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In the UK where it is a crime to actively defend yourself, the citizens have turn to passive defense attempting to make it more difficult for criminals to do one harm; well at least where knives are concerned.  From Stab-proof school uniforms go on sale to protect pupils from knife attacks

Parents are sending children to school in stab-proof uniforms to guard against knife crime, it has emerged.

They are paying a firm which makes body armour to line blazers and jumpers with a stab-resistant material called Kevlar.

The precautions are aimed at protecting pupils from knife attacks as street crime spills over into schools.

A wave of stabbings involving teenagers includes the killing of promising footballer Kiyan Prince, who was knifed just yards from his school gates in north London.

Predictably, the law officials think this precaution is totally unecessary

The reality of course is that crimes involving knives are proportionately very very low” Alf Hitchcock, of the Association of Chief Police Officers told BBC News Online.

Despite this alarming statistic

Seven boys under the age of 16 have died in knife attacks in the space of just two months this year.

It seems that some adults also share the parent concerns

Teachers are also demanding to be equipped with stab-proof vests to protect them from attack as they frisk pupils for knives and guns.

New laws which recently came into effect will allow staff to conduct forcible searches of students suspected of carrying offensive weapons.

But members of the Professional Association of Teachers are saying they should not be made to carry out searches unless they are provided with body armour.

I’m sure that the UK socialists who championed gun confiscation still maintain that the inability of citizens to defend themselves has made for a quieter peaceful country even when the evidence indicates the opposite.  This vision is also one that the Democrats in this country would like to impose on us.

Unlike most politicians seeking the presidency particularly the Democrats, Rudolph Giuliani lays out in detail a foreign policy plan for combating Islamic violence and achieving international stability leading to peace.  Some the highlights are as follows.

On key foreign policy strategies..

The next U.S. president will face three key foreign policy challenges. First and foremost will be to set a course for victory in the terrorists’ war on global order. The second will be to strengthen the international system that the terrorists seek to destroy. The third will be to extend the benefits of the international system in an ever-widening arc of security and stability across the globe. The most effective means for achieving these goals are building a stronger defense, developing a determined diplomacy, and expanding our economic and cultural influence. Using all three, the next president can build the foundations of a lasting, realistic peace

On the current war against Islsmic terrorism...

We must learn from these experiences for the long war that lies ahead. It is almost certain that U.S. troops will still be fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan when the next president takes office. The purpose of this fight must be to defeat the terrorists and the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and to allow these countries to become members of the international system in good standing. We must be under no illusions that either Iraq or Afghanistan will quickly attain the levels of peace and security enjoyed in the developed world today. Our aim should be to help them build accountable, functioning governments that can serve the needs of their populations, reduce violence within their borders, and eliminate the export of terror. As violence decreases and security improves, more responsibility can and should be turned over to local security forces. But some U.S. forces will need to remain for some time in order to deter external threats.

On the folly of trying to establish a state in Palestine under the current instability...

The election of Hamas in the Palestinian-controlled territories is a case in point. The problem there is not the lack of statehood but corrupt and unaccountable governance. The Palestinian people need decent governance first, as a prerequisite for statehood. Too much emphasis has been placed on brokering negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians—negotiations that bring up the same issues again and again. It is not in the interest of the United States, at a time when it is being threatened by Islamist terrorists, to assist the creation of another state that will support terrorism. Palestinian statehood will have to be earned through sustained good governance, a clear commitment to fighting terrorism, and a willingness to live in peace with Israel. America’s commitment to Israel’s security is a permanent feature of our foreign policy.

In conclusion...

The 9/11 generation has learned from the history of the twentieth century that America must not turn a blind eye to gathering storms. We must base our trust on the actions, rather than the words, of others. And we must be on guard against overpromising and underdelivering. Above all, we have learned that evil must be confronted—not appeased—because only principled strength can lead to a realistic peace

There is much much more in Giuliani’s foreign policy plan.  It’s well worth the time to read it all.

