A German's View on Islam

Larry P sent this. I think it makes some very good points.

The author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.

A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.

'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care.

I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Chris tian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 40 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it.

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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

Senator Graham has the facts explained to him

The following two videos have Senator Graham being soundly criticized followed by reading quotations from the Koran to demonstrate the gulf between Islam and Christianity. A Koran is then burned.

Do not watch if political uncorrectness bothers you.

Link1

Link2

My guess is that they will be gone from YouTube by 6AM 4/6/11.

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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

Elephant walk

Elephants have long memories. And they always remember how they walk to various places.

And when someone builds a hotel blocking their path, well they just assert their rights.

Hmmm, this is new.

I wonder if OSHA knows about these steps.

We've been walking through here for hundreds of years.

No, a single American Plan is not acceptable.

I wonder if I will get points for this stay.

Someone sent these to me, I think Jimmy M or Larry P, but I am suffering from a senior moment... any way,  Thanks!


OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

Mules, horses, Faulkner, Capote, Williams and Weird Tales.

"A mule will labor 10 years willingly and patiently, for the privilege of kicking you once."

--William Faulkner

We had mules. I remember two we had before my Father joined the Marines in a vain attempt to control a small part of his life. He had decided he didn't want to be in the army. If fighting was what they wanted then he thought the Marines best, or at least that is my guess at his motives because he never said why, or for that matter spoke much about what he did during the war. He was more forth coming about time spent in Hawaii waiting for enough "points" to send him home.

The mules were Pretty Boy and Peter Dick and they were a fine pair. I can remember riding in the wagon as they struck a trot taking us to town with him standing up while rolling a cigarette and never wasting a flake of Bull Durham.

After the war we had a team of horses and a tractor. Mules will kick and bite and horses bite and kick. Every now and then one of these, while being harnessed, would turn and try to take a chunk out him. Dad would hit the horse on the end of his nose and continue harnessing him. The mare, that's a female horse for you city folks, never did that. But she would kick on the odd occasion my dog decided to get too close to her rear hoofs.

She never hit the dog and the horse never bit my Dad.

I have never read Faulkner, Capote, Caldwell or Williams to any extent because I found them not of my liking, although Faulkner made many memorable quotes. I always felt that they were pimping Southerners. I found the introspection and hinted at incest and other nasty crimes around the corner too much by half again.

The Southerners I knew were busy trying to scrape a living from the soil or leaving the medieval sharecropper society for the northern cities and the promise of steady jobs.

Capote wrote some fantasy/horror stories. And I think Tennessee Williams' first published story, "The Vengeance of Nitocris," was in Weird Tales August of 1928.

Weird Tales predated Amazing Stories but it was horror/fantasy not science fiction although some writers moved back and forth between the two genres. If T and A was thought to sell space opera, then T and A with a bit of BDSM thrown in was just the thing.

Faulkner also wrote something to the effect that if you sat in the lobby of the Peabody hotel in Memphis long enough you would see everyone of any importance in the Mississippe delta.

Since I never got near the Peabody until long after Faulkner was dead he could not have been right.

Of course I didn't live in the delta, much less be of any importance.
OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

Petareus should resign

I see that General Petareus has decided to condemn in the strongest terms the burning of a copy of the Koran by the nut case in Florida.

The General should remember that he is leading men engaged in a fight to allow that nut case to do exactly that.  So if he has a problem with that he should resign.


OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

Birthers and other stuff

Not much baseball practice, too much rain and cold. Nothing in the garden, muddy ground makes clods not planting hills.


We had global warming for a few days and then, alas, alas, it fled like Obama when he is expected to do the Presidential thing and make a decision.

And April isn't even here yet, but:

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
- - - T. S. Eliot "The Waste Land"

I have been mildly depressed, I think, from just watching the news. The Repubs and the Demos are arguing over the budget. Less than 1% cut??? Pulezzeeeeeeee.

And we discover, again, that the Left doesn't mind us expending our blood and treasure for "humanitarian" reasons.

I hate to tell them but people die. Some die after a long and happy life, others not so much. And since God has not given me the power to fix the world's problems, I try to be selective and advise our leaders to respond only to things that are in our National Interest.

Does Libya as a country fit? I don't think so.

But Libya's oil is in our national interest. Why? Because even though 98% of Libya’s oil has gone to Europe, if it is lost then Europe will move its purchasing power to Saudi Arabia and other places where we get oil and the price will just keep spiraling up.

That’s pretty basic stuff, eh?

But Obama doesn’t get it. Or else he does and doesn’t care. I have long been trying to figure out if Obama is evil and has a plan to destroy the country or if he is just incompetent and is letting the country be destroyed.

Of course it doesn’t make any difference. The country is being destroyed.

