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod Something was changing, something quite odd! Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda. As Targets were hanging their trees upside down At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found. At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears. Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty Are words that were used to intimidate me. Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton ! At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter. And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded The reason for the season, stopped before it started. So as you celebrate "Winter Break" under your "Dream Tree" Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me. ~ ~ ~ Choose your words carefully, choose what you say Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS, not Happy Holiday!
"As for Baha'ism, it is not one of the recognized heavenly religions, and who over follows it from the muslims will be considerd an apostate since its principles stand in opposion with the principles of the Islamic religion, plus the other heavenly religions. Furthermore, its believers have totally and utterly forbidden the islamic sharia sanctioned Jihad, for they wish to get the islamic nations to hand its neck to their executioners without any resistance, using idelaistic and romantic speeches to get everybody to agree to one global government, which is the one true aim of the Baha'i religion, and the secretive reason why they are supported by the imperialistic powers- old and new- which shelters them and defends their rights…"
Why isn't this headlines here? Every poll that shows something even minorly bad is put on the front page of every newspaper! Why not this? KABUL, Dec 15 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Majority of Afghans support the government of President Hamid Karzai and the presence of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, suggest a new poll for WorldPublicOpinion.
Ninety per cent countrymen rate President Karzai positively. However, the poll finds the support was on the decline because majority of Afghans are frustrated with the slow pace of the ongoing reconstruction process.
Afghans also do not like the Taliban to stage a come back. Taliban remain overwhelmingly unpopular and few Afghans believe the religious militants are likely to regain power, despite the surge in their attacks on NATO forces in recent months, suggest the poll.
Regarding the presence of foreign troops in the country and their peacekeeping/counter-insurgency operations and reconstruction activities, most people believe they are doing well.
Seventy-five per cent have a favourable view of US forces and 77 per cent describe NATO forces as effective, says the survey. With the exception of a little number of residents of this central capital, majority of Afghans in the provinces can not differentiate between NATO and coalition/US forces and their job.
Today, in a speech at his official residence in Downing Street, prime minister Tony Blair made a statement in which he claimed that all citizens should conform to "common values". He said: "When it comes to our essential values - belief in democracy, the rule of law, tolerance, equal treatment for all, respect for this country and its shared heritage - then that is where we come together, it is what we hold in common."
"If you come here lawfully, we welcome you. If you are permitted to stay here permanently, you become an equal member of our community and become one of us. The right to be different, the duty to integrate: that is what being British means.And neither racists nor extremists should be allowed to destroy it."
The politically correct lobby at Croydon Council, in the name of "multiculturalism", is practicing its own divisive policies which encourage a lack of integration.
Great that Blair is saying this!
Too bad that the man he wants to replace him thinks that Islam can be appeased and that the military is scum. He is trying to close the last military hospital in Britain. He sends suspected terrorists from England to other Muslim countries to learn and teach. Dhimmi scum.
UPDATE: I was accused of sounding like I am supporting a Nazi-style laws about immigrants. NOT the case at all.
Hitler advocated the extermination of the Jews, Christians, gays, Gypsies, criminals, etc.
WE are not advocating the death of anyone but criminals. We are advocating the return to their country(s) of origin if they refuse to act as if they want to live in the civilized world.
The Somalis in England say that they can not live with England's laws and are creating their own system of law based upon their laws back home. If they do not like English Law, send them home!
Some have compared this to the Jewish tradition where they set up a system of laws and courts to deal with Jewish traditions and religious codes. This is similar, but, to my thinking, not similar enough. The Jewish courts do not replace the secular courts. They do not deal with the breaking of local laws. They are designed to still enforce the Laws handed down for the known history but are no longer acknowledged by secular laws. For example, adultery. The secular laws no longer care if someones spouse is messing around. The religious courts do care and enforce the biblical laws. However, the Muslims setting up sharia law in certain areas of a country are ignoring the local laws in favor of the sharia ones. This is criminal. You can not ignore the local laws.
I have been reading the news as per my usual and started thinking about the Crusades. Mainly because the muslims keep calling the people from the West Crusaders.
Does anyone remember reason for the Crusades? Especially the first one?
And, for those you are a little slow, please remember that America had yet to be found and repopulated by the Europeans. America did not partake in ANY crusades. There were no automobiles so oil was not something people were looking for. Good luck!
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Ethiopia launched an attack Sunday on Somalia’s powerful Islamic movement, sending fighter jets across the border and bombarding several towns in a major escalation of the violence that threatens to engulf the Horn of Africa.
Ethiopia confirmed the attacks, the first time it has acknowledged that its troops were fighting in Somalia, though witnesses have reported their presence for weeks.
“After too much patience, the Ethiopian government has taken a self-defensive measure and has begun counterattacking the aggressive extremist forces of the (Islamic council) and foreign terrorist groups,” said Ethiopia’s foreign affairs spokesman, Solomon Abebe.
The Council of Islamic Courts has vowed to drive out troops from neighboring Ethiopia, a largely Christian nation that is providing military support to Somalia’s U.N.-backed government.
“They are cowards,” said Sheik Mohamoud Ibrahim Suley, an official with Somalia’s Council of Islamic Courts. “They are afraid of the face-to-face war and resorted to airstrikes. I hope God will help us shoot down their planes.”
