Islam; Religion of peace?

I am starting to think that the world would be a lot better off without Muslims. Correction, I am not “starting to think”, I have thought this for a long time now and just mustered the strength to say it to the world. With the latest terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India by Muslim fascists, I see no condemnation from any Muslim groups. As a matter of fact, I never hear any condemnations from any “peaceful” Muslim groups or nations after the many terrorist attacks.

If these attacks were the work of Christians, Jews and/or Hindus, there would be a plethora of said groups denouncing such acts. There has hardly been a peep of discourse among Muslims since 9/11. We have heard from the main-stream media that Muslims have been targeted for discrimination and profiling since 9/11. They should be profiled; not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists seem to be Muslim.

I know it is politically correct to say that Muslims have a peaceful religion, but if you read what they believe, I would argue they are not. They never seem to denounce their brethren after some spectacular terrorist attack and they still stone to death women that claim rape and tolerate "honor killings" of their daughters. Read the news stories from the Middle East and tell me that practicing Muslims should not be condemned.

Do I suffer from xenophobia? No, I suffer from knowing what is really going on in the world.
A Pew Research Center poll discovered that 25% of U.S. Muslims favor suicide bombings in the name of Islam and a TimesOnline poll found that a full third of Muslim students favor killing in the name of Islam. Muslims seem not to care what goes on in the world that burnishes the image of their religion. The Muslim population silence is deafening. I do not want to sound like a Christian zealot, but I am starting to think that Islam is the anti-Christ that is mentioned in the Bible. I challenge Muslims to prove me wrong.
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UPDATE: As of late Sunday, some media are reporting
that Muslims in the Middle-East are expressing
outrage at the latest terror attacks in India. I will retract
this post if it continues and expands.

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The real story of Thanksgiving.

This was written by Rush Limbaugh and he reads it to his audience every year the day before Thanksgiving. Enjoy!

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Now, the real story of Thanksgiving: "On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible," and this is what's not taught. This is what's left out. "The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work. But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims -- including Bradford's own wife -- died of either starvation, sickness, or exposure.

"When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats. Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper! This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments. Here is the part that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well." They were collectivists! Now, "Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives.

"He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace. ... Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didn't work! Surprise, surprise, huh? What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation! But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years -- trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it -- the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild's history lesson," every kid gets. "If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future." Here's what he wrote: "'The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years...that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing -- as if they were wiser than God,' Bradford wrote.

"'For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense...that was thought injustice.'" That was thought injustice. "Do you hear what he was saying, ladies and gentlemen? The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result?" 'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, "for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been." Bradford doesn't sound like much of a Clintonite, does he? Is it possible that supply-side economics could have existed before the 1980s? ... In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves. ... So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians.

"The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London. And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the 'Great Puritan Migration.'" Now, aside from this program, have you heard this before? Is this "being taught to children -- and if not, why not? I mean, is there a more important lesson one could derive from the Pilgrim experience than this?" What if liberals had been exposed to these lessons in school? Do you realize what we face in next year's election is the equivalent of people who want to set up these original collectivists communes that didn't work, with nobody having incentive to do anything except get on the government dole somehow because the people running the government want that kind of power. So the Pilgrims decided to thank God for all of their good fortune. And that's Thanksgiving. And read George Washington's first Thanksgiving address and count the number of times God is mentioned and how many times he's thanked. None of this is taught today. It should be. Have a happy Thanksgiving, folks. You deserve it. Do what you can to be happy, and especially do what you can to be thankful, because in this country you have more reasons than you've ever stopped to consider.

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"We the people"

There is an interesting article from Newsmax.com in regards to civic literacy knowledge in our country. The article states that 20 percent of the elected officials who took the 33-question test believe the electoral college "was established to supervise the first presidential debates." If that is not sad enough the elected officials scored lower than their constituents, who also performed miserably in the institute’s third civic literacy study, part of an overall report titled “Our Fading Heritage: Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions,” according to Newsmax.com.

Also according to the story, more than twice as many people knew Paula Abdul is a judge on “American Idol” than knew that the phrase, "government of the people, by the people, for the people," is from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. In my post "How Obama got elected" I showed a video that illustrated how ill informed voters can dictate an election. I think I have to agree with syndicated talk show host Neal Boortz, when he states that their should be some sort of civics test for voters to pass before they can cast their ballots. I am sure I will be called a racist for that idea, so be it.

Now that you have the answers to two of the questions, take the test and see where you stand.
Participants who ended their formal education with a bachelor's degree scored F’s at an average of 57 percent, which the institute noted is only 13 percentage points higher than the 44 percent average of those with high school diplomas. I scored an 81.82% but I feel that I should have done better, but it has been twenty plus years since college. Good luck!
Take the test at this link:
American Civic Literacy Program Web site

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Some musings on my part.

