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North Dakota’s 2008 deer season has been set with 149,400 licenses available to hunters this fall, an increase of 850 from last year.
Randy Kreil, wildlife chief for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said mild winters and a corresponding increase in reproductive success have maintained white-tailed deer populations above management objectives in many units in northeastern, north central, and parts of southwestern North Dakota. “We will continue to be aggressive in units where deer numbers are above management goals,” Kreil said.
The results of an aggressive approach to lowering deer numbers is evident in the northwest and southeast where many units will have stable to lower license numbers. “A significant decline in deer numbers in these areas is a direct result of several years of high harvest on does,” Kreil said.
Because of high deer numbers in northeastern North Dakota, the department established a seven-day September antlerless deer gun season in units 2C and 2D. “We have been aggressive in trying to lower deer numbers since 2004, and the response in some units is not what we had hoped for and we need to take additional measures,” Kreil said.
This experimental season will run from Sept. 26 – Oct. 2, and is only for hunters with 2C and 2D antlerless (doe) deer licenses.
Another consideration in this first-of-its-kind special season is the serious bovine tuberculosis outbreak in neighboring northwestern Minnesota. “We believe it would be prudent to reduce deer numbers in this area ahead of an unlikely but not improbable movement of this disease into North Dakota,” Kreil said.
The mule deer population in the badlands remains at or above management goals. The 2008 population survey in the badlands indicates a stable to increasing number of mule deer. As a result, the number of mule deer licenses available in 2008 will be slightly higher than in 2007.
The number of licenses available for 2008 includes 8,600 for mule deer, an increase of 250 from last year; 2,816 for muzzleloader, up 12 from last year; and 345 restricted youth antlered mule deer, up five from last year.
North Dakota’s 2008 deer gun season is set to open Nov. 7 at noon and continue through Nov. 23. Online applications for the regular deer gun, youth and muzzleloader seasons are available through the Game and Fish Department’s Internet website, gf.nd.gov. Paper applications will be available at vendors throughout the state by mid-May. The deadline for applying is June 4.

September Antlerless Deer Gun Season Q and A
In 2004 the North Dakota Game and Fish Department set management goals for each hunting unit. These goals were based upon historical information as to what the particular unit could support and landowner tolerance for deer in the area. Since 2004 the department has been aggressive in trying to lower deer numbers in units that were above management goals by offering additional antlerless licenses. For the most part this approach has been successful in much of the state. In other units we have not observed the harvest and reduced deer numbers we had hoped for by now. For this reason we are now considering other approaches to reducing deer numbers.
The September Antlerless Deer Gun Season will allow the harvest of any antlerless deer with any legal firearm or bow, including centerfire and muzzleloading rifles, during the season dates beginning Friday, Sept. 26 at noon through Thursday, Oct. 2. Units 2C and 2D were selected for this initial early antlerless season. All standard hunting regulations regarding equipment, manner of take and clothing requirements will apply to this season. We have received a number of calls and suggestions regarding this season. Following is a basic summary of many of the most frequently asked questions we have received.

Question: Why not just issue more licenses?
Answer: In unit 2C in 2006 a total of 3,000 antlered and 7,500 antlerless licenses were available to hunters and an estimated 5,529 antlerless deer were harvested. Population indices suggested stable to increasing deer numbers in 2C; so in 2007 a total of 3,000 antlered and 8,000 antlerless licenses were made available. By the end of the 2007 hunting season 395 antlerless deer licenses remained unissued, and the estimated harvest of antlerless deer declined to 4,933. Just increasing the number of licenses will not result in more deer being harvested.

Question: Why not make antlerless licenses less expensive?
Answer: License fees for hunting are set by the North Dakota legislature. Other states have tried this by selling antlerless licenses for as little as $2 each. Hunters buy the license but do not feel compelled to fill the license and harvest a deer. The price of the license is just a small fraction of the actual cost to deer hunt. Youth licenses (hunters under 16 years-of-age at time of application) are $10, and nonresidents can now purchase a concurrent season license for $50.

