More Stupidity

Let's start with some New Zealand moonbattery.

Man addicted to internet, gets sacked as a third of his working hours is spent on the net. However, the Employment Relations Authority determines he was unjustifiably dismissed, he gets compensation.

And this, a step dad gives step daughter free sex lessons and more. What does he get? His sentence - jail for nine months, with leave to apply for home detention.... WTF
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Palestinian handouts.
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Canada's largest media sources downplay this.

Fully 12% of Muslim Canadians polled by Environics said the alleged terrorist plot -- that included kidnapping and beheading the prime minister and blowing up Parliament and the CBC -- was justified.

Canada seems to be hurtling down the express highway in it's eagerness to become the next great muslim state.

Predictably, the CBC managed to find a talking head -- in this case York University sociology professor Haideh Moghissi -- who dismissed this disturbing revelation.

"It's really negligible that 12 percent feel that the attacks would be justified," said Moghissi. "I don't think it even warrants attention."

Clearly, other news agencies and those who put the poll results on the CBC website agree with Moghissi.

But just how "negligible" is 12% of 700,000 people.

Well, if Moghissi knew arithmetic like she knows denial, she'd know if this poll is accurate, 84,000 Canadian Muslims think it's justifiable to behead our democratically elected prime minister and blow up the very symbol and centre of our democracy!

Personally, I would be very worried about 84,000 self-claimed potential terrorists living in my country.

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Voters in Canada are required to provide photo I.D with this exception: muslim women wearing the niqab or burka.

With this kind of acceptance of everything muslim, don't be surprised when watching this on mainstream Canadian TV.

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German Judge Christa Datz-Winter denies a German muslim woman a quick divorce - on the grounds that the quran sanctions husbands beating their wives.

(h/t jayd)
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Religion of Piss

Religion of pissheads in the news once more displaying their capacity for tolerance and compassion: a muslim woman asks her husband for divorce. He gets angry and engages in an act of honor: rips both her eyes out.
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More peace, love and understanding from the goat-fornicators: non-Arab women accused of adultery sentenced to death by stoning in Sudan .
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How about this one where students KILL a non-islamic teacher.
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Let's not forget the innocents that are either dead or suffering from having their inner organs burnt by the new preferred choice of the suicide bombers, chlorine.
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OR the sixth muslim "honor killing" in Berlin in four months.
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Vilmar's Corner - Europe at 50: Happy Birthday

You can follow the link or read the article plus Vilmar's insightful views here:

As the critics say it has one foot in the grave. But many countries now look there, not to America , as a model. By Andrew Moravcsik Newsweek International

As the European Union celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding Treaty of Rome, the pundits agree: Europe is in terminal decline. It is a continental-size museum dropping into the dustbin of history.

That picture is especially popular in America . As U.S. skeptics tell it, the Old World (save for Britain , naturally) is finished. Economies are stagnant. Technological and entrepreneurial energy have passed to Silicon Valley and Bangalore . Politicians are powerless in the face of sclerotic social-welfare systems, coddled work forces and entrenched special interests.

Demographic decline is upon them. Immigration only exacerbates social problems. European foreign policy is anemic. "Europeans are from Venus, Americans from Mars," said Robert Kagan, referring to Europe 's lack of military might. Europe, he went on to say, can muster neither the unity nor resolve to stand alongside America on the world's stage. The latest sign: spats over new U.S. missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic .

Europe cannot save itself, critics argue, because it has lost any idea what it stands for. The EU recently spent a half decade trying to draft a new constitution, only to see it rejected by discontented Dutch and French voters seemingly fed up with too much "Europe." An anti-Muslim, neonationalist backlash is almost inevitable as Europe fails to integrate its rapidly growing minority populations

[*****WHY IS IT EUR OP E NEEDS TO INTEGRATE? IT’S THE MUSLIMS WHO SHOULD INTEGRATE. (REASONS WHY THIS ASSWIPE FEELS THIS WAY TO BE FOUND LATER IN STORY. *****]

warn American conservatives like columnist Mark Steyn, who predicts Europeans will soon wake up "to the call to prayer from a muezzin." The bottom line: Europe is lost.
To most who live in Europe —or have visited lately—all this seems wrong, even absurd. As the European Union turns 50 this week, let us consider all that has been achieved. Europe arose from the ashes of the Great Depression and World War II to become whole and free. Half a century ago, only a utopian would have predicted that, today, one can traverse Europe from Sweden to Sicily without encountering a border control and—most of the way—using a single European currency. Or that a tariff-free single market would exist, cemented by a common framework of economic regulation.

