"Inner Struggle"... Not So Much.

We haven't been hearing much about Darfur lately.

Is this the typical negligence of the media?

While the genocide continues, Kofi Annan is busy wasting time by calling yet another useless UN meeting to "look at new ways to try to solve the crisis in Darfur."

Up for discussion: The refusal of Sudan to allow a UN force to replace the African Union's force, which is under-manned and under-funded, and whose mandate expires in a mere six weeks!

Over the last three years, the death toll has reached nearly a quarter of a million people, and displaced two million... But it's not JIHAD, is it?


*UPDATE*

The UN has agreed to augment the 'peacekeeping' force in Darfur, increasing the number of troops from about 7,000 to 27,000.

The Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is refusing to allow them to deploy, calling the troops "neocolonialists." (Whatever that means...) And hey, they're doing such a great job with that jihad, it'd be a shame to interrupt them.

Do I Creep You Out?

A new Weird Al video from his new album, Straight Outta Lynwood, courtesy of Jib Jab, for your dissemination!

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Islamists Object To New Rape Laws

Pakistan is working to change the laws regarding rape, with the lower house of Parliament passing amendments that erase the death penalty for extramarital sex and revising the clause that make victims produce four witnesses to prove that they were raped.

Consentual extramarital sex is still a crime which is punishable by five years in prison, or a $165 fine... Maybe not perfect, but a step in the right direction, at least.

These amendments still have to be approved by the Senate, but (surprise) enraged Islamic fundamentalists want them thrown out altogether.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf urged the Pakistani Senate to go ahead and approve the amendments, and decried the Fundamentalists claim that his government is acting against Islam.

From the AP:

"I have taken a firm decision to change these unjust rape laws as it was necessary to amend them to protect women," Musharraf said in a televised address to the nation.

The amendments were passed by a majority of the 342-member assembly, including Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, who said it marked "a historic day" for the country.

"Nothing is against Islam in this bill," Aziz said, adding that the amendments were made in consultation with Islamic scholars, lawmakers and human rights activists.

Pro-Islamic lawmakers stormed out of the National Assembly Wednesday in protest of the new legislation, known as the Protection of Women Bill. "We reject it," Maulana Fazlur Rahman, a top Islamist opposition leader, told reporters after the vote, which he described as a "dark day" in Pakistan's parliamentary history.

Rahman and other Islamists vowed to devise a strategy to block Senate passage of the bill. Islamic political groups have previously staged mass rallies to denounce moves by the military-led government deemed contrary to Islam.

Oh, are any of us surprised that devout Islamo-fascists wouldn't want women to be protected?

Ali Dayan Hasan, a South Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, said the Pakistani government had "failed to remove provisions criminalizing adultery" but had provided "partial relief" by repealing the death sentence.

"The Pakistani government remains in violation of its international obligations on ending discrimination against women," Hasan said.

This action to partially repeal the 1979 Pakistani rape law is most likely in response to international and local outcry to the gang-rape of Mukhtar Mai, which some of you may recall, who was sentanced to be gang-raped for her 13-year-old BROTHER's affair with a woman who was "outside his caste."

I Beseech Thee!

I don't know why, but I just find this to be hilarious!

Must-See TV!!!

Glenn Beck will be airing a must-see hour of television tonight on Headline News. The expose will focus on Islamo-fascist terror.

Please tune in, and tell your friends!

BUSY!

Well, today is going to be pretty hectic, so I won't be able to make the usual rounds until tomorrow, most likely.

Our water main has broken between our house and the meter, (homeowner's insurance won't cover it) and I've got a guy coming to start marking and digging the yard before the ground is frozen.

My hubby dabbled in the computer's music library, and messed up the playlists, ect, so I've got to repair it, and it' a bit extensive.

AAAHHHH!!!

See ya' later!

Elton John: Ban ALL RELIGION.

Elton John wants to ban all religion due to it's lack of compassion:

"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely," he was quoted as saying.

"Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."

I would submit, Elton, that not all religions are without compassion. Sure, you've probably had some bad experiences, but if you were to meet a parishioner from my denomination, he would likely gently give you a verbal invite to church and stress John 3:16 to you, but if you didn't want to hear that message, he would wish you well and be on his way.