Historically, tyrants and tyrannical realms have not been a bit bashful of their intents publishing them as tenets in various forms.  From Adolph Hitler, we have Mein Kampf which details his almost religious intent to subjugate the Jews.  Frem Vladamir Lenin we have his The State and Revolution which lays out the twisted logic used to install imperilistic marxism in the USSR.  Given the above, it should come as no surprise to most [except the ‘in denial’ left] that the muslims have a written plan for world domination.  In The Muslim Brotherhood Project, Patrick Poole describes the muslim plan seized in a raid in recent times that details point by point how the muslims intend to eventually dominate the world.

The raid was conducted by Swiss law enforcement at the request of the White House in the initial crackdown on terrorist finances in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. US and Swiss investigators had been looking at Al-Taqwa’s involvement in money laundering and funding a wide range of Islamic terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, HAMAS (the Palestinian affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood), the Algerian GIA, and the Tunisian Ennahdah. 

Included in the documents seized during the raid of Nada’s Swiss villa was a 14-page plan written in Arabic and dated December 1, 1982, which outlines a 12-point strategy to “establish an Islamic government on earth” – identified as The Project. According to testimony given to Swiss authorities by Nada, the unsigned document was prepared by “Islamic researchers” associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

The points in the document are the following, many that we already associate with radical Islam:

Networking and coordinating actions between likeminded Islamist organizations;

Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”;

Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals;

Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law;

Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist powerbase in the West or provoke a lash back against Muslims;

Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers;

Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data storage capabilities;

Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”;

Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements;

Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world;
Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;

Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant;

Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions;

Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam;

Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual implementation;

Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the development of processes for conflict resolution;

Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals;

Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West;

Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame of mind”;

Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;

Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims;

Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination;

Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;

Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;

Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement;

Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world

That many aspects of this plan are already in action are evident in our day-to-day lives.  Poole closes with this troubling statement.

If the experience over the past quarter of a century seen in Europe and the US is any indication, the “Islamic researchers” who drafted The Project more than two decades ago must be pleased to see their long-term plan to conquer the West and to see the Green flag of Islam raised over its citizens realized so rapidly, efficiently and completely. If Islamists are equally successful in the years to come, Westerners ought to enjoy their personal and political freedoms while they last.

I suggest you read the whole article.

In recent news we have the criminalization of the childish prankish patting on the butt by a couple of 7th graders.  In Swat somebody’s butt, and yours belongs to the the D.A. Mark Steyn comes down hard on the ludicrousness of this action.

Do you know Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison?

If you do, don’t approach them. Call 911 and order up a SWAT team. They’re believed to be in the vicinity of McMinnville, Ore., where they’re a clear and present danger to the community. Mashburn and Cornelison were recently charged with five counts of felony sexual abuse, and District Attorney Bradley Berry has pledged to have them registered for life as sex offenders.

Oh, by the way, the defendants are in the seventh grade.

The fact that the butt patting prank like many young peoples inventions is widely participated by all 7th graders does not penetrate in tiny mind of the district attorney. Also interesting is how the school officials used persuasion to get false testimony.

Of 14 other students interviewed by officer Roache, seven (boys and girls) told him they had engaged in bottom-swatting themselves. Two of the “victims” said they had done it to others. At the initial hearing, a couple of female students spontaneously testified that they’d felt very much pressured to conform during their interviews with the vice principal and the police officer. “Well, when the principal asked me stuff, I kind of felt pressured to answer stuff that I was uncomfortable, and that it hurt, but it really didn’t,” said one girl.

The real problem here is the lack of significant public rage on the antics of a society seemingly going mad.  In regard to that, Mark closes with these statements.

A world that requires handcuffs and judges and district attorneys for what took place that Friday in February is not just a failed education system but an entire society that’s losing any sense of proportion. Without which, civilized life becomes impossible. So we legalize more and more aspects of life and demand that district attorneys prosecute ever more aggressively what were once routine areas of social interaction.

A society that looses the state to criminalize schoolroom horseplay is guilty not only of punishing children as grown-ups but of the infantilization of the entire citizenry.

