Kenders' Musings

Famed explorer Dora, a mainstay on the Nickelodeon Channel since 2000, was arrested by ICE agents yesterday and deported. Dora, whose real name is Maria Conchita La Princessa de Chiquita Bananabana Fo Fana Smith apparently crossed into the United States illegally in the mid 90's and worked a variety of low end job before befriending an executive at Nickelodeon by securing an overweight dominatrix and a truckload of Jolt Cola and whipped cream for an emergency party the un-named executive was holding at a Beverly Hills hotel that employed Ms Smith as a maid at the time.

After that fateful night the show idea for Dora the Explorer was pitched and an episode aired in 1999, and surprisingly was a hit, which led to the show being put on the schedule in 2000.

Rumors at the Nickelodeon Studio is that Ms Smith's co star "Swiper" played by Emilio Estevez, reported her to ICE after she welched on a bet regarding how long the monkey "Boots" would stay in rehab over the off season.

Reporters for this website are checking into those allegations as we type, and will be posting an update when we have new information.

Boulder County, Colorado is considering a plan that is evil genius in it's simplicity while combining the theft of freedom, property rights and short-sighted stupidity.

I write about plans that have an "evil genius" angle quite often, mainly due to the fact that I respect evil genius, there seems to be a lot of it out there, and so often evil genius plans also meet the criteria of stealing freedom while being so blindingly stupid that only a genius could possibly find a way to word the plan that would get it passed by any group of people that weren't wearing helmets and drool bibs.

Boulder County Colorado's plan for what amounts to housing credits is just such a plan. This is only the latest in movements by city and county entities that are enacting ordinances and laws all over the country to stymie growth by limiting square footage and creating conservation districts.

Taking their cue from the fabled carbon credits scheme, which is basically a self imposed guilt tax, the Boulder County officials have come up with a "cap and trade scheme" called "transferable development rights" would cap building size and allow homeowners that wanted to buiild bigger than the regulations to buy the right to build bigger from other homeowners that are under the size limit, thereby letting them do with their own property as they see fit while apparently permanently keeping the homeowner that sold the "credit" from ever building their house bigger.

Whether this would transfer to the new owner of a house remains to be seen, but it appears that it would, but I suspect that only a court case would really answer that question.

You know, carbon credits, otherwise known as carbon offsets were bad enough, so bad in fact that Justin and I were selling Liberal Offsets on eBay not too long ago. (Linked to Misha's due to the great commentary re; this issue)

Total Kaos Radio even came up with Methane Credits in an attempt to combat Global Worming in their own charming way.

So to the folks in Boulder County Colorado that came up with this plan of pure evil genius I doff my chapeau to you. You have created a plan that steals property rights from two property owners with each transaction, sets an arbitrary tax on people for building their on their own property all while making it sound like you were saving the earth and have done so with a straight face.

Given that the median size of houses in Boulder County Colorado have gone up twice the national average over the last 16 years, meaning that your homeowners sound as if they are successful people, which means they usually are smarter than the average bear, I would guess that your homeowners are not a bunch of morons that are going to let this plan pass without a fight, so good luck with your evil freedom stealing plan to make yourselves feel good about saving the world.

The only thing that remains to be seen is if the citizens of your county are stupid enough to fall for it.

I am betting that the answer will be a resounding NO!

Our Founding Fathers (NOT simply Founders) signed a Declaration, pledging their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to the belief that Man is inherently gifted from birth with inalienable rights, in other words rights that are not granted by the government, therefore they are rights that cannot be taken away.

They went on to forge the most astounding document to follow that one in the Constitution.

Not one but two historic documents that changed the world, and continue to change it today.

They crafted the Constitution so that government would be limited, knowing that a limited government that had a narrowly defined scope of powers, balanced by two other branches, would be a great government and retain to the higest possible extent the freedom thatis inherently ours from birth.

Our government has overstepped those bounds, more so since World War 2 than before that, although the "temporary tax" to fund WW1 stayed with us to this day.

