It’s no secret that I don’t agree with my parent’s political viewpoints. The cardboard G.W. Bush wasn’t around the last time I was home, so that’s good. But then I got an email this week that left me scratching my head. Where’s the logic here?
Anyway, the good news for these folks, though they might not realize it, is that the same separation of church and state that protects me from their religion taking over the US government, protects them from Islam taking over the US government.
This is scary–but TRUE
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:33:23 EST
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X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5125I truly hope that this is not so! Especially for future generations, yet unborn!
Wally Flint
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X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5326In a message dated 11/29/2006 8:38:40 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, Billy writes:
The sunset of freedom is setting in Europe (and America is next)
(An amazing and unsettling read)
It will shock, confuse, and hopefully get you thinking of how frightening a situation all Americans face. One cannot help but think of the pain, suffering, and hardship our children and grandchildren will confront if they submit.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1609 (the Brussels Journal)
The Rape and submission of Europe
>From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2006-10-25 20:57
The German author Henryk M. Broder recently told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (12 October) that young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. Whilst sitting on a terrace in Berlin , Broder pointed to the other customers and the passers-by and said melancholically: “We are watching the world of yesterday.”
Europe is turning Muslim. As Broder is sixty years old he is not going to emigrate himself. “I am too old,” he said. However, he urged young people to get out and “move to Australia or New Zealand . That is the only option they have if they want to avoid the plagues that will turn the old continent uninhabitable.”
Many Germans and Dutch, apparently, did not wait for Broder’s advice. The number of emigrants leaving the Netherlands and Germany has already surpassed the number of immigrants moving in. One does not have to be prophetic to predict, like Henryk Broder, that Europe is becoming Islamic. Just consider the demographics. The number of Muslims in contemporary Europe is estimated to be 50 million. It is expected to double in twenty years. By 2025, one third of all European children will be born to Muslim families. Today Mohammed is already the most popular name for new-born boys in Brussels , Amsterdam , Rotterdam , and other major European cities.
Broder is convinced that the Europeans are not willing to oppose islamization. “The dominant ethos,” he told De Volkskrant, “is perfectly voiced by the stupid blonde woman author with whom I recently debated. She said that it is sometimes better to let yourself be raped than to risk serious injuries while resisting. She said it is sometimes better to avoid fighting than run the risk of death.”
In a recent op-ed piece in the Brussels newspaper De Standaard (23 October) the Dutch (gay and self-declared “humanist”) author Oscar Van den Boogaard refers to Broder’s interview. Van den Boogaard says that to him coping with the islamization of Europe is like “a process of mourning.” He is overwhelmed by a “feeling of sadness.” “I am not a warrior,” he says, “but who is? I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.”
As Tom Bethell wrote in this month’s American Spectator: “Just at the most basic level of demography the secular-humanist option is not working.” But there is more to it than the fact that non-religious people tend not to have as many children as religious people, because many of them prefer to “enjoy” freedom rather than renounce it for the sake of children. Secularists, it seems to me, are also less keen on fighting. Since they do not believe in an afterlife, this life is the only thing they have to lose. Hence they will rather accept submission than fight. Like the German feminist Broder referred to, they prefer to be raped than to resist.
“If faith collapses, civilization goes with it,” says Bethell. That is the real cause of the closing of civilization in Europe . Islamization is simply the consequence. The very word Islam means “submission” and the secularists have submitted already. Many Europeans have already become Muslims, though they do not realize it or do not want to admit it.
Some of the people I meet in the U.S. are particularly worried about the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe . They are correct when they fear that anti-Semitism is also on the rise among non-immigrant Europeans. The latter hate people with a fighting spirit. Contemporary anti-Semitism in Europe (at least when coming from native Europeans) is related to anti-Americanism. People who are not prepared to resist and are eager to submit, hate others who do not want to submit and are prepared to fight. They hate them because they are afraid that the latter will endanger their lives as well. In their view everyone must submit.
This is why they have come to hate Israel and America so much, and the small band of European “islamophobes” who dare to talk about what they see happening around them. West Europeans have to choose between submission ( Islam) or death. I fear, like Broder, that they have chosen submission – just like in former days when they preferred to be red rather than dead.
Americans, somewhere a “True Believer” is training to kill you because, unlike Europe , you refuse to submit! He is training with minimal food and water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon. This True Believer is not concerned about “how hard it is. He will not stop in his mission; he knows either he wins or dies and both have great rewards and are acceptable to him.
If he wins, his religious fervor expands. If he dies, he dies with the belief that he is a hero with great rewards awaiting him in Heaven. He doesn’t go home at 5 PM, he is at home in his overwhelming religious dedication. He knows only The Cause.