And the Repubs, those guys we elected to get us started drilling for oil here and cut the budget are arguing with the Democrats over less than chump change.

As I tell Senator Alexander and Corker’s staff people…. “Tell him to get off his behind and start doing something.”

Not that they will.

The hot water saga continues……

I discovered that the downstairs unit was leaking into the drain pain and from there thru a drain to under the house. No big deal.

Only the unit is in a closet under the stairs along with the cold air return on the downstairs heat/ac and there is no extra room. So I go looking for a 40 gallon unit that is no bigger than 45” tall and 22” in diameter. Not a lot of choices but Sears has one with reasonable specs. So I order same, pick it up in my trusty but elderly Ford Ranger, bring it home, unload it and notice that the box says that the height is 3.89’.

That’s 46.68 inches. 1.68 inches higher than will fit.

Hmmmmm. Go back and check the specs of the model ordered on the website. Sure enough, they say 44”. Dig around in the closet and figure out that I can move the drain pan three inches out from the sloped ceiling and it will then fit. But that means I will have to drill a new drain hold and move the drain…. Back under the floor to see what that will do. Discover that this will put the drain over a heat/ac duct so I will have to move it and extend the drain with an elbow… grumble grumble..

At this point decide to open the top of the box and measure the water heater…. And it measures 44”.

So the box was wrong. Thought maybe it meant box dimensions. Nope. They are 48 x 25….

All is well that ends well.

See? That would make a great reality TV show.

Mike L sent me this.

The Pharmacist's Monday Morning


Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife. Tearfully she explained, "It's the druggist. He insulted me terribly this morning on the phone. I had to call multiple times before he would even answer the phone."

Immediately, the husband drove downtown to confront the druggist and demand an apology.


Before he could say more than a word or two, the druggist told him, "Now, just a minute, listen to my side of it. This morning the alarm failed to go off, so I was late getting up. I went without breakfast and hurried out to the car, just to realize that I'd locked the house with both house and car keys inside and had to break a window to get my keys.

"Then, driving a little too fast, I got a speeding ticket. Later, when I was about three blocks from the store, I had a flat tire."


"When I finally got to the store a bunch of people was waiting for me to open up. I got the store opened and started waiting on these people, all the time the darn phone was ringing off the hook."

He continued, "Then I had to break a roll of nickels against the cash register drawer to make change, and they spilled all over the floor. I had to get down on my hands and knees to pick up the nickels and the phone was still ringing. When I came up I cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made me stagger back against a showcase with a bunch of perfume bottles on it. Half of them hit the floor and broke."


"Meanwhile, the phone is still ringing with no let up, and I finally got back to answer it. It was your wife. She wanted to know how to use a rectal thermometer.

And believe me mister, as God is my witness, all I did was tell her.”

Birthers and other stuff.

I love some of the stuff The Donald says. I mean bad hair do and all he is a treat to listen to because what he says has a bit of truth in it.

Like, why don’t we charge for being someone’s policeman?? You and I pay for protection with our taxes. Why should we be protecting the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Iraq for free?

I mean look, we’re so far gone down the bankruptcy slide that we talking about cutting Medicare and Social Security. Who comes first? Our citizens or the world’s citizens??

Simplistic? Maybe the problem is that we have taken some simple concepts and made them complex. Maybe the problem we have now is the same problems the Catholic Church brought to its members for years when Mass was said in Latin to people who didn’t know Latin. Why? Because it was the Priests who would tell everyone what was meant. The masses were too dumb to understand complex issues.

Maybe it’s time we admit that nation building doesn’t work. Unless you’re willing to absolutely tear a society apart, as we did in Japan and Germany, it won’t work. You can’t bribe them into doing what you want. You have to convince them by proving that your way, which just kicked their butts into next year, is the right way.

Is that insane?

Well, let me tell you that one of the prime symptoms of insanity is for someone to keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. And we’ve been dashing around the world ever since the Soviet Union collapsed looking for someone to save.

Hasn’t worked well. People don’t want saving. Time to let them go out on their own.

The other point The Donald made was the stupidity over Obama’s birth certificate. The guy hasn’t produced one. Some people think that’s important. But anyone who does is attacked as a racist, just as The Donald was on “The View.”

Well, The Donald does have a point. It only took him an hour to get his. Obama has had two plus years. That tells me that he doesn’t want to. Why? Don’t know and don’t care. Do I believe he was born in HI? Yes. All of this is just another way to draw attention and sympathy. Poor me. See how the Birthers treat me…. And I Am The Chosen One!

The only thing is, this isn’t new. Chester Arthur was accused of being born in Canada. Charles Hughes was declared to ineligible because his father was a British immigrant and Goldwater was born in a US territory before Arizona became a state.

At least he could get an original whine.



OnTwitter I am Lesabre1


"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

How to speak Italian

I like this.

OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson