Do you like him any better now?

No?....me neither. You're not a racist.

    

...or should I say, Sharia IS for Dummies. What a nightmare.

 

Imam Feisal Abdel Rauf claims that the U.S. constitution is Sharia compliant. Now let us examine below a few laws of Sharia to see how truthful Imam Rauf is:

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.

2- A Caliph can hold office through seizure of power meaning through force.

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

4- A percentage of Zakat (charity money) must go towards jihad.

5- It is obligatory to obey the commands of the Caliph, even if he is unjust.

6- A caliph must be a Muslim, a non-slave and a male.

7- The Muslim public must remove the Caliph if he rejects Islam.

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

9- A Muslim will be forgiven for murder of: 1) an apostate 2) an adulterer 3) a highway robber. Vigilante street justice and honor killing is acceptable.

10- A Muslim will not get the death penalty if he kills a non-Muslim, but will get it for killing a Muslim.

11- Sharia never abolished slavery, sexual slavery and highly regulates it. A master will not be punished for killing his slave.

12- Sharia dictates death by stoning, beheading, amputation of limbs, flogging even for crimes of sin such as adultery.

13- Non-Muslims are not equal to Muslims under the law. They must comply to Islamic law if they are to remain safe. They are forbidden to marry Muslim women, publicly display wine or pork, recite their scriptures or openly celebrate their religious holidays or funerals. They are forbidden from building new churches or building them higher than mosques. They may not enter a mosque without permission. A non-Muslim is no longer protected if he leads a Muslim away from Islam.

14- It is a crime for a non-Muslim to sell weapons to someone who will use them against Muslims. Non-Muslims cannot curse a Muslim, say anything derogatory about Allah, the Prophet, or Islam, or expose the weak points of Muslims. But Muslims can curse non-Muslims.

15- A non-Muslim cannot inherit from a Muslim.

16- Banks must be Sharia compliant and interest is not allowed.

17- No testimony in court is acceptable from people of low-level jobs, such as street sweepers or bathhouse attendants. Women in low level jobs such as professional funeral mourners cannot keep custody of their children in case of divorce.

18- A non-Muslim cannot rule — even over a non-Muslim minority.

19- Homosexuality is punishable by death.

20- There is no age limit for marriage of girls. The marriage contract can take place anytime after birth and can be consummated at age 8 or 9.

21- Rebelliousness on the part of the wife nullifies the husband’s obligation to support her, gives him permission to beat her and keep her from leaving the home.

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.

23- There is no community property between husband and wife and the husband’s property does not automatically go to the wife after his death.

24- A woman inherits half what a man inherits.

25- A man has the right to have up to 4 wives and none of them have a right to divorce him — even if he is polygamous.

26- The dowry is given in exchange for the woman’s sexual organs.

27- A man is allowed to have sex with slave women and women captured in battle, and if the enslaved woman is married her marriage is annulled.

28- The testimony of a woman in court is half the value of a man.

29- A woman loses custody if she remarries.

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

31- A rapist may only be required to pay the bride-money (dowry) without marrying the rape victim.

32- A Muslim woman must cover every inch of her body, which is considered “Awrah,” a sexual organ. Not all Sharia schools allow the face of a woman exposed.

33- A Muslim man is forgiven if he kills his wife at the time he caught her in the act of adultery. However, the opposite is not true for women, since the man “could be married to the woman he was caught with.”

34-It is obligatory for a Muslim to lie if the purpose is obligatory. That means that for the sake of abiding with Islam’s commandments, such as jihad, a Muslim is obliged to lie and should not have any feelings of guilt or shame associated with this kind of lying.

The above are clear-cut laws in Islam decided by great Imams after years of examination and interpretation of the Quran, Hadith and Mohammed’s life. Now let the learned Imam Rauf tell us: What part of the above is compliant with the U.S. Constitution?

 

    

On this day in . . .


* 1776, the Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York,
British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General
George Washington

* 1789, the French National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the
Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proclaiming that "men are born and
remain free and equal in rights"

* 1813, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of
Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden

* 1858, the second debate between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln
and Stephen A. Douglas took place in Freeport, Ill.

