This may a little rough and rambling but I’m just typing things “off the cuff”. My apologies.
News of the World
North Korea is now exporting nuclear technology! A UN report states that the North Korean government is involved in “banned nuclear and ballistic activities” in a number of nations, notably Iran, Syria, and Myanmar. In addition North Korea is said to be setting up “assembly” shops abroad in places like the Congo, where they can export components, assemble them, and then export them abroad from a less-sanctioned nation. Remember when the last administration referred to North Korea and Iran as 2 parts of an “Axis of Evil”? Right-wing warmonger. Our State Dept. (I had forgotten that we had one until I saw the wicked witch of Little Rock on the news) is completely ineffective. We have no foreign policy whatsoever.
Some recent (this week) examples of our failed excuse for foreign policy:
During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan (Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism) described violent extremists as victims of "political, economic and social forces," "Nor do we describe our enemy as 'jihadists' or 'Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam”. Among his other remarks in that same speech…that it would be "counterproductive" for the United States to use the term, as it would "play into the false perception" that the "murderers" leading war against the West are doing so in the name of a "holy cause."
During a national security discussion at the Brookings Institution Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (she’s such a non-entity that even the news media often forgets her title, referring to her as “the former 1st lady”) complained that the United States has lowered taxes on the wealthy (ignore the fact that the highest bracket has remained at 35% for 7 years from 39.6% while the lowest went from 15% to 10% and that nearly 40% of Americans pay no taxes) and said nations around the world need to "increase their public revenue collections" to spur investment "The rich are not paying their fair share in any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues (the United States is), whether it's individual, corporate, whatever the taxation forms are,"
How does either of these tools help protect our national security or national interests? Brennan feels that we shouldn’t label as anti-U.S. Islamic Jihadists the anti-American Islamic Jihadists who continuously claim to be conducting a jihad in the name of Islam against the Great Satan (the U.S). Hillary in the meantime tries to link national security in the face of mounting nuclear threats from China-Korea-Iran to the BHO redistribution of wealth scheme.
This administration has tied every issue facing our country to their National Socialist war on our culture (and in the process placing the blame on GWB, the Emmanuel Goldstein of the Obama camp) so that oil spills are examples of corporate greed (ignore that the BHO gang granted the exemption that allowed the drilling) and its not Barney’s problem but BP’s to clean it up. Making cars safer, $108 million in new taxes on car sales to research what happened (notice past tense) at Toyota. Defending our nation is dependant on wealth redistribution and being sensitive to the feelings of our enemies. Solving illegal immigration issues should be accomplished by dissolving the borders, providing welfare to foreign invaders and describing as racist any notion that we maintain some form of national sovereignty. We have allowed our nation to be hijacked and put on a course to become something anathema to that which its creators ever envisioned.
On the Environmental Front….
In his news conference Thursday, President Obama singled out the MMS as being a problem and said that although Interior Secretary Ken Salazar had started cleaning house there, "the culture had not fully changed in MMS." He described it as "a culture in which oil companies were able to get what they wanted without sufficient oversight and regulation." He also went on to state that he had inherited this problem from Goldstein (whoops, GWB). Let’s look at a little timeline, shall we?
Jan. 29, 2009 Newly installed Interior Secretary Salazar launches an ethics reform program and orders a new code of conduct for MMS employees. Then 10 months later…
Oct. 7, 2009 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform reports MMS program mismanagement and cozy relationships with industry officials have led to the loss of billions in revenue. Months later we see…
April 8, 2009 GAO report says MMS in Alaska has been a target for lawsuits that claim it hasn't properly considered the environmental effects of offshore petroleum lease sales.
So, as President you know, prior to when you take office that there’s a problem. You appoint new management, who continue “business as usual”, you ignore reports that nothing has changed (because now your cronies are getting rich?) and lawsuits claiming laxity. Finally, when there is a catastrophic failure on a platform exempted by the BHO administration 1st claim that clean-up is BP’s problem then go on vacation, lots. Hold a news conference in which you claim everything is under control and that even if you were more involved it would still be a disaster and lives would still be ruined. Then when Party hack James Carville is foaming at the mouth on national TV about how “people are dying down here & he’s doing nothing” you show up for a photo-op on a beach and explain that the buck stops with me but this is the result of corporate greed and the boogey-men from the last administration and in no way is any of this my fault so I don’t want any questions or blame. Where are the claims of corruption, profiteering and racism in the government so prevalent when Katrina hit New Orleans (nobody ever looks at the failure to heed NWS warnings to evacuate, failure of local officials to have a plan of evacuation or to apply for available federal relief funds)?Where are the protests, where is the outrage?
