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Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey: Islam less a faith than it is a "cult"

At an event in Hamilton County, Tennessee, about a proposed new Muslim community center scheduled to be built in Murfreesboro,  Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey was asked by an unidentified man  "We've got a threat that's invading our country from the Muslims.  What's your stand?"   Just for the record, the Muslim community center is a mosque, will be used for recruitment, and many in the community are against it.  Ramsey responded by insinuating that perhaps Islam does not fall under the freedom of religion category because Islam, arguably, according to Ramsey is less a faith than it is a "cult."  

"Now, you know, I'm all about freedom of religion. I value the First Amendment as much as I value the Second Amendment as much as I value the Tenth Amendment and on and on and on," he said. "But you cross the line when they try to start bringing Sharia Law here to the state of Tennessee -- to the United States. We live under our Constitution and they live under our Constitution." [snip]

"My concern is that far too much of Islam has come to resemble a violent political philosophy more than peace-loving religion," he said in an email. "It's time for American Muslims who love this country to publicly renounce violent jihadism and to drum those who seek to do America harm out of their faith community."  (Evan McMorris-Santoro, TMP, see video)

You can imagine this didn't go over very well with many bloggers.  Ramsey is partially correct.  I believe that Islam is more of a political system than it is a religion.   Ramsey was searching for the right word to describe Islam when he called it a cult, then a violent political philosophy, which I think is correct for many who call themselves Muslims - but not all.

It behooves all Americans to try and understand Islam and what it brings with it, including sharia law, honor killings, jihad, non-assimilation into Western society, and continued sympathies for the homeland, whether it be Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, or wherever, rather than joining the American culture.

Hubby and I voted early today and I hope we made the right choices.  I think Ramsey would be a good governor for Tennessee, but so would Zach Wamp.  We've learned that you can't believe much of what we hear in campaign speeches from a lot of candidates.  Hubby took it upon himself to personally email and call some of our local candidates and grill them on topics close to our hearts:  the Constitution, gun rights, freedom of speech here in our county, and more.  We've done our due diligence and will hope our choices were the right ones.

Chicago Controls Free Speech

Speech Control Laws in Chicago  by the sweet Grouch:

Chicago mayor, Richard Daley, announced today the passage of sweeping new free speech laws affecting those in the city. Specifically bloggers in the city of Chicago will be limited to posting or contributing to only one blog and their posts will be limited to one post per week. Additionally, before a citizen can become a blogger, they will have to enroll in and successfully complete a gubment approved speech class. [snip]

Additionally, computer users in Chicago will only be allowed to view blogs one day per week unless they have a special permit from the...   (continue reading at the Grouch's place)

Must Read: The Strangling of American Hospitals

The Strangling of American Hospitals,  by Dr. Thomas Hamilton, a/k/a the Grouch:

We had staff meeting yesterday at the hospital. A topic of discussion was RAC audits and a specific case affecting our hospital.

If you don't know what RAC audits are, do a Google Search on it and read about it for yourself. I betcha most of you have never heard of such a thing.

Anyway, I felt compelled to write my Congresswoman, Marsha Blackburn, and my two Senators, Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander over this issue. I know I'll probably get the standard form reply, but it made me feel better anyway. Here it is:

Dear Senator/Congresswoman:

I feel the need to make you aware of the serious situation created for small hospitals under the RAC (Recovery Audit Contractor) program created by Medicare.  (continue reading)

Watcher of Weasels Council Submissions

• Joshuapundit – Update On UCSD MSA Member Who Admitted She Wants A Second Holocaust
• The Colossus of Rhodey - The U.N. continues to prove itself a sorry joke
• Rhymes With Right - A Tale Of Two Controversies — UPDATED & BUMPED
• Bookworm Room - The “Howling Mob” theory of liberal politics
• Right Truth - The older you are, the less stress and worry you have, says survey
• The Razor – Have You Mugged Your Kid Today?
• Mere Rhetoric – BBC Middle East Editor: Watching Obama Slap Around Israel Is “Enjoyable New Experience”
• The Glittering Eye – Dealing with Unknown Unknowns
• The Provocateur – Dr. Chacko, the media and judicial purity
• Wolf Howling – In the end beauty contests always come down to …