Question: Why not make all the hunters first shoot a doe and “earn” a buck license?
Answer: This has been tried in other states with mixed success. It would require verification by department personnel that an antlerless deer had actually been shot. Other states with a much larger staff find this sort of program very difficult to administer. The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is the second smallest state wildlife agency in the nation. We do not have the personnel to handle this sort of labor-intensive program.

Question: Why not have the doe season later in the fall?
Answer: That has been tried in the past. Due to severe weather conditions during the 2004 November Regular Deer Gun season opener, a Special December (17 to 31) Deer Gun Season for antlerless white-tailed deer was enacted for much of the state. The department received numerous complaints about that season. Approximately 7,700 deer were harvested during that period or about 120 deer per 1,000 square miles. For area as large as 2D and 2C (4,000 sq. miles) that would amount to amount to about 475 deer. We are hoping for a harvest larger than that. Additionally, we are hoping that hunters will be more inclined to harvest additional antlerless deer for meat at a time of year when they do not already have another in the freezer, and are not preoccupied with trying to shoot a buck.

Question: It can still be warm weather that time of the year. Won’t the meat just spoil?
Answer:  It probably will be warmer than the November Regular Deer Gun Season. However, we have deer archery, elk, and pronghorn seasons open in August and September. In 1999 the opening weekend temperatures for the November Regular Deer-Gun Season were in the 80’s and 90’s across the state. Hunters will need to adjust their hunting practices, bring ice coolers, and process their deer quickly.

Question: Crops will still be in the field, the sugar beet harvest will be underway, and cattle will still be at pasture. Will farmers let hunters on the land this time of the year?
Answer: During the November Regular Deer Gun Season some crops (sunflowers and corn) are often still in the process of being harvested, and cattle are also often still out to pasture. Hunters will need to adjust and make contacts with landowners earlier in the fall. Hunters harvesting deer with a gun is our most cost effective means of controlling deer numbers.

Question: Have other states tried this sort of program before?
Answer: Yes, Minnesota and Wisconsin are two of the closest Midwest states to have used this management tool and they have been pleased with the results.

Question: Will I have to wear orange while archery hunting in 2C and 2D during this seven-day Special September Antlerless Deer Gun season?
Answer: Yes.

Question: Will youth season license holders be allowed to hunt during this September Antlerless Deer Gun Season?
Answer: No, not this year. We are unsure of the amount of hunting pressure that will occur during this experimental season and we do not want too much competition for youth hunters when they are learning the basics of deer hunting. If a September antlerless season is held in the future it is possible youth season hunters will be allowed to hunt. However, a youth season license holder could purchase a concurrent season antlerless license in units 2C and 2D to hunt during the September Antlerless Deer Gun Season.

Question: Will all additional “concurrent season” licenses be valid?
Answer: Yes, concurrent season licenses are valid for all open seasons as long as the deer is harvested in the unit specified on the license, any special regulations for that season are followed, and the hunter uses a firearm or bow that is permissible for that season. Multiple concurrent licenses can be purchased and used during this season.

Comment: Much of the land along the Red River and other areas in these units has been bought up and posted for recreational hunting. Some of these landowners feed and bait so the deer are highly concentrated on specific properties. Those landowners may not be willing to let other hunters on to shoot does and scare away the bucks.
Answer: Yes, we have noticed a dramatic increases in gratis licenses since 1998 in 2C (371 to 791) and 2D (77 to 189). Yes, we know that much of the unit is posted and that deer baiting and feeding is occurring in some areas. This issue may be in part why we are having trouble keeping control of the deer population. By having the antlerless season open in September it will allow an antlerless deer to be harvested, and deer to settle down again before the November Regular Deer Gun Season. All landowners in these hunting units need to work with us to make this or any other management tool work. Everyone needs to realize that their personal actions taken on their own private property may have unintended negative consequences for their neighbors.