* 1859, Col. Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the
United States, near Titusville, Pa.

* 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resulting tidal waves
in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra

* 1889, Charles G. Conn of Elkhart, IN patented the metal clarinet. More
than 100 years later the name, Conn, still represents one of the most
popular musical instrument names -- especially for clarinets

* 1894, Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which contained a
provision for a graduated income tax that was later struck down by the
Supreme Court

* 1896, the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the
United Kingdom and Zanzibar

* 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and
providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes

* 1962, the United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew
past Venus in December

* 1969, Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory
to stage mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the
Nile Valley of Upper Egypt

* 1975, Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old
monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown

* 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast
of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army

* 1998, two suspects in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya,
practitioners of that "religion of peace", were brought to the United
States to face charges. Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali and Mohammed
Saddiq Odeh were convicted in 2001 of conspiring to carry out the
bombing; both were sentenced to life in prison.)

* 1999, the Federal Communications Commission announced new government
wiretapping rules intended to help law enforcement authorities keep pace
with advances in phone technology. (However, a federal appeals court
later threw out some of the new rules, citing privacy concerns.)

* 2002, a Tokyo court acknowledged for the first time Japan's use of
biological weapons before and during World War II, but rejected demands
for compensation by 180 Chinese who claimed they were victims of the
germ warfare progra

* 2003, a granite monument of the Ten Commandments that became a
lightning rod in a legal storm over church and state was wheeled from
the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building as protesters knelt,
prayed and chanted, "Put it back!" ALSO: Mars makes its closest
approach to Earth, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant

* 2004, President George W. Bush signed executive orders designed to
strengthen the CIA director's power over the nation's intelligence
agencies and create a national counterterrorism center

* 2006, two Fox News journalists, Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf
Wiig, were freed by practitioners of that "religion of peace" nearly two
weeks after being kidnapped in Gaza City

* 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation
after a controversy over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys. Sen. Larry
Craig, R-Idaho, said in a statement he was not involved in any
inappropriate conduct when he was arrested at the Minneapolis airport
and should have not pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. (The Capitol
Hill newspaper Roll Call reported that Craig was arrested June 11 by a
plainclothes officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in an
airport restroom.) AND: Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick
apologized for "using bad judgment and making bad decisions" and vowed
to redeem himself after pleading guilty in Richmond, Va., to a federal
dogfighting charge
 

    

On this day in . . .
  
* 79, long-dormant Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of 
Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash. An estimated 20,000 people died
 
* 410, Rome was overrun by the Visigoths, an event that symbolized the 
fall of the Western Roman Empire
 
* 1814, British forces invaded Washington, setting fire to the Capitol 
and the White House, among other buildings
 
* 1857, the New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. 
failed, sparking the "Panic of 1857", one of the most severe economic 
crises in U.S. history
 
* 1869, Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York received a patent for the 
waffle iron
 
* 1875, Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel
 
* 1891, Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. The most 
important element in making a movie -- the film -- was patented six 
years later
 
* 1909, workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal
 
* 1912, Alaska becomes a United States territory
 
* 1929, second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine 
riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British 
Mandate of Palestine, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the 
remaining Jews being forced to leave the city
 
* 1932, Amelia Earhart embarked on a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to 
Newark, N.J., making her the first woman to fly solo non-stop from coast 
to coast
 
* 1939, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, the leader of Murder, Incorporated, 
gave himself up to columnist Walter Winchell in New York City. Winchell 
turned the underworld leader over to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
 
* 1949, the treaty creating NATO went into effect
 
* 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act, 
outlawing the Communist Party in the United States
 
* 1970, a bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University 
of Wisconsin's Sterling Hall in Madison, killing 33-year-old researcher 
Robert Fassnacht
 
* 1989 , Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for 
gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti 
 
* 1990, a judge rules that Judas Priest are not responsible for the 
deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's 
music
 
* 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the 
Soviet Union. ALSO: Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet 
Union
 
