Good Questions!

 

Random Thoughts

This was sent to me, author unknown, but I can surely relate:


I used to think I was just a regular guy, but . . .

I was born white, which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a racist.

I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today's standards, makes me a fascist.

I am heterosexual, which according to gay folks, now makes me a homophobic.

I am non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working class and an ally of big business.

I am a Christian, which now labels me as an infidel.

I believe in the 2nd Amendment, which now makes me a member of the vast gun lobby.

I am older than 70 and retired, which makes me a useless old man. I think and I reason, therefore I doubt much that the main stream media tells me, which must make me a reactionary.

I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture, which makes me a xenophobe.

I value my safety and that of my family and I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist.

I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which today makes me an anti-socialist.

I (and most of the folks I know), acquired a fair education without student loans (its called work) and no debt at graduation, which makes me some kind of an odd underachiever.

I believe in the defense and protection of the homeland for and by all citizens, which now makes me a militant.
  Now, a sick old woman is calling me and my friends a basket of deplorables.

Please help me come to terms with the new me ... because I'm just not sure who I am anymore!

I would like to thank all my friends for sticking with me through these abrupt, new found changes in my life and my thinking! I just can't imagine or understand what's happened to me so quickly!

Funny ... it's all just taken place over the last 7 or 8 years!

As if all this crap wasn't enough to deal with ... I'm now afraid to go into either restroom!

Political Correctness + Media Moron =

Forwarded to me:

  This is an email sent to Clarence Page  (Media Moron) of the Chicago Tribune after an article he published concerning a name change for the Washington .... Redskins.

Clarence Page-oped-Washington Redskins name-change

Dear Mr. Page ... I always love your articles and I generally agree with them.  I would suggest, as in an email I received, they change the name to the "Foreskins" to better represent their community, paying tribute to the dick heads in Congress.

Here are some other politically correctness to consider: 

             I agree with our Native American population.

I am highly insulted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins. One might argue that to name a professional football team after Native Americans would exalt them as fine warriors, but nay, nay. We must be careful not to offend, and in the spirit of political correctness and courtesy, we must move forward.

Let's ditch the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the
Cleveland Indians too.   If your shorts are in a wad because of the reference the name Redskins makes to skin color, then we need to get rid of the Cleveland Browns.

The Carolina Panthers obviously were named to keep the memory of militant Blacks from the 60's alive. Gone. It's offensive to us white folk.

The New York Yankees offend the Southern population. Do you see a team named for the Confederacy? No!  There is no room for any reference to that tragic war that cost this country so many young mens' lives.

I am also offended by the blatant references to the Catholic religion among our sports team names.  Totally inappropriate to have the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres.

Then there are the team names that glorify criminals who raped and pillaged. We are talking about the horrible Oakland Raiders, the Minnesota Vikings, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Pirates!

Now, let us address those teams that clearly send the wrong message to our children.

The San Diego Chargers promote irresponsible fighting or even spending habits. 
   Wrong message to our children.

The New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants promote obesity, a growing childhood epidemic. 
   Wrong message to our children.

The Cincinnati Reds promote downers/barbiturates. 
   Wrong message to our children.

The Milwaukee Brewers---well that goes without saying. 
   Wrong message to our children.

So, there you go.  We need to support any legislation that comes out to rectify this travesty, because the government will likely become involved with this issue, as they should.   
   Just the kind of thing the do-nothing congress loves .. . ..

As a die-hard Oregon State fan, my wife and I, with all of this in mind, it might also make some sense to change the name of the Oregon State women's athletic teams to something other than "the Beavers."

  Keep those cards and letters coming.

Knee Jerk Reaction Jerks

A chaotic 4th:

At least 28 injured at California fireworks show

Father driving float accidentally runs over son at OK 4th of July parade

7-yr-old falls off float during 4th-of-july parade

Man crushed during independence day parade

So, how soon are the Dummycrat / Progressive / Liberal wussy-pants gonna try to outlaw fireworks, parades and / or the 4th of July?