Question: This will affect my bow hunting in units 2C and 2D by increasing the number and length of time gun hunters are allowed in the field. Will the department be extending the bow season two weeks longer into January?
Answer: No. The North Dakota archery season is currently one of the longest in the nation. There will be ample opportunities for archery hunters to harvest a deer between Aug. 29, 2008 and Jan. 4, 2009. Archery hunters in 2C and 2D need to understand that if deer numbers are not maintained within tolerance levels of landowners, all hunters will suffer. We believe that a Special September Antlerless Deer Gun Season for gun hunters is the most efficient and expedient means of controlling and reducing deer numbers. We are hopeful that once deer numbers are within our management goals and objectives that we will be maintaining deer numbers using traditional season structures.

Sang backup for Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne. Engaged to Eagles singer-songwriter Don Henley. Devastated by a brother’s death in Vietnam.

All are part of the colorful past described by Carrollton Mayor Becky Miller, acquaintances say.

But spokesmen for the famous singers said the three don’t know her. And the mayor’s father said she never had a brother who died in the war.

Mrs. Miller’s challenger in Saturday’s mayoral election, Ron Branson, first expressed doubts that her brother had died in Vietnam, and checks by The Dallas Morning News also raised questions about her singing career and whether she attended Western Kentucky University.

The mayor, who is seeking a second term, said that the singers are wrong and that she went by another name when she associated with them during the 1970s. She initially declined to give that name but said Monday that most people at the time called her Pinky.

And he said the brother that his daughter mentioned couldn't have been a stepbrother or half brother unless his wife of nearly 60 years "has one hidden away I didn't know about."">Her father, Edward Sampson, said his son is alive in Maryland. “He was never in the service,” Mr. Sampson said.

And he said the brother that his daughter mentioned couldn’t have been a stepbrother or half brother unless his wife of nearly 60 years “has one hidden away I didn’t know about.”

About a month ago, I wrote about the apparently sleazy doings of

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, a former Democratic state senator has been keeping a sexual harassment investigation of one of his friends and top managers, Anthony Gutierrez, an internal investigation, despite the potential conflict of interests.  (He finally stepped aside Wednesday.)

One woman complained that Gutierrez pressured her to have drinks after work. Gutierrez receives a call from his boss the Attorney General, inviting them to his apartment for pizza. Dann is there with yet another female employee, Dann’s scheduler Jessica Utovich , allegedly wearing pajamas…

“The woman said she felt intoxicated, rested on Gutierrez’s bed and later awoke to find three buttons on her pants undone and Gutierrez next to her in his underwear.”

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And the “scheduler”?

In January 2007, after about two weeks in office, Dann hired Utovich as his scheduler at an annual salary of $35,000. Seven months later, her pay was raised to $45,000 and her duties expanded.

(Pajama modeling???)

In the last few days, Marc Dann has admitted having an affair with Jessica Utovich. Gutierrez and Dann's top staffers have all resigned or been fired, and the governor, Ted Strickland (D) is calling for Dann’s resignation. Dann, like a good Democrat caught with his hand in the ethical cookie jar…doesn’t want to leave! Strickland has threatened Dann with impeachment. Dann still doesn’t want to go.

A colleague in Columbus said that while campaigning for Ohio’s top cop, Marc Dann said he wanted to pattern himself after New York’s Elliot Spitzer. Heh. He succeeded beyond all expectations!

The Dayton Daily News has done yeoman’s work in documenting the details of this sordid affair. They have timelines here and here.

Cross Posted at Proof Positive (more...)

Obama speaking to his crowd:



Here’s the pull-back shot:



Can you say “fake”?  As in “what a fake”?

Update:

Original link plus credit for the photo: Mary Katharine Ham See her blog for more back story on the photos.

Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.

The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying aloud that the party’s electoral woes — brought into sharp focus by Woody Jenkins’ loss to Don Cazayoux in Louisiana on Saturday — have the House Republican Conference splitting apart in “everybody for himself” mode.

“There is an attitude that, ‘I better watch out for myself, because nobody else is going to do it,’” the member said. “There are all these different factions out there, everyone is sniping at each other, and we have no real plan. We have a lot of people fighting to be the captain of the lifeboat instead of everybody pulling together.”

