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Europe, AND The Rest Of The World Can KISS…..
……MY RED,WHITE AND BLUE AMERICAN ASS!
America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role
George W. Bush has grown old, erratic and rosy in the eight years of his presidency. Little remains of his combativeness or his enthusiasm for physical fitness. On this sunny Tuesday morning in New York, even his hair seemed messy and unkempt, his blue suit a little baggy around the shoulders, as Bush stepped onto the stage, for the eighth time, at the United Nations General Assembly.
If I, or ANYONE, had to live with 8 years of constant bashing, we’d all be worn out. Has he made mistakes? Yes. Has he deserved the BDS, not just here, but around the world? No.
He talked about terrorism and terrorist regimes, and about governments that allegedly support terror. He failed to notice that the delegates sitting in front of and below him were shaking their heads, smiling and whispering, or if he did notice, he was no longer capable of reacting. The US president gave a speech similar to the ones he gave in 2004 and 2007, mentioning the word “terror” 32 times in 22 minutes. At the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations, George W. Bush was the only one still talking about terror and not about the topic that currently has the rest of the world’s attention.
Well now, I don’t see anyone else trying to stop the Islamification, do you? Lord knows, Britain hasn’t. They’ve gone so far as to basically start requiring their citizens to bow to Mecca five times a day. Sharia courts? Silencing truth? NO, European countries have pretty much given up all pretenses of being democracies.
The American president has always had enemies in these hallways and offices at the UN building on First Avenue in Manhattan. The Iranians and Syrians despise the eternal American-Israeli coalition, while many others are tired of Bush’s Americans telling the world about the blessings of deregulated markets and establishing rules “that only apply to others,” says the diplomat from Berlin.
But the ridicule was a new thing. It marked the end of respect.
In my lifetime, I’ve seen an erosion of respect of America, and Americans, from the Useless Numnuts…ALL of their members, for years. Jealousy is an ugly thing. It’s not surprising, at least to me, that those whose asses we’ve saved many times, should behave in such a disgusting manner….ON OUR SOIL! I’d like nothing more than to send them packing. I’m sure Babylon would welcome them.
They might find it odd that the POTUS spoke of the terror threat instead of the financial crisis. Honestly, I don’t. Trying to get a suppose body of world leaders to accept that the threat is far from over? He might as well have been beating his head against a brick wall. What difference would it make to the financial world if some Islamonazis decided to bomb them into submission? We don’t have to be rich. We DO need to be FREE!
This is no longer the muscular and arrogant United States the world knows, the superpower that sets the rules for everyone else and that considers its way of thinking and doing business to be the only road to success.
Evidently, this pissant is confusing pride with arrogance. What has HIS country given the world? Hmmm??
HEY! ASSHOLE!
Then….
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TRUE History
Pay attention here people! It’s NOT the Dhimmis who are the “hope for change”. They never have been. I’ve tried to relay this information to many people. This guy does a MUCH better job!
Swiped from Disgruntled Truck Driver!
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Hatred From Ignorance
When Economy Gets Terrible Anti-Semitism Gets Violent
Can a Holocaust happen in the United States of America? “Yes,” say Rabbi Lazer Brody of the award wining blog Lazer Beams and Shifra Hoffman, Executive Director of Shuva, The Israel Emergency Aliyah Movement. Both stated, in back-to- back interviews with Tamar Yonah on Israel National Radio’s Weekend Edition show, that a holocaust could be just around the corner …in the United States.
I sincerely hope the Rabbi is wrong about Americans. Unfortunately, with the growing Islamification, I’m afraid he might be quite correct.
“People think that a holocaust starts with concentration camps.” Hoffman said. “[But] that’s where it ends. It doesn’t start with that. It starts with graffiti; it starts with murmurings in the bar, as the late and great [Rabbi] Meir Kahane used to say, ‘When times are good, the Jew-haters hate the Jews quietly. When times are bad, they hate Jews loudly, and when times are economically terrible, they hate Jews violently.’”
A stereo type from the Middle Ages (?), pushed by Christians of the time, still alive and well in the 21st century? There is something really wrong with this type of thinking. Where does this hatred come from, what is it that fuels it? I’m sorry, I just don’t understand. Am I that naive?
“I pity the poor brokers in America that don’t have emunah [faith] and personal prayer to fall back on,” says Rabbi Lazer Brody. “In a bar off Wall Street, the stock brokers were drowning their woes in their wine at the close of the market. And one broker commented very prophetically, that nothing will be like it was before.”
