An idiotic gesture by a disturbed and obviously mentally unstable "preacher" to burn Korans this Saturday, the 9th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks by fanatics against U.S. lives and property has been condemned by none other than Sarah Palin, General Petraeus, Robert Gates and President Obama. At times on this page I have been highly critical of each and every one of these people. On this occasion I praise each of them for denouncing this dangerous nonsense.
The chorus of denunciation is loud and clear and I can add nothing to improve upon them. Praise goes out to all on the right and on the left, Republicans and Democrats, Uniformed and Non-Uniformed who have spoken out about this despicable venom from this pastor of only 50 lost souls in Florida. We pray for them and for the pastor, for guidance in the next two days especially! Please, Lord, grant them discernment. Nevertheless thy will, not mine, be done. But please Lord forgive me for being so bold as to beg that the two are in conjunction at the present time. Amen.
I hear in the other room MSNBC anchors denouncing the denouncers. Nonsense! A slight bit of unity in opposing the fear mongering surrounding anti-Islam(instead of opposing fanatical murder by punks claiming to kill in the name of Jehovah, God, + Jesus, to some, who also goes by the blessed name of Allah to others) is emerging yesterday and today. Freedom of religion is actually a backchannel winner in this.
I am often quick to criticize Petraeus, who was among the first to denounce the event. More than others, he was and is aware of the damage already being done to U.S. security and the safety of Americans and Afghans and many others already happening because of the punk pastor and deserves special praise, not condemnation, on this. Palin, Obama, Gates and any others who claim to be leaders are obliged to speak out. America looks good today for the first time in a long time to Unabashed Left. Only one Pastor, and the violent idiots who are threatening retaliation or any violence at all are looking bad here.
My own Congregational Pastor has recommended a constructive protest. For $25 the Massachusettes Bible Society will donate two copies of the Koran(for each one burned) to Moslems without access to their holy text, such as those in hospitals, prisons or shelters. Not yet technologically savvy enough to ensure a direct link on this page, here it is to type into your own browser, in case my attempt to post the link here fails. Peace and as the President always says, May God Bless The United States Of America.
constantcontact.com/They-Burn-One-We-Give-Two.html?soid=110944292789&aid=dAPnQ6XDfA&ref=nf
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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Monday, September 6, 2010
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
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If you were born during the 50, 60’s 70’s, 80’s, and early 90’s, chances are you have not availed of any government program about childhood obesity or even enrolled in a kids gym. You may have gone to a summer camp but not on a weight loss camp, played basketball that involves running and jumping not just by smashing buttons, and played hula hoops with a hoop
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Weather Matters: Please Prepare Now For Hurricane Earl: This Is A Serious Storm!
Hurricane Earl is to be taken seriously. As of the 2am National Hurricane Center update he is packing 140mph winds, hurricane force winds stretch 90 miles from the center of circulation and tropical storm force winds stretch 200 miles from the center. Warnings and watches are up all along the Eastern seaboard from North Carolina to Maine!
North Carolinians should already be prepared. Further to the north now is the time to take precautions. We all know the drill. Flashlights and batteries, non-perishable foods, board windows or tape them, secure patio furniture or other potential debris that could become dangerous projectiles. PETS INDOORS PLEASE!
If you have elderly or infirm friends, relatives or acquaintances in Earl's path, take the time to ensure their safety. HEED ANY AND ALL EVACUATION ADVISORIES AND ORDERS! Keep an eye on local news and weather reports. Following the storm, should volunteer assistance be requested please do so willingly, eagerly and cheerfully. If you have the means, cook for those without the ability to do so, and deliver food.
Emergency assistance groups are reconsidering the benefits of recommending the purchase of candles in advance of storms, because many do not take necessary safety precautions and people and property wind up damaged due to fire. If you utilize candles please monitor them, never leave them unattended especially if you have young children or pets who may knock them over, or otherwise cause a conflagration.