[*****FUNNY HOW NO CREDIT IS GIVEN TO THE US FOR SAVING EUR OP E ’S ASS*****]

Europe is now a global superpower of world-historical importance, second to none in economic clout. It has constructed one of the most successful systems of government—the modern social-welfare state, which for all its flaws has brought unprecedented prosperity and security to Europe 's people. It is the single most successful advance in voluntary international cooperation in modern history. The original European Economic Community of 1957 has grown from its founding six members to 27, knitting together just under 500 million people from the western Aran Islands of Ireland through the heart of Central Europe to the Black Sea . Its values are spreading across the globe—far more attractive, in many respects, than those of America . If anything, Europe 's trajectory is up, not down. Here's what the critics get wrong.

ECONOMIC REALPOLITIK

Begin with the biggest—that Europe is bogged down in a cycle of slow growth and mounting, ultimately unsustainable, social costs.

It's true that the past half decade has been difficult for some of Europe 's largest economies. The trillion-dollar cost of unification has kept Germany from playing locomotive to the rest of Europe . France and Italy have lagged as well. And yet, Britain is booming, as are the Nordic nations. Among the new EU members of Eastern Europe, average growth of 5 percent exceeds that of the United States . Slovakia , Estonia and Latvia are all growing at 10 percent or more annually.

Critics routinely claim that high European wages and social-welfare benefits stall job creation, and that Europeans "resist reform." In fact, there's no evidence for this. If it were so, how then could Europe have enjoyed higher economic growth than America for the bulk of the postwar era?

[*****HOW ABOUT BECAUSE IT’S HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS WE’VE SPENT BUILDING THOSE FUCKERS BACK UP???? OR HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN THE MARSHALL PLAN??? *****]

Despite nearly 50 percent tax rates and cradle-to-grave welfare benefits, Northern European social democracies like Denmark, Sweden and Finland grab half of the top slots in the World Economic Forum's ranking of the world's most competitive economies. "Nordic social democracy remains robust," says Anthony Giddens, former head of the London School of Economics—"not because it has resisted reform, but because it embraced it."

Insofar as per capita European growth lags the United States , it is not because Europeans are uncompetitive. Take Germany , with a larger trade surplus than China 's and a growing share of world trade. Output per hour worked is higher in France than in the United States . Daily U.S. productivity is higher than in Europe only because employed Europeans choose to work fewer hours than Americans,

[*****AND CHOOSE SMALLER HOUSES, SMALLER CARS, SHITTY HEALTHCARE, ETC. *****]

in exchange for less pay. Remember those six to eight weeks of vacation every European is assured? Most Americans say they would make the same trade-off—if only their employers would permit it.

[***** WHERE’S THE PROOF AMERICANS WOULD GIVE UP THEIR LIFESTYLE TO HAVE 8 WEEKS VACATION BUT NOT THE MONEY TO SPEND ON IT? *****]

Europeans indeed pay dearly for their social-welfare systems, but they believe it's worth it. Even in poorer, pro-American Hungary and Poland , polls show that only a small minority (less than 25 percent) wants to import the American economic model.

[***** BECAUSE THEY’RE LAZY FUCKS WHO DON’T WANT TO WORK AS LONG AS WE DO. *****]

A big reason is its increasingly apparent deficiencies. Consider health care, the benchmark of any nation's overall well-being. "Americans have the best medical care in the world," President George W. Bush declared in his second Inaugural Address. Yet the facts show otherwise.

[*****FACTS?????!!!!???? WHERE? *****]

The United States is the only developed democracy without a universal guarantee of health care, leaving about 45 million Americans uninsured

[***** HOW CONVENIENT HE LEAVES OUT THOSE WHO CHOOSE NOT TO GET INSURANCE WHEN OFFERED? OR HOW ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE WORKING BUT HAVE NOT GOTTEN INSURANCE BECAUSE THEIR SPOUSE OF OTHER FAMILY MEMBER COVERS THEM? ***** ]

(and as many again undertreated). Worse, whether measured by questioning public-health experts, polling citizen satisfaction or measuring survival rates, the health care offered by other countries increasingly ranks above America 's. U.S. infant-mortality rates are among the highest for developed democracies. The average Frenchman, like most Europeans, lives nearly four years longer than the average American.

[***** WHO WANTS TO LIVE 4 MORE YEARS LIKE A SMELLY FRENCHMAN IN A SHITTY APARTMENT WITH A SHITTY CAR? A LONG LIFE DOES NOT MEAN A GOOD LIFE! *****]

Small wonder that the World Health Organization rates the U.S. health-care system only 37th best in the world, behind Colombia (22nd) and Saudi Arabia (26th).