It seems that many in the financial business use the dollar as their god. I, too, pity them. Money doesn’t give comfort of the spirit.
With banks collapsing, mortgage closures, layoffs, and people losing their homes, “Hashem is talking to us loud and clear,” he states. Brody stated that he knows it will not be popular to say it, but what we see today “is a template for a holocaust, but people don’t want to know about it. They want to know about the World Series, what’s for dinner, and what’s on TV tonight. But we have a template like pre-holocaust Germany.”
I do not want to bury my head in the sand, as so many did in Germany of the 30’s. None of us should. As Americans, we can not let this happen again. Blaming a certain group of people for the actions of so many…. politicians, banks, consumers themselves, is down right insane.
Hoffman recently put out an ad in several international publications: “Warning! American Jews are in danger. As the monetary crisis in the United States worsens with leading banks failing, countless neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups are spreading their venomous message on the internet and at public demonstrations blaming Jews for America’s economic and racial problems as well as the war in Iraq. Calling themselves ‘true American patriots’, these Jew-haters praise Hitler as a hero, and advocate violence. American Jews, wake up! They mean what they say, and they mean you! Come home to Israel now, before it’s too late.”
“True Americans” do NOT hate Jews. I find it more than offensive for Hoffman to lump us all together. I would hope those groups are in the minority. Perhaps there is an underlying ignorance, but those who have educated themselves on the issues know better.
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11 September 2001
Have You Forgotten ~ Darrel Worley
I Remember
Martin Morales Zempoaltecatl
Repost:
9/11/01 - Martin Morales Zempoaltecatl
I had never heard this name. There are others that you recognized after hearing them on the news time and time again. People like Todd Beemer, Barbara Olsen, Chick Burlingame. But has anyone ever heard the name Martin Morales Zempoaltecatl? Truth be told, I can’t even pronounce it. I decided to start my search for this young man on Google. It made sense. I typed in the long name, and came up with over 700 hits, the majority were sites listing the names of those who perished on 11 September 2001. They’re long lists. But nothing told me about the person Martin had been. He was 22 years old. Too young to die. He worked as an assistant chef in the Windows of the World. This is all the information I could find. I wanted to know more. Was he married? Did he have children who will never see their daddy again? Where did he come from, what place did he call home, and will never be able to return? I know he lived in Queens. But where in Queens? What were his dreams that will never be fulfilled? I received this picture from the 2996 group, but hadn’t really had a chance to actually look at this young man. The first thing I noticed, as I usually do, are his eyes. He has kind eyes. Was he a kind person? He must have been, he supported his parents. Then I saw a sweet, cheerful smile, and I knew he was a good person. For some reason, I see him liking children, nieces, nephews, the neighborhood kids.
Doing a little more digging, I found out Martin was born in Santa Catarina, Tlaxcala, Mexico. He supported his parents, Crescencio Morales, 60, and Mauricia Zempoaltecatl, also 60. Martin was the youngest of their children, and this tragedy hit them quite hard. They have since returned to Mexico. One thing I did discover, as of that article, the family had not received any of the thousands of dollars that had been given so generously by the American people. I hope that has now been resolved. I’d like to find out if the family is now able to care for their other children and grandchildren. This young man evidently wasn’t counted among the slaughtered innocents originally.
Maybe he was in the country illegally, I’m not sure. It doesn’t matter. Legal, illegal, no one should have been murdered in such a manner on 11 September 2001. He is now counted. I am counting him. I will always remember Martin Morales Zempoaltecatl. May he rest in the loving arms of the Lord.
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The Little Ones
On this 7th anniversary of the attack on our nation, we often tend to forget names. We remember some, but there are a few we tend to forget. This is a column from 12/21/01:
Littlest victims largely overlooked
Too young to comprehend evil, the Pokemon fan, the Tweety Bird lover, and the toddler who believed Mickey Mouse is real were assassinated by terrorists on Sept. 11. Three months later, the story of the eight child victims remains largely untold. Ranging in age from 2 to 11, they climbed aboard two thundering jetliners high on life, as only innocent children can be. Their last moments were filled with ghastly horror.
Over the last 7 years, we’ve learned a little more about those who died on 9/11. Some, like Todd Beamer, we have become quite familiar. Others, like these little ones, we don’t know very well.
Christine Lee Hanson, 2, Groton, Mass.
David Brandhorst, 3, Los Angeles, Calif.