I read this and could not decide whether to laugh or get angry. On the one hand I want the Somali clerics to be sent to Allah because they anger me. On the other hand I have to laugh at the phrase "U.N.-backed government :))
Being backed by the UN is such a waste. It almost guarantees you failure. When was the last time the UN got involved and won? Was it on terrorism? Was it in Bosnia? Kosovo? Haiti?
How long will the UN let Christians die before they move. I am willing to bet the answer is "a few years." Would anyone like to bet?
Your tax dollars at work: US government meets with CAIR and other Muslim leaders to discuss "Islamophobia" - Jihad Watch
I have been slacking a little on blogging. That is about over. I can no longer tolerate the insanity I see about me. I am a generally tolerant person. The insanity must stop!
In this article on Jihad Watch, I read about US diplomats working inside the United States to help gain an understanding of why Muslims feel persecuted in the Free World. I thought diplomats were trained to work outside their country of origin? Is this an admission that the US no longer has control of Muslims within the US? I want to know exactly what happened in these meetings.
One of the reasons stated for these meetings is that "Islamophobia" is getting significantly worse. These findings by CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) have already been proven as loaded with lies. The Koran tells Muslims that lying to kafir is not only allowed, but encouraged. Therefore, WHY should we trust them? And why should these admitted liars get to define this term?
Give me a few million! I can tell the government why people are afraid of Muslims. DUH! Here is a hint: 9/11, 7/7, World Trade Center bombing I, suicide bombers, jihad, holy warriors, and Danish Cartoon Riots. Give me one Muslim leader who is NOT afraid to speak against these despicable people and acts and THEN there is something to talk about.
Anjem Choudhury, a Muslim leader in Britain, admits that killing non-Muslims is allowed and required by sharia law. If they are expected to lie to us and kill us in the name of religion, why are we supposed to tolerate this? When are we going to start stomping the guts out of every Muslim who does not denounce holy war? Choudhury starts his interview by condemning the murder of innocents and later says that only Muslims are innocent because they accept the rule of Allah the merciful killer of women and children. The British destroyed the cult of Kali in India while it was their colony. I fear it might be getting close to that time for Islam if they can not police up their radicals.
PESHAWAR, Dec 22: A ‘fatwa’ calling upon Muslims to wage a “jihad against non-governmental organisations”, including the UN and human rights organisations, has been distributed in Darra Adamkhel.
The ‘fatwa’ attributed to one Mufti Khalid Shah, who claims to have a master’s degree in Arabic, Islamiyat and political science, urged the people to attack workers, offices and vehicles of the NGOs “promoting the agenda of the Jews and Christians”.
I can only hope that none of the Idealists and peaceniks who populate the NGOs get killed. Beaten up might be good for them, though.
Maybe, just maybe, the peaceniks will figure out that they are aiding evil people!
The Immunity [9.5] So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
A 17 year old boy was admitted to a hospital with extreme pain and swelling in the groin. When sent for an ultrasound, a veiled woman radiologist Dr. K. Aribag refused to administer the test and told the patient to return the next day. The young man was disappointed for a second time when the second doctor turned out to be another veiled female doctor who also refused to treat him, due to the Islamic ban on touching a man's body. Finally, after the Chief Physician was involved and a male radiologist was found, the young man underwent an emergency surgery, but lost a testical due to the delays.
I use the VA hospitals for my medical needs and it seems like half of the doctors are Pakistani or Indian. Is this going to emigrate to the US soon too?
Two out of three charged with rape in Norway’s capital are immigrants with a non-western background according to a police study. The number of rape cases is also rising steadily.The study is the first where the crime statistics have been analyzed according to ethnic origin. Of the 111 charged with rape in Oslo last year, 72 were of non-western ethnic origin, 25 are classified as Norwegian or western and 14 are listed as unknown.
Rape charges in the capital are spiraling upwards, 40 percent higher from 1999 to 2000 and up 13 percent so far this year.
Nine out of ten cases do not make it to prosecution, most of them because police do not believe the evidence is sufficient to reach a conviction.
Police Inspector Gunnar Larsen of Oslo’s Vice, Robbery and Violent crime division says the statistics are surprising - the rising number of rape cases and the link to ethnic background are both clear trends. But Larsen does not want to speculate on the reasons behind the worrying developments.
While 65 percent of those charged with rape are classed as coming from a non-western background, this segment makes up only 14.3 percent of Oslo’s population. Norwegian women were the victims in 80 percent of the cases, with 20 percent being women of foreign background.
Those violent Buddists are really making me sick! I wonder what other non-westerners might think that the rape of women is halal?
I found this video on LGF and was so rocked that I just had to finally start blogging on here again. I am even planning on cutting over many posts from other blogs and consolidating it all here. NOW ROCK THE HOUSE!!
As I was reading the news today, on LGF, about Islam in Britian I found what I, at first, thought was a conlict. I decided to post the two quotes here and have a pop quiz.
Here are the two phrases: 1) "That killing of innocent civilians is absolutely forbidden in Islam and anyone who contemplates or commits any such act, does so against the teachings of Islam." (Islamic leaders across Birmingham issued joint message against terrorism)
2)A known British Mullah Mr. Anjum Chaudri describes the "Killing of Innocent" Non-Muslims civilians in the suicide bombing as "Legitimate". He is entirely ready to condemn attacks on innocent civilians, but he notes that because non-Muslims have rejected Islam, none of them are innocent. Therefore attacks like 9/11 and 7/7 are perfectly justified. (I have the video, but am too lazy to transcribe it right now. This is close enough.)