If anything, the economic future looks rosier for Europe than for America . Last week the OECD

[***** WHO’S PAYING THEIR WAGES? OUR FORECAST IS FOR 2.5-3%!! *****]

projected 2.5 percent euro-zone growth, compared with 2 percent for the United States. Investment and business confidence are skyrocketing. In the next few years, the market capitalization of European firms in the global top 500 is set to exceed that of U.S. firms.

[***** GIVEN THEY HAVE 40% MORE PE OP LE I’D H OP E SO!! *****]

Sure, China and India get the headlines. And yes, U.S. trade with the Asia/Pacific region has eclipsed trade with Europe . But the deeper truth is that investment long ago displaced trade as the leading driver of growth, and in this respect Europe stands even with the United States as the world's economic superpower. The relationship between Europe and the United States , says Daniel Hamilton, director of Johns Hopkins's Center for Transatlantic Studies, "is by a wide margin the deepest and broadest between any two continents in history."

Nearly 60 percent of U.S. foreign investment goes to Europe . U.S. business invests considerably more every year even in small European nations like Belgium , Ireland or Switzerland than in the whole of China or India . U.S. corporate profits in tiny Switzerland alone last year totaled four times earnings in China and 23 times earnings in India . And the reciprocal holds as well. European investment in the United States accounts for two thirds of all foreign direct investment. Every year, inward European investment in a few U.S. states—recently Georgia , Indiana and Texas —is greater than all U.S. investment in China and Japan . Bottom line: few Americans realize how much their own prosperity depends on Europe , and how inseparably the two economies are linked.

DEMOGRAPHIC SCARE

Social democracy is unsustainable without the workers to pay for it. Therein lies a deeper source of Euro-pessimism. Declining birthrates mean that the ratio of the workers to retirees (those over 60) will worsen from 5:1 today to less than 2:1 by 2050. "The nightmare scenario," says Mark Leonard of the Open Society Initiative for Europe , "is of a European economy increasingly hollowed out as a bloated population of pensioners living off the backs of an ever smaller pool of workers."

Yet Leonard himself does not believe this will happen. Neither does the European Commission, which estimates that even modest reforms—say an increase in retirement age of five years—would be enough to restore Europe 's pension and welfare systems to firm financial footing. More robust economic growth would help, too. Europe is also likely to turn to immigration to help replenish its shrinking work force. Says Joschka Fischer, a former German foreign minister: " Europe will have no choice but to open the doors."

[***** TO WHOM? INGRATES? TERRORIST? ISLAMO-FASCISTS? ILLEGALS WHO WILL DO NOTHING BUT DRAIN THE SYSTEM? *****]

This, critics claim, raises the most harrowing scenario of all for Europe —cultural extinction. European societies face seemingly insuperable difficulties integrating Arab Muslim immigrants. Today Muslims comprise only 5 percent of Europe 's population; within 20 years, however, their numbers may double, in part as a result of generous family-reunification policies. This incites all sorts of lurid warnings about a future "Eurabia" and the erosion of a purely European civilization. High-profile race riots, terrorist acts and controversies over everything from head- scarves to ethnic profiling have not helped. Absent adequate socioeconomic opportunities, neither traditional Islamic authorities acting within relatively permissive multicultural enclaves, as in the Netherlands and Britain , or a combination of assimilation and stiff law enforcement, as in France , appears to be able to stop the spread of extremist ideology and violence.

[***** SO, WHAT’S BEING SAID HERE? THAT WE JUST ALLOW IT TO TAKE PLACE ? HOW MANY OP PORTUNITIES DO MUSLIMS NEED TO NOT BE TERRORISTS? THAT’S RIGHT! WHAT THEY WANT IS OP PORTUNITIES TO SUBJUGATE ALL OF US TO ISLAM! *****]

Yet it is easy to exaggerate these trends. For all the problems, statistics show that levels of immigrant and religious violence in Europe are not substantially higher than in America . In the years to come, jobs vacated by retiring baby boomers will open to the young immigrant unemployed, easing fears among natives that the newcomers will steal jobs and erode social-welfare benefits. Across Europe , immigration laws have lately become more selective—with greater encouragement of immigration from non-Arab countries. Nowadays, one half of immigrants in Spain (30 percent of Europe's current flow) come from Latin America . Anywhere between 300,000 and 600,000 Poles are currently reported to be working in Britain , and a half million more in Germany . In the end, the specter of restive immigrant populations unsettling Europe , let alone undermining its culture, is overblown to the point of unreality.

[***** POLISH, GERMAN, SPANISH, AND ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS TO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES WON’T. THE BLACKS FROM NORTHERN AFRICA AND ISLAMIC FANATICS WILL*****]

THE QUIET SUPERPOWER

American realpolitists like to talk about a "unipolar" world, bestrode by a sole superpower. The success of the European Union proves just the opposite: the world is bipolar, and the other pole is Europe .