This is the problem Europe faces. Like the woman author quoted above: “it is sometimes better to let yourself be raped than to risk serious injuries while resisting.” She continued: “it is sometimes better to avoid fighting than run the risk of death.”
Like the Muslim fighter above, Americans must have something they believe in so strongly they are willing to fight and die for it. Freedom and the lifestyle it provides us has been taken for granted by so many for so long, it will take a radical shift caused by the “True Believer fighters” for us to wake up.
Soon, and I believe real soon, America will have to submit; be willingly raped, or stand and fight. What will be the “butchers bill” before we realize the very serious situation we as Americans are in? Well, do we submit, do we fight, or do we wait for the “butchers bill” to reach the “intolerable level”?
I saw this over at DU yesterday, along with some “interesting” commentary…
Indiana May Turn Over Welfare System To IBM Under $1.6 Billion Outsourcing Deal
By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek Wed Nov 29, 3:00 PM ET
The state of Indiana is close to outsourcing the technology and back-office operations that support its welfare system under a contract that, if approved by the governor, would be worth $1.6 billion to IBM and a handful of partners, including ACS and Phoenix Data Corp.
In case you missed it…
Google CEO says Internet is key to campaign win
By Jane Sutton Wed Nov 29, 11:54 PM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) – Google’s chief executive offered some advice on Wednesday to Republicans looking ahead to the 2008 presidential contest: make better use of the Internet’s electioneering power if you want to win next time.
Google suffers setback in copyright case
By The Associated Press Thu Nov 30, 12:11 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc. has rebuffed Google Inc.’s attempt to learn more about its efforts to create digital copies of books, dealing the Internet search leader another setback as it prepares to fight against a copyright infringement suit.
As its gathers evidence for its case, Google has subpoenaed Amazon.com, Yahoo and Microsoft Corp., among others.
Both Yahoo and Microsoft are part of a large alliance of businesses and libraries working together to create a digital database of books. Amazon.com has scanned a large number of books so consumers can read excerpts from books that they may want to buy.
Like Amazon.com, Yahoo lashed out at Google’s request as a brazen attempt to pry into its trade secrets.
“There is simply no need for Google to be peering into the minds and computers of Yahoo employees,” Yahoo’s lawyer wrote in a 17-page list of objections delivered to Google last week.
Microsoft to release pro Vista today
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer 27 minutes ago
NEW YORK – For the first time in five years, Microsoft Corp. is finally unveiling a new system for operating personal computers. Now the company must persuade PC buyers that the launch really matters to them.
Beginning Thursday, businesses that buy Windows licenses in bulk have first crack at the new operating system, called Vista. Consumers can get Vista on home PCs beginning Jan. 30.
Microsoft and computer vendors contend that Vista will make Windows machines more secure, powerful and graphically dynamic, especially when combined with other products Microsoft is releasing simultaneously. Those include new back-end server software for businesses, as well as Office 2007, which brings sweeping changes to widely used programs such as Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.
U.S. bans sale of iPods to North Korea
By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago
WASHINGTON – The Bush administration wants North Korea’s attention, so like a scolding parent it’s trying to make it tougher for that country’s eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters.
Experts said the effort — being coordinated under the United Nations — would be the first ever to curtail a specific category of goods not associated with military buildups or weapons designs, especially one so tailored to annoy a foreign leader. U.S. officials acknowledge that enforcing the ban on black-market trading would be difficult.
We were checking out window displays at one of the stores in Paris, and noticed a rat in one of the windows… do you see what I see? 
(hint: click on the image to see it full sized)
It’s called the constitution.
Judge strikes down Bush on terror groups
By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent 29 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES – A federal judge struck down President Bush’s authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.
WalMart issues a statement where they agree not to do anything different, and AFA calls off their boycott. 
If you read the WalMart statement, you’ll see that they never did and still don’t have a position on gay marriage, it was the AFA that inferred that they did, which was a lie, told to inflame the AFA loonies. (just slightly dishonest)
Group drops plans to protest Wal-Mart
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer Tue Nov 21, 11:02 PM ET
NEW YORK – A conservative group that had called on supporters to boycott Wal-Mart’s post-Thanksgiving Day sales to protest the retailer’s support of gay-rights groups withdrew its objections Tuesday.
The American Family Association, which had been asking supporters to stay away from Wal-Mart on Friday and Saturday — two of the busiest shopping days of the year — said it was pleased that Wal-Mart had pledged in a statement to stay away from controversial causes.
Wal-Mart said it would make changes in the way it contributed to such groups, earmarking funds only for specific causes it supported, such as workplace equality, rather than giving unrestricted gifts.
