Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
(Cross-posted from Faultline USA)
As for party crasher, Ron Paul, or the latest Libertarian to throw a hat into the ring, forget about it!
Here’a an excerpt from Ron Paul Hopes to Crash McCain’s Party
“ . . .In recent primaries, as many as 25 percent of Republican voters chose a different candidate, with many pulling levers for Paul and former GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, who snagged 27 percent of the vote in the Pennsylvania primary.
A similar phenomenon also occurred in 2000, when 33 percent of Republicans voted against Bush in the Colorado primary though Bush was the presumed nominee by then.”
As for the chance of a Libertarian snagging the presidency - NOT! According to Southern Political Report
“There are at least six candidates, including Barr, who have announced for the Libertarian nomination, but in theory a candidate who kept all the others from reaching the 10 percent level could stand on the stage alone.”
So it’s quite clear that a vote for anyone other than the Republican candidate, John McCain, would effectively split the Republican party. And a vote for any of these others would insure that a Democrat wins the presidency!
Do conservatives really want that to happen?
Many conservatives, including myself until recently, have been so upset with McCain’s stance on immigration that they just haven’t been blogging much about McCain, nor have they quickly jumped on to the McCain bandwagon.
But, like it or not, both Obama and McCain are concentrating on the Latino vote for one good reason. Neither can win without it!
According to UPI May 11th
“Latino voters play an influential role in this year’s presidential cycle, the Times said, with Democrats courting the Hispanic vote in GOP strongholds like Nevada and New Mexico while Republicans work for the same in California.”
Tuesday morning I listened as one local “conservative” talk show host spent a great deal of time talking about Obama’s advantage over Hillary while mentioning several times that the McCain’s campaign is woefully short of funds. Well not exactly.
According to UPI May 11th, Obama has raised $240 and McCain has raised $80 million. Not bad for a candidate who hasn’t gotten much media coverage unless it’s in the form of an age related joke!
Some half-baked conservatives are actually willing to concede the presidency to a Democrat in the vein hope that conservatives will have a better chance in 2012. Really??? Not hardly!
One of the very important things a conservative president can do when Democrats control congress is to appoint federal judges. If leftist Democrats control both the presidency and congress, by 2012 we could have an irreparable disruption in the balance of power caused by the appointment of leftist “legislate from the3 bench” judges who will serve for life.
Here’s what McCain had to say about his judicial philosophy, about these renegade judges, and what John McCain pledged to do on May 6, 2008.
“ . . .There is one great exception in our day, however, and that is the common and systematic abuse of our federal courts by the people we entrust with judicial power. For decades now, some federal judges have taken it upon themselves to pronounce and rule on matters that were never intended to be heard in courts or decided by judges. With a presumption that would have amazed the framers of our Constitution, and legal reasoning that would have mystified them, federal judges today issue rulings and opinions on policy questions that should be decided democratically. Assured of lifetime tenures, these judges show little regard for the authority of the president, the Congress, and the states. They display even less interest in the will of the people. And the only remedy available to any of us is to find, nominate, and confirm better judges. . .”
“I will look for accomplished men and women with a proven record of excellence in the law, and a proven commitment to judicial restraint. I will look for people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and my friend the late William Rehnquist — jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference. My nominees will understand that there are clear limits to the scope of judicial power, and clear limits to the scope of federal power. They will be men and women of experience and wisdom, and the humility that comes with both. They will do their work with impartiality, honor, and humanity, with an alert conscience, immune to flattery and fashionable theory, and faithful in all things to the Constitution of the United States.
There was a day when all could enter the federal courthouses of our country feeling something distinctive about them — the hush of serious business, the quiet presence of the majesty of the law. Quite often, you can still find it there. And in all the institutions of government there is nothing to match the sight of a court of law at its best. My commitment to you and to all the American people is to help restore the standards and spirit that give the judicial branch its place of honor in our government. Every federal court should command respect, instead of just obedience. Every federal court should be a refuge from abuses of power, and not the source. In every federal court in America, we must have confidence again that no rule applies except the rule of law, and that no interest is served except the interest of justice. Thank you very much.”
Hear all the Remarks By John McCain on Judicial Philosophy.
The best argument for voting for John McCain comes from Rick Santorum’s article “The Elephant in the Room: Why conservatives should support McCain”
Here’s an excerpt:
Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t shy away from offering my two-cents on the issues of the day, particularly in presidential races. And anyone who has heard me talk about the presidential race over the last few months knows that I’ve had, shall we say, some serious reservations about John McCain’s candidacy. . . .