I have been listening closely to the candidates for president, and of all of them that have a chance the ONLY one I have seen EVER mention that an issue should be left to the states, regardless of issue, is Fred Dalton Thompson.

Fred is a Federalist.

Fred is the ONLY Federalist running.

We NEED that type of thinking in the White House desperately.

The Federal Government has been sticking their nose into our lives in an ever more intrusive way, and it's about time to have a President that believes certain things should be run by the states.

Just something for you to think about today.

You simply must watch this. With a tip 'o' me tam to Cao

In the latest skirmish in the War on Christmas. From an AFA Action Alert I received in email:

Mrs. Fields bans Christmas from their products

Dear Kender,

Mrs. Fields has become the first company to ban Christmas from their products and promotion for this year.

When Diane H. of Michigan called Mrs. Fields and asked to speak with a supervisor in customer service about why they banned Christmas, the supervisor told Diane that they do not offer anything with Merry Christmas because they don't want to offend anyone.

Click the title of this post and it will take you to Mrs. Fields website search page, where a search of Christmas will get you no results as of the posting of this article by me.

Click here to send an email to Mrs. Fields. Tell the company that since they don’t mind offending Christians, you will not be purchasing their products this Christmas. Ask them to please use Christmas in their promotion next year.

UPDATE:

Mrs Fields now has Christmas stuff up......that was damned fast work on their part.

So I have been hearing that posts about Ron Paul get lots of traffic. I am not a Ron Paul fan (although I do like his message about going by the constitution), so today I decided to post about Ron Paul, kind of like an experiment.
If the Ron Paul Experiment goes well, I may add in other keywords, such as sex. I wonder what kind of traffic a Ron Paul is Sexy post will garner?

What about Ron Paul Free Sex?

I bet that one gets lots of different hits......betcha never thought you'd see those words in the same sentence huh?

I will let you know if the Ron Paul idea works out.

One prominently advertised feature of the Flight 93 Memorial is the "40 Memorial Groves," one for each of the murdered heroes:





Why then does the actual design only contain 38?







The Memorial Groves are built into the crescent of what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace. The crescent forms part of the symbolic heavens in architect Paul Murdoch's crescent and star shaped design. Infidels cannot be memorialized in the Islamic heavens, so the 38 Memorial groves have to be a memorial to someone else. Who?



It is a simple geometric fact that a line across the most obtruding tips of the crescent of Memorial Groves points approximately to the White House:





A line across the Memorial Groves has the same slope (129° clockwise from north) as a line between the crash site and area of Washington DC that contains the Pentagon, the White House and the Capitol.



Notice also that the 38 groves can be seen as a set of 19 nested crescents. Take two groves away from the arc of 38 and a line across the tips of the remaining 36 will also point to the White House. Ditto for 34 groves, 32, etcetera, down to 2. One nested crescent for each of the nineteen 9/11 terrorists, each pointing to Washington, the specific target of the Flight 93 and Flight 77 terrorists and the symbolic target of all nineteen 9/11 terrorists.



Architect Paul Murdoch proves that he intends the 38 groves to be seen as a set of 19 nested crescents by surrounding the Tower of Voices with its own set of 19 nested crescents:





The Tower array contains nineteen nested crescents of various lengths, some as short as two trees, the same as with the Memorial Groves. Using arcs as short as two trees long is Murdoch's trick for hiding the number of nested crescents in the Tower array. It isn't until one finds the 19 nested crescents in the Memorial Groves, where the shortest crescent is made up of only 2 groves, that one knows to count the pairs of trees as crescents.



The Tower array also contains four single trees, giving special recognition to the four Flight 93 hijackers.



If anyone wants to think that this is coincidence, that is fine. (If not for all the other Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in the design, it might even be reasonable.) But even if it is coincidence, the American people still need to know that the planned Flight 93 memorial does in fact contain two sets of 19 nested crescents, and decide for themselves whether it is okay that the memorial contain elements like this that can be interpreted as honoring the 9/11 terrorists.



Fuller explanation of the Murdoch's 19-nested-crescents theme here.



What can you do? Some suggestions here.

