The Cost of Liberalism

One of the issues which liberals are partially responsible for, besides all the others which come to mind, is the broad association of the word "sex" with activities which actually are issues of control of another person by a stronger person or a person in authority.

Usually when we think "sex" the first definition we intend is "gender." The second definition when we think "sex" is is not sex in the grossest or basest forms: sodomy, rape, pedophilia. In the USofA, we use the term "sex" to mean "sexual intercourse" either inside marriage or not. And we usually still mean that to be "one man with one woman." Or at least we did before the liberals decided to broaden the implied meaning of the term.

Now, how are liberals responsible for sodomy, rape and pedophilia? First they have insisted that it is better for people to "come out of the closet" than to hide their activities? They've pushed the envelope of Freedom of Speech to include every type of sexual encounter, from bestiality to necromancy. No longer are such subjects taboo for 'polite society' because there is no 'polite society' and there is no embarrassment or shame for lewd and lascivious acts. Teens recently taped the rape of a 13 year old by their classmates and put the video on YouTube. MySpace is often full of explicit sexual conversations.

Liberals are in part responsible because they have so watered-down the importance of character and social standing that some men and women see sexual conquests as badges and try to collect as many as possible. Not that this didn't occur in the past or with most high school and college sport* teams. *fill in football, basketball, baseball, etc. But now? Even "I've never done this kind of thing before" people are engaging in sexual activities they would not have if it weren't glorified in the media.

I lay at former President Bill Clinton's feet the increase in reports of sodomy since he "didn't have sex with that woman." I know personally of one high school stadium where the boys line up against the wall (under the bleachers), pull down their zippers, and stick out their "organs" and the high school girls line up, get on their knees, and "don't have sex" with the boys, moving on down the line before the teacher or school patrolman catches them and makes them cease this activity. The authorities take no action against the perpetrators. The administration makes pamphlets available for the students to read and take home. Do you know that there are still school children (of all age groups) who do not believe that sodomy is "sex?" They think that "sex" just means "sexual intercourse between a man and a woman" and doesn't include any form of sodomy. Any form of sodomy.

Using this excuse: "You're know you're old enough to date boys now," he told her. "I'm about to break you in." a father raped his own daughter. Due to some prior convictions for drug and weapon charges, the man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 20 years, for rape and incest. Where in the world did he get the idea that he had to "break his daughter in?" What movie? What book? What website?

A State of Washington pedophile set up a website "how-to" manual, complete with the best places in western Washington state to see little girls, and tips on how to avoid getting caught by the police. And it's legal. The Internet Service Provider has taken the site down while they investigate if any material on the website is illegal. The man was photographing children and putting the photos on his website. One family saw their daughter's photo from her dancing class and took action to get the photo removed. And what does this pedophile have to say? "I really think a lot of this pedophilia hysteria is overblown." So do liberals, so do liberals.

In an email discussion about a different topic, I mentioned that Duty, Honor, Country were no longer important to US Citizens. Liberals have been like termites or carpenter bees eating away at the importance of each. Character used to be important and something that a person treasured. Character is now scoffed at and spoken of as if it was an aberration rather than a desired quality. Honor? Marriages aren't honored. Business commitments are not honored. A person's word is no longer as good as his bond. In fact, people will forfeit bond to break their contracts. Children do not honor their parents in the way and tone they speak to them. Where are the honorable people? And lastly, Country. Liberals seem hell-bent to destroy the USofA and what the USofA has stood for during the past two hundred years.

I think liberals need a history lesson and a class in morals, conduct, and patriotism. What do you think?

The "Duh, You Think?" Awards

After reading the following "news" I decided that each month I will "honor" at least one news story with my own "Duh" award. March's award goes to this story:

The World Health Organization and UNAIDS said circumcision should be added to current interventions to reduce the spread of HIV.
Three African trials have shown that circumcision halved the rate of HIV infection in heterosexual men.
Circumcision will not replace HIV testing, treatment for sexually infected infections and condoms, however. No mention of abstinence?
This is not a typo - the director of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization is Kevin De Cock.

Catherine Hankins, UNAIDS, said: "Being able to recommend an additional HIV prevention method is a significant step towards getting ahead of this epidemic."
"However, we must be clear: male circumcision does not provide complete protection against HIV."Men and women who consider male circumcision as an HIV preventive method must continue to use other forms of protection such as male and female condoms, delaying sexual debut and reducing the number of sexual partners."

The WHO euphemism for short-term abstinance is delaying sexual debut. The United Nations will not promote complete abstinence. They will not inform the HIV/AIDS epidemic Countries in Africa that the ONLY sure way to avoid HIV/AIDS is complete abstinence. But they will give information in an off-handed way to delaying sexual debut.

The First Monthly "Duh, You Think?" Award goes to Kevin De Cock of WHO and Catherine Hankins of UNAIDS for the suggestion to "delay sexual debut" as an HIV/AIDS preventative. Does it not occur to them that COMPLETE ABSTINENCE is the sole and exclusive method for preventing HIV/AIDS?

"Duh, You Think?"

Infanticide in Germany

The article elicits emotions of horror and sadness.

