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Take a ride in the Wayback Machine

Wouldn't it be great if we could travel back in time, do certain things differently, change the future?  Watching events in the Middle East, especially after the accidental burning of 4 korans, the Qur'an can be used as a cryptograph to relay messages, I'm wishing we could go back in time and do things differently.

Come for a ride with me in the Wayback machine (not as fancy as the Back to the Future DeLorean car, and not as scary as Time Tunnel).   

The name Wayback Machine is a reference to a segment from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show in which time-traveling Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman use a time machine called the "WABAC machine" to witness, participate in, and, more often than not, alter famous events in history (and usually wind up instrumental in making events come out "right").

Let us pretend it is the day after Muslim terrorists attacked the United States using passenger planes, destroying the World Trade Center, damaging the Pentagon, and killing almost 3,000 innocent people.  Let us pretend that our government does not send in our military and begin a long war in Iraq or Afghanistan. 

Let us pretend that President George W. Bush decided to attack the countries that finance, protect, train, and breed terrorists and those attacks were in the form of a massive bombing campaign.  A coordinated bombing attach with the biggest, baddest, most destructive bombs we have in our arsenal on Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, (fill in the blank).

It doesn't do any good to bomb an aspirin factory like Bill Clinton did and claim a victory.  So what would our targets be? 

Perhaps stopping all our foreign aid, all our money that goes to terrorist sympathizing countries, would have been a good start in sending a message.

Perhaps stopping the lax immigration of persons from these Muslim countries would send a message.  If nothing else, this would stop all the bad guys from coming to this country under the guise of student visas, overstaying their visas year after year, only to spend their time on American soil planning to harm us. Oh, to have a time machine or even a chrystal ball.

Would the United States be in any more danger today than we currently are after all these years in Iraq and Afghanistan?  Would we be any safer, knowing that after leaving Iraq and Afghanistan the situation will once again turn violent?   Knowing that all the money, blood, we have expended in Muslim countries, trying to win hearts and minds was a futile effort.

Are you tired of American politicians and military leaders apologizing to our enemies, trying to put lipstick on savages? If you could hop in the Wayback Machine and change our reaction to September 11, 2001, would you?  If you were president, what would you do differently?

We know the situation today, how would things be different, better, today if we had named the enemy, dealt with the enemy differently, rather than trying to make people like us?

Let your mind wander, think about it, but sadly there is no going back, no do over.  However, there is a future.  There is time to pick leaders that will  do things differently in the future.  We do not need a president who sympathizes with our enemies and insults our friends.

Vote wisely in upcoming elections, because there is no going back.

God’s businessman moves mountains

God's businessman moves mountains

By Karen Holt, The Historic Examiner

Though other countries have examples as well, the United States of America probably has the largest collection of ‘rags-to-riches’ stories in the world.  Having been gifted by our forefathers with the freedom to attempt anything we want to do, with the understanding we accept responsibility for our actions, this nation has been blessed in so many ways with people who took a chance and reaped a bountiful reward in the process – a reward which not only the doer, but the American public as a whole, benefited from in some way.  

Very possibly one of the most amazing of these ‘rags-to-riches’ stories began on November 30, 1888 when the dean of earthmoving, Robert Gilmour LeTourneau, began life in Richford, Vermont. Born to parents who lived by strong Christian principals, Robert followed the path of many young people by rejecting what he was taught for a time; however God’s promise in Proverbs 22:6 later came to fruition - Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it (KJV).

As a youth, LeTourneau had little interest in traditional education and left school at the age of 14.  With the blessings of his parents, he left home, moved to Duluth, Minnesota and then on to Portland, Oregon.  Here he was employed by the East Portland Iron Works as an apprentice ironmonger.  During the time he spent learning the machinist and foundry trades, he also began a correspondence course in mechanics.  He never completed any of the assignments involved, but gained the knowledge available from the lessons. 

Just Thinking Edition Number 5

(Exercising freedom of speech ... as long as it still exists.)

JUST THINKING

Number 5

By Frederick William Dame

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At a House hearing to discuss the legality of Obama’s “free birth control and abortion pill” mandate, Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) states that the hearing is about “basic question of religious freedom, and whether or not protection will be afforded to religious institutions who wish to follow their conscience in refusing to pay for products they find morally objectionable. ...A government policy that encroaches on the conscientious objections of religious groups concerns all Americans who value the protections of the First Amendment.” Obama’s decree is a “solution” to a problem that does not exist.

Just Thinking: Darrell Issa is correct in his statement. ... However, what is Mr. Issa going to do about it? During the last four years he has done nothing to expose and punish Obama's regime for breaking the laws of the Constitution. What is the use of having a Congressman with investigative and subpoena power if they are never put to use to convict criminals?

