“Tell everyone that there is still a place in the Kingdom of Romania which has not bowed to Communism. As long as our heads are on our shoulders, this corner of the country will be free. Tell the people not to lose faith, for the day will come when the whole of Romania will be free. Pray God for it, so help us God.” --Ioan Gavrila Ogoranu, Romanian anti-communist fighter 1923-2006
Sunday, January 25, 2009
North Dakota: Millions Of Guns, Two Murders.
No shooting victims in North Dakota last year?
But how is this possible in a state where over 50% of the population owns at least one gun?
According to the Brady Gun Hating Club with so many firearms in the hands of the population and gun laws so relaxed, rivers of blood should flow in North Dakota; there should be innocent victims of drive-by shootings riddled with bullets and agonizing at practically every street corner. That's because (according to the Bradytes) North Dakota ranks #44 in their worst, most unsafe states to live in.
Well, it seems that Mr. Helmke's oppinion that every armed citizen may be a potential murderer is nothing but bull manure. But what else would you expect to come from the mouth of the brain dead Democrat who runs the Brady Bunch ?
For the record, Washington, D.C. has some of the strictest gun laws in the country and the fewest legal gun owners. Guess where they stand in number of homicides with a firearm.
They are #1.
Hat tip: AAB
America Turned The Page On Racism?
Racism on blacks and minorities, of course. Racism on whites, that's another story. You should ask my wife who's unsuccessfully looking for a job right now and it seems that all positions she applied for in the last six months have been occupied by other candidates belonging to minorities, with less work experience and less education.
Or just read the following story:
Court to pay $424k for white discrimination
Detroit's 36th District Court must pay a longtime white employee $424,000 because he was repeatedly denied promotions in favor of black applicants.
The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday let stand a jury's discrimination verdict for Kenneth Sciotti in 2005.
Sciotti had shown at trial that in the departments he applied to, all but one of the supervisors were black. All nine supervisory jobs he wanted in a four-year period were filled by blacks.
Sciotti, who started at the court in 1979, said he was passed over for less-qualified applicants.
The district court also has to pay Sciotti at least $151,000 in attorney fees and costs. The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the verdict in 2007 before it was appealed again.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are NOT expected to demonstrate.
Here is how the current Obama Administration plans to deal with the issue:
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Nordyke vs. King: 2nd Amendment Milestone Case Broadcasted On C-Span
This weekend, C-SPAN presents oral arguments in the case of Nordyke vs. King. The Court decides if Alameda County, California's ban on gun shows at the annual county fair is unconstitutional. Gun show promoters Russell & Sallie Nordyke argue that the ban violates their First Amendment right of free speech and their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
watch C-SPAN today at 7pm (ET)
More info on Nordyke vs. King
Gun Free Zone Rule Works Flawlessly Once Again At Virginia Tech
Student Decapitated at Virginia Tech
By SUE LINDSEY, AP
BLACKSBURG, Va. (Jan. 21) — A graduate student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student who knew her, police said Thursday.
Xin Yang, 22, was killed Wednesday night after arriving at the campus from Beijing on Jan. 8 to begin studying accounting, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said.
More here
Thank God for the VA Tech "No Guns On Campus" regulation; if the victim was armed, she could have stopped her murderer from sawing off her head and that would have been a disaster!
A Historic Day For America (Lots O' LOLZ)
A Historic Day For America
In a few short days, an African American man will move from his private residence into a much larger and infinitely more expensive one owned not by him but by the taxpayers.
A vast lawn, a perimeter fence and many well trained security specialists will insulate him from the rest of us but the mere fact that this man will be residing in this house should make us all stop and count our blessings - because it proves that we live in a nation where anything is possible.
Many truly believed this day would never come. Most of us hoped and prayed that it would, but few of us actually believed we would live to see it.
Racism is an ugly thing in all of it's forms and there is little doubt that if this man had moved into this house fifteen years ago, there would have been a great outcry - possibly even rioting in the streets.
Today, we can all be both grateful and proud that no such mayhem will take place.when this man takes up residency in this house.
This man, moving into this house at this time in our nation's history is much more than a simple change of addresses for him - it is proof of a change in our attitude as a nation.
It is an amends of sorts - the righting of a great wrong. It is a symbol of our growth, and of our willingness to "judge a man, not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character".
There can be little doubt now that the vast majority of us truly believe that this man has earned both his place in history and his new address .
His time in this house will not be easy - it will be fraught with danger and he will face many challenges.