In Germany, so far this year at least 23 cases of infanticide have come to light, well above the average. Many of the babies were beaten to death or strangled by their mothers before being dumped on wasteland and in dustbins.

Experts believe that the true figure is even higher. Professor Helmut Kury, a criminologist, says: “Some women have a greater fear of losing their partners than of losing their child. They take desperate measures to save a relationship.” Professor Mechthild Neises, head of the Psychosomatic Unit at the Medical University in Hanover, agreed: “Such women have usually lied about their pregnancy for so long that they have stopped believing that they are actually pregnant. When the baby suddenly arrives, they panic and just want to get rid of it.”

Unconscionable. Read the entire article.

News and Comments for March 26, 2007

Three young Muslim men from the Beeston neighborhood of Leeds, England, attacked the London transit system in July 2005, killing 52 people and themselves.

Bashir Ahmed, an uncle of Shehzad Tanweer, one of the 2005 suicide bombers, said in an interview published Saturday in The Yorkshire Post that he was convinced that his nephew was inspired by British participation in the Iraq war. “If Tony Blair had not got involved with America this would never have happened,” he was quoted as saying.

So, what you're saying, Bashir Ahmed, is that young Muslim men have no self-control and blame others rather than being "men enough" to accept responsibility for their own actions? You are saying that young Muslim men would not have attacked the London Transit system had Tony Blair not joined the War on Terror? Okay, but how do you explain the Muslim men who flew airplanes into the Twin Towers in New York City? Who are they blaming for that? There was no Iraqi war prior to the terroristic acts carried out by Muslim men on September 11, 2001.

Now, don't anyone say that the Media are biased in any way! Never let it be said that the Media use inflamatory words to incite emotions to sway the reader to the Media's bias. Just to prove it, here's Mike Allen's March 26, 2007 article in The Politico entitled "Rookie Mistakes Plague Obama" which states:

For the first time, Obama is on a stage where small mistakes can have disproportionately large consequences. The Republican National Committee, working in league with Bush operatives, exploited similar blunders -- sometimes misleadingly -- to portray the last two Democratic presidential nominees, Al Gore and John F. Kerry, as inconsistent or hypocritical in ways that savaged both men's reputations.

Extra credit for finding the biased terminology.

Did you know that handguns are illegal in Washington, D.C? Well, if you're an honest citizen, that is. The criminals carry without a permit everywhere. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) considers himself a "strong Second Amendment person" who has a Virginia permit to carry a concealed handgun. He told the Richmond Times Dispatch, "I shoot regularly. I like to have the option to carry, which is why I keep the permit. I value the opportunity to be able to protect myself, depending on situations. But no, I don't walk around with a weapon on me all of the time." An aide reportedly took a loaded handgun into the Capitol building by accident and it showed up inside a bag which was passed through an X-ray machine. What's interesting is that most Media outlets did not give the incident any coverage. Interesting, but we do know why, don't we?

We're all aware about how U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton prosecuted two Border Agents, Ramos and Compean. Here's another story about a Border Agent who was paid by smugglers to wave their vehicles through his inspection lane at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Considering how fervent both Sutton and President Bush are about the conviction of the two Border Agents, this story creates additional questions concerning both Sutton's and Bush's actions which I believe should be investigated by Independent Counsel.

At least three respected teams of British scientists hope to eliminate the need for women to donate eggs for the cloning of human embryos, a research goal they say will enable them to better understand the genetic causes of many diseases and design personalized medicines. The idea is to use the cow's egg without cow DNA but with human DNA inserted. The hope is to form "human stem cells" for research. Something on the order of this, I suppose?


Well, that does it from here for another day.

A Plan to Destroy America

Richard D. Lamm was a Democrat who served as governor of Colorado for twelve years from 1975 to 1987. The following is the "revised version" of Richard Lamm's speech to an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, D.C. in early 2004.

I HAVE A PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA
RICHARD D. LAMM

I HAVE A SECRET PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA. IF YOU BELIEVE, AS MANY DO, THAT AMERICA IS TOO SMUG, TOO WHITE BREAD, TOO SELF-SATISFIED, TOO RICH, LETS DESTROY AMERICA. IT IS NOT THAT HARD TO DO. HISTORY SHOWS THAT NATIONS ARE MORE FRAGILE THAN THEIR CITIZENS THINK. NO NATION IN HISTORY HAS SURVIVED THE RAVAGES OF TIME. ARNOLD TOYNBEE OBSERVED THAT ALL GREAT CIVILIZATIONS RISE AND THEY ALL FALL, AND THAT "AN AUTOPSY OF HISTORY WOULD SHOW THAT ALL GREAT NATIONS COMMIT SUICIDE." HERE IS MY PLAN:

I. WE MUST FIRST MAKE AMERICA A BILINGUAL-BICULTURAL COUNTRY. HISTORY SHOWS, IN MY OPINION, THAT NO NATION CAN SURVIVE THE TENSION, CONFLICT, AND ANTAGONISM OF TWO COMPETING LANGUAGES AND CULTURES. IT IS A BLESSING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE BILINGUAL; IT IS A CURSE FOR A SOCIETY TO BE BILINGUAL. ONE SCHOLAR, SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET, PUT IT THIS WAY:

THE HISTORIES OF BILINGUAL AND BICULTURAL SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT ASSIMILATE ARE HISTORIES OF TURMOIL, TENSION, AND TRAGEDY. CANADA, BELGIUM, MALAYSIA, LEBANON-ALL FACE CRISES OF NATIONAL EXISTENCE IN WHICH MINORITIES PRESS FOR AUTONOMY, IF NOT INDEPENDENCE. PAKISTAN AND CYPRUS HAVE DIVIDED. NIGERIA SUPPRESSED AN ETHNIC REBELLION. FRANCE FACES DIFFICULTIES WITH ITS BASQUES, BRETONS, AND CORSICANS.