Islam, however... Yeah, they would cut your head off for being gay. Maybe we should just ban them... But that wouldn't be compassionate, would it?

Slavery in America?

Can we please, please secure our borders?

From the above link:

At the age of 13, they say, she was smuggled into the U.S. from Oaxaca, Mexico, the first leg of a horrific journey that led her to a Harding Place area apartment. There she was beaten, raped and forced into a life of prostitution — an ordeal requiring her to have sex with as many as 40 men a day.

Investigators will be as aggressive as possible to stop the trafficking, Jordon said.

"It's very new for us to have on our radar in Tennessee, but" sex trafficking is "not a new thing," said Amber Beckham, coordinator for World Relief's Network of Emergency Trafficking Services.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I see this as slavery on American land! Why will we not do what it takes to stop this atrocity? Even forgetting the imminent threat posed economically, socially and ilieuue of security, THIS is reason enough to build a fence along the border, and make such harsh, draconian punishments against employers that dare to hire illegals that they dare not come here.

U.S. Threatened With Terror Attacks

This ought to make you feel good...

Four terror groups, including the Palestinian Authority's Fatah party have announce that they will officially target America for "attacking Muslim land" in Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan, and for providing support to their avowed enemies, the Israeli Defense Forces.

From WorldNetDaily:

"We call upon all mujahedeen in Palestine and around the world to start hitting Americans without mercy. The Americans are destroying Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan and are bombarding our Muslim land," read a statement signed by Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees, the Fatah-affiliated Abu Rish Brigades, and a new group calling itself the Brigades of the Believers.

Uh-oh... It must be about time to cut off all of that foreign aid money. Maybe not being able to pay their bills with our money will dissuade them from this latest round of threats.

"The Americans seem not to understand any language but that of blood and violence. We say the Americans have an artificial culture. It is a country that doesn't respect the blood of innocents. Americans only take into consideration the blood of the Jews,"

Well there's a sterling example of hypocrisy, wouldn't you say? It would be laughable if it weren't serious!

Meanwhile, last week Palestinian terrorists fired Qassam rockets into Jewish neighborhoods, and when the IDF responded to the missile fire in turn, one of their rockets misfired into a Palestinian population a mere third of a mile from the firing zone, killing 19.

Did Ehud Olmert say, (As I would've.) "too bad. Stop using civilian areas as staging zones, and stop attacking us if you don't like it!"?

Nope.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert apologized for the Palestinian deaths and called for immediate peace talks with Abbas, stating the Palestinian leader "will be surprised at how far I am willing to go."

Olmert said he is willing to free "many, many Palestinian prisoners."

More capitulation, huh? Hey, keep it up, it's BOUND to work sooner or later... *cough*

But hey, Israel didn't do it alone, apparently:

Abu Abir's comments followed a statement last week by Hamas also blaming the U.S. for Palestinian deaths. The statement warned of upcoming Hamas attacks against the U.S. and urged Arabs and Muslims to "teach the American enemy merciless lessons they will not forget."

Aren't you glad that Pelosi is going to be the new Speaker?

Extremely Rare Stamp Used To Mail Anonymous Absentee Ballot

An absentee ballot in Florida was mailed with a rare stamp that could bring as much as a half a million dollars at auction. Unfortunately, the stamp cannot be returned to the unwitting owner because they failed to identify themselves on the ballot, which also invalidated their vote!

The stamp, which was a 1918 inverted Jenny which depicted a biplane accidentally printed upside down, was found in Ft. Lauderdale by John Rodstom, a member of the county's elections Canvassing Board.

The ballot was in a large envelope with the 1918 stamp, along with two stamps from the 1930's, and another dating back to WWII.

From al-Reuters:
"I thought, 'Oh my God, I know that stamp, I've seen that stamp before,"' said Rodstrom, 54, who dabbled in stamp collecting as a boy. "I'd forgotten the name. I just remembered there was a stamp with an upside-down biplane on it and that it was a very rare, rare stamp."

Rodstrom said he did not examine the envelope's postmark, but it had no return address and the ballot was disqualified because it gave no clue as to the identity of the voter.

"It's now government property," he said.