I am sure there will be many times when he asks himself how in the world he ended up here and like all who have gone before him, the experience will age him greatly.
But I for one will not waste an ounce of worry for his sake - because in every way a man can, he asked for this.
His whole life for the past fifteen years appears to have been inexorably leading this man toward this house.
It is highly probable that in the past, despite all of his actions, racism would have kept this man out of this house.
Today, I thank the lord above that I am an American and that I live in a nation where wrongs are righted, where justice matters and where truly anything is possible.
Who is this man? you ask. You think you know? WELL See below.
Keep on going...
A little bit more...
Almost there...
Merry Christmas,Go Ahead and Repo My Car, "We Got Barack Obama"
Friday, January 23, 2009
Islamic Historectomy (this will make you sick)
the burning of all the books in the Library of Alexandria...
the destruction hundreds of churches and monasteries and their priceless book collections dating back to the times of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great in the Hellenic Genocide...
It looks like the list of attempts made by Islam in the past to erase and re-write history could continue for pages and pages.
But did this intentional pillaging and destruction perpetrated by radical muslims against non Islamic art, monuments and learning centers ever stopped? Apparently not:
London: Iranian academic sliced out sections of priceless British Library book collectionSource
To the untrained eye the damage is barely visible. Yet within the handbound pages of books charting how Europeans travelled to Mesopotamia, Persia and the Mogul empire from the 16th century onwards, the damage caused by one Iranian academic to a priceless British Library collection is irreversible.Leading scholars at the library are at a loss to explain why Farhad Hakimzadeh, a Harvard-educated businessman, publisher and intellectual, took a scalpel to the leaves of 150 books that have been in the nation's collection for centuries. The monetary damage he caused over seven years is in the region of £400,000 but Dr Kristian Jensen, head of the British and early printed collections at the library, said no price could be placed upon the books and maps that he had defaced and stolen.
"These are historic objects which have been damaged forever," said Jensen. "You cannot undo what he has done and it has compromised a piece of historical evidence which charts the early engagement of Europeans with what we now know as the Middle East and China.
"It makes me extremely angry. This is someone who is extremely rich who has damaged and destroyed something that belongs to everybody."
Hakimzadeh, 60, faces a jail sentence today when he appears at Wood Green magistrates court in London. The Iranian-born academic fled his country after the fall of the Shah and holds a US passport. He has pleaded guilty to 14 specimen charges of stealing maps, pages and illustrations from 10 books at the British Library and four from the Bodleian Library in Oxford dating back to 1998.
When police searched his home in Knightsbridge, west London, last July they discovered some of the missing maps, pages and pictures inserted into less valuable editions of the same books he owned.
Academics at the library were forced to turn detective in June 2006 after a reader who had taken out a copy of Sir Thomas Herbert's book A Relation of Some Yeares Travaille, Begunne Anno 1626 suggested some of its pages had been removed.
Careful examination by experts at the library proved him to be correct and the staff mounted a delicate operation to find out who had been damaging the book and whether other items had suffered the same fate.
Using electronic records, they found all the British Library members who had taken out the book and then examined other works these people had had contact with. They discovered that other works detailing the same periods in history and covering European engagement to the area from modern-day Syria to Bangladesh were also damaged.
Pages had been sliced away close to the spine of the books and maps, one of them worth £32,000, had been removed from chapters, leaving barely noticeable indentations in the paper marking where they had been.
"It was only the books taken out by Hakimzadeh which showed a consistent pattern of damage," said Jensen.
They discovered that Hakimzadeh had taken out 842 books and of these at least 150 had been mutilated. Some of the stolen pages were discovered but many have been lost forever.
The library wrote to Hakimzadeh, who at the time was chief executive of the Iran Heritage Foundation, a charity he formed in 1995 to promote and perserve the history, languages and culture of Iran. He replied saying he had no idea that there was any damage to the books. It was at this point that the library went to the police with the details of the investigation.
Forensic scientists analysed the damaged books and police officers called at Hakimzadeh's Knightsbridge home, where he lived with his wife.
"Some pages were found loose and others had been inserted into books in his own collection," said Jensen, who acccompanied the officers. "Hakimzadeh is eminently characteristic of our traditional groups of readers: he has a profound knowledge of the field. From my point of view, that makes it worse because he actually knew the importance of what he was damaging. What he did was use the cover of serious scholarly purpose to steal historic pieces and abuse our trust."
The library has launched a civil action to sue Hakimzadeh for full compensation.