Some of the glitter may have worn off of Fred Thompson respectibility when he selected Spencer Abraham for his campaign manager.  Debbie Schlussel certainly thinks so as she wrote in Jihad Spence: Fred Thompson’s Pan-Islamist Campaign Manager

He hasn’t entered the Presidential race yet, but Fred Thompson, yesterday, showed us why he’s the scariest Republican Presidential candidate. And maybe the scariest of both parties.

Don’t believe Thompson’s claim that he understands the Islamist jihadist threat to America. His announcement, yesterday, of his choice of Spencer Abraham as campaign manager, told us everything we need to know. Although Abraham, of Lebanese descent, is a Christian, he is a career water carrier for Islamists of the most extremist stripe and made that the cornerstone of his failed, one-term Senate career and equally lousy tenure as Energy Secretary.

As a conservative--but more important, as an American concerned about the future of this country in the face of a terrorist threat--Thompson’s choice of Spencer Abraham was the final nail in the coffin for me in opposing Fred Thompson’s quest for the White House.

I know Spencer Abraham. He wrote one of my recommendations for law school. And the Spencer Abraham that I and all of America have since experienced is bad news for everyone except CAIR, ADC, MPAC, ISNA, and all Islamists who want to endanger America.

While Abraham was a senator he opposed almost all measures critical of Islamists and measures related to security against Islamic terrorists.

As a Senator, he took marching orders from James Zogby of the pan-Islamist Arab American Institute, opposing profiling of Arabs, the use of secret evidence against Muslims (at the behest of Muslim groups), attempting to repeal the Clinton counterterrorism package, refusing to fund computer tracking of student and other foreign aliens, giving millions in our tax money right to Hezbollah, and putting CAIR on the map on Capitol Hill (taking the group’s officials around to meet other Senators and Members of Congress). He took campaign contributions from the relatives of Hezbollah-backed top Lebanese officials after he got the group millions in our tax money.

Spence was one of only two Senators in the entire U.S. Senate who refused to sign a letter calling on President Clinton to condemn Palestinian terrorism and Yasser Arafat. This was at the height of a series of homicide bombings in Israel in 1999 and 2000.

This selection of an obvious Islamic lackey puts a big question mark on Thompsons presidential candidacy. 

Giuliani is starting to look pretty good.

The fraud that makes up the IRS personal income tax was revealed in a recent court case and believe it or not the jury agreed that the IRS has no legal authority to collect personal income tax.  In IRS loses challenge to prove tax liability, a lawyer was acquited by proving that the income levy lacks legal foundation.

The Internal Revenue Service has lost a lawyer’s challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation’s income tax, and the victorious attorney now is setting his sights higher.

“I think now people are beginning to realize that this has got to be the largest fraud, backed up by intimidation and extortion and by the sheer force of taking peoples property and hard-earned money without any lawful authorization whatsoever,” lawyer Tom Cryer told WND just days after a jury in Louisiana acquitted him of two criminal tax counts.

Of course anyone having taken Accounting 101 knows that the tax against a persons wages is NOT an income tax but a revenue tax as income is derived by subtracting TOTAL costs from revenue, the revenue in this case being a persons wages.

Quite simply, he proved that the definition of Income as defined by the Supreme Court is NOT income from our labor, but rather things like interest and profit. You CANNOT tax a person’s labor because it is a God-given right that we may work to support ourselves.
If I charge you $500 to fix your toilet, what part of that is profit or capital gain? The answer: You cannot decipher. Therefore, you cannot tax something that is considered an equal exchange on labor. You fix my toilet, I give you $500. It is quite simple.

There are three points that are important,” he told WND. “There’s no law making the average working man liable [for income taxes], there’s no law or regulation that allows the IRS to contend that earnings are 100 percent profit received in exchange for nothing, and the right to earn a living through any lawful occupation is a constitutionally protected fundamental right, and it is exempt from taxation.”

Of course, the IRS knows this but that will not deter them from pursuing other legal actions against non-filers.  What is needed to abolish the personal income tax is a similar case presented to the Supreme Court for a blanket ruling.  Rest assured that the IRS will do everything in its power to prevent this from happening.

