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        <title>We Know the Answer</title>
    
    
    
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        <published>2009-12-29T05:30:11Z</published>
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            <div>I propose we take the Gitmo guests and tie them to posts in an open area, then bring out a firing squad. &#160;But before the firing squad get down to the dirty work, bring in a couple of pigs and slaughter them in full view of the post-terrorists and have the firing squad dip their ammunition in the pig&#39;s blood. &#160;Have the firing squad shoot the terrorists 1 by 1 skipping 1 in the middle. &#160;Now, take all the dead terrorists and dump their bodies in a single pit and dump the slaughtered pigs (entrails, blood, dismembered limbs and all) into the pit with the dead terrorists) and finally, turn the last terrorist loose.</div><div><br /></div><div>Any Muslim caught in the act of terrorism or attempting to commit terrorism or preaching terrorism or advocating terrorism ever after shall be given the same treatment.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="General Pershing" src="http://www.picshag.com/pics/122009/general-pershing-big.jpg" /></div><div>Hat tip to&#160;<a href="http://ruthjtaylor.vox.com/" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Ruthie</a>, AGAIN.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I interrupted my focus this post to bring you this little item from American lore in answer to the latest terror attempt. &#160;You want America spared the hateful actions of Muslim extremists? &#160;Stop pussy footing around and get down to the business of sending them the only message they will respect. &#160;Fire every politician who ever said anything stinking of appeasement to or about Muslim terrorists. &#160;Start with the bowing president and continue till there is no simblance of a wet noodle spine to be found in any representative we place in power. &#160;That and nothing less will be the end of Muslim terrorism on Americans.</div><div><br /></div><div>
    
    
    


    
    
    

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        <title>Know Islam, No Peace... No Islam, Know Peace</title>
    
    
    
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            <p><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">In Christendom we have a saying.&#160; Know Jesus, know peace..... no Jesus, no peace.&#160; </span><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Radical<span style="font-size: 1.25em;"> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html">Islam</a> is, and <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/id.html">always</a> has <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ly.html">proven</a> just the <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ag.html">opposite</a> for its <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cd.html">faith</a>.&#160; </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This study </span><span><span><strong><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #ff0000">is <strong>historically and empirically supported.</strong></span></span></strong></span></span>&#160;&#160;
    
    
    


    
    
    

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<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: times new roman, times, serif"><p>When
politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to &quot;the
reasonable&quot; Muslim demands for their &#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &quot;religious rights,&quot; they also get
the other components under the table. Here&#39;s how it works (percentages
source&#160; CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).</p>

<p>As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given
country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a
threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films,
stereotyped&#160; for their colorful uniqueness:</p>

United States -- Muslim 1.0%
<br />Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
<br />Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
<br />China -- Muslim 1%-2%
<br />Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
<br />Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

<p>At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities
and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among
street gangs:</p>

Denmark -- Muslim 2%
<br />Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
<br />United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
<br />Spain -- Muslim 4%
<br />Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

<p>From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.</p>

<p>They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic
standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims.
They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on
their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. (United
States).</p>

France -- Muslim 8%
<br />Philippines -- Muslim 5%
<br />Sweden -- Muslim 5%
<br />Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
<br />The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
<br />Trinidad &amp; Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

<p>At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow
them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate
goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law
over the entire world.</p>

<p>When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase
lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris --
car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in
uprisings and threats (Amsterdam -- Mohammed cartoons).</p>

Guyana -- Muslim 10%
<br />India -- Muslim 13.4%
<br />Israel -- Muslim 16%
<br />Kenya -- Muslim 10%
<br />Russia -- Muslim 10-15%

<p>After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:</p>

Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

<p>At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:</p>

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
<br />Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
<br />Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

<p>From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and
other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia
Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:</p>

Albania -- Muslim 70%
<br />Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
<br />Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
<br />Sudan -- Muslim 70%

<p>After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:</p>

Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
<br />Egypt -- Muslim 90%
<br />Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
<br />Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
<br />Iran -- Muslim 98%
<br />Iraq -- Muslim 97%
<br />Jordan -- Muslim 92%
<br />Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
<br />Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
<br />Palestine -- Muslim 99%
<br />Syria -- Muslim 90%
<br />Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
<br />Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
<br />United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

<p>100% will usher in the peace of &quot;Dar-es-Salaam&quot; -- the Islamic House
of Peace -- there&#39;s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:</p>

Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
<br />Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
<br />Somalia -- Muslim 100%
<br />Yemen -- Muslim 99.9%

<p>Of course, that&#39;s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.</p>

<p>&quot;Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It
was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my
family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and
the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel. -- Leon
Uris, &quot;The Haj&quot;</p>

<p>It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France,
the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their
ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large.
Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would
indicate.</p>

<p>Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond&#39;s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.. <a href="http://www.frontline.org.za/books_videos/sti.htm" target="_blank">www.frontline.org.za/books_videos/sti.htm</a><br /></p><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">What the Western world finds when it invades Muslim controlled lands is a demonstration in anti-socialism on a grand scale.&#160; Afghanistan was divided clan by clan and in constant conflict.&#160; Iraq was undergoing ethnic cleansing of one brand of Islam against another brand.&#160; This is the Islam that was found by the British, French, and Spanish invaders in the last two centuries.&#160; This is why the West could invade at all, and even if Islam could manage to mobilize its entire 1.3 billion population around the globe to enforce conversion or death, it would merely return to its old ways of intra-Muslim killing.</span> <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The evidence in history shows, unless <a href="http://www.reformislam.org/">Muslims stand up</a> against their extremist
faction, they will incur the wrath of the Western world or they will face a world of never ending conflict, faction against faction, clan against clan, village against village.</p></span><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It is a
shame on Islam that the house of war knows more peace than the house of
peace where Muslim upon Muslim violence claims more Muslim lives and
stifles economic success than all the Crusades and the military actions
of the last century in Muslim lands, combined.&#160; You are following
liars, your media and your scholars and your clerics are propagating a
massive conspiracy of hatred and blame on the West for the evils
perpetrated on your people by your people.&#160; Break the stranglehold of
fundamentalism and Sharia and call into accountability your leaders and
informers.&#160; Some of you have access to the same information I do, and
it is your responsibility to make the truth known to your people just
as it is mine to my people.</p></span><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">These facts are opening the eyes of the peace activists and moderate
factions in the West and their hatred and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH4zpQwOgyo&amp;feature=related">prejudice</a> currently set squarely on the religions of the West will be redirected toward Islam and will be far greater
than the so called &#39;crusaders&#39; at work in Muslim majority lands today.&#160; Lies
from <a href="http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/69420/">Western</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9sCA1sjOGQ">Eastern</a> political <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykkG2ScoDLg">leaders</a>, Islamic religious leaders,
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys">news</a> agencies, and embedded <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGWFnsqLPVE">Muslim scholars</a> in our institutions of
higher learning are being revealed with the advent of the internet
where people can now have information within minutes of events.&#160; The
more &#39;in the news&#39; violent Islam makes itself in current events, the more the public
educates itself in the history of Islam and begin to shout down the ignorance of our so called tolerant and their sources of false information.&#160; </p><p>These <a href="http://judgeright.vox.com/library/post/palestinians-educate-the-west.html">revelations</a>
source anger and hatred toward beneficiaries of the lies which cause great personal and financial cost to the
formerly ignorant West.&#160; Brothers, fathers, and sons are dying needlessly, economic
malaise for <a href="http://judgeright.vox.com/library/post/breaking-addiction.html">tax dollars and corporate profit</a> results in funded Muslim
aggression toward the rest of the world needlessly.&#160; The end result
will be a world wide movement to eradicate Islam and in that day, the
farce of the &#39;house of peace&#39; will pop and the resonance will be heard
till the end of time just as the farce of Hitler&#39;s super race resounds to this day.&#160; </span><br /><div><br /></div></p>
        