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http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/17/terror-suspect-arrested-near-u-s- capitol/
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) writes on Facebook, “The suspect today who approached the U.S. Capitol planning to detonate a bomb was using jihad-influenced methods of terrorism. The White House refers to this as ‘homegrown violent extremist.’ How is it homegrown if this was not an American citizen? It also appears that this individual was living in the U.S. illegally for years. I intend to find out how he was allowed to live here.”

Pamela Geller writes, "And what is Obama’s response? Disarm the FBI, disarm the military, ban ‘jihad’ from the lexicon. Obama invites the universal caliphate organization, the OIC, to Washington, DC behind closed doors to talk about imposing bans on free speech in submission to the blasphemy laws under the sharia. In the past year alone, at least 20 people have been arrested in the United States on terrorism-related charges, according to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. But the NY Times says there is no jihad threat. ...This jihadist [Amine El Khalifi] has been living in the US for twelve years, but FOX and the rest of the US media refers to this devout Muslim as Moroccan (as if Morocco had anything to do with this act of war). The press does not dare say ‘Muslim,’ even though these Muslim soldiers scream ‘allahu akbar’ and go jihad in the cause of Islam. No, in the UK, the enemedia and political quislings use the word ‘Asian’ for Muslim. In France, they use ‘youth.’ In Denmark, Sweden and Germany, they use ‘immigrant’ for Muslim (even if the jihadists are second or third generation). In many European countries, ‘immigrant youth.’ In the US, the media use country of origin or nationality in place of Muslim. In Israel, they use ‘Arab.’ Lipstick on a savage. It is jihad in the cause of Islam. Period.” LongWarJournal.org points out that Amine El Khalifi set out to bomb the Capitol “after first praying at the Dar al-Hirjah mosque in Northern Virginia”—

Just Thinking: It is important for Barack Hussein Obama and his regime to be politically correct in their remarks and decisions. Barack Hussein and his regime surely have only goodness in their hearts. Barack Hussein Obama and his regime would definitely not put the United States of America in a situation that it might become the target of a foreign terrorist, particularly when there are enough homegrown terrorists in the United States who are called patriots and who are a threat to America. Barack Hussein Obama and his regime are so thoughtful.

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In an agreement with Michelle Obama Mars Candy agrees to phase out its largest candy bars.

Just Thinking: I'm so glad that there is a Michelle Obama who is looking out for the dietary needs of children and adults. She is such a person to emulate! No one can down XXXL hamburgers like Michelle! No one can eat an XXXL portion of French-fries like Michelle! No one can eat a three-pound steak like Michelle! No one can dish out meal portions to US troops like Michelle! No one can tell the American military what to eat like Michelle! No one can do the grubbing in a biological White House Garden like Michelle! Isn't that supportive of her person in that she, of course, does all of the work? She doesn't want any gardener other than herself doing the work. (Was that a racist comment?) No one can have a possible secret lover and not have it disclosed like Michelle! Coming full circle to Mars Candy, methinks that Michelle stored up enough large Mars Candy bars in the past to fill out her body parameters  (continue reading Just Thinking Number 5 here pdf)

 

Check out the other fine articles at The Obama Timeline here and also the full Just Thinking series here, and other articles by Frederick William Dame here)

 

The Bigoted, the Deceptive, and the Shameless

The Bigoted, the Deceptive, and the Shameless

The Origin and Objective of BDS

By Tabitha Korol

The BDS movement (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) is spreading like a pestilence across our country and in Europe, infecting the young and vulnerable in universities.  Here’s some background; I plan to follow with the speakers, and the funding in the future.  

On April 1, 1933, a week after Hitler came to power, he ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices and department stores. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels defended it as a legitimate response to the anti-German “atrocity propaganda” being spread by “international Jewry.”  Signs were posted, “Germans, defend yourselves, buy only at German shops!”  In 1945, the Arab League initiated a boycott of Jewish Palestinian businesses. A year later, it was extended to prohibit contact with "anything Jewish."

The BDS movement began in earnest at the UN’s Durban Conference Against Racism in the 2001 NGO (often government-supported “non-governmental organizations”) forum, when Human Rights Watch (HRW) presented the strategy to advance the “complete and total isolation of Israel,” and called for the “imposition of mandatory and comprehensive sanctions and embargos, the full cessation of all links (diplomatic, economic, social, aid, military cooperation, and training) between all states and Israel.”  Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) of Arab and Islamic countries held in Tehran, which excluded Israel and Jews, was led by NGOs, and linked to “war crimes” cases against Israeli officials (lawfare).  From this, the pro-Palestinian groups promoted economic and cultural boycotts of Israel (2002), supported a boycott of Israeli academic institutions (2003), and worked to deny the right of the Jewish people to national self-determination (2005).