* 1992, diplomatic relations are established between the People's 
Republic of China and South Korea
 
* 1994, initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial 
self-rule of the Arabs on the West Bank
 
* 1995, Microsoft releases Windows 95, and revolutionizes the PC world, 
with the introduction of the Start Menu
 
* 1998, the Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two 
Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing. ALSO: The first 
radio-frequency identification human implantation tested in the United 
Kingdom
 
* 2000, argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is 
discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists
 
* 2002, in Oregon City, Ore., the FBI uncovered human remains in an 
outbuilding behind the house of Ward Weaver III, a suspect in the case 
 of two missing girls who lived across the street. (Authorities recovered 
the remains of 12-year-old Ashley Pond and 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis; 
Weaver later pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and was sentenced to 
two consecutive life terms in prison.)
 
* 2006, the International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no 
longer a planet, demoting it to the status of a "dwarf planet."

    

On this day on....


* 1741, Alaska was discovered by Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering, the
namesake of the Bering Sea

* 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over,
months after fighting had stopped

* 1911, first around-the-world telegram sent, 66 years before Voyager II
launch

* 1914, German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I

* 1920, the first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations
in Detroit. ALSO: Seven men, including legendary all-around athlete and
football star Jim Thorpe, meet to organize a professional football league
at the Jordan and Hupmobile Auto Showroom in Canton, Ohio. The meeting led
to the creation of the American Professional Football Conference (APFC),
the forerunner to the hugely successful National Football League

* 1938, Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that still
stands

* 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal
Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed
by so many to so few."

* 1945, Tommy Brown became the youngest player to hit a home run in a
major-league ball game. Brown, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, was 17
years, 8 months and 14 days old

* 1953, the Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen
bomb

* 1955, hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco
and Algeria

* 1964, President Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1
billion anti-poverty measure

* 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading
Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of
Alexander Dubcek's regime

* 1977, the U.S. launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a
12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of
languages, samples of music and sounds of nature

* 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at
a post office in Edmond, Okla., shooting 14 fellow workers to death before
killing himself

* 1988, the Iran-Iraq War: A cease-fire is agreed after almost eight years
of war

* 1989, entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife, Kitty, were
shot to death in their Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion by their sons, Lyle
and Erik

* 1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union, August Coup: more than 100,000
people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the
coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev

* 1998, the United States military launches cruise missile attacks against
alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in
Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania

* 1999, in a highly unusual move, the CIA pulled the security clearances
for former Director John Deutch for keeping secret files on an unsecured
home computer

* 2002, without firing a shot, masked German police commandos freed two
senior diplomats from armed men who had stormed the Iraqi embassy, bringing
a bloodless end to a five-hour hostage drama by a previously unknown group
opposed to Saddam Hussein

* 2006, John Mark Karr, the suspect in the death of 6-year-old JonBenet
Ramsey, sipped champagne and dined on prawns and roast duck in business
class of Thai Airways as he was flown to the U.S. (Although he'd implicated
himself in JonBenet's slaying, Karr was later cleared).

    

By Arnold Ahlret....With regard to the Ground Zero mosque, I am truly fascinated by the progressive elitists' newfound enthusiasm for religious tolerance. Aren't these the same people who have spent the last few decades doing their best to exorcize virtually any expression of religion from the public square? Aren't these the same people whose fellow-travelers in Hollywood have done their utmost to debase Christianity and its adherents at every opportunity? Aren't these the "lovable" folks doing their best to turn the Christmas season into a "Winter Solstice" celebration? Didn't the president himself ridicule Americans who "cling" to religion? So why are progressives suddenly gung-ho regarding religious freedom?

One can only speculate, but I suspect it has far more to do with the particular religion under discussion than it does religion per se. For example, if progressives held the expression of Islam to the same standard as they do Christianity, one would be at a total loss to explain how the public school system in California mandates the teaching of Islam in the seventh grade, including the study of Koranic scripture. One would be at a loss to explain why a public school in Nyssa, Oregon required seventh-grade students to dress-up as Muslims as part of a four-week course on Islam.

