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.”
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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.”
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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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Trying to get back to a schedule, but it seems as though quite a few people have ‘flown the coop’.  I have the roster posted on the right hand side.

Please email me at caoilfhionn1 at gmail dot com to claim your spot.

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Mary Grabar in a column at Townhall puts it to Barack. But more importantly, she emphasizes how those who have never gotten the special treatment of the likes of Barack have just gone to work and dealt with it all these years.

I guess it takes a privileged, spoiled brat like BhO to bring out the bitterness, that other have managed to handle with a degree of dignity along the way, and understand that life here in the US is far better from where their families came from, too.

Here’s the opening shot across the bow:

We know who you’re talking about, Barack Obama, when you talk about Pennsylvania and the Midwest, about small towns where the jobs have left. We know who you’re talking about when you talk about those who “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion.”

You’re talking about “those people.”

You’re talking about white people who have neither the family connections nor the racial credentials to gain entrance to the world that you inhabit. Many of the people you’re talking about are those whose parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe who came to these places to work in steel mills, coal mines, and factories. We know the code words.

You’re talking about people whose culture is little known. We have been pretty quiet. We never tried to impose our culture on everyone. We never insisted on putting pictures of ourselves in our native dress into schoolbooks or mandating that our stories and songs be part of the curriculums.

We tried to maintain our culture without government aid, by forming our own churches and groups, and building Polish, Ukrainian, and Slovenian halls.

We never wore buttons declaring “Slav Power” or grouped together for purposes of intimidation or violence.
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Enjoy the rest, as she slices and dices his callous remarks with facts about those who never were admitted to the high places and mansions, except, of course, to clean the floors and change the sheets.

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Reacting to the Wesley Snipes tax-avoidance verdict, Dan Riehl nails it. As you read Riehl’s passage, keep in mind Harry Reid’s telling and abominable remarks earlier in the month about our tax system being “voluntary”:

… I’m not suggesting Snipes isn’t guilty, or shouldn’t go to jail, but you never hear a peep from the supposed freedom loving liberals when it comes to how government taxes and spends, thereby controlling our lives, as well as our livelihoods.You can peace march all you want, try to persecute telco’s for providing information to the government, and stage all the faux torture events you want in protest of government actions.

But what’s perfectly clear in America today is one thing - you don’t screw with the tax man. Never let it be said that our government doesn’t know from whence its power springs.

It would be wise to consider that when debating hyper-regulative responses to issues like global warming and supporting politicians who love big government. It always comes with a price. And ultimately that price is freedom, just as much as it is dollars.

In relative terms, there will be little or no liberal hand-wringing over the Snipes conviction, which causes one to wonder if they really understand freedom at all. Snipes appears to be guilty, but he WAS striking Big Brother at its heart in a way few if any anti-war protesters ever do.

And the message is clear - Big Brother knows how to deal with threats to its collective heart when they really matter.

Issues like the above are why I genuinely question the motivations of liberals today. They claim to be championing liberty. Yet nearly everything they champion calls for more taxation and regulation. One can’t do both and be intellectually consistent, or honest.

Bravo! Read the whole thing. The most evil and insidious “trick” our Congress–which is so eager to ever greater amounts of our money–plays on the public, is to force a great majority of its employed citizens to have their taxes deducted from their paychecks throughout the year; for if all of our taxpaying citizens were allowed to let their own money earn interest for their own families over that same year–and then to be forced to write one enormous check from their savings at the end of the year–these citizens would not so easily vote for the very liars and thieves who would deprive them of even more.

I have my own business, and therefore have the “pleasure” of paying ridiculous sums of money four times per year instead of 26 (or 52…). And therefore I have a clearer–and starker–picture of what our wasteful, frivolous, pork-loving Politicians are doing to each and every one of us (at least those of us without our hands out…) It makes my blood boil, especially when I hear the Marxist bastards running our Congress (and running for President..) imply that it is the Government’s money which they are graciously allowing us to keep some of–rather than the other way around.

As for Harry Reid’s “voluntary” tax: I give you Mr. Wesley Snipes.

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Worth reading:

The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do—in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts.

Many who respond to something disagree with it. That’s to be expected. Agreeing tends to motivate people less than disagreeing. And when you agree there’s less to say. You could expand on something the author said, but he has probably already explored the most interesting implications. When you disagree you’re entering territory he may not have explored.

The result is there’s a lot more disagreeing going on, especially measured by the word. That doesn’t mean people are getting angrier. The structural change in the way we communicate is enough to account for it. But though it’s not anger that’s driving the increase in disagreement, there’s a danger that the increase in disagreement will make people angrier. Particularly online, where it’s easy to say things you’d never say face to face.
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Oh, yeah…
From Front Page Magazine:

Bill Warner, the director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI) and spokesman for PoliticalIslam.com is interviewed:

FP: I would like to discuss the issue of dhimmis today. Let’s begin like this: who are the dhimmis? And what different kinds are there?

