25 May 2007

“Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waiver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him, but if Baal is god, follow him.” But the people said nothing… 1 King 18:21

The Peaceful Muslim

May 22, 2007

A man whose family was part of the German aristocracy prior to World War Two owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave should guide our attitude toward Islamic fanaticism.

“Very few people were true Nazis "he said," but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."

We are told again and again by "experts" and "talking heads" that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of Islamic fanaticm rampaging across the globe. The fact of the matter is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.

It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide.

It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent of Africa, in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill.. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously stone, behead and shoot homosexuals and rape victims.

The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority" the "silent majority" of Muslims is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of a peaceful majority of Russians who just wanted to live in peace. Yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but the Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War 2 was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet.

And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving"? Of course!

… Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans,

Serbs Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians,

Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful

majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention…

more at http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015029.php

WHAT WARMING? Both Hemispheres Report Unusual Cold and Snow

May 23, 2007

The media loves to seize on every warm winter day or summer heat wave as some kind of “proof” of man-made catastrophic global warming. But what the establishment media likes to conveniently ignore is periods of unusual cold or snow. (See Newsbusters.org post: “Hysterical Global Warming Hypocrisy From ABC Regarding Heat Waves and Cold Snaps” http://newsbusters.org/node/9135 ) Several nations on Earth are currently experiencing rather cold and snowy weather at the moment...

...The below articles detail some of the unusual cold and snow occurring at the moment. One article below chronicles the Memorial Day snow advisory for the Colorado Mountains where up to 8 inches is expected. (and this after the Denver area received “one of the snowiest winters on record” in 2007.)

Parts of Wyoming are also being buried under a snowstorm while winter weather is persisting in Oregon and parts of Canada. A huge snowstorm in China has closed highways and stranded motorists. In addition, South Africa just set 54 new cold weather records with some parts seeing snow for the first time in 33 years as snow and ice continue to fall. Finally, winter has arrived early in Australia as the snow season is off to a promising start for the winter recreation industry.

Now the question is, will the same media that sensationalizes every warm weather event to promote climate alarmism, highlight the current icy grip of winter for many areas?

more at http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=bb2807f0-802a-23ad-45b3-6f25e4365be1

South Africa Weather breaks record

May 23, 2007

THE icy weather of snow, hail and heavy rain that has swept across South Africa over the past few days has set 54 weather records.

The South African Weather Service said 34 new records were set on Monday and another 20 yesterday. Almost all records were for the lowest maximum and minimum daily temperatures in towns across the country.

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3844594

Climbers get the cold shoulder

Awash in snow, path to Pikes Peak summit proving dangerous

May 24, 2007

This is the snowiest spring on Pikes Peak in more than a decade. Barr Camp recorded 231 inches of snow this winter. (It only saw 50 inches in 2006.)

Hikers venturing above treeline will find that the peak is more wintry this May than it usually is in January, and they should be prepared.

“The snow is still waist-deep in places, and we just got more today,” Taylor, the caretaker at Barr Camp, said Wednesday. Every day, she warns people that the trail is buried...

...Temperatures at the summit have hovered around freezing for days. Snow will likely last into June or July...

http://www.gazette.com/articles/snow_22774___article.html/summit_cadets.html

Snow kidding! Weather wacky

By Rocky Mountain News

May 23, 2007

...A mostly soggy week with a bit of late-season snow should start to yield to sunny skies as Memorial Day weekend approaches.

It was no picnic, though, Wednesday when light snow fell Wednesday along Interstate 70 on both sides of the Eisenhower Tunnel and along some mountain passes...

...The southwestern mountains of Colorado were under under a snow advisory Wednesday, with up to 8 inches of accumulation possible. A freeze watch was in effect Wednesday night in the San Luis Valley region and much of southeastern Colorado was under a flash-flood watch...

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5551185,00.html

Update: Quran can be used in courtrooms

05/24/07

GREENSBORO — Muslims can now swear on the Quran when called as witnesses in North Carolina courtrooms, a Wake County judge ruled Thursday.

The decision represents a victory for the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, which sued the state after two Guilford County judges rejected an offer from an Islamic center to provide county courthouses with free copies.

"The highest aim of every legal contest is the search for truth," Wake Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway wrote in an 18-page opinion. "To require pious and faithful practitioners of religions other than Christianity to swear oaths in a form other than the form most meaningful to them would thwart the search for the truth.

