My twelve readers know of my interest in Islamic fashion and I know you are too so look what I found that Mr. Pipes has all in one place.

Hijabs on Western Political Women - Daniel Pipes Blog

A Gagdad reminder from Saturday's post "Why Can't a Democrat Be More Like a Man?":
"Right now, the peace I'm enjoying in my living room, every selfish mile I drive to and from my home, the electricity that's powering my computer, and the privilege of education that allows me to articulate these thoughts is bought with the blood and dust of men who are far better than I, men who stand ready to do violence against the forces of evil that have made a moment like this and a person like me possible."

In case you missed this, it is a must read. The most excellent excerpt racoonmended by Cousin Dupree I will post next with a non working link for those without the time or inclination to read the whole thing.

American Thinker: The Audacity of the Democrats

Cuz Dupree reminded me over in the comment section of Sat's post about the American Thinker article which I just got around to posting. " That's good stuff:" I call it a popcoon.

Leftists have turned the Democrat Party into "a disloyal opposition... They have molded the Party into a force working stridently and unashamedly against a Commander in Chief during wartime. They have made it a den of treachery devoted to American defeat in Iraq." The left is "a pseudo-intellectual sinkhole filled with perverse, tried-and-failed ideas repulsive to the majority of Americans. Those ideas are shaped into agendas which are then forced on the public by an activist leftwing judiciary and by a major media and arts consortium shot through with utter disrespect, indeed contempt, for traditional American values, religions and institutions.

"The Democratic Party has devolved into a club for the illegitimately aggrieved, the self-absorbed, the self-hating and the perpetually pissed-off. It is a sanctuary where solipsistic malcontents and their disjointed causes find refuge and support.... It is now the political province of the intellectually deceased, where frightened, lock-step ideologues and other small men and women concoct and promote divisive, destructive, weird and cowardly policies developed within a not-so-quaint, quasi-Marxist stricture of gender, class and race."

There is so much great stuff at American Thinker, this one by Rick Moran.
American Thinker Blog: Too bad this didn't come out BEFORE Obama spoke to AIPAC

From my friend Emily who emails me

> A POLITICAL (HEH) ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> BY SENATOR
> BARACK OBAMA (D-IL)
>
> My fellow Americans,
As your future president I want to thank voters
> of all political stripes for their mindless support despite my complete lack of any legislative
> achievement, my pastor's ties with LouisFarrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, and my
> blatantly liberal voting record while I present myself as some sort of bipartisan agent of change.
>
> I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush's youthful drinking disqualifies him.
>
Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political chicanery.
>
I would also like to thank the Kennedys coming out in support of me. There's a lot of glamour behind the
> Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr., they both slept with Marilyn, and Teddy's negligence caused the death of a
> young girl. I'm not going anywhere near the Kennedy cousins, especially Michael Skakel.
>
> And I would like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support and love and meaningless empty platitudes
> that will be the force that propels me to the White House.
> American should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. White folks who vote for me get relief from their racist guilt.
>
> I say things that sound meaningful but don't really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you haveto think. Americans are tired
> of thinking. It's time to shut down the brain and open up the heart.
> So when you go to vote in the primaries, remember don't think, just do. And do it for me.
>
> Thanking
> you in advance,
>
> Barack Hussein Obama
>
>
>

Battle Hymn of the Republic - US Army Chorus 4.16.08

Story Time by Andrew Klavan, City Journal Spring 2008

This is great stuff from the straight shooter , Andrew Klavin.

Story Time by Andrew Klavan, City Journal Spring 2008

This came in an email. I haven't checked the part in which Obama says
in his book, Audacity of Hope:


"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly
direction."
But this is about the other nominee for President, John McCain :

Talk about putting your most valuable where your mouth is! Apparently this
was not "newsworthy"enough for the media to comment about. Can either of the other presidential candidates truthfully come close to this? ... Just a question for each of us to seek an answer,and not a statement.

You see...character is what's shown when the public is not looking. There
were no cameras or press invited to what you are about to read about, and the story comes from one person in New Hampshire.

One evening last July, Senator John McCain of Arizona arrived at the New Hampshire home of Erin Flanagan for sandwiches, chocolate-chip cookies and a heartfelt talk about Iraq. They had met at a presidential debate, when she
asked the candidates what they would do to bring home American soldiers - -
soldiers like her brother, who had been killed in action a few months e arlier.

Mr. McCain did not bring cameras or press. Instead, he brought his youngest son, James McCain, 19, then a private first class in the Marine Corps about to leave for Iraq. Father and son sat down to hear more about Ms. Flanagan's brother Michael Cleary, a 24-year-old Army First Lieutenant killed by an ambush ... a roadside bomb.

No one mentioned the obvious: In just days, Jimmy McCain could face
similar perils. 'I can't imagine what it must have been like for them as they were
coming to meet with a family that ......' Ms. Flanagan recalled, choking up. 'We lost a dear one,' she finished.

Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his
candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent sevenmonths patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father's New Hampshire victory
in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicl e out of the mud.

Two of Jimmy's three older brothers went into the military. Doug McCain, 48, was a Navy pilot. Jack McCain, 21, is to graduate from the Naval Academy next year, raising the chances that his father, if elected, could become the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower with a son at war.

I chose to share this with those who I believe will pass it on, to others
who will pass it on. We hear so much inflated trash out there. How about a simple
act of kindness ... and dedication to others placed above oneself?

Has anybody heard if Barack Hussein Obama has served in The American Armed
Services?

This is for all you Barack voters.........

From Barack's book, Audacity of Hope:

"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly
direction."

HE DID NOT SAY STAND WITH AMERICANS!!!!!

Of course you should read the whole thing but here is one of
Gagdad's pearls: One Cosmos - : "God, the Absolute, speaks only one word, except that he does so perpetually, or eternally: 'God never spake a word but one and that he holds so dear that he will never say another. If God stopped saying his Word, but for an instant even, heaven and earth would disappear' (Meister Eckhart).

Thus, to turn it around, 'All creatures that have flowed out from God must become united into one Man.' Who is this Man? You could say he is Christ, or the nonlocal Body of Christ, so long as you recognize, along with Augustine, that the Christian religion has always existed -- that before Abraham was, I AM -- except that it only came to be called Christianity after the appearance of Jesus. Knowing this, you can immediately prevent a lot of inter- and intra-denominational mischief, for all truth, to the extent that it is true, ultimately comes from the One (otherwise truth could not be, for it would be purely relative, which is no truth at all)."

In the attempt to find out a cure for cancer John Kanzius discovered what could become an alternative fuel - salt water.

SaltWater.wmv

We all know those cute little computer symbols called 'emoticons,' where:
:) means a smile and
:( is a frown.
Sometimes these are represented by
:-)
:-(
Well, how about some 'ARSE-ICONS?'
Here goes:
(_!_) a regular arse
(__!__) a fat arse
(!) a tight arse
(_*_) a sore arse
{_!_} a swishy arse
(_o_) an arse that's been around



(_x_) kiss my arse
(_X_) leave my arse alone
(_zzz_) a tired arse
(_E=mc2_) a smart arse
(_$_) Money coming out of his arse
(_?_) Dumb arse
You have just been e-mooned!

Ten Commandments for a Responsible Pet Owner

1. My life is likely to last 10-15 years.
Any separation from you is likely to be painful.

2. Give me time to understand what you want of me.

3. Place your trust in me. It is crucial for my well-being.

4. Don't be angry with me for long and don't lock me up as punishment.
You have your work, your friends, your entertainments.
But, I have only you.

5. Talk to me. Even if I don't understand your words,
I do understand your voice when speaking to me.

6. Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget it.

7. Before you hit me, before you strike me,
remember that I have teeth that could easily crush the bones in your hand,
and yet I choose not to bite you.

8. Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative,
ask yourself if something might be bothering me.
Perhaps I'm not getting the right food, I have been in the sun too long
or my heart might be getting old or weak.

9. Please take care of me when I grow old. You too will grow old.

10. On the difficult journey, on the ultimate difficult journey, go with me please.
Never say you can't bear to watch. Don't make me face this alone. Everything is easier for me if you are there, because I love you so.


Take a moment today to thank God for your pets.
Enjoy them and take good care of them.
Life would be a much duller, less joyful thing without God's critters.