The attacks on the 1st amendment right of free expression goes on without abatement even with the vast majority of higher court decisions going against the suppressors of free speech.  The speech suppressors are not just the Congressional Democrats but include many members of municipal governments and school systems.  Their usual excuse for the suppression is that other legal considertions trump freedom of expression which, of course, is contrary to the US Constitution which states that any form of ‘abridging the freedom of speech’ is unconstitutional.

What I find most troubling is that speech suppression cases have to be appealed to higher courts before the wrongful act against free speech is rectified.  From this, one could surmise that lower court judges are ignorant of our constitutional rights. 

One of the latest speech suppression cases to be resolved in favor of the defendants has the dramatic title Court allows display of ‘bloody’ aborted babies

Some signs used by pro-life protesters to spur a public reaction against abortion may be graphic, but that doesn’t mean they’re illegal and can be confiscated, according to a new ruling from the Minnesota Supreme Court.

The decision reversed the criminal convictions of pro-life protesters Ron Rudnick and Luke Otterstad, who displayed the signs on an overpass in the Twin Cities suburb of Anoka during the run-up to the 2004 national elections.

The majority decesions was primarily based on the failure of the plantiffs to prove their case.

the state’s highest court unanimously reversed the convictions, determining that prosecutors simply failed to prove their case: that the signs created any danger to the public

Of course, there is the typical caveats leaving room for additional acts of speech suppression

."Our decision does not foreclose the possibility that some sign might distract motorists in such a way as to endanger the public and constitute a public nuisance. Nor does our decision require a police officer on the scene to wait until an accident occurs or is threatened before intervening. An officer can and should use his or her experience and expertise to determine whether a sign constitutes a danger to a considerable number of members of the public before that danger manifests itself in injuries,” the court opinion said

Although voting with the majority, Justice Alan Page had a different opinion which I think is the correct one.

In Page’s concurring opinion, he noted that “it is clear on this record that the state’s prosecution of appellants under that statute was content-based and therefore barred by the First Amendment.”

”Above all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content,” the concurrence said

A damn good opinion by the former NFL lineman, wouldn’t you agree?

I recently got this email with an alleged statement regarding illegals from a California school teacher.  Whether the source is legitimate or not, the content of the statement seems accurate.

From a California school teacher…

“As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socio-economic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.  Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I’m not talking a glass of milk and roll—but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK )

I estimate that well over 50% of these student s are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school
also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK )

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial.. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK )

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them “Putas” whores and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal
immigration and see the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I’ll pay more for tomatoes.

We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won’t have the guts to enforce it.  Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?

There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to our country and many that I consider my true friends. We should encourage and accept those Hispanics who have done it the right and legal way.

It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American
culture that has become so weak and worried about “politically correctness” that we don’t have the will to do anything about it.

CHEAP LABOR?

Isn’t that what the whole immigration issue is about?  Business doesn’t want to pay a decent wage.  Consumers don’t want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don’t want the jobs. But the bottom line is cheap labor.

The phrase “cheap labor” is a myth, a farce, and a lie. there is no such thing as “cheap labor.”

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he
gets an “earned income credit” of up to $3,200 free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.

He qualifies for food stamps.

He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.

His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.

He requires bilingual teachers and books.

He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer’s expense.

He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.

Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.

He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.

Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.

The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people. THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. ‘ AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON’T DO AS THEY SAY , WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!’

Don’t think that anyone can make a better case against illegal immigration.

I hsve always believed that cosmological events affected the earths climate more than any other factor.  That belief was centered on the changes in the sun of our solar system.  What I did not consider is the events in the unverse, particularly our galaxy, that could affect changes in the suns solar energy.  Those events are brought forth in this amazing article Scientists Now Know: We’re Not From Here! which relates how the galaxy from where the earth originally existed, Sagittarius, is slowly being absorbed by the Milky Way galaxy.

Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call “Mum” and “Dad” and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted!

This same sense of shock came as scientists announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy, but we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy!

