FWD: Does that say 1949???


Sent: 11/23/2011 1:06:55 P.M. Central Standard Time
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Fwd: FW: Newt Gingrich

 Gotta love the tagline:  "I'm not politicizing"  Yeah right!

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 Worth watching.   I'm not politicing -  form your own opinion after. 
If you disagree, merely "delete".
I don't know how you feel about Newt, but just watch the way he handles the leftist reporters in these clips of the last debate. Can you imagine how he would wipe the floor with Obama in a one-on-one debate.


Watch this and then tell me, "who is the smartest man in the room."

FW: Snow White

Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 10:03 PM
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Snow White
Pinocchio, Snow White, and Superman are out for a stroll in town one Day. As they walked, they come across a sign: "Beauty contest for the most beautiful woman in the world."
"I am entering" said Snow White. After half an hour she came out and they ask her, "Well, how'd ya do?
" First Place ," said Snow White. They continue walking and they see a sign:
"Contest for the strongest man in the world." 
"I'm entering," said Superman. After half an hour he returned and they ask him, "How did you make out?"
" First Place ," answered Superman. "Did you ever doubt?" They continued walking when they saw a sign: 

"Contest for the greatest liar in the world." 
Pinocchio said, "This is mine." Half an hour later, he returned with tears in his eyes. "What happened?" they asked.
"Who the hell is Obama?" asked Pinocchio!

FWD: Who Me Kill Jobs?

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Subject: Who Me Kill Jobs?


Fw: President Obama Kills Thousands of Jobs!

Subject: President Obama Kills Thousands of Jobs!

Here’s a real “Shovel Ready” project that Obama killed for political reasons! - Noel
If  Americans needed any further proof that the Obama Administration is one of the  most political on record, or that, for all the recent demagoguing, it really  cares only about re-election, not about job creation, then you need look no  further than its cynical Keystone XL oil pipeline decision last  week.
Over  the last several months, radical environmentalists along with Hollywood  celebrity activists descended on the White House in protest, urging President  Barack Obama to block the construction of the $7 billion pipeline that would  bring in more than 700,000 barrels of oil per day from AlbertaCanada, to the  Texas Gulf coast. Last week, they got their wish.
The  Obama Administration on Thursday announced that it would delay a decision on  the pipeline until after the 2012 election. In siding with his leftist  environmentalist, big Hollywood base, President Obama’s ambition is nakedly  apparent, as is his total disregard for the 14 million unemployed Americans  sitting on the sidelines, waiting for Washington to get out of the way so they  can get back to work. And it also shows that for him, politics is more  important than achieving true energy independence for the United  States.
And  here’s why: The Keystone pipeline would have done what the President’s  hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus spending failed to do. It would  have created thousands of jobs (tens of thousands, by some predictions), while  generating $5.2 billion in property tax revenue for Montana, South Dakota,  Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Texas. And it would have done it all with  private dollars–not taxpayer dollars.
The  kicker is that despite all the hoopla from the enviro-celebrity protests, this  pipeline should have been anything but controversial, even by the Obama  Administration’s own findings. Heritage’s Nicolas Loris  explains:
Radical  environmentalists act as if this is the first oil pipeline being built in the  United States. We have 50,000 miles of oil pipeline in this country that have  provided massive economic benefits with minimal environmental  harm.
In  short, building the Keystone XL pipeline is nothing new, and it’s one of the  most environmentally sensible ways to transport oil. Even the Obama  Administration determined it to be safe when the State Department’s recent  Environmental Impact Statement found that the pipeline would pose few  environmental risks.
Another  important point is that even if the Keystone pipeline isn’t constructed in the  United States, the resource will still be tapped, and it’s going to head  elsewhere. Heritage’s David Kreutzer explains that the development ofCanada’s  oil sands will be slowed (thereby increasing its cost), and it will be  diverted to non-U.S. consumers, meaning that the Canadian oil will be shipped  across thousands of miles of ocean to Chinese refineries. Kreutzer’s  admonition to the Obama Administration?
So,  block the XL pipeline if you think the environment will be better served by  shipping Canadian oil an extra 6,000 miles across the Pacific in oil-consuming  super tankers and then refining it in less-regulated Chinese refineries. In  addition, be aware that replacing the Canadian oil means the U.S. also must  import more oil by tankers, which are less efficient than  pipelines.
The  facts, though, don’t matter to environmentalist activists. They don’t matter  to certain celebrities, and now they apparently don’t matter to the Obama  Administration, either. Evidently, neither do jobs or energy independence.  Following the President’s decision, actor Robert Redford applauded Obama and  said, “This is American democracy at its best: a president who listens to the  voice of the people and shows the courage to do what’s right for the country.”  No, Mr. Redford, you’re wrong. When the President puts his job over those of  tens of thousands Americans, that is politics and a presidency at its  worst.

