* Obama's (call to) Prayer breakfast
* Words of the world's greatest leaders.
* 1 In 3.3 Trillion. School Safety.
* Remove the firefighters? Close the station?
* Beheadings in Ferguson Missouri
* Your Socialist Is Cooler Than Ours
* Iran's Bomb. A thought from Israel.
* If The Bomb Was In Your Backyard?
* 'Occupy Wall Street'? The Left's Tea Party?
* Mormon For President?
* Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
* Birth Certificates and Death Certificates
* It's Official! Born in Hawaii, not Bethlehem.
* Don't touch my junk (لا تلمس جسدي).
* 'Post racial' President? Or 'most' racial President?
* Is our country capable of sacrifice?
* Christian zealots
* Freedom of the press! At what cost?
* If it walks like a Jihad Duck, and quacks like a Jihad Duck ...
*Jihad events in the U.S. in last six months
* How is this for a Conservative health reform?
* Health Care. Why the rush Mr. President?
* When a President lies.
* Our defenders ... torturers?
* What is torture?
* My America vs. Obama's America
* Censored? Tehran Times removes an article from it's online news regarding the elections in Iraq.
* A captured image from the Tehran Times article mentioned above
* Obama's air raid on Pakistan
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Obama's National (call to) Prayer Breakfast
"... on our high horse".
"Terrible deeds have been committed in the name of Christ".
Themes similarly spoken by Osama Bin Laden, ISIS murderers, and Barack Obama.
Barack Obama, in his never ending Islamic Apology And Denial Tour, today compared the modern day ISIS horrors of beheading captives with a knife, sawing children in half, burying innocents alive, crucifying Christians who refuse to convert to Islam, and the more recent burning alive of the Jordanian pilot ... to the acts of Christians of the Crusade and Inquisition eras so many hundreds of years ago done "In the name of Christ".
Indeed, he even equated recent American slavery history as done "in the name of Christ". These analogies are stunning display of false moral equivalency and intellectual dishonesty even by Obama's standards.
He seems quite willing to reference atrocities committed in the name of Christ, but has always been completely unwilling to similarly reference atrocities committed in the name of Mohammed.
Ironically, nearly all atrocities committed by radical Islamists, which are accompanied by speeches or videos, reference the crusades and crusaders as justification for their actions. Thank you President Obama for giving them validation for their modern day actions by referencing the same 'terrible deeds' of the crusades and the evil done in the name of Christ hundreds of years ago. Do you seriously believe they weren't watching your speech today? One will wonder if clips from Obama's speech today (such as those above) will appear as validation in the future propaganda and murder videos of militant Islamic events.
It is no wonder after such comments (and likely his true internalized beliefs) that in a recent Pew poll, 62% of all Americans are either unsure, or don't believe, that Obama is a Christian - though he claims to be. 18% of all Americans believe he is a Muslim - though he claims not to be.
President Obama, ask your Homeland Security staff if they are actually protecting America against the "terrible deeds committed in the name of Christ" ... by crusading Baptists!
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Words Of The World's Greatest Leaders
A compilation of the most inspiring moments of the greatest world leaders of the last century.
Friday, October 24, 2014
School shootings. A reality check.
A shooting tragedy recently at a high school near my home town of Seattle produced, (within a half hour), a barrage of media pundits, politicians, and interest groups across the nation, exploiting the death of our school kids, and the tragedy, for agenda driven issues such as gun control, bullying, mental illness, racism, 'more money for schools', and ratings. In no case that I observed was thrift given to the risk factors for such an event in our schools.
This blog post will deal with the numbers that illustrate exactly how safe we have already made our schools. The shooting at Sandy Hook, and at Marysville High School near Seattle, is a human tragedy, and a horror to our nation and the grieving parents, but it is not a reflection of whether our schools are safe. They are.
Barack Obama on the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in December, 2012 .....
"Can we say that we're truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose? I've been reflecting on this the last few days," ... "If we're honest with ourselves, the answer is no. And we will have to change."
He is wrong! While Obama's remarks were clearly the politically expedient thing to say for a president who has always believed his wisdom exceeds ours, it was an outrageous and ignorant idea for President Obama to suggest we don't take care of our children as a reason for the school shooting!