A postmark on a stamp usually would hurt its value but Rodstrom said the story behind this one -- plus the fact that it is joined by other old stamps on the envelope -- might actually increase its worth.

Rodstrom said he doubted the stamp would ever be handed over to someone claiming to have mailed it inadvertently.

"It would be hard to prove, I guess you would have to say it was a person who had Alzheimer's," he said.

Can you imagine that? Alzheimer's is a such a cruel disease; to slowly loose the capacity of your mind... You forget to mark the envelope, the ballot, to buy new stamps, ect., but you can remember where you put a bunch of old stamps from the 40's and earlier?

Watch Out For Those Bell Ringers!

Coming to a grocery store near you...

Alien Threat

Forget the Islamo-fascists... We could be attacked by aliens at any moment, and we aren't prepared!


During his time as head of the Ministry of Defence UFO project, Nick Pope was persuaded into believing that other lifeforms may visit Earth and, more specifically, Britain.
His concern is that "highly credible" sightings are simply dismissed.
And he complains that the project he once ran is now "virtually closed" down, leaving the country "wide open" to aliens.
Mr Pope decided to speak out about his worries after resigning from his post at the Directorate of Defence Security at the MoD this week.
"The consequences of getting this one wrong could be huge," he said.

Ladies and Gentlemen, what is this newly elected Congress going to do to protect us from this imminent threat? (Other than give the Brits a swirly! LOL!)

What The...?

Every year at about this time, it happens. An inundation of cheesy catalogs urging me to start buying chintzy gifts for my relatives for Christmas. Oh, I mean the 'winter holiday.'

After all, we may not be able to say Christmas in public, lest we offend someone, but we're sure as heck expected to spend, spend, spend for it!

Back to the subject at hand. Usually, I grab the catalogue out of the mailbox, and thumb through it on the way to the garbage can, even though I have no intention of buying anything from it.

Before I made it to the can today, this caught my eye:



Isn't that strange? Talk about brining a gun to a knife fight!

Spanking: Deserved!

OK, it's Thursday, November 9th, and I got this in the mail today.

Click to enlarge.

This is a postcard from the GOP urging me to vote for the more moral Mike DeWine over Sherrod Brown for the Senate.

I would usually say 'better late than never,' but in this case, never would have been better.

Boo-Hoo... The Eurotrash And Terrorists Didn't Like Us.

H/T to GPB Insider Payallin for this graphic.


According to the Associated Press, this November was an "electoral rebuke" for President Bush and is being celebrated throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Is anyone else getting a bad feeling in the pit of their stomach?

Excerpted from Breitbart.com (all emphasis and red type mine):

On Iraq, some worried that Democrats will force a too-rapid retreat, leaving the country and the region in chaos. Others said they doubted the congressional turnover would have a dramatic impact on Iraq policy any time soon, largely because the Democrats have yet to define the course they want to take.

What? You mean the Dems didn't define their strategy as part of their platform before elections? HAHAHAHA!

But from Paris to Pakistan, politicians, analysts and ordinary citizens said Wednesday they hoped the Democratic takeover of both Houses of Congress would force Bush to adopt a more conciliatory approach to global crises, and teach a president many see as a "cowboy" a lesson in humility.

In an extraordinary joint statement, more than 200 Socialist members of the European Parliament hailed the American election results as "the beginning of the end of a six-year nightmare for the world."

Oh, well NOW I'm relieved; the frickin' socialists like us now.

I wonder what nightmare they would be referring to? All the foreign aid we give other countries? Or that we supply and fund most of the U.N.? Or that we just enforced some of the multitudes of toothless resolutions they passed?

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has consistently railed against the Bush administration, called the election "a reprisal vote."

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hugo Chavez is happy about the Dems being in power. I hope they're listening to this, because Chavez obviously has them pegged for someone I hope they are not.

In Paris, American expatriates and French citizens alike packed the city's main American haunts to watch results overnight and early Wednesday, with some standing to cheer or boo as vote tabulations came in.

One Frenchman, 53-year-old teacher Jean-Pierre Charpemtrat, said it was about time U.S. voters figured out what much of the rest of the world already knew.

