May Pigs Piss on Muhammad

The issues here go beyond the right of cartoonists to offend people. They go to the heart of repression in much of the Muslim world. Islamists and authoritarian governments now routinely use accusations of blasphemy to repress writers, journalists, political dissidents and, perhaps politically most important, religious reformers.

On Sept. 22, three political dissidents in Iran, Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghassaban, were put on trial for writing articles against “Islamic holy values.” Iran’s most prominent dissident, Akbar Ganji, was himself imprisoned on charges including “spreading propaganda against the Islamic system.” In August, Taslima Nasreen, who had to flee Bangladesh for her life because her feminist writings were accused of being “against Islam,” was investigated in India for hurting Muslims’ “religious sentiments.”

The Code

I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom,
responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my
country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.

Proud Aussie

I love it! Are you proud to be an Aussie?

From Australian Flag:

We need to be proud of our country and let
everybody know that “we love Australia”


An incident occurred in a supermarket recently, when the following was witnessed:

A Muslim woman dressed in a Burkha (A black gown & face mask) was
standing with her shopping in a queue at the checkout.

When it was her turn to be served, and as she reached the cashier, she
made a loud remark about the Australian Flag lapel pin, which the female
cashier was wearing on her blouse.

The cashier reached up and touched the pin and said, “Yes, I always wear
it proudly. My son serves abroad with the forces and I wear it for him”.

The Muslim woman then asked the cashier when she was going to stop
bombing and killing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.

At that point, a Gentleman standing in the queue stepped forward, and
interrupted with a calm and gentle voice, and said to the Iraqi woman:

“Excuse me, but hundreds of thousands of men and women, just like this
ladies son have fought and sacrificed their lives so that people just
like YOU can stand here, in Australia, which is MY country and allow you to
blatantly accuse an innocent check- out cashier of bombing YOUR
countrymen”.


“It is my belief that if you were allowed to be as outspoken as that in
Iraq which you claim to be YOUR country, then we wouldn’t need to be
fighting there today”.

“However - now that you have learned how to speak out and criticise the
Australian people who have afforded you the protection of MY country,
I will gladly pay the cost of a ticket to help you pay your way back to
Iraq”.


“When you get there, and if you manage to survive for being as outspoken
as you are here in Australia, then you should be able to help straighten
out the mess which YOUR Iraqi countrymen have got you into in the first
place, which appears to be the reason that you have come to MY country to
avoid.”

Apparently the queue cheered and applauded.
IF YOU AGREE.. Pass this on to all of your proud Aussie friends..

*!*!*!*!*!*!*

I am an American, and Proud of it.

But I would gladly stand and defend the FREE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA.

10 Days

This year Islam and Judaism's holiest holidays overlapped for 10 days.

Muslims racked up 397 dead bodies in 94 terror attacks across 10 countries during this time...

while Jews worked on their 159th Nobel Prize.

Who helps African-Americans?

Democrats
with handouts (Welfare, Food Stamps, etc.) that lead to dependency on the government.
who preach, blame others for your misfortune.

or

Republicans
whose party was formed to end slavery.

Republicans also have supported legislation favorable to blacks, often against intense Democratic headwinds:

In
1865, Congressional Republicans unanimously backed the 13th Amendment,
which made slavery unconstitutional. Among Democrats, 63 percent of
senators and 78 percent of House members voted: "No."

In 1866,
94 percent of GOP senators and 96 percent of GOP House members approved
the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing all Americans equal protection of the
law. Every congressional Democrat voted: "No."

February 28, 1871: The GOP Congress passed the Enforcement Act, giving black voters federal protection.


February 8, 1894: Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a
Democratic Congress repealed the GOP's Enforcement Act, denying black
voters federal protection.

January 26, 1922: The U.S. House
adopted Rep. Leonidas Dyer's (R., Mo.) bill making lynching a federal
crime. Filibustering Senate Democrats killed the measure.

May
17, 1954: As chief justice, former three-term governor Earl Warren (R.,
Calif.) led the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation of government
schools via the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. GOP
President Dwight Eisenhower's Justice Department argued for Topeka,
Kansas's black school children. Democrat John W. Davis, who lost a
presidential bid to incumbent Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1924,
defended "separate but equal" classrooms.