Gagdad does it again. Read it all for it is excellent.
Blogger: One Cosmos - : "We remember our heroes because they illuminate the eternal realm of the heroic, a realm that we must treasure and venerate if we are to survive as a culture. Not only is the hero a transcendent archetype, but he is only heroic because he has sacrificed something in defense of another archetype -- truth, liberty, beauty, the good, etc. In the absence of this true formulation, neither the hero nor his sacrifice make any sense at all. This is why to 'deconstruct,' say, George Washington, is not just an attack on the father of our country, but on fatherhood, heroism, strength, courage, and the realm of transcendent (i.e., the Real) in general."

Memorial Day - Arlington (Trace Adkins)

Over at Bob's Bog is a shocker in which a teenager was arrested in London for having a sign that called Scientology a cult. Arrested. So much for freedom of speech in Great Britain. Here is a list - Scientology is on it so he isn't the only one that considers it a cult.
Top 10 Cults - The List Universe

Navy Hymn Tribute

FOXNews.com - Junk Science: Global Warming's New 'Consensus' - Opinion

GLOBAL WARMING CHALLENGED:

FOXNews.com - Junk Science: Global Warming's New 'Consensus' - Opinion

lgf: Terror T-Shirt Merchant Answers Critics

Ahh, more eloquence and charm from Urban Outfitters who I have posted about a couple of times.
lgf: Terror T-Shirt Merchant Answers Critics: "Terror T-Shirt Merchant Answers Critics

Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:09:04 pm PST

The maker of that T-shirt that Urban Outfitters was selling (they’ve since dropped it from their catalog), with pictures of Palestinian children brandishing weapons under a peace dove and the slogan “Victimized,” has a very special message for LGF readers and others who criticized his sick piece of trash, at FRESHJIVE.

His thoughtful opinion piece ranges from foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict, to the need for respectful dialog...

Respectful dialog between people who disagree is essential to the health of a democratic culture.

... and the need for LGF readers to perform anatomical impossibilities:

But if you’re gonna come at me with spinned out moronic accusations, I’ll just respond to you in the same assinine way, and that will be to tell you to go f*ck yourself.

Peace out!"

More reasons to home school:

More on the US textbooks promoting Islam.
Family Security Matters � Publications � Are American History Texts Promoting Islam?

ELECTION 2008
WorldNet Daily Exclusive
Report: Communist
mentored Obama
Investigations show ties to radicals
who shaped him, launched career


Posted: May 22, 2008
11:40 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi


WorldNetDaily
Barack Obama had extensive ties with extreme anti-American elements, including agents of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, in Hawaii and Chicago, according to two new reports released yesterday in Washington, D.C., by two experienced internal security investigators.

Investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, a former investigator with the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, presented evidence Obama was mentored, while attending high school in Hawaii, by Frank Marshall Davis, an African-American poet and journalist who was also a CPUSA member.

The authors, in a separate report, document Obama's ties to radicals in Chicago who helped launch his career.

In a paper entitled "Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection," the authors document that in 1948, Davis decided to move from Chicago to Honolulu at the suggestion of what they describe as two "secret CPUSA members," actor Paul Robeson and Harry Bridges, the head of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen Union, or ILWU.

In Chicago, Davis had worked for the Chicago Star newspaper; in Honolulu, he was hired as a reporter for the Honolulu Record, both identified by Kincaid and Romerstein as "communist front newspapers."

(Story continues below)



In his autobiography, "Dreams from My Father," Obama discusses the influence a mentor identified in the book only as "Frank" had on his intellectual development.

Obama described Frank as a drinking companion of his grandfather, who had boasted of his association with African-American authors Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during the time Frank was a journalist in Chicago.

Romerstein, in addition to having served as investigator with the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, served in the same capacity with the House Committee on Internal Security and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He was the head of the Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation for the U.S. Information Agency. Romerstein is also co-author of the influential book "The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors," which included extensive documentation of the communist activities of Roosevelt administration staffer Alger Hiss.

Kincaid is the founder and president of America's Survival Inc. , an independent watchdog group that monitors the U.N. and international terrorism. He is also editor of Accuracy in Media's AIM Report .

Are you a member of the Communist Party?

Kincaid and Romerstein quote Kathryn Takara of the University of Hawaii, who wrote a dissertation on the life of Frank Marshall Davis, confirming Davis was a significant influence on Obama when the senator attended Punahou prep school in Hawaii from 1975 to 1979

A transcript of a 1956 hearing before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee discovered by internal security affairs researcher and writer Max Friedman showed Davis took the Fifth Amendment when asked by the subcommittee if he was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party.

In the second report, "Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection," Kincaid and Romerstein present evidence supporting their contention the SDS organization from which the Weather Underground organization and radicals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn came, received financial contributions from the CPUSA, which in turn receive its funding from Moscow.

Obama's run for the Illinois state Senate was launched by a fundraiser organized at Ayers' and Dorhn's Chicago home by Alice Palmer. Palmer had named Obama to succeed her in the state Senate in 1995, when she decided to run for a U.S. congressional seat.

Nine years before Palmer picked Obama to be her successor, she was the only African-American journalist to travel to the Soviet Union to attend the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, according to an article Palmer wrote in the CPUSA newspaper, People's Daily World, June 19, 1986.

"There has been no explanation of why Ayers et al. played a role in launching Obama's political career," Kincaid wrote.

Kincaid and Romerstein present documentation that Tom Hayden, another major figure in the SDS, is today one of four principal initiators of the "Progressives for Obama" movement , which calls for ending the war in Iraq "as quickly as possible, not in five years."

According to Kincaid and Romerstein, U.S. Peace Council executive committee member Frank Chapman "blew the whistle on communist support for Obama's presidential bid and his real agenda" in a letter to the People's Weekly World after Obama's win in the Iowa Democratic Party caucuses.

"Obama's victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle," Chapman wrote. "Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.

Kincaid and Romerstein wrote, "The clear implication of Chapman's letter is that Obama himself, or some of his Marxist supporters, are acting like moles in the political process. The suggestion is that something is being hidden from the public."

More art being destroyed by the jihadis.
Flopping Aces � Blog Archive � The Cost of Appeasement

The multi talented animal loving artist,photographer, writer, and thinker
Julie Cork wrote a comment over at One Cosmos that I had to post as my few readers probably haven't been slacking enough to get to the comment sections . My kit is always talking about the flow of energy and here Julie addresses this so eloquently I had to share it


Blogger: One Cosmos - Post a Comment: "How can you explain, for instance, the flow of energy which takes place when words are typed into a keyboard in California, then read by someone in Arizona or Idaho or Texas, and cause a transference of energy whereby the distant reader is compelled to change the way they think and behave? No electrons were exchanged between the author and the readers (the same result and for the same people, in fact, is had by the more pedestrian method of opening a book); no physical transference of energy takes place between the one and the other, and yet the thoughts - the psychic energy, if you will - of one person are transferred to the minds of others. Somehow, dots of ink or electrons become thoughts (incredible!).

There is no question that this takes place, every moment of every day in one way or another; the results are verifiable. The actual will, the energy that is exchanged, is not. It exists, regardless of whether you believe it and regardless of whether it can be detected"

Urban Outfitters is a chain of stores that caters to those that want to be hip with a limited budget. I wandered in one day to search down a birthday gift for my soon to be teenage God daughter as her mom had told me she likes their stuff. Thrown on a discard sale table were Jesus as a historical figure dolls with a label explaining who he was. Didn't happen to notice any Mohammed dolls. Now this:
lgf: Urban Outfitters Glorifies Terrorism

What a horrible loss!
My heart goes out to those who have lost their courageous daughter ,Hadeel Alhodaifto , to such a suspicious and premature death.
This is a very sad day.



Cinnamon Stillwell: 25-Year-Old Saudi Woman Blogger and Social Critic Dies "Unexpectedly"

Jay Leno wrote this; it's the Jay Leno we don't often see....




As most of you know I am not a President Bush fan, nor have I ever been, but this is not about Bush, it is about us, as Americans, and it seems to hit the mark.


'The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some Poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right?


The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the President.

In essence 2/3 of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change. So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, 'What are we so unhappy about?''

A.. Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 Days a week?


B.. Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter?

C.. Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job?

D. Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?

E.. Maybe it is the ability to drive our cars and trucks from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state?

F.. Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter?

G.. I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough either.

H. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.

I.. Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home.

J.. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames, thus saving you, your family, and your belongings.

K.. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.

L.. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90% of teenagers own cell phones and computers.

M.. How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world?

Maybe that is what has 67% of you folks unhappy.

Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S. , yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.

I know, I know. What about the president who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The president who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks? The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me?

Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad? Think about it......are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the 'Media' told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day. Make no mistake about it.

The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an 'other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable'' discharge after a few days in the brig.

So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans?

Say what you want but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads and they specialize in bad news Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells, and when criticized, try to defend their actions by 'justifying' them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like OJ. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way......Insane!

Turn off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage Then start being grateful for all we have as country. There is exponentially more good than bad. We are among the most blessed people on Earth and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative.' 'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, 'Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'

Jay Leno

Shamelessly swiped this off Bob's Blog. who always has great stuff. I read this to my husband. He didn't realize I was reading it. The light bulb got changed and the garbage taken out. Heh. Thanks, Bob!

"Q: How Many Women with PMS does it take to Change a Light Bulb?
A: One. Only ONE!! And do you know WHY? Because no one else in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb! They don't even know that the bulb is BURNED OUT! They would sit in the dark for THREE DAYS before they figured it out. And, once they figured it out, they wouldn't be able to find the light bulbs despite the fact that they've been in the SAME CUPBOARD for the past 17 YEARS! But if they did, by some miracle, actually find them 2 DAYS LATER, the chair they dragged to stand on to change the STUPID light bulb would STILL BE IN THE SAME SPOT!! AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE WRAPPER THE STUPID @*!#$% LIGHT BULBS CAME IN! WHY? BECAUSE NO-ONE EVER CARRIES OUT THE GARBAGE! IT'S A WONDER WE HAVEN'T ALL SUFFOCATED FROM THE PILES OF GARBAGE THAT ARE 12' DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE. THE HOUSE! IT WOULD TAKE AN ARMY TO CLEAN THIS #@*$!#@ HOUSE!"

HT to my pal Shark for this one. What are some of the positive things about this way of dressing in general and specifically at the gym?
Gym'll fix it for these women | The Sun |HomePage|News

Just noticing our history books.

History textbooks promoting Islam

Happy Mother's Day . Blessed are you amongst woman.

Here is the email that started my Mother's Day from an amazing young woman. I sure did get the luck of the draw with her, but just to let my five readers know, for what it's worth, I did love her first and more than Swiss Almond Chip ice cream.
Dear Mom,
As Mother's day approached I thought about how superficial this day actually was/is, flowers,chocolates,cards all these material items given to a woman to acknowledge the sacrifices they made and continue to make as they raise their children, the people of our future.....When Dad and I traveled through out Laos and Thailand, he kept explaining to me how this trip would open my mind as it did his to the massive respect that one must bear when it came to women, for women were the beings that held the weight of the world on their shoulders; So how could flowers, chocolates, or cards really express what mothers are to not only the individuals in their families but the world as a whole? It ends up seeming rather shallow when looked at in any way shape or form to just send a material item to express the beauty of motherhood.
It is only fitting that you spend your mothers day in the place where you met your mate , the man that you created life with and became a mother, by bearing me ,your little child, that has grown and continues to grow. As we all search for what our purpose is, re-evaluating our spiritual paths, our short term goals, our long term goals and doing all the emotional and intellectual work that we must to continue toward the truth, life happens. Life was created for me 27 years ago. I was given life from two people coming together in wanting and love to have a child, a family, a dream. The dream continues on as we move to new phases and maybe the dream wasn't exactly what imagined, especially when the little one( that was me) was crying in your ear at 1,2, 3am keeping you from any sort of sanity that you might have had....then as a teenager that pushed you away making you feel closed out, and worried that you didn't do a good enough job raising her...
From the moment born you kissed all the scrapes and scratches; you hugged me when I cried and held the space for me; you always were an ear from me to sound off on , to express my dreams, or frustrations , all of these things, just little things, that any mother would strive to do. You always took things a step above...You provided me with clothes, not just any clothing but always the most beautiful threads a girl could ask for, you fed me only the healthiest food, concerned always with my health, you read me the "cookie monster" over and over and over again always making it new with a new choice you made as the actress in you came flowing forward. Always planning trips to the snow, and to play in the sand. You never treated me as one that should be seen and not spoken to but rather always as a equal that had something to say, as you always took the time to listen, no matter how inane my ideas, philosophies were/are....Always loving me through every stage, always allowing me the space I needed to come to my own conclusions to what this crazy world meant to me.
Today is the day that as your child I thank you for all the times you were not thanked, all of the above and all the laundry you did of mine and all the shirts, towels, wet bathing suits and dishes you washed without acknowledgment. If Mom's got won Oscar's you would be the Mom that would win like ten, for best picture: also known as best life, best actress: for when you wanted to scream and didn't; for best supporting actress: when you stepped aside and let me shine when I needed to; for best sound track: for not sighing when I asked ,and you let me belt away "I will always love you"...you would get two of those for putting up with my repeating over and over Bob Marley 's Pimpers Paradise....The list is never ending. Thank you for loving me through every strange moment I have had, and continuing to pick me up and brush me off when I fall. I love you with all my heart, with all my heart, the life you have created for me is full of abundance, and the ability for gratitude. If I could capture all the Vanilla Swiss Almond in the world, then develop a drug that diffused all the bad effects of the sugar and fat in it, I would, and then I would give you all of it, and that would only symbolize 1 billion-eth of all my love for you. Remember I picked you, thus the conclusion is I loved you first.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Love you~
Me
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Interesting account of retired USAF and Delta Pat Gilmore, of
events just prior to 9/11-