When the former case went to litigation, it got as far as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that such manifestations of Islam in the California curriculum--including the wearing of Islamic religious symbols, or shouting "Praise be to Allah" when prompted by teachers-- didn't violate the First Amendment's establishment clause.

Can anyone imagine the same court permitting students to say, "Praise be to Jesus?"

So why the double-standard? The most plausible explanation centers around an old Arabic expression: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Nothing threatens the status of progressive elitists, largely secular and leftist, more than American Christians, largely religious and right-leaning. It irks the progressives to no end that the "Religious Right" feels accountable to a "higher power"--one that isn't government controlled by progressives.

What other group of people have an even greater contempt for Christians? Islamic radicals--and more than a few so-called "moderate Muslims." It is also no secret that vast numbers of Muslims around the world consider Christian "infidels" second-class citizens (dhimmis) at best, and utterly beneath contempt at worst.

Both groups see Christianity as the foremost obstacle to their remarkably similar ambitions: for Muslims, the permanent entrenchment of a world-wide religious caliphate. For American progressives, the permanent entrenchment of big-government run by the Democrat party.

Thus, the ruling element within both groups has embraced marriage of convenience, with each group using the other--until such time when the inevitable showdown between occurs

In the meantime, this temporary alliance explains many things. It explains the deafening silence of American feminists with regard to the often brutal treatment of women in Muslim countries. It explains the Obama administration's determination to expunge any reference to a "war on terror" or Islamic participation in same from our national vocabulary. It explains why idiot celebrities like Rosie O'Donnell, who said radical Christianity is "every bit as dangerous" as radical Islam, and Bill Maher, who said that the 9/11 murderers were "warriors," still get gigs on TV. It explains why Christian-bashing is a regular Hollywood staple, even as Islam remains studiously off limits. It explains why the Army's top officer, Gen. George Casey, was seemingly more concerned about the death of "diversity" than 13 American soldiers murdered at Fort Hood. It explains why so many progressives push the idea that America's foreign policy "justified" the 9/11 atrocity.

 

And it most assuredly explains the all-out effort by progressive elitists to tar anyone opposed to a mosque near Ground Zero as a bigot.

Both progressive and Islamist elitists--and it is important to make the distinction between the political operators in both groups and ordinary liberal Americans and genuinely moderate Muslims--know that an America guided by even the most temperate expressions of Christianity, such as the reference to a "Creator" in the Declaration of Independence, is one which will not succumb to their grandiose ambitions. At least not all at once. This is precisely why the strategy of incrementalism--the bit-by-bit undermining of American customs, language and culture--has been adopted by both groups.

Incrementalism explains why American religious traditions, such as Christmas creches in a town squares, considered an expression of religious freedom for the better part of two centuries, are now deemed violations of the church-state separation doctrine--which is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. It is why the "live and let live" nature of such traditions has been usurped by the "One Whiner Rule," which deems any expression of religion in the public arena, even one supported by the vast majority, will be forbidden, or litigated against by the ACLU, if it "offends" even a single individual.

Incrementalism explains why Americans are expected to unquestioningly accept the idea that the Ground Zero project's leader, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is a "moderate" Muslim, despite the fact that he refuses to condemn Hamas as a terrorist group and referred to America as "an accessory" to the 9/11 atrocity. It is this incrementalism that allows progressive elitists to insist the "majority of Muslims are on America's side," absent any convincing evidence--and much evidence to the contrary. And it is the more advanced version of incrementalism found in Europe that has resulted in the creation of wholly-segregated Muslim enclaves that police in England and France refer to as "no go zones"--and the Archbishop of Canterbury to comment on the "unavoidability" of Sharia Law in the UK.

Both progressives and the so-called moderate Muslims attached to the Ground Zero mosque know this project is deeply offensive to almost seventy percent of Americans. They also know it has nothing to do with freedom of religion, which most of the people opposed to this project have made crystal clear. Ever since this incident reached national proportions, both points have been made over and over again. Only one question remains unanswered to this point: what is the reason that it is necessary to build a mosque in that precise location?

