Meanwhile….

Peaceful Muslim Scum Busy Silencing and Threatening Around the World

(IsraelNN.com) Dr. Wafa Sultan has been forced to go into hiding with her family following a fatwa (religious edict) from an Islamic scholar, according to Omedia. Sultan faces the fatwa following a recent debate on Al-Jazeera in which she challenged Egyptian Islamist Talat Rheim over Dutch cartoons of Mohammed, who Muslims revere as a prophet. Sultan argued that Denmark had the right to print the cartoons. Sultan joins a growing list of public critics of radical Islam facing death threats. Her supporters have asked the American public to join them in writing to the embassy of Qatar, the country which sponsors Al-Jazeera, as well as to United States President George Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, asking them to defend Sultan’s right to free speech and personal safety.Report: Dr. Wafa Sultan in Hiding (via LGF)

See also Wafa Sultan on Al Jazeera

Asking for help from the White House might be a problem since Codoleezza Rice seems far too busy whoring for her Muslim masters. I’m damn sure standing up for free speech is not a priority for a woman who is scarred by America’s birth defect. It seems to have blighted her mental capacity to discern friend from foe. Or maybe she has picked new friends. Why doesn’t Bush put this woman on a leash before she does even more damage? Damn them both.In the meantime those tolerant peaceful muslims continue to show their respect for free speech, hacking into the Fitna website.And Palestinian swine continue producing cartoons encouraging their progeny to murder and maim. But you see, that speech they probably want protected. No hate here.

Sick and evil beyond belief, Hamas TV broadcasts a puppet show in which a young Palestinian boy murders a puppet version of President Bush with a sword, and turns the White House into a mosque. (Aired March 30, 2008, on Al Aqsa TV. Courtesy of MEMRI TV.)

The one bright spot in this damned, miasmic muslim milieu is that Live Leaks has put the movie Fitna back on line. Kudos to Live Leak.

On the 28th of March LiveLeak.com was left with no other choice but to remove the film “fitna” from our servers following serious threats to our staff and their families. Since that time we have worked constantly on upgrading all security measures thus offering better protection for our staff and families. With these measures in place we have decided to once more make this video live on our site. We will not be pressured into censoring material which is legal and within our rules. We apologise for the removal and the delay in getting it back, but when you run a website you don’t consider that some people would be insecure enough to threaten our lives simply because they do not like the content of a video we neither produced nor endorsed but merely hosted.(LiveLeak)

Pat Condell on Fitna

Obama and Islam: How Many Degrees of Separation?

It matters little if Barack Hussein Obama attended a madrassa or not. The politics of the the left and it’s stepchild, black liberation theology, resonate on a core, essential level with Islam.

European Muslims are presently exercising the political and cultural muscle that their American counterparts are working towards. A democrat/socialist in the White House will accelerate their progress. Obama in the White House will guarantee it.

Reproduced in it’s entirety from Political Islam, a publication that I strongly recommend that you subscribe to.

Islam and Black Liberation Theology

Bill Warner

Center for the Study of Political Islam

Barack Obama has closely aligned himself with Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation Theology (BLT). When viewed from the Christian point-of-view, BLT is a strange creed, but when seen from the standpoint of Islam, there is a very strong parallel.

Islam and BLT are theologies that have a political goal of making all politics submit to their demands. Submission is the political goal.
Islam and BLT are both based upon the principle of duality. The Koran divides up humanity into Muslims and the kafirs (unbelievers). BLT has a god that divides humanity into blacks and whites. But the duality is not the division, but a complete separation that is ethical, political, cultural and religious. The believer has nothing in common with the kafir/white. Allah loves the Muslim and a black god loves the blacks.

Allah preaches violence against the kafirs and helps Muslims to kill them. The Koran says that cruelty and hatred of the kafir is a sacred duty for Muslims.