McCain is clearly the candidate with the capacity, judgment, experience and will to confront America’s enemies. He’s served our country honorably - heroically - in war. I served eight years with him on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and I can assure you he knows our military. Importantly, he also knows our enemies. He understands their capabilities and their aims. He will not sugarcoat the human or financial commitment and cost needed to defeat this enemy. . . .
On judges, McCain has repeatedly made clear that he will, as his Web site states, "only nominate judges who understand that their role is to faithfully apply the law as written, not impose their opinions through judicial fiat." Sounds good to me. . . .
This is but one example of McCain’s character - the kind of character I want in the person who answers 3 a.m. phone calls at the White House.
Those conservatives who still question whether they can support McCain should remember this: The next president will make more than 2,700 political appointments, those who really set policy, across the bureaucracy of our government. I, for one, will sleep better at 3 a.m. if Republicans are in the cabinet and in White House positions that make so many critical decisions. The idea of "Attorney General John Edwards" and "Energy Secretary Al Gore" should cause some sleepless nights for Republicans or conservatives - and those in a U.S. manufacturing sector now struggling to stay afloat.
Here’s my final argument for John McCain. He’s not Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. . . .
As for the Reagan Axiom, given his opponent, McCain is close enough to 80 percent for government work. That is why I am going to vote for my friend - John McCain.
Yup - close enough for government work!
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Crescent shapes with and without Islamic intent: the Obama logo example
The two most widely recognized symbols of Islam are the crescent and the sword. Kind of amusing that Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign logo can be seen to feature both a crescent and a curved Islamic scimitar:
The crescent shape in Obama’s logo has the round part on top, just like a traditional crescent shaped mihrab (the Mecca direction indicator around which every mosque is built). The animation shows the two most famous mihrabs in the world: the mihrab from the Great Mosque in Cordoba, and the Prophet’s mihrab in Medina.
The lighter vertical column in the center-bottom of the logo, presumably meant to indicate reflected light, even conveys the full vertical shape of a traditional mihrab. The scimitar in the animation is from the flag of the Bosnian regiment of the Nazi SS.
If Obama himself had come up with this crescent logo, one might suspect Islamic intent, given his Islamic heritage. But the logo was not designed by Obama. It was designed by a Chicago based branding firm named Sender, which claims credit for coming up with: “a white sunrise against a blue sky, over a landscape implied by red and white stripes.”
Obama definitely deserves to be made fun of for having a fairly obvious crescent shape in his logo, given his efforts to convince the public that he is not Muslim. This is already an uphill climb, when both his grandmother and his cousin are telling documented lies about their religion, claiming to be Christian in one venue while professing themselves Muslim in another. Lying about being Christian: it’s an Obama family tradition!
Still, there is no indication that the crescent and scimitar shapes in Obama’s logo are intended to convey any Islamic meaning. A genuine coincidence apparently. At the opposite pole is the Crescent of Embrace design for the Flight 93 memorial:
Contrast 1: Architect Paul Murdoch CALLS his crescent shaped memorial a crescent
The Crescent of Embrace name proves that the Flight 93 crescent was and is intended to be seen as a crescent. Only very reluctantly did the Memorial Project change the name, and the changes they made to the design are purely cosmetic. Every particle of the original Crescent of Embrace design remains completely intact in the Bowl of Embrace redesign.
Contrast 2: The Islamic symbolism is overt
It is not plausible that an architect, designing a memorial to people murdered by Islamic terrorists, could be oblivious to the fact that his memorial design is laid out in the shape of a bare naked Islamic crescent and star flag, readily identifiable as a crescent and star flag to airliners like Flight 93 passing overhead.
The Memorial Project simply assumes that the Islamic symbol shapes CAN’T be intentional, which is about like seeing an airliner fly into the World Trade Center and assuming it CAN’T be intentional. Do these people even remember the day they are supposed to be memorializing?
Contrast 3: The Flight 93 crescent contains still further Islamic symbolism
It turns out that the giant crescent points to Mecca. A crescent that Muslims face into to face Mecca is a well known structure in the Islamic world. It is a mihrab (as seen in the above animation), which gives the direction that Muslims are to face for prayer.
Everyone at the Memorial Project is fully aware that a person facing into the giant crescent will be facing almost exactly at Mecca. This according to Flight 93 Advisory Commission member Tim Baird. Again, they all just assume that this MUST be an innocent mistake (the equivalent of seeing as SECOND airliner fly into the Trade Center, and STILL assuming it can’t POSSIBLY be intentional).