Not why can you, but why must you?

Radical Islam and progressive elitism are all about establishing beach heads. Establishing those beach heads requires unstinting assaults on traditional values, be they assaults on Christianity, internationally-accepted rules of war, the concept of assimilation, or the difference between freedom of religion and freedom from it. Neither group will be satisfied until their power becomes absolute, or at the very least, until they're the only two dogs left in the fight for the civilized world. Until then their alliance will resemble America's alliance with Josef Stalin's Russia during WWll: a marriage of convenience designed to defeat the greater evil of Nazism.

Right now, the "greater evil" is conservatism and Christianity. Both must be brow-beaten into submission. And while much of this endeavor has been ongoing, much of it has occurred "beneath the radar" of average Americans. It took 9/11 to make us realize that radical Islamists had indeed declared war on America. It took the election of the most radical president and Congress in history to make Americans realize that progressive elitists are every bit as intent on "re-ordering" America as the Islamic radicals are. The Ground Zero mosque is nothing more the latest flashpoint in this sorry saga. It is an attempt to push the envelope of "tolerance" for two entities both determined to impose their worldview--by any means necessary.

It won't be the last one.

 

 

 

 

    

    

On this day in . . .

* 1789, during the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the
Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside

* 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to
publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government

* 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry relayed to Japanese officials a letter
from former President Fillmore, requesting trade relations

* 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias "Billy the Kid," was shot
and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.

* 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, were
outlawed

* 1958, the army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy

* 1965, the American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back
photographs of the planet

* 1966, eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago
dormitory

* 1969, the United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are
officially withdrawn from circulation

* 1978, Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky was convicted of treasonous
espionage and anti-Soviet agitation, and sentenced to 13 years at hard
labor. (Sharansky was released in 1986.)

* 1999, Iranian hard-liners answered a week of pro-democracy rallies
with one of their own, sending 100,000 people into the streets of
Tehran. AND: Race-based school busing in Boston came to an end after 25
years. ALSO: Major league umpires voted to resign Sept. 2 and not work
the final month of the season. (The strategy collapsed, with baseball
owners accepting the resignations of 22 umpires.)

* 2000, a powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event,
causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth

* 2001, in a boost for President Bush's hopes to build a defense
against ballistic missile attack, the Pentagon scored a hit with an
interceptor that soared into space from a tiny Pacific isle and
destroyed its target, a mock nuclear warhead

* 2003, Iraq's new governing council, in its first full day on the job,
voted to send a delegation to the U.N. Security Council and assert its
right to represent Baghdad on the world stage

* 2005, U.S. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, ending a two-day stay
in the hospital, pledged to continue working as long as his health
permitted. (Rehnquist died in September 2005.)

* 2007, North Korea told the United States it had shut down its nuclear
reactor, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised
in return for the country's pledge to disarm. ALSO: Russia withdraws
from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
 
 

    

It has begun. I'm not surprised, but I'm sure all of you Independents and Republicans that voted for Obama must feel pretty dirty right about now.
Another Day – Another Liberal Lie Exposed
Obama told Americans back in November that democrats would not sneak in funding for abortion in their health care bill.

h/t GatewayPundit

It was a lie.

The Obama Administration just approved the first taxpayer-funded abotions under Obamacare.
Life News reported:

The Obama administration has officially approved the first instance of taxpayer funded abortions under the new national government-run health care program. This is the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned about when Congress considered the bill.

The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March.

It has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of pro-abortion Governor Edward Rendell under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.

The high-risk pool program is one of the new programs created by the sweeping health care legislation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama signed into law on March 23. The law authorizes $5 billion in federal funds for the program, which will cover as many as 400,000 people when it is implemented nationwide.

Of course, Barack Obama promised Americans several times that abortion would not be covered under the bill.

    

On this day in . . .