Juliana McCourt, 4, New London, Conn.
Bernard Brown II, 11, Washington, D.C.
Asia Cottom, 11, Washington, D.C.
Rodney Dickens, 11, Washington, D.C.
Dana Falkenberg, 3, University Park, Md.
Zoe Falkenberg, 8, University Park, Md.
I’m hoping on the 7th anniversary of the worst day in our country’s history, we won’t ever forget any of those lost. These little ones, who were lent to us by the Almighty for just a short time, whose names we might not always remember, should always be in our hearts.
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Project 2996
Sadly, it’s that time of year again when we honor those who died on 9/11. The 2996 Project is looking for some bloggers who will honor at least one of our lost. Time is short, so please, if you want to put a little time into a project, please go here, send an email letting them know you want to participate. You’ll be assigned a name, and it will be up to you as how much, or how little you’ll post about the person.
FYI, this is not a partisan issue. This is an American issue. We can all put aside our differences for one day to honor those who were murdered by the 19. None of us, not one single person, should ever forget!
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It Melted…It Froze…It Melted…It Froze…
Melting Swiss Glacier Yields Neolithic Trove
Some 5,000 years ago, a prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows.
The unremarkable journey through the Schnidejoch pass, a lofty trail 9,000 feet above sea level, has been a boon to scientists but it would never have emerged if climate change were not melting the nearby glacier.
So far, 300 objects dating as far back as the Neolithic or New Stone Age — about 4,000 B.C. in Europe — to the later Bronze and Iron Ages and the Medieval era have been found in the site’s former icefields.
“We know now that the discoveries on Schnidejoch are the oldest of this kind ever made in the Alps,” said Albert Hafner, an expert with the archaeology service in Bern canton.
They have allowed researchers not only to piece together snapshots of life way back when, but also to shed light on climate fluctuations in the past 6,500 years — and hopefully shed light on what is happening now.
“For us, the site itself is the most important find because we have this correlation between climate change and archaeological objects,” Hafner said.
“We know that people were only able to walk on this site when it was relatively warm,” said Martin Grosjean, executive director of a national network called Swiss Climate Research. “When it was too cold, the glacier advanced and it was not a passable route.”
Well now, isn’t that interesting. I wonder how many SUVs were tooling around when that Stone Age guy was wandering around. Were there traffic jams during the Bronze Age? Were the Medieval folks drilling for oil and building pollution spewing factories? Gosh! I wonder what caused those meltdowns if it weren’t evil man. Hmmm…. Perhaps….just perhaps, mind you…..it was NORMAL climate cycles?
Scientists have long known there were periods of warmer weather in the region but the artifacts allowed them to identify the exact years, when the site would have been passable on foot.
Scientists KNEW? YIKES! Did someone forget to tell the “Great and Wonderful” Boracle?
Yet even with this information, the hysteria is included. Well, what can you expect from anything associated with the NY Slimes.
A recent U.N. Environment Program report said by the end of the century, swathes of mountain ranges worldwide risk losing their glaciers if global warming continues at its projected rate.
“The ongoing trend of worldwide and rapid, if not accelerating, glacier shrinkage may lead to the deglaciation of large parts of many mountain ranges by the end of the 21st century,” the report warned.
Guess what! Obviously this isn’t the first time the glaciers have melted. No doubt, it won’t be the last. So, you losers up there at the UN? Snap out of your sleaziness. You are NOT getting my money, and you can’t have my guns!
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REAL Hero
The types of people that are considered ‘heroes’ these days….. just boggles the mind. Sports figures who can’t seem to grow up, the Hollyweird types who fail to grasp reality, and believe because they “played a doctor on TV, they can do brain surgery”, the sort of people, in reality, you do NOT want your kids to grow up to be.
True, there are some REAL heroes these days. The American soldier comes to mind, police, fire fighters, even some….teachers! Heroes who would give it all, in the service of others. Those kinds, in general, everyday life, aren’t all that common these days.
When Adolf Hilter came to power in 1933, 75 years ago, things were pretty tough in Germany for the regular folks. The country had been defeated in an ugly war, and the Treaty of Versailles wasn’t exactly conducive for a good working relationship for economic growth. I guess by the mid 20s, Germany was getting ready for a ‘change’. In 1933, they got it, and evil took a foot hold.
In 1933, Dauchau was opened. Prisoners consisted of “political, professional criminal, emigrant, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexual, Germans shy of work, and other nationalities shy of work“. Covers a lot of area for a country in the midst of a depression, doesn’t it. Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen followed, along with a large number of other ‘work’ camps.