There has to be something done about the Somali pirates that are acting like pit bulls on crack. In the last two days they have commandeered two Middle-Eastern ships ( over 80 ships attacked this year) with one laden with a million barrels of Saudi oil. An Indian Navy warship sunk a pirate "mother-ship" today while patrolling the vast waters off the Somali coast. Way to go Indians! These pirates are on track to steal over $50 million in ransom this year alone. If I was the owner of Blackwater Worldwide, I would be contacting every maritime agency that I could find and offer my services.

It has been reported that the "union" bailout will not be forthcoming for the Big three automakers. Thank God! Giving American automakers $25 Billion will not cure the problem that they face. The problem that they face is unions and unrealistic regulations from Washington. How long does it take the Japanese automaker to go from making, say, an SUV to a different model of car — on the same line in the same assembly plant? A stunning 5 minutes, according to a Wall Street Journal report. And how much does it cost? Absolutely nothing. By comparison, it takes Ford a whopping 13 months and a staggering $75 million to make a similar change at one plant. Let them go chapter 7 and let a judge make them re-negotiate the union contracts.

President-elect Obama's message of "change" is starting to look like the retread Clinton Administration. Thirty one of the forty seven people named in the Obama administration served in the Clinton Administration. Eric Holder (Attorney General designate) served Bill Clinton and was involved with the pardon of Mark Rich and the 16 F.A.L.N. terrorists. There are more Clintonistas to come, thank God that you voted for change.

For all of you that are afflicted with Bush-Derangement Syndrome, get on your knees and pray to what ever god you worship (Global Warming-Socialism) and thank him/her or transgender for giving us President George Bush for protecting us against Muslims that want to kill us. I know that President Bush is just an ignorant hick from Texas (trained fighter pilot, only Pres. W/MBA) but he has kept you safe since Sept 11, 2001. Gird your loins, it is now going to get a bit rough.

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How Obama Got Elected... Interviews With Obama Voters

This video shows the world the collective intellect of the Obama voter. This video also shows how media bias can affect an entire election. The main-stream media can effectively brainwash a dense voter with the information that they want them to have and thus have an election result that suits them. After watching this and you still have doubts about the affects of media bias, you are probably one of these "informed" Obama voters. Go to http://howobamagotelected.com for more information about this story. I can assure you that had they interviewed Republican voters, the results would have been very different.

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Obama and missile defense

It has been leaked that Germany and Israel have developed a nuclear missile detection system that will decipher between decoy missiles and true nuclear tipped ICBM's. This system apparently can look through Soviet era and advanced ICBM's that fool radar with "dummy" warheads that hide the true identity of a nuke headed our way. Decoy warheads can overwhelm our current missile defense shield with the sheer multitude of likely targets.


According to sources, the system's infrared sensor has already been tested aboard a business jet and apparently the the sensor will be mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and works in conjunction with the Israeli Arrow anti-tactical ballistic missile system. At present, Israel has the advantage of a US high-resolution radar system that was deployed there a few months ago that will relay early warning of missiles being fired from Iran.

This technology will be an tremendous upgrade to our current missile defense system for the very fact that the Russian ICBM arsenal has a plethora of missiles with decoy warheads. My question is; Will a President Obama accept this new technology and infuse it with our current missile defense system or will he discard it because as he has stated that he will not support a missile defence system that is not proven. What does that mean?

Liberals have objected to our missile defense system that we have planned in Poland and the Czech Republic that protects Europeans and ourselves against rouge nations. Liberals have objected to the whole missile defense concept since Ronald Reagan first announced the idea in the 1980's. "Proven technology" is a code phrase that liberals use to oppose military expenditures as a way of not looking like the doves that they are.

The Russians are the first to test Mr. Obama in the foreign policy realm with their announcement that they will deploy the Skander-M short-range missiles if the agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic are confirmed. This is where I will judge the new President the harshest. If President Obama gives into the Russians in regards to our missile defense shield, the rest is history. Putin is testing President-elect Obama and I pray that Obama does not fail.

I read that liberals want Americans to give Obama an opportunity to succeed. I will give Obama that opportunity and if he fails and our country's national defense is at stake, I will be the first one to complain. The liberals never gave President Bush that honor. What is good for America is good for Bush and bad for liberals therefore they opposed President Bush even when our national interest was at stake.

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If I were President-Part 1

I came across a website that asks you what you would do if you were President of the United States and it had to be non-partisan in nature. This exercise assumes that my party controls both the House and a filibuster proof Senate or maybe just a benevolent dictator.

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I would start drug testing all people on welfare and government assistance. First strike is a warning, second strike-offer free rehab and third strike your out of the system for five years. Mandatory community service for all people on welfare and government assistance unless they work at least 40 hours a week. Some exceptions would apply.

I would increase the penalties on American business's that hire illegal aliens where it is actually cost prohibitive for said companies and the fines would increase dramatically with every violation. With no jobs, illegal aliens have no source of income to send home and they will leave voluntarily. I would offer a seasonal work permit for Mexicans and other South Americans that would be strictly enforced as to when they arrive and when they leave and must be hosted by the company for which they will work.

