Sunday, February 15, 2009

Biting through a ten penny nail


I just read the following by a commentator over at Time's "Swampland" blog:

The core of the current crisis (under which I would include a couple difficult wars lacking clear timelines of completion,.......


Uh, can anyone tell me how you have a "clear timeline" for a war?

When I read something like this I just want to find the writer and yell:

Do you ever try thinking before you write something?

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American Carol, a review...

Well, I finally purchased the DVD and watched the Right's attempt at making fun of the Left.


And it is 83 minutes of outrageous humor. At least as funny as "Blazing Saddles," maybe more so in many parts. And it skewers the Left. I mean it ties them to a skewer and roasts them.

Get yourself a copy and enjoy. The trailer only covers 1% of the humor!

Movie trailer.

Words to live by!

I try to keep this so I can see it whenever I am in my office.

Las Vegas busts out.

When a blackjack player's cards add up to 22 or above he is said to have "busted."

Gaming revenue fell for the 12th month in a row in December and last year's overall drop is historic.

Some locals who depend on conventions to survive say they can't afford the war of words going on between President Obama and Mayor Oscar Goodman.

Last week, both Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs canceled corporate junkets scheduled to take place here in Las Vegas.

They were trying to get away from the perception that they are taking the money given to them in these bailout packages and using it to treat their CEO's to lavish vacations.

The comment President Obama made about the matter at a town hall meeting on Monday was:

"You are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you've paid taxpayers back, you can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers dime."

Wednesday workers who were setting up for the Magic Apparel convention were steamed about the president's comments.

Electricians' union foreman Charlene Wallace says her crews are working, but just barely.


The truest thing I have ever heard about the stock market is this:

The average person would be better off taking his money and going to Las Vegas and playing black jack instead of "playing the market." The rules are clearer and the game more honest. Plus, in Vegas you will be given, depending on the size of your "account," a free room, free booze, free transportation and when you ultimately lose and the house has lost interest in you there is a plethora of young ladies to look at and other wise enjoy their company.

This couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people.

It's kinda like divorce... The screwing you get for the screwing you got.

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Saturday, February 14, 2009

It's Saturday night and you don't have a date?

Well, I have been contacted by this lady, and since I am unavailable I am sure you will want to get in immediate contact!



Hello Friend,

I bring greettings to you with peace and love...
It's my great pleasure to let you know about me My name is Mss. Luzann Raymond 25yrs old; single, never married, a Daughter of (Late Chief Dr.Raymond Fomba) Who lost his life as a result of the civil war that happened in my country. I am presentely living with a harity home organization here in Dakar. However i am writting you for a strong relationship and also for business purpose or partner,I have the mind to transfer some fund and make an investment in your country; any away you will have get back to me first so that we could discuss it better on how its goes. I am waiting to receive from you as soon as possible.bye for now and hope you continue to
be blessed.

Yours Sincerely,
Luzann Raymond


Not only does there appear to be romance in the air, the bride appears to bring a fine dowry.

Do let me know who the lucky groom is!

Jack Webb Johnny Carson and Copper Clappers

I think I have posted this before, but since it is one of my favorites I am doing it again. It reminds us that there was a time when we could watch a television show and not be bombarded with politics and dedications of the country.

These guys were professionals.

What Wilders wouild have said to England


As you may, or may not, know, Wilders was barred from entering England because his video Fitna and his political positions regarding Muslim immigration into the Netherlands and Europe is deemed hate speech.

This is excerpts from the speech he planned on giving.

Today, I come before you to warn of another great threat. It is called Islam. It poses as a religion, but its goals are very worldly: world domination, holy war, sharia law, the end of the separation of church and state, the end of democracy. It is not a religion, it is a political ideology. It demands you respect, but has no respect for you.

Today, I come before you to warn of another great threat. It is called Islam. It poses as a religion, but its goals are very worldly: world domination, holy war, sharia law, the end of the separation of church and state, the end of democracy. It is not a religion, it is a political ideology. It demands you respect, but has no respect for you.

There might be moderate Muslims, but there is no moderate Islam. Islam will never change, because it is build on two rocks that are forever, two fundamental beliefs that will never change, and will never go away. First, there is Quran, Allah’s personal word, uncreated, forever, with orders that need to be fulfilled regardless of place or time. And second, there is al-insal al-kamil, the perfect man, Muhammad the role model, whose deeds are to be imitated by all Muslims. And since Muhammad was a warlord and a conqueror we know what to expect.

Islam means submission, so there cannot be any mistake about it’s goal. That’s a given. The question is whether the British people, with its glorious past, is longing for that submission.