And in a closed-door session at the Capitol, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told members that the NRCC doesn’t have enough cash to “save them” in November if they don’t raise enough money or run strong campaigns themselves.

“The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Rev. Wright or, if Sen. Clinton wins, anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail,” Gingrich said. “This model has already been tested with disastrous results.”

LOL ... now why doesn’t this surprise me?

Rosie O’Donnell defended Rev. Jeremiah Wright on the “Today” show on Monday, saying Barack Obama’s former pastor “made sense to me.”

The comedian also compared herself to Wright, saying “some people confuse passion for rage.”

Heh…

HODA KOTB, co-host: You know Rosie there has been a void on morning TV since we don’t hear your opinions. Every times there’s like, I was going through a story today “I wonder what Rosie thinks about that.” What about — can I ask you about just the little Jeremiah Wright thing?

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Yo.. Ro ho, I didn’t think it was possible, but you’re past nuts. You’ve out done yourself



H/T SondraK

By James Lewis

This is just too good.

White Guilt is the locomotive propelling the Obama campaign. Without it the Junior Senator from Illinois would be just a skinnier Bill Clinton. American kids are being guilt-tripped in all the public schools today, from grade school to graduate school.  By the time they get to voting age, they feel so bad about the slave trade and Jim Crow that they are ready to pay up for forgiveness. That’s Senator Obama’s Youth Vote.

I’m a big fan of black radio personalities Ken Hamblin and Larry Elder. Ken Hamblin called himself “the Black Avenger,” not because he hates anybody, but because he was so enraged by the con artists who have taken over so much of the “racial Left,” leaving devastation in their wake. Because the race industry is fueled by White Guilt, Hamblin decided to hand out absolution certificates—he’s a black guy, after all, and therefore naturally authorized to forgive white folks, just as much as the Three Revs (Jesse, Al, and Jeremiah). Hamblin still has his official Certificate of Absolution for White Guilt on the web.  You can print it out, signed by Mr. Hamblin, and post it on your wall. Look at it whenever you feel that dreaded clutch of guilt. It’s free.

But Ken Hamblin is missing a big opportunity here. What a race entrepreneur needs is a way to monetize White Guilt, to turn that craving for absolution into cold hard cash. As Chaucer’s Pardoner understood so well, once you can offer forgiveness for sin, you get a market, just like hog bellies or soda pop. It’s supply and demand. Guilt-tripping preachers and politicians make you feel terrible about black suffering and oppression, and you have to pay what the market will bear to shrug off that burden.

The Democrats have monetized White Guilt in a fashion by turning forgiveness into a government franchise.

But there is a free market solution. The key is to understand that any black person can dispense personal forgiveness. You don’t have to go to Obama or the Black Caucus. What we need is competition between suppliers. You can choose between up-market dispensers of forgiveness, like Senator Obama and Oprah Winfrey, or down-market ones like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. And for all you cheapskates out there, just print out Ken Hamblin’s Certificate of Absolution. There. Feel better now?

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PS. I just found out about Dr. Walter Williams’ “Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon Granted to All Persons of European Descent.” Maybe we should all go around granting pardon and amnesty to everybody we meet for everything their ancestors either did or suffered from all of our ancestors. The Hindi salute “Namaste” is said to mean “I salute the soul in you.” Our new American greeting could be: “I pardon you!” It’s just as good a way to start a conversation as any other.

This is a great illustration that there is a free market solution to just about everything.
It’s time for the race hustlers and guilt-trippers to move on.

Now for some fun.
This Old Retired Petty Officer has done more for this country in a single day than either clinton or obama have done collectively in their entire lives. For one reason,I took the oath of enlistment seriously. That being said,when on active service, a service member does not serve the man but the Office. This was imparted to me by an old crusty Chief Petty Officer. As I have been retired from active service for almost 15 years, I can take liberties as it were. For one, I do not pop tall for just any member of the Congress. I don’t work for them anymore. The Congress ceased being in my chain of command on 30 September 1993. I have done a pretty good job of taking care of myself and my family since then.  So value wise, I am better.