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Some of my friends have some odd views of the world and how it should be ordered so I have done some study. Let me see if I understand the “Liberal” viewpoint…
“There ought to be a law…” and the government should be providing more services and taxing the “rich” should pay for it, but the government shouldn’t interfere in my life and I pay enough. “Rich” doesn’t include anyone in Hollywood nor contributors to the National Socialist movement.
Killing innocent babies in the womb is ok and should be funded and protected by the government as a “right” but killing criminals is wrong because an innocent man might die. A woman’s “right” to kill her baby is her choice alone, but if she chooses to have the child she’s entitled to reparations from the father, who has no say in the matter of his child.
If an old conservative has an affair with a staffer he’s a sex offender and should resign in disgrace. If a President who was the darling of hippydom has a long history of using his offices to not only hide his career as a sexual predator but to bribe and intimidate anyone who tries to go public he’s a victim of the “right-wing conspiracy”.
Being anti-Christian, attacking all references to Christianity and promoting the nonsensical, unfounded, unconstitutional Supreme Court doctrine of “Separation of Church & State” because of fears of the “Christian Right" establishing a theocracy in America while howling for U.S. aid to make Tibet a theocracy under that fraud & Hollywood celebrity, the Dalia Lama and promoting idiocy like footbaths in airports so that terrorists can observe their foul Sharia law before blowing up our airplanes.
Whining for “solutions” and “compromise” when what you really mean is endless debate designed to confuse and obfuscate and calling acceptance of your pet policy a compromise by virtue of having allowed it to be discussed.
Using the words “tolerance” and “open-minded” to describe the intolerant, close-minded doctrine of rejecting and destroying the ideas and institutions of anyone not adhering to leftist dogma through a campaign of attack and ridicule including name-calling and claims of racism and fascism against the Party’s enemies.
Attempting to restructure the language itself through both the education system and the legal system to prevent ideas contrary to leftist dogma from being expressed, but being “for” freedom of speech.
Promoting a massive nanny state wherein all aspects of life will be regulated, the sheeple will be protected from themselves and in which all will be provided for via the public coffers while maintaining the ability to call with a straight face any who oppose this “utopia” of National Socialism as a “Nazi” or “right-wing fascist conspirator”
“There ought to be a law…” and the government should be providing more services and taxing the “rich” should pay for it, but the government shouldn’t interfere in my life and I pay enough. “Rich” doesn’t include anyone in Hollywood nor contributors to the National Socialist movement.
Killing innocent babies in the womb is ok and should be funded and protected by the government as a “right” but killing criminals is wrong because an innocent man might die. A woman’s “right” to kill her baby is her choice alone, but if she chooses to have the child she’s entitled to reparations from the father, who has no say in the matter of his child.
If an old conservative has an affair with a staffer he’s a sex offender and should resign in disgrace. If a President who was the darling of hippydom has a long history of using his offices to not only hide his career as a sexual predator but to bribe and intimidate anyone who tries to go public he’s a victim of the “right-wing conspiracy”.
Being anti-Christian, attacking all references to Christianity and promoting the nonsensical, unfounded, unconstitutional Supreme Court doctrine of “Separation of Church & State” because of fears of the “Christian Right" establishing a theocracy in America while howling for U.S. aid to make Tibet a theocracy under that fraud & Hollywood celebrity, the Dalia Lama and promoting idiocy like footbaths in airports so that terrorists can observe their foul Sharia law before blowing up our airplanes.
Whining for “solutions” and “compromise” when what you really mean is endless debate designed to confuse and obfuscate and calling acceptance of your pet policy a compromise by virtue of having allowed it to be discussed.
Using the words “tolerance” and “open-minded” to describe the intolerant, close-minded doctrine of rejecting and destroying the ideas and institutions of anyone not adhering to leftist dogma through a campaign of attack and ridicule including name-calling and claims of racism and fascism against the Party’s enemies.