Jesus Loves You, Allah Wants You Dead

So I haven't been around much, but that all ends now. I am back. And for your enjoyment today we get to see the ACLU smacked down for their sad attempt at getting the Bush administration in trouble for their policy of extraordinary rendition.

It seems a german citizen claimed that the CIA abducted him, drugged him and sent him to9 a prison in a third world country where he was tortured and finally released on a hilltop in another country in a case of mistaken identity.

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the case without comment after the Bush Administration said that if the case were not dismissed it would threaten state secrets.

What I want to know is WHY a group that calls itself the AMERICAN Civil Liberties Union is so concerned with the civil liberties of a german citizen. The last time I checked our civil liberties did not apply to the citizens of other countries, and the ACLU is not the arbiter of international law. We'll ignore the fact for the moment that international law is NOT what our government should worry about when they are making decisions about how bes to protect the country.

In a related story (related because people that obviously care more about their beliefs than the security of this country once again have caused our government to have a harder time tracking our enemies actions) a slip of the lip caused what amounted to an internal Al-Q intranet to shut down when it was revealed that the U.S. Government was watching their sites and gleaning intel from them without them knowing they had their security breached.

The ACLU, the NYT and other groups and organizations that fight against our government on the GWOT are basically attacking freedom and the safety and security of this nation, putting Americans in harms way in their misguided attacks on our governments attempt to track and deal with terrorists.

What I want to know is this;

When the islamists get control and impose sharia law, will the ACLU have the balls to stand up and say "no way achmed", or do you think it more likely that they will realize that speaking against the caliphate is a death sentence?

I am betting they will shut up and become good little dhimmis.

And no, the "UNion is not a typo....the UN will have a great say in our country's affairs.

Watch former Mexican Presidente mention the "Amero" the uniting of currency between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico:

I was going to call this post "Put Up Or Shut Up, The Master Plan to Utterly Destroy the Democratic Socialists and Rake Hillary and Her Ilk into the Dustbin of History" but that was simply too long of a title.

Like most men I do a little contemplating each and every day, usually while sitting in traffic or on the can. Men think best when they are either under pressure or sitting alone, and I have never known a man to get a good idea while a woman was around unless that idea involved said woman becoming nude at the earliest possible moment, but that is a post for another day.

So today sitting in traffic I came up with an idea so brilliant in its' simplicity, so utterly daring, so astoundingly forward thinking that if we can pull it off we will be considered, in the history books under Ideas that Saved the Republic, second only to the Greatest Generation that saved the world from Jewless Fascism.....or maybe the third greatest if you count the lads that fought the civil war....nono...fourth greatest (can't forget about the Revolution can we?) so we would, if we do this, be the fourth greatest generation of American Patriots ever.

Now before I get into this plan I must say it is going to take serious sacrifice. It is going to take ignoring principles and doing something you never thought you would be doing, but I am convinced that radical times take radical measures, and this plan, once it is unveiled in all its' glory, will save the republic and destroy democratic socialism. When I outline step two you are gonna wanna quit reading, but you must soldier on to step three, for that is where the plan gets brilliant.

Ready?

OK.

Step One: Start hiding assets. Liquidate and hide all assets as soon as possible. The reason for this will become apparent in step three.

Step Two: Vote for Hillary. DON'T STOP READING.

Step Three: The day after Hillary's inauguration get yourself fired, or if you have to just quit.

Step Four: The next day go apply for welfare and/or unemployment. The reason for hiding your assets is that the government only wants to take care of you once you can't take care of yourself, so you are gonna have to at least appear poor.

The Democratic Socialists say they can take care of us from cradle to grave, so I say let's call them on it. Let's refuse to work and let them worry about where all that money is gonna come from to take care of us. The upshot is once us conservatives aren't working we can spend all of our time protesting the government and demanding that they give us that free health care, housing and food that they seem to think are rights and not rewards for a life well lived.

Sure, the economy will crash, the government will fall into chaos and things will get really bad, but once this happens the platform of cradle to grave care that the Democratic Socialists tout will be shown as the dead end nation killing system that it is and we can vote in some real conservatives, get back to work and fix the country, thereby permanently ridding ourselves of the scourge of socialism that is set to ruin this once great republic.