Using volumes of data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a major project to survey the sky in infrared light led by the University of Massachusetts, the astronomers are answering questions that have baffled scientists for decades and proving that our own Milky Way is consuming one of its neighbors in a dramatic display of ongoing galactic cannibalism. The study published in the Astrophysical Journal, is the first to map the full extent of the Sagittarius galaxy and show in visually vivid detail how its debris wraps around and passes through our Milky Way. Sagittarius is 10,000 times smaller in mass than the Milky Way, so it is getting stretched out, torn apart and gobbled up by the bigger Milky Way.

So what does this mean in terms of the earths climate change.  Here is a possible explanation.

It has been postulated that this is the real reason for both global warming since higher energy levels of the Milky Way are almost certain to cause our Sun to burn hotter and emit higher energies. Indeed, temperatures have been seen to rise on virtually all the planets in our system. This seems quite apart from any local phenomenon like greenhouse gases etc.

Some of the changes in the bodies of our solar system follow:

The “marriage” of our birth galaxy with our new adopted Milky Way galaxy is causing energy shifts that are obvious just about everywhere. Here are some changes being watched by scientists:

* A growth of dark spots on Pluto.

* Reporting of auroras on Saturn.

* Reporting of Uranus and Neptune polar shifts (They are magnetically conjugate planets), and the abrupt large-scale growth of Uranus’ magnetosphere intensity.

* A change in light intensity and light spot dynamics on Neptune.

* The doubling of the magnetic field intensity on Jupiter.

* A series of Martian atmosphere transformations increasing its biosphere quality. In particularly, a cloudy growth in the equator area and an unusual growth of ozone concentration.

* A first stage atmosphere generation on the Moon, where a growing natrium atmosphere is detected that reaches 9,000 km in height.

* Significant physical, chemical and optical changes observed on Venus; an inversion of dark and light spots detected for the first time, and a sharp decrease of sulfur-containing gases in its atmosphere.

* A Change in the Quality of Interplanetary Space Towards an Increase in Its Interplanetary and Solar-Planetary Transmitting Properties

. As far what all this means to us lowly humans, no one knows for sure.

We of the overarching Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy have finally come down next to, and even with the massively powerful spiral armed equatorial plane of the Milky Way Galaxy.

In our movement through space, our Earth has now fully begun to respond to the more powerful galactic energies and electro-gravitational bias of the massive Milky Way. We have reached the higher energy equatorial disc region of the massive spiral arm. We have now been “adopted” by a new system, a stornger and more powerful system, and we can expect changes on almost every level of energy.

Whatever these changes are, they are all part of the natural birth, death, rebirth and transformation of the cosmos. As our knowledge of the universe grows, we cannot but understand how much we do not understand. Such is life.

In view of these cosmological events, mans affects on the climate are minuscule at best.

Read the whole thing.

In his article, Mao in America, Donald Hank gives a compeling argument about how the leftist liberal dogma is patterned after the dogma of former Chinese tyrant, Chairman Mao.  Hank defines Maoism as: 

Maoism: a refinement of Marxism-Leninism wherein the disenfranchised classes are given maximum power and privileges while the former privileged classes are outlawed and divested of all power.

In Mao’s system, it wasn’t enough that the former landlord class should be abolished in favor of a classless society.  Mao wanted the former privileged class to be eternally branded and punished, not absorbed into society.

There are many examples of the parallel with leftist dogma and Maoism.

— Radical feminism.  The writings of feminist icons like Andrea Dworkin, which have had a domino-like influence, first on the feminists, then on ordinary people, then on government, reveal a deep hatred of “male culture” and all things traditional, particularly male-female marriage (which they derisively call patriarchy). As for anti-male bias, it is evident in TV ads, domestic violence campaigns, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) — which enshrines in law the notion that only males are capable of violence — and in “family” court. (See the books: “The War Against Boys,” and “Who Stole Feminism” by Christina Hoff Sommers’ and Warren Farrell’s “The Myth of Male Power” and “Father and Child Reunion.”)