Fw: Check out Newt Gingrich: Impeach judges - Crush and Replace the Left - 2...

This is the most powerful speech I have seen and heard, pertaining to the crisis that envelpoes our country. Whether you like Newt or not, he clearly and historically points out what we need to do to restore America to the Greatest Country In The World - and in addition he points out that "It ain't going to be easy".

Fw: ONLY IN TEXAS..Look!!

RIGHT ON

 
TEXAS BUMPER STICKER IN LARGE FONT

 This   has got to be the biggest 

     Bumper  Sticker.   
     In  fact, I suppose  we'd have to call it a  
     "Tail  Gate  Sticker."  Great job!!          
      Picture  from Texas ...... this guy has got some  guts!  

Fw: Mathematics/Coolest thing I've seen in a long time.. and wait for the last message

You will really like this. play it to the end.It is soooooooooooooo neat!





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The Beauty of Mathematics...

Click your mouse here: 
Mathematics
"Wait for it,  watch for it,  listen... 
change is coming in:
 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014" 
  Are you ready for the change? 

Fw: Jewish Holiday - .... more WH intelligence.....

Subject: Jewish Holiday - .... more WH intelligence.....

I have not verified this with Snopes!      
             
Jewish  Holiday!  PRICELESS!!!








"Hi.  This is President Obama. Is Senator Lieberman in?"

"No, Mr.  President.  It's Yom Kippur!"
 
"Well,  Hello, Yom. Can I leave a message?"

Fwd: FW: FW: Bill Cosby "I'm 76 and Tired"

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 Bill Cosby "I'm 76 and Tired"

 I'm 76. Except for brief period in the 50's when I was doing my National Service, I've worked hardsince I was 17. Except for some some serious health challenges, I put in 50-hour weeks, and didn't call in sick in nearly 40 years. I made a reasonable salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, it looks as though retirement was a bad idea, and I'm tired. Very tired. 

I'm tiredof being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it. 

I'm tiredof being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honour"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to. 

I'm tiredof being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in Australia, New Zealand, UK, America and Canada, while no one from these countries are allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia or any other Arab country to teach love and tolerance.. 

I'm tiredof being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate.

I'm tiredof being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses or stick a needle in their arm while they tried to fight it off?

I'm tiredof hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of all parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor. 

I'm really tiredof people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems. 

I'm also tired and fed up with seeing young men and women in their teens and early 20's bedeck them selves in tattoos and face studs, thereby making themselves un-employable and claiming money from the Government. 

Yes, I'm damn tired.But I'm also glad to be 76.. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter and her children. Thank God I'm on the way out and not on the way in. 


There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!


This is your chance to make a difference.

" I'm 76 and I'm tired. If you don't forward this you are part of the problem".