Vote for Hillary. It may be our only chance.

X-Posted at Cao's, Ravens and Stop the ACLU.

Recently schools across the country started banning dangerous activities such as dodge ball, and tag.

Now we have another scourge of childhood that is going to go the way of the dodo, liberty and common sense.

Hugging.

That's right, hugging.

First off a tip o' me tam to Ogre.

Now for The Rant:

What kind of kids are we raising? With the reports yesterday out of The Boston Herald about doctors gathering lifestyle information about people from their children during exams to the insane tales of playgrounds banning dodge ball and tag, and now hugs, I fear we are creating a generation of pussified cry-babies that will be more than willing to prattle on to authorities about every little thing that scares them or that is deemed "wrong" or "dangerous."

Here's a short story for you. A friend of mine has a little sister. She was 12 when this happened. This little sister started being a bit rambunctious. Dad put down the hammer and grounded her and threatened, THREATENED to spank her. But the lovely teachers at her school informed her and her classmates that "your parents can't hit you and if they do or say they are going to then call child protective services."

So she did. They came out and told dad in no uncertain terms, "you can't spank her, and if you do we will take her away and put you in jail."

Result? One unruly child that once stated in front of me "You can't tell me what to do or else you will go to jail" as she walked her 14 year old ass out the door at 10 at night to go to a friends house. My advice to dad was give her tough love. Call the cops and have her picked up.

We are raising a generation of sissified cry babies, children brought up with government intrusion and direction at every turn, brainwashed to believe that government is the cure for all that ails you, there from the cradle to the grave.

We are creating a generation of children that, quite simply put, cannot think for themselves. It has been said that Freedom is only one generation from disappearing, that it must be nurtured like a flame lest it go out.

I fear we are watching the last flickering flames of freedom, and when they go out the world will truly be a dark, cold and scary place.

Trackbacked to Cao's blog and Error Theory.

Pennsylvania Newspapers Pretend There is No Direction to Mecca

In September 2005, a half dozen different bloggers verified that a person facing into what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 would be facing almost exactly at Mecca. Some surrounding trees have been added to the design, but the giant central crescent remains completely intact in the Bowl of Embrace redesign:



With Tom Burnett Sr. condemning the crescent design and refusing to allow Tom Jr.'s name to be used, there is now a big public controversy in western Pennsylvania over whether the giant crescent really is oriented on Mecca. In response, the Memorial Project has decided to deny that there is any such thing as the direction to Mecca, and Pittsburgh's two major newspapers are both backing up this transparent falsehood.

Professor Daniel Griffith, who is serving as a consultant to the Memorial Project, told the Post Gazette that: "anything can point toward Mecca, because the earth is round." …

He made similar statements to the Pittsburg Tribune Review and the Johnstown Tribune Democrat. None of these papers asked for a second opinion from any of the one billion Muslims who face Mecca five times a day for prayer, and it isn't that the media has been duped by Griffith.



Editors and reporters at both the Post Gazette and the Tribune Review are fully aware that a host of bloggers have independently verified the Mecca orientation of the crescent design. It was actually the Tribune Review that first commissioned Professor Griffith to analyze the blogosphere's Mecca-orientation claims. Alec Rawls, who has written a book about the many Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in the crescent design, has a copy of Griffith's report for the Tribune Review posted online. The first thing Griffith does is calculate the direction to Mecca:

I computed an azimuth value from the Flight 93 crater site to Mecca of roughly 55.20°.

"Azimuth" is the technical term for "direction," measured in degrees clockwise from north. Now Griffith is denying that there is any such thing as the direction to Mecca, and the Tribune Review refuses to tell its readers that Griffith is contradicting the report that he wrote for them.