II. I WOULD THEN INVENT "MULTICULTURALISM" AND ENCOURAGE IMMIGRANTS TO MAINTAIN THEIR OWN CULTURE. I WOULD MAKE IT AN ARTICLE OF BELIEF THAT ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL: THAT THERE ARE NO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES THAT ARE IMPORTANT. I WOULD DECLARE IT AN ARTICLE OF FAITH THAT THE BLACK AND HISPANIC DROPOUT RATE IS ONLY DUE TO PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION BY THE MAJORITY. EVERY OTHER EXPLANATION IS OUT-OF-BOUNDS.

III. WE CAN MAKE THE UNITED STATES A "HISPANIC QUEBEC" WITHOUT MUCH EFFORT. THE KEY IS TO CELEBRATE DIVERSITY RATHER THAN UNITY. AS BENJAMIN SCHWARZ SAID IN THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY RECENTLY:
...THE APPARENT SUCCESS OF OUR OWN MULTIETHNIC AND MULTICULTURAL EXPERIMENT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED NOT BY TOLERANCE BUT BY HEGEMONY. WITHOUT THE DOMINANCE THAT ONCE DICTATED ETHNOCENTRICALLY, AND WHAT IT MEANT TO BE AN AMERICAN, WE ARE LEFT WITH ONLY TOLERANCE AND PLURALISM TO HOLD US TOGETHER.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL IMMIGRANTS TO KEEP THEIR OWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. I WOULD REPLACE THE MELTING POT METAPHOR WITH A SALAD BOWL METAPHOR. IT IS IMPORTANT TO INSURE THAT WE HAVE VARIOUS CULTURAL SUB-GROUPS LIVING IN AMERICA REINFORCING THEIR DIFFERENCES RATHER THAN AMERICANS, EMPHASIZING THEIR SIMILARITIES.

IV. HAVING DONE ALL THIS, I WOULD MAKE OUR FASTEST GROWING DEMOGRAPHIC GROUP THE LEAST EDUCATED - I WOULD ADD A SECOND UNDERCLASS, UNASSIMILATED, UNDEREDUCATED, AND ANTAGONISTIC TO OUR POPULATION. I WOULD HAVE THIS SECOND UNDERCLASS HAVE A 50% DROP OUT RATE FROM SCHOOL.

V. I WOULD THEN GET THE BIG FOUNDATIONS AND BIG BUSINESS TO GIVE THESE EFFORTS LOTS OF MONEY. I WOULD INVEST IN ETHNIC IDENTITY, AND I WOULD ESTABLISH THE CULT OF VICTIMOLOGY. I WOULD GET ALL MINORITIES TO THINK THEIR LACK OF SUCCESS WAS ALL THE FAULT OF THE MAJORITY - I WOULD START A GRIEVANCE INDUSTRY BLAMING ALL MINORITY FAILURE ON THE MAJORITY POPULATION.

VI. I WOULD ESTABLISH DUAL CITIZENSHIP AND PROMOTE DIVIDED LOYALTIES. I WOULD "CELEBRATE DIVERSITY." "DIVERSITY" IS A WONDERFULLY SEDUCTIVE WORD. IT STRESSES DIFFERENCES RATHER THAN COMMONALITIES. DIVERSE PEOPLE WORLDWIDE ARE MOSTLY ENGAGED IN HATING EACH OTHER-THAT IS, WHEN THEY ARE NOT KILLING EACH OTHER. A DIVERSE," PEACEFUL, OR STABLE SOCIETY IS AGAINST MOST HISTORICAL PRECEDENT. PEOPLE UNDERVALUE THE UNITY IT TAKES TO KEEP A NATION TOGETHER, AND WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS MYOPIA. LOOK AT THE ANCIENT GREEKS. DORF'S WORLD HISTORY TELLS US:
THE GREEKS BELIEVED THAT THEY BELONGED TO THE SAME RACE; THEY POSSESSED A COMMON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; AND THEY WORSHIPED THE SAME GODS. ALL GREECE TOOK PART IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN HONOR OF ZEUS AND ALL GREEKS VENERATED THE SHRINE OF APOLLO AT DELPHI. A COMMON ENEMY PERSIA THREATENED THEIR LIBERTY. YET, ALL OF THESE BONDS TOGETHER WERE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO OVERCOME TWO FACTORS . . . (LOCAL PATRIOTISM AND GEOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONS THAT NURTURED POLITICAL DIVISIONS . . .)
IF WE CAN PUT THE EMPHASIS ON THE "PLURIBUS," INSTEAD OF THE "UNUM," WE CAN BALKANIZE AMERICA AS SURELY AS KOSOVO.