 Non-Council Submissions

• Rabbi Dov Fischer – Carly Fiorina, Chuck DeVore, Israel, Islam and Jesse Jackson: Only One Reasonable Choice for California Republicans Submitted by JoshuaPundit
• Cato@Liberty – President Just Can’t Leave Them Kids Alone Submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Doug Ross @ Journal -  Illinois Melts Down: the Inevitable Result of Unchecked Democrat Rule Submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Iowahawk - Invisible Assholes Submitted by Bookworm Room
• Wake Up America! -  Actors and Liberal Intellectuals Accuse Obama Of Crimes ‘Worse Than Bush’ Submitted by Right Truth
• Yourish - History for Arabs not Jews Submitted by The Razor
• Seraphic Secret - Jew Producer Submitted on behalf of Mere Rhetoric
• The Counterterrorism Blog - New Terrorism: Five days in Manhattan Submitted on behalf of The Glittering Eye
• Pajamas Media/Thomas Adams - Goldman Sachs and the Broken Windows Theory Submitted on behalf of The Provocateur
• Daniel Pipes Blog - Affirmative Action in Beauty Contests? Submitted on behalf of Wolf Howling
• Yaacov Lozowick’s Ruminations – The Keter in Jerusalem Submitted by the Watcher

The Census Man Came to See Us

Last week someone from the Census Bureau visited hubby's music room.  Not our house, where there is a house number on the mail box, but his music room.  The only reason we know that someone visited the music room is because a notice stating that we should call Mr. Harrison Reed at the number provided was left on the door.  The notice said if we did not call he would come back in a few days.  Since no one lives in the music room and since hubby and I received two notices prior to the census form, then we received two census forms, which we filled out with name, address, phone number, we didn't see any need to call Mr. Reed. 

Today Mr. Reed returned.  I had a knock on our front door and what did I find?  A teenage boy.  This boy failed to identify himself until mid-conversation, provided no identification, and proceeded to ask if that was our "guest house".  I said "No, we don't have a guest house."  He continued asking questions, all the wrong questions I might add.  I simply stood there looking at him.  

He wanted to know my name, the address (which is plainly on the mailbox and which any good census worker would already know) and when we could be reached by phone.  I suppose Mr. Reed will have some more important questions to ask us.

Mr. Reed returned to his truck where another apparent teenage boy waited for him.  They made some phone calls while sitting in the truck on our property in front of the music room before they drove off. 

I don't know what I expected in a census worker, but it wasn't a teenage boy.  Of course I'm assuming he was a teenager, because all I have to go on is my impression.  He certainly didn't provide any information to me.

Share your census visit experiences with us please.  After all, you are paying these census worker salaries.

Thank God For President Barack Obama?

The sweet Grouch has posted an article written by an 82 year old, very wise lady who gives a whole new slant on the 'amazing job' Obama is doing: 

That is right - I will say it "(THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT)."

1. He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine - Driving a stake thru the heart of Hillary's Presidential aspirations - something that no Republican was ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you!

2. He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty - No more Kennedy's trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom are safer tonight!

3. He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!

Dennis Moore had never lost a race - quit

Evan Bayh had never lost a race - quit

Byron Dorgan had never lost a race - quit

Harry Reid - soon to be GONE   (go to the Grouch's place to read the rest)

I actually found myself agreeing with Barack Hussein Obama in his commencement speech at Hampton University.  Obama said:

"What [Thomas] Jefferson recognized... that in the long run, their improbable experiment -- called America -- wouldn't work if its citizens were uninformed, if its citizens were apathetic, if its citizens checked out, and left democracy to those who didn't have the best interests of all the people at heart.

"It could only work if each of us stayed informed and engaged, if we held our government accountable, if we fulfilled the obligations of citizenship."

I agree completely.  Too bad Obama doesn't understand that the TEA party, or Conservative movement, in America today is trying to do just that and set this country back on the right path.  He also said:

"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter," Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia.

"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.

He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets.

"All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

All true.  We have a generation of many young folks who know ever member of silly TV shows, but can't answer a simple question about America's history, don't even know the Vice President when shown his picture, and couldn't make an informed vote for dog catcher.  They are too busy with video games and entertainment to be educated on what counts.

He is also correct that we are bombarded (in the main stream media in my opinion) with so-called news that is nothing more than talking points coming straight from Obama's office, some  most of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter.  Controlling the message that the media reports is contrary to a democratic republic, which is what the United States of America is, or was, before Obama.