Defaced books
The rare books that were defaced by Hakimzadeh include:
Historia de la China From the writings of Father Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit who travelled to China in 1582 and became the first western traveller to settle there. First published in Latin in 1615. This copy was printed in Spain in 1621. Ricci learned to speak and write Chinese and his work was the first important and reliable European description of the country.
Novus Orbis An anthology of works by Simon Grynaeus, professor of Greek at Basle. Hakimzadeh removed an engraving of a world map drawn by Hans Holbein the Younger, court painter to Henry VIII.
Mithridates By the English dramatist Nathaniel Lee. Published in 1693.
Ost-indian-und Persianische Reisen By Johann Gottlieb Worm, the German philosopher who accompanied an envoy of the Dutch East India Company sent to the Safavid court in Persia in 1717. He travelled to Isfahan from India via Bandar. Published in 1745.
Farhad Hakimzadeh is only following the tradition of Caliph Umar, the man who put the Library of Alexandria to fire in 642 AD. After the Byzantine army was defeated at the Battle of Heliopolis, the commander of the Islamic army asked the caliph Umar what to do with the books he found in the Library of Alexandria. Umar gave the famous answer: "They will either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it, so they are superfluous".
So he decided to use the books (some of them dating back to the times of Alexander the Great) as fire fuel for his Islamic soldiers hot baths.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Memorable Quotes From The American Mainstream Media About The New Era Of Enlightment
What I meant was Quotes From The ARABIC Mainstream Media.
But in fact, there is not the slightest difference between the triumphalist tone of the Arab Media and the American Media so one can only wonder...are the "journalists" writing from Damascus, Teheran or Cairo the same guys who are writing for WaPo and NY Times?
Arabic Media Herald The Obama Era
LONDON, Jan. 20, 2009
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(CBS) CBS News has compiled a rundown of Inauguration Day headlines and story summaries from some of the leading media outlets in the Arabic world and Iran. Here’s what the Muslim world is saying:
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Asharq al-Awsat - London based Saudi pan-Arab daily newspaper, Front Page:
Obama in His Inauguration Speech: An Invitation to Americans To Embrace New Culture
"In his inauguration speech tomorrow, U.S. President Barack Obama will be calling upon Americans to embrace a new, responsible behavior, instead of sitting in the spectators’ seats. White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs told Fox News that the speech stresses responsibility and turning America in the right direction."
Al-Quds al-Arabi - London based pan-Arab daily newspaper, Front Page:
At Last, A World Without Bush. And Obama Plans a Week Full of Achievements
“It’s a world without Bush, for the first time in eight years! A world with no “pre-emptive war ideology,” no “war on terror,” and without a president who believes he invaded Iraq after receiving orders to do so from God! But will Obama rise up to the expectations of the Arab world in terms of adopting better policies that are more balanced and less bloody? Only time will tell.”
Al-Hayat - London based Lebanese pan-Arab daily newspaper, Front Page:
Obama President of the United States Today, And Growing Optimism With Bush’s Departure
“Hours separate Americans from a historic moment that many of them wanted, so little expected - the inauguration of Obama, the first African American and 44th President of the United States of America. The event is also associated with great optimism and the renewed promise of the beginning of a new start, all together different from the era of President Bush, who ended his farewell activities yesterday and left the White House for the “Change” team and the Democratic school that now has control of the country’s legislative and executive powers.”
Al-Arab - London based Iraqi daily newspaper, Front Page:
Will Obama Open a "White" Page in America's "Black" History?
"The White House that was built some 200 years ago with the hands of black slaves is opening its doors today to Barak Obama, the first African American President of the United States, who succeeds George W. Bush, who left after spending two terms in office, leaving a heavy inheritance. Many are hoping that Obama’s inauguration will be a sign of a new post-racial era in America.”
Al-Ahram - Cairo based pan-Arab daily newspaper, Front Page:
Obama Prepares for His Inauguration Today by Singing at the Lincoln Memorial
“Hours before his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama took part yesterday in a musical concert that was held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Dozens of celebrities participated in the concert, which was also attended by Joe Biden and his wife, and Hollywood actor Tom Hanks read out excerpts from Lincoln's speeches.”