Britain seems to have become a country ruled by fear. A country where civil servants cancel Christmas celebrations to please Muslims. A country where Sharia Courts are part of the legal system. A country where Islamic organizations asked to stop the commemoration of the Holocaust. A country where a primary school cancels a Christmas nativity play because it interfered with an Islamic festival. A country where a school removes the words Christmas and Easter from their calendar so as not to offend Muslims. A country where a teacher punishes two students for refusing to pray to Allah as part of their religious education class. A country where elected members of a town council are told not to eat during daylight hours in town hall meetings during the Ramadan. A country that excels in its hatred of Israel, still the only democracy in the Middle-East. A country whose capitol is becoming ‘Londonistan.’

I would not qualify myself as a free man. Four and a half years ago I lost my freedom. I am under guard permanently, courtesy to those who prefer violence to debate. But for the leftist fan club of Islam, that is not enough. They started a legal procedure against me. Three weeks ago the Amsterdam Court of Appeals ordered my criminal prosecution for making Fitna and for my views on Islam. I committed what George Orwell called a ‘thought crime.’

You might have seen my name on Fitna’s credit role, but I am not really responsible for that movie. It was made for me. It was actually produced by Muslim extremists, the Quran and Islam itself. If Fitna is considered ‘hate speech,’ then how would the Court qualify the Quran, with all it’s calls for violence, and hatred against women and Jews?


Mr. Churchill himself compared the Quran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Well, I did exactly the same, and that is what they are prosecuting me for.


The Court’s decision and the letter I received form the Secretary of State for the Home Department are two major victories for all those who detest freedom of speech. They are doing Islam’s dirty work. Sharia by proxy. The differences between Saudi Arabia and Jordan on one hand, and Holland and Britain are blurring. Europe is now on the fast track of becoming Eurabia. That is apparently the price we have to pay for the project of mass immigration, and the multicultural project.


Ladies and gentlemen, the dearest of our many freedoms is under attack. In Europe, freedom of speech is no longer a given. What we once considered a natural component of our existence is now something we again have to fight for. That is what is at stake. Whether or not I end up in jail is not the most pressing issue. The question is: Will free speech be put behind bars?


We have to defend freedom of speech.


For the generation of my parents the word ‘London’ is synonymous with hope and freedom. When my country was occupied by the national-socialists the BBC offered a daily glimpse of hope, in the darkness of Nazi tyranny. Millions of my country men listened to it, illegally. The words ‘This Is London’ were a symbol for a better world coming soon. If only the British and Canadian and American soldiers were here.


What will be transmitted forty years from now? Will it still be ‘This Is London’? Or will it be ‘this is Londonistan’? Will it bring us hope, or will it signal the values of Mecca and Medina? Will Britain offer submission or perseverance? Freedom or slavery?


Link Wilders speech.

I urge you to click on the link and read his speech. It is accurate but calm. Wilders is no raving radical. He merely brings the truth supported by historical facts and puts it before us.

But England has turned him away. The cradle of democracy. The birthplace of the Magna Carta - The Great Charter of Freedom - has now collapsed into a fearful slop of political double speak because it fears Wilders and his 15 minute video will cause riots.

The Magna Charter wasn't just given by the King. It was forced from him by people who would have likely lost all, including their lives, had they lost their demands. Now they are afraid of what a Dutch politician will say and a 15 video. How so very descriptive of so many of Modern Western Man. Stupidly ashamed of his past he trembles at the thought of someone speaking freely.


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If the truth causes the threat of riots then isn't it time to speak the truth before worse happens? Think about that. What is next? “We shall riot if everyone is not summoned to prayer? We shall riot if “honor killings” remain illegal?" Sound stupid? Well, I would have said so if ten years ago you had told me a Dutch politician had been barred from England because of a 15 minute video and his political statements.

Fitna is not hateful. It is truthful. Some may regard it as ugly, but what it reveals is ugly. It doesn't attack Muslims. It reveals what the radical Muslims have done by their selecting only what they want from the Koran. No Muslim should be concerned over what it says anymore than what a Christian should be concerned over what is said in some passages in the Old Testament. But just as Christians should be concerned if some group started preaching and acting on those passages, Muslims should be concerned over the acts of the radicals and extremists.

We in the US still retain a great deal of what England and Europe once had, free speech. But even here we see speech codes in our once great universities and students destroying newspapers and newspaper stands. Other students are charged and threatened with dismissal because of what they may have posted on the student center bulletin board.

In our last election it was forbidden by the press to call Hussein, Hussein because it was a Muslim name. Yet his whole name is Muslim and he chose to be sworn in as Barack Hussein Obama.

The issue was never "Hussein." It was about him wanting the power to tell you what to say and a large number of you threw away your freedom of speech to run trembling in anticipation of the love of a second rate Chicago Politician.

So read Wilders' speech. Watch the video. Understand and see what is coming towards us at light speed.

Fitna

The above is an expansion of my comment in the Tennessean.