 

Letter to the Editor and Oppossums

The sweet Grouch has written a nice letter to the editor of our local newspaper about "Two Things The Candidates Did Not Say", you need to go read it here.  You might want to share it with your friends, family, or perhaps with the editor of your own local papers.  Be sure to give credit to the Grouch, a/k/a Thomas Hamilton.

He also has an interesting article about 'possums and how only through a fateful turn of events did this possum have to die, read it here.

Other reading, not related but interesting:

Barack Obama faces potential Chinese death trap.  Newly emboldened by his successes with health care reform and nuclear disarmament, what next for Super-Obama? 

Don't Tread On Me,   Michael Barone devotes a superb column to explicating the true meaning of the Tea Party movement. In "Tea partiers embrace liberty, not big government," .

All Your Nuclear Secrets Are Belong to US ABCNEWS:

EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA 'Intelligence Coup'   Shahram Amiri Disappeared Last June in Saudi Arabia, Reportedly Now Resettled in the United States (ABC Blotter)

Hey, here are a few more surprises from ObamaCare!, Hot Air.

Terrorist vs. Terrorist -Bad-guy fratricide in AfPak

This is a day that the Lord has made...

Let us rejoice and be glad in it, because there is good news for Americans.  We are the luckiest people in the world to live in the USA.  No matter what negative things are going on, we have so much to be thankful for.

Millions of white men who voted for Barack Obama are walking away from the Democratic Party, and it appears increasingly likely that they'll take the midterms elections in November with them. Their departure could well lead to a GOP landslide on a scale not seen since 1994.  [snip]

Pollsters regularly ask voters whether they would rather see a Democrat or Republican win their district. By February, support for Democrats among white people (male and female) was three percentage points lower than in February 1994, the year of the last Republican landslide.

Today, among whites, only 35 percent of men and 43 percent of women say they will back Democrats in the fall election. Women's preferences have remained steady since July 2009. But white men's support for a Democratic Congress has fallen eight percentage points, according to Gallup.  (Times Union)

The number of women supporting Democrats seems to stay about the same, and the sweet Grouch wonders why.  Perhaps this is the reason:

This recession remains disproportionately a "he-cession." Men account for at least seven of 10 workers who lost jobs, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Nearly half of the casualties are white men, who held 46 percent of all jobs lost.

The article also reports, "Among whites, 71 percent of men and 56 percent of women favor a smaller government with fewer services over a larger government with more services, according to ABC/Washington Post polling"

The following graph/poll, hat tip Atlas Shrugs, is very promising:

CBS Poll: Most Want GOP to Keep Fighting on Health Bill

A CBS

CBS News poll released Wednesday finds that nearly two in three Americans want Republicans in Congress to continue to challenge parts of the health care reform bill.

As Sarah Palin said "We are not going to sit down and shut up."  We are already standing up in huge numbers, making our thoughts and wishes known with signs, our voices, our presence at TEA parties and townhall meetings, with our money, and come election day we will stand up at the voting booth and speak very loudly when we push the button to vote our all who do not stand for the Constitution of these beautiful United States of America.

When Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama, mmmm, mmmm, mmmm, dares the GOP to challenge his so-called health care bill and when he makes 15 recess appointments of radicals that the American people do not want in their government, and when he says, "I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government" -- We shout "NO.  This is still America and we are still FREE".

We will take back the country we love so dearly and preserve her freedoms for future generations, and we will do it one person at a time.

A lone woman evangelist has been positioning herself in front of the White House gates almost daily for more than two years to deliver the message to the United States that heaven is offering a "bailout" far greater than dollars. ...   The voice belongs to Theresa Salcedo Cao,  [snip]

It doesn't matter to her what political party or ethnic, financial, regional or other factors are involved: She just wants the nation to seek restoration of a relationship with the "Almighty God" of history.  (WND)

Yes people across this nation are worried about the loss of their freedoms under the Obama administration, but that worry is turning into action -- a turning away from the Democrat party and a turning back toward the Constitution, and the make up of the TEA parties proves that -- Democrats, Republicans, Independents all coming together.

The WND Freedom Index poll from Wenzel Strategies shows even one in 10 Democrats – whose party controls both the White House and Congress – believes there's been a big decrease in freedoms.  [snip]

"Simply put, Americans are growing by the month more pessimistic about their freedoms and their fear that government is trying to take them away."   (WND)

Have faith and put action to your prayers.  Obama is his own worst enemy.