Attempting to restructure the language itself through both the education system and the legal system to prevent ideas contrary to leftist dogma from being expressed, but being “for” freedom of speech.
Promoting a massive nanny state wherein all aspects of life will be regulated, the sheeple will be protected from themselves and in which all will be provided for via the public coffers while maintaining the ability to call with a straight face any who oppose this “utopia” of National Socialism as a “Nazi” or “right-wing fascist conspirator”
Obama is the new Nixon...
U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 4.
”The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
18 U.S.C 600
Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment,
position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit,
provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of
Congress, or any special consideration in obtaining any such
benefit, to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any
political activity or for the support of or opposition to any
candidate or any political party in connection with any general or
special election to any political office, or in connection with any
primary election or political convention or caucus held to select
candidates for any political office, shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
18 U.S.C 595
Whoever, being a person employed in any administrative position
by the United States, or by any department or agency thereof, or by
the District of Columbia or any agency or instrumentality thereof,
or by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or
any political subdivision, municipality, or agency thereof, or
agency of such political subdivision or municipality (including any
corporation owned or controlled by any State, Territory, or
Possession of the United States or by any such political
subdivision, municipality, or agency), in connection with any
activity which is financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by
the United States, or any department or agency thereof,
uses his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or
affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate for the
office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member
of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate
from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or
both.
BHO promised the most transparent administration ever, no more politics as usual and that west coast harpy Nancy Pelosi vowed the most transparent, ethical Congress ever. Has everyone stopped laughing yet? This could be the most sneaky backroom-dealing, out of touch, paranoid, self absorbed President/administration since Tricky Dick.
Rod Blagojevich sells BHO’s Senate seat to Roland Burris, long term Chicago Democratic apparatchik. The BHO mob denies having even met Blago in person let alone being involved in the selection process. Meantime dozens of photos show Barney O and Blago together. Blago attempts to subpoena BHO and Barney O has apparently been interviewed by the FBI, with his lawyer present to advise him but the administration claims that he cannot/will not be subpoenaed.
Rahm Emanuel, according to Congressional disclosures, made $16.2 million in his two-and-a-half-years as a banker (the now-defunct firm of Wasserstein Perella) then went to work for Freddie Mac (appointed by Clinton). During his time on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities. The Obama Administration rejected a request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel's time as a director. Freddie Mac’s shady and/or illegal lending processes started the collapse of the housing industry, but this administration refuses to act to fix Freddie & Fanny but instead continue to pour TARP money into these institutions. In the meantime they launch a “show-trial” and file “lawsuits” against Goldman-Sachs (which by the way paid back all the TARP money, with interest and gave $1 million to BHO and $4.5 million to DNC) to inflame and misdirect public sentiment while the administration lines its pockets and pushes America toward National Socialism.
Rahm Emanuel sends his former boss Slick Willie to bribe Joe Sestak (Clinton appointed him a Rear Admiral) with a job offer to not run for U.S. Senate??!! 1st the administration ignored questions on the matter for 3 months, then issued a statement that they did “nothing illegal” and now issue a statement describing their actions as legal. Stonewalling the appointment of a special investigator by the AG goes a long way to making the stink dissipate, too, doesn’t it? The claim from the BHO gang is that he (Sestak) was offered a non-paying position as an “advisor” at the White House by Clinton at the prompting of Rahm Emanuel, apparently without authorization from the President. Are we to believe that he (Emanuel) acted on his own? Of course he did. Just like Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Didn’t BHO promise a “new administration”, one cutting ties from this very sort of politics and the Clinton administration? Why then is his staff packed full of lifelong Democratic Party hacks, Clinton staffers, and the Clintons themselves?
Had this been under the previous administration, the controlled media would be screaming for an investigation. David Axelrod (who invented BHO) would have been on CNN talking about a culture of corruption. The pattern of corruption is clear to anyone not a victim of the hypnosis/hysteria that is the Cult of Obama. I could (and perhaps will) write volumes on the corrupt, greedy, money-grabbing gang of Chicago political thugs currently hovering around 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This is clearly an attempt at election tampering even more obvious than BHO’s army of voter-fraud perpetrators known as ACORN (definitely an article there too). Since the Gore/Lieberman attempt to steal a presidential election, the left is working daily to subvert our election laws and fill seats at every level by any means! For now I ask you to write/call/email your state and federal officials, urging an investigation in this matter.