> Pat Gilmore is a Delta pilot retiree..
> As a Delta B-767 captain myself at the time of the attacks on 9/11, I was in
> crew rest in Orlando that morning. I had just turned on the TV in my hotel room only
> to see the WTC tower on fire, then saw the second airplane hit the other tower. My
> immediate reaction was "Terrorists..we're at war", followed by the realization that
> we airline crewmembers had all dodged a bullet; it could have been any one of us
> flying those planes. As soon as the news stations flashed the first pictures of the
> terrorists I knew just how close and personal the bullet I dodged was. There, on the
> screen for all to see, was a man who had sat in my jump seat the previous July.
> His name was Mohammad Atta, the leader of the terrorist hijackers. Atta had
> boarded my flight from Baltimore to Atlantaon July 26, 2001 wearing an American
> Airlines first officer uniform. He had the corresponding AA company ID identifying
> him as a pilot, not to mention the required FAA pilot license and medical certificate
> that he was required to show me as proof of his aircrew status for access to my jump
> seat. An airline pilot riding a cockpit jump seat is a long established protocol
> among the airlines of the world, a courtesy extended by the management and captains
> of one airline to pilots and flight attendants of other airlines in recognition of
> their aircrew status. My admission of Mohammad Atta to my cockpit jump seat that day
> was merely a routine exercise of this protocol.
> Something seemed a bit different about this jump seat rider, though, because
> in my usual course of conversation with him as we reached cruise altitude he avoided
> all my questions about his personal life and focused very intently upon the cockpit
> instruments and our operation of the aircraft. I asked him what he flew at American
> and he said, "These", but he asked incessant questions about how we did this or why
> we did that. I said, "This is a 767. They all operate the same way." But he said,
> "No, we operate them differently at American." That seemed very strange, because I
> knew better. I asked him about his background, and he admitted he was from Saudi
> Arabia . I asked him when he came over to this countr y and he said "A couple of
> years ago.", to which I asked, "Are you a US citizen?" He said no. I also found that
> very strange because I know that in order to have an Airline Transport Pilot rating,
> the rating required to be an airline captain, one has to be a US citizen, and knowing
> the US airlines and their hiring processes as I do, I found it hard to believe that
> American Airlines would hire a non-US citizen who couldn't upgrade to captain when
> the time came. He said, "The rules have changed.", which I also knew to be untrue.
> Besides, he was just, shall I say, "Creepy"? My copilot and I were both glad to get
> rid of this guy when we got to Atlanta.
>
>
>
> There was nothing to indicate, though, that he was anything other than who or
> what he said he was, because he had the documentation to prove who he was. In
> retrospect, we now know his uniform was stolen and his documents were forged.
> Information later came to light as to how this was done.
> It seems that Mohammad Atta and his cronies had possibly stolen pilot
> uniforms and credentials from hotel rooms during the previous year. We had many
> security alerts at the airline to watch out for our personal items in hotel rooms
> because these were mysteriously disappearing, but nobody knew why. Atta and his men
> used these to make dry runs prior to their actual hijackings on 9/11. How do I know?
> I called the FBI as soon as I saw his face on the TV that day, and the agent on the
> other end of the line took my information and told me I'd hear back from them when
> all the dust settled. A few weeks later I got a letter from the Bureau saying that my
> call was one of at least half a dozen calls that day from other pilots who had had
> the sa me experience. Flights were being selected at random to make test runs for
> accessing the cockpit. It seems we had all dodged bullets.
> Over the years my attitude towards the War Against Terrorism and the wars in
> Afghanistan and Iraq have been known to be on the red neck, warmongering,
> rah-rah-shoot-em-up side of things. I've been known to lose my patience with those
> who say the war in Iraq or anywhere else in the Muslim world is wrong, or who say we
> shouldn't become involved in that area of the world for political correctness
> reasons. Maybe it's because I dodged the bullet so closely back in 2001 that I feel
> this way. I have very little patience for political rhetoric or debate against this
> war because for a couple of hours back in July 2001, when I was engaged in
> conversation with a major perpetrator in this war, I came so close to being one of
> its victims that I can think in no other terms.
> I don't mind admitting that one of the reasons I retired early from Delta
> last May, other than to protect my disappearing company retirement, was because it
> became harder and harder for me to go to work every day knowing that the war wasn't
> being taken seriously by the general public. The worst offenders were the Liberal
> detractors to the present administration, and right or wrong, this administration is
> at least taking the bull by the horns and fighting our enemies, which is something
> concrete that I can appreciate. Nobody was taking this war seriously, and it seems
> everyone found fault with the US government rather than with those who attacked us. I
> found that incomprehensible
> I also found myself being scrutinized by TSA screeners more and more every
> day when I went to work, and suffered the humiliating indignity of being identified
> about half the time for body searches in front of the general flying public who
> looked at the entire process as being ludicrous. "They don't even trust their own
> pilots!" Accompanied by an unbelieving snicker was the usual response. Here I was, a
> retired USAF officer who had been entrusted to fly nuclear weapons around the world,
> who had been granted a Top Secret clearance and had been on missions over the course
> of 21 years in the military that I still can't talk about without fear of prosecution
> by the DOD, who was being scanned by a flunkie TSA screener looking for any sign of a
> pen knife or nail file on my person.
> It wasn't until six months after my retirement when my wife and I flew to Key
> West, FL last November that I was finally able to rid myself of the visage of
> Mohammad Atta sitting behind me on my jump seat, watching my every action in the
> cockpit and willing to slit my throat at the slightest provocation. I missed being a
> headline by a mere 47 days, and could very well have been among the aircrew
> casualties on 9/11 had one of my flights on my monthly schedule been a
> transcontinental flight from Boston or New York to the west coast on the 11th of
> September. Very few people know that, while only four airliners crashed that day,
> four more were targeted, and two of them were Delta flights. The only reason these
> four weren't involved is because they either had minor maintenance problems which
> delayed them at the gate or they were scheduled to depart after the FAA decided to
> ground all flights. Theirs are the pilots and flight attendants who REALLY dodged the
> bullets that day, and my faith in a higher power is restored as a result.
> I will see United 93 when I get the chance, and I will probably enjoy the
> movie for its realness and historical significance, but forgive me if I do not
> embrace the Muslim world for the rest of my life. The Islamic world is no friend of
> the West, and although we may be able to get along with their governments in the
> future, the stated goal of Islam is world conquest through Jihad and it is the
> extremist Jihadists, backed and funded by "friendly" Moslem governments, whom we have
> to fear the most. We must have a presence in the Middle East, and we must have
> friends in the Middle East, even if we have to fight wars to get them. Only someone
> who has dodged a bullet can fully appreciate that fact.
>
>
>
> Best to all, Pat Gilmore
>
>
>
> Editor's Note: For some reason which is beyond me, some people do not want to
> believe this. Perhaps they do not want to believe that Jihadist terrorism actually
> exists, because it someone doesn't believe it yet, they never will. Capt. Gilmore
> himself posted this comment, in our comments below, but I will put it here for all to
> see:
>
>
>
> I assure you this letter is true. As to the fact that I wrote that a holder
> of an Airline Transport Pilot rating (ATP) must be aUS citizen, I admit that I was
> mistaken here. I had always assumed so, because that's what I had heard, so I looked
> up the requirements for an ATP just now. There is nothing that says that US
> citizenship is required. Okay, I'll bite the bullet on that one. I received my ATP
> back in 1975 and now that I think of it I do not remember having to prove my
> citizenship. However, the rest of the story is true.
>
>
>
> As for my airline career, I worked for Western Airlines (who merged with
> Delta in 1987), Jet America Airlines (who was bought by Alaska Airlines in 1988), and
> Delta Airlines, as well as a few "fly by night" cargo airlines during my furlough
> period from Western from 1981-1985. I also flew in Vietnam as a transport pilot and
> retired from the USAF Reserve in 1991 after the Gulf War. I have 21,500+ flight hours
> in T-41, T-37, T-38, C-141/L-300, CE-500, CV -440, MD-80/82, B-727, B-737, B-757, and
> B-767 aircraft, all logged between 1970 and 2005 when I retired from Delta.
>
> Trust me, folks, this was real. I must admit I am quite surprised that my
> letter made it this far on the internet. The letter was nothing more than an innocent
> reply to a group of friends, one of whom sent me a similar letter from another Delta
> pilot who had been flying the morning of 9/11 and who had experienced the flying that
> day for himself. His letter had detailed his thoughts as he viewed the movie "United
> 93", and he also told in detail how he had been diverted toKnoxville when the FAA
> shut down the airspace. My friend had asked me if I had known of any other similar
> experiences, so I wrote him what I had encountered myself a few months before. This
> was my letter to him.
> Another retired Delta captain contacted me yesterday after reading this blog
> and related an experience his wife had on a flight from Portland, OR to Atlanta in
> August 2001, just a week or so after my experience with Atta. She was riding on a
> company pass and seated in First Class. A person of "Middle Eastern" descent had
> sought permission to sit on the cockpit jump seat, but was denied access by the
> captain because he did not have an FAA Medical certificate. She said he ranted and
> raved because he couldn't ride the cockpit jump seat, even though there were three
> empty seats in First Class, which the captain offered him. What pilot in his right
> mind would refuse a First Class seat over a cramped cockpit jump seat? He stormed off
> the aircraft and they left him at the gate. You see? Mine wasn't the only experience
> leading up to 9/11.
> Delta Airlines Corporate Security even contacted me a few days ago to ask if
> I had, indeed, written this letter. I wrote them back that I had. They were worried
> that someone was using my name without my knowledge. I assured them I was the author.
> Keep the faith, and don't let the bastards get you down.
>
>
>
> Pat Gilmore

I Just Heard a Man Named Obama

Today, April 22, Gagdad mentioned this important piece at
Townhall by Dennis Prager , radio show host, contributing columnist for Townhall.com, and author of 4 books including Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual.
Just so that you don't miss reading it all.

"The state of the liberal mind is on display on this week's cover of Time magazine.

The already notorious cover takes the iconic photograph of U.S. Marines planting the American flag on Iwo Jima and substitutes a tree for the flag. Why Time's editors did this explains much about contemporary liberalism.


Stephen Colbert arrives at a dinner to celebrate Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in this, May 8, 2006, file photo in New York. The host of "The Colbert Report" revealed on Thursday July 26, 2007 night's show that he broke his left wrist while running around the New York studio before taping a recent episode. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file)

The first thing it explains is that liberals, not to mention the left as a whole, stopped fighting evil during the Vietnam War. As I wrote in my last column, whereas liberals had led the fight against Nazism before and during World War II, and against Communism after the War, the liberal will to fight Communism, the greatest organized evil of the post-War world, collapsed during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War did to American liberals what World War I did to most Europeans -- it rendered them anti-war rather than anti-evil.

