It irritates the hell out of me when I hear a Muslim spokesman (they don’t typically allow spokes-women so forgive the non-gender neutral appellation), responding to the most recent atrocity be it a beheading, suicide bombing or simple honor killing, that the perpetrators are not “true” Muslims and that they have “corrupted” the real teachings of Islam.
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I consider myself your average American guy. When I wake up I head out the front door to grab the paper and then sit down with a cup of java to read the Sports, Metro, front page and Business sections…usually in that order. I therefore know about the (alleged) dogfighting Michael Vick, that median home prices have gone up a tad lately in the O.C., that there was an earthquake in the Bay area yesterday and that the stock market is at a record high.
No such luck. This is from her Vanity Fair treatment posing atop her son’s grave. Sick, sick, sick.
Barack Obama is for “age appropriate” sex education for kindergartners.
The spin on this is that Obama was talking about teaching these children about how to recognize sexual predators, etc and that parents can opt their kids out from the instruction. Thank you, but I think it’s best to leave discussions with 5 and 6 year olds about what is “inappropriate touching” to their parents, and it’s a sad reflection on our times when there are things being taught in kindergarten classes that parents might rightfully want to exclude their children from.
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So I’m reading a piece in today’s paper about the insurgent group leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who supposedly was the Iraqi leader of the Iraq arm of al Qaeda, and now turns out was a fictional creation designed to hide the fact that foreigners were leading this al Qaeda group. [Note: but this is simply a civil war and/or sectarian violence that’s distracting us from finding and killing al Qaeda terrorists, right?]
Human Rights Watch reports that the separation of families caused by the imprisonment of felons in federal institutions for lengthy sentences, including life without parole, creates an undue, unfair and harsh financial and emotional strain on families. The human rights group is calling for a review of sentencing guidelines and urges that judges should consider the impact of long prison sentences on the extended families of those convicted.
Here are a few quotes from Hugh Hewitt’s interview with Gen. David Petraeus:
In the past five months, how have conditions in Iraq changed?
DP: Well, obviously, we have been surging our forces during that time. We have added five Army brigade combat teams, two Marine battalions, and a Marine expeditionary unit, and some enablers, as they’re called. And over the last month, that surge of forces has turned into a surge of offensive operations. And we have achieved what we believe is a reasonable degree of tactical momentum on the ground, gains against the principal near-term threat, al Qaeda-Iraq, and also gains against what is another near-term threat, and also potentially the long term threat, Shia militia extremists as well. As you may have heard, that today, we announced the capture of the senior Iraqi leader of al Qaeda-Iraq, and that follows in recent weeks the detention of some four different emirs, as they’re called, the different area leaders of al Qaeda, six different foreign fighter facilitators, and a couple dozen other leaders, in addition to killing or capturing hundreds of other al Qaeda-Iraq operatives.
I was watching a History Channel story on the Trojan War, the famous wooden horse and Homer, the epic poet not cartoon sitcom star.
As Leonard Nimoy narrated concerning the discovery of the ruins of Troy in what is modern day Turkey he mentioned that the ancient city was described by Homer as a brisk walk from the Dardanelles (the waterway which connects the Mediterranean to the Black Sea). The ruins are now approximately six miles from the waterway explained, according to Mr. Spock and the Histroy Channel, by the fact that the sea level has dropped precipitiously over the last 3000 years.
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I’ve had a number of requests lately for the Zager Guitar T-Shirts I had been giving away as a promo some time ago. Unfortunately, I’m all out but I hope to have a new shipment in soon, so keep checking back.
Further proof that Jesse Jackson has become irrelevant.
When the self-proclaimed minority spokesmen trot out the tired “you wouldn’t be doing/saying this if he weren’t black/Hispanic, etc” canard, why doesn’t someone retort “you wouldn’t be defending him is he wasn’t black/Hispanic, etc”?
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