U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 4.
”The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
18 U.S.C 600
Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment,
position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit,
provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of
Congress, or any special consideration in obtaining any such
benefit, to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any
political activity or for the support of or opposition to any
candidate or any political party in connection with any general or
special election to any political office, or in connection with any
primary election or political convention or caucus held to select
candidates for any political office, shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
18 U.S.C 595
Whoever, being a person employed in any administrative position
by the United States, or by any department or agency thereof, or by
the District of Columbia or any agency or instrumentality thereof,
or by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or
any political subdivision, municipality, or agency thereof, or
agency of such political subdivision or municipality (including any
corporation owned or controlled by any State, Territory, or
Possession of the United States or by any such political
subdivision, municipality, or agency), in connection with any
activity which is financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by
the United States, or any department or agency thereof,
uses his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or
affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate for the
office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member
of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate
from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or
both.
BHO promised the most transparent administration ever, no more politics as usual and that west coast harpy Nancy Pelosi vowed the most transparent, ethical Congress ever. Has everyone stopped laughing yet? This could be the most sneaky backroom-dealing, out of touch, paranoid, self absorbed President/administration since Tricky Dick.
Rod Blagojevich sells BHO’s Senate seat to Roland Burris, long term Chicago Democratic apparatchik. The BHO mob denies having even met Blago in person let alone being involved in the selection process. Meantime dozens of photos show Barney O and Blago together. Blago attempts to subpoena BHO and Barney O has apparently been interviewed by the FBI, with his lawyer present to advise him but the administration claims that he cannot/will not be subpoenaed.
Rahm Emanuel, according to Congressional disclosures, made $16.2 million in his two-and-a-half-years as a banker (the now-defunct firm of Wasserstein Perella) then went to work for Freddie Mac (appointed by Clinton). During his time on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities. The Obama Administration rejected a request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel's time as a director. Freddie Mac’s shady and/or illegal lending processes started the collapse of the housing industry, but this administration refuses to act to fix Freddie & Fanny but instead continue to pour TARP money into these institutions. In the meantime they launch a “show-trial” and file “lawsuits” against Goldman-Sachs (which by the way paid back all the TARP money, with interest and gave $1 million to BHO and $4.5 million to DNC) to inflame and misdirect public sentiment while the administration lines its pockets and pushes America toward National Socialism.
Rahm Emanuel sends his former boss Slick Willie to bribe Joe Sestak (Clinton appointed him a Rear Admiral) with a job offer to not run for U.S. Senate??!! 1st the administration ignored questions on the matter for 3 months, then issued a statement that they did “nothing illegal” and now issue a statement describing their actions as legal. Stonewalling the appointment of a special investigator by the AG goes a long way to making the stink dissipate, too, doesn’t it? The claim from the BHO gang is that he (Sestak) was offered a non-paying position as an “advisor” at the White House by Clinton at the prompting of Rahm Emanuel, apparently without authorization from the President. Are we to believe that he (Emanuel) acted on his own? Of course he did. Just like Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Didn’t BHO promise a “new administration”, one cutting ties from this very sort of politics and the Clinton administration? Why then is his staff packed full of lifelong Democratic Party hacks, Clinton staffers, and the Clintons themselves?
Had this been under the previous administration, the controlled media would be screaming for an investigation. David Axelrod (who invented BHO) would have been on CNN talking about a culture of corruption. The pattern of corruption is clear to anyone not a victim of the hypnosis/hysteria that is the Cult of Obama. I could (and perhaps will) write volumes on the corrupt, greedy, money-grabbing gang of Chicago political thugs currently hovering around 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This is clearly an attempt at election tampering even more obvious than BHO’s army of voter-fraud perpetrators known as ACORN (definitely an article there too). Since the Gore/Lieberman attempt to steal a presidential election, the left is working daily to subvert our election laws and fill seats at every level by any means! For now I ask you to write/call/email your state and federal officials, urging an investigation in this matter.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
For what it's worth, here is the text of the Arizona revised statute 11-1051 (the immigration bill all the uninformed sheeple are so distraught about). I omitted sections G-K which discuss court fees and expenses and are not relevant to the debate over what this law allows. The whole thing, including all the various drafts, Arizona House & Senate versions etc. may be viewed at http://www.keytlaw.com/blog/2010/04/anti-illegal-immigration-law-part-1/
Here it is:
A. No official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may limit or restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law.