That is why liberals have gone AWOL in the fight against Islamic totalitarianism. As during the post-Vietnam Cold War, when liberals fought anti-Communists much more than they fought Communists, they fight anti-Islamists much more than they fight Islamists. Thus, Democrats routinely dismiss the Bush administration's talk about the threat of Islamic terror as "scare tactics."

But -- and this is a primary reason for Time's cover -- liberals know that they have largely opted out of the fight against Islamists; their only passion on this matter is abandoning the war against Islamists in Iraq. But like nearly all people who believe in a cause, they know that they have to fight some evil -- after all, the world really seems threatened by something. So they have channeled their desire to fight threats to the world to fighting an enemy that will not hurt them or their loved ones -- man-made carbon dioxide emissions.

It is much easier to fight global warming than to fight human evil. You will be celebrated at Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, the BBC and throughout the media world, no one will threaten your life, there are huge grants available to scientists and others who fight real or exaggerated environmental problems, and you may even receive an Academy Award and the Nobel Peace Prize. Individuals who fight Islamists get fatwas.

The Time cover is cheap heroism. It is a liberal attempt to depict as equally heroic those who fight carbon emissions and those who fought Japanese fascists and Nazis.

Second, for much of the left, the cover reflects the primacy of environmental concerns over moral concerns. For example, the left seemed never to care about the millions of Africans who continued to die from malaria largely because of the environmentalists' worldwide ban on the use of DDT as pesticide. The same holds true for another leftwing environmentalist fantasy. Changing corn into biofuels is causing a surge in food prices throughout the world. The European Union continues this policy despite warnings even from some environmentalists that food shortages, starvation and food riots are imminent. But human suffering is not as significant as environmental degradation.

Third, the left is far more internationalist -- global, if you will -- in its orientation than national. As the Time article states, "Going green: What could be redder, whiter and bluer than that?" Whereas, for most Americans patriotism remains red, white and blue, for much of the left it is green.

Fourth, the further left you go, the more inclined you are to hysteria. From the threat of DDT to the threat of heterosexual AIDS in America to that mass killer secondhand smoke, the left believes and spreads threats that, unlike the threat of Islamic terror, really are "scare tactics."

Years from now, Time's cover will be regarded as another silly media-induced fear. But, as with Time's 1974 article warning its readers about "another ice age" and its many articles on the threat of heterosexual AIDS in America, Time will just let public amnesia deal with credibility problems. Until then, however, one fact remains: Today, conservatives fight evil and liberals fight carbon emissions. That's what this week's cover of Time is about."

God Bless the Ground: Pope Benedict at Ground Zero @ AMERICAN DIGEST

From American Digest the Pope's visit to Ground Zero:
God Bless the Ground: Pope Benedict at Ground Zero @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Don't miss this rendition by the army of the
Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Saber Point: Battle Hymn of the Republic - Pope's Visit to USA 4/16/2008

YouTube - Muslims in America part 2

In case you are not aware of the religion of peace's out reach in America, here is a nice American girl who will explain it all to you.


YouTube - Muslims in America Part 1

Mark Steyn

"American public education a form of child abuse? The Washington Post's Brigid Schulte reported this month on a student named Randy Castro, who attends school in Woodbridge, Va. Last November at recess he slapped a classmate on her bottom. The teacher took him to the principal. School officials wrote up an incident report and then called the police.

Randy Castro is in the first grade. But, at the ripe old age of 6, he's been declared a sex offender by Potomac View Elementary School. He's guilty of sexual harassment, and the incident report will remain on his record for the rest of his school days – and maybe beyond.

Maybe it'll be one of those things that just keeps turning up on background checks forever and ever: Perhaps 34-year-old Randy Castro will apply for a job, and at his prospective employer's computer up will pop his sexual-harasser status yet again. Or maybe he'll be able to keep it hushed up until he's 57 and runs for governor of Virginia, and suddenly his political career self-detonates when the sordid details of his Spitzeresque sexual pathologies are revealed.

But that's what he is now: Randy Castro, sex offender. The title of the incident report spells out his crime: "Sexual Touching Against Student, Offensive." The curiously placed comma might also be offensive were it not that school officials are having to spend so much of their energies grappling with the first-grade sexual-harassment epidemic they can no longer afford to waste time acquiring peripheral skills such as punctuation.

Randy Castro was not apprehended until he was 6, so who knows how long his reign of sexual terror lasted? Sixteen months ago, a school official in Texas accused a 4-year-old of sexual harassment after the boy was observed pressing his face into the breasts of a teacher's aide when he hugged her before boarding the school bus. Fortunately, the school took decisive action and suspended the sick freak.

By the way, is that the first recorded use in the history of the English language of the phrase "accused a 4-year-old of sexual harassment"? Well, it won't be the last: In the state of Maryland last year, 16 kindergartners were suspended for sexual harassment, as were three preschoolers.

School officials declined to comment to the Washington Post on Master Castro's case on the grounds of student confidentiality. However, they did say that the decision to call the cops was "the result of a misunderstanding." And it's not like he was Tasered or anything.

When school officials call 911 because of a "misunderstanding" with a 6-year-old, the fault is theirs: He's a kid; and they're school officials who are supposedly trained and handsomely remunerated to know how to deal with children. Incidentally, the phrase "school officials" isn't quite as rare as "37-year-old teacher's aide accuses 4-year-old of sexual harassment" but it would still ring foreign to your average old-school schoolmarm in a one-room schoolhouse. Back then, schools had schoolchildren and schoolteachers and that was pretty much it. But now grade schools are full of "officials," just like the Department of Homeland Security.

So who does get a little breast and butt action in American schools these days? Obviously not your 4-year-old gropers and 6-year-old predators: The system's doing an admirable job of cracking down on those perverts.

No, if you want to get up close and personal with body parts you've got to be a "school official." The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently heard oral arguments in the case of Savana Redding. Back in 2003, Savana was an eighth grader at Safford Middle School in Safford, Ariz., when the vice principal, Kerry Wilson, "acting on a tip," discovered a fellow student to have a handful of ibuprofen tablets in her pocket. The other girl said she got them from Savana, who denied it. She had no tablets in her own pockets or in her backpack. Vice Principal Wilson, whose mind works in interesting ways, then decided that Savana might be hiding the ibuprofen in her cleavage or her crotch.

So, without contacting the girl's parents, he ordered a school official to strip-search Savana. She was obliged to expose her breasts and "her pelvic area." If Vice Principal Wilson were a 4-year-old preschooler who had been involved in a stunt like that, he'd now be a registered sex offender for life. But fortunately he's a "school official" so if he decides to apply search techniques associated with international narcotics traffic he pretty much has a free hand to do so. After all, ibuprofen is serious stuff. As Reason magazine's Jacob Sullum put it, "It's a good thing the school took swift action, before anyone got unauthorized relief from menstrual cramps."

The policies of these "school officials" are dignified by the name of "zero tolerance." "Zero sanity" would be a more accurate description. One day we'll look back at this period of government-instituted madness and wonder why those entrusted with the care of minors (or, to be more accurate, those who enjoy a de facto state monopoly over the care of minors) were unable to do what teachers in civilized societies have been able to do throughout human history – exercise individual human judgment.

Michelle Obama called last week for Americans to pony up even more dough for their public school system. The United States already spends more per student than any other developed nation except Switzerland, and at least the Swiss have something to show for it. By any reasonable measure, at least a third of the cash dumped into American schools is entirely wasted. And, if we simply shipped every youngster to boarding school in the Alps instead, the kindergartners might have a sporting chance of making it to second grade before being designated as sexual abusers.

But I don't expect Michelle Obama to see it like that. Last week, an Obama delegate was revealed to have told her next-door neighbor's kids to come down from the tree and quit playing "like monkeys". Unfortunately for her, they were African American, so she was "ticketed" for racist speech by the Carpentersville police, and, after issuing the usual solemn statements deploring such derisive remarks, Sen. Obama removed the delegate from his campaign, had her encased in a cement overcoat and lowered into the Chicago River. He, too, operates a "zero tolerance" policy.

Amid the debris of human lives caught up in these idiocies, you can also find the ruins of an indispensable element of civilized society: a sense of proportion."