* 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death
in his bath by Charlotte Corday

* 1863, rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New
York City; about 1,000 people died over three days

* 1878, the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia,
Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman
empire

* 1919, the British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing
the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of
flight

* 1923, the Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above
Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the
four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949

* 1973, Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes
to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in

* 1977, a blackout lasting 25 hours hit the New York City area

* 1978, Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman
Henry Ford II

* 1979, a 45-hour siege by practitioners of that "religion of peace"
began at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, killing two guards and
taking some 20 hostages. (The guerrillas surrendered 45 hours later.)

* 1985, the Constitution's presidential disability clause was invoked
for the first time as President Ronald Reagan transferred power
temporarily to Vice President George H.W. Bush before undergoing surgery
for colon cance. ALSO: "Live Aid," an international rock concert in
London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for
Africa's starving people

* 1998, a jury in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ruled that the Rev. Al Sharpton
and two others had defamed a former prosecutor by accusing him of raping
Tawana Brawley. Oddly, Sharpton is still invited as a guest on cable TV
and conservative talk radio

* 2001, a judge in San Jose, Calif., sentenced Andrew Burnett, the man
who'd tossed a fluffy little dog to its death in a bout of road rage, to
the maximum three years behind bars

* 2005, former WorldCom Inc. boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25
years in prison for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history.
ALSO, a fuel gauge that mistakenly read full instead of empty forced
NASA to call off the first shuttle launch in 2 1/2 years
 

    

Your typical well written piece by VDH.

'In sum, in the year 2 AB, your fossilized world thankfully no longer quite exists. Global warming is “climate change” and its data is “interpreted” rather than blindly “followed.” Natural calamities like the old Katrina hurricane were really man-caused disasters; and man-caused disasters like the new BP spill and the federal reaction to it were really unpreventable natural disasters. Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and Al Gore are men-of-the-people feminists who need comfort, not tawdry womanizing mansion-aficionados.

Iraq is no longer “lost,” but the greatest achievement of the Obama administration. Somehow its messy politics are proof of real democracy. Indeed, at last our influential intellectuals can talk of real “politics” going on in Baghdad.

Surging is now good. So is the architect of that policy, Gen. Petraeus. If any Republicans were now to suggest in a confirmation hearing that the Afghan ground commander “punted” on the truth, or that his testimony “required a suspension of disbelief,” or that Afghanistan should be trisected, well, he would be rightly castigated as a subversive, rather than praised as “patriotic.” Partisanship now stops at the shoreline.

The only bad thing about the new age of “After Bush” is that he never quite left. $1.7 trillion annual deficits? Bush did it. Another $3 trillion plus to the deficit? All Bush. GM bailout? Bush’s fingerprints. Afghanistan heats up? Bush again. A ruined Gulf? Bush and his oil cronies. Falling polls for President Obama? The legacy of the Bush racism. Guantanamo open? Bush’s people. Higher taxes? The Bush deficits.

In the age of “After Bush,” everything that is now good comes despite him, everything that is still bad is because of him. Remember that — and that is all ye need to know'.

And then this beauty..... instead our “overseas contingency operations” are aimed at reminding Muslims that their own past contributions to science have led to breakthroughs like Hellfire missiles.

    

President Barack Obama amassed a whopping 144 work days as a U.S. Senator.

And to think the Gulf oil spill is in its 83rd day.

This ass-kicker of a President won't rest until.....well, we'll have to wait until he comes back from his 3rd vacation................since the Gulf oil spill. That's a vacation every month.....nice gig. I'm gonna run for Prez.

So he does what any ass-kicker would do....send in the wife.

    

On this day in . . .

* 1790, the Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the
National Constituent Assembly

* 1804, former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander
Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel

* 1812, War of 1812: The United States invades Canada at Windsor,
Ontario

* 1862, the Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress

* 1909, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the
16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income
tax, and submitted it to the states. (It was declared ratified in Feb.
1913.)

* 1943, during World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka --- German and
Soviet forces engage in largest tank engagement of all time

* 1960, the Etch A Sketch Magic Screen drawing toy, invented by French
electrician Andre Cassagnes, was first produced by the Ohio Art Co.