ISNA Web site - Site of the government-controlled Iranian Student News Agency:
Deputy FM: Reviving frozen Iran-U.S. ties needs Obama to fulfill promises
"The Foreign Ministry’s Deputy says U.S. President Barack Obama must fulfill the promises he made regarding Iran during his campaign if he is to revive frozen ties between the two countries. Iran expects Obama, regarding any reconciliation, to act according to justice, Mehdi Safari said while in Brussels for energy talks with the European Union officials and Javier Solana. He added, however, Iran will accept no preconditions for talks particularly over its nuclear issue."
Iran Daily - Tehran based English language newspaper, published by Iran Press Institute:
Obama Vows to Renew America's Promise
"Barack Obama paid a glowing to tribute to civil rights hero Martin Luther King on Monday, saying his inauguration as America’s first black president would extend the work of “renewing the promise of this nation.“ “Tomorrow, we will come together as one people on the same mall where Dr. King’s dream echoes still. As we do, we recognize that here in America, our destinies are inextricably linked," he said in a statement, AFP reported. “We resolve that as we walk, we must walk together. And as we go forward in the work of renewing the promise of this nation, let’s remember King’s lesson - that our separate dreams are really one."
Striking similarities, isn't it? It's just like picking up today's NY Times and reading from the front page.
Stalin's Propaganda Directorate Would Have Hired Our Mainstream "Journalists" In A Heartbeat
2005: "Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops Die in unarmored Humvees"
2009: "Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $120 million"
2005: "Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times"
2009: "Obama Spends $120 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party"
2005: "Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft"
2009: "Citibank executives contribute $8 million to Obama Inauguration"
Makes you puke. The liberals in the media are worse than Comrade Stalin's Propaganda Komissars
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
How To Celebrate Obama Inauguration Day
It is not coincidental that B. Hussein Obama and Joe (Assault Weapons Ban) Biden have a perfect gun-grabbing voting record. The two of them hate the fact that so many Americans refuse to cede control over their lives and personal safety to the big socialist nanny state they envision.
So today on the day of their inauguration be defiant and promote the most important Civil Right, the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. It is the one liberty you have that Obama and Biden hate the most.
The best way to show your defiance and opposition is to take a friend at the shooting range and teach him or her how Americans preserved their freedom since 1775.
God, Guts, Guns.........and Pansies
God, Guts, Guns.........and Pansies
Posted by screamingbanshee on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:46:37 AM
Why is it so hard for liberals to understand what made America great? Going back to the infancy of our nation, Real Americans (you know, those who aren't emasculated bed wetting liberals) have viewed our place as the leaders of the free world as manifest destiny. Never before has a nation achieved so much in so little time on the sweat of those who had little to speak of but a burning desire for freedom with the only impediment to success being the scourge of liberalism.
Our nation was borne of the frustration of big government that raped and pillaged at will. They silenced free speech, stole private property and enforced their will on the masses who turned out to be nothing more than sheep. If this sounds familiar, it should. The year may have been 1773, but it also could have been any of the couple hundred years between then and today, where the sheep still flock to their messianic leader with promises of more nanny state entitlements.
Truth be known, the majority of colonists did not support the out of touch visions of such radicals as Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington or Samuel Adams. They viewed those who spoke of freedom, liberty and rugged individualism with as much disdain as liberals today have for General Petraeus, George Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Joe Arpaio or Tom Tancredo who all share a burning desire for preservation of our Constitutional rights from the continued assault being waged by the anti-American left.
Were it not for guns, our small militia never would have found a way to win at Saratoga or Trenton. Were it not for guts, Thomas Payne never would have written Common Sense. Were it not for God, Thomas Jefferson never would have had the inspiration to pen the Declaration of Independence. Were it not for pansies, Barack Obama would not be a serious presidential candidate today.
Many say that we have become a disgrace; a worthless nanny state on its way to the economic hell known as socialism. We have a nation of pansies who preach hatred of capitalism and success while bowing at the alter of failure, defeat, class warfare and racism because they know no better.
I beg to differ, as there are millions who do understand our plight. Sadly, the millions who do understand make up barely a majority of Americans, and should even some of those stay home on election day, we could put in place a president who will inevitably be the 21st century of Jimmy Carter; in other words a failure of epic proportions.
It’s important to remember that most of the colonists were against the revolution. My guess is that they were most often the stupid, the uninformed or equally as bad those who desired the security of the nanny state imperialist government. While times may have changed, people have not, as we still have the stupid and the uninformed in our midst who unfortunately are allowed to vote. Worse yet, we have those who cling to the nanny state mentality, not realizing the implications their greed will have on our freedom and our economy.