Contrast 4: Proof of intent
Paul Murdoch PROVES that the Mecca orientation is intentional by repeating it in the crescents of trees that surround the minaret like Tower of Voices. Below is an animated run-through of the repeated Mecca-orientations (2 minutes).
You can restart the animation by refreshing the page:
Animated GIF: copy and paste. You can email it! (Animation restarts each time email is opened.) Click image for larger animation, if your connection is fast enough (1MB).
Crescent of Embrace site-plan, showing both the central crescent and the Tower of Voices, here.
Contrast 5: the designer’s own thematic description is clearly terrorist memorializing
The designers of Obama’s logo offer a clearly innocent thematic description of their creation. You can tell just by looking at it what it is MEANT to signify: a white sun coming up into a blue sky over red and white rows of fruited plain. Even the uncanny intimation of the vertical sides of a traditional mihrab are fully explained by the “sun” reflecting off the red and white “landscape.”
In contrast, Paul Murdoch’s thematic account of his design is as nakedly pro-terrorist as his crescent and star layout. Murdoch says that the crescent comes from the terrorists breaking the circle. That is, they broke our liberty-loving circle, and turn it into a giant Islamic-shaped Mecca-oriented crescent.
As Tom Burnett Sr. put it in his letter to American people, asking for help with our petition to keep the crescent design off of his murdered son’s gravesite:
I don’t want to celebrate the terrorist’s circle-breaking crescent-creating feat.
And lest anyone thinks that the giant crescent is no longer present, the Park Service website makes clear that, while the redesign looks more like a circle, the circle is still broken:
The circle is broken in two places that mark the southeastern path of the plane to the crash site. The circle is broken at the entry to the memorial and at the crash site.
The breaks are in the exact same places as before and the unbroken part of the circle (the crescent) remains completely unchanged. It it still points to Mecca. It is still the world’s largest mihrab by a factor of a hundred. The only difference is that now a chunk of the broken off part of the circle is included in the design, which is perfectly consistent with its original terrorist memorializing theme. The terrorists still break our liberty-loving circle and still turn it into a giant Mecca-oriented crescent.
So there you have it. Dueling crescents! Obama’s crescent logo exemplifies innocent coincidence (however guilty Obama may be of lying about his religion). In contrast, the Flight 93 crescent exemplifies proven intent. (More of architect Paul Murdoch’s endless proofs of intent here and here.)
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And to all you other moms out there, Happy Mother’s Day!
And wishing Jay and his growing family all the best, as his wife is in the early stages of labor.
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From the Confederate Yankee and Times UK Online:
“Barack Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas”
Reliably, the Obama Middle East Policy Advisor only met with Hamas because he belongs to a “peace outfit” - a leftist crazy ‘conflict resolution’ think tank. Isn’t it interesting that Obama would fire someone for participating in talks with Hamas when Obama said he would “negotiate” with them?
And what we should be doing is reaching out aggressively to our allies, but also talking to our enemies and focusing on those areas where we do not accept their actions, whether it be terrorism or developing nuclear weapons, but also talking to Iran directly about the potential carrots that we can provide in terms of them being involved in the World Trade Organization, or beginning to look at the possibilities of diplomatic relations being normalized.
So he wants to negotiate with terrorists.
The president has to lead that diplomacy, which is why I’ve said I would convene a meeting of Muslim leaders upon taking office because I think we have to send a strong signal that we are willing to listen and not just talk, and certainly not just dictate or engage in military action.
There again he’s all about negotiating with terrorists.
From Powerline on Hamas’ endorsement of Obama:
[…] Aaron Klein and John Batchelor interviewed Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, on WABC radio. The interview produced a scoop which, for some reason, has not been widely publicized: Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yousef said, “We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election.” Why? “He has a vision to change America.” Maybe Yousef has some insight into what Obama means by all these vague references to “change.”
He and his PR people certainly want it to APPEAR as though they’re outraged over a campaign worker talking with Hamas. What really matters is what lies in your heart. John Hawkins asks an interesting question:
Now that prominent members of Hamas are endorsing Obama, can Hizbollah and Al-Qaeda be far behind?
“Change you can believe in”. That slogan is starting to invoke immediate fits of uncontrollable laughter from me whenever I hear it now.