September 24, 1957:
Eisenhower deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate Little
Rock's government schools over the strenuous resistance of Governor
Orval Faubus (D., Ark.).

May 6, 1960: Eisenhower signs the
GOP's 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour
filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats.

July 2, 1964: Democratic
President Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former
Klansman Robert Byrd's 14-hour filibuster and the votes of 22 other
Senate Democrats (including Tennessee's Al Gore, Sr.) failed to scuttle
the measure. Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen rallied 26 GOP
senators and 44 Democrats to invoke cloture and allow the bill's
passage. According to John Fonte in the January 9, 2003, National
Review, 82 percent of Republicans so voted, versus only 66 percent of
Democrats.

True, Senator Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.) opposed
this bill the very year he became the GOP's presidential
standard-bearer. However, Goldwater supported the 1957 and 1960 Civil
Rights Acts and called for integrating Arizona's National Guard two
years before Truman desegregated the military. Goldwater feared the
1964 Act would limit freedom of association in the private sector, a
controversial but principled libertarian objection rooted in the First
Amendment rather than racial hatred.

June 29, 1982: President Ronald Reagan signed a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Republican party also is the home of numerous "firsts." Among them:


Until 1935, every black federal legislator was Republican. America's
first black U.S. Representative, South Carolina's Joseph Rainey, and
our first black senator, Mississippi's Hiram Revels, both reached
Capitol Hill in 1870. On December 9, 1872, Louisiana Republican
Pinckney Benton Stewart "P.B.S." Pinchback became America's first black
governor.

August 8, 1878: GOP supply-siders may hate to admit
it, but America's first black Collector of Internal Revenue was former
U.S. Rep. James Rapier (R., Ala.).

October 16, 1901: GOP
President Theodore Roosevelt invited to the White House as its first
black dinner guest Republican educator Booker T. Washington. The
pro-Democrat Richmond Times newspaper warned that consequently, "White
women may receive attentions from Negro men." As Toni Marshall wrote in
the November 9, 1995, Washington Times, when Roosevelt sought
reelection in 1904, Democrats produced a button that showed their
presidential nominee, Alton Parker, beside a white couple while
Roosevelt posed with a white bride and black groom. The button read:
"The Choice Is Yours."

GOP presidents Gerald Ford in 1975 and
Ronald Reagan in 1982 promoted Daniel James and Roscoe Robinson to
become, respectively, the Air Force's and Army's first black four-star
generals.

November 2, 1983: President Reagan established Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday, the first such
honor for a black American.

President Reagan named Colin Powell
America's first black national-security adviser while GOP President
George W. Bush appointed him our first black secretary of state.


President G.W. Bush named Condoleezza Rice America's first black female
NSC chief, then our second (consecutive) black secretary of State. Just
last month, one-time Klansman Robert Byrd and other Senate Democrats
stalled Rice's confirmation for a week. Amid unanimous GOP support, 12
Democrats and Vermont Independent James Jeffords opposed Rice — the
most "No" votes for a State designee since 14 senators frowned on Henry
Clay in 1825.

"The first Republican I knew was my father, and he
is still the Republican I most admire," Rice has said. "He joined our
party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not
register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never
forgotten that day, and neither have I."

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We are
the hope of the Iraqi people. They want what everyone else wants in life:
safety, security, somewhere to call home. They want a country that is safe
to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be
abducted, raped and murdered if they do not comply with the terrorists
demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And America has given
them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause and see it to
its end. But the country must unite in this endeavor...we cannot place the
burden on our military alone. We must all stand up and fight, whether in
uniform or not. And supporting us is more than sticking yellow ribbon
stickers on your cars. It's supporting our President, our troops and our
cause.

Right
now, the burden is all on the American soldiers. Right now, hope rides
alone. But it can change, it must change. Because there is only failure and
darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn't.

Let's
stop all the political nonsense, let's stop all the bickering, let's stop
all the bad news and let's stand and fight!

Isn't that what America
is about anyway?