At first I thought the one was condeming the other, but quickly realized that they are saying the same thing! WHAT GAVE ME THE CLUE?
A new United Nations report blames cattle and other livestock for greenhouse gas emissions
Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.
A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs.
Imagine, wild herbivores were running amok for milennia, destroying the environment and plotting in their evil little planteater brains to bring the world closer and closer to the brink of cataclysmic climate change.
Let us all, for the sake of the environment, buy steaks for each other. The worlds cattle population must drop! Now, who took the A1?
I read this story and was amazed. Here is a great guy. A heroic warrior who fears little in life, giving back to his friends by throwing them a party with his life insurance. This is an idea that might catch on! What a wake!
When I die, I just want to have my ashes dumped over the lake my fathers ashes are in. There are many things I wanted to talk to him about and that might be the best chance to get close.
Greg Stolz and Paula Doneman November 17, 2006 11:00pm
Article from:
A SELF-proclaimed British multi-millionaire named Mohammed Islam who was arrested on the Gold Coast with almost $120,000 in cash is under investigation as to whether he has terrorist connections.
Queensland police yesterday refused to comment on their investigation into the man, 22, but at this stage there is reportedly no evidence to link him with terrorist activity.
Islam allegedly had $118,000 in $50 notes in a suitcase and a mobile phone concealed in his rectum when he was arrested at a Surfers Paradise bus station on Thursday night.
Islam faced Southport Magistrate's Court yesterday charged with possessing tainted property but police prosecutor Sarah Fox said more serious charges could be laid.
Constable Fox said Customs officers in Sydney had found no large sums of money in Islam's luggage when he arrived in the country and he had not declared any.
A check with Interpol revealed Islam had supplied police with a false address in London.
Constable Fox told the court Islam had a criminal history in England relating to fraud, theft, public disorder and drug offences.
I have thought about it hard. I think that this guy was just a rich playboy Muslim out on the town having fun. No terror connections at all! Just a nice guy in the wrong place with a little walking out money. Oh? The cell phone? He is just a little kinky! How dare you question this man's sexuality!
Great, if Palestinian terrorists are using liquid explosives to get around the bomb detectors, what the heck are we going to see every where else? The Israelis already make the best equipment for detecting bombs outside of a dog's nose.
Where did the Palestinian death cult get this kind of technology? Is it imported? How? Which terrorist sponsoring country developed this technology? I am not sure, but I am willing to place a large bet on Iran being the source of the chemicals found in these bombs. As well as the technology behind the mixture. It might be time to bomb the governmental buildings in Iran. The West has the power and technology to just harm the buildings they want to destroy and save the ones next to it.
Life for the boys in blue has never been busier. Criminals seem to be everywhere and into everything. Terrorists are being apprehended all the time, though because they are stopped before the crime, they are stopped for other things even though the government knows they are terrorists. Besides, Al Capone was sent to jail on tax evasion, not murder or anything that they would have liked to prove he did. Busting the terrorists on something stupid, before they blow themselves up in a crowded mall, is so much more reasonable than waiting for them to commit the big crime. Even if the ACLU is complaining about this tactic of preemptive arrest and deportation or jail.
The article I have linked to here is a great one that was mentioned years ago and then has been forgotten about. They do not arrest people. They do not monitor phone calls, except the ones to them. They do not carry badges or guns. Though some law enforcement agents assigned to work with them do. What they are are computer geeks and brainiacs.
Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) is almost as new as the Department of Homeland Security. While DHS is getting headlines for successes and screwups, mainly screwups because the successes can not be mentioned for about 100 years,the TSC works almost totally behind the scenes.
After 9/11 it came to be common knowledge that all of the various government agencies had databases about terrorists. Also, that all of these databases were different and had different numbers of suspects. The TSC is the organization that was created to consolidate all this information. Dozens of databases written in different computer languages and formats. They put it all together in less than four months and started working. The first week they were open they even helped arrest a terror suspect who had been stopped over a thousand miles from where he was 'known' to be. Who and where are highly classified, so do not even bother asking.
What is good though is that all of the Federal agencies have personnel working at the TSC. They are working together and feeding in the constant changes that intelligence and law enforcement officers around the world have collected. This can be a positive change when people are taken off the list because they were proven to have no ties to the terrorist they were suspected of having interaction with, or they can be positive in that the suspect has been arrested or killed.
I am very glad that the TSC exists. I am also glad that the government has pooled the resources so that suspected terrorists can be monitored more closely. This is a key reason that so few terrorist actions have taken place in the United States. If the Administration is able to achieve its goal of combining this database with foreign databases it will mean that more terrorists will be known, monitored and arrested. Some might call this Big Brother, but if my name is in that database it is going to be in a lonely file at the far back and never get called to the front.
Thank you President Bush for removing the barriers between these databases and thank you TSC for stopping the terrorists before Americans die.