B. For any lawful stop, detention or arrest made by a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency of this state or a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency of a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state in the enforcement of any other law or ordinance of a county, city or town or this state where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien and is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person, except if the determination may hinder or obstruct an investigation. Any person who is arrested shall have the person’s immigration status determined before the person is released. The person’s immigration status shall be verified with the federal government pursuant to 8 United States code section 1373(c). A law enforcement official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may not consider race, color or national origin in implementing the requirements of this subsection except to the extent permitted by the United States or Arizona Constitution. A person is presumed to not be an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States if the person provides to the law enforcement officer or agency any of the following:
1. A valid Arizona Driver’s License
2. A valid Arizona non-operating identification license
3. A valid tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification
4. If the entity requires proof of legal presence in the United States before issuance, any valid United States federal, state or local government issued identification
C. If an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States is convicted of a violation of state or local law, on discharge from imprisonment or on the assessment of any monetary obligation that is imposed, the United States immigration and customs enforcement or the United States customs and border protection shall be immediately notified.
D. Notwithstanding any other law, a law enforcement agency may securely transport an alien who the agency has received verification is unlawfully present in the united states and who is in the agency’s custody to a federal facility in this state or to any other point of transfer into federal custody that is outside the jurisdiction of the law enforcement agency. a law enforcement agency shall obtain judicial authorization before securely transporting an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States to a point of transfer that is outside of this state.
E. In the implementation of this section, an alien’s immigration status may be determined by:
1. A law enforcement officer who is authorized by the federal government to verify or ascertain an alien’s immigration status.
2. The United States immigration and customs enforcement or the United States customs and border protection pursuant to 8 United States Code section 1373(c).
F. Except as provided in federal law, officials or agencies of this state and counties, cities, towns and other political subdivisions of this state may not be prohibited or in any way be restricted from sending, receiving or maintaining information relating to the immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual or exchanging that information with any other federal, state or local governmental entity for the following official purposes:
1. Determining eligibility for any public benefit, service or license provided by any federal, state, local or other political subdivision of this state.
2. Verifying any claim of residence or domicile if determination of residence or domicile is required under the laws of this state or a judicial order issued pursuant to a civil or criminal proceeding in this state.
3. If the person is an alien, determining whether the person is in compliance with the federal registration laws prescribed by title II, chapter 7 of the federal immigration and Nationality act.
4. Pursuant to 8 United States Code section 1373 and 8 United States Code section 1644.
Here it is:
A. No official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may limit or restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law.
B. For any lawful stop, detention or arrest made by a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency of this state or a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency of a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state in the enforcement of any other law or ordinance of a county, city or town or this state where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien and is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person, except if the determination may hinder or obstruct an investigation. Any person who is arrested shall have the person’s immigration status determined before the person is released. The person’s immigration status shall be verified with the federal government pursuant to 8 United States code section 1373(c). A law enforcement official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may not consider race, color or national origin in implementing the requirements of this subsection except to the extent permitted by the United States or Arizona Constitution. A person is presumed to not be an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States if the person provides to the law enforcement officer or agency any of the following:
1. A valid Arizona Driver’s License
2. A valid Arizona non-operating identification license
3. A valid tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification
4. If the entity requires proof of legal presence in the United States before issuance, any valid United States federal, state or local government issued identification
C. If an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States is convicted of a violation of state or local law, on discharge from imprisonment or on the assessment of any monetary obligation that is imposed, the United States immigration and customs enforcement or the United States customs and border protection shall be immediately notified.