Use common sense and common decency. If you think you are in a position to help you most likely are. Step out and take the risk of erring on the side of doing the kind gesture. In times of need communities are typically strengthened big time. These are not times to lay low and not take action, exactly the opposite. In times of need acts of kindness, random or patterned, pay boku dividends. Please do not hesitate to help your neighbor.
In times of crisis, indeed in all times, the only criteria any of us should be utilizing in any decision we make is whether it motivated and meets the standards of unconditional love. If we act solely on this basis we will make no errors.
God bless all of us in Earl's path, may we benefit from adversity and may casualties not occur. Nevertheless Dear Lord, Thy will--not mine--be done. Our's is not to question nor even comprehend Your wider plan, allow us only to be instruments for Your use and for the peace of our bretheren. These things we pray in the immaculate and precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus, who is the Christ. Amen.
North Carolinians should already be prepared. Further to the north now is the time to take precautions. We all know the drill. Flashlights and batteries, non-perishable foods, board windows or tape them, secure patio furniture or other potential debris that could become dangerous projectiles. PETS INDOORS PLEASE!
If you have elderly or infirm friends, relatives or acquaintances in Earl's path, take the time to ensure their safety. HEED ANY AND ALL EVACUATION ADVISORIES AND ORDERS! Keep an eye on local news and weather reports. Following the storm, should volunteer assistance be requested please do so willingly, eagerly and cheerfully. If you have the means, cook for those without the ability to do so, and deliver food.
Emergency assistance groups are reconsidering the benefits of recommending the purchase of candles in advance of storms, because many do not take necessary safety precautions and people and property wind up damaged due to fire. If you utilize candles please monitor them, never leave them unattended especially if you have young children or pets who may knock them over, or otherwise cause a conflagration.
Use common sense and common decency. If you think you are in a position to help you most likely are. Step out and take the risk of erring on the side of doing the kind gesture. In times of need communities are typically strengthened big time. These are not times to lay low and not take action, exactly the opposite. In times of need acts of kindness, random or patterned, pay boku dividends. Please do not hesitate to help your neighbor.
In times of crisis, indeed in all times, the only criteria any of us should be utilizing in any decision we make is whether it motivated and meets the standards of unconditional love. If we act solely on this basis we will make no errors.
God bless all of us in Earl's path, may we benefit from adversity and may casualties not occur. Nevertheless Dear Lord, Thy will--not mine--be done. Our's is not to question nor even comprehend Your wider plan, allow us only to be instruments for Your use and for the peace of our bretheren. These things we pray in the immaculate and precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus, who is the Christ. Amen.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Missile Madness: Mr. President: Please Show Secretary Gates The Gate!
Unabashed regular readers are probably already weary of our campaign to render Secretary of Defense Robert Gates even slightly vulnerable to the scrutiny of observers of all political persuasions. The Secretary has presided over nearly a full Presidential term, 2 years under Bush and now approaching 2 with President Obama with notable lack of success.
The war in Iraq is not over, 50,000 U.S. troops(and over 70,000 civilian contractors) remain until December 31, 2011! The "Surge," which we prefer to identify more accurately as "The Escalation," only caused more casualties on both sides and only delayed the inevitable fall of the current regime(it can't be called a government, because one hasn't been formed since the elections in March, now almost half a year ago) which those who've spent anytime in country agree will occur within a year or two of the departure of the final 50,000 uniformed American troops.
The Escalation "succeeded" temporarily because irrational nuts like Muqtada al-Sadr who led armed gangs of thugs that killed in the name of Allah were paid off, and Baghdad rendered relatively safe, again temporarily. Incidentally, al-Sadr has taken his American currency to Tehran where he is plotting future nonsense.
General Petraeus hoodwinked Secretary Gates into escalating the uncalled for Iraq war. Then General McChrystal hoodwinked him into applying the same failing principle of "counterinsurgency" to a totally different set of circumstances in Afghanistan, and Gates presided over McChrystal's pathetic "dissing" of all civilian control of the military by means of flapping his lips and allowing his underlings to do the same in the presence of a Rolling Stone reporter while barhopping in Europe during the volcanic ash grounding of airliners earlier this year.