A Speech We'll Never Hear

This 2010 column by California talk-radio host Dennis Prager was forwarded to me:

 
A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give.

By Dennis Prager.

To the students and faculty of our high school:

I am your new principal, and honored to be so.
There is no greater calling than to teach young people.
I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country.

First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity.
I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American.

This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans. If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity, race and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America, one of its three central values -- epluribus Unum, "from many, one." And this school will be guided by America's values. This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.

Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interested in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.

Second, I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America's citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English -- but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.

Third , because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.

Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can't speak without using the f -word, you can't speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as "Nigger," even when used by one black student to address another black, or "bitch," even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.

Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.

Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only, or primarily a health issue.

There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately fortunate -- to be alive and to be an American.

Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Wouldn't it be a wondrous thing to hear an educator speak these sentiments? Alas, I have no illusions that the educators social progressive agents that currently have the power of educating indoctrinating our children would ever do so.

Political Correctness Run Amuck

Apparently a bunch of adult educators  social progressive agents became freaked out over a 5-year-old "terrorist" who "threatened" to shoot another child with her Hello Kitty gun... that shoots bubbles.

Girl-5 suspended for threat to shoot
  
    Mount Carmel Area School District officials said the girl made the threat on Jan. 10 as she waited for a school bus with friends. A school official overheard the remark and searched the girl's backpack and did not find the Hello Kitty gun.

The next day, the girls involved were 'interrogated' by school officials (WITHOUT parents being present).

By the time the girl was finished speaking to administrators about the incident, she was crying. A teacher called out the girl in front of her class and told her police may get involved.

 

Are you freaking kidding me?

There are so many things WRONG here I don't know where to begin.

_The backpack search.

_The interrogation.  (With parents it would have been horrible, without parents it is criminal.) I wonder how many adults it took to question a 5-year-old child.

_The teacher. Excuse me, social progressive agent. What a wonderful example of a human being.

_The suspension.

I reckon the child should be glad she wasn't hauled off to juvenile hall or county lock-up.

I hope her parents sue the county, the principal, the teacher social progressive agent, and anybody else who participated in this shameful farce.

Thought for the Day

I Am a ~Politically Incorrect~ American

Whoever wrote this said it better than I ever could.

 

It was posted ....well,  check the end of the post, you may be surprised.

 

I'm an American

I am sick of "Political Correctness".

I know a lot of black people, and not one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"?

I don't go around saying I am Irish-American because my great-great grandfather was from Ireland. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else!

I don't believe being a minority makes you noble or victimized nor entitles you to anything.

I don't believe that I have to be tolerant of others because they are different or weird or stupid.

I believe that reparations for slavery is nonsense.  One injustice (slavery) cannot be corrected by another injustice (taking money from an innocent party).   I've never owned a slave, and a large percentage of our forefathers didn't own one either. Please stop blaming me because 100 years ago some white (and black) people did. And remember, lots of white, Indian, Chinese, and other races have been enslaved, too.

I believe that truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, Black Student Unions, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, White Student Unions, or Miss White America, and see what happens. Brothers Al and Jesse will be knocking down your door.

I believe that it takes a parent, NOT a village, to raise a child; and that parents should tell their kids NO sometimes and mean it.

I believe an occasional swat on the bottom is not necessarily a bad thing.

I don't believe that your two-year old has the same rights that I do, no matter what Hillary thinks.

I don't believe in teaching down to the lowest denominator; children who can't or won't learn will be left behind.

I believe that programs for intellectually gifted children should be better funded than programs for 'special-needs' children.

I believe that state colleges/universities who will not allow military recruiters on campus should not receive one more cent of federal money.

The same goes for state colleges/universities who do not offer a politically balanced curriculum.

I don't believe that college makes you a necessarily better, smarter, or more enlightened person.

I believe that all veterans should be given all the educational benefits to which they are entitled.