D. Notwithstanding any other law, a law enforcement agency may securely transport an alien who the agency has received verification is unlawfully present in the united states and who is in the agency’s custody to a federal facility in this state or to any other point of transfer into federal custody that is outside the jurisdiction of the law enforcement agency. a law enforcement agency shall obtain judicial authorization before securely transporting an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States to a point of transfer that is outside of this state.
E. In the implementation of this section, an alien’s immigration status may be determined by:
1. A law enforcement officer who is authorized by the federal government to verify or ascertain an alien’s immigration status.
2. The United States immigration and customs enforcement or the United States customs and border protection pursuant to 8 United States Code section 1373(c).
F. Except as provided in federal law, officials or agencies of this state and counties, cities, towns and other political subdivisions of this state may not be prohibited or in any way be restricted from sending, receiving or maintaining information relating to the immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual or exchanging that information with any other federal, state or local governmental entity for the following official purposes:
1. Determining eligibility for any public benefit, service or license provided by any federal, state, local or other political subdivision of this state.
2. Verifying any claim of residence or domicile if determination of residence or domicile is required under the laws of this state or a judicial order issued pursuant to a civil or criminal proceeding in this state.
3. If the person is an alien, determining whether the person is in compliance with the federal registration laws prescribed by title II, chapter 7 of the federal immigration and Nationality act.
4. Pursuant to 8 United States Code section 1373 and 8 United States Code section 1644.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
I saw something on either the erroneously named “History Channel” or the equally misnamed “Learning Channel” (I don’t recall which) about the Crusades in which the narrator referred to the Crusades as the 1st Holy War and that the Crusades prompted Islamic hostility to the West that has lasted until modern times!
A little history lesson:
In 622 Muhammad led an army against the Quraysh at Badr, near his hometown of Mecca (these were Muhammad’s tribesmen, from whom he split to form his new “religion”) because they were “unbelievers” (It is not ye who slew them, it is Allah, Qur’an 8:17)
Shortly thereafter he plants the seed of Muslim hatred toward Jews when he announces in the tribal marketplace of the Banu Qaynuqa “Oh Jews, beware lest Allah bring upon you the vengeance He brought upon Quraysh and become Muslims” They refuse & he besieges their city until it surrenders. He then issues orders to “Kill any Jew that falls into your power” Two pieces from the Bukhari, vol.1 book2 no. 24 (the Muslim confession of faith) "Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform all that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah.” And another (no.25) “Allah's Apostle was asked, "What is the best deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad).” The questioner then asked, "What is the next (in goodness)?” He replied, "To participate in Jihad (religious fighting) in Allah's Cause."
In 638 Muslims besieged and captured Jerusalem. The next several centuries see an escalation from the “jizya” a tax to be non-Muslim (still in use in Muslim nations around the world today), prohibition against practicing or teaching the Christian & Jewish faiths, building or even repairing temples and churches to crucifixions and beheadings.
711, Muslims invade the Iberian Peninsula and southern France…
831, Sicily…
840, Crete falls…
965, Cyprus…and at every step of the way, taxation, intimidation, forced conversion, torture, imprisonment & even death for those who do not accept this new “religion” So to claim that Westerners are somehow responsible for creating the animosity that these people have towards us is ludicrous using any real study of history and the teachings of Muhammad.
In order to devise a strategy against a foe, one must first define what constitutes a victory, what must we do before the fighting can stop..? History demonstrates that defining the cause of the conflict & hence how to end it is much easier amongst similar cultures than against dissimilar.
We have been unsuccessfully fighting a war with Islam for 1300 years because we fail to understand what they are fighting for. In simple terms they believe that all non-Muslims must yield to them and accept Allah or be persecuted and killed and they believe that giving one’s life in the Holy War against the non-Muslim is the highest form of piety. Folks, it’s us or them, but do not despair history provides a parallel. In December of 1941 we found our nation fighting a foe whose culture was alien to us in the form of the Japanese Empire. They held that their leader was divine, that non-Japanese were racially and morally inferior, that capitulation was disgraceful, that their enemies where to be treated as subhuman and that to die in the cause of the Emperor was to achieve martyrdom. Anyone else seeing it?
