“I loved the smell of napalm in the morning…”

 

So demented it’s hilarious

I don’t think there’s a lot of people anymore who don’t consider the Grand Banana Republic to be one sick mass of cat feces. Take the latest hilarious headline story:

ATF senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson’s job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen. Investigators call the tactic letting guns “walk.” In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States…[now here's the really funny part]… Surveillance video obtained by CBS News shows suspected drug cartel suppliers carrying boxes of weapons to their cars at a Phoenix gun shop. The long boxes shown in the video being loaded in were AK-47-type assault rifles. So it turns out ATF not only allowed it – they videotaped it.

Check out the rest of this hilarious story here.

“World turned upside down”–sums it up well

“Power has now hijacked truth and made it subservient to its own ends. The result is a world turned upside down.” Melanie Phillips, World Turned Upside Down (this is a new release, though there is of course a Kindle edition a paperback won’t be out for at least six months or so). Melanie Phillips is a columnist for London’s Daily Mail.

Life in the Grand Banana Republic (cont.’)

Britain’s blaring front page Daily Mail says it all: Americans starve as executive pay rockets: 50 million people go hungry while Wall St fatcats take home millions.

Related: No, no, China, please dont do it, turn back now, no…ooops too late: China buys more worthless Grand Banana Republic debt. I’ve figured it out. They want to prop us up so we can keep buying their toxic cheap crap in Wal-Mart.

Related: BTW, here’s how the super rich scumbags escape their share of  taxation: NYC’s mayor Bloomberg in action.

Invasion of the body snatchers

“…The process of settlement is a “Civilization Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions…(emphasis added.)…” Read article here (Big Peace).

Related: Sharia: the threat to America (pdf).

Related: How sharia encroachment works. It all has to do with the pusillanimousness of the host, as in, “Oh please,we’ll do anything you ask as long as you don’t call us Islamomophobic and racist and…and…..anything else horrible-sounding you can think of). Here (USA Today).

Worries: fascists and the e-reader master switch

“…So if there is to be a fear of the increasing adoption of e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook and iPad, that is by far the scariest thing about it, because if you were to keep all your books on such a device, some villain really could come along one day and pretty much flip the switch and take all your books away—and not just yours but everyone’s, all at once…” Here (The AWL) BTW, speaking of fascists… ”Fascists in the federal government imposing their will on the people. A schism in Congress. Top-ranked generals taking sides. States declaring independence. Soon shots were fired in the street…” Lady Deadpool (comics)

Grand Banana Republic: it really is a banana republic

“…You no longer need to travel to distant and dangerous countries to observe such rapacious inequality…The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana…” Here (NY Times)

Related: It’s in the numbers

Midterm…

Assholes out/ assholes in (ahhh, so Twitter like…oh, and it  reminds me of the navel* debate: innies VS outties).

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* Noun…a rounded knotty depression in the centre of a person’s belly caused by the detachment of the umbilical cord after birth; the umbilicus [and that's a direct quote].

Women under Islam

There is a bulletin published here (Political Islam) about women living under Islamic threat; it covers stories from not only Muslim countries where you expect horror stories but in the West too, including the Grand Banana Republic. The bulletin covers the period from Aug 12 to Nov 2. Some examples…Egypt: “Egyptian cleric: If women are harassed even when wearing the niqab or hijab, it may be because they should not be outside the house at all.”  USA [i.e., Grand Banana Repub]: Update on Muslim man who beheaded his wife (N.Y.)

Related: Islamics slaughter Christians attending church in Iraq (catuion: graphic)

Mark Steyn and the quest for freedom of speech

First rule of clarity: Call things by their name…

Call things by their relational name. Terrorism today, for example, is primarily perpetrated by Muslims (but of course not all Muslims are terrorists). Another example: The Spanish Inquisition was a manifestation of Christian (in particular, Catholic) totalitarianism.

From the Aspen Ideas Festival (from Aug. ’07): Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Related: Former radical Islamist reveals the mindset. Here.

Related: Is Islam compatible with Liberal Democracy (from July ’07)? Here (video).

Back in the day…

Black Muslim assassins have been given the order by Elijah Muhammad. They will kill Malcolm X.

Breaking out…

A lot of Afghan women, like the beautiful actress above, are trying to break out of their religious prison but their shariaist society makes it extremely difficult (like this unfortunate actress). After all, this is just a small part of the mindset they’re living under:

Tabari IX:113

“Allah permits you to shut them (women) in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves.