Time progressed. Hilter decided, at some point, he should rule the world and get rid of anyone who stood in his way. Sadly, not many did stand up to him, within his own country. Looking back, I wonder if they were really so bamboozled by his ‘charismatic’ speeches, or, if the people did believe as he did. (kool aid drinking comes to mind)
There were men and woman who did speak up against the tide. Their voices were quickly silenced, and few dared to question the authority for fear of losing everything, including their lives. But, there was an ‘underground’. Individuals who DID fight back in their own way. People who saved the lives of thousands. Some names, we’ll never know. They were killed along with those they tried to save. There are names like Oscar Schindler, made famous by Stephen Speilberg’s movie. There was Irena Sendlerowa, who saved 2,500 Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto. (unbelievable that bag of hot air won a “Peace Prize” over this good lady)
She buried jars containing their real and assumed names in the garden, so that they could be one day learn the names of their biological families after the war.
Some names will never be known. They lived, and died, as true heroes.
Let’s not forget this one too!
Unsung Holocaust hero celebrates 100th
Steiner already was in his late 20s when the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia, bringing with them anti-Jewish laws they had spread through much of the rest of Europe. His father-in-law fled to England in 1938, but Steiner settled in Bratislava with his wife and young son.
He was arrested after Nazis seized control of the country, but was later released to finish a building project in town. He began designing work camps and other sites for the Nazis, hoping the Jewish community would be better off if they cooperated.
Soon he had 4,000 people working in 130 workshops at the camps, making an array of items for the German war effort. At lunch, he gathered with other young Jews to talk about ways to improve conditions for the Jews. The band soon became known as the Bratislava Working Group.
But as Slovaks began a massive deportation of Jews to concentration camps in Poland in 1942, the group’s mission changed as well. It decided to focus on finding a way—any way—to rescue Jews in Slovakia.
“We wanted to help in any way we could,” he said. “It was a very close-knit friendship with one ideal: To help the Jews.”
One of the members, Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl, had heard a rumor that a Nazi official was willing to accept cash bribes to keep Jews off the dreaded deportation list. Soon, they had devised a back story for their gambit: They were negotiating on behalf of a fictitious world Jewish leader named Ferdinand Roth.
When it was time for a face-to-face meeting, the group picked Steiner, the confident man who cut a dashing figure with slicked back hair and a golden tongue. Inside, though, Steiner was awash with anxiety. A single misstep could have cost him his life and betray the group’s effort.
Asking the rabbi for advice, he got a most unexpected answer: Imagine the Nazi sitting on a toilet nude. When he arrived at the meeting and did just that, he couldn’t stifle a smirk.
Do we really need movies and controversial “Nobel Prizes” to remember those who have done more for humanity than we could ever conceive? No, such history should be taught daily!
May God Bless You And Yours!
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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Neener Neener Neener….
Obama Says He’s Chosen VP, Not Saying Who
Barack Obama says he’s chosen his running mate — but he’s not telling who it is.
“I did say that I’ve made the selection and that’s all you’re going to get,” Obama told reporters while campaigning in Virginia Thursday afternoon.
“I knoooow, and I ain’t gonna tell ya!”
Honestly, that’s the first impression I had when I heard this on the news a little while ago. I was busy doing other stuff, and wasn’t watching the idjit box, just kind of listening. Was it just me? Am I so ANTI B. Hussein, that this would be my automatic reaction? Dang!
But seriously, does it matter who he picks as his running mate? Why, he could pick ol’ Shrilldebeast, and it wouldn’t matter one whit to me. What DOES matter, is who he is, what he’s done, or not done, as the case may be, and who are his best buds. Let’s see, we’ve got the ‘Reverend’ Jeremiah Wright. We’ve got the “finally proud” Mrs. We have our friend, Tony “bars” Rezko! The list is kind of long, so I’ll just leave you with this particular friend of Sen. B. Hussein Obama:
I dunno about you, but with friends like these…….. ??
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We DO Need To Act!
This is OUR country. When did we decide it was ok for people to come in here and push us out? When did it become ok for certain groups, of so called Americans to destroy our Constitution?
I DON’T think it’s ok. As a matter of fact, I’m actually quite angry at the direction our nation has gone over the last 40 years. Little by little, we’ve lost any sense of country, and somehow, we MUST get it back!
H/T: Connie
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