We Can All Learn Something From The Pilgrims
The pilgrims discovered quickly that Communism doesn’t work:
Why Gore would censor “South Parkâ€
Censorship, whether its speech, TV, movies, or games is just about one thing, control. Gee that sounds like a line from the Matrix doesn’t it? Before Gore was trying to control your greenhouse gases he wanted to control your TV. Don’t think he is a scary madman? How’s this for a quote, “the link between real-world violence and television violence is exactly analogous to the link between cigarette smoking and cancer.†I’ll bet that after he presented “scientific” research to back up that statement, the time for debate was over.
From: David Horowitz
A few years ago I found myself in Nashville at a two-day gathering of liberal “media experts†sponsored by Vice President Al Gore. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a “scientific†rationale for the censorship that Gore and the president (who also attended) were preparing to launch against the nation’s entertainment industry.
The event was held in an auditorium at Vanderbilt University, where Gore orchestrated the proceedings from the stage. With all the obtuseness that generally characterizes his thought process, the vice president was saying scary things like “the link between real-world violence and television violence is exactly analogous to the link between cigarette smoking and cancer.â€
Of the 200 attending the event, only Jack Valenti, Tom Selleck and I took issue with Clinton and Gore’s “solution†— the V-chip — which they proceeded to unveil at the conference.
When Gore called on me to speak, I asked how crime rates could be so different in various neighborhoods of a given city, when the TV shows were the same. I also asked how the experts attending the event could have witnessed 100,000 murders on TV without becoming the desensitized, violence-crazed thugs that they implied was a television-watcher’s inevitable fate. My questions were not appreciated and I even heard some hisses as I spoke.
Man faces $30,000 in fines for growing too many vegetables in his yard
“Nanny of the Month turns one-year-old this month, and it seems that public officials’ obsession with minding other people’s business has only intensified over the past 12 months.
We’ve exposed meddlers who want to squash other people’s right to do everything from sing karaoke, to drink raw milk, and bust a move at ladies night.
What could possibly top all that?
How about the “Greenest County in America” suing a man for growing too many vegetables in his garden?
Presenting Reason.tv’s Nanny of the Month for September 2010: DeKalb County, Georgia CEO Burrell Ellis!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0hUH–t90&feature=player_embedded
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Pakistani Government Minister: Obama should should offer Eid prayers at Ground Zero Mosque and become Caliph of the Muslim World
ISLAMABAD – In a development that could be duly termed as one and only of its kind, an incumbent Government’s Minister has urged US President Barrack Obama to offer Eid prayers at Ground Zero Mosque and become “Ameer-ul-Momineen†of Muslim Ummah.
Minister of State for Industries and former member Pakistan Ideological Council Ayatullah Durrani called TheNation on Wednesday to register his demand made to President Obama.
“The coming Eid would expectedly be observed on 9/11, this a golden opportunity for President Obama to offer Eid prayers at Ground Zero and become Amir-ul-Momineen or Caliph of Muslims. In this way, all the problems of Muslim World would be solved,†he thought.
Durrani argued that Muslim World was in “dire need†of a Caliph and the distinguished slot of Caliphate would earn President Obama the exemplary titles of what he termed, “Mullah Barrack Hussain Obama†or “Allama Obama.â€
“The time is approaching fast. Barrack Hussain Obama must act now. This is a golden opportunity, Muslims badly need it,†he added, saying that the elevation of President Obama to Muslim’s Caliphate would be the “key to success.â€
Today’s reading from the Qur’an: This offends me.
Qur’an 8:12  â€Your Lord inspired the angels with the message: ‘I will terrorize the unbelievers.’ Therefore smite them on their necks and every joint and incapacitate them. Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.â€
If you burned my Holy Book, I would be offended – but it is still just a book, I would not punch you in the face, much less cut off your head.
If you insulted my God, I would be offended – but He is powerful enough to take care of his own honor, I would not kill you for it.
If you insulted my Religion, I would be offended – but I would probably understand that there is a lot that needs to be criticized about religion.