Qur’an 4:15

“If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death [by starvation] claims them.”

Bukhari:V3B48N826

“The Prophet said, ‘Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.’”

Ishaq:185

“In hell I saw women hanging by their breasts. They had fathered bastards.”

Qur’an 24:6

“And for those who launch a charge against their wives, accusing them, but have no witnesses or evidence, except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing four times) by Allah that he is the one speaking the truth.”

These quotes were collected from here (Bare Naked Islam). Now of course you can find very similar things in the Old Testament, the difference being that even Orthodox Jews of the Torah and Christians today have long since moved on from acting on such monstrous beliefs. More quotes here.

Britain’s NEXT level of multiculturalism

Outside the Wellington Way polling station in Tower Hamlets yesterday, as at many other polling stations in the borough, people had to run a gauntlet of Lutfur Rahman supporters to reach the ballot box. As one Bengali woman voter went past them, we heard one of the Rahman army scolding her for her “immodest dress.” That incident is perhaps a tiny taste of the future for Britain’s poorest borough now it has elected Mr Rahman as its first executive mayor, with almost total power over its £1 billion budget. At the count last night, one very senior figure in the Tower Hamlets Labour Party said: “It really is Britain’s Islamic republic now.” Read rest of this article here (London Telegraph).

NPeeR

Uhhhhhh, Juan Williams said a politically incorrect thing…uhhhhhhhhhhh….“I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I’ve got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.” (Here) Yeah, Williams, who works for NPR, said this on the O’Reilly Factor so the Stalinistas at NPR fired him. I’m sure glad I don’t work for NPR. Williams might get nervous on a flight but I won’t even fly anymore.

BTW: try to keep in mind that Islam is not a race of people. It is a religion based on both Old Testament Judaism and even some New Testament writings); it is also a political movement based on sharia law (which clearly proscribes death for homosexuals and subjugation of women).

This woman should run for the senate

Ayaan Hirsi Ali–I’d vote for this woman for a Senate seat (or any other seat) in an instant. After escaping an arranged marriage in Somali or Kenya via Canada, she landed in the Netherlands as a refugee seeking political asylum. She eventually became an outspoken member of the Dutch Parliament (she is not a prisoner to political correctness parameters), but was forced to flee to the the Grand Banana Republic because of Islamic threats (yes, even the GBR offers more security). She has written two books, Infidel (I’ve read it twice) and Nomad (I’m reading it now). She speaks several languages, including masterful English, and has, along with people like Christopher Hitchens, for example,  elevated the religion/atheism debate onto a substantial intellectual plane, accessible even to many leftists. Wait a minute, I’ve had second thoughts about her being in the Senate. I mean she’s eloquent, soft-spoken, gorgeous, humorous, sexy, intellectual, multi-lingual, politically incorrect–she wouldn’t fit in. Nope, not in that clubhouse of buffoons. Here’s a recent article about her (The Guardian). Here she is on a very funny bantering segment of the Colbert Report.

Love the leather coat–and the typewriter (or is that a Somali laptop?).

Related: I know, I know, you’re thinking this is one beautiful girl, so you just can’t help thinking of her love life, or at least a reasonable facsimile, so this is just for you gushing Romantics out there in the hinterland:  History man and fatwa girl.

Secret life of young Iranian Muslims

Hey the Doors said it best: Break on through to the other side. To wear these cloths in public would bring severe punishment, perhaps even death

Rule of thumb: don’t get caught.

• Iran’s hedonistic youth (from 2008). Here.
• Underground Iranian sex dance (with hula hoop). Here.

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Related: The New York Arab-American comedy festival: From the advert: “The festival also premieres two special features this year: “The Harem Show” – a daring, one-of-a-kind ‘Dirty’ Arab comedy show (for an 18+ audience) and “Arabian Idol” – a free stand-up workshop and audition for the chance to win a spot in the festival’s ‘New Faces of Arab Comedy Show.’ “

Whore? But all politicians are whores

What’s the big deal about the Brown campaign referring to Meg Whitman as a whore? Aren’t all politicians whores? Besides the remark was said in private so grow up, Whitman (you whore you). …….Wait a minute, whore could be a complement. I mean what is the most honest profession in the world since the age of sexual cave paintings by the cro-magnons? That’s right, prostitution. Whoring. An honest hour’s work for an honest hour’s pay. It’s a word that implies total honesty: you’re told what you’ll get, and then you get it. All up front (so of course that would mean all politicians aren’t whores after all).