The Post Gazette is even more outrageous. Rawls was told by Post Gazette reporter Paula Ward that she and her editors saw all the blog posts on the Mecca orientation of the Crescent of Embrace back in September 2005 and decided not to publish this explosive information. (Crescent of Betrayal, download 3, p. 108.) At the same time, the Post Gazette was running editorials that called critics of the crescent paranoid bigots:

But like those who look at innocent kids trick-or-treating at Halloween and see only the devil's work, a few small and suspicious minds couldn't look past the crescent to see a remarkably sensitive design.

When Tom Burnet Sr. asked the American people last month to please take his and Mr. Rawls' warnings about the crescent design seriously, the Post Gazette responded with an editorial titled: "Efforts to sully Flight 93 memorial deserve scorn."

What is the significance of a crescent that a person faces into to face Mecca? Such a structure is called a mihrab, and is the central feature around which every mosque is built. That is why the surrounding trees added in the Bowl of Embrace redesign do nothing to alter the Islamic significance of the design. You can plant as many trees around a mosque as you want and it will still be a mosque.

One local paper actually did fact-check the orientation of the giant crescent and validated the Mecca orientation claim in print, but the larger papers are all refusing to pass this fact checking on, or to do their own, even though it is simple one-two operation. All that Tribune Democrat reporter Kirk Swauger had to do was use the Mecca direction calculator at Islam.com to print out a graphic of the direction to Mecca from Somerset PA, then place this print out over the Crescent of Embrace site-plan PDF on his computer screen:



The green circle, marked with the qibla direction (the direction to Mecca), is from Islam.com. Graphic shows that a person standing at the midpoint between the most obtruding tips of the crescent structure and facing into the center of the crescent (red arrow), will be facing almost exactly at Mecca. (Hat tip Sarah Wells.)

As Swauger put it in his news article:

[Rawls'] claims seem to be backed up by coordinates for the direction of qibla from Somerset that can be found on Islam.com. When superimposed over the crescent in the memorial design, the midpoint points over the Arctic Circle, through Europe toward Mecca.

Having suppressed this information for two years, Pittsburgh's major newspapers are desperate to keep it suppressed now, or they will be ruined. Thus they find themselves camped out on the very spot that the blogosphere ranged with its artillery two years ago. They know full well that the Mecca-orientation of the crescent has been verified numerous times and are counting on their control of public information to keep this knowledge from getting out to the general public.

The challenge to bloggers could not be more overt. Can the blogosphere retrieve its earlier fact checking from the memory hole and bust these news frauds? Easy and permanent access to existing fact checking is the blogosphere's natural advantage, but we still have to take advantage of it.

This information was also mentioned at Newsbusters here on September 27, 2007.

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If you want to join us outraged protesting bloggers

1. in objecting to planting an Islamic symbol instead of an American one on the crash site,
2. in objecting to its pointing to Mecca and the terrorists' intended target,
3. in objecting to dishonoring the memory of the people who fought the terrorists on Flight 93
4. in pointing out how Paul Murdoch cleverly and symbolically cast the passenger and crew out of the Islamic heavens in the design while the terrorists are inside the Islamic heavens
5. in pointing out how the date and the site are dedicated to the terrorists
6. in pointing out the numerous redundant mosque design features
7. in pointing out the terrorist memorializing features
8. and post along with us on Wednesdays,

please contact caoilfhionn1 at gmail dot com with your website url. She will, in turn, add you to the email list, send you the blogroll code (if you want to put it in your sidebar), and will send you the prewritten text to post. You should receive the email from Cao a day or two prior to the Wednesday it should be posted, and tracked back to Cao's blog and Error Theory, if your blog has that capability. This will help us track who in the blogroll is posting the blogburst.

Let's roll.

Stop the Memorial Blogburst





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Riddle me this



What was Paul Murdoch, the design's architect, thinking? What was his ulterior motive? When controversy over the original name "Crescent of Embrace" and the bald Islamic symbol planted on the crash site brought a public outcry, the entire memorial was hastily re-titled "40 Memorial Groves."

As Alec is apt to do, he's having some fun with this: So why only 38 Memorial Groves?

His answer should appear today at Error Theory, go check it out!

I want a mean assed hard nosed President....one that doesn't have a shred of political correctness....