I believe the Dream Act which allows illegal aliens to attend college at the reduced tuition rates normally reserved for in-state legal residents should be abolished.

I believe that religious characters who preach politics from the pulpit should be informed that since they apparently do not recognize the separation of church and state, their organizations will begin paying income tax.

I want to know where is it exactly that the Reverend Jesse Jackson practices, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution.

I believe everyone has a right to pray to their God or gods, while I pray that the test results come back negative.

I don't celebrate Kwanzaa. But if you want to that's fine; just don't feel like everyone else should.

"Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture or necrodestination."  (Frank Zappa)
 
I believe that calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented worker' is like calling a drug dealer an 'unlicensed pharmacist'.

Our soldiers, sailors and Marines did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in wars to defend others' freedom so that decades later you can tell me our Constitution is an ever-changing living document and is open to interpretation.

I believe that the liberal interpretation of the 14th amendment needs to stop right now. No more anchor-babies.

I believe that the cities, states, churches, schools, etc. who defy federal law and call themselves 'sanctuaries' should not get one more penny of federal money. And the mayors, councilmen, governors, etc of those cities should pay fines or face charges or both.

I believe that if you are an American citizen you should speak English. Americans didn't die in foreign lands so that you can leave the countries you were born in to come disrespect ours. Get over it. Assimilate or go home.

I believe that we should enforce the laws we already have before making more of the same.

I don't believe in hate crime legislation. You're telling me that someone who is a minority, gay, disabled, another nationality, or otherwise different from the mainstream of this country has more value as a human being that I do as a middle-class white heterosexual female?

I think the cops have every right to shoot your after they tell you to stop and you run. If you can't understand the word 'freeze' or 'stop' in English, see above.

I also think they have the right to pull your ass over if you're breaking the law, regardless of your color, religion, or profession.

I believe in some cases murderers should be executed by the same method as they used. Eye for an eye and all that.

John Couey comes to mind. He should be buried alive in a plastic garbage bag after having a 4 foot stick shoved up his butt.

I believe that judges should be held to some sort of accountability.

I believe that the 9th ward of New Orleans should be declared a permanent disaster area, fenced off, and bulldozed.

I believe that those Hurricane Katrina 'victims' who have not gotten on with their life by now, should do so.

I don't believe anyone ever died because of something Ozzy Osbourne, Ice-T or Marilyn Manson sang, but that doesn't mean I want to listen to that crap from someone else's car when I'm stopped at a red light.

Any legally-qualified American should be allowed to own a gun, but if you use it in a crime, then you will serve the time.  Owning a gun doesn't make you a killer any more than owning a garage makes you a car.  You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.  Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than my gun.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some government program that wants to give it away to crack addicts squirting out babies.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep on making money. If you don't like that, then you invent the next operating system that's better and put your name on the building.

I do not believe that alcoholism is a disease. That's merely a convenient designation so that insurance companies will foot the bill for rehab programs.

Despite what Hillary Clinton thinks, I do not believe that people who use drugs suffer from a disability and do not have the right to employment in the White House. 

I believe that a dog is a dog, no matter how you dress it up.

I have mourned a dead guinea pig but I never kissed it on the lips nor let it eat from my plate.

I don't believe that we were wrong to save millions of lives (NBF: American AND Japanese) by dropping "the bomb" on Japan.

I worry about dying before I get even.

I believe that "You can't wave a 'peace sign' at me while our bravest young men and women are in armed conflict with crazed zealots determined to wipe us off the face of the earth, and call it patriotism." (Pat Boone)

I believe that the war on terror should be fought without regard to the ACLU, the New York Times, and the Democrats.

I believe that John Kerry and Jane Fonda should have been charged with treason and/or sedition for their blatantly unAmerican activities regarding the Vietnam War.

I believe that we stand little chance of waging a politically correct war and winning — not against an enemy that believes that Allah has ordered him to fight to the death, to purposely target women and children, and to torture and behead everyone who disagrees.