BLT does not preach violence against whites, but excuses and justifies it. BLT also justifies black crime as a legal way for oppressed blacks to strike back at the white oppressors. It sees a rapist or killer of whites as a revolutionary committing a legitimate act of a just war. Here we have a quote from James Cone, the father of BLT:

“What we need is the divine love as expressed in black power, which is the power of blacks to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any and all means at their disposal” [James Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation, p. 70]

Neither Islam nor BLT ever acknowledges the suffering of its enemies. Jihad has killed over 270 million kafirs over the last 1400 years, but there has never been any acknowledgment of the destruction of kafirs. In Mohammed’s official biography, the Sira, there are hundreds of pages devoted to jihad against the kafirs. There is not one time when Mohammed expressed remorse about the beheading, torturing, killing, raping and robbery of the kafirs. Indeed, there are many occasions when he laughed at the kafirs’ suffering.

The duality of total separateness from the kafir/white creates an ethical position. Ethics become dualistic. The kafir/white is treated differently from the “brother/sister”. Since Allah/black God hates and plots against kafirs/whites there is no empathy with the victims of the aggression. There is no remorse and, therefore, there is never an apology. There is nothing to apologize for. Allah/black God wanted them dead, so there is no need to weep.

A Could Be Obamadebacle.

Are you listening all you peace at any cost Obamamaniacs?

Matt Maupin: Under an American Sky

If this nation is to live true to the principles of our founding fathers, the Maupins of this country will be the Americans who will safeguard our heritage. Simple men and women whom the press denigrates as neanderthals and the Obamas of the world despise as “typical white people.”

Below is a post that I did at the time of Matt Maupin’s capture. Links marked thus ^**, are dead, but, not any of my sentiments.

I’m off to run errands with the grandchildren that Matt died to protect.

Under an American Sky

April 19,2004

Matt Maupin, the soldier being held prisoner in Iraq, grew up under the sky you see in the photo to your left. He hails from about 15 miles from here. He’s probably driven past this marina many times – maybe after a concert at Riverbend he’d jump on 52, heading West towards town, and hit Annies for more music, or Allyns for some Mexican.

I go cold inside when I see the video, his face reflecting the fear being held at bay by a type of courage I’ll never own. He lived under my skies and now he is captive under an alien sky. How vivid a memory is an Ohio sky for Mr. Maupin while in the hands of Islamic terrorists?

I have come to loathe the irresolute will of the American people. I have come to hate what we’ve become. The following passage is eloquent and accurate. from Lowry’s Legacy, pg. 5

” Clinton was a weak person, and so ultimately a weak president. His weakness related to the kind of man he was. If Clinton’s presidency was “post greatness” – on a determinedly minor key – it also was “post masculine”.

Clinton was the new,sensitive man elevated to high office: sentimental and easily moved to tears, undisciplined and self-indulgent, endlessly and thoughtlessly expressive, schooled in the language and attitudes of therapy, fundamentally out of sympathy with that center of another, different kind of masculinity, the military. He was a soft man for a soft age.”

And men like Mr. Maupin are protecting the soft men. And the soft men are us. Under American skies Muslims seek to erect mosque after mosque. Under these skies they are beginning to indoctrinate our children.. I n every sizable American city, Muslims are slowly inserting their will. They are infiltrating^** the schools^**, our government. Their objective is not to participate as American citizens but to gain a political foothold, develop networks, form alliances and propagate utter deception^** – all with the intent , often stated, just as often ignored, that America will,in the end, become theirs^**. Under an American sky, Muslims will soon shrill their mournful dirges to “allah”. Under our skies they build youth camps.

So, tell me again – why, exactly, is Mr. Maupin a prisoner under a foreign sky when under his home sky, we who say we care, fail to guard his back?

The Mustard Seed.

Even though I don’t know enough about him or his works I am a huge fan of Pope Benedict. I heard said that he baptized the Muslim Magdi Allam because he felt that the risk and burden posed by the action from raging loony Muslims should be borne on his shoulders and not on those of one of his priests. It’s an immensely consequential act and an in your face gesture to Muslims, if they do nothing the precedent of conversion will have been set, if they issue a fatwa against Allam as a heretic it will be as big a PR disaster as you could imagine for them, they who have been so good with the PR with the aid of the Western dhimmis.
In The Mustard Seed and Global Strategy, The Asia Times sets the background and ramifications of this conversion.