In a speech today at Wake Forrest University, Republican presidential nominee John McCain came out swinging against Senator Barack Obama.  McCain, who heaped praise on Chief Justice John Roberts for his conservative, strict-constructionist leadership of the high court, blasted Obama for being one of 22 senators who voted against appointing Roberts to the Supreme Court.

… A justice of the court, as Senator Obama explained it - and I quote - “should share one’s deepest values, one’s core concerns, one’s broader perspectives on how the world works and the depth and breadth of one’s empathy.” These vague words attempt to justify judicial activism - come to think of it, they sound like an activist judge wrote them! 

Continuing his attack on Obama and making an impassioned plea for judicial restraint, McCain went on to say,

Somehow, by Senator Obama’s standard, even Judge Roberts didn’t measure up. And neither did Justice Samuel Alito.

We may be witnessing the opening volley on McCain’s part in what could become a major issue in the fall campaign - the future of the court. At least it should be for any thoughtful conservative.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4672

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has raided the office of U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch in an inquiry of whether he obstructed justice by having his computer files erased.

FBI officials said computers and documents were seized from Bloch’s office during the raid Tuesday morning.

Investigators say Bloch is suspected of hiring an outside company to scrub his computer amid a federal investigation of alleged misconduct in his office.

The inquiry has been under way for more than a year and is looking into charges of intimidation and retaliation against whistle-blowers among staff members working in Bloch’s agency.

The Office of Special Counsel is responsible protecting the rights of federal workers and ensuring that government whistle-blowers are not subjected to reprisals.

The benefit and safety of flouride in our water system and in other products e.g. toothpaste has been hotly debated over the years.  This subject is revisted in WND’s Fluoride: Miracle drug or toxic-waste killer?

From Pennsylvania to Nebraska and from Europe to New Zealand, there is growing and fierce opposition to plans to fluoridate public drinking water, fueled by a battery of shocking new studies that seriously question a practice routine among U.S. municipalities for nearly the last 50 years

Although the American Dental Association and CDC are avid proponents of flouride there is a growing body of contrary evidence.

A study released in February by the Collaborative on Health and the Environments Learning and Development Disabilities Initiative found excessive ingestion of fluoride can decrease thyroid hormone levels. It also cited a recent Chinese study that links lower IQ levels in children with fluoridated drinking water.

In 2006, the National Academy of Sciences found the Environmental Protection Agency’s maximum standard for fluoride of 4 milligrams per liter could cause health problems such as dental fluorosis and weakened bones over a lifetime of consumption.

The EPA’s Headquarters Professionals Union, made up of scientists, lawyers and other professionals, also now opposes community fluoridation.

In January, the New York State Dental Journal reported fluoride overexposure is resulting in children developing tooth disorders including white spots, brownish discoloration and pitting. It also warned children 6 months to 3 years should consume no more than ¼ of a gram of fluoride per day – the equivalent of one 8 ounce glass of water in a fluoridated community.

Sometime ago I read that flouride was a waste product from some manufacturing product and the flouride promotion as a dental aid was just a scheme for disposing of it.

The fluoride added to public drinking water is actually fluorosilic acid. It is described by critics as an industrial waste product. Supporters prefer to call it an industry byproduct. Most of it has come from Florida’s phosphate fertilizer industry.

So is flouride safe or not?  Although the government has confirmed its use, the government has been wrong before so it’s probably wise to limit ones exposure to flouride.

In 1965, a landmark year in the fluoridation debate, the federal government determined fluoride was safe in drinking water at levels as high as 4 ppm. Officially, that is still the government’s threshold of safety on the high side. Yet, in 2006, the National Research Council determined 4 ppm was unsafe and couldn’t assert with certitude that even half that level was safe.