©MARK STEYN

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Gagdad Bob nails it once again in today's post. Go read it all.
"The odd thing about liberals is that if they were to come out and just say how they really feel -- like, say, a daily kos diarist -- they could never get elected. So liberalism either breeds a kind of duplicitous soul pathology, or else it pre-selects individuals who are already divided against themselves and have no problem leading double lives, so long as they can gain political power. To put it another way, the great problem for Republicans is hypocrisy, that is, publicly embracing principles they are not prepared to defend. The great problem for Democrats is the opposite (hypercrisy?), covertly defending principles they are not prepared to publicly embrace, like surrender, appeasement, high taxes, a large and intrusive federal government, etc.

Often the debate between left and right is between what we actually believe and what they pretend to believe. Again, it has to be that way, because if the leftist takes off his mask and shows how he really feels, he will be too frightening or repulsive to the electorate. For example, Al Gore would now be unelectable, because in the past five years he has removed the mask and shown himself to be a delusional environmental fanatic. Likewise, a Jimmy Carter is an unapologetic anti-Semite and terror-enabler. If you want to know what liberals really think beneath the mask, you generally have to listen to the words of a congressman from a safe district, or to the left-wing media/blogosphere, or to academia.

Most mainstream Democrats are not even aware of this. The average American is just not as politically engaged as most people think. It's not so much that they are easily manipulated. It's just that they go about their lives, and only hear of the big political rumors and fracases in a distorted way, as they bubble up and filter through the MSM'.

My little blog is too time consuming on the computer that resides in the slackatorium on the sea so until that situation is remedied I suggest to my seven readers that you go peruse the writers I've told you to read like Dr.Robert Godwin and Petey at One Cosmos and Vanderleun over at American Digest.
I have some serious slacking to catch up on and the painfully slow computer here cuts in on that. And, there are other good writers to read if you scroll down to the links like the cyberwarriors, for example. As one of my favs, Joan of Arrggh
might say," Do I have to do everything for you people?"

This blog, Absurd Thoughts About God, is a generous blog with plethora of great links. Check it out, you will not be sorry.

Building "green" means that home construction uses energy efficient ways of building. Here are a couple of examples in case you haven't seen them.

A Tale of two houses | Infidels Are Cool

YouTube - FITNA PART II ( English Version) 2/2

Part 2 of the film by Geert Wilders which was taken off Live Leak because of bomb and death threats. Mind Parasites at work. NEVER FORGET.

YouTube - FITNA PART II ( English Version) 2/2

YouTube - FITNA PART I (English version) 1/2

Seeing as the Dutch had to take this off where it was posted before, here is You Tube's. Never Forget.

YouTube - FITNA PART I (English version) 1/2

My Way News - McCain, Romney Campaign Together in Utah

Hmm, looks like they've made up. Heh.
My Way News - McCain, Romney Campaign Together in Utah

LiveLeak.com - Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders' film about the Quran (English)

Geert Wilder's Film:
LiveLeak.com - Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders' film about the Quran (English)

Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugged has linked Newt Gingrich's wake up call:
Atlas Shrugs: Deeply Worried ......
Since we already have a Presidential nominee, why can't we have him for VP?

LIFE'S ROAD
Picasa Web Albums - Gecko - New Album 1/1... - DSC00124.JPG

Bob's Blog has tagged me with the following rules(psst: Bob, this is too much like work- I'm a slacker)

THE RULES:
Post a picture or make/take/create your own that captures what YOU are most passionate for students to learn about.

Give your picture a short title.

Title your blog post “Meme: Passion Quilt.”

Link back to this blog entry.

Include links to 5 (or more) educators.
The first is Bob himself who writes about the
The Poor Me Epidemic
Then there is a teacher, worthy of your time and trust, Robert Godwin at One Cosmos who shines a light on those mind parasites that can trip us up especially if we are unaware of them. Plus he is funny and sure can write. From his March 25th post:
"A mind parasite is essentially an internalized lie that takes on a pseudo-life of its own. I believe the term is an accurate one, for it is meant to convey the idea that a vital lie that lodges itself in the psyche is not static, but takes on the characteristics of the host, so to speak. I remember once discussing this with my analyst. I don't remember the exact context of the problem I was whining about, but he said words to the effect of, "What do you expect? It's as smart as you are."

In other words, the mind parasite has available to it all of the elaborate machinery of the mind. Therefore, it can easily justify itself, elaborate itself, gang up on the truth, intimidate healthier parts of the psyche. It's like a dictator who uses legitimate means to come to power, but then corruptly uses all of the levers of power to stay there and eliminate opponents.

Those who are in thrall to the lie are by definition slaves. While they may enjoy a subjective sense of freedom, it is an illusion. In fact, they have forfeited their freedom and are attached to a monstrous demon that they have generated out of their own psychic substance, in the same way that a spider weaves a web out of its own body".
Here is Zombie (for those who like visual aids to learning) covering the love and peace five year anniversary of the Iraq war protest. Here are some American examples of embedded mind parasites in the prosperous American city of San Francisco exercising their right to freedom of speech fought for and defended by our brave military. Then, of course, there is Students for Academic Freedom started by David Horowitz of Front Page who dealt with the mind parasites that were embedded in his red diaper (communist) upbringing when, like Paul on the road to Damascus, came to his senses and realized his life was a lie which he documents in his book "Radical Son". His dedication to shining the light is manifested in the great work he is doing to fight for this country with the mighty pen.
Sure would be nice if I knew what I was doing. Back to the SLACK!

Michele Malkin weighs in on the vaccination conversation:

Michelle Malkin In defense of parents with informed vaccine skepticism

BigDog - Boston Dynamics (2008)

Ximeze linked this in the comments at One Cosmos.

Rare Mikey Monsoor memorial footage

From Bob's Blog:
If you were an American soldier fighting in Iraq, and the enemy threw a grenade that landed right near you and your buddies, what would you do? Using the split-second time available to him, the Navy Seal pictured below, threw his body on the grenade, which caused his death, but saved the lives of his fellow soldiers.
Michael A. Monsoor's family will accept the Medal Of Honor on his behalf in a White House ceremony on April 8.

YouTube - Easter Sunday 2007 in St Peter's Square

Panis Angelecus

YouTube - Easter Sunday 2007 in St Peter's Square

Happy Easter Everyone!

YouTube - Songs of praise - Jesus Christ is risen:

My how things have changed since Cat Stevens, now Yousuf Islam, sang this beautiful Episcopal hymn.

YouTube - Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken - Live 1973

For Good Friday I'd like to introduce you to NICK:

Nick's testmoney - ritahsiaVideo List

Because I have been as coonfused as many others on the vaccination controversy, especially the association of them with increased autism, I decided to subscribe to Dr. Russell Blaylock MD's newsletter as offered through NewsMax. Finally I received in the mail some old issues but so far nothing else. So I googled him
so as to contact him and found his blog where he lists under information some of the vaccination and autism links and information for those of you trying to sort this all out.
Still haven't received my subscription but I have a new link Health on my blog list so you can check out what he has to say if you have any interest.

Any coons opinions or thoughts are welcome. At this point I still have no idea where I stand on this.

Homeless by the bay

Cinnamon Stillwell, a fully recovered liberal (and one of the assistants in my recovery) and a most excellent writer warrior has written apiece about San Francisco's homeless.

Homeless by the bay

Over at Bob's Blog
"If you were an American soldier fighting in Iraq, and the enemy threw a grenade that landed right near you and your buddies, what would you do? Using the split-second time available to him, the Navy Seal pictured below, threw his body on the grenade, which caused his death, but saved the lives of his fellow soldiers". Michael A. Monsoor's family will accept the Medal Of Honor on his behalf in a White House ceremony on April 8. YouTube - Rare Mikey Monsoor memorial footage

Seeing as it is tax time, I thought I would reprint an email I received this morning from a friend.
No time to do the links but you can cut and paste until I get to it.

Proposed changes in taxes after 2008 General election:

CAPITAL GAINS TAX

MCCAIN
15% (no change)

OBAMA
28%

CLINTON
24%
How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.

DIVIDEND TAX

MCCAIN
15% (no change)


OBAMA
39.6%

CLINTON
39.6%

How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama or Clinton becomepresident. The experts predict that "Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit."


INCOME TAX

MCCAIN
(no changes)
Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $31,250

OBAMA
(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 5 0K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750

CLINTON
(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K tax $38,750

How does this affect you? No explanation needed. This is pretty straight forward.