We fought the Japanese for nearly 4 years in what was some of the bloodiest and most ruthless combat that the American fighting man has ever experienced until we finally developed the means (we possessed already the will) to make “dying for the Emperor” a horrible reality without any chance to slay the hated enemy nor any “glory”. It was only when they realized that they would indeed all die fighting for the “cause” that living and coexisting seemed like the better choice.
Until we demonstrate the futility of war against us (the fruits of Western culture vs. the stagnation of theirs appear to be no incentive to quit) this will go on until they win and we will cease to exist by our own weakness and failure of will.
A little history lesson:
In 622 Muhammad led an army against the Quraysh at Badr, near his hometown of Mecca (these were Muhammad’s tribesmen, from whom he split to form his new “religion”) because they were “unbelievers” (It is not ye who slew them, it is Allah, Qur’an 8:17)
Shortly thereafter he plants the seed of Muslim hatred toward Jews when he announces in the tribal marketplace of the Banu Qaynuqa “Oh Jews, beware lest Allah bring upon you the vengeance He brought upon Quraysh and become Muslims” They refuse & he besieges their city until it surrenders. He then issues orders to “Kill any Jew that falls into your power” Two pieces from the Bukhari, vol.1 book2 no. 24 (the Muslim confession of faith) "Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform all that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah.” And another (no.25) “Allah's Apostle was asked, "What is the best deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad).” The questioner then asked, "What is the next (in goodness)?” He replied, "To participate in Jihad (religious fighting) in Allah's Cause."
In 638 Muslims besieged and captured Jerusalem. The next several centuries see an escalation from the “jizya” a tax to be non-Muslim (still in use in Muslim nations around the world today), prohibition against practicing or teaching the Christian & Jewish faiths, building or even repairing temples and churches to crucifixions and beheadings.
711, Muslims invade the Iberian Peninsula and southern France…
831, Sicily…
840, Crete falls…
965, Cyprus…and at every step of the way, taxation, intimidation, forced conversion, torture, imprisonment & even death for those who do not accept this new “religion” So to claim that Westerners are somehow responsible for creating the animosity that these people have towards us is ludicrous using any real study of history and the teachings of Muhammad.
In order to devise a strategy against a foe, one must first define what constitutes a victory, what must we do before the fighting can stop..? History demonstrates that defining the cause of the conflict & hence how to end it is much easier amongst similar cultures than against dissimilar.
We have been unsuccessfully fighting a war with Islam for 1300 years because we fail to understand what they are fighting for. In simple terms they believe that all non-Muslims must yield to them and accept Allah or be persecuted and killed and they believe that giving one’s life in the Holy War against the non-Muslim is the highest form of piety. Folks, it’s us or them, but do not despair history provides a parallel. In December of 1941 we found our nation fighting a foe whose culture was alien to us in the form of the Japanese Empire. They held that their leader was divine, that non-Japanese were racially and morally inferior, that capitulation was disgraceful, that their enemies where to be treated as subhuman and that to die in the cause of the Emperor was to achieve martyrdom. Anyone else seeing it?
We fought the Japanese for nearly 4 years in what was some of the bloodiest and most ruthless combat that the American fighting man has ever experienced until we finally developed the means (we possessed already the will) to make “dying for the Emperor” a horrible reality without any chance to slay the hated enemy nor any “glory”. It was only when they realized that they would indeed all die fighting for the “cause” that living and coexisting seemed like the better choice.
Until we demonstrate the futility of war against us (the fruits of Western culture vs. the stagnation of theirs appear to be no incentive to quit) this will go on until they win and we will cease to exist by our own weakness and failure of will.
Monday, May 17, 2010
This is an interesting news tidbit...
Reprinted from Investors.com
Policy Failure: Greece was told that if it wanted a bailout, it needed to consider privatizing its government health care system. So tell us again why the U.S. is following Europe's welfare state model.
The requirement, part of a deal arranged by the IMF, the European Union and the European Central bank, is a tacit admission that national health care programs are unsustainable. Along with transportation and energy, the bailout group, according to the New York Times, wants the Greek government to remove "the state from the marketplace in crucial sectors."
This is not some cranky or politically motivated demand. It is a condition based on the ugly reality of government medicine. The Times reports that economists — not right-wingers opposed to health care who want to blow up Times Square — say liberalizing "the health care industry would help bring down prices in these areas, which are among the highest in Europe."