Consider how the EU began, 50 years ago, as a parochial Franco-German entente. Today, it's the model for a continent. The EU expansion, subsuming a dozen former communist states, has been the surest exercise in democracy promotion since the end of the cold war. "Once sucked into Europe 's sphere of influence," says Leonard, "countries are changed forever." The mere prospect of inclusion in the union has been enough to prompt whole countries to rebuild themselves from the inside out. Examples: Romania , which joined the EU just this year, and Turkey , which has Europeanized itself to an extraordinary degree, with the aim of joining Europe . The same effect can be seen in other hopefuls, from nations of the former Yugoslavia to Ukraine .

To be sure, the United States remains unrivaled in "hard" military power. Yet one need look no further than the quagmire

[***** QUAGMIRE? HOW ABOUT BECAUSE SOCIALISTS IN THE US WANT TO CONTROL ALL ASPECTS OF THE WAR AND ARE HAMSTRINGING OUR SOLDIERS. PLUS, WHERE’S THE SUPPORT FROM EUR OP E ? *****]

in Iraq to see its limits. When it comes to the instruments needed to engineer peace, the softer too

[***** QUIET BECAUSE IT DOES NOTHING BUT SURRENDER OR RETREAT. *****]

[***** ONE MORE THING........WHAT’S THE PURPOSE FOR THROWING THIS PARAGRAPH INTO THIS ARTICLE OTHER THAN TO BASH OUR MILITARY AND TO BASH THE US? *****]

Europe 's tools go well beyond EU enlargement. The EU is the largest trading and investment partner of every nation in the Middle East . It has mounted diplomatic efforts, in conjunction with the United States or independently, to resolve disputes throughout the region. The EU provides 70 percent of the foreign aid and humanitarian assistance in the world today.

[***** FUNNY......THIS IS THE SAME GROUP OF ASSHAT COUNTRIES THAT DEMANDED WE ST OP FUNDING COUNTRIES WITH OUR FOREIGN AID BECAUSE WE WERE TRYING TO “INFLUENCE THEM” OR “BUY THEM OFF.” YET NOW THEY ARE DOING THE SAME THING THEMSELVES! *****]

Almost all the world's peacekeeping and policing forces, outside of Iraq, are staffed or funded primarily by Europeans—Lebanon, Sierra Leone, the Ivory Coast, Afghanistan. It will soon take over NATO missions in Bosnia and Kosovo.

Far from being a product of the past, the EU has emerged as Europe 's most innovative and significant contribution to modernity. With its multilateral scope, the EU is the source of around 20 percent of all laws passed in Europe . It has extended the reach of democracy

[*****THE US WITH ITS MILITARY DID THIS. IF IT WEREN’T FOR US IN WW1, WW2, KOREA AND KOSOVO, ETC. THE EU WOULD NOT EXIST TODAY. *****]

and free markets within and beyond its borders—in a way that American neocons can only dream about—and is becoming a model to the developing world. Futurologist

[ WHAT THE FUCK IS A FUTUROLOGIST AND HOW DID THEY GAIN ANY CREDIBILITY? AREN’T THEY NOTHING MORE THAN MODERN SOOTHSAYERS OR PSYCHICS? *****]

Jeremy Rifkin advances a compelling case for the ascendancy of European ideals. "While the American Spirit is tiring and languishing in the past," he writes, "a new European Dream is being born"—one that emphasizes community relationships over individual autonomy

[***** READ: MIND NUMBED ROBOTS OVER CREATIVITY. *****]

cultural diversity over assimilation,

[*****A FANCY WORD FOR BALKANIZATION WHICH IS TEARING EUR OP E APART AS I WRITE THIS. *****]

quality of life over the accumulation of wealth,

[*****NOTHING MORE THAN COMMUNISM*****]

sustainable development over unlimited material growth, deep play over unrelenting toil, and universal human rights." The global financier George Soros is putting money behind a similar idea,

[***** THIS IS ALL WE NEED TO KNOW TO COME TO THE CONCLUSION THE AUTHOR OF THIS PIECE SECRETLY WANTS TO SUCK SOROS’ DICK *****]

seeking to create a new European Council on Foreign Relations premised on the notion that U.S. foreign policy "has left the world leaderless and in disarray." Europe and a revitalized EU, he believes, offers a better "model and motive force" for addressing the global challenges of the modern era.

True or not, it's significant that 50 years after the EU's march to unity began, it is now Europe, not the United States , that's held up as a new lamp unto nations.

Moravcsik is director of the European Union Program at Princeton University .

Creative Marketing: Style Over Substance

You've got to give some people credit for creatively finding ways to get other people to spend a lot of money on nothing. When it comes to targeting the image-is-everything crowd with huge amounts of discretionary income, the sky's the limit.