Yesterday a friend called me upset because of having to go to a funeral. It is for a little girl, only 16, who my friend's mother used to be a foster mother for. She was in foster care because her father had sexually abused her. She left foster care after a few years and soon ended up in high school. Here she met a young boy who committed a murder in front of her. She told some friends and then her horribly beaten body was found in a dumpster. She was almost unrecognizable.
This led to a discussion about what to do with the sick little baby killer murderer who did this to her. And what to do about her sick and perverted father. Is it justice to just keep these two in prison for the next few years until they plea their way out of the prison? Is it worthwhile to keep these guys in prison for years and years?
We joked that maybe if all the murderers and rapists were allowed boxcutters and just went at each other would it save a bunch of money. We could then give this savings to the victims.
This led me to the US Department of Justice's website and a long list of tables and charts to see and learn from. I learned that there were 2,186,000 prisoners were held in Federal or State prisons or in local jails at the end of Jun 2005, the most recent I could find. It cost the Government, at all levels, $60.86 million to support all those prisoners. Which means that taxpayers spent an average of $27, 836 per prisoner per year.
Of these prisoners, 3377 are on death row. The average time on death row is more than nine years and with this many prisoners costing us $94 million a year, could not that money be better used?
If we cut off the appeals after 48 months and that can save millions a year. If we start saving this money, we can easily give each victim a million dollars. Maybe give the murderer/rapist/whatever a chance to give the victim extra cash if he would end his appeals even sooner than that.
What can we do to expedite this? How can we make this happen? This would allow our country to save millions of dollars and it would free up some of the overcrowding in the prisons. The victims would get something for their trauma. What is the downside of this?
I would like all people who think that there might be some justice in this to help with this new campaign. Now that the Republicans are out of power and honest Democrats are in who understand the rights of victims, I am sure something can be done. It will have to be quick in case the balance of power shifts again in 2008.
This really scares me. Terrorists, the standard type with guns and bombs, bother me. Terrorists with bioweapons scare the snot out of me. I have studied and worried about this for years. Ever since Aum Shinrikyo's terror attacks on the Tokyo subways I have worried.
For those who do not remember, the Aum Shinrikyo cult believed that the end of the world was coming and civilized people had slowed it down. They wanted to break civilization so that the End would finally arrive. They experimented with botulin toxin and anthrax spores before settling on making sarin nerve gas and releasing it in the subways during rush hour. Fortunately, the batch was not very pure and only killed a fraction of what they had hoped.
With this new synthetic biology, the Aum would have been able to kill the thousands they had been trying to. What is worse is that the methods used previously were illegal and fell within the limits of international treaties. This is not and does not. It is legal but unethical. Ethics do not stop terrorists who think beheading innocents are justified.
Can synthetic biology be slowed or stopped? Doubtful. Once a technology is know to exist almost anyone with similar training, or intelligence, can figure out how to duplicate it. Such as what happened with nuclear weapons.
What can be done about this then? Not much. Controls must be designed and implemented. Laws will need to be passed. Monitors will have to be emplaced. All of this just to ensure that the work that is done is kept within the legal and ethical codes that are developed for the public good.
I really enjoy the English language and here is a liberal that I can agree with about the proper use of language. I have been pressuring liberals for years about what they are trying to change and what they are liberal about. It is mainly the persecution of Judeo-Christian values.
The best part is the number of Jews who protest that they are liberals and want to persecute themselves. For example, Jews do not have a religious problem with abortion, but do not think it should happen often or after a few months. A baby is not considered to be alive until it takes its first breath. I can not argue with this. It is a religious thing. But this one issue forces them to vote against support for Israel and a Jewish state.
Christians are highly divided upon many social issues. Some are liberal and some are more conservative. Come are very liberal and some are very conservative. The Bible has a lot of information in it and is easy to interpret the way one wants to by ignoring the parts that say something one does not want to hear.
Muslims are very conservative. They greatly dislike anyone who can think without the help of an Imam. I suspect that many Imams are only there for the power and are not really that religious except as how it looks for their power base. Not all mind you. Just some. It is the same with Germany during the 1930s, Only a few are doing the bad things.
Which brings me in a round about way back to liberals and language. The liberals have gone so far to the left that they are becoming the thing they hate the most: control freaks. They are misusing the language just as the Nazis did. They are making things up and are creating many strange stories that have no real basis in fact but seem to be contrived lies based upon small bits of truth. It is those small bits that matter.
Two probable futures: Option 1- the Dems will start many investigations of Bush, leading to impeachment. They will abandon the Iraqis and the Israelis to the terrorists. Europe will follow the path to liberalism and surrender. White Europeans will be sold into slavery as sharia law is adopted through out the Caliphate of Eurabia. The Dems will praise the enlightenment of white slavery and how the European women are helping the cause by allowing the Muslim men unrestricted access to 'sex' with women who are dressed sluttily Victorian era garb. My question is how long the conservatives will go before starting a rebellion.
Option 2- The Dems figure out that the Republicans really were not withholding information. They finally figure out that Islam might have some radical elements that want to take away their civil rights! This leads to an understanding with the conservatives and a willingness to actually win. I think of this as the vastly less likely one.
Possibility 3 - Actually the most likely is that Bush will abandon the few conservatives he has left that support him (for the sake of the War), and work with the Dems on an equal footing. He will grant amnesty to ilegles, abandon the southern wall, raise taxes, and tell the Republicans to deal with the new Rulers. In 2008, the Conservatives and Moderates will have had enough and will sweep into power. I honestly think this is now the plan.