Sergeant Eddie Jeffers
KIA Sept 2007

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Respect is Earned

comment by a Columbia University Student

Gazelle Javantash, 27, a graduate student at SIPA who was born in Iran,
but grew up in California, said she believed that Mr. Ahmadinejad “felt
attacked.” She said, “He talked about feeling disrespected. Respect is
a huge thing in Persian culture. They could have gotten more out of him
if they showed more respect in the beginning.”

If the Persians want respect, they need to show respect -
Persians needs to respect life, all human life - they do not.

Mr Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, he wants to commit genocide against the Jews.. He deserves no respect.

Iran supplies money, weapons and training to terrorists, terrorists who kill innocent men, women and children. Terrorists in Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza. Terrorists who don't care who they kill.

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Bad Columbia

Now for something completely different

I am going to re-post an entry from Daily Kos.

Because I think it will be purged pretty quickly.

re And Feeding Instructions

from Daily Kos by Hunter <rss@dailykos.com>

Congratulations
on your purchase of your new 110th Congress! These care and feeding
instructions will help ensure many years of future enjoyment of your
Congress: please read them carefully.

CONTENTS

As packaged, your new Congress contains:

• 1 Capitol (white)
• 435 live Representatives (also mostly white)
• 100 live Senators (mostly blazingly, translucently white)
• Congress Chow, in the form of hundreds of billions of dollars in cash
• A variety of checks and balances. You may set these aside: they don't actually do anything.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. 
   Soon after installing your new Congress, a green, cash-rich buildup may
   occur. This buildup is a normal part of the ecological balance in your
   Congress; the murky green colors will fade slightly as the ratio of
   legislators to beneficial lobbyists finds a natural balance.

1. 
   Do not expose your Congress to direct sunlight, as this may cause
   excessive "loss" of Senators and Representatives. In order to best
   ensure the health of your Congress, keep it in a dimly lit place,
   preferably near a variety of restaurants.

1. If your
   Congress begins looking drab, place an American flag behind the tank.
   This will stimulate your Congressmen into a variety of unusual
   displays. When the effect fades, add more flags.

1. Do
   not taunt your Congress. Their feelings are easily hurt, and may result
   in uncontrollable, deafening wailing. If this happens, add additional
   flags.

1. A certain amount of sexual perversion is
   normal. If your household includes children, place your Congress in a
   location where children will not have direct access to it. Positioning
   your Congress away from telephone and other communications equipment
   will help prevent a buildup of prostitutes.

1. As
   normal behavior, your Senators and Representatives will travel in
   schools. You may notice portions of your Congress from time to time
   erupt in panic over an unseen enemy, usually hippies or communists.
   This is normal, and will usually resolve itself through a series of
   sternly worded but ineffectual bills.

1. Your Congress
   is a carefully organized hierarchical society. Watch them work together
   to build highways, bridges, and overfunded vanity projects. Do not,
   however, expect them to show interest in you or acknowledge your
   presence in any way. If that's what you wanted, you should have bought
   a dog.

1. Under optimal conditions, your Congress may
   develop one or two Presidential Candidates. The bright colors and
   dramatic displays of these creatures can provide hours of
   entertainment. While Presidential Candidates may add excitement to your
   Congress, note that they are territorial and prone to fighting: keep
   Candidates separate as much as possible. Also, be aware that
   Presidential Candidates require ten times the amount of nutrition of
   other legislators, so feed regularly.

1. Clean your
   Congress every two years to remove buildup and prevent disease. Wipe
   your Congress with a disinfecting solution made up of cursory debate,
   weakly contested primaries, and embarrassingly shallow campaign
   coverage. It won't make the slightest bit of difference, but what the
   hell -- it will give you something to do.

All sales final. No refunds. May exchange for identically dysfunctional Congress only.

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TIP: Providing Material Support for Terrorism

Inviting the President of Iran to speak at Columbia University....

Provides support for his regime in Iran....

Iran funds and trains terrorists in Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq....

So isn't Columbia University breaking Federal Law by supporting Iran?

The FBI should arrest the President of Columbia University for providing support for terrorism,

and the Federal Government should stop providing federal funds to Columbia University.