VII. THEN I WOULD PLACE ALL THESE SUBJECTS OFF LIMITS - MAKE IT TABOO TO TALK ABOUT. I WOULD FIND A WORD SIMILAR TO "HERETIC" IN THE 16TH CENTURY - THAT STOPPED DISCUSSION AND PARALYZED THINKING. WORDS LIKE "RACIST", "XENOPHOBE" THAT HALTS ARGUMENT AND CONVERSATION.

HAVING MADE AMERICA A BILINGUAL-BICULTURAL COUNTRY, HAVING ESTABLISHED MULTICULTURALISM, HAVING THE LARGE FOUNDATIONS FUND THE DOCTRINE OF "VICTIMOLOGY", I WOULD NEXT MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO ENFORCE OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS. I WOULD DEVELOP A MANTRA - "THAT BECAUSE IMMIGRATION HAS BEEN GOOD FOR AMERICA, IT MUST ALWAYS BE GOOD."I WOULD MAKE EVERY INDIVIDUAL IMMIGRANT SYMPATRIC AND IGNORE THE CUMULATIVE IMPACT.

VIII. LASTLY, I WOULD CENSOR VICTOR HANSON DAVIS'S BOOK MEXIFORNIA — THIS BOOK IS DANGEROUS — IT EXPOSES MY PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA. SO PLEASE, PLEASE — IF YOU FEEL THAT AMERICA DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED — PLEASE, PLEASE — DON'T BUY THIS BOOK! THIS GUY IS ON TO MY PLAN.

"THE SMART WAY TO KEEP PEOPLE PASSIVE AND OBEDIENT IS TO STRICTLY LIMIT THE SPECTRUM OF ACCEPTABLE OPINION, BUT ALLOW VERY LIVELY DEBATE WITHIN THAT SPECTRUM." — NOAM CHOMSKY, AMERICAN LINGUIST AND US MEDIA AND FOREIGN POLICY CRITIC.

Readership

I am amazed at the traffic on my blog. Maybe I shouldn't be. I get approximately 500 hits in a month. Either one person is checking my blog 500 times, OR, I have an active readership.

The other thing that amazes me is that I get so few comments. I don't know if that means people agree with me or that they don't agree with me and don't want to let me know.

I'm glad for the readership and I hope I have entertained and educated and sparked an interest in one of my topics.

News of note: the Catholic Church in Georgia has successfully sued a State approved facility which was denying its patients (children under the age of 18) freedom of religion. The facility is in the process of closing. Employees tried to convert the children to the religion which ran the facility. One lone 73 year old grandmother took on the entire facility on behalf of a grandson who was denied Catholic instruction for the Rite of Confirmation. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that no one messes with a grandmother on a mission!

Kareem and Global Voices

On Saturday, February 24, 2007, this blog reported on the incarceration of Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, known through his blog as "Kareem Amer" who was imprisoned for four years for exercising free speech on his personal blog. His family has disowned him and his father wants Islamic Sharia Law applied: three days to repent or be executed.

Meanwhile, a coalition of Kareem's supporters are campaigning for his release, including organizing protests at Egyptian embassies around the world. Coordinator Constantino Diaz-Duran in New York says that Kareem's family has disowned him, so the coalition plans to provide some of the necessities that prisoners in Egypt generally depend on families to provide: medicine, clothing and food.

A translation from Kareem’s final blog post in October reads, “The mere existence of legal provisions that criminalize freedom of thought, and threaten with imprisonment anyone who criticizes religion in any way, is a grave defect in the law.”

Kareem is not the only blogger who writes about the political situation in his country. There are many such bloggers in many countries and nations.

Here's the entire list:
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You can highlight any country name at Global Voices and be directed to the blog for that country.

Gore REFUSES to Sign Global Warming Pledge

Former Vice President Al Gore has once again proved that he is not as sure about Global Warming as the movie he made and for which he received an OSCAR. But then, with four houses, one of them a 20-room Mansion in Belle Meade (Nashville, TN) with a heated swimming pool, "taking the pledge" might cause some "hardship" as The Tennessean has already gone on record showing that Mr Gore consumes as much energy in a month as the average American consumes in a year.

WASHINGTON, DC – Former Vice President Al Gore refused to take a “Personal Energy Ethics Pledge” today (March 21. 2007) to consume no more energy than the average American household. The pledge was presented to Gore by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, during today’s global warming hearing.

The Pledge States:

As a believer:
· that human-caused global warming is a moral, ethical, and spiritual issue affecting our survival;

· that home energy use is a key component of overall energy use;

· that reducing my fossil fuel-based home energy usage will lead to lower greenhouse gas emissions; and

· that leaders on moral issues should lead by example;

I pledge to consume no more energy for use in my residence than the average American household by March 21, 2008.”

Gore refused to take the pledge.