First, how about "designer" water? The people at Bling H2O have you covered, selling water to "make that defining statement." How much, then, would you pay for "pop culture in a bottle?" Is $40(US) for 750ml enough?

Second, how about a limo-driven, guided shopping Spree where you can

Treat yourself, friends and associates to the most exciting new shopping experience in Scottsdale and Phoenix. Imagine a customized tour itinerary of boutiques designed just for you, a limousine whisking you from one amazing store to another, and a dedicated shopping expert as your special guide. Store owners and managers roll out the red carpet greeting you personally, giving you a back stage pass to new looks and special merchandise. Feel like the star that you are with an option for private, before or after hours shopping at many of the Spree! shops and boutiques when they open just for you!

A 4 hour tour costs $495(US) for 1-4 people, $100 for each additional person up to 7 total, and special group rates for 8 or more.

I'm too practical a person to figure out ways of getting rich by helping rich folks divorce themselves from some of their extra cash. But, then again, I'm not a liberal.

What Say You?

I was listening to talk back radio today here in New Zealand, and one of the topics of discussion was South Africa and the affirmative action programs in employment and education that the current black majority government has in place to, as proponents of such policies advocate, "even the playing field." This particular show has two hosts, one of which is in favor of such policies, the other not. The detractor (Tamihere) was saying that no matter how good the intentions, these policies amount to nothing more than reverse discrimination; that they are, by definition, racist, and are no better than the old system of apartheid. In essence, he said, "two wrongs don't make a right." The advocate (Jackson) said that, although the crime and corruption are very bad, the affirmative action programs must remain in place; that it will take a long time to overcome a hundred-plus years of oppression. I agree - to a point. Yes, it will take a long time to overcome the past policies, but I do not believe in affirmative action.

Changing laws to create a level playing field of equality of opportunity is one thing, but agressive, activist policies to speed-up the process is wrong because equality of opportunity rarely, if ever, results in equality of outcome. It makes no sense, logically, to put people in positions in which they are ill-equipped and under-qualified to perform adequately simply to fulfill a quota based on demographics. It is most certainly wrong to pass-over a qualified applicant in favor of an unqualified one based on ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or anything else other than qualifications necessary to perform a particular task. If a person is not qualified, he or she is most certain to fail, usually miserably. Over time, once enough people have the education and skills necessary to perform a particular task, things will even out, but leftist advocates want change NOW and rarely consider the law of unintended consequences.

Regardless of whatever wrongs were committed by the European settlers of South Africa, they created a relatively modern, industrial society using Western technology that the tribal natives, if left to their own devices, would have taken hundreds of years to develop on their own. The primarlily Dutch and German European colonials built factories, houses, hospitals, schools, modern infrastructure like roading and highways, telecommunications, sewerage, running water, and electricity. As a result of internal and external political pressure and extremist tactics by the likes of Nelson Mandela (yes, folks, he was a terrorist), the white minority relinquished power - and control of the socio-economic structures that they built - to the black majority. I doubt that, no matter how bad their situation may have been, the "indigenous" people were not willing to return to tribal living conditions that existed prior to the arrival of the colonials - The modern, leftist notion of the "noble savage" makes for good romanticized literature and films, but it's a load of crap. So, why should the natives inherit a technologically advanced society that they did not build? Some may say that it was on the backs of the natives that the society was built; that they provided the bulk of the human labor. That is true, but without the technology that is the product of Western civilization, the natives had no concept of these things and may as well have continued to bark at the moon and worship the lizzard god.

When they handed-over the country to the natives, the Afrikaners should have reduced to rubble every bit of technology and infrastructure that they brought to the country, leaving it just the way their ancestors found it centuries ago, and let the natives fare on their own.

I was discussing this with some folks during afternoon tea, and a few were quite shocked by that proposal. As has been noted by some here and others that I have encountered throughout my life, I am not afraid to speak my mind and could really give a fuck whether or not anybody gets offended - that is their choice. Unlike most politicians I don't hold my finger to the wind and formulate my views based on popular opinion.

What say you?

Vilmar's Corner

You have wonder what’s going on in our court systems when you have a bunch of fucktards like the 9th Circus Court of Appeasers coming out saying that it is OK to censor Christians.

these are the same stupid bastards that would offer up their asses for a screwing by Islamotards while defending religion of pissers’ rights to intimidate and shut down any sort of discussion against “Mo’ Ham, Ed!”

In this case they are saying “that municipal employers have the right to censor the words "natural family," "marriage" and "family values" because that is hate speech and could scare workers.”

In other words, let’s all go homosexuals.

Unfortunately, the 9th Circus Court of Appeasers are no different than the other zombies who populate much of America today, intent upon bringing down this great country.

