Archive for June 2008
Naive Teens Don’t Realize Consequences Of Actions
These idealistic “Hussein-ing For Obama” kids are nothing new using Irish artist, Jim Fitzpatrick’s iconic 1968 stylized “Che Guevara” look to promote Barack Hussein Obama. They don’t even realize that Guevara was a Stalinist or the horrors of Stalin killing an estimated 40 million victims. They don’t know that Stalin squashed free speech or individuality.
When I was a young teen, I thought it was hip to be against the Vietnam war, just because all of the more vocal, older high school students politicizing with their new-found oats. These anti-establishment rebellious teens were enthusiastic about voicing their anti-war sentiments and railing against our military soldiers. Bumper stickers and tee shirts touting peace signs and love, “Stop the War in Vietnam and Start One in China,” “Stop The Draft,” “Flowers Not Weapons,” and “Make Love, Not War.” University students staging love-ins, sit-ins, all in the name of rebelling against the government. I remember the spitting on and assault on our soldiers coming home, even if they weren’t in Vietnam. They were hated. The US was hated around the world.
I didn’t understand the consequences of my actions. I didn’t understand what I was saying or asking for. I wanted to be cool and hip. After leaving school, getting married, the first election, I voted liberally. I voted for Jimmy Carter. He was from the South, he was a Christian, and he was so nice. He smiled alot and made you feel good. I didn’t understand the consequences of those actions. It was a mistake that I quickly regretted when buying our first home and running my own business. The changes that Carter brought and his solutions were devastating to our economy and to our integrity around the world. The very next election, I voted for Reagan and was relieved at how President Reagan changed the course of our country and for the better. I became convinced at the differences of values, integrity, and fiscal responsibility of conservatism and the consequences of my votes and support.
These teens adding Hussein to their names want to be hip and cool. They don’t understand economics or government. They think they do, they think they have the solutions, they think they should be allowed to freely express themselves. But, they live with their parents, they’ve never run a business, and they’ve never had to pay a capital gains tax. They aren’t responsible for themselves, or for other people’s lives and welfare. They don’t understand the consequences of their actions.
It’s easy to change your middle name to Hussein on Facebook. It’s not as easy to recover from national liberal economic disastrous solutions. They won’t be able to understand the consequences of what liberals are imposing, till they start to pay taxes, buy homes, buy property, start their own businesses. The very middle class lifestyle that supports these young adults is the very one that Obama wants to change. These kids aren’t old enough to have experience or savvy enough to investigate what kind of person is running for election, to discern the candidate’s background, to look at their friends and business associates.
I hope these teens stay in touch. Let’s see how many of them consider themselves liberals when they have families of their own, businesses to run, and worry about the security of their country.
How many hippies eventually cut their hair, went to work, became “the Man” and realized how naive they were as young adults? I know I grew up and realized for myself how foolish I had been as a teenager.
The oft misquoted phrases below show insight into the wisdom of maturity, and life experience.
Released Guantanamo Prisoner Behind Bombing Strike
Sure, let’s be compassionate and release all the prisoners in Camp Gitmo. They’re no threat. A 2006 post from Joshua Pundit talks about the horrible treatment forced on the Islamic combatants. Meanwhile, should the US succumb to pressure to close Guantanamo and bring Al-Qaida and Islamo-fascists to stateside prisons? McCain says yes. The answer should be hell NO!
A former Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainee conducts a suicide attack in Mosul
Two Kuwaiti al Qaeda operatives who conducted suicide attacks were featured at the end of the video. Abu Omar al Kuwaiti, also known as Badr Mishel Gama’an al Harbi, and Abu Juheiman al Kuwaiti, also known as Abdullah Salih al Ajmi, are both shown on the video, along with their attacks in Mosul, said Kazimi.
Harbi, who claimed to be a “veteran of the jihad in Afghanistan,” conducted a suicide car bomb attack on a police station in Mosul on April 26, 2008.
Ajmi was released from Guantanamo Bay and was searching for “a way to reconnect with the jihad.” He claimed he was tortured while at Guantanamo Bay.
Ajmi “is seemingly responsible for an earlier truck bombing at the Iraqi Army HQ in the Harmat neighborhood of Mosul on March 23, 2008,” said Kazimi. The attack occurred at Combat Outpost Inman, an Iraqi Army base that served as the headquarters for the 1st Battalion, 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Iraqi Army Division.
Thirteen Iraqi soldiers were killed and 42 were wounded after Ajmi drove an armored truck packed an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 pounds of explosives through the gate of the outpost and detonated in a spot between the three main buildings of the compound. The blast destroyed the facades of the three buildings, including the building housing the battalion headquarters.
Biblical Writings Poisoned Monks
Copying the Bible down word for word was a dangerous and deadly mission.
Medieval bones from six different Danish cemeteries reveal that monks who wrote Biblical texts and other religious materials may have been exposed to toxic mercury, which was used to formulate just one of their ink colors: red.
The study, which will be published in the August issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, also describes a previously undocumented disease, called FOS, which was like leprosy and caused skull lesions. Additionally, the researchers found that mercury-containing medicine had been administered to 79 percent of the interred individuals with leprosy and 35 percent with syphilis.
Since the monks, who were buried in the cloister walk of the Cistercian Abbey at Øm, did not have these diseases but contained mercury in their bones, scientists believe the monks were either contaminated while preparing and administering medicines, or while writing the artistic letters of incunabula, or pre-1500 A.D. books.
Kaare Lund Rasmussen, a University of Southern Denmark scientist at the Institute of Physics and Chemistry, suspects that ink used in the abbey’s scriptorium was the culprit.