— Affirmative action.  This idea has shut thousands of qualified non-minority young people out of higher education by forcing schools to admit quotas of under-qualified minorities, who in turn have suffered because the majority of them were unprepared academically. It has also cost thousands of qualified non-minority workers jobs. This concept was carried to its logical extreme when Black Panther thugs were given free reign to wreak havoc on college campuses in the 60s and early 70s.

— Open-border policies and amnesty for illegal aliens.  It is estimated that each illegal immigrant family costs the taxpayer $18,000-20,000 per year and that illegal immigrants take the lives of about 45,000 US residents annually. Yet border guards Compean and Ramos were criminalized for daring to oppose the incursion of actual criminals into our country.

- Bible believing Christians, men, sexually traditional heteros and the rich are deemed privileged and hence are demonized, while gays, women and minorities are deemed the underdog and hence awarded privileges (such as a tailor-made definition of marriage unknown heretofore anywhere in the world).

Hank concludes with

I am not suggesting that Mao had so much influence on Western culture that the Left is blindly allowing his ideas to dictate their behavior. I believe this may be a home-grown parallel phenomenon.

My point is that, because of the similarity between the modern Left and Mao, smart people should realize that we are heading for another failure similar to Mao’s and that we should do everything in our power to avoid falling over the same cliff.

Although Mao’s system proved even more disastrous than the Soviet one, the American Left are religious zealots who remain oblivious to the facts and cling tenaciously to their failed ideology.

And since they dominate the media, academia and much of government, the sheer power of their propaganda machine has overwhelmed our culture, permeating important areas of our lives, and even mentally overwhelming many “conservatives.”

I think that almost everyone is familar with the honest reporting of John Stossel.  In The Many Myths of Ethanol, Stossel weighs in on the ethanol debate.  Most of this is old news for many but deserves repeating as Stossel lumps the entire ethanol points in a single document.  John writes;

No doubt about it, if there were a Miss Energy Pageant, Miss Ethanol would win hands down. Everyone loves ethanol.

When everyone in politics jumps on a bandwagon like ethanol, I start to wonder if there’s something wrong with it. And there is. Except for that fact that ethanol comes from corn, nothing you’re told about it is true. As the Cato Institute’s energy expert Jerry Taylor said on a recent “Myths” edition of “20/20,” the case for ethanol is based on a baker’s dozen myths.

Stossel’s summary of the myths follows:

A simple question first. If ethanol’s so good, why does it need government subsidies? Shouldn’t producers be eager to make it, knowing that thrilled consumers will reward them with profits?

But consumers won’t reward them, because without subsidies, ethanol would cost much more than gasoline.

The claim that using ethanol will save energy is another myth. Studies show that the amount of energy ethanol produces and the amount needed to make it are roughly the same. “It takes a lot of fossil fuels to make the fertilizer, to run the tractor, to build the silo, to get that corn to a processing plant, to run the processing plant,” Taylor says.

And because ethanol degrades, it can’t be moved in pipelines the way that gasoline is. So many more big, polluting trucks will be needed to haul it.

More bad news: The increased push for ethanol has already led to a sharp increase in corn growing—which means much more land must be plowed. That means much more fertilizer, more water used on farms and more pesticides.

This makes ethanol the “solution”?

But won’t it at least get us unhooked from Middle East oil? Wouldn’t that be worth the other costs? Another myth. A University of Minnesota study shows that even turning all of America’s corn into ethanol would meet only 12 percent of our gasoline demand. As Taylor told an energy conference last March, “For corn ethanol to completely displace gasoline consumption in this country, we would need to appropriate all cropland in the United States, turn it completely over to corn-ethanol production, and then find 20 percent more land on top of that for cultivation.”

OK, but it will cut down on air pollution, right? Wrong again. Studies indicate that the standard mixture of 90 percent ethanol and 10 percent gasoline pollutes worse than gasoline.

Well, then, the ethanol champs must be right when they say it will reduce greenhouse gases and reverse global warming.

Nope. “Virtually all studies show that the greenhouse gases associated with ethanol are about the same as those associated with conventional gasoline once we examine the entire life cycle of the two fuels,” Taylor says.