BUT: when you teach people to kill someone because they don’t believe the same stuff about your “god” that you do, that offends me more deeply than all the others combined. Burn a warehouse of Bibles, and that is nothing to me compared to cutting off the head of another human being because he doesn’t believe the same things.
How could you possibly come up with a more intolerant teaching than this? How can you possibly believe that Islam is tolerant?
How SouthPark bowed and submitted to Sharia Law
“Every accomodation non-Muslims make for Muslims moves our culture, our beliefs, and our legal systems one step closer to Sharia law.
The concession itself is the establishment of Sharia law.
Let’s look at an example. Around the world, Muslims react strongly when anyone criticizes Islam. Why? In Sharia law, it is forbidden to criticize either Islam or Mohammad. This is a precept of Sharia law.
Forbidding the criticism of any religion is certainly not a precept of a free society or of Western civilization. This means: To whatever degree Islamic supremacists succeed in silencing our criticisms of Islam, to that degree they have imposed Sharia law on non-Muslims.”
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2010/07/concessions-to-islam-are-sharia.html
When SouthPark decided not to air episodes critical of Islam it was, at that very moment, an example of compliance to Sharia Law in the US. It is not a matter of Sharia Law maybe someday gaining ground in the US. It is already here. Every time someone chooses to not criticize Islam – they are submitting to Sharia Law. Penn Jillette is under Sharia Law – because he (understandably) did not want to put his family at risk by speaking out about Islam.
When you stay silent because the media has told you that objecting to Islam is “intolerant” or “against Freedom of Religion”, you are putting yourself under Sharia Law.
Saudi employer hammers 18 heated nails into the arms, legs and forehead of his Sri Lankan maid
An X-ray shows nails hammered into the body of a Sri Lankan maid.
Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) — Doctors at a Sri Lankan hospital operated for three hours Friday to remove 18 nails and metal particles allegedly hammered into the arms, legs and forehead of a maid by her Saudi employer.
She was held down by her employer’s wife while the employer hammered the heated nails … She apparently had complained to the couple that she was being overworked.
Ariyawathie, 49, is a mother of two children who were opposed to their mother’s journey to Saudi Arabia for work.
Many of the [Saudi] domestic workers are poor Asian women from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Nepal. Widespread abuse has been documented by global human rights groups.
Common complaints include unpaid wages, long working hours with no time for rest, and heavy debt burdens from exorbitant recruitment fees, said the Human Rights Watch report.
Isolation and forced confinement contribute to psychological and physical abuse, sexual violence, forced labor, and trafficking, the report said. The abuse often goes unchecked because of a lack of government regulation and protective laws.
SARCASM ALERT: I just don’t understand why narrow-minded, xenophobic, Islamophobic Americans are so unwilling to embrace Islam… although I am sure this was partly the woman’s fault somehow: maybe she offended the Saudi in some way or insulted his honor.
“We all know if Islam can get away with a stunt like this in America, it can get away with anything.”
“People keep framing this as a Freedom of Religion issue, but there is a difference between practicing your religion, which everyone has a right to do, and rubbing your religion in people’s faces as a triumphalist political statement – which is what is happening here.” – Pat Condell
Those xenophobic French continue booting illegal immigrants out of the country – the UN is appalled
When a nations becomes convinced that a group has become a security threat, is it within their right as a nation to say, “You are no longer welcome here, we require you to go back to your home country”?
How is that “xenophobia”? A phobia, by definition, is irrational, not grounded in reason. What if there are genuine reasons for concern? What if illegal immigrants are creating a very real negative impact on a country? Why should a country not be able to make a decision on behalf of its citizens to not allow illegal immigrants?
A nation expects its citizens to respect and abide by its laws. Why should an outside group be allowed to ignore, disregard and trample on those laws – and still expect the host nation to provide for them?
Why is it that some people seem to think that the moral obligation of a country to provide care for illegal immigrants who have broken the law somehow trumps or is more important than the moral obligation of a country to look out for and protect the interests of its citizens?
What business does the UN have inserting itself into that process?