He told Discovery News “it is very human to lick the brush, if one wants to make a fine line.”
Even today “one should really not touch, or much less rub, the parchment pages of an incunabulum,” Lund Rasmussen said, adding that mercury “was used in the first place because cinnabar (a type of mercury) has this bright red, beautiful color.”
It is also known that metallic liquid mercury was given in vapor form to diseased patients. So if the monks “were just a little careless, they would be exposed this way, however, they might also be exposed during the preparation of the medicine.”
For the study, Lund Rasmussen and his team drilled bone samples from the buried individuals, some of which were also friars buried in the cloister walk of the Franciscan Friary in Svendborg. Unlike the Øm monks, the friars showed no signs of mercury poisoning.
Priest Commits Suicide After Sex Inquiry
Maine Roman Catholic priest was accused of sexual battery on a young girl 30 years ago.
Police confirmed the Rev. James P. Robichaud, 56, an Augusta native, committed suicide.
Robichaud most recently served at St. Agnes Parish of Pittsfield and Our Lady of the Snows Parish of Dexter, Dover-Foxcroft and Milo.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland had temporarily suspended Robichaud on Thursday pending an investigation into an allegation he sexually abused a girl 29 years ago, in 1979.
Robichaud, who was born and raised in Augusta, became an ordained priest in April 1979 and the same year was assigned to St. Jean-Baptiste Parish in Lowell, Mass. He served at that parish until 1983.
Where Is The Outrage Over Pakistani Beheadings?
Pakistani gang militia members behead a young boy and man accused of spying for the US. No trial, no imprisonment, no ACLU, no defense lawyers, no justice.
Masked militants pulled the two blindfolded Afghans from a car and forced them to kneel on the ground.
Waliur Rehman, a local Taliban commander, told the crowd that the two men confessed to aiding in a suspected U.S. missile strike on a house in the border town of Damadola that killed 14 people last month. The men disclosed the names of others involved, and they would be killed as well, he said.
“Whoever, for the sake of money, for the sake of America, harms the interest of the Islamic world will meet the same fate,” he said.
Gunmen with daggers then pounced on one of the men — identified as Jan Wali, 36 — decapitated him and waved his bloody head to the cheering crowd.
The militants then argued over how to kill the other man because he may have been a teenager, before one lost patience and shot him with an assault rifle.
The crowd erupted in cheers of “God is great!” and gunmen fired in the air in jubilation. The celebratory gunfire killed two bystanders and wounded six, local official Fazal Rabbi said.
Where is the United Nations? Where are the Democrats? Where is the ACLU? Where is CAIR? Where is PETA? Is the United States the only country where treating war combatants humanely is considered an inhumane travesty of justice?
Child Brides In Islam Guarantee Of Good Marriages
Paedophilia is alive and well in Islam. This is from UNICEF’s Photo of the Year December 2007. He is 40 years old and she is 11 years old.
The average age of marriage in Yemen’s rural areas is 12 to 13, a recent study by Sana University researchers found. The country, at the southern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.
“This is the first shout,” said Shada Nasser, a human rights lawyer who met Nujood, the 10-year-old, after she arrived at the courthouse to demand a divorce. Ms. Nasser decided instantly to take her case. “All other early marriage cases have been dealt with by tribal sheiks, and the girl never had any choice.”
But despite a rising tide of outrage, the fight against the practice is not easy. Hard-line Islamic conservatives, whose influence has grown enormously in the past two decades, defend it, pointing to the Prophet Muhammad’s marriage to a 9-year-old. Child marriage is deeply rooted in local custom here, and even enshrined in an old tribal expression: “Give me a girl of 8, and I can give you a guarantee” for a good marriage.
First Baby To Be Born Breast Cancer Free
Because of hereditary breast cancer on both sides of the parents, a British couple produced 11 embryos from which two were selected for artificial implantation. The mother is now 14 weeks pregnant, reassured that her children will not develop breast cancer in adulthood. If the couple had decided to have children normally, any daughters born would have had a 50% to 80% chance of developing breast cancer.
By screening out embryos carrying the gene, called BRCA-1, the couple, from London, will eliminate the hereditary disease from their lineage.
About 5% of the 44,000 cases of breast cancer diagnosed in Britain each year are estimated to be caused by the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 genes, both of which can be detected in embryos.
Doctors say thousands of cases of breast cancer could be avoided by screening embryyos using the technique called preimplantation diagnosis (PGD).
Second Amendment Is Upheld
Another blow to liberal agendas everywhere. The Supreme Court has upheld the Second Amendment to bear arms and own handguns.
For the first time in U.S. history, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that individual Americans have the right to own guns for personal use, and struck down a strict gun control law in the U.S. capital.
The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly 70 years the country’s high court has addressed whether the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, rather than a right tied to service in a state militia.
In the majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia said the Second Amendment protected an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
Read the SCOTUS decision here.
Don’t think that an Obama-socialist government won’t take your guns away – they did during Hurricane Katrina. Obama’s Chicago banned guns.
Democrat leaders against SCOTUS decision to allow legal homeowners to own guns.
Largest Shipment of Care Packages To Soldiers
Move America Forward is conducting a live, online telethon tomorrow (Thurdsay, June 26th) from 4pm – midnight Eastern in an effort to raise funds for the largest shipment of care packages to US troops in history. The show will be hosted by Melanie Morgan and Michelle Malkin, and feature all-star guests including Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and many more.
Please be a part of this worthy cause and help our soldiers know that we care.
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