Warner: Dhimmis begin with Mohammed. He was the world’s supreme master of making others submit to his will. Mohammed had the insight into the human psyche that all human beings have a genetic disposition to submit to the will of the group and higher ranked individuals.

We like to think of ourselves as individuals who can make decisions and freely execute them. Mohammed’s insight was into the submissive side of being human. To survive as a civilization we must allow others to dictate what we do to some extent. As an example, we all submit to the idea that we stop our car at the red light. We submit to society’s rules. We are not completely free, but a member of society. If we did not have this “pack” gene, we could not survive as a species. We must be able to work together. There is no way to survive alone.

In short, all humans have a beta gene, a submissive gene, as part of our DNA. But a beta needs an alpha. Mohammed was history’s supreme alpha male.

Previous religious leaders and philosophers approached humanity with the idea of freeing the individual from fear. Mohammed did not try to free humanity, but to make humanity a slave to Allah, the god of fear. So he “revealed” the ultimate alpha—Allah. Under Allah, all humans come to their fulfillment by being Allah’s slave. But since Mohammed was the only “prophet” of Allah, to obey Allah was to obey Mohammed. Islam is submission to Allah/Mohammed.

In his early phase in Mecca, Mohammed only talked about religious slavery to Allah/Mohammed. The Koran promises the use of violence in Hell after death. The Koran of Mecca has 67% of its text devoted to how the kafirs (unbelievers) must submit to Allah/ Mohammed.
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Bill seems to boil it down to simple terms. Go and read. See if you can tell the two types, and relate that info to the people around us, personal friends/co-workers and those who have the ear of the press.

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It’s amazing how tone deaf some people are, those (here) who once proclaimed (in comments) that we’d never be taken over, and that Sharia wouldn’t be implemented:

“They” continue to say what they are going to do and the brain dead leftists can’t even hear it.

LIke a bunch of little kids with their fingers jammed in their ears, eyes squinched tightly closed and yelling “LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA!” at the top of their voices, until they need a breath to go on and repeat the cycle of responding to direct, specific stimuli.

‘Nuff said…

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Excuse me while I smirk…

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And the national media ignores it all.

Yep…gotta keep working to starve out the people that genocide in Darfur won’t get rid of. You know, those “typical third world country people.”

The Left, for all they tell us about how compassionate they are, are the very ones with “feel good,” not to mention impractical plans, to get rid of humanity. Lets keep using plants for food to help us get around in our precious hybrid cars…while other “solutions” surround us. You know…like using the stuff we used for fuel all these centuries.

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BhO is a disaster. I’ll go out on a limb here: He hasn’t managed, after sitting in a “church” for 20 some years, taken much time to read about a man named Jesus Christ. Maybe there were no pew Bibles available, but I digress. His picture should become the standard inclusion in dictionaries for “hypocrisy.” Yep…I’ll unite all of you I hate, because you’re stupid and don’t believe in the right thing (you know…ME!). I know the real pain of the African American community, while I lived a live of privilege. I don’t “talk” in front of white people (typical or not). Yes, I’m a two faced man, but we’ll all be ready to solve the problems of the world, if you just all vote me and my essentially complete lack of experience, putting me into the most powerful office on the planet.

And then…from The American Thinker:

April 16, 2008
Obama: Silence in the face of evil
By Peggy Shapiro

“Silence in the face of evil is always on the side of the aggressor.”
- Elie Wiesel

Barack Obama, the eloquent speaker who mesmerizes the media, the man whose orations make women swoon, the candidate who promises to embrace dictators and terrorists in conversation, falls strangely silent when his words are needed to stand up against evil, intolerance or injustice. In a dangerous world with evil regimes aspiring to destroy the United States and the values we represent, the silence of an American President would be an
unthinkable disaster.

We know that for over twenty years, Obama listened attentively to his pastor’s diatribes against the United States and Israel and said nothing. Confronted with outright lies that the United States created the AIDS virus to destroy Africa and imports harmful drugs to destroy African Americans, Obama was silent. When the church website and newsletter carried the message of Hamas, labeled as a terrorist group by both the U.S. and the E.U., Obama maintained his silence.