As Magdi Allam recounted, on his road to conversion the challenge that Pope Benedict XVI offered to Islam in his September 2006 address at Regensburg was “undoubtedly the most extraordinary and important encounter in my decision to convert”. Osama bin Laden recently accused Benedict of plotting a new crusade against Islam, and instead finds something far more threatening: faith the size of a mustard seed that can move mountains. Before Benedict’s election, I summarized his position as “I have a mustard seed and I’m not afraid to use it.” Now the mustard seed has earned pride of place in global affairs.

Magdi Allam tells us that he has found the true God and forsaken an Islam that he regards as inherently violent. Magdi Allam has a powerful voice as deputy editor of Italy’s newspaper of record, Corriere della Sera, and a bestselling author. For years he was the exemplar of “moderate Islam” in Europe, and now he has decided that Islam cannot be “moderate”.

Since September 2001, the would-be wizards of Western strategy have tried to conjure an “Islamic reformation”, or a “moderate Islam”, or “Islamic democracy”. None of this matters now, for as Magdi Allam tells us, the matter on the agenda is not to persuade Muslims to act like liberal Westerners, but instead to convince them to cease to be Muslims. The use of the world “revolution” is Magdi Allam’s:

His Holiness has sent an explicit and revolutionary message to a Church that until now has been too prudent in the conversion of Muslims, abstaining from proselytizing in majority Muslim countries and keeping quiet about the reality of converts in Christian countries. Out of fear. The fear of not being able to protect converts in the face of their being condemned to death for apostasy and fear of reprisals against Christians living in Islamic countries. Well, today Benedict XVI, with his witness, tells us that we must overcome fear and not be afraid to affirm the truth of Jesus even with Muslims.

More to read there.

This and That.

In English history kings would often receive names denoting some personal attribute or else commemorative of an action taken, Richard Lionheart, Alfred the Great, [though some say because of the story of how he allowed the griddle cakes to burn it's a corruption of Alfred the Grate {Gee, those old schoolboy jokes never die}], William the Conqueror, so it seems to me that were Obama king, he would come to be known as Obama the Banal. [Or maybe Obama the Banana since you never see a straight one]. Anyway, the banal because in contra-distinction to his portrayal as an honest, above the fray of politics as normal guy, he is now being seen as groveling in the lowest levels of politics and electioneering thuggery. Charles Lipton at Real Clear Politics writes about Four Stumps in the Water for Obama.
Hillary is being written off by many but I’d be most surprised if Obama gets the nod, the gurus of the Dhimmis must know by now he is pretty much un-electable. Well so is Hillary actually, but it wouldn’t be quite the debacle an Obama candidacy would be. Read what Thomas Lipton has to say and see how far you think Obama would go in a general election.

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The addle brained adolescents, aka The Democratic Party, have brought their sophomoric antics to Wikipedia. The supporters of Hill and Barak [sounds like a firm of funeral directors] have been changing each other’s entries.

There was the day in February when an editor replaced a photo of Hillary on her Wikipedia page with a picture of a walrus. Then there was the day this month when a Hillary supporter changed Obama’s bio so that it referred to him as “a Kenyan-American politician.” But such sweepingly hostile edits are usually fixed quickly by other Wikipedia users. Often, it’s the most arcane distinctions on the candidates’ pages that provoke the bitterest tugs-of-war. Recently, an angry battle broke out on Hillary’s page over whether to describe Clinton as “a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination” or just “a candidate,” since each phrase implies a different shade of judgment on her chances. Five minutes after an Obama supporter deleted “leading” just after 11 p.m. on March 8, another editor put it back. Seven minutes after that, the word was deleted again. Some thirty minutes after that, it was put back. On it went, with different Wikipedia editors debating the significance of Hillary’s delegate deficit on her talk page and accusing each other of introducing the dreaded “POV”– or “point of view,” a violation of Wikipedia’s most fundamental principle–into the article. At around six in the morning, completing the atmosphere of pandemonium, somebody replaced Hillary’s whole page with “It has been reported that Hillary Rodham Clinton has contracted genital herpes due to sexual intercourse with an orangutan.”