On the basis of the NRC’s review, the Georgia-based Lillie Center last year filed an ethics complaint against the CDC Division of Oral Health. In its complaint the center charged the CDC with “mislead[ing] the public concerning the results of studies about harm from ingesting fluoride,” and “omit[ting] vital information in its information disseminated to the public concerning vulnerable population groups that are particularly susceptible to harm from fluoride.”

Read the whole thing.

Thomas Lifson

Why is Barack Obama so comfortable with so many Marxists? The question has long intrigued me. Despite being repudiated by history, Marxism remains powerful in the halls of elite academic institutions, where Obama imbibed so much of his worldview. Investor’s Business Daily today connects some dots.

Obama himself began his career as a Chicago community organizer and worked on projects there influenced by Saul Alinsky. The Marxist Machiavellian of the Chicago scene advised budding revolutionaries in his 1971 book “Rules For Radicals” to conceal their radical affiliations to attain greater power. That works well for Marxists.

Wright is an adherent of black liberation theology, an explicitly Marxist interpretation of the Bible whose aim is to stir up class and race hatred to advance communism.....

Ayers has since lectured the Marxist dictator of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, on using public education as an instrument for advancing “revolution.” Meanwhile his stepson, Chesa Boudin, has gone to Caracas as an “adviser” to the anti-American Chavez. [....]

When an Obama precinct captain in Houston flew a Cuban flag bearing Guevara’s likeness, Obama said only it “disappointed” him and “does not reflect (his) views.” He never publicly ordered the flag down, nor rejected Guevara’s blood-soaked communism.

Obama himself has promised to meet with the hemisphere’s Marxist dictators who have systematically dismantled or are in the process of dismantling democracy all across our hemisphere.

In addition to the points IBD identifies, I would add that Obama’s father, whose name he bears and whose dreams informed the title of his first autobiographical book, was a fairly out-of-the-closet Marxist. If Obama has ever bemoaned his father’s Marxism, I have never heard of it.

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We already have an example of what the combination of black nationalism and Marxism will do to a country:  Zimbabwe.  We don’t need that here.

by Benjamin Wiker

As David Berlinski recently noted, “the thesis that there is a connection between Darwin and Hitler is widely considered a profanation.” But striking an indignant pose—feathers in full ruffle—is not an answer to such a serious charge, especially when the words of both Darwin and Hitler speak otherwise.

Those defending Darwin cannot have read his Descent of Man, wherein he applies the principles of natural selection to human beings—a thing he prudently avoided in his earlier Origin of Species. In the Descent, the eugenic and racial inferences are clearly and startlingly drawn by Darwin himself.

Darwin understood the eugenic implications of his own theory, and warned his readers against imminent evolutionary backsliding. “It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.” Insert a few terms like “Aryan” or “Jew” and that could be in any Nazi screed.

“If … various checks … do not prevent the reckless, the vicious and otherwise inferior members of society from increasing at a quicker rate than the better class of men, the nation will retrograde, as has occurred too often in the history of the world. We must remember that progress is no invariable rule.”

While Darwin tried to soften the hard implications (by suggesting that we not kill the rogues; rather, we should just keep them from breeding), the eugenic edifice was his.

And the racial thing? Evolution is driven by competition, and competition brings extinction. Darwin notes, matter-of-factly in the Descent, that one tribe extinguishing another is the very engine of human evolution. In his words, “extinction follows chiefly from the competition of tribe with tribe, race with race,” allowing the victorious tribe or race to pass on their superior endowments.

That is not a moral complaint; it is a detached scientific description uttered by Darwin entirely without angst. As the engine of evolution is never idle, it is also a prophecy. Again, his own words:

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous [i.e., most human-looking] apes … will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

Get it? Ranking the human races, we find the Caucasian at top, and down at the bottom, dangling at the edge of humanity, “the negro or Australian” who is just an evolutionary hair’s-breadth away from the anthropomorphous gorilla. In pushing upwards to the über-Caucasian, evolution also exterminates all the “intermediate species,” so that natural selection will do away with the Negro, the aboriginal Australian, and the gorilla.

Like it or not, Darwin’s eugenic and racial ideas spread from him, and infected both Europe and America.