Obama has not availed himself of other opportunities to speak out against injustice. When his words take a stand on behalf of human decency and not be empty platitudes, Obama chose silence. Take the case of the anti-Islamist Muslim journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, who was imprisoned and tortured by Bangladeshi authorities when he requested a visa to attend a conference in Tel Aviv. Securing his release became a bi-partisan issue. Richard L. Benkin, who is spearheading efforts to release Choudhury, notes “Democratic, Republican, left, right, moderate; you name it. And every one of them reacted with support; every one of them, that is, except one. Who was the one lawmaker that took a pass on saving the life of an imprisoned US ally and opponent of Islamist extremism? That’s right, my own Illinois Senator Barack Obama.”
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And it goes on. Damning? Yes. Should this man have his hand on the tiller of history? No, unless, of course, “ARE YOU READY FOR SHARIA?” (Sorry…I’ve been too a few too many hockey games).

He’s not an “empty suit.” He’s a man set on assuaging his bitterness for the “wrongs” of having lived the horrible live of exclusive prep schools and Ivy League universities, and then the catastrophe of having someone show up and allow you unique financial leverage in acquiring a “modest” home and some land adjacent to it, then being catapulted to a place where people are ashamed to use your middle name or mention the benefits of “equal opportunity” programs, or challenge you if you make remarks that imply stereotypes are acceptable in a one way manner. Top it off with followers who allow you to channel their hate, yet never ask you why the “double minded man” effect you demonstrate.

He speaks not of the evil that faces the entire Western World. Does he believe that we are to prostrate ourselves before it, to compensate for the genocidal rantings of a man in the deserts of Saudi Arabia 16 centuries ago (meaning 13+ centuries bfore the US of A existed)? Maybe…just maybe.

Philosophical comment of the moment: An older gentleman recently said to me “Show me a man’s friends and I’ll show you they are.” Yes, it was in the context of the recent Rev Wright’s “sermons.” So, here is a comment about who his friends are: Liars.

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The scope of Wright’s false assertions are astounding: from the government’s invention of HIV to positioning the founding fathers as creating the DNA of white supremacy. That Obama relied upon this loser for 20 years, listening to his idiotic fabrications, tells us all we need to know.

Bonus: Create your very own, personalized Logobama.

Ironic end note: Will he have to pay and accept reparations at the same time (assuming he comes up with some financial “leveling of the playing field” program)?

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I suspect that all of you are aware that there are fools in this world.  Sometimes those fools rise to positions of power and prestige, sometimes by outrageous fortune, those fools come to represent all that we hold dear, trash it and then we wonder what the hell happened.

And so it was with the presidency of Jimmy Carter.  In 1976 Jimmy was elected president largely on the anger of America at Richard “I am not a crook” Nixon who trashed the office of the Presidency and resigned in disgrace just ahead of impeachment. 

Jimmy ran against the hapless Gerald Ford, a good man, an honest man but one who was portrayed as a bumbling fool.  His slip on the stairs of Air Force One didn’t help, nor did the ongoing “joke” of the antics of the SNL crew in general and Chevy Chase in particular.

None the less, in retrospect America knew that it had elected the wrong man in ‘76 and opted to toss the bozo from Georgia out on his keister in ‘80 in favor of “The Great Communicator” Ronald Reagan.  Now, lest we be accused of being partisan (which of course we are) let us also acknowledge that a big reason for dumping Carter was less than that he was a fool, as much as it was for his total mismanagement of the economy and of the Iranian hostage crisis in which the Iranian “students” rubbed the face of America in the dirt for 444 days releasing them only when Reagan took office.  Since that time, the bad peanut farmer and former president has made an ass of himself traveling the world in support of thugs and murderers.

Now Jackass Jimmy is set to talk to Hamas thinking that this will settle peace between Israel and the Pali’s.  See, he is still blinded by his own incompetence.  The United States has a policy of not dealing with terrorists.  Every time that policy has been violated, we have ended up with the short end of the stick and sometimes our brave men and women in uniform have paid the price.  Sometimes, when we don’t take terrorists seriously we end up with things like the Marine Barracks bombing, the U.S.S. Cole disaster and 9/11.  Yet, there goes bumbling Jimmy Jackass who has yet to learn that Hamas are a bunch of murderous thugs who launch rockets against civilians, murder and pillage, and trow prisoners off of tall buildings. 

Yeah Jimmy, that’s the ticket.  In this most recent proof that Jackass Jimmy is a fool, he stated:

“I feel quite at ease in doing this, I think there’s no doubt in any one’s mind that, if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process.”

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“I think that it’s very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas leaders to express their views, to ascertain what flexibility they have, to try to induce them to stop all attacks against innocent civilians in Israel and to cooperate with the Fatah as a group that unites the Palestinians, maybe to get them to agree to a cease-fire — things of this kind.”

Oh Jimmy, have you gone completely soft between the ears?  Oh, wait, that was a rhetorical question wasn’t it?

So, for this month’s Dimwitted Dodo Award may I present Jackass Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States (and thank God he’s not any more).

Cross Posted at GM’s Corner

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