Obama, Loser.

Over at American Thinker there is an article on Obama’s woes in three States that have been crucial to electoral success in both of W Clinton’s election victories and both of GWB’s. Interestingly Hillary won all three by large margins in the current primaries. B’bye Obama.

Meanwhile, Back at Trinity……Obama’s assholes aren’t going away for this election, much as he and the left hope they will. The article is from the WSJ’s Best of the Web.

Check out this numbskull. It’s difficult to decide if these people are more stupid than nuts or vice versa. Anyway, read the article which has more links.

After that here’s something to calm you down.

Too bad dandelions aren’t a cash crop.

It’s time also for a pic of the other grand daughter, Lara, she is two and a half.

Something sublime for you to show there are better things in the world than the millions of idiots will ever know.

When I tell musical friends that on its release in March, Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s solo-piano version of J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue shot to the top of the Billboard and iTunes classical charts, they get this glazed look. It’s as if you told a physicist that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity was topping the best-seller list. It’s not supposed to happen.

This is because the 14 fugues and four canons that make up The Art of Fugue constitute one of the most esoteric musical works ever written. Each fugue bears the severe title Contrapunctus followed by a number, and there is no indication of what instruments are supposed to play them. Every piece is in D minor; all are based on the same melodic theme. It’s as if Bach intended the AOF as a theoretical treatise, to be read and studied rather than performed, to demonstrate some of the more arcane things you can do with the idea of a fugue.

Isn’t that encouraging? Very interesting article which includes links to snippets of the work.

Proven:The Palestinians Are Bloody Liars and the Media is Their Lap Dog

Not that it matters to the progressives and Jew haters. It’s become a Dan Rather type of world where accuracy is discounted as irrelevant as long as the news piece feeeels right, or it could be true, or any other reality bending equivocations the left is so adept at.

No, Islam is a minor enemy compared to the journalists who hate the West and do the enemy’s bidding. May they all end their days in a sea of glass.

Read more at Israeli Girl…

The truth comes out – French court Rules Al Dura footage is hoax

Tennessee Makes Move Against Homeschooling

It appears that my worst suspicions about public education are continuously confirmed these days. So, it isn’t really much of a surprise that the state of Tennessee prefers their employees to come from the dumbed down ranks of students churned out of their indoctrination centers public schools rather than the far more competent home schooled students. Even though home schooled kids scored higher than the robots students churned out by the Nazi’s NEA’s flunkies.

It has come to pass that the State of Tennessee has officially invalidated the high school diplomas of thousands of home-schooled Tennessee kids, at least where it concerns their eligibility to apply for the positions of fireman, police officer, state government employee, even daycare worker — any government job or government controlled position that the state regulates is covered.

The reasoning the Board of Education used to justify this obscene act is almost a sensible sounding one. Since religious schools and home-schools each have their own curriculum that is designed by people not working for the state government (i.e. the state Board of Education), then the state has no real control or input in those curricula. Therefore, the state cannot make the assumption that kids educated in institutions or via home programs meet the standards of an officially recognized state education. Like I said, this almost seems logical until one does a tiny bit of research. Fortunately Tennessean Rob Shearer has done just that.

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But, is the State of Tennessee much different than the rest of the nation excluding their being some of the first to make such an overt attack against home-schools? Not really. After all, to sanction home-schooling means the powermongers and indoctrinators in the State would have to give up some level of power to control the minds of our students…
continue reading…Tenn. Declares Only Dumbest Kids Wanted for State Jobs

Erasing Christianity, Erasing the West

Below are some excerpts of George Weigle’s “Europe’s Two Culture Wars”. If you want a clear picture of the West’s descent into a morass of multicultural, totalitarian hell, this very long but comprehensive piece covers all the bases.

Print it out or send it to anyone you know who, for whatever inane reason, are considering Obama or Hillary. If a clear understanding about what is ongoing in Europe doesn’t give appeasers and apologists pause, nothing likely will.

…five days short of the second anniversary of the Madrid bombings, the Zapatero government, which had already legalized marriage between and adoption by same-sex partners and sought to restrict religious education in Spanish schools, announced that the words “father” and “mother” would no longer appear on Spanish birth certificates. Rather, according to the government’s official bulletin, “the expression ‘father’ will be replaced by ‘Progenitor A,’ and ‘mother’ will be replaced by ‘Progenitor B.’”