That we should start capitulating to Muslim terrorists? I wonder how many cops and buses have been ambushed in Paris this week...

"Americans are realizing that you can't found the politics of a country on patriotic passion and reflexes," he said. "You can't fool everybody all the time _ and I think that's what Bush and his administration are learning today."

That's right; NO policy based on good, old-fashioned patriotism. You have to be apathetic and self-loathing to fit into 'western culture' nowadays.

Bush is deeply unpopular in many countries, with particularly intense opposition to the war in Iraq, the U.S. terror holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and allegations of Washington-sanctioned interrogation methods that some equate with torture.

Those prayer rugs and copies of the Koran we provided is rough treatment, all right. As well as the average weight gain of between 20-50 pounds that most prisoners at Gitmo put on, not to mention the free, high-quality medical care.

Many said they thought the big gains by Democrats signaled the beginning of the end of Bush's tenure.

In Copenhagen, Denmark, Jens Langfeldt, 35, said he didn't know much about the midterm elections but was opposed to Bush, referring to the president as "that cowboy."

So the AP basically interviewed an uninformed, mincing piece of Eurotrash and published his inane comment.

I'd take a "cowboy" over that guy any day.

In Sri Lanka, some said they hoped the rebuke would force Bush to abandon a unilateral approach to global issues.

"The Americans have made it clear that current American policy should change in dealing with the world, from a confrontational approach, to a more consensus-based and bridge-building approach," said Jehan Perera, a political analyst. The Democratic win means "there will be more control and restraint" over U.S. foreign policy.

Is that like the "global test" that Kerry wanted us to pass? In my view, a lack of a still-smoldering hole in the ground in the Middle East is a testament to our "control and restraint."

Passions were even higher in Pakistan, where Bush is deeply unpopular despite billions in aid and support for President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

One opposition lawmaker, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, said he welcomed the election result, but was hoping for more. Bush "deserves to be removed, put on trial and given a Saddam-like death sentence," he said.

Yeah, we should put that SOB Bush to death for murdering all of his political opponents... No... Well, maybe we should execute him for that time he gassed an entire... No, that never happened either...

Well, hell. Let's just put him to death, anyway.

But while the result clearly produced more jubilation than jitters, there were also some deep concerns.

In Denmark, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen told broadcaster TV2 he hoped the president and the new Congress would find "common ground on questions about Iraq and Afghanistan."

"The world needs a vigorous U.S.A.," Fogh Rasmussen said.

That's the bottom line: The U.S. keeps the rest of the world from dissolving into petty infighting and all out war, both economically and militarily.

There was also some concern that Democrats, who have a reputation for being more protective of U.S. jobs going overseas, will make it harder to achieve a global free trade accord. And in China, some feared the resurgence of the Democrats would increase tension over human rights and trade and labor issues. China's surging economy has a massive trade surplus with the United States.

"The Democratic Party ... will protect the interests of small and medium American enterprises and labor and that could produce an impact on China-U.S. trade relations," Zhang Guoqing of the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said in a report on Sina.com, one of China's most popular Internet portals.

You can kiss that goodbye, China. After the Dems get done restricting your trading ability, they'll tax the working man to the point that he will no longer be able to afford to buy anything you export, anyway.

The prospect of a sudden change in American foreign policy could also be troubling to U.S. allies such as Britain, Japan and Australia, which have thrown their support behind the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Asked whether the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signaled a new direction in the war that has claimed the lives of more than 2,800 U.S. troops, Bush said, "Well, there's certainly going to be new leadership at the Pentagon."

Cindy Sheehan displays the utmost grace and decorum
outside the White House on Wednesday.


"The problem for Arabs now is, an American withdrawal (from Iraq) could be a security disaster for the entire region," said Mustafa Alani, an Iraqi analyst for the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. He said the Middle East could be left to cope with a disintegrating Iraq mired in civil war, with refugees fleeing a failed state that could become an incubator for terrorism.

He's absolutely right.

Look, I don't want to be all doom and gloom. I really, really don't. I'm hoping that the Democratic Congress can be reasonable and work to improve America.

But I fear that, just like the GOP, they will soon become engorged on their new power and start doing what is best for the party, rather than the country.

We shall see...