FW: SEALS upset

Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:21 PM
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Subject: SEALS upset: White House mislabeled Ben Ladin raid and ruined intell





Why would anyone be surprised? The man has never managed so much as a two car funeral, or a lemon aide stand and he surrounds himself with sleaze bags. As a very learned man once said: '” you can’t get the water clear until you get the pigs out of the creek”. We’ve had dumb presidents, lazy ones, crooked, those that can’t keep their pants zipped, and those that are mean. I don’t think we have ever had such a self-centered, unprincipled one that hates our country as it is toda y.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/
Upset by the official account, US Navy Seals commandos reveal the truth of the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, nicknames and all
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Osama Bin Laden was killed within 90 seconds of the US Navy Seals landing in his compound and not after a protracted gun battle, according to the first account by the men who carried out the raid. The operation was so clinical that only 12 bullets were fired. 

The Seals have spoken out because they were angered at the version given by politicians, which they see as portraying them as cold-blooded murderers on a “kill mission”. They were also shocked that President Barack Obama announced Bin Laden’s death on television the same evening, rendering useless much of the intelligence they had seized. 

Chuck Pfarrer, a former commander of Seal Team 6, which conducted the operation, has interviewed many of those who took part for a book, Seal Target Geronimo, to be published in the US this week. 

The Seals’ own accounts differ from the White House version, which gave the impression t hat Bin Laden was killed at the end of the operation rather than in its opening seconds. Pfarrer insists Bin Laden would have been captured had he surrendered. 

“There isn’t a politician in the world who could resist trying to take credit for getting Bin Laden but it devalued the ‘intel’ and gave time for every other Al-Qaeda leader to scurry to another bolthole,” said Pfarrer. “The men who did this and their valorous act deserve better. It’s a pretty shabby way to treat these guys.”  

The first hint of the mission came in January last year when the team’s commanding officer was called to a meeting at the headquarters of joint special operations command. The meeting was held in a soundproof bunker three storeys below ground with his boss, Admiral William McRaven, and a CIA officer. 

They told him a walled compound in Pakistan had been under surveillance for a couple of weeks. They were certain a high-value individual was inside and needed a plan to present to the president. 

It had to be someone important. “So is this Be rt or Ernie?” he asked. The Seals’ nicknames for Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are a reference to two Muppets in Sesame Street, one tall and thin and the other short and fat. “We have a voice print,” said the CIA officer, “and we’re 60% or 70% certain it’s our guy.” McRaven added that a reconnaissance satellite had measured the target’s shadow. “Over 6ft tall.” 

When McRaven added they would use Ghost Hawk helicopters, the team leader had no doubt. “These are the most c lassified, sophisticated stealth helicopters ever developed,” said Pfarrer. “They are kept in locked hangars and fly so quiet we call it ‘whisper mode’.” 

Over the next couple of months a plan was hatched. A mock-up of the compound was built at Tall Pines, an army facility in a national forest somewhere in the eastern US. 

Four reconnaissance satellites were placed in orbit over the compound, sending back video and communications intercepts. A tall figure seen walking up and down was named “the Pacer”. 

Obama gave the go-ahe ad and Seal Team 6, known as the Jedi, was deployed to Afghanistan. The White House cancelled plans to provide air cover using jet fighters, fearing this might endanger relations with Pakistan. 

Sending in the Ghost Hawks without air cover was considered too risky so the Seals had to use older Stealth Hawks. A Prowler electronic warfare aircraft from the carrier USS Carl Vinson was used to jam Pakistan’s radar and create decoy targets. 

Operation Neptune’s Spear was initially planned for April 30 but bad weather delayed it until May 1, a moonless night. The commandos flew on two Stealth Hawks, codenamed Razor 1 and 2, followed by two Chinooks five minutes behind, known as “Command Bird” and the “gun platform”. On board, each Seal was clad in body armour and nightvision goggles and equipped with laser targets, radios and sawn-off M4 rifles. They were expecting up to 30 people in the main house, including Bin Laden and three of his wives, two sons, Khalid and Hamza, his courier, Abu Ahmed al- Kuwa iti, four bodyguards and a number of children. At 56 minutes past midnight the compound came into sight and the code “Palm Beach” signalled three minutes to landing. 