Bush will play the role of moderate peacemaker in the US and allow the Dems to do what ever they wish if they keep the war going. This thought just ticks me the heck off!
Once again I am just reading the latest news items and find that the liberals and their pets in the media are getting even more blatant in Canada.
There has never been any doubt about how the Canadian public and press feel about war. They hate it. The Canadians proved their bravery in wars in the distant past, in both World Wars the Canadian forces proved themselves as excellent and brave troops. They did not like war, but they faced the evil and fought.
The key to this article is that when a few Canadians try to have a small Support the Troops that the press either generally ignored them or wondered about who was sponsoring them. Sponsors? These people are just supporting the brave soldiers who are deployed in harms way. Why would they need sponsors?
Admittedly, the anti-war/anti-American rallies all have sponsors. It takes a lot of money to gather that many people full of hate. All of the Islamist, anarchist and communist groups want to been seen as sponsors of the hate filled speech at those rallies.
Once the press started to understand that the For the Troops rally actually was just created by private individuals who really did support the troops, along came a new reporter who "knew" the reason. She knew that if she was holding a rally she could not count on friends and strangers to support her. If someone as wonderful as her could not bring out a crowd, then there must be a hidden sponsor. If there is a sponsor that must be kept hidden, it naturally meant they must be Jews.
Jews, of course, like to kill Arabs. Arabs are Muslims. Muslims are members of the Religion of Peace who need to be protected from insults from the evil Jews. Why protected? Because otherwise they will kill people.
Abu Yahya al Libi, an Al Qaeda commander who escaped from the Bagram prison in Afghanistan in July 2005, has emerged as a rapidly rising figure in the Al Qaeda video world, with the release of a third video in as many months by Al Qaeda’s video production arm, As Sahab.
In this seventeen minute video announced on November 1, 2006, on various jihadi message boards, al Libi eulogizes his fellow Bagram escapee Farouq al Iraqi, who was killed several weeks ago in Iraq.
He calls upon Islamic scholars to join in on the battlefield of Jihad, chastising them for their lack of participation.
He claims victory over the Americans is near, asking the following questions of the US:
Here is your number one enemy after they spread their arrogance and conceit has admitted with all humiliation that its decision to go into Iraq was wrong. We ask him, how did you discover that its decision to go into Iraq was wrong and when?
Is it after your planes got tired of flying back and forth carrying thousands coffins of the dirty bodies of the soldiers who were killed by the loyal and faithful? Is it after you wasted all your billions and then found out that the money is going nowhere?
Is it after you discovered that Islamic nation is a nation of belief and principle, sacrifice and power, it is the nation that will never give up its principles, a nation that will never be led by any outsiders.
We tell you that you will discover soon that your decision to go into Afghanistan was wrong too. Know that your support to the state of Israel is wrong as well. Also know that your decision to go to the Arab peninsula, the birthplace of the message and the land of divine inspiration was wrong as well. You still admit and acknowledge that this nation is a nation of steadfastness and sacrifice and undefeated power that will never bow to its enemies despite their tyranny and arrogance. History will give you the lesson about our events, our states and our battles.
I have a real fear that Secretary Rice and her faithful followers will not respond to this video in the way that is really needs to be. Therefore, I am taking upon myself to give an honest assessment of the tape and the translation.
First, I must narrow the translation down to the relevent questions and translate them from the usual broken language of a translated text, to something that I can understand. There will be some minor paraphrasing here because of the limits of translation.
Abu Yahya al Libi wants to know four key points as far as I can tell, these are: 1) Why the Americans have finally decided to retreat from the Arab lands? 2) Is it the thousands of bodies being sent home to America? 3) Is it the billions of dollars wasted trying to uplift the Iraqi people? 4) Or is it that the Americans have finally figured out that Muslims like to live in these conditions and do not like to have modern technology. Except for the tools of war, of course. This is followed by a rant that might have been written for any low grade action movie about how America will have to regret its involvement in the Arab world, Afganistan, the Arab world and Israel. I think it is a paraphrase of a similar rant in "Austin Powers". Or it is just something repeated to many times in these comedy shorts.
My response is: 1) The US is not retreating. A few people have been calling for surrender since Arabs flew jets into towers a few years ago, but these are the same ones who think the French have a military. Many of these same surrender monkeys also agree with the Imam in Australia that raping women is ok. 2) Thousands of bodies have been sent home. So? We liberated Europe twice and left battle fields littered with thousands more bodies. St Louis is more dangerous than Iraq! If you want to challenge us you need to do something different than we see at home. Maybe challenge us to combat instead of hiding in crowds dressed like a woman. Do you like to dress like a woman? 3) The US has spent billions on ways to make the Iraqi country into a model country for the world. It is too bad that a few men who like to hide behind women and children have been blowing up the afore mentioned women and children in a weak attempt to harm the Americans. Why are you afraid to allow them an education? Why are you afraid to let them talk back to you? Is it that you fear that you might not be able to control them if they slipped out of slavery? 4) The world knows that many Muslims are proud that they have not changed in 500 years. They live the same simple life that their ancestors always have. Too many Muslims would love to live like we do in the West, but are kept enslaved by a lack of education and an enslaving theocracy. If that is what you want, live that way. Do not force your way of life, or death as the case may be, upon your neighbors.