As the chief of the National Civil Registry explained to the Madrid daily ABC, the change would simply bring Spain’s birth certificates into line with Spain’s legislation on marriage and adoption. More acutely, the Irish commentator David Quinn saw in the new regulations “the withdrawal of the state’s recognition of the role of mothers and fathers and the extinction of biology and nature.”

At first blush, the Madrid bombings and the Newspeak of “Progenitor A” and “Progenitor B” might seem connected only by the vagaries of electoral politics: the bombings, aggravating public opinion against a conservative government, led to the installation of a leftist prime minister, who then proceeded to do many of the things that aggressively secularizing governments in Spain have tried to do in the past. In fact, however, the nexus is more complex than that. For the events of the past two years in Spain are a microcosm of the two interrelated culture wars that beset Western Europe today.

The first of these wars—let us, following the example of Spain’s birth certificates, call it “Culture War A”—is a sharper form of the red state/blue state divide in America: a war between the postmodern forces of moral relativism and the defenders of traditional moral conviction. The second—“Culture War B”—is the struggle to define the nature of civil society, the meaning of tolerance and pluralism, and the limits of multiculturalism in an aging Europe whose below-replacement-level fertility rates have opened the door to rapidly growing and assertive Muslim populations.

The aggressors in Culture War A are radical secularists, motivated by what the legal scholar Joseph Weiler has dubbed “Christophobia.”1 They aim to eliminate the vestiges of Europe’s Judeo-Christian culture from a post-Christian European Union by demanding same-sex marriage in the name of equality, by restricting free speech in the name of civility, and by abrogating core aspects of religious freedom in the name of tolerance. The aggressors in Culture War B are radical and jihadist Muslims who detest the West, who are determined to impose Islamic taboos on Western societies by violent protest and other forms of coercion if necessary, and who see such operations as the first stage toward the Islamification of Europe—or, in the case of what they often refer to as al-Andalus, the restoration of the right order of things, temporarily reversed in 1492 by Ferdinand and Isabella.

The question Europe must face, but which much of Europe seems reluctant to face, is whether the aggressors in Culture War A have not made it exceptionally difficult for the forces of true tolerance and authentic civil society to prevail in Culture War B.

continue reading… George Weigle’s “Europe’s Two Culture Wars”

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Honorable Men

Warriors…In Their Own Words

We have always had warriors, from as far back in history as one can go — warriors are timeless.Warriors have a moral code and are not simply trained killers (as they are all too frequently portrayed).If we did not have warriors, we would undoubtedly be speaking another language, German,Japanese, Chinese, or Russian.Warriors are born, they are not created. Certainly they are trained, but to be a warrior is a calling.[...]With this documentary, photo exhibit and book our aim is to raise funding for and awareness of the men and women warriors that have given so much to protect our freedoms. Freedom is not free.

Strip Searches, Christian Crosses and Other Assaults on the Family

After reading a piece describing a young female student subjected to a strip search by the state – and hey, if you suspected an honor student of secreting ibuprofen in their crotch, you’d strip her too – serendipity had me landing on Patriot Warrior where he has posted on two of the latest attacks on students by the state – and gee, surprise surprise, it’s those damn Christians making trouble again. I mean, who the hell do these Christians think they are? Muslims?

California schools like to teach our children to be tolerant of families with two daddies or two mommies, and how to put condoms on bananas, and how evil America is and how we must tolerate our radical Muslim brothers and sisters who are trying to blow us off the face of the earth because we deserve it, and how to avoid taking personal responsibility for any of our actions, and that free-market capitalism is the devil.

They have forgotten how to teach reading, writing and arithmetic. and …. hmmmm lets see …. no more Pledge of Allegiance in school, you can draw demonic pictures, Hindu pictures, Buddhist pictures …. but no Christian pictures!

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“We hear so much today about tolerance,” said David Cortman, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal advocacy group representing the student. “

We are always being told by liberals how we must have tolerance for Islamic beliefs, Buddhist beliefs, Wiccan beliefs, atheistic beliefs, homosexual beliefs, …. but what I want to know is …. where is the tolerance for Christian religious beliefs? Isn’t the whole purpose of art to reflect the artists personal experience. To tell some high school student that his religious beliefs can legally be censored and then to give a grade of “0″ for an obviously good drawing … sends the wrong message and is, I sorry, extremely un-American!

Folks, remember this concept? The government works for and derives its power from us … the people! If our public schools have become nothing more than secular-progressive, left-wing liberal, NEA protected re-education camps, then parents not only have the right, but they also have the duty to remove their children from these schools and … home school them if they so choose … and then vote to fire those officials and impeach those judges that are perpetuating this nonsense.