CY: [Obama] kicks off his political career by attending a fundraiser in the home of a pair of well-known and infamous domestic terrorists that led a group that had targeted and in some cases killed American citizens, including off-duty soldiers and police officers. When this association is highlighted, he labels it a “distraction.”
[…]That’s not change you can believe in. That’s moral cowardice and craven opportunism.
Exactly.
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NSFW…
Unless you are surrounded by people with common sense….
Black & White on the Grey Matters 2 (War)
I like this guy…says lots of things I have pondered, yet hadn’t explored well enough to put those thoughts into words….
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For the second time in as many weeks, an Iraq War Veteran and his family held a Support the Troops rally across the street from the weekly “peace” protest in this college town. This week the true nature of the ‘peace’ activists was revealed for all to see. When the veteran’s 14 year old son crossed the street to videotape the protesters and their signs, the protesters became agitated and began harassing the boy. The right to record video in any public venue is long established in law and any attempt to interfere with that right is a violation of civil rights.
Seeing the escalating tension across the street, the veteran and his wife crossed over, leaving their three youngest children on the other side for safety while they went to retrieve their eldest son. Two of the female ‘peace’ protesters then attacked the veteran’s wife. When the veteran pulled one of those attackers off his wife he was jumped by four or five of the ‘peace’ people and knocked to the ground where they held him while beating him and smashing his eyeglasses.
The son pulled the remaining attacker off his mother, but the attacker managed to get in one last kick to his mother’s head with her boot. She then punched the son in his face while his mother called the police.
This all took place at a busy intersection, the mother had been knocked into the street in bumper to bumper traffic. People were visible in the windows of shops and a bar nearby. One might think someone would intervene to put a stop to the assault. One would be wrong. In a scene eerily reminiscent of the Kitty Genovese tragedy in New York, the bystanders and passers-by refused to stand up to the ‘peace’ thugs. Displaying a craven cowardice one would not have expected in middle America they would rather go on their way thankful that it was not them being assaulted. It was NOT them, today, but what about tomorrow?
Read the whole thing. Naturally, the nasty face of the REAL peace protesters is something the media would never show, but-
Last Fourth of July, in New Jersey, one of these ‘peace’ people walked up to a young veteran of the War in Iraq and Afghanistan and shot him in the heart just because he was in the military. Last month another person or persons unknown detonated an improvised explosive device at the Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times Square. Today a veteran and his family were assaulted in plain daylight on a public street in view of dozens of people and not one lifted a hand to help. This is not the America I grew up in. This is the Amerika the ‘peace’ crowd is bringing to your town and neighborhood.
That’s why we should continue to gather in the streets and face them down–and provide peaceful means of protecting ourselves, since it seems that the police aren’t interested in doing so, and neither are other American citizens who are nearby.
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Anthony Morley, left, Damien Oldfield, right. Morley was arrested after Damian Oldfield’s body was found with a chunk of flesh missing from his leg.
From the Daily Mail (from Van Helsing)
The first winner of the Mr Gay UK contest has been charged with murdering a man amid fears he planned to eat the corpse.
Anthony Morley, 35, was held after Damian Oldfield’s body was found at a house in Harehills, Leeds, with a chunk cut out of the right leg.
Police are said to have found human flesh diced as though “for cooking”.
It’s too bad that more outrage isn’t felt from people about stories like this. Instead, in the name of “tolerance” we’re supposed to be like the three monkeys - see no evil, hear no evil, etc.-
Officers are now having to consider the possibility that the killer had “eaten some of the flesh.”
They were alerted after a man, covered in blood and wearing a white nightgown and slippers, went into a nearby kebab shop.
Police discovered advertising executive Mr Oldfield, 33, had been stabbed to death.
Morley, from Doncaster, was crowned Mr Gay UK in 1993 when he was 20.
Morley will appear before Leeds JPs next week and is then expected to be sent to Crown Court for trial.
Mr Oldfield worked for gay magazine Bent. He knew Morley but they were not thought to be partners.