Gates also presided also over Petraeus taking a demotion from CenComm commander down to Afghanistan commander in order to mop up after McChrystal. Gates has been in charge of our failure to win two wars against entities(not governments, "gangs" really) without the benefit of air forces, navies, missiles, or anything but home made bombs, rifles and handguns.
Gates is also responsible for the pathetic condition that Walter Reed Army Hospital was allowed to fall into(remember the videos showing moldy walls, etc.) for our returning heros, as well as for the loss of hundreds, maybe thousands of remains at Arlington National Cemetary.
He gets $700,000,000,000.00 in regular funding annually from Congress, which does not even include the funding for Afghanistan and Iraq, and has been unable for nearly 4 straight years to prevail over third world street gangs and the "Taliban."
Clearly he is incompetent, to say the least, and the Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and media on the right and on the left keep hands off the Teflon Defense Secretary. Again, I ask: Why?
There were never any WMD in Iraq, and no Al Quaeda in Iraq until after the Cheney/Bush invasion. The Afghan war was won in 6 months and since then we've only succeeded in advancing Mullah Omar's cause by expanding his base throughout Pakistan as well as Afghanistan. One day and 4 hijackings on one horrendous occasion killed too many Americans. However, Al Quaeda has never been a threat to U.S. national security. We all await the Breaking News Story reporting the successful Punk Bin-Laden drone strike, those of us on the right, the center and on the left!
The only legitimate military threats to U.S. national survival still only come from the nukes deployed by former KGB-er(and G.W. Bush's "good friend") Vladimir Putin and the godless Communist/Currently Captialist leaders in Beijing. I don't worry at all about "Jihad" on a daily basis.
The Obama administration is definitely on the right track by compelling current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seriously negotiate with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Netanyahu, as a right-wing Israeli politician, is uniquely qualified to sign a treaty with Abbas, just as right-wing Prime Minister Menachem Begin was in the same unique position to sign the first Israeli-Arab treaty with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat under President Jimmy Carter's leadership.
Netanyahu's inflammatory rhetoric and military misadventures, particularly in boarding a Turkish relief ship headed for Gaza and killing numerous Turkish nationals several months ago, have put him in no position but to follow the Clinton State Department's lead in seriously negotiating with the more than moderate Mr. Abbas. Should talks become promising, it is likely to undermine both Hezbollah and Hamas in the Golan Heights and in Gaza.
And nothing could more quickly undermine or even put an end to "Jihad" altogether than a Palestinian-Israeli peace and a legitimate and permanent two-state solution. Neither could anything undermine President Ahmadenijad and the so-called Shiite Mullahs(not either Shiite, nor Mullahs; just "nuts") ruling Tehran and threatening to stone yet another woman this month. And nothing would end more quickly the need to employ American uniformed personnel in wacky attempts to lose wars to third world punks like "Mullah" Omar, Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin-Laden.
Once again America owes a huge debt of thanks to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Mr. President, your foreign policy will succeed in far more glorious ways for the people of the United States should you choose to dismiss Secretary Gates today(we suggest Senator John Kerry of Massachusettes as a great potential replacement) and eliminate the civilian link to the uniformed brass that despises civilian rule over our military. Peace....
The war in Iraq is not over, 50,000 U.S. troops(and over 70,000 civilian contractors) remain until December 31, 2011! The "Surge," which we prefer to identify more accurately as "The Escalation," only caused more casualties on both sides and only delayed the inevitable fall of the current regime(it can't be called a government, because one hasn't been formed since the elections in March, now almost half a year ago) which those who've spent anytime in country agree will occur within a year or two of the departure of the final 50,000 uniformed American troops.