Remember Abe Lincoln … he was home schooled! Home schooling has been around a lot longer than these fruit loop, left-wing, liberal activist judges from California like Justice Croskey!

continue reading….

No Child Left Behind And Other Fruit Loops!

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.

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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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.

If Only the Elections Actually Mattered

It’s true. This election is but a distraction from the real evil that besets this nation. Evil set in motion decades ago and, short of the second coming, unlikely to be reversed or overcome by this election. Feckless, power hungry politicians perform on a stage that might as well be set up on the deck of the Titanic. They are as hapless to prevent the coming catastrophes as the captain on that doomed voyage. If anything, America’s ruling elites are positioning us to run directly towards the iceberg.

I was just reading about Condoleezza Rice’s latest obsequious behavior before her muslim overlords (this fresh from the travesty that is Kosovo where we handed islam yet another nation to subjugate) and I can’t help but think that, like Europe, America’s elite are more than willing to use islam as proxy. Why facilitate the ascent of a totalitarian and repressive ideology unless you feel that you can wield it to help suppress a restive population?

Be it here or in Europe, those who value national sovereignty, those citizens who commit the sin of patriotism, who have the nerve to defend their nation’s traditions – we have become the impediments to a global order designed to suppress those very things.

In the end, who will devour the other first; the minions of allah or the minions of the left? It will not matter much to the likes of me. I suspect us common folks were written out of the script before we were ever born.

And you know, I can’t help but think of all the children that this nation has aborted who might have risen up with the moral rectitude and power to defend America. I know, nothing to do with the topic at hand…but then again, if a people fail to revere life, whose only objective is expediency and ease, whose vision does not extend past pleasure and whose spirit embraces death, what can be hoped for from such a people?

But Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna says it much better than I can.

It’s important to keep either Democrat from winning. But it’s not as important as many people think it is, and the long-term effect on the political momentum of this country will be minimal.

The permanent political class in America has nailed our rudder in place, and the ship of state is headed in a direction that will not easily be changed. The media focus is on the presidential candidates, and the big horse race, and who’s in and who’s out, but the real decisions are always being made by others. Congress, the Federal Reserve, the nameless functionaries in the permanent bureaucracy, the mandarins of the MSM who determine what the average American believes about what’s happening — these are the people who control the direction the country is headed in.

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Without a leader of real character in office, the presidency is just a bit of froth on the surface of things.

…none of the major candidates for President is addressing the most important and pressing problems that face us. Continued mass immigration and the imminent collapse of the New Deal/Great Society welfare state are our most urgent issues.
Ten years from now these problems will be cutting through our national politics like a scythe, and the issues which are preoccupying us today will be forgotten.

And none of the major presidential candidates has addressed these grave threats in any serious fashion.

continue reading at Gates of Vienna: Three-Card Monte

The Bastard Contingent of "Christian" Leftists Continue to Spit on Israel.

Tensions are re-emerging between Jewish organizations and some mainline Protestant churches in the wake of a renewed drive for churches to divest from companies doing business with Israel.
The United Methodist Church opened discussions last Friday on a resolution calling for divestment from Caterpillar, the tractor manufacturer, because the company supplies Israel with bulldozers used in building the separation barrier and in demolishing Palestinian homes. The divestment resolution comes only months after the publication of a church-sponsored report referring to the creation of the State of Israel as the “original sin.”

U.S. Methodist Church renews drive for divestment from Israel – Haaretz – Israel News

What is particularly distressing about these malicious efforts is, should , god forbid, Obama wins, these Methodists and Protestants will find more support for their heretical anti-semitism. They certainly share a common cause with Obama’s Pastor Wright, whose obvious devotion to the anti-Semitic Farrakhan has been well documented.

Obama makes a pretense now of shunning both “Pastor” Wright and Farrakhan ( along with his recently dismissed anti-Israel political advisor, Samantha Powers)

…back in January, Mr. Obama had asked Mr. Wright if he would begin the event by delivering a public invocation.

But Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama called him the night before the Feb. 10 announcement and rescinded the invitation to give the invocation.

“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers. (source)

and…

Obama has repeatedly tried to distance himself from his pastor’s embarrassing admiration for Farrakhan, telling a meeting of Jewish leaders in Cleveland this month that he believed giving the Nation of Islam leader an award was “a mistake” and comparing his pastor to “an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don’t agree with.” (source)

and…

Financing Palestinian Barbarians

My goodness, yes.! Let’s give those Palestinians yet more money…

The US State Department announced Friday that it would send the Palestinians $14 million in special humanitarian aid.