A prominent gay-rights leader, Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign, said the change was minor and praised Wal-Mart for sticking with its commitments to diversity and equality despite the threats from the American Family Association.
“I don’t see it as backpedaling by Wal-Mart,” Solmonese said. “I think the AFA failed, and thought to themselves, “Let’s declare victory and hope nobody notices.”
Coincidence? Election over, gas prices up again
If you were a little suspicious of the way in which gasoline prices just happened to dive just before this month’s midterm elections, this bit of news won’t exactly put your mind at ease: After dropping 84 cents between Aug. 11 and Nov. 3, gas prices are up five cents in the first Lundberg Survey released after the Nov. 7 election.
Indonesia cannot rule out terrorism for Bush visit
By Telly Nathalia and Jerry Norton Sat Nov 18, 8:50 AM ET
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Acts of terrorism during U.S. President George W. Bush’s visit on November 20 are possible because Islamic militants remain at large, the chief of Indonesia’s intelligence agency said on Saturday.
Bush will stop in the world’s most populous Muslim country for a few hours on Monday to meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a regional ally in the U.S.-led war on terrorism.
Um, here we go again. Leaving for Paris this morning.
wewt.
because whoever it was over at TSA that decided on the 3oz size limit had to be a total moron. Try and find toothpaste that comes in a size smaller that 4.1 oz at most retail stores, go ahead.. I dare you.
And really, who decided on the quart sized ziploc bag thing? Somebody who works for Ziploc at S.C. Johnson? Or maybe someone at Proctor and Gamble who will sell more stuff since anything that is excluded from travel and gets tossed, has to be replaced.
Airports giving away ‘travel baggies’
By EMILY FREDRIX, AP Business Writer 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
MILWAUKEE – This Thanksgiving, leftover stuffing and turkey drumsticks aren’t all that will go into plastic bags.
Some 25 million passengers are expected in the nation’s airports during the 12-day Thanksgiving travel period, the busiest travel time of the year. That means some 25 million baggies filled with liquids and gels under new carryon regulations imposed by the TSA.
Just don’t get the leftovers mixed up with the carryons.
Thanksgiving will be the first major holiday since the Transportation Security Administration imposed new regulations that allow liquids and gels onto airliners only if they are in containers that are 3 ounces or less and in clear, 1-quart zip-top plastic bags.
The new rules are pushing toiletry makers to make more travel-sized items, said Marshal Cohen, chief analyst with The NPD Group Inc., a market research firm. That includes companies like Unilever, whose brands include Dove soap, and Procter & Gamble Co., which makes Pantene and other shampoos.
Roughly 10 percent of the industry now makes those sizes, said Cohen. He expects by the next holiday travel season that will reach 25 percent, driven by the new regulations.
PS3 owners: Keep or sell?
By PETER SVENSSON, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago
NEW YORK – Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 game console went on sale Friday, and the lucky few who got one were now struggling with some tough questions: Keep it, or sell it for a handsome profit? Play right now, or catch up on sleep lost standing in line?
Retailers, meanwhile, were cleaning up after midnight and morning launch events that ranged from orderly to violent, with one incident of gunfire. At the same time, they were gearing up for the Sunday launch of the next eagerly awaited console, Nintendo Co.’s Wii.
In Los Altos, Calif., Justin Kwong was looking at an unopened PlayStation 3 box and wondering what to do. He bought it Friday morning after three nights in a sleeping bag outside the Mountain View Best Buy.
Kwong, 19, and his sister had planned to get one each: one to sell and one to keep. But she wasn’t able to buy hers because of long lines outside the stores in Los Angeles, where she lives. Kwong was now waiting to get in touch with her to decide what to do with the one he got.
“Me personally, I’ve seen what they’re going for … so I’m thinking probably of selling, because it’s such a large profit margin,” he said.
The two PS3 models cost $500 and $600 in the stores, but were selling for between $1,000 and $3,000 on eBay on Friday, with most of them toward the higher end of the range.
Wordpress released an upgrade to version 2.0.5 three weeks ago, and I only found out today because a vulnerability was posted to the bugtraq mailing list (which I subscribe to) today!
Anyway, as usual the upgrade was quick and painless, and everything seems to be working still…
All the lip service about bipartisanship and then….
Bush Renominates Judicial Picks
Fight With Senate Democrats Over Blocked Candidates Appears Likely
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 16, 2006; Page A03
President Bush renominated six previously blocked candidates for federal appeals court yesterday, triggering the first real battle with ascendant Democrats since the midterm elections and signaling what could be the start of a fierce two-year struggle over the shape of the federal judiciary.