Razor 1 hovered above the main house, a three-storey building where Bin Laden lived on the top floor. Twelve Seals abseiled the 5ft-6ft down onto the roof and then jumped to a third-floor patio, where they kicked in the windows and entered.  ;

The first person the Seals encountered was a terrified woman, Bin Laden’s third wife, Khaira, who ran into the hall. Blinded by a searing white strobe light they shone at her, she stumbled back. A Seal grabbed her by the arm and threw her to the floor. 

Bin Laden’s bedroom was along a short hall. The door opened; he popped out and then slammed the door shut. “Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo,” radioed one Seal, meaning “eyes on target”. 

At the same time lights came on from the floor below and Bin Laden’s son Khalid came running up the stairs towards the Seals. He was shot dead. 

Two Seals kicked in Bin Laden’s door. The room, they later recalled, “smelt like old clothing, like a guest bedroom in a grandmother’s house”. Inside was the Al-Qaeda leader and his youngest wife, Amal, who was screaming as he pushed her in front of him. 

“No, no, don’t do this!” she shouted as her husband reached across the king-size bed for his AK-47 assault rifle. The Seals reacted instantly, firing in the same second. One round thudded into the mattress. The other, aimed at Bin Laden’s head, grazed Amal in the calf. As his hand reached for the gun, they each fired again: one shot hit his breastbone, the other his skull, killing him instantly and blowing out the back of his head. 

Meanwhile Razor 2 was heading for the guesthouse, a low, shoebox-like building, where Bin Laden’s courier, Kuwaiti, and his brother lived. 

As the helicopter neared, a door opened and two figures appeared, one waving an AK-47. This was Kuwaiti. In the moonless night he could see nothing and lifted his rifle, spraying bullets wildly. 

He did not see the Stealth Hawk. On board someone shouted, “Bust him!”, and a sniper fired two shots. Kuwaiti was killed, as was the person behind him, who turned out to be his wife. Also on board were a CIA agent, a Pakistani- American who would act as interpreter, and a sniffer dog called Karo, wearing dog body armour and goggles. 

Within two minutes the Seals from Razor 2 had cleared the guesthouse and removed the women and children. 

They then ran to the main house and entered from the ground floor, checking the rooms. One of Bin Laden’s bodyguards was waiting with his AK-47. The Seals shot him twice and he toppled over.
Five minutes into the operation the command Chinook landed outside the compound, disgorging the commanding officer and more men. They blasted through the compound wall and rushed in.
The commander made his way to the third floor, where Bin Laden’s body lay on the floor face up. Photographs were taken, and the commander called on his satellite phone to headquarters with the words: “Geronimo Echo KIA” — Bin Laden enemy killed in action. 

“This was the first time the White House knew he was dead and it was probably 20 minutes into the raid,” said Pfarrer. 

A sample of Bin Laden’s DNA was taken and the body was bagged. They kept his rifle. It is now mounted on the wall of their team room at their headquarters in Virginia Beach, Virginia, alongside photographs of a dozen colleagues killed in action in the past 20 years. 

At this point things started to go wrong. Razor 1 took off but the top secret “green unit” that controls the electronics failed. The aircraft went into a spin and crashe d tail-first into the compound. 

The Seals were alarmed, thinking it had been shot down, and several rushed to the wreckage. The crew climbed out, shaken but unharmed.
The commanding officer ordered them to destroy Razor 2, to remove the green unit, and to smash the avioni cs. They then laid explosive charges. 

They loaded Bin Laden’s body onto the Chinook along with the cache of intelligence in plastic bin bags and headed toward the USS Carl Vinson. As they flew off they blew up Razor 2. The whole operation had taken 38 minutes. 
The following morning White House officials announced that the helicopter had crashed as it arrived, forcing the Seals to abandon plans to enter from the roof. A photograph of the situation room showed a shocked Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, with her hand to her mouth. 