I want a President that tells the illegals to go the hell home....and helps them on their way without mercy....

I want a President that tells the islamists in no uncertain terms that they either knock the crap off or it's gonna be time to start glassing over muzzie villages....and then pointedly takes out an atoll in the Pacific with a missile launched from a submarine in the Atlantic while eating his Cap'n Crunch on a lazy Sunday morning in the Oval office while wearing his Presidential P.J.'s....and shows it all live on Fox News, just to make the point....

I want a President that will tell the dems in congress to stop lying and stealing and the republicans that can't get their stuff together to get the hell out of the party and stop making us look bad....

I want a President that will yell at reporters when they ask stupid partisan questions, a President that will tell that old bag Helen Thomas to shut her ugly pie hole and get the hell outta the white house until she learns to act like a human that cares for this country....

I want a President that will tell the Saudis to clean up their mess or we're gonna do it and we'll start with Mecca....

I want a President that will tell the Mexican president to sit down, shut up and stop sending us his citizens....and then bills Mexico for what they have cost us so far....

I want a President that will tell the ACLU and other leftist groups that if they continue being treasonous gits we're gonna start deporting people to countries we think they would like based on their rhetoric, such as Libya, Syria, China or Sudan....and then start doing it....

I want a President that gets mad and literally tells people to shut the hell up....and isn't afraid of doing just that

I want a President that goes out shooting every Sunday after church with the white house press pool.....just to show them what he is capable of doing.....

I want a president that literally scares the hell out of our enemies and causes them to freeze with fear and actually wonder what he'd do to them if they crossed him......

In short I want a President that has some balls and a big bunch of anger and is willing to call it like he sees it and doesn't worry about image or political correctness....perchance to dream eh?

Refugees pose 'potential crisis'

Now this headline could come from anywhere, but when I tell you where it comes from you're gonna say "WTF, mate?"

When I tell you who the "refugees" are your gonna laugh at the utter stupidity of it all.

Ready for this?

The headline comes from CANADA, and it's about (drumroll please) MEXICAN ILLEGAL ALIENS FLEEING THE U.S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG.I.CAN'T.STOP.LAUGHING!!!

Seriously. Illegal aliens from Mexico are fleeing into Canada due to pressure from the Dept of Homeland Security, and the Canadians don't know how to handle it.

Can you think of anything more surreal?

***UPDATE***

It seems the NYT is now covering this story also.

Here is a few choice quotes from that article, just for amusement. Manuel Gonzales, 46, when speaking of Canada said:

“Maybe they’ll have compassion for us, all we want to do is live and follow the rules and work hard. What we didn’t have in the United States we had here in a second.”

Ohohoh...I am so heartbroken that Manuel "Labore" Gonzales couldn't find peace and quiet in the U.S. after sneaking in here and living ILLEGALLY!!!!

But here's my favorite part of the article:

Carina Gonzalez, who drove her red Suburban from Naples a few weeks ago, said she had lived in the United States for 10 years. When she reached a customs agent as she crossed into Canada, she recalled, she felt deeply nervous but also relieved.

Ms. Gonzalez said that she had worked in a grocery store in the United States but that her employers had been asking more and more questions about her documents and her legal status.

“I could smell the freedom when I crossed over,” said Ms. Gonzalez, 25. “I don’t know what’s going to happen next, but the pressure of worrying about getting caught never let you sleep well.”

all emphasis mine

Now, first off she had a suburban. By far not a cheap car to own or run, even if it is an older model. Second, she was living in the U.S. for 10 years, working at a grocery store....you know...one of those jobs that Americans just won't do?

So she could smell the freedom in Canada that she couldn't smell in the U.S.? Good deal.......let's tell all of the illegal aliens about this "asylum" and let canada worry about deporting them by the millions and while they are busy doing that we can build our wall. BTW Carina.....I am glad you lost sleep while you were a "guest" in our country.....maybe if more people felt scared to be here illegally it wouldn't happen so much.

One last thing. The fellow at the Jerusalem Haiti Community Center that is charging these illegals 300 bux to fill our a refugee application and giving them directions to canada? Brilliant. Wish I had thought of it. Sheer Genius, good for America and capitalistic all in one swell foop.