Handicap of Humanity

Handicap of Humanity

By R.J. Godlewski

© February 25, 2012, All Rights Reserved

“‟Another issue is that a Western Christian will see the surface similarities between Islam and Christianity and begin to think that perhaps both faiths worship the same God. It is easy to make this mistake if you learn only a little bit about Islam from someone who has an interest in making Islam look good to you. Therefore, Christians need to see the complete picture of Islam from its original source – the Quran and hadith.”

Mark A. Gabriel, Journey into the Mind of an Islamic Terrorist: Why they hate us and how we can change their minds, Page 180.

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Islam represents a dire threat for the future of humanity. The fact that most Muslims are neither threatening nor hostile does not excuse their underlying threat from criticism. By the same comparison, one could suggest that “most” Germans and Japanese during the Second World War were not particularly hostile or threatening to the United States. Nevertheless, Nazism and Imperialism were, in fact, brutally evil ideologies that needed eradication from the ranks of legitimate governments. It can also be said that Arabs were not especially threatening or hostile to American interests during the conflict, but their religious leaders routinely sided with the Nazi cause.

Where Islam (again, not encompassing all Muslims), defined appropriately and historically, as Muhammadanism, exists as a threat to humanity rests within three fundamental conditions that make the ideology (a “religion” deals exclusively with man‟s relationship with God) detrimental to society:

1. Quranic Islam does not permit competitive thought. Christianity, by comparison, teaches, “All nations form but one community. This is so because all stem from the one stock which God created to people the entire earth, and also because all share a common destiny, namely God. His providence, evident goodness, and saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered together in the holy city...” (Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraph #842). Muhammad believed that Trinitarian Christians were not worthy of salvation and ordered the deaths of thousands of captives who would not convert to Islam (5:72-73, 5:116-118);

BDS Secrets

BDS Secrets

By Ran Baratz

Ubiquitous anti-Israel activist Norman Finkelstein stirred up the blogosphere last week.  In a YouTube interview with pro-Palestinian advocate Frank Barat, Finkelstein said—in his aggressive, condescending way—that members of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS), which Finkelstein has prominently supported, care less for human rights than they do for Israel's destruction.  When Finkelstein saw the reactions, rumor has it he tried to get Barat to take the video down. 

But Finkelstein's angry comrades didn't understand what he was really admitting.

Finkelstein got into trouble when he said that some people in BDS "don't want Israel."  He lectured his BDS colleagues: 

Stop trying to be so clever, because you're only clever in your cult.  The moment you step out, you have to deal with Israeli propaganda . . .  They say, "No, they're not really talking about rights; they're talking about they want to destroy Israel."  And in fact I think they're right, I think that's true.

In fact, Finkelstein said, it is "not an accident, an unwitting omission, that BDS does not mention Israel": They "know it will split the movement, because there's a large segment—component—of the movement that wants to eliminate Israel."

‘Eat Mor Chikin’

‘Eat Mor Chikin’

By Karen Holt

The Historic American Examiner

Armed with a work ethic forged during the Depression and keen business sense coupled with a personal and business philosophy based on biblical principles, restaurant entrepreneur S. Truett Cathy and his brother Ben opened The Dwarf Grill (later Dwarf House) in Atlanta, Georgia in 1946.  They named resulted from the fact the restaurant was so small, it contained only 10 stools and four tables; however, it was a start and the restaurant prospered through the years.  Sales at the end of the first day totaled $58.20.

Born on March 14, 1921, Samuel Truett Cathy is one of America's most generous philanthropists, sharing his fortune primarily with disadvantaged children.  A Sunday school teacher of thirteen-year-old boys in the Baptist church for more than fifty years, Cathy and his wife, Jeannette has taken in 150+ foster children over the years.

Truett was eight years old when his business entrepreneurial journey began in 1929 during which time he operated a Coca-Cola stand in his front yard.  By 1935, the Great Depression placed the Cathy family in dire financial straits.  They move into Techwood Homes in downtown Atlanta, the country’s first federally funded housing project where they paid $67/month for rent.  During this time Truett helped the family’s income with money earned from a paper route.

Cathy started his first franchise when he opened the second Dwarf House in Forest Parkin 1951.  When it burned down in 1960, Truett decided to pioneer the idea of a fast-food restaurant instead.   Experimenting with a sandwich featuring a boneless breast of chicken, Cathy perfected the recipe for his ‘chick-fil-a’ over a period of four years using cooking techniques his mother taught him when she worked in a boarding house kitchen. 