The aid will be transferred to a million Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip and more than 70,000 refugees in the West Bank through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. (Link)

… after all, their supply of counterfeit currency is probably exhausted. Necessities like big screen TVs, cell phones and motor cycles have been denied these barbarians long enough. Where is your freaking compassion?

…a Palestinian-american friend of mine just came back from visiting his grandparents in Gaza ( just jumped over the fence and back he said, no one is controlling the borders apparently), and he was telling me how the entire “they are hungry people looking for food” headline story is a crock of shit. He laughingly told me that they are buying motorcycles, mattresses and TV’s and other such basic survival needs (the media is confirming it if you think I am lying you big morons), and how some of his family members after going to Al Areesh-on the first day of the “people power” event-for vacation mind you, were like “This is Areesh? This sucks! Gaza is better!” and then went back the next day. He also told me that the price of the AK 47 in Gaza has now dropped to a measly 400 JD’s. There is apparently too much supply to the demand. Yay for Open Borders! (Link)

Or take poor Abdul . This misunderstood murderer Palestinian is laboring under onerous conditions to achieve his ambitions. If America is to continue underwriting the spilled blood of Israel, we should provide better working conditions for those who whose sole aim in life is to achieve as many Israeli kills as they can.

No matter what Israel does, the rockets from the Gaza Strip just keep coming. Young men like Abdul are the reason why. He studies by day, but at night he builds bombs for the Islamic Jihad. He and his fellow militants can produce up to 100 per night.

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The young men produce rockets for the Islamic Jihad. Day after day, their rudimentary bombs land on Israeli villages, fields and kibbutzim.

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Abdul is 22 but, tall and lanky as he is, he could still pass for 16. He has been making rockets for three and a half years and says he has finished hundreds of Qassams. A veteran with a double life: He studies geography during the day and makes his contribution to the Jihad at night.

Qassams are primitive missiles lacking any guidance system. Building one is “child’s play,” Abdul says…His mother, who worries so much about him, will be glad tomorrow morning when her son wakes up in his bed. “On the one hand, she is proud of me (Link)

Worth Quoting: Death of the Bush Doctrine

But it is the Bush Doctrine that has been shelved. In its hunger for Arab support against Iran — and perhaps in a quest for a historic “legacy” — the administration has dropped “with us or with the terrorists.” It is hellbent instead on bestowing statehood upon a regime that stands unequivocally with the terrorists. “Frankly, it’s time for the establishment of a Palestinian state,” Rice says.

When George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton, he was determined not to replicate his predecessor’s blunders in the Middle East, a determination that intensified after 9/11. Yet he too has succumbed to the messianism that leads US presidents to imagine they can resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clinton ‘s legacy in this arena was the second intifada, which drenched the region in blood. To what fresh hell will Bush’s diplomacy lead?

read it all at …The Jerusalem Connection International: Death of the Bush Doctrine

H/T: Center for Vigilant Freedom

Words Worth Quoting

Bush’s ignorance about the true nature of Islam has put all of the West in harms way.

Bush makes some very glib, naive (very Western) assumptions that are quite false: “I believe, deep in the soul of every man, woman, and child on the face of this Earth is the desire to live in a free society. And I also believe free societies yield peace. And, therefore, this notion of two states living side by side in peace is based upon the universality of freedom, and if given a chance, the Palestinian people will work for freedom.”

This very commonly held assumption ignores religion and ideology and their power. The Islamic vision is not one of freedom — which is, in a way, actually anathema to religious Muslims. Islam is about submission. (Islam in Arabic means surrender!) And radical Islam is about imposing that submission. Palestinians passionately committed to their Islam and the word of Muhammad are more concerned with driving out the Jews and controlling the land they believe is theirs than with instituting “freedoms.”

To establish policy without this essential understanding is to miss the boat entirely and to generate an unstable situation.

Arlene from Israel

Dear George and Condi,

Dear George and Condi,

Looks like stabbing Israel in the back is really working out well for you. And all of the billions in American treasure that you have freely rendered to the “Palestinians” are, obviously, so very much appreciated.

Yeah, can’t wait for the next Annapolis. It’s always such a heartwarming experience to watch America being raped by the feral friends that you two damnable fools drag in.