I would increase the size of the military so we can effectively face the challenges of the 21st century and beyond. I would increase funding for future weapons projects with an emphasis on effective waste over site. I would end our funding for the United Nations and render them to the dustbin of history.

I would establish the fair-tax system that would actually make the tax code somewhat more fair and less complex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax I would implement the "right to work" status in all 50 (22 at present) states and have more stringent regulations and over site of unions and eliminate all union funds going to political campaigns. Pro-union states traditionally have the highest tax rates, unemployment rates and welfare systems than other states that have the right to work status. Unions with less power and the elimination of the corporate tax would help keep corporations from leaving the United States and thus the jobs that go with them.

I would set a ten year plan that would require nuclear energy, wind farms, clean coal technology
and natural gas to account for at least 70% of the United States energy needs. I would allow the oil industry to drill on the shelf and ANWR to further increase supply of fossil fuels while lowering the price. Offer financial rewards to companies that discover and invent new technologies that will further eliminate our dependence on foreign oil

I would impose term limits on Congress to two consecutive four year terms (change from 2 year terms) and limit Senators to two, six year terms. I would eliminate all congressional pork barrel spending and require an election for any pay raise for a member of congress. I would also make it a requirement that any candidate for President of the United States be able to pass a standard clearance requirement that all FBI and CIA employees have to undergo.
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If you would like to visit this site and become POTUS for the day-then go to:

http://www.freewebs.com/ifiwerepresident/

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Obama and the Fairness Doctrine

For those of you that do not know what the Fairness Doctrine comprises, let me give you a little bit of history. The Fairness Doctrine was introduced in the U.S. in 1949 and it basically states that any controversial (conservative talk radio) issue required that contrasting viewpoints be presented. Under the Fairness Doctrine, Rush Limbaugh would be required to have some liberal candy-ass to have equal time on his show to rebut his "freedom of speech."

Liberals know that conservative talk radio is their Achilles hill but they still have the main stream media in their pocket. In the old days, liberals knew that they could count on ABC, NBC and CBS to carry their message and now they can add the likes of CNN and MSNBC among others. Like him or hate him, Rush Limbaugh saved AM radio and conservative talk radio was born. When Rush Limbaugh became syndicated in the late 80's, AM radio already had it's obit written. Limbaugh resurrected AM radio and opened the path for other conservative radio hosts.

Conservative talk radio has been the counter balance to the liberal media establishment to much of their chagrin. The main stream media has lost their monopoly with the re-emergence of talk radio and the conservative internet bloggers . Without talk radio, millions of Americans will be required to obtain their news from liberal news stations and assume the news as fact. With this election year being the most liberal media biased ever on record, talk radio is more important than ever before. The "new media" has made the main stream media propagandists job that much harder.

The Reagan administration abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1986 with the rulings of Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
With the election of President-elect Obama, the question arises, will Obama sign a bill re-instituting the Fairness doctrine? Senator Chuck Shumer has compared talk radio to pornography and should be regulated. With the Socialist-Trifecta now in place, will Obama pass the Fairness Doctrine as they have propagated? Is muzzling talk radio Change that you can believe in?

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Obama-44th. President of The United States

The election is over and Barack Obama is going to be the 44th President of the United States. There is no time for whining about the Liberal Media Establishment and their bias towards the Messiah in Chief and there is no time for grumblings about the missteps of the McCain campaign. No, it is time to fix the conservative brand before the midterm elections in 2010.

As the saying goes, "sometimes there has to be a President Carter before there can be a President Reagan." President elect-Obama does have the arrogance to over-reach with his Socialistic agenda but I do think that he has the intellect to slowly immerse our country into his ObamaNation. His advisers have learned the lessons of the Clinton Administration and their overreach with Hillary Care during their first term.

The socialist trifecta is now complete with the election of Obama and his union with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. This trifecta will impose damaging effects on our economy with restrictive policies in the name of global warming. They will inhibit our military from winning current and future wars with the gutting or our military. They will stifle success in our country with punitive taxes and redistribution of wealth to the non-producers of our society.

It is time to purge the Conservative Republican Party of all the RINO'S and elect and recruit true small government candidates. We have two years to find our next "Ronald Wilson Reagan" and propose a new "Contract with America" and continue the revolution. Our party is in need of a leader and that leader is not serving in our Federal government at present.

I do not want to hear conservative pundits whining about this defeat, I want to hear how we are going to correct the mistakes that we have made that led to this defeat. Make no mistake, I will oppose this new president in his efforts to harm our country but I will not waver in my support for him in the fight for the war on terror. Liberals do that, Americans do not. Liberals will sacrifice the national security of this great nation for political expedience; conservatives must win in the arena of ideas.

I would like to congratulate Black-Americans with the election of President-elect Obama; I hope that you would have supported Dr. Condi Rice if she would have decided to run for the highest office in the land, but I really doubt that would have happened. Conservatives must take our defeat and learn from it; Mid-term elections are only two years away.

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