Well, that’s a relief, when all people like Joe are saying is that they’re ‘attracted’ to people of the same sex and that it doesn’t involve sex, and it doesn’t involve other forms of deviant behavior like necrophelia or cannibalism. We already know that Dahmer was one; but one must considering that sometimes this sort of deviance involves men advertising for victims who are willing to be consumed. What’s astonishing are the stories about men who actually answer those ads, as was the case of Armin Meiwes, “Der Metzgermeister” - “The Master Butcher”. Wikipedia Armin Meiwes
Meiwes posted an ad on the Internet, looking for a willing victim which advertised he was “looking for a well-built 18 to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed”. Bernd Jürgen Brandes responded to the ad. Brandes was known for his mutilation fetish and his activity in the homosexual prostitution scene.The Age (January 15, 2004) The Secret World of the Suburban Cannibal Fairfax Digital Reminiscent of a scene with Hannibal Lecter with a drugged victim seated at the table, the two men proceeded to cut off Brandes’ penis and tried to eat it together. Brandes had wanted Meiwes to bite it off, but that didn’t work, so he used a knife. Because it was too ‘tough’, Meiwes cooked it, while Brandes lay bleeding. This was before the murder. Later, after Meiwes murdered him, he hung Brandes’ body on a meat hook..and proceeded to butcher the body in order to consume the flesh over a period of months. Meiwes was in the midst of trying to lure others to a similar horrible fate when he was caught with body parts in a freezer and a graphic videotape depicting the gruesome horrifying events. Whether consensual or not, this is sickness.
In the case of Mr. Gay UK, it would appear it was not consensual. But at least he dressed for the occasion:
They were alerted after a man, covered in blood and wearing a white nightgown and slippers, went into a nearby kebab shop.
Apparently Mr. Gay UK wanted to eat Damian Oldfield’s leg meat in the middle eastern kebab tradition. Served over a bed of rice, perhaps?
Left to right: Chenjeh Kabab, Kabab Koobideh, Jujeh Kabab in an Afghan restaurant. (Wikipedia)
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The man stabbed at a Perth party 12 days ago was an anti-gay former preacher at a Hamilton evangelical church.
Phillip Arthur Ranga, 35, of Ngaruawahia, is in custody charged with murdering 52-year-old Richard Andrew Watson at a party in the Perth suburb of Embleton on April 20. Ranga has made three court appearances and, through his lawyer Terry Dobson, said he plans to defend the charges.
I can find little about the circumstances around this or the relationship between the two men.
Doesn’t there seem to be a lot of hatred and hateful crimes coming from homosexualists in the news lately?
I think the title to that article should have been ‘homosexual held for preacher’s murder’
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Obama’s mysterious “Frank” who served as his mentor, according to his book “Dreams of My Father”, is in reality, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the old Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA.
Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army is an AIM (Accuracy In the Media) report. The poetry written by Frank attacks traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries and hails the Soviet Union’s Red Army, with a call to “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army.”
Kincaid from AIM said in a statement on his USA Survival organization website, that a full report will be released May 22 on how communist and socialist forces have influenced Obama.
“Herbert Romerstein, a former investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, will present a detailed report on Obama’s years in Hawaii, when he came into contact with and under the influence of a member of the Communist Party, Frank Marshall Davis,” Kincaid said.
He also will detail “Obama’s years in Chicago, when he came into contact with and under the influence of communists, socialists, and even communist terrorists. There is a very disturbing pattern here … It can be no accident that Obama always seems to gravitate to the most extreme, anti-American forces. If you think Rev. [Jeremiah] Wright [Obama’s pastor] is something, wait until you see the information that we have developed.”
Wow, I can’t wait to read about it.
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So I figured here was good since things are quiet here recently.
So a friend of mine posts a blog on myspace about Eight Belles being euthanized on the track after the derby. She broke both her ankles after the race and went down. It happens. I responded to her blogpost, and everything further that needs to be said is there. Here’s what she wrote, followed by my response in bold;
RIP Eight Belles
In a weird way, I kind of hope for a horse to break down during a Triple Crown race. I of course, HATE to see a horse get hurt, but the whole world watches these races, and when there’s an accident it forces the public to see that there’s something seriously wrong with the way these animals are trained and hopefully the racing industry might get enough bad PR to consider changing its ways.
You can’t race horses that are less than 3 years old (I know the Derby is for 3 year olds, but Eight Belles and other Derby horses ran races when they were 2, which couldn’t have helped her bone-development) — in the TB world, 3 years old often means 2 1/2 and racing animals before their bones have stopped developing is just a whole lot of no good.
You can’t start a horse before it’s even a year old — which is common practice in the TB industry. I’m not the biggest fan of horse racing — but if they’d at least wait until the poor thing is at least 3 years old (a real 3 years old) before they start galloping it with a rider on its back, I’d be a little more okay with it.
There are several points I wish to make here.
One, no horse is raced before their knees are closed, which marks a point in development showing that bone growth has stopped.