This is pathetic and also a little scary if they are actual adults doing this.

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Here is the beginning of an article from a few years back that is worth re-visiting, it is Politics Without God? by George Weigel.

At the far western end of the axis that traverses Paris from the Louvre down the Champs Elysées and through the Arc de Triomphe is the Great Arch of La Défense. Designed by a sternly modernist Danish architect, the Great Arch is a colossal open cube: almost 40 stories tall, faced in glass and 2.47 acres of white Carrara marble. Its rooftop terrace offers an unparalleled view of the French capital, past the Tuilleries to the Ile de la Cité, Sante Chapelle, and Notre-Dame.

The arch’s three-story high roof also houses the International Foundation for Human Rights. For President François Mitterrand planned the Great Arch as a human rights monument, something suitably gigantic to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Thus, in one guidebook, the Great Arch was dubbed “Fraternity Arch.” That same guidebook, like every other one I consulted, emphasized that the entire Cathedral of Notre-Dame would fit comfortably inside the Great Arch.

All of which raised some questions, as I walked along that terrace in 1997. Which culture would better protect human rights and secure the moral foundations of democracy? The culture that built this rational, geometrically precise, but essentially featureless cube? Or the culture that produced the gargoyles and flying buttresses, the asymmetries and holy “unsameness” of Notre-Dame and the other great Gothic cathedrals of Europe?

Those questions have come back to me, if in different forms, as I’ve tried to understand Europe in recent years. How, for example, should one understand the fierce argument in Europe over whether a new constitutional treaty for the European Union should include a reference to the Christian sources of European civilization? Why did so many European intellectuals and political leaders deem any reference to the Christian sources of contemporary Europe civilization a threat to human rights and democracy?

Was there some connection between this internal European debate over Europe’s constitution-making and the portrait in the European press of Americans (and especially an American president) as religious fanatics intent on shooting up the world? Was there a further connection between this debate and the fate of Rocco Buttiglione’s candidacy for the post of Commissioner of Justice on the European Commission?

Understanding these phenomena requires something more than a conventional political analysis. Nor can political answers explain the reasons behind perhaps the most urgent issue confronting Europe today — the fact that Western Europe is committing demographic suicide, its far-below-replacement-level birthrates creating enormous pressures on the European welfare state and a demographic vacuum into which Islamic immigrants are flowing in increasing numbers, often becoming radicalized in the process.

My proposal is that Europe is experiencing a crisis of cultural and civilizational morale whose roots are also taking hold in some parts quarters of American society and culture. Understanding and addressing this crisis means confronting the question posed sharply, if unintentionally, by those guidebooks that boast about the alleged superiority of the Great Arch to Notre-Dame: the question of the cube and the cathedral, and their relationship to both the meaning of freedom and the future of democracy.

The lefties can argue all they want on the superiority of their culture but they can’t argue with demographics, the proof of the pudding and all that.

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This is bleak January’s pic of the tree.

In February already things are looking better, still damn cold though.

Wisdom That Progressives Sadly Lack

Sassafrassin is a worthy addition for your blog roll and by way of introduction I snagged this little homily that is so very apt for these times.

That Damn Bird Feeder!

I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it is, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.

But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table, everywhere! Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.

And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn’t even sit on my own back porch anymore. So I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.

Soon, the back yard was like it used to be…. quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now let’s see.

Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, and free education and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.

Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child’s 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn’t speak English.

Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to ‘press one’ to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than ‘Old Glory’ are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.

Just my opinion, but maybe it’s time for the government to take down the bird feeder. If you agree, pass it on; if not, continue cleaning up the poop.

Ehsan Jami: He Should Know By Now That the West Will Not Defend Him

Westerners shop for a god like they do for a new article of clothing for their wardrobe. When tired of one, they discard it and put on a new one. Religious freedom means nothing to a civilization that views god as an accessory to be drug out during special occasions and packed away when dispensed with.

Ehsan Jami is an ex-muslim who must pay a high price for choosing to discard his religion. The irony is that because of the world’s collective cowardice, the West affords him little protection in doing so.