This story, regarding France deporting the Roma, or Gypsies:
A UN Watchdog Group is urging France to stop the collective deportation of Roma, also known as Gypsies. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination calls collective expulsions a violation under international law. The Committee monitors States’ implementation of the 1969 International Convention on the elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
“We understand that a State has a right and a responsibility to deal with security issues and issues of immigration and illegal immigration,” said Prosper. “But, our view is when you are doing so, as we said, it should not be on a collective basis. It should not be targeting a group as a whole. Individual assessments need to be conducted and look at each particular circumstance of each individual and decide does he or she merit a return or should be allowed to stay.”
Prosper says the concerns of a state have to be balanced against human rights obligations, and protection and asylum needs.
France recently sent hundreds of Roma back to Romania and Bulgaria and dismantled more than 100 illegal camps. The French government justifies its expulsion of the Roma on grounds of security.”
First of all, why on earth is a person-by-person basis of deportation necessary if an entire group has flaunted a nation’s immigration laws and has become a drain on the nation’s resources?
Question: if the UN is so deeply concerned about “the elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination” why does it not speak out against the clear, blatant racial discrimination practiced – and taught – by Islam? Where are the calls for a dramatic change within Islam and it’s views of people who are not Muslim?
Where are the accusations of “xenophobia” for not only the practices of Islam, but what it teaches?
Selective tolerance is not tolerance. Unilateral tolerance is not tolerance. If Islam wishes to be shown more tolerance it must take the first step by showing tolerance itself – true tolerance and acceptance, not treating non-Muslims as second-class citizens or worse (dhimmis) and calling that tolerance.
We have been waiting over 600 years to see that. Still waiting.
But who am I? Let’s hear from someone who was born and raised in Islam: Salman Rushide.
He says, “One of the things that Liberal opinion in the West sometimes, I think, doesn’t understand is that there actually is an enemy. There actually is an enemy that means us harm, and is not just going to go away if you are nice to them. You don’t have to be a right-winger to believe this.”
I’m sure he’s just being xenophobic and racist and that the death threat that’s been hanging over him for years is mostly imagined.
Iran’s Judiciary Chief: Public Lashings are better than Prison Sentences
Partly because of overcrowding in Iranian prisons, and partly because he feels public lashings are more of a deterrent than prison, Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Shahroudi said that judges should issue lashings instead of prison sentences whenever possible.
Adultery between unmarried individuals: 100 lashes
Lesbianism: 100 lashes
False accusation: 80 lashes
Intoxication: 80 lashes
“Human rights activists and domestic press reported cases of political prisoners confined in the same wing as violent felons. There were allegations that authorities deliberately incarcerated nonviolent offenders with violent offenders, anticipating they would be killed… [and] juvenile offenders being detained with adult offenders.”
The same report indicates common methods of abuse in Iranian prisons, such as: prolonged solitary confinement with sensory deprivation, beatings, hanging detainees by the arms and legs, sleep deprivation and beatings with cables on the back, soles of the feet and the ears.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxvtP1axykY&feature=grec_index
The Secret of Oz: Fractional Reserve Lending
The economy of the U.S. is in a deflationary spiral. Nothing can stop it — except monetary reform.
1. No more national debt. Nations should not be allowed to borrow. If they want to spend, they have to take the political heat right away by taxing.
2. No more fractional reserve lending. Banks can only lend money they actually have.
3. Gold money is NOT the answer. Historically gold ALWAYS works against a thriving middle class and ALWAYS works to create a plutocracy.
4. The total quantity of money + credit in a national system must be fixed, varying only with the population.
“Little Obama”
“Little is known about Barack Obama’s life as a kid growing up in Indonesia from ages six to 10, aside from the brief memories recounted in his book Dreams of my Father. But Little Obama, an imminent film from Indonesian production company Multivision Plus, promises to shed new light on the young “Barry” Obama.
Is the film going to be political?