Does the president, or any of his political advisors and speech writers, ever use a calculator?
Really?
(Take this risk quiz from the Harvard Center For Risk Analysis and compare it to the risks in school you are about to read about in the remainder of this blog)
Ok, reality check. So what are the actual statistical risks to your child in the classroom without the noise of media pundits, talking heads, politicians, and pro and anti gun lobbyists ... NONE of whom give you any actual risk factors while pontificating and cynically using the tragedy to springboard their agendas. What are the real odds of a child being killed in an American k-12 classroom, during school hours, by someone else from within or from outside of the school.
According to US census statistics approximately 33,000,000 (33 million) children in America are of of the age to attend kindergarten thru 12th grade in high school. The average public school year is approximately 180 school days.
In 2012, 23 children have actually died of murder in school in two different incidents. This would include the 20 young souls at Sandy Hook elementary school and three in another incident in Chardon, Ohio on February 27th 2012.
Remember these 23 murders occurred in two incidents. Rounded a bit for simplicity, the odds of a given child running into one of those two incidents on any given school day, in any given school in 2012 in the United States, are 1 in 3,300,000,000. (One in 3.3 trillion). Your odds of winning the recent Powerball lottery were about 18 times greater.
If each of the 23 murders was a separate incident, the odds of your child encountering that incident would still be 1 in 330,000,000. (One in 330 million). The odds of winning the recent Powerball lottery were almost twice as likely.
We have made our schools quite safe. In fact a U.S school is the single safest place in the world for a child with no close second. We have always taken care of our children in schools and, shockingly, have done so even before the last last six years of new and advanced presidential wisdom and advice.
Every parent does their utmost to raise their children safely, in life and in school, and see to it that the odds of harm to our children are minimized. I take pains to even make sure that children other than my own are also safe. We all do. We have been doing so since the dawn of time, it is our parenting DNA, and no presidential decree to do so is needed. Who is the president talking to, or about, exactly?
We all recognize that everything we do in life for our children has a risk. We rarely know what the actual risk statistics really are. What are the odds of children being hit by a car because they couldn't hear the car with an Ipod speaker in their ear? It's millions of times higher than being murdered in a classroom, yet a parent bought them one anyway and exposed them to the risk. Parents certainly bought the kids a bicycle and we all know what happens there. Did we give them the keys to the car? Do we have a gun in the home? All these carry risks millions of times higher than the risks of putting them in a classroom yet we took those risks anyway. If we were "truly doing enough" to ensure our child's safety, there would be no bicycle, car keys, or Ipod given to the kids. Why then all the paranoia about the danger in schools?
Our schools are the safest place to be for protection from murder anywhere in the world and there is no close second. Not even our own homes are as safe as our schools.
* Chart below is from the National Safety Council. "Odds Of Dying"
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Islamic fires. Close the fire station and remove the firefighters?
Recent polls have revealed a majority of the public weary and skeptical of war and, in particular, the conflict in Afghanistan. Try a new mentality on this.
Radical Islam, and it's associated weekly terrorism and body count around the world, is not a temporary phenomena. Radical Islam is forever, like our occasional forest fires. We need firefighters in the forest to contain the fires, (which we know will continue to occur forever) from getting out of hand and buring down the entire forest and surrounding neighborhoods. Would we close the fire stations knowing that such fires might, and would, happen? Of course not. Are you weary of your firefighters?
View radical Islam in this light here with me for a few minutes. View it as a long term management problem with no ultimate solution, only a problem to be contained to small flare ups - in the same light as forest fires, drought, disease, economic downturns, crime , etc. You wouldn't remove the firewall between yourself and those problems, why would you remove the firewalls between yourself and the problem of radical Islam?
~ It is not a 'war' with a win or solution.
~ It is not economically driven or caused by perceived 'oppressive U.S. policy'. If it was, then similarly oppressed Hindus, Buddhists, and Baptists, around the world - and Canadians - would also be attempting to harm us every day.
~ It is not about repression in countries dominated by radical Islamic clerics. There have been dozens of U.S citizens convicted of Islamically motivated conspiracies right here in the U.S.