I believe that way too much media attention is given to ditzy, dipwad celebrities who have nothing to offer except bleached-white bright smiles, $400 haircuts and plastic boobs.  But on the other hand, thanks to the aforementioned media we know what big idiots Sean Penn and Danny Glover are.

I believe that Danny Glover should go live in Caracas, Sean Penn in Havana, and Michael Moore anywhere but here.

I believe that the United Nations is a worthless organization and that the building at 1st Ave & E 44th St, New York, NY 10017, should be vacated and used as a Veterans' Home.

I believe that 99.9% of all politicians are two-faced, back-stabbing, self-serving liars.

I believe a self-righteous liberal with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

I know how to count votes and I feel much safer letting a machine with no political affiliation do a recount when needed.

I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.

I believe that the Electoral College should be abolished.    (NBF: UM, No)

I believe that the definition of 'irony' is that Bill Clinton got $12 million for his memoirs and Hillary got $8 million for hers.

That's $20 million for two people who for eight years repeatedly testified they couldn't remember anything.

I believe that Hillary Clinton is a socialist no matter how many times she reinvents herself.

I believe that the greatest tragedy of the 20th century is that Bill Clinton's name isn't on the Wall.

I believe that our country is being taken down the path to 2nd world status by the CONGRESS, the liberal-biased MEDIA, and Political Correctness.

I will not be frowned upon or be looked down upon or be made to keep silent because I have these beliefs and opinions. I thought this country allowed me that right. I will not conform or compromise just to keep from hurting somebody's feelings. I'm neither angry nor disenfranchised, no matter how desperately the mainstream media would like the world to believe otherwise.

Yes, I guess by some people's definition, I may be Politically Incorrect..

Tough.

          ~~   Author: bootyist-monk  ~  Posted on 09/01/2000   ~~

Bearenting

Parenting, bear style:

No 'time out', no excuses, no ignoring the offense and the offender.

Just punishment - and - forgiveness, sure and swift.

A lot of 'modern' parents could learn from this.

Ft Hood Massacre = Workplace Violence ?

During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Dec 7th, Senator Susan Collins (ME/R) blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and criticized the Barack Hussein Obama administration for failing to identify the threat from radical Islam.

She (correctly) suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation’s Armed Forces at home.


This is the ultimate example of what is wrong with Barack Hussein Obama and his Administration -aka- the Insane Clowns of the Circus of Ineptitude.

Ft Hood Massacre = not Terrorism

Put Me in Charge

Forwarded to me, author unknown, but obviously a Visionary:

Put me in charge of food stamps.
I'd get rid of food stamp cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Hos; just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away.

 

 If you want steak and frozen pizza, get a job.

 

Put me in charge of Medicaid.
The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Or Vasectomies for men!

 
Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings.

 

If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, get a job.

 

Put me in charge of government housing.
Ever live in a military barracks?
"You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair." 

 

Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried.

 

 If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, get a job and your own place.

 

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22-inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary.

 

If you want our money, accept our rules.

Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem", consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND While you are on Government subsistence, you no longer can VOTE!
Yes that is correct. 

 
For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. 

You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Government welfare check.

 

If you want to vote, then get a job.

"Beat Whitey Night"

Question #1: 

Haven't heard about  This  on the MSM, have we?

Here's the  local media version. 

Robbie Cooper at  UrbanGrounds :

Now…imagine that it was a bunch of white kids, and it was “Beat Darkie Night.”

Imagine the non-stop media outrage on MSNBC if it were white kids doing this?  I’m sure there wouldn’t be any confusion as to whether or not race was a factor…

 

Question #2:

Are the police not going to enforce the law? 

Hate Crime: IOWA

Stolen Valor

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that

The Stolen Valor Act

a three-year-old federal law

that makes false claims

to have received a medal from the U.S. military

a crime

is unconstitutional.

  

The court majority said that "there was no evidence that such lies harm anybody, and there's no compelling reason for the government to ban such lies".