    
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</div><div><br /></div><div>From the <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5CWlgS/hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/12/12/a-memo-to-the-global-warming-cult/">HotAir</a> blog;</div><div>[<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, &#39;times new roman&#39;, serif; line-height: 18px; ">We’ll never be foolish enough to allow a band of fanatics to use “<a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YjAxYzA3NmI0N2Y1MDVhYzdmM2JkZGIyMjE5ZWU2OTI=" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; ">peer review</a>” to rule all dissenting opinion out-of-bounds, then declare themselves the proud owners of a mighty consensus. You global-warming fanatics underestimate how much you<em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">needed&#160;</em><span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; ">those tactics to gain power. You’ll never have that kind of&#160;unchallenged authority&#160;again, because we will never stop demanding the raw data, and we’ll drown you in laughter when you mutter something about&#160;<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; ">deleting it by accident</a>. We will never forget that you began with a conclusion and sought to harvest data that supported it – the exact&#160;</span><em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">opposite&#160;</em><span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; ">of the scientific method.]</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>The majority of people everywhere now, do not want to be responsible and certainly do not want to be held responsible for the problems we face. &#160;Like little children they don&#39;t want to make sacrifices by their own will but would rather be told what they have to do or not do. &#160;Appealing to their reason simply will not have any effect on these desires unless and until you first address their emotionalism. &#160;They have no shame for the political tactics, the violence they instigate, the outright made up data they use to write studies and reports which support their arguments to get this agenda in place. &#160;The kiss of death to a conservative talking point is to base it on reason alone. &#160;You have to link it to the real and personal consequence involved for the individual you are trying to reach with your concerns. &#160;You don&#39;t even have to explain the reasons why you are concerned. &#160;Like a parent saying to a child, &quot;Because I said so!&quot; with its implied &quot;-or else I&#39;ll spank you!&quot; we simply have to rain consequences on the children for their own benefit. &#160;You have to be the grown-up to their irresponsible attitude and behavior the same way you&#39;d be the grown up in the park when one unruly kid is behaving in a way that is dangerous to anyone else. &#160;You don&#39;t just tell &#39;em to knock it off, you ensure they knock it off. &#160;So must we be vigilant in correcting the childish agenda and liberal behavior. &#160;No longer can we afford to allow them to continue until the consequences of their arguments and policy fall on them because like children, they will continue until the damage is irreparable. &#160;&quot;Stop swinging that stick, you&#39;re going to put someone&#39;s eye out!&quot; &#160;&quot;Stop increasing government and government spending, our economy is going to collapse. &#160;If you feel bad about the poor now, just imagine how you&#39;ll feel about the poor when you ARE homeless and hungry. &#160;If you feel bad about the uninsured now, just imagine how you&#39;ll feel when <strong>you </strong>can&#39;t get a needed operation because the waiting list is too long or they simply won&#39;t do it for you. &#160;If you feel bad about the damage done to the environment now, just imagine how you&#39;ll feel when there isn&#39;t any fuel to keep warm so <strong>your</strong> cherished trees are chopped down for firewood. &#160;If you&#39;re going to cause me to lose my job by your cap and trade bill, I&#39;m coming to your house to find wood for my fire and food for my kids.&quot;</div><div><br /></div><div>On the voter battleground, not usually in the halls of Congress, (though quite often this liberal disease is employed there as well especially with regard to the banking regulations) as evidenced by liberal talking points on Climategate, ACORN support, war support, and a slew of other damnable evidences, the liberal is not accountable to truth or shame. &#160;Regardless of climategate the peer reviewed studies are respected, regardless of ACORN&#39;s abuses they were a force for good in national policy, regardless of Democrat&#39;s congressional voter support for the war in Iraq it was an unnecessary war.</div><div><br /></div><div>Some of the best conservative institutions are great at providing statistics and data we need for reason, but on the ground, out here in the battle for hearts and minds, reason is not the most effective weapon. &#160;Real or implied, immediate, and personal consequences are. &#160;Never leave a discussion on policy with anyone thinking a liberal policy is not immediately and personally consequential. &#160;</div><div><br /></div><div>On the lighter side;</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="cid:1.2014998702@web82304.mail.mud.yahoo.com" src="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=92be457194&amp;view=att&amp;th=125906e06b2140e9&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=emb&amp;realattid=0.0.1.1&amp;zw" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Smoke and mirrors matter to the magician. &#160;With them he can make you believe what is not.</div><div>Speech and horrors matter to the politician. &#160;With them he can make you feel what is not.</div><div>Facts and data matter to the scientician. &#160;With them he can learn what is true and what is rot.</div><div>If he muddies the information, a magician certainly, a politician perhaps, a scientician he is not.</div><div><br /></div><div>Smoke put in your eyes, Oh the discomfort and disabling of sight.</div><div>Smoke put in your arse, Oh the discomfort and disabling ensuing fight.</div><div>He who put smoke in my eyes has made me the fool.</div><div>He who put smoke in my arse is a fool to think I am fooled.</div><div>When I was in trouble, did he think to take advantage.</div><div>Now I&#39;m awake, it would be no&#160;adage</div><div>my anger is unmeasured to recompense disadvantage</div><div>Oh look!, he&#39;s unconcious. &#160;We&#39;d better employ his tobacco enema and&#160;resuscitate&#160;him.</div></p>
        