As for the rant: sticks and stones may break my bones, but barbarians can only threaten me. You might be able to harm or kill some of us, but we are winning this war because you only have one trick: death. The Free World is bringing in freedom and democracy. We are allowing people to think for themselves. Mot of these people like this freedom. It is only a few more years until you are finally gone. If you should live that long.
Strongest Dad in the World Rick Reilly Sports Illustrated Issue date: June 20, 2005, p. 88
I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.
But compared with Dick Hoyt, I'm suck.
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars -- all in the same day.
Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?
And what has Rick done for his father? Not much -- except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.
"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life," Dick says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. "Put him in an institution."
But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. "No way," Dick says he was told. "There's nothing going on in his brain."
"Tell him a joke," Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain.
Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!" And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that."
Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker" who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped," Dick says. "I was sore for two weeks."
That day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!"
And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.
"No way," Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year.
Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?"
How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried.
Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you think?
Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? "No way," he says. Dick does it purely for "the awesome feeling" he gets seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.
This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992 -- only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time.
"No question about it," Rick types. "My dad is the Father of the Century."
And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was 95% clogged. "If you hadn't been in such great shape," one doctor told him, "you probably would've died 15 years ago."
So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day.
That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.
"The thing I'd most like," Rick types, "is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once."
Here I am, looking for something light hearted to read before bed and I find this. What a great laugh! Mainly because of the deep anger it has brough to me.
Once again, Muslims are dying. Now it turns out that they were killed by Hezbollah using Israeli bombs. These peaceful, Allah loving murderous terrorists hid the rockets they used to attack the civilian population of Israel in the homes of unsuspecting Lebanese civilians. I wonder how many of these families were destroyed because of this loathesome tactic?
I wonder when the Religion of Peace will start denouncing tactics like these? Or will they? Will the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) denounce Hezbollah? They have been sending cash to the cold hearted murderers who planned this, will they finally stop supporting terrorists? Of course, since CAIR has yet to condemn the sick Australian Mufti Sheikh Taj Din Al Hilaly for supporting rape, how can they be expected to denounce something as harmless as putting missles next to the baby's crib?
I was asked recently if I hate Islam. Here is my answer, in a very public place so that anyone who wants to know can look it up: No. No more than I hate the Catholic Church before the Reformation. I think that the Catholic Church was misuseing the teaching of Jesus Christ back then and it was torn asunder. I think that the members of the Religion of Peace are responsible for the majority of the violent deaths in the world today. Therefore, the Religion of Peace is not true to itself. Do I hate them? No. It is more of a disgust that they are claiming to be brothers of these scum.
I pity anyone who is foolish enough to try to explain the differences between a moderate muslim and an extreme one. The muslims themselves have a hard time, so hard that I have not heard an explanation yet. I do know that the Koran is easily divided into sections. The first is very peaceful and friendly, the second starts to get violent, and the last section is bloody. The last section also includes many renunciations of things written at the beginning.
I am not going to go into a whole reading and explaination of the Koran right now. That could take a book, not a blog. Suffice it to say that, from my readings, the Koran shifts significantly in character as it goes. The only ones allowed power are the male religious leaders, while women are kept locked in the house much as slaves.
Enough ranting for today. I need to go watch something to cheer me up. Maybe the video tribute to 9/11. At least that is honest.
Nazis on campus? Or Muslims? Why are educators hiding this?
I think that Liberalism has finally started to show its true face. The racist face. The face that says that black people are so genetically inferior that playing on a level playing field with the other races will embarrass them. The face that says that Jews need to be segregated from the rest of humankind. The face that only wants to see liberals alive.
The education establishment has been working its way towards this for years, yet only a few have believed. Liberal educators have for years segregated out the black students for "educational assistance" because of the black "inferiority". Notice that, to prevent the blacks from integrating with the other students, they created special areas of campus for them to live and meet with friends. Who are overwhelming black because other races are not tolerated in the black areas. It has worked so well, that the establishment began segregating the other races the same way. All in the name of encouraging diversity and multiculturalism. Of course.
Now that the races have been segregated for years, and have been having many problems working together because of this, the true agenda is starting to be revealed. Nazis are the model they have been using to promote themselves. The Nazi gun control laws were used to disarm the populace of Germany so that the Jews could be rounded up. In America, these same laws were used (the Nazi laws are the model used in the US) to disarm the populace which is disheartened and afraid.
Americans fear two things: minorities and that the government will take more rights. Instead of having guns plainly visible they have to be hidden. Not from children, who are encouraged to learn about proper weapon safety and handling, but from neighbors who will turn them in as dangerous criminals. Why are there so few true multicultural events? Is it hatred of other races or is it because the participants have been told that they are better than the others? All the events I have attended have been minimally fun, but with an edgy undercurrent.
Why are the liberals encouraging this separation while professing the exact opposite? Obviously to mask their true intentions. I must admit that some liberals might honestly believe the cover and not know better. I hope so at least!
My speculation here might be off. I know a few honestly caring liberals. All too many seem to think that minorities are scum who are too stupid to fend for themselves. Is it any wonder that these same people who think they are superior, also think that fascism is great? If not the old Nazi version, they can now adhere to the trendy new Islamic version. They probably hope that they can be placed in positions of power over the rest of us.
