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“Do as I say, not as I do” in liberal Marin, California:

Check out more pictures at Zombietime.com. Does it ever occur to enviro-nuts that if they themselves can’t practice what they preach, the rest of us won’t be as willing to listen?

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The Pew Research Center yesterday released a report on Muslims in America. There were a number of positive finds, such as:

• Muslims in America are generally less extreme and more assimilated than their European counterparts
• 71% of Muslim-Americans believe they can succeed with hard work

It wasn’t all sugar and spice, however. The survey uncovered many disturbing trends within the Muslim-American community.

9/11 Attacks

• Only 40% of Muslims in America believe Arabs carried out the attacks of September 11
• Among those Muslim-Americans who identify themselves as highly-religious, only 28% believe Arabs were responsible for the attacks

Views of al-Queda

• 5% of Muslim-Americans have a favorable view of al-Queda
• 7% of Muslim-Americans 30 and under have a favorable view of al-Queda

Suicide Bombing

• For Muslim-Americans over 30, 9% feel that suicide bombing in defense of Islam can be justified
• For Muslim-Americans 30 and under, 26% feel that suicide bombing in defense of Islam can be justified

Non-Muslim Americans should be disturbed that younger and more religious Muslims in the US have more radical views than their elders. Sadly, this means that the percentage of Muslims-America who approve of Islamic terrorist groups and who condone suicide bombing in defense of Islam will be increasing as time marches on.

At the very least, the study validates the suspicions of many non-Muslims Americans. Can CAIR and other pro-Muslim organizations continue to label people like myself “Islamophobes” in light of this study? After all, one fourth is not a small minority — in fact, it’s bordering on mainstream. Why aren’t we talking about this in America?

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His farewell speech:

Normally, I start these things out by saying “My Fellow Americans.” Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don’t know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you’re really not fellow Americans any longer.

I’ll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: there’s been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.

The reason I’m quitting is simple. I’m fed up with you people.

I’m fed up because you have no understanding of what’s really going on in the world. Or of what’s going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.

Let’s start local. You’ve been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that’s despite record numbers of homeowners including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we’re mentioning minorities, I’ll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton Administration. I’ve mentioned all those things before, but it doesn’t seem to have sunk in.

Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there’s increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.

We face real threats in the world. Don’t give me this ~blood for oil” thing. If I was trading blood for oil I would’ve already seized Iraq’s oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don’t give me this ‘Bush Lied People Died’ crap either. If I was the liar you morons take me for, I could’ve easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be ‘discovered.’ Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty. Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named ‘Clinton’ established that policy. Bet you didn’t know that, did you?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to outspend and out-tech them.

That’s not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don’t care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That’d be fine, as long as they weren’t also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you. And the bastards are all over the globe.

You should be grateful that they haven’t gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you’re not. That’s because you’ve got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I’m disappointed how many of you
people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of ‘Survivor’.

Instead, you’ve grown impatient. You’re incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat’s political campaign, well, dammit, you might just as well Fedex a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

In this day and age, it’s easy enough to find the truth. It’s all over the Internet. It just isn’t on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you’d be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol.

I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you’re too stupid to leave a city that’s below sea level and has a hurricane approaching. I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I’ve come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.

So I quit. I’m going back to Crawford. I’ve got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully se lf-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I’m done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney’s quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there’re just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.

So that’s it. God bless what’s left of America. Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you, * off.

I found that on Fark.com. It’s dead-on with regards to the economy though - people have no idea how excellently Bush has managed it. But he gets no credit at all. And I agree with Al Gore — most Americans are too busy shopping at the mall and watching American Idol to give two sh*ts about what’s really happening. God save us.

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More evidence that Iran’s government has been fighting a proxy war in Iraq:

Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and Sunni Arab militias in Iraq in preparation for a summer showdown with coalition forces intended to tip a wavering US Congress into voting for full military withdrawal, US officials say.

“Iran is fighting a proxy war in Iraq and it’s a very dangerous course for them to be following. They are already committing daily acts of war against US and British forces,” a senior US official in Baghdad warned. “They [Iran] are behind a lot of high-profile attacks meant to undermine US will and British will, such as the rocket attacks on Basra palace and the Green Zone [in Baghdad]. The attacks are directed by the Revolutionary Guard who are connected right to the top [of the Iranian government].”

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She was guilty of “un-Islamic” dress. More here.

Islam, Iran, women's rights

This is frightening. Looks like I’ll be eating healthy and exercising so I don’t have to go see a doctor!