Washington D.C. - On December 8, 2006, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the outgoing Chairman of Environment & Public Works Committee, is pleased to announce the public release of the Senate Committee published booklet entitled “A Skeptic’s Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism. Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge To Journalists who Cover Global Warming.” The book features web links to all supporting documentation.

"The American people are fed up with the media for promoting the idea that former Vice President Al Gore represents the scientific “consensus” that SUV’s and the modern American way of life have somehow created a 'climate emergency' that only United Nations bureaucrats and wealthy Hollywood liberals can solve,” Senator Inhofe said in October.

Skepticism that human C02 emissions are creating a “climate catastrophe” has grown in recent times. In September, renowned French geophysicists and Socialist Party member Claude Allegre, converted from a believer in manmade catastrophic global warming to a climate skeptic. This latest defector from the global warming camp caps a year in which numerous scientific studies have bolstered the claims of climate skeptics.

Scientific studies that debunk the dire predictions of human-caused global warming have continued to accumulate and many believe the new science is shattering the media-promoted scientific “consensus” on climate alarmism.

INHOFE OPENING STATEMENT: Hearing on Vice President Al Gore’s Perspective on Global Warming
March 21, 2007

Lastly, the cost: Global warming is now big business. Thousands of individuals and even some Fortune 100 companies stand to make tens of billions of dollars.

I was on the floor opposing the ’93 Clinton-Gore tax increase of $32 billion, but the cost of Kyoto and other CO2 reduction schemes are estimated to be over $300 billion, ten times the cost of your ’93 tax increase. And who’s paying for it? Those on fixed incomes and the poor, who as a percent of their monthly budget spend five times more on energy than the average household.

Largest tax increase in history – 10 times Clinton-Gore of ’93 and the poor pay for it… and the science isn’t there. We just can’t do that to America, Mr. Vice President… and we’re not gonna.

I said all along that this Global Warming issue was a smoke screen for Al Gore to be the "savior-of-the-planet Presidential Candidate" who is encouraged by green-grassroots environmental liberals and leftists to run for the Presidency in 2008.

Baraka Hussein Obama, Jr. set himself up to run for President in 2008 by writing two books so that he would not have to answer the "hard" questions about his religious upbringing. After all, he explained himself in his books, never mind that the information in those books is inaccurate according to his classmates and school records.

But Al Gore, Jr. has done an even better job of setting himself up to be the "savior" candidate in 2008. He narrates a "documentary" movie about global warming and wins himself an OSCAR. Never mind that more and more scientists are debunking his movie as mere propaganda.

Could a documentary be false and misleading?

Addendum:
Tourism Among Worst Polluters according to Discovery News.

March 21, 2007 — Holiday-makers may be ruining their favorite destinations through pollution and greenhouse gases, making the tourism industry one of the world's worst polluters, experts say.
A flight to that pristine beach and a few nights in an air-conditioned hotel room, when repeated on the mass scale of modern tourism, is all it takes to put the holiday business on a polluting par with heavy industries.

The True Cost of War

The Children in Iraq are paying the price of their parents' religious hatred. Why don't the anti-war activists take their protests to the various Iraqi factions instead of marching in Washington, D.C? If they are truly against this war, don't they realize it will be "over" the day that the Sunnis, Shias and Kurds quit fighting among themselves and kick the Iranians, Saudis, Syrians, Jordanians, and other al Qaida and Taliban insurgents out of their Country?

Anti-war talk and marching in Washington, D.C, is "cheap." If a person is truly against this war, take the argument to the warring factions in Iraq. Otherwise, sit down and shut up because you're not truly committed to the anti-war movement, you're just enjoying the camaraderie of the moment.

Fresh Blood Can Kill & other news

Heart wrenching story about the AIDS epidemic among children in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, near the Uzbekistan border. Seems doctors there, with beginning salary of $175 a month, are making money by ordering blood transfusions on children for non-blood related diseases. The doctors charge $20 and keep half. One child had 25 unnecessary blood transfusions.

The British have issued 10,000 fraudulent passports. Two convicted terrorists were issued with two false British passports each.

One was a Moroccan found guilty of a bombing in Casablanca, and the other was Dhiren Barot, from London, who was sentenced to life last November for plotting to kill thousands of people in the UK and US. During Barot's trial, the court heard he considered using a radioactive "dirty bomb".

Visitors to the HUALAPAI INDIAN RESERVATION, in Arizona will have to drive 2 hours on a curvy dirt road to arrive at an architectural wonder: a glass-bottom observation deck allowing them to gaze 4000 feet into the Grand Canyon beneath their feet. The "Skywalk" is a glass-and-steel horseshoe which extends 70 feet beyond the canyon's edge and has no visible supports above or below. Cost for the opportunity will be $75. Hualapai leaders say they weighed environmental concerns for years before agreeing to build the Skywalk. With a third of the tribe's 2,200 members living in poverty, the tribal government decided it needs the tourism dollars.

Free land has already been claimed, but perhaps other interior towns with dwindling populations will be inspired to give away land to increase their populations. Anderson, Alaska, population 300 prior to the giveaway, has winter temperatures of 60 below zero, but that didn't stop hundreds (perhaps thousands) from applying for the homesteads.