Two, speaking from experience, it is the most heart breaking thing to have one of your charges break down, and extreme lengths are taken by horsemen to make sure that their charges are fit and ready to race, after all, aside from loving the horses in their care, they are, at the end of the day, investments.
On that point racing is a business, and the point of having a race horse is to race them. Horses peak at three years old, generally speaking, and are even capable of bearing young at that age. Add in the fact that by three horses have generally grown to full size, and what you are dealing with is an adult creature. Given a horses life span, which limits the amount of years they can be bred, starting a horse young is only sensible.
Horses generally don’t have riders on their backs until they reach two years of age, at which point they are 80% full grown, and more than capable of carrying a rider, especially one in the 120 pound range. Horse can carry half of their weight. Given an average two year old size of a thousand pounds plus, 120 pounds is very light.
The care that goes into a race horse is phenomenal and our best human athletes don’t get half as pampered as the average race horse. Full time 24-7 care is the standard, with vets on call at all hours, the best grains and supplements and medications, a constantly clean living area and fresh water at all times.
Go take a job at a race track walking hots or better yet, if you can handle the workload, as a groom, and see for yourself how they are handled before you denigrate the racing industry.
I promise you that there is a groom in kentucky tonight staring forlornly at an empty stall and looking at a scrapbook.But he will be in his stalls tomorrow, giving the same top notch care to his other charges, no matter if they are stakes horses or bottom of the barrel claimers, and he will remember sadly and fondly eight belles, mostly for what could have been, not only in the winners circle but in the breeding shed, but I guarantee you he realizes that racing is life, you don’t always win, and all you can do is try your heart out. I promise you he will remember for the rest of his life the courage and heart that his charge showed, and his chest will swell with pride when he tells people that he rubbed such a champion as eight belles, and he will argue endlessly about what great progeny she would have thrown, but at the end of the day he will do his job knowing that this is life, and she died doing what she was made for, what she lived for and what she loved doing, and at the end of the day no better eulogy can be said for any creature.
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Yep, nothing to see here…move along…not happening…I’m betting on it…
A three-woman panel met at San Antonio College as part of a lecture series on Christianity and Islam. The object was to clear up some misconceptions about the role of women in Islam. Muslim women were not oppressed, that’s what the panelists told the kids. In fact, it was just the opposite—Islam teaches equality and respect for everyone, including women. Isn’t that what Ibrahim Hooper has been saying all these years? Or was it somebody else? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Jimmy Carter? Robert Edgar? Someone.
One of the panelists was Brenda Meneses. People often confuse cultural behavior with actual theology she said. Christians in the Western World have a difficult time understanding this because they have a different idea about the role religion plays in their lives. Well, sure, that’s possible. There are many interpretations of the Bible. What do the suras say about the role of women in Islam?
Tabari IX:113,
“Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing in themselves.”
Bukhari V3B48N826:
“The Prophet said, ‘Isn’t the witness of a women equal to half of that of a man?’ The woman said, ‘Yes.’ He said, “This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.”
[…]
No…not a problem…just file this under the “Coming social tsunami” category and you’ll be fine…go back to listening to Dhimmi Jimmy…you’ll be fine in the morning…don’t worry, we respect you…don’t worry, we’ll hide behind freedom of religion in The Constitution and you’ll not figure out it’s really all about politics…go back to watching “American Idol.”
Islam is on the march in the United States and no battle is too small not to be fought and no lies too outrageous not to be told.
Heed the warning…
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Something is wacky with this blogging platform; I can’t embed the show. Here’s the link to it.
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Some might call it fratricide, others “(not so) friendly fire,” or I could be crass and label it “entertainment.”
Elenor Clift discusses the possibility to come: “Settling Scores. If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she’ll have a long list of grudges and grievances:”
I’m beginning to think Hillary Clinton might pull this off and wrestle the nomination away from Barack Obama. If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media—will join Bill Richardson (a.k.a. Judas) in the Deep Freeze. If the Clintons get back into the White House, it will be retribution time, like the Corleone family consolidating power in “The Godfather,” where the watchword is, “It’s business, not personal.”
[…]
Actually, at another level, I am saddened that “power politics” has become a contact sport, and the Clintons (and others, too) seem to be very cavalier about wrecking peoples live to ensure they have the access to the halls of power. And, for all the calls to “unite,” the very leadership displays actions that punish, rather than heal. If those at the top are doing so, is it unreasonable to expect anything less from the followers?
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