So now these LIES and the lying LIARS who tell them are protected by the First Amendment.

This is an unbelievable, unforgivable insult to every man and woman who have served, are serving and will serve their country in uniform.

Thought For the Day

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Dr. Adrian Rogers

1931-2005

We Are at War

Exclusive: We Are at War with the 25th Panzer Division ... Right?

 

by Gadi Adelman

Um, no…wrong.

Have you found yourself angrily talking back at the television lately?

Or better yet – as in my case – screaming?

Well, as I found out recently, I am not alone.

When public opinion and the real world collided on President Obama’s lap after the Christmas Day bomber set his pants on fire (and let’s hope something else near and dear to his BVDs) during Northwest Flight 253’s approach to Detroit, President Obama finally stated publicly that America is at war. With his keen sense of the obvious coming to his aid at last, he stated, “Let’s be clear. We are at war. We are at war with al Qaeda.” The only problem is…that statement is not clear and only confuses matters, because it is wildly incorrect.

This administration continues to make very serious mistakes about our national security because they are not very serious about it. A very serious administration would know – and admit to – the fact that we are not just at war with al Qaeda, but with Jihad itself.

Saying that we are at war only with al Qaeda would have been tantamount to saying, during World War II, that we were at war with only the 25th Panzer Division of the German Army, and not with the entire German Army itself.

Yes, we are at war with al Qaeda… and also with Hamas and Hezbollah and Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and Ansar al Islam and Harakat ul-Mujahadin …well, you get the idea. What animates, connects and indeed unites these various groups – and many more? Jihad. Holy War against the infidels.

In fact, according to the April 30, 2008 report from the Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism of the U.S. Department of State, there are 42 different “U.S. Government Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”

It might do the president’s advisors well to read the report before they allow him again, with the entire world watching, to embarrass himself mightily.

We are at war with Jihadists.

We are at war with Islamic terrorists.

We are at war with Muslim extremists.

We are at war with Islamic radicals.

There are many ways to state the obvious, so why then does the administration insist on playing word games? Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says in her speeches “man-caused disasters” rather than “terrorism.”  Attorney General Eric Holder announced in March of ‘08 that the term “enemy combatant” will no longer be used by the federal government to describe, er, enemy combatants captured on the battlefield during counter-terrorism and counterinsurgency military operations.

I must admit I was pleasantly surprised that Obama even used the word “war” at all since he had stated that the "war on terror" would now be called "Overseas Contingency Operations."

Why is our current administration so hell bent on being politically correct – or just plain incorrect?

Do they honestly believe that if they use kinder, gentler language that those who want to kill us – those who want to destroy our country and destroy our entire culture – will just lay down their weapons and play patty-cake with us?

Are they trying to convince the American public of this or just themselves?

This is nothing more than political correctness, with a little ignorance thrown in, run amuck. The United States as well as the rest of the world is facing an enemy of epic proportions. This is a war unlike any other this country has ever had to face. The battlefield is not in a specified area but rather it is worldwide; the enemy has no common uniform nor does he come from a common country. We are at war with the whole of militant Islam, wherever it resides on earth. There is no room for political correctness in any war, and much less so in one where our enemies are trying to kill innocent civilians in the name of their religion.

Imagine where we would be if we had adhered to political correctness during World War II. Most of you reading this would be speaking German and others, like me, would not be here at all. We called the Germans “Nazis” because that’s what they were. While I was growing up during the Cold War, we called the Russians “Commies” because that’s what they were.

As best as I can recall from history, America and the allies defeated the Nazis as well as brought down the Iron Curtain only 40 years later.

This was not accomplished by trying to re-write words to be more appealing to the enemy.

This was not done by giving the foreign enemy American constitutional rights and then trying them in our civil courts. We had P.O.W. camps for a reason and the enemy was treated as such.