Another country loses it free speech…

Most of us now know the trial of Geert Wilders going on in Holland–he dared speak of the totalitarian nature of Islam–but how many of you know about the case of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, an Austrian woman who faces the possibility of three years in prison in  Austria for delivering a lecture on the Islamic threat to liberty. Read a short synopsis of this incredible story here (Big Peace).

Update: I always hate to be the bearer of good news that disrupts my grotesquely pessimistic and cynical view of the world  but there is this: “The first hurdle has been won in the heresy trial of Geert Wilders. Islamic supremacists have failed in their relentless attack on free men. It isva good day for freedom lovers the world over…” Here (Atlas Shrugs)

“The first line of defense” (funny stuff)

Che, you know, that cool-looking guy in the beret on the T-shirt…

“During his Bolivian “guerrilla” campaign, Che split his forces whereupon they got hopelessly lost and bumbled around, half-starved, half-clothed and half-shod, without any contact with each other for 6 months before being wiped out. They …seemed incapable of applying a compass reading to a map. They spent much of the time walking in circles and were usually within a mile of each other. During this blundering they often engaged in ferocious firefights against each other…” [see link below]

And let’s not forget another endearing aspect of the good doctor, evidently honed in his delightful youth: “…Even as a youth, Ernesto Guevara’s writings revealed a serious mental illness [from Ernesto Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries]. “My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido [the defeated , the surrendered] that falls in my hands!” — Read full account in this article (Big Peace)

New York’s Muslim immigration…

We then headed toward the main prayer hall while several men followed close behind, muttering angrily in Arabic. As soon as we entered the prayer hall, they confronted us.

“Are you Muslim?” one of them demanded to know.

“No,” I replied. “But we were invited to come here by Imam Namous.” This did not impress any of them, even though I could see Imam Namous on the other side of the room talking to a group of children.

The man then glowered at us behind a set of almost lifeless eyes. “You have to leave,” he shouted at us, “Now!” and he thrust a clenched fist into his palm.

This was the future of Muslim-Christian relations in America staring me right in the eye. –Read rest of article here (V Dare)

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Note: remember now, racebaiters, Islam is NOT a race; Muslims do NOT constitute a racial group.

The right goes comedic…

The state of freedom of speech

“…Lars Vilks, Lars Hedegaard, and Rabbi Jon Hausman were interviewed monday by Helen Glover of WHJJ 920 AM, Providence, about the sorry state of free speech in the West as we capitulate to Islamic intimidation over the Medieval dictates of Sharia-based “blasphemy” law. Rabbi Hausman’s matter-of-fact description of the security measures that Mr. Vilk’s brief visit to the Boston area entailed, are particularly chilling…” Here (Big Peace) and here (excellent radio interview). It’s astounding to think that these men were not allowed to speak in Philadelphia for fear of Muslim reprisal. By the way, back in Sweden Lars Vilks, a cartoonist,  has had to booby-trap his home for his own safety; he also sleeps with an ax.

Related: Free speech on trial in Holland. Here.

Related: Publisher cancels publication of Muhammad bio. Here.

A short bullet list

• Resolved: multitasking is bad for your brain. Here.
• Hey, here’s an idea (who’s time has come?–so everyone grab your crayons)…Everybody knows what happens in the politically correct world when you sponsor a Everybody Draw Mohammad Day. So how about someone sponsoring an Everybody Draw Imam Rauf Day?
• That’s all you got? Bring on the mother of all denials of service why dontya. Here

Caffeine with those politics?

If you’ve lost interest in or got bored with the Tea Party, don’t forget, there is the Coffee Party. Here (Big Government).

The big rotten banana

“I look around me and I see an Empire in Decline. The US economy is clearly in a depression… not a recession, not a recovery, but a DEPRESSION of a moral, social, and financial nature. More than 40 million Americans (12%) are on Food stamps. Nearly one in five of us are unemployed of underemployed. Folks go to Wal-Mart at 11PM waiting for their government checks to clear at midnight so they can buy baby formula, milk and other necessities…” Here (Phoenix Capital Research, via Prison Planet)

Related: The jobless rate up again

Related: Joblessness gets worse in 27 states

The little church that–can’t

Now if I were Ruler of the Galaxy (which I’m not) I would tear down all churches, synagogues, mosques, Hindu temples, and even the Kool Aid stand of the Peoples’ Temple. Nevertheless, the following news video describes the bizarre imbalance of federal religious policy.