One more round about with global warming

The Climate Change Hypocrites

Al Gore, David Cameron, the Independent - they all talk about Climate Change but do they practice what they preach? Watch this short film on the Climate Change Hypocrites and find out that Mr. Gore has a heated pool that costs $500 in natural gas a month!

Article from Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal entitled "Whose Ox Is Gored? The media discover the former vice president's environmental exaggerations and hypocrisy" includes this closing paragraph:

Mr. Gore has called the campaign to combat global warming a "moral imperative." But Mr. Gore faces another imperative: to square his sales pitches with the facts and his personal lifestyle to more align with what he advocates that others practice. "Are you ready to change the way you live?" asks Mr. Gore's film. It's time people ask Mr. Gore "Are you ready to change the way you live, as well as the way you lecture the rest of us?"

Two quotes from the National Association of Manufacturers blogsite:

"As a falsifying, exaggerating, sanctimonious propagandist of global-warming doom, DOOM!, former Vice President Al Gore deserves all the jibes and condemnation that come his way."

"Al Gore ranks as world's chief global-warming alarmist and advocate of silencing debate; as such, he warrants constant, critical attention and, for his many excesses, condemnation."

“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent, by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.” — Ayn Rand

A Call to Convert

The Triangle Online, the student newspaper at Drexel University, published a call to convert written by Sheikh Usama bin Akhmed, on their Op Ed page on April 2, 2004.

Fortunately for the reader "all the respected newspapers we contacted, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Triangle, have refused to run our opinion pieces and have even reported us to the FBI."

The giveaway was perhaps in the title of the Op Ed piece: "Convert to Wahabbism now lest you die infidel pigs"

Or maybe the first paragraph of the article:

"America is corrupt! America is immoral! America is ruled by Satan, who employs the Jews to carry out his bidding! If you are still reading this, that means that there is still some hope for your soul. I, Sheikh Usama ibn Akhmed, am the president of Wahabbism Now for America. Our organization recognizes the massive moral shortcomings of this immoral culture and attempts to fix it by enforcing the purest form of Islam; this form of Islam, Wahabbism, is the law of the Holy Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and we will impose it on America and all its inhabitants."

He ends by saying: "Of course it goes without saying that soon all shall be forced to convert to our religion and follow our beliefs."

Now, what part of The Constitution of the United States of America and The Bill of Rights do you think this Saudi doesn't understand?

Maybe it's the gun-toting red-neck in me, but I doubt that Saudi Wahabbism is going to go over very well in the South.

Egypt confronts freedom and freedom loses

Egypt Moves to Eliminate Freedom to Protest, Freedom to Assemble, Freedom to Speak per Sandmonkey who writes:

"A crackdown on the Egyptian opposition continues its second day with the warrant for the arrest of 19 activists including every single Kefayah leader (the Egyptian secular opposition group), and three of Egypt’s most prominent bloggers: Wael Abbas, Mohamed Sharqawi, and Alaa seif el-Islam.

These arrests are not the only blows to freedom of speech in Egypt: Just last week the appeal for the detained Egyptian blogger Abdel Karim Soliman got rejected, and a lawsuit demanding the shut down of 21 more websites and blogs has been filed. Freedom of speech, for the lack of a better expression, is dying in Egypt."

Kefaya anti-Mubarak demonstration



First person report regarding police crack down on Kefaya demonstration; at least 35 detained. Lots of photographs in this report.

On February 18, 2007, Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Turki al- Faisal, resigned. He stressed that the Saudi-US relations were strong.

A little history about the branch of Muhammadanism taught in Saudi Arabia:

Wahhabism accepts the Qur'an and hadith as fundamental texts, interpreted upon the understanding of the first three generations of Islam. It also accepts various commentaries including Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's book called Kitab al-Tawhid ("Book of Monotheism"), and the works of the earlier scholar Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328).

Wahhabis do not follow any specific madhhab (method or school of jurisprudence), but claim to interpret the words of the prophet Muhammad directly, using the four maddhab for reference. However, they are often associated with the Hanbali maddhab. Wahhabi theology advocates a puritanical and legalistic stance in matters of faith and religious practice.

In 1924 the Wahhabi al-Saud dynasty conquered Mecca and Medina, the Muslim holy cities. This gave them control of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage, and the opportunity to preach their version of Islam to the assembled pilgrims. However, Wahhabism was a minor current within Islam until the discovery of oil in Arabia, in 1938. Vast oil revenues gave an immense impetus to the spread of Wahhabism. Saudi laypeople, government officials and clerics have donated many tens of millions of US dollars to create religious schools, newspapers and outreach organizations.

"In Saudi Arabia, codes of public modesty are strictly enforced by the Islamic religious police, or Mutaween (“Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”). These police, who's values stem from the Wahhabi movement, have the power to arrest men and women for socializing in public, or for violating perceived modesty standards in the country. Many public beatings, amputations of the hands and feet, and executions have taken place in Saudia Arabia after people were arrested for violating modesty codes or accepted sexual practices (i.e. practicing homosexuality).?

President Bush and many Congresspeople consider the Saudis as allies of the USofA?