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070524/NEWSREC0101/70524030

...I’ve been told by a Muslim the Quran does allow them to lie to infidels (that’s you and me). Basically anything that talks about peace, kindness, justice, honesty, respect etc only applies to Muslims,it DOES NOT to infidels. Jesus’ Golden Rule doesn’t apply here ["So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you…" Matthew 7:12 NIV], as far as Muslims are concerned, though from what I read that is one of the things that wins some to Christianity. BTW, do you think the Saudis will allow me to swear on a Bible in Riyadh?

Study Finds Hurricanes Frequent in Some Cooler Periods

NY Times ^ | May 24, 2007

Over the last 5,000 years, the eastern Caribbean has experienced several periods, lasting centuries, in which strong hurricanes occurred frequently even though ocean temperatures were cooler than those measured today, according to a new study.

The authors, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, say their findings do not necessarily conflict with recent papers asserting a link between the region’s hurricane activity and human-caused warming of the climate and seas.

But, they say, their work does imply that factors other than ocean temperature, at least for thousands of years, appear to have played a pivotal role in shaping storminess in the region...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/science/earth/24storm.html?_r=1&ref=science&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Here’s a funny story. Read the whole thing

Edwards Gets Booty, Says "Uncomfortable" with Gays

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_052407/content/01125116.guest.html

Ten Commandments, Two Versions

Pat Boone May 21, 2007

…One served as the inspiration and basis for the notion of "inalienable rights," as an "endowment" from a creator who made all men equal, and intended them to have "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The other, more "progressive" set forms a blueprint for a society ruled by a legal oligarchy which dictates what citizens can say and write, where and under what conditions they can express their faith in their God, and which is determined to abolish the ridiculous concept of "one nation under God."

[The first one]

I. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

II. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images.

III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

IV. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

V. Honor thy father and thy mother.

VI. Thou shalt not kill.

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII. Thou shalt not steal.

IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife nor manservant, nor his cattle nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

This set of directives and regulations has been generally accepted for 4,000 years as the best basis for a free and healthy society ever devised....

...The other set, devised and prosecuted through our courts, sometimes even the Supreme Court — the ACLU always seeming an institutionalized part of the process — is almost the diametrical opposite of the first set:

I. Thou shalt not pray in public schools, even if students and faculty desire to.

II. Thou shalt not allow Nativity scenes on public property.

III. Thou shalt not display the Ten Commandments, in public, anywhere.

IV. Thou shalt not pray at graduation ceremonies, sport events, or in mixed company, anywhere.

V. Thou shalt not permit teachers to have even their personal Bibles in class, or students to mention a Bible verse in an essay or speech.

VI. Thou shalt not allow Boy Scouts, who promote religious and moral values, the use of public property.

VII. Thou shalt not dare to define marriage as only between one man and one woman.

VIII. Thou shalt not allow crosses in war memorials.

IX. Thou shalt not say the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.

X. Thou shalt not teach creation or intelligent design or any understanding of human origin except evolution.

...Does a pattern begin to form, revealing a trend toward a different kind of society? And the ACLU, which actually dares to describe itself as the defender of civil liberties, has won court battles on all these issues, increasingly imposing its atheistic, humanistic, amoral views on America. And blatantly robbing the majority of their civil liberties!

...And James Madison, considered the father of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, although an opponent of theocracy, still declared "Religion is the basis and foundation of government." Marx declared and Lenin recited, "Religion is the opiate of the people." And the ACLU, now with the agreement of certain leaders in Congress, wants to pass legislation that will actually define parts of the Bible as "hate speech," because these parts condemn and forbid activities they want to condone and promote.

H.R.1592, the "Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007," is the latest pending suitcase bomb against free speech, courtesy of ultra-liberal Representative John Conyers, D-Mich., and carried by Ted Kennedy in the Senate... complete article at:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/21/111638.shtml

ABC News accused of treasonous report

Viewers, lawmakers scorch network for disclosing 'CIA covert operation'

May 23, 2007

ABC News is coming under heavy criticism for its exclusive report revealing a purported CIA covert operation designed to destabilize the government of Iran.

Brian Ross of ABC reported last night:

The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.

The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject, say President Bush has signed a "nonlethal presidential finding" that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions.

"Isn't this type of reporting TREASON?!" asks Robert Lipps in an ABC thread receiving hundreds of comments. "Where's the responsibility for the good of the country? This is disgusting! What are you thinking?"

Dawn Mansfield wrote: "Why, if it is covert, are you airing it and telling the Iranians what we are doing? Do you want more war and more killings of Americans? Let them do their job's and keep your mouths shut."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55846