From Gateway Pundit

Ehsan Jami, founder of the Committee for Ex-Muslims, has been been forced into hiding after a series of death threats and a recent attack.

Jami was moved to a safe house in the Netherlands after being attacked for a third time because of his anti-Muslim views on August 4, 2007… The attacks took place after Jami referred to the Muslim prophet Mohammed as a “horrible man” in several interviews and said he wanted to start a debate about domestic violence and human rights in Islam-

Klein Verzet has posted the picture above, a scene from an animated short by Jami due to debut April 20th. Unlike the “artists” who piss on Christ nor those thousands who have blasphemed Christianity and Judaism with no consequences, Jami has again put his life on the line to speak freely about Islam and there will be few, if any, artists in the West to champion his cause.

Jami’s production is bound to come up against opposition. The Contact body for Muslims and the Government has already announced it will take legal steps against the film.
Netwerk showed a drawing from the film, which is entitled The Life of Mohammed. The drawing shows the prophet Mohammed in the company of his 9-year-old wife Aisa. The prophet is on his way to a mosque to deflower his bride.

Which is a fact. Pure and simple. Christianity brings the world Jesus, and Islam offers a twisted pedophile warrior who talked to a demon, called him an angel, and spawned the legions of slaves known as muslims in servitude to a barbarism that the world still hasn’t the guts to acknowledge, let alone confront.

The West insists on treating Islam as if it were simply another religion instead of the political beast that it is. So Ehsan Jami, and none like him, can find safe refuge in the West. We will not protect him, in fact, many in the West will defend his attackers. Too late we will find that the “god” of islam will not be so easily discarded.

Peaceful Muslims Send Death Threats to LiveLeak and Free Speech Suffers Another Blow

This is almost surreal. Live Leak has been forced to take Geert Wilder’s Fitna down due to death threats. Un-freaking -real.LGF reports:

I can’t blame LiveLeak for doing this. They run a company, and they have the safety of employees to consider. But it’s infuriating to see another capitulation to the demands of cowardly thugs from the Dark Ages.The video of ‘Fitna’ has been replaced with an official statement from LiveLeak:

Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one.Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture.We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high.

“…in the end, the price was too high”???

Will that be the West’s freaking epithet?

And we have governments appeasing these caliphate whores?

Here is Fitna from YouTube, for as long as it lasts…

Update:The dhimmi cowards at Network Solutions have shut down the Fitna- The Movie website

“This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site’s content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy. Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation. For more information about Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy visit the following URL: [Link: www.networksolutions.com...]

Offending Muslims

Jihad Watch reports a muslim blogger’s disgruntlement over Kevin Weakley’s “List of Things That Offend Islam”. As usual, and much like their their leftist kin, this particular muslim whiner blogger does not address the issues presented but instead asserts that Mr. Weakley is a terrorist magnet deserving of a bullet.

Isn’t it amazing how both muslims and lefties alike can simultaneously invoke peace while inciting violence? Perhaps they are all bi-polar or something…..

I recommend going over to Kevin’s blog and adding to the list. Hell, in for a penny, in for a pound.

The List of Things That Offend Muslims

This list is a work in progress. I welcome suggestions. Anyone who has more items to add to the list, post them in the comments.

The intent of the list is to illustrate the futility of the multicultural approach to Islam. Sharia law demands submission not only from Muslims, but from non-Muslims as well. This makes respectful coexistence nearly impossible with Muslims in Infidel lands. The examples below serve as reminder that submitting to one complaint or another only emboldens Muslims to seek to further their ultimate goal of establishing sharia.

The West needs to come to grips with this fact and start standing up for our God-given rights of free speech, free expression and freedom of religion, lest we surrender those rights to a theocratic movement bent on removing our Constitutional freedoms that we hold dear. In this case, our tolerance will lead to intolerance.

Condoleezza Rice Whines on Race

Condoleezza Rice – RINO, appeaser to terrorists and a traitor to Israel – is in accord with the continually aggrieved Michelle Obama.

“Black Americans were a founding population,” she said. “Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding.”

As a result, Miss Rice told editors and reporters at The Washington Times, “descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.”