    
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its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. In
2004, Bill Clinton&#39;s &quot;My Life&quot; debuted with sales of 400,000 copies.
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be twice its size by 2050. Keidel calls attention to China&#39;s
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the infrastructure to sustain rapid growth. </p><p>The U.S.--loaded as it is
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            <p>Political correctness has run amok again.&#160; It seems that anyone can be fired and treated like a criminal without due process.&#160; Sexual harassment has become a joke.&#160; Because, the offense is in the eye of the beholder.&#160; And, a standard of guilt for sexual harassment is quite subjective. Without the rules of presenting legal evidence and providing due process to accused, the entire issue of sexual harassment is questionable. &#160; <br /><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p><br /><img alt="http://thefire.org/public/images/0bdbcdf967e80b9ea068d4313355a49b-th.jpg" src="http://thefire.org/public/images/0bdbcdf967e80b9ea068d4313355a49b-th.jpg" /></p><p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/11231.html">Under pressure</a> from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
(FIRE), East Georgia College (EGC) has withdrawn an unfounded charge of
&quot;sexual harassment&quot; against a professor who criticized the school&#39;s
sexual harassment policy. </p><p>EGC President John B. Black dismissed
Professor Thomas Thibeault from campus and had him escorted from campus
by police in August. Thibeault was treated as a dangerous criminal
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        <title>Some doubt Ronald Reagan&#39;s importance...</title>
    
    
    
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            <p style="text-align: center"><img alt="http://www.science.co.il/People/Ronald-Reagan/images/Ronald-Reagan-1.jpg" src="http://www.science.co.il/People/Ronald-Reagan/images/Ronald-Reagan-1.jpg" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some doubt Ronald Reagan&#39;s importance in bringing down the Berlin Wall.&#160; In addition, some doubt that he even had a strategy for hastening the collapse of the Soviet Union.&#160; Regardless, one could argue that evidence suggests otherwise.&#160; One could also argue that President Ronald Reagan was the most dynamic anti Communist president in the history of America.&#160; <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: times new roman,georgia,times"><br /></span></p>
					<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: times new roman,georgia,times"><a href="http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2007/0103/book/book_sempa03.html">Paul Kengor’s</a> <em>The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism</em>,
contends that Reagan’s goal of defeating communism and winning the Cold
War can be traced to his early struggles against communists in
Hollywood as head of the Screen Actors Guild in the late 1940s. In this
fight against an attempted communist takeover of the union, Reagan was,
in the words of fellow actor Sterling Hayden, a “one man battalion.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: times new roman,georgia,times">Peter
Schweizer, based at the Hoover Institution, was the first scholar to
significantly make the case that Ronald Reagan deliberately set out to
win the Cold War. In two books—<em>Victory: The Reagan Administration’s Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union</em> (1994) and <em>Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism</em>
(2002)—</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: times new roman,georgia,times">Schweizer used interviews with some of Reagan’s national
security and foreign policy staffers, national security directives,
Reagan’s speeches and private correspondence, and documents from
several foreign countries, to argue that Reagan intentionally abandoned
détente, moved beyond a passive containment policy, and pursued a
strategy of victory.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: times new roman,georgia,times">Schweizer
noted that at the heart of Reagan’s strategy was a sophisticated effort
to exploit Soviet vulnerabilities, especially its economic
vulnerabilities, which included: </p><p>(1) covert financial and intelligence
support to the Solidarity union in Poland and other opposition groups
within the Soviet empire; </p><p>(2) financial and military support to the
Afghan resistance; </p><p>(3) cooperative efforts with Saudi Arabia to drive
down the price of oil, and limiting Soviet natural gas exports to the
West, thereby reducing Soviet hard currency earnings; </p><p>(4) a campaign to
limit Soviet access to Western high technology; </p><p>(5) a technological
disinformation effort to help disrupt the Soviet economy; </p><p>(6) a massive
U.S. defense buildup, including the SDI program, to put more pressure
on Soviet economic resources; </p><p>and (7) financial, military and
logistical support for anti-communist forces in several Third World
countries. “Reagan,” concluded Schweizer, “did have a well-developed
plan seeking the demise of the Soviet Union.”</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
					
					
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