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 28% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16.

 

Heart Disease

30 Years of Miracles - Heart Disease, by The Grouch

The other day while I was working, we had a man come in who was having a massive heart attack. We sprang into action, administered life saving treatment, administered drugs to open his blocked coronary artery, and had him out of our ER and on his way to the tertiary hospital and the cardiac cath lab for definitive treatment in less than 50 minutes. When he arrived at our place he appeared near death. By the time he left, he was pain free and smiling and joking with the nurses.

I mentioned to the staff how lucky this man was to have had his heart attack today and not 20 years ago. I am entering my 30th year as a physician and this moment gave me some time to reflect on some of the true miracles I have seen happen in medicine in the relatively short time I have been a doctor. I’d like to share some of my observations with you....  (continue reading at The Grouch at Right Truth's blog)

Below is this weeks nominations from the Watcher of Weasels Council:  (we have a new Watcher in charge, Soccer Dad. .

Mere Rhetoric - Obama Giving Up On “Crippling” Iran Sanctions

Colossus of Rhodey - More “logic” from that wisher of death upon Republicans

Wolf Howling - The UK Through Labour’s Looking Glass

Rhymes with Right – Nomination Of LaRouchie By CD22 Dems Points To Failure Of Houston Media

Bookworm Room – Obama Care and abortions

The Provocateur - Ideological Wars Bore Me

American Digest - Massa’s Reason for Resigning. Doing (or not doing) Barney Frank’s Job

JoshuaPundit - Obama Tells Israel They Have No Right To Their Religious Shrines

The Glittering Eye – The Nightmare Scenario

Right Truth - History of Insurance

Non-Council Submissions

Across the Bay - Juan Cole’s Social Protest SUBMITTED by Mere Rhetoric

 Reason.com – A Libyan Charm Offensive SUBMITTED by Colossus of Rhodey

 Big Lizards - Palin and Reagan: Together Again for the First Time SUBMITTED by Wolf Howling

The Volokh Conspiracy - Could National Juries Alleviate the Problem of Political Ignorance? SUBMITTED by Rhymes with Right

Chesler Chronicles - It’s International Women’s History Month and Where is Secretary Clinton? SUBMITTED by Right Truth

American Thinker -  Defeat vs. Repeal SUBMITTED by Bookworm Room

 Chicago Tribune/John Kass -  24 Has Jumped the Shark SUBMITTED by The Provocateur

Sippican Cottage - Sippican the Rag Man SUBMITTED by American Digest

 Joel J. Sprayregen/ American Thinker - Obama’s Iran Policy Collapses to the Accompaniment of Mockery Around the Globe SUBMITTED by JoshuaPundit

Chicago Boyz – Seizing the Opportunity to Destroy Western Civilization – SUBMITTED by The Glittering Eye

Zzounds

Ever have so many problems with a company that you refuse to purchase from them again?  Well, the Grouch has a rant to share with you.  For Valentines Day I purchased a gift certificate for the sweet Grouch from an online music company called Zzounds.  It took me a week and a half, plus several emails and phone calls to the company to get the gift certificate after my original purchase.  Normally they would email it to me the next day, I would print it out, and give it to my sweetie along with his greeting card.  I swore I would never order from them again.  But what I went through was nothing compared to what the Grouch went through ...  Read it here

Abolition of the US government?

Here it is, an article you have waited since the November 2008 election to read:

Abolition of the United States Government

How will overthrow of the federal gubment happen? I have trouble getting my arms around such a concept. There has already been talk from some of the states about secession. Could it really happen? One day several of the states declare absolute sovereignty and refuse to abide by federal law. Could it happen? What if after Obamacare is finally enacted that there is a massive uprising by taxpayers fed up with being forced to buy insurance and fed up with being forced to fund the murder of unborn babies? Suddenly a majority of taxpayers stop sending checks to the treasury. "No more money until the president and the entire congress resigns!" Could it happen? In the midst of this turmoil, what if Washington DC is suddenly destroyed by a nuclear blast? The blast would come from a terrorist nuke obtained from North Korea or Iran. Could it happen?  (read it all at the Grouch at Right Truth)

Also read:

I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.

Well I read that some West Virginia woman has gotten her tit in a ringer for slapping an environmental protester at a West Virginia coal mine. She is charged with battery.  (continue reading)