Now for Adolf. I suspect that, just as a lot of folks haven’t read Darwin’s execrable Descent of Man, so also they feel free to enter the debate without having read Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

It is inaccurate to blame the entire of Hitler’s evil on anti-Semitism precisely because his anti-Semitism was part of a larger biological vision. “National Socialism is nothing but applied biology,” said the deputy Party leader of the Nazis, Rudolf Hess.

As Hitler made clear in Mein Kampf, the fundamental political category is biological.  Consequently, “the highest aim of human existence is not the maintenance of a State or Government but rather the conservation of the race.” This aim accords with Hitler’s larger Darwinian view of the cosmos, wherein the “fundamental law of necessity” reigning “throughout the realm of Nature” is that “existence is subject to the law of eternal struggle and strife….where the strong are always the masters of the weak and where those subject to such laws must obey them or be destroyed.” Survival of the fittest.

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All this doesn’t mean that Darwinism was the sole cause of Hitler’s barbarism. But it does make clear that Darwinism must shoulder its share of the moral burden, because the connection is undeniable.

I guess this explains all the “death to Republicans/conservatives” talk on the leftie hate blogs, as well as the so-called “Fairness Doctrine”.
Of course, the American version of “survival of the fittest” is the free market, which explains the decline and fall of Air America and the NYT.

by Daniel Pipes

As Barack Obama’s candidacy comes under increasing scrutiny, his account of his religious upbringing deserves careful attention for what it tells us about the candidate’s integrity.

Obama asserted in December, “I’ve always been a Christian,” and he has adamantly denied ever having been a Muslim. “The only connection I’ve had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father’s side came from that country [Kenya]. But I’ve never practiced Islam.” In February, he claimed: “I have never been a Muslim. … other than my name and the fact that I lived in a populous Muslim country for 4 years when I was a child [Indonesia, 1967-71] I have very little connection to the Islamic religion.”

“Always” and “never” leave little room for equivocation. But many biographical facts, culled mainly from the American press, suggest that, when growing up, the Democratic candidate for president both saw himself and was seen as a Muslim.

Obama’s Kenyan birth father: In Islam, religion passes from the father to the child. Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936–1982) was a Muslim who named his boy Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Only Muslim children are named “Hussein”.

Obama’s Indonesian family: His stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was also a Muslim. In fact, as Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kantor of the New York Times: “My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.” An Indonesian publication, the Banjarmasin Post reports a former classmate, Rony Amir, recalling that “All the relatives of Barry’s father were very devout Muslims.”

Barack Obama’s Catholic school in Jakarta.
The Catholic school: Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports that “documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim” while at a Catholic school during first through third grades. Kim Barker of the Chicago Tribune confirms that Obama was “listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school.” A blogger who goes by “An American Expat in Southeast Asia” found that “Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name ‘Barry Soetoro’ serial number 203 and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B. … Barry’s religion was listed as Islam.”

The public school: Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times learned from Indonesians familiar with Obama when he lived in Jakarta that he “was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended.” Haroon Siddiqui of the Toronto Star visited the Jakarta public school Obama attended and found that “Three of his teachers have said he was enrolled as a Muslim.” Although Siddiqui cautions that “With the school records missing, eaten by bugs, one has to rely on people’s shifting memories,” he cites only one retired teacher, Tine Hahiyari, retracting her earlier certainty about Obama’s being registered as a Muslim.

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Obama’s having been born and raised a Muslim and having left the faith to become a Christian make him neither more nor less qualified to become president of the United States. But if he was born and raised a Muslim and is now hiding that fact, this points to a major deceit, a fundamental misrepresentation about himself that has profound implications about his character and his suitability as president.

Very interesting.  Read the whole thing.  Do we really want a Muslim President, especially one who is also a black separatist?

This is so awesome! Look at the pride in her face .. my kind of girl

11-Year-Old Girl Field Strips an AR-15 (M16) Training em` young!

Should be a heckuva “show’n tell” in class.

H/T SondraK