Good on ya mate......

Over at the daily POS (whom I refuse to link to) one of the leftists "diarists" (which is funny because that word is so close to "diarrhea", which is what basically spews from their pot-holes that constantly yak and lie) has finally admitted what we have been saying all along:

We do not function as well as we would in our daily lives. We are more anxious. We are more depressed. We are more fearful.

And we are less capable of making rationale decisions.

emphasis mine

Well we knew this. We've been saying for awhile that they can't make rationale decisions and are cowards.

Gld one of em finally admitted it.

Six years ago today our country was attacked by islamic extremists.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the failed attack on the White House were, to date, the most successful attack yet by the islamists that have declared war on us, vowing to destroy us and make the world islamic.

We are facing a dedicated and ruthless foe who believe they are doing G-ds work and are blessed in their actions, and they will not stop until we defeat them on every front around the entire globe. Our first and best defense against this threat is to hunt them down and kill them, alot, where ever they are hiding at, without apology, without mercy and without fail.

To do anything less is to invite more attacks.

These are the people who follow an ideology rooted in a backwards, misogynistic, 8th century religion, a group that has not only vowed our destruction and subjugation, but have shown us, in stark detail what happens to those that don't go along with their plan or oppose them, as evidenced by Daniel Pearl and so many others whom we have watched being beheaded while tied up and held down, screaming, then gurgling for their lives.

These are the sick bastards that teach their children that the highest action they can take is strapping on a bomb vest and blowing themselves up in a pizza joint or a bus full of innocents, and killing just one Jew is the surest way to curry favor with their damnable moon god and find paradise.

These people are mentally ill. Being a parent my number one job is protecting my child, not teaching him that killing himself is OK as long as he takes at least other person whom we think is evil with him. What kind of mindset must it take to raise your child to destroy themselves while killing another human being?

And today, of all days, should be the day that we remember not only those who have fallen in this war, but why we are fighting this war, and what the cost of defeat will be.

We are fighting this war on every front we can, while trying to teach the arab world that there is a better way, if they could only let go of old hatreds and learn to work together.

Frankly I think that may be a mistake. Personally I think we should institute a new policy of going after the families of suicide bombers. We should teach these barbaric assholes that if you are going to try to get to paradise by blowing yourself up, then we will do everything in our power to make sure that every family member we can find will follow you as soon as possible.

No more of this "I go to paradise and mom gets money" crap. It needs to be "I go to paradise and mom and little sister and uncle habib and auntie samira and little cousin achmed get it too."

THAT'S HOW YOU FIGHT THESE GUYS!!!!

NO FRIGGIN' MERCY!!!!!

And this weekend, in our nations capital, thousands will march demanding an end to this war, completely ignoring the fact that they are basically calling for the defeat of our troops in the field, and further endangering our country, all the while claiming to support those very same troops, the troops that are out fighting the islamic militant bastards that would see us destroyed and subjugated and bowing in fear of being beheaded.

Six short years have passed.

Six revolutions around the sun.

By my quick calculations that is 2191 days.

Two thousand nine hundred and seventy four people are listed as killed that day in those attacks.

We are going to be at war a lot longer too, and many more people are going to die, and many of them are going to fall into the "innocent" category. I would prefer if those on the innocent side were not part of the casualties, but since that is inevitable then may it be the ones that support those that stand against us, and not those that stand with us.

Never forget. May God Bless Our soldiers, our country and our freedom, and give us the will and courage to fight always against the foes that would see us enslaved or dead.

I must say that this pilot has it dead on. It's a letter from a airline pilot (supposedly, as I haven't vetted it, and even if it is not from a pilot or the fellow doesn't exist it hits the nail on the head anyway) to American Muslims.

Pay Attention folks.

"YOU WORRY ME!"

By American Airlines Pilot - Captain John Maniscalco

I've been trying to say this since 9-11, but you worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country.

But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me. I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.

On September 11, nineteen ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's mothers.