The federal government should have no religious policy, and it certainly should have no policy favoring one religion over another.

Double Down NOW

The National Organization of Women (NOW) may not care much about the oppression of women in countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran but they will not tolerate KFC Double Down sandwich advertisements on women’s hinies. Here.

Rubber room syndrome

”Do you question authority? Fail to accept conventional wisdom?  Lose your temper when you hear a politician make a promise that you know he or she can’t keep?”  Well pal, and here’s the kicker. then you may be outta your friggin’ mind. That’s not my opinion but the the opinion contained in the  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. That surely includes oppositional defiant disorder: Well here’s an example straight from the horse’s mouth:“an ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior toward authority figures.”  There are other disorders too (evidently it’s a long list)… ‘antisocial behavior, arrogance, cynicism [I knew I was a goner] and narcissism.’ Read this article here (Mark Nestmann’s Preserving Your Privacy and Wealth).

Recycling may not be enough for this self-described “eco-fascist”

Finnish environmentalist philosopher Pentti Linkolahas (his website) calls for “fascism as a necessary step to save the planet from ecological destruction, demanding that climate change deniers be ‘re-educated’ in eco-gulags and that the vast majority of humans be killed with the rest enslaved and controlled by a green police state, with people forcibly sterilized, cars confiscated and travel restricted to members of the elite.” Here (Prison Planet).

Linkolahas on democracy, obviously a view that’s becoming mainstream: “Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.”

Bawer on Paglia

Excellent article by Bruce Bawer (of While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within) about the intellectual and moral demise of feminist Camille Paglia. Here’s the crux: Paglia, once the epitome of intellectual irreverence (otherwise known as political incorrectness) has devolved, ignoring the most dangerously encroaching oppression of women, Islamic gender apartheid, while intently carping on silly Lady Gaga and the death of sex (I’m just wondering when Camille Paglia will aim her sizable payload of intellect at Jersey Shore’s Snooki.) Here (at Pajamas Media).

Related: The contradictory world of leftist feminism: “Leftist feminists” ignore oppressive world of Islamic women. Here (News Reel). Also related: Thousands of women killed in “family honor” attacks. Here.

Mass killer of the century award…the envelope please…

For the category of worst mass killer in history the winner is…Mr Mao Tse Tung (aka, the Chairman), a man greatly admired by such prestigious media organs as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Our thanks to historian Frank Dikötter, a professor at  Hong Kong University, who has specialized in the four year period between 1958 and ’62, who has put the figure at a staggering 45 million. Not only did Mao know how to create a really good famine to kill off the nasty peasants, he was also a great torturer and executioner.  Here.

Leftist-totalitarian alliance

There has always been an alliance between leftist journalists /professors and totalitarians (yes, the Right has had its own fascist alliances), e.g., from the Labor Government of Britian (the basis of Orwell’s novel 1984), the  New York Times’ correspondent Harrison Salisbury’s love affair with Stalin, Wilfred Burchett’s fawning “journalistic coverage” of the Viet Cong, Edgar Snow’s sympathetic account of Mao Tse Tung’s revolution, the general kid gloves treatment of eco terrorists, etc., and most recently ongoing support for the brutal totalitarianism of political Islam–even at the expense of gays’ and womens’s rights which at one time had been two of the most important and just crusades of Left. Here.

Cartoon life in the Grand Banana Republic

American cartoonist of Everybody draw Mohammad day now in hiding after fatwa issued against her by none other than the notorious Black Bart (Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki): the Grand Banana Republic’s office doodlers, i.e.,  the FBI, recommended she change her complete identity (name, address, everything), which evidently she has done. The apology the former MS Molly Norris offered for exercising her free speech right to her fatwaer had no effect: “I apologize to people of Muslim faith and ask that this ‘day’ be called off” . Here.

Decisions decisions…

I must decide : should I continue to use Americaca to best describe what this country is and has been for some time, or to use that alternate name I’ve been playing with, Grand Banana Republic (or just Banana Republic), or, taking a cue from Dickens, Bleak House…? OK we have a winner, from now on I’ll use Grand Banana Republic. It has a certain ring to it that says so much. I can hear the applause.