Simply put, the upcoming election will be a gathering of those who love freedom and those who are merely sheep. There is time to educate the sheep, for if we fail in this simple duty, there will be no return as liberals lead us down the beaten path to hell, better known as socialism.
Christopher Van
www.christophervan.com
Monday, January 19, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
"Prostitution Free Zone" During Obamessiah Inauguration
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- District police have placed signs along 5th and I Streets. They read, "Warning, Prostitution Free Zone." Those who disobey could be fined 300 dollars, and even jailed. But will the city's plan work?
DC City Councilman Jim Graham said officers cannot enforce loitering laws, which is the reason for these signs.
"Because this is focused, its limited in time, its aimed at a very specific issue, if you don't move along, well put you in the car," he said.
Read the rest here
Shouldn't ALL Democrats and RINO leave DC, if B. Hussein Obama's inauguration is supposed to be prostitution-free?
GOOD GUY SHOOTS BAD GUY. (we assume Sarah Brady, other liberal gun grabbers are in tears)
ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization
January 18th 2009
Confirmed: There was a shooting incident in Glasgow, Montana on Saturday afternoon. Besides the shooter, one person was killed and two were injured. Police locked down the community, warned people to lock doors and stay inside, and followed a blood trail which eventually led to the deceased shooter.
Unconfirmed but probable: The shooter made his attack at a local hospital and killed a female Emergency Medical Technician. Scott Billingsly was present because his wife works at the hospital.
Scott has a Montana concealed weapon permit, was armed, and engaged the shooter in defense of himself and others. Scott was injured in the hand and Scott's wife was also injured. The shooter was seriously injured and was driven off by Scott's armed engagement of the shooter. The seriously wounded shooter sought shelter, leaving the blood trail that law enforcement followed, where they found the shooter dead of a possibly self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The people of Glasgow who know these details are highly thankful that an armed citizen was present and able to interdict the killer before he could kill more than the one person murdered, possibly saving the lives of many other hospital employees.
Somehow this kind of news don't make it to national headlines in major liberal drive-by media. I keep on wondering why.
Hat tip: nick @ Calguns.net
What Islam Is NOT
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Some Democrats are looking to start another Civil War
HJ Res 5:
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second Amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
This is the genius who came with this brilliant idea just in time for Obama's innauguration:
José Serrano
Representative, New York’s 16th District
State: New York, District 16
Party: Democrat
Birthday: Oct 24, 1943 / 65 years old
Dear Leader is watching the progress of the Democrat bill with great interest.
The Secret Animal Rights Agenda Of America’s Next Regulatory Czar
“[A]nimals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law … Any animals that are entitled to bring suit would be represented by (human) counsel, who would owe guardian like obligations and make decisions, subject to those obligations, on their clients’ behalf.”
“We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn’t a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It’s time now.” --Cass Sunstein, Barack Obama’s pick for “regulatory czar,”
Will the next four years be a dream-come-true for anti-meat, anti-hunting, and anti-everything-else radicals? Time will tell. For now, meat lovers might want to stock their freezers.
Read the rest here
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Did You Know US Gun Stores Sell Grenades, RPG's, AK-47s and "cop killer" guns?
But if you ask Dr. Shannon O'Neil - fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, she will tell you the answer is yes: US gun stores sell all of the above.
And not only that: somehow good Dr. O'Neill managed to count how many gun stores located along the Mexican-US border are engaged in selling hand grenades and RPG launchers to Mexican drug dealers: 7,000 (according to her there are three gun stores for every mile along the border)
Here is just a sample from Dr. O'Neill's wacademic research:
The gun situation is even worse. The Merida Initiative promises some sophisticated gear to the Mexican government, including helicopters, speedboats, and high-end database and surveillance systems. Yet the arms that cartels can and do buy from the open U.S. market -- completely illegally -- leave Mexico's police force and even its military outgunned. There are nearly 7,000 gun shops along the southern U.S. border, about three for every mile. They sell thousands of hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, AK-47s, and "cop killer" guns and bullets that cut through Kevlar body armor. The weapons quickly flow south, again with barely a nod from U.S. Border Patrol.
The rest of her "scientific" study on what is causing drug and gang violence in Mexico is here
From Dr. O'Neill's bio:
Adjunct assistant professor of political science and visiting scholar, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University (2006); Fulbright scholar in Mexico and Argentina; Justice, Welfare and Economics Fellow, Harvard University; Equity Analyst, Indosuez Capital Latin America and Credit Lyonnais Securities (1994-97)
As they say: in order to become such an idiot, a college degree is required.