The Indian chief and the rattlesnake.

Did you ever hear the tale of the Indian chief who found a rattle snake dying from the cold at the top of a mountain?

The snake pleaded with the chief to carry ...him down the mountain so he could get warm and recover and live. 

The good hearted chief took pity and took the snake down the mountain. There the snake gave him a deadly bite. The chief asked the rattler how he could do such an evil thing. The rattler replied "you knew I was a rattle snake when you picked me up"! 

Moral: compassion should not outweigh common sense.

Just saying.....

Now is the time....

Back in the days before computers or even word processors typing was done on something called a typewriter. Some of us are old enough to remember those. Some of us are old enough to even been around when they were in use. Others would have to Google “manual typewriter” or visit a museum to have any clue what I’m talking about here.

Anyway, an old “drill and practice tool” from typing class was the phrase “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” Students would type this phrase over and over again to strengthen the finger muscles necessary to reach certain keys and the like.

In light of the horrors that Islamic “extremism” has wreaked on the world most notably since September 11, 2001 and all the apologist rhetoric from those wanting to defend the religion of Islam as “peaceful,” “tolerant” and all that stuff, I’m going to modify that typing class phrase to raise the following challenge; IF Islam is truly a peaceful and tolerant religion that has been hijacked by extremists who commit atrocities inconsistent with Islam and all its true teachings, then now is the time for all good Muslims to come to the aid of their faith and hijack it back! In fact it’s way past time.

IF Islam doesn’t teach, condone, encourage or even ignore these kinds of atrocities that are almost daily committed in its name, then it’s time to remember the proverb that “actions speak louder than words.” In short, it’s way past time for all the good, peaceful and tolerant Muslims who are supposed to be disgusted, appalled, revolted and horrified like the rest of us at these barbaric, inhuman, intolerant and savage brutalities and atrocities to speak up, rise up and take Islam back to an obviously, outwardly and consistently peaceful and tolerant and non-violent religion. Not token protests with a few Muslims who after much pressure say a few key things then go totally silent again. I mean every individual member of that faith right up to the Imams and Mullahs and Ayatollahs who lead and represent its faithful.

To do otherwise, is tantamount to silent support of the current violent and intolerant state of the religion that most people think Islam to be.

Will Syrian refugees bring Shariah Law and civil war like happened to Lebanon?

Brigitte Gabriel saw the influx of Islam destroy her native Lebanon. "when militant Muslims from throughout the Middle East poured into Lebanon and declared jihad against the Lebanese Christians."* This led to a 15-year civil war.

Lebanon "used to be the majority Christian country in the Middle East—the only majority Christian country in the Middle East. We were open-minded. We were fair. We were tolerant. We were multi-cultural—we prided ourselves on our multi-culturalism. We had open border policy—we welcomed everyone to our country from the Arabic countries surrounding us...the minority Islamic population in the country became the majority simply because of the way they multiplied, compared to people like us, who come from a Judeo-Christian background—they have multiple marriages, they have many children out of each wife."** [Emphasis added.]

 "In 1975, the Muslims and Palestinians declared a Jihad on the Christians in Lebanon, massacring thousands of Lebanese Christians. At age ten, Gabriel saw her childhood home destroyed. Her family moved to a bomb shelter, where they remained for the next seven years. To stay alive, Gabriel had to eat grass and crawl under sniper bullets to get water from a spring."***

"The more concessions you make, the more they will pick on you," she said.***

Wake up, America. Obama is insisting - despite public opinion against it and more than half of state governors saying no**** - trying to flood our country with Muslim refugees from Syria. This is reckless, irresponsible and because it could very well make us end up like Paris and like Lebanon and/or with the Islamic State imposing Shariah Law on us.

*MacMillan Publishers (n.d.) Advertisement re Because They Hate; A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America. Retrieved 19 November, 2015 from http://us.macmillan.com/becausetheyhate/brigittegabriel

**Gabriel, B. (14 June, 2012) Radio interview with Roger Aranoff on BlogTalkRadio. Transcript retrieved 19 November, 2015 from http://www.aim.org/podcast/take-aim-brigitte-gabriel/

***Yellin, D. (n.d.) Warning the Western World; Brigitte Gabriel: A Lebanese Christian Journalist Battles for Israel. Chabad.org. Retrieved 19 November, 2015 from http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/882938/jewish/Warning-the-Western-World.htm

****Fantz, A. and Brumfield, B. (17 November, 2015) More than half the nation's governors say Syrian refugees not welcome.CNN.com. Retrieved 19 November, 2015 from http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/world/paris-attacks-syrian-refugees-backlash/

The new American way of life.....

I think I've heard it ALL now....

This country is about one step from coming undone. I think the closest it's ever came to this before in my lifetime was perhaps 1968.

Similar to 1968, racial tensions - between blacks and whites, particularly - are at a breaking point. But, I'm not sure they've ever been as bad as they are here in 2015. Take for example, "After at least 129 people were killed in coordinated attacks on Friday in Paris, several protesters took to Twitter to express anger at 'losing the spotlight' in the media.

"'Racist white people kill me, you want everyone to have sympathy for YOUR tragedy, but you have none for ours,' wrote user Melanin Monroe under the Twitter handle @NeonElectricity in a post that has since been removed."*

But, the difference between 1968 and now was we still had a federal and state system that were pretty much in agreement with each other and a federal system that still valued the rule of law as set out in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, et al. 

Now, even that's went down the crapper with the puppet government we have now.


*Foxnews.com. 18 November, 2015. "All about them: Mizzou, Black Lives protestors say Paris attacks took spotlight. 

Too good, too "spot on"...well, not to share!

Can there be any doubt left?

How can anyone retain even a shred of belief that Obama has America’s best interests at heart when 1) in the immediate aftermath of the Paris terror attacks this weekend, 2) 31 of the 50 governors of US states say they don’t want Syrian refugees admitted into their states because of they pose a huge security risk similar to what happened in Paris, yet 3) Obama still insists he’s gonna let them in and shove them into the country all across the USA.

Tell me this clown isn’t a Muslim himself! Tell me he isn’t trying to facilitate a terror strike just like happened at the Boston Marathon* in 2013 and last weekend in Paris right here in the USA!

Can there be any doubt left in anyone’s mind that Obama is out to bring America down?


* "The brothers [Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev] who are alleged to have planted bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday reached the United States in 2002 after their ethnic Chechen family fled the Caucasus. They had been living in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan and were prevented from resettling in war-racked Chechnya." 

Finn, P., Leonig, C., Englund, W. (19 April, 2013) Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were refugees from brutal Chechen conflict. The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 November, 2015 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/details-emerge-on-suspected-boston-bombers/2013/04/19/ef2c2566-a8e4-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_story.html