“It’s just the story of a boy,” says Dematra. “It’s about his friendships, his hobbies, just a childhood story.” Although he hopes the film will show how Indonesia’s rich racial and religious melting pot shaped Obama’s character, Dematra says he “does not want the message of the film to be political in any way.” He is considering cutting a scene in which Obama tries on a sarong during Muslim prayer in case it is misinterpreted.”
http://theweek.com/article/index/203327/what-is-little-obama
Iran unveils new “Symbol of Death” (drone bomber)
This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry, shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as he speaks during a ceremony of inauguration of the Karrar, or striker in Farsi, which the Iran claims is the first domestically-built, long-range, unmanned bomber aircraft, at the Malek-e Ashtar University, 22 Aug 2010
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is hailing the country’s first domestically built drone bomber. The unmanned aircraft, unveiled Sunday, is the latest in a series of Iranian announcements of military advances.
The Iranian military displayed the drone, dubbed the Karrar – or “striker” – at a ceremony attended by top officials. State media say it can carry out long-range attacks up to 1,000 kilometers carrying a 200-kilogram bomb.
President Ahmadinejad called the Karrar a symbol of death to Iran’s enemies.”
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Iran-Shows-Off-Unmanned-Long-Range-Bomber-101251954.html
First of all, does it seem strange to anyone else that they had this big unveiling at a University? Not making any inferences, just thought that was weird.
I certainly am glad that they have assured us that their nuclear plants are going to be used for peaceful purposes only [taqiyya] and they would never think of attacking anyone with nuclear weapons, even if they happened to accidentally make some [taqiyya] and really, they just want to get along, we don’t need to be at all anxious about them getting new missiles, new drones, all that stuff [taqiyya].
Once that new Cordoba House mosque is built in NYC, we will all learn how tolerant [taqiyya] and peaceful [taqiyya] Islam is. Now, the Cordoba House, that is not a symbol of death at all, it’s a symbol of togetherness and cooperation and peace [taqiyya]. They just want to be part of the American Dream [taqiyya] and have no intention at all of trying to change or overcome or tear down our culture [taqiyya].
Anyone who thinks that or says anything negative is just an ignorant bigot who is willing to trash Freedom of Religion in America [taqiyya].
Australian court rules that a Muslim woman must remove her burka while testifying
The full Islamic veil covers the whole body except the eyes and hands Photo: GETTY
An Australian court has ruled that a Muslim woman must remove her burka while she gives evidence so that the jury can assess her facial expressions.
Judge Shauna Deane of the Perth District Court said that it was “inappropriate” for the woman, only identified as Tasneem, to have her face covered while testifying in the A$752,000 (£433,000) fraud trial.
Lawyers for Tasneem, 36, had asked the judge to allow her to give evidence while wearing the burka because she had not removed the veil in public as an adult and would find the experience highly stressful.
However, the defence raised concerns about how the jury could assess her credibility if they could not see her face. They argued that wearing the garment was a cultural, not a religious, choice and that even in Islamic courts women were required to remove the veil.
OMG! Someone shot at Al Franken’s house! (oh, wait, it was a BB gun…or maybe a small rock…)
Former Saturday Night Live Comedian
Those violent Minnesotans! When they get angry, look out – they might even raise their voices.
Alan Colmes posted an article about someone attacking Al Franken’s house (when they weren’t home) Sounds alarming, right? Then you find out, “Police told CNN the hole could have come from a small rock or a BB gun.”
Franken spokesman Marc Kimball said that “nothing like this†has ever happened to the senator’s residence.
This just in: “In related news, Franken’s oak tree was TPed. Police are looking for a suspect, white, 4’6″, possibly armed with silly string.”
I’ll bet it’s those damned Lutheran Extremist Terrorists! I’ll bet they sprinkled his shrubs as well. It could have been worse: it could have been the Baptists, and they would have dunked his cat.
See? It’s not just the Muslims that commit terrorist acts. There are extremists in every religion. We know it couldn’t have been an atheist, because they’re too reasonable. Dangerous evangelicals! Do we really know what they’re talking about at those Potluck dinners? Probably planning subversive attacks over the hotdish.
10 bucks says there’s an envelope on Franken’s doorstep within the month, with money and a note apologizing for getting so upset, gosh darn it. It’s just the way Minnesota rolls, dawg.
http://www.alan.com/2010/08/19/shot-fired-into-al-frankens-home/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+liberaland+%28Alan+Colmes+Liberaland%29