France will either crack down or fall. I do not think they will make it to the elections next year unless something changes. I do not think they can make it through the winter unless something changes.
An interesting thing to note with these disinterested Muslim youth are that they have no interest in obeying the laws in the country they moved to. It is not even that they are purposely disobeying the laws, they are Islamic Anarchists.
The Islamic Fascists are finding these bored kids who are looking for order and focusing them. They enjoy the new order and that they no longer have to think for themselves. Not that they did much anyway, but now they are being told what to do and they will have a purpose in life, finally.
Of course, the riots lead to more of the locals to despise the intruders, which leads to more laws restricting them, which leads to more riots. The cycle must be broken. A new element must be introduced. If not, there will be a new war in Europe, and the Europeans are not armed any more.
What needs to change? In France, Interior Minister Sarkozy wants to reinvigorate the economy and the people. How? Liberal policies to put more people to work. Why? Because if they are busy, they can't be hanging out on street corners and joining riots. He wants to integrate them.
I think this is great!
Personally, I would also add that no first generation immigrants can claim welfare unless they are injured on the job, and then at half the rate of a citizen. If an immigrant gets injured and can only claim half of what their neighbor is getting, they will have to take the money and move back home. The Euro will go a lot further in Morocco than in Paris. This will also keep the immigrants from coming without jobs. Or if they do, they will be sent back because they can not find one.
Oh, forget it! What Europe needs is a new war anyway. That will invigorate the stagnant economies, and stagnant populations. Or they will die and we will read about them in history books. Right now, they are barely holding their place in the world. They have already given up in so many ways. I am not talking Nationalism, but Euroism. Maybe that will drag them back from the brink. It is all just a dream anyway. They do not have the courage to fight for their own land any more.
Fight or die time. I hate fighting, but the alternative is even worse. Unless you are getting seventy two virgins.
Here I am checking the blogs and run across this silly ad the Republicans are running in Tennessee. I watched it and realized that it is possibly the most offensive, racist political ad I have ever seen!! What makes it worse is that the Right Wing Bloggers all think it is funny. What is so funny about racism?
Now that I have reiterated the liberal talking points on this, I can just say that I am glad that one of the sides is having fun with the election. It sure isn't the Democrats! They are so desperate to have power again that they would sell their grandmothers into sex slavery if it would help. Well, maybe not that bad, I dismiss the unfounded rumors that some Democratic candidates have been pimping their spouses and children to raise money.
And this is better than the Michael J. Fox ads that are out. I love Michael, don't get me wrong. His disease is rough and I hope that someday a cure might be found. Hopefully in time to allow him to return to acting. The ads he is staring in are not funny. They are sad, and they are wrong.
I live in Missouri and I am voting against putting Cloning as a Right in the State's Constitution. Why? Because it is ridiculous to put this as a Right. Stem Cell research is legal in Missouri, so why does the Constitution need to be changed?
I just found this cool video that really helps to understanding the debate about torture:
Do I think this is torture? I think it definitely borders upon it! As for people who will make up confessions to get out of being tortured, well, the people the CIA is doing this to are known terrorists, not innocents picked up by mistake. Well, some might be. I might as well admit that it is possible that some terrorists might have placed the weapon into the suspects innocent hands, and forced him to pull the trigger. Or these people, like Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, might have just been framed. It is remotely possible.
The unfortunate reality is that these guys are evil and have information that the military can use so that peoples lives can be saved. Is this torture? I think it worse torture listening to people try to make a clear line beyond which is torture! Once there is a clear line, then the terrorists know exactly how far the interrorgation can go and then cry for a lawyer. They will even start crying for a lawyer and making false claims before they are picked up.
Does torture produce quick answers? Yes, in the case of weak people. No, for the strong. For the strong willed it can take years. In the short term the weak have to be separated from the strong so that information can be told. Then the strong have to be made weak. Sleep deprivation and loud noises, mind games and physical discomfort will make the strong terrorist weak. Then you do this again and get the answers that are needed.
Is a confession obtained this way completely trusted? Not at all! Who would be foolish enough to trust these killers and psychotics? All the information gleaned this way is checked and followed up. This is not just taken as a given. Duh!
Do I advocate torture? No. Would I use it if I knew the man was guilty, had the proof and needed to get information out of him quick? Yes! Terrorists, rapists, kidnappers, pedophiles are all the kind of scum that I agree that torture can be used on. If there is a child or woman missing, or an imminent attack someplace, and the interrogators know what they are looking for, do it!! Get the information as quickly as possible.
I would like to thank Al Gore's Current.TV for providing this footage. They even had a former Navy SEAL, who had been waterboarded in his training, undergo it on camera. It is good to know that the US trains it's SpecOps guys better than the terrorists do. Of course, the fact that this guy knew he could not be killed and that he was going to be done soon might have helped.
Why has Air America failed? Some say it simply that liberals don't understand how to make money. But that can't be! It's backers are all very successful liberal businessmen. It is true that most liberals can't figure out how to make money, or they would not be the "party of the poor." Keeping the poor poor is very important to the liberal elites in their inherited mansions. However, it is proven that many liberals can make fortunes, so why not Air America?