Alternative measures

Christ submerged in jar of piss

“…[Pastor] Jones is going about this all wrong.  If he really wants to burn the Islamic holy book, I know a way that he could do it  while at the same time have every left wing pundit and mainstream news outlet not decry his act but rather defend and even celebrate it.  He should burn it on the steps of the Museum Of Modern Art … instead of calling it a protest,… he should just call his Quran torching ‘art.’  In the interest of consistency, artistic integrity and fairness, maybe he can even do it in the building, right on the same spot where in 1989 the infamous “Piss Christ” photo was proudly exhibited…” Read article here (Big Peace).

Note: It should be pointed out that during the “Piss Christ” exhibit, aside from some incensed complaints, Christians did not run wild in the streets rioting, raping, and murdering non-Christians.

Miller’s time capsule

Strange: Pols in Washington won’t name those we’re at war with

I can’t say I’m  a Newt Gingrich fan–in fact I’ve never even liked him– as such but this excerpt from his America At Risk looks pretty good–and accurate.

Grand Banana Republic (cont.’)

Why don’t we just stop the pretense that we’re living in a democracy and allow outright bribes. “The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision allows businesses to make unlimited political contributions to judges and politicians. When judges are elected, the need for these contributions inherently turns judges into politicians. Sympathetic judges are corrupt businesses’ most valuable allies. Corporations and their senior officials can commit civil or criminal wrongs with impunity if their case is assigned to a friendly judge…” Read more here.

In fact this would make a great banana republic bumper sticker: STOP THE PRETENSE…SUPPORT BRIBERY!

Inevitably of course there would follow the political commercial (set to [play sombre  martial music] : Sally Mae is the kind of politician you can trust.  ’Vote for me;  I promise to never under any conditions to accept any bribe higher than $5000.00.’ [sincerely smiles] Paid for by the friends of Sally Mae.

Textbook wars

“Students are returning to school this week. But they’re not heading back to class — they’re walking straight into a war zone. Our kids have become cannon fodder for two rival ideologies battling to control America’s future. In one camp are conservative Christians and their champion, the Texas State Board of Education; in the other are politically radical multiculturalists and their de facto champion, President Barack Obama. The two competing visions couldn’t be more different. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. Unfortunately, whichever side wins — your kid ends up losing.” Here

“To make the list in California, books must be scrupulously stereotype free: No textbook can show African Americans playing sports, Asians using computers, or women taking care of children. Anyone who stays in textbook publishing long enough develops radar for what will and won’t get past the blanding process of both the conservative and liberal watchdogs.” Here.

“Meany pantsers”

“OMG! All those meany pantser, objectifiers on twitter didn’t understand that picture was code and a public service! I’m a giver! I was trying to let them know balloon boy was safely hidden, tucked away in my cleavage. Hello? I was holding a book! Everyone knows reading is hard. The purty picture on the book was code, too, obvy. Andy Warhol – a sign that the balloon boy people were just trying to steal MY 15 minutes of fame thunder…”  Meghan McCain (author of
Dirty Sexy Politics –Kindle edition) on meany pantsers.

Feet. Density. Numbers per square…

“I continue to think those numbers are too dense. Five square feet per person means a space 24 inches deep by 30 inches wide; 2.5 square feet per person is one 12 inches by 30 inches…” On first glance this seems insane, but then becomes quite fascinating. Here.

Your government hard at work

I don’t know about you but this country frightens the hell out of me. You know when I hear people say they love America I wonder exactly what the hell do they love about it. Wonder what it’ll be like in ten years? “Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements. That is the bizarre — and scary — rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants — with no need for a search warrant…” Here

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Related: More kreepy kops on the prowl.

Related: This is scary: Hospital mall kops help a patient.

Tenets of law from the ground zero mosque

The bottom line

Tenets of Islamic (sharia) law, which the imam behind the ground zero mosque says is compliant with the U.S. Constitution: a short selection, compiled by former muslim Nonie Darwish, from the “clear cut laws in Islam decided by great Imams after years of examination and interpretation of the Quran, Hadith and Mohammed’s life.”

1-  Jihad defined as “to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion” is the duty of every Muslim and Muslim head of state (Caliph). Muslim Caliphs who refuse jihad are in violation of Sharia and unfit to rule.

3-  A Caliph is exempt from being charged with serious crimes such as murder, adultery, robbery, theft, drinking and in some cases of rape.

8-  A Muslim who leaves Islam must be killed immediately.

19-  Homosexuality is punishable by death.

22-  Divorce is only in the hands of the husband and is as easy as saying: “I divorce you” and becomes effective even if the husband did not intend it.

30-  To prove rape, a woman must have 4 male witnesses.