Burning American flags, thousands of Palestinian protesters took to the Gaza streets this afternoon to protest against the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush. The protesters, amassed by Hamas, brandished banners which defined Bush “assassin and vampire”. During the rally puppets of the American president were raised and then burned. Israeli flags were also burned. Eye witnesses reported at least 20,000 participants in the rally, promoted for several days also through appeals launched in the mosques. “Bush is not welcome,” a Hamas representative repeated from the platform. Members of the extremist movement pointed out that since his arrival at the Ben Gurion airport of Tel Aviv today, President Bush “made sure in his speech encouraging and backing the rights of Israel, without saying a single word on the Palestinian victims and on our rights”. Bush will meet tomorrow in Ramallah in the West Bank Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), who is in open conflict with Hamas, whereas he will not visit the Gaza Strip.

Source: Jihad Watch

Islam Can Never Sing

Sometimes I entertain nightmares and try to imagine life under Islam. Should such an abomination come to pass, headlines like these would disappear. Islam is the sound of death, and quite appropriately, music is forbidden. There is nothing in Islam that could honor life or elicit a choral riff from DNA. If Islam should prevail, the world becomes silence and shrouds. But never this.

The sound of life, music that comes from the movement of DNA, the blueprint of life, has been recorded and patented for the first time by a team of Italian and American researchers. The team of scientists have been led by Carlo Ventura, a professor of molecular biology at Italy’s University of Bologna and physicist James Gimzewski from the American University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA). The discovery could in the future make scientists similar to the “conductors of orchestras” with the capacity to identify the cells and to differentiate them with a precise sound. Ventura explained his results at a recent conference on “Biological, Clinical and Social aspects of lengthening the average life span” at the National Institute of Biostructure and Biosystems in the Italian capital Rome….

AKI – Adnkronos international Science: Italo-American scientists patent the ‘music’ of DNA cells

Bhutto’s Requests for Security Help Unmet

Slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto had tried to hire Israeli security personnel.

Relatives of Bhutto, who was assassinated last week in a shooting and bombing attack, had asked Israel to supply her with Shin Bet bodyguards, Ma’ariv reported Sunday.

The idea of supplying Bhutto with Israeli government agents was immediately ruled out in Jerusalem, which has no formal ties with Islamabad. But there were alternative proposals to put her in touch with private Israeli security companies or retired personnel from the Shin Bet or Mossad intelligence agencies.

“We could have been more sensitive and quicker, but we dragged our feet on this Bhutto issue, and that’s a shame,” Ma’ariv quoted an unnamed Israeli diplomatic official as saying.

Similar requests that Bhutto made to U.S. and British security agencies also went unmet.

Breaking News – JTA, Jewish & Israel News

Reverse Rape-ism?

How can people who think like this function in the real world? It is a racist act for an Israeli soldier to refrain from raping a Palestinian woman. And such idiocy is rewarded.

Hebrew University has just awarded a research prize to a graduate student’s essay in which she claims that Israeli soldiers are “racists for not raping Arab women.”(See http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124674 )

This is no joke—anyway, who could make this up? The graduate student is a woman named Tal Nitzan. Her anthropological essay has been published by the Hebrew University’s “Shaine Center.”

Nitzan writes that the “lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose.” Since Israel fears the Palestinians demographically, IDF soldiers have been trained not to rape the women in order to avoid creating new Palestinians and little intifaders. (Has Nitzan never heard about Palestinian honor killings in which pregnant-out-of-wedlock or adulterous women are murdered by their families who love them too much?) Nitzan alleges that the “lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences—just as organized military rape would have done.”

Thus, Israeli racism, which “de-humanizes” Palestinian women, suppresses Jewish male lust—which proves that Israeli soldiers are racist oppressors. As the only army that does not, apparently, rape, Nitzan fails to grapple with other reasons for this, including the possibility that Israeli soldiers are acting in an ethical and civilized manner.

Chesler Chronicles: Refusing to Rape=Racism if you are an Israeli Soldier

Drive-By Posts, Jewish Refugees, and Princeton Brownshirts

Note: One of the reasons that it became difficult for me to post regularly is that I have been taking on freelance blogger assignments. I refer to myself as the inadvertent blogger. Long story made short…

My several years of blogging to RoadSassy (SpicedSass) led to an offer, in 2003, from a local boat broker to develop a blog for boaters in the region. It proved to be an education, given that blogging had not even begun to enter the public consciousness. Be that as it may, I have always loved writing and I can get lost in research. So it was with great delight that I began delving into river lore, burying myself in the boating life, visiting harbors, interviewing the colorful denizens who make their living working on the vital waterways that are critical to the commerce of this nation. It was a three year labor of love. Sadly, the owners became embroiled in money disputes which lead to the destruction of the company and the loss of all of our jobs.