I think it is because Air America is not very entertaining. I listed once for a day. I was either bored or outraged the whole time. I finally switched over to a classical music station and took a hot shower to relax me.
Liberals can be funny. Al Franken was a pretty good comedian, but his political jokes are not funny. Randi Rhodes tends to be very bitter and Jerry Springer is, well, Springer. I assume that some find him entertaining. These people all have one thing in common. They can find the worst about America and exploit it.
The successful talk radio personalities all seem to have something in common: the ability to find the greatness in people. Whether that greatness is America or elsewhere it does not matter. They will complain about bad things that some people have done, but it is the greatness that they like to talk about.
Limbaugh might have made his mark during the early Clinton administration, but he had already created a successful show years before. He did it by finding the great things in life to discuss. Did he attack Clinton? Yes. Clinton left himself open for attacks with his constant immoral and illegal activities. But Limbaugh also worked with the opposition and showed how the Republicans were doing things that were positive. It was his showcasing those positives that allowed many Americans to see things that were not in the newspapers or on the news shows. He created a revolution by doing this.
Air America was/is not creating anything positive. There was/is little or no discussion of the great things in life. Their message was/is one of disgust and anger. They vent their anger publicly over and over again. They seem to want to destroy and not to build something new. People do not want to hear that. Advertisers do not want to have their names associated with anger.
Maybe this bankruptcy will help them to recover. Maybe they will start to build a shiny new vision of the future instead of constantly venting about the one we live in. Maybe. I doubt it. Franken does not know how to build.
Has Air America even noticed that unemployment is considered to be so negligible that everyone who wants a job has one? Or that America has one of the best economies in decades? Or that, even with horrible overspending by the Republican congress, the deficit has been half paid off already? Three years ahead of schedule? These are positives. These could make the world a better place.
I think Air America had promise. It has been wasted. IF they can clean up and become a force for positive change instead of negativity they might be able to return someday. If.
The world today is entering a period of suspicion and fear. The beginning of each new century seems to bring a period like this and it is hard to fight, we, as a world people, must endure it while suppressing it as much as possible.
Muslim terrorists are murdering anyone who disagrees with them in any way. Other Muslims are afraid to speak out against these murderers for fear of being next and also because they know what is written in the Koran. The worst part is that I think Islam has a lot going for it, if they could drop the parts that include murder, abuse, genocide and slavery. Lopping off the heads of murderers and the hands of thieves sounds like good practice, for instance.
Communists lost almost all credibility in the last century and are now working from within the systems of the West. They have been slowly forcing their insanity and version of "social justice" through the governments that they can control.
I fear that the weakened West no longer has the will to stand up to the terrorists. The Communists have been striving for years to emasculate the West and this is the chance for the forces of Islam to move in and take over.
President Bush has stopped fighting the good fight. He is afraid to send troops to anywhere anymore because of the Communists and their protests and accusations. This loss of nerve and backbone might be the death knell for American and Western values. Bush has barely even stood up to this 'study' released in the Lancet declaring massive casualties in Iraq. This same group of "researchers" released inflated figures right before the last US election and some of the senior staff are regulars on the Stop the War rally circuit. I wonder if there might be a political connection to these guys and the terrorists who are being killed? I am also forced to wonder why Bush has refused to defend himself in more than a token way? Has he somehow found a stash of drugs the Clinton administration forgot?
I strongly favor a military sweep through our cities and towns searching for illegal foreign trespassers, terrorists and druggies. Why military? Because I do not believe that the law enforcement agencies require heavy weapons and yet they are already out gunned. Marines who have already fought through truly dangerous places full of trained military guerrillas and terrorists will have no problems cracking the skulls of a bunch of gangbangers, thugs, mobsters, and terrorists trying to hide in a truly civilian population. Which means they do not have access to as many or as powerful weapons as they would if they were on their home turf. Here the forces of evil always have to wonder if they are dealing with someone from the FBI or DHS.
Enough for tonight. I will continue this thought again soon. Stay tuned!
Went to the Marine Corps League meeting tonight. It is so much fun to talk to the Old Corps guys and listen to them talk about things. They tend to have a different outlook on life then most people today. I think it might just be because they consider me to be a kid. Anyone under fifty is considered a kid in that room! The next youngest guys were in Vietnam when I was born. Oy!
But I did learn that on the 28th of October the Sheriff will hold a meeting there to enlist Special Deputies. No badges or anything, but kind of like Reserve Deputies but even more informal. Only to be used in case of a major disaster in this region. I guess that I will have to go! At least to check it out.
This is just a first post, but I am going to try this since my posts on FriendFinder keep getting lost or delayed. I hope this works better.
My posts are mainly going to be about politics or security issues. My two hangups. I am a news junkee and will post as my work and family life give me time.
I am also going to post things that directly affect my local area in the security arena. My area is mid Missouri, USA. This stuff can also be used by others in other quiet sections of the country. Big city folk probably will think that many of the threats now felt by us in 'fly over country' are routine.
This is my place to vent a little and get things off my chest. I am a retired Marine who has interests in WMDs. Since WMD events are, thankfully, few in number, I spend a lot of time reading about people likely to use them. This takes me on some interesting tangents.
I travel alot in my post retirement career and do not always have time to comment as I post articles. Give me a day or two to catch up if I skip comments, please.
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