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Speaking of zombies, (and amazingly appropriate for the above story) is this link

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It appears no one is interested in taking our Mexican border threat seriously given that our border agents are outgunned.

We should issue all agents 50 cal machine guns and order them to open fire on anyone and anything that crosses from the south. Killing a few hundred of these vermin would go a long way to stopping the flow of illegals here.

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But I imagine we will continue to pussify our military and security forces more and more given that most Americans have become a bunch of pansies when it comes to killing.

In previous wars we’d bomb and shoot anywhere we thought the enemy might be regardless of whether or not some innocent civilians got killed. Then a slippery slope began about WW 1, getting more and more intensely sloped after Vietnam .

The first Gulf War , Bosnia , and now this war finds people deathly (no pun intended) afraid to even INJURE anyone even if they are terrorists.

So what gets developed? A weapon that makes people NAUSEOUS. Fires through walls, Incapacitates humans.

But guess what the lily-livered pansy asses are saying about this new development? That people might choke to death on their own vomit.

I swear, we ought to grab these whining bastards, take them out back and just shoot them. Our DNA would be better for it.

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PSA

If you need to turn your clocks forward tonight and concerned your computer may not do so, go here and automate the process.

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In today’s colleges students are allowed to ridicule Christianity, burn American flags, trample on our flag, walk around with crucifixes buried in excrement and the school faculty will support and defend them to the death.

But let some college republicans trample a flag that has “Mo’ Ham, Ed’s!” butt buddy’s name on it and they get CHARGES FILED AGAINST THEM!!!

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With any luck gun prices and ammo will be going down in price soon.


I love this:

To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad).

In addition, the right to keep and bear arms had the important and salutary civic purpose of helping to preserve the citizen militia. The civic purpose was also a political expedient for the Federalists in the First Congress as it served, in part, to placate their Anti-federalist opponents. The individual right facilitated militia service by ensuring that citizens would not be barred from keeping the arms they would need when called forth for militia duty. Despite the importance of the Second Amendment’s civic purpose, however, the activities it protects are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual’s enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued or intermittent enrollment in the militia.

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Ever get those calls from the phone companies to get you to switch?

Imagine this

The Gloves Are Off

WARNING: CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. This includes foul language, invective, vitriol, and words that pansy-ass, lilly-livered, tiny-testicled, bed-wetting lefties would construe as "racist" or "hate speech." If you are easily offended, feel free to skip this one. OUT OF THE KINDNESS OF MY HEART YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

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I normally don't do this because I don't wish to feed the egos of my enemies or give them any more attention than they deserve, but sometimes ya' just gotta say, "What the fuck?" There is a comment thread on another post that has just spiraled out of control, straying way off the original topic, demonstrating that logic, reason, and facts mean nothing to people who claim to be peace loving and moderate yet who, rather than join the rest of us in denouncing the fascism inherent in muslim ideology, choose to make excuses for their muslim bretheren. Debate becomes impossible, and an impasse is reached. So, what to do? Expose the swine for what it is by deconstructing the rambling non-argument line-by-line, point-by-point. Let's get started, shall we?

First, the comment itself:

150.

Muslim
10/3/2007 | 12:33 pm


what facts are you talking about, i dont see any facts mentioned from you. All you do is twist the facts and bluff the people by making islam as bad faith. if khalid yasin wish to have islamic state, so whats with wrong with that, if a christian want christian state, whats wrong with that. If the majority people decide here to have christian state, are you going to stop it?? And also the stuff showed on 60 mins is just cutting some parts of his talks and make him look like what you wanted to hear. I know the medias are very clever at making criminal as victims and making victims as criminal. And another thing, why are you so angry that he converted people to islam. He didnt use guns to convert them, it is by thier choice they accept islam. Regarding africa, look whats happeing to the christian part of africa, i mean the south part????? and also i dont want talk about what happened here, i mean u r quite acquinted what happened here. In the middle east we have historical jewish and christin people living from the time of Christ(peace be upon him). where are the historical muslims in spain??? so please stop making hate comments here and make yourself superior than others.

Now, it would appear that English is not this person's first language (or, at least, I hope that is the case), so I won't even go there. Now, the point-by-point.

what facts are you talking about, i dont see any facts mentioned from you. Oh, there were plenty of facts, muslim, but you chose to ignore them and divert the argument with non-sequitors. The words of your precious Koran, my favorite brand of toilet tissue, are rife with justification for acts of terrorism, and they were cited on numerous occassions in the thread. And before you cite the Bible as being full of the same, let me remind you that the "fire and brimstone" portions of the Old Testament are taken as allegory by most practising, modern Christians because, unlike islam, Christianity went through this little thing called the Reformation in the 17th century. The Judeo-Christian West has moved on, no longer stuck in the Middle Ages. Time that your lot do the same, dickhead.