~ It is not about education or poverty. Many of the the perpetrators have been surgeons, medical students, professors, and millionaires (some of whom would be taxed as the top 1% in the U.S.). Many have educations in the U.S., including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the so called 9/11 mastermind.
It is ultimately about the book they read - The Koran. It's the book!
As long as a billion and a half people read it, and as long as even one half of one percent of the readers interpret their reading in a manner advocating violence, there will be no end to the violence. Such people are not radicals or "misguided" (a popular U.S reality denial). They are fervent religious people who believe their God advocates different types of violence and hostility towards non believers - and against other Muslims who do not believe similarly.
Do we seriously believe we can change such attitudes in well educated, very intelligent, well read, very cerebral, men and women who believe their God commands them to do such things? No is the answer. We cannot do so, any more than we can change the attitude or beliefs of a North American pro-life Christian evangelical. Think such a Christian could be talked out of what they believe their God told them?
There-in lies the problem. Yes, the occasional solitary Christian goes off the reservation every few years in an act of violence inspired by reading a passage in the New Testament, and does so with no promise of reward from his or her God for doing so. There are only two or three passages in the New Testament of the Bible which might act as a trigger for such a fervent literalist, hence so few such acts of violence.
The Koran, on the other hand, contains hundreds of such potential triggers for it's readers, not just two or three. This book, with so many triggers, is followed by close to a billion and a half readers, who - man for man and woman for woman - tend to be much more devout in their beliefs than other members of other religious beliefs, and who have tens of millions of fervent literalists within their ranks.
An added feature for the literalists inspired to violence by the Koran, unlike occasional inspirations from the New Testament, is that Koranic inspirations often promise a reward for the violence or the martyr, including possible rewards and benefits for the perpetrator's family left behind on earth. Hence added encouragement for the almost most daily acts of violence around the world in the name of the religion.
It does no good for the rest of us to say that enlightened Muslims must take responsibility and enlighten the unenlightened, as 95% of all people killed by Muslims in the last ten years ... were other Muslims! They were killed either as Koranically justified 'collateral damage' who would be given a reward in paradise for being such, or they were killed as apostates who did not believe in the pure Islam of their killers.
Bottom line, there is no solution in the manner we are accustomed to. It is forever, we need to live with it, and treat it as an ongoing forest fire management issue. The sparks from these fires can jump the fire lines, even ones that have 3000 miles of ocean as the line.
The Afghanistan fire station, and many stations around the world designed to contain the fires of radical Islam, must be kept open. We are not there to engage in the fruitless, feel good, exercise of enhancing their culture We are there to keep fires from spreading from there to other areas. That is the reason we opened the fire station there in the first place. The Afghans have no suitable fire fighting force. If we leave, the fires will spread. It is a fire station we must keep open for years, if not our lifetime. This particular station happens to need several thousand firefighters as the forest is big.
Is closing the station as a reelection bid more important than the risk of the fire?
Radical Islam, and it's associated weekly terrorism and body count around the world, is not a temporary phenomena. Radical Islam is forever, like our occasional forest fires. We need firefighters in the forest to contain the fires, (which we know will continue to occur forever) from getting out of hand and buring down the entire forest and surrounding neighborhoods. Would we close the fire stations knowing that such fires might, and would, happen? Of course not. Are you weary of your firefighters?
View radical Islam in this light here with me for a few minutes. View it as a long term management problem with no ultimate solution, only a problem to be contained to small flare ups - in the same light as forest fires, drought, disease, economic downturns, crime , etc. You wouldn't remove the firewall between yourself and those problems, why would you remove the firewalls between yourself and the problem of radical Islam?
~ It is not a 'war' with a win or solution.
~ It is not economically driven or caused by perceived 'oppressive U.S. policy'. If it was, then similarly oppressed Hindus, Buddhists, and Baptists, around the world - and Canadians - would also be attempting to harm us every day.
~ It is not about repression in countries dominated by radical Islamic clerics. There have been dozens of U.S citizens convicted of Islamically motivated conspiracies right here in the U.S.