However, I was determined to continue trying to earn a living from writing online. A prior bout of cancer had totally derailed a career as a personal trainer, throwing me into the horror of being unable to earn a living. It is a story for another time but, suffice to say, I was, and am, determined to find a way to earn a dollar from a hospital bed should my old enemy ever return. I never again wanted to become dependent on any outside agency or a become a burden to my family.

Fortunately, the Internet opens an entire world of opportunities that did not exist a mere decade ago. I hardly have the “credentials” to make a living as a blogger. I have no geek in me, find the Web 2.0/social networking brouhaha to be annoying and far too self-congratulatory -and that would probably be because I am not of the ‘x’ or ‘y’ generations, who, more or less, own the net – so to speak.

But I do have a certain way with words that, so far, has earned me a living. Like all freelance, nothing is certain. For the past year I was so buried in work, there wasn’t any time or energy left for this site. Then, out of nowhere, the dude I freelanced for went AWOL. Boom. No work. The daily quota of posts that I contracted for had consumed the majority of my time and I hadn’t made any efforts to secure other sources of income.

So, finally having some time, I took the opportunity to move this site off of B2 and on to WordPress. A move I am well pleased with, by the way – I highly recommend WordPress. There are a few years of archives that need to go up yet, but I have managed to crank out a few posts between looking for new assignments. Ligneus will soon be adding his wit into the mix and, hopefully, Road Sassy will truly be back on the road.

Fortunately, I have secured some more work, but I am determined not to let RoadSassy suffer as a result. Thus, I am introducing “Drive-by Posts”. As I research my other work, I am always running into items I would love to post here, but time prevents my giving any one item a comprehensive treatment. Well, who says every bloody post has to be a damn essay. So, I am going to begin experimenting with just quick quotes and see if I like the results.

How’s that for a long winded intro to the item that I post below. I think we are all well aware that freedom of speech is under severe threat from the left and Islam. We know too well of the censure that conservative students face on campuses across the nation. The war on Christians is rolling along as steadfastly as ever, but the pronounced rise in anti-semitism continues to , well, just frankly blow me away. I mean, good Lord, just look at this:

I’d Make a Lousy Jew

I support Israel. Period. End of story. But I’d make a lousy Jew. I don’t know quite how to describe this ongoing, haunting sense of loss that I have come to find that I live with everyday. But I imagine that an Israel Jew knows loss intimately, and yet, they fight on. I, I stand here benumbed, horrified at the seemingly inexorable erasure of America. I don’t even begin to know how to live with the knowledge that all that I cherish in my heart, all that I cherished for my children’s future is at grave risk. Yet, a Jew will have the courage to raise his family in Israel while her borders are besieged and a ravenous enemy chants for the death of his children.

Before 911, I never understood that so much of the faith that I have had in my ability to chart my own course in life, to win and lose on my own terms, to grab for brass rings, to envision a bright and shining future for my children….all those dreams that gave me succor were premised on a free and strong America. Yep, a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Founding fathers, Fourth of July America…. I have believed in all of it, even when as a callow youth, I scorned it. Yet, even then, I believed the surety of America’s promise would continue to be there for me and my children, just as surely as the mantle wraps the earth to it’s core. I never once imagined that America would fail to safely house our future. I never allowed that it was possible for America to be suborned so handily from within and betrayed so readily by her leaders.

But a Jew must be used to all of that. The horror that I feel as I understand that Bush has no intention of protecting our borders is nothing compared to what an Israeli Jew must feel as Israel is repeatedly raped by her leaders and supposed allies. Imagine our government allowing Mexico to lay claim to portions of the Southwest. That is the only way I can imagine the sense of violation a Jew must feel as they watch the machinations of Bush and Rice and Olmert.

The following summation of Annapolis, sadly, rings true.

Recently, I suggested that the US Administration reached a separate peace agreement with Iran. According to the US-Iran peace deal, Iran winded down its support for Iraqi guerrillas, and the US guaranteed it won’t bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran made good on its promise, and allowed the US Administration a tactical PR victory of reduced casualties in Iraq. The US Administration waited with fulfilling its part of the game until after the Annapolis peace show. Refusing to attack Iran over its nuclear program earlier would have likely derailed Israeli commitment to the Annapolis peace parley.