The ‘flying’ locusts

The ‘flying’ locusts

by Tammy Swofford  

Dr Jones now did a curious thing. He threw open the lid to the container. A swarm of locusts jumped to catch the gust and swarmed across the auditorium in the shape of a fist. Fleeing in terror, we bolted for the corridor

Last week, I was caught off guard reading this description of the citizens of Pakistan: “He has been on starvation rations both physically and morally since a long, long time, and your arrogance-ridden political horse sense should tell you that if these insects collapse or perish, whom would you rule?” (‘Please let my sunlight in — II’ by Mehboob Qadir, Daily Times, February 16, 2012).

It is unlikely the correspondent was aware of my own activities the prior week. A coterie of international journalists were busily observing the inner workings of a secretive think tank meeting held in Davos, Switzerland. It was an honour to be part of the press corps for this prestigious forum.

The ‘Arab Spring’ may now have the look of a slaughtered animal in most regions. But the ongoing upheaval in Syria should remind us of one thing. If the animal can still move a leg, a tail or an eye, it is still alive. The political animal is alive and well in Syria.

Continue reading at the Daily Times Pakistan and check out Tammy Swofford's blog regularly.  Tammy also has her first novel coming out in April, _Arsenal_, I'm looking forward to reading it.

 

Two more Americans killed in Afghanistan, a colonel and a major, who were part of the advisory mission

Kabul (CNN) -- The Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack Saturday inside the Afghan interior ministry that killed at least two American officers.

NATO and Afghan officials reported the deaths of two American officers inside the ministry in Kabul.

According to the International Security Assistance Force, initial reports indicated that "an individual" turned his weapon against NATO service members.

The agency did not provide the nationalities of the victims, but an Afghan police official confirmed they were American.

A Taliban spokesman said the attack was in response to the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base. (continue at CNN)

Via Drudge:

5th day of Koran-burning protests...
Islamists rampage British WWII cemetery in Libya...
Mobs charge US bases...
Taliban: Kill foreigners...
Pentagon Official Apologizes at VA Mosque...
Obama 'deeply regrets'...
Gingrich: Obama 'surrendered' with apology...

 

I don't want to sound like the Left, or Ron Paul, but Afghanistan as well as Iraq this week, do not look as if they can ever be peaceful, democratic, Muslim nations.  I'm truly sorry to say that after all the blood, money and effort we have spent in both places. I should probably include Pakistan too.

You cannot win the "hearts and minds" of blood-thirsty terrorists who follow the rantings of a crazy pedophile and refuse to live like humans in 2012.

UPDATE:

We cannot allow judges in the United States to submit to Sharia law, yet we have this already happening.

The Sharia Court of Pennsylvania — the Transcript

By Andrew C. McCarthy

February 24, 2012 2:59 P.M.

I have made a transcript of the Pennsylvania case in which state judge Mark Martin, a Muslim convert and U.S. Army reservist who served in Iraq, relied on a sharia law defense (as well as some evidentiary contortions) to dismiss an open-and-shut harassment case against a Muslim man who assaulted an atheist activist at a Halloween parade. (See my earlier post.)

The victim, Ernest Perce, wore a “Zombie Mohammed” costume and pretended to walk among the dead (in the company of an associate who was the “Zombie Pope” — and who, you’ll be shocked to learn, was not assaulted). The assailant, Talag Elbayomy, a Muslim immigrant, physically attacked Perce, attempted to pull his sign off, and, according to police, admitted what he had done right after the incident. The defense argued that Elbayomy believed it was a crime to insult the prophet Mohammed (it is, under sharia law), and that because he was in the company of his children, he had to act to end this provocation and set an example about defending Islam.

As you will see, Judge Martin did not lecture the defendant about free speech or how disputes are resolved in a civilized country. He instead dressed the victim down for failing to appreciate how sensitive Muslims — including the judge himself — are about Islam. The audio of Judge Martin’s remarks can be heard on YouTube (The audio, beginning at around the 2-minute mark on the YouTube clip, lasts about 7 minutes. Martin has reportedly threatened to hold Perce in contempt for recording and publishing the judge’s statements, which were made in open court. Perce says he had permission to make a recording as long as it was only audio, not video.) Here is the transcript:  (continue at National Review Online)

 

 

Apology (hee hee) to Hamid Karzai

The apology to Afghanistan that needs to be said:

From  Kira Davis (courtesy Right Scoop) via Jihad Watch.  Enjoy!

Be sure to read the comments at YouTube, especially those from the Loony left