With all these negatives, is ethanol good for something?  Yes, Stossle writes:

Surely, ethanol must be good for something. And here we finally have a fact. It is good for corn farmers and processors of ethanol, such as Archer Daniels Midland, the big food processor known for its savvy at getting subsidies out of the taxpayers.

And it’s good for vote-hungry presidential hopefuls. Iowa is a key state in the presidential-nomination sweepstakes, and we all know what they grow in Iowa. Sen. Clinton voted against ethanol 17 times until she started running for president. Coincidence?

“It’s no mystery that people who want to be president support the corn ethanol program,” Taylor says. “If you’re not willing to sacrifice children to the corn god, you will not get out of the Iowa primary with more than one percent of the vote, Right now the closest thing we have to a state religion in the United States isn’t Christianity. It’s corn.”

In a presentation entitled Liberalism v Islamism, Melanie Phillips clearly defines the battle between Islam and Non-Islam for world supremacy.  Especially for you multi-culturists, have no doubt that this is a big stakes battle with freedom on the line.  Melanie says

First of all, let me define my terms and say what I mean by Islamism and liberalism. Islamism is the politicised version of Islam which mandates jihad, or holy war against the infidel and conquest of the non-Islamic world for Islam. I’m well aware of the argument that there’s no difference between Islamism and Islam: that’s a theological argument for others to have.

By liberalism I mean the commitment to a free society, founded above all on the separation of secular government from religious worship — from which follow the concepts of equal respect for all people, freedom of conscience, tolerance and the rule of law.

These two concepts, Islamism and liberalism, are currently engaged in a fight to the death.

Unfortunately, moderan liberlism has morfed into something other than the bastion of freedom that it original championed.

My argument is that liberalism is in danger of losing this fight because it has so badly undermined itself and departed from its own core concepts that it is now paralysed by moral and intellectual muddle.

On the other hand, radical Islamists feel threaten by western freedoms and are taking actions to counter it.

The Islamist goal is to destroy the virus of freedom and modernity before it infects the Islamic world, and to replace it with Islam. That is the core of the profound threat it poses to the west, a threat mounted through the pincer movement of both terrorism and cultural takeover.

This cultural takeover, or the aim to Islamise the west, was explicitly laid out in a programme of subversion for Europe by the Wahabbi Muslim Brotherhood almost 30 years ago. In 1978, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference sponsored a seminar in London which said Muslim communities in western countries must establish autonomous institutions with help from Muslim states, and lobby the host country to grant Muslims recognition as a separate religious community as a step towards eventual political domination.

In closing, Melanie paints a rather sordid picture of our survival of the Islamic onslaught.

Liberals also think they are superior in intelligence to everyone else. So they don’t understand that the Islamists are actually playing them for suckers, exploiting the intrinsic weakness of a liberal society they correctly assess as decadent: no longer prepared to fight for its values because it no longer even knows what they are.

What we are living through in the west is nothing short of a repudiation of the Enlightenment, a repudiation of reason; and its substitution by irrationality, obscurantism, bigotry and clerical totalitarianism — all facilitated by our so-called ‘liberal’ society, and all in the name of ‘human rights’. Western liberalism now embraces its Islamist mortal enemies and attacks its American and Israeli allies in the fight to defend civilisation.

We are giving the Islamists the message that we are theirs for the taking. This is how liberalism may disappear up its own backside.

Read the whole thing.  It’s long but well worth the time to read it.

Except for a brief period in college which was really an expansion of my faith to include intellectual concerns, I have always had a belief in a divine being, a creator of all if you will. Even then I would have never identified myself as an atheist.  So the concept of atheism is really foreign to me and perhaps more out of curiosity than anything else I have tried to understand what makes one become an atheist. 

In the history of mankind, god worship has been the norm with the worship of many gods more wide spread than a single god (theism) which originated with the Hebrews.  The people viewed all things in life as being gifts from a variety of gods e.g. children from fertility gods, victory in battle from war gods, successful crops from rain and sun gods, etc.

What causes people to become atheists.  There probably are some who call themselves atheist who are merely don’t like organized religion.  I’ve been down that road even to the point of exploring other beliefs while never totally abandoning the concept of spirituality.  For as long as you believe that each human has a spiritual soul, you aren’t really an atheist. 