The people of this country, and the administration as a whole, need to wake up and look at history. The first Jihad that swept through the Middle East, southern Spain, North Africa and into southeast Europe resulted in Islamic domination of those areas; that’s why in areas where there used to be large Christian populations, there are no longer Christians even living there. They either were forced to convert to Islam by their Islamic conquerors, or they fled, or they were killed. History shows us what Islam is capable of and what must be done to stop it. It will not be stopped by using politically correct terms, which do nothing more than show our enemy that we are weak, intimidated by them and confused.

The people who died on 9/11 were from all walks of life, many countries, all political parties and all religions. One thing they all had in common: no matter who they were or what their nationality was, is that they all bled the same color. The enemy has said they “will kill us wherever we are.”

Does that sound politically correct to you?

Do you think they care about such nonsense?

While our country is trying to figure out new ways to say the truth, but to sugarcoat it so it sounds like kids’ play in an elementary schoolyard, the enemy is devising ingenious new ways to slaughter us – men, women, children. They could not care less about who goes first or worst.

Somewhere along the line, America became more concerned with analyzing its own alleged guilt than with securing its own borders and aggressively protecting its own citizens. If we as a country continue down this path of childishly naïve political correctness and tip-toeing around our enemy’s feelings, we will ourselves become victims of a “man caused disaster.”

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Gadi Adelman is a freelance writer and lecturer on the history of terrorism and counterterrorism. He grew up in Israel, studying terrorism and Islam for 35 years after surviving a terrorist bomb in Jerusalem in which 7 children were killed.  Since returning to the U. S., Gadi teaches and lectures to law enforcement agencies as well as high schools and colleges. He is currently writing his first book, “Terrorism; Understanding the Threat”. He can be reached at antiterror@nc.rr.com

H/T:  Black Five

The Ultimate Social Promotion

The question:

"Why would U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan, murderer of 13 people at Ft Hood and a Muslim, be advanced in spite of all the worries over his competence?"
 
Superiors Ignored Their Worries

... While in medical school at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences from 1997 to 2003, Hasan received a string of below average and failing grades, was put on academic probation and showed little motivation to learn.

... In telling episodes from the latter stages of Hasan's lengthy medical education (he took 6 years instead of the customary four to graduate), he gave a class presentation questioning whether the U.S.-led war on terror was actually a war on Islam. And students said he suggested that Shariah, or Islamic law, trumped the Constitution and he attempted to justify suicide bombings...

 ... Yet no one in Hasan's chain of command appears to have challenged his eligibility to hold a secret security clearance even though they could have because the statements raised doubt about his loyalty to the United States.

... Instead, in July 2009, Hasan arrived in central Texas, his secret clearance intact, his reputation as a weak performer well known, and Army authorities believing that posting him at such a large facility would mask his shortcomings.

The answer: It is political correctness run amuck.

The Voice of Experience

Recent events may be an indication of what happens when we don't listen to it.

The following is a statement released by Retired Lt. Col. Allen West, Nov. 7, 2009, following the Ft. Hood massacre:

"This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. 

As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.

My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.

A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.

A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.

On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.

There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.

We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.

This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is ... an Islamic jihadist attack.

We have seen this before in 2003 when Sgt Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait . We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.

What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.

What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America, and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.

Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood; matter of fact, he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.

However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation ... and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.

We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.

No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”.

The recent incidents in Dearborn,Michigan, Boston, Massachusetts , Dallas, Texas , and Chicago, Illinois, should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America . And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded.

We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States , one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach . Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia ? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca ?

So much for peaceful coexistence.

Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology… one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.

We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic … that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American, treason.
There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America; that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.

When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.

Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack. Stop the denial and realize a simple point.

The reality of your enemy must become your own.

Steadfast and Loyal,
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)

Thanks to: Gathering of Eagles:NY

The Fort Hood Outrage

  We have a Pentagon full of political Generals with Politically Correct Rules of Engagement.