Invasion or Migration? Just add Kennedy Amnesty Bill & Stir Until Well Blended

"The United States respects rule of law. But in the debate on migration, I remind my fellow citizens that family alues do not stop at the Rio Grande River, that there are decent, hardworking honorable citizens of Mexico who want to make a living for their families. And so, Mr. President, my pledge to you and your government -- but, more importantly, the people of Mexico -- is I will work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform."

It's already started

What's already started? The "debate" about Baraka Hussein Obama, Jr's faith-walk. Only the problem is that a Muhammadan doesn't have a "faith-walk" because being a Muhammadan is not a choice a person makes. Just as being born in the USofA makes an illegal alien's child a US Citizen, so being born with a Muhammadan father makes a boy a Muhammadan. There's no getting around this truth. A Muhammadan cannot just "say" that he's converted to Christianity without having a fatwah placed against him and without signing his own death warrant. The fact (F A C T) that Baraka Hussein Obama, Jr does not have a fatwah against him proves that the Muhammadan community knows that his "conversion" to Christianity was made to deceive the American public.

Why is this so hard for liberals to comprehend.

The only thing that Baraka Hussein Obama, Jr wants is to be President of the USofA. He is willing to deceive the American public to accomplish this goal. He started his deception with his "autobiographical" books well in advance of his pursuit of the highest elected office in the USofA. And he didn't tell the truth in those books.

Barry Sotero's (Obama) schoolmate, Rony Amiris, at Besuki Primary School remember's young Barry as enjoying playing football and marbles and of being a very devout Muslim. Amir said, "Barry was previously quite religious in Islam. His birth father, Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim economist from Kenya ... all of the relatives of Barry's father were very devout Muslims"

"We previously often asked him to the prayer room close to the house. If he was wearing a sarong he looked funny," said Rony.

Amiris now the manager of the Bank Mandiri, Jakarta, recently said, "Barry was previously quite religious in Islam. His birth father, Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim economist from Kenya. Before marrying Ann Dunham, Hussein Obama was married to a woman from Kenya who had seven children. All the relatives of Barry's father were very devout Muslims"

Rony extrapolates further, that Obama at one point had to change his religion if he ever intended later to run for the office of President of the United States because America would never elect a Muslim to the be President of the United States.

All I know to do is to present the truth. It is up to you to decide if you'll accept the truth or be deceived. And I'll be the first to say "I told you so" when "Barry" reverts to Muhammadanism.

The High Road Leads to Deception

The problem with the truth is that someone is going to be offended. The problem with 'the high road' is that someone is going to be deceived.

The truth is that there is no such thing as a "moderate" Muhammadan. The term "moderate Muslim{sic}" has been coined in order to deceive non-Muslims{sic}. The Koran clearly states:

"They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing : But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah. But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and take no friends or helpers from their ranks;" Quran 004.089

What this means is that neither you nor I are racist nor intolerant when we spread the truth about Muhammadanism (aka Islam{sic}).

Islam{sic} does not acknowledge the equality of all humans. There are three types of people: men, women and infidels. Non-Muslims{sic} are worth nothing. A Muslim{sic} man may commit any crime against a non-Muslim{sic} with impunity, even murder.

"If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him;" Quran 003.085

"O ye who believe! take not for protectors your fathers and your brothers if they love infidelity above Faith: if any of you do so, they do wrong." Quran 009.023

"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." Quran 009.029 (Jizya : tribute)

"The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;" Quran 005.033

If anyone tries to tell you that Muhammadanism or Islam is a "religion of peace" you may want to memorize the above quote giving instructions to execute or crucify those who wage war against "allah" so that you can tell that person the truth.

Tweaking completed

My CD-RW died and has been replaced with a DVD-CD-RW. And I got some extra memory. All for the reasonable price of $175. It's good to live in a small town where the local computer guy only charges $45 an hour.

Now I have the computer back and I am going to catch up on the news.

Have a great weekend!

What's the WOT like in Iraq?

Learn what it's like for our Military in Iraq; not from the mainstream media where the recurrent song is "woe is us" or is that "woe to the U.S.," but from Independent Reporters who pay their own way to Iraq, who are embedded with various fighting units and who report what is REALLY happening there.

Michael Yon

Michael Totten

Bill Roggio

Bill Ardolino

Pat Dollard

J.D. Johannes

Down for tweaking

Blog is going down for a couple days for some much needed tweaking. Real Player won't and Windows shuts down when I attempt to read PDF files.

So, if you haven't skimmed the blog to read what suits your fancy, now is your chance to start from the beginning.

If you get bored, there's always my old standby for good reading and links: Instapundit.

Later!
AuntieCoosa

Told ya so, told ya so!

The British TV station Channel Four is coming out with a scientific rebuttal to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

"The Great Global Warming Swindle" features experts in climatology, meteorology and other disciplines — from such places as MIT and NASA. The film disputes the link between carbon dioxide levels and global temperatures.

One scientist calls the recent U.N. summary report on climate change "a sham" that included the names of scientists who actually disagreed with its findings.