So what really defines an atheistic belief.  One dictionary definition is: One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.  But that definition says something about what an atheist doesn’t believe and nothing about what they do believe for virtually everybody believes in something.

Some atheists may believe in the supremacy of man, that man can evolve into an omnipotential being if he will give up his religious ‘superstitions’ for personal development.  What confounds this concept is the history of our best and brightest people indicates a propensity of belief in a god.  So much for religious superstition impeding intellectual development.

Others who call themselves atheists may give homage to the natural order like the Gaians and environmentalists.  However, what they have done is create their own version of a god(s) or godess(es).

I supposed that there are atheists that truly believe that man is no more than an being with animal cravings and that they will simple perish into nothingness when their life is complete.  This belief gives little reason to do anything but ‘live for the day’ taking any available pleasure and damning the tomorrow.

So the question is: if you consider yourself an aetheist, what is the basis for your belief?

From Terror Suspect Testifies, It Goes Badly

A Florida doctor accused of pledging to support al-Qaida hoped to convince a jury that the FBI had it all wrong: He was a man of peace.

If that was the plan, then Rafiq Abdus Sabir had a disastrous day on the witness stand Friday.

Under cross examination, the Columbia University-trained physician was forced to acknowledge a history of family violence, a fascination with weapons and a belief that good Muslims should engage in armed jihad, or holy war.

U.S. Attorney Victor Hou asked Sabir about an audio tape, found at his house, in which a religious lecturer said God would “destroy the disbelievers.”

“That’s God’s word. I have to believe in it,” Sabir said.

They also discussed passages from religious books. One said Jews should be expelled from the Arabian peninsula. Another said Muslims are obligated to obey an imam who declares war against nonbelievers. Hou asked Sabir whether he agreed with both passages, and he said yes but added that Muslims are only required to follow such instructions from a legitimate religious authority.

As I have said in previous posts, the imams sre the ones that provoke violence and terrorism amoung the frevent followers of Islam by asserting that jihad is a command from God.  We will not hsve peace with muslims while imams are running loose spread the jihad word of Allah their god.

Read the whole thing.

Most non-muslim people are fat, dumb and happy thinking that the prolonged jihad violence in the mid-east and other parts of the world will never happen here.  J. Grant Swank writing for ArriveNet believes otherwise.  From his article JIHAD IN U.S. STREETS

Zealot Muslims now plan to bathe America’s streets with gunfire just as is going on in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Darfur and so forth.

“These killers are known as “paintball jihadists” in that they practice in paintball game style what they have planned for America’s streets. They are already training others in “urban combat” using paintball guns. They will engage in paramilitary-style training right under our noses, and lie about it to our faces. They are protected, in some cases, by the religious Imams, some who even encourage or schedule such outings.

Jihad will come to the United States due to “Muslim men inside the U.S., (the latter) adhering to the Islamist ideology of jihad, preparing for war on the streets of America.

“The ‘insider’ reports are very troubling and are purposely being downplayed by official sources and go largely unreported in the media.

The stockpiling of weapons by jihadists is already happening.

One case, however, can serve as an example of what is taking place all across the U.S. involving the procurement and disbursement of weapons to Muslim ‘jihadists.’ On Tuesday, May 2, 2007, a federal indictment was unsealed in the U.S. federal court in St. Louis naming eight Islamic men as defendants in a case involving the buying, selling or hiding of automatic weapons, an anti-personnel mine and other explosives.

Jihadists are stockpiling weaponry and explosives via secret cells. Mosque leaders are cooperating with them.

There is jihad brewing in the mosques by imans who universally have the most orthodox view of Islam and use those views to indoctrinate the Islamic ‘faithful’.  Meanwhile many of the non-muslims in this country under the sway of the multi-cultural insanity pretend that the the majority of muslims are not prone to violence and that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’.  I wonder if their attitude will change after a few suicide bombings.  My guess is that it will not since they will place all blame on Bush.

Read the whole thing.