INHERITANCETAX

MCCAIN
0%
(No change, Bush repealed this tax)

OBAMA
keep the inheritance tax

CLINTON
keep the inheritance tax

How does this affect you? Many families have lost businesses, farms and ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will not only lose them to these taxes.
NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY BOTH CLINTON AND OBAMA

* New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet
* New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already)
* New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity)
* New taxes on retirement accounts
and last but not least....

* New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries.

In case you want more information on Obama's tax and spend agenda:

If Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) Could Enact All Of His Campaign Proposals, Taxpayers Would Be Faced With Financing $874.35 Billion In New Spending Over One White House Term:
Updated : February 14, 2008: Obama's National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank Will Cost $60 Billion Over Ten Years; Equal To $6 Billion A Year And $24 Billion Over Four Years. Obama: "I'm proposing a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank that will invest $60 billion over ten years." (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks On Economic Policy, Janesville, WI, 2/13/08)
Obama's Health Care Plan Will Cost Up To $65 Billion A Year; Equal To $260 Billion Over Four Years. "[Obama] campaign officials estimated that the net cost of the plan to the federal government would be $50 billion to $65 billion a year, when fully phased in, and said the revenues from rolling back the tax cuts were enough to cover it." (Robin Toner and Patrick Healy, "Obama Calls For Wider And Less Costly Health Care Coverage," The New York Times, 5/30/07)
Obama's Energy Plan Will Cost $150 Billion Over 10 Years, Equal To $15 Billion Annually And $60 Billion Over Four Years. "Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, invest in low-emissions coal plants, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid." (Obama For America, "The Blueprint For Change," www.barackobama.com , Accessed 1/14/08, p. 25)
Obama's Tax Plan Will Cost Approximately $85 Billion A Year; Equal To $340 Billion Over Four Years. "[Obama's] proposed tax cuts and credits, aimed at workers earning $50,000 or less per year, would cost the Treasury an estimated $85 billion annually." (Margaret Talev, "Obama Proposes Tax Code Overhaul To Help The Poor," McClatchy Newspapers, 9/19/07)

Obama's Pla Would Raise Taxes On Capital Gains And Dividends, And On Carried Interest. Obama's tax plan includes: "[i]ncreasing the highest bracket for capital gains and dividends and closing the carried interest loophole." (Obama For America, "Barack Obama: Tax Fairness For The Middle Class," Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com , Accessed 1/8/08)
Obama's Economic Stimulus Package Will Cost $75 Billion. "Barack Obama's economic plan will inject $75 billion of stimulus into the economy by getting money in the form of tax cuts and direct spending directly to the people who need it most." (Obama For America, "Barack Obama's Plan To Stimulate The Economy," Fact Sheet,www.barackobama.com , 1/13/08)
Obama's Early Education And K-12 Package Will Cost $18 Billion A Year; Equal To $72 Billion Over Four Years. "Barack Obama's early education and K-12 plan package costs about $18 billion per year." (Obama For America, "Barack Obama's Plan For Lifetime Success Through Education," Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com , 11/20/07, p.15)
Obama's National Service Plan Will Cost $3.5 Billion A Year; Equal To $14 Billion Over Four Years. "Barack Obama's national service plan will cost about $3.5 billion per year when it is fully implemented." (Obama For America, "Helping All Americans Serve Their Country: Barack Obama's Plan For Universal Voluntary Citizen Service," Fact Sheet,www.barackobama.com 12/5/07)
Obama Will Increase Our Foreign Assistance Funding By $25 Billion. "Obama will embrace the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty around the world in half by 2015, and he will double our foreign assistance to $50 billion to achieve that goal." (Obama For America, "The Blueprint For Change," www.barackobama.com , Accessed 1/14/08, p. 53)
Obama Will Provide $2 Billion To Aid Iraqi Refugees. "He will provide at least $2 billion to expand services to Iraqi refugees in neighboring countries, and ensure that Iraqis inside their own country can find a safe-haven." (Obama For America, "The Blueprint For Change,"www.barackobama.com , Accessed 1/14/08, p. 51)
Obama Will Provide $1.5 Billion To Help States Adopt Paid-Leave Systems. "As president, Obama will initiate a strategy to encourage all 50 states to adopt paid-leave systems. Obama will provide a $1.5 billion fund to assist states with start-up costs and to help states offset the costs for employees and employers." (Obama For America, "The Blueprint For Change," www.barackobama.com , Accessed 1/14/08, p. 15)
Obama Will Provide $1 Billion Over 5 Years For Transitional Jobs And Career Pathway Programs, Equal To $200 Million A Year And $800 Million Over Four Years. "Obama will invest $1 billion over five years in transitional jobs and career pathway programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Americans succeed in the workforce." (Obama For America, "The Blueprint For Change,"www.barackobama.com , Accessed 1/14/08, p. 42)
Obama Will Provide $50 Million To Jump-Start The Creation Of An IAEA-Controlled Nuclear Fuel Bank. Obama: "We must also stop the spread of nuclear weapons technology and ensure that countries cannot build -- or come to the brink of building -- a weapons program under the auspices of developing peaceful nuclear power. That is why my administration will immediately provide $50 million to jump-start the creation of an International Atomic Energy Agency-controlled nuclear fuel bank and work to update the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty." (Sen. Barack Obama, "Renewing American Leadership,"Foreign Affairs, 7-8/07)

YouTube - Barack Obama and The New Black Panther Party

YouTube - Barack Obama and The New Black Panther Party

Obama (the Patriot) gives a Shout Out To Wright

Hang on to this. They have taken it off You Tube

Fighting the good fight writer warrior Robert Eringer has served his country well not only pursuing and gaining the confidence of the CIA traitor, Edward Lee Howard, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985 giving up important US secrets to the KGB, but Eringer also managed to wind his way through the tangled bureaucracy of the FBI , to bring to American justice murderer Ira Einhorn who had been hiding out in a small town in France after killing his wife Holly Maddux, and to do it his way which included having fun, drinking the finest wines, always dining well. His book Ruse, due out in April is a great read with a couple of laugh out loud moments.

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

GREAT essay by Gerald Vanderleun: Just read it, you won't be sorry!

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

Excellent piece by Rita Kramer at Family Security Matters:

Exclusive: Who Is To Blame for American Teens Ignorant of History and Literature?

"Unaware of the brilliant and unique gifts America has bestowed on them, how can the coming generations ever be expected to defend her?"

At least the home schooled children learn basic American history, the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Presidents. Read all of Kramer's piece.

village voice > news > David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' by David Mamet

David Mamet comes to his senses, a must read from the Village Voice.
village voice > news > David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' by David Mamet

Check this out fashionistas:

lgf: Norwegian Designer Really IS Welcoming Their New Overlords

> This morning, at One Cosmos Dr. Robert Godwin said something which I think ties in perfectly
with the part of the Family Security Matter's piece I have quoted by Renee Taylor below.
"Enough malevolent wishes and wicked deeds, and pretty soon you have created a closed world. As Steinsaltz describes it, "the sinner is punished by the closing of the circle, by being brought into contact with the domain of evil he creates.... as long as man chooses evil, he supports and nurtures whole worlds and mansions of evil, all of them drawing upon the same human sickness of the soul.... as the evil flourishes and spreads over the world because of the deeds of men, these destructive angels become increasingly independent existences, making up a whole realm that feeds on and fattens on evil."

Hitler. Stalin. Bin Laden. Yasser Arafat. Kim Jong-il. Ahmadinejad. Detached worlds of pure evil as an end in itself. Who could say it isn't so?"

From an excellent piece over at Family Security Matters, writer and home school Mom Renee Taylor has written an extremely important piece. Here are a couple of excerpts from it. Read it all.

"In 1919, the Communist Soviet Union made public education compulsory and home
> schooling illegal. In 1938 in Nazi Germany, Adolph Hitler declared home
> schooling a criminal offense and those families enemies of the Third Reich.
> In 1959, Communist China abolished home schooling, making public education
> mandatory, and the home schooling parents were imprisoned. Only God Himself
> knows how many families in Nazi Germany, Communist China and the Soviet Union
> were put to death based on their decision to home school their children.
> In all cases, the survival of these regimes depended on the indoctrination of
> Communist and fascist ideals in the government-controlled schools. In an
> eerily reminiscent move, on February 28, 2008, in the Second Appellate Court,
> state of California in the United States of America, a ruling was issued that
> stated parents do not have the constitutional right to educate their children
> at home, setting the course of our children’s education down the same
> dangerous path of indoctrination set by the Communist countries of China, the
> former Soviet Union and the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler."
>Please wake up! We are dumbing down our children.