Of course most of the media have been largely silent about the health care privatization measure for Greece, as it conflicts with their universal, single-payer health care narrative.
The public health system in the Hellenic Republic is operated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, where centralized decisions and rules are made.
It provides free or low-cost treatment through what is essentially a single-payer system established in 1983 when the Socialist Party was in power. Family members and retirees are also covered. Like the systems in Britain and Canada, it has agonizingly long waiting lists.
It should be no surprise that in Greece, health care spending as a percentage of the economy is relatively steep. According to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development data, it's higher than that in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan. Despite all the spending, Greece could never cover 100% of its citizens, reaching only about 83% for primary care.
Today, the patient most in need of a room in the intensive-care ward is Greece itself — what with government debt nearing 120% of GDP and the deficit at 13% of GDP.
Reprinted from Investors.com
Policy Failure: Greece was told that if it wanted a bailout, it needed to consider privatizing its government health care system. So tell us again why the U.S. is following Europe's welfare state model.
The requirement, part of a deal arranged by the IMF, the European Union and the European Central bank, is a tacit admission that national health care programs are unsustainable. Along with transportation and energy, the bailout group, according to the New York Times, wants the Greek government to remove "the state from the marketplace in crucial sectors."
This is not some cranky or politically motivated demand. It is a condition based on the ugly reality of government medicine. The Times reports that economists — not right-wingers opposed to health care who want to blow up Times Square — say liberalizing "the health care industry would help bring down prices in these areas, which are among the highest in Europe."
Of course most of the media have been largely silent about the health care privatization measure for Greece, as it conflicts with their universal, single-payer health care narrative.
The public health system in the Hellenic Republic is operated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, where centralized decisions and rules are made.
It provides free or low-cost treatment through what is essentially a single-payer system established in 1983 when the Socialist Party was in power. Family members and retirees are also covered. Like the systems in Britain and Canada, it has agonizingly long waiting lists.
It should be no surprise that in Greece, health care spending as a percentage of the economy is relatively steep. According to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development data, it's higher than that in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan. Despite all the spending, Greece could never cover 100% of its citizens, reaching only about 83% for primary care.
Today, the patient most in need of a room in the intensive-care ward is Greece itself — what with government debt nearing 120% of GDP and the deficit at 13% of GDP.
I read this the other day and wanted to share it. My good friend Matt is often quoting Churchill. I wonder what he thinks of this very insightful analysis of Islam.
Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green 1899)
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green 1899)
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's
initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they
could and should do for themselves"
-Abraham Lincoln
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's
initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they
could and should do for themselves"
-Abraham Lincoln
Monday, May 10, 2010
Its already federal law that all aliens in the U.S. carry identification showing their status and that it is presented to law enforcement officials on request. So why is AZ's new law unconstitutional? Don’t answer, it’s a rhetorical question. My grandparents & great grandparents knocked on the front door & asked to come in. They learned English & became citizens. They taught their children to speak English & be Americans as did all immigrants to our country for centuries. Why would I expect that it should be different for others? "The great melting pot" implies assimilation. The current waves of immigrants, legal or otherwise have discarded this concept. I don't have many political "litmus tests" but this is one of them, a core belief about which I am absolutely inflexible.
The PA dept of labor checks all aliens filing unemployment claims to determine whether they are here legally or not. Shouldn’t a bunch of hippies and border jumpers start a riot or something?
If I considered myself "Italian" and advocated more mafiosi invading our country & helped them avoid prosecution & demanded that schools teach Italian nobody would think twice about telling me to shut up & get out. If you consider yourself "Latino" instead of American & you support Mexican invaders in their attack on our country/culture maybe you should get the hell out too! The only hyphenated American is anti-American.
The PA dept of labor checks all aliens filing unemployment claims to determine whether they are here legally or not. Shouldn’t a bunch of hippies and border jumpers start a riot or something?
If I considered myself "Italian" and advocated more mafiosi invading our country & helped them avoid prosecution & demanded that schools teach Italian nobody would think twice about telling me to shut up & get out. If you consider yourself "Latino" instead of American & you support Mexican invaders in their attack on our country/culture maybe you should get the hell out too! The only hyphenated American is anti-American.
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