Why did they get it so wrong? What they were watching was live video but it was shot from 20,000ft by a drone circling overhead and relayed in real time to the White House and Leon Panetta, the CIA director, in Langley. The Seals were not wearing helmet cameras, and those watching in Washington had no idea what was happening inside the buildings. 

“They don’t understand our terminology, so when someone said the ‘insertion helicopter’ has crashed, they assumed it meant on entry,” said Pfarrer.< /span> 

What infuriated the Seals, according to Pfarrer, was the description of the raid as a kill mission. “I’ve been a Seal for 30 years and I never heard the words ‘kill mission’,” he said. “It’s a Beltway [Washington insider’s] ]fantasy word. If it was a kill mission you don’t need Seal Team 6; you need a box of hand grenades.”

FW: Herman Groman

Date: Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:29 AM
Subject: FW: Herman Groman
To: My Right Wing Dad <myrightwingdad@gmail.com>



FW:  Herman Groman occupies Wall Street


 
Any Questions?!?!



A Youtube posting by Herm Groman on His occupying Wall Street.


http://youtu.be/bg4dh2cDT6A

Fwd: FW: Economics 2011

Curator's note: This RW FWD: is an updated version of this post from June of 2009.


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Subject: Economics 2011


 
Economics 2011

Mary is the proprietor of a bar in Dublin. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Word gets around about Mary’s “drink now, pay later” marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Mary’s bar. Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in Dublin.
By providing her customers’ freedom from immediate payment demands, Mary gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages.

Consequently, Mary’s gross sales volume increases massively. A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Mary’s borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral. At the bank’s corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into Drinkbonds and Alkibonds.
 
These securities are then bundled and traded on international security markets. naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as ‘AAA’ secured bonds are really the debts of unemployed alcoholics. Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation’s leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices are still climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Mary’s bar. He so informs Mary. Mary then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since Mary cannot fulfill her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and the eleven employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, Drinkbonds and Alkibonds drop in price by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the bank’s liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community. The suppliers of Mary’s bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms’ pension funds in the various Bond securities. They find they are now faced with having to write-off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds. Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion euro no-strings-attached cash infusion from their cronies in government. The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who have never been in Mary’s bar.
Now, do you understand economics in 2011?”

Fwd: THIS ABSOLUTELY NAILS IT............................

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Fw: Afghanistan: This is the Country We're Saving

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Date: Saturday, August 6, 2011, 10:34 AM

SAD BUT UNFORTUNATELY RINGS TRUE

What is the moral to this?   Perhaps - one cannot help someone who wishes not to be helped!!   One can wager that they will not be content just to blunder/murder their own, but also anyone who thinks differently then they do.   Too bad that the women and children could not be rescued!





Subject: Afghanistan: This is the Country We're Saving

What a sinkhole for us and the West. We have wasted, once again, our blood and our treasure. 
- FrontPage Magazine - http://frontpagemag.com -
This Is the Country We’re SavingPosted By Daniel Greenfield On August 3, 2011 @ 12:09 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 62 Comments