All you do is twist the facts and bluff the people by making islam as bad faith. Piss on me and tell me it's raining, too, while you're at it, dipshit. Yeah, Scott is bluffing all of us. While I'm sure he doesn't have self-esteem issues, I don't think his ego is so big that he feels he is that omnipotent. You muslim motherfuckers are your own worst public relations disaster and don't need any help from us as was clearly demonstrated by the nightly riots in France last year, the violent protests over the Danish cartoons, the murder of Theo van Gogh, the tube bombings in London...

if khalid yasin wish to have islamic state, so whats with wrong with that,... Nothing at all. There are plenty of them already in existence including one, the largest single muslim-populated nation on earth, just a few hundred kilometers north of Darwin.

...if a christian want christian state, whats wrong with that. If the majority people decide here to have christian state, are you going to stop it?? Nothing and yes, but that is what is known as a non-sequitor and otherwise irrelevant. To the best of my knowledge, there is not a large groundswell movement in Australia to establish the country as a Christian theocracy. Fascists like Yasin on the other hand...

And also the stuff showed on 60 mins is just cutting some parts of his talks and make him look like what you wanted to hear. Yeah, I told the editors at 60 Minutes what to do.

I know the medias are very clever at making criminal as victims and making victims as criminal. Hey, we agree! Knowing that the media is run primarily by leftwing jerk-offs who regularly give aid and comfort to the enemy by echoing their messages, Yasin must be a real piece of shit if even they can't make him into a victim.

And another thing, why are you so angry that he converted people to islam. He didnt use guns to convert them, it is by thier choice they accept islam. Oh, you mean his big revival meeting in Saudi Arabia? Wow, he must be a fucking magician, considering that islam is the only legal religion in that country, and you're a fucking genius.

Regarding africa, look whats happeing to the christian part of africa, i mean the south part????? Are you serious? For one thing, there is no "Christian" part of Africa. Second, I think you better take a look at what's going on in Darfur where the muslimes in the north, backed by the muslimes in government, are literally butchering the Christians. It's called genocide. And I've spent some time in Somalia where, as a US Marine, I witnessed some of the worst of man's inhumanity. I've fed starving babies with one hand and fended off butchers with the other. I've seen your kind first hand. My eyes still ache. Personally, I believe that Africa was much better off overall under the old colonial rule of the Europeans, compared to how it is being administered by it's own despots. After having been there I have to conclude that Africa needs to be left alone to sort out its own problems. Until the men learn to keep their dicks in their pants and their women learn to keep their legs closed and put the dick away, no amount of aid will help them. How many billions of dollars have been spent on relief for Africa over the last 40 years? What makes anybody think that spending even more will help?

and also i dont want talk about what happened here, i mean u r quite acquinted what happened here. I'm not quite sure of that to which you're referring.

In the middle east we have historical jewish and christin people living from the time of Christ(peace be upon him). And you're point is what? Maybe you should read this.

where are the historical muslims in spain??? Again, not sure of what you're talking about, but maybe the invasion of the Moors might ring a bell:

In 711, the Moors conquered Visigothics, mainly Christian Hispania. Under their leader, an African Berber general named Tariq ibn-Ziyad, they brought most of the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule in an eight-year campaign. They moved northeast across the Pyrenees Mountains but were defeated by the Frank, Charles Martel, at the Battle of Poitier in 732. The Moorish state fell into civil conflict in the 750s. The Moors ruled in the Iberian peninsula, except for areas in the northwest (such as Asturias, where they were defeated at the battle of Covadonga) and the largely Basque regions in the Pyrenees, and in North Africa for several decades. Though the number of "Moors" remained small, they gained large numbers of converts. According to Ronald Segal, author of "Islam's Black Slaves", some 5.6 million of Iberia's 7 million inhabitants were Muslim by 1200, virtually all of them native inhabitants, [citation needed]. The persecutions of these muslim populations and their massive exodus at the time of the catholic Reconquista in the second part of the XVth Century are considered the main reasons why their number shrank to 0.3 by 1600.

As a sign of decline, the country had broken up into a number of mostly Islamic fiefdoms, which were partly consolidated under the Caliphate of Cordoba.

A small Christian enclave from the Muslim conquest in Asturias, a small Visigothic northwestern spanish kingdom, initiated conflicts in earnest between Christian and Muslim in the 10th century. Christian states based in the north and west slowly extended their power over the rest of Iberia. The Navarre, Galicia, León, Portugal, Aragón, Catalonia or Marca Hispanica, and Castile in fits and starts began a process of expansion and internal consolidation during the next several centuries under the flag of Reconquista.