* 1967, the Newark riots erupt in Newark, New Jersey. Blacks engaged in
looting, violence, and destruction, ultimately leaving 26 people dead,
725 people injured, and close to 1,500 arrested. Property damage
exceeded $10 million

* 2000, in Philadelphia, a WPVI-TV news helicopter videotaped about a
dozen police officers kicking and punching Thomas Jones, a wounded
carjacking suspect. (Jones later pleaded guilty to carjacking and other
crimes, and was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison; 13 police
officers were later suspended for up to 15 days in connection with the
incident.)

* 2005, Mohammed Bouyeri, a practitioner of that "religion of peace" on
trial in the slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, unexpectedly
confessed in court, saying he was driven by religious conviction.
(Bouyeri was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.) ALSO: Prince
Albert II of Monaco acceded to the throne of a 700-year-old dynasty

* 2006, the Second Lebanon War began terrorist group Hezbollah fired
rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile
attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border
fence. The ambush left three soldiers dead. Two additional soldiers,
believed to have been killed outright or mortally wounded, were snatched
by Hezbollah to Lebanon
 
 

    

From the neighbors at IMAO .....because he was the only good thing about the U.N.



John Bolton....truly one of the great ones.

 “If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”
- John Bolton

    

Ken Blackwell nails it regarding Obama's new NASA policy to 'reach out to the Muslim world and make them feel good about their contibutions to space and technology':

I have a simple way for Muslim-majority nations to excel in science and technology: Have everyone read a list of Jewish scientists who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, or Medicine in the past century. Then, perhaps, their leaders could stop their Israel-bashing and Jew-baiting.

A commenter writes:

    

BTW...The Mrs. and the Three Little Joe's are doing great.

Plug......Joe Jr., at 12... was selected into the National Junior Honor Society and in about a year, maybe year and a half, on track to become an Eagle Scout.

Below, the Mrs. is trying to get away w/ the high heels. Sorry....Joe Jr. has got you in the height dept.

    

On this day in . . .
 
* 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George
Washington’s troops in New York
 
* 1846, the territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac
River is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress. ALSO: An
American naval captain occupies the small settlement of Yerba Buena, a
site that will later be renamed San Francisco
 
* 1850, President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the
13th President of the United States
 
* 1896, William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous "cross of gold"
speech at the Democratic national convention in Chicago
 
* 1922, Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6
seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'
 
* 1941, crackerjack British cryptologists break the secret code --
Enigma key -- used by the German army to direct ground-to-air operations
on the Eastern front
 
* 1951, President Harry S. Truman asked Congress to formally end the
state of war between the United States and Germany
 
* 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev trade verbal threats over the future of Cuba. In the
following years, Cuba became a dangerous focus in the Cold War
competition between the United States and Russia
 
* 1979, a car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters"
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly
from the German group ODESSA , ("Organization of Former SS Members")
claims responsibility
 
* 2008, prosecutors cleared Jon Benet Ramsey's parents and brother in
the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen in Boulder, Colo.
 
 
 


 
 
 

 

    

h/t TigerHawk

    

Health Overhaul: Sunday's vote exposed the ugly truth that ObamaCare is not really about health care at all. It's all about who pays for it and who controls it — in effect a massive wealth-redistribution scheme.

Those who believe this will lead to some medical nirvana will likely be disappointed. Fact is, this poorly designed monstrosity will lead to lower-quality care, higher costs, fewer practicing physicians, higher taxes and fewer jobs.

Read the rest from IBD....

    

A decrease of 3,000%? Is that even possible?
Incredible.
Here's the video courtesy of Jim Hoft at GatewayPundit

A reader comments....."Wait a second, I’m no math wiz, but 100% reduction would be to go, for example, from paying $6000 a year to paying $0. A 3000% reduction would mean that for a person paying $6000 a year now, the government would, under obamacare, be paying this person $174000 a year for there “insurance”.

And for all of you in Congress who are following Dear Leader, here's your where your political future is heading.....