“That particular birth defect makes it hard for us to confront it, hard for us to talk about it, and hard for us to realize that it has continuing relevance for who we are today,” she said.

Rice hits U.S. ‘birth defect’ – - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper

Post Fitna: Fairly Quiet on the Muslim Front

Fitna has been released and, as expected, the denials from appeasers,dhimmis, and muslims are profuse. The most common seem to be assertions that the koranic texts used were taken out of context, a claim hard to substantiate given that so many imans are delivering messages totally congruant with the passages cited.

The fact that 15 minutes of koranic verse and preaching should merit the cacophony Wilder’s piece has been met with should give skeptics pause in and of itself. The fact that government officials tuck their tails between their legs as they mouth abject apologies to impotent and blustering religious figures is worthy of contempt. The anticipated violence has yet to materialize, but given that the violence that attended the publication of the mohammad cartoons was actually an orchestrated Iman puppet show, it is not surprising that those imans realized such strategies are counter productive to maintaining the charade that islam is peace.

As far as I am concerned, their attempts to suppress free speech coupled with their arrogant demand that “insults” to Islam be criminalized are far more insidious than the threat of bloodshed.

The comments on the Fitna website offer a fair sampling of the arguments being bandied about and the site, What Do You Believe?, offers a lexicon of typical muslim defense.

Geert Wilders Fitna is Out. OK Muslims, When Are You Going to Start Your Slaughter?

Update: Due to death threats from those peaceful muslims, Liveleak has been forced to remove Fitna. Click the video to read their message and find the video hosted by YouTube at this post , until they submit to their muslim masters as well.

Here is Geert Wilders Fitna, the film that loving, peaceful muslims promise to kill the infidel for. More on this later.
H/T: LGF commenter

From Gates of Vienna

The following is an interview with Geert Wilders which was published last weekend by the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, and translated by our Flemish correspondent VH. Explanatory notes from the translator are in square brackets:

“The prophet Mohammed is a creepy devil”

Exclusive interview / Dutchman Geert Wilders Dutchman outbids Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh with his anti-Koran film
That he finds the Koran an ‘intolerant, fascist book’, Geert Wilders (44) has already often explained in words. Now the controversial Dutch politician is going to illustrate it with pictures in a short film, and the Netherlands is waiting in fright. “Balkenende has not seen anything and already he speaks of a serious crisis. A frightened, cowardly man,” says Wilders in an exclusive interview with our editorial staff.
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Keep Your Dirty Progressive Hands Off My Grandchildren’s Minds

I’m surrounded by grandchildren today, so blogging is likely to be light. And as I watch them play I curse the so called Progressives and all the other totalitarians who deem it their freaking business how these children will be educated.

To them I say, over my dead body.

From Chuck Muth at The Loft…

The Right to Home-School

According to three California judges, parents “do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children.”

By thus ruling, the judges turned the parents of some 166,000 home-schooled children into criminals with the snap of their fingers and the stroke of a pen. According to these paragons of justice, parents should be forced to send their children to government-run education camps, whether they like it or not.

Wars have been started over less.

In my home state of Nevada, at least for now, the law sorta recognizes a parent’s right to educate their own children at home. However, the state still requires home-school parents to “register” with the government, ostensibly for “truancy” purposes. But this raises the same legitimate argument raised against gun registration: If the government knows who all the home-school parents are, and if three nitwit judges suddenly determine they’re all criminals, the government will know exactly who to round up.

Which is why I have pointedly elected NOT to fill out the “required” paperwork “registering” my children as being home-schooled. While many home-schoolers maintain that simple “registration” is not an onerous condition, I strenuously object to being required to notify the government of what I consider to be an inalienable right to teach my own kids – with or without a “teaching” degree.

And if the local school district wants to do something about it, bring it on. They know where I live. If not, just call Child Protective Services. They have the address. We’re the same folks who let our kids play out front without shoes on.

All kidding aside, let me put this in even more stark terms.

Suppose a woman decides she wants to terminate her pregnancy. Is she required to “register” with the government in order to notify the authorities of this decision? No.

So then, why should a mother who chooses to bear the child instead not have the right to educate that child without “registering” with the government, hmmm? Why does a woman have the right to make a life-and-death decision, literally, without providing official government notification, but not the freedom to decide how to educate her child? Whose child is it anyway?

Granted, there is a community interest in having an educated populace. But that means education should be available and encouraged, not mandatory. In a free nation, people should retain the right to be stupid – a right exercised with reckless abandon by three judges in California last month.

If you outlaw home-schooling, only outlaws will be home-schoolers. Just call me Josie Wales.

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Obama Not a Crook?

[Excuse me while I laugh] Details at Big Lizards of the shenanigans that allowed him to walk over his opponents in his previous candidacies. Chicago’s reputation is alive and well!

Many years ago I read a novel in which all the characters turned out by the end to be the opposite of what they seemed to be at the beginning. Ever since I’ve used it to look very carefully at people to see how they might be different to their appearance. So, read the article and apply the lesson of that novel to Obama. What you see is a fresh, young, intelligent, compassionate, upright, honourable, you could go on all night, what you get is… well, maybe discretion is the better part of valour here, but you get the idea.

If Michelle Obama Keeps Talking, The "N" Word Will Take on New Meaning

Oh dear, how un-PC of me. I’ve spit on “sacred” ground. Well, to tell you the truth, l never really looked into the history of the word “nigger”or what it was ever actually meant to denote. It was quite verboten by the time I was born and, along with millions of other Americans, I pounced on anyone who happened to use it.

Lot good that did anyone, at least as far as Michelle Obama goes. After all, this country that she so disdains, the one that has yet to make her proud, the country that is populated by “sloths”, or according to her husband Hussein, by “typical white people“, has only been responsible for elevating that husband to the Senate and a possible presidency (god help us all). How “just downright mean” of us not to not have done more.

Now a speech from a few moths ago adds yet more complaints from the diva of oppression.

“We don’t like being pushed outside of our comfort zones. You know it right here on this campus. You know people sitting at different tables – you all living in different dorms. I was there. You’re not talking to each other, taking advantage that you’re in this diverse community. Because sometimes it’s easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions. It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance… That’s America. So the challenge for us is are we ready for change?”

via Gateway Pundit via Wizbang

Excuse me Michelle sweetie, but the only damn fool holding on to stereotypes and misconceptions seems to be you. Your comfort zone is apparently endless whining and denigration of the country that you owe everything to. Yes, you do Michelle, but hey, maybe you need to get your money back for that fancy education. They sold you a bill of revisionist goods. And Michelle honey, about the only change I’m ready for is for the incessant mewling of so-called minorities to cease. I’m sick of it and this country is sick of it. Talk about beating a dead horse…..

So yeah Michelle, I think the definition of the “N” word needs to be updated. Here is my suggestion :

Nigger: An ungrateful, whining, disloyal American of any ethnicity who continually stabs their country in the back while prospering from the same.

Hey Michelle, fair is fair. If the “N” word is sacred to you, my America is sacred to me. If you continue to lie about America and castigate Americans for sins long gone and paid for, don’t expect respect and don’t expect for real Americans to remain silent.

The days when use of the “N” word was common are long gone, but you, Michelle, are doing your best to revive it. I have no idea what the original definition of the word was, but my new definition fits you to a “T”.

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VDH.

A long read, a speech by Victor Davis Hanson on Iraq, the election etc., need I say you should read it?

I sometimes poke fun at my optimistic view of the future, in spite of the Islamic threat, the widespread loony leftish traitorousness ensconced in the schools, universities, media, Hollywood and of course the Democratic party and the probable fifty per cent of the population who follow them and who can’t discriminate between what is common sense and what is plain idiocy. [Obama's speech for instance.] But I’m serious about said optimistic outlook, here is VDH answering a question on the subject.