In 1212, a coalition of Christian kings under the leadership of Alfonso VIII of Castile drove the Muslims from Central Iberia. However, the Moorish Kingdom of Granada continued for three more centuries in the southern Iberian peninsula. This kingdom is known in modern time for magnificent architectural works such as the Alhambra palace. On January 2, 1492, the leader of the last Muslim stronghold in Granada surrendered to armies of a recently united Christian Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile). The remaining Muslims and Jews were forced to leave Iberia, to die or to convert to Roman Catholic Christianity. In 1480, Isabella and Ferdinand instituted the Inquisition in Spain, as one of many changes to the role of the church instituted by the monarchs. The Inquisition was aimed mostly at Jews and Muslims who had overtly converted to Christianity but were thought to be practicing their faiths secretly -- known respectively as marranos and moriscos -- as well as at heretics who rejected Roman Catholic orthodoxy, including alumbras who practiced a kind of mysticism or spiritualism. They were an important portion of the peasants in some territories, like Aragon, Valencia or Andalusia, until their systematic expulsion in the years from 1609 to 1614. Henri Lapeyre has estimated that this affected 300,000 out of a total of 8 million inhabitants of the peninsula at the time.[2]

In the meantime, the tide of Islam had rolled not just westward to Iberia, but also eastward, through India, the Malayan peninsula, and Indonesia up to Mindanao-—one of the major islands of an archipelago which the Spaniards had reached during their voyages westward from the New World. By 1521, the ships of Magellan and other Spanish expeditioners had themselves reached that island archipelago, which they named Las Islas de Filipinas, after Philip II of Spain. In Mindanao, the Spaniards also named these kris-bearing people as Moros or 'Moors'. Today in the Philippines, this ethnic group of people in Mindanao who are generally Muslims are called 'Moros'. This identification of Islamic people as Moros persists in the modern Spanish language spoken in Spain. See Reconquista.

so please stop making hate comments here and make yourself superior than others. Sure, pal. Go fuck yourself. I have a better idea: Instead of berating those of us who don't want muslim mayhem in our homes, why don't you write letters to dickheads like Yasin and others and tell them to shut the fuck up with their "hate speech."
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We are on the brink of the next wave of Moorish invasion. They can't beat us in real combat, but, given the declining birth rates of Anglo-Europeans in the West (due in large part to the cancerous effects of liberalism and leftist ideology that have matasticized throughout the collective psyche of Western civilization), in time, they will out-populate us and take us over just the same. Most people don't or can't grasp that; it contradicts their sensibilities of fairness and equality. As a result, this trend will continue unchecked, and the situation will get worse unti we realize that the extremism of our enemies must be met with greater extremism by those who will fight for our way of life. Do not feel guilty for standing up for your way of life. These goat fornicators are counting on you to second-guess your instincts, thereby exposing your soft underbellies to these vermin who, like wild hyenas, will rip out your entrails and destroy all that we hold sacred.

I'll leave you some quotes to ponder:

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice,—is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
o "The Contest in America" Fraser’s Magazine (February 1862); later published in Dissertations and Discussions (1868) Vol.1 p. 26

-- John Stuart Mill
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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

-- General George S. Patton
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"Let me remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

-- Senator Barry Goldwater
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

--Edmund Burke

This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land

The other day I was talking to a younger co-worker in his early 20's who was lamenting the plight of the poor, oppressed Palestinians at the hands of the evil Jews who stole their land. This person was under the impression that prior to the creation of the nation of Israel, Palestine was a sovereign nation, and I began to wonder how many other people suffer under the same misconception. Combine the appalling state of today's education system with media propaganda, and I suspect that the number is quite high.

The following is an article that presents a timeline of the history of this much contested and misunderstood subject.

How Strong Is the Arab Claim to Palestine?
By Lawrence Auster
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 30, 2004

There is a myth hanging over all discussion of the Palestinian problem: the myth that this land was "Arab" land taken from its native inhabitants by invading Jews. Whatever may be the correct solution to the problems of the Middle East, let's get a few things straight:

As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn't take Palestine from the Arabs; they took it from the British, who exercised sovereign authority in Palestine under a League of Nations mandate for thirty years prior to Israel's declaration of independence in 1948. And the British don't want it back.

If you consider the British illegitimate usurpers, fine. In that case, this territory is not Arab land but Turkish land, a province of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years until the British wrested it from them during the Great War in 1917. And the Turks don't want it back.

If you look back earlier in history than the Ottoman Turks, who took over Palestine over in 1517, you find it under the sovereignty of the yet another empire not indigenous to Palestine: the Mamluks, who were Turkish and Circassian slave-soldiers headquartered in Egypt. And the Mamluks don't even exist any more, so they can't want it back.

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