Real Clear Politics:

An Officer's Outrage Over Fort Hood

by Major Shawn Keller

As an officer in the United States Army, I'm angry for so many reasons over what happened at Ft. Hood. I'm angry that twelve of my fellow soldiers and a contractor were murdered. I'm angry that over thirty people have suffered life altering injuries from which they will never fully recover. I'm angry that the lives of so many families have been forever ruined. I'm angry that this happened on an Army post on American soil where soldiers should be safe. And I'm angry that the murderer was a terrorist who masqueraded as an Army officer for half a dozen years.

But as angry as I am at what happened, I'm even angrier that it was allowed to happen. Apparently, there was no shortage of warning signs that Hasan identified more with Islamic Jihadists than he did with the US Army. From speeches, writings, conversations, affiliations and postings on Jihadist websites, there were more than enough dots to connect that should have exposed Hasan as someone inclined to attack innocent people in the furtherance of a political, religious and ideological agenda. There were more than enough red flags raised that, at a minimum, should have gotten Hasan kicked out of the Army.

But just like September 11, those agencies and individuals charged with keeping America and Americans safe failed to connect the dots that would have saved lives. Jihadist rhetoric espoused by Hasan was categorically dismissed out of submissiveness to the concepts of tolerance and diversity. The Army as an institution has been neutered by decades of political correctness and the leaders in Hasan's chain-of-command failed to act accordingly out of fear of being labeled anti-Muslim and receiving a negative evaluation report. The counter-terrorism agencies knew Hasan was communicating with Al-Qaeda and dismissed it as academic research instead of delving deeper into the probability that a terrorist had infiltrated the ranks.

Even four hours after Hasan stood on a desk yelling Allahu Akbar! and opened fire, the FBI stated that they were not investigating the attack as an act of terrorism even as there were still reports of other gunmen on the loose. Meanwhile, the Army continues to dismiss it as a "tragedy" and an "isolated incident by a lone gunman" while the media has invented the psychological condition of post-traumatic stress disorder by proxy. There is more concern for promoting the appropriate information operation campaign and maintaining the illusion of safety than there is for actually exposing the weaknesses and faults in the system that allowed this to happen. We're even being told that damage to the Army's efforts at diversity would be a greater tragedy than the murder of the twelve soldiers -- how ironic the week of Veterans' Day.

This has nothing to do with being anti-Islamic. After numerous tours to Iraq and working with countless cultural advisors on Ft. Bragg, I know dozens of Muslims who I respect and admire greatly. This has everything to do with force protection and security being trumped by the concepts of political correctness and diversity. This has everything to do with a hypocritical system and culture that breeds timidity and dismissiveness in the interest of career advancement. If I preached a white-supremacist ideology or described Timothy McVeigh as a hero to the cause of freedom and liberty, how long do you think I would still be in the military drawing a salary, receiving educational benefits and getting promoted like Hasan did?

Hasan's radical ideology grew to the point that he committed mass murder because too many leaders were too afraid to lead out of fear of harming their career or the image of the Army. If those leaders don't have the intestinal fortitude, moral conviction or personal courage to stand up, speak up and protect soldiers, then retire, resign or get out of the way and let somebody else do it for you.

Shawn Keller is a Major in the United States Army stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Swine Flu For You

  How do you feel about the Gitmo 'detainees', formerly known as 'terror suspects', receiving H1N1 flu vaccine before American children?

   Think it's a joke?  Read on:

Pentagon to offer Swine Flu Vaccine to Terror Suspects

   Even if the 200+ 'detained terror suspects', including the 17 ordered to be set free,  do not accept the free inoculation, it is a matter of principle, not numbers.  

  All Americans who want a flu shot should get the vaccine before ANY terrorist.

Y So Srs?

Do you remember the recent furor over the poster of Barack Hussein Obama?

Why, yes. It was so ... mocking. So disrespectful.

 

And do you remember these:













Why, yes. They were so mocking. So disrespectful. 

But that was Bush.

It was okay, even encouraged, to express one's dislike, even hatred, of the 43rd POTUS.

And people did.

And there was no public outcry of Racism.

My, how times have Changed.