Pedophilia, forced marriages, blasphemy trials and drug dealing. That is the real Afghanistan. The one that lingers on even when the Taliban are chased into the hills. That cannot be changed by American intervention because this is who its people are.
We might have been able to save Afghanistan from the Taliban, but we can’t save it from the Afghans. From the quarreling clans and warlords, the age old customs and the Islamic mores. Beyond a sliver of Western educated men and women in Kabul lies a land of a thousand cruelties and a million knives. With a vendetta around every corner and murder in every heart.
There is no Afghanistan, only a thousand divisions. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan that replaced the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an internationally funded mirage. A multi-billion dollar fund with its own flag and its own mercenaries. And because these mercenaries won’t fight, our soldiers go out to fight and die in their place.
Beneath that flag there is no unity. There are only divisions. Sunnis and Shiites. Pashtuns, Tajiks and Hazaras. Men and women. Groups with nothing in common except the Koran and the knife.
Last month’s New York Times chronicled one such collision of coexistence as a secret relationship between Tajik and Hazara teenagers led to rioting and the detention of the couple. A group of men spotted the couple riding together in a car, which they stopped to interrogate the couple.  Soon a crowd had gathered to try to stone or hang them for adultery.  When police rescued the couple, an outbreak of mob violence occurred which left one man dead, cars on fire, and the teenagers in jail.
The girl’s uncle promised to kill her when she was released for shaming the family. “Blood was perhaps the only way out,” the girl’s father said. “What we would ask is that the government should kill both of them.”
Afghan jails are filled with women fleeing abusive marriages. Fleeing home carries with it a ten year jail sentence. The analogy to escaped slaves is as obvious and inescapable as a Muslim marriage. Adultery is the catch-all charge that can be leveled at a woman at any time, married or unmarried, a young girl or an elderly woman.
The Afghan man has three tools of power. Zan, Zar and Zamin. Women, gold and land. A man with many women will be able to breed many sons and expand his own clan. A man with a great deal of gold will be able to buy weapons and take his share of the drug and human trafficking networks. And a man with much land will have his own kingdom.
This elemental tribal power defines Afghanistan. Women are at the bottom of this pyramid. But so are minority ethnic groups. The father’s cruelty in the New York Times story is about more than honor, it is about population retention in the internal power struggle. A Hazara daughter who marries a Tajik enlists on the other side of one of Afghanistan’s numberless micro-conflicts. Those conflicts are not always violent, but they are very real.
And on top of the bubbling kettle is Islam. No religion would be quite as fit for this backward tribalism as a religion that began as a warlord’s cult. Islam does not unify Afghanistan. For all that the Islamists imagine a Caliphate, Islam adds only another layer of division. Ethnic divisions in Afghanistan are also religious divisions. And Islam adds religious sanction to the oppression of women and the massacres of rivals.



Almost any other religion would have had a civilizing influence on Afghanistan. But Islam’s influence has only embedded the savagery deeper beneath its dusty skin. Everything that is bad in Afghanistan has its supporting verse in the Koran. The culture of the tribal raid, its emphasis on victory as proof of divine sanction and its contempt for women– finds its echo in the Koran. Tribal cruelty becomes the will of Allah.
But Islam added another facet to the Afghan nightmare, its doctrines elevating local conflicts above tribal raids. In United in Hate, Jamie Glazov wrote, “This is where the Western Left and militant Islam intersect: human life must be sacrificed for the sake of the idea.”
The tribal raider is unable to imagine any higher idea than the honor of his family. But Islam adds the idea of the meta-tribal identity. The Islamic Ummah as the ultimate tribe. It is an idea that allowed Mohammed and his successors to loot and pillage their way across much of the world. And the world is bleeding from a million wounds, stabbed, cut and pierced by the followers of that idea.
The things that the tribesman loots for in this world are given to him twice over in paradise if he dies in battle. And if he suspects that the paradise overflowing with virgins, gold jewelry and pungent wines is a lie that the elders and clerics tell to get him to risk his life while they remain behind with their share of the virgins, gold and wine in this world– to say so openly would be blasphemy.
It is no wonder that the Taliban found its perfect breeding ground in Afghanistan. Just as variants like Al-Shabaab found theirs in equally backward places such as Somalia. The purity that the Wahhabis seek is really barbarism. And it is most easily found in the most backward places. The least civilized countries.
The Taliban may have repressed Afghanistan, but they did not add very much that was not already there. Afghanistan is not Persia, a place that Afghans looking for freedom and opportunity flee to today. Their edicts and brutality made Afghanistan worse, but the difference was most notable in Kabul, and far less so in more backward provinces. As the Taliban return, so does a surge of brutality. But it is a surge that adds to the existing brutality in the official and unofficial systems.
Will the Taliban rule in Afghanistan? In a sense they always have. Long before the Taliban existed, the gleeful cruelty, the dogmatic brutalization and the culture of fear reigned in Afghanistan. The Taliban contribution was the linkup through Pakistan and now Iran with a global Jihad. The local raid giving way to the global raid. The persecution of Christians in Afghanistan giving way to September 11. Exploding Buddhas transitioning to falling skyscrapers.
The terrible genius of Islam is that it took the violence of the tribe and the clan and sanctified it. Islam elevated the vendetta to the highest form of religious service. The one that is above all others.
20th century Islamists took the ugly tribal feud and globalized it. They took backward places like Afghanistan and turned them into platforms for a global war. We may be able to save ourselves from the puppet masters behind this shadow war, but we cannot save the Afghans from themselves.