The Escalation "succeeded" temporarily because irrational nuts like Muqtada al-Sadr who led armed gangs of thugs that killed in the name of Allah were paid off, and Baghdad rendered relatively safe, again temporarily. Incidentally, al-Sadr has taken his American currency to Tehran where he is plotting future nonsense.
General Petraeus hoodwinked Secretary Gates into escalating the uncalled for Iraq war. Then General McChrystal hoodwinked him into applying the same failing principle of "counterinsurgency" to a totally different set of circumstances in Afghanistan, and Gates presided over McChrystal's pathetic "dissing" of all civilian control of the military by means of flapping his lips and allowing his underlings to do the same in the presence of a Rolling Stone reporter while barhopping in Europe during the volcanic ash grounding of airliners earlier this year.
Gates also presided also over Petraeus taking a demotion from CenComm commander down to Afghanistan commander in order to mop up after McChrystal. Gates has been in charge of our failure to win two wars against entities(not governments, "gangs" really) without the benefit of air forces, navies, missiles, or anything but home made bombs, rifles and handguns.
Gates is also responsible for the pathetic condition that Walter Reed Army Hospital was allowed to fall into(remember the videos showing moldy walls, etc.) for our returning heros, as well as for the loss of hundreds, maybe thousands of remains at Arlington National Cemetary.
He gets $700,000,000,000.00 in regular funding annually from Congress, which does not even include the funding for Afghanistan and Iraq, and has been unable for nearly 4 straight years to prevail over third world street gangs and the "Taliban."
Clearly he is incompetent, to say the least, and the Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and media on the right and on the left keep hands off the Teflon Defense Secretary. Again, I ask: Why?
There were never any WMD in Iraq, and no Al Quaeda in Iraq until after the Cheney/Bush invasion. The Afghan war was won in 6 months and since then we've only succeeded in advancing Mullah Omar's cause by expanding his base throughout Pakistan as well as Afghanistan. One day and 4 hijackings on one horrendous occasion killed too many Americans. However, Al Quaeda has never been a threat to U.S. national security. We all await the Breaking News Story reporting the successful Punk Bin-Laden drone strike, those of us on the right, the center and on the left!
The only legitimate military threats to U.S. national survival still only come from the nukes deployed by former KGB-er(and G.W. Bush's "good friend") Vladimir Putin and the godless Communist/Currently Captialist leaders in Beijing. I don't worry at all about "Jihad" on a daily basis.
The Obama administration is definitely on the right track by compelling current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seriously negotiate with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Netanyahu, as a right-wing Israeli politician, is uniquely qualified to sign a treaty with Abbas, just as right-wing Prime Minister Menachem Begin was in the same unique position to sign the first Israeli-Arab treaty with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat under President Jimmy Carter's leadership.
Netanyahu's inflammatory rhetoric and military misadventures, particularly in boarding a Turkish relief ship headed for Gaza and killing numerous Turkish nationals several months ago, have put him in no position but to follow the Clinton State Department's lead in seriously negotiating with the more than moderate Mr. Abbas. Should talks become promising, it is likely to undermine both Hezbollah and Hamas in the Golan Heights and in Gaza.
And nothing could more quickly undermine or even put an end to "Jihad" altogether than a Palestinian-Israeli peace and a legitimate and permanent two-state solution. Neither could anything undermine President Ahmadenijad and the so-called Shiite Mullahs(not either Shiite, nor Mullahs; just "nuts") ruling Tehran and threatening to stone yet another woman this month. And nothing would end more quickly the need to employ American uniformed personnel in wacky attempts to lose wars to third world punks like "Mullah" Omar, Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin-Laden.
Once again America owes a huge debt of thanks to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Mr. President, your foreign policy will succeed in far more glorious ways for the people of the United States should you choose to dismiss Secretary Gates today(we suggest Senator John Kerry of Massachusettes as a great potential replacement) and eliminate the civilian link to the uniformed brass that despises civilian rule over our military. Peace....
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