……it goes on but I think you get the idea; so just how compliant is sharia with the constitution?

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Related: “Moderate Muslims” threaten the rad thing if mosque at ground zero is nixed. Here.

A, er, pushing the perspective…

“Recently the Australian Curriculum Studies Association and the University of Melbourne’s Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies issued a booklet, “Learning From One Another: Bringing Muslim Perspectives into Australian Schools,” which maintains that “every Australian school student would be taught positive aspects about Islam and Muslims — and that Australia is a racist country.” Here. Of course, in the mother-of-all-multiculturalism. the U.S., they’re already implementing this perspective in some schools. Here.

I think someone should point out to such severely blind-sided multiculturalists that pushing Islam is also, simultaneously, pushing Sharia law, which is intrinsic to the Muslim view. Sharia law as, for example, practiced in Iran and under the taliban,  calls for the killing of gays and the stoning of adulterers.

The Google-Verizon Big Brother Plan or The Evil Empire Strikes Back

“…article about Google’s plan to kill the web has been completely de-listed from Google News. This is completely unprecedented and underscores how keen Google is to prevent people from finding out that it is a CIA-NSA front that is preparing to completely end the Internet as we know it with the Verizon net-neutrality killing deal…” Read more here.

“Heaven and Halal”

So the guy from Red Eye wants to test Islamic tolerance (i.e, to endorse the mosque’s own website, which says it’s ‘trying to promote integration and tolerance’) by proposing a gay bar next to the proposed N.Y.C. mosque near ground zero…Good luck. “Right now the working name of the bar is Heaven and Halal. “It will be two floors – one serving Halal food, and other other serving cocktails. There will be 72 of them. And they will be virgin…” Here.

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Related: Ground zero imam’s ties to terror.

My pharmacist the witch doctor

Somebody showed me this in her new pharmacy textbook. It’s from the first main page of  Mosby’s Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, in which a list of terms and definitions for the modern scientific pharmacist are given. Take special note of the last entry–shaman. Is that a term that should have a place  in a modern medical textbook?

Apothecary Latin term for pharmacist

Clinical pharmacist Pharmacis who monitors patient medications in inpatient and some retal settings

Dogma Code of beliefs based on tradition rather than fact

Inpatient pharmacy A pharmacy in a hospital or institutional setting

Outpatient pharmacy Community pharmacies or pharmacies in outpatient hospital settings

Pharmacist Person who dispenses drugs and counsels patients

Pharmacy clerk Person who assists the pharmacist at the front counter of the pharmacy; the person who accepts payment for medications

Pharmacy technician Person who assists pharmacist by filling prescriptions and performing other nondispensing tasks

Protocol Set of standards written by hospital or insurnace company for patient treatment

Shaman Medicine person who holds a high place of honor in a tribe

shaman /’amn/, /’em-/
noun (PL. shamans)
a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practise divination and healing

Thesaurus: a medicine woman, healer; witch doctor…

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BTW, here are some lyrics to sing while waiting for the shaman to fill your prescription:

I told the witch doctor
I was in love with you
I told the witch doctor
I was in love with you
And then the witch doctor
He told me what to do

He said that

Ooo eee,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang…
Ooo eee ,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla ,bing bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang

American navy reduced to paper tiger status

The recent flotilla of American sea power off the Korean coast might indeed have  fogged up ther binoculars of the North Koreans but the Chinese were probably laughing. For them it must’ve been like watching a bulimic old lady floating in a fat suit.  Yes, fortune cookie says, Get out of Yellow Sea Yankee dog or we the Chinese military will “respond with three salvos of DF 21D, the first of which would pierce the hull [of your carrier], start fires and shut down flight operations… The second would knock out its engines and be accompanied by air attacks. The third wave…would send the George Washington to the bottom of the ocean.” Here.  Yes, while the U.S. military has spent so much time and money and effort in its social/multicultural doctrine and invading and wasting hundreds of billions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Chinese have spent their money wisely, in technological innovation and math and science proficiency.  When will the U.S. realize the jig is up? Stop living in some past era of glory. Get those big silly sitting duck ships back in port and keep them there (don’t worry,  they can be unmothballed  and paraded off the coast during memorial day). In the Big Picture Among the Big Players, the age of the sprawling surface warship is over; the seas belong to supersonic cruise missiles and submarines.

Here’s an in depth article you might find interesting: China’s anti-ship ballistic missile program: Checkmate for Taiwan?