JAMA, AMA, doctor, health, death

I don’t watch The View, but on occasion Rosie O’Donnell says something so stupid that everyone talks about it for the next few days. A while back, Rosie the blubber-pot said that 9/11 was the first time that “fire melted steel.” She claimed that it was a physical impossibility:

But as any rational person knows, metal becomes more and more susceptible to failure as the fire’s temperature approaches the melting point. In other words, load-bearing steel need not actually melt before falling over. This amazing simple concept is lost on Rosie.

As if that point needed further vindication, a gasoline truck recently crashed on a freeway overpass in the bay area. The resulting fire (from automobile fuel which isn’t even as refined as airliner fuel) was intense enough to cause the failure of the I-580 overpass:

The reinforced concrete (steel rebar inside of concrete) was not tough enough to hold up to this fire. So why won’t the women of The View hold Rosie accountable for her mistake? Here is a woman (sort of) who is suggesting on national television that 9/11 was an inside job, and there’s plenty of ammunition to fight back with, yet no one does?

One of the problems is that the Democratic party is rife with “truthers.” A recent poll showed that 35% of Democrats think Bush knew in advance about the events of September 11. Another 26% are unsure if Bush knew or not. So many of the people who believe in 9/11 conspiracies (and those who say that they “just don’t know”) harbor a fanatical hatred of Bush. So they project this feeling by buying into a conspiracy theory that has almost zero evidence or merit.

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It’s amazing how far from 9/11 we’ve come in this country.

It all starts with the “flying imams” on U.S. Airways:

These passengers observed six imams refuse to sit in their assigned seats, request metal-bearing seatbelt extensions and speak loud condemnations of the United States. After frightened passengers reported this behavior, the imams were removed from the flight. Troublemakers are routinely removed for less. But the “John Does” were sued along with the airline and regulatory authorities.

I think that whoever alerted the airplane crew was only saying what the majority of the passengers on that plane must have been thinking. In the end, although the imams weren’t exactly model American citizens, they certainly weren’t planning to hijack the airplane. Now the passengers and the airline are facing lawsuits (courtesy of CAIR’s lawyers).

A provision for “tipster-immunity” is currently in the works to prevent this from happening again. Because if Americans can potentially be sued for reporting suspicious activity, you can bet they won’t speak up until it’s very nearly too late. The last thing we want when fighting domestic terrorism is an air of fear an apprehension among American citizens.

And here’s the jaw-dropper: Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is expected to strip the tipster-immunity provision out of the transportation-security bill when it comes before conference committee, where he has considerable influence. If Rep. Thompson has his way, tipsters will be eligible for suit in civil court if the accused are not charged with a crime. In other words, if you report suspicious activity and it turns out to be just that and nothing more, you could find yourself in court losing a lot of money. Is that what we want in America?

While I may be currently disgusted with Republicans, here’s yet another example of why Democrats will never get my vote. As chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Thompson therefore represents the entire Democratic party on issues of domestic terrorism. And this is how we want to fight terrorism? By intimidating and silencing good Americans who are frightened about a potential terrorist act? This couldn’t be more backwards. Put yourself in the shoes of a potential terrorist — is this encouraging or what?

Hat-tip to LGF as usual.

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I’ve never seen “Tom the Dancing Bug” do a send-up of any liberal talking points, no matter how stupid they are. At last, there was an idea so incredibly inane that somehow the political line was crossed:

Oh, and by the way, the whole carbon-offset scheme is not the free market in action. Some environmentalists seem to think that introducing these credits will harness the awesome power of the free market to save the planet. Well guess what: when the government imposes carbon emission caps which creates a artificial demand for carbon offsets, that’s not really the free market in action. If the government stops penalizing/enforcing emissions caps, the whole market goes to pot.

Here’s a story that won’t be reported by the agenda-driven mainstream media:

Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez 23 and Enrico Garza 26, probably believed they would easily overpower a home alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two story home.

It seems the two crooks never learned two things, they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father’s room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.

Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buck shot from the 11 year olds knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.

It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. The victim, 50 year old David Burien, was not so lucky as he died from stab wounds to the chest.

This is simply amazing. An 11 year-old girl staved off a robbery and potential rape because her parents taught her how to use a gun. You can bet that’s how I’ll raise my own kids (gotta learn myself yet, I’m embarrassed to say). Note that you can’t just hide a gun in the house and not educate your kids on the awesome power that firearms provide. Ignorance can be deadly. Fortunately for this Montana family, knowledge was power.

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