So, did I tell you so or did I tell you so. Global Warming is a HOAX. It's a smoke-screen. And when a person like Al "I buy pollution indulgences" Gore promotes the thesis of "Global Warming," you can be pretty sure that it's all about politics and not about science.

I'll even go a step or two farther into "green" and "environment" politics. Ever since the earth was inhabited by humans, we have had an effect on the environment. There is no way to go "back" to the 'pristine' because the 'pristine' existed before the first humanoid, in fact, before the first animal, fish, fowl, bug, insect, molecule of living-being ever existed.

The first time a molecule separated into two and then four and then sixteen, such activity began the destruction of the 'pristine' earth. The 'pristine' was a void. A blank. Without any life. A dead-zone.

And then, the first "life" occurred. Whether you believe as I do that God created the earth and then populated it with living beings, or if you believe that some molecule got zapped and suddenly morphed into something living, as soon as there was something living in the void, that void lost its 'pristine' existence.

Oh my goodness. A salient thought. A sudden awareness. There is no way to return to 'pristine.' Even blowing up earth would not return it to 'pristine.' Killing all the humans and animals and fish and birds and bugs and bacteria and germs wouldn't bring the earth back to 'pristine.' It simply cannot be done.

Well, sputter, sputter, what about . . . ? We can't return to 'pristine' but we can reduce, reuse, recycle and try to do as little additional damage to the environment as possible. Each of us has to accept responsibility for our individual part of the current state of the environment. If you own a car, you're polluting the environment. Buying "pollution indulgences" (carbon off-sets) as Al Gore does, from his own company, yet, so that he can heat and cool three houses, including a 20-room mansion in Nashville, is cheating. Al Gore is not 'down-sizing' at all. He's using up the environment at least three times faster than the average family in a six, seven, or eight room house.

Which is why I said and I say, Global Warming is a HOAX. Al Gore brought it up so that he can appear to be the 'earth's savior' when he's 'talked' into running for President (again) in 2008. Global warming is all about politics and has nothing to do with saving the environment. How can it be about saving the environment when the 'herald of hope' is Al "I buy pollution indulgences from my own company" Gore?

Recycled, Inconvenient, & Pre-mature

Does anyone recall a Paul Ehrlich who wrote "Population Bomb" in 1989? In May of 1989, Ehrlich claimed, global warming was going to melt the polar ice caps, causing a flood in which "we could expect to lose all of Florida, Washington D.C., and the Los Angeles basin...we'll be in rising waters with no ark in sight." Ehrlich commanded that to forestall doom, the world needed to cut its energy use in half over 20 years. Industrialization needed to be dragged to a screeching halt, not only in America, but especially in the Third World. It’s been almost twenty years, we never cut our energy use in half, and Florida is still above water, not to mention D.C. and Los Angeles.

So, why is Al Gore recycling Paul Ehrlich? In 2027, will Al Gore be around to explain why his doomsday predictions never occurred or will he, like Paul Ehrlich, fade into oblivion?

In mid February, tiny Amillia Taylor made her public debut. Amillia was delivered at 21 weeks and 6 days, the shortest period of time a child has been carried in utero and lived to survive. ABC World News Tonight was the only broadcast news outlet to make the connection between Amillia’s gestational age and laws governing abortion. Kudos to ABC anchor Charlie Gibson. ABC made a point of presenting both sides of the story.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper, 360 also tackled the abortion-related issues surrounding Amillia’s birth, but couched the discussion in terms of “fetus viability.” Bioethicist Arthur Caplan showed his true colors when he said, “… it isn’t just a question of biological life, it’s also a question of at what price to the child.” What price to the child? Living with disabilities is a small price to pay, considering the alternative – not living at all. What does that say about the countless children born with problems similar to those of a pre-mature infant? Are their lives worth less because of their disabilities?

God bless little Amillia Taylor.

Politics at the center

As usual, if you're curious about all the hoopla over the hypocrisy of Al Gore, I direct you to Instapundit. I've read a number of the posts there (plenty of links there, so if you're curious, link on and look) and I am amazed at how easy it is for the liberals to give Al Gore a pass on his hypocrisy and how adamant they are to point out the hypocrisy of a conservative. What puzzles me is that liberals do not see the inequity of their actions. Now, why is this? What's the motivation behind ignoring the plank in your own eye while screaming about the toothpick in someone else's eye?

One writer tries to convince the audience that Al Gore "isn't like the rest of us" and so doesn't have to live under the same set of rules. Hello? Is he breathing the same air as I am? Then he does have to live under the same rules as I do. For a Democrat, a "Party of the People," to claim that one of its leaders is a member of an "elite class" who doesn't have to share in the proletariat's sacrifices for the common good is outrageous hypocrisy.

How anyone can justify that kind of illogical duplicity is beyond me. There is no excuse for it. Period. And if you are a Democrat, then you are part of the deceit or you can speak out to your Congresspeople and to your Party and hold them accountable.

Al Gore owns three houses. One is a 20-room mansion in Nashville, TN. For anyone to say he represents the "common man" is the height of pomposity, pretentiousness, and dishonesty. And anyone who defends this type of deceit is as guilty as Al Gore is.

If the Democrats want any rational person to listen to them, they might want to try being honest.