~ It is not about education or poverty. Many of the the perpetrators have been surgeons, medical students, professors, and millionaires (some of whom would be taxed as the top 1% in the U.S.). Many have educations in the U.S., including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the so called 9/11 mastermind.
It is ultimately about the book they read - The Koran. It's the book!
As long as a billion and a half people read it, and as long as even one half of one percent of the readers interpret their reading in a manner advocating violence, there will be no end to the violence. Such people are not radicals or "misguided" (a popular U.S reality denial). They are fervent religious people who believe their God advocates different types of violence and hostility towards non believers - and against other Muslims who do not believe similarly.
Do we seriously believe we can change such attitudes in well educated, very intelligent, well read, very cerebral, men and women who believe their God commands them to do such things? No is the answer. We cannot do so, any more than we can change the attitude or beliefs of a North American pro-life Christian evangelical. Think such a Christian could be talked out of what they believe their God told them?
There-in lies the problem. Yes, the occasional solitary Christian goes off the reservation every few years in an act of violence inspired by reading a passage in the New Testament, and does so with no promise of reward from his or her God for doing so. There are only two or three passages in the New Testament of the Bible which might act as a trigger for such a fervent literalist, hence so few such acts of violence.
The Koran, on the other hand, contains hundreds of such potential triggers for it's readers, not just two or three. This book, with so many triggers, is followed by close to a billion and a half readers, who - man for man and woman for woman - tend to be much more devout in their beliefs than other members of other religious beliefs, and who have tens of millions of fervent literalists within their ranks.
An added feature for the literalists inspired to violence by the Koran, unlike occasional inspirations from the New Testament, is that Koranic inspirations often promise a reward for the violence or the martyr, including possible rewards and benefits for the perpetrator's family left behind on earth. Hence added encouragement for the almost most daily acts of violence around the world in the name of the religion.
It does no good for the rest of us to say that enlightened Muslims must take responsibility and enlighten the unenlightened, as 95% of all people killed by Muslims in the last ten years ... were other Muslims! They were killed either as Koranically justified 'collateral damage' who would be given a reward in paradise for being such, or they were killed as apostates who did not believe in the pure Islam of their killers.
Bottom line, there is no solution in the manner we are accustomed to. It is forever, we need to live with it, and treat it as an ongoing forest fire management issue. The sparks from these fires can jump the fire lines, even ones that have 3000 miles of ocean as the line.
The Afghanistan fire station, and many stations around the world designed to contain the fires of radical Islam, must be kept open. We are not there to engage in the fruitless, feel good, exercise of enhancing their culture We are there to keep fires from spreading from there to other areas. That is the reason we opened the fire station there in the first place. The Afghans have no suitable fire fighting force. If we leave, the fires will spread. It is a fire station we must keep open for years, if not our lifetime. This particular station happens to need several thousand firefighters as the forest is big.
Is closing the station as a reelection bid more important than the risk of the fire?
Beheadings in Ferguson Missouri
While Obama's guilt and shame about taking America to the high moral ground without constantly apologizing to the world for his country is well known, this particular apology is a new low, even for him. This is perhaps his most egregious case of false moral equivalency to date.
Shame on President Obama. How dare he compare a localized incident in Missouri to ISIS sawing off the heads of human beings with a knife, crucifying Christians, burning and burying people alive, and sawing children in half. Is he suggesting that incident rises to that level? Or to the level of an invasion of the Ukraine by Russian surrogates resulting in several thousand deaths? Really? In an America of 330,000,000 is that the best he can come up with? Can he not find incidents of beheading and murder on a genocidal scale within America as a comparison? Of course not. There is no comparison.
Is he further aware that, in the Ferguson incident, no fault has been found at this time? No charges laid? No conviction secured? Even if he intends to use such lameness to compare his own country's imperfections to that of the true evil in the world, then at least find one that has been thru the courts.
Since he truly needs or wants to use a disingenuous comparison of America's evils to the worlds evils and massacres then, in his next UN apology speech, it would seem more appropriate to use his own home territory of Chicago, and it's 450 murders last year at the hands of it's own local citizens, as a more accurate comparison - rather than a one time, localized, unproven, event in a small town in Missouri.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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