Chesler Chronicles: Jihad Comes to Dallas. The Female Relatives of the Honor Murderered Teenagers Speak Out

Amina and Sarah Said are those girls who were " honor" murdered by their father, Yasser. Do not forget them.
Chesler Chronicles: Jihad Comes to Dallas. The Female Relatives of the Honor Murderered Teenagers Speak Out

Check out the Burkhaberry | New outfits | The Sun |HomePage|News

Ah, International Woman's Day fashion show:

Check out the Burkhaberry | New outfits | The Sun |HomePage|News

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>
> The following is a list of known terror plots thwarted
> since Sept. 11, 2001.
>
> € December 2001, Richard Reid: British citizen attempted to ignite shoe bomb
> on flight from Paris to Miami.
>
> € May 2002, Jose Padilla: American citizen accused of seeking "dirty bomb,"
> convicted of conspiracy.
>
> € September 2002, Lackawanna Six: American citizens of Yemeni origin convicted
> of supporting Al Qaeda. Five of six were from Lackawanna, N.Y.
>
> € May 2003, Iyman Faris: American citizen charged with trying to topple the
> Brooklyn Bridge.
>
> € June 2003, Virginia Jihad Network: Eleven men from Alexandria, Va., trained
> for jihad against American soldiers, convicted of violating the Neutrality
> Act, conspiracy.
>
> € August 2004, Dhiren Barot: Indian-born leader of terror cell plotted
> bombings on financial centers (see additional images).
>
> €
>
> € August 2004, James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj: Sought to plant bomb
> at New York's Penn Station during the Republican National Convention.
>
> € August 2004, Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain: Plotted to assassinate a
> Pakistani diplomat on American soil.
>
> € June 2005, Father and son Umer Hayat and Hamid Hayat: Son convicted of
> attending terrorist training camp in Pakistan; father convicted of customs
> violation.
>
> € August 2005, Kevin James, Levar Haley Washington, Gregory Vernon Patterson
> and Hammad Riaz Samana: Los Angeles homegrown terrorists who plotted to attack
> National Guard, LAX, two synagogues and Israeli consulate.
>
> € December 2005, Michael Reynolds: Plotted to blow up refinery in Wyoming,
> convicted of providing material support to terrorists.
>
> € February 2006, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi and Zand Wassim
> Mazloum: Accused of providing material support to terrorists, making bombs for
> use in Iraq.
>
> € April 2006, Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee: Cased and
> videotaped the Capitol and World Bank for a terrorist organization.
>
> € June 2006, Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, Stanley Grant Phanor, Naudimar
> Herrera, Burson Augustin, Lyglenson Lemorin, and Rotschild Augstine: Accused
> of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower.
>
> € July 2006, Assem Hammoud: Accused of plotting to hit New York City train
> tunnels.
>
> € August 2006, Liquid Explosives Plot: Thwarted plot to explode ten airliners
> over the United States.
>
> € May 2007, Fort Dix Plot: Six men accused of plotting to attack Fort Dix Army
> base in New Jersey.
>
> € June 2007, JFK Plot: Four men accused of plotting to blow up fuel arteries
> underneath JFK Airport in New York.
>
> € March 2007, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Mastermind of Sept. 11 and author of
> numerous plots confessed in court in March 2007 to planning to destroy
> skyscrapers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
>

" . . .what makes man unique is not just his capacity for knowledge, but his capacity to know so many things that are manifestly false. To call this latter thing "knowledge" is a perversion of the term, for knowledge that isn't true isn't proper knowledge at all. Then what is it? Why are human beings so prone to believe nonsense?
Even for most so-called intellectuals, most of what they know is not necessarily knowledge. Rather, it is plainly "belief." Belief is knowledge once or twice removed, for it means that we are placing our trust in the knowledge of another, or participating in the knowledge of another knower. We don't really know, but somebody does, and we trust them. For example, no one asks if you "know" about global warming; rather, they ask if you "believe" in it. Whether you believe in it depends upon whom you trust. In my case, I have enough common sense not to trust those who claim to know what the weather will be like in 100 years."
Read it all, for it is good! Thank you Gagdad!
One Cosmos: Secular Fundamentalists and Other Simple People of Faith

Home schooling unlawful, says California court (OneNewsNow.com) In the comments at One Cosmos in the Thursday, March 06, 2008 post
The Audacity of Dreaming and the Power of Losers (a must read) one of the commenters "qp" alerted me to this outrageous ruling by a California judge.
GET THIS:
"Parents who fail to [comply with school enrollment laws] may be subject to a criminal complaint against them, found guilty of an infraction, and subject to imposition of fines or an order to complete a parent education and counseling program."
Sort of like the communists did when they dumbed down their populations - easier to control them that way.
JWM commented:
"Welcome to the Ministry of Truth."
Folks, make no mistake about it, we are loosing more and more of our hard fought for freedoms. Freedom is not free!

As Dr Pausch says, it pays to have great parents. Here is his last lecture. Watch it all.

YouTube - Dr. Randy Pausch - from Oprah

Just two months ago these beautiful sisters, Amina and Sarah were murdered by their own Muslim mind parasite infested father - yes, their father, in Texas. I can't get them out of my mind. Read the comments too. Pray for their Mom, their brother and all who have lost them . . . even if you don't believe in it.
What a waste.

Atlas Shrugs: "Please Don't Tell My Father"

Newsmax.com - Obama Dodges Farrakhan Issue

In case you missed this.

Newsmax.com - Obama Dodges Farrakhan Issue

In response to my post yesterday in which the cat comments were too good not to share with my five readers, here is commenter ,wise man, and musician Will's response. Looks like Will is really Walt whose website is here.

Will commented:

MY CAT (song lyrics)

My cat is like a drifting cloud,
He stands alone, but he’s a crowd,
He sees some things that are not there,
Or if they are, I’m not aware,
My cat is wont to disappear,
Then suddenly he’s standing near,
I think my cat’s a part of me,
The part that’s deepening mystery,
Sometimes his eyes take on a glaze
As if recalling ancient days
When his shadow swooped and slid
Across a gleaming pyramid,
My cat is sometimes like a mist,
A mist that’s exhibitionist,
He sleeps and dreams upon my knee,
Sometimes I think he’s dreaming me –

My cat is like a violin,
A subtle brew of yang and yin,
Something ancient, something new,
A watercolor fur haiku,
His essence is both earth and sky,
My little furry samurai,
Electric voltage in the night,
Tiger, tiger burning bright,
So like a marble Roman vase,
Bits of Venus, bits of Mars,
See him there in candle light,
He is his own archetype,
He’s something honest, something sly,
He can love and terrify,
He is straight, yet so contrary,
Another world’s emissary –

As to why I wrote this song,
Well, I will miss him when he’s gone,
He may leave and yet he stays,
A part of me throughout my days –

c. wm 2008

3/02/2008 11:07:00 AM

walt

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Blogger: One Cosmos - Post a Comment: "jwm said...

I'll drop in later, but for now I had to pass along this little gem from LGF member Artiste:

I have seen a few comments about pets on this forum, and it strikes me that my cat is an American Democrat.

He lives in luxury, yet does nothing but demand attention and complain about his plight.

He has a very high opinion of himself.

He complains that I unreasonably constrain him, as if the real and legitimate threats of coyotes and horned owls did not exist.

He presents himself as an affectionate and loving creature to anyone with an available lap, but if he encounters any creature smaller than himself, he eats it.

He leaves fur all over the place, but he wants everyone else to be spotlessly clean.

Whenever he gets on a computer keyboard, he produces nonsense.

He is neutered.

JWM"

The New Media Journal | Radical Islam Is Growing in the US: Where’s the American Anger? by Thomas D. Segel

Keep your eyes open in your own backyard. They're here.

The New Media Journal | Radical Islam Is Growing in the US: Where’s the American Anger? by Thomas D. Segel