The Palestinians Celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So, I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage and hate and prejudice that have destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.

How do I differentiate between the true Arab / Muslim-Americans and the Arab Muslim terrorists in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities under the protection of OUR constitution, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter these same good neighbors and children?

The events of September 11th changed the answer. It is not my responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with ALL of its religions, with ALL of its different citizens, with all of its faults. It is time for every Arab/Muslim in this country to determine it for me.

I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a right to know, whether or not you love America? Do you pledge allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly display it in front of your house, or on your car? Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation, that He will protect and prosper it? Or do you pray that Allah will destroy it in one of your Jihads? Are you thankful for the freedom that only this nation affords? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country? Are you willing to preserve this freedom by also paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love America?

If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start letting ME know about it.

Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding the media at this time with hard facts on your faith, and what hard actions you are taking as a community and as a religion to protect the United States of America.

Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the death of the innocent because I worry about who you regard as innocent. No more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked attacks because I worry about what is unprovoked to you. I am not interested in any more sympathy. I am only interested in action.

What will you do for America - our great country - at this time of crisis, at this time of war?

I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN flag in the streets. I want to hear you chanting "Allah Bless America " I want to see young Arab/Muslim men enlisting in the military. I want to see a commitment of money, time, and emotion to the victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole.

The FBI has a list of over 400 people they want to talk to regarding the WTC attack. Many of these people live and socialize right now in Muslim communities. You know them. You know where they are. Hand them over to us, now! But I have seen little even approaching this sort of action. Instead I have seen an already closed and secretive community close even tighter. You have disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed security guards at your facilities. You have threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for protection from reprisals. The very few Arab/Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were defensive and equivocating.

They seemed more concerned with making sure that the United States proves who was responsible before taking action. They seemed more concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed towards them in the United States and abroad than they did with supporting our country and denouncing "leaders" like Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and Arafat.

If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people, then I want chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to back it up. What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good, and pure, and true, when your "leaders" are teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance?

It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if huge numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form of the religion. A form that has been demonstrated to us over and over again. A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence, death, and suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around the world. A form whose members (some as young as five years old) are seen day after day, week in and week out, year after a year, marching in the streets around the world, burning effigies of our presidents, burning the American flag, shooting weapons into the air. A form whose members convert from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms against the great United States of America, the country of their birth. A form whose rules are so twisted, that their traveling members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name of Islam.

We will NEVER allow the attacks of September 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that which is so precious to us: Our rights under the greatest constitution in the world.

I want to know where every Arab Muslim in this country stands and I think it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to demand it. A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very constitution that is protecting you and your family. I am pleading with you to let me know.

I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow American.

But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance and it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand. Until then. "YOU WORRY ME!"

Pass it on......'nuff said

Many of you have probably received invites from your other friends to join the social networking site called "Quechup" but you won't get one from me for several reasons.

One, I am not signing up for anything else, whether its free or not. Apologies to all of the diggsters out there, but I won't be "digging" your articles. I have too many username/password combos to remember now. Since I don't join up with every invite that comes into my email box I wasn't inadvertently spamming my entire address book, which is what quechup is doing to gather new members.

Many social networking sites ask if they can look in your address book to find your contacts that may be members, but quechup takes it to a whole new level, spamming your entire address book with invites that appear to be from you WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION!!!!

Curious as to who the hell owns this site, I went over to quechup, and in the bottom of the page they have a link called "Investor Relations."

Clicking on that link will take you to this page where you will find a "contact us" link at the bottom of the page.

That takes you to this page which lists

iDate Corporation
6767 West Tropicana Ave.
Suite 207
Las Vegas, NV 89103
USA

as the contact address. A google search of that address gets you 11,600 hits on google. Since this address is not an actual post office as far as I can find, one must assume it is a maildrop...probably for businesses that are registered in Nevada. I am having that checked on and will post more about that later.

For now just delete quechup invites.

Oh, and as for who is hiding behind quechup and why?

I have no idea, but if I find out who to call and bitch at about their underhanded practices I will post it here for you.