You know, I just wrote a column today; it should come out this morning in the Chicago Tribune. It was called, “Hope and Change Amid Despair.” Because I looked at the paper the other day, and this is what the headlines were. Over here on the left — $1.56 of euros, gold $1,000, oil $108, gasoline $4, $12 trillion in foreign debt held by Bear Stearns collapse. And then Eliot Spitzer (laughter), crusading moralist, paying for call girls – Eliot Spitzer’s successor, each hour it seems, confessing to yet another new girlfriend. Barack Obama’s, I thought, disingenuous and racialist speech being praised as the next Gettysburg address by everybody from Andrew Sullivan to David Brooke. I thought, Jeez – mortgage crisis – then I thought, Take a deep breath, and don’t look at the symptoms, the cold or flu of the patient; look at the Constitution. Are we a 90-year-old person that has heart congestive – no. Why? Because we’re still – even with the dollar, we’re still the largest economy, we have [as I said] $12 trillion to $13 trillion in goods and services. We could make up that debt within a year. We’re the third-largest oil producer in the world. We have the largest coal reserves. We’re the people who created the nuclear power industry. If we needed to, we could build coal and nuclear power within 10 years, and people could have a second plug-in flex-fuel thing that would save us the $600 billion that we send overseas to these rogues.

We have the largest, best, most experienced, creative military in the entire world; larger than the next 26 militaries combined. The top 17 universities in the world are in the United States, and they’re not just Harvard, Yale, Princeton – places like University of Texas, U.C.L.A., U.S.C., Michigan.

And the demography – 2.1 – 2.3 with immigration – but among the native-born, thanks for Utah — (laughter) 2.1 on the reproductive rate. Church attendance 65%, that’s a positive. So almost everything that we look at – the types of innovation, the new industries, the new discoveries, the new theories – all of these things are happening in United States, because we are still a meritocracy.

What would make me be less optimistic? If we would get a socialistic candidate who would increase taxes, increase spending, increase what I would call equality of result, not of opportunity legislation; and adopt a pacifistic foreign policy and confiscatory government policy on land income. I think that would destroy what we’ve seen. I don’t see that happening. I don’t think that Barack Obama, A, will be elected; and B, if he were to be elected and try to implement such an agenda, that he’d be successful.

The other thing that gets me really encouraged is that I think – despite the optimism of the Democratic Party — we’re coming to the end of what I would call the throat-clearing, pompous, over-judicious, left-wing monopoly on the news. The real grassroots is talk radio, the Internet, cable TV. It reminds me of the Athenian Agora or Aristophanes. It’s loud, it’s boisterous, it’s creative, and it represents people. And that expression is not only a counterweight to that left-wing, old-style monopoly, but it’s more democratic. It’s more energized.

It Would Be a Miracle if Barack Hussein Obama Actually Wasn’t an Anti-Semite

From Obama’s church bulletin (which he also hasn’t seen for twenty years apparently.)

Don’t miss the opportunity to drive five miles south to Bethlehem. Feel the ecstasy of entering the most dramatic cave in which the Virgin Mary delivered her beautiful Palestinian baby. Don’t miss the opportunity to drive five miles south to Bethlehem. Feel the ecstasy of entering the most dramatic cave in which the Virgin Mary delivered her beautiful Palestinian baby. During the Second Intifadah, the uprising against Israeli occupation, Muslim and Christian activists, chased by the Israeli death squads, were given refuge in the church.
continue reading at… Confederate Yankee (via LGF)

No wonder Obama is confused, if indeed the man is conscious at all. I mean, hell, if he has been preached to by a heretic for the last two decades, a politician preacher who can somehow dare to to have printed in a church bulletin the claim that Jesus was a Palestinian baby, let alone refer to something as ludicrous as “Israel death squads”, well, there is no telling what is going on in Obama’s mind. I can tell you that I don’t want such a mind in charge of this country.

If these types of things go unnoticed after twenty years of attendance at Trinity “Church”, god knows what he’ll fail to observe as president. But, as most suspect, this type of blasphemy in not incongruent with Obama’s entire outlook. In fact, it harmonizes quite well with Islam.

And by the way, why isn’t the tax exempt status of Trinity Church being scrutinized? Seems to me that there is whole lot of politics and too little gospel going on. But then, if the government were doing it’s job, mosques would fall under the same scrutiny.