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Fwd: FOR ALL YOU TECHIE FOLKS.

Subject: Fwd: FOR ALL YOU TECHIE FOLKS.
 




 
 
FOR ALL YOU TECHIE FOLKS
Or you could just vote to re-elect Obama

Fwd: You decide!

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Date: October 7, 2011 2:12:41 PM MDT
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Subject: Fwd: You decide!

thought you'd be interested in this
Dad

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What you may not know about Herman Cain who is running for president....
He’s  not a career politician (in fact he has never held political office). He’s known as a pizza guy, but there’s a lot more to him. He’s also a computer guy, a banker guy, and a rocket scientist guy.
Here’s his bio:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science.
  • Mathematician for the Navy, where he worked on missile ballistics (making him a rocket scientist).
  • Computer systems analyst for Coca-Cola.
  • VP of Corporate Data Systems and Services for Pillsbury (this is the top of the ladder in the computer world, being in charge of information systems for a major corporation).
All achieved before reaching the age of 35. Since he reached the top of the information systems world, he changed careers!
  • Business Manager. Took charge of Pillsbury’s 400 Burger King restaurants in the Philadelphia area, which were the company’s poorest performers in the country. Spent the first nine months learning the business from the ground up, cooking hamburger and yes, cleaning toilets. After three years he had turned them into the company’s best performers.
  • Godfather’s Pizza CEO. Was asked by Pillsbury to take charge of their Godfather’s Pizza chain (which was on the verge of bankruptcy). He made it profitable in 14 months.
  • In 1988 he led a buyout of the Godfather’s Pizza chain from Pillsbury. He was now the owner of a restaurant chain. Again he reached the top of the ladder of another industry.
  • He was also chairman of the National Restaurant Association during this time. This is a group that interacts with government on behalf of the restaurant industry, and it gave him political experience from the non-politician side.
Having reached the top of a second industry, he changed careers again!
  • Adviser to the Federal Reserve System. Herman Cain went to work for the Federal Reserve Banking System advising them on how monetary policy changes would affect American businesses.
  • Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. He worked his way up to the chairmanship of a regional Federal Reserve bank. This is only one step below the chairmanship of the entire Federal Reserve System (the top banking position in the country). This position allowed him to see how monetary policy is made from the inside, and understand the political forces that impact the monetary system.
After reaching the top of the banking industry, he changed careers for a fourth time!
  • Writer and public speaker. He then started to write and speak on leadership. His books include Speak as a LeaderCEO of SelfLeadership is Common Sense, and They Think You’re Stupid.
  • Radio Host. Around 2007—after a remarkable 40 year career—he started hosting a radio show on WSB in Atlanta (the largest talk radio station in the country).
He did all this starting from rock bottom (his father was a chauffeur and his mother was a maid). When you add up his accomplishments in his life—including reaching the top of three unrelated industries: information systems, business management, and banking—
STACK THAT  UP AGAINST THE 'COMMUNITY ORGANIZER'....
Herman Cain may have the most impressive resume of anyone that has run for the presidency in the last half century.

 
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